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EXPOSITOR.
ewnship we:
regret of
(1st of your
townsman,
ay with hie.
atety and is
with a view
tmself in the
a.cticea by
!dying for &
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tra,1 Europe -
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stedge. We
necessary on
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charecterize
scision.
edicine, sup -
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till his am-
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hat he may
the ills and
d humanity.
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which event
by his many
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ntlemans Dr.
uch rivalry
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the best
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in London,-
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year.—Mr. •
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$195.—gr-
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:instantly' aa'
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Dress Goods„ Trimmings
in ail the latest designs.
Antles and
Cloths.
We never before had such
stock„
Ulster
a coraplete
Corsets, Gloves, Hosiery,
Ribbons, But-
tons, ete., m all
varieties.
Upderclothing, Mantles,
Shawls, Flannels, Blank-
ets, &o.,
At the very lowest prices at the
Cheap Cash Store
—OF—
Hoffman & Co.
FROM "WASHINGTON •TO
SEAFORTH.
,
ane HOMEwARD TRIP—BALTIMORE THE
OYSTER DEPOT—PHILADELPHIA AND ITS
ATTRACTIoNS—PICTURESQUE NEW JER-
SEY—NEW YORK AND SOME OF ITS
POINTS OF INTEREST—THE CANADIAN
CLUB. •
[By a Huron Delegate.]
The country around Washington is
full of historic interest. Those who
are familiar with the events connected
with the American war will remember
the stirring scenes enazted in this vicin-
ity. Leaving Washington we enter the
state of Maryland and .pass through a
park -like country with rolling hills cov-
ered with beautiful foliage, and further
on through great fields of Indian corn
justtready for the sickle. Tobacco is
,the great staple of Maryland and from
the car window we saw large farms with
almost their entire surface covered with
• the broad leaves of that plant. This
state was the most northerly of the slave
states previous to the American war.
• Our first stopping place is !
SEAFORTH,
Agents for Butterick's 'Reliable Pat -
teals, Sheets and Book's of the latest
styles.
—The residents in the vicinity of Pen-
insula, a Canada Pacific Rail way
station, on the north shore of
Lake Superior, about 180 miles
east of Port Arthur, have been thrown
into a state of great excitement over the
brutal murder of two Indians neer that
place. The other night a violent quarrel
occurred among the indians at the •camps,
in the course of which two brothers,
named Louie Moses and Joe Moses, at-
tacked Isaiah David with clubs, smash-
ing in his skull, and after he was dead
clubbing his head till it was reduced to
a complete pulp. The two murderers,
not satisfied with having thus wreaked
their vengeance on their unfortunate
victim, foiloa ed David's son William,
23 years old, for seven miles over the
Canada Pacific Railway, track, and
on overtaking h•irne stoned him b
death and threw his body down
on ta the rocks. The assassins
then returned to the camps, whence
they fled into the woods and have not
been seen since.
---Sa.muel Johnston, treasurer of the
Hamilton Powder Company, of Montre-
al, has absconded. Mr. Johnston had
recently met with severe domest c 031c-
1
tion, and as left a widower w th five
young children. It is believed1 he left
on Wednesday of last week by t • e Wes-
tern ex -press, took the ferry at rescott
and crossed to Ogdensburg, w ere he
was arrested. He has left his jhi1drm
unprotected and unprovided f
of the directors of the compan
that his shortage would be so
under $7,000. The company ha
antes bend for $10,000, which
covers the loss, On Friday la
ston was brought back from Og •
by detectives but managed to scape a.t
a station near Montreal. He was after-
wards found lying in a field with an
empty pistol near him. and bullet holes
in his head. Domestic atilictioo is sup-
posed to have been the cause of both his
defalcation and suicide.
,/
which a huge erry quickly. conveys us
over the lauds n to
tlaw YORK.
So many are familiar with this great
city that no attempt need be made to
enter into any engthy description of its
size and grea ness. Recognized as the
chief city of !America in wealth and
population, amt. second only to London
as a financial and commercial centre of
the world, Ne York has at the ptesent
It
time a populist cr of 1,500,000, one third
of whom are f foreign birth—mainly
Irish and Gerfnans. Its importa.nce as
a seaport is evident from the - fact tha
upwards of 30,000 vessels annual'
arrive and deriart from it. After provid
ing ourselves with comfortable quartere
at an up -town hotel, we were assured by!
a friend 4 -that it being Saturday evenin
we might profitably visit the Bowery
the great democratic broadway of lowe
New York, and watch with interes
some of the busy scenes on that grea
thoroughfare. The Bowery is the nam
given to the lower part' of Fourt
li
Avenue. On -the evening of our visi
• we found the pavements on both side
of the street thronged with people, an
here and there dense crowds of person
surrounding street oyster stands, an
again others listening to thc invitatio s
of some loquaeious individual endeavo
Mg to entice passers by to enter and e
amine his maseum,of living curiositie .
Another curious scene was the gree
corn man, boiling corn on the street, an
serving it out with butter and salt o
his hungry cuttomers. Sometimes arounjd
one of these stands there would be ran
ed a dozen men eating away with ev
dent relish the green corn freshly coo
ed on the stteet. Perhaps this would
be in front of stores most elegantly fitt d
up, and evidently doing a rushing bu i-
ness. It has been said that' no matt r
what article Of merchandise one wishe
it can be procured on the Bowery, and a
visit to that street is well worth t e
time, to witness the crowd and note t e
many tradesirepresented, and the pec
liar efforts put forth to drive business. t
is brilliantly lighted at night, and despi e
the great noiteand bustleseemsto bear t e
appearance Of respectebility.How far this
latter may e due to the presence of ti e
police whom one meets every few steps,
(s)..
we had no efinite _information. Some
of the ladies of our party made so e
purchases at some of the stores th t
evening along the Bowery and express d
themselves as highly pleased with th ir
bargains.
e
SUNDAY IN NEW YORK
is not obserted with that reverence a
respect to ,vsshich Canadians are acct
tomed. On Broadway we noticed seve al
gangs of 'lieu hard at word breaking p
the Ravements and laying wires under-
ground in ancordance with a recent lew
!directing that all telegraph and tele-
phone wire a must be placed beneath the
surface of tlie street. The streets have
a lively appearance with crowds of peo-
ple on their way to some popular place
of resort. Many places of business
seemt� be
morning .se eral of us went to hear the
Rev. Dr. 0 miston, a clergyman whcise
name is farailiar to many Canadians arid
who was,previous to his removal to iafew
York, a prominent Presbyterian minister
in the city 0 Hamilton. On the occ s -
ion of our visit to his church, a hand-
some edifice on fift avenue, it was the
1
seventeenth annive sexy of his pastorate
in connection with his church, and his
sermon wail one well suited to the °Le-
sion. Dr. farmiston still retains the eld
time vigor for which he has long been
distinguished, He is held in high esteem
by his congregation. In the evening we
started ont to attend Dr. Hall's church
but found ft in darkness rind were in-
formed by a passing stranger that no
evening seevice would be held in that or
any other of the large churches before
the first Senday in October. On teeny
of the church doors a- notice might be
seen, stataig that no regular services
would be s held until October. This
struck us as somewhat peculiar. It
seems that so many leave the city during
the warm Weather that the congregations
become to small to think ef keeping the
churches eipen, and for those who cannot
afford to leave the city during the hot
months, iti is to be presumed that no
religious tervices are required. This
may be a4 right, but it seems a strange
proceeding. In New York there is only
one chureh for every four thousand
people. krom this it may be easily
seen that 'es large number of people in
the city never attend any place of wor-
ship.
THE POPULAR RESORTS
in and around New. York are numerous.
Those befit reached by boat, Coney Is-
land, Manhattan and Rockaway Beach,
1
Glen ancill Staten Islands are most peas
ant and afford a fine opportunity o en-
joying tha ocean breeze. The Ce tral
Park is nbst beautiful at this seasOn of
the year.! It has nine miles of roads
and nearly thirty miles of walks.
These are adorned with winding
lakelets and velvet lawns. The Malathe
name given to the principal promenade-,
11
•
SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1887.
BALTIDEIORE,
a very handsome city and a commercial
emporium of considerable importance.
It is situated on a small river near thel
Cheeapeak Bay. The streets are very
clean and the buildings on the principal's
avenues are very fine. Its handsome
churches possess great architectural
beauty and the fine monuments for
which the city is famed, are certainly
most attractive in appearance. This is
the seat of the John Hopkins University,
an educational institution of world-wide
fame, established through the Munifi-
cence of the man whose name it bears.
• Its laboratories have attracted students
from every country who here fiad une-
qualled facilities for the prosecution of
scientific research. Baltimore iss also
distinguished as the great oyster Market
of America. It is convenient to ;Chesa-
peake Bay, and other smaller arms of
Ili
the ocean, along whose shores i ost ex-
tensive oyster beds exist. We aeard it
stated, but have forgotten the large
number of the hands employed at this
point in gathering the oyster aed pre-
paring the same for market. Nearly all
Canadian orders are filled at Baltimore.
Continuing on our journey we fir t cross
the Susquehanna river, a large stream
spanned by one'of the longest ailway
bridges in the United States, ta-rnd on
through the northern portion of tae state
of Deleware passing the busy ca menu-
factm ing city of Wilmington, and soon
arrive at
PHILADELPHIA..
ed. We spent part of one morning visit- evening of last week. Holmes had a re -
1
So many visited the Centennial, exhibi-
tion in 1876, that this city is probably
better known than any other city in the
Union. It is the second largest city in
the United States, and is the mast regu-
larly built city on the continent. It
has long been distinguished at
an educational centre and ats Un-
iversities and Colleges are airlong the
best in the world. Its hospitalsiare very
large and are constructed with very at-
li
tendon to the most advanced i eas re-
garding the requirements of su h insti-
tutions. Dr. Wm. Osier, a wellaknown
Canadian holds an important Iposition
here as a'Professor in the University of
Pennsylvania, and is the principal medi-
cal lecturer in the largest hospital. He
is held in deservedly high esteem not
only by his associates but alsa in the
hospitals with which he is not connect-
.
r. One ed. The members of our party who
• stated stopped off at Philadelphia had: a short
ir
eating but most pleasant visit, and wi I not for-
a guar- get the courteous treatment • eceived,
ore than particu.larly in the hospitals, where
t John- every opportunity and privilege was
ensbure freely extended. This place has well
r' been called the Friendly city on account
of being originally settled' -leY Quakers
under Win. Perm. The, inhabitants still
preserve the praise -worthy characteris-
tics of the founders. We heard one ex-
pression by a visitor which seemed to
convey an idea of his atpreciation. He
said that Philadelphia' was the most
ing Greenwood Cemetery, a beautiful
place adorned with all that art could
suggest to embellish what nature has
already made most attractive. It is
reached by street cars through Brooklyn.
On our return we took boat and visited
Bedloe'.s Island in the harbor upon
which is erected the famous Statue of
Liberty enlightening the World."
It is a majestic female figure made of
copper, in the upraised right hand of
which is a torch lighted at night by
electricity, and in the left hand is a
volunte of the Comnitution. The statue
is 151 feet high and stands on a pedes-
tal 155 feet high. The torch is there-
fore over 300 feet from the surface of
the water and when seen at night the,
effect is grand, the whole harbor being
clearly lighted up with this great
beacon. This great statue was present-
ed by the French people to the people
of the United States. The Brooklyn
Bridge was to us an object of great
interest. It is 5,989 feet in length and
89 feet wide and is suspended by four
steel wire cables, each 16 inches in
diameter. In the centre is an elevated
promenade for foot passengers, and on
each side a railway track for passenger
cars propelled by a stationary engine.
On the outside of each rail track are the
roadways for vehicles. We paid two
cents each and rode over in a comforta:
ble car, from which, looking down, from
the central part of the bridge, 135 feet,
we could see large ocean vessels passing
beneath. Several " cranks " have jump-
ed off the bridge into the river, bent on
suicide or achieving notoriety. Up to
the present time only one has been kill-
ed, the others having unfortunately (tar-
vived. Paying one cent, most of us
walked back and had a long walk. but
one well worth the time, for the view
from this massive structure is very fine
and gives one an idea of the magnitude
of the shipping interests of New York.
11 THE HOSPITALS
of New York are large and numerous.
In the wards of the largest ones many of
our party spent the greater part of each
day, but details of experiences therein
would not interest the readers of the En-
POSITOR, suffice it to say that the court-
eous manner in which we were treated
in these institutions will always afford
pleasant reflections. The meeting of the
American Gynaecological Association was
held during the week of our stay in the
city, and was most interesting and in-
structive.
regularly built city in America, but the
Jani\T CDT IR( • inhabitants were the most squarely built
in the world.
FROM PHILADELPHIA TO NEW YORK:.
Golden Opportunity Passing through the State of ' New
Jersey we had a most pleasant ride
through a country exceeding in richness
anything we had previously seen on our
trip. The orchards along the road were
a r s farm house were terraced hills covered
heavily laden with fruit, and about every
0
'CARPET'
To be Cleared at a
• SACRIFIQE.
We can't spare the room, so
with vines bearing the moat: tempting-
_
looking. grapesforace celebrated the
virtues of the -old Valerian and.tuned his
lyre to sing the praises of Italy'svine-
clad tithe ; so too has the ,Catawba, of
New Jersey, inspired poems and awa-
kened the muse of more than Longfellow.
Peaches and pears -grow here 1 iu great
abundance and -find a never -failing mar-
ket in the great citiet af New York and
Philadelphia, Our return trip through.
New Jersey was made in the afternoon
of a beautiful autunua day after ie most
refreshing showenfollOwed by the bright
sunlight, making the appearance of
everything most charming. Approach-
. ing the metropolis the stopping places
become more—frequent. Trenton, the
capital of the State, presents a.lively ap-
pe.arance, and close by we catch a glimpse
of the lower falls of We. Delftware. On
past Princeton, the seat of two great
_
. colleges, and Brunswick and Elitabieth,
M ' t I
to the large. . manufacturing city of
U- S. e two beo.unfully situated towns, we come
Newark • with 175,000 : inhabitant.
Between this and jersey 1 City a great
marsh stretches out and seems to
will present an obstacle to -what weald other -
m ise no doubt be the result, viz.,
the amalgamation of these two great
h uharbs. These low lands will probably
! in a few yearsethrouga the push and
i energy svhich markt everything Alfieri-
' can, be thoroughly dtaineds :and loceu-
' pied by some busy hives of. industry.
Our train takes a long curve around the
Iiillinery and Clothino, House, martin of this marshy land, and in
a
te e
•
1 few minutes -we land at the Pennsyleania
• a EA FORT II, ONT. ' depot in - the city of • New jersey, from
oing a brisk trade. In the
turn ticket ta-Galt, and went to the sta-
tism) early in the evening to catch the
5.43 train for home. He was intoxicat-
ed and missed the train. He wandered
around from place to place drinking more
liciaor, finally being put out of an hotel
for creating a disturbance. He continued
wandering around in the vicinity of the
station inquiring for a train for Galt.
No person paid any particular attention
to him till he was found by Yardsman
Donovan about 9 o'clock lying in the
place stated alongside of the track. The
arm was merely hanging by the shreds.
The flat car in front of the yard engine
had apparently knocked him down as he
was wandering on the tracks. The
driver of the engine and fireman were not
aware of the accident. He was at once
taken to the hospital where his ann was
amputated.
• GO They
Riing your Ca,sli, and see what it
do at
Edward MeFaul's
POITLAR DM' GOODS,
. THE CANADIAN CLUB
is a young but strong organization in
New York. It is situated on 29th street
in most comfortable quarters. Here are
kept on file all the leading Canadian
dailies, and Canadians visiting the city
are made Most welcome. The object of
this club is to foster and strengthen the
friendly relations and friendships exist-
ing between Canadian residents in New
York. Mr. Erastus Wiman, the well-
knoven advocate of Commercial Union,is
the President. Our visit to these Cana-
dian •head -quarters was most pleasant.
There are several Cana.dian physicians
in New York, and the efforts of these
gentlemen to make our visit pleasant,.
will be long and tileasa-ntly remembered.,
THE PUBLIC BUILDINGS
and notable private residences of . New
York are too numerous to . attempt any
description of, and our time - would not
permit visits to many of the great public
buildings. We paid hurried visits to the
city hall and post office and of course
had each in turn to stand on that memor-
able stone upon which George Washing-
ton stood while reading the great Act of
Independence. To see the private resi-
dences of New York a person should
take a seat, as we did; on the outside of
one of the omnibuses going up fifth avenue
which has well been described as the
Belgravia of the American Metropolis.
This gave us excellent views of the gor-
geous homes of the Vanderbilts, the
Asters, and the great Italian palace of
white marble erected at a cost of $2,000,-
000 by the late A. T. Stewart. Along
here are seen also the fashionable club
houses and a long line Of most handsome
re.sidences. Coming down the next,
Madison avenue, and we have passed
through the most fashionable residential
part of New York and have viewed the
most ornamental piles of. white marble
and brown stone in the city. The
handsome apartment - houses of New
York always attract the eye of the
visitor. They are immense structures
of most elegant design and .are rented
by flats, one flat generally for each
family. Supplied - with elevators and
heated throughout by steam, they pro -
side comfortable 'homes for many
families. -
THE ELEVATED RAILWAYS
of New York, render getting about easy
and rapid. There are • four of these
roads running the -entire leogth of the
-city, the speed of the trains being about
fifteen miles an hour. The convenience -
of these highways is highly appreciated,
for large numbers crowd every train.
OUR RETURN
was by the same route as going. Leaving
New York in -the evening we iound our-
speare, Burns, Scott, and many others. —A eerious scandal was discovered at
has alon4 its borders statues of ahake-
selves running along the south shore of henceforth the establishment will be en -
Lake Ontario in the morning. Suspen- trusted with the task of supplying all Ottawat, last Saturday, in donnection
interest f,he obelisk which was presented
here the panty broke up, after enjoying Canadian batteries. Projectiles for with a contract for an .extension of the
We spent some time examining with
sion Bridge was reached at noon, and
to the city by the Ihryptian Khedive. breaa ;loading guns will continue to be city water works system._ It appears
a fortnight in a most pleasant and agree- obtained from It'ngland, but there are that William Stewart, a forethan in the
Those who are familiar with the history.
of this !obelisk will remember that it
able manner. Although we here and only three of these weapons in use in employ of the corporation, has a son
was first erected in tho. temple of On there passed through some excellent Ca—nada at present. who is the ,contractor for same stone
-
about 3,600 yeas ago by Thadmes III,
parts of the country, we saw none
superior to the farm lands of Western hThe Canadian Fisheries Department buildings oil the Government model
King of Egypt. ' It was made before the
Ontario, and certainly no place more as about completed arraegements for farm. Saturday =ruing one of the
siege of Troy, or the foundation of
desirable for residence.; the transportation early in the month of . city aldermen discovered that men em -
'tome, and during the time the Israelites than our own
highly favored Province. Nov einter of a car of live lobster from played by the city on the water works
wereentlaved in Egypt. -his of granite,
R. W. 13. S. R.
de Chaleure to the Pacific coast. ' extension, under Stewart senior, were
70 feet long, stands on a large pedestal,
Seaforth, Oet. 3-, 1S87. The car will be especially fitted up for actually engaged in 9narrying stone for
and is covered with hieroglyphics il- this purpose. Experiments show that the experitnental farin buildinge. For
bastratiag the campaigns and title") of • e-
d Henry Holmes, lobsters can be kept in a healthy con- ! man Stee-art was at ouee dismissed, and
Tha.dineis and his descendant—A man nameresid-
Rameses, dition for a sufficient length of time to ! another official is likely to get into
.
-II. For many tenturies this obelisk ing in Galt, and apparently about 50 ensure their reaching Vancouver, bar- - trouble also.
stood before the temple of the sun at years of age, had his right arm almost ring accident, svithout losing life. As ' —A remarkably sudden death occurred
Heliopoilie and was removed durinth•e cut off below the elbow, •two scalp an outcome of this the department antici- ' at .Woodstock last Friday afternoon. -
g
reign ofTiberius to Alexandria here it wounds inflicted, as well as ! another on pates a successful propagation of lobsters Mr. J. C. Ross was attending a meeting
remained until the timethe side of the nck,
of its removal and two ribs in the Pacific waters, where none are ' of the creditors of the estate of Mr. John
, we
to America. The National Museum of brokenThe accidentpp d at ,the - knonn to exist Lobsters have Cameron, held in the Sheriff's! office. An
Art and the alanagerie in the Central Grand Trunk Railwaa station, about 30 been plentiful on most of our Maritime • animated discussion was in progress as ta
Park are full of interest but a descrip- yards west of Road Master Savage's Province coasts but in some places un- I whether an adjournment was an order or library, an appropriate resting place
office, at London at . 8.45 Wednesday ,.
tion of their wonders cannot be attempt- mistakable evidences of exhaustion from not. About half•past three o'clock Mr. could be found.
IMcDEAN BROS. Publishers.
$1.50 a Year, in Advance.
. •
over -fishing have been shown and inore
stringent regulations are needed to pre-
serve this fisbery from sharing the same
fate that has, overtaken it in other eoun-
tries. The returns, however, indicate an
enormous 'quantity of this shell , fish,
though the average size continues to
diminish. In 1885 there were canned in
the Gulf divlsion alone 940,482 pounds,
while in New Brunswick ,the returns
show that 4681,812 pounds were canned
and 4,290 tons sold fresh, the whole
quantity representing 28,000,000 lob-
sters. •!
—An inspection of the Ca,nadianNiagara
Falls park was made on Saturday last
by Colonel . Gzowski, Mr. Mowat, Mr.
Hardy, Colonel Moran, M. P. P. and a
number of Ontario Government oificials.
They drove over the reservation and
expressed themselves well pleased with
the many improvements already made.
The party (lined at the Prospect 'House
and left on the afternoon train fbr To-
ronto.
—Armancleus Anderson, a Swedish
emigrant, aged 17, died from exhaustion
and insuffieient nourishment on a Michi-
gan Central train while passing through
St, Thomas at midnight on Sunday en
route to Baffalo to join his mother and
sister. The rumor spread among other
emigrants that the cause of death was
Asiatic cholera, and excitement ran high
until Dr. Smith, the company's physic-
ian assure(' them there was no cause for
alarm. a
—The Canada Pacific track is laid to
within 30 miles of Sault Ste Maine, and
another mouth, at the present rate of
progress will see the Soo connected by
rail with the East as well as the West.
Theexcavations for the swing bridge over
the canal are done, and by the time the
super-strecture of the big bridge over
the river, now half done, is coMpleted,
tlis reaanii:l. ,bridge will also be ready for -
the
—While a street car was going down
Yonge steeet, Toronto, last Friday night
the brakes gave way and the horses
dashed down the street. The driver
had presence of mind to stoop dver the
dashboard and free the horses. The ani-
mals kept on the track ahead of the car
and ran full tilt into the horses of • the
car coining np, two of thent being
instantly killed. The passengers of the
cars were considerably frightened, but
kept theiir seats. •
—air. John Stewart, a dry -goods
property of his too nonfidmg employer.
clerk of Renfrewonet vvith a very pecul-
Mr. McFadden discovered his loss in the
iar accident about a week ago. ' He vvas
morning and traced King from the house
standing with a lead pencil in his mouth
—who had run off in his bare feet for
when a fellow clerk threw a handful of
some distance f!,nci then put on Mr. Mc -
socks oveir to him. The bundle struck
Fadden's shoes—to Thamesville. Several
the peneil and knocked it down his
had seen him, atid it was found that he
mouth. !It fastened in his throat and it
had bought a ticket for Chatham and
is surmised that a piece of the lead broke
boarded the train. It is thought he took
off and xemained in his palate. His
the Erie & Huron either north or south •
mouth became so painful that he was
at all events he made good his escape. '
obliged to seek medical attention.
—The bequest on the bodies of the
—In concluding his speech on the children killed by the explosion of a
Marquis of Lansdowne's estate the other shell on the Island of Orleans concluded
day Editor O'Brien had this to say of the on Monday with a verdict of culpable
future of the Canadian Governer -Gene- negliaence against the employes of the
ral :—" Re never willreceive orie pound Quebec cartridge factory, which is under
of rent irs comfort fromthisestate until the control of the Militia Department,
every hearth that he has quenched in The father of the deceased will now take
Luggacuiaan shall be kindled again, and an action for damages against the mili-
until every tenant that he has evicted tary authorities. The evidence disclosed
shall be reinstated, and until this old the fact that the range party were in -
race of ours shall be free to dwell and to structed. to recover what shells they
thrive arid to rule in the land that has could, after the firing, for purposes of
been watered by the blood and the tears
tection of residents in the locality. The
study, nothing being said as to the pro-
of our fathers.'
—An eight-year-old son of Henry party recovered one only, while a farmer
Stranger, foreman of the Empire Oil of the vicinity named Leclerc recovered
Company, of London,left his home about three immediately after the range party
a quarter to six o'clock Saturday night left for town, and handed them over to
to go over and call his father to tea. The the coroner at the inquest.'
little fellow found his way into one of —The wife Of Mr. Charles Carroll, a
the upstair rooms of the works where farmer living on the Mount 13rydges
the oil was being pumped into the agi- road, near Strathroy, was found on Sat-
tator. tie wad overpowered with the urday afternoon hanging in the barn
gas and fell on the floor, where his body dead. Mr. John Carroll, ecrusin of the
was fousid at half -past six by some of deceased's husband, had been ploughing
the -night men. A doctor was vaned in, for his relative, and on coming in to din -
but life had fled before the little fellow ner, saw the body hanging, and cut it
was removed from the influence of the down. The woman had apparently
climbed up into the mow, attached a
gas.
—Last Saturday,while Chas. 'O'Brien, rope to one of the poles forming a 'scaf-
fold some eleven feet above the floor,
who runs a threshing rnachineewas en-
gaged in the barn of Mrs. Donnelly, and there hanged herself. There was
about nine tniles from Bracebridge, Sam- no apparent motive for the deed. De-
ceased had been in her usual health and
uel Taylor who owned a rival machine,
entered the barn, when an altercation spirits, and thin coupled with the fact
arose between the two men. t Taylor that it must hike e been very difficult for
called O'Brien a liar, when the latter her to get into the position in which she
struck bim twice and he felleinto the was found, that her body presented no
arms of 'same workmen dead.g O'Brien sign of strangulation, and that there was
gave himself up. Samuel Taylisr was an a bruise on her forehead, induced the
old resident of the township of Macau- coroner, Dr. Bellington, to 8111111110P 11.
lay, and had been a councillor for sever- jury to investigate the case. The cir-
al _yecaroan
.stalibleelCeaavmepseaiglna,rgoeffailmaimiYilton, ilar to those of the Thurlow -
cumstances of the tragedy are very aim -
is a particularly active and vigilant officer souri some time ago - ease in is
d of —The oldcolors* f
o. the 100th, or
and he has won the enmity and dread
Royal Canadian
Regiment, which left
,t;listeyrboyn gthhse ipnrtollinepntoartnhder fnepa roiret8i so mannernofthe
India at theinstance of Lord Dufferin
with which he deals with them. Lately last May, have been received at Otte,
a conspiracy has been formed among Two tattered pieces of discolored swill
them to do Campaign up. He heard of clustering in scant folds round -
it, together with a menace uttered by a long poles are all Ythat is left of ttwhe
young man named Wm. Babb, that he beautiful poles,
which were presented
would shoot him, and with cliaracteris- by the Prince of Wales nearly thirty
tic energy he laid for Babb and arrested ears a to 1,200 Canadians on parade
him on the street with a loaded revolver years
Sh(gerencliffe, England. The flags
originally consisted of silken Union
• in bis possession.
Jacks, four feet square, with the name
of the regiment elegantly stitched in
letters of gold,. They are now barely
larger than a handkerchief, and show
every appearance of the effects of gun-
powder and time. The poles on whieh
they are suspended are battered and
worn, the paint being nearly worn off.
Surmounting each of then) is a golden
crown, topped by figures of nanature
lions also bent' and twieted. The
colors possess scarce half a yard of silk
apiece. They have faded greatly and
itheft identity can scarcely be made out.
Only here and there on the tattered
folds can be traced with diffieulty the
faded outlines of the figures tIa•y once
bore. The difsposal of the relic's has
not been settled, hut it is suggested that
either in the vestibule of the perliament
building, above the Speaker's chair in
the Commons chamber, in the Comnaons
readine room or in the parliamentary
Canada. .
It is asserted that a man at Knowl-
ton, Qiiebec, recently dug 105 bushels of
potatoes in one day.
—It will take one thousand trains of
twenty ears each to transport this year's
surplut crop from Manitoba.
—Sdmething like 80,000 bushels of
this season's crop of potatoes has already
been sent to New England markets over
the New Brunswick railway.
—Mt. J. L. Moody commenced a
series of revival meetings in Montreal
on Sunday, holding services in the
morning, afternoon and evening.
—Bush fires were so bad along the
St. Lawrence last week that the ocean
steamers at Montreal, were unable to
proceed down the river on account of
the sneaks).
—A very valuable consignmentof furs
was recently shipped to Montreal irons
Winnipeg by the Hudson Bay Co. The
value • of the consignment was nearly
$250,000.
• —Premier Nerquay, of Manitoba,
arrived in Winnipeg Monday night, and
has given as the chief reason for his
want of success the hostility of the Do-
minion Government and the Canadian
Pacific.
—Following upon the adoption of the
electric light in Galt the authorities of
that 'thriving town are now seriously
considering the expenditure of $125,000
for a water -works system.
—Ed*ard Doyle, who lives near
Parker, Peel county, had the prong of a
fork ram between his ribs and through
one of his lung the other day. It fell
upon him from a mow during a thresh-
ing.
—It is stated that Sir John Macdon-
ald will within a few . weeks resign the
Gonerel Superintendency of Indian
Affairs, the adminisOation of the Indian
Departnsent revertinmas in former years
to the Department of Interior.
—A farmer by the name of Richard
Grahain, coining into Petrolea last Fri-
day with a load of wood-, by some means
slipped and fell deism, the wagon and
contents passing over him and killing
him ihstantly.
—After a night of debauchery Thomas
Cunningham, a man about forty years of
age, was found dead in his bed at 16
Agnes street, Toronto, Sunday morning.
His wife was lying beside him speech-
lessly drunk, and could not be made to
• understand what had taken place.
—While standing at her ow -u door in
Selkirk West, Manitoba, the other day,
an Islandic woman was hit by a shot
from a neighboring grove. She will
probably die. The person who fired the
shot is not known., but it is supposed to
have been a hunting accident. _
—Daniel Breault, • of Amherstburg,
was the victim of a queer accident on
Thursday of last week, at Windsor. As
he was making up a train two cars mane
together with great force and a piece of
the draw bar was broken and forced into
Breault's leg, inflicting a terrible injury.
Ha may die of blood poisoning.
—The committee of the White Cross
Guild, who have been making inquiry
into the statements as to the debauchery
of childrenatOttawa, find that there is
much truth in the statements made, and
propose to ask assistance of the
Attorney -General of Ontario With a view
to stamping out the evil.
—A despatch from Edmonton announ-
ces the arrival there of constables with
two Halfbreeds named Michael, father
and son, charged with killing the wife
of the former at Lesser Slave Lake. The
woman became insane and fancied she
was possessed of an evil spirit, inciting
to murder and cannibalism,a.nd the men,
following the Indian law in these cases,
killed her.
—The two-year-old son of Joseph
Grantham, caretaker of Trinity church,
St. Thomas, had a narrow escape from
a terrible death a few days ago. The
child toddled into a stable where his
father was currying a horse, and was
kicked by the animal in the head and
thrown through the door, receiving
terrible flesh wounds, but nothing more
serious.
The experiments with the shells manu-
factured in the Government factory at
Quebec have been so satisfactory that
Ross was noticed to let his hat drop on
the floor and innnediately after to fall
into the arms of Mr. Eakins, who was
sitting beside him. He was at once laid
on the floor, and such restoratives as
were at hand applied. Medical assist-
ance was sent for at once, and a doctor
was on hand about four mijnites =after
Mr. Ross fell, but it was to late. He
bad died without a struggle. ;The doctor .
pronounced the cause of death to be
cerebral hemorrhage. Deceased was
about seventy years of age, and was a
much respected resident of the town.
—While excavating a grave in the old
graveyard at Stoney Creek,on Saturday,
the skeletons of three British soldiers
wao were killed ba the battle of Stoney
Creek were discovered. One of them
was evidently that of a British, cavalry
officer, as the 'remains of a blutatunic of
fine material, with buff facing and trim-
med with heavy gold - bullion, were
found " upon it, while on the buttons
were the crown and wreath, the figure
of a galloping horse and the number
eight in large numerals, surrounded by
the motto " Honi soit qui mal y pense.'
The skeletons were founa about two
feet from the surface, and it was evident
that the grave -diggers had struck into
one of the long trenches in which the
dead were buried after the battle.
—A number of Jersey cattle have been
seized by the customs offieials at Rock
Island, Quebec, for having been brought
into Canada and sold in ,contravention
of the proclamation prohibiting the im-
portation of 'United States cattle and for
failure to report the same for duty, as
required by the customs law. The pre-
valence of contagious disease among cat-
tle in the Western States rendered such
protection absolutely necessary. The
penalty provided for such an offence is
severe the cattle being required to be
slaughtered and in addition to this a fine
of $200 being imposed on each importa-
tion. The Department of Agriculture
will doubtless be asked to decide on this
case.
—Mr. A. McFadden,-KentBridge,hrsd
what he thought a very exemplary hired
man, Thos. King, recently out from Eng-
land. He was not as trustworthy as be
looked, for the other night he rose up at
midnight and walked off with $145,
which Mr. McFadden had in a bureau
drawer, and $15 that his fellow -employe
had in his inside pocket, also a new suit
of clothes and a new pair of shoes, the
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