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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1887-10-14, Page 14 males, Lushes, &cc. Lady our rtMent, LUL, 'McCracken is L fairs, all of es curling chile' C for the elee- liza.tion of the a geed sea. the season is as successful Siding of the russels bridge. up for a spell sty of ram— , flax Millers, s for flax de-, re this year. ) acres of it Lachlan, who as a. judge at has returned wo very fine yereft left lash where he will - months. He :alga but will there.—Last township of cattle stolen. afterwards on, he having -ty by the name close by Seal, Ld sent to Gode- IL see by yonr bound that big nding mitts ou must be some- ro:ps. I think nes and rockses,for both Mr. s could not doe iteron. If they down next eta of farmers give theni. big that have no pay them. fter the harvest - hat Mr. Dixon ay in the county asonable te--1-say at the rate of to the minute Bia hours or e me has clone ac - bound the day i1 met met for bnsi- t Mr.- Fulton's Tamale as usual, accounts, and In the even - •m Cr:aig's sale, he pump at the ton's, the water e Irisb element before the Scott; two widowers - The aarctioa- ame is Pateteek the two gave ng. About the y morning the perse to their a case for the, hen the seater o ard should see d out or closed es may results's- sly a men acting 1 the effects of f Mr: Mowat' f the townshire, g the township T -tionaries. et 16 eople who 811P -- winter by voting e he drank en ishop because he road he eenld, :4r. Mawat's J. such Tories es if he would cense the es-a,ter baa the d ---I Out -t instance of the nneres- general - i I erecter al waYa of the water.-- ve cause to eel! veetigate a stag,. Lpoeite his doe t take it in hand. of convietions be tv for the quarter , numbered 10.S 1 Police MeV!: etion of the Se°" by megestrates for the Barr • out of the iiale eels or various tiler thirteeseseef 1 bY , the tut net rr a cumber ot INETEENTE YEAR. OLE NUMBER 1;035. SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1887. - { McLEAN BROS. Publishers. 1.50 a Year, in Advance. all & Winter MILLINERY Opened & Ready for Inspection & Sale. Dress Goods, Trimmings In all the latest designs. Mantles and Cloths. We never before had such a complete stock. Ulster 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 LETTER FROM SOUTHERN COLORADO. HUBILFANO COUNTY, COI September Trth, 1SS DEAREXPOsITOR. —To one una ed to viewing terrestrial naur most rugged aspect, Colorado curious and most wonderful When were those great 1rooks and bk„ what mighty convulsi convolehtions of the earth's surf those`immense masses of earth gathered and whirled and p mountains of multitudinous v forms and appearances ?-i-and 'purpose ? Ah, Scientists, and C may reason and speculate and on causes and effects and peri cerning the " when," but only t Creator can truly answer, the " The Rocky Mountains cover western half of Colorado and the country has a general thoug perceptible slope eastward the foot -hills, a sort of in rod the mountains, after t ese hills, tablelande and str or plains until the easte reached. Colorado c square miles, covering a Ne w England States, together with New York and Delaware States. Among the mountains are many valleys of greater or —0 Koffman -& Co• j SEAFORTH, Agents for Butterick's Reliable Pat- terns, Sheets and Books of the latest styles. --J. D. Raymond, who was United States consul in Ottawa about twenty years ago, was found dead Wednesday morning of last week in McCrady & Son's tannery at Brock.ville, in which he . was employed. A bullet hole was found in his side and death had evidently taken place early in the night. It is not be- lieved that he committed suicide,but how the shooting occurred is unknown. The family of deceased live at Ogdensburg, N.Y. —The Bruce Telescope relates the following intereating story : About a year ago a stranger called at the Mild- may banking house to discount some promissory notes, supposed to have been made by Wm. Thompson and. Ben. Reynolds. The notes were discounted, the bank notified these gentlemen when the notes matured, and they both promptly repudiated, declaring the sig- nature a forgery. The next day the same accomplished. stranger dropped. in on John Chambers and R. Millons, in Walkerton, and • produced a note pur- porting to be signed by Wm. Reid and R. McCoy, of Teeswater, for $250. It was also discounted, and in due course likewise repudiated as forgery number .two. On learning the true state of affairs, the most energetic efforts were put forth to capture the plausible 'stranger. A minute description of him was given, and the case pieced in Con- stable Heffernan's hands, who has been runningehiin down like a very Nemesis ever since, and after getting a clue of rado, • 3 custom - e in its seems a country. formed, ons and ce were and rock led into riety of to what eologists conclude ocls con- e Divine why." he entire rom this a scarcely First are action to re lesser aches of prairie n boendary is ntain 103,645 muc1 as all the stOck-raising on the open -range systein lyres a very successful and profitable busi- ness he this country, and fortunes were made easily and quickly at it. The whole coentry, prairie, river bottoms, wet r and tree shelter, was open to whoev r cane along with a hero of cattle or drove of sheep. The open prairie affor ed the best of summer pasture, with cess et will to the creeks or rivers f wetere In winter the rich grass on t bettorh lands was equal to the best h arld the trees afford all the shelter esissary, Under such favorable circu n - stances few animals died, the herds a d flecks increased rapidly, expenses and ice3ses were small and returns were Tunificent. But immigration was m -v- irlg westward, people were looking or eve homes and new lands to settle 'hey began to come into Colorado and lid there was fertile soil, capable of po- 43Iucing fine crops along all the rivers, if he want of rain and the dryness of the less extent. The San Luis alley and Wet Mountain valley, both w thin 30 or 40 miles of this place, are said to possess great agricultural advaetages. 1The for- mer covers 3,000 sqtard miles in Color- ado and extending intoNew I\ exico em- braces over 2,000 square mil s of that country. Along all the Mount in streams there is considerable , tim er, large trees of pine, spruce and othe varieties, but the difficulty ofcpnveyi g lumber down the mountain passes an bad roads makes that commodity ,scarce and very high prided in the lower coup ry. 4 , The cultivable land in thes mountain valleys is mostly taken up a d settlers are going in every day. Many of the farms are in long narrow „trips along 16 the streams and often, broke up with rocks and scrubs. Whatever there i's of it, however, is generally1 v ry fertile, producing excellent crops of raiinroots, and it is said, fruit also. e, are now using in our -family some of he largest and best potatoes I ever saw and they were grown on a mountain arch by a o teaches a c - r e e- n. son of Erin's Green sle, school in winter and ferms h s ranche iii summer. Out of the mountains no timber grows except along the streerns which can be traced by the fringe of green as far as visible, but the trees ere small and sparse and Chiefly cottonwood, a species of the poplar. In the southern part of the state pinyons grow on the bills in groups and bunches, with an occasional cedar among them. These trees when seen at a little distance in scattered groups, have much the appearance of Ontario apple orchards. They grow until about the size of an ordinary apple tree, then , die :off, the dead pinyons being rich in a sort of pitchy gum, make excellent fire wood, burning up as rapidly as pine and throw- ing out as much heat as the dryest maple. . 'The effect of sunshine and s the mountains is peculiar, and very beautiful. -Sometimes the huge ash -colored maeses, somet sunlight strikes there in such way as to show quite distinctly the ridges and chasms and irregularities, and ring out vividly the greenness of the rase and shrubbery. I have !seen them also of a st a'oout tmosphere could be overcome. Irn ion would do this, and irrigation comparatively easy• on the river fl n a few more years this land, border tie streams, was all taken up, Settlers are now on every quarter sec - Ilion. The land was divided into blocks of 40 acres, and a settler could pre-emp or homestead one, two, three or four blocks. ft was not required that they forth a equare, but they must nil join each Other in some shape, and in each ffrty ar- art ere nd e. he th- ith th- an rge and ent- In way eks ead- the the the else rich, is as a oul land diad orth e to, CCU- . ,000 con- a - as ts. ng nd ecre square where the bottoms are , row there is always a considerable isf rocky bluff or dry prairie w irrigation is impracticable and the 1 s of no value except as a pasture ra. n northern Colorado they have Platte river with its branches. In so ere Colorado there is the Arkansas its tributaries ; in the west and so western the Grand river, the San and the Rio Grande. Along the 1 rieers the flats are usually wide thiere is abundance of water, conse ly fanning lands there are valuabl the southern part of the State, from the large rivers,a number of cr run down from the mountains, sp ing out somewhat like fingers froi' hand, and along these creeks are settlements. Between them is eithe open range of hills and prairie, or enclosed pasture lands, either of w when shut off from the water fron of comparatively little advantage range for stock. The government not give grants for large blocks of for grazing purposes, as the , Can: Government has done in the West. Uncle Sam prefers peop stock, and wants all his territory pied by honest, industrious citizens, In the good early times a herd of or 3,000 cattle of one brand was no sidered anything remarkable, but now two or three hundred head are thought a pretty risky handful and few °Wu BO many. The open range hen become so limited that there is no winter grass or tree shelter from the piercing winds and animals not home fed drift before - the wind against the wire fences, become weak, and often starve and die. I About 1881 there rose a great bOom in the cattle business. A number of cap- italists in the- Eastern States and1 Eng- land, for some reason, had their atten- tion directed to the stock raising business in the west and fancying it a safe and profitable investment for their surplus funds, formed companies, large !syndi- cates, and either coming themselpes or sending out agents through all the range cattle states in the West, bought up im- mensely. Prices advanced until cattle more than doubled in value. But this golden era for stock men lasted only a short time. Soon the herds were com- plete and the demand ceased. Priees fell as rapidly as they had risen. The sue- cessof the new companies has not realiz- ed their expectations. The outl y was Bible and consequently no crops, or next great and the returns have been disap- to none are theIresult. Again, if rains pointing. In some instances they ought are heavy and frequent the mountain up whole brands represented by the streams become swollen and rush down owners as numbering perhaps 120,000 great bodies of -water which flood and animals,but when rounded up and count- sweep everything before them. Dams ed these herds would fall short bY many are broken, ditches washed out and thousands. The wily drovers ha re- yawning gullies furrow what was before ceived and pocketed the cash arid the a smooth and beautiful grain field. All syndicates got left—that was all. Many this makes lots of discouragement and . hard work for the farmer. There is something new being talked of in con- nection with the irrigation system of this country. That is a proposal to con- struct large reservoirs at certain places and distances. No rain of any account falls here from early in September to the first of april. During the autumn and winter there is a steady and moderate flow of water in the creeks but in spring and early summer when mountain snows are melting and there are frequent rains a large amount of the precious aqueous fluid is carried off by the branch streams down to the rivers, and hence elsewhere, and is thin) wasted or lost. The proposal is to preserve this wasted water in reser- voirs from which it could be distributed by ditches', or canals, and by this means enormously enlarge the agricultural capacity of the country. It is .doubtful, however, if this scheme be immediately carried out. The cost would be very great, and it is too uncertain a venture for capitalists to undertake rashly. The United States Government is not a pa- ternal Government. What the people of any one state want done they Must do for themselves. -The executive power at the White House gives no aid to section- al enterprise. The public land will not even be sold in large blocks to the pro- moters of irrigation enterprises,but must be homesteaded and pre-empted in the usual way, so these large schemes for reservoir e and canals will be likely to find their accomplishment, as a general - thing in the somewhat distant future. M. E. ade on ft -times appear mes the his whereabouts, sometimes in Listowel, de„ep.blue, and in the morning] then in London, next in Chesley, he sunrise, of a lovely ose color. was finally brought to bay at Harriston We are pretty far south last Saturday. He was brought before M. McNamara, J. P., under the name of John Johnston. John Chambers, R. Millons, A. Geizel, John Henderson, Henry Schultheis and A. Zettel were all certein that he was the man, but on ac- count of his hair being a little lighter they refused to positively swear that he was the man, and he was consequently discharged. He answered the descrip- Can in every other particular. CYT'HIR, Golden Opportunity 1 about 50 miles from the New Me dary and Ontario people are o.c to think Colorado a pretty war but the first snow lof the seas the 2rd of Auguste It was In there was no frost, but the top the Spanish peaks,liabout 15 tent, was white with new fa Wieh us there had been a ligh on the mountain it was snow are generally rocky, that is filled with small broken rocj and are more or leas barren the quantity of the soil. rocks occur they! sometim strange shapes. II have s v lire driven on a hot summer day, a though only grass fed, would show lit - t e or no perspiration, whereas a horse a home, ..under the same circumstances, ould be in a lather of foam. Inquiring if this was on account of the greater hardiness and toughness of the animals I was told it might partly be from that cause, and partly also from the very such drier atmosphere. Since the open range business has been n the decline it has been becoming more nd more a matter of necessity for stock- olders to provide winter sustenance for their animals. The only meansavailable or doing his was the cultivation of such rasses and grainsas were adapted to the oil and Climate. Farming became of ore importance than ever before. uring the inflated stock -raising era armers were looked upon with great ontempt. They were always poor, in ebt and of no account airy way. ow 11 this is changed. Farmers are being regarded as a respectable well-to-do and safe class of men, but they have, and always will have one great difficulty in connection with the cultivation of their land, that is irrigation, but more of this anon. It has been ascertained by experiments that the native blue grass and gramma grass of the plains make excellent hay when cultivated in meadows. Timothy is also grown, and is here, as elsewhere, the favorite hay :for horses. There is very little red plover, a small patch or a few heads are regarded as a curiosity. Within the last half-dozen years, how- ever, farmers and stock -raisers have made the discovery of a new forage plant which will be of incalculable value to them, and which will still enable them to raise and fatten large numbers of all kinds of stock in spite of their arid cli- mate and the narrowing of the public range. This is alfalfa, which seems to be ;especially adapted to the climate and soil, and which only needs a sufficiency of water to produce enormous crops. A few years ago neither the word alfalfa nor the plant it represents was ever heard of in Colorado. Now,as one passes over the country,large fields of this beau- tiful, dark green forage plant with its purple bloom are to be seen on every ranch. It is sometimes sown alone but usually with oats or rye, early in spring. . It is a ten- der plant at first and liable to dry out if not well watered, but if properly at- tended the first summer until well rooted its success is assured. -The first year the yield will be stnall,but a second year if a good stand has been obtained, it may be cut twice and a ton per acre obtained at each cutting. The third year and ever after—for alfalfa never dies out— it may be cut three times and if it has been sufficiently irrigated as much as two tons to the acre will be obtained at each cutting. Where the conditions vere very favorable, and under judicious and abundant irrigation, alfalfa has been known to produce in this country from six to eight tons per acre. It makes a beautiful bright green hay which is greedily eaten by all kinds of stock, even hogs thrive on it. It is especially excellent for young stock And milch cows. intIGATION. Now about the water question. This is the most serious and annoying diffi- culty farmers have to contend with. Ditches have to be dug to convey the water from the river through the farm. These ditches have to be dammed up at certain distances to allow the water to overflow on the fields. To ensure good crops there must be plenty of water in the ditches and it must be made to flow evenly and abundantly over every inch of the land. , This requires constant over- sight, vigilance and watchfulness on the part of the farmer. Sometimes if the season is dry and the rainfall scant the rivers dry up, making irrigation impos- 1 of Graham's mad cruelty appeared against the prisoner with a bandage over his sightless left eye and part of his scp,rred face. He is able to see from the right eye, though not perfectly. He pee a detailed account of the affair. A clerk 5,n Mr. Neil C. Love's drug store identified Graham as a man who had purchased vitriol from him the. day before the crime was committed, and the prisoner was given a life sentence. The Court applauded, but the guilty man showed no sign of feeling save a nervous twitching of the chin. ere, only ico boun- u stomed country, n fell on t cold— of one of iles dis- len snow. rai, but The hills he soil is or stone, ording to ere large s assume ral times passed near two which are a ost a per- fect fac-simile of 1 centre ables, only much larger. Both have an upright Fircular pillar, supporting flat, evenly placed slab, and appear grea lY more like le work of art than of nat re. 2,000 Yards he soil of the pleins is ric , and would —017— CARPET To be Cleared at a SACRIFICE. We can't spare the room, so Go They Mut be very fertile arid productive were it not for the dry nese of the Grasses on the unceltivated not in close sod, but in t there on the brown, bar though appearing thin must be exceedingly nutr duce such good results in t ment of animals that hav t summer and whiter the One noticeable peculiarity prairie plants is that nearl are furnished with some so thorn to stab the unwary you try to pluck e flower o of which there are some sorts, you find your fing small pricks which will hours, and if you try to b from a bush or tree a most likely give you a teach caution at least. T any plants not relished b Bring your Cash, and see what it will; do at Edward AleFaurs POPULAR DRY GOODS, Millinery and Clothing Housel SEAFORTH, ONT. atmosphere. ranges' grow, fte heee and earth, and nd parched ti us tlo pro-, e nurish-4 live on it year round. fl the native 4-4 them t Of prick or Medder. If fPliage plant, my beautiful ra pierced by nnoy you for eak off a twig. ig thorn will " that will eke are few if grazing ani- mals but are furnished, with sore such means of self-defence. which sends out its 1 leaves and retains its ve all seasons, has. a shar apex of every leaf, and th of needles. Horees and careful to avoid steppin these pints, and seem well the penalty for d prairie grasses that are. during the summer, dry and cure- like bay, elf° winter pasture. STOOK -RANI. Up to within some14 piece of bone was successfully cut away, and without making any exterior incis- ion, the operation being performed with a specially constructed saw through the nostril and was perfectly painless. —An English girl, lately arrived in Montreal, at Lanaroie station on Satur- day afternoon fell beneath the cars of the incoming Quebec train. She a Ie -ft for L'Epipha.ine, but going on to Berthier was returning, and as the train slowed up at Lanaroie, thinking she had arrived at her destination, she jumped from the platform before the —On Saturday, two painters) Henry cars stopped. Smith and Arthur Harding, while work- ing on a scaffold at a new building on Lake View avenue, Toronto, were pre- cipitated to the ground, a distance of over 30 feet, owing to one of the stays giving way. Smith was terribly injured and his recovery is doubtful. Harding got off with a dislocated shoulder. —Traffic Manager Olds, of the Cana- dian Pacific, denies that the company has not enough cars to move the Mani- toba grain crop. He states that 48,000 bushels of wheat.have been received at various points during the past week and 210 cars have been ordered for the traffic, while there are 306 cars on hand to supply the demand. —The Dominion Government have been notified that the Canadian sealers seized in Behring's Sea this season have been foetid guilty at Sitka of illegal seal- ing andlthe vessels and skins forfeited. A test ease which involves the United States claim to exclusive sovereignty in Behring's Sea is now before the Admir- alty Court in Boston, and will no doubt be carried to the United States Supreme Court for a final judgment. —The action of the retail grocers in opposing the Montreal 'sugar combina- tion is meeting with general support, and it is expecthd. before long the com- bine will have to give way. The Knights of Labor in that city have pass- ed a resolution pledging support to the retail grocers in their opposition to the combine. —Thursday, evening of last week a young man giving his name as John Lewis, went to the livery of Mr. Thos. Hartop, St. T somas, and engaged the most stylish ternout in the stable, rep- resenting that he intended to drive to Aylmer and would return the .me even- ing., He has not since put in an appear- ance nor can any trace of him be found. The outfit is valued at $300. —John Nixon, a farmer living about two miles south of Barrie, was run ever and instantly killed near Allendale, on Saturday night, by the Hamilton ex- press. The engineer saw him lying across' the rails, but not in time to stop the train. Doctors thought he fell in a fit while walking on the track, it being the nearest way home. He leaves a widow and four children. —A car of anthracite coal from the Banff mines arrived last week at Van: couver, consigned to the Naval Depart- ment, Esquimalt. The naval authorities have decided to give this coal a trial, and if the test is satisfactory it is probable the company will receive a large order. One hundred car loads of Anthracite coal, from these mines, are lying at Port Isdoody awaiting tra,n- shipment to San Francisco. A vessel to carry, it is expected to arrive within a few days. Besserer, cigar dealer, of Ottawa, has been compelled to enter an action to recover payment for $62 worth of cigars supplied to the Conservative committee rooms at the time of the last Dominion elections. He has engaged a lawyer to commence a suit against the clerk of the committee and one of Mr. Perly's foremen, through whom it is said the cigars were ordered. Efforts made to induce the members elect to pay the account have been so far with- out 4ucceas. Ahout 11 o'clock last Friday night with the Indians is looked for. The shooting was justifiable on the part of the Henrys. They are at home in charge of a constable. They are peaceable and respectable boys. —There is already a grain blockade on the Canadian Pacific Raihvay at Car- berry, Manitoba. Only 10,000 bushels have been marketed out of a yield of 600,000 bushels in that distriot, and the Canadian Pacific Railway are unable to transport it. They only eupplied one car in the last three days for the four elevators, which are now blocked. There was a demand on Wednesday of last week throughout the Province for three hundred cars, and it could. not. be met. The Government is in constant commun- ication by cable with parties in England in regard to the matter. —Some time since the Government instructed the Frontenac County Attor- ney to take action against the County Council for its share of the expense of enforcing the Scott Act in Frontenac, and the case is now pending. The second. suit is threatened in consequence of the - refusal of the County to pay the salary of H. McKim, who has been appointed a magistrate for the trial expressly of Scott Act cases. His salary has been - fixed at $500 per annum and his travel ling expenses at $150. The county will only pay when forced by law to do so. —At the Brantford Assizes, in the case of the Queen vs. Stephenson the jury found the prisorier guilty of steal- ing, and the judge then sentenced him to five years in the Kingston Penitenti ary. On the sentence being given the mother of the prisoner ceused a scene in the court. She was standing at the prisoners' dock, and clasping her arms around her son's neck, she cried out : Oh, my boy, my boy! You won't take my boy away from me." It was with great difficulty that thevveeping mother's arms were torn from the prisoner's neck. She was taken out of the courtroom weeping bitterly, while her boy was taken off to the cells. —A yourig man named ErnestDesairne of Buckingham, Province of Quebec, was shot dead last Wednesday evening. The deceased,who was about 20 years of age, was in the employ of Mrs. M. Thermins, and was sitting in the kitchen talking with a fellow -servant, Mrs. Sutcliffe, when an. 8 year-old son of the latter picked up a double-barreled gun which was standing in the corner of the room, and pointing the weapon towards the deceased and his own mother, cocked both locks, pulling first one trigger and then the other,the charge from one barrel lodging in the throat of the unfortunate young man, who never moved from the chair on which he was seated. Canada. —Sir Charles Tupper's seat has been declared vacant by the Election Court. —Owing to the prevalence of Asiatic cholera in Italy and Mediterranean ports, - the importation of rags into the Domin- ion frorn those regions is prohibited. —George Grier, of North Orillia, for saving a freight train from going over a burning bridge, has been given $20. —A petition bearing six thousand sig- natures for an election to repeal the Scott Act in the united counties of Stor- mont, Dundas and Glengarry has been presented to the Government. —Sir John Macdonald will retain con- trol of the Northwest Mounted Police Department, notwithstanding the trans- fer of Indian affairs to the Minister of the Interior. —It is stated that Judge Clark, Of Co- bourg, will resign his seat on the bench to accept the position of solicitor to the Canadian Pacific Railway, formerly held by Senator Abbott. —About 10 o'clock Sunday night,while Kate Fitzgerald, 16 years of age, daugh- ter of Mr. Fitzgerald, Brant Place, To- ronto, was going up stairs she burst a blood vessel,and died before medical aid could be obtained. —A valuable colt belonging to S. Dulmage, of Appleton, was found in a swamp one day receetly with only its head and neck above ground. It lived only half an hour after being taken out. —The Bell Telephone company has purchased at sheriff's sale the plant con- sisting of poles, etc., of the defunct Manitoba Telephone company, which was organized in 1885 in opposition to the Bell company. —The Ogilvie Milling Company will shortly send another large shipment to the Orient—this time to Hong Kong. The Manitoba millers are gradually be- ginning to push Minneapolis in foreign makets. —James Clark, a brakeman on the Kingston & Pembroke railway, ran out of a coach at a bye -station the other day and, forgetting about a broken step, fell over and between the cars, sustaining fearful injuries. —Miss Fraser, of Woodstoc, who has been living with her niece, Miss McGee, dressmaker, accidentally fell down stairs Thursday morning of last week and was killed. Death, which was instantaneous, resulted from distortion of the neck. —Efforts are being made to induce a number of Danes to emigrate from their own country to New Brunswick, where there is a large lot of lands belonging to the estate of the late Sir Albert Smith. It is to be hoped the project will be successful; the Danes make gOod sett- lers, —In the Haldimand election case Chancellor Boyd has dismissed the bri- bery charges on the ground that agency was not proved. The recount was then proceeded with, and at the close of the day's proceedings eleven of Judge Upper's decisions had been reversed, leaving Mr. Colter ten ahead. —Sir George Stephen will leave for England early in November to arrange for the building of three powerful steam- ers to run on the Pecific Ocean between Vancouver, China: and Japan. The steamers will be ab ut 4,000 tons burden capable of steamin eighteen miles an ' a Toronto street car driver named noodles, while at the eastern teteinus of —Mr. J. J. McArthur, of Aylmer, the Woodbine line, was sandbagged by hour. who is making a topographical survey of five masked men and robbed of his the Rocky Mountains, this summer money bag, containing about $25 and ascended to the summit Of Mount Steph- some tickets. He was found lying un - en, the second highest peak in the Rock- conscious in the middle of the road by lea, 10,523 feet above the sea level. Mr. the driver of the car that followed him. McArthur was accompanied by an as- The same gang attacked another driver, T. McBryom, who, however, managed —A traveller from Toronto named to successfully keep them at bay till an sistant. Pierson, appeared at the Division Court approaching carriage frightened them off. at Lonon, on Saturday, as plaintiff in a --A scheme is on foot for the settle - suit against Capt. McGuire, alias Sergt. meat of the Highland Crofter question Walsh, the swordsman, to recover $27 by offering thens inducements to make which Pierson claims that he while their homes in British Colembia. The drunk lent to McGuire. Pierson estab- Provincial Govenan.ent is understood lished the fact that he was drunk, but to be perfectly willing to grant each lost his case. adult a plot of land along the western —An employee of the Michigan Cen- shores of Vancouver Island, and offer tral Railway shop at St. Thomas named them every inducement to develop the James Volet, was caught in a pulley the deep sea fisheries of the Pacific. It is other morning, whirled around in mid- not at all unlikely that a Government air for some seconds and then thrown agent may be sent to Scotland to en - violently to the ground, sustaining seri- deevor, to arrange with, the Crofters a ous internal injuries, besides a number migration to the Pacific Coast. of flesh wounds. His recovery is doubt- --The publishers of the New York ful. Police News seem determined to force it on the people of Canada, and the —Having spent many millions ofthe Dominion Government is equally de - public money upon the Trent Valley termined to keep it out on account of Canal, the Dominion Government have its immoral tendencies. The paper is now appointed two engineers to examine and report upon the utility of the work. sent in here under a title which is changed just as often as the paper be - Messrs. Frank Turner, of Toronto, and John Kennedy, of Montreal, have been comes known to the Custom's officials. named for the purpose and a third corn- The Collector of Customs at Galt has recently made a seizure of several missioner is yet to be chosen. Farnily —A peculiar a.nd delicate operation bundles which came in as •` was performed on Miss Vincent, of Lon- Fiction." and the fiction so-called will don, a few days ago. It seems that when likely soon be carbonized. —A Rapid City despatch states that a child she received a blow on the nose an Indian was shot and killed by two which fractured the bone, and forced a piece back into the posterior part of the men named Henry about ten miles west of the town. The Indian shot at the organ, entirely blocking up one of the nostrils. This affected her breathing to Henrys first because he was ordered off the farm for setting fire to the grain and such an extent that a short time ago she decided to have it removed. The delicacy hey stacks. The Indians broke into Joe Hnry's house during his absence the of theoperation may be understood when it is mentioned that to remove the bone night before the shooting and sacked it. A building containing the dead Indian a shaving had to be cut off the section was set fire to by his comrades on Thurs- or division between the two nostrils which is only about an eighth of an inch day ight of last week just as the coro- thick. If the section by any chance had ner was about to go out to view the been cut through it would have been a body. The building and corpse were most serious matter to the patient. The totally burned up. Further trouble of the old timers sold out their herds at immense profits and he soa-plant, ne spear -like dance during thore at the actup is full a tle are very 0*- on either of t nnderstand so. The. ot eaten off n the ground ding excellent entire found themselves in possession of more money than they had ever expected to sed.Cattle have multiplied rapidly in the ands of the riew companies, but the deland for three years past has been limited P.nd the market poor. Expenses and loses have been greater than was anticipated and the proflts, if any, have been exceedingly small of late years. After cattle, the live stock most important is that of shee narrowing of the public range is terfering with this enterprise. have now to be fed, more Or less, interest . The also in - Sheep through part of the winter, where a fe years ago they lived exclusively on grass. The sheep are close herded and do not run loose like catte. This, while adding to the expense of their keeping, enables the owner to have them more 'directly under his hand. When the dee snows come in winter, covering the gese, he can have them brought in to his hay stacks, and hand fed, until the , appears. The sheep business is be very fluctuating. A hard late spring—caueing a poor 1 and a fall of two orthree cents in wool will send down the value of sheep 50 per cent. On the other hand, a good grass year, with a good lambing and a fair market for wool, makes the sheep man hilarious, and he feels a hundred per cent. -richer than six monthS before, thanor he may think himself sik months later. There is a sort of proverb in Colorado, that those who "hang on" to thexn "get now dis- said to inter, a mbing— pound their sheep and "stand oy there" at last—if they live long enough. The quality of the horses, I am told, has greatly improved within a few years. Much larger horses, and horses of better breed, are being raised. Cleveland Bay, Percheron and even Clydesdale blood is being used to improve the native stock. 15 years ago, I noticed with some surprise flT —Edward Graham, the man with throwing vitriol upon young Louis Sievert, the tobacconist on Young street, Toronto, under the Dominion Bank, a few weeks .ago, was convicted of the crime Monday morning by Polide Magis- trate Col. Denison and sentenced to the penitentiary for life. The victim Ma. oharged —Mr. John Hart, of the second con cession of Westminster, Middlesex coun- ty, a widely 'known pioneer farmer, died very suddenly on Monday. - Mr. Hart had been deilag a small job in the morn- ing for Mr. Wm. Thompson, of Dorches- ter, about three miles distant. He took dinner with the Thonspsons, apparently in his usual good health. Subsequently he complained of a slight indisposition, but after taking a simple remedy felt re- lieved, Mr. Thompson getting out of his rig to take Hart borne, He chatted cheer- fully on the way and, was scarcely at his house when he suddely bent his head forward and expired almost instant- ly. Appoplexy is supposed to have been the cause. —Another shocking and fatal accident happened in the Michigan Central Rail- way yards, at St. Thomas, Saturday night last, whereby Hugh Gilmour, a switchman, lost his life. The yard en- gine was shunting cars, and Gilmour was standing on the rear step of.the ten- der when a sudden jar caused him to lose his footing and he fell squarely across the rails, the wheels of the tender passing over his body before the engine could be stopped. Those who witnessed the accident state that it was a shocking sight and sickened many an old railway man. Gilmorewasayoung unmarried man 21 years of age, and had only been em- ployed in the yard for about three months. His parents reside in Palmers- ton —News reached St. Thomas Thursday evening of last week of a horrible trag- edy which occurred a short distance east of Springfield on the previous Tuesday evening. A farmtr named Wm. Hether- ington, while on a drunken spree, went home and after beating his wife in a bru- tal mariner threw her into a well six feet in depth. The unfortunate woman suc- ceeded in crawling out of the well and now lies in a dangerous condition in a neighbor's house, to which she managed to drag herself. The would-be murder- er, thinking he had killed his wife, de- termined to cominit suicide by taking a quantity of Paris green. The dosebeing smell it did not at once prove fatal. Hetherington may yet die from its effcts, however, as he still lies in a critical condition. ---Majot White, of St. Marys, has been appointed to the vacant postmaster - ship -of the stone town. —Some few weeks ago Mr. J. S. Cop - pin, of Mitchell, one of the executors of the Matheson estate, sold nearly fifty head of fat ctt1e to a buyer named Rowlands, living in Stratford, for, as Mr. Coppin thought; $57 per head. Mr. Rowlands sent for the cattle some time after, and forwarded at the same tirne a cheque marked good representing $47 per head. Mr. Coppin saw that this was nearly $500 short of the mark, and after parleying for nearly an hour, ac- cepted it as part payment. The cattle were shipped to England, and now Row- lands refuses to pay the difference, as he declares that $47 per head was the exact purchase money. The case wiq shortly come up in the courts, but as no One was present at the time of the sale but the two men it is hard to say how it will termnate. It is certain, however, as the cattle averaged nearly 1,350 lbs., that they were worth far more than Rowlands claims to have bought them for. 7 1 ti