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The Huron Expositor, 1887-10-28, Page 1- P887. 4 ft!ii tshesl. cc. Lady -.)nr tffient )7, U -L of London, this week. crs the house itwer.---eer. .39d moving vish them pi iel Stickles ey, haa new with good tg about 50- . As there is set the pring rtaking was at first-, but a Mr. G. difficulties srcome, and 1 satisfaction e best proof ll up to his C rams. Mr. As had been. water waw any rnore in front with is, Fascinators - 1 line of first- kess Goods a. 1036 hired Irian of was hauling Hensall the a inile from He replac- ff this time htenecl them Mr. Devine, of the in - off the kad. ,fterwards by unconscious, lit to Zurich ended to hie es Mr. Reith ook the man e is getting ran to Blake radon encl the le turning re [ler Kolfage, Port Blake le is bedded An attempt tt the tugwas cargo was, er left. The e McDonald, r loaded with with sixteen - -wick of near morning last As the de - his own he th Mi. Wm. ne, Stanley, anis were in- tery on Sun- ineweil ontoWed,nesday, 's moved into - t for a month will leave for M. Zeller has roof of which d, and -will be street. --Mr. rig his house 't which, will w street- lamp t is very con- s. --Mr. Fred his carriage erected a fine' -e as fine a In the county. Ft has already Thomas Ras- eder •of thor- mee road, Us- - ly succeseful es this season, ams beat the ow Park f arni. ich any breed - ad, and much d business as at; is his prize cond for aged cow, end for West - or aired cow, , 3rd- for two - yea bun, Zed r'd•50 for best Hamilton. — 1st and 2ed 3rd for two 11 calf, 1st for best bull anYe and three CIL 'or best herd, etta and trici for for two bull ca, ca . ItiNETEENTH YEAR. vaioLia NUMBER 1,037. SEAFORTI-i, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1887. {licLEAN BROS. Publishers. $1.50 a Year, in. Advance. all & Winter MILLINERY • Opened & Ready for Inspection & Sale. Dress Goods, Trimmings In aii the latest designs. Mantles and Ulst_er Cloths. We isever before had such a complete stock. Corsets, Gloves, Hosiery, billings, Ribbons, But- tons, ?to., in all varieties. 4 thaderelothing Mantles, Shawls, Flannels, Blan.k- ets, &c., At the very lowest prices at the Cheap Cash Store —OF— Hoffman & Co., ON THE WAY TO ALGOMA. TEIBSSALON, Oet. ltlth, 1887. DEAR EXPOSITOR, —After a 1�g silence on my part, ',now purpose giVing your readers a further account of the resources of this -district. In my last letter I gave a description of the geological condition and structure of the country in my own immediate neighborhood. In order to give a sort of a general survey of the ,coteatry I cannot do better than give an account of my trip on my return this summer. After enduring the intense and frequently almost intolerable heat of summer for over three weeks in the counties of Huron and Bruce and the schools re -opening on the 13th f August, I was forced to start for borne. So leaving Wroxeter on the Morning of 10th of August at 5.45 a. m. we are on our way to Owen Sound vial. Orange- ville. The latter place we reached at 8.20 a. m. The weather was very dull and cloudy. Along the way we noticed considerable grain, particularly oats and spring wheat yet to harvest. The harvest appeared to be almost a failure. •The soil seems to be inferior in ma.ny plasies and the farms are very negligently at- tended as dirt and noxious weeds of all descriptions are visible and aripear to be thriving well. Oats seemed short and light, and spring wheat was a total failure. Several tracts of land along the railway trackare very low and marshy. Along the Grand Valley the land is very stony. On arriving at Orangeville we found that we had a delay of two hours before the through express from Toronto would arrive. This delay afforded us ample time to make a tour of the town. The situation is high and very comnianding. The river Credit, running through the townk ., furnishes ample facilities r water power, which is well utilized. Three railways meet here though all now be- long to the Canadian Pacific : system. The Toronto, Grey and Bruce to Owen Sound, the extension of the same through Harriston and Mount Forest 6 Tees - water, and the Credit Valley to Toronto via Brampton and Streetsville. We noticed several large grain warehouses which furnished sufficient evidence of large trade in grain shipment. A large quantity of timber, railway ties and posts were also laid along the line awaiting shipment. The population of Orangeville now numbers between three and four thousand in- habitants and furnishes indications of a steady increase. The train from Toronto arrived promptly on time. We are now op our way to Owen Sound. On our way we pass through some very fine tracts of farming land, thqugh localities the land is Low and Nearing Owen Sound the nat soil suddenly changes and app of limestone formation. We a 1 p. m. -Here we had a fertile 619,y as the boat would not arrive until 8 p. m. So we had considerable time to devoee towards examing the wonders 4nd sights of this place. Owen Sound, originally known as Sydenharre an incorporated iown and port of entry of Ontario, capital of the county of Grey, is situeted on the Georgian Bay at the outlet 0 the river SEAFORTH, Agents kr Butterick's Reliable Pat- terns, Sheets and Books of the latest styles. —Geo. Harrison, shoemaker, who was run over by a street car on Yonge street, Toronto, Friday afternoon, died at the kospita.1 Saturday night. —Judge Angers, aftera. long confer- ence with Sir John A. Macdonald, has been appointed Lieutenant -Governor of Quebec. —On of the Clear Lake Indians con- victed of manslaughter has escaped from the Northwest Mounted Police while en route to Stony Mountain penitentiary. —Mrs. Filitreau, of Buckingham, has a baby two months old which has six well -formed fingers on each hand and six equally as well formed toes on each foot. —Over the open grave of Mrs. Henry Geiger at Hamilton on Sunday the Ger- mania Gesangverein sang " Der Fried - of," "The Cemetery,'- or literally "The Peace -yard." Singing- at a burial is a pretty German custom not often seen in this country. —A sad event, attended by a narrow escape from a frightful death, is report- ed from the village of Chateauguay, which is aborit 25 miles from Montreal. On Saturday night Pierre Cote, a black- smith, who resides in the village, had gone out with the intention of crossing the firer, and had left his wife in tlfe house with two children. About half - past ten o'clock, the children being asleep, Mrs. Cote went to the barn, some 20 feet from the house, to procuite some wood. On entering the shed her foot slipped and she fell, upsetting the lamp in a bale of hay. Her clothes caught fire immediately, and the fire was Boon communicated to the hay and other produee in store in the barn. After a long struggle with the flames, the woman succeeded at last in ridding herself of her clothes and ran back to the house to save her children. The two babes were lying in the front room, which was filled with dense smoke. When she entered the children were half suffocated. She wrapped them in a blanket just as the house fell in, a mass of smoke and ashes. Nothing rernaine of Mr. Cote'a residence, and the daanage is estimated at $2,000. Mrs. Cote has aot yet recovered from her sufferings, and is in a most precarious condition. alrnost above our heads great limestone play their fresh and graceful foliage cliffs, resplendent in the moonlight,, interspersed with tamaracks and bal.. towered far above the masts of the sams. Others are sterile and barren vessel. A dark fringe of bushes over- patches of rock denuded of all manner 'hung the cliffs, and through their top- of vegetation, save where perhaps some few stunted trees cling with gnarled and contorted roots to the fissures and clefts in the stony mass. At times a sunken reef seems directly in the path of the vessel, but a sudden turn of the wheel and the boat glides swiftly to either side. There is a breadth, and sweep and never ending change in the panorama which is all absorbing to a mind intent upon the picture. For a distance of one hundred and seventy miles we steam through this island scenery. In the calm repose of a summer morning, when the waves are tilled, and. the surface of the water gleams like a sea of polished glass, the shadows fall heavily from the indented shores, and every rock and tree is sharply outlined and reproduced in- verted in the mirror. Then we seem to float on airy nothing, looking upward into cloudlend and downward into cloudland into depths above and below that seem illimitable, There. is very little animal life upon the islands. The • mainland is but a continuous upheaval of bare Laurentian billows of granite that once were in a crude and molten state. There is but a scanty growth of trees and vegetation. Sweeping blasts have scathed them and frequent fires have blasted their vitality. There are but few houses and little cultivation. Occasionally a bark canoe glides trom behind a point, and at intervals a soli- tary fisherman's hut is descried. Were it not for the gaunt white gulls that hover over our wake or keep vigil on the rocks, this region would be a solitude. In places the flinty strata of rocks yield a mineral wealth sufficient to induce the sinking of a mining shaft, or the back country affords a supply of furs which necessitates the establishment moat branches glimmered the silent starseof the Great Dipper. • But now the whistle sounds and it echo reverberates and rolls along th cliffs, the lines are cast off and th Pacific puts about and is -bearing awa towards the North Star over the grea bay of storms and shipwrecks. Th passengers now retire to their berths and the invigorating lake breeze and th strong ozone of the lake atmospher soon invite to sleep. Experienced eye direct the course of the vessel past Cap Croker, where there is_ a large India Reserve, then away up the dark and i dented shores of the Indian Peninsul past the rugged promontory of Cabot Heade thence across the Gap. Now w are in a wilderness of waters. At su rise the shores of the Manitoulin Isla,n appear. •We pass Lonely, ClUb an Squaw Islands. Here a number f shoals, islands and sunken rocks are met with, and varying colors of the wat r show the frequent changes of dept During the forenoon we sail over t • Squaw Island fishing grounds. This island has by far the greatest fishing in- dustry on the Canadian lakes. A fleet of fifty boats and a steam tug are en- gaged in the work, and steamers from Collingwood call four or five times a week for the products of the fishery. Two enterprising firms carry on opera- tions here. From the Manitoulin Ex- positor we learned that the catch of one n several ery fiat: re of the ars to be rived at Golden Opportunity! 2,000 Yards —OF— CARPET Sydenham, and the north of the main line of the T and Bruce railway, now operated by the Canadian 11 pleasantly situated on a sm rounded on three sides with ed heights, and contains of mill mechinery, turbine agricultural impletnents, erigines and al •descriptions of wooden ware, tweeds and. woollen goods. The harbor ie the finest on lake Huron. It is 12 mile from the town_to its mouth where it is 5 milee wide and throughout its whole length it is amply_ sheltered on both sides. It has good anchorage gro siderable depth of wate navigable for vessels est capacity on the lake and lumber trade call for The population is over 500 is fast advancing in impo the centre of an improving deep, rock-bound valley, Eugenia Falls are pictures Here is the starting point steel steamships of the Ca Railway Company, plying and Port Arthur. One of these vessels, th lying at the dock receivin paratory to starting on th rn terminus roeto, Grey oWned and acific. It is 11 'plain sur -1 weed crown -I ariufactorieri ater-wheels of these firms during the present seas up to the end of July alone amounted four hundred and forty tons. Of th the greater part is shipped while fre to Detroit and Buffalo. The fish taken are chiefly salmon trout and white fish. Now we are steaming along the ea ern end of the Grand Manitoulin Isla and the grey mountain tops of the no shore became more and more disti from the hazy atmosphere that n surrounds them. Soon a wild rugged coast meets our vision. A distance the rocks, seem to have a g appearance, but as we approach nea some of them assume a reddish hue q similar to that of rusted iron. T1 look as hard as adamant, and for most part are destitute of grass to se 11 t- d, th ct nd a ay er ite ey he nd trees. Meanwhile the Pacific has ben ' steaming ahead, right against the rocky shore, and we are beginning to wonder where she can possibly be going to, when her head is slowly brought roend and inn few minutes we are sailing l up a beautiful bay. 'There, a mile ahead, lies the village of Killarney, or in the Indian tongue She-be-na-na-ning, that is, Here is a channel. It has been modern- ized in name, byte the beauty of its sur- roundings still reinains the same. This is the first stopping plate on the North Shore. The bayiis narrow and irreg ilar in outline, and its rocky sides are di er- sified by clusters of fresh green bu hes and pleasant patches of verdure. The swater is very deep and of the most in- tense blue---anuch - deeper in shade it seems to us, than that of the lower lakes. ,The population here is for the Most part aboriginal, and like their white neighbors the Indians derive a consider- able portion of their support from fishing. To the Ontario tourist, Killarney seems like a village in some foreign land. The majority of the able-bodied men To be Cleared at a SACRIFICE. We can't spare the room, so Go They Must! - Bring your Cash, and see what it will do at Edward McFaul's POPULAR DRY GOODS, Millinery and Clothing House, SEAFORTH, ONT. nd and con- , and it iS the lard The graie aty vesseIS. The town tance and is ade. In the Ihgles and uely situated. of the swift adian Pacific between here Alberta, was freight pre - up trip kr Port Arthur. rhe [Com any have et present two vessels, the other is named the Athabasca, the third, named the Algoma,through the mis-management of the officer in charge, during a heavy gale on Lake Superior, struck on a reef near Isle Royal and went to the bottoii These steamers are the largest passenger boats plying on the lakes. They are wholly constructed of steel, and were built on the Clyde. Their length over all is about 275 feet, and capacity nearly two thousand tons burden. • At eight o'clock in the evening the steamer Pacific of the Great Northern Transit Company sailed into the harbor. From here the steamer rounds the cliff and passes Presqu' Isle, Griffith Island, Hay Island, White Cloud Island and up the rock round Colpoy's Bay to Wiarton, the terminus of the Georgian Bay and Lake Erie division of the Grand Trunk Railway. This little town is situated on the Bruce Peninsula. Many passengers were here awaiting our arrival. It was a magnificent night. The full yellow harvest moon had but risen over the bay. A stream of glory seemed to have sprung up from sonie enchanted fountain in those mysterioes regiens far away under the moon, and it glowed and sparkled with a' calm celestial richness as it flowed across the bay towards us. The delicate haze. that elsewhere rested on the water formed the batiks •of this - magical stream, and we felt like the Grecian poet that if we were only to sail out upon it,it would surely drift us away to the beauty and delight of Hesperian lands and the Fortunate Islands. On the west side of the bay , and move to Square Island during the fis season. Others do a thriving tra rush mats and birch -bark knick-n The Indians of the neighborhood h -in large quantities of blueberries cranberries during the season. W told that an Indian family, after sp ing four or five days on the mount will come into the village with a load of berries, which they trade the little stores for boots, cloth groceries. This season the value o berries exported from this port wa wards of $5,000. ing e in cks. ing and are nd- ins, oat ff at and the up- upt- begins to heave considerably, and during a space of nearly three hours the pas- sage was very rough. Many on board seemed much affected by the sudden for, but they cannot as yet state what the effects of the wound will be. The revolver was discharged purely by acci- dent. change. Gore Bay, a lovely spot on the —Ex-Alderma.n Filgiano, of Hamilton, Manitoulin Island, surrounded by lofty was found dead Monday morning kneel - hills, which are clothed with trees down ing at his bedside in the attitude of to the water's edge, is next reached. On prayer. He was one of the old residents a bright day the effect is charming. of the city, having come there in 1847, Headland after headland juts out from and was very popular with all sections the shore, and the letly is dotted as far of the community, being a men of genial as the eye can reach with a succession of and friendly disposition and a mbsician islands, some rising abruptly from the of good ability. He was the life of water, and others nearly flat. The aldermanic dinners and civic excursions, course of the vessel at times appears en- and his face will be sadly miseed in the tirely enclosed with land on all sides. Gore Bay is one of the most iinportant —Tuesday night of last week two men points on the island. We now croei to entered the house of John Roth, jun., a the north shore and reach Spanish River, well-to-do farmer in Wilmot township, which presents what may be regarded as near St. Agathe. One man covered Mr. the most picturesque scenery of any on Roth with a revolver while the other the trip. It debouches into a broad in- secured all the money he could find. let, gradually narrowing towards the To make theirescape they stole his horse east, aed the banks now gradually slop- and buggy. Buggy and harness were ing, now steep and precipitous, are over- found near Berlin next day. It is not hung with masses of variegated foliage. yet learned, what amount of money was This is an important lumbering centre. stolen. There are now four companies engaged —Commander Gordon, of the fisheries here. The principal one, "The Spanish protection service, is preparing his re - River Lumbering Company," of which a port of the season's operations. The Mr. Arnold, of Albany, New York, is steam cruiser Acadia will be laid up in a president, carries on a large business. few days, and the Critic is now being The fiver is one of the largest on the paid off. When the Acadia is with north shore, and from its great depth drawn only the Vigilant and Druid will and freedom from rapids, renders it a remain in commission. American fisher - very desirable stream for lumbering men continue to return home empty - operations. The company have a large handed, while the price of mackerel is tug which runs up the river a distance of climbing pp towards $30 a barrel. 0 miles with supplies, &c. —News has reached Pembroke of a Night has now settled upon the scene, sad drowning accident which occurred and without nature's curtain covers a re- about a mile from there on Thursday of serve of her loveliness as a treat for fur- last week. Two men named Ed. Inwood thee enjoyment, for nowhere can more and A. Starmour, in the employ of Mr. enchanting vistas be found than among John Dunlop, were engaged in filling a the solitary homes of the beaver, mink water cart in the Ottawa River, a short and wild fowl, through which the steam- distance from the shore. It is surmised er now wends its way. At Little De- that, not finding the water quite deep troit, a projecting promontory on the enough for their purpose, they ordered shore the scene of the great conflict be- the horses to back still further, and in this operation were precipitated into a deep part of the river. —A sign painter named Oscar C. Evans placed a heavy dose of laudanum in a glass of whiskey while standing at the bar in a James street saloon in Ham- ilton the other day and drank the health of those present. In a minute after he commenced to doze off, but some of his friends took him over to his shop across the street and forced him to walk up and down to prevent the drug overcoming him. After working at him for about an hour he began to recover and is now out of danger. Drink and family trou- bles actuated him in attempting to com- mit suicide. —The other morning a serious ac- cident took place at Charlemont, 25 miles east of Toronto on the Canadian Pacific Railway. Two freight trains were running, one close upon the other, at a high rate of speed. The foremost broke in two, owing to defective coup- ling, and before the engine of the follow- ing train could he stopped it dashed into the divided cars and demolished six of them. The engine was badly damaged but not disabled. The engineer and fireman jumped in time to escape with only slight injuries, and none of the brakemen were beet. —Lieut. -Colonel Baker, M. P. P. for Kootenay, B. C., who is at present in the city, proposes to make an attempt shortly to acclimatize the South Ameri- can llama in his constituency. The wool of this animalis converted into the material known as alpaca, and if the experiment should prove successful Col. Baker thinks an extensive export trade could be opened up with the Mother Country. An attempt made to acclima- tize the animal in Australia failed not long ago, the reason assigned being too little variety of country. In the Koote- nay Valley this objection would not pre- vail. —A special freight train going east about 5 o'clock Wednesday morning of last week became stalled on the grade east of Pore Credit. When backing up to get a better start she was run into by a following freight train. None of the trainmen were injured. A fog prevailed at the time. The accident was caused by the inability of the first freight to climb the grade, and the impetus it gained in the run back could not be con- trolled by the brakes. The four rear cars were derailed and ditched, as was also the engine of the second train. The contents of the cars were general mer- chandise, much of which is ruined. The total loss is estimated at $25,000, —A despatch from Secretary Bayard to the Imperial Government has been re- ceived at Ottawa, in which Mr. Bayard expresses regret that the orders for the release of the Canadiau sealers seized in Behring's Sea were not obeyed by the officials at Sitka, and stating that fresh orders for their release have been given. Secretary Bayard said that he has ex- pressed regret at the delay in releasing the sealers, not to the Imperial Govern- ment, but to the Brieish Minister in Washington. The text of bis communi- cation will not be given out, but fresh orders for the release of the vessels have been sent to Alaska. —A horrible and distressing accident occurred at Essex Centre last Friday morning about eight o'clock, whereby one Arthur Gillies, a millwright of Thamesville, was ushered into eternity without a moment's warning. Mr. Gillies was a young unmarried man about 25 years old, and was well liked by those with whom he was acquainted. —Chief Postoffice Inspector Dewe and Inspector Fletcher, of British Columbia, who has recently been at Ottawa, dis- cussed with the Postmaster -General be- fore his departure for the East a pro- posed arrangement for handling as well as distributing the mails on the new route between japan and England. Victoria, it is likely, will be made quite a postal centre under the impending pos- tal arrangenaent, all foreign mails com- ing East and destined for points in the United States and Canada being distri- buted from there. The sorting of foreign mails in course of transhipment will probably be done at Montreal, which will be the other postal terminus on the route. —A supposed murder has come to light at Quebec. Joseph Bourbeau, a boatman, at 6.30 Sunday morning, dis- covered the dead body of Thomas Moran, 45 years of age, lying on its face on a rock under the slip of the wharf in front of the city from which sail the steamers of the Saguenay line. There was a pool of blood on the wharf and others on the slip. Deceased was engaged as watchman at the Govern- ment immigration sheds, and was head of a family. The detectives are work- _ ing up the case, and an inquest will be held. One theory is that deceased was murdered, and his body placed in a boat and thus conveyed to the mouth of the opening under the slip where it was pushed in. —A license inspector at the fair of the Six Nation Indians, while looking for illicit sellers of liquor, had an odd ex- perience. A squaw sqeatted on the ground was Pointed out to him as one of the dispenses of the fiery ardent. There was nothing, however, about her ap- pearance to Sustain such a charge. The inspector finally accused her of selling liquor, but she indignantly denied the charge and threw her shawl from about her shoulders and said he might search her. Whee asked to stand up, how- ever, she rnaly refused, and after a length of thee and considerable persua- sion being used she did so, when, to the astonishmeet of the inspector, there fell from between her walking extremities a bottle partially filled with firewater. —A fanner named Peter Doyle, of Lower Musquocloboit, who went on a shooting eXcursion last Sunday week and had ben missing since, was found lying dead ip.t the side of an unfrequent- ed road laSt• Friday morning. He had been shot i' the back and his . body lay ( in a pool o blood. His gun was lying on the gro nd a short piece ahead of the body, and the position of both the weapon and the wound showed almost conclusively that the man had not shot himself either accidentally or intention- ally. Bus powder horn and pipe were lying at his side. The whole affair is shrouded ib mystery, but suspicions are expressed iinvolving a family residing near where the remains were discovered. The man'swife, it is also said, has made conflieting statements respecting the dis- appearance of her husband. Doyle was over 50 yeare old, but was married only _ six years ego. He had two children. —Trenton is excited over a social sensation.1 The principal actor, Fred Cooper, an artist, was lodged in jail ha default of sureties. He recently en- deavored to win the affections of Miss Jennie Flinclall, a handsome blonde of 20 and an heiress to a large fortune, and it appearsishe was disposed to recipro- cate his I affection. Cooper returned from Ogdensburg, N. Y., on Saturday, and met 14s affianced by appointment is a lawyer's office on Sunday. The plaat for a speedy flight was being arranged, when R. A. Barber, merchant, the young lady's gtterdian, appeared on the scene. Cooper drew his revolver and threaten- ed to shoot the disturber if he interfered, but he wes overpowered and, the pistol being taken away, Mr. Barber gave the disappoinied lover a horse -whipping and had him arrested at once and committed for trial. —A novel plan was devised in Arthur to defeat Scott Act cases at Rothesay. Police Megistrate Lowes had two cases, oue of them from Arthur for ten o'clock at Rothsay. The Arthur magistrate had a trumped up caw.; which had been pend- ing for several weeks agaiiist Inspector Flath for extortion. Although the police magistrate had attended twice personally and had iven evidence in the case which had been adjourned for adjudication the Arthur magistrate issued a -warrant and sent a co stable, who arrested the police ; magistra e at Rothsay, and insisted on taking him away before ten o'clock, the_ time set for the trials at Roehsay. Although the magistrate asked for time to adjourn his cases, and pledged him- self to be on hand at Arthur in time (two o'ckck). The constable was in- exorable, Of course that was the game, and when the police magistrate arrived at Arthur he was informed by he Court that he *as not required and the case was then adjourned. e —A Peculiar accident befell John Chevrier, who lives about four miles from Dee Joachims, on the bank of the Ottawa. With a companion he was out hunting and located a family of beaver. They destroyed the dam and killed four beaver. One escaped, and to Galles has been working in Bickle & capture 1 this they camped out all Dyeon's grist mill for the last six weeks and had nearly finished his job. Friday morning while attempting to put on a of a trading post and depot. • At these tween the Hurons and Opbways in ages the steamboat touches, sometimes to take in wood, sometimes to land a passenger, and anon to discharge some freight. Suffice it to say that Captain Bayfield, sat the Royal Navy, who com- piled the nautical charts of these waters, states that 27,000 islands have been counted in the combined shores of the Georgian Bay and North Channel. During the afternoon we crossed the channel, and ren up a long bay, and we were soon in sight of the old and weather-beaten island- port of Mani- towaning. Like Killarney a great num- ber of the behabitants are Indians. This place has a history. It is 85 years of age. In the early history of Canada this place was visited by the Jesuit and °beet Fathers and the navi- gators who passed en route to the head waters of Lake Superior. The historian, Park man,fitly states "not a channel_ was entered, nor a cape was turned but a Jesuit led the way." To this point the English Government sent missionaries to the Indians now nearly one hundred years ago. The town is situated on a very fine location, and has a nice and commanding appearance. A short dis- tance to the west lies Lake Manitou, which discharges itself by a smell stream into Michael's Bay in the -south side of the island. The streams in the vicinity are well stocked with trout, and are much sought after by anglers. A short distance from Manitowaming there is a remarkable deposit of fossil remains. They lie here detached in iminense num- bers and of several varieties, but the Oasteropoda and Zoophyta are especially abundant. The limestond ridge, of which Fossil Hill forms a part, extends through the island and reappears again on the mainland at Cabots' Read as the well-known range that continues through the Province past Guelph arid f3amilton to the Queenston Heights and Niagara Falls. Across the bay from Manitowan- ing lies a large Indian reserve, in whieh is situated the prosperous aboringinal village of Ueequemikong. The Laurentian mountains rise ab Little Current is next reached, at ly in the near back ground leaving a which the strait again requires very dex- narrow strip along their base, which has terous steering and close familiarity been brought into a state of cultivation. with the channel, which winds its ser - From here begins the beautiful trip up pentine course through unnumbered the great North Channel, behind the islands displaying _the same variety in shelter of the great Manitoulin Island. The steamers of the Great Northern Transit Company are really excellent models of lake and excursion steamers. Carrying Her Majesty's mails, they call from little hafnlet to hamlet along the Island shores, running into many out- of-the-way recesses, and passing back- wards and forwards to cross the North Channel in doing their "local" business in a way that is entirely different to that of the direct route of the through steam- ers. The searchers for the novel ies of this route are fast increasing in nu After leaving Killarney we e great inland Archipelago, cont thousands of islands. The greater ber of which are of Laurentian or ian formation, being of the same ure geologically as the -La mountains which skirt the south shore. But the Grand Manitoulin itself, aed the islands lying near it, are for the most part limestone. Islands succeed islands in an unbroken continuity- hour after hour as we glide on ; islands of every conzeivable size and shape, more numer- ous than the Thousand Islands of the St. Lawrence, many times multi- plied ; islands barren, wooded, sandy, rocky, columnar, gracefully rounded, precipitous and gently sloping, wind- swept and storm polished,large, diminu- tive, and even infinitesimal, reefs wide- ly spreading, and submarine monoliths past, the rocks approach almost within reach on either hand. We will now conclude this letter here. In our next we shall continue our trip to Sault Ste. Marie, and give a full description of the mineral wealth, lumbering and agricul- tural resources of Algoma. As I men- tioned in my last letter I am always• willing to give any information concern- ing tlie country and its resources. R. STARLING. bees. ter a ining num- urdn- truct- loche whose peaks barely project above the surface. The current at this point is prosperous Indian settlemepts near La- very strong, and the course of the tle Current, Petroleum of an excellent appearance as those previeusly passed. This village is prettily situated in a hol- low that follows the curve Of the shore. We are now on the most northerly point of the Grand Manitoulin Island. The north shore is only six or eight miles distant, the La Cloche mountains lie along the horizen. We hadan opportu- nity of observing the phenomenon from which the village derives its name. There is a clear passage to the south of the island of about 200 yards in• width. When a strong wind blows from the south or east, the waters of the Georgian Bay are massed at the east end of the channel, and so are forced through this narrow passage with great velocity. Sometimes the current continues for hours after the wind has gone down, but at other times, when the wind falls, the water runs back rapidly. A similar re- sult follows a west wind; and owing to the peculiar configuration, of the coast and the adjacent islands, the curious phenomenon of opposite currents is often presented, the water running west on one side of the passage andi east on the other. Equilibrium is rarely attained, the ebb and flow is abriost perpetual, and so the current is open all winter, though all the rest of the north channel is.icebound. The Government is having the chan- nel dredged here in order te render sail- ing less hazardous. Sheqeiandah and Tucker Creek are two but fairly Canada.. The electric light was put in opera- tion at Calgary last week. —rhe shipment of flour which Ogilvies sent from Winnipeg to Chinahas arrived safely at its destination. —Fever is very prevalent among the Manitoba " D " troop of Mounted Po- lice. According to the latest report, the whole of the troop excepting 16 men are laid up. —Early on Saturday morning last the schooner C. 0. D., of Buffalo, went ashore three miles below Port Burwell. The crew were rescued, but the woman cook died from exposure. —The two Indians arrested for mur- dering the wife of one and mother of the other at Lesser Slave Lake because she was possessed of an evil spirit have been sentenced to six years' imprisonment in Manitoba penitentiary. —Peter Sinnot, a miner, met a terri- ble death at Little Bay, Newfoundland, on Tuesday of last week. He fell from the top to the bottom of a shaft 600 feet deep, his skull being fractured, brains dashed out, and his legs, back and neck broken. —Coal for the C. P. R. now cones from Sydney, Cape Breton, by water, and is delivered at Sorel. This road has contracted with the mining company for a delivery of 45,000 tons of coal for next year ; and by unloading their coal at Sorel the Canadian Pacific railway will make a saving of one dollar per ton. —Mr. Guest, •a farmer residing in South Yarmouth, while working a corn husker the other morning, met with an accident which will maim him for life. His left had was drawn into the machine and mangled in a horrible manner. The injured limb was amputated a few hours after the accident. • —A quantity of spurious quarters and fifty cent pieces, as well as counterfeit ones and twos, Dominion issue, havebeen put in circulation in Winnipeg. It is thought the latter are some of the well- known New York " green goods." The coins are well made, says the Call, but can easily be detected by their softness and light weight. —About ten days ago a little boy named Earnest Brown while out nut - gathering on the mountain at Hamilton fell from a tree upon a sharp stake which penetrated his abdomen and allowed his bowels to protrude. He walked about a quarter of a mile after the accident and is now rapidly recovering from the in- jury. —Peter and Levi Zimmerman, of Bur- lington, who are wanted by the Milton authorities for Scott Act offences and re- sisting the police, have left Burlington for Buffalo. Police Magistrate Young, of Oakville, telephoned to the Hamilton police to arrest them en route, hut as their offence is a misdemeanour the police could not take them without a warrant. vessel frequently shifts owing to the number of islands and sunken Irocks. The view is magnificent. Every turn and winding in the narrow channel opens up new vistas and brings into view fresh scenes of beauty. Many of these islands are clothed with rich verdure down to the water's, edge. . Lofty pines tower from the cliffs or the quality has laeen discovered a few miles from Shequiandah. Severel wells have been sunk, and there is every anticipa- tion that the enterprise will eventually be a financial success. Still further on is the Hudson Bay Company's post. called La Cloche, with its, sunny white buildings red -roofed. The next stop- ping place is Mudge Bay or Kagawong. light and delicate looking birches dis- A strong wind having set —On the 20th of September last a plank was laid across the Michigan Central Railway track one and one-half miles east -of Waterford. It was sup- posed to be the work of train -wreckers, and since that time notices have been frequently posted up in the neighbor- hood warnieg people from traveling on the Michigan Central Railway trains. The company now offer $500 reward for the conviction of parties concerned in the outrage. —A young son of Mr. J. Muirhead of London was fooling with a toy pistol at the oatmeal mill at Bathurst street in that city, Thursday of last week, when the weapon was prematurely discharged. The bullet struck an employee named Henry Pritchett, who resides on Bathurst in, the vessel, street. • Doctors were immediately sent night, firing a fallen dry pine for warmth, During the night Chevrier was attacked with nightmare and in his belt withlthe machinery in motion, he 1 paroxysins rolled into the fire. Instead I was tripped up by another loose belt of being awakened he seemed to become lyine al his feet, and was immediately semi -frantic and rushed away with his thrown between two cog -wheels, which drew his head through their terrible grasp, grinding the backof his head into a jelly. It is then supposed he was caught in the revolving shaft and whirled round and round until the machinery was stopped. When found, nearly ail his clothing was torn from him, and the sight was a moat ghastly one to behold. The poor man's brains and part of his skull were scattered all round the im- mediate vicinity of the accident. Mr. clothes on fire. He ran with the speed of a deer, and his companion was un- able td overtake him nntil he ran against a tree and was stunned. The companion then extinguished the fire in his clothes, and in the morning got him home. He had to take him nineteen miles in a canoe and four miles by land. Chevrier's back and hands were burnt severely, and he seems to be internally injured, as he cannot eat anything and lies in e precarious condition. esSeee s - -> , , 4