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are they who die
are exceedingly
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T W ENT Y. -FIRST YEAR. \
WHOLE NlJNEBER 1,056.
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—Mrs. Freser, wife of Mr. James
Fraser, formerly of Kincardine, died on
the 23rd ult. at her home at Pilot
Mound, Manitoba. She has been ailing
for some time past from an affection of
the throat, which finally resulted in her
death. The deceased was well-known
throughout the Rock Lake couutry, and
her friendly disposition and many acts
of kindness will be long remembered."
—A promineet Anti -Scott Aet cam:
paigner says thi6it his party are doubtful
of being able carry Simcoe County
but feel sure of carrying Bruce, Huron,
and Dufferin. Had Woodstock been
granted a charter of incorporation as a
city the Scott Act would have been
quite safe in Oxford. With Woodstock
voting in the county the prospect is
more doubtful.
—Mr. Justice McMahon presided at
the Court for the Summary Trial of
Corrupt Practices at Elections, held in
Barrie last week, and sentenced James
Patton, who was found guilty of the
bribery of Joe Owen, at the East Simcoe
election, to a fine of $40 and cost and six
hours' imprisonment, the fine and costs
to be paid within six hours, otherwise
the imprisonment was to extend to two
months.
—John Paton, George Rowe and
Thomas Smith, the McGillivray farmers
charged with conspiring to defraud the
ends of justice by inducing Haunah
-Rowe, a young girl who had been
criminally assaulted by Allen Paton, a
son �f one of the prisoners, to leave the
country, were arraigned before Judge
Elliot, of London, and elected trial by
jury. They were remanded to the
spring assizes, having failed to obtain
—At a vestry meeting in Knox
churah, Galt, Thursday night last week,
it was anuounced that the Rev. Dr.
Smith, the pastor, and late moderator
of the General Assembly, had had a call
from St. John's churclw San Francisco,
where he has been spending the winter
with his wife and family. It is under-
stood he is giving the matter serious
coasideration. His congregation in Galt
has the largest membership of any
Preshyterian church in Canada.
—Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Anderson, of
Sandridge, Parry Sound District, both
formerly of Kincardine township, are
over now visiting old friends. They re-
port Sendridge to be growing very
rapidly. Although it is only a few
years since it was first settled it has
about as many inhabitants as Gorrie. It
is beautifully situated at the head of
Stoney Lake, a magnificent sheet of clear
water about.7 miles long by 34 in width,
which abounds with fine fish.
—The local editor of the Pieton Times
is. we presume, in deep mourning, as
THE RAMBLER.
---
BY JAMES SMILLIE.
(Continued from a former is,4ue.) -
According to appointment, Frank and
I met at Her Majesty's Theatre on the
evening of Boxing -day to see the presen-
tation made to Haldane But like many
others we were somewhat disappointed
when the Mayor eepleined that the
committee lied not been able to get
arrangementsquite complete. How-
ever, not to dissappaint thel people, en-
tirely, they had made a point of being
present. Re then introduced Hanlan,
and as theifamous oarsman stepped to-
wards the footlights, the whole audience
from the stalls to the "niggers' heaven,"
burst out in an Uproarious welcome, and
it was some time before, the aquatic
hero could proceed with his 411 worded
and well spoken address. After thank-
ing the citizens of Sydney for their hos-
pitality and kindness, arid all connected
with the presentation in prospect, he
concluded by saying, "The people of
New South Wales will always find in 'Ran-
ieri a warm friend and trues portsmau."
The vast assemblage would not retire
without bearing Beach toe, so he had
to say a few, words, which was enough
to show that nature is never lavish with
her gifts. Quite sufficient that he
,should be the champion oarsman of the
world.
Boxing -day is over, so we exchange
parting words and agree to meet again.
Frank's ephemeral home is on Wynward
Square, aud mine in the Darlirighurst,
up William street, beyond Wooloo-
mooloo. A holiday week soon passes,
amid the ups, and downs of the Sporting
cities of the south, and e'er we know.
the New Year is upon us.
It is Sunday morning—bright and
clear—the first day of a year taking no
leas than thirteen Roman numerals to
express it. After dinner, which is at
one o'clock on Saturdays and Sundays
in _Australia, Frank galled in, and we
went for a walk in the gardens. In this
delightful reserve, the beasted beauty
spot of the colony, every variety of the
Caucasian race was represented, with
here and there a group pf Coolies and an
odd Chinee. " The Woman in White"
was scattered all over the place, and
there were " kids " in galore, sporting
themselves on the; velvet lawns or roll-
ing in the shade of scented shrubs or
stately trees. Among them you see the
coming men, rising up like rank vege-
tation —long, lank, with the other
qualities thrown in. They are the
" cornstalks " of New South Wales in
the big island on the back of the world.
lhe only true representative of Aus-
tralia is absent,Ithe Blackfellow,-who
had the undisputed right for centuries
to be here, takes no part in the celebra-
tion of this centennial year. To him it
recalls but few pleasing associations,
with the stinging fact that British jus-
tice under a Christian banner rneans
naught but the "survival of the fittest."
He is driven from his old haunts, by the
rivers and streams, where he used to
fish and live, to the parched and barren
inferior to pine away and die. By three
o'clock we had reached Lady Mecquarie's
chair, a comfortable seat cut out of the
projecting rock, and a well-known land-
mark,to Sydney visitors. There We pro-
posed to rest for a time, and it was while
seated in that historical spot that Frank
said, Well, Smillie 1 It seems eice to
have someone to speak to after 'having
been so long away from home l You
seem to me like a brother. It is a
pleasant relief to be able to unburden
one's feelings on dearly cheriShed sub-
jects or matters that -have been pent up
from the vulgar crowd in the citadel of
the mind. You remember the card I
posted where we first met at the post
office?" I said "yea" " Well ! I got
a reply with a return card yesterday.
Here is the letter : "
" DEAR RAMBLER,—Our note and
very pretty card received safely a few
days ago. The verses are too compli-
mentary; but I suppose you were car-
ried away by the poet's license. I used
to be very fond of poetry, but my dear •
mamma often told me, 'poets are entitled
to a fool's Darden, for after all, poetrylis
only the Indirect expression of that
which Cannot be directly expressed.' I
know Writers and authors take indul-
gences without paying for therm and it
is rather -bice to have something quite
one's own from the pen of The Rambler.
I wish I could write you some verses in
return, but I am too much of a duffer.
So I shall jusC send you the inclosed
card. I expect you ere having a gay
old time duiing the ' holi ays flirting
with those powdered Syd ey girls.' I
have been at home all th time—only
had two drivesisince you w re here. A
we find the following in the loeal column
masher took me to Miss A y Sherwin's
of that paper :— Some one who signs
concert the ether night. Have you
himself Ella Maud sends The Times
some 'seven verses of doggerel on the
church at Ferry Point. Always sign
your own name, dear Ella, when writing
to this paper, not necessarily for publi-
cation but as a guarantee of good faith. nice to be a singer, an actress, or a
We bid your beautiful verses a sad fare-
ewriter. If I had any of these gifts I
well as we put them in the woOdbox.
would be a rambler too. Will be glad
to see you when- you come to Albury
Try again. again. No danger of you finding me
—A most determined case of suicide
married before then --not me. Wishing
took place on the Windsor side of the
the traveler, and why should he fail to
see and admire them because his inter-
ests are connected with a valuable
estate. We benedicts should be
the best judges of f minine beauty for
we can exercise o
out bias, and co
ing to possess."
r judgment with.
are without wish•
light you are old
fellow," said Fra k "I see you are
able to get beyond domestic and.rocal
affairs. Many men are like the Aus-
traliag rivers in a dry season; they
dwindle away after getting married. I
tarn glad you have a surplus over dis-
charging domestic duties, and are some-
what inclined to be a citizen of the world.
I was going to tell you when and how I
became acquainted with Miss Bermich ;
but it islgettine late and the story will
keep till we meet some other time. She
has lots of admirers, and tor beauty she
can be matched against the world. The
English language is incapable of doing
justice to her model form and elastic
step. All vocal or written words fail to
express those auburn tresses, like wavy
ringlets of golden flax encircling her
head. The artist's pencil can but feebly
portray the tinted cheek, or ivory teeth
behind her rosebud lips. Imagination,
itself, is bereft of the mesmeric influence
that accompanies the artillery of her
eyes, or the gentle swell of her bosom.
She stands out among women, the very
picture of loveliness—more precious than
mines of gold or fields of diamonds—the
sublimest creature under the sun—the
acme of God's handiwork." "Ah !"
said I, "this is another proof that,
'The hand that rocks the cradle,
Is the hand that rules the world.'
But it is nearly six o'clock, so we must
hurry home for tea." Before going fur-
ther, it May be of interest to the reader
to know that Frank is a journalist by
profession; and is at present on the staff
of one of the leading Sydney papers as
traveling reporter and correspondent.
Re is well known in literary circles
here as "The Rambler," and is character-
ized as a " pretty square fellow " -
During the week we arranged to go to
Grafton, a. quiet town on the Clarence
les from
e sugar
, and on
way of
a week,
ith the
heard her? think she is so pretty,
and such a lovely ,singer. I am told she
is a native of ;Tasmania, and has won
laurels all rouud the world. It must be
Detroit River Friday morning, in the you a very happy New Yeat ,
presence of NO spectators. About seven retnain your deal friend,
o'clock Nathan Marlatt, a grain coni- Mn; IE."
mon mercha,nt of Rideetown, who " Well, Frank," said I, emr chance
re. suP-
had been in Wifidsor for the past three seems to be pretty good th
months on a prolonged spree, walked pose you are playing to win this time."
do-wn to the edge of the Grand Trunk "Oh, yesJ" said he, "Maggie Bermich
RailreQd dock and in plain sight of a was the first girl to breek through my
ferry boat load of possenebers jumped fickle faneies and hold me spellbound.
into the river. A half dozen peo-ple Her image is indelibly impressed on the
rushed. to his assistance and pushed a innermost recesses of my soil. It was a
,
ptank to hitn. He seized the end of the case of leve a 1
t first sight. f you were
plank and held an a moment while a not married I think you vould :have
man slid down the board and passed a taken a fancy to ' her too. i\ was
rope over his shoulders. The map climb- struck.with her beauty." Seidl, "being
ed back and Marlatt, holding the plank married cannot prevent us from looking
with one hand, with the other hand and admiring. A man tii4ty own an
ve on the banks f the Parra -
see all the be -au t - of Sydney
hout wishing to exchange the
'ort Jackson.. All the gran -
enders of the world liebefore
,
threw the rope off his shoulders. Then orange gro
he waved one hand to the crowd and matte, yet
letting go the plank, threw his arms up harbor wi
and disappeared beneath the surface grove for
The body was neared a short time after. deur and
river, something over 400 m
Sydney. The Clarence is t
growing district of the colon
account of there being no othe
getting there but by boat twice
it is not very closely in touch
turmoil of Australia's oldest city. There
we would be away from the bubbling
nonsense of the centennial fever, and
get settled down to our normal selves
again. One soon gets tired looking at
even the centennial statue of the Queen,
and such promiscuous things as shows,
races, regattas, illuminations, arcades,
halls, bells, hotels, lunch -rooms, picnics,
dinners, hats, bounets,1 suits, dresses,
parasols, gloves, ties, scarfs, pies, cakes
and lolly.pops, prefixed 'in Common,soon
cease to be novel. Accordingly, we
packed our portmanteaus and got on
board the coasting steamer, Ellen Nicoll,
which was advertised to leave the foot
of Market street at 9 p. m. on Saturday
night. The weather was fine, and the
voyage said to be good; but we were
both too sea sick to enjoy anything. On
Monday afternoon the Ellen Nicoll ar-
rived at the Grafton wharf, and we soon
went ashore. After making some in-
quiry about the hotels and boarding-
houses, we succeeded in striking a
comfortable place of the latter class,
where only a select number would be
taken. The selection includes a tele-
graph operator, two young bankers and
a young lady lately from Edinburgh.
Our hostess, a Mrs. Moyes, is particular-
ly kind, and tries to makeus feel as
much at home as she can. Each one is
busy in his or her own way, and we do
not see much of each other, except in
the dining room, where we meet three
times a day, as regular as clock work,
On Friday morning Frank said,
"What about a drive out to some of
these sugarcane farms? I would like to
see a crushing plant and refinery, a
horse and trap will cost us a pound, and,
if you are willing, I'll go ten bob." I
said, "alt right, let us get off as soon as
possible after lunch." So after driving
about ten miles we reached one of the
largest farms; but the " boss " and his
family were away from home. The
only custodians of the place were four
servants,and a little "pickaninny,"or an
'Australian black child—a little girl,
seven years of age, familiarly known as
"Beauty." Her father, "Old Black
Bill," had been a faithful servant for
twenty years. He had been converted
to Christianity many years ago, and had
been married by the resident Presby-
terian minister, but his " lubra " had
died soon after " Beauty " was born.
The others were "Old Kate," a high-
land soman on the shady side of fifty,
and two "Kanakas " from Honolulu.
"Kate;" whom we met first, was in
great distress, and soon told us in
broken accents what was the matter.
"Beauty," she said, " was out in the
bash yesterday picking black berries,
and when she had her billy -can about
half full, a death adder bit her on the
leg. We applied every known remedy,
but the doctor, who left about an hour
ago, has no hope. She cannot live."
We were conducted through the hall to
a little back room off the kitchen, and
there in one corner lay the swarthy
child, in the stupor that accompanies
such a death. Her head was on her
father's bosom, and one tiny arm was
round his neck. The two " Kanakas "
were kneeling by the bedside. Frank
and I found ourselves, unexpectedly and
for the first time, face to face_ with
death. The crisis had come, and the
"silver -cord" gave way. It will hard-
ly be qecessary to add, there were no
dry eyes in that little room, and one of
the(' Ka,nakas," a fine manly looking
felliSw, was the first to break through
thesobbingwith: "Oh Great Spirit of
the white man and blackfellow, since it
has been Thy will to take Beauty away
from us, to that happy land where her
mother stands with outstretched arms
to welcome her, come down and comfort
and support Old Bill. Give him
strength to endure this great loss. Guide
him along his lonely journey through
this world of trials, and at last, take
him home to join lubra and pickaninny,
where there is no more death."
" Not by the tinted cheek,
That fades away so fa -it,
But by the color of the soul,
We shall be judged at last."
Grafton, 14th Januar , 1888.
1(To be continued.)
OUR MANITOBA LETTER.
(Fr;n1 Our Own Correspondent.)
WINNIPEG, March 2, 1888.
I find my letters take a long time to
travel the distance between this and
but as I look upon what I have
ore as free talk upon current
an as news, I am content to
as they always "get there"
or other. Both politics and
aye " hardened " a little since
Seaforth,
to say
events t
write on
sometim
weather
I last w ote. 1Verither to begin with.
It blows itye from south and north alter-
nately, and with considerable vigor,
and it matters very little to the sensa-
tion whether it is 15° below from the
north or 50° above from the south. The
amount Of moisture in the wind is what
gives pungency .to it. Three weeks ago,
the coldest day I have ever seen in the
country, 'a gentlema.n whom I met going
to business,- said in reply to my remark
that it was a little stiff, " but don't you
think it a good deal nicer than yester-
day." It might be 40° below at that
moments and felt nicer than yesterday
with a sharp -edged south wind at zero.
This heti been about as unpleasant a
winter gs any of the last ten, yet only
yesterdaY I heard from some new Scotch
settlers gut at Langersburg, that if this
was all the winter, they could stand it.
A fellow, sawing my cordwlood the other
day told me he had never had on an
overeoat' yet this season.' My experi-
ence is that to people who take common
sense precautions and avoid whisky the
cold is not at all unbearable. Only a few
days in a year, with blizzards, almost
all of which came from the southward
are very uncomfertable. I am not my-
self a carpet knight, I have had a share
of three blizzardsin six weeks, and know
what I am talking about. Northern
Dakota had only four deaths in the great
blizzard of January 12th. While in the
southmost county alone, Bonhomme
county, on the Missouri, there were 19
deaths. In a. short time the battle of
the winds will be fought out here,—be-
Death the warm rays of a cloudless sun
the snow will vanish, and man and na-
ture leap into full activity.
IN THE POLITICAL ATMOSPHERE
the most noteworthy phenomenon is the
rejection of Mr.Scarth from the presi-
dency of :the Conservative association.
Personally there is no cause for his re-
jection, but he is the " dear friend" of
Sir John, and for that -reason he was de-
posed, and the honor conferred upon a
mediocrity, a German named fiespeler.
The sun cruelly published a list of the
proposer and seconder and a +Tozer' men
on each side of the division, and it is
only the citizens of Winnipeg who can
understand the contrast. Scarth is
thoroughly honest in his desire to pre-
vent an injurious rupture between this
Province and the Federal Government,
but we are fairly wild against disallow-
ance, and would scarcely listen if Wil -
Hain Pitt were its chaanpion. The
Greenway Government promise to build
on the south side of the Assiniboine a
railroad from Winnipeg to the Portage
so as to have an independent line from
the heart of the Province to connect
with the American side, but we are load-
ed already more than enough with lia-
bilities for railway bonds, and it would
need be a very pressing necessity to jus-
tify us in building a road through a poor,
uncultivated tract such as that is, with
no chance of local traffic worth speaking
of. The -settlers in that whole stretch
are poor and few, and it is about as bad
land as we have. But a . good cry will
carry any project here, and cool reflec-
tion is an element that fiuds little place
in many schemes both public and pri-
vate, concocted for the so-called good of
the country. '
THE HUDSON'S BAY RAILWAY
was last year the great cry, and. Sir
John gave the charter to Hugh Suther-
land, by far the most unreliable of the
two competitors', but then Sir 'John had
an axe to grind. We granted provincial
aid to that scheme, everybody almost,
being delighted with it. Our then
eastward. 1 The trouble is that the On -
r best custom -
see the wheat
their own bins
ould not take
ven if granted
men want to
for water
tario mill rs, just now o
ers for Red Fyfe want tc
they buy iere, all laid in
as soon as possible, and
storage a Port Arthur
free, whi e the railroad
hold all hey can over
riage in une, so as to save the long
heavy heel round the north shore. If
we were exporting to England this un-
loading at: Port Arthur would be no in-
convemenee. As you are the customers
delay is 4 serious loss to both you and
us.
THE FINAL AW -ARD
on the wheat we exhib
the eastern provinces, h
us. Our representative
had no stOmach for the j
by local ten at Toron
and askedl that an opinio
from Mr. Harris, the Toronto Inspector.
The opinion has just reached us and
amounts to this: The third prize wheat
at Ottawa, owned by Mr. T. Mander-
son, Myrtle, is justly put at the top of
the Outario samples asIthe purest red
fyfe. It was hand picke
ported from Manitoba.
wheat at Ottawa., which
all at Toronto, and a fresh sample from
the same bag which never was haudled
are put at the top. They had already
been awarded by the council at Toronto
silver medal and diploma, and belonged
to G. Matheson, Brandon, Manitoba.
The first prize lot of the Toronto judges is
put at the very bottom of the lot, and the
first prize lot at Ottawa is put next low-
est. This ought to be a wholesome
warning to local men Who, while will-
ing to assume the functions of judges,
have too narrow a range: of knowledge
to make their decisions of any weight.
There are men still in the world who
" just to oblige a friend" are willing
to give a judgment not justified even by
their actual stock of knowledge, and the
skilled and accurate contra judicial
award of Mr. Harris wi;11 give them a
cold chill, if they ever eotne to hear of it.
THE GREENWAY GABINET
Have now before them au opportunity
such as no Government of this Province
have ever before had. ;They have no
temptation to cringe or make unworthy
terms with the Central Government,
the best men of the Conservative Op-
position are as one with them on all
questions of public policy and after they
have redistributed the constituencies,
will have an easy victory at the next
general election, not because every-
body is on their side, but because a
worthy and generally acceptable repre-
sentative of Conservativism is now im-
possible, Macdoealdism ,is now played
out, Norquayism is found out and the
field is all before the new men. • If they
are equal to the occasion and are not
strained by internal jealousies, a long
lease of power, and I trust usefulness,
is before thein.
FAILURES IN BUSINESS
Among our city men have been taking
place of late, and agitators attribute it
all to disallowance,but that is only half
the truth. The whole, country over-
flowed with pioneer storekeepers, and
thiseity has about twice as many busi-
ness men of all sorts as we have any
use for, and cannot provide a living for
them, whatever may be our public
policy. Farmers outride have never
been more favorably circumstanced than
this season. In addition to their fine
crop, they own better stock and more
of it than ever before, and the difficul-
ties of the fine dry goods men, show that
our country buyers are wise enough to
wear plaiuer clothes that they may
spend money on genuine improvements,
the very wisest thing :they can do in
the circumstances. It was only by the
practise of minute economy and un-
faltering industry that our less favored
forefathers grewwich, and the men who
must build up this country are the men
who are content to wear.an old coat un-
til they can properly afford a new one.
MONEY ALONE
is one of the very poorest investments
you can put into this-Prevince. A little
money and a good deal of skill and push
and patient industry will make a man
practically independent in a few years.
If we had only the rnoney now to spend
on gopd horses and cattle that was
fooled h.way on town lots in past years
we could, soon get ahead, and even as it
is, every day brings news of cars of
good stock corning along from the east,
and in:some cases good, new Canadian
settlera along with them. If, as has
long been alleged, a Grit Government
is all We want to make; us truly pros-
perous, I can confidently promise them
that now, so you ma Y send on your
spare men as fast as- You choose. In
plenty of cases, you will find a man at
the stations authorized to drive you
around free of expense, to show you all
the land available for sale or in some
cases even still for free settlement.
OUR AMBASSADORS ao- THE EAST
in search of clergymen for our city
churches have met a rather ungracious
reception. In one case they were told
that they only came, there when want-
ing money or ministers.! I hope that in
a few years we maybe eble to turn out
all we need of both without going
a.begging to the ;older provinces. 1
think that in clever' devices for raising
money in a pleasant weir we are ahead
of you already. I knew a very poor
district where the faithful wanted to
pay for a church. Three young ladies
of different naticosalities were put up as
candidates for pepular election as fair-
est of the faire their admirers paying
five cents each fer as many votes as they
chose to pile on their favorite caudidate.
As at secular elections., periodical bul-
letins were issued, and after rallies,
slippers and other ordinary devices of
the fancy fair had beer done full jus-
tice to, the final hour 'was devoted to
piling up five cent votes in honor of the
local beauties—and the holy cause.
The grandfathei of one ,of the girls stood
eagerly clasping his little last handful
of coins till thei last moment and then
flung them into the treasury. She
ted last fall in
s just reached
at those shows
dgments made
o aud Ottawa,
should be got
-
Premier "Honest John Norquay" had
an axe to grind too, and when our local
Parliament meets as it will do soon, I
expect a pretty startling revelation of
the .c rruption and rascality in which
thetv ry popular scheme was nursed and
cradled. Itisthecurse of allnewcountries
that they are generally "run" by, daring,
clever, and unscrupulous adventurers,
who can alWaya manage to get the con-
fidence of decent, well-meanitlig sup-
porters, whom -they make the tpols and
cloaks for their hidden iniquities. We
are gradually working off the worst of
that lot. I don't want to be mistaken,
Hamilton and Wilson who have gone out
to the States are not the black sheep of
the defeated party, who those are will
be in due time revealed. ,
THE GRIT blINfliTRY
have been triumphantly victorious at
the polls. The French opponent of
Prendergast will lose his deposit, having
polled less than the statutory minority.
These French and half-breeds always
like to be on the winning side, and go
with a big swing to back the winning
card. Political convictions in the proper
sense of the word they have none, but
they do believe in a man who has plenty
of ilour and whisky on his side. 'The
hopelessness of the Norquay cause is,
that even whisky can do nothing for it.
An empty cask labelled_"vinegar" was
lately returned from one, fiercely fought
polling district, and the vote showed
that the vinegar might as well have been
poured into a ditch. I am not quite cer-
tain that all the vinegar was consumed
on one side.
OUR RAILROAD BLOCK
is partially easing off and with finer weath-
er we can now get bigger loads hauled
from seed im-
he second prize
got no place at
came out, I grieve to say, at the bottom
of the poll with over $50 to her credit,
the Successful candidate making close on
$70 and became the happy 'possessor of
a ,fine wreath of wax flowers, and the
church netted a handsome sum by the
device. I have in Dakota seen a ball
given for the benefit of the church, and
preserve as a curiosity the names of the
ladies who got up that very attractive
entertainment. I could even name a
church in this Province that waa "hand-
selled "by a little quiet dance, but dont
care to give away all I know at once.
A BIG OVERTURN.
To -day our Legislature met, and the
new Government took their seats after
re-election. Mr. Jones has gone out to
try for the seat at Shoal Lake, vacated
by Attorney -General Hamilton. Dr.
Harrison has been summoned to Cali-
fornia to wait on his brother-in-law, Mr.
Hill, who is dangerously ill, and we had
an experience not known in previous
history that the last ministry had yan-
ished before the new took their places.
Mr. Norquay sat in the middle of the
little group of disorganized "Conserva-
tives,"or whatever name they may wish
to be called by, rebelling forcibly to the
onlooker the scenes of two short years
avo, when fromthefront of a well-filled
array of followers he pointed derisively
at the eight or nine Greenwayites the
forlorn hope of Gritism. Another French
representative ratted from him yester-
day, and to crown the contrast Mr.
Greenway adjourned the House for a
fortnight that he might go to Ottawa on
the invitation of Sir John Macdonald to
try to arrange the disallowance difficul-
ty. It may be easier for the Federal
Government to agree with entirely new
men than to cobble up their uncertain
relations with Mr. Norquay. If any-
thing like cordial terms can be settled
we will be relieved from a grave anxiety,
and a heavy drawback to the settlement
and progress of Manitob•a.w.
friends, enabled him to prolong the
strugg.e until yesterday afteruoon,when,
as stated above, death ended th:ebuffer-
ing wlich he had so long and so patient-
ly borne.
—A Dunwich farmer was ..recently
vietimssed by it fellow dealing in pumps
who got him to sign an order for" one
-pump, but filled M the blank spaee after
the wcrd "one" with the other word
"dozen."
—Ou Friday a 4 year old son of Mr.
Ralph Welsh, nf Southwold, near St.
Thom
carbol
mg on
ward "n terrible agonies.
—Tie traffie receipts of the :Canadian
Fecal
Eeste
, Canada.
H. Corby, distiller will be the Con-
servative candidate in West Hastings.
—Antoine Achim, a Montreal letter
carrier, has been detected in robbing the
mails.
—The new $9,000 Victoria wing of the
Guelph hospital was formally opened on
Thursday last week.
—The contract for the new Baptist
Church at Woodstock has been let. The
torel cost will be about $9,500„
—Mr. Chamberlain, of the Fisheries
Commission, sailed from New York for
Liverpool on Saturday on the Umbria.
—Mr. W. F. Luxton, of the Winni-
peg Free Press,has recovered sufficiently
from his recent illness to be out again.
—Ninety-two persons were convicted
of infractions of the Scott Act in West
Middlesex during the past year.
—Tenders for the completion of the
bridges on the Red River Valley railway
are being advertised for by the Mani-
toba Government.
—John Galbraith, belonging to Cold-
water,had his lower lip nearly bitten off
the other day by a horse which he was
watering.
—Rev. Dr. MacTavish, of Lindsay,
has received a call from St. Altdrew's
church, Winnipeg, the offer includieg a
$3,000 stipend and manse.
—It is said that considerable quanti-
ties of ash timber will be shipped to
England from Aylmer East district this
year.
—Sixty eight _ women voted in the
Montreal municipal elections on Thurs-
day, out of a total of 446 qualified to
vote.
—At the Quebec cartridge factory
2,000,000 rounds were manufactured
lest year. The powder used was of Eng-
lish manufacture.
—The financial returns of Nova Scotia
show a deficit for last year of $7,464.
The revenue amounted to $656,630, and
the expenditure was $664,102.
—Dr. W. Roome, the Conservative
oandidate in West Middlesex, has been
confined to his bed from a lung trouble
since his nomination day on Monday,
27th ult.
—An Ostic, Eramosa, farmer named
Robert Hutchins got his hand drawn
into a threshing machine the other day
with the result that it and part of his
arm were torn off.
—The young man Tascott, the sup-
posed murderer of millionaire Snell, of
Chicago, was in Winnipeg Saturday,
but left for the West after a few hours'
stay. Detectives are on his track.
—Mrs. Jas. A. Mitchell, of Arthur
township, poisoned herself'- with Paris
green recently. She had been in poor
health for some time, and leaves a family
of three small children.
Last week during a wood bee in West -
minister two youths engaged in a fight.
After a finish each departed for their
homes, feeling badly used up and losing
a good supper.
—Property -owners of Verdun have
invoked the aid of the law to prevent the
erection of the Protestant insane asylum
in that municipality, which adjoins Alon-
treal, and where the divectorate has
purchased a suitable site.
—A man named Henry Young was
arrested in Windsor the other day for
selling over -mature eggs for fresh ones.
When Young was searched at the sta-
tion several watch chains, lockets and
other articles were found npon him.
—Fred. W. Sheppard, for many years
teacher in the Model school, Berlin, has
been appointed to take charge of the
commercial department of the High
school lately 0c -copied by W. F. Chap-
man.
--Last Sabbath at 12.30 the Rev.
Dean Boomer, after a long and painful
illness, .passed peacefully away at his
residence on Princess avenue, London,
surrounded. by his relatives and inti-
mate friends. The reverend gentleman,
as. our readers are probably aware,
about four years ago was prostrated by
a paralytic stroke which threatened to
prove fatal at an early day. Hiswonder-
ful sitality, however, seconded by the
skillful and untiring nursing of his
s, took a drink from a bottle of
C acid, which had been left stand -
the table and died shortly after-
railway, exclu-ive of the -South-
n railway, for the week ending
Febru ry 29th were $211,000, an increase
of $109,000 compared with the corres-
pondieg week last year.
—Toe Erin Advocate printing office,
plant, type, stock and the is hole of the
contents were burned Friday night; also
John Carrick's stables and contents ad-
joining the printieg office. Both partial-
ly inseeed in the Wellington Mutual.
—JOhn Shaw, Thamesville sideroad,
met with a painful accident on Monday
last week. hIn descending from the mow
he slipped and fell on a broken fork
handle, which entered the lower part of
his body, inflicting a dangerous, though
not fatal wound.
—Dr. Earle, one of the oldest practis-
ing physicians in St. John, New Bruns-
wick, was driving in his sleigh on the
1st inst., when he suddenly fell forward,
and in a few minutes afterward was
dead. He was 66 years old, and has
been for twenty years the coroner of the
East side.
—A thirteen -year-old boy has been
committed to Cobourg jail at the in-
stance of a farmer named Phelps, for
whomhe worked, for killing a savage
ram by a stroke on the head with apiece
of wood. The boy says the brutc. had
frequently attacked him, and that he
struck it in self-defence.
—Last Sunday morning, in Toronto,
Canon Dumonlin administered a cutting
rebuke to his congregation for their
illiberality to the mission fund of the
diocese. The Canon advised his hearers
to study the report of St. Andrew's
church, in the city, for last year, from
which he read that $25,000 had been re-
ceived during the year.
—The meat dealers of Essex Centre
have found themselves compelled to sign
an agreement not to give any person
credit for meat. They have bound
themselves to adhere to this agreement,
and each time it is broken the dealer
who breaks it will have to pay a forfeit
of $50.
—eChristopher Cusick, of Ailsa Craig,
Wakcommitted to jail last Monday for
breach of the Scott Act, in default of a
fine of $50 and costs. Cusick is a man
Without feet and he had to crawl into
jail on his knees. When he arrived
there he complained that the stumps of
1-jia legs were frozen.
—Mr. George Clayes, M. P., for
Mississiquoi, died at his boarding house
at Ottawa last Sunday night of a drop-
sical complication. The deceased, who
was a Liberal in politics, had only been
ill a week. He •was 57 years of age.
Although only at Ottawa for his second
session he was popular on both sides of
the House.
—A serious panic took place in the
town hall of Amherst, New Brunswick,
on the evening of Feb. 27th. A per-
formance was going on when the posts
supporting the crowded gallery were
seen to bend. There was instantly a
scene, but the manager of the concert
company fortunately succeeded in allay-
ing the tumult before any damage was
done.
—The other morning, shortly before
nine o'clock, Mr. Robert Elsie, care-
taker of the Fingal public school, was
found lying near a saw -horse in the
schoolyard in a dying condition. He
had been sawing wood a few minutes
previously. It is supposed that death
was caused by an apoplectic fit. De-
ceased was 78 years of age, and had lived
in Fingal for 30 years.
--Travelers in the north country, says
a Bobeaygeon paper, report tbat im-
mense quantities of cordwood, ties, tele-
graph poles, hard wood logs, etc., have
been got out by the settlers an
along the railroad for shipment
mit points. Large stuns have al
paid out by lumbermen for supplies of
various kinds.
,—Brakeman Chris. Boyce, while
applying brakes on a train at Holland.
Landing, slipped and fell under the
train, part of which passed over both
legs. The doctors amputated one leg
above the knee. On account of the
man led appearance of both the limbs
the
the
lon
d piled
differ -
o been
octors thought it best not to cut off
eft leg, as he could not live much
er any way.
The other day in London West as a
4 -ye r -old son of Mr. Weir was going
along the street the little fellow
approached a collie dog belonging to a
butcher. The brute suddenly sprung on
the child and caught his cheek in its
teeth, tearing and lacerating the flesh in
a horrible manner. The little fellow's
face Will probably be disfigured for life,
Constable Jeffries shot the dog.
—A couple of months ago Henry
Boyd!, of Brecon, absconded for reasons
best known to himself, but before doing
so he:sold a Clydesdale stallion on which
a Listowel man had a lien to a man
named McCaffery, of Lucan, for $2,200.
As soon as this canie to the knowledge
of the Listowelite he hand -ed the case
over to Constable Davist who tracked
the animal to Lucan and ecureti the aid
of Constable Bowden tol assist him in
obtaining it. These two:worthies spent
several days looking for die animal
but were unable to find it, although
it was stabled within a stone's throw
from Bo -a -den's house. It is alleged that
the horse was subsequently taken out of
the stable at night and brought to Lon-
don, but here all track of it was lost by
the officers of the law.
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