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had to give up his
home auw suffering
hut we hope he will
resume his duties
ias pat in a stock of
e intends running:
awanosh.
. John CouItis' the
t his yard piledfull
s. He has new on
number of any
—Mr. Carleton sold
rse to Mr. Bell, of
S. handsome sum of
-extra horse, weigh-
erossing the o cean.—
al ref used the hand.
or his two-year-old
era animal, bringing
about 1,600 tbs.—
:intent in connection -
ety proved a grand
ing. The admission
the proceeds amo ant -
an extra programme
the occasion.—Mr.
itfering from conga -
at he is at present-
-Mr. 'Thomas Roh-
Sabertson intend to
out the end of March.
-Its, while driving on
met with an accident
1 on his pony. He
Ly and the puny slip -
ng a. severe eat on its
as at, once s ummoned
sk, for inflammation
n. —Mr. Livingstone
e span of ponies for
. They are consider -
In the county.
ay.
['he township fathers
lag in the township
artarday last. The
to famish the towe-
1 birch, and rock elra
hi-nees prices, was ac-
, $11 per theusand ;
red birch, $8.75 at
cided that in future
liwoship hall for en -
raveling exhibition&
Je charged : For one
nights, $3.50 and
et fifty cents for ex -
decided to procure -
Ile as a trial lot for
ie sum of $10 was
ing up the Wies-
en. The auditors
and passed and the
to have fifty copies -
d a like ntiraher in
ion among the rate -
asters, fence -view'
cern for the year
e full list of these
dished next wet*,
t again on SaturdaYe
ten occlock, a. m.
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II
urn.
Bible Society meet-
in- Street Methodist
tvenirtg was well at
-
McMillan was elect -
tile Society. Th
TS were re-elected,
at evening by Rev.
sato,—subject,
•ccrell appreciated
r. William William Hugill,
Einburia, paid a fly -
last week. Will
best —Joseph Far-
Teeswater, nOw of
visited the old
-Mies Hethering-
, of Nile, have been
ski Mrs. James Car -
seek .- —Mr. Ritchey,
, of Wingham, paid
town on business
alad to state that
!--10 has been in
, is on the mend.
lorris, has been cut-
neter itobert, of this
51; Week. -111r. Thos.
seal number of the
oxi Monday last,
heap was drawn. -
ra t f or :I , is visiting
P. Broisaa—
• of Ilullett, died
" thirdly afternooa
f the lungs. T11°
attended on Mea-
kata, merchant, has
:as the week. —The
. of Belgrave,
in the Methodist
Thos. Gee of this
evening. --A gact
lodge, Independeah
,lars, Tuesda,y eveo-
sItoro Temperance
in their concert ;
a good time.
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TWERP Y -FIRST YEAR.
WHOLE NUMBER 1,058.
SPRING, 1888.
Spring and Summer
MILLINERY
Opened and Ready
FOR SALE.
New Flats, New Bennets, New Shapes,
New Flowers, New Feathers, New
Mounts, New Pompons, New Orna-
ments, New Ribbons, New Laces, New
Silks, New Satins, New Gauzes. In
fact, everything in the millinery line
just opened out and ready for inspec-
tion. A call respectfully solicited at
the
Cheap Cash Store
—OF
HOFFMAN & CO.,
CARDNO'S BLOCK,
SEA F 0 RTH
NOTICE.—Apprentices wanted for
the millinery work room.
The Presbytery of Huron and
the Scott Act.
The following are the resolutions of
the committee on Temperance, based on
the reports of Sessions, as adopted by
the Presbytery of Huron at its last meet-
ing :
1. From a review of these reports, it
would appear that progress has been
made during the year. There is also
reason to believe that although the Scott
Act is, in many respects defectiye, and
although it has never been stringently
enforced in this county, its operation
and the agitation connected therewith,
have largely conduced te this improve-
ment. The committee therefore recom-
mend that this Presbytery renew its tes-
timony in favor of. the Act as a step in
the right direction, and exhort all under
its jurisdiction actively to support it,
especially in view of the fact that a pe-
tition for its repeal in this county is
likely to be within a short time submit-
ted to the electors.
2. The committee beg to call attention
to the deplorable state of affairs in the
village of Bayfield. The Act is there
openly defied, and aa a natural conse-
quence, intempera,rice with all its attend-
ant evils, is on the iinerease. They rec-
ommend that this Presbytery direct the
attention of the proper authorities to
these facts, and call upon them to en-
force the law at least as stringently
there as in other parts of this county. •
3. The committee note with pleasure
that although the enforcement of the
AAA is, in parts of the county satisfac-
tory, there has recently been an im-
provement in this respect. They rec-
ommend that this Presbytery exhort all
unier its jurisdiction to support and to
co-operate with the officers of the law in
endeavoring to carry it into effect.
4. The committee finally recommend i nuts can be gathered, which the chtldren
A Beautiful Manitoba ,Town.
Rivratsiom FARM,
KILLARNEY, Manitoba, March 8, 1SSS. )
DEAT Ex.rosreon.--liaving seen quite
anumber of lettets from Manitoba and
tae Northwest, but none froth Killarney
or vicinity, I thought it might inteiest
your readers to hear a little news from
this part of Southern Manitoba. Well,
to begin with, our town of Killarney, a
good old Irish name, you will admit,
with the Lake also' to make it complete,
is a beautiful littletown in summer, hav-
ing gained for itself the title of being the
most prettily siteated and most en-
terprising town eking the line of railway
extending from Winnipeg to Deloraine,
a town about 40 miles- west of us, and
being the terminus of the railway at
present. The Lake is a great resort in
the summer for enjoymeut, there being
bathing -houses built, and row -boats for .
pleasure seekers. Now a few words about
the business part of the town. There
are three large general dry goods and
grocery stores where we can buy every
thine needful at prices similar to Sea-
fortha The days of exorbitant prices are
5
pastaand people thinking of coming to
Manitoba need have no dread of these
troubles now. There are also four im-
plement shops, two blacksmith shops, a
a harness maker; a tinsmith, a drug
store, two livery stables, and two large
hotels, besides several private boarding
houses, a butcher shop and as town hail.
The Methodists have erected a very neat
church and parsonage. There is a good
sehool house, which is used by the Ptes-
byterians as a place of worship on Sun-
day. So you see our Methodist breth-
ren are a step ahead -of us in this respect.
These, with a goodly number of ,private
residences make quite a thriving ;little
place. One thing is sadly needed to
improve its appearance, and that is a
good station house. But if we become
the county town, as is expected in the
spring, surely the Canadian Pacific rail-
way will remedy this.
I think any one coming to Manitoba -to
settle ought to come Lind see this part of
it before settling elsewhere, for this is a
fine part of the country for farming, if it
were for only one reason, that being the
absence of frost to damage crops. The
frest has never been known to injure the
crops here but once, and then only
slightly. It's wonderful what a large
acreage one man can manage with the
assistance of sulky plows, seeders, self -
binders, etc., making farming on a large
scale very easy, the ground being all
ready for the- plow. And as for the win-
ters here, if one is well prepared with a
good supply of wood, and no work to do
beyond the stable chores, no fatmer need
dread to face a Manitoba winter. There
has not been a day this winter but I
could go to Killarney, a distance of two
-and a half miles from my house, had it
been necessary. -No doubt there, were
days that it was much- pleasanter to
"Bide by my Ain Fireside," but I have
felt more disagreeable weather in Onta-
rio than here,- as with the exception of
a few stormy days the weather as a gen-
eral thing, has been clear and frasty, with
a dry, bracing atmosphere. I am very
well satisfied with this country, and
would not change it for any other part of
Manitoba or the Northwest that I have
seen. I have 320 acres of -land, with the
river running through it, making it a
fine farm for stock raising, and I have
95 acres ready for crop, which, with 'the
,aid of my three horses and machinery, I
expect to put in myself. There -is also
plenty of wood on the place, chiefly oak,
and a good school house built on the'cor-
ner of the farm. There is any amount
of wild fruit around this part, compris-
ing wild plums, cherries, raspberries,
strawberries, cranberries, bluberries,
etc., and in the fall any amount of hazel -
that this Presbytery call on all its pas-
tors, elders, teachers and members, to
use their utmost influenoe against the
deadly power OfIthe saloon, by their
public utterances and private life; by
personal effort on behalf of temperance;
and by a watchful care over the young
in our Sabbath Schools and homes, soas
to awaken the conscience of the indiffer-
ent and save those who are tempted and
f
McKillop.
FARM SOLD.—Mr. William flabkirk
has sold his farm on ".the fith concession
of McKillop, to Mr. Wm. Johnston of
the same line, for the sum of $5,i00.
This farm contains 100 acres, except
what is taken off for the Manse grounds
of itev. Mr. Musgrave, and has on it a
stone house and good out -buildings. Mr.
ifaltkirk intends removing to Seaforth
to reside, and will have an auction sale
of his farm stock and other effects on
the 6th April.
A GOOD WOMAN GONE. — Mrs. An-
drew Beattie, Sr., (tied at liskdale Grove
Farm, McKillop, the residence of her
son Andrew, on Friday last, the 16th
inst., having reached the great age of 90
years. Mrs. Beattie's maiden name was
Derthick. She was the daughter of the
la,te Robert Borthick, Holmshaw, Mof-
fatt, Scotland. She came to Canada in
1817,_ and settled in the township of
Westminster, near London. Her hus-
band died on board ship when crossing
the Atlantic. After residing in West-
rstiaster for about two years,°Mrs. Beat-
tie, with her young family, removed to
McKillop, and settled on the farm now
owned and occupied by Mr. Andrew
Beattie, on the 7th concessiou, and here
she continued to reside until removed by
death. She had a family of eleven child-
ren., seven of whom, six daughters and
(FAQ son, survive her. She had been a
acaere sufferer from rheumatism for sev-
eral years, but otheraise enjoyed com-
paratively good health until within a few
weeks of her death, which seemed to be
eansed by a gradual wearing out of the
Inman system. She was a kind neigh-
bor, and an affectionate and prudent
mother, and was in eyery sense of the
term a worthy Christian woman, who
11148 ripe for her reward, and patiently
waited the summons which called her
'sense.
appreciate in the winter, being a pleas-
ant amusement for them to crack and
eat when too cold to play -outside. In a
very short -time the farmer will be begin.
ing to prepare the ground for seeding,
868 they generally get started about the
end of this month. I must now close
my letter, as I have already taken up
too much space in your valuable paper,
which coulee like an old friend to greet
US. ISAAC S. MILLER. -
coming to 1%, anitoba, by the number of
auction sale advertised and specified in
this way : "must be sold without re-
serve as the
toba." Asi
we expect
expecting
the Old C
since the m
You will re.
season of 18
than one, al
season was
winter it wit not deter emigration if
Manitoba c- n hold anything like the
reputation'
year, not o
growing, bt
live, Liber
Winnipeg c
ered into
the month
in the m
ard, too.
birth incid
the west w
cal blizzard
time to tim
ly a lucky N
office, and
again? H -
among a c
tives to giv
Hon. T. Gr
Greenway
to do for ti
certainly d
It brings
that "cha
proves the
I think if
Editor, th
worked, in
the past fox
to work in
with a goo(
ing the fac
of baulky
put Uncle .`am's breaking harness on.
Everybo ly is looking anxiously for
.an early sp ing. Not only to get rid of
the cold, " we do not feel," but to scat-
ter the goli en seed once more; for it is
a very imp rtant factor to sow early in
Manitoba,.s the latter part of our sea
sons are a little too previous at times.
If the sayieg is true that when Easter
comes early
spring, we
year, as it
Now, what
April fool?
There is
Snowflake •
scarletina,
prevalent, a
expensive a
medical me
the extent
And one M
man's sick
in advance,
think nothi
a night's
much in ne
tor a this
Your
proprietor is going to Mani -
le from the large emigration
from Ontario we are
larger emigration from
untries than we have had.
morable days of the boom
(lily see Mr. Editor that the
7 bore fruit in more ways
d - supposing the bountiful
followed by rather a cold
she raised for herself this
ly in the matter of crop
t she has acquired a real,
I Government, that your
rrespondent says was uslie
- this world of sin in
of January and right
ddle of a raging Wiz -
Are we to infer from this
nt that the young giant of
11 also survive all the politi-
that may surround it from
? Or,was this blizzard mere -
id that blew this baby into
is destined to carry it out
wever, there is a disposition
rtain number of Conserva-
the government formed by
enway a fair trial,and if Mr.
erforms all he ha e promised
e people of Manitoba he will
serve respect at their hands.
our minds an old saying,
ges are healthy," and if it
.a.se now, well and good, and
oti will only admit it, Mr.
t the Conservatives who have
the government harness for
rteen years ought to be able
the opposition- harness now
deal of grace, notwithstand-
that we did possess a couple
inisters who have gone to
From Southern Manitoba.
SNOITPLAME, Manitoba, Feb. 29th, 1883.
DEAR EXPOSITOR. —With your permis-
sion I will venture to make a few re-
marks, although I am of the opinion
that your able Wintipeg correspondent
has pretty well covered the ground in
general, and I may Say, and I think I
voice the bentiments of quiteat number of
Manitobans, that he has done his work so
far in a very impartialmanner,eapecially
as regards the weather and politics. He
has told you under date of January 27th
that about the middle of January we ex-
perienced the severest blizzard for many
years, which was quite true, and at pre-
sent writing, I Call inform you that Feb-
ruary is going out under like circum-
stances. It started to snow and blow
on the morning of the 23rd and continu-
ed until the morning of the '27th with-
out any let up to it except perhaps to
get a fresh hold.With the exception of a
couple of fine spells of short duraiion
during the month of February it has
been a good solid winter since Christ-
mas week. I should say that if our
snow had lain where it fell we would
have about two and a half feet on the
level. One thing that the people of
Manitoba should be thankful for is, that
swe have not been visited by any such
terrible stor ns as the people of the
Northwestextn States have experienced,
which dealt iestruction pretty generally.
But from w at I can learn some of the
press accou ts are over drawn, for in-
stance a Detroit drums er who visited
the West recently stated on his return
to a reporter that th number would
reach 1,200 lost. I th nk one quarter
of that number would over the loss of
human lives.
I see by LIR Exrosi OR that the re-
ports of our rigorous winters do not
deter eotne of the farmers of Huron from
in April, it brings an early
will surely have one this
falls on the first of April.
vill be the result if it is • an
good deal of sickness in
t present. Bilious fever,
nd diphtheria are the most
nd I can assure you it is an
lair to be sick here. The
stretch their conscience to
f from $20 to $25 per call.
.D. refused to visit a poor
hild unless he was paid $30
and that same M.D. would -
g of spending that sum in
runken debauch. We are
d of a steady and sober doc-
oint in Southern Manitoba.
truly, ,
W. BARBER.
•
From Northern Dakota.
Mr.. B. G Sarvis, son-in-law of Mr.
George Sp oat, of Tuakersmith, writes
from Kinl ss, Walsh County, Dakota,
on the 1st of March last, as follows :
I have s en several accounts of the
terrible bli ard which late:y visited this
tertible co ntry, this inclement North-
west, and hint any of your readers should
get the ide , that all parts of Daketa are
alike and si liar to some of the other
North -Wes ern States and Territories, I
concluded t tell them how I have fared
during the inter in this ice -bound re-
gion. To -d y is one of the roughest days
of this wint r,perhaps not so cold asmany
others, but thick snow storm is driving
from the nc rth-east with quite a high
wind. We ave had several days of late
that have b en stormy and cold. Also
most of Ja uary was rough and some
days very c ld. Most of February was
fine some days very fine. Taking the
winter all tijirough, it is the roughest and
coldest I h4.ve seen, the thermometer
registering ks low as 600 below zero on
the morning of February 9th, and several
times down to about 40° below. But in
the worst storm that I have seen, there
has been nothing that would begin to
compare with the blizzard that I have
seen described as having visited South
• Dakota, Nebraska and Iowa. We have
a very little better idea of this terrible
storm, which must have been bad from
the numbell of lives lest, than you in On-
tario have. My well is about 25 or 30
yards from the house, and in the thick:
est of the torm to -day I can see farther
than it. I have attended to my stock
regularly every day this winter. The
accounts y u hear of the precaution be-
ing takento have repes, &ea leading
from the h
needless in
I have bee
weather of
f ere cl fitoin
I haver in
miles facin
out gettin
FRIDAY,I1MARCH 23, 1888.
prosperous and more eneouraging than
before. Crops generally very good.
Wheat averaged from 18 to 46 bushels
per acre; mine ran 24 bushels per acre.
Oats 14 bushels per acre and barley 41.
I threshed nearly 1,500 bushels of grain
in all. Potatoes were an excellent crop,
so were almost all other vegetables.
The hay crop .was rather light. Wheat
is worth 59c. in one town and 60c. in an-
other in our vicinity ; -parley, 38c. to
40c., and potatoes 40c, per bushel: But-
ter from 20c. to 25c. per pound, and eggs
25c. per dozen. Pork and beef are high
and very scarce ; the foi-mer, is Sc. and
the latter from 6c. to 70.1 The butchers
have been shipping in pork Land beef,
also a little mutton from St. Paul.
Horses are still high, being from $175 to
$300, according to class. It will pay any
one coming from Ontario to bring horses
with them, and bring gop/ d ones.
I have noticed several items in your
Ontario papers about big threshing. I
think we can beat anything I have seen
mentioned in Ontario. Mr. John Harris
had 2,020 bushels of wheat -threshed for
him in one day. Messhri. Watson Bros.
had 5,154 bushels of grain threshed in
days, or about 1.757 bushels per day on
an average. It is quite common to hear
of 2,000 bushels or over per day. One
thresher told me he threshed over 41,000
bushels in 23a- days. The man who -
threshed for me told me after he had
been threshingi over a month that he
had not threshed for any one whose
wheat averaged less than 24 bushels per
acre, and he had threshed as high as 12a,
the general run was abent 30 bushels per
acre.
The St. Paul, Minneapolis and Mani-
toba railroad have extended their Park
River branch to Langdon, over fifty
miles. It passes within nine miles
of my place, but the nearest
town is twelve miles, which makes it
more convenient to do our marketing.
There is another town 14 miles off. Your
humble servant has been, appointed post-
master of Kinloss pot office, which
brings our mail right at I ome, and makes
it ,much more convenihnt. Altogether
the outlook is pretty fair, and notwith-
standing the cold and Pig blizzard's, I
would not think of going back to Ontario
again with the amount of capital I have.
If I were -Wealthy I might. I believe
this is a good country for a man who has a
small capital and who is willing to put
up with haecrships for a short time.
use to the stable, are all
this part of the Northwest.
out in some of the coldest
this winter and have not suf-
frost bites yet, anymore than
ntario. I have driven 20
a 22* below zero wind, with-
out of my cutter. Of course
it is cold, 1!ut we are generally clothed
for it. ! There was a young man lost on
the 120 of January in the storm about
12,miles from here. He was in the town
oflMilton instil nearly dark on the 11th,
and. started for the place where he was
with some wohd and an ox
after going about two miles
d, and after wandering for
found an old unoccupied
which he took shelter till
working
team, and
lost the re
some tim
shanty in
morning ad again started. Aftertrav-
ening for some time he found a house
and got something to eat and warmed.
He again etarted, and in the afternoon
found another house and got something
to eat again, but in spite of all persua-
sions left, and neither he nor the oxen
have since1 been seen. The sleighs and
ere found about four miles
with one of the haities brok-
as foolish to have left shelter
und it. He was not known
Canada.
—The Congregationalists of Ottawa
have decided to build a new ten thous-
and dollar church.
—$8,000 will be expended by the
Government in improving the Kincar-
dine harbor.
a—The Peterborough Bridge Company
has received the contract to build a new
iron bridge at the Narrows, Orillia.
—The Salvation Armyi of Peterboro'
are building a new brick temple, with
seating accommodation for 1,000 people.
The temperance people have commenc-
ed the campaign against the repeal of
the Scott Act in the county of Grey.
—Bishop Walsh, of London, met with
an accident while in New York last
week. Ile sprained or fractured his leg.
harness
from tow
en. He
when he f
—Rev. Mr. Broley, of the Elora
1Methodist church, is suffering from
neuralgia of the stomach.
—There are now four Scott Act
violaters in Chatham jail, three for 30
days each and one for two months.
to drink any liquor of any kind.
During the past year things have been
96. Philip Foster,now the only sur-
viving member, is 88, and is an active
farmer. Mrs. Taylor's eldest son is 81,
and attended her funeral.
—Mrs. Daniel Bailey, of Guelph,
slipped on the sidewalk and broke her his wife. He says he has no fault to another bushel' -25,000 bushels on the
arm and Mrs. Wardrope, wife of Rev, find with her, but doesnot like her ways, street, to -day's delivery, and loads ar-
Dr. Wardrope, fell down the steps of
the house and fractured three ribs.
—Mrs. Hall, Blenheim, slipped and
fell on Sunday last while going into the
Presbyterian church, breaking her hip
joint. It is feared she will be crippled
for life.
—George Tufford, of -Galt, while at
Norwich th other day, slipped on some
icy doorste s and fell forward, break-
ing both bo es in one forearm and one
in the Other besides receiving an ugly
blow on the nose.
—On Fri ay, the 9th inst., Mrs. F.
Freburn, of North Smith, county Peter-
borough, di ‘cl at the age- of 102 years.
She was bo n in Ireland in 1786, and re-
membered the scenes of '98. She came
to Canada i
—Last F
planing and
was burned
siderable h
The buildin
destroyed.
chinery is,e
ance $5,000.
—According to a San Francisco paper
L. R. Richardson, the Strathroy cheese -
man, whoseaelopement with Mrs. Faw-
cett and a- big pocketful of money,creat-
ed a sensatien last Year, has left Seattle,
and accompanied by the woman, sailed
from San Francisco on March 9th by
the steamer Alameda for Australia.
— While a party of 28 young people
were coasting at Colebrook near
Kingston, the . other day, their
sled collided with a telegraph pole.
Two young,men were the most injured,
one having an arm broken, and one a
shoulder dislocated. A young lady was
also severely bruised.
— Contracts for the erection of half a
million dollars worth of new buildings in
Ottawa have been let. Among theseare the.
following : Young Men's Christian As-
sociation buildings, $18,000 ; Presby-
terian church,$6,000 ; Methodist church,
$10,000 ; concert hall, $10,000 ; three
separate'schools and some private resid-
ences costing as high as $10,000.
—There was lately placed in the
hatchery in connection with the fisheries
exhibit at Ottawa, 40,000 salmon trout,
10,000 speckled trout eggs and 500,000
white fish eggs. -The speckled trout
come from the Saguenay district, the
whitefish from Georgian Bay, and the
salmon trout partly'from the Saguenay
and partly from Lake Superior. .
—A miner named Johnson was de-
scending the shaft of a coal mine at
Anthracite, N. W. T., when he slipped
and fell 300 feet,. breaking a rib and his
right arm, besides receiving some severe
bruises, but, marvellous to say, escaped
death. In his descent he struck another
man and very nearly carried him crown
also.
—Rev; W. Williams, of Waterloo,
while on his way to Galt Tuesday night
last week to hear the Japan missionar-
ies, Nias assisting some ladies off the
train at Doon, when he slipped and fell,
breaking both of the bones of his leg
below the knee. He was assisted on
the train and brought to •Galt,where he
will be compelled to stay for some time.
—The Manitoulin Cuide says fish is
becoming scarce up there, and that there
is a strong feeling among the local fish-
ermen with regard to the use of trap
nets in the winter time. The general
opinion, The Guide says, is that these
should not be used on account of the
multitudes of young and small fish they
destroy.
— Whilst Rev. Father Cornyn, of
Strathroy, was proceeding to light the
lamps in the church on Sunday evening,
his foot slipped off the pew on which he
was standing, and the reverend gentle-
man fell heavily on the edge of the same.
Not thinking himself. hurt he held the
usual Sunday evening devotions. He
has been confined to his bed ever since,
and is suffering considerable pain.
— Mrs. Margaret Denby, one of the
pioneers .of Woodstock, died at the resi-
dence of her son-in-law, Mr.Pendlebury,
in that town Thursday last week.
Mrs. Danby, whose maiden name was
Murray, was a resident of Woodstock
for over half a century and had reached
the age of 77 years. Her husband was
the late Wm. Danby, who was one of
the first settlers in that neighborhood.
Works, where he has been employed
ever since. He was a rather handsome
looking man and had been a prominent
temperance worker in the city. He has been
endeavoring to obtain a- divorce from
McDEAN BROS. Publishers.
$1.60 a Year, in Advance.
Railway main line and southwestern
branch. The following telegram was
sent from Boissevain to Mr. Greenway
and R. Watson, M. P., Ottawa: "Ele-
vators (three) all full. Cannot take in
1825.
iday morning Hahn's briek —An almost fatal accident happened
saw mill at New Hamburg to a daughter of John Keller, of ,North
down. The fire made con- Fredericksburg, near Kingston, on Fri-
adway before its discovery. day. A kicking horse struck the left
and contents were totally side of the girl's head above the ear.
Its original value with ma- Her skull was broken, necessitating the
timated at $15,000, insur- removal of a large piece of bone, expos-
ing the brain. The medical attendant
is doing all in his power to save the un-
fortunate girl.
—On St. Patrick's day, in Halifax,
notwithstaading the snow flurries and
mild weather, which made had walking,
the Irish Charitable Society made a fine
display in their parade. They marched
through the principal streets and at-
tended service in St. Patrick's church,
where a panegyric on; Ireland's patron
saint- was delivered by Rev. Gerald
Murphy.
—Ex Judge lalartin,lof Montreal, was
found dead in bed Friday morning. De-
ceased occupied a position on the bench
in France until about 4 year ago, when
he was dismissed frotn the magistracy
through the intrigues of the Republic—
ans. After arriving ,here he was ap-
pointed professor of political economy
at Laval University. Congestion of the
lungs
th is said to be the cause of his
—A Kingston correspondent says :
Thousands crowded Queen street Meth-
odist church last Sabbath afternoon to
hear Rev. Messrs. Hunter and Crossley,
who paid a flying visit to the city.
Miss Dimsdale, a woman of great earn-
estnese and single-handed, is also *in-
ning her way into the hearts of the
.people. She is a revised and refined
edition of Messrs. Hunter and Crossley-,
much of whose style she adopts.
—A day or two ago a young man
named Sulkey, of •Merritton, had his
right arm amputated, lat the hospital at
St. Catharines.- SnIkey had been
troubled a long time vhith what was sup-
posed to be a tumor, but as it was evi-
dently spreading amputation was deem-
ed necessary. An examination after the
operation showed that it was a bone
cancer, and that it had spread .upward
nearly to the shoulder joint. The arm
was taken off at the shoulder joint.
and his lawyer told him he had no riving every hour. cars an the road
ground to work on. Ris wife is a hand- and no prospect of relief.
some and refined looking woman. She —A Petrolea oil merchant has receive;
requested Chief McKinnon to hunt up ed an order from Australia for oil well
her erring husband. Faulkner was equipments amounting to $9,000.
known to have left on the N orthwestern —The Presbyterians of Petrolea have
Railroad, and had his baggage checked purchased a handsome private residence
for Essex Center. He will be arrested and grounds paying therefor $65000.
for wife desertion. The fine brick residence is for a manse
—At C ancleboye on March 15, before and they intend to erect a $15,000church
J. Noble, P. M., John Cain, of Lucant on the grounds.
was fined $100 and costs for a second
—E-remption from taxation for ten
offence against the Scott Act, he trying
years- As been granted to the Longford.
to prove as a defence that he did not
Lula er Company, of Longford, by the
keep liquor for sale, but witnesses all
towu of Orillia. The company will
admitted buying pop and cigars and he
erect a large establishment for the man -
gave them rye whisky for nothing.
ufacture- of wooden ware, such as that,
One witness admitted being served with
h pails etc. The outlay will be about
whisky by him over the bar. $40,000, and the industry will furnish
employment for thirty-five or forty
-hands.
—in the number of students the On-
tario college stands third on this con-
tinent. Within the last nine months
Prof. Mills has sent away fifteen or
twenty English applicants, telling them
to go to farmers and learn some of the
realities before coming to college. The
number on the roll in 1887 was 110, Of
whom 78 are from Ontario. Thirty-four
counties of Ontario are represented,
Middlesex heading the list. The non-
smokers continue to beat the smokers in
the examinations.
—Lieutenant-Colonel Macdonald, of
the 66th Battalion, Halifax, will take"
command of the Wimbledon team this
year.
—Rev. Sam Jones has been engaged
to conduct revival services in a few
weeks at the Carlton street Methodist
church, Toronto.
,—The Bruce Presbytery has nominat-
ed Rev. John James, D.D., of Walker-
ton, for moderator of the next General
Assembly.
—Matthew Hayles, a man from Fort
William, committed suicide at the
Brunswick hotel, Ottawa, on Saturday
morning.
—The man Marshall, who received a
Ishock while walking on the electric
street railway, died at Merriton on Fri-
day.
—In a wake at London, on Friday
.night, a candle was upset, setting fire to
the trimmings of the coffin. The corpse
was safely removed.
—Orange demonstrations are to be
held this summer at Toronto, Hamilton,
London, Kincardine, Petrolea,Listowel,
Tilsonburg, and Tara.
—The British Columbia salmon peek
in 1887 amounted to 202,011 cases, as
against 163,000 in 1886. The trade of
1887 was valued at over a million.
—Of the 60 Farmers' Institutes in
Ontario 40 have endorsed Commercial
Union, two have voted against it,and 18
have not yet discussed it.
A. K. Switzer was run over by an
engine near Rosser station'Winnipeg,
and killed. The body was found by a
section man next morning.
—John Lowrie, clerk and treasurer
of Sarnia township, has been -appointed
by the Agricultural and Arts Associa-
tion one of the judges in the prize farm
competition.
—Rev. W. S. Walker, for eight or
nine years pastor of the Galt Baptist
church, has handed in his resignation,
owing to differences which have arisen
between himself and his flock. •
—Sonic wretch the other night cut
the tongue out of a valuable grey horse
belonging to Robert Howie on the 5th
concession of London township. The
animal died since.
—Mrs. Elizabeth Taylor, of South
BerwickrNova Scotia, died there on
March 9th at the great age of 107 years
6 months. Her maiden name was Foster.
She came of a very long-lived family.
Her great grandmother lived to be 106,
her grandmother was 96 when she died,
and her father also was 96. Five years
ago five of the family were living, and
the ages of four of them were :—Mrs.
Taylor, 102 ; Benjamin Foster, 100;
Samuel Foster, 98; Mrs. Susan Tupper,
—Some days ago W. W. Beachell, of
the St. Thomas Car Wheel Works had
one of his eyes severely burned. Works,
re-
covered from the effects of the burn,and
started to work, when he met with a
worse accident. Putting a ladle in the
mass of- molten iron that proved to be
slightly damp, caused the melted metal
to fly in all directions, Mr. Beachell
being badly burned about the shoulders,
body and legs.
—Wednesday evening last week the
barn of Mr. David Hageman, 2nd con-
cession of Sydney, near Belleville,
was totally destroyed by fire. The
barn contained about nine tons
of hay, a quantity of straw, seed
grain, farming implements, five horses
and six cows, all of which were consum-
ed. The loss is partly covered by insur-
ance.
—Tuesday evening last week a lady
arrived in Hamilton from Cineinatti,
Ohio, in search of her husband, Wm.
H. Faulkner, who, she says, deserted
her from Detroit two years ago. She
found him at 12'2 Cannon street and he
became, friendly and accompanied her to
the American Hotel, where they staid
that night. On Wednesday he found
her a private boarding house and pro•
mined her he would take a house shortly
and they could start housekeeping. He
called on her Wednesday evening and
was to have done so thenextnight,butin-
stead he sent a note saying he would
never see her again. I aulkner came to
the city about eight months ago from
Ypsilanti, Michigan, and obtained work many thousand bushels of grain lying in
as a burnisher in the Meriden Britannia bags at stations on the Canada Pacific in this xn2.gruficent township.
—Capt. Wm. Wylie, aged 89 years
and six months, died at Mount Forest a
few days ago. The Captain was born
in Kincardine, Scotland. He was the
son of Robt. Wylie, and belonged to a
family of sailors. He was for forty
years on the ocean, and as an officer in
the Merchants' service has been in near-
ly every part of the world. Captain
Wylie leaves a widowi and one child, an
only daughter, the wife of W. C. Perry.
—The Victoria Block in Berlin, owned
by John A. Mackie,was totally destroy-
ed by fire last Sunday morning. Mr.
Mackie is a very heavy loser, with only
$11,000 of insurance. The other losers
are John F. Steinacker, picture frames,
etc. ; Chas. Keller, baker, etc., no in-
surance; Mr. Ellis loses everything, so
insurance, barely escaping with his life. -
The insurance companies inters. ted are
the Western, Wellington, Mutual and
Economical.
—Edmund Norris, at present in
Brantford jail on a, charge of lunacy,
made a determined effort Thursday to
commit suicide. He first broke a pane
of glass in one of the corridor windows
and attempted to cut his throat. In
this he was detected and placed in his
cell. Here when the jailer was gone,
he ran his head against the stone wall,
Inflicting painful though not necessarily
dangerous wounds.
—On the evening of Wednesday, the
7th inst., Rev. P. McF. McLeod was
inducted to the pastorate of St. An-
drew's church, Victoria, B.C. by the
Presbytery of Columbia. key. D.
Fraser, M. A., Moderator of the Pres-
bytery, presided. Rev. Mr. Cormack
preached, Rev. Mr. Thomson addressed
the minister and Rev. D. McRae ad-
dressed the congregation. The 'closing
prayer was offered by Right Rev.
Bishop Cridge.
Mr. Otto J. Klotz astronomer to the
Department of Interior, has left Ottawa
for British Columbia, in which province
he was engaged all last season in making
astronomical observations. Other Gov-
ernmental surveyors and explorers will
shortly start to their various stations.
Mr. Ogilvie, another of the department's
officers, has spent the winter at Belle
Isle, near the Alaskan boundary line.
Nothing has been heard of him since
September 1st of last year.
—The family of a French carpenter
named Rousaresiding near Three Rivers,
consisting of three children, aged re-
spectively 5 days, 12 and 30 months,and
Mrs. Roux, aged 39 years, who was con-
fined to bed, were burned with the
dwelling and carpenter shop, a few days
ago. The sister-in-law perceived the
fire first, and rushed out for help, but
before it arrived the house and its con-
tents were burned down. Only three
bodies have been recovered. They were
almost completely carbonized.
—Grain men at Winnipeg fear that
the rain will injure or render worthless
. .
—Mrs. Agnes Thomson, of Toronto,
a young soprano, possessing a very
beautiful voice, has been tendered the
patronage of the Canadian Ciub in New
York if she will give a concert there.
For this purpose Mrs.Thomsonis organ-
izing a company of purely Canadian ar-
tists, and will have as her principal sup-
port Miss Beverley Robinson—a young
lady well known in this city,both social-
ly and musically,as well as in her native
place. Arrangements are being made
by which they will both appear in a
concert in Montreal upon their return
from New York and prior to Mrs.Thom-
son's departure for the Old Country.
—The Bracebeaige Gazette tells of an
accident that happened at the aqueduct
on the railroad between South River and
Trout Creek. There is' a bridge there
over a ravine nearly a hundred feet deep.
Two women, each with a child, were on
this bridge one day recently, when the
snow -plough train came along. One
woman lay down flat at the side and
held her child under the bridge, sus-
pended in the air, and both escaped.
The other woman lay down on the
bridge. She.was terribly hurt, while
the child was killed.
—The Wentworth Farmers' Institute
met Saturday morning in Hamilton.
There was a large attendance of mem-
bers. Thos. Shaw'the President, -oc-
cupied the chair. Prof. James Of the
Agricultural College, Guelph, delivered
a short and instructive address on farm
drainage. At the conclusion a discus-
sion was carried on by Messrs. Fisher,
Hunter, Shaw, Kirby and Henderson.
W. McFadden, of Brussels, then deliv-
ered an interesting address on the breed-
ing, educating, feeding and training of
the driving horse.
—Mr. Wm. B. Colquhoun, of Corn-
wall, -an undergraduate of Toronto Uni-
versity, where he had almost completed
his course, died under yeey sad circum-
stances at the General Hospital in To-
ronto last Friday. morning. .A few weeks
ago he was seized with a severe attack
of inflammatory rheumatism, which,
affecting the heart, caused his complete
prostration, resulting in death. Tim
deceased waft well-known among Univer-
sity mon and was, at the time of his
death, within a few weeks of the eorn-
pletien of a very succeseful course in
civil engineering, which profession he
had intended to follow.
—The Napa -nee Beaver tells of the
effectual lesson given by an Episcopalian
clergyman "not a hundred miles away,"
to some of his hearers who have the bail
habit of coming late to church almost as
a matter of coarse. He had stood it as
long as he sould, o one Sunday morning
he astonished the congregation by stop-
ping in the middle of a psalm,and pro-
posing to go bask to the beginning of
the service for the benefit of the late-
comers in order that they might not be
deprived of the benefits of sin confession
and absolution. This he did to the
confusion of the laggards, but as finite
proved, with very satisfaetory results.
.—The will of the late Judge Mackay
of Montreal has been probated. It be-
gins by stating it is his wish that his
funeral expenses be limited to forty dol-
lars. He wishes no metal nor double
coffin, no procession from the house, n•
pall bearers, no mourners nor flowers.
His widow and daughter he desires to
wear the simplest mourning without
crape or veils. His wife be wishes net
to wear a widow's cap. He divides his
property among his wife, daughter,
granddaughter, McGill'e University and
several eharitable institutions in the
city. He regrets that he cannot leave
his wife more property than what is esti-
mated at $75,000 after, other bequests
are paid,
•
Mr. and Mrs. Homey, of the btli con-
cession of Usborne, celebrated their sil-
ver wedding on the 10th inst., by a
pleasant social party at their handsome
and commodious residence. Guests to
the number of about thirty assembled
and after partaking of a sumptuous re-
past the remainder of the evening was
spent very pleasantly and profitably in
social converse, song and sentiment. As
the fruit of their twenty-five years of
married life Mr. and Mrs. Homey have
a family of eight children, three sons
and five daughters and have prospered
'as well in material things, having now
one of the most comfortable homesteads
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