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SATURDAY,
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pleased—to
ir lady in the
find it con -
us. Hitherto
place in the
orally. and we
-rug as; impress-
As
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an absence of
in its place
supply of the
Mt and; most
trued: Uats and
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'erything that
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in Parasols,
moods, Gloves,
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let them see
[illinery House
for the citizens
Lig- country, for
ason of 1891..
commencing
reFaul,
TWENTY-THIRD YEAR.
W$OLI3 NUMBER 1,217.
SEAFORTH
FRIDAY, APRIL id, 1891.
ine. They had
-alentine Roth,
ed resident of
for the past
Easter with
h resided here
is many friends
o Mn} and hiss
pleased to state
Loss, who have
covering.—Mr.;
Ili at present.
he water made!
:le Royal Tem-
)kes organ from
>n.—Mrs. Thos.
farm in Gode-
uai vestry meet
-
a. held on. Mon -
bag a good at-
Brous state of
most gratifying,
G. Newton, is
interest taken
arch by his: par-
elected were :
McNaughton ;
Howson ; sides -
D. H.
ides-D.H. Porter ;
D. 11. Porter ;
Wainwright ;
hton and F. A.
y successful ex-
he school in sec -
of last week,
t to a thorough
iers and acquit-
'he
cquit-'he examination
readings, dia-
well rendered
son,, was assisted.
ol, McLauchlin,
isa Kelly. Up -
attended
fohn: Pybus, who
the 6th conces-
by
Mr. John
sat week.—Cat
-
y in this vicinity -
ave been made.
aghey has rented
tcession to Mr.
Ira of years.---
ag well for the
Henry::Jackson,.
ince ago, is re-
be able to resume
Kelly, who has.
the vicinity of
aster holidays at.
'hortreed J. J.
ale, Kirkby, re
ae Seaforth Col -
Tuesday,; after-
racation in this
'there, of the 3rd
teen fat steers for -
5c, a lb. net.
es, of Listowel,
These cattle now
,. each and will,
Fortune.—F. Mc-
acession, had an
of this week.
sclally
cattle. --A
eople of the 7th
congregated on.
atweek at the
til, and spent a
MiS3. Elizabeth
ncession, left OIL
Ffor Galt, where
the summer.—
Mud, has been en -
CU= No. 6, and
[Intim—Mr. and
line, paid Listo-
lay and Thursday
Mand has been Off
Lime. We hope to •
i usual health and
11. "
[The Ladies' Aid
egation, who have
k last three years,
necessary funds to
ch of this place,
this last year in
siderably decreases
itill remains on this:
last: Sabbath, the
s Supper was die-
:ongregation, when
ants were received,.
Earth and one by"
ne prove to be ste-
la vineyard, and -
ng souls to- Christ.
THERE'S A BUZZ
1 THE GREA'' CITY! OF THE to revealing the beauty of their pink
N STATE.
Of activity at our Print counter. The
very choicest designs, lovely tints, fast
colorings s and good qualities are all there,
and plenty of them. Those very things
you have been looking for are likely
among the lot. If you want the pat-
terns larSe or small, gay or retired, they
are there. If you want what no one else
has, you are quite likely to get it there.
If you want Gingham!, Flannelettes or
any
other kind of washing fabrics, calk
and look through our select stock. It
will pay you three fold, viz.: choice,
quality and price.
Edward 1111'Fau I,
SEAFORTIT.
GOLD
A CANADI.
California we
Spaniards in 154
'S IMPRESSIONS.
discovered by the
; but it was not till
1769 that a permanent settlement was
made. Sir FranCia Drake—in the Gold-
' en Hind—did not land here, but in a --
smaller bay a fest miles to the north of
the Golden Gate, at Point de los Reyes.
1In 1766 Juniperd Serra, the head of the
Franciscan Friars at San Diego, estab-
lished the Missien Dolores ; and after
this they little corny was 'called Y erba
Buena. ' The Mission at Monterey was
located about the
nearly ten years
expelled from M.
New York Letter.
(Regular Correspondence.)
Nrw YORK, April' 6th, 1811.
Next month the Tilden will case is to
be argued for final decision before the
Court of Appeals,and the public will per-
haps soon learn whether New York city
is to have the great free library which
Mr. Tilden intended, or not. The case
has been four years in the courts, the
decisions so_ far being aboat evenly di-
vided. Two judges of, the Supreme
Court have decided in favor of the
will and two against. It now goes before
the Court of Appealiewith the chances in
favor of a decision against the .contest-
ants. There are now about $5,.000,000
to be devoted to the library in case of
a favorable decision. This will enable
the `executors to establish the beet library
in the country. This is the outcome we
all wish for, and it is to be regretted
that Mr. Tilden's relatives should per-
sist so long in trying to thwart his
evident intentions. Even as it is they
are well provided for in the will and
should be satisfied.
RIVALRY ALRY IN CLUBDOM.
The founding of a new club in this
city to be composed entirely of million-
aires is exciting a great deal of comment
among not only those who are eligible
but those who are not. The movers in
they enterprise have secured a dozenlots
near the main entrance to Central Park,
at 5th Avenue and 59th Street, where
it is intended to erect tho finest club
house in the country. A rivalry" has
sprung up between the differentclubs,
same time, which was
after the Jesuits were
xico. The Americana
'annexed' Califotnia in 1846 ; two years
later the gold di covery was, made, and
since then San F ancisco had made won-
derful progress
•
r
esent time,
,, at the P,
1891, it has a population of 325,000.
THE CITY F SAN FRANCISCO.
The city is built on hills, some of
them very steep, which gives the place
an appearance u
is particularly n
across from Oa
these hills and o
cable cars are co
early morning
strange when we
the tram going
same speed as on
when we reached
t unlike Quebec ; this
ticeable when coming
land. Up and down
t in - the suburbs the
stinually running from
gill midnight. It felt
came to a hill,to find
p the incline at the
the ` level : and then
the crest - and looked
e railway descended in
`tootsies !' And why should it be
thought an act of immodesty ? They
are thoroughly girlish in all their gam-
bols ; thoroughly iunocentlin their in-
tentions. It is a treat to come across a
really `girlish' girl, one who is free
from the antiquated airs of an affected
__post maturity ; and while it is a subject
of surprise and •
delight it also reminds
us that in the dull steam of social in-
anities that flows along by the highway
of Life there are still the pure waters
from nature's own clear spring, though
hidden from sight by this and that
which float on the surface !
EASTER SUNDAY IN THE CITY.
We were in San Francisco on Ester
Sunday, and went to see some of the
churches, which were beautifully decor-
ated. I never before saw such quan-
tities of flowers ; they seemed to be
heaped up in banks and scattered over
everything. Grace church was a very
pretty sight ; hundreds of flowers were
Used in the decorations, completely cove
ering the columns and fringing the
woodwork along the front of the church.
There was a handsome cross in the chan-
cel, made of white violets embedded in a
border of greens, hops and maidenhair
ferns ; and wreaths ofgilly flowers a4id
calla lilies were twined round the fent
and the pulpit. On the choir railing
of ferns and lilies, and th
were featoo�a .
windows were adorned with marguerite,
moss and daisies. In front of the main
entrance, standing against the wall, was
a large cross of red wood -10 or 12 feet
high—ornamented with fronds of thle
marsh fern and a chain of St. Joseph
lilies. At the end of each aisle were
containinggrowingalms, thie
boxes
wood cncealemounds
rough being by
of La France roses. Dozens of lights
illuminated the darker p its of the in-
terior, giving the purple iris and the
lilies a delicate, translparent appear-
ance !
Oh, what •a contrast t
soul -inspiring scene was
our eyes almost immedi+
parture from the portal
There, not more than a
down to where. t
sloping lines, lik a ladder reared againet
abailding, it alt
instinctively we
firmly in our sea
downward with
ost made us dizzy and
braced ourselves mere
Gs. But the car moves
he same easy motion,
stopping at eaciestreet,where, of course,
there is a level erossing. The streets,
which are laid orit in regular blocks, are
broad, though they are poorly paved ;
but they are remarkably clean, and in
every way are an improvement on New
York. _3:Isere are a few small squares
and gardens in t
pal pleasure g
Park, which con
Half a dozen lit
park, besides gr
ments ; and the
paths are all in
the fashionable 'drive' of the city, where
the showy trotti g horse and the • gor-
geous four -in -ha d spin along the broad
avenues, which re carefully watered to
keep down the; ust.
ts vie- the sea shore. `hese are, perhaps, the
ound is Golden Gate
ains over 1000 acres.
le lakes ornament this
ttbes, arbors and Mona -
carriage drives and foot-
xcellent order. . It is
THE GREAT ATT CTIONS OE THE CITY.
Not far from ere are Sett() Heights,
Cliff House and he Seal Rocks—all on
as a consequence, and each one ing to obtain the largest membership greatest attracti ns that San Francisco
aud most elegant quarters. The Col- has to offer ; pr 'Frisco without the
mile' Club, which is two years old, is Seal Rocks woulld betake Sydney with
going to build a new house, the corner or ' Brussels without
stone of vrhich was laid on Saturday.
It will be situated on West 72ad Street,
and will cost $275,000. Many of the
other cubs are preparing to take in
members by the hundred, but it will
probably be some time before the ma-
jority of our people will join. In the
meantine we manage to live as outsiders.
AN ENTERPRISING SHOWMAN.
Buffalo Bill sailed for Europe last
week from this city and on the same
day a hundred Pine Ridge Indians for
his ahow embarked from Philadelphia.
These are some of the. Sioux Indians
who were engaged in the la.te uprising
against -the United States trogps. They
were procured by Col. Cody from the
reservations by permission of the auth-
orities at Washington, and when they
arrive in Europe will no doubt create an
immense sensation and consequent ad-
vertising for the enterprising colonel.
The show will open up at Strasburgh
and remain there until summer when it
will go to Paris. The Colonel will have
his Wild West at the World's Fair
in Chicago where he has leased
for the purpose twenty acres of
land adjoining the fair grounds.
There he will have a grand historical
psgeant representing Columbus discov-
ering America. Everything will be as
life -like as possible, and Christopher will
be vhleorned by genuine injuns.”
EDWIN ARLINGTON.
The Right Place
To Get Suited.
out the har
Pyramids.' T
is to take the C
Where you can get the
best Goods for the
Least Money.
Cairo without the
e usual way to go there
liforniaestreet cable car
to the park and the Ferries R. R. to the
Heights. These ara private property,
but open to th public ; the place is
situated on the
sea, snd is laid
winding paths,
there is a pr
blooming shrub
are ' carpet fl
design is repro
Scattered thr
above the terra es are groops of statu-
ary : Cupid an Innocente welcome us
at the gate ; V nus and Hebe hide in
the leafy foliage by the eircle ; Goethe
and Beethoven tend before the library
ir
door • Eros and Prometheas are perched
on the upper pa apet, andlMercury and
the Gladiator gtard the rocks helot*.
From Inspiration point we get a grand
view of the Pee fic Ocean,: to the north
are the green sh res of Marin county,
Mount (tamale and this Golden Gate;
whilst landwar we can trace the rail-
way running aking by the yellow sand
hills, or piercing the tunnelled cliffs ' underground ' section of their district ;
heree in dens which an Englishman
woulc4not consider fit for his dogs,
thousands of Cbinese live -30 or 40
cramming into la space hardly large
enough for one White family. Shelves
and wooden platforms, which serve as
beds, are built round the room, and
there, coiled up on little bundles of dirty
rags we saw the wretched opium sinstk-
ers l'ying about in the various stages of
semi -unconsciousness and complete pros-
tration. On one side a new arrival was
getting his pipe ready, carefully rolling
the sticky opium on a large bodkin and
heating it over a lamp flame till it soft-
ened ; across the passage two or ree
were reclining with their heads resting are life
on straps nailed on blocks of wood, and warrio
puffing clouds of vile vapor into the artists
already smoke -suffused, fetid atmos- costu
phere. In some places recumbent forms hilts a
were stretched out full length, looking well a
like so many mummies ; only their
quick breathing- and the involuntary
clutching of their talon -like fingers
showed they were alive—but dead to all
sense of sound and sight and feeling.
Nothing could be more ghastly than
cliff 200 feet above the
ut in beautiful gardens,
rraces and esplanades ;
fusion of flowers and
, and along the border
wer ' beds, where the
uced in colored flowers.
ugh the gardens and
pig -tails
verbial e
expected
in the ex
eyed inv
his sorro
men retu
the crow
the atree
The b
very diff
many of
importer
pointed
own idea
people i
alike, bu
marked
herd and
js in the higher and lower orders of
Europeans. The restaurants are re-'
markabl for their elaborate decora-
e fittings and furniture have
rought out from China, and
er part of it- is rich material
n. In some of these tea rooms
a suite of apartments,' with
creens of beautifully carved
id with mother of pearl and
e tables, chairs•and settees are
the same dsrk wood-esome-
Irish bog oak—and are ` cov
the screens, with grotesque
d mosaic work. Paper, silk
al lanterns are hung round the
n the ceiling and on brackets ;
octagon tables are always 'set'
tes of sweetmeats, candied
gar nuts, &c. ; and hot tea is
eadiness. And, although the
o Chinese patronise the restaur-
entertain their guests:- there,
ietors make a good thing out
sitors to San Francisco who
re in thousands ; some to buy
others out of mere curiosity.
THE CITY IIOTELS,
d heard that San Francisco was
its magnificent hotels, but we
dea that there was anything so
the Palace Hotel. It occupies
e block, and is seven stories
ve the basement.. The large
ourtyard is 150 feet long and 80
is roofed over with glass, and
supported by iron pillars run
each story ; the top one being
a conservatory, where dwarf
d trailing vines relieve the plain
lis and balustrades. There are
an 755 bedrooms ! And yet
this palatial splendor we may
ain for the solid comfort that
et in the hotels of England and
and `:the prices at any first -
el in the United States are
ice as much as they charge at
d in London, the Royal in
h, or` the Queen's in Toronto.
tralian coffee palace will give
ch better dinner than these
h concerns in the States ever.
or their guests : and you will
e delicacies, better attendance,
leas ! money. A white table
tarched to the stiffness of tin, a
•f bright plated ware, and a
waiter?, who is just aboit as un.
this beautiful,
hat which met
tely on our de -
of the church.
iock away, was
the noise and bustle •of the ordinary
week day ; theatres were preparing for
,the matinee or evening performance,
trains were carryiug thousands to the
various resorts of pleasute, wagon loads
of boisterous hoodlums clattered down
the streets, and fast horses, and men
and women, raced along the dusty roads
bound for baseball or picnic grounds. In
the afternoon we saw a crowd of nearly
5000 returning from Baker's Gardens,
where they had been witnessing a bal-
loon ascension. Tobacconists, fruit
stores, confectioners, tailors, eyster sa-
loons, bars and beer shop were open
and doing a big basinees ; with many of
them the receipts are larger than on any
other day excepting Saturday.
THE CHINAMAN'S PARADISE.
In the very heart of San Francisco is
the Chinese quarters
blocks, at one time the
part of the city. The
anted in the air like the pro-
le on the gridiron. We almost
to see them stand straight up
itement ! After the almond
lid had been handed over • to
ing countrymen, the police-
ned, kicked their way through
, and we -followed them into
tter class of the Chinese live a
rent sort of life to this ; and
he wealthy tea merchants and
have comfortable, well-ap-
omes, but furnished to their
of taste—a la Chinois. Moat
agine that all Chinamen look
it is a mistake ; for there is as
difference between the vulgar
the, educated Chinese as there
New Prints,
New Sateens,
New Shirtings,
New Dress Goods,
New F Ian elettes,
New Mantle Cloths.
Also large Stozk of Corsets, Ribbons,
Frillings, Laces, &e.
all been
the grea
and deal
they hav
division
Wood
made of
thing lik
ered, lik
figures a
and crys
room fro
the littl
with pl
fruits,
kept in
ants and
the prop
of the V
flock tb
trinkets
We h
noted fo
had 110
grand as
the enti
.high ab
central
feet wid
galleries
round a
used for
palms a
white w
no less t
with ell
seek in
one Call
Canada
class ho
nearly t
the Gra
Edinbur
Any Au
you a -
provide
get mo
-and pay
napkin
display
colOred
occupying 10
moHt fashionable
'colony' started
in 1850, and for many years the celes-
tials confined themselves to a compara-
tively 'small area • but as their numbers
increased street a'fter street was added
to • Chinatown,' and the residents com-
pelled to move away snd seek homes in
other localities, as the new comers made
it alinost impossible for white men to
live in the neighborhood ; and, conse-
quently property depreciated in value.
In 1860-65 the principal hotel in 'Frisco
was the Grand,' on Dupont -street,
which was built to accommodate 300
guests ; to day it is tenanted by 2000
Chinamen.- Their shops, restaurants,
theatres, joss houses, &e., are fitted up
and condUcted in the same manner as
thoess in the_ Flowery Kingdom ; their
costumes'are the same, and the decora-
tions are similar to those so lavishly dis-
played in the cities and towns of China.
We got a guide to take us through the
of `blinded Justice' we met on the -train
In the war between the North and the
South the private soldiers must have
shown an amount of bravery unsur-
McLEAN BROS. Publishers.
1)1.50 a Year, in Advance.
day afternoon of last week left her home
and proceeded down to the village of
Sparta. She did not return that night,
and the people with whom she boarded
passed in the history of the world ; : thought she had stopped with a neigh -
doubtless they fought till they were all
but exterminated, for those who were
left to return home to tell the tale were
nearly all officers—and colonels at
that ! H. S. H,
bor. The next day, however, it was
found such an opinion_ was not correct
and a searching party was organized, by
whom, late that night, her body was
discovered on a neighboring farm.
Death resulted from exhaustion.
—Albert Piper, who is employed by
Mr. Wm. Anderson, of East Zorra, Ox-
ford county, met with a • painful acci-
dent Tuesday morning of last. week.
While drawing some material to the
bush preparing for sugar making, he
was knocked from thewagon,the wheels
of which passed over his body, with the
result of breaking two ribs and serious-
ly injuring the liver. He is in a very
precarious condition.
—Hart and Mastereton the two men
who were a couple of weeks ago tried
and found guilty of burglarizing Mr. A.
Laing's store in Wyoming receutly,came
up before Judge Mackenzie for sentence
• the other day. Theformer was given
five and a half years and the latter five
years in the penitentiary, Kingston.
Sentence was suspended on the charge
of threatening to shoot the constables.
—It is gratifying to know that in•
creased attention is a being paid to the
valuable work doneby the Mechanics'
Institutes in Ontario. While we had
139 of these institutes in 1887, we had
159 in 1888, 179 in1889, and 215 in
1890, an
increase in their number during
the
last Parliament of 76 or 54 per cent.
The amounts granted to these institutes
were, during these years, as foliows:
1887, 26 107 ; 181 , $29,890 ; 1889,
$31,428 ; 1890; $32,252.
—Reports of a fodder famine in
Prince Edward Island have been cor-
roborated. Hay sells at about three
times the usual prig, and many have
resident of Moncton, New Brunswick, fed seed potatoes and, grain. Soms have
building a Methodist church at his own cut brush in the woods for the cattle,
and one farmer at Hope River was re-
duced to the glee,nings from stable
manure. After an unsuccessful search
for hay a farmer at Hunter's River went
behind his barn -and killed his horse and
cow and other seven head of cattle.
—Wednesday, last week, as Arthur
Driver, of Harwich„ about four miles
iron) Blenheim, wat getting out his
horse he was severely; kicked in the face,
badly fracturing the upper jaw and cut-
ting the face considerably. Another ac-
cident happened the ►same day at the
Erie and Huron station Blenheim.
While coupling cars Edward Hardacher
got caught between the cars. He got
the third finger oflhis right hand cut
off and the hand 1 badly cut and
Bruised,
Canada.
Over four hundred settlers arrived
in Winnipeg on Friday last.
—The ice in the St. Lawrence at
Monteeal is breaking up.
—A special census shows Montreal's
population to be 211,302.
—There are now 21 religious orders
for men established in Canada.
—Warden Bedson, of Stoney Moun-
tain Penitentiary, Manitoba, has been
superannuated.
—The Hamilton Bakers' Association
has decided to raise the price of bread
from ten cents to eleven cents a loaf.
—Mr. Laurier has written to a Mani-
toba local Liberal, saying he hopes 80011
to visit the Northwest.
—It is reported that the Grand Trunk
Railway work shops will be removed
from Belleville and Brockville and con-
centrated at Kingston.
—Mr. Olds, traffic manager of the
Canadian Pacific Railway, estimates the
grain export for the Northwest for the
past season at 16,000,000 bushels.
—During the pest quarter there were
566 failures in Canada against 532 for
the corresponding quarter last year, and
269 in.Ontario againist 315.
—R. E. Millard & Co.'s machine
shops and foundary at Three Rivers,
Quebec, were burned on Tuesday night
of last week. Loss between $7,000 and
$$,000.
—George R. Sangster, a wealthy
B k is
above the bay.
the Cliff House
hotel built mos
tion of day via
the are 20 feet
wit
hall
sho
red
roc a seem to
to lace, swim
has ing in t
liv here year
ing
the
ing
gra
we
Oar Millinery Goods are all of the
very latest styles. Inspection Solicited.
Hoffman & Co.,
CHEAP CASH STORE,
ONT.
Below Su ro Heights 18
; a fair-sized, two-storey
tors. ,Large verandahs
e water at each story;
wide and provided with
refreshme t rooms, ars and dining
. In front, about 400 yards from
e, are the Seal Rocks where hund-
of seal ma be seen every day. The
be alive with them—
sides, sliding from place
ing about in the frothy
new comers, or lazily
e sun. These animals
fter year, never desert -
the rocks, and never disturbed—for
ri
Governme t protects them from be -
molested. Their color is a dark
when they are wet, but when the
is dry it is a tawny yellow. All
long they keep up an unending row,
ing and i -oaring as though they
e about to ear each other in pieces.
Sometimes tw or three young seals,
by a fat old se lion, will proceed to at-
tack him, cra mg their necks, barking this drug -fumed creature ; the mouth
and snapping t him till, for the sake of agape and the lips drawn back from 'the
peace, the big fellow would roll off the yellow teeth ; the half -shut, bleary
ledge and plui1me into the sea, splashing eyes, glazed and death -like ; the gaunt,
up on the grey_ rocks. scantily clothed figjure, and the sallow,
bony face—more like a skull than a
human countenance !
These opium cellars are off the streets,
and reached by way of dark passages
and narrow alleyways between buildings
occupied by the very lowest orders of
the Mongolians. When we were com-
ing away we niet two policemen bring -
been set upcin by hoodlums ; and then
there was a fine row 1 It seemed as
though the stones in the walls and the
planks ef the sidewalks and balconies
had suddenly turned into Chinamen ;
heads were poked out of windows and
doorways, and a long proceasion follow-
ed the victim and his not too tender
guardians ; each man giving his own
version of the affray at the top of 'his
voice, demonstrated with:an amount of;
hand flourishingehead shaking and spit -
bending, are ' ornamental enough and
nice to ook at,—if you have the nerve
to take hat liberty with the latter ; but
they a e not satisfying to e hungry
stom,ac ; and the impudence of some of
these otel servants is something
astounding ! If tourists traveling in the
States ould patronise good second-class
hotels t ey would find more comfortable
quarter and receive better treatment
than th y get at the great cheerless
'palace the American is so fond of
boastin about—when he is away from
home.
THE S ORES ANI) THEIR. DECORATIONS.
The shopkeepers here know how to
display their stocks to the beat advant-
age. S me of the furriers' windows are
arrayed to represent scenes from the
wild w ods or mountain fastness, where(
in are tuffed animals—bears, wolveie
psnthe and smaller game ; the florists
end fru terers show flowers and berries
growin on the bushes—picked off only
when. s Id ; in the greengrocers' shops
the veg tables are placed on blocks of
ice, loo ing cool and fresh ; and the
windo s of the confectioners present all
sorts cs tasty temptations in the way of
cakes a d candies, which are as bread
and m at to the average American
young ady. But, perhaps, the,, most
attract ve show windows are those of
the je elry stores ; there is one in par-
ticular called the Diamond Palace '—
where here is a perfect blaze of precious
stones ncngold and silver work of equis-
ite des gm On the walls and ceilings
size figures of Esetern beauties,
s and princes, painted by good
; and the jewels decorating the
es and in the crowns and sword
e teal ? This pretty conceit is
anged ; the gems being set and
stened to the wall with cement ;
Lawrence. It is believed that although
large quantities of liquor were seized
from time to time last season', a good
deal of contraband spirits are concealed
in outof the way places along the gulf
coast. The island of Anticosti is thought
to halve been extensively !used as a
" caching " ground by the am.uggler s,
and a couple of custom house officers
hate Ijust been sent from Quebec to seize
one lot of 200 gallons of smuggled
whisky known to be secreted there.
—A large number of persons have left
Listowel and viciniuy for Manitoba and
other points west during thearecent ex-
cursions.
—At 2.20 o'clock on Wednesday
morning of last week the pawn store of
George Maurer,Teeswater, was discover-
ed to be on fire, the flames having made
considerable headway.. The fire reels
and hook and ladder company were soon
on the spot, and completely deluged the
burning building, and in about 30
I
minutes the fire was under control. The
stock and building are badly injured.
The efficacy of the water works in con-
fining the fire saved Schumatker's hotel
on the one side and the post office on
the other. Mr. Maurer has an insur-
ance of $1,000 on stock in the Perth
Mutual, and $1,000 in the Economical.
The building was owned by Mr. Thomas
Had wen, of London.
—The sum of $100,000 is required to
complete the great Roman Catholic
cathedral on Dominion square in Mon-
treal, and to assist in raising the fund a
grand collection of paintings will be
shown at the cathedral from May 1 to
16. The pictures to be shown are the
property of Dean Wagner of Windsor,
and comprise many famous paintings.
The display will be made the occasion
for a grand ceremony, which will be _at-
tended by Archbishop Fabre and all the
clergy of the diocese. It is hoped to
hold the first service in the cathedral on
May 18, 1892, which will be the 250th
anniversary of the celebration of the first
mass in Montreal.
—Cote'St. Paul, near Montreal, was
visited ori Saturday last by the largest -
fire that place has ever seen. At about
2.45 o'clock one of the night workmen
at Godin's hat factory noticed that a
fire had broken out in the rear of Duffy
and Hutchins' fileand spring works.
He immediately gave the alarm, and
the whole neighborhood was aroused
from its slumbers. The only fire ap-
paratus the place can boast of is a hand
fire engine, and that was as soon as
possible put into action, but the fire had
gained such headway that in spite of
the efforts of the local fire brigade the
buildings were completely burned to the
ground. The building, plant and stock
were worth about $30,000, with only
$1,000 insurance in the Western on the
plant. The stock was valued at about
$15,000.
—Last Sunday morning Mrs. Dul-
mage, wife of Mr, Wm.. Dulmage, gro-
cer, at the corner of Queen street and
Pape avenue, Toronto, went into the
stable connected with the establishment
to feed the horse. As she did not soon
return M r. Dulmage went to look for
her and found her lying under the
horse's heels, badly wounded from kicks
of the animal and unconscious. Even
while she was being removed the ani-
mal gave another vicious kick with both
feet. Mrs. Dulmage was carried into
the house and two doctors were sum-
moned to her assistance, when it was
discovered that the bones of her left
cheek were crushed and her right arm
and right leg and several ribs were
fractured, besides several wounds on the
scalp and about the body. So serious
are her - injuries that recovery is
doubtful.
—One of the oldest and most respect -
citizens of Guelph passed away on
Tuesday morning of last week, in the
person of Mr, A. A. Baker, clerk of the
Divisional Court. He came to Guelph
expense.
—Itev. Alexander McGillivray, of
Brockville, has accepted a call from
Boner Presbyterian church, Toronto,
and will move to that city about the 1st
of May.
—Mr. E. E. Shilton, of Montreal, who
died recently left the bulk of his fortune
to the mission fund of the dioceson synod,
Church of England. It is supposed to
amount to about $250,000.
--George Fisher, proprietor of the
station hotel at Bowmanville, fell dead
while going down stairs about 1 o'clock
Saturday morning. Apoplexy is sup -
\posed to have been the cause.
—The vital statistics for March for
the city of Brantford were : Births,
41 ; marriages, 3, and deaths, 7. The
mortality rate is remarkably low, in that
*city and there have only been 27 deaths
this year.
—Mr. Van Horn says, that the
recent deal of the Canadian Pacific Rail-
wey in the States will not affect the con-
struction of the road through Wood-
stock.
—Mr. da.cob Schneider, of New Ham -
burgh, who has been confined to the
house for the past 12 or 14'years on ac-
count of sickness, died on Sunday last,
aged 70 years and ten months.
—D. C. Ferguson, photographer,
convicted of attempted crimnal assault
on little girls at Halifax, was last Week
sentenced to two years imprisonment,
and to receive 40 lashes with the cat -'o -
gentleman who has travelled ex-
tensively throughout Ontario is author-
ity for the statement that both fall
wheat and clover have wintered safely,
and that the outlook is most hopeful for
good crops.
—Two sisters of Rev. A. H. Scott, of
the spray ing
From the Cliff
can see every
picture ; and paople sit
gazing throug field gl
scopes at the trange sp
IN.NOCENSE AND
for miles ; anff below the Cliff it is a
favorite rel!ort for bathers—or rather
' paddlers." Here, in warm weather,
young ladies imay be seen wading about
water, o chasing the re -
to be ch aed in return by
breakerel; running along
ea sht5re, or lolling, au
e sun baked ridges, where
lite and dty, and the little
shioned with soft grass.
House verandah visitors
movement in this moving
here for hours,
see and tele-
ctacle.
HE BATH.
in the ripplin
ceding waves
the incoming
on the hard
the sand is w
hillocks are c
tufts. There is an lexhibition of high
spirits—and:thigh dresses—that might
shock some of our prudish maiden's at
home, for thre nymphs are not averse
then f
the br'lliant effect produced by the elec-
tric li ht on the clusters of rubies, dia-
monds opals and emeralds can hardly
be des ribed.
TI E YANKEE -WYE FOR TITLES.
By he way, there seems to be a mul-
titude of 'palaces' in this democratic
where 'all men are equel ;' one
would think the high sounding name
would
princ
publi
thing
rnens
the t
house
the r
man
shoul
of `ti
sayin
lieve
true
certa
lieve that every second town in the
Stat was a militarY station, and the
othe s university town—from the num-
ber o Ttofessors and 'doctors' ; not to
of the cognomenal representativea
be too suggestive of the abodes of
s and royalty to find favor in re -
an eyes ; but ne, they appear 'te
t in emblazoning the word on any -
from a ehebby gin shop to an im-
, barn -like hotel. In Australia
m is commonly limited to coffee
, but here nothing short of 'pal-
ust express the gorgeous glitter of
lway sleeping cars and the river
boats. And' where there are so
palaces it is but natural that we
find a corresponding exuberance
led' individuals ! There is an old
which tells us we should not be.
hslf that - we hear ; and if we
d to our sense of hearing only we
nly should have been led to be -
—The eattle exporters of Montreal
are in a despondent iframe of mind.
Tuesday's cables sho*-that cattle are
selling lower in Glasgew than Chicago.
The trade is awaiting1the arrival of the
proofs of the bill drafted by the Govern-
ment for the regulation of live stock
export. As soon as they arrive a meet-
ing of exporters and shipping men will
be held and concerted action taken, The
syndicate recently formed appears to
have agreed to force down the rate of
freights, and a combivation of forward-
ers is talked of to operate against it.
—Detective Carpenter, of the Canad-
ian Secret Service, Montreal, Tuesday,
last week, made a most important an -
rest at Hamilton. Some five years ago
Hamilton Young, a well-known citizen,
skipped out from Hamilton, after com-
mitting forgeries on the Merchants'
Bank to the exterit ef some $30,000. He
has since- been a fugative in the States,
and has travelled all over Mexico. At
varioustimes information has been re-
ceived of his whereabouts, but he has
Perth, are in excellent health and with always managed to give the detectives
Mr. and Mrs. Begg in the city of Huei the slip. He finally turned up in Ham -
Che Fu and Huei, China, and are the
'Only Christian missionaries in a popula-
tion of 1,000,000 souls.
—Admiral Sir Provo Wallis, who was
Captain Broke's lieutenant in the
famous Shannon -Chesapeake battle, will
be 100 years old btt the 12th inst., and
Halifax friends are preparing to present
him with a piece of plate on that day.
—Attorney General Martin will re-
tire from the Manitoba Cabinet at the
end of the present session of the Legis-
lature and will be succeeded by Mr.
Clifford Sifton. He will still retain his
seat in the Legislature and will continue
to support the Government.
—On Friday last young man 19
years of age, named David Teeter, a
switchman employed on the Grand
Trunk railway at Sarnia, while drawing
a coupling pin was dragged under the
cars and terribly crushed from the
trunk down. He died in a few hours.
—Some $16,000 worth of smuggled
whisky was sold at public auction Friday
morning at Quebec. It would have been
better had• the Government, under
whose direction the sale was made, and
who received the money, poured it out
and used it to fertilize the soil.
—Dr. Brown of Chesterville, in the
course of his vi:ledictory -on behalf of
the graduating class, delivered at the
McGill Medical School, Montreal, on
Wedneeday of last week, applauded the
decision of the faculty in refusing medi-
cal education to women. He said, let
them receive their medicel degrees else -
ting that was truly alarming ; wnile apes
ilton again, and was arrested by Detec-
tive Carpenter.
—A peculiar fatality Was reported ' in 1835, and about 1840 was appointed
last week from Butternut Bridge, about clerk of the Court of Requests. That
20 miles from Moncton, New Brunswick. Court was succeeded in 1841 by the Di -
A boy of 13 years was found hanging vision Courts, and Mrt_Baker was con -
to a clothes line strangled to death. A tinned in office, his service covering over
team coming in, the line was hoisted np fifty yeare. For nine years he was clerk
to permit the bortes to pass under it, of the District Council of Wellingtou,
and it is supposed that the tad, who and was the first clerk of the school
was playing near py, became entangled commissioners there. He was the first
in the rope and Was suspended in mid- President of the Horticultural Society
air. The accident was not noticed at formed in 1851, and in 1852 was instru-
the time, but when search was made for mental in forming the Guelph Township
the boyby his parents se few hours later Agricultural Society. In the discharge
he was found dangling on the line a of the duties of his office he was most
corpse. exact, punctual and methodical, so
—A narrow escape from drowning oc- much so that it is said that the Inspec-
carted to James raylor, of Elarriston, tor rated the Guelph office the best kept
on Monday of last week. It appears in the Province. It is a well-known
that a jam of ice formed at the break- tett that before regular Division Court
water which threatened the destruction forms came into use Mr. Baker's were
of considerable town property. At the taken as models, and many of the pres-
risk of his- life, Mr. Taylor proceeded ent forme are copies of his. Ile leaves
to break up the jam. He was in the act no family, and was in his 79th year.
of pushing off a large cake of ice, using —Another terrible murder, the result
s long pole, when the pole slipped and of bad blood between neighbors, was
Mr. Taylor went headlong into the committed in the county of Middlesex
river. He struck out boldly for the on Saturday. The tragedy took place
other shore, where he arrived in safety, on the farm of Mr. John Gearey, 5th
having to swim through % great mass of concession London Township. M.r.Gearey
floating ice.
has a large dairy farm, and he had
--Some weeks ago the tailor shop of working for him two men named Charles
Mr. Vanderhart, of Berlin, was bur- Hodges, aged 65 years, and -Ben Hub-
larieed and about $20'3 worth of goods bard, aged 35 years. These two men
carried off. On Fridey last word was had a quarrel during the afternoon, and
received from Port Huron that Wm. are said not to have been on speaking
Donbrook, hailing from Berlin, Who was terms for about a year prior to that
day. Half an hour after the first quer-
bard walked toward the platform and
ascended it. A scuffle ensued, and Hub-
bard fell to the ground. He died in a
few minutes from a severe'wound in the
region of the heart, evidently inflicted
by a knife. The vest and two shirts
had been pierced, and_ the Cut WM It
inches long. As nearly as can be learned,
nobody was near at hand when the affair
occurred, although a young son of Hub-
bard SAW his father fall and gave the
alarm. Hodges was immediately ar-
rested and is now in London jail. Hub-
bard leaves three or four children and a
widow, while Hodges has a wife and
one child.
where, but not from McGill. serving a sentence there for smuggling
have received word t at Charlie Coma- goods, confessed to having taken t em
from Mr. Vanderhart's shop. He stated
—The police aut rities of_ Montreal
dine,known as the terror of Griffintown, that Adam Hett, of A1erlin, was impli-
was killed at Trenton, New Jersey, his cated in the burgled% Donbrook also
that he had committed an assault on a confessed to the detective thet, he had a
head being cut off by a train. It appears
. hand in the burglary of Mr. Hall's
little girl at Rutiand, and was being 'store, Hawksville, 4orne months ag .
taken to the penitentiary to serve a
fourteen -year sentence, when he jumped After his term is up he will be brought
from the train and was run over.• to Berlin to give evidence against Hett.
Almost all the goods were recovered.
•
—Sarah Higson, of Sparta, a maiden
lady aged 80 years, who lived in that
neighborhood for over 50 years and who
was a most highly respected resident,
has joined the silent majority, and the
circumstances connected with her desth
are very sad. Her mind recently be-
came affected through sicknees, and
while in that conditition she on Mon -
—The custom officials at cie ec a
reported to the department at Ottawa
the seizure of three schooners, the Vaga,
the P. Fcrtin and the Ann Prudence.
All three vessels were engaged in the
extensive liquor smuggling business,
which was carried on last fall between
the French island of St. Pierre and
various other outports of the lower St.