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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1891-05-08, Page 1-7777 y assorted lust. Se WIDERY; Si 40SIERY, ATEEI48 1* jaf .0THING. our Stock of ' fateriata very king a special: reFaul, 1. gemiassamensisaes aucceeded jn the aperture. °mild have been ihirt and pantie and he wag- e body, but it iously injured. a lot of seed roduce, all of •tunately none colt wait in the the cat wasthe le barn was a-, Mr. Scott will 'standing that a the Howick anitely known nit it it supposa spark blown hetitie. WS AND- SHOES. he Boot and Shoe trge Stock of Dry e stock at cast for depend. on getting - Ina in Boots' and As our Stook ia. ind has beep lately ot do better than iiine Clearing Sale. 4 -and, Shoes. CoAD, lea -4 n. Bell, of this - as farm on the to Mr. W. J. 2,400. It con - it good frame [leht condition. od farm at et - )12 Wednesday , large number old and young, t it appliee to _ f being old,boya. en seen hurry - hit clinch about r p. m., and an outsider oslc, would be, commotion and s. and to which tat one of our- lrprising young person of Mr. [ firm of Coed, son of Silinuel. bachelor life - ,11 ship of Hay, artner in the haprnan, third. an, Esq., of the ho is held in very large cir- modicia church_ ell wishers' and 5 ohnockthe ed the happy ceremony, by - made to beat, Buchanan, of Hay, and. slater of the id. and grooms- nded, the happy- _ y congratulated ood wisheit are• y they will be i of thia we have couple are both:. al, happy disp0- 1111Fell, the newly - td to the rest -- ran, the brideto ) joined by their - at evening was- cial, enjoyment. ie took his bride nd we heartily` natty friends in. 'Anis and pleasure. ker, late pastor - ere, has moved end, New York tif returned home - ie Michigan, but Berne Junction, will•nrermain in ter.---ellr. Chris- th coticessiotawas gan by a telegram Krusbe, a the guest of Mr. returned home on lasters, of wa- bier a flying visit doltzman left last where he will nan, as- carpenter. .miss Bere—Mr. tet dowe his olit r the new barn he TWENTI-THIRDI YEAR. WHOLE NUMBER 1,221. BLACK HO As in season's past, 13Iack Hos and Children will still be popul been a good deal of annoyance coming out, but we have secure Germany, which are said to be guaranteed really Fast Black. have bought in ali sizes and in so as to be able to supply them all througla tbe season. The pi Chrildrens' size at 10e, 12e, 14e, the Ladies' size will be 26c, 30c, These are goods that are sure to faction, so please bear in mind find them. • Edward SEAFORT Seaforth Chea We have on hand a la TINWARE, OURY OOMBS BRUSHES BRO Which we are selling dies We have the beat and cheape found anywhere. Remember t Campbell's Block, Seafosth. McDonald & Auction Sale on Saturday off IERY. jN0t0B from tho Que ery for Ladies . There has out the color a line from inless, and are ese goods we rge quantities, • our customers e will run for fic, 18c, 20c, and 5e, 40e, 45e, b0c. give you satis- here you will e Fau Store1 e line of MS, &Cali for Cash. Goods to be e place. No. 1 Menzies. rnoons. 1221 West Wawanosh. • VARIET1ES.—Owing to the very favor - Ole weather almost all th ts farmers in this neighborhood are thrciugh seeding very early, which will ad greatly to the number of bushels w le , threshing time comes.—Mr. Joseph 1evereattx and his two sisters left lest we k for Miohi- gen. We wish thennevery-sniainess pos- sible in their new hostieee—Mx Thomas Cummins has erected a v fine driving house this spring. The 5 itletbrothe4 were the workmen employ d.—A wee age last Sunday, three young men whose names I will not g've, althong they deserve publishing, started fo Bethel church, and on the'r way wen into the school on the te th line an pasted the blackboard wit eggs. The procured the eggs from a unoccupied farm near by.—The Bet el Methodist church Is going to be re -b ilt this -se - son and veneered with briek, which wi I make it equally as good ah a ,new on . They expect to have it coinpleted about the first of July.—A new library has been added' to the Donnybrook Sunda School. It consists of a very fine colle tion of books, and wal be very beneficial to the scholars of the school. I • Toacem, M That high-tonxI institutio Canadian Yacht Club has times over its annual electio didates for com Gaw, proprietor and Mr. Bored city, and a p everyone known, through prosperity. quite a dore wer f the Que , an ex -Ma minent la the club protest was le.e,t week enter° against the return of Mr. Grieve, P. for North Perth. —Owing to the advance in the pric of flour the Mitchell bakers have raise the price of bread to seven cents for two -pound loaf. —The formal inauguration of the Stratford hospital took place on Thurs- day. The Hon. J. M. Gibson, Provin- cial Secretary, preformed the opening aervices. —The Merchants of Mitchell have made an arrangement whereby their places of business will be closed at seven o'clock every evening except Sat- urday. —There is a young lady, the daugh- ter of a wealthy farmer of hiornington, who has not slept without medicine for two years. She has not closed her eyes in sleep for several months. It is a most remarkable case and puzzles the skill as the Toronto Club; where credits the mem any nominee for his money in tra not can only be nautical riff-raff n City. 4th, 1891. , the Royal had pleat . The can - Mr. Me- n's Hotel, or of the yer. As is getting, grandiose wn gossip era with lack balling embershi • who earns Le, whether rightly or conjecture.. . To the ho, it is rue, know more about punt e and spri -sails than they do about s limps and cut ern can be trued the rum that A. R. Boswell, Esq., was elect$i by 74 majority out of a possible 368 v tee, merely because he was a profession 1. The committee to assist Mr. Bosw ll is a good pne, and in- cludes Mr. A. . Jarvis, Ithe sailing wiseacre of Ha iltein, who, y the way, thinks of worsh pping his la es and pen - &tea in the Que City. A GOOD ¥IEILD FOR MIN4TER1AL .. OTIVITY. Our Ministe ial Associa ion has a great name for progressive hought and action, and they have a perfect right to it so long a�H they condemn certain methods by so -celled newspaper enter- prise. A morning paper, by way of ad- vertisement, has been holding an elec- tion as to the mest popular cliyine in the City, promising to pay the successful one's expenses far a Europe n trip. As soon as the Ase (nation heard of it gene- ral condemnati n was given the scheme, and they very i idly decide to .recog- nize no such "1 ke." Ther have also deliberated late y on the evils of danc- ing, end the die tendon ended there, as e , If it has in all fill d continueto rest. er instancies, and there is where it sh the Ministers e really, Searching for gate, a 'promi9 crusade would be 1 against the fre thinkers,ttho for many Sundays have been holdhig crowded meetings in a 4wntown theater, and interspersing t ir services with orches - ii tral and vocal elections tom popular coMposers. H re is a fiel upon which the eriuisters s ould ante with their eleevesoolinei . None o them likely have vieiterthe locality o gaze with horror upon the liundrecla f young peo- ple who stro going to take ei free -thought Sabbaths, thos would confer a avor on n by making the unday ev emcee more an par with week -days. , A CHU CH DISR•C TION . This brings tl mind the fact that the welfare, safety and hono ' of the con- i gregation of . James' Cathedral is considered by me, at resent, in a perilous way. 1 At the an ivereary ser- vices of the St. George's Society, held the other Sand y, oertain of the women members of the choir ere indiscreet enough, so they say, to appear in sur- plices, an act directly in contravention to the spirit of the congregation, which seems to be 'nether high nor low, inas- much as a surediced male choir is allow- ed to be one of the otsthedral's attractive features. It 4 to be hoped that the hard things being said Will all be re- tracted and th worshipers become again united in true hristianlbrotherhood. the hands of the rural embe Legislature the other inght, a combine. The undert kers -compelled to practice th ir art bill itself. SUGAR BEAT ISING. The Minister of Agri ulture has an- nounced that a series of ,experiments with sugar -beat raising, extending user several years past, had demonstrated that the beet can be grewn successfully in Ontario. One crop last year 2 yielded 26 tons to the acre, the average yield was 20 tons per are. I Official's Salaries. xPosnoit..) u changed one have r ad : "It 1hiIergymen are y• notice Of thitie sign_ of oroachmetit upon our in charge of the theater t only a few ning perform - those. of the EAFORT in the ho smelt ave been pon the SENATOit . MITH'S R T1REMENT. ci , The Hon. F lank Smi h was given a Itianquet by th Grocers' Guild on Mon- day evening, t e occasi n being the re- tirement from USiD088 of the Senator. A remarkably ntereeti g and sociable event it prove . Mr. mith's remarks went to show ow his f giving up busi- pees was in vi w of hi having gamed of the raedical man, who te of Strat- "enough to g ve him bread and butter ford. for the rest of1 his days." He seemed —On'Saturday, April 25th, Albert proud to be able to ref4r to his military Thompson died at hie home, near Trow- career. He Went throiigh the rebellion bridge, aged 35years. Deceased was a son of John Thompson, lst concession of Elrna, and was a young man of much promise, but was attacked last fall by that dread .disease, consumption, to which he finally sta.:numbed. His wife died of the same disease about 13 months ago. The Right Place To a et Suited. Where you can get the best Goods for the Least Money. New Prints, New Sateens, New Shirtings, New Dress Goods, New Flanelettes, New Mantle Cloths, Also large Stock of Corsets, Ribbons Frillings, Laces, &c: of 1837 as a ceurier, b ing too young to shoulder a gun. • The white-haired Senator has seen a deaf of public life, having at one time been in Sir John Macdonald's (Pabinet. i He holds a bi interest in the Niagara i Navigation Com- - twiny, is president of te street railway, and is directoir in man of the payin financial coneerns in Toronto. Althoug his wealth is [placed bY many at a bi figure, the Senator is pot of the puree proud order. I He al ays is ready t give advice ; and e couragement t kes pride in telling tha big chi- ney at Mimic° e city, hich long year imself a laborers' wage leis &n41 without mime 0.4 others, and there stands in sight of t ago he built when, frien (Written for THE In my last letter y sentence, which should takes the savings of thr e faten re to sup- port the smallest, and 400 to support the largest drone I in the Government hive." Skilled and unekilled labor and ught into ion. The Into corn- oth civil - the mar - businesses of all kinds the keenest kind of c products of our farmer petition with the produ ized and uncivilized ria he sterted o t to nake his million Toronto, without Senetor Smith, woul have not been quite ito progressive. El has always been what he most liked t be called—a model citizen. THE COMI G TEACHERS' CONVENTION. Prospects all point to satisfactor completion elf the arrengetnents for t • e big teacher& convention to be -held fro July 14th tcl July ldith. Different del gations have been allptted to the ten b hotels, and many St tes have yet to a nounce the number 4f their represent tives. Secretary H. J. Hill, who h s been borroWed fromithe Industrial E hibition bec use of iie executive knac ts says no matter how many thousan s come, he can put them -up and send th- away with e good taste in their , inout and a good word for Toronto hospitalit The pedagogues *ill see us at o best. A CANVIAN ME 'ICUS HONORED. I Friends clf -Dr. Daniel Clark, the ge ral superietendentj of the Provinc Asylum for.; the Insane, are glad to h of his e1ec4on at W shington the ot day to the resident'spchair of the Mc cal Superintendent'S Association. V tors to the !gloomy halls up Queen Str West invariably seek out the doctor Hoffman & Co., cicerone them about. . COMB1NEs NOT IN FAVOR. i CHEAP CASH STORE The Undertakers' Bill to establis College of i Embal ing and Orga SEAFORTHI . ONT. Chemistry, pet with a violent death i• re br mpeti come ts of ions in kets of the world. Canada, railways, buil& mills, factories or anymther gr takings,are all let by tender t est bidders. Such being the , sae, why should our Governments be Allowed to Our Millinery Goods are all o! the very *latest styles. Inspection Soliited. go, flour at under - the low - squander the people's wealth b ing double the amount of paying at least double the salaries, that either the circ of the country or the presen the labor market warrants th ing. Supply and demand reg bites the price �f every other eommodity,and why should it not regulate the salaries of all Government offielals ? • The fact that the hours are short, the duties tight, the pay sure, makes the number of appli- cants for positions about as num- erous as the mind on the sea shore. There is nothing to hinder.both Gov, ernments in securing all the help they want at $400, $600 and $800, or at the moat $500, $750 and $1,000 per annum. ments to in of the the main ade the the coun- employ- eip, and mopnt in laances te of m in pay - TTL 37 - . ur It is the duty of both Gover do this and to reduce the burd producers. Farming, which i soirees of wealth, must be most profitable occupation in try; before the country can be expected to become truly prosperoui. Young men Would then cease to leve the farm to become school teachers; government officials, doctors, lawyers; &c., neither would they be so read e to hear the call to preach the Gospel.. IIn fact, if this condition of things existed, the " calls " would all be to leave the overcrowded professions and overdone businesses and return to farming, the d, ource of wealth, and earn a good, honeet, profitable and, independent living, tivith the use of machinery instead of, as formerly, by the sweat of the body. FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1891. paper. -He appears to be a bern, bred and dyed in the wool Conservative, and no eff rt or argument however per- suasive or to change from the of his o he °tinge wheat; potetoes ; 10- [al ar er 11. 91- et to a ic at ours, &c., convineing could induce him his political creed. I say this act that almost within sight n home, there is a land where 12c. , per bushel more for his c. per bushel mortatfor his 5 to 10d• per bushel more for his oats,and barley and other farm pre - duce in pi °portion ; while on the other hand. he can purchase in that same country, ifor the maintainance of his family, granulated sugar for Go. per pound, c des cerr nearest 50c. per bargain REFORMER. • NOrth Dakota. (Written for The Expositor.) Twenty years ago lest December the first land was filed on for permanent settlement in North Dakota by Mr. Charles Cavalier, a native of Illinois, and who is still a residlent of Pembina City. This claim wai located at the confluence of the Red and Pembina riv- ers. The land k now :iart of ' and ad- joinjog the original town site of the city of Pembina. Note the .advancement : 1870, no eettlers ;189, 200,000 actual residents; 1870, no wheat; 1890, 35,- 000,000 bushels. Twenty years back- ward is short in tine, bat has been great in achievement, arid twenty years hence w_ho shall prophery its capabilit- ies, ite possibilities or its probabilities. The opportunities are as grand, the prospects are far brighter, the 'founda- tion of morality, education and thrift is Jaid, and an ere, of unparalleled prpgreas has already begun. As North Dakota is ether too large a field for the preien letter, I shall ; confine myself to Pembina county. This county comprises a traet of land about forty miles square, situitted in the .ex- treme north east cornerlef the State. It lies entirely within the limits of the Red River Valley, with the 'exception of an elevated plateau on the i western bound- ary, familiarly known as the Pembina Mountains. The county is well water- ed by the Tongue andI Pembina rivers, along the banks of which sufficient tim- ber abounds to supply the settlers with fuel for years to eome.i The principal towns are Pembina, the county eeat,and Drayton, on the eastern boundary : St. Thomas, Hamilton, Bathgate and Nacho in the centre, and Crystal, Cavalier and Walhalla on the west. The princi- pal industry is wheat raising, of which it is estimated there was about 4,000,- 000 bushels grown last Year. When -you consider that not over I one half of the land is under oultivatiOn the possibili- ties. of even this coniny ere beyond comprehension. The school lands be- longing to the State, located in this county, two sections id each township, are to be sold by public auction on the 27th day of May next, tothe highest bidder on the following tetms : Ooe- fifth of the purchase money cash, one- fifth on January let, 1896; one-fifth on January lot, 1901 ; one-fifth on Janu- ary 1st, 1906 and balance on January 1st, 1911. On ttthe first day of Janu- ary each year the purchaser must pay the annual interest at the rate of six per cent. on deferred payments. This is. an unparalleled opportunity for Incur- ing cheap land on easy terms and with small capital, flee for 25c., and other arti- spondingly low, while in his wn the coffee will cost him ound, and he must be a good driver i he gets granulated sugar for 9c. per und, Since pring opened large quantities of potat es are being shipped into this country torn Manitoba, notwithstand- ing the f ot that every carload costs the shipper in the neighborhood of $150 duty. arge quantities of wheat paes' daily o er the Northern Pacific Rail- way in unded 'cars, destined for On- tario points while a still larger amount is bond d through to New York, from whence it is Beet by steamer to the English market& I. F. LANDSBOROUGH. Pimp;, April 27 h, 1891. i - .The Northwest. - ODEAR EXPOSITOR.—I beg a epees in the columns of your . widely circulated journal o allow me to give you a leaf from le experience' of eight years in the Northwest. After seeing the Northwest and M nitoba te some extent, I pitched my te t on Section 16, Township 21, Range 0, 640 agree in Eastern Assina- boia. landed in the Northwest in the wring f 1883, and from that -time up to the pre ent I have watehed each season careful y, With a view of arriving at a conclus on as to what the country is best adapte for, and the conclusion I arrive at is th s: Not another mixed farming countr offers so many 'advantages as the di tricts of Leslie and Pheasant Forks. We can grow in the Northwest Territo ies from 30 to 40 bushele of wheat to the acre; barley, 40 to 50; oats, 7 'to 90; potatoes, 400 to 500, and turnip,700 to 1,000. All kinds of roots d well. We aye abundance of wild fruit, such as plu s, saskatoons, gooseberries, cran- berries cherries, red, black and white curran s etc. We cart boast of exten- sive coal fields,combined with good water and wood. I often wonder how farmers in Ontario, and cost from $40 to $50 per n make both ends meet, or why to do so when, with little work oet no expense for land, they ise large crept in the Northwest. Stock clan be raised 50 Per cent cheaper than int Ontario. Aesiniboia farming is all done by machinery, and can be car- ried oil 50 per cent cheaper than in the Etna I Any one with a small capital and willingto work need riot fear coming to Leslie or Pheasant Forks, Eastern As- siniboit, where, upon a; free grant 01 160 acres, e can, in a short time, acquire the independence he never could obtain in Ontario. The N or thw est is one of the healthiest es on the globe, and pleasant to The snow is never deep and mimes hard or crusted, so the and sheep are able to get at the nd cattle run out and do well. is an increasing demand, at good for young men. 1 Female servants ' from $15 to 1$25 per month; e also scarce, and wages from 20 per month, according to age. whose acre, o they tr and al could r signed in Gillespie'. "You don't need to look will not find me. So go blame any 31 you, but m you and keep you in God be mercifuli to me. pie." Melancholy, the attack of la grit*, is au led to the unfortanate m —A child belbnging Langton, jr., of iMillgro ton, was drowned in a day, last week. 'It was the yard and felli in, and for some hours. —Mr. W. G. hepberl, B. A., princi- pal of the St. Thomas Collegiate Institi- morning from 8 following an . Shepherd was Middlesex, and ey arid Hunter itish Columbia, lanai= to On- eeke they spent expressed them - d spiritual bette- countr live in. never horses grass, The wages, receive boys a $10 to There Pis another pointito which I wish to call your attention, that is our school laws. !Three to five families settling in any lociality can demaxid a schooleand ood a system as there is in the Farmers should take note of d secure land in this country be - is all taken up. For the best time and what to bring, send your name 1to D. J. Cantelon, Leslie post office, Assiniboia, Northwest Territory. on let me say, anyone coming strength of what I have I never regret having done so. theiru s, Mr. Editor, for the space r vaable sheet. I remain, yours ruly,i . J. pANTYLON, Megistrate in and for the North- west -Territory. Canaida. ,20,00 extension to the Winni- ener4il Hospital will be built this coal mine of reniarkable richness orted to have been discovered in wnslIip of Kaladar, in the Kings- )ntaalio, district. andwriting :— for me, for you d -by. I don't ay God be with all your ways., —James Gilles - result of an posed to have anis suicide. to Mr. Robert ve, near Harnil- cistern on Fri - playing about was not mined tate, died last Thureda inflammation of the lun attack of la grippe. M a native of Adelaide, was in his 34th year. —Evangelists Cross have left Vancouver, B for Regina, and will so tario, During the five at Vancouver over 300 selves at having receiv fit from the meetings. —The Sabbatarians scandalized for some y ation of the Welland C have at last had their and hereafter this work will be closed fr Saturday until midnig —The_ Wingham Company, capital a Ontario Gas and Oil C composed of Stratfor stock $3,000,and the Company (limited), $3,000,- have been gazetted. —James MeGitin, year's term in the Ce ronto, escaped from t Thursday afternoon. in prison was admire privilege. He had fi serve at the time of h —Miss Leda, a living in St. Johns, N poor circumetences mother, has come int English estate worth the future will bear t Burns. After the co legal formalities Miss England to take fortune. —Little Edith, yo John Davison, real e wick avenue, Toron last Thursday in a ve She had been playin white beans, and, pu in her mouth it stu where it remained u withsteeding the effo to dislodge it. The a corpse in less than —The members of mons are divided by lows :—Lawyers, 58 merchants, 34; phys men, 12 ; printers lumber merchants, 6 ies, 4; contractors, 2 ars, 2; tanner, 1 ; owner, 1 ; surveyor machinist, 1 ; manuf employee, 1 ; not cla —On Friday Mr. Burns, of Thornbn funeral of a relative, 4 -year-old son Wilbn grandmother. The 011 31 world. this a fore it to com In conplusi west dn tb writt I wi Many in yo very A peg summer. is re the ton, • — the tried guilt on J — catio elde onto last. —Mr. 1'. Purcell, ex -M. P. for Glen- , died Friday at Annapolis, Nova a. H,e had been for many years a ay contractor, and was one of the wealthy men in the Province. He a native of Glengarry, --eThomals Mills, a man sixty-two, yea of age, died under peculiar circum- stances at - T Soho street, Toronto, on Seeding at present is pretty well ad- Wednesda , •last week.i The symptoms vanced, but owing to, several heavy winch prec ded death pointed to poison rains, progress has not been quite as as the cauee. rapid as it would otherWise have been. _ -÷Jamen Gillespie, one of the well The settlers, as a class, are quite jubi- kielwn dtizens of Innerkip, Oxford i lant over present prosv ate. the early coninty,S114 one of the wealthiest men of spring and copious rain fail being al- that district, has disappeared very rnys- most infallible indicatiens of a bountiful I teriously. It is feared that he has com- harvest. milked sui ide and that hie body is now I was very much sPrprised at the lying in o e of the little lakes in the tenor of your Snowflaa correspondent's vicnity of tbe village, The following letter in a recent isime1f your valuable is 4 copy :. arci se Larocque, who murdered cGo igle children last fall, was at L'Orignal last week, and found r. e was sentenced to be hanged ne 4h. on. , G. W. Koss, Minister of Edu- , -*as one of four inducted an of Oid St. -Andrews church, Tor - Rev. Mr. Milligan's„ on Sunday gar Scot mos was fl who havebeen are by the °per- iled on Sundays, esires gratified, mportant public m midnight on • t on Sunday. emperanoe hall ock $1,000, the mpany (limited), parties, capital arkhili Telephone capital stock incorporated and ho was serving a tral Prison, To - at institution last His conduct while le, and the offi- cers had of late conceded him every e months still to s escape. elderly maiden w Brunswick, in with her infirm posseesion of an 8,000,000 and in e title of Lady pletion of a few Ladds will go to • ossession of her f a letter that has been found McLEAN BROS. Publishers. $1.50 a Year, in Advance. system has been such that no hopes are entertained for his recovery. He lias no relatives in Cauada. His wife died some years ago, and of his two acme one is in New Zealand, the other in Eng- land. He is upwards of 70 years of age. —Frank Raynor, the 4 -year-old son of G. J. Raynor, who lives with his grand- father at 61 Steven street Hamilton, was terribly binned on Tuesday of last week while playing with matches. The child set fire to his clothes while playing in the yard, and in a moment was enveloped in flames. Mr. Raynor and Mr. G, Weir hastened to his assistance, and succeeded in smothering the fire with a mat, but not before the boy was badly burned about the face, arms and side. —George Forbes, a wealthy young farmer living near WaterclOwn, Went- worth county, committed suicide Satur- day morning by drowning. His body was found in a shallow millpond near his house. It was lying in three feet of water. Forbes was suffering from the effects of a severe sickness which afflict- ed him last year and resulted in the formation of a clot of blood on the brain. Recently he had complained of severe pains in the head and was suffer- ing from melancholia. He leaves a widow and three children. —About noon on Wednesday, last week, Mr. Redmond's large barn, vtest of the Grand Trunk Railway station, Iroquois, was burned. The hay barn contained about 100 tons of hay and about $2,500 worth of agricultural im- plements, the latter belonging largely to the Massey Manufacturing Cempany and Wiener, Son & Co. The total loss is about as follows : Hey barn, $1,300; hay, $600 ; agricultural implements, $2,500 ; other contents $500 • Mr. Stewart's house, ,5400 ; Dirs. Bradley's house, 5400; minor losses, $300. —James Fraser, a well to do farmer living on the town line of Adelaide, near Strathroy, committed suicide Saturday morning. He tore off the covering of the well On his own place and jumped in, sinking in about twenty feet of water. Hie wife saw him and gave the alarm, but before aid could reach him he was beyond help. He made an at- tempt to take his life six weeks ago by cutting himself with a razor. Deceased was married and about 50 years of age. He leaves a wife, two sons and three daughters. He was laboring under a fit of temporary insanity, having been somewhat deranged for three months pion —The Boissivain, Manitoba, Globe says: Wheat of this year's growth, measuring 41 inches, was left at the Globe office on Saturday, April 18th, by Mr. George Morton. It was sown on the 3rd of April, at Lake Max, a few miles south of Boissevain„ to test the germinating powers of a sample of wheat, and Mr. Morton is highly pleased with the result. What section of coun- try can beat this? Fifteen days from sowing we are able to produce wheat at inches in height. It would appear se though the soil in and around this dis- trict beats the earth for 'rapid and heavy growth. • —At Terrebonne, Quebec,Monday of last week, Prof. Lactose, the director of the Catholic College, and one of the pu- pils -of the college, were drowned. The two, accompanied bea another pupil, took a boat to cross to an island near by. Below the island is a d' am over which the current rushes withgreat force. When a little above this dam, one of the oars was lost and the boat became un- manageable and drifted into the cur- rent. The professor and' one of the pu- pils, named Courtenanche, from Wor- cester, were carried over the falls and drowned. The other pupil was saved by clinging to the boat. Prof. Lacasbe was a friar of the Order of St. Via - tent. —John Grant, a coal and wood mer- chant, whose place of business is at 144 Robert Street, Termite met with a very serious accident on Wednesday after- noon of last week. About 4 o'clock he called at a house cm Ontario street with a load of wood, and shortly after his arrival he was noticed running around the premises in a queer manner, with a wagon spoke in his hand. Suddenly be fell down and an examination at the hospital allowed that his skull was frac- tured. The horse was captured a few blocks away, and one of the wheels of the cart was damaged. No one saw the accident happen. —About 1 o'clock Saturday morning fire broke out in the North woods' ele- vator, Chatham, spreading with great rapidity to Tighe & Stringer's produce warehouse, both on the bank of tbe river. The fire brigade, was prompt in arriving, but the flames gained the mast- ery and burned furiouslrfor about four hours, reducing both buildings and their contents to ashes. In the elevator were about 3,500 bushels of wheat, a quantity of oats and two barley mills. Loss on buildings, $15,000 to $16,000 ; insured for $6,000. A quantity of beans, potatoes and peas in Messrs. Tighe & Stringer's warehouse were des- troyed. Loss on building about $1,000; fully insured. —A shocking fatality occur -red on Tuesday morning last at the home of Mrs. Dickson, St. Thomas, whereby 'her daughter' Mrs. Elizabeth Jones, met her deathby falling down stairs and breaking her neck. The deceased, who ngest child of Mr. tate agent, Bruns - o, was suffocated y singular manner. with a few small ting one of these k in the throat, til she died, not - tit of two doctors ittle sufferer was • f teen minutes. he House of Com- coupations as fol- ; farmers, 37 ; chute, 21 ; gentle- nd journalists, 9; • millers, 2; notar- ; coal mine manag- distiller, 1 ; ship - 1; banker, 1; cturer, 1 ; railway sified, 17. nd Mrs. Edward ry, attended the saving their little in the care of his ittle fellow, who was playing aroundhe yard, was last I seen about 1 o'clock. Shortly after this he was mimed, and o search being made he was found abo t 4 o'clock a few in a post hole con- es of water._ Life _ - witnessed a novel o University last when the large n with the steam ed and allowed to t was 117 feet high bricks. By the he huge pile was north, and, crash - and shrubberies, hundreds of pieces. ook place Monday r's saw mill, Seig- real. An old =- ammo, who was in saw, was thrown a failing beam and at he died in a very 4 lived at St. Cune- O w and six children or. an eleven -year-old etrie, druggist, of yards from the house taining about six inc was extinct. —A large crowd sight at the Toron Thursday afternoon chimney in connecti heating was underini fall into the quad. and contained 130, use of a jackscrew thrown towards the ing through pine tre and was broken into —A sad fatality afternoon in Shear nenr's street, Mon ploye named L. La charge of a circula agkinst the latter b mangled so badly t short time. Deceas gonde, and his wid will be unprovided —Thomas Petrie son of Mr. A. B. Guelph, bad the misfortune. on Saturday last to have the lar:e bone of his right leg broken. He a d other boys were playing• football oo Mr. Petrie's lawn. Thomas Was keepin goal, and his elder brother George, i attempting to put the ball through th goal, both kicking at the ball at the me time, missed the ball and kicked his brother on the right leg instead, with t e above result. —A telegram pu caning to have been sent by Mr. Frank armour, the missing station agent of Pr nceton, to Captain Williamson anent he mysterious dis- appearance of the g ntleman referred to, did much at the ti e to throw oil on the troubled waters, b t as the promises made in the teleg am have not been carried out, excitm nt is revived, and fears of foul play re freely expressed. It is thought th t the telegram was a fraud, and that help to deepen the mystery. —Senator Hayt ward Island, is ly the Grand Union not expected to li honorable gentle the opening of Pa well, on Friday take a hot bath retiring early. left the bath, and himself, he fain of the cold room he was discover I fainting, she fell head first to the land- ing below. The deceased was a daughter of the late John Dickson and was in the 3Ist year of her age. She was married some years ago to Mr.` W. H. Jones, of Grand Rapids, Michigan. —On Tuesday morning of last week the dead body of Richard Carrie, a London township farmer, Was found haugaig in the barn on his own premises on the llth concession of London town- ship, Oxford county. It was evidently a case of suicide, though no reaeon is known for the terrible deed. Mr. Car- rie had married his second wife about three weeks ago. He rose at his usual hour Tuesday, told Mrs. Carrie at breakfast that he was going away and might not be back for some time, and went to the barn, where he did his usual chores, nothing more being seen of him until his body was discovered as above stated. Deceased was a man in pros- perous circumstances, of pleasant dispo- sition and generally well liked by his numerous friends. —Me. Peter White, the new speaker of the Honse of Commons is a native of Canada, and was berm in Pembroke in 1838. Like most successful politicians, Mr. White began his public career in the municipal council, where he rose to be Reeve. lie first ran for Parliament. in 1872 and was defeated, but was elect- ed in 1874. ,His success was short- lived, however, as the fatal election petition unseated him and he was un- successful in the contest which followed. His opponent was next unseated, and ha January, 1876 Mr. White was again returned to Parliament, to which he hat been re-elected at each subsequent election. For ten years Mr. White has taken a prominent part in the pro- ceedings of the House, and has always occupied an independent attitudenhough always a Conservative. He is a lumber- man and is supposed to be wealthy. erne, of Prince Ed - ng dangerously ill at otel, Ottawa, and is e many hours. The an came to town for liament. Not feeling night, he decided to ith the intention of mmediately after he before he had dressed d and lay on the floor or several bours before d. The shock to the from the effects of the grip or suddenly —A startling discovery was made Saturday by Mr. Cameron, the jailer, at L'Original. In the cell of the condemnt ed murdereaLarocque,was found a blade of a penknife, sharpeeed to an edge as sharp as a razor's, which was concealed under the mattress of his bed. Although Larocque has been most well-behaved and good•humored since his conviction, it is plain that he had suicide in his thoughts and that he intended using the knife - blade with which to end his life. The blade was taken away and Larocque left without any means of self-destruction. He eats heartily and sleeps well, and seems little disturbed by the prospect of his approaching death on the scaffold. He has not as yet spcken any word of con- fession that he is goilty of the terrible crime for which he has been sentenced to be hanged. —Hon. Wilfred Laurier told a story in the House of Cominons the other day which is too good to be lost. In illu- strating the position of Sir John Mac- donald on the trade question he said The Premier would pardon him if he seid that the honorable gentleman re- in led him of a bat 'which one day had fallen among birds and the second day fallen among rate. - When among the birds it said, "Look ,at my wings; I am ons of your tribe ;" and when among the rats it said, "Look et my claws; I am one of your tribe." The honereble gen- tleman when among the farmers said, "Look at my wings 1 want to soar to - and when among nd especially the , " Look at my u, and I will leave wards reciprocity;" the manufacturers, monopolists, he Rai claws ; I am one of y you the people of thie country to prey upon." —The , eight-year old son of David Macdonald, tinsmith, died Wednesday afternoon, last week, at his parents' home, 548 King street east, Toronto, from the effects of injuries sustained by being thrown under Danforth avenue street ear and drag d several feet be- tween the cramped Wheel and the track. The evidence given sit the coroner's in- quest showed that the accident was no fault of the driver, ti,hose name is said to be Hempdon. Deceased was chasing another boy across King street, near St. Lawrence street, frctm north to south, and ramalmost into the horse attached to a west -going oar.. -The driver, who had his hands upon the brake, turned it at the same instant he laW where the boy was running, sed jerked the horse to one side. The boy, however, had been knocked under the *wheel, and his head, jammed betWeen the wheel and. the track, was pushed several feet with the oar. —Lest Friday afternoon the farm res-' idence known as Brockville house, situ- ated about one mile east of Slincoe, own- ed by Dr. C. H. CoVerriton, of Toronto, and occupied by Mr. R. Downing, iwas consumed by fire,, together with three barns epd contents, It appears that the family had keen cleaning up the yard, and a fire bad been built to burn up the rubbish. While they were at dinner the wind began blow ing, and carried the fire towards the woodshed, which was burning fiercely when first discovered. The fire had made Such headway that it was foundimpossilile to save the build- ing, so all met to work to remove the contents. While this was being done sparks were carried by the wind to the barn buildings which were very soon enveloped in a mass of flames. With much difficulty • the farming. utensils, hay and a quantity of horses and cattle were rescued, but the shoadme.beweneevkiizitihnagd grip for about a fortnight. About a a tbeenher imuotwheitrh's tfhoer grain were cons med. There was no, Insurance on the p operty. ' quarter to four in the morning her , brother, Arthur, heard her get up and —The young Ian who tried to murder start to go down stairs. He says he Mr. Dow, of Hibbert, and then set fire heard her go down two or tbree steps to bis barn, was tided by udge Woods last week, and sentenced to ten years in ofof uwhennbhdb eh hee iaas art, edt hyer lying,fall.i gbedHHe attiredj u lamp, n t op endy andoui at ousness of the crime, the fiend got off the penitentiary. ° Coneidering the heni- her night dress, at the bottom of the lightly. The judge promised to makes stairs. An examination allowed that special report to the Minister of Justice, the victim's neck had been broken by ig order that the boy's mind and tem - the fall. It is supposed that she got perament may be studied and suitable out of bed to go down stairs for a drink ;tenon taken as nil lightening or altering or for medicine, and that being dizzy the sentence, as the result of such study and examination May dictate. 4