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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1891-05-15, Page 11891. ODS. r **sorted just ;OIDERY; tOSIERY,,, ATEENEhr '01THING our Stook of- daterials verye 'king a apeciali ul, ne for himself an k a deep inter. tedto promote y. He had long. anicipid council, kis township in 1 was an active connection with y. He will be we regret ly wish himself , happiness end ae. In Mr.Hey- good and usefuli en/h. tibtie School In- eection Na. 9 os i.—Mies Jennie' lia Wylie were ing last week. -- Miss Maggie with 'friends in gie Freeborn, of Mrs. Fraser.— pleasant milk - on , his rounds - Ring your corres- bright flaming. the heaven" in a- h meeting wa& nal church some. tection of officers of the Sunday et meeting WEL kodiat churcli for dzing the Sunday officers for the- ir Day was ob- inner in School ifyirrie the school p the yard encl EMS. weather behix in being rapidly e through, while uish this week. S. B. Willia,nis nted front Lee -- lodge, to attend 24, at Londe:- next.—A Iawfl LEINVIODIR on ie ladle* of Lee - a taken thie mat - expect it to be a roceede go to help. debt—The Good lodge, instead of -pie ott the 24th, ticin to, one a.t• day is favorable end si very enjoy - tent and, Brothers,- gham. d, who had a sec - 'nation, is 'loins Jo Sisturday taste rr paid friends lit. A month ago, or that everybody` r- impossible. Al -- she isfast gain- , hope she will'in, ever.—Mrs i John la great sufferer alll [ion Saturday, 2ricv eorrawing husband etr. Consumptione teeth at the elixir , and Mrs. Murrar property they re - belonging to the [ana Mrs. Simpsont [ the house lately'. cIllwaine.—Mr. 'I:timidity morning'. i.riess and pleasure. his departure he lproperty from Mrs. We have not 'rice intends going. of Colborne, wh0. he funeral of hire. n friends in this lorninge Iast week, Of Dublin, was ate intuit mill, in Min- i becente frightened iitade straight for te market and rau hug store. As ther ide walk one of the- eiaught in an how minted the anima' h the plate OW 17;7'7- :7'74'77 • neente x newer; TWENTY-THIRD YEAR. WHOLE /1UMBER 1,222. BOY'S LOT HING. You should lo k through our Fine Assortment of BOYS' and YOUTHS' CLOTHING, _ - Almost all styles are there and nearly every price as well. Suite from $1. up. You can save mo ey with us. ' Call and see for yourselv . i Edwarc! M'Paul, SEA1FORTH. Perth Items. At a meeting of the congregation of Knox Church, Stratford, on Tuesday evening, last week, a call was extended to Rev. M. L. Lesichfrof Elora, to occupy the pulpit of that Church. —Another of , the old land marks, in the person of Mt. Christian Detwiller, of Motherwell, has been removed by death. Deceue4 had resided in the vicinity of Motherwell for about a quar- ter of a eentu y, and was much re- spected. —Mr. RichardOfferd, a carpenter in the employ of Mi Thomas Orr, of Strat- ford, met with a painful accident short- ly before three e'clock Monday after- noon, last week. I He was fitting screart doors in the store of Mr. D. MoEweni in that city, and laid a chisel on top of a step ladder. Afterwards he bad °c- eilidh!' to remove Ithe step ladder, and in doing so the chisel fell striking his left wrist and severieg an artery and two . veins. —Willie, second son of Wm. Living- ston, of Milverton, was trying his hand at amateur horsemanship, last Satur- day week, when the horse, usually 'a quiet one, Nicotine frightened at the rattling of the vtakgon and ran away, throwing Willie his mother was noonscious, and on ex. ;utWhen taken up by . amination it was found his thigh bone was broken qnite near the body. The fractured limb wts dressed, by a doctor, i and the little e fferer is now getting along as well as c uld be expected. --Alit Wednesd y afternoon, last week, i as Mrs. Sclster, f Nispuri, was driv- ing into St. Marlys, and when opposite the registry office her horse took fright and hotted. Mr. Solater was thrown from the vehicle ind was badly bruised. She was conveyed to Mr. J. W. Wood's residence andedictal aid summoned. The horse con inned its breakneck speed and turned into Water street, where it was capture& The buggy was wrecked. Fortunntely the lady sustain- ed little or no in nal injury. —The Milvert n correspondent of the Stratford Herat gives the following rticulars of thr e sad deaths in that milky : About two months ago Mrs. White, en, died t a middtling advanced age. Last week i er son John, aged 41 years, followed her to the silent tomb, and thie week we chronicle the death of Eliza White, an Unmarried sister, at the home of her brother William. Another irestence of the truthfulness of the say- ing, " Misfortunes do not come alone." John's funeral was arranged for Tuesday morning and his sister was then a corpse, having died Mondey night. - —On Friday n1gIt,1st inst., the dwel- ling house of Mrt John 'Holmes, in Listowel, was found in ., flames just after dark, having been ignited from the rear. An alartit was _sounded and the engine run up the hill. - Water was ob- tained from Lavan's well, but by this time the whole building was a mass of flames and theater supply was too limitedIv to oontro it, and the attention of the firemen as directed to saving Levant's building* (whit& was easily ac- complished. Mc. Atilmes had not regu. larly occupied hi" houre for some time, and the furniture viu gathered into one room. There wee a total insurance of about $3,200 on the building and con- k tents. The Right Place To 1 Get Suited, Where yoTit caii get the best Gdods for the Leastl Money. New Prints, New Sateek4s, New Sh n gse New Dress Goods, Nein Flanelettest INew Mantle Cloths, Also large Stoe of Corsets, Ribbons, Frillings, Laces, h.c. Our Millinery Goode are all of the 'very latest stylein Inspection Solicited. Hoffm4n & Co., CHEAP tASH STORE, SEAFORT ONT. A TWO BRITIS PUGET S JAUNT IN CO UMBIA AND SO D. (writtin for Ti is EXPOSITOR.) A favorab &news to my application fortwo wee off, an a tound pass to Kamloops, a ,rted e off from -West- minster on ebruary 2Ist via the East- ern Express, and ga e me a long -wished - for opportuety of g ing over again a part of the mach Pacific Railway, unparalleled for gra d scenery and diffi- cult and da gerous construction. The first part of he ran wascomparatively tame, until lassoing ver the Pitt mein down we ca'. e in sig t of the Cascade mountains; nearer d nearer we • drew to them unt 1 we we e hemmed in on both sides b their igh snowy crags. Very grim they 1 ok, towering high above ne, th cracks nd chasms loaded with snow nd ice, looking like the wrinkles an lines ought by time on the aged faq& of ture. We follow the Frazer 1irer wi hout much varia- tion until $v come to Hope Station. Across the river on li e south bank lies Mope villag , a mer hamlet, the Hud- son Bay Co any's rading poet being almost the nti plac of business in it outside of o e or o whisky dives. The village s at the oot of Hope Moun- tain, which, viewed rom the Canadian Pacific Rail ay, see s tot die almost perpenclicul rly fro the Over. Around the isase of his mo ntain front Hope rune the tra 1, about two days journey on horeebao , to a 'sdistrict of coun- try devote to ea tie grazing. The principal ra cher th re is . "Old man A." who, in the earl days of the Pro- vince, wand red it this corner of it, and eecogni 'ng its erits stayed there and took hi a wife from among the daughters o the for t, and as the years rolled by ra sed arou d him a numerous family of lit le half- reeds. Their name might very tly be o lled -Legion, both on the grou d of EU is bars and disposi- tion. Livi g away yond the utmost touch of civ lization hey have grown up as wild and anger° as the cattle they live amongst . The nly glint of civili- zation that ver rue them is when they come down as r as Hope with a band of horses or a rove of cattle to hand to the boat. hey usually stay then a day or two th re, spending the time in drunkenne• wantonness and mad gallopaiiing up nd down the little village. S perb h rsemen they are, and equally expert with revolver or lariat, and being u eckless as they are expert no one interfe ea with them dur- ing their brief stays. Leaving Iope, we come, after a nine mile run, to Yale, t e highest point of l navigation op the Fr zer. •Yale is a his- toric spot in` the ann le of British Col- umbia. Formerly p e distributing cen- tre of suppli a for th interior, the place was, before tho ad* t of the Canadian Pacific Railway,, WI vely apd brisk as It is now quiet an dull. More than half the house are nantless now, and the majorityof the opulace are China- men and Si ashes. Many tales are told r of the mad evels nd freaks of the miners who canna db n from Cariboo in and oting till 'the nes "i' the fall to lite thei hard-esrned dust in drunken fol- lowing spring, and ii ny a snug fortune passed from their ha. de into those of the saloon -keeper, d card sharper. Then the Canadie Pacific Railway, with its magic prase ce, transferred the business of dissribitt g to points both up -and down the lie and the glory of Yale becamh a th g of the past. " Ichabod " might v ry appropriately be engraved on the cliff of granite looking down upon the scone of departed life and wickedness, when th prodigality and vice of the old-timer was only equalled by their easy gen rosity and open- heartedneme. Just comirigeout 0 Yale the road en- ters upon th Frazer Canyon, one of the is longest in t e world and follows it over rock, =de rook, around rook and through reek, for er one hundred miles, the greater pa t of the time .olear above the river. At many points the track is simply a led e chipped out of solid stone wide eno gh to accommodate the train; Rot wide nough to 'allow a man to stand on the nter edge, should he meet a train, wit out sweeping him off into the Tiver a h ndred feet below; while overh ad dan le great boulders i climate - that give a hudder g suggestiveness; of calamity an No one eon tell, o even estimate, the numberofnhmelesii strangers who lost, their lives on this pa t of the vied dur- ing its construction. Strangers coming out in want of emplo ment were offered big pay to h ndle th pick and shovel; and bigger aj,till to h dle the hammet and drill. Vnacou8 emed to the hard- ships and rough fare many sickened and died, while the num er who met death by accident pan only be conceived of by those who rent thr ugh construction. Everything as don on a huge scale. Masses of to$k, requ ring 1 hundrede Id kegs of pow er to Of , were rent off the mountain .i4e and to Bed into the Hier below at a single bl, t. Men became as careless in the handl ng dynamite and Judson powder, wile e their own livee and their mates as w 11 were concerned, as the small oy wit a firecraeker or toy pistol. ittle w • nder if they soon became accu tomed o accident and. in- different to testh. Very little communi- cation was h d with he outside world. Those of the killed ho were not buried ID the debris of Born premature blind were hudd1 1 d into some convenient , crevice and c' vered ,, ver by the surviv- ors, if they ere " no Chinamen. The daily reportet never anie areund to find the facts and publish them, and no one was sufficiently inter sted in the fate of the lost to let it mak any more than a passing inipr salon 11 .011 him, knowing that the same fate eight be awaiting him, and as little th• ught be given it, and so the w rk wen merrily along. Before we each hi.Thomgon River, and part co any 'th the Frazer, we come to Ja keen ountain, where a • SEAFOR H, FRIDAY, MAY 15, 1891. mule immortalised his memory by gni- oiding in a fit of mulish spleen, kicking himself and cart Ioff the Itnperial road, during its o netretion, into the river a thousand feet b low. Thrilling adven- tures are told of all along this road, run - • a. it does f om Yale to Caribcio,fol- lowing the .out bank of the Frazer Canyon for five undred miles or more to its destination. I give you the experi- ence of Billy G as told nre bylhim- self, as neariy a possibie in his I own words ; "Nee, you can jest bet your woke its a mean road to travel, and I know it. There was one day I was or- dered by the bo a to take a load of Jud- son powder fr m Yale to Spence's Bridge. I had a light spring warn and about fifteen hundred of powder, me off I starts, takiid things essay and keer- ful so as not to jolt or shak much. I'd ay on my urn a bend e to stop. out, when era off'n the hundred au' nd wicked as h room be. for , 'em to ry steer in to smell the got pretty - well on to half road when I see a cowboy ahead of the sin wave to. Wal, I stopped an' pane 'round comes a 4rove of et ranges up con try, one fifty on 'em, wiII as stage H—. Thi wne !jest enon tweet' the rig se' the wall pass one at a time, an' ey that hull outfit wus oblige off hoes, an' tho wagon, wheels, tail- board 'ant all. One old long -horned, brindled devil,vvue most petickler curing 'bout the hoes°. an' I thought he wus a- goite' to run Meliorate into one o"ein, stir all the time the rest o' the drove was behind him aemortin' an' pushint an lookin' over each others backs, an" shakin' their heads, an' hookin' each other, an' I was a-wonderin' how long it would take me to git to the river, 'bout a quarter o' a mile below, if they wus to -upset the rig an" set the powder off. Howsomever, they all got by without doin' any damage more than frightenin' me near to death, but it'll be a long time before I forget about it." , I have been obliged to abandon Billy's own peculiar style of narrating this in- cident, forth° reason that it was muoh too rich in expletives and adjectives to meet with journalistic approval. In speaking of the cattle he called them by a great many other names less choice and more expreseive, and in telling me of the event the artistic way in which he used his copious flow of profanity was only less thrilling then the nature of the event he was narrating. • At Lyttow, we strike the Thomson river, and following it we gradually come into it much lees rugged country on our side of the river, bet the wonder- ful effect of theolear moon ight upon the mountains acrosathe river was a new delight to me. Every orag and promin- ence was brought out in.d- tinct relief in the pure light, and at th same' .time softened and subdued. A thousand crags and peaks, clad in t eir mantles of . now, inflected the moonl ght and glis- tened softly in its haze lik a thousand silver.shields, while over all, in the bright iraty air and oloud ens skies, the stars were winking, blinking and twink- ling, in pure merriment and enjoymmit of the gtand panorama spread out below. them. At 4.30 a. m. we reached Kamloops, and "terming from the warm,stuffy carpi felt keenly the 10 below zero quality of the air, but hurrying across to the Grand Pacific Hotel I was son in bed, and in a very short time was oblivious to thoughts of the bountiful scenery through which I had been travelling. Of Kamloops and my impressions thereof, I will tell yoi, somewhat in my next. Meanthne I am, Yours, e G. • • . GIBSON. A SECRETORIA TOUR PART T.—FROM NEw YORK 0 ST. JOSEPH, ,MISSOURI. (Written for TUN EXP ITOR.) Having been appoints delegate to the International Conferen e of General Secretaries to be held in 8 . Joe and the International Convention of the Young Men's Christian Associations of the United States and the 'Dominion[ of Canada, to be held in Kansas City, the Doctor . and I impatiently awaited the advent of Monday, April 27th,when we were to leave New York. The eventful day arrived, we got packed up ,and started off about an hour early, as the the Dobtor Wished to make a tour of the soalpers' Canal° see if they had any- thing cheep to Chioego., Then he dis- covered he had to bay sem° clothes and so did I, and at a quarter to three we found we were still some distance from the Chambers street ferry, which had to be reached at three. Just as we gotin sight of it the Doctor 'bethought him- self of refreshments for the journeY and made a frantic dash for a dago's fruit stand, after bananas. Then his nose be- gan to bleed, and by the tiple we reach- ed the 'ferry his moustache had lost its usual jaunty appearance. There was no time to pause, however, as the gong struck just as we had got o r tickets. In a moment we had left the ltleat and tur- moil of the great metrop lis and were enjoying the fresh, invigorating breeze of the North River OR the first stage of our long journey. At Jersey City we boarded Pullman sleeper on- & vestibuled limited, running over the Erie Road to Chicago. Two or • three miles Out on the fiats we get a fine view of Jersey City,perched on the ridge by that grand and beautiful river, the Hudson. By and bye we reached the hills, and froth thee until it was too dirk to see we enjoyed grand scenery. For a long distance we follow- ed the windings of a wide, shallow river, the Susquehanna I think it was, on the opposite bank of which, close under the cliff, was a narrow canal, the firet I had seen where they employed horses to.tow the beats. Most of the horses were mules. In two places that we esw the canal it was carried &crone the. river, tow' 'path and all, in a big box' drain like bridge. It's rather a slow method of travelling. In fact I wouldn't care at all to have ray letters sent by rr canal a 120 York prett ,time our I platfo ed- th and s coals loco oat. It seems to me if ylou serdi item from Rochester to New by a mule motor, it would be nearly ancient history by the t got there. After we had had nbh we were out on to to the tear m of the last sleeper, and watch - lights; in the few scattered bonus all way stations, and the glowing hat fell from the fire box of the otive. I know it would make this letter sound ever so much better if I could tell about the romantic thoughts that itted through my mind out there undeif the stariebut I can't tell a lie,even fin THZ EXPOSITOR. I was hinking most Jof the time inch eminen ly com- mon lace and 'practical thoughts that I won bother the reader with th m. When we awoke in the norning we 4vere in Pennsylvania n the mids of iron works, oil wells and nat- ural as. The country in that eorner of Penthiylvania isn't much good for farm- ing. , During the day we passed through Ohio and Indiana. In Ohio we passed thro gh several thriving manufacturing towIlia end saw some good farming land., but llndiana seemed to be mostly swamp, though here l and theta were some pro- dirctive looking farms. But in j neither State were the buildings as good or the land s well farmed as is generally the case n Ontario. We arrived in Chicago abou 9 o'clock on Tuesday night. Moat of ednesdsy we spent in looking arou d and left at five o'clock by special vesti uled train on the Chios in Bur- ling n and Quincey, with a lair e party of 8 oretaries all on their wii to Con - fere ce. We sped through Illi oin and Mies nri at the rate of about fi ty miles 1 an h ur, and arrived in St. Jo about 8 o'olo k next morning. As it we night we, aw very 'little of the 'country throh which -we passed, but what we saw f Illinois seemed to be gbod land and ell farmed: Indeed it boie a very pros erous appearalme. The part of blies uri we saw early in theoranda ing was oetly grazing country. h top ijertheon this part of the tri and I wou1I be in love with top ber lis if it werel not so extremely difficult o get on 1 one's unmentionables on accou t of the 1imitsd space prescribed. I fin lly suc- ceed d by standing on my head I had forg tten to tell an incident that occur- red n Monday night. The Doctor was wea ng a pair of leather gyinnasium slip ra in the train, and put his ordin- ary hoes under, the seat. When the port r came around he got the slippers and cashed them up, then in the morn- ing e discovered his mistake and did the ther pair, While I had to pay the sam amount for one pair. It seems to me t Uwe are not evenly distributed in this • mid. But to rettren to the sub- ject, we, reached St. Joe at 8 o'clock Thu achy morning, and here this epistle mint stop. - WANDERER. - No es from the Queen City. TORONTO, may 14h, 1891. W have had a dull week. f folk" were not kept busy trying to leep up with he game of leap -frog the mercury is ha ing with the freezing poi t, they won' notice that nothing is ne a these mor ings save that which comes from the 1 gialative halls at Ottawa. Interest centere there for everybody, from him who placed a bet on the Government's majority, and is waiting for the first divis on, down to the man of speculative turn ho Wishes to lobby though a bonn for his pet railway and longs for the r ght moment to strike his nember. The tion of Messrs. Mowat anl Mere- dith, and the conscientiousness j display- ed th rein, therefore have good oppore tunit to filter through the Inds of carts n vegetating o oials who own To- ron • as their home. Both of these gen- tlem n seem to have been a little too mod et. Mr. Meredith, for instance, assu dly should have taken the proffer- ed i • crease of salary. Both sides of the .ouse admit that he works harder even than does the Little Premier. Whe a Government bill is introduced . it fin's a champion in the head of the devilment affected, who may or may not ci reinforced by Mr. Mowat. 'Tie anot er story with the member for Lon- don. - He finds himself leader of an op- posi on which, mostly from incapacity to aei , leaves him to suggest and single- handed fight for those pruning' of messuree which Mr. Mowat ha° often - time been thankful for. ' Du ng the sessi n of the Ontario Legielat re just pror gued, Mr. Meredith was unremit- ting n his attendance, and Carefully wato ed every bill up for diioussion. Libe els and Conservatives agr a that the pposition leader saves the rovince ever year thousands of dolla ii, and ever one in Ontario who kno s any - thin about the matter should adm1t if, 118 . Meredith said, the propesed in - cress of his allowance from $600 to $2,11 i is unconstitutional, rip time shoul be lost in securing an i amend- ment , , THE HOTEL IDEA AGAIN. Up er Canada College will 'soon move to its commodious quarters in North Toro to, and the trustees have jest open d tenders from persons' interested ID th purchase of the old site, bounded by K ng, Simcoe, John and Adelaide since . The best offer Was from a syn- dicat of New -Yorkers who will give $390,011. Mr. T. G. Elgiee working for th eyedicate, says that the erection of a $.0O,00 hotel on the King-Simeoe corne is included in their achene. To - rent& .)ik hotel will come up 1 in one way r another. Although all the local men ho agitated it have since 'crawled into t mit. holes, the idea comes eropping up in perennial way that ,should por- tend ealization. NE IiUNDRED TROUT A DAY. Te men in a boat up in Brewster Lake, Grey County; did a . good three - days' xecution this week, and their re- turn o town marks the arrival of the first • h -party of the trout season. Mess B. Sohn Large, J. C. Kemp, Z. A. Lash, E. R. C. Clarkson, W. C. Math- ews, llewell-known citizens, are some Of the select; aggregation who owlet Brewster Lake' and use it for piscatorial recreation. Tbis aggregation, with Mi. W. Badenaoh end (ledge Faloonbridge, who went along as guests, succeeded in catching 300 trout in three days. CANADA14 DECC RATION DAT. On June 2ndiwill be celebrated the annivereary of the fight at Ridgeway, at which so manencitizins lost their lives, and to the cominemoration of which the monument in Queen's Park was erected by the Province. A number of those who took part in the stirring events of 1866 have the arrangements under way, which likely will be modeled somewhat after the Decoration Day of our Ameri- can cousins. The public schools, City Council, and militia will assist. A BREWERY -BUYING SYNDICATE. The plaeing of capital in Canada by English syndicates is a point worth vvatching. Two years ago one of the syndicates obtained control of the Do- minion Brewery, and have for a long time been trying to gather under its wing a number of breweries that pay well. The arrangements are now nearly complete whereby the Don Brewery and the Ontario Brewery & Malting Co., of Toronto, and the Spring Brewery, of Hamilton, are to be taken over by the syndicate at an aggregate cost of $800,- 000. The output or the whole concern will be 2,750,000 gallons annually. The syndicate has $2,000,000 at, its back. SIGNIFICANT STATISTICS. • To ihow how much hindrance to building was the strike last year, the City Commissionee's figures come in handily. For the first four months of 1890 building permits were issued involv- ing $499,375, while for the same period in 1891 the total is i$1,377,670. LOVE KNOWETS NOT RANK NOR STATION. The chubby boy's arrow has pierced the heart of a momber in the local House who site for a constituency not many miles from Kingston.. No conven- tional method seems to have been good enough- for this testae legislator. He revolutionized things by falling in love with a waiting -girl in his hotel. He proposed to her, and, perhaps, because he was no longer yeung or lacked the fancy painted, she take time to 0011- k the Member of • for home, where it itrese will officiate she makes up her . --. The affair amusement at the the session. The and owns a farm • msde a fortune, it as a miner. Apollo figure her told him she would eider it. Last we Parliament departe is said the pretty w as housekeeper till mind th become Mr has (Mused great House throughout membl- is quite ric near K ngston: H is aaid,in Californi , Ca tada. The Ceneus en meratore place the populat on of King ton at 19,800. —Th4 election xpenses of Sir John Macdon Id in Kin ton reached $982.45. --Sam mall,the n ted American evan- gelist, ill lecture in Queen's Avenue Method st church, ondon. on May 20th. — Fra k Merrill of Port Burwell, was killed Tuesday of last week by be- ing run over by a laded wagon. —Th. Queen wi give a £100 cup for t °pulped:ion' betwe n Canadian yachte, the firs race to tak place at Toronto. —A Bummer hote and sanitarium on Lake Huron at Por Elgin is assuming practicel shape, an stook is being sub- scribed' —Jaifnea Sandier a 17 -year-old car- penter' apprentice fell 60 feet from a scaol4 at the n w Parliament build- ing', Toronto, Tues ay, and was killed. —0 e million fi hundred thousand ?1 whitefi h fry from the Government fish hatohe y were dep sited in thenbay at Bellev'lle last week —A the Cobour• Maize' lasti'week, Dr. Alfred Forum dee was fined $300 and cots for neglig . 't treatment in not prope ly reducing a ;dislocated shoulder. —The Parnellite • elegates, Wm. Red- mond land 4striet '1 'Kelly, addressed a Montsieal audience riday evening last, and s cured in sub riptions $1,168.75 for t Parnell fund. — bill for th enfranchisement of wom n possessing ti a same qualification that ntitle men to ote was defeated in the ova Scotia As embly litist week, 22 to 13 — he Quebec G vernment has con- olud d a contract ith Rev. M. Faffard, -cure of Baie St. P al, to take care of the i sane patients in the Hospital St. Jose h at $50 per had. — coording to t e reports of the cen- sus numerators of Hamilton the popn- lett° ofthat city i about 47,800. When the cusps was tak n ten years ago the op lation was 35, 00, making a yearly or ase of 1,300. — A disastrous fi e occurred at Black - stook, seventeen • 'les from Bowman - vine, on Monday ight of last week. The -greatest part o the business portion Of the village WWI d troyed. The total lose amounted to a out $7,000. —P. F. Campbell postmaster of St. Andrew's, New Br nswick, died Sun- day afternoon, aged 88. He was ap- pointed to the positi n in 1829, and was in alij probability th oldest postmaster in ArierIca. —A young man rota the country, who had spent the inter lumbering in Nor6ern New Yor , came to Montreal on Friday kat, with his earnings, $300. The usual stranger as lying in wait for him and beguiled him out of all his money, giving him a check as security. — Mr. Butler, wh ran as the Con- servative candidate n South Oxford at the last Provincial lection, in addition to losing theibattle, has by a clumsy de- fault got himeelf int • trouble with the courts. The Elect on Act imposes a penalty of $25 a d y upon candidates and their agents wh do not make a re- turn of their se ounts within two months. In this way Mr, Butler allow- ed $5,800 to accumulate, and the Crown is now prosecuting • collect the penalty money. Melton, B tler's agent, think- ing that as he had only spent $4 on election matters, it as not worth while McLEAN BROS. Publishers. $1.50 a Year, in Advance. returning his account. The Crown thinks otherwise, and are moving to collect. Butler is just 232 days in de- - fault, which at $25 a day reaches the elegant aunt of $5,800, which he and his agents are asked to pay for their care- lessness. --,Edward Burns, barrister, clerk and treasurer of the village of Elora, took Paris green in his office the other night. He had allowed himself to run down lately, and appears to have become de- spondent as the result of the last few months. —Geo.E. Edwards,while gardening in Ingersoll; unearthed a valuable gold ring that had been lost and unsuccess- fully searched for nineteen year ago by W-Sudwortle, who prizes it as having been made from a nugget of gold dug in California by himself. —Alen. Simpson' a teamster employ- ed by the LongfordLumber Companyeof Orillia,Was killed by a runaway team at the mills on Friday last. Be was on a load of blabs and his head struck the low roof of the mill, his jaw catching on the eave trough, breaking his neck. Death was instaneous. —The will of the late Sheriff Soarfe, of Brantford, has been filed, and shows real and personal property amounting 'to $75,150. ,This has been left to hie widow during her lifetime'and at her death one-half goes to the three eons and the other half to the four daugh- ters. . —On Friday last fire broke out in• the Queen's hotel etableis'Alliston and spread in ell directions. Nearly all the business Part of - the town, containing five or six blocks, was destroyed, be- sides a number ofother buildings and properni. The loss will amount to hundreds of thousands. —Nellie R. Livingston'a pretty Can- adian about 30 yearn old, last week sued Frank W. Knox, a prominent_ Pennsyl- vania lawyer, for $25,000 damages for not keeping his word when, as she al- leged, he promieed to make her Mrs. Knox. The jury returned a verdict of $5,000 for the plaintiff. —On Wednesday afternoon Mrs. Palmer, wife of Mr. John Palmer, of the 10th concession of Dereham, about two miles from Tilsonburg, fell dead while doing sonie shopping in Northvray & Anderson's store in that town. Heart disease was the cause. Deceased was 35 years of age and leaves a family of nine children. —Andrew McGuire'who was tried at the Cobourg &seizes last week for at- tempting to murder Miss Tucker by shoving her hi front of a moving loco - Motive in December, and found guilty, was sentenced to imprisonment for,life in Kingsten penitentiary. Miss Tucker, it will be remembered, rejected Mc- Guire's suit, and McGuire in revenge attempted to murder her in the man- ner stated. —Thursday afternoon last week the barn and contents belonging to Mr. Geo. Haskett, one mile from Lucau, were burned to the ground l It seems he had an English immigrant boy in his em- ploy, named W. K. S. Bryant, and hie month having expired he demanded his wages, which Mr. Haekett did not pay. The youth went out to the barn and de- liberately set fire to it and then started for Lucan,followed by an enraged crowd, but be got safely into the hands of the village constable. confessed the deed and was committed for trial. —Maria Connolly, a former resident of St. Catharines, but who has lately been living with relatives near Rey- noldsville, died Tuaiday morning of last week, of lockjaw, after intense suf- fering, at the age of do yeets. About a week ago Mrs. Connolly, while out in the yard, stepped on a rusty nail, with& penetrated her foot. Nothing w4 thought of the matter until the foot began to swell, when medical aid was summoned and everything done to stop the suffering, but to no avail. - —Mr. A. L. Brown, an old resident of Innerkip, in the township of Blen- heim, Oxford county, died last weelnaf- ter a long illness. Mr. Brown's illness was made all the More trying by reason that he could not lie down, and he even died as he had passed the long period of sickness, sitting in his chair. He had a large fortune left to him some time ago by a brother, in Australia; but he died before it reached him. It is supposed that it is in part, or all of it, on the way, and will reach Innerkip about the end of the month. —Walker & Sons' brig* yard plant, near Windsor, together with about 3,000 cords of wood, was destroyed by fire early Tuesday morning of last week. The yard is located on the Walker road, and fire got a good start before the Walkerville fire department could be notified. Lou, $20,000, on which there was some insurance._ The plant aj a,valuable one and a large quanti- ty of manufactured bricks were stored on the premises. The fire is supposed to be the work of an inoendiaryn as two tramps had been seen loitering near the premises about midnight. —On Monday afternoon •Charles Me- cca, a well-known icharacter &round Hamilton, received injuries from a fall that:will probably omits death. Hiscox was engaged hod -carrying for a contrac- tor on R. Duncan's building. During the noon hour he loaded himself up with bad whisky, and during one of his trips up the ladder he stumbled and fell a distance of 15 feet, striking on his head. When discovered he was uncon- scious, and has remained so ever since. He was removed to the hospital, and the doctors fear a fatal concussion of the brain. —Atea meeting of the Exeotive Com- mittee of the Western Ontarie Dairy- men's Association held at Toronto last week Messrs. Waddell, Williams, Mill- er and Hopkins were appointed Inspec- tors for the Province, their districts to he assigned to them at a future meeting. rillelirettditee June 1. They and prosecution of factory patrons - wetotheof milk begin where tampering is discovered. In for- mer years the inspectors combined -in- struction with inspection, but this year they will be relieved of the former duty. Prior to beginning work they will be required to attend a week at the new dairy school, Tavistock, in order to be drilled in the use of the Babcock milk tester and on other points, under the direction of Adam Bell, superin- tendent of the school. It is reported at the meeting that the Tavistock school has been miming since April 20, with an attendance of eighteen cheese milkers, who are undergoing instruction. —Willie Goodfellow, the 9 year-old son of Benjamin Goodfellow, painter, of Galt, met with an accident on Mondsy that will probably lead to hie death. The little fellow, in company with a big-• ger boy, was crossing the Canadian Pa- cific Railway bridge, which is at present undergoing repairs, on their way to school. From some unaccountable cause young Goodfellow fell from the bridge to the ground, a dietetic() of - 60 feet, breaking hie leg and m, dislocat- ing his shoulder, and had iis skull so badly fractured as to expo e the brain, by his headistriking upon stone. —London, Ontario, has Commercial Travellers' Circle. The object of the society is mutual help in the Christian life and the promotion of temperance and social purity. Any commercial or business traveller who is a member ID good standing of any Christian ehurch,may become an active member on election by a majority vote of members and payment of an annual fee of $1. Every person joining th ' circle binds himself to obey the rules; nd to observe the following pledge : " I hereby prom- ise, God helping me, to abstain from using alcoholic liquors as a beverage, and from- everything that is profane in speech or action." —A despatch from Win ipeg =Tues- day of last week says: stock train, comprising twenty oars, p seed through the city this morning des ined for Mon- treal.The cattle were hipped from Pilot Mound by F. T. G rdon, who is exporting them to Liverp l. Another train load billed to the ea e point left Manitou a few hours late , R. Ironside being the shipper. Bot train loads will be placed on the mar et at Liver- pool. The cattle have ben stall fed, and are the first of the k nd that have been exported from this country, and the shipments are being ade in order to test the advisibility fri a financial standpoint of sending thi olass of cat- tle to the Old Country. --n-The large stone dwell ng belonging to John Johnston, er., and the _barns of John Johnston, jr.. and IRbert John- ston were destroyed by fiie on Tuesday morning of last week. ¶hey reside in the townehip of Pilkingto , Wellington county, about eight miles from Guelph, Robert living on the sane farm as his father and John on the adjacent one. The barns were fired simultaneously by some unknown persons and the flames communioated to the house. Besides thei buildings some hornet, cattle, im- plements and grain were lint. The in- surance is email aed th lois will be heavy. —Thomas Jubb, one of the oldest and most widely -known hotel Jerks in Can- ada, died very suddenly at the Arlington Hotel, Toronto, on Mond& . Mr. Jobb had been employed at the Ar1ington night clerk since the let of May. Mon day morning he went to bed as usual about 6 o'clock and appeared to be in the best of health and spirits. When it was learned that be had not been down to dinner in the evening, Chief Clerk Read went up to his roon and found him lying dead in his bed. There was not the slightest evidence f any strug- gle. The body was lying in 0 'very natural position, and ther4 was every indication that he had sued away quietly and peaceably. —Shortly -after midnigbtj Thursday of last week, a fire broke oatl in the house of Zotique Demers, St. Fe1ix street, Montreal, by which a 1' tle boy was burned to death and a yo ng daughter of Mr. Demers was danger uslypurned. The house is a tenement, ene part occu- pied by Mr. Demers and the other by' Mr. Joseph Hurtublee. When Demers went out last evening the 4hildren, aged six and four, were pu to bed in an upper room. The smoke was first notieed by Hurtuldse, who ran in and tried to make his way up to where the children were sleeping. Driven back by the smoke he sounded the alarm, and when the firemen arrived they found the room filled with smoke, but groping round the little girl was found badly burned. In the ormosite corner of the room, lying in a heap at the head of the bed, was the little boy, burned so ter- ribly that he died while being carried across the street. —The jewellery store of E. Bourquin, of Tavistock, east of Stratford, was bur- glarised between 2 and 3 o'clock Wed- nesday morning, and a large quantity of valuable jewelery carried off. The safe was drilled and blown open, the force of the explosion being sufficient to shatter every window in the building. A number of people were awakened by the noise, but it was thought to be due to a street row, and the burglars were allowed to get away with their booty. Adam Falk, who has a general store in the village and lives over Mr.Bourquin's store'says that he and hie wife were awakenedawaened by the explosion, and that Mrs. Falk rained a window and asked who was there. One of the burglars fired a shot feom a revolver, but they made no othet reply. He says too that - they were talking between themselves quite loudly, and as though nothing un- usual had occurred. The ioii, includ- ing the injury to the safe, will amount to about $1,000. —While ehoeing a horse one day last week, Mr. Thomas McLaren, sr., of Mitchell, was thrown heavily down by the horse, breaking some of his ribs. He has been unable to work since. eN.