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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1891-07-31, Page 1�lN R te remind HERS THE aiN G Pu glt i. offering a lot EIa ,r to closeout the. SDs THE: WIER TRADE ALL RINDS Op` ec'y nnnelettegi Embroideries, SOME. Tai r CLOTHING. will commence tie re, and we won't, -erg long—we will r it quickly. F Qu L, FRTH., tothis factory ons t ; 14 ranged from three were under part of the Inspec- :owe milked where !erect per cent fst, text. trial. There .h may account for int, fat in the milk: e poor milk ; 2nd, - egs to cream tea.;. feaving for home at off the top. We fa Inspector at the• he will likely gwe- sting the milk and the patrons in the- ktoRRI$oii. I�traa lert Armstrong, of ear here, finished last week. He it we have heard of., been reshingling: eerw€se improving adding to its com- linchley is in very .holes,; an old Kin. Scholes were here he Vector's mother The Doctor has a. townwhere he has the leading men of Ryan is busily en- for shipment. He= ;asionally by our Billy, you know,. lease makers.—Mr. from Manitoba. toad of horses to a. He says crops i he left Manitoba,. that Manitoba will lie largest strop it, Mr. CColcleugh, one ,miters,: has had his which much im- 1..: Fall wheat out-• 4eresbouts. Them tend crop this ma- , - ear many years, smell!; ugh hard worked,. 'hos. McMillan re-• e old country last; Imo— at, Ers. Wni. Demutlil ed Mrs. Younker !engin, with their citing thein parents,- They intend to. fhriatopher Hoist.. Milton Commercial= and. is the gnat of t, before be Leavers Wm, Eilber, who, trade here,but who nth, has been in, ere visiting: his olds and .hearty.—Ede der formerly lieedE 'a has been in the` la here. --Mr. Louie. en. in Manitoba. for, T so, has once more, e home. He is al- e was only a young Ie likes the Prairie as Ferguson frons the guest of Mr' to a number of our had a pie-nic at $day. They had a sed themfelves as cam. Rev. G. F. Gabriel Holtzman§ e at Crediton last tending the child - held there. The fictive• part in the pcasioa was a t Edward Appelan rave been in 1 returned a few. ibriel. Holtzman_ starting the binder f which there a worker, and )Ie every persootoaa b says,. bene- the la TWENTY-THIRD YEAR. WHOLE NUMBER 1,233. SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, JULY 81, 1591.. McLEAN BROS. Publishers. $1.50 a Year, in Advance, J.C. GIL N_ In the burly, burly df trade from eight in the morning till eight in the evening, a crowd beyond doubt visits this ,store. Sonde merely -scary in because they see others at the counters buying. Others leave home and come direct co this store to do their buying, the reason be- ing that their interests were so well looked after the East time they were served here. Others right in as though c with the wave of , po ment, surging through the store buying and looking, looking and buying. It's bargains they're after. Honest every -day goods at less than every -day prices is the " mag- net." The one word " every -day " suggests a little talk. Every day there are more bargains here than the paper could tell of if we had (twice the space. It isn't our boast that no one ever thinks of looking further after seeing That's too near hyperb an advertisement. ti ple to look and look goods and prices. Th the most careful invesi this business invariab we find it necessary prices by the yard, to h papers what isn't in t to say one thing and n Not one day alone, bu your interests are care a way that bespeaks a close vital connection between buyer and sel- ler. It is as it should be. Tho mare we do the more liberal we can afford to be. We're very busy among our wash goods just now— they're of interest to everybody. Not busy in spots, but a general, healthy, unforced business that collies of having just what you want, as you want, and when you want it. _ J. O. GILROY, CLINTON. 1galI1 sweep arried along aular excite - our stock. ale even for e want peo- nd compare result of Ligation help ly. Nor do to parade ung up in the he store, or Iean another. t every day d for here in Hedge Fences, The Opinion Of Practical Farmers DEAR ExPOSITOR.—Hlrsving_ received arr, who is now d agent for the Fence Co. in with him and the Mill Road, fast the 24th of visit Niagara, e ie cultivated iced in Ontario. bout half -past et at the station an invitation from Mr. a resident of Seaforth, a Ontario Hedge and Wir this locality, in company Mr. Robert Charters, of Tuckersmitb, on Friday July we left Seaforth to the place where this fent and I suppose most Arriving at the falls at al 2 o'clock p. m.,we were m by the Manager, D.N. Aylesworth,Esq., and. J. F. Gaghan, Esq., Secretary. After partaking of lunch we were driven to the farm of Mr. John Gray, where a fence had been planted five years ago and was plashed or dressed on last June. This being the .first we examined we paid particular attention to it and con- cluded that it was substantial, useful and have little doubt of its permanency. We next visited the beautiful farm of Doctor Ferguson, -ex--M, P., (and of Birchen notoriety, the farm lighted by -electricity). .Here were two beautiful hedges of 50 or 60 rods long, dividing the fields and a complete hindrance to .thecrosaing and re•crosaing of horses .and Battle. These hedges are !about -Seven years planted. We next visited the farm of Mr. (George Law, where a .hedge had been planted about 10 years J igs. This was growing every vigorously and would be, 1 think, -over 12 feet high. A pant of it was plashed and reduced to the ,proper height and breadth and Looked well, We then .visited the term of Mr. W. T. Kerr, where the seed is sawn for the growing of +the plants. The seed i9 sown and cultivated about the sane ae We would carrots. *large area of land is now sowed with the`seed and is being attended.to for next spring's planting and they look well. We *next passed a hedge on college feria, which was the second years' growth and will be ready for plashing next spring. We were very kindly treated by the Man- ager, - who spared no pains in giving every information as to the growing and proper training of said fence and we are of opinion that the soil i& Huron is well adapted for the growth, maturity, and durability, of a Irving fence the sauce as we have bed the pleasure of examining and believe it to be=the; most useful, .harmless,- durable, and ornamental tepee ;thee ben introduced into Canada. "Ne would here wish to draw the at- -tention of Municipal councils to the propriety of the pasatingof by-laws pro- hibiting the running of animals on tke putlic roads, as by so doing the cost would be avoided of putting up a second fence to, protect the growing planta until the hedge would be sufficiently ON BOARD THE SUPPLY BOAT. STEAMER CANADA, LAKE ERIE, July 24th, 1891. (Conjtinued from last week.) A few minutes before six o'clock on the evening of July 17th, the Canada drew up to the wharf at Port Stanley, the most pipturesque of all the towns on the north i shore of Lake Erie. Ap- proaching rom the lake it can be seen in all itsqu/iet beauty peacefully nestling in a cosy n oke surrounded by woody bills and g assy slopes. Just over the hill to the ast of the town, in a shel- tered corn r, we noticed several summer residences, while surmounting the rising ground to the west is•the Frazer House and the cel every week of pleasur famous as little impoi From all al rag industr were to be other evide One of our cordial gre stay of tw being sup brated pic-nic ground visited by hundreds and thousands -seekers. Port Stanley is summer resort, but it is of Mance as a business centre. �pearances the most flourish. yy of the place isffiahing ; nets seen drying on he reels,' and nces of activity in this line. party was cheered by the ting of kind friends, and the hours while the light was lied was all too short to enjoy their company. But the beat of friends must part, and in . the gathering twi- light farewells had to be said and the ,good ship Canada steamed out of the" harbor, and was once mere on her way. The evening was delightful and we re- mained on deck to catch the last glimpse of the light which carried our thoughts back to the kind' friends left behind, and which remained in sight for nearly twenty miles. The next point of interest was the Dummy—k dight -house built on a sand- ' bar in the middle of the lake. The light•hous0 is a wooden structure, bat the loweri part has been encased in sheets of ifon to protect it from the fury of the waves. The light -keeper resides here with his family during the period of navigation, and though it must be rather a lonely life, there is compensa- tion for every ill, for as the Purser re- marked there is no fear of their quarrel- ling with the neighbors. Arrived Eat Pelee Island the Captain very kindly furnished us a boat and sent a man to tke us ashore. The day was exceedin:gl i warm, so very little walking on the sandy beach satisfied us, but we were hospitably entertained at the light- house by Mr. and Mrs. Quich, and after gathering a few shells which are very abundant here, we were ready to return to oar temporary home on the Canada. Everyone has heard of Pelee Island wine, but grapes are not the only, fruit grown there. Apricots and peaches, as' well as sinller and more common fruits, aro also abundant, while on account of the heat and moisture vegetation is *rapid and luxuriant After visiting Middle Island, the Captain called at an-, other station on Pelee, and there we had - the pleasure of meeting Dr. Ewing, who is. at present practising on the Island. You may e sure Seaforth was not for- gotten the . We even went ashore to renew our cqueintance with the old grey horse that for BO many years was a familiar object on our streets and daily ministered to our wants. From Dr. Ewing we received much interesting in- formation regarding Pelee Island and other places of interest in the neighbor- hood, which added much to our enjoy- ment seeing these places. After leaving Pelee Island the Canada steered straight for Leamington, which was reach d about midnight, and the next mor ing we passed Kingsville, where has I - een erected a large summer hotel. � Five dollars a day are the charges, and yet it must be well patron- ized., for the proprietor claims to have made ,$5,00 expected to $11.0,.000 on grown. ItoRERT CHARTi;R , Tuckersmith. W. J. SHANNON, D1cKi'llop, --While oat driving on Sunday last Mr, and Mrs,. Simonds, of Dublin, had the misfortune to meet with rather a. severe accident. One of the baggy wheels came off, frightening the horse, which endeavored to run away. Mrs. Simonds tried to jump out, but the top being up she had no chance and fell in such a manner as to fracture her jaw bone. Mr. Simonds is considerably bruised up also. { _ iaet year ; that is to say he lose .$15,000 and lost only his investment, at least so we were told. Another solitary light- house on Colchester Reef was passed, and before long we were anchored •otf Bir -Blanc Island at the mouth of the Detroit It,i jeer. On the .south end of this island is an old fort, new standing in the middle•of a field of oats, but for inerly playing an important part in the troublous scenes of 1437. A few min- utes stay at Amheretburg, which seems to have improved very tnueh in appear- ance during -the last few years, though the streets are still narrow and dirty, and we nvere.making our way up the Detroit -river, enjoying from the burri- cane deck n► .view of the picturesque landscape sehfchepaesed like a efauorama1 before oar vision, --beautiful villas, fields of ripening !grain, telling of peace and plenty, wle the eye is relieved by the rich greed • f the foliage in strong con- trast with.t a dust covered trees on the streets of as'ousy town. Ever and anon, while admiring the lovely scene, the shrill shriek of a passing boat ssartles us from out; reverie, and we see it hurry- ing on bearing its inanimate or living freight to distant ports. hua, Delighted at the opportunity of visit- found ing Detroit,; all hands were off for the *cure p n: city as sooas the Canada reached the air, ii wharf Setae/Laynight, and consequently black -a more crowded streets than iueual, which did not add to the comfort of shopping or of sightseeing. Sunday was spent in the city, and though the shops were closed there was little of the quietness so much in keeping with the day of rent ; street ears were running; a gang of men paving the streets!; the poet-oThi a open for at least art of the day ; candy and peanut stande plying a brisk trade ; pleasure boats making trips every few minutes to Belle Isle, Detroit's great park, and liberally patronized, and coal heavers busy supplying the boats with fueL Such were the • scenes witnessed, scenes which do no credit to a city in a professedly Christian country. Amid all this belittle and business there were still many who sought the quiet of the sanctuary. In the morning we bad the :pleasure of hearing Rev. Dr. Radcliffe in Fort street Presbyterian . church. The service was rather too -ritualistic for oar Presbyterian ideas, but mon w cal the changel Scotch pastor, Ontari just ab is good, containing many practi- ughts for the building up of er. The evening found us in the Presbyterian church, when the - Rev. Dr. Dickie, late of Berlin, officiated. Dr. Dickie was ut leaving for a few :weeks' vaca- tion, and judging from his words of farewell the utmost confidence must exist bi3tween pastor and people, and a real Iive spirit must prevail in the con- gregation. Detroit is a centre of attraction for ons, a considerable proportion of ►illation being natives of Ontario. the crowd on Saturday night we eased to be greeted by a former f the Seaforth Collegiate Insti- Canadi the poi Amidel were pl pupil o tute, 11r. Alex. McEwen, of Brucefield, who lids for more than a year been occu- pying o, responsible position as book- keeper1in the city. It always affords us pleasure to see Canadians prospering, especi As th lly those from our own county. Canada leaves her moorings and makes her way up the river we watc'h the receding lights of Detroit and Wind- sor enpircling the water like a garland of diac� onds and retireto dream of home and'frlends. ONE OF THE PARTY. Travels in Mexico. R. J. DUNSMORE. Crossing.the Rio Grande del Norte rand river of the North) at El Texas, we stand for the first i Mexican soil. We are in the poetry and music, romance and This is the land of Montezu• Cortes, and cf the Incas. The tains of Mexico lay before ua, g a delightful aspect of tropical esu.. Mexico is most appropriate- gnated the Italy of America. Ae mea better $known to pleasure - tourists, it is rapidly usurping alar resorts of Europe as a de- (The Pew, time c land o pasaio ma, of vast weanloveli ly des it bec •eekint p the , lightfl l place to pass the inclement months of the year that render life dis- agreeayble in the cold cities of the East. Addecl�,to this is the picturesque fresh- . Sweet odors from myriads of t flowers and shrubs ravished se on every hand, and it seemed gh we were suddenly transported Vonderland. My compenion, M. tific American, and collector of curiosi- ties for the Smithaonian Institute at Washi he haii medal Of th and s stand sampl lean e ever, if th " fort erica eyed looki and anew enou etrea hide our e paym cent -our d man Mexi our fal of at th consi the A me none, stay amou a dol and a cline later forth Thi s the g chara peopl aides Conte sharp we f ngton, for which latter services been presented several handsome having heard of the virtues (?) igexican national drink; mesqual, eing the door of an adobe saloon g invitingly open, suggested we the decoction, which is the Mex- uivalent for whisky. It is how- uch more injurious in its effects, t were possible, than the vilest -rod " ever compounded on Am - soil. s curiously though his sleepy- eyes as we staid up at the bar, laced the masque.' before us in to our order. One sip was , It was like swallowing a of lightning ; it would take the ff a rhinoceros. We wept, not but- too well, and with tears in s tendered an American dollar in nt. The drinks amounted to a d a quarter each (a" clack° "band may can he imagined when the ith the sombrero began piling out t. We stood gazing helplessly curioua heap of money, as we pred ways and means of carrying tiff about with us. We asked for i4n change, but the Mexican had and he calmly suggested that we iound awhileland drink out the r, due us. The idea of consuming 's worth of that stuff at a cent narter es drink about paralyzed ye respectfully, but decidedly de- e and accordingly a few hours change in American money was ming. instance will serve to illustrate eral shiftlessness and indolence eristic of the Mexicans as a This ie not so noticeable in ear the American line, where with the stirerwd Yankees has ed their wits, but in the interior nil a most ignorant, lazy and looked with suspibloti 'and aversion upon -the mon people who were wander- ing at lessly over ;Weir, land of legend and r mance. Wef tiiiivellect in the Statof Cinaloa, Zacatecas, Chihua- rango and Sonora, where " the ns of Sonora glide," and into ob- aces where our blue eyes and fair marked contrast to the swarthy, ed, semi -civilized inhabitants, excited, an endless amount of wonder and outiosity. On our part we were charm - e beauty of the Mexican swo- on soft, languerous, dark eyes d us of nothing so much as the 1 optics of a Jersey cow. But beauty ! Among these early ed at men, w remirid beautif alas to Meta ed women their beauty is but a fieeti g., episode of youth, and with the of pest grandeur, its people are an in- _searching for him ever since. On Wed - exhaustible source of interest in them- nesday last McKee heard that Plummer selves, and should this paper allow me was working on a farm near St. Clair, space I may at some future time relate Michigan, and on visiting the place the interesting things of a country which other day he found the man he was look - has flourished under its own monarchs, ' ing for and locked him up at Port Huron. groaned for centuries under foreign rule, and now begins to revive under the broadening influence of a Repub- lican form of government. twen looks whoa be in who e beauty still flourishes in all the rich rmth of youth. Bat the dreamy, blac yes of these old duennas always retai heir lustre, and could,were their othe atures in harmony, still create have iti the heart of the susceptible, hot- loteded Mexican. Aside ' from theit sionderful country, rich in quaint legs redolent of the stirring times vincial Detective cKee has been occasion to go outside the hotel and yifive and thirty, their attractive end become stoat and shapeless, !only vocation in life appears to t e capacity of chaperone to those • New York Letter. (Regular Correspondence.) film YORK, July 27th, 1891. The unearthing of a geng of diamond robbers who have been operating here in a very high-toned manner for a long time in the sensation of the week. The robberies were committed in a very clever manner, and generally right in the presence of the owners. The gang operated on the very best class of stores, the usual plan being for a werna.n to engage the salesman's attention while a man walked off with the diamonds. In this way one jeweller lost $7,000 worth of his valuabie stock in about two min- utes, and it took the police five, months to catch the thief. Many other jewel- lers have been robbed in a similar way, but the thieves have escaped every time. They are so fashionably dressed and ap- parently so wealthy that they are not suspected till it is too late. The man Howe, or Hamburg, who is now in cus- tody, seems to have been the leader, and a very clever one at that. He is an " opium fiend," and his craving for the drug after being Arrested caused him to confess. His feniale accomplice has also been arrested and is held in $5,000 CONFINED AS INSANE. Mr. George Bohnen,who appears tit be perfectly rational, claims that he has been illegally confined in the Ward's Island Instsne Asylum for seven years. He is now out on habeas corpus proceed- ings, and his lawyers expect to obtain his full discharge from the asylum on the ground that he is sane. His story is a remarkable one and, if true, is an- other proof of how almost any sane per- son may be spirited away from home and friends and locked up as insane without the least chance of proving himself otherwise. Bohnen called at a hospital because he was sick and, after a two - minute examination by a couple of young doctors, he was sent to the asylum, where he has been eonfined ever since. He was never allowed to communicate with friends or to receive any news of his family. When he was taken out last week he learned that his wife had gone off with another man,and his child- retowere in a charitable institution. AN QLD STORY ITO DE REVIVED, It is confidently stated by those in a position to know that there is a move- ment on foot in' this city to revive the oncepopular pastime of roller skating. It is claimed that the arnuaement will be shorn of ite objectionable features, which caused its collapse a few years ago, and the prediction is made that the interest in rollerskating will be even greater than ever before. There is no doubt that the sport has its good points and should no more be condemned when used properly than any other form of 'port. It certainly is an aid to diges- tion, and is credited with many cures where medicine failed. The prediction of a tidal wave of: interest in its favor may be fulfilled, for it is a remarkable fact that these popular " crazes " seem to operate on that plan. Wrestling, walking, roller skating, prize fighting, tem, each takes its turn and diseppears -again, no one knoWs why. THE LATOT IN TOYS. One of the most•elaborate mechanical appliances in the line of toys has just made its appearance and is taking very well. It consists of a miniature circus ring with a horse and rider. It is wound up with a string, like a top, and the moment the string is pulled the lit- tle metal horse, with the female rider on its back, starts on a run around the cir- ele. At one point in the circle is a pole or fence !leveret inches in height, stretch- ing across the track as if held by an at- tendant. When the figure of the rider reaches this it leaps over it gracefully -in true circus fashion and lands again on the back of the horse. This is repeat- ed as often as the horse goes round the ring until the app rates runs down. It delights the chi:d en like a " real live One of our enterprising newspapers has inaugarated a movement to compel all carriages to icarry lamps :lighted at night and thu prevent many acci- dents to tbe publie and especially that portion of it which is too poor to ride in carriages. The laWs on tbe subject now applies only to hiseLe or cabs, but of course a great teeny private carriages carry lighted lamps although they are not compelled to do so. About one hun- dred persons a week are injured in this city ley being run over by vehicles, and many of these accidents, no doubt, oc- cur on account of the absence of side lights. The Park Commisaioners have approved of the idea and hereafter car- riages must display side lights at night or they will not be permitted in the Park. The movement is certainly a beneficial one and is gaining ground every day. t'DWIN ARLINGTON. Pluramer says it will take all the extra- dition powers on earth to get him back to Chatham, The total amount of the notes is about $1,000. Canada. Senator Odell . died . at Halifax on Sunday night last from apoplexy. —Last week 5,304 head of cattle and 5,441 sheep were shipped from Montreal —the heaviest week this season. —During the past seven days there were 23 failures in Canada, as compared with 27 for the corresponding period of last year. —Mrs. Alex. Allen, of Glasgow, Scot- land, has given £100 each to the Horne for the Friendless and Marchmont Home, Belleville. —At Petrolea, Thursday, six horses were burned along with Mr. H. H. Mc- Coll's stable, including a valuable trot- ting stallion. Insurance, $1,000. —Recently two children died of typhoid fever in Kingston, and subse- quently the well water they drank was analysed and declared to be poisoitoue. —Mr. John L. Ulch, of Kingsville, Essex county, -has raised thin year 41 bashels of wheat to tbe acre, 65 Lbs. to the bushel, and sold 100 bushels of the first threshed 8100. —A new Separate School will be erected at Kingston at a cost of $12,000. It will be called St. Vincent Academy, in honor of Archbishop Cleary. —The petroleum vessel Syringe, own- ed by A. Mills, of SaJohn, New Bruns- wick, was burned off Delaware break- water Thursday. She had a large cargo of 220,000 gallons of crude petroleum. —Owing to the promising outlook for crept in Manitoba and the North- weet, the Canadian Pacific railway has ordered two new locomotives and 1,500 box cars to move the grain. —A young man named Davis, living near Rodney, was accidentally hit on the head with an axe in the hands of his brother in-law, and his wounds, it is thought, will prove fatal. The men chopping timber. —Dr. George A. Tye, one -of thei ablest physicians in Canada, died at Chatham on Friday. He was an ex -president of the Medical Association of Ontario and a delegate to the World's Medical Con- ference at Washington, D. C. in 1888. —A newly married man, 'WM. Mar- ling, of Marlbank, hearing that some friends were going to treat him to a charivari recently, borrowed a revolver. In climbing over a fence the firearm was discharged and Marling was in- stantly killed. —Dr. Wells, one of Montreal's most popular preachers has received a call from the Plymotith'Congregation Church, of Minneapolis, which offers him $5,000 a year to become its pastor. —The little daughter, aged three. of Lieut. Col. Boswell of the 90th Rifles, Winnipeg, was drowned at Rat Portage Monday while bathing in the Lake of the Woods. —Capt. Martin Mahoney, of Snnia, has been presented with a gold watch, chain and compass by the United States Gov ernment in recognition of his bravery in rescuing a woman and 10 men, the crew of the schooner Charles C. Ryan, wreck- ed in Lake Huron in June, 1890. —Mr. Erastus Wiman has a letter in the London Times to the effect that no monuMent to Sir John Macdonald is necessary so long as the barrier exists which his National Policy has erected between the two sections of the Anglo- Saxon. people on the North -American —A few days ago while E. Barnes, of Kincardine, wgue sharpening a chisel on a small grindstone, he caught a finger between a tool test and the stone, and before he could be liberated the flesh was ground off to the bone and the bone itself injured. The lad bravely stood the intense pain. —George P. Buchanan, ex -manager of the Paris branch of the Bank of British North America who was at first sup- posed to be in Iowa with $5,000 or more of the bank's funds, cannot be located. It is thought he is in Mexico and a war- rant has been issued for his arrest there if officers can find him. farmer of Minto, Wellington county, while working at a fence the other day stumbled into a yellow jacket's nest, and in about five minutes he was loaded down with ,the bees. They crawled in- side his eloping and stung his body, but fortunately he menaged to get clear of them belpre being stung to death. —A few months ago a bank in Chat- ham found a lot of worthies. note. on its hands, the amounts ranging from $25 to $100 each, which bad been deposited by a farm laborer named William Plum- mer, who had been working for various farmers in the neighborhood during the previous season. When the first note became due it was disowned by the farmer whose name was signed to it. This led to an investigation, which dis- closed the fact that all the notes de- posited by Plummer were forgeries, although, as in the first case, the signa- tures were wholly unlike those of the farmers themselves. Plummer in the meantime had &rap red, and Pro - —John McMillan, lawyer and money - ago, was e nnected with some of the lender, will left Paris quietly some time best families in Paris and was generally highly esteemed. His failure vvah due to unknown causes. He is now in Portland, Oregon., with bis shingle hung out, and writes that his first act will be to discharge all his Paris indebtedness. —Neville H. Pickthell, one of the young Englishmen whose name was connected with the Birchall-Benwell tragedy, enlisted subsequent to the great trial, in " C " School of Infantry, To- ronto. A week ago be obtained leave of absence for a week, bet when his furlough expired Pickthall had not made his bow to the commandant. It is feared he has deserted. —There is a good story told on th'e streets of Guelph at the expense of Mr. Caleb Chase, of that city. It appears' that Division Court Clerk Howard, Bailiff Mills and Deputy Bailiff Chase went to McCann's betel, Eramosa road, on Saturday night and made a seizure. The Deputy Bailiff wan left in charge of the premises and the other two return- ed home. Shortly afterwards Mr. Chase made his appearance in the city, having walked- home. He says he had when he attempted to again obtain admission he foend the door locked against him. —A Frenchman named Chinouard, of Rat River, Manitoba and Mrs. Taylor, x ed for throwiug atones, and one for malicious injury to property. The Mayor was escorted out of the park by a jeering crowd of thousands. At least_ 60 000 visited the park during the day, of St. Robert,have eloped. The former but nothing serious happened. . leaves a wife and several children desti- —Burglars broke into Mrs. Forbes' tute, and the erring couple took the house, Barriefield, about 1 o'clock one yonngest child of Chinouard with them. morning recently. After rummaging —Sheriff McLean, of Portage la the lower portion of the house they at - Prairie, assisted in removing a traction engine from his farm to the cars on Wednesday of last week, at McDonald station. He became entangled in the machinery and was killed almost in- stantly. The sheriff Was an old resident, and leaves a widow and child. —At 3 o'clock Wednesday 22nd inst., Joseph Stinston a brakemen on the mud train at the gt. Clair tunnel, was thrown from the cars and crushed be- tween the cars and the clay embank- ment. His head and one of his ban& were badly bruised, and his ribs were driven through his lungs. He died in about an hour. Deceased was only 20 years of age. —The seeereat storm of wind and hail known for 80 years passed over Lucan and vicinity, Thursday afternoon last week, doing a large amount of dam- age. The hail lay inches thick on the streets. Hundreds of lights of glass were brolien, sheds and trees blown down, and wherever it struck standing grain it completely destroyed it. —While some small boys were fishing on the shores of Lake Spry, near Wier - ton, a few daysago, a large, black bear came uut of the bush and walked down to the water beside them, took a drink and then walked leisurely back and was lost in the forest without noticing the children, who were plessed to get out of his company. —Should there be no more serious and costly accidents to prevent, it is now thought the St. Clair tunnel will be ready for the formal opening some time in October. A great deal of work has yet to be done at the approaches, and the miles of siding in the yards on both sides of the river ere to be laid and fin- ished. - Sir Henry Tyler will be present at the opening. ' —William, son of Mr. John Price, of Galt, met with a severe accident on Friday afternoon last. He with some companions were out playing and had climbed one of the large poplar trees at the corner of Beverly street and stone road in that town. Young Price in some way fell from the tree to the ground breaking both arms at the wrists and otherwise injuring -himself. —Corey's torpedo works Petrolea were completely blown to atoms on Seturday. There were four men working at the time, and one of them noticed the agitator leaking and gave the alarm, and before they got very far away the explosion occurred. The men had a close call. It is wonderful how they escaped. All around the works build- ings and derricks are blown to piers. —The Department of AgricUlture gives the Ontario deaths per thousand in the cities in June as follows : Ot- Belleville, 1.04 ; Hamilton, 1.02 ; Brantford, .91; London, .87; Kingston, rialitoemwaass, ..756. ; Stratford, .50; Brock- ville, .45 ; Woodstock, .32. The average —The steamer HighlInd Maid, from Fort Francis, brings the news to Rat Portage of the drowning of Robt. Wilson at Manitow Rapids on Friday, The steamer Shamrock was on her trip up and Capt. Lewis and Wilsou were in the attempt of getting out a line to help tow the steamer over the rapids when the yawl got upset. Captain Lewis was with difficulty saved by Indians, but Wilson was drowned. He was employ- ed in the mills and formerly came from ter- old r tempted to go up -stairs but were pre- vented by Miss -Forbes who stood guard at the top with a stick'in her hand. One fellow drew a revolver and threatened to shoot, but she did not flinch. When a neighbor came to her assistance the robbers fled. —Late Saturday afternoon a serious accident occurred at the building of a carrisge shed immediately behind the Sydenham street Methodist church, Brantford. A number of men were engaged on the roof of the building when it gave away, precipitating three men to the ground. Edward Brierly had one ankle broken and the other one put out of joint. James Marsh had a serious injury to the spine, and Thomas Ridley had his head and arms severely —Six years ago Mrs. J. L. Ferrier, of Lanark, accidentally ran a needle into one of her toes. The needle broke into three or four pieces. One or two pieces could not be extracted at the time, and remained in the foot until last month, when an inflammatory tumor formed on the sole of her foot. Mrs. Ferrieewas laid up for two weeks, when a physician was called, and he extracted the hidden sections of the needle, which caused the- -The Hon. John Dryden, Minister of Agriculture, reached Toronto Fri- day morning on his way home from England. During his stay in England Mr. Dryden made some important pur- chases of stock,for himself and for the Agricultural College at Guelph. Mr. Dryden reports having had a very of his time having been spent in visiting the principal stock farms of the old land. His importations include sheep, pigs and cattle, part of which are now on the way out, —A severe hailstorm passed over a large district west of St. Thomas last Friday afternoon, At Rodney and Taylor some -of the hailstones were larger than walnuts. Much damage was done to the crops, windows broken, poultry killed and thousands a dollars' worth of fruit of all kinds is lost. A' despatch says that all the crops along the town line between Oxford and Aldborough for over seven miles and alt most a mile wide are destroyed. —A daring burglary was successfully made in Cheeterville on Saturday night, when the post -office was broken into and $150 worth of stamps and some loose change carried off. Two other stores were broken into and the safes blown open but unfortunately for the burglars there was nothing in them but books. 'Having finished up Chesterville, they came up to Kemptville and broke into the post -office there, and secured $40 in stamps and $50 in money. The burglars have been captured. —Michael Bowes, of the ninth line of Bathurst, near Kingstou, was struck by lightning in his room on Thursday morn- ing of last week and instantly killed. He had got out of bed to look at the storm, and was just returning vvhen the bolt struck him. His brother Patrick was in the same bed, and received a slight injury to one of his hands. The deceased was a married man with two children. He was thirty-three years old. —Mrs. Sanderson, Peel, has 80113e - thing in the way of a curiosity that has scarcely a parallel. Three email chick- ens,whose natural parent deserted them, have been adopted by a cat, that about the same time had been deprived of her offspring. The poor feline will carry Arnprior. —A fire broke out shortly before mid- them around and watch over them ,with night Friday night in the hotel sheds at Castleton, aboue seven miles north of Colborne, which destroyed most of the business portion of the village. Besides a number of brick blocks destroyed, was the Great North-Western telegraph on Tuesday of last week, who office, as vvell as papers in connectio.n was working on a drill well. It with the post office and the township appears McWhiney was soaping a belt, and by some means the belt drew him all'the Care of a real mother, aud eventry to administer to their physicial wants, and protect them from danger or exposure. —A very serious accident occurred at clerk's others. The total loss is estimat- ed at about $25,000. —Abeut 11 o'clock on Thursday night, the 23rd inst., a fire broke out in the back end of the livery stable of L. A. Mehlenbaeher, Delhi, and spread to the shoe shop and dwelling of Fred Schmidt, and thence to Morgan's brick dwtlling and store. All were totally destroyed, and only by the strenuous efforts of the citizens were the adjoining buildings saved. —James Sickles, Jr., of Btentford, who is well known to the police, went home last Thursday night in a highly infuriated drunken state and made a blow at his wife with a ewerd. She dodged him and the weapon striick her little four months' old baby on thebead. The child was insensible for some hours, but it is thought it will recover as the force of the blow was pretty well —At the annual meeting of the Masonic Grand Lodge held hilt week in Toronto, the annual report showed that there were on the register 351 subordi- nate lodges, of which 224 were repre- sented by their qualified officers and 80 by proxy. There were 47 lodges un- represented. On the roll were the names of 749 craftsmen present, giving a total vote of 1,353, the largest ever polled by the Grand Lodge. Mr. J. Ross Robertson, of Toronto, was re- elected Grand Master. —Last Sunday was the first Sunday since the passing of the Toronto city by-law imposing • penalty on any person who " shall in any public park, garden, or place for exhibition in the City, publicly preach, lecture, or declaitn, ' and 25,000 citizens assembled in -the Queen's park to see how the by-law would be observed. Considerable riot- ing took place. Three men were arrest - into, the machinery. His injuries con- siet of a broken collar bone and one of his arms broken in three places. Me-, Whiney had a knife in his hand at the time of the accident and cut the belt, thereby saving his life. —A Montrealer who has just7return- ed -from a trip through the %lateen States and the Canadian Northwest says that never in his life had he seen lo Much destitution and begging and so many tramps as in the Tacoma and Seattle districts. " From the time he left Glenforks till he passed Tacoma, tramps surrounded the dining car at every etation, begging for money and food. At one station in particular, just before crossing the Columbia river,three tramps were hung up in effigy to a sign post, with a notice posted above them that any tramp found around the neigh' borhood would be treated in the man- ner represented." Tuesday of last week Mr. and Mrs. F. G. Allenby, of Galt, and a party of friends consisting of Mr. and Mrs. Midgley and Mies Richardson, of Ter - onto, took a drive out through Puslinch. When near the residence of John Mc- Donald on the 2nd concession of Pus- linch, the horses, a spirited team, ran away, but were stopped a mile nearer the Lake ; they again ran away, when they were run into a fence corner when all got out but Mr. Allenby, who under- took to take the team to Puslinch lake and change horses. The ladies in the mean- time walking on. But the third time the team ran away with Mr. Allenby alone and ran into the ditch at 'the entrance to the Hotel at the Lake, throwing Mr. Allenby with such force against the fence as to break his right _leg above the knee.