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Home My WebLink AboutThe Huron Expositor, 1891-08-07, Page 1UILY 31, 1891. .NDE.. , beg td reinind. TorviERS NDTUE 4ASING PUBLIO s are offering a lot &It 0--AaTZTe = order te cicise out the D ENDS OF THE UNIMER TRADE [INT ALL KINDS O. 8, earasansessestittssmmmilmil"..mmumwsiaasew teens, flannelettes, Embroideries, SOME TIONS ?K9' CLOTHtNG. ods will commence to weeke, and we won't dr very long—we will Dieter it quickly. aFAUL. IFORTH. eheal Thwett'a grove. He is see a happy crowd on sod program of sports and an excellent daft had. Let every citt, the day and enjoy the heard , that Hansen, oot ball teams are * na August 6th to play. re, of Sault Ste. Marie, an visiting at his home. wife and family ,are —Miss Leeton hu been etion with Rev. Mr. Card, of Goderich, is - sin, Nellie Card. --0a :Mkt of S. Maner's was ed a small fire in aome ffoor and, bat for the her a serious conflagra— been the result. The burned. --On Sunday enderson, of Atwood, ament at St. *Andrew's nembers were added._. lursday next, August Civic Holiday, and :el to give all a chance uting.—Mra. J. Card, the Soo for the last wine this week. =seers. —The following ved at the Queen!! O. Kemp, Miss May Robbie and Beverly e Y. McLean'Min a, Keith, Arthur and an • Mrs. Caton and . lioffman and Percy Anna and Ellen • Mrs. norne, Miss Ed. Horn, Stratford. Chesney and ev. Mr. Penton, wife atford. ty Clerkship. the County Council of r kind friends : les are canvassing for ship, and I have been da of both political re known me for a to make an effort te a, I take this oppor- the support of the. but asi every man has, not expect all to be however, thankfully' by their influence or ma a large majority, 1r to fill the office with and unpartisan spirit - Wt filled for the last tory. I feel satisfied ine will think likesvisee. s truly, elusalc, Winthrop. DR.—Kindly allow me - the attempt mada, nue last week to bl- and hinder the work. etrth Huron, by so- oners of this Riding: mroiesion, under the of patrons of Indus, - t, dated June 22ad, ts from the Grant. ier fees up to efIllY ou for giving me the- itamp out" the vile, respectfully, F. J., BENNEST. have been shown the referred tO7 by Mr. - r as we can judge they Ireiresented.1 rrenoe took place at s Toronto, Monday - lie Crashley, a bright age, lost herr lifs• children in a larte and after playing, a lit 11 bonfire of Lillie approached' itig masts and her , burning her in lk After passing the ou sha, die& togt; as.e. 101 USI 41. TWENTY-THIRO YEAR. WHOLE NUMBER 1,234. SgAFORTH, FRIDAY AUGUST 7, 1891. {Mor..JEAN BROS. Publishers. $1.50 a Year, in Advance. JO. GILROY L 1\1" T 0 1•T_ In the hurly, burly of trade from eight in the morning till efetlat the evening, a crowd beyond doubt visits this store. Somemerely stary in because they see others at . the counters buying. Others leave home and come direct to this Store to do their buying, the reason be- ing that their interests were so well looked after the last time they were served here. Others again sweep right in as though carried along with the U -ave of popular.f excite- 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 Oper could tell of if we had twice;the space. It isn't our boast that no one ever thinks of looking further after seeing our stock. T1iat'4 too near hyperbole even for an advertisement. We want peo- ple to look and look and compare goods and prices. The result of the most careful investigation help this business invariably. Nor do we find it ne3essary to parade prices by the yard,to hang up in the papers what isn't in the store, or to say one thing and mean another. Not one day alone, but every day yourinterests are cared for here in a way that bespeaks a close vital connection between buyer and sel- ler. It - is as it should b The more we do the more liberal we can afford to be. We're ve y busy among our wash goods just now— they're of interest to everybody. Not busy in spots, but a general, healthy, unforced busineSs that comes of having just what you want, as you want, and when you want it. JO. GILFTY, CL NTON. ' —Among those who took passage on the steamship Polynesian laatl week a:t a Liverpool for Montreal were • n elderly couple on their way to Chicago to live_ with a married daughter. aboard the steamer the husk dead. The widow continue way, but showed signs of de n going and fell on her p melan- choly throughout the voyag . When she arrived at Montreal and stepped aboard a barge lyiog in the St. Louis Basin she threw herself deliberately into the water. _ The captain im ediately jumped in after her and Mt. George Hayden, guardian of the im ligrant's shed, went to his assistance. She was taken from the water alive, bu she died while being taken into the sheds. —A fatal accident occurred last Fri- day night at Point Edward, at 8.30 o'clock p. m.,, which resulte in the death of Wm. Boody, a youn man 18 years of age, and a switchsaaan 4nlpiqyed on the Grand Trunk. The stea er Con- ger, which was giving a lia0010 ight ex- cursion for the benefit of the park corn- miesioners, had jnet calied at to take on passengers, and w act of leaving when her ster around and etruck too spring , ON BOARD - THE SUPPLY 1 BOAT. . StEAMER_ CANADA, GEORGIAN BAT, ) 1 July 28th, 1691. c (Continued from last week.) Since my last writing both time and apace have been crossed. From Detroit to Collingwood occupied about a week, and of that time 1 shalt now try to give you a short account. All Monday, July 20th, was Spent on St. Clair Lake and. River. For age a this river has been. rolling on in majestic grandeur, and still keeps lin its course unimpaired in beauty or agnificeoce. As we followed its windin flow in a . several vill banks,', • d es side were a, e close to th rectly era ing pleased -- s, -for the St. Clair does not urea line to the south,— $ came in sight on both ially on the American ninnerous villas built ater's edge, or more cor- ing in the water itself, form - t summer resorts, but no doubt abandoned ere the northern blasts predict the approach of winter. It was on this river that we had our first sight. of a style of veilagrwhich is said to be revolutionieing the carrying trade on our Ca.natiten lakes. These boats re- joice in the appropriate name of whale - back, a narhe no doubt derived from the fact that only the upper rounded surface is seen abote the water. It is claimed that these tessels are less liable to in- jury from Storms than any others that have been built, as their cigar -shaped prow cuts through the waves instead of riding overl them and being tossed about at the plealsure of the furious elements. This vessel' forcibly reminded us of the one in which Jules Verne performed his voyagel of 80,900 leagues under the sea, and wno knows what voyages may yet be undertaken when this model has been brought to greater perfection. Apropos of this subject we noticed a day or two afterwards that a whale back had safely crosser' the Atlantic, so already they are becoming more enter- prising and undertaking longer voy• ages. Sarnia, about two miles from the head of the river, shows signs of progress, the extensive Iblocks of buildings and hand- some residences telling of business enter- prise and horne.comforts. -A home -like feeling wee experienced by your travel- lers when we met Mies Kate Cowan, who was on a Visit at her brother's, but all was nOt pleasure, for our hearts were made sad by hearing of the very tend serious illhess of an old friend. that Next morning the well-known heights of Goderich harbor eame in sight. Climb- ing the steps we made our way up town. The streets were very quiet, it being the civic holiday and moat of the people out of towis. . The Seaforth party, longing for one weed from home, interviewed the telephone operator. After some de- lay, and not until a: call from the Canada had come the line _was secured, but alas for dearly cherished hopes! one faint ! " hello " n a familiar voice was all that could be eard by the most I interested member cif our party. With disappoint- ment depicted on our countermines we hastened on board again, brooding over the woes of life and entally condemn- ing as a fi.and the tel nected thlerewith. At Kinnardine a town andla stroll on t the times The peop may justly be proud of their sandy beach lined with shining pebbles, over which weals the clear waters of Lake Huron inIceaseleas ripples. We could not leave without taking with us a re- membrance of the pleasant sunaet ho,ur spent at this charrning spot. 'Another ehiet niglht's rest, with only enough motion in the boat to encourage sleep by its gentle rocking. and we arrived at Chantey eland, opposite Southampton.- Here, at great expense, a breakwater has been enstructed forming a harbor he dock of refuge or vessels in distress, and on s in the the island atands one of the best light - swung houses on the Upper Lakes. At the top piles be- of a circtilar atone tower a hundred t tween which young Boody had his head feet high,' with walls eix or - eight feet inclined looking at the peopl on the thick at t e base, is placed a revolving boat. This caused the piles to come light, the brightness of which is intensi- the -for ler of these places is a real live busines3 town, and must have recovered from period of depression, which threate ago. - invitin dently ly decl palm. ed its businees life a few - years ut for romantic beauty, and situations, while business evi- s not neglected,it was unaminous- red that Meaford carries off the We lingered on its shady streets and wandered through its grassy dells, anxiou delight compel this I lost in awake from formed able th to prolong our stay in such a 1 s po t However, we were ed reluctantly to bid adieu -to vely scene, and ere long were reamless slumbers, only , to be ed next morning a short distance Collingwood. Ilse impressions of Collingwood were less favor - n either Owen Sound or Mea - ford. "To Let" in the windows of many business places tells its own tale, and no things few ar Mo DEA fran an July been wonder badness is dull, if other re sold at the same rate as the icles we tried to purchaae., ONE OF THE PARTY. e Information Wanted. ExPOsiToR,—Thanks for the as of your reply in your issue of Oth. I would, however, have uch better satiafied with it if you could have said whether it was principle or peSjadice that actuated, or should actuate, Mr. Sutherland. You say, " We fire not sure that we underetand what Our correspondent is driving at. * * * * At any rate we shall be glad to have him fulfil his promise."Until you min 'definitely answer my question, I thin you will see as clearly as I do that I should' not be called upon to ask her question, or perhaps make emarks on what is not satiefactory mind," for this reason, that my uestion would depend entirely " ano some to my other upon the definiteness of the answer, and my re arks. would- also be qualified by the nature of that answer. But your reply, although indefinite, is ' 90 frank that I almost feel constrained to offer my re narks now. If I do so, I know you ill not charge me with wiehing to intru e upon your space. Allow me first tt say that I have been a reader of THE XPOSITOR for many years, and have n the main been exceedingly well pleas.4 with the way it has been con - dilate ; that sound principle was at its found tion; long may its useful career conti i ue, and its influence for good ex- ar and wide. It was my anxiety ou should not deviate from the ht path that constrained me to one hand by asking you a ques- nd to state what was not satisfac- o my mind. Some things that are tisfactory are as folloWs : let. you-, along with prohibitienists in al, should be so exceedingly anx- o have immediate prohibition and o little evidence or prbba.bility 'f passed it would be effective, especially in view of the fact that o not urge the local parliament to h their licensing of intexicating s as unjust and wrong in princi- 2nd. Your asking Mr. Sutherland aside his personal prejudices and straight for prohibition, and ay whether Mr. Sutherland's op- en is, actuated by prejudice or iple "we of course cannot give a te answer." 3rd. You take it for ed that it was prejudice, "as we can e how auy man possessing the in- ence a member of parliament ahoiiId can be actuated by principle in is opposition to (immediate) prohibitio ." I think, sir, you should expect,that such a ma'n, if he be opposed to prehibition, ehou a be so from principle rather than dice. 4th. "That he should obey ehests of his constituents by voting ht for prohibition." Where or were the behests of his constituent!! known? Was it the vote of the hag referred to at Woodstock, ,or was it? A few months ago his ituents had the opportunity of ing that he was opposed to pro - ion, and yet sent him as their repro- tive by a large majority. 5th. You it is quite possible sometimes for a n to mistake principle for preju- " but surely you do not for a mo- tbink that Mr. Sutherland would such a mistake. ese things are not satisfa, ctory to ind. Should I have stated them rly in any way please correct me, would not knowingly do so. If they are satisfactory to your mind I will be much perplexed. Er WIRER. e would like very much to satiefy our eteemed correspondent if we could. In s far as Mr. Sutherland is concerned, itis matter of no importance to any pers n but himself whether his opposi- to prohibition is the result of preju- or principle, so we may drop that of the subject. It is not,the case, • ver, that he or any other member rliament was elected at the recent ions to oppose Prohibition, as that not an issue in the contest, and if representative's constituents,in pub - meting assembled, by requisition or y other way, make their desires n to him, we believe it is his duty rry.out those desires or else be able ve them a satisfactory reason why eclines doing so. On, the question strai stay tion tory not a That gene ious have that more you aboli liquo ple. to la vote hone and all con- then posit alk through the prin e beach filled up defin e of Kiticardine gran not s telli have suddenly together, crushang Boody's e y po head, scattering his brains o nearest hien on the hoist. —A sad accident occurred in Isle harbor Wednesday night o'clock. Three boys, named Crowe, Clayton Potts and G douald, who had been-spendin at the point, were returning boat to a =O'clock Point on where they were camped, a about a mile from the western of the canal a thunderstorm and the boat was struck by 1 Macdonald, and Potts were seneeleee, and when they came aelves they could find nothing companion Crowe, who, it is s was a,lso struok, and in that fell out of the boat and was His hat was found Etoating near of the accident. —There ie some talk' of the! Guelph city council negotiating the sal Guelph unction Railread and the proceeds to -building a system and other improvemen doubtful whether this \ can Strong arguments can, hotweve duced in its favor. The Guel tion, as it now is, is but a 13-n of the Canadian Pacific, and u arm is extended to Huron L -never be a very paying invest the Guelph people. About $2 the citizens money was put undertaking, and it is sloubtful 206 citizens travel over the nea Consequ,ently a charge might b ablynonaidered. er those spotless p liant rays Presque A day an about 11 Mend, tki Arthur threaten' al Mac - the day in their he bay, d when entrance ame up ghtning. knocked to them - of, their pposed, ondition r o ern ed. he scene Mr. James Dow, Mr. Jesse and. Me. John Devise of Mit for Manitoba on Tueuday, Mr. D3w took a carload of efi along with him to sell. Mr. goes to fill a situation in a Deloreine'and Mr. Davis is vi west with a view of permsnentl M some point out there, of the devoting ewerage a. It is e done. be ad - h June- ile arm leas that ke will ent for 0,000 of nto the whether a week. e favor - alk well, hell, left 8th ult. e horses Balkwell akery at iting the settling erful glass reflectors, kept itt! rity, which spread its bril- far over the waste of waters. a half was spent at Chantey e white -cape in the distance g with disappointment any attempt te land supplies at the next light. The sultry etorm at night, giv- ing all on hoard a cause to rejoice that our gallant bark was still in the shelter of Chantey Peer. Lyall 'Blend was passed dtiring the afternoon and the evening' found us on deck, going into ecstaciestever one of the glorious sunsets so often to be viewed on Huron's glossy bosom. Through a rent in a dark cloud on the horizon, the setting sun, like an tion immense ball of fire, was painting the dice eky a brilliant crimson, and lighting up part the surface of the gently swelling how waters with gold and amber and purple of P reflections. The memory of this scene elec will linger methinks so long as life shall was last. From Michael's Bay, west of any Manitoulin Island, a clear run brought lic us back to Isle of Coves at the entrance in a to Georgian Bay. After a short stay at kno this rockbound island, we were again to c on our way and in about an hour our tog good boat drew up at the rocky shores he of Tobermory, at the entrancinorth of Bruce Peninsula. Leave of absence here was spent as at other places, rambling over solid rocks, prospecting d ex- ploring and making collectio of various things, to remind us f he places visited. Again our course is northerly, Pest Echo, Flowerpot ancil other closely -wooded Islands. In spite of a strong head wind our gallant bark rode gaily o'er the waves, and shortly before sundown was anchored off Lonely Island, in the vicinity of which, ten years ago, the .ill-fated steamer Asia was wrecked and of all on board only tw o were rescued from a watery grave. On Saturday, Owen Sound and Mea - ford occupied most of our. time and at- tention. Judging from so short a visit option in the matter. They have to de- cide between two evils s Free trade in liquors and the licensing system, and it. seems to be the accept d opinion that the latter is the least harmful of the two; while the colleo ing of revenue from the traffic can on y be justified on the ground that so lon as it is allowed to exist it should be m de to contribute to the repair of a portlier', at leaet, of the loss it occasions.—ED. EXP.] Crops And Thing in Southern Manitoba. SNOWFLAI4E, July 27th, 191. DEAR EXPOS1TOR,—t8 that luminary " Selkirk " has disappeared behind the horizon and does not Seem inclined to let his light shine in upon us who are in dire need of enlightment, I will pen you a. few lines. The extra ordinary prospects for the crops at present are beyond our most sanguine expectations, and should nothing iatervene between this date and harvest, Ione of the beat crops will be garnered that Manitoba ever harvested. It i the exception to see a poor field of any !variety of grain, all kinds evidently vieing with each other not to be out shone by the other. When we consider that we have nearly one million acres under wheat, it is quite a possibility that Manitoba will have twenty million bushels, and according to reports, although I must confess that sometiines they are unreliable, the pros- pects for good prices were never more apparent. If one dollar per bushel were to be obtained, it would just mean twenty million dollar for the farmers of Manitoba. Of c intention to pictur and thus try to depo it is highly necessary prej the strai whe mad mee how cons k no hibi sent say pers dice men mak TI my unfa for uree it is not our things too radiant ulate Ontario, for that the . potato bugs should be kept 'n check in that Province, which could not be done if a few straggling settlers were not domicil- ed there. Haying is well advanced and barley cutting will begin shortly. A fair amount of new land has been broken this season, also a good deal of summer fallowing has been done. I should say thet each farmer will have from 25 to 75 acres of breaking and summer fallow together, ready for seed another spring. All kinds of young stock are doing fine, as grass is abundant owing to the numerous rains we have had during the months of June and July. Potatoes and all kind of roots are simply grand, and if I was the Cenadian Pacific Rail- way President, and was as much inter- ested as that Company is, I would give every Editor in Ontario a free pass to come out and see our crops. That would remove all patches from their tem to their origi- we farmers could 11 a bun feed and ut a promise that when they reached homo they would, through tha medium of their respective papers, tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. W. BARBER. of *rohibition we may say that we be- lies- the liquor traffic, in all its branches andt ramifications, is productive of evil, only evil, and that continually, and that it is the bounden duty of every good citbjen to do all in his power to check and lessen this evil if it cannot be com- plet ly eradicated. It is because we beli ve, and we have good reasons for beli ving, that if a law prohibiting the tra c, —the manufacture and sale of lig on—were passed by the Deminion Paelianient, it would have a strong in- fluence in checking and curtailing the evil, and hence we think it should be sup orted by every good and moral me ber of Parliament. We also be- lie e it is wrong in! principle and prac- tic to license a ticioue and immoral tra c. But the Provinces have no breeks and restore t nal usefulness and afford to give them not exact anything were made to relieve him, but he bent his head and dropped his arms over the side. of the chair and sat motionless for some sieconde. Mr. Gobeil, the secre- tary of the Department of Public Works finally came to his assistance, and wi h another official led him from the roosn. In the corridor, where he was at once seated, he went off into a state of unconsciousness. He was car- ried thence -to the room of Mr. St. Ongo Chapleeu, hard by, and was stretched upon a couch. Meanwhile, Dr. Trow, of Toronto, who happened to be present, attended to him, and his wife and his regaled physician were sent for. When he recoVered consciousness he wept like a child i and cried : "I'm done for, I'm done for." Shortly afterwarda Mr. Iterley was conveyed to his hoine, where he lies very ill. It is believed that the worry Mid strain of the last few months have so played upon the ex -Chief En- gineer'! mental and physical powers as te have rendered it impossible for him to stand' the keen questionings of the sharp lawyers on the committee. A dozen practised examiners were at him this morning, and the work of meeting the points they raised was too much for him in his weak condition. One of the medical men says Mr. Perley has re- cently been BO:faring from pleurisy. The episode created much excitement in the committee, and awakened no little sympathy for the sick man. Mr. Mur- phy, wbo was presentwas much moved, but he took some consolation from the fact thet he was not the only witness who cold faint. As to the committee, the members were shocked at the un - looked, for result of their interrogations. Ooe of their number propoeed that Mr. Perley should not be worried by being called into this box again. It is under- stood that the reference of Mr. Feeley to subordinate officers who figured out the tenders pointed to Boyd, an officiel now dead. Boyd moneyed out the cross - wall tenders and many others, and then Mr. Perley, as Chief Engineer, reported upon the results. A Pathetic Scene. Another very pathetic and pitiable scene occurred before the Privileges and Elections Committee, at Ottawa, on Friday. Mr. Perley, the late Chief Engineer of the Public Works Depart- ment, was the principal actor. The proceedings are described as follows : When the commi bee assembled, Mr. ecalled, to produce lake, in order that on the subject of & Co's contracts H. F. Perley was his private letter b his correspondenc Larkin, Connolly might be examined. He appeared in the moth, looking much worn and very ill. His face was haggard and his movements were painful. After he had laid his books before the committee, Mr. German began to question him, touching the awarding of the .contract for the Quebec cross -wall. It will be remem- bered that Lsrkin, Connolly & Co. were interested in three tenders for the work. One, the lowest, was put in in the name of John !Gallagher, the next was offered in the name of George Beau - cage, who was to have been bought out with $5,000, and the third yeas in the firm's name. When it became known that the firm controlled the three lowest tenders, arrangemente were made for the retiring of Nos. 1 and 2, so that the contract might be secured under No. 3. The first (Gallagher'a) was allowed to . Perley having re - e was too low. The was got out of the nner. The tenderer was notified that he had made a mils - take in some of he figures. He cor- rected the mistake, and this brought $6,500 higher than & Co's, thereupon for the 'contract or lost, and the work What Mr. German - was how Mr. Perley was able to say that Gallagher's figures were too low. Mr. Perley said he really did not know upon what he based hie opinion, unless it was his own estimate of the probable cost. Mr. Ed- gar then endeavoured, but without suc- cess, to find the particular items in Gal- laghar's tender that were too low, and Mr. Davies added that surely in a mat- ter involving a hundred thousand dol- lars to the country the witness would not take the responsibility of reporting that a tender wan too low without mak- ing a pretty close enquiry into the de- tails. At this point Mr. Perley ap- peared to become faint, and he fell back in hie chair exhausted. Recovering in a few moments, he rose again to his feet, and declared in a loud voice :— "1 know nothing about the matter. I took no more interest in it than in any other work in which the calculations are entrusted to subordinates. Honest- ly.", he exclaimed in a still louder tone, "1 can tell you nothing more. Others do the work, and II bear the respOnsi: bility." After this effort Mr. Parley again fell backwards into the chair be- hind him, pressing his hand to his heart as if the pain isras there.. Attempts be withdrawn, M j ported that the pri second (Besucage's) way in a similar m his offer to a figure Larkin, Connolly Beaucage's chance for the $5,000 was fell to the firm. wanted to know diseased, and the hair and scrapings have been thrown into the stream which flows down through the affected district'. In this way the germs of the disease shoulder, cutting leather suspenders, shirts, waistcoat and coat to the length of fourteen inches. Three blow)" with the knife quickly followed, the first two have poisoned the water and the grass doing no harm, but the third entered along the banks, and the cattle which Grant's left side, the blade stopping within an eighth of an inch from the heart. Both the Murrays I were ar- feed on the flats have been the sufferers. — Among the passengers for Yokohama who left Victoria, British Columbia, Wednesday 29 ult., on the steamer Empress of India were the following missionaries :—Mies Large, Miss Robert- son, Miss Schlootz, Rev. Dr. Sheffield, Mr. and Mrs. Walker. —Thomas Warwick, harness maker, while walking on the Lover's Walk at Ottawa Wednesday night of last week, became suddenly dizzy and fell over the precipice, rolliug right to the bottom and into the river. It is feared he will die,. He is 75 years old. —A Niagara Falls despatch says that 30,000 people strolled through the parks on both sides of the river on Sunday. A large excursion from the South - Western States and Grand Army peo- ple from the east made the immense crowd. Gorge Near, of Camlachie, former- ly, of West Nissouri, on Saturday, had hitched his, horse to the buggy, with the intention of driving to Wyoming, and whilst coversing with his wife fell forward and expired. Death is sup- posed to have resulted froin an affection of the heart. • —James Holon, jr., of Essex county last week threshed 40 acres of fall wheat that averaged 34 bushels,or in al11,362 bushels. One field of twenty acres realized 41 bushels to the acre, or 822 bushels. He still has 45 acres in his barn to thresh yet, and expects to realize in all 3,000 bushels. This looks like farming. —At St Catharines there is a bycicle club composed of ladies. Among the number is Mrs. A. D. Gilmore. Wed- nesday she started on her " bike " for Port Dalhousie. On the road she "took a header "and went over a 50 foot en- bankment. Strange to say she was not seriously injured. —Joseph Ardais was killed near Chelsea, on the -Gatineau Valley Rail- way, Saturday, by falling down a cliff with a handcar. Ardais and two other men got on a spree and while returning home the car ran off the track and down the embankment. The other men escaped with a number of scratches and a few bruises. —Arrangements have been made for holding a Provincial plowing match at the Experimental Farm Guelph,- under the Canada. winipeg Icelmoders have formed a Liberal aseociation. —Last week 2,657 cattle and 3,335 sheep were exported from Montreal. —Miss Edith A. Littlehales, a talent- ed Hamilton violinist, is dead. —A party of 559 laborers from Ontario have reached Manitoba to work in the harvest fields. —The memorial monument of the late ex -Premier Norquay was unveiled at Winnipeg on Saturday. —D. D. Everardo, for many years registrar of Welland county, died Fri- day aged nearly 90. —Hailstones as large as hens eggs fell at the Northwest Cattle Company's ranch in the Foothills the other day. —J. A. Ingram of Winnipeg, fell from a Canada Pacific Railway train on Saturday near Selkirk and was killed. —Hamilton expecte to have an en- campment of 10,000 Patriarchs Militant on the occasion of next summer's carniiral. —Christopher Oflergelt was drowned at Peeetauguishene last Saturday. He leave* eix orphan girls, the oldest but twelve years of age. —During a thunderstorm at Verona on Wednesday night of last week, Mrs. Lansipg Snider was shocked to death by a clati of thunder. Her nerves were paralt zed. —Eddy Morrison, of Kington, 8 years of age, strayed away from his home on Wednesday of last week and Friday morning his dead body was found in the harbor. —The freedom of the city of Edin- burgh, is to be conferred upon Sir Daniel Wilson, President of the University of Toronto, and a fellow of many learned societies. —The closing of the lobster canning factories on the west coast of New- foundland is said to have created a per- fect panic among thoueands of workmen. —Dr. Richard McDonnell, one of the most prominent of Montreal physicians, is dead. He died at the early age of 38 years. He was professor of chemical medicine at McGill -University. His death was due to consumption. —The Lang Manufacturing Company ti biscuit and confectionery establishment in Montreal, was destroyed by fire last Friday night. The loss will probably foot up $25,000. About 70 men are thrown out of employment. —Mr.Robert McLean, secretary of the Canadian Fire Underwriterid Associa- tion, I has returned to Toronto from Britaip, greatly benefitted in health by a,' three months' visit to Auld Scotial;i —A drew Arbuckle, of the firm of Arbucikle & Chambers, at Merrickville, got boIth hands caught in part _of the machinery in their roller mills, on Fri- day night, last week. The left hand is destroyed and the other badly mengled. —It is reported that negotiations between the Lake of tbe Woods Millin'g Company and the Portage Mil- ling Company, for the purchase by the former of the latter's mill and elevator at Portage la Prairie, have resulted ha a transfer of the property. —Four young people, George Mc- Lachlan, Dora Balkwell, Bertha Chap- man and Harold Helier, went out in a row boat at Port Elgin Monday evening of last week. The boat filled with water and Heller. and Mise Chapman were drowned. —The anthrax has killed several more cows end pigs in the vicinity of Acton during the past week. A farmer named Flynn noticed that one of his cows was sick the other day. He thought it better not to use the milk in the family, but fed it to some pigs. It was well he did not use it, for the cow died the next morning and a short time afterwards two of the pigs died. The most probable cause of the outbreak of this disease is that the tanneries in Acton receive consignments of hides from South America, Some of these may have been rested. —Mr. Holterman, of Romney, reports that the honey crop this year will be very small all over the conntry, and especially in the Niagara peninsula. Itt that part there will not he half a crop, as the white clover and basswood has been an entire failure. The early places where a fair crop will be harvest- ed will be in those parts where a good crop of alsike clover has beenigrown, as this variety has grown well this year. -s-The other night a steer belonging to - William Chavens, of Albemarle, town ship, Bruce county,was brutally maimed by some evil -disposed party. It wan found lying with one of its hind legs broken and a large bruise on the front of its heard, evidently inflicted with an - uxe, On Sunday morning on the same concession a lamb belonging to Edward Thompson was killed and laid at his gate. There have been many ruffianly acts,in that vicinity recently. —Mr. Joseph -Craig, collector of inland. revenue at the Port of Prescott,' while ea route to join his wife and five child- ren, who are summering at Stony Lake, was stricken with paralysis in the Grand Junction train on Friday hest, and en his arrival at Peterboro' was speechless and in a dying condition. He was. removed to the Nicholls Hospital and died in an hour. The deceased gentle- man was 66 years of age and was ap- pointed to his late office in I§'77. —Montreal proposes to celebrate next year the 250th anniversary of its found- ation by Maiesoneuve, and preparations for the event are already under way. The date of the establishment of the colcny is May 17, 1642, but the celebra- tion may be arranged for the QUtC13'13 birthday. Cne feature of the pro- gramme will be the unveiling of a statue of Maissoneuve, on the pedes- tal of which will be memorial bas- reliefs. —A well-known Yarmouth, Elgin county, farmer was surprised a few days ago on receiving a visit from a St. Thomas lawyer, who informed him that - unless he paid $1,500 action would be entered against him on behalf of his former housekeeper for breach of prom- ise. The farmer called at the lawyer's auspices of the Agricultural and Arts office the next day, and, rumor says, Association and the South Wellington paid over a good round- sum. He de - Plowing Association, some time in the latter end of October. It is the inten- tion to make this match one of the best that has ever been held in the Province. --The body of a man was found at the mouth of the Rouge River, near Port Union, on Thursday of last week. There was a bullet hole in his head and deceased had apparently been in the water about ten days. An empty purse was found in his clothes, and it is sup- posed he was robbed and then mur- dered. —A Burford clergyman has got him- self into hot water with some members of his congregation by bluntly rebuking a young lady whom he says was misbe- having in the congregation. The young lady's good conduct is vouched for by those occupying the adjacent sea* as well as those in the same pew, whose guest she was. —James McCully, farmer, Delaware, died on Wednesday, last week, aged 46 years. He was unmarried, a son of the late Samuel McCully and cousin of Mayor McCully, of St. Thomas. De- ceased has been ailing for a year, but, died very suddenly. He -was sitting up and more than usually cheerful, lay down on a sofa and expired in two minutes. — A very severe atorm of rain, thun- der and lightning, passed over Picton and surrounding country on Wednesday night, 29th ult. Anthony Dentin, 3rd concession of Sophiasburg ; Thomas Warring, Hillier, and Thos. Gallagher, Hallowell, each lost a barn and their contents from lightning stroke. Mr. Demill aleo lost one horse which was comfined in the barn. — At tire meeting of the Grand Lodge of British North America last week, Mr. N. C. Wallace, M. P. was re-elected Grand Master, and Mayor Clark, of Toronto, Deputy -Grand Master. It was decided to organize ladies' lodges, to establish a Provincial Grand Lodge in the North-west Territories and British Columbia, and to hold the next meeting at Montreal. —Dr. J. M. Fraser, one of the best known physicians in London, died in that city on Sunday after several month's illneas from heart disease. He leaves a large fetidly. Deceased was the surgeon of the 7th Battalion, and did duty in the North- Weet in 1885. He was a sterling Conservative in politics, and an elder of St. Andrew's Presbyterian church. His age was 54. —Mrs. Margaret Sims, of 12 Ander- son street, Montreal, nearly killed her husband during a quarrel last Friday. She stabbed him twice with a table knife in the right cheek and °nee in the back, nearly severing the jugular vein, which the knife missed by senly an eighth of an inch. The husband, who bled profusely, was taken to the General Hospital, where he lies in a critical con- dition. —William P. Grant, a well-known young Montrealer, was stabbed on St. James street in that city at an early hour on Sunday morning. He; in com- pany with several other friends, wise returning home, when at the corner of Inspector street they were met by two brothers named Patrick and James Murray. The Murrays jostled against Grant and his chum, and upon being told to go home Patrick Murray is said to have drawn a large pocket knife with an open blade. In a moment Grant was stabbed in the lower part of the back, and as the knife was drawn from the flesh it was drawn swiftly up to the clarets it is a case of blackmail, and says he only paid the money to escape the unpleasant notoriety which would result from an action being entered. —The smuggling business is on the increase on the lower St. Lawrence and it threatens to take enormous propor- tions. Parishes which had been noted for the sobriety of the inhabitants are now the centres of turbulence and of hellish depravity, in spite of the super- human efforts of the cures to bring back their flock to better principles. There ia over $1,000,000 engaged in illicit whis- key trading both in the maritime pro- vinces and the lower provinces of Que- bec principally. —The heaviest thunderstorm of the season pained over Wellington village and vicinity on Wednesday night of last week, doing much damage. Lightning struck and burned Milton Leaven's barn with contents; also Mrs. Thompson's barn, burning one span of valuable horses, 20 tons of hay, 150 bushels of wheat, reaper, wagon and harness, with other farm implements. In the township of Hillier, about four miles from Wellington village, a barn belonging to Thos. Gellagher, on Gerow gore, was burned, and a shed of D. Clinton, about half a mile from the vil- lage, was slightly damaged. —The Ontario Agricultural College which is located mar Guelph is doing an excellent work. In the experimental plat over 600 different samples of grow- ing grain is to be seen. The progressive farmer is alive to the advantages accru- ing from such scientific experiments. The Honorable Mr. Dryden, 'Minister of Agriculture has just returned from England where he has made very eXten- sive purchases of some of the finest bloaded stock in Britain. The stock is now on the way across the ocean and after the quarantine regulations are fulfilled will be placed on the college farm. —Thomas Lawson, the little _son of Andrew Lawson, etation agent at Lake- side, was accidentally shot by his brother William at about. 8 o'clock Saturday evening. It seerns William was playing with the revolver in the barn back of the station, when his brother passed the door and stooped over as though to put Borne - thing up. Juat then the shot was heard, and Thomas received the bullet in the back, just below the lunge. Both boys are •young, and there is scarcely any doubt that the shooting was purely accidental. The result may be fatal, as the physicians fear the bullet hasjpenetrated the lungs, and are afraid to probe for it. The boy Was brought to Montreal in a dangerous condition. —A mysterious fire broke out in the stables attached to the Briscoe Holum, Napsnee, Thursday, James Wal- lace, biscuit mananufactufer, of Belle- ville, lost a pair of horses and a delivery wagon filled with good to the amount of $1,000, A valuable pair of four- year -olds owned by Mr. Rockwell, of Kingston, were also burned with the other contents of the stables. Potter & Williams livery was also burned out, contents of building saved. Loss un- known. This is the second mysterious fire within a week at Napanee. W. A. Taylor was the owner of the hotel. He has been singularly unfortunate. Two hotels run by him in Demorestville were fired, the Dominion and the Briscoe of Napsnee, and the Willard house of Belleville, -