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ng a lot
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KINDS OF
elettes,
fraideries,
,rILOTHING.
commence to
end we won't
leng—we wili
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it, of Blyth, ia
illnt present.
al flue mare
L100 cause un-
. MCGOWIlla
ives in Middleilgnew has
iarkleill and is
d.
wie Social under
rtieni Endeavor
grand success.
-cheipe flowers e
irst lorder;: the
tirase Band as
,ernh rs of the
troc eds about
eh between the
the ;Rovers, of
e laSt Tuesday!
. f
victory- for the
a to none. So
me ;teams have
Liar, thong's the
vereile - matches.
mysi
otiamg at foot
one of the Ro-
ipped. He fell
ionei We' feel
one of the fa-
t the team will
me Of the mem-
i tine.
to see ao many
les. That's right,
— Our popular
iark, captured
birds., the other
at You whietle,
.—Miss Goodie
,s in Wingham.
andance at the
ate; Mrs. G. B.
ih Morning, in
h
-ad nother fire
ng of last week.
he alarm wee
•on - ascertained-
-part of the Vil-
- alln Tb0111p150a
I. aro was- filled
_Users. Livingnd the building
yed. It is sup
work af an in-
-Parke, of Liao-
ity church last
a a former in -
yrand many of
s -
ere pleased to -
of liatening to
the Presby
abbath School*
V ednesday last
t aud successful
tended.—Thurs-
y all the store*
.ea were closed,
nediill town. A
I the -4p excursion
elm i McKinnone
-as epened out ie
-elly'a block, He,
.-no,ven in the vie
- a good business.
t in this vicinity
endid, condition,
hreshed already.
ell„ in some in-
expected.—Rev,
eft on Tuesday
in -Belmont.---A-
sirigham on Fri'
circus. They
id worth seei0g.
returned home
eaks well of the
keg of last week,
celt belonging to
d road, ruptured
picket fence. A
argeon was stun -
he horse to be
be done- to save
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IMOILII NUMBER 1,235.
SEAFORTA,
FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 1891.
MoLEAN BROS. Publishers.
{
$1.50 a Year, ill Advance.
J20. GILROY,
CLI1NT1T2_W-
The sale that has been going on
A this store for the past two weeks
hssonly another week to run and,
st the end of that time We will
1411 opening out fall goods that
have come to hand so that we can
ilovi say to our people and all those
who trade at this store that for
the next ten days summer stuff
3611 , be run out at a rate never
known before and prices are going
to be the magnet that willi draw
, the people to this place, people tell
us that they never were iso well
served and pleased before, and still
some things and prices remain that
all women kind should see: Rich
things in prints that were Wic for
Sc Muslins I now for 15c, 'Ladies'
Gloves now 10c per pair. In fact
we can't enumerate here in thie
limited space, as to do so we would
have to go over the whole store.
We want to tell the people that we
confidently believe such a etch and
beautiful lot of the new tl*gs in
dress fabrics has not been seen in
the County for years as we are go-
ing to show this fall. New makes,
new shades, new materials, admir-
ed by the ladies wherever seen.
Then too we are engaging one of
thebest Dress and Mantle makers
we could secure for our dress goods
department, one who cordes most
highly recommended from some of
the largest American cities. So
the ladies may depend on getting
something special in that line at
this store for fall dress and mantle
wear.
SIGHTS AND SCENES IN
AND ABOUT NEW =
YORK.
(Written for -Tu s EXPOSITOR.)
LETTER 1.
. MY BEDROOM WINDOWS. •
you see nothing but a fiery cross. The
other is a similar contrivance, only that
Letters take the plaice of the cross, and
the lettere epell "Ripley." The first is
on the steeple of a large church on
Houston street, the chapel of a large
Episcopal church up town. The second
is the sign of one of those large empor-
iums which are becoming so common in
New York, where they °sell anything
from a paper of pins to a suite of furni-
ture for a mansion. •These two signs
might be taken as the visible tokens of
the two elenaents that, in one form Or
another, make themselves felt in all
grades of society and in all places,—
religion and the lova of money. I
might have put it "lust for gold," but
the plainer term, after all, seems to get
nearer the truth. In this part -of the
city at least, religion seems to be eather
overeihadowed just as Ripley'e sign
eclipses in size and brilliancy the, cross
on St.: Augitine's chapel. But more of
this anon. It is getting late, the stores
are closed, and even the fruit and peanut
stand S are beginning to disappear,
though some stay open all night. When
thoselItalians sleep I don't know. The
streets are almost deserted, though still
brilliantly lighted, (in fact I never saw
this street otherwise.) I guess I've
been long enough at the window. The
doctor is already far off in the land of
nod, and I shall soon be there too,
lulled to sleep by the tinkle of the bells
on the street care, the steady pound of
the horses' feet, and the rumble of the
elevated trains which paps in front of
the building. Strange things these,
you may say, with which to court tired
nature's sweet "restorer," but then you
know one soon gets so used to them that
he would miss them.
• THE WANDERER.
In beginning a series of letters on
New York, this great, busy, dirty
metropolis of Ameriea, it is not my pur-
pose to describe the city or its people
either artistically or statistically, be-
cause I have had neither. time nor op-
portubity to make a study of the place,
but simply to jot down some things tbat
have come to me in the ordinary course
of a very commonplace existence.
I was going to say I would begin i at
home, but that would hardly be a cor-
rect way of stating it, for I spend my
days in an office, eat at a restaurant,
pass my evenings .at a sort of club house,
and the doctor shares my bedroom. It
would not be fair to - call any one, or
even two, of these places, home. They
All enter into the compound. But the
one I particularly wished to specify Was
my bedroom. It is in the fifth story of
a large building with a gpressed red
brick front with fancy stone facings.
The building is a handsome one, and I
am proud of it when I look up at it, but
by the time I have climbed up four long
flights of stairs somehow or other I feel
rather ashamed of the building.- It is
not complete. It lacks an elevator.
But I am digressing. My room is not
very large nor handsome, not even
handsomely furnished, but it has its
redeeming features. Up here the air is
.as pure and freah as can be found in
New York; the roof is just above and
can be fled to as a last, resource on a
very hot night, and there are three large
windows in the room. These windows
furnish me with endless consolation and
food or reflection, besides a vast deal of
amusement. If I am merry I have but
to look down on the crowded street
where lights ars, flaihing, crowds are
passing up and down with no intent but
pleasure, and happy shouts of laughter
float up to me on the breeze. If I am
sad,I look past and through this and see
vice and sin parading the street in taw-
dry garments; poor, dirty, ragged,
bloated wrecks of human beings haunt-
ing the brightly -lighted saloons or for-
getting their manhood to beg from some
passer-by the price of a schooner of
lager. Even the laughter now has a
desperate, mocking ring. Perhaps it
comes from some one who is selling his
or her soul for present pleasure and
knows it. Really, one is startled when
be gets an inkling of how many such
bargains are almost deliberately made
every day, especially in a large I city.
How a man, knowing that to go tise the
left means ruin, the loss of honor, of
friends, of everything, while going
straight ahead will save these, lets the !
devilish part of his nature rule and with
a wild ,reckless laugh,:plunges to the
left. If 1 amrred out in body and mind
I can look out over the roofs at the log
line of colored lights twinkling on
Brooklyn Bridge, or up* at the star-
studded sky that looks down just as
calmly and benignly on the noise and
bustle, the greed and lust and squalor of
this great city as it does on the peaceful
sleep of some quiet country village em-
bowered in trees. Hello ! it most be
_
eleven; the c
out of the "
understand w
selves in ther
tre, one of the
York. It is
and moreover
wickedness, b t rather flaunts it as an
inducement b fore the eyes of the public,
and every night and four times a week
in the afternoon this crowd pours out,
and with it nough putrid; steaming
lc
vice—the bre th of that vilei place—to
ruin the mores of a good-sized town.
What sad stories the walls of that
dingy theatre could tell of souls in
which virtue Was stifled by the hot,
feted breath df the place. But the sten-
torian voices lof the song -sellers have
ceased, their Owners have betaken them-
selves ebsewhere, for the crowd . has
-
broken and sOattered. Some have gone
into the Volk§ Garten just next door, a
large hall filled with chairs and little
round tablesewhere music, good music
too, is dispensed free on condition that
you buy a driink. Most of the remain-
der have dispersed to their homes, but a
few have pulled into the "Alabama," a
fine new che 'ee lodging house just across
the way. A
a lodging
"here we re
priate when
J. 0. GILR
CL
Y,
NTON
The Crops Abroad.
Late English papers bring full ac.
counts of the serious condition of
things in India which are resulting from
drought. The London Times of the
277th ult., contains a long review of the
situation. The causes of the first alarm
it delacribes as a delayed a.nd deficient
monsoon, a heat so terrible that the
tramway horses were dropring in the
streets, and a single company reported
113 of their animals incapaci ated up to
4
date, armies of locusts marcling across
the Northern Provinces, the plough-
eattle dying of hunger and thirst m
Rajputana,` the green crop fi lds turned
into fields of straw throughout large
areas in Southern India and Ifresh sow-
ings impossible on the baked and
cracking ground, the nucleusF4 a pauper
population already formed and throng-
ing the relief works in Madras, while
wheat had been pouring Out of ithe
country during the •preceding three
months under the stimulus of high prices
in Europe, and native journalists Were
in vain demanding restrictions on the
exportation of foodstuffs. Since then
the strain has been relieved to some ex-
tent by the falling of rain, and by re-
ports that the locust plague is not so
ruinous as it was represeeted to I be;
nevertheless the Times c mes to the
conclusion that scarcity a d suffering
are inevitable. Whether"- the scaecity
will amount to famine, and the suffering
to widespread starvation, pitill hangs in
the balance. It is clear, it adds, that
the threatened failure of crepe extends
both to Northern and Southern India,
a failure of a. general character such as
has only once occurred during thes
memory of living men, and which, if
realised, means a widespread catastrophe
that must task to the utte
the resources of the Gove
the endurance of the people.
rmost alike
rnment and
The cable
within the past few days has reperted
the occurrence of stupendous rain sterms
in parts of India, by which hundreds of
lives have been lost and an immense
amount of property destroyed. It may
be that these storms, disastinus though
they have been, will save ithe °wintry
front still more terrible evils. These
conatantly recurring famines completely
_ baffle the efforts and science of Man.
The deaths of the hundreds of thouriands
in Hindustan, says this writer, my be
silently predestined by -climatic cendi-
tions in distant trans -oceanic zonesoer by
the snow fall of the Himalayas and
Central Asia, six monehti before a breath
of warning reaches the domed peasan-
try of India. The last !eat famine oc-
aimed in 1877-8.
—A man named John Helay, who re-
-sided in St. Marys, near Knight's mill,
suicided on Saturday eig t, lat inet.
The unfertunate man w e found on
Sunday morning in his ow ! cellar with
his hands and knees resting on the
ground and his head threngh a large
noose attached to a chain,1 which was
suspended from the jeiiit. Coroner
fihaver of Stretford wa l notified, and
atter examining the body ecided an in-
quest and post-mortem examination
nectesary. The post-mortem was con -
dueled by Dr. J, H. Matheson, aisieted
Dr. Smith of St, Mary's. Some
rumor& were in circulation that foul play
Was auspected, but the Fesult of the ex-
amination and the evidence taken at the -
inquest justified the jury in returning a
!verdict of suicide. The cause of the
rash aet was probably eecessive drinking
end supposed financial trouirles. Te
suiade was 35 years of age and leaves a
wife and small family to nonrn his de- a large, boll
patture, little gits lig
owd beginning topour
ondon." I never could
ere they all stowed them-
. The London is a thee -
most disreputable in New
Lot very big, but it is bad,
it makes no secret of its
ON BOARD THE SUPPLY
BOAT.
distance
has mad
last few
piles in
i) ert'
perched
ten fee
contemplatively on the passers-by in
thestreette below. The principal stem
of the y'llage filled us with surprise at
the exte
A casua
elicited
had for
We ha
extreme
ing his
sages t
inspecti
eurnmo
nection
paper—
River
ment
regulat
mature
passen
Bidd
River,
ward.
to
our
ning i
Trnsti
we ha'
hidden
Killer
datiori, guarded by island embattle-
ments, surrounded by the towering
peaks of the Lecloche mountain, Kil-
larney nestles in quiet security bidding
defian e to every hostile attack of what-
ever c aracter. Nor is it wanting in
other siources of attraction. Temptingly
displatied before the unwary treasure-
seekerlare numberless articles of Indian
viorkrianship, wonderful in design, but
skilful in execution. The curio counter
is liberally patronized, the dealer
naively acknowledges that he has made
froni the mouth of the stream,
wonderful strides during the
years—long ranges of lumber
icating the source of its pros -
Here the wooden houses are
on the top of boulders eight or
in height, and look down
STEAMER CANADA GEORGIAN BAY,)
August 4th, 1891.
(Continued from last,weelc.)
The course of the Sepply Boat threugh
Georgian Bay is one continuous scene of
pandramic loveliness. In =clout she sails
among a succession of islands of endless
varijity, some bare rocks merely rising
abo e the surface of the water, others
with perhaps a stunted tree clinging to
the rock and causing one to wonder
whence It draws its nourishment. Again
are to be seen what resemble huge.
rockeries, the stones piled in pictures-
que coinfusion, and the whole enlivened
by the variegated foliage of a few trees
and shrubs struggling for an existence.
Yet other blends are of much greater
extent, and 'covered to their very ism -
mite with white birch, poplar and Cedar,
among which as we proceed weseward
through the North Channel, pinel trees
are interspersed, producing a most pleas-
ing effects -their tall, dark tops standing
out in strong contrast with the lighter
green of the surrounding foliage.
After leaving Collingwood, the first
place called at was Christian Island,
then our boat turned its prow eastward
past Gin, Rock and Whisky Ialand,
and, guided by our skilful Captain,
glided slowly through the darkness,
and was soon safely moored in Penetan-
guishene Harbor. Off again at early
dawn, there was no opportunity of visit-
ingthe Reformatory, which stands on a
rising ground about half -a -mile from the
wharf. In a short time our boat lies to
off Hope Island, with its light house
picturesquely situated in the north point
of the island. A little to the north
stretches a series of rugged rocks, called
the Western Islands,. against which the
imagination can easily picture the waves
dashing in angry fury. In this neigh-
borhood Occurred another fatal disaster.
Late in the autumn of 1879, during a
furious gale, the Wabuno passed Hope
Island, but was seen no more. No one
returned to tell the sad tale. This was
a time prolific in fatalities on these
waters—within a space of two years five
out of six vessels belonging to the same
line were wrecked, our wOrthy ship, the
" Canada " being the sole surviSor. At
the entrance to Parry Sound harbor,
stands Red Rock light house, erected
on an immense boulder of red granite,
apparently so solid that nothing can
move it, but such is the force of the
wa er, that during a storm if the waves
str'ke the' rock at a certain point, the jar
very appropriate name for
ouse isn't it? Alabama,
t." It won't be so appro-
he place gets a little older
and not quite so particular about the
class of peep
and rounder
than at pre!
By the wa
ness, would
e it shelters, when tramps
are more frequent guests
nt.
talking of appropriate -
on call it appropriate or
incongruous ithat jest on the other side
of the street between the London and
rten on - one side and a
at's on the other, there is a
anufactory, no little one-
ither, but a fine, large, five-
uilding that gives tone to
en, a coffin factery in the
ns and kindred places, and
nfght by perhaps thous -
going directly contrary to.
t,if not the variety of its stock.
remark by one of the ladies
he fact that oue of the clerks
ierly been a resident of Seaforth.
e regretted ever since that
modesty prevented our enquir-
ame or offering to carry rnes-
old friends. Our tour of
n was cut short by a hasty
s to the boat—to have our con -
with the Canada transferred to
he photographer of French
ot wishing to Miss this instal -
f his harvest, which is, not
d by the seasOns, but gnickly
on the arrival -of a boat iciad of
ere.
ng farewell to historic French
the Canada steers west -
As we watch her course it seems
ninitiated eyes as if she were run -
to the middle of a cedar swamp.
g our worthy Captain, however,
ard no remarks, and through a
channel we are safely landed at
ey. Resting on its rocky foun-
or eight inches in height, and wore a
large moustache of a light color. Be
had no friends or acquaintances in this
country, except a friend named August
Schultz, at Lindsay, Ont. Ele left no
effects at his boarding house except a
currier's knife.
—Ten persons were killed in a rail-
way collision near Syracuse, on Thurs-
day morning, 6th inst. George H.
Saxby, - of Hamilton, is among the
injured.
—Mrs. Biggar, of Brantford, com-
mitted suicide at Buffalo, on Friday
efternoon, by hanging herself with a
towel. She wee visiting her brother,
James W. McKay, of that city.
—Another new seizure of smuggled
whisky, consieting of 28 barrels, besides
several cases of gin, has been made on
board a yacht which was towed into
port at Quebec, on Thursday, 6th inst.
—The St. Catherines Journal says:
"The Governor General's work would be
dearly paid for at $100 a year, and the
other $49,900 would be very useful to
the people whose labor earns
William Martin, a 12 -year-old lad, in
the the employ of Mr. Aaron Weber,
first deputy reeve of Woolwich, was
Friday afternoon kicked by a colt. His
right eye was destroyed and his cheek-
bone fractured,
—The negotiations between the
United States Whisky Trust and the
Wood Alcohol manufacturers for a com-
bination of their interests and the
control of the market are understood to
have been successfully closed.
—Mr. Hi, S. Holt, railway contractor,
now in Montreal, estimates that the
surplus wheat crop for sale in the North-
west this year will, on a basis of - 75
cents per bushel, bring $15,000,000 into
the country.
—A large barn belonging to Oscar
McDonald, a farmer living about one
mile east of Colborne was burned early
Friday morning. The barn was filled
with hay, grain, live stock, implements,
etc., which were all lost.
—The bye -election in North Brandon,
Manitoba, Saturday, resulted in a vic-
tory for the Greenway Government's
candidate, Attorney -General Clifford
Sifton, Whose' majority over Cliff, Con-
servative, was 173.
—About two years ago Thomas
Brown, a farmer who formerly lived in
Oxford county, Ontario, died in Aus-
tralia, leaving a fortune of about $500,
000, divided equally between his sisters
and brothers in Canada. As a result
of this Miss Agnes Barclay and Mr.
Thos. Waugh, of South London, receive
£3,000 each.
—One of the largest consignments of
grain that ever reached Kingston in one
day was received on Friday by the
Montreal Transportation Company. The
fleet, which brought 260,400 bushels of
graingrain arrived at fonr o'clock, and be-
fore
,
hour on Saturday the entire
quantity was on its way to Montreal in
the company's barge°.
—It is good to be a Canadian Rail-
way magnate. , Mr. Duncan McIntyre
is building a palatial home in Montreal
the estimated cost of the house and
grounds being $800,000. A Montreal
correspondent says it will cost a round
million by the time it is finished and
furnished. Sir Donald Smith, Sir
Toseph Hickson, Sir George Stephen
(now Lord Mountstophen) have all
grown immensely rich.
—A Wiarton paper contains the fol-
lowing: Mr. Donald Stewart of Pike
Bay is the owner of a kitten, which has
a surplus of legs and tails; it has eight
of the former and two of the latter. It
has the usual number of heads allotted
the feline tribe, but in eyes it is fifty
per cent. short, having only one
and that is in the centre of the fore-
head.
—A despatch from Elkhorn,Manitoba,
last week, says James Anderson, a farm
laborer for Mr. R. R. Chew, who lives
twelve miles north of that place, shot
himself dead the other morning by plac-
ing the muzzle of a shot gun in his
mouth. No reason is assigned for the
act, except that the poor fellow has been
despondent for some time.
—The failure of Messrs M. J. Wood-
ward & Company, oil refiners, of Petro-
lia, with liabilities of over $100,000, is
said to be in part the result of the de-
pressed condition of the oil businese.
The coat of Canadian crude is so much
greater than the price of the United
States article that even with a duty
equal to 9 cents a gallon United - States
oil finds its way to the Canadian
market.
—The announcement is made of the
failure of Mr. Thomas H. McLean, one
of the oldest and most extensive dry
goo& merchants of Brantford. Mr.
McLean has been in the business there
for about thirty years, and it is sadden-
ing to think that at the close of a long,
active and- laborious. business life a man
mast wind up in the hands of an as-
signee. This, however, is the fortune
of many businesiemen.
—It is always pleasant to record a
stroke of good fortune. The latest
thing in that line in Hamilton is the
case of Robert King, a bricklayer, who
has been lucky enough to fall joiut heir
to $375,000. The property is situated
in the county of Suffolk, England. It
comes to him through his father. King
has been in England for some months,
and writes to say that everything in
connection with the report of his fam-
ous luck is true to the letter. He
has a wife and family living in Hamil-
ton.
—The engineer of the .Grand Trunk
express from Toronto, when nearing St.
Henri, on the outskirts of Montreal, on
Sunday morning, noticed a man's.body
lying across the rail. The train was
stopped and an examination showed
that the body was badly mangled, har-
ing beeie 'run over by some preceding
train, The remains were put on the
train and brought to the city and the
police notified. Coroner Jones ordered.
the remains to be sent to the morgue,
where the leody, which is horribly out
enoug
him ii
Bewar , all ye who enter here.
out of the passengers to justify
giving the purser a good bargain.
Oh, for the gifted pen of the poet to
describe tke indescribable beauties that
to view on leaving Killarney.
g gently through a narrow channel
rid yourself sailing on the unruffled
open
Glidin
you fi
the Volks G
French dent
large coffin
horse affair
story brick
the street::
midst of saki
passed ever
ands who ar
one of Solomon's oft repeated warningse
Yet I never heard of its ever having ar-
rested anyone just about to commit a
crime or trust himself to a tide that will
surely Dear im to a bitter, bitter end.
Outside of st ry books, it takes, as a
rale, a good deal more than the sight
of a coffin fa tory to make a wian turn
from evil, e generally does wrong be-
cause he lik s it, and at first is fully
aware that is doinglwrong,but chooses
pleasure rat er than duty, the indul-
gence of the present .wish rather than
good in the neut.
There are two other striking features
of the view which you can catch by
leaning. out not a little farther. One is
w metal cross filled With
Is so that on a dark night
I
„ .
is
she
th
cir
Of
sp
Some twenty miles from Red Rock,
on the north •sbore of the bay, is Point,
au Baril, already an important fishing
station. The entrance to the land-
locked harbor is guarded by barrel-
shaped rock, which, like sentinel
cannons, frown! on the bold stranger who
dares to enter, as if resenting the
intrusion of man into a spot as long
consecrated to nature's solitude. But
man's mercenary spirit saw dollars and
t in the finny inhabitants of these M
of
sufficient to knock a bottle from a
If in the light house. Little wonder
t the family feel nervous under such .
unastances when the very foundations
heir house are thus shaken, and the
ay dashed right up over. the light.
surface of the clear, limpid waters of a
bay
in th
with
ward
the l
duty'
and
reluc
peac
Fo
has since been ascertained that the
man's name is Taledo, his brother being
a doctor in St. Henri. It is supposed
that he fell off a picnic train Satur-
and met
day night while returning home
death under the wheels.
—On Tuesday of last week, a
otted with gems of islands, while
background, LaCloche, venerable
ge, rears its rocky crests heaven
and casts protecting shadows on
vely bay nestling at its base. But
call must not remain unheeded,
with one fond, lingering look,
unfit?' we turn away from this
ful scene.
a day or two we skirt the north
shore of Grand Manitoulin Island,
pen4rating He deepest inlets, and
callieg at its most important towns,
Manitowaning, beautiful for situation,
Little Current, an incorporated town of
1300 inhabitants, and Gese Bay, hidden
from view in the darkness. On Satur-
day night at Thessalon, all Sunday
through the intricacies of the North
Chaenel and the windings of the St.
Mary river, Sault Ste, Marie is reached
in tiino for evening service, and so we
proceed onward, beginning to think of
the time when our faces shall be once
mort turned in the direction of home.
ONE OF THE, PARTY.
(Tobe continued.)
friendly
plowing match took place on the farm of
Mr. R. Brock, Adelaide, between the
Cockshutt sulky plow, of Brantford,and
the McPherson sulky plow, of London.
After a keen contest the judges gave
their award in favor of the M
plow. In the Southwold and
township matches held at Ion
Pherson sulky plow defeated the Giant
plow, manufactured by Grout, of
Grimsby.
—John Rabb, the Dutch farmer who
took a somewhat prominent part in the
Birchall affair, was in Woodsteck a few
days ago. _He reports that lover 200
oPherson
Dunwich
the Mc -
people visited the swamp last
The old fellow has had sever
of the vicinity taken, in iwhic
good-natured countenance app ars some-
what conspicuously, and his business
in too n was to sell the said photos. He
disposed of a large number, and was ad-
vised by many to take a trip to the large
American cities.
—Last Sunday night's storm assumed
the proportions of a hurricene to the
south of lake Ontario. A Niagara Falls
despatch says great damage was done
to standing crops in that neighborhood,
while the telephone and telegraph ser-
vice was paralyzed. Several plate glass
windows were blown_ in. In Hamilton
much damage was slim done, trees were
blown down, houses unroofed, and it is
feared lives were lost on the Bay on
account of the storm.
Hon. Charles Watters, judge of the
County Court, . died suddenly Friday
morning at St. John, New Brunswick.
He failed to appear at breakfast, and
Sunday.
1 photos
his own
save the lives of his father and little
brother and sister, who soon after -
regained consciousness. Four horses
belonging to Mr;' Ronmbaugh, a farmer
living two miles -north ofMorden, were
also killed by lightning.
' Mr. Edward McLaren, of Mitchell,
was thrown from a rig on Wednesday
last week,and had his collar bone broken.
—Sydney Lascelles, the accomplished
beat and society swell who victimised a
number of people in St. Thomas a few
weeks ago, has been arrested in New
York on the charge of swindling and is
confined in the Tombs. His aliases are
Sydney Lascelles, William Bond and.
Walter Eaton. Under these various
names he has led an adventurous life in
many lands. -He swindled Mrs. Silver-
thal of New York and married her
daughter under the name of Lacelle.
He is wanted in many places in America
and Europe for swindling, obtaining
money on bogus checks and other
charges.
—Andrew Rowe, son of Mr. Wm.
Rowe, of Woodstock, met with a ter-
rible accident the other day. He was
driving a team for Mr. Wm. Moon,
when the animals ran away. They at-
tempted to clear a gate that was in their
way, smashing it to pieces and throwing -
the driver out. His foot was caught in
one of the wheels and both bones were
broken completely. A wheel also pas-
sed over the body and crushed the collar
bone in two places. The skull was also
bruised in, causing concussion of the
braiu. The sufferer is lying at the resi-
dence of Mrs. Hardy in a very critical
condition.
—Wednesday morning of last week,
as the steamer Oriole was approaching
the, mouth of the Muskoka River, two
children, aged fifteen and five, slipped
off a boom and sank in fifteen feet of
water, and it seemed as though they
his daughter Florence went to his room would inevitably .be drowned. Mr.
to call him. She found him lying across Aubrey White, Assistant Commissioner
the bed dead. He had apparently just
begun dressing when he seas stricken
down. Judge Watters was about 70
years of age. He was one of the most
popular judges in the Province.
—In cutting down a large silver maple
or poplar tree in Galt lately, the heart
was found to consist of a stick about the
size of a walking cane, which, apparent-
ly, years ago, it must have been, as it
showed distinct marks at the small
knob il of having been trimmed off with a
knife. How the stick, got there is a
mystery, but having .by some merins
done so, the tree appears to have grown
around it, taking it completely in, but
keeping it distinct and intact from the
new wood with which it was sur-
rounded.
—The wife of William Smith, a pain-
ter, who came to Winnipeg some two
years ago has eloped with Jas. O'Con-
nor, a colored Canadian Pacific Railway
sleeping car porter. The couple are
thought to have gone to Montreal er
Quebec. Mrs. Smith took with her two,
little girls aged seven and five. The de-
serted husband will endeavor to obtain
possession of the children. It is under-
stood that O'Connor is the owner of con-
siderable property in Montreal. Mrs.
Smith is 41 years of age and the mother
of eight children.
--Daniel McDougall, of
some swine over to
Thursday, last week. To
he got a little the woree o
took sick in the bar of t
Hotel. He was taken to a back room,
andia,n hour afterward was
was the last seen of him al
the next morning his lifel
found on the square betwe
and the American Hotel.
was considered unnecess
evident that death was c
cessive drinking.
—A most melancholy aecident occur-
red on Friday night at the residence of
Mr. R. W. Hayes, of London township,
whereby a 17 -year-old son of Mr. Clark,
cheese buyer, of South London, lost his
life. The lad was spending his holidays
in the country, and was driving a
heavily loaded wagon and team, when
by some means he was thrown out and,.
run over. He was picked up uncon-
scious and carried into the house, where
all that was possible was done to restore
consciousness, but without effect. Death
intervened about midnight.
A sad drowning ac:ident occurred at
Greenwood on Wednesday of lest week
John Jackson, aged about 25, being the
victim. He and his brother were cut-
ting grain in the forenoon. The brother
Canada.
Cattle shipments . from Montreal
shoW a decrease this season as compared
with last year.
—1President Harrison has appointed
James W. Hine, of Michigan, to be
consul at Amherstburg.
--4The body of Major Ryerson, of
Simcoe, has been found on the beach of
Ryerson's Island, near Long Point.
-1-Michael Devitt expresses the cpin-
ion !that the Canadian Northwest has a
grerit future before it.
--!-The Canadian Pacific Railway
brought 1,500 passengers, of whom
1,200 were farm laborers, into Manitoba
on Friday.
-r-The corner stone of a large addition
to t e House of Providence, Kingston,
wa laid by Archbishop Cleary on Sat -
A movement has been started in
Hamilton to erect in that city an in-
stitution similar to the Mimic° Indus-
trij
So far this,season the Toronto Fresh
Air Fund has given twenty free excur-
eions in- which 4,500 children and
mothers have participated.
-rPeter Hanson, aged 15 years, went
bathing at Cobourg, on Wednesday,
las week, and got beyond his depth and
wa drowned.
Wm. Watson, son of Mr. Alexander
W tson, of St. Thomas, was killed the
other day in a railway accident at Ash -
laid, Wisconsin.
Handlton policemen are to have
go'd conduct badges granted them in
so ordance with their length of service
an proper behavior.
The Baroness Macdonald and Miss
cdenald have gone to spend the rest
the snmmer at Banff in the Rocky
untains.
Louis Renaud, age 29 years, com-
tted suicide in Montreal jail Friday.
was serving *a six months' sentence
vagrancy.
Robert King, a Hamilton man,
ose cireurnstances have not hitherto
•n opulent, has fallen heir to a large
tune by the death of an aunt in Eng-
• d.
—The partially decomposed body of a
n was found in the garden of a vacant
idenee at Peterboro at noon Friday.
e corpse was identified as that of
illiarn Waldoe, a currier, employed
t e last three ore four months in Pater-
s n's tannery. belonged to the
nited States, was 59 years of age, and
t at is all that is known of him. He
as much given to drink, and that is
• pposed to be the oause of his death.
e was in the habit of frequenting the
• rden where his body was found, to
seep off the effects of his debauches.
e was a man of about five feet seven or
solisucles, and now the splash of the oar
a
a
st
0
d the whistle -of the steamboat echo
d' re-echo in the surrounding hills.
e village consists of one general
re, and six or eight dwelling -houses
t down promiscuously, wherever
ough level space was found to hold
e—the streets with their natural pave-
ent wind over, around and between
e rocks as suits the sweet -will of the
destrian, and yet such was the at -
action that it was here we &at heard
quiriee regarding the prospects for a
mmer reeidenee. But the shades of
ening warn us that a longer delay is
advisable, and before morning we are
the shelter of Byng Inlet at the
Month of the Meignetewan river. R e
leave there early, and before morning pass
Ilusgaml Islands and enter French River
whose dark brown waters have been
flown:1g ceaselessly on, since long before
tae time when Champlain glided down
the river in his canoe and caught his
first glimpse of Huron's wide expanse.
he village of Feench River, a short
fe
fo
la
re
arrie, drove
llandale, on
ards evening
liquor, and
e American
missed. This
ve, and early
se body was
n the market
An inquest
ry, ib being
used by ex -
Crown Lands, Toilbrito, and Mr. B.
Bridgland, of Bracebridge, who were
standing some distance off, rushed to
their assistance. Mr. White jumped in
and with difficulty succeeded in swim-
ming with them to the boom, and with
Mr. Bridgland's assistance got them
safely ashore.
—Another drowning accident occur-
red in the Hamilton Bay last Saturday
evening, ehortly after eight o'clock. The
little steamer, " Maggie Mason," was
returning from the beach, bringing s big
load of passengers from the boat race.
A crowd of young, men were clustered
round the stern of the boat, and as she
was passing the foot of Ja.mes street one
of them fell or was crowded over-
board. These about immediately gave
the alarm, and the boat was stopped
and turned back, but the man had either
Sunk or they could not find him in the
darkness, No one on board the boat
knew him.
—A. most distressing accident took
place on Tuesday afternoon, 4th inst.,
which resulted in the death by drowning
of Hattie and Lillie, aged 12 and 2
years, children of Joseph Dumas of
Leamington. Alexander Dumas, brother
ofthe little girls, who is only home on
his vacation, had taken them for a drive
and drove on the dock at the lake. The
horse became restive, and backed so far
that one of the wheels went down, caus-
ing the children to fall into the water.
Being unable to swim he hurried for
help. The first two to reach the dock
were Will Fuller and Will Prosser, who
at once put out in a boat to rescue them,
heroically dived after the children and
brought them to the surface and ashore,
but it was too late, life was extinct.
Burglars operated at Teeswater
Thursday night 6th inst. They first
visited the post -office. They forced
open the front door and overhauled
letters, immuring a small sum of money
and one registered letter containing
checks Nos. 16, 21 and 22 for $38.19,
$38.05 and $2,70 respectively, drawn on
the Walkerton branch o'f the bank of
Commerce, in favor of Angus Steward.
They then went to the general store of
H. W. Carter, and, forcing the front
door, Mew open the safe and secured
877. The force of the explosion was so
great that the door of the safe was
blown completely out and two -large
front windows entirely shattered.
There is no clue to the burglars.
—George Simpson,a well-to,do farmer,
aged 67 years, living in the Dickie set-
tlement, a few miles from Galt, com-
mitted suicide at au early hour Friday
morning, by shooting the top of his
head off with a gun borrowed from
Andrew Chisholm, his next neighbor.
Simpson informed Chisholm that he
wanted the gun for the purpose of
shooting a dog that WI43 worrying his
sheep, but subsequent developmeets go
to show that the taking of his own life
was the object contemplated. Mr.
Simpson rose as usual about five o'clock,
dressed himself, and went out, going, it
is supposed, immediately to Mr, Chis -
helm's for the gun, then directly to the
Jackof his farm. He was seen walking
at a fast pace, but elite supposition was
that he was trying to overtake the dog.
About half an hour later, While the
family were at breakfast a report\ of a
gun was heard. Search was madeehin
the direction from which the sound
came, and Mr. Simpson's body was dies
covered face downward, close to the
fence in a corner of the field near the
bush, with the whole upper part of the
head, from the middle of the nose,
blovvn off. Appearance indicated. that
the muzzle of the gun was placed in his
mouth, and that standing up against
the fence he pulled the trigger. The
gun was found under the body. Poor
health for some years past is generally
supposed to have unhinged his mind.
Last week he expressed to his wife a
fear ef shooting himself, and about a
yew ago, it is stated, he was out of his
satnd for a week, but recovered his
sanity. The deoeased owned a good
farm of WO acres, and was in cernfor-
table circumstances. He leaves a
widow sad several grown-up soak. &nd.
daughieti,
finished about 11 o'clock
.the house for dinner,
passed and John not ha
appearance the family g
and went to find out wha
him, when they discove
on the dam, but the yo
nowhere to be seen. His
covered next day. It is
was bathing and got be
as he was no swimmer.
—A sad suicide occurred at Buffalo,
about one o'clock Thursday afternoon,
last %eek, at No. 121 South Division
street, the home of Mr. James McKay.
The suicide was Mrs. Grace Biggert, of
Brautford; Ontarie, a sister of Mr. Mc-
Kay, who had been visiting at the home
of her brother for some time. Mrs. Big-
gert had been a sufferer from melan-
cholia for some four months, but her
condition was not thought serious
enough to warrant confinement in an
asylum, although this had lately beeu
suggested.
—The storm which p seed over the
Province of Manitoba Th rsday night of
last week was attended I with several
fatalities. At MoosejaW Mrs. Mc-
Ginnis was instantly killud and her
building burned, being fired by light-
.
tels was also
lightning set
killed Mrs.
• Martell; and
iix children. The eld t, a boy of
eighteen years, was the first to regain
oonsoiensness, and he set to work to re -
'move the bodies from the burning build-
,
up, will remain pending an inquest. It .ing. which he aceomphshed in time to
and went to
Some hours
ing made hie
ew suspicious
was keeping
ed bis clothes
ng man was
body was re -
supposed he
ond his depth
nisei!. A woman named
killed at Moran. The
fire to the house, instantl
Martels and stunned M
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