The URL can be used to link to this page

Home My WebLink AboutThe Huron Expositor, 1892-03-25, Page 12 =101001L � kets -Y_ 7VE. irabj& WIY lnwm� I � I I . I 1� . . I - . � I . � I - - - . . . I . . , 1 I - � . I � . - � � � I .� , I � . � I � � - . - ,I " - . � ! � I . . .1 I I � � I . � . -- � I � I I , . -_ . - I** - - . 11 . I , I I - . : . - t- , I . -� . I I I � - � __ - . � . . I . . I I I , � i ; . � -_ . - . . - I . - I ; . I i . . - I . � � i I&-- I . . . - . -6� . , . � - "I'll, ....... - . . � . . . i I , : , � I i . I __ ---------- . . I . TWENTY-FIFTIE1 YEA CH. 95,1892. � - SEAFORTHy FRIDAY9 MAR . I � . WHOLE NUMBER, 1,267. � . - ! ! � ; - - - i I � - - . I - by men! are offering $2 per day for men i is with a rush, crowding and pushing past gun. Accordingly, two of us went with deat, man and had remained faithfully ,each oth r, not content to go peacefully one him intending to have all the fuq out of it , him!, though in the years that had elapsed through the threshing season. - SPRING HATISC at a time as they: should do, and often cans- , that we could. We followed closely on the I he had grown old aEid as savage as any . F rwer� are preparing to.put in a larg . 1 ,3 1 L A. f #-.h. ;nn le � cro than ever this vemr an�h annear as — Its simply wonderful the v Nobby Hats we are showing Ju The people of Seaforth and I . have shewn their appreciation g goods at popular prices, and ac: ly we have bought largely and i cases cheaper than usual. Rest you will reap the benefit. W Hats ate very price, and its yo fault, not ours, if you can't s suitable hat among our mar styles. I — ]—Boy's School Hats., . Xen!s Soft Hffats,l MeWs Soft Hats, NeWs Stiff Hats, 4 — These are Simply leaders; m . iiiany such bargains all throu yo.a want. positive proof come � us. . � . I The - Famous - Hatters, - S COLORADO . � SKETCH . - - [Written for the ExPOSITOR. I RU.NNI.NG 37LOCK—SHEEr. LETTER NO. X1. — S'h eep are to -day the best paying the West. tThey entail more labor the cause of almost ceaselessanxiet� owners but they pay well, so all st say. This fall there was not a, Shea loought in Ruerfano County or, in place in SGutheastern Colorado. E that could be fed had been bought in the season. I don't know v About the sheep business, even less know about the other branches of V business, hat I will do my beat . mostly from heareay, an idea of h( oarried on, The sheep are fed on the ranch of about a thousand. They all th out here though, instead V flock each herd is a herder, generally a Americans very seldom make good whether they are not patient enoug some other reason, I don't know. is: not a very intellectual business a not require a high degree of int A.11exican will travel all day with never seeirig another human bei nothing to do but watch � tife sheep, to read and no chance tb sleep. or other with a Mexican the herd stay together of its own accord, wh I an American it will constantly brea . keep him busy running to and fro completely worn out. Sheep c berded on horseback but must a] follay.v , ed on foot. A mounted ru thro,ligh a herd will cause them to in e-��y direction. With each several goats and a. burro. Sheep timiaanimals that it is impossible them to start over aoy difficult plac goats are entireiy fearless. So v sheep refuse to move, the herder '11� Couple of goats to go over the ha and the sheep follow immediat burro is used for packing the her longings. The headquarters, whi . from the horne ranch is the sheepoi good season, when the grass is plan camp is chaDgedonly about every four weeko, tbik herds always grazi a abort distance of it so that eac country is pretty thoroughly graze the sheep camp moves. In dry o weather the sheep man has a hard it, for not-sel-dom he bag to watch 41-y-ing-by dozens and scores wbi absolutely helpless, Winter is the time on the sheep and the wise ow pares for an occasional blizzard by up plenty -of hay at the home be fed in bad weather. For this many have a hay ranch connected outfit. The time of greatest anxiety is t \ ing season. If the grass has been . the ewes are in good condition t inan's visEkge bears a broad and bap but if the graFs has been poor at scarce his mouth drops away down corners,for the chances are that ma ewes will die and those that do live be able to nouriah their little ones L gteaC, f Rocks in. 0 being increased cent. will uuffer heavy losses. Th( time is at shearing. Then the , the hot, qniv iis filled With the snip of the shears the wool shed there is; a constar and in the house the cook f umes an and swears while he bustles about 000king StOLVe all day long, for she 0 I like th-re8hers, proverbially hun� shearers come from various classes, small ranchers who take L this getting Eome ready cash, Ot Mexicans who get enough thi-9 way them tOL take it pretty easy all the the year. As, the sheep are she wool is p,a-.;ked into large sacks an . aWay to be hamled ta the nearest y, wagons,and iihipped. Another bus at the di--ffing. This is accompl, mea,us of a t:Lnk, shallow at on deep a,t the other. The sheep are chate into the shallow end and are ly gouged before they get throng they are bousted out and run into * by themselves. The dip is a . corral mixture put in water and is tocure scab. Another job that Unlimited patience is numbering. are run through a, chute from one another, the enumerator dropping into his pocket for each on a tha This sound# simple but to do it is thing. The sheep are very much begin with, and when they do go ing the p he didn't zzled counter to use language that learn in Sunday School ; "United heels or the Indian, who very oft,en g &nee behind to make Aura we had not deserted r,ft. - E, . We took formal possession of the islind, 9 9 gen 1'ral rule, to be quite confident t� I I States" they call it out here, and I have him. We were intending to bolt with a I surveyed it, made a map, And in a few days t a ; a grand f ature in store for th � ent pieces, took two years of patient labor Rowland maintained that as a coneequence chmen solemnly aver that when wild yell and scare the wits out of him when-, took our departure, bu t the bottles were couTt yet. Real estate has taken quite r , riety of everythit g else has failed a string of oaths I be suddenly jumped behind as, and pointing lef t . hanging to guard our acquisition. lately, and quite a number of - far r 0001 - havi i changed hands at very fair figur1e �iti�n at Mr. LaPorte's establishment, and will brin tosubjecl any animal that ever breathed in. ion. This is particularly so with straight ahead -whispered in Spanish, " Look, Senor, there it is I" Sure enough, , I* FRO& NORTH DAKOTA . Taking everything into consideration I thir � at now. mules, an that is why I think that ifis not there it was, 11 IV was simply a piece of I ' I that, times are going to be better this y 0 i than for the last number of farina vicinity the swearing learned by but what the: animals have experience follows such langua 0, paper, on which was printed a land survey in Spanish enclosed in a glass case and fast- ijXTRXXZ COLD—A TZRUIBLZ STORK ---THE BZAUTIES OF WATURB—THRESHING , MAR- - years ; appear to be more contented, and wbat.is of fine- that does the business. Still anoth�r " es y . ' ened to a tree. The sun was shining on the - KETS AND WHEAT SHIPMENTS—LABOR- rw great deal better they are living more a cording to their income and trying to ket 5 1� I job" cominpeted with sheep is that of ividiD .9 glase,andtheltidiAll, never having seen - ZRS WANTZID—PROSPEcTS FOR., THE ! out of debt as much an possible. Of oour'p- cording- the butick into ewe and wether her 9. his PlImes before, just dropped everything and few feei' the vu,IURIZ, &C. � : at the same time, there are plenty of ti 1 is accomplished end of the by having two doors at the - chute, each leading into a separ- ran. His gumn lay within a of tree, but Sebastian would not go near it ; __ - LANGDON, North Dakoka, 'March 10tb, 1892. fariners who have a hard struggle to ke � .t n iriany . ate corral, one for the ewes and one for the he entreated me to use a charm and destroy DEAR EXPOSITOR,—NOt having SnYthillg the wolf from the door, and some few *I havq given up In despair, but where is 41 assured . wetbers. tails, those They are distinguished by their of the wethers being cut short. the evil spirit. Accordingly, I told him to kneel with his face to the sun, (that turned particular to do this evening, I thought I� would devote a short time to writing an Ac-. courf,try in whioh thbre are not . I e ve -Ot while the: ewes have theirs left long. One his back to me), then I recited " The boy count of the times in this northern country. _. the. -Huron, during the last year or tw, M O'� ' . !'herl are "umbers who have had to give ri b man works the gates and another stamde up stood on the burning deck," and wound up In the first place we have had - one of ever thing and start a,new. La grippe vr� I � in the chute a piece afid calls out 11 ewe" or by throwing a rifle cartridge at the glass, coldest, if not the coldest, winter that I have. qui� prevalent for a part of the winter, W ur own st wether " and the door -keeper lets them in which smashed it to pieces. The Indian ever experienced since coming out to the: , in rather a mild form, and there were ver elect a to the pr�Yjer corral. Sometim,e8 the shee 11 P ' was delighted, and insisted that I should his drive the Wehad Northwest, some eleven years ago. : few ?asss that were serious. . ! �, some too 7a6t, and there is some cusain work a charm upon gun to out a a cold, wet fall and an un oually early, i I am, yours truly, � I in con,AeqUeDCO, and sometimes they don't evil spirit, which be feared had gotten into 61 winter, there being a very heavy f 11 of snow' 7 PXTZR STRWAILY: I y new come at all'and then there is'more " cussin," it. Knowing be would never touch his gun, about the 2nd of December. '� There Was no * � tf . for it goat ha.3 to be'got in to coax them, _ again unless I did, and that he would be a intense Cold up till Christmas, but for near- ' — fal Z Sheep are 11 mighty .contrary " and it re- good friend to me ever afterward, I solemnly ly four weeks after that timp, the cold was I - Canada.' 1i quires am inluleDft &mount Of Patience to- Consented. My partner had gone behind & . something terrible. There was hardly a ' —Tibere were 37 failures in Canada 1061 � handle t ens, though there is not so much, tree to laugh while I went through the per- . morning during that time that the ther- , : wee�, Against 26 a year ago, 10C danger ccnuected with tbework aswitbeither formance. Taking some paper, dry grass twigs, I lighted them my sun- mometer did not register 20 degrees below -and to 51 below, —An increase of the duty on mesa pork, I �, � � L horses or cattle. The breed used it; almost and with zero, varied from that $6 a lbarrel is asked for. - I . pure Merino, not because they are consider- . glass, a . proceeding of itself that nearly which was the coldest I beard of. There . ' —The estate left by the late Edws.1 25c ad the beet sheep, but because it has been soared the Indian into fits, When the fir6 wag quite a wind blowing nearly every day, Mito'hell, of Hamilton, is valued at $07 I , found tb t they are"the .only kind that can burned up I took his gun, talked a lot Of which made it much colder than it would 1 591.37. 1 5oebe handled on the plains in large herds. , nonsense into the muzzle, went through the have been had it been calm. The last week —Tihe Montreal City Council are going'c �f They are hardier and stay togttber better drill manual, recited a piece, and wound up . in january and the first in February we had a tr to Chicago as of the Gra n i ; I , y other breed. Experiments have with a yell that made him jump, then hand-, - ., sunshiny and lovely weather, it being cleaf I guests Truipk I A railway, 1 0.0 been triel with other'breeds, but in every ad him the gun, assuring him it was po:fect- quite mild, but the next two -weeks were, —Two thousand more emigrants h ' IT belonging to Parkhill, died suddenly in the caseit was found that: they did not thrive " ly cured. He took it without hesitation his I had very stormy, although not cold. From then gon e'into Manitob�_thc first quarter of t --rMism C. Churchill, daughter of Mr. D. as well or pay as well as the Merino. . and was profuse in thanks. my Until laht Monday it was quite warm and, year than last. I 1i 4 Some, sheep men do ,not keep ewes at all, reward next morning when he brought two springlike, and nearly half of the snow -dis-� — Philadelphia gentleman visited 8 e have but prefer to have a wether herd only, buy- wild turkeys into camp for breakfast. De- * appeared The roads were getting very bad ;I � Joh New Brunswick, the other day all popular with all around her old home. Her ing them up as yearlings. shearing them - spite my, exhibition of magic, however, we in fact, i n aome parts they were alm oat im- , ice. . I . ah. If 10 - uatil they are four or five years old, and could not prevail upon them to continue pansuble and new road's had to be broken. 1 pure% ased'10,000 tons of , . . I Winnipeg City Council has decided ; I depot, � then feeding them f,)r OF, market. This with us to the island, so as the sun came On Tuesday last we -had what might well i tax �rokers bankers, insurance comparili and see plan 'is Eaid to, work well, and many are over tho'hill-tops we embarked in our rather be termed - a Northwest blizzard," During , . I and teal estate agents. . I going inlo it, " dangerous craft Without them. We were the forenoon, and up till about 4 o'clock in ' —The will of the late Rev. Dr. Staffoi church's work were presented. It WAS during That the sheep business is monotonous loaded i0m6st to the gunwalt-s, the sea war the afternoon, it wa4 quite warm with a soft ' has been entered for probate at Hamilt9i on a log, completely fagged out. Notwith- and harassing there can be no doubt, but for rough, rind we shipped considerable water, south wind blowing. About that time the The 'Iestate amounts to close on $18,000. t - I 11 iiine out of twelve months it c%nnot be con- keeping one man busy baling all the time, wind changed to the northeast, aincl it com- —The Amass Wood Hospital, St. Thoma, interests., an well as the religious, had im- sidered laborious, and there is, after all, a and for an anxious two hours it was just the menced to snow. Whew ! didn't it snow ! Will i be, formally opened on Queer -'a BirV S.7 ko-t of rrimance and sugge4tiveuesi of gypsy . toss of a copper whether we went under or Bat. Calmly at first, the large, soft, feathery day. Tba,t city will also have a societie � i. life abou it. A wa on, of course., goes with 9 got across Bafely. we had a good man flakes fell%, (some of thoge same flakes would den, nstra'tion on that day. I � the sheep camp, %Lnd there is enough spice in the stern, and shortly before noon we ran cover, I am certain, two inches square of _� 0 tFains of more than 18 care are no eaforth. of adventure about taking it up a draw into into the most Bhettered little cove imagin- the ground),"but gradually the wind shifted allo ad to pass through the Sarnia tuntie t the mountains or over a piece of broken prairie, to give the men sonic -thing to talk able. Tying our boat to a rock, of which there more to the north and blew:harder, driving the soft, wet snow with 'blinding force Sincv� no traitis . this system was adopted very fe have broken in two in the tunnel. ES. about an, save thern from blue moulding, were many, we got out Our machettes and cut agaitnt everything that was exposed to it. when they are spoken to, they stick stale � . main wing of the Normal Soho lo� � . _ the trails of a sheep out -fit wagon , siln I hav_e proceeded to a tmil to the summit of a It snowed )tqavily for nearly two hours. —The , � going ov r an arroya that 'an - Eastern f ar. , U slight eminerce overlooking the cove, a A The wiud'by tha,t time was fair north and Qu a ealbas been leveled to the ground, pr n�' ' go4ndering in the water. ' Some neighbors , mer wou d stop to bridge over before he i upon! which we proposed pitching our tent. 4 Wag blowin a regular gale and wag very 9 para I ory to the building of the great Capt . - . E, attempte to cress. I have wondered every Reaching the summit, which,we found over- � cold. It just seemed to lift the snow in than P&CifiC Railway hotel, I Ontario execu'tive to make the visit of time I th,nk of it how that teameter ever .1, grown mostly with luxuriant wild baupwas, - clou0s and burl it through the air so that — i sirnee Curry, Blenheim, is an appliesi , . � got thro gh it. JudgiDg'from the trail he � and therefore easily cleared, as one stroke of objects only a few feet distant could hardly for the I postmastership of Paris. . He was; stock in muBt h hd ood load on his wagon ( a machatte will fell a banana tree a foot be distinguished. It was something appal- one time a candidate for Parliamental and are ,_ too. R s itinerary sort of life is very through,, and twelve or-fifbeen feet high. . - ling, and something I do not want to see honorsin North Brant. to their pleasant n good weather, in the balmy air , We soon bad a space large enough 60 ereqt - again. I . —Laval University, Montreal, has jai ock. men of the "State of. Italy," with its skies our tent and build our cam p- fire. Wemade -_ , Unwarned by any sunset light received &'valuable present from the FreuQ . p to be, of deepe bl its flower covererd prairies "' a bed, somewhat like a wide table, with a Ue Cray day darkened into night,- Govornmept, in the shape of 200 volumes i fact, any and beaulful"'tiountain scenery. which go , a little y towards making up for a diet W Y top of small round poIrs overlkiid with a good thickitess of wild cans and banana A nitht made hoary with the swarm And whirl -dance of the blinding atom. Fretichl . 'The I literature. .collection taken up in Kp( very one L up early a lanil trout" and Mexican beans. , leaves. ,This, with'our blankets, formed a The storm raged with uuabatiDg force until C 7 f huFcb, Galt, on Sunday, the 13th insb.,� cry much D'L tr`i'1;Ytli Dge are pretty well balanced after , I couch for the six of us, and we 4: slept about noon on Wednesday, when the wind the lberipfit of the famine sufferers in Rus's than I 'all. I r well, undisturhed by flesq, mosquitos or Missed down some, and by night there was amounted to nearly $115. a stock I Timis WAVDARX1. ticks that so infest other portioes of the little left of it except the huge banks of ____-� ports from different parts of 0 .Re I to -give9 - I- - country. There were no saudflies either, L snow wherever it had a chance to gather. Lower St. Lawrence mention the arrival at it in A M STERIOUS ISLAND. but the woodlice and ants at ones attaoked Fortunately the thermometer did not drop shooting of numbers of wild geese flyi] w � . - — I our provisions. During the night various lower than 2 below zero, so that some part- northwards. I BY R. J. DUNSMORE. i howlipgo and barkings, quite near by, de- ies who were out in it did not freeze to death. , One bad for a u ach anadians, now settled burg, Massachusetts, ' em herds L-4 GwRm SpAxI1111 ROMPURAV, CRIMAL I -_ Id animals of some noted the presence of wil of our neighbors gone his home. Fite were recent 1 8. With AusatcA. February 10th, 1892. kind upon the island. Just what they wars load of bay some 10 miles .frem I fine there for sending their children to Mexican. Away i tb6 interior of the Department of we were unahle to determine, &a the noises He was only about half -way back when t he educated in a French Catiandian school I . herders ,. b, .or for Mosqdito, lies one of the most beautiful lagcGus in the whole ,of Spanish Honduras. ,were totally unlike any we had previously beard in Honduras. One Doise was very storm came on. Seeing he could not get home with his load he unhitched his oxen Levis. . --�The death occurred at the Widop� Herding It is knomn as the 11 Ebon Lagoon," so call- much like the barking of dog@, but that from the lead and started to walk home. Home, -Brantford',.-on Tuesday last weelit . nd does ed from tie abundance of ebony to be found could not be, as the island was known to be After wandering around for a couple of Mrs! E Hartley aged 70 years. Deceapi elligence. upon its b rders. The lagoon is from four uninbabited for some years, at least. hours he lost trace of his oxen- and lay down was lth� r0lict of'the late R. Hartley, Br4a his hard, to ten miles wide, and many miles long, is Morning dawned, and we set oat to r a uk-till'nearly noon the next ford. ' � ng, with half salt a ad half brackish, and wholly unfit plore the isle of mystery, leaving one ruan to day, when he got out, and after walking for —Thomas Nugent, who went from Pake: noth* Ing to drink. At times it is as smooth as could guard'eamp and prepare lunch. We had to three hours he came to a house. He was fiarn Lanark county, to Dakota, was four 11 Somehow be desired, and again"its waves are as high walk in single file, the first man cutting a , terribly exhausted and had his ftice, one dead on the Ilth of March, frozeu stiff in b seems to as the bill wa of the se I I trail wideenough to allow of his passago,_ hand and one foot frozen. It is thought seat, with his horses frozen to death &bet ile with - . In the midst of this wild body of isolated i and the others widening it as they came along. Reaching the summit after sipainful that he will got over it all right without losing any of his limbs. Higoxenbave not , . I . of him. � ; � —'Rev. W, H. Sparli�g, of Sherbrook k up and till be is water star do an island of meyeral hundred acres in e� tent and standing up a thousand " climb, vie entered upon an abandoned ban- beau found yet. Word came to Langdon.to- Quebec, has deelined.the call to the Waste knnot be feet above the level of the sea. Its lofty a as plantation of considerable extent, to our day at noon that a Norwegian had been Methodist church, Napanee. He was vigc ways be peak is er)wned with tall palms waving great surprise, and in a few minutes struck found dead about 10 miles distant from. ousIF pressed by his present congregation I kn going their featiery plumes fantastically in �the what had once been a well-boaten trail, but n up with undergrowth. Fol- was now grow . there. It is supposed that the wet snow amot4.ered him, as -his body was not frozen ' rem�in and consented. —1 At %,largely attended meeting of ti, - scamper hard are erver�preseat breezes. The banana, santh maria, ma aogany, lignum vitae and rose- lowing this trail for a short distance down stiff, bu,,-- his face was covered with a solid . �Pf congregat on of Erskine Pres�yterii are such ' I wood, wit i ebony and the accompanying the mountain aide, which descended with mass ice nearly two inches thick. These Chu'rch in. Ottawa, a call was unanimous to get I undergrowth common to all Honduras, cover the aharacteristic abruptness which has are -the only caser. I have heard of parties given to the Rey. Dr. lease Campbell, e, while - the island in all directions. gLiDed this country its name of Honduras, s ignifyibg 11 land of great depth@." we end- being frozen, although there were quite a .: number of narrow escapes. I Listowel. ,The kirk sessions of Kingston Pres4 — hen the A party of six of us*, having heard strange denly came in eight of a very rick6ty-look- Lovers of celestial scenery have ha(f tery� report improvement indrinking cu� omoms a rd place tales concerning the "Bad Medicine"' . In- ing loaf -house, with upright pole sideB, We plenty of chances to enjoy themselves to L J toms and temperance sentiments. Gre fly. The Island of bon Lagoon from the Sninio i - fland of ' at once headed for it, when a ferocious their heart's content this winter. 'Nearlyl work against the liquor curse in being do: . der's be- dians, dec ded-that it was worth investigat. series of growls warned us to proceed with all thiough the cold spell, during the dayv� in the church organizations. . le log, partic ularly as it wag a most desirable 'caution. 11 I guess we've struck a grom- there:would be eiroles and surt-dogs of every —At a late meeting of the Halifax Prc away In ioland, and if Do one else owned it we could pus nest " remarked the feliow in front ; & size and shape around the sun, sometimes ' byter , the resignation of Rev. Dr. Bu;r y mp a tifui the ta,ke it ourselves, such being the law. We , 11 grompus " being a mythical sort of crea- being v-.rybright and having all the colors Fort Massey c hurch, Halifax, was accepte three tried to hire three Suimos to paddle us ture that no one else had ever seen or heard of the rainbow, while at night, old I'Apwora He is to get a retiring allowance of $500 or rig within across the lagoon, but they are terribly sup- of save himself We were not left long in Borealis," would go flashing baok and forth year h of erstitiQua mad are dreadfully afraid, especi- "I doubt, for at tl�at moment an animal ap- &long the northern hori2on making night as —The electric street railway betwe, piece d before ally of 4d Medicine" Island. They say peared in the doorway of the shack. Its light as day and causing no to gaze � with Windhor and Walkerville is now in Ift itis full ol bad spirits, and while"their lives bark was'namistakably that of a dog, but it wonjer and amazement at a Night so grand working order, and is claimed to be one r snowy time of would not be worth anything if they were greatly resembled wolf in appearance. As and beautiful.. One cold night; about the the beat equipped and complete roads on't, er his stock to land th re they said we would be safe enough, ai they believe " ]a Americans " -a we were determined to see the interior of middle'of February they were. of a bright to cou�inent. . ; Falcoubridge, in 'opening t le be is. hundred and subtle the hut, a timely shot brought the animal ' soarlet color and were very pretty Sep. —Judge hardest possess i charms poisons tiat render him , invulnerable. down'and we were free to -enter. The place was up by luxuriant undergrowth � Times were rather dull around here this winter, but this last few weeks have 'been Assizes at Brampton, drew attention to t fact that there were no royal 'arms over!t' ner pro" . Hence the 7 greatly respect Amerioaps. I grown which partly concealed the house, but there ' quite brisk, and Langdon has been a 'busy bench where public justice was admiuistA ' putting ranch to, will give an instance of their great super- was quite a good tealil to the doorway, kept town. During the last three weeks I Jhink ad. He hoped this would be remedied. stition - . - open by being traversed frequently, by the I am safe in saying that there have beep, on I McGill University has again been i — purpose their The three Indians had brought us three dog. A startling Might Met US AN WO enter- an average, six oars of grain loaded �very membered by the Molson family. J. H,.' . ,vith days journey to the point where we wars ad. Almost in the middle of the lloor lay day by farmers alone, besides what has'l been Molgon has given an additional $20,000 he lamb- encamped for the night, and from whence the skeleton of a man lying upon its back. taken. in by five elevators. In coal day suppleiuent the chair of English language we were 4 cross the lagoon to the island on pieces of clothing were scattered about it there were 15 care loaded by farmers, ,�hich � liteiature, founded by his father and M he sheep the following day. The Indiana having ab. and a pair of shoes of Illnglish make, by would take about 150 teams to drawl the broihers 32 years ago. py smile, solutely refused to paddle us across . to the which we judged him to be an Englishman, grain to them. This will give you an!- idea . L ,_ Application is being made at Ottawa I d island, we decided to attempt the difficult I probably-froln British,"llondurse, Near by of what grain is shipped from this point the incorporation of Mrs. J. B. Perry a: water the paissage or rselves. We went into camp %t lay s6n old runty shot,g'u'n and a grass ham- - alone,,' -notwithstanding the fact that thore is four others as the Canadian Mineral W( at ny of the nearly 4 o'clock p. in.. and Sebastian, the raock rolled up no though its owner had nearly one-half of the grain to be throshed Cornpany, with headquarters in Toroni will not ,, capitan ' of the Indiana, having seen some been on the point of going on a journey L yet. , It Is estimated that there are 52000,- and % capital of $40,000 ' and the traeks., to k1is old shot gun and started out when the hand of death grasped him. 1here 000 bushels of wheat in North Dalrotat this - --David Turner, Ridgetown, had his I P fif ty in hopes of bringing in fresh meat for sup- was�nothing of any value to be found except- year. There has been,.very little thre�hing ' broken the other day by a log he was lop Che per busiest per. About an hour after, as the Indiana ing a small buckskin bag containing a few done here this winter, as the an 6w 0 so , irig rolling' upon him, and same A is gathered firewood for the night, and pre- sols and � reales. These we subsequently deep, and there is so much ice in the al'tacks Writ. Hales, of Alvinston, had his shouid ranch pared the temporary shelter (a small tent), handed over to the Alealde at L's Gloria that It is almost impossible to thresh it � and blale fractured by being thrown from i . ering air the white men smoking and talking in-'4he with full particulars. � We covered the body* the elevators will not buy it if there isi any buggy, while breaking iu a colt. i . around bustle, shade, a sadden crasbing wag heard in the with wild cane and left it - where. we a ice in it. I don't think there will b 6uch A, team of horses valued at W,i t � .t d bushes ne r by, and a moment later Sebas- found it. . threshing done till after seeding, a th� property of A. Wherry, of St. Catharin sweats the hot tian ruathed into camp. He was in a horri- - � I Following a trail from the house toward stasks will take a. long time to . - ry out. - .1 rani away at a stone quarry, at Queenqt( arers are, - ble plight, His face, bands and body were the water the whole mystery of the island Stacks that are well built will come out all . , on , Monday, and dashing over a 40 -foot' a The torn and bleeding, his feet scratched ,and I was revealed to us. On every side, hanging right I think, but poorly built one's will . ba kment, fell upon the rocks beneath"! a 0 ry. cut and his gun and machette-miesing. We to the trees and shrubbery right to the hafAly be worth thr,eshing, as the snow- and we a instantly killed. some are knew something serious had happened when water's edge, were glass bottles with the icelwill wet them to the bottom. Zu A,breach of promise case which , I cans of, hers Sebastian returned without his gum, for an . - neeks broken off, Being familiar with In h n at The price of grain is lower now th be u entered for trial at the coming aspi are to enable Indian in -,his country will hang on to his The Indiana than superstitions we guessed the truth At belonged to any time during the wister. The beat is 68 a bushel, oats e is I likely to excite a great deal of int rest th of London* township, where bi Gore rest of gun aslong as possible. other presied around their pa,rtner, and we could I once. The island had originally I the Suimo Indiane, who had made wheat only worth cents are.fgom 20 to 25 cents, and barley from- 29 of I the parties are well known. The pla ared the d stored town by see that the tale Sebastian told khem, made . their hair stand on end, and -,-tyem-Ndusky .planta- i tiori - th ereon. The white man, whose I skel'Soll we bad just found, bad come along ' 'ants a bushel. Some far to 33 0 mers c! eared 41 cents a bushel on their blarley by ship- tiR is a mature maiden seam stress, N Oriniston, and the defendant, Mr. Branst, I time IS faces refle-,ted the horror and fqpkr visible in I and taken a fancy to the island. Inite�d. of pin g� about three weeks ago. A large num . a respected farmer and milk dealer. y ished by the countenance of Sebastian, whose teeth ' buying it from them, as he might have done bar have lost a good deal by holding ! their I ; Mr. S. Laporte, au.0ttawa jeweller, v and chattered and.his knees shook beneath him. I I very cheaply, he worked upon their super- graiii.for a higher figur but the price has e, exhibit an ingenious piece of mechanism a end - . After much questioning on our part we ! atitious fears to induce them to abitndon it. gone�.down inatead, and they are forced to the World's Fair, Chicago, It is a perf run up a thoroagh- ascertained, from a mixture of poor Spanish- , Therefore, on all their trails he hung up sell now before the roads break up. ';Some model of a passenger steamboat, made h. Then and worse English, that Sebastian had seen i I broken bottIc's, knowing that these Indians are losing as much as 15 cents a bushiel on of brass, silver and gold. Even the minut a horrible staring, bad spirit, that it was , i will never pass a broken bottle which has I their wheat. .. '.. ... � details are reproduced, such as the rigg 36 pen or looking ri ht at him., and that he had drop- r : been hung up by a white man, being afraid Hired help is going to be 'very iscareo here 4' th delicate threadi I pes, which are an "or chemical intended ped his gv n and everything and rushed mad- I that it contains some of the,. white man's this spring and wages good. If Ef6me of the 641est g lo, the hull of the vessel is of bri - ly through tborns, peti plant, needle Palmi � hundred, poisong, and that they will breathe young men who are working out in Ontario I arild the dimensions are twenty-four inc requires The sheep -and all kinds of obnoxious shrubs in big �, some of it in passing and inevitably die. The ' for from $150 to $180 a year wouldl only inilength by five inches bEam, On bE to wild bast- to reach camp, hence his -deplor- ' dead man's plan had been successful, as it come out here I think that they could 1 neat- wound up, the walking beam commer I corral a 4- In , n. able c6 d tio - � could not Wl, to be, andthe Indians never ly double their -money this year and not I its regular motion, continuing for an h( I pebble t passes. For so;e reason Sebastian had taken a 1 molested him in the least, and so long as � bavesuch' hard wor4. I know some fs�rmets during which the paddle wheels revolve. time by an ingenious arrangerr another _. liking to your correspondent, so he begged , those bottles hang Upon the island no Indian around here who are offering $28 a mouth the sam a afraid to I me to go �ith him and exercise some of the I will ever set foot upon it. The dog we had for eight months for a good mama, also some inside of the hull, the sound of the was] dip, in through it . - American a powerful charms to recover hie " killed had, without doubt6'belonged to the . . � - - I . . I - . I .. . I . who are offering $300 for a year, Threshing I . - . the wiLves an the paddles exactly I I 11 I .. RNA . McLEAN BROS., Publishers. � � Ili I . � — $1.50 a Year in Advance. - I � . 11, I - . � � . - produced, although there is no water. This � - best satisfied by water. Donnelly's cattle - I � - wonderful curiosity in made of 2,000 differ- naturally drank their fill of water, and . � 'I ent pieces, took two years of patient labor Rowland maintained that as a coneequence �1 to construct, and is valued at two thousand they registered an abnormally heavy weight, 4 ' dollars. The whole is kept together by The came went to a jury and a verdict for - � - T I only two simple screws. It is now on exhi- the full amount of the claim, $60, was - � 1, �iti�n at Mr. LaPorte's establishment, and awarded to Rowland. The defendint was 1 I . is visited by admiring crowds. assessed with the costs." ,I � —T -h - a laie Jacob Cronk, who was smoth- —The Grand Trunk station at Point Ed- 1, � ereq during a fire in his home at Belleville, ward is to be converted. into a summer 9, left an estate valued at $125,000, of which ' I hotel. I his wife was bequeathed one abilling anil —The Bell Telephone Company of Canada r Z: 4 several of his children comparatively small is applying to Parliament for authority to . �� amounts.. The bulk of the estate goes to a increase its capital stock from $2,000,000 to 5 1� I favored d�ughter. The Belleville hospital $4,500,000. 1 .� gets $00. —On the trains that passed -North Bay on ---;-At the Leeds Spring Assizes in , Brock- Wednesday of last week there were ever . -, ville the case of Mrs. Arbuckle against I 700 settlers for Manitoba, with nearly 200 1 throe accident insurance companies, for carloads of -live Stock and effects, � V5,000 insurance on her late husband's life —Action has been taken by the Quebec a . - was'settled out of court. Mrs. Arbuckle re- Government to recover the $1,00,000 from � 14 ceiving $20,000 from the Canada Accident, Pacoad. � I Citizens' and Manufacturers' insurance —Mr. Writ. Pengilly, one of the beat � # � . companies. known residents of Owen Sound, died sud- I Y --- rOn Sunday morning in Galt the peculiar denly on Thursday night of last week of. � 1, sound of the town bell, as it rang out the heart disease, aged 72 years. !, � hour -for church services, indicated that r —Mr. J. C. Bowers, one of the. best � . something was wrong with that useful known farmers in Waterloo county, died � public Institution. Enquiry at the town suddenly at his own tea Uble on 'Wedues- ;� I I hail' elicited the information that the bell day night, 16th inst., aged 46 years. 1i %as cracked, and probably damaged beyond —It is reported that the Jamaica Legisla- t, repair. . tive Council has discontinued its grant of 7 . , While James Hepburn, who resides f,800 paid annually to a Canadian line of i . . some five miles south of Chealey, was an- steamers since IS86 for communication be- � �, gag�d in cutting down a tree on his farm tween Halifax and Jamsica. � -1 the!'Other day, i t odged, and in failing after —A petition is being circulated in Wind- i � I wards it struck him on the right temple, in- sor, seeking the release of Samuel Merriman., 9 flicting a fatal wound as he only lived about who is serving a 20-year8' sentence in King- '� an hour after the accid-ent. He was 60 years I ston Penitentiary. He was sentenced by � i . of 41ge. _ Magistrate Bartlett almost seven years age. tf . �Xr Daniel Norton'an old and respect- 7 1 f —A Hamilton physici%n, who wa.9 return- I h, ff ad r.,esident of Westminster township, died ing to that city at an sariy hour on Saturday ' - fal Z last week at the. residence of hie son, Mr. morning, came a'C-'r s a broken down wagon 0 a 4 4 Ge ge Norton, Tecumseh avenue, London, near the mountain brow. Oue of the horses 1i 01 73. He lived and died in the township agel, was standing near the pole, and the other 1i almost upon the same spot. He left only was lying dead beside it. A search back- 1.1, 0 � . one child—his son. He leaves sisters in wards was made along the road. when the 11 , Hyde Park, Strathroy, Westminster and driver was found lying in the snow drunk I Metcalfe. . but unhurt. He gave his name all Smith, . I - . I —A sawing match was held on George and probably had quite an interesting ex- �, � � L Gilders' place, in the township of Delaware, . . � perience in getting home ag%in. A � west of London, the contestants being —Mr. Joseph C. Bowers, proprietor of I George Gilders and William Reid, of Dela- Sweet Briar Farm, near Berlint died very i ; I V wa,re, against Edward Gilders and J. Well- suddenly on Wednesday evening last week. , 1, A, ing�on Doyle,. of the same place. The Mr. Bowers had been in his usual health i latter won the purse by 101- seconds. The during the day, went home in the evening I , purse was $8. The log was beech, 18 inches and partook of a heEirty tea, after which, I � thick, and was cut in 30 seconds, while sitting in his ebA'r taking a drink of ill, � . i —� Bishop Dowlin on Ireland the water: he suddenly throw up his handsand i T lit in St. Lleetured er nig � U once church, Hamil- I instantly expired. Deceased was compara- �f ton, The educational, religious, military, tiv,ply a yourzg mau,a'nd occupied a prom- ,I and: patriotic periods in Irish history were inent position in agricultural and political i ; I , touched upon, and the great men that Ire- . matters. � � 4, land has produced were also spoken of. The —The Montreal'Herald says -. A popular I I lecture was a most interesting ove, and was McGill medical student named J. Lochead, � 11. delivered with &u. case and grace that was belonging to Parkhill, died suddenly in the � 1; fascinating. - . � � I Montreal General H-cspita.1, after only two I � --rMism C. Churchill, daughter of Mr. D. days' illness, from inflammation of the 2 I �� Churchill, of South Norwich, who went to bowels. The deceased was a great favorite 1i 4 Washington territory some time since, was with his fellow -students and the staff of the . i married last week to a Salvation Army cap- hospital, and his almost sudden death has �4 ? � tain. The bride is well educated and very cast & gloom over their circle. Sunday � popular with all around her old home. Her night the students ga;thered at the hospital �P , , husband in to be congratulated on getting and in a body accompanied the remains of I I such an estimable young wornsia for a help- their late confrere to the Boriaventure I meet. . depot, � ;1 , ". A , , The other. day an idiot succeeded in — —At the annual meeting of the Western " . eluding the vigilance of the keepers at the Congregational Church in Torout3, the I I Orillis asylum,and started on a trainpacroni pastor, Rev. Theo. J. Parr, presided, and ! I the lake. He was missed shortly after he reports from the various departments of 'the � left' and two keepers tracked him to G;�rgina Island, where he was found resting church's work were presented. It WAS during 4 I , i shown that the year the membership � on a log, completely fagged out. Notwith- roll had been extended by the addition of i Z � sta�ding his used -up condition, however, he 90 members, while, the congregation -had. t - I 11 was compelled to walk back. I largely increased in numbers. The financial I i 4riday morning, as Alexander Ross was ' interests., an well as the religious, had im- . : J driv,ing Mrs. Hull to her School, in going proved, and the outlof,k for the future is ! � down the hill at the East Nissouri cheese I hopeful and encouraging. M r, Parr was � i i I factory the front axle of the buggy broke, formerly a teacher in the Woodstock Col- � i. causing the horse to run away. Mr. Ross legis,te Institute, - and two years ago was ' � got off with a severe wrench in his side and pastor of the Drumbo Methodie.t Church. I � f head cut, but Mrs.Hull was not so ortunate. —The Hamilton Times remarks as follows-. � � , Her face is a mass of ants and bruises, Her While Mr. Mowat is trying to keep the boys � � � nose and chin Are broken. It will be some of Ontario from learning to . use tob"oo . . time before she is able to be around agwJn. couldn't he spare a c'hunk of his " beat con- t —A Barlin despatch says: As a leap -year sideration " for the girls who chew grim I � . event a young ,lady from another town Thetiasty creatures wag their jaws like a walked to a village near here to see her pair of sbeep-shears, they vron't answer young man, Wishing to return the com- when they are spoken to, they stick stale - � J pliment the young man went over to a chews to the table legs and the bead -board _� . neighbor's to borrow a horse to drive his of the bed and they spread diphtheria and lq I I 11 I �, girl home, but in. orossiDg a creek the ice other malignant diseases through the school I . broke and in a few seconds the youth was sections by swapping chews. Tobacco in go4ndering in the water. ' Some neighbors bad -enough, but who ever saw anyone bor- . beard his cries and rescued him, but the row a chew of it from his neighbor's mouth. I girl had to walk home alone. Go for the gum, Mr. Mowat! I — , Arrangements are being made by the —The celebration of the 60tb anniversary 1. Ontario execu'tive to make the visit of of the wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Richard ; Christian Endeavorers to New York on Jolliffe, who have resided in the neighbor- . � Jul.7 9 to 12., 1892, a cheap, and at the same bood of Avon, in Dorchester township, -1 tin a most enjoyable trip. Rev. Dr. county oZ Middlesex, for the past thirty ' .�e Dickson, of Galt, president of the society, years, took place a few nights ago. All . j4, and Ald. Thomas Morris, of Hamilton, vice- their surviving children, ,but one in Dakota, � - I president, purpose visiting Now York with were present, also a number of grandebild- I I the view of making the best possible arrange- ren and other friends. A number of pres- - me to for the comfort and conyenience of ents were given to Mr. and Mrs. JoIjiffe, I Z I �� I th delegates. - . I I After an excellent dinner the company were � I 7L%rge shipments of horses, says the called together, when the elder son, Rev, L �. Winnipeg Free Press, are still being: made T. W. Jolliffe, chairman of'the Bowman - to his province, althougb� there is said to be ville district, read air address Of congratu- 7 Ain rplua of horses- in this country. The lation and love, signed by the members of � I . average Manitoba farmer, however, is al. the family, ways anxious to obtain the eastern animal, —Professor GleaEon, thi celebrated, train, �. even if he has to sell a good, one out of his er of vicious horses, has:been entertaining I I I stock to secure perhaps a poorer and un- Londoners during the p"t week by his I acclimatized beast. The why and wherefore clever performances in the training line. � p of this anxiety in one of those things no - He condemns the use of the over-obeek and . P fellow can find out. the blinders. He also :emphatically do- I I —,At the Poliee station, London, they nounces the " docking " practice and other 1�. I . have nearly a wagon load of papers stolen mutilations of the inane or tail. Several at 0iffereni times frc,m different people by well-known horsemen present got the ad- � I - Charles Lancaster, and sold in quantities to vantage of this, and ene of them was beard' a number of merchants about the city. Fri- to hi8s, but the majority of the audience I . day morning was fixed on as the time for re- applauded the sentiment heartily. 1, Nature � turning the stock to its owners, but when the tail there for a purpose," the pro- I the Police Magistrate took his seat neither put esaor declared, 11 and man has no right to . . - I those who had lost the papers nor those who interfere with what nature in her wisdom �_ . 4 . had bought them were present, and the res- has done." - titution proceedings were adjourned. —Death has removed an early settler— �, � —A case of betting came u before Judge Mrs, Robert Smith, Elora, who reached the - .,? Mqwkenzie at the Division Court, London, age of 88. Deceased was born in the year I 011� Friday afternoon, Fred Trebilcock Sued 1804, in Kell's Parish, Kirkcudbrightshire, L Ea. Horaman, of the Grigg House, to re- Scotland. Some 68 years ago she married cover his stake of $100 in a bet with R. S. David Hastings in Scotland, and in 1836 L , Hbdgins, of Lucan, on the 'recent election. they came to Canei'da, settling first in Erik- ' .i I � � 04e said the be* was on the gazetting of moss and afterwards ilk Puslinch ; they alto M�. Carling, while Trebilcock held it was resided a short titue in Rockwood, whence ' I V thi3 election simply. The counsel drew they removed to Nichol, at which place Mr. from Trebilcook that he had voted twice Hastings died some eighteen years ago. - during the election of 1891, The judge re- Deceased had seven children by her first I I � - . - Befved judgment till the 28th imst, husband. In 1875 she Married Robert �-The Woodstock Sentinel -Review of Smith, of Elora, at which place she resided I % 1 11 � l"t week'says : Rev. Dr. Griffin, now sta- - up W her death. Mrs. Smith was respected 1 It 11 )l tiptied at Galt, preached in the Central � by all who had made bar acquaintance, and . "Al Methohist church on Sunday. Am Ong the I was a kind, loving and fai.thcul wife and � . �11 old�r members of the congregation Dr. Grif- mother. . f I fiP is one of the most highly este6med ! --Mrs. Ellen Perrier Foott, died at , I V - am; Ong the long list of ex -pastors. He was.1 I /I 01hatham, on Friday lost, at the age of 89 . Al stationed here thirty years ago and has been"I years. Deceased was the eldest daughter : one of the shining lights in the Methodist ! of the thirteen children of the late An- i � I ministry f or half a century. Dr. Griffin ! themy Perrier, at one time mayor of the City � was president of the Guelph Conference', of Cork, Ireland, where she was born and Ilast year, I married. In 1836 her husband and brother I � � � —The following cage of interest to farm- I , preceded her to Canada, and Mr. Foott pur- e�s and stockmen was tried at the Walker- i chased a farm in Dover Nast, on which for t6n Diviaion Court last week: " In June last I. t more than 45 years decased dispensed Mr. John Rowland bought 40 eead of cattle I hospitality most liberally. In 1881, her i from Richard Donnelly, of Pinkerton, about , lingbatid and companion for over half a cen- I half of which were allowed to remain with � tury, died at the ripe old age Of 78 years. I It Sheriff of the I t. I I)onnelly for some months before removal, ; Qn the day on which he was motified that, Mr. Foott was for many y ears then Westem District, which comprised the . : 11 ; the cattle were to be taken away, Donnelly 11 I got up early and gave them a liberal supply i counties of Resex, Kent and Lambtori. In deseased made her home in I resent years . - =. I L I .. �� . of salt. - SaI4 produces thirst, and thirst is Chatham. � -