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WHOLE NUMBER, 1.303.
TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR.
SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1892.
MEN'S FURS,
It's a generous notion that considers
en fur goods alike, but by no means
correct. The first shipment of furs
are generally the ,best, and at present
- we have a large stock of the " best."
This is the result of careful research
in the Eastern markets. Our buyer
saw his opportunity to turn quick
business to your advantage, and so he
bought to sell cheap. Such bargains
have got to be hit on the wing.
Men's Astrachan Caps,
Persian
• • Beaver tg
• Otter tt
• Seal II 4
Bulgarian Lamb Coats,
• Coon Coats,
• Kangaroo Coats,
" Persian Lamb Coats,
Fur Gauntlets, Foot Muffs, Collars
and Cuffs. You can get fitted to eone
or another at a minute's notiOe.,. The
possibilities of getting suited here' are
vastly better than elsewhere. We
guarantee our goods to be unapproach-
ed in quality and price. We're doing
- a big fur trade, buO we'll do more be-
fore we quit. Come and get our
prices and terms. Glad to have you
see our goods.
JACKSON BROS.,
THE NOTED FURNISHING PEO-
, PLE SEAFORTH.
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enterprise. Seventeen Christian countries then run the ore to the
were represented, viz.: England, Scotland waste( on to the dump.
Ireland, the United Staten, Canada, Ger-
many, Switzerland, Denmark, France, Nor-
way, Sweden, Finland, West Indies, Asia,
Africa, and Australia. The total number of
missionaries in the miseion fields was 6,557,
being 4,495 men, and 2,062 women not in-
cluding wives of mhisionaries ; 3,374 native
missionaries, 4,270 native helpers, 885,116
communicante ; misaiouary contributione,
R2,250,000 sterling,. Only a few lands are
closed to the Gospel, and the time appeared
to be drawing near when the doors of theee
countries would be open. He believed that
many who are now alive would see a Chris-
tian community in India numbering many
milliong. In the Presbyterian church the
total number of missionariei was 1,687, be-
ing 1,154 men and 533 women ; native mis-
sionaries, 330, native helpets, 6,623 ; total
miesionary contributions, £500,000 sterling.
This showed that Presbyteridne contributed
to the extent of one-fourth of the Protestleut
mission work. In conclusion he said, that
while there was Mal to encourage, there
was much to make us humble. }tad mis-
sionary work • commenced when overtures
were first made, the church might be giving
eight times as much as it did.
Dr. Laws, who had labored in Central
Africa for 18 years, gave an interesting ao-
count of "the progress of the Gospel In the
Derk Continent." tDr. Paton gave an elo-
quent and touching addreas on " Mission
work in the South Seas," and held the
breathless attention of the audience. He
said that although the Australasian
churches head much mission work to do in
their own colonies, they were actively en-
gaged in carrying the Gospel to the heathen
beyond. Eighteen white missionaries were
now on the Islands, and 200 native teachers -
and evangelists were conducting 250 schools.
All these teachers had once been cannibals.
The mission was supported at an annual
outlay of 18,000, Five missionaries were
killed on the Islands before any work was
done, and Mr. Paton's owh life wad attempt-
ed with every weapon they could lay their
hands on. All honor to thia brave and de-
voted men, who, with his young wife, left a
happy Scottish home to dwell in the midst
of awful peril feed hardship, among nude
savages. As he spoke of how much these
poor people needed the Gospel, the eyes of
this grand old man ,filled with tears, and, he
showed signs of deep emetion, proving that
hie heart is still with thes,e Islanders whom
he has given his life to save. , One pf the
many proofs of his disintetested devotion is,
that he has given $25,000 of the profits of
the large sale of his remarkeble autobio-
graphy, for the support of Mission work in
the South Sea 'elands. It is marvellous to see
belore you a man who has for 30 years been
exposed to the cruel treachery cennibal
tribes and has been so miraculously preserv-
ed. Truly," Man is immortal till His work
is done." His object in attending the Coun-
ell was to try to , obtain two missionariee
for the New Hebrides, anci aleo to seek " to,
influence the Government to act in accord'
with other great nations in preventing the
traffic in slaves and ram at the NeW He-
brides." He closed a most inspiring address
amid prolonged applause. His present wife,
a bright, pleasant Scotch lady, accompsnied
him.
(CONCLUDED PROM LAST WEEK.)
Being anxious to obtain a ear one livening,
we took -rip our position on Church street.
After gesticulating frantically and exercising
our lung powers on three successive oars,
which passed with the comforting assurance
"no room," we were beginning to entertain
seridus thoughts of camping !ant for the
night, when a fourth came along, apparent-
ly in the same crowded condition as its pre-
decessors. However, the only, . jerivileged
gentleman in possession of a seat, geeing our
dilemma, called ont : I believe in the per-
severance orthe Saints, and if You are or-
thodox Presbyterians I will give you my
seat if you are not, wont !" Assuring
him that we were orthodox enough to war-
rant even the sa,crifice of his seat fat the good
of the cause, we boarded the already over-
crowded car, convinced that it pays, even in
this world, to be a Presbyterian, and resolv-
ing to stand by the "true blue" every time.
The Toronto people seemed to imake the
beat use possilale of the " blue ribbon" men.
Nearly every church and institution in the
city had something special, at which soma
of them were expected to do duty. The
anniversary of the Young Men's Christian
Association occurring as this time, Dr. John
Hall, of New York and Dr. • Ross Taylor,
of Glasgow, were as'Ited to deliver addresses.
Of Dr. John Hall nothing rerhaine to be
said ; everybody knows that he is a grand
man, blessed with clear judgment and an
extraordinary amount of comnion sense,
brightened now and again with keen Irish
wit. He gave an excellent, practical ad-
dress on " The Young Men's Christian As-
sociations," to which it was a great privilege
to listen. Dr. Ross Taylor, of Glasgow,
made sofne highly complimentary remarks
about Canadian institutions and the way in
which they are equipped and supported. He
said that Glasgow could not boast of such a
fine Young Men's Christian Association
building, and that when he got home he
would give them a few pointers. He eulo-
gized Canada and the Canadians to such an
extent that if the name Roes Taylor were
not orthodox enough to be above suspicion,
one might be inclined to think tielit he had
touehed the Emerald lsle some dark night,
and made the acquaintance of the tradition-
al " blaruey stone." It is to be hoped then
before the Council age.in meets id Toronto,
taome philanthropic Presbyteriad will find
it in his heaet to regard the clairris of Knox
College in general—and the library in par-
ticular—and replenish the empty book
shelves, in order that the delegates may he
more favorably in-ipressed with the liberal-
ity of Preabyteriamatowarcl the maintenance
of their theological institutions. ; If they
carried aWay the impression that the state of
the library was suggeative of the intelligence
of the students, we fear that they will im-
agine that the Canadian "theologs" must be
pretty empty-headed. e,
Preetical es well as hietorical and theo-
retical themee were discussed at the meet-
ings of Council', also social probletns, such as
the land question, the wage question, and
the traffic in liquor and opimite were ably
handled by those who could speek with au-
thority on the subject. Seats were at a
premium, especially at the evening meetings.
A number of people, acting on the principle
e that possession, is nine -tenths the law;"
brought luncheon ,vith them and no_ amount
of persuasion would induce theni to 'vacate.
The eecond clay was entirely given . up to
missions, 'slang distinguished thiesionaries
being present, among them Dr. Swanson, of
China, Dr. Laws-, the pioneer survivor of
the Livingatonian mission, Africa, Dr.
Paton of the New Hebrides, Dr. Smith, the
oldeat missionary of the world, Dr. Me-
Kichan, of Bombay, Rev. Calvin Mateer, of
Shantung, Dr. Philip Cousland, of Amoy,
China, and ahem. Dr. McKichan, Vice -
Chancellor of Bombay University, read a
a lendid paper on "A Century of Minions."
e spoke of the apathy manilesited by the
Presbyterian church, to missions, a hundred
years ago. The Baptists had the honor of
beginning missions in Bengal, 'edit'. Near-
ly thirty years paned before Preabyteriana
favored the miasionary idea. the famous
General Assembly of 1796 rejected the first
missionary overture, " But now, foreign
missions were no longer outside ; they were
the very centre of the church's life.' The
miseionary developments of the century
were to be witnessed in all branishes of the
Christian church, and in none did they find
more complete recognition than in the Pres-
byterian church. He then quoted figures to
allow the remarkable growth of missionary
eire-house, or the
Where the mines are d y, as they nearly
all are in the Thitic region, the timbering
of the shafte need not be so particular with
regerd to being water proof, but the elides
along which the! cages run and by which
they are steadied and guided are very se-
curely fastened aud evenly made, so that
everything runs smoothly!. Where they are
troubled with water, the! sides of the shaft
must be well planked, or boerded up, Tim-
bers are also extensively sed in tunneling,
stoping and drifting, es ecially if the rock
is soft or treacherous. la large mines com-
pressed air is used to run the drills. The
air compressor is usually in the hoisting -
works, having the appearance of a double or
compound engine. One eylinder being used
as the motor, takes the !steam which runs
.the machine, the other takes in the air ftom
the gratuitous atmosphere, compresses it and
sends it through the pipes to whatever part
of the mine it is required.
The Tintic mining region is about .ninety
miles southwest of Salt Lake City. In the
district are several small, towns or stations,
Eureka Mammoth, Silver City and Ironton.
I had heard a great deal about Tintic and
Eureklasupposing that Eiireka mustsurely be
a fine town. It was shorty before Christmas
1891 that I set out bed r •1 over the Union
Pacific for the much -tallied of and beautiful
Eureka. The first anow of the season hed
fallen and lay about six 'inches deep: The
Northern Pacifio runs southward from Salt
Lake City through Salt Lake Valley, one nf
the most beautiful valleys under the sun,
with the Wasatch Range at the Beet, some
of its peaks rising to an altitude of 12,000
feet, the Oquirrh Range at the west, in both
of which ranges is deposited the precious
metal. The road, after running about fifty
miles,branches off at Lehi Junction, leaving
the " civilized world," and running for about
forty miles over deem ft, hille and moun-
tains. The soil here land there suppOrte
scattered bunches of Reeky Mountain sage
brush and- clumps of devastated pines and
cedars,making on the whole rather a dreary
aspect,' the mountains looking rather
" tame " cornpared with other sections of
the Rocky system.
,dt was a cold winter's morning, the rails
were frosty and slippery, and it took con-
siderable steam to olimb the mountain road.
Finally, however, by much switching, side-
tracking and shunting, we were backed into
the far-famed,picturesque and beautiful city
of Eureka. My conception of the place
bad been that of a splendid and well estab-
lished) city, having . broad and well graded
streets, cement sidewalks, electric lights,
street care, etn, etc., and everything in pro-
portion, which makes up a lively,well-to-do,
enterprising, progressive western city. Hav-
ing been " trained " into the town back-
wards, and having canght glimpses of it
from the distance I ecincluded that, " 0,
Eurelea, thou art a gent, but where is thy
beauty and splendor ? ' .1
The Union 'amid° being tlae only road in
the district, at that time managed things
just as she pleased. The depot was about
one-fourth of a mile from town, and it re-
quired quite a climb up a steep road to get
there. The one road running through the
town somewhat resembled a lane, eince it
winds &beat through between the houses
where it cab; the general trend being east
and west, is called main street. Another
short street branches from main, running in
a northerlY direction into the mountains,
and is called Church !street. ' There are a
few comparatively large frame buildings,ho-
tels, churches and stores, but the 'Leverage
house is a small frame, !unpainted and built
wherever it was convenient, sp that the town
looks so irregularly conglomerated that a
person might suppose it was " blown "
there with a shot gun. 1 The city is about a
mile long aud a half a mile wide, heving
about two thousand inhabitants. The sa-
loons outnumbered at One time all the other
business houses put together, there having
been " only " nineteen; with gambling para-
phernalia in nearly earery one. I do not
know whether the occ4ision for the saloons
is the war -biter of wat r, for much of the
Rev. W:A. Wilson, M. A., of Neemach,
India, one of our missionaries who is home
on furlough, spoke on " work among the
Hindooe. Rev. Calvin Mateer, D. D.,
Shantung, North China, gave an address on
" The higher education as a Missionary'
Agency." He had been in China 29 years,
and since coming home and seeing the mag-
nificent churches and elegant homes in Eu-
rope and America, he wondered what was
the measure of Christianity in these coun-
tries, when they knew of 'the millions in
,China dying without God and without hope.
Dr. Philip Comiland, of Amoy, China, spoke
on " The difficulties of Mission Neil in
Chins." -As doors Church was unable to
hold the immense crowds attracted to this
meetiug, an overflow meeting was held in
Knox church, vvhich was' crowded. " The
aspects of Romani= ," proved a very popu-
lar topic also, and hundreds were turned
sway who could not obtain admission. Dr.
Pasteur E. Choiser, of !Geneva, Switzer-
land, read a paper on " Romanism on the
Continent of Europe." Rev. James Kerr,
D. D., of Glasgow, president of the Scottish
Reformation Society, followed with a par-
ticularly able paper on " Romani.= in Great
Britain. ' Dr. Laing, of Dundee, Ontario,
did justice to " Romani= in Canada," !Dr.
Bushnell, of Chattanooga, Tennessee,showed
the progress of " Romanism in North and
South America," and Dr. H. G. Underwood,
of Corea,made a gauging speech on " Reman-
isnain the foreign field. ' All papers were
exceptionally good, and it would be greatly
to the interests of Protestantism if such
things were heard a little oftener. At the
valedictory meeting, on September 29th,
the delegates elpressed themselves highly
delighted with Canada and the boundless
hospitality of the Canadians, and parted,
promising to be on hand when the Council
again meets in Canada. Dr. Chambers, of
New York, was appointed President of the
next Council which meets in Glasgow in
18%. A. B. G., Egmondville.
GLIMPSES OF. UTAH.
desth la supposed to ha.ve been paralysis of
the brain. The deceased was a member of
the first brigade of field artillery, and re-
cently passed very suceessfully at the King-
ston school of gunnery,
Trolley
London.
-e-A number of Roman Catholic fa,milies
of Quebec will shortly migrate to Manitoba.
—Three cerloads of beans were shipped
from Ridgetown Thursday of last week,
—November so far has been the stormiest
month for years in the Port Arthur region.
—Subscriptions are being rapidly collect-
ed in, Montreal for the Sir John Maeclonald
monument.
— Mrs. John Pigeon, " lieutenant " iu the
Salvationists at Kingston, is dead, from con -
gumption.
—Diphtheria of the molt virulent type has
broken out in tome lumber shanties on the
Madawaska.
— Ottswa Board of Trade want the Do-
minion Government to have cable communi-
cation between all the British colonies.
—Principal Rowe, of the Model School,
Kingston, favors the niaking of Sunday af-
ternoons a period of recreation.
—Dr. Inksetter left Dundee last week for
San Jose, Costa Rica, where it is his inten-
tion to practise for a year.
—Nichol Brothers, Platteville,lost a sheep
the other day valued at $70. It hung itself
in a fence. -
—A new $7,000 Methodist church was
dedicated on Sunday la,st at Enterprise,near
Napanee.
—Messrs!. Cant Brothers, of Galt, made
another shipment of machinery to Demerara,
South America, last week.
—Last Friday night there was a severe
snowetorm in the Northwest extending all
the way from Medicine Hat to Winnipeg.
—The coroner's jury has returned a ver-
dict of justifiable homicide in the case of
Lingford, who ehot Wm. Palmer, the sneak
thief, at Pickering.
—The Governor-General has refused to
interfere in the case of Jamee S. Slavin, un-
der sentence to be hanged at Cornwall De-
cember 16.
—Mrs. Emma A. Eliot, of Toronto, is
said to have been defrauded out of 850,000
worth of property by her attorney in
Chicago.
—A three years' agreement between the
Canadian Pacific RailWay management and
the employes now obtains from one end to
the other of that road.
—Mr. M. /dams, of St. George, a few
days ago was nearly euffocated witht coal
gas. When discovered he was unconscious,
and it took two hours to briog him round.
—Friday morning Star's grist mill,situated
'a couple of miles from St. Catharines, was
destroyed by fire with all its contents. Loss
about $7,000 ; insured for $3,500.
—The funerel of W, J. O'Connor, cham-
pion oarsman of -America, took place in To-
ronto on Saturday morning, and was attend-
ed by an immense throng of people.
—A society for the furtherance of closer
relations with Great Britain has been organ-
ized in London. Some 30p members °broil-
ed as a starter.
—The number of Canadians in the United
States, according to the census of 1890, was
980,941, an increase of 263;784, or about 37
per cent as compared with 1880.
—Mr. Obed Smith, horse trainer, of St.
Thomas, died at the Amass Wood hospital
in that city on Monday, of typhoid fever,
aged 47. He was a native of Yarmouth
township.
— Mrs. George Butler, of Ridgetown has
been deserted by her husband, and is left
with a new born babe and quite a family of
small children, and is utterly unable to sup-
port herself and family.
—The Government Winter Dairy station
at Wellman's Corners East Hastings, which
will manufacture 500 pounds of butter
daily, began operations on Thursday of last
week.
— Thomas Muir, a farmer living in the
township of Vespra, a few utiles from Barrie,
shot a fine specimen of black bear on his
ferm on Saturday. It weighed 225 pounds,
and brought $20.
-e-A few days ago a Chicago firm purchas-
ed a horse 23 hand high from a farmer) at
Saltfieet, near Hamilton for $2,000.t ie
to be placed on exhibition dax7ge the
World's Fair,
—There are at preeent 715 patients in the
insane asylum on Queen street west, Toron-
to, and 516 at Mimic°. Of the 1,231 only
four are confined to bed with illness, the re-
mainder being in good health. •
—Mud is said to have been thrown at the
coffin of the late Mrs. Pigeon, of the Salva-
tion Army, by boys, while the funeral pro-
cession wacpassing the Christian Brothers'
school at Kingston on Thursday.
—Reeve Thomas P. Watson, Ridgetown,
had the miafortune to lose the forefinger of
his left haud Wednesday of laet week. He
was at work on'the stave machine when the
accident happened.
—A day or tree ago Wm. Walrath,Bethel,
Kent county, upset a package of pepper,
getting his eyes hill. It was several hours
before he could obtain relief, during which:
time he was almost crazed with pain.
—Rev. Father O'Reilly, of Caledonia, is
lying at St. Joseph's Hospital, Hamilton,
suffering from a broken leg. The good
priest eupped on his doorstep the other day;
and in falling broke both bones of his right
ankle. .
—Augustus T. Kerr, a former resident of
Toronto, is on the Anrania en route to New
York in charge of a Nese York detective.
Ile is charged with embezzling $12,000 from
the Jarvis -Conklin Truet Compaq, of Kan-
sas City, Missouri.
—The steamer Ontario which put into
St. John's, Newfoundland, recently, in a
disabled condition, has resumed her voyage.
The vessel carried a number of cattle,
and out of the 314 head on board 172 have
died.
—Hundreds of acres of land at Washburn,
on the Rideah canal, have been flooded,
owing, it is alleged, to water being allowed
to rise two feet higher than the regulations
permit. Three bridges have been washed
away also.
—Mr. Isaac Nellis, of Seneca township,
Haldimand county, father of Mrs. E. H.
,Wilcox, of St. Thomas, died on Sunday
night, aged 98. He was the father of seven-
teen children, of whomnrteen survive
him.
—eProfessor Robertson, Dominion Dairy
Commissioner, left for England on Friday.
-He will attend a meeting of British agricul-
turists, called for the purpose of discuss-
ing' the present depression of trade with a
view of bringing about some remedy.
—Mr. John Tulloch, town clerk of Wat-
ford, who was stricken with paralysis on
November 3rd, never rallied from the stroke
and passed away on Sunday night, 20th
tilt, in his 63rd year. Deceased was a native
of the Orkney Islands, and came to Canada
at an early age. For the past thirty-five
years he has resided in the vicinity of Wat-
ford, being engaged principally as school
teacher in Warwick and Brook. He was
town eirrk for two years previous to his
cars
Canada.
will e soon be running in
water required in mining operations is
pumped several miles ; the cause is doubt-
less the depraved an
human needs, illustr
western expression, "
spirits."
The reason assigned
r'
death. Deceased was a deacon in the Con-
gregational church, and took an active in-
terest in church and Sunday school matters.
He leaves a wife and two soils. The town
council attended the funeral in a body.
Mr. Tulloch was a useful mau in the com-
munity, and a good citizeti who will be
missed by many old friends.
—Mrs,John May,of Otteivea, and her little
son narrowly escaped beingohoked to death
the other evening by a fire in her husband's
picture store on Rideau street. They were
hemmed in up stairs by the tree and were
found almost choked to death by the smoke.
—Bullock's Corners, near Dundee, has a
live litersry society which diecussed the fol-
lowing problem on Friday night : Resolved,
that the modern systera of forming is more
beneficial to mankind, physically and finan-
cially, than the ancient one. '
—The Pelee Island Cornmiseioners will re-
advertiee for tenders for the big marsh
drains. On the first call only one tender
was received, that of Allister McKay, of
Chatham, who offered to do the work for
$2°-L9M7115J0o.Seph Richardson, who for near-
ly 5 years, has held the position of Principal=
of the Taviitock public achools, has been re-
engaged for the year 1893. At the last en-
trance examination the school made the best
record of any year in its history.
-.a-Samuel Arscott and Willie Kelloway,
young sons of well-known citizens of the
town of Killarney, Manitoba, were on Satur-
day playing with a gun, not knowing it was
loaded, when it went off' suddenly and
Samuel had the top of his head blown off.
—The Salvation Army baeracks at Orillia
was burned to the ground on Saturday
evening. The fire originated in the cap-
tain's quarters while the army was out
marching. ' It is supposed a lamp that was
left burning there exploded.
--J, N. Zinkann, of Well,
bought and shipped a ples e
the neighborhood of ew H
English market, has completed his ship-
ments, which will foot up from New Ham-
burg station alone close to 7,600 barrelse
--The principal of Wesle College, Win-
/
nipeg, has received a tette in which the
writer desires hie name to b entered for a
, subscription of $10,000, to the fund of the
new college building, and promises another
$10,000, if bona fide subscriptions to the
amount of $80,000 are given.
—The General Conference Cemmittee of
the Methodist Church, in seesion at Toronto
last week decided that the next meeting of
the General Conferenee should be held in
London in 1894. The question of expense
decided the committee in fairer of London.
—Mr. George Beck, a South Dorchester
farmer, hes skipped to the States to avoid
criminal prosecution under the Charlton Act
on a charge of seducing the atep-daughter of
a Dereham man named Mitz, The girl is un-
der 16 years of age. Beek leeves a wife and
two children behind.
—The good work done by tlee Infants' Home
in Toronto, was shown in the report read at
the annual meeting Friday afternoon. Since
the institution was founde 1,930 women
and 2,334 children have reo ived its help.
The receipts for the last . year were $8,609
and expenditure° $7,355,
—The residence of Datid Sykep,at Grims-
by, was burglarized on Wednesday evening
of last week and $45 wail;taken. The event
greatly excited the villagers, and a man who
gave his name as John Rept), of Lindsay,
was arrested and charged with the crime.
He is now' in St. Catherines' jail. ,
—Rev. John Kay andaeveral other friends
of Miss Whitfield, the missionary to Africa,
now on a visit in Hamilton, 'have presented
her with a fine Winchester rifle and a shotgun
to take back to Africa with ' her when she
returne. Game Is very plentiful in that
country but the shoeting implements are
heavy and awkward to handle.
—Mr. Hazlewood, a Brantford grocer, has
lost two children within two days from black
diphtheria. There is not the slightest clue
as to how the children contracted ethe die.
ease. The moinent it appeared, by order of
Dr. Griffin, medical health officer, all com-
munication was closed between the astore
and the house and Mr. Hazelwood was not
allowed to enter the shop.
—Mr. G, A. . Putnam, private secretary
to President Mills, Ontario Agricultural
College, Guelph, had the misfortune to get
Ms right shoulder blade broken the other
day.- • Mr. Putnam is one of the forwards
of the college football team, and in a game
on Saturday he came into collision with an-
other player and was thus disabled.
—Sir Donald A. Smith's residence in the
suburbs of Winnipeg was burned . to the
ground on Thursday night last week. It
was an historical old place, and in it the
Earl of Dufferin, the Marquis of Lorne and
other celebrated men have been entertained
es guests, Many valuable mementoes of
early days in that country,which it contain-
ed, were also destroyed.
- —At Sarnia on Thursday afternoon last
week, William Fuller, an engineer on the
Grand Trunk, in attempting to get on the
step in front of a yard engine while in mo-
tion at the tunnel station, slipped, and the
wheels of the engine passed over his toes:
He was taken to Fort Gratiot, where he
lives, and the mangled members were am-
putated.
—The oldest woman in Canada is prob-
ably Mrs. Elizabeth McNair, of Clyde's
Corners seven miles from Huntingdon, who
has piacleed the age of 110 years. She was
born in Argyleehire Scotland and came to
Canada in 1822. Her husband died in 1879
at the age of 107 years. The old lady's
senses are fairly good, but her memory is
failing.
—Muskret hunters Wednesday evening
set fire to the plains about ten miles north-
east of Tilbury Center. Marsh grass grows
in great profusion there, and the blaze
lighted up the eastern sky like a prairie fire.
Many in Essex and in Windsor thought the '
town was on fire, and wired to find oat.
One or two persons thought it was the great.
comet,an idea having its origin in sensation-
al items in the Detroit papers.
—William O'Connor champion oarsman
of America, died on likednesday last week
in Toronto,of typhoid fever. William James
O'Connor was born in the house in which he
died, May 4, 1862, and was consequently 29
yesrs old. His mother died shortly after
hie birth. He was not married, and leaves
surviving him- a, father, four brothers and
two sistere. Hie father is very old, and at
present ill. .
—A man named James Crawford,' farmer
at Purple Valley, was killed Friday night
on his way home from Wiarton. A. etravel
pit bad been dug within eix -inches el the
road, and the right band runner of his
sleigh ran off, upsetting the sleigh. The
box fell on the prostrate man in the pit.
holding him down till suffocated. He wee
aboat 50 years old, and leaves a wife and
eight children.
—Andrew Miller and Mary Penhale, of
Yermouth, near St. Thomas, were married
November 24, 1842. Thursday last week
theY celebrated their golden wedding. Thele
ages are 77 and 72, respectively. Their fiva
sons and three daughters were present,.
Among the former are Dr. Andrew Miller, A
New Dundee, and Edward A. Miler, b
perverted sense of
ted by the typical
y soul longeth after
for the town's dilate
idated, Irregular and conglomerated appear-
ance is the feet that the largest mine owners
have a mining patent on theground, so that
the lots are not at all for gale, there being
no town -site. The question as to whether
the groudd is mineral or not, has been be-
fore the courts for a long time, and I be-
lieve is not settled yet, and as long as the
town site is not estahlished the place will
not assume the aspect of a regular town.
The location is quite' romantic, poetic and
beautiful. Several miles westward tbe nar-
row valley extends, where it then broadens
out into what is said to be the most fertile
valley in the territory, but the altitude be-
ing so great,between ix and seven thousand
ici
feet, and the surroun hig mountains com-
paratively low, the one* melts off so rapid-
ly in the spring, that
quickly, making irrig
the country has a ye
TINTIO MINING DISTRICT.
[Written tor Tux iKrzoarroz.]
In my former communication I dwelt
chiefly on Salt Lake City. Having visited
and studied the principal mining camps of
the territory, it might be well for me to
speak of mining operations in general and
include a description of the Tintic Mining
District in this epistle.
After the prospector has found a mineral
vein, followed it up, or rather down, and
finds that it veill pan out " well, or in
other words, that he has " struck it rich,"
operations Immediately begin to take out
the "pay dirt." Hoisting works, or the
shaft house—hoth names being applied to
the building—are constructed. Machinery
is secured, which consists of boiler and en-
gine, the engine being attached to a large
windlass cal,led the drum, around which is
coiled the cable that hoists and lowers the
cage, or in smaller mines, the bucket used
for bringing the soil, rock, or mineral to the
surface. A shaft is sunk, not an prdinary
iron or steel shaft as it is understood in a
factory, but a shaft in mining is simply the
hole itself. If the work is to be carried on
on a large scale, the shaft is, of course,
made large, perhaps 6 by 12 feet, and a par-
tition is fixed in the middle, thus making it
a double 'shaft. The " oage " is what might
ordinarily be called an elevator. The grips
of the engines are so arranged that the ewe
can be operated singly or in unison, that le,
one cage caii be raised independent of the
other, or while one 18 raised the other is
lowered. The cages may be single, double,
or triple " deckers " according to the amount
of material to be hoisted. When the cage
is used. they use ore cars which contain a
ton of ore, more or less, and which are ran
on the -tracks ib the various tunnels in the
mine, loading the ore or waste as the case
may be, run the car on the cage, elevate it,
sley, who has
tensively from
mburg to the
the water disappears ,
tion impossible, hence
ry barren appearance.
Eastward, the open valley also extends Jor
several miles, where it is lost in the mount-
ains again. Immedietely south and north
of the town, about is mile apart, rise the
mountains between 500 and 2,000 feet in
height. Eureka' hat! four large and rich
mines, the Bullion Beck, Keystone, Eureka -
hill and Centennial Eureka. The first three
are located right in the town and the last
named is about half a mile distant, up the
mountain on the south side, maybe 1,500
feet higher than the town. I don't suppome
that any one of them could be bought for
$2,000,000 th-day. There were negotiations
in progress last winter for the purchase of
the Bullion-Betik by a California firm for
$3,000,000, the deal, 'however, was not con-
summated. When the Bullion Beck runs at
full blast, she employs about 300 men, the
others employing from 50 to 200; respective-
ly, but silver is at !such a very low price
now, that nearly all the mines in the west
are, comparatively ' speaking, practically
" cloeed down." The ore from these mines
is worth from $30 tO $150 per ton, ordinari-
ly, sometimes, howeVer, a strike " is made
into one which carries a great deal of gold,
whom? value runs away up into the thousands
per ton. 1
1
E. RANNIE.
(TO BE 00;41TINUED.)
—JohnlIcCrae, a young man of nineteen,-
cCrae, of Guelph, died
orning. Re was em -
Company's organ and
father called him in
time to have breakf et and go to work. He
replied that he would be down soon. He
was called a esecond time, and answered to
the same effect. ot coming down hie
father went to rous him up, and was start-
led to find. him almost dead. The father
and elder brother did everything to restore
animation, but as the young man said, " it
was no use," and ho expired before medical
aid could be euntmoned. The cause of
rister, of Aylmer. Oth
present in large numb
Matthew Penhale, of St
of Mrs.; Miller, who aote
and Mrs. George Mann, si
who acted as bridesmaid
yearn ago.
—There is a sensation i
by the discovery of a nest
McLEAN BROS., Publishers.
t $1.50 a Year in Advance.
r relatives were tube of the Ircquois battalion, who did ser-
rs, including Mr. , vice in the Inman raid, and ie also depute -
Thomss, brother 1 reeve of his township. His father ran lit
as groomsman, , the Conservetive interest for the local legi- -
ter of Mr./Allier, 1 lature againet the late S. S. Cook. 'M
t the wedding 50 Robertson is also a prominent max, aod
-was but recently appointed to an impertaht
Windsor caused position by the Dominion Gavernmeist, 'De-
fier these circumstances it will be eeeu thst
desperate fight will be made against extre-
dition, and the Federal autheeities will pr. -
vent it, if pcnsible. The penalty is severe,
and if extradition takee piece 1111?e lenieney
may be expected.
—.Eseex has a sensation. Ten .years age
Oscar Thornton myeteriousl v disapp iered
and was mourned ea dead. He bact been
away from home, and was expected to re-
turn with a large sum of money. Some
time after a pile of bones, pair of shoes
and portione of clothing were found near
Woodslee and the conclusion was at once
arrived a't that those were the remains of
Oscar Thornton. A coroner's jury sat on
the find and decided that way, and every-
body thought Thornton had been robbed
and murdered. Now, however, comes the
mystery. The other day Mr. Thornton's
fa.mily received a telegram from a town in
Indiana to the effect that Mr. Thornton ma
died there on Tuesday, and that the body
was being sent home for burial.
f poker players.
About a dozen of the garriblere werettium-
moned to appear at the pqice cotirt. Two
entered a plea of guilty, at the same time
using every influence to hive no publicity
given in the hearing of
others two were used as wi
„promised immunity, and
whole gang before a crowd
—Wm. Gehl, a son of
proprietor of Gehl's bre
while walking through the
the vats are, tripped, and f
one of these receptacles,
beer in a boiling state. H
neath the surface of the s
and on reappearing was dr
and horribly burned. He
he case. Of the
times, on being
gave away the
d court -room.
Mined Gehl, the
ery at Berlin,
building where
11 headlong into
hich contained
disappeared be-
perheated liquid
gged out,bliuded
was removed to
his home, where he died in II couple of hours
after intense suffering.
—Through the dissolutio by the death of
a partner of the firm of
Boyd & Company, Bobca
titer Of limits principally ai
River 'and Lake Nippissing
Wednesday 23rd ult., a
parcel, 16 2-3 equare miles,
hieing, sold for $7,900 per a
another on French Rive
square mile. The sale
$1,000,000.
—On Tuesday last week
received diplomas and gold
ing completed their two
trainednurses in the traini
nection with the Hamilton
teen nurses were instructed
under the superintendent!
nurse, Miss Bowman, of
hundred applications ever
year from young ledies wh
nurses.
—Alphabet suppers ar getting to be
uite a craze in some parts of the country,
he young people of char
range for an evening la
every article of which begi
letter. Each member is in
vide a portion of the feast,
levied against delinquents.
per for instance, would incl
butter, bananas, (inaesi
cheese (by an elastic con
rule), bologna, etc,
—Mrs. Alma, wife of a cl
Lands Department, Hamil
of good connection, was 6
day, charged with 'ateslin
cane, a pair of opera gl
eilver spoons from a Mrs.
protests her innocence. T
charge of stealing a gold
I
essrs. Mossom,
geon, a, quaat-
ated on French
were sold on
Toronto. One
on Lake Nip-
uare mile, and
at $11,700 per
realized nearly
ve young ladies
medals for hay -
years' course as
g school in con -
hospital. Thir-
during last year
of the head
uncles. Over a
received last
desired to be
son of Mr. Donald
suddenly Saturday
ployed at Bell &
piano factory. His
h soeietiee ar-
ch, the name of
a with the same
tructed to pro -
and a forfeit is
A " B " sup -
de bread,beens,
ly, beef, brie
traction - of the
rk in the Crown
on. and a woman
rested the other
a gold -headed
sees, and eleven
ilson. Mre.Alma
ere is a eecond
athh against her.
Heitlaughter,a girl of 12, w swith her mother
when the latter was erre
to leave her, and so was
night with her.
—An old pioneer of Blenheim township,
near Drumbo, has ne.ssed
of Mr. Thomas Passmore,
urday 19th ult., at the fa
•
ted, and refused
ocked up for the
way in the person
who disdain Sat-
ily residence on
the ninth concession, at the age of seventy
two years. Foranore the forty years Mr.
Passmore was identified ith the history of
this village and district, nd among these
who " through long days f labor and nights
devoid of ease " endur d the hardships of
pioneer life in this towns ip has name will
always occupy an honore place. A large
family survive the dement
—A recent despatch
says : The Royal Comm
traffic, consisting of Sir
Judge Macdougall, Rev.
E. F. Clarke of Toronto,
yesterday and finished t
Canada, having met in th
from Montreal to the Co
sioners will leave shor
Cslifornia, where prefab
force for years. They veil see how it works
there, then proceed to K neas en route to
To—roEntdow. in
Crane, chie clerk for Dun's
Mercaotile Agency at De roit, who skipped
recently, had a remarks le career of crime.
He ruined his trusting s eetheart in Eng-
land, and, robbing his m ther fled to Can-
ada while Ms prospectiv bride stood at the
altar. Landing in Mon real he entrapped a
young French-Canadian
her on the eve of the w
mother. Detroit was hi
erations. Here he
daughter. His sins fou
corning alarmed, Cran
taking with him $2,
money.
—At the London Jud
vieion Mr. Bealing's na
voters' list. He went t
to get married and
Europe until fall, when
The Liberals contended
hie right to vote as he
ure and not business, an
still in London. Jud
that though it might be
tinuous reaidence clau
provide for such a case.
tion of the law is right
to the World's Fair nex
vote," remarked a lawy
—One of Father Sed
brought out from Engle.
got himself into trouble
very quick tempered, a
came displeased attacked the first person or
animal he came across. Often Mr. Ladon-
cer's boys were struck b the immigrant,but
to cap the climax he o Saturday last got
angry at a horse inthe table, and raising a
shovel he struck the an mad savagely on the
Perth Items.
It is proposed to apply for- a postoffice
at Warden Kuhry's corner, Ellice, to be
known as Kuhryville.
—Mr. Jacob Bundscho, proprietor of the
cheese box factory at Milverton, has made
over 30,000 boxes during the past season.
—The celebrated temperance speaker,
Joe Hess, will hold a series of meetings be
Listowel, beginning on the llth inst.
—Mr. Walter Noble has disposed of his
farm, near Monkton, and intends removing
to California won.
—Young Balkwell, son of Mr. Thomas
Balkwell, of Iditchell, broke his arm in the
High school gymnasium the other day.
—Special meetings, conducted by Revs.
Ball and Graham, are being held in the
Methodist Church, Fullerton.
—Mr. Wm. Stacey, who hes been making
cheeee at Black Creek factory this season,
has returned home to Fullerton.
—Mr. A. Ross, of the 12th concession of
Fullerton this year raised 350 bushels of
barley, fviansury variety, from five acres.
—Mr. George Inglis,- of Moiakton is oaf-
fering from injuries received in a fall some
time ago.
—Mr. John Gillespie and family, who
have resided for the past two years in Ful-
lerton village, have returned to their farm
at Cromarty.
—The cohgregation of Knox Church,
Monkton, are preparing for their anniver-
sary services and tea -meeting to be held on
December 4th and 5th.
—Mr. T. S. Johneou, the Mitchell horse
trainer, has gone to Stratford, where he has
rented a large barn, and will follow his busi-
ness on a more extensive scale than ever.
—At a meeting of farmers held the other
evening at Avonbank, 25 of the number took
stock in the farmer's binder twine and iin-
plement manufacturing company of the city
of Brantford.
—The city council of Strattord has ap-
pointed a committee to confer with a com-
mittee of the county council with a view to
the erection of a House of ',Refuge in the
— elson Tracey, miller, of Listowel, has
gone to Killarney, Manitoba. Prior to his
departure he was presented with an address,
d.
from Vancouver accompanied with a guard and locket by his
ssion on the liquor brother Oddfellowa.
Joseph Hickson, —Mrs. Rev. C. Fletcher addressed the
Dr. McLeod and Young People's Society of Christian M-
eld a session here deavor, at Kirkton, on Tuesday evening,
king evidence in 22nd ult., subject, " Impressions from till
principal cities Pan Presbyterian Council."
st. The commis- —Mrs. G. B. Way, of Cattwright, Mani-
ly for Passadena., toba, is at present visiting friends in Strat-
tion has been in ford. Mrs. Way moved to Manitoba from
Mitchell about twelve years ago and she
new thinks there is no place like itanitoba.
--Mr. F. Bechler has sold his 100 -acre
farm, on the 16th concession of Elma, for-
merly occupied by Mr. John Arnold, to Mr.
David Seller. There is about 25 acres
cleared, the balance swamp land. The price
paid was $1,800.
--Mr.1 John Young, who his been for
three years and a half in British Columbia,
girl and deserted is home on a visit to his parents and friends
ding, robbing her in Hibbert. He speaks well of the Pacific
next centre of op- Province.
arried banker —Mr. James Jones has mold his farm, in
d him out, and be- Logan township, to lir. W. T. Williams,
left for Liverpool, for the sum of $5,500, and will shortly re -
0 of other people's move his family to Mitchell, and devote his
whole time to the auctioneering and imple-
e's Court of Re- ment agency business..
e was struck off the —Mr. Grant Anderson, formerly teacher
Germany in May of School Section No. I, Elms and Wallet:le
njoyed his visit in boundary, has been engaged to succeed Mr.
he returned home. S. H. Harding as teacher of the senior de -
that he had not lost partment of the Atwood public school for
ent away for pleas- 1893, at a salary of $425,
his domicile was —The other day a tramp, named John
e Davis intimated Chapman, stole an over coat from Mr. J. H.
hard, yet the con- Flagg's store, in Mitchell. He was soon
e of the act did not after arrested by Constable Dennison, and
"If that construe- the coat found in his possession. Next day
veeyone who goes the fellow was committed to Stratford jail
year will lose his for three months.
r. —The anniversary -services in connection
on's immigrant boys with Knox Church, St. Marys, will be held
d some months ago, en Sanday and Monday, December 4th and
in Montreal. He is 5th next. Rev. Dr. McDonald, of Seaforth,
d whenever he be- will preach on Sunday morning and even-
ing. He will eileo speak at the tea -meeting
M—onmdary. evvvenmin. 1; 0.
liver, of Avonbank, met
with splendid success at the United States
fall faire. In a letter to the Live Stock
Journal, he says : At Peoria. I took nine
first and four second prizes, and at St.
Louis ten first and four seconds. I have
sold all my homebred eheep. Lincoln sheep
are very much in demand at present, and
intend visiting England next summer, and
making a further large importation."
—On Tuesday last Mr. John R. McIntyre,
of Fullerton, had a large abcess, that had.
troubling him for some time, removed from
his intestines. The operation was perform-
ed by Dr. Armstrong, assisted by Dr. El-
liott, of 13rucefield, and Dr. Wood, of Mit-
chell. At last accounts he Was doing very
well.
—A Kirkton correspondent says : Mr,
Hamill is talking of putting a separator in
his creamery here. We would suggest that
a public meeting be called, and. immediate
action be taken ; we see no reason why,s
winter dairy should not •be as succesefully
• obpereraarteet hfearevoarsoefisietw.”here. A large ZU03-
-On Wednesday eveniug, 16th_ ult., the
residence of Mr. D. Patterson, of Wallace
township, was the scene of an occurrence of
rather a pleasing and interesting nature, the
event being the marriage of hie daughter
Etta, to Mr. J. A. Fall's, of Elms. The
nuptial knot was adjusted by Rev. Thomas
Amy, of Listowel. Rev. Mr. Morrison,
Preebyterian Church minister, was also
pmranneesentr,. and added much to the pleasure of
the evening by his very affable ani pleasing
.1. I
1 1
leg, cutting an artery.
cost $90, died despite
veterinary surgeon. T
a cow, but that animal
and is still alive. Mr.
The horse, which
the treatment of a
e boy next attacked
eurvived the blows
adoucer, not wish-
ing to prosecute the boy! sent him away,but
on Tuesday night he re urned to the house
• and hungry. If he
uld commit suicide.
s now in negotiation
and United States
than ordinary in -
and said he was free=
did not get shelter he w
—The extradition mut
between the Canadian
governments are of mor
terest, on account of thviii prominence of the
parties hivolved. It (ill be remembered
that over a year ago a !young man named
Gale secreted himself in the residence of his
former employer, Mr.
Matilda township,t Du
-the family's absence, an
they had retired, aseaul
and beat her brutally
Mr. McDonald, accomp' nied by /Lander
i
Robertson, followed bi woes the line, and
in some manner brough him hack, and he
was tried and senteuced to a term of im-
prisonment. On demand of the United,
States Government he Was released,and Low
the Dominion authoritiet are asked to hand
over Messrs. McDonald find Robertson to be
tried as kidnappers in the United States,
and it is &bid that 'Judge McDonald,
of Broekville, has ordered their arrest,
pending proceedings. Mr. McDonald is a
son of the late Alexander McDonald, cap -
A. McDonald, of
dal comity, during
in the night, after
ted Miss McDonald
He skip d, and