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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1893-02-24, Page 1'1 v .4' -70112MIMMITZraiMI r, 1893.- I7th our shelves ded with the new Spring leased with to hand so. that we are this seasoa seletions er m value. au will find, erfection," he dry goods have been aow pat terns design, and give yo.Th a omparatively ok at them, re complete, a home is a Along with are showing. ms and Cur - save both j House Fur - ere is ample very facility t you want, d upon the ul quick re - popular for lugs, &c.,. and considerable rticnIar goods aural to call ave the best largely, and shade but catalogue of GODSa call your at- ck of Black es, res, AB, nis eth's, tes, . es, . pots, &c. : Y large, cern- lack goods, as E new things is a special d is always e goods suit - year. a. new. Spring • Smile really TS. Be sure. IcFaul, E. if the invited ra after which a all. We unite yourtg couple ntinued heppie ent a few days -Dr. T. Case, of lees_ this week his sister, Miss 7ednesd ay even- ' roatriznocy to ba, son of felt.. nivinship. —Mr. leboro, were in set. Eaglieh church esday -night last and re•arre,,ng- under the name aa the follow- tt, President t; Lizzie 1,Vat- ; Annie Ham - We think that rs the Society [ the Methodist Lrec. Pentland, of In the morn - t Thessalonians,. in the evening mit clause of the met thy God." W1113 packed,and y disa.ppointed, lever speaker. on, were visit - on Sunday. — extended visit present.—Mr. eat) this week, : to attend the ion which is go - number of peo- ingham were in iarnee said John la week. —Milis e Collegiate In- -Blyth montheof February- -Mr. J. S. Mo- de .week buying n, who has been s and F,thei, re- 4orvit:es will be arch every Wed - If igley, during liriner came in the 16th bast. lilts, of Guelph thers to speak. , a Will Powell.- Sunday.—Mr. ell all last week, brethren from e f the late Dr. lace at Clinton troy, of Wood - and friends in ed ire s day. — Mr - :d from Wood ier not Blyth la is the topic le at preeent.— John Buie was ,ter down town, ✓ ri..; the horse id threw itself ging the vehicle ghtiy hurt.—A a social hop at _Kelly; Hallett, TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR. WHOLE NUMBER, 1,315. SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1893. IMcLEAN BROS., Publishers. $1.50 a Year in Advance. IIAT s Are like charity, for they cover a multitude of sins ; they are like suc- cessful men, for they are always at the top and in the public's' eye ; they are like a poor man, for they arg always worn out; and they are like women in our hours of trial, for what would we do without them. The oldest things in hats are heads. The finest things in hats are felt. The best selection of hats is at 0 JACKSON BROS. We have received our first 'honsign- merit of New Spring Hats i b4th Soft and Stiff Hats, containing the latest Shapes and Colors. We have many AMERICAN NOVELTIES That no other house in the section will produce. Hats ToBeDepended on Hats That Won't Break, Hats That Will Keep Colar Hats—Correct Styles ARE SOLD BYJACKSON BROS,. THE — FAMOUS — HATTERS, SEAFORTH. WINTERING ON THE ENG- LISH CHANNEL. Torquay, England, January 30th, 1803. DEAR EXPOSITOR.—" It is only the :un- expected that happens. " Seldom has this contradictory saying found better illustra- tion than in the chain of circumstances, is a, result of which two of your readers were obliged to spend the winter in Southern , England. Like the children of most British barn parents, we had been taught from Our cradle days to respect and revere the little Island across the Atlantic, which has bottle so proud and plucky a part in the great drama of history, and among the gnod things the far future might hold in store for us, we vaguely hoped would be included a visit to the home of our fathers. That hope was realized with such suddenness that almost before we were aware we found our- seives travelling rapidly southWard frbm Liverpool toward. Torquay, our Ultiima, Thule for the time being. Recalling the frequency with which your columns hive been filled with descriptive accounts .of wanderings in distant lands, and that these articles contribute no small part of the pleasure and profit derived from your excel- lent paper by its numerous readers, we ven- ture the following sketch of the little town that claims, not unjuitly, to be ore of the finest of Englands many fine watering places. The term "little town" is used advisedly although from an American stand point it seems a misnomer when applied to a plebe that boasts a population of thirty thousand. Equally strange sounds its modest conies - Mon of comparatively recent griiwth „dating no further back than 1800 for the beginnieg cif its real history. A very brief period hf exiatence for an English town, but nearly twice as long as that during which an ob- scure prairie village has developed into orie of the mightiest of the New World's Modern Babylons. Previous to 1800, Torquay was an insig- nificant fishing hamlet, whose most promin- ent feature was . the wooden pier which occasionally attracted a passing vessel, and from which the name Torquay (Tore -key) originated. It was during the early years of the present century, while the Euro- pean Monarchs were being kept so frantical ly busy in holding their unsteady crowns above the reach of the "Little Coraicau," that the climatic virtue of the locality was accidentally discovered. Fleets of war ships were often stationed ineTor Bay, there to await further oders, which were some - tidies no long delayed that the officers grew weary of their loneliness and sent for their wives and families, To provide for them, cottages and villas were built, thus account ing for the increase of one hundred and ten houses shown by the census of 1811 over that of 1801. Invalids of these officers' families, especiadly those suffering from lung disorders,found that they moped the trials they bad learned to look upon as incident to the winter season' and that their strength and general healthwere greatly improved by their stay in Torquay. Thus it was that out of the apparently unmixed evil of the Napaleonic wars, good WAS so soon forthcoming to at least oue little corn- er of Great Britain, from those troublous times Torquay's reputation as a health re- sort was established. According to Medical Authorities the health givieig character of the place is due to a happy eombination of physical condi- tins. Sharing with many other towns the soft and humid climate belonging to the south of England, it has an advantage over them in its peculiar position. The, coast between the mouths of the Teign and the pert rivers takes the form of a boot shaped peninsula pointing to the south west. In the angle made by the heel of this boot, nestling down at the sunny foot of numer- ous high tors (hills) is situated the Queen of England's Watering Places." When the reader remembers that in Eng- land the east wind is pre-eminently the cold wind and that it, as well as the scarce ly less dreaded north wind, is shut off from Torquay by its encircling tors, he will ap- preciate how well protected this fortunate little town is from the terrors of Jack Frost, and will be prepared to believe the state- ment male by Clearles Kingsley that the trim gardens he saw from Tor Bay hardly know what frost and snow may be but see the flowere of Autumn meet the flewers of spring, and the olelyear linger smilingly to twine e. garland for the new. Again it is asserted thst its position betreen the Dart and the Teign saves Torquay from the rather too generous rainfall with which Devonshire is blessed, and that much of the dampness inseparable from a -sea board locality is a.beorbed by the limestone rock 80 abundant in this neighborhood. This may be only a pretty theory, but the fact remains that violent rains are rare and fog and mist practically unknown, which is Baying considerable for a Devonshire town. Lst, but not least, as a means of hasten ing the return of health, Torquay possess innumerable attractions, to draw the in- valid out of himself and his ailments. Nat- ure add man have vied with each other Ili being -prodigal of effort to make the quon- dam village of fishermen's cottages a "thing of beauty," and thus a "joy for ever." Tile town, as stated above, is built at the foot Of the tore or hills that surrodad the bay. It is laid out upon a series of terraces cut out upon' the face of the hills largely by the hand a nature. The view from the bay le a very striking one, consisting as it does of tier upon tier of .fine res ' idences varying 'uncanny origin, for in Devonshire the mys from pretty group" of cottages to the more terious spirit of miachief was, under the iinposing mansions and villas, •ntanding din title Daddy, at one time uncommonly active. tackled, and in the midst of the beautiful The frightful chasm in the rock adjoining grounds, attainable in a climate- which the plain justifies the tradition regarding allows even exotic plants to flourish. A it, Further along the coast is Austy's Cove, 'walk through the residental streets is well a sheltered retreat of such surpassing worth taking, although it rather loses its be auty that, had the popular superstition charm after the visitor has made the ac- which named Daddy Hole been coneistent,it quaintance of the number of exquisite ples- would havelmen ascribed to the gentle skill ure grounds that have been provided for the of some angel of light. benefit of the public. The most cursory sketch of Torquay's Of these, perhaps that known as Role natural curiosities would be incomplete Walk deserves to be given the first plade, without a mention of Kent's Cavern, one of although Torwood Garene, of which Stthe most celebrated of England's bone caves Andrews Presbyterian church, a beautiful and an object of. great interest to the stu- Gothic structure, is a prominent feature, dent of science. It contains two parallel is a worthy rival. The Rook Walk has been caves about a furlong in length, divided into laid out at great expense, along the limea chambers, nowhere higher than 20 feet nor stone cliff overlooking the bay. As Tor wider than as many yarde. Before the floor Bay Road, leading from tiee railroad statioh of the cavern was torn up by the exploring to the main part of the Wwn, runs parallel pick and axe, it was covered withe columuar with this cliff, and between it and the ilea formations known as stalagmite, corral - wall, the first gl imitate the visitor gets of ponding to the similarly formed stalactites Torquay is a very delightful one. The still depending from tbe roof. A few stalag- Walk consists of a labyrinth of paths, partly mites have been preserved one ot which is natural and partty the work of MD. They the finest specimen in England. It is 54 are shaded by numerous trees and vines, inches high, and perhaps 4 inches in dia- and ornamented by beds of rare and beauti- meter at its base. Those competent to iied ful flowers, many of which are not looked for outside the tropics unlese in conserva- tories. Several varieties of palms, agave and cacti may be seen. An orange tree dis- plays some very creditable fruit, the Myhtle is claimed to grow here as freely as in Italy, Geraniums, Fuchsias and Ferns lend their more common but not less praise- worthy effect, while beds of Snowdrops, Crocuees and tulips are already reminding us of the approach of spring. Up to Chris- tmas the chrysanthemum was in the height of its glory, in such abundance of varieties and shades that one wonders whether it could be eclipsed in "sweet Japan," its native soil. Over and above and among all these, twining around tree trunks and ril- ings, climbing to a dizzy height upon the lofty side of thcliff, and converting its bare unsightly face into a back ground of richest green, we found English Ivy,to our heatte content, and appreciated as never before Dickens' description of it. "Creeping where no life is seen, A brave old plant is the Ivy Green." With as in America the ivy is certaidly both rare and dainty, but hardly brave. Here it is all these; now dainty, as a delicate tendril clings to some slender Col- umn, again brave when a sturdy branch takes root in a tiny bit of soil in the 'Very heart of the barren rocks, and always rare in the magnificent coloring and matchless shape of its leaves. This Walk, with Vic- toria Parade, laid out upon the eastern arm of the pier is so favorite a haunt that al- most any sunny day the throng of pleasure seekers forms an additional attraction and a welcome variety to the handiwork of the gardener. Torquay is a leery fashionable sum mer re- sort, and even id winter it draws many be- sides those who come in quest of health. It is said that few English towns can boast so large a proportion of wealthy and historic families among their residents and visitors, hence it is an easy matter for any one with a little leisure time to obtain glimpses of genuine aristocracy. Even royalty has seen tit to set it e gracious seal to Torquay's fame. In addition to the few brief visits of several other members of the Queen'shousehold, the Princess of Wales with her three daughters spent six weeks of a recent summer as guests of the late Duchess of Sutherland, much of whose unhappy married life1 was passed at her Torquay home. The Baroness Burdett'? Coutts is another of the distinguished per- sonages who have been permanent residents of the place, and like the Duchess alluded to Algoma, big crop: of all kinds were raised; above, is still held in grateful memory for fore have noticed in their barns and granaries hee generous charities. Those who read the eividence of this. The grass and hay crop in Algoma is always a good one ordinary land yields tree t� two and a half tone per ore of hay; it is a great country for clover, Ole clover is natural to the soil and grows cfverywhere even on high rocky ridges, Which otherwise would be unprofitable, but 4wing to the growth of the clover would Make excellent land for sheep raising. It is 4 great wonder to us that Algoma has not tieen heard of before this as a Sheep -raising epuntry, owing to the fact of the clover being natural to the soil and the presence of sb many springs and creeks of pure spring ;water all over the District; Algoma is the hatural home of the sheep. Then as to ha ttle raising, the facts we have mentioned prove that this can be made a great stock- , raising and dairying country ; our experi- ence is that both Fall and Spring wheat eau be successfully grown here, big crops are taieed every year e Oats do very well in- deed, also Barley and Buckwheat, in fact nything usually grown on a farm or in a garden seems to do well in Eastern Algoma. The hardy kind of apples (especially Per- haps the different kinds of Russets, the Northern Spy, the Wealthy, the Duchess of Oldenburg and other hardy kinds) do very well, and we notice with a good deal of pleasure that farmere are commencing to plant out orchards all over the District both on the Main land and the fertile Island of $t. Joseph. Two farmers in fact, are going in a small way into the Nursery business and they would be glad to give information to fruit -growing to anybody who writes tem. One gentleman is D. Dunn, Jocelyn Tre 0. St Joseph Island, and the other is W. Harris J.. P. and President 1 of the Day ills and Bright Agricultural S/eciety, Day ills, the latter place, is on the North Shore ad the former on St. Joseph Ieland, so it sfiows that apples do well both on the North 4ore (Laurntian formtion) and St. Opseph Island (limestone formation). Crab- aples, plums, cherries, pears, do Well and aL the smaller fruits, currants, raspberries, 0,v/berries, &c. The crop of Wild Straw - Wrier' and raspberries every year is very bg. There were some splendid sampler of epples and pears shown at the last Fall Ex - *Rion at Sault Ste Marie and at 'Richards "lending, St.Joseph Island and at Marksville is the sameisland, and other places in the 1/istrict. It was stated in the Mail, shortly a ter the District Exhibition at Sault Ste arie that Mr. N. Awrey the World's Fair diemmissioner who attended the Fair along viNth Professor Robertson, the Dominion Ito' iry Commissioner, expressed himself as gteatly pleased with the exhibit of Bartlett p'ears from St. Joseph Islnd. We mention, these facto about fruit because a country villich is a good fruit growing country must necessarily be good for general agriculture. As to markets; owing to the big lum er- idg operations in the District and the Public Works in progress and the Mining develop - brut, whioh is as yet only in its infancy, viw Then thelsea coast is un- there is and always will be a good Home usually rich in t lose fantastic reeults of Market in Eastern Algoma, both on the wave force, made doubly possible when a Mainland and the Islands for everything a considerable portion of limestone or other ) farmer, stook -raiser or fruit grower can hard oak intermingles with softer layers of raise or grow. We will mention here the shales and clay. Corbyn Head, from whose prices of the following articles : Wheat per face VI e waters have washed every trace of bushel $1.00, Oats 50 to 55cper bushel, soil add vegetation, revealing a, ribbon like Pork 8 to 9c., Beef 7 to 9o., Hay $10 to $12 formation of regular strata oz highlycolored per ton, these are the general prices through rocks, and London Bridge, a natural arch of the District. We forgot to mention pots - singular beauty, are both points which have toes which are selling at 50 to 60c.per bushel. yielded ample material for the painter's We believe the prices at the Town of Sault cnvas. Near the latter is Daddy Hole Ste Marie are generally a good deal higher Plain, which owes its name to its alleged than in the rest of the District. There is expected to be a big boom in Mining all over the District. The recent big finds of gold -bearing quartz to the North of Bruce Mines and Thomaston are attracting Mining from Duluth and other places in the Suite and it is believed the Mineral country round Goulais and Batchewana Bays and North West and East of the Town of Sault Ste Marie and . the Garden River Indian Reserve are all very rich in Gold, silver, copper and other ores, and nickel has recent- ly been found at Thessalon, showing that nickel is not confined to the Sudbury region; we have heard within the last few days that nickel has also been found lately at two or three places on the Garden River Indian Reserve,- within some 12 miles of Sault Ste Marie. There is a big iron country around Echo Lake'in the Townships of Macdonald and Meredith and the Ophir 1 Gold Mine back of Bruce Mints is said we hear, by experts to be one of the richest finde of gold -bearing quartz ever made. In addition to the big stir which will be made in Mining in the next two or three years the building of the New Railway, The Lake Superior, Algoma and Colonization Railway, which will run from the mouth of the Batchewauna River, on Batchewiinna Bay, passing through the Goulais Settlement and terpret the testimony of the rocks have given 216,000 years as the period required' l to the North of the Sault and through the for its formation. We looked upon this }Garden River Indian Reserve and through relic of bygone ages with almost reverence, the gold -country (Coffin, Galbraith and ad - a feeling which deepened into astonished joining townships) andthrough the "Nickel awe when we were shown some of the animal Range",to a point on the Main Line of the gamins found when the floor on which the Canadian Pacifie Railway near the crossing *indent stalagmite stands had been excavat- 'of the Vermillion River, with a branch or ed. Of these, the most impressive were the spur from the Ophir Mine to Thessalon, will .int arrows and needles, the bone spoons open up the mineral lands in the country and and comb, and the charred wood, which will also open the country for colonization Prove beyond a shadow of doubt that man and immigration purposes, as it will open up has existed infinitely farther back in the re- the vast extent of agrieultural country lying boding past than is generally supposed. in the valleys of the Goulais and Batch- gy reason of its length, this letter threat- ewauna Rivera to the North and West of ens to encroach too much upon your valu- the Sault. Each of us would be very happy ble space, so we refrain from farther ao. if people who intend immigrating to Algoma 1:eount of the interesting points we have vie- would write to ne • we will be glad to ane - tad. It is needless to say that some of the wer their letters and give them any inform - Customs and habits of the people struck us ation as to the country in our power. tet first as very strange. It is now almost What Algoma wants is settlereand the class three months since we reached Torquay, so of people we would advise to come here are we are becoming accustomed to the new or- tenant farmers and others hiving a little der of things, and, although the time spent means or capital, enough to give them a fair here has been too short to form any just start here. A man coming here should have astimate of - the character sustained by enough to buy some stock and implements IMerrie England among her sister nations, and get fairly well started. Of course there It has been long enough for us to carry away is lots of work in the District for labouring it high opinion and pleasant memory of at men, in the lumber camps and Mines and a least onesmall part of her domain. good many of the farmers doubtiess often PAIILINA. want help, but the men we want to get to Algoma are the same class of men who have NEW ONTARIO. 1 been going to Manitoba and the Western States for years; men having means or cap - GOOD MARKETS AND GOOD CROPS. ital between $500 and $5,000, and we con - (WRITTEN FOR TIM EXPOBITOR.) fidently say that if such men would come ei We have noticed with a great deal of here instead of going to other places they leasnre that a good many of the settlers would do far better here and would esoape in the • Electoral District of Eastern Algoma many hardships and privations and would re writing to the public press setting forth soon make themselves independently well he many and, great advantages which this off if they worked hard and understood their business ; of course a man has got to tlistrict offers to the incoming settler or emi- understand his bushman in any line of life to grant and it occurred to us, that as we have each reaided for some time in the District make a success of it. Some menweuld not ind are well acquainted with its resources get on well anywhere. nd capabilities, we should . make a state- JOHN MCGUGAN, !Merit ourselves in the matter. The writers RICHARD% LANDING P. o. Or JOCELYN P. 0. St. pf this letter have within the last few days Joseph Iland. CHARLES ROONEY, travelled through the District considerably WRBT KORAII, Sault Ste Marie, P. 0. Ontario. ind have had interviews with a great many f the settlers now living in the District, Forty -Seven Years Ago. n on their farms and talked with av e nee ihem in their homes and we think we are tate in saying that the settlers now in Al- goma are very prosperous and doing well; they are contented we believe as a rule, and hey should be happy, if success would "hake anyone happy. Last season was a ery successful season for the farmers in account of the pearl robbery by the unfor- tunate Mrs. Osborn, and her subsequent tragical trial,a year ago, will recognize Torquay as the scene of the sensation. At present Oscar Wild, who is occupied in the production of a new play, is given a promin- entplace among visiting notables. A few weeks ago the £40,000 yacht of Mrs. Lang- try tarried long enough in Tor Bay to allow its famous mistress to come ashore for a few hours. P-• To us Who have been taught to beliee. with Uncle Sam, that all men are creed equal, the display, of wealth and culture to be seen on thefashionable parade and pleas- ure grounds forms a painful contrast to the want and squalor that exist in the meaner parts of the town. Perhaps in all our previ- ous experience we have seen less luxury than in this short period we have been in Tor- quay. Certainly, we never encountered more pitiable poverty. We cannot but con- gratulate ourselves on belonging to a coun- try where such casein if they exist at all, are not perpetuated and embittered by the cruel system of rank and caste that shuts out nearly every prospect of better days for England's poor folk. Neverthelese, while de- ploring the evils that seem necessitated by such a /Totem, justice compels us to recog- nise the effects of generations of contact with culture and wealth upon the few so favored. It is not only their dress and out- ward appearance that impress the observer. There is something in their face and manner, something deeper and more vital than clothes and complexion, that calls forth re- eipct end admiration, and gives a strong assurance that England will yet solve to the satisfaction of all concerned, the knotty social prcbleme that are now vexing her spirit. In addition to its many pleasure grounds, Torquay provides many opportunities for amusement and recreation, in the. form of bathinenyachting and fishinn,and a constant round of lectures,concerts and theatrical per- formances,besides the excitement to be ex- pected in a place where the political parties are about equally balanced. The Liberate have the control of the Town °Mind', but the borough to which the town be- longs proved overwhelmingly Conservative at the recent election. This was no doubt partly due to the influence of the Primroee League which is the strongest Habitation of England, a fact indicated by its present possession of the champ n banner. Outside the towa.. (trier many a day might be given to ddlightful rambles. Devonshire lanes, so aPhically described by Blackmore, (Devons favorite novelist) are within easy walking distance of any part of the town. Dart moor, among whose wild tors so many of Blackmore's thrilling tales of exploit and daring took place, is not BO far away but that the snowy covering of its higher elevations can be descried from Narberry Hill, Torquay's loftiest point of The following is a letter written by the late Mrs. Archibald Dickson, Gladewood Farm, Roxboro'McKillop, to her daughter, Mrs. Somerville, e after she was married and left the parental home to reside at Haysville in the County of Waterloo. The writer was the mother of Mr. James Dickson Goderich; John Dickson, Roxboro and Robert Dick- son,Brussele ; also of Mrs. James Scott,Mrs. Somerville and Mrs. Chisholm, and the letter was written 47 years ago and is still in an excellent ',tate of preservation. It is in 'a beautiful clear hand and shows the writer to have been a lady of more than or- dinary attainmente. We publish it below and we have no doubt it will prove of in- terest to many of the older residente. Frank Henderson, mentioned therein, was familiarly known throughout the county. He died a short time ago. Isabella is Mrs. James Scott; Helen is Miss Dickson, of Goderich ; Meggie is Mrs. Chisholm, of Manitoba; Robert Scott and Agnes, both deceaeed were father and mother of Messrs. Scott Brothers, of Seaforth, while Tom and Susan are the present Mr. and Mr, Govan - lock, near Seaforth. It is needless to say that the writer of this letter has gone to her rest many years ao. The letter reads as follows : / GladeWtiod, August 26, 1846. MY DEAR DAUGHTER, —I am truly glad of an opportunity Of writing you by Frank Henderson who is to leave this to -morrow or Monday at farthest on his journey down- wards. I was not a little pleased with your letter to your sister. I hope you are getting more and more familiarized to your new relations and I hope to hear eoon that you are in your own house as you will then find yourself more at home and Will have to ern - ploy yourself more at your household mat- ters. Almost all of 119 have been sick with cold and influenza which has been very pre- valent and last week Robert Scott was very poorly with the same attended with giddi- ness, but he was so much recovered on Mon- day last as to be able to accompany your aunt and mister Helen to Goderich. They came home on Tuesday but so dark was it that they had to leave the wagon in the woods and make the best of their way on to Agnes' house where they drank tea and came along about ten at night. Your aunt got her bureau and is well pleased with it, she has set it up in our room and it is a great ornament to it. Your sister Isabella has been very ill with sickness she took to bed on Tuesday morning and till to -day she has not been able to hold up her head. I am happy to say she is up to day and feels better. The poor child remains as when you left us, Nelly has been down onknight since Isbella's illness and Jenny another and your sister Margaret has slept at her house since Monday night. Tom Govenlook and Susan called there last night and drank tea, but Jenny entertained them, your sister being in bed. Susan spoke kindly to her and appears in great spirits. She says she likes the Maitland very well, for her sake we intend tot call on her next week. Poor Mary Walker died a short time ago leaving an infant daughter. They have got a nurse. I hear your sister Agnes and her husband was at sermon at Stanley on Sabbath last, all your uncle's family are well. Maggy would like to have Ise Swan to assist her in spinning but she has 30 pounds still 1 them a ehort distance when he was noticed to spin of their own ,so I do not think she to throw up his arms and fall forward. few years ago that Vanscikle was left over will be able to give her any help. Your aunt had a letter from home yesterday they are all well but your uncle has sustained great lose from the swelling of the Teviot in the beginning of this month. His sheep it seems were on the other side of the river and no fewer than four scores have been drowned and ten others still missing. Your aunt says your worthy uncle bears his loss with great composure, but anyone may think it is a great loss. 11 Frank does not go to -morrow some more of Your sisters may write you, they intend doing so, Maggie is washing to -day and gets on well now that they have no one to depend on but them- selves. We have used the same raising as when you left us and with the excepticn of twice it has done well. Our harvest is all home except one load of oats. Our people have got well, on, but your father has had more work and less ability than any former year, and I am glad for his sake also that his hard labor has come to a termina- tion. The crop is good and the wheat the beet we have had which ought to make us truly thankful. When you went away I be- gan to make cheese, and have scrimped and made a few deoent ones and now I have begun to make butter for the winter. Your sister Helen does what she can to fill your place but still 1 find the want of you daily. They are all good and kind but I miss you muoh, as you took such charge of the housekeeping that entirely left tue without care, yet, dear Elizabeth, I am comforted and reconciled to the want of you, as I consider you now relieved from the many os#s you had here together with the hard labotevihich you had often to undergo'and your health not so strong as it has been. All these things or considerations make me quite pleased at the thought that you are now much better off and have far less to do now than you ever had. Your kind sister Isabella was exceedingly useful to me in Maggie's absence and with Mary and Helen the work went on well, I have been writing to Mrs. Wesley along with this and will send it by the same. I have been saying to her that I am very glad to have you so near her, so that she may be able to give you at any time good and christian advice and counsel in any matters you may consult. I am sure she is a real heart friend and will not fail to give you her best advice at all times. Do not give ear to anyone who may try to interfere with her friendship but resolutely adhere to what I have said to you about not listening to any story tellers, and keep at a distance from all slander. I am glad to hear that all your husband's friends are so kind to you. Live happily and friendly with all. Re- member me tothem. My paper is entirely full and now dear E. in concluding let me exhort you to live in the fear of the Lord, even the Lord who hath bought you with his own blood and invites you to cast your care on him for he careth for you and may you and your dear husband be kept by His power unto salvation. Forget not to commit your way to him by constant prayer, and may the blessing of the God and Father of our Saviour remain on you both. E. RUTHERFORD DICKSON. Canada. John Owens, a Woodstock hotel -keeper, has been fined $30 and costs for selling liquor contrary to law. —The Oakville basket factory turns out, 3,500,000 basket t in the year, and employs some 40 hands the year round. —Robert Best, a, patient at the Hamilton Lunatic Asylum, was drowned in a pond on Friday, while working in a quarry near the asylum grounds. —The deep well for the Mutual Oil Com- pany, Petrolea, is down to the depth of 900 feet, and as yet no accident of any moment has happened, —A farmer named Phelps, who was driv- ing a load of Wood to Brantford Friday, from Oakland, was instantly killed by the load upsetting and falling on him. —Thursday, February 16th, was China - men's New Year's Day, and Toronto Celes- tials devoted the day to merry -making, re- eiving.end paying calls. —Miss H. Munro, of the 7th concession, West Zorra, has hasi pipes laid to convey water to her farm buildings from the dis- tance of half a mile. The amateur water works are quite successful. —A team of horses ran away Friday in Belleville, smashing a, plate glass window in R. Templeton's drug store and demolishing several rigs.A daughter of Mr. H. Corby, M.P., narrowly escaped being killed. —Madame Theo Louis Cote, who died near Montreal a few days- ago at the age of seventy-nine years, left behind her sixteen children, one hundred and fifteen grand- children, and forty six great grandchildren. —Daniel McMichael, the venerable Police Inspector of Markham village, and his rife died within a few hours of each other in the beginning of last week. Neither of them ing a sick friend, and went up in the loft had been ill for more than a day or two, with his lantern for hay, when the lantern —It turns out that the valuable horse; exploded, setting fire to the hay, and before which Mr. Daniel Foe, of Drumbo, lost the anything could be done the whole place was $ other day, and in which there were auspice.' in flames. Lose, 900; insured for $400. ions of poisoning, died of inflammation —Arthur Wodeliouse of Hamilton who 'mused by over -feeding. died the other day, nearly caught VVilliam —Oliver J. Clarke has been appointed Lyon Mackenzie, at the time of the rebel. manager of the Industrial farm At Wood- lion of 1837. Just as Mackenzie went ont stock and his wife matron of the House of of a farm house at one door Wodehouee en - Refuge. Theatisfaction. appointment gives general tered the building by another door. He did not know until after the trouble blew e —" Peg Leg" Phillips, a well known over how close he had been on the trail of Hamilton character who has a wooden leg, the great rebel. fell the other day and broke his genuine —The other day while some men were limb in two places, and was taken to the engaged cutting down walnut -trees on the hospital by the ambulance. Joe Rymal farm on Hamilton Mountain, they struck a valuable prize in the shape of —Mrs, Charlton, wife of Mr. John Chad- a tree filled with honey, and supposed to ton, M. P., while out driving at Lynedcch contain upwards of 50 pounds, Some fine the other day was thrown out of the sleigh walnut is being out on the farm mentioned. while going down a hill and sustained sever- It is six feet on the stump and sixty cubic: al severe bruisee, but is recovering. feet in the piece, without a knot. —A whim an the part of a prisoner in the —A convention under the auspices of the gaol in Napanee, who sought to relieve the Western Dairymen's Association will be tediousness of his leisure moments by sing- held in Brantford in March. Prof. Robert- ing hymns, is said to have created a genuine son will speak both morning and evening, religious revival among many other inmates and, among other speakers, will be Prof. of the prison. Dean and Mr. Pattullo the latter dealing —At the annual meeting of the Dominion more especially with the question of road - Life Assuranee Company held at the head making in relation to dairying. They will office, Waterloo, on Monday, 13th inst., be supported by Mr. Geary, the President James Innes, M.P.,was unanimously elected of the Association ; Mr. Wheaton, BA., the President to fill the vacancy caused by the Secretary, and Mr. Pearce, of London. death of the late James Trow, M.P. —Rev, Dr. Sutherland preached the mis- -Mr. J. C. Burke, Veterinary Surgeon, sionary sermons in the Methodist church at performed a most successful operation on a Galt, on Sunday 12th inst., to very large cow belonging to Mr. George Harrieon, of audiences. In the evening he made a start- Drumbo, the other day, by removing a ling remark which provoked the clapping of tumorof i morfrt.om the eye which had grown to the hands. He said that Canada was not gov- berned from Ottawa, but from Rome; and —The London Advertiser says: Messrs. predicted bad times in store for Canada if John Durand and Edward Bristow, two the present Premier was allowed to remain fish dealers, drove down from Lake Huron, in power. a distance of about 50 miles, with a load of —Nathan Vansickle, of Lynden, is having 400 dozen herrings. They are offering them no end of a bad time over the celebrated for sale on the market. cock fight which took place on his farm over —Robert Fallon a respected London a year ago. Nathan paid a fine of $50 and township farmer, brought his last load of costs, but there is still another fine of $85 wood into London Friday. He was on his standing against him, Recently Vansickle way home, and was feeling as well as antral, -secured a verdict in the Assize Court against and had stopped for a few minutes at Mr. a young farmer near Jerseyville for $150 Geary's creamery. While he was inside his for the seduction ef his daughter. Now horses ran away, and in running after them, Police Magistrate Cahill and another magis- he over -exerted himself. He had followed trate have stepped in and garnisheed this amount for the unpaid fine, It was only a, Some men haetened to his assistance, but he $40,000 by is father, and had a splendid. never spoke afterwards, and died in a few house and farm. He is now worth next to minuts. Deceased was 46 years old, and nothing. leaves a wife and nine children to mourn —Miss Jennie Smith, who graduated from. his loss. He way a native of Ireland and an old floater in London township, having resided there ever since infancy. — Medals have been presented to Miss Frew'Guelph ; Miss S. Rolston, Walkerton; Miss Winn, Milton; and Mrs. T. Douglas, Guelph—nurses who have passed highly creditable examinations at the Guelph Gen- eral Hospital. —One of the oldest pereons, if not the oldest in the county of Elgin, is Mr. Ander- son, who resides with hie daughter, Mrs. J. Webb. The old gentleman is quite smart and able to go around, althoughelle is near- ing his 104th birthday. — Mr. Nicholas Killer, a prominent citi- zen of Waterloo, died on Wednesday last week, at the age of 69 years of an illness lasting for many month,. lir. Killer was well-to-do, and had for many years occupied the petitions of alderman and school trustee. — Last Saturday night Maurice Blume, a Toronto cigarmaker, a married man with four children, was seized with a fit of cough ing. His young son brought him a glass of water which he drank, but he continued coughing, and died almost immediately afterwards. —Probably the oldest female resident of Warwick passed away on Thursday last in the person of Mrs. William Pike, at the ripe old age of 99 years and 9 months. De- ceased was living with her daughter, Mrs. Craig, at the time of her death, and was quite active until very recently. —Mesere. D. Coughlin, and Israel M. Young, the former a cattle buyer living near St. Thomas, the latter a resident of that city, both died suddenly Monday night 13thinst. Mr. Coughlin was particularly well known in Elgin, was a staunch Re- former and a genial, popular person. —Mr. J. W. Tibeaudo, Grand Trunk Railway station agent at Wiarton, has re- ceived word from Ireland that his eldest brother, an English church clergyman, near Dublin, had died quite recently.. De- ceased left no will, and his estate, valued at £2,000 sterling, ore $10,000, falls to Mr. Tibeaudo. —In Halifax the city and the street Rail- way Company the other day had a lively row over the removal of snow. When the railway people cleared their tracke their opponent, shovelled it back. There was a free fight, during which the windows of a car were smashed and several persons were injured. Litigation will follow. —Mr. George S. Deardmore, a prominent leather merchant of Toronto, was celebrat- ing his seienty-fifth birthday on Thursday afternoon last week, with his grand -children and others about him when he died sudden- ly of heart failure, while sitting in a chair. He came to Toronto sixty years ago from England. —Mrs. Anderson, widow of the late Thos. Anderson of Ayr, died at the residence of her son-in-law, Mr. Robert Ross, of Ayr, on Wednesday 15th inst., at the ,,advanced age of 87 years. Deceased, who was beloved and respected by all who knew her, was mother of Mr. A. L. Anderson and Mr. J. Mc& Anderson, of the Mail and Globe Matra respectively. — A daring robbery was perpetrated at Charing Cross, Kent county, the other morning. The post -office and general store kept by John Hunter was again visited by expert thieves Two registered letters sup - Kingston hospital nursing scnool last De- cember, has received her appointment to Japan. The foreign Mission Board of the church of England in Canada offered Miss Smith the position of lady superintendent of the newly established nurse school in Kobe, Japan, recently filled by Miss Sherlock, of London. Miss Smith has accepted the posi- tion and binds herself to seven years' service to the church in foreige lande. —A very destructive fire occurred in Montreal Monday. The total damage was about $250,000. —A otatement obtained at the surrogate oflice at Woodstock shows that ten farmers who died within the last month in that section left an aggregate of $122,000. —Mrs. W. C. Mackay, of London, died on Sunday tneriiing front an overdose of chloral administered by herself. She had obtained a prescription from a family niedi- eine book, and did not understand the char- acter of the drug she was taking. • —Mr. John Lang,Brantfords coming fast man, rode to Paris and back, a, distance of eighteen miles, in 84 minutes, on his new Brantford bicycle, which is not bad, taking into consideration he had to do this in a sleigh track, with .now six inches deep on each side. —Miss Flora MacColl, daughter of Mr. Evan MacColl, the Kingston Scottish bard, graduated as nurse last week, at the New- ark City Hospital Training School for Nurses, and read an essay before the gradu- ating class, the board of directors, and a number of invited friends, on Lights and Shadows of Nursing." ' —Mre. A. T. Higginson of Montreal, nee Annie McLeod, having died without issue, one-half of her fortune of $40;000 went to her husband, a wealthy oil merchant of Montreal. Mr. Higginson has directed that hie share of his wife' estate shall be divid ed equally between W. .0, McLeod, of Woodstock, Mrs. Higginson's father, who is a millionaire, and his (McLeod's) children. —A young man named George Downey, arrived in Toronto,on Monday morning last, pnniless. His story is that he lived in Montreal, and was returniog home from Port Arthur, where he had been working in the lumber woods. Some place near North Bay he was robbed of all his money and his ticket for Montreal while asleep. He man- aged to find his way to Toronto and applied to the police for assistance. He was sent to the Salvation Army Prison Gate Mission, —Re. Mr. Dodson, of Woodstock, in a recent address upon the duty of Christians, said: "11 there be a man known to have a black heart, known to be immoral, known to be impure in life or thought, known to be a friend of the liquor traffic, and we yet cast a vote for him, it would be blaephemy against high heaven for us to go to the house of God and pray that God would influence him to not exert his power against morality and temperance and righteousness." —The private banking house of Mr. James G. 'Shipley, at Altos Craig, doing business under the name of Shipley and Company, has suspended payment, and the liabilities are placed at from 140,000 to $60,- 000. At a meeting of his creditors, Mr, Shipley offered 40 cents on the dollar, with security and 50 cents without security.. Thie offer was refused. A motion to wind up the estate was carried. Most of the de- positors are wealthy agriculturists in the district. posed to contain a large mount, and from —P. J. Henry, secretary of the Glencoe fifty to one hundred dollars in cash wereaide stables, came near losing his life a day taken. / • for two ago. He was leading a spirited — A few days ago a black cocker spaniel belonging to Mr. William Vanatter, livery- man, of Hespeler, found a pocketbook con- taining $25, and promptly carried it into the office, The owner was soon found and his money given to him. The dog is only nine months old. What will he be when he's grown to maturity? — Leonard Sovereign died at his residence in Waterford, county of Lambton, on Feb- ruary 9tb, aged 88 years and 2 days. Mr. Sovereign was born at Round Plains, and was the fourth eon of a family of ten child- ren, five sons and five daughters, only one of whom is now living, Mr. Philip Sovereign of Paris, who has reached the advanced age of 94 years. —Truancy proceedings taken against a Hamilton woman revealed a sad tale. When asked why her boy was kept away from by the deceased when she was utterly uncap - school, she said He has no boots, sir, able, mentally, owing to the existence of a and I can't afford to buy him a pair. My tumor on the brain; also that undue influ- husband is in England and he met with an awe was used. acocucilddennottagnedndcamn'et any wok. onHeye.i7rote that he —Mr. Edward Creighton died very sud- denly at his residence in London, Monday ...The barns and outbuildings of Neil morning. in September last the whole Livingstone, about three miles from Ali/ilia- number,Theyall r er stricken with waintdh ton, were burned the other morning. Mr. tfaymphiloYed five inver. Livingstone had just returned from visit- none seemed to get along better than Mr. Creighton himself. In fact, he regained. flesh too rapidly. He was in his usual health on Saturday and Sunday. Monday morning his wife arose and made ,breakfast for the rest of the family and then went to call him. She found him, to all appearances, dead, and sent at once for medical aid. Dr. Tem - dale was on thedspot in a short time, but death had done its work. Deoemeed was a shoemaker by trade, and was about 49 years old. A widow and three children survive him, The doctor certified that death had resulted from enlargement of the heart. —At Osgoode Hall, Toronto, the other day, judgment in the suit brought by Alex- ander Wherry, who is principal of a Wind- sor school, against the editors of the Even- ing Record, for $5,000 damages for libel,was a dismissal of the appeal with costs and a refusal of the new trial asked for. The action grew out of a thrashing administered to one of the Rrincipal's scholars in June last, the Evening Record having published an editorial to the plaintiffs manifest dis- pleasure. One of the grounds upon which the plaintiff appealed was that the learned trial judge was wrong in telling the jury in substance that it was never necessary for a teacher to inflict corporal punishment upon a child. —Mr. Menne Hallman, who resides near Galt, while preparing early the other morn- ing to go to town, had occasion to go into the barn. He was carrying a lantern in one hand and a pair of outting knives in the other, and in crossing the barn floor fell into the open ventilation hole of the Toot cellar. In falling he caught himself and Wait able to hang on to the lantern, although it was smashed badly and the eficaping oil commenced to blaze out. Although he had several ribs broken he was able to get out of the barn before the fire got so bad as to set fire to the building. Though Mr, Hallman is suffering from his broken ribs he is able to be around, and he is thankful that he was fortunate enough to get the burning lantern out of the building before it had set fire to his fine barns: horse out for exercise, when a small dog ran up behind the horse and barked. The horse took fright. Mr. Henry, haying a very tight hold of the halter, could not let go. The pace got too fast for him, when he fell to the ground. He was dragged some distance before he got the horse stoppd. The horse kicked at him several times while running. —A writ has been issued at the suit of George Rayner, of Beverly, against Robert Stalker, Mrs. Stalker and Robert McQueen, to set aside the will of the late Miss Eliza: Rayner, who died recently leaving an estate valued at 0,000, the bulk of which she be- queathed td Mrs. Stalker, while her brother with whom she bad made ber home for some years before her death, was out off with $25. The plaintiff alleged that the will was made —Mr. Henry Schaefer, farmer, 58 years of age, living near Tavistock, in the town- ship of South Easthope, slipped on the ice and fell, on Saturday last, fracturing his skull. fie was a brother of the Reeve of the township.