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The Huron Expositor, 1893-08-11, Page 1I893. ith,1893, fly Bargaina to have the - ! Fall Goods., ••• 1- S TS qillinery Les. fcFaul r, meimmteseenoa„r .—On Sunde.y, edgins of Sea. ach in Trinity 4rament.—Rev. reached in St, nd evening. ing are register. etel—Mr. Met- ffany, Miss L, 1, Detroit ; Mr. Mrs. Chapman,. rs. Cowan, Mrs. ding, London e ghter, Mr. and eves and Mile ith and Miss C. Roth and Ja ;mtnercial —Mrs. rs. Wanton and ey and George' aavenlook, Mx. knnie, Lily and Brooks and Fer- id H. Clarkson, 0. Groff MI of Vriatolveich,Eng- t and Master ;d Miss Helene Sire. McIthemon,. andon. received here n Chicago, stet - ,est son of the place, wee dead. ae to his mother, health when she ; time ago. This - et known. The ay, and is to be - ay was held here t. The town was nt to Ktncardine e Our pan& got stration in Kin - association have ;ails for the ac - sating horses on e talking of hav- rst week of Sep- ffer ,good purse ly, in Huron and who have been ; the fastest stal- moon will have a ight.—Mra Alex. Bed to her long conaumption was She was a sister formeely of this aloBain and Peter te leaves a hus- 'award Vatotti *a t his week, after a _known, being for ls graveyard. His day,—Scott and 'care of fat cattle land eastern mat- fiuishing haying d the whistle of romenced. It is get rid of the he heavy crop of weather of the grain too fast for ed for, especitlly ostaffice mann& .cupied in a few e. rking in field on r. Hugh Ross hung ha returned the e garment, and * 1,200 in notes -and e. The thief is to the vest to ward cy Pugh, of Glen holidays at hone. nn, of Teeswater, ohn Burgess' jest elds, and daughter visiting at Mr. R. Iles Creighton, of , of 'Goma, spent n, of Winghavo, sat rie, spent Tuesday acre. ifs Liza* at visiting friends . in, of Stratfordorsis last week,--atai wanville, a former visiting old friend* rs. Fleaker has ree oba. y meeting service day morning, in the p. Rev. Mr. 'he electric light fie rammed on Tueidol shut dawn now 11131 John Brownlee, el - ends in tovrn this f Priceville, is tht Irwin, editor., rescot..---Mr, Goat? let his parenti Mr. John Gibson, of t of Mr. Jas. MAO perty held at day evening of lot ees. Although tab. leasant there wal ant time was ors. receipts aneountea to` enden, of Buffalo, la parenta and triennia, - f Wroxeter is 'bit' is vreek,—idessre, elly got baok too I e lakes on atir if they had enj a ; ; , "77 *Irian) TW OLE NUMBER, 1,339. NTY-SIXTH YEAR. / SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, AUGUST JOS f 11, 1893. The Missing Word Contest. Watch our win- dow on Saturday next, and see how to get a Shirt free of charge. It will be easy. Try it. JACKS,ON BROS., Clothiers, Furnishers, Hatters and Furriers, Seaforth. THE GREAT SHOW AT THE - WINDY CITY. CuiLano, August 7th, 1893. The coolest corner I have been able to,find . in the White City is the Forestry building. Close to the ceaseless lapping waves on the shore of Lake Michigan in the extreme aouth-eastern part of the It'ark, there ie al- ways a grateful breeze playing through its piney portals. Beautifully situated, it is one of the most unique and interesting buildings of the World's Fair, both for its style of architecture and the highly attrac- tive exhibits it contains. Rustic in design and detail, the Forestry building is probably • the most expensive of that particular kind ever erected in America. It cost $100,000. The sides are made of slabs with the bark removed. There is a wide verandah en- circling the whole building, the columns of which, supporting the roof, are all of varied tree trunks. They are bunched in groups of three, one of which will be from 16 to- 20 inchee in dianaeter, and the other two com- panions smaller. They are all 25 feet in height and neatly labeled. The dimensions of the building are 528 by 208 feet. Inside are all sorts of wood, both in the rough and manufaetured state, from every ciime— plain, mountain sea -shore, river -bottom, ewemp and jangle, have all contributed to the display. The oentral exhibit in the building is a great pyramid, built of specimens of wood from all over the world. Verily it is a uni- versal congress of blocks. California's con- tribution, a cetting 14 feet in diameter of red wood, 475 years old when Columbus lauded under the scant shade of the palm trees at Sen Salvador, forms the base of the pyramid. Around and upon it are grouped ching-chang from Siam bamboo from Japan, teak -wood from India 'birch wood ham On - team and specimens irom all other coun- tries. And there is a real, sure -enough axe in a glass case that figurea as a sort of frontispiece to this wonderful wood -group- ing in the central exhibit. It is Gledstone's axe, the very axe the Grand Old Man used in cutting out the undergrowth at Hawarden when in training to knock out Salisbury in the political arena. Sem of the specimens in the exhibits at- tract special atlention. There is a mam- moth red wood plank 16 feet 5 inches wide ; 12 feet 9 inches long and 5 inches thick, out - from a Celifornia tree 35 feet in diameter, and su,pposed to be 1,500 years old, A beautiful carved door, made of teak wood from British India, is m‘uch admired, and a very large birch knot from Peterboro' county, Ontario, attracts no end of atten- tion. There are collections of wood from 25 of the States, representing numberless varie- ties of forest growth. Sixteen foreign na- tions and 31 individual exhibitors, domestic and foreign, and among them the Province of Ontario, make a very creditable showing and, withal, a very practical one. The Ontario section is on the main aisle south of the Dominion court, and occupies a _ floor apace of 1,000 square feet. It is front- ed by a handsome Corinthian archway, over which is the sign " Onterio " in large gold letters. The whole is surmounted by Can- adian flaga and emblems. The Ontario ex- hibit tende to show the splendid forest re- aources of the Province in a manner that arouses the greatest interest; especially among practical lembermen, builders, wood and cabinet workers. There are 66 exhibits in the Iog and squared blocks, comprising all the valuable woods, such as red pine, spruce, oak, ash, beech, maple, birch, etc., all neatly arrayed and relieved at intervals with sample boards, beautifully polished. An attractive feature is a case of polished • wood specimens sent by the Hon. A. S. Hardy, Commissioner of Crown Lands, some 30 different kinds of wood being re- presented. A pyramid of wood blocks, or- namented with carved Indian hunting scenes, from D.' S. Hill, of the Six Nation Indiana, also attracts much attention. There are particularly fine specimens of black cherry and white pine. Mr. George Hart, of Saltileet, Ontario, is the very efficient and courteous superintendent of this section. Mr. Matthew Goetz, who is 'here to meet and interest German visitors totthe Exposi- tion, is a valuable acquisition to the staff of the Ontario Commission. The other 2,000 feet of space allotted to Canada is divided between Quebec, British Columbia and the Northwest Territories. The Dominion has a large collection of pho- togra.phs of living trees, contributed by the Geological Survey Museurn, Ottawa. The photographs are shown in frames made of the wood represented in the picture. Chief Buchanan is said to have expressed the opinion that the exhibit of commercial tan- , her made by Ontario is the beat in the build- ing. However that may be as regarde the fir wooda, the birch, beech, cherry, and other fine hard woods capable of brilliant polish, came' great admiration. No lees than 600 enquiries by letter have already been received as the first fruits" of this wonder- ful display of Canadian woods. The value to the Dominion. of this advertisement of ite forest wealth will presently be- appreciated at its true worth* This week has witnessed the death of a distinguished citizen of the White City in Senator McNaughton, the Executive Com- miseioner for New York State, who suc- cumbed to dysentery last Sunday. This is notable as the first break in the ranks of Commissioners resident in Jackson Park. His last public address, at the Buchanan banquet, was a most apt and admirable one. The memorial services Tuesday in the meg- nificent banquet hall Of the New York building, attended' by mennhera of all the Commiesions, were touchingly simple aud sincere. F. HOWARD ANNES. The Columbian Exposition. THE CHARGES OF EXTORTION HAVE NO FOUNDATION. • Climatic), July 26th, 1893. To THE EDITOR OP THE litatON EXPOSITOR : DEAR SIR,—Before starting,' for Chicago, I labored under the impression that in or- der to avoid being clubbed, robbed, and probably murdered, it would be neces- sary for me to engage a corps of detectives and a body guard. But, to my surprise, on myr arrival here, I found most agreeable and obliging officials, men anxious to irnpart in- formation and evinoing a desire to make me feel " at home."_ There was not a sign of the thugs, the extortionists, the thievea and the murderers. The most law-abiding via 'Ages and towns of the east, could not have been better in this respect, Without any difficulty I found my way to the Hotel Manitoba, on Stony Island Avenue, between 57th and 59th streets, kept by Mr. Sainte! Grigg, formerly of London, Ont. All it is neceesary to do to find the place, is to en- quire of a passenger agent, aud he will dir- ect you to the VanBuren Street Depot if you come by the Grand Trunk. Take the Illinois Central World's Fair train, costing you ten cents, and you are within a black of the hotel. Here you meet the genialahost, Mr. Grigg, and it is not long before yoo,find you are in a hive of Canadians from all parts. Here you are assigned an excellent toom, with a cool breeze from the lake, and at $1.50 per day. Booms, well appointed, run from $1 to $1.50 per day. If you choose to take your meals in the hotel, end you should if you have a desire to live well, you can secure meals for fifty cents each. The hotel is convenient to the fair grounds, and the excitemept, danger and cost of taking the cars up and down town, are avoided. I would strongly advise all your readers who propose to visit the fair to stay at the Man- itoba. Mr. Charlie Grigg is well acquaint- ed with the city, and f ully informed .as to the best means to adopt to secure entertain- ment, and in fact, Is a guide -book in himself. In tha t ame building in a hall, 60x90 feet, the Manitoba Government makes an exhibit of her resources, admission to which is free. It ist especially interesting to Canadians who haVil not had the opportunity of visiting the Northwest. It is in charge of Coinmisaioner Smart. The World's Fair people are certainly de- servieg of much credit for the manner in whica they are conducting the Exposition. It is eiomething that ,should be missed by none who can afford the time. The expense is a hagatelle, when the educating influences thataccompany it are considered. No con- ception can be had of the arts, the sciences or the manufactures of the world, and the advancement that they have made during the past few years without a view of the displays that are made here. The illumin- ation of the grounds, without taking into consideration the magnificent buildings, is most wonderful and repeys the visitor. But, Mr. Editor, were I to attempt to describle all I have seen, it would take volumes, and I will not attempt it. I would stongly ad- vise those of the readers of THE EXPOSITOk who can at all afford it to visit the Fair, and they can then bear testimony to my state- ment. Mr. W. Wilson and family, Mr, W. .D. :Bright and wife, Mr. D. Johnson and wife, and Mrs. Kirkman and Miss Tytler, of your town, were visitors to Chicago and were de- lighted with the White' City. Yours Truly, W. J. 'W. found in abundance. Coal is also used as fuel. We have three railroads in this county. It is situated about 60 miles from ; 'Baltimore, 30 miles from Washington, &o. A short visit will satisfy all that contem- plate a change of residence, that we have a climate far superiot to that of Canada, or 'the cyclone swept Weat. We have no bliz- zards, nor devastating swarms of grasshop- pers, or chinch bugs, but a mild, equable climate, with short winters, that is calcu- lated . to grow strong men and healthy women. To all that comtemplate emigrat- ing I will say, come to our section, take a good look at it, talk to our people, and don't set the day to meet your friends at the station on your return, before aou leave home. You will find Virginians proverbial for kindness and hospitality. I will add that clover, orchard grass, timothy and blue grass grow well here. No question will be asked about your politics, or relig- ion. Our greatest wants are more money, more population, and more of an every day toiling people. Route of travel, take the Richmond and Danville Rail Road at Wash- ington, D. C. to Bealeton station, then Pommenee looking and talking. O. BUCHANAN. A Nqte From the South. OPAL? FANQUIER COUNTY, VIRGINIA, July 15, 1893. DEAR EXPOsITOR,—In tbis communica- tion, some of your numerous readers may say they see the foot prints of the land agent. Fearing this I will take the oppor- tunity of -saying to diem, that I am in no senee a land agent, nor am I interested in the sale of my neighbor's lamb, but a write to mark the way for those wishing to better their condition, or who are seeking to build up honest homes among what I call good people. I shall, therefore, try to give you all a faithful description of our soil, climate and prodections, hoping that this letter may be the means of leading some to better their condition. THE SOiL. The southern portion of this county is quite sandy, gradually wearing into a red clay. As it reaches, north, about 40 miles in length, the southern portion, or say 20 miles of it, is quite level and fairly productive and composed of a soil well suited to trucking. The timaer is generally pine until you reach the Richmond & Danville 'Rail Road, running north east and south west. The productions ofthe above section are, gen- erally, corn and wheat, with potatoes, sorghum, tometoes, melons, and peaches. Corn produces ahout 25 bushels per acre t wheat from 10 to 14 bushels, but these yields can be much increased by good fermi- ing. The water is excellent, and ne malaria. IN TOPOGRAPHY, Now for a description of the country. North of the Rail Road Mready mentioned, a distance of 20 miles, that includes our county seat, Warrenton, the soil is all red clay, producing more wheat and corn per acre, but increasing in hills and rocks grad- ually as you go northt even to the northern boundary of the county, In this section large numbers of cattle are fattened for the Eastern cities. This county is well watered by an abund- ance of springs and small streams. Malari- ous diseases are almost unknown, the nat- ural drainage being good. Apples peaches, grapes and all kinds of garden pro'ducts do well here, peaches best in southern paition of the county . Our public achoole are regularly organized at convenient distanoes and besides we have a large numbea of colleges and seminaries. Fanquier White Sulphur springs are situ- ated in this county, where one hundred thousand dollars have been expended in improvements, and are just now in fall operation. Our winters are short and mild. As a sample I would not give ten cents foe the best sleigh here. The morale of this county is good. We have Methodists, Pres- byterians, Tunkard, or German Baptiste, Menonites, ' Omish, and two kinds of Baptists, with Episcopalians and Catholics, all liaing in comparative tharmony. The lands, heretofor, have been beld in large blocks, say from 500 to 2000 acres. The order of things is now being changed. Much of the land is now being divided up into small, or reaeonably sized farme, and is for sale owing to the death of the owners, decrees of courts, &c., and is being sold at prices ranging from 7 to 40 dollars per acre. Our market placed are Baltimore, Washing- ton, D. C., Richmond, Alexandria, Norfolk, &c. Timber consieting of pine, poplar, the various kinds of oak, hickory and walnut is The Lower Provinces. A CANADIAN EDITOR ON TRAVELS. (Continued From Our Last.) A " TOY I" LEGISLATURE. The assertion ad frequently made that the Ontario Legislature is only a large county council, could be applied far more appro- priately to the Legislature of Prince Ed- ward Island, which boasts of only thirty members. The indemnity is such as befits the importance of the members' duties, be- ing $160, with $12 allowance for stationery. Tnere are three Cabinet ministers, with the munificent salary of $1,300 each, but of course these officers follow their own busi- ness or profession. The portfolios are those of a Attorney General, Commissioner of CrOwn Lands and Commissioner of Public WOrks. The Crown Lands Department has a reaenue of $40,000 to $50,000 from the sale oft lands, which is a moat important item in. -the receipte of this liliputian lature, which only total up to about $300,000* But meney seems to go further with the people of ;the island than it doss in Ontario, although it is difficult to sae why, as everything, excepting fish, is as dear as with us. The explanation is prob- ably not to be found in cheaper goods, but in fewer wants. The wages of artizan's are extremely low, good carpenters getting in. the summer -season only a dollar and a half a day, and laborers' wages being more often below than above one dollar. PECULIARITY OF -THE SOIL. A fact that strikes the visitor from On- terio as curiouteia that the soil of the whole island is terra cotta in color. The effect of walking or driving over blood red streets is decidedly novel, and the color lends a pe- culiar charm to the landscape as seen ftom the deck of an approaching steamer, the sand banks on the shore affording a striking contrast to the deep green of the verdure clad fields. TURN TO THE LEFT. Among the customs in which the Island- ers differ from their brethren in "Canada," as they call Ontario and Quebec, is that of turning to the left when passing one anoth- er on the road, " the rule of the road " be- ing the reverse of what it is with us. In Nova Scotia the same practice is followed, but in New Brunswick, the Ontario rule prevails. Horsemen here claim their sys- tem is the better one in that it enables the driver to see how close he is to the vehicle which he is passing. The ubiquitous tea meeting of Ontario is here transformed into a " ten party," but the motive, the fun and the profit are the same. SOMETHING ABOUT CAPE BRETON. Perhaps there is no old and well settled part of Canada so little known to the people of Ontario as that portion of Nova Scotia called Cape Breton. Lying north of the province proper, this island is out of the pathway of the ordinary tourist, and even to those engaged in commercial and indus- trial pursuits it is a terra incognita by rea- son of its contiguity by water to Boston, with whom much of its business is done. Yet there are few spots in the Dominion more attractive in summer, the arms of the sea which everywhere penetrate the island, furnishing boundless opportunities for those who seek in fishing, boating, or health - giving breezes, relief from, the heat and monotony of town life, while the growing importance of the vast °oar areas of the island point to a commercial prosperity of which the beginnings are hardly yet to be seen. ITS RESOURCES. Sydney and North Sydney are two thriv- ing towns situated on opposite sides of one of the finest harbors on the whole Atlantic coast. The mouth of this harbor faces the broad Atlantic, Sydney being within a few miles of being the most easterly spot in the Dominion, but the harbor itself is almost land locked and the shipping interests are among the most important in the towns. This is the part of Cape Breton about which so much has recently been said in connection with the coal -land leases given by the provincial legislature to an American syndicate. There are large deposits of bi- tuminous coal here, outcroppings of it bea ing seen in the rock on the seashore, and for many years several mines have been worked under thirty -yeas leases from the legisla- ture, which controle all the mineral lands of -the province, and in leasing them exacta a royalty on the product. The lease to the American Syndicate watt for ninety-nine years and .covered a large area of lands, hence the outcry. The general feeling ap- pears to be, however,thskthe attovernment's action was a wise one, as the Syndicate will undoubtedly work the minai vigorously and develop new coal territories. The fear of monopoly is extinguished by the fact that there are a number of Cape Breton mines not controlled by the Syndicate, as well as all the Piotou mines in Nova Scotia. The royalty paid to the Government is, I be - Have, twelve and a half cents a ton, which amounts to a very handsome -sum each year, and will dandily increase. A member of the legislative council of, the province ex- pressed the opinion that the total revenue from mineral royalties would soon equal one million dollars a year, and he was satisfied that the only opposition to the Govern- ment's policy was that dictated through po- litical motives. The coal is sent in jarge quantities to Montreal and also to Boston. The trade with the latter city and all New England points is expected to be largely in- creased through the exertions of the Syn- dicate, and the Caoe Breton folk seem con- fident that it will not be long before the United States' duty on coal is repealed, when the tendency will be to a vast increase in the output of these mines. ITS RESOURCES. Cape Breton in not a particularity good agricultural country, but nevertheless the most is made of _Its soil by the French Can- adians and Soottiish Highlanders. who form the bulk of its population. On the western to everyone's surprise, tor he had lived in a rescued girl was with difficulty brou McLEAN BROS., Publishers - $1.50 a Year in Advance. side of the island the Scotchmen predomin- miserly way. While alive he ha ate, and a very large proportion of them are to reoo 'Tense the Farrows for t Roman Catholics, So noticeable are these him, a it is alleged. But befor two facts that the contractor for the railway the defendants, it is said, ibduo bridge acrtas " the narrows" is oredited with leave the Farrow& house, and no the saying that there were nothing but Mao- was made for them in the will. T Neils and holy days in t4t neighborhood. sued for is, their estimate of The Scotsman is certainly' 4omnipresent in te-ouble was worth. All parties 1 Sydney, and in Antigonish one merchant is Grand River near the town Of Y Bad to have ninety John MacDonald,' on his —The trainmen employed on t books. Old Sydney is remarkable for the colonial Railway of Canada are fact that it does not boast of a single side- that their application for an increa Walk, the natural rook furnishing :the only will be complied with, especially walk of which the town is possessed. It ginemen have been granted au ehould be a profitable place for the shoe- idraltemen's pay neve ranges from maker. The interest which the Govern- day for beginners to $1.50: They ment takes in the coal industry of this beginners be paid $1,50, with lucre ueighborhoo,d is shown by its grant of a cer- $1.90. tain sum to a relief fund for the benefit of —James McCryetal and Robert injured miners, the men themselves having two laborers employed by the Street Railway Company, got into cation the other day. Straiton etr Crystal and knocked him down. tal struck his head on the car tra sustained a, severe scalp wound. unconscious for a long time and it ed he would die. Straitrn ca found. —While Rev. Mr, Macaulay, o vine, was driving home the other lunatics named Wm. Prentiss I accost on the road and took posseseion of h He then threw the clergyman out an sued him with a whip, which he about the minister's head and oho The madman also attacked Thomas and IT, W. Lennon with murderous He was finally overpowered and ta Belleville, where he was committed as gerous lunatic. —Mrs. Rebecca, Barrett, who damp mysteriously from her home at 187 street, Toronto, on Wednesday night week, was found Sunday morning lyin and dead in a thicket in the Ro Ravine, about two miles from he home. Mrs. Barrett, who was 63 yea age, had been ill for some time, and 1 posed to have wandered away la under a temporary mental derangeme ---ak sad ease came to notice the othe promised eir care of he died d him to provision e amount hat 'their ve on the rk. e Inter - confident e of pay s the en - advance. 1.25 per sk that se up to traiton, amilton n alter- ok Moe oCrys- k and e was as fear - not be Belle - day, a d him s rig. pur- layed lders. rown ntent. en to clan - eared Bloor f last cold edale late s of sup- oring t. day contribute to the fund, and the ooal ooro- mem elm contributing to it under the terms of their leases. THE PRINCIPAL MARKET. Boston 1 All roads lead to it. The name is heard everywhere. at is to Cape :Breton, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick what Toronto is to Western Ontario. The Merchants of the Maritime Provinces buy and sell in Boston. The young men who wish to carve their fortunes go to Boston— if not to stay, to make it their starting point in the States'. The young women go there, to find positions as domestic servants, or in the mercantile or mannfacturing establish- ments. In return, the Boetonese visit these provinces summer after summer, and know them and their resources far more thorough- ly than do the people of Ontario. The in- tercourse between New England and the provinces is of the moat intimate character. On one boat I met an old maneereturning ftom a visit to the home in Cape Breton he had left afew years beforetoBoston,where he had two sone and two daughters, all mar- ried. On another boat I met a brother of the Babtist minister of the Berean church, Copenhagen, en route to Boston to push his fortunee. In Sydney I met an old Scotch - man whose business called him to all parts of the Island, and he asserted that there was not a household in the eastern part whioh had not some members in Boston, geperally the young men, the hope of the fainilly. One Nova Scotian, who wished to minimize the extent of the exodus, tiaid that these young men went to Bostom for the winter, but returned in the summer to fish. J. S. B. Canada. ftowley, the horse which broke the Eng- lish trotting reoord a few weeks ago, was bred in Canada and is a son of Clear Grit. se -New Brunswick has 495 saw mills, employing 6,821 persons, while Ontario has 1,895 mills, employing 23,981 persons. —Last week a small boy at Verona killed a carrier pigeon, and upon examination the bird was found to have a silver band around its leg with H 1546 marked thereon. -j--A game cock flew at a little boy in Kiagston the otber day and cut his face terribly. The lad will be disfigured for life' Tr Mr. Samuel Wolder, of Paris, Ontario, lost four fingures and part of the left hand by 4 circular saw at Adams & Son's wagon shop on Saturday. –t -A Montreal despatch says the steam- ship Straits of Gibralter has Nen lost in the Straits of Belle Isle by collision with ice- bergs. '-e-Jennie Van Camp, a waitress et the British American hotel, Windsor, went out for a walk on Wednesday of last week and has pot since been heard of. Foul play is suspected. --It is rumored that negotiations are on foot, to have the charter of the Lambton Southern railway transferred to the Can- adian Nellie railway. This will give the latter road a direot route through Petrolee and ahe oil territory. , ---aelr. Donald MoRadVone of the oldest resiaents of Glencoe, paased away last Fri- day evening. He was apparently in his usual health on retiring and expired a few minutes afterwards. Cause of deatb, heart dieease. —in the lacrosse match at Chicago on Thursday of last week, between the Sham- rocks of Montreal and the Torontos, for a $500 eilver trophy, the green started men from Montreal were victorioue. The trophy is a most magnificent one, being three feet in height. —The Dominion Express Company have completed arrangements for the opening of braneh offices at Brisbane, Auatralia, and Honolulu, Sandwich Islands, in connection with the Canadian Pacific Railway Cana- dian -Australian line of steamships. —R. T. Rokeby, ex -manager of the de- funct'Commercial Bank, for whom a war- rant Was issued charging him with making false returns to the Dominion Government, and who managed to evade the police and escape to the States, has returned to Win- nipeg determined to face the music. oonatry roads in the southern counties of Viatetern Ontario are said to be swarming with tramps. They are travelling in squads of three or four and most of them are hea,ded westward. In one night recent - sixteen of them sought and found shelter in tae Ancestor, (Ontario), lock-up, and that was not a good night for tramps either. —Ed,ward Gurney, J. 0. Donogla Richard Brown, C. D.:Warren and J. L. Hughes, of Toronto, Ontario, have received a charter of incorporation from the Ontario Government as "The Niagara -on -the -Lake Park Com- pany, 'Limited," with a oapital stock of $80,000, The purpose of the company is to establish and maintain a summer resort. in Montreal when Miss Rose Cohen, of Eng- land, was brought in reported te be in The poor girl came over on tae Vano and was to have been marriedlthis wee a co -religionist named Draakelstein, became suddenly insane. Mies Cohen not recognize her lover, but as const calling for her mother. She was re to the Verdun asylum, where it is hope unfortunate girl may recover. —At Walkerville last Friday evenin 9.Year old daughter of John Sherman playing near the Grand Trunk railway c ing and the eastbound passenger train ing along, the child crossed to; the opp treck to let it pass, not noticing an inco freight 'which was almost upon her. was struck by the pilot of the engine the left leg crushed below the knee. fingers of her left hand were also limas The doctors amputated the leg and the c may recover. —A daring daylight robbery was c mitted one morning last week in the je lery store of Mr. Wm. Pott, ex-dep reeve, and a merchant of long staudin Woodstoek. During a temporary abse from the store three highway men dr rapidly up, jumped out\ of the rig, a hurridly extracting 24 valuable g watches from the show -case, dieappea around the corner, where all 'trace of th was lost. The strangers were not in store more than a minute. Mr. Pott e mates his loss at $800. —John Sullivan, the 8 -year-old son Mr. Timothy Sullivan, of Hamilton, run down by a trolley car at ten o'clo last Thuraday night, in that city, and most instantly killed. The boy was crossi Stuart etreet, opposite Harriett street, company with hie father and brother, a had crossed in front of one trolley car, b did not see another oar coming down Stu street. The boy's head was oaught betwe the fender and the track, (aid was bad crushed. The car was raised and the b released ; but he died within five minut after the accident. —Shortly after two o'clock last Thursd afternoon a team, driven by Mr. Fre Strickland, and occupied by Stephen Hatch, wife and two stepdaughters, goi g down Main ttreet, near Second street, Ni- agara Falls. was struck by a passing Mich gan Central train. Flagman John She, non, who has charge of the gates, raise them on the side nearest the rig, and t driver started across the tracks. At t same time he became -confused, and forg to raise them on the far side of t tracka, and thus the rig with its hum freight was crashed into by the train. Mr Hatch was killed and the others bad injured. —While playing with fire last Friday a ternoon, the two-year-old daughter of Jo Quigley, Woodbine avenuee Toronto, w burned to death. At 5 o'clock Mrs. Quigl lit the kitchen fire and then went into t gardeh foe some new potatoes. She h been out but a few minutes when she hea a cry. Running into the house she fou her little girl in a blaze of fire* Crazed by t , awful sight before her eyes she seized t child and ran tower& a neighbor's house,b before the house was reached the child di in the mother's arms, its body being burne black all over. It is supposed that t child took a burning stick out of the stov and set fire to the window certain, t blaze igniting her clothing. ---A number of misdirected letters th fell into the hands of the officials in t aead-letter office of the Comedian Poetoffi Department revealed tkip), latest method lefrauding the fp' Mess agriculturis Three cents' worth of pepsin is prepared a abeled "Gilt-edged Butter Cempound" a old to the farmer for $1,50. ',The farmer directed to take a pint of fresh milk and Much of the compound as he min heap on silver dime. These two atmplaced in churn with one pound of soft butter. T mixture is then agitated for a short tint when it soon becomes traeformed into t pounds of apparently good butter. reality this is an emulsion which soon sho *eak and soft, and speedily spoils. T postal headquarters of the 'fakirs was Windsor, Onterio. —Old Orchard Beach, Maine, was Wednesday of last week the rime of an e citing incident. It appears that Mi Thurston, of Montreal, was one of a lar number of bathers, and, not heeding t danger oho swam out a considerable d- tance 'from the shore. She was ehor after Been to be struggling in the water. great ory arose on shore for somebody to the rescue ; but, as the sea was rum high, nobody dared to venture, except Ea R. Vankoughnet, of the Imperial Bs Toronto, who, seeing the danger, imme ately plunged in and swam out to rescue of the young lady. He caught by the hair of the heed as she was die peering for the last time, and with gr difficulty drew her away from the under and brought her safely to land, much to joy and admiration of the large concours people assembled on the shore. —The Malmsey -Harris Company, of To- ronto, and the Deering Company,of Chicago, have eiteh sent a solid train over the Cane.• dian Pacific Railway to British Columbia loaded with harvest machinery. The ma- chines are destined for Sydney and Mel- bourne, Australia, via the new steamship line. - —There are within the Province of British Columbia 53 mills with an aggregate capac- ity for cutting 1,850,000 feet per day ; 40,- 678,256 feet, veined at $410,951, being ex- ported seaward during 1892 ; 386,122 acres of timbet lands are leased by the mille. An average of 20,000 feet per acre is considered a very low estimate of the timber contained in these limits. —Two, men named Barnes and Dickey were arrested on the 4th inst. at Escuminao, Province of Quebec for rioting and mis- placing a !switch on 'the Baie des Cbaleurs railway. They were landed by the steamer Admiral at New Carlisle, and are respect- able -looking Scotch laboring men. The workmen on the line have received no pay since February and are desperate. —An interesting case will come off at the Fall Assiees in Hamilton. It is that of Farrow vs. Nelles, Mr. Wm. Farrow and his wife are suing Messrs. Frederick A. Nellie, and Stalker W. Nelles, executors of the estate pf Mr. John Stalker, for the sum of $3;000 foe services said to have been ren- dered the deceased on his farm, and for nursing Ma. Stalker during a long illness. Mr. Stalker died worth about $10,000, much ane. aver to but does ntly oved the the 088- OM - site mg She and, he ed. ild in- el- ty in oe ve d, ld ed he ti - of ae 1- „g rt • A r. k, i• he er at OW he of he ht IN=M1M1==••111M101.1. back to consciousness, and is now progres- sing as well as could be expected. Mr. Vankoughnet at once became the hero of the hour, and his pluoky deed is the talk of the sea shore. —The census of Marton . has just been taken with a view to its incorporation as a town. The population is 2,360, an increase of 376 sinoe the official census was taken. —Mr. David Porter, M. P. P. for North Bruce, who had been suffering from pul- monary consumption for over two years, died at his residence in Hepetorth on Mon- day last. —Harvestintacommenced on the Experi- mental Farm at Brandon on Saturday. Five varieties of oats and four of barley were out. Some wheat will be ready this week. The varieties first ready will be hybrids of La- doga and Red Fife. —Two small boys belonging to Leslieville went out fishing in a rowboat the other day, and were blown out into the lake. After 36 hours in the open boat they were picked up by the steamer Chippewa, much to the joy of their almost distraated relatives. —Miss Janie K. Munro, daughter of George Munro, of Peterboro', who spent the past five years in Japan as a missionary, under the auspices of the Women's Mission- ary Society of the Methodist church, has re- turned home 011 a year's furlough. —A meeting of the Liberal Association of Rat Portage is to be called to arrange a pro- gramme in connection with Sir Oliver Mow- at's proposed visit. It is understood he will address a public meeting at the Portage on August 24th, and one at Fort Francis on August 26th. —A delegation of 17 farmers from the State of Maine, who have been examining this country, have all taken up farms in the Northwest and are now returning for their families. They are confident that when they make a report to thoee who sent them here as delegates there will be an exodus of Maine farmere to Mapatoba and the North- west. a —The Harriston Tribune tells the follow- ing story, which just about has fins : Tont McGillicuddy, of Harriston, is a Kerry man. Tom owns a horse. This horse was turned out at nights itt an acre lot in rear of the Orange lodge. The boys were getting ready for the 12th of July, and eeery night beat their drum and played their fife to the tune of Boyne Water and such like. The horse stood it for several nights, but at last jumped over the fence and made for the railway track, where he stood waiting for the 9 o clock express with the evident in- tention of committing suicide. But the eager eye of John Harris discovered the poor animal and succeeded in coaxing it off the track just as the train rushed by. Mr. McGillicuddy pronounces it a most deliber- ate attempt to commit suicide. —Some of the leading citizens of Aber- deen, Scotland, gave a banquet last Thurs- day evening to the Earl of Aberdeen, the new Governor-General of Canada. The Earl in a speech dilated upon the energy with which the Canadians had built their institutions. This energy was all the more creditable, he said, seeing that Canada's nearest neighbor was her powerful but friendly sister nation, the United States, a nation which had great wealth and a vast population, and which enjoyed special fa- cilitiee for rapid progress. Canada, he added, understood and would prove the ad- vantage of a steady, if gradual advance. She also understood and appreciated the ben- efits arising from ample autonomy,combined with a vital but absolutely unhampered connection with the British empire. —Miss Willson, onlY daughter of the late Sir Ditniel Wilson, who for the peat eight months has been studying in London, Eng- land, the methods of the Sisterhood of Deaconesses, has returned to Toronto and is about to found a branch of the order in Toronto. The sisterhood ie said to be especially in sympathy with the Evangeli- cal church, and will be a sort of companion order to the Sisterhood of St. John the Divine. The idea of establishing the order in Toronto was first mooted about nine monthe ago, just before Miss Wilson left for England. Mies Wilson has signified her intention to set apart her residence on St. George street as a home for the sisterhood. A number of Toronto ladies will join the order. Tho ceremony of initiation will take place shortly. —A curious robbery seems to have been committed in the house of Mrs. D. Oliver in Hamilton, the other day. Mrs. Oliver says she saw a man get over into Mrs. Stewart's prembies, which adjoins that of the Olivers. The detective department was apprised of the fact, and Detective McKenzie, Serge Cas- tel), and Constable Blakely went up to in- veetigate. It was while the police were search- ing for the stranger, and while both houses were surrounded, that the second robbery took place. Some one must have entered Mrs. Olivet's house and broken open a drairer, for a purse containing $25 was missing and also borne valuable jewellery, amounting in all to about $220. Mrs._ Oliver, her son, and a servant were in the house at the time. One drawer was broken into as with an axe, and the handle of another was smashed. The whole affair is regarded as very strange by the police. —Judge Davis, of Middlesex oounty, died at New 'Carlisle, Province of Quebec, on Friday last. Frederick Davis was ap- pointed Junior Judge of Middlesex county in 1876. He had previously practised his profession euccessfully in Sarnia. He was called to the bar over 40 years ago, he and Judge Elliot having passed their final ex- aminations together. He was born in Ire- land, but came to thie country young and settled near Belleville. Afterwards the family moved to Sarnia, where tne judge's legal studies were pursued. He married . wtfe, aas experienced many sorrows since Miss Adams, of Sarnia, aud the union si as that time: Four children were lost through bleesed with five children. The shree sons d phtherta.and other ills, and now word has. died on attaining manhood, all within three been rte;tved of Mrs. Jamieson's death, yeate. One was a olergyman of the Eng- about two weeks ago. The latter death oc- lath church, one a student at law, and one a where he acquired a. farm of about 81 acres. He was married three times and hed 14 children, all of whom are dead with the ex- ception of his youngest son, David, who is now 50 yeers old and still single. —Mr. John Beane -of Bright, had bis shoulder dislocated, recently, while trying to stop a runaway team. —It is now said that the combination of the Nova Scotia, Halifax and Moncton sugar refineries under one company, to be known as the Acadia Sugar Company, is an accomplished fact. The scheme as out- lined by a promoteris practicadly this The new company has a nominal capital of £600,- 000 sterling, or in round numbers about $2,- 800,000 of Canadian money. One-half of this is preferred cumulative et tok, and one- half is common stock, foundera shares, etc. The Acadia takes over the three concerns. The shareholders of the Nova Scotia refinery receive about $1,200,000 steck in the new company, the Halifax refinery $1,000,000, and the Moncton refinery shereholders, about $600,000. One-half of this allotment preferre The incorpo secured lar John F. Sta ra, M. P., while report has it that its affairs will be placed under the man- agement of Thomas E. Kenney, M. P. —On a recent afternoon, Rev. Mr. Shutt, rector of St. Barnabes' church, St. Cath- arines, had a narrow escape from sudden death. He was walking around a new building which is in course of erection, when an iron casting, weighing some la or 16 pounds, which was being placed in position, slipped and fell. Mr. Shutt was standing directly underneath, and hearing a warning shout he glanced up, and as he did so the casting fell on his face, knocking him to the ground and splitting his nose. Had he not glanced up when shouted to, the iron would have struck him on top of the head awl probably killed him, Medical aid was at once summoned and hie wound dressed. He will be disfigured for life. • —Mr. William Walker, the well-known sheep breeder, of London township, Middle- sex county, dropped dead in Quebec last Wednesday. Mr. Walker had gone down to look after a comignment of Lincoln sheep which he had imported from Etigland, and which was held in quarantine at Quebec. When he left Ilderton he was in his usual health, but previous to this had a. slight in- disposition of heart disease, or heart weak- ness. Mr. Walker was a tnember of the London township council. -and and his father, Mr. Chrietopher Welker -were the oldest and most successfulotheep 'breeders in the Province. Mr. Christopher Walker, the father of the deceased, was one of the old border aheep breeders, and was contempor- ary with Bakewell, and other improvers of the border Leicesters. and one-half comraon stuck. ation of the new company was ely - through the infinencetof Perth Items. Windsor Board of Education intend to make it hot for 'layered teachers, among whom are C. L. French and J. S. Black, of Mitchell. These teachers, it is claimed, ac- cepted offers from the Windsor Board and then backed out, simply using the Windsor Board as a lever to have their present salar- ies increased or as a source of amusement. —At the last meeting of the Mitchell School Board a telegram was read from Mr. French, Public Sohool Principal, saying that he had been offered Windsor school at $800, but would stay if Mitchell Board would make his salary the same next year. A motion was carried to the effect that his salary be raised to $800 Or the year 1894. —One night lately the driving horse of Mr. A. Hutchings, V. So of Mitchell, ran away with his wife and sister, Mrs. Papst, in the buggy. Mrs. Hutchings slipped off the seat and would have fallen out between the wheels, but Mrs. Papst caught her in time to save her. The horse aim into Mr. Larkworthy's livery stable aenlawas caught before much clamago was done. —An assauit case, Opper ve. Brown, was, tried at Listowel recent/a. Both were work- ing in a hay loft for Samuel Ellison on his place- in Wallace. A dispute arose over some stories Brown alleged Opper had car- ried to Ellison, and Brown slid or fell down the hay mow and had a scrap, during which both tumbled down to the floor. Brown was fined $2 and costs, $5.50. —The building operations of Stratford this year are estimated by people wbo ought to know, to be 50 per cent in excess of either last year or the year before. There has also been an improvement in the class of build- ings erected, which may be accounted fer by the fact that architectural designs of both. stores and residences hate been improved during late years. —The other day Mr. John C. Monet, of near Listowel, while walking through his cattle pasture noticed a little water in the foot print of some of his cattle in a -damp place. Taking a shovel he dug on the spot and, at less than three feet from the surface, struck a splencled spring which flowed to the eurface and into a trough, thereby saving all future trouble in pumping water for stock. —Mies Jennie McGarry, the Wanted elocutionist, who has relatives in St. Marys, has returned to Canada from a visit to Eng- land and Scotland, extending over two years. In addition to, her tour through England and Scotland she paid a visit to Paris, where she delighted the guests of Lord and Lady Dufferin at the British Em- bassy by a private recital. —Mr, A. H. Jamieson, who was at one time a grain buyer on the market at: Mit- chell, and who left for the United States after marrying a Goderich lady, bis second atudent of civil engineering. There are two daugnters living, one the wife of Rev. S. F. Robinson, of Walkerton, and the other who has been in poor health fer some time, living at home. —A centenarian has been discovered in the person of James Dunn, a colored man, who lives on his own farm on the 4th con- cession of Peel township, in the county of Wellington. He says he remembers the day when the news came that the Americens had achieved their independence. --This happen- ed in 1781, when Lord Cornwallis stirrend- ered to the Americans at Yorktown, and Mr. Dunn claims that he was then a strap- ping young fellow of 14 or 15 years of age, because, as he says, ” he was just beginning to feel himself becoming a man." Accord- ing to this statement " Jimmie must now be 126 or 127 years old, After various vicissitudes of fortune in the States he emigrated to Little York, (now Toronto), Canada, in 1832. He remembers this date well, it being the same year in which his present (third. ) wife was born. A few years , later, in 1837, while still at Little York, he saw part of the Rebellion which had been inaugurated by Wm. Lyon Mackenzie, Papineau and others. Later on he removed to Erin, and from there. to Peel township, curred at Little Valley, New York State. —Samuel Arthur, wife and child, of Dow- nie, were carried into the ditch on Tuesday of host week. The horse took fright et a bicycle: The occupants were thrown from the buggy and tossed &beet in a painful manner. The animal ran some distance on the roadside, damaging things generally. Although bruised and sprained it is thought nothing more venous than the smashing of the buggy has occurred. Just about four weeks ago members of the same family were lodged iu a heap in the ditch on the oppo- site side of the road. —The other night Mrs. Daniel Meldillan, who resides near the North American Mill Building Co.'s works in Stratford, was. wakened up by a sick child and happening to look out through a window she found her- self face to face with a man who was stend- ing on the roof of a small building jut under the window. The man fied as if from an apparition and Mrs. McMillan courageously started in pursuit. She nota fied the nightwatohman at the Mill Build- ing Co.'s. works and he joined in chase e but the prowler made good his escape. Mrs. McMillan is convinced that she knows the man and will be able to recognize him again. - 4 • -