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Y Vit ining his e ground %rid as the rear, iw where [le titek )ath tured in night. --- t to To - The very ,yhiy Wet • bongo- eh is sit- iing, btd horns. 0 1 4-, fliiflfl TWENTY-THIRD YEAR. WILODEI NUMBER 1,178. SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, JULY 11, 1890. - McLEAN BROS. Publishers. $1.50 a Year, in Advance. Clearing Sale —AT THE— Cheap Cash Store HOFFMAN & CO., CARDNO'S BLOCK, SEA F 0 RT H. — —WE ARE GIVING Great Bargains —IN ,ALL KINDS OF— DRY GOODS, MILLINERY, ETC. Our stock in all lines will be found very complete at the Cheap, Cash Store of HOFFMAN & CO. NOTIOE.—Agents for Butter- ick's reliable patterns ..and publica- tions. OUR MANITOBA LETTER. (From Our Own Correspondent.) WINKIPRO, July 3rd, 1890. The local newspapers, and every other body that has tire chance, from Mr. Greenway downward, have been laying it on so very strong of late about- the splendid crop promise, that I have hard- ly felt called on to say anything on my own account. It is quite true that so far appearances for all sorts of crops have been very encouraging. But the subsoil was, and has been for years, so very much dried out that it would need an enormous rainfall now to give crops anything like a fair send-off for summer growth. What with wet snow in seed - time, and local mite since, crops of both grain and grass have in most places done wonderfully, though they made a rather late start. But some places have been pinched enough, and though there have been very fair rains at both Winnipeg and Portage la Prairie, there has been next to none at Reaburn, half way be- tween them. A block beginning east of Morden, and going west of Crystal City, has also had a pretty dry spell, and no- where has there been enough to carry us beyond the firstweek of July without risk of suffering from drouth. Our temperature is up in the nineties now, with bright sunshine, and early sown grain at points where I have been lately have had hard lines. Thunder showers have helped locally, but we need a good few more to keep us going if the 20,000,- 000 buehel crop of the blowers is to materialize in 1890, a thing it .has not done for a year or two back. One thing is plain; whether we get all or only part of what our city prophets have lately foretold, we have this year done more to deserve it than perhaps ever before. More real farming skill of the aort that we can safely count on to build up our country's future, has been put into our work this year than ever before. Of course when somebody that has not been tramping after a plow for the last twenty years offers hints 'suggestive of improvement, Farmer Hardhead and his hard-working boys, who are on foot from sunrise till after sunaet, smile a very broad smile at the innocent man. But the logic of experience tells on even the Ilardheads, and the men who have had sharp raps on the knuckles at unex- pected points are more eager to find out the best new things than ever before. There will be atgood few Farmers' Inati - tutes all over this province before very long, and we have a kindred institution at a good few points that we call clubs, which, in addition to capable discussions on purely farming matters, have gone a step farther. They buy fence wire,binding twine and other such requisites by the carload on a cash basie of course, and ar- range for supplies of groceries and fam- ily requisites on the same plan. Of course the regular dealers say that these. kickers against the regular line of coun- try trade will turn a wrong corner some day and will not save so much as they now imagine. This may be quite true, but, if by staunch combination of farm- ers better terms can be had from those with whom they deal, they have as good a right to combine as other people ixi their own several lines. Only it is pain- fully true that in the past such farmer's combinations, like some of our wheat crops, have done better on paper than in their after performance. Whether these particular methods of self-help make a big show or a comparatively moderate one, it is not to be denied that the stirring of active intelligence among the farming class here has materially in- creased within the last two years. The city council of Winnipeg has taken up with considerable zeal the pro- ject to hold a good sized provincial show this fall, and with the help of the Agri- cultural Committee of the Local House secured. Governtnent aid to the tune of $7,500. This will make up a pretty lib- eral prize list,. but the funds to put up permanent buildings for the purpose can only be raised by meansiof a rate -payer's vote of such strength that it is pretty certain already that along that line the thing will not go on. But so strong is the general feeling that there is little fear of a guarantee fund being raised for this year, and the buildings across the river used for the two last provincial shows can be secured and adapted with very little trouble. The very general feeling in favor of a show,and the liberal rates of transport lately to be had from the railroad companies, will combine with other causes to make this a very good show if crops are at all near our present expectations. —The other day in Preston village a blacksmith, named Forbes had his horse grazing onthe street and the animal came near Mr. Casper Jacob's house. The tatter got mad and the bookbinder went at the blacksmith with a revolver and hit him on the arm, whereupon the lat- ter went for the former with a pitchfork and nearly pitched him into eternity. jacobs•at last accounts was very low, and may not recover. —A short time ago J. D. Scott, a dealer in horses, while driving a team in Toronto, met with an accident which resulted in death. His horses were frightened at a piece of paper, and. be- came unmanageable. Mr. Scott was thrown out of the buggy, and besides having one of his legs broken, received serious internal injuries. Within the last two years the late Mr. Scott spent $25,000 in buying horses in Canada for exportation. —On Saturday 21st ult., William Waldie, an old resident of Blenheim, died at Chesterfield. Ha had been suf- fering from cancer in his mouth for many years. For weeks he suffered greatly and was unable to eat solid food, passing away peacefully, however, in the end. The deceased was eighty nine years and ten months old, and 'leaves a wife and grown up family. 'Mr. Waldie emigrated from Scotland in 1831 and settled in Dumfries, after which he pur- chased the farm owned by W. Murray, on the 4th concession of Blenheim, and aleont 40 years ago purchased the farm now owned by J. Hall, on the 10th con- cession of Blenheim. A few years ago he sold it to the present owner and mov- ed to Chesterfield where he has since re- sided. —One of ,the earliest settlers in the County of Halton passed away last month in the person of Mrs. Jacob Swackhaanmer. She, along with her late husband, moved to Esquesing town- ship, near Acton, about the year 1820, from Clinton township in the Niagara district. Mr. Swackhammer having served in the Royaliat Ranks during the war of independence in several engage- ments and notably at the Battle of Lundy' s Lane in 1812, had allotted to ' him as a reward for his services in the cause of his King, 100 acres of bush land in Esquesing upon which they settled in the above year. Mrs. Sivackhammer's pioneer experiences if given in full would fill a good sized volume. They were full of interesting adventures and trying occurrences. Her memory - will be ftagrant in the hearts of her children, grandchildren and neighbors for many years to, come. She died on Sunday, June 15th, in her 90th year. —Mr. George P. Drummond, of Ot- tawa, who died last week in that city, was one of those men of genius whose lives are sacrificed to the general good. His whole soul and strength were de- voted through many years to the prot duction of a machine for setting type. He foresaw a revolution in the printing industry, and his ambition was to be the man who would set the human hand free from the operation of setting words up, type by type, One idea after another was evolved by his fertile_ brain in such rapid succession that one machine was hardly constructed before • it had to give wey to another., A proi digious number of patents were secured in -various countries. It ts almost safe male which even this unrivalled artist to say that no idea has found its way into any type setting invention that did "cannot convey to paper" either by the Lacking help of the camera or cold . black print, available acre going all the time if nature would consent to have her re- sources milked dry for their gratifica- tion. The men who go on taking one grain crop after another and putting nothing back, do not build up any coun- try, they simply scourge it as a pirate would land on an unprotected coast and carry off all he could get his hands on. The checks which have here, by Provi- dence, been put on this sort of farmers, will prove for our good in the long run, as it will weed out all who are working on this mischievous system and leave the land for thoae who mean to farm on sounder and more permanently bene- ficial methods. Our towns are, as a rule, making con- siderable improvements, all in the direc- tion of increased stability. Solid and soundly built work goes on spreading, while the pasteboard erections of the boom time stand untenanted, and even when the job is only done in lumber it is one-balf better clone than was once the case. The "survival of the fittest" works on everything here from man him- self down to the shedin which he shel- ters his cattle. sex. Port Arthur, a population of 5,500, is a beautifully situated' town on othe west shore of Thunder Bay, an import- ant arm of Lake Superior. It is min- nected with Fort William four miles distant, and the lake port Of the western section of the Canadian Pacific.Railway, and the chief Canadian port on Lake Superior. Large numbers of steamers and other lake craft arrive and depart from this place daily. From there to Winnipeg the railway traverses a wild broken region, with rapid rivers and many lakes, but containing worthless forests. But it is said that there are valuable mineral deposits, but as yet undeveloped. We pass the Lake of the Woods. It is the largest body of water touched by the railway between Lake Superior and the Pacific coast, and is famed for its scenery. We soon arrive at Rat Portage and Keewatin, after passing through a narrow rocky vein where the Lake of the Woods empties into the Winnipeg River; where the waters are utilized for water -power for a number of large sawmills at both places. The population of either piece is about 600. At the latter place a mammoth flouring mill is built of quarried stone, which is found convenient. The only accident that occurred on our through route was here. A young lady stepped on to the train to see a friend and re- mained til the train was under head- way, and jumped off at a high precipice near the river, but was • not killed nor seriously wounded. The alarm was given, the train stopped, examination made and the result as aforesaid. At East Selkirk and beyond Red River the country flattens out and gradually assumes the characteristics of the prairie, and here the line turns south, following the Red River toward Winnipeg, and at St. Boniface the river is crossed by a long iron bridge and Winnipeg is reached, being the capital of the Province of Manitoba, situated at the junction of the Red and Assini- boine Rivers, both navigable for steam- boats. Winnipeg has been for many years the chief post of the Hudson Bay Company, which has here very exten- sive establishments. Winnipeg com- mands the trade of a vast region to the north, south and west. The city is handsomely built, superior brick and stone being available. The population is 28,000. It has the street railway, electric light, fine hospital, great flour- ing mills, grain elevators, etc., etc. Though the country here is apparently as level as a billiard table there is really an ascent of 100 feet from Winnipeg to Portage la Prairie. A belt of almoat un- occupied land surrounds Winnipeg as far as Poplar Point, due to the fact that it is mostly held by speculators, and the scattered farms visible are chiefly de- voted to dairy purposes and cattle breed- ing. Beyond Poplar Point farms ap- pear almost continuously. The line of "trees, not far away on the south aide, marks the course of the Assiniboine River, which the railway follows 180 miles. We reach the Portage on the Assiniboine River, the market town of a rich and populous district. It has large flouring mills and grain elevators and other industries. The Manitoba and North Western Railway extends from here north-west towards Prince Albert, taking in Rapid City and Shell River. We arrived at Brandon, which has a population of 4,500 and the largest grain market in Manitoba and a dis- tributing market -for an extensive and well settled country. Though only six years old it has well -made greets and :nany substantial buildings, and every indication of becoming a distinguished city. Branch railways are built towards the Saskatchewan country. The stand- ard time changes here, and is two hours later than in Ontario. Passing through the vicinity of Virden I observed the prairie being well occupied by prosper- ous farmers. Virden is the market town of a beautiful, attractive and desirable district. Arriving at Wolseley station Saturday morning I spent the Sabbath there with my sister and family. In driving out in the afternoon, we took in the Sun dance on the Crooked Lake, Indian reserve, where 4,500 Indiana were assembled to make braves, and hold a big pow -wow,• partaking of yellow dog feast, as a sort of a sacra- mental supper. We passed through Qu'Appelle Valley en route home, enjoy- ing pleasant scenery, etc. I boarded the train again on Sunday evening for the West, soon ariving at Regina, the capital of the North' W est Territories, where 300 of the Mounted Polioe are per- manently stationed. We next arrived at Moosejaw, in my opinion a very superior town, and a busy market, near the western limit of the present settlements. The name is an Indian pile, originated from a white man mending his coat with a moose's jaw bone, 'From this to Medicine Hat, being a distance of about 200 miles is a dead, bleak and fruitless country neither grass, grain, trees, nor cattle to be seen, badgers and gophers appearing to have sole possession. Medicine Hat is an important station for mounted police and there are several coal mines in the vicinity. The South Sascatchewan River is navigable for ateam%boats, for some distance above and 800 miles below to Lake Winnipeg. Bears, wild cats etc., are coralled here for inspection. Calgary is reached. It has a population of 3,400 and is the most important as well as the handsomest town between Brandon and Vancouver. It is charmingly situated, overlooked by the white peaks of the Rocky Moun- tains. The town is lighted by electric light. It is the centre of the trade of the great ranching country and the chief source of supply for the mining districts in the mountains beyond. Excellent building materials abound in the vicin- ity and lumber is largely made here from logs floated down the Boyd River. Calgary is another important station of the Mounted Police, and a post of the 11 udson's Bay Company. After we leave Calgary, a run of about 40 miles brings us to the great grazing lands of the Northwest Territories. Great herds ef Our railroads are spreading too in such a way as to give great convenience to all who can afford to pay for their ser- vices. The benefits of competition so abundantly set forth when ardent re- formers were struggling to introduce the Northern Pacific as a competing line with the Canadian Pacific Railway, did very well as a war cry, but have hardly materialized in any other way that I have been able to see. But the advant- age of a ready outlet within half a day's journey, to farmers - that have hadoto team all their crop from 20 to 40 miles in winter, can hardly be overrated. In that way, if in no other, they have done the country much good that some of us must have gone a long time without if we had had to rest content with the ser- vices of one Company. When the mon- ster °top comes that we are looking out for it will take all the roads we have to carry it to market, and with the exten- sion of the Hudson's Bay Road, now practically assured, we will have an in- definite extension of our grazing privi- leges that will produce more cheap beef than ever before. Even our straw, com- bined with good water and fed with tolerable care, will winter stock in capi- tal shape, and by and by instead of grazing in settled districts and going north to winter on the produce - of hay swamps, we may reverse the process and graze north in sminmer, wintering them on the straw of the cultivated area. I should nat be surprised to find that ten years from now one of the lead- ing uses of the Hudson's Bay route will be the transport to 'Scotland and Eng- land of a vast number of the vigorous steers grazed till 2.or 3 years old in the vast unoccupied regions, Such as the Peace and Athabasca rivers, to be finish- ed on the "neeps" of Aberdeenshire and a little oil cake. On that line we shall be able to compete very chiefly with your Ontario cattle in the old country markets. There are many really fine specimens of imported stock in this province and even a good way farther west, though Portage la Prairie is always in the front rank, with firstrate horseflesh eerecially. One very fine stud there had a peculiar misfortune last month. The picked aninials of this lot were put under the camera of "our own special artist" by a fully equipped "first-class agricultural journal" that does not stoop to buy or borrow its illustrations. The pictures were undoubtedly takeition the spot, but by one of those perversities evhich only an artist of the loftiest pro- fessional eminence could properly ex- plain, the splendid 3 -year-old • stallion has come out a mare, while the mare with her "lofty bearing, neat head, graceful neck, and penetrating eye has become a male. I am no judge of horse- flesh myself and cannot describe in the jargon of the initiated the merits of ani- . not owe something to im. means and lacking the mechanical exac- titude of a trained machinist, he gave day and night to his work, till, as must needs be, his physical powers broke down. His patents were sold for what they would bring to those who were well able to make the best use of them and now he is cut down in the prime of manhood, leaving behind him, besides the fruits of his unprofitable toil, a mourning family. but I do know the gender of any animal on four legs if I get time enough to find it out, and have never before seen a male mare or a female stallion either in- side or outside of a first-class agricul- tural journal. • In spite of checks our agricultural area goes on broadening out, and we have now considerably over a million acres under cultivation. A certain class of farmers would like to have every What a Bluevaleite Saw en - route to Manitoba and the Rocky Mountains. Bmsszvent, June 30, 1890. DEAR ,EXPOSITOR. —Will you allow me space in the columns of your valuable paper to give a few thoughts and obser- vations on my trip West. We left Tor- onto at 11 p. m. on the 17th ult., with 240 passengers, most of them through excurtionists, with our number increas- ed at every station north, filling ten cars, car no. 179 being filled with Hur- onites. Amongst them was Mr. John A. McEwen and wife, of the 1st line of Morris, with his guinea hens, rabbits and peacocks. John A. distinguished himself by his genial conversation and gestures, causing all in his prefience to feel quite at home. We arrived at North Bay at 9.15 a. m.,where our -num- ber was again largely incleased from Eastern °uteri°, all feeling happy and well, as our numbers were intermingled with genial, pleasant ladies. North Bay, with a population of 1,800, is a bright nets' town on Lake Nipissing, an extensive and beautiful sheet of water, 40'miles long and 10 miles wide. Small steamers ply on this lake, and the dis- trict for a long way about is much frequented by sportsmen. North Bay is a railway division centre, with railway shops, &c., and there is a very good hotel, and it is a distinguished fishing point. We arrived at Sudbury junction at 2 20, feeling the distance short, songs, social conversation and political arguments being our chief entertain- ment. Sudbury is a railway crossing, directly over the fent of the Sturgeon River. From there a branch line leads off to Algoma Mills and Lake Huron, and from thence to Sault St. Marie. We next arrived at White River, near Mile. sanabia, where Dog Lake is crdssed ; a short Portage connects the water flow- ing southward into Lake Superipr, with those flowing northward into Hudson's Bay. Furs are brought here in large quantities from the far North and ship- ped Eastward. For 100 miles we have very. heavy rocky cuttings, intervened with rivers, lakes, swamps, etc., with -shrubby, useless timber. Arriving at Nepigon, where we get the first glimpse of Lake Superior, crossing one of its bays on an iron bridge, where the relics of an old Hudson Bay village was visi- ble, the railway turns around and clings to the rock, with a' precipice of 150 feet below, this being known as Hem Bay. Many shudder at the sight of the apparent danger. We soon ar- rive at Port Arthur. After passing those romantic sceneries and dangerous declivities, as well as passing through dark tunnels, all ap- peared to feel happy and well. In my opinion no corkscrew or any happier brigade ever left the Province of Ontario, Joe Leech, Esq., end the writer, adminatering to the wants of the travellers. I believe the former made lasting impressions, especially on the fair horses ikad cattle, numbering in the thousands, may be seen quietly grazing on the great broad terraces, which rise one above another, stepping stones as it were to the mountains beyond. Soon the wide valley through which we are passing grows narrower, and is marked and scarred by deep ravines. Here we get a glimpse of some of the snow-cap- ped peaks of the Rocky mountaine. The altitude of the road here is 4,000 feet. We have now arrived at the gap; this may justly be called the gate of the Rockies. The Bow River rushes down this narrow pass from the hills beyond, and is joined by the Kananaskis river. The mountains now rise abruptly, and when we saw them they were nearly shrouded in mist, which hung like rich drapery around their base, but their summits, clad in green and white, were visible towering upward many thousands of feet above the road. The most cas- ual observer must look with wonder and awe on the scene here presented. By some mighty convulsions of nature, these mountains seem to have been hur- ried upward from the bowels of the earth in promiscuous confusion. Some have risen apparently perpendicular,— they are straight and undisturbed; while others are tilted at an angle of 90 degrees, as though partly turned over in their upward course; in others again, the strata are in a vertical position. When we consider the extent of this great upheaval, and the mighty energy to perform it, we are lost in wonder that a power so vast should anywhere exist. Almost every lofty peak is named, but I shall not attempt to give the names. We have now fairly entered the Rocky Mountains, and 1 wish I was possessed of the ability to give a word picture in comprehensive language that would in some small degree convey correct im- pressions of the scenery among those mountains, but I can only say it must be seen to be appreciated. Here we have the wild, the romantic, the majestic,the sublime, the unspeakable majesty of na- ture spread out before us, over us, and beneath us. But we must hurry on and make mention of where the railway clings to the mountain side like a fright- ened thing of life, seeking a place of refuge from impending doom, and the river is seen 1,000 feet below,' like a silver thread. We now arrive at Banff station, for Rocky Mountain Park and the ° hot springs, a medical watering place and a pleasure resort. This park is a national reservation, 2,344 miles west of Montreal, embracing parts of the valleys of the Bow, Spray and Cas- cade rivers, Devil's Lake, etc. and sev- eral noble mountain ranges. No part of the Rockies exhibits a greater variety of sublime and pleasing scenery. The Montana mountains are faintly visible from here. Here we remain a few days, with a number of friends, enjoying the hot baths and healthful climate, then re- turning to Brandon, remaining one day. Thence southward to Deloraine and Boissevain in the Turtle Mountain dis- trict, bstter known es Southern Mani- toba, where we trate act some business, meetingwith mantel lends and relatives, partaking of their nospitality for some days, before returnieg to Ontario. We must say that the Turtle Mountain dis- trict is aecond to no other agricultural belt in the three western provinces, and -the crops this year are looking most promising; frequent showerieno trouble so far with either badgers, gophers or potato bugs. Hoping my letter will not be too long, and that you will give it a place in your columns, I remain, Yours truly, JAMES S. YIMMINS, Postmaster, Bluevale, Ontario. • address presented by 1,100 citizens of Essex county, to which he happily re- sponded. He was also presented with a magnificent piece of bronze work that cost $1,000. Short eulogistic speeches were made by Mayor White Senator Casgrain, J. C. Patterson, M. P. and others. —For the last three days, says the Vancouver Advertiser, of June 25th, the spring run of salmon on the Fraser River has been the greatest on record, averaging over 56 per day for each boat. —Messrs.. Stroud & Black, cattle dealers, of Hamilton, shipped last week 428 head of cattle for the Eng- lish market. The total purchase amount- ed to nearly $32,000, being an average of about $72 a head. —Rev. Mr. Robertson, of Chester- field, has been granted six weeks holi- days by his congregation,and his Platts- villa people presented him with a purse of $30 to enable him to better enjoy his holiday trip. —Miss Maud B. Fairbairn, daughter of Postmaster Fairbairn, of Bowman- ville, obtained first class honors in the departments of theory and violin at the recent examinations of Toronto Conserva- tory of music. —Mr. T. K. Grigg, London, has a couple of fish in his aquarium which he thinks are very rare specimens, as over 50 persons have seen, but cannot name them. Mr. Grigg is anxious to know what they are. —The Minister of Marine and Fisher- ies has forwarded two suitably inscribed silver watches to be presented to Ambrose Dowling and Kenneth McRae for gallantly saving the life of Thomas Day at Neil's Harbor, British Columbia. —As Mr. John Thompson, of Black- heath, was going to Hamilton on the train Thursday morning he had his pocketbook stolen when near Rymal station. In it was $15 in cash and a check on the Merehante' Bank for $175. —Thursday afternoon last week the steam yacht Esperanza, while cruising around the island at Toronto rescued two Roman Catholic priests and four laymen, who had been capsized from a boat. They refused to give their names. They were all young men. —Miss Ada Graham, whose parents livein Perth, has graduited with honors at 8t. Luke's Hospital, in New York city, and has been selected out of 100 applicants as head nurse ba the men's surgical ward of the famous Hopkins hospital at Baltimore.' —Miss Kate McLeod, daughter of Ex -Warden McLeod, of Parkhill, start- ed last Saturday on a pleasure trip to the land of her father's birth, Roashire, Scotland. Miss McLeod will be absent • for some time visiting in various ports of the British Isles. —The last issue of the Ontario Ga- zette announces the incorporation of the "Ottawa Brick Manufacturing Com- pany (Limited)," capital stook $45,000. The promoters are Alexander Maclean, G. H. Perley, G. B. Greene, J. E. Ask - with, and H. C. Monk, of Ottawa. —One day last week sixteen wagon - loath of brick were taken from East's yard, Parkhill and hauled to East Williams, where they are to be used in the erection of Mies MeCallum's new residence. When finished the staucture will contain about 75,000 brick. —Early Thursday morning last week, burglars entered the store of Jas. Stark at Ayr and blew open his safe. Night Watchman Rutherford hearing the re- port went towards Stark's. The rob- bers fired three shots at him and hurri- ed off. There was only about $20 in the safe. —The relatives of the poor woman who killed herself the other day by throwing herself out of a window at the hospital act Hamilton, threaten an action for damages againet the corpor- ation of that city on the - ground that proper precautions were not taken to secure the safety of the patients. —A two year old child, daughter of Mr. Scrimshaw, of Rawdon, Restinge County, strayed away from home last week and notwithstanding diligent search, could not be found for some days when her body was . discovered in the bush near her parents'home. The child perished from hunger and ex- posure. —While Mr. James Thomas, of near Plattsville, and his brother were work- ing in the field one day last week, a flash of lightning struck a fence near by and shivered thetatakes for 3 or 4 rods. Mr. Thomas had a calf killed by lightning last season and another has the hair all off part of its back, from the same stroke. —A sixteen -year old girl nsmed Carrie Webb, living near Parolee, re- cently eloped with a colored man named John Holland. The father of the girl met the pair attSarnin and attempted to take his girl home, but was too late to stop the marriage, which had taken place immediately On their arrival at Sarnia. —Rev. W. H. W. Boyle, pastor of Knox church, St. Thomas, is very low. At three o'clock Sunday morning he had thefwenty-first attack of hemorrhage of the lungs. Mrs. Boyle, who has been at Clifton Springs for the benefit of her health, has been brought home, and is very much affected at her husband's sudden prostration. —Mr. D. II. McLean, who has for a number of years carried on successfully a general store business at Richwood, near Paris, has sold out to John Mei Laren & Son, Toronto. Mr. McLean is the eldest son of Robt. McLean, Esq., Toronto. He will remove to Toronto, where he has accepted a position in the large printing establishment of his brother. —At the Women's Christian Temper- ance Union Convention held in Galt, re- Icentlyeit was reported that out of seven - what about members of the five churches who use fermented wine and place temptation in the hands of their weak brethren? It hasbeentruly said that the example shown by some professing Christians to the world weakens the cause of religion more than the influence of all the ungodly people in the world combined. —Sixteen years ago Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Humphries, of Parkhill, (then on their wedding trip) took a boat ride on the J. S. Clarke, from Sarnia, and on their return dined at a hotel in the town. On Dominion Day they went on the excursion train to Sarnia and again happened to take a trip on the same boat and to dine at the mune hotel in Sarnia for the first time during that long period. —Miss Blanche Ferris, a deter young lady at Crosshill, Waterloo county, has been successful in winning the silver medal in the Witness Canada prize competition for the best true stories of life and adventure in Canada and Newfoundland, by Canadians and Newfoundlanders and was open to all scholars of day schools in 1890. There were 2,257 competitors from 850 schools in 143 counties. —The caving in, a few days ago, of the gravel pit in Mrs. Coole's bush, hear Ccesehill, created quite an excitement for a time. A team and a number of men had just left the pit when the first part fell in covering a boy completely over and others partially, just as the boy was extricated several tons fell about the same spot, smashing a wagon and covering the horses. The horses were got out safely. —Mr. Robt. D. Cranston, eldest Son of the late Alex. Cranston, and wife (formerly Miss Jennie McGregor, of Ayr,) arrived at Galt beet week from San Francisco, California, on a visit to their friends. Mr.Cranston was former- ly a resident of North Dumfries and it is now about 19 years since he visited his friends in Canada. Mr. Cranston is one of the beat known builders of San Francisco and is the owner of a consid- erable amount of valuable real estate. —An Uxbridge farmer, Mr. James, was approached the other day by a man who claimed to represent the Finless Wire Clothes Line Company, of Lon- don, Ontario, and was talked into as- suming an agency for it. He signed a document, which probably he did not read through, and now finds himself sued on a note for $130. Perhaps he finds grain growing slow work and hard work, and prefers to make a fortune out of pinless wire clothes lines. 1 —A collision occurred on the Michigan Central Railway near Port Dover junc- tion on Dominion day. Edgerton Evans, compositor, of St; Marys, who had been attending_ the Latter Day Saints' con- vention at Waterford, with his wife and child, were passengers. Mr. Evans took the child in his arms and jumped, and Mrs. Evelio followed him. She escaped uninjured, but Mr. Evans was consider. ably bruised and cut, and the child had a severe cut on the head. A tramp who wait stealing a ride was badly cut on the face. He had been, he said, in two wrecks in 24 hours, and had made up his mind to walk hereafter. —Fred Fortner, son of one of the em- ployes of Woodland Cemetery, London, who was shot in the back on Queen's Birthday in some mysterious manner while standing in the door of his father's house, died a few days ago from his injuries. He recovered entirely, it was thought, three weeks ago, and ate heartily till Tuesday, when signs of illness were again shown. Dr. Graham was sent for and drove out to the house, but give no hopes of recovery, as in- flammation had set in. The boy died on Friday night. Who fired the shot that caused his death remains as great mystery as ever. —The Drumbo Record tells of a case which recently came before Thonnut Elines, J. P., of Blenheim township, arising out of a dispute between Mr. Ridley, pathmetter, of Burford, and Jas. MacIrvine,1 pathmaster, of Blen- heim, over the removal of the stump of a tree and some brueh lying opposite MacIrvine's land. Ridley ordered its removal and MacIrvine told him in terms more businesslike than gentle "that he would remove it when he was ready to do so," which answer did not please Ridley, so he went to law and had his feelings still further wounded by losing his suit with costs. —The Picton Times is authority for the following froggy item: Between 600 and 700 pounds of frogs' legs are ship- ped from Kingston to New York every week. The retail price here is 124 ciente a pound and the duty levied by the United States 24 cents, though some of the packages, it is said,ttre shipped as fiah at 1 cent. The froga are gathered by men who make between $7 and $8 per week, at Odessa, Verona, Parmelee Lock, Marble Rock, Rideau River, Gananoque and at ports along the Ri- deau River. Prince Edward fishermen may find that -money is to be made from this frog business. The marshes and ewamps in this country swarm with lfroge and the demand for this delicacy Canada. A sturgeon weighing 349 pounds was brought to Quebec by the steamer Pelerin, Captain Baker. —Mr. Lowry, of Rodney, has had some 30 head of poultry poisoned, The culprit is said t� live near. —There were filed in Ontario last year 15,098 chattel mortgages and bills of sale, representing $6,991,223. —Samuel Trowell, of Norwich, re- ports that he was confidenced out of $48 in Toronto on Dominion Day. —Twenty one -head of cattle sold by Mr. John Gillies, South Dumfries, near Ayr, brought him about $1,400 in cash. —Rev. David Savage, of Tileonburg, the well known evangelist, has been superannuated after 40 years of active service. —At the morning service in Queen street Methodist chureh Bowmanville last Sabbath 106 new membtrs were formally received into full connexion. —The other night some one entered. the store of Peter Murray, Bennington, northwest of Embro, and stole about $50 worth of tobacco and canned _goods. —At the close of his pastoral term of three years, in Woodlaten circuit, the Rev. D. A. Moir was presented with a gold watch, and Mrs. Moir with a sil- ver fruit dish. —The Niagara River Fruit -Growers' Association report that apples, plums, and peaches are very light; berries, cherries, currants, and grapes fair to av- erage. • —Stephen Townsend, South Middle- ton cut from an elm tree and success- fully hived a fine swarm of bees. In the tree was a comb nearly four feet in length, but no honey. —His Grace Archbishop Walsh is said to have received a check for $5,000 as his fee for marrying Mr. W. A. Murray and Mrs. Sarah Cawthra, at Toronto, last week. —Mr. Peter Wood. a veteran horse trainer, 75 years of age, has taken up his residence on High Shore, near Pic - ton, and has a number of fine colts he is training for the race track. —The 74th birthday of Hiram Walker, founder of Walkerville, Essex County, wancelebrated Thursday last week at that place. The town was beautifully decorated, A procession, headed by the 21st Fusiliers marched to the hall, where Mr. Vialker received an teen churches in Ayr, Galt, Preston and New Hambueg, five used fermented and twelve unfermented wine for sacramen- tal purposes. Members of the twelve churches are doubtless able to give a reason for the faith that is -in them, but in the Atlantic cities is said to be almost limitless. —Miss Lizzie Davis, daughter of L. Davis, public school teacher, at Syden- darn, Addington county, was drowned. at Madden's mill, neatVerona, on Wed- nesday last week. Deceased was a school teacher, and before opening her class went to the lake there to indulge in an hour's fishing, taking -with her one of her pupils. She sent the boy back to the farmhouse for some fishing appar- atus, and when he returned be did not see his teacher. After a few minutes' waiting he *grew anxious and took a ram- ble through the bush. Failing to find her he returned to the water, and, look- ing down, saw the young lady at the bottom. Neighbors were notified and - the body recovered. Deceased had been teaching for some months in that vicin- ity, and was greatly respected. She was 30 years of age. a