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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.
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