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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1899-05-05, Page 11899 in STOCK n Carpets 1 Wool arpete, BuseIs ;ter Carpetsi rpete. a not of pee mind Some people want re satisfied to take oks welItzsd som ina t the t. We , give our Customers* st of very Moderate twenty good pate y designs, frera 10e season's colorings - 'and 40e per yard. heavy quality,. yard r tintings and pat - light and dark scroll patterns, at yard. iat value at 72e, Velvet Carpets, in ati8 fleaSOKVa. ivs a very large My if our business' - trade that carries rery day—not too Lyms don't care to t only a few pat - 1r assortment gives s choicest things in for common use, nad heavy, 50c per good quality, 750 hirtaiu, full taped, S`l per pair, artains, floral and s in a great variety ranging in price 'pair. Oil Cloths and 1, 1,j, 1 an.d 2 'est Gask NPMMUCCIMPONI which makes- it tinside.—The dog egain. About 25 aisorael the peat letid-IutieS Cams itasse mill, with 4dould ming in the vil- e is ecateely an ht. S. Lang. who tti le a. :few weeks Less nienth, and }tie& cliwellirig in ing is undergoing ihaog and family s Exeter to reside. y eonditiors, and ... I first appearance i this vicinity are . concert held in Id on day nigla -Mr. N. Peterson ;ably River die - Mr. Peterson or v, number of 4 He- now intends ig in that ASP/ alt seseeess in ndj anuieersary J. Wet, M. A., -al and Eadies held; nexo te.ss, Of Brussels, a evening. On mg, Jr. Sd'est the Christian t to 5`eott1and. eted by ittere- twhat otland will be Mae -kr -nide, ef tts some 1111MOUT- the Bluevale ceuple csf might be called ieighborhood is landhs aona and at to be good, rat den't love ;este be a pie - it ut eotne old '11 11 within 80 re, as it Rurely e menet fail rt, eon of Mr. for Deuphin, m Thu red ay 'resbyteriari a member, onald's, and, ef)mg.s arnuse- with a bible, f•••A for his pros - I and Mrs. vu,ite(i at Mr... nday. Messrs. are the local Mr. Martin es her parents, ewer M re. tau, el °ode - were visiting are busy pre - ng is late, but hette r. —M Ise gat the par - has been 111 los ering.—The not forgetting e. The par - the erection of to receive a her repairs. ing the Grana ria, collapsed few minutes rossed over.. y the recent otrnts to about THIRTY-FIRST YEAR. WHOLE NUMBER, 1,838. ho People Prospo 11 SAdaNYSAAAAInseeessesereseS This is not going to be a are we in for showing parties are the greatest contor are concerned ; for it is as 1 ers that the4e is a decided c of the counry, and that t e everybody is quite noticeabl olitic ich ionis 1 harangue f the poli s, so far as f in as a girl in blo nge in the condi general pro sperit As we tated before w will not better feeling in business to any partic political schism. It is our opinion th of mis-Government could bot for lon progress of country like C nada, and people like Canadians. nor ical cts m - ion of attribute this lar theo yo t no amount hinder he peopled w th It i. sufficient for our purpose tiiaf people at ihe present time are prosperous,and that every merchant who has built his business On. the rock -bed of "re- liable goods," will find. that the present tendency o people is to buy the best that the market affords, makes the mariner ofdoing business p easanter, an at the sametime niore satisfactory to his customers. With ourselves, this Spring has brOught ,us th busiest season that we have ever had. in the Order ed Clothing DepaTtraent. And it may be, we are in.clined to think so at all events, that the: prices we are offering this _season'have had their effect in ad vancing the volume of trade our way. . A few of those prices of Fine Ordered Suit will not be amiss at the present time, and the 4c that these are cash prices will not hinder the vallue, of the goods quoted :— A fine West -of -England Worsted at $15 $16.50. Anice line of Scotch Tweed at $15 and $16 50 There are plenty of imitations, but if you bu the genuine article there is nothing that wil give better wear tha-n the old fashioned Irish Serge, we have it in the double twist weave at $17.50, an it is worth every cent sof the price asked. How are you clot mg your boy for the summer We think that themot economical way is by mak ing use -of a No.. 1 Sweater, we have -the same_in sailor collars in blue, bla,ck and garnet. Prices vary. Children's Sailors at 25c; Buckskin Pants a $1; Raincoats at $3.90 ; New Shirts at 75c an 8c; Black Sateen Shirts at ac, 750 and $i; Bike Hose at 65o; Summer Underwear at $1, $1.25 and $1.50 a salt ; 'School Caps at 1.0c, 150, 29c and 25e; Boys' School Pants at 50c, 65c and 75c "our own make," Men's suits a $8, $10 and $12. Try us for Men's Goods, we surely will you, or your money back. Greig & acd • aitisfy 011 Clothiers and Furnishers On the Wrong Side of .the Street, STRONG'S BLOCK, SEAFORTIII YOU CAN BUY A TICKET AT THIS OFFICE F CHICAGO, . DETROIT, SAN FRANCISCO, VANC9UV Or any point in Ea/a Eastern or Western Cauda. cheoked to destination. Through ticket. 11 Money Orders sold at any time of the' day This is the cheapest`and most convenient v4 of small amounts. FOR RAILWAY INFORMATION APPI4C TO J. MACDONA C. P. R. AGENT Seaforth. re To Carib trict Thea the F empti nip, Arcti which was f whioh in 185 Oaiib tak en, done k later , maohi slow! prose larger unexp Bay game tradin with. locate years conner way o line w laying of the Atl the pr t jean Ov pecte, the teleg will b construct lies to conntr cultur gold. able t want anythi or eve enterp repres millio been v astoni tion i wagon greate en t. BRITIS COLUMBIA, rater, for Tit' he north •f Lilooet lies "0 o." With'n the confiners of this contained uth and w astir river, s its water hich event EXPOSI1OR by R. Sperling ontinued) over 1001000,000 Pt potions are draine bile the. northern into the Peace and ally find an outlet i ocean. A ong the numerous c form the tributaries of the Fr und large cuisutities of alluvial caused the . Out of o it is ea In those y very pr ears; by th pry of v demonstrated that Cariboo as rioh a. in -former year). portion of he district has as yet ored. Fo many years the Hp ompany lo ked upon it as 14 • reserve, 1 which they planted -posts, w ich are still to he Through be Cariboo distript the old telegraph trail t over go, when he intention bad be t America and Asia by telegrap Behring traits.. A portion s actually built, but the succ ntic cable put an e r this same trail it riph line to Dawso d. The Omineca d the north-west. In the Peace is to be ound a large tract of I land, an alao ri.er beds The clim te is said to be very agricultu al enterprises. The f commun lation at present pr ig beiug tie towards develop aettleme . The various hyd ises at pr eat working ini nt an inv tment of upwards o dollars; he returns so far •ry gratif ng, and Cariboo will h the w badly is road, buiit t highway t was a at great rush to the di he ancient river be d $50,000,000 ha, es early days minirg mitive methods, b introduction of h d &me kinds, it i lden dis- ores. • by part ars. the eeks er, old, trict s of been was t in an ming yet The been son's eent their met was forty n to by f the asful d to ex - City stirct river agri- eh in avor- utter hibits ent, &tine riboo one have again ld. Railway communica- eded. The old C riboo is the Maths- gl for those g up 1The ed at an expenditnee of million of dollars. 1 piy ighway is at preste t in from Ashcroft to dalTiboo d,—the Canadian ,P chic ken its place. Alon the y still be seen the r ains oad clinging to the nioun. feet er. n rth- im- ivis- ears only on meg- y and es in: he ex - was ood of ineca. found. being to this region by the rich finds in in country. This region is ne of nimble and at present is soug t after rence to the Klondike, owing to its eirable climate and easier m ana ot communication. The remaining port one of the dis rict will be explored and no doubt consid rable of the precious metal will fall to the eward of the intrepid prospec or. To t e south-west, -:and lying alo g the ✓ dis- s the 1 de- n arm )3, the been oil is apted • ngers river at of , but yking The pro - t has very " be w be asily tural dis- ities, ce to self - been onfi- more ugh- in the early sixties, 'f the kind on the pendous undertaki the small and str ggling colony in days, 1 ut it was:t e means of openi the va ious regior s of the interior. work as °simple s of half a upwar a portion of this use,-- he portion being till travel]. Railw y having t line of railway m of the •Id wagsnt ta in si e, epwards of one thousan above he turbulent waters of the Fra West of Cariboo, and forming the wester portion of the province, is t mense district of Cassia; the largest ion of British Columbia. For many this w a a terra incognita, and know to fur raders and Indians who opera its out r fringe. Here is a vast and nificen territory, watered by ma noble ivers; and its -charming sho dented by numerous inlets. ! After citeme t in Cariboo had abated, a rus made f r Cassial. and in the neighbor Deese ake, as well as in the 0 countr, some valuable diggings were At the present time attention is agai clireete the AL great in pref More d ower Fraser, is the New Westminst trict. It is perhaps better known Fraser valley. The soil is an alluvi posit,a s d may have been at one time of the ea, but gradually filled up immen e quantities of deposit that ha brought down by the river. The very fertile and is exceedingly well a to agricultural purposes. The d from the overflowing of the Fraser has no doubt hindered the developm the agricultural lands of the distric steps are being taken, by means of schemes, to overcome, this difficulty. Provincial Government, has aided the ject, a d the Dominion Governme also g von assistance., 'Should the erratic course of" Old Father Frese control ed and the liability to overfi proven ed, then the Fraser valley will take ra k as thehnost -desirable agrieu region n Canada. In the Westminste trict a, e located a number of municipa this be' ug the &St part of the Provi take a vantage of the principle of loca govern ent. T e results that have achiev d are ver I marked, and it is dently expected ' that before many years e apseenun cipal organization thr out th Province will be general. Pass ng to Va couver Island, we drat proeee to rrienti n the disaarict lying at the south nd of the eland, in which the eau- tiful ei y of Viot ria is situated. I the immed ate vicini y of the capital are o be found ome very esirable farming dist icts, the Sa nich penin ula, is in every re pect admire ly adapted to agricultural purp sere and th very nea and well -kept farm at- test th thrift an care of the very e ter - prising settlers. ext in order comes the famous Cowichan Istria, which is al oat wholly an agricul ural region, and poss saes excelle t farm an grazing lands. In this diatric are some very promising ce tree which ay, at no remote period, be ome comme cial centre of considerable i poi - tenets. The villa es of Duncans and C em - I annul a e very pro ieing. The openin of the ne coal depo its at Oyster bay will certain y add larg ly to the prosperit• of that fe tile and a mirably situated re imp. To the west lies lberni, the lone sen inel of the acidc, bit possessing the most e eel. lent w ter way tie e found on the conti ent. Betels. Sound fur ishes the best roads ead and ha bor on the Pacific coast. There are some f rming Ian.s in the district, but the greater part is r gged and mountain us. Alberti' has, duri g the past two y ars, come into promin nce as a mineral re ion, and the very later; reports show that t is destine 1 to bee me the richest tni eral region f Vancouv r Island. The orthern ortion of the island is known as the •omox district. Is om- prises n arly tea i illion acres. Th oast 1 line is, n numerics a insta ces, indente by inlets, which io m ver excellent w ter - ways. he surf e is rugged, and is div rai- fied by ountaii nd glen, and in man in- stances 's heavily imbered. The prin ipal logging camps of ritish Qolumbia are o be found ere. Th popu ation is ep rse. There considers, be are le land and the adjoini g islands re well adapted to ri. culture purposes. The Vomox distri t ie also we I known a a rich .mineral regions; at. Cum erla,nd, fo merly Jnion Mines, coal mining is oarried n exte sively. The coal deposit her is see to be the largess on Vancouver Island. There a4e numerous other mineral regio a included in Comox dis riet which are eihg prospected, and the indications go to: show that the mineral wealth of the distil t has only of late been i, discovered and whe tIorougb1jy prospeoted there is every aseurnee that it will yield ,rich returns. The surf co of the island is covered by a dense gro th of indergrowth, which renders the land diffloultl to clear and also Ice prospect nre difficult. The streams a ound with fi h, and in the moun- tainous eegione game is plentiful. The lower portion of the islend is seell provided with roads and the settlements, which are in tnany eases oompo8e4 of energetic farm- ers, comp re very fay rably with similar settlements of like age fn the F,astera Prov• limes of Canada. The total area of B itish Chlumbia, in- cluding the portion of t e Alaslia, boundary eta med by Canada, am unto to nearly 410,- in quare acres, totals p to ab ut 260,000. i 00 square miles, and he sup rficial area, Thus it will be easily seen that the area of the western Province J is ver much the greatest of any of the anadia Provinces. The population is smal for se large a area,being perhaps not iore th ie 120,000 a the present time. Wheli the re 1 nature of the resources of the Province become full known, a much larger p inflation will Imo find its way hither, and .the rap dity of de- velopment will be enorrnously increased. (To be Co tinued) Pare and Holde±i Bre,'k Jail. ,; Pare and Holden, the two no emus safe crackers, who were implicated in the no famous Dominion Bank robbe y, at Nap anee, and who . have be n con ned in th Napanee jail since the la t trialbroke ou of the jail some time Monday night an made good their eseape. These l men wer two of the priecipal witnesses 'which wer to be examined at the trial of W. It. Po ton, at Toronto, on the 5th. The folio ing despatch from Napa ee, dated on Tue day, gives.the partiou1ars of their. escape: This morning, at 6 .,0, when Turnke Clark made his rounds q the cells of th jail he discovered the c rridor leading t at the notorio olden, had bot Pare's cell open, and t safe-crackers, Pare and escaped during the night. Everything has the a pearance of Par1e -doing the job in the folio 'nig manner: Three skeleton keys w re found in an old coat in his cell, the lock of his and the a lowing cells were both nlocked, and t e locks so tampered with t at they cannot 1e worked. The brick wall betwe n Pare's cell an the adjoining one had been dug thraug from Pare's side, the bricks being piled under Pare's cot. It Would appear th$t Pare had previously unlocked the adjoining cell from the corridor while confined thelle during the day time. When Pare reached the corridor he wrenched a piece of iron ar, about fifteen inches long, froin the s eam heating fix- tures. After acoomplishi4ig this, he entered the corridor which led to i hall in the back of the jail, and proceede upstairs to t e eastern corridor, where uis chum, . Holde was confined. He unto° ed this corricb4r door also, which gave him access to Holdenrs cell, which he unlocked a once, Then the two notorious safe robbers pro- ceeded to the door leadin to the ljail yard, This lock Pare evidently -ould not pick, as he had to pry it apart wi h the iron secured from the ateampipes. When once in the jail 3 ard the work was about completed, as all t ey had to do was pile up a lest of cordwood to within five feet of the top of the jail wal , which is about twenty feet high. Then they weot back to their cells and tied their woolen blankets together, fastening one end with a large cordwood stick and thro ing the other end, to which a stone i was attached? over the wall. I No idea ca,n be fprmed! as to the time of their escape. The, last een of them was when the turnkey visite1J the cells at seven o'clock last night. The xounty had becerne economical and dispenser, with the services of the night watehniane although one had been retained to !watch them in the day time. The news of t eir escape caused about as Much excitemen in town as the bank robbery did itself. The prisoners are supp nied to have gone east, and 1 as the 000ntrr is very roug , extremely di limit, if not ha- l and with their long start their capture wi 1 be made possible. 8 From a Shea, forrr time ago f change w permitted extracts. Ramona, , April 18th I arriv April. It shores of a From ;Cali ornia. letter receive erly of Seefort r California, i uld brew& o make the fo The letter an Diego cou Mr. Shea sa d at San Di is a large oit fine bay and miles iron the ocean p about twelve thousand p behind the times in ma in its 'sanitary equiprnen not what I had expected its proximity to the ;nee vail about a fourth ofi t fore consulted the county after a thorough eeareina me to come out , here. now am, is forty, miles ocean, and 3,500 feet abo contains about one hundr ebeut thirty or forty visi climate here is about all a sire, that is, all that a sic sire. The average annual and the fogs are not tr times they are visible in us, but they neVer reach Southern California is mountatns, and desert From the 33rd parallel so is, strictly speaking, use but mining purposes. Sa, boulder covered mOuntain of vegetation to relieve Snow capped mountains' sage and willow brush, with equal y barren .alk rule all a ound.- Occas there are fe tile oasis or ing from a c narter of an extent, whi h are exceedi .they can be rrigated. The an abundan e of water, w pipes over gorges ,and h escape in such a, way as t land. Where the land ea .this way, its fertility is good land is red in (solor, is the more productive un The scenery surpasse dreamed of. If any perso istence of an Almighty 0. this country, with his mire him of his doubt would seem truly as if " out of the hollow of His just lay around loose, and Frandeur, t4ie perfect rhy its wildnea is grand be 1 from Mr. A. 11', , who left a short the hope that the is health, we are lowing in teres ti n is written fro ty, California, o 8 : go on the 4th o , situated on th rbor, and is six oper. It contains ple, and is much y ways, especially . The climate is On account of , dense fogs pre - e time. I there - physician, and he, ion, recommended Ramona, where I inland from the e ocean level. It d inhabitants, and ing invahds. The person 1could de- -person could de- rainf If is light, uble wee. Some he v Hays below as her aim ly • a sea of ounta'n4 at that. th, h country ess fpr anything d hills, rock and , without a speck their barrenness. overed with wild and interspersed • li plains, are the mildly, here and all valleys, rang - ore to ten acres in gly fertile when mountains contain ich h carried in Ile, and then let gently flood the be irrigated in atonishing. 'The nd the redder it er irrigation. anything I ever doubts the ex- , a visit through eyes open, should nd unbelief. •It e tumbled things hand," and they yet the sublime m and fitness of ond description. 2,500 ROLLS 1 WALL IDATER From 3c per Roll Upwards BORDERS TO Match from 10c per Roll Up. Alex. Wititer Main St., - - - $aforth. MARRIAGE LIGENsEs ISSUED. No Witnesses ReqUired. The unexpected turns up at every bend, and every mile or two there s a little world and climate Of its own., Wh1ere I am apples will not groW, but thirty miles up the tied, at julian, apples grow as a undantly as at home, and of equal quality. Just here English walnuts, raisins, grapes, lemons and oranges are the principal orops. Oranges and lemons are a freak in m eyes. Bloom? half grown iud ripe fruit pan be seen on many of the tlrees at the seine time. Bar- ley, oats and the root crops are also culti- vated where irrigated. Hav is all cut and 'mootly saved; barley is ou in hesd ; oate icon)* out and yet the gra e vines aro not 'yet in leaf. • From my wind w' I can see the snow capped mountains, an4 vines in bloom tolimb around the windows, and mei, the inoet beautiful I ever saw, bloom in tuxurit- ance in the yard, while cactes, clematis and the most beautiful of our 1 house plants at bonne, are as common as weds here. Hay is $20 per ton; woo $16 per cord ; hoer $8 to $10 -petecwt. ; heief from 12 to 16 cents per pound; butter 25 ents per pound,' and eggs 16 cents per d zen. Clothing, hoets, and such like gene ally double our prices at home. The population is corn - posed of Americans,. Cana3ians, Mexicans,, Japs, Chinese, Apache and Blackfocrt In- cliallS, Niggers and all the inhabitants f all he European nations are represented ; but must not forget to mention the ative Greaser, a mixture of some two or m re pf the above races, and the most villainous! looking creature you could] imagine. They are, also, as bad as they 1 ok, being lag and worthleas. They loaf around the saloons and engage largely in gambling; ha fact they will do anything but ork. The Y liae frgely by fleecing the to rists, traveller nd invalids. Sunday is tlhe most GcalleSe day in the week, which mans a good deal' • There is no resident minist4r or priest here, and truly, one may copy the text: "Th harvest is large and the la orers are few.' The visitors, on the other h nd, are mestl well read, intelligent and refined people There are ten invalids in the house in vehich I am boarding. The price Of board is per week. In conclusion, I in act far as I have seen or can learn, there are few placeS in the world equal in more ity, n Christian character, and even in agri ultu al posoibili ties to our own beautiful old Hpiron, and I am sorry indeed that cirouknstailices did not allow me to remain there. • From Albeka. Mr. Robert Ward, fornieirly o Varna, in this county, and who left t its sping to lo- cate in the Edmonton d stric Alberta, writes from Lewisville, Alberta, N. W. T., on April 17th, as follows : My brother and I, and Villiam Thirsk, and our families, and the boys f om Blake, arrived here safe and sound on t e 23 d of March. We were surprised on our aririval here to find horses and cattle that had been grazing on the ranges all win er looking welleind fat in She spring. Te climate here seems to be ell that could be desired. The snow disappeared in a few days this spring, and in about a week the oade were in excellent condition for tra el. Along the Battle river the farmers ommenced (seeding on the 13th of April. e have an occasional fall of rain in April, b t it is an advantage to the crops, as it moistens the ground. We have local irrprovement dis- tricts formed here on both s dee of the river. In Ontario they are called 8 atute labor dis- tricts. A large number of iew school dis- tricts are beiug opened out tlhis year. There ere not many churches yet, but services are held in thel school house e generally. A large grist mi 1 will be erected at Wetaski- win this sum er, do that hereafter farmers' in this district will not need to go to Ed- monton for their g inding. For the Huron hope with a tew h ndred &pars, I believe Alberta, is the plac4 to go. I may write a few lines late; on, to lee the olka at home know how we are getting al ng, and by that time 1 may know more about the advantages and disadvantages of this country.—We shall be glad to hear from our old friend as often as time and the spirit will permit bin tO write.—En. 1 They Toil Not,;Etc. [Writken for The ExpOsitor.] "They tc4il net neither, do hey spin'yet heir raiments tree purple and fine 1 nen, faring suMptuously t i every day" How aptly tlhis quotation from tr e scrip tures can be a plied to those who f011ow this business of lending money. The lender the master,—the ijorrower the tdil-won slava. Two thousa d millions dollars is lan un- der estimate of the amount offoreigb capital borrowed by private individvels, nlunicipal corporations, Provincial a d °minion Governments, railways, and tions in Canada ; more tha hal of this Iother institu- tions vast sum is secured by mortgages on farm lapels. It takes all the exports of th,e Do- Minion,—eggs, butter, cheese, livestock, Wheat, flour, lumber, firsh,—I-each year to pay ymthe interest on this enormous iedebted- nes 1 , Recently a meeting was held in Toronto in the interest of the so -celled Imperial Federation movement. Eloquent speeches were made ; the grandeur of 4 united Brit- ish people, in glowing terms, was impressed on the audience; a greater empire than aneient Rome was predicted, In plain terms, what does this all mean ? It means this ; The menufacturers of Britain want to have the profit of making our raw material into goods. They want to lend us their surplus credit, or as they say, gold ; and then they Want us to protect their invest- ments, to enforce their- claim,—by paying a polies force, in the shape of ron-claos and a standing army. Just as so4n as they get the "open door" and their , collection of interest is safe "the grandenr "of Imperial Federation will he estimated at its true value. A few British iron-cleds at our sea- port cities' and a few regiinents of the disciplinedBritish ermy, with their im- proved Maxim guns and rifle, would have a sal tar effect in checking an attempt of the gia ature to reduce the burdens of the iler of Canada. . It i n t the intention of this a ticle at the p eee t to enter into a contro eray on the 1 ag r question, viz., " The folly of rushi g t a foreign land to borrow gold, which We never get," but rather t confine the argil cuts te the simple" and ractical duty of o r Legslatures to confine the rate of interes ter a rate of six per cent simple interest pler annum. It may be said that an act of thi kind is unneceeta , 1 le y, as abundant money can be obtained t 6 e or five and a half er cent. If so, wh do money -lenders objec to an act of thi d, which could effect the ex- tortioners ord. ? Really, their c ntention is net hon at. The rate Of inter et men- tioned in m rtgage is nominal, th borow- ee borrow fr en necessity. Perh pa bad rnanagem nt, erhaps bad fortune, perhaps siekness, prov nts hitn from being unctual in his pay oen s. Then the fine work of the loan c nip ny comes in. Com tund in- terest addjed compound intere t,' until tire Victim bec mei at firat bewilde ed, then dishearte ed, opeless, bankrupt. iTruetiug th writer will have th privil- ege to foll w p this interesting au ject at a future t me,1 he will conclude for the present. , , ' ! AerretIT UMW. N. B.Ionr clever, but rather • eraonal, correspon ent from EgmondVille, right to remember it ie said "That the tis rer (that is the mppey-lencler) and the runkard shallI have no place in the kin done of Heaven." X might also say that t e excel- lent letter of Mrs James Pringle on the freight quesiion, in your issue of A ril 28th, should have he public's best atten ion. sinpy_rinoAfgp.tptieliablots in the Bruckva settlers have gone to the North —It is aut oritatively stated t ton has boon made tor Canada. election case. —George Bresnaham, a -14-year was drowned in the G and river a Fr_i Bali daAwy. aL s°fnadtelly injured while atte pting to on, Ontario, boy nam d Frank board a moving train on Saturday. —Lord Minto, when riding a bi ycle the other day, was thrown fron, h's wheel, spraining his right wrists and be g other- wise shaken, up. --s-Toronto bricklayers have gone out on strike for higher wages, and as a conse- quence about 800 men are lhrown out of employment. --Word has reached Ottawa of the deeth of Peter Tompkins, who was Itilled on Apr 1114, in the Phil ppmes, in a charge against the insurgents. He was at one tirne a resident of Ottawa, —Holy Trinity church, :Ottawa east, has elected Mrs. Miles Rehm to the position of churchwarden. This is not u usual in England, but Mrs. R se -is said t� be the Only *nate churchwarden in Cana a. Senator Sutherland died at hi hoe in itm Winnipeg on Thursday mornin of last week, aged 77 years. He had been in poor health few a long time and for two years was oanabIe to take liis seat at Ottawa. —I -It if3 not often that building are de- stroed lby lightning so early in the season 818 this, but we _notice that in anany parts of the Proeince buildings were destroyed by Ghia cause last Mond y night, 1 ' 1 --John,MoDevitt, aged 82, one of Cale - doe's pi;Deere, a native of Donegal, Ireland, Who emigrated to Canada during his youth, Was struck by light i g Monday while fish- ing and instantly killed. —,An Ope ation t remove an injured eye was performed on Thomas Stewart, a boy, at the Montreal hospital. Through a mis- take the operating physician removed the boy's sound eye, and his sight is de- stroy ed. --'Friday afterno boy, who was playin in Termite, was de at 7,000 vest this a scrut- Ile bye - old boy,' Fergus n a little -year-old in front of bus home eyed away by an old woman. ' The .woman took him to her home and stripped him of all his • clothing, and then turned him out on the street. • W '. Anglin, late bursar at Rockwood HoHpitai for the Insane, died Friday morn- ing, agccl 85 years. He was for 28 years connected' with the asylum as bursar. Shortly after retiring from office last winter he f liana broke his thigh. hulreiday afternoon the fifteen -months - old daughtcr of Mr. Thomas Turnbull,. near into Boston, oraniern, Which had been left uncovered. bile:pig* in the yard ifell She hadlbeen there about ten minutetwohreen. found. :Every efferti was put fort &clock Monday morring, the vive the !child, but Without avail. —About 11 t bare and t outbuildings belongin. to Mr. 1 James A. NVood, about a mile hem Brad- ford, were a4mck by lightning, nd, with their; contents, were; completely d stroyea. The loss will be between $4,000 an $5,000; insurance, $3,000. —gr. Wm. R. Stewart, Fort cLeorl, shipped from Guelph a few days ag $18,000 ,worth of stock. He purchased 450 stockers from Ridgetown, and a large n mber of pure bred cattle and horaes from readers in Guelph vicinity for his ranch in Fort McLeod, The body of a boy 7 or 8 year ofago was joked u by !Martin Bros. frt Ma t an , Saturday morning, about a mile out in L ke Erie. It is probably t e body of Mr. artin's little 'Ion who Eget rimisly dis ppea ed early last 'winter at Por Dover, andi is supposed to have 'been drown d. —About two o'clock Saturday a ternoon an awful tragedy was enacted at Pe :ammo, when John Webber, a an about . i or and killed his wife and then Look his ow; elbifbee rbye of age, and a native of that town, al sending a ball through ' hilts head. . t mind is supposed to have become unialanced on account of illness. , T —Miss ,Lila, CrOoksh nk, of B enheim village, iii a most unfortunate young lady. The other evening She Was in a newsy and had her wrist fractured. Seve yearn ago this young lady had he other i arm broken n a similar Accident, ani seven days ego she was thrown from her saddle and dragged a considerable distance. —A train bearing One of ,the riche.t loads of freight that has ever been in IT ; sipeg, Passed through that city Saturday night. It had nine earloadi of *a* silk, a d the Value, of the goods was several mil "ons of dollars. The C. P. R. were ru Bing it through to New York, and a quan ity of the silk is teir Europe,. There were Iso five rloads of Chinamen on t e train. —Last Thursday evening, as Mani Cross, keeper of Jack Straw and the lowe light. house, St. Lawrence river, near K ngston, ;iya. going to lightIup he found a pu t float- ing near the lower light, containing a man's I Mat and hat, a wciman'isc at, and a child's ; ot, and amme prov i , a p1.., and atches. Next morning r. Cross ent to rosanoque to make enqu ries, an found that two men, named Mosier and Shaw, Oh their wives, bad beeni camping on the foot of Grindstone 'Island, and bat on :Thursday Shaw and Mrs. Mosier ha stsrt- ed for Gananoque, but failed to !return. McLEAN BROS., Publishers. $1 a Year in Advance. Thee punt was identified as lielongiui to them. On Sunday the body of MA. Mosier was found off the head of Ash Island, tear Ivy Lea. Nothing has as yet been heard of Shaw, and in all probability he ia also drowned. Mrs. Mosier was a daughter of Richard Seymour, who lives near Ivy Lera —R. Gillard, living near Alliston, a farmer, committed suicide by drowning in Nottswasaga river on Monday evening. His crop was a failure last year, and the prospects this year, commencing as thedid with ruined fall wheat, weighed heavily upon him, and, it is thought, -caused hisn to take his life. He leaves a wife, without children. —At London, the other day, Cecil Hattie, ,a. 4 -year-old child, opened the lid of a , cis- tern and jumped in to hide fecun a play- mate. The little girl whom he was plesnin,g with saw him disappear and gave the alarm. Mr. Ja,mes -Murdock, C. P. R. brakeman, got the little fellow out. 'The boy was lying stunned at the bottom of the cistern, and entirely covered with water, but soon was all right. —Rev. Dr. McMullen, of Knox chards, Woodstock, in the course of his anniversary sermon on Sunday, 23rd ult., ;said : -t‘ Of the thirty-three ministers in the Presbytery of London in 1861, I am the only one re- maining in the active work of Timber. Twenty-five have died and five have retired. The Presbytery of London then extended from Woodstock Virtstward to Detroit River." —W. A. Little, an elderly gentlemanre- siding in Montreal, came nearly losinghis life Sunday afteinoon as the result of an accidental shooting. He was sitting onthe verandah of his house when a revolver in the hands of a lady visitor to the house 'ex- ploded, and the ball entered Mr. Little's body, perforating a lung. Mr. Little Wars removed to the hospital, where the Fbulct was extracted, and hopes of his recovery are entertained. —The British Board of Trade emigration returns for the first three months of the current year are very flattering to Canada. The number of people leaving United King- dom ports for Canada shows an increaees of 24 per cent. over the corresponding period of 1898, while emigration to the United States shows a decrease of 15 per cent., and that to other British colonies, including South Africa, has practically remained stationary or shows a slight falling off. t —Jake Ice, a St. Regis warrior on the Cornwall reserve, was shot and instantly killed at St. Regis, by a Dominion police officer, Monday morning; two other red- skins were badly wounded, and four ohiefs carried offs -into captivity. The cause of the trouble dates away back several years, and was primarily the objection of the St. Regis band to submit to the Indian Act, and al- low a,n election of chiefs to be held. The officers shot in self defence. —An accident which may prove fatal took place at Leamington the other night. Elton Clemons, an employee of the Post Printing Company, was riding northward on his bicycle, and came into collision with another bicyclist, Cl/steles Irwin, who was riding southward. Both were riding very rapidly, and they came into collision with fearful force. Young Clemons was picked, up unconscious and carried to his home. Irwin was badly hurt, but was able to walk home. —The Simpson Company, of Torondos the great departmental store company, offered the Knox church congregation $120,000 cash for their church property, whiele is sit- uated immediately in rear of the Simpson store. At a congregational meeting the other evening this offer was refused by a vote of 57 to 53. This was the firat Presby- terian church in the city and is now almost in the centre of the business portion of the city and the property is consequently very valuable. —Robert King,ex-hotel-keeper,of Paisley, Ontario, and A. J. Conover, ex -hotel -keeper, Winghtsm, Ontario, have been sentenced to long terms of imprisonment in the Iowa penitentiary for swindling the First Nation - ell Bank, of Rook Rapids, by means of forged drafts. King, who pleaded guilty !and turned States' evidence, was given 7 1yeare on a charge of uttering a forged draft, Conover 3 years for forgery and 7 years for uttering. Conover also gets 4 years' extra imprisonment for violating the condition of an oldpardon, making 14 years in all. —The general European idea that Canada is a dense forest, and that Toronto, if such a place was ever heard of, is a one-horse camp, where big bonfires guard the sleeping inhabitants from wild beasts at night, will b: accentuated when the fact that a bear cub a d a wild racoon have been captured in Toronto streets. Oa Saturday a number of men caught a wild racoon in the gully near Clinton and Bloor streets, and Sunday Miss Jessie Alexander and a companion found a 'lively young bear cub wandering at its own sweet will in Brunswick avenue, - —A shocking fatality occurred tat the western station of the Grand Trunk Rail. way in Brantford, Thursday afternoon, when Mr. Noble Montgomery, a well-known resident, was run down by a shunting train and almost instantly killed. Mr. Montgomery, who was about eighty years of age, was crossing the track at the switch at the southern end of the passenger plat- form, and was evidently unconscious of the approaching train. The brakeman shouted to him,but deceased, who was rather dull ef hearing, paid no attention and stepped over the rails and was immediately killed. —Maud McDonald, of Campbellford, aged 17 years, met with a shocking accident on Thursday. The young girl was engaged running a sewing machine in McLean's tailor shop when an oil lamp fell off the stand to the floor. The blazing oil caught the poor girl's clothing. She attempted to ,pull off her clothing without succeeding. She then ran into the street, when Mr. James Shaw threw her down on the side- walk and attempted to extinguith the flames. Her clothing was burning 'like a torch, Nearly all the clothing of the poor girl from her waist to her boots was con- sumed, and her legs are burned in a shock- ing manner, every inch of them being affect- ed, and in some spots the flesh is almost ;cooked. —The fall wheat in the vicinity of Mil- Ivertors is almost destroyed, except in a few favored spots, where the snow oovered it t 111ately. It was thought a week ago that it had wintered well, but when the frost came out of the ground it was found to he ;citei d at the root, and many are ploughing u fields that looked very promising ten 1;1 ys ago. —Mrs. Thomas Hall passed away on Wednesday morning of last week, at the family homestead, Downie, aged 437 years. Deceased was the widow of the late Thomas Rail, who died some four ' years ago. She had resided on the homestead, St. Marys insist', for over forty years, and was well known and highly esteemed throughout Downie. She was born in the county of ;Armagh, Ireland, and on coming to Canada, located in that district, where she married Mr. Hall. The late Mrs. Hall had been ill over a year.