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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1888-06-29, Page 1egSilepe me. sT A N ) 7er Goods t_.1,‘ being repleniihed. )RTMENT oti as ever in our Departments [LL1YERy, .TLE GooDs, zss GooDs, SILK S, LLLWARES, Ft:RN ISHINGS, D E 'CLOTHING,- RPETS, dr.c. r,xtra Values e offered during AND JUNE —FOR— or Produca )FAUlit, qAFORTH. rking in Mr. Wood'anne at scalar and brokei two in. White is putth a? his house, and oti it.—Messrs. W.-Somer- i 01Bryne, of Pickard's They were asked te ich thing they refusedte arge Davis, of Kates vith the volunteers to atfer.—Mrs Reginald BI - a On Sunday. It is !s- ake one of our fair maid- • y soon.—A young mss of Parkhill has takes s place in the Timeici Jen has gone to Godertit te visit. While bathing in the r last week two rest vered by our ever vigiltst e. He did -not, however >re the magistrate but against repeating' tit raEnss— The voluntsir ve been practising fir a, and on T for camp. at Strati: remain for.. some to Diekson is 1st Lieut.', drews, Captain, and H. ieutenant. There la shapes in the battalieit peOple witnessed tb. 'afternoon. "Blister oldier. - We mentioned lastwesk ad been sent, to Gods - trial on a. charge of Isr. I came off sooner' than lit expected, Vail Wu nee, three weeks hard ty jail. This ought* a young man, but Wt agait( pursue his ga bree weeks - expire. will not, as our tont be roade very PoP Exeter is about sis • ou will find. - Srinissias —Mr. D. is, eter, has passed the re - zeros !nation at Toronto' lug 1st class honors fa, • 2nd- in Moral Philo,- second highest in gat ty. This alone _show* but it is still meet Mr.* Bneha•nadu -osse during the session ,bo t a double course,..fors university work/ be in theology. in Knotb exception of one sub- xceptioradly high start(' SS..per tent at his Knox Winghani- r.-W. Nye, of Dublinf at J. 11. Iiing's.--fite- Hawiek, spent Sunday —Mrs. D. Stewart re - it to friends in Crmton- .ittton, son of Mr. -W. r Toronto, where, ha in Mr. Weir's street —Mrs. Ed (laughter returned to Ripley on -Saturday.-- eld, of this place left p for Fargo, Dakota. and a daughter residing nie Adams, who has don GeneKai' Hospital weeks returned hosts. ?.,rker fell off the pla' rn in course of erection , the other day/ to tile of 24- feet. Be was, ree hours, but hors r his recovery. • Oe• T WENTY-ifuST YEAR. / VTHOLE NUILLBER 1,072. tiltringt SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 1888. {McLIEAN BROS. Publishers. $1.50 a Year, in Advance. FULL STOCK In every Department at the Cheap Cash Store —OF— HOFFMAN & 00, We have some very Special BArgains to Show in New Dress Goods, New Prints, New Sateens, New Zephyrs, New Shirtings, New Gloves, New Collars and Cuffs, New Corsets, New Ribbons, New Laces, New Curtains, New Cretonnes, etc. Our Millinery Stock was never in bet- ter shape nor did we ever have such a complete assortment in every line, every Lady should take a look through the different styles. Butterick's reliable Patterns, Books and Sheets, always to be had at the Cheap Cash Store HOFFMAN & CO., CARDNO'S BLOCK, SEAFORTH. —Gore Bay has been chosen as the judicial seat of the Manitoulin islands. —Mr. Duncan McFarland, a veteran of 1812, died at his residence in Niagara Township the other day. —Rev. J. H. Robinson, who is about leaving London for Ottawa, preached a farewell sermon last Sabbath in Dundee Centre Methodist church. The rever- end gentleman, who is over 81 years of age, has been conneeted with the Methodist body for sixty- years and is still comparatively a vigorous and able exponent of Gospel truth. —During the thunder storm of Fri: day last the barn belonging to James Keith abctut three miles from Campbell-, ford was Struck by lightning and burn. ed to the 'ground. —Adam Morse, the Georgia negro, who was held for extradition in Toronto* - has been liberated on the ground that the ,promised witness was not yet on hand-. Hp will probably start a restauv ant in the city. The colored people held agrand Jubilee meeting on Mon- day night to celebrate his release, There were as many white as colored people present and the meeting was an intensely enthusiastic one. - —The evidence which Mr. Graham Bell has Placed before the Royal Com- mission for the education of Deaf Mutes has created a profound impression. In consequence of the tendency of deaf mutest° mter-marry, Mr. Bell 'appre- hends the possibility of a distinct family: of human beings who are thus unfortun- ate. He advocates the training of deaf • muted in ordinary language by meant' of artictlatiVe methods, and strongly re- •, commends their association with hearing people. —The 'corner stone of a new. Pre byterian 'church was laid at Cornwa on Monday,18th inst. St. Johne THE ST. CLAIR TUNNEL. WHAT IT IS TO BE.—WHERE IT IS TO BE. —HOW IT IS TO BE CONSTRUCTED.— THE DIAGNITUDE OF THE WORK. The country which is judiciously and well equipped with lines of railway possesses, perhaps, without exception, the most essential element in modern times for national development. Rail- ways provide rapid means of communi- cation and a suitable and expeditious medium for the exchange of the com- modities of life; they penetrate where - ever mineral wealth or forest wilds hold out an inducement, or wherever the un- broken virgin soil promises a reward ; and bringing a population and indus- tries in their wake, are either the power- ful pioneer of, civilization or its unfail- ing accompaniment, leading the van or bringing up the rear guard.' Hence the railway system of a country may be taken, generally, as a fair index of its enterprise and prosperity. Remarkable instances are afforded of this fact in all the leading countries of the world, nota- bly in the United States of America, where railway construction and the building up of a vast country have run parallel with gigantic strides and equal pace. While trade, industries and com- merce, and the business industries of a country generally- receive an impetus from railway enterprise such as would be unequalled from any other source, there are yet other developments subor- dinate to them, but scarcely of less interest in the history of human pro- gress than these. The construction of difficult roads, of bridges, of viaducts, aqueducts and 'tunnels in connection with railways, has placed . eminent genius under tribute and has called forth the best thought ' of brilliant minds. Railway engineering has become a science, and in its march has encounter- ed and overcome problems worthy of the highest effort, requiring Ipatience, laborious industry and a perseverance undaunted by failures and apparent non success. Since the Stephensons laid down rails and locomotives' in the English midlands a little morethan half a century ago, the various trinmphs in invention and economic results which a modern railway represents, are an un- broken record of engineering' trepidity and skill. It seems as i n obstacle were sufficient to ob buildingbf railways over-the 1 natural truct the urface of the globe. Mountain fastnesses and steppes are climbed over or pierced through, and rivers are spanned over or tunneled, and it seems impossible to suggest a reasonable limit to the daring feats which may be accomplished. Canada has presented fields ifor many difficulties and for many triumpha, and pies of given an tertwine of the cities Or has, besides affording ex marvelous construction, also instance of how railways i themselves with the interest country and make or mar towns. To the Grand Trunk Railwa ,Ontario, in it special manner,, and Canada' as whole, owes a great deal, and the lead- • ing position it occupies instesta any great work! of construction' which it undertakes with peculiar interest to the country. ,• ' • THE ST. CrimE TuNNE The obvious advantages wh tderiVed 'from the propose -named the "St. Clair Tunnel, siderable. As known, t Trunk railway -owns and m Chicago and . Grand Trunk which runs from Chicago to Port Huron, opposite Sarnia. The tunnel When com- • pleted will give a continuous line of rails the oldest congregation in Cornwal I from Chicago to Montreal under the • having been formed about 1784, on le -same-management, and acrossthe con- -between Sarnia on the one side and Port Huron on the other. - DESCRIPTION OF THE TUNNEL. The length of the tunnel proper will be one mile. It will be approached by open cuttings of an aggregate length of a mile and a seventh, sloping at a ;grade of two feet per 100 feet, or 105.6 feet per mile. These approaches or open cuttings will descend to a depth of from 60 to 65 feet from the level of the railway lines, and then tunneling will begin at a considerable distance from the river. The reason why the open cutting will not be continued nearer the water edge than the point indicated is that it will be less expensive to tunnel at or below that depth than to clear out the clay to the surface. From where the tunneling begins to the point immediately below the water, the sloping will continue un- til where it will be about 100 feet be- low the level of the surface. The turned in cross section will be circular, or cylindrical, having a diameter of 20 feet. It will differ from any other tunnel on this continent in one very im- portant feature. Instead of being lined with brick as is usually done through clay, it will be lined with cast iron. The nearest approach to this lining is on the North River or Hudson River tunnel, New York, where boiler iron and brick are used for lining. The cast iron lining is made up of finely cast segments of about six feet long and eighteen inches wide with flanges through which connecting bolts will be fastened by. screw nuts. The weight of each segment is over 900 pounds, and the total weight of -cast iron required for the lining will come very close to 20,000 tons. The weight of the bolts which will connect the segments will reach about 800 tons. The segments will be made in Hamilton at the com- pany's shops, by a special staff of men who will turn out about thirty tons of finished work per day. • It is expected • that about 80 per cent. of the cast iron required kr the tunnel lining will .be supplied by old car wheels, but the sup- plying of new car wheels ought to give a move in the right direction to the 'iron market. It is expected that all the machinery will be in place in the course of a month, and then the tunneling nroper will com- mence. In the meantime it is being rapidly pushed forward, the preliminary borings and the sinking of the shafts oc- cupying the attention s of the workmen. When fully manned the works will em- ploy about 1-50 mob eteadili. They will.be mostly skilleelaborers and me- chanics., The work will'be one of great magnitude; and it would be difficult - to hazard' an. estimate of its coat It -is not expected by many to be less than the original estimate for . the abandoned Detroit 'River tunnel, while it may ex- ceed that amount to a considerable ex tent. , . • Street Church Thinks. ' In his .sermon on a recent Sun- day night; Rev. Dr._ Wild, Of Bond street 'church, Toronto,. made some -practical remarks -in his own . quaint way on the subjects Of Immigration and Prison Libor, The Doctor . vigorously - espoused lwell-directed emigration . to Canada` replied to what he- termed ' the selfishn s i of trades unions denounced • Somebody paid for it, you say. Yeii, England paid $400,000,000, or over $2 per acre for every acre in this Dominion. This was paid for `war and defence be- fore any of us were born, and it was given to Canada. Thank you, John Bull [Loud Laughter.] You are the most generous John that walks upon the face of this earth." Such being the case, should not this great and vast country be open day and night that qualified men and women may enter in? "1 would not care,"said the Doctor with great emphasis, "if 5,000,000 of such immigrants came over next year. [Applause.] Englishmen. are paying taxes for Canada yet. You tell a man this who grumbles at the $50,000 a year for the Governor-Gen- eral." " Take another consideration. There is only one acre apiece for every Eng- lishman in the old country; there are 380 acres apiece for every man, woman and child in Canada. I think we are pretty well off. (Laughter.) The old country is overstocked. The increase of population there is 550,000 annually ; 400,000 of these must emigrate. Canada gets 50,000 of these every year. Taken head for head each immigrant brings $60, that is $3,000,000 a year added to the wealth of this country. This was a healthy thing for trade. These immi- grants required 10,000 new houses each year. Houses don't grow in Canada. (Laughter.) It makes work for carpen- ters and other trades. Allowing eight bushels of grain per head, these immi- grants consume 400,000 buehels a year. Computing fifteen bushels as the pro- duce of an acre, it requires 23,333 acres of land to be broken up and cultivated annually, and, including fruits, it comes to 25,000 acres." The Doctor showed this reacted on the machinery and other trades,and then briefly touched on the prison labor ques- tion. Prisoners. must be employed. Idleness tends to demoralization. The jealousy of trades unions as to prison labor was not Werth much consideration. Their competition with OrdinarY labor was as that of a fly to an elephant. (Laughter.) "How shall prison labor be utilized?" -the preacher asked, and thusly he an- swered the knotty question. Prisons should be removed into the country. Government shOuld employ these prison- ers in clearing lands, opening up roads, building log houses (applause) and then send emigrants:there who want to settle, ,provide them with seed and let them pay them back in a few years.c„. (Renewed • applause.) That is an easy method. It conflicts with no established trade. This 'might to be done.. Send me to Parlia- ment and I will plead it .(laughter), that is, when I have done with the Bond street church. . Politics don't pay as well as preaching." °( Renewed iaughter and applause. 'What he Prophet of Bond ch will be • tunnel, are -con- e -1-Grand ages the railway, settlement in that locelity of a numb 1: tinent from tPortland to San -Francisco. , of &Boers_ and men of the Royal Hill- Time and distance ivill. be saved. At ' land Einigrants or 84th regiment,and f present Grand -Trunk railway runs - Sir- Johnl Johnston's - corps, the Royal almost at rightangles, to,the Over until Regiment of New York. The first is'reachesavathin half a mile o the river ordained -Minister settled in the charge bank a short.distance,south o Sarnia, at . was Rev. John Bethune, a native of °which - peirit, it curves northward -and Skye and a- licentiate of. the Kirk tf passes through Sarnia to Poin Edward, Scotiand,it who arrived - in. that distri t i a distance of about three mile. On the in May, 1787, and - who was for. NI I 'Port Huron side of the river years the only minister of the Kirk- lof same thing ,applies to. the Cli Scotland in Canada; After Mr. Beth- Grand Trill* line, which ,be ,une's death, Rev. Henry Leith 'follow- .. ward. along the river bank ed as -pastor for a few years, when he/ . T with the Point Edward .f.e returned to Scotland. . He was. 'mos _,.. reason. for this northward bend on - both- ceeded by Rev. Hugh Urquhart in 1827, -sides isthat the St. Clair Rifer is nar- and the present pastor, Rev. Neil 3/1.10- row at Point Edward, and fur* the con - Nish was appointed assistant pastor n sequent greater rapidity of the current 1868. On the death, of Dr. Urquhart n the waterway is less liable . obstruc- 1871 Mr. McNish -succeeded him tion from ice.. But this advantage is minister of the congregatien. The. n vt gained at the expense of a haulage of building will be of - • handsome and six miles and considerable delay. The unique design, ,:will contain all ' t e straight line through the - tunnel would modem improvements and, it is read3115' effect a saving Of MX miles in- distance, imagined, will be in every respect' a and it is computed an. hour It striking contrast to the place of wnr- , is calculated that twenty v ship erected in 1787, just 101 years ago. ' Sarnia, on the river, every h —Last Sunday the Palace roller rink in every three minutes of tin in Hamilton was crowded to the doers of these are, towed by tugs, and all have . . . . - b a gatheringof over 3,000 people, a prior right of way as against the rail- who- came to hear Rev.- C. O. Johnson road ferry. It frequently tell why, he had left the Methodist rain- the towing -of these vessels istry. Mr. Johnson spoke for aboisittise ous delays, which, when the hours and went over the whole trouble- operation, will be effectuall , . , . . from its inception through the .misan- Occasional ,y the connections are lost, - church at Birrlington. He. made public pension Bridge, and the east going trains dergtanding about an invitation to a • under the present management, at - Sus - for the first time the seven charges pie- are detained, -and, as time is quickly be- . ferred against hini. in the district. meet- coining a, :;matter of great 1Commercial ing by Rev. Solomon Cleaver, of Thar- value, it is felt that the train service to Jingtott,' and, they were apparently moist and frem the great centres of business tn, frivolous. As he traced . the course of , cannot Weil afford to be unpunctual or the system of persecution by which he uncertain.-' Therefore, the ost direct . was finally foreed to resign from :the roirte and the one most likel to be un - Methodist ministry the feelings of tie obstructed will become the Most popu- immense crowd rose to.a, boiling point, lar and selviceable one. - -. and they hissed the name of Rev. W. to be little doubt that the J. Maxwell, president of the Conference, will be of immense advantag and heartily applauded .Mr. Johnsdn.: give a symmetry and facilit At the fclose of the address a vote of ations to the Grand.Trunk s confidence in Mr. Johnston was carried it at present lacks.- - ' unanimously. When Mr. Johnson said - The St. Clair project first , that if In three or four months, when cal shape ,in 1884; when the ex4teruent had died ' . away, . e chief engineer of the Great should'ibe invited to take charge of an ision of the Grand Trunk :Independent church. in the city he asked to Make a survey of t • -would d� so, the decision -was received Clair fit/. the purpose of of with great applause. He is going to the practicability of Ponstru a Muskoka to spend the summer months. lid under the river between f , . doorways to the barrooms and beer saloons are like the gates of a walled town surrendering to victorious besieg- ers. Men pushing their way out meet men pushing their way in, and the con- sequence is a blockade out to the gutter. To escape from this confusion into one of the hotels is to go from the frying pan into the fire. The tumult, the babel, the hand-to-hand battle with the mob is worse indoors than out. Fancy the condition of mind of a country delegate who finds himself in such a crowd. Born New Yorkers say that their home experience is tame be- side convention life. The country dele- gate from some placid yillage like Terre Haute becomes beside himself. He gets intoxicated, even though he does not drink. The excitement, the strain upon the nerves, the stimulus of a condition where, among all the thousands, every man is for himself, proves too much for the countryman. His:head is in the air, his feet tread on clouds. He is not in his right mind. He is possessed by ex- citement. It will . be weeks before he regains his composure; a lifetime before he forgets this experience. One is not ranch better off in bed than in the streets. The bedroom windows and the fanlights over the doors- have to be thrown open in order to breathe. The fearful heat bakes the bed Mien and matresses, sleep bedomes a disappoint- ment and a snare, the uproar within the hotel breaks in through the fanlights and meets the tumultuous din welling up from the sidewalks. Skyrockets flash past the windows; bands parade incessantly beneath them, and the surging crowds below yell incessantly with their utmost lung power. Some- times two bands, or even three, blend their music in a diabolical nightmare of jarring sounds. When the bands stop playing, the poor victim of convention chaos hears the noises of the people. "r Hurrah for Blaine I" "Blaine, Blaine, James G. Blaine 1" "Hurrah fer Harrison 1" "Hurrah for Grover 'Cleveland !" Crowds battle one with a other with antagonistic yells, and t rough the hurrahs for Blaine sounds tie Democratic cry of " Rats !" The • yelling for Cleveland is opposed by t mults with fish horns. It is a wonder at the country delegate knows his lame by the time he haabeenhere three ays. - / agents a 'd shipping cOmpanies who for cupidity brought out. those Who were phylsically'unfit, and showed that the quest in of prison labor could be ii satisfactorily 'solved by removing the prisons in o the country, and utiliaing the prisoners for making reads, clearing lands, 113iiilding log houses, which Would be ready: for the emigrants, who would ladly, in course of time, pay for the same Governm `• At the, gration hpasaccIteit.s ifin must be considered as ; a whole toarrive at a 'just -conclusion. He mild ragree with the most zealous trades unionists in deprecating the ex- portati nit° Canada of the smoat con- linost the., firmed criminals, paupers, idiots or peo- . icago and I pie' aftlicsed with physical- disease. He ds north- acquitted :the English, and ;Canadian: connect Governments . of any Pertioipation in y. The this: Still some of this blase did find - their Way to Canada. Some - came of their °Val accord; others' were brought over by their friends; . some were en- ticed fti,34 sent over by -soulless corpora- tions and shipping companies, who 'would not care if the whole of the pas- sengers ' were devils so long as they paid . their far. [Laughter.] --.- .. ,An ho, est workman was not a pauper because he happened to have, no money, -1 [Apple ie.] An emigrant with his faithfulwife- and half a dozen children domicil "el in the rookery called the. "em- igrant sheds" ought not to be despised because i he is poor, or have mean or shabby . , treatment'. ” There is," said the Doctor, • " wealth in brawny muscles,[wealth in his ruddy -faced boys, which will enrich the ;country of which in timelthey will become , citizens. It may beflyears before they build /t‘eir beautif4 houses, and ride in their car- riage Own Yonge street. But the like has been done in the past, and I _know the people have -done it, and the like will be done again, given a fair start, A fair chance and the opportunity." [Applause.] ,, . - . . Dr. Wild. enlarged on our duty to :the stranger within our gates. '' Socially and -physica y- we . needed new blood and new life a the successful building of a' strong ' don. Canadians are under great obligations to England and should* treat S' mpathetically their 'own kith . and le , . Immigration might, tempor- arily injure the labor market, but ulti- mately it would benefit it.doe- , trine o fal,l,a,Gci conque island - and advance of seed by the nt, utset he showed that the emi- uestion was many -aided. It ancial, social and political as- . The Bepithlioan Convention. The fol -bowing description by the. New York Sun of the sights and scenes in connection with the Republican Con- vention held last in Chicago will - give our readers some idea. of the Man- ner in which the great political organi- zations of the great Republic are con- ducted.. It says: • . . Whew 1 how hot it has , been here all day! The town like a red .hot stove lid on which the people are being tor; turedlike. hopping rains of corn. The heat has once again got the better of the lake tbreeze. feet it looks as though it had got the better. of. the lake* which- lies like a sheet Of unruf- fled glass, performing no ether duty than to mirror the blaze- in the sky: Hall the strangers are in flannel shirts "and idpaca .00ats without vets. ' They make the best appearance for the dudes who, stick. to -.1aunclriedlinen. are but mere' Wrecks. Of .feshion. Once in -a • while one sees a mad who can .keep, the stiffness in his *collar and the'pelish on his shirt like Jimmie gusted, Bathed Ray Hamilton. or young Hain Fish, but the rest are nitbroken 'down and drag- gled, as though they had come out of a _boiler and been run through a mangle. - No one who has experienced it can form , any just idea of what" life. at a, Convention is; •Men who are need to it ay that a- Week of it sada a- year to one'e life. The strain is fearful. The conditionsare, all morbid, exaggerated, wrought - up and distorted:. The people . are sleeping cots i four or five in a room intended for one. Policemen line - the stairways keeping the ' semblanee Of Order. ,The guests, and the 'rabble are, passed up the steps on .one side andl[ down the other. The yelling; cheering and babel of thousands of throats in the public .rooma is heard through the uppermost hallways. and penetrates the sleeping apartmeuts the .night -is well Spent. Every. men whO' drinks at altdrinks too much. The or' instribars do not serve for the business, and what are ' called " bar -room annexes" are Thursday last week.: Sales, 280 boxes. opened in each hotel. The Grand pa: .at 8., A year ago the offerings were elfic bar -room is bigger than the whole 3,1-85 ibth.lea, ,the bulk being sold at of the Astorhouse rotunda, but to get a 8ie toi the ruling price being Sic. drink means to fight Your way through :—On Saturday imorning Dr. Dennis thirty or forty rows of people, and you are then heron -Led. up against the bar,: and find it :easier and simpler to stay and take five tix drinks than to take one and fight yOnr way. out again. - The streets are almost :blocked with people, particularly ireit, night. No ether city except Ne ork :can pro- duce such crowds, and these Croi'vds of countrymen who do not know. how , to nusster a city's Conditions or manage themselves. To make one's way from .ene point to another- is to engage in -a wrestle. The air is rent With the ' music of bands, the shrieks and , yells of Southerners, the imbecile noises of drunken men. To make headway through, the ,crowd -is to experience a succession. of adventures. ; Now a crowd of drunkards bears down upon the pedestrian, who finds himself shun- ted off into. a group of menAwith•-fish librns. Passing them, he porn' s upona acres solid mass of 'men listening to some •pay for it?. - Not 'a cent. [Laughter.] mouthy renter. Making a 'speeph. The . _ s. time. • It suds' pass ur, or one e. • Many ccurs that auses seri- tunnel is in obviated. , • , here seems fidertaking and will for oper- stem whieh took practi- r. Hobson, estern Div- ilway, was e River St. scertaining ting_a tun - given points ' fewer- hands and more work was • .. d gave our forefathers power to Canada and open lands for our me: . There are 192;000;000 Canada. •How much did we nursed, eluding the watchfulness (?) of a special constable. At that time Rice went by the name of William H. Mor- ton. One of his companions, George Wilson alias Hennesy, it is reported, was shot in Chicago while burglarizing a bank some years ago. —In a quarrel between two women in London the other day, one, a Mrs. Mc- Ginnis, belabored her opponent vigor- ously about the head with a dish -pan, inflicting severe if not fatal injuries. The virago was at once lodged in jail. - —Ex -Premier Joly will represent the Province of Quebec at the United States Forestry Congress, to be held this year at Atlanta, Georgia. He has preferred a request to Premier Mercier to permit him to invite the congress to meet in Quebec next year. —Mr. Duncan McFarland, one of the veterans of 1812, died on Saturday at Niagara, in his 89th year. He leaves one son, Mr. Duncan E. McFarland, C.`C.,, at Port Colborne, and one daugh- ter, Mrs. 'Rock, of London, widow of of the lute Mr. Warren Rock. —Manitoba millers say that, owing to the unfair discrimination by the Cana- dian Pacific, their Minneapolis rivals are able to undersell them in the Mont- real market. —A very fine specimen of the sand hill crane was shot the other day a short distance south of Sweaborg. It measures six feet from tip to tip of the wings and five feet from the toes to the end of the beak. Mr. Millard was 400 yards away when he shot it. —Mr. Ronald Stewart, one of the Oxford pioneers, died at the residence of his son, Ann street, Woodstock, on Thursday last week, aged 82 years. He leaves a family of seven, four of whom live in Woodstock, two in Mexico, and one in Fargo, Dakota. —A young unmarried man named Charles Cochrane was drowned Sunday afternoon while out on a sailing skiff on the bay at.Owen Sound. A young man named Thomas Smith, aged 22 years, was drowned in the River Thames, near Nilestown, last Saturday evening, while bathing with otbers. --A novel incident occurred at Til- bury Centre a few days ago when Thos. Ainslie, wife and child were weighed. The father tipped the scale at 119 • pounds, and the mother et 90 and their daughter, who had that day celebrated - her eighth birthday, •weighed 175 pounds. —A brakesman named George Smith had his hand badly crushed on the Michigan Central west of St. Thomas, Saturday. He narrowly in with. his life, his foot catching in a frog, but the train was going slowly, and • the en- gineer took in the situation and stopped the train just in the nick of time. —Joe Cook's son, of London who nar- rowly escaped with his life While riding in a race at Sheepshead Bay, is slowly- re- covering, although it will be months be- fore he can Again resume his avocation. The flesh was -torn off his left calf for nearly six inches. to the bone, and the leg otherwise` badly mutilated. - —The Queen street Methodist church in Kingston designated last Sunday as. 44 Flower Sunday,_ and had services of an appropriate' character for the child - „ren, Sunday School teachers, and parents. The edifice was handsomely ornamented with fiowers and limits. • The attend- ance -was large.. \ —Edwin Van • Stone, -Deputy Sheriff of Albion, N. Y., was in -St. Thomas, Saturday, in search of Ben L.yan Camp; who' decamped recently' from Albion Canada. • Over 7,000 boxes • of cheese were spld by auction at London cheese fair Saturday. ' —Nine prominent merchants of Paris ave been fined 1;1 and costs for keeping - pen after ten last Saturday week. , —A water famine threatens Toronto. The consumption per day is about 16, 0,000, while the engines pump less than 14,000,000. —General Middleton left Stratford aturday morning at 9.30 for Ottawa. e seemed wellpleased with- the pro- ress the men were making in drill. —The 'ordination and installing of Mr. lex. McLeod [ at Listowel took place n Tuesday, 26th inst. Mr.MoLeed has °opted a cal to the Congregational huroh., —The Inland' Revenue Department asseized about 2,000 .pounds of Can- dian tobacco lately, in the lower part f Ottawa couity, for non-payment Of xcise duty. ,• . —A woman ist Ow eloped with an- ther'elhusband taking her child with er. The father followed her to-Ganan- que took the bhild from her and told • er proceed. , —Rev. Mr. Builder, Presbyterian issionary to India, has returned to amnion after a five years' sojOurn in ndia to _•recrnit his health. He was, tationed it Mhow. _ —The strawberry crop around Oak- ville Is said to be immense. it will commence to move this week, when shipments fully aggregating '5,000 boxes will be made. . —Mr; J. G. Ross, druggist at -Bath, was stricken with apoplexy while put- ting up his shutters on Friday night - He lay On the sidewalk from 11.30 to 2 o'clock before being discovered. —John C. Jackson, of Chatham, bailiff, and well i known throughout the western peninsula, died Saturday from • sun -stroke. He was about fifty-six years old. • ; . _ —On the farm of Mr. Jesse McInnis, Sullivan township, Grey county, on Saturday afternoon, Dr. F. A. Thomas, veterinary surgeon, of Tara, discovered undoubted contagibus pleuro -pneumonia. —Early Saturday morning thieves forced an entrance into Dewar's tailor shop, at Essex Centre, and carried off between fifteen and twenty suits of clothing. • The thieves are belieyed to have headed for St. Thomas. —There were 1,000 boxes of . cheese offered at the Stratford market on for the nerve and coolness displayed un- der such trying circumstances, and Mr. Radcliffe for his gallantry. —Mr. James C. Thompson, M. A., classical and mathematical teacher, after an uninterrupted residence in London since the year 1853, has removed to To- ronto to spend the remainder of his days. Mr. Thompson is over 86 years of age, and has all his life been promi- nent as an instructor, having been principal of the St. Thomas and Streets- ville grammar schools, and for many years a coadjutor of the late Rev. B. Bayley in London grammar school. —Fred Wood, local editor of the Parkdale Times dived off the wharf at the foot of Dufferin street, Toronto, on Thursday night, and his head struck against rocks at the bottom. His head was badly cut and his whole body par- tially paralyzed with the shock. He became unconscious about 10 o'clockFri- day, and died about three Saturday morning. He was a bright and prom- ising young man, 21 years of age. —A case of child murder is reported from Lakefield, near Peterboro, on Sunday night. A young woman named Windsor, employed as a domestic ser- vant by a respectable family, gave birth to an illegitimate child. As soon as she could leave her bed she wrapped the infant up in some clothes and tossed it from the window. Then passing down through the house she made off with her •luckless burden unobserved. She hid the bundle under the cheese factory and returned to her room safely. The cheese -makers, on going to work Mon- day morning, heard the infant still cry- ing, but soon after being found it died. The crime was traced home to the girl, who was committed for trial. —A young man named Baxter, who received fatal injuries at a raising near Meaford, on Thursday, 15th inst., suc- cumbed to his injuries' on the following day. On Saturday his father, an aged man, was driving to Meaford to make some arrangement' about the funeral, when the team ran away and he jump- ed out of the wagon, falling on his head and shoulders. His injuries resulted in death early Sunday morning. The father and son were both interred " Mon- day. It is said this makes five mem- bers of the family who have been buried within a year. ,se• Campbell, of jiamilton, took a -dose of some Ipoisonous compound •and died trona, the effects..,: It is not kruiwzr- :whether the at was accidental or not, as he refused•tasay Anything about it to the attending physician.' ,7 " warrants have been issued reland, of Cape Vincent, by Jug ice B against person with nets in Three men ha .• . •exammation 1 —Big Ed. Rice, the, noted 'crook of e Detroit, whe was .sentenced on Monday last week at elleville to four years in Bi the penitentia y for the theft of $1,005 from the dian Express Co., figured about six years ago at Stratford rail- way station in, a shooting affair, *herein one of. five Crooks Was shot in the groin, Three, were arrested,' but shb- sequently diseharged after trial,. no one appearing against them. The "Shootist" evaded arrest; and the victim' escaped from the hotel in which he was being who. have been fishing the St Lawrence river. e• been arrested and the ill be held July '2. with $20,000. Van Camp is 56 ears of age, six feet high, weighs 225 pounds, and is s fine-looking individual, and is thought to be in that neighborhood. —There were twelve or fifteen cases of sunstroke Thursday morning lad week in the camp at Stratford. Five privates of the 22nd battalion were laid out by the heat. Privates J. Benjamin and Elliott, of . No. 7 Company, 22nd battalion, were carried in on stretch- ers. They recovered in a short„time. —John Mulliken,of Parkhill, was before Police Magistrate Noble, on Sat- urday, charged with the embezzlement of $70 from Noxon Brothers, of Inger- soll, Whose agent he was in May, 1887. It is alleged he received the amount from a customer, and never accounted for it. The case was remanded for a week. —Mr. VanIngen, collector of customs at Woodstock, recently effected a seiz- ure of 46 reversible Jumbo swivel hay - carriers, worth' about $5,000, on the ground of undervaluation and being fradulently invoiced. It is stated that the firm implicated have been importing these carriers into Canada for three years at an undervaluatien, —For adding water to the milk sup - •plied by him to a cheese factory, a Hastings farmer had to pay, under the Ontario Act, a fine of $20 and costs. Even when milk is supplied to inoffen- sive residents of cities and towns it is a ' misdemeanor to water it. \Under the Dominion Adulteration Act the fine for this offence is $60 or $100, in the discre- tion. of the magistrate. . • - -sAbbut 11 o'clock On Tuesday, 19th hist:, a clever Sneak thief abstracted a package containing $500 in five dollar bills from paying teller Scott's box at • theDominion Bank, Toronto. The teller ,was obliged to leave the Vox for amoment, and when he returned at once noticed that the package had disappeared. -No suspicious characters were noticed in the bank, and detectives are, so far, at sea. • - • —Miss Jennie Hobden and Miss Nellie Parks, both of Granton took Dr,Lang's black horse, "Mack "out a few evenings Ago for 11 drive, and when returning "old Mack" became unmanageable, ,and put on one of his most furious bursts of speed much to the dismay of the young ladies and the horrorof the onlookers. Fortunately; Mr. It Rad- cliffe, Jr., saw their perilous position, and in a heroic and gallant . man- ner caught the furious brute and drove the young' ladies in safety to the —An interesting breach of promise suit was heard at the civil assizes, Tor- onto, last week. Elisabeth Coxwell, 43 years of age, sued Walter Freeman, real estate agent, for $5,000 damages. It came out in evidence that plaintiff, though unmarried, has a son 17 years of age a teacher in the UnitectStates. She claimed that the defendant, who is. a widower, proposed marriage to her and, then got to live with him for 'tome weeks, when they quarreled' and separ- ated. The jury handed in a sealed ver- dict. The Ainherstburg Echo last week says: There hacbeen a little falling off in the receipts of eggs. The first week ID June 26,000 dozen were received . McNaughton, Walker & Co. of Detroit and Chatham. The week l3;fore S1,000 dozen. The eggs came from Kent and parts of Essex,Elgin and Lambton. Each - team collects about 6,00 or 7,000 dozen a week, and sometimes as many as 9,000. They are delivered to the most eon- venient railway station for Chatham. About 200,000 dozen have been collected by this firm this year, invisiving an ex- - penditure for payment to farmers of $20,000. —Mr. Wilson, who twenty years ago left Meaford for Kansas, returned. the = other day to his old home, thoroughly satisfied that there is no country like Canada after all. He made the entire trip overland with his family and per - aortal effects in wagons, driving all the way. The journey occupied seven weeks. The party are looking well and the horses not the least jaded. The ex- perience is very interesting. Mr. Wil- son has no use for Kansas, and says Canada is in every way to be preferred. Crops and weather in the former place are very uncertain, and neither the climate nor the land can be compared • with our own, ece —Mr. Allen McDougall, a prominent Lobo farmer, died on Friday, 15th inst., under peculiar circumstances. One day lately he was assisting in 'butchering some cattle, and, in perforating an old strap, he wounded his hand,and to Wash off the blood stuck his hand into a pail. where some old blood and water existed. The decomposing germs of the blood (plomaines) got into the wound, and he felt a sharp pain go all up his arm. The germ from the decayed blood immedi- ately worked on the tissues .of one finger, and got up the arm; in fact the whole system was rapidly filred with destructive germs. Pasteur. Klein and Koch have shown that bovine blood in certain stages of decomposition is a vio- lent poison and always results fatally in men and animals. Amputation was re- sorted to in _the case df Mr. McDougall, but the case was taken up too late. He had one of thelargest funerals on Sun- day ever seen in Komoka, the cortege - fully extending a mile, —The village of 'Haziedean, a few miles distant from Ottawa, has got p, sensation. .Rev.: Mr. Dowling, of the. Baptist elyerch, has been preaching there for some time past to theannoy- ance of other denominations, especially the English church. Mr, Hutton, Jr., went,. to one of the meetings and after . returning home explained to his father that a number had been saved at the meeting and clesclibed the ceremony. Mr. John Hutton, Sr., who is .one of the best known men ins. that part of - Carleton county, was induced to attend one of the meetings, and when he saw several around him becoming exited and falling down, he attempted to leave the hall, but Rev, Mr. Dowling prevent- ed him, and a scuffle ensued, after which eggs Were thrown and a great sensation was erected in th4uilding. 'Rev. Mr. Dowling has been aaraigned on a charge of assault, and a number of prominent village. The(oung ladu3edeserve credit people are called as witnesses. . • ..t -