The Huron Expositor, 1888-08-10, Page 1ATIGUSz
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tVENVY-FIRSW": YEAR. :
.WIEOL-331 NIMSIBRIA' 1,078.
the 1eig
tiI tite- rilci°11peire4
y• ou 'Zatrilleit 4 1) sad
ague. the -
ie. trees were knocked.
rif the gillies had held
ere would have be
yfIe1d
and Harvisit Mitt1077s
-
en party and A
on Thursday
ReatOry5, ander
y church. Every
. Pierson, of Point
been visiths. 3list
irned4ast Wednesday.
es Sarah and:Mirth
to reside in Dotreit,
anted by Miss Christie
leen visiting here.
7100k.
Drops frr thieparthity,
ly from the drougJ
irtioular vril/ be poor .
keep:off. In tome
thatwas soVrit
prouted.--:-Mr.- Mack
b‘weri apPointedlli
MUD* Company, -
!tier, been very sue -
DSS than four weeks,
, and -,five- seeder
Ark, considering thst
• orttime of the -
1")eing too busy to
:11 to agents Of any
y to continue in
Vt. Name hbn, u-
npensee paid b sure-.
Lcement these doll
ve pupils who motet
dilation- from here,
and the other gare
This reditable
it one-half of 'all
Robert Batt
5untry last week.
it of his heath.-
yhe read in the
- on the just
so wonders vhat
7e in thie neighbor-
i'.rain at
lately put 8t011e
etabiing ?ander-.
Allen sold last
t: bit for shipment'
paid was. $170.- -
anehester, preach -
be Hill °humblest.
bankrupt -stock
!.‘t bring purchasers -
of: Nevr, Dry ,Goes,
Groceries =Tiring
,eeiling at 33anknIpt-
able, E cents peryarci
eents per yard;
; Tweed worth 60e.
for SOo.; 20 -rent,
171bs. sugar for
forButter, eggs and
Bargain& -
• secure
t *Mee Store. Iffir
iTA was in Trin-
hands' with his
clay laft„-Mrs.
d away on Suiv:'
-;..age of st years.
red to their last
's Cemetety,..on
)er Of sorrowing
.wiis among
Rev. R. -"God- -
lover& funeral
Brapcl-
the sympathy
r. -A dreadful
prove 1 fats&
- When return --
away, canon' g
kale rig, cork
be Ariet. over •
oing down the
;. the iltationi
y, containing
M. J. Clark,
side. As the
La hurt. Mr. .
gr.', and their -
- badly injured
- .But alight
r the 'moor-
'1)rs. Tanihlyn
tiately sent for
ow (Tuesdo0
- exception of
afl conveyed
')t- Miss Clark .
ark. 'As ''her
t, shewas Car*
rpl. Welsh on
o'Ved to bet
r. The - rigs'
Pro6tor:s.,
:the rig cult
Fie Method14
were caught -
'scrateb.
re instal:WY
tehell, tomb
-
Hay last OD
e insensible
-7:At THE -
Cheap ashStore
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HOFFIVIN. & 00!
- Having some rePairing to do to our
store very shortly, and not wanting to
other moving the goods, we have de-
idedta run off the whole stock, and
-orderto do so we will offer great in
dueements.
-
Salenowgoing n, CalI and • see the
prices.' Sales for ASH ONLY.
Oheap ash Stoi-e'
HOFFMAN & CO.,
CARDNO'S BLOCK,
SEA F 0 RTH.
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---The eese of Ir?tuidan McBride,' of
. Metcalfe, reeentlytried for an offence.
against- the Scott V, has had - a singu-
lar termination. 1, When McBride Was
tried sometime age- in -Strathroy before
. Police Magistrate Noble one of the wit-,
. - nessesmae e.nian flamed Barnes. When-•
Barnes was called, however, he swore
- 0 that he did notte any liquor from ¥c -
Bride. The case 'was enlarged, and
;Barnes and MoB ..'de drove home to-
• gether. They had a keg: of beer in the
Wagon, and on the way the vehicle up-
set. Barnes was ;brown out and the
keg fell on him with fatal. results. Mc- -
Bride was so affected by Barnes' death
, • that he came in and pleaded guilty. He
was given time to pay his fine, but
'neglected to do 8o4 and was lodged in
gaol to serve AstWO months' term for his
offence. In the eases of Edward Simp-
son, of Stratbroy, and Frank MeNelty,
-of Melbourne, each was fined , $5o. for
Scott Act.violatio . „
-The Ontario Irison Inspectors have
issued a circular to sheriffs, wardens and
gaotsurgeons, informing them that the
,new building at Hamilton baying been
1
completed,there is now sufficient asylum
accommodation to meet all present de -
'Mande. This will do away with the niy•
eessity -which has existed for some time
of keeping insane persons in gads where
there is no -suitable -ACOOMMOdation for
- them, on account of the lack of room in
" Previncial asylu . ' The '• •inipecters
also impress the n density, with insane.
persons who are temporarily committed
to gaol before being sent to the asylum,. -
of keeping themfr�e from contact or aii-.
lociaticas with pri ners • eommitted up-'
. -
on criminal chargee and where the usual
staff is not sufficient to furnish the nec-
essary attendance for persons 'committed
as lunatics, the authorities are empower-
ed to employ additional temporary aid at
°nee, riporting th+ circumstances im-
mediately to the l department.„-. The
Government can hardly. au Mors, under
the cireamstinces4 - - -
--On& recent, morning, as the long
procession of southern trains that. mak*
up at St. Lambert'il, was passing around
the curve on the railway • track at St.
Henri, near Montreal, shortly before ,
nine o'clock, a Witness reporter noticed
a group of . person*: evidently excited.
over something in their midst. -Evident-
ly it was something in:tumid. Host of
the group were wonien, and an3cious,tooi
-,- Leaping from the flow slowly moving
train, he was soon among the grouNand:
there, lying prostrate upon the withered
gap!, was a little boy, his head bloody
- and his blue -white ilips closely pressed
together, while the pallor of face show-
ed, by Contrast the ed clots in the curls
- the- more vividly. ' The story wassimple.
"Struck by . No. 6 Central Vermont'
train," said ikbys der. * A great many
inquiries were-me for a doctoribut the-
grstsofficial to put in an appearance was
a fire policeman, d he too the little
body -which gave no -sign of life -to the
maiden,* of Noel Paradis where the
mother; a youngFrench-Canadien- wo-
man, moaned out 9mY, poor obild-my
poor husband." She roc -ked an infant
at her breast the while." 'The body was
placed on a smell table, and D. Hurtii-
bise, who had arrived at the \lame mo-
: meat as the child, examined it closely,
with a serious ale., "Dead, doctor ?"
"I am afraid so." . Butjust then he lift-
ed the bOy's shirt and the little lungs -
were heavily. heaving, as though the
Young life were struggIing against the:
cruel_ bruise on tle right side of . the,
heap. Then the hild's blue eyes open-
. ed wide, and a cry escaped the pallid
lips. "Ah," was till the doctor said,
and he in a trice Washed away the clots
and said there. Wita concussion of the
brain; but howmuch injury to It .he
could net say.. The child was put to
bed in anupper rO011i and the orbit&
-' hoped for the best; The little . fellow's
. name is Samueland he had been pisyl
• Oil the side of a pond when the train. h
- , along..' track, as boys d
struck and knock
is pretty and in
pars and a few
:
rying to cross the
sometimes, he was
1. down. • The child
lligent looking, five
the old, -
0 'WISH. BATTL)EID4.
ommwmin••••••••1
(Written for The Exrosiros-1
-.' - BANNOCKBURN. •
Th soil of Scotland is a bloody se
Scarcely a square mile of it can be fou
from the Tweed to John O'Groat's whi
has not at one time, near or remot
been the scene of some desperate -stru
glabetweemnativ,e defender and ford
invader, or more probably, between -o
posing factions -of tho ancient kingdo
itself. Some of these conflicts stirt
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Springs of patriotism in the Scotsman?s
breast; some bring the blush of sha e
to hicheek, as he recalls the ignoble
and Unworthy causes for whioh his fore-
fathers shed their blood; ,some fill h
soul with indignation when he thinks qf
the brave and noble men, of whom - the
world was not worthy, cut down ,by
brutal soldiery _for daring to worship
their maker according to the dictates �f
their irivn consciences. .But there is
NO DOUBTFULNESS -• •
about' the feelings of ' unmixed pri
whiclirise in the Scottish heart at t
mut' n of Bannockburn. There is
rnistate about Bannockburn. So
Frenehmen have been known to clai
Waterloo as &victory for Napoleon; b
no Sasenach has ever been rash enong
todispiite the honors of the "burn th, t
is called of brede." It was a good al
round unmistakable thrash? ing of t e
-
Englieh by the Scotch, and the Ado
was all the more glorious because w
in the sacred cause of- freedom.
, High up on the summit of a hill whi
rises out of the level plain ,beneath, a
comes to -a sudden and abrupt termin -
tion stands the old historic town a • d-
irge' of Stirling. In the troublo a
times of yore, the possession of Stirl'• g
casitle gave its holders the keys of t e
'passage between the highlands and lo -
lands of Scotland, and many were t e
bloody conflicts waged 'about its wall.
Scarcely less than a dozen well-renie
.
bered battle fields lie within full view f
. THE CASTLE RAMPARTS, '
but th best known and bloodiest'of a I,
is the IfieId of Bannockburn. Leavi
the a proper, the visitor wends h s .
way trough the village of St. Ninimi s
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(or St. Bingen's, as the natives call i
which is merely a suburb or continu
tion . 41 Stirling. "Winds his via
would perhaps be a," fitter term to use, • o
narrow and tortuous are the streets • r
lanes�f this ancient burgh. The old-
fashloned stone cottages. which line the
- street and stare blankly at -their f 1-
loWs. a few feet overtheway ae ancie t
enough in their' appearance . to sustain
the th ory that they date tack as far - as
the fa one battle itself. The sidewalks,
it may ell besupposed,are the narrow st
in the world.. In SOMO eases they (In not
project from the sides of the houses into
the street more than a foot, -and n
average width. all over of eights n
inehes.is hardly exceeded.' They are of
-stone, of course, as a wooden sidewa k
is a thing unknown in a Scottish to .
They are probably made fio narrow, n
orderhat people may nut Walk on thekn
ai
and a wear them. out. A walk of a
mileand a half -leads to a slight mill
!wee en d. in front is the field of Ba -
nockburri. Close by ' the wayside is a
curious object, resembling an iron cage,
which' on examination proves to be tiLe
famous ".bare- stone," consisting of a
block Of .granite with a bole in t e
centre perhaps three inches in diamet
and the same in depth, in Which, trad
tion says, Robert the Bruce •set up his.
standard as a rallying -point for his fol-
lowers 'before the battle. - It has . be
covered with a stout lattice -work of ire,
• to prevent it being broken up and carrie
away *lily by . relic -hunters. A fe
feet away stands- a lofty iron flag-sta
with an inscription to the effect that t
was erected by the Oddfellosis of Du
barton.and Stirling on the anniversari
of the battle in 1870. As far as can f e
seen, , these two objeCts are the onl
memorials of the eventful struggle. -
The battlefield itself Is now compris
in a faimoind bears :upon its surf
erops' of turnips,.hey and grain, In o
of the fields which has go doubt
watered with the blood of Engl
archers and Scottish horsemen, the on
havoc the visitor now sees is that be
wrought by *mowing machine in an
altora4iNn7110.tn Mr sat, -„
and its knivesis they hnni among ti.
waving grasa.ire the only reminders f
the day when swords, and bilk a d
battle-axes raspeda gorier and mo e
dreadful crOp,- -Hedges r_un. hither a d
thither where Mey have itOod t e
senied'ranks of the English yeomen,
champed their -bite the steed* of t
Sootthh Cavalrymen whose fiery d h
into 4e midst,of the Sonthron archers
begi decided an ,effect upon the fO -
tunes f the day. In dote proximity
the'pl in in which the cunning -Bru e
dug, the previous night, the pits whi h
he filled with iron stakes and coverjd
with urf thus setting & moat effectu I
trap' for the horsemen of the foe. Some
considerable -distance in front lies t1ie
little btream or " burn." which gave tlie
field ls -name, and whop waters w e
mina nod on the fateful day with the
blood Of the slain. To theright lies the
44 gill es' hill " whence the -host of camp
folio ers descended at a critical moment
of the fray-, spreading fresh terror in -to
the English, who imagined them to Je
reinforcements for . the Scottish ariir
and fled in dismay at the right. A f w
steRs away some men from the neigh-
boring villageof' Bannockburn are n-
-gaged' in mimic warfare on an •
Closed plot of green and shaven tuff,
the - weapons . of their peaae 1
strif. being the wooden pins and b li
neoessary for the -game of bowls,Th y ,
.pursuetheir play with the gravitY d
decorttni'\of Seotchmen, possibly with
a' latent Consciousness of the contr4st
theirtion\igord to the grim doings
the e spo beheld on that summers'
day in 1314. All traces of the confl et
ineh thirty- English a d
some wi
thousands \of their opponents
perish have disappeared. Even auich
relies [.4 horse shoer, battle-axes! 9
have !ng ago ceased to be picked' ,
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SEAFOR:TH) FRIDAY, AUGUST 10 1888.
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in the. long. interval which has,
ed, nature has 'taken the once
field back again to her peaceful
boscm, andtrans otmed it into the
likenessofthe quiet country all around
:FLOD,DEN.
Ttireehiindidyeargo th a -Borders
bet
a st
mea
a st
oth
the
truth to tell, James IV., 'of Scotland,
had - small cause for taking up arms
against his brother-in-law, Henry
whcroccupied the throne of England.
It is said that one of the reasons which
influenced James in his action was the
request of the Queen of France (which
cou try was then at war with England)
to
St
A
A
Jan
Wit
hap
in
een.Scatland and- England were in
te of constant feud, and were the -
s of keeping' the two kingdoms• in
te Of ,chronic irritation with each.
r. Itrequired very little. to -kindle.
a,ines of war- between theni, and
ke three strokes with Scottish brand,
d march three miles on Southron land,
d bid the banners of his land . -
In !English breezes dance.
es was foolish enough to comply -
the request,all the more readily per!
because Henry himself Was absent
ranee, and the Scottish king, doubt-
less , -elnisidered on general principles.
thatthe opportunity was tOo.. good to
be lost. - He gathered a large army,- set
out froni Edinburgh, crossed the Tweed,
and te°1c up a strong pcisition on Plod -
den hill on. the English side of the hoe
: -
der Here. he met by an English.
y, under the Earl, of Surrey. Jimes.
too well entrenched 011 the hill to be
eked. with advantage, and the Eng --
Commander therefore - determined..
tflankhim, and place his own army
een that of James and the Scottish,
er in °Motto hut off all comtrinnic&-
witk Jainee' forces: To do this
Surrey had to deploy his army into line
cross the Till, a dirk and sullen
stream which joins the Tweed near by,
and. while the English troops were thee
drawn out the Scottish - leaders urged
Ja es to lead his army to the fight, and
thu '' take advantage of the opportunity
afforded him, - James* high-flown ideas.
of chivalrous warfare . prevented him
from giving the. sigeaffor. the conflict,:
the English movement was completed,
' and the golden niomentlost, - Towards'
the:close -of 'the afternoon, t Jamea, de-,
termined to descend from his strong po,-
attire on the hill) and give battle on the
plain beloW.- Setting‘ine to the rubbish
of their camp; the Scottish soldiers
rushed don thehilt, under 'cover of
thel, . '
smoke and : attacked the
ene.
iny : With fury. Atfirit they gained
thelexivantage, but the English *archers,:
Scotch liver -at his- girdle," istOod firth,
every one of whom " carried_ twelve'
and the twO Wings- of the Scottish army
were *beaten back with great ilaughtet.
There remained only the centre, com-
manded by the king himself. The whole
available forces of the Englishwere turn-
edeigainetthis, and when the shades of
evening fell, the devoted band who
stood around their monarch were few in
nuniber. .- At length the king was slain,
ardiall was over. - The • Scottish --rout
was complete.:. Their' lose was about ten
thousand, while that of the English was.
not leas than five - thousand. - Unhappy
Scotland- felt the effect of • Fiodden!s:
'.:bloody field:for mani, a long day. • It al-
most depopulated the bordertowns of
Selkirk,. Hawick, Jedburgh, and other -
places, and- he songs and traditions of
' the harder country stilt preserve the re=
collections Of the less-- • - •- '
.Ttodden was fOught on the 9th of Bei.
Wilber, 1513,- almost :exactly two hun-
dred yearsafterBannockburn. .A visitor
to the scene Sees little to s remind him of.
the desperate- conflict. The Till still
rune, but the hill-side'dawn which the
Scottish arniy rushed to its" destruction,
is now covered with trees. On the level
, plain below the cattle graze in comfort
and I solitude, little: deeming that the
:bones of thousands of brave men lie be:
nes*their feet. In the face of the hill
e quarry has been opened to supply the
materialforthe erection . of the farin
buildings bithe neighborhood. -1 stone,
still Celled "the king's itone,"markithe
spotiwhere king `James is said to have
fallen,
but -'no formal monument or
memorial commemorates the evil day:
for Scotland. ' Sir Walter Scott maker
use got the 'battle' of Flodden to bring to
a culmination- the fortunes of Marmion---
in **poem- of that name. -- It - will be
remembered that his hero's life. _ebbed
away close betide a' well:which yields a.
draught to slake his Alyfrig thirst. This
well, or rather *ping, near the summit
of the hill, is still in existence, and the
steno basin and framework ' which nom.pose;it are in good condition. ' In "Mar;
mion " Scott gives an inscription carved.
on the 'Wile slab **follows :.. . •
...
ilp.rink,weary pilgrim, drink end pray,.
For the kind soul of Sybil Gran •
!hobuilt this cross and well.". .
The' poet has altered the inscription a
littleVdoubtless to meet the -exigencies
of tbe poem.- The actual legend reads:
' ' "I Drink, weary pilgriEN:drinkand stay, • • - -
'Tfest by the 'Well of Sybil Gray;" . , ---
whiOli is not less hOspitable,but scarcely ,
•so pious as the version giVen. by .Sir
Walter. --- The spring is - encicitect and
' half hidden from view by the'clinging
ivy leaves whioh.:are so comipioucfes A
part of thescenery of both Scotland and
England.: A broken ' shaft Of • stone
lying beside the fountain perhaps form-
ed part of theorems spoken of by Scott,
ife!..:t. r suchexisted.
DE4' : ' '.
--
Culloden," or rummoslie- Moor, is an
upland plain about six miles from Inver-
ness, with the Cromarty Firth onthe
north, •d,hills. of no great elevation
qi
stretch g away to the. south and east.
It wail here re that the. fortunes of bonnie .
.Pkiride Charlie, so celebrated in-Socittish
song, received their death blow. That
'unf rtunate prince landed on the shots*
of , -. tland to seat himself on" :the
throne, wrongfully, as he claimed; oc-
°l.
m_ ediatdy almost the whole of the
ed by the dynasty of Hanover;end
i
hig lands.. of ..Scotland hastened to his.
aid. A large army Was at once gathered
ar
Ive
att•
lis
to
bet
bor
tion
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taking Edinburgh almost without
Struggle, making himself master "Of the
'entire south countrY,Orossing the border,
investing Carlisle, - and _mardhing with
little or no opposition as far: south as
Derby, within -.07 'hundred and twenty
miles of London itself: - Here )4 found
twoEnglish armies -blocking his way,'
• and his retreat , began; He -fought 8.111:1,i
won the battle Of Falkirk after regain-
ing
the Scottish side, but the advantage
wet momentary, and the retreat eon;
tinned until the fatal field- Of. Culloden
was, sreaohed-.--- Comparatively few in
numbers and wearied, out with Went of
sleep and fruitless attempt at a Stir-
• prise the night before, the :highland
-army WAS 4:IMMO up t� await the attack.
Jealousies and- biolterings had • broken
out animigt the clans) of which the
, Prince's ariny was :almost wholly: cont -
posed.
_posed. Acdordingsto the plan of battle,
to thermen of Athole was accorded the
right of the ,Seottisli army -the .1:utast of
honor; and this gave deep offence to the
Pilecdonalds, Ot--. Glengarry, , KeppoCh.-
and' Clanranald, who claimed that :they
had been entitledlo this distinction ever
since it was accorded their elite ,at. the
field of Bannockburn. The MacdOnalds
:were induced to withdraw their iclaim,
but they Went into the fight sullen and
insulted. ',The Thigifeh army war vom-.
mended by the Duke of Cumberland, a
man of parts.aud military capaeity; but -
of ferocious and bloody naturei:Whose-
Meniory: is Still held :in ..exe.dratieri
throughout the highlands. On the ad -
Vance at the „English, the highlanders,
as •_was their wont, • discharged their
muskets only .Once, . then drew their
broadswords and •:rushed . to a hand-to-
hand conflict with the enemy; • NotWith.
standing that they were met with a fu -
T10148 discharge of artillery , and ,:nisuffk-
etry;* their impetuosity: carried them
through the first line of the English and
almost to the second. Here they we-
vere&i. The Are was too great. Driven
back in disorder they attempted to Make a
a stand; but again the galling. fire of the h
English - mowed thein down: On the w
left,'Where the Macdonalds • were eta- ea
tioned, little or nothing-- +AB being
done.- The clansmen stood gloomy and
inactive, and though unwilling to take
.any- part in the fight, ip is related they
were so consumed with anger 'and ohm-.
grin that they fell to hewing the • visa
.neound them with -their Claymores,
Inivain their leadere "called upon them.'
to advance. The coveted *post had been -
refused them, , they slowly gave,: way,'
and Ultimately left the field after - stiik-
ing* scarcely a MOW; The English'"cav.-
airy completed the . defeat, chasing the
fugitives into the very town- of Inver-
ness, and-. mercilessly. putting. .1 them
down on the way. It is said that the
Duke of Cumberland issued instructions
that noquarter was to be given,apel wrote
his commands to this effect on,
_ THE )INE OF DIAXONPSt-
Ode; of a pack of playing garde he had
in his pocket. To this day the nine of
diamonds is called the "curse of Scot-
-lanai": Prince Charlie Made- his 'ea -dive
with Berne difficulty, but the final stroke
.had been` given to the. cattse. of the
Stuarts, and after Culloden they die -
appeared from Englishhistory. - -
At the time the • battle was- fought
the Moor- was inireclaimed and. linen!,
dosed.' Now, hosiever„a large .portion
is under ctiltivation, though the high
road te Inverness, leads "directly through
the field. Some six or seven years ago,
a neighboring proprietor ereeted.a large
cairn of atones . --commemoration of -
the battle, beating aninsmiption,to the.
effect that it marked the spot where so
many. gallant highlander* fell :fighting.
for their prince andcountry..Nemeroui
smaller 'donee show Where- the various
clans were engaged,- and :where the
clansmen fell. On ;these - stones are
enumerated the follOsiing clan.: MAO-
gillivray, Maclean Madechilin Athol
Highlanders, Pleb' Stewart; of Appin.-
Onettone bear th; legend: Well of
the. dead.. Here. the chief of the Clan_
Macgillivray Another has "Mixed.
Clans." A little distance from therm a:
atone tells the passer-by- that here was
"The field of the English. They were
buried here.". Still further off 'a large .
natural boulderlas in deeplycut letters
the inserittion "The pos tion of the I
fo refuge.' --Several of the most Yalu!
a le timber limits 011 the QttaWa river
h ye already been destroyed, and unless.
.ra A conieesoon many . of the wealthiest
' lu 'bet kings will be ruined. -- The fires
-ar the inostsevere that haie ever visit -
e • this section: •,
' - .The price of the one hundred cattle
` eh pped from Prince :'Edward County to
th Cape - Vincent, •repentiy,' was $11
:ea h, a pretty low figure. - • - - 1--.
The deposits . in the POstoffice- Say7
s Bank ' for June. were $595,514;
()until withdrawn; $615,048 f shOW-
it'deeline of nearly, $20,000. for the
nth: ' - '-' - . - --- , . -
A ; west -bound Canadian Pacific
ilway freight, on the •Algama branch,
over 'a hand-carthe other day, kill -
Peter Morrison,. .and- terribly- injur- -
• Henry Berger, section -men. .
John Anson, . carpenter, Toronto,
ile endeavoring to pull his dogout
Don river the other 44.; slipped in
self and ;war : drowned. The
y. WAS recovered 'shortly afterwards.
Several' thousand - cords :of spruce :
°thereat woods are, being shipped
m Port Filidiay, Algoma, - to Detroit,.
eprthey are used - in 'the. manufacture
paper.- . '- . . ' : - '
At &meeting of the Canadian Oat -
,al Millers' Association;held in Toron-
lest Friday, it was decided to wind'
the ' affisirs - of the- ;association - on
gust 31st. . - ' • '
lobe,- recently, an
agent delivered
01 binders .10
es, and 2i,.000
value was about
: bt h oi: dbdg:gao:rifusgi n ggi 11' squeezingohlbipY:hgoaestrutaodti window. :li a: sd from
b. 0:0.1 izt 4:). .•",,i potatoes,therself45'.N:. ne-fg throughyirankrd,..
innate of - auperti, QuMebearice, BLiauine'ataine
is
. A yluin, has died. fro injuries received
nii
in falling from the third: sterey Of the
: -*Canadian 'nanied Shipman, for
10,- valiied it $55, were 'eoliths:fetid, =
-Mrs.'Carr, the. old ledir who WAR
rip .over by A train at Wyoming on July
18th,- is recorded at,the time, died on
ednesday as a testa okher. injuries.
•e was traveling ' from New York to
cheater, Minnesota. i .. - . -
A young Man named McLeen; o11.
way from Perth * Ottawa in search
work, had his left lig out Off above
knee while -stepping off: the train. at
ith's Fella. He died in the Ottawa
spitai on Thtirsday of last week. - . ,
Mr. Zimmerman, whilst stripping a
arrie at Jordan, near Hamilton., the
er day, found : a bag , . containing
enty4even Mexican- . dollars of the
ars 1798 and 1810. - A number : were
, .
ng round loose. , . - . - f •
,Wesley Stockwell,. of Reekton,wes*
tolcomb some skips of bees. . The .bees
stung him badly, and in a short time the
. E aim-, Verona, perished by fire lait
son went through. his ,system. '- -He
nk over a quart of milk _mixed . with
int of brandy, and it tot& four hours
bring him around &Wright. n' ;
--' Two of the . children Of Themes
Filidity in the -absence Of their mother.
They Were playing with Matches and:
set their clothing ;on - fire. In fifteen
dis-
figured.
they . Were ,sh.oc, k. in. Fly. - ,c1. is-
, Thirty-five hundredeases ofSalmon;
va ued at $24,000, destined for points in
Eastern Canada; seven bales and six
cake of furs veined- at • about $13,000,
-for: New York -and London;were:shipped
. frdm Victoria, British Columbia, a few
days ago., -. • • . .. -. - ':
A broken axle -in:a -freight train .
ing down the Northern Beltway last
'day • morning canoed a Pitcli-in be-
een Richmond- Hill and Thornhill,
eral cars being badly iinashed Upand
track torn up a bit ' Fortunately
body wee injured. . _ . ,..• ._ .-
A, man named Thomas Bailey was
'instantly killed the Other day in Lam-
- bort Love's saw mill, at Pori Sandfield.
Bailey was tail sawing and Was caught
on the carriage ...and dragged on to the
seri. He was . out . to . pieces.' - Bailey
had lived in Port Carling for a number
i..
of goats and leaves a wife and family. -
.. A petitkin hat been -.forwarded 'to
Ottawa authorities by the: British
limibis Board of Trade praying that
Watts* measures be .adopted to pre -
t : the - extinction of - the -lobster,
idh it likely - to occurr through.
on the part of the canning Om-
ies. - .. • .
It is reported' in Montreal that Sir
ge Stephen is about to -resign the
neZian Pacific Railway 'presidisney.
;Iran Horne Is mentioned as his mic-
e*. One Story has it that ether pro-
minent Men are about to leave the corn-
- y, and an altogether new deal is not
probable. 'Sir - George Stephen's
,000 residence is said to he for sale,
GeneralManager Van Horne, Of the
Indian PIMA& ' Itsilwo3i, intimates
t the companyowill require a $60,000
us from Chatham for passing through
with their proposed southwestern ex-
sion.. ' The letter 'further stated that
case of refusal to grant the biniiiii, the
pany would cross at Sarnia, and not
ch Chatham at all. ,
Opt'. Jas. Dick,. steambeat inspee-
Toronto,,has gonetoOttawa. An
1 eitigatien is now 'being • held into his
a• duet in condemning's:Me of the Canal
• a u Pacific corupany's ferry steamboats
a Brockville. Capt. Dick justifies his
ion, and will adhere to his Bret re-
t, although evidently an attempt is
ng,made to make him a..-victinfin the
tter. ", - . . . ' •
Last Thursday night, about pine,
O youn&en, W. ()reborn, a journa-
fir the Planet office,.., -Chatham) and
;,Curran, a- carpenter, together with
oral other young men,.all members Of
24th Battalion, were fencing with
ls in the drilling room,- in Chatham,
en the point -Of Grisham's foil pone,
ted Oman's:brain, entering neer the
hleye. He -died about Midnight.
e deceased came from Florence, New
,rk, and WAS aged about 26 years 'It
a
fr
,w
of
,to
uI
A
In Neepawa, Maii
ag icultural impleme
in one day, to farmer
mowers, 11. horse- ra
poi fide of twine:: The
$17,0®. • -
• A youngnem
qu
ot
ye
ly
Po
dr
a
to
of Cumberland during the battle th
of Culloden.": When Culloden field
was visited the -purple of the belVbeath0
:er was just beginning to. peep thrones
the petal., and Soon • the whole of the
moor and the adjacent . lifilsides. would
be covered with,a glorious carpet, made
bearitiful by the red. blood of the mis-
• •
guided heroes who gave up their lives
for the use -of their Prince.! .
-
•
(To be.Clositinued.)-; • '
-• - Canada.
---==The ore taken from the Richardson
gold mine in Hastings county yields $27
per ton.
-*merchant in Guelph states that.
he recently paid $9 duty 011 goods which
cost him but $4.- .
-Hundreds of barrels of wild straw- it
berries have, this season, been shipped te
from the Upper St. John to Boston, , ' in
-A man -representing himself *as co
Father Hayes, . of Baltimore,. has
swindled- a Quebec broker out of £450
sterling. • ,
-A new factory is being built on the
Canadian side Of the river by the Do-
minion Suspender Company of Niagara
,Fallio.
-Bush fires are'devastating the comp
try around OttaWa. in every- direction,
and the loss will be terrible. Stewarton's
bush, adjoining the city, is now on fire,
and hundreds of citizens have gone out
• . • • • a •
to prevent theflarnee creasing the city
limits., Eureka, a small- viliege, con-
taining some .50 houses and stores, and
a large steam saw mill, half - -11 mile
away, has been swept out of extsteuce.
The houses were. mostly occupied by
rnill hands.; who lost everything, many
of them barely escaping With their lives..
Around Pembroke the whole country is
reported to be in flames, and settlers ate
re
gr
th
1
and,the chevalier, as be was cane I
sweptdown the lowlands.
crowding toward the honks off the river
, .
a
lie
419-.50 a Yeart 1.12
- MCLEAN BROS. Publisher&
:
is thought that during theboutthe but-
ton of the foil was knocked off, thus
-leaving ,the point entirely bare. The
young men rafted together and were.
fast friends,
-,-About a dozen soldiers, and
female, of the Salvation Ariny have
arrived -at Quebec. Most of them are
natives of the -East Indies, .and dressed
in the picturesque garb of that
• They crossed over and took. their
quarters at the army barracks .in the
city; These Indians are to make a tour
of:the army stations in Canada, in an en-
deavor to retie assistance .and also
twentyoffieers for the work in,Inclia. -
-Anotherdestriietiye fire has , made
sad havoc in the . Eddy Manufacturing,
Cempany'is mill at Ottawa, ; In addition
• to.the mill, the Village of Birebville, in
which the mill hands -Worked; and about
7,000,000 feet of lumber :were :entirely
consumed. The loss is -.estimated at
$290,000, the larger .portion of which'
.will fall onthe company. There Was
:an insurance of $110,000 on niR and
lumber.
-;-..-Playing with :dice for treats has
. been declared-. gambling by Magistrate
Dandurand, of Montreal, in the caseof
the Revenue Department against Leger, .
it hotel -keeper of Lachine. The defence
•
had held that playing, dice for drinks at
the bar could not be called gambling.
His Honor decided that as he law made
no distinction the Court could not make
one, and imposed the minimum fine, $10
and eats, •
,--A Very sad accident occurred at
- Ennismore, about nine - Miles north of •
Teterboro, :VVednesday• of last week, •
Lizzie and Maggie Seolland, aged Il and
yearerespectively, daughters of John.
Seolland, found a revolver- lying 'on a
. table in their roam. Lizzie took it up
and while it was in her hand one, of the
.cartridges exploded and the'liall enter-
edthe forehead of Maggie, .who died five
hours afterwards. ' 1'
-The five0year.Old-sOn of . Mr. Wm.
Squance, a 0farmer, liviugnear St. ,
Thom'
as met with a sad death the other
night. He had been playing 'in. the
• fields during the afternoon and ate a ,
quantity of .what are - known as, night
ihade berriee, which grow on a bush a
foot or two 111 height. - Medical aid was
immediately -Summoned but pnothing
coulcrbe done to ramiethe Sufferer,
who died in a few hours from the effects
of poisoning. -! - •
' -The other •evening jgr.: = Thos. • G.
Reed, a -farmer -living four miles north
of TeesWater, went bathingin the river,
and getting beyond his depth was drown-
ed. His two little bciys,. who witnessed
the sad occurrence, went:„ to tell their
mother, pestling -several . people who
might have rendered timely assistance, -
but they did Mit mention- it until they
reached home, nearly half a Mile from
the river. Itissupposed that :he was
taken with cramps. - He leaves a: wife
and Six small children. -. :
-Friday evening two -.masked Men
entered the residence of Capt. Jelin'
Bunton opposite the store of John
Spiers, Sandwich, and --struck the cap.
Uhl two frightful blows - on the heads
with a cudgel, one. of -which broke the
bridge of his nolo and the other cracked
the skull. They. then took $200 -in cash
from -a bureau' drawer and the - -Captain's
$150 gold match and Chain. -captain
Boynton is.an old lumberman and well-
known citizen. His injuries-, while se-
vere, will not prove -dangerous.
-,--Evezthe noble ..savage- knows how
to Organize a combine. Says the 'Bran-
don. Sum:. "One -inonopali has been .
bursted, and the citizens have now to
grapple witii-another. „ The combine by
which the Indians manage to extort 25
cents per Can strawberries, seasbn
aftetseason, is one thatmust be met.
Some of the citizens 'haye undertaken .bteak it, and they went! out -.berrying
a few daye are now pay.
I ..
ing the 25 cents ins most cheerful man.
net.Betweerfbackache and mosquitoes
they'cleini therais no:money in white
people undertaking to -break the mono-
1701Y•'-' '
-;--The value Of the fishery- ;etch of
the DOTIlini013 during the ..past year fell
from $18,280,000 to $1804,000, as oom-
. pared with the year previous. The
largest decrease was in Canned lobsters,
which dropped. $89,400. - The • -Vital
. value of fish exported-. to the 'United
:States watI2,717,000, or 40 perlient. of
the total export. Theimpoiiition of a
duty on all: fish entering the :United
States from Canada reduced the quan-
tity sent into the Amerieen markets,„
which, aa ,compared with the exports.of
1884, the year : .before the duty
•
was imposed, show -a decline of 24I: per
...cent; • , • ••
•---rA --diabolical Murder is reported
from the Mouth of the -Fresee, river,
:British Columbia. An Iiidbin girl, 16
years old,Was taken sick. Three •China-
men who were pealing. claimed to he
doctors- One guarded the house- and.
poured an . inflammable liquid.- on the
girl'wrist, tore ont the lingual artery
and two small arteries: in the throat,
end two sinallcivins over the naval..
The girlbled to death in a4ew minutes.
.The Chin* fled, and information was
not given for five days: Two of -the
Chinese - have been arrested) but the
other is missing, • - -
-Mr. James 5. bicesig, ex -M. P.
-for ,Trifice- Edward, dia., on Saturday
• afternoon 'ati fwo.o'clo. tic. Mt: Me-
Cuaig had been confined -t his :room for
some= weeks, but he waelhought to
be :improving, till Thineday night,
. when is dingo for the Worse took
place and be sank . ForAhe
last :35 years Mr. ,MeCuaig. -has been a
prominent figure in this -cOnntry in
political and For
years he was president , and 'general
manager of the River St. Lawrence and
Bay Of .Qiiinte Steamboat Coinpany,
He was , the originator and energetic
manager -of many other business veip
torn, the last being the Neebing Lum-
bering Company;,.:He wail the Conser-
vative candidate in 1867; 1872 and 1874
for tbe .Commons, and, Was .each time
defeated -bi Mr: Walter ,Boss.. In 1875
•
he was elected to the -Ontario Legisla-
ture as a supporter of Sanfield Mac-
donald, Mr. G. Striker being his oppon-
ent. He sat for one session and was un-
seated. He was again a candidate, but
was cleieated by Mr, Striker. In the
general elections of 1878 he was elected
to the; Commonai defeating Dr., Platt.
In 1882 he Was a aina candidate, bat
this time he waside eated by Dr, Platt.
He was always' a warm supporter of
Sir John Macdonald . His smiling face
and genial manner will be much nnssed.
He had hosts of -warm friends in -the
County of Prince Edward who in his
• death will feel they have lost a friend.
• -A New Yorker, whose satchel was
accidentally carried off by. the nisi who
occupied a rooin in a leading hotel in
Montreal previous to him, has recover-
ed it. The satchel contained $23,040, -
1
- -A very painful and -somewhat seri-
oils accident, which may prove fatal,
happened to. a little three-year-old son
of Mr. John Whittleton, of the village
of. Goodwood. Mr. Whittleten having
made some purchases .at -a hardware
store, got into his buggy with his little
son, intending tostart,fer home, when
his horse, A very ugly dbpositioned one,
became unmanageable. Ile let go of
the child while endeavoring to quiet the
horse, and -the little fellow fell out of
the -rig, the wheel passing over him
and the horse planting one of its hind
feet upon him. The child was taken to
the doctor's, but the extentof his in-
juries cannot be ascertained just at
present- How the child escaped in-
stant death is wonderful,
-A sensation was caused at St, An-
drew', New Brunswick, the other day,
by the arrival of the Dominion cruiser
Dream with a prize in tow and two Yan-
kee fishermen on board. -Saturday, Bill
Danbury, of Eastport, who is commonly' -
known as the King Haddock fisherman
of Maine -coast, and his churn, Charles
Black, set sail from the border town, ex-
pecting to get back at nightfall with a
load of Canadian fish. They never
dreamed of -providing themselverwith a ,
license, They went as far as ' Qamp-
bello, and were just getting ready to fish
when the -commander of the cruiser
caught sightpf them, and bore down
upon them. The: two fishermen tried
hard to arms again into American waters,
but were overhauled too soon by the
cruiser, ind,made prisoners. The boat
. and fishermen were. brought to St. An-
drews, and the department was notified.
•
-Special advices to Ottawa from
Sitka, Alaska, state that-s,:woman of the
Takeon tribe of Indianrgathered'oertain
herbs and administered them tothe wife
of the second chiff, Yato Hok, from the
effects of which she died. Yato Hok
gave orders that the woman should- be
-put to death, and a system of torture
was inaugurated by heating stones red-
hot and placing . them in her mouth. 'c
When life Was almost extinct he had
her hanged. He also gave orders to -
have her husband hanged, but when the
latter was suspended in the air . he man-
aged to get his hands in the noose and „
-thereby prevented strangulation. While
in this position the chief cut his hand
with &knife, but failed to make him re-
move his grasp: .Other Indiana interfer-
ed and the poor fellow Was freed. Yato
Hok was arrested and brought to trial
' at Sitka, but it turned out that the vil-
lage Was in British Columbia, and the .
prisoner bad to be discharged. ..
-It is stated- that the Quebec -Gov- -
ernment have decided to take steps to
effect the capture of Morrison, the des-
perate Eastern Townships murderer.
Morrison's ease is a thiilling,one. Mor-
rison's father, Who lived at Agnes, near
Lake Megantic, sold his property to a -
neighbor, Young Morrison, who had
just returned from Texas, where he WAS
a cowboy, thought his father had been
unfairly -treated in the sale, and said he
would be revenged. Shortly afterward*
the purchaser's plat* was destroyed by --
fire, and yeanglIorrbon was accused of
the 'act,. A warrant was socordhagly
issued for his arrest on a charge of
arson. lialliff Warren was intimated
with **execution of thewarrant, but
when he a mpted to arrest the accused
he was
ima
dead by Morrison, who al-
ways ea **het gun, No further at.
tempts hog -been made to Arrest him,
and he is still- at hwy. He attended
the murdered man's ftperal, god' to
Church, frequents the-hotele, and openly
expresses &Aimee of the law. Consider-
able sympathy exists for him anumgat
the Soot& residents of the locality, who
are "rely clannish, and it le believed
that there will be bloodshed befire the
pimple allow bini to be taken. - - t
• -Another sharp confidenoe game was
played at the Windsor hotel, Montreal,
the other evening. It appears that &
Mr. Dunham, from Halifax, went to the
Windsor on that evening and WAX met
In one of the.paesiiges on the first: floor
by two well-dressed young men who
managed to get into oonversation with
him. "By the way," said one of
them after a while, to his friend, "live
you any money on you"! The banks
are closed now, and I must have cash
thie reeling." The other pulled out a
few bills, but not enough for the wants
of his friend. The Nova Scotian- there-
upon pulled out a large roll of bills
and said he could help hirn out. The -
confidence man Offered him a 'cheque
for $750 and asked Dunham to cash it,
which, however, the "latter was not
willing to do. "I'll give you a hun-
dred or so till to -morrow and I'll take
your - cheque for security." He gave .
him $120' in good cash and. pet the .
cheque in his pocket, arranging to see
Watson, for as such the cenficlence man
had introduced himself, fled morning.
As the latter did not turn lip in the
morning, Dunham went to a bank and
offered the cheque, but found tliat it
WAS & gross:fraud. He then gave the-
cae. into the _hands of Detective Arcand,
who is in search of the swindler. It is
feared; however, that they have left the ,
city. The cheque Is made out OD the
Savings.. Bank of St. Paul, Minnesota,
In favor of Henry,. Watson.,