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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton New Era, 1879-07-31, Page 1. . 11 POL. PI. WO sa Per Amaiiii;* advassie. AND CENTRE HURON G-ENERAL ADVERTISER. CLINTON, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, JULY. 31, 1879, w Attertionntutg. • BEWA,RE of Imitations THE proprietors of PHOSFOZONE, would caution the public. that Phosfozone le now put nit and wrapped With alight, slate colored wrapTer, having the directions, dm, printed on it in English, French and German language, on three sides, with the name of the. manufacturers on the back. NONE OTHER IS GENUINE. • • WEER in your own!' town, and no capital risked. You can give the bus. . nese atrial without ezpense. Thebest oPportunit7 ever offered for thees will - dug to work. 'Ton ,eltould try nothing , else until yow pee .tor yooreelf what you can do at the business,we 1•10 room to explain here. You ean de. vote all your time or only your spare time to the bud.' ness, and make great pay for every hour that'Yoh work, • Women make as muob as men. Send for ;special prt.' vete tonna and partioulare, which wts Mail tree. $5 outfit free. Don't complain of bard time* while you hm ave muohenee. Address, El, HALLETT & • Portland,Ilaine. • $0 Hickson k. Bleetsciep; ilimerrs AND DRUGGISTS,: • S 311.A.:7.1 0 1:Z '11/17"1 Are the only ones wile handle . . . . HUMPHREY'S ROHOPATHIC SPECIFICS in the Count' of Huron. They are ilso Sole Agents in South aid Centre Huron, for all - goods made by the , Holman: Liver Pad ocesT 4FO1DZIRS hY MAIL PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO, .Eleaforth, July 81,1870; •-Votera'•:-Lisf-L---1879: • 111t1INIC1PALIT,Y OF THE ToWNSIIIP OF STANLEY; COUNTY OP HURON. • \TOTIOP, is hereby given that I havelitkiii= mitted or delivered to the persons Men.. touyth sections_of_the Lista Act," the copies .required by s'aid sectien so_trensinitted or ,delivered of the lief, Made* ourmlant to said Act, of all _portions' appearing hy 'the' last revisedassess-. foiliffell of the, sold reniiiCipality to bi " en- titled to vote in the said municipality, at tlectioi,Sidriilfin,bers of •tile .LegiallitimAa- uemblY and-itt Munieipal Elections ; and that list was first-povted up at My office, at Varna; on the 2.94h-do3r-ef-Jalyt 18,79; and there remains for inepection. Electors-. are *ailed npOn: to eiwniine the- , list, and it any oiniiitions or other Silvis are found therein; to take immediate proceeding4. to have the said errins corrected according to Dated this oiltir day• ttno. . AVILLIAM. PLUNKETT; • •. Clerk of the safcl:IVInnicipality.: TO $8000 A YEAH, Or $5 to $20 s„ day in your Own locality No risk, Women do as well all 1110II. 'Many Inake more than the ammint'statel above. No one can fail to make money fast. Any one ean do the , . :cork: You can maYe ,frote 50, eenti.te $2 ati hoer by devoting your evenings and Itpue timc. to the, .bliSi12088. It costs nothing to try the businese. • Nothing•like it for money.rnaking ever offered, before. Ilusinese. pleasant and strictly honor,. able. Reader, if yon f want to 'know all about the bear paying businese before the priblic . send us your address and we will land you, full particulars and private terms free; Bowles *worth $5 also free; .you can thati70aPie up yoli,rtzninettei ofiteilf: ,Address GEO,' STINS,ON, & CO.; Port/and, Hater. , • 80 Notice. S.eisied 9L'esstleritii be received by the und.rsignect on behalf • of the Corporation of the County of Huron, • Until Fridayv lith day of August nisi F9tt Bridge,' On the ..banWilidi 'between ..2ast. arid' West Waivanosh. Plana and specifications May be oTANT0N,.3ury 10, 1570. seen at MY office. The lowest or any' tender 1 g r -V,1" IA not necessarily accepted, ' • PETER ADA -5180N, ,...,. ,SPf7,1z,;° g,° imd-• - Ooimty ,.„,g G000ript, jilly,Sist, 1879. .oe';' or. -SCOTT .& BOWNE°1: ‘0". 43. 0 re* 'Is 1 - :II: tr; Ird oii,•58 t,,S'Xis,- g ite • -1•=1.1..; s '41:a .!1 "1/ .g..,7rIt 4 wi go.4 4,g-htlp lc; • o'n w*Ts' H g ITO 44 if P 01 111 r ,kkg g,";e6 ••• E' innot O' ,•••+ Old o o la eae fftig41.0114 m ti11• 4g059 r— w ;16.gg g:g.G „ ° flrf[fJtit g 1• ,44,5 CS r it .41tfitir MONTH guaranteed. $12 p. day at home made by the indtte. trioue. °MAW not reettired;„we will start yon.. Hen, women,boye and, ,girlemake money faster at The riark4E(Ith41inghatt ananydthpregeseeinT, and eneh as anyone can go right at Throe° who are wiee who see thie motto° will send na jheir addreee at once and see for themselvee. Costly otit$E and terms fres. Now 1, the time. Those already at work are laying op large slime of money. Address TRUE 8: CO., Augusta, Name. 80 Farm to Let. I gio LET, for a term ot years, Lot 18, 4th con. of Rullett —100 acres, 40 cleared. • There are on the premises a good frame barn, log house, young orchard, ete. Rent low, as improvements are to. be made, For terms apply- to *In 'W. W. F#RAN, Clinton. Form For Sale: rruiAT FIRST-CLASS 1'.A.R11, NO.8.5, on JL the 15th con, .of Goderieb Township, be- longing to Mrs. 0. Gordon ; will he sold for cash or on part credit. On13r one mile from Clinton. The farm contains eighty acres of ehoice land, hi good condition, fine orchartirdte—Ap to IL HALE. Olinpost, ;fay 241870. ..Pioperty .for Sale. • - • milt subscriber offers that conveniently situ- ated farm, Lot No. 25, .. -16th concession of Gederich Township, containing 80 acres, nearly all cleared, for sale. Itit good clay soil,. well fenced, under good cultivation ; has good build- ings and three wellspn it ; ten .res of summer fallow, and is only two kilos frem Clinton.— Terms easy.' • . S. RUMBALL, onderich township, July 17, ism . • Notes Lost'. oncE IS HEREBY GIVEN that all parties are forbiol. purchasing..or negotiat- ing the follinving-neteVef hand:-Oneof 8220 -- given by Geo. Sheppard; of Blyth; two notes, one cif $100 and another of 850, given by Mr. Molts, of lith con., Goderich. Township ; one of $100,given-b3-Ja1ieth-Holland, 11 th maim, Godench Township; one of $100, given by II: Young,. 9th con., _Goderich Township, • All favomoLthmandersigned • • • WM. COLCLOI.TGII. Goderich Township, Zuly 22. alue,ble Farm Tar Sale. The Haat-half of Lot No. 27, sn the 711a con. • cession of %Vavvunoslt-,09 Acro.• EING one of the beat farms in the- Cotinti of Huron, and situate 10 clic of the heti farming sections, with good roads and good Markets. The'soirilitAghout is alterivy clay loam W61111irOntia, and all good -wheat land. About 84' acres are cleared., _fenced,. -and in a, high.sitate of cultivation. The buildin s are new; and censist of .p, two story frame well- ing, and large barn. The orchard ielarge and. bearing. This valuable firm% will be sold cheap and liherliterms of payMent given... Apply to • ' W.. W. FARRAN, .QIinton P.O: Clinton, Aft 24;1679. - • _ IRO M RA.0311-2' CARRIAGE & BUILDERS' HAADWARE, • • `-'• -Oviekrts ' ' • • . , SPCIAL BARGAINS avoincluslis Full -plated 7 Shot for $2.50. HAWN.? BEEN MADE EXORESSLY FOR THE ENOLTEllf, suasion AND AMERICAN ARMIES. oup'r A LIMITED O1J1.N11TY, AT -R.. M. 11 E S _ • so.grs .itiut,DFPARE, .IILAtKS31.1TIPS EAR CALCINED•- . • pi4,97'E.17, lifIATERETAllE. • PALATABL CASTOR- I Is prepat'ed in a form perfectly agreeable to children. and most sensitive •persons. In its manufacture the • properties of the oil that produce pain and griping are eliminated,andit is rendered not only mild and pleas- ant in its action, hut absolutely tasteless and palate - Ale. It is pre.eminently the finest laxative and CA- • thartie known and as remedy for Costivenes,v, Con- stipation, mean Intestinal Derangements It use- eualled, and fwd.:dined to take the place of crude oil and all drastic pills and purgativess. For sale by all Druggists at as cents a bottle, Don't fail to try it, • • TO CONTACITORS. N DEES •, . WILL be received by the undersigned, up V V tothe 15th of A.ugust, for the erection o• f THREE BRICK STORES• i in the Town of 'Clinton, Plans Six' epeeifiea- • tient' eau be shen at my office. • The‘lowest or , any tender net necessarily accepted. . Wittleitt; OCA."TS. eli n ton, 30;17 th, 1870. • fempemttc- • Thie eolumn le sopplied by the Women's Temperemes Union. women's celestial' Temeevance 'won. The 'members Of the abovb nnien met on Monday afternoon, at three o'clock, in the temperance hall, • Mrs, Skelton, who was passing through the town, wes present, and -promised the union another Visit ia the fall, of which due notice will be Oven • Letters of "greeting and recognition veto read, which had been received from the *retail, of the plovirmial nnion, and others, cengrathiating them in teference to the position which they'had taken:ea temperance workers, also reminding them that, the largest unions now in Ontario. commeneed With hut a few, and that they neednot'be discouraged although them numbers bonotlargii"ita' " - The heion extend 'a cordiaritiVitation to all the ladies, who are interested in this woritto coMe eVer and help then). Sisters ! we need your aid, and we 'ap- peal to you in the name of common Int- manity.—Wives„. for the sake of your 'husbands—mothers, for the sake ot your sons—danghters, for the sake of your 'fittbers-LsiatsrS, for the sake Of your brothers, we askyou to come and join our -action, and thus' help to reise the° fallen—to rescue the perishing .-to com- fort the distressed, and to train tip the y.oung and risine generation in the prin- steles .of sobriety and ,ChriStian useful- ness,- • . The union will meet again on Monday next in the tern wrance hall, at m ,'"Ier".111.1,111;MIIMIN,IMINWilarinfalrlIMINTSIMt • 3 is, 11911.11101 •CamadilattiNews items. • There are Oyer 6,000 persons in the employ of the Great Western railway, On Saturday, $ir Sohn A. Macdon•-1 aid was hissed at Qtiehec as he was leaving for England. . At New Hamburg, on Saturday, ,Henry l,inglebach and Jacob Sweitzer, young men, were drowned. • In Chatham, Mrs. Dr. •Fletuirigi youngest daughter of -the -Hon. .A. Mc- Kellar, died en Sittardey, k six year old child of Thos. N106.4P, Bradford, Was nearly eaten on the side-. walk last" week "by a savage pig. • By the death of a relative in Ohio, Mrs. Henry Nara, of tire; come in for the comfortable littkr suin of 410,000. ` , . • . ...In one family in Huntsville there are four sons whose birth days -are .respect - Christmas, New Year's?Queen's Birthday, and"PowinionDay. It has been found .necessaiy in' Chit- -them to send a .policeman to: eaell of the churches on Sunday eveningste dieperse lonngers about the doors. . The steamer City Of Toronto ran ashore at Niagara,: on Sattirdity,' with 200 people on board. They were all. raemied safely, and the boat' got off Mr Monday. _ During a lieyy thunder -storm. on Saturday/ ' lielitinne killed 'the' child Of Mr., Geo...Hutton, of Belleville, while in its mot.h.er's arm was :fatally d. IVrr. Ira Morgan, • M.: P. P., was thrown, from hie -buggy -ten, NI -mak , near Osgoode Station and - severely in - Keene Theinseives with worit. j•tirec1":71-1-io-..eireadderlistazte'1Wd we s. Many it hushandimeaall, "'Don't. 'ask '1'1.'6 fractured- ' • • rny Witil to do apything kr the 'Church, The annual'eamp meeting will corn- . . or' miiiiOn.ary society, or teMperance. nrehdeon",the grounds Of the. Ontario, cause she has MiChigh to ;le Of borne—. 'Catt3p :-Meeting &Sanitation, neat ' the . she is killingberdelf With -work as it is .;!' •villaee ' of Grimsby, on Thursdey, the andleteIli -7-14T4a-Y---To'f*.ttguit'nextt•':-• .. • 777 But if the' husband Weiihaebkii'llttle 'Thefirst lead Of 'new wheat fo&th-e-1- closer into nialters he would find that his 1-lamilton nutrket for 1879, was taken , . Wife_was killing herself_ aver:work that.. there . on.::Stitaday;•- and was. sold- for was atinine children; cursing. :the $1.10.5 per bushel. :.It•was'Seoicli wheat, werldylatebligliting the church; that 14-s1ieaves yielding a. bushel of 62 lbs.. . she was sacrificing her all....to,fatibion and' . _ 'show. . , • Mcintli after month and Year after year the worldiy-wemen ofthe church ,toil on for the personal adornment of themselves,. 'aild their children till heart and fleshfail,.. and an Untimely grave Covers theta out. of . our sight:: "Martyrs to fashion." :wenlif he the inost faithful '‘and 'fitting epitaph that 'conld beput even their: toMbitones. . many a prefeekidli Christian hothe., the first lesson atihild learns . is' hew to dn.* in the•tivroine style. It lealys its 'cradle •idniiring4ts fine clothes, :and. suffere heirs of .erthre,Witli 'curling pa-. peril :and critninne pine, before it has learned to say, ‘."''Now I lity me down to 'sleep." It ift•not s,urPriejog that the ten- der twig bent world -Ward from the Very first, should turn from Jho church to the opera, the theatre, and the'-ball.roonf. When _we look about we are -grieVed. Lo find that se feu, Of the young men and. tvoinen reared in the church are laving, Working Christians. But it is net !ter - prising. If from infancy they are tanght to feet' that the World and its favors are better than the church and its privileges to be desired than spiritual riches --we ought not to expect anything else 'than a.lack. of interest and 'confidence on their part. HIf-37ciu Want your -child to be a• :Christian, Makethe beautyand power of your Christianity felt at hoMe• in: thndaily life. 'Those who are killing On Saturday night a fight .oCcured at Ottawa between EOM Orange, Young Britons and Roman Catholics, during which revolvers were freely' used. "No lives were let, but several .were wound- -His Worship MaYor' -Beck:ley,' of •Prescott, was taken ' suddenly ' on Friday evening while sitting in a chair in MS steie conversing with, a 'friend:: 'Medical aid wtis'ealled irnrnecliilely, 134' he expired abont.9 p. 0..71 • : Dr. Alien, of Toronto, returning fron3 Visit to his patients on Saturday; was -stopped byia bigliWayinanawhe dem, ed hisnioney'; • being told thatlle luid old than) dot', and"trut t none, he knocked the dOctorgiOtf an n- a '• The effigies of Hon. Motor L. Lange - vitt and Six John -Miteclohald:;Were burned on •Monday evening ' at :Jacques . Cartier Market Square, St. Rechss • by an imniense crnaid,. :They 'threaten- ed to burn tlie effigy of the Marquis Of ,M. 1VIcA7tlitir, son 'of Mr. J. McAirt that,' of Elden', was instantly killed, and six above' injured by the .falling Of, a bent, • - - On Saturdaylast; at the raising • . Of a frame barn on the farm of Mr. Me. Nevin, about.' four :Miles front Wards- ville.: , .„ . On Wednesday night last, thenew saw and grist mills belonging to G. J. ck T. B. Coulthard, :Stratlibura P. 0.„• themselves in their scramble after the ort the Longwoods Read Elkfricl Were world and :its follies,. are indeed killing' destroyed by • fire, .together with the ttlatele2mt sTretieslor time and eternity. contents. , . The fire issup-tinsel- to have dansed by a spark from° the .engine. On ...Friday morning all two W0111011 and it child were driving into St. Marys in a buggy, some; part of the harness got detached, causing the horse to run away, upsetting the buggy • and throw - lug all of the occupants out. One of the women, named Mrs. Seaton, and her child freen Nissonti, were seriously but itis thought not fatally injured. The .other escaped with a few slight bruises. • The buggy was a total *reek. .A. Mentreftl.girl hecame engaged, te., Young man in 1872; but on the night of the proposed' marriage the bridegroeno sent a note saying that, he ' was enable • to marry her that evening. She never' saw him again, but with almost childish faith dung to the 'idea that he would return and fulfil his engagement. The latest English mail brought her a letter frofn a soldier in Zulu, detailing the ac- count of her lover's death, and the af- fection he still retained for her. It also explained -that on the night of the in- tended marriage he lad lost his- situ* den, aha stung with remorse had left for Halifax and enlisted in the English artriy,.. • : No sooner do the paople of Russia recover from ono misfortune than another comes to take its place. Tke.,plagne, which at ono time threatened tet?..t..-01. Mid itself over the Empire, has been subdued,.and the Nihi- lists—if, they were the incendiaries—have been of We- prevented from setting gre.to the large towns; but as an offset the south-, ern Provinces.of Russia have been visited by swarnie of locusts that have devoured the crops and /aid Waste to millions of aOreS Of liu,d. In the district of Cheraw) alone the sum of $40,000 has been voted for the purpose of exterminatiegthese inn* ; but this precaution:comes too late to be of much good in saving the crops of this year. The coming :of .the Russian locust is About as uneertain as tne advent of a similar pest on our Western prairies. The place where they take their rt.:3(3.bl in dispute; and the Oall. rases IVIountains have about as good a claim to the unenviable notoriety as the deserte of Turkestan. But though doubts may et- ist as to the origin, there can be no question as to their destructiveness. Some of the choicest wheat Tends in Russia are.inoluded in the area over which their ravages are re - petted; and unless their flight Is arrested i ' there s fear that they will eat down the average wheat yield of Russia to much ate same leVel that unseasonable 'weather has reduced the crepe of England and France. a Steps are being taken to submit the Scott Act for .approval in West Mid- dlesex. Mrs, Roloff, of Brant, hung herself on Wedeesday night. When found she was dead. While picking betties the ether day, the wife of a Stratford citizen gave birth 4to a fine healthy child, Bears are said to be doing serious da- mage at Lefreaux, 13, One' farmer ,lost eight. slte9.-inone night recently.. - • At $t. Macy's, pit Saturday evening, as Mr..T: MCGolrielits servant, girl was lighting the fire with coal oil 'the oil Ploded, hnrning her fatally: While watching a boat race at Barrie, on Wednesday, a crowded wharf gave way, throwing a lot of people into the water, one only was drowned. • • A niarevalued at .$qoo.WaS. stolen .a day :o' two ego -• from: Mf. Barnes at Stoney Cieek, and recovered in Toron., to., It died from the rough usage it received at the hands of the thief. A sentimental burglar, Who robbed Mr. Arehart], Richmond street, Toronto, was, ,Cirrested as the result of kissing 3.1aritne Menai% dins:Waking' hey 1111, prior tieleaviniwith the plunder. " Thursday efternocin a -'fartner named Rhody, liying in the Township of London, received injuries that will probably result in • death, ,A pole fel; from a stitch and struck him on the lead. • 1V1ies Ada 111011711. OWL spiritualist, gote-performancein the Opera House Toronto, on Monday evening. The per- ..faiimers_proiced-talearteh-a--fraud--that- UM audience indulged in hearty hiSiine t-the-clo The wife of W. Coutts, of Brant, died suddenly of sunstroke on Saturday. ' An exciting foot -race took place in Ex - toter on Saturday evening, between IL 11. Abbott, dentist, and F, W. Thornp, son, batik teller, both:of Exeter, .A.labott° won by about two yards., • At a funeral at the London Catholic - burying ground recently the driver oe One of the .Itacke, present was :in so beastly zi etttlnef .intexicationtethat had.to *be lifted Whis haak,-and ieft hy the aide .of the: grave; -.Salle-Other per- son drove the hack home, Captain Samson, of the spoiler Mont-% ° goniery, at Pictou, reports that about.. ten miles to She eastwat'd of Iletott Is- land %e saw an enOrmoes sea Serpent, whieh apPettiefflo be about.one hundred feetin length; and had. 4 body'about. the. Size of O .barrel. It Wil.$going straight aim)°, at the .rite ofsevenlinets.,- an hour. inarf binned S. S. iTopkina, 693 -ears . old, of Monate, Wis.;.was found dead on Ibe siciewalk, itt Clifton on i'tIQndziy. He toek'breakfest at the . Elgin House • and was on his way to the station to take the train West. Ono hundred encl.,- sixty-fiv.e dollars was round in his, pocket, Cerise Of deatlisuppased'te be.' . • :7TrItleciciasetfttlsee:e.;po' rters :report 'that the trade 'is. rapidly .increasing, and tliat'. the prospeete are splendid. -There are ' ,27 exporters in this Province. Over, 8;006. Sheep are awaiting" shipment, et... - Toiontn, -.-besidert- many cattle. It is 'proposed to , send. At -large . shipment itheilly°9f. neat eatile" tO hefatted in. EI -1.4 Wird. • -•1•3„ N.0itit:--NettawaHltrriliVIrdet;7"." storin on Moncley evening 'Mr. Peter • . ' "tiArather,of the Batioaux. niet. With a - very dangerous sand- probebiSt fetal. acci- . dent. . engaged tearning ;fall : 1i,Itent ',be wds :struck, by ,tIhnaeltifierldaiitesk_ jelt:Laciffaxteta, ily. litg9titntilnrghtT: styrceto‘• the load, the waggon passing' over his bedy. - • . Mr. T...0orsyth,..it farmer living -two iii7c1 a half reilee -weak of :the village. of : Aurora, has a natural citrioSit3r, being a •ectlf sixteen.months old tiow giving Milk, *producing 'et' each milking froni three to four quints; et, eight quarts each .dav'. .Mr: Fotsyth :has:been Milking, this 'c'eye' .for about two :months.' The strangeit, 'thing dial is that the ;cow: bas.,never'., :been a mother. Snell IL phenefeenct" as . this' is certainly rare; • • • ' • General •Aiewo Colored() beetles have 'lade Weir, , goilitit8: in Ireland: . •Asudden -greet • hint raln, • ".Inur7ditnieged the cion's itt Ift,iliga.r.f. • ' . . .i4titirintine is beingdeclared agaiust :.Seuthern and ports • ' • .. • •••• : • .In renetning tlie-e-treeta. ot4ice7city of Paris, Fi'arico, nofi4P4freftiittihe'inil wLi •;ed in memory .' nig rumored that the prejetted mar,' riage between the King of Spainl and , the Austraii Princess . has been Sban...'!" • Two brothers living on a two him- !lied- acre .farm. iu .13rooke, disagreed about 'the line fe.nee, end a 'general. i"ow took. .plaee: • . One of .; the brothers -"ties held on the ., ground While the wenieri.,• folk set .the..clegs..-our7bia.-4vbeJ -1seerateel-. his 'legs in a feightfuldiarinet",-- -Mr. Z. Groff,' of Waterloo, -.hes, twe. 'spring calves, Which' bring' down the scale at. a: ';handsoine: :figure. "*.Oite;.- Young Aberdeen 2nd, was four Months and fiVe dayrt Old when he.weighed 502 lbs, • •:The other,:: a: ,grade calf, • 'font - Months old all bet.One. day, weighs, :t60 . . • s. • Says the'Strethroy.dige : On Sunday .eveninglast the Rev'. VatiWyck stated that Or the future he Would not announce any. notices from the pulpit aieept thcisc relating to ohurch Work., This is as it 81309kt...be. Tho - pulpit ought. ilot to be niade an advertising .inediutit,anklya. hnike .the example of the rev.: eentletnin will be followed by other 'ministers oftlat , 'itetoCk ,that .the!..stealiashipst.Of the Allan line .whieh.. bevel arrived *ia.t the ports or tiiiiptiol,.landLOJasgt/W till the 25th inst., thisLseepop,.'took out:. • , 2,638. cattle, 13 craves, 99 begs,: aa, horser, and 5,246 sheep,. which were all landed in goed Order, with exception of 4' cattle ahcl 39 sheep, and of those 8 cattle" were 131444d:in an injured con- dition and died or. Wereslangliterta shertly:after leavingport. ". About two weeks age 'a Frenchman nanieci Peter Leonard, while engegedin an alternation at Tait's eawlitill; at Gravenhurst, stabbed a fellow -workman with a dirk -knife. Fortunately the knife struelethe shoulder blade Or the yesulk,intglit have. proved fatal. '1IpOri eoranutting the deed the culprit itlinie,- .diFttelY lila and litt not• been 'beard of'since, though:a warrant les been issued for his arrest. Ile a yoling man' about twenty-three years of age; .and is said.t_e_hail from near. Bayfield, I. - The house of .A,.• O'Neill, Ed wards- hurgrwas. struck 1.3y. lightning on :Wed- nesday and eight rooms.aornpletely torn to . piecee, and .strange to say :O'Neill and his wife were beth "in one of The roans et the time and 'were not injtiredl in the least: The lightning then etruck the island in the centre of the river, and tore' up' the .ground and stones, making quite a breach. It also 'struck a, barn in the. township of 'Mande.; which was. burned with forty tone of hay, belenging to Pt ,Catinan, • On Monday night a man named. Mc- Dougall; in the employ of C. P. Mills Co., of St Catharines, while return- ing home front 'a hnsiness trip through the country ,with considerable money' oti his person, was Set upon by two highwaymen, One grabbing the, horse •by the head and the other leaping in oie waggon. IVIODougall struek the latter with a plumber's tongs, knocking biota Senseless to the ground. lie, then; whipped up his horse and dragged the other abOnt .fifty yaXtis mitil he loosen; ed his hold On the limit, .ancl, tt7, deg the -horse's feet, it le supposed'he was seVeiely injure& hy the animal' and' the veliiele pasting ii*ee Mtg. 'Russian advices, under date of Jnite 2, front :Nicolitief, State that the' harvest prospects -are d'oed, with promise*. of a large export dbtiring,the Sututnn Month.% The expoi t of wheat from Cadentta, • -BilliarW—T-tst • tullea, froni ;January I to, June 7, 1879,- hes _ heen4,700 ton vs. 13,483 -tons for the corresponding period in.: 1878. . • . • - A Constantinople diepatc13' says a ter, • tifis fti"c_has. been; raging -Sine° morning--- - at Orta Kent, a village .on the, Beitp.W „ . rus: The Jews' quarter has been .des-. trove& litindrede of families are en- camped on the roads. : Kate Webster, recently convicted' Of the tnurcler of Mrs. Thomas; her mite tress, 0:Richmond, Ung., was hanged .• en Tuesday in :Wardsworth •Prison. ; She confessed she committed the. mur- der, and had no accomplices either in , the comreission of the crime or disposal of the rentains of the victini; portions of which were discovered in a boX float- ing the Thames and led to the arrest of • the murderess,. . • . • The distress aniong the *tont far- mers and farm laborers' in, the grazing districts of Ireland is increasing. The cattle trade front this side of the Atlan- tic is ruining the Irish trade, The sokties4o00-041---says-pt4ees-vvere--"-- precedOntedlY low . it the big fairs of ' Balla ima Ballinalloe. Seine (it the wealthier landlords have reduced thole tents, but the majority demand the old ' figpre,' and the tenants say ,they cannot pay it ".itliert they have te,confrite with. Ameritan:butter'.Weightpenee, baron, haeht,Afia. beef tit iti1ceilc�, ttrnT che' A: tett:Mee. ". ,