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BRUSSELS, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 1891,
ILMAIM1.1.1.441.1i14i1,01
Volume 19.
LETTER FROM MANITOBA.
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To the Bettor of Tio: Pose,
It has often occurred to me to write
you a few lines giving my impreseione of
Manitoba after having seen a good deal
of it during the past throe years. There
am many of your readers who have
doubtless learned much of this country
from reading yeers and other papero
80010 01 them have paid ne flying vieits
and think they know it all, while others,
quite boo ninny I am sorry to say, know
nothing of it but are willing to say so.
If you are told that this country le s
sort of Siberia where one should exile
their impecunious Mende and relatives
to, as has often been clone, and that it is
of no further use or value dou'll believe it.
If you are told it is a good place to go
for persons who aro willing to make
money by their wits ouly, don't belteve
it. If you are told it is a good country
to stay away from, don't believe it. If
you are told, no matter how woll ono
may be doing in the older counties of On-
tario or elsewhere, he should rise up and
come hither, don't believe it. If you are
told all you have to do is to make up
your mind to get here sometime and that
it makes little difference when, don't be-
lieve it. Bet if some one should tell you
that Manitoba, like every other country,
Ino its drawbacks, that its winters are
long and cold with bright sunshine al.
most every day and very slight changes
in temperature for three months ; that
while the season for seeding is short and
harvest always hurried, yet that the
growing and ripening season, for obvious
reasons, is really longer than it is in On-
tario ; that the valley of the Red River
is equally es rioli as the valley of the
Nile ; that one man with only e. yoke of
oxen and his own labor can plow, sow
and reap 00 acres producing 1,600 to
2000,bushels of tbe best Red Fyfe wheat
to be found anywhere; that one man
with proper appliances Gan and does plow
4 to 5 lures a day and does it well ; that
it is the =option to find in the settled
portions of the province a simile quarter
section of land where an industrious,
thrifty man could not make a living;
that the people of this country, and more
especially the ohildren born in it, tire
among the healthiest of their race '• that
alanitobens are generally contenbed with
the natural conditions around them and
each man thinks his particuler farm the
best ; that many farmers, nay all farm-
ers, who are working intelligently and
with reasonable industry, are making
money fast ; that this country does not
want land sharks and speculators who
profit by the labor of others, but honest
tillers of the soil who add to the material
wealth of the country by cultivation oE
our rich farm lauds, making, as it were,
two blades of grass grow where one grew
before ; that this is no country for mon
who, through some weakness of their
own, have proved failures every other
p1000; that no matter whether a man
desires to cultivate Jowl end grow the
golden grain or whether he prefers mixed
farming or to launch into stook raining
exclusively, he must, to he successful, be
a man able to manage well, in other
words to farm with his head; that every-
thing considered for persons of intelli•
gence and energy, desiring it ohango,
whether possessing ottpital or not, this is
the very best oountry 09811 1001 excepting
any ; that prides of lend are now at the
lowest they are ever likely to be, with a
perfect network of railways in active opt'.
ogee and more under way. The present
is in every respect more favorable to the
incoming settler them any time in the
past, and, 1 say, after listening patiently,
no matter what: your former ideas were
you mror believe it. Now for a few fig-
ures taken from the last bulletin of the
Department of Agriculture for Manitoba:
Over one million acres in wheat in Mani-
toba alcme, total increase in cultivation
over last year ono hundred and eighty
thousand acres or seventy thousand more
than was broken in 1800. Average rain-
fall for July at /12 stations being a little
under three inches. The bulletin also
says in speaking of the wheat ; "In sev-
eral places very large yields are looked
for and the expectation of sortie enthusi•
ogle oorrespondents may cause the aver-
age over the province to be beyond what
will be realized when the crops are har-
vested, While the avenge yield in wheat
over the provinoe is not likely to reach
that of 1887, there are many correspond-
ents who report the prospects as equal to
mud in some eases exceeding those of that
year. Note.—The average over the
whole province for wheat in 1887 was
something over e7 bushels to the more.
The best authorities agree in saying Nutt
61 1110 last two weeks of August are as
favorable as they promise to be at present
ithe wheat Crop for Manitoba for 1891
will be twenty-five millions of bushels,
and that it will require not less than ten
large trains each day for wen months to
carry the crop to market. There is hard-
ly a train haves Winnipeg but contains
men spying out the land for thoee who
have deeided to follow them. The ones
from the British Isles seem to have most
capitol at bbeir backs, but after all none
• are so welcome as the hardy, two-handed
Ontario settler. 'With him failure is the
exception. 11 10 like robbing Peter to
pay Paul to settle this country from On-
tario but they aro coining, nob by tens
but by hundreds, and if the Ontotio
people don't bestir theinselyee prices of
their lands will oontinue to recede, while
hero prone': holders will realize a hand.
some iteset in steadily inoreasing values.
Upon reading over the few thoughts,
which I hove committed to paper, I am
afraid some peroons may think my whole
letter over sanguine. It may be, but if
experience goes for anything in this
ease, it ought to be fairly near the mark.
I have nothing withheld nor aught get
down through projediee and should this
,coUntry foil to attract the gime of iro•
migration it fairly deservee and go Iona
requires, my own opinien is that it is not
so much tho fault of the country aftev all
but is owing largely to the foot Oink all
the beet organized machinery for its pro.
motion it operated by or in the interest
or corporatione whose largest interests
are outside of this ptheince, while the
portion they may haVe Withiti it 18 oer.
tain to odvanee fleet and well repaye for
holding. The roeulta of the present orop
will be known before this reaohes your
readers and will be eegarly watehed all
over Great Britain rui well au Canada,
and 1 would first say before °losing Nutt
it its well known that no year affords the
same profite to the almost indispeneible
elevator componles and grain men am a
year when they can claim damage from
frost mid the Nether fact that these men
pritotioally oomprise our Boards of Trade
and grain exobange from whom the crap
reports issue, it would be as well that
suoli reports should be rot:ulna "cum
grano salis" until their truth ov falsity
was confirmed.
Yount truly,
Winnipeg, Aug. 18, 'el. • J. R. Gee=
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PALL RaCES AT BRUSSELS'S.
The third meeting of the Lake Huron
Circuit' was held on the new Driving
Path 10 thie place on Friday afternoon
of last weelc. The rain of the previous
night and Friday moruing threatened to
defettt the intention of the Directorate in
carrying out the program but the after-
noon turned out fine and there was a
large attendance taking all things into
account. The track was in prime con-
dition, the ram having lai4 the dust
thereby adding to the pleasure 00 1110
spectators. A. large number of sports
were present from Listowel, Settforth,
Blyth, Winghom, Wroxeter, Gerrie and
the surrounding oountry.
Brussels Bend, under the direction of
Copt. Albertson, was in attendance and
enlivened the proceedinga with °beim
seleotions.
3 unnere metes. 50580 $125, Mere=
In the 3 minute trot there were four
entries, oCharlie G," of Brantford ;
•Queon," of Dresden ; 'Allanforcl C)hiefe
of ,Elarriston ; and "Billy A.," of Brea -
eels. "Queen" took the first heat in
2,424 bus in the throe subsequent trials
the Brantford horse proved his ability to
set the pace and svon easily. The Her-
riston horse was drawn after the and
hoot and "Billy A," who had taken 3r4
place, was distanced owing to a break in
his harness. For a horse that has had
little training he proved himself to be
speedy and the makings of a goer.
sustatany.
audges.—A. Roe, of Winghtun ; W.
Kidd, of Listowel ; and J. Lapelie, of
Seaforth.
IL F. Weetbrooles Charlie 1, m., 11 1 1 1
14. Miller's "Queen"11. Ul.. 1 2 2 2
O. 135550 "Allan ford Chief" r. 5., 8 1 dr,
P, Ament's "BIlly A." b. g., 4 3 ale.
Time 2,421, 2.411,2.00, 2.41.,
2.92 Mae. Praise 0150, onaDen.
This was a well contested race through-
out requiriug five heats to deolde the
supremacy. The entries were "Axtel,"
of Stratford ; "Bey Fly," of Grand
Volley ; and "Dr. Livingston," of Blyth.
"Sleepy Jae," of Clinton, was in town
but did not enter. "Bay Fly" took the
lat heat, closely followed by "Axtel."
"Dr, Livingston" oaptured the 2n4 heat
with "Bay Fly" preesing him close but
neither of them could head off the Strat-
ford stallion after that and he won the
three following heats quite handily. He
is a very deceiving looking horse but he
did his work so steadily, while his wpm•
petitors, especially the Blyth horse,
would persist in breaking, that in the
last beat he could have shut the loot two
out if the driver had so desired. ',Liv-
ingston" took and place in the 5th heat
but, was set bath by the judges to ard for
running so 111,1011.
51711010110.
A.. Thompann's "Axtel," 1, a., 2 3 1 1 1
W. B. 840104 "Boy Ply," b. 01. 1 2 2 3 2
B. Livia natou's r. Livi Wu,' g„ 3 1 3 2 3
trime 280, 2.839, 2.31.
0110ED 01.00, 0551311 875.00,
Only two heats were trott ed in this
ratm and both were won by "Sleepy
Mope," "Sanday H." taking 2n4 place
in the lat heat and 8r4 in the 2n4 heat
and "Thomas 0." vice versa. The latter is
a "Carlisle" °Olt that has had very little
training and is likely to (levet° p into a
trotter.
sultsrAny.
A. Eta dg's "Sleepy nape," 8,01,, 1 1
IL Whams & Sun's"Sandyll." a, 5,, 2 8
P. Soott's "Tnomas 0," b. g. 3 3
Thne 3.07, 8,03,
Beattie Bros. running mare "Topsy
33" ran a half mile in '58 seconds and
thereby won a purse of 080,00. This was
done because the running race did not
fill. "Topsy B." is in line fit and the
horse thea beats her has to run a lively
rape
11000 500158.
T, Rutledge supplied refreshment on
the park but did not get wealthy over
the reoeipts.
A number of people who had not a
quarter to spare viewed the races from
the fence. They sold themselves pretty
°heap.
Horseman pronounoe the Bruseels
track one of the best half mile courses in
the Province.
0118,00 was taken at the gate.
Several se:cot-boards and other
gamblers were allowed on the grounds.
They are a disgrace to any place they
frequent and the weeder is thee the
authorities permitted them to prosecute
their work.
The Directore aro wall sotiefied with
the opening of the Driving Park and feel
assured that all who competed for the
purses received fair play.
A few of the visitors loaded up too
homily before they loft town and im ma-
dition to a considerable racket had
close call ou the homeward journey.
Neatly all the horses went to Godo -
rich on Saturday to tales part in the
moos on Tuesday.
The following flyers start in the fres-
forallat Stratford :•—liosa 13, john
Dullban, Gray Tobe and axtel. greot
rote 18 expected as these are the best
horses in the week
8. bobe born ab Danbury, Conn„ lit -t
week weighe lose them two ponncls.
When born it weighed one pound and
two ouneee, Its length is that of an
ordinary lead pencil. The parents are
Daniel Werner nnd wife. The obild ie
iu perfect health.
GRIMSBY PARK.
Along with 1,100 excursionists a repro.
seniative of Tint Pon visited the well
known Rummer resort; of Grimsby Park
on the 15111 of August. When we got
there we found four Derive thousand
people on the ground and at this portion.
lar time the majority of them wore listen-
ing to a lecture in the temple by Rev.
Dr. leVyllie, of Symouge, who took the
place of the noted Ohanoellor Sims. The
Commercial Travellers als0 presented an
attractive program on the afternoon of
the IMMO day and in the evening Rev.
Manly Beneon, of Toronto, a familiar
personage on the comp ground, delivered
an interesting lecture on the Yosemite
Park. Upwsrds of 100 views of the
beautiful valley and other scenes were
Placed upon canvas by F Whittemore.
There were so many visitors in attend-
ance that when bedtime came there was
not nearly bedroom acoommodotion en.
ough and a large number had to (mutant
themselves with oohs.
Sunday was well templed. President
Phelps, who by the troy is one of the
meet obliging men a person could meet
in a yeitr's travel, led a prayer and ex-
perience meeting commenoing at 0:30.
This was followed by a very logical and
eloquent sermon on the Atonement by
Rev. Dr. Wyllie. At 2:50 Dr, McIntyre,
of Chicago, discoursed pleasantly and
profitably to 8,000 people from the text
"I am the light of the world," and at
7:30 Rev, Dr. Van Alstyne, of Norwalk,
Con., preaohed to a large company. Af-
ter the service the voice of praise ascend.
ed from many a group gathered at the
cottages or along the lake shore. It was
a good day.
Monday afternoon Dr. McIntyre thrill-
ed the large audience with his wonderful
lecture entitled "Buttoned up People."
His word pictures, eloquence, pathos,
wit, tea., won him a front seat in the es.
timation of the thousands who heard him
and they were by no means slow with
applause. It was worth the trip from
Brussels if there had been no other at.
traotion. Dr. Von Alstyne occupied the
pulpit in the eveniug. Good singing was
a noticeable feature at all the services.
T. 0. Jeffere, of Toronto, is the pianist
and conductor and Mrs. Harrison, of
Saokville, N. B., the soloist. A large
choir assist hi the song service.
Grimsby Pork is a beautiful place and
perhaps to those who have never visited
it a few words in reference to it may be
interesting. The holding of camp meet -
Inge ab Grimeby clatee back 30 or more
years and many are the bestitnonies thitt
could be obtained of the good received at
these annual gatherings. Grimsby Pork
consists of 100 acres of land, nicely
wooded in places, and belonged to John
B. Bauslough from whom it was pur-
chased by a board of eleven direotors, of
which Noah Phelps, of St. Catharines, is
President, ond ono of the leading spirits.
The price paid for the property seas
$300.00 per acre. The Park is bounded
on the north by lake Ontario and is al -
moot directly sonth of Toronto. On the
southern boundary is the mein line of
the former Greet Western railway and
nearly all paosenger brains °all at Grims-
by Park statiou. On the grounds are
two hotels (no liquor is allowed) "Lake
View" and the "Park House," where
board may be secured at 42.00 and 01.00
per day respectively. There is also a
grocery, drug store, book store, poet, tele.
gragh and express office, photo. gallery,
barber shop, daily market, soores of beau-
tiful cottages and the auditorium or
"Temple" as 11 18 called, 200 building
in all. There are avenees, flower gar.
dens, lawn tennis ground, base ball
grounds and a very pleasant grove fitted
up with tobles, soots, tko., for plomic
parties. Illamy of the people prefer
camping out to boardiug in a hotel or
renting a cottage. There is also a com-
plete system of waterworks, and an elec-
t:do light plant. At the beach is to be
found 53 rowing and sail boats and 75
bathing suits. Steamers run daily from
Toronto, Hamilton and St. Catharines.
The population of the Park this summer
was estimated at about 1,500. The larg.
est attendance on any one day In the hie.
tory of the Park was 11,000. 700 con.
veyanoes oama through the gate on Sab-
bath, Aug. Ifith. An many as 1000 rigs
have been counted in one day. Collec-
tions are not talon but every adult has
to pay 15 ciente se ho passes through the
turnstile and the same amount for earth
day he remains on the Park. Noah
Philps is President ; E. Galley and Rev.
Dr. Sutherland, of Toronto, Vice Prosi•
dents ; and W. 0. Wilkinson, of Toronto,
Secretary. Rev. Manly Benson is Dir-
ector of bhe services. The hotels are
under the supervision of 0. 0. Graves, of
St. Catharines.
Perhaps the Temple is worthy of more
thou a passing notice. It was erected in
1884) and, the plan was prepared by Presi.
dent Phelps. The building is dome
shaped, 132 feet high in the centre and
140 feet in diameter, and ie built of lum-
ber oovered svith canvas and that painted.
In its conetruction 105,000 feet of lumber
Was 0Onsumed, 8,000 yards of oenVas,
toes et nails and 20 barrels of paint.
The building ia supported on 20 pillars.
The asscoaatio properties are so good that
almost a whispin oan be heard when 11 15
filled. It will seat 5,500 people. The
cost of the building was about 411.000.
Canvas (=tains are orrenged so that on
a obilly day the auditorium may be elm-
pletely enalosed. At night the Temple is
illuminated by 6 ohm:trio aro lighte.
ror a pleaseet, heolthfel and profitable
onting at a very moderate expense, we
have met with nothing thee appears to
be as near the mark ail Grimsby. The
neturol scenery 143 grand ; the position
aII that (meld be desired and the Direct.
ors have left nothing undone to make it
pretty ond heine like.
The lotest advieee from Martinique
say 840 pereons perished ie the remelt
hurricane tvithoul counting the shipwreek
fatalities.
The Italian artily contains tioorly two
million men, or, to give the exact figures,
1,028,002. Among them are 80,000 AL
pme eoldiere, trained and inured to the
liardehips of mountain werfare.
311101141101ST STATINTI141.1.
The following figures eve taken from
the publielied mitintee of the Guelph
Conference of the Methodist ohurch, and
will be of Interest as showing the reletive
standing of the different eironite in the
county, with the Guelph Conferenne, Ex•
eter churches are in the Londou Confer.
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201 149 90 2108 00 000
210 190 39 2-2100 710
Washington Letter.
From our Regular Oorresnr ad en t.)
Vaerunemcer, Augagt 21, '01,
Four important issuee are to be de•
cicled when the Supreme Court of the
United States meets for the October
term. Thief) of these issues involve the
most important legislation of the fifty-
first Congress. Aside from certain
matters in connection with the Bebring
sea controversy, the Supreme Court will
have before 21 1110 question of the legality
of the MoKinley bill, and inoidently the
right of Congress to pass a protective
tariff measure under any eircumstances.
The legality of Speaker Reed's quorum -
counting prooess is also to be determin-
ed. Two other issues are presented in
the matter of habeas corpue oases, upon
one of which practically depends the en-
forcement of the interstete commerce act
and on the other the right of Oongress to
prohibit the oiroulation of lottery adver.
tisements through the mails. These
questions are based on constitutional
grounds mainly, and the decisions of the
Sapreme Court in the mekters involved
must embrace the most profound sort of
jurisprndence. The Department of Jug.
ace, through the Solicitor General, is
now at work on these preparing the ar-
guments in behalf of the Government.
Thus the substantial legislation of the
last Congress will pass in review before
the Supreme Court in the next few
months, and the issues to be decided
are of far•reaching importanoe.
Senator John G. Carlisle and wife ay.
rived in Washington 'net evening from
the White Mountains, where they have
been recuperating for a short season.
This summer, however, has been any-
thing but a restful vacation time for the
Senator' as be has been very busy wish
the work of the special committee to ex-
amine into the workings of the tariff. In
regard to that he said : "It fe a task of
no small magnitude. We propose to go
into the subject thoroughly, treeing it
back in all ita relations to wages, labor,
oommeroe, and industrial development
for the past fifty years. Hon. Carroll D.
Wright, Commissioner of Labor, will oo.
operate with us, and we look to him for
a groat deal of held in preparing our re.
pork Thek will not be ready until late
next spring or summer. It is impossible
to present it earlier.
"I haven't heard politics discussed ex.
oept in the most casual way and have
been so busy with public matters that I
have devoted little thought to that sub.
ject. I did epeak in a recent interview
of the great hold Mr. Cleveland had on
the people and with what admiration
they regarded him, but I did not predict
hie reaomination, because that is as yet
a matter of speculation. I have no hesi-
tation in saying that the Democraey
should keep the tariff te the front. It is
the great issue of the day, and on it the
fight should be made. Upon it the party
is united, and can make it confident and
aggressive battle."
Washington has had the pleasure of
greeting during the week a number of
widely different but interesting bodies of
mats who gathered here in annual ses-
sion. The American Assooiation for the
Advancement of Science, is ono of the
greatest societies devoted to scientific
studies in the whole world. It com-
prises in its membership most of the able
investigators who have given this conk.
nent a protnivence in the scientific: devel.
optneut of the present Ewe. Besides
these men of pare steienee, alio two tele.
graphers' bodies are with us, whose Do.
eupation tonehes the denude of practical
Balance, will illustrate to some extent the
progress of electricity in one of its moot
important applications. There is some.
thing historicel in both the Old Timers
and the Military Association, the one
running back to Morse and 1844, the
other to the institution of military tele.
graphy in the United States, To those
addicted to outdoor pastimes the session
of the National Oarsmen's Assosiation
and the regotta on the Potomae, opposite
this city, were events of enpreme inter -
Gab. Washington has room for all these
national bodies arid others besides. The
national oapital is the vilest suitable
plum for gulch Houma or other regular
meetings, with its vast array of things
to show and contiguley to the :neat
memorable scenes in Amerioan history.
In his remarks at Albany of Teeedity
the president stated his position en the
silver question with such Oneness that
nobody can mletithe its maiming. Mr.
Harrison le evidently willing to have the
ilnaneial pellet, of his adminiebritbi011, so
far as coinage is concerned, measured by
his declarotions, and the positivonees
With Which they are made on an ootheion
When the people were scorcely looking
foe public utteremees of eueli 00 oharaoter
lend them a somewhat peculinr
.0aMettnrewiatilafinarapess.....nons.Mfir
canoe. The plain, umnietakable infer-
ence is that ehould a bill for the free and
uidimited coinage of silver page the next
tfouee of Congrese and by hook or (noels
Be way through the Senate, it will never
be allowed to become a law either with
the President'a approval or withoot his
signature, Mr, Ingalls has evidently be.
ootne conviced that them) are not pro-
pitioue times for great men, He says
I3Ittiors is too great to becotne Prusi.
dent.
Orienstclitiet ref es awes.
Ingersoll wheelinen purpoee forming a
bioyele club.
A boy named Geo, Cronmiller Wits
drowned at Welland Thursday evening.
Andrew Watson, cherged at Guelph
with WIN desertion, lute been lined 511.5.
A petrified body has been kneed in St.
ford.
4. Episcopal church yard Strut -
A. man named Thomas Martin had his
arm badly mangled by a tiger at Robin.
son'e circus on Friday, at Quebec:.
There were 17 businese failures in
Canada and 100 in the States during the
past week, KS 00rapared with 20 and 172
reepeotively lea year,
ans. McMaster, of Ridgetown, oilers to
give 01000 in labor and use of machinery
to itny ono who will put down a test gas
well on the north side of the railway.
Albert Moyse, of Montmorenoy, was
nearly killed through ecniteot with a live
electric wire. He desoribes the sense
tion prior to his losing oonsolousness as
being pleasurable.
A. ohild of Obas. Smith, a railroad sec-
tion man, living near BAdgetown, a girl
of 17 months old, tumbled into a waseb•
tub full of water near the door and wee
not missed till it was drowned.
Rev. E. Hulbert, a superannuated
Methodist minister and long a mission.
ary among the Indians, died suddenly
Tuesday afternoon. He was in good
health up to the hour of death.
James H. McRoberts, an extensive ex-
porter of thoroughbred stock from Bid•
dulph, has shipped to Indiana 274 fall
bred Shropshire sheep and four thorough.
bred Clydeedale stallions. They occupied
four freight oars.
E. W. Hagerty, B. A., late head master
of the high school at Blount Forest, Vi'll11
on Friday eveuing presented with an ad-
dress and gold watch prior to his leaving
for John Hopkin t University to take a
post•graduate course.
W. V. Wright, B. A., missionary from
Japan, has returned to Piokering, Ont.,
with his wife and little daughter, he be-
ing forced to return home on account of
ill -health after having spent three years
10 01155100 work in Tokio.
Peter Grant, of Shannonville, a laborer
on the G. T. R. double track, WaS struck
by a train Friday morning. The car
wheels passed over hie legs, which were
afterwards amptitated at Iiiro,ston Gen-
eral Hospital. The man will likely re-
wveorliM
SMcConnell, of the firm of Mc-
Connell & Dunkley, grocers, of Beldam
street, North Chatham, slipped and fell
off a ladder Monday morning, breaking
two ribs at the baok bone, and injuring
himself severely. Fie will be laid np for
a month aft the least.
8.1 Victoria Park, Truro, N. S., Wed•
nasday ahoy belonging to the town, aged
11 years, fell over a cliff whioh rune up
at the side of the park to the ground—a
distance of about 50 feet. He WILS pick-
ed up unconscious and carried to his
home, where he died about half an hour
after.
A gushing spring of water was die -
=eared a few daye ago on the farm of
Neil Leitch, lot 8, COIL 8, Moss. It is
situated in the bed of a creek, in a stiff
clay soil, and has apparently only start-
ed. There is a strong smell of gas about
the spring and the woter hae a mineral
taste, is of a milky color and quite cold.
Dm depth of the spring was tested ana
found to be eight feet.
Wm. Coe, of Illodoti, died at that place
Sunday night from a stroke of apoplexy.
Mr. Coe was prominent in oonnection
with mining and railway enterprises and
stock breeding, and a member of the
Ontario Mining Commission. In 1882
he unsuociesefully opposed the Minister of
Customs for the House of Ootnrnons.
He was about 55 years of age.
A middle-aged man named Robert
Couoh, who eaid he had a wife and three
children living near Borrie and bad left
that town for Sault Ste. Marie in search
of employment, failing to find work be
returned to Owen Sound and was ar-
rested. It is thought the poor fellow was
not rigbt in his mind. He vine eating
green applee before his arrest, having no
money to buy food. The day before his
death he complabied of being sick and
was given some pills by the paler. The
neet morning he was found demi in his
o
Word was reoeivecl at Montreal last
week that one of the Canadian Express
Company's sealed bagsmontaining money
and valuablee, bad been trifleot with at
Richmond and the contents etoien. The
bag was brought from Portland to Itioh•
mond and given to the station agent,
who transferred it to the Montreal
messenger. When it was examined it
WA ft/1111d that the contents hod been
removed and brown paper substituted.
The express company has sent out In.
specter Bryce to hold eas investigation.
The contents of blue bag are understood
to have boon of considerable value.
On Tuesday last Thotnae L. Cranebon,
teller of the Bonk of 00111M8500 st Dun.
des, left that them, full of life anti hope,
to spend a weelc or so in holidaying along
the honks of the St. Lawrence River,
All his friends were surprised and bunt.
fled to 114017 by telegraph on Boturday
that he hod west his deo* by drowning
while canceing on the previous doy in the
'neighborhood of St, Anne'e Qaebee. De.
aed was ths son of AaalTi Cranston,
nel
ail8ler, a well known and highly raped.
ed resident of Galt Ont. He was 21
yeame of age, end before leaving Dundee
took out an aecsident iesuranee poliay
for 010,000, payable to his mother. This
he left in the heeds of Mr. Park, of the
Beak or Commeeoe, Dundas. His body
hag not been roc:voted.
Number 7.
London people in the vicinity of Tal-
bot stre4 and the 0, 1'. R. about 0
o'cloth Monday evening witneesed
novel sight. A large frame house, with
tsvo windows and a brick ohimney was
loaded bodily on 0 fiat ear and pushed
away by the loot:motive. The house
stood between the 10 Carling's
Brewery ami the mein lino, and as tbe
laud woe wanted the company took that
method of moving the house. It will be
placed up the brook about a mile east of
its former position and used by the com-
pany.
Maggie, daughter of Charles Austin, of
Moseborough, bad been suffering from a
slight illness for which she had been an-
oustomed to take powdered allspice as a
remedy, Last Tuesday evening she
went te the cupboard in which the all-
spice wee kept and picking up a cup in
the dark she to .1 a large done and wenb
to bad. Two hours later her eider found
her in terrible agony. An investigation
showed that a cup containing Paris green
was standing in the cupboard beside that
containing the allspice, and this it was
which the unfortunate girl had taken by
mistake. Antidotes were at onee ad-
ministered, bat it is doubtful if the lady
will recover,
The Dutton Advance says :----A tramp
met with a heorty reception at the resi-
dence of Mr. Rethwell one evening last
week. All the members of the family
were absent excepting a young son of Mr.
Rothwell, who hod been enable to gee
home at tea time, and whose evening
meal hod been left on the table for him.
The tramp accosted the boy, and learn-
ing that the folks of the house were ab-
sent, asked if he could have something
to eat to which the boy responded in the
negative, He, however, determined to
appease his appetite, went into the house
nod proceeded to devour the boy's sup-
per. The boy remonstrated with him,
but finding it of no avail, prnoeeded out
of the honse, but soon returned aecom-
panied by a large Newfoundland dog.
The dog appeared to take in the situa-
tion at once, made a rush for the tramp
and attacked him so severely that he
pleaded with the boy to call hira off.
Beaides loaine, hie supper the tramp loss
a goodly portion of his wearing apparel
through the plucky action of the boy
who has just entered his 'teens.
NV": .
Rich discoveries of gold are being
made in Alaska.
The temperature at San Francisco on
Saturday wee 1710.
President Harrison has commeuced
his tonr of the State of Veresout.
There are in the raihvay yards at Kao -
sae City 2,300 cars of groin waiting to be
unloaded.
A Western farmer recently threshed
1,200 bushels of wheat and two tramps
in one day.
Thirtymix bodies have been taken
from the ruins of the collapsed baildings
in New York.
Bishop Brooks speaks 21.9 words a
11111lUte and is said to be 'the fastest
speaker in the world.
From investigation it is shown that
France will have to itnport this year
82,500,000 bushels of wheat.
In a hurricane at Senegal an Italian
steamer ond two cutters were wrecked.
Eighteen persons were drowned.
Orop prospects in England are poor.
From Westmoreland and Leeds reports
of grain destroyed have been received.
John Fruth struok Jaeob Stokesbury
at &dm, Ohio, Saturday with a stone,
(trashing his skull and causing death.
Rev. John Jackson Brown, L. L. D.,
professor of ohemietry and physics in
Syracuse University, died on Saturday.
Eight thousand wrought iron nail
workers in Woroester and Staffordshire
are on strike against a proposed reduc•
tion in wsges.
The police of Moscow have received
secret orders, which will have the effeat
of expelling every Jew from the district
within two months.
The 0. P. II. steamship, Empress of
China, ou the third and lost around -the'
world excursion, arrived at Penang on
Stuturdtty and left for Singapore,
The Kaffirs of South Africa have very
queer names. Some are as follows :—
Sixpence, Shilling, Jammu, February,
Hell and Blazes, Two for Sixpence, etc.
During a thunderstorm at Norfolk,Va,,
on Saturday, fire started by spontaneous
combustion, and eight large warehouses
and factories were destroyed. One item
of the loss was $80,000 worth of peanuts.
Mrs. Mary Richardson and three
little daughters were overtaken by a
train at Nicholeaville, Ky., while walk.
ing on a railway bridge. The mother
and two of the girls were intently kill-
ed.
David Jaoobs and Mrs. Mary Johnson,
who were senteneed to be hanged at
Chesterfield, S. C., on Friday et last
week, for the murder of William John-
son, the woman's husband, were respited
by the governor after they had taken
their places on the death trap and the
nooses had been adjusted.
The annual race tneeting of the Gode.
rich Turf Club was held on Tuesday.
The traolc was good in spite of Monday s
rain. Charlie G. and Lou Basell were
distatused in the seeond herst of the three
minute trot, and Sleepy Joe won first
meney and Queen second. Axtel won
the 2,32 trot, Dr. Livingston ethend and
Torn Berke third. Goderich Chid wog
distanced in the first heat. Gray Tobe
won the free-formll in straight heats,
totting it easy to save Bey Fly and
Harry 0. from being diatenced..
The greot wing shot, Captain Iiresear,
on Saturday, at Thanderbolt Driving
Park, Salem 14, 3., killed 100 birds
straight but lost one theeugh dropping
oet of bounds. The fact svas ftecomplish.
cal ender Londoe Gun Club rules, 80
yards' rise fvom five ground tram with
80 yards boundary. Ilia gun Wart 0 new
Weetley Richards hammerless ojeotor,
made in Birmingham Eng., aed only
reached the Captain's lutede Thersday.
Every btrd bat ono dropped withiu 20
feet of tlie trope. The oharge was four
&Rohm Schultz powder nnd one and
one•quatler ounces No. 8 sbot,