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The Huron Expositor, 1872-09-13, Page 1f- EPTs 6, $. t Salt, COTTAGE FOR SAM ious Brick Cottage, in E,;rrtondviile John Logan's, isered for sale lutes' walk of Seaiorth Station. THOMAS FERGUSON. M FOS _SALE. Can- 5, Township of Morrie, ece 1, log houses ; there is a quantity the lot, within one .bile mala a half' . .eaills. For farther particn 1I.F.i1 ' l AMOSS, Dingle P. 0. tM FOR SA F RM in the Townchipof Stare ot; 27, South Boundary, eoftainirl . r less, 78 acres under cultivation hardwood bush; a never -fail; nt a through the lot , good Qrohard„. Daring Apple Trees, also Brom, T gees ; agoodframe barn, eseee and stable; quality- of soli, first rst<otilee. grist -grill, church and tai ;hborhood The Proprietor is is he intends going to Manitoba:. THOMAS TALBOT, fetor, Berea P. O., Hay Township. ._...-._�....�.:.� FOR SALE. an. 4 Grey, 100 aeres, 85 cleared ood dultieation, young orchard;; i well timbered ; 4 utiles front F Road and 3 .mt1esr from Ethel.. t of the Wellington, Gray and di be opened this Fall_ For feu dress, prepaid, HUGE 2111S - O., or C. R. COOPER, �d 1i FOR SALE,: Rf the South half of Lot nse. ion of the taweship of Monis,. res. 35 geared; well watered by a ed log house and frame stable. r only a mile and a half on a good. mg village of Ainleyaiilo, whore a kllington Grey' anti Bruce Raij. d this fall. For price and terms• er, prepaid} of C. R. COOPER, elleLand Agency, Daigle P.. 0. Iht FOR SALE,; hundred acres o1 land; being 7. Fifth Concession of Tucker- .ceenee acres cleared and in a - ration; thirty acres btesh ; hewn i:inghouse, stable, sheep -house: spring creek in the front of the the rear; as good land as an Four and ahau miles. f - Reucet eld. T sons Sea- ertue't one-third er in yearly installments, Apply lacCA A i Brocefieltl P. 0. PAI FOR SALE. Oeeceseion, Tu nberly,eonsiet- es. nearly 100 being cleared and cultivation. There is a good. a frame abed 80'50. There la orchard. Will be sold on easy he prernises to JAMES HENNle S. -te AR. SALE I HAY. eters Lot 2I, Ninth Concession :the "Troyer Farm;" one-half m. the Gravel Road ; 70 acres ;, g house arra barn; good yob ie land is in agood state of eat- need. For further particularsW. G. witisont nnr eh, Oat. CPR SA ,F: IN GREY. Oren 15,, teen:mhip of Grey,eon- are; seventy acres cleared- ' 1cDERMID, Herpurhey. FOHN SILLERS, € rey )RSALE.. ?ropertr, situated. on Market €3road€fooks Planing . o#' t} lot, excellent dwelling t present ocoupiedl by Mr. Ar- ertal, x-osseseion given, at the xt. For further Particulars,- DICKSON,: articulararDICKSON,: P. M5., _ Senfortbe FA:RbT FOR SALV,. Eighth Concession, Hullett hick 30 mores are cleared and hag orchard of About 100 trees it; a easy large frame barn, d a Iog hoeso. The farm is: is chiefly lying under gram'_ xey for purchaser, 3frequired= eliorttirue,. the farm will be sf years. Application to b- en on the premises. CH4:BLES. L A'WItl . TY FOR nn -LR i with a good frame cottage er kitchen, and wooclethed ad- ern, stable and shed; a pump tee,- orchard, being part of Lot Killen, and situated 11 miies red for sale.. For terms, ap- M HIIRABLANCTIAA.RD, SSeaforth P. O. 'OR. SALE. ling Lot, containing one sora of Lot 10,11ifth Concession,. Y_ There is a good log house - and an orchard o2' bearing is a situated within two miles pit Graeell Road, and about 6 - end end iu in the midst of an ex y= For *tether particulars ettProprietor, on the pr.ria sh Peat-ofllce. JOHN DOWNEY=_- : sALE. ,10( acres,. First Coupes- car Sec forth,: on the mein: e. 8 acres cle redt'nnd free acres of a= fallow, the rest •rod and fenced, with largo dere eth; Iog term -house, bi€ orchard ; possession art - and terms easy. For tar - if by letter, prepaid,) to Y_EB, Seaforth P. O. fR SALE.II'( $PAVORTIT an Iot on Goderioh_ street. - prris, Apply to t COUNTER,: Seafor*h. 1i AII ::EYVILLEt occupied by Jatnne Leon - lip for cash: Buildings all i mmedbntely.: J T.ECEIE. 72 233 in EARFLAP:O LY ira of Harprzrhoy,: new Nous and lot. There is l . - r 15e$ ing Orchard, a nevem 0, a good work -shop and all o e, necessary out- s fr e, well finished and cd s awl other partieu-- [eC NNELL, Harparhey, t)ro rietor, Harpurhoy, or JOHN REEDY. m that the nndere-ig-ne 1 Cooper Shop in Seaiorth, - e. vriil -hereafter carry on. own /lathe_ �. ANDERSON & CO. a72. - above, the undersigned. .ce reefter Ceue on the cl by Mesere. O. G. An. - 4, l,} e:triet attention to- - work tet merit n. contin- ;age hereteforo accorded PHILIP .VOLMA,IL 247 4 FE. ter %v acrd•4 of land for. a:tf either of the Villages v fuel it purchaser by ap-. :;tate the member of :price per acre. i,.CR .4 -DAMSON, • County Clerk. 247-2 1ED'1ATELy. tails, Cedar Posts and ea- particulars apply to No. 11, Concession 8, DAVID M00R.E.: usaratanat TO.LITitiE a, NO. 41. iWiLOLE' NO »9. i tEb%CXL. it. 9:iI tT.T,, Iti.11., Physician, :Surgeoii O. &e.; Graduate of Toronto University, Assted- ate Coroner for the County of Huron, Wroxeter, Ontario. 285-13e DS.YID MITCHF.T.,, M. D., GraduiatVi o of to. ri t< College, PhyMeian, Surgeon, eto., eta., Lrrl r, 0\T.-=0oroner- of the County of Huron.: °ace and residence, at Thompson & Stanley's. . R W, R.. SMITH, Pliysieian, Surgeon, ate. 0f 1ee -Opposite Seat Robertson's Grocery, lain. street, Scafortb. 53 TS STEWA_RT, M. D., C. itl., Graduate of tJ ;McGill, University, Montreal, Physioian, Sur- geon, etc. Office and Residence—Erncofleld,. L. Vt00E, M. D., C. M. -Physician, Sur-. • geon, etc. Office and Retlidence, corner of 3Iarket and High streets, next to the Planing trill.'. DR, CAMPBELL, Coroner for the County. Office and Residence, over Corby's corner store, plain street, Seaiorth. Office hours, from 11 to 4, each day, and. all day Saturday. ! 159 TO the inhabitants of Seaiorth and surrounding 1 country. Dr. J. G. BULL haying been called through sickness in his family, to suspend business far 'some time in this place, had pleasure in an- mincing to the public, that through n kind, Pro- videnco ho has been permitted to return to the roorne formerly occupied by him, over Mr. A. G. 3IcDont;all's Store, Main street,' 'Where; he intends peruxrnently to ee-nain, and will be pleased to sec Ins ohapreerons: and as many new ones. es may layer him with a call. All operations performed accord- big to the latest approved style, and fes as low as to be trend elsewhere. Office hours from 8 A. M. to 5 M 224 LEGAL. tid. LEFT, Solicitor, Wingham, has been •ap- • pointedAgent for the Colonial Securities Com- pany of England, be is also Agent for several pri- vate Capitalists of Toronto, who loan Money at very reasonable rates. Interest payable yearly. Chargees moderate. Wirigham, Dee. 15;1871. 213- WireCAUG H AY & HOL,i2ESTLD; Barristers, At - "I'LL torneys et- Law, Solicitors in Ci aneery and Insnly, «ncy, ;`notaries. Public and Conveyancers. Solicitors for the 1:. C. Bank, Seaforth. Agente for' the Cnnade LUerAssnrance Company, N. B.—$30,000 to lend. at •t3 per 'cent.. Farme, Houses and Lots for sale. 53 pENSON & METER, Barristers and Attorneys at Law, Solicitors in Chancery and Insolvency, Conveyancers, ,N.lotariea Public,. etc. Cefticee-See- forth and Wroxeter. $25,000 OX _ PriTe. e Panels to invest at once, at Eight per cent. Interest, payable yearly_ 53 JAS.. fit. S'E:csva. 7Ex. Ng' LOTELS. • OM'L,TERCL HOTEL, Ainleyville, Ont., WM. [V ANNBTT, Droprletor. This Hebei is under entirely new management: and has been thorough, renovated. The Bar its supplied With the bust 'Minors and Cigare. Good Stabling and attentive Hostlers. A First-class Li-ery in connection. 228 •F1ENCE OF *ALES HOTEL, Clinton, Ont., 0_ J. McCUTiltiLON, Proprietor. First-oless aecoiu.nodation for travellers. The Bar is sup- plied with the -very best liquors and'oigars.- Good stabling ettae,red. The sttsge leaves this House every day for Wingbam. 201-4t lL.-If ERY.. �A. SHMMP'S LIVHBYA1 D SALE STABLES. - OfLct—At-;arrays Hotel, Seaiorth. Good Horses reel first-olessConveyances always onhand: fplIOMS:ON'S LIVERY, CLINTON. OFFICE,—AT COMMERCIAL HOTEL. Good quiet ;lo=ses and First -Vass Vehicles always on band. Conveyssnees furnished to Commeroial firarellers on reasonable rates. 221 JOBN THOMISO.N. $ ELL'S LIVET STABLE ; S t AYORTH, Ont. Good Horses and Comfortable Vehicles, always 'on hand. Favorable Arrangements made with 'Comrnercial Travellers,. All orders left at KNox's Hoyer., will be promptly attended io. Orriem AND -STABLiis :-Third door 'North of Tnor's Hotel, Main Street. 221 'THOMAS BT .LL, Ptropriotor. 1t1YnCE LLAN -- i J. CHURCHILL, VETERINARY SURGEON (Member , 1 the OntarioeterinaryCollege,) 'begs to intimate to the inha 'tants of'Seaiorth and snrrottndi±g country, that he hail opened an Office in Seaforih, where he: ma- be consulted per- sonally or by letter, on the Diseases of Horses, Cat- tle, eta. Having reeeived s regular and practical edeteetion, ndi aving been awarded the Diploma of the;1-ete�nrrry College of Ontario, T. J. Churchill has ;every confidence of giving Esatiafaotion to all who may emalay him. RET Zns—A. Snaith, T. $., Principal Onta- rio Veterinary College; Professor Buokland, Dr. Thorburn Dr. Trowel, and— Wells,; M.: D., & V. S. Vetorinai y Medioines constantly on hind. A:1 calls promptly attended to. Office—Carmiehael'a Hotel, Seafarth.•.\ 182-211 ETEEINARY SURGEON. D. MoNAUGHT,. V. S:,, begs to annonr_oe to Seaiorth and surrounding eon been awarded the diploma of :tb ary College, and is now prepared to treat diseases of Horses and Cottle sad ail domestic animals. He has opened an office in oonnecteien with hie hsreie- shoein , shop, inhere he will be found ready to at- tend ttend to calls. Diseases of the feet specially at= tended to. Residence, offlee and shop inthe rear of 1illoran & yan's new store. All kinds of Vet- •erinnry Medicines kept constantly on hand. -Charges reasonable. 229. A LEXAl1DFF HUNTEB, Licensed Auctioneer, Oraibrook Grey P. 0. Sales attended on :moderate.terms., Commissioner in -Queen's Bench, 'Conveyancer, Land, Loan. and , General Agent.— Also, Agent for the following Companies, viz. r 'Huron and Erie Loan Society, London ; Farmers' Band Meeh ,mics' Savings and Loan Company, Toron- -to ; ltoysl Insarenice Company of Lioerpool and `'London, Fire anti Life ; Ontario Mutual Fire In-- •eurance Companyemd the AgriculturalInsurance Compeny. Any amount of money to loan at rater of interest. • `Several good Farm's for sale, cheap.: 224 -Gm the inhabitants of ;try that he has tt• COOPER, -Conveyancer, Comniissioner in ' • ,Qacen's Bench, Insurance end one t, Satinea Society of Toronto, vrhose rates are a.s low_ courts are on. the right. • SEAF IRTII, FRIDAY, SEPT. 13 THE QUADROON GIRL The Slaver in the bro d lagoon ay moored with idle sail t He aited for the rising moon, And,. for the evening gale. Under the -shore his boat was tied, And all her listrkss crew' Watched the gray al 'gator slide Into the stilt bayou Odours of orangeeflo ers, and spice, Reached them fro time to time, . Like airs.that breathe from Paradise Upon a world of cri e. • The Plantet, under h s -roof of thatch, Smoked thoughtful y and slow ; The Slaver's thumb as on the latch, Ile seemed in baste to go. Ile said, "My ship at anchor rides In yonder bread. la oon • I only wait the even' tides, And the tieing of t e moon." face upraised, Before them, with h In timid attitude, Like one half cutions, half amazed, Her eyes were large, Her arnis and neck No garment she wo bright, Andlier own long., even hair. And on her lips thereiplayed a smile As holy, meek, andl faint, As lights in some cathedral aisle oThe features of a saint. nd full of light, - were bare; , save a kirtle " The soil is barren, The thoughtful Pla Then. looked upon tb Anil then uPon the His heart within him With such accuse For he knew whose p . Whose blood- ran. in But the voice of natu He trk the glitte Then pale as death gr Her, hands aa icy co tlie-farm is old ;" ter said ; Slaver's gold, . aid. Was at strife gains ; her veins: e was too weak ; d. The slaver led her fro el the door He led her by the and, 'To be his sla.ve and p ramour —11. W. Londreitow. LONDON CO The- .A.kijournurnent of New PIntse-of the '' —31r. Dion Rondo always to me as if it ha( out. The bulk aud the same, but the light an are gone. Palace Yard, animation and life, wh sitting, is now abandon d to the pigeons which fly in swarms" (do we say a the clock tosver, and oc asionally swoop entrance to W estmias stupid enbugh to think - of Parliament standing Thames with the nobl [ Lambeth opposite on t ' the yet nobler Westmi the other, and the teall grageful Westminster alrctost front the terrace, to think that all this e# the finest city views ia t sure if it were to beeee Rome we should. all go i about it. But the pla mournful and desola thinking, just at presen of Premature Autumn i Bed the Houses of Parlmment late the • Id for a moment to look at the I thought its were positively e of one lonely nt window—in some moutlif n1 tionary. What' hey must have Winn nightli in ness of silent Irish woman, who keeps her little .st 11 of apples and lehboran Trial: ales Ex- rliament seems --had its eye put features are 'the the • expression so full of bustle; n 'the House is - that the Houae n the edge of the old Yalace of e one side, and stet Abbey on handsome and ridge springing of the House of enough, I say, nstitutes one of e world: I am in Paris or in to wild raptures e. has a rathet aspect, to my . A sadness as over it. I pas - other night, and as I st on 'Westminster Bridge vast, dark. Gothic pile darkness and. desolation deepened by the twink light in a high and diet the room, I suppose, of caretaker or other fun an awesome time of it Who arm left all the A the care of that wilae building ! Even the ol cakes near the naembe Westminster Hall ---`a nearly as well lutown to of that building as the girl Isabella to the swell s' entrance, in or old person brilliant flbwer of the splendid race courses—even she hen • disappeared. By the way, howevet, I hould say that her disappearance is voluntary, and may illustrate sorae of he peculiarities of official regulation. and patroeage here. Westminster 'Hall, as y u know, is the grand entrance alike t the Houses of Parliament and the la v courte. The naembers' entrance to th house of 'Com - go ; the law ow the worthy while the House le state near the t of_ the mem- come and talk w aud then for helping hand, m the country However, In a Boucle all afford her the House sits o her by the s then supreme Agent fee the preateld Permanent Building and 'mons is Ori the left as yo as rinve0orepany doing business in Canada: Apph- • old Irish lady is allowed • cation% for Loans promptly attended to. is -sitting to keep her lit members' entrance. M th her and buy fruit n JOHN RitIGHARI, lexthange Broker, and Rail- rG. T. Reilway Station, Seaforth-, Ont. Throegh the sake of giving her 'Tickets iscued to all pointe in the Western Stares, and. curious visitors fr -California and Bed Riven, at reduced rates, affording enterine Westmiuster Itnagreateett facilities to Emigrants. All nocessarY ±-,_ • 0.,_ informatioe given respeeting Land 'Agencies, ete. enem patronage. While .41texibeets Donde. Coupons and UncurrentMoney, her place is seeured 4.0.t. and She'er Coin, bot4it and sold at bestiettes. Sereeent at -Arras who EDWARD CASH the session is over some s uinp Sion of au tit ty -GOOD DAIRY BUTTER, I poor old. Irish woman ou and giving her place to __ ant quantities. ,Also OWIl. I am told tha -A-NY ODD LOTS OF WOOL Brought to town, FOR ONE MONTH. Goderloh=st„, Seaforth, June 20, 1872. was lately made to obtae the aged da.me of the Conamons to retain her shelter aud. scat eluting the recess, but in vain. To the vintor belong the spoils ! Naturally things are ,rather dull in age London now. Mr. Stern1 y, the discover- 1872. in 50 a -Year, advance. er of Livingstone, caine at a bad time, for the great people have all -left' town, .and there is a far better chance of meet- ing a celebrity now by wandering' into a Highland glen or elimbipg an , Alpine height than by lounging in Pall, Mall. ,Perhans, providentially sent to enliven the condition of ,hings, we have a somewhat new kind of peripatetic aeita- tion going on here, of which the cearal figure is the famous_and fat claimant to the Tichborne baronetcy. This reau is to be tried next Noe ember on a charge ef perjury and forgery, and as tne. gov- ernment are to sptad. something like $200,000 in the prosecution, the claim- ant's friends appeal to,the general pub- lic to furnish funde for the defence. Having obtained a good deal of money through advertisements in pers, they then too* to h meetings in the previncial now they have transferred to -London itself.: This we held two great ifieeti gs in in Oxford street, cha ging meeting, and the toom crowded. The huge claim contrived to retain some .de and partisans. Chief amo *Lord Rivers, Mr. Gnildfor. member of Parliament and h tive to an earldom), 'and h the well known Neeltoper Patliamenn whose name known even across the At (molt te geld that Mr W hall taken, if needs be, to c oss and stump the State, i person on behalf of his friend: Now W alley is. a weak headed, absurd sort 0 man, at whose No P-opory crotchets 'the Howie has never ,done laughii g. But Guildford Onslow is an able and sen ible man, a gentleman of undoubted position, and Aristrnlian butcher anal horse thief could. 'Hy ass off ani 1. oor an tocrat Yet Onslow is devoted to the claimant and speaks at the meetings day after day, stumps England in fact on his behalf. he newspa- towns,' and he campaign they have . music hall rices of ad - y -five cents at the first as densely nt has still oted friends g -them are Onslow (a presump- r. Whalley, member of daresay is antic, and I y has tinder - he Atlantic Mr: Onslow was of the mother of borne, who, you died -in the full c claimant was her s tired, of courte, of and I don't mean t Bet there was to something inexplica which these men se claitnant. I have in! theory in the mat- ter myself, except this—that the fat claimant, whenever h1 ie or is not, is a gentleman. I say t is despite his occa- sional mistakes in ar Inman and his mis- placing of the fatbal letter "11.". Mr. Oink)* exPlains th s by saying, (what borne as a boy handl knew any English, being the son of a rench woman and brought up in Franc ; thathe "finished his educati orn; in Eng ishund se the rudest tutelage in Austra.1 a, and that thus he got his inispronune ation and his had grammar. But he ertainly has all the ease, the- quiet self possess en. and the dignified courtesy of a well bred -English gentleman. Despite bis mountain of fat • there is ,even a eertan grace in his man- ner. All this of con him toile the nghtft seem to ' disparage other side that he is er who went out to t He is not an ill -look tegraphers give no id expression, for the heavy, fat -faced. • st eyes, -80M ewhat lan til their _owner grow when they gleam wit them. His expressi melancholy. Hie .ar ive, and he appears culty in breathing ; meetings with the m session and with that pect liar and ire - land is held to be ine breeding. His colos nated. by small and (one of the witness posed that she ide hends, those of Ito like the hands of a fai and he wears the I saw the claimant f other day, and I eft me. I had expected sinister looking ru sort of nersoni have yop. • At all events stand how men like Onslow may bave b him. Boucicault is* bold dramatic exper ing the huge Coven where we have Italia on, as a house for petty musidal butte a close friend will remember, • W.11, you are be Tichborne case, give you any of it. e, for a long time, le about the faith raed te have in the se would not prove 1 heir, hutit would he theory of the a whatever of his make him only a f now: The e —had wonderful a little animated, a strange depth in n is grave and oven ut he addresses his ispensable to good al. arms arntertni- well-shaped hands on ha behalf de- itified him by his er Tichborne being 'and plump woman) antiest kid gloves. r the first time the ess that lie puzzled to see a vulgar and n, and I saw the tied to describe to I begia to uncles -- Ord ers and Mr. en led o believe in aking tit odd and anent. ie open- - Gard en thee bre, Opera in the seas- perforniance of ques combined of Ofienbach and Planet e. Next week the experiruent is to b should almost' as so opera bouffe in the. A literary friend gra Ise no objection on t thc other night, that ety to. any display there, because • most; of the spectators gu:sh legs from sti les of sealing wax. ult is not a novice ent,1 and may be sfied ,a id confideet one. Bn t when either a great suc- ther official—a I cees or a. great tail ire. The expense gealizes his-. as- here, howevem, the principtl burden of y turning. our I risk in encountered b one of ear Engliala into the .street peers who has a taste .fm- theatrical n thiek of trying inlding Which con- tained the Boston Ju 3r.eC performances. ely observed to me, there can, -at least, e' score of propri- in theatrical reartatm expected to know wh he, I am told, is Sat of success. There's me protege nf speculation, whieti a strone effort I been a whim. with. so I .1 lies elwtys permission- for 1 Mr. Lowell has lef town. - He seems to have enjoyed his s ay in London very much and he looks tonderfullv well -- quite youthful m fact perhaps -having a. poetical Indian Su mer of restored youth. He rather a oided than sought society, IT fancy, whil he n as here. I do not heat as yet th t amy•public de- monstration cs to be made in honor of Mt. Stanley, and of ceurse I need not say that the story of his having received a rich jewel as a present from the Qaeen .is quite abstird. Our novereigns don't do that .sott` of thing. When Chgetain SanPdektehecahmeei he had be home flushed with success more reco steamer wl voyage fro sent him o of the hour, he received no ition from our court than if the captain of a channel ich had accomplished a safe Havre. The King of Italy gold medal, which was all the testimony he received of the exis- tence of r yalty ; therefore, there is nothing pe aliar in ..Mr. Stanley's case. - But 1 hope here will be something like a national, or at least a public, acknowl- edgement of his courage, his talent and his success. - JUSTIN MCCARTHY. Bets are freelY talren by Reformers 'in Toronto, that the Government will not eta-ad:through the first session. —Thesworle of narrowing the gauge of the Port Stanley •branch of the Great Western hats already been commenced. —The Ontario Goverament has insti- • ntore inebriate asylums in this iptnurgtoevodinneeeneog.ruiries with a view to establish - Toronto Freeman., has been appointed to thenetDiairireeest.orship of the Provincial Penn —The Guelph . people are already pre- -paring to bring the presure to bear in order to secure the Provincial Exhibitio.a for that enterprising town in 1873, —Mr. H. S. Huber, a leading merchant of Berlin, mad. at one time Warden of the County of 'Waterlosi, died on Teesday last at his eesidence li.n that place. —The third passion of the Deaf antl Dumb Institute at Belleville, opened on Friday 'last. Over one hundred pupils were in attendance, and a latge number is expected. during the present week. —The pkactice of betting money on electione• was fearfully prevalent all over the Province during the late cam- paign. Thp town of Sarnia alone, it is said that over 62,500 was 'bet on the Lambton election. Tyenelmaga, in the cou states, that from 5 bus Fife wheat sown this ty of Hastings, els and. 1 peck of spring, he latery threshed 100 beshels of firet-class grain. •This is a heavy' yield. suddenly in, Park Hill a few days ago partly from the effects af injuries receiv- ed. in a quarrel with another man, and partly from the effects tion .,ef spirituous liquor of over-imbiba- -Mr. E. Chamberlin a farmer resid- ing in. Wakefield towns ip, has purchas- ed a number of small be ls to hang around the necks of his sheep as a preventative against the attacks of bears both bears and dogs being afraid —By those who have taken the trouble to look up the figures, it has been ascer- tainedthat the number represented by the Opposition ie Ontario is 901,025, while representatives favorable to the Government represent 627,246 people. Giving to the Opposition a majority of 273.779. —The iron fon that portion of the Southern extention of the Wellingthn Railway bettteen Palmerston and Listowel, was expected to arrive this week; This portion of ready for the iron, and that it will shortly be the road. is now it is anticipated running order: —At the late Provin of teacher's for first -c forty prehented. therm netion, and only ten we cates. Of these ten, se School graduates. The —The ttlironiete says - unusual event to see o. and fifty waggon loaele through Ingetsoll in elm day for ship- ment to the old. country. The daily average during the season undoubtedly exceeds 'fifty waseson loads. • olw—Anthho mable ()linage was recent - v/ ly perp gtr ted in the T nship ref South Easbho ie County of Pertb, by some villain, evho deliberat ly cut out the tongues of two fine hor s, belonging to lir. Hembrich of that pl ce, as they were grazing in a field. —The Hamilton Tim s remarks that the Wellington, Grey Bruce R. It. Directors yesterday made definite ar- raneements for opening the South -ern Extension to Ainleyyille, and, if possible, to Winghant, in time fo • the fall trade of the present year. • the Commercial Hotel, of the oldest residents died. on Sunday last. 1 he funeral took place on Tuesday, and was very largely attended, the decease( haviug many warm personal friends, mid being univer- sally esteemed- in the ecenimunity where he so lone resided. '▪ al examination aes certificates, Ives for exasiti- e granted certifi- en were Normal n were no female hat it is not an er two hundred f cheese passing te proprietor of litchell, and one of that village, prevalence :of a thunderstorm., Mary womam was killed 'by lightning in the village of Burford, Connty mf Brant. walk quite ' dead. The body bears but feW marks of injury, only a slight discol- oration of -the neck and. ace. troops now- at Fort Garry - etarted for it Ontario ore Friday la t. They wi I come by the Dawsaa rot te and will rea Toronto toWerd. the ens of the month. , A small foyce, composed of those Who volunteered' for au add: tional tetm, are still kept on. . —The - neer° barber from . Listowel, who was arrested for oetraging his otvn daughter at Harriston, was up for trial before Judiie Mandonaln; of Guelph, on Monday. There was no evidence to tsiheorws conclusiveltr that the child was Bit daughter, or that sbe objected, or that the crime actually was committedeand under the eircumetances the beast was AMER reluctantly set at liberty. But although the charge could -not be proven. against Butler, there is eo moral doubt on the minds of those who heard. the evidence that the wretch was guilty of the 'aorrible crime with which he had been charged. —On Thurielay afternoon the barn of Mr. Robert Conlin on 7th concession of Luther, County of 'Wellington, took fire and was consumed with its contents. Nearly all hiagrain. and twenty-five tons of hay was in the barn. Loss about $400. no insurance. —A day or two ago a lad about 12 years of age, named Percy Litchfield, of Oakville, met with a painfal accident whereby he lost the use of his right eye. He was driving his cow home and -walk- ed beside her with an arm around her neck. Suddenly she threw her head around and one horn. entered the right eye. —An indignation meeting was held in protest against the return of Mr. dux - ton, who had received a minority' of votes. Mr. Bertram, in his speech, emphatically asserted that no demand had been made upon him on. the hustings for his qualification. - — The Montreal° Witness, a neutral in politics, says of the state of parties in the Province of Quebec : We have, however, been favored by a French Canadian nowledge, with a rdvised list of the Quebec members already elected, where- by it appears that 32 are Government, 27 Opposition, and 5 independent. * ' —It is asserted by those who profess to know, that Sir Francis Hincks has stated his intention to retire into private life, and, it is understood he will accept the management of a popular bank in Montreal. It is furthermore stated that his election ia Vancouver is illegal. ow- ing te bis not beiag duly qualified, and that he would not in any eventbe able to take his seat when. the Haase meets. known irt St. Cathermes got up rather early and went into his yard. Ile saw some tame pigeons flying roma and no- ticed one of them having something in his 13201.1th. SOD13 of the others tried to get it when it dropped on the ground. The gentleman then went to see what it was and found it te be a genuine twenty dollar green.back. It was somewhat pick -ed and torn but perfectlygood. --ti A Mr. Jarnes hIcKeever, and his wife, of Wallace, were returning from 'Elmira, after dark, on the evening of the horses taking fright ran awa capsizing the wagon and throwing tan Mr. and cd, uninjured, but Mrs. McKeever was badly injured. The accident occurred and it was with &eat difficulty. he 'suc- ceeded in getting his svifc home. cc- Messrs. John Snell & Sons, Edmon- ton, have recently sold to R. H. Taylor, Brownsville, Tenneesee; the 4 months Berkshire boar, Prince of -the Blood,- by imported Royal Briton, dani imported Exquitite 5th, prite $100. To ) the West Elgin, Ont., Agricultural So- viety, one boar pig, prrice $50. To J. Liddell; Iona, Ont., one sow pig, by im- ported Royal Briton, out o. imported Windsor Quieen. To Noah D. 13e11, Boonville, Mo., one boar pig by Royal Briton, out of Queen of Diamonds, price $75, —Last Monday, as a son of Mr. Geo. Ferguson, engineer, of St. Marys., aged nine years, in the absence of the other hands, was playfully passing straw be- tWcen the cylinders of one of the thresh- ers in Dr. Harrison'atflax mille, when both his hands were caught, and hie was suddenly drawn- in up to the shoulders. Fortunately at thisenoment the belt flew off, otherwise his whole body would have been drawn through, and he would have inevitably been crushed to death. Strange to say, although nis arms were fearful- ly crushed, not a bone waa broken. • —A brutal murder occurred in Coboimg on Friday night last, in the bar -room of the Commercial Hotel, by which a man named Oombe lost his life in a scuffle with the bar -tender, named. Keon. About nen o'clock Keon ordered him out of the bar. He refused ; and Keen then commenced kicking him out. Ile fell down, and Keen kicked him in the fore- head, as shown by. the marks upon him. He 411 dead outside the door, where he was afterwards found. It eon was im- mediately arrested. —Four or five barns were struck by lightning ID the vicinity of the village of Lucknow, County of Bruce, and burnt down during the thunder atom on Thursday night of last week. One close to Lucknow. owned by Thomas 1Velater, containing the season's crop, 289 bushels of threehed. wheat, besides wagons and other farming implements all- burned ; small insurance. The imen E of Mr. Marrs, on the 10th concession of the Township of Bruce, near tne village of Port Elgin, was also destroyed by tire, caused by lightaing, on the same night, burning all his grain and. one mare. Loss about $1,500 ; no insurance. —Orders have been issued by the Militia Department at Ottawa to raise escorted him to his residence. It was immediately a force of two hundred. men intended- that a public demonstration for service in -Manitoba, in place of those . should take place M honor of his arrival, now at Fort Garry ; who are entitled to but this has been deferred for a few discharee. The men to be raised will be days and will, in all inebability, take enrolled for a peried of one year, and. for such further periods not exceeding two additional years, as the Government may require. The pay and allowances will be the same as are now granted in Manitoba. Each man who joins and completes his period of service will, provided he has not already become entitled to a grant of land for former service in the same force, be entitled to 160 acres of land. representatiye 'of Welland. He was defeated in 1854, but again elected. in 1861. He retained his seat * till the Union, when he was elected by - mation for the. Dbminion Parliament, and at the recent election was returned by a considerable majority. Mr. Street was unmarried, and it is supposed that his large fortune •vvill be divided among his sisters and other families. —The Department of Public Instruc- tion fot Ontario offers to any Inspector, Trustee or teacher, prizes for interior plans of school houses and for block plans of schcol sites best adapted to rural school sections ; plans to be for- ward.ed to Dr. Ryerson not later than 15th November neat. ' -- A man named Hugh Pepper, resid- ing a short distance from Watford, was killed on the evening of Friday last, by being , struck by tbe night train going • west, which knocked him over a bridge on which it is supposed he had sat down and gone to sleep, wben on his way home from Watford Village. He fell about fifty feet, breaking his neck, and. dying ahnost instantly. He is belieyed to have been the worse of liquor at the — A fearful and probably fatal acci- dent occurred. tg a young man, named Allen Marshall, on Weelnesda,y of last • week. He- was threshing at Mr. Dor- land's, near Bronte, and, while engaged in a friendly scuffle with another young man, his foot was caught in the tumb- ling -rod, and he was drawn partly under and. so frightfully mangled tharhis life was despaired of. — On Tuesday last Mr. George Kel- sey, of Nichol, killed a large lynx, on wild cat, on his farm 2 Mika from Fergus. He fired a loadpf common shot into the cat's side in the neighborbeed. of the heart. • The brute fell, and Mr. Kelsay thinking it dead walkeed up to it, bfft just ae he reached it Wreaths. a epring. Mr. Helsey struck it with his g smashing the stock. The lynx weighe 28 lbs., and measured 2 feet 7 inches _ front the ears to the tail. It was veryta poor, and if fat would have weighed over Dalziel of the towuship of Blenheim, last week returned from Scot- land with two two year -old entire colts of the Clydesdale breed e also thane shearling Leicester ewes and one raw. Mr. Cockburn, of Cobourg, came out on the sante' veseel with Mr. Dalziel, and had with him a three year old Clyd.ea- dale entire colt. This colt obtained the 'inn prize at the Highland Society's. Show held in Kelso this year, and is de- scribed as a remarkably fine looking animal:. On the same vessel there were three bpeeding mares, also Clydes, one of which died on the voyage. _ — Mr. Samuel Pilton, of the county ef Oxferd, has two pigs the aggregate weight of which is 1,000 pounds, — The residence and. barn of Mr. R. Laing, .13th Concession ef East Zorra, and about three miles from Woodstock, were consumed on Friday last.• The fire is suppoeed to have originated by sparks from the chimney. as the roof of the house was the first part discoyereii on fire. The barn contnined the season's produce, all of winch. was consumed. The house furniture wae adze nearly all des- troyed. There Was but ;slight insurance on the premises, and the loss to the farmer must; be great. A. dog show will be held in Ottawa in connection with the forthcoming Agri- cultural Exhibition for the County of Carleton. This is a new feature in Agri- culteral shows which has thus far been neglected by our soeieties. — While the Buffalo Express was pass- ing Park 'Hill westward. on Tuesday nsorning, at the rate of forty-five miles an hour, one of the brakemen, named Hap . how, fell from her, and it is belieyed that the injury received may prove fatal. — On Tuesday morning last durieg the prevalence of a fearful thunder storm, a young girl, daughtet of Mr. ntanley. 5th Concession, London Township, was kill- ed by the lightning while lying in bed with two companions. It seems she had been sleeping alone, but growing fright- ened at the storm, arose and entered the apartment of the others. Shortly after- wards the house wan struck by the light- ning, an the girl was instantly killed. The oth two were paralyzed. for some hours by the shock. . • —A esleyan Methodist clergyman, named rf, belonging so Ottawa, was way•laye by four roughs, dragged. from his bal., and severely beaten, on Sun- day mg last, while he was on his way to amour] ry station to preach. One of the scoundrels held the horse by the head, while the other three beat Mr. Scarf. After they had abused hira to their hearts content, they lifted him into the buggy again and started. on his horse. He was enabled to guide the horse to a neighborine house, where. his wounds were atteated to. No cause is assigned for this brutal outrage. • —Hoe . A. Doriorr arrived in Montreal, ,on Monday night, by rail from Quebec, having just returned from Europe. He was met at Bonaventure station by a number of his political friends, who land County, died at his residence at Chippawa, on Thursday, 5th. He had been ill for several days. Mr. Street was the son of the late Hon. Samuel Street of Niagara Ballet from whom he inherited a large fortune, He was cal- led to the bar of UPper Canada in 1838, and first went to Parliament in 1951 as place in the county for which he has recently been elected. —lt is reported, and there is good grounds for believing it, that Mr. Cartier will come forward for the county of Lavalle. Bellerose, the prevent member, -svill resign, with the prospect of being elected Speaker of the Legialative As- sembly of Quebec in -room of Blanehet, who is named Clerk to the liouse of Commons. It is eaid, however, that Mr Cartier cannot in all likelihood survive font or five months. At present he is unable to cross his room without assis- tancet- His disease is dropsy. Ile will, it is believed, leave shortly for a two months' stay in Florida, accompanied - by his legal partner Mr: Poinville, who is also in delica.te