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The Huron Expositor, 1874-08-07, Page 1874 1-1 ARRIVALR OF S TY L OF T OWSERILVCS AND -VEST AT Si CLOTHE IEL ..1LIIGE no= SURE. na. Youth's Clothing !On, ha and -will be sold at a '-DVANCE ON CO T. tste goods intended fz ammet s at Biagaina. W. CAMPB 2f1,1314. LL. le S GOING (IN'. AT • Contirtues4, EARLY AND SECtIRE 113AROENSt • DUNCAN, 01 :4EA ad.." .1111•IrTRI.. 2:151"1313""e',_ SEVENTIE ‘11111.0LE NO, 348. j 8 eflNitIlliEVONMEISMSENTERILVIIIMONIP'• aanaswaraxera=aammaaaecorama 00-hte for Attc 4 t) • FARmi, FOR SALE, a' -GOOD FARM, b( -0- Con. 6, Grey, cm elehredand in good c house and good cell water close b3; there tad attached; this p miles from Brussela, t Grey and Bruce Ra reasonable terms, pos 1, 1675. For furthe proprietor ou the pr Brussels P. O. 8474 ing West Aa of Lot 110. 4) tinning 50 acres, 85 acres ndition; frame barn, frame r; a never -failing -well of is als0 a fine bearing arch- operty is situated about 3 ,station on the Wellington, lway ; and will be sold on ession canbe given on Jam - particulars apply to the raises, or, if- by letter, to WM. MeDONALD. BUILDING LOT F A N eligible Build 1.-1. Street, opposite sold by Public Auctio , on the ground, ort SAT- URDAY, AUGUST 8, t 2 o'clock P. M. Title in dee to themanor born, and disputable. TermS ade 'mown. on the day of Egmortdville, or to th * R SALE BY AUCTION, ng Lot, situated on Mill ,he 'Railway Station., will be Farmers' Sons.- BY ALEXAN ER HYDE. ;often hear the 1 mentation express. ed. that it is impossil le to keep farmers' sons Iat home ; that s soon as they be- gin $ think and act f r themselves, they quit the old hoinestea and the pin -suit of their zithers, and choo e some mo re genteel and lucrative. calling. It must be con- fess,e4 there is sense t uth in this allege, - ton. In New -En Yland, especially, wher the lafid requi -es much labor to mak it yield abian antly, and where m -mefactures and tr de are the leading indures, we see tin tendency o desert the arm especially anifest. We are sorry to see the old la mesteads leserted by ti vhile we o at sale. For further pnaticalars apply to Mr. DALYdnbelieve that es ery one bo n on a , undiasigned proprietor. farm. Was born to be desire 8463 ke a few sug farmers Imay aid them cr their farmer, w estions to in retaini SAMUEL HART- to in • HOTE sabscriber wis 1- business, offers ,f Victoria House, in th thriving village of Brussels. •In the fu-st placet ie boys sh The house is connate 'Gus with good , stable and cattle yards attached, and is situated in the cot tre be overworked. You at the busin.ess part o the village. Satisfactory 1activity, ready for all apply, if by letter pre aid, to tim proprietor on the a FOR SALE. wIlie ing to retire from the Hotel 801.15 sale his hotel known as tho low th, home and edueating the to fol - pursuit of th •r fathers. reason givenforselling. For further particulars and many parents fo uld not h is full of life and leids of euterprise, get that the mus - c es (,4t oys are un es eloped, and cannet premises, or to C. R. C OPER a.- Co., Brrissels P. O. ' SIMPSON, Proprietor. endure the strain whi h is imposed upon 346 FARM FOR SALE. then..j The boys k ow nothing.of the . • eee_ laws df physiology, and cheerfully un - ST half of Lot )2, Con. 14, Hibbert, taining 50-tieres, ed,- well fenced and in biota ; g,00d log house and stables; 2 good w about 45 of which are clear- dertake the sinposea tasks. They will a state of first-class cultivta pita 0 and first-class frame barn w;ith lls -with pumps in 'them. • ff a load of ha t a thought of For farther particular - apply on the premises, or 'y0flC1 ieir strength. by letter to Lumley P. 0. 1 u1te4 f the volatile 346 JAMES MeKENZIE. clif* e the pitching , be but play HOUSE & LOT in OR SALE, that SALE r. 0 esirable and handsome' low the plow all day arabitious to do a bi ' hired men whose nn braminy by years ; but there is a penalty attad-hed to such vi lotions of nature's laws! The boys are dwarfed in their groWth by this eicess ,of hard labor, or, [worse stilletheir am,: des and nerves be - Come diseased. No w rider thatthe farm- er's lifeseems to them clrudgeryf and that they desire to earn a living w hout so mueli Sweat of the br w. Parents do not in end to p sh their boys beyond their s rength. They re- joice in seeing them o smart, and boast situated private re idence in the Village of lig- mbndville, known as the Egraondville Manse.. The house is pleasanily situated and is commo- dious and comfortab e. There is a good atell, woad110 use and other ecessary conveniences. The i lot contains one morel f land, and is well planted with bearing fruit tr es of various kinds. For feather partionlars pply at the ExPOSIT0R OFFICE, Seaforth. 846 FARM FOR SALE, LOT 23, Con. 4, Ila , half mile from Zurich Gravel Road, 100 cres, 70 acres eleared; frame baru and stables ; g: od orchard; well watered. Will be sold either with or without crop; as pre- ferred. For fur -Cher particulars enquire on the premises, or by letter to Rodgerville P. �. . a42t8 JOHN JOHNSON. FARM FOR SALE. L01' No. 5, Cou. 4, Thillett ; 140 acres, more or less, 80 acres Gioia •d. Plenty of NYa:ter, and the north branch of t e Maitland River running through the 15 aere bi six; good fences. Apply on the premises to the p•oprietor, JAifES AEA.RTIN. MS or address Constance P. 0. ;TEAM SAW MILL RE ENG- Lot 31, Con. la? acres, mil cleared, avo good orchards in zig springs which au 'ply )on.. 9, containing 48 s situated 6 miles ravel road thereto. I xi the premises. If 30N, Constance P. O. — _ _ . _ FARM r OR SAT:Fa Lots 26 i', Killop, containin :Aettred and in a first mit thoroughly under l,Nvo-story brick houge, larg,e frame barns an bearing orchard. Th railing spring. It is aravel Road, within t Seaforth. For farthe orenaises or to S'3afor 342 , AND FARM FOR SALE. 7, MeKillop, containing 104 ith good barns and. 6tab1es, full bearing; two never-fail- the mill. Also, lot 35, eres of bush. The property rote' Seaforth, with a good or farther particulars apply y post, to JOHN TII0MP- Kinburn, Out. 260 FOR SALE. and. 27, Cons. 3 and 4, Me - 175 acres, 150 acres are class state of cultivalion, rained. There is a large good oat-buildinga, also two sheds. There is a large farm is watered by a never - situated on the Northern vo miles of the village of • particulars apply on the 1'. 0. ROBERT GOVENLOCK. FARM LOT No. 22, Oon. 7 hares. 85 acres elea i of a mile from the la 12ank barn, with stab houses; large new co • t good never -failing well; the land is clea leres of orchard of ve ing. For terms and. o premises, or address 340 AN b FOR SALE. McKillop, containing 104 ed; 4.i. miles from. Seaforth; °Ahern Gravel Road; large ng below; also, other out- crete house, well finished; spring Greek; also, a good and of good quality; three -y- best fruit trees, abear- her particulars apply on the IIEW COWAN, Seaforth. FARM FOR S OR SALE, a good -1, half of lot 15 and t l2,McKillop, containi well fencecl, ana in go ambered with hardanod- Ind new log barn; tulles and a half from rrom the,village of Se lawmills within 31 miles mhools and stores. iiroprietor on the pia Wiuthrop P. O. 280*4 LE IN MeHILLOP. Farm, composed of North e west half of lot 14, COn. ig 100 acres, 50 elearecl and is cultivation; balance well a good frame house ood bearing orehard; two good. gravel road; 10 miles forth; there aro twer steam ; convenient to 04 -aches, r partienlars apply to the raises, or, if by letter, to -* AS itictiONALD. FARM FOR SALE, Lot No ersmith, containi eleared, well fenced., mid Lion. There is a good cellent frame barns, a bearing orchard. The failing spring and. w•11. within one mile and within abent 6 miles good gravel roads run For further partieulal the premises or to Br 3854 .. t FOR SALE. • 33, Con. 3,L. R. S., Tusk g 100 acres, 75 of which are in a state of geed eultiva- new frame house and ex- eds and stables, also a good farm is watered by a never - This farm is situated a half of -Brucclield, and f Clinton and Seaforth., with 'ng to each of these place's. s apply to the proprietor on icetield P. 0. I CENNE'IS .McLELLA.N. FARM THAT well-known P: tar, adjoining t prising laiacres, 100 state of cultivation, 3 quality, all well fence frame baro, shed, gra good state of repair, o insurance $1,000, in t very good. orchard all gravel road roaming a ent to churches, schoc market. any person or plea:Mae can hard For particulars aripa premises, or if by lett 313-12 FOR SALE. 1 rrn. owued by JHngh Mus - e village of Bari .efield, com- eres cleared and in a high acres uncullea bush of best ; good frame house 44x30, lary and eow house, all in e -half nearly new; present a e London Mill -nal ; also a 3 wells on thb premises ; ong side and front, conveni- ls, stores, elmese factory and wishing to farm -for profit y find a bettersituation. to the proprietor on the r to Brucefield 11, O. EFUGH ArugTARD. FARM pm SALE, 150 net( -1- of Lot No. 28, Con. of Lot No. 22. This 8 miles of Sea Earth. po t the place. Thar half a mile. There fenced and mostly fi-,e and in good order. On good frame barn, dwe. the 100 acre farm there frame Jaime with underground orchard. The farm is will be sold separately era Fel- further plirt tor on the pi-en:list's, Seaforth P. 0., GI to forth. FARM LOT 2, Con. 1, Steal gether with east b ing 50 acres; situate( quarter of a mile nort acres cleared and. in g barns an stables, an in fall bearing; a, bra through a corner of t good wells. Terms Purchase mouey wil mainder in equal arm Apply to Also, a HOUSE an the Village of Kippen fzsree house, 11 rocs -s; and eow house; conv: °Mee. .Apply to 340 _ - FOR SALE. . a of hind, being. composed 5, McKillop, mod west, ball u-operty is situated within A good gravel road rims is n, school house, within re 135 acres cleared, well from stumps, and clean the 50 acre lot there is a ling house and orehard. On is a good frame house, 2 cellar, and a, large well watered. These farms or together to snit purelua crilara apply to the proprie- or to WALTER COWAN, S. G. AleCAUGHEY, Sea - 8414 FOR SALE. . y, containing 100 acres, to- lf of Lot 2, Can. 2, contain- on the London Road, one- a of Kippen; upward of 10C • od. cultivation , good frame frame house; two orchards ch. of the Bayfield river runs i e farm; there are also two reasonable, one-half of the be required cash; the re- al installments for 5 years. WIC BLAIR, Kippen. ONE ACRE OF LAND at good orehard and garden; two wells; frame stable i ent to churches' and pog WM. BLAIR, Kippen. - r and. mow it away the task being be - Under the stim- Oil Which. the bay may.ev-en seem to GMONDVILTS: for theM lIO Boys, may also fol- ithout piplaint, .and goo jobs .they may hoe Corn or nil keep up • With &ilea hav become sometimes of feats 1 erformed, :which, if they would stop to -think, they vvould -1sno 7 ought not to be performed by youngsters. They ( o not push their .•.younIg steers and col, s in this I manner. They know full well t at in order to keep a hotse in working rder till he is 20 year441d he must not e put to hard work till hjtS muscles and inewa are; well de- velo ed. Are not bo ,s to be 'treated as 1. carefeily as colts ? We Would not be pnderstok as ad- vocatling idleness for farmers' bays. Far from it. We hear it ometimes said that man is a lazy anima , and only works when Under the pres vire of necessity. We do, not believe in t is saying. Work is our iuheritance. ur fathers have worked, and we work and our, children will •Nork. We have bad much to do with boys, and we haw s yet to see a nat- urallyi- . lazy hair in t eir heads. True, they have a choice in he leinds*of work. They rnay not like to --weed onions all day, areeping on their knees and bowing down to the earth till heir backs, suPple though they are, aohe, their heads ache, ° S • I take to a .riculture as ducks !,do o water. It time of F ther Adam, most men have a love o come 'dis listed with whin 'it s made a p Mo're tha fessiorial day longi where th stock and AFORT FRIDAY, AT,T naturally as the was the °coupe - aid. by heredity it, arid only be- lie e-mployment '.rfect drudgery. half the meiChants and pro - en of our ci ies are this very g for a hom in the -country, y can delve the soil. raise play the land ord. If this is $o—and N ,e have no d aubt of it—then why shou boys to which th that the should fo fault ie in injudieiou • The, fat in6re plea be made t room, wh. and open Books and furnis the muscl tage of m essential he develo is not tau and the i the leadin idea in child Christiani y is the pop( days, and many are th rich to d velop the pl children, but farmers' gynanasiu s or regattas the farm f irnish ample ing muscl s, but boys' Ways find sufficient foor or society. There is gr in this res xict, but ther further p ogress in this has made s social 'bein reason •wi v farmers' sor tented wi h their life isolated. They want and he is wise father doors to h s neighbors -a the arrieni les and ihtel his childr , which Only with comp nions. Music so should le the farmouse, and keep the boys at home. Tc while away a winter's even- ing there i nothing more delightful than singing; w th piano accohipaniement. If ethe latter cannot be afforded, then let -the violin .rflute take itis place. In any event, stu y to rhake home. delightful, and farm 1 fe one of enjoikment. In itself' it has rn ny sources ol pure pleasure, - and these should be cherished and the attention f the boys called to them. portunities for htful than the d it be so di ve agricultur Creator ev great major low? We do the farmers' training whi mer's home ant. The ki cult to train our , an occupation lently designed y of mankind not believe the )oys, but in the . h --they receive. lima be made hen should not e sittiug, dining and working is kept shuts up ecial company. should 'abound., for brains While ork is the heri- work is just as O the parlor d oply for s hewspapers occupation s are idle. n, but brain s muscle woila. No boy can ed into perfe t manhoied who ht to think s well as work, rtellectual tr, Ming should be (xi& Muscular lar idea nowa- devices of the ysique of their sons need. no •The barn and cope for exereis- inds do not al - either in books at improvement is a margin •for direction. God s, a.nd One great s are so discon- s that it is s too lore sociability, hat keeps open • cl cultivates all . . ectual vigor in come by contact id its charms to No man making hi farmer. has better o home deli Ogle R. 'Po the Bit Sm. : Be of thel2t on the, 13t at whom anathemas I d;ffer fro and all tin as rebels. 41.•tea -- • ' Gowan Ejt, Wroxete_r• ° 1 or of the Illt on, E.cpositor. ng present at the celebration. of July, he d in Wroxeter, , and theref re one of those gle R. Gowa a thundered his for want of lo r alty, , seeing that o him in my p litical opinions, t do so are randed by him 1 resolved. thre and. then to endeavor o ascertain soineth°ina of the antecedents of this Dagon. of theOrange- and. thley ache all over. Who can blame men M Canada, the man1whoin they de - them Tor not liking s ich work for ten light to honor as the Father of Canadian mer day ? Bs like a Orangemen. 1 and fromau extract from hours of a hot sum little variety. If they can wed 01110113 the precee ings of the Cleand Lodge,:held • P &pare, on the 19th of April, t the Grandl Lodge have ap- e Robert Golvan, Esq• / to be r y Grand - Masterof all the f 13ritish Npr h America, and ii only a souidI Protestant but an." This Mr. authority was ue book or ap- port of a COM - Ise of Commons for an hour or two in the moruing, aud 1832, " th then rid.e a horse to culltivate the corn, pointed 0 or mount a tedder to ttrn the ba.y, or a the Depu horse -rake to gather It into Winrows, Provinces with the promise of a good swipaa when he was not the hay is seettred, th day, though one . of toil, wall not Seem t be one (!if drudge ary, and they will iml The no disgust of labor. - All - farmers are a .'are that it re- quires some skill; . and. 'some pa- - tieuce to train a- co't to swork, and this not because the colt is lazy. He. • -will frisk around the fields, and. kick up his heels in the very lo e of motionsbut if he -is hitched to a heavr load in the first attempt to ma,ke hut 'draw, he Will very likely be staky, and if he is thua injudi- ciously managed day after day, the habit . of stakiness will beouvi: flied, aud he will ' not draw even a light load. .1VOIrld that i farmers exercised . as Much skill and pa- ! tience in training_their'. boys to labor as Lin training their colt's:. • If parents are . too arbitrary in their cOmmanda. and im- I pose heavy tasks on their sons, showing 1 little Sympathy, and Making no reniun- eratioe,.it is a verynatural consequence i that they,should be a little staky. Boys ! have feelings as war as men, aud they i have wills of their own, and a ense of i their incipient manhood, aud it requires • .1 five times more judgmeet to train a sine- ,: ited. youth than a spirited colt. , .. I One of the best modes to get ur sons initiatedin farm work is to let t em have some kind of their OWn, or to giv them a . small share in the crops which they as- sist in, Cultivating. If; a .colt or la pair of eteers is given to a boy to train eip as his ewn, it will interest iu stock raising there than a whole herd of cattle or drove df horses which the father owns and. !. never -consults the bdy about the man, agemeat of. We • hate an inetance iu, Our eye now of Et boy` who is al farmer from his head to his fOot, loves -horses,is a, good: judge Of Stock Of all sorts, follows !arming with a gusto, Which (if anything) s the absorbing Passlen with bias, and vhy ? Because from his early boYhoOd he had a pair of steers of hie fawn, and has been eonsulted by his father in all the • tanning operations as though he was a Jo -int Stock proprietor. 'ere is more in th othe farmers th. 1 • .1 Doubtless t o be ose s training of boys n is generally sup - ere are onstitu- tioned tendencies whi la should be con- sulted. It is just as true of fai1uters as of poets, that they aIp born,, not made, but education goes a reat way in devel- oping latent talents. If a boy manifests a decided tendency for machinery or merchandise or literatiiro, then h should !allow' the bent of his genius. It is folly 0 S. poil a good nhiniSter in trying poor husbandman, but nine m ten ho are brought on the 1 are judiciously dosed with wo to make n out of d, and k, will a most, ze bus Orange Gowan to whom this given, ,app ars, by the b pendiX containing the r mittee, of t e English Ho who were nvestigating t ie working, and principles the Orange ociety. to have been decla ed by a Mr. 1 yves Baker, the Deputy G -and Treasur r of the Irish 'Orange So isety, to be a ii an of bad char- acter,. and the Grand. I odge. of Dnblin actually fo -warded deem ants insupport of the sa s e opinion, az remonstrated against his appointment iy their English brethren o i the ground f his wawa/ Un- fitness and if their own urisdictioa over -the Ca-nad s. We will eow see how well this loyal Mr. Gowan 6xercised his duties as Deputy Gra id. • Master. In 1834 ther were .12,0 .0rangeinen in Canada, d the measur ,of their allegi- ance was en en by a, Colo el -Blacker, who, on the ant ority of cam unications be- tween the f the North of Ireland wi boasted " were then ceedings o toward th order to se as to assisting England,- i tion of Ca ada, that in, tion, to .the ritisk Crowil lated by thc conduct of th that respec ." Now, sir, like to ku w is simply tl R. Gowan of to -day ani Robert Go an, whese c by Mr. Bal er and the Grand. Lodge of Dublin, ti e same indi ndual, or have they separ ite identities? 11 they are the same, im gine the • inc naruity of his This loyal , Yalaam of /4 in Toronto to curse the Grite ull of Script ral allusions on This Samson ying firebrands e tails of the foxes, this Neb- ✓ ordering us to fall dawn and on the. banks of eel). evens sen- ty, like a ba,b- h as he flaunting Protestantism, -face, has done tiem and to low - of the Catholics rotesta,nts than ,certainly time • cease to prate on, when they men as Ogle R. of the • Pacific Orangemen h. their brethren in Canada, hat the Oran emen of Canada anxiously w chin the pro - the Govern' ent of England _Protestant of Ireland, in what part tiey should take the preserva- aet their devo- would be rega- ' Government in what I would. is : is the Ogle the Mr. Ogle aracter is given position. brought fa —he was the 13th. between ti uchadneez -worship hi Orange imag the Maitland, and bet tence prat ng of his loy, bling chilt their loy like a red more to in er Orangei and the : • He and su lty and. the sag in a bull' tire Protesta m in the eyes ow Orange' all else beScles, and it rvatives shoul and cornip ir ranks such the heroes that Cons of loyalt have in th Gowan an Scandal. con.cernin can prove a I have written Ogle Rober Gowan, 'Esq., -UST 7, 1874. from auth9ntic docum nts, and as:I h, only quoted as far as 1834, I ma.yau so t data conce -aing Or ngeism in 1835. future dat be te( pted. to quote so Tunnsluna, July 24, 1274. . : 1 CLEAR OBIT i 171eLEAN 111LOTHERS, P blisher*. Si1. 50 a Year, in advnuee.- ‘wassiteieremmaagmaraa- vo no Ca ad.a: --On.Mon ay of l st Week over 100 ,?ar loads of cattle pas 'ed over the Caned Southern Railway. T,hey were from h Western $1tates d Were destined o the Buffirld market, This road is saidl to be -doing 4 very large _business in live stock freia . —A public meet naof the ratepay rS of Elina w sheld a Newry, on Thurs( ay of last wee for the pinipose of considering the a,clvisa, flay of _taking legal action to compel thei opening and. running of the road. Mr i D. D. Hay, now of Toronto, having interviewed Mr. Muir, the INIen- aaer of tie Great Western Railway, writes to tlie people'of Listowelas follows: "1 may s14y that the prospect for an in -- mediate or early opening of the line to kincarchnd is not the brightest. But am authori Cd by Mr. Muir to say (bat a scriger train will 'shortly be the line to Listowel. 1 he tern Company are under no o open the line, as the r ad n taken from the Welling on regular pa placed on Great We obligation has not be Company.' —The A anitoba- F .ee Press- -says that the crops of Messrsl. Kenneth MeKen .fe Hugh Gra 't and o hersin the Rat Or el district ha e been jcoip1ete1y destroy by the gra shopper, • Mr. MeKenzie his oats anc barley or fodder rathert • allow the rasshoppe to devour th all. 1, —The st re of C Flamboro s illagse, bed of over 8600 w last week. ' . e ---A. pe uliar a Hamilton a few day ed Thomp on was street corn r, a sw the wind ait a gre to cense rau , d at t Mg rather 1 w, stir with a bloNi that s ed him. !;he bir too, fell into the g dead, .and lefore i was picked up by ly carried off dow face showec1 no ina spot, witerel the fie what bruis d. eqt ant tar es Durant in W s eai Dundas, was r b - rt of goods ime.nie h _ - ent occurred •o. As a man n m- rriedly turnin v; sailing alonie elocity and -ab me corner, but e him in the f ered aeld fright u- horoughly scar r and. seemed h uld recover it el la I and triumpha t st-eet. Thompso ks other than a laic h seemed to be sothe Icci s a llo e s ck ag tt eu 0 11 —On Fridaynigh la tin London, as t constables ere -con eing a, man accu of larceny to the lo k -up, he made a d s perate attacik upon.l tlkm with. a knife, The officers gallantlfr stuck to their pr, s• oner, but wen they had safely lodg him in the eells elley bath sank exhau ed fromthe seriousiwciunds they had e ceived. —Mr. David Reeser, Jr., of Newcast recently sold six hea of cattle—tvlv cows, one calf, and three yearling heifers for $1,950, all thm • ported stock. Thi that pays.. —At a railway ir 111 Winghath, Mr. tensive mill owner that he had recentl and had interviewe Wellington, Grey , and had put the fo .him: " What would in my place, havii g " flour on hand and wa "rail ?-". The aus er away as soon as pos ibl prove her complexion, and had so changed the color of her skin as to cause the alarm. A vigorous application di soap andM rawater, aided by a coarse towel soon transformed the discalored parts to nearly the natural color. —A few nights ago, a lady named Mrs. John Benn, Guelph township, having occasion to remain over night in a ,hotel in Fergus, before retiring took the pre- caution to lock and bolt her bedroom door, and took her gold watch aud chain and her purse with her, placing them in her bosom for safe keeping. Ili the morning when she awoke her watch and a purse were one, but the door was Ricked as she had left it the previous night. N o clue could be obtained as to how the ar- ticles so mysteriously disappeared: —A little daughter of Mr. C. Tom, of Exeter, met with a painful accident a few days ago. A brotherOf the girl badd a bow anarrow, and having shot the arrow into a tree under which the girl was sitting, in its descent it hit her in the eye while she was looking up. The girl will probably lose the sight of the eye. - . —On the morning of Senday las , Mr. William Carr, Eighteenth- Concess on of Greenock, County of Bruce, was struck by lightning and instantly killed At an early hour he was .awakehed y. an unusual noise, and getting up to scer- tain the cause, he went to a wind w to look out, when he was seiddealy s ruck down. It is supposed by some th, t the stovepipe projecting through the roof had attracted the lightning and thus caused the accident. —A two year old child died in Mon- treal a few days ago, from the effects of an over -dose of a patentmedicine known as Fellows' 8yrup of Hypophosphites. The child found. the bottle, and. liking the taste, took a good drink: It was shortly afterward seized with convul- sions, and died from the effects of strych- nine in the Syrup. —Mr. John Campbell, carriage- mid- er, of London, has just complete the sale of a landau and thirteen cutte s and sleighs to a firm in Winnipeg, Man toba. —As an excursion train, botind. from Hamilton to Port Dalhousie on nday evening, was proceeding at high peed, the engineer, Mr. P. Maloney, saw two men lying across the track about a mile and a half from Port Dalhousie. He shut off steam, and. Mr. Geo/ Glass who was on the train, jumped off an ran who gine ahead and dragged off the men, were both drunk, just as the e passed over the spot. _.A humorous incident o,ccurr the meeting of the Orangeville ' Council, on Monday evening.. After the ing's work, a lady "Who had occupi a t town fathers had got through their yea - (.1 seat in the .chamber, listening patiently to their deliberations, rose suddenly, ad - e ve,nced nfAiestically, and before th --al- dermen wereawareof her intentio , de- posited carefully in the lap of the lieeve ough-breds s rom in - an interesting specimen of humanity, in ithe kind of stc4k the shape of a plump young infant with fcr . . the remark that " he!ct better take cllargc eeting recently he d• of this yer young'ini." The next mo- eter Fisher, an - ment she was gone. The "young un" f that place, stated has been comfortably' provide.d for; and ) e - ben in Ilamiltoe, the enterprising town has now a " ccIrpo- thie 'President Of the , ration baby." nd Bruce Railway. —In St. 'Andrew's Church, Gu9lph, lo-veing question . y a do if you we large quautity if ting to ship it Ty was, " Team lit .27 daughter of 'M kesville, in ti was badly gor d at own O on Sunday evening, Rev. Dr. •e preached a thoughtful discourse the text, "The Sabbath was mad man, and not man for the Sabbath." the course of his remarks he referr ,d to the fact which had been demonstrated by an eminent Scotch physician, that the waste of the body each day is not fully made good by the night's sleep, aud hat m the course of a week the spent forces require the whole of the Sabbath for • recuperation. Even with the rest of this seventh day, there is still -a balince to be arovided for; aud to properly ,make up the deficiency requires about three weeks, holidays during the year. —A few days ago a John Horn,' near la. towuship of Welles1 by a bull. The foll the same gentleman w drive the bull into a, st, imal turned -en him nd abdomen in is fearful m Lents of -a ride or ,Jie might with profit bejap of this aninial and tilm propensities before1 damage. a—The eighth an the Young ,Men's of the Provinces ofn will be held.' in Port H .20th, and. Ist of At gu —Last w ek whil 12 years of 4ge, son •f of Bear Ure k, Con ty binding what in a fel by a rattleSi alee. he Of Old boots, and th r in. the left toe, thr ug boot. The boy's f by, with cheracteri took the lad- 'home bit of then*, seari hot iron. imp ation the bey stood burning busliness lie him," The boy is swelling au( sided. Th large one, w cl g day, a son ( f s endeavoring o le, when the ae gored him in t e nner.. The cm - poll of an- axle.- abed to the head check his gorin e does furthr .Coavention 4f tian Association ario and Queb c pe, on the 19t1, t. 011 ng lad abca \Ir. Wm. Youe f Lambton, ws , he was bitten -ad had on a pa.r ptile struck him a hole in tl e ther, who was clo.e tic coolness at on an cut out a, sm c, 01 ik sai all the p in snake which • was not a as kille . • he wound with- a ta surgical ope whole of his face. It is doubtful a man,bubtl 1. "kind. of hu right again, tl aving both su ogg rain for In —Mr. William Anthony, of _ the town- ship of Pusliach, County of Wellington, has had ten acres of wheat,: five of Oats, antl three of buckwheat totally eaten up, and a meadow partially destroyed by grass- hoppers.- Several .other -farmers in the same neighborhood have also had their crops badly -damaged by theSe pests.1 —One day last week - as, Mr. John Williams, Con. 9, East NisSOuri, waS re- turning home from 8t. Marye, he Saw Mr. Taylor, a neighboring farMer, working in his field adjoining • the rad, and he toid him he would have to [cut down the Canada thistles) he being path - master, when Taylor, corning over the fence, pulled Williams out of his- wagon and beat him unmercifully, breaking his nose and jaw hone, in fact, smashing the -On the 13th of 'Ji ly, a fatal affr y occurred. iq Chan be -s' - Hotel, Mai 0 Mills. W31 . Ellit tt, of Adjala, a (1 Wm. Whit, of M no, having- got into a quarrel, a son of Elliott interfered. on 1.) of his -fatli ,r, and. hrew -White on tii e floor with such vio ence that he was u able to rise He Iva carried into a lion -e -where it w s founc th t his' neck. h be.en disloc. ted, am he (o. •ii about houis after. Elliot has been ommitt d fiac)Oecerist7se% between s roeiniao: 35 and ..lf:offa 1 wheat which will avera 'sborn has a field of ,J;. mes 11•11, of the First Co 40 1 uslaels to the acre. - —Great fear fell ipon a young lady at London a few clay ago, who had just f been enjoyi g the luxury of a sulphne bath. Wh n she gazed at the mirror, las young ladie do, what was her horror a.•t discovering that her face, neck and arms had turned black. She agined sh was dying, and that mortificatio had already set in. Meith ical aid wi immediately summoned, and the discovelry was made that the sulphur in the wate4 haalfo med a chemical coirt- bination wi h the l -ad contained, in toilet &Aid she hd been using to iin 9 whether Williams will *over: Taylor was immediately apprehended and taken before two !Justices of the Peace, and, committed to Woodstock jail to wait his trial. Within three hours after the as- sanit was committed the assailant ,was safely lodged. in jail. This is - speedy justice, and the crime is deserving of equally severe punishment. I --A little girl, aged. _three ydars, daughter of Mr. Joseph Drew, - 'at Whitby, full out of bed on Tue slay night of last week, and broke her neck. The girl with whom the child was sleep- ing, hearing her tumble out, uncons(iions . that anything serious had happened) got up and put her back in the bed again, but in the morning the child. was feline!. dead, —An . Ottawa despatch states that it is the intention of. the Government at one to call for tenders for the cons rue- tiou of three branches of the X'4.citic Railway, one from Winnipeg to Pem in a, another from Winnipeg to the Lake of the Woods, and the other from T un- deil Bay to the head of the water sy tem near Lake Shebandowan, and. that it is the intention of the G-sovernnient topro- ceed • with the construction of branches with all convenient Speed. —Some days ago as Mr. T. Coat Usborne, was loading some sheep a can station he had a narrow escape a most serious accident. Revs:8 d some sheep up a gangway into the s deck of the car, when a shunting e _ ;nese i, of Lu - from vin con gine seassasssasoNsisomassassmammusammossa strticl -the train thus disturbing the planks, which, failing on him, kii°ocked him to the ground, and bruised. him con- siderably about the arms and legs. Had he not fallen away from the track, the car would have passed over him. taking up the floor of an old barn on Mr. Mersaren's farm, Lot 6, Con. 12, Kincardine Township, 188 full grown rats were killed, besides a great many young ones. —Aman in. Montreal, named Samuel Martin, has confessed to the murder of a young girl named Menard, on the 25th ult. He assigns jealousy as his reason for committing the deed. —The Provincial Exhibition will this year be held at Toronto. It will com- mence on Monday, the 21st of _Septem- ber, and continue until the following Friday. - --Some (la)s ago a little boy four yeara Ohl, son of Bennie Collins, -Con. ,12, Stephen, while playing in the yard with a plough, it by some means fell over on him, breaking bis leg 'above the knee. • —The lk.ranitoba Free Pres4 reraarks "What with grasshoppers, horses killed. by lightning, and a dog or two by way of variety, the bill of fare of the Indians hereaway ie pleasingly extensive; and. they have become fat, sleek and too lazy to steal." —Mr. Acer, residing near Colborne, ha e imported a herd of thoroughbred Jer- sey cattle, consisting of three heifers and. two tails. These Cattle are considered to be very desirable for purposes of either cheese or butter making. —Aa old sailor at Ottawa, on Mon- day laegt drank a pint of ram- in two draughts and nearly choked himself. It was fennel. necessary to procure medical assistaace, and it took quite a time _to pump him dry. —The harvest in the vicinity of Park- hill to be a fair yield. There is some rusting of spring wheat, but upon the whole, the spring crops will yield. abiandantly, while the root crops are exceedingly fine. Fruit will be -rather more than average yield, and in fact, with the exception of fall wheat, every crop is a decidedly full one. --e-Five warehouses situated on the London and Port Stanley Railway, at St. Thomas, were completely destroyed by fire on Saturday morning last. The fire was undoubtedly the work of an in- cencliaey. Two of the buildings on op- posite 1;ndes of the track were noticed to burst into llames at the :same tithe. The loss is estimated at $35,000. --On the 22d of July, a man named Geo. T. Smith cut with a cradle on the farm of Mr. Munro Carder, North Nor- wich, inside of ten hours, eeven acres of fall wheat. The average yield of the crop which succumbed to his cradle was twenty bushels per acre. If there were many such cradlers as this the coun- try reaping machines would soon go out of fashion. —A trotting horse belonging to Mr. Geo. Battersby, of Sirecoe, valued. at $500, got its leg broken a few days ago on the 'tlircicoe Driving Park and had. to be killed. This horse and another were being driven ou the course, ancl were go- ing in = opposite directions around the traak, and by sorne means ran up against each other, causing the accident. - —Mr. A. Sanders, an old and esteem- ed resident of Exeter, on account of the continued ill health orhimself and ben e about to remove to the United States, was entertained at a compliment- ary supper by his brethren of the Ma- sonic and Oildfellows'-Lodges of Exeter, previous to his departure. Mr. Sanders -was a eseful and enterprising citizen and will be much missed in Exeter. . —A young man named Walker, a table waiter at the Revere House, Toronto, his in his possession a curiosity in the shape of a rugs,containing no kss than 28,148 'piec' es all of which have been dyed, cut, and seed together by him- self at spare times during a number of years. , What adds to the interest of the work is the attractive arrangement of the colors into a very pretty pattern, the whole foriniag a, most elegant, and at -the same timc, -a useful and din -able article. The maker. who is an Englishman, has betn Init a few weeks in Canada, andis already engaged upon another rug to be made in the same manner. Such a "handy' inanwill make a good. husband for some fair damsel. - -:The annual Cheese Fair, under the auspices of the Ontario Dairymen's As- sociation, will this year be held at Belle- ville, on Oct. 6 and. 7. Over $500 in prizes will be offered for competition. Cheese for competition is to be as fol- lows : Two cheese made in July, one on the 22d, and one on the 29th July '- two cheese ,made in Aegust, 0110 on the 6th, and one on the 20th August; two cheese- made in September, one on the lst, and one on the 8th Septem-ber; each cheese to weigh not less than sixty pounds; tobe judged and awarded prizes on their merits and excellence for .shipping purposes to the 'Euglish Mar- kets; tO be the actual make of the dates named.I Tire: Ca:N:11-S 01. TITE INTABLISRBD CI I I Rcal the meeting- of the General Committee of the South Ayrshire Dis- establishment Aesociation, held at Ayr recently, One of the speakers said that in the published returns of the number of communicants belonging to the Estab- lished Church, the numbers set down for soMe of the parishes in that district forcibly reminded him of the story told by the late Dr Guthrie. Some time af- ter thedisruptionein 1843, a glowing de- scription had been made of the numbers who attended the parish, ch-urches itt Edinburgh; and one Sunday, when a ,mau was about to enter one of these churches, he was accosted by an old wo- man of his acquaintance, who said. to him, Oh, sir," dinna gang in there." ." What for no ?" asked the intending worshipper. "Oh, I beseech ye, dinna gang in there, for it's no canny, they say therasers that four hi er folk gang in there every Lord's day, and when I see't skailing there's only about forty comes loot."