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The Huron Expositor, 1876-08-11, Page 1AUGUST 4, 1876, a causing the death of one and inharin8e. the et other Fitt badly that he is not expected tet e live. The police authorities are 021 the alert, and it is hoped they will suoceed • in capturing the murdener, who has 80 far managed to evade thew. —The fan wheat ant_ throughout the County of Perth is abbot a total failure —many fields will not repay cutting and housing, while others will only Yield from five to six bushels per acre. Tee cause of the failure is rut, which is the worst that has been known for aome y -ears The tate spring wheat is also affected by - the rust—but the early is not troubled with it, although the midge has been at work. • Barley and. oats are a good fair crop, and. peas are also a, fair crop. Fruit s Plentiful. In. met crops,potatoes are good, but turnips are affected with a'species of grub which eats the tops off level with f the ground. This pest is doing great 1 damage, —On Friday evening last week, Me and. Mrs McRoberts, of London town - k ship, while on their way home from St. Mai -yrs, had a narrow esoape at the crossing near Skinners corners.Mr. McRoberts heel scarcely crossed the , track with his buggy when the evening aocommodation tram came along, wheu the horses in their fright turned around • suddenly and placed the buggy in the way of the train. The vehicle was struck and the occupants thrown violent- ly out, Singular to relate, no lives were lost Mrs. -McRoberts had three ribs brokenbut her hutband only received A good shaking up. When the train reached the depot,. pieces of horse &ale were found on the engine, but the horses were not killed. The buggy was a cora- plete wreck. 1. TeaciterS' Examinations. The following is a. list otthe successful candidates at the recent teachers' exam- ination for this Comity. Thirty-eight secondtelass candidates began work, but many gave it up at the close of the first ' day after trying the test papers; Arith- Biotic, algebra and. range were the sub- jects which formed the principal stum- bling block. Oat of the 38, as will be noticed, only five were successful. For third-class certific,atea 140 candidates re- mained after the first day, and of this number only 85 were successful. At this rate of working the ranks of the teaching fraternity will soon become pretty well thinned out. The following la a list of the successful candidates for second and third class certificates, the papers of applicants for first class certifi- cates having to be sent to head quarters far examination, the result will not be knewn for some time : Second Class—Ga.ade 4.—Robt. Main Grafi*, 11 —Wm, Lawrence'David. M. Walker, Janet Wilson, Barbara Duncan. Third: Claes Certificates granted on sec- rflut clam work. —Sarah Clark, Maggie G. Oliver, Sarah A. Powell, Eva M. Stur- geon, Julia A. Spicer, Jerome B. Moore Thos. S. Menarey, James F. Parke, Johil Robinson, John McBride. The latter recommended to the Department for a second. Third Men—Annie L. Brown, Eliza. A. Cozens, Jane Collin Catherine Dobie, Sarah, D. Dickson, Elizabeth A. Dynes, Rebecca J. Evit, Sarah Fisher, Margaret Fernason, Sarah Forest, Isabella W. Gib- son, Elizabeth Howard, Emma. Hicks, Itiizabeth J. Hyslop, Barbara Houston, Jennie Irvine. Addle Jenkins, niariam. Jelly, Maggie J.- Jones, Alice Kincaird, Maggie E.7Kernighon, Margaret A. Lo- a, Sarah J. Livingstone, Bathsheba andesborough, Rebecca Lovett, Matilda A. Moffatt, Lizzie A. McGee, Annie • Mc- Geegor Mary C. O'Reilly, Jane A. Pat- ; terson, Jennie Robinson, Elizabeth Ress' , Mary 1-1, Robinson, Ida V Strambel, Sarah C. Troyer, Clara Vospert Emma Veinier, Catharine Walker, Sarah C. Wiggins, Joseph Barkley, John M. Best, Hector Brine, Jas. W. Campbell, Thos. • Campbell, John. Connolly, Hugh Davide son, David L. Dorrance, James H. Dun- can, Thos. J. Dinning, Marshall R. Eliott, Samuel A. Ferries, Wm. Forest, ; Atari. Gracey, Robt. A. Hayen, Wm. J. Hamlin, Geo. W. Jackman, John Jamieson, Geo. L. Johnston Michael D. Long, Richard Lees' Robb Millen Peter et McKineon, GilbertA. Powell, John. Powell, Thos. A. Rogers, Itobt. Sample, John Smith, Robt, Starkers, Jas, Scott, Jas. Lisciale, Jas. E. Whitely, David Wiggins, Loin. White, John Young; Thos. F. Young. First -Class Teachers - The follewiug candidates have been re- commended for tirattelase certificates by the Central Committee of Examiners, «which, certificates will become valid on receiving the sanction of the Hon. the Minister of Educa.tion Fi rat A. James (gold - medal) ; Powell, George K. (silver . me(lal) ; Barnes, Charles Andrew; Tenn -John. Ine equal (bronze medals); Coda,- rane, Robt. R. ; McAllister, Samuel. First B. —Iles, Bella; Searmerbn, :William Joseph. , First (a—Cornell, Daniel, Campbell, Neil Moore ; Grant, Kate. Excepting Messrs. McLung and. t Mc- Allister, those recouamtnded are Normal School students. A. G. MeDougadl & Co., Seaforth: Twenty yards Print for $1 at the 777. A. 0. MeDoreatet & Co. —New Goods opening every day at the 777. A. 0. McDotenter. & Co. — Brawn Ducks, neavy„ at 13t, coats, worth 20 cents per yard. A. G. hie- Dueehei. & Co. —Rich :train Stripe, • Black Grout' t1ine, for 25 cents, worth 40 cents, at thc777 A. 0, McDourlane & Co. For the month of June, the amount t money paid Out by the Grand. Trunk away to its employees at Stratford, 'a f.19, 241. During the month the workshops were dosed for a week, and Rad they been open the -amount weuld e• ave been increased by over $2,000. \ early all this large amount of moneY Inds its way tathe merchants and deal- s of Stratford, and is not the least of e advantages that accrue to the town m being a railway centre. —Archnishop Connolly, of Halifax-, Tied in that (,ity last week. e His disease egiears to have been contracted the week trevious, while moving about his cella- ry aeat under the sun with his head un- vered. He carne to this country about t years ago with the late Bishop Walsh, nd remaiued in Halifax as Vicar -Gen- al for twelve years, alien he WM aP ointd. leithop of St. John. On the eath of Archbishop 'Walsh_ in 1858s he as appoiuted to the diocese of Heli- x, where he has lived highly re - petted and venerated, not only by hia wn people, but by all classes of the cora - unity. 1 i MINT II VEA Ir. 'MOLE IVO. 453. elowiamm SEAF6RTH, ISEAL ESTATE FOB MALE. ,e BARE CHANCE.—For Sale Cheap, three very nn desirable building lots, facing on Victoria knife Seaforth. For particulars apply to E. 11101{i../N &Co. 447 FOR SALE.—For 1Sale—a good Two '1 eared Acre :Farm in the Township of Hul- iees,nounWy of Heron; well improved and with ftirbnildings. Price, $5,500. Apply to A. STRONG, Land Agent, Seaforth. 447 .e1131S FOR SALE.—East half -Lot 11, Con, 12, F fdallillop; also Soath 50 acres of Lots 1 and 2 tee 10, Morris, adjoining the Village of Blyth. perparticulays apply to MeCAUGHEY & HOLME- EITED,flarristers, Seaforth. 425 l'OB SALE—South half Lot 1, Con. 11, Grey, X containing 50 scree, adjoining the village of ,grassels ; liaid lot is suitable foe park lots ; for farther particulars apply to WM. GRAHAM, proprietor, or to 0. R. COOPER, Brussels. 448c jr FOR SALE.—North half of Lot 12, Con. ,J 13, MoKillop, containing 75 wires, 40 cleared, 'balance well timbered, with good buildings; for -1e cheap and on easy teruss of payment. Apply elcOAUGHEY &IIOLIIESTED, Seaforth. 449 DARE LOTS FOR SALE.—Containing 5 acres 1 each, adjoining the Town of Seaforth. The most desirable situation for private residences. Terms reasonable, wail immediate possession. Apply to H. W. C. MEYER, Barrister, Seaforth, or to L. MEYER, HaePtsrheY. 441 pROPERTY FOR SALE.—That valuable prop - x ate on Goderich Street occupied by the Goder- WI Mannfacturing Company as a Machine # Shop. Also dwelling house andlot adjoining. The above property will ba sold n easy terms. For paeticu- lace atiply to GRAY 5SCOTT. UILDING LOTS IN SEAFORTH FOR SALE -LL_Dx. COLEMAN, having laid out the grounds reeenl1 occupied as a Driving Park into Buid- ing Lots, is prepared to dispose of lots on reason- sble terms to any who may desire them. Parties fleshing to purchase should make immediate ap- plication. 864 pBOPERTY FOR SALE.—Two lots, with a 2 story ire= house and barn, situated on the !Market Sgneze, Seaforth. The premises have been used as an egg packing establishment, and areivell adapted for any pnblie business. For particulars apply to the proprietress, Mrs. MAL - COM, Seaforth, or to D. GORDON, Goderieh, Ontario. 481 VARM FOR SALE.--Seuth half of Lot No. 81, Coe. 5, Eas t Wawanosh, containing 100 acres, sboat 80 acres cleared; there is on the farm a good frame barn and stable, a good house and orchard of good fruit trees, a good well and pump ends good spring on the be& of the lot.Apply on thepremitiee or to JAMES MURRAY, West-, field P. O. 458'8 Vali FOR SALE.—For Sale, Lot No. 7, Con. .1: 10, Harris, containing 64 acres, 25 of whie h are cleared, well fenced and in a good state of celtivation; the remainder is well timbered. There are 4. acres of choice fruit trees bearing, a goodlog hong° and frame -stable. Is 1 mile from the Btyth station of the London, Huron and Brace Railway. For further particulars to JOHN LUDLAW on the promisee, or to W. CLEGG, Myth. 425 'FARMS FOR SALE.—West half of South half of Lot 18, Con. 3, Morris, Huron County, contain- ing 50 acres. • The above lot is all bush, of the best quality, and is only six miles from Brussels ; also Muth hull of Lot 10, Con. 8, e ' eorris Huron County, 100 acres, alsoall bash and the best of soil, 6 miles from Bruesels station, G mit, Western Bathray, For price and terms apply to C. R. COOPER, Bratiaels; or to CALVYN A. CAMP- BELL, etntforth P. 0. 4430 FAB1.1. FOR SALE.—For Sale, Lot 12. Con. 6, Hallett, consisting of 100 &cresol land, 40 acres cleared, end the balance well tfinbered with hard- wood. There is a log house, aided, a f rame barn and outbuildings, a good well, and a young bear- ing orchsrd of choice fruit trees Situated 8 relies from Seaforth, 6 miles from Clinton, 1 from, Kinbuzn. Terms made known on application on the presaisee. Poretession given immediately. ELIZABETH HARVEYeConstance P. 0.450 FARMFFOR SALE.—For Sale, Lot No. 28, Con. 1, Tnekersmith, London Road, containing 160 acres, about 80 of which are eleared and in a 0151.01569lass state of cultivation; a new brick house 2603, with kitchen 18x26 ; 2 frame tarns and all other necessary oat -buildings; plenty of water and good orchard; within half a mile of Bruce - field station, and 6 miles- from Seaforth and Clin- ton. Apply on the premises or to Brucetleld P.O. WL WESTOOTT. N. 13.—Also a 20 -aero Park Lot in Brueefteld for sale thane). 45244 14811P014 SALE.—For Sale, Lot No. 29 , Con. " 9, Flatbed, containing 100 acres, 90 of , which are cleared. free of stumps, well feuced, and in first-class cultivation. A barn 60x40, nearly new, a shed and stable 80x80, a driving shod 26x40, a . brick roo: house and a spleudid briek dwelling house, and all other net:awry outbuildings. A good orchaz1 and well watered. Thin is ono of • the most desirable farms in this section of Goan - try. Terms easy. Apply to the proprietor on the • promisee, Or to Egmondville P. 0. GEORGE BALE. • 442 PARNI FOR SALlil.—For Sale', Lot No.24, on.p 1, Stanley, containing 07 acres, more orl less, SO of which are °leered, well fenced, and 'n a etate of geed cultivation, the balance is well tim - bend. There is a frame barn aad stable, an good Lew frame house with stone ce:lar, kite en wood died and all other conveniences. A n ver- • failing well and a good bearing orchard. Is 2 miles from Brueefield Station and 4 miles from Clinton. •A gravel road leading to each place. • ApEppalyuEteNthe proprietor at Varna P.O. THOMA I 434 - • - -• -- • I -- FARM FOR SALE.—For Sale, on reasonable • terms, Lot 4, C013. 2, Stanley, containing 100 Acres, 70o1 which are cleared, welt famed, in first•claes cultivation and free from stumps, the balance timbered with the best wood; buildings comfortable; a_ good yonug orchard. of fruit trees; also well watered; within 11 miles from Hippeu and 4 miles from 13rueetielci. stations, and 10 miles frem Seafertin Clinton and Exeter, with gravel roads leading to each place. The" Is a choice arm and 13 desoi slug the Detention of pin•ehasers. Apply on the premises or, to Hippon P. 0. WM., LAIR Jr.t 446 EXECUTORS' NOTICE. 1 FX eCUTORS' NOTICE.—All persons havitig ' any claims against the cetate of the Late John MeTeggart, formerly of Walton, deceased,are hereby eotifted to present the same for liquida- tion to It. pattison, Walton, ou or before the iirst dRY of October next, or the undereigned will ' not • berespor.eible therefor, and all pereons indebted • to the said estate must settle by said date, as all • claims then ausettled mug t be put into the Curt for colleetien. ORRIN AlcTAGGART, I1,013LRT P&TTISON, Executors. 450 EXECUTORS' NOTICE. --All persons having •C°1111tYrd Huron, yeoman, deceased, are hereby notified to present the same for liquidation to either of ttny cleirus ageinst the estato of ' ROBERT of 1.1ebornd, in the BELL, late of the Township the undersigned Executors, on a before tile iirt (1s ly of Decerabor next, or they en not be responsible therefor; end all persons indebted td the said estate Tenet settle by said date, ae all claims then unsettleti mustbo put into Court for eerville Poet Oniee. •eUDMORE, WILLIAM 13ELL, Executors, Rod - collection. July '47# JOHN BLA.TCHFORD, THOMAS 1876. 431d LOST OR FOUND. _ 81XLVI LOST.—Lost, on Saturday , July 8,, be- • lie tween Grieve's bridge arid Seaforth, a Black "27•4'1. The finder will be suitably rewarded on • rine: the same either at the 11%P -0511'0R Oftioe, forth, or with MRS. WILLIAM HOGG, Mc - 449 STOCK. FOR SALE. • FOR SALE --A good driving family mare, and •xrp..0a by Peacock . For particulars LIFO y „fliare 4 years old, by Sir Araby, and 1 year-old ant Rarpurhey• - tO L. SUbAY, ,A.IIGUST 11, 1876. , I { itIcLEAN BROTHER, Publiehers. $1 nO a Year, in advance. • f VANDER PA . My last leas Professor Joggs to Mace's Hole. stout team of p� at a lively .pac rectly toward t way the grade tibly upward, tance the coun One road was a course, there and until we ha 0 IN COLORADO. NO. IV. wt me trav lling 1V1 on he road ft m Pueb The 'Professgr drove ie and we ra tied alo e were e mountains, as decidedly a or a consid y was dry an toss the prairie, and, s x� houses or settler ben out an h ur or t length we came 'nt a better metered r even cattle we , ot to be seen. gion, and then scattered over e ed several cr the country be irregular, c1un2 o pine began to f to be scattered most of the yea creeks are entir spring may trio yards down the sand. When the tains or when t curs the dry cr torrents for a br of the year they Sometimes the and reappear it c 1 Inere e erall a number of going d nd all t d perce able di barre could see hillside. and gul e more br f cedar an the dry c ve rer ek a nft about the pra rie. F Many. of the Colora ly dry, except where a le feeble stream a few sn ek ef at 111 he catt e eros Lies, an ken an stunte eeks an • a • • • to be soon w melts in iolent rain ost in the he moan- tonn o will becom, rushin season, but .for mo creeks only in,nam r will sink in the san iderable distance be - ow. ere s g y water holes along these creeks where wa- ter may be fouut. at all times thongh of- ten in a very tagnant condition,: and these furnish waterng Places for the cat- tle which pasturp on the prairie atoun . This mountain eointry we inc passin through used to be thought one of t s e best ranges in jo1orado. Tbe broke character of the country and thL3 stun timber afforded s el ter which other rang s lacked. But it 1pecme overstocked an within the last yearcr two many thou and head of eattl� have been minted awa About the time it was first stocked wit cattle a few of , the priecipal owne s bought up all till land bordering On t e creeks wherever ter, hoping thus, se water, to keep h.e range to themsel disappointed as of land could pa public lands as they fenced thei was impra_cticabl wenn at them as found themselve their hands, in t tract of land on high taxes, but f no benefit whate got themselves r by a Company of . bought the land, nearly all the wa ing an immense t • 11 hero was permanent w having possession of t theta out and have t es. In this they wer eople not 'teeing a fo t re their cattle on ti: as they, and unle Meting places, whic utsider's cattle couln 11 as their osyn. The vith an elephant o e shape of antimmen to p deriv er thet,r the Englishmen the original poss trol the range, r said they inten herds which now o deavor to obtain so if tne fail in t • is into it and drive t The great thing i range where a br The business wo able were it not o. consequent on th ers mixing and d As we drove lo coursed on a gre t vari his favorite the was his owu acco plisbments and p r ormances. Iti additi n to his own breve professorship of phre ology, he was Le ttrer to the Grange,a, d had been delega to the State Grang he was also justi of the peace and n tary public,. and had been,still furth r honored by havi gbeen a member of t e first legislature o the Territory. I rath r pitied the Gran e which had to endu e my companion's 1 c tiring periedically,b t 1 listened attentively and as Soon as po sible switched hi off , on another topi About noon we c e to a shady place 1. a creek where th Was water, and he we decided to ha dinner. The Profes sor, having un ched. his horses a d turned them loo to graze, took down his "grub -box" ad began to cjtslices f bacon. In the ciutinie I had, gather a wood and made re, and brought wat r from the creek to thake coffee W.it h. Tile Professor had a s Lfieiency of bread, ree -baked along, but had forgotten his fryi g pen. So we sha pened a couple of sties and putting a pi:cc of each soon had L The leoffee and b got out our tin p and .commenced o liberal supply of e. Itich. they ha on which the er. This sum 1itved from their burden glish capitalists w d who are owners on this range, cove t of country. Wheth do. wh do, co a a i1 be able to ssors failed to ins to be sen. It buy up all the sma 1 cupy it, an& thus ex- le- possession, and that they will, turn sheep e cattle out entireln. attle raising is to get can be kept bteitsel be immensely profi the expense and lo attle of different ow ing away. I he Professor di ty of sulteets,b g . a 11 111 1 • 11 we sopped our be nate bites of br the roasted bac down with drau dinner I got the 11 phrenological del' which he was pl a need hardly say flaying made a our cooking -arra wagoe, hitched soon agein on th wayside meal lik A farmer on -ranch to town but tak sious along. Y•u • on a public roa -remains of a, earn lets have eaten scribe it not as a as something w Where such thin • As we approa Professor pointe "There," said h tain rising like Mace's 'Hole. Y after old. Juan used to steal_ c there." The s thicker as we n consists of stun latter, the Prof cidedly Scriptur lihn of the Ori came to a hill w of sight aroand Looking before • • • 11 of !bacon on the e d em roastingat the fir con being ' eacly, we tes from the rub -b x erations. Pouring a ()lasses on our plat 8 d in it, taking alte and molasses and M , and washing thein s of coffee. 1 Duri g rofessor to give me ja eation of my eharect r ecl to do, and sehic I as highly flatterin y hearty ineal, we g t ements back into t e our horses, andjwe e ay. In this couptry a, his is common el oug an hardly ever go his grub and pros i - cannot travel In' e rithout coming o t e tire where sorne rev l- ir frugal meal. I de. thing remarkab e, b t h may be of i tere t are not eustonla y. ed the mou tan s t e out our de ti • atio "you see that • ou cone, behind iat is a funny name call d ace, a Mexica w o tle and hide th m n bbery becontert 11111 h the mountain . It d oak and pin s, t e or thinks, have a e - e idi g appearance, re# tal palm. At 1, st e re the road win • .. o t he side of a c nyo we get our lilt gIimse of Mace's Hole. Going down the hill at the foot we crossed a rapid stream, the St. Charles between two folic of which the beautil I littl valley is cnclosed. ; Here the P ofesso 's way arid mineisep- arated. Befciro part ng the Professor gave me hisaddress, asking me t • • rrespond with him. if sup se it want often that he found such an attenti e listener and that he took a liking to «e on that account. T� please hiva I wro his name in my note book, thus, " :'r if. Joggs, Mace's Hole." Owerlook' 2 Me as I wrote the title, he e. claimed, ""` Two F's, if you please; sir, I always s le it with a a double-F—LP-r-o- ." So regarding the rales of orthogziaphy I wee e it with a double -F. I afta&wards lea ned that my companion was (line of the b st known men in Sou hern' lorado ani his ab- surd eceentricities uid amiab e egotism have been the su ject of t t around many a camp fire. The valley of ace's Hole about twelve hund ed acres land, with about tw ce as 'nue not capable • f cultivation. T settlement o about bitty faun valley, and t • en bo st of a eh schoolhouse nd a ange Hall prineipal ins itution At one was a saw «ill an also, I store, but th forme got burn and the latte was ithdrawe profitable sp culatiot . The s valley is vet fertile and produ.c largely in favorable ears, b t Ifor the Last two or three year the il and. gra oppers destroyed th crops lniost ent ly, and, left the people in financial c ndition very far from dot). ishing. T valley affords excellent pa tures, and dairying and the sale of their cattle has een the chief resour e of t e inhabit* s since the failure o I the crops. "Clabber and corn bread straight,' as one Of them said to me, is what they have mostly lived on for a long Unite past. As in a he moun- tain valleys t is much clamp r ere than in the plains and ri er botto s below, and crops require uch les i •rigation. Considerable; dew foams at i ht, while • outside Of the mou tains dew is very rare. I have walke throughthe grass tri in the early timing many a ti e, but I ti pc, reme ber to have had y boots wet with dcw. Th grass is thicker and naore luxuriant and he whole andscape has a fresher appearance. I d u't think I ever saw a more eautiful p4ice than it this little valley of 4Iace's ol . If any man wished to beco e a her i and to surround hhuself with the lbeauties of nature far away fro the buisy bustle of the world, this wou d be the place for him. There is a splendid naountain prospect, the mount in sides are covered with evergreen trees three little streams clash down the mou tains from different directions 41 uniti g their waters, dis- appear from the valley in a dee canyon —but in vain I atteept to describe what an abler pennhan m'. e would fail to con- vey an idea of. _ The climate, too an scaroel be sur- passed anywhere. n summ r cooler than the op n country winter it is shelte ed from t winds _which are disa reeable in below. Gaulle is stil very pleat antelope, beer, elk, nd a grea of smaller kinds are ound within a few hours' walk. In sho t, so fee all external circumstances and onsiderati as ,could make it so, I never s w anything so near- ly approachm. g a per ect earthly elysium . as this little mountain valley. 1 To live here, I could almost reconcile yself to "clabber and corn b earl straig at"t—yes, almost. 1 1 .The climate of thebe mountai valleys, and of this country generally, is very favorable to persons uffering f m asth- matic compl intie. ts effect o persons of consump ive ten encies is • more a matter of cl bt—so etimes it favor- able and. sometimes not—but I think there is no question ut that pe le with the asthma re lmo tinvar bl benefit- ed and ofte e tire cured met int Mace's Hol a Mr. • ilehri4, reliable - gentleman; ncll a cotchm n, perhaps some of my • ea ers, ho the 0 s ves have whiffed the heather may c Ins er him more reliabl o thiri latter a co t,) who told mo tha lie had 'ecu et tir y cured of asthma y cemin to Co or se . He had been li •ng in Io -a and va a great sufferer fro.' asth at havii g gone the whole roun of the surd or I'd ox medi- cal treatme it -wtthou derivi g by bene- fit; and was so far r • • ced 1 h t he ex - i pected to cl t.' I lirli n he Mad up his mind to co e to Col. rado, his eighbors tried to dis uade hi'. from it, t lling him he "would only die t -A, strange land and leave his fa ily am ng strarige ." But he disregar ed. the and nem on .with la his wife a d famil . . That • as some two years ago and he Says tha I he, has not been tro inl d by his old One y since. In the first eight months he as here he gained forty.pounds in We flit, At present Mr. Gi lens is not a ery large man, not over nd hundred and thirty or for pounds, I sho Ict say, 8 Ittrapting for t7 poundsfr m w ich one ea imagine that he was pret low. "1 would rather," he said, "li e .on the ost bar- ren peak of !thee mo ntains, th"n iuffer again what 11 d in he east." I will tel about a. other Ma e's Mole Juan, thoughw yI o it I _her V know, w at widely Idifferent unless to hob for ed on the ame sub- ject by cliff ren -persons. To , y 'mind and to that of most others, C lorado is as unprom'Sin a, country for anything d in the way f a ricuOure as cou ii. well be imagined, but here wee a man wh thought differently. I found him on t e side of a mountain in the middle of a, fi e woods, where he h a cabu d about ten acres of a clea ' g. He as cutti g down weeds with ah ew en I joinec him and entered int conversation with hiria. I asked how he made it go, and he said very well, as -014 to hat a good e crop. It as mostly garden stuff he raised, and he old it at good p ices. He had been i that.place three ears and had done 1 w II. e had c me from Kansas where he ad a hun i e and sixty acre ar e could !no . melte a living in Kansas. When he 'uld raise anything he could tinothing for it, and. e! he was better off there when his crops * , I I * • 11 contains f arable he Guelph Central Fair will be held which is this Year on the 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th i s in the tite is a days of October. $8,000 will be offered in prizes. ch and —On Saturday night last a man nam - their ed im Brown ran from Aylmer to ioevteh,erae :Otte -a, al distance of ten miles in 59. minu s and 56 seconds. , down, —Mr. W. H. Frazer of Toronto, is an un- making arrangements for the proposed ii i of the visit to Canada of the Foreign Commis- sioners of the Centennial Expositi n. s — be annual summer fires have com- naen ed. in the Ottawa valley. In s veral r erable t. into A load of bailey sold at 50 cents, and a load of wheat at 90 cents. The c uality of both cereals, was fair. —The Roman Catholics of Mitc intend erenting in that town a fin brick chureh. A considerable esti already been subscribed tower building fund. faile .th n when they were good. • One year he h d a thousand bushels of corn, and ie sold it for $200, 20 cents a bushel. Tha same year his County tax ca •• eto$80. He 4ot ditcouraged at that and came to Colo ado And had been doing well ever sine • He had the farm in Kansas yet, and would. be glad to sell` it cheap. 'While in Mace's Hole 1 met a gentle- man who Was largely engaged in cattle raising. He was to start on the lst of May i thed a few days off, on the general spririg slotted up of cattle and with him I made n arrangement by which I was to a co- pany hun. In my next I will try t gilje some idea of what a cattle roun 1 up ils and how it is carried on. A. McL. Canada. A Montreal gardner has this year raise3l a cucumber measuring 7 feet long and, feet thick. How is this for cucum- ber? places fireare raging and cowl property has already been destroye —The first new grain was broug the Guelph market last Saturda ell in - new has S the —On Friday a man at Sarata amed Seyniour attempted to kill hims If by takirig arsenic,because his father forbade him to marry the girl that he love f . He is all right now, but still unmarrie $ - —he House of Industry and r efuge for t e Connty of Waterloo conta ns 80 inmaltes at present, nearly all of whom - are likely to remain there while • life's Iampl holds' out to burn. —4t the Guelph August Cattle Fair theM was *either a good supply of cattle for s le, ndr buyers for those that were offer d. The prices paid ranged f om $3 to 50 per 100 pounds. -- y his will Archbishop Co Dolly, who died last week in Halifax, 1 ft to each $100 and 8,02 Rive Poin num — servant in his employ at his death ; $4,000 to the Sisters of Ch rity ; ,000 Stokenhis busines man. uring the month ending Jul 31st, cars were ferried over the St Clair at the Grand Trunk Cross' g, at Edward, near Sarnia. Of this er 4,350 were going east, an 4,688 is inuch westward. and in r. Edward Golding, of Lig rsoll, fierce has een particularly unfortunate. With - he plains , in one week he lost a horse 14 pigs, and ful, deer, a co* valued at $80. This is a practical variety • realization of the old adage that tais- fort nes never come singly." — Ir. John Neil, of the towns ip of McGillivray, claims to be the boss histle er in Ontario. He has grown n his this year Canada thistles mea uring 2 inches in length. It's wel to be at something, even if it be gr wing es. r. Geo. Wright, of Cone togo, rloo county, threshed on F 'day, acres of fall wheat ; the retul being ushels, or 32t bushels to the acre. • heat was of the Scott variet , and • ueh less rusted than the Tree well, h grew in the same field. ar at geon, lway, sand • Hun- amp - s gro farm 5 fee good this Wat nine 292 The Was whi —1 he Inickleberry crop thes y Baldl Lake, six miles from Bobca oe• t whi Rae dred ed t that en i e Port Hope and Lindsay Ra extends over several th is the best known for years. of piokers from all points are ere. here is a rumor afloat to the the Ctedit Valley Railway ha to the hands of a cornany of w • • effect ; fall- I althy capitalists. We claresay that these tnuni- cipa lines Which _ granted such liberall bon hav pro Gilli frorn erng gran This in t whe vest ses to aid in its constructio no objections if this rumor reliable. Ir. Moses Mawson, of Con. 1 ra,y, as thteshed the fall a 20 acre field, and it yields of 25 bushels to the acre. iis phimp and of excellent q however, is a very exception at township as much of t t will barely pay for the cost g• I orsyth & Co., of Dundas, ha seas n manufactured five hund theit mombined Harvesters, and succeeded in disposing of the ent Ind ed they were not able to fill 1 orde s sent in -e -one on Tuesda Prin e Edward's Island for twent having to be refused. will! hould! Me, heat LI AV -it TheI ality.I I crop! e fall, f hare e this ed dhaso-ef lot. 11 the from more — ndeperident of, and in addition ;to the r prizes given for barley by the Centennial Co mistime the American Maltsters' Committee have arranged for a compet- itiv exhibitioneof this year's growth, in whi h they offer a prize of $70 in gold for Canadian barley; $45 for the best barley gro n in Ontario, and $25 for t • e best / groe n in Quebec. This has bee • dont in t e hope that farmers will tak an in- tere t in the cultivation of a s perior quality. The prizes are to be a -arded to growers only. . This story is told by the orfolk Ref rmer, and the scene of it is laid at Silver Hill, a post village about twelve i rail s from Simcoe : Eugene, a on of Mr. Patrick Murphy, about ei hteen years of aige went to a spring for drink of water, and after satisfying his thirst he at driwn on a log to rest and ool off a little. He presently heard e in noise near his head, and. on look ng for the 'cause discovered a large sna e nealr his face. The reptile had craw ed up his back and stuck its head ove one of his shoulders. The boy grabbed for the snake and caught it by the n de; . hut w unable to pull it over his 8 fouider 'ion account of its being fastened to his handle of a fork, which he had putchased suspendere behind. He held his grip in the city to defend himself, but he was however until the snake was chok to too late, es the scoundrel atruck him death. It was found to be a black s ake, violently over the hea,d with a large - nearly five feet long. Young Mu phy three pointed stone and knocked hinat out squeezed. the reptile with such a firm of the wagon, after tthich he temlembers grip that he broke a large silver ring nothing " he was lifted into in again. that was On his finger. The eta ns then jumped out and made , — The "bottom" price appears to ve their es pe. One was captured, but reached in freights from Chicago to Ion- when br ught before the weunded man treat. Charters were made from that he could not actually identify hini. city last week at 4t -c per bushel for —A sad ease of drowning °conned on wheat, and* for corn, the lowest fig- Saturday afternoon, on the scooted. con - urea ever quoted for freights bet een cession of Westminster. It seems that these points. Charles Johnston, jr., of the 6th conces. —The saw and shingle mill of Mr. sion of the township named; weet into Xelm. A. Cameron, at Batchawating, on one of t le ponds to swim, and getting the North shore of Lake SupeAor was beyond his depth, andnotbeing adept, totally destroyed by fire on the morning he sank, and before his com anions of the 30th- ult. Loss $25,000. No in could get to him he was out of sight. surance. Cause unknown. The horses 1 The young man was seventeen y ars of only are reported as saved from the ; age, and a general favorite aranng his general distruction. 'I comrades. .1 1 . —The Teeswater Net118 says there is a . —A storrn of great severity ra ed na splendid opening in that village for -three : theneighborhocel of London on Satur. or four more newspapers, and. that two ilday, and: during its continuance things ✓ three enterprising newspaper men ,:jwere made pretty lively. Scaff ldings ould make a fortune there. No doubt of twere blown down and cora patche level - i . We should hive 15 or 20 more in t ed. to the ground, fruit blown o uron, wades Wingham has only two, i. and damage of that description ge ertraelleys 1 here is no doubt but it could stand . six t indulged'in. Dust was blown a out in r seven more. ll great quantities and in some part of the — The Manitoba, of the Beatty line of it city the cloud ' obscured the si ht for. a eamers, on her last trip took with her il quite a length of time, and meechants f om Sarnia to Fort William a new en- il must have d their goods considerably e and two ears foruse on the Canadian.' injured. We have not heard of an s casin 1 acific Railway. There is still another i alties. ngine and several cars for the same road I —A serious accident occurreel m the hich will go up so soon as the boats can ii township of Durham, county of Oxford, e got to convey them. f a few days ago. Mr. Rowsam a d wife —A farmer near the town of Lindsay I had been from home, and Was re cently had three cows and four pigs early in the evening, and. when oisoned by eating potato crops which t one mile from home the horse wh ad. been sprinkled with Paris green. s was driving being a spirited on ruing • about ch he , took he animals'had broken into the potato fright frera a dog springing at t, and. field during the night, and in the morn- '! ran away. In its course it ran into the g when the farmer came out he found t ditch dote to the fence. • Mr. Rfwsam em all lying dead. —The Cornwall Freeholder has redibly informed that a certain y, during the recent elect • Glengarry, was so eagen tie of the candidates that; ss of Devonshire, she gay as thrown with great violence gainst he fence, breaking two ribs, also ' his g . breast bone, besides very seriousin injur- test ;, ing the spinal cord. Mrs. Rowsana, who elf of ,'' was also thrown out, had one rib hroken, e Duch- I and was badly cut about the face,' a kiss to all —The fall wheat crop in some s etions at would support her candidate. This of the count n of Waterloo, one of the bribery of the most tempting kind. Iprincipai wheat growing counties lie the —While M. C. Bogart, farmer, of Province, it is said, will not warty equal dolphustawn, near Napanee, was back- I the sangeine expectations entertatued. -in g his team out of the barn 011Saturday, I regard lxi it a fortnight since, the rust he horses bolted away, throwing Mr. t prevailing very generally among the old- ogart forward uncter the wagon and so t. er varieties of grain. The loss ta many eriously injuring him that grave doubts : is great, dcarcely half a crop being erpect- re entertained of his recovery. He re- I ed, while some farmers state th t the yield will not, in their own cases, lexceed five to ten bushels to the acre. C awson wheat, so far as we have been 4bie to Tread, Souks Wheat eaped, eding- ot yet t with eived a scalp wound three inches and a alf in length and is hurt internally. —One day recently, in Galt, a man ell known as a victim to drink. entered learn,haS almost entirely escaped. is Nouse accompanied by another toper, I well is not generally natireed, but oth in a state of semi -intoxication. . andDiehl have sufferedextrcately. ncking up a cat which was in the room, which ripened very early has e nd lifting up a lid of the stove, one of the krain being abundant and exe hem threw the cat_ into the flames and V plump. Spring wheat is laced the lid back in its proper place. 1ready for cutting, but it is thoug f course the poor animal burned. to ` fair weather a good crop will be harvest - cath in excruciating agony.I ed. Barley has turned out remarkably I 1-1--ve—liThere appears just now to be a jail - breaking' fever. Another ;criminal es- caped last week from Brampton jail. He had been sentenced to a term of im- prisonment in the Ceetral PH on for house breaking and was placed in, l until he, could be conveyed to o- ronto. , On Friday afternoon instead of beinglocked in his cell for safe keep- . in , the jailer had hirn employed in car- rying wood from the jail yard into the kitchen. 1 He seems to have been left pretty much to himself, for he managed to tear his blanket and shirt into ropes, then reified a plank from the platform of the well; split it in two, and spliced the halves together with the ropes thus made, adding two short poles that had been left in the yard in such a manner as to make a etep at earl splic . By setting this pole against the syail he easily reached the top, 18 feet, *limped over and walked leisurdy away. —On Thursday of last week, Mrs: ty-five sion of cident probe- _ bility will result fatally. t It appears that on the morning in queetiOn Mut. Gillies Was engaged in kindling a fire around a large kettlein the yard; for the outbern Railway from. St. Thomas to purpose of boiling some dye. After the uffalo. No further changes are in con- , fire had 'just been lighted, she Stooped i emplation than the removal of the de- il down to, place more chips on it, vhen a artmental offices. Efforts will be ma.de i large apton which she was tree 'ng be- y -the management to bring express I came ignited. instead of jerking it off own to the lowest possible limit. It is I she tried to untie it, which allowed time ot intended, however, to make 1 any : for the flames to spread until she was nhon7ivs. ation with regard to the Work- I neatly ettveloped in them. With a piere- , ing cry of anguish she then started —It is officially announced by the 1 large trough tilled with water, w nntennial Bureau of Agriculture that in the yard. By the time She he live stock display will be held in the i' it, although taking only a few onths of September, October, and I she was barely able to get int6 the ovember, and that the periods Elevoted ' which at once extinguished the each group would, be as follows :— r Although nearly dead Mrs. Gil tenni) 29, horses, mules, asses, from eptember 1 to 14; group 30, horned ttle, September 31 to October 4; oups 31 and 32, sheep, goats,- the wine, from October 10 to 18 ; 33, dogs, from September 4 to g ; 34, poultry, from Oct. 27 to Nov 6. Entries will close on the 10th of —Six animals from the herd of Mefeirs. . & 11. Hunter. of Pilkington, County of elliugton, have been selected as part of the representative herd to be sent to the Centennialby the Government. The selection comprises two burn, two cows, and two heifers and all perfect models in ynametry, and display, the best points of he Bates and Booth strains. The value f those six animals is $10,000. — On Monday a gentleman travelling hrough the township of Whitchurch; tot far from Toronto, came upon a og cabin, inhabited by an old woman of ixty and her two children—a boy of ighteen and a girl of twenty—all blind, iving in the most indescribable state of 'lth and misery. The old woman is ffiieted with a cancer, The family, hose name is Godfrey, "has lived there wo years almost in a wild state. —The inhabitants of Listowel, in ublic meeting assembled, have rennin ended the• borrowing of $10,000 for • ertain improvements. They also speak avorably of raising $6,000 more, $4,000 be applied towards gravelling the • owni line east and west of the ge, nd $2,000 for better protection ag inst 're. The people of Listowel don't eera • o be a bit afraid to go into debt. —It has been definitely decided re- , ove the headquarters of the Canada 11 a an old lady • of about s' years, living on the 2nd conce Nassagaweya, met with an which from latest accounts in al • able to ere? for help, and paitters cheese factory of her son, eh twice of, hearing her, at on ire - the for a ion was melted econds, trough, fla,mes. 'es was at the rt dis- aired to oup ,1 glace and found poor id lady in e condition already described. I —A dreular recently issued by the nthein Board of Directors of the Great Western Aug -I! Railway to the shareholders of tbc corn. ust. The system of a,wards for live will be the same as that adopted forat°teeke PanY, and Great Western have agreed upon announces that the Gran Trunk other departments of the exhibition. the basis of a plan for regulating the --A few nights ago about eight"o'dock, traffic receipts from cornpcting points while Mrs. John Hannon, of the Town- i and malting the tariff uniform. Three ship of Glanford, with a little girl, ae- scheme* were submitted : (1) malga- companied by Mr. Joseph Hannon, was mation of the two railways; (2) fusion of driving home from _Hamilton, they met, ,1 the conipanies for a term of yenrs ; (3) abont three miles from the city, a 'party division of competitive traffic wider the of men !standing at the corner of the "Gladstone Award," with the atsistance road. One of them shouted out; "Give of arbitration, if necessary. The last these two men a ride." Mrs. Hannon named proposition is the one agreed to replied thatshe already had a load and 1 and Mn. Leeman, M. 1'., onairmaat of the could not do so. Two of the men, how- , North-Eastern Railway Company, of ever, came out and jumped_ into the England, has been named arbitrator. wagon. Mrs. Hannon then said, "If Messrs. Hickson and Broughton, manag- you will ride, take care you do not hurt era of the Grand Trunk and Great West - anything One of the men, howevere ern, have been instructed. to proceed • sattdownon something that was breaks with the arrangement of tlie hedules able, and on Mrs. Hannon remonstrating, for the division of traffic and weresumthee struck at her. Meanwhile, the othet they are now engaged in carvin up who had not sit down, but kept walk' country between them. The public may ing round, cried out "lie has a stone in lkinds alook out for a rime in local tali& of all soon as the two great arailway ing about the cart advanced tower Joseph Hannon, and the little girl turnII e" his hand." Mr. Hannon picked up the asP°tfor4tht°lisSharaernaveatna each an the es pi7ir ivjj1 a.n dg o