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WHOLE NO. 467.
REAL ESTATE FOR SALE.
A RARE CHANCE.—For Sale Cheap, three very
desirable building lots, facing on Victoria
Square Seaforth. For particulars apply to E.
BICXS)NttCo. 447
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VARMS FOR SALE.—East half Lot 11,i Con, 12:
McKillop; also South 50 acres of Lots 1 and 2
Con. 10, Morris, adjoining the Village og Blyth.
For particulars apply to McCAIJGHEY & HOLME-
STED, Barristers. &G., Seaforth. 425
VARM FOR SALE.—North half of Lot 12, Con.
-1; 13, McKillop, containing 75 acres, 40 cleared,
balance well timbered, with good buildings; for
sale cheap and on easy terms of payment. Apply
to M0CAUGHEY & HOLMESTED, Seaforth. 449
VARMS FOR SALE IN STANLEY.--Lote 1
and 2, Lake Road West, 236 acres, the resi-
dence Of Dr. Woods; also Lot 2, Lake Road
East, 136 acres. These farms are well improved,
and will be sold together or in quantities and
terms to suit phrchasers. Apply to DR.
WOODS, Bayfield. 465'04
BUILDING LOTS IN SEAFORTH FO SALE
Dr. COLEMAN, having laid out -the grounds
recently occupied as a Driving Park into Bold -
log Lets, is prepared to dispose of lots o _reason-
able terms to any who may desire them. Parties
desiring to purchase should make iramediate ap-
plication. 364
pROPERTY FOR SjiLE.—Two lots, wrth a 2
story frame house and barn, situated on the
Market Square, Seaforth. The premisea have
bead used as an egg Packing establishment, and
are well adapted for any public businees. For
particulars apply to the, proprietrees, Mr. MAL- -
COM, Seaforth, pr to D. GORDON, iloderich,
Ontario. 456
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]'ARM FOR SALE.—Being east half elf Lot 6,
-1- north side, ltayfield road, Stanley, containing
981 acres, 70 acres cleared, and the balance well
timbered with hardwood. Lind, clay loa . Rew
failing spring of water. Situated two miles bora
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frame house, frame barns and stables, an a never
Bayfield, where there is a good market. For fur-
ther particulars apply to JOHN ROWSE on the
premises. 464*4
VOR SALE OR TO LET—" Bona Vista "farm
containing 471 acres, 32 cleared, rest well 'wood-
ed ; on Lake Huron, near Dr. Woods'; land rich
clay loam; good frame house and barn, good orch-
ard of over 100 trees bearing; a well and' stream,
both of which contained plenty of water !ill sum-
mer; tends easy; possession given at New Years;
8 acres'in fall wheat looking well. WILLIAM
PLUNKETT, Teadher, Bayfield. I 459
VALUABLE. LOTS FOR SALE NEA THE
• RAILWAY STATION.—Lots 60, 5., 62, 53,
54 and 55, in Jarvis' survey, Seaforth. T ese lots
from their close vicinity to the railway station
are Specially aclapted for manufacturing purposes.
Terms—One-fthirth cash, balance in three equal
annual instalments with interest at seVen per,
cent.. Title perfect. GARBO VV & BADEN -
Ill7RST, SOlicitora, Goderich. • ; 456-
FA11181 FOR SALE.—For Sale, Lot 13, Con. 13,
To • nship of Hallett, Containing ;00 acres
of good laud; 70 acres cleared and in a gcod state
of Cultivation.; balance well timbered; a nice
young orchard, good frame barn, log house and
stables, and a never -failing well, with purnp in it,
10 acres of fall wheat sown. Is situated about112
miles from Seaforth and 10 from Clinton; Apply
o the proprietor on the premises or to Harlock
WM. MURPHY. 461 4*
VIFTY ACRE FARM FOR SALE.—Est half
-1- Lot 10, Con. 8, Hallett; there are 40 acres
cleared, imprOvedand tmcierclrained, theamain-
ing 10 is well timbered with hardwood; tiere are
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fair buildings on the premises; a good orchard of
bearing trees, also a number of young apple trees,
and a good well and pump; is situated ,aboirt 8
miles from Seaforth and Clinton, and 11- miles
from Kinburn, on a good gravel rood. For fur-
ther particulars apply to GEORGE MANN, Con-
stance P. 0. , 456
TIOUSE 41.111) FOUR LOTS FOR SALE.—That
-'--'-elegant two-story brick dwelling house on the
Baron Road, Seaforth, with four lots adjoining;
there are 8 bedrooms, parlor, drawing rourn, din-
ing room and kitchen, with soft and hard water
most convenient; there is an excellent garden
attached, also stables and outbuildings, this Is
a handsome homestead, and a rare chance is
offered to intending uurehaserss; it will be sold on
favorable terms. For further particals.re apply to
THOMAS S TEPHENS, Seaforth. 462
VALUABLE FARM FOR SALE .—Weet half of
• Lot 12, north side of Bayfield Road, $tanley,
ocintaining 974 acres of excellent land, rio acres
of which are cleared,- and the balance, is well
timbered with hardwood and, cedar. Franae barn,
frame shed and good cedar log house on the pietas,
also a good spring creek and good well and prnrap.
The place is situated five miles west of Brucelleld
station, and four miles from Bayfielct For farther
particulars apply to THOS. MILLS, Var a,P. 0,;
ANDW. REID, Wingham, or SAMUI4 REID,
Harlock. 466
FARM FOR SALE. ----The undersigned offers a
splendid farm for sale, composed of Lots 41
and 42, Con. 1, Grey. County of Huron, contain-
ing 250 acres, 150 of. which are in an excellent
state oi cultivation; 100 acres are in bush—
hardwood, pine and cedar—not culled. On the
premises are a frame house, barn and stables in
good condition, and an excellent orchard contain-
ing -300 fruit trees, all bearing. The property
would make a most excellent dairy. farm, and
there is a cheese factory on tke adjeaning lot ; the
location is 6 miles from the Town of Listowel,
and 1 mile from the Village of Molesworth; good
roads in all directions. This farm will be sold on
very reasonable terms; about onezthird of the
purchase money is required down, the remainder
in 6 years at 6 per cent. For further particulars
vyrite or apply personally to the 'proprietor, W.
G. HAY, Listowel.
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FOR SALE on TO LET.
VOR SALE.—$3,000 Debentures of the Town of
Seaforth, bearing interest at 7 per cent. Pay-
able annually. Address WILLIAM ELLIOTT,
Clerk, Seaforth. •1 459
TTOUSE TO RENT OR SELL.—Will be sold
"-a- or rented, a comfortable frame house, with
well and garden attached. This house is adjoin-
ing the Exposnon Office. Apply to A. M.
- CAMPBELL, Seaforth. 465
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pROPERTY FOR SALE.—That valuable prop-
erty on Goderich Street occupied by the Goder-
ich Manufacturing Company as a Machine Shop.
6. Also dwelling house and lot adjoining. The above
property will be sold on easy terms. For partiou-
tars apply to GRAY & SCOTT. . s 439
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TTOUSE AND LOT FOR SALE IN HARPUR-
J1-1- HEY.—For sale that excellent dwelling
house and lot, late in the occupation of Mr. Wm.
Snowden, Butcher, there is on the lot a good barn,
pamP &c., and well stocked with choice fruit
trees. For terms which are very liberal apply to
JOHN S. PORTER, Seaforth.' , 08-4*
ffIlSCEL LANEOUS.
-EXECUTORS' NOTICE.--7All parties having
claims against the estate of the late John
Hargan, in his lifetime, of the township of Mc-
Killop, are requested to hand in the same proper-
ly attested to either of the undersigned Executors
on or before the first day of March, 1877. All
accounts not then in will be barred for settle-
ment. All parties indebted to the estate must
settle the same at once. JOHN -BEA.TTIE and
ANTHONY BOYD, Executors. 4664
PARMERS, LOOK HERE.—Berkshire, Suffolk
and Yorkshire Boars for Service. The under-
signed has on his premises, Lot 26, Con. 1, Stan-
ley, Three Boars for Service. The Berkshirs boar
is named" Tim," and, as will be seen by the
Pedigree below, is of good stock: He was sired by
Satelite the Second, bred by Mr. E. Caswell, of
Ingersoll, out of his imported sow, and got by
Satelite, imported by John Currie, of Verseloyle,
Dereham; his dam, Bess, was sired bp Lord
Liverpool, winner of 3 first prizes at principal
shows in England, imported by John Snell &
Bons, of Edmonton, and sold to Mr. Gentry for
*700, his grand dam, Lacy, was sired by Satelite,
imported by J. Carrie; his great grand dam, 2nd
Queen of the West, was sired by Sampson, imr,
ported by J. Carrie. Terms el' cash, J. STAN'
BURY, Proprietor.
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SEAFORTHI FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17: 1876.
Canada.
New it is proposed to build a- horse
railroad from Waterloo to Berlin.
—Dr. Tupper has purchased a resi-
dence on Jarvis street Toronto, for $20,-
000.
—There are said to be afloat counter-
feit five dollar bills on the Bank of British
North America.
-a-Gnelph is adding to her other in-
dustries the making of damask stair car-
peting and ingrain.
—Mr. Laflamme has been appointed
Minister of Inland Revenue in room of
Hon. Mri, Geoffrian, resigned.
—A Brantford merchant is sending -a
consignment of cigars to Britain, the
first of the kind from the Dominion.
The, Rev. James Ballantyne, late of
Kingston Jamaica, has accepted the call
of the Presbyterian Church of Cobourg.
—During the past season between 80
and 90 new buildings have been erected
in Palmerston at a cost of about $48,-
000.
—Last week a speculator brought over
50 barrels of apples, onions and cabbages
from Rochester to Oshawa, and sold
them at a good profit.
—It is rumored throughout the County
of Waterloo, that the Dunkin Act will
shortly be submitted to the electors for
approval or rejection.
Thomas Prow, son of James
Trow, M. P. for Perth, has been appoint-
ed general agent of the Perth Mutual
Fire Insurance Company.. ;
We regret to learn that John Hill -
yard Cameron, who has beep ill for some
time, has suffered a relapse, and that
his physicians consider his condition
critical. His disease is inflammation.
—4 lady in London the other day cut
up an old pin -cushion, and to her aston-
ishment found no leas than five hundred
and twenty-one needles of all sizes. The
cushion had been in use nearly twenty
years.
—A little daughter of James Griffith,
fnurth line of Wallace, about 7 years of
eke, met with a severe accident on the
8th inst. As she was riding on a horse,
she accidentally fell to the ground, and
broke one of her arms.'
—Last Friday a deputation from
Stratford consisting of the Mayor and
some members of the council, visited
London for the purpose of examining the
Fire Department, and learning, what
they could about the working of that
organization.
- The Licensed Victuallers' Associa-
tion of Haldimand county, has adopted
a tariff for the stable, table, bed room
and bar, to come into force on the • 15th .
inst. The victuallers of 'Oxford are or-
ganizing for the purpose of opposing the
passage of the Dunkin Act.
—The call given by the congregation
of Ripley to the Rev. Alex. Sutherland,
of Melbourne, 'was accepted. ley Mr.
Sutherland is considered one of the best
preachers in the country, consequently
the congregation. of Ripley may feel
proud of their choice.
—Mr. J. B. Chambers, 'son of James
Chambers, Esq., Dereham, has, succeed-
ed in carrying off all the prizes at the
entrance examination into Victoria Uni-
vereity, Cobourg, viz.: Brethour Schol-
arship, $109; mathematics, $75; ,general
proficiency, $71; total, $246.
—One day last week, an owl was shot
in the Cbunty of Wentworth, the pine 1
mage of which was snowy white, ex-
cepting a few of the feathers which were;
beautifully tipped with dark brown.
When extended the wings measured
five feet thiee inches from the extreme
points.
—Thomas Davidson, of Listowel, was
recently fined by a magistrate of that
town $0 and costs, for striking another
man named Klapp. If "cases of this kind
were invariably treated as severely, we
would hear of fewer assaults, and
rowdies generally would learn to control
their tempers.
—At a` -recent meeting of the town-
ship council of Mornington it was agreed
to submit for the vOte of the ratepayers
a by-law granting a bonus of $40,000 to
the Stratford and Huron Railway, on
conditions that two stations be establish-
ed in the township- The vote is to be
taken during the first week in Deem -
ber.
—The Plains of Abraham, near Qtrebec,
have been leased to a private astiociation,
composed of the leading citizens of that
place, whose intention it is to lay out
the -ground as a driving park, plea trees,
and otherwise embellish it, so that it
may eventually prove the public park of
Quebec. The work has already been
commenced.
—It is said that one of the resident,
ministers of Granton, instead'of conduct-
ing Divine worship on ThanksgiVing day,
and returning thanks to the Almighty
far his gracious kipdness to the country
in sparing it from the horrors of famine
and war, and many other calamities that
usually -happen to a country under a- Grit
Gcfvernment, employed that day in the
worldly amusement of shooting?
—A Shocking accident occutred in
Belleville on Saturday afternoon to a lad
about 12 years of age, named Cobalt.
He and his brother were engaged in
turning the cranks of a sausage mill
when his coat caught in the cog wheel,
and before the machine could be stopped
the unfortunate boy was drawn into the
cogs, which nearly tore a piece about
three inches square out of his scalp,
lacerated his cheek, broke his jaw, and
smas14ed several of his teeth, besides
otherwise severely injuring his body.
His recovery is doubtful.
—At Stratford one morning last week
a boy named Brownlee, while out shoot-
ing had occasion to cross a floating
bridge, near Mr. James A,. McCulloch's
residence, and noticing a .piece of lath
with a chain attached' floating on
the water, he tried to pull it out, suppos-
ing that there was a trapattached to the
chain. He was horrified to See' a coffin
rise to the surface. On the coffin being
opened it was found to contain a human
body in an advanced state of decompo-
Sition. The coffin was filled.! with lime,
which had eaten the flesh away greatly.
The head had been cut off, and was not
in the coffin. There was no shroud on
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the corpse and no clothing of any kind,
except a cotton shirt, which had been
laid on the breast. At first the medical
men could not determine the sex, but it
is now believed that the body is that of
a strong man.
—One ,evening recently, Mrs. Isaac
Hardy, of Colchester' dislocated her low-
er jaw during a fit oflaughter. She re-
sides about nine miles from Amherst -
burg, and her husband harnessed his
team and drove to town in .40 minutes,
where the jaw was made right again.
,Nine miles in 46 minutes is pretty good
driving.
—The heaviest suit ever on record in
the books of the Superior Court of the
Province of Quebec, was entered on Mon-
day. The plaintiff is Henry .W. F.
Bolckow, M. P., of Middlesborough -on -
Tees, England. He has taken proceed-
ings in the sum of $1,700,000 against the
South -Eastern railway and Hon. A. B.
Foster. The debt was contracted for
railway, rails.
—A few days ago five gentlemen resid-
ing in Barton, County of Wentworth
happened to accidentally meet at the
Hamilton grain market, when the con-
versation turned upon their respective
weights. 3 It was then agreed between
them to go and get weighed.. ;The whole
turned the scale at twelve hundred lbs.,
the lightest of the five weighing two hun-
dred and twenty pounds. One of the
five is an M. P.,
—A few days ago there came near 3:w-
ing a serious collision on the Buffalo and
Lake Huron branch of the Grand Trunk,
not far from Drumbo. The mail train
was going towards Stratford at a speed
of about 25 miles an hour, when the en-
gine driver observed a heavy freight
coming toward him. The whistle sound-
ed, and the brakes were applied just in
time to save a collision. The express had
to back into Paris.
—In Toronto, on Wednesday night of
last week, a man named Thos, Walker,
an emigrant, lately arrived from Eng-
land, met in with a person named Rich-
ard Eager, who pursuaded Walker to go
to the Globe Hotel with him. 'ager en-
gaged a room for the night, and the two
men retired together; but wheri Walker
awoke in the morning he found his com-
panion and most of his money missing.
Eager was arrested and committed to
jail.
—The Sarnia Canadian says: "The
prisoners in the Monaghan murder case,
on their release, were greeted with great
enthusiasm by a select crowd of their
friends and acquaintances, nunabering a
score or so, and all hands, male and fe-
male, adjourned to Port Huron to frater-
nize with 'Bob' Murray, who bad Viewed
the proceedings in the case from a safe
standpoint. A harder looking congrega-
tion of scalawags has rarely been seen
around these parts."
—Richard Shoultz, of the second con-
cession of McGillivray, has disposed of
his farm and stock, &c., to Artemus
Bice, for $16,500. 'Loven Bice has pur-
dhased from Artemus Bice, 25 acres of
land, on the corner of the side road lead-
ing from Clandehoye, at its junction
with the second concession. James Car-
ter has bought the house and about- six
acres of land from, and now occupied by,
Loven Bice. John Flanagan has pur-
chased a few acres of land from Loven
Bice.
, —In Montreal last week, the case of
:Mr. Flood, grocer, accused of selling
liquor in :ess quantities than three half
pints, was tried. Mr. Flood conducted
his own defence, and vigorously cross-
examined a young woman named Chasse,
witness for the prosecution. He asked,
"Did you come here for the good of the
country or your pocket ?" (Laughter.)
The girl looked at him indignantly for a
minute, and then answered : "I came
here because I got a subpcena."- Flood
was fined $75 and costs.
- A ample of nimrocls from Listowel,
while on a limiting expedition last week,
and while I"doing" a cedar swamp, a
short distance to the west of Newry,
came across a large buck and doe,
within rifle ranee. The surprised ani-
mals tried to male their escape, but too
late, for a shot from each of the hunters
brought them both to the ground. They
were very large animals, and in splendid
condition. Since then armed hosts go
daily to the woods to do- likewise, and
some say they have come very near it
several times. ,
--:That the fisheries of Lake Superior
Will yet prove a great source of revenue
to the inhabitants along the shores of
this immense lake, there is no reason to
doubt, for they may be regarded as in-
exhaustible. In addition to the trout,
white fieh, &c., which are natural, so to
speak, to the region, some of the enter-
prising fish -breeders have introduced a
new species, which is named "Sisquet."
it is something like a "Finnan haddie,"
both in size and quality; and -they are,
now commencing to catch and cure them
for the market.
—On Saturday night, the 28th ult.,
Mr. Hagerty, of Scarboro, went into his
barn with a lantern, and, stumbling over
the shafts of a buggy, the candle in the
lantern was thrown out into some straw
on the barn floor; which ignited. He
succeeded in putting out the straw on
the barn floor, but he then discovered
that one of the mows was all ablaze, and
bef op much relief could arrive, the barn
was totally enveloped in flames and soon
reduced to ashes withecontents, consist-
ing of grain, implements, and hay.
—In Stevensville, a village in Welland
county,'smuggling has been carried on
to such an extent as to attract the atten-
tion of the Custom House officials of Fort
Erie, who made a raid on the business
men of that place last Friday morning,
with the following result: Mr. Lewiii
House, who only started business a short'
time ago, had two and a' half cases of
boots and shoes seized, one large case of
dry goods six kegs of nails, only part
full, and a bundle of empty bags. At
he same place and time, 28 bags of do-
er seed and four bags of beans belong-
ing to F. W. Kraft, found in smuggled
bags, were seized. Kraft will likely re-
cover the seed, as it seems he had only
borrowed the bags froin House. The
same officers also seized a wagon
belonging to Edward Shipton, who lives
near the village, 'which had been en-
gaged in the night in drawing smuggled
coal oil.
Ewen Cameron, Deputy -Reeve
of Southwold, was summoned before a
justice of the peace, on the 4th inst.,
charged by Mrs. Cameron, his wife, with
assault and battery, on the 1st inst. The
defendant -contended that it was a
provoked assault. After hearing the
evidence of the complainant and her
daughter, a fine of $10 and costs, in
all $12, was imposed, which was paid
forthwith.
—Some big lifting was done in Strat-
ford, a few days ago. Mr. Thomas J.
Quinlivan, of North'Easthope, tested his_
strength on a dynamometer in the pos-
session of Mr. Leppard, of Stratford.
Mr. Quinlivan lifted 980 pounds on the
instrument, which was the greatest lift
-that day. Ite Mr. John Weis, of Ellice,
wanted to bet $5 he could beat anything
on the ground. Mr. Robert Menzies at
once staked the money, and picked upon
Mr. Quinlivan as his hero. Mr. Quin-
livan's gigantic proportions and well de.,
veloped museles evidently frightened his
opponent, who backed out.
—The sentence of Jas. Ryan, sentenc-
ed to death at the last Court of Assize
at Peterboro' for the murder of his wife,
has been commuted to imprisonment
for life. The circumstances of the case
were that Ryan had become deranged
through losses in besiness, which had
occasioned excessive drinking and while
in a state of mental aberration, he inflict-
ed a fatal wound upon his wife who was
watching him. They had always lived
happily and there was nothing to show
premeditation. The jury recommended
him to mercy, the Judge concurring.
—Some days ago as Mr. John Grieve,
of Nassagaweya, was taking home a load
of turnips, a child three years old was
sitting on the load, while another was
driving, he walking behind. The young-
est ichild fell off the load, and before Mr.
Grieve could rescue him, the wheel went
over his head. The, ground being soft
the injury was not so serious as expected,
and the child with careful attention is
re9bvering, and' Apparently none the
worse of the accident. His escape, how-
ever, from instant death was a very
narrow one, as had the roads been hard
nothing could have saved him.
—On Hallowe'en night a boy in Strat-
ford, adorned the windows and doors of
a neighbor with a plentiful coating of
mud. The neighbor complained to the
father of the boy, who interrogated his
son, and obtained from him a confession.
The punishment inflicted was unique,
and possibly more effective than any
other. The boy was given a pail of
water and a scrubbing brush, and sent
to efface his work of the previous night,
which he did, as may be supposed, with
a very, bad grace, Be will probably
fight shy of having fun on Hallowe'en
for the rest of his days.
—A most daring highway robbery was
committed about two miles east of
Woodstock, one evening recently. Mr.
Thoma e Cresley, of Whitby, arrived
there on the evening train, and was pro-
ceeding to the residence of his brother-
in-law, James Virtue, Esq., of East Ox-
ford. When about two miles from town
he was attacked by two men, who
knocked him down, and so severely stun-
ned him as to render him unconscious
for some time. He had $700 upon his
person, which was all taken. He thinks
that he was followed by the robbers, who
must have been aware of the amount in
his possession. No clue to the- evillains
has yet been obtained.
—A singular Occurrence took place
lately, on the Grand Trunk Railway..
freight train was 'proceeding east, and
when near what is known as "Brand's"
a short distance west of Port Ilene, a
car in the centre of the train broke loose
from the rest and ran off the track and
down an embankment into the fence,
without being noticecl.• There being a
down grade at this point, the part that
was -detached kept up close to the, main
train, but on reaching a level with the
van, was noticed to be uncoupled. It
was recoupled, and proceeded to Belle-
ville, where the conductor counted his
cars and found one missing, which 'he
could not account for. .
—The township of Elma has a flour-
ishing St. Andrew's „society. At the
annual meeting recently held the Treas-
urer's report was read, showing a hand-
some balance on hand, after spending
a considerable sum for charitable pur-
poses, and meeting all other expenses of
the past year. The ball otting for offi-
cers resulted as follows: Mr. A Gordon,
President; Mr._ J. Morrison, let Vice.
President; Mr. 'J. Hamilton, 2nd Vice -
President; C, Wilkinshaw, Secretary.
Treasurer; Re Struthers, Chaplain; J:
Jolly, Physician, &c. A committee was
appointed to make the necessary prepara-
tions for celebrating St. Andrew's Day.
It was unanimously agreed to postpone
the celebration until Friday, the 8th of
December, in order that the members
could have the ,opportunity.of visiting
sister societies, and joining with them
in celebrating St. Andrew's Day.
—A melancholy and fatal accident oc-
curred some days ago in a saw mill in
Trowbridge, township of Elma,. It ap-
pears that Solomon, son of Mr. P. Zur-
brigg, a lad about 15 years of age, was
engaged during the forenoon in fitting up
a small saw for his own amusement, and
for some reason, known, we imagine,
only to himself, had placed a rope over
the main shaft in the mill. On one end
of the rope he had made a slip -knot, and
this knot was around his hand, while
the other end was placed over the shaft,
which makes between sixty and seventy
revolutions per minute. This end be-
coming fastened to the shaft, and wind-
ing around it, the Unfortunate boy was
also drawn around it, And it is estimated
that he made one hundred and fifty rev-
olutions before the machinery was stop-
ped. His boots and stockings were
torn from his feet, and the boards of the
building which he struck against, were
completely torn off. One leg was broken,
and an arm broken in two places, but
besides these he received several internal
injuries. Medical aid was, sent for, but
nothing could help the sufferer, and he
died at -5 o'clock P. M., five hours after
the accident occurred.
—A store and dwelling the lot
on which it stands, on a business street
in Wingham is offered for six hundred
dollars.—Mr. R. McAdams, Con. A.,
Howick is just now harboring two steers
and a heifer which strayed into his
preraises.—Mr. Wm. Mitchell of, Con .12
Turnberry has a yearling heifer and Mr.
Thos. Stokes of Con. 11 of the same
township has a steer coming two year
old for which they want to find owners.
—As this is the season of the year in
which many auction -sales of farm stock
take place, it would be well for all par-
ties who have sales to be careful and see
thateen animal sold is warranted sound
if such be not in every particular the
case, or troublesome law suits might en-
sue. A case was tried in Nassagaweya
on the 6th inst. in which John Shields
sued Duncan Morrison for loss sustained
in paying $108 for a mare at his sale,
which was warranted by, the auctioneer
to be sound, and the animal turned out
to have a disease in the left fore foot
which caused lameness. The jury
awarded $40 damages.
—At a Custom House office not a
hundred miles from Brantford (which the
same is Paris), the Customs officer was
Surprised, the other day, by an ancient
dame presenting herself and insisting on
paying the duty on a number of spoons
she seated she smuggled into this coun-
try some 20 years ago. There was no
mistake about it.. Those silver spoons
had troubled her dreams from that day
to this, and lately, having got religion
and4oined the church, she felt she could
not leave their weight oh her conscience
any longer. She must pay up. The
astonished collector at last fixed the
ftarere.iffof charges to her satisfaction,
and she went forth with light' heart and
e
--A few evenings ago a row occurred
in Hughes' Hotel, London which may
yet result seriously. It seems that a
couple of men'named respectively Thos.
Brown, of St. Mary's, and John Mason,
of Stratford, while engaged in playing
"bagatelle," had some high words, one
accusing the other of cheating. rhe
proprietor of the house, Mr. Hughes,
attempted to quiet the noise, when
Brown drew a knife on him and gave
him a severe gash on the face, causing
the blood to flow profusely. Several
parties hereupon interfered and the
-fracas was quite general for a while, the
man Brown receiving a very vvere beat.
ing and Mason being more or less in-
jured.
—The St. John, N. B. News, in giving ,
an Account of the charivaring of a Sena-
tor and his bride, says: "About nine
o'clock, on the evening of the Honorable
Senator McClellan's marriage, 40 or 50
neopl*gathered around the residence of
W. Ried, Esq., where the happy
couple were staying, -and began a
eharivari,having gun, bells, and one or
two horns. They kept up from nine
O'clock until two, keeping the people .of
the house out watching them all the
while. Some were in women's dress,
some were masks'and more had their
faces blacked. The Senator started
home on the 2nd inst. with his bride,
and they were charivaried again on that
evening at his residence, at Riverside,
Hopewell.
—On the 24th of April last, a. man
signing his name J.W. Ferguson, and
professing to be an agent for the Agricul-
tural Mutual Assurance Associatian of
Canada, took a risk on the dwelling -
house of John Hannah,. jr., at Elma
Centre. Mr. Hannah paid said agent
$1.50 in cash, and gave a note for $3.00
more. Not receiving his policy in due'
time, hn
e becams suspicious all was not
right. He then wrote to the Company,,
asking them to issue a policy on his
house, or return his money and note, for,
which he had. received no value. In
reply to this he received a letter from
the manager informing him that Fergu-
son had never been an agent for the
company and that he is now in Barrie
jail. A word to the wise &c.
—At • the Wellington Assizes last
week, the case of Fisher vs. Leet was
taken up. This was an action brought
by Peter Fisher, a miller at Wingham,
and formerly of Guelph, against J. M.
Leet, solicit-er of the St. Lawrence Bank
at Wingham, for tilander uttered some
i8 months ago, the action being com-
menced in February last. The slander
charged was that the defendant had ac-
cused Fisher of giving to the bank frau-
dulent warehouse receipts, the statement
being made in. conversatioar with persons
in Wingham. The damages defined
were $5,000. Defendant put in a general
plea denying the charge. After the
taking of considerable evidence, the
Judge charged the jury in favor, of de-
fendant. The jury returned ae verdict
for one dollar damages, the 'Judge certi-
fying for costs.
--A most Melancholy affair occurred
in Montreal a few days ago. A Mrs.
Murray, wife. of Mr. Alex. Murray,
President of the Montreal Insurance
Company, and of the Dominion Type
Foundry. It appears that Mrs. Murray
was occasionally subject t� spasms in
the stomaCh and was in the habit of tak-
ing medicine to relieve the pains. On
Sunday afternoon she unfortunately
mistook the medicine she was to use,
and instead took a dose from a bottle of
medicine that had been supplied to the
late Mr. Murray, her husband's father
for injecting into the veins of his arms
for a nervous complaint. The bottle
contained a preparation of niorphia, and
the effect waste deprive a most estima-
ble lady of her life. Mrs Murray was
in the prime of life and her, death is
greatly lamented.
—A sad accident, accompanied' by a
fatal result, happened to Mr. John
Moodie, of Durham, on Tuesday of last
week. In company with three friends
he started out on that day on a hunting
excursion. During the day he became.
separated from his companions; who re-
turned to their -respective homes in the
Ievening without him, believing that he
had put up for the night at the house of
a 'friend. In the morning, fears being -
entertained for his, safety, a search was
instituted, when he was'eventually found
in the woods badly wounded, but still
alive. ‚It seems that the _gun became
accidentally discharged, the contents
passing through one of his hands, and
lodging in the side of his head, inflicting
Aghastly wound. He lay in this plight
some 19 hours before he was discovered,
and to aggravate his suffering a fall of
snow occurred during the night. He
died shortly after Lbeing removed to a
neighboring house.
Manitoba Items.
[FROX THE FREE PRESS.]
A large/ quantity of apples have been
received at Winnipeg, and are selling at
$9—a 34barr.r Johnel.
Lee, of High Springs, re-
cently killed a lamb which weighed dress-
ed 96 pounds.
—Business of all kinds seems to be
good at Emerson, judging from the num-
ber of teams on the street loaded with
lumber, flour, etc.
—Andrew IsTess, of St. Charles, sowed
two bushels of Surprise oats, and harvest-
ed 100 from them. The ground, sown
was only about three-fourths of an acre.
—A party of gentlemen, brought down
781 ducks in two days' shooting on the
east side of Lake Winnipeg. • -
—This is the way some letters for resi-
,dents are addressed : Winnipeg, With.
peg, Winnepeg, WinnePeg, Winnapeg,
Winipegg, Windipeg, Winnopeg, Win-
Winipig, Pennywick, etc., etc.,
etc.
—The time is rapidly drawing nigh
when a number, of those who consider
the'mselves our leading citizens will an-
nounce their intention of sacrificing them-
selves for the welfare of the city.
—Louis Schmidt, of,St. Boniface, was
seriously injured while working about a
threshing machine in St. Boniface West
last week. By some Means one of his legs
got entangled in the bands, And he was
not extricated till the limb was very bad-
ly fractured.
—It was stated some time ago that a
curling club was about to be organized
in Winnipeg for the winter. The ad-
mirers of the roarin.' game have gone to
,work.‘ in earnest, and their efforts have
been successful. A large sum of money
to erect a suitable building has been sub-
scribed, and there is every probability
that curling will be added to the other
winter amusements at Winnipeg.
—About a couple of weeks ago a car
on the St. Paul and Pacific Railroad,
laden with Hudson Bay Company's fine
furs, at Fisher's Landing, was broken
into between that place and Crookston
while the train was in motion, and nine
bales of fine furs, valued at about $6,000,_
thrown out. Three of the baleswere re-
Icovered the same clay lying on the prairie
near the track. A brakesman was arrest:,
ed as implicated, and is now in Moorhead
jail awaiting trial.
—Na -she, a dusky warrior, and Kaw-
pay-ite'-moo and Ku-tash-away-Kaish-
ekcok, two dusky charmers, procured
some of the fire water of the pale -faces
on Wednesday last and proceeded to
celebrate Hallowe'en. Chief Power ap-
peared en the scene and put a stop to
the festivities. Sentenced to two months
in jail at hard labor, with the addition- .
al punishment of having their hair cut
short.
—Everywhere throughout the country
the busy hum of the threshing machine
is heard and the farmers are jubilant
-over the results. Notwithstanding the
unusually trying harvest the crops in
many cases are turning out very fine.
In a recent drive through the townships
east of Red River we noticed a specially
good sample of wheat passing through
the machine on the place of Mr. Forbes,
his crop of 600 bushels averaging thirty
bushels to the acre. Oats and barley are
generally of unusually fine quality and
productiveness. Mr. George Miller, of
Cook's Creek, on a sowing of -two acres -
of fresh broken sod reaped 80 bushels of
first class oats. Mr. W. J. Allan has
some Montana rye and wheat of good.
promise from a few seeds sent to him.
from Montana list spring. All the farm-
ers of Sunnyside are well satisfied with
their splendid prospects for the future.
The country everywhere presents a novel
and gratifying appearance, in being dot-
ted with stacks of gram in every direc-
tion the eye may turn. Farmers though
selling a load or two of wheat at the pres-
ent prices3 for immediate necessity are in-
clined to hold the bulk of their crop for
a dollar a bushel.
•
Those Adamant Lamp Glasses.
MR. EDITOR—SIR: For some time
past the public have been pestered by 1
lamp glasses, which required replacing
every night or two. The reaction. has
now begun, and lamp glasses are now ;
Advertised which will bear an incredible
amount of ill usage, such as: Standing
on them, throwing them across a room,
&c. without ahy materialinjury ; which
will, in fact, last an -infinite length of
time, -and resist all efforts of servant
girls and destructive boys to render
them useless. It is said, however, that
nothing terrestrial is perfect, and evi-
dently those lamp glasses belong to the
class of terrestrial things, as was proven_
by a person residing not many miles
from the growing village of Hensill, in a
manner as alarming as conclusive. The
party, hearing of the wonderful proper-
ties of the Adamant Lamp Glasses, pur-
chased one, brought it home, and the
faimly were discussing its wonderful
qualities, when in an instant it burst
into a thousand pieces. As no "test"
was being applied, or had been applied,
nOr had the glass been placed on the
lamp, the explosion caused considerable
surmising. Would some friend, versed
in the matter, be so kind as to explain
the phenomenon, as, though few object
to a more durable article than they have
been lately receiving, none wish to carry
about fragments of glass in their body,
or lose their eyesight by an explosion
similar to the above mentioned one.—
AN. EYE WITNEss.
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