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Wool Dress Goods from 50o to 20c.
bailey Dress Goods from 40c to 10c
25o to
i[inceps from
Skirtings from 50c to IOc..
etey Flannels from 40c to 30c.
Scotch . Flannel from ' Oo to 20c,
Factory. Cotton from 110 to 5c.
Prints from 14c to 50
Mattie Cloths from 4.00 to 750.
lien's 'Underclothing from $1.25 to 40o
Wool Scarfs from $1 o 15c.
All Wool Tweed fronii $1.75 to 50c.
"sok from 25c to 12..c
Denim from 25o to 1
Aid Gloves from ILf
11d Mitts from $1.5C
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to 45e.
The Mercer Reformatory.
In view of the decision recently given
by the Supreme: Court in reference to
the property of the Mercer Estate, it
may not be out of place to give our
readers some idea of the good work
`that is being accomplished by the in-
stitotiourthat has been established by the
money which is now in dispute. After
the establishment of the Central Prison,
where men guilty of minor offences
could be punished and at the same time
be mado to contribute to their own
support? the need of a similar institu-
tion for women was sorely felt. The
courts had placed in the hands of the
Ontario Government a leErge sum of
money left by a wealthy- citizen of To-
ronto, who had died without making a
will and without legal heirs. The Gov-
ernment could have added this money.
so warded to their care to the ordinary
resources or revenues of the Province,.
but they chose very wisely to appropri-
ate it to some humane purpose, and
they determined to supply e. want long
felt, and establish ant inetitution where
depraved and fallen women could be at
d d could be
Ladies' Dolmans and Mantles—
:.3 $4, $5 $6, $8, $10, $12.
pie's Overcoats—$4 50, $6, $7
$8, $g, $10, $12, $14, $16,
Aieres and B�yra wits—$4,50,
46, $ , $8, $10, M12, $14, $16.
never be reclaimed. Once get them to 1 what you say you consider that the
feel able and willing to gain an honest best thing that could be done with wo-
livelihood, and a great step was made men leading vicious lives is to send
iu the direction of total reform. And them to institutions similar to this."
this was just the end towards which all . "I do. And I further hold that as
the officers of the Reformatory were di- time goes on and experience is gained
rented. The girls were kept constantly in the management of such institutions
hours a that the proportion of .reforms effected
employed for from eight to ten ou
day. During that time they were all will be largely increased. You must
learning something in the way of sew- also remember that there is a refuge in
ing, knitting, household work, or other connection with the building for chil- -
useful employment. Many of them did dren under 14. These are children who
not seem to know even how to hold a have drunken and dissolute parents,
broom. to sweep when they entered the and who, if left amid their evil sur -
institution. The hour after supper is roundings, would certainly drift into
devoted to the acquirement of a know- vagabondage and crime. This part of
ledge of reading and writing by the to- the iustitution cut off, as it were, the
tally illiterate, and geography and his- supply for the other portion."
tory by the more advanced. There are
services in the chapel on Sunday,
Canada.
prayers every morning, and services on Ingersoll Council are giving a $10, -
Tuesdays by •city clergymen. Those 000 bonus for a knitting factory.
who like singing meet and praotise `—The Emerson Town Council have
hymns, to the accompaniment - of an passed a by-law appropriating 530,000
organ, on stated evenings. They are for public improvements. e
allowed a book to read in their • rooms —Mr. Luke Gilholm, of Galt, has
before retiring for the night. Indeed, rented the Jedburgh property at Ayr,
they don't work any harder than girls and intends establishing a saw mill
least partially reclaims an who 1 thereon.
taught habits of thrift and industry., i HAVE TO EARN THEIR LITIsra —A Montreal druggist is suing Ven -
and w known as the Andrew honorably, outside ; they have jest 88 nor for damages for breach of contract,
and what is o good accommodation, as wholesome for not inserting an advertisement in
Mercer Reformatory for women was � erected and established with Andrew food, and in fact have everything. but his almanac. ,
Mercer's money. The decision of the their liberty." —The Canada Pacific Railway has
Supreme reme Court, reversing the decisions "Six months of such surroundings," ordered thirty locomotives in Glasgow,
P said the re porter, "must exercise a sal- Scotland, to be ready for delivery in
of the inferior .sneers, and declaring i
that this money so expended was the , utary effect on even the most hardened." 1882.
ro erty of the omi4iion and not of The only son of the Dean of Huron,
P D
P Ob, yes, and we have some for —in- longer terms than six months. I wish George Edward Boomer, died at Shang-
tendthe Ontario Government, we do not for26th of October, aged
send them longer terms hal, China, on the ,
to discuss. The object for which they would g
the money was expended is- a
worthy one, and : even _supposing
the Local Government is ultimate-
ly forced to make good to the
Dominion that portion of the Mercer
Estate used in its establishment, the
Province will still have the benefit of
this much needed and deserving insti-
tution. A reporter of a Toronto paper
recently visited the , Reformatory
and interviewed those in charge
-of it, and this interview, which wetpub-
1" h below, shows the nature of the
gent is evidently new to the country,
and doesn't understand the habits of
the natives. What would a country
wedding amount to �f nothing further
than a calm drive were allowable.
—The excitement in phosphate min-
ing in the county of Ottawa is on the
increase.
—Mr. Richard McMillan, of Galt,
recently sold a number of Blank Span-
ish fowls to a party in Ashland, Ohio,
receiving for the lot $150.
—Some Winnipeg aldermen want to
give the hospital 55,000, on condition
that it build a ward for infectious and
contagious diseases, and the treatment
in the same of poor patients from the
city free of charge.
—Wm. Fowling, .a St. Catherines
trunk maker, has been fined 51 and
costa for offering a bribe to Mr. John
McClure, laridiug waiter of the customs
at St. Catherines. He wanted to enter
the articles at a low price and divide up
the profits with the officer.
-The Manchester Guardian de-
nies the truth of the report that Lord
Lorne will not return as Governor.
There•is no foundation for any such
reports. It is understood that Lord
Lorne's intention and desire is to serve
his full term of office.
—The large workshops so long occu-
pied by the Toronto Reaper and Mower
Company have been closed, and the
windows nailed up for some time. The
old company have gone to the States,
and a new firm will start in the prem-
ises in a short time.
—James Warren, Dominion Land
Surveyor, has left Winnipeg for his
home at Kincardine, having come in
from subdivision work in the Souris 1 were suggested, and .approved by the
district near Moose Mountain. He' re- lady. The manager and four reporters
ports a fine farming country in the marched to the furrier's and got suited,
section through which he was survey- sending the bill to her Ladyship. Now
ing. the hands are on a strike, and threattea
—Before disposing of the toll -gate to leave in body. Her Ladyship
nuisance, the county of Wentworth
will have to acquire possession
of 65 miles of toll roads at a cost
probably of $146,000. The county
owns 25 miles ; the rest belongs to the writing a biography of thelate.Hon. o n of being known as such, but if more
municipalities and private companies. Benefield Macdonald. Nu other per -
money was wanted it would be forth-
-During
Mr. Syl- son is more capable for such a work '
—During. the past season y coming. The party who left it had
vaster Petit, one of South Dorchester's than Mr. Macdougall. His great ability `ridden, and the footprints of the horse
as a public writer and bis intimate re-
lations with the late Mr. Macdonald
will enable him to give the public a
clever and interesting work.
—A young woman, a resident of St. foundling.
Catharines,named Edith Louise Marsh,—OIleb,f the transactions of the now
aged sixteen, was very anxious to start notorious Bessey Brothers, of Montreal,
in life, and her parents encouraged her shows the "sharpness" of the business
by giving her a sewing machine with prociivitiee of the firm. J. R. Bessey,
Yea Save MON EY by Purchasing
Immense Attractions
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than six months," said Mrs. O'Reilly-
"We
eilly..
'� We just get the girl about settled
down when she is all unsettled again by
the prospects of obtaining her liberty.
When they have been with ns about
three months, it is quite a usual thing
for them to commence to regret their
past life, and contrast it with what it
might have been. But the nearer the
hour approaches when they will be free
the weaker their .good resolves seem to
grow. Now, if they had than girl for
is a ow. other six or twelve months, it might be
workg
now being done, and as well the t possible to make. her good resolves per -
extent to which it can with proper j manent—to make habits of regularity,
management be developed : quietness and industry a second nature
ra, h d Iso remove her further and
36 years.
—Sir Hector Langevin has been con-
fined to his residence in consequence of
continued suffering. from inflammation
of his eyes.
—The ancient city of Quebec is re-
ported by medical men to be remark-
ably healthy and free from disease for
this season of the year.
—Seventeen fine deer, the result of
four days' shooting by three men in
Muskoka, came down on. them Hamilton
and Northwestern the other day.
--Another new cotton mill is near
completion at -Montreal. It will con-
tain 600 looms.;or 27,000 spindles, em:
playing about 500 operatives.
A reporter saw M •O'Reilly and to er, an a
Mrs. Laird, of the Mercer Reformatory. 1 further in point of time from her evil -Over 1,000 acres for a town plot
were ready to afford any d associates outside. are to be surveyed at Nelsonville,
ern
Root radion S Mrs. Laird here gave an -illustration Manitoba, with the So
information which it was in their power . ground!' in the
to give, Mrs. Laird, with whs ex-
om the of what the superintendent
a been i n the station
r. Ge rge McIntosh thotel keeper
g FI
ixticularly invited to
ok at
e Buying Elsewhere.
Thee4 are all w
!estioai, and the
figures..
The Stock is, a
is all the Fanc
salts. A large s
tke newest. thing
PERSIAN L
Gloves of all 1
-eels in endless v
WM.
reporter had some conversation before p aiuiug.
Mrs. O'Reilly came downstairs, pointed Reformatory six Months had not In
out, while tee Mercer stood in nearly that time learned all that t
e would
the same relation to females as did the like to have learned in regardp the
Central Prison to males, yet that, there j duties of tiedomestic servant. She ex-
wasq uite a distinction betweenthe pressed her disappointment to Mrs.
two. The sentences awarded to the O'Reilly, who advised her to go tot e
inmates of the Mercer had no. relation Magdalen and to stay there until She
to the magnitude of their offence. A l felt herself competent to accept a situa-
womanets six months, or more, for tion. ' That girl is doing well, and per -
vagrancy, but the object was not to severing in her endeavors to become a 24 deaths.
unish her for beinga vagrant, but to useful member of society. marriages, diseases44 were annsnallj fatal.
endeavor to cure hr of her loose, lis- "How do you do with the girls when
births,
Children's
orderly and shiftless habits, and. to . their time is expired? I suppose they —Mr. Wen. B. Mason, of New Dar-
r learn her to earn her own living.. At can go wherever they choose V ham, Burford,
binsd hisr farm
of 100
"Yes ; there is nothing to prevent acres to Wm.
r.
Mason took possession of this farm 40
years -ago when it was a wilderness.
—A lumberman estimates that dur-
ing the past season the damage' done to
timber limits on the Ottawa and its
tributaries by bosh fires will not fall
short of 55,000,000.
—Last Saturday in Toronto there
were sixteen drunks who had in their
possession 5350, besides gold watches
and diamond rings. Several of them
were newly arrived emigrants.
—One hundred and ninety-six acres
of . land in the old settlement of. Kil-
donan, near Winnipeg, sold the other
day for $13.000, and a corner lot in
'Winnipeg sold for $260 a foot.
—Mark Twain (Mr. Samnel Ole-
ments), will be a guest at Montreal for
two weeks. He is desirous of establish-
ing a copy right in Canada for his
forthcoming new book.
—The ex -monk Widdows has been
preaching and lecturing to crowded
houses at Chatham, Florence, Dresden,
Bothwell and other places in the Lon-
don district.
—The temperance party in Lambton
is working hard and with good success.
`Mrs. Yeomans, of . Picton, held two
meetings at Watford, which were at-
tended by immense audiences. a
—A dog belonging to Jack Smith, of
Napanee, started for its home, sixty
miles north of Kingston, on Saturday,
and was in Napanee on Sunday morn-
ing. Fastest dog time on record.
—The school census of Winnipeg
just completed gives the number of
Protestant children in the city from
five to sixteen years of age at 1,136, an
increase of 42 per cent. over last year.
discovered that the stranger and his
satchel with the money had both dis-
appeared, and no search could discover
either. The unfortunate man laid in-
formation with the railway police on
his arrival in the city, and they are
looking the matter up.
—A young lawyer of Quebec city is
about taking an action against a mar -
pied lady who moves in the highest
circles, for 512,000 for libel. It seems
the lady accused the gentleman of
having stolen a gold ring from her.
The date of the occurrence is laid some=
years ago, when the lady was a fascin-
ating young widow and the gentleman
was paying her his address.
'—About a year and a halt ago Mr.
Henry Shore, of Toronto, bought two
lots containing sixty acres in Manitoba,
adjoining the city of Winnipeg, for
6,500 and in September a friend of his
in Winnipeg induced him to sell the
property for 530,000, he reserving four
acres. Mr. Shore only signed the deed
a month ago. Since then the lots were
sold for $81,000.
of Wardsville, was recently fined $20
and costs, in all about 560, for selling
liquor on Saturday night after hours.
—At a late meeting of the Kingston
Board of Education six .teachers were
disehargedon account of not having the
necessary second class certificate quali-
fication.
—Vital statistics in Toronto for the
week ending with Saturday last are 14
'` this juncture Mrs. O'Reilly, superinten-
dent of the building, entered the room.
The interviewer, after stating the ob-
ject of his visit, questioned her in re-,
gard to the probabilities of effecting re-
formation of the women and girls un_ make great efforts to procure them
der her charge.' Mrs. O'Reilly said places to go to. Passes are granted to
that the institution had now been - different points in the Province."
ESTABLISHED ABOUT FIFTEEN MONTHS. "You encourage them to go to places
She did not consider that quite a where they have no associates and
long enough time to give it a fair trial, where they but the results already obtained were
highly satisfactory. An encouraging
number of girls had shown at least a
temporary desire to reform. Time
oduld alone reveal whether their efforts
to change their lives would be lasting.
There was no doubt, perhaps, that
some would fall, but on the other hand
there was little doubt that some world
hold fast to the right. During these
fifteen months she and her staff had
been feeling their way, finding out the -
peculiarities and characteristics of the
glass with whom they had to deal., As
they became better acquainted with
their charges, they not only were.put in
a position to do them more good, but
were also enabled to work out their
ideas and plans with little or no fric-
tion. The interest in the work seemed
to grow on one. A large number of '
their charges were females who had
led evil lives, but on the other:: hand
there were a number of old women,
whose only orime was too great a fond -
nese for liquor. .
"I suppose, Mrs. O'Reilly, that yon
have
THE HARDEST OASES
in the Province of Ontario within the
walla at this very minute," the reporter
y
arranted to gives le-
y are sold at close
s usual, well assorted
y Suitings for nobby
tock of FUR CAPS,
out, in
MB, SEAL, &C.
reds and Winter Flan-
riety.
CAMPBE LL.
TRY THE ECMONDYILLE
CIDE MILLS
Since rainy weather has set
in we are giving a much larger
yield of Cider than formerly,
trantee to do as
better, than any
this County.
Pe paid for apples
Large enouh to Peel. Cider
Appy boht as before.
. & IL JACKSON.
and will gu
Well, if not
other Mill in
Cash Will
them going where they please, but they
seldom or never leave the institution
unaccompanied. The ladies of the
Sunday School and of the Aid Society
7*7
h are not known, do you ? '
"Oh, yes ; I may just give'you a lit-
tle portion of the history of another
discharged inmate for whom we got a
place in the States. She was going
away when she heard that another girl
who was soon to leave the Reformatory
was going to be transferred to the same
Amerioan town. She then came and
begged Mrs. O'Reilly
NOT. TO SEND MAGGIE
to the same town that she was going to,
as if her companion should get in
liquor she might disclose the history of
both of them. Maggie was accordingly
sent to another place. They had re-
ceived the most encouraging letters from
the mistress .of this girl, who had gone
to begin a new life in the great repub-
lic. *She was only 10 or 19 years of age
when she left us, and she has -therefore
the beat years of her life before her.
One of the most discoiijaging parts of
their work was their endeavors to ae-
eure a classification, and they had come
to the conclusion that a perfeot system
of classification was impossible. For
instance, when a girl came in it was
impossible to put her among her
equals, so to apeak, until the authori-
ties had time to guage her character.
And then there was such diversity. .A
classification which would divide the
old from theyoung would not be a suc-
cessful one."
"I have seen girls in the polioe courts
who, when they have been 'sentenced to
six mouths iu your institution, Mrs.
O'Reilly, bave caused me to feel com-
miseration for the officers. They
seemed so full of the devil and a variety
of his angels." The reporter here men-
tioned a girl whose
CANTANKEROUS TEMPER
had surprised even those accustomed to
daily exhibitions of the evil temper of
the evil woman:
"Yes, that girl is with us now, but I
assure you we have had notrouble with
her. She is mere than an average good
girl. Of course it is to be expected that
among so many women there will be
many of perfectly ungovernable temper.
The quarrels chiefly stelt among them-
selves, and then once their passions are
aroused it is a difficult matter to quell -
them. Their only method of punish-
ment was to send them to the dark
cell, where they are deprived of light and
all comforts. This was usually very
effective, as in a short time they be-
come quite tractable. During the win-
ter, however, she did not like to send
girls to the dark cell, beoause there was
danger of their health suffering from
the cold. She was personally in favor
of whipping the younger girls in ex-
treme cages.
"Well, Mrs. O'Reilly, I suppose from
said.
Both the lady to whom the question
was put\and Mrs. Laird, who had again
entered the room, protested against the
inmates being called hard cases. He
was assured that he would be surprised
how quiet and -orderly they could be.
"It seems to me," said Mrs. Laird,
"that they demand constant excite-
ment. Give them trifling -tasks to per-
form, and it does not seem as if they
were willing to or capable of performing
them but just assign them some large
task that must be done up in a hurry,
and the way in which they will work at
that would surprise you. Now, the
other day an order came in for four
hundred pairs of - woollen hand
knitted souks. They were wanted as
soon as possible, and the girls were
told that. Well, a number of the girls
were setat the work, and the rapidity
with which they turned out the order
was perfectly amazing. They knitted
at all hours and in all places." "There
-are many of them," Mrs. O'Reilly said,
"who were undoubtedly of an indolent
disposition, who would do no work
theeecould avoid.
THIS INDOLENCE
hid probably been tolerated by careless
parents and encouraged by the vicious
life into which that very indolence had
invited them in subsequent years. She
considered this was the most difficult
class to deal with. Until their hatred
of exertion was conquered they could
tained at the time about 9,000 bushels
of wheat, 300 barrels of flour, and an
immense lot of bran. The cause of
the fire is not known, but incendiarism
is suspected.
—On Saturday morning Mr. Henry
H. Haight, a well-to-do farmer, living
near Sparta, Elgin county, arose to find
his better half absent from his bed and
board. Tracks of a buggy at the gate,
and a woman's tracks leading thereto,
made the facts of the case apparent.
For some time a hired man named
Eugeue Sullivan has been in the em-hh
ployment of Mr. Haight, and for the
past three months there had been sus-
picious signs of an intimacy between
him and Mrs. Haight. Before this Mr.
Haight had no reason to suspect any-
thing wrong. Mrs. Haight was about
30 years old and leaves a child about
four years old with its father, who is
afflicted. with St. Vitus dance.
- —The Mail says : The Government
have apparently made two changes of
consequence in regard to the North-
west. The first is the provisional ap-
—The other morning, at Toronto, a pointmeut of Mr. Edgar Dewdney as
lady attempted to board the Northern
railway express while it was running
out of the city hall station. She suc-
ceeded in catching the hand rail of the
rear car, but was swung violently round
and thrown on the track. She was
Lieutenant -Governor of the Northwest
as well as Indian Commissioner. His
salary, we believe, is to be 55,200 per
anuum. As to land claims, it says :
"It is the intention, we understand, to
have two officers, one to be a perman-
stunned for the moment, and her head ent official and species of deputy head,
was painfully cut. The train was and the other to be an inspector of
; agencies and be generally moving about'
stopped and the lady was placed on
board. from one point to another. These two
-Lady Macdonald visited the Toronto officials will form a sort of court to set-
Zoo the other day, and when leaving tie all doubts and disputes that may be
she wished to make some presents in
possible of settlement by them without
commemoration of her visit Fur caps reference to Ottawa.
—About three weeks ago a farmer
living in South Dorchester was awak-
ened by hearing the plaintive wail of a
baby at his door. He got up and opened
the door, and an infant about a month
old was discovered in a basket together
been written to about the matter. with a uursing bottle, outfit of clothing
—The Cornwall Freeholder says: and $20 in money. A note explained
We understand that the Hon, Wm that cireurnstances prevented. the.
MacDougall is at present engaged
parents of the iufant from being desirous
enterprising farmers, reaped a large
harvest from his 'bees. It was a good
season for making honey, and the 70
odd hives altogether stored up over
8,000 pounds, which Mr. Pettit sold at
wholesale for ten cents per pound.
—Mr. Goldwin Smith has taken the
proper way to show his appreciation of
the rejection of his name as an honor -
were traced to within three miles of St.
Thomas. The old farmer was much put
out at the occurrence, but the worthy
couple now refuse to part with the little
ar member of the St. George's So- which to start in business for herself in
who had been travelling
Y out west, re-
ciet of Toronto. He has, it is ander- Thorold. She was nnancoessful ing cenisly purchased ninety eight tubs e
stood, written a letter to the Society, ting work, and suddenly disappeared,
.butter, some five or six thousand pounds
expressing his best wishes for its wel- leaving a letter in which she bids bei b all.. Having procured a blank in -
fare, and containing a $100 cheque as a parents and sisters and brothers a sad
able fund.
a Miss Lozon, of
gle 25 pairs of
e ferry from De-
donation to the chant
—Mrs. Sauvait and
Windsor, tried to smu
woollen socks across t1
troit on Saturday, by wrapping them
around their limbs, but were arrested event, some o
and released after the goods had been men put, a damper on the festivities of
confiilcated. Another woman was ar- the occasion by inaugurating a charivari.
red for smuggling straw braid, and They maltreated the - groom (a man
released on paying the duty.
—Rev. Dr. -Davidson, of Tiverton,
has purchased the farm of 50 acres from
Mr. Peter McPhail, 20 of which is
within the village corporation, for
52,000 cash. The farm is first-class in
every particular. The son is good,
there is a splendid new house, fine or-
chard, and a good spring creek running
through the place.
—Newland Hayes, a banker and
broker in Ingersoll, was arrested a few
days ago and lodged in Woodatoclt jail.
He is charged with fraud, having `taken
a draft in blank to England, and signed
by one Lyons, and in place of filling up
for eleven hundred dollars, he filled it
up for nineteen hundred dollars.
--A bold attempt at horse stealing
was frustrated by the presence of mind
of a lady at Ottawa, on Saturday. Two
men were just making off with her
horse and rig from a hotel yard when
she spied them, and jumping into a
passing buggy, lashed the horse into a
run, and after a chase of about a mile,
succeeded in overhauling the thieves and
recovering her property.
farewell. Her parents have unsuccess-
fully endeavored to find her. --
—A few days ago a Nassagaweya man
got married to a widow with ten
voice of the Little Falls Creamery, he
approached a western banker and obr
tained upon the invoice an advance el
twenty cents per pound. - In due time
the butter came to Montreal, consigned
children. On the avenins of the happy 1 to the Exchange Bank. When opened
e f the neighboring young the butter turned out to be very or-
dinary rubbish, not worth more than
eight to ten cents per pound. Mean-
time the sharp dealers pocketed the
over six feet high), stripped him, mak- difference, and of course the bankers
are the losers.
—The quiet little village of Bucking-
ham. near Ottawa, was thrown into a
ferment a few days ago by the discovery
that a determined attempt had been
made to poison the Rev. Ir. Mann of
that place. The' Rev. gentleman was
in the habit of eating porridge for his
supper, and on this occasion noticed a
strange taste with it. On examination
it was found that Paris green bad been
mixed with the porridge. While the
matter was under- discussion, the ser-
vant girl, who had been called to ac-
count for the mixture, hastily threw
the contents into the fire. Dr. Mann
was subsequently very ill and vomited
several times, but is all right now.
The Doctor had strongly objected to
of one hundred and twenty-five acres the servant's 'receiving the visit of one
to his oldest son William, for the round of the male sex, and this is supposed to
sum of $9,500.Whetstone hue have been the cause.
-- The Syndicate are making haste to
take the grip which their monopoly of
,lines between Ottawa and the west
.give them. Some good Tories were as-
tounded the other day when notice was
given by the Company to their local
agent, that -after the 1st of December
the price of tickets from Ottawa to
Brockville and return, which hitherto
had been $2.50, would be 55.
'=-The Pioneer. Beet Root Sugar
Company, of Coaticook, Montreal, a
few days ago forwarded the first barrel
of beet sugar manufactured in Canada
to the Hon. Minister of Agriculture et
Quebec, and claims the 57,000 a year
subsidy for ten years offered by the
Quebec Government.. It is believed
the Government can hardly refuse pay-
ment.
—A few days ago G. W. Kersey a
new arrival in Brantford, was fined 520
and costs for being an onlooker at a
gaming table. As a matter of fact
Kersey was the proprietor of the table
and the keeper of the house. The law,
it appears, makes no provision for the
conviction of gambling house keepers,
but it catches them as onlookers and
deals with them severely.
-Government detective Murray ar-
rested at Cookstown, a y Ding man
named Wm. Nay on suspicion of hav-
ing murdered an aged farmer named
Thomas Sleight, a notice of which we
published last week. The latter, when
driving from Barrie to his home, was
clubbed to death with an axe -handle.
The sum secured on the person of the
suspected murderer was about $90.
—An innocent French Canadian who
had the price of his farm, which he
recently sold for $700, in a satchel
with him in , the cars, confided to an
affable stranger the state and location
fin Before arriving at
the Frenchman, on rousing
-i-Last Sunday evening Dr. Wild, of
To onto, stated to his congregation that
he row takes 56 papers and periodicals
a v�°eek. He also said that be hadbeeti
offered 5400 to preach' for one Sunday
at a certain place.
-i-A Government Inspector of Public
Sc Dols in Quebec has been dismissed for
oralit Even the chiidren attend -
lm Y
ing the schools in the district of this in-
spector were not safe, it is claimed, from
the designs of this man. -
—A Cornwall lawyer had four very
valuable canaries suffocated last Sun-
day, owing to the heat from. the stove
being too excessive for the feathered
songsters. That limb of the law must
be going through a. preparatory coarse.
of heat.
—The real estate boom has reached
a perfect fever in Winnipeg. Property
all over the city and in the suburbs is
in demand at extraordinary figures.
Quite a number of strange"s have made
fortunes in the last few w eks..
—Rev. Canon Carmichbel, of Ham-
ilton; has received a•cell from Calvary
Church, New York, one of the induce-
ments being the offer. of ; a salary , of
• ,000. It is not known yet whether or
not the reverend gentleman will accept.
—A wedding party came near ran-
ning over- a Toronto newspaper agent in
ing hire stand on his head, run the
gauntlet, ata., and so badly frightened
the bride that she ran away.
-The annual meeting of the Reformers
of North Grey was held in Owen Sound
on the 25th ult. There was a large
representation from different ,mnnci-
palities in attendance. Officers for the
ensuing year were elected. A discus-
sion took place on organization and
other pre;ihainaries,;.preparatory to a
general election. It was decided to
hold a convention on the. l3th January
for selection of candidates for both
Houses.
—Three farms recently changed
hands in the vicinity of Lakeside, East
Nissouri, at good figures. Josiah Whet-
stone, Esq., has sold his splendid farm
sold bis farm of fifty acres to his
youngest brother Abraham- for $4.000
Wilber McKim has sold his farm of
seventy five acres to 8. F. Rounds for
55,150.
—Recently a woman from Kingston
left her husband owing to the abuse he
gave her. She ordered suit to be en-
tered for alimony, and a writ was ac-
cordingly issued. Some time - after-
wards the husband and wife met, when
the old love rekindled, and they re-
newed their vows and now once more
hve happily together. The lawyer has
been rewarded with a handsome fee
and proceedings stayed.
--Two men named McAuley and
Johnson were arrested on the market at
Londin on Monday on suspicion of
haviug stolen the animals .which had
been converted into beef which they of-
fered for sale. One of them subse-
quently acknowledged having stolen
two heifers from.Mr. Alexander Gunn,
of South Dorchester, and the wagon in
which the meat was from a livery
stable keeper in Springfield.
—"Pete," the collie dog at Dowling's
hotel, Drumbo, is a favorite with all
the drovers, especially the shippers of
sheep. Mr. Geo. Hendrie, drover,
yarded and loaded two cars of sheep
the other day, at the Drumbo station
yard, with no one assisting him but a
man, w boy and the dog. The dog, he
reckoned, was equal to three men and a
boy.. It was apicture to see the dog
surround and claptnre the sheep, divide
thele, head them off, and finally erre ear. I,�qu►res were made, and A was
them up grade into the double .decked f earn that bsfore leaving be had de -
cars. One of the 'drovers present of- stroyed all his books, papers, invoices,
eta. and that he was ahead in the
transaction about $10.000. Attach-
ments were issued and the place glossed
up, and now the creditors from whom
the stock was 'purchased are looking
after their interests. Jewellery an
other valuable stock which 'Hersma e
had purchased has disappeared with
him, and his.trunks, which were left
behind were found to be filled with
—A young man in Ottawa named
W. Wilmot, who is young in . years;
but who is well advanced in matters
pertaining to the fair sex, is in - trouble
again. He has been mixed up.with
attempted suicides, divorces and elope-
ments since be was fifteen years of age.
He arranged to elope with a young
lady from a centre town convent.
iAn old friend of the family fortunately
overheard him explaining the pro-
gramme to a friend in a hotel, and lost
no time in warning the father of the
plot, and was just in time to prevent its
being successfully carried out. Two
_years ago the youth eloped with the
same young lady and a school com-
panion. Tbey were traced to - Utica
and brought home before the marriage
ceremony had been. performed. Wil-
mot, who is only 18 years of age, has
been married and divorced,
—Sometime in March last two men,
giving their names as Heraman and
Hyman, opened out a boot and shoe
establishment in Galt, the latter acting
as foreman for Hersman, paying cash
for all goods at first, and promptly set-
tling all claims. They enjoyed a first-
class reputation and did a rushing
business. L- sat Saturday Herman
dispensed with the services of Hyman,
who at once left town, and went no one
knows whether. On Sunday Hemmen
left for Toronto ostensibly to engage
another foreman, and leaving word
that he would return on Monday.
Three days passed. and he did not ap-
ferea $30 cash for the dog, but he
wasn't aware the owner had refused $50
for him two days previous.
—Messrs. D. & A. Campbell (lc Com-
pany's renowned Hungarian process
flour mills, situated in Howard town-
ship, two and a half miles from Ridge -
town, were totally destroyed by- fire
early Sunday morning. Not a vestige of
the concern remains except the bolter
Drumbo one day last week. The man of his finances. and some broken pieces of machinery
was
pink with rage, and said he world Quebec, arta of the engine. The mill non- stones,
have them up for furious driving. The from a doze into which he had fallen, and p gin'
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