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pi�saing festure. et
s the presentatiori
beautiful saver
ice Rev. Mr. „Fletcher,
cliuroh, as a elight rent*
vsiusble eervices rendered. •
, pulpit supply during ,
nee financial teault of the
e 460. Rev. Mr. Msrtj-
tt heartily welcomed by nee
tresthis sojourn eggnog*
10lig one and. pleasant. I.
family as well &a to nig
Oltneon. -
aizis—Mr. D Cantelrea
Manitoba, last Monday,
6rid, a, quantity of harrows.
Rice, of Brampton, wait
father-in-iaw, Rev, lifea.
eek.—Mr. Henry Steep, en
eenanip, baa retiredikma
aud will now live in (lIbe,
avn council, at their
ineetinglast-Monday
rnechanune institute
Er. A. D. Bennett has eat
rniture from linem itre
L. better premise% in
Mr. CrawforA se •
bas alea remove'd to
—The Tewneend fiyj..
rigIe audience m the to
onday night—Mr. Chi*
he City Bookatore, was
week purchasing goods.
Ly, of the Mail' juin town.
residing here in ftituee,
kw has gone West in
den Oraib, in the do
qtviet shipped a carload
nnday to the other side,
right, of this place, hat
fowl. bilei Retain lasene.
hough Rinbtirn does n
be towns of Huron, sant
Irporation some are g
coming.' The next.
id will be Mr. Goody/me .
d attentive landlord of the
el, ilia successor being _
y.—Mr. John Fowler of.
ad Mr. Richard Bell ef
sd on Wednesday, 4th hide,
They take with the a,
nee& in addition to other
ee sorry to state that Mro
id, which got scalded a fine
eft/ in & Very proem:loft --
n some places our aide
st coveted with two and
S11OW. Owing to the east
fell during the winter la
sided our citizens to keen
ilks clear, and so spring
the above condition.
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SEAFORTH
FRIDAY, APRIL 13) 1883.
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McLEAN BROS., Publisher&
.$1.50 a Year, itt Advance.
alt,k CARD.
At the commencement of my second
ses8011 in Seaforth, I beg to express my
sineere thanks to my friends and the
public generally for the vary liberal
support that has been accorded inc
mince commencing brainless amongst
them.
Although it is only about a year BIBCO,
Iirst opened my doors in Seaforth, I
am glad to_be able to state that in that
short time, I have been saocessful in
working tip a very satisfactory business.
My ambition is to very greatly 4n-
_ Kew my sales during the present
Nom Neither time, thought now
money has been spared in the selection
Of my stock, representing as it does the
products of thirteen of the leading
factories of the Dominion and the
United States.
I would direct special attention to
My iMMOBSO stock of ladies' and child-
ren's fine boot a and shoes. Every lady
Reeding anything of the kind should
certainly call and examine, whether
she -buys or not. Onr Ladies' A.merican
boots and shoes are specially attractive
this season.
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My customers will remember that
last fall I introduced a hat and cap
department in a small way, just as an
experiment. I uow beg tb state that
the result wag so satieMotory that I
have decided to make hats and caps a
permanent part of my business, and
have already received andl opened out
over fifty dozen of new styles in spring
midsummer hats and caps, in Anaeie
ben, English, and Canadian makes,
which I have marked at very amen
advance on cost price.
To my customers I would say that I
am better prepared than ever to give you
really good value for your money.
To those who have not yet done any
lesizess with me, I respectfully solicit
a trial believing it will be for our rcui-
teal benefit.
Beets and shoes made to order in a
fashionable style and repairing promptly
atteaded to.
GEORGE GOOD,
Seaforth Bbot Store.
FIVE REASONS
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Why You Should Get
Your Boots and Shoes
at the
SEAFORTH BOOT STORE.
FIRST
Because we always do what we
advertise.
SECOND
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Because we use only the qelebrated
nonacid aole leather for the hottoma of
all our boots.
THIRD 1
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Jeoause we consider. . the nimble
sixpence better Ethan the sloW shilling.
Big sales and small. profits is . our
niotto.
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FOURTH
BleallS0 we keep a larger. stock
and wall cheaper (quality co sidered)
than any other house in the tri de.
FIErill—
Beams° we make a ape -entity of
Men's Pine Sewed work. We uarantee
our styles and finish equal to anything
made it Toronto, Hamilton oz London.
GEORG GOOD,
The Great Bootand Sh( e House.
'tft.
Little About the People of
Missouri,
MB. EDrrom—Sra : The State of Mis-
s uri has rather a hard neme,and many
o tsiders believe that the -whole State is
u der a heavy mortgage to jease James
and his brother Frank.Now let me
say that these two gentlemen were
c iminals (Su i Gerievie) and deserve .a
s parate consideration sone other time,
aid I confess at once that we have in
s me parts of the State far too many
assaults and bloody ',flake independent
of the deeds done - -by the James
family. But it ,is hardly fair to
blame the real American part of the
p pnlation with all ot . these. The
t uth is, a great proportion of these
s ootings end stabbings,. that .are so
f ithfully recorded and exaggerated in
t e St. Louis newspapers, are perpetrat-
e by foreigners, from a land where
a saesins.tion is fostered and cultivated
a one of the cardinal Virtues. At the
p esent time we have a stringent law
a ainst the carrying of coneealed wea-
p ns, and it is to be hoped that this law
will mitigate the evil. But if the law
is not promptly and rigorously enforced,
t en free institutions are a failure, and
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any of the laws, springing from these,
a solemn farce. I am much more Batas-
fi 4 with some of the social customs of
y neighbors than I am with the free
i stitutions under which they live; yet
it must be confessed that they have
sine queer notions about the nature of
o ime. For inetance, the. two crimes of
h rse stealing and» seduction are sure to
b atoned for with the blood of the per-
p trator, unless in the case of seduction,
t e proper kind of reparation is prompt.
I made. Wounding or killing an op -
p neat in a quarrel is a light matter in
cemparison with either of the two others
I I have mentioned. The poor horse -
stealer gets a very short shrift indeed.
Thus you see in some things there is a .
very marked difference in the public
taste here, and in some other parts of
the world many of their customs too are
widely apart from the ways of other
people. For instance, when I travel
abroad I am not accommodated with
a Whisky shop every five miles wherein
I can refresh myself and horse, the
horse getting the best pert. Such in-
stitutions are totally unknown here, and
even when I get to town, end put up at
a hotel, the absence of the whisky is
observable also. If I am a sincere lover
of the article I can get it in a drugstore
if I am armed with a doctor's certificate,
and if the town is a large -one Ivan even
get it in a saloon. » There are two such
places in our county town, eaeh ofthein
paying $500 a year to the municiPality
for the privilege of selling. beer to the
Germans and whisky to the young law-
yers and a select class of foreignexis.
But if I were known to enter one bf
these dens my neighbors wetild black-
ball me for certain. .Another very great
contrast to the customs of some other
parts of the world, is obeervable in the
absence of that great army of collectors,
bailiffs, clerks of division courts, petty
judges (generally good judges of whisky
rather than right or wrong). Here we
get outside of this swarm of devourers
by the simple process -of paying as we
go. There is no credit system here,
except in real property, when the debt
is secured by trust deed. All claims
under $100 are settled by thb nearest
magistrate. The debt having been
proven before that official, he at once
gives the constable a warrant of seizure, -
and if the execution is directed againet
a young man haying no real estate, the
constable takes from his person whatever
he can get, be -it hat, watch or even
coat. In the case of a ilian having real
property, the constable -must leave pro-
perty to the value of $2;000. ,In regard
to educational matters Missouri. stands
pretty much in the same eondition as
Ontairo—that is a_ certain' amount of
money cotnes from the Government
towards keeping up school houses and
teachers selaries—the balance is raised
by taxation based on the assessment roll.
The school is managed by three trustees
who retire in rotation aftee three years
service. When Missouri wes admitted
into the Union as a state, every seven-
teenth section was set apart to support
primary education, and if ' this amine
fund had -been properly managed, evety
child in the State would have had a free
educaton, a,s there would have been no
necessity' to raise one cent by taxation.
But as the slave holding aristocraoy
were indifferent about any education
among the mean white
would noteuffer any arnon
and as the aristocracy rule
people, and
g the blacks,
in every-
thing, the school lands were frittered
away to a great extent. Nevertheless
what is left of it in Saline County, gives
as large a portion to school. purposes as
that which comes fro ni the Govern-
ment in Ontario. Originally »there were
set apart two whole townships of most
valuable land for an endewment to-
wards the establishment and support of
a State University. If this bad never
been touched by the hand of man it
would be worth a million or two of dol-
lars now, but the property was too valu-
able to be left alone, and now it is own-
ed by fifty or sixty of the leading
families of the State. These educated
blacklegs sent their sons to be educated
in th.e colleges of Virginia or Kentucky,
not caring whether the children of their
less fortunate neighbors got tuition or
not.
I did not have long to wait for an
answer to my query about tree plant-
ing in Dakota, and that answer has af-
forded me the double satisfaction of
having my mind eet at rest on the tree
planting question, and of hearing the
voice of an acquaintance of long ago.
Our recollections are not always bitter,
and menaory recalls a Mr. Daniel Mo.
Phail who once lived near inc in the
pleasant valley of the Grand River, near
Paris; and if I am not astray in iny
.surmise about his identity, he is not
the man that will leave his homestead
bare of every adornment, or his 'family
of every comfort and shelter his locality
can afford. The Mr. McPhail that
rests so pleasantly in ny memory was a
gentleman of superior attainments, and
knows this truth welif. that every tree
planted and growing op his farm addt
51 to its selling value.F Every pleat -lire
brings some regret or ther along with
it, and my chagrin in his case is that I
am notaalongside of Mr. McPhail to get
a messibf his,good potatoes, (ours are
execrable). I will onlydd to thisdigres-
i.
that sion about personal matters, at I
would not be afraid td
venture my all
in aay land in which Mr.- McPhail is
satisfied to live. '
We have been often told that cattle
can winter oat on the prairie in North
Dakota, gettine their living on the
withered gras . Now this is an im-
portant assertjion, and, we are rather
skeptical abo t it, beo use down here,
600 miles se th of the,British line, we
are compelled to feed 'cattle from the
15th of December till the 15th of April,
and seeing a letter in a late EiPORITOR
from Mr. Leatherlarld, who therein
gives a flat denial to the assertion that
cattle can winter out, !these considera-
tions tend to confiriat our belief that
the story is a speculator's fraud. Per-
haps Mr. McPhail would set this mat-
ter rigat, so we appeal to him. Yours
truly,
JAMRS Ona, Salt Springs P. O.,
Saline ounty, Missouri..
Canala.
Hon. Mr. and Mr . Mackenzie will
leave next month on a visit to Europe.
—The members o Mrs. Gordon's
Bible class in Harriet n, lately present-
ed her -with a purse Of $40.
—George Allison, of East Flarpboroa
has bold his farm of 200 acres to Mr.
Carroll, of Ancestor, f r $14,000.
—Applications are aid to be pouring
in to Mayor Beaudry or a share of the
5500 given by Mme. lbani for the poor
in Montreal.
—Mr. Wm. Tilt, for many years clerk
of Watertoo township, died at Blair on
the 4th inst. He was in his seventy-
eighth year.
, —Archbishop Lynch bas f ally reaoyer-
ed, but his physicians have not yet al-
lowed him to resume his pastoral duties
outside his residence.
—Last Saturdaytwo steamers arrived
at St. Johns, Newfou dla4d, from the
ice fields with 52,000 s ale, Worth nearly
5200,000-
-Some 30 families
operatives are expecte
the opening of naviga
f 'Allied Scotch
in Quebec on
ion, to work in
the Quebee woollen falitory
—Much uneasinesacaused at Otta-
wa by fears of the outbreak of dynamite
outrages, and the night •watches at the
public buildings have been doubled.
—A Lindsay paper says tbe wages for
farm laborers are very high in that part
owing to the scarcity of men, as high as
522 and $25 per month,is being paid.
leading furrier of Quebec, who
has just returned from, Russia, states
that this past winter waa not so severe
• at Moscow as it was inl Quebec.
—Mr. Jesse Shaver, 3rd concession,
Westminster, has a ewe which, on the
29th of. March, gave birth to one lamb,
and in nine days after gave birth to two
more.
—A female quack, in Quebec, prac-
tising 'medicine without a license, has
afterprotracted litigation here, been
mulcted in a fine of 674 and over 5200
costs.
—Mr. L. D. Abell, who owns a farm
a short distance from Arkona village,
is preparing to put out Iseveral thousand
small fruit plants oti his farm this
spring.
—It is said that at e, meeting of the
Privy Council at Ottawa, it was decided
not to allow the importation Of Ameri-
can whisky in bond, even under the 72
hours limitation clause
—angus Matheson, of 2nd concession,
Huron township, has purchased Wm.
Lambert's farm of 351acres, adjoining
the village of Ripley, lor the sum of
51,800,
—Prescott and Ogd nsburg want to
have the Hanlan-Ross ace take place
on the St. Lawrence opposite those
towns. Comnaittees ar at.work trying
to rai sc the necessary f n ds
—Robert Emslie, of St. Thomas, left
on Satarday for Readinig, Pennsylvania,
under engagement to th,e local base ball
club. The ubiquitous John Smith, of
the Same town, is to join the same club.'
o -Since the 8th of February Murdoch
McLay, of Kincardine, has caught with
hook and line, 251 dczens of herrings.,
That is very success ul. "bobbling "
throngh an air -hole in t e ice.
—The Cochrane Man facturing Com-
pany, of St. Thomas, sh'pped tte other
day a large steam ploug to Manitoba.
The engine is 25 horse ower, and with
the plough complete wi 1 cost $4,000.
—Three young ladies took the veil at
Loretto.Abbey, Toronto last week, the
ceremony being very 'mposing. The
young ladies were Miss Corcoran, of
Stratford, and Misses Teresa Brow and
Meehan, of Toronto.
—At the Brantford Assizes, Rev. Mei
Beattie brought suit against Miss Leith -
man (who has left the country) to vin-
dicate himself, and place his denial of
her soandalons charges on record. Ver-
dict for the plaintiff, $300.
--eEleven members d the Salvation
array have been summoned before the
police magistrate of Chatham, for- calm-
ing a disturbance on Sunday by beating
drums, tambourines, etc. Col. Baxter,
chief of police, is the complainant.
—The work of constr6tion on the
Canada Pacific Railway has been re-
sumed, and it is intended to complete
the track to the summit of the Rocky
Mountains this year. his will leave
only 263 miles of track a cbnnect the
lineesc
BritishColumbiaseotio with the Main
—Mr. John Scully, immigration and
contractor's agent at To onto, forward-
, ed 45 laborers and s ne-outters on
Thursday, for the oont.ctors on the
()Mario ce Quebec railw y east of Tor-
onto. The same gentleman has orders
for a large number of men for the On;
tario & Quebec and Canada Pacific
railways. Also for farm hands and
young men to learn farming in Ontario
and Manitoba. One hundred are for-
warded weekly.
—Special agent Heiohhold, of the -
Treasury Department, Buffalo, has re-
covered a quantity of silks 'and other
goods which were enauggled from Cana-
da six weeks ago, and secreted• for a
time in e farm house a short distance
from Buffalo.
—Last week Mr. Michael Drennan°
sold his farm in Drummond, on the
Lanark Road, a mile or so from Perth,
to Mr. Robert Geddee, of Dakota, for
54,800. The farm comprises 80 acres
of fine land, with a unit class dwelling
and outbuildings upon it.
—Recent occurrences at Rideau Hall
have excited not a little alarm. A few
nights ago it was discovered that thee
fire hose was out and. rendered useless,
and hie Excellency the Governor-Gen-
eral is said to have received a number
of threatening letters of late.
-The bells for thechurch of St.Louis
de Gonzague, Beauharnois County,.
Quebec,were cast at Chanteloup's a few
days ago, in the presence of Bishop.
Fabre and his secretary. The bells
are to be eighteen, fourteen, and ten
hundred pounds each; and will ring the
scale of fa, 801, fa.
—Conversing with a friend at Govern-
ment House recently the Marquis of
Lorne is said to have expressed a desire
that his term of office should be extend-
ed another year. There is a rumour
current in this connection to the effect
that the Imperial , Government will
gratify the wishes of His Excellency.
—Mr. Vanderbilt is reported to have
said the other day that the Canada
Southern could not accommodate the
business offering, and that the Lake
Shore refused about 200 oar loads from
the Indiana, Bloomington, and Western
road last week on account of the pres-
sure of businees.
—Ma. Robert Renwick, for many
years s. resident of Nerth Dumfries, and
a dweller near Ayr, left on Thursday,
the 5th inst., for Manitoba, taking with
him his family and considerable stock.
He has purchased a farm near Carberry,
and will therefore settle right among
many who were former friends and
neighbors.
— In October last some Rapid City,
Manitoba lots were sold» by Auctioneer
Potter, in Montreal, for sortie Western
land speculators, and Flynn invested
5370 in several, for which he got deeds`
and titles. Now he is informed by the
Winnipeg registrar that there are no
such lots in the Province, and .he now
sues' Mr. Potter.
—A young English emigrant was
three days wandering about Toronto in
search of emplayment and without any-
thiug to eat, when he applied to the
Mayor for work. He was sent to the
House of Industry tillhe could get work.
He was a nickel -plater and fork and
spoon maker by trade.
— Mr. C. J. Nardhausen who has
carried on the Empire Button Works
in Berlin, for several years past with
much success, has removed to the City .
of Montreal where he expecte to secure-
cheapealabotir and engage more exten-
sively in the manufacture of buttons.
— Friday morninglInShackel,otHam-
ilton, not being very well, went down
stairs in the dark to get quinine which
was in his desk, and by rniseake got
strychnine, which was also in the desk.
He swallowed five grains of strychnine
before knowing what he had, and now
Hai in a critical condition. There are
little hopes of his recovery.
—The York County Crown Attorney
has received a letter saying that Walker,
a Spiritualist, who in 1874, in Toronto,
caused the death of a man named
Saundersthrough burned spiritualistic
phosphorus at a seance, and against
whom a verdict of murder was render-
ed, but who absconded, is now in
Australia at his old work.
—About 120 heads of French-Cana-
dian families, repatriated from an in-
dustrial centre of Massachusetts, have
arrived in Winnipeg in charge of the
Rev. Father Mole, the parish priest of
the Turtle Mountain district, and go
south on the Canada Pacific Railway en
route to their destinations. Their fami-
lies will follow in the autumn.
—It ie understood the Grand Trunk
Railway, in consequence of the trouble
experienced in working, and by the mis-
representation the company and officers
are constantly subjected to, will remove
the locomotive establiehments from
Toren to . and Hamilton. Stratford is
looked upon as the place for the western
shops and East Toronto for the eastern.
. .
e—The .golden wedding of Mr. and
Mrs. Geo. Jones, of Beverly township.
county of Wentworth, was celebrated
on the 2nd inst. This honored couple
still reside on the farm where they went
to live on the 2nd of April, 1833. Their
children are comfortably settled on
goad farms of their own all near their
old home, and assembled to do honor to
their revered parents on the euspiciona
occasion. - .
—Alad 15 years of age named Mae
lone, was fearfully injured in Guelph.
the other day, by a barrel of salt falling
from the edge of a wagon Jibe and crush-
ing him ander it to the ground. Be-
sides several bruises about the heeid
and body, his cheek bone was broken in.
Next morning he was holding !his own,
and his medical attendant thinks he
,
may recover. ,
—Mr. E. H. Moore, manager of the
Tecumseh House, London, hali brought
an action for slander against Dr. R.
McWilliams, of Drayton, Welliiigton
county. The case was tried ir Toronto
before Judge Morrison. The damages
claimed was $2,000. The plain ,Moors,
was engaged to marry Miss Della Gib-
son, daughter of Mr. James Gibson, of
"Spring Valley," in the town Of Berlin,
but the _engagement was broken pff
two weeks before the wedding -day ap-
pointed, owing; to slanderouS reports
impeaching Moore's character being
communicated to Miss Gibson by Dr,
McWilliams. The case was settled l:iy
mutual agreement, Dr. WoWilliams
apoligizing, and paying $20 damages and
costs of suit. ,
—Miss Sarah Coleman, daughter of
Mr. Miles Coleman, of Petrolia,died last
Tuesday morning. A few days before
her death, she informed Dr. Dunfield
that an abortion had been performed
upon her by 9, Port Huron abortioaist.
John A. Lawrence, of Petrolia, is charg-
ed.with sedhcing the girl, but he has
skipped, and the physiciani accused Of
malpractic"will be prosecuied.
*—The otter day a woman named
Grant arriv d in Toronto from Graven
hurst, accOmpanied by six children
She did not possess a cent of money
and wanted to get to Ogdensburg,where
she said, her husband was working. She
was directe to the City Hall, where
she receive an order for three tickets
as far as Whitby. In the meantime
the family vere without food.
—James obertson, who duped Rev
Dr. Strattou, of Buffalo, and who stole
a $75 gold -headed cane, and an over-
coat, was aarested at Hamilton the other
day. The nan is over seventy years iof
age, and w s married by Dr. Stratten
to a Toeo to boarding house keeper
aged sixty-six. He deceived his wife ay
representin himself as a millionaire
railway m n. He has got six months
in —gall.des
patch from Chicago on April
6th says: There was a large gathering
-of stockmeit at Dexter park to -day to
participate in the sale of Polled Angus,
Galloway, Hereford, Shorthorn, Devon
and West. ighland cattle, the property
of Leary B others, of Canada, George
Whitefield nd others. Forty-two head
were dispo ed of for an aggregate of
519,350; on y two reached $1,000.
—As the oronto cattle shippers are
commencin work for the season, they
have any n mber of applications from
young men or free paseage across the
Atlantic on eondition that they work as
cattle -men on board ship. The most
of these young men , are immigrants
who have come to this coentry and wish
to return beim° to their friends. The
shippers pa Y good men $25 for the round
trip and thefr expenses.
—Zion cherch, Presbyterian , in Brant-
ford, was reopened last Sabbath, after
'extensive repairs and improvements,
when a large andierice listened to elo-
quent and lappropriate sermons from
the pastor, the Rev. Dr. Cochrane and
the Rev. Principal Grant, of Queen's
College. The church was densely
crowded. The interior of the building
is now one of the most elegant and
spacious in the country.
—The settlers and press of Manitoba
and the Northwest, irrespective of party,
loudly proteet against the injustice and
hardship to the settler of the proposed
increase 9f nt y on agricultural imple-
ments. The Winnipeg Government organ
gives no uncertain sound on the subject,
and shows that the proposed tax repre-
sents a cut ef ten cents per bushel on
the market price of two million bushels
of wheat.
—Mr. Westbrook, of Westbrook &
Fairchild, the great agricultural im-
plement dealers, of Winnipeg, _arrived
at Ottawa oit Saturday morning, to en-
deavor to petsuade Sir Leonard that be
ought not tolpersist in the tariff changes
on those articles. His firm has order-
ed already hearly 5700,000 worth of
goods, to.which the new tariff will add
an additional duty of at least 570,000.
When he left, indignation meetings
were being called to protest against the
additional hardens laid on the settlers.
—Captain John Beattie, of Fergus,
foreman cif the bridge construction gang
on the Fellington, Grey and Bruce di.
vision of the Grand Trunk railway, had
a narrow tempo from death while
superintending the unloading of some
. iron pillars at Paisley. He saw one of
them falling towards him, and made an
attempt to get put of the way, but being
tripped by the snow; the pillar fen
across his thigh, breaking it near the
body and bruising the other leg very
badly.
—The demand for houses in Windsor
this season ie greater than at any time
for years past. The inquiry is chiefly
for cottages that rent for from 510 to
512 a month. There has been a large
influx of popalation during the past year,
made up inootly of' railroad employes,
who, when the Canada Southern offices
were removed from St. Thomas to De-
troit, were obliged to locate in that
vicinity in order to retain their posi-
tions. Most of these, though working
in Detroit, prefer to live in Canada.
—Mr. and Mrs. H. K. Maitland, of
Guelph, celebrated their silver wedding
on Monday evening, the 2nd inst. A.
large numberof their friends from Galt,
Hamilton, Toronto and other -places
-yore present i The presents received
were numerane and valuable, from
friends in Miehigan, Toronto,Hamiltoa,
Cleveland, Ohio, Kincardine, Montreal,
Galt and other places where the name
of Mr. Maitland is known. The finest
present is a aaluable silver set of four
pieces from his friends in Neguane,
Michigan.
—The Lady Principal of Hellmuth
College London, Miss Clinton, who has
been connected with this college since
its opening itt1 1869,and filled with credit
the position of Lady Principal and
Musical Dire tress. has accepted a posi-
tion in the Cl4eltenham Ladies College.
The Colleg authorities have se-
cured the services of two ladiea.
from the Roy1 Academy of Music,Lon-
don, England, of pronounced ability as
pianists and ocalists. Miss Wright,
who has been the popular LadySuperin-
tendent for tle last seven years is to
succeed lilies !Clinton asLady Piincipal.
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—A young n of Mr. John -Reid, of
the 18th oon ion of McGillivary, a
few days ag , with a child's idea of
amusement, set the straw stack on the
farm on fire irith a match. Mr. Reid
observed the ames, and seizing i fork
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endeavored to keep them under control
and save the barn by beating them, and
he stieceeded in his efforts,but at serious
cosi, his lege, arms, ears and face being
most severely burned, and his clothes
burned from his person. - The straw
stack, cutter and roller were burned.
Mr. Reid's condition causes great appre-
hension.
—A painful mishap occurred to Mr.
Corunna Muir, of North Dumfries, one
evening lately, as he was returning
home from Ayr. While driving along
about two miles from his own place, a
bag of bran on which he was sitting
slipped from the sleigh, oarrying him
with it. His horses finding themselves
free from the driver took leave of him.
He was assisted home by a neighbor. A
broken shoulder bone was the main in-
jury, but the effect of this upon one of
his advanced age Was at first greatly
feared, but thanks to a strong constitu-
tion be is now recovering.
—Th‘e Laval decree of the Pope has
commented to bear fruit. The Mon-
treal School of Medicine and Surgery,
affiliated to Victoria University, is to be
boycotted. Bishop Taschereau has
ordered the President of the school to
cut Victoria College, or else come) under
the -censure of the church; he al o has
ordered the sisters of the Holy Dien
Hospital to refuse admittance to the
students of the Montreal School. On
the other side the profeSsors of the
school seem willing to leave Victoria
and affiliate with Laval University,
charging the latter with having long ago
refused to do so.
- —On Friday last two young men, re-
gent arrivals fromEngland, while stand-
iag at the Union Station, Toronto,wait-
ing for the train to take them to Hamil-
ton, were accosted by an individual who
introduced himself as an emigratibn
agent. Learning that the young men
were in search of work, he offered to
pay their fares to Hamilton, and keep
them there till he procured good situa-
tions for them, provided each deposited
with him a sovereign. Gratified at
meeting such an influential stranger,
the confiding youths acceded to his re-
quest, but on arriving at the ambitious
city they looked for their friend in vain. -
New arrivals cannot be too careful of
these sharpers who are always ready to
prey upon the unwary.
—Last Sabbath night at St. Andrew's
church, Toronto, after the pastor, Rev.
D. J. Blacdonnell, had given out the
usual intimations, he said complaints
had been made to him of frivolous and
irreverent condnet on the part of. some
thoughtless young persons during divine
service. These persons Were in the
habit of whispering to each otherlaugh-
lug, and scribbling ou other p • .plc's
Bibles, thereby distracting the e • ds of
those who came to worship God. He
hoped it would be the only occasion on
which he would require, to speak about
such conduct, and advised al i thought-
less people to stay away. This repre-
hensible practice is carried on in *many
other churches, and a similar rebuke
administered from the ,pulpit is very
much-needed.
—A frame barn belonging to John
Kelly, of Landon West, was burned
Sunday night, together with between
five and six tons of hay, a quantity of
agricultural implements and general
farm furnishings. Mr. Kelly's loss will
be fully $400. No insurance. The fire
was beyond doubt the work of incen-
diaries. While the interest of the crowd
was centred upon the burning building
s second fire was discovered in a barn
upon the lot adjoining, also according to
all apparent evidence an incendiary job.
During the progress of the fire a num-
ber of young men and boys, some of
them far from sober, conducted them-
selves in a most disorderly manner.
One old geptleman 'was most unmerci-
fully snowQled and abased. The
roughs neither regarded age nor the
Sabbath. '
—A few days ago an eight year old
son of Donald McLeod, base line Kin-
cardine township, was instantly -killed
by a tree falling upon him. The father
left for the bush after dinner and was
shortly afterwards followed by his little
son, who .was anxiouli to watch the
chopping of trees. Mr. McLeod anxious
for the child's safety placed him in a
position which Ite thought would ensure
his safety. The tree which was being
chopped was a small one, only seven or
eight inches in diameter. A spring pole
was used to have the tree fall as desk -
ed, but which unfortunately proved of
no use. When the tree was cut through
it shifted from the stump; and fell side-
ways instead (if with the cut, coming
down with i terrifie force on the bey,
smashing hia skull 'and causing instant
death.
—The mystery concerning the disap-
pearance in November last, of Mrs.
Andrew Murray, of Westminster has
been solved. Last Friday a boy named
George Dale, whose parents own the
farm opposite Murray's, was crossing
one of the fields and was horrified to
find in the fenoe corner the remains of a
human being bearing every evidence of
months of exposure. On examination of
the body it was found to be that of the
unfortunate Mrs. Murray. Her rela-
tives were at once notified of , the sad
fact, and her remains taken in charge.
The deceased " was fifty-four years of
age, and for the past few years had been
in delicate health, suffering severely
from asthmatic attacks. Evidently she
had crossed the fields for a " short cut"
on her way home, and becoming ex-
hausted had either fallen or sat down to
rest beside the fence, and thus met her
-death.
—.A. ghastly discovery was made at
the Grand Trunk station, at Hamilton,
the other day. A bag was found in a
passenger coach and removed to the
baggage room. Next morning a stench
arising from the bag attracted the
attention of the baggage master, who
on Opening it found a parcel wrapped
in a newspaper which, when opened,
revealed a qnantity of human bones,
supPosed to be those of a woman. On.
examination they turned out what are'
thought to be two shoulder hobos, a
thigh bone, a shank, a foot and an arm
with the ham! attached.. Particles of
flesh a,clhered to the bones and the hails
still on the hand, which is elegantly
and _ delicately fashioned. The nails
are narrow and carefully trimmed, and
it is the shape of the hand and nails
that lead to the supposition that the
bones are female ones. As yet no clue
has been obtained to the owner, but it
is thought that the bag and its contents
belong to some medical student.
—George Tilly, a resident of Hamil-
ton, who is more popularly known as
the champion one hundred mile walk-
er of the Dominion of ganada, started
from the General Post Office, Toronto.
at5 p. m. on Good Friday, in the midst
of a snow storm which had prevailed -ail
day, to walk to Hamilton, a distance of
45 miles. The undertaking was to be s.
go as -you please race. He (Tilly) could
not manage to go exactly as he pleaied,
therefore haa to content himself with
square heel -and -toe, interspersed with
various evolutions entirely _foreign to
Calisthenics, at tinaes fighting his
way through snow -drifts up to his waist.
At 6:30 a. m. on the following morning,
having made 26 miles, he was compel-
led to make his first halt, and retire to a
farm house for alaout an hour, both of
his feet being batly frozen; he continu-
ed his journey, ale when within five
miles of his destination his left knee
gave out. Nevertheless, with that bull-
dog tenacity, for which the average En-
glishman is noted, he dragged the dis-
abled limb along, and finally arrived at
Hamilton at 1:30 p. ne., being one hour
and a halt ahead of the allotted tiara) ;
consequently a evinner,and thereby sus-
taining his long earned reputation of
being champion forboth speed. and en-
durance in long -walking. He says he
has never yet been defeated in a square
race.
Death of a Prominent Canadian.
Senator Gibbs died at his residence
in Oshawa On Saturday last. TheHon.
gentleman had been struggling with a
very severe illness for several weeks and
his demise was not at all unlooked for.
Thomas Nicholson Gibbs was born
March 1111, 1821, at Terrebonne, pro-
vince of Quebec, where his parents,
Thomas and Caroline (Tate) Gibbs had
emigrated in 1819 from Kingsbridge,
Devonshire, England. In 1832 • the
family removed to Oshawa, Where the
father engaged in the grain ,and flour
trade, dying here in July, 1871. Thomas
N. Gibbs was educated in England, and
since hie return from school. there was
continually engaged in the grain and
flour trade and manufactories of Oahe-
wa,. Since 1842 he was at the head of
the firm of.Gibbs Bros., dealers in pro-
duce and proprietors of the Oshawa
mills, manufacturing as high as 100,000
barrels of flour in a. year. Ile was a
directoicof the Confederation Life As-
sociation, president of the Standard
Bank, and of the Dominion Telegraph
Company, and chairman in Canada bf
the English and Scottish Investment
Company of Canada. - Mr. Gibbs was
the first reeve of Oshawa, elected in
1850,and the first warden of the county,
elected in 1854. He was very active
and influential in promoting the pro-
gress of the town and county. He con-
tested North Ontario unsuccessfully M
the general election in 1854; sat for
South Ontario in the Canadian ASSO3M,o
bly from January, 1865, until the anion,
1867, when he was returned to the
Coinmons,continuing to represent South
Ontario until the general election
in 1874, when he was defeated
On June let, 1876, upon the death
of the sitting member, Hon. Malcolm
Cameron, he was again returned from
South Ontario, and was defeated in the
same constituency in September, 1878.
He was sworn of the Privy Council June
14th. 1870, and was Secretary of State
for the provinces from, that date until
July lst, when he was transferred to
the Inland Revenue Department, where
he remained until the resignation of the
Government on the 5th of November of
the same year. In politics he was
a Conservative. He was a member of
the Canada Methodist Church, and a
trustee and steward of the same. His
appointment to the Senate was made in
1879, and his familiar figure will be
missed from the Senate floor - and the
Commons galleries. The Senate has of
late had many vacancies created in it
by the death of old members. In Mr.
Gibbs it loses a man of wide experience.
-a-A man named Ellis of the township
of Morris, was last week fined $20 by
Mr, A. Hunter, J. P. of Brussels, for
beating a boy unmercifully with a lea-
ther strap over the head.
—The Clinton New Era is responsi-
ble for the following: In a certain
locality not a hundred miles from Clin-
ton, a, charming youth from Manitoba
enjoyed a- glorious time during the past
winter. He appears to have been a
very amorous individual, as no less than
three blooming maidens were captivated
by his wiles. He seems to have carried
the matter to extremes, as he was en-
gaged to two, if not the three of them.
He was on the point of deserting all,
when one of them, more determined
than the rest, put a atop to his journey,
and had him planed in durance vile,
and afterward married him. One of
the other:fair ones vas sorely vexed on
hearing of his arrest, and wrote him a
very sympathizing letter, something as
follows: CLINTON., March—, '83.—My,
Darling j.,—I WaB very sorry to hearof
your trouble, and when I -sale the roan
in Clinton, who had aided to arrestyou,
I felt like clawing him. I send yea
these few lines to let you know I. still
think as much of you as ever, and hop�.
you will 001110 out a right. Trust In
the.Saviour and we will come out all
right. From yours affectionately, A.
R." We guess he did not trunk for she
is left in the cold.
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