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The Huron Expositor, 1886-02-19, Page 1=n, • -••••: V lOds and House. EIGIITEENTEE YEA WHOLE NUMBER 94 -ES OF 001iS AiiiD MIL- ONT: Signed on behalf E Wm. Jones, Geo._ Mr. Pritchard thanking the ittoself and Mrs. -After apending h;Itte evening, the Vett pleased with heat and hoatess. et. members of the taxing some very Some of the de - e eloquent.—Lat a new society, Society, was or - mg officers were t Mrs. R. Young; ughes ; secretary, trer, Mrs. Teskey. that the skating to Mr., Renwick' We wish it sue- -Miss Cook has , where she has past six weeks. -- tion No. -2 would game of football the corporation, mid to attack the 11 be held in the meting, February Dsof the Literary` its are taking ad - for advertis- ock of dry goods hIr. Robert Arm - he _ Sherritt farm, 20., This is eon- --The other day a very valuable team of greys. 'entangled in the and came in vio- ne sharp instru- nd on the head ath from external, in. Bunt; of the daor, is to 'cave :editori, where he isiness.—Mr. Ed - Uncle Sam's do -- ads to reside per. s`the goad wishes E friends and &e- nrol Make. e !earn that our ising townsman, t to erect a largo Looting gallery la >ffers for a small une time a com- this latter prope- r, it will supply people of Blake riot. as hitherto ace to hold public erts, lectures, de - G ell hold their private office mmodation. We th s opportunity Ion the minds of th desirability of w th thanks to iis ble a proposi- nIc it be consider - a y -law, thathio • s nall calibre as iso learn that t e start a daily :all d the Blake td be independent tut -rie, M. P. P., en meted by the A ‘sociation with see -e for a display ition in London, wh fos, Pe recently solti on for $11,000f ph Hawkey* ge of 1Cirkton, d the remnant The Star Grocery SEAFORTH.. GOOD Begs to announce the arrival ofthe following Choic.:: Goods all warranted. first-class:. Half barrels of Salmon Trout, half barrels of White Fish, halt, barrels of Lake Huron Herrings half harrtis of Labrador Herrings, ldtts of Jo. 1 Mackerel, boneless Codfish, fresh. Smelts, Finan Haddies. Don't buy your fish until you ge our prices. Maple Syrup, Maple Sugar, oranges and Lemons, Canned Tomatoes, Pickles in Bulk and • in Rattles, Granulated Oatmeal, Rolled Oatmeal, Sugar Cured Hams, Breakfast Bacon, Pastry- . Flour, Cheese, Lard and Table Butter, Pure Gold Baking Powder, Cleveland's Baking Pow- der, Dr. Prices Baking Powder, French coffee,' Chase and Sanburn's Coffees, old GovernMent Java Coffee, Durkces' salsa. Dressing, Crosse and Blackwell's Pickles, Potted Meats and Sauces, E%tre Spices and Essences, and last but not least aur new season's Teas have arrived, comprising Hysons, Congons; Assams, Japans and Gun- powders. Special. value in _Choice Black Teas. iIiot;;ood Japan Teas and Young Hysons ti lbs. for 441. Sugars very Cheap. GEO. GOO NOTED FOR. Pure Groceiies AT Lowest Prices. N. B.—Agent for Herby Climax- ! Cattle Food. Cheap Clearing Sale —AT— ROFFRiAN „BROS.:, MAIN STREET, SEAFORTH, We are now holding a Great Clea Sale in every line of goeds, which offering at a'great sacrifice.' see the bargains. The goods are all new, being bo for this fall and winter trade. ing .are and ght In Dress Goods we never had sects a (-twice variety of fabrics. fu Mantle and Ulster Cloths, all new novelties. , the Ladies', Misses' end Children's J' -ek- et, Bey's Overcoats and Suits. Ladies', Gent's, Boy's and. Childr n's Underclothing—all in large assortme ts. Ladies' and Misses' Fur Caps, ir Caries, Far Sets and Fur Trimmin s— evtra, value. tfen'e and Boy's Fur Caps, C oth Caps, Plush Caps, Knit Cops, etc., in 'ergo stacks: Tweeds, Ithamels, Shirtings, Cott ns, Cantons. Cretonnes, in fact- all kind of goods fully assorted, and all 1411 be mold regardless of cost. Come along and get prices. \Ve have a very large line of Val ets laid ['lushes, which we are offering ex- ii.alueeinen.ts in. Inteectien invited at the Cheap Cash Stor HOFFMAN BRO SEAORTH. Agents for E. Batterick's Patterns. bic From Seaforfh to British . Columbia. The following interesting diary of a trip from Seaforth to Langley British Columbia, was written by Mr. Malcolm McDonald, lately �f bleKillopt to his brother, Mr. Donald McDtnal ; Win- throp: LAI:OLF. , British Colu nbia, / January 13, 1886. J I am going to try and give n y story as well as I can. I left Seaforth on the 31st October, 1883, and steered I for Te- rmite'_where I atatted at 7.30 p. ni. I then took a street -car and rode about three miles for only15 cents. • Tee next day being Sunday, and raining at that, I didn't see a great deal. Monday was still sloppy, and I May say all the while I was there. Still; I had a pretty fair time of it. I got acquainted with sev- eral, and I, think a great deal of that city. I next bought my ticket for Vic- toria, British Colun bia, which ost me $70.50, and Proceeded on my jou ney on the 5th November.. It was raining then and continued on entil 4 p. m. on the 7th. I got to St. Tames by th Credit Valley Railway at6 p. M. and changed cars. Here rmet with iM 0 fellows from near London who each held a ticket ior Vic- toria., and I was glad of the company. We boarded the MiChigan Centel Rail way trait' at 7 p. ni..4 It was tater dark and we couldn't see o tside;se we enjoyed We crossed the lin at Detroit bout 9 lv ourselves as well as we could inside. p. in. ' There were seven fellotts vac- cinated in our car at this point. Here I had to open my trunk. I can't tell much about this part of Michigan. By daylight on the 6th we were going through the State of Indiana. . The most of the land was covered with water, and the country looked very flat. We got to Chicago, I think, about 10 a. ne, and a wonderful. place it is: - The greatest stir I ever saw is here. . The trariefer 'bus from the Michigan- Central depot to the Chicago, Milwaukee and irry five jam on hat we could y. At kr St. gh Il- ul, al- arm ers princi- St. Paul's hitd-.. to stop. about ev rods on account of th.e continual' . the streets. It *as so Very wet , could not go out, but from what - see , it tis a • most l'Wenderful ci 11.30 we boerded the train again Paul, Minnesota. ,, 'l .Going. Vire linois the country looks beauti though mid.dlieg :flat, . but the have very 'poor 'buildings, The pal crop . is coruji At 5 . p. ne .we gat to Mileraukee ; 1 a fine place„ and in Wisconsin. The Cot ntry looks to e more rolling. We get .to St --Peitil at 7 a. m. On the 7th, and h te wehed o wait until 4 p. m. It w s still very w t, -but ,we ventured out for 0, short time and we .saw some .' fine sights. Thete,e e tery large buildings - in this 'city,. as veil . as some magnificent .iron bridges u the river.-- But to my sorrow my com anions here got discouraged and home-Sck 'and entirely Waked out, end furth r west s they weitid not go, So I was alon again, ' as they could not persuade me to follow them. At 4 p..111.1 got on the en -junta - • •e car, where I was td have 'good.co ipeily :again, and here there. was a great Olt— families getting in ' rder„ and everybody elee getting into their. stalls as i1 were, ffi. the oeiale seeing.ond helping to get us settled- for Our long trip.. -Ther were eleven. grown up people and six c ildren in the car, so that . te bed plenty f room to have a good tim • eas we did:- can't say mach about the 'country here a it was so near dark, only that it is rolliu land. Sunday at 7 e: in. -We are turning out of our bunks, after enjoying a good light's sleep. We are pitting through I akota and it is very cold ind the groun cov- ered with snow. - We can see he .c and there . in the distance 'at small i ooden structure, but • even these &ref w and far between. I Ede° notice that. Sunday is not respected along here, as the e are some -drewing„ their grain . to . i ,ark -et along the road and employed at differ- ent kinds of work. • . We ere assing some glowing 'little towns, he' ,and there, and at 4 p.. no we cross ith Mis- souririver near Bismarck, Dakota, on a very large iron bridge, which : i, 2,800 -feet long. We have been travelling all day through prairie, some goodan some had land.- Monday, the 9th.-- ' new , can see the wildest country I eveij saw, • being . the. eastern part. of Mo itanat Here there are some cuts 15 . feet high... After „passings, these we ravel through a great i .valley, - }Wept' d for. . and .. seen.. clime . in eight of the . Rocky 1-Mounthine, . c vered With snow. We have pleasantw ther, and are now going through some. f the finest scenery .I ever saw,. and .that is about all the -good it is, with rocks and cliffs and streams of Water. It is called - the Yellowstone &strict. We have been travelling all day through 4 moutitain- eus country,. :and. at 3 p. in. we, pass through the first tamed 11,500 fee, long and 5,572 feet above the sea level. - The sight's now 1 can hardly describe. They are named, tl- e Rocky Mountains. After leaving . the est range 4 moun- tains we pass. through another lgreat valley, celled • the Gallitan Valley, 30 miles in length, with some farmand' - ranches.. It appears to: be . very dry through this valley; the dust is hying ail over. ' it is now night and we are. in the Rockies again, Tuesday I _arose, after having a goocl. nights rest, and w are .„trairelling -through what is called Horse Plains, but Mountains quite close to ns -cavei,ed with snow. We missed the best scenery last night, as we passed through three thnuels,-- being V. -wet: - quarters of a mile in length, and the highest. pert of the read; It is reining this morning, so that I can't see things so clearly. On the Whole, since we have entered these mountains, it is a evonder- fut read for men to cut through:. • lAt t a. m. we are 'glidihg, through a miaow gien_on the Jiver bank, with roek.:4 pei', pendecular • at each side • covei ed with small pine. .It is.a beautiful eight,. We are now in. Idaho Territory. It is I win- tainous so far, with the Fork river along side of the track.' At noon we are pass- ing Lake. Pond and are going across a trestle bridge, one end a half miles in length, over a neck of this lake ; 1 p. in. SEAFORTH, FRIDAY,FEB , we arec ossi4 another of the same , length; 2.p. in., we are now. &deg met - ward ; we lrun all directions in these. mountains. There is some 'heavy tim- ber along here. - At 2.30 we are passing through a boautiful pasture valley, six miles square, and then into the woods again. At 3 p. m. we have just entered Washingto a Territory, and, are passing through l a .beautiful -valley, but not very - fettil t with high mountains on 1 • each side. a The afternoon has turned , out very t fine. ' At 8 p. sa. we 1 are . packing up to leave the. sleeping ear to -night at Wallula Junction, and We will have to -stay in a cemrnoh car the rest of the way. We will be into the State of Oregon about 11 p. m. id Wednesday -is fine anda little Cold,• It is still mon itainous on the one -side, and the beautiful Wood, river on the other side. The g rass is quite green here, and the leaves iarc . turning yellow; along here are ferns or brackens growing thick. At 8. a. m. we arrived at a small village named Caseade Locks. - There are fine falls on the river at this place, and it is very beautiful. There are a great matly curves in the road here, and one would almost imagine sometimes that both ends of the ttaintwould meet. At 9 a. m. we came to the Multaineh Falls, where the water falls over a precipice 821 feet high. The train was itopped here" for all . the passengers to see the falls. .This is with- in 25 mulesof Portland, Oregon, and 12' miles east of -Portland, is the best piece of bush that I saw since I left St. Paul. .The people :are. digging potatoes within five miles of - Portland. We land in Portland nt 11 a: m. This train should be in at 0 a. m. to eoneect •with the train leaving for Tacoma, we therefore had to stay.in Portland until next clay, Portland • is 'a fine, clean City, With everything so n ice end green,for this time of the year. Things are vett cheap in this city. My companions from St. Paul en route to Victoria being Mr. W..11. Grove, wife and lree. children from Sheridan, Ontario. .Nte put up at the International hotel in Pdttland. There we were well used by everybody, and got the best meals I ever eat in a hotel for only 25 cents. Here we met for the first tinie the Chin* who gave the city a bad appearance, still the streets were fine and clean, notwithstanding the moist weather. . Th urs d ay , ".12th.—We left Portland at 11 a. in. for Tacoma, Wash- ington ' Territory. After leaving Port:, land we entered in to heavr timbered. laud ,eSpecially around Winloch. AVe had quite an excitement at a village named La,k e view . ' :The in ha bitan ts had a bon fire and lets of good music, rejoicing over the - return ,of the prisoners from Portland, of wislam there werefnpwards • of 50 on the train going home to Tacoma. Those prisoners drove the Chinese out of that town, and for this they were im- - prisoned. • We got to Tacoma at 7.30 p. m., ancl.. to our wonder there were upwards of 500 people on the platform' and sebou . 100 holding torches, and it n they. term d .a processio. and mareh- ed off ale de the reAt following.- We went aboatd the. steamer George IP, Starr at 8 p. m., - and , started ' for Victoria,. . The night was fine ; we eall- ed at a few points during the night, the 6 principal 1eee being . Seattle, V. T. Friday, 13t, 1.. ---,Got . to Port Townsend, on the American shore, at '7:30. The weather is. wet and the water rough: At 9 a. me, we are in the Gulf of Georgia, with land in sight to our right, and the water pretty rough, and some of the passengers show a little giddiness. At 10:30 WO are in sight of Vancouver Island, We got ashore in Victoria:at 11:45. Here I have to stay Until morn- ing to get E). :boat going north. It is still raining, aad the city don't look very good, the streets being almost. impas- sable. , There seems to be a greet stir in the place, -day and night. Things are much 'dearer .here; Saturday, 14th.— Still wet; I saw .some fine flower gar— dens to -day in full -bloom in the open air. Board is $1 per day here also, but not so good as in Portland. Sunday is pretty well resrected, although I under- stand that this --is the first Sunday for the saloons.to be closed. About every fourth pers n I met here was a China- man. ' Mondata 16th. --I went on board the Princess Louise at 7 a. in. The land along the. shore looks very rough. • At 1 p. m. We entered the Fraser river; it is very pleasant sailing now, the river being about two miles wide. - We land: .1 ed at New Vestminster at 3 p. m., and I have to stay here overnight, as I- can't get. a steamer for Langley until the morning. "This is a small place ebout the size of 'Seaforth, but growing fast It is situated on the face of - a steep hill, sloping to the river. I pay 25 cents per meal here also, and bout is $5 per week in those towns. Tuesday, 17th..--,_ I got on be- rd the steamer Reliance at. a. m. bo iid for Langley. It is very , pleasant sai leg up the river here, as it gets a little narrower AS we g9 up. The land looks eery well along herd, being i hat is known as the . Fraser river • valley. I ot to my destination, Lang- ( ley, at 11:3 a. na, and so ended my long joureey. It cost nie $1.50 from Victoria to 1Langley, the passage in all amounting tie $72 from -Toronto. The distance fe4in St. Paul, Minnesota, to New _West inster, is -2,213 miles, and from New testminster •th Langley is about 18 n iles. Any person is safe travelling ti is route, as the officials look after everybedy, and see thet they are all right. ' MALCOLM McDoaeen. • • . , — ti‘outti(higlied. lesee, recently- visited the axis, revising officer for Indians on he Caradoc Reserve, with a view to thei - enrollment on the Domin- ion voters' lists. The .Judge interview- ed all the eligible males in the three tribes, the, eeides, the Chippewas, and the Munce is-, but very few .of them manifetted i4ny desire for the privilege - proposed be conferred upon them. There are Otout 250 males of mature years _on ,the• three reserves, and two-- thirds of th ee, under the Indian clauses of the DOIS1 'ion Franchise Act, are -ell- ttled o vote. But of the Mune numbering 123 souls, not one c to register. Of the Oneidas, n ih all nearly 800, only three re Of the Chippewa, who number abouttwenty were enrolled. eral feeling is stated to have be utter indifference, or of open di tion, to assume the new obligat fered by the revising officer. tJARY 19 1886. y tribe, ; nsented bering istered. ver 450, be gen- • one of incline-; n prof- . Canada. , Lord Lansdowne has purch sed Mr. L. R. O'Beien's painting, ntitled, " September on the Saguenay." —The Roseville cheese 'fact y near Ayasold its last two months' en ke, over 400 boxes, a few days ago, for t cents per lb. —Die Young Men's Christi n Assb- ciation soup kitchen in Lend in, last Monday distributea 218 loaves bread and 259 quarts of soup. —A by-law to gra,nt a bonus o $12-p0 to the Leamington and St. Clai railway was voted on in Leamington 1 t week, and carried by 200 to 1. —A buyer from a carriage wo d -work 'firm in_ Toledo,. has come over • Essex county looking .for spokes. It wants two hundred thousand hickory ekes. —The coroner's jury returne a ver- dict of wilful murder agains Philip Rey, accused of killing Joel S oots at Owen tSound on Monday ni ht last week. Both were colored men. —At a meeting of the credito s of the Joseph Hall Manufacturing C impany, Oshawa, the liabilities were she n to be -$79,000, while the assets amo nted to $85,511. • —The safe in the postoffice a Truro, Nova Scotia, was blown open by • urglars Monday morning, and a number of regis- tered letters and other valuable ontents stolen. ' —Rev. W. W. Smith, of Ne market, has been awarded third prize, for the Globe Competition Christmas stbry. His composition was entitled " T1 e Mouse on the Arm " and he wins $25. —Another early resident o North Dumfries, county of Waterloo 'Via Jas. Wilson, passed away to the si ent ma- jority on Sabbath, 7th inst., in he 62nd year of his age. - -The Official Board of the ethodist Church, Kincardine, have ex ended a very cordial and unanhnous i vitation to their pastor, Rev. Ames M llister, tcl remain with them a third ye r. —Mr. G. Osborne, late S retary- Treasurer of the Kingston a • Pem-• " broke railway, and recently pointed financial manager of au Indigo ompany in India, while en route to his n home, died of brain fever. - —Professor Valiance, the c ebrated elocutionist, gave a free ente tainment to a large number of school c ldren in Shaftesbury hall, Toronto, o e after- noon.last week. The Hon. G. . Rots presided. —A farmer mined Wm. Fox in, from near Belleville, attempted t commit suicide by teking strychnine, Ile stop- ping at a hotel in that town 1 t week. He had been, drinking heavily or some time. -a-Miss Tilley, 'daughter of ir Leon- ard Tilley, has been appointed •resident of the Young Woments Christi Temp- erance Uniop in Toronto. . s Tilley was formerly connected with Union. Ottawa Sheppard, sr., of t Grand Trunk Station, I3erlin, met w t a fatal accident last Friday afternoo While shunting trains his foot eaugh i a frog, and the passing train ran ov his leg, cutting it oompletely off. —Theltev. Fred. Smith, of lv rkham village, who has been in the c urts on account of an alleged illegal o e regis- tered last year, has commenc a suit for libel against Mr. G. R anzant, placing the damages at $10, —A Montreal firm recently e eived a very large consignment of an tea from Yokohama,. The ship e t con- -sisted of 7,400 packages, and equired a special train of thirty cars o bring it from New York to Montreal. —Last Saturday morning lock in the village of St. George, 7 mi e east of Paris, occupied as a store and • tel, was burned down. Joseph Arms r ng and N. Caise petished in the bur i g build- . ing, and several others sufferd more or -less injury. —It is announced that a eer n num- ber of priests and laymen fro i the dis- tricts of Quebec and Chico it mi are preparing to leave with Ab e Prover- clier's Pilgrimage party to th Holy Land, which they expect to ch dur- ing Holy Week. —Last Monday a crowd of out two hundred starving fishermen ke into and plundered the provisio • tores of the failed fishing firms at pe bia 'Bona,venture county„ Quebec. oper- sonal violence was attempted t fears of a serious riot are entertain d. —Mr. L. P. Sylvain has just added a rare book to the Partiamenta y Library at Ottawa. It is a catechism p inted in the French language, and w i sued at Quebec in 1767. It is deemed t e oldest book ever published in the a el nt capi- tal. —The caretaker of the Ho ultural Gardens, Toronto,had a ver iflicult time preserving the delicate ts dur- ing the recent severe wea aeUp- wards of 30,000 plants are in th conservatory in preparation fi he gar- den when the spring sets in. . —An improvement is repo in the Halifax fish market. Prices ve gone up fifty cents pet quintal for during the past week. The decree in the value of fish exported from ifax to the United States during the months ending with December was $4 000. —fetters paterit have been ued by the Ontario Goternment mci orating the following companies : North Middlesex Cheese Manufactu Com- pany for the manufacture al saleof cheese and butter in the to ship of Biddulph, with a capital stock of $2,500; the Brantford Electric Ligh in • Com- pany, for the purpose of supp i g elec- tricity for the purposes of lig t eat or 1 1 1 a t: a ti 1 0 • I 1 a power, with a capital stock of $30,000, the operations of the company to be ear- ried on, lin the city I of Brant- ford. Supplementary letters patent stock of the Essex Centre Manufactur- ing Company (limited) from $50,000 to $100,000. i —A bat of gold wise lately broug t to Halifax from the Salmon . River M nes, which weighed 1,297 ounces and was worth $23,000. This is the ounces, bar of native gold ever brought to that ity, as the reeult of one month's crushi g at a singles mine. —Geo. Goodger, of the llth him , East Zorra, was the victim of a frigl dui accident a few days ago. He was riv- ing a horse power, when he got ca - -ght in the gearing, literally smashing •art of his left leg. The leg was a ter - wards aniputated between, the knee and ankle. . I —The Ontario Government has o red a reward of $1,000 for such inform tion as will lead to the arrest and convi tion of the murderer or murderers of Nary Bates, who, with her husband, . was ' found in a burning house near A 1n - burg, Welland county, on the 23r of January last. . , i , —Mr. George C. Ward, of Ge rge- town, sustained injuries from whic . he died on Saturday, 5th inst., by fa ling from an elevator in a carriage fae ory. In addition to other injuries his qkull was broken.. He was 61 years old and leaves a wife and two grown up da gh- ters. He was buried in Berlin, wlhere he -formerly lived. . [ —About a week ago • Adam Dar ing, of Aspden, Muskoka, was struck 'to the head by a falling tree, and received eery serious injuries. He was taken t the General •Hospital in Toronto. 0 his way to that city -he created a tremend- ous sensation by - his delirious ra.e ngs, and broke from the apartment tO wjhich he was confined. He is now, how ver, doing as well as can be expected. —Annie Keeich, of Newmarkep, a little girl; Who had her leg broken last win- ter while ihanging on sleighs througli the streets, was sleighriding down a bid hill kdown her throat by coming 'in ,ie the other clay and bad a couple of eth knocked sudden contact with another sl igh. Annie's fate seems against ° her fo the sleigh riding amusement.. , ! —The Bell Telephone company has made e reduction of 25 cents for all messages between points 75 and. 225 miles aparafreeansivers being done a1 vay with. This will leave the rate for tisrcn. ty word messages as follows, viz.: 1.7p to _15 miles, hfteen cents; 15 to l 50 miles, twenty-five cents; 150 to 295 miles, fifty cents. —The trouble in Glencoe about the Salvation Army is now about ended, owing to the friendly interposition of Dr. McIntyre on the part of the &tiny, and Arch. Riddle on behalf of their 'dis- contented opponents. Mr. Riddle, t is said, will be appointed a magistrate n a few days, and is determined to l4eep order in the village. - . --Owing to the many, breaches of the liquor license law in Glencoe, Mr. P rks and Mr. Jas. McIntyre have been ap- pointed inspectors, the former for the south and the latter for the north hie of the railway. They intend to make it hot for those who set the law atdefi- ance. MT. Parks is a Salvation A my cadet, and both are strictly temper man. , —The Woodstock Standard says : Salvation Army had lit glorious time last Friday evening. The brass b from London was here, and proved it ce lie ere nd elf worthy of all that had been said about it beforehand. A number of officers f om a distance were present and addres ed the meeting in stirring tones which awakened much enthusiasm. In s ort they had a grand time. —The shipping of produce at Eseex Centre (hiring the past year was very considerable, as the following will show: During 1885 there were 'shipped from that place $197,000 worth of rnerchen- dise, as follows: 70 car loads hogs, -880,400; 70,000 bushels wheat, $37,500 30,000 bushels oats, $7,000; 20.000 bushels born, 88,000; 10,900 bushels clover seed,$60,000 ; 5,000 bushels beans, $4,000. —The other night in Toronto Mr. Blizzard received a fearful shock wl ile repairing electric lamps at one of the lighting stations. While testing the lamps to ascertain if they were in proper order he accidentally caught hold of the wrong wire, and befere he could releire his hand, the electric current had com- pletely burned the flesh of his thumb and forefinger to the bone. —Alf. Cliff, formerly a local pitze fighter of London, now a residenti of Port Huron, while on a visit to his family in London got drunk last Sunday and thrashed his fath r, beat his sisters, biting one of them in the arm, and turned the wh le family out of doors. He also attacked one of his brothers, who promp ly knocked him down with- an axe. C iff then made himself scarce. —Mr.- Robert James, sr., father of Rev. Dr. ,James, Paris, died on the 27th January, at Pollokshields, Glasgo v, Scotland,1 in the 87th year of his age. He leavee behind him five sons, the second of whom is the Rev. Dr. James, Paris, Qntario, and the youngest is the Rev. G. F. James, Bristo church, Edin- burgh, Scotland. The 'other three are Glasgow business men, and were with the aged patriarch- when he peacefully entered into rest. - —The Tilsonburg- Observer says: A son of Mt. and Mrs. Bates, who -were mu rd ered h ear Allanburg some weeks a who lives at Port Rowan, had a mcst extraordihary dream on the night of tie murder. After falling asleep he dreamt in a most vivid way that a robbery mid murder Was taking place in his mother's house;'that he heard la noise in the hencoop outside the house, to which he went, and when he carne back he found three burned bodies en the dining -room floor. He felt his mother had been killed, and in revenge he lifted One of the bodies to a table, and, taking e large butcher -knife, at - temp -ed to cut off its bead, when it vanis ed, and he awoke horrified and terri ly nervous. :He told hie strange drea, to his wife at breakfast, and also thet e felt certain some awful calamity had appened to his mother at Allan - burg A little later a telegram was brou ht to him, which gave him intelli gene of the Allauburg affair. —The heaviest team of truck horses in Londonis owned by Hendrie & Co. ; they,' weigh 2,700 pounds. They have .been known to draw ten tons (20,000 pounds). The materiel was sugar. This was accomplished by the said team at Hamilton, when they drew 30 barrels of sugai1 from the freight shed there to Luats, Park & Cos. warehouse. It. is quite common for a -Hendrie teaw or Gran1 Trunk team to draw 23 barrels of suga -----17,500 pounds. —4n interesting case was tried at the Chippewa Reserve on Ithe Thames river a- few days ago. Willard Willey, a worthless white man, took up his resi- dence on the reserve with a squaw, as a companion. He was ordered by Indian agent Gordon to leave but declined to do so, and the result was his arraignment befoic a magistrate for a breach of the Indian Act. Mr. Littlejohn, of St. Thomas, prosecuted mid Willard was fined $50, in default to be committed to tail for two months. - —In Toronto, the other day, Michael O'Connor, who hit his father Timothy on the head with a piece of wood, was a . prisoner at the police court. Michael said that he hit his father because he was smashing the furniture, while his father declared that Michael slept -until three -o'clock in the afternoon, and that he be- came enraged because he was compelled to get up. They both live on the earn- ings of -Mrs. O'Connor, and to lighten his mother's burden the magistrate sent Michael to gaol for 60 days. —Mr. C. T. Studd, who was a short time ago captain of the Cambridge Uni- versity eleven, and has now gone out as a missimiary to China, has invested. his whole fdrtune amounting to £100,000 sterling, for the benefit IA the China In- land Mission. Mr. G. B. Studd, a brother a the above, and who is himself also well known in the cricket world, is to be in Toronto early next month in conneetion with the opening of the new rooms ofithe Toronto University Young Men's Christian Association. —At London last Friday, a footless cripple named Jones, between 55 and 60 years old, was found on the street help- less azdispeechless from the effects of drink. He was taken on a dray to the police station, and dumped int a cell, where in a short time he died. Jones lost both feet about two years ago as a result of getting them frozen while on a protracted spree. The Coroner's inquest showed that death resulted from inflam- mation of the lungs, caused by debauch- ery and exposure. -jAn old colored woman named Sarah died On Monday • in the township of Louth, in the county of Lincoln, at the advanced age of 120 years 11 months and 8 days. There can be no doubt of the reliability of this statement, as the records of -Virginia, where she spent her early days in slavery, have been exam-in- edand testify to its correctness. Her mental faculties were unimpaired up to the mement of her death, and it may be of interest to know she was in possession of a eecond sight, had a third set of natur41 teeth, and her hair was quite dark. having changed from white. —Mr. Alex. Gibson, of Marysville, New Brunswick, will make a special exhibit.of the produce of his settlement, at the Colonial Exhibition in May, con- sisting of lumber, timber, cotton, cotton batting, bricks, etc. The educational exhibit from New Brunswick will also be a large one. A 'trophy of wood is being prepared by the Government. It will occupy ten square feet and represent all the woods and shrubs of the province. The shipbuilding interest will be repre- sented by models of vessels and several patents applicable to the same. There will be a large fish and vegetable exhibit. --t-A scheme is under consideration for the establishment ef School Savings Banks. Mr. Sicotte, clerk of the. Crown, intends asking the authorization of the Minister of Finance to make an application for a charter, and immedi- ately after receiving a reply he will or- ganize a company which will include leading citizens -of all nationalities. The object is to have .the whole Dominion intereited in the matter, and the Super- intendent of Public Instruction in each Province will be communicated with. Whew the scheme is organized the funds will be invested in Government debentures or the debentures ot leading corporatione. 1 -e-There is considerable excitement at Winnipeg by the report that the new Legislative Chamber is in a state of col- lapse, the roof and ceiling being in a dangerous condition. A large gang of men with heavy timbers and jackscrews are endeavoring to make the building safe for oecupetion during the coming session, but the result of their labors is at Present doubtful. It is generally be- lieeed that the Local Government is- to blame for this state of affairs, having interfered with the architect's original plans, causing the weakness of the struc- ture. --t-The Monetary Times says :— Housewives, curlers, crossing-sweep- ersand any others who make free use of brooms, are interested in knowing that there has of late been a rapid and - continued advance in the price of broom corn and therefore a rise in the price of brooms. Since the beginning of De- cember last there have been already two advances in brooms, and from the pres- ent outlook prices will shortly go still higher, and. will probably reach the highest figures that have been attained since 1868. In Chicago and the west there is excitement in the trade because of the peculiar conditions: Last sea- son's crop was much below the average, not enough being raised to supply the trade until the next ..erop is marketed, McLEAN BROS., Pabliihere. $1.50 a Year, AI Advance. • and, Chicago ! dealers- and a few large manufacturera have bought up almost the entire crop. In Schenectady, New York, a great broom-prodncing district, prices of brooms have already advanced over 50 per cent. and manufacturers are refusing to accept large orders at pres- ent prices. From enquiries we have made, Canadian manufacturers gener- ally are, like other:people short of stock. Materfamilias will have to be careful of her brooms which are more likely now to cost her a half dollar than a quarter. —A very serious accident -occurred a few days ago at Messrs. Shurly & Diet- rich's saw works in Galt. The victim was a young than named Wm. Clawseih Be was engaged in the tempering room, and was in the act of turning a large circular paw in the furnace, when the hook slipped and he fell sideways into a vat of boiling eil near by. His left arm and left side were very badly scalded, the oil being used for dipping the red- hot saws into. The pain must have been most intenee, but the young man bore it heroically. His relatives reside in Paris whither he was removed, and at latest accounts he was progressing very favor- ablY. —The death of Miss Harriet Goldie, at St Luke's hospital, New York, is re- ported. Miss Goldie was appointed matron of the Toronto general hospital in 1876. She ,filled that position with ability for several years, when she was obliged to resign on account of ill -health. Miss Goldie subsequently occupied the position of matron of the Brantford hos- pital for one year. She then returned to Toronto, and after remaining there for some time went to New York, where she was engaged in missionary work'un- der Rev. W. S. Rainsford. Becoming sick eomeetime ago, she was sent to the hospital, where she died. —A petition signed by a large number of the business men and other citizens of Toronto was presented to the city coun- cil the other night, .f.sking the appoint- ment of an officer whose duty it should • be to see that the law with regard to cruelty to animals is carried out. In many cases, the petition said horses are made to convey heavy loads without sufficient food or proper care, and un- mercifully beaten by teainsterS ; others are shorn- of their natural protection against cold and driven until covered with perspiration, and then allowed _to stand for hours on the streets opposite hotels and other places without covering, and livery horses in many cases suffer the same fate. —John. Stone of Beameville, who some weeks ago ;hot ttis niece and then himself, escaped from Beamsville Satur- day night in. company With his wife. Stone was placed under arrest immedi- ately after - the shooting, but was con- sidered too ill to be taken to jail. For the first few days of his con- finement constables were with him con- stantly, but latterly the watch has not been so vigilant It ie probable Stone will be recaptured. He is very weak, 'being. unable to walk alone ; his right erns is off at the shoulder, and the self- inflicted bullet wound about an inch above the -left ear is not yet entirely healed. e can, therefore, be easily identified. —The following rather curieue adver- tisement has had a course of insertions - in the Pict= Times A Paying Invest- ment ---He that bath pity on the poor lendeth unto the Lord, and that which he bath given will he pay him again Prey. 10: 17. He that hath a bountiful • eye, shall be blessed ferihe giveth of his bread to the poor. Blessed is he that considereth the poor, the Lord will de- liver him in time of trouble. The Lord will preserve him and keep him alive, and he shall be blessed upon the earth, and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies._ The Lord will strengthen him upon the bed ot lan- guishing. Thou wilt make all his bed in si kness. Ps. 41 : 1-3. See Beat. 15: 7 11. — he annual meeting of the Went- wort1 Fish and Game Association Was held 4t Hamilton a few days ago. A - vigorous work is being carried on by. this soociation to proteet fish and game in -that locality. A resolution - was p ssed instructing the secretary to influe ce the member of the Local Leg- islatu e to ute his efforts to have the law ainended so as to entirely prevent the sl ooting of quail in any part of On- tario or at least two years. This action is con idered necessary owing to the ee- veeit of the past two winters, 'which have ad the effect of killing nearly all the q all in the country. The Associa- tion c empiain bitterly of the laxity of the 0 tawa Government in co-operating with .he ,Association to enforce the laws in rete rd to the protection of game. —TI e Clinton New Era says: By the nual missionary report of the Meth, dist church for last year, we learn that tie amount contributed to missions in thi district was as follows : Gode- rich, 394 ; Rattenbury street, Clinton, $397 Ontario street, ClinUan, (includ- ing rner's and Alma,) $16'1 ; Seaforth, $169 ; $145; Ebenezer, $63, haron, $10; Zion, $12; Bayfield,. $22, ole's,' $29, Bethel, $29, Varna, $34, Goshen, $.37, Brucefield, $33,; Lond sboro, $107; Kinburn, $65 ; Aubn in circuit, $68, Wingham $116 ; Myth $96; Brussels, $98. In the whole Guelp Conference there are only 26 who c ntributed $25 or over to missions, and a fang the number are the follow- ing: Rev. James Gray, Clinton., $23; T ylor and wife, Clinton, 830; Rev. J. K mier and family, Clinton, $25, Wm.' M. Gray and family, Seaforth, $45; James "Leithwaite and wife, Holm sville, $25;- E. Husband, herd- wich, $40; E. S. Rupert and family, $30. he county of -Huron evidently stand well by the mission cause,. judg- ing by the above figures, and what is more, there is no town within the con- ferene that contributes as liberally as the wn of Clinton, Stratford being over $200 behind it, and Guelph over one hundred less. So much for the liberality of the Clinton Methodists. •t,