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ttonades,
tton Yarns,
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es a Choice
al opened ttp.
, Skirting Enibroide
ereideries, Laces and
' and Ghavese Dipole
'tick Mantle Geode,
Goods
haily Invite&
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GOODS AND Zile
HOUSE,
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between iots 5 and
R. S.; grading, be.
36, concession 2, B.
all jobs the e0Tateil
LVei.- on jobs let by
will employ a man
the gravel, and the
y one-half of his
t by the rod; the
n 7 feet wide and 7
:enders will be for
s tendering will be
airity for the coin-
s by the 1st of sep.„
will be made on the
sr. The -councillor,-
in their respective
Lodi then adjourned
..erle's hotel, on Fri-
ey„ at the hour of 10'
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vale.
:e aenumber of schbot
aative to the soil of
y, paid their friends
during the Easter
he number, we may
;her, Mr. A. H. Mos-
irch, and his wife;
a, of Bervie, county
m. Stewart, evha
th. of Howick, and
popular teacher of
inship of Hullett-
teacher, Mr, James
nied by -his wife and
to friends in Morta-
r) of Grey.
:no. -At the last
if Bluevale Lodge,
Foreeters, held on
a following officers
r the ensuing six
C. R.; 'Win.
R.; Rev. A. Y.
.Tohn Burgess,R. Sr;
L; Geo. Atcheson,
lesser, S. W.; Alex.
rearness, S._ B., and
, J. B.
-A contingen.t of
Lh Band is making e
and opened. fire on
Sunday night the
chorch was filled
ood many object to
these out -side re-
s far as these have
n nothing done or
v. The two young
services .on Sun
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to- be in real
thee.- were. If, as
•ceeeed in inclu
e error d their e
rve cemmendation
of opposition and
lerity of work for
r organized bodies
not have struck a
Id find ihore work
council of TUrn-
th instand made
election of a new
ncy caused by the
les Hennings, Esq.
take place on the
rumored that our
itei Black will be
d. and if he will give
kely be elected by
people could not
representative.
as Farrow,. M.
is Easter holiday5.
ngest son of Mr.
cone to Kansas to
Mr: George Yerie,
n Timmins' store,
owiek where he has
ks.-Wrin Smith,
ily engaged paint
-
& Perde, carriage
ace. -Mr. Charles
has purchased the
cheese factory for
8.200. -Mr. Robert
ladstone " as Pit!
last Monday ants
earn t, 27310 ibge
erne he would go
a
?ea,
S7 aged S and 1I
itchell a. few daya
California, having
distance alone, ex.
iendssthey met on+
- the infinerice of a-
te,. which the eldest
each conductor sit
long route. They
this way by their
Master Mason-, tst
bele in Mitchell.
WHOLE NUMBER 960.
EIGHTEENTH YEAR.
441 :
SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, MAY 7, 1886..
MoISBAN BROS. Publishers.
$1.50 a Year, in Advance.
The New System
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Selling All Classes of
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Boats cf Shoos, Hats
and Gaps
Olbse on.Cost
FOR CASH,
Has been adopted by
GEO. GOO
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With Great Success.
Our Boot and IShoe
Stock never was so complete before, and under
the new system prices are lower than ever.
Butter and Eggs taken in exchange for Boots
and Shoes.
93
Star Grocery.
'GreatBaigainsin
Teas, Sugars, Coffees
and Fruits.
Also all Kinds of Groceries
We have reduced our 25e Green Tea to 20c, a
reduction of 20 per cent.
Our 35c Green Tea to 280, a reduction of 20
per cent.
Our 50c Green Tea to 42e, a of
per cent.
Our 60c Green Tea to 60c, a
per cent.
Our 30e Mixed Tea to
per cent.
()ur 40c Mixed Tea to 35c, a
per cent.
Our 60e Mixed Tea to 42c, a
per cent.
Our 30c Japan Tea
per cent.
Our 400 Japan Tea.
per cent.
Our 50c Japan Tea
per cent.
Our 30c Black Tea
per cent.
Cur 50e Black Tea
per cent.
Our60c Black Tea
per cent.
25c, a
to 25e, a
to 32e, a
to 42c, a
to 2501 a
to 42c, a
to 50c, a
reditction
red iiction
reduction
reduction
reduction
reduction
reduction
reduction
reduction
reduction
recluction
SAMPLES FREE.
of
of
of
of
of
of
16
17
18
16
16
is
20
of 16
of 18
of 16
of 17
GEO. GOOD.
ita-r Herby Climax Cattle Food now in stock.
From the American Capital.
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WASHINGTON, April 30th, 1886.
THE TRIBULATIONS OF CONGRESSMEN.
Members of Congress are always com-
plaining about the nuniber of tasks put
upon them by their constituents, but
really the funniest imposition upon them
is acting as guides .here in the city.
When a menaber's constituents arrive in
town the first undertaking is to find out
where the gentleman lives. Then they
either present themselares at the latter's
boarding house or send in a card to him
at the Capitol, with the most placid
confidence that from that time on during
their stay in town they have only to ask
whatever they may be lacking, at the
hands of their membet. The corridors,
and waiting -rooms at ,the Capitol, are
always filled with visiting parties, and
the regular routine of their enthusiastic
reception by their Congressman is very
funny. The card , goes in. In a few
moments the _member comes out in a
profusion of similes, and inquiringly
looks around for the visitors. After a
moments hesitation thy recognize him,
and one introduces himself. Then he
introduces ell the rest The Congress-
man smiles and shakes, hands profound-
ly. - He struggles frantically to discover
that he knows some one that they know,
and if by chance such a link is hit upon,
an avalanche of inquiry and questioning
follows. Once in a while a member will
stop here, but the majority of them do
not dare to do so. They immediately
improvise themselves into guides, take
'their guests up into the members' gal-
lery, point out other distinguished mem-
bers on the floor, try to make it clear to
the ladies how the business of the House
is conducted, then down they go inte
the cellar, and rehearse and point out
bow the ventilating and heating appar-
atus work. Then amid the complaisant
comfert of their guesta, they move on to
the Senate, and, finding places in that
gallery, again -point out and explain.
Thence to the Congressional Library,
and, if he can afford it, the member
wind up with a lunch, which is always
the crowning honor with which to wind
up such a journey. The old Hall of
Representatives is a perfect whispering
gallery. From certain spots on the .tile
floor there are most marvelous echoes.
You stand on one tile, another person
on another, and apparently from subter-
ranean recesses or from the apex of the
domed roof come wonderful echoes.
Noise the particular snots whence these
effects are produced are very hard for
the uninitiated to find. The regular
guides know them, but very few others.
So it is worth an hour's time to stand
nig, which is carried on on a _very ex
around and watch the frantic efforts of
tensive scale. Consequently, there is
The trouble is that the idea that a
Representative is simply and solely an
agent for his district has driven all the
national idea out of legislation in the
Lower House. The only question which
the average member asks,- himself is,
"How Will this affect my district, and
my own reelection?" This produces no
end of little, mean'paltry ideas of pub-
lic service, and about the only thing
now -a -days that the House seems to take
any interest in is bills to get money out
of the Treasury,lo be spent in public
works or some other kind of a gift en-
terprise. The member who gets a post -
office build'ng or cyclone or flood loan
is . the successful one, and the Hoose
will fight all the afternoon over some
petty triviality of this sort, and refuse
persistently to take up the important
legislation which the country really
needs. But where it can put off it -puts
off, and where it can dodge it dodges,
so that, by common consent,some im-
portant bills are smuggled in commit-
tees, and others are refused considera-
tion. The Senate is better in this re-
spectebut the time it has wasted this
winter on indifferent matters is appal-
ling. But there is little need to deliver
a homily on this subject. It is fair to
presume that if the people wanted
business done they would send men here
tO do it.
A Voice from Wisconsin.
I CUMBERLAND, April 20 , 1886.
DEAR EXPOSITOR, --We receive our
welcome weekly visitor regularly, and
it brings us its usual quota of interesting
news from the dear old home, as well as
occasional interesting letters from other
parts, but I think I have not noticed
anything from this part of the great
vineyard. I hope, - therefore, a few
words from an old Huronite who has
cast his lot in this land of pine and
plenty will not come amiss to your
readers. There are hundreds of people
coming' in here every year, taking up
lands, and settling down to make for
themselves comfortable homesteads, and
that by the exercise of industry and
economy they will soon succeed there is
no doubt: Some of these new comers are
from Manitoba, Dakota, Minnesota and
other prairie countries. They say they
prefer timber lands to the prairies, as
they can keep themselves warm in the
winter, and the advantagee of having
abundance of cheap timber for building,
fencing and fuel, in their estimation, far
out -weigh the other advantages pree
sented -by the cleared .prairie, where
these conveniences cannot be had. The
principal industry here as yet is lumber -
the members of Congress amiably trying
to locate their visitors in a way to enjoy
the effects. You can see there every
day the most profound statesman wildly
hunting around on the floor to locate the
particular tile which they wish t� find,
fuming and perspiring at their lack of
success, while the intended beneficiaries,
generally begin to think that, after all,
their statesman is not:so able a man as
they had supposed.. I don't believe that
there is another room in the United
States where so many Congressional rep-
utations have grown less. Indeed, these
echoes are a terror of the average Gen-
gressmaneand not a few Of them nowa-
dayS always engage a guide to do the
honoes for them while -escorting people
from home through the Capitol. But
enough of them do not t� render that
old hall, with its groops of heroic statu-
ary,'a continual scene of joy to the Man
who has no responsibilities and has time
enough to watch for a while the laugh-
able, struggles to find the echo.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND'S MARRIAGE.
Mr. Cleveland is terribly annoyed at
. the way the newspapers have been gos-
siping the past week over the story that
NEW GrOODS! hearif3
d p
to minaBrruyffrea
Lies s 'Foulstoeimis, his
ferric:12g
that if he wishes to get married he
doean't see why the newspapers cannot
let him go off in peace and do so. Well,
perhaps they ought to, to' but of course
, they wont, and, from, what I hear, the
talk has enough foundation to render it
Cheap Cash Store, probiable that the predictions will be
justfied. Miss Folsom was here last
autumn, with her mother, at the White on the hard -wood lands but very few
• Honse and the people who met her wish to settle on the pine lands, although
-AT THE -
always plenty of work for the new be-
gioner. And, although many have ne-
glected their farms for lumbering, a
great many have been enabled to get
their farms cleared by the money they
make in the lumbering shanties. I
see by a letter from Algoma it is stated
that there are twelve millions of feet of
lumber on the Missagua river to be
floated deem this Spring. Why, one of
our home mills has already on hand, as
the result of the winter's labor, over
thirty million feet which she has already
started to cut, and there are many more
mills that have as much to cut this
coming season. On one stream here it
is said there is now over one hundred
and eighty million feet of pine ready for
the drivers to float down to the mills.
Since I came here, three years ago,
very large number of settlers have come
in. A good many are from the counties
of Huron, Perth and Bruce. A young
than from Mitchell came out here this
spring and bought a large farm and is
putting up a frame house, and his father _
and mother and the rest of the family
are coming soon. A great many lum-
bering shanties are running here in the
winter and they average from seventy-
five to one hundred men each. A four -
horse team receives from $90 to $100 per
month and found, and men got from $18
to $20 per month this last season, but
they think this very low wages. When
I came here three years ago men got
from $28 to $35 per month..
The county of Barron, in which Com-
berland is situated, is prettyfwell settled
most any time remunerative employ-
ment to keep them going and assist
them until they have clearance enough
on their farms to make them indepen-
dent of outside aid. Yours Respectfully,
J. W. FOSTER,
Formerly. of Varna.
Canada.
Great destitution prevails among the
poor in the lately inundated districts of
Montreal.
-Winnipeg is erecting a monument in
memory of her volunteers who fell last
spring, which will cost $5,000.
-Some sheep belonging to Mr. Mc-
Vittie, of Saugeen, drank maple sugar
syrup and died.
-The 100 acre farm of D. Logan,
near Comber, Essex county, was sold by
mortgage sale the other day for $3,470.
-The brick and tile yards _at Platts-
vine are making preparations to .turn
out a very large quantity of both arti-
cles this season.
-At a recent service in Chalmer's
Church, Woodstock, no fewer that 25
heads of families of the name of McKay
were present.
-Dr. Tache, the Canadian Deputy
Minister of Agriculture, is seriously ill,
and his brother,' Archbishop Tache, has
been summoned to his bedside.
- Mr. Jas. Heffernan, of Nichol, near
Fergus, during a recent thunder storm
had six sheep killed by lightning. They
were lying under a tree at the time.
-Mr. Albert Roberts, of Tbnnessee,
has been appointed United States Con-
sul for the port of Hamilton in the stead
of Rev. Thos. R. Welch, deceased.
- Rev. 3. Edgar, M. D., a devoted
and successful pioneer -Methodist minis-
ter, died in his 64th year, at his resi-
dence in Hamilton on the 29th ult.
-John Lawrence, of Sarnia, got his
leg caught in the machinery of a hay
press and sustained such a terrible frac-
ture that amputation was necessary.
-The cable which was laid across De-
troit river, near Amherstburg, for the
use of the Canada Southern Railway
Company, has been taken up and re-laid
at Windsor.
-Geo. Keeler, hotel -keeper, of Drum -
bo, has absconded, leaving sundry people
to mourn his absence. His effects have
been seized, and will be sold by the
'bailiff on the 3rd of May.
s -An order for 1,500 pairs of driving
mitts for the Northwest Mounted Police
has been placed with W. H. Storey &
Son, of Acton, by the Dominion Govern-
ment.
-Mrs. McKinnon, of New Canada,
Nova Scotia, is 105 years old and yet
sprightly and strong enough to walk to
her son's, nearly two miles distant from
her own home.
-The wife of. Mr. John Watson, of
the Ayr Agricultural Works, is at pres-
ent ie New ,York attending an optical
specialist, for the removal of cataract
from her eyes.
- Rev. P. McF. McLeod, of the Cen-
tral Presbyterian church, Toronto,
passed a warm eulogy on the Salvation
Army last Sunday, and said it was doing
a good work.
-- -A four year old son of Mr. John
Scott, of .Barrie, fell from a second story
window. The little fellow's clothes
took an umbrella shape in his descent,
and he escaped unhurt.
.-Among other exhibits which have
gone from Canada to the Colonial Exhi-
bition, in London, is a large block of
coal weighing several tons, from British
Columbia. •
- The death is announced of Mrs. Jas.
Fleming, of Brampton, wife of the M. P.
for Peel, and sister of Mr. Robt. Mont-
gomery, merchant, of Paris. She had
been an invalid for a long time.
-At the. annual dinner of McGill
University, Montreal, on Friday night,
Sir Wm. Dawson said Montreal's citi-
zens had given to the University during
the last five years an amount aggregat-
ing $336,000.
--The wife of Rev. II. DI Hunter, con-
gregationalist, of Loudon, will leave
shortly for England with the intention
of remaining there for some time if the
climate proves of benefit to her health.
--A cow belonging to James Lee,
dairyman, Brantford township, the
other day gave birth to a calf weighing
185 pounds. The baby bovine is living,
stands three and a half feet high, and
all concerned are doing well.
-The Young Men's Reform Club of
Montreal are making preparations for
the general congress of young Liberals
which is to be held there in July. It is
_expected that over a thousand delegates
will be present.
-G. T. Strickland, of Galt, the well-
known auctioneer, died on Saturday,
24th ult., from the effected an abscess
which had formed upon his head, and
from which he has been a sufferer for
some weeks.
-The criminal and civil dockets of
the Elgin Slating Assizes are the hea,v-
iest for years, including murder, man-
slaughter, horse stealing, forgery, as-
sault, threatening to kill, breach of
promise,and several cases of seduction.
-During the week ending on Satur-
day last 18,000,000 feet of lumber were •
loaded from the piling grounds below
the Chaudiere falls at Ottawa into 76
barges, one thousand men being employ-
ed in the work.
-A calisthenic and musical entertain-
mentwas given in Galt the other even-
ing by a class of 80 young lady pupils,.
under the direction of Captain Clarke.
It is said to have been a most brilliant
and interesting scene.
-e-The special services in connection
with the opening of the Salvation Army
Temple in Toronto were brought to a
close on Friday night. The Saturday
night meeting was as enthusiastic as
ever. On Sunday meetings were held
all day. In the evening the building
was packed with people. Many were
turned from the doors. An intense
earnestness appeared to possess all
resent. The stirring music and the
SMA_FORTI-1..
Just opened out New Dress Goods,
New Ginghams, New Prints. New Shirt -
lugs, New Cottons, New 'Tweeds, New
Embroideries, New Laces, New Corsets,
New Gloves, New Hose.
We have a large stock of Men's,
Youths', Boys' and Childreni's
Soft and Stiff Felt Hats
To dear at less than half wholesale cost.
Cali and take a look through them.
Also, Boy's Cloth Suits away below
wholesale prices at the
Cheap Cash
-OF-
Store
Hoffman & Company,
Cardno's Block,0 Seaforth.
then are of one accOrd in saying that
she is a very charming, sensible and at-
tractive young woman. She is a quar-
ter ;of a century younger than Mr.
Cleveland, but she is mature for her age,
and the President, in spite of .his high
station, is rather a boyish sort of a man
after all, and as full of spirits and en-
joyment in life as most men a dozen
years his junior. There is nothing that
I can see improper about the marriage,
and if the people; through the:. news -
.papers, take a kindly interest in it, why,
it is an extremely natural thing for them
to do. If the wedding does occur, Mr.
'Cleveland will probably, as did John
Tyler, under similar circumstances, go
over to New York and be married. It
will give us a little less formal air at the
White House than has existed under
Miss Cleveland's reign, and when you
have said that, the whole story, asi far
as the public is concerned, is told. But
we all take an interest in the President,
because he is the President, and he ought
not to expect thatany of his actions will
escape comment.
LITTLE BUSINESS DOING.
Politics in Congress are terribly dull.
Outside of the mere promise of what
each House intends to do, and the pass-
age of commonplace bills, there is noth-
ing going on. Nobody takes the initia-
tive, everybody complain, and things
drift. - The Democrats are trying to
patch up some kind of a compromise on
the tariff, and the Republicans are op-
posed, -waiting to see what their op-
ponents will do, and as their opponents
really have no head and no policy, the
outlook is sufficiently barren. This ses-
• sion of Congress is going to turn out
just like all the immediately preceding
ones, and when it adjourns it will be
famous more for what it has not done
than for anything it has accomplished.
•
this is just as good land as man need
wish but it is harder to clear. The
pine timber is being taken out of this
patt of the country very fast, but
it will take years yet before the limits
are -all cut out. The settlers seem to be
very well satisfied with the progress
they are making, and a great many of
them are getting to have large clearings.
We cannot raise enouglr yet to supply
the home demands, for the lumber
shanties require a great deal ofproduce
of evern kind to keep them going. The
county of Barron looks now very much
the county of Huron did twenty-five
or thirty years ago as regards clearing
and roads, only it is not so thickly set-
tled. One of the great draw -backs of
this country is the large amount of land
held by speculators.
lAs regards the quality of the land,
there is as good land here as in the
county of Huron, only perhaps not as
much of it to the mile. It is a rich clay
loam where the hard wood and scatter-
ing pine is, but where the solid pine is
the land is light and sandy. The prin-
cipal timber on the hardwood lands is
maple, birch, oak and basswood, and
there is no cedar, beech or hemlock.
We are pretty well . supplied with rail-
roads in Barron county, as there are
three roads crossing' it. The land yields
a bountiful crop or hay, and fall wheat
and oats are a sure and good crop. The
climate also is favorable. The snow in
the spring is usually melted by the sun
and very rarely by rains, so that we do
not have any floods. It is, on the
whole, a favorable country for the new
beginner, and for young strong, men who
are able and willing to work and wish
to make for themselves a home, I do not
think they could get a more favorable p
place. They can get plenty ofgood fervid appeals to "Come up and be bricle and her friends and the clergy -
land cheap, and they can secure at al- saved," brought 15 uncenverted ones to man were on hand at the appointed
the platform. Most of thes1 appeared
to be very respectable peop e. Four,
however, were very much in need of
left To-
bec, with
that port
e will be
oderham,
reformation. Marshal Booth
ronto on Wednesday for Qu
the intention of sailing from
for England on Saturday. 1
accoinpanied by Mr. Wm. G
of Toronto. -
-During the thunder storm on Good
Friday lightning struck the dwelling -
house of Mr. John Taylor, 5th conces-
sion, Elderslie, Bruce county, shattering
the chimney, tearing a hole in the floor,
whence it descended to the ce lar.
-About 4,000 barrels -of ilour were
under water in Montreal, but only a
small part of it was injured, because a
thin coating of paste formed around the
outside of the packages and the great
bulk of the flour remained sweet and dry
within. ,
-The death is announced of Mr. R.
H. McRea, of Ottawa, who twelve
years ago, while engaged in the erection
of the parliamentary buildings library,
received serious injuries. He has been
a lingering invalid for the last twelve
time, but the expectant bridegroom
failed to put in an appearance and the
wedding had to be postponed indefinite-
ly. It was ascertained that the gay
Lothario had left suddenly on one of t e
morning trains, having taken the rue
the last moment:
• -Seventy-eight students. graduat
from Queen's University, Kingston, t
year, 20 more than the highest number -The Peterborough Times of April
in any former year. The revenue a so 30 says: "Ibis is a great harvest for
n- the liquor dealers. They are dealing it
00 out on all sides, barrels, kegs, bottles,
flasks and 'growlers'innumerable have
of been filled during the last few weeks,
te and. the orders to -day will keep them
te- busy until far into the night. A well-
known dealer informed us yesterday
that he had sold more liquor within the
last thirty days than he had ever sold.
previously in a whole year. The town
is full of it and it must be drunk."
-The first arrival from sea, the
Dominion Line steamship Dominion)" --
which left Bristol April 17, reached
Montreal between 4 and 5 Friday even-
ing. The following is the recetrcl of the
first arrivals of vessels from sea for the
past ten years: 1874, May 11; 1875,
April 29; 1876, May 8; 1877, April 29;
1878, April 20; 1879, May 1; 1880,
May 2: 1881, April 29; 1882, May 6;
'
1883, May 5 1884, May 2; 1885, May
8; 1886,April30.
-The Woodstock Review of last week
says: Besides the usual congregation
there was a large number of friends and
acquaintances in Chalmers church last
Sabbath morning to hear the Rev. A. C.
McKenzie. Mr. McKenzie is a young
minister of much promise. We under-
stand he is soon to be inducted over a
large congregatien at Oswego, New
York. His many friends here will' fol-
low him with their best wishes for his
future comfort and usefulness. His ser-
vices on Sabbath were of special interest
as they carried not a few back to the
able and earnest ministrations of his now
sainted father, Who was for 38 years pas-
tor of the' Embro congregation and -inti-
mately associated with the history of
West Zorra.
--On Good Fridny evening the team
of Messrs. Milburn was returning from
Plattsville with the football players dur-
ing the storm, -and in the extreme dark-
ness, when the driver'during a flash of
lightning, observed abuggy :ahead, and
expected that the buggy would still
keep in advance. Unfortunately from
some cause the occupants made slow
progress, and the team from Plattsville
when going down a hill came into col-
lision with the buggy, which was occu-
pied by two young ladies, who made
their position known by sounds beyond
the thunder claps. A rush out was
made by the boys, and to their awful
surprise they discovered in the buggy
a couple of young ladies nearly frighten-
ed to death. Fortunately little harm
was done, and one of the Bright boys by -
exchanging seats with one of the ladies,
had both 'conveyed home in safety.
-At a meeting of the Local Branch
of the Irish National League, in Toron-
to, last week, Mr. D. E. Cameron, of
Lucknow, spoke at some length on Irish
questions and proved himself deserving
of the reputation he has acquired in
Western Ontario as one of the most
promising young public men. He claim-
ed that Canadians enjoying and appreci-
ating the benefits of Home Rule should,
above all, sympathize with and assist
practically the Irish Nationalists in
their endeavour to obtain a similar
measure of self-government. The lec-
ture, though replete with historical in-
formation of the most authentic nature,
and with carefully selected statistics
from the latest Government returns
showing that the material progress of
the country is retarded in every direc-
tion by the inability and unwillingness
of the Imperial Paliament to deal with
wisdom and success with Irish local
affairs, was yet throughout a most elo-
quent, temperate, and convincing expo-
sition of the question.
-A contingent of Canadian officers
will leave New York for England by the
Assyrian Monarch on the 12th inst., to
attend the International Salvation Army
Congress to be held in London. The
party will be made up of about thirty
officers, among them the following:
Commissioner Coombs and Mrs. Coombs,
Staff Captain Glover, D. 0., of Palmers-
ton Division ; Staff Officer Captain Fish-
er, Staff Cadet C. Paul, private secre-
tary to the Commissioner • and Captain
Gilroy, late of London, 14r. Wm. Good-
erham, and Mr. Brace, of the Boys'
Home. will also attend the congress.
About 200 officers from the United
States will also cross the Atlantic bythe
same steamer, in charge di Commission-
er Smith. In the Canadian contingent
will be a band of Mohawk, Tuscarora,
and Onondaga Indians from the Grand
River reserve of the Six Nation Indians.
-A very sudden death occurred in
the township of North Dumfries, abaft
two Miles from Galt, on Sunday, 25th ult.
Mr. Hugh A. G. McKenzie _son of the late
John A. McKenzie, lived alone on his
farm on the Clyde road, across the road
from the homestead, where his mother
and brother reside. In the afternoon,
about three o'clock, Mrs. McKenzie,
seeing no stir about her son'a place, and
no signs of smoke issuing from the chim-
neys, went over to see what was the
matter. She looked in at the bedroom_
window and saw the young man lying
on the bed, apparently asleep, but look-
ing very pale. She immediately return-
ed to her own house, only a short dis-
tance away, and got her son John and
Mr. Jas. Watson, one of the neighbors,
to go over. They burst open tbe door,
and on going into the bedroom were
horrified to find that the young man was
dead: A very heavy lift made while
moving some machinery the previous
evening is supposed to have bad some-
thgeathd.o with the young man's sud-
dein dtbu
viewed the boss with a loaded rifle, and ,
gave him and his men just ten minutes
to "get." /They left and are now venti-
lating the matter in court.
-Jas. King and John Wilson have
at been committed for trial for the alleged
'Murder at Keppel. Ellen McClary, the
d principal witness, was committed to gaol
is in default of finding bai1.
shows a gratifying growth, having
creased from $7,000 in 1870 to $29,
for the current year.
-James J. Moylan, Inspector
Penitentiaries, is investigating the 1
revolt at St. Vincent de St. Paul, Q
bee. Forty-one prisoners are be ng
kept in solitaryi confinement, including
Vian, the ring -leader. Warden 'Levi
ette's condition has become very criti
and he is not expected to live.
-Mr. J. S. Hamilton, of Brantfo
who returned recently from a visit
the vineyards of Pelee Island, in Dike
Erie, reports the result of last yeer's
vintage as very unsatisfactory, the
Catawba yield not being one-fourth the
years. average. The past winter was, hOwever,
-Mr. Archibald McDiarmid, of the
8th concession of Kinloss, has _refused
the sum of $200 for a sucking colt, got
by the well-known blood stallion "Ezra
Patchen," formerly owned by Mr. D.
Campbell, but lately taken to Kansas by
Mr. 'Thos. Rowe.
-The licitly of Jane Kennedy Baird,
of Harriston, who died under suspicious
circumtances last December, has been
exhumed and an inquest commenced.
Parts of the viscera were sent
to be examined by Dr. Ellis,
ernment analyst.
-By a runaway accident near Port
Hope, Mr. Scott, of Beltimor
Black, of Cambourne, we
against a barbed wire fence,
some fearful gashes on their
bodies. Mr. Scott's clothes
into shreds. 1
-Last Friday night Wm. O'Neal went
into a room below Moody's roller Innis,
Woodstock, to grind a pairof shears.
He was found dead next morning, ter-
ribly mangled by a shaft, having been
caught by the belt when coupling it
from the main shaft to the grindstone.
-Detective Hodge, of Lendon, ar-
rested James Hartwiek and Wm. Bouk,
of Kilworth, on Friday last, the former
for assaulting his wife, and the latter
for threatening to kill and abusing the
same complainant, who is I his step-
mother -in-law.
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the, Gov -
and Mr.
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receiving
faces and
were torn
--Miss Richardson, whohas been
absent in England and Scotland during
last Winter, has returned t Canada.
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She has arranged for an uuu ually large
number of servant girls of the superior
class to emigrate to Canada, and has
secured them suitable situations. !
. -A union Band of Hope festival of chil-
dren belonging to the ;Episcopal church
was held at the PLvi Ilion. Toron to, Friday
,200 chil-
esses were
ecott and
i
night. There were over
dren present, and stirring add
given by S. H. Blake, S. Cal
others.
. -Mrs. John Caverse wife
ager of the Imperial Bank a
on Friday last, in Hamilton,
f the man
-
alt, died
t the resi-
dence of her father, Mr. Wallace. De-
ceased went on a visit to her father's
some weeks ago, and contralted the ill-
ness which terminated fatally.
• -At the Central Prison, Toronto, one
of the convicts named O'Connor was re-
ported missing on Monday. He was
found Wednesday evening Ting in the
prison yard under a pile of s eighs. He
had been there for two days and two
nights waiting for a chance to escape.
-Miss Joan Rodger, aged 16, daugh-
ter of Mr. R. Rodger, of Arkell, near
Guelph, was found dead one day last
week with her head in a por only 16
inches deep and her body ou side. She
had suffered from sickness which af-
fected her mind. 1
,
-The Rev. H. Currie, B. A., Presby-
terian minister of Thedford end Ravens-
wood, preached his tenth anniversary
- sermon on the 25th ult. Fe delivered
an excellent sermon, taking as his text
the words, "Except the linrd do build
the house the builders build in vain."
-Donald Gillies, of Inverness, Nova
Scotia, started to build a li e fence be-
tween his farm and that of hs neighbor,
Donald McFarlane. McFar ane did not
approve of the fence, and showed his
disapprobation by emptying both bar-
rels of a shotgun into Gillies legs. - Mc-
Farlane has been arrested. ,
• -The total value of real and personal
property in the city of Hamilton is
$20,609,068. Population, t1,280. A
comparison with the preceding year
shows an increase in real property of
$510,970; personal property, $26,230; -
'total, $512,290; population, 1,295;
with a decrease in income of $24,820. •
-Mr. A. Dulmage, of Belleville, on
Friday sold to.J. H. Rogers, of Toronto,
5,000 muskrat skins and other furs.
The previous week he shipped 3,300 to
the same gentleman. It ist estimated
that 15,000 muskrats have been caught
along the Bay of Quinte this season.
-A correspondent of the Montreal
Witness graphically describes the pic-
turesque scenery around Piton, Prince
Edward county, and truthfully states
the superior advantages of that locality
as a summer resort Itr facelities for
camping, boating and fishing are un-
rivalled in the Dominion. 1
-Louis Viau, the convict leader of
the late revolt at St. Vincent de Paul
penitentiary, Quebec, has regained his
freedom. He opened the door of his
cell shortly after midnight Monday
night and walked out, passing all the
guards unnoticed, and scaled the walls
with a rope and is free. The authorities
are now awake and in hot pursuit.
-A young man in Galt, of somewhat
aristocratic antecedents, who has been
connected with one of the heading hotels
for some time, was engaged to be mar-
ried to a young lady in the same town.
The ceremony was to take place in
Trinity church one day last week. The
a mild one, and the prospects for t
year's vintage are favorable.
-The Baptist Union of Ontario a
Quebec concluded its session in Toro
on Friday last, when officers were el
ed and a committee appointed to con
with a committee appointed by
Maritime Convention regarding
preparation of a suitable hymn book
the Baptist church.
- -Mrs. John palbraith died while on
her way to chureh at Wallaceburg liast
Sunday. She was taken ill in the buggy,
and expired befere she could be remoyed
from it. Deceesed had been ill with
heart disease for more than a year, and
at times was Yery low, so that her
death, though Ivery sudden, was iot
wholly unexpected, •
-Mrs. Thornton, widow of the 1
Benjamin Thornton, died at her r
deuce, Beachville, on Tuesday, 2
ult. She was one of the oldest reside
of the county Id Oxford, having c
there from Nev York State in 1
She leaves four sons, two daught
thirty-five grand children and twe
three great grand children, all reside
of Oxford county.
-The feature of- the Friday ni
meeting at the:Army Temple, Toronto,
was the dedication of Happy Bill's baby
to the Lord. ItIr. and Mrs. Bill sat on
the platform evith the precious little
bundle. When the baby was handed to
the Marshal to dedicate, the grac ful
way he held it caused an old lady at the
back to ejaculate: "God bless him; ie's
minded the baby afore now."
-A few days ago Mr. Hugh Mein -
tyre, of Elderslie, marketed at Paisley,
ten head of fat cattle which totaled up
11,420 lbs. Five of them were three
year-old shorthorn grades, and the -other
five two year old Herefords. TwO of
the Hereford grades brought down the
scales at 2,360 lbs. Mr. McIntent is
justly proud of his Hereford herd, and
is convinced of their superiority for leef
raising.
-The Scugog paper mill at Lindsay
was totally destroyed by fire on Th rs-
day night, last week, causing a los of
$35,000, and throwing a. large nun1 ber
of hands out ef employment. George's
flour mill at Port Elgin, with the mach-
inery and contents, were also buried
the same night, several adjoining build-
ings being badly damaged. The total
loss is about $20,000.
' -Owen Sound has again been plunged
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into a state of excitement by an atte
to assassinate Mr. Jos. Ramsay, a bl
smith of that town, who was fired a
three men while on his way home f
Keppel on Friday night, and seve
wounded. It is believed he was t
for one of the detectives engaged in
Bailey murder; case, the object of
assailant being revenge.
-At Buffalo on the 29th ult.,
Chas. F. Dunbar, wife of the promi
contragtor of Canadian public wo
pt
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ken
the
his
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ks
was oht riding with a span of spirited
ran
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ard
was
horse4 when they took fright and
away. While Mrs. Dunbar was ph
ly trying to help her coachman hold
horses a whiffletree broke, and
Dunbar was pulled over the dashb
and severely injured. The carriage
• badly smashed.
-The death is announced at Hanil-
ton Asylum 4 Rev. Jas. Howie, a for-
mer resident of Paris, in the 73 yea of
Ma age. Deceased was -a minister o the
Presbyterian church, but severed his
connection theeewith several years go.
Becoming afflicted with a mental ala-
dy of pronounced and dangerous t pe,
it was found neceseary to remove him to
this institute, , where he has remained
ever since.
-Samuel McQuillan, of East Nissouri,
has been missing since Monday, land
the neighborhood is much agitated in
consequence. , He started out that
night about 7.r to visit a neighbor, and
has never been seen or heard of since.
He had about $50 in his pocket. -He
has been a bard -working, sober an.
He was of dark complexion, and wore a
chin whisker. His height is about five
feet nine inches. He was dressed in his
working clothes. .
-Maggie Sullivan, a dining -room. girl
at the Commercial House, Almonte,
when 15 years old was stewardes
the steamer Prince Arthur, which
between Portage du Fort and Ponti
1879. She gave the alarm when
boat took fire, but lost her apparel
on
ran
c in
the
and
$500 in cash. By the fire in the Cope-
land House, Pembroke, a few days ago,
she again lost her effects and was seri-
ously injured by a fall from a ladder.
Each time she was assisted by the Same
gentleman, Mr. Percival, a Montreal
commercial traveller.
--Mr. Jenkyn, of the Townehl of
Moore, county of Lambton, owns a arm
through which runs the surveyed line
of the Erie & Huron railway. lThe
Company have not paid Mr. Jenkyn
for
the right of way, and consequently
when a. gang of men commenced Work
"on Mon ay on his farm Jenkyn inter-
-The recent draught match between
the players of North and Smith Perth
resulted in favor of the former by 22 to
16, with 22 draws.
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