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The Huron Expositor, 1886-08-06, Page 1da a t/ linery Flo Departmea OR THE ,Ler Trade ALS} MERICAN P rranted. fast in coiorl Aw price.. Also Cream • Musli cks and Stripes, Lace Effects, at IcFAUL, I:RY GOODS AND MIL.: RY HOUSE,: ting the fresh breezes_ of -Emma Taylor hugest weeks under the pars[ , and took her brotlu44 th her.—four trades a us=y, and they anticipate is fall.—The Rev. J. A. k., of Whitechurch, 'resby terian church hete- t Sunday, 1st of August rowers have done a greet the spring crops. Rensail.. 1 .Hemlock Lumber ton- A large lot of Hemlock 1 .. —1). UaQtvtlear.. 9721 :0.—On • Sabbath eveui Ff Mr. Noah Armstrong truck by lightning eal troyed, together with f hay, and a quantity of [r. Armstrong beinnggmet not learned as to. whetter ranee or not, but einem a as the loss is a hairy e farmers in this neigh- sally eigessily engaged harvesting,: erops as very good milk rases Murray and younger to family, are at es in the neighbor of. ss Bonthron of Rodger fest of Mrs. A. Young 5. T.Murdock and daze ve been lately. v Niagara Palls, re ek.—Mr. \V. R. Hod from Detroit whart n en a visit.— Coulter, of Milvertoe few days with friends is Mrs. A. McPherson ref ` West Wawanosh, when naining a couple of we atives and friends. mit. bo has been here for t h. a enjoying his holm `day for Pierre, Dakota. A pleasant event took esbyterian manse here tt orn irig, in the form of ninny. The contract* r. Simon Hunter,. of Oda 1iss Felicia Kerr, lee* ✓ of Mrs. J. Laing, of the ay. The happy con ied to the depot by a - ends, and took the mem the city of .Buffalo, that' or so. We unite: R1 nds in wishing them kir ,aperity. Varna, David Lyon, formalY 1 d resident of this i .esidence of . Mr. Relit 'are, on the 15th hist. A:ue tt years of age, Li tnption. s rt : GTF E T� EI F+rif. 'nly our usually stir usually quiet and thea ' of Justness was not hey sr Taking advantage 411 rLnd the absence of tht T <, a, couple of canines br 6 of our leading -'x =oir heads that theWs_y Dww 1 standinggrievance Gilmore; the approved € it mad Their owners also see them have their Nay, anCt Rudy enjoyed_ o 4,1 the g at aeofir iees rounds, but the getter bt gal tinnoticing ti" le _ citizens, acing ai , Lrecl on the ene 1 the cc zrl)ata.ats s°' Ie° There lier:e was no farm The r11 that _ends Nyeonee e&�tli , well rt�•itc:hed, run tlel< id not tight. and r . welr 4oLiI)t, fight another (�ttz`illant of Huron toss. 1 err and Gaeta far alloy. 'the. sew rr° o run over actin neardirte. The str 1 ,000, it is contrary f sitaa bridles ata gait l , The la:cv mzst e_+ + I fiti EIGHTEENTH YEAR. WHOLE NUMBER 973. S, EAFORTH FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 1886. ' McLBAN BROS. Publishers. 11.50 a Year, in Advance. SUGAR, SUGAR, SUGAR. Extra Granulated, Standard Granu- lated, Bright Yellow, Dark Yellow, Porto Rico and Demerara Raw Sugars If you want the Biggest $ Worth OR THE LOWEST PRICE By the BARREL, GO STRAIGHT TO THE Slar Grocery. Gooseberries, and Cherries For Preserving, at lowest prices. Also FRUIT JARS IN GREAT VARIETY — Teas. :-: Teas. We are still selling all our Teas at Greatly Reduced Prices. A CHICAGO PEN PICTURE. Onrceoo, 111. , July 30th, 1886. While Portland, Maine, is celebrating its 100 anniversary as a city, and Al- bany has celebrated its second centen- nial, Chicago folks are thinking of cel- ebrating this fall the fiftieth anniver- sary of this city's existence. It scarce- ly seems credible when one reflects upon it that but half a century has elapsed since the city's charter= was applied for and granted and that forty-nine years ago the first day of May of the current year the first election was held, the number of votes cast being 709. The city now claims a population of 750,000, though an eastern paper jocosely re- marks that when the census taker comes round 250,000 of the 750,000 will prob- ably be taking a vacation and thereby arouses the ire of the "Times" who straightway gets up and howls in the most approved Chicago fashion, saying: "Chicago must look overgrown to -per- sons from New York, who see to their intense chagrin that our city is rapidly outgrowing New York." INCIDENTS CAUGHT ON THE CARS. Chicago has one thing that in a long and varied experience I have never en- countered elsewhere a girl that whistles in the street cars. One morn- ing last week I boarded a Wabash av- enue cable car and had scarcely taken a seat when a girl about, eighteen or twenty years of age got on. .She was a nice enough looking girl (Chicago women are seldom pretty), with good complex- ion and trim figure. She sat down and no one paid any attention to her, until all at once she began whistling like a blackbird or a'bootblack. ' She treated the astonished and amused passengers to selections from -the Mikado, "Black Hussar" and "Nanon," and when I .left the car she was just starting in on "Hear Me, Norma." Now I have often seen and longed to throttle the male . street car whistler, but this was my first experience with the female .of that ilk, and from the looks of mingled conster- nation and amusement on the faces of the other passengers, I judge she was •new to all of us. She whistled away, seemingly unconscious of the fact that she was creating a sensation. I say she seemed unconscious of it, but I don't believe she was so. I believe she wanted to show off her accomplishment, and really her whistling amounted to an accomplishment. - Another very ticklesome street car episode to which I was an eye witness occurred here not long ago on one of the west division cars. The car was quite crowded, and a wornan with a child in her arms entered the car. A young lady rose at once andoffered her seat to the woman, who looked delicate, and was evidently tired carrying the baby; she was making her way to ,the seat and had nearly ,reached it, -when - a big fat Dutchman slipped into the seat with a satisfied sigh. The young lady who had offered the seat to the woman looked amazed, then amused, and then again indignant, and finally she broke out with: "Just getright up out of that seat ! Do you think I would get up ' and give my seat to you ?" The big fellow sat like a bump on a log, and paid no attention to the little fury. Meanwhile a lady on the opposite side of the car offered the poor tired wo- man a seat, and she sank into it. The infuriated young lady had to swallow her wrath and hang on to a strap. I heard her tell a lady who sat near that she did not so much mind hanging by a strap, but she preferred not to do it for any horrid big man Speaking of street cars, I have never seen them so sparsely patronized by what Mr. Matthew Arnold designates as the "upper middle" class as they are in this city. This is owing to the fact that every one that can possibly keep their own conveyance does so, and uses it constantly. The miles of beautiful boulevards and drives here making it an object for people to put money into horse flesh . and. vehicles. Probably in no city in this country is it so rare a sight to see an elegantly dressed - lady in the street cars, and this is due, no doubt, to the want of gallantry on the part of the men in the cars, it being the rarest thing in the world to see a man rise and offer his seat to a lady. The ladies one meets:' in the cars are mostly working wornen or the wives of poor men, .and although these are surely the very ones 20c, 25c, 30c, 35c, 42c and 50c. Our 25c Japan, 400 Black, 42e Mixed, and 42c Green, are giving great satisfaction.' Another big lot of B,aisins at 5c per George Good, Star Grocery, MAIN STREET, SEAFORTH. JUST OPENED OUT —AT THE— Cheap Cash Store, Dress Goods, Prints, Mantle Ornaments, Silk Gloves, Dress Mudins, Ginghams, Hoop Skirts, Parasols, Dress Clasis, Mantle Silks, Cotton Hose, —AND A GREAT MANY— continually. Besides this it offers op- portunities for boating and yachting al- though there is very little of the latter done here of late years. Formerly the city had a yacht club and considerable attention was given to getting up re- gattas, but nothing is done in that line now. The large room facing the lake on Michigan avenue, formerly occnpied as a club room by the yachtsmen, is now gioen over to a club of bicycle ridets, and while there are a few yachts owned and sailed by lovers of that sort of sport, one hears nothing about them and very little interest is manifested in them. There are about fifteen or Sixteen theatres open and doing a good business all summer, the cool nights —making it possible to enjoy a performance, even if it is summer. The " Japanese Vil- lage " is at the Colombia, Kellar, the Maeician is at the Madison street theatre, -" Evangeline " at Hoeley's a play called " Myrtle Ferns " at the People " Er- mine ' at the new and georgeous 'Casino on the north side, and A. M. Palmer's Madison Square Company is filling a six weeks' engagement at McVickers with all the late plays produced by them in New York. This engagement has been vvonderfully successful, and by the way, I hear that Manager McVickers is about to organize a stock company to play at his theatre for the few weeks*that inter- vene between the 'close of the Palmer engagement and the regular opening of the theatre in the fall. Theodore Thomas, with his orchestra, oommenced an engagement the other night at the exposition building, which, as I under- stand it is to last five weeks. The drives and parks of Chicago, of course, are not to be despised in recounting the city's attractions, nor are the races at the Washington driving club, which are to last five or six Weeks from the date of opening, about two weeks ago, to be overlooked, THINKS THE TWO SAMS ARE INCONSISTENT. When Sam Jones aud Sam Small, the evangelists, left Chicago last spring after their labors here, the Westside ministers had decided to call them back to labor on the Westside, and even went so far as to appoint a committee and select the place in which the meetings were to be held. But since the two Sems have resumed the use of tobacco, the committee seem to have changed their minds and at a recent meeting said, they "'did not see their way clear to suggest any action in the premi es," speaking cf the inconsistency of men in regard to the use of tobac Chicago is a tough place and no mist°, and I guess the two preachers sho have labcred longer the first time CANNUC too numerous to mention. Call and see hem, at the Cheap Cash Store —OF— offman & Company, NOTICE. Our Monthly -Fashion Sheet just to hand, and those wanting one will please call and get one before the s,upply runs covered that the young man was sick and a medical examination showed that he was in the first stage of tYphoid fever. Under these circumstances it was deemed best not . to allow him to start again on the train. —A reward of $250 has been offered by the Dominion Government for in- formation leading to the arrest and conviction of the Prince Albert mail robbers. —On Thursday, the 22nd ult., Isaac, son of Richard Turner, south boundary, Bosanquet, was so badly kicked in the stomach by a horse he was currying that he died on the following day. —The Paris band is in financial diffi- culty. They have decided to disband unless the Council comes to the rescue and makes a grant of $200 to tide over their present financial difficulties. —Philip Garneau, Riel's private sec- retary during the rebellion, was released from Stony Mountain penitentiary on Saturday. He intends writing a his- tory of the rebellion. —Mr. Mowat, the Premier of Ontario, was 66 years old on the 22nd ult. Mr. A. M. Ross is the next veteran in the Cabinet. He is 58. Mr. Pardee is 56, Mr. Hardy 49 and Mr. Fraser 48. — —It has been decided to replace the four massive stone towers wtich support the big tables of the Suspension Bridge at Niagara Falls by strong iron suppor- ters, at an estimated cost of $40,000. —Mr. George H. Handley, of Picton, has solved the problem of making a pair of seamless shoes, which cunning feat has long puzzled the knights of St. Crispin. —The twenty-sixth annual convention of the Ontario Teachers' association will be held in the public hall of the Edu- cational Department Toronto, on Tues day, Wednesday, and Thursday, Aug- ust 10th, 11th, and 12th next. --e-At a camp meeting in Komoka on a recent Sunday the rainstorm drove the people into a large tent, and then the wind blew the tent down on them. One who was there says the screaming and general hubbub was something terrible. —Some unknown scoundrel entered the pasture of Mr. John Jolly, Yar- mouth, the other day, and maimed one of his cattle in a shocking manner, in- flicting amound eighteen inches in length with a knife. —Sheriff Clarke, of Port Arthur, ar- rived at London Saturday, on his wey east with eight prisoners (3 women and 5 men). The women were, destined for the Reformatory, one of the men f r . the Penitentiary, and the rest fo Centred Prison. --The Salvation Army in ondon, commenced Saturday with a series of • special engagements which were con- tinued for four days. Staff -Captain Woolley, D. 0., and wife, the Welsh minstrel and family, and Special Cap- tain Bolton and others led the forces. —The congregation of Knox Presby- terian Church, St. Thomas have given a cordial welcome to Rev. 15r. Archibald on his return with his bride from Cali- fornia and other places where he travel- ed. He is now in excellent health. —A strange bird has a nest of 3 young ones in the orchard of Mr. John Harris at Charleston, a short distance from Orangeville. The bird is larger than a duck and has feet like a hen. Its species is a mystery to the whole neigh- borhood. —At Montreal on Saturday a man named Lemay, for leaving his work and refusing to return, was sentenced to six months and a fine of $10, or three ad- ditional months'. imprisonment. It was proved that the prisoner was quite able to work. burning over acres of valuable timber and destroying a vast amount of stock piled on the beach for shipment. Then noble heathen' for an example and a name, instead of ,the infinitely nobler ones of Jesus Christ ; and by theneglect a drenching ram storm set in and con- of the church, men have been compelled tinned until the fire was put out. The to organize a human benevolent society, captain exhausted his provisions in feed- instead of finding everything they need ing the sufferers, and arrived in Chi- in this matter in the. divine society our cago with neither food nor fuel onboard. Saviour founded." —Hon. Wm. McAlpine, of New York, —On Wednesday afternoon, the 21st and Messrs. Kivas Tully and Charles ult.the nuptials of Rev. L. Campbell, Sproat, of Toronto, the commission ap- B. A. , missionary at Gore Bay Mani - pointed to recommend a ,trunk sewer toulin island, and Miss Maggie, system for Toronto, reported to the city daughter of John McCoy Esq., near council the other evening. They recom- Jerseyville, were celebrated. The cere- mend the construction of two main 'molly took place at the residence of the sewers at a cost of $1,100,000. ' bride's father, and was conducted by —The seven year old son of Mr. Alf. the Rev. Dr. 'Beattie of Brantford, as - Arnold, of Southwold, Friday afternoon sisted by Rev. S. %V'. Fisher, of Firm - climbed up a hickory tree, when he lost boro, and Rev. Joseph McCoy, of Eg- his balance and fell to the ground, break- mondville. ing hie right arm above the wrist. The —Last Saturday night when the victim's mother fell from a cherry tree Grand Trunk express from Montreal to asfew days previously and broke her leg. Toronto was about twenty miles out of —Mr. John McLellan, teacher of No. 1 school, Pelee Island, an old Lobo boy, is „hired for another year at $540. He sent three pupils to the entrance exam- ination held in Essex Centre, and all succeeded in passing with high percent- ages. This will be the fourteenth ytar of his engagement. —A heavily laden freight train on the Grand Trunk Railway struck two horses on the track near Iroquois about mid- night. on Friday, tearing them into frag- ments and precipitating the train down an embankment, the engine being wrecked and the cars smashed to spline ters. The fireman was severely scalded. afternoon was conducted by the Masonic Order and was largely attended by Id Canada. The Governor-General caught 101 salmon during his fishing expedition. —There is a gang of sneak thieves and pick -pockets doing London at pres- ent. —The late Sarah Fairbairn, of Hamil- ton, left $1,518 to the Old. Women's Home in that pity. —An estimate of the cost of the Galt & Preston Street Railway, about five miles of track, is $32,000. —Heavy hail and rain storms have caused extensive damage to the crops in the vicinity of Vernon, county of Rus- sell. - —John Thompson, of Bobeaygeona is serving thirty days in LindSay- gaol for having whisky flasks in his pop stand. —For some weeks past the output of the Canada Sugar Refinery has averaged 1,800 barrels per day. —The capacity of the Dominion Starch Works has been increased by reason of the increased demand for their product. —Watt's dam acroas the Grand River at Brantford burst the other night end about 35 feet of the structure disappear- -The oil well recently put down on the Dobbyn farm, Euphemia, is pump- ing so far five barrels an herrn Depth 270 feet. —A resident of Arthur village has been fined $100 and costs for a second violation of the Canadian Temperance Act of 1878. —A young man named Albert Arless, • of Montreal, has been sentenced to a fine of -$5 or 15 days imprisonment, for masquerading in women's clothes. —Permission has been given for the sale of liquors on the Canadian Pacific Railway dining -room cars while pass: .ing through the Northwest Territories. —A.thief visited the Berkeley Street Methodist Church, Toronto, and stole the Sunday School collection of the pre- vious Sabbath, amounting to $6. —Mr. D. Matheson, of Tavistock who left a few days ago for a holiday trip to -the old. country, was drowned at Quebec while bathing before embarking on the steamer. —0/1 Wednesday last week Mr. Jos. Moorp, of the town line McGillivray and West Williams, fell from a barn and injured himself seriously, his shoulder being put out of joint. —A large number of Indians are em- ployed every year at flax -pulling in the vicinity of Tavistock. The dusky work- ers are there now in considerable num- -A dispatch from White Bay, New- foundland, says a large number of Arctic bears, driven south by starvation, have crossed over from Pennyland, and are devastating the country. —Rev. Dr. Jaques, formerly presi- dent of the Albert University, Belle- ville, has been appointed president of the Methodist Episcopal College at Ab ingdon, —A young man, who from papers found on his person is believed to be named Brooks, and whose mother is sup- posed to live in Westminster, got on board a train last Monday night at Jen- nette's creek, about 13 miles west of 'Chatham. Not having any ticket or money the conductor took him for a tramp and he was put off the train on through the staterooms, and carried all the clothing and baggage they -could lay hands on on shore. Owing to the rapid filling of the steamer, the heavy trunks on the main deck could not be removed in time. Many of the passengers left the vessel in such a hurry that they hsd not time to dress, and a curious scene was presented on the wharf for some minutes after they were landed. A number of cabs were obtained in a short time and all the passengers quartered in hotels in Cornwall. —Notice is given that application will be made to the Parliament of Canada et the next session by Elizabeth Virginia Duggan nee Elizabeth Virginie. Tuekett, of Hamilton, for a bill of divorce from her husband, Richard John Duggan, formerly of Hamilton, solicitor, present residence unknosen, on the grounds of adultery, desertion and 'cruelty. Mrs. Duggan is the daughter of George T. Montreal some of the passengers in the Tuckett, the tobacco manufacturer of Pullman car were considerably startled Hamilton, and has two children. Dug - by the erashing of a pistol ball through gan was a barrister in the city and cap - one of the windows of the car. Mr. F. tain of a local volunteer company. He W. Floyd, of Detroit, and his wife were made a savage.attack upon his wife one Bitting side by side when a ball passed day, when her father appeared on the through the window beside which they scene, and Duggan, who had a revolver, were sitting, and, having spent itself in discharged it at him. The ball luekily breaking the glass, dropped on the aisle missed Mr. Tuckett and entered his floor. Mrs. Floyd fainted with fright. boot-heea GeoaTuckett, jun., who was —Homer Campbell, a life long resi- on hand, jumped into the fight, and dent of Ingersoll, died on Saturday last Duggan was severely handled. He then after an illness of about three weeks, disappeared. from the city. caused by three carbuncles on the back —The death is announced of Mr. of his neck. The funeral on Sunday Arthur Lambert, one of the oldest and most respected residents of the Niagara district. The deceased was 85 years of age. At the time of the -war of 1812 he was 11 years of age, and was engaged. in teaming supplies to the Canadian forces. His father's barns at the Six Mills Creek ,were used by the British as a hospital until the Americans took possession of them. In 1823 he carried the mail bags between Niagara and Hamilton. He headed the first petition to the Govern- ment regarding the building of the Wel- land canal. In 1838 he drove the local representatives, Messrs. Woodruff and Thorbnrn, to Toronto. Ile married, 62 years' ago, Miss Durham, daughter of a neighboring farmer, who still survives. The deceased had 40 grandchildren and 12 great grandchildren. His sons reside on farms in the neighborhood of the old homestead. —Ninety-five. candidates wrote for admission to the Collegiate Institute in Galt ; 24 were successful. One hundred and six wrote in Brantford ; 72 passed. St. George's school sent up eight ; all were successful, some of whom, under 12 years of age, took. a high number of marks. —A shipment of 116 head of cattle for the Liverpool market was made the other day at Lucan, by Mr. J. H. Mc- Roberts, most of the animals having been fed by himself. The lot averaged 1,462 pounds each, and the price realiz- ed for the consignment was very close th $10,000. —A ypung man named John McDon- ald, resi6ectably connected, is now serv- ing six months in the Central Prison for purloining about $100_ worth of goods from the establishment of Hughes Brothers, Toronto, in which place he was employed. Captivating barmaids and ladies of easy virtue, he said, en- snared him'. —Officers of the British army who are in Canada buying up horses, have sug- gested that the Board of Directors should offer prizes at the forthcoming Toronto Exhibition for horses best fit- ted for cavalry purposes., It was de- cided to offer five prizes for the best riding horses fitted for light, medium or heavy cavalry. —Canadian Methodists ere this year sending three additional 'workers into the Japan mission field. Rev. F. A. at present head master of the Pembroke High School, will go about the end of the year to take charge of the prepara- tory department of the Tokio College. —The Cornwall Freeholder of last Friday says : The storm of last even- ing was the worst ever known in this part of the country. In the vicinity of Glen Walter, the hail was of immense size, and completely ruined the crops. Over 100 panes of glass were broken in the cheese factory, and hardly a house escaped. • —The Western Union has failed in its efforts to secure control of the Cana-. dian Pacific telegraph lines, and the Postal Telegraph Company and the Com- mercial Cable Company have made a 25 yeaes' contract for exchange of business. The line evill be pushed at once. to the Maritime Provinces. A cable to the Sandwich Islands and China is also under consideration. —J. W. Tringham, promoter of the Windsor electric railway, died suddenly last Sunday morning after two or three days' illness. His sudden death -causes expressions of regret from every one, as his enterprise has resulted in so much convenience to the people in and around Windsor, and the fact that he was com- pleting arrangements to extend his elec- tric railway through the whole county. —The superintendent of a Sunday school in Belleville, it is reported, pray- ed for all the boys and girls who had failed to pass the entrance examination to the High School, asking that the fail- ure might but nerve them to success again, and added, "Give to the persons who prepared some of the examination papers, what they evidently lack, a sound judgment, and more common sense." —There is' a breach of promise case in prospect for the Middlesex Fall Assizes. Some intensely affectionate' letters will be produced. In one of these' was en- closed a lock of hair with a few verses imploring that a kiss be sent in return, and expressing a solemn conviction that a kiss on paper would be better thari no kiss at all. This is a point of some sci- entific interest, and, no doubt, will en- gage the best attention of the court. —The Rev. Dr. J. G. Brown, presi- dent of the Deaf -Mute College, of Pitts- burg, Pennsylvania, gave a lecture to the -deaf and dumb at Shaftesbury Hall, Toronto, last Sunday afternoon. The discourse was interpreted into the sign language by Professor J. II. Brown, headmaster of the Western Pennsyl- vania College. Dr. Brown and wife, ac- companied by Professor Brown are on a trip down the lake and the St. Lawrence as far as Quebec. ---,Referring to the recent gathering in Toronto of the Knights of Pythias, and to the working of this and other benevo- lent orders, the Dominioa Churchman regards these societies as of great value, far more than is generally recognized, but, at the same time, " deeply regrets that the chnrch has so far forgotten her duty, and so far dropped part of her mission, as to compel men to take a —The profits of the Canadian Pacific Railway for June showed an increase of $92,958 over the profits for June, 1885. For the six months ended June 30th, the profits of the compaey were $179,- 207 more than for the corresponding period last year. —M. Wilkie, of Port Elgin, D. Tea- han of Southampton, and C. Langford of, VViarton, were fined $50 aad costs for violation of the Scott act. J. W. Man- ley, druggist, of Wiarton, was fined the same amount on the 23rd ult. for a like offense. Samson & Cole's elephant broke loose at Emerson, Manitoba, Wednesday morning last week, and smashed the cage containing the two -headed cow to splinters and ran riot through the town. It was captured with considerable diffi- culty. —Colonel Fred Denision has present,ed Governor Simcoe's carriage to the To- ronto Zoo. The vehicle, which is a very curious relic of bygene days, was orig- inally brought from England by the Governor, who gave it to Colonel Deni - son's father almost sixty years ago. -Thos. Caron, the commercial travel- ler who attempted suicide last week in Toronto by shooting himself in the head, died at the hospital there Saturday morning after terrible suffering. He was a nephew of Sir Adolphe Caron. He refused to assign any reason for the rash act. —Mr. Hilliard, of the Waterloo Chronicle, has dispoSed of that journal to Mr. R. Munro, principal of the Pais -- ley public schools, and formerly on the staff of the.Stratford Beacon. Mr. Hil- liard retirei to rest on his oars and en- joy the fruits of an honorable journalis- tic career. —Out of sixteens hundred and thirty Canadian entries at the Colonial Ex- hibition, Ontario has 580 ; Quebec 400 ; Nova Scotia 220 ; New Brunswick 120 ; Manitoba, the Northwest and British Columbia 190, and Prince Edward Island 95. These are exclusive of the government exhibits. —The captain of the steamer Isaac May, which arrived at Chicago from Manitoulin Island on Thursday night last week, reports' that the island was 'swept by a fierce forest fire, which lasted five dayssthe inhabitants being „driven from the island by the fury of the flames, and taking refuge in the vessels reaching Chatham. There it was dia. at harbor. Tbe flames raged five days, friends from Embro, Thamesford, Lon- don and Woodstock. Mr. Campbell was 41 years of age, was widely known and universally liked. —Tharsday .ast week Mr. Edward Preston; farmer, 12th concession, Yar- mouth, hired a lad giving his name as Frank Stewart, of Bathurst street, Lon- don East. Saturday morning the boy disappeared, and with him a pair of socks and boots, arid 75 cents in money, which did not belong to him. Mr. Preston at once gave chase, and caught the young thief as he was entering Lon- don on the railway track. At the police station he pleaded guilty, and was sen- tenced to one month's imprisonment at hard labor. —On Wednesday evening last week, as Mr. Sweeney, of St. Thomas, was driving up from Port Stanley he stopped at the Halfway House and went. inside. While inside his horse was frightened and started off on the gallop. In a buggy ahead were two ladies, who ob- served the runawey, and jumping out of their buggy, drew their horse to'the side of the road. One of the ladies, Mrs. David Tennant, of St. Thomas, then gallantly ran to the passing horse, and, catching it by the bridle, held on until she brought it to a standstill. This she did at the risk of her life, as she was dragged several yards by the animal be- fore it stopped. —A large bulldog owned. by a Toronto hotel -keeper is a great mouser. The other day, it is said, he cornered a mouse among a let of pots, pans, etc., and while upsetting these, one after an- other, to reach it, frightened the little creature so thoroughly that it at last jumped into his open mouth and ran down his throat. Not counting upon this sudden change of programme, the dog turned and ran retching and sput- tering in great agony towards the yard, which he no sooner entered than the mouse (also tired of ita 'new premises) suddenly leaped out on to the grass and made off agaia, followed, however, by its- pursuer, which this time aaptured and killed it. —A monster raft which has been under construction at Two Rivers, Cumber- land, Nova Scotia, since the first of Jan- uary, wae cut away from its shores on Saturday with the intention of floating it, but the attempt was unsuccessful. Another effort was made next day to move the immense structure but also proved futile. This great- raft is 420 feet long, 55 wide and 30 deep, weight 8,000 tons, and contains 2,500,000 super- ficial feet of piling and other timber. It is cigar -shaped, was designed by H. R. Robertson, and built under contract by B. B. Barnhill, of Two Rivers, for Wilson Godfrey, of New York. The timber is estimated to be worth $30,000. The cause of the failure is variously con- jectured. —The Globe of Saturday says : Rev. James ,Stuart, one of the oldest Presby- terian ministers in the Dominion, who resides at 214 Richmond street West, paid a visit to Mr. F. Brown, 81 Chest- nut street, on Thursday evening, and left there to return home about 8:15. He is about 80 years of age, and on his return lost hie way. All that night and part of the next day he wandered on -the outskirts of the city, until he was found on the farm of Mr. Davidson, several miles north of the city. Mr. Davidson cared for the old gentleman and drove in and informed his son Dr. Stuart, who 'had been searching 'for him with all the aid he could • obtain. He was then brought home, and, although tired out, was apparently little the worse for his long walk. —The steamer Passport, while on her voyage froM Montreal to Toronto, struck the pier while entering the Corn- wall canal on Saturday night, and sank in twenty feet of water. The passengers and crew escaped. There were about one hundred passengers on the steamer, principally ladies and children. Prob- ably half had retired for the night, and the violence of the collision was such as to cause many to experience a rude awakening by being thrown from their berths. 'The passengers were greatly alarmed. A gangway was thrown from the port side of the vessel to the dock, and all the passengers quickly and safely landed. Eyidently a big hole had been stove in the ateamer's side, as the water rose rapidly in the stoke -hole and com- pletely extinguished the fires. In less thaa a quarter of an hour later her cab- in deck on that side was under water. The officers and crew of the vessel went A- North Dakota Hail Storm. The Drayton correspondent of the Pembina Pioneer Express gives the fol- lowing account of a terrible hail storm which visited that vicinity recently, and which we republish for the benefit of our readers vvho have friends in that section : On Saturday, 24th July, a very destructive hail storm passed on the south of Drayton, leaving devasta- tion in its track. It only struck a few farms in the southwest corner of this township, tfie first being that of Wm. Hildebrand ; thence along through those of J. G. Peppard, T. Lynch, R. Pol- lock and J. 1i. Jamieson, the two lat- ter losing 150 acres each. The storm crossed the line into Walsh county at that point, destroying for J. H. Jamie- son about 100 acres and damaging the ballance, about 80 acres, very seriously. W. Ferguson had all his totally de- stroyed, 160 acres ; Duncan Ferguson, about 80 acres destroyed and balance in- jured ; L. W. Patmore, 40 acres, total loss ; John Hart, 70 acres, total loss ; Thos. Edwards, 80 acres total loss, 80 acres injured ; E. Donnelly and S. Scott both lost the greater part of their crop ; 25 acres on the farm of R. H. Young, worked by E, Donnelly, totally de- stroyed. Several others whose names we have not heard, have lost nearly all the crop they had. The storm -divided on the west side of the slough, one part taking a more southerly course towards Park River, which seems to have been very much more destructive in its course, extending over a much wider scope. The hail was mirth heavier too, for it fairly chopped the heaviest crops to pieces and drove the straw into the ground. Many of the finest buildings were badly eairrecked, windows and doors broken, and in several ,instances the shingles on the roofs were literally ham- mered to pieces. Poultry and sniall pigs were killed wherever exposed, and as very many farmers were making hay hi the slough, numbers of teams ran be- fore the storm doing great damage in some cases. Quite a number of the far- mers who happened to be away from any shelter were badly bruised. One -man near Park river is reported to have died on Sunday from the effects -of bruiees on the head from hail, ancl.r.many were so severely bruised and knocked about as to be unfitted for work for a few days. Bruce, eldest son of R. G. Kerfoot, five miles south of here, was struck on the head, with a piece of ice that eut through his hat and made so severe a gash in his head that he had to be brought in to Dr. Musgrove to have it sewed up, and many others with lesser cuts and bruises, and in many eases horses and cattle were cut so as to bleed freely. The storm seems to have been more terrible in its effecte in St. An- drew's village and vicinity than it was farther west. .4mongst those who have lost all, or nearly all their crop are N. Ross, J, McGraw, E. Barrows, 0. Duf- fy, W. Twamly and Mrs, Johnson, some of whom will not have a bushel of wheat for flour or seed, nor a bushel of coarse grain for their horses or other stock, so that the situation is one that will have to be met to some extent by their more fortunate neighbors. —Mrs. Perkins and two of her daugh- ters met with a rather unpleasant ex- perience one day last week in Exeter. As they were driving across the market square, they went too near a ditch which was being excavated, one side of the rig went down, which caused thebug- gy, horse and occupants to descend to the bottom in a promiscuous heap. The ladies were not injured, but received. a severe shock. The buggy was slightly damaged, while the horse escaped.