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The Huron Expositor, 1891-08-28, Page 1e we beg, to I of 11pH-tents GOODS uP, ready PR i 0E or Cash. L, hen the pro - The flames urlding with. many times it 11 would sue. teat vreil, the- lackening and oft Christiets emelt street, t the fire was otet was also. .,Biesett's tin titled to much• work: The ,000, partly The origin of• ut it wa.s ufl cendiary. s are busy grain. Oatte of & good perance meet - lo. Nealy adt last Sabblith oclerich, very - ng last Sabi g, as well am ppreciated by Tom,. Publle es the meeting Another, and `dent in the et Monday, in at the ripe ago The bereaved y of the cam. sorro w.—We- ng again in. Iness, —The' e dispensed 1- t Sabbath ht conducted by nox Church, Jas. McGill, a farmer who en garden, but. ating it and erially to the his farm'but family which, portant farm Aa &sample - or indiciousim n can accornp- t Mr. McGill oznatoes fun, - e IIth of this, 1y, very early, quash- which vo and a. half which ineamit two feett, and asure five feet deaf on whicit ngth and 11i her pings in Gill's tobacco. 1:1 have enougb. his- snioking next year. rkship. qv Council or of applicautt- 'County Clerk- , I understand, 'canvass. As I icier' nor good sited you, but, be given to s a work regard - aka, 1peened- iness re yeara ago , - f McKillop for have been 0, lad manager of -z}ing officer in iwo personally men in the er yet accused )Sa or favorite - prove to your have done es the county as MORRISON. ven year oid ear Listowei, bull and it 3en gored to teed a small d the bull by an after the ale boy wall V was black and fears aro - Y. TW3INTY-THIRD, YEAR. incor.an NUM33EIR 1,237. O. GILROY CLITQ 1•7.. 49 Fine Dress, Cloak and Mantle Makin g. We have pleasure in intimating to the ladies of Seaforth and vicin- ity, that we have opened out Dress, Olo: rk and Mantle Making DePartme t in connection with our business Clinton, believing that there is a a opening for really first- class fine ork in this branch. As head and 1 anager of this Depart- ment we e ave secured the services of Mrs. enney, of Detroit, a lady who • as had nine years ex- perience in that city, among the best peop e there, and one who comes mot- highly recommended, not only f -ora hr employers but from ladi whose pat an artist departra e a positio trusting t depend on in a styl credit on s of the test families onage she has had, as f the first order in her t so th4 we are now! in to saythat ladies en- eir garments to us, may having them turned out and manner reflec ng ny city establishment. 0 GILROY, CLINTON. —Mrs. J A. K. Walker, formerly of Kingston, riting from Madras, reports, • on July 14 b, the hest as 96 degrees in the shade and not a leaf stirring. There are iears of a water famine. One inch of rat has fallen in eleven months. The sufferi g is terrible, and the death rate highe than for twenty years. —It is r mored that Mrs. Macrae, wife of A. . Macrae, who decamped from St. C Perinea several months ago, with the becanity Loan and Savings Company' funds, has gone insane over the disgr ce brought on. her by her husband, nd has been removed to the Hamilton Asylum. —Mr. athaniel Ryan, who settled on the thi d concession of Biddulph, 56 year& ago, died at his residence on the 19th inst. aged 77 years. Elis funeral was otten ed by a large body of Oretige- men,mariling in front, followed by 100 converyan es. The deceased served as (=tier al through the rebellion of 1837 carrying espatches, —A pung lady from Fergus, while enjoying erself with some friends down the rocks at Elora, fell 'backward' from the tooth idge into the Irvine river and floated d wn, stream 'erne thirty feet, until res sued by a young man. ReaSOU, the rail ng on the bridge never was strong e ongh to protect anything, and said bnid1ge would be better withoOt it. A ped greed. Shrcipshire ram, belong- ing to Mlr. J. P. Pnin, of Hespeler, has arrived n good sondition from England. It was a prize taker at the Shropshire and Mid nd fair, end bilk fine speoimen of that jbreed. It was purchased by Mr. Ph n from Mn. Preece, of Shrews- bury, t e well-known breeder of Shrom shires. —A fog weighing six pounds is on exhibit' n in St. Catharinea. The cap- ture w made at Garner's pond in Fen- wick o Thursday of last week by John 11. Bro erick, Louth, who teas catching fish to took a pond on his farm. The frog it' aid to be the great -great-grand- father f all the frogs in the adjoining townsh ps. —Fo the fourth time in succession Owen ound Collegiate Institute has passed he largest nuniber of candidates at the midsummer departmental and stave ity examinations of any high, whoa fr collegiate institute in the Pro- vince} This speaks well for the , equip- nient of the school and the ability of the staff, as well 18 for the rnental calibre of the pupils. —A novel case came up at the Police Court, Peterborough, the other morning, when young woman, 22 years old, had June Burns up for using insulting langu ge, said language consisting of, a propo al of marriage, and asking her to keep • etter company. The Cain was dismi sed upon defendant promising not to ill lest her in the future. — he steam 'barge Lothair, leaded with moiler from French River, bound dow . the lakes, Captain J Hi. Glass, founi ered five miles from Tobetmoray, at 10 o'clock laat Saturday evening. The 'um. r provented her frcnn sinking alto- geth r, but the promenade deck was thre feet under water. Tuga towed her o Tobermoray harbor, where she will • e lightened. irs. Thomas H. Taylor, widow of a sv 11 known commercial traveler, had a narr w escape from poisoning at 4uelph Oa riday night. She had been using two medicines, one for iriternal and the oth r for external remedies. By mie- tak the wrong medicine was adminis- ter d. The miatake was discovered at one , and a physician sent for. The lad is now out of danger. The death occurred on Wednesday of ast week of P. J. Dawn, In Bid- dulmh. Deceased had been confined to hisl bed for over a week, and died from *oageatlon of the lungs. He was born iii ondon township in the year 1841. . Dewan served the township for rteen years as councillor, and one to m as deputy -reeve and was a man re pected by all. His wife and nine e adroit survive him. LITTLE INCIDENTS OF AN -,... ) OCEAN VOYAGE. • - LONDON ' AND LONDONERS. _ (Written fq The Expositor). I stood not on the bridge at midnigh as the clocks! were striking the hour, but on the dock at twilight as the passengers were going aboard. They came down to the wharf in various ways, in various moods and variously burdened; the came in families, parties, pairs an singles, some with as much baggage aa Orthodocia some with only a singl careless make. Everything and ever body was astir ; sacks of flour, boxes rf cheese; oases of eggs, samples of nearly all the products of the oountry werh lowered into the hold. By daylig t the next morning_preparatione for the voyage were finished, and we swung oi.t from the pier and steamed down the S . Lawrence; sixty Miles west of Quebelo we oast anchor to the great ouriosit and surprise of the passengers, many were the causes assigned for the delay it was about twelve, and one who had evidently always travelled by rail and had Still in his ears the echo of 'twenty minutes for refreshments' said he guessed we stopped for dinner. A sand bar a few miles ahead was the sole catuje and when the tide rose a few houifs afterwards we proceeded on our wa The Allan line steamers atop fiftee hours at Quebec to take passengers an coal up. Three days later we lost sight of the islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon' the last glimpse 0! the ,western hemiis phere, it was almoet a week before we sew land again, the interim we spent o the Atlantic Ocean far from the sight land ---on the -plain Atlantic did I say, yes it is prosaic I know, but I will n t desecrate the grave yards of literatu e and drag from their tombs the ashes 4f such time thonored epithets as satin -main, boundless ocean, deep blue se foaming billows, ocean waves, bri y deep. Shuffleboard is the princip 1 amusement for odean travellers, parl r quoits, cards and reading come next,. A couple of times , we had a travesty On cricket. The ball was saved front the deep by a string fastened to a salt. 4 knock overboard iike over the fence at the Recreation Grounds, counted six. Occasionally during the voyege yeti could see a pale face leaning over the rail and humbly apologizing to Neptune for having invaded his territory, and quite & few faces were only seen on deck Within a day or so of either shore. What is sea sickness like? I cannot describe it, it begins with a feeling of equeamishness'develops into a loathing for food,a dislike for meal time,and ends with squeamishness again.i Nothing will so shatter the prospects of a good hearty 1 appetite as an attack of mai de mer; I nothing will make you so blind to the : pleasures of tray 1, heartily wish for the comforts of hom or so utterly disgusted with life in gene al: The great topic of conversation on hip board is the prob. able date of arri al an port. The captain and officers ar bored with questions about the day's trun, the speed of the vessel, the proxiinity of icebergs, proba- bility of fogs an4 queries on a number of Other topics thal would be fatal to the patience of anyo e but a ship's officer. Time at sea i marked by bell‘and the day divideki into watches of four hours, each beginning with twelve, four and eight o'clock. The watch between four and eight in the afternoon is divid- ed into two ' dog ' watches of two hours each, so as to thake an odd number of divisions of the twenty-four hours. One, five and nine o'clock are denoted by two bellm or two knocks of a bell. Time is kept i the wheel house, and ic 'the quarter master rings the bell. The look out on the foe teilleed also rings a bell there, and t night a weird voice breaks the stilln se with "all's well and the lights burn 'bright." A steamer's crew consists of a captain, four officers, four engineermfour quarter masters' boatswainamatawain'a mate, twelve or thirteen sailors, hell a dozen stokers, about the same number di trimmers, a surgeon, • purser, chief steward, stewardess, and a dozenear so more saloon and state room stewards. The chief and second officer are on duty o4i the bridge; the third andifourth supe intend the steering in the wheel house, knd the quartermasters steer. Half the sailors are always on deck on general duty under command of the boatswain* his mate. The stokers and trimmers live far down in the hold, the former feed the furuaces and fthe latter wheel thie coal forward to them and hoist up ithe ashes from below a couple of timea day. To go back to land again. Every railway building from Toeonto to Mon- treal sounds the praises of Sunlight Soap, or of the Witte provoking Qualities of Castoria'while the country for mile. east of Cornvtall looked like a huge apothecary's shop that made a specialty , of mustard plaatere. Now and again a modest fenceI ventured to dedicate a little to diamohd dyes, but the tone tvas so low that itas lost- in the other two iit 1 choruses. • N ar Montreal, °mania, seemed more popular, not only ' the railway buildings now spoke but eyery wall within sight sang in loud, lusty yellow lettered tone Castor's 1 Cas- teria !—that Sunda like Atoria, Ateria, —best of college songs? time for dropping college spirits} Would you believe it, the first CAI* that accosted mi at Liverpool wathat aky _ blue pleuard that has the Washerwoman's welfate at heart. The Soap itself is manufactured in this city ad Pears much advertised article in London. Peare' head offioe on Oxford street is fitted up like an art gallery with paintings and statuarY. The much talked of Metropolis has a population eq ii al to t wen ty-fi ve Torontos, nearly -as great as the Dominien of Canada, and greater than that of Ire- land. Every ity has its general attrac- tion in the way of art galleries,museums, parks, uienu4nent. and statue., but London has mitre of any one, or all, than any city in tbl world. Every city has also its speclal charaoteristics, the style of its building ,and thearrangement of its I- _ SEAFORTH5 .FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 1891. McLEAN BROS. Publishers. 01.50 a Year, in Advance. streets I distinguish it from other human Iiives. Visit London, readers of the new tvorld, mid the narrowness and crooked- ess of the streets will draw your attention, They look as if they had beeii conatrueted on the instalment plan an the sections put together with- out any, attempt at a fit. You would scarcely' find a few hundred lards of a, straighti street in the whole city, and 111 you did, itawould he sure to be saddled with a many p meet in off, the There 1 and Fi this sp (every ing In raised erossin mission these b Crowde with all hehiele "lank the for new name at every corner. In aces half a dozen of these streets a point, the acute angles are cat • far space is called a thirOUS. udgate Cirous,Holborn Circus, sbury Circus. In the middle of ce stands an artistic lamp post amp post, fence pillar and build - he city is artistic) on a slightly platform to protect pedestrians the street from the wheeled pro - that is continually passing along Lay streets. If you wish to see a street, one literally packed sorts of people and all sorts of take up your position near the England about the middle of noon,or on London Bridge, about six in the afternoon. I was at the latter piaee rveral tithes, and I am sure I tetogn zed the limp poet under which Noah • Claypole Worked when hewas I acting py oit Old Nancy, and saw many along the Thames that might rowned Old Quilp. The houses mbered up one side of the street end down the other in the most be - Wilder open h secuti runnin siot be -lent aij in will, eities reader built places have are n ng way. Would not a Londoner Is conservative eyes if he saw con- e miles of Yonge street Toronto, in the same direction; would he stounded at the radically canyon - d regardless-of-old-traditons way h New York and other American re laid out. But let me tell you, that everything in the big city is. o last. The streets are splendidly .paved and kept continoally clean,only in ne pl ce in the whole city did I see the street being repaired. The buildings are n t so high as in Chicago, the storey seldom run into double figures. The a erage Englishman is confident of his pr apects to reach the heavens after death and does not care to live incon- venie tly near them in this life. You would look in vain for the cable cars of Chicago, and listen long for the noise of Orriaha,'s electric motorii, There is no room for tho tracka and the places of the cars are supplied by large jolly busses that hold as many on top as inside. London drivers always keep to the left instead of to the right as we do. Londoners lunch let one, take tea about four and dine 4 six or seven; drink ale or stout at theionaeals end put carroway seeds in their cakes. Maids tend bar and fill - clerkships at 'all the hotels. Every place of amusement has a refreshment room in connection and the theatre goer need not go out between the acts to see a man, the men comes in to see him and takes his orders for drink. The blue ooated boys that a stranger notices so often ,on the street are the pupils of & richly! endowed institution, whose foander stipulated that the boys should be admitted at ten years of age and dismissed at sixteen • should wear yellow stockings and a long blue coat or soutane, and no oovering on the head. Wonder if they were the original of the Charitable Grinders? P, Q. London, England, August 12, 1891. - • SIGHTS- AND SCENES IN 1 - AND ABOUT NEW 1 I YORK. 1 i • (Written for Tug Exposrros.) LETTER NO, III. i A WALK ALONG- THE ,NORTH RIVER. ! Had any of your readers been in New york a few weeks ago, and happened to be near the North (or Hudson) River, he would have had the privilege of seeing the finest fleet of, warships to be seen anywhere in America. For several weeks the White Squadron, as the new Yankee fleet of cruisers is called, was anchored in the North River while the ,Naval review was being drilled. I had often wished to see this Squadron, hav- ing seen but one of the 'White Cruisers, and, as' ofteu happens my wish was granted at a Most unex ected time, and the realization of it w s consequently very enjoyable. I wa coming down the Hudson On a steam r one afternoon when I noticed the a n glinting on a white vessel, and th ught to myself, . "there must be a m n of -war in the river," then 1 spied ano i er and another, and presently the whol Squadron, from the piratical tooking d namite cruiser, Vesuvius, to that flo ting village, the flag ship Chicago, lay efore my aston- • ished and delighted ey s. I don't know and won't attempt to • ilium the reason why everybody from the milkman to the millionaire is int rested in a war vessel, but the fact r mains. As soon as that first white shi • came into sight the folks on the steam r began to wake up, and soon' the rail as crowded with 'people armed with gl see, guessing at the names and comm ating on the ap- pearance of the cruise a. 1 happened to know some of them fr m description and pictures I had seen, ao d was a hero in a small way few a little hile. The same degree of interest w s evinced all over the city." The paper were full of pic- tures and wood sketc es, and every day and evening the do ke were crowded with spectators. I t ok the earliest op- portunity of viewing them again, and spent an afternoon o the river front. It seems hard to thin • of one of those beautiful, graceful hips, engaged in actual warfare, its w ite sides battered and blackened, the crupuloualy clean, white decks slippe y, mayhap, with blood, and yet, I su iposo, that is what they were made or. Those long, hewn, innecent lo king rifled cannon can send a , shell Hes ; those spindly looking maehine g ns can pour out a rfea rain of bul ets, and those three long stove pipe loo ing tubee that pro- ject from the forward deck of• the Vesuvius can s nd enough gun cotton two or three nijlea away to blow even the Chicago into atotna and every man on board into Davy Jones' locker, as the " Jackeys." putfit. At present, how- ever, everything is peaceful enough. The vessels are swinging idly at their moorings with i the tide, the cannon's mouths are stepped up, the machine guns are - coveted • with canvas, and launches and cu ters filled with pleasure seekers are ply ng busily between the dock,s and the teet. Instead of the roar of cannon and 1 the rattle of rifles and machine guns, is heard only themusical call of a bugle and the clang of the bells as the half hourls are struck. The North River is the great recep- R tulle for the passenger -traffic. Here may be seen all sorts and conditions of steam- ers from the tiny steam launch, the tug or steam propelled canal boat to the palatial river steamer, the gigantic railway ferry boat or the Ocean Grey- hound. Or, if you are interested in celebrities you may see the Etruria, the 'City of Paris or the Majestic, which have been fightieg each other for the championship of the ocean. The other day the Majestic lowered the record by an hour and ten minutes, and now the City of Paris is trying to regain her lost laurels. It rifay be interesting to know that the Majestic on her now famous trip made an average of 20t knots, or 23 miles an hour, and used '230 tons of coal per day. The calling _of those who "go down to the sea in ships" is not nearly as perilous now as it was in the days when -the Norsemen in their- open galleys first crossed the wide Atlantic. TheseAtlantic liners with their tremend- ouslength, their stately steel hulls and double skins have made ocean traffic even safer than traffic by rail and, aside from Elea -sickness, much more comfort- able. Talking of the difference between the Norse galleys:and the Atlantic liners of to -day it would be instructive to study the changes in this continent between• the two periods, Besides the better known lines plying between this coun- try and Great Britain there are regular lines to Italy, France, Belgium and Germany,. all employing vessels of the very beat description. Passing the At- lantic Liners' section of piers we come to the Southern lines running to the West Indies, Norfolk, Virginia, Charleston, Savannah, Florida, New Orleans and Galveston. The South American lines have their docks on the East River. Be- low the Southern lines are to be found the river steamers, and those plying be- tween the city and watering places or. summer resorts near by. Still further down we come to the freight depots and ferry lines of the Pennsylvania, Erie, West Shore and other -railroads. This is the busiest and muddiest place in New York. I never was there but *hat it was muddy, though what keeps it so I can't say. Here you can see more trucks and more fun in half an hour than you .can any place else in two, lower Broad- way not excepted. To see those team- ster!' get mixed up with each other is funny enough to drive away the moat persistent fit of blues. It is a fine ex- emplification of the proverb, " the more burry the less speed." Everybody is in a hurry and can't get out of anybody else's way, and so they all stick. Below this. is Castle Garden and the Battery, where the immigrants with their bags, bundles and blissful hopes are landed. It is very interesting to watch a boat- load of these new comers disembarking. You would scarcely credit the fact that these meek, spiritless -looking people would b.:Iceman a few yearieswaggenng Irish politicians or policemen ; fat, im- portant -looking German saloon -keepers, ricb. Italian merchants, or cheeky, push- ing Jewish financiers, but these are similar to the material out of which Ruch have been formed in the past. Gener- ally there is a crowd of fellow country- men to welcome the strangers and they point out their friends, gesticulate wild- ly, and talk in anything but English, or as they prefer to Call it here, '* United Statie.' From Battery Park we get a fine view of the Inner Bay or harbor. It is fairly alive with craft of all kinds, ocean steamers, large sailing vessels bringing merchandise from the four quarters of the Globe, excursion steamers, yachts, tugs, dredges and mud scows. To the right is Bedloe's Island, with the famous statue of liberty enlightening the world. At night she illuminates a small portion of it with her powerful electric torch. One day I went over there, and when I got,to the statue the keeper told me the last boat left In just twenty minutes, so I had better get a, hustle on. By the way, what is it that makes men cross just about in proportion to the softness of their job? I was bound to get to the top of that statee 1f1 had to stay on the island all night: I got there, looked out of the windows in Liberty'e forehead, thought of writing my name, but de- cided not to, because the practice was too common, and got down again in time for the boat, but it wouldn't have taken much more to make me dizzy, and I felt as if my legs belonged to somebody else. In front of us is Governor's Island, with its superannuated fort and grassy rem - parts, guar -ding the city. To the left is the East River end Brooklyn Bridge, and behind are some of the finest build- ings in New York. Now we have reach- ed the end of our walk and it is tea- time, so good bye for the present. THE WANDERER. —William Parkhill's store, 710 Queen street west, Toronto, a few days ago witnessed the return of a prodigal Who had not seen his parents for 30 years. The son is Robert Parkhill, a wealthy southerner, and the keeper of the store is his brother William. Thirty-four years ago Robert left his parents' home in the north of Ireland, and afterwards joined the northern army during the American civil war. • About that time he had heard that his parents and brother had died, and as his family did not hear from him they judged him dead. The family in due course of time emigrated to Canada and settled in Kingston. Two weeks ago Robert left his home in the south to visit Kingston, and while there heard of his father. The old man did not recognize him at first. Just before R-obert's arrival the mother had left for Toronto to vieib her son. Father and son came on to Toronto and the happy reunion of the family took place as stated. The new found son will remove from- his southern home to Kingston. A Summer Outing. [WRITTIN FOR TILE EXPOSITOR.] As we do not belong to the favored few who take a tour around the world or sum- mer in Europe, we dectded to make the most of small mercies and see a little of our ow -n• fair Province of Ontario. Leaving dull care behind we arrived in Toronto and found the city taken pos- session of by an army of teachers, who were attending the International Con- vention then in session. After remain- ing there all night we started next morn- ing in a pouring rain for Ottawa. • This was our first experience of travelling by the Canadian Pacific Railway route, and for luxurioue and comfortable seats and easy mode of travelling, the line from Toronto to Montreal would commend it- self to the most fastidious. Passing through Peterboro on our way we had the pleasure of meeting Rev. A. Mc- Williams, well known to most of our readers, and sister, who heartily wel- comed us. It is indeed a fine town, in- ferior to no other in Canada, with a rap- idly increasing population of about 14,000, handsome buidings and wide, shady streets. The residents display great taste iu arranging their lawns; everywhere flowers are to be seenwhich, together with the fine scenery add very much to the beauty of the place. In the prettiest part of the town, on slight- ly rising ground, stand St. Andrew's church and manse, of which the Rev. Mr. MoWillisms is the much esteemed pastor. The former is a large brick !edifice with stained glass windows, ;handsomely carpeted, upholstered and ilighted by electricity. It also contains an excellent pipe organ. The manse is a two storey brick building, elegantly furnished and surrounded by spacious grounds. The Edison Electric Light Manufactory of Canada having recently been removed from Sherbrooke, Quebec, to Peterboro, fifteen large, two storey buildings are in course of erection, and they expect to employ two thousand workmen inside of two years, which with the street car works alio being removed from St. Catharines, will greatly increase the wealth and industry of the place. On the top of a hill stands the hompital, one of the many generous bequests of the late Mrs. Nichols. The cemetery is on a point of land overlooking the river, and no more beautiful and fitting epot could have been found for the quiet resting plaee of the dead. After being driven through the town and surroundings, we bade adieu and took our departure. The country through which we passed before reaching Smith's Falls is wild and rocky in the extreme. The road seemed to have been out out of the solid rock, but the monotony of the scene was often relieved by a charming little lake coming unexpectedly before us. The first view ebtained of Ottawa was somewhat disappointing. There, as in many other places, the station is built in the poorest part of the city. But, after penetrating further we had reason to change our opinion. The political capital is of interest, both from its im- portance as a city, and the beautiful scenery which surrounds it. Some of the most picturesque landscapes in Canada are to be found in its vicinity. Nature seems to have lavished her choicest gifts upon it. The magnificent Government buildings, erected at a cost of over $3,000,000, do credit alike to the architect who designed them and the Dominion. They occupy a unique position, covering a site of four acres, on a bluff of ground called Barrack Hill: overlooking the river, and are built of grey stone in the Italian Gothic style. It has often been remarked that no one should die before seeing them. The view they present from the river is picturesquely beautiful. The two Leg- islative Halls—the Senate and the House of Commons—are of the same size and constructed on the same models as the English Lords and Commons Houses. The library is a sight in itself. The grounds -are beautifully kept and correspond with the general appearance of the place. A splendid collection of minerak., animals and birds is to be found in the Geological Museum. The Fish Hatchery is well worthy of notice, every size and description of fish, from a minnow to a whale, is to be found there. Above this is the National Art Gallery, where many excellent paintings are exhibited. Among othera we nd- ticed one by our own celebrated artist, the late Mr.Wm. N. Cresswell. An old and esteemed friend, Mrs.Alex.McLean„ sister-in-law of our worthy Editor, kindly drove us to the Experimental Farm and some other places of interest. The Rideau canal connects the Ottawa with the St. Lewrence river and just be- low the city are the Rideau Falls. It is the chief centre of the lumber trade, vast quantitien being floated -for hun- dreds of miles down the Ottawa and its affluents. It is quite interesting te stand on the bridge and watch the logs floating down stream, of all sizes, they come one after another in rapid succes- sion. Crossing over to Hall, we pur- • posed visiting Eddy's match faotory,but a heavy rain corning on forced us to abandon our enterprise and make our way home as quickly aa possible. We were told that we missed a good deal as they undertook to make a match for every one who went ther. Ottawa abounds- in lovely walks and drives, the far-famed "Lover's Walk" being the most shittly and romantic retreat imeg- Inable. We come suddenly upon a friend from Toronto, who evidently thought that we had got retty far out of our latitude, as his firs remiirk was, "Well, is this a general r surreotion, or are you only taking a wa k ?" •T� be continnet RAMBLER. Canada. Wiarton is to have a new Public School building at a cost Of $5,000. ' —A7 -i pound silver baits was caught in the by near Picten the other day. —The expenses attending the Hamil- ton Saengerfest amourit to about $12,000. —Mr. Burke, of Braemar, had five of his hest heifers killed by lightning dur- ing the storm of the 19th inet. —On Thursday of last Week Hamilton received $1,100 in fines from liquor deal- ers who had violated the law. —A big gang of men is 'employed on the new telephone trunk line froin Owen Sound to Toronto. —The Presbyterians of Wiarton hese let the contract for the erection of a stone church to cost $10,000. —A farmer living near Kingston will reap seventy-eight bushelof oats to the acre, and each bushel will weigh forty pounds. —The Indians- on the 1St. Lawrenee making baskets have made, it is esti- mated, in the neighborhdod of $40,000 this season, • —Canadian newspapeIri ra coataini'g anything in the shape of dcttery adver- tisements will not be carred in United States mails. —Miss Ryckman, one �f the teachers in the Collegiate Institute, London, is said to have received an offer of $1,500 per annum from Toronto} —Ben Harper, a welLknown Grand Trunk Railway conductor, died on Fri- day last in - 13rockville of typhoid fever. • —Miss Annie Wilsen'who was re- cently graduated from Toronto Univer- sity, has been appointed on the -staff of the Presbyterian Ladies' College. —There are many applicants, among them several well known militia officers, for the wardenahip of Stoney Mountain Penitentiary, Manitoba. —Parcels weighing as much as seven pounds may now be sent to Great Brit-, ain by mail, the limit heretofore having been five pounds. —A legacy of $100,000, through the death of an English relative, has fallen to B. Cunningham, chief constable of Almonte. —At the session of e the Society of Florists in Toronto ori Wednesday of laid week, Washington, D. C., was chosen as the next place of meeting. —Northern Menitobe was visited by light frosts 012 Saturday' night. A warm wave reached the province the next day, and •the claimer to the crops was averted. —A meeting of Scotchmen was held in Walkerton lest Saturdey, when a camp of the Sons of Seotland Was opened with great success, over 40 'charter members being enrolled. — —The rains of Thunafay of last week saved the corn crop o1 Essex, and with toheeexception of some that le on high ground, the yield will be a very large n. —A sawmill boiler at Walsingham Centre exploded on Friday last, blowing the fireman 100 feet. He was terribly mangled, and lived 'only for a few minutes. —The other --morning W. Tiffer, Brantford, Was xing , a' bath at the Young Ladies' College,' in that towreand poured some molten lead over hie arm, burning the flesh to the bone. —Mrs. James Baxter, a resident of Sydenham township, near Owen Sound, died last week at the age -of 100 years and 8 months. She wait* a native of Perthshire, Scotland. —A bag containing eeveral thousand dollars' worth of money and valuables was stolen from the Canadian Express Company at Richmond, Quebec, a few days ago.- -The by-law to construct an electrio street railway from Port Arthur to Fort William by the town bf Port Arthur, has been carried, by a majority of 127. —The Astiniboine roller flouring mill and elevator at Portage -la -Prairie, Manitoba, have been Old to the Lake of the Woods Milling Company, who take possession on the let September, - —Mrs. Frank Cambell lost a purse containing about $25 last Saturday in the London market. ; A farmer's wife was also dispossessed ,of a pocketbook with $5 inside. Neither could account for the disappearance,1 —Mr. Andrew Logan, of., Pioton, an ex -private of the 93rd. Highlanders, has received a soldier's pay for sixty-two and a half piste. He is now in his 84th year, and ie hale and hearty. —A gentleman froth San Francisco, who was upset into Bhrlington bay while sailing on Friday last, was rescued by a yachtsman, whom he insisted upon rewarding by presenting him with his watch. —A Grand Trunk' Railway brakes - man named Daniel Oeborne was caught between the drawbar* of two cars at Kingston on Saturday, and a link pin driven through him. 1 He died two hour. afterwards. —Daniel Wise,of13uffalo, has been sentenced at St. Thomas to ten years in penitentiary and 60 lashes for commit- ting an unnatural striate on the person of William Scarborough, aged seven- teen. —The Montreal Witness tells of a visit from a veteran. It says: It is not often that a mon who has been away from Montreal for eighty years 0OUISS back. Mr. Robert Young, of Simeoe, Ontario was born in Montreal away back mething, and went to Sir000e with his parents at the age of two or three years, in 1810. When the old Temperanoe Advocate- ap red he and afterwards the Daily. He has been reading the Advocate and Witness for sixty years. Accompanied by Menne W. B. Scott, of Picton and Bruce Wal- lace, of Simcoe, Mr. Young arrived in Montreal the other day and looked once more on the scene of his birth. He shook hands with the 'Witness office, and made a tour of inspection among the pretties, folders, etc. -----john Chatham,Gananoque, observed that his pea. field was being devastated. After close observation it was fouud that the despoilers were a 8111611 army of eels from an adjoining c -reek. They raided the field at night. —Mies Christina Paesingham a teacher in the Leamington public sch'ools, *Mai spending her vacation with her brother in East Tawas, Michigan, Wae• taken ill and died, the cause being con- gestion of the spine. —William V. Wright, 13. A., mis- sionary in • Japan, has returned to Pickering, Ontario, with his wife and little daughter, he being forced to return home on account of ill -health after hav- ing spent three yeara in miesion work in Tokio. —The Rankin Scottish Concert Com- pany, including Mr. Robt. Rankin, Mrs. Haystead, Miss Aggie Rankin and Messrs. Sim Fax and Frank Gammond, have gone to Muskoka on a professional tour. —Frederick Strasser, tinsmith, Sparta, last Saturday went out to hive bees in his garden. They attacked him in numbers, stinging him in the neck near the jugular vein, resulting in instant death. Deceased was middle-aged, and leaves a wife and family, —The great musical festival (Saenger - fest), held in Hamilton last week, Was a grand success. The city was magnifi- cently decorated, and the streets were filled with crowds of people. The con- certs were attended by large and en- thusiastic crowds. —Jupiter is at present the most beau- tiful star in the evening sky. At 9.30 or 10 p. m. a good view may be had in the eastern sky of this great planet, but it will continue to TiSe mailer and increase in beauty for weeks and inonthe to come. --The apple crop in Prince Edward county is abundant, and it is estimated that 250,000 barrels will be marketed this year. Some farmers in the same county have realized from $1,000 to $1,600 each this year from their straw- berry crops. —Mr. James H. McRoberts, an exten- sive exporter of thoroughbred stock from the tvicinity of Lucati, shipped a few days ago for Indiana 275 full bred Shropshire sheep and four thoroughbred Clydesdale stallions. They occupied four freight cars. —Arraegements have been tnade for holding a Provincial plowing match at the ExperimIntal Farm, Guelph, under the auspices of the Agricultural and Arts Association and the South Welling- ton Plowing Association, some time in the latter end of October. —The Canadian Pacific steamship Empress of China, on the third and last around -the -world excursion, arrived at Hong Kong on Saturday, and will leave for Vancouver on September 1. All of the Canadian Pacific fleet are now on their regular stations. —The Executive Committee of the Hamilton Christian Endeavor Union -met on Friday and decided to organize societies in such of the city churches as had none. Is Ws' also decided that the Union literature should be distri- buted in the barbers' shops. —Professor A. S. Vogt, organist of Jarvis Street Baptist Church, Toronto, Was married on the 19th inst., at Bow- manville, to Mies Georgie McGill, eldest daughter 'of George McGill, manager of the Bowmanville branch of the Ontsrio Bank. —Ronald Currie a noted athlete of mioceede'd in lifting 1,055 pounds on Jerry MoDonald'a lifting machine one day lest week. The best record prior to that date was 1,035 - pounds, by John Noland, of the C. P. R. Currie is elated over breaking the record. —Tuesday last week, the Nenstadt • Creamery Association shipped 25,550 pounds of butter which brought the handsome sum of $4,669.80. This was only part of July make in order to com- plete two oars which were sent at that time. 17 mints per lb. was realized for the butter. —The first, second and third officers of the Hansa line (steamship Baumwall, now at Montreal, have been arrested for smuggling in three dozen bottles of brandy and six boxes of cigars. - The steamer is liable to a fine of $400, which the officere will have to pay if the fine is enforced. —Last Friday at Chatham, while re- moving a scaffold from St. Joseph's Hospital, in course of erection, William Draper, aged 17, .lipped and fell 50 feet, breaking both lege and injuring himself internally. One leg is completely crushed. There are but slight hopes of hi. recovery. —Advices received from several points in Minnesota,the Dakotas and Manitoba, show that the temperature has veered close to the frmst line, but that no merlons damage has yet been done. In Manitoba a few touches of frost were experienced, but without serious results to crops. —The Waterloo Jtuaction Railway, under the management of J. C. Boyd, has been pushed forward with consider- able energy of late between Waterloo and St. Jacobs, the track being laid and construction trains running to the letter place. The firat freight over this bnuach was shipped by E. W. B. Snider, Sat- urday, consisting of three oars of flour • destined for Montreal, St. John and Liverpool. The large bridgesseross the Conestoga river will soon be ready to receive the iron, so that the !wont read evez number of it. When t o terminus, Eltnira, will be reaehed in the Weekly anew was Woad he took it, 1 near future. t I ' 4:4,4