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The Huron Expositor, 1892-01-08, Page 1eeee ree;.- taing rge's :neat Dl in the ree, 'with and -ming. Lirne, good eyed the riving : ord- encial 2raw- . Rob- Benefit • es-en- tccese.. in the Con - Sage ; Hater,. ecatica; nits by r ;and alnil- lciib- r'�4tsn- rinille c kine. aeition i t)Wfl Rig W:,t3 1r:; :sic a Fs long free, last,. reality ed by oceu- y and 1 their t the Family ing to z grain Tart p 'who is the to the men e] d in tarn rn uch t one ad out. 'ere as -wen ;; , J. A. tiger, eelker, c,. amp - Il I fame leputy Kalb n. of the is tine brick do the i farm- , Wm. 1• just Smith Mr. S. offing ir1g ashes. to the Will. t Tues- ehased and it ander Taped Gwen abau ample - earned.. 100 on about It will r, how- rigin of le resi- uesday, ayes; a tern to held in as and ur years Forest- aeral. TWENTY-THIRD YEAR. WHOLE -NUMBER 1,256. 4 A SEAPORT H, FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1 COLORADO SKETCHES. (written for Tux Exeoarr0A.) LETTER NO. Ii. A COLORADO RANCH. Colorado ranches,or farms, (as they would bo called back east), vary in size from a few acres up to a thousand acres. They are al- ways along a river or creek bottom, for nothing can be raised here without Consequently there is an immense amount of unoccupied Government land which affords nothing but a little. grass. This is called the Range, and stock is allow- ed to run ever it at will. Very often when. a man had secured a homestead or pre-emp- tion along a river for a grain or hay ranch, or with a spring or goo.l lake on it for a sock ranch (the country is dotted with these shall stagnant lakes) he will fence in a thousand or fifteen hundred acres of Govern- ment land for a pasture. As this bas no water on it, it is of very little use to anyone else, so although he has no title whatever to it he is seldom molested and calls it his pas, tore. eall'hay and grain ranches are pretty much I4like, so I will describe one with which I am particularly intimate, and which will give my readers a pretty fair idea of what a ranch in Colorado is like, as this one is a very fair sample of the ethers. In an- other letter I will deal with stock ranches. The ranch I refer to consists of one hundred and twenty acres along the Huer- fano river, about one hundred on the north side, and about twenty on the south side of the river. Of this, sixty acres is under ditch that is subject to irrigation and there- for to cultivation. The remainder is too highto be irrigated and furnishes a luxur- ian=t crop of sagebrush. The whole is sur- rounded by what is called here a picket fence, that is a fence of dead stunted cedar, the trunks planted close together with the branches up in the air. For years and years a fence like this, with slight repairs, will turn any kind of stock except bulls and long -horned range steers. Nothing short of a wall of solid masonry will keep them in or out, especially if they happen to stampede. There are on the place two adobe houses, one of them a genuine Mexican cabin with flat roof and earthen fie or. It is the last relic of a Plaza or town which once stood there. These Mexican adobe houses are made of sun-dried bricks, the walla being about two feet thick, and plastered inside and out with mud of the sense kind as the bricks. The floors are made of hard -packed clay, and the inside walls are sometimes whitened with a kind of limestone found in the mountains. They are the most suitable houses for this coun- try, being warm in winter and cool in sum- mer on account of the thickness of the walls. Contrary to general expectation, Mexican houses are generally as neat as a new pin. Outside they resemble nothing so much as a pile of bricks just before being burned. The stable on the ranch I am describing is also of adobe, with an iron roof. On the east side of this is the horse corral, made by setting cedar poste in the ground close together. Then comes the hay corral, where the sea- son's crop of hay is stacked,. Adjoining this on the north is the beef corral, where the beef steers are fed during the winter. A little below the house, on a slightly elevated piece of ground, is the corral where the corn fodder, straw and third crop of hay _tree stacked. The river is fringed with cotton, woods and willows, and all around are the foothills of the Rockies : The Greenl rn, Sugarloaf, Sheep Mountain, Silvef Moun- tain, Greyback and the Sproule Hills. The Ranch is irrigated by two ditches, one on each side of the river, which start abouta mile above, and are the joint property of several ranchmen. If another man wished to get a water right in one of these ditches he must enlarge it from the source all the way down and pay a certain amount of money to the oompany. As may be supposed, there 18 considerable quarreling over the water, especially when it is scarce. At variousiutervali along the main ditches are sluice boxes, by means of which the water may be turned into an auxiliary ditch from which run other small ditches at regu- lar intervals, By means of small dams on. th se amaller ditches, made with a spade or ho , almost every inch of ground may be flooded and thoroughly soaked. The land requires to be thoroughly irrigated in the sprang before the crops are put in, and then as often as the crops need it. Rain cannot be depended upon at a-il. The ditches need to- be cleaned out often as the sand and other rubbish accumulate very rapidly, and on the whole the natural method , is much ahead of artificial irrigation. The principal crap here is alfalfa, a plant closely resemb- ling clover, about one hundred and sixty bons of which was raised this year in two crops. Besides this a considerable amount of qorn, oats and barley was raised. The price of grain rules about the same here as in Ontario, but hay is much cheaper. It can be sold only baled or in the stack,. The price for baled hay is from eight " `''to ten dollars per ton, : and baling -costs about $2.50 a ton, and then it has to be hauled from twelve to fifteen miles. In the stack, hay can be bought for about five dol- lare, and the seller is required to feed it dur- ing the winter to stock furl shed by the briefer. Every farmer who -has ever fed beef steers will readily understand what - it mems to handle fifty or sixty head of range sters, some of which are eight or nine years old.. and none of which have ever seen a man mo a than once in two or three months. Sudh steers as these are lotrg-legged; long - horned and tough as wire. They can run as fast as an ordinary horse and will . break through almost any kited of a fence. Sheep areoften fed also during the winter, and on th whole are said to be much more profit- abl than cattle. t will be seen from the foregoing that farrning is Colorado is not a " snap " yet. Of leonine, it has its advantages. The cli- mate is probably the most nearly perfect to be found in America. Even in the hottest paott of the summer the nights are delicious- ly cool, and in winter the middle of the day is generally warm enough to make gloves and overcoat burdensome. Sleighs are almost unknown. Firewood of the very beet kinds can always be had, ready to burn, for. the drawing of it. Although there is not much money to be made out of a ranch, and that commodity is plot so plentiful as might be desired, still everybody seems always to have plenty to eat, drink and wear, and if he does not feed stock during the winter a ranchman has Iit:tle to do but amuse himself. To this end he may attend a fandango and shake his leg a little" in the mazes of the dance, or a literary society mayhap, and addle his brains and tie his tongne in a bow knot in the endeavor to convince a small but select audience " that water is more necessary than land " or "that a good-natured, though slatternly wife is preferable to a scrupulously neat one in whom the milk of human kind- ness has turned sour." If there courses in his veins the blood of Nimrod he may find in the mountains, mountain lions, bear, deer and grouse, or on the plains jack -rabbits, cotton tails and wild ducks. Some, •their minds laden with the dream of becoming suddenly rich, prefer hard labor to pleasure and go prospecting in the mountains for gold or silver and crane back in the spring to coax it out of the boil of the plains. Ranch hands or farm laborers are much better paid here than in the East for doing the sumo or even less work, and the ranchmen them- selves generally take back oast. I know a piece, who would leave his mower in t a neighbor rode by a bunch of antelopes o. other near by thinks attention to the four life easier than farmers one down the river unhitch his team and he middle of a swath if nd told him there was a It on the prairie. An - more of and pays more or five thoroughbred horeee he owns than his ranch. Mcst of the wealthy ranch en have made their money by other meas. -One .who occurs to my mind just now o ns four or five large ranches. He made his start by bringing gunny sacks from Fort Worth to Denver and selling them aft an enormous profit, somewhere back in {the sixties. Then he went to store-keepin stores yet some of t started with, moat)y chased for a mere so , and has in his two e identical goods he old army supplies pur- g at the close of the Civil War. I could tell any . number of yarns about this quer old customer, but space forbids. Youi'w-ill gain a • good in- sight into his character when I say that he still uses a set of old artillery harness bought is mostly chains it is as the old man and rse yet. after the war. As i likely to last as long ruin many a good h To sum up, if I had money enough to en- able me to adopt agriculture as a pastime I would farm in Colorado amid the grand scenery of the Rockies and spend my winters East, but if I had toi farm for a living I should prefer to do i:i could carry back mo box car and an incre, there, and I think I t of the romance in a se of vocabulary. THE WANDERER. Christi n Hope. ROM. III. 24-25. [WRITTEN FOR TILE Exros[TOR.] Faith and Hope a e companion graces ; they are inseparab e ; they always go to- gether. Faith with nt Hope would be im- possible, and Hope without Faith would be presumption. Faith' according to Hebrews xi. 1, is the "substa ice (that is ground or confidence) of thingshoped forothe evidence Faith is the ground of e rest our, hope. Hope are blessings which are it implies more than implies earnest expecta tion. " For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the son of God." Now, a great deal of our happiness, even in a temporal sense, is de- rived from anticipation ; from an earnest de- sire or expectancy of future bless:-nge. We not only live in the piesent and the paet,but we also live largely i' the future. No mat- ter what our trade.o calling in life may be; no matter whether a live under the bright star of prosperity, ort under the dark cloud of adversity ; no m tter what our estimate - of true peace or ha piness may be, we are -d to a time when we ;better than we are at ses shall crown our ef- shall reach that goal s us as the object of of things not seen.'i assurance on which implies desire for fat as yet unseen. But mere desire ; it also ever looking forwa shall be happier and present. When sueo forts, and when we which we place befor our ambitions. The husbandman i the spring time sows in hope. He prepays the ground, scatters in the precioue seed and then baries it out of sight. But he hppee in the autumn to reap a harvest. " it till it receive th rain." . Nor does he sand; for he knows t well, if he properly,prepares the soil and carefully distributes the right kind of seed, that he can safely leave results in the hand of Him who giveth the sunshine and the fruitful field, and that' God will fulfil his gracious promise that there shall be seed tine and harvest to the end of the world. And so in spiritual husbandry. When we sow the seed of the hope, although some sults that would wa e hath long patience for early and the latter rest his hopes upon the at if he does his part ingdom, let us sow in Mmes we do not see re - rant a harvest, still let ua hope on, for in dills time we shall reap if we faint not. The student kerne in hope. In his lab- orious studies he is elften discouraged. Prob- lems are presented to him which tax his mental energies to the -utmost, and with which he is frequently unable successfully to cope. He often wonders how bis memory will be able to retair the growing mase of facts and figures wit oughly acquainted. spair, he studies o and hopes on, for he knows that theres " no royal road to learning ;" that daei by day the difficulties before him will vani*h and that one day he will be able to scale these Alpiue peaks of knowledge and be fi ted for his life's work to preach the gos el, or heal the sick, or teach the young. And so in our study of the Bible and human life. We feel that we are " Babes in knowledge." We meet with many things that are dark and mysterious to us, but we should not despair, we should learn on and hope on, knowing that day by day we are learning more of God, of His work, of His Providence, and of 'His love, and that one day God will reveal himself more. fully to us. And that- though now " we see through agiaes darkly, we will then see face to face and know even as n which he must be thor- But he does not de - we are known." The exile upon hope. He feels h -s He ie in a strange la ple, who speak a a lonely and friendles despair, for though waits and hopes th banishment will ex be restored, and th to bend his steps fathers, and once m friends. We are house. Sin has dri mediate presence. pilgrims here upon need not despair. a free pardon from and sealed with the and therefore we day we will be clea will be restored to . of God. - . We will heavens and into communion with J holy angels, and ve-th the " spirits of just men, made perfect.' Lastly, the marinr is saved by Hope : He is out upon the'tra kless ocean ; he is near- ing port the sky, which for days perhaps has been cloudles , becomes overcast ; the wind which had be n moderate and gently filled his sails rises nto ` a tempest; the sea whose surface had een smooth and placid, is soon lashed into fury. His frail craft is tossed like a new ubble before the angry tempest. Before im is a reef of rocks. Darkness is fast clo ing in. There is not a sail in sight. There is not even the cheering ray from a distant ighthouse. But the ma- riner does not u terly despair. There is still one gleam o hope in his breast. He has the anchor. t is dropped, and as the heavy cable runs at he hopes that the anchor will take a rm hold upon the solid bottom, and that t e cable will be equal to foreign shore waits in bondage very galling. d among a strange pee-- raage language. He le , but he does not quite ften cast down, yet he t one day his term of ire, that his liberty will t he will be permitted owards the land of his re rejoin his family and xilea from the Father's en ns away from hisrm- We are strangers and arth, but thank God we e have in our possession the King. It is signed blood of the King's son, have the hope that one sed from every stain. We rue Sonship in the family enter into the highest he closest relation and sus Christ with all the 92. $1.50 a Year, in Advance. McLEAN BROS. Publishers. the giant strain, and so he is saved by hope. Like the mariner we are out upon the sea of life. We are tossed about with errors of selfisbnees, of pride, of infidelity.' We are driven before the mad waves of passion, of lust and of pleasure. ' Darkness is all around us. The rocke are in sight. But, thank God, we need not despair, we have the anchor, the anchor of Christian hopo.t Now the anchor of the sailor may. slip, or ibis cable may snap in the gale. But the anchor of the Christian will never - Slip. "It is sure and steadfast and entercth into that within the veil." And the cable of love that binds it will never break. "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ ? Shall tribulation or distress or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, - or peril, or sword ? Nay, in all those things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us." Thus, like the mariner, we aro saved by hope. Ru STICUS. • The Salvation Army in the Far West. Staff -Captain and Mrs. Simcoe, of the Salvation Army, have recently returned to Montreal, from a : prolonged visit to the Canadian North-west. One of the objets of their visit was to raise funds for the French work, in the Province of Quebec. They gave the following interesting particu- lars of their visit to a Witness.reporter : Three men were in a Salvation Army meeting in Calgary lately, and one became so abusive that he had to be put out. The next day Staff -Captain and Mrs. Simcoe, who had conducted the meeting, were ';travel ling by railway to Moosejaw. A wild cow- boy came into the car and loudly celled Mrs. Simcoe by name. "You're the -sort of peo- ple I like," he said ; " I think there's a good.. dual in the Salvation Army. They threw me out last night in Calgary, and I had given 75 cents collection, too. Say, you know I was a good boy once. Went to meetings • and - all -that. Lived in Bath, England, and they sent me over here to im- prove on myself after I got wild. Say, I'm worse here than I was there. But maybe I'm tiring yon-" And he was off. " He sent us in peaches from the colonist sleeping car in which his party was," con- tinued Mrs. Simcoe - " large, delicious peaches, and we sent him our thanks in return. We had eaten them before learning tha he anhis party were gambling for hes, as they could not gamble for ks, much to the satisfaction of the train boy. Of course we were taken aback. Next a message came from the gambling party in the colonist car urging us to hold a meeting there and then, and hold it we did. Yon know how a colonist car is Lull of s tobacco fumes and so forth before being long occupied. I had my concertina and the men sang heartily. ' Beulah Land' was the favorite tune. They were most atten- tive and gave a collection of $3.30 towards the Frenoh work." - - THE Y )ICH-CANADIA)T ABROAD. - "We met several French-Canadians in the West," said Captain Simcoe. "One said he had been a gallant supporter of Mrs. Simcoe at Quebec. We recognized him. He was one of a gallant mob that chased her one night. In New Westminster we found an- other who was a `hanger-on of the Army, .and one day he confessed that he was one of those who threw the bottles at the Army meeting in the Boneecoure market in 1888. 'The color -sergeant of the Vancouver branch is a converted Canadien." pea d THE STORY of PETE. Pete Hooker was a bad Indian who wanted ten dollars several years ago. He was in the Rocky Mountains and he went to a dootor who had taken up -a claim, and asked him for the money. The doctor said : " I will loan it to you, Pete, but I never expect to see it or you again. Good bye." Mr. and Mrs. Simcoe, attired in official uniform, were walking on the streets of Vancouver this summer when the medical gentleman aforesaid stopped them and said : " I never used to believe in the Salvation Army. Wouldn't yet, only for one thing. An Indian I loaned ten dollars to - three years ago put it in my hand to -day. Said he had joined the Army and must pay his debts. That's practical." - And he harried on.. Pete is doing well in the Army. INDIAN WAYS AND MEANS. The Indian is a simple child of nature, and the Chippswas at Selkirk are of exceed- ing great ignorance. Captain Simcoe sang several French hymns to them. They thought if a white man conld speak more than one tongue he could, of course, speak Chippewa, and accordingly requested a solo in that language. "One time we held a meeting and invited the children of the forest to come in. It was no use, something seemed to deter them; An aged Indian, who knew the Army methods to some extent, volunteered to gather them ie. I told him to go ahead. He went to the door and called "No moy e Mexican" -I got him to write it out forme -and they all came trooping in. They had thought that we charged an admission fee until assured by their comrade that it was free." " There is much destitution among the Indians," continued the captain. " The beggar Indians are numerous. They have ponies. Three twenty -foot poles are bound together at the pony's neck and drift out behind, on the ground. This makes a sort of cart, and the basket for scraps placed thereon. It is no uncommon thing to see the Indian's pappoose tied to .this impromptu cart, which is more safe and comfortable than one might think. The Reorer beggars use dogs instead of horses." The gaoler is not a Christian, but he is not bi oted. The prisoners listen very attent- ively and three or four souls have 1peen saved al ongst them. RESULTS OF THE TRIP. " We think much good has been done by t e trip. We held four meetings each Sun - d y, and- altogether preached itwenty- t ree churches and halls. exclusive of Army b ildings. They gathered for the French w rk in Quebec $1,865 net, which will re- ve the debt of the provincial corps, leav- in now only a debt of some $600 A New 4 estminster man who bad held the Army i high contempt was led by the Meetings to p omise $100 yearly. Another man increased h s subscription from $5 to $50." The trip was also beneficial to the 'health o these two earnest soldiers. pI Canada. -J. "Z. Long, St. Thomas, has prepared airs for a $30,000 Masoi is Temple there. -Wyoming Methodists raised $85 at recent missionary services. -Mr. O'Hagan, of Paisley, has been en- ged as head teacher of the Waterdown gh School. -During December, 49 births 16 mer- ges and 18 deaths were registered at the ci y clerk's office, London, -The Salvationists paraded the streets of L ndon New Year's morning, and held an o en meeting on the market square. - F. Munn, a Delaware stage driver, and 11 known in London, died a few days ago inflammation. ; - One dealer in Galt on the day before rietmas, alone sold 1,300 pounds of turkeys. - Detective John Cuddy, one shrewdest members of the Toren fo g ri W of C SO is fu C. co li an ca -at en of BC 0 ou li n• th on Li wr ith $50 and the street car drivers with $3r. - The customs receipts at Halifax during 1: ' 1 amounted to $1,080,257, a decrease co . pared :with 1890 of $626,293. The re- cur pts for December were $74,055, a decrease of $54,507. Shipping returns for the year, at Hali- , N. S., thew, in regard to the number of eels and their tonnage, remaining' on the istar, a decrease of 22 vessels and 3,586 e from last year. -Bishop O'Connor on the afternoon of. jw Year's Day laid the corner stone of and seed the St. Joseph's hospital, in course erection on the corner of Grosvenor and ohmond streets, London. - Mr. John Pinkney, near Walkerton, re- ved as a Christmas present from] the Otter eek Cheese Factory a 50-1b. chese. Mr. Pnkney has had extensive dealings with t is factory during the year. •While working in the woods at Elm- st • ad, Essex county, on the aft rnoon of D cember 318t, Mr. James Waters was at uck by a limb of a falling tree, which ki led him instantly. J , -A dealer in St.Stephen,New Brunswick, snipped three hundred barrels of cracked c.rn to Nova Scotiathe week bef re Christ - m s. The following week he sbi ped five h ndred barrels more to the same arket. Woodstock hotelkeepers ha4e placed t n emselvee under a bond to faithfully ob- a- ve the license law,agreeing to forfeit $200 f•4 charitable objects for every conviction of it egal selling. - Sidney, the 5 -year-old sen of Mark B.wey, of St. Thomas, was kicked in the f ehead by a horse the other ev ning, in - fl cting a horrible gash. The chip 's condi- tion is serious; -W. Beamish, the $ellevill customs officec who was missing, has written from Chicago stating ho will not reurn. His b ks are all correct, and no reason can be a argned for his action. He was 35 years in t e service. As John Nixon, ex -reeve of s er, was driving home the other h ti rt b of the to police ce, is dead of typhoid fever. A stable owned by W. W itlock, of rest, was burned the ether day Ind a cow Madly injure.' that she had to b gilled. Mr." Sehiverea, the well know evangel- , has just closed a series.of very success - meetings in Yonge Street Methodist urch, Toronto. The prcprievor of the old Elgiii House, oodztock, has.;had to pay a fine of $50 and ts for keeping liquor for sale without a enae. Daniel Moor, of Alliaton, had this barn . contents burned- recently. 'The straw ght fire from the friction of the carriers ached to the separator, and coon all was eloped in flame. Dr. F. F. Innes, of Houlton, Maine, an ►, Blenheim township lad, is visiting the nee of his youth and friends of yore in ford county. He has been very, prosper - in the East. In 1874 the County of Oxford had 104 .need hotels ; now it has 52-2$ in the th riding and 24 in the south. In 1874 re were 29 shop licenses ; now there are ly-5. - Mr. George Robinson, of Robinson, tle & Co., London, began the new year by senting the members of the police force fa ve rel to: N bl of R ce C PROGRESS YERSU5 THE SHACE. "An electric line of cars was opened be- tween Vancouver and New Westminster, twelve miles, while we were there. Nearly all the western cities have electric -cars. But in the shacks, especially those in Vic- toria, deviltry of all kinds goes on almost undisturbed. The shack is a plank board hut of one or two rooms, covered with vermin and filled with human beings, the lowest of every nationality. These shacke are sometimes built on the rocks, and are so thickly clustered that neither road nor lane can be found between them. Literally they are falling on top of each other." . THE ARMY'S CIRCUIT RIDERS. " We went to Chilliwack and took part in the first Salvation Army meeting ever held there, except by the Army's circuit riders. Three young officers travel all through the mountains, with headquarters at Spencer Bridge, British Columbia. They are away` for a month at a time, during which time they hold about twenty-four meetings. They have eleven regular meeting places, but hold most of the meetings in hotels in the mining districts, and on the ranches. They travel about twenty-five miles a day, and stop at every village or camp_ In the lumbering camps they pray with the sick men. The collections pay the expenses, as the mountaineers give good sums. "In Nanaimo tho gaol is open to the various denominational preachers, and the Army's turn comes about once a month. Westmin- ught, his ree became nnmanageble and ran away, rowing Mr. Nixon out on the hard ad and cutting and bruising his face dly. -The debt against the Ottawa Young en's Christian Association, $9,000, has been iped out, and the association starts the w year with a clean sheet. The inetitu- on has a $30,000 property free of encum- ance. - John Coonlin was drowned in the Grand iver at Brantford on Thursday morning of st week. - Deceased was on a spree Satur- y and it is supposed on his way home aturday night mistook bis way and walked to the river. - -A miner, while prospecting on John erry's farm in Barry township, Frontenac, . recovered a cave of unknown extent con- ining silver stalactites, which he bas since eaten into rings. The ore in sight is very al u able. - A ,?octal mail clerk named Hayden, one f the oldest on the 101e between Montreal nd Toronto, has bee suspended on enepic- n of being implicated in the disappearance f some registered letters. He has been in he service for over nineteen years. -The Hudson Bay Company-- shipped 10,000 worth of furs from Victoria to Eng - and on Saturday; 19th ult.., going over the anadian Pacific Railway. They are mostly eal-skins to be disposed of at the great Jan- ary sales. -Fort William, on Lake Superior, makes return for six months and a half of naviga- ion season, thus 604 vessels of 688,000 ons reported and cleared ; 202,500 tone of reigbt handled ; 4,654,000 bushels Manito- a wheat. -In the Supreme Court at Ottawa last eek judgment was given in favor of the ppellants in the ease of Dixon vs. R. & 0. . Co. The case arose out of the wreck of he steamer Passport at the entrance to the ornwall canal in the summer of 1886. Dia- a but the Supreme Court reversed the judg- ment and decided in favor pi the company It is thus affirmed that the baggage of com- mercial travellers,_ who travel on epecial rates is at ttreir own risk in transit, they in accepting reduced rates absglving the carri- ers from responsibility for damages. • -The other day, at Belleville, whilst Simeon Sanford, a laborer, was attelnptiog to board a; moving freight train he fell un- der the wheels, which so horribly' mangled his legs that he died shortly after. He 'leaves a wife and family. j -Mr. W. Cowan, of Victoria Harbor, died on Sunday evening at 6 p. m., and was buried at midnight-aauee df his death be- ing the w t rst kind of diphtheria. Mr. Cowan contacted the disease at the White Fiah River shanties. Dr. Raikes did all that medical skill could do for him. -Mr. Arannah Dunlop, Conservative M. P.P., fol North Renfreve, died on Friday last of diabetes after a week's illness. Mr. Dunlop wasj born there in 1846. His grand- father published the firet newspaper in Philadelphi, and one of hie brothers was a general int a American- army in 1812. - Stephe Hall has retired from the Blen- heim township council, Oxford county, owing to ill -health, after a faithful service of• over a quarter of a century.' He was first elected to Ithe council 3l years ago, and since then I has served as; a councillor and reeve 27 years. -On Friday night, during the absence of Hugh Thompson, his house, situated near Maxwell, Grey County, took fire, And his father, an aged and blind man, was burned to death. The house and everything in it was destroyed. The origin of the fire is not known. 1 , -J. Garber, township of Esse, has had his barns, four horses, a let of poultry, a grain drill apd 2,000 bushel', of grain com- pletely destroyed by fire. The insurance is $1,600. The owner and his wife were in Toronto at the time on their way to England. • -Mr. and Mrs. Conductor Quirk, of Kin- cardine, royally entertained a number of their moat intimate friends on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of their wedding a few evenings ago. The company unani- mously voted the occasion one of the hap- piest they had ever spent. -S. B. Burdette, M. F. (Liberal) for East Hastings, is lying at the point of death, and the lawyers on both sides have agreed upon consent to postpone the trial, which was fixed for January 12, at Belle- ville unless the member should in the mean- time recover. -During the past year the amount of fines and fear paid into the Brantford police court amounted to $1,630.35, of which $163.85 was paid to the Ontario Govern- ment on liquor fines and for damages to in- dividuals, and the balance, $1,466.60, has been paid to the city treasurer. - William Burns, B.A., science master of the St. Catharines Collegiate Institute, has been offered the position of inspector of schools in the Province of British Columbia and has accepted the oiler. Mr.Burns is the second inspector of high Schools who has been a master in the Collegiate Institute at St. Catharines. -Geo. E. Robinson, of Leamington, was one of a party of: hunters - who were Ont hunting partridges. He became separated from hie companions and wandered some distance away. One of the party fired at a rising -bird, and Robinson received part of the charge in his eye. He Was taken to De- troit to have an operation performed. -On Tuesday morning of last week fire was discovered in the barn of Leon Lappan, of Sandwich East. Mr. Lappan keeps a dairy farm, and the barn and contents and 17 cows were destroyed. The evening pre- vious a friend had Rrrived there to remain over night, and his horse wee also burned to death. -. -Mr. Ge rge Morton, who has been do- ing business at Boisaevain,: Manitoba, as a merchant, grain dealer and farmer, is dead, at , the age of 70 years. Mr. Morton was highly respected, In the early days of Brockville he carried on in that place a very extensive general store busi- ness. -A member of a prominent Toronto firm who was recently visiting Canada after a residence ef:twelve years be England, 'said the general use of telephone and electric light in thiS country was a revelation to him. There are, he said, more telephones in use in Toronto than in London, Eng- land. 1 -The members of Delaware Valley Court in Delaware have presented a laudatory ad- dress and hendsome Bible to the late finan- cial secretary, W. A. lintten, who is leav- ing to take charge of the sc ool in Tilbury. ife Mr. Hutton has also been resented by his pupils with a gold -headed cane. Both ad- dresses refer to his high standing as a citi- zen, teacher and church worker. -John Cempbell, of Renfrew, telle of a strange dream which his father, the late Peter Campbell, Sr., had some time before his death, and stranger still, the dream was verified. Mr. Campbell dreamed he would die on Chrietmas night, and so certain was he of his death on that night that he told his faMily he would die at the time he did. -An amociation has been formed in Maganetawan, called thp "Parry Sound Colonization Society," whose object is the formation of a colony in Alberta, near Ednionton. Hugh Irwin, G. T, Montgomery and G. T. Pearce have been elected ditectors, of whom the last named is president. !Branches are to be eatablished -George Marr, of Ingersoll, has returned from 'Chicego where he was undergcing a surgical operation. He has been suffering for some time from a large tumor on the side of hitneck, The attending physicians re- fused to petform the operation. Some weeks ago he was' made the recipient of a well fill- ed purse by his fellow employes in, the Nixon Bros. Manufacturing Workresufficient to defray his expenses to Chicago, and he returns ahnost fully recovered. months ago J. B. Reynolds, while shooting ducks, shot his uncle, George Reynolds, in the back, and on Christmas Day the young man who has now lost his life went to shoot off au old pistol. s It did not go off. He went to look into the: barrel when it went off, the powder burning his face, but other- wise he escaped. -A fashionable New Year's wedding took place in Woodstock, being the mar- riage of Mies May Doyle, only daughter of J. B. Doyte, to John F. McKay, editor of the Leamington Post. The ceremony 'was performed at the residence of the bride's father, and was witnessed by a large gather- ing of friends from Chicago, Port Huron, Strathroy, Niagara, St. George, North Branch, Michigan; Leamington and other places. -A-working man dropped into an office in Woodetock, Wednesday, last week, and handed over $35, saying, " We want you to apply this on the Build- ing Fund of your church, as a free will offer- ing. My wife has made a rule to lay by a tenth of our income for the cause of God. We have been using out of it all the year for various church and charitable purposes, and this is what we have left." If there were more of these kind of people, there would certainly be fewer church debts. -Rev. Mr. Wilkinson, Methodist minis- ter in the Camlachie circuit, was driving home from the Christmas entertainment at Blackwell, when his horse took fright and ran away. Mr. Wilkinson was thrown from the cart, escaping with a few slight bruises, The horse stepped on a rail that was lying in the road, and one end flew up and struck the animal in the stomach, disemboweling it, and it died almost instantly. The cart was broken in,several places. It was a miracul- ous escape for the reeerend gentleman. -Rev. Mr. Winchester, of Berlin, has been called by the Foreign Mission Commit- tee of the Presbyterian Church, to undertake mission work among the Chinese in British Columbia. The session and congregation are to be summoned to appear before the Presbytery of Guelph at its meeting on Jan- uary 19, iu their interests, Mr. Winchester having been in China for some time is well qualified for the duty he has been aeked to -Two years ago Oliver Reaume, Ander- don, started a hedge fence from the seed of the osage orange. The first year it grew fully two feet, but being tender, the frost cut about six inchee. This year it has grown fully two feet more. It maketaa good appearance. Mr. Reaume is preparing' to continue it all around his farm. He thinks the osage orange is well adapted to this cli- mate, It makes a very cheap fence. For ten acres it coat him $2 for the seed. -There passed away at his home in Lon- don West a few days ago, after a long ill- ness, an old resident of London in the per- son of Mr. Patrick Cooney. Deceased was universally respected, being a hard-workinge industrious man. He came to Lond_on when. it was only a small village, and he also helped to cut the timber used in the con- struction of the Grand Trunk Railroad through London. He was the father af 13 children, 8 of whom are living. --The tunnel under the St. Clair River is a great bonanza for the Grand Trunk. The Port Huron Times says : There is a great car blockade in Port Huron at the present time, Every inch of available track room at the tunnel yards and at Griswold street is ocr- cupied,and trains -are passing through the tun- nel as fast as two monster engines can draw them. Port Huron elevators are furnishing to the Grand Trunk Railway 200 cad' loads of grain daily,and heavily loaded trains from the west are arriving every hour. -Walter Waltere, a farmer, residing on the second concession of Westminster, near Byron, drove into London Saturday to at- tend market. His horse returned home withott a driver in the evening, and mem- ibers of his anxious family started back over the road to ascertain the reason. At the crossing of the second concession and the Wharncliffe road they found Walters' dead body lying in the ditch. It is supposed the buggy had upset and deceased had received injuriee as a result of being thrown out that caused his death. -Mise Sada Marr, of Victor, Norfolk county, is the posserisor of a quilt that is probably the most ancient relic of the kind in Canada. It was pieced by her great- grandmother after she came to her second eyesight, and the centre of each block was a piece of her great great-grandmother's dress, one of the first pieces of print that was ever bought in Canada, for which she paid seventy-five cents a yard. Her great - great -grandmother was a Collver, mother of the late John Mark Collver, of Windham. -Mrs. John McBain widow of the late John McBain, of Beverly township, a few miles from Galt, died on the 29th ult., -from the effects of e bad fall she received last August. Mrs. McBain was in her 81st year. She wae a Dative of Invernesshire, Scotland, and came to New York State in 1832. After% residence of about three years in that State, they came by ex team all the way to Bever- ly, then taking up the farm on which they subsequently resided, earning and retaining during all their loug life the entire affection of all those with whom they were brought in contact. Mrs. McBain leaves a family of four sons and- three daughters. -There was a. family re -union at the res- idence of Mr. Henry Deiris of Wyoming, rea Christmas day. The g thering consisted of Mrt Dennis' six brothers and four sisters, with their wives and husbands. This is the first gathering the family has had for twenty years, at Which time they met with their par- ents at the old homestead. On Friday the members 4f the family to, the tnumber of 19 went to Parolee, and were photographed. -On the morning of the 29th ult., Truman Reynolds, aged 15, son of John Reynolds, of Blenheim, said he was going to the creek to shoot rate: About dusk his dead and burn- ed body was found on the, ice. It is suppos- ed that he used the butt of his gun to break the ice, which, breaking easier than he ex- pected, let the gun go through, striking the hansmer and discharging the gun, the full charge of.Which struck him in the throat, the glancing took away the top of the heart. The fire from the gun then set fire to his clothing, which was completely burned ex- cept his boots. The body was burned to a crisp. This is the third shooting accident in the Reynolds family this winter. A few made payable to a person who did not in law exist at the time, nor have an existence pOW, this money must be paid to Joseph Leah, the brother of deceased, for distribu- tion among his relatives, To pay the money to Miss Roddy, the master ruled, would be to admit that Miss Roddy was tile- widow of deceased. -Thomas Foreman, an old-time resident of Elma died on December 22nd. He had an attack' of the grip last winter Which de-, veloped a case of pleurisy. He wet a son of John Foreman, of Lincolnshire, England, Where he wee born in 1840. In 1845, at the age of 5 years, his father's family came to Canada and settled in Pickering. Thomas took up 200 acres in Elma in 1860. -B. Rosenberg°, of Blanshard, has had a magnificent return from his cows for the teason just -closed. His twenty cOws aver- aged 4,500 pounde milk per head, or 1,500 pounds per head in excese of the yield of the average dairy cow. The milk of the season for the twenty head averaged 6l31.60 per pow. These figures are from the books of the Blaashard Cheese and Butter Co. -The annual meeting of the patrons of Avondale cheeee factory was held on Wed- nesday, 2 -3rd December. The annual report was read by Mr. Bollentyne. It showed that the amount of milk received at the factory was somewhat less than last season, but was on the whole satisfactory. The Price received for September and October Fheese was 10a cents. The meeting closed after witnessing an eXperiment with the -Two Loudon young men foural them- selves in a rather not-te-be-deairedi position Saturday night. They had a livera rig, and one was driving east near Kansington bridge, while the ether, who had just got out of the rig, was following on fdot cloSe aehind, Suddenly horse, buggy and driver turned a summersault down a small hill and landed in a hollow. The buggy was smash- ed to atoms, and the harness was also dam- eged to a great extent. Both of the ani- mals, however, escaped uoinjured. Liquor *Caused the whole trouble. -Carleton Place is the proud possessor of " electric girl." Her name is Miss Abbott. If published accounts of ber (beings are to be relied on, her voltage ie enormous. An angry bull which ruehed at her she ix said to have -literally taken by the horns and tressed aside, notwithstanding his weight was 11,900 pounds. The animal evidently mis- took Miss Abbott for the ordinary kind of girl, and has probably not yet recovered from his eurprise. The Canadian girl has long been noted for her magnetism; and noir that to this she has added electric power, she becomes simply irresistible. -The election in Toronto of officers of the Canadian Society of Musicians resulted as follows : President, F. H. Torrington ; vice- president, A. E. Fisher- secretary, V. P. Hunt ; treasurer, Mrs. 'Bigelowi assistant secretary, Mrs. Bigelow • general represen- tativea, E. Fisher, Miss Hillary, T. Martin - representatives of cities -Toronto, W. 0'. Forsyth ; Hamilton J, E. P. Aldone • Lon- don, Mrs. Moore ; 'Ottawa, Miss Christie; Xingston,,Mies Callaghan • St. Catharine., Brantford, G. Fairlough • St. Thomas, 3.11. Jones ; Gaelph, Mrs. 'Harvey ; Stratford, Mrs. SMith. -On Christmas Eve, there waa left at St. Andrew's manse, Guelph, a box containing a beautiful silk pulpit robe, addressed to the drew's church, as a mark of his people's esteem. Mrs. Smith was, at the same time, made the recipient of a handsome and taste- ful set of drawing -room furniture, which had been ingeniously spirited into the parsonage while she and her husband were out by invi- tation (not accidentally) spending the even- ing. A modest little card attached was the only index to the myetery, bearing the words, "To Mrs. J. C. Smith, the gift of the -A very pretty wedding took place at the home of Mr. and Mrs, Henry Lamb, of Downie, on Monday, December 21st, at 11.40 a.m., in which their second daughter, Miss Ida was united to W. H. East- wood, of' Cleveland, Ohio. The ceremony was conducted by the Rev. John Scott, M.A. of St. Marys. The bride was given haway'by her father and supported by her couein, Miss Florence Humphrey, of Dela- ware, the groom's right hand man being Lewis Lamb, brother of the bride. Mrs. Eastwood will be greatly mimed in the old home and carried with her many tokene of love and esteem from kind friends to the new home in Ohio. -Dr. Richard Orton, a well-known med- ical practitioner in Guelph, died Sunday af- ternoon from blood aoisoning, caused by an abrasion of one of his toes from which he ans been suffering R ince Saturday week. The abrasion was insignificant in itself, but the deceased had been suffering from diabetes. He came of a family of physicians. His ,grandfather and three sons were doctors, and also his eldest - uncle and his three brothers one of whom is the well-known Dr. G. Orton, ex -M. P. for Centre Wel- lington, and now a surgeon in connection with the Indian reserves in the Northwest. -From the report of Dr. Lackner, phy- sician to the Waterloo House of Industry and Refuge, in Berlin, for the year ending November 20th last, it is learned that there were three births in the house during the year, and sixteen deaths, as _follows ; Burkholder, admitted May 27th, 1890, died December 8th from old age, aged 76 years. Henry Stange, admitted April 20, 1880,died December 30th, 1890, from epilepsy, aged 71 years, Henry Sands, admitted Decem- ber 13th, 1890, died February 6th, 1891, from injuries received by falling out of a second storey window the previous night, aged 77 yeare. Peter Wuret, admitted February 9th, 1881, died March 13th, from old age, aged 71 years'. Robert Croaby, ad- mitted May 12th, 1889, died Merch 19th, from old age, aged 83 years. Anthony Wales, admitted October lit, 1889, died Apeil 7th, from old age, aged 77 years, Conrad Soh- weitzer admitted March 25th, 1890, died April 30th, of cancer of the stomach, aged 49 years. Joseph Schmidt, admitted March 27th, 1890, died May 13th, of ioflammatorre rheumatism, aged 64 yeare. Jacob Welder, admitted May 26th, 1890, died May 26th, 1891, of consumption, aged 52 yeara. ;John Burnett, admitted April 16th, 1890, died from old ape, July 22nd, aged 84 years. James Forbes, admitted July let, 1891, died July 22nd, from senile debility, aged 76 years. Mary Brusch, admitted December 14th, 1886, died August 5th, aged 80 years. John Woodward, admitted March 8th,1889, died from old age August 31st, aged 77 years. Gottleib Micke, admitted August 27th, 1869, died September 8th, of chronic Bright's disease of the kidneye aged 71 years. Christian Scholl, admitted'July late 1891, died of Bright's disease, October 3rd, aged 69 years. Eliza Maud, admitted Feb- ruary 25th, 1885, died from chronic diarrhcea, October 27th, aged 82 years. The average of the above was nearly seventy- two and a half years. There were no con- tagions or epidemic diseases in the Home, all the deaths dne to chronic dieseases,except -The White Oak, Middlesex county, Cheese Company held their annual meeting a few days ago. The auditor's report show- ed that a good season's business had been done -an increase over last year of 14 tons of cheese. _The amount of milk received was 1,126,263 pounds, which made 103,381 pounds of cheese, the average amount of milk to make a pound of cheeee being 10:82 pounds ; arerage price, 9:45 cents. Thomas McDougall has mode arrangements with the directors to make the cheese for 1892, -Detective Ross, of the Canada Pacific Railway, on Wednesday of Nat week arres- ted a young man named Wm. A. Davis, in Brantford, on a charge of burglarizing one of the pfficere of the company. The prisoner was -to have,been married on Thursday to a Brantford young lady. Invitations were out, wedding presents diaplaaed and every- thing was in readinese when the officer -rudely disturbed the proceedings. The pri- soner was taken to Cookeville to stand trial, and the wedding hair been indefinitely post- poned. -The master - in - chambera has given judgment at Osgood° Hall, Toronto, in the interpleader action of Miss Maroaret Roddy and Joseph Leah. This wae a. contest as to who should get $1,000, the amount of a benefit certificate in the Order of Chosen Friends, which the late Daniel Leah carried 011 hie life. Daniel Leah was engaged to be married to Mies Roddy, and the couple were to have been made man and wife lad Sep- tember. In June Leah insured hie life for 51,000 in a secret society order, and made the certificate payable to his wife, saying to the secretary, as he paid a year's premium in advance, that it world be but a couple of months when Miss Roddy would be his wife. In August he went to a picnic at Embra,with his betrothed,and was drowned. Miss Roddy claimed the $1,000 and so did Joseph Leah, the brother of the deceased. The master ruled that as the policy was the one case of accident.