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dredS, ItiSgefes Ladies', BOye
and Meth; Ilattik
The best:assorted stook of Children's
Sailor Hats, Children's and Mises'
Valley Hats, Ladies' Fine and Sun Hats,
Boys' and Men's cheap and good Straw
Hats in Seaforth, to belound
—AT THE—
Cheap Ca,sh Store
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Special Notice.
Another hit ,of,` those Nobby 'Jackets,
and special value in Kid Gloves., Also
a fine *line of Lace, Art -Muslin, Plush
. and Scrim Curtainse-and 'Curtain Nets.
Call and see them
—AT THE:— •
Cheap Gash Store
OF
HOPFMAN & CO.,
9ARDNO'S BLOCK,
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Perth Items.
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—Mr.Patrick Dwyer has removed froni
oblin to Et, farm, on the Reran road,
near Stratfoed. _ . .
—Mr. Thos. Ballantyne, MPP., left,
Iast week for England in the interests
of the cheese industry. -
--A Mitchell hotel keeper was last
week fined $20 and cosh!, for noncom-
pliance with the liquor law. •
—Mr. John Goetfer has purchased a
fine -82 acre farm in Fullarton from Mr.
Archibald McDougall, for the sum of
PPD.
couple of young men in Mitchell
got drunk on Sunday by drinking hard ,
• cider., One Was fined $5 and caste, and
the other $3.
—There is said to have been $40,000
worth of horseflesh within the ring - on
the fair grounds at Mitchell on r Tuesday
last week. -
—Ex -chaplain &arts, of Auburn
prison, New York State, preached and
lectured to large audiences in Stratford,
Iast week. • -
--The; Ministerial Association of Sb.
Marys condemn Sabbath funerals. They
also ask the Christian public to assist -in
suppressing the undesirable practice.
—Dr, D. B. Fraser, of Stratford, was
one of the examiners- in anatomy at the
recent examinations in the Toronto
School of Medicine.—The little village of Whalen boasts
of in auctioneer who 'can drive 3 miles,
put -up his own horse and, sell $72.50
worth' of dock in one afternoon.
z ---Harry O'Neil, of Stratford, had the
misfortune to rim the, prong of ,a fork
lately into his right hand. Mood poi-
soning has set in ancl-the young mag is
in a critical condition. *
—Mr. McBride; formerly a resident of
Tucsersmith, but now of Minneapolis,
visited Dublin last week. . His numerous
friends were glad -to see the old -gelltle,-
MAU looking hate and'hearty'.
—David Oliver, jr., of Motherwell, a
few days ago fell from a load of hay,
over the back part of the wagon, and
broke his shoulder blade, and sustained
some lesser injuries.
—Listowel had another fire last week.
A briar store occupied by George Funs -
ton as a grocery, and owned by g._ Har-
vey, was totally destroyed with all the
stock andother contents
—Mr. R. M. Hamilton, B. A., Strat-
ford, was among the winners of echolar-
ships at the closihg exercises of Knox
College, but owingto an affection of the
throat. Mr. Hamilton will have to re-
frain from preaching for the present. -
—The Rev; Dr. Mockrolge, of Ham-
ilton Cathedral, preached in Trinity
church, Mitchell, the other evening.
The sermon was a very practical appeal
• to all Christians to take up the cross for
Christ's sake, and to abstain from all in-
toxicants. -
—Mr. James Brooks, .of Blanshatd,
has, at the present time, she men em-
ployed building the Russell fence in the
township of Downie.. He has contracted
to build over 7,000 rods in that town-
ship_ this season, besides nearly 2,P00sods elsewhere. - •
man in St. Marys, named McIn-
tosh, a Latter Day Saint, is about to
undertake the arduous task of proving
to the people of that town thathe
fouoders' of Methodism and Presby-
terianism were impostors, and thedoc-
trines taught by those two, bodies are
impostures. . - •
—Last Monday night the residence of
J. E. Teyhune, Listowel, was burned to
the ground with contents,- the family
barely esc4ing, and had to borrow
elothes to cover themselves with. - The
buildiogwas insured in the British
America. for $700, and on the contents
.$300. The loss above the insurance is
about COW. About two hours later
the stable -owned by the trustees of the
RaptiEit church_ and rented by Bev. Mr.
Dack was burned to the ground, togeth-
er with a. home, outtertharnesa and a
quentity,hf beyond feed.
(Prom OUT Own Correspondont.)
Wisforso, April eth, 11380. •
MANITOBA BOOmiNo. -
; I have teen all the boom here already
that I want to see in my lifetime, but 1
don't happen to have a more suitable
word to use in explaining what is now
going on here. I. have in earlier letters
of this year told,youhow our owdpeo-
ple were laying hold of lend in the dead
of winter, both in homesteads and by
purchase. But our -boom since then ie
mainly owing to the 'steady influx from
the 'east of a wealthy procession of
trains loaded up with eastern farmere
and their effects:1 reckened to -day about
five miles long of cara. loaded up with.
settlers' effects and stock of every sort,
ftemthoroughbred borne down to:
pigeons, and there appears to lie no
great slackening- solar, , Some of ttiese
people go over the line to 'Dakota, as is
quite natural with so many old friends
in that territory to -welcome them' and
one-sixth, of them g� west beyondour
boundary, but we are getting a. _grand
lot of 'them here,_ and every. place geta
its quota. - I have been out a few days
among them, and from ell I can learn
they have not rimiest; well in the east,
where they came homes the average of
,the people who,catne here eight years
ago gave' done in the time. . But:they ,
are rich in -experience and energy, and
buy out the dead men,: who With the
help of a good big mOrtgege have been
holding down a half section for these
years,and doing Yeti little good either
. to thmselves or the. country. They
come here to old friends who eagerly
welcome them, help them all • they can,
and
and will in their turn help us to rnalp:s
this A' Well 11,ett1e,cl, and well ordered .
eereinunity... They get their land from
$5 tet:SIO. per- acre,- and at that price it
is cheaper to -day thanit was in a • free
gift ten years ago. • It costs Jess hard -
shit; - to get from Lanark or Huron
counties to the centre of Manitoba now years from now. •
than it took to. -travel 100 miles west
from Emerionlben, and often a good The Exodus and Other Plattep3,
deal less time.. We have plenty of • DEAR:EXPOSITOR,±•There 119 a great
Iamb good land tee for Many purposes, •deal being, said about the, exodus of
to bebad in free "homesteads, perhaps -people from this Peminion . and ...from.
50 miles from a railroad at this date, but the Prosfince of Ontario in partieulari
good land within five miles: is cheaper at There is much pro_min.en.ce given to this
.present • figures and most preferred. by. _Reform Journalists and Politicf.
Sales of land are brisk everywhere, and iams _whet° object we preen/Ile is te
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in many cases the men mho . sell aie. make a point against the :Dominio
greater fools than themen Who buy.
Government, who they pretend to thin
They will take the_ few hundred dollars are to blame for it: We read an E'di,r
corning to them After the mortgagt3.is torial in DIA EX.r0S\ITOR a short time
Neared, and go off to Tazoma, Sell( ago wherein the writer. sues:fell t
Diego -or -some Other western Paradise to . have a vague idea that the patio of .sd
sit on the sidewalks or.get fooled and many taking • their departure was th
robbedby sharks and sharpers of all trade .policy of OUT Government, and
sorts•'and come back here if they canthe fact that we.haeezot free aomineil
'next year,.broken in health and spirits, pia' intercourse with the neighborie4
t9 try again; / am going by and by. to Republic, and • while . advancing this
Caution some of your people from being opinion the writer, ,with commendah e
in too great haste to come .here, but 411 !malty, gave permission to any other
they Could. not possibly- do as badly person ithe could givera better rate°
for themselves by coming here as .to do so. Singe that time I .have gaga-
ing t� Seattle or Vancouver With their -Honed a number who were about leaV1
r
fine climate and countless other attral• ing us, and a number who, still intend
dons... Theta is a puddle at every doo
going, and there was not a solitary one
We have some here, but ' those western. who as much as , hinted that the trade
be= towns are puddles half the year, relations existing between this . country
and at this season fearfully crowd- and the United States had anything to
ed with • idle people.. A shrewd old do With their going. . Now, in giving
friend- of my own attracted by a reli- the reason or at least some of the reas�na
able report of the the money to be why these people are going awe ah
made in his line, went out a month sga.' theeffect it Will have upon th . plae
:prospecting, but has corne back more - they are leaving, .1 ',ball- call things b
certain than ever that he is in the gight their Proper nobles, as. I detest decep
spot here; There are carloads of people -titin and falsehood in whatever frit
who left Michigan and Illinois last Year they niay assume. ' In the -first place .
coming -bees over the Canadian Pacific the land in the unSettled portion of thia*
Railway, and the same °an that .carrY _ Province is unfortunately of an intent;
out one lot of credulous emigrants bring queity. If the -land*, was • generally of
back a lot of the same sort whose friends Mehl quality to -this extensive nerthet -
in the middle States are sending ;out 'district We feel safe in saying that the:
money to take them home again. - lf greater number of those who are going
tilde is any man from Huron county out to other Provinces of the Dominion and:
there Who reads this let him say wheth-
er I am right or wiling in the advice 1.
now offer to all who now propose going
out to ,the coast. • - : „
- • . YOUNG pint
, Who think of coming here to hire out
in the expectation of igetting $20 e
- Month should modify their expectations
a good deal. The majority of our farm-
ers are well forward With their spring
_work, they need. Very little hired 'help money -or its equivalent to buyand*pa
day of snow this week, but it was ery
welcome as it melts and soaks into the
pastures whieh aro-none too wet. Sao*
will hardly lie on plowed land, and una
less what it drifts Into hollows, seeding/
• may be gone on Tithin a few hours-ifter
a good fall of spring snow. Some men
have Wilbert. wheat sown, and so -dry'
and ready is the landthatone man took
inY advice to steep his seed in -water a
few -hours so as to Make sure it !would
sprout after being harrowed_ in: Mork
of every sort is making, great progress.
-here.
.
SPRING SHOWS OF STALLIONS,
BU119, fat cattleand seed grain are pretty
frequent just now. We have stinteo.
many culls from the east, and even an •
• imported 'horse may be very ' much* ,
fraud or a slouch, but in every district
there are sires that will do credit to
eiuntry. There are, now colts being
shown here nearly everywhere whicht•
prove decidedly that it _is not the 'fault
of the country if we fail to. raise goo
sorts. I warn breeders . of well crossed
animals in the east that we knoyepet
featly wellthe difference between
thoroughbred:Of any breed and .6 gen-
eral; purpose pedigree. At Portage
next week nine draft stallions _willoom4-
pete for premiums of $1410 and 650;
feted for horses of pure blood, and there
another $100 for°11 blooded horse. Th
prizeswill be 'paid when it is proven
that these sires answer the puipose. for
,
which they are wanted., No colt, 11
prize, will be the rule.
• OUB. EXPERIMENTAL sFAUDIS
Promise to be of. great value. They ar
in the best of. -hands, and will do splen
did work in proving the -best way o
handling grains, grasses, small fruitst
and tree planting. Brandon is in line
common luck: They will have a 'free
public park paid for and maintained
out of the feeds Of the Dominion', and
all the farming examples theybeed Oloiii
'to their own doors. The Maniteba
farm' there: Will be one of the moat:111'f
teresting sights in this province in .a feW •
,
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to the Uoited States would still remain.
in this Province. Another reason 10
the one which most of them who are
questioned about leaving give, that is,
that land is so -dear here . that it would
be almost impossible to pay for it, and
so they want to go whtre they can get
a choice of land at a low price. - Thisis
certainly a good reason as it is a diffi
cult task for those who do not inherit
till midsummer, and there are more men
here already than will find satisfactory
engagements. I don't know where
the poorer sort- of European labor will
find any demand for it. At best many
of them are scarcely orth $5 a month,
and if a farmer don't waut them they
are dear at their keep. If hardy; push-
ing . young fellows want to take- up .a
homestead, and can rub along until hay -
'jug, harvest and threshing come 'bring-
ing good wagess by all means let them
come, but unless they have friends here
they should not come ontheinere chance
of finding work.
A PRENCil DETACHMENT
That came in ten days back was well
worth seeing. Their children swarmed,:
by the score; and one man was reported
with a dozen, and his father and grand-
father thrown thrown in. There were several
priests as well, and this is a scheme to
!fill up the places vacated by the half-
breeds who scattered when the railroads
put a stop to freighting, the only kind
of work they cared for. The extinction
of the buffalo ,and the ruin of the
freighting trades were the true origin of
the Biel rebellion, and many of our
Red River half breeds had a big share
in that affair. These Quebec French
are thrifty, industrious ;people, and will
get on capitally -here, for they have Wise
and'capible men to counsel them, and -
have plentyof means. to start fair. Our
two champion buttermakers are French, -
and one of them, George Carat, is from
the same place as this last bot.•
BELGIUM:CATHOLICS
Are also coining in numerous enough'to
take up other sections vacated by Freneh
half breeds, and whether Catholic or
Protestant, the men who are coming in
are of a sort that will leave their mark
for good. •
TIi WIATHZE
Is still capital. We had a pretty. rough
for a farm in the .Elurou , tract at th
. present time:. What amuses meis the.
statement which. is Made by a numbek.
of out politicians that it is •the Prot'
teativetariff weighing so lieeiilyain the,
people that they are leaving 'this
country, and these seine chaps tell .0
that they • are nearly all 'going : t
the States, a conntry•which has a mud
higher- protective tariff than Canada).
The fact of thematter is thatsuch tali
as this is :consummate absurdity- an
nonsense which is mot 'worthy of a
moment's coeeideration and in proof
that it hi not poverty that is causing s
inipyto ',leave this province. - I. might
say that the counties of Huron an
Perth are two of the finest- in Canada,•
and appearances would indicate that
there is a larger exodus from these than
from any•other section. Some who have
travelled, or Who reside in Manitoba tp
the territories on either side oftheline
tell us that every emend man they had
met was from 'Huron or Perth, and sure-
ly in those places where there is goe
'soli, geed roads, and good ,markets the:.
people should be more prosperous ?thit
In, less favored communities. With
your permission, Mr. Editor, I will now
give a quotation from e prominent
American Journal, the Louisville Coin
mercial. . The article' in question g�es..
on to say„ "since the confederation sand
the adoption of a Protective Polley Can-
ada has been advancing with great
strides. The -Maritime Provinces - hi- -
creased in population rather more thah
our New England States in the decade
covered by the last census. Ontario in-
creased as much as our States adjacent
to that province, and Manitoba. mill
British Columbia rival in rapidity of
development our , Northwestern, terri-
tories. - Montreal has grown .as rapidly
se any of. our great ..cities, and Toronfo.
faster than' Chicago or, St. Paul,
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This proves that it.there is a great -
'exodus from the older provinces: of this, :
1,ominiou there mud :alto be a groat
•exodus from Ito older Status ot tho .
'Republie.
Now, having, we believe, glir
ExPosiToit's, trade policy theory • its
quietus as far ad it :has any opnriection
with those who leave • Canada .we shall
proceed to notice what takes place after.
they. go. Well, a lot of them return to
again Why, there are permanent resi-
dents living • on nearly every concession
In thia province who have been t� Cali-
fernia, and in Many instances remained
in that State for eeveral years, and hay-
ing had time for comparison concluded
to return again to Canada even although
.it has not A golden hetulletagged on to
its name, and there are men. by .the
.dozen all around us who have been to
Michigan, : but Who are now -back in
Canada.. To be sure, it %Vault) never do
forlieforin journals to give the names
•of those Who return, as this, figuratively
• and leave them othieg but , the skiin..
.stopielalik.inrg7,:771,d..teke a-wey the cream n
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The. Conservative i sometimes dwelt.
upon the numbers leaving the countiy.
when they were in -opposition, but our •
'_,Reforni friends can beat then all hollow
. in this respect.- : We ere likewise ,credit-.
ably informed that many who have .left
'1,10 and gene, to the States would retire,
again were it not that their homes here
.are dispoSed of, .and they Often find it
'difficult to Sell their :little possessions
there, So there is nothing_ left for.: them
but tegiin and bear. Now, we _might
briefly compare our new Canadian terri-
tory with that of the States. Between
northern , Michigan- and Algoma We
cannot see much difference except that
in Michiganthe land is dearer and they
cenlatemore Oahe to .fever end ague.
Some who have been there tell us that
not only th,e people have the shakes, but -
the dogs in the chipyards, and the pigs
-
in the sty also shake with the ;',same dis-
ease. -iWe Would call this a pretty Shaky
shaky.
.1 They have also got within their
precincts a oumber of. demi of vice,
tyranny and infamy, withthe high
flown appelation of dance houses, some-
thing of which Algoma cannot beast,
' Now, a weird- about our Canadian
ptairie and that of the United States. I
Wil give two illuitrations; one frcem. a
financial and the other -frere a moral
standpoint. • The first evidence ts from
a leading Griepaper, the Winnipeg Free
Preis, and ae ;Such cannot be called a
Tory yarn. It siva, "last Saturday as
Lied Commissioner Hamilton. aud W.
W. Watson- Were returning frein the
south- they 'madeinquiries about the
prietiof wheat at pants. in Dakota- and
Manitoba along . the lino of railway.
They found in every -case that the _price
paid. in Manitoba was higher, than that
which obtained in Dakota.- For instance,
at .Gretzia,. lin the province, $1.03 • per
bushel was being paid; While at &elle,
Dakota, two miles to the south the price
was only 96i cents. Thus the highest
Trice in Dakota, eompared. With the
price at Gretna,shows an advaritage, of
5 cents 6 bushel in _ favor of. Manitoba."
The other information domes from an
acquaintance On the American .side of -
the line. "The letter runs thus,- "the
;mind saloon at our siding was opened
last Sunday; liquor ran freely, and the
day's otgiesterininated In a free fight,the
night being made hideous by the noise
and horrible profanity of drunken men'''.
The writergoes on to say, "we feel inelan-
chalklind depressed over these things,"
. and still a ittim13er of Ontario people go
there inspreference to Manitoba or the.
Canadian -Northwest. Why do they de
se? , Echo answers why?. While I agree
with ilia ExrosrroR as. regards. the
:climate and mor.s. Of Canada. • I
must say then are Canadians who do.
not 'appreciate Morality but prefer go-
ing to a place where they can give- free
rein to their vicious and 'rsinful feelings._
• do net include all the - Canadians who
Lave gone to the State % knowing many
them -to -1* _goad, but 1 know there
gre many of the kind I have mentioned.
- Now, a, few. words upon the effect the
- exodus will -have upon this Province and
ani'flone. _I say without anYfear of
oceesfid contradiction that it is better
et. tO increase too fist: in population
• lian to become densely pOpulated, It is.
thickly populated countries that
• oniageous diseases and fierce epidemics
hake the.lnost terrible ravages, • from the
act that the more. people theariere im.
ure he •atmosphere is, Then again, it
s the thickly populated countries which
offer., the, most- froth famine. Take
.4 China; and Hindostahl These two placei
- are said to contain about half the people
On .this planet, and it -frequently occurs
that millions die- from hunger and
dis-
ease which latter. always follows the
wake of famine. And although the soil
of. these Countries is good it . is said that
the Mode of living would, be akin to
starvation to es here in Canada. - The
sarne applieste Belgium, one.ofthe niost
thickly populated portions. of. Europe,.
-whete.the wages of the working people
are ainere pittanee, and their pinched
and meagre diet is something to
behold. Andagain, the scene Which
,prsteents 'itself in some .Of the over-
crowded cities of England, and likewise
in sameof the crowded agricultural dis-
tricts of that country shows Conclusively.
that .a -dense. population is not conducive'
to the moral interests, Of the people, and°
7while all should. joite, in. wishing , good -
'lea to those who. are leaving; there is
no cited fer any one to shed Pa tear, or
heave *a Sigh in behalf of Canada,, which
is.progrestang steadily and is the birth-
place and home of . the noblest men and
Women- upon which the snn shines.
. Trusting that .You will give this - beer-,
tiod in the- eoluinns of your excellent
-paper,-.`I - remain yours
. • J J 'IMRE
Mcliiiior, April 12th, 489.-
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mangled, he lime, and itanding on one
foot, coupled the oars, nd then fell back
exhausted.: It is said that the young
man broke.his leg tryl g to-fixtrioate his .
foot befordthe train re (died hitii, Had
he not done so he would have beenkilled-
instantly. . . :-
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and depot buildings. The wholkof -the
property is value& at 81,250400, and it
is to be abld by miotion at the Ituesell
House; Ottawa, on the 14th ofAugust
next, -1 •
—A mein and -# -woman, -the • • latter
dairying an infant, arriVed at the Belle.
villa depot on Friday evening, They
had walked' along the track all the way
front/ Montreal, and were on theirway
to Toronto. •
• .1V1r.,Taines Taylor, of Belleville; who,
a year ago went to Los Angelos !Cali-
fornia; has returned lhome.- J.ie gives a
diecoureging view of _.the situation
there, and says there are many Can.
there who would gladly return to
Canada, hadtheythe means. to .do so.
. —Dr. Rose, of Waterford, -.has been
sued -by a Mr. Dean for $5,000 damages
for _alleged naalprabtice, • causing the
death of Mrs, Dean. She died While
having teeth ,extracted after taking
chloroform.
--St.-Andrew's chureh, Orang
hes' extended a call to. the Bev. D. C.
trlle,
flossaek , ,M.A., L. le , a recent gyadu-
ate of -Knox Co11ege4 The call hat ;been
accepted, and Mr. llossack will be or-
dained and inducted on the 22nd inst.
, —One of the farmers in Cressy, :near
. Platen, who . gave a $100 note for. ten
bushels of hull -less oats cleaned. UP the
oats the other day and found in them
three pecks of haddock -seed. This is
one of the -most ineradicable weeds.- that
can find root. -1
Miss J. Carson, M. D., et Strat roy,
daughter Schaal Inspeotor Carson, of.
Wait -(111 iadlesex, has been awarded the
final prize by . the facultv. ef the 1 Wo-
men's Medical College,- Tel -onto: She
obteleed upwards _of 85 per cent.
total number of Marks:
—The other day a Jittle son - Of
John Brown, near Hespeler, was
Cana
Mr, , Warren Totte
DePuty-Reeve of Woo
=Prof. Chas: Ru
-ladies' brass band in
— Mrs. Scott-Siddo
elocutionists, is now fi
in Toronto.
• —A dry -goods cler
been arrested for deali
money. -
has been eleCted
took. '
e is starting
winrinville. q•
s, the queen of
ing engagements.
in Ottawa- has
g in counterfeit
—The Lachine Cana will be opened
for navigation on Apr.1 22, Last year
it was not opened till ay 5.
—The Toronto pol ce force is to be
strengthened by the a dition of twenty-
five men. •
=At Glencoe, Pride Donald McRae,
for breach of the SCo t Act, was fined,
$100 and costs.
—Three tons and a quarter of fith
were shipped from iii gston to the
ed States on Wednead y last week.
-;-George Campbell, a Crimean veter-
an, died a few days a at his residence
in Toronto aged 86. -
— Lieutenant - 'Bra ley and Miss
Pugsley, of the Soh? tion Army, were
married at St. Thome Monday.
--Mrs. Themes warthas been
elected President of he Ontario Wo-
man's Foreign_ Missioilary Society.
—It is proposed to spend over'
000 on improving the
gardens in Toronto t
—John Charlton,
an invitation to spea
• Meeting to be held
23rd inst. -
—Taking the cense
completed, and show
be 25,000. The -13
has beer i reduced to $
_Mr. Walter Crei liton, manager Of
the Bank of Montrea at Quebec, died
suddenly the other day at his residence
from an overdose of ziorpbine.
- —J. B. Hughes, the skipping St.
Thomas merchant, is said to have had
nearly $4,000 with bjn When he took his
departure.
—Wm. Cooper, who met with the
railway accident On Wednesday night of
last week, at Kingston, is getting along
well in the Hotel Dieu. He is a young
man of great nerve, as, after his leg was
public patio end
is season. .
•. P., has aceepted
at the anti -Jesuit
n Montreal on the
of Winnipeg is
the population to
petty assessment
9,000,000.
—A Montreal le ter -carrier named
Gandiose Rosa has be n arrested,charged
with abstracting mon 'y from letters. A
decoy letter caught
Charles S
• Koppelberger, two
were wrestling, Saul
leg broken. - Bale o
—Colonel and Mri
land, have been hol
meeting in the Salve
Bowmanville, and er
to hear them.
— Charles Hebner
at Barrie • on the c
Philip Morse in Jen
• guilty of inanslaught
zed to seven years in
s—At Kincardine
burglars found their
which Mr. Peter M
and abstracted a po
pocket containing $1
—The 'barns an
Maynard, at Delo
gether with a numbe
ments, were destroyed by the prairie,
ing of Rand. for
k place at Picton
received his allot-
ment of twenty las es. He - had to be
assisted to his cell b two 'men. • 2
s—Dr. Annie Law er,a graduate of the
Women's Medical Cullege, Kingston,goes
to New York to tak ; a course of poly-
clinics, and make th round of the 'hos-
pitals. - - •
- —The Montreal marketis glutted
with maple syrup nd prices are now
down to 50 and 7 cents per gallon.
Maple sugar is sell ng there at 6 to 8
cents per pound.
— Margaret Mcleod, living near Kin-
-
ulsbury and Frank
:Strathroy boys,
• ury had his right
ly 8 years 'old.
• Dow,dle, of Eng-,
ing a seeen-days'
t
ion Army 1barrecke
wds have flocked
as tried last week
arge of murdering
ary, and was found
r. He was senten-
the penitentiary.
Saturday night
ray to the room in
Gaw Was sleeping
ketbook . from —If'
0,
outbuildings Of J.
ine Manitoba, to.
of valuable imple-,
fires of Sunday. •
—The second flog
indecent assault, to
gaol on .Friday, He
,cardine, fell off a ch iand _was suffocat-
drunken sleep in e next room .at the
ed the other day, 4aHer son was in a
time.
—Seeding is well Orward in the viola-
ity of Brantford, a d- the eicellent 0,13*-
pearance of winter wheal and young
clover inspires mac confidence for the
future crops.
—Two heavy tra n loads of square
timber'arrive daily t Belleville over the
Midland branch o the Wand .Trunk.
"The matetial is bein ,rafted to the city
by the Coiling Bay ompany.
—James McKnig t, son of Mr. John
,MoKnight, of Bever ey township, county
of Wentworth, died in Manitoba, recent-
ly. Hated Just *led on a half sec-
tion of now land w • en he was taleth ill.
• —The " Otwell arm," consisting of
100 acres in West Ni99OUTi, was sold
for $6,00d, a few da aago, Mr. James
Henderson, the Re ve of the township,
was the pure -baser,
—H. M. Aldri •, of-Ridgetown, a
printer known in every .newspaper in
Western Ontario,a d the founder of the
first paper in Ayl nee, succumbed last
week to an attack f pneumonia.
• —The Montreal ostmaster has been
notified that all ma Is for England are to
be sent via New Y rk, which means the
cancellation of th contracts with the
Allan and Don-dnio lines. •
—Alderman A. i cLean, of Ottawa, -
was elected Honor ry President of the
Capital Lacrosse c ub of that city, in-
termediate champi ns of Canada, at —a
meeting of the olu held on Monday.
evening.
—Mr.- E. B. E dy, of Hull, whose
name has for a q arta of e century
been prominently connected with the
lumbering interes of Canada,' has con-
cluded th relinquis the business of lum-
bering and will go into manufacturing.
He will therefore dispose a his large
saw mill and "Olin grounds in HIM, to-
gether With his v luable timber limits_
on many of the tri taries of theOttawa.
On thdelimits are well cultivated farms
Mat4BAN 33E08. Publisheri,
. • #30150 a Tear, in Advance,
f the
Mr,
adly
bitten and torn about the fase by a dog.
The animal was re valuable impinged
collie, and one of the beet sheep dogs in
the section; but it had to be shot.
- —Mr. Reuben Vetmilyea, a well-to-
do farmer of Sydney; near 13elleville, had.
$240 secreted about; his house the I best
part of the winter, and when he went to
get it the other day he could find no
track of it He has no idea when it was -
removed or by Whom. .
—Steamer" Yarmouth," on ber last
trip from Yarmouth, -Nova Scotia, to
00 live lobsters as
Boston, carried 61,
part of her cargo, • s she made the pas-
sage in only 18 hors the crustaceans
Were delivered in ood order at the
-Boston fish markets , ' •
—Mr. Benjamin Bricker, of Ros e
Waterloo county, while in Gal the
other day jumped from his wagon, at-
tached to a runaway team,- and had his
leg badly fractured. - Mr: BriOrer's
advanced age rentlrs his injuries
. -
serious. - .
—Mr, Wm. Hill, assistant supenmnten;
dent of the Dominic', Ifish hatcheries at
Sandwich, is now depositing 1,0 ,000
whio fish spawns in Lake Erie -at Port
Stanley, Be contemplates supplenent-
big this number by. 2,000,000 pi kerel
'spawn in the course of . a month or six
weeks. - . -
.—The Rev. Joseph Cook,
of Boston
lectured.- the other night in A Boole -
tion Hall,Torontotte a fair -audience on
Jesuitism. America :and Mexico, con-
demned' the paroehial schools 01 the
United States and Warned Canadians of
the danger' of the Jesuit aggro:Jib s in
i
Canada. . t
- —Messrs. Crawfard,' of Toront -and
i.
John- Scott; of Galt; have purchased
from Messrs. Walker, • of Welke Ole,
• 2,800 of their fat , cattle, which! it is -
their intention to ship_ ' to English mar-
kets as opportunity offers. The pu chase
m2nosossg
tEriprace a sufn,' well approaching
$
—A "crazy tea ') social was - h ld in
London the other might. The eatables
were served on every conceivable sort of
dish other than those geeerally used,
dustpans dippers, frying pans eto., be-
ing brought into requisition, the good
things alone being of the orthodox type,
—On Sunday -evening • two small,
children, BOU and - daughter, of Mr.
Alexander Reid, of Kinloss, were in the
barn when tbe son began using - a
pitchfork, and by some means, truck
the little girl,, one of '„ the prong's enter-
ing the nostril and piercing the brain.
She is at present in a very ctitical
condition: •, .- ' - •
— A dispatch from Matchwood 'Chi-
gan, on -April 12th, says :—Ja-ms Mc-
Farlane of Canada, was drowned in
Ten Mile creek, three miles from Match -
wood, yesterday, while driving logs for
ecroeudl, not Milli. , 12!0 body was recov-
Thos, Nester. he was 26 years o d,and
' et
— Mrs. Martin Mactdonald, egediforty,
was found dead in 4.1tingstonigralOyard
t
-Saturday.- She Was the ictiM of
alcoholism. Rev. Dr. J'ackso in walk-
ing among the graves made the discov-
ery.' She took the pension money of her
husband and went on a carousal last
Wednesday. She had seven child en,
r—,A series of resalutions in opp sition
tithe Jesuits' Estates Act, and ailing
upon all Christian people to u ite in
defence of civil and religious libe V by
returning to Parliament only suc men
as will oppose the Persistent aggr sions
of the Romish hieratchy wareunani °ug-
ly adopted by the Presbyterian .ynod
in session in Brantford last week:
--Mrs. Linaugh,..wife of Mg; John
Linaugh, Kingston, died • sud eply.
While playing with her baby sh was
attacked by a paininear.her I heart, - and
in a short time expired. It is said -that
death was caused By the bursting of a
blood vessel. Earliest wordsbefOre she
departed - were, "Oh, Jack "—s4e re-
ferred to her hneband. Sheovias 29
years of age.101.1U)e).. -
—An attempt was made to wreck the
evening train wilting: uplito .Kingston,
Wednesday evening last week, 'near
Breakenbridge. The obstructions were
three in number, and consisted of heavy
planks being laid across the track. The
first two were "-thrOwn off by th� cow-
csitcher,, and the train being slowed,the
'
third was removed. This is the thlitor
fourth time that an attempt has been
made to !reek trains at that place, and
eaoh tfrn no definite action has been,.
tam by the eompany.
young man 28 years of age named
Thomas Wherry, belonging to Wood -
stook, was -working at the Grand Trunk
Railway station, London, the other
evening, when by some means he had the
misfortune to burst a blood vessel.
Everything possible was _done to save
his life, but although thought to be out
of danger for a time, he hags sincedied.
—The Star printing office, Wallace -
burg, was burned early Saturday morn-
ing. The editor, Chas. W. Seip, and
family, had a narrow escape. The
building, was destroyed. It is stated
that Mr. Seip had received letters be-
forehand threatening- to burn him out
because of attacks in his paper against
Roman Cathroliaism.
-s-The death occurred on Monday of
Robert Murray, of Embro, clerk of the
Third Division Court of the county
°Owen, aged 54 years. Mr. Murray
was one- of the most prominent men of •
West ZOITAs and was closely identified
with the business interests_ of Embro for .
many years past. Latterly he conduct-
ed a private banking business.
•:—Seven young ladies have passed the
oxamination for nurses at the Toronto
Training School. They are Misses
Sara Snyder, Mount Forest; Elizabeth
McKenzie, Woodstock; Jennie -Graham, -
Toronto; Nettie Lauder, Whitby: Bes. .
toe Sutherland, Embro; Margaret Mc.
Intosh, Toronto, and Carrie Watson,
—John B. MeIlwain, who has lust
been elected mayor of Pert Hureif 011
the Republican ticket byai majority of
160, is nearly 32 years old; and is a =
native of Strathroy, Ont., having been
born on the 4th of July, 1857. He was
fitted with a Canadian common school
'education, and taught four years before _-
he went to Port Huron in 1878. ;
—About it year ago Mr. Thomas An-
derson, tailor in Ayr, had his store
broken into and a odantity of goods
stolen. A few days ago he found
two coats andone vest in between a
straw stack and a barn near
Wolverton, where the thief had
left them. One of the teats was much
eaten by rats, but the other is not so
bad. _ • .
—The fishermen of the bay of Quinte
have placed the value of fish taken from
the bay during the past year at $60000,
but as there is an apprehension among
them that their license fees might be in-
creased if it were thought they were
doing too well, iie is believed that this
sum is au underealuation, $100,090 is -
thought to be nearer the mark,
—The, Toronto correspondent of the
Montreal Witness says: In an inter-
view the Rev. Wm. Galbraith, who has
had nine yeare'rexperience of life in Que-
bec, details at length the chief grielf-
awes of the Protestants in that Province
and expresses the opinion that if wise
measures are not adopted to prevent the .
continued encroachment of the French
in Ontario civil war will break out be-
fore. many years,
Kingston.-
—
—An attempt was made at 'Ansa .,
Craig 011 Friday night to burn the ;post- ••
office and Morgan's store, situated in the
heart of the village. A blanket was
stolen from Morgan's stables and satur-
ated with coal oil and a plank pulled off
the bottom of the building and the blan-
ket shoved in. The fire was discovered.
.by some parties returningfrom an even-
ing party, and was 'got ,under control
before any serious damage was -done.-
-Mr. Matthew Mawson.,, who • has
been for a couple of years --at M0086
Jaw, Northwest Territory, returned to
his mother's home, concession 18, Mc-
Gillivray, A few weeks before start=
ing for home, While playing with some
ladies, an open knife blade was. so- .,
cidentally run into his shoulder,
sever-
ing an impottant nerve, which has ren-
dered his erm useless ever since. , It is
not known yet whether he will regain
the wie.of his arm or not.
. ---,An apple thrown by some one in the -
Hamilton market Saturday morning
came very near causing the death of A
• -young man named John Roberts who
• was sitting in a wegon, the horse attach- '
ed to which was struck by the apple.
The anfinal started off at a mad gallop .
and Roberts fell out, and one of the
wheels passed over his head. He lay
unconscious on the read and it was -
feared that be had been killed, but re-
vived soon afterwards and was removed
to his home. Hie injuries ,are not Seri
OUR. consisting of a deep cut across his
head and over his temples.
—Prairie fires have consumed several
dwellings and barns throughout the
Province of Manitoba owing to the dry-
ness of the ground. Rain has been fall-
ing, however, and no further damage is .
'expected. At Balmoral the stables and
barns of J. Jefferson and Mr. Holt were
destroyed. J. E. Maynald's buildings,
eight miles from Deloraine, were butted,
with contents; hiss, $3,000. At Stony
MountainsMonday, the barns and hay
stacks of Alex. Bell were destroyed.
The stables of Peter Cameron at West-
bourne were burned, wit nine valuable
horses and seventeen hd of cattle;
partly insured. The granary of Alfred
‘
Smith, near holland, was destroyed by
fire, with or thousand bushejs of
;
1 ,
• grain.
—Mr. Robert Donald, of Kincardine,
recently retu ed home after a three
months visit o the Pacific'Coast. His
chief object I going West was to visit
y
his brother atptaker City, Oregon. Mr.
Donald thought much of the :Pacific
Coast, and he realized that there were
grand opportunities there for young meti: 7
He however would not bring up a family.
there. The state of morality in the new
*cities is not Rich as would meet the ap-
• probation of . y person accustomed to
living in C ,--- . . Ontario. On his way
osauwt hae siitoamp . bet- , oaft °Sault KiasaLike rdiasCity siir.i:l.
gualotinees, among them Mr. G. D.
Doull, whose eldest son is manager of
large iron works in the eity.
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