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The Huron Expositor, 1889-05-31, Page 1I in Lace il ootha nt of st Youths' liars, nen, OOK of Ginghaera!, nens, &e.„ - of Silks, Parasols,. ) * L S. ?adquar. place be- atua preach - his -kother tre are few Ilan he, and sermon too, 02t who don't 'a.naily and we went to, attend the :heir father The nomin- hoe for the :a Mr. Me- Moaday jil 6ndard can- MeClay„ -an for the r des a. -few ter making OCAS1012S proPosed tVityte, the ; the season net being f. by trying pt. Not be pions, Qd atnick interfered The Police allecl in to arants. Mit- ver-pine of [lied _before [Ewe for or - 70& * Mr, 84, pr*viii . 4 MI iltiFOS, "Mon of * Mr, Beet, 1 the game I proilskw. D re • simple ha County effect ine - -but I can xpense for sclitor's re- nount-- of k.ested for a. t ;shown for n my Lit , a toe. COM. the- report by the to investi- that. the pion that [they oon- tre only a) 'S for all returns to *es; This earfutnre. ie of North Stratford ran •away, etrie out, ad sownig .r•Jatat. Mrs. „shoulders. Sfore they nage/Yea or ‚pointed London, t of Knox ikan :to the Thomas y evening rer :tt long he tnatter wit.s taken r Mr. Ma - claimed. tea -by 88 acurred on Wednee- :te appears his field ill. He the call . lac: helped [oet Immo- as in Mit- 'rently in He Was t•year of ag-off has rho knew a TWENTY -81100ND YEAR. W1COLIII NIT34.1316131 1,120. Now.•Millinery —OPENED OUT— , II S 179'M M' —AT' THFr-- Cheap Cash Store HOFFMAN '8E, 00., In Hats, Flowers, Feathers, laces, Ribbons, and -Ornaments. • Also full stooks of -Dress Goods, Prints, Muslins, Shirtings, Cot- ten,ef Lace Oirtains, - Cretonnes, Parasols, Fillings, Corsets, Gloves, Lace Mitts, Dialers,. Bustles, Ooi Ur's,Cuffs, Hosiery, etc.. AJI of which will be sold at very low prices. Call and have a look through --AT THE - 7 Otleap Cash Store —op—. •HOFFIVIAN 41, CO., CARDNO'S BLOCK, SEA F 0,RT H. THE OniEtt, sma OF THE , WORLD. • BY J. OtztLIB. --4 : . i SMUT; April Sth, 1889. „,. . DUB .P.MB08#011.-i-Some ideas have been suggested tome, which may. be of • interest to Exposrron readers, by a let--- • ter received a few days ago from an ol friendin Minnele' ta Mr) John Watts, at one time teacher in the Brownson Line school, Stanley, He, -.wants :to know MOM about Australia and the prosped_ts of coming to settle here._ • In this , age of traveling facilities, with gushing re- ports from aoroes the lines; the far west, or beyond the toe, many become be- fuddled, think that by anchoring to the old home time is eluding them, as stacks • of money could be piled up faeier, or more comfort be poured,- elsewhere: It is will to consider the end from the be.: ginning,, for many led on by the "tearch- ing feet of change" never reach tha. utopian goal of their ambition. When . we admit that the perennial summers of .the Pacific are fine, notwithitandint• the exaggerated extremes of heat at times, Or fast moving dust, Australia's winning card is out. And as much, if not more, can be said Of the climate on the: west- ern slope of the Rooky Mountains. SO those Who are afraid of: the 'whiU mAllt.! led and ice -bound winters of Eastern America eau find an Australian climate withouteeniing eouth. of the Equatore There, too, the seasons are more regular, the country better watered and freer from dust storms, periodical droughts, starvation -and death. . . • On the other side of. the Pacific, be- yond the GolderVdate of San Francisco and the -"traits',.. of -Juan de nice, I believe, are buried askgreat-treasures as Australia. will ever unfold. That coun- try is in touch With the most -enlighten- ed enterprise and scivilization of the world, is clasped)* bands of steel to the markets Of the east, and has a very largeandfast increasing • population at its back. 1 1 Here, it musti strike 'every observer, we are geographically out of the way; banished for ever, With a comparatiVely. small population, behind the times in many things, and likely to remain so for generations to.cpme; The only products worth while, over What are required for local consumption'are geld and Wool. Thi wt11 show that the only occupations worth while pushing beyond a very limited- extent are sheep farming and mining,: which Must at -once characterize. the whOle place.' There is very little frt. ducenient for there with small capital to . buy lend or settle on farms., The • best' land ;wound the [coast—like the brim of a hat and narrowat that—has all heart taken.up long ago, and that available "further inland is hardly worth having at a present, 'except for pastoral purposes., Those With enough •money, to start squatting or fanning en a large scale, proportionate with all settlers here, bet- ter invest Deafer good markets, : and where they will be in .so danger of going " bneg ": through the 'want of rain about once in every three yore. A man opin- ing here with leis than about £20,000 would "fiercely be known among- squat. ter& .Itis a poor pleee forlimall capital. its, and 'Arlo epee with prepOrtiouate brains can do well any place, Mining, the otherstronghold is vii7 dull At present in ail the oolon'io, Even at best of late years it has been fluctuating and uncertain, 1 Few 014 proapootora who have - done little elsofor ye re but keep * pick or shovel moving on show much of "the yellow." And speu1atIng at the rx. °lunge draws in re blanks than prizes. Laboring man are not wanted, for the list of unemplOyed ' now in Sydney, petitioning the -Government to start re. lief works, rims up to about 500, - Some say, what aboutiNew Zealand and Tu. mania? Well t :though both are better adapted for 'aiming than Australia, principally on isObount of more regular --raise, the best land is also all taken up, and biides the Markets are s� limited that the -small ,demand is easily sup- plied. :,. Both are very 13u11, and commercially not any better off than Australia. It will not be hard to see thit,in a eountry like this where the oities and towns, tadpole like—are out of all proportiono the back settlements, business must be very much forced and overdone. There is very little encouragement-. given to manufacturers, Oci -Upon the whole theyoan scarcely compete with the imports- tionelromeountties with greater- facili- ties. - Business of every kind, from the barber and tobacconist upward, - is push- ed to its utmost. i No good openings for business men of email capital, and those of means can find better fields than here. Clerks and" counter -jumpers " are at a discount and will lose their dignity by presenting themtelves. They have to • scratch round pretty lively to live here.. Hawkers and pedlarsi will be better where the expentits of traveling are not so, high, and: beggars better go ,..where living is cheapen,' ., The professional ranks are too full to allow an outsider very • much tether. The Education Department is hitched to the Government, and all who publicly shape the youngidea are : .‘ eivil ‘ ser- vants" directed rom the fountain head. No township ch�o1 boards - or sectional trios of trustees here, the people are not far enough adva oed to: be entrusted with local government. All the wire:, pulling is done at the Capital. Teach- ers are fairly well paid, but in aims of the demand and Often have hard enough work to get a school. . Preachers are no exception to the rule, and the people here should be religious,but they're; not. If all those who ceme from: " home " • . . to christianize Australia have 'i& been called" there ha e been some mistake in the distribution, especially of A.nglicans, -in proof of Which some time ago Bishop Baru, of Sydney, bad 40 applicants for only one vocauc5N -'- ' 'That respect dna to 'r. clergymen's poeition is not generally -very reverend - —Tim Donovan, .of Chatham,Ontario, - went to Detroit to spend the 24th. He took a carriage at the ferry, and. Was driven to. a disreputable house on East For street. At -the house he ordered and drank a bottle of beer, soon after which he lost consciousness, and remem- bers nothing more until early next morning, when he awoke ,in a Randolph street lodging house. -He went through his pockets and found that he had been robbed of $55 in cash. The. police are investigating. —John Douglas, of East Zorra, hs hired a man who, when driving, occa- sionally indulges in a little spurt. One day last 'Week, however, he got more than he bargained for. He was 'driving a lively team, and undertook to let them go- Ind for a minute, They went—went through & wire fence, threw the driver out and then finished up by 'going through a rail fence, Th. driver, * young English/UM, WAN thrown out, striking on his head. He appeared at first Win very seriougy injured and're. =hied in * state of delirium nearly all night I but the next day he was appsa rently as well as aver. The horses *soaped 'with butilight Woke, * About three ofolook list Sunday morning smoke wet Het 1.21utztg from MoPherson's gents' furnishing - establishment in St Thomas. The fire brigade was called out, but their ser- vices were not required. It was dia. covered that the place had been entered by a burglar, who effected an entrance through the cellar. After arraying him- self in new clothes the burglar put h is old clothe into the furnaces and set fire to them, and the chimney pastime being dosed caused the smoke to enter the , room. A vest and other artiolee Worn by the thief were found in the cellar by. the police, together with a large bull's, eye bantern and some tools which had been stolen from Pevey's earring. shop. —At an early hour Saturday morning the residence of Mr. D. S. Warner, Napanee, was entereby burglars; Mrs Warner was roused from her deep, and was startledlo find a Man leaning over her bed. The intruder pointed a revol- ver, saying, "You dare to stir or make a noise and I will fix you." She was not to -be intimidated, but sprang from her bed, calling to her husband at the same time. The burglar evidently thought he had got in the wrong place, = for he fied to the hall, when he hekl. Mr. Warner at bay with his revolver until he thought his chance good to escape through the front door, which he had prudently unfastened and left ajar be- fore ascending to the chamber. An entrance had been effected through the parlor window. Mr. Warner had a large sum of Money in his trousers' pocket, but it was untouch ed. Mrs. Warner's fortnnate awakening in all probability saved it from the thief's hande.- . residence. of Mr. Mark Wade, Stratford, who with his family aretalr- ing..a trip to Denver, Colorado, attend- ing the Conductore Convention, was broken into the other day, apparently by tramps. Nothing was taken, though a,- general search -was evidently made for food. - —Mr. Livingston, of the Listowel flax mill, recently received an unsigned let- ter which read as follows : DEAR SIR. —Encinsed _find ten dollars, which is six dollars with interest, which was gotten by mistake at yonr mill for flax ar nwnber of years ago." Mn Livingston is entirely ignorant as to who the sender' may be, but thinks somebody's con - seines has been• awakened. ,c,‘• r. SEAFORTH ally given here. Australians are hutch len religious outwardly than Canadian!, butte their credit I can say that after four years' experience among churches of all denominations, from the Salvation Army up, I . have never seen copper money put into. a collection box: A shifting and upwards is a very common offering.: A sixpence small enough: A threepence bordering on meanness A Canadian coming here with his face of devotion'and smallest -coin circulation, a copper or cent, must _expand "quickly and "ante -up"- twelve _ times that amount every time he goes- to. church or he will soon be pointed out. - It might be to his eradit if he were better educated in this direction at home. Those who want to travel cheaply to the 'celestial gates will have to leave their' little •pile outside, it wont be required any furtherram inclined to look with suspicion on all who would try to oheat the collection plate, or sponge their pass- port.to that destiny beyond the cycles of time. • - - There are yet many points to touch upon, which might be of interest, but I must reserve theni for some future time. From what I have seen of Australia and knew of Canada and the United States I would never advise people from either to mime here. To the overpopulated cen- tres of Britian ;Intl Europe this may be a grand outlet, but Canadians and Americans would not likely be Satisfied, as a rule, in coming here to settle. General progress.and development is too slow for them, and they !are better fed where they are. OUR MANITOBA LETTlill!. (From Our Own 'Correspondent.): 1. Wizeinnio, May 24th, 1889. " Bleesediithe nation -whose annals are dull." I forget which of the Prophets wrote that, but if - he is .cor- tact, as I think he is, we are getting in- to a. rather happy condition. --•Every- body iclayiug out from. po to 150 acres. Iadditional breaking, just to while away . the time till haying, for the seeding has been got through so easily that farmers scarcely know what to •make of their: spare time. The spotting diversion Which,' in some districts is pretty' strong climes out on I day, like this.,with a horse race, or a game of ball, :cricket, or la- crone,- with here and thee a little ex- Cursion.. The excursion 'would be per- haps one of the, pleasantest things of • the lot, but here you may ride a hun- dred miles over a country so much of One _pattern that the change -is scarcely visi- ble. .- The pattern is so awful large everywhere, 100 miles of dead fiat, 500 or 700 • rolling,- then -209 of mountain, peaks that can be seen 100 miles away. lf we could only plant one acre -of that mountain scenery within sight ,3f Win- nipeg hotailthappy it would. make us all here. : , - Sines I last wrote, Ave weeks ago; it , had. been very favorable weather, for our staple crops: Wheat is making a slow but eompact stand, frosted seed showing a quite satisfactory growth and from a very badsanaple too, half green half frosted, I am assured thata quite 'close stand of plant, • has been rtueed from . 11 bushels an Acre of eyed. The prairie, grass gives 4 good full bite .and cattle - as a rule look well. I '11AW 05 'made of good rich milk taken hi one day this week from a neatlittle • Ayrshire that had nothing but what she Nuked up, and lay allnight in a corral, three Weeks she would givie MON thim -her own• Weight, ofimilk, And -a farmer of 10 years" etpetisnoe told me today the* the only thing that hindered him from going extensively into dairy work was the- difileulty of getting men to -eettle down steadily to work, We have hr too many of the • sort that will work for a era and thin bolt • With their first months' earnings in search of something better,. generally Co the Weet Coast, where after a few weeks 'Ming on the. sidewalks enjoying . the glorious climate they feel very sick and wish they had less climate and a change of work on a farm again. If a young man down your way don't feel quite disposed to stick•to a job when he has got it I would recom- mend him to go right along for that climate without staying. over here at all.. Milking cows night and morning is not a very exciting life, but good, fair wages can be had at it if you can' be trusted to do it well. - - I never saw. so many nice colts around as there are this year and we marcount on a lot more the next. There is A very full supply of stallions, slime very good of all sorts) but more Clydes than there are alt other sorts. We. have beefitifil English meta among the rest, for wine good horsemen here think that from - their cross on a good grade mare a wiry and clever general purpose colt can be best raised. We want heavy draft and have thorn, both Clyde and Shire but the farm horse here must be very often of smeller build and -capable of a 20 mile drive — six miles, :an hOur— without -being Sweated- to death doing it. it. There were at . such points as Morden, Portage and Brandon 25 entire horses of different breeds on- exhibition'at once and one third of these were horses of which any Province might be proud. Impottedhorses got- ths best prizes and were of merit equal to all they got. • _ • In politics we have had very little stirring. Colonel McMillan, the member for Central Winnipeg, went into the Government with general approval, even the Free Press admitting that he was a capital man if he were not in such aw- ful _bad company... just to show that there's life in the old, dog yet, • the Press 'got . up an awful discharge of artillery one morning which even Green- way wee compelled to listen to and say that if .and if, and if, such and such a shape were put on the Press indictment he :would take them into court :once mon for libel. The Free Press midi. date that ought to have opposed -Mc- Millan was not in training, for thatmat. ter hisfriends were in still • worse font FRIDAY,MAY: 81, tor helping him to make a- successful fun and as we mild notafford • to keep Out a good man merely because- he was 'Ring to go into suspected company, he -Colonel got` in by actoldination and We hope he will stay. • I There is a still - worse fate that may ;verto be objected to by the Free Pi ess,which ake a public man here than even is to get into the -local newspaper. portrait gallery. In the rogue's gallery, a Man is supposed, if clever enough, to put on 4 .face when being photographed thst big OWA mother could not recognize.; Stewart MUIYOyf 0136 of the old guard Domitaien. Tories has just cast offhis allegiance -to the party because- in his opinion, recently published in cold print, the party here is about ob- Verhaps• he is right,. but that is not a proper reason for furnishing im with a portrait that would need it very little tinkering to make it suit- able for Bluebeard. As I am fortunate- ly AU anonymousscribe and not a dis- gruntled. politibiati. I may escape • this distressing fate and -die without- leaving my counterfeit presentnient in any INinnipeg paper. There is, however, wonderful French peperpublished in i oral, that beats us here "n the matter f illustrationhbut Winnipeg may well elaim n . place not :far away from .t. , We last week buried, with alt the ouors we -could pay him, one of the en- who made history here for 30 years, as in faot one of the builders . of the .country. A. G. B. 13annatyne, in his day was a John Hampden, breaking the Monopoly of the Hudson Bay Company and though by neceesity a fighting man at that stage • of his career, and very,pro- inent ever since, he has not left one vnemy . ' behind him. He had been in poor health for years and died on his ay homent . froFlorida where he was forced to spend hie winters. : One of the happiest bits of newswe have had for years is, first that there is gt ood 'marketable coal down in the Turtle Mountain countuxend that there is to be a railway from that to Brandon, via Deloraine operatedby a local comtiany within the present season. • 1 Canada. i, I- Three -hundred .- miles of railkyay *ill be: built in Manitoba this ',season. —The druggists of Anton, Bruce and Grey have formed an association. . . —The great bicycle- tournamentand games at Woodstock; Queen's .Birthday, drew immense orOwds to the town. ., i —Six thousand . people assembled in 8in:woe- kit Friday. to -see the - baseball Match and other sports. :. . I. —Rev. Dr, Cochrane commenced . his 28th year of. pastorship in Zion church, 'Brantford, on Sabbath, 19th ,ult. . It WAS eight years last: Friday since the. terrible* 'Victoria disaster in the Thames at London. • • - , —The corner stone Of a new Presby- terian Church to cost $30,000 was laid at Kingston en May 24th. -I —Wm. -Ferns„ of Orangeville, . has heen.fined $1.50 for 'pointing the 'post; Office floor of that -Own' with tobacco spit. • ___1 - . . • . . i —Mr.. A. Brewer, who has been in the Milling bueinees at Granton for some time, intends going into the apple.tree i.i..ri...dgife . .'sfors; Cowan & Co,, of Galt, are 'hipping & .numbor of bonen to British Colembli, They will be used' in the banning industiy, - -5 I —Rev, Dr, Fletcher, of Hamilton, WAN presented with a gold watch and an &Wall the young people of hit .00na regetion the other evening: - - • —The Norwegian barque Premier is ,detained in quarantine at Quebec- two of her crew having died of yellow 'fever on 'image. i . • - - —The ' Governot-Generel. acco.nipini- ' .ci by Lady Stanley and party, left Ot- tawa last week for Cascapedia to iedulge . in the gentle art of angling —Mr. ' Jas. Dalzell, of Chesterfield, glo pioneer importer of Clydesdale horses, left for Scotland . last week for a fresh supply of horses. . • - ' ! .-At a recent shooting match at Ailsa Craig, Captain Robson, of London town - . ship;. made 85 out of a posible 105 .)ointi and woril the gold ring for the •, ear. • . —Large numbers of Mormons ifrom 'Utah, and Idaho are passing into the Canadian North-West, where they have purchased extensive tracts of land:- **. 1 —A. number of mounted police at Prince Albert, Northwett Territory - re-• cently broke into Superintendent Perry's' 'quarters during -his absence and. helped themselves to his liquor!. ' I —Two hundred men wiil he employed on the oronto harbor improvements; and from four to five hundred dollars. will she e pended, and the work will take fully three Years t000mplete. .: .1 --Two Men charged with thimble - rigging at the Montreal review, Friday, and • who, ,. when captured, had more than $300intheirpossession, were fined , 10 each-. -Airs. :Dr. . MacGillivray, sub -dean • ethe Women's -Medical College, King- ton has pluton` a trip to Europe.Dr. da Yunnel;flamilionlwill attend to her rofessional -duties. • . --Mr. George .Blunkard, •a :retired farmer, late of the tenth concession of reel, living at Elora with -his daughter, Mrs. Joseph Stickney,-was. drowned in the Grandriveron Friday night. • ' —Geo. Law, Of Drumbe, has 'Sued the rand Trunk railway for$2,000damagea for the loss of his mother and daughter in the accident at Paris" on the lit of March last. i —Mr. J. ' n. Cunningten, V. S.. of Parkhill, has a natural curiosity, which he removed frdin acow belonging to Mr, Jas. Gilbert, in McGillivray,- last week,- ilt is of &timorous nature and waslak, en from - the bow's _neck, close to the ingglar vein.:-- It weighed 12 -oz. and on being opened was found packed full* of leows' hair similar to that which grew isin the animal. It is impossible to sc. count for this freak- on any other ground 1• - , than that the uinor wets, there originally and that the sir was self propagating through nerve s force, thus increasing the size of the "lump," or tumor, until its removal b ame necessary. t —The mon ment to the late ROY, Dr. Ryerson • was unveiled at the Normal Soho& ground ,Toronto, Friday last by Sir Alexander Campbell, in the presence of a large 00/2 Guru Cf0eople. 1 7 -Mrs. Per ons, of --,Dagmar street, - Winnipeg, ha lost the sight of one eye through the1 pupil, being penetrated by a tack while she was pulling up a carpet. , , • - . —Valuable discoveries of umber and other mineralIpaintshave been made in Prince EdwarM countY,near Picton. The mineral has ben tested and proved to be .. the genuine p —On Mond to the North Ste. Marie, Pacific "Soo' So. , —The oong Presbyterian Rev. Mr. Coo oided to con Northwest -M regular oontr —The Ins measures whi anee found been giving t re article. * y, June 3, thenew route Western States by Sault ' flown " as the Canadian will lie . open for trk egation 'of Dumfries street churah, Paris, of which he burn pastor, have de- ribute .$250 ,annually to salons in Addition to the bution. . ector ef Weights and e adjusting scales. in Nap - one grain merchant has o good weight, and has lost enough1/41 ring the year to' buy a new set of so les. - —Thynno nt received by the Domin- ion Govern ent--for • license issued to American fis ermini under the modus vivendi exce s $6,000, or double :the amount rece ved during .the whole of last year. young man named ,James Look. hat, it rend t of 'Blandford township, near Innerki died a few days ago from injuries roe Yed from the kick of a horse. •He as 25 years of age and much respect d. • —Woodstock Fishing Company have placed in their reserve 20,000 speckled trout fry and 5,000 Caiiforma mountain trout which are said .to be well adapted to Canadian waters . and will turn, out from four to six pounds. • • —About 60 excursionists .left Union station, Tor nto, butt Friday night in two sleepers sound for the Pacific coast. The petty ere. joined by .a party of . about the sa e number at North Bay, from Boston. • . is sai that Mel3SI'S. J. C. Ayer & Co.) of Lo ell, Massachusetts, have entered an a ton against tfie.- Dominion Government or damagee on account of the Fizire of their goods by the Customs Dep rtment. .•. —An exci ing race took place last Friday betw n the steamers Pacific, of the Collingw od line, and the Cambria, of the Owen ' ound and Sault line, from Meaford to' I wen Sound, in which the. Cambria' \ ag n ,;!beat the Pacific six minutes —Last Mo day night mass Meetings were held at arriston ' and •in Ottawa, at which stro • g resolutions were passed condemning t e Dominion Government for their acti n in allowing the Jesuit Estates bill. —About te days ago, Thomas, the nine-year-old of London, j running into voininenced tie. Then it son of Mr, T.4 -Richardson, pad on a rake_, the prongs itfoot, His 1°010 Brit heal and he uked it- a lit... et .woree, lookjew set trict Metho --At the d edist meeting and he died it.terrible agooy, at Ottawa it as stated that Mr, 1/44142 professor M Laren, of Knox College, McLaren, ofiBuckingham, brother of had promisedito contribute $500 to have the constitut onality of the Jelailts Estates Atit teeted in the oeurts,- —Mr, Pet ok Moilityre, of Strsth. roy, is deed. 1 He came to Amadei' from Ireland in 188, reached London in 1843 tly removed to Sparta. In p his residence in Strath. ed there ever since. He was 72 years �f age. . --A numbe of farmers of South Wil- mot and N rth Blenheim townships have formed syndicate te ship their otitis to England. They shipped one hundred an fifty head last week, and have made arrangeznents to ship one hundred and fifty more this week. A single man named Mike Hudson, about 25 years of age, was instantlyikill.) ed on the Grand Trunk railway three - nines east of Paris, Thursday morning last week. 18 is supposed he was under the influence of liquor, and lying on the track. His body was so mangled ,that it could scare ly be recognized. —A very serious accident happened at the residenoei of Rev. Mr. Daunt, of Adelaide, let y. It appears tat Mites Jessie Westover wag engaged cleaning the second aorey windows wheni she slipped from the sill and fell a distance of about fif en feet, striking on her head and ehoi4lders, and sustaining very serious injuries. and eubieque 1860 be took' roy and has ten days ego en route for London; Eng- land, to e consult PhyBiOittil. He was unable - to proCeed further on his journey, and expired Tuesday. —A partyoflyoung fellows who were caught Playingleards last Sunday on the river bank, London, came before lkuire Peters Monday. Edward Cavanagh, John Prodgersi Wtn. Sampson; Michael McGarry and George Hickey were fined $5 and pits each. There fun Oest them $46.30. —Mr.•and -Mrs. Edward Wigley, wh'o reside on the town line near .Belmont, celebrated !itheit golden- wedding On the 23rd May. • Flirty or fifty rela- tives and friends were _present, who .ispent a plesiant time' and left behind them numerous valuable • and useful souvenirs of the hippyl occasion, . —A thorough -bred colt belonging, to Mr. Chris Heavy, orthe Postoffice De- partment,Londoe, was accidentally kill- ed -Monday. It appears that While the hostler was Asleep the animal got its head fait under the manger and strangled to death. The • colt • . was valued at $200. -Harmon, of -Anderdon, 'lost a valuable young 2ow lilt week, by chok- ing on a piece of mangold. A ramrod ,was used to. Probe in her throat and it forced the . beet down and cut a hole in the lining of the throat. Inflammation set in, which killed her at the end of nine days. .ii : —Wm. Giletour is in Pembroke 'gaol, and all because he is poor. He was married • seven times, and -37 children willed hint father. ,Of these 31 Were sons, and naotst. of them are -alive, but none of them'Will care for the old veter- an who fought under General jacksOn. in the American war. Cameron, a• • benevolent and philanthropictiady hi Toronto, provided a pleasant entertainment for the unfor- tunate- inmatesof the Herne for incur- iblesin Toronto on Queen's Birthday. .The treat: consisted of music by an Italian band with an • ample -supply of strawberries and cake for each inmate. —The abet day a freight train; While near ,New Hamburg, broke in two, and when the engineer WAS .Signalled to atop he did -so toolniddenly, -so that the. rear endofthe train F crashed into the for- ward part, considerably (damaging one of the cars and juju-lingthe conductor, who had his head out -Of the man wind -ow in ignorance:Of the original mishap. - —Mrs. Wild. Surerns and two children were driving through Dundee and had stopped to speak to. -a lady on the street, whin a Oen, under the influence of liquor drove :into them, upsetting the •: buggy and '.ithrowing• the occupants out. Mre.* Sirerus received a bad bruise on the eye and the buggy' was damaged considerably.1 . —The Manitoba Government have definitely settled the locations ofthe new provincial building!, as • followis : Deaf and •Dumb Asylum Portage Is - Prairie; Haute of Incurables, 'Winnipeg; Reformatory, Brandon-. There is con- siderable dissatisfaction in Winnipeg becanse the Reformatory is pot- alloted to that city, - • . - —A young Oudent named Oscar Lan- derville 004/20 to his death , in Montreal, Saturday,most remarkable man - nor. He was, with a number of Mende --when he opened a vein in hie leg for the purpose , of demonstrating a certain theory of his Own in eurgery. Not be. Ing able to litoP lite blood Landertille was taken to the Notre Dame Hospits1: where he died. shortly after, - —At the epode Woodstock on 4jueen's Birthday the fermors' fent race brought out fifteen starters, Henry Carrier, . 0000110, won in the first squad, 26 24' sem; Robert Petdgrew, Blandford;in the etmondi 27 stem and D. llossaok, East iiissouri, in the third, 28 25 seo, -The final heat was won by Carnet, witkilestaoli second. _ —Twenty-four breweries were closed in the Northwest during last month, by order of the Inland -Revenue Depart - mint, 'This &Olen was taken on account of the ,pending question, as to issuing -licenses for the sale .and .manufacture of liquor in the Territories. Most of the breweries closed were fitted With plants for malting purpose, but only made "bop" beer. —An Englishman newly arrived at =Chatham complained to the pollee that skid midnight on Thursday he was pushed eg the bridge leading -to the *park by a pink,who evidently knew he had considerable money On his person. Luckily he was able t� swim and man. aged to get *mit.'He says that -he lost about $50; •I • 7 ,The dwelling -house of Mr. Thomas Dalhousie, ' was burned down. Mr Dunlop, who Will blasting a rock near the house during the day, believes that -a piece of burning hike. was . thrown from the blast to the dwelling, which smouldered.tilliti finally set fire to it. The family woke to. find the house in &meth.' . There was no insurance, and therefot-a heavy lois was. incurred. —A discolored needle was extracted - from the left Side4f.• All eleven months -Old child Of Welter Noble, of Halifax ; Howie get into the infant's body is a mystery. It was. one inch and- three- quarters Jong ..1 The point was noticed by_IvIrs. Noble while washing the baby. The meet surprising thing about the in- cident is the fact that the child showed ncisign•ef restlessness. —The' steamer 'Cynthia; of the Don; eldeon Lineswas Bunk in the Bt. Law- rence a short dietance below Montreal on Wednesday :morning last: week by - collition with the Polynesian. Eight men were drowned. ' The unfortunate' Cynthia was loaded with con and iron. The polynesiantadi a large hole broken in her bow.' The, 'pilots of both vessels have been summoned to girt theft ver- sion of the disastrous accident. - —The teachers of . East Bruce were in 'convention two day" at Tara last week. Mr. G. W. Canipbell, president of the Association, Trended. The addresses papers and-disensiloxis were of unusual interest, Mr. Clendenning, the. Inspec.` tor for Emit Bruce, taking an active part • Front statietics produced at recent I- district meeti7s the Methodist Church is shown to b growing rapidly under Drs. Carman nd Williams, general su- perintendents term, 221,000 school teache —A well.k er of St. Tho a subscriptio ber of one o -missionary fn price of four subscriber all •—Wednesd Winnipeg a There are 1,560 minis - embers, 234;000 Sabbath and scholars. own boot and shoe deal - as, threatens to garnishee of $10 made by a mem- the city churches - to a d; in order to recover the - airs of shoes sold to the • never paid for. y morning last week in series of sudden deaths were chronicled. A dispatch says; At Caron station on the Canadian Pacific awkes, a farmer, while rack and killed by light - war also killed. F. A. ister, ,of Cobourg, Ont., of inflammation of the ary. He. was .appar- lth two days pieviously. of Winnipeg dropped dead . She -leaves a family. is supposed to be in Vic - L. Dandies, Clerk of the !pry, came to Winnipeg Railway) D. milking vna $ ning. The c Munson, bar died auddenl lungs- at Cal ently geed h Mrs Ferguson of heart dise Her husband toria. H. A. Court at C „. MeLEAN BROS. Publisher/1— *140 -a 'Year, in Advance. in the proceedings. Thomas O'Hagan, M : ot Walkerton, lectured before the Association on the subject of ‘!Ele- ention," and contributed at the even- iug's entertainment,a number of recitals. which were highly appreciated. ' —A block of buildings in Oakville owned by Mr. Pharis Doty and occupied by a grocery store and a fancy goods shop below and private dwellings above, was burned with almost the entire con- tents on Wednesday morning last week. Mr. Condor who owned the grocery and lived in the. second story had barely time to escape with his family from the burning building. ' —A curious assault case from Eas▪ t Missouri, was tried at Woodstock a few day!' ago. The principals, while pre- paring for a communion service, -became involved in a dispute, during which the alleged assault was committed. There were no blows struck; but the defend- ant's fists assumed a threatening atti- tude, aud this the Police Magistrate construed into an omit and fined the defendant $5 and costs. —A son of Mr. James Lang, of Al-• vinston, while playing on the street there the other dayovas attacked by a neighbor's dog, receiving severe injuries before assistance arrived. The animal, broke his chain and escaped -from the yard, and at onceturnedhis attention to the hey. When the boy was rescued he was lying in the ditch with the- dog making every effort to kill him, having succeeded in fearfully laceraling one of hisrless and thighe. —The China shit) Batavia arrived at Vancouver on the Morning of May 24 after a good voyage of 27 days, from Hong Kong. She reached Yokohama, Japan, on the. 7th of May, and left that port on the 9th. -Her cargo, amounting to 1,055 tons, nd comprising 15,570 packages of goods, consigned to mer- chants in the Eastern States, Ontario, Quebec, and the Pad& slope. She brought 24 cabin passengere,-53 Chinese and 14 Japanese. . —Mr.A. McNeish, barrister, of Glen- coe, has entered an action against the Grand Trunk railway company to re- cover $300, with interest, the value of the lands belonging to Mrs. Esau, of Mosa, which the -company took pos- session of in 1872, when the Loop Line was built. Mr. Essery, who owned the • farm, died without a will, and as a clear deed could not be got the land up to the • present time has not been paid, for. - —Ottawa and Kingston collegiate pupils debated at the latter place, - whether Imperial Federation would be • good for Canada. The judges were Principal grant; Rev. Mr. McMorine and =Mr. 'Pense. The affirmators were Messrs. Horsey and Cross, of Ottawa, and the negatives Messrs. Bawden and Mowat. The judges decided in favor of the iffirmators, and it was resolved "that federation would be beneficial to Canada." —,The thirteenth semi-annual conven- tion of the school teachers of Elgin, at St. Thomas, a,couple of weeks ago, re- solved "That in the opinion of this association er more mature age and a higher standard of professional attain - manta should be required of all candi- dates before receivinta third-clase cer- tifioata." This leaRidea that the Mu- vatkni Department of the Province should act upon At once, The sooner' the better, —Mr, Frank Law, of Guelph', owns near losing his life the other day.- He 1, 1» the habit of administering_ Condi.. tion ?wane to his horse, and always keeps a big stook of that medicine on hand, He also has s supply of white hellebore, And some one pima A quid& ty of the latter in the spot where the former is wont to be kept. Mr. Law evidently. believes just what the label•ou the Condition Powder package states— that the powders were good for man and beast—and always helps himself after hie animal has been supplied. This he did on Saturday night. But shortly af- terwards he reteized that something was wrong, and that an earthquake was not to be compared with the sensation that he experiencedrinside It then dawned 'upon himi that he had' taken the wrong drug, and he ten for a doctor. An emetic, was administerediand after an hour's agony, Francis Walked home, somewhat a wiser chemist than heretofore. —A' team belonging to Mr. Philip Rundle, at Westminster township, ran away on Pandas street, London, the other day. The driver hung on to the reins but could not control the horses, which turned on to the videsvalk.and ran for a couple of hundred feet east, mattering men, women and children and smashing dry goods oases at &lively rate. Luckily no one was hurt, but one lady, who took refuge in the doorway of a store, feinted, and was for some time in an insensible condition. The horses stopped after. they had run the end of the . --waggon tongue into a telegraph pole and smashed it off near the whiffie-trees. —The Toronto Empire of Saturday , last says • Notwithstanding repent troubles the Salvation Army is booming ahead as before. From the crowded state of the temple last -night, one would not think that the desertions were many. The combined bands of the city corps were on hand, and the pro- ceedings opened with a great outburst of music. During the evening Mr. Gooderbam spoke, giving some facts about the army from the date he attend- ed the first meshing six years agoovhen the staff numbered two perms. There were now eleven barrack building's in the city and fifteen corp. Regarding the rumors of ill-treatment that were going about, he said he never met an of - Rear who had been badly treated. As to the Commissioner, it was untrue that he lived luxuriously, as hishouse ws.s worth only from $18 to $20 _per month, while the colonel lived in A house next* butcher's. shop, at a rental of $12 per month. The -large crowd _present had assembled to celebrate the fifth =aver. sary of Commisdoner Coombs' arrival in Toronto.