The canadian gleaner, 4 décembre 1873, jeudi 4 décembre 1873

[" LEO.Q.O'NEILL, G SROCERIES PROVISIONS, &c.RAL GROCE hy » &0, TEAS, GENERZ Guyr Yn erbyn y byd\u201d EW Season Teas at very low prices always on IN band, which will be sold st & small advance coat ; making it an object for all who relish a upon really answering to the term a good cup of he best house in Huntingdon for Tea.\u201d==Pub.Ye Opinion.- GEO.Q.O'NPILL.AGRICULTURAL IMPLE.DOMINION oS WORKS.: modious shop in the village of Howick, is ured to furnish, with the latest improvements, Pr shing-mills, Brasher Falls pattern, 30-inch Rid.Hv Fanning-mills, Horse Rakes, Land Rollers ww Cutters, Circular Sawa for cutting firewood, an Bun Saws.Chains and Teeth for all kind of mills, La ¢ on hand, All kind of repairs done.Intending phaser are invited to give me a call, as I am pre- \u2019 to furnish anything in my line on the most reasonable terms, and guar nice A give every satisfac- mptly atten .tion, Orders prompt y DUGAL LANG.Te: undersigned baving lately built a large and Howick, June 2nd, 1873 T SELECTION OF PRINTS TRE D THE COUNTY IS AT W.W.DALGLIESH'8 À nice assortment of Dress Goods, Shawls, Collars, i &c., at tioves, Hoslery, Be, W.W.DALGLIESR'8 A great variety of Cloths, Tweods, Cottonades, Har- i Flannels, &c.ai vard Bhirtings *W.W.DALGLIESH'S Teas in the market always on hand at The best Te W.W.DALGLIESH'S A general assortment of Groceries, Canned Peaches i ., at Plekles, £3 W.W.DALGLIESH'S.Huntingdon, June 17th, 1873.TO RENT OR SELL, TORE and dwelling-house at Allan's Corners, County Chateauguay, immediate possession.A good opening for a person of moderate capital.Store has been open for the last 26 years.Buildings all ood.Terms of sale, or rent, easy.If not leased or sold, will again oe re-opened with a large stock.Apply to E.L.Normandin, Esq., Notary, Durham, Ormstown, or to the undersigned proprietor, at 93 St Street, Montreal, Alexander Street W.ALLAN, April 3rd, 1873.AUCTIONEERING.J.C.ROBERTS, licensed auctioneer, of Hem- .mingford, will attend carefully to all sales committed to his charge.Speaks both languages, English and French, aud always keeps on hand bills of sale and notes.Arrangements may be made with J.A.P.Amirault Public Notary, at Hemmingford village, Thanks in general to all his former patrons.Hemmingford, June 9, 1873, 465 6m FARM FOR SALE OR TO LET, T RIVER BEAUDETTE, containing 60 acres, a A number of which are in Bush, with Dwelling- House, Barn, Stables, &c.The Farm is near the Grand Trunk Station and post-office.One-quarter cash, balance on easy terms.Clear Title, Would rent the above cheap.Address immediately JOHN WATSON, River Beaudette Post Office, P.Q.MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY OF THE COUNTY OF BEAUHARNOIS.Insuring only Furm and Isolated property.PRESIDENT \u2014Archibald Henderson, Esq.Directors\u2014George Cross, Esq., Francis W.Shirriff, Esq,, M.D., John Symons, Esq., James Fortune, Esq., Alexander McNaughton, Esq., and Daniel Macfarlane, sq.Secretary and Treasurer\u2014Andrew Somerville, Hun- tingdon.Agents\u2014William Edwards, Franklin ; Robert Middlemiss, Hinchinbrooke ; Thomas Clarke, Ste Philomène ; Peter McNaughton, Hemmingford ; Robert Smaill, Elgin; Dr McLaren, Ormstown; Thomas Gebbie, Howick; Alexander McIntosh, Athelstane ; John Davidson, Dundee ; I.I.Crevier, N.P, 8t Aticet; J.C.Manning, Franklin; J.BD'Amour, St Philomène ; Louis Préjent, Beauharnois ; J.B.Poupard, N.P., St Urbain Premier; Arthur Herdman, Herdman\u2019s Corners ; Dr Anderson, Orms- wn.B@ Parties wishing to insure their property, are requested to apply to the agents or Secretary.CANADA LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY ESTABLISHED 1841.Assets, including Capital Stock, 24 Million I! lars.CASH INCOME ABOUT $11,000 PER WEEK.Sums AssurRep over $11,000,000.Over $900,000 HAVE BEEN PAID to the representatives of deceased Policy-holders since the formation of the Company.The following are among the advantages offered : , LOW.RATES OF PREMIUM.Canadian Management and Canadian Investments, Undoubted Security.Policies absolutely secured to Widows and Children.Policies Non-forfeitable.Policies indisputable after 5 years in force.Policies issued on the Profit Bystem receive thyee- _, fourths of the Profits of the Company.Policies purchased or exchanged or Loans granted p thereon.remiums may be paid yearly, haif-yearly, or quarterly, and 30 days of grace allowed for paymentof all premiums, Tables of rates for the various systems of Assurance may be obtained at any of the Company's offices or agencies, A.G.RAMSAY, Manager and Secretary.R.HILLS, Assistant Secretary.y Office in Montreal : 196, St.James Street.R.POWNALL, GrxERAL AGENT.JAMES TULLY, Agent, Huntingdon, Q.J.BREADNER, Agent, Athelstane, Q.VERMONT CENTRAL RR.oF AND AFTER MONDAY, JUNE 2xp, (SUNDAYS EXCEPTED.) \\ Day Express leaves Ogdensburg at 6.00 a.m., Malone 8.30 a.m., Chateaugay 9.00, Mooer's Junction 0.25, St Albans 12.10 p.m, arriving in Boston via Lowell at 10.00 p.m.: Mail Train leaves Ogdensburg at 12.35 p.m., Malone 335 p.m., Chateaugay 3.40 p.m., Mooer's Junction 10 p.m, 8¢ Albans 7.20 p.m., arriving at Boston at .30 a.m.Sortaedting st-Bellows Falls with Cheshire | for Boston and Worcester, at South Vernon nih Conn, River Railroad for Springfield, &c., ar- for gin New York at 12.30 p.m., and at Rutland t Troy and New York, 19 dent train leaves Ogdensburg at 6.00 p.m., Ma- She 1040 p.m., Chatesugay 11.38 pm, Mooer's hetion 3.40 a.m, (sleeping car to St Albans) St 403 at 6.30 am., and connects at Rutland for ?un and at White River Junction and Bellows « A vith trains for Boston, Worcester, Springfield, Ww York, and with trains on Passumpsic Railroad, Da qui GOING NORTH AND WEST.\u2014LBAVE nt Aloe Xpress leaves Boston via Lowell at 8 am, us 6.55 p.m., Mooer's Junction 8.30 p.m.1 Wars #t 12.50 a.m., making connections for .à commodasion Train leaves Northfield at 7.45 pu\u201d Ohaieanens 1300 m, Nocer's 5 inction 2.30 cu, y 5.m., Malone 5.55 p.m., ar.Firing at Ogdensburg at 8.50 pm, Poy Ar 2 bt Rxpress leaves New London at 2.45 p.m., on \u201con at 9.38 p.m., receiving passengers from 0.River Railroad leaving New York at3.00 p.m., lows Falls at 11.20 p.m., from Cheshire Rail- White N ring Boston at 8.30 p.m., connecting at = iver Junction with train leaving Boston at 9 New York at 4 p.m, Troy at 10.00 p.m., St Al- hater, S30 a.m, Mooers Junction at 8.12 a.m., 0 Egat i! Malone 10.03 .mes arriving ut -38 p.M.,connecting with the Gran Pruak Railway for the West.s seping cars are atiached to the night Express Inia fussing between S¢ Albehs aad Boston; sad St apn Las teld, and St Albans and Troy, gay 9.58 p.m., Malone 10.35 p.m., arriving at f NO.427.PP HUNTINGDON, Q., THURSDKAY, DECEMBER 5, 1873.+ bo probably beaten unless the mone | comewhere.I commend to vou ee 4 : lity of this transaction.One man finds hls ghbor has stolen money, and that for him to be as rich as his neighbor, he will ; {have to steal also.The necessity of the case $1.50 A-YEAR.THE HOWICK AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS WORKS.EE succeeding spring it has been my pleasant task to record the onward progress of tho Agricultural Implements Works owned by myself.Owing to want of power I have never been able to supply the demand, but having now purchased a Steam Engine and extended the shops, I will be able to supply, during the coming season, Agricultural Implements of all kinds and will warrant them to give satisfaction.Threshing-mills, of Brasher Falls pattern, 30 inch Riddle fanning-mills, the Taylor rakes, Grubbers with latest improvements, land rollers, circular saws for cutting firewood, drag saws, all kinds of shafting and all kinds of repairs done as usual.All kinds of planing done for farmers, Being agent for Matthew Moody's Mower and Reaper combined, intending purchasers ars invited to inspect these machines before purchav.ng elsewhere.All orders and repairs attended to punctually.ROBERT MAW, Howick.DR.J.T.McPHERSON, DENTIST, Wik visit for the practice of his profession : Huntingdon, on the first Monday of every month ; Valleyfield, on the second Monday ; Durham on the following Thursday ; and Howick on the third Monday.He will remain In Huntingdon five days, and three in each of the others.Those requiring his services are requested to call early.Artificial Teeth, from one to an entire set, furnished.The preservation of the natural Teeth a Apeciality.R.W, Covas, FURRIER, ConNER oF NOTRE DAME AND ST.PETER ST, S., MONTREAL.TAKE NOTICE.ASH and the MIGHEST PRICE will be paid for all BEEF HIDES, CALF and other skins, delivered at my place.ANDREW MONTGOMERY.Powerscourt, 14th March, 1873.JAMES LOGAN, HUNTINGDON, RACTICAL Watchmaker and Jeweller, A fine assortment of Jewellery just received.or Agent for the sale of the celebrated Waltham watches, THE WEBSTER SEWING MACHINE, 1% Stand with walnut top and cover, complete, with plated ruffer, braider, wide hemmer, quilting gauge, hemmecr, tuck-marker, and very wide hemmer, as well as needles, bobbins, oil can, screw driver, braider spring, oil &c., &c., and book of instructions.Is the only Sewing Machine really requiring no personal instruction.No one, however, unskilled, inexperienced nervous or feeble, can fail to work it with pleasure and entire success, It will do every kind of work, light or heavy, coarse or fine.It has a straight ncedle ; makes the lock or shuttle stitch, which will ncither rip nor rave), and is alike on both sides ; performs perfect sewing un every description of material, with cotton, linen, or silk thread.It hems, fells, cords, braids, tucks, quilts, binds & gathers.The shuttle uscd in the \u201c Webster\u201d is an adjustible one, and superior to any other in usc, It has a larger bobbin, consequently holds more thread ; and when within its place within the shuttle, rests perfectly easy and frec from the grips of the ends, as in all other machines, The © Webster\u201d Patent Shuttle is made out of solid steel, hardened, and will never wear out.The Shuttle Tension is obtained by means of a screw in the toe of the shuttle itself, thus doing away with the numerous holes to be threaded in the side, as in all other shuttles, whilst the desired tension can be much more easily obtained and continued without any alteration until the bobbin is quite empty.The set of attachments given with the \u201c Webster\" are the most complete and uscful, as well as the best finished, of any machine offered to tho public.POINTS OF EXCELLENCE CLAIMED FOR THE WEBSTER SEWING MACHINE, 1st.Complete absence of complication.2nd.Greater simplicity than has yet been attained by any other machine.3rd.Superiority of finish.4th.Most direct acting and easily regulated feed.5th, The most perfect Shuttle in the world.6th, The total absence of gear wheels.7th.For fine work it equals any and excels most family machines, whilst for heavy wok it has not an equal in the world.8th.That every part of the machine is made of the best material which can be produced, and is put together Ly the most thorough and prac- : tical mechanics only.oth.The \u201c Webster\" is fitted with a revolving pressure foot, 80 that the needle can easily be fitted and threaded, at the same time giving more room for any number of thickness of cloth, leather, or the material required to be sewn.10th, They are simple to handle.Durable as iron and steel can make them.Devised on the most positive scientific principles.Dispensing with cogs and cams.Strong and durable in construction.Elaborately finished in design and adapted to every variety of Family Sewing and Manufacturing, They will sew the finest Cambric or heaviest Leather, Buckskin, Clothing, Caps, Stays, &c.All machines warranted, and parties buying will be learned to run them by an experienced operator.Always on hand a full assortment of needles, oil and all other Sewing Machine requisites, Good Agents Wanted.SG Traus Easy.\u201cGa The following gentlemen appointed by us are the only authorized Agents for the sale of the Webster Sewing Machine in this District :\u2014 James Buchannan, Esq, Athelstan ; John Me- Whynnie, Esq., Durham, Ormstown ; Messrs Anderson & Downie, Valleyfield ; Louis Prejent, Esq.Beauharnois ; George McClenaghan, Esq., Howick ; J.& A, Hebert, St Martine, Chateauguay;°J.B.Damour, Postmaster, St Philomene ; George Adams, Hinchinbrooke.J.T.McPHERSON, & CO., Huntingdon, Sole agents for the District of _Beauharnois.Also, have on hand the best Clothes Wringer in use.Likewise, a patented Seive (three combined in one) ng ol kinds of grain and taking all kinds of out of the grain.They are made to fit any Fanniog-mill J.T.McP.& Co.Huntingdon, Nov.10th, 1373.; IMPLEMENT MAKING.HE undersigned, having relinquished for the pre- T sent his intention of removing to Ontario, respectfully informs the farmers of the county, that he has made arrangements to resume implement making 00 à larger scale than before and with increased fac- ilitles for doing good work.During the approaching winter he will manufacture at least fifteen new iron plows, which will be ready in time for the spring work.He would regard it as a special favor if farmers, who want him to refit their plows, would leave them with him as soon as the Fall work is fipished.As be intends doing no other work than that of making implements, he hopes, from the increased atten- B-toom cars bot to them, to receive a ton Day Express rats.ween St Albans and Bos- mill be able to give o em, De Alèans @.NARRILL, Gen Buporintendent.f Wu.CAMPBELL.» V1, May, 1 BEF bop, near the Methodist Church.« Brrixrasr\u2014Errs's Cocoa\u2014GRATEFUL AND COMPORT- P EDLER WANTED.1xa\u2014\u201c By à thorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern the operations of digestion and nutrl- tion, and Ly a careful application of the fine properties of well-selected cocoa, Mr Epps has provided our breakfast tables with a delicately flavoured beverage which may save us many heavy doctors\u2019 bills.\u2014 Civil Service Guzette.Made simply with boiling Water or Milk.Each packet is labelled\u2014+ Jaues Eres & Co, Homa:opathic Chemists, London.\u201d Manvracruas or Cocoa.\u2014* We will now give an account of the process adopted by Messrs James Epps & Co., manufacturers of dietetic articles, at their works in the Euston road, London\"-\u2014Sce article in Cassell's Household Quide.NOTICE.(3000 accomodation for four Boarders, on reasonable terms.Apply to MRS.BISSET.DIARIES! PET DIARIES for 1874 now on sale at the Gleaner Book Store.As the assortment is small, carly application is necessary.IMPORTANT NOTICE!! Jr to hand, and ready for inspection a fino lot of Boots and Shoes, Felt over-shoes (waterproof, fancy and plain,) Rubbers, Slippers & Moccassins, Men's Youths\u2019, Women's, Misses\u2019 & Children's wear.Excellent DOLLAR BOOTS\u2014good value.J.G.feels confident, from his long experience of upwards of 30 years, in the Boot and Shoe trade, that he will be able to give satisfaction to all favoring him with a call, both in price, and in quality, as he Las selected his stock, from one of the best houses in Montreal, and marked very cheap.SECURE GOOD BARGAINS, By buying Fresh Raisins, and Currants, at seven cents per pound.Excellent new Scason's Japan Tens at 35, 50,and 60 cents, per pound.Fine flavored and strong, new Season's Japan Teas in two and three pound cattics, Cheap Sugars, Cheap and Good Tobacco, Best Golden Syrup, Best Molasses, Cheese, White Wine Vinegar, Pickled Salmon, Codfish, Yarmouth Bloaters, Canned Oysters, Pickles, Java Coffee, Family Flour, Graham Flour, Corn and Oat meal, &c., &c.Farm Produce taken in exchange for Goods at JOHN GILMORE'S.DIARIES! X'MAS AND NEW YEAR HOLIDAYS A\" fast approaching, and the public are respectfully invited to call and select their Gifts from an unusally large stock of TOYS & FANCY ARTICLES, Violins, Flutes, Concertinus and Accordeons, Stamped Braiding Suits, Berlin Wool Slipper & Ottoman cover I'atterns, Berlin Wool plain colored, shaded and clouded, colored Knitting Yarn, Silk Braiding Braid, Filloselle, Canvas, Pertorated card-board, Lace and Cotton Trimming, Lace and Linen Collars, Sitk Tics, Button Moulds, Brooches, Earrings, Gold Bracelets Lockets, Necklets, Rings, a splendid assortment of Dolls, Rubber, Wax & China, Chinese Lanterns, Tea- sets, Tool-sets, Watch-cases, Albums, Toy and Story Books, Pocket and Memorandum Books, Dest Table Cutlery, Hair Braids & Switches, Trunks, Carpet Bags, &c., at JOHN GILMORES.FURNITURE, SASHES, DOORS, ke.The Subscriber keeps constantly ou hand, at his Factory, in the Village of Iuntinzdon, a good supply of Chairs, (cane bottomed, wooden, and rocking,) edsteads, Lounges, Sofas, ete.Sashes and Doors on hand and made to order from the best of material.Coffins made to order on the shortest notice.Bay Good saw-logs of any kind, shingle logs, and grain taken in exchange.A.HENDERSON.Huntingdon, Sept.17.TILE EXCHANGE BANK OF CANADA.HE undersigned, having made the necessary arrangements with the above Bank, ig now ready to receive money in sums of one dollar and upwards on deposit at the Bank rate of interest.A Vass Book will be given, in which every deposit will be entered.Depositors can withdraw their money in whole or in part at any time on presentation of their ass Book.ANDREW SOMERVILLE, Huatingdon, 28th August, 1873.DAVID BRYSON, LICENSED AUCTIONEER FOR ANY PART OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC, HY followed the business for over 13 years; sells both in the English and French languages, LG\u201d Residence, Howick, P.Q._ THE LOCKMAN SEWING-MACHINE 8 the best family machine in use.In many respects it has the advantage of most machines in the following points : 1n simplicity of construction, parts and movements In non-liability to get out of order either by use or standing I: perfection of workmanship\u2014it is well made 1n ease of working.\u2014no other is so light running In ease of management\u2014requires but little skill to operate it In non-liability to miss stitches or break thread It requires but little time and practice to learn to use it Tt does all kinds of rewing It makes the best stitch, especially for family nse It has the best Hemmers and Braider Its seam is the least liable to rip in use or wear For other vxcellencies ark W.W.DALGLIESH, Agent.Huntingdon, June 17th, 1873.IN THE CIRCUIT COURT.Province of Quebec, } District of Beauharnois, IN VACATION.No.8173.; Simon Gari¢py, of the Town of Beauharnois, in xaid District, and Francois Xavier Gariépy, of the city of Ottawa, in the Province of Ontario, Butchers and Traders, heretofore copartners and heretofore doing business as such at said town of Beauharnois, nn- der the name, style and firm of \u201c8.& F, X.Gariépy,\u201d Plaintiffs vs.Joachim Couillard, of the town of Beauharnois, Trader and Laboret, Defendant.T is ordered, on the petition of John K.Elliot, Esq., I of Counsel for the Plaintiffs, in as much as it appears by the return of Damase A, St.Amour, one of the Bailiffs of this Court on the writ of summons in this cause issued written, that the defendant has left bis domicile in that part of Canada, constituting the Province of Quebec or Lower Canada, and cannot be found in the District of Beauharnois, that the said Defendant by an advertisement to be twice inserted in the Freuch language, in the newspaper of the town of Beauharnois called \u201c L'Echo de ubarnois,\u201d and twice in the English language, in the newspaper of the village of Huntingdon called % The Canadian Gleaner,\u201d be notified to appear before this Court, and there to answer the demand of the Plaintiff within two months after the last insertion of such advertisement, and upon the neglect of the said Defendant to appear and answer to such demand within the period sforesaid, the said Plaintiff will be permitted to pro ceed to trial, and judgment as in a case by default.Given at Beauharnois under my hand and the Seal of the said Court this twenty-eighth day of the month of October, one thousand eight hundred and scventy- three.À.8.BENOIT, Deputy Clerk of sid Circuit Court.Steady employment and liberal wages given to 8 good hand, who can furnish Horse and Harnoss, ! Ply to FARQUHAR & OLIVER, R A OWAN would iuform his customers » .and the public that ho is prepared to pay tho highest price in cash fur Hides and Sheep Lice assortment of Tin, Sheet-iron, and Glassware on Land, Please examine his Goods.All orders and repairs attended to on the shortest notice and by an experienced tradesman, B&F Remember the old stand, Dominion Block.Huntingdon, Nov, 12th, 1873.W.A.DUNSMORE, DOMINION BLOCK, HUNTINGDON, à leal heart, and an uncxtinguishable love of progress, and of the good and true, especi- ja None need app! , ,8g0 a number of Mrs Ilamiltan\u2019s admirers one need apply unless woll recommended.Ap- | sgr ced to present her with a ta o =n Rockburn, Q.Dalhousie, Lord Homo, Sir | : 1 axwoll, Sheriff Bell, and other gentlemen, SPECIAL NOTICE.was issued, making an appeal to thoso friends of the aged poetoes who wished to express their admiration of hor gonius, and ! their willingness to cheor hor heart with a Bkins.lle would also intimate that he hasa very senso of tho approbation of her countrymen.As it was only proposed to raise £100, only a limited number wero appliod to, but Mrs Hamilton's doath has rendored fruitloss the kind design, except in so faras it has shown how many and warm frionds she possessed.Mrs Mamilton, it appears, had been suffor- ing for a short{ time from bronolitis.She was out of bed on Thureda a littlo bottor than usual, but immediately after bocame worse, and died about two o'clock.honoured with a public funeral.company assomblod in the Free Church, lly among her own class.Some months ible mark osteem, and a circular sign by Lord W.Stirlin woek, and felt On Tuesday afternoon she was The large Is again BARGAINS in WINTER Tho most desirable articles in market.CASH BUYERS Will Save Moxey by giving hima Call, Nov.27, 1873, REENDBA CKS bought at the Highest Market Rates, by the subscriber, at Franklin Centre, JOHN HAIRE.NTIL after the Holidays the Subscriber will take Tintypes of the size 8 by 10 inches, with handsome frame, for ONE DOLLAR.\u2018 1.8.GILMORE, Huntingdon, NOTICE, HE undersigned will lie prepared to take all the ber, continning through the week, JOHN HUNTER.NOTICE.pX}orrens of Produce to the United States can have Invoice value attested, and certificates granted, on application to A.SOMERVILLE, | Huntingdon, ! * \u2018 à , Q ~ | OYSTERS! OYSTERS! KE.W.COGGIN, FALER in Oysters and Fresh Fish, has constantly on hand a good supply.Can fill all orders cither wholesale or retail, in can, keg, or buik.will sell cheap for Cash.Athelstan, Nov.24th, 1873, MISCELLANEOUS, DEATH or Mrs JANET MANILTON, THE CoATHRIDGE POETESS.\u2014One of the most re- markablo Scotch women of the presont century has just passed away.Janot Hamilton, a working shoemaker.Born in the humb.lestscircumstances, without education or opportunity of acquiring such, married at thirteen, the mother of a largo family, and |, for many ycars towards the close of her life totally blind, she yet contrived amid circumstances seemingly so adverse from first to last, not only to store her mind by self- culture, but to produce poems and various other writings of no ordinary merit.Perhaps if fully written out her history would be found 10 contain many unique points.As stated, she was married whilo a mere girl, and it cannot be wondered at that the wifely \u2018 lassock\u201d could not resist the temptation of taking an occasional sly game at «fal.lals\u201d with her youthful acquaintances, even after the dignity had been conferred on her of having a \u201c house of her ain.\u201d But this could not last long ; the cares of a family came rapidly upon her, and beyond that her chief amusement was still to read, as sho bad done at her father's fireside, whatever books sho could obtain on any subject, her lifo must have been spent very much in the discharge of her common household duties.Shortly after her marriage she jcomposed several religious poems, which were afterwards destroyed ; but she did not attempt any composition of importance until upwards of fifty years of age, and at that time, as she had never learned to write, she had to store up her ideas in her memory till shoemaker, or her son, could find time to writing, something between a running hand and printed characters, for herself, in which she jotted down her ideas until she had opportunity of reading them to a transcriber.After being for some time a frequent con.the title, \u201cPoems and Essays.\u201d succeeded by \u201cI'vems and Sketches,\u201d and each publication consisting partly of fresh materials.othor edition of her works is passing through the press.She was born in 1795, and had thus attained a ripe old age.Her intellect was clear, and her memory, which was most capacious, was perfectly unclouded to the last.; Few who have enjoyed a conversation versation, and tiie grammatical accuracy with which she spoke, although she had when employing the fine old Scotch, which she never failed 10 uso when its expressive ness suited her.Sho was truly one of na of temperance.wore of the most solomn and impressive charactor.the procession, which was composed of Mra Iamilton's admirers, not only in and around Coatbridge, but in Glasgow and other towns.\u2014Écotsman, 8th Nov.it soems that thoy must look to men for protection from their kind.ee L0 0 _ \u2018HA Indian paper, a rorgeant\u2019s quadrille party LARGE SIZE PHOTOGRAPHS.lately loft, in their half-empticd glaseos, an opportunity to a kite for getting drunk and this hird, the scavengor of the feathered world, appears to have made free with the morning the kite was found staggering about quite drunk, but after having hoon allowed tho shelter of tho mess-room for an hour or two, the bird prepared for flight by hop- fowl bought for or Ly him from the 8th Deceme ping out through the door into tho open air, than n dozon other kites pounced upon the drunkard, and gave it a most unmerciful pecking, insomuch that it was glad to rook the shelter of tho moess-room onco moro, and would not go out agnin either by force nr 18, that «\u201c one of the sorgoants took the bird home, and it is now an inmate of hie poultry yard\u2014well fed and fat, and evidently fond of its present quarters.\u201d by drunkenness, and is apparently assumed by its fellows to have passed into slavery.sane, callod at the Stato Department at Washington tho other day and demanded - that fifteon million dollars, the amount of the Geneva award, bo paid him.Ho asserted it was duo him and should be pall over.Ho was finally convinced that the money could not bo paid until Congress so ordered.Ho also dosired to enter a protest \u2018oatbri J he daugl against allowing the Gorman Government the Coatbridge poetess, was the daughter of to buy Unitod Statos bonds, and said that unless it was observed he would appont dir- | ectly to tho German Emperor.than wero raised one hundred years ago.Then moro than one-half died under the age of five years, now only about a quarter.orally greatly under-estimated, ost known was moasurod by M.F.l\u2019otit at Toulouse.milos long.which averaged rom soven to eight miles marked botween a flash and the roport was sevonty-two seconds, which would corres- from seven to ten miles, while the average aro barely hoard over four to five miles off, \"This fact is the more curious as cannon may be distinctly heard double or treble that distance, and in spec During the bombardment of Paris, in the winter of 1870, the Krupp guns, which had been left over from the LE wore heard at Dieppe, à distance of oighty- four miles.Waterloo was audible at Creil ono hundred and twenty miles distant, her husband, who, like her father, was a staff of the City Hospital was caliod ap at a lato hour on Tuesday night to prescribe for reduce them to writing.But this became One of the female nurses who was suffering 80 burdensome that she devised a kind of{from nervous depression.before he had given her opiates for the same trouble, and, upon a hasty oxamination, repeated the prescription.she was d when Dr Foster had .tributor to the Working Man's Friend, a opium, she was already under the influence volume of her works was published nnder of the drag, and that the double dose had This was undoubtedly killed her.this fact, the unfortunate young man, at this again by \u201cPocins, Essays, and Sketches,\u201d once taking u sables ) >> sh of the girls At the present moment an.| committed suicide by severin artery.Before assistance could roach him, elected for Lambton last week by noclama with her will evér forget the force of her|tion.After the formal proceedings were ideas, the singular elegance of her usual con.over, 8 meeting too! ¢ = 7 Court House, Shon he addressed the elec- never pursued grammar as & study, even | tracts :\u2014 tare\u2019s gentlewomen, with a fine intelligence, od that Sir John Contbridge, whon the IRev P.C.Black, Old Monkland, of whose Church tho deceased was a member, conducted a suitable sorvice.The procession then formed four deep, and marehed to the burying-ground, where the Rov Dr Wallaco, Glasgow, offered u prayer, and briofly addrossed the assemblage.\u201d A notable foaturo in the procession was the leading off of the cortege by alout 100 representatives of tho Good Templars and temperanco sociotios in the district, thus giving testimony to the noble sorvices ron.dored by tho venorable poctess to the cause The whole proceedings \u2018Fhoro woro from 400 to 500 in When tho brutes adopt tho vices of men, According to un \u2018heel taps\u201d of tho gallant party.In the ut no sooner «did it show ilsclf than nore ersuasion.\u201d Tho conclusion of the story It has lost caste A woll-drossed Gierman believed to bo in- } Of the children born in London morc than | wico a8 many ore raised to maturity now is gon- The longth of a flash of lightning | Tho long- This flash was ten and a half Arago once moasured a series n length.The longest interval cver rond with a distance of fourteen miles.irect researches have shown that a storm 8 seldom heard at a greater distance than ial cases much farther.xposition of 1867, Arago states that the firing at In Boston, a young doctor attached to the Once or twice In the morning It was then discovered that prescribed for her Upon ascertaining n himeelf the responsibility cath, retired to his room sod the femoral he was quite dead.RE-ELECTION OF Mi} MACKENZIE As already stated, Mr Mackenzie was re- place in the Sarnia tors at great length.Wo give à few ex- THE CHARGE OF BAIBZAY AGAINST REFORMERS.will have ait notic- \u201cwe .he said, he heard all quarters that the Grits were dellars to their one, and that they wos was urged as justification for the corruption.Has it come to euch a pass that a member will justify wrong-doing by saying others have committed wrong ?If the Opposition spent money, they spent their own money, while the government got theirs from a man who was competing for a public eon- tract : they by giving im the contract secured sq many dollars used in corruption.1 declare to you that the entiro story is false from tho beginning to the end, that we ever spent monoy on the olections.I never spent any money in the elections, and never g received any money to spend in that way.Money was contributed to the central fund for the purposo of defraying miscellaneous legal oxpenses, and amounted to betwesen throo an four thousand dollars.This is the entire amount that has boen apent by tho Liberal party at the olectivns.Ÿ mato this statement on my own responsibility as leader of the party, and I am prepared to challenge contradiction.What individual members may have spent at their elections, I have nothing to do with.Every man strove to secure his election, and think it is quite possiblo\u2014in fact, excoedingly probablo\u2014that membora on both sides in tho excitement of the eloction spent money improperly.A REPLY Tu I'ERSONAL CRITICISM.The Torios fur somo time past have soout- od tho idea of Mnckonzio being Promier on account of his low origin, his ill-cut clothes, and plain manners ; sovoral of these eupor- fluo papors doclaring ha was unfit for the company of gentlemen.In tho course of his apooch Mr Mackonzio humorously referred to this.Ho enid :\u2014 I havo never cared for political lifo, nor boon anxious for obtaining politienl office.I may say, in proof of this, that I might have hoen in official lifo for tho last four years if L had choson, but 1 docidod that if 1 did tako offico at all, [ would take my principles along with mo and carry them out.Sir John and his friends bocame most mn- lignant of Into and efforts were made to be- littlo mo in tho oyes of tho country.The Into Primo Ministor started a paper to en.ablo him to carry out his policy more of.fectually, and tho Mail wns used to degrade tho abilitios and powers of myself as somo.thing that was vory contemptible indecd.It is so ingularly inconaintent that if | was #0 wonk and usoloss, for thom to be so anxious to proclaim this to the world.I be.liove, Mr Chairman, I am not, like you, a very handsome man (loud Inughtee and cheers), but I do not think it was fair to hold mo roaponaible for that, for I cannot improve mysolf if I tried.(Imughtor.) 1 8c0 à friond of mine hero who is acen of not making my habiliments ns woll as the should bo.(Laughter.) Ho is responsible for that and | intend to hold him rosponsi- blo.Hut there was another shocking thing about mo\u2014I was only a working-man and my appoaranco resemblod that of a leader of a gang of workmen uponatrike.(Laugh- tor.) It is quite truo 1 have never heen but 8 working.man, and I om afraid 1 shall have to ho a working.man till 1 die.(Cheorn.) Sir, T was nover ashamed, and | never will bo ashamed, of having to work.(Loud cheers.) My hands, indeed, have been soiled, -but, sir, it was by honest labor, and not by other people's gold, [Loud and long-continued cheoring.) If I have accomplished any success as fonder of the party, I do not presume to attribute that success to my own efforts, for, sir, there are men who aro serving under mo in the Administration, who are not only distinguished for their ability, and their services to the public, but thero are among them men whose abilities are higher and brighter than mine can be.In justice to thowe gentlemen, I have to say that it was their own act that they came to servo under me, instead of me sorving them.THE OFFICE GRAB.The Ottawa Administration did not die without resorting to their usual tricks.You have seen a cartoon in (irip, representing Mother Hubbard looking for some appoint: ments thnt wero supposed to be left in th Political pantry\u2014(cheers and Iaughter)\u2014 hut it seems, from the picture, that they were all away before aho could catch one, for Sir John Macdonald is seen stealing out at the door with a hundred of them in his ket, while Mr John Crawford, the nt Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario, in the shape of a little dog, is represented ns trotting away with that bone in his mouth.(Loud cheers and laughtor.) Sir, there is no little significance in that picture.(Hear, hear.) It bocame tolerably clonr on the 23rd of October that the days of the Macdonald Ministry wero numbered, and the last few days of their official existence were spont, not, Mr Chairman, in debating the affairs of state in Council, endeavoring to presont somo issue to the House, but in providing offices for their friends bofore the crash would overtake them ; and, sir, whon they resigned, and & rush was made for the secrot room upslairs, it was bonsted by Sir John Macdonald, in the caucus of his party, that they had takon good care to provide for their friends bofore they wentoat.Anything more infamous, L think, was never done by any other Government ; anything more unjustifiablo could not well be concoiv- ed, and yet 1 was amused to find some pious Henators rejoicing and glorying in the juggling trick.I have a word or two to sa with regard to the conduct of Mr Tilley, who, while he was still a member of the Government, was à party to his own pointment to the office of Lioutenant-Gov- ernor of Now Brunswick ; and yet, with the look of a patriot, wich his appointment in his pocket, ho announced to the House that he was prepared to stand or fall, to live or die, with his chioftain.Another man nam- od Crawford was, doubtless, prepared to live and die with his chief.(Laughter.] He was there, sir, to the last moment\u2014at the very time the resignation was announced, I believe ; but as soon as that was announced, he took his departure with his bone in his mouth.[Cheers and Isughter.] Sir, 1 will not waste words upon this discreditable transaction.\u2018History will s with oly one voice as to its poliiieal morality ; , sir, I look pith com fon, more rot sag.on the men who cou us ° Position as members of Parliament.[Cheers] Bat besides these, wo have an- In the late debate sald be was compelled to Other member of the Cabinet d ing the Mme evening with his comm .Jigs.We a great deal about our in- JOR eri \"SNS CIRE.AM x \u201cST TP ES ri IEE fe SORE DMS CY an ete SE abit terest in maintaining 8 bigh tone in the Bar : WHOLESALE.POISONING CASE IN country, because from that are select- athe igs who administer to us justice \u2018and judgment, upon whose faithfu fall | meng of their duty much of our peace de- | and what can we think of the man who, as the member of Administration, appointed himself judge at the very moment they were resigning ?1 will not say that that gentleman wili prostitute his position as a judge, but I do say that he must lessen the respect for the Bench in consequence of these.appointments.pre A CANARD.I have ono word to say, and I know you are all aware that Opposition journals, the Opposition press, have been announcing intaly that the Governor-General and myself had a scrious quarrel about the cancelling of some appointments.1 state here on my own aut ority, and on His Excellency's authority, that rumors of this character are without a particle of foundation.Applause.) And with that statement tho Sp ition press may say just as much or as little ns they plesso, for they will not be able to establish a sore in that placo.POLICY OF THE NEW GOVERNMENT.I may say in genoral torms that our policy will be the carrying out in office what we advocated out of office.(Cheers.) 1 think the first part of the policy which ought to claim the attention of the Government is the purification of our electoral system, £0 that tho votes of men shall show the foeling of tho constituency, and not the amount of gold or undue influence used.Until we have a pure electoral system we cannot have a pure Parliament.We shall endeavour to propare a law which will present no means of escape for those using influence of a corrupt nature at the elections.Last season we forced the Government to.pass a controvorted election law, but that is | defective in many points, and will require amendment.It will also be our duty ns, members of Government, to provide for members of Parliament being placed in such | n position that no Executivo influence can | fairly reach them; in other words, that every member of Parliament should bo thoroughly independent of tho Executive.| I think this should also extend to the Up-| per House ; that it should not be possible to sond an office-holdor to that louse when they canno.allow him to sit in tho Lower House.The late Administration used the, Senate for this purpose, and doing sodegrad- ed the Senate, till at present it prosents the anomalous spectacle of being at once tho highest estate of the realm, the highest | Court in Parliament in name porhaps, but not the highest, because tho popular body is the highest.It represents the dignified and analagous position of the louse of Lords in England, but every onc knows it does not possess the confidence which it ; should.\u2018 THE PACIFIC RAILWAY MATTER.You are aware that during the discussion | of the bill, 1 objected to tbe provision to complete this railway within ten years.Nearly three years of that time have passed, and we are bound by the contract to finish it within soven years and three months.I have always thought that a speedy means of communication across the continent was necessary for the good of settlement, and for the purpose of opening up the districts where wo have great riches undeveloped in the bosom of the earth.Without that communication their development cannot take place, and emigration cannot be expected.It will be the duty of the Administration, in the first place, to secure a means of communication to our navigable waters, from Lake Superior to Fort Garry and the Rocky Mountains, at the same time commencing at the Pacific Ocean and constructing communication by the western slope.In the meantime, communication would be afforded in conjunction with the American lines until we have means sufficient to accomplish the work.If we once have these regions accossible\u2014 that is British Columbia and the \"North.West territory \u2014 we can then afford to spend money upon tho construction of the other portions of the road, which will bo necessary to complete our great national highway across the continent ; and, I think, sir, it will be the duty, as it will be the desire of the Government.to develop any plan by which these results are to be accomplished.I merely make this statement in general terms, regarding tae policy of the Administration ; but 1 may also add that I hope we shall be able to advise means by which this can bs accomplished at a very much less cost than was contemplated by the late company of Sir Hugh Allan.THE QUEEN AND THE SCOTCH COMMUNION SERVICE.\u2014A Crathie Correspondent of The Dundee Advertiser writes :\u2014Her Majesty, the Countess of Errol, the lon Mary Pitt, and the Hon Fiora Macdonald, occupied the royal pew in Crathie Church on Sunday 2nd Feb.At tho commencement of the com.manion service Her Majesty and the above- named ladies left the royal Roy walked down-stairs, and entered Dr Taylor's seat, which was covered as a communion table, and partook of the elements of the Lord's supper.Dr Robertson, a ruling elder of the church, attended on Her Majesty and party, the Queen handing him her token along with the other ladies.Dr \u2018Taylor, the minister of Crathie, took à piece of the bread, broko it, handed a piece first to the Rev Mr Cowan his assistant for the day), and then to the ueen out of his hand, and then handed her the cup.Mr Sahl also partook ofthe sacrament at the second table, and several others of the party from Balmoral also communicated.ler Majesty kept her seat until the two verses of the 103d Psalm were sung, after Dr Taylor had addressed the communicants, and then left the church for the castle.The Cuban war is a war of roprisals, and the crueltios and barbarities practiced are of such a nature that they are not fit to be put on paper.A circular issued by Brigadier Barrie}, to the Lieutenant (Governors and Captains of the Fastern Department, calis on them and the local authorities to aid him in à last effort to crush the rebellion, by arresting all ns suspected of complicity, directly or indirectly, with the insurgents, \u201c who soon,\u201d he says, \u201c with all help cut off by sea and by land, will perish like wild beasts, as they deserve who still refase to listen to the voice of mercy and ines of pardon held out to them by the Government, aad they who, like those misguided illusionists of Holguin, went over to the enemy.\u201d It is estimated that 30,000 French Cana.dinne have returned to Lower Canada from the United States daring the Fo three weeks, owing to she mangfho- have gone MONTREAL.(From Witness of 38th Nov) Ov all the tragedies which over occurred | in Montreal, it is safe to say none so shocking or unexpooted have startled tho public | beforo, and \u2018the anomalous character of tho | resent affair certainly adds to its horror.| hrough the ovil deod of ono dobased man, both himself and cleven othors have already \u2018paid or are likely to pay the penalty of death.As the ins and outs of the whole af- ! fair are intricate, and are connected with | reat number of persons and several places, it will be advisable to give the narratives of both the dotoctives and physicians in the mattor., THE DETECTIVES\u2019 STORY.About one o'clock yosterday a man named Tyre, living in ono of tho tonements in Tabb's yard, ermine stroot, camo to the Central Police Station, and told the officials that his son was dead, and that he believed the youth had died from the offects of a glass of wine which kad been given him * in Hawkoy's,\u201d next door.Detectives Lafon and Murphy immediately went down to the place, and found the dead body of the boy.They were told by the neighbors that a lot of peoplo wero sick in the adjoining tone- ment.Ascending tho rickety stairs of the allories, they went into the place and found in the first room, on an old bed, covered with rags, a man named William Drennan, who complained of being very sick.Intho | néxt rcom or kitchon, at the end of tho hall, | was a wretched old bunk laid open behind | the stove ; in this were Mary Jane Drennan | and Michael Flaherty, both fatally sick and very far gone.In a bedroom off this apart.rent on a bed lay Edward lawkey, n laborer, and a woman named Bettie Drennan, who it is said was not married to him.\u2019 Theso people wero vomiting and purging, complaining of great pain, and asking in piteous tones for medical aid as they were poisoned.HELP CAME TOO LATE.Tho detectives immediately communicated with Doctors Dugdale and Major, who romptly appeared, and after inspecting the Farge blue jar, \"in which the deadly liquor liad been contained, proceeded to administer antidotes.The ofticers went around the gallery and saw Mrs Dunv, à widow with five children of her own and three adopted ones beside, to support.She was dangerously ill, stating sho had swallowed about a glassful of the supposed wine, thinking it was wine and bark.Tho detectives, knowing the man Flaherty to bo an old offender, questioned him as to whero the poisonous liquid camo from.After much hesitation, he replied, © I found it in a snow bank in Alexander street.\u201d Ilawkey now told the officers that his brother William, a married man, living in another yard off DeSalaberry street, in the Quebec Suburbs, had been up the evening before and obtained a flask of the stuff, drinking heartily of it at the same time.The officers and doctors accordingly started off to find him, while in the meantime the woman Mary Jane Drennan had died, and lay strotehe! a corpse by tho side of Flaherty.After searching through and through De Salaberry street, and hunting through all the taverns, they at last found out his residence in a wretched den on a yard off No.25 St Alphonse Lane.Ile was aman of iron constitution and great muscular power, and he fought hard with death, but liis case was hopeless.lo was leaning against the stovevo miting, while asmaller buy only three years of age, who, as another brother said, had dipped his finger into tho wine glass and \u201csupped it off\u201d waslying in his mother's arms terribly sick, his sickness being aggra vated by the fact that he had the whooping cough.Prescribing antidotes for these poor creatures, and in addition for the wife, Mrs Hawkey, who confessed she had drank about an ounce, the officers and doctors hurried on\u2014for, terrible to say.they had received information of yet another victim, whom, they found in a bad way, at No.33 St Hypolite Lane, in tbe house of his stepfather, George Biflin, laborer.1lo was named Andrew Lang, and said he drank a \u201chorn\u201d of the stuff down near the Hermine street den.The doctors and detectives were appalled, for here wero TWELVE VICTIMS ALL TOLD, two of whom were dead and the others rapidly sinking.They accordingly hurried back to Tabb's yard, where the sconce beggared description.The adjacent tenements ad turned out their ontire population of miserable, vicchardened, poverty-stricken inmates, who crowded in and out of the yard, eagerly asking questions and pressing in on the polico at the head of the stairs to sco the sufferers.Mrs Dunn's family, who occlipied the least repulsive of the dens, were crowded about their mother wouping and sobbing, while she lay fast sinking, and in great pain.In the house opposite, which contained but little furniture, nnd the air of which was piercing cold and foul smelling, the five victims wero also suffering agony both of body and mind, for strange to suy the malignant poison, since found to be wine of Colchicam\u2014Vinum Colchici\u2014loft the senses unimpaired to the very last, while it paralyzed slowly and surely the action of tho heart.low eagerly tho wretches obeyed the orders of the doctors to lie still or take regular doses of the nauseous stimulant, brandy and ammonia, and how thoir bright, unnatural-looking oyes followed the movements of thoso about them ! It was a terrible scene and one never to be forgotten by those who saw it.HOW THE POISON WAS OBTAINED.Flaherty, hardened wrotch that he was, firmly maintained to the last that he had found the blue jar of wine in a snow bank on Alexander street; but a crippled son of Tyre told a different story.* I and Fia- herty were bringing some wood on our backs down Alexander strect, when wo saw an express sleigh in the road ; no driver being near, Flaherty threw down his wood, went over, seized the bottle which was in the sleigh, and wo hurried home.\u201d HOW THE WINE CAME TO BE IN THE SLEIGH, Doctors Dugdale and Major made careful enquiries with regard to the ownership of the stuff.After visiting tho shops of Hon- neth Campbell & Co., Lymans, Clare & Co., Kerry, Watson & Co., they succooded in tracing the bottle to Evans, Mercor & Co., wholesale druggists, who it Appears had sent it to Dr Bourque, chemist, St Antoine street; the latter finding he did not reqnire it, had returned it.On examination of tho delivery book of the driver of thesleigh, it wasfound marked * mislaid,\u201d thus bringing out the whole affair.rs MT or oT: Benjamin , 15, a son of Tyre, a store.man, who bear a J ee 4 ~ though his wife does was taken sick while chopping wood in the yard at 8 o'clock lon Wednesday evening.\u2018 le character, Festablishin row worse, and died at noon ary Jane Dronnan, alins Canning, 28, a well-known character to the police, and who drank heartily of the mixture, also took very sick Wednesday evening, and diod at about 24 p.m.yesterday.The man Flaherty died ulongside the corpse of the: woman Dronnan nt 4 p.m.Both bodies wore romovod to the Dead ITouse.The | fourth victim to die was William Hawkey, - 35, the laborer living in St Alphonse Lane, who breathed his last at about 53 p m.He had swallowed about four gills of the poison, and tho doctors wore surprised that ho last- od so long.The fifth death was that of Bottie Drennan, a middle-aged woman the so-called wife of Edward Hawkey, who died at seven o'clock.Sixth came Mrs Dunn, who died at 9 p.m.Mr Waid and others engaged in fraser by her bedside before her doath, and did all in their power to lead her mind to heavenly things, She was the only ono of the Protestant faith.The others wero waited upon assiduously by priosts, and towards ovening some Sisters of Charity took charge of Hawkey and Win.Drennan.The symptoms of the attack were oxcossive vomiling and purging, pulse from 120 to 130, weak an tiblo at tho wrists for long periods, whi bodily strength and conscionsness remained to tho Inst.Flaherty talked quite loudly ono minute and the next lay over dead.A peculiarity in each case was that the victim desired to sit up, no doubt caused by the oppression on the heart, and in every instance tho patients snt up just ns they were about to die.The most heartrending feature of the whole alfuir is the poisoning of Wm.Hawkoy's two littlo children, who unwittingly drank the liquid.One of them taking a large swallow.THE SEVENTH DEATH.Between twelve and one o'clock this morning William Drennan died, dropping off quite suddenly | TIE POISON.The deadly liquid which has caused these terrible results is made from the seeds and roots of à gonus of plants called Colchicum of the natural order Melanthnceæw.It has but few species, and is very like the crocus in form and flower.One species is known in England as meadow saffron, or incorrectly Autumn Crocus ; its pale purple flowers appearing ut that season.The whole plant is very acrid and poisonous, owing to the presence of an acid called Colchine or Col- chicia, and cattle are often injured by it in pastures whore it abounds.The plant is ured in modioine in small doses to give relief in gout and rhoumutism, the parts made uso of being the corm (or root) and seeds.The latter are round, brown, rather larger than mustard seeds, and fatal accidents have occurred from their poisonous nature.At the inquest on Friday, among other evidence givon was that of Wu.Ilawkey, son of Edward Hawkey, agod 17, and a cripple, who was sworn.After preliminary statements he said : Flaherty fetched me up to somo buildings for wood on Monday night.We went straight along past Beaver Ilall, and then up a lane to a building, where wo took two pieces of wood ; one was a piece of beam.| took none ; Flaherty carried two pieces.We were coming home along Alexander street, and a horse was going up it by himself, when Flaherty threw down the two planks, and going up stopped the horse; it was one of the express horses.I think he then took vut the bottle from the sleigh.Île came running down the streot and said he had a bottle.IIo left me on Juror street, and followed the horse up, whilo I minded the wood.Am sure he told me ho got the bottle out of the sleigh.\u2018This was between 7 and 8 on Monday evening.On taking it out of the sleigh, he left it in a gateway and afterward went back and gotit.On coming to the house, they tasted it, but did not drink any that night, as they did not know what it was, Saw them tasting it.Witnoss was away at his aunt's when liquor was drank.Mr Mercer explained the manufacture of the wine of Colchicum.Tt was prepared by digesting the Colchicum root or seeds in shorry for 14 days, the wine was then filter- od nnd bottled, perfectly pure and bright.No one could detect any poison in it by the smell.It also came out that young Haw- key was told by Flaherty to stick to the story about their finding the bottle in a uteway, ns deceased, thinking he would get better, would otherwise bo arrested for its theft.Ilawkey consequently told two stories, and when on oath, acknowledged what Flaherty had said to him was a lie.In answer to the query why the bottle had not been labelled \u201cpoison,\u201d Mr Mercer stated it was not the rule to give more than the name when sending to retail dealers, If retailing to the public the word \u201c poison\u201d was always written on the label of such mixtures.The jury brought in the following verdict :\u2014\u2018\u201c That the seven porsons now deceased came to their deaths by drinking and swallowing an excessive quantity of sherry wine mixed with a poisonous drug, Colchi- cum, commonly called and known as wine of Colchicum, taken and drank in total ignorance of its poisonous nature and char acter.\u201d The Prince and Princess of Wales, on a recent journey from the north of Scotland lost three of their children at Edinburgh.They stopped at the West End Station, intending to drive into the town and dine.They got into a private carriago that was plncod at their disposal and drove to the Clarendon.During dinner it was accidentally discovered that the three youngest children and their nurses were nowhere to be found, and great was thedismay of overy one.When last seen thoy wero safely preked in a cab, but no ono had given cab.y directions where to drivo to, and in the bustle of tho stroets he had evidently lost sight of the brougham.Messengers wore sent off to scour all the hotels, and after a short interval the children wero discovored busily engaged with bread and butter in the Douglas, and blissfully unconscious that tho ontire fomininity of the city was on the vergo of hysterics on their account.One who ought to know says that the but- tor fuctory system has brought into the town of Bellmont during the past year more than seven thousand dollars above what would have been received had farmers manufactared their butter in the old way.He makes the estimato on six hundred cows, twenty thtee pounds of milk making a pound of butter, and the difference in the prices obtained for factory and dairy make.hat better argument can thero be for factories in every town until not a district in the country is without one?~Malone Palladium.He wont to bed, | yesterday.| 27 or ! | the States or Great Britain 20 conts additional fast, somotimos jm porcep- .© THE CANADIAN GLEANER is published every Thursday at noon.Subscription, $1.50 a-year in adyamce.For papers sent to has to be paid for postage.Single copies of the Gleaner, four cents.Advertisementsare | charged seven cents por line for the firat insertion and three cents fer each subsequent assertion.Advertisements of Farms for Sale, if not over 10 linos, are inserted for $1 the first month, and fifty cents for each additional month.No advertisement inserted for less than fifty cents.Office in the Dominion Block, opposite the Bost-oftice.ROBERT BELLAR, Proprietor.Sale The Ganadian Gleaney, \u2018Tux affuirs of the Portland and Ogdens- burg Railroad Company have assumed an entiroly new aspect.A week 8, .| was only known as an energetic but west Company, struggling to effect a gigantic purpose, with slight hopes of immediate suc- cost.By a union with another Company, it has gained the strength it needed, and the prospect now is that it will soon be in running order from Montreal to Portland.Ono of the best known railroad companies in Massachusetts is the Eastern, possessing a line to Portsmouth, N.H., and a through connection to Portland, At first sight it seems unlikely that a railroad which skirts the Atlantic between the two cities could have any intercst in the Portland and Ogdensburg line, and that it should have, is evidence of its belief that Portland will not absorb all tho through traffic of the new line and that a portion will seek shipment at Boston.Believing thus, that the completion of the Portland line to the St Lawrence can be made to secure to it a share of the vast and ever-increasing volume of freight which flows towards the seaboard, it has entered into what is substantially a partnership with the Portland & Ogdens- burg Company to help them to finish their road.At the outset, it is well to note distinctly, that it is not intonded to finish it as the projectors of the line intended, namely, to Ogdensburg, but to Montreal and Ottawa, so that, so fur as wo can judge from our pre- sont information, the prospects of the people of this County and thoso west of us are not improved by the new arrangement, but rather the reverse.By guaranteoing a cortain percontage of their gross receipts for through freight to tho Portland Company to be applied towards paying the interest on their bonds, and to endorse all bonds that may in future be issued, the Eastern Company receives a pledge that the Portland Company will give to it all its through freight to Boston.In other words, the Eustern Railroad Company gives the Portland Company the benefit of its credit and shares its liabilities in consideration of receiving exclusive privi- logos.As the Eastern Railroad is reputed to be wealthy and influential, their alliance will be of great value, and will lead to the immediate completion of the road to Sheldon, Vermont, and that of the connecting branchos to Montreal and Ottawa.The branch from Sheldon to Montreal, is the Montreal and Chambly, already completed as far a8 Chambly.The branch to Ottawa, is the Coteau and Ottawa, about which so much has been said in our columns.The Chambly and Coteau lines are independont of the Portland Company so far as organization goes, but have a written bargain and distinct understanding as to what they are to do.The Eastern, the Portland, the Chambly, and the Coteau are all united for ono common purpose, and practically form one combination\u2014that purpose being a direct line from Ottawa and Montreal to Portland and Boston, offering to shippers of lumber and produce a shorter route than any other in oxistence.The arrangement goos into effect at once; work is being pusbed with renewed vigor on the uncompleted sections of the Portland road in New Hampshire and Vermont, and on the line from Chambly to Sheldon.The object to be first sought is the through line to Montreal ; that to Ottawa will bo attended.to next.These new arrangoments place a different aspect on our prospects of gotting a railroad, and, as we have said, our impression is that, to say the least, it does not improve them, but we refrain from saying more until official communication is held with the Company.\u2014\u2014 It is satisfactory to see that the farmers of Chateauguay, who live south and wost of Howick, are at last going to make some move to end the injustico of having all the benofits of the Agricultural Society confined to the neighborhood of St Martine.On Friday next a meeting is to be held at Dur- bam to secure the formation of a second Society, and if such a thing as fair-play is known at Quebec, their request will be ac- cedod to.Had the parties who have ruled the Society of late years boen content to have held the shows at Howick, there would have been no sufficient cause for complaint, but when they were #0 selfish as to want all to themselves, to hold the Shows at a place where it was impossible for nesrly three- ! aompete, they need not be surprised that a separation is going to be demanded.The | we can have no part.farmers within a radius of twelve miles of ,and the othor parishes ! Durbam can form a better Society in every way than that now existing, and it will be their own fault if they do not get it.ee Tue diffieulty about the Virginius may bo said to be settled.On Saturday the New York papors announced that Spain had acceded to the American demands, would restore tho vessol, release the prisoners, and agreed to refer to arbitration whether she pay a sum to the rélations of those murdered.On Monday President Grant, in his Message, confirmed the statement, though, he eaid, the complete correspondence would not bo submitted until the official confirmation was received by mail from Spain.The only danger yot of a rupture, is that Cuba may refuse to obey the orders of Spain and insist on retaining the Virginius and her passengers.Tho latest news from Cuba says there was much indignation at the surrender, but that it was believed it would be allowed to take place.As a rule, the amicable settlement of the difficulty gives much satisfaction to our neighbors, though there are a fow fire-eators who still insist on war.The preparations in tho navy-yards are being continued, Grant stating in his Message that it is not prudent to allow the navy to again sink into a useless condition.Apart from his reference to the Cuban difficulty, the Mossago containg nothing of interest to outsiders.Ile speaks of the Indians, recommends the deepening of the canals between the seaboard and the West, and touches on the banking system, the late orisis, the bankruntey laws, civil service reform, and amondments to the procodure of Congress.Tur Ministers, so far, have all been successful in securing re-clection.The only one opposed in Ontario was Mr Cartwright, and no stone was left unturned by tho Tories to secure his dofeat.ITis entoring the Ministry caused him to be looked on with much mal~volence, lic having been regarded until lately as a Conservative.Sir John A.Macdonald personally canvassed the county against him, speaking at scveral meetings, at one of which Mr Blake mot him and demolished his sophisms as to the conduct of the late Ministry.Lennox is not a Reform county and Mr Cartwright's opponent, Hooper, was a resident and in many respects unobjectionable.ITowever, despite all the efforts of the Tories, he has been do- feated in the most crushing manner.lle did not get a majority in a single township and was beaten by 823 of a majority.A more decisive exprossion of opinion against tho parties to the Pacific Scandal could not be.There will be another trial of strength next week in Toronto.The nomination of Crawford to the Lieutenant.Governorship of Ontario leaves vacant his seat for East Toronto.Altho\u2019 a strong Tory constituency, tho Reformers have brought out a candi- dato, Mr Mosa, who will contest it with the Tory nominee, Mr Bickford.A victory can hardly be anticipated, yet after Lonnox there is no saying.Respectable men of all parties have been too much shocked by late events to allow of their clecting partizans of John A.AT lust election Mr Gagnicr, Registrar, who was Returning-Officer, appointed Mr McGowan, of St Martine, one of his deputies.Mr McGowan, who is the most influential man in the parish, conceiving that the appointment was made in order td pre- vont his working for Mr Holton, of whom ho is a great admirer, refused to act, whereupon Mr Gagnier sued him for the penalty of $100, the law making it compulsory to accopt such appointments.The case was heard some timo ago and last week Judge Dunkin gave his decision, condemning Mr McGowan to pay the fine and costs.All this may be law bat it is not justice, for it looks very much like persocution for political opinion, Mr McGowan has our warmest sympathios under the great wrong done to him, which is all tho more intolerable that it is perpetrated under color of law.\u2014\u2014 law, granting $40,000 to the Railroad, on Monday.Mr Hibbard, ono of the Directors of the Company, came up from Montreal to explain the project and assured tho Council that if the Parish of Ste Cécile rejected the by-law the Company would take the route by St Timothy and Beauharnois, which would answer them equally well, as they wore not particular what point of the frontier near tho Richelieu thoy struck.His statements had much weight with the Council, which adopted the by-law, two Council lors voting against it.Thero appears to be po doubt as to the ratepayers ratifying it on tho 22nd instant.St Louis de Gonzague is prepared to movo next, and also St Mala- chie.Those in the latter parish, who so bitterly opposed the Frontier road, can have no excuse to oppore the Coteau line, for it goes direct to Montreal.We will be glad to see both the parties in the late strife uniting now and working harmoniously to secure the road.Wo have no onvious foal - ings in the matter.Wo firmly believe a railroad would be of tho greatest benefit to the county of Huntingdon and have done what little was in our power to secure one \u2014a railroad that would suit both us and St Malachie if possible, but a railroad at any rate, Circumstances have gone against us fourths of the best farmers in the county to so far, and fortune has unexpectedly favored ! another that suite thom better.Tue Valloyfield Council passed their by- ed vants and will bave a good de Beauharnois.ed owing to the co Chateauguay in offering hee & in which We trust St Malachie nterested wi] let the opportunity slip.If they weal at have our projected road, we wil] Tojoice learn that they will cordiali y work to hy Across the Lake the Compan ; od a slight reverse in the pari of si A by-law was submitted and rejocte, through tho influence of the Seignior i \u201d Beanjou, by 40 of a majority, Mp de Bea ° Jou is in favor of the railroad, v \u2019 but insists it taking a route through his land to où him.uit ct GODMANCHESTER COUNCIL AT the meeting on Monday, were J.Stewart, Mayor, and Councillors Moore, Tallon, Feeny, and McVey.John Leahy and \u201cMichael Rico re orted that Alexander MoNaughton and Arc hibald Cameron having refused to do certain wor} on the Lrethour discharge, they, or T'ésent Tunter, had caused it to be done.(a brustoos, Moved by Coun.Huntor, second , Coun.Feeny : That the report of the wrt teos be approved and the amount 80 dono, 88.50, bo paid.Carried, A long conversation took place with re gard to the proposed Dewittvillo bridge ns to whether its site should be removed o not.By moving tho site the need of the small bridge on the Godmanchester gid would be obviated, and the question vas whether it would be better to have the now bridge on the old site and continue to kee up the small bridge, or to help Minchin, brooke to acquire a new right of Way \u2018and havo the site moved.\u2019 Moved by Coun.Hunter, sccon ; Coun.McVey\": That the question bo at the ratopayers and that each of the Councillors take two petitions, one for moving the sito and the other against, and got then, signed ; the petitions to be laid before the County Council at their meeting next week Carried.\u201d Moved by Coun.Feeny, seconded by Coun.Hunter : That the rond inapoobrs 5 instructed to have the fonces along ronds taken down where they deem necessary and to trace out and bush winter roads in conformity with tho rules laid down in the Municipal Code.Carried.The - Mayor was authorized to let out to the lowest bidder, the keeping open of the Seigniory line road for the winter.The drawing as to which of the Cour- cillors should retire, resulted in Stewart ad Robb going out.Coun.Feeny was appointed to preside election January.ST.ANICET COUNCIL, Ar a session held on Monday, there were present : LE.Dupuis, Esq., Mayor, Couns, BE.L'Ecuyer, P.W.Iiggins, S.Rankin and I.Hussy.On motion of Coun.L'Ecuyer, scemded by Coun.Higgins, the Secrotary was order- cd to pay 81.12 to L.N.Masson for certain repaira to the wharf.On motion of Coun.Tlussy, socondeld by Coun, Rankin, tho Secretary wus ordered (o sell the repairs of LaGuerre bridge according to the report and specification of Insp.Joseph Génier, Snr.On motion of Coun.L'Ecuyer, seconded by Coun.Iliggins, it was resolved that three crossings be bushed across lake St Francis, viz.: ono opposite to Port Lewis, another opposite to the village of St Anicet, and, the third one, opposite to Samuel Rankin's point; tho bushes to bo eight fect high above the ice and to be planted no moro than thirty-six feet apart.The sum of $5.is to be allowed for the bushing of each crossing.On motion of Coun.L\u2019'Ecuyer, seconded by Coun.Higgins, they then proceeded to select by lot which two Councillors, out of five, must bo replaced, according to law, in January next.The drawing of tho letters A B \u20ac¢ D FE resulted against Councillors Higgins and Quesnel, who must consequent ly be replaced.ORMSTOWN COUNCIL.Tris Council mot on Monday.members present, Archibald McEwen, road inspector, reported the unsnfe state of two bridges on tho front rond of the fourth and fifth concessions of Jamostown, and wanting instructions.Moved by Coun.Steel, seconded by Coun.Sadler : That the above inspector is hereby authorized to get the above two bridges put in repair immediately, and make his report to this Council at its next general meeting.Carried., Tho road officers having cortified and made oath that tho following contractors had fulfilled their contracts according to specification, and recommended them to be paid, viz.John Oliver the amount of his contract less six dollars, John Dyke the full amount of his contract, Jean Baptisto Gurin the full amount of his contract, 8 motion to that effect was made and adopt: for work All tho Tho ballot having been talon as to who should retire, Councillors Steel and Sadler wero ballotted out., Moved by Coun.Steel, scconded by Coun.Sadler : That the Secy.-Treas.is hereby authorized and appointed presiding officer for the election of Councillors for January.Car ried, Moved by Coun.Steel, seconded by ( our.J.Finn : That the Secy.-Trens.pay Joseph Delorme the sum of four dollars for keeping snow on the Durham bridge at all times during the winter season ; one half to à paid tn January and tho other half at the end of his contract.Carried.Monday was probably the coldest first of Decombor in the memory of any now I ing.At sovon o'clock in the morning * he thermometer stood at twenty dogrees be 0 zoro, and the slight east wind that ble% 0 day was piercing.On Tuosday afternoo it changed and before dark it was thawing.Tho thaw continues and whilo We en à press the anow bas almost disappesred the rivers are at flood height.À servant, Philomene Bastien, was accus ed beforo the District Magistrate of han 06 incited a fellow servant to leave her pepe d Sho was condemned to pay à fine of $ i lesson to ser the coats.This isa needed een 1 Echo The meeting With regard to the Chou?t largoly attoné- of owing ni but sufficient encou- ment was given for Messrs Cowan and Gilmore to persist in their enterprise.\u2014 SU HOLANU Clos 207 = ee on al (TB ea pen CT mo emp Valleyfield canal closed on Monday a on ey day, by a powerful steamer, the Watertown, coming from Kingston to reak the ice, seven steamers and a number barges got out.One barge, laden with 7000 bushels of whoat, struc the bank near Valleyfield and sunk.The wheat was sold to the habitants at 70 cents a bag, and was ily dis of.There is a steamer speed in at St Timothy and at Valleyfield, tho propeller Shickaluna and a barge laden with whiskoy.All three will have to wait to be released by the coming of Spring.A.P.Cunningham and W.wW._Dalgliesh aro he retiring Councillors for this village.The Huntingdon County Council meets on Wednesday port | , of the Q Rev Thos.Galos, agent of the Que- ber ne mporanco and Prohibitory League, will hold meetings in this District as follows :\u2014 jek.\u2026.\u2026\u2026\u2026.L'uesday.December 9 North Georgetown.Wednesday.10 Durham.Thureday.« 11 Dewittville.Friday.« 12 Dundee.ccreeree.Monday.¢ 15 Huntingdon .Tuesday.« 16 Elgin\u2026.\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.\u2026.v\u2026.Wednesday.« 17 Athelstan\u2026 \u2026Thursday\u2026 \u201c 18 Rlockburn.\u2026.Friday.\u2026.\u2026.© 19 Franklin Centre.Saturday.¢ 20 Covey Mill.Sunday.« 21 Hlemmingford.Monday.«\u201c 22 Meetings to all take place in the ovening at seven o'clock.The Dundee Co.of volunteers having received sometime ago a few cartridges for practice, it was thought best by the Captain, instead of distributing them, to get up a shooting match by the company.The Captain's business did not allow ot his attending to the matter until now, henco the reason of its not coming off in more favor- ablo weather.The 29th ult.was named for the trial and thirty of the company assembl- od on the farm of John McMillan, Dundee Center, where iho firing was commonced and ended.The ranges were 400 and 600 yds.At the 400 yds.some vory good scores wero mado but at the 600 (which was a little incrensed to got to the lee side of the barns to bo out of way of the cool zephyrs blowing) there were but few plugs used to fill up the holes in tho target (wo have to be content with a wonden one).I made myself busy and made out to get together a few prizes (no cups) by making a raid on some of the business community and the Captain, Lieutenant, and Colonel one each, making nine in all.The intrinsic value of the prizes was not fabulous, but it did not cost the competitors anything for entry, neither did they have to pay 25 cents a package for cartridges.The prizes were won as follows : \u2014 ou 1st Wm, McBean, Cruct-stand.cen $2 2nd Wm.Aubray, Driving-whip.$1.25 ord Edward Shannon, Pocket-knife.81 4th Lt.Buchanan, do do 5th Sgt.Davidson, Scotch-thistle pin.1 6th J.D.McMillan, 1lair-watch gaurd.1 7th Capt.McKinnan, Pockot-book.60c Sth James Timlin, Briar-root-pipe.25c 9th John Long, BOX.\u2026.\u2026\u2026.\u2026.\u2026\u2026ecrserssecrrrccs The last prizo was a box\u2014contents not made public until opened, which proved to be a doll.After the presentation by the\u2014, Mr McMillan asked the company in to partake of refreshments, which fe had generously provided and a goodly number availed themselves of the kind ofter, but as the day was fist merging into night, I had to hurry up to report at headquarters, as no man should bo away from the family circle in the dark hours of the night, when temptations are stalking abroad.Nothing like discipline ; only storn and strict discipline will bring the soldier and the benedict under subjection, Ahem.Cor PHunnr.In tho Court of Review on Saturday decision was rendored in tho case Somerville vs.Donihee.Tho suit aroso out of numerous transactions between the parties, which included an order in payment of produce from Donihee on Somerville for $180 which he gavo to Wm.Walsh.The draft was cashed by Somerville and Donihee contended he had paid it and that he was due Somerville nothing.\u2018The case was heard before J udge Dunkin who gave judgment in favor of Somerville, whereupon Donihee appealed to the Court of Review, which reversed the decision on the technical ground that wberens the amount claimod was designated \u201clonned money\u201d it was given on a draft\u2014the judges drawing a distinction between the two.As they seemed to think Doniheo was actually due Somerville, they ordered him to pay his own costs in the lower court.Robert Kelly and Joshua Breadner are reported to be the retiring Councillors for Hinchinbrooke, William Todd, son of Robert Todd of inchinbrooko, who has ncted as clerk at Kuharnois for some time, met with a sad accident last.week.He was shooting Pigeons at tho granary of Coll McFee, when the gun burst, wounding him.At first the Injury was deemed not dangerous, but after à few days the wound began to bleed, and tho foctora in attendance were unable to .ast a i : cation; state t accounts ho was in a pre , The son of Mr MoDonell, who was in- Jared in tho grist mill, is recovering in the most satisfactory manner.ohare Were no cases of importance before riminal Court at Beauharnois.John Ÿ \"hve, (of Elgin) charged with assaulting F onihee, was acquitted.Cayley act- Crown Prosecutor.here was no business of im rtance be- tors the Dundee Council.The Ma or, Mr ote\u201d and Coun.McBean wore allotted \u2014\u2014 MONTREAL LETTER.To the Editor of the Gleaner, ONTREAL has been stirred to her very ths by the heart-rending details of the I pearl Poisoning case.Twelve persons, .0n by their depraved appetite for intoxi- poi liquor, drank a linge bottleful of a we wonous decoction, thinking it to be port- time à f these seven are dead.The vic- you nelude three men, three women and a he lad of fifteen.Tho remaining five slow} partook of the poisonous liquor are win y Tecovering.o fatal drug is a : oe called Colchicum Wine, and is used as when | for rheumatism.1t is only poison viet taken in large quantities.One of the noms, Flaherty, stole the bottle, contain- ne at half \u2018a gallon of the Colchicum night ou of an express waggon.Tho first To ad onday) they merely tasted it.On one of thers was & faneral of the child of bottle the victims.After the faneral, the sated Tha brought out, and its contents h © be good port wine.Not enough next day, Wednesday, the whole as sembled to have a good time or it Their potations this time were only too deep, for the next day, one after another, fell sick avd died in indescribable agony.It is said tho sufferers were not proper! treated by the medical men called in, that the anti.doses wore not rightly administered.The greatest excitement has boen caused in the city by this terrible catastrophe.Sermons were preached in some of the churches u on it, and practical applications made of the sad event.It is to hoped it will have the effect of checking tho too prevalent drunkenness in the city.Le is sad to think, what ation e are reduced b their love of accursed rink, y [The steamboat could not cross from La- chine on Tuesday, so that no mail reached this village until last night ; that by Hem- mingford until this (Thursday) morning.In consequence of this late arrival, wo are compelled to hold over the rest of the above letter.] TERRIBLE CALAMITY\u2014250 LIVES LOST.London, Dec.1.\u2014News has just been received of tho tho loss of the Atlantic steamship Ville do Havre, and the drowning of 250 persons.\u2018I'he steamer was ono of the finest afloat, and engaged in tho trade bo- twoen Brest, France, and New York.On the 15th November she sailed from Now York with a full cargo and a large number of cabin passengers, her splendid accomoda- tions, sho being one of the largest and bost fitted up of vessels, attracting a great part of the travel across the ocean.Among the nssengors woro several delegates at the ate Evangelical Alliance.All went well with her until the night of the 22nd, whon she was nearing the Irish coast.On that night, she came into collision with the British, ship Loch Erne, bound from London to Now York.The Ville de Havre was the most injured and sunk almost at once, carrying with her to the bottom of the Atlantic 250 souls.Tho Loch Lrne, though badly damaged, stood Ly and rescued 87.Mad the steamship floated a little longer all might bave been saved.Those saved wore afterwards transferred to an American ship, the Trimountain, which was met next day, the Loch Erne being so injured as to be in some peril.Tho Trimountain landed the survivors at Cardiff on Sunday.The Loch Erne made for Queenstown for repairs.The officers and passengers of the Ville de 1lavre say they experienced thick fog until the 20th.At the time of the collision the weather was clear, little wind was blowing but there wus a heavy sea.The Captain had just retired and the second officer was in charge.The lights on the steamer wero all right.Tho collision was wholly unexpected.The Loch Erno struck tho steamer amidships and made a chasm twelve feet deep and from twenty-five to thirt feet wide, the exact position of the Ville de Havre at the timo was latitude 47.21, longitude 25.31.A panic took possession of passengors.lFivo minutes after tho collision the main and mizzen masts fell across the two large boats which were filled with people and ready for launching.The boats wero crushed to pieces and many of THEIR OCCUPANTS KILLED.In the brief interval Letween the collision and tho sinking of tho steamer, the crow wero able to launch only the whale boatand captain's gig.Tho Loch Erne went a mile before stopping.Sho then got out four boats to pick up the people struggling in the water.Meanwhile the whale boat, under the command of the second lieutenant of tho Ville do Ilavre picked up one load of those who were clinging to planks, spars, &e., and took them to the Loch Erne, She returned to the scone and rescued anothor load.Capt.Surmont, who REMAINED ON DECK TO THE LAST, was roscued by this boat three quarters of an hour after the collision.One of his offi- cors swam a milo to the Loch Erne, and was hauled on board with a rope.The boats continued to search the waters in the vicinity of the disaster unti! there was no hope of saving more lives.The cold was intense.Many of the survivors were immersed two hours, and were almost lifoless when rescued.~The ship Trimountain sighted the Loch Erne at 6 a.m., six hours after tho sinking of tho steamer and received the survivors as before reported.London, Dec.2.\u2014A despatch says, among the Ville de Havre's survivors was ono lady whose husband and four children had perished in the sen, threo young ladies lost their father and mother ; one young man lost his father, mother and sister, and an- othor gentleman lost his sister whom he was taking to France for her health.The suffering of those who were rescued was intense, the cold being very severe; many creons were nearly insensible, and would ave utterly perished in a fow minutes more.Tho rescues were nearly all a matter of hap-hazard, as time permitted no organized effort or attempt at choice.London, Dec.2.\u2014Eleven of the survivors from the Ville de Havre departed for Paris to-night.During their short stay in London everybody vied in comforting the survivors.Marks of affection were evinced.Storekeopers refused to accept payment ; theso offers were resisted with difficulty.When the landing was effected at Cardiff on Monday the ladies were in a stato of semi- nudity, some having only blankets to protect them, and their feet were covered with sailors\u2019 stockings.They arrived at the hotel, when agents immediately provided them clothing.All the ladies assembled in the parlor, having but a short time to dress prior to their departure for London; and when a signal was given tho gentlemon asked whether they were ready, and the door was opened, when all realized the fearful tragedy, the ladies being clad in mourning.The heroism of the ladies was beyond al praiso ; that of Miss Hunter being especially conspicuous.All gratefully acknowledged tho care with which they were treated.Tho Scotch ship was prevented from pre- ring immediately for rescue from its ignorance as to whothor serious damage was one to the steamer.Tho Loch Erno's boats were not lowered until tho steamer had gone down.No life preserver was in its proper place.Most of thoso rescued had been floating from half-an-hour to an hour before being picked up.The Scotchman had little comfort to extend to the rescued beyond open hearts and goodwill.It soon, however, became a question whether the Loch Erne offered safety to those on board.Capt.Surmount declared his determination to transfer the crew to some other ship; this was resisted by the mate, and the overcame with some difficulty Surmount's OTever was taken to injare them.e tion.When the Trimountain was o » transfer was effected, and the Captain, who is married, comfort in the eabin.cn ibe vil De Tar parait ee wreck of the Ville de Havre report t Loch Erne was sighted by thse on board the steamer from 15 to 17 minutes before i the collision occurred.: SEE NEWS BY ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.| London, Nov.25.\u2014The steam-ship Sar- matian, of the Allan Line, has been char- .tered by the British Government to convey \u201c8 regiment to the Gold Const.; London, Nov.26.4:30 A.M.\u2014Lator dis- | patches have been received from Gen Wol- seley, commanding the Ashantee expedition.| They condomn native auxiliaries as worthless.Tho Ashantoes are in full rotreat.{ Their main column, however, is within oasy march of the British advanco.Yet the General is unable to overtake and attack thom owing to the tardiness aud cowardice 1of his native allies.He complains of the j humiliating position in which ho is placed epend {in consequence of boing obliged to jon such help, , Paris, Nov.26.\u2014In the trial of Marshal : Bazaine, to-day, M.Rouher testified in ro- Intion to the negotiations of the Empress Eugenie, in the endeavor to savo the Rhine Army and to avoid a cession of territory.London, Nov.26.\u2014A dispatch from Madrid says tho North German Squadron were on Tuesday last formed in lino of battle before Cartagena, to enforco a demand upon the insurgents for the restoration of 25,000 posetas which had been extorted from German subjects in the city.Upon notice that refusal would be followed by bombardmont, the insurgents paid the monoy.Berlin, Nov.26.\u2014Archbishop Ledochow- ski has been ordered to resign within a week from the notice.He has reccived à lotter from the Pope oxhorting him to firmness, Section 24 of the now Ecclesiastical law enacts that in case clorgymon of the land that their remaining in office appears incompn- tible with public order, they may be dopriv- ed of their office.In the ovent of the refractory Archbishop refusing to recognize the right of the Government to make any such demand, as on his own principles he must necossarily do, tho Legislature will bo called on to provide an amendment to the law of last sossion, decrecing in such a caso of confirmed contumacy the offender's expulsion from tho country.Glasgow, Nov.26.\u2014The small bont mado from the l\u2019olaris, which tho whaler Ravens- craig took ou board when sho rescued the Buddington party, will be sont from this city to New York by the stoam-ship Gicor- gia.It will bo placed in the Smithsonian Institute at Washington.Madrid, Nov.27.\u2014Cartagonn was bombarded cight hours yesterday by the land batteries.Tho town and the man-of war Mondez Nunez roplied with vigor.\u2018The outlying fort Don Julian was silenced by the fire of tho besiogers.It is reported that its commandant and several other officers were killed.Tho insurgent fleet in tho harbor got up steam to-day\u2014for what pur- ose has not yet been developod.The rebel enders, through the Admirals of the foreign squadrons, have requested a truce of two hours.tis belioved that propositions for tho surrender of the city will soon ho made.Madrid, Nov.28.\u2014 During the two hours truce at Cartagena, yesterday, the Italian Admiral sent a vessel to the city, which ro- turned with à number of non-combatants.At the close of the truce firing was resumed on both sides, and it continues to-day.Tho insurgents are making à desperato defense.On Wednesday the arsenal and barracks wero tho chief marks for besieger's artillery, but the cathedral and hospital were also struck, On Friday the theatre, Protestant church and two entire streets were destroyed and 200 persons killed and wounded within tho city.The Insurgeuts have raised the black flag on tho forts.At Inst accounts the fire around tho city was subsiding.The loss of the besiegers has been exceedingly small.Officers of the foreign squadrons succeeded in obtaining an armis- tico of four hours on Friday night.Madrid, Nov.20,\u2014The firing was renewed fiercely at Cartagena by both sides after the termination of four hours\u2019 armistice obtained by officors of foreign squadrons.London, Doc.1.\u2014Despatches from Cape Const Castlo report another engagement with the Ashantees near Dunguah, in which forty English and native auxiliaries were killed and wounded.The Ashantecs boldly attacked the British position, but were driven off after an hour's fight, with a loss of thirty men.The British were protected by field-works, and their loss was trifling.\u2018London, Nov.27.\u2014A heavy gale lias prevailed around the coast to-day.London, Nov.27.\u2014The Rothschilds announce a Russian five per cont.loan of $75,- 000,000.CANADA.Quebec, Nov.25.\u2014A man named Alex.Legare, aged about 34 years, who, while under the influence of whiskey, persisted in leaving his house during the heavy aenow- storm, was found frozen to death at noon to-day, some six acres from his residence, The Coroner held an inquest, and returned lungs, brought on by drink and exposure.{and winter along the SL Lawrence.Two or three were wrecked.It is estimated that the Montreal wond dealors aro short of some six thousand cords of wood, half of which was en route from Upper Canada or yeady for shipment.Large quantities are alzo embargoed for the winter orr the lower St Lawrence.Pembina, D.T., Nov.23.\u2014To-day, about 12, noon, Mr Cunningham, M.P.for Marquette, on his way home to Manitoba, while walking along the street at Pembina was murderously assaulted by a rufian named Lennon and a United Statos soldier.The cause of the attack was the fact that Mr Cunningham, as magistrate at Fort Garry, had caused the arrest of Lennon's brother during the Fenian troubles there.Mr Cunningham was taken to the residence of Mr McKenney, and will start for Fort Garry as soon as he has sufficiently recovered.St Edouard, Nov.27.\u2014Hon A.A.Dorion was clected by acclamation.There was great enthusiasm in spite of the great snow storm.Hon Mr Dorion said Government would build the Pacific Railroad ; enlarge .the canals ; endeavor to obtain reciprocity with the United States; leave the New , Brunswick School Question with the Im.' perial Privy Council, as to e Council of Catholic Bishope and if it be {proved that Riel and party were mised [or ie it would be a great point in favor of Riel.offered ladies increased a a verdict of death from congestion of the\u2019 Several ships wero unable to get to sea, , edged in these colnmpn, 2 tl \u2014 MISCELLANEOUS, Halifax, N.8., Nov.24.\u2014Grave a u , bensions are felt hore for the safoty of for ; ; ajoatys ship Sirius, now 36 days out from the red eagle of the second claes, with the | Halifax for England.She had a crew on starboard of nearly 300 mon.When leaving \u2018port, the captain ex confidence of .making the passage in a fortnight.I Armagh, Iroland.\u2014Rioting of a Jesperate character occurred at Portadown, on the oe- | casion of the annual colebration of the 5th t November by the Orangemen.The authorities had\u201d anticipated the disturbances, \u2018and had drafted about 150 extra police into {the town.The Orangemen had expressed their Jotermination to march through a i place called \u201c Tho Tunnel,\u201d the Roman Ca.__ -\u2014 , on the ocoasion of his BEAUHARNOIS MARKETS.(By Telegraph to the Gleaner.) lens, por T0 pounds, 72 to 78 cents.Harley: por 50 pounda, 90 cents.Oats, per 40 pounds, 38 cents.Butter, per pound, 20 to 23 cents.Oatmeal, per 1001be, 92.20 92.25.Gecse G aud turkeys 8 cents per pound.Cour McFss, Grain Buyer.Montreal, Nov.26 \u2014Gold 109}.Green., .drawn up in front of tho entrance to that 10 per cont discount.quarter to prevent them.At one o'clock a : i 90} cents.ong, with a number of flags, marched up to to ma the police, and wero informed by Mr| \u201cMONTREAL PRODUCK MARKET.M'Shecky, who was in command of the (Corrected wiekiy by Messrs Shaw + Mr police, that they could not ho allowed to| mission Merchants, 88 Foundling et., .: Poas, por 66 tbw.\u2026\u2026.T4 @ y, and a number of the police were struck.8, per , Another procession of Orangomen of oqual Indian Corn.Pr 86 lb.15 G La magnitudo appeared in an opposite diroction, (, en per, TUN @ and attomptod to force their way through St \u2019 por 2 mes \u2019 the police, who, unable to stand the stonc-|Ptrong Bakers\u2019 Flour, per break the ranks of tho police by \u201cdriving a Oatmeal, por bLI.of 200 Ibe.6.00 @ 5.10 whero a fresh body of police opposed them.| 777 re Tho Riot Act was read hy Mr M'Shecky, MARRIED.and the police were ordered to load ; but At Newburgh, Oho, on the 25th ulto, by the Re v aa the mob bocame still more violent in |E Custis, John Lilly, Kaq., to Jeannic, daughter of B.; Mcllvried, Enq, late of ILuntingdon, their conduct, it was deemed expedient to!\" on ha\u2019 3rd inst, at the dence of Me John rotreat, and the Orangemen were left in Henry, father of the bride, by Rev.(eo, Rog possossion of the town.Tho rioting con- Charles Crawford, to Jane Henry, both of Elgin.| tinued for four or five hours, and was only \u2014 - terminated by tho interferenco ot Mr Peele, AUCTION SALE.| of Armagh, who induced the Orangemen to | _ leavo the town.AI the shops and places on Tuesday, Oth December, at residence of Mr jof business wuro closod while the rioting Henry Mulholland, the Gore, Hinchinbrooke : horsca, {1asted.Tho military were telegraphed for, cattle, &-.12 months credit.\u2018and part of the 13th Regiment urrived at _.Jom Tavion, Auctioncer, 18ix o'clock from Armagh, and 100 addition- i al police from Belfast, but the rioting had terminated before they came.A number of persons havo been arrested.Demonstra- {tious were also held in Lurgan and other held in the building on society's grou adjoining towns, the village of Huntingdon, on Tuesday, 16th Docem- Two barns and a shed on tho furm owned ber, 1873, at one oclock in the afternoun, for the rlec.\u2018by Goorge, and occupied by Willium, Jor.[ton o cera and Directors for the ensuing yoar, .\u2019 Tp tter4 in connecti rit : dan, situated in the southern part of Burke, and for other mattera In connection with the annual ; .; , mecting.{were destroyed by tiro \"I uesdny morning of The law requires that Members must pay theie last week ; also about cight tons of straw, subscriptions for the year 1874 to the Kecretary- {thirty-five tons of hay.aud a quantity of Treasurer before the hone of meeting, to qualify them lother farm produce.\u201d Tho live stock\u201d and |to vote i agricultural implements wero saved.The oss amounts to about five hundred dollars November 29, 1873, more than the insurance.The origin ofthe! ~~ ir 3 .» 7 Hiro 13 unknown, Palladium, Co VROM Canghoawaga Village, about four weeks Ono Saturday night, at Ferbort's Town, ago, à handsome Chestnut Mare and Colt, She County Limerick, Ireland, à man namo |Lasa white mark on bind hoof, her mage trimmed Dercen, while drunk, struck Ins wife on tho on the left side, and is raiher hollow in the back, Any head with a tongs, killing her.In a strug- information that will lead to the recovery of them gle, while he wag being apprehended, he will be paid for at this office CP HOMAS JOCKS fractured a man's skull, y Caughoawages.They had good fishing in Waterford har- LAanina = bour (lrelan) latoly.Tho locality was vis NOTICE.ited recently by immenso quantitios of finh.The ~hoal of herrings was such as to baile Saw-mill, herchy given notice that he In propne- description.Tho fish weroactually wodged | cd to do all that es in hin power to satisfy the pub- together into one compact mass, and the lie, and therely he hopen to receive a fair share of men could not lot out moro than half their Public patronage.All orders exocuted at the old nots, lest the immense weight of fish would | Prices chinrged by Wim.foundry.ONORE MALO re ¢ .AE break them.Tho farmers from the sur.- - rounding country came with their cars to BUFFALO ROBE LOST.reap this bountiful harvest.Buyers came AREN by ne oles Hotel, Huntingdon, over from England and bought as many fish | A OY.as they could \u201cmunage to barrel and cure.me ue ft at Moir's or Breadners, and tho The shoal of herrings was followed by a|- ~~ me ee large number of turbot, hake, and dog TEA MEETING.fish.N Thursday, December 11th, 1873, the Ladies Mr Gladstone, replying to a letter from of the Wesleyan Methodist Church, will, D.V, some of his Irish supporters at péreeuvieh hold a on Meeting In Es are exporte in favour of the rclense of the Fenian pri-led to deliver addressen on the lon, vis.; Rev.sonors, peints out that of the whole number Messrs.T.G.Williams and M.Tindale of Pranklin, of these prisoners (which ia twenty) sixteen D.Rows, of Dundec, J.Lachead of Elgin, and W.K.COUNTY OF HUNTINGDON AGRICUL: TURAL SOCIETY No.1.PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that the Annual Meeting of the members of raid society will Le ANDREW OLIVER, President.LOST OR STOLEN, HE undersigned having bought the Dewittville sels Spring Wheat, per GO be.$1.28 @$1.30 | ase.Thereupon stones began to fly Lhiok- PPFIPE t, pe 78 | Alin Winey 17] cents, foter price 20 conte The Emper r of Gormany has conferred a Dr llc im Lard, in tubs, poe pound.@ 10 eart and horse furious! through them, and =%'¢ 11 poe y a3 to provent this the police again charged, Tullow, 1s barrels, 3 18 $ à and again à large number of persons were Cheose D , Putter, nd.00 @ m | | injured.Tho stone throwing procoeded Choose Factory poun 10 @ 12 i with great vigour, and {ho police woro ob- 16660, ! ee \u2018liged nt last to retreat through sovoral White Beans, por bushel.165 a Los streets.Numbers of the polico wore stab- is rr es EE ha 8 bed, and n furthor retront became necessary.a pples, por pound.5 @ 6 Mr Warne, ono of the sub-inspectors, was Torke POT pounder 7@ + knocked down with a brick, and then kick- Fowle *, wo see 7 @ 8 ed and soveral of his ribs broken.Ho was : erersessesess ° roseuod by the polico and placed in à public prossod Hoge, per 1001bs.6.00 9 6.80 house.À number of Orange lodges then Laratoes, ret ag.eereneens .210 = 3.50 marched in the direction of the Tunnel, PPIs por barrel.250 @ \u2014 rot SPLENDID BARGAINS AT THR or NEW GENERAL MERCHANDISE.VV THIRD & CO.beg to ansounce to the inhabitants of untingdon and surround.Ing country that, owing to unforeseen clrcumstances, they have concluded to sell off their whole and entire new stock of ticods at Cost and under, so as to cffcet 8 speedy clearance, l'ndernoted are a list of the \u2018great reductions made, which will convince intending purchasers of the genuineness of the above facts :\u2014 Best Coal Oil 35 cents per gallon, former price 50 cents.Best Malt Vinegar 25 cents per gallon, former price 80 centa, Best Golden Nyrup 53 cents per gallon, former price 70 cents.tholic part of the town, and the police were backs bought at 914 cents.Silver $ and Best Japan Ten 60 cents por B., former price 70 cents.Best Refined Sugar 9 cents per B., former price 13 cents procession of Orangemen, about.halt.a milo Huntingion.\u2014Greenbacks bought at 90 (ood Japan Tea 35 conts per B., to 56 conta, Best Layer Raising 10 cents per À, former price 124 cents, Thos.Hoyle & Non's celebrated fast colour prints 134 cents, former price 16 and 17 cents, Grey Cottons at 9 cents per yard, former price 12 cents, per yard.tireat Reductions in Boots and Shoos and Readymade Clothing.Gentlemen's Fancy Flannel Shirts f cents, former price $1.50, 6.20 throw; ! barrol.\u2026\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.5.90 (à 6.20 Also, an immense quantity of other Gonts too num- wi oS gy longer.charged on the mob Country Flour, per 100 Its 2.79 @ 2.80 crus to mention, at the samo mate of discount, Mo were stabbed Te rn attompted to Corn Meal, per 100Ibs.1.25 @ 140 now is the timeto secure Great Bargains ; namely, ; New General Merchandise at cost and under.WILLIAM THIRD & COPS.Terma of the Sale will Le for cash or Produce in Exchange at Cash Prices, Huntingdon, October, 1873, BY-LAW NO.1, PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.Mumictrautvor eux P'anieu or Ne.Choice.By-Law to authorize the Corporation of tho parish of Ste.Cécile, in the County and District of Boauharnois, to grant à Bonus to the Coteau and l\u2019rovince-Line Railway and Bridge Company, of Forty Thousand Dollars, and to pay the same in Bonds or Debentures, and fo impose an Annual Tax to pay the interest thoroon, and to provide for a Sinking Fund, A\" n regular monthly session of the Municipal Council of tho parish of Ste, Cécile, in the County aud District of Beauharois, held in the office of 7.Boyer, Notary, In the village of tho parish of Ste.Cécile, on Monday, the fiest day of the month of , Yecember, one thousand eight hundred and seventy.\u201c| th \u201cey in conformity with the provisions of the Munie cipai Cade of the Province of Quebee, at which session wero Tescnt: Marc Charles Deapocan, Mayor, and Connells \u2018are Lambert, Tessier, Joaeph Sauve, Geo.Peterkin, Hyacinthe Boyer, J.13.Guny, nnd Tahitoge Fortier, \u2018um ler the presidency of Mr Mayor, it is ordained and re WIved by By-Law, na follows : Whereas the ilway which the Cotean &_ l'rovince Lino Railway an! fHrlfge Company In Authorized to construct from the dine cf the rand Trunk Hailway to the shore of the Bt Law, \u201cnee, crossing the sald river by a milway bri 9ge to same V0INt in the County of Beauhatnofs, and thence in nn dit fin: as may be to some polnt or pornts on the nort,, *% boundary line of the State of New York, orinthe .on of Bt Johns, is considered to Lo sn advantage to the ounty of Beauharois, and especially to the mid parish, .® ruffichent extent to warrant the corporation ot the said pariah to gennt n Bonus of forty thousand dollars to the said Company : 1.Uponthe terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, the Mayor ofthe wail Municipality ta hereby authorized and required for, and in the name of the corporation of said parish, 10 subscribe & Bonus of ferty thousand dollar to the said Company, and tn pay the same in Bondw or Debentures of the said cor poration at pac, and the said terma and conditions are as follown : A.The uaid_Debentutes shail be pid to the sald Company when and no soon as the grading of the said railway shail he completed in sections of five miles each, at the rato of two thousand dollars per mile makings & sum of ten thonsand dollars for ench section of five miles, for tho length of twenty miles of the railway an follows : IB.The first amount of ten thousand doliars of mid debentures shall be paid to the said Company as soon ax the grading of the firat section of five miles shall be completed : the sald first section to commence at a point within half n mile of the village of the sid parish of Ste, Cécile, C.The second amount of ten thousand dollars of said debentures shall be paid to the mid C \u2018ompany an soon as the grading of the second acetton of five miles .mbjoining said first section of said allway shall bo completed, D.\u2018The third amount of ten thousand dollars of mid Debentures shall be pain to tho sald Company as sonn an the grading of the third section of Ave miles adjoin- log said second nection of said railway ahall be completed, K.The fourth amount of tn thousand dollars of said debentures shall be paid to the said Company when the said railway shall be completed and in running order with ita rolling stock and ail other necessary appliances complete from the depot or station mentioned in the following section to the south casterly terminug of the said railway fixed by Act of Parliament, ¥.There shall be a depot or station of the sald all.aro soldiers ; and Mr (ladstono hardly Shorts, H.A.Ormatown.thinks it will bo held thata soldier who|, MUSIC\u2014Goo4 Music will be supplied by the Wes.| Conspires against the Queen commite no oT a or untingdon.Gentlemen 38 cts carh.lother or greater offence than an ordinary Children 25 cents, Tes served at 6.30 P.M.member of the community.These cases, Te me .then, as they have been, will continue to bo LOGS considered on their merits; but Mr Glad- stono begs that ho may not bo understood HER price In cash Paid Jor Logs, Hard or, as conveying any pledge as to the result of ! ng A.HEND N tho consideration which Mer Majosty's ad- Hotton.visers may find it their duty to give to the| ~~ \"FARM FOR SALE.WANTED.subject.\u2014 .WEATHER REPORT.HE undersigned offers for sale his Farm, consist.| Temperature Wind, milesin Snow in Highest Lowest 24 hours [18 Nov'br.29 25 .198.6.00 There are about 100 acres in & 19 «25 21 .100.0.00 tion, with good outbuildings.| 20 24 12 39 0.00 half a mile of Dewittville, where there are Grist, Card- the year in which th : om oe ee ing and Saw-mills, It is well watered both by springs | 20 27 Boss 5.0.00 | 22 «22 13 0.0.00 and stock ferm.For parti 23 « 2] 3.47 LL.0.00 tor on the premises.E 2 «22 17 .210 .4.0 JOHN PURSE.2 +22 15 7.Lao Dewittville, Nov.27th, 1873, _ 26 + 16 3.90 \u2026.0.00 NOTICE.27 «+ 10 7 us V4 Le.2,00 \u2014 25 «1 3.132 .\u2026.0.00 £ shie C il vi i 3 19 \u2014 ee BE roe The St Malachie Council give notice of a 30 + ze 7 \u2014D \u2026\u2026 33 vou 0.06) Durham, on riday, 12th inst, at one 1 Deemb'r.\u2014-0 \u201420 .16 .0.00 o'clock, to take into consideration ways and | Francis W.Samnairr, M.D., Huntingdon.means of forming a new Agricultural Bo A PITIFUL CASE.ciety.5 has bren done in past years, we bring again before the consideration of a Christian public, the nccemitien of the aged couple, who live near the village of Huntingdon, namely John Harper and his wife, Thelr claims for more abundant charity increase with the laj.< of time, for they are growing .mm.five cents frailer and more helpless daily.Both exceed the Bin \"vale, wan laid ai a bret ai | great age of eighty years; Mrs Harper numbering no opert hoo! purposes i less than eighty-fi.ar winters, and, though feeble, yet Fear ending nth Jane Pa for School pu .foe | possessing her facultica and bearing privation with PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given, that the collec.! uncomplaining cheerfulness.Of late they have been gion roll of the Municipality of the village of Hen- ; very ill-off, bare even nf the commonest necessarics to d 1 sustain life, which has heen the more unendurable Hogdon ts of the dodersigred.ik! er from the severity of the weather.They depend sole- | ly on the gifts of kindly people, and we beg to assure the many such who read the Gleaner that they will ori, the undersi give doubly Ly giving at once, and so relieving the bard lot of this decent couple.Donations, whether of money, ons, or wood, will be tbankfally accepted, may be left either at their house, or at the Huntingdon, Nov.29th, 1873, ost Office.GEORGE ROGERS, PPLICATION wil be made to the Par- Minister Wesleyan Methodist Church, lament of Canada at its next Session to amend ! JAMES WATSON, the Act incorporating \u201c The Quebso Frontier Railway Minister Canads Presbyterian Church.Company.\u2019 .ao Donations may aleo be sent to the Glesner JOHNY.MACLAREN .All received before Christmas will be acknowl.Solictlor.| Huntingdon, 18th Nov, 19873, ; PUBLIC NOTICE.~~ pality of the village of Huntingdon, County of Hun- from this day, without further notice.ry -Trens., 8.C.way, in the said parish, within half a wile of the said village, 2.\u2018The maid Bonds or Debentures shall be for five i hundred dollars each, payable in twenty five yoaes, and bearing interest at the rate of six per cent pee ane ! special tax or assessment in hereby sensed value of the said taxable property shall be .ing of part of lots No.4 & 5, in the ffth range of twenty-six cents for the year ir which the said condi- inches Godmanchester, containing 180 acres more or leas.tion marked B shall be complied with and for each good state of cultiva- following year, and a further sum of twenty-six cents It is situatod about | for each of the said ronditions marked C., D, and E.for num, peyable semi-annually on the last day of June | and December in each your, at the office of the Bank of Montreal in Montreal, 3.In order to pay the interest on the said Bonds or ; Debentures, and to establish à Sinking Fund of two per cent por annum: over aml above said Interest, à imposed on all taxable or real property in the said Municipality of the parish of Bie, Cécile as follows: The said tax orassessment for every one hundred dollars of the as.shall respectively be complied with, and for each following year, that is to say, one | and the Chateauguay river, and it is a superior grain \u2018dollar and four cents for the year in which said condi.culars apply to the propric- | tion F shall be complied with and for each following year until the full payment of the said Bonds or : Debenturce.4.The maid special tax or nesessment shall be due and payable the same as all other taxes and ames.ments which the said Municipal Council in authorized to impose, provided that in the event of an increase in the value of taxablo real estate of the said Munici- med, at bis office, within twenty days * ig the forenoon, to A MccALLUM, Spine Prlaw, 00 Public Meeting, to bo beld in tho villago of Pality, the mid Council shall proportionately reduco mid special tax or assessment, (Migned) M.C.DESPOCAS, Mayor.Z.BOYER, Secy.-Treas.I, the undersigned, Z.Boyer, Secretary-Treaaurer (Signed) a the Municipal Council of the parish of Ste, Cécile, UBLIC NOTICE is hereby given, that, at a meet- the By.passed ing of the Bcbool Commissioners of the Munici.| Municipal Conncil at its meeting held this first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and seventy- tingdon, held on the 25th of Nov., 1473, at 1 o'clock | three.5 , certify that the foregoing is à true copy of w, No.1, and adopted by the mid 7.BOYER, Secy -Treas.PUBLIC NOTICE.PUBLIC Meeting of the Municipal Klectors of the Municipality of the parish of Ste.Cécile will pernons whose be held in the office of 7.Boyer, Notary, in the vil names appear therein as liable for the payment of of the Poyer, y vg any assessment, are required to pay the amount there.| 4.sh of Bte.Cécile, on Monday, the twenty- day of December instant, 1873, a8 10 o'clock e or disapprove of the fore- , if a poll be required, it will be there opened and held according to the pros ; visions of the Municipal Code of the Province Quebec undred and seventy-three, M.C.DESPOCAS, Mayor of tbe parish of Ses, Obctle, Secretary Tromsarer of te pasish of Ste.Cécile.At Bie, Cécile, this second day of December, one thousand eight h JENS A ig + NOVO EA I NAN ve E3 2 Slee QUE LT my ARE EY A PET \u2014 TOS \u2014 Sew = ete te sm \u2014 - progam = \u2014 \u2014 wa \u2019 id Moil,| Bedad, by this time the ple were on|ministher atarted up from the table Jist as | THE LESSONS OF MISTAKES.| the creature and had every pportunity M MOLL ROFS MARI = daugh- eo * fente tho whip the point of beginnin' to Pave a regular he was goin\u2019 to swallow the first = of Tux premature fall of snow this season Observing it before they were of oLL Roe FF \u2018 mane\u2014of ould Jack Rafferty, who was Somaarkable for a habit he had of always wearing his head undhor his hat ; but indeed the same family was a quare ono, a8 everybody know that was acquainted wid them.Ili was said of them\u2014but whether it was thrue or not, I won't undhertake tosay, y for \u2018fraid l'd tejl a lio\u2014that whenover they didn\u2019t wear shoes or boots they always went barefooted ; but I hard afthorwards that this was disputed ; so, rather than say anything to injuro their character, I'll lot that pass.Now, ould Jack Rafferty had two sons, Paddy and Molly\u2014but ! what are you all laughing nt ?\u2014I mano à son and daughter,\u2014and it was generally bolievod among the neighbours that thoy were brother and sisther, which you know might be thrue or it might not ; but that's a thing that, wid tho help o' goodness, we have nothing to say to.Throth there was many ugly things put out on them that I don\u2019t wish to ropato, such as that neither Jack nor his son addy ever walked a perch widout puttin\u2019 ono foot afore the other like a salmon; an'l knew it was whispered about, that whinever Moll Roe slep\u2019, she had an out-of-the-way custom of keepin\u2019 her eyes shut.If she did, however, for that matthor tho loss was her own ; for sure we all know that when one comes to shut their oyos they can\u2019t sco as far before them as anothor.2.Moll Roo was a fine young bouncin' girl, largo and lavish, wid a purty head o' hair on her like scarlet, that bein\u2019 one of tho raisons why she was called Roo, or red ; hor arms an\u2019 cheeks were much tho colour of tho hair, an\u2019 her saddle nose was the pur- tiest thing of its kind that ever was on a face.Her fists\u2014for, thank goodness, sho was well sarved wid them too\u2014had a strong simularity to two thumpin\u2019 turnips, reddened by the sun; an' to keep all right and tight, she had a temper as fiery as her head | \u2014for, indeed, it was woll known that all the Rafferties were warm-hearted.However, it appears that God gives nothing in vain, and of coorse the samo fists, big and red as they were, if all that is said about them is thrue, were not so much given to her for ornament as use.At laist, takin\u2019 them in connection wid her lively temper, we have it upon good authority, that there was no danger of their getting blue-moulded for want of practice.She had a twist, too, in one of her cyes that was very bocom- in\u2019 in its way, and made her poor husband, when she got him.take it into his head that sho could see round a corner, She found him out in many quare, things, widout doubt ; but whether it was\u2019 owin' to that or not.I wouldn't undertake\u2019 to say, for fraid I'd tell a lie.Well, bedad, anyhow it was Moll Roe that was the dilsy.a nate vagabone in the neighbourhood, just a8 much overburdened wid beauty as her-! golf, and he was named Gusty Gillespie.Gusty, the Lord guard us, was that they call, a black-mouth Prosbytarian, and wouldn't.keep C'hristmns-day, the blagard, oxcopt what they call \u2018ould style.\u201d Gusty was rather good-lookin' when seen in the dark, as well as Moll herself\u2019; and.indeed, it was purty well known that\u2014accordin\u2019 as the talk went\u2014it was in nightly meetings that they had an opportunity of becomin\u2019 detached to one another.The quensequence was, that in due time both families bogan to talk very scriously as to what was to be done.Moll's brother, Pawdien O'Rafferty, grave Gusty the best of tho two choices.What they wero it's not worth spakin\u2019 about ; but at any rate one of thom was a poser ; an\u2019 as Gusty knew his man, he soon came to his senses.Accordingly everything was deranged for their marriage, and it was ap- ointed that they should be spliced by the v Samuel M'Shuttle, the Prosbytarian parson, on the following Sunday.Now this was tho first marriage that had happened for a long time in the neighbour- h betunaa black-mouth an\u2019 a Catholic, an\u2019 of coorse there was strong objections on bath sides against it ; an\u2019 bedad only forone thing it would never 'a tuck place at all.At any rate, faix, there was one of the bride's uncles, ould Harry Connolly, a fairy-man, ! who could care all complaints wid a secret he had ; and as he didn't wish to see his niece married upon sich a fellow, he fought bitherly aginst the match.All Moll's friends, however, stood up for the marriage, barrin\u2019 him ; an\u2019 of coorse the Sunday was appointed, as [ said, that they were to be dove-tailed together.Well, the day arrived, and Moll, as became her, went to mass, and Gusty to moet-! ing, afther which they were to join one another in Jack Rafferty\u2019s, where tho priest, Father M'Sorloy, was to slip up afther mass to tako his dinner wid them, and to keep Misther M'Shuttle, who was to marry them, company.Nobody remained at homo but ould Jack Rafferty an\u2019 his wife, who .stopped to dress the dinner; for, to tell the truth, it was to be a great lot-out entirely.Maybe, if all was known, too, that Father M'Sorley was to give thom a cast of his office over an\u2019 above the ministher, in regard that Moll's friends were not altogether satisfied at the kind of marriage which M'\u2019Shuttle could give thom.The sorrow may caro about that\u2014splico here\u2014splico there\u2014all I can say is, that when Mra Raf- férty was goin\u2019 to tic up a big bag pudden, in walks Harry Connolly, the fairy-man, in à rage, and shouts out,\u2014¢ Blood and blun- derbushes, what are yez here for ?\u2019 « Arra why, Harry ?Why, avick * Why, the sun\u2019s in the moon in the high Horicks ; there's a clipstick comin\u2019 an, an\u2019 there you're both as unconsarned as if it was about to rain mother.Go out and cross Jourselves three times in the name o' the our Mandromarvine, for as prophecy BAYS : \u2014Fill the pot, Eddy, supernacnlum\u2014a blaz ing star's rare spectaculum.Go out both of you and look at tho sun, I eay, an\u2019 ye'll seo tho condition he's in\u2014off I' Bedad, sure enough, Jack gave a bounce to the door, and his wife lea like a two- Joar-ould, till they were both got on a stile ide the house, to sce what was wrong in the sky.; * Arrab, what is it, Jack,\u2019 said she, \u2018 can Fou see anything?* No,\u2019 says he, \u2018 sorra the full 0\u2019 my eye of anything I can apy, barrin\u2019 the sun himself, that's not visible in regard of the clouds.God guard us! I doubt there's something to happen.¢ If there wasn't, Jack, what 'ud put Harr, that knows so much, in the state he's \u2018Idoubt it's this marriage,\u2019 said Jack : * betune ourselves, it's not over an\u2019 above religions for Moll to marry a black-month, aa\u2019 only for\u2014\u2014; bat it can\u2019t be helped now, 900 not a taste o' the sun is wil.lo\u2019 his face upon it.\u2019 : \u2018Aso that,\u2019 says wife, winkin' wid It happened that there was! hand, anyhow ; | ; ax Harry 'ithin what ails the sun., Well, thoy accordianly went in an the question to him.; \u201c Marry, what's wrong, abagur ?What is it now ; for if anybody nlivo knows, \u2018tis ourself ?\u2019 ue + Ah! said larry, screwin\u2019 his mouth | wid a kind of a dhry smile, ¢ tho sun has a bard twist o' the cholie ; but never mind i that, I tell you you'll have a merrier wod- din\u2019 than you think, that's all ;* and havin said this,\u201d he put on his hat and left the house.Now, Harry's answer rolieved them vory much ; and so, Afther calling to him to bo back for the dinner, Jack sat down to take a shough o' the pipe, and the wifo lost no time in tying up tho pudden and puttin\u2019 it in tho pot to be boiled.In this way things went on well enough for a while, Jack smokin\u2019 away, an\u2019 the wife cookin\u2019 and dhrossin\u2019 at the rato of a hunt.At last, Jack, while sittin\u2019, as I said, \"contentedly at the fire, thought ho could por- save an odd dancin\u2019 kind of motion in tho pot that puzzled him a good deal.; ¢ Katty, said he, ¢ what the dickens is in this pot on the fire ?« Norra thing but the big pudden.Why do you ax?\" says she.\u201cWhy, said he, * if over à pot tuck it into its head to dance a jig, and this did.Thundher and sparbles, look at it!\u2019 Bedad, it was thrue enough; thero was the pot bobbin\u2019 up an\u2019 down and from side to side, jiggin' it away as merry as a grig ; lan\u2019 it was quite aisy to seco that it wasn't \u201cthe pot itseli, but what was inside of it, that | brought about the hornpipe.: Be tho hole o' my coat,\u201d shouted Jack, .¢ there's something alive in it, or it would never cut sich eapors !' \u2018Bo gorra, there is, Jack; sthrango entirely has got into it.| man alive, what's to bo done ?' Jist as she spoke, tho pot seemed to cut ithe buckle in prime style, and afther a \u201cspring that \"ud shame n dancin\u2019-masther, off \u201cflew the lid, and out bounced tho pudden itself, hoppin\u2019, as nimble as a pea on a drum.head, about the floor.Jack blessed himself, and Katty crossed herself, Jack shouted, and Katty screamed.\u201cIn the name of goudness, keop your distance, no one here injured you !\u2019 The pudden, however, made a set at him, and Jack lepped first on a chair and then on the kitchen table to avoid it.It then dane.ed towards Kitty, who was now repatin\u2019 her prayers at the top of her voice, while the cunnin\u2019 thief of a pudden was hoppin\u2019 and jigein® it round her, as ifit was amused at her distress.\u201cIf could get the pitchfork,\u201d said Jack, j* I'd dale wid jt\u2014by goxty I'd thry its mettle.¢ No, no,\u201d shouted Katty, thinkin\u2019 there was a fairy in it; ¢ let us spake it fair.Who knows what harm it might do.Aisy now.[said she to the pudden, ¢aisy, dears don't harm honest people that never meant to \u2018offend you.It wasn't us\u2014no, in throth, it was ould Harry Connolly that betwitched you; pursue him if you wish, but spare a \"woman like me ; for, whisper, dear, I'm not \u201cin a condition to be: frightened\u2014throth I'm not\u201d The pudden, bedad, seemed to take her at her word, and danced away from her towards Jack, who, like the wife, believin\u2019 there was a fairy in it, an\u2019 that spakin\u2019 it fair was the best plan, thought he would give it a soft word as well as her.¢ Plaze your honour,\u2019 said Jack, ¢ she only spaiks the truth ; an\u2019, upon my voracity, wo both feels much oblaiged to your honour for your quietness.Faith, it's quite clear that if you weren't a gentlernanly pudden all out, you'd act otherwise.Ould Ilnrry, the rogue, is your mark ; ho's jist gone down the rond there, and if you go fast vou'll ovor- take him.Be me song, your dancin\u2019 mas- ther did his duty, anyhow.Thank your honour ! Gad speed you, an\u2019 may you never meet wil a parson or alderman in your thra- vols! Jist as Jack spoke, the pudden appeared to take the hint, for it quietly hopped out, and as the house was directly on tho roadside, turned down towards the bridge, the very way that ould ITarry went.It was very natural of course that Jack and Katty should go out to sce how it intended to thravel ; and, as the day was Sunday, it was but natural, too, that a greater number of eople than usual were passin\u2019 tho road.his was a fact; and when Jack and his wife wero seen foliowin' the pudden, the whole neighbourhood was coon up and af- ther it.¢« Jack Rafferty, what is it?Katty, aha.gur, will you tell us what it manes ?¢ Why,\" roplied Katty, « it's my big pud- den that's betwitched, an\u2019 it's now hot foot pursuin\u2019\u2014\u2014;\u2019 here she stopped, not wishin\u2019 to mention her brother's name\u2014* somo one or thé that surely put pistrogues an it.This was enough ; Jack, now secin\u2019 that put | something Wirra, back to him; so says he to Katty, \u2018go he had assistance, found his courago comin\u2019 | but in the mano lime let us fight about it, when, very fortunately, it took a short turn down a littlo by-lano that led towards the Mothodist praichin'-house, an\u2019 in an instant all parties were in an u roar against it as a Methodist pudden.¢ It's a Wesloyan,\u2019 shouted sovoral voices; * an\u2019 by this an\u2019 by that, into a Methodist chapel it won't put a foot to-day, or we'll lose a full.Lot the wind out of it.Come, boys, where's your pitchfork ?\u201d The divil purshuin to the onc of them, howover, over could touch the pudden ; an\u2019 jist wLon they had it up against the gravol of the Mothodist chapel, bedad it gave them tho slip, and hops over to the left, clane into the river, and sails away before all their oyos as light as an egg-shell.Now, it so happened that a little below this place, the demosne-wall of Colonel Bragshaw was built up to the very edge of the river on each side of its bunks ; apd so findin\u2019 thoro was a stop put to their pursuit of it, thoy went home again, overy man, woman, and child of thom, puzzled to think what the pudden was at all\u2014what it meant, or whoro it was goin\u2019 ! Ilad Jack Rafferty an\u2019 his wife been willin\u2019 to lot out tho opinion they held about llarry Connolly be- witchin\u2019 it, there is no doubt of it but poor Harry might be badly trated by the crowd, when their blood was up.They had sense enough, howandiver, to koop that to thom- selves, for Ilarry, bein' an ould bachelor, was a kind friend to the Raffortys.So, of coorse, there was all kinds of talk about it \u2014some guessin' this, and some guessin\u2019 that \u2014one party sayin\u2019 tho pudden was of their side, another party denyin' it, an\u2019 insistin\u2019 it belonged to them, an\u2019 so on.In the meantime, Katty Rafferty, for \u2018fraid the dinner might come short, went home and mado another pudden much about the same size as the one that had escaped, and bringin\u2019 it over to their next neighbour, Paddy Seanlan\u2019s, it was put into a pot and placed on tho fire to boil, hopin\u2019 that it might be done in time, espishilly as they were to have the miuisther, who loved a warm slico of a good pudden as well as o'er a gintleman in Lurope.Anyhow, the day passed; Moll and trusty were made man an\u2019 wifo, an\u2019 no two could bo more lovin\u2019.Their friends that had been asked to the weddin' wore saunterin\u2019 about in pleasant little groups till dinner-lime, chattin\u2019 an\u2019 laughin\u2019; but above all things, sthrivin' to account for the figaries of the udden ; for, to tell the truth, its adventures 1nd now gone through the whole parish.Woll, at any rate, dinner-timo was dhraw- in\u2019 near, and Paddy Scanlan was sittin\u2019 comfortably wid his wife at the fire, the pudden hoilen before their cyes, when in walks Harry Connolly, in a flutter, shoutin\u2019 \u2014¢ Blood an\u2019 blunderbushes, what are yez here for?\u2019 ¢ Arra, why, Harry\u2014why, avick ?said Mrs Scanlan, ¢ Why,\u201d said Harry, ¢ the sun\u2019s in the suds an\u2019 the moon in the high Horicks ! Hero's a clipstick comin\u2019 an, an\u2019 there you sit as un- consarned as if it was about to rain mether! Co out both of you, an\u2019 look at the sun, 1 say, an\u2019 yo'll sce the condition he's in\u2014 off! ¢ Ay, but, Harry, what's that rowled up in the tail of your cothamore (big coat) ?* : Out wid yez, said Harry, ¢an\u2019 pray against tho clipstick\u2014the sky\u2019s failin! Bedad, it was hard to say whether Paddy or tho wife got out first, they wero so much alarmed by Tlarry's wild, thin face an\u2019 piercin\u2019 eyes ; so out thoy went to see what was wondherful in the sky, an\u2019 kep' lookin\u2019 an\u2019 lookin\u2019 in overy direction, but not a thing was to bo seen, barrin' the sun shinin\u2019 down wid great good humour, an\u2019 not a single cloud in the sky.Paddy an\u2019 the wife now camo in laughin\u2019, to scould Harry, who, no doubt, was a great wag in his way when he wished.¢ Mush, bad scran to you, Harry: They had time to say nn more, howandiver, for, as they wore goin\u2019 into the door, thoy met him comin\u2019 out of it wid a rock of smoke out of his tail like a lime-kiln.¢ Harry,\u201d shouted Bridget, ¢ my sowl to glory, but tho tail of your cothamore's a fire \u2014jyou'll be burned.Don\u2019t you see the smoko that's out of it ?\u2019 ¢ Cross yourselves three times,\u2019 said Harry, widout stoppin\u2019, or even lookin\u2019 behind him, ¢ for, as the prophecy says\u2014Fill the pot, Eddy\u2014\u2014.\" They could hear no more, for [Tarry appeared to feel like a man that carried something a great deal hotter than he wished, as anyone might see by the live.linesa of his motions, and the quare faces he was forced to make as ho went along.¢ What the dickens is he carryin\u2019 in the skirts of his big coat,\u2019 asked Paddy.¢ My sowl to happiness, but maybe he has stole tho pudden, said Bridget, for it's known that many a sthrange thing he does.\u2019 They immediately examined the pot, but found that the pudden was there ns safe as tuppence, an\u2019 this puzzled them the more, to think what it was he could be carryin\u2019 about wid him in tho manner he did.But little they knew what he had done while thoy were sky-gazin'! home,\u2019 says he, \u2018an\u2019 lose no time in makin\u2019 another pudden as rood ; an\u2019 hero's Paddy Scanlan\u2019s wife, Bridget, says sho'll lot you boil it on her fire, as you'll want our own to dress tho rest o' tho dinner; and Paddy himself will lend me a pitchfork, for pur- \"shuin to tho morsel of that samo puddon : will escape till I lot the wind out of it, now that I've the neighbours to back an\u2019 support went hack me, says Jack.| This was agreed to ; and Katt to prepare à fresh puddon, while Jack an\u2019 half tho townland pursued tho other wid \\spades, graips, pitchforks, scythes, flails, and all possible description of instruments.On the pudden went, howover, at the rato i of abont six Irish miles an hour, an\u2019 sich a chase never was seen.Catholics, Prodes- tants, an\u2019 Prosbytarians, wero all afther it, armed, as I said, an\u2019 bad end to the thing but its own activity could save it.Horo it made a hop and there a prod was made at it ; but off it went, ad\u2019 somo one as eager to got a slice at it on the other side, got the rod\u2018instead of tho pudden.Big Frank arrell, tho miller of Ballyboulteen, got a prod backwards that brought a hullabaloo out of him you might hear at the other end of the parish.One got a slice of a scythe, another a whack of a flail, à third à rap of a spade that made him look nine ways at wanst.« Where is it goin ?\u2019 nsked one.\u2018 My life for you, it's on it's way to Meeting.hree cheers for it, if it turns to Carntaul.\u2019 \u2018Prod the sowl out of it, if it's a Prodestan\u2019, shouted the others; \u2018 if it tarns to the left, slice it into pancakes.We'll have no Pro.destsn\u2019 puddens here.\u2019 * Put it under hairy influence.¢ Well, anyhow, the day passed and tho dinner was ready, an' no doubt but a fine gatherin\u2019 there was to partake of it.\u2018The Prosbytarian ministher mot tho Methodist raicher\u2014a divilish stretcher of an appetite { he had, in throth\u2014on their way to Jack \u201cRafferty\u2019s, an\u2019 as he knew he could take the \u2018liberty, why he insisted on his dinin\u2019 wid him : for, afther all, bedad, in thim times the clergy of all descriptions lived upon the best footin' among one another, not all as lene ns now\u2014but no matther.Well, they \"had nearly finished their dinner, whon Jack Rafferty himself axed Katty for the pudden; but, jist as ho spoke, in it camo as big as a mosapot.\u2018 Gintlemen,\u2019 said he, \u2018 I hope none of you Will refuse tastin\u2019 a bit of Katty's pudden ; 1 don't mane the dancin\u2019 one that tuck to its thravels to-day, but a good solid follow \u2018that aho mod since.\u2019 .¢ To be sure we won't,\u2019 replied the priost; * 80, Jack, put a thrifle on them three plates at your right hand, and send thom over hore to the clorgy, an' maybe,\u2019 ho said, laughin'\u2014for he was à droll good-humoured man-\u2014\u2018 maybe, Jack, we won't set yon a proper example.\u2019 * Wid a heart an\u2019 a half, yor reverence an\u2019 gintlemen ; in throth\u2019 it\u2019s not a bad example ever any of will set us, I'll go bail.An\u2019 sure I only wish it was betther fare 1 had for yon; but we're humble poople, gintleman, and so you can\u2019t expoct to meet here what you would in higher places.\u2019 ¢ Botthor a male of horbs,\u2019 said the Methodist praicher, ¢ whore pace 18\u2014.\u2019 He had time to go no farthor, however; for, much to his amazement, the priost and the fou sot us at the likes, or over i i } the pudden, and before you could say Jack Robinson, started away at a lively jig down the floor.At this moment a neighbour's son came runnin\u2019 in, an\u2019 tould them that tho parson was comin\u2019 to see the new-married couple, an\u2019 wish them all happiness ; an' the words were scarcely out of his mouth when be made his appearance.What to think he know not, when ho saw the ministher footing it away at the rate of a weddin'.* Jack lafforty says he\u2014and, by the way, Jack was his tenant\u2014 what the dickens does all this mane?saysho; \u2018I'm amazed I\u2019 ¢ The not a particle o' me can tell you,\u2019 says Jack ; \u2018 but will your reverence jist taste a morsel o' pudden, merely that the young couple may boast that you ait at their weddin' ; for sure if you wouldn't who would ?' ¢ Well,\u2019 says he, ¢ to gratify them I will ; #0 just a morsel.But, Jack, this bates Ban- nagher,\u2019 says ho again, puttin\u2019 the apoonfal o\u2019 pudden into his mouth, ¢has there been dhrink hero ?' ¢ Oh, tho divie a spudh,\u2019 says Jack, ¢ for although there's plinty in the house, faith, it appears the gintlemen wouldn't wait for it.Unless they tuck it olsewhere, I can make nothin\u2019 of this.\u2019 Heo had searcoly spoken, when the parson, who was an active man, cut a caper a yard high, an\u2019 before you could bless yourself, was hard at work dancin\u2019, as if for a wager.Bedad, it would be unpossible for me to tell you tho state the whole meetin\u2019 was in when thoy seen this.Some were hoarse wid laughin\u2019 ; some turned up their eyes wid wondher ; many thought them mad, an\u2019 others thought they had turned up their little fingers a thriflo too often, \u2018Tho sorra\u2019s own fun they had, an\u2019 no wondher ; but judge of what they felt, when all at once thoy saw ould Jack Rafferty himself bouncin\u2019 in among them, and footing it away like the best o\u2019 them.Bedad no play could come up to it, an\u2019 nothin\u2019 could bo heard but laughin\u2019, shouts of encouragement, and clappin\u2019 of hands like mad, Now tho minute Jack Rafferty left the chair whore he had been carvin' the pudden, ould Harry Connolly comes over and claps himself down in his place, in or- dher to send it round, of course ; an\u2019 he was scarcely sated, when who should make his appearance but Barney Iartigan, the piper.Barney, by the way, had been sent for early in the day, but bein\u2019 from home when the messago for him went, he couldn't comeany sooner.* Begorra; said Barnoy, ¢ you're nirly at tho work, gintlemen ! but what does this mane ?But, divle may care, yez shan\u2019t want the music while there\u2019s a blast in the ipes, anyhow !\u2019 So sayin\u2019 he gave them Jig olthogue, an\u2019 after that Kiss my Lady, in his best style.In the manctimo the fun went on thick an\u2019 threefold, for it must be remimbered that Harry, the ould knave, was at the pud- den ; an\u2019 maybo he didn\u2019t sarve it about in double quick time too.The first he helped was tho bride, and, before you could say chopstick, she was at it hard an\u2019 fast, IIar- ry liked this, and made up his mind soon to find partners for the rest ; 50 he accordianly sent the pudden about like lightnin\u2019 ; an\u2019 to make a long story short, barrin' the piper an\u2019 himself, there wasn't a pair o' boels in the house but was as busy at the dancin\u2019 as if their lives depinded on it.¢ Barney,\u2019 says Harry, ¢ jist taste a morsel o' this pudden ever you eat ; here, your sowl ! thry a snig of it\u2014it's beautiful.\u2019 ¢ To be sure I will,\u2019 says Barney, \u2018I'm not the boy to refuse a good thing; but, Harry, be quick, for you know my hands is engaged ; an\u2019 it would bo a thousand pities not to keep them in music, an\u2019 they so well inclined, Thank you Harry , bodad that is à famous pudden ; but blood an\u2019 turnips, what's this for ?\u2019 Tho word was scarcely out of his mouth when he bounced up, pipes an\u2019 all, an\u2019 dash ed into the middle of the party.¢ Hurroo, your sowls, let us make a night of it! The Ballyboulteen boys for ever! Go it, your reverence\u2014turn your partner\u2014heel an\u2019 toe ministher.Good ! oll done again.\u2014 Whish ! Hurroo! Here's for Ballyboulteen an\u2019 the sky over it I\u2019 Bad luck to the sich a set was ever seen together in this world, or will again, I suppose.The worst, however, wasn't come yet, for jist a8 they were in the very heat an\u2019 fury of tho dance, what do you think comes hoppin\u2019 in among them but another pudden, as nimble an\u2019 merry as the first ! That was enough ; they all had heard of\u2014 the ministhers among tho rest\u2014an\u2019 most o\u2019 them had seen the other pudden, and knew that thero must bo a fairy in it, sure enough.Well, as I said, in it comes to the thick o them ; but the very appearance of it was enough.Off the clargy danced, and off the whole weddiners danced afther them, overy one makin\u2019 the best of their way home ; but not a sowl of them able to break out of the stop, if they were to be hanged for it.To make short work of it, they all danced home at last, wid scarce a puff of wind in them ; an\u2019 now, boys, come an\u2019 let us dance the Horo Lhoig in the barn 'idout.Bat you see, boys, before we go, an\u2019 in ordher that I may make everything plain, I had as good tell you that Harry, in crossing the ridge of Ballyboulteen, a couple of miles below Squire Bragshaw\u2019s demense-wall, saw the pudden floatin' down the river\u2014 the truth is he was waitin\u2019 for it ; but be this as it may, he took it out, for the wather had made it as clane as a new pin, and tuck- in\u2019 it up in the tail of his big coat, contriv- od, as vou all guess, I suppose, to change it while Paddy Scanlan an\u2019 the wife were ex- aminin\u2019 the sky ; an\u2019 for the other, he contrived to bewitch it in the same manner, by gottin' a fairy to go into it, for, indeed, it was purty woll known that the same Harry was hand an\u2019 glove wid the le.Others will tell you that it was half a pound of quicksilver he put into it; bat that doesn\u2019t stand to raison.At any rate, boys, I have tould you the adventures of the Mad Puddon of Ballyboulteen ; but I don\u2019t wish to tell you many other thin about it that happened\u2014for fraid I'd tell a Jie! ES A good old elder of a church, who wae given to extravagant exaggeration, was at respect, and admonished not to give way to tho besetting sin in future.The old man received the admonition meekly, and samently said: «I know how prone 1am per Pr a ER ures n; and night $ I have shed barrels \u2018of ars Sonne it\u201d last called to account for bis offences in that ed renders us thankful who have boen forward enough with our autumn labors to leave garden and flelds in order for the new spring, towards which we look, even now, with pleasant anticipation.To \u201clet the dead past bury its dead,\u201d even in the matter of flowors and vegetables, is sound advice, if we only determine to profit by our own failures, and do better in the future.Shall I say that I never had a poorer show of annuals than last season afforded ?Then let me be sure to have my ground prepared in season, and tho young plants so far advanced as not to bo affected by the drouths of carly summer.The seed of ewcot corn, that had been hung in tho barn all winter, did not germinate freely, and caused the crop to be late by another planting.Thisshould teach me to be sure to test my seeds before sowing, and thus secure success.Onion seed, sown on land dug in the spring, failed to come up in many instances.Let those who suffered loss on this account remember, that fall- digging, as well as fall-plowing, is preferable, and will be sure to keep moist and germinate seed, while the soil turned up in the spring, admits the heat, and leops its precious burden dormant, awaiting a shower.The apple trees neglected for two seasons in searching for the saperda bivittata, will be found so decayed in the heart that tho first breeze of wind breaks off some bearing bough, and reveals the centre of the tree perforated by this footless grub.That should teach us to relentlessly pursue the depredator with a stout wire in every thrifty tree, where it is found to be at work, and by application of washes to destroy as many as possible.Fortunate, too, is that farmer whose aup- ply of firewood is at his door, and a sufficiency cut in the woods to be brought home early and stored for frosty days to come.Lot those who have been obliged to delay this necessary work take warning, and note the different effect of the bright cheery fire of dry wood and the slow sullen sizzle of tho green, alike visible on the temper and time of the household.Timo would fail me to tell of the lessons to be learned by our mistales, and yet, as 1 soe the guidman at this moment busy laying down grape vines, that the snow has covered all too soon, and that must be protected from the freezing and thawing to come, I seo that we are not too fore-hand- od in our autumn work.And as in this world we are all liable to error, happy is that man or woman who is willing to seo and acknowledge mistakes committed, and to lot their faults be mark- od, on their book of life, as guides to future improvoment.ANNIE L.J.Hillside, Chateaugay Basin, Nov.25, 1873.MISCELLANEOUS.A Correspondent of The Queen says :\u2014 \u201cI think that the following anecdote of the courage and presence of mind ofa young lady, a guest at Floors Castle, will bo read with interest by most of your lady readers.Last woek, while shoe was walking along tho banks of the noble Tweed, one of the finest rivers in Scotland, accompanied by a very valuable and ancient collie dog, the property of one of her friends, a rabbit sprang up in front.In an instant the dog, forgetful alike of his age and respectability, went after it in full cry.The bunny in his fright fell into the boiling river, and its pursuer followed it at once.The current wus strong and thosdog feeble, and though he tried hard to get ashore again, he was quite uncqual to the effort ; and it appeared that the faithful old animal must be drowned, when this plucky young lady, clad as she was in thick clothing (the weather being vory cold), sprang in to save it, and though not being able to swim, by dint of superhuman exertions succeeded in rescuing him from a watery grave, and both escaped with a thorough ducking.I believe that the young lady in question is a descendant of the gallant captain of the Shannon when she fought the Chesapeake, which would fully account for her thorough disregard of danger.\u201d On tho 27th of October last two fishermen wero out in a small punt, off Portugal Cove, in Conception Bay, Newfoundland.When near the eastern end of Belle Isle, they observed some object floating on the surface of the water, which they at first took to be a large sail or portion of a wreck.Havin rowed close to it, one of the men struck it with his boat-hook, when suddenly the mass became animated and put itself in motion.From amid the folds a hugo parrot-like beak, * as large,\u201d they declare, * as a six gallon keg,\u201d reared itself, and a pair of ghastly green eyes, staring and prominent, glared on the terror-stricken men with an expression of the most intense ferocity.The beak struck the bottom ofthe boat violently, and from around the head, two arms of corpse-liko floshiness, darted out and began winding themselves round the boat, and encircling it in their livid folds.A moment more and the boat would have been drag; boneath the waves, and the unfortunate men would have beon brought within reach of the terrible beak and torn to pieces.But before the suckers with which the arms are furnished had .closed with their dead! grip, one of the men seized & tomahaw which was fortunately at hand, and severed both arms ss they lay over the gunwalo of the boat.This unexpected surgical operation seems to have struck terror into the monster, for it immediately ejected an immense quantity of inky fluid, which darken- the water for two or three hundred yards, and moved off from the boat.The mon saw it for a few minutes after, with its tail out of the water, which they declare to have been ten foot across.The body the; estimate to have been sixty feet in leng and five feet in diameter, or fifteen feet in As the occurrence took place in mecting adjourned in silence.l'inclined to place implicit relian.au statement; more especially as thoi an air of its enormous dimensions is fully con borated by the size of the arms, whieh th, | brought ashore as trophies in their boa; One of the arms, brought to the city of \u201d John, measured nineteen feet, and is pe three inches and a half in circumie ut Its colonr is à Fpale pink.It i en cartilaginous, pliable and tough as |) and almost as strong as steel.extrémity it broadens out like is there upwards of six inches | ence, then it tapers to a prett : Thies extremity, Tor about two Let a ly covered with suckers, which diminish ; , size towards the point.he monster \u201c known as the Kraken, a species of cuttle fish, of which numerous accounts have bep.preserved, though generally disbelieveq à gross exaggerations.The Earl of Shaftesbury is th among other things, of forty acres of he in Wandsworth, one of the suburbs of Lot don, and about a year ago he laid the fired stone of the finest building in what he the called * the workman's city\" \u2014a city which now numbers 350 houses, and ig soon to numbor 1,200, built upon this fort Ares of land.Tho land has been laid out in blocks divided with roads paved with asphalt, The houses are built in four grades, of five, six, seven, and eight rooms respectively The rents average from Bs Gd to 9 64 vr week, including rates and taxes, or if the houses are purchased by the occupiers the prices are from £150 to £300 cach house Vhen the houses are purchased, the pyr.chasers usually pay down a certain sum, the remainder of the purchase money bein paid weekly or quarterly in advance, In the rear of all the houses are spacious yards and in the front a forecourt with an ornamental railing, and separate entrance.gate and piers to each house.The strecty throughout the estate are planted with tree; (one street is already so planted), formip miniature boulevards, thereby at once adding to the beauty of the \u201c city,\u201d and contributing to its healthiness.About three acres have been reserved in the centre of the os tate for recreative purposes, and a gymnasium.The city will have its own schools library, and baths.A site has also been reserved for a co operative storo, tho business to bo conducted by one of the co-opers.tive associations ; so that tho inlabitants, if they choose, \u2018can do the whole of their shopping close at home.Thero are to be no public houses on the property.There have also been built a lecture-hall and a Working-men\u2019s Institute; and altogether, the Workman's City is already a great suc.Coss.The interest on the four war loans contracted since 1870 involves an annual burden on the people of Franco of $80,000,000.Friday is the Turkish Sabbath.On that day the Sultan goes to one of the numerous mosques to offer up his prayors.The re-introduction of ruffs, now so popular in this country, is due, it is said, to a wen on the neck of an English lady of quality.tirely eather, Toward, the an oar, arg 0 circumfey.THE CANADIAN GLEANER ELEVENTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION, HIS being the season when most Farmers make sclection of the Paper they intend taking during the cnsuing twelvemonth, the Publisher of the Gleaner would respectfully submit its claims, It has, during the past Fall, completed the tenth year of its existence, & period sufficiently long to establish its character and give a guarantee for its per manence, During those ten ycars there have been many changés in the political world, but there has been no alteration in the principles of the Gleaner, which are the same now as they were the day it was started.It has made the cause of the English.speaking population of the Province\u2014particularly the Protestant section of it\u2014the main object of its advocacy, and their interests it has done its best to further in the face of opposition which, at times, threatened its existence.It is now, however, so well known and so firmly established in the good opinion of the people of the District of Beauharnois, that no such efforts in future, whether coming from a party \u2018or influential individuals, can materislly affectit.For ten years it has lived independent alike of Government support and hostility, and will so continue.Its readers may often angrily dissent from its views in the future as they have done in the past, yet, as tben, without raising such s suspicion as to its motives as would cause a forfeit ure of their confidence.To Farmers who take only one paper the Gleancr is peculiarly adapted.It does not confine itself merely to local news, but gives in every number 8 record of all the news of the weck, so that whoever takes the Gleaner, and no other paper, is fully âme formed of everything of importance that transpired all over the world.In several respects the news is presented In a form better adapted for Farmers than they will find in the city papers.The Montreal weeklies aro merely compilations from their daily issues, and consequently contain long reports of matters of no interest to country readers sad the general news is thrown together in a disconnected form.In a weekly paper, a carcful selection from the long and frequently contradictory reports of the dailies is rendered possible, so that nothing need be given which is not correct in substance and interest ing to the general reader.While the Gleaner cane not pretend to givo anything like the quantity of reading-matter furnished by the Montreal weeklict, yet those who have been in the habit of se¢ing both will admit that it gives as much news of real impor tance in & more convenient form and in a maonT to be more easily understood, than the wecklies in question., Tho same exertions which have been putforth in the past, to give weekly a reliable and complet?selection of the latest news, will be continued.; 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