The canadian gleaner, 27 février 1879, jeudi 27 février 1879

[" GIVING UP BUSINESS | THIRD & CO.bag te snacusce thet W agen ce Scant hovidg business in Hunting n, 0B account v prep.of and meats to go to Manitobs ab acy dete, made and be coavinsed of he chor eck sie 's Hea! r femmes price Yeas Heavy Under Pants, sc pair « 1.00 Men's Brown Ovenslls 800.\u201c 1.80 Men's No.1 Long Boots Sn pale + 3.00 Mew's Tweed Pants $1.35 & pair.,, * 3.09 Men's Tweed Pants ceveessese \" 450 Men's Tweed Vests $1.50.* 3% NO, 685 Men's Bilk-mized Tweed Costs $4.50 \u201c 9.00 .° Men's Fancy Bron ie as = » Mat Or Vndercoais 2 marked dems 5 LI oy Be\u2019 Fa ve Tux second lecture in this village by Mrs Ladion a iow eet of oT mk Youmans was delivered in the Methodist Ladies\u2019 Mantlos and Mantle cloths of the very latest Church on Wednesday eveni styles at and under cost.Ladies\u2019 Prunella Gaiters 50c § pair, former price $1 Ladies\u2019 Leather Balmoral Boots 85c¥/ pais «$1.50 Choice Prints, warranted fast colors, only 7c § yard.Good Heavy Grey Cotton 5c § yard, former price .13 Cotton Yarn $1.10 & bundle of BBs.1.5 \u201c Good Heavy Wincey 5c 4 yard.\u201c 12 White Canton Flannel 15c # yard.\u201c All-wool Scarlet Flannel 20c # yard \u201c 40c All-wool White Saxony Flannel 35c « pe a Gandi & English Tweods Bc TA i Sik ¥ Lt Great ains in Ties, Fancy pooh pS and Clouds.Ladies\u2019 Trimmed Hats and Caps at half price.Great Bargains in Gent's Caps, Gloves, and Fanoy Cashmere Mufflers.No.1 Cotton Grain Bags 24c each.former price 350 Very fine Black Lustre 25¢ § yard.\u201c 40e Gentlemen\u2019s Fancy FlannelShirts65c \u201c 1.80 Scarlet and Biuo Buffalo Robe Foim- | ming 110 P yard.2000 00000000 4 20c Beautiful Green aud Black and Scarlet and Black Parlor Table-Covers reduced to 85¢.Best Brown Family Soap 5c § bar.former price 100 Best Fancy Soap 3c cake, .v0.00.© 10¢ Eddy's No.1 Matches 10c § box.\u201c 20c Fine Balt in bags 10c bag.\u201c 20c Good Japan Tea 250 # b.\u2026.\u2026.\u201c 50c Bright Refined Scotch Sugar only T4c # Bb No.1 Whole Rice 4c #¥ b.\u201c Te No 1 Salmon Trout 7c § pound.\u201c No.1 Layer Raisins 8c¥' B.,.\u201c No.1 Currants Sc Bb.\u201c 106 Eddy's No.1 painted Pails 18¢c, former price 25¢ No.1 Brooms 18¢, former price 25c.Large-size Zinc l'runks $1.75, former price $2.78 Orockery, Glassware and Hardware at less than balf-price, and an immense quantity of other goods too numerous to mention, at the same rate of discount.p@F™ Intending purchasers are invited to call without delay and secure splendid Bargains at and under Cost, as the whole and entire Stock must positively be disposed of without any further delay.TERMS CASH.- WILLIAM THIRD & Co.P.8.\u2014All persons owing the firm of William Third & Co are requested to call at once and settle, as the firm ig positively giving up business and leaving Huntingdon, Store and Dwelling for sale or to let on very reasonable terms.Household Furniture will be advertised for sale at an early date, Huntingdon, 27th February, 1879.WINTER FERRY, 1878-79, BETWEEN VALLBDYFIELD AND ST.DOMINIQUE HE Lake St Francis Tow-Boat Company's steamer, C.ANDERsON, runs daily, making close connection with Grand Trunk Railway trains, Through passenger tickots issued to and from Montreal, and freight of all kinds carried at reasonable rates.Time of departure.\u2014Leaves Valleyfield at 6 AM.and 2:30 PM.Leaves St Dominique at 11 A.M, and 7 P.M.J.HaLLY, Secretary.Valleyfield, Dec.20.RCHIBALD & M'CORMICK, Advocates No.112 St.Francois Xavier Street, Montreal.J.B.Archibald, M.A.,BC.L.D.M'Cormick, B.C.L Mr M'Cormick will attend the Courts in Beaubarnois, Huntingdon, and Ste.Martine.Accounts for collection may be addressed to the firm, Montreal, or M.S.M'Coy, Han- tingdon.A PHILPS, Auctioneer, Huntingdon, e is ready to attend all Auction Sales when called upon.Terms moderate.All orders left with A.E, Hale, or sent by mail, will receive prompt attention.: TO LET.TE STORE and other property at Dan- dee, formerly occupied by Mr David Baker, and latterly by Messrs Vipond Bros.The premises will be rented low to a good tenant, Apply to pp Geo, Cnitps & Co, Montreal.IN WOOD IN CANE Windsor Grecians Double back Turned front post Florence Astor .Bow Back Kitchen Solad le Back DINERS Franklin Round Seat DINERS Shaped Seat Turned Arm Bent Back Bent Arm York Brace Arm ROCKERS ROCKERS Norse, full and Lalf cane Nurse [back Large, with arms Franklin, sewing with Miss n [arms - Large; with arms OFFICE Ht James Cottage Round Back CHILDREN Double bent arm iron Round Back, Table {rods Round Back, Rocker Double bent arm re- Round Back, Low (volving Fancy Men and Ladies\u2019 Camp Chairs.FURNITURB.CHAMBER SUITES BEDSTEADS JeunyLind, doubleash French round, ash \u201c « singloash Dominion, sh 0 ash Alexandria, ash Serpentine Top, with * Cottage, ash, with walntt eld \u201cWell, I think, two-thirds,\u201d he replied, The * neglecting him and leaving him to steal, he , 19th inst., to à large audience.The Rev George in introducing her, referred tothe excellence of the previous lecture, instancing, particularly, the parts devoted to the revenue question and the use of intoxicating wine at the communion.That such wine was à temptation to those who had sn appetite for drink he had had painful proof on the Lacolle circuit, where an esteemed member habitually Passed the cup, and on asking the reason iscoverod that the gentleman, 12 years be- fora, bad been a bard drinker, and that, as a matter of safely, he was compelled to pass the cup to avoid arousing bis old appetite.Mr Rogers trusted the day was near at hand when consideration would be shown for the weakness of brethren like the one referred to, by all churches using the unfermented fod of the grape on the Lord's table.Mrs Youmans on coming forward wes greetod with applause.Before entering upon her subject, she wished to refer to what the chairman had related touching the use of intoxicating wine on the Lord\u2019s table.At a temperance convention which she at tended, Mr Gough gave his own exporience, declaring that altho\u2019 be bad been an abstainer for over 20 years, he felt be dare not take the wine cup in his hand even at the sacramental board, for if he tasted it, he felt he would need to have more, and that it is well to know our weak parts and goard against them.Colonel Allen's experience, one of the bravest officers on the Northern side in the late war, was similar.He had fuced danger in every form, knew all the horrors of war, and no one who knew him would think there was a bit of a coward about him, yet, at the same convention, be declared there was a foe he dared not face, and that was the wine cup even at the sacrament, for if he once tasted intoxicating drink he knew he would have to have more and would bo drunk an hour afterwards.The church had always been in the front of all moral reforms, and in taking its place at the head of this great Temperance movement, it was necessary to have itright itself by banishing intoxicating wine from its æervises.The movement was spoken of as one of fanaticism by many, but let them hear the testimony of independent minds, A century ago, before Temperance was mooted, with the dim light of his age, John Wesley declared that\u2014 : \u201cThe men who traffic in ardent spirits, and sell to all who will buy, are poisoners general ; they murder his Majesty's subjects by wholesale ; neither do their eyes pity or spare.\u201d Horace Greeley, who was not a fanatic religiously speaking, said \u201cThe Liquor business is murder, and the money obtained by it is the price of perdition.\u201d Lord Chesterfield, the man of fashion, the elegant and supercilious, was constrained to denounce those engaged in the liquor traffic of his day as \u201cArtists in human slaughter.\u201d What has given the liquor-traffic power to get so firmiy established, and into the very heart of the country ?Before anawer- ing, she thought it well to say that the residents of rural places like Huntingdon did not realize the full extent of the injury that was being done.They saw many deplorable results, doubtless, but to know what drink can do you must go to the cities.She bad made it a practice to visit the prisons and speak to those confined in them, and when she put the quostion \u201cWhat bas brought you hero ?\u201d the almost invariable answer was, Drink, drink.On Sunday she had promised the children to tell them somewhat of her experience in visiting prisons, and would refer to one visit she had paid the juvenile convicts in THE CENTRAL PRISON AT TORONTO.It was a Sunday, and she came into the chapel as they wore assembling for Sunday- school, some 250 in number, There were as many more, at least, gathered at the same time in the Catholic chapel in another rt of the building.She asked the chap- ain how many of those before them had been led into criminal courses drink.bymo\u2014 - LL Depth of mercy, can there be Mercy still reserved for me ?was given out, and as it was being sung the tears came trickling down many a poor boy's face.She was assigned a class, and bow glad the boys looked at having a lady teach them ! The lesson that morning brought up the subject **Redomption,\u201d and in dwelling upon it she said to them, \u201cNow I just want to have & quiet talk with you ; just such a one as your mothers would have had.Let me know what drink has had to do with bringing you here ?\"* There were eight boys in the class, and the first 6 freely admitted that if they had left drink alone they would never have been in prison.The 7th, a black boy, denied drink had anytbing to do with his conviction, but she learned that bis father and mother were drunkards, and was, tho\u2019 sober himself, in prison indirectly through drink.The 8th , callous und defiant, a hardened criminal, denied positively that drink bad caused bis fall, She asked the chaplain if her class was a fair re- came that it has dome about these walls, so that you may no longer be tempted.\u201d And then tho begged them lo give their hearts to Christ, for only Ho could save them.On visiting the Penitentiary at Kingeton, on seeing over 600 convicts file past her to dinner, the great majority there through drink, the thought came to her, \u201cPoor fellows, you are bere for having helped to pay the revenue of Canada, and a dear prico you are paying for it.\u201d At the Jackson State Prison, Michigan, the superintendent had told her there were 900 convicts, of whom going over tbe Now Hampebire State Prison, she learned its proportion was the same, and everywhere the same testimon that, if it were not for liquor, there would be few criminals.\u2018The question comes up, how is it that the liquor trafic is allowed to do 2418 DEADLY WORK amo us?If there be a well-established principle in law it is this, What we license protect.Wo bave licensed the liquor traffic, we bave tbrown the protection of our laws around it, we have made it legitimate business, we have wra it in the British flag, and therefore it is that it exists amongst us, bold and obdurate in carrying on its work of sin and death.Are we right in thus legalizing wrong ?Let the Bible answer\u2014-\u2018Woe to bim that justifioth the wicked for a reward.\u201d The sin of our license laws first came clear to her from a little scene in Picton, A wife, leading one of her children, went to the tavern where her husband spent all his earnings, and begged its propriotor to refuse to give him drink, Pointing to his license, which hung on the bar-room wall, the tavern-keeper answered : \u201cMadame, do you see that ?There is my Government authority for carrying on the liquor business.It is a legal occupation, and I intend to pursue it,\u201d and with those words he defiantly eat down in an arm-chair, while the poor wife, more crushod and bheart-sick than before, turned to go home.In those licenses on the walls of the bar-rooms lies the power of the traffic.That'statute authorizing the licensing of the traffic is a pill to soothe the guilty conscience.The liquor-dealer gives so many dollars and he gets the authority of the Government to carry on his business ; gots its official declaration that it is a proper and legitimate business, When the favor.seller makes his will, will he be sure to direct his executors, upon his death, to take down his license from the wall, and put it in his hand in his coffin, so that he may hold it up, as his Jefence, when he meets his victims at the bar of God ?Alas, those engaged in Any way in tbe liquor-traffic will nd at last that the authority of the governments of Great Britain, of Canada, of the United States, will weigh as nothing against Him who has declared in His Word, \u201cWoe to him that giveth bis neighbor drink.\u201d Believing that the Bible is the only text book needed on the subject of Temperance, that the pledge is to be found within ite sacred pages, total abstinence and probibi- tion, and the principles for deciding tho revenue question, she came to ask is there a single instance given by the Scriptures of A LEGALIZED WRONG, and if there is, what does it say regarding it?Such an instance came to her hand in the story of Esther.Haman conceived the idea of putting to death good old Mordecai and the whole Jewish nation.Being what woe would call a lawyer, he knew that taking life under ordinary circumstances was murder, so he thought be would got the permission of the King\u2014a license, in fact\u2014 topat thom to death ; making thereby the act a legitimate one, and getting the King to be à partner in it.Haman was not only learned in legal lore, but a politician as well, and saw the objection that would be raised, that if the Jews were put to death there would be a falling-off in tho revenue, and so to overcome it, he proposed *If it please the King, let it be written that they {ihe Jews) be destroyed, and 1 vill pay 10,000 talents of silver to the hands those that bave charge of tbe business, to bring it into the King\u2019s treasuries.\u201d It was a curious coincidence, that the sum Haman proposed to pay was equal to $5,000,000 in our monoy\u2014the sum derived by the Canadian Government from the liquor-traffie.And the King was pleased with the proposal, and taking his ring gave the Jows over to Haman to do with them as seemed to him.It was a cold-blooded act of that old Persian king, to givo unrestricted authority thus to Haman to deal with a portion of his people.Now, let it be marked what Haman put in those 147 licenses he sent to the different rovinces.He dictated to the scribes, \u2018to estroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women.\u201d Is that ancient license much different from ours ?ls not the legalized liquor-traffic tho t destroyer of our homes and especially of our boys?Do we not hear of ite causing the husband to kill the wife or child ; of the son the father; of man killing his brotber man ?Does it not cause strong men to perish in the snow, in burning buildings, or, reeling out in the darkness, end their lives in the swift- flowing river, or by pistol or knife?And does it around the whole country 85 por cent ascribed their tall to drink.On fGovernment, they have a good ma is given|b -pfluence ot drink, The Cri Glen HUNTINGDON, Q.THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 187.system, and it is the same the world over.herever the Government becomes à partner in the business, it extends its ravages\u2019 Bat to return to Haman.How did be pro- to get the money to pay the 10,000 talents ot silver ?By taking .the spoil of the people for bis prey, which must have | amounted tos great deal more than what; be proposed to give the King.Our Cana-, dian liquor-dealers pay our Government 5 million dollars a year, but then Sir A.T.Galt estimates they take, as the spoil of their prey, at least 15 million dollars à yoar from (their customers, so that, after payin the no rofit left for themselves.And Hamau, aving written his licenses, sent them out 7 posts, after which we are told he and the ing sat down to drink.The Sacred nan rative leaves it to be inferred that all through tho disgracefal transaction, the wicked Haman kept the King under the iv- n.the city of Shuahan there was one faithftl heart who realized the position.Good old Mordecai rent his clothes and put on sackcloth with ashes, and, coming before the palace windows, oried with a loud and bitter ory.Esther was 8 woman, and her curiosity was awakened.8he did not say, \u201cLook at the old fanatic I\" but, with a woman's wit, conceiving something was wrong which her relative wished to tell her of, she sent a servant to him to ask, and Mordecai not only told all but gave a copy of one of the licenses, and begged that the Queen intercede for her people.Esther hesitated, for she knew how her predecessor had fallen, how the King had ordered no one should come near him unless sent for, and how the wicked Haman was keeping the King under the influence of fulfil his message.What was Mordecai's answer to this plea of inability ?«Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape more than all the Jews.\u201d Ob, woman, who sitting in your rocking chair, decline to aid in this great work of driving the destroyer from our land, on the plea that you have no sons, think not that you will escape all injury; and you, mother, wbo think that there is no danger, do you know where your son is to-night Esther hesitated.Possibly she had her doubts as to whether, even when a great duty was to be done, 8 woman should appear in public.Her sense of right ovorcame her delicacy and fears, and in seeking to execute her task she did not depend upon dazzling the King by her beauty or tho splendor of her robes, but upon the last thing a fashionable, worldly woman would think of\u2014a fast.The Jows were to fast\u2014not to fast as we understand the practice, going without breakfast and making it up afterwards, but to do without food or drink for 3 days.There is no word about prayer in the narrative, but we know that the Jews never fasted without prayer.God answered theso prayers and touched the heart of the King, so that Esther had « h ot him.Weare told the King could not sleep.Ingersoll, the champion of infidelity, would eny that God had anything to do with that, but we know that Ile did hear the prayer of the fasting Jews and took this way of answering it.It was the castom of tho great among the Kasterns, when thoy could not sleep, to call for music; instead of that the King calls for a book, and of all books the book of records.It is just as if one of uscould not sleep, and called for a volume of the Statutes of Canada.It was God who pat into the mind of the King to ask for the k und what book-\u2014the very one wherein he would read what would defeat the wicked plot of Haman.The reeult was that Mor- docai was saved, and through him and Ës- ther all the Jews.She now came to a part \u2018of the story she would rather pass over.It was that Haman perished on the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai, and it wasa dreadful truth that the great rasjority of those engaged in the lignor- 0 perish throogh drink.(The speaker here gave a number of instances of great brewers and distillers who had either fallen viotims to drink or whose sons had, and their daughters married drunkards, or whose fortunes had been dissipated.) John Wesley, who travelled much, declared he had never heard of money made by drink descending to the third generation, and Rowland Barr of Toronto, who had kept statistics of the tavern- keepers on one street in Toronto, said of the 100 whom be bad known daring 54 years, there had been 214 drunkards in their families, 45 widows, 235 orphans, 44 sudden deaths, 13 suicides, 203 premature deaths from drunkenness, 4 murders, 3 public executions, and $293,600 property and 1915 years of human life estimated te have been lost.Thus we seo GOD's FEARFUJ, WITHERING CURSE FOLLOWS THIS TRAPTFIO.To return to Esther.Was sho eatisfied with the death.of Haman snd the recalling of the licenses ?No.Bhe approached the King again.She knew the license law, so long as it stood on the book of rec might be revived and put in force, and so she fell a the King\u2019s feet and besought bim with temes to blot it out.Ob women of Canada, why not be as earnest in seeking the repeal of the law that is destroying Jour sons ?Why not, with cries and bitter tears, entreat the Government to abolish the Iniquitous law ?If the women of Canada would only get One of to licenses that hang up on the bar-room walls off iy heart and realize of they mean, there would bo a prospect of their being speedily abolished.Esther drink ; so she told Mordecai she could not Docs spa butter factories af the Dajry- ar, Sore LN intssientiag wine soommens : \u2018 came under y ue rid the Bours Lagi, f dfak, : 2 the Dario: and tin bopedio- : .\u2018 thf td \u2019 : 6b .atst MISCELLANEOWS.over 25 in Cagadel .Some of them made sweet cream bafler, ald others sour cream town of Cobourg to make this an, made La im- butter, and hia, was that for ox- age of God, redeemed an portation the was peaferable.His ex- Dele ot fmmortality, somethiag Joe then a beast\u201d perience led Ww Se-think that three-fourths into the Mjolniag coon besa as comfortable tale pa Bible on the table, and a case Nill of Looks, Of ¢ parlor was à bedroom in which wem vestiges of à woman's clothing.\u201cHas he & wife ?\u201d che \u201cNo, she died a few weeks ago ; à Ch woman.\u201d It was well that she died.\u201cHas he chil, T \u201cYes, bus they have ali been given to * All this wretchednom and sorrow wrought by plages licensed PT cons da none the strong week ense to e man License so make the wise men bow, License to mako the fond wife's heart t9 break, 40d mako the orphans am te fom It was woenea such as this that caused the intensity of het hatred to the license law.She did not wonder thet the people of the village of H elected councillors who give po ose make upon à t boy temple.Enticing bim inside, the fore the {dol snd shed his blood.On the news reaching England, it touched the good mother's heart of Queen Victacis, aud she seat out orders to India to ascertain if the facts were as stated, and, if so, to bring the priest to justice, Enqalry proved the accuracy of the statement, whereupon rieet waa teled for murdee, and the gentleman ete: his execution.That little boy and a Hindoo, was under the protection of the British 4 and his death was avenged Ly the arm of the law, bal THOUSANDS OF OUR BOYS ARN ARING OFFERED OM WORSE THAN EBATMRN ALTARS and the law bas no protection for them.She bed not a doubs of it, that the time was coming when it would be declared that all along this legalised liquor-rafiic has been unconstitutional and against the founds.mental principles of British law, Blackstone sys it 1e required of all British subjects thas thsy lve honestly, injure nobody, and give everybody his due.the seller of liquor give his customers an equivalent for their money?Why, the more Hquot he gives, the more he defrauds, for what he selle ia harmful.Somebody will say, A man has a right to do what he pleases with his money.Blackstone, England's great jurist, says no men has a lsgal right to take money for that which is hurtful, even though his customer be agreeable.In the United Staten Senate, last winter, Senator Morrill styled the liquor-traffic as the gigantic crime of crimes, and he was r ht, for Dine-tenths of the crimes among us arise it.Were the cholce given to any mother here to-night to have her Louse broken into and its chofceat contents stolen or one of her sons made a drunkard, would she not profer a thousand times to have her house despoiled ?And if such is the case, should not liquor- selling and drunkard-making be put on a level with burglary ?Or, if the choice wero given of the in.cendinry's torch being put to her home or her boy become a frequenter of bar-rooms, would not the mother exclaim, Let my house go, give me a hut in the woods or by the cedar swamp, fat keep my boy pure, 00 that he may not break my heart ! y, then, should lquor-selling not be put ou a par with arson ?More than this, would you, mother, not sooner have the infant you laid in its crib before you came here, stabbed to the heart by a stealthy assassin, for, in your grief, you would have this comfort that his Rare spirit had gone to bis God, where you will meet Sm, tather than havo your boy grow up to be a drunkard ?If you choose the assassins knife as the least of tire two evils, why should the liguor-desjer's trade mot by placed un a par with murder ?The ble bas been that the women of Canada have neve: taken this evil to heart as it should be ; never taken it to the throne of grace to seek for guldance, for if they had they would never cease to work and pray until ft was abolished.It was a strange thought, yet children who suffered from the curse of intemperance in those they loved, had been heard to thank God thers was no liquor in heaven.One little child sald, \u201cThere will be no temptation for father in heaven, for there is no liquor there\u201d A doctor was attending a girl dying of consumption, of which disease her mother had died a short time before.One day, on going to visit her, the doctor overheard her and her father, who was a drunkard, en, In conversation, and he paused until they wero done.\u201cMother has gone\u201d said the child, \u201cand I am growing weaker every day.What will you do when I am gone ™ The father shuddered and said not a word, when his daughter resumed : \u201cIf I go to heaven when I die and meet mother these and she ask me about you, what will I tel} ber 7\u201d \u201cGod helping me,\u201d answered the father, \u201c1 will try to meet you there.\u201d \u201cAnd, father, what If she ask me if you still drink ?Will you not promise not to touch whisky any mora 7\u201d The father, strickon to the soul, nobbed out, \u201cI will never drink snother drop.\u201d The doctor enid, on this awurance, the child raised her eyes to heaven, which, though glased by approaching death, wore a happy expression, as she murmured, \u201cThank God, we will meet In, and there, father, you will no longer be liquor.\u201d Think of it, to thank God that Hoe dees not permit in heaven what me license in Yala Obristisa land, Once past t rly gates, there w no more tion for those of cur fellow-belngs wo are ted those places which carry on their dreadful business by the authority of our councils and our government.People of the village of Huntingdon, keep what you have got! Let no license ever again be displayed on the walls of bar-rooms, tsmpting your boys to rain in this world and to regions of everlssting woe hereafter.You have washed your hands of the legalised lquor-traffic : oh, keep them henceforth clean! Mrs Youmans was listened to throughout with uninterrupted and absorbed aftention, On the spplause: subsiding that greeted her on closing, the chair sang-\u2014 BAVE THE ROY.Once he sat upon my knee, Looked from sweet eyes into mine, Questioned me so wonderously Of the mysteries divine ; Onco he fondly clasped my neck, Pressed my cheek with kisses sweet ; oO WL heart we little reck bere may rove the precious fest.Save the boy ! ob, save the bey! To the rescue quickly come 8ave the boy ! oh, save the boy ! Save him from tho curse of rum ?Once his laugh with merry ring, Filled our house with music raze, | And his loving hands would brin Wreaths of blossoms for my hair ; O the merry, happy sprite, of an onnce of ealt per the proper quantity.Canadiaas\u2018tould make as buiter ns English, if they only took the r #lé to 4bs.The prices now prevailing in England for Canadian butter are about as follows : \u2014For that pro- und of butter was dueed at tho said creameries, 118 shillings per 100 pounds ; that of the Eastern Town.shipe, from 96 to 100 shillings; and ordinary Canadian dairy at from 40s to Ths.Hm: ex- lained what means had been adopted by he Allan and other lines for refrigerator accommodation.The only time refrigerators were.needed was during May, June, and July, and during these months they could ase the refrigerators now on board the Allan Steamebipe.ben the shipper used rigerators had to doublo froikbte.¢ py ro A peculiar explosion took \u2018place on the onda\" Wer near thé city > Thursday morning, about 100 fest square of ice, 20 inches thick, being thrown up iu the air, followed by a loud report.1t is supposed to bave been caused by the gas from a deposit of sawdust in the bed of the river.A snow plow and threes engings on the Now York and Canada RR.jumped the track near Tousc's Point last week Monday, causing damage variously cetimatod at from ten to thirty-five thousand dollars.The plow and two of tho engines were made a mass of splintered ruins.Ono of tho engines wan thrown fifty teot from the track.In tho snow plow were a number of men, and the\u2019 it was 50 wrecked that iron rods an inch in diameter wero twisted and broken like bits of wire, all of tho men escaped without serious injury.Six men were more or loss bruised or sufforod broken bones.\u2014Palla- dium.Mrs Patterson and her sister, living at the \u201clines,\u201d and a young man by the name of Peters, aro all reported to bo very nick with the small-pox.\u2014Ibid.A CourLry Lesson.\u2014On the 10th inst, a woman named Celina Bernior, was arraigned before the Police Court on a charge of welling liquor without a license.A principal witness for tho prosecution, Alfred Ethior, made default, so that tho case had ta be postponed till the 10th prox., but a warrant was sud agninst Ethier, who was arrested yestorday.\u2018I'his morning when put on trial before Mr Dugas, P.M., for refusing to appoar as a witness, he acknewledged having received a subpmna and going to tho Back River to avoid giving ovidonos.Ilis Honor taught the defaultor a salutary lesson by imposing a fino of $40 or 3 months\u2019 im- prisonmont.\u2014Montreal Witness.Unslaked lime, compressed into cartridges, or used loosely and woll tam down in the bole using wator or other liquid to satar- ate and expand it, is now proposed for uee in coal mines aa n aubetituto for blasting vowder, It has the cepecial morits of economy and of comparative safety in use.À secret investigation has been hold on the Police Commissionors of St Louis, Mo., and it appears that they have been in lon