The canadian gleaner, 6 septembre 1883, jeudi 6 septembre 1883

[" Da x mer va _ } K ! +\u2019 {à \u2018 Le FURNITURE! FUORNITURE!! \u2014\u2014g-\u2014\u2014 Oto A.G.HENDERSON'S where you cansees A Oomplete Assortment of Furniture COMPRISING THE POLLOWIKG : CHAIRS\u2014Wood, Cane, and Perforated Seat, includin Rockers of all kinds ; also Btuffed Chairs in Hair-cloth.BEDSTEADS\u2014AIll kinds; also, Cradles, Cribs, Washstands.BEDKOOM SUITES in Ash, and Ash and Walnut.PARLOR SUITES covered in Hair-cloth and Raw Silk.SIDEBOARDS in Basswood and Ash and Walnut, SOFAS in Ilalr-cloth with Walnut and Butternut frame.COUCHES covered In Raw Sitk and Carpet.WIRE MATTRESSES, Bpring and Woven, WOOL and FLOCK MATTRESSES, BUREAUS, &c., &c.EXTENSION, KITCHEN, and CENTRE TABLES with falling leaves.B@™ We repair Sofas and wake them as good as new.Give us a call and be convinced of the fact that you can buy Furniture at Extra Reasonable rates by purchasing from A.G.HENDERSON.Huntingdon, June 7.Card oft Thanks.r W.FRASER wishes to thank Lis many o customers for their liberal patronage during tho Eight yoars ho has been in business, and takes this opportunity of informing the public that ho bas udded now machinery to bis establishment, which has made a marked improvement on his goods and onablos him to manufacture fastor, so that orders for Biscuit, etc., sent by mail, will be promptly attended to and filled on shortest notice.International Steam Bakery, Dundes, P.Q., T.W.FRASER, Proprietor.NOTICE.E beg leave to inform the public that wo have just received a large and varied assortment of Furniture which we will sell reasonable, comprising as follows :\u2014 Kitchen, Dinivg-room, Parlor, Children's, Oflice, Arm, and Nurso Chairs, in cane and wood.Closed in and open Washstandse\u2014single and double, Sideboarde\u20142 and 4 doors.Cribs, Bedsteads, Cradles.Fall Leaf, Centre, Extension and Parlor Tales.Ash and Ash and Walnut Bedroom Suites, Couches in Creton, Carpet, and Hair Cloth, Walnut, Rose, and Oval Back Hair Cloth Sofas, BEY™ Parties wishing to purchase, can sce the above at the Old Methodist Church, Huntingdon, \u2014C Re Old Presbyterian Church, Athelstun.B&F\" Also, Plows and Circular Baws at the AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, Huntingdon.Give usa call.BOYD & CO.RCHIBALD & McCORMICK, Advocates, No.112 &t Francois Xavier street, Montreal, J.8.Archibald, M.A, BCL.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.8.M'Coy, Huntingdon, AD McCORMICK, V.8., would reapectfully inform the public that he has taken up his permanent residence at Durham, where he is always to be found, excepting Tuesdays, when he will be nt Vachon\u2019s hotel, Valiey- field, and Fridays, when he will be at Moir\u2019», Muutingdon Office: John C.Lockerby\u2019s, ucxt door to Hugh Walsh's urham.OTARIAL\u2014The undersigned begs leave to inform the public that he will be in attendance at his office in the County Ruilding, Huntingdon, every Thursday,and remain while detained by business.In the event of any Thursday Leing a non-juridical day, he will attend on Friday.I I.CREVIER, N.PLATH AND SILINGLES.TTAWA Lath and Shingles for sale at tho Huntingdon Mills, Mrs A.HENDERSON.AVID BRYSON, Licensed Auctioneer for the District of Beauharnois, which consists of the counties of Huntingdon, Chateauguay and Beauhnrnois.Sclls in the English and French lauguages.No higher charges made for extra distances to travel, as all his time is at his disposil forthat business.All commmunicationsaddressed to David Bryson, Howick, P.Q.,or to David D.Bryson, Agent, Orms- town, P.Q,, will receive immediate attention.To Farmers and Others, HAVE JUST RECEIVED A COMPLETE LINE OF MERCHANDISE, Which I will sell at Extremely Low Prices.Those wishing to buy for READY PAY will find it an object to look my stock over and get prices.Aly Goods are Well Selected and Well Bought, and I Will Not Be Undersold, THE PROOF OF THE PUDDING IS IN EATING.M&F\" Give mo a Call and be convinced.\u201c3g HIGHEST PRICES PAID FOR PRODUOBE.Yours Respectfully, M.J.BROWN.Trout River, N.Y, June 13.FOR Barb Wire, Twisted Wire (without barb), Plain Galvanized Wire, Rod Wire, 1-4 and 3-16, Flat Steel Strip Barbed Fencing, (latest improved), Staples and Stretchers, all sizes Flat, Square and Round Iron and Steel, go to BOYD & CO.CASKETS and COFFINS.HE subscriber keeps constantly on hand a large stock of Caskets and Coffins of all sizes, styles, and prices.Coffin Plates, Burial Robes, and other trimmings always in stock.Prices reasonable.\u2019 MF A good Hearse kept.Orderapromptly attended to.Mra A, Hevprrson, Huntingdon.BROTHERS, Building Contractors and Dealers in DIMENSION TIMBER, LUMBER, LATHES, SHINGLES, DOORS, SASHES, BLINDS, ETC., VALLEYFIELD, Quc.DENTAL NOTICE.0.K.Wells, L.D.8,, Surgeon Dentist, AS removed his offico to the first house west of St Andrew\u2019s Church, Huntingdon.Condensed Nitrous Oxide gas and other Anms- thetics administered for the painlessextraction of teeth.When to be replaced by new oges, tooth extracted and gasadministered free of charge American teeth inserted at $10 per sot ; better quality on hand if [rE \u2014\u2014\u2014 The Crmadïm Giraner NO.922.There is No New Thing Under the Sun.WuoEvER buys cheap can sell cheap.To prove that my motto corresponds with my practice can be scen from tho following prices, which, low as they are, afford me a fair percontage of profit: Sugars, Sc, 94c¢, and 10c for the best granulated.Teas, 25¢, 30¢, 35¢, 400, 45¢, and 50e.Try the 40c Tea.Grey Cotton Täe per yurd, Bleached Cotton 9c.Cashmeres 35c « Black Lustre, extra, 20c Table Linen 30c to 75e per yard.Fino Linen Towels 15e 72-inch Linen Sheoting, something now, 40c.Ladies\u2019 Sill Umbrellas, only a fow left, 31.25, Checked Drill 20¢ a yd.Men's Sox 15c a pair Fine Balbriggan Hoso 25c per pair.Mon\u2019s plain Overalls 45¢ a pair, checked do 60c.All-wool Worsted Coating, double width, $1.50 \u201c Tweeds, b5c, 60c, 75¢, and 80c A thuro inspection of the quality of those goods will convince you that the above is no humbug, as too often practised on the public.Should I happen to be sold out of any of the above named articles, I shall remove them from my advertise ment at once.Notwithstanding my low prices, I shall still continue to give 5 per cent, discount on all cash purchases of $1 and over.The only place in this town.To avoid disappointment, romember-that my storo is closed on Saturdays, beginning at sunset on Friday evenings, and reopening at sunset on Saturday ovonings.A full assortment of Millinery, Dress Goods, Ready-made Clothing, Boots and Shoes, Crockery and Glassware, &e., &c.,always on hand.K.FREEMAN.Huntingdon, August 1.NOTICE.A.persons indebtod to the undersigned, are hereby requested to call and sottle their accounts at onco.Wo would also state that the Dry Goods saved from the late fire will be sold at greatly reduced prices, as all must be disposed of befory entering our new premises.TIIOMAS GEBBIE & SONS.Howicl, Que., Aug.15.ANTED, for District No.2, municipality of the township of Franklin, a Fomale Teacher holding a first-class Elementary diploma.Term, 8 months ; salary $15 per month, and to commenco, if possible, on 10th September.Apply to the undersigned.WILLIAM GENTLE, Secretary-Treasurer.Franklin Centre, Aug.28.TIIE HUNTINGDON FAIR, SEPTEMBER 12TH AND 13TH.Æ will have un office on the grounds of Agricultural Society No.1 both days of the Fair, so that all parties indebted to us, eithor by Note or Book Account, can pay the samo.BOYD & CO.Huntingdon, Aug.30.: NEW BARBER SHOP.ILLIAM DREWS, of the Windsor Hotel, Montreal, begs to inform the public that ho bas opened a shop in JIL GILMORE'S BLOCK\u2014UDP-STAIRS, where he shall have pleasure in giving everybody full satisfaction in Saving, ILAIR-DRESSING And SHAMPOOING.- s&\" LADIES\u2019 HAIR-WORK and Children's bair- cutting a speciality.Province ov QUESkC, Municipality of the Towuship of } i LGIN, TEACHER WANTED.47 ANTED, a Female Teacher holding a first- \\ class Elementary diploma, for a term of 10 months at a salary of 815 per month, for School District No.4, Figin.Apply to Prrer McFARLANE, Secretary-Treasurer, Kezso, P.Q.NOTICE.UBLIC NOTICE is hereby given, that the P Farm of tho late John Wallis will be sold by 1.I.Crevier, notary, on tho 4th of October at 2 o'clock, p.m.The Farm is well watered and contains a good bush and buildings.Thoso in want of a fino farm will do well to oxamine this one at once.Bay The salo will take place on the pre mises, situated 2 miles West of Iluntingdon village on the Trout River road, being West half of Lot No.29, 6th range of Godmanchoster.JOSEPII LUNAN.Godmanchester, Aug.27.NDREW PHILPS, Licensed Auctioneer for the District of Beauharnois, begs to inform the public that ho is prepared to attend all Auction Sales in the counties of Huntingdon, Chateaugay aud Beauharnois, when called upon ; and, as he has been in the business for some time, satisfaction is guaranteed or no pay.\u2018Terms reasonable.P.8.~Lettcrs addressed to Huntingdon Post Office will re- eive prompt attention.LA BANQUE JAOQUES OARTIRR, VALLEYFIELD.J.A.Gamery, J.F.PRLLANT, Teller.; DENTISTRY.Agen 1865 \u2014 1883 FORT COVINGTON, N.Y., T home the firat 25 days of each month, until furthe notice, Artificial tceth inserted on any of the first: class bases new in use and the best of material used.Teeth extracted without pain or danger by the use of liquid Nitrous Oxide gas.MODEL SCHOOL, DURHAM, - - - - ORMSTOWN.TH: Educational Institution will open on Monpar, the 3rd day of Septomber, under the superintendence of Miss NoLAN, for the reception of pupils, when all the higher branches of education will be taught, AFFORDING ALL THE ADVANTAGES THAT CAN BE HAD IN ANY ACADEMY.The building bas been crected at considerable cost and expense.BOARD CAN BE HAD IN THE VILLAGE AT REASONABLE RATES.For torms and particulars apply to the undersigned, 8 A.McEACHERN, Secy.-Treasr, Ormstown, July 31, 1883.have not been successful in\u2019 their attempts at HUNTINGDON, Q.THURSDAY, FALL SHOWS.TeE Huntingdon Fair, open to the District and Franklin Co, N.Y., at Huntingdon village on Wednesday and Thursday, 12th and 13th September.Chateaugay Society, at Ste Martine, on Tuesday, 18th Septomber, Huntingdon Society No.2, at Vicars, on Thursday, 20th September.) Franklin County Fair, at Malone, Sept.25th, 26th, and 27th.Beauharnois Society, at St Louis do Gonzague, on Thursday, 27th September.NOTES FOR SEPTEMBER.The work in the root field consists in kecping the ground free from weeds, and pulling the supertluous roots for the cows.The great error in growing turnips, beets, ete, is in not thinning them sufficiently.White turnips may still be sown if the ground is rich.Potato stubble, treated with fine manure, will usually yield a paying crop.Early sown Leets and mangels may be harvested this month.Place the roots in long heaps, with straw over them, and afterwards take them to the root cellar, or cover tho heaps with earth, to protect the roots from freezing.The roots should not heat at any time while stored.Cut Buckwheat before the frosts injure it.The grain shells easily, therefore the crop should Le cut when the dew is on.After curing for a few days, the grain is ready to be threshed.Buckwheat, as it comes from the threshing machine, will heat badly if placed in large heaps ; therefore spread the grain over the barn floor, or other surface, to dry.Beans are injured by heavy rains, and should be ulled and stacked so soon as they are ripen pulling, leave the vines in rows for a time to cure, and if a storm approaches, they can be placed around poles driven in the ground.A straw cover should be placed over each stack.The catliest varieties of field corn will be ready for cutting this month.Corn should be cut so soon as the grain is glazed ; the stocks are best for fodder if cut at this time.Seed corn should have been selected before this, but if not, let some of the best stalks stand uncut with their ears of corn for future planting.The shocking needs to be done with care, If the stalks are poorly sct and improperly tied, the shocks fall, the grain and fodder both suffer, and the husking is more difficult.Willow or other twigs may be used for securely tying the shocks of corn, Potatoes aro best dug so soon as ripe.If left in the earth, they may start into growth or become affected with the much dreaded rot.It is well to sort the potatoes as they are gathered, excluding all unfit for the table.Many horses can not work en new grain (corn, oats or barley) unless it is thuroly dried.It will get dry in time by ordinary exposure, but enough may be dried for daily use Ly artificial means, and often with the best results.Young stock and pigs may have nubbins and soft corn, but do not feed the work or road horses with such stuff.Take good care of old horses; a horse sound at fifteen years is worth two colts, give Lim good feed and pasturage, and steady work on the farm.The younger hores may do on the road, but take care of the old servants for steady work.They will repay the care.Farm horses are not half groomed as a rule.There are no surer safe-guards against disease than regular feeding and watering, and thure grooming.The smut in Indian corn is a fungus,or minute plant of a very low order, that feeds upon the Juices of the corn and finally makes itself conspicuous by the formation of a vast number of small, dust-like bodies in masses, upon the ears and other parts of the corn plant.This dark, purple dust is the congregated spores or seeds of the smut plant, and it is this which carries the fungus thru the winter.It is difficult to determine just how or where the minute spores effect an entrance into the young growing corn; nevertheless it is important that they should be destroyed.This can be best done by picking off the smutted parts before tho corn is cut.If this work is neglected, care should ho taken to separate all the smut at the time of husking, and burn it; otherwise the spores will germinate the following year, and continue the pest.Corn smut is injurious to animals, acting both asa poison and mechanical irritant.For this reason Lhe smut should be kept from the feeding stalls.Clover is so casily injured bLy smothering that even the rakings should be removed carefully where a second crop is expected.Tho season for canning fruit and vegetables is now at hand, and those housekeepers who this work, will find the following a most excellent recipe :\u2014Place the fruit in either a granite iron, or porcelain kettle ; never use common iron, brass, or tin for this purpose.Allow it to boil for about 5 minutes.Have the jars in readiness, and standing in a vessel of warm water, 50 that they may be heated gradually.Just before filliug the jar with fruit, dip a towel in boiling water and wrap it around the jar, and tuck the corners under the bottom for the jar to rest upon.Fill the jar quickly, and when full thrust a knife to the bottom and stir it around several times, and the air bubbles will rise to the top.Seal as tight as possible, and stand the jar on the top in a moderately cool place.In a few hours turn the jar up, and try to seal tighter, standing it again on the top.Continue this several times, or until the cover is tightly screwed on.Stand the jars in & cool, dark place in the cellar, looking at them occasionally for a few days.For several years the above has beem my method of canning, snd I know from experience that all varieties of fruits and vegetables can be canned with perfect success in this way.A firm of vinegar-makers in London entertained Joo men at dinner in their 53,000-gal- on vat.SEPTEMBER 6, 1883.THE \u201cPOTATO ROT.\u201d .ONE of the most destructive diseases of cultivated plants is the \u201cwet rot\u201d in potatoes.This trouble was very extonsive in 1842, and again in 1845, when it spread over Great Britain, Ireland and the United States, causing great suffering to those who rely largely upon the potato as an article of daily food.The \u201crot\u201d is due to the growth of a microscopic fungus (Peronsospora infestans) that infesta the potato plant in all its parts.This destructive parasite is closely related to tho grape mildew ungus, so familiar in many American vineyards.The fungus makes its appearance in frost-like patches upon the under side of the potato leaves, soon causing the foliage to curl, turn brown and dic.The stems are noxt attacked, and thru them the disease passes down to the tubers, where the destructive work is completed.\u2018 The \u201crot\u201d plant consists of a multitude of minute threads that run in all directions thru the substance of the potato plant.These fino filaments rob the surrounding tissue of its nourishment, and induce a rapid decay.The rot usually appears in midsummer, and is associated with rain\u2014\"muggy\u201d weather being favorable for its development.Early and quick-growing varieties of potatoes aro recommended when practicable, as they are much more likely to be ripe before the post makes its appearance.Much has been said about \u201crot- proof\u201d sorts, but knowing that the discase is caused by the fungus, the development of which is favored by moist, warm weather, and hindered by the opposite, there is little hope of finding a kind that will differ so much from othors as to bo disease-proof.In England prizes have been offered to encourage the work of finding out the sorts of potatoes best able to withstand the attacks of the fungus, and olaborate experiments have been carried out without any satisfactory positive results.The farmer should bo on the watch for the appearance of the discase, And harvest the crop us goon as possible after the trouble is found in the field.This may prevent the fungus from reaching the tubers.After digging, the potatoes should be placed in a dry and cool place, thus providing the most unfavorable conditions for the development of the disease.As a precaution against tho propagation of the fungus, it is well to gather and burn ail the old vines after digging, thus destroying tho multitudes of spores that may have formed.Any tubers that are affected should bo thrown out, and either fed to steck or burned.One diseased potato may communicato tho \u201crot\u201d to a whole eap or binful.MISCELLANKOUS.A friend of temperance having read \u201cThe Temperance Text-Book,\u201d by Dr F.R.lees, wrotgte him asking the definition of the word \u201csumptuary,\u2019 and in his answer he said :\u2014 \u201cWhen men tell you that you are proposing a \u2018sumptuary law\u2019 in proposing prohibition, you can say, first, that there is no resemblance between laws against luxury in clothing and consumption in certain classes and laws prohibiting, by all or any, the sale of poisons, the practice of gambling, the usa of lotteries, or any other social act which demoralizes society and frustrates good government.Or, second, that if they aro good laws they are no worse for Leing called \u2018sumptuary laws\u2019 A rose will smell as sweet under any other name.Or, third, you can tell them that, historically, all license laws involve prohibition, and therefore are as truly, or as fallaciously, called \u2018sumptu- ary\u2019 as any other.If one man is licensed fifty others are prohibited.If the sale of drink is permitted to go on at certain hours and places it is prohibited under heavy penalties in others.Prohibition\u2014that is, the right to prohibit\u2014is tho background of license, and that establishes the principle.The right established, we can then proceed to the policy, and the test of that is the success of prohibition in reducing social evils and augmenting social good.By its fruits you must judge it.A \u2018sumptuary law\u2019 is a law against \u2018luxury, but n Maine Law isa law against crime.No law can accurately dictate or define what is \u2018luxury\u2019 in diet, dress, or furniture, and therefore it would be folly to attempt to put it down by law.But drink-sell- ing, or public gambling, or dealing out poisons is capable of strict definition and universal ap- plication\u2014is, in fact, one of the many forms of wrong-doing, and therefore within the theoretic provinge and the practical jurisdiction of the aw.Social liberty really consists in the exercise of our faculties under protection from all such wrong-doing, and we cannot have true liberty, therefore, .except by suppressing the causes which bridge our liberty, tax our fabor, and endanger our life.We cannot have true liberty when surrounded bLy a multitude of beggars, ne'er-do-weels, paupers, lunatics, fever- stricken and murderous citizens, in part drunken and mostly drink-made, whose acts at once tax our pockets, outrage our feelings, and embitter our lives.\u201d 37 report the crops above average, and 33 below the average.year.dren, recently out from Cork, Ireland, compelled his sick wife to leave the General Hospital at Ottawe on Sunday night.Next day she died on a bed composed of shavings spread on the floor of the immigrant shed, her husbgnd being intoxicated at the tine.The family, w.ho are Paris, August 30.~The French harvest returns are unsatisfactory.Of 85 departments It is certain that large imports of cereals will be necessary again this James Hogan, an immigrant with five chil- $1.50 A-YEAR beon burned at Szepeth and 3G at Bezered and tho crops destroyed.A hot-nir balloon which was just about to be cut loose at Royan, France, recently, broke loose.A coil of rope caught the acrouaut by two fingors, and in this way he was carried a distance of four miles, susponded by two fingors only and unable to climb into the car.Whon the balloon cooled it descended to the earth and bounded along for a considerable distance, still dragging the acronaut.He was finally released, badly but not fatally hurt.Orange peel is now said to be colleetod, dried in ovens, and sold for kindling fires.It burns readily and with great flerceness, and is afer than kerosenc.Peat or black earth possesses many antisop- tic qualitics.Filled into bags made of loose gauze, and placed upon wounds, there is little necessity of changing the dressings.The secretions aro rapidly absorbed, and the wounds rapidly heal, Tho bandages holding the bags upon tho wound should also be gauze, The authorities at the Vatican intend, says Truth, to discount tho Luther celebration as far as they can by publishing two volumes of documents concerning the career of the Reformer, which have been discovered among the archives of the Vatican by Signor Balan, the principal librarian, \u201cDon\u2019t like your neighbor?Why, I thought ho was a very kind and pleasant man,\u201d \u201cSo he is.\u201d \u201cDoes ho over interfere in your affairs?\u201d \u201cNo.\u201d \u201cDoes his children steal your fruit?\u201d \u201cNo; he hasn't any children.\u201d \u201cFor mercy's sako, then, what is the matter with him ?\u201d \u201cÎle keops hens.\u201d \u201cOh\u201d Tho omnidigestive capabilities of the ostrich havo become proverbial, but ovon the struthian stomach has its limitations.The Natal Witness (Africa) states that a farmer living near Zuurbron, was standing in ono of his ostrich camps smoking a meerschaum pipe, when one of tho most valuable breeding birds came up and snatched the pipe from his mouth and swallowed it.In a very short time the bird was dead, having been poisoned by the nicotine in the pipe.Tho poor ostrich could not wait, and take several years to poison himself, as the smokers do.There is no better abused, and probably no more useful creature in tho garden and upon tho farm than tho toad.That apt simile, \u201clike a toad under a harrow,\u201d tells tho story of his wrongs.And now that our harrows are armed with steel teeth, and are supplemented with clod crushers and cultivators of various types for comminuting the soil, the sorrows of the toad are intensified, and he is threatened with extinction in all cultivated fields.Stay thy hand from slaughter, tiller of tho soil.The toad is as useful in his place as tho implementa of tillage you drive ovor his back so thoughtlessly.\u201cThe jewel in his hoad\u201d is not there, but in his capacious stomach, that always has room in it for one more bug, one more worm, that destroys tho crops.Germany possesses the oldest priest living in the world.He is 108 years of age, and has been 84 years in sacerdotal orders.He dwells at Lupel, enjoys excellent health, and fulfils all his religious duties with tho most scrupulous exactitude.À successful form of evangelization in France is the Bible carriage movement.M.Pointet, in a vehicle suitably furnished with religious reading, has itinerated in not lesa than ten depart: ments of the ropublic, selling Bibles and tracts and using his carriage as a pulpit from which to preach.The chicf opposition is in the vicinity of Paris, The favorite colors amoug the royal ladies of England are brilliant emerald greens, deep and light rubies, clear soft blues, and delicate yellows, UNITED STATKS, Olive Chew, nged 18, an Indian girl living on the Tuscarora reservation, in Erie county, New York, who has been blind from birth, has recently gained her sight thru a surgical operation performed by Dr Killenger, of Buffalo.While yet tho knife was being used she exclaimed : \u201cLight ! Light ! Light ! At first, in utter bewilderment, she gazed at her hands, and then at those about her as tho she had suddenly been transported into another world.Then sho was allowed to consult a mirror to see how she looked.She seemed perfectly dumfounded, and stood in speechless astonishment looking at herself, until, for her own good, she was forced to refrain from taxing her eyes and have them bandaged.\u201cDo you look as you thought you would ?\u201d asked the physician.\u201cI'm as good looking as I thought I'd be,\u201d she replied.About 10 years ago Henry Austin, of Potsdam, became totally blind from diseases of the eyes unskilfully treated, but he has not suffered that afflicting loss to overcome his spirit and independence.Ho goes about the town alone, signs his name to business documents, and in with as much shrewdness and as complete success as before he lost his sight.He is considered a remarkably good judge of cows, of which in this country.on labor and education, which has been takin, I can see.\u201d |P fact conducts numerous mercantile operations be annually buys large herds in Canada to sell The United States Scnate\u2019s sub-committee dinary farmer, in destitute circumstances, will have their n.sage paid back to Cork by tho authorities.?_ Vienna, August 80.\u2014 Despite the proclamation of martial law at Fgerzeg, the anti-Jewish disorders continue.Peasants threaten to attack the landlords.Four \u2018nundred peasants burned the property of Jews at Sgoetoer.They threatened to shoot the firemen who tried to extinguish the flames.Acts of incendiarism are increasing.Forty-ight houses of Jews have ation which ow.evidence on a variety of subjects, has just h some remarkable testimony presented to the effects of the large farms, now becoming common in the West, on the profits of the or- One witness, a Mr William G.Moody, of Brooklyn, in his evidence before the committee, called attention to the fact that many foreign capitalists were purchasing vast trata of land in the South and West, In 1860 there Were 716 farms of more than 1000 acres, and in 1870 there were 1286 farms of more than 100.\" acres.Hiram Distan, of Philadelphia, the wa.\"Doss seid, owns a tract of 4,000,000 acres in Floriaa He also alluded to a corpor- od 3,500,000 acres in Texas.Land generally, ho\u2019 said, was falling into the to it as hands of foreign capitaliste, whé were inérodus- ing their own system of working it.He d that the English Lords and French Couats were dominating a terri that was three times larger than the kingdom of Great Brin, and by their system of wholesale i they had driven the American farmer from be homestead and into the ranks of wage sla; .He aaid that the railwa despots, who had more power than the foudal monarchs of Es- rope, were in possession of 258,000,000 acres, an area larger than Austria, Italy, and Switser- land together.Witness further said that while the farmers had been driven from their homesteads, the wage laborers were crowding the cities, and in Now York city there were 500,000 people occupying the square mile.Most of the small farmers were not able to secure a decent competency, as their farms wers mortgaged, and they gradually fell into the hands of great capitalists, He said that this was the consequence of the prevailing eapitalistic system, and that thers was no remedy except the abolition of private property in land.He also said that the prices of products were greatly enhanced by the continually growing increase of middlemen, who were recruiting from the ranks of those who had no regular occupation, having buen driven from their business by the present prevailing aystem of mechanical labor.f the present systein were not abolished prices generally would reach such a height that the wage laborers would be unable to secure even the absolute necessaries of life, Witness contended that the small farmer could not cultivate his farm and protitably dispose of his produce, for the reason that ho was over-ridden by men of greater capital, who could employ mechanical labor, and had greater facilities for getting their produce to the markets.These mon with great capital ate up the small far- mor.(ico.W.Hubbard has just had a well bored ou his farm 75 feet deep, in which the water rises to à height of 20 feet.For 50 feet the drill passed thru solid rock.It is believed that a vein of water at such a depth will nevor fail.The water is brought up by a force pump which is worked by a windmill, and which will throw a small stream some 30 or 40 feet.A tauk in the barn, protected against frost, holds 500 gallons of water, and supplies the house thru pipes running from it.The coat of the well, wmp, mill, tank, &c, is about $400, but Mr Pub ard thinks that thoy add a full $1000 to tho value of his farm.Jona.Bemis has the samo kind of a well, and others of our farmers are guing to have them bored.\u2014Malone Palladium.A novel cure for stiffened joints or rheumatism in horses was recently inadvertently die- covered by a I'ennaylvania farmer.À severe thunder shower coming up while ho was in the field at work, he drove the horse toward a tall oak tree for shelter.Just before reaching the spot the tree was struck by lightning, and both horse and man were felled to the ground.Both recovered, and the horse has not since suffered from stiff joints.A correspondent sends this cute little bird- story from Limington, Me, to the Portland Pross, as told him by a lady of that rural town : In her back-yard are some plum-trees, in which some bush-sparrows have for several years built their nests and reared their young.The lady used to put upon the back duor-ateps and window-sill shreds of cotton yarn far them to build their neste with, She also placed pi of cracker or sugar-cookies there, which the birds would come and ent and feed to their young, and afterward coax their young down when they could fly, and teach them to eat also.The lady took great pleasure in the birds as they came from year to yoar, and she could distinguish them from others of the same species, for nll others were shy ; these were not, even on their first return.One day, after the young had grown up, the whole flock were down upon the door-step feeding upon the supplied crackers, when, to their astonishment, a striped squirrel who had heen sitting erect near by apparently unuoticed, leaped among them, and off they flow in a great fright.The same thing was repeated several times, Finally they flew up and lighted upon a piece of clothes-line, which had been left for that purpose for them, and, putting their heads together, they chattered several minutes, then down they flew again upon the steps by the pieces of crackers.After a few moments, in leaped the squirrel.\u2018To his surprise, however, the birds, instead of flying away as usual, set upon him, icking and beating him with their wings, he squirrel beat a hasty retreat, and never returned to annoy them aftewards.The Santa Barbara Press, of California, tells of an interesting incident illustrating the affection of an animal for its young.A young seal up was caught by a man who wished to take it home for a pet, He tied a rope around its fins and secured it to a boat.All the time the mother was swimming around barking and howling piteously.In this way the little captive was taken eighty miles, and the devoted mother followed it the whole distance.At the end of the journey it was taken on deck and put in a lage sack.Hearing the criew of its mother in the water, it suddenly sprang overboard, and the mother soon tore the sack to pieces with her teeth.It is presumed that the two swam back to their old home.gro VES! STOVESI!! .Of Every Kind and Description.PRICES TO SUIT JVERYONE.CALL AND 8 First-ciass Threshing Machines TERMS REASONABLE.Lumber and Otd [ron taken in Exchange.BOYD & CO.Hantingdon, Aug.22.WOOL, WANTHD.SPINNNING, &0.A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF TWEEDS, FLANNELS, ETOFFES, &o., £0] Made Expreasly for Durability and Wear, and ia Exchange for Wool, J.B.ROBHRT ALSO FOR SALE.CARDING, eer os Œhe Canadian Gleaney, HUNTIN( GDON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1883.*.* Anything intended for publication in next week's paper will have to be sent in not later than Tuesday afternoon.As in former ears, the Gleaner will have a stand on the air Grounds, at which subscriptions and payment of advertising accounts will be received.Messns Mercier and Stephens have notified the Speaker of the Local House of the death of Dr Laberge, so that the writ for a new election can be issued at any time, tho it is not likely to appear until next month.Despito all reports to the contrary, Mr Quinn keeps the ficld as the Conservative candidate.WE go too carly to press to bo able to state what are the prospects of the Hunting- don Fair, for entries have only begun to come in.As regards live stock, it is tolerably certain to be ahead of anything yet secn on its grounds, and it is hoped the display of articles will not be behind.The Judges on horses and purebred cattle have been selected from the Island of Montreal.The Directors aro preparing for n great show, next Wednesday and Thursday, and they are not likely to be disappointed.They made application last week to the Grand Trunk authorities to run a special train from Montreal on one or both days, but the answer promised has not yet been received.THE trumph of the French forces at Hue, in Tonquin, has led to most serious complications, China having declared war.The French forces have been driven back by the Chinese troops and, unless large reinforcements are sent, all the advantages gained will have to bo aban-| doned.The prospect is that France will prosecute the war with vigor.DEATH OF THREE OLD SETTLERS.THE first settlers of the County have been falling as thick of late as the ripe grain before the harvestman.In addition to the death of those already noted, we have this week to report the passing away of 3 others, two of whom died in this village on the same day.The oldest\u2019 of the two was Michael McVea, a native of Dun- nnon, County of Tyrone.He sailed from reland in 1828, and worked 2 years in Quebec.Going to Chambly to see an old neighbor, he was introduced to another Tyrone man, David Armstrong, then caretaker of the Fort at Chambly, and was induced by him to go and work on the place he had secured on the 4th range of Godmanchester, the lot now occupied by Mr Thomas Whealy.McVea came up the Chateaugay in 1830 to his new employment, Mrs Armstrong and her son John being on the | lot, and on which they had resided 2 years.The\u2019 only other settlers ou the range were Joseph Laird and James Lunan, and the whole country, outside the little clearings, an untrodden forest.: Soon after, orders having been given to abandon the fort at Chambly, Mr Armstrong came up \"himself to live.* He was a truly good man, and,! as often has proved to be the case, when you meet a pious soldier, you find a single-hearted | enthusiasm in the cause of Christ which is: rarely equalled among laymen.The Methodist ; cause had been planted in the new settlement by local preachers from the States before he came, but it was largely to Mr Armstrong's as- | siduous care that it owed its development.He did little else save travel round the country | preaching and conversing with the settlers | about their eternal interests, and, as there was: not a solitary ordained minister here at the! - time, his services were most acceptable, the , more so that he baptized and cotiducted funerals, ! \u2018and, occasionally, married couples.He travelled us far north as Port Lewis and visited with more or less regularity over a circuit round his dwelling of 10 miles.On the McNair place,: on the Ridge, in 1832, a log house was built to; serve as a cha 1 and \"chool, nd there Mr; Armstrong, Mr gliesh and others held meet- | ings for a number of years.Under the roof of #0 good a man, Mr McVea could not help profiting, and, abandoning Romanism, he became a\u2019 devout and most consistent Protestant.After spending some time boating on Lake St Louis, being first a deck-hand on the Swan, which plied between the Cascades and Lachine, and \" in driving the stage for Lewis & French between the Basin and Fort Covington, he took up a farm north of Clyde's Corners.He afterwards saw he had made a mistake in taking up \u2018 high land, but when he did so those on the Ridge had plenty while the settlers on the clay flats were struggling for existence.During the _ Rebellion he served in Capt.Somerville's Com- \u201cpiny.Several ago he eame to the village to live, and death ended his inoffensive and exemplary life on Tuesday, having attained his ear.On\u2019 the same day, Mrs Marshall also died.She was à native of Port Glasgow and sailed from the Clyde in the Favorite, of which the father of Sir Hugh Allan was captain, in 1832.\u201cAfter living some time in Montreal, she moved to Huntingdon with her father, John Young, in 1834, and business as a milliner and dressmaker.On an acquaintance in Montreal, who carried on the same business, leaving for Sootland, she sent for Mrs Marshall, and persuaded her to take the most of her stock-in- trade, giving her credit.It was quite a venture, E™0 but it succeeded.The goods cheap and excellent, so that Mrs gota footing, and gradually her custom grew until sbe had the most profitable business in the vil- *\" lage.Of great shrewdness and tact, backed by perseverance and industry, she conducted the shore until a few yoars ago, when she retired in favor of her son.Far and near Mrs Marshall's store wes known for fair-dealing and the re- of whatever she sold.Beneath ties, she bad a kindly heart, and was known only She survived all who village when she start- \u201ced, and with the old styles modes, the stage- - shat stopped dally for 50 many yess at roved to be her door to deliver its mailbags, she has passed Older than either of those mentioned, and long in Canada before they saw it, was Archibald McMaster, of the upper end of Godman- chester.He was born on the shore of Locheil, Inverness-shire, in October, 1799, and sailed with his father, Angus McMaster, and the rest of the family for Canada about 1813.The family settled in Glengarry, and young Archie worked there and at Va loyfield for different lumbermen.On the Indian Lands being thrown open for settlement, the family } the lot west of the Catholic church at St Agnes and settled in Dundee probably in 1819.There were several sons, who, with the father, engaged in lumbering, which they carried on until the country got stripped of its merchantable timber.Their operations extended along the Trout River and Chateaugay, and were mainly carried on by themselves.Like all who wrought in the lumber-woods, they made nothing.On these old times, the shanty life in the woods and the rafting downwards to Quebec, Mr Me- Master dwelt with pleasure, and told inany incidents of peril.There was not a single settler on the strip of land between the settlo- ment on Trout River and those of the Lines and the St Lawrence in his recollection, and he chopped on the Pine Plains while they were covered by a magnificent and apparently inexhaustible growth of pine.On his marriage he took up the most western lot on the 4th range of Godmanchester, where he died.Tho not a tall or large built man, he was wiry and healthy, and endured the hard work of the early times with ease.His leaving his native land so carly did not affect his attachment to the Braes of Lochaber, for he remained a true Highlander, retaining the Gaelic and the kindly customs of Lis fathers.Advancing ycars impaired bis strength but not his mind, and he might have been still living had he not met the accident reported in last week's Gleaner.His funeral, which took place on Monday, was largely attended.\u2014\u2014 DAIRY FACTORY NOTES.THERE has been a great shrinkage in the yield of milk, more than the state of the pastures would seem to warrant.Now that the cows have got on the stubble and the flies arc not so troublesome, they will improve.The Village factory, managed by Mrs Burford and James Irwin, is taking in now about 5000 + ibs of milk from 48 patrons, most of whom send in small messes.James Gardner is the largest patron, his deliverics being, at this advanced eriod of the season, nearly 400ibs a day.Geo.ringle and Wm.Walker send 300Ih, The milk is delivered in a good stato and patrons are satisfied.For the July milk they got 80 cents the 1001h.This is one of the Kelso factories.There is going to be a great competition for the prizes for cheese at the Huntingdon Fair.We have yet to hear of a factory that is not going to try.As the Judges are brought from the City and all first-class men in the trade, their decisions will be looked forward to with interest, and will show patrons who are our best cheesemakers.We hope our creameries will be better represented than last year.Mr Macpherson, we hear, divides July, paying 80e per 100fb of milk fur one part and 75e for the other.Messrs Wilson & McGinnis's returns for July are as follows : Milk hs Milk to tb Luid Patrons Received of cheese r 1005s Sales Atholstan.222629 10.09 Opedgore T8cents B, Sottlement 127110 10.004 same 78 «+ Now Ireland .158193 9.97 Ohchÿc)hc 79 + Ridge.145310 9.98 9hcVLcUFcUpeT9 « St Anicot.110604 10.03 9kc0h9ko 78 « Mr McFarlane has paid for July milk 78 cents per 1001h to the patrous of the Herdman and Kelso factories, 79 cents to the Walker, and 80 cents to all the rest, 12 in number.This is better than was anticipated.HINCHINBROOK COUNCIL, Tunis Council met on Monday ; members all resent.Moved by Coun McWilliams, seconded by Coun Ferns: That the Jury list submitted by the Sec.-Treasr, be and is hereby approved as amended.Carried.Moved by Coun Ferns, seconded by Coun Johnston : That the report of Mr Richard Finn, special superintendent, of having sold the contract of repairing the road opposite Lot No.21, on the 4th range, to Frederick Lachance, for the sum of $66.50, and his own cxpense of $7.40 for superintending said repairs, and is hereby approved, and that the Sec.-Treasr.is hereby authorized to pay the contractor bis contract price, and also Mr Finn's bill.Carried.Moved by Coun Leaby, seconded by Coun McWilliams : That the Sec.-Treasr.be and is hereby authorized to pay the following bills, viz: Robert Neily 36 for a gravel-pit, and Angus McNaught 70c for rails and pickets.Carried.Moved by Coun Johnston, seconded by Coun Anderson : That Andrew Oliver, Mayor of this Council, be and is hereby authorized to discharge the mortgage held by thisCouncil against Wm.Gardner and his wife.Carried.Moved by Coun Johnston, seconded by Coun Purse : That the sum of $2 per month be given out of the funds of this Council in support of Matthew Watt.Carried.HINCHINBROOK COUNCIL.À MEETING was held on the 3rd inst.Present : Mayor Johnson, and Councilors Orr, Keddy, Ryan, Robson and Beattie.Moved by Coun Orr, seconded by Coun Keddy : That the following bills be paid as soon as possible, viz : D.McNaughton, lumber for bridge over the East branch of Norton Creek, between 3rd and 4th ranges, amounting to 85 ; labor on above bridge, $7, Valuators, for revising Roll, $13.50.Carried.Moved by Coun Ryan, seconded by Coun, Beattie : That Joseph Hadley, inspector of roads for No, 4 division, be hereby authorized to expend on the byroad thru the 4th range of pe ted lands the money collected as arrears of road labor for last year, amounting to $40.Carried.Moved by Coun Ryan, seconded by Coun Keddy goat Alex.Chaperon be appointed special officer to carry out the provisions of an act of ent between Au in Poissen and others, dated October :31st, 1856.Carried.Moved Coun Beattie, seconded by Coun Robeon : the list of those oligible as grand and petit jurors, also those exempt or disqualified since year, be and-are hereby confirmed as presented by the Becretary.Carried, &&\" The Circuit Court meets on Saturday in this vi sTbere is hardly aay business to come THE CHATEAUGAY ELECTION.HOWICK.ACCORDING to the announcement given, a meeting was held in Howick on Friday, Mayor Greig being called to the chair, said : I understand this meeting is called to hear Mr Robi- doux, who has been invited by a delegation from the county to become a candidate to represent you in tho Local House.I am not acquainted with the gentleman.Some of you, however, appear to know him.I have much pleasure in calling on Mr Geo.McClenaghan, Mr MCCLENAGHAN-\u2014\u2014I was in Montreal last Monday, and accidentally met the deputation from St Urbain.While there, I had the pleasure of meeting Mr Robidoux in his own office, From all I can learn, he comes to us as & man of good character, as a lawyer occupying a good position in his profession, and 1 have much pleasure in introducing Mr Robidoux to the meeting.Mr Rosipoux\u2014Mr Chairman and gentlemen, the honor of coming forward, as a candidate for your suffrages, was quite unoxpected by me à week ago.I have in, this county no relations and fow friends, On Monday, when requested to replace the much lamented Dr Laberge, I was greatly surprised, the proffered honor, as I suid befure, being unexpected.I have always thought that there is a period in every man's life, when he should do something for his country.In my own case, I think the time has now come, My presence here this evening is due to the few friends who waited on me.Referring to -the agreement made 16 ycars ago, which has always been and is still held sacred, that the Federal member should be an Old Countrywan, while the member for the Local House be selected by tho French, he continued, it is very likely on this understanding that I owo the honor of being before you this cvening.Altho I feel and esteem the honor, I am sorry that my candidature has been brought about by the sad circumstance of death.But sad as the event has been, it is the duty of some one to replace your late and decply lamented member.1 know tliat to have an outsider represent the county is objectionable.But after making inquiry and finding that no resident was willing to stand fur the county, I then decided to come forward.I wish this fact to be impressed on the minds of all, that I do not come to thrust mysclf upon you.This being known, as regards my politics, I wish to state thai I am a firm aJherent to the Liberal party \u2014tho party of tho late Mr Holton as well as that of Dr Laberge\u2014tLe party of honest men, honest politicians who aro trying to advauce the interests of the country.While at Ottawa, many and different questions occupy attention, the sole question, at Quebec, is necessarily ono of economy.Comparing tho parties in the Province, the Liberals have always shown themselves to be the men who are ready to carry out the needed reforms, whereas the Conservatives are taxing the country, borrowing money, for which the people will have to pay, in order to enrich a few.My object in meeting you, this evening, is not to enter into the details of our politics, but to become acquainted with you.I will, however, draw attention to a few particulars.When Confederation was framed, Sir A.T.Galt, Sir Hector Langevin.und other leading Conservatives expressed their belief that Government! Since that time power has been held, excepting by the short admitfistgation of Mr Joly, by the Conservatives.When\u2018Mr Joly held power, he sct the example of curtailing expenses, not by reducing the salaries of poor clerks and others who could not have borne a reduction, but by retrenching his own salary and that of his colleagues.Lieut.-Governor Letellier had dismissed the Conservative ministry, because he was unwilling that the country should be taxed to-raise an additiogal $200,000 per annum.lt was at this time Chat Mr Joly assumed power.Mr Joly and his confreres effected a saving for the Province of $240,000.And counting in the additional tax which would have been levied had the Conservativesremained in power, the Joly administration actually saved for the Province in one year 8440,000 ! 2 years ago the Conservatives wished to impose an additional tax, affecting this county to the extent of $6,000.Your late member, Dr Laberge, was the means of preventing this.This is not the only service that Dr Laberge has done for the country.Ag a politician he has set a good ex- ample\u2014one worthy of imitation.If you want to know my politics, I tell you that I mean to follow the example of the late Hon Mr Holton, the late Dr Laberge, Hon Mr Mercier, and that of Mr GG.W.Stephens, member.for Montreal Centre, at present with us, and who has been fighting for years in the interest of the people.know it would look better to have the county represented by a resident.(Hear, hear.) Altho I am French, I have always been friendly towards the English.In fact, for years past, I have been connected with McGill University, the leading English-speaking educational institution in the Province.But if I will have the honor of being elected, you will find me to be a man of unprejudiced principles, \u2014a man ready to give every one his due, whether\u2019 he be Protestant or Catholic.(Hear, hear.) This I boast: that I am not one of those who will serve the ends of any party and ignore the legitimate rights of others.In this Province, tho we are a mixed people, I think justicc ean be done to all.I am sure should I rise to speak in Parliament, it would be to advance some object which would bo acceptable to both elements in the county.If E be elected, I shall be the representative, not of the French nor of the English.but of the fiine County of Chateaugay.As I intimated before, I am purposely refraining from entering very much into politics, my object being, this evening, to become acquainted, shake hands with you,\u2014to give you an op- rtunity to find out what kind of a man the invited candidate is.(Hear, hear.) Qentle- men, I thank you for your attention.(Applause) Mr Robidoux, by request, then addressed the meeting in French.\u201cCovering the same ground as above reported, and dealing with matters in the same spirit, he stated in addition that he did not, know when the election would take place.o many expected, for oxample, that the election in Jacques Cartier would have been held long use, still the county is unrepresented.Mr G.W.Srepuens, M.P.P., was then introduced, and said : Mr Mayor and gentlemen, I feel myself much in the position of the boy who had just commenced to go to school.The boy not knowing his alphabet, the mistress be- by saying, \u201cThis is A,\u201d when the boy ex- dy 0, thundee 1.18 that At Ye Lam accustomed to say as little as I can, and that, if possible, in a business-like manner.I feel perfectly at homo hero.1 feel that I have a right to come here.This is the first chance I have had to speak of Dr Laberge, since his death, 1 consider Dr Laberge was one of the squarest merubers in Parliament.A House of 60 such members would save for the Provinco annually 3 or 4 million dollars.To me it matters not whethor à man speaks French or English provided he be honest.All such, work for the good of tho country.But dishonest men, all alike in principles, serve their own selfish ends.L respect all nest Conservatives, tho the iffer from me in opinion.But the Government at Quebec is neither Liberal nor Conservative, but simply a gang assembled, Sene- calized, ready, like tho Arabians, to lay their hands on all parties for the sake of booty.They are simply robbing the country and mean to do so until tho last cent is taken, and then they will be content to hand over the Government to others who will have to exercise great economy.If wo Liberals should go into power to-morrow, vur reforms would be distasteful to many.You often rend the newspapers, Lut they do not always give the exact facts.Political men do not always speak the truth.(Laughter) I myself speak as near the truth as I can, and always the whole truth when I iknow it.Producing some official documents, ihe pointed out that according to Mr Wurtele'\u2019s account, the liabilities of this \u2018Province, amounted on April 30th, 1882, to $17,018,000, and on December 31st of the same year, in another statement by the same party, the debt of the Province was set down at $21,000,000! He was merely pointing out a few salient points, to show how these men at Quebec were acting.Tako another cxample.They dispused of the North Shore railway at an amount, $2,900,000 less than that offered for it by the Allan Syndicate.The railway had been made over to Mr Senccal, for the purpose of educating the French- Canadian youth as conductors.(Laughter.) Within 6 months, people are startled with the announcement that this wonderful Senecal turns out a profit for himself of $2,150,000! He is not, however, such a wonderful fellow as some people think.He does not make all the balls that he fires, neither does he share all the profits.(Cheers) If such profit could be made, why did not the Government itself make it ?Again, a man is taken from some remote part of the country, where lis expense of living was wont to be about $1500, and is brought to Que- bee to live at Spencerwood amid all the luxuries imaginable, costing the country $30,000 a year ! Entries of all kinds are found in the Lieut.Governor's accounts,\u2014his expense here, his expense there, caps and hats for servants, and so on.In Sir Narcisse Belleau, we have a wood example of an hiunest man.He used to go marketing, carrying his own basket.(Applause.) He would not live in such magnificenco as is to Le seen now at Spencerwood, yet he was highly respected.I tell you this to show you the track into which affairs are going.Referring to an eloquent speech by Dr Laberge on tho treatment of the insane, he went on to show low Mr Mousseau, during the last session, went about, smoking cigars, paying and receiving treats, all the time neglecting tho interests of ithe country ; how that individual and his col- Quebec would cease to be well governed the |leagues, altho a nun had come, from Longue day her revenue would pay the expeuse of Pointe asylum, offering to provide room for | more patients at Longue Puinte, were the means jof concluding a contract with a certain Dr Landry to keep up an institution for the in- {sane, costing the Province $48,000 annually for 20 years! A ruilway accident occurred at St Lin.À certain Mr Lacoste, put in the Lecis- lative Council to talk on railway matters, holds an inquest there and is paid 85000 for his trouble.Certain deeds of sale in connection | with tho transfer to the Canadian Pacific had ; to Le looked over.Mr Abbott, who is remarle- able for his high charges as a lawyer, might possibly have charged about $100, if he had attended to the matter.Mr Lacoste, however, is engaged and gets 310,000 for his trouble.It took about an hour, perhaps, to attend to the affair.This would be fine laughing matter, if it were Senecal's money or that of somebody else which is being squandered.But when we know that the country has to pay all, the affair is serious.This, then, shews us we must have a change of men at Quebec.Everyone should do something for his country.Let this idea be entertained by all.There is a desire, it is true, that your representative be a resident.But if none is found within the county, as in this case, willing to undertake the responsibilities, the only alternative left is to take the best outsider you can get.Mr Robidoux is one of the most honored professors in McGill.His past career commends him as being a suitable person, Speaking of the agreement existing between the two nationalities, in the county, he thought that the idea was a good one, For his part, he would be sorry to see the existing harmony disturbed.[Attempting here to draw his remarks to n close, the speaker was greeted with \u201cGo on! go on \u201dJ He was no orator, nor did ho lay any pretensions to being one.But when wholesale robbery is going on he felt it his duty to exposo it.Coming then to the question of deficits, he had sta in Parliament that the Province had come out $1,200,000 behind in the accounts for the last year.Many thought at tho time that the statement was wrong.Bus Mr Robertson, the late Conservative Treasurer, has since corroborated it.He is a man that is on the right track.Wo in Parliament are liable, in tha course of a debate, to make mistakes.But the deliberato action of men surely speaks for itself.Mr Chapleau told the House that the object of selling the railway was to pay the debts of the Province.No sooner was the bill passed than another was introduced to empower the Government to effect a loan of 81,500,000.During the last session still another bill was passed to borrow $500,000.The country has thus been sunk within the past two years to the extent of $2,000,000.And we have practically frittered away the 83,500,000 obtained for the Eastern end of the railway.Do not suppose that we Liberals are better than other people, but know that our Ministry was conducted on principles better than those of the Conservatives.Mr Joly's government, as you have seen, saved the country $440,000.You must feol proud in having sent a member to support such a man as he.I will be happy to come among you again at any time, I think that a member at the close of every session should go thru his county and let the people know what is being dono in Parliament and what he himself is doing, Mr Robidoux also holds this view.The trouble is that the people here do not take enough interest in poli Tho French are ahead of us in this respect.They jump into them with coats off.The more the mind mes callous with respect to the actions of public men, the farther is the country going behind.At the last provincial elections it was thought that Liberalism had been wiped out, only 15 men following that banner bein returned.But that small band has offered suc a determined front that no measure is now introduced into the House without consulting us.This shows what a few can do.It had been found out, however, that an election fund existed in the French Square, Montreal.Thirty y [or forty members had been bought over like sheep to the Conservative side, with money which the country is taxed to pay.Another instance of the conduct of these men, Within a month after the transfer of the North Shore to the G.T.R,, this company effected a saving of $100,000 in one item alone.Previous to the transfer nearly every brother, sister, cousin, uncle and aunt held a position on the line.(Roars of laughter.) Referring again to the bribing of members, who could not stand by any fixed principles, he compared them to Davey Crocket's coon, \u201cDon\u2019t shoot and we'll come down.\u201d (Laughter) Taking a survey of the political situation, he thought the chances of the Liberals wero good in the Province at present.The time was when the clergy worked against us, but now Liberals are great favorites with them.The Ultramontane party (the Castors) now believe that some of us will be saved.(Laughter) Thus we have prospered both within and without the Church.(Cheers.Seeing, then, that this is the case, people should not be discouraged.They should rally.Thanking the meeting for the attention given, ho resumed his seat amid much applause.Moved by Mr Stephens, seconded by Mr Robidoux : That a vote of thanks be given the Chairman for the able manner in which he had discharged the duties of the chair.The motion was carried amid clapping of hands.The Chairman, in acknowledging the compliment, stated that the thanks of the meeting were due to the gentlemen who had addressed them in such an instructive manner.Moved by Thos.Gebbie, junr, and seconded by David Steel: That a vote of thanks be tendered Mr Robidoux.This was done by giving three hearty cheers.Moved by Thos.Gebbie, senr., and seconded by John Anderson: That the meeting express its thanks to Mr Stephens.This also was carried, by giving three hearty cheers.The two gentlemen thus honored rose and thanked the meeting as the respective motions were carried.ORMSTOWN.According to appointment, a political meeting was held in Ormstown, in the Temperance Hall, on Saturday evening.Notwithstanding the late hour, 100 electors were present.Mr Robidoux, Liberal candidate, is about 40 years of age, of fine address, and speaks in English fluently, with a slight French accent.His style of delivery displays his thuro knowledge of the English language.His connection with McGill College for some ycars has brought out his great attainments and given to him a high place as a lawyer.He is recommended as a staunch Liberal, and for several years the party has availed itself of his able services as occasion required.Tho well-known in Montreal and Quebec he comes here an utter stranger; many of us having never heard of such a man at all.Mr Stephens, who accompanied him, is well- known by reputation, playing such an important part at Quebec last session, that he merited more than ever his name of the \u201cWatch Dog,\u201d and is now looked upon by his confreres as second to none in the House for his zeal in putting down and keeping in check the corrupt practices of our Legislature.Mayor Greig was called to the chair, and introduced Mr Robidoux, who made an excellent speech.He reviewed the course of the Joly administration, pointing out the economies they had effected and how they had reduced their own salaries $750 a year and the indemnity of the members 8100.This he contrasted with the extravagance of the Conservatives under Chapleau.: Mr Stephens, M.P.P., followed in an effective address, closing by a declaration of his purpose to assist Mr Robidoux in his meetings all over the county.Mr Thomas Baird, while considering it would have been better to have called a Liberal convention to select a French-Canadian candidate, declared Mr Robidoux had made a favorable impression and, so far as they could judge from their short acquaintance with him, the meeting at St Urbain had made a good choice, Mr James Mills was pleased with Mr Robi- doux and urged unity of action; to stand shoulder taghoulder to secure his election, \"McLaren pointed out that the condition of rovinco called for their utrnost exertions téystrengthen the Opposition at Quebee b pt Mr Robidours return, of whom Ty spoke highly.Mr William Fennell hoped they would be united and enthusiastic in supporting Mr Robi.doux.HOWICK.On Tuesday an excursion party, 205 in number, comprising the members of the different Sunday-schools in connection with St Paul\u2019s Church, Ormstown, arrived here by special train.The ride on the cars was enjoyed, particularly by the little folks, their hearts lendin aid, as it were, to the iron horse, as it putiod along.In Mr MacKeracher\u2019s grove they held their annual picnic.The Rev Mr Morison, astor of St Paul's, and the Rev Messrs Mean and MacKeracher, of this place, were present.After dinner, for they brought well- filled baskets with them, the time was spent in amusements of various kinds\u2014promenading, swinging, foot-ball, and the manly game of quoits.They left for home about 7 p.m., by which time it was raining, and did not arrive home until after dark.&&F Mr Robert Ness arrived at Montreal on Tuesday by the Buenos Ayrean from Glasgow, pringing 5 horses which he purchased in Scotland.It is expected he will exhibit one or more of them at the Huntingdon Fair next week.&&F Theo Academy re-opened after the holidays on Monday, when the new Principal, Sylvanus Phillips, BA, was introduced to the scholars, Thero is a good attendance for the first week, and the prospect is that Mr Phillips will have all he can do before many weeks.He is introducing the most advanced methods in teaching and the institution under his care will equal best of the Ontario High Schools, THE VILLAGE COUNCIL.Turs council met on Monday evening ; all present.The Mayor (Dr Cameron) submitted the certificate regarding the p e of the Railway bonus bylaw.It was confirmed and the necessary papers ordered to bo sent to the Lieutenant-Governor.Coun Dinneen reported that the damaged ier of the Upper Bridge would have to be re- Built and sheoted anew with plank.Moved by Coun Dinneen, seconded by Coun Hunter : That Richard Finn be special superintendent for the repairs ou the bridge, to draw up specifications, and advertise the said work by tender.: The committee on complaints as to encroach- wents, reported that one corner of Boyd & Co's.new shop was 2 feet out on the road and that ¥.N.Vosburgh's verandah was on the street.\u201cCoun Dinncen reported that he had received no answer regarding the plank for depot sidewalk.He also reported that a lock-up, 12 by 14 feet, frame, double boarded and sufficiently strong would cost $125.He urged that the erection of one should bo gone on with at once.He was in favor of making the verandah of Mr Voshurgh's a test case as it was time the Council had it decided that no one could build out on tho strects.There was no use of their going to the expense of a survey il people were to be allowed to disregard it.Coun Hunter was in favor of the road inspector and secretary notifying Mr Vosburgh to remove his gallery.Coun Burrowes asked why Vosburgh should be picked out, and mentioned several cases of others building on the street.The Mayor was in favor of removing all buildings on the streets, and he would comply with the order of the Council so far as he was concerned.Coun Hunter wished to carry out the law by degrees, and to that end would insist on no fresh encroachments being made.Coun Fortune saw no objection to the gallery.Coun Dinnecn argued that some consideration should be shown to those who had built before the survey was made, for they did not know the true line and had built in ignorance.The Mayor insisted that all should be treated alike, and\u2019 the streets be uniformly widened.If one man is compelled to remove his building, all others should also, no matter when they built on the street.Coun Hunter considered it would be a great hardship to compel the owners of all obstructions on the streets to remove them, but it was their duty to prevent any new encroachments.He would favor making a test case of some one who was about to build on the street, and not where the building was up.He was willing to let the matter go.Coun Fortune considered that-Mr Vosburgh deserved credit for putting up the verandah.After some further conversation the matter dropped.Coun Hunter said he rose with regard to a matter of privilege.le disclaimed the right of the Mayor to dictate to him what he should sign or how he should sign it.He believed he had a right to sign the address to Mr Foster as councillor, and asked why the Mayor should denounce and point the finger of tyranny and scorn at men who do not think and feel as he does © The Mayor had taken them unawares at their last meeting by his attack, so had received no reply.The 5 concillors did not sign tho address as coming fromfthe council but as councillors, and he wished the Mayor to note that.Also (holding out a paper) the document he now held in his hand was the address that had been presented to Mr Foster and not the one the Mayor had flourished in their faces, which was merely a copy made for the accommodation of the press.The address he and the other councillors had signed, had been written in Huntingdon, and the copy of it, about which the Mayor made so much ado, was written on paper taken out of a valise, for they had run short of foolscap.He, unlike the Mayor, had not been learned in the art of making fine speeches, nor had he been paid to learn to make them, but what he said was the simple facts.He could understand that the Mayor felt a little put out by the turn affairs had taken, for he was no longer the big man in railway matters.The days were past when thoy were in the habit of being told that railway negotiations were going on firstrate, that the Doctor had got a telegram with good news, which would come out in à few days.Now, when there is no longer any uncertainty, when wo are about to get a railway, and because a few councillors unite in an address rejoicing over the fact, were they to ba stigmatized for doing so as miscreants by one who should have united with them in their congratulations ?He would move the following resolution :\u2014 That wheroas this Council heard with regret the speech of its Mayor at its Inst session, con- corning tho address presented by certain members of this Council to the officials of the M, & C.J.Railway ; and whoreas tho address presented by such 6 members did not purport to reflect the opinion of this corporation\u201d concerning the said railway, but rather tho individual opinion of the signers to said address; Resolved, that this Council deeply regreta that its Mayor should have made the uncalled for remarks he did on the 20th day of August last concerning the addross referred to.Coun Dinneen : Mr Foster never travels without having Russell House, Ottawa, and St Lawrence Hall paper in his valise.If we had it here to-night, we would find some in it.The Mayor expressed his sorrow that Coun Hunter and his brother councillors who had signed the address to Mr Foster should have been taken so much by surprise that they had been unable to reply to what he bad said, Coun Hunter, however, has now had 12 days to study over his reply and make his speech.With regard to what he said, he (the Mayor) would point out that he had not taken exception to the 5 councillors signing the address to Mr Foster as councillors, but, in the first place, to the irregularity on their part of presenting an address in their capacity as councillors without first submitting it to the Council ; and, in the second place, of the subject-matter of that address.Who are those 5 councillors who ar- rogete to themselves the right to criticise my patriotism 7 Does Coun Hunter or any man claim to have the right to judge my motives ?Yet this is oxactly what those 5 councillors do.They might sign what they pleased, but they ought not to call others unpatriotic because they do not think as they do about railway matters, and I think I was perfectly justified in taking exception to their so doing.As to what 3, + Sor nat ae se rap SIS Saath be snort + ~ Cee mage ran nn - \u2014_\u2014 .WEE arr AK i Coun Hunter says it was only a copy.If it was, why is it not a fac simile of this document he now produces, and how does it come that these councillors got St Lawrence Hall paper to write it on?The original address was first intended to be presented to Joseph Hickson, but there is no mention of his name on this document of Coun Hunter's.1t is not a true copy of the address; it is not a fac simile ; you have made a mistake, gentlemen.Coun Hunter\u2014We have made no mistake.That is the paper we signed ; we never signed the other, as you tried to make out.The Mayor\u2014I thought at first St Lawrence Hall paper was used, because a witness was wanted of its authenticity.How did St Lawrence Hall paper come here 1 Who Look paper to Huntingdon to make a copy of this address ?Is it the custom after a man pays his bill at an hotel, to fill his pockets with ils paper?I have compared the handwriting of the address I have in my possession with letiers of Mr Foster's, and I have a grave suspicion that that address was written in the St Lawrence Hall, Montreal, by 8.W.Foster himself, and that this paper produced by Coun Bunter is merely a copy of it.About this motion, you cannot ass it with me in the chair, for I am forbidden by the law to take part in any vote concerning myself.| Coun Hunter\u2014The Mayor makes a great ado about the paper the copy was writien upon, Supposo there was not enough of paper in the room, nnd somebody gave some out of his valise, would not that explain it ?As to the address calling somebody unpatriotic, the word was not used regarding a lack of patriotism to Queen and country, but only as regards, their relation to the interests of our village.| The Doctor takes different ground now fiom what he did at our last meeting ; glosses over what he then asserted and throws a different aspect over it.Then he found faolt wiih us for having done something unconsiitational in presenting that address ; to-night he does not say so.We can take his statements at their worth.It is not all gold that gliiters.If it is not according to your feelings, Mr Mayor, to remain in the chair when this resolution is put, the council has power to appoint a chairman.The Mayor\u2014Certainly you have the power; you do what you please ; you present addresses and declare who are and who are not patrioiic.Moved by Coun Dinnecn, seconded by Coun Millar : That the Mayor leave the chair and that Coun Hunter take it.Coun Hunter : I move that Coun Burrowes take the chair.Coun Burrowes : I am not one of the 5; I would not sit while such a motion is put.I leave with the Doctor, Coun Hunter : You did not always think so ; don\u2019t you remember [A scene of mutual recriminacion here ensued between Councillors Dinneen, Huater and Bur- rowes, which is unsuitable for publication.] Coun Hunter having taken the chair, said that, seeing the resolution reflected so severely on the Doctor, he would spare his feelings by not reading it over again.The motion, moved by Coun Dinneen, seconded by Coun Gamble, was then put and carried.Coun Dinneen : I have another motion to make, seconded by Coun Millar, which is as follows :\u2014 That whereus the electors of this village did, on the 22nd» August, voto a bonus to the M.& C.J.Railway ; and, whercus, we as a council consider the assistance thus given will tend to the material advancement of our corporation ; and, whereas, this Council deema it advisable that the officials of the M.& C.J.Railway should understand that this Council is disposed to assist thom in all reasonable and judicious und lawful ways in tho carrying out and completion of theiy railway thru our District ; Resolved, that a committee of the following members of this Council, viz., Joha Hunter, Thomas Gamble, and John Din- neon, do, as soon as convenient, wait upon Joseph Hickson, Esq., Vice-President of the M.& C.J.Railway Company, at their office in Mentreal, and convey to him our great interest und sympathy in his railway policy as so far developed in this District, and express our confidence in his intentions and ability to carry on tne same toa satisfactory and final consummation.When Coun Hunter was on the point of putting the resolution, the Mayor, who was situing among the audience, reminded him that he had not abrogated his functions except as regarded the resolution they had passed personal to himself.That having been disposed of, he would new take his seat, and would like to know the - real object of this proposed visit to Mr Hickson by certain councillors, and what they were going to do ?Coun Hunter: To present this fesolution and to have a general talk.Mayor : I never heard of such presenting to a gentleman the ten of the Council ordering what wag.tobe done with reference to him.Coun Hunter : We will present an address embodying what is in this resolution.Mayor : Well, if you do, I have a right to sce such address, Am I to be told that another address is to proceed from this Council, which I, as Mayor, have not seen ?If so, it must go in the same irregular manner as that of the 5 councillors.All you can do now, is to appoint & committee to prepare au address to be laid before this Council for its consideration.The appointment of a chairman in place of the yor, while he was still present in the room, showed such crass ignorance of tho proper mode of procedure as never was exhibited in the Dominion before, and this resolution is in keeping.If you wish to retain the respect of the outside public, you must act otherwise.At last meeting Coun Dinneen objected to the Council being a laughing-stock, but it is yourselves who make, it one.Here we have had to-night alleged repetitions of what I said of Sellar, and Boyd of Burrowes, and I ask what had all that to do with the business of this Council ?Coun Dinneen declares he is ready to make affidavit as to tho truth of his statements, He, himself a J.P, ought to know better than that any magistrate would accept of his voluntary oath.\u201c$ pity the man who takes Coun Dinneen into his confidence, for, if he quarrels with him, he will turn approver at once.I challenge him to tell anything I am ashamed of, to gratify his rgvengeful appetite.I rather pity than am angry with a man who can be guilty of such conduct.Coun Dinneen : You did not deny the statements I made to-night.the steps of the store of the late Mr Walsh, and I'am willing to go before any J.P.and make affidavit {o that effect._ Mayor: You would swear to anything, even if it were to take my head off.\u201d Wo to the man who is in your power.Couu D'nneen : Will you put the motion ?Mayor: I will not until know what the address is.I am not going to have two or three councillors ge down to Montreal and present any rort of address they please to Mr of amending the former proces-verbal.Hickson.Mark you, I am not blocking your! Moved by Coun Stewart, seconded by Coun way in doing that gentleman any honor you Milloy : That John Donaldson be appointed as may desire ; I am only putting you in \u2018the special superintendent on the said petition and right way to do it.It is unreasonable on the that he deposit his report at the office of the face of it, to ask that Councillors Hunter and council on or before the 20th September.Dinneen should present an address as coming| Adjourned to meet on Saturday, the 8th inst.from this Council, which J, as Mayor, have not at 4 o'clock p.m.even seen, and which is not yet wrillen, HEMMINGFORD.Coun Durrowes : Mr Foster will write it for ; Unsurpassably fine weather for harvesting them.| during the past week.The great bulk of the .By consent the motion was withdrawn, when grain has been secured in the best condition it was moved by Coun Hunter, goconded by : possible.The oat crop, tho somewhat injured Coun Forlune: That Coancillors Dinneen, ; i i ighborhoods, is probably a Gamble, and Millar be a committee to draft an by rust In certain neighbor 18 pro y address, to be submitted to the Council at an | Me Arthur Roberts has sold the product of adjourned meetiag.1 hi e factory for the month of August The Council then adjourned until Friday Co aoa a) at 93c.He sold his July evening, 14th inst.{make for the same price.The average quan- DUNDEE COUNCIL, tity of milk used in the latter month per pound A MEETING was held on Monday, when the of cheese, was 10 Ibs.The patrons received 80 Mayor and all the Councillors were present, cents per 100 îbs, of milk.The result of Au- except Coun Napier.gust\u2019s operations to the patrons, will be sub- On motion of Coun Millar, seconded by Coun stantially the same.Mr Roberts has been Moody, an act of agreement between Robert offered 11¢ for the meke of the remainder of McGibbon, Oliver Monique, and Joseph Nor- | the season.He has submitted the offer to the rault, regulating an outlet to drain lot No.10 consideration of the committee chosen by the in the 3ih concession of the municipality of patrons to assist him in making sales.1t is Dundee, dated the 17th August last, was con- probable that the offer will be accepted.Mr firmed and adopted.Beaudin, roprietor of the Russeltown Flats On motion of Coun Colquhoun, seconded by creamery, Pas lately sold 100 tinnets of butter Coun Deruchia, a proces verbal presented by \u2014August make\u2014for 20c.The product of the special superintendent I.I.Crevier, establish- Hemmingford Norton Creek creamery, for the ing a watet-cousse to drain lot No.8 in the 7th {month of August\u2014about 100 tinnets\u2014has convession of the municipality of Dundee, been disposed of at the same price.dated the 28th June last, was homologated | Mr Randall, of Plattsburgh, who has a large and we feel we have lost a kind friend, an esteemed citizen and a popular representative, and that the Secy-Trean.transmit a copy of this resolution to the widow and family of the deceased.Carried.A petition, signed by Felix Finn and others, was presented, praying that a special superintendent be appointed to visit the discharge in the 1st concession of Jamestown, commonly known as the Smith discharge, for the purpose with the following amendment, viz : That the time for opening up said water-course be ex- vended to the 25th October next ; the expense of the proces-verbal to be paid equally by the farm in Mooers, N.Y.and who, for several years past, has been in the habit of making large purchases of \u2018store\u2019 cattle especially, in this neighborhood, passed thru the village on Java, on Saturday night.On Sunday the dis- the strait, causing great waves and a rise of 20 degrees in the temperature of the sea.The disturbance was felt 500 miles away.By noon, Mahameru, the largest volcano in Java, was in the other forty-five craters inJava were either in activeerwption or seriously threatoned.At dusk Gunung sent out streams of white, acrid, sulphurous mud, with explosive cinders and atones which carried death about the valley.The clouds were charged with electricity.Fifteen waterspouts were seen simultaneously.The inhabitants fled terror-stricken.A hundred were buried under the houses aud crushed by masses of rock and mud.Gunung-Tengger, which had not had an eruption sinco 1800, shot out great hot boulders which crushed thru the huts of the Chinese fishermen and fissures and yawning chasms appeared.The fertile valleys covered with flourishing plantations are now but mud and stone, and lava covered the fields with destruction.Probably not a single crop in Java is saved.At tho entrance to Batavia was a large group of houses occupied by China- men.This portion is entirely swept away.Of 25,000 Chinese about 5,000 are saved.Of 3,500 Europeans 800 perished.At Anjer the European and American quarter was first overwhelmed by rocks, mud and lava, and the waters came up and swallowed the ruins, leaving nothing, and causing a loss of 200 lives, Bantam, once a prosperous native city, abandoned by Europeans many years ago, was entirely covered by water, und 1,200 to 1,400 drowned.The island of Serang was completely inundated and not a soul remains.At Cheribon the loss of life and property is considerable, Butezarg suffered very seriously as did Sama- rang, Jogjakerto, Sourakerta and Sourabaya, while the meagre reports from lesser towns indicate their loss is great in proportion, Last advices report the oruptions continuing, but their violence had abated somewhat.It is feared the disaster will bo the most frightful ever known.The towns of Anjer, Tjiringino and Telokobeloug were destroyed by the voleanic Strait of Sunda, 100 miles from the coast of turbances had extended beneath tho waters of eruption, and shortly Gunung, tho crater of which is the largest in the world, and fifteen of MARRIED.At the oharch in 3s Regis, on the 3rd inat., by the Rev M.Mainville, Henry Deruchia, of the township of Charlottenburg, County Ulengarry, Oat., to Josephine, filth daughter ot John Tyo, senr., of Bittern Island, Dundoe.On the 3th inat., at the residence of the bride's father, North Georgetown, by the Rev Mr Mo Bain, assisted by the Rov Mr Morison, eter Reid of Ormstown to Mary Jane, eldest daughter of Alex.McGarth, DIED.At St Jean Chrysostome, on tho 28th August, Elizabeth McLoan, wifo of Dr Livingstone, aged 65 years.At 1luntingdon, on the 4th inst., Jane Young, rolict of the lute William Marshall, J.P., uged 76 years.TY Montreal, Sept.2.\u2014There was about 400 butcher's cattle and 900 sheep and lambs offered on Viger market to-day, and trade was fairly active fur the Lest animale at about last week's prices.About a domen air-conditioned 3.year old steers wero bought to ship as store oattle, the prices paid being from 4c to 5c per M.These were the only cattle on this market that wero sold Ly weight to-day, but good bvtcher's stock weto sold by the dollars at rates ranging from 44c to 5c per B, while good fat cows and falr-con.ditioned rough steers sold at about 40 per Bb.Lean cattle were very dull of sale, and a good many of these wero not sold during the forenoon.Most of the mutton ciltters offered to-day wero of rather poor quality, sud consequently hard to sell, but choice lambs were in demand at from $3.25 to 80 each, while common and inferior stock wero sold at from $1.50 to $3.60 cach.There were no sales of hogs reported to-day, and prices aro quoted at from 6c to 6jc per pound, Sr.JOUN'S CHURCH, MUNTINGDON, UNDAY, 9th September\u2014Morning Service at 10:30 a.m.The Lord Bishop of Montreal will hold & Confirmation Service, and preach the Sermon.T.A.HASLAM, Incumbent.St PAUL'S CHURCH, HERDMAN'S CORNERS, The Lord Bishop of Montreal will hold a Confirmation Service and Preach on Saturday, Ath September.Morning Service at 10:30 a.m, T.A.HASLAM, Incumbent, HUNTINGDON ACADEMY.TO REPAIRS FUND.Julius Scriver, MP.- - .- $30 .The late Mrs William Marshal! - - 5 Mr James Watson - .- - 8 Mr John Younio - - - .2 $42 JAMES WATSON, Secy.Trens.FIVENDERS WANTED fur the repair of piers \u201cand abotments of the Upper Bridge, Specifications to be s-thiog asd bridge, is now in a dangerous state and needs parties interested.Saturday last with a herd of about 160 head.On motion of Coun Gardiner, seconded by! Mr Randall proposes keeping the cattle upon Coun Colquhoun, Oliver Monique was appoint- ; his farm for a time before disposing of them in ed special officer on the agreement between D.;the Enstern market.The cattle were not, as a M.Cameroa and Mrs Joseph Holbrook, to open rule, in specially good condition.up and keep a certain portion of the Beaver Creek in a proper stato to drain certain lands.On motion of Coun Deruchia, seconded by Coun Millar, James Davidson was appointed special officer on an agreement between Oliver Monique, D.McGrezor Moody, Mrs Joseph Holbrook and Joseph Norrault, establishing a water-course on the property of the above- named parties.season, tho abundant, does not possess the nutritive properties which it has in drier seasons.It is certain, at all events, that neither cattle nor sheep are in as good condition in this part of the country as they usually arc at this season of the year.Mr Randall paid from $10 to 815 for yearlings, from 815 to $22 for 2-year olds, and from $25 to $30 for 3-year olds.On motion of Coun Millar, seconded by Coun These prices, tho considerably less than those Moody, resolution No.11, passed at a meeting prevailing a few weeks ago, are about the same of Council on the 4th of June last, accepting a \u2018As were paid at this time last year, and may be piece of road built by Samuel H.Millar, be- considered fairly remunerative.tween the 5th and Gth concession, opposite lot | Your correspondent had an opportunity, quite No.13 and closing up a piece of old road on recently, of seeing the stallions belonging to said lot in the Gth concession, was rescinded, as the Messrs Brownlee.They are all in fine the matter was misrepresented when the said !health and condition and have had a very suc- resolution was passed.cessful season.Tho they have been kept alto- Coun Millar moved, seconded by Coun Gar- gether in the stables of their owners, the two diner : That the proceedings of this Council be older horses have served over 200 mares.sent for publication to the Advocate.The passing of another bylaw, giving a bonus to M.& C.J.Railway Company, under the conditions propgsed by that Company, that Mr Ness) have wisely limited his services to 20 two depois be built grithin the limits of the or 25 mares.He is, in the writer's opinion, muuicipality at stafëd points, was discussed, | ono of the best animals of tho breed that has but several of the counciliors were unwilling | ever been imported into this part of Canada.to pass it until the feeling of the raiepayers|He is now about 2} years old and tho weigh- was better known, therefore, on motion of!ing, probably, 1400 Ihs, is very compactly Coun Deruchia, seconded by Coun Gardiner, built and, for a Clyde, has unusually fine the meeting was adjourned until the 15th inst, 'aciion.If he proves to bo as good a stock- at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, for the purpose of getter as his appearance indicates that he will passing said bylaw should the Council then | be, we may look fur à decided improvement consider it would be supported, and for any herealter in the character of heavy draft horses other business that may then come up.|in Hemmingford.The Messrs Brownlee have ORMSTOWN COUNCIL.lately purchased a Short Horn ball calf.He Tris Council met on Monday : members all 1% DOW about G months old.He is not specially present.{large for that age, but in color and form he is Moved by Coun Tate, segonded by Coun ™ Very superior animal.Ho was bought in the Kilgour : That at the request of parties inte.| Vicinity of Frelighsburg\u2014of a Mr Spencer.ested, James Elliot be and is hereby appointed ORMSTOWN.special officer over the discharge known.as the| The firm of Lockerby & Chambers have 40 8-acre discharge, commencing on lot No.1 and ©8rts, 24 sets of bob-sleighs, and 240 whippletreos extending to lot No.11, both lots inclusive, in : 20d neckyokes to make for tha Canada Pucific, the 3rd range of Ormstown ; also Thomas | | The Railway Company requires 30 feet more Ovans be appointed special officer over the 16-| and, ad ed to the (Prosent mith, across both acre discharge, commencing on lot No.1 and Bre jordin bog tp ocitions bat cings, me.; .; J The forming of the new street was begun on extending to lot No.11 (both inclusive) in the Tuesday, whan Joseph Cairns, special superin- said 3rd range of Ormstown.Carried.i tondent, had 5 teams with men and scrapers at Road Inspector Edward Murphy reported , work filling up the hollow behind the proporty of that tho bridge on the fiont road of the 1st Dugald Thomson, formerly belonging to Hugh goncession of Jamestown, known as the Sadler: Walsh.Colonel McKachorn and Mr Thomson \u2018ordered tho teamstors away, who' refused, when immediate repairihg.le aggrieved persons proceeded Beanh@rtigis Moved by Coun MoLaren, seconded by Coun ||?apply = an injunction, which Las nét yet Milloy : That all the repairs needed to be done | °°°\" servot.0 on the Sadler bridge be sold a the office of the ! Sr, ANICHE, hth .=.Fa ce Mone > il on urday, St t x o now li ouse, to ro ôit-one on ooo ok pm.In tho sacantime.ron Irapoctor Cuorry Island, bas been in \u201cuno for a fortnight, i cami 3 : | and is kept its old guardian, I.S, Johnson, ny ait ro Car?and report who has hd charge of the light for over 3b The Secretary-Treasurer presented Bylaw years.ho over yoars of age, he is 80 smart No.49, granting aid to bpild sidewalks rd the | that the Government does not need to superan- railway stations at How, and Ormstown.\u2014 Sn Hohe - on Moved by Coun McLaren, seconded by Coun 5 a cg F e Co [proprietor 0 ho Cameron : That the blanks ia the bylaw be SU do Sond: ort © par Caking P A to Orbe Bivige S00 to Howick and 8200, 0 rio lef an excellent farm a few years stown.Carried.Coun Stewart moved, scconded by Coun 880 to keep the hotel, and was irregular in his Cameron, the passage of the bylaw, when it | habits .was moved in amendment by Coun Kilgour,! 65 At the second day of the Dominion seconded by Coun Milloy, that it be not now, Rifle Match, now going on at Ottawa, Private assed.The amendment was lost, and the by- Daniel M'farlane, 50th Batt, carried off a 85 aw avas duly passed.rize.Wm.Travers made application for an hotel, ®&¥ There was frost on Monday night, tho license for the house he has erected adjoining | not of sufficient intensity id do damage except the Ormstown depot.on black muck land, where buckwheat and oats Moved by Coun Cameron, seconded by Coun have been touched.The Jarvest will be gen- McLaren : That the application of Wm.Tra-! erally over this week, and is better ths\u2019, any verse be laid on dre table until the next general one sould have anticipated from the a; Trance meeting of the Council.rried, of the country in June.e new heat is re- Moved by Coun Stewart, seconded by Coun | ported by millers to be of very good quality.Cameron : That Robert Maw be appointed |The White Russian variety has turned out special superintendent over the construction of | well.the plank-walk at Howick, and that James | && There are now 2 gravel trains at work, Simpson bo appointed for the same at Orms- and the pallasting 52 therefore proeeding town.Carried.more speedily.e is comp as far as Moved by Coun Cameron, seconded by Coun | Hughes's, about 2 miles East of Huntingdon.plications for the service of the younger horse, (the Clyde which they bought last autumn of lt is the and navigation is dangerous, general opinion heteabouts that the grass this terday everything has been quict.Tho sky is Th Messrs Brownlee, tho they had numerous tout three distinct columns of flames and its face Cornmesl $3.25 to $3.50, Batter is, if anything, worse than denand.Creamery 18c to 30c, choice dsiry 160 to 17jc, inferior 134\u20ac to 14c.Cheese ie firmeor as prices continue to make 8Jo to 9jc ; Augnet 93c to loje.Eggs 180 to 19c.On Bob gecours market oats sold at 80c to 90c according to .: : ta \"een on application at the Hecretary-l'rensurer\u2019s office at the eruption.All the lighthouses in tho straits County Building, and with whom scaled tenders are to be have disappeared, Where the mountain of {Jett on or befor 6 o'clock p.m.on Friday, 14th Instant.Kramatan formerly stood the sea now flows.RICHARD FINN, The aspect of Sunda Straits is much changed | eee __ Fpeelal Buperintendont.| Since noon yes- OTICE.~I would beg to remind (ho members of the Huntingdon Agricultural Society No.| and those intending to make entries for the Show to be held on the 13th and 13th inet.(hat I witl be in Muntingdon où FRIDAY firat, the 7th inst, for the purpose of taking in-entrles ; and I do hereby respectfully request that said entrion bo sent in an early an possible, as there will not he any sccepted after Monday, the 10th inst, when I will bo in attendance on the Show Ground, DANIEL M'FARLANE, Secy.-Treas, Huntingdon, 8ept.8.__ HUNTINGDON COUNTY BANK Open from 10 to 3 O'clock.\u2014{} eee clear and communication with Serang has been restored.Tho temperature fell ten degrees on Monday, but is now normal.Tho town is covered with a thin layer of ashes, which was so hot when falling that it killed birds.Telegraph line men report that whilo they were at werk near Anjer on Monday they say a high colnnn of sea approaching with a roaring noise.Ttey fled without learning the fate of the inhabitants.A quarry at Merak has disappeared, and all the people of the place have perished.The floating dock at the Island of Oneust, near Batavia, is adrift and badly damaged.London, August 31.\u2014Advices frem Batavia say that after the sudden subsidenco of the volcanic disturbances in the Kingdom of Ban- \u2018tam on Monday a fecling of relief was experienced, but at ten o'clock at night the craters became active again.The Papandayang shot NHI undersigned linn arranged with the FEDERAL BANK OF CANADA to carry on A GENERAL WANKING ursingse, In accordance with the DOMINION BANKING ACT, under the nawoe of THE HUNTINGDON COUNTY BANK (not Incorporated.) Interest allowed on deposits payallo on demand at 4 per cent.\" \u201c \u201c \u201c for 1 year at & per cunt, Approved Notes discounted.Cheques fesued on tho revenan sank, payable at Montreal or any of its branches, at the following rates :\u2014 Under $10, 5 centa.$ 60 to $100, 25 cents, $10 to $20, 10 ceota, $100 to $200, 40 cents.$20 to $40, 18 conts, $200 (0 $300, 60 cents, $40 to $60, 20 cents, $300 to $400, 80 cents.$400 to $500, ONE DOLLAR, Ton cents additional for each part of $100 abovo $500, S@F Depositors charge one-half of the above rates, Drafts on American Exchauge National Dank, Now York.issued at 50 cents for each part of $100, An Beenrity for thelr Billa, \u2018The Capital of the FEDERAL BANK in $3,000,000 and Reserve Fund $1,450,000-together, #84,460,- 000.ANDREW BOMERVILLE, E.8.ELEWORTH, Cashier, Manager.CHHAPCASH STORE FILLING UP! FILLING UP! NEW FALL GOODS! NEW FALL GOODS ! Tie CHOICEST THE MARKET AFFORDS, was covered with fiery lava.A whirlwind accompanied the eruption, carrying off houses, trees, men and animals.A shower of ashes rovered the roofs of the houses at Denamo.Off Point Coay floating pumice formed a layer two feet thick thru which vessels forced their way with great difficulty.The rise of vapor pro- luced the appearance of columns several thousand feet high, based on the edge of the crater.Suddenly the mountain split into seven peaks, and in the seams thug opened could be seen great balls of molten matter.From the fissures poured clouds of steam and lava.The c¢xhala- tions of carbonic acid gas killed birds and animals in large numbers and a few human beings.The great fissures opened scemed to act as safety | valves thru which the lava gently coursed into , the valleys.The volcanic fires, tho still burning (at last advices, had lost most of their fierceness.One of the queer incidents was the sudden rising, on Tuesday, of fourteen new volcanic mountains in the straits of Sunda, forming a complete chain in almost & straight line between Point St Nicholas on the Javanese coast and Hoga point on the coast of Sumatra, almost on top of what had been Mereck and Middle Islands, which sank into the sea on Monday.In Bantam, where 1,000 persons wero first sup- sed to have perished, the bodies of 2,800 1ave already been recovered.Nine hundred inhabitants in the interior town of Warange were killed, and at Talatra, on the coast, 350 bodies were found.From all over tho island come reports of the loss of lifo and property, and thé that 75,000 heve been killed, will not prove sive.Qo the low lands where the watery havé reteded hundreds of mangled i are ine.A sanitary corps has fen 5d ofp ses buried as fast as possible.Lr Batavia, Aug.31.\u2014The dp tain of a steamer which was in the straits of S.unda during the volcanic cruptions, reports that ashes fell on the deck to a depth of 18 inches.It is estimated that 10,000 lives were lost at Tjirunwaga.The total killed by the eruption and tidal waves was about 30,000, At the annual meeting of tho M.& C.J.Railway Co., on Monday, the Hon James Ferrier was ro-elected F'resident, Joseph Hickson Vico-Prosi- dent, and I, J.Beargeant, 8.W.Foster, and Wm Wainwrig ht, Directors.VALLEYFIELD MARKETS.(By telegraph to the Gleaner.) DRESS GOODS! DRESS GOODS! EW Dress Goods, including all-wool Cloth N Goods and Sorges, in all the leading shades, extra quality and Cusmar, just arrived.VELVETEKNS! VELVETEENS ! VELVETEENS in Black, Navy Blue, Myrtle, Olive, Peacock Blue, Ruby, Cardinal, Granite, &c.Theso Volvotoons aro really beautiful (Goods and very fushionable.Also, Brocaded Velvetoons in the above shades.CASHMERES! CASHMERES! As usual, my Cashmeres take the losd.No botter Cashmeres to be had in Montreal or Toronto, and | sell thom below City prices.DRESS TRIMMINGS ! DRESS TRIMMINGS | FasutoNanLe Dress Trimmings und Burrows always kept.fseasonable.Tue Labies are invited to call and sco my new Wool Shawls.CARPETS! CARPETS! Iam now keeping n large stock of Carpets, in Brussels, T'apostry, Wool and Hemp; and as | am very careful in selecting you ma;*®apend on getting tho heat value as woli as the bandsomest ttorns in the market.Carpets cut and matched if required.BOOTS, SHOES, RUBBERS, A lance Stock, from the coarnest to the finest Fronch Kid from the best manufacturers, STILL INCREASING ! good satisfaction.ME I keep the best.A GOOD GENERAL STOCK.Bosides the Goods mentioned above 1 keep a Peas, B 70 Îbs., 90c.+ Hardware Barle: 501bs., 50c to 60c.good goneral stock (excep ).Oats ® hs.380 to 00.¢ WORTH REMEMBERING, Wu Tobp.Montreal, Sept.4 \u2014Ontario Lag flour, extra, $2.60 to $265.City beg $3 to $3.05.Ontmeal $585 to $5.50.Please remember that 1 buy for Cash and will slways endenvor \u2018to give good value for your money: .W.A.DUNBMORE.Hantingdon, Sept, Gth, 1883.CORN EXCHANGE ONCE MORE! NTIBELY new stock of English, Scotch and Canadian E Tweeds, Kuglish and French Worsteds, Brosdclothe, and Doeskina, and Heayy Beavers In all the fashionable shades for this season ; also, 8 full and complete line of Gents\u2019 Furnishings, Hats, Caps, ko.CARD.last week, and stocks continue to increase with no shipping improve in Finglamd, the latest enblo being 528 6d.July quality, Buckwheat $1.25.Potatoes continue to rise in the \u2018belief that they are a short crop in many parts of the Kilgour : That this council has learned with The depot is clapboarded and will have all the feelings of the dee the late Dr Edwa to place on record the high esteem in which be | be at John White's this week.t regret of the death of outside work done this week.The construction \u2018St tes.Early Rose bring 900 to $1 per bag, and ofher Laberge, M.P.P., and desire train is between the two 9-mile reads and will [7 bo Toc to 8c.Choice Apples bring $2.80 to $3.80 The underrigned having returned from New York after going through a full course of instrnctions in Cutting, is repered to execute all orders for Fasbionable Tailoring < F et bbl, aod ordinary $3.Homey in comb 12c to l4c;! that may be entrusted te him.A petfoct fit guaranteed and JAMES LESLIE.110 to 160.Dressed Hogs $5.50 to $8.75.prices to plesss all.My TxA Trape is growing larger and giving | = VI Ab Se Coun Hunter has sid touching the writing of Mayor : I have not the slightest recollection was held by all who knew him ; that in his! UNPRECEDENTED EARTHQUAKE.BIRTH.G sal the address, I am assured that the document I |of ever having made auch statements private life his social qualities endeared him to] BATAVIA, August 29.\u2014Volcanic eruptions in| At New Ireland, on (ho 4tb inst, the wife of vont Annuel Clearing produced at last meeting was the original.| Coun Dinneen : You made the statements on all who were privileged to associate with him, Java began off the lsland of Krakatoa in the George Biggar, jr., of a son.VW ILLIAM THIRD & CO.8 Ansual Clearing Sale bas Row commenced, at and under cost, for one month gly, in Oder to make room foe iv new Fall snd Winter portations.Undes-notedd is à list of fi du \u2018non ot the sweeping re- es\u2019 Prunella Galters reduced (rom $1 to 300 .Ladies\u2019 White Cotton Hose from |5c do per pal voir Ladies\u2019 Bunshades from 30c to 10c each, Ladies\u2019 Fine Prunella Slippers reduced from $1.50 te 15e per pair.Ladies\u2019 Fancy Walking Shoce reduced 50 per cont.below the regular selling price.Ladies\u2019 fancy Parasole redtice from 75 to 260 each.Ladies\u2019 White Merino Undershirts, with long or shert sleeves, greatly reduced in price, Ladies Faucy Dress Goods reduced 75 per cent.below regular selling prices.Ladies\u2019 White Handkerchiefs reduced from 100 to 3c vach.Good heavy Towels reduced from 13¢ to Sc each.Good heavy Hemp Carpet reduced from 30 to 13j6 per yard, Choice Wall Paper reduced from 1246 to 50 per roll.Men and Boys\u2019 Straw Hate reduced from 10 to bc.Men's Prunella Gaiters reduced from $3 to $1.60 per pair, Men's Cotton Rocks reduced from i5c to 5c per pair.Mon's heavy Overalls reduced from $1 to 800 per pair.Men's White Merino Underablrts aud Underpants greatly reduced in price, Men's fancy Dress Vests reduced from $1 to $1 each.Men's fancy Dress Panta reduced from $3 to $1.50 per pair, Men's fancy Dreas Conta reduced from $6 to $3 each.Mon'a fancy Bravo reduced from 38¢ to 18 per paie.\u2018Fremenduue reductions made on Glass Pruserve Jars, Crock vry, Hardware, Grorceries, etc.Tapestry Carpeting rediiced from 750 to 450 per yard.Swecplog teductions made on Gentlymon\u2019s Linen Dusters, Boys\u2019 Linen and Lustro Coats, (enticmen's Rubber Coste, Calfakin Gall re, and Meu's and Boys\u2019 Brogans.WILLIAM THIRD & O0.l.8 \u2014Our Sugais are reduced to Tjc, Bc, Ov, Bjo and 106, for White, Our Teas are reduced to 200, 280, 30e, 380, 400 and 48c for the best.W.T.& Co.Huntingdon, August 23.; VICTORIA HALL, HHUNTINGDON.MLE mombers of the IIUNTINGDON CORNET BAND purpose giving à grand variety entertainment, both nights of tho Fain, SICPTICM BEER 133thh Ac 133th, ADMISSION - - - = - 25 cents, Regxrvep Seats (Front) \u2014 36 oconts, (To be had at the l\u2019ost Office.) \u2014SEE POSTERS\u2014 HUNTER BROTHERS Again to the Front.Every Department Replete with the Oholicest Goods that the Market Affords.DRESS (GOODS IN TIIK NEWEST DESIGNS FOR FALL WEAR.FANCY DRY GOOD3\u2014We claim to have the bost assortment of Novollios in this Department that there iv in the County.STAPLE DRY GOOD3\u2014Wo nro now showing the largest nssortmont in this Departmont that we have over bad the pleasure of offering to the public.OARPETS in Brussels, Tapestry, Union and Hemp.READY-MADE CLOTHING\u2014A large consignment to arrive this woek.GENTLEMEN'S FURNISUINGS\u2014 A choice as- rortmenL of everything needed to dress a wan in Urat-class style.BOOTS and BHOKS\u2014A large nesortment at low prices.CROCKERY and GLASS\u20148ee our new designs in fancy Tes and Chamber Sets, PAINTS and OILS-\u2014A complete stock for Car ringe and House Painting, OLD WAGGON VARNISH-\u2014Seveuty-five cents will make an old Waggon look like new.BUILDERS' SUPPLIES\u2014 Nails, Putty, Glass, \u2018Tar Felt, Barn-door Hinges, Strap Hinges, ole., etc.HUNTHR BROS.Iluntingdon, September 5.N.B.\u2014A car-lond of Salt to arrive in a few dam.Lo MB.NOTICE.HI undersigned has removed bis T:N Snop to tho old stand opposite Alex.McNaughton's Store.J.8, COWAN.Huntingdon, Sept.b.LL BLACKSMITHING.HE undorsigned would inform the public that he has commenced business for himself in Mr Hall's shop, Huntingden, where be is prepared to do all kinda of work in his line.JOHN SHIEARER._ Hantingdon, Sept.5.PEP VY OY OR GOLD and SILVER WATCHES, sa CHAINS, NKECKLETS, LOCKETS, au sar BROOCHES, PENCILS, CHARMS, \u201cgs sé EAR-RINGS, \u201cwn 1 & 8-DAY CES »@r- Silver, Dinner and Plokie Casting: \u201cau sar Battor Dishew, Bpoon Holders, Nap- \u201cGa sar kin Rings, Children\u2019s Cups, Butter \u201cau sar and Froit Knives, Dinner, Desert \u201c8a aa and Tes Knives, Forks and Spoons, \u201c@s s@r- Toast Racks, &c., &c., \u201cG8 FINE FANS AND PURSES, »@ Brackets, Velvet and Gilt Frames, \u201cWa sar Brend.boards, Baskets, and other \u201cGa FANCY GOODS \u2014G0 TO\u2014 ! W.A.SAUNDERS, Opposite the Post Office, HUNTINGDON.Là à à t à Muntcipality of the Township of Hmemusnoox.NOTICE.OTICE is hereby given, that the Board of School Commissioners of Hinchinbrook will meet at the Town Hall, Herdman's Corners, on MoxDAY, the 10th inst., at 1 o'clock p.m., for the transaction of business } ARTHUR HERDMAN, .* Hinobinbrook, Sept.3.» ser of cvery description Sl 4 x - ue mue DA eee, Vox.MRS MACWHIRTER'S RECIPE BOOK.Mas MACWHIRTER was the wifo of a Scotch merchant who, by the exercise of that prudence and thrift for which his countrymen have become proverbial, was able to put by a snug little fortune, and to leave his widow in possession of a comfortable jointure, a houseful of substantial, old-fashioned furniture, and sundr treasures in the way of plate and china, which caused her female friends and acquaintances to pronounce her with one voice a lucky woman, Mrs MacWhirter herself no doubt thought so toa, Only fifteen years ago.she had been an elderly spinster, living with a still more olderly .aunt, and with no prospect but the slender resources which tho said aunt might or might not oventunlly leave her.Bearing in mind the uncertainty that attaches to the promises of old age, Miss Warly did not waver long when a suitor, welcome as a winter rose, arrived in the shape of Mr MacWhirter, who was struck by the eminently genteel appearance of the lady at an evening party.This was at the little watering-place on the south coast where the Warlys lived, and which they fondly imagined to be ono of the liveliest and most fashionable localities in the kingdom, for Mrs Warly, whose many people, and tea-drinkings and festive meetings were frequent in her set.When Mr MacWhirter, hailing from the dull northern town, came with his proposal Mrs Warly scornfully asked her niece how she would bear the loss of \u2018society,\u2019 and did not scruple to call the place of her future residence a \u2018bread and checse cupboard.The breach caused hy this sarcastic remark was never healed, and when 2 years Inter the old lady died the MacWhirters were not at all surprised to hear that she had left the whole of her little property to some public institution.Altho Mrs MacWhirter had carried things with a high hand at the time of her marriage and had affected to despise the wrathful feelings it excited in her aged relative, that unlucky speech hit the mark, and unconsciously affected her opinion of Drumkirk.She used to speak to her new friends in toues of gentle resignation of the festivities she had foregone for the sake of\u2014of Mr Mac\\Whirter, and to picture in glowing colors the constant round of elegant entertainments and the atmosphere of refined gaiety which pervaded lite at Darcon- by-Sea.The inhabitants of Drumkirk listened, and wondered, and admired to her heart's content, and never even owned to cach other how inexpressibly bored they felt at lier occasional ccremonious tca-parties (when all the best silver and china were solemnly marshalled before the guests) lest it should be suspected they were uu- accustomed to good society.On the death of her husband, Mrs MacWhirter decided to leave Drumkirk.Her heart, as she expressed it, turned to the haunts of her youth, where it was generally supposed she had Leen of some importance, and would now shine as a star of the first magnitude in virtue of her matronly dignity and desirable possessions.Sv the effects of the late merchant were removed from the dingy house in the little Scotch town to an imposing stuccoed residence, one of many other stuccoed residences, in Bellevue Terrace, Darcon-by-Sen.And did Mrs MacWhirter forthwith plunge into those social joys for which her soul had ycarned when they were out of her reach ?By nomeans.Inconsistent as it may appear on the part of that estimable lady, truth compels me to own that within two years of her arrival at the stuccoed residence-\u2014Drumkirk House, she called it, as a compliment to the memory of her husband, and because it sounded well\u2014so soon, indeed, as the business of fitting the old-fash- ioned furniture in its new quarters, and the distraction of buying fresh carpets and curtains, and arranging them to the best advantage, were things of the past, Mrs MacWhirter settled down into an existence the chief excitement of which was a visit from oue of her nieces.What she now bewailed was not so much the loss of society as its degeneracy.Where were the delightful réunions, where was the charming sociability, that open-handed hospitality she remembered of old?Darcon had grown bewilderingly large and {rightfully vulgar.The people she knew in her maiden days had died, or left the place, or were represented by flippant young descendants, who looked upon her as quite belonging to an ancient régime.The assembly-rooms were forgotten, and a monster hall occupied their site\u2014a hall where concerts and all manner of entertainments were given ; but where Mrs MacWhirter, altho she wore her handsomest trinkets, and the China er pe shawl which Mr MacWhirter's mother had considered a priceless possession, was simply one of the crowd.After that the widow discovered the falling-off in society before mentioned; and it was of courso this, and not, as ill-natured people suggested, the infirmities of age, which induced her to retire into the privacy of home, and find her chief delights in her afternoon and ber recipe-book.Bi ye * e-fuck was a great hobby.Two or thiagduuds ipes, all copied out in the fin- ni mine so fashionable half a century ago.Proudly turning the pages of this monument to her neatness and housewifery, 1 am inclined to think there were moments in which Mrs MacWhirter considered herself the veritable author of the work that furnished her with unending topics of conversation when Miss Keith, her companipn, had exhausted the daily paper and sat sewing by the dining-room fire.\u2018Ah I she would say, having brought out the book under pretence of tinding those directions for beef olives cook would want to-morrow, \u201c \u201chere is the recipe I got from Mrs Woodard's house-keeper.t was the place, my dear, for comfort and plenty ; everything of the best, and to spare.Such stylish people, too! how well J remember at the dinner-party given when their son came of age\u2019 etc, ete.Or, \u2018There is Captain Wynne's own peculiar way of making an Indian curry.The first time 1 tried it was when we expected Colonel and Mrs Armitage; the colonel paid me such a pretty compliment on my success, and r Mrs Armitage\u2014did I ever tell you about Mrs Armitage 1\u2014she was highly connected\u2014cousin to Sir Peter Green.\u2019 Miss Keith knew the stories by heart, having them times out of number, but she listened with unfailing patience, and had always a smile and a kindly look in her soft brown eyes $0 cheer the lonely life that found its only solass in trivial recollections.You may be sure the two nieces, who had a \u201cmuch greater esteem for their aunt as Mrs Mac- Whirter than they had entertained for her as book.They were both of them middle-aged married ladies with families, and they Loth lived within easy distancs of Darcon.Mrs Kemp's husband farmed some land five or six | miles off, and when she came into the town it; was in her own carriage, for Mr Kemp kept 8 dogeert, a waggonotte, and a high-stopping horse.Mrs Kemp often made a point of calling at Bellevuo Terrace, and bringing somo little! offering to her \u2018dearost aunt\u201d À fow fresh cggs, | a pot of cream, or, in the shooting season, a, brace or two of partridges wero frequent testi- | monies of her affection ; and in return she declared herself amply repaid by the occasional permission, duly asked and graciously accorded, to copy some choice recipo from the much- prized.book, or to refer for a moment to its invaluable stores.Georgio had sprained her ankle, and Mrs Kemp knew there was a liniment given on page six.Tom had heard her say Aunt MacWhirter had a recipe for tomato catsup, and was certain it would prove the best thing that could be got.The other niece, not to be behindhand, seldom wrote without asking some important question that set Mrs MacWhirter poring over her treasure.| \u2018Mrs Lacy wants to know how long that eco- nomieal soup is to simmer, sho would explain to Miss Keith, Or, \u2018Mrs Lacy eannot quite remember the proportions of thie seed-cake\u2014she has the good sense to understand the worth of these simple hints in a large fumily.\u201d And between her admiration of Mrs Lacy's economy (it was her favorite virtue) and ler appreciation of Mrs Kemp's attentions, which inclined her to condone more readily that lady's ex- travagancics, she was sorely cxercised as to the respective merits of her two nieces ; while now and then a shrewd suspicion crossed her mind that for genuine disinterested feeling and real single-hearted sympathy she might look to either in vain.\u2014_- At such times Maggie Keith would be startled by a profound «sigh from her patroness, and glancing up would occasionally see the dowager's sharp eyes fixed upon her with a softer expression than they usually boast.Perhaps that was not to be wondered at; Maggie's trim figure was very pretty, and her kind face pleasant to look upon ; Mrs MacWhirter had found itso many a night last winter when it bent tenderly over her sick-bed during a sharp attack of bronchitis.Mrs Kemp and Mrs Lacy had of course been unremitting in their inquiries and calls at that tine.Everything that could bo donc for the sufferer (without absolute personal inconvenience) they did.Mrs Lacy came and stayed several days, and read serious books to the invalid in a solemn voice, and spoke iu loud whispers, and seemed in a perpetual stato of fuss, Mrs Kemp brought fruit and little delicacies, and shook her head ominously, and hoped it was not a breaking up of the constitution.Miss Keith meanwhile fulfilled the minor offices of the sick-room, sat up at night, was always at hand to give medicine or Leef- tea, to smooth tho heated pillow, and weet the restless peevishness of the paticnt with cheery words of comfort and hope ; all of which was no more than right, seeing ns they remarked, she was paid for her services.Ah! ladies, there are some services that cannot be paid for in any coinage of gold and silver; and the services Maggie rendered\u2014hearty, womanly services, prompted by purest pity for all things suffering and weak\u2014were surely such.That illness left its mark upon Mrs Mc- Whirter, and was destined also to influence greatly Miss Keith's after life.The littlo figure moving noiselessly about the darkened chamber, like a stray sunbean accidentally shut in, had somehow become associated in John Raymond's mind with his ideal of a wife, and it is an open question whether the assiduous attention which so charmed the patient during her convalescence was altogether due to professional interest on the part of the young doctor.Tho she was no longer regarded as an invalid, he still claimed the privilege of making a friendly call, \u2018just to see that she was taking cave of herself! Indeed it was quite a wonder if a week went by without his knock resounding thru the silent house, aking that foolish Maggie start and flush.Her nerves had been a little shaken by confinement you sec.Mrs Mac\\Whirter was not an observant woman, but she could not fail to have an inkling of the small romance that was being enacted under her nose.It did not disturb her.If it had been likely to result in a speeds.wedding, and the consequent loss of Miss Keith's services, that would be different.But John Raymond was only assistant to Dr Marshall, and Maggie did not possess a penny.There could be no thought of marriage yet, and meanwhile these chance visits afforded a pleasant break in the monotony of the week, paid, as they were, ostensibly to her.Yes, tho weeks had become monotonous even in lively Darcon.That last touch of bronchitis had told Mrs MacWhirter a truth she had been slow to learn\u2014had shown her that the evil days were come, and the years when she would say, \u2018I have no pleasure in them.\u2019 One morning, as she sat by the fire trifling with her knitting, Mrs Kemp came in.\u2018My dearest aunt, not out.this fine day l\u2019 Mrs MacWhirter shobk hor head.\u2018Tho air is too Ween, and\u2014and, you know, Sclina, I am not 80 young as I was.\u2019 \u2018Now that is all nonsense I said Selina, brisk- ly\u2014she knew that age was a tender point.Miss Keith, you really must not let my aunt imagine she is old and worn out.She only wants rousing, poor dear; and I shall take tickets for the concert on Tuesday, and expect you both to go with us.\u2019 But Mrs MacWhirter expressed indifference to the concert, and the affectionate niece tried another tack, and asked to be allowed to look at a certain recipe for cheese-cakes, \u2018I sometimes wonder, said Mrs MacWhirter, when the manuscript book was produced, \u2018who will have this when I am gone.\u2019 \u2018Dear aunt, what & gloomy thought I cried Mrs Kemp.\u2018Of course, pursued Mo MocWhirter, the bulk of m es tomy husband's famil bor ropes £ few little tokens of affection can leave to those dear to me.\u2019 Mrs Lacy sighed and said nothing, but she rapidly reviewed in her mind's eye the contents of the house, and thought it would be odd if a few substantial tokens were not forthcoming.\u2018T should like some one to have it who would value it\u2019 said Mrs MacWhirter, still harping on the book.\u2018I sometimes fancy that you, Selina\u2014\u2019 \u2018Indeed, dearest, murmured Selina, wiping theme, I may say there is nothing of yours 1 should treasure more highly than this work of your own hands; and as Mrs Kemp uttered that deliberate fib the memory of the best silver tea-sorvice, safely reposing upstairs in cotton wool, and a momentary tremor lest her aunt should take her at her word, gave just the amount of agitation to render the speech effective, Aftor she was gone Mrs MacWhirter sat brooding by the fire, the shining knitting- needles lying idle in her lap, \u2018Is it real 7 she muttered ; \u2018or is it all talk, I wonder ?Here followed a long soliloguy, at the end of which her ponderings took a practical turn, and, with something of her former determination, she got her desk and wrote a note making an appointment with her old friend Mr Inkerman, the lawyer.During tho next fortnight this gentleman had many interviews with his client.They were, of course, strictly private and confidential.Maggie, returning from some outdoor mission which Mrs MacWhirter had suddenly announced to bo urgent, would find him on the point of leaving, after what Martha, the house- naid, called a \u2018regular confab.\u2019 \u2018Which it's my belief she's altering her will,\u201d added the astute Martha.\u2018Very likely,\u201d responded Miss Keith, absently, thinking how well Mv Raymond handled Dr Marshall's pair of grey colts, and how pleasantly he smiled at her when she met Lim just now on the parade.Supposing Martha to be right in her conjecture, tho widow made lier alterations none tuo soon.The bright October days which rendered Maggie's impromptu walks so agreeable gave place to a spell of dreary, tempestuous weather.Mrs MacWhirter caught cold, and renewed the bronchitis.This time her old enemy held her in a deadly clutch, not to be relaxed for all the efforts of Dr Marshall and his assistant, and, reading the truth in their faces, the old lady summoned Ler nieces to her bedside.\u2018My time is come) she said, in her weak, hoarso voice; \u2018and you will find wheu I am gone I have not forgotten you.There will not be much, for you know my income is an annuity.With regard to one of my most valued possessions, I should like to give it you before I die, and to feel you are of my opinion that, after all Miss Keith has been to me, Tam doing right in making over a third part to her! Here was a state of affairs! Tho valued possession must mean the plate, and might even include the linen and china.Blank consternation and tumultuous wrath, fortunately for the ladies, kept them silent, or it is more than pro- Lable some indignant protest might have ousted them from their relative\u2019s good graces for ever, Before, however, they had time to recover themselves Mrs MacWhirter explained herself further.\u2018Just give me that parcel, Selina.I have had my recipe-book divide into three portions.I know how highly you appreciate my collection of recipes, and I am free to confess that whatever else I may leave, I regard the gift of it as the highest token of my love and esteem.till I do not apprehend you will feel hurt if in this matter I put my faithful companion on a level with yourselves, and I fancy you will agree with mo that it is a fitting recognition of ha services.\u2019 \u2018How wise, iow kind of you \u201d murmured ti relieved hearers.\u201cSuch & mark of approbatio will be worth so much to her in her next place\u2019 observed Mrs Lacy.And then Miss Keith wey called, and the three books were distributed, and Mrs MacWhirter, as she gave Maggie a kiss, said, \u2018You will value it and use it for my saks, won't you?And Maggie answered, \u2018Indeed I will, dear; and bent down and kissed the withered cheek, and carried her gift away, putting it tenderly in her drawer with somethiag of the same feeling which leads us to place among our best treasures the simple toy of the child wa loved.Mrs Kemp forgot hers, and Miss Keith finding it in the dining-room, posted it to her next morning.Tho packet was followed a day or later by a black-edged letter, which told of Mrs MacWhirter\u2019s death.The disconsolate relations attended the funeral, racked by painful doubts as to the contents of the document to be read by Mr Inker- man after the cold collation awaiting the mourners had been discussed.The division of the recipe-bnok argued a touch of eccentricity which might prove to have found wider scope in the will; and the two who considered themselves the rightful claimants of the dead woman's property eyed Miss Keith somewhat distrustfully, uncertain whether they would be called upon to acquiesce in another proof of their aunt's gratitude.They breathed more freely when they found Maggie's name was only down for a legacy of nineteen uineas, and rather bewildered the poor girl who had been quite unconscious of their icions) by changing their chilli pau for one of the greatosh cond] 6 Te Mrs Kemp Yo maked her to.cond Lo Pik Farm on a visit.She knew Maggle wes quick.at her needle, and ft\u2019 wold bu Tandy #i, help in altering ; her woar some handsome ts of the Into Mrs Mac- Whirter.Everything in the house\u2014clothes, plate, and furniture\u2014was divided between the two nieces.To Mary Ann the large spirit- stand and best cruet, to Selina the tea-sorvice, and so on.The only disappointment they experienced was in the fact that the sole amount of cash at the disposal of each was five hundred pounds, and the agreed that it showed bad management and a lamentable want of proper feeling for those who came after her, that the widow had not saved more out of her ample income.Miss Keith did not accept Mra Kemp's invitation.She went instead on a visit to a married sister, and diligently plied that clover needle of hers on her own account.She had made the promise popularly associated in the female mind with a thuro renovation and replenishment of the wardrobe (having consented to become John Raymond's wife before the autumn), and gentler readers will at once understand how busily she stitched, and sewed, and copied patterns thru the lengthening days, her labors lightened by hopes and thoughts swoet as the shy violets and fragrant lilies waking in the woods, So when the spring was over, and the roso- bush on Mrs Mac Whirter's grave was blooming bravely in the lonely cemetery, Maggie came back to Darcon, and this time to & home of her own.her eyes, since you will pursue this ly and trim Such a pretty little home it was! As bright im and pleasant as Maggie herself, and that is saying a great deal.Tho young couple determined to begin prudently.Mr Raymond had already saved some money, and could, had his bride wished it, have launched out a little more, but they both hoped that by the exercise of a few years\u2019 self-denial he might be able to buy à practice and set up for himself, Dr Marshall was talking of retiring, and would have liked nothing better than to see his younger colleague in his place, but John shook his head regrotfully, and said he should have to content himself with something less than that.\u2018What a pity ! exclaimed Maggie, when they talked it over.\u2018Every one knows you here, and they all like you.\u2019 \u2018Yes, said Mr Raymond, \u2018it would, there's no denying it, be a splendid chance ; but I don\u2019t see any prospect, unless Marshall would wait- No, darling, we must be content with a smaller berth elsewhere.\u2019 Of course Maggie protested she could be content anywhere with him; whereupon the conversation took a turn which caused that young matron to declare that she had no time to waste if John had, and that she must really run and seo what made Betsy so late with lunch.\u2018I am going to give you a dish of my own devising, sir, sho said, \u2018and shall want your usual candid opinion as to its merits.\u2018If it is not better than the abomination you put before me yesterday\u2014' Maggie's clear laugh rang out gaily.\u2018I'm afraid I made a victim of you then.By- the-bye, that was one of Mrs MacWhirter's recipes-I'll just mark it.You see, it's a case of experiments at present; I shall get used to your tastes in time.\u2018Is to-day's experiment one of Mrs Mac- Whirter\u2019s recipes ¥ asked John, dubiously, as his wife turned the leaves of à manuseript book she had taken from her desk.\u2018Oh, no! but some of them are really good, and I mean to try them all-Mr Raymond shuddered-for the sake of poor Mrs Mac- Whirter) \u2018And how far have you got 1-there\u2019s a good many, isn\u2019t there ?I am aware, my dear, that I owe a debt of gratitude to Mrs MacWhirter, since if it had not been for her we might never have met, but cven gratitude has its limits.Look, here are two leaves stuck together- something extra good, perhaps.I wonder feminine curiosity has not induced you to try these hidden dishes first.\u2019 As Mr Raymond spoke he took up a paper- knife and ran it between the two pages, They were closely written upon, like all the rest ; but across the original neat and faded characters a bolder hand had penned some words, gazing on which, with no little perplexity husband and wife read as follows: \u2018Ilow to make a small fortune.This, undertaken Ly the proper person, and sufliciently carly to ensure success, is very easy.If tho reader be Margaret Keith, at one time companion to the late Mrs MacWhirter, let tho said Margaret Keith take this hook and call on Mr Inkerman, solicitor, Darcon-by-Sea.Add a few grains of explanation, and a simple monetary transaction, and the whole will turn out satisfactorily.\u2019 \u2018What does it mean?said Maggie, getting rather white.\u2018Well, I suppose,\u2019 said Mr Raymond, slowly, \u2018it means that the old lady has taken this cecen- tric way of leaving you another twenty-pound note-or who knows, Maggie, it may be fifty pounds, Maggie laughed at this unlikely notion, as her husband meant she should, for the little woman looked as pale and frightened as if she had received a verbal message from the departed Mrs MacWidrter.The dish of Mrs Raymond's own devising met with scant attention.It was decided they would have time to go round to Mr Inkerman before the doctor started on his afternoon round ; and, luncheon over, Maggie popped on her bonnet, and the two quickly made their way to the lawyer's office, and were shown into his private room.The perplexing paragraph was no sooner laid before him than he exclaimed, cordially, \u2018Mrs Raymond, let me congratulate you.I had an idea from the first that if any one came forward to claim the money it would be you.\u2019 \u2018I don\u2019t understand.What money \u201d said Maggie.\u2018T'wo thousand pounds, at present invested in consols, answered the matter-of-fact lawyer, \u2018according to the wish of my late client, Mrs Mac- Whirter ; there to remain (interest meanwhile accumulating) for five years; and then to be distributed among the various charities named in the deed securing the proper disposal of the money, unless this communication-\u2019 pointing to the book-or cither of the similar communications contained in corresponding books, held by tho two nieces of the deceased, had in the interiga hen.discovered by the person named spain; in which caso the money was to be Ao that person.It is you, therefore, Mrs b ond, whe can claiin the two thousand.\u2019 pAb ipjury do others 7 faltered Maggie.- ®Tndoubtedly,\u2019 answered the lawyer, with a faint smile at the simplicity of the question.\u2018No one has a better right to it than yourself, and I will immediately arrango for the transfer of the money, When the interview was concluded, and they stepped again into tho street, Maggio felt vory much as if it were all a dream.\u2018John,\u2019 said she turning a roguish face to her husband, \u2018my gratitude has no limits; and I think you will have to live on Mrs MacWhirter\u2019s recipes.\u2019 \u2018It would not be difficult, he replied, laughingly, \u2018if they were all like this.\u2019 \u2018No, indeed.And oh, John, how fortunate we are! for now you will be able to buy the practice.Great was tho mortification with which Mrs Kemp aud Mrs Tracy heard of the chance they had let slip thru their fingers.As tho latter, 8 ing of the unlucky recipe-books, pathetically remarked, they had mover had the heart to open thor touching momentoes since their lamented relntive's death.In fact it was some time before Mrs Kemp could find hers, They wero indignant with the Raymonds, and oven went so fat as to call Mrs Raymond a \u2018designing minx.\u2019 do not think ie was a designing minx, If so, she was a great deal happier than she deserved to bb, And altho the two nieces talked no more of their \u2018dearest aunt,\u2019 that lady was not altogether consigned to oblivion, for the F But can I take such a sum wWithout-with-|.A MINNESOTA TORNADO.tornado gives the following graphic description of the scene :\u2014 A cloud, Llack as the raven's wing, appeared in the West.Suddenly it split, and between the two black trains expanded the most fearful, dismal sky I ever saw.The color was green\u2014 grey \u2014yellow, and it darkened the sun so it became as twilight.The carpenters had gathered together with us on the porch.\u201cThis must be a hailstorm,\u201d one of them said ; \u201cnow we will pretty soon hear of disasters.\u201d Suddenly the cleft widened Letween the two black cloud wings, and the upper one came with a terrible speed, flurrying back towards us.\u201cLet us walk in,\u201d I said.\u201cIt seems as if we, too, shall get a taste of it.\u201d We went in, and our parlor looked quite dark, Wo scarcely had locked the door before we heard the roaring of the coming storm.In a moment we were surrounded by a white cloud, and the wind and rain lashed the house, which groaned and shivered, but furious torrents of water mixed with heavy hail, which poured down from Heaven.The which five men pressed with all their might.The wall seemed to give way, and stood in a bow ; the building shook as if in convulsions.I felt a tightening of my heart every timo the dropped down again, Twice we had these terrible shocks ; then in a moment house, men, furniture were hurled thru the air 100 feet away.I do not remember anything till I found myself on the ground crawling among the ruins of my home.The first I discovered was my wife, with a child in cach arm, lying at my side.Men and children were scattered around among lumber and sidings, but whether alive or dead nobody could tell.A table and a staircase came {lying thru the air; some men met them and pushed them away, so they did not kill my wife and children ; Lits of wall and roof whirled round us ; here it was impossible to remain.We crept and crawled and ran for our lives down to the forest.As we found cach other there, we were only 6 ; a farmer friend of ours had one of the small girls in his arms, my wife another, and one of my sons clung to me.But where were the rest of the children ?I had myself seen one of the carpenters run with my third little girl\u2014but where were my eldest and youngest boys ?Killed, perhaps, or lying mutilated among the ruins, and it was impossible to look for them.The hurricane would have swept us away as soon as we had moved from the wood.The only thing to do was to press the children to us and give them as much shelter as possible with our broader backs.The rain and the hail lashed us, the oak shrubs were blown flat to the ground, and their limbs struck our heads and shoulders like whips.Mme, Jenny Lind Goldschmidt now and then breaks thru tho rule she made long ago, to sing uo more in, public.She recently appeared on the stage at a concert given for charitable purposes at Malvern, England, and gave the audi- enco a delightful surprise by her fresh and vigorous rendering of Mendelssohn's \u201cLift Thine Eyes\u201d and Rubinstein\u2019s \u201cSong of the Birds.\u201d The editor of Truth has been photographing some of the.girls he knows, and here is his picture of one of them :~\u2014Letitia has a waist.It is her great point, and she is very proud of it.Well she may be, for it is the result of patient years of pain.She has laid on the shrine of that little waist many precious things \u2014good health, good temper and good spirits.Having sacrificed the first, the two others ful- lowed as a matter of course.But then it is such a wonderful waist! It cannot measure more than 17 inches at the very tnost.The ressure has made her nose permanently red.ot all the waters of Araby would make that nose white again.Count Zinzendorf, the founder of the Mora- vians, visited North America in 1742, and for a short time labored as a missionary among the Shawanoe Indians.When he first came to them, they received him with coldness, and a plot was laid to assassinate him.The story of his deliverance, which reads like some narrative of apostolic days, is as follows : The count was sitting, one evening, in his wigwam upon a bundle of dry weeds, which had been gathered for his bed.While he was writing by the light of a small fire, a rattlesnake, warmed into activity, crawled over one of his legs.Just then the murderous savages lifted the blanket that served as a door, and looked in.The venerable appearance of the count, absorbed in his writing, while the snake crawled peacefully over his legs, awed the Indians.They stood less for some minutes watching She: ged 5 and then, gliding from: thc .scone, Sed ints .forest.From that night this mimsigmesy fran them friends and listeneré, +, : Dr C.©.Abbott has *showhe nal habits of certain anfinals \u2018that are popularly supposed to be indicative of the character of the coming winter, are not to be depended upon ; altho, by the majority of the people living in the country, they were considered as sure indications of what the winter would prove to be.bbott has kept a careful record, extendin r 20 years, regarding the building of winter houses by muskrats, the storing of nuts by squirrels, and other habits of those and other mammals, and has found that the habits referred to, or their omission, in certain autumns, bore no relation to the character of the coming winter.Not long ago I landed at the quay at Kingston.Up as usual ran the car-drivers ; each pressing me to let him convey mo to Dublin, 6 miles distant.\u201cOh no,\u201d I said; \u201cI'm going by the railrond.\u201d Ono of them stared at mo in astonishment, and exclaimed : \u201cWell, I wonder at your honor ! you, an English ontleman, maybe for the first time in Ireland, that wouldn't rather be whisked up to Dublin in my nato little car, than be dragged up to Dublin at tho tail of a tea-kettle.\u201d The Commissioner of customs decides that grass seed can be imported from Canada free of uty, under the new tariff law.As many of the Northern New York farmers have been in the habit of securing part of their seed in Canada, the decision is of interest to them.Tho gross carnings of tho Ogdensburg & Lake Champlain Railroad for April, May and June were $149,000 ; in 1882, $154,300 ; net earnings, $30,100 ; in 1882, $20,900.The July gross earnings show a gain of $3,000 in freight doctor and his wife in their prosperous household ever cherished with kindly feeling the memory of Mrs MacWhirter, and passenger traffic alone.ONE of the sufferers of à recent Minnesota It was not rain, : storm tried to burst open the door, against | house scemed to be lifted from the ground and |\u2014 ie amin] | SHORTEST AND CHEAPEST ROUTE TO THE WEST VIA GRAND TRUNK RR.AND CONNECTIONS.ICK ETS issued to all points in Manitoba, Dakota, Jows | T Wisconeïn, Minnesota, Illinois, Montana, Nevads, Call- fornia, kc., ke.; Ir to W.W 9@~ For Rates, or any information, apply to W.W.CORBETT, Huntingdon ; D.D.BRYSON, Ormstown, or ; direct to G.H.PHILLIPS, Valleyfield, Q.VERY DESIRABLE PROPERTY IN VALLEYFIELD FOR SALE AT A BARGAIN.1 12-Texguexr louse, drawing an annual rental of over nine hundred dollars.Which ! cost the proprietor six thousand three hundred dollars, apart from the building lots.Can be had | for Sie Thousand Dollars ; hulf cash, balance on | EASY TERMS.; The above ia a splendid opportunity for an im ! vestment, as the property is situated in tho most | desirublo part of Valloytield.Apply to J.MONTY.AGRIOULTURAL IMPLEMENTS.| i Any per-on wishing to purchase the Gray Thresbing-machine, manufactured by tho paten- teo himself; Mr Olds of Montroul, every ono of which is warranted to be of good material and capable of doing as good work as any other mill manufactured in Canada, will please apply to JOIIN SADLER.Ormstown, Aug.15.BARGAINS! 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