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to be longer trampled on, disgrac- ed and the welfare of the people {sacrificed to the stupid whims of an eae government? Not much ! r. Brown's "loyalty" cry will offect 4 Canadian public in a manner similar to that which the braying of the tears of Warlike Men." "A GreaT DANGER' child. For the past five years Mr. over the entire party, with a rod of iron. public crib. This required money and money can only be obtained from the toiling ones, the tax payers and so the oligarchists laid on the |. taxes thick and fast, and what could not be screwed out of the taxpayers had to be charged to the taxpayers' account thus increasing our indebt. edness every year. But while the oligarchists were feasting and fud- dling tho interests of the country were going to the dogs, oar trade and commerce dried up, our factor- jes discharged their hands, mechan- ics, artizans and unskilled workmen were thrown out of employment by the thousand and their families sub- jected to privation of every descrip- ! tion; workmen who were not dis- charged were only retained on condition of working at stareation wages. All this bas been exper- jenced, complained of and songht to be redressed by the sufferers who applied to the Government for this purpose, but the Government lent a deaf ear, when the needy ones asked bread the Government gave them a stone. At last the sufferers becom- ing disgusted wisely determined to embrace the first opportunity of re- moving the cause so that the effect may cease. All know that at least nine tenths of the confusion, trouble and stagnation ot business which now hang over the country are due to tho incapacity, obstinacy and wasteful blundering of the Ottawa Government; and now that the elections are drawing on a pace a wronged and injured people have . made up their minds to remove the cause of all these troubles by driving the present Government from place and power, Thus the days of the present government are now tow and full of woe and no man knows it "better and feels it more keenly than Mr. Brown, and though he does talk terribly wild allowance must be made for the desperate position in which he is placed, any man placed in the position in which he now 'otherwise expected than that he would die bard more especially aivhen he knows that as a political dictator his raee is run. But sore as Mr, Brown must feel over the t of certain and immediate graceful an. 'The maudlin trash con- clatter of '"'separa- : e excruciating article in the Tuesday's Globe under the caption would almost melt the heart of a "nether miil stone." Who that had peeped into the sanctum when: Mr. Brown was penning that excruciating. protest would have seen him sitting like a harp unstrung and weeping like a Brown has held undisputed sway whom he would he slew politically and whom he would he kept alive, all were obedient te his commands from the premier down ; and the little 3 politieal oligarchy around the Globe office rulled the country politically Relations, friends and creatures have fed, fat- tened and gathered wealth at the finds himself is more an object of pity than reproach. It could not be. defeat one would have expected a n the partof a in bis leader is unworthy of the pen of one who, when politically sober, could write with lightning the Lower Provinces from the jealienation of England and such childish rub ult to an enlightened Does Mr. Brown - | a certain long-eared qnadruped did his owner. The dovkey put on a lion's skin and going into the wood ! made it hedious with his noise so that the beasts fled in every dir- ection. The donkey returniug after his teat asked his owner if he too were not afraid? The master re: plied that he certainly would have been afraid if be had not seen his cars, 'Whom Shall we Elect ? # The elections for the Commons are just upon us and in a few days more wo as electors shall be called upon to select tho members of the new parliament. great moment and much care ought to be exercised in the selection; for the weal or woe of the country for the next five years at least to a very great extent, depends upon the se- leetion we make at this timo. At no previous period in the his tory of our country was there as much necessity for a judicious choice, in fact, everything depends upon the If the right sort of men are now chosen our selection made now, country will soon be steercd from under that dark and black cloud which now envelops her present prospects and threatens to smother her future. Five years ago a majority of the electors deceived by the hypocrisy and fair but hollow promises of Mr. Brown, Mr. Mackenzieand a certain clique who had made up their minds by some means or other to obtain possession of the reins of government in order to enrich themselves and their relations and fatten theirfriends at the country's expense. By force of charges true and false, against the government backed up by their own unlimited promises of doing bet- ter than the then rulers a majority of the electors declared by their votes that they were willing to give the Brown, Mackenzie party a trial and the consequence was that Mackenzie & Co. succeeded to power, and the country has learned Ly sad experi- ence how great a blunder was made in placing the government of the country in the hands of incompetent, selfish, hypocritical, politically dis-- honest men whose incapacity, stu- pidity and mulish obstinacy have all but ruined the country, strangled her manufactures, crippled her mer- cantileand commercial interests, in. jured and wronged the agriculturist, turned out of employment thousands and tens of thousands of our indus- trions workmen, brought the pinch- ing hand of poverty to their homes, and want upon their wives and fa- milies and reduced to a pittance the wages of those who are still employ- ed. Such bas been the result of the unfortunate rule of Macke.izie &Co. No one, however, can truthfully say that those who olected them are partakers of their guilt, bocause the electors were decived, they believed the fair but false promises of the de- ceivers when they were seeking office But now the time ot the elections has come and an opportunity is af- forded them of manifesting their dis: approbation of the deception and mischief wrought on them and the country by the Mackenzie Govern- ment. The electors bave now an opportunity of administering an ap- propriate rebuke to the Mackenzie Government and of teaching hypo- critical rulers a salutary lesson which may prove useful to them in the future. But any one who now by his vote or influenco seeks to con. enzie Government becomes a parti. cipent in their guilty and ruinous courses in the past and shares with them the guilt of the disaster which their do-nothing policy has brought upon the country, and can only be regarded as an enemy to the bost in- | terests of the country. In thesere- 'marks we have not Tho slightest re. ference to political parties, for in o | reality there avo only two tangible partion iu the country those who d e Lhe general weal, who seek toadvance the country's best inter- 'those who favor the oligar- | e principles of the pro- nt, who seek to rule r a clique, whose This is a matter of 'as well as being aright it is a highly | every day. iquitous course in the past has all but rained the country. That the Mackenzie Government have with hooks of gold, not their own but that of the country, grapp- led many to their train cannot be disputed, and that they and their hired trumpeters may succeed in de continuation of the present system ed ; but that even a respectable min ority of an intelligent body of elect~ themselves and the country as record their votes for the continuance in power of the present Government is not for a moment to be expected. S---- A Freeman' 's Rights. Within five woolth from now an opportunity will be afforded to every elector throughout the Dominion of exercising that right to which as freemen they have an inalienable claim, the right of selecting their own rulers, those who shall admin. ister the affairs of the country. Put important trust and very much de- pends upon the care and discretion with which that right is exercised. Every elector is morally bound to use his franchise, and he is little less guilty in refusing to use it than he would be in using it for a wrong purpose. The franchise is anim portant trust placed in the hands of the elector not for his own exclusive benedt nor to bo frittered away according to his own whims but to be carefully used so as to secure the greatest thoughtfully and amount of good for the greatest number; and electors who give their vote in favor of an unworthy can- didate are no less to blame than the candidate and chargoable with all his misdeeds and whatever mischief he It is the privilege of any one who supposes may do as a wember. that he can perform the duties of the position to present himself as a candidate for the suffrages of the electors and it is the right and duty of the electors to judge of his fitness. There are certain qualifications in the absence of which the name of the candidate should not be entertained tor a moment. If a candidate is not honorable, upright and honest in ais dealings in business, if heis not thoroughly truthful and reliable his name should not be entertaiced for a moment, he ought to be spurned by the electors as unworthy of their confidence and a dangerous character to be entrusted with the legislation of the country. Who Pays Them? Mackenzie and Cartwright are now in the eastern provinces with a view if possible of so wheedling the elect tors of those provinces as to secure their votes for a prolongation of the mis rule of Mackenzie & Co. Though in very bad taste it shows an amount of cheek almost refreshing, to find a couplo of political transgressors dar ing to present themselves before those whom they have injured not by any means to plead for forgiven- ness for past offences but to beg farther opportuities of fleecing the country. But how dare these men desert their employment for which they are so extravagantly paid? Mr. Mackenzie's salary is 828.75 'every day in the year, Sundays excepted, while his twelve ministerial colleag- nes have each $25.35 every day.-- Here is a sum of $333 paid every day to thirteen ministers at Ottawa ---this comes largely off the toiling ones whose hard toil scarcely brings them $300 a year. One of two things in connection with this matter must be obvious to all, either that the members of the Mackenzie Government in going round the country trying to gull the electors tinue the sinister rule of the Mack- |#uto giving them a now lease of power and thus prolong their twenty nine dollar a day job, are neglecting their duties and allowing the pub- licaffairs to go into disorder, or they can perform all their government duties in less than one third of the year. If the former is the case then they should be punished for desert- ing their employment and made to stick to it in future; and if the of the thirteen ministers ought to be dismissed and thus leave the five remaining as much work as keep ceiving somo into consenting to a of misrule may reasonably be expect- ors will so far forget their duty to for | latter is the case then at least eight them out of mischief for the greater part of the year. These men draw- ~|ing from twenty-five to thirty doll- ars every day ought at least to have as much 'work as keep them busy 3 While Mossrs Mackenzio ; aig Cartwright are starring it round gon must be put to the present manifest: "tn the lower fovinses Sudevoutiog to "ations of bigotry and religious usurpation! At Wallingford Conn,, the torndo wus of kings in Eorope, hood-wink the electors, the taxpay-| ers of the Dominion are paying the! two over $55 (fifty-five dollars)every day--expensive toys! TItis a little, too much of a good thing that the country should not only be asked to; tolerate political frauds if deserting] employment can be ions but that they should have to pay them. Toronto and Ottawa Railway. We are muoh pleased to find that many of the friends of this magnifi- cent undertaking are determined to push it by some means or other and much praise is due to the town and county of Peterboro for their liberal and energetic action in this matter. They have voted princely bonuses and otherwise urged on the scheme with an earnestness and persever- ence worthy of them and in keeping with the importance ot the under- | taking, Of all railway enterprises ever offered to the public of the Province of Ontario, the Toronto and Ottawa Railway is decidedly the most important yet presented the people of this province, in fact it is indispensable to the therough devel. opement of the commercial and manufacturing interests of the whole Proviace supplying as it will a second and most important front to the most valuable portion of the Province, it will facilitate and in crease the trade of the Province to That the Toronto and Ottawa Railway is a commer- tho east of us. cial necessity few are stupid enough now to dispute, and that it will yet be built 18 next to an absolute cer- tainty, but every day it is delayed is retarding the progress of the country through it and its feeders will pass, Every municipality to. be directly benefited by this road should. bend every possible energy towards hastening forward so im- portant an undertaking by giving such bonuses as the importance of the work will warrant and backing up there by an energetic, perse- 'vering moral eupport the success of the scheme is secured. We find by the Examiner of last until week that the committee appointed by the council of the town of Peter- boro to enquire into the present position of matters connected with the Toronto and Ottawa Railway reportod to the council at its late meeting. The report as given in the Examiner is a straight forward business like statement showing cash receipts amounting to $9,881 and cash expended $9,481. The 4th clause of the report sets forth that the committee are satis- fied that the disbursements have been carefully and judiciously made. The 5th clause sets forth that upwards of 140 miles of the proposed road have been surveyed and located by ing parties manifesting themselves in our eastern cities, Montreal and Ottawa, The proceedings in the former city on the 12th 'of July were a disgrace to any civilized community, where a body of men were surtounded and prevent. ¢1 from marching peaceably, to church and Again in Otfawa on Monday last we have an ex:ibition calcalafed to bring the blusit to the cheek of every Canadian worthy of the name. Here by the merest chance a riot was averted which would have resulted in the death of hundreds if it had not plunged the Dominion into all the horrors of a re- ligious war. As it is much mischief was done and many were more or less wounded, ------ The Provincial Show. The coming Provincial Show commenc- ing at Toronto, on the 23rd day of Septem~ ber, promises to be something extra and to begin with we find $1000 offered in special prizes--three prizes of $100 each on horses, four prizes of $100 each on cattle, two prizes of $100 each on sheep, and one $100 prize on Berkshire Pigs. The regular prizes on horses, cattle, sheep and pigs are very liberal while the prizes in the other departments are by no means stingy. Parties wishing to enter must use a reg- ular printed form which can be procured from the secretary of any County Agricul- tural Society. Entries of horses, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry, agricultural implements and ma- chines must be made not later than the 24th inst, Entries of farm products, manufactures in general, machinery other than agricultural machines must be entered not later than the 31st inst, We hope to see North Ontario carrying off several prizes, The Barrie Races. The, to some, painful excitement of the Barrie Races is now a tale of the past Hanlan has maintained his superiority and Wallace Ross has ehowed himself a fogman worthy of Hanlan's best steel. é: came in a splendid' second--~A young can- didate for future victory made his first ap- pearance in the person ofa young man named Hosmer, aged 19 ycars, hailing from Boston ; he came in a splendid third. The Great Regatta. It appears that Toronto is preparing for the Greatest Regatta ever held in the Domin- ion, if not on the continent of America, The Hanlan club have decided that the champion shall not take part in the Hamil- ton race on the 21st inst. Should a match not bo speedily arranged between Hanlan and Courtney, it is the intention of the clubto get up a race under their own auspices on Toronto bay, during the second week in September, for a purse which will be heavy enough to induce oarsmen from England to compete, and make it worth the while almost of Trickett to come from the Antipodes. SE Civic Holiday. The Port Perry annual Civic Holiday is fixed for Thursday, 22nd inst., and with the view of making the most of it. spending it in a manner conducive at once of health and pleasure, arrangements have been made for baving such an Excursion and Pic-Nic as cannot fail in securing both of these objects. The excursion will be by the W.P.P. & L. Railway which will leave the Manchester Station at 9:30 a. m., Prince Albert 9:40 Fort Perry 9:55, Seagrave 10:15, Sonya 10:22, Manilla 10:45 and Mariposa 10:53,and proceed to Sturgeon Point where three hours enjoy. ment will be indulged in in that pleasant 'spot which for pic-nic purposes and genuine rural pastime cannot well be surpassed, The charge for the round trip is so low as almost to amount to a free trip being only 80 cents for the round trip from Manchester, Prince Albert and Port Perry. The names of the committee are a suftici- ent guarantee for a pleasant and enjoyable time as far as management goes. (See in charge of Messrs. Stewart and Murdoch respectively, and that over $700,000 of municipal aid has been voted to the Com- pany and now stands good. The 7th clause speaking of the prospects of the company says that the Directors con- template during the present season to com- plete the bonus aid easterly and then make application to the Government for aid. Councilor Denne in moving the reception of the report, said Mr. Scott and tho Direct- ors bad given the Committee every informa- tion and placed all accounts and vouchers before them. They had spent $5000 over the $2000 given by the town. Councilor Rutherford seconded the motion adver t) AF atal Day. August 9th was a storm carnaval through- out a large portion of North America and Canada had its share of it. At Picton the wind, rain and thunder were alarming ; much property destroyed--4 cows killed by lightning. ¥ At Ottawa great damage was done the crops by the rain wind and hail, the hail was too hard for the windows and the wind play. havoc with the fences and standing timber, The village of Mill Poirt camein for a and said the papers, ts and h had all been placed before the committee, -- A feeling existed among some in the town that the §2000 voted tothe company by the town was misapplied; in fact he, himself, had felt that the council had not done right, but he was dieabused of any such idea,-- The fact that Perth--a town of 4000 fin. habitants were giving so much clearly shewed that the road was a necessity. The expenditure on the road for surveys, &c, was surprisingly low--far less than any other railroad he knew of, The Mayor thought it must be gratifying to Mr. Scott and the other Directors of the Company to have such a report read, especially as there were charges being made that the Company were misapplying the money, ol THE COUNTY OF LANARK MOVING. A by.law will be submitted to the rate- payers on tne 26th of August for taking $3,000 in paid up stock in the Ottawa an Toronto Roud. A More Party Riots. Friends of Canada and lovers of civil and religious liberty may well, in the face of the and manifestations of bigotry and religious intolerance (if any thing deserving the name of religion can be intolerant) which are presenting themselves even in some of our most important cities, ask themselves whither ute we drifting 7-- Religious liberty is simply a farce where the' majority interferes with and seeks to pro- hibit the minority from the free exercise of their rights, and festiv. ities; and a country in which such interfer- tod regular hing; the hail breaking over a thonsand panes of glass and destroying everything in the shape of garden stuff, the wind made sport of the show and fruit trees, At Norwood und neighborhood the storm was fearful the bail being terribly destruc- tive ; this was accompanied by a whirlwind which swept everything before it, numbers of houses were unroofed and many blown down and grain standing or cut was destroy- ed. The village of Warminister was visited by a fearful tornado unroofing the houses, tear. ing up trees and scattering fences in every direction and making pie of the crops. Belleville had her tull share of the storm and much damage was done to property the lightning struck and badly damaged several houses while the wind carried the cut groin from the fields like chaff. The residence of Mrs. Clerk, Walden, Mass., was struck by lightning and her daughter instantly killed, At Cape Vincent, N. Y, the storm was frghtful the Presbyterian church, the Catholic church, a private residence and the ware- house of the Waterown and Ogdensburg Railway Cu's were all struck by lightning and greatly damaged. 2 Wallingford, Conn, hadit sharyly, the old Catholic chorch was d Two terrific here follows ¢ the record. The to was confined toa space about half i wide and the devastation was confined to the sand plains. The school house was blown over and some twelve dead bodies were found in and around it men, women and children, Amongst the ruins of other blown down houses some six or eight bodies are known to be buried and quite a number are are seriously if not fatally injured. A the town fearing a massacre of the Turkish authorities, Fifteen = hundred Bosnian regular troops have deserted from 'I'rebinje and joined the ii at Durb ), Townsuip.--North Brock, at Tuesday and Wednesday, Oct. 2piast Panis, August 10.--A despatch from Lon don says the news from Bosnia and Asia Minor is ded as serious], 3 the d + youth named Mathew Mooney was standing at the railroad track when struck by the full force of the tornado. He was picked up fifty feet away, almost beheaded, Mrs, Huldy had her child in her arms when pick- up, both déad and almost scalped. Fred Littlewood was picked up dead on the side of theroad where he was killed by a pieco timber. Four females relatives of John Mason, were buried in the cellar of a house when Bown down, and it took a long while to get them out ; two were injured slightly others escaping, Michael Keely, while driv. ing in a buggy was blown over a precipi prestige ofthe the hands of the Opposition. Instead of peace there is war and bloodshed. Austria finds herself involved in a contest with tho party lo whom she is to be the guardian and pro- , and Asia Minor is in a fever of agita- tion. England must vither retreat with disgrace from the engagements made in her name or throw hersilf into a conflict that may lead to unforseen calamities, These aro expres- sions used in political circles and it is thought that the closing hours of the pre- sent parlinmentary sesssion will not pass without an attempt on the part of the Op- position again to arraign the Government before the bar of public opinion, thirty feet. He and his horses were slightly injured, Later--At most the deaths will not exceed 30. The damage to property is esti- mated at $100,000. re a m------ i -- Grit Oligarchiste Showing their Hand. An article in a leading Grit organ of Montreal, comes out in the following genu_ ine Grit line. Listen to the effusion ;-- «Tax Fowrine Pieces.--( Editor Witness). --Simr, ~The subject of the protection of game from wholesale slaughter in the Do- minion, especially the. Province of Quebec, is one of no little importance. The dullness of trade, together with close ti has greatly reduced the price of fowling. pieces, and the consequence is that every idle farmer. and in short every habitant, will leave his legitimate employment, thereby neglecting his trade, for the excitement of wounding and terrifying game, Every men should be made to pay for his whistle. If a cheap fowling piece can be bought for four or five dollars, let there be a tax on all fowling-pieces whatever, and a heavy fine imposed upon all who may be tound carry. ing a gun without a license. . If dogs are taxed why not gun carriers, who do so much damage ? Caius. Montreal, August 8, 1878, This " Caius" or Judas or whatever he « is has a splendid idea of his own importance He is neither a farmer nor a habitant, he speaks so contemptuously of the 'idle farmer," Idle farmer, indeed! we would like to know who are the workers if the Neither is he a habitant, for the feels shocked at the idva of such hav- farmers are idlers, ing guns; he 'goes in for sweating furmers and habitants with additional taxes, just as if they were not taxed to death already, -- He would so tax guns as to prevent any thing beneath the degree of swell keeping a gun at all, then the oligarchists would have all the game, The writer is a con- firmed Codfish Aristocrat on whose memory the glories of specimen of the genus the 'old sod" are still fresh and green, where farmers sbeing game destroying their property dare not even throw a stone to frighten it away. Caius' had better move back. Lots of Candidates. Parliamentary candidates are about as plentiful as potato bugs in the eastern count ies, in the county of St. Maurice there are no fewer than eight candidates already in the field, while Maskinonge has the offer of six. Who will face the minsic? So far no candidate can be found for Montreal east west or centre who will agree(to support the Mackenzie Government, lots of Grits are willing to take the field but all of them de- clare that they will oppose the Mackenzie Government, Itwont work--copying the example of the Toronto Globe the Montreal Herald folks have d a chque to p didates for the Grit ranks, but the Quebec, Grits are not quite so easily ridden as their Ontario brethren the consequence is that can- there is 'in the Liberal ranks in regard to the manip. ulation and dictation as to candidates on the What work is being done is conducted privately and in a part of the Her:ld coterie, hole-and.corner way, against .which there is a rising tide of indignation welling forth that, if it find vent, will clear the atmos-- phere and overturn the manipulators. The bone and sinew of the party ask why they should not be Ited as to the did: for whom they are to vote? There is cer- tainly no sound: reason why they should not and they will have themselves to blame if they do not insist on being consulted. UP AND AT THEM | The Montreal Star says :--' 'The Conserv. atives aro active beyond all precedent in the city, and are not allowing the grass to grow under their feet, Canvassing is proceeding with vigor, especially in the west and cenfire divisions. Mr. M. H. Gault has been mak- ing a thorough tour of the west, and his friends say has met with most encouraging success from the Conservative and Pro- tectionist electors. er Srth----n Women to"! the Front. Coxcorn, N.H,, Angust 9.~The bill al. lowing women to vote in school meetings passed the House of Representatives yester- day. Itpreviously passed the Senate by a vote of 9 to 3. This is the first substantial legislative victory won by woman suffragists in New England. Our ladies in whatever sphere of life they move have very little to be thankful for to the few fast women whether in pants or petticoats, who are trying to drag the into dwelling houses were blown over and satt- ed. Some houses were shifted * from their base and trees were uprooted or broken off and scattered round in every direction, At Ryo Beach, N' H, the wind mado ence is tolerated has no claim to the title o enlightened, and if the battle for religi | sport of everything that came in its way it liberty is not to be fought again, if streams of blood are not again to flow in defence of that right an immediate and settled tormin- & arcely left a ding chimney on its path sovernl dwellings were blown over, many prople were badly hurt but so tar none heard of as being killed. : the disagreeable turmoil of el tl Softening 4 the Porte. In refetenco to the ig PA 'more pliant attitude on the Batoum and Bosnian ques. tion, & Jetty despatch says that Bismarck attache at inople to Hi the Porte that the continu: ance of its ambitipus policy would risk the existence of Turkey in Europe. Bismarck is at present the undisputed king A Bold Stand. The Bosnians, Turks and Albanians are making a bold stand against the Austrian invaders and may yet cause their treacherous protectors (7) to surrender their wolfish pro- tectorate--the protection which the wolf gives the lamb, covering to devour, Buenaresr, Aug 11.--News received from {insurgent sources is to the effect that the opponents to Austrian occupation, consisting of Bosnians, Turish troops, and Albanians uumber over 100,000 men, well armed -- All stratgetic points on the road to Serajevo are occupied and intrenched. Both Austri. ans and insurgents are being reinforced daily, Loxpox, Aug 11.--A Vienna dispatch says TowNsHIP.--Cart nd Ai SEAR, SLs on oo a BIRT! Hi Lucan, on i 13th ond the wife cConnell, - merc] t tailor, daughter, ¥ MARRIED, < At the C. M. Parsonage, on the 10th inst,, by the Rev. E.R. Young, Mr. G.J. i to Miss S8aram Haywar, all of Port Perry, = In Uxbridge, at Plank's Hotel, by the, Rev. J. Davidson, M.A. on Monday, 8th July, Mr, Robert Erown to Miss Catherine Weir, both of the township of Reach, DIED, In the 8th con. of Reach, on the 10th inst., James Stewart, youngest son of Mr, William Dunlop, In the 14th con, of Reach, John, youngest son of Neil Wilkinson, aged i¢ years and 2 weeks, The Markets. Onsenver Orrick, Aug 15, 1878. Fall Wheat, uuu cones ose 3) 00 to $100 12,000 insurgents have concentrated near the | difficult pass of Vanduk, to oppose the further advance of Phillipovich. Preparations for a desperage resistance to the Grand Duck of Wurtemberg are also be- ing made at Djuljezro. Vianna, Aug. 12,--Official intelligence has been received fully confirming in all de~ tuils the report of the battle of the 8th inst. along the line from Maglia to Sheptsche.-- Official reports place the number of insur. gents at considerably over 6000, with 4 cannon and a rocket battery, Fghting lasted eight hours, the insurgents obstinately hold. ing a succession of strong positions, The Bosnians lcet 500 killed and wounded, and 700 prisoners. On Friday the Austrians advanced against the strongly entreuched position of Uvanduck, -------- Russia and Britain are Playing " Fox and Geese' in Cabool Bomniy, Ang. 12 --The Indian Govern- ment has received information confirming the report of the arrival of the Russian | Mission at Cabool, with letters from the Czar, The Mision was received with high | honors. *1t is believed that the Russians desire to establish themselves at the north. west of Afgh t 'heir rep ives at Cabool speak ot their desire to open up trade with Afghanistan. They will visit Herat and the western frontier, An English Mission, escorted hy cavalry will leave Peshawor for Cabool in Septemt er, T Not Exactly ! The Montreal Star says :--¢* Invitations, accompanied by offers of money varyin, from two to eight thousand dollars, have been received Ly the Hanlan Club to row the coming race between Chas. E, Courtney aud Hanlan at the following places :--St. Johusy Quebec, Longueuil, Lachine, Lake Memphiamagog, Lake Scugog, Rice Lake, Detroit, Ottawa, Bockville, Hamilton, Orillia, Owen Sound, Ogdensburg, and Owasco Lake," Our cotem. is doubtless right regarding the offers made for the pleasure of having the great race brought to the locality but the Scugog has so many advantages over the other waters named we think that the practised eye of a professional sculler would at once perceive the advantages offered by the Scugog for such a contest. i -- Girls, Beware of Robbers! The Guelph Herald of last week, says :-- "Wednesday morning John Tomlinson nnd Elizabeth White were married by 8 Justice of tite Peace, on Uncle Sam's end of the Suspension bridge. They came to Guelph- took a house, and proceeded to housckeep.-- This morning the bride went out to attend to the borrowifig of some wood, or some such matter, and during her temporary ab- sence her loving spouse broke open her Saratoga, grasped $130 which she had stowed therein, and quietly left. The womnn ap- plied to the police authorities, but nothing could be done, and now she fins herself married, robbed and a grass widow, all with in 24 hours, Craruemanes, Que, Aug. 6,--The chimney of the L'Assomption Lumber Company's steam saw mill was struck by lightning early this morning and badly shattered. Norwion, Aug, 6.--Yesterday afternoon Wm, Kingwell's barn, six miles west of here, was burned by lightning, with all its con- tents. Frangrorp, Aug. 9.--During a terrible thunder storm which prevailed here about three o'clock this morning a barn filled with bay and wheat, together 'with a new lumber wagon and farming implements, belonging to Joshua Anderson, was struck by light- ting and totaly consumed. Loss covered by insurance in the Victoria Mutual of Hamilton, Narases, Aug. 9--Last night about eleven o'clock a fearful thunder storm broke ove" the town and surrounding country. The flashes of lightning and the roll of the thun- der were incessant till nearly eight o'clock this morning, about seven o'clock the chimney of the house of Alex. Henry, Sr, a mile and a balf from town, was struck by lightning. The fluid passed down the pipe ' ¢ and smashed the stove in pieces, giving a severe shock to Mrs Henry, who was stand- ing near. Further south the barn of Rich- ard Joyce, filled with this year's co WAR Bruck and burned to the ground, wit two large stacks of grain. Kingston, Aug 9 --The severest thunder storm ever remembered here commenced at midnight last night and continued till eight o clock this morning. Fletcher's two large barns were oon sumed hy lightaing, as well as two sheds filled with the fruits of a plentiful harvest and about four hundred bushels of last year's wheat. On Wolfe Island the barn of John Baker was strack and burned. "The barn and its contents were Yalued at $3,500, -- No irsurance, -------- Hard on the Cloth, Fe THURSDAY, 220d AUG. 1878, GRANDEST Excursion ~----AND-- PIC-NIC OF THE SEASON TO RGEON PON AND RETURN. RRANGEMENTS have been made with the W.P P & L RY COY 'To carry passengers "at the tollowing ree markably low rates, From Manchester, Prince Albert, and Port Perry, 80 cents. From Seagrave, Manilla and Mariposa '750ts Sturceon Point is noted for being the most pleasant place for Pic-Nics in this section. Among the amusements for ex- curtionists are Swings, Croquet, Bathing, Fishing and Boating. The Committee will spare no pains to make this the PIC-NIC of the scason, Three hours will be allowed at Sturgeon Point The train will leave Manchester at 9:3¢ a.m, Prince Albert, 9:43, Port Perry, 9:55, Seagrave, 10:16, Sonya, 10:22, Manilla, 10:38, Mariposa, 10:53. Returning, arvive at Port Perry at 7 o'clock in the evening. Comyirtee --Geo, Currie, A. Ross, Jos, Bigelow, E. Mundy, A. A. Allen, W.'T', Parrish, §. E. Allison, J. H. Brown, J. Wright, T C Forman, T. 8. Corrigan, W. M Jones, Port Perry. D. Cush, C. Sharrard," Prince Albert, 8. H. Christian, J Christie, Manchester. A. Soper, Seagrave, 8. Reazin, Manilla, E. A. Bowes, Oakwood. Port Perry, Aug. 15,1878. . Jebn McDonald, PORT PERRY MODEL SCHOOL HE NORTH ONTARIO COUNTY Mopern Scuoon will be opened at Port. bates Perry, for the TRAINING OF TEACHERS, SATURDAY. ons A AUG'T, 1878. It is highly desirable" that hl pupils who purpose attending the County Model School should be present on the above date, THE SUMMER TERM Of the High and Public Scholes Will commence on the 2nd of Sept, By order, CHAS, MagsH, Chal Port Perry, Aug. 15, 1878. CARTWRIGHT COUNCIL, A SPECIAL MEETING F the above Council will be held at the Town Hall, in the said 'l'ownship, On Monday, 19th August inst. At one o'clock p,m. SCHOOL TRUSTEES Requiring their Rates to be Collected by the © Township Collector are hereby notified that unless their application is Tett with the Clerk or presented to the Council at or be- not be placed on the Collector's Roll. By order of Council, WM. LUCAS, Glerk i oe Guelph oe FOR SALE, AY ey of 1h hi Lime for Sule, Whil A Manchester school-mistrass lately ob tained a verdict of $500 in a suit for libel sean reacher who wrote letters to the charging her with cruelty to the ian under her care. Berved him right, Lune is admitted] will bo seld at ; -- whi 'an object te buy, A ) Apply to o Port Perry, Aug. 1, 1874, foro the above date, the Trustves Rates will Spring Wheat, ... 088tc 090 Barley .., 000tc 000 Butter 011to 012 Eggs 008to 010 Wool 020to 022 Oats ,. 630tc 032 Peas 0 56 to 0 00 Clover S 350to 000 - Hay Sion. .. 1000 to 12 00 *.. Smoked Hams , 0ldto 010 Dried Hams. . 009to 809 Cheese ,...ee 01l1to 011 030te 035 600 to 650 450to 470 on [4 YT > Civie Holiday. itd iy