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Ontario Reformer, 15 Sep 1871, p. 2

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RAND TRUNK TIME TABLE. | OSHAWA STATION. - © GOING WEST. GOING FAST. Aeccommoda'n, 7:40 am. | Mafl,« « - « -T:0 am, * scam | Mixed, « «0 200 Am. ixed, - - - +210 pan, | Acconmroda' A$ pm press, - - «7: 1 p.m, | WHITBY STATION. 08HA WA TIME. * Traineq®¥ East leate Whitby Station fifteen Stinwief wariier, and those going West fifteen | lation of the choicest description awaited has brok them, and where all wert served with the minutes later than the above, Gutinio Refor XI. Oshawa, Friday. Sept. 8, 1671, 8 ee em Hz bh evidesttly ous of the * mad lost then to be fomd in Ontario--we refer to She editdr of the Vialic or -- aud his #adnes is caused by ths haailiating posi: | tion in wltich ho has placed himself, while attacking the editor of this journal. He bombastically sallicd forth aud demandad | "satisfaction" for a fansiel nasil © boson friends and buckers, *'the Tories; but finding tilt the satisfaction, was ofa kind not at all agreeable or advantageous to Minmelf, ke fled to another field, amd thied to prove a caso against us by repre. senting the antagonistic utterances of two indivduals as the expressions of one per. een. His dishonesty in this respect being clearly proved by a quotation from his own article, he this wok says in effect that Be "didn't say what he said last weok ;' and more changing his base of attack, a myst sanctimonious gir and flings a few falsehoods at ns, iil the follow- -ing order: "steals Vinlicwtor leas," *'pockets profits in Oshawa and spe ils them in Bowmaaville," tinsinuates that the Village Council is in Joop 12 with the incendiary." Three such ** whoppers " in his one short article, from tho! pon of one who | aspires, whenever opportinity occurs, to | tha position of au expounder of holy writ, thay well create a feeling of pity fur one | cheering lustily and cheers being given in | Globe, hs would d>sist {and if not, for the who can #0 prostitute his position. Re- | * garding the first charge: wo soidom look | at our neighbor's locals; our local editor sttonds te most notices of local events' worth recording, which notices are written bufore the publication of th: Fiadic dor | »r fax a» occurraacas have taken place. -- With quits as mach"truth wight tae Via, dizufor be chargd withst:aling Rerorver items, because circwnstinces which ua: spire between Woadneslay and Friday mornings are noted in our columns and are also referred to in th: Vindicator of the followingweek. Regarding the second 'charge "the boot is on the other foot," by considerable odds, so far as we are person- ally comcerned-a good deal more been expended in Oshaws than has been taken from it.- (We notice the above for | | eulinary skill had been has | se Catherines, being called upon succes- | hively acknowledged with thanks the t= | ternal welcoma which had baea extendad | by the brethernof Rochester, Bro. Potts, | of Brockport, delivered an earnest and eu. | logistic address, dwaolling upon the bean- ties and benefits of thet Jeder, and point { ing out the high and enuobling principles which should guide every mowmber as a link of the wighty fraternal chain, The guests were then conducted to an adjacent refreshment room, where a col solids and daintics of this world's * good i things" to their hearts' content. Earth, { air and sea had been made tribute in load- | | ing the table with the choicest of food, and largely brought | into requisition ip preparing not only that | which was fair te look upon but which | was equally agreeable to the taste. It was a magnificent and bountiful spregl. An hour was most agrecably spent the wmecting hall - which: had | been vacated when dinner was announced. The evening was oechinied with music and in i social satercourse, and then was reorganized in the "| speeches from Bros. T. H. Vaun, R. Adair |, of Bowmanville, Dr. Oakley of Port Porry, { J. B. MeIntyre of 8t. Catharines; and C. | S. Male of Oshawa; Dep. Gr. Woods, Noble Gr. Bradford of Lockport, and DM." ID. Hotehkiss of Wisconsin, © The utmost | good fellowship prevailed, but we have not rob for even a condensed report of {#he wany happy and entertaining sentences given expression to onthe occasion. a number of tha ladies of Rochester were present, and displayed the woat' sisterly | manner towards their lady friends from this side of the lake. At'O p. m. the party marched to railway station, where a special train_ the was | the | de- the ! the waiting to excursionists to steamer; and as there was no time to hay all were speedily en board, and train moved out of the station while convey bard played Britain's Nationa! Anthem, | the large crowd of citizens ia attendance | return. Quite a number, gf the Rochester | brothren accompanied the party to the | | boat--to which a speedy run was" made. - In a short time the warning of * all | | aboard" was heard, and the parting good | byes were heartily exchangsd--and a | ended one of the most pleasant reunions | that can be imagined between the mem- | ! bers of a benevolent brotherhood. A very pleasing incident in conneetion ! with the reception at Charlotte, was the ! presentation to Mr. T. H= Vann, '"as one | of the most handsome and prominent visi- of a massive bouquet composed of the choicest flowers, and specially 'prepar- ed for the occasion. This beautiful trophy was carefully gmarded and safely brought home. By the careful attention to business off tors," John's special benefit, for we don't sup- - the officers of the boat, all arrived: honie pose any one else "' caros a fig" about our private business. We ask no alms of any ene, and give full value for all we receive --and this matter of business is precisely wihiere the shoe pinches our brother editor, | #@nd- causes him to whine in such a lugu- manner. She progress of Oshawa is shown in the fact that he whines because an additional © place of business has been opened and thie population of the village inereased--lic grestly prefers personal gain to public progress.) The third eharge made-against is a deliberate misstatement, without he shadow of truth - EXCURSION OF ODD-FELLCWS. The excnrsion to Rochester by steamer Norseman on Tuesday last, under the di- | tection of Bowmanville Lodge of -Fel- lows, was one of the most delightful trips - wf the season, and attended by an ex- " vhange of international courtesies of the waist cordial and pleasing description. -- About three hundred persons participated in the trip, a large proportion of whom | wee connected with ths brothéerhood in| Whitby, Oshawa, Port Pe Bowuan- ville and Port Hope. - The weniheor w that could be desired Ly pleacare and lovers of # boat ri! aul mem, a asual, made good time theoaghoat, ! Up arriwml at Charlotte the Canadian visitors were met with a hearty roe ption by a delegation of Odd-Fellowa, wibo lal sonsy down from Rochester to accompany. | the party to the city. Sestt's Cornet Baad, one ofthe best in the oigy, had been en- gaged foe the ocsasion, aud played some of | sheir-choicedt music as the steamer glided | wp to the wharf. A railway train was in waiting, and the whole party speedily can backed thereon after a few words of wel- ome from Past Grand Klinck, and were | rapidly conveyed to the city. As the | visitors alighted from the train they were met by along line of Odd-Fcllows wearing the insignia of the Order, and a large con- eouwmse of citizens. The ladies of the party, witlygentlbmen not embraced in the circle of the brotiterhood, were conducted direct to 0dd-Felows' Hall --one of the finest ! halls in the city-- while all who Mlonged ~ #0 the Order formed in procession, and, Beaded By Scott's Band, marched through | some of the principal streets, and. to the | hall. When visitors and visited had' on | tered the spacious and elegantly fitted! apartment, order was speedily | obtained, and Past Grand Klinck installed as chair- | man of proceedings. Afew happy remarks from the chairman were succeeded bY | music from the band, the performance of Chaplain's daties by Beo. R. O'Harz, and | singing of the opening ode of the Order; | after which, Past Grand J. W. Stebbins, on bejpalf of the seven city Lodgds" there | represented, and numbering over fourteen | hundred members, J most elo- as all ¢ FB 1 elivered a quent andifraternal address of welcome to Canadians visitors.. The address. depicted in glowiag.colors.the great benefits deriv- able: fron the operations, of the society | undeg whose aunpices'that happy meeting had taken place, and: pointed out that 0Jd-Fellowship, as it spreads and exerts | its friendly sway over nations, is destived | to create a universal and lasting peace swong men, - The speaker was frequently | wargly applauded, and concluded his mas- togly address by proposing. asa toast;: " The Queen.of England--mother | of many--waring hie golden sceptre over | millions in majesty and power." Félotoast was recoived with most en- | t'wasiastic spplause, and To acknowledged | in fitting terms by Bro, Oaxley, of | © Bt Perry, on behalf: of Geand Master Gibson; of Stratford, | chi:f officer of the Canadian brmgoch of | 220i; wd 0.1.5. Yi. Beam, of . . . | His sincerity regarding | has received his new fall goods; . 1 5 | business, she fesls errilsat | evening without mishap, after Imving ojorel a delightful sail. Tapson's quadrille band Acopaiod the party, and furnished. excellent music on board the boat for those who wished to! show their agility as dancists. ---------------- Tue eatire recovery of the Quiz: from her recent indisposition is announced. WhITEVALE.--A musical and dramatic entertainment will be given in the music hall, Whitevale, on Saturday 30th inst. evening, Further notice next week. Mz- J. W. Fowkz's new advertisement * ) was received too late for this issus. He and is paying cash for barley, wheat, peas, and other farm produce. Tue New York political. evil of ; the present day -is tha, every man is for- himself, and only scala- wags do the offize-holling. © Ah; just so: such shameless scalavags as John Sand- iteld and his precions ministers. Tre ati ition of thy laliss is directed to ths alvartisemsnt of Having hal line of >I saitiag all several years' ecperiencs in har who my fw) A Miscioxany Merrie will be held inj the M. E. Church, Oshawa, on Monday next, in connection with the missionary socicty of that denomination. Proceedings to commence at 7 o'clock. | Addresses by saveral Revd. gentlimen. | Every owner of a Sewing Machine | wants the new Baster and Gu'der attach- ment at Wm. Dickies', manufactuers ! | wholesale and retail agent for Ontario. It | doasaway with all Bastingand isa portlet self guider. Call and see it. Philip Taylor's fine Russell watches | and chains will arrive from England next week, and other goods. Also a fine assort- | ment of Seth Thomas and Gilbert elocks direct from the factory, It will vray in- tending purchasers to wait. Tue Bowmanville * Stray Goslings" | lacrsse club visited Oshawa on Saturday | afternoon last, and played a match with | the "Hardshells. " Oshawa was again | | victorious; the Goslings being completely | routed. We think all B winanville play- ers had better smash their crosses now, ! and buy dolls, Tue funeral of Renforth took place at | Newcastle, Eng ay on Sunday last. The attendance wes extraordinary. Some ac- | counts represent the unutber of people | who witnessed the burial at 10,000. The concourse was: so great that' the cemetery where the remains were deposited. was | much damaged. Tue question of th: hoar is, will the managers of th: o) ba obliga1 to sus. pend the padiicatira of tua journal in | consequencaof ths coatinuons and power- ful blows of th: wyalssial Findicwtor ? The circalation of tha (710% will caortainly cesse down hax ualass ®>ny mows is taken t> stay the hurl of ths mighty Vindicator of this plaze, Tue Oshawa Gor 1 Ton 'ats mado a re- urn visit to their Bowmosnville brethren | on Friday eveaing 'last. 'Abut fifty | members from Oshawa participated in the trip, which was vary plowsant. After | listening to a good progran ne from both | jodges, refreshinsats 'wore passel around | {in geait acaalsaes, anl were heartily partaken of. The maestiag broka up about cleven, all eajoyiag titansolves exeseling- Jy well. A slight mishap.ocewred on the way homo, but nyo>ly was host, The pleasures of the evoniig wird not marred tin the least. --Cox, Quite | | fire thei plainer it is scen that the only | object he has is to malign an injure a Mil thinks that the | Miss Room, which | appears in anchor eolu na. hor witly #hair patronage. | - REMARKABLE TRIAL @arrespondeice. pb To thé Faitor of the Ontario R form or. | | | ALADY FINED FOR UNDERSTATING HER AGE. At a ctiminal court held at Fort Williarh on Tuesday, July 25th, Flora Mitchell, teacher, Ballachulish, in 'he county of Inverness, was placed at the bar; charged, | at the instanve-of the Procurator-Fiseal, with 'having made a false entry in the The Vindicator in speaking of 'ths Re- | FORMER says: * it occupies no enviable posi- tion-=it has slandered ita political 'oppon- | | ents, libeled its follow townamen, aal, as | far as it can, disgraced its own party by its mothod of attack. Thos lattes have | disowned all ¢ranection with the disgrace- | "ful produgtion ; and thus, tha weapon appointed in the district, on the 3rd day | which tho Reroryer intended for others of April last. Now, whose | and was defended by Mr. McKenzie, haad has received the most blows 1 The writer. Duncan McPherson, schoolmaster, Vindicator lias by its scandalously. abusive | Onich, said that in his capacity as Royis- and insulting course sucecoled in alienat- [ trar for the district of Ballichulish and | f its subscribers from | Corren of Argonr, he conducted the tak- ing of the census for that district in April any loager to ba abusel and insaltal, and last. have eoased to take the papor, disgusted | erator he appointed for the district in with its twisting and misrepresenting | which Miss Mitchell resided. The sche- course. The Reform party of South Oa. { dule shown him was brought to him by | tario have resson to fesl proud of itsjonly | { It has grapplad with | | Ho considered it Wis duty to look over | some of the moastor politic evils which | them if they were properly | fbeset our country's progress ; and while | tilled. | parsuing that eovrsé must exp | schednle, ho found that her age was put down at 29 years. As she was personally on its own head." ing a large nn.ador o its support, who positively refuss to pay | { Cameron; along witlésome sixty others. {reliable or, Jan. all, to seo In looking to be assailed by the organ of corraption in this Village. Tto Rzroawzz should receive it as a eomplimaat whoa hy sizable in | Irawing upoa himself the vituperation and | abase of the sorvils this riding. | pearance that her age was much under- | stated. (Langhter.) Hg had a conversa- gover at hacks of | tion with the enumeratorabout the matter It isragzirlal by ths Roform | 4 féw days after the 3rd of April, and as + wd that this is an indubitabls proof that | the enumerator was of the same opinion, 2 is fearlessly and with effin discharging | witness wrote to the session-clerk of Stron- od duty faithfully to his country. | tian for an extract of her birth-out of the It has been amusing t> witaosss the ef; | In return, he receivéd an nforts of the littls Vi sassion-book. ilizator of lata to at- | tract the attontion of tha @')%:. I think | it vory unkind of that jouraal not to grati- | fy tho poor fellow for oazs, anl give him | a passing notice. Bat I'supposs if he paid i any attontion' to the barking of ona little | { cur, tha rost 'gf that sort of craation would i feel slighted, and it is tha wisest course to | | treat them all aliks. I feol satisial if ths | simple foil yw co #11520 what a publiclaugh- ing stock hs miss of himalf in giving { his distorted aml poreertal what iv , day of February, 1827, or 44 years ago (Laughter.) Witness then communicated with the Registral-General, 'who directed him to report the 'case to the Procurator- Fiseal. at great length by Mr. McKenzie, who en- deavored to show that Mr. McPherson against the mccused, and that he had n) authority to mmke the present investiga- tion--that if any errors had been commit- ted the enumerators were the proper par- ties to correct thom. hewever, denied that the proceedings were instita- ted through any private animosity on his part. Alexander Cainaron, | ator, identified the schedule shown him ag It | occurred to him she was older than 29. Dougald McPhee, registrar and session- clerk for.the parish of Strontian, said that he Was 99 years of age. He had acted as session-clerk for the parish of Strontian for upwards of 60 years. He knew Mitchell family. duced was a true and. correct extract of Flora Mitchell's baptism, taken from the session-book. She was baptized on the | 10th of Febru ary, 1827. The entry in the himself. The Fiscal then addressed the Sheff, and craved a conviction. Mr. for the ac- cused, held that the prosecut or was bound to produce evidence @s to the birth, but this he had failed to do: version -of nal in tha eslnmas of the { credit of the riding, it would b> bast to take up a sihsccintion anal sazars petency for him t» livs u)>27ths rest of { his days, and 8) sw ths exunty further | { disgrace. Axl now aworl withraged ty that five. The Vinllc dor says it was the work of an incendiary. © About that there is no ¢oubt. i Put he says: '"We do not believe. the ! object was to destroy tho RerosMer." The fire was applied w thin two fest of one | of the presses of the Reroruer. Now, this looks like a daliberats attempt to de- stroy it ; and it was dene, no doubt, by a low-bied inve'erate enemy. But the | editor of the Vi.dicuor thinks it an op- portunity to make capital oat of to injure the Reroryer; anl after having, no o-doubit, rapsacked all the papers he could get within his reech, his search is in vain, with: the excoption of the following mild notice from the Prince Albert Ohseroer : Our eaten. more tina insinuages that party motives may have induced this wore than diabolical attempt." Tio trath is, i the more the Vin fic tor says about that Witness, a com- the one he received from the accused. i book was made by MeceKen not a word in to a birth, but\to Sheriff found the ¢ ven. He was bound to take the session-book as evidence, 4. baptism. ch: AT ge pre especially when it was sworn to by the party who made the cutry. Although the extract referred to a baptism, he (the Sheriff) understood that it wrs invariably the custom political opponent. Jut while pursuing this course ha will final hs will mks slow progress in alienating tha Reform pariye from supporting the only true and reliable exponent of Jef rm princi; losin the riding: ONE Wi) HAS BEEN LOOKING ON. not t5 baptize children until they were born. - (Laughter.) Therefore it only made the case worse, bacause - she might not be baptized omrthe day on which she was born. He could not believe that a person occupying the position in society that the prisoner did, could make a niis- take of fifteen years in stating her age. | He would, however, inflict the lowest pen- | alty that the law allowed, and accordingly fined the accused the sum of £1 sterling. The 'court-room was crowded during the trial. RUSSIA AND PRUSSIA. A St. Petersburg corres; pondent of the ! Pall Mall Gazette says, writing on the 12th | ult. : : | There scems to be something wrung about'the relations between the Russian Court and that of Berlin. First, the pro- posed meeting of the two Einperors at Ems was not held, and now it seems set- tled that the Emperor William will not | | come to St. Petersburg for the autumn | manceuvres, though his arrival was looked forward toas a certainty, There .is un- usual bustle, too, in military quarters. On his return from Norway, the Czarwich rv ---------------- Tae Howe celebration in Massachusetts | has been a success. The Hon. Joseph Howe was the orator of the occasion. His | | | renew old family ties, how much more important will-it be to bring: together the three great branches of the British family, went straight to the camp without calling at the palace. The military manceuvres gun, and will be more ex- pensive and prolonized than was at first ! futended. But thie most evident sign of | "& cooluess foward Prussia is the reappear- ance of anti-Prussian caticies in the Rus- | sian journals. Last Dece:nber, as I wrote | to you at tho time, the chief censor an- | | nounced to the editors of all the Russian | | newspapers that it was the will of the Czar that all attacks on Prussia in the press should couse. The order was faithfylly | obéyed,and even some journals which had formerly been declared adversaries 'of ah went so far as to publish articles | | seyting forth, the advantages of a Russo- | Prussian alliance. Directly thg Czar re- | turned from his German tour all this was | changed. The Golos, which is known to | be inspired by General Milutyn, the Min- | | ister of war, openly declared in its | number of 2rd inst., -that the policy | of Prussia is dangerous to the very exis- | | tence of the Russian . Empire. "The | | events of the last ten years," it says, | " prove that during the whole of that time Prussia has had one leading principle of action--that of securing an ally before a war and breaking the alliance as soon as | { it is victorious. In 1862 she entered into | an eternal alliance with Austria against | | Denmark, and in 1866 she concluded a | similar alliance with Italy agains' Austria. | In 1870 she made friends with Russia, and | { now: that she has gained a victory which | she owes 'almost entirely to Russia's con- | servative policy, she is ehdgavoring to | { form-an 'alliance with Austria agpinst, us. {* # Will not Europe at length ainder- | \ | stand 'the dangers which -procegd = front | ! such a policy ! - Is it not time: to 'form a {league "of mutual security aga aibist gud | machinations 1 { i have already be destructible as [their la anguage, - as endur- able as the literatiire they cannot divide. Out of suck a:union would flow the bless- | ings of perpetual peace, for no foreign power would venture topssail us, aud we would be sufficient] strong to be magnan- imons when PH Bi difficulties arise. | Ships enough to keep the peace of the | seas would be all we require. With a landhwer of millions in reserve, our stand- ing armies might be introduced to the minimum of cost. Capital would ebb and | flow freely over the whole confederacy ; i our transports, instead of carrying war | material, might carry the surplus popula- tion to 'the regions where labor was want- | ing and land is cheap ; ocean telegrams | would come down te a penny pate ; and | our national debts would disappear by the | gradual increase of the population ahd the growth of the geseral prosperity. May the great father of mercies 'hear our pray- | ers, and so overrule our natiofial counsels | that we may come to be one people, living | under differént forms- of goyernment, it | | may be, but knit, together by a' common | policy upon an enlightened appreciation ment of ntutual esteem." ---------- Horace GreeLy's peculiar &irography | has made him as" notorious 48 his white | hat and white coat ; as he grows older all | | the removal of the Capital to. some West- ern. city, w possible that I stol¢them again. ding i is a yeproach to conid- sections, {very gayest conveyances of our cemete 'are untrue and . preserves are bankrupt, | the Tuk Tichbortie chimant chistes a great | sensation wherever he goes hi' England. | At Liverpool his lodgings were continually. | | surrounded by » curious throng, and when | he appeared atthe windows a great cheer' | | was set up. The managers of theatres in- ! vite him to accept boxes. trattics ran him down,but | seem to let the disagreeable attentions | sa { wear on' him. His face is fat and ruddy, | and ruddy, and he is in contiyual Sad | humor, There is nor i pl his movements, though he is well aware | stilt that private detectives follow him like | 41.0 solit shado "Tre Wife's Secret" br Ber opinion of ! her lneband, ton until it swiss in an unfortnaste loca- tion. All the MiCarthys are sure to | "eéumeniache : council 7 All trades and.| | federal parentage is the rrowtided by a dose of Window Cliquot. {out the civilized world." » NS / schedule she returnéd to the enumerator Accused pleaded not guilty, | Alexander Cameron was. the enum- | over Miss Mi tehell's | known to himself, he judged by her ap- | { extract of her baptism; from which it ap- | pears that she was baptized on the 10th | * | placed themselves under the patronage of The witness was cross-examined | was actu: ated throughout by private malice ! the enumer- | ed The document he, pro- | guist, and can swear in twelce lrnguages !' the documents on which he relied referred | + = 1 The closing remarks were as follows :--1If it be | wise to gather the Howes together and | | and unite them in a common policy as in- | of each. other's strength, and gh a sentiy | three grow worse. A letter forwardedsto | an organization, in Cindimiati, relative, to | was read a. follows: -- "It jis n not As pud- ! ries | | Mr. Swill your mcest canteloupes nw ashing. 4 bel | acre. venedred unless they liest, and I suffered | | fearfully undeniable cross-cut saws. "Who | sbought all the nuts and lozengers. of the | The babe of the | Li Ldarer of its own | 80 far ho doesn'y | ou.) sree lninber wagon. It squalled when | Expetimenited on by the population of re- peating voters in myriads to the deféat of | - anchdviees: and/ tomatoes," it | a forest of 'artichokes, and amid ude of rosin barrels tus inviting the Bois de Boulogne, and ateomodating | the formation of cheese factories through- Seven Hundred Years in the One house in Pompeii had evidantly bosn in a state of repair when the volcano storm biried it. Painters and decorators and cleaners were niasteraof the situation. The household goods were all in uisorder, and the family, if not ut of town, must TEE SARATOGA BOAT BACE. The Ward erew won an wnexposted vie | | fory at Saratoga on Mgpday last, and the | result was an agrecable surprise to their : now elated fellowconatrynien. The Taylor | | Winship men were the general favorites for | the four-oared racs, 'on. account of the then undimmed glory of - the Halifax exploit, while the rival Tyne crew stood: below the Wands in the estimation of the crowd, so mueh had their prospects been dampened by the sad death of theirleader. But they made a gallant struggle, and | took the second place in the list of. the The favourites be undergoing that condition of misery which cleanings and other like infections Painters' pots brushes and workiren's tools were scatter- Tell-tale spots of whitewash starred the walls. and floor. Such domestic implements as pots and kettles had been bundled up in a corner all by themselves and the cook was nowhere. Pinner, how- A solitary ver it did sim- art not, for it | is true--there was a bronze dish in wait- | and on the dish a suckling pig, all ready to be baked. But the ofen was already engaged with its full EY SA of bread, so the suckling pig hid uit. oven, and the loves were 1 inevitably | entail. and ed about. half-dozen competitors. were a third with the Biglin crew, the |stace between them being a dead heat. In order to decide whd should have the { money; sfonntingg to $760, it was intended | | that the twe shoull row in this but Morrissey generously | compromise, 'by which each party bore of the 8750. Whe Wards { course in 24 minutes 41 seconds, under the The lake was like glass, and the weather all that The Wards fed from | the beginning g with forty-one strokes: por minute to the thirky-eight with which they leisurely won--and two lengt! is ahead. { The Tynesiders' stroke -was more frequent at first, but in the home pull the men did only thirty-seven, while the Ren- forth more vigorously | Morissey's connection with the affair has ever, had not been forgotten. pot stood simmering if on the stove ; and mer afternoon, ing before the oven, arrangel" a was covered the most favourable circumstances. #1 wa er taken out | was to be desired . till after a sojourn of séven hundred years. They had been cooking ever since Noven- ber 23rd, A.D 1171. M. Fiorelli has them now in his museum at Pompeii, twenty one of them, rather hard of course, but Taylor | perfectly preserved. Leisure dowr, --l © -- rowed forty-one. Of the preliminaries of o marriage about to be celebrated in Exeter, N.H., a cor- respondent of the Boston Traveller gossips | given rise to she impression, openly ex- | pressed at Halifax and eatertainel by mahy further west, that the race was sold ; by the Taylor-Winship crew; who have thus *"Some months ago, a gentleman residing the exprize-fighter. By skilful management | Morissey could make #h immense amount in betting, | cannot. be bestowed upon those who stake their money and lose, the sale of a race will be viewed with abhorrence. Should this suspicion prove well foundel, a severe | blow will have been given to a fire manly sport. That it is true, there can be but [ little doubt, as the 4'Paris" crew have | twice beaten the Wards, with great ease. --Globe. | a NOTICE TO SANDFIELD. est city in New Engldnd, stating that he was desirous of procuring a good wife ; that he had heard so much of the excel- lence of the daughters of the Bay State, -he was fully persuaded they would make of wives, and he requested the few Haverhill ladies. |The and though much sympathy the bes names of a his correspondent, promptly forwarded to Lim the names of a faw ladigs, to each of whom the would-be Benedict dispatched letter, view tg ful requesting an answer, with a er correspondence if mutually ( {ed was from a nabige agreeable. : of the answers he receiv- Notice is hereby | given to our saintly Premier that his Imperial Highness the | Grand Duke of Russia is now on his way town, who was = 1 time in Haverhill | teaching the you idea how to shoot. to America. = We fancy we hear Sandfield | Here was a welldvorded, straight-forward characteristically exclaim, *° What -the | epistle, and the recipient was at once im._ h--1 has that to do with me I" Acdreat | pressed' with the intelligence and good deal, John 8. - Your laurels are in danjer, | senee manifested by the writer. His Highness is an excellent'lin- | respondence ensued, which as it progressed | served to strengthen the favourable opin- jo eath had foruied of the other; photo- to make fong story short, an engagement of mar- ohn. You, to be beaten by a Russian! Brush the champion swearer of Oatario, Never ! him up a little in Latin, John. Smooth him 'dowit in your choice French. Startle him with your sturdy graphs were exchanged, and, a and give him the lockjaw with' your annihilat- ing Gaelic. Hooray for and Ontasio's saintly Premier ! Saxon ; is expected return to singularly won bride. here shortly, when he will his western home with The lady is well his Canada, educated, of spotless reputation, and post necessary qualifications to make happy the home of her husband, who is a --- - ---- sesses the A SHARP EDITOR. 5 . gentleman: of integrity, enlture and wealth A western editor a tew days ago publish- ¥ SE : and well provided with the goods of this 4 very long aad touching obituary ed 4 y ; ng i ad ¥ world. R. Leds, who, the editor said, died suddenly and mysteriously two days bofore. The friends and family of Mr. Leeds were run- uing in and out of the office all day for the purpose of informing the eminent journal-. ist that John was not dead, make a fuss about the notice. a statement appeared in the paper. The editor said that Mr. Leeds borrowed ten dollars of him a week before the obituary | appeared, and said he would pay it on a certain'day '""as sure' as he was alive. | He knew Mr. Leeds was a man of his word ; and as he didn't put in appearance with the ten dollar bill at the appointed time, he was just assure that he was dead { as if he had seen him expire before his face, and had helped to screw the lid. on, his coffin. It is hardly necesspry to say | that Mr. Leeds immediately called to settle. | rr --- 4 -- COMING: TO CANADA. [From the Canadian Independent.) He is largely engaged in mercan- tile pursuits. " notice of a young man wamed John 3ut this is not a solitary instance of ! such romantic circumstances. A few years ago one of our factory operatives. was re-- commended to a gent eman residing in San Francisco as a person likely to niake him a good wife, by a mutual friend. He wrote to her, correspondence was opened. and also to Next day cartes de visite were exchanged, and in a | short time they were betrothed. Being unable conveniently to leave his Lusiness to come here, the gentleman sent his fiancee a cheek for 8600, with which she procured a bridal outfit, and started alone for San Francisco to marry the man she had never seen. Their nuptials were celebrated soon after her arrival, and the | union has proved a most felicitous one." rr -- © ~-- | A REMARKABLE disBovery w the farm of Mr. Daniel Fredenbury, Town- | ship- of Cayuga, by the Rev. Nathaniel Wardel and Mr. Orin 'Wardel of Toronto, on 'Wednesday, 16th ult., while digg ging close by the bank of the Grand River, and when they had reathed a depth of about five or six feet, they came suddenly It is a very common failing on the part of new-comers to run down Canada and the Canadians. * It isso different from England." Of course it 4s. - Did | expect to find it the saine ! But remem- | ber, that if many things aré rougher here than there, that we have advantages on our side also. We have not the numeérous mass of pauperism,' nor the remains of | feudal distinctions, nor an overshadowing you | ber 'of nigh two hundred. far beyond the present altitude of man - some of them reaching nine feet, and fow | of them being less"than seven. Round the Government Church." We have a bound- | neck of onetwas a string of stone Leads | less territory, free trade irvland, plenty of | and several had large stone pipes in their openings for your boys and girls, good | mouths. Lying around were a nmmbe: | wages and good living for good work, a| stone axes and other weapons. | public systein of free education, and the | supposed to have belonged to a race an- | highest positions in the land open to the | | perior to the Indians, as the farm has been | sos of the humblest of its people. If you | | under cultivation . nearly a eentury and | remain, and work, you will have a fare | was previously covered with a thiek growth | share of these advantages. But if you | of pine. Many of the skulls are broken connot live qut of England, the remedy is { simplé--go back: As long as you are here, however, don't abuse the country. It is] bad pelicy, and worse manners ; whereas | | those who come into 'suchian inferior state [of society. bught to set an éxamplé of good | breeding: You must pardon this plain | speaking, but .we meet with this sort of | thing so often, thit we almost lose our | patience with it. | that tha formar possdszsors came to a vio- {lent end. The teeth are perfect, but | crumble away on being exposed to the air. This is not the first discovery; of a like | | nature, that has been made ok Mr. Fred. enburg's farm, varions eurious remains { Sr | taining two tons of charcoal, and various JOUR readers doubtless remember the | implements. It is said that mineral rods, wlien tasted, invariably poiat to a spot many attem ts--sorry attenipts at best-- | {dt wit, indalgdd in 'by. the' MinistefiAl | | elose by the place of the present discovery, | press and Government croakers, concern- | {lead to the finding of something more His objections te certain proceedings in | valuable. the Houge were made: sthe subject for a { howily on his fall ploaghing and potato | patch, while his nhwillingness to sanction { delay in' legislation was construed into a e nérvous desire to get back is plow. -- ry has been made by a Ma. Tilghman, of Philadelphia. 'He has discovered that a We agrée withthe Tondon Advertiser that | strong jet of 'air, steam or water, mixed is Seats] has the leigh suiiry 4 onhis| with some such material fas sand, can drill x | side now by showing a yield for %eas- | 4 hole or. eat away. the f " ot Thing» Jil. whoat to the | Joy Hee lave «of nny sgh Such men as A. McKellar are an | ly short space of time. With sand and a hongr to any constituency. Intelligent | | steam jet of 300Ib. pressure th the squ and independent in the House, his voice | | inch, 2h madé a hole § in a block of bik is always heard in behalf of. justice and | gum a matetial as hard as diamond --an | economy, ' while at" home hie finds favor | | inch and a half deep in less than twenty- | in. the estimation of his constituents by | | five minutes. In like mantrer by covering | t quietly pursuing his favorite occupation. lass with rforated ob 4 | Cincinnatus! like he' 'quits the exciting | Le J TARGUS Weil | scenes of debate in the hational legislature | to indulge in the more congenial pastimes | of agricultural labor. All honor to eur 1 [zs farmer representative from Both- | out the most beautiful and intricate pat- | terns, sapd and compressed air being | well, and may Ontario be blest with many | wore like him. -- Belleville Ontariv.- | in the mechanical world. Wirrsour the Rich heart, wealth is but A GIANT eight feet high is said to be on an ugly y beggar. | his way from Africa to America. And ii névers entered the | | Romantic Marriages in New Hampshire. in Illinois wrote to an offieial in' the young- | Laws Relating to Newspaers. We have been asked to give the law,as | it stands, relating to newspapers and sub- scribers ; | 1.Bubscribers who do not give 'express to the contrary are considered wishing to continue their subscription. 2.1r sabacribergorder the discoatinusnce of their periodicals, the publisher may con- tinue to send thein until all arrearages are notice aid. ; 3.1r subscribers neglect or refuse to take | their periodicals from the office to which | they are directed, they are held responsible till they havesettled their bill, and ordered them discontinued. 4. Ir subscribers m ve to other places without informing the publishers, and the | papers are sent to the former office, they are * held responsible. b. The courts have decided that refusing | | to take periodicals from the office or remov- | ing and leavuig them uncalled for, isiprima | Juacia evidence of intentional fraud. 6. Any person who réceives a newspaper and makes useof it, whether he has ordered | it or not; is hold inlaw to be a subscreber. | yi ---- | ECCENTRIC BIBLICAL TRANSLA- | TION. A correspondent of a Boston paper says: A " We bid fair to have as many transla- tions of the Bible as we have different | | complications of hymns. " Besides the or- | ganizations formed for the purpose of translating the Bible, private individuals | are trying their hand at the work of mend- ing King James." A distinguisMed: but eccentric doctor of divinity is said to enjoy | his leistire I was in a religious meeting last week where on a free translation. | specimens of this new work were exhibited and read. [send you the translation of the 23rd psalm: Deity is my,pastor. I shall not be in- | digent. official, satisfied of the. goofl standing of | He causeth me to recumb on verdant lawns. He conducteth me beside the un- | rippled liquidities. | ~ He reinstated my spirit, he conducteth | and résident of that » A cor- | riage was entered into, and the gentleman an Bxeter lady contracting marriage under | | or dguble flooring. me in the avémmes of rectitude, from the | celebrity of his appellations. Indubitably, though I perambulate the glen of the sepuldhral dormitories, T shall not be perturbed by appaling catastrophes; | thy crook and thy » wand insite delecta- tion. | Thou positesta refectionfor me in the widst of inimitable scrutations ; thou per- | fumest my locks with oderiferous un- guents ; my cholise exhuberates ; unques- | tionable benignity and _comymiseration | shall continge all the denturnity of totality, and I will eternalize my habitance in the | metropolis of Nature. READY-MADE - houses are becoining -an important article of manufacture out West. | We have before us the illustrated cata- ! logue, with price list attached, of Colonel Bridges, a 'builder in Chicago, offering | twenty-nine different sizes and styles of dwellings, three of stores, three of railway stations, and two of churches, at from $175 | to $5,000 each. The £175 dwelling ¢on- sists of 'a single room, 10 x 12 feet on the floor, with walls eight feet high. It rests on 6 x 6 inch pine sills, and is floored with t} 2 x 6 flooring joists and 2 x 4 pine stud- ding rafters and ceiling joists. The ouf- | side walls ake covered with one-inch sur- | faced pine, the joints being protected by perpendicular moulded battens. The in- | side walls and ceiling are covered with | half-inch boards, dressed with tongue and | groove. The floor is of inch pine, dressed | and matched. The roof may be of shingles The - cliimney is a cement pipe, made in sections, and joined | together, and resting vipon a bracket near | | the ceiling. = There are twa doors and door | | frames, and iwo windows and window | frames. © Suflicient hardware is fumished | to complete the house. The larger and | { more expensive buildings are of a similar was "ade on desgription, varying as to details according | to their size and purpose. No plastering | | and no bricks and mortar are nsed except | | when specially ordered. The buildings | are shipped by milroad, making from half | {a car load to five full car loads, and an | | immense number of then have been erect- | | ed on the prairies where lumber is scarce | on some gigantic human remains, lying | piled one on top of the other to the num- | The skeletons | : p ; | cent fires in the forests of - Ontario, re- are in periect preservation, and of stature, : r of | They are and dented, leading to the supposition ! | having been found fromy, time to time, | amongst others the bones of a mastodon, | ] and the ruins of a blacksmith' shop, con. | leading to a hope, in the ininds of swn- | | ing Mr. McKellar's farming operations, -- | Suine parties, that further researches may | A vBAY remarkable mechanical discov- | stance no matter how hard, in an amazing- | employed. In short the uses of this new | | discovery seem to be almost unlimited, | 'and it will certainly aeate a revolution | and mechanics not to be had. | Tue N.Y. Herald, referring to the re- | marks that these fires in the woods on! both sides of the gredt lakes are becoming | 'more destructive from year to year, and | if they are permitted to go on at this rate they will, before the lapse of many years, | | in connection with the general destruction of forests otherwise going on, result in ex- | | tensive droughts and disastrous failures of | | crops in the Dominion and in the United | { States; The subject is oe~of great im- | | portance. It-has been observed that the | { annual rain fall is diminishing already in | | sections of country denuded of forest. -- | The 'suggestion of our contemporary, that | | the question is worthy®f a general con- J vention to 'discuss measures for preserving | | the existing forests and planting new ones ! | ih waste places all over the land, seems to | | us a good one. "The * great plains of the | |! Mississippi," " our contemporary observes, I "are arid'and almost &s rainless as the | deserts of Africa in summer, because they | | are treeless. Introduce forests and you will "bring. the welcome summer rains; | clear the forests away and these rains A appear. The Island of Maderia tells the story." MissioNARIES are greatly needed in the | town of Cadiz, Ohio. A-young man stop- | | ping at a hotel thére was taken ' with the | supell-pox, whereupon some of the citizens | entered his room, rheyed him in a blanket, | and took him out thrdugh a back window, | after which they placed him in a waggon | and drew hin to an old, deserted house, ! without roof or windows. Here they left | him to the care of 4 negro, the rain pouring | down on him tho while. Of Goiwrse the poor | fellow died and while his body was being | thrust into aho'e dug in an open field, some | of the neighbors stood on the hills and shot at the men engaged in proceeding. | negro nurse was then given his choice -- | to leave town or be shot : and so the 'people | | got rid of the man who wasapparently the elastic substance, he has been able to work | most decent inhabitant of the place." | « --A Chicago paper says the surest way | of preventing hydropliobia in dogs is to | supply them with water, and the safest way | to insure theman abundance of this indis- pensable fluid is to anchor them in about | seven feet of water, so that their kicads will { be from eightoen to twentyfive inches , below the surface. Vindicator, | character, - | berance it prompts to wilful asd | construction, it ceases to be | parades his insolence to that degree Is no a sourec of amusemedt, but makes the ) tion of & legal remedy to his case Sa ceity ' | do not wish, nor have I the in. | prescribes, { drowsy audience," (ADVERTISEMENT) | 'Tonoxvo, Sept. gh, "hum, To Mr. J. P. Johnstoa, Watchmaker, Six, Under the caption of * Truth and tice," which appeared in a yecent Inne of gy you do not seraple to make woot my name ins way which, tomy Judgment, op; ceeds the bounds of a privileged com COM UBlgylgy, 1 can stand alarge amount of insolence, mw lug as it does not partake of anything of a lbelony i But when ih its unrestrained eh ong. -- to you anything »o harsh as hy Which the -- 1 merely desire to tell you ma and also to inform the public that Mr, P. is Sole Agent forthe sale of the Rose Wh for Oshawa and vicinity. 1 really ¢ + would not be requifed to state the fact of fe Taylor's sole agency in terms so plain and poy. sitive. Dut if you'have not the ability "9 | sense to inderstand and appreciate the aud considerate manner in revs Hr that fact in my letter to. Mr. Taylor, it fate regretted for your own sake, that from whet. | ever cause, you should be so destitute of the | moral influenge of the principles of ™ truth -d | Justice" to attack me in the manner you havy done, 1 hope for the future, should you | occasion toallude to me, you will do nh | terms of propriety. Yours, &e., A.W. RUSSRY, ----- -- | Waar whisky may do is shown by thy St. Lois Demoerat, which describes howe deputy United States Marshal got lost a prisoner, was himself arrested by thy: police, was di 1 by th hal, wis put off a train of cars_and was run owe and killed, all in one day. THERE is a Western story of aman whe' was too lazy to . work, and whose nei ! bors being tired of keeping him determined {to drown'him. Meeting the squiiPe, hiv pitty was touched. = *' Bet him down," Js | said ; " I'll give hima load of corn to keep him alive." The victim raised his head | from the bier: '" Shelled, Squire ?" "No * { The 'head dropped again, * Drive m { boys, "then." oi " How shameful it is that you shes fall asleep," said 'a dull preacher #4 while that poor idig is awake and attentive." "I would haw been asleep, too," said the, fool, ""if Tw not been an idiot." In Fast Whithy. on the oth inst., the wif Robert: Morris, of a daught In Belleville, oe the 7th a. the wife of ond i Lo ourtenay, Jr., of a dau On the 6th inst., by Ider B. J. Rogers, residence in hawa, Mr. James 8 Mayng to Mary Thompsdh, both of Oshaw: By the same, at the RSidenon of the bride, Henry V annumen to Miss Mary Deboys, a | Whitby, T DEATH | At the residetice of flo angler tor, near Com bus, on the 13th [The anal ii ake aie lao ed 31 years, | i riday) afiernaun, at 2 o'clock. ERR my WHEELER'S PHOSPHATES W. T, ATKINSON Hs JUST RECEIVED A SUPPLY « w Phosphates and Eatin. This. lop agreeable preparation is com | ingredients that enter into the fe system, heing a Chemical Food Diseasés, depending upon de i tion, Assimilation and: protic. periects : less to the system, and tons it onic. It is intended iy for ¥ constitutions ron wn with asting ¢ raved nu Serofulo ORS | Spoedily improves the | Blood, ehergising and vitalizing the w - | st or ey Being purely plysiojogical. t a and permaneat mainer, iho abil lapse. Sold at $l per bottle; six bottles for | Commercial, ZF MorTREAL NARKE, fc A TE Wheat, Fall, ¥ bushel. ane 7 Oats, ¥ 32 ts... (XY 057 os on Wo | Wheat, ® bushel, .............. Rye, do Baile, do Peas, do Oats, do | Clover Sced, ® bushel, | Timothy Seed, do Putter, BE,........ 5 Wheat, Spring, Barley, ® bushel, .. Oats, do Peas, "do Potatoes, do } Butter, v »,.. | Wheat, Fall, ¥ bshel,...... ....... Wheat Spring. ¥ bushel, Green Apples, ¥ bus. iv # bushel, .. . WANTED! | A SERV SERVANT ACQUAINTED Be lo many. his office. NEW. EL ESTABLISHMENT j IN 'OSHAWA | MISS ROOME, i {LATE OF THE _ESTABLISHM of 8. TREWIN, begs to inform the | ants of Oshaws and surrounding country she hus opened a New Store on " KING STREET East > : IN THE STAND. Lately Occupied by Mr. J.J. E where she will carzy the busiest DRESSMAKING, MANTLE- : and the making of doe je gis CLOTHING, &c., .| "Ix THE © Latest Styles & Fashion Having had a long exponience in she Is confident of suiting all. entrusted to her will ex: care and taste. A share of solicited. . Vacancies for Appr LOST THIN TWO MILES of 08 OS oVERSSTY es rs gc tee: Cert; M 16 | ! 1 i $ |

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