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Clelk 7th Division Court County Victoria. Conveyancer, Commissioner in Queen’ 3 Bench. Notary Public, 810., c. Ofl‘ice, Vic- .toria Road Station. rLDON HOUSE, Woodvide. P... 'mos. EDWARDS Proprietor. 7 First-clams accommodation and attentive servants. Bar well supplied with the choic. est liquors and cigars: ‘Bus to and from all trains and every convenience {hr the travelv ling public. TORTHERN HOTEL, lVoodville. ._...._- i BESJAIIIN SCABHIOV, Proprietor-r This first-class house has just been re- fitted, furnished and otherwise renovated and improved. Being in the centre Of the business part of the village, and furnished with splendid sample rooms. it is therehre most convenient for travellers and commer- cial men, and the public generally. The Bar is sup lied with the host of Liquors and Cigars. ood Stables and llostler in at temlance. Clerk lat Division (‘ cult County Victoria. Secretary Eldon B. A. Society . Agent P. .‘B S Comp pauy. Conveyancer, Commis- smner in Queen’ 5 Bench. Ll ARTIN HOPKINS, BARRISTERS, soucrrons tfic. Money to Loan at 6 per cent. OFFICESâ€"Kent Street. Lindsay, Ontario. 1’. S. MARTIN. E G. H. Hopxlxs. EELANDS 8: PENTLAN D. DENTISTS, d'c" Lindsay, om. One cftue above will be at Hamilton’ a Hotel. Beaverton, on the SECOND MON- DAY of each month. He will also visit ‘Voodville on the Second TUESDAY of each month, stobping at Mel’hersou’s Hotel. J. NEELANDS. L.l‘.h'. : JOS. PENTLAND, L.D.S. OFFICEâ€"Rooms latély occupied by 'W. M. (,‘ochrane, Biglow’s Block, Port Perry. Livery Rigs at any time and at all hours on the shortest notice. Special attention given to Commercial Travellers. Charges always moderate. TERMS. CASH. Stu- bles in connection with the Eldon House. " OODVILLE LIVE RY STABLES. "VM. VOL V. 6 to 6; bay cenfi. ' Agefié for A. mums. SON 00.. Brnntfnrd. Manufacturers of Reapers, Mow- ers, Self-Binders, c. J08. J. GAVE Publisher. PROFESSIONAL CA RDS. Wilson “A." “'iisnn "B” and ”Royal" Sewing Machines and Needles kept constant I" on hand. Oificd at Montreal Telegraph Coupany, .KirkficM. Duh. fz'cmres flikaily Flamed Picture Frammg ROSEN’O 0 I)‘ A ND GIL ’I' ! Attorney-nt-an, Solicitor In Chancery, €onVCyzmcer, an. (‘1'. \Voodvillc, May, 1331. ‘ Dan-ting done to and from all parts of the village, Nipivsing and Midland Railway stations. Charges modorme. Residencomno dnor north of Eldon House, Queen Street, 1\'_ ‘ . JOHN \ICTAGGAI‘L‘ Kirkticd. 1 mnnssmxlm IX 1;. IL, (TONVEYANCl-ll: GENERAL ISM} RAND E AG EXT. Money to Loan on first~ciass security at ~â€" MONEY TO LOAN at 6 per cent. - IMPROVED flitâ€"MS FOR SALE. Agent for Iminn Loam J; Szwing’s ('o. OFFICEâ€"One door east of Pést Ofiice, “'oodvillc. Ont. IRED. G. MILLAR, >EORGE XVILLIS MI LLAR, UGH D.- SINCLAIR, 53315538 113 WEEK, RCH. C A MP BELL EWEN N. M’LEAN. .f'J/I‘h ‘ _“\ . 7%,' BUSINESS CARDS. ‘ HENRY BB‘VARDS, Proprietor. (311A 1H,: ES MODE R ATE. '. CAMERON. 110 TEL (. A RDS. COUNTY AUCTIOXEER. (‘ “1TH“, TI). \‘l‘v’l‘ili . fie. â€"-IN AL . STYLESâ€" ' @hfi mmmhmiflflg * W REPAIRING PROMP'I‘LY Executad. J A MES STUART. HARNESS MAKER, SADDLER dac Having bought the shop and fixtures of Mr. G. C. gmitb, Butcher, custometa can rely on getting the best of Beef at all times, and ,other meats in' season. HARNESS COLLARS, HALTERS, WHIPS CURRY GOMBS, BRUSHES. TRUHKS VALISES AND ALI. KIND OF HORSE FURNISHIHG A large assortment of whips from 15m. up. ALL KINDS OF REPAIRING NEATLY AND QUICKLY EXECUTED. Parties having fat cattle to dispose of will please call or leave word at my shop. Farmers wanting meat will please leave their order the night betore at the shop. The highest cash prifie paid for HIDES. Buns. Rolls and Pastry a Specialty SODA, ABERNETIIY AND FRUIT BUISCUXTS, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. ALL NEW WORK WARRANTED. FRUIT CAKES. MIXEDTEA CAKES. Provide ['01: (he Wm]: under Your Charge. FAMILY BREAD ISSUER 0F MARRIAGE LICENSES. U'EALD OFFIC J, 63 ‘KiXG SIX; EAST TORONTO. \\ 1] LI \M I‘E NNIE. 11:: q , Toronto. Pres. A. (' IFMMHD Esq. \Icaf,urll 0. Vice l’rcs. .I’EMB i‘l‘ON PAGE, Esq. I'onthin, Sec. L. H. 1m Bout" IL-q ., ’tm-Mdgc in M. R. H h”bl}"'l 803331. I), LUI‘HHIh) \1 H].- (:31 “inu- -tm. G '10. F1. \\ 3 '1 .3' )\ L. L 3., Tux-out", Sn- tistern and Well Pumps, FORCE PUMPS SUPPLIED. WOODVILLE; ONT. [‘JUGH McCORQUODALE. I ucmymrafcd Aug. 24th, ’80. S. \V, “ILL, “311.. Ridgevillc, Membership Stipermtcnllcut. Executive Committee 8 .- Wm. Rennie, ~W. I‘ l'nxo, J. P. nun. [HUI-eat. Im‘luccmcnt to provide for fam- ilies in case of death at small cost. 2...?)(1991 benefits to but!) wxos. \- I, PARTIES SUPPLIED \VHOLESALE. .. uniform assessment of one dollar only. ”Careful medical exnniinmimi required. 6.. No mmunl dues or extra chm-gee. IS...N'0 lfll‘|.;0 salaries or expenses. 7...'|‘wn lmmlred dullm‘s advanced for funvml expenses when necessary. Rulicnrfits seem-ml at actual ens"- il_...\lomln rs liccomln totally disabled, may «lrnw half of their 0 nimh, the balance being payable M death, For particulars and full information apply to IRA ARGUE, 5-331 \"oodvillo, 1‘. O. MUTUAL AID . 'OODVILLE PUMP FACTORY. ‘OODVIuLE HARNESS SHOP. ESTABLISHED, 1856 JACOB BARNES, Special Features of the Association : OODVILLE BAKERY. woonnul: BUTCHER SHOP. - JOHN BERRIE’S TERMS CASH,._ OBD ERS SOLICITED. ASSOCIATION_ witm'. JOHN BEBRBE. OBDE RS SOLICITED. (LANA DI.A N IS UNXLD McUN‘ UFACTURER 0F IN THE COUNTY OFFICERS: {\goot for Cdnnty of Victoria. Cor .King and Stuart St WOODVILLE, THURSDAY, JULY 23, 188) “ PRO BONO PUBLICO." The queen has reigned for 44 years, a period which has been exceeded by four English sovereigns onlyâ€"Henry III., who reigned 56 years ; Edward 111., for 50 years ; Queen Elizabeth, for 45 years ; and George III , whose regime extended to 60 years- , and by but one living sovereign, the Emper- or of Brazil, who ascended the throne“ on April 7, 1831, more than six years before her M njesty’s accession. ‘ This year Her Majesty attained her 62nd birthday, an age exceeded by eleven only of the sovereigns of England, dating from the Norman Conquestâ€"namely. Henry L, who attained 67 years ; Maury 111., 65 years ; Queen Elizabeth, 69 years ; James 11., 68 years ; George I.. 67 years ; George II., ‘77 years ; George I I1. , 82 years; George IV., and William lV., 72 years. The Queen’s surviving- descendants num- ber 33â€"4 sons. 4 daughters, 8 grand. sons, 16 grand-daughters, and one great. grand- daughter. the Princess Feodore Victoria, of Saxe-\Ieningen. born May 12, 1379. THE DUKE OI" ARGVLL, it? THE CONTEMPORA- ' llY REVIEW. “’9 have found in the most ancient re- cbrde of the Aryan language proof that the indications of religious thought are higher, simpler, and purer as we . go back in time until at last, in the vet-y oldest Compositions of human speech which have come down to us, we find the Divine Being spoken at in the sublime language which forms the open- ing of the Lord’s Prayer. The date in ab- solute chronology of the oldest Vedic litera. tare does not seem to be known. Prof. Max Muller, however, considers that it may pos- sibly take us back 5,000 years. Prof. Mo. nier Williams seems to refer the most on- cient Vedic hymns to a period not much more remote than L500 years B. 0; But what- ever that date may be, or the corresponding ‘ date of any other very ancient literature, ‘ such as the Chinese, or that of the oldest Egyptian papyri. when we go beyond these dates we enter upon a period when we are absolutely without any historical midenCe whatever. not only as to the history of re linen, but as to the history and condition of moukind. \Vo do not know eVen approx- i'izalely the time during which he has ex- isted. We do not know the plaeo or the surroundings of his birth. “’o no not lruow (he steps by which his knowledge “grew from mom to more.” All that We can see “We certainty is that the earliest inventions ‘ of mankind are the mostwomlorful that the ra- ‘ has ever made. The first beginnings ‘ l ‘Ihunmn speech must have had their origin 1": p'n‘n‘l‘s of the highest order. The first “So of lire and the discovery of the methods by which it can he kindled ; tho domestiem tion of noimnle; and. above all, the process by which (he vnrioua cereals Wore first do- vu‘nmod out. of Hunt: wild grosscsuthese are 9” c'wcm’ories with which in ingenuity and in impm ta'ie- :m HIIlJS'L'q'H'HL discoveries lll'ly (Tillupl‘ll‘. 'l'nuv are all unknown to history .._-~.“ hut in :1 light ohm eil'nlgent'dnwn. In 51- mulnt'u _', thvrwfnre, on tin origin of them: It ins. We must make one or other of two {Numpl msâ€"n-iflmrthnt mun always had I'M: some :nv-iiinl fnri'liics [Will the some fnmln'm-utzil ii’i’ualh-ctiial conetitution that he has now, or that tin-re woe a time when tlu so furulties had out yet ”son to the level of luun'inity, and when his mental constitih You was esscntially inferior. Life to some. is full of sorrow, Hall is real, half they borrowâ€"- Full of rocks and full of ledges, Corners sharp, and cuttin edges, Though the joy helix may ringing. Not a. song you’ll hear them singingâ€" Seeing never makes them wise. Looking. out from dowucast eyes Allin vain the‘sun is shining, \Vaters sparkling. blossoms twining, They but see through these same sorrows Sad to- days and worse to-morrowsâ€"J See the clouds that must goes over, See the weeds among the'clover, Everything and M ything. Br 6 the golden sunbeams bring Drinking from the bitter fountain, y) I your glole-hiii seems a! mountain ; Drops of dew and drops of rain Swell into the mighty main Allin vain the blessings shower, And the mercies fall thh power. Gathering chaff ye tread the wheat, Rich and royal heath your feet. Let it not be so my neighbor, Look up as you love and labor, Not for one alone woe’s vials; Every man has cares a d trials, Joy and pain are linke together, Like the fair and cloudy weather, May we have, oh, let us pray, Faith and patience for today Tin‘ Bums]: (.‘hamw! Tmmol and the Al!- vmuu'u-s (o be (Jamal by It. Fl om tho .Lqmloh Twirgraph. ~Cnnsidoring the general vagueness which prevails in tho pnbfio mind [on this impor- tant subject. the statement of Sir Edward Watkin, M. P.. at nu adjourned meeting of the Shmzeholders of {the Southeastom Rail- way, respecting the results of the prelimi- ’l “JVIIIJJNG RYDER Till} SE1. [00K lll’, NOT ”OWN. ' The Queen‘s Accession. ___._.o4.. The Early Religion. -009 nary works and the actual prospect of the channel tunnel, must'be regarded as not only deeply interesting, but as distinctly re- assuring. Sir Edward told his an lience that the question as it stands at present may be regarded under two heads. The first \vas to know whether it was practicable to bore through a stratum beneath the chan- nel which was impervious to water, The second problem is to discover whether by thé employment of improved machinery the estimated time of construction can be shortened. The experiments already made are as follows zâ€"Two shafts have been sunk on the English side of the channelâ€"one at the Abbott’s cliff and the other at Shakeâ€" speare’s cliff. From the first shaft a gallery between eight and nine hundred yards in length, and with a diameter of seven feet. had been driven by machinery. 1n the course of the week last past. and with ma- chinery not yet perfected, the gallery had been extended by sixty-seven yards of lineal distance; and, by Sir Edward‘s showing, if that were the maximum progress every week, it would amount to an aggregate of about two miles of excavation in every year. Of course, when the tunnel was commenced, it would be worked at from the French and the English extremities; and, as the dis- tance, practically speaking, is only twenty miles, not more than fiVe years would be re- quired to complete an experimental gallery, with a diameter of seven feet, under the en- tire breadth of the channel, at a given spot. As regards the works at Shakespecre's cliff, a. shaft had been sunk there to a depth of one hundred and fifty-seven feet. Theengi- users had also bore-l from the bottom of this shaft to a further depth of one hundred and five feet. No trace of \\ atcr- had been found In the stratum of old gray chalk. Near the surface, indeed. a small quantity 1 of water had been met with ; but this was a . contingency which must always be expected. Thus much Sir Edward Wntkin was enabled to announce as to the rate of speed at which the works could be carried on. and the im. permeability of the strata to leakage from water. On the other side of the channel two shaftshave been sunk by the French company, and results precisely similar to those obtained on the English shore had been ascertained by our neighbours. It had been further arranged between» the French and English companies that they shOuld drive through a heading to a length of' one mile on eitlier side. When there two miles are finishedâ€"and it is calculated that they» can be completed within six monthsâ€"(me~tentli cf the . whole question will, in Sir Edward‘s opinioh, have been dealt with. After this it would only ‘ be necessary for the French and English com- panies to conclude a final treaty ; and the engineers, setting to work at either extrem- ity to complete the remaining eighteen m' es, would finally meet under the middle of he channel, just as the French and itali- an Engineers met under the middle of Mount Cenis. \Vith the driving through of the ex- perimental gallery the question of the chan- nel tunnel’s feasibility would be practically settled ; but. until such feasibility has been fully and practically proven, neither the British nor the foreign investor will be asked to embark capital in the undertaking. It Would be premature to consider how the enterprise is to be developed as a financial scheme. Any amount of capitalâ€"a gigantic amount if necessaryâ€"would be forthcoming if the practicability of the tunnel were brought to demonstration and the South- eastern Railway Company, who have home all the risk of the preliminary experiments, would achieve the triumph of supplying a long-missing link in a system of railway communication which would reach from the north of Scotland to Brindsi, to Cadiz, and to Odessa. The advantages arising from the abrog. - tion of the short but miserable sca passage from DoVer to Calais would he almost incal cnlahly beneficial. The old diligence 'our- ncy over Mount Cenis was full enough of discomfort. and the cars on the sell Fai‘lwny, albeit a much swiftcr were scarcely an agreeable mode of conveyance. Still' the Alpine passes laboriously elamlmred up and pl0(l(l0ll. don/n by lengtl v trains of males dragging cnmhmus caravans full of travel. l lei-s, tin; dust, the flies, the snow in winter, the ill- an )plied and extortionate posting ' houses, ‘(liil not deter English tourists from visiting Italy. It may. on the other hand, ‘ he justifiably assumed that “ the silver streak," to dear to p ietry and to patriotism, | everv year practically arc-vents thousamh m ‘ tinglish people. especially ladies, from 1 Visiting the continent. \Ve suffer less. pet'- hapv, from sea-sickness than any other no: tiun in the world : and for one English lady who can thormrzhly enjoy a passage across the Atlantic. anl cheerily report herself at the captain‘s table at breakfast. luncheon. dinner. auvl tea. there :‘I'n pmhahly ton Amerie‘m laolirs who spend their ten days and nizhts: on shiphoartl meaning and gruau~ lllil m'their narrow state-rooms. Yet 1:; sea s’ckueea not unknown among: us, all hardy and maturing from our earliest youth as we ha‘uitnally arc. and (tMC-lifil'tleiic(l travellcn and old sailors by profeaaion dislike, if they do not lll'.‘fld. the channel passage. The railway companies do what they can ; praisoworthy efforts have been made to inn. prove the stcmnora ; anmler harhor ac anno- (lationa may be eventually provided on the French sillc : yet the channel paasago can I scarcely fail to remain what it is. and what I it. has lmon. the most miscrahlo oi orilcals. 'l‘he mulmrkation mul rlrlmrkation. the l transhiomont of (the luggage, the hanging b about the stafiun until the train starts. are in theumclvcs productive of discomfort, an- l noyauee auvl irritation ; annl these are aggra- l vaterl to the 'intolerahlc (legrno \V’llun the weather is tompestnons and the heats are crowded. 'l‘ho constracliou of the channel tunncl would, again, lead to a much. better feeling between the eople of the two conu- triee now separated v “ the silver streak." The working classes of France and England at present know coluparativoly little of one another, but could the journey between Chafing-cross and the Cam du N 0rd ”be ac- complished in a six hours’ railway run, with no dolorous trial of a son passage. immense numbers of tradespeople and workin folk in London and Paris [respectively wonlx be brought in frequent. and, it is to be 110 ed. into fraternal contact. Surely the eel cause of the channel tunnel should be the furtherance of the interest: of peace. Once completed, the neutrality and integrity of so thoroughly a cosmopolitan work should be acknowledgedfind guarantee'd- by the whole 'civilized world, and it should be no more internation: lly wurrautable to destroy or injure the channel tunnel than "to hour hard the Parthenon again or pull down the pyramids; A beautiful collection of paintings has just been sold at Kassel. It was the pun perty of “Ohl'Na‘hl.” 'an eccentric enthusiast of that hy-gone class who in their younger, and even older days did {not dream of such things as electric railways. In two miser- able atti'c rooms he watched to his last breath the precious treasures. come to him from a long line of ancestors. He slept among his pictures, and not wishing to build a fire in waterjwhich, by the way, he was unable to afford had he Wanted it.) he shiv- ered dny and night in his little gallery, com. placently and proudly looking at his Ree- bens, rubbing his cold, emaciated hands un- til they grew warm. At times the ‘cold would driVO him down from his lofty eyrie and into the warm room of a friend, at whose stove he could thaw his frozen limbs. Once the King of Hanover 'came to Kassal and sent a Chamberlain to ‘ld Nalil for the purpose of negotiating a purclmse of‘izome of the old man’s favorites. After many an oh- stinate refusal, he finaliy yielded, driVen to it by sheer want. The pictures weije taken down and forth with sent to the King's apart- meme. places on his walls, feeling as though he had sold his very children.” There was nething for it but to cancel the bargain. The King proposed to him to make him the custodian of his own gallery at Hanover", with a l beral annual pension, if he would agree to finally cede his collection to the King at a good round sum to be fiXed before hand. But. when told that he could not he allowed to sleep among his pictures. Nahl l‘elnsed'point blank, hut lil'ed on as miserably, but as con~. tentedly as before. Later on the Governor of Hesse-Nassau, President Von Mooler. endeavored to lighten the eccentric old 'fel- low‘s lot, and among other delicate questions and proposals asked himwhat he could do to please him. “Oh. Mr. President,” joy- fully exclaimed Nnhl, “ you might indeed do me a great favor by ordering that wretch- ed noplnr to be cut down, which sadly interi feres with my vietv of Wilmhelmshmhc. That has been a great wish of mine for many years.” Mr. Von Moelcr shrugged his shoulders and lei t. \thn Nahl awoke the next morning and went to his window the poplar tree had disappeared. The authentic favorites were sold to the highest bidder for several thousand marks the other day ; the good, inoffensive old man had died as he had livedâ€"poor as a church mouse. luv-nu u. The next morning the poor old man. with tears in his eyes, implored the Chamberlain “by all thafi W33 holy to give him back his pictures ; he had not clued an eye the whole night, but mounfinily stared at the yacant THE CLOSE MYSTERY EXPLODED. 3 OLD MAN’S DEATH IN PRbSSlA AND THE STRANGE LIFE HE LED. On Wednesday afternoon last‘ Mrs. John E. Close came from Buffalo to Clinton, and had an interview uith Ulllce'r Young, of the Ontario Police Force. She hrmlght a letter from Detective Curtin of her mission being to determine whether the body new in the cemetery at Urummondvillo was or/nras hot; thatzof her husband. In convoraatién she stated that one mark of identification "Would he that some thirteen years ago nhoiit three inches of one of the cords in his left wrist had been removed on account of some trouble. Mr. Young then went to see Dr. MeGarv to ask if after such a time it Would he 0R3ll)l0 to discover Such a inn: k upon the renlhins, and. the doctor answering in the nfllrnmtive, he determined to again oxnumo the lmdy. Before doing an, however, he "made a large number of enquiries of Mrs. Close, and on her saying that her hushan'l had a Very small font. he knew that his tron‘ilo would be for no purpose. as the font of the dead [warren measured )0; inches. It seems that his familv are not or have. not been taking any steps to solve. the mystery. ‘hul; alter Mrs. Close’a return home (lififfii’ ‘ Yum“! re" ived a letter stating that the \‘riter knows (,‘loso, knows where he is now. what he is doing. how much he gets. etc" and further that. he is married to another Woman. a girl with whom he was ar‘quaintc-l when he lived nith his \\ ife, not far from Clifton. in Canada. He. has been uith her since his disappearance. and the letter written at Hamilton to his wife was sent from lheru while. hovwas on his way to me the aid. whom he married almn‘. Juno If. Tlm 0mm expects to ho able to identify Clone inside 6f two days. Ilia character does not seem to he a remnhr'uh .2qu on“. and his wife was'not happy.with himâ€"n- Globe. THE ENGINEER KNOWN To Dr} ALIVE. T883!!! 051% DOLLAR PER ANSI)“ Strictly In Advance Stan-lug For [In Pictures. NUMBER 241