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yee "| # BEAVER?" from Quebec and Montreal. ror PERRY BRANCH. SAVINGS BARK DI (HK DEPARTMENT. | Interest allowed at the the Righest current rates from day of deposit to.day of with- drawal, Mo, notice of with- Wi INTEREST ADDED "IO PRINCI PAL On 8):t December of 'each year. *. W.J, M¢cMURTRY. Manager. 'half-year. || ; Yerms nin; in all. cases be strictly ad- Pumpin Hind Bills, Postess, Programs, Blank Forms, Receipt "Books, en ie Books, Citenlars, Busi Ball sooner a L Cirds, &e. of ¢ le and color cea pray and a lo i tpt ug s an; . ; ato in | Aa the County. a {rom a distance getting hand bills, &c. Printed can have them done to 'take home with them. * a BAIRD. © T PARSONS. R.: CLEMENS, sneceszor to J. D. And- : erson, M. D., Physician, Su n and Acconcheur, 'Offics over Corrigan's Store, Beridee door east of M. E. Church, Port ves Jan 1, 1853. H. GORDON, Norsry Posie, COMMISSIONER 1¥ B. R. LaxD, LoaX AND Répresenting the following first-class FIRE, y LIFE, ACCIDENT, : and GUARANTEE INSURANCE COMPANIES : The Royal, The Phenix, The Imperiil, The Queen, "The jo, Citizens, , The Canada Fire 'and Marine, The Sorsteign, ad "The Travelers. Fre Pourens insuring all classes of insur- ing property, upon the shortest notice, and " Rt rates. Life Policies with prem: ums payable until death, or, for a limite f years, dowment Policies Ds JONES & OLVER, Physicians, &e., Port Perr: hi J.B, OLVER, M.D, Comer, Queen St. Residence, Mary st. Port Perry, Dec 19, 1883, D% WARE, Csroner for the County of Ontario, "Physician, Surgeon and Ac- 'eouchenr. Sse und residency, King Strost, Prince Albert, G N. McCLINTON, M. D., Physician, Sur- : geon aud Accouchenr, . Officc--Williamsburg, Cartwright. y M. F. McBRIEN, M. D,, M. R. C. §., Guy's Hospital, London, England. -- BE AT 4 H. L., Osh: a lee £ F. PATERSON, Q. C.,Barristor and, N Attorney - at-Low Solicitor in heer, Conveyancer: Notary Fuidie, ites over Brown's Store. Jo BILLINGS, Barristerand Attorney- at-Law, &e: Solicitor for the Ontario Bank. Office over Ross & Son's Store, Queen 8t., Port Perry, Ont. Port Perry, Sept. 6, 1582. E. FAREWELL, L L. B., County Crown Attorney, Barrister, County Solicitor &e. Notary Public and Convey- anser, Office--South wing Court Houses, "Whitby, Ont. YMAN L. ENGLISH, L L-B., Soli ble at a certain date, or on previous death, Accident Insurance covering death bh ident, and weckly ity in case of nou fatal injury. . #7 Marerace Licryses Issvsp. ea and Tickets for passage to and from Great | Britain sold at lowest rates. Port Perry, April 20, 1881. MONE YL 70 0 LOAN. HE Subseriber is preparad to lend money on improved prop:rty for terms from one to twenty years. Agent for Wasrsry Caxapa Loaw asp | SAVINGS COMPANY. He has also been instrneted to invest a large amount of private {unds. . Inter S¥Eight por cent. No Commission. N. F. PATERSON. Solicitor. Port Perry, May 20, 1578. MONEY TO LOAN. pix Sibariber Is 1 is prepared to LEND ANY AMOUNT on Farm Sccurity AT 6§ PER CENT. Also on Village Property at a Higher Rate. #7 MORTGAGES BOUGHT. GR HUBERT L. EBBELS, { Barrister. Port Perry, May 10, 1861. : wars STAR" from New York. Site a ripple to be seen; passengers | all up early and enraptured by the ee morn. It is beginning to get very warm, however, and though we are well protected. from the rays of the sun by awnings stretched over the. deck, many of us find it uncomfortably] warm. The deck is covered with deck do W, He McOAW oi AG: the |S ie + 4 MONARCH" from New York: PRICE OF TICKET. from Ni k to honden and um Xa, 3 re from Tiverpt © Port Pay i Agent for the Collingwood ahd yi Lake Suporior Ying of Steamships. RAILROAD TICKETS. | Joel 5 to =ll parts of Canada and the United Parties iritending to travel will find it to their advantage to purchase tickets from W. H. McCAW. Port Perry, May 24, 1883. AUC TI0 IONEER. Te undersigned tikes this opportunity ol chairs on which the passengers are languidly. reclining, some reading, some sleeping, others talking. We are to- day 25 degrees North latitude. Oct. Gth---Was called early this morning to sée land for the first time since we. started.' It is the small. Is- land of St. Thomas which seems to have nothing on it but a lighthouse.-- The Tightliouse keeper came out to the ship and took the mail which will go back to New York by the steamer re- turning from Aspinwall. St. Thomas Eta for the. wry Rhos i$ one of the West Indian Islands, and patronage whic he has received "as Auc- 1s just lately been found out to be tioneer in the past. The increased experi- | the one on which Colurgbus first land- ence and extensive practice which I have | Ped when he discovered America, had will be turned to advantage of patrons and parties favoring mewith their les may | stond of §. Salvador as was Pippssd fora long time, in- rely on their i being fully No effort will be spared: Yo Sinks t it profitable for parties to place their Salesin my hands. My Sale Register will be found at Laing & Meharry's Hardware Store and 'at my own residence, Union Avenue, Port Perry. C. DAWES. Auctioneer. Port Perry, Aug. 17, 1883. Wal HEZZEL Woop, Licensed Auctioneer. TT Being so eager to see land 1 redhod on deck and as the wind was blowing rather briskly my hat was blown in the sea. and I said "good-bye" to §3.50.-- We also passed Castle Island, Cuban and Hayti, we saw only the s uth- be a barren waste. but a few soldiers at this part of the lisland.. The coast of Cuba is very HE undersigned hay having taken cut a License as Auctioneer is now prepared | | to attend all Sales entrusted to hin. Hay- ing had much experience in handling Real 5 | state, Live Stock such as Horses, Cattle, | treacherous --the reefs running out for Shecp, &e., also Parting Iraplements of all | miles. There is a light house on this >, . | kinds, Farm Produce, &c.,* Parties placing 4! part of the island but so situated as to) | their Sales in my hands may rely on getting all for the property that it is possible to do little good. The Captain says no [5b sring. | All ofdlers promptly attended to, sale bills made ott and por notes furnished free of sland--would build a light house, charge. ! though he sys one is needed here more Parties leaving their orders at the Opsen- 1 sx Ofhice, Port Perry, will receive immedi. than any plage on the Atlantic coast, | Cire Modan . many ships-havebeen wrecked on these fess at WM. HEZZELWOOD, | reefs, he says. We did not go near Raglan. | enough to ITayti to sce much of it, but | could plainly see the mountains which | Raglan.. Sept. 10, 1878. WM. GOEDON, | Licamssd Auctionssz, Viluator &c. AOR the Touuahign of Brock, Ux NE ok, Thorah, Mara, Rama, M: and Parti ntriating their Sales to m= may rely on tiie utmost attention being given to i this evening, their interests. : wi GORDON, &. | Oct. 7Tth--Sunday.--It nice weather but very warm, we expected to find. the Carribean rough, but on | the contrary it is quite calm. We had divine service at 11 o'clock 2. m.--no preaching--just a reading of the Eng- lish Church ritual, a Mr. Passmore, C. E, officiated. | Oct. 8th--another nice day, we Lave | civilized but relapsed into a state of | ba arbarism now, and it is said they are ans even canujbals. They tested the tem-| | perature 'of the water here and it is 74° Fhr. Tntered the Carribean Sea is i. All par wishing his services can call ot the | | kr Office, and arrange for days of Port Perry, Jan. 10, 1879. *Ushawa, You Na pH, LL. B., var p abla Sol Bit vency, ie, &e. Meller? Bid resumed the tino id at Law in exanged fog Soe investment a few $i ng - for intendin, iW. H. ew Brick in Chancery, Attorney, Conveyancer,&c, i lock, 'Brock Street, |. MONEY. [PRIVATE FUNDS] "To loan on good farms, at 8 percent interest. LYMAN ENGLISH, Barista Ty Ko. iy Oshawa. Nov. 21, 1366. PORT FERRY 3 STABLES C. M°'KENZIE, ' PROPRIETOR: THE Subscriber having now fully efquipp: T ed his new and avin oy Shite with a supply of superior Horses and ages, is prepared to furnish first-class RIGS oN MODERATE o. Mok Mc SENZIE. Pont Perry, Ang, 6 1878. Wem Ascurinos Company, . INCORPORATED 1851: CY ee ¥ 1 At one o'elock p. my oof 1 "HAIR DRESSING. HI od has much p e in| ex announcing to t! ies of Port Perr 1 Nts. Sort the he dotted oid of the year, and on the Carribean which over hr Kolph's Harsses 2 Shop, where she | is usually rough. All are anvious to intends carrying on Hair Dressi in every | department et in all the' rnd styles. -- {get on land. This evening we had a She fe es to manufacture Switches, | concert, given by the passengers, for Bangs Os Sos, Cope, pe the benefit of the Life Saving Service MISS TRWIN, |of the'U. 8. My diary says the re- Port Perry, Dee. 26, 1583, | fr | ts were the best part of it; | both the entertainment and the re- ANNUAL EBETING. i Ee A collection was taken up amounting FVHE third Annual, heen} Meeting of the to nearly $25. Stockholders of the REACH CHEESE. WEG a Oct. 9th--All are getting ready to land, expecting to get into'port to- for receiving the Annual Report, Electing morrow morning. Webegin to see the Distetory for the ensuing year and trans- is ne iy ctor bg Tot cant leet |. tops of the moun ins in South Amer. bi the gid will be held | ica, are running very slow, as we are at the T WN HALL MANCHESTER | not allowed to go in port before a cer- tain time or in the night. Nearly 'all On Sgturday, Jan'y 18, i, the passengers are writing to their Becwghy! friends so as to report in Aspinwell.-- Did you not get my letter from there? Oct. 10th--I rose early this morning to watch us going into port, as we "| draw near, the shore presents an' in- viting appearance covered as it is with: 'the waving palm and tall "cocoa nut : JOHN Manchester, Dee. 26, I gver, in this apparently beautiful land, we round a point the city (1) of wall rises by ofore us "Mr we greet (Conti. ). : Oct. Bth--A. Joely morning, hardly |. | them ithout the aid of labor market- eastern part of Cuba which seems to! No inhabitants lone' but Spaniards--who own the Isl {ave inhabited by a race of people once trees. No signs of habitation, how-| be for beth men and women smoking cigars aiid drinking ram both of which they have a passion for. - The nataral advantages . of the country furnish able fruit - "which they sell for a trifle and "rum. The eanal being built across the Isthumas will have a ten- dency perhaps to make them better, as it will be a novelty, as well as furnish profitable employment for a number of years while the whites going there may set them a good example and show them how to live decently. Aspinwall or Colon as the natives will persist in calling it, is of course one of the principle ports of the United States of Columbia, country in South America. The name Aspinwall was given by Americans, afteran American | by the name of Aspinwall who lived | thére many years. 1tis a very filthy { place, more so than you can imagine, | land i is consequently very oh no time of the year is Colon free from ! fever. In fact the whole Isthmus of | Panama is very unhealthy, why, itis | said that just during the time they were | building the railroad across, some 48 | miles, a man was buried for every tie in the road. | It may scem strange to! you that every one of these ties is| lifnumt gitw no others wi ill last, and! Ugnum wit is not so expensive in that! { country. All the native in! | Colon are made of | with pakn and cocoanut leaves. | may be compared to our dog { in Canada. | has been started many wooden houses | havedbeen built and the general appear- ' | ance of the place improved. the best engineers in the world are at | | work on this great. ca nal and of course houses mud and covered | They ! kennels | However, since ihe canal Some of i he natives.-- | Perhaps th aig unde ig in ithe world is the building of a canal sthipus of Pax cet- two of water the At ic and Pacific oceans. I had the pleasure of talking with two or three of the engineers en na cot immense bodies gaged on "the construction and so gleaned some i Y . : information in regard to this work. I alto had a good® view of the line going across the Isthmus as it goes near the all the way across. Though they have been at great railroad work some two years very little is done on the cath] proper Lut a great deal is done getting ready to work on it.-- y They have expended | fitty willions estimated to { cost when completed some six hundred | millions. As the country is very | mountainous you can imagine the | heavy work to be done on a canal. 1 am od that the country rises! some four or five thousand feet in the | The greatest difficulty to is the river Chagres which | crosses the canal some three or four | times and consequently the course of | it has to be turned. What would you | think of an enterprise to dig another | channel for the river St. Lawrence | and make it run in another direction yet this is what must be done "with | parts of the river Chagres which is nearly as large as the St, Lawrence.-- You perhaps know thatitis the French | Govornment building this canal and I 1a regret to say that the U. 8. Govern:| ment, jealous I suppose of the enter- prising De Lessups, 'are throwing cold water on it claiming that it never can 'be built. Yet the same was said in regard to the Suez: Oct. 11th--We stayed on our steam- er the Ocapluce all day yesterday and last night, as arrangements could not be made for us to go across the' Isthmus. © This morning we took the 7 a. m. train and started across, (Concluded next week.) - CL ---------- ASEES OF ROSES) -- alrealy some and it is infor: interior. overcome | { itd | took the girl to the city to spend a | January, or to the seaside for a mid- | | time--in the two years | mas, | where was the | temperature, | carpeted drawing room to the smal (window came | Clare in the red." 14 Mr. WeClurs will not be hero this ; ok Clarice hh ina low "of delicious Jormth, which | man 'that he be not Rm in your jety---~don't in pt, Clarice. g| Close observation, when we last met : Mr. MoCluresconviféed me that might i become 'too greatly - interested in "That isall I have tosay, my » mistress of the house, the|dear.™ ; derly woman, who, for thirty'|' "That is the ouly reason, aunt?" years | ruled hero, alone for the| "The main reason. most part, especially until Clavice had | say what sort of manhemay be growing. come. Yet her life had not been one Poverty is against Lim? poverty and a of unhappiness ; she, Lucretia Clann- | quick passionate. nature. Te seems ing, at 80, coul look back upon the | inclined to communists ow: Sccirlists or | past.and "say it been well worth living. And Clarice would brighten all the latter days--Clarice (no re- Intive) whom she had adopted asa niece a half-score years before, and strivento do so for as she would for an apartment ; theres she shut herself in own child. {and sat by the window %o look upon Sometimes Miss Channing's only | the dusk and the white fields. brother, older, not overlie herself,| "Aunt," she said, speaking ler found time to run hither from the thoughts aloud with a tinge of bitter great city and spend a day or two, ness, "you have spoiled my Christmas ; filled with his politics, his speculations, his lingering greed for gain. Little jan old woman--an old woman and you and bent he was, with many a cynical | have been good to me. TI will try not (chuckle and nasty sarcasm, 'and seem- Ito show the disappointment, but it is now I must go down and speak with Jane." Clarice went slowly out of the room and down the winding corrider to her | but I will not spoil yours, for you are ed to delight in arriving when les ast | oruel, cruel" if | | expeated, Yet he falways received his| She said nom ore, but sat in the due respect and deference:--even they | dusk thinking very rapidly and trying honored him by a strict observance of | {to feel less grieved. What would his request that no carriage be sent | | Christmas be, now that he would not for any late drain. | come? What were all the others There were others who always came | one earnest face, with its clear blue {at the Christmas season ; the Fieldjngs, | | eyes looked no response? That hope- Clem and Charley, children of a cous- | fy], handsome face, with its crisp chest- | ir, Victor Keene, a physician, and his | {nut locks at the temples. wife Myra, also distant connections, | besides if i She bad not seen him since October, a school-girl friend or two of | when le had come out with Elmer! ln In the past there had alo' jst before Elmer had sailed. They een El mer Keene, now abroad, 'and pad corresponded at intervals. She, Robert " McClure, his chum and pro- | wondered if her aunt liad thought of cge. A | this. Her aunt was the last person s Channing had not! on carth to pry into another's corres Li rself enjoyed this flood of youth and | | pondence--cven to examining a post- laughter, she would 'still | hark, Ab, her! Put to Robert--Eobert, so honest, so wice. sven though music and yes, her aunty just--to! have made them welcome for Clarice's | No mother could have been truer aud wiser to © Clarice than was she. = She felt it no sacrifice when she ! dnl ' sake, so brave, enthus- | rty pover full of youth's inom! Poverty? Yes, sore Elmer told her about a rich man having de- | wa nst him. Keene The remainder of the Clavice had left school they Lay pily enough by themselves in theegreat | summer month. since {well what he was doing when lie took had spent of n and ntage 1 quibble a house one among its own far reaching Here they could bring the | yg. latest wonders of art, and enjoy them ¢) stful le.sure ; meadows. t had never le: he name or ic in r here was home and! Robert was pec A its exceeding tenderness and peace. " 1t was lacking two days of Chri and the house was filled wit quietude that pre d from "(fommunist mdered ii this - were Communism, a great heart yearn ing toward all the oppressed the suff, ering ones of cart} It fairly fixed, she ious eveness of the ¢ he were =n iich man, or even ew what ho I TEU alvot- great velvet would "Ube doing just now. dormer | and t of the upper chamber, through whos the faint lig sending from house to house , igmorant, the winter sunset. And in ber own apartment, facing {the glow of firelight, Miss Channing rock:d slowly to and fro in an awple | chair, while Clarice stood leaning.upoit | the low mantle, a sweet and gracioas I presence. Tall, with perfect outline, though slenderly built; fair, with a face both classic and tender, and wou- drous shadowy eyes, gray springs in the fuller light. She leaned graceful- |1y ; her gray, close-clinging dress, was | | perfect in tailor-fit, perfect in its own | her, and should she Le the first! Im- hue relieved only by the cluster of possible! Her face the Jacqueminot roses glowing on her | darkness. Still she could not give him derness for soul and boly, and blessin, for the Christmas day ing. « Jh, it was walked softly to anc 50 HEAr appro crucl! She 1 fro. her aunt had dismissed | fectually ! She almost had not let her heart saying, and How cal ly | it! How of regretted she 10se ery « Aunt, for my sake let him come." avew hot in | up thus. She must ce Lim once more, Miss Channing rocked slowly to and if only once. She had no thought of froin her favorite chair, still holding | wronging her aunt's confidence, for her { her favorite magazine--though she had | aunt had been just and justice begets not read for an hour. There was some- | justice wherever its touch has been thing in her countenance indicative of | felt- Dut she would write to him to- slow judgment, unswerving purpose-- | motrow rt any He should nothing unkindly, however, or cr! uel, know if all else were different, she re- Clarice d the 7 d unchanged. of the day in a cheery voice--a voice | Thus resolved she went down to the that seemed to have neverthrilledavith | sitting-room, and as they sat at dinner pain or passion. her face was unclouded and beantiful. "The same as usual, Aut; the foil Miss Channing had possibly forgotten room for Uncle Rowland, the pink |the conversation and the evening slip- room for Nettie and Nell, the Field-| ped quietly away. lings in the blue room, Victor and Myar in the gold room and Mr. Mc event. P feverishly all night long and realize that she stood face to face with her first trouble. She would not write, she determined, but telegraph i Miss Channing rocked more slowly. It is difficult to i Nihilists. _ That 3s. all; Clarice; ond | had | | frauded Robert, a rich man who knew | t Roler.| 7s herit- | od | ¢ would be going | v sor- | d and meat and ten- |g out for him, | But he had never said that he loved | vj But Clarice relired only to toss|. Clianning. "I dare prefer the cutter, ast oar parcels." wooden brige, 'spanning a river. a Having arrived in town, Clarice first dispatched her message, then, went about some errands. When these were done she roturned tothe tele- graph office and found his reply awsit- ing her. | With nervous haste she opened it and read. : I will be in Cattling on Cliristmas eve, at the Depot hotel. She rode home in a «quiver of de- | light. To-morrow !| He was coming to- | morrow for her sake. He loved her { then, he loved he! : How bright youloo!, my dear," her aunt said kindly, "I am happy, Aunt," said! Clarice, impetuously. It seemed to. ber that the great house had never looked so beantiful as | now, with its evergreen wreathings,its bisire, its parted curtains,' where sun- [light enter.d and )lessed with abun | dance. She realized what a home it | had been and what had been Miss Chan- n'ng's goodnes throu hall these years A Etna not'to be set aside or for- fgotten through any cause on earth. -- ('ome what might she would be grate | ful and Lonest. | Dutfirst phe must see him, Come tomorrow ! Come to-morrow, quickly, when she stoi seem him--on Christ mas eve ! Lut how to meet him? She had not | thought of this. The visitors were ex- Robert would {not suffer from' any embaraasing en- untor unless Uncle Rowland should wientonrrive also by the sami 'rain that of early evening. She hoped the old al n would come hereto- we on Christmas day. She had no reat love for Uncle Rowland. His | fierce little eyes would ferrit Robert |out ; his sharp, sarsastic tongue make la noty of it too all the v's'tors, He int his remarks so as to bring He did not fancy pected in the morning. co' I confusion upon her. ho liked her well. After another restiess night dawn- ed another day of dazzling sunshine. -- ge sent down to meet the , 1c turned witha merry erowd of t, out of the gentlemen riding out- | Clarice was sincere in her welcome of | the dainty-blonde, Myra, and the rosy- ked Nettie and Nell, fresh from the light and sizht of the great city.-- She had pleasant words and cordial for the young men," Lunch was waiting which they all liked best. There was good skating on the river, and sleigh- sin prospect: There was a new billiard table to be tried. Tn the even- ing there would be singing and 'dénc- ring. and so she theushit saideClarice, they might manage.a little sport. "We Miss Elmer," said Myra sip- ping her coffee with dainty grace. « And Bob McClure," put inhi Felding. "Isn't Bob' coming? asked* Dr. Keene, glaneing up from his salad "No," said Miss Channing, scoenely, "I have not asked him." , [4 In the in'erval of sil glanced furtivtly at Aon girl's face was utterly" Pleiei smiling without a Susi 'or quivers «1 was mistake ught Myr... «She does not care os 70 Be Corvinus > ol Mugu sari ivwreq, There is in a foan" 8 a love of happiness. He es do without | ch year." PS hos ited the words in a wondering | tone: "Will not be here; {Suet did you forget to ask him?" : #No, I did, not forget." , "¢ There. was silenco--tho sheerest when on the morrow she went to town. It occupied her inde word out this message : ly 1 did not know wil a fow hour since that you had not been asked this year. My aunt has always af to such matters, and supposed itdabe. as ususl, - I cannot | tell you how ppiness, and d. thereof, find blessedn ess, 7 phen Statistik show tng lo Union are msg ie dust iniots Sor caut. stand. [continual