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5f | Port Perry Bays After the Champion. 2. We olipy tisiafollowing: from 'the i Take ipeiftn April 22nd: ge Te a i "challange an. a ; forth ot on ng night, no one will should see fit to ut L. H. Jomnsox,': | Champions of the orl ~Phiswas a little too uch for our ir | Pludky young townsmen, GR. Weir, land Fred T. Hunt, for we find the | following inthe Denver Tribune of the | | following day : 3 JONSTON'S CHALLENGE ACCEPTED, The following answer to Mr! Johnstons ¢hallunge, published yesterday moruiug, has been received dt this office. Mr. Weirstates | that he cdn'be found atthe Occidental Hotel | any time to- day to deposit his forfeit and sign articles ; the object alm- o too much of a April 22. To the Sporting Editor of Tux Ta 1 will acoept Mr. Johnstow's challenge for 2 100 yard's run, matching Mr, Fred T. Hunt, o Pore Perry; Ontario, against him, for £250 * Hot to he from the scratch at the report ofa pistol. GR. Ware. Again in the i issne of 'the Denver | Fr ibune of 'April 25, wé find the follow: HUNT asp JORNSON MATCHED FOR A 100 vARD DASH 5: a esting held iu the o Oscidentdl Hotel yesterday, avticles of Agreement were drawn up and' ied by G. Weir and L. IL. Johnson, for a race betwee Johnson and | | Fred T. Hunt, Port Perry, | race is a hundred yards dash from the scratch atthe peport Pp The race will take place at Jewell Park on the 8th of May, between2 and 8 o'clock p. - | The money was deppaited with Mr. _ | T.. Rowell yestcrday morning, y Bo that the match comes off hls day 4 Thursday 8th inst. The anxious wish al] by butespacially of thislacality is that, et tn fated t to Wie dot Tequest, . msuian,; | runners | Bin omeified:" Forgseion + a terror to run | bo sacrifice ides sobjctisdor: thie: gaint: If Hunt wins at all, which | . - {all here, nf he wil 'he will win) . (honorably, honor way be relied on alutaty eee ie Brown's est a himself on en: } 3rd inst. was at public. estimation %e Highttal" by the 3 Cam | bee in whose sparkling #1 fairly feasted on w the magnificent of all that was | newest, . best, dh os end hand: est arkets in xh cod " really do- of fair visitors ! 2% Ha enise : Ce Hope: Rb fhe 4 of. Bliss Holla! &: | Wi Cz. Van Home, a I ------ . i nob; cover the reqairemen the pro- {in the sun's rays, Nino ; that mothing short of free trade | fittered's' ugood by and secession will: satisfy the. people land thie wheels _|and that the executive of the Farmers' Broadway, amid 1 : Union be called upon: to give their Mnited, ey to this platform, we. wonder oo hada Sitting . Bull or Unbcle Sas. would days race was d slasher, Tt commerie- ed on Monday and closed" on Sdturday | | of last week. There were in all four- teen started' in the race, the prizes were all to come' "out of the money | taken at the gate for admission into the 'garden to 'witness the 'rave; thie money was to be divided amongst all 'the "contestants. who made over 500 miles within thesix days: The winner 'wai to Have: half the 'gate 'money and a stake of §1,500 and the others' certain' percentage of the gate money varied of course by the nunber who should 'eover.500. miles within the given time. The following are the names of the parties: who held out to the end and made over 500 miles, via; Fitzgerald, 610 miles ; Rowell, 602 ; Hertly, 689 ; Vinet, 530 ; Elson, 525. The receipts of ; the gate, sviounted |i to about $25,000, and if was divided in the following ratio ; Fitagerald being 1st gets fifty per cent. of it or $12,500 and this, with the $1,600 of a 'stake * | makes his share $14,000 ; he traveled in all 140 hours during the six days so that he had $100 an hour during every hour he traveled. Rowell the 2nd tan got 20-per cent: or $5,000 ; the 3rd man' Panchot, got 11 per cent, or $2,750 of the gate money ; the 4th man got 7 per cent. or $1,750 ; the ith 5 per cenb.or §1, 250 ; the 6th 'man 4 per and the 7th man, 3 per deht or 8750, Ee iE Good | News, Many of the citizens of Ontario lidve been waiting in enxious expectancy for them if they attempted going r iu thestate E run | into housekeeping on their own account! they turned do to Ji ersey City. course Jay through New. where they spend the | routé is to be from Ne delphi, Baltimore, take until the D b S oof ers have issuods ue co + 4 The action LaXetuin of Chica The' tiders wero both dressed in : 'bicycling suits of brown corduroy, and | - SnELBOURS, carried "a thaltun th parv bag | out yesterdry attached to the machine behind the | the Royal Hotel 8 saddle. The bag contained a rub so Lswit, unférclothes, toilet articles @nd nine | virious tools. © All other laggage is ] sent 'aliead by tail: © The wheels are od 0H youn of English take, Woodside's be- ling a B8-inch' "British Ohiallenge? 41 Morgan's a Btnch 4 Rudy ge. rider flags nro'red aid Wi 1 beaFifiz the in seriptionsin' gold Setters, "New Yor and "Frisco." Tbibitons of - fancy riding will be given household effacte, loss § aio fa orse. in all the lurge 'cities that are passed: for £500, and Jolin. Jelly, © Woodside is twenty-three years old, { valued at $150. The owners of the: six feet tall, and weighs 185 poundé-- | of fir Monsrn rag » ot {He is an Irishman "by birth. Morgan | buildings being valued 1000 5 in- | is twenty five years 'of dge, five feet sured for $7,500, The followiiig nine' inches in Leight, 'and weighs 145 surance companies are amon, it; d pounds." He is a Canadian by) birth. Josers Otyiof Loudon, Royal Lees ford, Phoenix, Mutual, 'Tixe 'Ons oF tHE Cas SAR , and the Waterloo Franoiseo, May 2.---A special tothe Y., says: The: astounding "discovery has been made "that the mails) which "left | Victoria, March 21st and 24th, for the | Bast and Eurepe, never 'reached their | destination: "Robbery is assigned as ernment. Hern, Mattie Tate, the completion of a second; throngh | the'eause, and itis belioved they have route betwern, Toronto 'anid Montrealsi boon: taken to some place on the North. | They. have wondered when' the last, | er Pacific road. "The pecunigry 55 pe. ink would be completed which 'would | Will tbe heavy." Last Deosiber, two short-sighted. mortals 'the mef bind the two cities together anew, This last link has been completed, and on Vaotorin, "rite the - North the evening of the Stluinst, at. o'clock [Were pole te last rail was laid . Every bridge? : liad been, constructed, every tie. had Quics Toip-New Nom, May 3. | month' or do sooner than: it was, cen placed in position, the entire line, ~The Oregon; which aryi¥ed at Liver- Hh Grit organs would had been graded, and at. that. tine all ROO! this, moni 2 mode the quickest | {abled to parade a mich Jurgen that, vas: poeded to' complete the cans! his that bagey ting per Seoond) | tection; between . the. tw cities, and | ther Alaska's time by 3 hour 3 | between Toronte and the capita} of the Minutes the best pres ? The Oragon' "8 4 asd cy a of Mr.| Pritspurd, oy 5! General Manager| man,' a farme A Mr. BB. of. ad of tho, | od on the Osler President, Ontario and Quebec ; | received and oi out by him from 1st) Ji ary, to 1st June of losers, the [di i the i thy, 1 seted that tho block | nedy, Daniel Mikel. Div... 11,---Stella. Ackermi: Anne gi sa man, Willig Platten, John Campbell, Fred George Irvine, John Trounce, Willie Wi ns of dolls voted: 8 dail. from' Canada nnd England for | the Opposition : must: be. Tad 'they i is) not wasted oh time. of Parliament by i Willie SBangester, Eddie! Olve, ;: - Jonps, Albert Parrish Louis! ry Harry: Shaw, : i Eowers, John During the last ¢ the' Franek |. hog fob 0 pulaton vf Cemada $ i