4 300 to 400 SQUARE MILES COVERED BY in the Penitentiary. PAUKY S87 TO WORK IN THE BAKFRY. Ex-detective Fahey was taken to the church with the other prisoners in the penitentiary on -- week, and his guite an excitement nmiates, several of WHdis PESHQ" 4 nized him, During the sermon Fahey com a sense were made, after the service, to calm acothe him, but he continued in the same @tate the rest of the day. Qn account of the hoatile dis eile ye Reaietsin' ition of e him in the ' ment, as first intended, but to ar bim in the bakery, where bail four of five ra are eniploye 7 -_---- esipieidietb nteiameiacie The German Inundations. te ¥ Set TPs WATER----79 VILLAGES SUBMERGED _ Berlin, April 4.--The Warthe and ling, hat the waters at the Vistula are vat spreading, now cov: ering an ares of 300 or 400 square miles. ot! 30,000, are Experts calculate that it will aire months of labor to drain the deo har ~-- in Germany, spring cultivation ining |b subarbs of Szolnok and « portion flooded by the ¢ burst- prey are still gumelted, Inu eaused by the overflow of the Iss, in Hun- mary, have done great damage, French 'Canadians jans Returning. | FACTORIES SHUTTING DOWN IN NEW ENG- LAND--TUE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, For some weeks back the incoming trains from the teed gts the we a nore passen; ging to the workin, oa thet th than usual a! season of | ® Heretofore fare pad, rleft for kfields and other industries in the State of Massachusetts, but this year that atato been rev Ni the breadwinners are returning but families, ith to-handle neo it delivered safely at ite Very few of the come through to M the large num- Vbers. that get off atthe different way this side of the lines, between St bert St. A 's. They to their native A Witness reporter asked the father of a family of thirteen children, yesterday, the cause of so many of the French- Casedions sorter next changes in the -- that" Pag pe to manufacturers ry had large stock on hand, and this is the ---- -- Rive for throwing us out of employ- pee Wife-beating is -- common in Phila- delphia, 'The city of brotherly love ought to spare a little aiiochian for the sisters. ¥For--Bilous-Disorders_and Acid Stomach, Campbell's Cathartic Compound is very effective. A Little boy asked his father if a mouse be a rat, and the old gentle- ean answered, "No, m than a dude ever grows see the species ia different. Elixir Vito asd be + happy. Sold by druggiste. - A former citizen of Pinkeyviile, Ill., has 'obabl largest grave in the world. fie wanton his coal mine one day, aod w & remote gal e roof 4A Rare Combination. bar ack urge dd a of medicines meets 80 uire- menta as does od Bilters in its Gomrinnt, Sorta aad mt hsctaees ak Ye Sy wie 5 Ga he vat ls bird ge Eh ya Hollow: Ointment well Screstenag dlarrbrs sod eveci bere oholera. poorer inhabitants of peniioi tales a causes, eruptions, taiany,, ed peat -atmest as -fickie ani AMID DRIFTING SANDS, STRANGE SCENES AMONG THE SHIFT- ING DUNES OF NEBRASKA, or Occean Tarned to a Rand While Tossed RTT . 3 by a ftorm--Silence = and a Labyrinth ot Bhadews--A Well Pag. by the Wind. A Vagrant: ener ~~ The 'sand bills' in Nebraska are pecu Mar. Drifted east, west, north, sogth, everywhere, by each wind that blows: whirted up into a prmereceatacbet bat besingab tetas, only 'jahe A and.» = PRG NR itSat hither and thitter, le wae f these sand dunes have a strange, uncertain existence, to-morrow ; like snow by every passing breeze captions ae thewtid They area shifting, moving desert, at. bila ¢ x bbe es ae, BT eae ac rom the restles surface, see sand and sky, nothing more. They are uniquc; an ocean, while tossed by a storm, turned t sand, and still like the ocean, the waves rising and fall- fig; only slower. FTeriil, Gniqiiet, restian, & vagrant country. The_sand hills. are desolate, dreary, silent, On acalm day the silence is oppressive. T remember riding BP on the top of one of these drifts of sand one hen the sun was sinking weil aeons toward tho west, and The it was nothing around me bat shadows--every cone throwing a dark shadow half way up ---- yellow side of the cata aa Thad a over and a the hills for some time, when ber It seemed as if J could see thousands of the little round, com«al semi-circular shadow. . further away the hills seemed to become lost and -- melt into one another, but the shadows g a pe shadows--half shadows, half sunlight. The shadows lay thick and regular over the sandy | waste, as if some giant had gone over the| whole country with a huge paint brush, and tonched the landscape regularly with dark | blotches, Their edges almost met, with only a tracery the view would bave grown monotonous, then it strange, unique, bewildering. n was silence and desolation lying at one's [eet with the soft afternoon sun--e little redder wer and lower, while t rose higher and higher. usual, a little summer-- flooding it with a hazy light, and -- sinking lo he shado Some. little distance away I could neo. couple ofthe antelopes { had started after on top of one of the hills, gazing toward me was pe de and edges of are desert the noises of the world without pene- without trated. I -- and it sounded like\a voice from behind the next sand dune--frouhsome one unseen, It at strange, this deep silence; and asthe shadows hills the whole scene me seemed as if I was ea a labyrinth of shadows --shut in among ws by silence--and gradually I the directions, or whether there was such a thing as direction or distince, Only shadows, , and more shadows, and a dead, heavy, al- most painful silence. I wondered if there was over any sound , Or if--but there bone silence was broken by a flock of sandhill cranes, flying over so far above that -- techn oat but little more than specks, but the flapping of their wings came clear and distinct. Thena littl burrowing owl flew out of the next shadow toward the sun, and flapped its way slowly around another hill, and the coyote went in what appeared to mo woukl be a rather fruitless pursuit, and the pop oth bounded away, looking no beady than rabbits as they ig the hills and shadows, There was no limit to the view--hills and shadows, shadows and hills, as far as tho eve could reacli--and Tar beyord." Tt was firt miles to the east before the fertile country Was encountered; almost as far to the west, tween Nebraska and Dakota, and beyond that was the great Sioux Indian reservation, reaching away to the n It made little difference how far the sand cx- | tended:thi Sib eetSM incl een hentas ood whether it was a desert ora fertile plain, Ten miles to the south was the Niobrara river--a small! stream rolling along through the sand between low bluffs, and constantly growing smaller instead of on its way to the Missouri. Well up toward its head, | more than 100 miles to the west, it scens 28 large as at its mouth. Between being swal-! lowed up by the sands and evaporated by the bot san and scorching winds, unfortunate sss struggles half ita course, The only Variation to the scehe of hill and shadow Was far aera or tar itt i i it | : i F ( We poahter business and when ce ae fiaid ddt is closed" up it 4 of sunlight dividing them. In time how I 'the 'eet buried in the, r tohed. him irved.-+ without being ablé té ating ef any way to began to doubt whether I knew an miles, of Fue cradle," which has * 45,000 MILES OF RAILROAD. Analysis of the Work and the Money Be- quised for Bullding 3t, oe The railways laid out 15,000 miles - of few road for 1887, and as near as the best laid plans of mancan go it was com l not done inside January and ee it was left over, will be found that it was a round | Farm for Sale Cheap. GOOD FARM, Containing 65 Acres, al) cleared, right on gravel road. GOOD CONCRETE HOUSE AND OUTBUILDINGS Two Barts and small Orchard For particulars y quick to WILLIAM GORDON, Real Extate Broker, Stratford of new lines for which the builders set out at Geginning of I887.. "As this is Decomieg complete, and the competition created by it appears, the pecessity for adjusting rates and business relatiote;and the care of the bonds, some interstate questions are presented, wets erates the Bas Miaka ei See is S hikely to oceupy six 'monthe at least, and the question comes up, what is to be the out- come! dtr tends and pledges and bonuses this 14.000 miles of new road represents a round of fies W),000, zbich bas been mn Placed J fence ee ee Cawirieny large as of this hel om taken out vege the control of Wall street, apa leaves that s bare of the material pean $450,000,000 in now roads is bat a emall Ae of the work, and only « part of the expense. The "ballasting up" and "rounding out" of the skeleton of the creation is an equally im- portant work. There must be locomotives end rolling stock, and repair shops, and the tening of. curv to the utmost, and the now freight arrangements then comes that other question of a set battle with each other for business. In this is the y or the ex- tension of a parallel the war of rates created destroys the profits upon the old line, then a is a serious considera- jon.--Chicago Journal of A Tiny Winged Messenger. "One afternoon in the course of versation about his fortress lite, 'I was lying on the bed ts my casemate, wondering should dho-vesbaf the day, when -- flew into the cell through the open = aon a@ man' vials, of a fly is an i life. i and followed him my eyes he flew back and forth across the cell until I cell beyond my reach. "For ten or fifteen minutes ;capture him, Mutations bona drm neat ito the floor, and as he passed me I succeeded in catching him in the hollow of my hands injuring him. Attached to his body a fine human hair I fi norris folded scrap of thin cigarette pa per again to the fly as well as I could and put him out into the ~orridor through the port hole."-- here George Keynan in The Century. Amusements of the Eskimo. In the matter of amusements the are not badly off. They have a form of c and ball, the ball being « block of lene pierced with holes at different angles, into one of which the players strive to insert an ivory peg as the block falls, "double thirties," but the yop not regularly carried out, the breaks in them seeming to be without system, Ww they can or purchase a pack of cards they will Berd euchre and bigh low skill; They have a game ex- actey like solitaire, with the exception that ivory pegs take the special amnsement of the women is a species i to thirty different fizures in it, faine t they are extremely cléver in 'perform: and out among thei tangling it by a single pull on one end. -- American Magazine, A Valuable Fifty Cent Piece. Within a few weeksa man who handles large amounts of silver; and who is some- thing of an expert Cn rare coi a hagiaas 1833 without arrows. The a the of glass balls. The } HOUSS' AND LOT FOR SALE, IN GADSHILL.. HE B Leg egy ee ig offers ter Sale his Pro pe in pug ge ae land, caneikng, an acre anda halt frame ef kitchen attached. ce! mal ee TENET Sy catne ] 'iworten 1 P. oe. Cnet! fay March 14, 1888. / FOR fc Ss OR ROLE K -- THEM Hotel ne ores te fe Vilage snorn A vere House," is o it te out in every Apply to fo well patronized and wall arranged ad respect. Good sta GEORGE HOCH, © . ini | a. March lith, 1884. ---- THE Indersigned offers { Park Lot in Hamlet Ware tromting SB i Quarter of Lood.' oplonadly' winged oe t er a 7 ad lot p ae ll being situated in es Sratned pass of the a frame stable and other outhulldi Mpeg the present ning purposes. For terms, ete., apply to MBS. Joux s SILLIFAST, ee -- the premises. FARM FOR SALE, won. 4, in the Township. a to the Ci EING niet 10, Do ---- for Grain by the River Avon. There Stone House, one and a half steries, rthe aeety te JOUN A. KING, Lot 5, Ccn. letter, Box 15, Stratford P.O, CITY OF STRATFORD. LOTS FOR SALE. a Peeing Fis soneins ee the GT. R. Locomotive Works, are now offered for sale on Favorable Terms: MARSHALL'S SURVEY, Lots 29, 30, 31, West Side Mo- Kenzie St.; Lots 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, Bast Side MoKen- zie St.; 8. } Lot 50, and lots 51, 52, 53, 54,55, West Side Victoria | Strect. McKENZIE'S SURVEY, Lots 43, 44, North side Milton street ; Lot 49, South side Milton t. GRANGE SURVEY, Lot 51, south side of Milton st.; lot 54, north side Shakes- peare st. Apply to T. B. P. TRIW, | MERCHANTS BANK, Or to GEO. FORMAN, Laxb Acaxt: 6u- Stratiord THE Real Estate Exchange, OFFICE:---Up-stairs, First Door North of the British Mort- gage Loan Co., ON EAST SIDE OF MARKET STREET, STRATFORD, Ox. The Following Good Investments are selected. from. my list of Properties for Sale :-- ~ ROMEO WARD, geet Baten oe $1700 for a\nice Brick, storey and half cds and $3050 for a by om Brick House and lot. -- Brick owe "modern con- #1500 tora nee acre and 1} acres, near G.T.R. 9000 for three Frame. Houses. SHAKESPEARE WARD, $200 for two ie § nap -- $2500 for Brick kt HAMLET ¥ WARD, pss ioe ive nice -- Lota. AVON N WARD, #1500 for a Large Frame Cottage and Stabile. $2100 for a Large Frame House and-two lots, PALSTAFF WARD, $1000 for two Eligible Building Lots, $1500 for a Large, tyo storey Frame Houre. |... BUSINESS CHANCES. HOUSES TO RENT. 4 : i WANTED To Rent, sae geile near 0,T.R,, Yor boarding sinueh oll Lots, a. eee ---- cacemae HOTEL IN- SuERINGVILGG E Sconpion: 7 VALUABLE | CITY | PROPERTY r {BRANCH STORE \ iP STRATFORD,».-ONI.- oe Tne SENSE SCHOOL for the times. Tt edicdtes" Toang" Men a for « suceesdu. start in hile. Get that Educatjon that yas s young ame ot Wome: i" eh dacs claig edad Td GOALS mgiotey sion eth a eto ~ Piatic knowledge of Tisinese alfaira. WRITS FOR CATALOGU 607-ly. Ww. H. SHAW, | PRINCIPAL. Purr 5 mre we bave several sets for) Immediate Sale, which we will sell at a Small Advance 6n the Retail Importing Prices, 3 Only--99 Pieces 'Dinner Sets, " Honfleur" Pattern, 2, Only--100 'Pieces: Dinner Sets, Honfleur " Pattern. G2I These Fine Sets Have Sovp and Sauce Tureens, &c., ke. Only--85 Pieces Set, Combination, Tea, Breakfast and i Bnet Sets, ._ Claret, Brown (dark brown), " 2 * Daiay,' 'and « Marigold " "Pattern. Our Special Order List is open for receiving orders for Inyporting to arrive in Jaly. We have direct orders arriving each month, with Dinner' Sets, for Immediate Sale. JE. K. BARNSDALE & CO., STRATFORD AND MITCHELL. customers next summer. BEN. SLEET. * Pe) "ICR! IcB! I0B: FTPHE Undersigned has nas laid ine large stock of Pure Ice, from the Little Lakes, to supply his CIGARS. ROOMS TO RENT. | CRLEBRATPD | "i HOBLESSE "Ooes over GLADSTONE CIGARS" afew yards from at Factory Prices by J. FRANK PALMER, JAMES CORCESE. Or at Tue Trees office, HOUSE TO RENT. Setter, Ban, 1, wH LBALD In PINE. STYLES OP YORETTURE --AKD-- LOW PRICES. IT WILL PAY You TO BUY FROM US. BRADSHAW & CO., FURNITURE DEALERS AND - UNDERTAKERS. $25-LIPE-SIZE PORTRAIT-$25 --F RR HB !-- W. I. Becker's Gallery. JAMES SHARMAN, Stratford, December 6th, 1887. 622 WI Convince. and ful etary of Senerwes put bem eat Balan tire dierent fromany eter other ma receine If not obtainable om faite pote a bad ae) An NEW GOODS ! A= pSITTING YOR PHOTOGRAPH New Perfames--_ drew 0 LiF 7 ae PORTRAIT of themselves on Golan White liotrope __| MAKE A NOTE OF THIS, = uet. W you Prue. ------ Tooth B as same iver broeaaammaa TRY YOUR LUCK! A few doors west of Post. Office, __ Stratford, Dec. 13, 1387, WINTER FLUID, FOR CHAPPED HANDS. BAKING POWDER The Medical Hall, | -- 2 ays tureane rem: BEEF, 1RON AND WINE, i Restorative Menle. Rob Badger wr lsir Got and casy on gums), The Barmoral (good). New Combs-- Ladies' Hard Rubber Dressing ECan, Heavy, Medium and Light. ; | Fine Line Pocket Comba, Gents' rents © Cpate. Barbers TELEPHONE. -- Change o! of | Business. JOHN McINTYRE AKES PLEASURE in to- hie old > Friends and By merch Citioans ¢ st. FLOUR and FEED Business| ™ Mark NIG HT BELL. FE... J. JOHNS' DRUG STORE! R. Hewson's old stand, where he will in f ve carry on the business in ail its The brands of Family Flour, always in stock. Sa SS _ , Corn, Chop Shorta, ings, everything in SEEDS, , SEEDS. He will keep in stock the best kinds of i ie =. Clover, 2 EN. aad" Pied "aad : Ee ey aed. JOHN McINTYRE,. £2 Remember the Stand--next to Larkwerthy's Butcher 'Stratiord, March 5, 1588. CHAS. ¢ CLUTHE, Sureical Machintet 88 King Sracet. West. TORONT STRATFORD MITCHELL PORK PACKING! --sunioe nese momty, May 3 fae HOUSE Hr, "Beno | Gregg House, Friday & Saturday, April 2 & 21. SINEW STOCK ; "HONFLEUR"° PAT PERN. 'Ha aving" compréted of Oraery ten: eC Dantes TOP Dae liporctuon? Ld B | First Class M pap aa Butter, at Cees, &eo., etec., mt eae See | ee wimDow _ W BLS I will also pay highest marked price for first <lase Butter, co Dried Apples, DRESSED D HOGS. eipieatgee = Pm, pk eae Mipeand Laepsregiitady' tarray rc , Cree ee ro ee 2 = . - r: ' _-- . - be > FOR LS +