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Medium for Advertisers. OREIGN AND ossesses Great Facilities d contains & vast ammeunt Dundall: C¢#uide * 8 COLUMN PAPER DUNDALK GUIDE, Promptitude EW PRESSES TYPE, 44. ob Department. TH® The office is turnished with Dundalk CGGuid o pend npon being satisfied by leaving T STYLEOF THE ART T APPROVED KINDS. 1 T HE arge Circulation w fitt READING MATTER, OB WORK io wiru tu® GREATEST he STATION, FAMILY NEWSPAPER F<*POSTAGER FREKE LOCAL XEWS, SV CO»TT IC€ . should subscribe for the done in the very Prrer $1.00 res Asyc= OF TWE LATEST us their orders. CDppositeo makes MARKET REPORTY All who waut a good DE _ PRINTING OFFICE, NEARLT DPUNDALK IX ADVYANCE AND and o# Tusk it an excellent J. TOWXSENXD T HBE THE « rery bost style, and kinds of EDITOEIA L3 Ordi notices of births, . marriages, <|pa¢h-.m:n,:| all kinde of Jocal news, inserted free of charge. RATES OF ADVERTISING. Protessional and business cards, per year, $ 4 Auarter column, per year.............. 15 Half column, P C1 r iess cirs en S «Ine colamn, #* balirl‘ss ies es 0@ Do. KEX HOOENW"« x« ux «+ . . x« «+ 6 Do. three months.............. 15 Casual advertisements charged 8 cts. per Line for the first insertion, and 2 cts. per line for each subsequent insertionâ€"brevier measâ€" STRAY ANIMALS, «e., advertised three weeks for $1, the advertisement not to exâ€" «eed 8 lines. Advertisements, except when accompanied ‘by written instructions to the contrary, are inserted until forbidden, and charged at regâ€" wlar rates, Carpenter and Framer. Repairing done at his shop, Sash and panel doors made to orâ€" «er. #=. Remember the standâ€"two doors below the Post Office, All kinds of timber for building purposes «omstantly on hand at the lowest prices. T. B. GRADY, D. C. W. Dundalk, March, 15th 1877. |_ yâ€"7 Ivery Thursday, At the Office, Froton posite the Railway TERMS:â€"$1 per year in Advance, r®. $1.50 if not paid within two months. "@a Builder‘s and Contractor‘s NOTTCE. Constantly on hand at the POST OFFICE, DUNDALK. â€" Price only $2.00. J. J. MIDDLETON, Dundalk, â€" â€" Att â€"atâ€"law, Solicitor in â€" Chancery, Notary ;ubhe, Conveyancer, &¢. Office and residenceâ€"Dundalk. University Silver Medalist, Trinity College, Toronto, and Member of the Cellege of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. â€" Office Firntâ€"elass s@ecommodation, for the public. Ihe hest viands on hand. ‘The subscriber is prepared to offer his serâ€" vices as Stone Mason to any one r«}niting the same. _ All Work done in a satistactory manper. MA T e t s 1 6 Provincial Land Surveyor, Civil Engineer, DPraughtsman, Land Agent, Conveyancer, Has much pleasure in informing his friends and the public generally, that he is finpcnd to do all kinds of Gener:1 Blacksmithing, at the above works at his usual low rates. Morseshocing a speciality. oDundalk, Jan. 29 1877." Late of Guelph, MILLINER AND DRESSMAKER Opposite the Post Offiice, Marx Street, â€" â€" DUNDALK. February 8, 1877. Dundalk, wishes to intimate to the inhabiâ€" tants of Dundalk and surrounding country that he has removed from his old stand to his new building on Main Street, All work warranted, and satisfaction guarâ€" OPPOSITE THE POST OFFTICE, where he has a carefully selected stock of The undersigned, while thanking his numerous eustomers and the public generâ€" ally for the very liberal patronage bestowed upon him sipfu commencing ht:‘lin““l in Correct Time! Watches, Clocks, MUSICAL VIOLINS, BUSINESS DIRECTORY Marriage Certificates and Licenses, THE VULCAN WORKS, February 1, 1877. Mars Strzet, Dundalk, May 3, OWEX soOUNXD Sr., DUNDALK. Sreciar Arteytios Pam to Reraremo. ANXD JEWELRY, all of which will be sold cheap for cash. REMEMBER THE _S_T__AND: Miss Gokey, KKGLO AMERICAN HOTEL, DXXDALK. *y8 Notice to the Public. which will be got when § HENRY SCHENK, Corner of Qneen and Victoria Streets CONCERTINAS, RICHARD CLARE, JAMES HANNA ISAAC TRAYNOR, DHK. MeWILLIAM, JAMES LAMOX, NORTH SIDE OF INSTRUMENTS, Saxwes McCurrocm, Prop "GUIDE " anteed. ACCORDEONS,1 1877 J. TOWNSEXD Dexvark. Issuer. A. G. HUNTER, Comunsstoner 1x taz Qurex‘s Bexer DUNDALK. To‘nship of Proton JOS. McARDLE, Commissioner in the Queen‘s Bench, Conveyancer, &co. Tuz Orpest Fire Issuraxce and Moxey Loax Acescy in the Towxsutr. The best Companies in the Province repre Also Bran, Chop, and all kinds of Mill Feed. THOS. McCAULEY, Sr. We have a number of Good FARMS for Sale on easy terms. Call at.our Office. RUTHERFORD & HUNTER, Lot 23, in the 10th Concession, Lot 42, * 4th w Lot 40, * 8th ht Lot. 1, * ;26th ie Lot 21, " 11th $ On easy terms. Apply to HENRY GRAHAM, Dundalk, or R. }r Bowxs, 26, Wellingtonâ€"st., East, Toronto. Firstâ€"Class klour constantly for Sale at the DPUNDALK GRIST MILL Warranted as good as any offered in Dundalk, and Cheaper. #@ Business done strictly private. Residence and address * i _HOPEVILLE, Co. off Grey. June 21, 1877 TAILORING. Wm. CHITTICK, Prepared to Receive Orders Most Fashionable STYLES. D U N D A L K DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, BOOTS & SHOES, CROCKERY, Etc. Cash Store! MAIN STREET, Goods for Cash as Cheap as can West of Orangeville. All those indebted, cither by Note or Book Account, are requested to_uttlo up Farms for Sale. Family Flour June 27. 1877 Dundalk, April 5, 1877. CLOTHING, Dundalk, April 5th, 1877. Wishes to inform all those who require his services, that he is January, 29, 1877. Mauke up the same on short notice. $. Haney. Dundalk. Jan. 29, 1877. Flour! Flour! Remember the stand, Main Street, DUNDALK. 2‘3 S lnE 0 Vol.I. No. @ J 0. FOR SALE. ESTABLISHMENT. The following Lots in the A SUPPLY OF «00D ALWAYS ON HAND. < Village Lots For [Sale AND IN THE AND TO General Agents. *y10 yâ€"21 "But please, sir, buy‘em," pleaded the little one, reassured by the rough kindness wf his tone. "Nobody seems to care for them, andâ€"andâ€"â€"" A comical sight indeed! _ _ It‘s ragged and torn, and looks much like A friend who‘s sadly in need. "T‘was only a week before last it came Bran new from the store in town, But it was wasted "powerful fast"â€" There‘s not much left but the crown. You needn‘t laugh at the grotesque hat ; Of its appearance make fun : You do not know how many good deeds That very same hat has done. It‘s carried hay each morn to the horse, Its brought the eggs from the mow ; It‘s caught the gayest of butterflies ; It‘s taken salt to the cow. She fairly burst into tears, and Moore, who had been on the point of brushing earelessly past her, stopped instinetively. It held the worms we dug in the rain, | a Etch day when fishing we went; . We won‘t put it on the shelf, because It‘s seen the best of its dly; We‘ll hang it in sight, and think of the good "Indeed, sir, we, are," sobbed the child ;" mother sent me out, andâ€"" **Nay, little one, don‘t ery in such a heartbroken way," said Ralph, smoothing down her hair with genuine gentleness. "I don‘t want your chestnuts, but here‘s half a crown for you if that will do you any Ben‘s straw hat is a comicai sight; ‘Tis working beyond our strength, you know,, That makes us weary and worn ; No wonder Ben‘s hat is almost gone, No wonder it‘s soiled and torn. It did in so many days. â€"N. Y. Evangelist. **Chesnuts! No," returned Ralph Moore, looking carelessly down on the upturned face whose large brown eyes, shadowed by tangled curls of flaxen hair, were appealâ€" ing so pityingly to his own. "What do I want with chestnuts ?" "Are you very much in want of the money ?" It brought the berries for grandma‘s tea, With the kindest, best intent. He did not stop to hear the delighted incolscrent thanks the child poured out through a rainbow of smiles and tears, but strode on his way, muttering between his teeth : "That cuts of my supply of cigars for the next week. I don‘t care, though, the brownâ€"eyed object did ery as though she hadn‘t really a friend in the world. Hangit! I wish I was rich enough to help every poor creature out of the slough _of despond." "Please, sir, will you buy my chestâ€" nuts ?" While Ralph was indulging in these very natural reflections, the darkâ€"eyed litile damsel whom he had comforted was dashâ€" ing down the street, with quick elastic footsteps, utterly regardless of the basket of unsoll nuts that still dangled on her arm. â€" Down an obscurc lane and then beâ€" twoen ruinous looking buildings and up a narrow wooden staireaso, to a room where a pale, neat looking woman with large brown eyes like her own, was sewing as busily as if the breath of life depended upon every stitch, and two little ones were contentedly playing in the sunshine that temporarily supplied the place of fire. , "Mary, back already ? Surely you have not sold your chestnuts so soon ?" "Oh, mother! mother! see!" ejaculated the almost breathless child. "Agentleman gave me & whole half crown. _ Only think mother, a whole half crown !" paps?" said Mrs. Audley, a fair handsome matron of about thirty, as she glanced at the dial of a tiny enamelled watch. . ‘"Six o‘clock and he does not make his appearâ€" If Ralph Moore could have only seen the rapture which his half crown diffused around in the poor widow‘s poverty strickâ€" en home, he would have regarded still less the temporary privation of the cigars to which his generosity had subjected The erimson window curtains were closeâ€" ly drawn, to shnt out the storm and temâ€" pest of the bleak December night ; the fire was glowing cheerily in the well filled grate, and the dinner table, in a glitter with cut glass, rare china and polished silver, was only waiting the presence of Mr. Audley. "What can it be that detains Years came and went. The little chestâ€" nut girl passed as entirely out of his memâ€" ory as if the pleading eyes had never touched the soft spot in his heart; but Mary Lee never forgot the stranger who had given her the silver half crown. "There‘s a man with him in the study, mamma, come on business," said Robert Audley, a pretty boy, eleven years old, who was reading by the fire. "I‘ll eall him again, said Mrs. Audley," stepping to his door. But as she .opened it the brillant gasâ€" light in the hall fell full upon the iace of an humbleâ€"looking man, in worn and threadbare garments who was leaving the house, while her husband stood in the doorway of his study, apparently relieved to be rid of his visitor. cheek had paled and flushed, " who is that man, and what does he want?" "His name is Moore, I believe, and he BEN‘S STRAW HAT. Half a Crown. POETRY. came to see if I would bestow on him the vacant clerkship in the bank." *"And will you ?" it «"Charles, give him the situation." ""Why, my love?" "Because I ask it of you as a favor, and you have said a thousand times that you would never deny me anything." "And I will keep my word, Mary," said the nobleâ€"hearted husband, with an affecâ€" ti nate kiss. "T‘ll write the fellow a note thisvery evening. I believe I‘ve got his address about me somewhere." An hour later, when Bobbie, Frank and Eugene were snugly tucked in bed, in the spacious nursery upstairs, Mrs. Audley told her husband why she was so interestâ€" ed in the fate of a man whom she had not seen for twenty years. "That‘s right, my little wife," said her husband, folding her fondly to his breast when the simple tale was concluded. ‘Never forget one who was kind to you in the days when you needed kindness most." Ralph Moore was sitting in his poor lodgings beside hisailing wife‘s sick bed, when a liveried servant brought a note from the rich banker, Mr. Charles Audâ€" ley. "Good news, Bertha," he exclaimed as he read the brief words. "We shall not starve; Mr. Audley promises me the vaâ€" cant situation." "You have dropped something from the letter , Ralph," said Mrs Moore, pointing to a slip of paper on the floor. Moore stopped to recover the paper which was a fifty ponnd note, nicely folded in a piece of paper, on which was written, "In grateful remembrance of a half crown piece that a kind stranger bestowed on a little chestuut girl over twenty years ago." Who are these Nez Perces, whose band of rebels under young Joseph, the U. S. Government is fightimg? Not savages, as the word is usually understood. They are half civilized Indians, who have been deceived and defrauded until a revolt has resulted. â€" They numberabout 3,000 peopie, 400 of whom are warriors. They are brave and intelligent. One or two hundred can read English, and many can write. They till 3,000 acres of land. ‘They own 14,000 horses, 70 mules, 9,000 cattle, 500 head of hogs. Last year they raised 30,000 bushels of grain and vegetables. They haveasawâ€" Ralph Moore had thrown his bread upon the waters, and after many days it had reâ€" turned to him. mill, and a grist mill. Last year they sawed 50,000 feet of lumber for houses. Some of them are carpenters, masons, blacksmiths, tinsmiths, and other useful ocâ€" cupations. â€" And now they have broken out in rebellion because the Government has cheated them, has lied to them, has diverted their annuities, has stolen their goods. There is but one solution of this question: The people must be given 160 acres of land each and subjgcted to law. Then let every agent be dismissed, and compelled to work for a living, instead of stealing.â€"New York Graphic. A Frexvn ar Work.â€"It appears that a man named John Hogg, lately in the employ of Joseph Relinger, farmer and drover, at little Germany, lately fell in love with a maidâ€"servant who formerly lived at Relinâ€" ger‘s. He was not successful in his wooâ€" ing, and lacking courage to press it farther ‘ enlisted the farmer‘s wife on his side to plead his cause with the young lady. This it appears, had no effect, for a short ago ago Anthony Relinger, brother of Joseph, married the girl and settled quietly down to domestic life in the Township of Wilmot. The hired man Hogg brooded over the affair n good deal and finally must have come to the conclusion that he had been duped by his advocate Mrs. Relinger, He vowed vengeance and bided his time and when Saturday, the 4th inst., came round, a grand opportunity presented itself, as his employer had gone to New York and Mrs. Relinger was out in the woods picking berries. He entered the house and with an axe smashed everythiug in it, ripped up all the clothing he could find, and battered a gold watch to pieces, besides battering some twenty dollar gold pieces out of all shape. Afterthis he killed a couple of cows, and was proceeding to fire the barn when some parties appeared on the scene and took him into custody. ‘The value of the property destroyed is about $1,000. The time occupied in performing the work of destruction was about 8 hours. Hogg was afterwards brought before a Magistrate who committed him tostand his trial for destroying property. On Thursday a large waterspout was obâ€" seived on the lake off Niagara. A couple of Picton sheep thieves have been sent to the penitentiary for five years Over thirty persons have been arrested in Madrid in connection, with & recently discovered Republican conspiracy. Aehildu.boutflnymohgewubmnod‘ to death on Thursday on lot 5, concession 6 Mitchellâ€"road, Fullerton. It appears that M# George Foster, the father of the child, arose early in the morning and went to the harvest field.. Mrs. Foster lit a fire and went to milk the cows, and returning found the bedroom on fire. She extinâ€" guished it, and sought her child, which she found in the barnâ€"yard burnt to a crisp. "I don‘tknow, Mary ; I must think about The Nez Perces. I have observed that some measure are still asked for by the public. One of these has reference to a question which relates very much to our social system, to the adâ€" vancement of the morals of our people, and to the restriction and prevention of a system of degradation which has spread to a vast extent an innumerable train of evils through the country. In a land of peace and plenty like ours there must be some governing cause for the destitution which is so prevalent in some places, the demoraâ€" lization in others, and for the insanity, which appears to be increasing to such an extent in others. All our asylums are full, our prisons and penitentiaries are overâ€" flowing, and there has been formany years a growing sentiment in the country that the cure for all these evils to a great extent must rest in limiting, if not in destroying, the sale of alcoholic liquors. . (Hear, hear, andloud cheers.) Sofaras Iam concerned, I recollect very well, exactly thirty years The following is an extract from Mr. McKenzie‘s speech at Colbourne:â€" ago, that I published my first address to the people in my own locality in the shape l of a report from a temperance society in favor of the principle of prohibition, as one which is justified by all the claims that the people have on legislation by their rulers; and from that day to this I have never ceased to believe in the absolute right of the people to enter on a course of legislation which would have that effect. (Loud cheers.) At the same time I have always taken the ground that until public sentiâ€" ment had reached such an advanced stage of maturity that we would be quite certain of a very large majority in favor of such a measure, it would be unwise and impolitic to attempt to enforce a total prohibition of the traffic. Whether that time has now come or not rests with the electorate of the country to say. Some years before Conâ€" federation, a bill such as is called in Engâ€" land a Permissive Liquor Bill, was passed by the late Parliament of Canada, which put in the hands of the people to deâ€" termine in their respective . localities whether they would prevent the licensing of houses for the sale of liquors. A vote }lms been taken on that measure in many eounties in Canada during the last twelve months. In some cases it has been deâ€" ‘ teated ; in others it has been carried, someâ€" times by small and sometimes by large majorities, but in every instance it is quite apparent that the agitation in the direction of prohibition has aequired considerable strength. I was greatly â€" amused" last session to find that some prominent gentleâ€" men on the Opposition side ofthe house were willing to vote that the Government of the Dominion should legislate on this subject. â€" Sir John Macdonald voted for it, and I have no doubt he delivered a speech when he was here strongly in favor of it. (Loud laughtor.) I must assume that he did, because he declared by his vote last session that we should have some legislaâ€" tion on the subject, and I knew that he is too honorable a man to ask us to do what ]he would not be prepared to do himself. (Hear, hear, and laughter.) I have not the lleast doubt that if you ever have a contest on the temperance question pending in this county, the cause of prohibition or| restriction will derive add:tional strength | from Sir John‘s having so ably advocated | it here last year. (Renewed laughter.) ‘ There was one amusing incident occurred l in the house last secsion with regard to | this question. Mr. Appleby, member for Carleton, N. B., a clever young lawyer and a strong temperance man, got up immediâ€" ately after Sir John Macdonald had made his speech, and said, "Will the hon. memâ€"| ber for Kingston bind himself in Parliaâ€" ‘ ment and out of it, to edvocate the enactâ€"| ment of a prohibitory liqunor law ? If he‘ will get up in his place at this moment and | say he will, I pledge him my support, notâ€" | withstanding our political differences." Up to the present moment Sir John has not, I believe, made any response to that quesâ€" tion. {Hear, hear, andlaughter.) If hehas, ! I have not heard of it ; but you may ask him the next time he comes here to deâ€" l liver aspeech. (Hear, hear,) The motion in the house at which I have referred was 1 set aside by an amendment moved by Mr./ G. W. Ross, one of my supporters in thel house, the representative of West Middleâ€" sex, constituency mJjoining my own, and one of the ublest and most effective advoâ€" cates of temperance in Canada. (Hear, hear and cheers.) His amendment was to 1 the effect that until the courts had decided where the jurisdiction lay in such matters it was inexpedient to pass such a vote. Every one in the House knew that the question was then before the Supreme Court to decide whether it was the Local Legislatures or the House of Commons which had the right to legislate on the subject of the trade in alcoholic liquors. If the Premier of Ontario finds that the deâ€" cision of the Court is that of the jurisâ€" diction lies within his Province to deal with the matter he will doubtless deal with it in accordance with the expressed wishes of the people. If it comes within the Proâ€"‘ vince of myself and my colleagues we shall be equally bound and equally glad to giv01 effect to the popular will in the unttex.] My impression at present is that in whichâ€" ever of the two Legislatures the jurisdietion may altimately be found to lis, legialation in the first place should be in the direetion of making your Permissive Bill better adapted for its purposes than‘itseems to be at present (hear, hear, und ‘loud cheers), and whenever the Dunkin |ready for further advances in that matter ® znodoubtthe Legislature of the time, and | the Ministry of the time, will prove themâ€" $1 per year in Advance. to selves equal to the occasion. (Cheers.) It is serious thing for a Minister to pronounce dogmatically at this stage of the temperâ€" ance question what shape legislation may take in the course of a few years ; but I can say this much, that my colleagues and I take the doepest interest in the matter, and shall endeavor to do in this, as in other matters that come under our review, what is best in the interests of the people. A trial which is causing much exciteâ€" ment was in progress in Paris. A woman called Mrs. Gras, an adventuress, has for many years lived in afluence by systematiâ€" cally duping young men. Her last victim, whom she has caused to become a mutilaâ€" ted and scarred being for life, was a young Frenchman of good family called De la Roch. Making use of another tool, a widowâ€" er and a man of mature age, she had sulphuric acid thrown into the face of De l8 Roche, either hoping by nursing him to regain her ascendancy or to disfigure him so that he could not marry. Unfortunately for her designs the doctors discovered that some means was at work by which their ‘medicinu were counteract2d, and at once connected this cireumstance with the nurse. \Deucfive- were soon at work, Beadury, the criminal, was arrested, and made a full confession. Sertovs Swasx ur ts Garr.â€"On Saturday morning a commercial traveller named Tee‘ engaged a horse and buggy at Sipes & Stauffer‘s livery stable. In driving nlong‘ Main street his hat blew off, and after getâ€" ‘ : ting out to recover it the animal ran away, | causing a big commotion for a few minutes. The runaway first colhded with a Mr. Mcâ€" Lachlan‘s buggy, smashing a wheel of it. The horse, to which it was attached, was firmly tied to a hitching post, and was unâ€" able to break loose. The new hotel buss, owned by Mr. Caldwell, which was standâ€" ing in front of the hotel door, the horses being untied, appeared to be the next object the runaway made for. As soon as the | collision took piace the buss horses started | off and before proceeding far upset, makâ€" ‘ ing the buss almost a complete wreck. Beâ€" \ fore the original runaway had stopped, a l milkman‘s waggon was run into and smashâ€" ed, and by this time there was very little ! of the buggy, to which it was attached, left. l The traveller Tee had the buggy he hired to pay for, and besides gave a handâ€"some leontribution towards the cost of the buss | repairs.â€"Guelph Mercury. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) Farar Acctoext.â€"We regret to be called upon to record a sad accident which occurâ€" redat Alton on Friday, 10th inst., by which Mr. Ephraim Frank, millwright, lost his life. Deceased was working in the McKinâ€" non mills, Alton, when the plank used as a scaffold broke and he fell a distance of about 14 feet, striking on some timbers which projected from the building. Drs. McKinnon and MecNaughton were at once summoned, and everything possible was done to aid the sufferer, but it was found that he had sustained internal injuries which rendered all efforts fruitless. He lived about sixteen hours after the accident. The remains were removed to his brother‘s residence in Caledon, from whence they were conveyed to the family burying ground at Boston on SabbaÂ¥h last. Deceased was aged 83 years and unmarried. He was a brother of Dr. Frank, Dentist of this Town, was a member of Maple Leaf Lodge, 1. 0. 0. F., and was highly respected by lall who knew him.â€"Orangeville Advertiser. spectors, &c. The reverues of the 13,000 beneficial clergy, including the annual value of 10,000 glebe houses,is $25,185,000, an average of $1,750 each,. The church has altogether 16,000 religious edifices, 'vith 80 cathedrals among them ; 10,000 : glebe houses and 31 palatial residences for the bishops 1,000,000 acres of land, and a itoul yearly return, amounting, on thelowâ€" A pamphlet recentey published in Engâ€" and on "The Prosperity and Revenues of the English church Establishment" gives a mass of interesting information in relaâ€" tion thereto. â€" At the present time thefixed yearly income of the Archbishop of Canterâ€" bury is $75,000 ; those of the Archbishop of York and the bishop of London 50,000 each; Durham $40,000 ; Winchester 85,000 and all the rest are from $25,000 down to $21,000. The revenues now enjoyed by the Episcopal bench amount to aggregate of $804,500 a year. This sum, however we are told, does not represent the annual revenues of the Bishops of the Church of England, as it does not include the over endowments in lands nor the value of the Episcopal residences. There are 20 deans and 134 canons. The formerget an averâ€" age of $1,750 to $3,508. It is estimated that the total revenue enjoyed by the Church of England, apart from the paroâ€" chial endowments, is about $5,000,000 a According to analysis made in 1875 there were 172 church dignitaries,13,000 inncumâ€" bents holding benefices, 5,765, curates 8,â€" 893 unattached clergy,and 1,708 doing work as schoolmasters, chaplains,missonaries, inâ€" est estimate, to $86,190,000. ‘The Great Westeren Railway Company are endeavoring to establish a sick and beâ€" nefit society among their employees. It is repoted that Germany is remonâ€" strating against France for erecting a forâ€" tification on the Swiss froptier, thereby cansing «w uneasy feeling The Church of England Established. dozen mean big and mean small boys, one of whom inquired : **Which pocket has a hole in it?" The man didn‘tsay. Forsomeinexplicaâ€" blereason he refused to enter into any exâ€" planations, but hastened away. Detroit Free Press. The mean small boy is different from the mean big boy, because all of his tricks are calculated to make other hearts ache. He now takes a silver qnarter and makes i# fast to a string, and to see him hanging about the post office one would set him down as a boy who never had an evil thought He selects a victim and drops the quarter where it will do the most good. ‘The ring of the metal commands attention at once, and the programme is carried out as in a case yesterday. The victim wasa short man, with a very red neck, and when he heard the quarter drop heclapped his hand on his pocket and looked around. "Did you drop a quarter?" mildly asked the mean small boy, pointing to one on the ** Ah ! must be a hole in my poeket," reâ€" plied the fat man, as he pulled up the knees of his pants and bent over to pick it up. He had his fingers on the money when it slid away, andas hestraitened up he was greeted with fiendish chuckles from half a The Illicit Whiskey Business The Galt Reformer gives the following particulars in regard to a sell perpetrated on Inland Revenue officers in the Guelph District: Mr. James Brown is a wellâ€"toâ€" do farmer, residing in the township of North Dumfries, several miles from Galt. One day last week Mr. Brown was engaged on his farm as usual when two gentlemen, whom he recognize as Collector McLean, of Guelph, and offeer R. B. Dickson, of Galt, drove up with the evident intention of making a short stay. Mr. Brown reâ€" ceived them hospitably, and when they signified to him that they would be greatly pleased to see his premises and especially his rootâ€"house, he unhesitatingly complied and took them around. In the root house the visitor acted rather strangely, looking about for something which did not appear to be present, and ended by bursting out into a loud laugh. â€" Mr. Brown wasastoundâ€" ed to hear the explanation of their conâ€" duct which they gave. They had received a private note from a certan party informâ€" ing them that thirty barrels of newly disâ€" tilled whiskey could be found :n this same rootâ€"house, and, further, that in a neighâ€" boring swamp the still and necessary apâ€" pliances for manufacture lay ready for seizureâ€"all, of course, a buge sell. Mr. Brown, amid bursts of laughter over the good joke, told his visitors that there was no telling what was going on these strange times, and they had better search well and also visit the swamp for the plant,‘twas a little hundred acre swamp and a tramp in it would be delightful. ‘The officers thought this wholly unnecessary, and after enjoying a hearty dinner to which Mr. Brown invited them, and having their horses also well fed, they departed with many mpologies. And now the scoundrel who sent the letter to the officers is to receive attention. DvckSnootrxo.â€"The season for shootâ€" ing wild ducks commeneed on Wednesday Coxvarescznt.â€"Mr. W. J. Dillon o Egremont, is recovering nicely from the effects of the mecident which befell him on _ Dominion Day. The leg which was broken is mending rapidly. Horrors or Tax Famtsx i8 Inpmm. â€"A Bellary correspondent describes the awful effects of the famine in Southern Indis. He says a few months ago the working gangs contained a fair proportion of stalâ€" wart men and women ; but this is no longâ€" er the case. The great bulk of the people skins are covered with dirty looking desâ€" quamation, descembed in the Irish famine are emaciated;their ribs stick out, their famine marks are almost universal. The Superintendent of relief operations in Adoni reports that a journey over one of his roads resemble a path through a great battlefield, in the number of dead and dying. If the people had been smitten by local outbreak of cholera in ordinary times, they would have fled from the works and never return ; but so severe is the pressure for food that none could afford toleave the works and lose the pay even for a single day. Jhe order mntlz issued by the British Government, prohibiting the importation of cattle, does not apply to Canadian live Two freight trains collided on the Grand Trunk near Brantford on Friday, wreeking the engines and four cars. The trainmen saved themselves by jumping. The incendiary mania seems to have broken out in Fitzroy. (On Saturday night, 4th inst., four barns, with their contents, were destroyed by fire, under circumstances which leave no doubt that the burning was the work of an incendiary. Two of the‘ barns belonged to Mr. Featherston, between‘ Kinburn and Fitzroy Harbour, the others belonging to his neighbours, Messrs. Findâ€" lay and McBride. The county of Hastings is now the only one between Toronto and Kingston in s which a prohibitory by â€"law has not approved , of by the people by a good majority.‘ The Canada Casket intimates that action will be taken there at once to secure a Dunkin byâ€"law also. At the last meeting of Hastâ€" ings County Lodge of Good Templars, it was arranged to secure the services of \Mrs. : ¢owha. Youmans for a large meeting to be held about the end of the month, we habvo. when definite action will be taken. Mrs. Ellen Bennet, of Pickering, whose person was brutally outraged by two rufâ€" fans, died from the effects of the injuries was held on the body at the residence of deceased, lot 21, 6th con. Pickering, by David Tucker, M. D., county coroner, on Saturday. A respectable jury empanâ€" neled, with Frederick Meen :ph-u. evidence was taken. Mr. J. E. Farowell, The order recently issued by the British The Mean Small Boy.