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KIERNAXN, t Medical Hall, 1 foth n Attort notices of births, marriages, all kindt of local news, inserted «ornoNn, J A MIESON, tographs for §1 per d c in all the Intest and 1 wos l‘l)rifll and enlarged rwed Photographs in b Reduait I+ PUBLINTED AL ESTATE AGENT y, Out. Money to Loan a yable halfâ€"yearly or at the ipul payable in 3, 5 or 1 1 intorest yearly to sui l:nl-ru\‘ml Lands for sale jold. *vi Dur roved Inir Rest le Offic Monday OS‘T calls promptly attended. mile ¢1, each onbleccvcm .50 per cott: ntore. Medi ALEX. LIVINGSTON. 19 1 ‘ing Office, _ Upper Town, Durhar nduli 1 Hall, Lower Town H J. TOWNSEXD neyâ€"atâ€"Law, Solicit yancer, &c., Poulett St fmd? s you can nu:ajc in #20 per day made by orker of either sex i their own localities h «53 free. Improve it O o University and of Physicians and ext doow loi’ul;r’n v2l h of every month wl Offices at Elore Street, in Trimble‘s Build Ont Address STINS tographer, Convevancer, & at D. COWPER Upper Town, (i£o. Wood & with tae Office, op Upper Town Munu ratives m with yâ€"4 rt Law, ound and vi i="Meortgages and other Real Estate Scâ€" curitics purchased, or advances made on the privilege of repaying principal in such sums MT& such times as g_hoy please. whether the mortgage be repayable in one sum or by instalâ€" ments. Inm:g. ceases at once on amounts so fmâ€"7 Agent at i« Hzap OrFick® 11 Adclaide Street Cast, Toronto son, Esq.; George Greig, Esq.; Donâ€" . ald 'flu'h',.’g:"uér,o:-al G?rdon Mackay ; G. L. Beardmore, Esq.; Wim. Ince, Esq. BaxkERrs: The Bank of Montreal ; The Canadian Bank of Commerce. . Sorrctrons : Messrs. Blake, Kerr & Boyd. MaxaczEn : J. Turnbull. (LrwrTEn) ()Fl’ERS to Lond Money on Farm, City and Town Property, on the following Liberal Terms, viz:â€"8 per cent. per annum, Interest payâ€" wble HALFâ€"YEARLY, NOT IN ADVANCE. 8} per sent. per annum, Interest payable YEarty, NOT IN :\B:'AN(‘E. Capital authorized by Charter, $5,000,000. Presipent: Sir Alex. T. Galt VromPresipext: A. H. Campbell, Esq. Dirzctous: His Honor D. A. Macdonald, Jéeut.â€" Gov. of Ont; Hon. John Simpson ; Hop. 8. Loan and Investment Co., Mistrict Acent for the Victoria, The Western and ‘anada Fire & Marine Insurance Co‘s. Insurance iffected at Low Rates, Farm Property insured for hree years against Fire and Lightning at 75¢ on * each â€"£100.00, \ll Communieations promptly attended to. . Busi ness private and confidentiel. )ificoâ€"Main Str‘t, DUNDALK, Ont (@zeneral Agent, Geo. Rutherford, No fines. Expenses Lower than any other Company. For further information apply to Ioney Loaned on farm security at 8 per cent ‘imple Interest, for any period of time between : and 20 years. Loans made at 8 per cent and upwards according to privileges granted. JOSEPH F. MOWAT, 15 )r to y18 English & Scotish Capital £500,000, Stirling Any Person Wanting Money Should borrow from the Rockville Mills, SHINGLES, LATH ANXND LUMBER [PR’)V ED and for sule, cheap. Sen Village lots for sale in Comissioner in B. R., Conveynncer &c. Custom Sawing of Lumber With the Circular Saw against all kinds of Saw NO ARMLSTICE Honrso turnlsm-i’l( free to prrtics buying coffins from us. Iemomber the place, waATSON & sox‘s Wagon and Carringe Works, yT Pricevile, Ont. l"[".\'ER.\LS furnished on short notice Caskets and Coffins, with all sorts of trim raings, always on hand. Bentinek, Feb. 14.1878 INVESTMENT COMPANY, (Limited.) WM. WATSON & SON, U ndertakers Remember the place,â€"a short distance north the Post Office. A FIRSTâ€"CLASS HMEARSE TO HiRE. ov. ol Ont; Hon, John sj::lzrsou; Hon. €, Wood, Prov.â€"Treas.; William Thorâ€" BLILDF.P., Durhaw, keeps on hand a large stock of Sash Doors and all kinds of Building materials, also m stock of Mouldings in Walnut, Rosewood, and Gilt. Plans, specifications and Bills of Lumber made out on shirt notice: . A full stock of Coffins, Caskets, Shrouds and Trith« mings always on hand. done at once, and cherp, to suit the times. War, War! THE BRITISH CANADIAN Real Estate, Loan, CHarcEs VERY NODERATE. on hand and sold at down hi"l prices Vol. I. No. A. McLELLAN, INSURANCE, AND PRICEVILLE, ONT AND SHINGLES, EJ Agent, Durham, by NORMANX MeTNTYRE, Valuator, Duham ROBT. Logs during 1878, J. W. CRAWFORD, Unimproved Farms 1 for Land List. Dundalk Durham P. 0 . . lrâ€" n“'&‘&’mm J v Hinhiie,, > + * s o. j_’fl,‘“\*&m.. * )e Grenu Revicto, vl stop talking to me." \ o =*>>] Poor Polly leaned against the dn..mp "Whew ! Now, ifthatisn‘t just a fel.| Wall trembling in terror and perplexity. low‘s luck when he is trying to be consol. | 8b¢ bad unwittingly sfolen the baby, and ing," muttered Dick. she dare not'nturn it ; {or wh:li might Polly caught up her bonnet and hurried | that evil looking man do, if he discovered away along the narrow winding path down | her there, l-nd found M she had be..n ho the hillside. witness to his proceedings? She wished "Nor let your angry passions rise," for the first time in her life, that her nook sounded after her in Hepsibah‘s shrillest,| was nearer the house, so that some one and most exasperating tone ; for Hepsiâ€"| could hear her if sho called ; she wished bah seemed to consider it her mission to| Dick would come. What if the dreadful sing fitting morals to all the family pro-lpuir should stay there for hours? What ceedings. Poily only put her small brown if the baby should wake up and ery ? She hands ungraciously over her ears and ran | shuddered, and her heart beat so londly away the faster down where the great that she fancied it must be heard through "Nor let your angry passions rise," sounded after her in Hepsibah‘s shrillest, and most exasperating tone ; for Hepsiâ€" bah seemed to consider it her mission to sing fitting morals to all the family proâ€" ceedings. Poily only put her small brown *"You just tease, tease all the time, Dick Bowen! I don‘t believe the boys ever feel any want about anything; they‘d just as leave be good for nothing as not,â€"and most of them are. Besides, I wish you‘d stop talking to me." That was too much. Polly‘s nose took a still higher elevation ; she flung the last of the peas where the pods belonged, and faced shout hotly ! But Polly was too deep in the valley to smils, and after watching her face in vain for any gleam of fun, he continued mediâ€" tatively, "I‘il tell you what, Polly; if you haven‘t much chance for anything respeeâ€" table, you know, you might join a eireus, and have your name printed Mam‘selle Paulina Bowena; for the way you can mount a horse is something stupenduâ€" ous." \ "Hear that now ?" questioned Dick, slyly. "How do you suppose that she found that out? Couldn‘t possibly have been by experience." "A beauteous face is vanity," sang Hepsibah‘s high, nasal voice in the kitchen. "I know it," responded Polly with disâ€" couraging meekness. "I‘m brown and ugly ; I can‘t have anything, and I never shall be anybody in the wide world only Polly Bowen." "Dreadful old," interposed Diclks. "Four teen is such a misetable betwist and be: tween age, too,â€"â€"not old enough to be a pretty big girl and too old to be a pretty little girl,â€"sort of leaves a body nowhere, swinging between things, like the man that fell out of the apple tree and couldn‘t get to the ground because his coat caught on a lower limb. ‘Then there‘s your nose, too, it just goes looking up exactly like a bantam chicken hunting a place to roost." of «‘Nothing new," affirmed Polly, disconâ€" solately. â€""Everything is just as it always has been; and always shall be, I suppose, â€"coarss and fommon,. I can‘t wax flower or talk French ; I can‘t even fearn to play on the piaro, though I do so love music, and I‘m growing oldâ€"" "‘Neither do I," aequiesced Dick with cheerful alacrity. "What‘s the matter now 2" "I don‘t see why 4 should look any other way," said Polly, shortly. "Polly," said Dick, pushing his shaggy head through the open kitchen window, you look as forlorn as if your young affecâ€" tions had all been nipped in the bud." ‘ She hbad been christened Paula, but | Polly was all that ever usago loft for the name. . Usually she Hared yery little about l the matter. â€" Polly swuited her well enough when she was perched in the cherry tree, wading in the brook, or racing with Dick through the meadow grast to see which would catch and mount one of the horses in the pasture. Butithis was one of Polly‘s "blue days" when her world revealed its sawdnstiness with painful distinetness, The warm sun shone throtigh the vines ot the old porch, where she sat shelling peas, only shelling peas, while other girls rode by in carriages and had beautiful times. She hind discovered that she detested shelâ€" ling peas, that her hands were brown inâ€" stead of white, that her hair wouldn‘t curl, and her nose would turn up,â€"that last I was a chronic tribulation ; and then there | was her name! | The hefrt of the simplest womaii Is a mystery unrevealed, And the love that seems fflost transpérent Is most hopelessly concerled. We care nc? for the love while we have it ; We khnow not of love till it‘s lost ; We scatter its treasures broadâ€"handed, Nor reckon the ultimate cost. Lo ! a hand comes forth from the shadows, A touch that I knew of old, That could crown the loftiest fancies With an aureole of gold, And I think how that hand so loving, That craved but to lie in mine, Oft met an impatient gesture, Or found no responsive sign. And from yonder painted canvas I catch the wistful look, So timidly, mutely jealous Of the love that I gave my book. And I only too well remember How 1 chafed at the dumb reproach, And swore that no thought of woman Should on ary pursuits encroach. Was I blind, or mad, or but heartless ? The face and the hand are gone ; The light of my love has vanished ; I am utterly alone, The brain that her glances kindled Is blighted and dead and chilled, And the gorgeous dream of the future Can nevermore be fulflled. I loved as a man who is selfish, Slie loved in a woman‘s way ; And man‘s love compared #ith a wottan‘s Is as Garkness unto day, As a spendthrift seatters his birthright, I wasted the dower she gave, And too late I find my ambition Has followed her into the grave. POLLY‘S PLUNDER, DURHAM, Co. Grey, JULY 25, 1878. NMerwcy wr POETRY Lost Love: She had no opportunity to ponder the question or pursue her investigations; there was a sound of returning steps, and she had barely time to close the door and lock it, beforo the two foreigners came again to their old resting place. ’ "Why, they have left their basket! forâ€" gotten it, I guass," she soliloquized as that ‘ol-ject greeted her view. A mischievous wish that the man might have left his false bair and beard in it flashed through her mind. "If he only has he shall not get them again." and lifting the basket she carried it inside the building. It seemed heavy enugh to hold a good many things. Polly raised the lid cautiously and then sank down beside it in astonishment, for nestled within lay the baby fast asleep. What a place to put it! And had theyi really intended to leave it? 1 "O my !" murmured Polly, slipping softâ€" ly down from her post of observation and not daring even to watch any more. It seemed a long time that she sat there and waited, hearing snatehes of that miserable jargon outside. But by and by the baby‘s low, fretful ery died into'sileuco, and at last the other voices ceased also. There was a slight bustle and moving about, &s if they were preparing to depart, and then the sound of retreating footsteps. Polly bent her head eagerly to be sure that they were really going; then she ventured to peep from her outlook in the door, but they had passed out of sight. She waited a few minutes and cautiously unlocked the door. But just then Polly‘s spyin} Eyes grew suddenly very round, for the old man flung away his erutch, with some muttered sentence pulled off his gray hair and venâ€" erable beard, and whlked doiwrk to the brook for a drink, neither aged or infirm, but young, and decidedly villainous look: ing. They seated themselves in the shade, di« rectly in front of the spring hotse door, and began to talk in coarse, guttural tones, Io{which Polly could not understand one word. Presently came a sound that she could comprehendâ€"the ery of a baby ; and then she saw that it was an animated bunâ€" ldle which the woman held. The stranâ€" gers were not prepossessing in appearance. "l‘heir unintelligible words sounded rude and harsb, as if the conversation was an unpleas#nt on#}; and the young watcher fancied the woman did not seem very tenâ€" der or kind to the baby. Sho began to wonder how long they would stay, and so keep her a prisoner. â€" After all, they might only be poor travellers; she had half a mind to open the door, offer them softie milk to drink, and go on her way back to the house. There was a rustling in the grass, a erouching sound on the pebbly shorss of the brook. _ Was that tensing Dick coming after her: H# shouldn‘t laugh at finding het there alone,â€""retired to her cloister," as he called itâ€"and see that she had been crying, too! She sprang to the door, 'closed and locked it, swiftly but noisclessâ€" ly, and listened. â€" Nearer came the sound; ’â€"footstepe surely, but starcely like Dick‘s rapid tread ; and what possesssd the boy that he was not whistlitg ? Polly mountâ€" ed her bench and peered through a tiny hole in the door, to see what had come over the intruder, and discovered not one, but two,â€"an old man leaning heavily upon a crutch, and a woman carrying a basket and a bundle. _ Polly could not forbear epening her eyes just then, and drumminig an anticipatory tune on the wooden lid of one of the milk jats near hof. She never paused until she had unlockâ€" ed th6 door and entered ths building ; for unrotnantic though it might be, this was Polly‘s favotite rettwat, and the little wood. en bench she had placed there had been her sanctuary in many a troublesotme time. She seated herself upon it now, and briush« ed away the angry tears from her eyes, and presently some quieter, softer ones gatherâ€" ed in their place. Dick needn‘t have made fun of it, she was unhappy, she said to herself. Sho was tired of the heat and the work and the everyday; she wanted some beautiful things in her life. And she leaned her head against the wall, and pitâ€" ied herself so profoundly that gradually ’ she grew comforted. It was cool and | quiet there, and the water murmured dreamily. Polly closed her eyes ‘and imâ€" | agined herself in a great, cool parlor such [us she meant to have some day. â€" There was lovely pictures around her, when she chose to look up and see them, and the rippling of the stream was the sound of a tountain. â€" She would arouse hersclf presâ€" ently, sweep in her silken robes across the great room to play on & grand piano, that‘ \ coveted piano ! | trees grew thick and ¢lose, throwing deep shades down to the bottom of the hill, where the old spring house stood, grey and mossy, beside the clear, cold stream. ONTARIO ARCHIVES TORONTO She drew a long breath of relief and laid the little sleeper down upon the grass while she proceeded to examine the basket, to see if anything eould be removed that would make it lighter for so long a pilgriâ€" mage. Under the small quilt that had served for a bed, were an old wallet and a handsome ebony case. The first held only papers, no money ; and the case was lockâ€" ed, so that Polly could not learn its conâ€" tents. But as it was of considerable weight, she took it with the wallet, and, running down the hill a little way, deâ€" posited them in a hollow stump. She reâ€" placed the quilt and baby in the basket and bore it as near to the house as she deemed safe, and waited impatiently for the sun to set and the moon to rise. A strange, lonely walk it was that the Polly had exaggerated ideas of the horâ€" yors of that asylum, and to lave this little one sent there when she was the cause of its tinprotected condition, was more than she could bear. But something must be done with it in her arms, swaying softly to and fro, and trying to discover some way out of the difficulty. Presently the lids drooped over the blue eyes, and baby went urconcernedly to sleep, leaving its young nurse to settle the question of its future as best she might. If only some one else had itâ€"some one who would know what to do, and would be kind to it. Then a brilliant thought flashed across Po:ly‘s brain. She would take it to the minister‘s; everybody knew the minister, and if those people ever came to look for it, they would be sure to hear of it there. It would be well cared for there, and noâ€" body need ever know that she had anyâ€" thing to do with it. { "It I take it home, I‘ll have to tell all about it, of course ; and I can‘t do that," she reasoned. â€" "Besides, if they find what sort of people they belonged to, they‘ll just send it to the poor houseâ€"IL know they will." ‘Then Polly‘s trouble began afresh. It was her baby, she was certain of it. Those people had gone away and left it entirely ; and 0, what should she do? Dread of goâ€" ing near the spot baffled fiercely with ber remorseful compassion for the little one left so long without food or care ; but the latter tonqttvred ; and, near sunset, having suwreptitionsly warmed a littlé milk on the kitchen stove, Polly slipped away. Sweet blue eyes looked up at her, and baby put: up a grieving lip, and drew a little sobhiug‘ breath as it was lifted from its hard bed. Polly drew it into Ler arms, kissed the tiny rogeJerf of a Land; find nestled the littl# soft cheek to her ewn with instineâ€" tive motherliness that baby undetstood and appreciated at onee. It appreciated the supper, too ; and Polly grew more and more in love with the stolén treasture, the longer she fingered with it. But her per: plexity increased with her tenderness. "Must be some qheer soft of bird, or something, down there by the spring," reâ€" marked Dick, late in the afternoon, as he brought un a pitcher of milk for Hepsiâ€" bah. "It sounded exactly like a child erying. I heard it two or three times, but couldn‘t see anything." ‘Yes," said Polly, briefly. She was tired, excited and bewildered, and felt in no wise inclined to recount hor adventure. How could she tell sensible Uncle William and solemn Hespibah that she had been erying in the springâ€"house because her nose didn‘t euit her and she hadn‘t a piâ€" ano? And what had possefsed ber to touch the basket ? She hoped its owners would find it, and nobody would éver hear anything of the affair, she said to hetself, over and over again, that long day; glancâ€"| ing out nervously through the open doors‘ and windows, and @xpecting, sho sCarcely knew what. She tried to reassure herself as hours passed ; but she was troubled and ill at ease. "Come back to the vain world once more," _ questioned _ Dick, _ mischieyâ€" ously. They would certainly return, Polly lthought, and she listened and waited. I But the wind in the trees and the murmur of the brook were all she heard after that ; and at last she turned the key and emergâ€" ed from her imprisonment. The little ; child was still slumbering in its basketâ€" bed, and Polly looked down upon it with anxicty and remorse in her own brown eyes. It seemed hard to leave such a tenâ€" der little creature thero alone, but she must not take it again beyond the reach of those to whom it belonged. The open wicker work cover would admit the air freely, so she fastened it down and bore the basket to a cluster of drooping bushes, where it would escape observation from a casual passer, but wortld probably be speedâ€" ily found by any one searching for it. Then she hastened homeward. 80 . the stone walls. $1 per yeir in Advance. all, it must have been of that sort; but I know a heart broken young mother who will call it by a different name. You have saved my sister‘s child." Then he told her briefly how the little "Blunder!" echoed the stranger. "Well, I suspect there are such things as proviâ€" dential blunders; and if this was one at "Andâ€"O dear! it was all so wretched and miserable, and I didn‘t kuow what to do; but I don‘t believe it was so much wicked as a dreadful blunder." she conâ€" eluded, with crimson checks and tearful eyes. Then reading an answer in the face where astonishment, hbope, and fear were blending, she poured forth her story, stamâ€" mering, colouring, yet eagerlyâ€"confused and ashamed, but growing wonderfully lightened and comforted as she unfolded her burden. her lip parting breathlessly *Not so much tools for breaking in houses as for mending broken bones, little lady," said the gentleman, smiling, but instantly growing grave again. "The charge of burglary would come with better grace from me, for that case was stolen, months ago many miles from here. If you tell exactly how it came in your possesion, it will help me to trace something far more valuable, that was stolen at the same "I have a right to ask, since it happens to be my property," continued the stranger, ""I wouldn‘t own it thenâ€"a set of burglar‘s tools like that," butst forth Polly, deâ€" fiantly. The young man came to an abrupt halt, and gazed upon the case with more surprise than Polly had shown. His pleasant voice changed instantly. ‘"How came you by that ?" Polly closed her lips resolutely, and answered not a word. Too deeply engrossed shd was to hear a step upon the hillâ€"side, or notice the form that approached, until a voice startled her. "Can you give me a driuk, little mmaiden? Hello !" of steel, Polly gazed upon them ment. **Well, I didn‘t suppose they fixed them up like that," she said. She must know its contents, she docided at last, and visited the old Lollow stump one day, provided with the three or four small keys the house afforded, and a hatchet to be used in case these failed. Fortunately, one of the keys proved availâ€" able, and revealed an interior of velvet, on which repesed various highly polished little knives, lancets, and other instruments More than once Polly had searched through the papers of the old wallet, hopâ€" ing to find some information ¢oncerning the young stranger; but they were only notes and memorardaâ€"nothing that she could understand. â€" Then her thoughts turned to the ebony case ; she had lifted it, and her curiosity grew with her baffled efforts. Baby‘s whole history might be in that Case; it mught hold precious jewels that would relieve the poor minister, and make baby grand and happy for always. Polly had not thought of that before. It scemed to her that she hadn‘t thought cof anything, through the whole miserable transaction, until it was too late, and that every step had been the very worst one she could have taken. And now the affait had become so complicated that she must let it take its own course. "Oh, I can‘t tell I never will!" she whispered to herself, over and over a#ain, wiile hor heart was wrung with visions of the direful privations ‘ the minister‘s family might suffer. She grew to feel like a wretehed criminal as the dag went by and no élaimant éaine for the little foundling. The talk and wonder died away in the village, but the secret pressed more and more heavily upon Polly‘s soul. It darkened all her waking hours‘ and haunted he? slsep, until she didn‘t eat nothâ€" in‘, and was just spindlin‘ away; Hepsibah affirmed, "A Wallet? "I say it was just a shame for anybody to leave it there, when the minister has so many babies of his own, and not salary enough to go half way round before this one came." little maiden took that right. Arms and | heart bore a heavy burden ; bu she preasâ€" ed resolutely forward until her destination was reached. She reconnoitered the premises darefully, then, advancing to the step, placed the basket where it would be in full view, rang the belt vigorously, and away with a fAying specd that even her light feet had never attained before. â€" She reached home almost breathless ; but she had scarcely been missed. Hepsibah reâ€" marked, disapprovingly, that it wasn‘t ] wholesome to be aâ€"walkin‘ round the garden in the moonshine;" that wis all, and Polly answered nothing, but slipped away to bed. Broken slumber and odd dreams were hers that night; and when Dick returned from an errand in the village next morning, she saw at a glance that his ‘eyel were full of news, and bending her head low ever her sewing, that her face might not betray her, she waited for the story that was sure to come. A baby had been left on the minister‘s door step, Dick announced, a real live baby ; and no one had the least iden in the world where it came from, though they were trying every way to find out who brought it. Hepsibah exclaimed and â€" questioned with â€" her wonted solemnity; but. Dick concluded indignantly, a baby ?" questioned Polly in amaze 108 v0 €ross & Tence, he first got over, and then procecded to draw the shot gun through between the rails, when the bamâ€" mer struck, emptying the contents of the | firelock into the lad‘s thigh, coming out at ‘the back of the Mip. It is believed that some of the small shot glanced off the thigh bone and entere®the boy‘s bowels, | as he expired four or five hours after the George Harris, aged about 10, son of Mr. J. Harris, lot 9, con. 16, Grey, lately took his gun and went in quest of a woodâ€" ehuck, which had been seen in the vicini« ty. After a fruitiess search he made up his mind to return home. Havirg occasâ€" ion to cross a fence, he first got over and acident Movxt Forest.â€"A public moeting was held on the 10th inst. for the purpose of considering the advisability of taking steps for the incorporation of the place as a town, and also for recommending that some action might be taken for the purâ€" chase of a new cemetery. A motion was carried that the Council be instrutted to take the necessary steps to procure at the nexst session of the Ontario Legislature a special nct of incorporation as a town, inâ€" cluding in addition to the present territory those portions set forth in a plan prepared by Hugh Wilson, P. L. 8. It was also carried that the Council be instructed to purchase a site for a cemetery, provided a suitable plot at a reasonable price can be secured. On motion made cil adjourned until day of August, 1878 hall. A byâ€"law was 1878, in full 614 County rate, 4 n 1} mills to $, ani mill to 8. Mored by M Mr. Komig, that and report on wo â€"Carried. of township was overlooked hatifiu;;a;ing. Atitention of Council being called thereto, following nction was taken : Move 1 by Mr: Kosnig, 4 Wenger, that $2,000 be ex being $500 to each divisior councillor act as commis spective division.â€"Carried Moved by Mr. Komiq O‘Farrell, that bill fron for printing and publis} amounting to $18.â€"Ca Moved by Mr. Koeni; Wenger, that expense ¢ list of 1878, to amoun Cettied. Byâ€"law will be ed at Neustadt posted through t Byâ€"law N Manks filled. Byâ€"law read first tipye Moved by Mr. Wonger Komig, that byâ€"law No. 1 a second time and blank ried. Moved by Mr. Wenger, seconded by Mr. O‘Farrell, that byâ€"law No. 6, of 1878, be introduced and read first time.â€"Carâ€" ried. ed to, The Reeve presented a petition which he had reccived showing some bundred and fifty names thereon asking for a byâ€"law to be submitted to ratepayers of township granting a bonus of thirty thousand dollars to aid in the construction of Stratford and Lake Huron Railway through the township. . Comei met at towrneship hall, on the 9th inst. â€" Present,;â€"A, S. M cEdwards, Reeve ; John Komig, first Deputyâ€"Reove; Noah Wenger, second Peputyâ€"Reeve ; Andrew O‘Farre msd Henry A,. MeMahon, Counâ€" cillors. "T"® 0 No‘g and to fondle as much as she ;choie; Tor the mother lingered long among the hills, and liked the place so well that she decided to make it a summer resort. _ It is supposed that Polly has grown to be somebody in four years since that. At least Dr. Lisle seems to consider her musical proficiency â€" something wonderfull, and comes to see her with great frequency and regularity, Dick, who has arrived at an age when he is particular about his back hair, and devoted to his neckâ€"ties, is beginning to call the medical gentleman "part of Polly‘g plunder." Mrs.: Gréy herself gave her music lessons and was bet friend and vounseller in countâ€" less ways were a motherless girl needed help that Hepsibah was too ignorant to afâ€" ford. ‘Then, too, that precious baby was hers to hold and to fondle as much as she chose; for the mother lingered long among the hills, and liked the place so well that she decided to make it a summer rasnwt Polly was so happy in the weeks that followed, that she ccased to worry about her nose. "In fact so many ehatming things were turning up that it was quite in the fashion," Dick declared. life, and her brother had persuaded her to take this trip with him. in the hope that it might arouse her from her melancholy,and benefit her failing health. How ‘he young doctor rohbarsed her story, what he told and what he Aid not tell, Polly never know. But she thought that he must have managâ€" ed it in some marvéllous way, for the minister‘s family and her uncle William 3id not appear a ; all horrified, and nobody else seemed to know much about it, only baby‘s. mother, and she caressed and thauked her as if she hnd done something grand and heroic, instead of dreadful. The next day brought her a beautiful piano, with a starcely less beautiful note from Mrs, Grey, begging Polly to nccept the gift from one to whose lite she had restored both sunshine ana music, Minutes of last moectin one had been left, in an oper paflor of a distant city home, and, when the mother and nurse returned, it had disappeared, and the most careful search had failed to discover any clue to its whereabouts. The mother‘s grief was slowly dostroying her Normanby Council , to amount of $30, be paid vas passed imposing rate of 6} mills to %, as follows : 4 mills to §$; Township rate, and General School rate, 1 made mand seconded 2200 RNG seconded Connâ€" until Wednesday, the 14th $2,000 be expended on roads W. H. Rvyax, Tp. Clerk , Wenger, seconded by Mr. McMahon examine rk called tor by petition, *4 @â€"+% read second time and iblished in ; to meet at township ision, and that each missioner in his re« hours after the r, seconded by Mr; 6. Or 187", be rend s filled up.â€"Carâ€" g read and assent seconded by Mr, preparing voters seconded by My seconded by Mi ramtiner olfice dat E. portion iper print es will 1