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Seasonable Information for Tillers of the Soil. Prose rviug Grapes. One of the desirable things that as yet people in general do not succeed well in doing is to keep grapes so they will be fresh and good the latter part of the winter. One plan is to carefully pluck the stems, and after re- moving every imperfect berry place them in small boxes, carefully filling up the intersti- ces between the grapes w1th the baked saw- dust of some wood that will not import an unpleasant flavor to the fruit. The sawdust is made thoroughly dry by drying or baking in ovens. Another plan is to pick the grapes on a dry day and place the fruit in stone jars in layers, cure being taken not to break the skin in any instance. Soft dry paper is placed between the layers. Then dig a trench in dry soil, where the water never stands, six or eight inches deeper than the height of the crooks ; the creeks are placed therein and covered loosely, so as not to exclude the air, until frost comes. When winter sets in the trench is covered with litter to prevent very hard freezing and not too soon, lest the temperature should not be maintained evenly. The grapes can be taken out at any time be- fore the frost goes out of the ground. By this method grapes have been preserved until even late in the spring. The Chinese method is to take out the inside part of large pump- kins and place the grapes in the chamber thus made and keeping them in a dry, cool temperature. Breeding Grades. One of the most fatal mistakes in breeding up stock among those who know but little about the correct principles of breeding, is that so long as the sire is better than the dam, the improvementis sure. True enough, but at what cost ‘2 At the cost of breeding back to what impure blood the sire contains. This is not all. Suppose we start with two half breed animals, the produce is again a half blood, precisely like that of the sire and dam. Start with a thorough bred and a cold blood- ed animal, and the produce is a hull breed animal. Cross this again with a pure blood and the produce is three-quarters bred. We next cross with a pure blooded sire,which gives & seven~eights bred, the next cross fifteenth- sixteenth, and the cross alter, thirtyone thirty seconds of pure blood. The person breeding might have continued breeding in- definitely froni his two half bloods without improving his stock. Suppose again the breeder started with cold blooded dams on the one side and a half blood sire on the other, the produce would be but one quarter bred. Following this line it is easy to trace how long it would take to breed up to even a respectable strain of stock. This is not all. The cold blood in the animals predominating the progeny are far more apt to take after this predominant blood than the other. In other words the bad qualities of the ancestors being in excess will be intensified. This will be perpetuated more and more the longer it is persisted in, so the improvement will be scarcely noticed. The gist of the whole mat- ter is simply here. A bull for instance is sufficient, if rightly managed, for a herd oi 50 cows. Suppose he costs $100, the increas- ed cost of each calf over and above that of a sire costing $50 is simply the interest on “3250 a year, with 10 per cent. on $50 added for deterioration as age grows on the animal. The calves are certainly worth $5 each more than from the inferior bull. It would seem that this was a proposition that should com~ mend itself to every farmer in favor of good breeding. Yet how many look at it in this light, nevertheless this is the only way in which it can be estimated. At the beginning of {111111 life in ouier to learn the most imp1oved methods I employâ€" ed a first. class immer and ga1dener, fresh from England He pe1sisted in a mode of cultivation precisely the reverse of what I had been used to see * allowing the mangels and sugar beets, the corn, potatoes peas, beans, cucumbers, inelons tomatoes, cabbages etc. to go without any hilling up The manned-- and sugar beets stood high above the mound. the bulbous pints exposed to the Sun, many of the mangels falling ove1 and growing crooked The part of the cucumbers above g1ound which I insisted was 1"11tl1e1 a 1001 than a stem, and should be sunounded by earth, was left enthely exposed to the sun I thought the sun would pmch the 100ts,and they would bleak 01 be injmtd when tiny should fall from the up1ight to a ho1izontal position. The Englishman would have his way, but agreed I should treat some of each sort of plants my own way. So a few of all sorts were billed up, and fully as well worked .in other respects as his. during the season. Colonel Tom. Crutchfield, of Chattanooga, Tenn., in an article written for a work on sheep husbandry, now being prepared by the Commissioner of Agriculture of Tennessee, makes the following suggestions about the care he devotes to his flock : “Annually, at shearing time, I cull my flock, and take out all ewes and lambs that are less perfect in form and fleece, or in any respect inferior, and place them with the sheep, keeping to breed from none but the best. I give my flock good attention. They have access to an open shed, and salt all the time. I change their grazing ground often, and endeavor to keep them in uniform condition, as that makes uniform wool. Any sudden change from a, fat to a. poor condition, and vice versa strengthens or diminishes the fibre of the wool, which detracts greatly from the fibre of the wool, frequently rendering the long wool valueless as combing wool. If the sheep he. comes poor when the fleece is about half grown, and then fatted, the wool inevitably tells it, as at that point where the poverty of the sheep is shown, so will it be shown in the wool, being much weaker than the other por- tions of the fibre grown while the sheep was in good condition ; this same cause, as also any other cause from which they may have had fever, will cause them to shed' their wool. I have heard it said that the feeding of corn to sheep makes them shed their wool. No doubt it is trueâ€"as the corn brought them rapidly from poverty to fleshâ€"the sudden change causing the shedding of wool, which rightfully is attributed to the corn. It has been suggested that the fruit may be kept indefinitely by packing in rye straw out very fine and keeping in a dry cool room. In all these methods the aim is to maintain an even temperature, rather cool, and at the same time have a good absorbent present to take up any exhalation of moisture. Improved Seed. The Royal Agricultural Society, of England offer two prizes of £25 and £10 each for distinctly new varieties of wheat which shall combine the largest yield of grain and straw per acre with improved form and size, smooth and thin skin, full and white kernel, and high specific gravity in the seed, and with bright, firm and stiff straw. One sack must be delivered to the society by each competitor, together with a sample bundle of straw be- fore October next. A portion of each sample will be kept for comparison, and the re- mainder divided in equal portions, will be cultivated next year in four localities differing in respect of soil and climate. The nrizes will be awarded for the best varieties of the crop of 1880 thus cultivated under the soci- ety’s auspices, if in the opinion of the judges they possess qualities which entitle them to distinction. The produce of the experimental crop of 1880 will be the property of the society, and will be offered first to the com- petitors who submitted the seed. The society also offers prizes of £25 and £10 for newer and improved varieties of wheat upon the same conditions as those enumerated be- fore, except that the sample sacks shall be delivered by October, 1882, thus giving time for the development of an uniform and perâ€" manent variety. There is an example in the above which Agricultural Societies in this country would do well to imitate. As a rule the prizes offered for grain are altogether too small as compared with those given for stock and other articles. THE FARM AND GARDEN Sheep Husband: Level Culture. Fora few weeks mine grew as wall as his,and the cucumbers, peas, etc., bloomed as early. After one gathering of cucurnlxrs, peas. etc., and the dry season set in,mine perislred,. while his continued to bloom and bear ; and so of the melons. My potatoes made about lhaif a crop of small tubers, dug: from dry hills. liisyieldod Dounteously of large onrs, dog from moist earth, at the same time, in the same field. So with the mangels, sugar beets, etc. The hilled peas beans, etc., fired early in the season and succumbed to the drought. Without this experience. if one had said that hilling up growing plants would kill them, I should have joined the responses of a million farmers. denouncing it as false and contrary to experience, because they did not perish on the day they were hilled up. Ever since I have avoided billing and ridging about growing plants and cultivated the soil as levelly as possibleâ€"American Farmer. The Barley Crop. An Oakville grain dealer writes as follows to the Georgetown Harald in reference to the barley crop of the present: year : 'i‘llE LATE DANIEL DREW. “is Long and Evrulfni Can-mal- ass a Sin ancial irpornlor. [New York Stain] The sudden death of Mr.Daniol Drew,th( veteran \‘Vall street sneenlator, on Thursduj night at the residence of his son, No. 3 Bass Forty-second street, was the main theme 0 discussion in financial circles yesterday, ant many were the anecdotes told of the pccul iarlties and eccentricities of “Uncle Daniel,’ as he was familiarly called. Those who hav: been acquainted with him for many year state that while he was most exacting as t the terms of a bargain, or took the greates delight in defeating his opponents in a larg or small speculation, he was nevertheless o a philanthropic turn of mind. One case c kindness in particular is told of him. 4 man named Uarraghan was in the hair of driving him in his hack to and from hi broker’s ollice. One day Mr. Drew met hi)’. on the corner of Broad street and Exchang nlace. and on hearinn that his horse an â€"â€"Dout0rsCommons of London, can con- sole itself for the loss of the Emperor Ne- ‘polvon’s will by the possession of that of another hero, \Vellington. The Iron Duke’s schedule of his last wishes is filled with the wills of Sir Anthony Vandyckc, Inigo Jones, Sir Isaac Newton, Samuel Johnson, Charles Dickens and William Shakespeare. the last consisting of three folio sheets, with the poet’s signature to each sheet, and comprising the much discussed be- quest of “the second best bed" t0 his wife. It may not be generally known that the Western States’ barley crop of 1879 is a large oneâ€"much larger than the crop of 1878 ; and though it is still an open question how the grain will inspect, yet it is generally received as a fact that the “ samples,” which have been carefully procured, of Western Middle States, and California barley, are superior in color and weight to our Canadian barley. Therefore, the question of the best market for Canadian barley is one of very considerable importance; and in this connection I do not hesitate to give my opinion, which may be followed by any who may deem itof suillcient importance to be benefitted by it. I am of opinion that the English demand for barley in 1879 will supply a market in its range above tho American offerings for all our surplus barley ; but in order to supply this demand, the Canadian farmer must be in a position to supply the legitimate require- ments of the English market, which, in one word, are condition and weight. If your barley is a little stained, no matter, if it is sound and fresh, and will weigh fifty pounds to the bushel, Imperial measure ; and should our barley, from a multiplicity of beards and foreign seeds, fall below the weight and standard of sample I have indicated, see to it that the superfluous seeds and dirt are reâ€" moved. and then rest assured, whether for the English or the American buyers, your barley is prepared to command the highest price. Union Terrace Gardens, Aberdeen, were, on the 11th August, formally opened to the pub- lic. About £5,000 have been expended in forming the new pleasure ground out of what was formally an ill-conditioned area. On the 2nd August there was {1 large gathering of about 20,000 spectators 011 \Vest- erton Park, the grounds of Sir James E. Alexander, at the annual Struthallan sports. The programme included 46 competitions, the value of the money prizes amounting to £220. In addition, a numbei of the Innesâ€" killing dlagoons performed some clevel feats with the sword and bayonet, single sticks, In- dian clubs, and the old English quarter staff. A mock combat between a foot soldier with his gun and bayonet and alancer on horse- back gave great satisfaction. Smut in “’henl. California farmers are quite successful in their prevention of smut in seed wheat, and we have recently been put in possession of the formula, through the kindness of one of our leading millers who received the same from a prominent miller of San Francisco. In his letter, which we have been permitted to see, the San Franciscan says : “The Granger’s Association here says the propor- tion of blue-stone (sulphate of copper) to each ton of wheat is ten ounds. The blue- stone is dissolved in hot atei‘. The solution is applied in troughs, the wheat being placed therein, and enough of the liquid applied to cover the grain." A farmer told our friend that he had used no proportion, but was guided by his eye. He dissolved enough blue~stcne to color the water, so that when looking at the wheat it showed a bluish tinge. "The wheat,” to resume our quotation from the letter of the Golden Grate miller, “is ex- posed to the solution for a few minutes, but care must be taken, after it is removed from the troughs, not to pile it high, for it will readily heatâ€"St. Louis Miller. American and English Farming. The last number of the London Economist gives an interesting, and, as it would seem, very careful comparison between farming in England and farming in America. In Engâ€" land. one acre yields on an average thirty bushels of wheat, while in America, it yields on an average only thirteen. The American farmer must consequently cultivate two and a half acres in order to produce the same quan- tity of wheat as the English farmer raises in one acre. How is it then, the paper asks, that the American farmer can, nevertheless, not only compete with the English farmer, but even beat him in his own market ? The answer which first presents itself to this ques- tion is the enormous difference of rent in England and America, but this difference is, as the paper shows, nearly, if not altogether, obliterated by the cost of transportation from the western fields to the English market. The real advantage which the American farmer has over the English lies in the cheap- ness of the cultivation. \Vhile the American soil needs little, if any manure at all, in orr‘er to yield an average harvest year after year, the English farmer must apply a heavy quan- tity of costly artificial manure to the soil every year, if he simply expects to have an average yield, and a similar cheapness ro-ap- pears at nearly every point of the cultivation excepting, perhaps, only that of labor. In the settlements along the Red River in N orth- ern Minnesota a plow may he run through the soft alluvial soil for miles in a straight line without encountering a stone, a tree or a hill, a feature to wlnch England does not of- fer the faintest approach. So is it also with the Canadian prairies of our great Northwest. ~le Factory and Farm. 011 the 7th August, at a meeting of the Grand Lodge of Freemasons, it was reported that there are 513 lodges in active operation, and 69,255 Freemasons “holding of the Grand Lodge of Scotland.” Mr. F. McQulme. of Dumfries. has be- come the owner of two relics of Burns. These are an old fashioned dressing glass, which must have often reflected the image of the poet at Ellisland ; and a horn spoon, with which he was in the habit of supping his meridian modicum of “ the kale hrose of old Scotland,” and his allow “ halesoma par- ritch, chief 0’ Scotia’s food,” at the gluamin houn The herring fishery is amazingly produc- tive this year along the shores of the Clyde. The fish are large, fat, and beautiful. Dur- ing one week lately it was calculated there were 42,000 boxes, each containing 300 her- rings landed at Broomlulaw. Not so many tourists visited the “West Highlands and Ismnds during the first half of this as at any corresponding period with in the last. nine or ten years. Chan is bust- ling, but not so much so as usual ; and there have been but few visitors to Mull. The me11 y song of lmrvestm The full, rich sound of insect life! The flesh Wind waits them to our 9111' And many 11 tone of autumn rife. 0 grand and noble pe1fect whole! The fullness of the p1011118e given! 13’ an as 111 time shall come the soul, A liponed tSing, unto its heaven. â€"Tho golden fruits hang on the Dough T1 16: gmyes ale 1ipeniug 0n the mm; Al] natuw 5 gifts mu homes endow, And at our feet 1101- treasures fall. R001”? 5 All N01 The sudden death of Mr.Daniol Drew,the veteran Vifnll street speculutor, on Thursday night at the residence of his son, No. 3 East Forty-second street, was the main theme of discussion in financial circles yesterday, and many were the anecdotes told of the pccul- iarities and eccentricities of “Uncle Daniel," as he was familiarly called. Those who have been acquainted with him for many years state that while he was most exacting as to the terms of n. bitrgain, or took the greatest delight in defeating his opponents in a large or small speculation, he was nevertheless of a philanthropic turn of mind. One case of kindness in particular is told of him. A man named Unrmghnn was in the habit of driving him in his hack to and from his broker’s office. One day Mr. Drew met him on the corner of Broad street and Exchange place, and on hearing that his horse and carriage had been seized for debt, gave him an order for a carriage and team on an up- town livery steble keeper. Mr. Drew had a |dialect peculiar to himself, and when speak- ing to other speculators, who were not well ac- quainted with his odd expressions. was fre- quently misunderstood. In pronouncing the word shares he always said “Sheree,” and Eric he pronounced “Eirie.” These are butafew of the most notable facts pointing to the release of Canadian trade from captivity to depression. Be- sides these there are the grocery trade, The state of affairs abroad has furthermore opened up new outlets for our produce. and we are now witnessing the export from this cityto the United Kingdom of potatoesmpples, hey and other commodities that have not heretofore found their way in any quantity to a transatlantic market. The industry of shipping live stock has also grown apace, and ‘is a, source of much profit to the country. Hardware interests, too, are looking up con- fidently. During the past three Weeks advances and increasing activity have been constantly advised from abroad. the improvement there being the reflection of returned prosperity to the United States, who are new again ordering iron manufactures freely from over the sea, and although our own market was for a time sluggish in de-- spite of such news, it is no longer so. Prices here have advanced, orders have in- creased, and the trade is well pleased with the situation. [Montreal Journal of Commerce] The time seems fairly to have come when not only a sigh of relief but a. strong word of encouragement may be uttered. No longer need sanguine expectations be based solely upon questionable hypotheses. There is at least a good substratum of fact whereon to build hopeful anticipations of the return of prosperity, and that at 110 indefinitely dis- tant day. Whether or not prognostications of such kind be speedily realized may depend largely upon the turn of events yet to become known, one of the chief of which is the ex- tent to which caution, curtailment and thrift have been taught by the experiences of the past few years. The present, however, is assured ; and the as- surance given is that the cloud of deepen dency which has been I0 long hanging over our business community like a pail has been lifted and removed. A bountiful harvest has been in great part secured, and within the past few days the markets of the world have taken a turn indicating that good prices may be obtained for it. Before yet any of our own crop has been offered for sale, and in face of the fact that it is now on the eve of for- warding to market in rapidly increasing quantities, wheat has taken a sudden rise in Chicago of seine 10 cents on a hushel, and a good advance in sympathy and conformity therewith is recorded in our own market. This improvement in price while the crop is still in farmers’ hands is most opportune, s1nce it will serve to place money in hands whence it will ‘ surely filter through every channel of business occupation, and so widely distribute its tonic effects. Butter and cheese havefialso taken a sudden leap up ward, and though many factories and. dairy- men have contracted at somewhat below rul- ing prices. more have refused to do so. and first hands will, as arule, find the increased prices it direct and unqualified boon. Mr. Drew was born in 1797. His father, who was in poor circumstances, lived in Car- mel, N. Y., and it is doubtful if the boy had even the ordinary advantages of a country school. His first business was that of an itinerant showman. At 19 years of age he embarked in the cattle business. and became known as an honest, efficient and carful man- ager. About this time he was converted at a, revival meeting in the Methodist church in Carmel. - In 1820 he came to this city and established his headquarters at Bull’s Head Tavern, which he kept for a while profitably. \Vith others, he began buying cattle in adjacent States and selling them in New York. He often told with pride how he personally drove the first herd of cattle. 200 in number, over the mountains. In 1823 he married. In 1834 the steamer General Jackson. plying be- tween New York and Peekskill, blew up. She was owned by Jacob Vanderbilt, a. brother of Cornelius, who at that time held a monopoly of the river trade. A friend, owning the steamboat Water Wich, induced Mr. Drew to invest $1,000 in the establishment ofa line in the place of the General Jackson. He rarely invested in solid stocks, but operated enormously in fancies. His fond- ness for cliques and corners forced him into voluntary: bankruptcy in 1876. Soon after the death of his partner, Robinson, Mr Drew transferred a large portion of property to his son, so that he was still awealthy mun, though technically he owned nothing. Mr. Drew always remained a consistent and ljb‘ eral adherent of the Methodist church. He was a trustee in the Mulberry street church, and ulsoa. church near his country home, which he built at a. cost of $6,000,:tnd to which he allowed an income of $1,000 a. year. To the Drew Seminary he donated $250,000 in one sum, and still continued his benefac- tions. He was atrustee, patron, and giver in the Concord Biblical Institute, and a trus- tee in the Troy University. His name w:is honored as a. liberal contributor to every church project. Cornelius then built the steamer Cinderella. and the rivalry became intense, and fares and freight were so lowered that both parties lost heavily.the \Nater Witch sinking $10,000durâ€" ing the season. Vanderbilt joked Drew on his knowledge of the steamboat business, and urged him to Withdraw his line, saying it was ruin to them both. This nettled Mr. Drew, and in 1835 he put on a steamer of superior build, called the \Vestchester, to run in rimlry with the Hudson River Line from New York 0 Albany. Having at this time amassed an urge fortune, Mr. Drew entered the banking business, and four years later established the house of Drew, Robinson & 00. He was son- i')r partner anti controlling element in it for thirteen years, and retired in the interest of his sou-in-law. On the death of this gentle. man he resumed his former place. and began his career as a speculator in stocks, dealing largely in them from 1842 until 1876. For eight years, from 1859, Mr. Drew was the hem} and front of the Erie Railway. In March, 1860, Erie was quoted at 8 @ 10. Mr. Drew, who held an enormous amount of the stock. by skilful manipulation sent the, stock up to 42, at which he sold, realizing nearly ten millions of dollars. In 1874 Adrian Jerome cornered Mr. Drew in Harlem stock, cagsing him to lose a quarter of a. milliBn. In the battle between Vanderbilt and Gould, Drew joined with Gould in the Jersey City campaign against theGommodore but became timid, and com- pelled acompromise with Vanderbilt. One of his favorite stocks was Toledo and Wet- bash, on which he lost $500,000. Be (In- deavored to corner Northwestern stock, but 110 abandoned the project after he had Bunk another $500,000 I‘ II N 0 U‘i‘ [1001‘ which has been doing a fair business throughout the season; the hide business, which has been done at high and even still advancing prices ; and the leather and boot and shoe trades, which are now 9);» periencing a, healthy expansive movement; the Wool trade. in which growers this sea- son certainly did well ; the dealings in flour, fairly active at good prices; the pro- vision trade, apart from or in addition to, butter and cheese, now mending, and so on. The dry goods trade alone seems to be back- ward in feeling the influence so manifestly gt work in general business, but this is only partly the case, for in several quarters we find a better business doing than last year, and doubtless the exceptional instances to the contrary are shortly to disappear, as the product of the harvest finds its way inevit- ably to the producers and handlers of menu- factured goods. â€"â€"Puck has ascertained that the man who finds a. pocketbook with cash in it doesn’t look m a. paper for three weeks. " You have been such a consistent chamâ€" pion of Free Trade, that I am afraid my de- fence of the Canadian tariff will not have much weight with you, but as regards the re moval of many thousands of the unemployed poorer classes in Great Britain, free in idle ships of war, to this side of the Atlantic, I am in great hopes you will concur in the ap- peal which is to be made to the British Gov- ernment in that direct-ion.” On the stock exchanges of the world it is the custom to speak figuratively of e1 drop in prices, especially if it take the 112» ‘ ture of the panic, as a storm, and hence has arisen the expression, “Take down your umbrellas,” which is shouted out when. ever there is good appearance of a turn in the tendency of the market. We find this to be a time when the expressive term may properly be put to a wider application, and we are glad to be able to cry out to the commercial community, "Take down your umbrellas l” It would not be prudent, however, to throw them away entirely. Commercial showers will take place from time to time in the future as in the past, and those who do not provide against such contingency deserve to get caught in the rain. “ What would give me immense pleasure, would be that. you would direct the unem- ployed working classes, and the Government to this most providential opening in the great North West. An appeal from you would have great effect. Let the idle ships of war be employed to carry across to Canada your un- employed population. and lend them at Hali- fax or Montreal ; and a few days after their arrival on this side, they can be removed to this fertile and unoccupied land. In place of fighting for territory in Africa. or in Afghanâ€" istan. let the British Government occupy its own vast territories in the North lVest. The country is there, and all that is wanted is some statesmnnlilie movement to remove the surplus and starving people of Britain to this North West land, ‘flowing,‘ as it were, with ‘milk and honey.’ ” ‘ flenrllcu (‘ust'a of Family D¢nm~lionâ€"A “’lluund maven Children Given up for u Snveet Sevenumu~<Au Aldbor- ough Bignmisl. (From the Wardsville Post.) Our quiet village was thrown into quite a state of excitement on Wednesday last, when it was rumored that Mr. Tiflin (who has hiterto borne an irreproachable character) had left for parts unknown, making. as it was supposed. the fourth candidate for the posltion of absconder who had left our neighborhood during the last two weeks, and no one supposed for a moment that he had been guilty of the crime that subsequent facts revealed. But we are sorry that it has been proved beyond a doubt that he has left a confiding wife and family of helpless young children and eloped with a Miss Lucinda James, a granddaughter of Mr. James York, of the Longwoods Road, who lives about a mile east of the village. Titfin has worked as a farm laborer during the summer on Mr. York's farm, and, as usual with farm hands, has boarded with his employer during the day, only going home at nights, and had be- come quite intimate with the members of the family, by whom he Was implicitly trusted. and it is supposed that he and his partner in flight had become attached to one another, as no one connected with the family had the slightest idea that there were anything be- tween them until the denouement came, as stated in the former part of this article. on Wednesday last. It seems that on Saturday last he ob- tained permission from his employer to lay otf work for the day for the purpose, as stated by him, of going to see his mother, who resides in the neighborhood of Thames- ville. On that day Miss James left home, and not returning at the stipulated time in- quiries were made, which resulted in the dis- covery that she had never been to Newbury ; but it has transpired that she left here in company with Tiffin for Newbury, where they took the train for Detroxt, from which place a letter was received from her to-day by Mr. York, stating that they would probably be uneasy about her, but to make no search, as she was safe with Tiifin, with' Whom she would start for British Columbia. on the same day as she wrote the letter. Thus the case stands at present and thus have two esteemed families been disgracedâ€"one through the action of one who should have been their their father and guide, and the other through the action of a foolish young girl who will, before many days elapse rue the step she has taken. 'l‘iffin has also betrayed the confidence rcposed in him by our busi- ness men; as there is not a single one but he is indebted to. BRADLEY THE ALDBOBOUGH BIGAMIST. Some ten years ago a young man by the name of Bradley came to the township of Aldboroutzh from the county of Waterloo, and having purchased fifty acres of land, settled down to the pursuit of farming in conjunc- tion with shocmaking, which was his trade. Everything looked bright, but still his happi- ness was not complete ; there was something lacking in his humble home, and that some- thing he soon found out was a wife to share his joys and sorrows, to help him stretch the leather,and whom he could confide in when he was in trouble or going to beat a man‘ in a horse trade. In thinking over the list of his friends and acquaintances he decided on a Miss Mills, from his native county of Water- loo, as the person most suitable for him. And after a short courtship the two were made one and the cup of happiness was full to the brim. On their little farm they lived in perfect happiness, she attending to the dairy and be (when not engaged in tilling the soil) pegging away at his last. Here they lived and thrived, and children grew up around them and called them pa and ma, up to the year 1876, when he yearn- ed for the excitement of town life. He sold out his farm and removed to Bothwell, where he worked at his trade, and, as in the old life on the farm, everything thrived and went well with them until some ten days ago, when a lady accompanied with a numerous off- spring appeared in that town inquiring for her long-lost husband, who turned out to be Mr. Bradley. He suddenly found out that his lungs were weak, and that the air of Col orado, or some other far off place, would be conducive to a change. So he left between two days, not waiting to embrace his wife No. The following 1s extracted from a letter ad- dressed to John Bright and signed by Donald Ross. of Nova Scotia : 1, who, no doubt, would have been glad to see him, and is by this time breathing the invigorating air of Uncle Sam’s dominions. And the long absent but now suddenly found wife, finding there was nothing to be made, took herself and children back to the county of Waterloo, Where she has waited in vain for the last ten years for her absent lord and master, while wife No. 2, nee Miss Mills. sold off all of the property and skipped, like a lamb, after her dear Bradley. THE IIIRIEI) NIAN AGAIN G30!) ADVICE Interesting Items From All Sources. â€"Arkansas is agitated over a man with a horse’s head. â€"â€"Eighn per cent. of the habitable houses in Glasgow are empty. â€"A high agricultural authority estimates the loss on English crops at $125,000,000. â€"Employment for the mind is what thou- sands are in need of. â€"â€"Divorce is a, leading subject of discussion in Paris. Alfred Naquet and Dumas favor it. â€"The colossal Corliss engine of Centennial fame now runs the machinery of the Branch Mint in San Francisco. â€"â€"The Methodist Conference of southern Illinois, refused to admit a woman as mem- ber, although she was pastor of a church. â€"â€"There has been a great decline inthe adulteration of food in England since the employment of public analysts. Nearly every county now has one. â€"A short-sighted lover passes the object of his infections upon the street without saluting her, wherefore she takes him to task at their next meeting. “What weight should I at- tach to your professions ‘2” she says severely; “yesterday I met you on the street, and you â€"The death is announced of Mr. Chap- man, the leading entomologist of Scotland, after a lingering illness, accelerated by the failing of the City of Glasgow Bank, of which he was a shareholder. An account of him says : “To Mr. Chapman this world was a paradise of natural wonders ; to him about the blackest spot was the religious pre- tentious which so largely aided to compass the catastrophe which brought him to rum.” â€"A Dunedin, New Zealand, paper records the death of yet another Glasgow Bank vic- tim, a jeweller, who. failing for $340,000, emigrated from Edinburgh. â€"â€"It is said that if you strap a man tightly to a large cannon and fire it off the concus- sion will kill him and death will be painless. Hangmen will please take notice. â€"â€"An Alabama. woman has orgiuated a novel industry which may prove to be an im- portant and useful one. She strips the down of the feathers of turkeys and other fowls from their quills and weaves it into 8. thick, soft cloth. which can be dyed any de- sired color, and out of which most beautiful and comfortable cloaks, sacques, 6110., can be made. Her inability to buy herself a seal- skin sacque led her to make the experi~ maul. â€"W00dburn S. Peunell thus advertises in Portland, Me. : " Any man or woman sell- ing me one drop of intoxicating liquor on or after this date, I will prosecute to the extent of the law.” â€"The woes of Mary Warner, as presented by Miss Kate Bateman, were augmented in a. theatre at Hunley.England, by a stone, which was thrown from the gallery, and struck her in the face. â€"Me1ancholy Barber (with a soul above his business) : “ I don’t get much of a livin’ by it, sir !” Customer (through the lather) : “ Thenâ€"you oughtâ€"for you scrapeâ€"hard enoughâ€"for it I" â€"Mr. Blore, an architect, from whose de- signs Abbotsford was built, died‘lately, aged 89. He had long survived his reputation, and had been entirely eclipsed by Sir Gilbert Scott, whe succeeded him as architect to Westminster Abbey. â€"â€"A child is to be born next month to the Duchess of Norfolk, who, as Lady Flora Hast- ings, was wedded last March twelvemonth, at the Brompton Oratory, amid much pomp and circumstance, Lord Beaconsfield being 8. Sign. ing witness, and the Queen being represented by the Princess Louise. â€"Tl1e munificence of the Duke of Norfolk as a Catholic is wonderful. It is calculated that Within the past ten years he has ap- plied over a. million dollars to his religion. He has just undertaken to defray the cost of a church at: Sheffield, and is about to build another at the east end of London. â€"A Yankee and a Mexican disputed at Big Springs. Neb., as to their skill as marks- men. “ What can you do with that rifle of yours ?” the Yankee sneeringly asked, I can shoot the stone out of that pin on your breast,” the Mexican retorted, and did it, incidentally inflicting a mortal wound. â€"A Philadelphia lady is the owner of a valuable relic in the shape of a manuscript copy of Wesley’s Hymn in the handwriting of the author. The book descended to this lady from her grandfather, to whom it was given in partial payment of a debt by the son of the man who printed the first edition of the hymns. â€"E1isha Grimes said in a. prayer meeting at Little York. Ind., that he was wholly pre- pared to die. George Jones called him out of doors a few minutes afterward. and killed him with a knife. It is conjectured that Jones thought Grimes, professing readiness, might as well die at once, for no other motive has been discovered. â€"A monster, yellow as orange peel. has spread terror in Berks County, Penn. It has the shape of e human being about 4 feet high ; arms with two fingers on each paw, formed like the tnlons of a chicken; feet with- out toes; eyes like those of a out; three crowns on its head about six inches high; body naked and yellow. â€"â€"-When any great loss or sudden pain comes unawures upon us we are apt to forget everything else for the time but our own in- tense suffering. The skies may be as blue and the fields as green as ever, but for us they wear a different hue. The brook, whose bubble over the stones was once music to the ear, has now a. mourniul sound. Nature sympathizes with our moods, smiling with our joys and mourning with our sorrows. â€"A young lady at a certain place in Wayne County asked the prayers of the congregation because she could not set eyes upon a certain young man in her neighborhood without feel- ing as though she must hug him to death. That congregation ought to pray for all they are Worth ; the bare possibility of such e death is fearful to contemplate-Woke“ In- dependent. â€"â€"I’a.llMall Gazette :â€"â€"-“Thcre are twodays in the yearâ€"the 12th of July and the 15th of August. on which rioting occurs somewhere in Ireland with various degrees of violence, but with unchangeable regularity. The occa- sion of the riot is always the same â€"a Prot~ estant procession in July, a Roman Catholic procession in August.” â€"The present theatrical wonder of Paris is “The Black Venus,” a play representing the adventures of a traveller in Africa. The quan- tity and gorgeousuess of the costumes and scenery are unprecedented on the stage ; but the most striking feature is 9. caravan, in which more than a. hundred African beasts, from the zebra to the elephant, are intro- duced. -John Seigle was driving home from Salem, Minn. A highwayman jumped into the wagon from the rear, pointed a pistol, and and said : “Up with your arms.” Seigle held up his arms obediently, but simultaneously kicked out with all his mi ht, hitting the robber in the stomach, an tumbling him heels over head to the ground, where he lay insensible until the farmer escaped. ~Zulu oysters are the latest in gastrono- mm luxury They typify the Bartle erze policy, whi ch 15 to swallow the natives whole â€"a quLd pro gun, in evident relation to Cotywayo’s proposal to “eat up” the British army! The Zulu King was no worse than the Lord Derby. who declared he would swallow the boiler of the first ship that steamed across the Atlantic. â€"â€"Mrs. Davis sold her dwarfed sons to a showman, in Knox county, Ohio, twenty-seven years ago, and has only seen them once since On that occasion, having repented of the bar- gain she went with a Hherifi to recover them ; but the showman tucked them under his arms and fled to the woods. They are par- ticularly wanted at home just now to look after some property that has been left for them. AROUND THE WORLD passed on without over looking at me.” “Madame,” replies the offender gallantly. "if 1 had stopped to look at you I should never have passed on.” â€"â€"â€"Without ever making a bet, and in days when the value of stakes was insignificant as compared with the mighty aggregate of Lord Jr‘ulmouth’a winnings during the last three years, Admiral Harcourt retired from the turf with a. clear gain of $125,000. The blood of his old Tomboy mare may still be traced in the last volume of the stud book. and it flowed in theveins of Summerside, with whom the late Lord Londesborough won the Oaks in 1859. â€"Cardinal Manning. speaking of a Catholic temperance meeting in Liverp0ul recently, said that in Manchester, Liverpool and Lon- don the Teetotal League of the Cross numbered 50,000 of the soberest men in England. Drunkenness was affecting factory hands to such an extent that Americans who had visited England to study the labor ques- tion declared that the factory labor of America. was more efficient than that of England in consequence of intemperance among English factory operatives. -â€"When the amnesticd Communists return» ed to Paris an old lady scrutinized the hand without perceiving the face she looked for, “I can’t see my poor boy.” she said, “he mnut ;have fallen ill and remained behind,” Here in, man of apparently forty stopped before her and accosted her with, “Dear mother, is it possible that you do not recognize me ‘2” She looked at him fixedly. An expression of dis- appointment pussed over it faded face, which had been radiant with hope. No, she did not recognize him ; he could not be her son. Eighteen and eight made twentyâ€"six ; and she had a grizzly-bearded roan before her. When he took 01$ his cap she then saw that she had not to deal with on impostor ; but the anguish of mind from which she had just suffered after the hours of prolonged expecta- tion deprived her of all strength of will or of speech. “Have I killed you, darling mother 2” said the poor fellow. “Come, cheer up ; you know me, don’t you?" and he led her, or! rather half bore her into the court. â€"â€"â€"The Heathen Chiuee is engaged in other business besides polishing the humble wash~ board in New York City. It seems that in addition to a. small army of launarymen the city can boast of fifty Chinese grocers, twenty tobacconists and ten druggists. with enough Mongolians in other callings to demonstrate the adaptability of the race. As they are said to be Sitisfied with very small profits, the Herald expresses the hope that many of them may turn their attention to plumbing and hack-driving. The Princess of \Vales is described as never more radiant than of late, “not even on the morning. sixteen years ago, when in that jaunty hat and mauve poplin dress she stepped ashore at Gravesend, and afterward rode through London, taking triumphant possession of all our hearts.” On it recent occasion she "looked almost as )‘nl‘mg and quite as charming in a costume of black and white striped silk, and it was easy to see how proud she is of her boys." â€"Thevoriginal Bleak House, rendered {It moua by the pen of Charles Dickens, has been burned to the ground. There are many to whom the fact may be new that such a. place existed at any time otherwise than in the fertile imagination of the novelist. but Dickens, in nearly every leading feature of his stories, both as to persons and places. painted from real life. Bleak House stood near Islington Green. in the north of Lon- don, and was an object of curiosity in the ]o- cality. â€"â€"-A suicide took place at, Paris under very peculiar circumstances. The man, it appears, from a. letter found on his corpse, was a devo- tee to science. The letter runs thus : " I de- sire that my body be given to the Faculty of Medicine to study. I shoot myself because I am suffering from an incurable disease. In spite of that I am as strong as a horse, and cannot. die. Let me be very carefully (lis- seeted. I shall afford the doctors 21 Very curi- ous study.” â€"A studious-looking man arrived at an Iowa county fair with a). large and intricate machine, which be unloaded with great care from a wagon. The superintendent asked him what it was, so as to be able to assign it to a proper place among the exhibits. He replied that it was an apparatus for making human beings. ” I put the proper amount of bone, muscle, blood. and so on, into this hopper," he continued “ set the wheels in motion, and the result within an hour is a perfect adult men or woman." The only imperfection in his invention, he went on to say, was that the creatures thus made had no souls, but he hoped soon to remedy that. He was allowed to set up the machine. and to explain it to the crowds ; hut he was unable to get the proper materials for a practical illustration. â€"A French woman went to Guy's Hosri tal, London. and offered a round sum for the privilege of marrying a dying 1mm. She is Elanie de Panard, a. descendant of Beranger’s famous rival in lyric poetry. She was left a fortune of $20,000 by her uncle, a baker on one of the less fashionable boulevards. The money will not be hers until she marries, and as no eligible young man. appears, she has been driven to the expedient of marrying a dying man. To that end her friends have applied at several Paris hospitals, but the authorities would not hear of such a death- bed mockery. The case was then presented to Mr. Utlnfi‘f. s :z'geog at Guy’s, who was in- formed that ii the dying man was a widower with children, they would be provided for. The ofler was refused. â€"The noted Dalrymple farm, on theNorthâ€" em Pacific Railroad, employs 400 men (luring the present harvest, and would use 000 male but for selflhindcrs. It has 115 self~hiuding rompers and 20815051111 threshers. The farm contains {75,000 more acres in space than the original District of Columbia. Gruund was first broken in 1875. This year more than 20,000 acres are in crops. The owner will ship 500,000 bushels of wheat this year to New York at a profit of $180,000. In reaping each machine takes an eight foot sweep and cuts fifteen acres a, (lay. Twenty-one ma- chines work simultaneously on a square mile patch, running one after another. â€"â€"The examination of J ames Morton, 0f Morton & 00., managers of the New Zesland Land Company and debtors of the Glasgow Bank for fil,5000,000, has brought to light that the bank was kept afloat for years by the renewal and enlargement of its own accept- ances, amounting to many millions. The bills thus accepted were in due mercantiie form, and purported to be drawn from abroad by firms well known in Scotland against credits granted on securities. the principal 11::- gotiator being Mr. Morton, who has contrived to eseape inclusion in the criminal proceed- ings against directors and officers. of his tentacles round the leg of the boot, and with the other four held firmly on to the rocks forming the back of the tank. A strug- ensued, during which the man found he could disengage himself without killing the animal, and finally hit upon the expedient 0f slipping out his leg, leaving the boot in the water and beating a retreat. The hungry octopus stuck to the boot for twenty minutes, when it relinguished its hold. â€"â€"â€"Two beautiful young men in Lonolm, Ark, procured licenses to marry the same girl on the same day. She lived four miles out of town, and was not considered a, coquette. It was a case of “first come, first served." The young man who arrived an hour too late had boasted that no woman in America eouid jilt him. So the fair Leonora. put her wits together to undeceive him, they being engaged at the time. She had but re cently formed the acquaintance of the gentle- man she subsequently married; and as he made a proposal of marriage, she determined to accept it at their next interview, while she was to have been led to the altar by her first loverâ€"but one hour earlier. â€"A rather amusing incident was witness- ed inthe Scarborough, Eng., Aquarium on Thursday morning. The keeper, while en- gaged in cleaning out the tank occupied by the octopode was suddenly sei/ed by the leg (fortunately he had sea boots on) by the largest of the octopods, which fastened foul (From the Louisville Courier J ouruul.) MoPnrlan, the detective, was formerly Pinkerton's Coachman. The latter believed him to be the man to;consummate theperilous task of unearthing the Pennsylvania Molly Maguires. He was engaged at a salary of only 812 it week and all expenses, after along struggle with his own convictions, as to the right and wrong of the mighty task he was about undertaking. How he ingrstiated him- self among those people, for years lived with them as a boon companion, wrenched from them their dearest secrets, prevented ‘many a. murder, and at last, when Pinkerton ‘had his noose all ready. emerged from his indentity as McKenna,the brawling Molly. be- coming the terrible instrument of justice that has transformed the coal regions from a country of barbarians to a. comparatively peaceful section, although a score or so of necks have been stretched in the consumma- tiou.ure already familiar to the public. I know “Jimmy." as his friends call him, well ; and he has been to me in. remarkable study. He was formerly simply “a broth of a boy,” kind-hearted, impulsive, not ignorant, but what is termed quiek-witted, and that’s all. Had he not become, by mere chance, Pinker- ton’s coachnmn, he would have remained to this day what he was before, and what I believe he often wishes he still wasâ€"u sort of a porter or man-ofâ€"all-work about stores and wholesale houses. â€"-Onco upon a time, when Dumas Pete was short of cash, he wrote to a certain mil- lionaire, asking for the loan of some money for afew months. The letter was an ex- tremely characteristic one, and ended with a charming little rondeau, half jest, half seriousness. Indeed it was such a clever production that the banker Hugely concluded that its author was not to be trusted with money, and promptly and curtly declined to make the proposed investment. At dinner that night several of the banker’s guests happened to be discussing a. recent sale of autographs and mentioned the almost fabuâ€" lous prices brought by familiar notes of Hugo, annrtine, Guizot and Gautier. “ Do you mean to tell me,” said the millionaire, “ them. things of that sort have any valueâ€"money , value ‘2” “ Certainly they have,” replied one ‘ of his guests, who was a collector ; “ a good 3 autograph, such as I have mentioned, is 1 worth its weight in bank bills any day.” “ How much is this worth ‘2” said the bunker, taking Duinas‘s letter from his pocket. “ .l‘il give you it hundred francs for it this instant,” said the collector, with en- thusiasm, after reading it. “ Done i” said the banker ; and, with ft pityiug smile, he poeketed the money for the letter to which a, few hours before he had returned a con- emptuous refusal. â€"Wheu you lift a cup of fragrant cofiee to your lips just remember that horse chestnuts, acorns, wheat, red. mirth, carrots, parsnips, oak hark, tun, mahogany sawdust and Vene- tian red are siid to be used by come-roosters to adulterate your drink. The immense strain upon Mch‘lan‘s mind through three years had made him unrecog- nizable by his former self. Intellectually, in experience, in thought. motive and purpose. he has virtually been recreated, and in the minds of those wotcning this change in the man, he has become fixed,as, in many re- spects, a remarkable person. Not all the wealth on earth would induce McParlan again to go through what he he s. I believe he re‘ grets it. From the vast body of Irish people he is virtually ostracised. “ He is an in- former.” That settles it with his race. I respect lnm because I know him. Never a more honest, upright and sincere man lived. But this is the load he carries. No man can contemplate a score of scaffolds and a score of souls plunged into eternity through his in- strumentality free from a regret which must be eternal. Physically MoParlan is broken up badly. The excitement, great labor, poisonous mine gases, and more poisonous miner’s whiskey or “ mountain dew" he was compelled to use freely and distribute to assist in accomplish- iug his purpose. nearly wrecked him. At one time his eyesight was despaired of. Mr. Pinkerton has a boundless infection for him and will never see him in want. He has saved persistently, and has fully $5,000 in Government bonds and in lots here, which, by the way, was all he could secure in pay- ment for services rendered a firm here before his employ men: by Pinkerton, and which, though then nearly worthless, have consider- ably advanced in value. “ Oh, that’s not so,” said the Western man. “Why. you can‘t raise em there as big as tea- cups-vthe land’s too poor. Why some of that New York land is so poor that you have to file the sheep’s noses so they can get down close enough for the grass, and in some local- ities they kept boys to go over the field to hold the sheep up by the hind legs so they can plough the ground enough to keep them from starving.” Then the crowd laughed. and the New York man spoke up and said : “That ain’t quite so had as your W'estem land. It’s all swamp, and if a. man has a melon or squash patch he has to lay a. big chip under each one to keep them from being drowned out, and you can always see them floating round in the water.” Then the Western man said: “ That ain’t quite as bad as the way they do in Jersey. They plant their crop of melons in the swamp. and by the time they are ripe the water is two and three feet deep around them. Then the owner stands in the door- way of his cabin with a gun and shoots them all at the stem, and the tide floats them into the house. That’s the way he gathers his crop.” The New York mun walked away, and the ungodly crowd in hearing smiled a sweet, gentle, happy smile.â€"{1awkcyc. A flesirlcnloflilgiu ti'onuly for Upward: of "all a Cenlul y. (St. Thomas Times.) It becomes ou1 province to chronicle in this name the demise of one of the earliest pioneers of this section in the person of Mrs. Catharine McGregor, relict of the late John. McGregor, who expired ' at the residence of her son Archibald, in North Yarmouth, on Satuiday last 20th inst. The deceased lady was boin 1n Argyleshhe. Scotland, in 1777, and had consequently attained hel 103 year. She was married to he1 husband In Scotland, and the couple emigrated to this country in 1829, settling in the township of Sonthwold, on the McKillop farm. Two years subsequen- tely they removed to North larmouth, taking up land in close proximity to the Glen, which was then what may fitly be described as a wilderness. Notwithstanding all the priva- tions and toil incidental to pioneer life which they were compelled to under- go, they accumulated considerable property. Mrs. Mch-egor proved an excellent lielpmatc in clearing the farm, and had few' equals in the use of the sickle in harvest timeâ€"this being the mode of cutting grain in those days. She survived her husband 22 years. The family of the deceased numbered 14, four of whom are still living, two sons and two daughters. She had 42 grandchil- dren, 122 great grandchildren, and one great great grandchild. It may also be incidentally iemarlied here that one of her granddaug hyâ€" teis was blessed \tit1119 children, nearly 8all of whom are still living in the county of El- giu. Throughout life, Mrs. McGregor was a consistent member of the Presbyterian Church. Rev. K. McDonald, of Belmont, preached an impressive discourse on the occasion of the funeral. The remains were interred in the St. Thomas cemetery on Monday, the hearse being followed by anumerous cortege of friends and relatives. A man from the great State of New York t"? spoke up and said ; ‘- The melons that grow here can’t be com- pared to those that grow in our State. Why down in New Y wk we have them as big as 9. flour barrel." They were talking about watermelous, and Due of them said that the best melons he gavel" saw were grown in the east. 1 DEA'I‘II "F A \i’fllYlAN 103 YEARS (ILI). l)E'l‘E 1‘! VJ}! "ROE A I: VA’l‘E IBL‘IEIA"NS‘