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Death. -On Friday morning last Mrs. Arch. McKinley, one of the old settlers of Euphrasia, died at her residence near Thornbury, leaving her husband and a large and respectable family to mourn her loss. She died triumphant in that Faith which fears not "the sting of death." She was interred in the Thornbury and Clarksburg cemetery on Sunday. AND "STILL THEY COME!" Another lot of beautiful Goods just received at Russell&apos;s Noted Jewelry Store, Flesherton. Consisting of Watches, Charms, Rings, Gold Plated and Silver Chains, Cuff Buttons, Lockets, Bracelets, Ear-Riners, Brooches, &c., which are being sold at prices that cannot be beaten. Every article warranted as represented. No trouble to show goods. Watch, Clock, & Jewelry Repairing personally attended to and satisfaction guaranteed. THE ADVANCE. A. R Fawcett. Editor. FLESHBRTON : THURSDAY. AUG 14, 1884. JOTTINGSJYTHE WAY. A few Stray Leaves from the Edi- tors Note Book. At this season of the year it is .u-fiierally customary for the Editors of country newspapers to take their wives aud families <or their sweet- hearts i for a quioi jaunt out into the conn try. In common with hi) brethren of the Fourth Estate, Tin ADVANCE man deemed it expedient to lake a few days recreation. Last Thursday, therefore, he aud his bet- ter half were driven by way of Eugenia and Kimberley to Thornbury. In the following paragraphs, taken from stray leaves " in his note book, will be found some of his observations by the way. The "leaves," as put together although forming rather a discon- nected narrative may not prove un- interesting to the many readers of TBC ADVANCE. The crops all along the route travelled were simply magnificent. On every side the " waving corn- fields " presented a view not only (Tatirjiug to the possessors therutf, but to trjc passers by as well. It wa a rar* thing to see a really poor field of &apos;.uy kind of grain. The view pre- sented from the hill OYEBLOOKINO ILD1UEU.ST wan a\tuo*t sublime in its grandeur. A R far as the rye could see on the lull slopes and in the valley were fields of &apos;"golden grain " ready for the reaper, fields of grain just turning color, fields of grain in which the husbandmen wre already busy at work reaping, binding, / stocking up," mid hauling in, aud bright green fields of pasture and meadow-land, with " clumps " of beautifully fohaged forts! intervening at regular intervals. Here and there, in openings of UK forest, the waters of the Beaver Rivor glistened in the sunlight, while the hum of the reaping machine, the tooting of dinner horns, the clang of bolls or old mouldboards used for a similar purpose could be distinctly beard, although several miles distant, from a point, which almost scciuod beneath our feet, to the north of the 1 leaver River sonic fifteen or sixteen miles distant, and closely following the tortuous windings of that stream, tretchf-d the long, dark swamp, while away in a North -Easterly direction just where the earth and sky appeared to meet was a long, thin, blue-look- ing* &apos; Htrcak," showing where the Hearer River mingled its waters with that of the Georgian Day. Bisiug many hundred feet above the level of the river, and on both sides of it, and stretching far away into the distance, wi re the two spurt* o( tin- fiamona Blue mountains. On the slopes of these hills, or mountains as they are oftener rulltil, are many well cultivated farms. The land as a rule is fertile, and will rmuain very productive just as long as Uie inhabitant* wisely allow the forests to remain on the brow of the hills. It is a great mistake to clear up the laod ou the " peaks " or "hrowa" of any such hills. By al ID wing them to remain, the roots of the trees retain the moisture accumu- lated from apring freshets, andgradually allows it to descend into the valleys! when most needed. JUST BEroRE aBACHINO this splendid point of observation, we met a liors* , iitached to a single wag- &apos;ii. driven by a young man. .In the ar part i>{ tl*: rig something met our gtzo wlikh startled us. la th hot- up and protected from the effects of the jolting on the rough road, lay a middle aged man, evidently in an un- conscious State. From bloody marks on his face, the poor man had ap- parently met with a severe accident, nl was now being taken to his house or to the doctor, we did not ascertain which. As we descended the hilly road to Kimberley, a broken buggy in a field near the road, a stump torn out by the roots, and other evidences of a runaway seemed to point out pretty conclusively that the unfortu- nate man we had seen in the rig had met with his accident here. In a few minuted we are IN KIJIBKHLKY, with the renovated Mansion House sign starring us out of countenance, and the precipitous cliffs of the Blue mountains towering ominously above our heads, so to speak. Here we found that the whirligig of time had brought many changes to the future " flourishing town." Kimberley is about nine miles from Flesherton and five from Eugenia, and is situated on the Eastern banks of Beaver River. It contains two or three stores, a carriage shop, blacksmith shop, saw mill, shingle factory, flour mill, a Temperance hotel, the " Mansion House," and other business places The citizens have almost unlimited faith in the future prosperity of the place. What they want just now most particularly is direct railway communication with the great busi- ness centres. This would develop the splendid water powers in the lo- cality, BO that in a short time this would become quite a maaufacturing centre. One would-be XI. P. P. went so far u to promis* to obtain this great boon in case he wa> elected. Of course it was an absurd election dodge. These great railway corpora- tions will construct lines through new sections of country only wke* it payi (Arm to do so. The VAl.LKT BOAHJ has also been a fruitful theme for speculation. There is something real about this theme, however ; at present the railway "boom" partakes too much of a " tale of fairyland." It is too visionary, to and therefore is not minds ; al- popular Deputy-Reeve of Euphrasia, has erected a handsome brick resi- dence on the site of the old homestead. Harvesting in this neighborhood is well advanced and promises bounti- ful returns. Here the Editor met with many of bin old schoolfellows and early friends. The log barns and houses, or " shanties," of fifteen years ago are rapidly being replaced by frame and brick structures. Stumps and stones are almost unknown. Where once the sportive chipmunk and squirrel frisked about on the branches of stately elms, now is heard tin- humming of the reaper or mower, or sizz-z-z of the plow as it passes through the rich clay loam soil. The old school-house, where once we were instructed, and where we passed many a pleasant hour in playing " blind man&apos;s buff," base ball, " pom-pom- pull-away," and other exhilarating games, has, with many other familiar old " landmarks," passed away. What changes old Father Time has wrought in this beautiful neighborhood during the past decade even ! One by one the sturdy old pioneers, who by their indominatable pluok and perseverance have changed a wilderness to a popu- lous and fertile district, now teeming with the fruits of their industry are passing away to Unit, " undiscovered country from whose bourne no travel- ler e&apos;er returns." On Friday morning last Mrs. Aroh. McKinley, one of the old settlers of Euphrasia, died at her residence near Thornbury, leaving her husband and a large and respect- able family to mourn her loss. She died triumphant in that Faith which fears not " the sting of death." She was interred in the Thornbury aud Clarksburg cemetery on Sunday. [We have been obliged to condense our notes for wamt of space. ED.] .For TV,- Ailnmre.] POLITICAL. For the past decade at least, it must be admitted all around and in- dued it i&apos;j admitted by the impartial and fair-minded that circumstances foreshadowed by the Conservative leaders have been fulfilled. Open and free, and anxious that every import- ant enactment should be received only upon its constitutional merit, they iiibcrrabiiiK ty 1 1 .INHIMIK iiiniiib , <u ~ tr vl &apos;" ~** wj though, nund you, the day may not be liave assiduously opened the avenue* . * * . t *:!* A! A|_J g far distant when the iron horse will make rocks and valleys re-echo with its shrill screams. So moto it be. However, the sooner this Valley Road about which there has been so much talk and so little practical work done is opened up for public travel, the better it will be for Kim- berlcy and the surrounding country. THE SEU.1NU Or LIQUOI sot-inn to be an objectionable feature to a large number of people in this locality. They maintain that drink- ing has largely increased since the innovation. I>runken men were ever seen before ; now it is a (HMiimon occurrence. It was even hinted to us, that one man had actu- ally ji\rnrd fltur in onWr to, obtain liquor. This would be bad enough in a city or town, but it is simply abom- inable in a rural district. It WAS tl Might the sale of liquor would draw ti do to, the place. It may a certain ki.id of trade, but not that which helps to build up a place. The argu- ment, that when it is sold at all, it might as well be sold i* one place as in another, isvoor one. TUB CBOP* everywhere look well. Fall wheat, spring wheat, oats, peas, barley. Ac., give every evidence of a bountiful harvest. Even the root crop is a very fair average. In fruit, the plum crop is a failure generally speaking, while the apple crop is tho heaviest for some , A large number of plum trees been killed outright by the blight or in some unaccountable man- HI.T. We noticed a number of plum trees in the fine orchard of Mr. Robt. Fawcett, which were very heavily laden with plums last year, now com- pletely stripped of their foliago and aJl indications of life and vigor gone. box, comfortably wrapped 1 We notice that Mr. W. Fawcett, the for ratification even to the foot of the throne. Instance the McCarthy Act ; also the Boundary question. It is fresh in the memory of every 1&apos;iilitiriitn how the Reformers held these up for political purposes. The Award is binding, said they ; and the writer fully remembers how imperious- ly and persistently the party urged the propriety and legality of tho Award misleading audiences by Globe litera- ture advancing premises having only for basis the imaginations deduced from Reform assertions. Even our member, Dr. Landerkin, in Artemesia and elsewhere, also sounded tho re train. It staggers on. to comprehend why men, possessed of such professed intelligence, should pursue such course. It wan only necessary to hoist the signal at headquarters, when svery Grit member with his satellites made the air ring with their vociferations. Ontario was being robbed, oppress- ion, was claimed, every Conservative was disloyal to his own Province, and all this in face of general support of Conservatives by the people. U was most amusing the other week the jubilancy over prospective deois- in the Award matter. Mr. Mow- victorious over Sir No utterance could at, say they, is John McDonald. be more false or disingenuous. Was the Award binding ? The Privy Council say no! What prom- inent Canadian Raid no? It was Sir John McDonald the Privy Council corroborating tho utterances of Sir John as against the whole posse of Ihe Reform camp. Who proposed, ten years ago. to re- fer the matter to th Privy Council for final adjudication? It was Sir John McDonald. Who deferred it aud for what ? It certainly was Oli- ver Mowc, and for DIM pvrpossv- witness the arguments in chief on every hustings since then I It is impossible to say how much longer Mr. Mowat would have dangled his darling if Attorney-General Miller of Manitoba had not ensnared him, and forced him to submit his case. Mowat imprisoned an officer in Manitoba, and the question of juris- diction at once arose. Mowat wanted to discharge the officer, but the officer refused to be so summarily dismissed, unless legally done. So the question of boundary had to be settled and was in a way of being accomplished when the brave Mowat succumbed, and a basis for submission was arrived at as between Manitoba and Ontario- ami is now sub judice. It may bo remarked, that Sir John , McDonald, nor his Government, is ; mixed in the reference, aud will pro- bably only have to ik-al with it here- after by parliamentary enactment by way of ratification, as its exigencies may determine. 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Scuarat <r> \\rtrn Kmpif* Engine* and Hollr. r,>ml>tnd Portable KuKiueo aud Ht>|iaratora.aiid Ron*. I&apos;owen ft Separator- Haw Mill Machinery, Ac.. Ac. Agents Wanled in Every Township ! FOE FIRST-CLASS Cistern Pumps, and Sinks! Earle Strain&apos;s Tinware Emporium! WM. CLAYTON - Has on hand a Large assortment of - Hens, Wonicns & BOOTS AND SHOES. |3s"Suitable for t!,< Summer. Call and see Quality and Price Second to Hone I WM. CLAYTON, - FLESHERTON Curet Diszinett, Lota of Appetite, Indigettion, ^ ^^ Dyspepsia, Jaundice, Afeetiont of the Liver and A&apos;l./neyi, lg Pii*pk, Blotehet, BoUt, Human, Salt Shewn, Scrofula. Erynpelat, and all diseases anting from Impvre Blood, \ Deranged Stomach, or irregular action of the BoveU. , * : i -.&apos;