Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 6, 1875, Winnipeg, Manitoba City and provincial. Mews. A Hespeler s Hall this evening. Tub hotels Are All full just now and doing a Good business the annual meeting of the St. Patrick s society for election of officers Etc., this evening. Was an Young fire at the Dominion hotel last evening. Loss one window curtain. Return of lion. Messes. Duals and. Hoyal. Hon. Messes. Davis and Royal return from Ottawa yesterday. Some five or is of their friends went out Asfa As St. Norbert to meet and Welcome them. Tiik mildness of Tho weather last evening brought out the regular Church goers in Force and a Good Many irregulars. Customs report. Tho following tables show the business done at the customs office of the port o Winnipeg for the months of november 1874 and 1875 1874. Imports. Specific. Specific and vol. 2.v per cent. 17 percent. 10 per cent. Per free goods 70 .001 the work on the new City Hall is Progress ing with the greatest rapidity but there s Only about three weeks now till the new Vear. A number of ratepayers threaten to go to the City Council meeting to night to hear the finance committee s detailed wonder if report. thousand dollars Reward is offered to the Man who will invent a machine to pre vent train dogs singing All night. It must t be a shooting Iron or a dose of arsenic either. A hardware Man of this City lost himself on the Way to Tho lower fort last thursday night and had to Appeal to a Lucifer and Compass for guidance. The night was very in explanation. 1875. Specific and Val. 2 per cent. 385 17j per cent. 15 per cent. 10 per cent. 5 percent. Free goods Home cons. 45 Ofil duty 11.14 273.08 48.07 83 102 20.89 24.30 298.32 03.80 glib Viox late canteen keeper at fort Osborne has turned up at Buffalo n y. He passed through Ontario safely enough hav ing disguised himself by taking off his Gog Gles and removing his colossal moustache. All our outside exchanges Are Chuck full of articles headed the Al Etc. In most Canadian cities and towns candidates have Long since announced themselves. It is getting very near the time for somebody to arise and speak Here. A Worthington who enlisted in the Manitoba infantry in London ont some time since got tired of the ser vice and left. Going Back to London he was arrested As a deserter and taken before a magistrate who remanded him for eight the Hole in the Roadway where Brown s Bridge once sufficed for the Carriage of our Over taxed citizens is very dangerous in its present state. Perhaps when a broken limb or lost life is added to the incidentals of that costly Experiment the Market House a railing will be placed around it. Or. Barclay of Stony Mountain con tractor for the Penitentiary was in town last week. We Are sorry to learn that he has suffered severely from a fistula for some time past but is now happily recovering. He is one of the princes among contractors and numbers an army of friends. The imports of the month for this year will be seen to have doubled that of the same month of last Yeai. The comparatively Small amount of duty collected in november of this year is accounted for by the Large quantities of goods imported during the month which Are yet e bonded warehouses. The municipal canvass is still going quietly on on the part of the soon to to defunct City Council mutterings of a storm Are now and then heard however and the probability is that they will be surprised by an awaken aug of the ratepayers As the time of election More nearly approaches. Or. Fuller s Telegraph party were paid off on thursday at a. Mcmicken s office to the tune of some five thousand dollars. In consequence a Large number of new suits of clothes were seen on the streets. Some 40 men of the Telegraph party elected to re main at Battle River and Carlton during the Winter. There Are to be some extremely curious costumes at the skating carnival on Friday. An Alderman will appear As an honest Man a member of the St. Andrew s society will be thoroughly disguised As a Good Templar a stage Driver will be unknown under Tho garb of a civil gentleman an opposition St politician will totally destroy his identity by doing some Good action without an ulterior object in View and a policeman will be incognito in a decent suit of clothes supplied by the corporation. Police police were out All night last night but they made a mighty haul from two houses of ill Fame respectively those kept by mrs Lewis and mrs Lyons. These two women were fined each and costs and Maude Seymour Estella Gretton Carrie Rowand and Fannie Ellsworth were fined and costs each. We Everly an inmate got off with a Fine. The gentle men visitors of the establishment about a dozen of pm will come up to Morrow pro Bably. The being no further business the court closed. Receipts amateurs of the Garri son at fort Osborne with a View to amusing i their comrades and civilian friends during the Winter have organized a Garrison vocal and literary which contains Talent of an extremely creditable order. The first performances will be Given on wednesday and thursday evenings next when an extensive programme will be presented. The first part will consist of a concert and the second of a minstrel performance to wind up with the amusing farce the Bachelor s bedroom. Tickets at Donaldson s. City a to the editor of the Kek press. View of the grave charges of extravagance and incompetency now daily made and Likely to be made against the present City Council such As. In expenditure on Market building sewers grading sidewalks in City clerk s fees in negotiations and deposits of City debenture funds in contracts made with aldermen or their partners in appropriation of Public Money for improvement of private property in bungling and unjust assessment for which All the Council from the weak and vacillating Good Man at its head to the humblest member Are in their several de Grees responsible i would recommend that All ratepayers should refrain from promising their votes and support to any candidate until a Public discussion of City affairs takes place. Yours Etc., cams. Winnipeg dec. Ctr 1875. They fined a teamster in Noble county minn., and costs for carelessly setting fire to a much or 90 Days in jail. Some one suggests that More seats should be placed in the vestibules of churches for the Benefit of the Young men who come to walk Home with the Young ladies without wishing to attend divine service themselves. Gex. Cissey will not have politics in the French army. Officers under orders must neither vote nor become deputies. The Soldier the priest and the judge should never become the general is right. The Rev or Kalloch of California formerly of Massachusetts thinks that there is no More sin in going to a theatre than in going to a Church festival but that Young men should not go to either when their washing Bills Are unpaid. The women of the Christian Temperance Union of having petitions signed to the Ontario legislature asking for the limitation of liquor licences to one for of the population in cities and towns in the province. Henry m. Stan Ley the african explorer is to receive the highest honors from the Royal geographical society of London. His perilous and romantic search for living Stone which was signally successful and the brilliancy of his recent discoveries in title him to rank with the most celebrated explorers of the age. Only a few years ago he was a newspaper reporter at Omaha with but Little Promise of distinction in his profession and now his name fills the speak ing Trump of Fame throughout the world. Fiction however bold would not dare to personalize a career like that of Stanley s. Reported for the free press by James Stewart meteorological observer at Winni Peg. Max Man saturday dec 4.s3 l sunday 7 i monday. 1 10 signifies below Winnipeg i Radii cd Ami provision m Market. Corrected doily Tor the Fres press by w. H. I. Yon commission merchant and dealer in Gro Ceries produce and provision s.1" 1 40to 1 00 flour xxx. Flour xxx. Oats. V. Barley. Ground feed. Bran. 5 00 4 00 1 25 1 50 3 00 2 25 550 4 50 350 1 75 325 325 350 butter Dairy 35 40 butter in Rolls 40 butter store packed.-.25 30 . .50 60 eggs 35 cheese american. 15 2hcese, Canadian. 17 beef by the s 10 in Market turkeys. L 50 3 00 Leef mess in is 00 Park mess per bbl. 30 00 a aeon per "18 20 Lams 20 15 red Buffalo meat. 15 Jam evil per s 00 37 43 a. 33 45 Young Hyson. Co 80 Tea Gunpowder. 70 so sugars White. In sugars Collee. 13 m sugars i2i jul tobaccos Blacks. 43 53 tobaccos Brights. 55 go split 9 m Tancl Pearl Barley. 10 .12 ried apples. 13 141 syrup per Gal. I of 156 Salt coarse per 25 3 50 Polar Wood per red Ilver Load. 1 25 1 75 Oak Wood per Cord. 600 650 mixed Wood. 550 too it Marks. During the past week Large quantities of fire Vood have been brought into this Market. There s Likely to be a Scarcity of horse feed such As its and ground feed before Long and prices will her fore probably Advance. Flour is becoming Carce although prices have not changed since ast week s quotations. There is no wheat of any Uno unt in the Market and the Price May be said o be nominal. Business remains risk but Money is scarce and collections hard o make. It is expected however that Trade will improve Between now and new year. All Stock 1875. C. W. Radi6eb boo a offal. i grocers wine spirit merchants. Canned dried fruits canned vegetables pressed vegetables at the event of the grand fancy dress entertainment take place at the i Gloria skating Friday evening december Lothi the managers beg to announce that no efforts will be spared on their parts to make this an Osborne military band will be in attendance. Enjoyment May be expected. Enforced on the ice. Only members admitted tree admission boots. Gallery to appear in costume will apply to a member of Tho committee for tick ets of admission. G Rand Canada hotel fur Market prime skins to Ayr per i onto tear per 2 00 500 ii Kunic. 40 Volver lne. O no i 00 Oss Fox. I 50 liver . 42500 luskrat.12 Volf. T m 250 12 00 8 50 300 6 50 275 1000 75 300 1 50 800 7500 22 300 to a Large assortment of or Price s baking powders extracts Plain and fancy crackers Pate de Fois gras traffics Winnett s amusement. The vocal and literary association of the Garrison fort Osborne on wed Day thursday evenings dec. 8th and 9th. Concert minstrels farce the can away methodist december number completes the first year of this latest venture in Canadian Magazine literature. It has already achieved a remark Able Success. Among its contributors have been or Nelles dry caul or Ryerson prof Goldwin Smith prof ,1 Wilson lion l a Shannon and Many other of our Best writers. Tie present number contains a timely paper on prayer and by p be Seui a racy sketch entitled Church socials a thrilling of adventure with a life boat and a charming account by a Canadian lady of Christmas in under popu Lar science appear the Keign of and balloons and among the subjects of editorial commented a National the marriage Church Etc. Adm in Able of Moody and Sankey Embel Lish the number. The Book notices arc full and varied. To Harmony kncamp3lent no. 1, me tins tuesday. 7th . Ail members to nomination of of Licurs. By Onu Rof the . Etc., Etc., Etc. Extensive and varied pro gramme. Reserved heats Flo cents Back seats 23 be had at Donaldson s. Doors open at cur Tain it s Sharp. See posters4 and programmes. A act most Sale. Auction Sale at Winnipeg of Lois in Emerson Friday evening dec Ethber 17th, at 7 o clock k. Sir. Clarence e. I Jocele will sell for the owners a few town lots in desirable locations in Emerson sule at his auction Mart. Terms Cash. Title direct from she Crown. Tho Survey of the town site is now completed and the plan thereof pre pared and deeds can be furnished at once. The in and As May to Lodge a. F. To communication on wednesday evening Decem Ber 8th, 1875. Brethren Are summoned to attend. Visiting Brethren cordially invited. By order of Tho . 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