Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 5, 1876, Winnipeg, Manitoba Wednesday Jan. The pm Potest. Elsewhere to publish what May be accepted As a protest to our cd Loyial of yesterday upon the civic signed by e. Roberts and fifty one others. What amazes us is that men of the Intelli gence of Many of the signers of the i Otest should deny what has never been asserted. To admitted that or. Burrows supporters included some a sprinkling were the words used l of the Best and Moat respectable men of the but in spite of the fifty two respectable signers of the protest and perhaps a Good Many More that could be obtained we adhere to what to have already said. Admitting the respectability of every signer of the protest that does not by any Means establish the respectability of the scores of Saloon loafers keepers of illicit gambling Dens professional gamblers and attaches of houses of ill repute that were so conspicuous in Hur Rahing for Liu rows a few of the heaviest ratepayers were with or. Burrows but the majority of the pro Perty holders were opposed though they to in Tho main the smaller mechanics and working men. Or. Burrows supporters Are not to be judged by his voters us the Farmer included All such men As hang around the Low places of a town make awful demonstrations in favor of our but Are not sufficiently respectable to put themselves in Possession of a vote a vim where the franchise is As Low As in Winnipeg. To this class belong the Ameri can roughs that were taken from poll to poll to personage electors and vote for or Burrows. What this class fell Short in giving the predominate color of or Burrows Side was More than compensated by the platform profanity sacrilege and obscenity that characterized Campaign speeches made in his interest. And while the fifty two sign ers have n perfect right to repudiate for themselves the Rowdy ism manifested in the breaking up of the East Ward poll the cowardly attack upon an old Man because he voted for or Kennedy and the blackguard by conduct associated with the stealing of the West Ward poll books they Oan Noi do it for the party. It appears to us to be Surplusage but we May again admit even assert that or Burrows party was not wanting of some of the Best and most respectable men of the whether there were fifty two or sixty two we Don t know. We know there were some but we Are equally sure and the fact Are our Testi Mony that there was not enough to Neutra Lize the decided Rowdy Ukolov Given the party by the opposite class. It was More than unnecessary for the fifty two signers of the pro test to assert that they Are not rowdies it never having been charged that they Are and moreover it being known by All their acquaintances that they Are not but it is worse than purposeless for them to try to lend their Good character. A Lati Telegram from London England says that the admiralty has issued an am ended circular to the commanders of British ships in regard to fugitive slaves. The Cir. Cular orders that any slave received on a British Man of War on the High seas shall be retained aboard until he can be landed in a country or transferred to a vessel where his Liberty will be secure. Fugitive slaves ask ing admission to a British Man of War when in the territorial Waters of a foreign state must Only be admitted if their lives Are in. Clan gered and must not be kept on Board after the danger is passed but no demand for the surrender of slaves is to be entertained by the British officers. The raids against crooked whiskey Are being vigorously carried on in the United states. The seat of War has been Transfer red from St. Lewis to Chicago. In the latter City eight More whiskey establishments have been added to the list and still More seizures Are confidently expected to be made. Whisky seems to have a hard Road to travel. Poison. As soon As the bottle is lifted from the shelf the Bell is rung by the instrument giving notice that the bottle contains Poison. Christmas festivities. The common custom of decking the houses and churches at Christmas with Ever greens is derived from ancient. Druid practices. It was an old belief that Sylvan spirits might flock to the Ever Giens and re main unzipped by Frost till a Milder season. The Holly Ivy Rosemary Bay Laurel and Mistletoe furnished the favorite trimmings which were not moved till candlemas. In old Church calendars Christmas eve is marked Templet Cor Vantur the temples Are Holly and Ivy still remain in England the most esteemed Christmas Ever greens though at the two universities the windows of the College chapels Are decked with Laurel. It was an old English superstition that on Christmas eve the oxen were always found on their Knees As in an Atti tude of Devotion and that after the change from old to new style they continued to do this Only on the eve of old Christmas Day. This was derived from a prevalent medieval notion that an of and an which were present at the nativity fell on their Knees in a suppliant posture As appears from numerous prints and from the latin poem of Sannazaro in the sixteenth Century it was an ancient tradition alluded to by shakes Peare that Midnight spirits forsake the Earth and go to their own confines at the crowing of the cock. The Christmas celebrations in England have lost their Posi Tive boisterous character the gambol and carols Are nearly gone by and family reunions and Evergreen trimmings Are nearly All that remain in the various rough merriment which use to Mark the festival. The last memorable appointment of a lord of misrule was in 16 27, when to had come to be denominated a grand Captaine of mischief 1 the York for i huge f 51.mi5it Census report of new will contain some curious forthcoming 1875 items. Is o family has done More to increase the population of the state than that of Peter Moran of Oswego. Ii is forty five years old and his wife forty. They have five single births and four pairs of twins recorded in their family. The oldest child is Twenty four years old and the youngest be tween two and three years. The single births All preceded the twins. In the four pairs twins there Aro four boys and four girls. In Tully Uno Dago county there Are triplet0, two boys and one girl ten years old. In Lockport there is a quartet of four girls eight years old. Although the census makes no note of the act there wore actually six children born at once in this family two of which have since died leaving the four above stated. There is in Warrensburg Warren county a six year old Boj named Frank con Way that weighed in june last when the census was taken 11 8 1 pounds. Mum in one. A tailor possesses the qualities of nine men combined in one As will be Scon by the following observations 1 As an economist he cuts his coat according to his cloth. 2. As a Gardener he is careful of his cabbage. 3 As a Sailor he sheers Oil whenever it is proper. 4 As a play actor he often brandishes a empty Bodkin. 5 a lawyer lie attends Many suits. G As an executioner to provides suspenders and Gallow ses for Many persons. 7 As a Cook lie is generally provided with a warm Goose. S As a sheriffs officer he much at sponging. As a rational and scriptural divine his great is to form Good habits for the Benefit of himself and others. Blon Rix the tight rope Walker has been Herad from again. On the 19th of october last while on the Indian steamship Pooniah and at sea he walked on a seven Inch Haw ser from the main to the Misse Topmast and Back. It is said with the rolling of the ship and the vibration of the powerful engines the rope was drawn into such sinuous Waves that it closely a Snake. Blondin was frequently obliged to sit Down As the ship Rode a heavy swell. Lati telegrams from Penang announce that in consequence of the close blockade maintained by the British ships of War the malays Are suffering great privations and that the War May be expected soon to Ter Minate. m. Tweed jit., Rose and in arched out of Church when his minister said that a Man who shared in plundering a City should be dealt with As a Felon. A new paper the Timon will be started in Stratford with the your 1876. Three Guelph men Cut up Twenty five hogs in Twenty eight minutes. Whitening just tier. Of my Luau it Icli Gold in tin. The most important discovery Ever made in connection with Gold mining in this Colony with the exception of the original discovery of Gold in 1851, occurred there on the Lith of september. It is the finding in the Shaft of the Magdala company at pleas ant As it is now called Stawell a Gold bearing Quartz reef at Tho unprecedented depth of feet or about 700 feet further into the Interior of Tho Earth than Gold has Ever yet been obtained in Victoria. The managers of the company since they struck the reef have gone on sinking so As to As to ascertain the thickness of it in their _ claim and to have passed ten foot of it without As yet having gone through it. Some specimens of the Stone have been sent to the school of minus at Ballarat. These specimens weighing Alto Gether 10. Pounds were treated by two Dif Ferent processes the result being at the rate of 19 dwt 17 or per ton of Stone by one pro Cess and 14 dwt 15 or by the other. Four other results which were obtained showed a much Richer Quality of atone but As the Stone tested in those cases was taken from a higher portion of the Loda and above the run clock is thought probable that the upper and lower portions of the lode May to much Richer than the Centre. The directors have decided to break off o. In response to a request for information concerning the and Dan whitening of the human hair made by Appleton s journal that paper has received the following communication from Oliver h. Willis a. M., pm. D., principal of the Alexander Institute White Plains now York. While a guest at Tho House of a gentleman whose name is Given the writer was struck with a remark Able whiteness of his hair and in response to the enquiry regarding it received the following reply it changed in a few hours under the following circumstances 1 had a son Large enough to go from my dwelling to my store alone alone. Otic afternoon he left the store to come Homo about an hour before 1 came to Tea. When f reached Home my wife met me and said the boy had been found on the top of a Heap of Sand with his face Down quite dead. I came in to this room where the child had been 1 trought and sat Down in a sort of stupor produced by the Shock and remained there All night. When i came in my hair was Black in the morning it was White As it now at the time when this was narrated the speaker was a Young Man and lie still living and the correspondent states that both he and his neighbors can testify to the truth of this account. The gentle Man was a resident of the Village of White Hall new York. A commission from the French Academy having undertaken an extended inquiry regarding the sudden Whiten ing of the human hair reached the conclusion that during the two Hundred years there could be found no authenticated re c Ord of such a change. Ber29lli, 1s7.5, tit the residence of inc Bride s father by the Black John con-1 Gal ksq., of Portage in Prairie to miss Christie second daughter of Xci Henderson k.sq., of sunny Side. Is the most Beautiful work of the kind in the world. It contains nearly 150 pages hundreds of Hue illustrations and four c Piroino plates of Flowers beautifully drawn and coloured from nature. Price cents in paper covers 05 bound in elegant cloth. Vicic s Floral , cents a year. Address Jamks Vick Rochester . L get fit on Christmas eve Sain o to uan Natyna s store will be did. Liberally u81j5 re join Reloj Wjk a. F. M., , communication on wednesday evening january 5th, Brethren Are attend. Visiting Brethren cordially invited. By order of the . . Dominion land Surveyor and civil Engineer. Office Over or. Devlin s store on the Side of main Street opposite the Dominion lands once. Willce Horn u . To 4 . O5m 0 i books us Well As is Kwh ones hound neatly and with Dib Pateh at Mcgregor s bindery. Tinq Ulric at free Canada i10tkl v i w 9 by v i proprietor. parlor and All that could be desired in wines liquors and cigars. Look in and Hee the new premises opposite the Post office. D20m Hyan just Ituk evening classes in mathematics modern languages and Short hand. Instruction practical and thorough. Apply to thu principal or ilk. T. K. Mod in. Day school re opens Jan. Lid 1870. T7jikd. J. Bios Ken. Al broker Exchange agent auctioneer. Main Street Winnipeg Manitoba. American currency bought and sold. Collections promptly attended to. Deposits received on interest. O20m potatoes. None of your Frozen trash fresh potatoes sit but genuine Good the ridiculously Low valuations of personal property in Chicago and the omission from the tax list of some of the wealthiest men elicit Strong expressions of dissatisfaction from the press of that City. Charges of bribery Are freely made but the assessor denies any knowledge thereof and attributes his omissions to the Short time allowed him to performs his duty. Some of the heaviest personal taxpayers Are Field Leiter co., j. V. Fan Ell co., j. E. Buckingham Gage c. P. Kellogg lord Smith co., Matson co., each 000 Chicago Tribune company m. F. Storey among the men of immense wealth who Are greatly under estimated Are e. Ii. Haddock put Down at John Wentworth j. Ii. Dunham and so on through a Long list. It is noted As a singular fact that some of the heaviest liquor dealers who carry very heavy stocks and own numerous a Sood sized Block of the Stone and Send it to Are either entirely omitted or put the Philadelphia exhibition with a sectional at or less. Complaints of drawing of the Shaft and the different strata t heavy taxation Are almost Inea Itable in any passed through. Case but they Are very much intensified a capital out for uni you when the Bell a Little Glass where such instances of Gross discrimination und inexcusable omission Are brought to Light. Instrument has Baen invented to be attach Truro k s., has just completed watered to All bottles in drug stores containing works on the Waterous plan. Ii. Bosk Butcher. Storage can be had. Citizens Ink Rasck co., Montreal fire life. Accident and guarantee capital two million dollars now prepared to take risks in this province. Alvato residences a speciality. S23-lm John Bryden agent. You Khz til 10 o having Sabon tend Delm i to is open again. E. H. H9l.l, the Champion hair Cutter main Street. You properly. And Shaver will Call and see him. At Public notice if hereby riven that the pro visions of the by Law for the prevention of a arcs in this pity will be strictly enforced from this Date. Householders Are earnestly requested to take extra precautions in regard to stovepipes ashes etc., As the City is now without sufficient Taro Protection. W. N. Kennedy mayor. Mayor s office 27th dec., 1875. 27jll mrs Moir s ladies school will re open on 5th, 8876 mrs. Moir Bege to tender her thanks to the la Dies of Winnipeg for past flu ors arc solicits a continuance of the 130j5 heat bankrupt s d Seffl mkb0 is Iii o s i f v 1 . Wholesale and provision Lias on hand a full Stock of Green apples o 0 o i x Sqq o m o o o q o in o o s o o o 3" c s 3" As 3 h pork Tongue Bacon dried beef j1am, lard Pitt Kuoan Buffalo meat flour xxx xxx Oats. J Hyson Japan. Gimp to s Gou Souchon and teas i j chests and caddies i crushed granulated Brown sugars. F k Navy. Gold Block in l Trizila Hollee and 10 f yarn and Che roots. Cock Kkt Rio and Java Green find for cult Rice split peas Oatmeal sir i currants Kusins and f of dried apples Cru Ineil fruits i p to Tchoi Lett s comprised of f biscuits of or. Price s baking powders Andi Wiltshire cheese in cheese. Skies brandies hum Bass ale and guiness Torlef i w f o at a Palmer Clarke s in Rocha bought and town lots Winnipeg and at c. Farm and country ;