Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 12, 1877, Winnipeg, Manitoba Ci7y and provincial news 78 this afternoon. Vuk Hundred men Aro wanted on contract of of Tho hotel do Canada left by Tho Minn Doln to Day for n trip Oast. Mil. R. The Hoso reel tins inst. Log was broken by Wotli is rapidly Reeo Vor tin Minnesota took out live Hundred of hour of Hilly Smith s Portage Mill Brand. Tickets arc sold at Tho Redwood hotel k r Arrell Portage Road on Tho Kivor Fony and on Tho Assiniboine i the mar Tho Early Bird being sold Oit tin fire brigade out for practice last evening with Tho old engine at which the Hose company mustered in full strength. And the Hooks turned out in pretty Good Force. J to engine was taken to Tho court House tank and in Mintos from leaving Tho Firo station Tho Hose was kid to the top of Tho City Hall and a Stream thrown from the roof. Tho Hoso was then re Relod and a Quick move made to Tho tank at Donaldson a where two lines of Hoso wore Laid and streams thrown in a very Short time the Hooks in Tho meantime having Tho apparatus Rendy to ascend Caldwell a drug store. The engine played vory Tho work ing of the brigade was very Active. Thoe Hief and Tho firemen Are to be congratulated on Tho great improvement already noticeable. in wan tied Rafik lately. Coo men wanted to worst on the Canada Pacific Italy Roar. Tic highest wages Given to Good men. Apply at Tho office of Elkton Ward co., Selkirk crossing. I Cli 1cih us order your ice for the season from lilo Winni Peg co co. K. L. 1uuuk11, manager. It w. s Law Ollice of 2ni of Poselle t he court House no. 2sf if 11. Pun i by Ink Mesa i. A Greet to Day the Steamer com nah vegetables Aro supplied to t Tri weekly but it s tidy two to them Tho Supply at it meeting of the Winnipeg Lacrosse club it was decided to Issue a Challenge to Tho other City club for a match on the Queen s birthday. That navigation has opened on the lakes Tho announcements in Ontario papers of parties leaving for Manitoba Are largely increasing. of cm1 wholesale houses sold out the other Clay Over three thousand dollars Worth of goods not by one or two Largo sales which frequently occurs but in Many lots. Tin uniform clothing for t to Kildonan infantry company has arrived. The com Pany is said to Havo made great Progress in Drill having mustered twice each week Dur ing the Winter. W. Ii. Daw of Moorhead connected with the firm of brims Kuklo who has been studying out Tho Manitoba wheat question for the pest month left for Homo by this afternoon s boat. . Or. Molesworth and party Start out on monday morning to re locate Tho Lino to Selkirk. Tho work will Rince Rupert plated Tho Fust round trip of Tho season be tween Winnipeg and Portage la Prairie. The Timo occupied in going was about tour and a half Ami in returning two the three barges in Tow and brought Down bushels of wheat sacks of hour and bushels of Oas. Another trip will to commenced on monday. Tho water is rather Low for this season., and unless there Are heavy Rains that will be the Hist trip As the Portage this season. And on Lii re Reserve House of 7 rooms Al Tolu ii Pimley i closets cellar lung Wood shed. Lot it need in Iron i. Wilh pickets res i Light Hoard Fence. Planted with hade Trees and shrubs and partly Culha filed a Garden. Apply to .1. . Calk of neat household o furniture oar path. Jlas Swank crockery parlor nil Jin skit Johs. Krona As a Eyer have if worked in every part of us 1 Leo for i to past Flat years i have general knowledge of the respective Ines its of Ezrh Seel Ion of t he Vince and the Noi Ali Vosi territories an respects soil water to liner Liny etc., and shall he Happy to Lur Nash All in on Nat Ion in actual twee ii the hours of and 10 a. In. Eiichi Day. P Manitoba at Tho presbyterian Synod of Toronto and assembled in Toronto recently a committee consisting of Kev. Messes. Ton mice Grey and Maedonna la and messes. Dan son and Chambers was appointed to dovish Means to raise a sum of subscription from that portion of the chm cd for Tho Manitoba col Logu building fund. Tho committee reported that two cents a Momber throughout Tho Bounds of Tho Synod would raise it was there fore decided to apportion out Tho amounts to to paid by Tho various presbyteries form ing the Synod. Only occupy a Low , and by next week or. Whitehead will men on grading. Have a Largo Force of missions. Hov. A. Forneret b. A., late of Christ Church Cathedral Ami or. Ernest 10. Wood of the diocesan Thuo logical College Montreal Are now in route for Tho Mission Field of the diocese of Tho Saskatchewan whore they will join Bishop Mclean. So vex time expired mounted policemen under charge of cons table Knight arrived from Pelly this morning by Barge. They left Felly on Tho i shh ult., and were some what delayed by head winds. Four of Tho of police go cast and Tho others will re main Here. . .p., reports that the Ontario Farmers about Portage la Prairie have their crops sown a much larger area than last year. To also exhibits a very Fine Sample of Portage Pride flour manufactured by Tho mansuetto milling j company. He made a Sale of l of bugs to j or. Bannatyne at 1 per Hundred. At a meeting of Larr assists held at the Canada Pacific Hutch last evening a club " As formed and the following Oili cers wore elected David Young Loo. Ii. Ham vice president St. L. Mcginn Secretary treasurer Commil Teo of manage a. Dunlop j. A. Kerr c. Sutt Civ. A. Mcleod Las. And the Ollices Field Captain . L. If Dinn. Mountain and Tho 3103110, Hev. Or. Morrow returned from the above District yesterday where to has been Stav ing for some nine weeks Tho guest of the Kun. Or. Morden. Both gentlemen have arrived to take part in Tho methodist Confer ence which comes Oil next week. Or. Morrow brings a glowing account of the Progress of the new settlements of the Contentment of the people and of the net Vity that is being exhibited by the residents this Spring. In Tho Vicinity of Pembina Mountain l first houses Are already being superseded eight or ten comfortable new Frame dwellings having been erected this Spring. All the crops have now been sown with the exception perhaps of potatoes and other Garden produce. Some of the Felt Ltd s Havo also been planting Maples round their houses. A Herman Farmer from Waterloo county out., who has in preference located a Prairie sent to the old country for enough wire to Fence ninety acres within which to proposes to Plant a Hodge of the Orange which forms such excellent Perma Neil enclosures in Kansas and the other Western states. Aro not aware if the Experiment of its cultivation has yet been tried North of the forty ninth parallel but this enterprising settler full Confidence in the result lie has also made an arrange ment with the mennonites to Plant Young poplars for him at a Cost of Liefl a cent each a great Many of Tho homesteaders at Tho Kovno Are unfortunate who sadly need the society of a helpmate to i Nahlob Thorn to attain Homo Thev Are however buoyed with Hope and looking 1 Orward to Tho time flu a thu a May be Situ ated As their neighbors who have families. The mennonite settlements Are making great Progress and tree planting is being carried on at some of the villages. The economical and industrious habits of these people must ensure their becoming a very wealthy portion of Tho population of the province at no Distant Date. The Pembina Mountain folks Havo two j. A run received per Minnesota 30 Butts old Man s favorite. 10 Little Queen 100 cads Southern Beauty. 150 Solace. 30 Butts Empress 12s. 30 in. Bell 123. To be opened on monday. N . C. Jbrown co. And under and by virtue of a certain indenture of Tif Iitto dined the list Day of july i and made he tax Cimi James i in of the c Liv of Elk in Tho t Nonty of Selkuk Tho it. A. Davis of he place Tiu Niort Puiul a Eer Tilin Ink nature of Hereof dated she 271 h Day of july Niido he twee the Sulci to. A. Mavis die Assignor and Neil Munro of he oily of Detroit . The will to sold at Pulilli Iwuc Plotr lit the Tho sub Horlor instructed by j. Vil Llesh will soil by auction at huh residence Street North West in rear of Market j tall on tuesday june 5, 1877, the very neat and a Floc a including Brussels tapestry and other camels. I. W. Bureaus Ann lounge in hair cloth Fine parlor Organ t3hi, Offu Cleli Hilling table Cook and Box Crocker v. And usual Kitchen appendages All in Nice order. Tho whole without ii to. Sale at Al o clock . W anted a housemaid. Iii by to m1w. S. Illance Iiah is reel j 1.15.r. It Salk i Skap i no i of Cir denier s p. 0. 10k. Tools wit i Chest. Lris-12 o Salk j store in present occupied by f. 1. Given Bonf i is apply to _ to Likht Stipand. Sam Olf j o it it Ling House d us Point Eon a looms. Apply to he Hurt Olsa la that valuable i on the Vearlor he i door North of the new Oil Lee Airl in prof eni Why deep. For in i111" Jirl Ironlee lilo i 4 l local 111 lull1jot--a i the a 1 i lie. J Sali Oral lir Lilc City Lois t Lons of reel Loti near kit Point Ilia on in a Milf River opposite dry r Tjio House to rent. On i a i. J w. Dufour . _ office. Talk first great Semi monthly auction Sale Ollice of Maci Moxam a Dun main Street Winnipeg on ski a the kit i Day Oll n k next u the hour of j o clock in ii Aller Notin All and that certain piece or Tinct or land Puiul Preim is situate Viii kind being in the of Winnipeg aforesaid Ami which indy he known and described As lots Twenty four l l and Twenty love according to a plan of subdivisions into City lots of Korty on pensioners allotment.-., Uhl Eli mild plan was in Iule he Oik j. Kou Chutte i milk tiled in tie Hegmon Ollice fur the n Ald c county of Selkirk. Information us to title terms of Sale build lugs rental value elc., can he Hrul on to cml or h hated at Winnipeg this ithe Duy of inv Exkil Cero Vendor. Lda solicitors Lor Vendor. Foh ti1k Foah Central City property within a min los walk of Market and City Hall i hkl1 at Ino Nili. Apply to .1. Llo Ken to. O Liall of residence on Market Streel o ily Hall. Possession on june j or Lui her re Len i apply Lorp Ltd p. N. If kit on or Alioth Llic Ami now d by , apply to Villiers at Oie Comer o main Street and of i i Julij j n a or Par and no Lor Mofid. Win i in the of Thomas Taylor an Tii Olvena. J. Tin undersigned Yount of the City of Nisi Chiin have b. In Uppole. D As e Lii 11lls matter. Urc de to file claims la More be one month i oui tins Dale. Signed Savji to a e. Winnipeg lib i is s a renders will he received by til Lind Erslund at i Tolice of fill ins a Lill 01 May ill to in Hase of the mock 111 Afuli sleek and Ivul estate of the late Thomas j Ell i lie ree exed for the or a Parl. In can he a Pii at the Ollice of if Yoni i. Or Al he Siovie in Naples ii. I skier notm. Of int a. F. A. M., Ines Liutik Hillh Lii Wihren Aie notified to at t n invited. He order oth pied. A he on a b v s saturday the 19th instant at Tilio 11 i Val 7.w l. I it ii. Sainigh us Sec Varv. Co. Baby a baby s carriages general land office w City to s of die am a will be sold by Ovi i by lion of the in View of the contemplated visit of huh excellency the to Manitoba this summer Tho minister of militia has sanctioned the Issue to the Winnipeg Field Battery of a Complete outfit of cloth tunics and trousers which Aro now on Tho Way Here. The Battery doubtless will work hard of a Tobac co Creek which at Drill so As to to in a position to make a them Oil Isom communication with Tho Ili roughly creditable turn out on lord Dufferin s visit. Or. Sii Tox when asked Tho other Day i who Thoi he had sown All his Field said aj1 hut fifty the Field referred to is Ono of Only 1200 acres from which to raised an average of to Tho acre last sea i on. Somo parts however yielded Over 70, hut a rather Low was drowned i 1 in s acres the dry portion is j grievances which they wish to ventilate one is their want of a local Post of Lico in a Central position and the other Tho absence outs Cen sown and Tho the 10th May. Crop was above ground on c oni of Tho attractions of Tho City and to which strangers arc especially welcomed is Tho free Reading room in connection with i Vinco than a. W. Burrow s general land office on friends Down in main Street. The room is airy and commodious and bountifully supplied with Tho leading newspapers books particularly referring to Manitoba and the North West and other Reading matter. This Reading room is an institution that will to found convenient by new Comers while doubtless Many citizens will Avail themselves of its advantages. At Tho annual meeting of Tho upper can Ada Bible society held at Toronto recently the annual report included the following of local have been made whole year to secure Tho ser vices of a competent co Porteur Able to speak both French and English to labour in the province of Manitoba. Within Tho last Tew weeks these efforts have been Success Ful and the directors Trust that in Tho com year much of Tho Good seed will by Rod s help be sowed in that important Field. Tro in North America Winni Peg of course several weeks every Spring. They look to the Dominion government to remedy the former deficiency and to the provincial government to help them in re Gard to the latter. The Pembina Mountain and Joyne Homo St adorn Are anxious enough to see Tho land around them taken and cultivated by i Inifi h settlers but they have a per horror of land grabbing speculators. Or. Morrow s trip seems to have done him a world of Good and to have completed the restoration of Bis health which has been in Progress Ever since to came to this twelve months ago. His Ontario would not know him since his residence Here. Commercial. Fitin a kiss May Lith Tho business of the last bus not been by any not Lilly Over thai of the u eel previous. Kroin he same seeding Tiu farming have Beewi kept from town. Reports from do Lerent localities in Dic to unit that work will be nearly completed Good demand at afterwards Bear fruit to his glory in the of Many souls.1 Somic miscreant not having Tho fear of the of w before his eyes obtained Access to Tho residence of chief Justice Wood about Twoclock this morning by breaking Tho Glass n a window and by inserting an draw " Aback the Latch. Tho persistent Barking 01 it Little dog As it attacked Tho intruder housed the inmates and or. Melville Wood to investigate. The saw the marauder o Tho House and called upon him to say to was when he returned the answer i or. Wood refrained from fir because the. Man appeared to be drunk Hough that might Havo been a Dodge and Pursuit because Well to had Best suit of clothes on. It would be to look to their fastenings. This week. There has Heen practically no gun in oilers no the week hence it is Dill Ichill to quotations. Standard wheat would however sell readily Al the Only Sale of Oats reported look place cents. Barley would Likely realize id potatoes Havo come into cents retailing at 50 cents. Iii vegetables Are hollered in Small Quanti ties at Laney prices. Mutter is h ill scarce Selling in lots at 3ti cents retailing it -11 cents. Aro altering freely at and retail ing at cents. There have Heen heavy importations of live Stock. J3eef cattle Aro Worth dressed 12 cents. Sheep Are generally Huld at very High prices but Are not really Worth More than about Herail prices of meat Are i2l cents Raul ton 12 to 15 cents pork 15 cents. Considerable Oak Wood is coming Down the Rivers and is Selling in quantities from to there has Heen considerable bearing in scrip during who week. At one Limo it was Down to but to Day it is to stir this. This City on tuesday Tho 8th lust., the wife of capt. Scott of a daughter. Want k d i k by 25 teams to work on the Canada Pacific Liall Road. For particulars apply to w. F. , 5 _ wanted a Sih lion is bookkeeper by a person who Nanao stands Tho English French and German languages. I or Chocs Given. Address Thunder Hayo. Satisfactory re san Elnel to us at Bishop Shelton s new War rooms next door South Ontario Bank increased our facilities for our Musi i loss by to Olio com in ller Piv Pinrod than Ever n Willi All kinds o household furniture cheap Fop Cash. Pictures framed. Agents for Forsyth go s. Reapers and mowers for 250 tons of hour provisions etc., will to received at the contractor s of Loco to the 18th May and for Tho conveyance of supplier powder tools from Winnipeg to Tho North West Angle. The names of two responsible parties willing to be come Security for Trio Fulllen Lieut of the contract arc required. Contract to be for six Tho lowest or any tender not necessarily accept Mig Joseph wjiit13i1ead, contractor. 1 hey comprise i valuable lot front Nikon Kokk Street Ito Liik nos. To Anil r to of new conic s subdivision of acre and Ollie Hoss cornering on and Kllc ii terms i Cash balance in 1 Ami yearn. And 1 bloc of Al valuable lots bounded by Alexander. Logan Patrick and Laura being Lola to of the 1-Ooan i a Tajo Togo Thor Wlllie Hoitin lowing on lot Imp. Terms Cash Balateo in 1 and i , lot on Logan and Alexander streets of the a state with a neat Cotlige residence h x 2i it. To rink i Bush balance i ind i not a a Kral in Srorn on nil the i ints Koh these properties lire All make out on the ground and will be shown to examiners the residents on tie the Glrst two a Ebest approached via Hoss m., which Sld walked and graded through the Market is inure. The last is . In rear of menses. Dolph Alec s grocery store. Main Street. Rail Ami examine the Oill Jal City map at office for situation of lie Portage la Prairie liar uni Ullh or Mill and jilted it with line approved a Ebiner a a co., Civill a paid to pity the line article of superfine flour in any in entity. Portage Phibb Brand for line inv Marl i i. For Brail eto., the in Portage la Prairie and by a. B. Bannatyne i Core 11 or so he t s new patterns lowest prices faultless fit s Call and leave your orders. Kids i skids j set in. Clover a. W. Burrows Cen cml Ollice. L 00k ii Kkt arriving a Choice a sort nent of men a ladies and Cli Ildren s Woad. Caslon i work attended to and Eluted with neatness and dispatch. Our in or of Imants. Tina to. A i la ii Lily of to Karin and u it Low Ronni n. Keith. Seedsman. North of rho Post Otico. Winnipeg. Lis. Willm t. Ryan near court Rouse main Street Jyh a8iiionahlk mi1.linkrv. Begs to inform Tho Public that she has opened out an assortment of Choice millinery of the latest patterns and designs a line variety of ribbons land. Etc., on Uon Noth Hata etc., made and trimmed test lash Lons and with despatch. In the door to j. Main Street Winnipeg. Stewart s Llang store. Separate lenders will he received at Tho Oilin i he Umler Suneil to soon of the i lilt instant Lor Ilie transport Supply cd to the stations on i omit Nils u and id c. Tender to stale the which i he contractor etc., at the respect Ive 1 proc. Perwill he places ii Hie Iii two securities to lie mimed Tor Iho Formant of the work. Contract to be for six or any Lender not Nece warily the lowest keep led Tjomas Mxon i by Wuister . In2-vl2 cords of Wood in Lols of cords and new fun. Fenders to state i ice d Bink West of a Ort slivered o i or. Osborne at the Yard near Hie in Norlo Joiel. Or at Points on lied Brick no Hill address messes l la i newspaper a newspaper if ;