Winnipeg Free Press

Saturday, June 01, 1878

Issue date: Saturday, June 1, 1878
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Pages 1 - 4 of the Winnipeg Free Press June 1, 1878.

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 1, 1878, Winnipeg, Manitoba A. Daily press Jmie 1. Daily edition. Saturday. I is7s. Tin Gneiti Ivins nows Tom Ovorn intent in toil to Complete the Pom Lymui Branch to the bomb Loiry this Siminia having a Mosuly warded Trio Cournet to or. Kavanagh of Letaua must Havo la to ill oils men willing to work Avo not Jit pits out in it i nun Umil of plot temp by Low rates of asked and Attivo cd by the glowing accounts of Trio resources of the North Avest i in too Many have disregarded Tho other Side of the of Fri Itil nah presented in them. And come hero looking for employment in a Market already overstocked with willing labor. To have time mid api m stated in the and our remarks have Hoen by our Eastern contemporaries that while Tom Conn try Imparl yelled inducements to the capitalist or to to evry teams a under tin s heading the i Loneer i Mesa Oto the following regarding the Rise and Progress of our next door neighbor Minnesota. What that Stato has done in Twenty May he accepted a a a specimen of North Western Progress and that the earlier history of that state and our own province will to very similar there i no Friday last closed the first Twenty years of the existence of Minnesota As a suite. The act admitting Minnesota to the was approved on May ii but it was not until May 24 that the state govern i lit was actually put into operation. The latter Day the state officers judiciary Etc., assembled in the governor s room at the Capitol and wore quietly sworn in by j. J. Xanh clerk of the supreme court. The ceremony was altogether by any Dis play or Parade. The Long delay by con Gress in the admission of the state had m various ways embarrassed our civil affairs and while the machinery of the old territorial government was still partly in operation a portion of the state government the legislature at least had commenced to exercise its functions Ruder to lion circumstances it was deemed desc to proceed with an entire absence of the display and pomp which has Trio inauguration of the two opposite Avenue Mukk Oxey s Block main Street Winnipeg. A i first class depot i Oil dry goods the Fin Mer wit i a Small capital hav no room whatever for nil immigration of persons dependent upon working for wages always excepting a single class that of Domestic ii men will persist in spite of Iho frequent warnings in coming to this province without any Means whatever Lioy have Only Vliem solves to blame for the disappointment privation which a far too Likely to be the a experience. While there tie we Welcome the announcement that the eminent Are coming to die Relief of those Here by the expenditure of a Lar Joe sum of Money upon a Public tha will to of great Utility to the pro Vince thereby taking a step calculated to relieve the stagnation of the labor Market which now prevail we earnestly Hope that no Moi of the impecunious will arrive this season dually for tie u Sakes but til so for the Well being of Manitoba. Man should come Here boots and shoes at Yehyi intending to go upon land with tiny thing less than in is Cummin id but this season has seen the of him dress of persons. Proofs Scilly to Settle who have not the i ice of a month s Board to bless themselves with. Those Are the kind of people who without even having been to look at land write Home to their friends abusing Trio country be cause it does not provide them with House seed Plant fencing and provisions in addition to a i co Homestead. State officers since that time and which had our circumstances been More prosperous at that time would have fittingly accompanied the launching of our Commonwealth on her career. The Stato wild not have commenced its civil sex Stence under More untoward Circum stances than it did. The people were prostrated under the severe financial Reid Sion which exhibited itself a Lew youths previous. Our agricultural re sources were but Little developed. The a ministration was without a Penny of funds and a loan to carry on t he state government was the requisite. Our is Stem of Revenue of Law of banking of county government of everything in i act. Had to be determined on created and got in working order be fore our state could Start on its career. It had then a population of not Over i and taxable property of ill my and not a mile of Railroad within its Borders. The Twenty years which have elapsed have been eventful ones and crowded with rapid Progress. Though not a Long period comparatively it has seen Long wonderful changes. Despite its Indian War Anil a Grasshopper raid almost As calamitous the population has quintuple its taxable property in creased in like ratio and Miles of Railroad have been constructed. At the beginning it imported part of the bread its its people consumed. Mow it stands at the head of the wheat states of Low mures foe Cash Best assorted Stock of Good All new a nil i night in the. Them Ell unon i of Priolo or Potev go till Matte would fall Tiu or die in bile in Steno nil 10 his new saddlery shop on not door ii jul opposite Asi Down s. Viii ale socks. Per wine gallon. A1avayh on hand. Leave your Orlovs Al die store of a. G. 13. I Huni Lilyne esq., or it i lie warehouse or messes. J. Turner co., on Aununa tiie Street. Tic Eastern Lias an outlier now l Masc for Sim statement of London g Luhe As Teclo Gra plied. That England and Russia have finally arrived at a a Ulinitz undorstundin.2 and that a f Onia Russ of the european Powers will so portly. Dino Ignatic. On either Side. Has Boon modified not lick party Aliso Liucy Down and Yot tie Ini Sion of the of Trio treaty of Striano to european revision to Boon secured by Trio Tor Nib in which the invitations from Berlin to the ii hic Boon asked to Send have been couched. It the details published by the Globe May taken As Correct Kii Sia certainly has made very substantial concessions to the views of the British ministry. It cannot to doubted that the of the to Lutious which have resulted in so Tihle a consummation is largely owing to the action of c out who in London has Leon better Able to appreciate the Power and strength of purpose of England than the hot brained advocates of a policy dwelling in St. I it Orsbuin Raml Moscow. The somewhat mysterious article Wlinich has appeared in the London Tunica with the extending of a British protectorate Over the produced last your nearly forty million bushels of wheat which will he largely in sensed this year while its hour direct to foreign its milling interest far eclipses that of any other state. The growth of cities has kept Pace with its paid Rural development and the two Lohes of u dual City of nearly eighty thousand has sprung up within the sound of the Falls of Anthony. If the first Twenty years of our history a a state has witnessed such astonishing Progress in spite of Many serious it is not too much to pics Kun that in the next two decades a Minnesota will accomplish even greater strides in population and wealth Rural and Urban development. Happily at the time when we launch upon the third decade of our history a Strong impulse has been Given to Tho Prosperity of the state it vacant territory is tilling up More rapidly than Ever before with an and Well to do population and All Tho Are propitious for n prosperous a Max Iso yaks. At a recent meeting of physicians at Bogota in new Granada an interesting account was Given by or. Herman Dex. Of a visit which he paid to a half Breed Farmer named Miguel soils living in the foot Hills of the Sierra Imo Silla who confesses to being i Iso years old but is believed by his neighbors to he really much older. Or. Inform d b of the oldest inhabitants of Asiatic Turkey this not the so in the terms of the arrangements for a Congress which have As yet been Iii flu Public and the proposition seems altogether in the Light of the recent of the policy of the government. The chief element of danger now to the peace of in rope appears to lie in the attitude o Liistro Hungary who is preparing on Ai immense scale for possible Eon Tingen cies in the less arabian difficulty with us romanians and in the insurgent move input in Progress South of the. Balkans the at present Are that if a occur it Likely to re Milt fron provocation by signs of the exlus ustation she must feel from maintaining Large armies Ai a great distance from their o Zipplies. Plum from other causes. Consoling to reflect that whatever b tide England is fully prepared for any Tut German ironclad Kur first Slink by a collision in the Strait of Dover was a Turret ship and classed us a frigate in the Imperial Navy list. Me tonnage was is tons her horse Powei estimated at 4.51 and she carried six Iuchs. The iconic Wilhelm King Wil which was the cruise of the disaster Isan ironclad frigate of tons. Horse Power and the 1 Preussen the third vessel of the Squadron is a tin1 of somewhat less tonnage than the ill fated Kurfurst. In tumor a c s soundings of the Atlantic by Means of the apparatus on Board the challenger showed that the great has three immense one extending from Ireland to the upper North american with an average depth of fathoms Ane dividing Europe and Central America with an average depth of fathoms and one naming from South Africa to South America with an average depth of Kijiki i kilo april the total coinage of Hie United states mints was a no i Saljo in chiding in Gold Ami in Standard Silver. Upward Bland dollars have been coined to Date. The District that they Well remember Miguel As a reputed Couta Rinn when they Ivere boys also that the name of Miguel Solis coloured Farmer Appeal s in a writ still preserved of the contributors 10 the building fund of a franciscan monastery near sail was founded in 1712, and that the present Abbot t is Posi Tive Miguel is the same Man. Or. Iler when to visited Miguel found him at work in his Orchard his skin was the color of Parchment but he was robust and. Active his Snow White hair was turban fashion round his head and his eyes were to Bright that the Doc Tor Felt quite uncomfortable when they wore turned upon him. In answer to questions As to his habits Miguel said that the secret of his living a Century 01 two wa-1 very simple simply never get Ting drunk and never Over feeding. I Eato Idy one meal a Day a big Hearty meal which it often takes me half an hour to get. Through with he said see it is not possible in half an hour to eat More than you can digest in the next Twenty went on to say he had not made up his mind about meat but did not eat much of it. He fasted on the first and Middle Days of Cash Mouth eating nothing but d rink Ingal the water he could Swallow. Lie always let cooked food Cool before he tasted h and to this precaution he attributed the fact that his Teeth Are As sound now As they were 180 years Nyo. The indians in the neighbourhood firmly believe that old Miguel Jias sold his soil to the evil and strange to say Miguel entertains the opinion with regard to the indians. A maker in Philipsburg. Que., hns received a fourth order from new zealand for waggons. Australian Cham Pion oarsman has met with a in Ibron Nat Accident having lost two Lin Gers of his left hand. A is reported at in the new hebrides the upheaval reaching a height of Twenty feet and seriously damaging the Liioi s have in tally been engaged in London for the ale of hor.1 Yhvh for human food in Kophagy is Likely to be come As common there As in Paris after nil the pres indulged in by the Cockney it tin1 expense of the parisians. The t editions of the army in Emily in ire being broken and the Leighe shrank 10 longer entitles an officer to the most command. Lord Napier who by the government to the of the army corps he third general in while sir mired Ifor Oriel of the t Atli in Uii try. Who Hauvn directed to take Chargi if the is end. Is almost the West n of the British Wner als. T is a Happy change for the soldiers and better augury of Victory when officers Olio Are assigned important pots Are for their merits. Very Complete Stock in every department 31, Valise saddles pads ladies saddles whips Etc., Etc. P. Guilmette proprietor. Nasur dry goods. J. I Asci Miry to a 1878. 1879. The i la 1111 Lodl Tion the Manitoba directory set cd tub or july a kit. The Success obtained in Trio past by tic permit to lion to lust lick Hup Rove tic or Book lilo i now biome n necessary Var i dict Iun to All business men in tills 1 to Vince. The Manti Oija. Jirik Kutosky is 1101. Moi oly n local word i no the most 1 no and reliable the pro Vince Ami its Largo i Lre Lailon in Canada and ii Road makes to. One i the Bosl Moon inns for lot All Jere Tell mor olints s and others strive to establish Rohit Lons Ohleh shrill prove to be most proft Taille. In Ordor to secure hits result Ndoc Rolsing is one of Llie Sui a it and modes Gostol. Adv i also intents and Are its pict Nelly solicited sit the rates to subscribers per l 30 to a 00. One x m one c it Rel with one j 00. One Junnor Prigo. O 00 one Iii Artur Page Lili one copy. A k Oju n Artur Page and a card. 7 of one Porter Una a Eurtle Ono copy. S on one half Liisu. 71x1 one liiiirpngc1 with one copy. S ii one Linell Pii ire and a t Vij Anil a curd with Ono copy. 10 00 one Wlllie one copy Ili of one Page mid a card.11 00 one Page and u card with one copy 00 advertisements inserted on lie out and inside covers Anil on the first of a different slyly arc Elin goil at a special i la to. To order can to received after the with Day of next. Order Early souk to secure a Good in the Book. Address to the Manitoba directory publishing co., of. Max Toha. 1o. The choicest Stock and want in the Lino. Dealers in cattle sheep hogs Etc family vegetables on hand. Prompt Robt. Strang dim the City drug store. Trott Melville Ark open i no Oitt 15o Cla ses drugs and chemicals Patent medicines perfumes toilet soaps and fancy goods. To lie sold at lowest possible figures Liberal rates to traders and merchants. Trott Melville Block Maix it Kkt. I Corner of main Street and Portage Avenue have opened out a full and Complete assortment of every thing in the grocery and pro vision line. Their Stock is All new and of the Best Quality having been selected with great care and bought at the lowest figure they can confidently assert that they Are in a Good Posi Tion to compete favourably with others in the Trade and therefore Hope to be favored with a fair share of Public patronage. They cordially invite inspection of their Stock and will have pleasure in furnish ing parties calling with prices of goods Etc. Liidi Dodd co. Have on hand full and com plete assortment of new Stock in every line of boots shoes Lyre. Ivit., and Are offering them at very i moderate prices. All inspection cordially invited Fust cuss dry Oak Wood flatb8ated, potatoes provi Sions and groceries Fon Sam at Dom s Fla boat store Voit pol Lilves Aii Sii pity Wood foot of w Wotke Dame tin it Phy Oak wot ill per co Ted. Hee Eive orders to Dellver in any of Ilin Propri trn. Custom work a specially. Two first class workmen wanted. One must have a knowledge of cutting. Main Street Winnipeg. Dodd co. Linkou to fit on and not a Hariu d Munly four hours will to of Maryol Abr Torii mid nol j l Rol cd Back. D01vd co. Important notice. F our Kiodt Ami Brood will of the Wall paper business messes Saunders Grant we would re Pucci Biilly h ljue1 a limit Hie in Mirul to Ivi in the pus Nuiya he sided Lollin in in of Tilro. N. S. Donaldson a Bro. Saunders Grant 111 Wall papers x garlic to must i5v. Ing Niido special Arrari Komann inv our paint material Lor Hie sea con we Are prepared to do All of As c11kap As i r the place i5anxatvnk in Pivont Benson s residence and or Wii i i Iulah tined s i factory. Attention to the Trade. In Manitoba where Vela lit bonding and cd arc very and the Krecul inc Nonence and expense carrying win scr stocks can he More than Home Mami Maclure. J 1 11 .topoieilllifli1 rust a Kac Topsy in when Ilea wlieix1 they w ii ill Kim Lvov toilet scented fancy and common soaps of the Best brands Axle grease candles and other articles Peculiar to the Trade t. I Mulveh. Inns Uii if Impi Itkis and in sewing machines Cabinet organs a cold iia n d in k b0rom sold ii a paid for womb Linini Ai Ihire. Mid exist. Etc. I Manky Noire Binge Noa n St. I Macii inks r. Kent. I boots shoes and slippers 11 pm at on end every Lay Dilons tie nil the follow Lii Arii cars look the la Rel s in in i i ill Phi ilium Lohla will -1 1 ii Iov i clans Colv. Juji ifs i incl Kri Vicli a Ioctl Side i ii Oil or class Ixia ii lacks ivc id a ill toll. I ass Cia. Lilies rim in Annie in pool.1 Lizul Ion d. Or Lastic Ciao. Ujj Hidirs Hove k id Shoi a i very a i in a of Ilioiu j Ivi Tih s in heir Imit Lasc u in i Virv on ill i Cintli i i Uili s to s Horrock ses White Cotton Ioir is the Buffalo store Villiers Pearson is Donaldson Beo Ivi Rivil Mie Ofilio Conick k nov 01 a Vav map nil Riuo tin s Uii it l Mill Ilii Fili Loy savr Itier Cox West Meriden conk., Tkv Akk Kokki Jisc at i Iii so it the. Their Well selected Stock of Waltham and Elg in watches in Grold and silvei1 cases will Al ways be found Complete and at prices that will defy Competition. Engraving neatly done on the premises. Tvs a. Dec. S Golden Star we beg to announce that we have received our new importations of dry goods. Our departments Are All Complete including the newest and latest styles. We would specially Call attention to the child Ren s department. We have a Large Stock and will sell them at extraordinary Low prices. Also ready made clothing in endless variety. A Call is respectfully solicited. Germain co., newspaper ;