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KARLY.—The Summerside Farmer says that some of the hay crop is ripening and will becut the incoming week,and that the clover and timothy is all out in head.

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Witt Be Inrerestine.—A novel treating of Halifax society life, by a leading belle of that city, is about to appear. Judging from recent lopements, etc., in Halifax society, the book will no doubt be interesting.

Or INrerest to Lapres.—Miss Margue: ite St. John during the engagement of her com- pany,in ourcity,will wear the costumes which caused such sensation last week in the Mon- treal Acadamy of Music. They are all from the renowned Worth, of Paris, and specially made for this American tour.

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WHOoLEsALE StauGurer or Suter. —The Moncton Times says that 17 sheep owned by Wm. Turner, John Chapman and others of Dyrehester were killed on Satur- day aight by dogs. A party armed with guns watched the fields on Sun lay night, but failed to capture the marau lers,

Tax Worst Frarep.—In connection with the xegent washing ashore of wreckage from a vessé} on the coast of Shelburne county. N. S., it is said that a week or ten days ago a fisherman on Goosederry Island, near Lock- port, thought he heard cries from seaward, but was uncertain. A very heavy sea was running at the time.

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Lots or Trovste.—The Telegraph says that Wm, OD. Giggey, of Pleasant Point, N. B., had the fingers of his left hand so bady cut by coming in contact with a saw while working in Stetson & Jordon’s mill, a few days ago, that he will be obliged to refrain from work for sometime. About a month ago he buried his wife, and on Monday he re- ceived a telegram from Albert County stating that his son was dying.

A Sripenprary Macisrratre Surne For Pay.—In the case of Narraway vs. the town of Pictou, tried at the recent session of the Pictou Circuit Court, the p'aintiff seeks to recover $150 a year for the & years he held the office of Stipendiary Magis- trate. The Town Act fixed the salary at $300, but it is alleged that defendant took the offiee at $150 a year and was paid that sum. Judgmont reserved.

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A Provuttan Witt.—The death of a wealthy and eccentric old min at Tyler, Texas, says a southern exchange, has brought to light a remarkable will. The old man had no reiations, and in his last will and vestament he directs all his property to be divided equally among all persons living in the southern states who were born on his birthday, the 9th of March 1815. The amount of the fortune to be distributed is not mentioned, but it is said to be very large.

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“‘Destroven By Frre.—The Journal says that the barn and the adjoining outbuilding belonging to Mr. Alexander K. McNeill, of Southwest, Lot 16, were totally destroyed by fire between one and two °o’clock on Monday morning last, together with al] contents, in cluding a reaper and other farm machinery, Loss trom $600 to $700! no _ insurance. and a fine young horse valued at $130. The fire}is supposed to be the work of an incend iary. Mr. McNeill has the sympathy of the community in his misfortune,

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Drowntnc Accipent. -The Farmer learns that « sad drowning accident, through which a boy about 15 years of age lost his life, took place at Tryon last Monday evening. The name of the boy is Walter McIntosh and he is the son of Charles McIntosh, butcher of the place. The accident was caused by the up- setting of a boat at the biteau. When the news spread a large number of neighbors turn- ed out with lanterns and after a search the body was found. We sympathize with the relatives in their sudden and sad loss.

Curap Farrs.—From Souris and George- town to Alberton and return and your dinner in the bargain for the small sum of $2 is cer- tainly a low fare. Eastern folk can come into town on the 17th July, do their business here, attend the grand tea at Alberton on the 18th, aad return home again on the 19th for a smaller fare than is exacted for coming to town alone. One hundred and seventy miles, or from one end of the Province to the other, and your dinner, for such a low figure ought to make an excursion worth talking about, and, no doubt, will.

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More Istanp Horses.—Says the St. John Telegraph of . Tuesday’s (date: By this:morning’s I. C. R. train Mr. J. W. Smith will receive 13 P. E. Island horsea, consigned to Mr. N. F. Benson. The horses are from 5 to LO years old, and will be at Mr. Smith’s stables all to-day. They will be shipped to Boston by to-morrow morn- ‘ing’s 1. 8.8. Co's. steamer. Last Friday

morning Mr. Smith received 11 P. EK. Is- land horses for Mr. Wm. Gliddon, of Wovudstock. The horses went to Wood-

stuck on Saturday.

A Sap Case.—James Moir, who was found wandering about the streets of Montreal re- cently, has been pronounced insane. Moir is a former Montreal merchant who, about ten years ago, lost over $300,000 iu business there. He turned to speculating in the States and lately lost his wife in Chicago. The last bluw seems to have been too much for the old gentleman and his mind became weakened. In this condition he turned to- wards Montreal to find his relatives, who are in very good circumstances and who have now taken charge of him.

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FightTInG TA FLAMEs.— About midnight on the 17th, while the inmates were asleep, the residence of Richard Wilson, of Glouc:s- iter, Ont., took fire. There was only one ldoor. Wilson awoke to find that the tire ‘covered the ouly means of escape. His | family consisted of his wife and five children,

After a desperate fight Wilson succeeded in

saving three children, but his wife and the two

youngest children were burned to death. On

the arrival of neighbors, Wilson was found | some distance from the house, almost naked, ! badly burned and quite delirious. The house and contents were consumed,

To Dakota and Back.

NO, IV.

On the evening of May 12th I left St. Paul for Brown County, Dakota, for the purpose of visiting an old and greatly esteemed friend, Mr. J. H. Fletcher, formerly of the Charlottetown Argus. I went = the St. Paul, Minneapolis & Mani- toba ailway, and before I had gone far beyond Minneapolis night closed down upon the scene around us. Within 50 miles of Minneapolis the line over which I travelled passed by several fine lakes, and through a very pretty country, nicely wooded. We tonched at Willmar, Benton, Morris and other Minnesota towns, but as it was at night I could not take them in. I was early astir on the morning of the 13th, in order to obtain my first view of the great prairies of the West. When daylight broke our train was nearing the western boundary of Minnesota, and the character of the country was a perfectly flat, treeless plain. My tirst impression of the Western prairie was not at all favorable. Over the great expanse of flat country within view there is nothing to break the monotony except the scattered abodes of the settlers stand- ing out against the horizon,

The train arrangements of the St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway are out- rageously inconvenient between St. Paul and Aberdeen, the connections being about as bad as they have heretofore been on the Intercolonial for passengers from this Province going north. The distance be- tween St. Paul and Amherst, the station at which I dropped off, is 281 miles, and it took me 24 hours to make the journey. At the point where the Aberdeen branch joins the main line, there is no connection, nor is there any place where passengers can lay over, there being no building of any kind at the Junction except an eight by ten telegraph oftice, around which the prairie is but sparsely settled.

Travellers to and from the Aberdeen Branch and the east are obliged to go fur- ther west, and lay over for several hours at one or other of the towns or villages, I went on eighteen miles to Wahpeton, a town of some importance, just beyond the Dakota boundary, and from which place the train for Aberdeen starts. It has a system of waterworks, and is lighted by electricity. On the Minnesota side of the boundry is Breckenridge and other towns which appear like a continuation of Wah- peton, there being no break between. I reached Wahpeton at 5.20 a. m., left there et noon, and reached Amherst at 7.30 p. m., 24 hours outfrom St. Paul. If the man who figured out the time table by which travel on that road was governed at the time I speak of, had in view the killing of passenger traflic between Aberdeen and the east, he could not have devised a more complete method of accomplishing his pur- pose. The road from Main Line to Aber- deen leads through Richland, Sargent, Marshall and Brown Counties, the latter being decidedly the better country, as well asthe most taickly settled. At no point on this branch is the prairie so flat as at the junction with the mainline. The country is rolling and not nearly so tire- some to the eastern eye as the level plain. At Rutland Junction, at which another short branch turns off to Ellendale. I un- expectedly met Mr. Arthur Fairbairn, formerly of Tignish, and at one time in the employ of the Island road. Mr. Fairbairn was agreeably surprised to see me. He wasin the service of the Manitoba Road, and was then relieving the Station Agent at that place. He informed me that it was his intention soon te leave for Montana, where he had been offered a better posi- tion by the Northern Pacific.

I was met at Amherst Station by Mr. Fletcher, who has lost none of his old-time vivacity. A drive of seven miles over fthe prairie brought me to his residence,; where I found Mrs. F. and family hale and hearty, and all glad to see the face of an old friend from their home of former years. Mr. F. is very comfort- ably settled on his prarie farm, or ‘‘claim,” as a holding is called in Dakota. I had no idea that people, located only five or six years in a new agricultural country, could be so well supplied with the conveniences of modern life as many of the residents of Brown County undoubtedly are. I will cite Mr. Fletcher as an example: It is just six years since he turned the first sod in Dakota, and now he has a comfortable house, affording him all the accommodation required fora large family, commodious barns and other outbuildings, as well as all the agricultural implements and machinery —and that is not a litthe—necessary to carry on farming operations with satis- faction and despatch, besides an abundance of horse power ; and if he is not laying by money, a8 I am told many of the farmers in that country are, he is certainly making a comfortable living. One of the great drawbacks to the prosperty of that new country is the scarcity of female help. There are hundreds of eligible bachelors scattered over these western plains, leading a life of forced celibacy owing to the great inequality in numbers of the gentler sex. If some of the thousands of unmarried women who are leading a life of toil in eastern cities and towns, would take the late Horace Greely’s advice to young men

improved. There is room in Dakota for women in large numbers, and an

young ! ‘nvasion of the Territory by the weaker sex, would, I have no doubt, soon be

followed by a suitable boon in the mat ri

monial market, ae

Dakota is a country of great possibilities, speaking in an agricultural sense, but owing to seme drawbacks I do not think I could take to it kindly. On account of the almost entire absence of tree culture, it is fearfully bleak, there being nothing to break the force of the winds which sweep over that country at times with consider- able velocity. Trees are being planted to some small extent, but it will be many years before they can be expected to afford shelter. The soil of the greater part of

and go west, I think there is little doubt | but theirfprospects in life would be grearly | Becominc Nervovus.—The terrible Johns.

Brown County is an _ exceedingly rich black loam, but in some tew places it is of 2 sandy nature.

And, while the latter produces natural grass in great abundance, it is not so desir- able for raising grain crops. Whest is the great staple product of the country, but mixed farming can be carried on success- fully. The svil is admirably adapted to the growth of all small grains and root crops, while the prairie grasses afford ex- cellert pasturage for horses and horned cattle. Many farmers now sow a consider- able acreage of oats, barley and flax. In the fall of the year there is not generally much demand for oats,but those who hold the grain uver until spring realize a fair price. Barley is said to be a good paying crop, and the market for all the flax seed that can be grown is as sure as that for wheat, and the latter is a cash article at all times, though the price varies consider- ably. Potatoes, the equal of which in flavor I never ate in this great potato pro- ducing little Island, can be grown in enor- mous quantities, by simply plowing them in on the virgin prairie sod, | /took home a small sample, and will test their adaptability to the soil and climate of this Province. There is, however, no mar- ket for Dakota potatoes, and the people do

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not grow more than suflicient for home consumption, Itis the same with eggs,

which are of little value. Eggs could be

produced cheaply and abundantly, and if ‘traders went into the business of shipping

them to the nearest large cities and towns, I do not see why it should not pay. Horses,

for which there is always a good demand,

can be raised cheaply in Central Dakota, (1

am considering Dakota asa territory, but,

as you are aware, it has recently been divid- ed in two, and will soon be admitted as two states, North and South Dakota.) Cul- tivated grasses are not grown to any ex- tent in that part of Dakota, through which I @passed. Here and there are sloughs, or low places, partaking somewhat of the nature of marsh, and called by the people slenes, on which the natural grasses grow very tall and thick. The grass oa these slenes is cut and dried as we make hay, and used for winter feed for horses and cattle. The owners of these low-lying grass plots give their neighbors, for a comparatively small consideration, the privilege of cut- ting what grass they many require for win- ter feeding, and, as a small acreage yields a large quantity, it does not cost farmers who have no hay land of their own, much to lay in a season’s supply. And though this hay is dry and coarse, | am told that horses and cattle relish it greatly, and thrive on it without additional feed of other kinds.

I must reserve some further references to Dakota for another letter, as this is suf- ticiently long for one chapter.

A. McD.

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A Gigantic Horse.

Sirn,—As many farmers and men of means on the Island are interested in raising horses for a foreign market, and sume say for the British cavalry, and as none of them have as yet produced a beast with a head *‘ eleven inches longer than a tlour barrel,” I wish you would publish the following paragraph to let them know what can be done in that line.

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THE LARGEST HORSE IN THE WORLD,

(From the Portland Oregonian.)

To see a horse weighing nearly 3,0C0 pounds is not an every-day occurrence. Such an animal is now on exhibition on Third street, near Yambill, in this city. The horse is 5 years old, is 205 hands high, 32 inches around his arm, 45 inches around stifle, 7 feet 11 inches girth, 344 inches around his hip, and 11 feet 4 inches iu length. His head is 36 inches long, 11 inches longer than a flour barrel. He is a Clydesdale, and is absolutely perfect in proportion. There is now a stand- ing offer from Barnum for this giant horse. He will be on exhibition here but a few days.

Personal.

The once famous coachman, Ernest Schill- ing, who distinguished himself by marrying Victoria Morosini, is earniag his. living now as a painter, and living at Steinway, L |

The Toronto Mail's Ottawa special says that Senator Carvell’s name is mentioned in connection with the Lieutenant-Governorship of P. E, Island.

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PRESENTS.—A splendid supply of nicely bound books, suitable for school gifts, just opened at the Diamond Bookstore.

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Pics 1x Crover.—We noticed in Mr. E, W. Taylor's show window to-day a num- iber of miniature gold-plated pigs in clover _puzzles. The price is low, and every per- son should have one.

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'town disaster has set the newspapers to in- | vestigating the position of other towns that

‘are liable to a similar calamity through the

' bursting of dame or reservoirs overshadowing them from elevated positions. The New | York Herald prints «a formidable list otf towns ‘and manutacturing villages so situated, in New Jersey, New York, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and other states. These dams have been examined with great care and a considerable amount of nervousness since the Pennsylvania horror, and where there is the slightest ground for doubt of their stability money will be spent freely to place them in a position of safety. cities,

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