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 Pork. p„^S SI IS. iha: I Oils, i.^'a.oent Medic [cnery, â- c.z and Tobai -unl Montreal Tt Wareiiousi â- N STATION, .w.i.t»,a,acompl«t,8ted;(| Icuiing.BoetsaDilSI c::ocKERY I' Iiue taken in e^cba ' ti'iilly invited. â-  ::i'.:!c:s manufactured an^ CO l-r ». rH C M M hS Ph 20 lAJ » C/2 "1 SB UJ c n £ .-H ' H 1-^ ^^ M S 3i H^ ^60 C9 ;- SOX STO^ i.,,i'.\!KS fir the I«H« :ar. oh, hi tographer, Flesbei ,.,1 y,,tto ami 'iher^r**" Ir itaiu.'.fularb-l^'"'!^;' BUI â€" j^i ' OTirE i« ^e^«•by «"*^ n, U^ ioa.l..|H.nthroii«l" '^t.*iJ h.lili«l. /tb« iâ€"^ J L- iM.t Imviiij! »ny""^!l,^l"' .f;.! l.,t-. xviil not he «^rT5l**j b-.:t tl.fit in«v hftpr^oSj^l 1 """ /v*. 11 i"" lwn-hipofGlenel(I. " lONEY W «•* ., meet the early mails. • ' ,,p.t rureign and PrOTincial l--r-, i.,.-nce. County Business. j^'ilitl^. «" »" Instructive •^ ,a «1 50 in three months, r^^w lu'uo ena of the year. No I'l»"^li\ai.til all arreages are R;rfont:ni ^^^_^^^jj ^j jjjg pabhsh- L. eli:»P' ' .,„^, ,, ii*rs without paying tf^'irJ^l^u-'hle for the years 8ub- 2^*;;;i^;^v comply wUh the rules. rZsQF .\DVEBTISING: io â- " .^„auii'i' 27 50 15 00 8 00 4 00 50 15 75 25 8 first insertion. ' '^l),e.|i.iit iii-ertion r'p tHi liiK^t. fir^t insertion. Lb jalxeii'ifiit insertion. rlBtf. tirst insertion per line rj^«h*ep i-nt inatrtion rZu^T ..f lines U. be reckoned by the "Z' 1 measured by a scale of solid AlvertisementH without •ipeeihc L.ili be publish, a till forbid and â- ;^„rdinKlv. All transitory ad-ertlse- Z'^. L in the office .f publication l.y n^ tlM. •Xhur.dijjriauriiinjjpn-ceea- upablirution. \V liUTLEDCiE, Ir.r'rit..r. ^ONAL BUSINESS '^DIRECTORY. l-^$prMUle A tarter, l^gj Surgeon-, Accouchetu'S (ice. „;.f I,..i;c.J Uall; residence at Fit-.. ' "*,!? W« 17, 1880. 1-v DR. PUUDY, y^ si ItiiEON, ACCOUCH- 1" " fitf. it^nl. T SIX 6 I TRAJOHT I*^^ ty. PriT»t« rkdole. "" L.,fat I-"i-v. Owen Sound. ,;• ".!:;i' r I'uiliUug. over Bobiu- "' !â-  r t-i-r..t. 1-y fr»«t 4% I'rot, UilSlK!;^. .\Ni ATTOUNRYS-AT m, S.,l.'Jt"' 111 t'hanctry. Convey ,,.. O'-ii S'lid, have re.suineJ at fcrv'ii, Offic "1' n very Tuur.sday,B8 rH.iT. J.W. FaosT.LL. 13. ^r,., r .â- ; Vlt'ifiiev. 1 Jain«-» .Mstsson, ^,r;*tia'ii I A rrousEY at law. ..â-  r 111 h lucrry Owtn Sound. h'iSrW VI I.\\V. Sol.ICITalMN ,.v. N -l^iiv rul'lic, iVc. (iti!i«ii' I u' luwe..,t r:itis oil personal I.T* 1-' 'â- â€¢â€¢ I. I'll' b'ii„'lit and sold. [lEii.. ,lir iatro.liicrd frie of comuiis- nr;NDALK. 1 \) :ii. Itrowii, rKiii" M \UillAur. I.lCESSE.S,.Vc., ,.i: .11.1 111 UVU. vc. t.«»»iiiiiik' 111 :ill its hi lucuns promptly tijt" iii'l ••T' fully executed. |3-M'iiiy I ' IvMui ou IW-.ii I^.statv: sc- .h;.-. Sr;.t. i7. is*v 1-y AlfXtllltllT Bl-OUIi.) â- â€¢ .••€•â- . t..^.. m- ,„...,^ Fir,,. )in,l Jt hniir:»iic .\;,'.-iu. 'i)mui:.sji)iifi \*. V ' 1 'â- "iv.-yuti'.-irr ;iuil I.iecnsi'J Mrr! r t!i' I'mi'ity of (Ircy. I":iriu rs, UK all I (..III. I S .!t'.s, ruiictuiillv llt- ki i-l "1 ir;," ... Kiilo verv mu.U'iiite. S r. 17. H-i. â-  l-v «pu.i«' 'r.»i»», Jr^ |.(NIi. I.HAN \NI»;iKNEUAL AGENT ..S'Um; .\I "Miv to Tioau at low 'mtir I'niK Ip.il i.iv;ibl( nt the '.irni ..; ir-,;i-irl inti rc^t half year. I'irlj." i'M"i|ai ;iiiJ interest repay- l-amstiliiu ii!-. fliriiiil"r.f i.^iiiihlc Improved Farms 1-y IiSIMmN-W!' li!OVlNCI.\T, L.AND '.-irv»_...i. iii:i;ij;ht...;!i:in and Valuator, |!jria'.ii| M.iiklali-. H.iviiig purchased *:.;.iil Liiii'l .S.ir,,'\.ir 'Imilfs liaiikin's k' slx-k .tf Ml *;,i,il I'lelil Notis, riaus, fn^. his.riicfi 'i^. .V:r.,il all his Surveys i«.l!r.ii :ii, I it lifty-livc yoars, I am • J '.11 iii.ik. S'irMv.- in str;ct accord- l.hiri-.v.i'i I'niliies' an 1 P'stimatO!! ir*! tl;.' II' I .. Plans ami Spccitications |J»llin(; III i; ., fi'iri.ishf.l on appUca- M.iiiv t.. I ...i:i lit H |H-r cent iiitiTe it. hbj lp"tt.r. ..r lift witli O. J. BLYTII, liifce. Will Ih- promptly attended to. 17. issii â-  l-v 1r. Jaiiios J. MThltc, '•i'i»:a 1.1 1 r. Cameron, Owen Sound, 'U-LK.\ r THE BEVEUE'HOUSE, ^trsH.-, un the la it Wednesday in 'ai'oii.ji,, ,1 |,g ^yiu be prepared toper- faiij(«r;a ;,„,,â-  rui'.iirod upon the mouth 'â- I -itufaclorv manner, and upon 1 y a,,- EVERE HOTEL, ^1 VKKU-tLE. SPROULE, Proprietor. MEAFORD. Ont- |*J Ml .lllU, Pbopbieiobs. 'TV lU'coiumodatiou for tlie traTelliug •"â-  111.- Uir is well stocked with the f'ist \Viii. ana Liiiuors and the best ' jI C;(;.ir ... ' lius Co and from all trains. M- i:,isii. 1-y COMMERCIAL HOTEL PRICEVILLiE. Ont. "(!' Uhl (â-  .iii:n.idio.is Sample Booms: F!," ^i U.HiMis iJrc. The Bar and larder ' 'ivjB*',! with the best the market af "'lixiStililinn and attentive Hostler's L Tuos. ATKINSON. Proprietor feyBoot and Shoe Shop. oK STihiijrilirrs beg to inform the public ««: rally that they haveoponeda shoe J "•-" promises lately occupied by D. r*«l. .11 Mill street, where they are pre- J*" f" ik'i ordera for all kinds of work in nip"' Kepairing doie promptly. •»wp« Work a Sp«eialt7 " ui .4 Strictly cash business we can af • ^^ Tk at bottom prices. A call re- «iill solicited. No Spht Leather aged r* ^u'.p. I«.i.. ' McLEOI 4 CO. L'^i'aale.Aag. 4th, 1881. 4t. tt.n. «JalbraiUi, 1 "H'lONEEU AND GENEBAL LikND ,^ ***"'• Wuhamaford Station. Auetion oda Cn '" " P"' °' *^« County. t^j^j^j" "" Commission. Bates ouidei-ate. "l» If "" ""' "'^^mg Machines; aUo »1 bll 1 """"'°-^' Trees, Vmes. Agricul- 1 i,â„¢I"«»eutii, and MacUinerj of aU kiadt "*«»*«d. Jm,. 27, 288\. »0-lT MWIKOALE. 1 BSlEStr Of WATCHF8, CLOCKSi JEWBLVT, T VOL. 2.--N0. 2. MARKDALE, SEPTEMBER 23, l«8i- T. E. IAT1«, BUILDKB CeNTBlCTOB, (EMom and lirick). Plastering and Country Jobs, promptly attended to. Stonecattins a gne' cialty. Estimatee on aU w»i%, tM». fSSii' faction guaranteed. *,• Besidene* eonierof Brown and Sproole rttriiitt. lCaaMii« December 31, 1880. " i^j "gEORGE WILSON, BTUITICIHIEm MUl St., Markdale. next door to MeDongia-B Uaruess shop. tar Meat delivered at any honae in tawa. Sept. 17, 1880. l.y VE TERIN ARY- ytterinary S^urgeon C^ radu.ite of Ontario Veterinary CoUe e, X Toronto. Calls by Mail or Telegraph prumply attended to. Besisencz, DtTVCA!.! .15-3m. Wm. Lucas Co. BANKERS, MABKDALE IN large or small amounts, at all times, on good endorsed notes, or on collateral security. •* INTEREST AT 6 PER CENT. Allowed on Savings Deposits. l^Draftf i.ssued and Collections made on all points, at lowest rates. Wil. LUCAS Co. Soptember. 1880. 2-y GEORGE NOBLE, INSURANCE AND LAND AGENT, LICENSED AUCTIONEER For the County ol Grey. AuEST for the following reliable Companies CITIZENS' of Montreal. AGBICULTUU.\L, of Watortown. and TlliVDE A COMMKBCE, (Mutual) "of Toronto. A n;iniber of Choica Farms for sale, also Village Lot.s Auetion S ilo.i cmluctad in Town or Couu- try i.n Slmit.-t Noiico. Chaii^e.? moderate. Bills, lilanlc .xiu---. o» «»,»â€".?• ,.»»-ijo4. GEO. NOBLE. M.tBKu.\i,i!. May 20th, 18S1. .30-lv WM. FOX. Plain Orna.-iienial Plasterer Estimates for stone and brickwork on ap- plication. Satisfaction Guranteed. Besi- dence â€" Queer Street. Markdale. Markdale. Sept. 17. 18M0. l-v Meat for All AT W. B. Sarjent's. The subscriber returns thanks to the in- habitants of MARKDALE and vicinity for their liberal patronage dur- ing the past five years, and begs to remind them that he is prepared to supply their wants in his line as as any one north of Toronto. M d Conei Meats delivered promptly on receipt of orders. SAUSAGE POULTRY always kept in their Season. 13" Shop OU Mill sreett, opposite tlie " Kevere' Hotel." IS-Casli paid for Fat Cat- tle and Sheep Again thanking you for past favors he trusts by faithful attention to your wants to merit a continuance of your support. Notice. â€" Farmers having fat slieep or cat- tle to dispose of will leave their addreaa at Sargeant's W. B. SABJEANT. Markdale. Sept. 17th 1880. 1 J. MONTGOMERY, IJ A Iv K «., THE Subscriber, in returning thanks to the inhabitants of Nfarkdale and sor- rounding country for their patronage during the past eight years, begs to intimate to them he is how prepared to supply the Publiewith FRUIT. POUND PLUM CAKES, either plain, or Iced and Ornamented, and a larg« Variety of Other Cakes always on luJid, Also, ]B I S CTT I T 1 of every description, from tlie beat mana- f actorers in Ontario. Also, a hu^e and va -ied aaaoctaoent of (le CHOICEST CONFECTIONERY k J Aw BRIDES' CAKES. supplied on the shortest notice, and got np in the beat style that ia done this idde of Toronto. jj h Miiiii^, U, OTHSB PABTIBJS, •«I»pii«d on the nhortest notice and on the moat râ€" eniMw tsnua. .JOHN UOMTQOilKBX. John H. Htard, Manufacturer and dealer In Cotters, Sleighs,Bnggie8, WAGGONS, CULTIVATORS. HORSE RAKES. PLOUGHS, HABBOW AlVD A llkindsof y arming Implements Manufaetniy and Depository, Durham and Hill streets FLESHERTON. To ITT PATaoHs. â€" Always ahead of any in my trade, and having the largest and moat eonrenient Factory in this locality. I am prepared to seU Carriages and Implements of every descriptron in the best style of any in the market, and at prices as low as any oo- cording to the quality of the work. Having towards oi tfrenty years' experi- ence, I am confident that purchasers will get the advantage in having the very best made. Parties in want of a carriage or Implement wiU do well to give me a call, as there are none in the market which will oompaje with them in quality, style and finish for the price. ll.ly SNTOP! HOW^YOU VAS! T.MULARKElf, QUEEN STBEET, f Keeps constantly on hand CHURNS, BUHER-TUBS WASH-TUBS, c., c. Repairing Done with Neatnens and Diipatch. AGEAT FOB I ^I^VXA^'E Lite's CELEBBATED BEAPEB, MOWEB, and BAKE, â€" ALSO â€" Plengns, Harrows, Oaug, Drills V.tv, Etc. Marklale, June9.1881. 39 ly Province Ontario Directory For 18Si:-8 3, TO BE PUBLIsnED IN NOVEMBEB. '81, Prico $5.00. MB. LOVELL, at the request of several Merchants and others of the Province of Ontario, uf the Ciiy of Montreal, e., begs o announce that his firm will publish a PBOVINCE OF uNTABlO DIBECTOBY, in November ui'xt, containing an Alphiliotieal Dirtctoy AXD A TnOBOlOOB CLASSIFIBn Business Directory of the Business and I*, ofcssional men in the Citits,_Ioaas and Vilhujcs of Ontario, with a C1..4SPJFIED BUSINESS -DIRECTORY CITY OF MONTHE-VL. The same care and attention bestowed on the Dominion and Provincial Directories of 1871wiUbe -iven to this work. Subscribers names reaoectfiiUy solicitel. Terns of Ad- vertising 6ade known upon application. JOHN LOVELL SON.PubUshers. Montreal, December, 1880. THOS. MATHEWS, TTTISHES to tander to his nnmerons V cuiiti'mers liis sincer' thanks for their very liberal patronage during the 15 years be has been in the Harness Business in Mark- dale, f.n would respectfully solicit a continu- ance of the same, feeing oonfiident 'that he can give Entire S/itinf action. Everything usually kept in a FLBST-CL A S HARMESS ESTABLISHMENT, always on hand, and sold at moderate rates. liS"None but good workman employed and the best of materials ased. Markdale, Nav. 18. 188o- lo Sbeep and Ja,ttie. FABMEBS having good fat Sheep or Cattle to sell, will find it to their advant- age to leave there names and address at Mc- Cutcheon's Hotel, Bevere House, Markdale, as the undersigned are still on the war path, and will positively pay the highest rices. C. W. 4 A. 8PEEB8. Sept. I7th, 1880. 1-T W. BENSON HAS NOW ON HAND wmcn CAXXOT br kxceu.es. INGROGERIES! Our stock is Fresh, Laving just been pur- chased from the best dealers in the Eastern markets. Teas o. Specialty. Miscelkneoiis Articles! Indnding Lemons, OrangiM, and Frtiiti of all deecripttons, may bo had o» very reason- able terms. p. S.â€" -nkow indebted to the imdersigned irooltldo well to settle at once and save further trouble as I am in need of money, Mng now engaged in the erection of a new brick bailding and ngmirt theaooaef, Wilson Benson. MarWaU. Aag. 10th, I«61, *^- BECAUSE VM TWENTY-FTrfc. Tu wondecfol atraoge how gnat the eha^e, Since I waa in my teana. Then I had beaiu and billot-doDZ, And joined the fftyeat Baeoea. But loven now have eaaaed to vow. No way they now contrive To poiaon, hang, or drown thrmaclTBa Because I'm twenty-five. Once, if the night waa cv'cr so tJri^tt I ne'er abroad could roam. Without "The blise, the honor. Misa, Of seeing you safely home." But now. I go. through laia and snow, Pnrsoed and seared alive â€" Through aU the darit, without a qiaikâ€" Becaose I'm twenty-five. They used to call, and ask me all About my health so frail, And thought a ride â€" H help a^ iifc. And turn my cheek less pale. But now, alas If I am HI, None care that I revive And my pale in vain^may speak Because I'm twenty-five. Now, if a ride improves my side, I'm forced to take the stage, For this is deemed quite proper for A person of my age. And then no hand is offered me, To take me out alive They think 'twont hurt me now to fall â€" Because I'm twenty -five. O. dear 'tis queer, that every year I'm slighted more and more For not a beau pretends to show His head within our door. Nor ride, nor card, nor soft address, My spirils now revive And one might near to well be dead As say â€" I'm tw:nty-five. TloiJ .IT. i^i^^hi: :;.'}â-  WHOLE No. M THE TRAIL OF FIRE. WALLS OF FIRE SIXTY FEET HIGH. FLAME!! WHI. H OUTRAN GAIXTPIKO HORSK*, BFAB, OEKB, AND HUMAN BEINGS 8KEKING THl:: SAME SUELTEB. (M. Quad in the Detroit Free Press.) Ou Saturday the 8rd inst., aloug the eastern shore of Micliigaa a tbiu dond of smoke rested over the forest' aud gaye the lake a hazy look. Ou Sunday this cluud was thicker. Cat tie aud had a wild, excited look, aud fowls acted in a strange manner. Fires Lad bcu burniu^ iu Sanilac, Huron, aud Tuscola counties, but no one ap- preueudeJ any danger. Farmers had set fire to slashings to clear the ground for tall wheat, but this happens eyery fall, and the tact that not a drop cf water had fallen in from fifty tr seven- ty days was not considered by those who saw the smoke-clouds aud replied that the was no danger. Behind that pall of smoke wa.s a grcatt-r enemy thr.uan e.irtliquake. aud it had a tor- nado at its back aud 200 miles of for- est in the front. Monday morning the smoke cloud was thicker. Far out in the lake it settled down until lamps on shipViard bad to be lighted to see the cimrass, and there was a weirdness about it which made sailors fear. At noon, on laud, no midnight was ever darker. Lamps were poweless to light even a •mnll room. All business was sos- peuoed in the streets of the towns, and in the sountry farmers gathered their wives and children about them, and whispered that it was the coming of the judgment. Hot way?s swept through the forests and over the farms, parching the green leaves as if they had been placed in hot ovens. Smoke was everywhere â€" thick, bitter smoke, which blinded men and suffocated children in their mother's arms. From uoon nntil 2 o'clock a strange terror held the people in its grip. Then, all of a sudden, the heavens took fire, or so it seemed to hundreds. Li some localities it came with the sound of thunder. In others it was preceded by a terrible roaring, as if a tidal wave were sweeping over the country. Al- most at the same minute the flames appeared iu every spot over a district of country thirty miles broad by a hundred in length. A billow of flame ten, thirty, forty, and in some places sixty feet high, fanned by a hot and brisk southwest wind, rolled over this tract and left behind it the ctiarred bodies of hundreds of people, thous- ands of live stock, and one can hard- ly tell how many homes. The yeiy air was in flame. A gab formed ahead of the wall of flames.and this snapped and crackled and scorched and wither- ed and left green leaves as dry aa pow- der. At Kichmondville, ten miles above Sanilac, 150 people had comfortable homes, stacks of hay and grain, teams, cows, pigs, sheep and to fear of the fire which they knew w»8 burning a mile away. At two o'elook the flames rushed ont of the woods, leaped the fences, ran across bare fields, and Fwallowed every boose but two and roasted alire s dozen people. It ia hardly forty rods to the beaeh ofthe lake, and yet many people had n6i time to xo»»b tbe water. Others reaehei it with dothing on fire and faoes and bands blistered. The hons- es did not bom singly, bnt one billow of flame seited them all at onoe and reduced them to nothmg in ten min- atea, 'Iba two buiUings saved were spared by the flam««â€" not saved ky the hand of man. The flamea awapt bo4h sides of them, aa ii merofiilly in- tending io lean boom landmark ol th« hamki and soma. |^ to flflttir pp- HMD and chiUion and the aek. Tv^ •nd and around this ham- lei raoed ||vro«gfa flame and smoke for the lake. „ SpOie reached it, to remain in the w|ter tor hours, while others fell on tl9 highway aud were burned to a eriify. There waa no time to save anytiting^Mihe hooses, and when 1 rede thrMigai^ district familiet wliich bat a di^ before had been possessed of plenty were not the owner of a knife or ^|oon. Women were bare- headed and barefooted, childl«n still worse.oC^ and bareheaded men sat on the (arehad ground and trondered if God had Bot forsaken them. Every bridge *nd culvert io this section is goni^, 'and we had to make long de- touri throQgb fields to pass tlie spots. Where stood a fine farm ten days agn is now a blackened waste. Where stood a green forest is now a picture of desolation such aa yoa cannot imag- ine, A terrible cyclone struck this district with the flames, and I saw many and many a spot where the bil- low of fire jumped a clean half nule out of the forest to clutch house or bam. The roariug aud crashing were awful. Horses rau here acd there, neighing and almostscreamiug in their terror cows and oxen plunged aud bellowed and the most savage dogs were so overcome by fear that they ran back into the blazing house and died iu the flames. Iu this awful confu- sion, with trpes crashing down before the cyclone, aud the houses being un roofed by its terrible power, while a great billow of flame came sweeping on as fast ns a horse could gallop, fathers aud mothers were called upon to save themselves and chidren. The highways were hues of fire. Rivers and creeks wer dry ditches. The only chance to escape was to rush for the open fields, aud yet in the open fields, men, women and children were burn- ed to cinders. Tho?e who preserved their thought through the confusion preceding the appearance of the flamee seized woollen blankets, wet them thoroughly, and drew these ovrr tliem as tliey crouched down on the plowed ground, aud where this plan was fol- lowed their lives were generally saved. In Bomo cases people lay jut in the fields f-jurteen long hours before it was safe to rise up. In a smuU cornfield above Richmoudville twenty-eight peo- ple spent the latter part of the after- noon art'J all ntglit br-foro the flamCB passed on. To windward cf them was a field of peas, and, when the flames got irto this, tlie party in the corn v/ero pelted for li:'U-s wilh hot IKias. wbich were shollnd by the fire aiid wind and carried aioug by the hot blasts. Wet blankets, coustaut vigil- ance, and the standing corn saved these people but in other localities, where persons sought the sa'Jic refuge, they were smothered aud burucd. Ira Humphrey, the mail carrier, between Elmer City, and Bad Ax;, left the former placo about 10 o'clock in the morning. The fire was tlieu raging three miles down his route, but he could uotbepcriuaded to give up the trip. His transportation was a horse and buggy, and he made straight for the fire and tried to pass throui;h. Failing iu this, he, with blistered face and hands, turned back towards El- mer, only to discover that the flames bad cat off his retreat. Ha halted at a corner where school house stood, and was here joined Ly about a dozen people who had been driven from their homes. While men were praying, women screaming, and children dumb with terror, the old veteran coolly un- hitched his horse, removed the har- ness, and left the beast as fair a chance for escape as he had himself. He then cachered all the people m the rear of the school bouse, where they were partly sheltered from the heat, and here he enconracred the men and quiet- ed the women as far as he could. At this time the party were surrounded by a wall of fire, and two dwelling bouses only a few rods away were fiercely blazing. Look wbioh way they would there was no escape. The highway fencing here was of heavy logs, and the heat was intense. The fire was baekmg in from a swamp one way, and m all other directions a great red wave of flame was making a solid wall from the roots to the tops of the highest trees. They knew that the school house mast go. When the flames began to crackle in the roof the whole crowd knelt down to pray. "Yes we all fdl down and prayed," â- aid one of the women to me. "We were all huddled together, arms around each other, and yet we could not hear each otiier's voices Wo knew that our last hour had oome, and I kissed my fow children and told them we should all be dead in ten xninotes more." Whan the heat from the school house beeaoie intolerable the whole party scattered. Here was where Mrs. Denison and her child and sister per- ished on the hi^'bway, falling down in flamea before the eyea of the hosband aud father. A man uaated Joiiea had hia bene ham. and when drivm eat he la^Mtdi^oo tiManiaaalaoid let lum go at viiL The hon^ took down across the 'front uf the fire, iuto a low wet noi, and tbangb badigr singed he oar* v^M^^vim^M-^ V^*o» of aafsty. JoBce had bis do t b"i g nearly bomod off and his hands and iaee blistered, bnt hia 1% was aared. Humphrey ran south, proba'oly be- lievinir that the fire in that direction having bnmedthe loogest, wontd give him the best show tor escape. Twenty rods from the school honse the heat became so intense ttiat be tamed to the west into a field com, add here his body was fonnd. It was homed and blistered in a dosen places and most of the clothing had burned off. He lay with his face iu the dirt, and the contracted limbs were eyidenoe that death had been full of torturee. Some of the party saved themselves by borTowing in the ditohee, and others preserved in the flek?B. The horse toek fba toad hone akA gallop, and though badly bamod herau the gaunt- let of the flamea. On this Hue road sixty-nine farmers were left withoat bouse, bam, fencing, furniture or food, aud in many cases one or more members ot the family had been roasted alive. In one in- stance four families were lidng in a little old stable which the fire had somehow spared, and were cooking a sort of hoe-cake oyer a fire at the door. Their solo cooking utensil was an old dust pan which had been taken from the yet hot ashes of a burned farm honse. To the north of this tlie Thornton family were wiped out with the excep- tiou of a boy. Thornton had hitched up his team to driye the family to a place of safety, but when he saw that they were all suiroundud by the flames he uuhitchcd the liorscs iu despair. Before they could be uuharuessed they bolted iu different directions, and the old luau became so confused that be ran directly towards a bia; slashing, which wae then a perfect mass of flame, aud dropped aud died with his head towards it. Meantime the moth or aiid children had taken refuge lu the root house. This was a structure mostly suuk iu the ground aud the roof well covered v ith earth. Here they were all right for a time, but when the latlier failed to join them one of the sons went out to see what caused the delay. He was hardly out tlie place befure the door through which he had passed was in flames. In this emergency he ran to a dry creek, and by lying ou his face and keepiuK his mouth to the ground he lived through it. 1 talked with a wo- man who lived ucighl'or to the Thorn- tuns, aud who escaped by fleeing to a fiiild of plowed ground. This was only a few rods from the root-'ioouse, and said it was fully an hour before the screams and shrieks and groausfrom the people inside grew quiet lu death. One by one they were sufiocated by heat aud smoko, aud their bodies presf i;tq,d a horrible appearance. To one riding through the district it seems miraculous that a single soul escaped. The fire swept through the green trees the same as the dry, it ran through fields of com with a speed of twenty miles an hour, and fields of green clover were swept a j bare as a floor Dark and gloomy swamps, filled .vith ponds of stagnant water, and the home for years of wild cat3, bears Ac, were struck and shrivelled and burned al most in a flash. Over the parched meadows tho flames ran' faster than a horse could gallop. Horses did gallop before it, but were overtaken aud left roasting on the ground. It seemed as if every hope aud avenue of escape were cut off, and yet hundreds of lives were spared. People spent ten to twenty hours in ditches aud ponds, or in fields under wet blaukets, having their hair Hinged, their limbs blistered and their clothing burned off piece by piece. In between Elmer and Ciunber there was an old man named Good- rich, who was living with his sou-in- law. Goodrich is nearly 80 years of age, and has been ailmg all summer. Onlv the day before the fire it was thought that he must die. When he Leord that the flames were approach- ing ho got out of bed and dressed him- self, and was led out on a plowed field aud covered with a wet blanket. Here he lay for several hours with his feet out to the heat. He had on a good pair of cowhide boots, aud the heat actually baked them. 1 could pick the leather to pieces with my fingers, and it only needed a slight giip of the thumb and finger to draw the irou nails from the heavy soles. While Goodrich had his feet blistered the scare oared bis sickness, and I myself saw him walk a distance of nearly a mile. All in through this district the peo- ple were convinced that the day oi judgment was at hand. The sky was first as black as midnight. Then it turned as led as biood. Tii^u came the tearible cyclone with its aw- ful roar, and the boldest man among them was stmck with terror. A mile north of where the old man Goodrich lived was a family which had acrazy aon. When the smoke began to dark- c;n the country he began to get excit- ed, and 00 tke dark day, two hours before the flames came, he moonted a horse and galloped ap and down the poaulry, crying oat that the last 4*T had coma, sad that the cartH iiM to b« swept dcaa. Lattf he was reen roahing headlong towards the flamea, whooping and oiieering, and no doubt he perished first of all. Tlie horse it- self seemed t} partake of the ridei's spirit and bis shrill neighs answered the cheers of the rider. li dozens of cases the first flame spared houses and baras, but after seeming to have passed ou for miles, suddenly circled backed aud made a olean sweep of everything. Uuloss one rides over the burned district, he cannot beUeve th j eccentricities of a forest fire. In the great swamp be- tween Saudac and Sandusky it burned everyt'ung to the roots tor a mile io breadth. Then it left patches from tbU feet to ten rods wide. Then again it Btrack in and bwraed htnea hardly twenty feet wide, leaving half a mile of fuel on each side. In timber it seemed to strike the green trees hard- er tlian the dry ones. It was like a great serpent making its way across the country. It would run wjtLiu three feet of a wheat stack aud'Jiei! gUdo away to lick up a house. It would burn a stack aud spare a baiU ten feet off. It was hard to CKdit some of the sights before my eyes. In one case the two hubs of a seed-drill in a plowed field were burned out and eyery spoke in each wheel left perfect. No dtnnage was done to any other part of the machine, and the fire stop- ped of its own accord. Mear by a man Lad been chopping the day before and left his axe sticking in a small beech tree. This tree burned down to the axe, fell over, and was eiiliredy consumed, and yet the handle of the axe was not even scorched. I saw wagons where three wheels were bum oil off and the fourth leftintact, and again where only one wheel of the four hatl suffered. Houses defended b- a dozen men and plenty of water burned to the ground, while others abandoned to the flames stand tliere to-ilay.. I saw a house where tho fi-out door-jstep was burned away and the flames then re- fused to do further tkmago. Again where one of the props v.*as coiisnmed and 1. thing else even scorched. A coloured woman living back, of Rich- moudville had eight children to cai-e for, aud her husband was absent. She was tlirowiug things out of tJic house when tho fire sprang from the woods and caught the roof iu a dozen places. She made a i-un with the baby in her arms and the otlicr seven arouud her and escaped. The liouso, well curb, fence, fruit trees and nil else were consumed, and yet two i»il- lows flung ont on the grass in licr ex- citement, were not even scorched. I looked them carefully over and could not find where even a spai-k had struck them. Again, I saw where furniUu-e had been buried in the plow- ed fields half a mile from tlic woods, and chairs aud tables were reduced to ashesâ€" people felt the heat wlUle the fire w^ yet miles away. It withered the leaves of trees standing two miles from tlie path of the fiery serpent. The very earth took fire in hundreds of places, and blazed up ns if the fire fire was feasting on cordwood. The 'stoutest log building stood np only a few minutes. The fire seemed -to catch them at evei-y corner at once, and after a whirl aud a roar nothing would be left. Seven miles off the beach, at Forrester, sailors found the heat uncomfortable. Where some houses and bams were burned we could not find even a blackened stick. Every log, beam and boq^d was re- duced to fine ashes. Sevc:! miles back from the lake, at Forester, a farmer gathered up fifteen persons in his wagon and started for the beach. The fire was close behind thcra as they started â€" so close that the drosses of some of the women and children were on firo from the sjiarks. It was seven miles up hill and down, with corduroy, ruts and roots, and thi' horses needed no whip to urge- them into a mad mn. As the wagon start- ed the tire of a hind wheel rolled off. They could not stop for it, and yet, on- a good road, the wheel would ha-.T crushed down in going twenty rods without it. It is an actual fact that the horses pushed over that seven nulcs of rough road at a wild mu and the wheel stood firm. A delay of five miuutes at any point of the road would have given fifteen more victims to the flames which followed on behi^d. I saw the waggon at the lake, I saw the tire seven miles away on tlie roadside. The people who sought the beach had still to endure much of the heat and all of the smoke. Wading out to the shoulders they were safe from the flames, but sparks and cinders fell liEe a snow storm, and the smoke was suf- focating. The birds not caught in the woods were carried out to sea and drowned, and the waves have washed thousands of them ashore. Squirrels, rabits and soch small animals stood no show at all, but dear and bear sought the besich and the company of human beings. In one case a man leaped from a blnff into the lake and fonnd himself close behind a large bear. They remained in company close to the bank nearly all ni^t, and the biaar seemed as humble as a dog. dmwip^wHter to- dash on -bis faooaai airtrteV WW* "rft mm fer 4 wo- immbfb befor%|MK deemed it pradent tojog^ came oot and soo^t • 'y* and piiud'no attetition to persons nub- jjitg past fhses. « Half enoo^ eoiEns to boiy the 4ead oonld not have been got into tho bomt district ia a waek. Some were berried with' neiCher coffin nor shrond,.. while others had rode boxes as their last rec«|tae)e. In Cameonvillo, tii one cose, the eoffin was tnsde of roof • boards taken frtim a shad, sawed xtp • with a eroaa-cnt saw, anil fastened together with nails taken from' the ashes of the victim's biifiidd hoffj^.' The dead are buried, but there is left a horribly desolate waste of coun- try full of the ashes of prosperity, and crowded with mck, wounded ahd dis- couraged humanity, whose tears and groans mnst open the heart of sympa- thy in every comet of the oountty. â€" Tum which way they will, they sea black ruin and utter desolation. THE ilRST STEP. Self-re6]c«t is the first step ftl alt reformations aud when your blood is ladeu with impurities aud you are suf* f?riug from biliiousuiss or dyspepsia, the first step to a radical cure is to take BurdocK Blood Bitfeis. Price f 1 00»' (rial size 10 cents. GHOST HUNTERS SC.\TTEKEE^ BY A CLUB. For some time t'lO fc.;id -uts of I'encl* pic btreet, IVteiiiou, N. J., have toeu ft ghost.at the usual hour when ghosts walk â€" ^idnight. The apparition was tb it of a woman beariug a child in her arms. The ueitjhbors alleged tliat the figure was iu the habit of tak- ing a look at the surroundiugs and then sittingit.)wu iu full view of a gr lU^: of houses which cluster arouud llelgiuni Mayer's mill, and which are occupied by the firm's employes. Tlie story is circulated, toof that the apparition is no ghost at all, but that It IS a case of kidnapping, that the woman is iu hiding somewhere m tho ueighbiirhood, and Uiat every night HI this way she goes out to take ttic air. This rumor has moved every mother's heart, and on Wednesday night a crowd gathered at the spot, among them a great many women. Ti-ey were armed with diffv.-rout kindH of weapons, aud hghted the place with torches. The hunt began at the hour of twelve, but it proved in vuiu, aud the ghost hunters were about to start for thoir homes, when sud'ldeiilj the sound was heard "Here comes the ghost," At the same time a figure dressed in white rushed through tho crowd iu half a minute, aud the figure was left victor of the ground. The trutii of it was that tho white figure tli;il so madly chased tho crowd was aycuugmau wlio had watched tho progivso of tho party, and wlieii it was about to dit-perse thought t-o liaU- en its footsteps. The female ghost has not api»earcd siuce. W'oRTur.ESs StrrK. â€" Nut so fast my friend if you could see the strong, healthy, blooming n'i?n, womeu aud children tiisit have bi-cn raised from beds of siskiioss, sulTi-ring and almost death, by the use of Hop lUih r-^, you would s:iy "Glorious and invaluable remedy." â€" ""'•». -/y7/ii I'lrss. A B.VN GUP AFFAIR. A St. Louis pap -r chrouiole witii genial particularity the recent siiiiiu- taiieous luiirruij^e of tliroj daaghieri of Dr. B.iij;:, of iJi:it city. As a first- class, bang-up bit of ^-lciL•ty nt'ws, tlii.s report .V-'cms to appi j;i;iate tlu malTiii. Hi. Cli.iilas Baus.' the father has for many years in'ji a drug store ou tiio corner ol'^FiKuoiith street and Franklin avmue, and the bride^'rooms are respectively a candy manufactur- er, a bank teller, and a dentist. They are describi.-.! as boui.; every way w ir- tliy of the fortiiuAt/e luatriiu mitl prize they have drawn, 'fliowed iiiii» wuiil oil cheerfully. Wlu-n Mr. Bang, haviu,; signed hu aSiilvait for one duughU-t, was called to si^ja a secoud one, hj exclaimed "What I must I sign again " "Certaiuly," replied the clerk thin isn't a job lot. You have tc sign for each oue." When the applications were art made out. the clerk said to Mr. Ban^' "You ouglit.lo feel liappy to get s mauy daughters of your hands at once." The doctor replied "They took all I had that breakn up the family." "Yes," saiu Mr. Wetzel, "that wh-s a regular wholesale buaiudw; wc inadu a clean sweep." When the clerk was asking for t'lt,- names tli-it went togi-thtr in the li- cens"8, ir, Herman cxcliim-'il "Don't you luakj any nu^t.ilii now, and give me the wi'on;{ girl I want the one that belongn to lu'.." When every thin;! wa.-i concluded, except paying fees. Dr. Ban;; ituid "The next tning is â€" " "The next thing is." iiitiruptbil Mr. Wetzel, one of tlio prospective lins bauds, to go out and get sonic licer." "But tlic liceuscs are not paid for yet." "No matter, we cau pay for thciu in the moruing when we get them." The party Uieii filed out gleefully, and no doubt li^id tlie beer. Tlie triple marriage reciills au anecdote; related of an eccentric miuistcranuui- bcr of years ago, who was called upon to marry three couples at once. Tho parties were standing .ar.,und proiiiiscii- ou.s!y, waiting for the arriv:tl of th. minister, and when he cauie in he marched up to tlietucxjiaiuiing "Surt youraolvea."' DELAY8ARE DAN(JEP^US. And none more so than i/ neglect the iucipient Biag's of bowel (jom- pLiijjta in in'auts ir adults. Dr. Fowler's Extmctuf Wild Strawberry is the most prompt and pleasant re medy to administer, and i always re- liable to cure cholera iiifantnni, dy- sentery, cholio, cramps and all som- mei oomplairits. Fur sale by aJl deal- ers. The story has reached Bt. Peters- burg from Geneva aud Paris that the Buasiun nobility are so â- llHS'itistie 1 With the conduct of the Czar ttiat tiiey „^ ..~. â€" have joined a socialist s»oci»tioii In wother i^t«i^ two ofUie ai^ir^ ' Z^^^ ^^^ t^^t^J If^^- I^H" " in aBOUier UWMM«* u ui uw auuii*.. ^^^^^ ^^ tht^lgfeet of whicli ia the »mie ont of the forest-anl stood close I ,,3^:8iL»tjoB rf' the Cnir and ti» to 4 wd6 from which a bnaet v«r Icoftjer "ViddiiBir. â- J -1 'Hi V â-  ,. :.f â- â€¢!â- â€¢. 1j ij. -^' â-  .a:' sVt- r^ it^vS 5^ -,