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Hots lest—Cleo. E. Bey.
Lot f or solo—Its. Me�llordie.. '
Postponement—Lecture Course. •
Business changge—',Chos,'Jeckson dt Son,
Valentines Ohrie, Hickson. •
Gray's. Speellie--ray Medicine Co.
e Annual report—W. ii. Hine,
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'" • FRIDAY, FE$. 1, 1834.
EDITORIAL NOTES..
.THE Government is considering the ad-
visability of doing as.the Americans have
lately ;done—reduced letter postage to
two cents,' It would be a step in:the right
direction,' Experience has proved that
- the cheaper the rate of postage the great-
er is the amount of correspondence..'.
- a.
Tui: election of all the members of the
anew ministry in Quebec is to be opposed
and there are"strong grounds to believe
that in some cases the opposition.will' be
successful. The last • government has
hrought..that province to , the verge , of
• bankruptcy, and many of the better classes
of Conservatives' are strongly opposed to
the newly -formed ministry.. .
-Saiz has been struck at Parkhill, and.
the people of that place are asexcitedas.
if the find was a heap of gold. There are
now too many salt wells to supply the de
wand, and there is positively very little:
in the business: 'A statement supported
by the fact that salt well property in this
county can she bought at leis than one-
half its original colt. •• •• .
Sr•
DAMN -
G o f the -late local :elections,
Mr.Meredith, leader of the Opposition
said in the House "that no corruption or
improper expendittire of money on a large
scale had taken place in. the'case of either
political party:" • We are glad he makes.
this admission include the Reform party,.
because it. 'gives the lie straight to the
papers on his own side. They •hs se been
charging Reformers ' ith' all manner of
corruption, and they-yyTiij now . lae�om-
pelled to swallow, their own words .or
swallow Mr. Meredith—either: 'of whi:oh
. will be an easy thing for a Tory ; ed}1,pr to
do. '
A Kinesxeii paragraphsays that "Tem-
perance is : growing very. strong here.
Sinee the mayor's dinner the warden gave
a dinner on Friday night,. and notwith-
standing there was''abundance--of liquor
present, little, •if any, was drool:, the large
majority using tea`or, 'cof%e in honoring
the toasts." The same can hardly be said
:of a recent dinner in.. Goderieh ; those'
who indulged: in; "temperance : drinks"
were few and far between, While liquids
of a stronger:kind were freely indulged in.
A gentleman, who' • has .excel l'ent oppor-
- tunitles of *forming an opinion; and. whose o'
word'is unquestioned, states that h.be:
lieves there is afore "tippling" .,'among
the upper classes of iciderich.than in_aey
place ofsimilaissize rn:C�inada.
ONE of the returning oflieer's in the late
Algoma_ `election'' refused; to.receive the
votes of six persons. who. claimed to be.
qualified voters. They brought `action.
against him to recover .the legal...penalty
of $200 in each case; and obtained a ver
dict 1'01-$1,000 last week., The Tory. pa-•
'pers are asserting that= lre refused' these
dotes on special . instructions from Mr.
Mowat, which is'uot :it.all probable, We.
have not a word of defence:to' offer be-
cause' he happens to belong to ,thq party
we uphold. He appears to have 'violated
the law, and must take the consequences,.
but it would' he as.well to remember that.
the law applies alike to• Reform; and
-Conservative. If all.w•lio::'acted• illegally
•la
cotnection with the "st' • Y iiinioti
election; in this county alone, had been
proseCuted, there , would ;hare' linen any.amount of work 'for the courts,.- and a
probability that many • Conse�tvativee.
would have been dead-brol'to iii paying
their fires. .
Revensra and changes ;of variottls sorts
. are being continually agitated, but one
that is likely to be tirade ere'lonig' is•;a re-
duction in the, size of county councils:
The Elgin council, at;its last session, dis-
cussed the matter favorably. A .motion
was fntrodeeeci into bur .own couutycotrn-
eil last, week, recommending Legislative
:action in decreasing the number, but it
las voted down, and now the .grang��y,is.
taking up the subject. A petition; whilch
is being circulated through -the -Provincial
Grange, sets forth that . in their opinion
one-fourth of the present representation
would perform the work le a more satis-
factory manner than it is. at present done.
They ask the Legislature for the: ntroduc-
tion of a bill providing that no County
Coined shall be composes of more than,
twelve members; and that the basis of re-
presentation shall be the assessed value of
property represented, and not the number
of ratepayers in the elective districts That
the number will be reduced very-;8obn is
(quite certain, but oil what basis represen-
tation will remain is difficult to say,
ASSL'NSMENT ClIANDEt
THE Grangers: are evidently, • boiupd te.
introduce a number of radical changes.,
Reference has previously been made to
several of their suggestions, and now we
find that the London division Grange has
adopted the following resolutions :
"That it is the opinion, ofhis grange
that every farmer whose farm consults of
not less that twenty acres should have the
same assessed' according to its natural
fertility and location. The necessary
dwelling -house and other farm buildings
should not be assessed, and cattle and
other stock raised on the farm should be
free, as well as all kinds Of grain. .Any
improvements, sucks fencing, draining,
orchards, ornau ental trees and shrubs,
should not cause the assessor to 107. a.
higher rate than on a farm of natural er-
tility.without these improvements."
MI{. 11MOWAT' 4 MAJOILITY.
A day or two previous to the West
Middlesex election, the Mail published a
list of members of the Local House, so
classified as to leave. Mr. Mowat with a
majority of but one, and since that list
was published, out of the elections• held,
the government has gained.- one seat,
which, according to the Mail's calculation,
would make its majority but two,, ' •How-
ever, like• a good many other things'ap-
pearing in the Mail, -the list was untrue—
it had been "cooked" for the occasion,
and although it was known to be false
and misleading when issued, there was
np way of proving it until the House met.
In a full:House the- Government would
undoubtedly have a majority df 16; ' but
Muskoka, and:..South Oxford --both of
which are certain to return Ministerial,
candidates -are unrepresented.. As it sits
in the! House the Opposition number 36,
and on the Government 'side there'. are 49
on the floor with -the -Speaker in the chair..
Th
laives a total—
of fi0
an 'un •
g
doubted
majority of fourteen, with Muskokaand
South Oxford to hear from Tl;e debate
on the address is proceeding slowly, all
the members beinganxious to air their
eloquence on the topics embraced therein.'
The first division will likely bo taken on
the address,.and no doubt 311r. Meredith
will do his • best• to entrap astray supporter
of the Government into.committing him-
self to opposition on some side issue; .but
o `hot- b- i� l eteat the member for
London will be any more successful in
his attempt' than he was in his `fight to
upset the Government in the constitu-
encies. '•
UE CAN4OA :YACIFib .'RAILWAr.
It neyer is.very pleasant.for'tlte writes.,:
e ' or agreeable . to the reader, to find fault,
niake -complaint. or point out blunders,
•but it being, the duty of the.press..to watch
aid look after the interests of the noun
tryitiievolves upon us as well as.others
to call the especial attcntionof our read-
ers to `the past hiitery and present atti-
tude of the\Canada Pacific Railway Com
•pany. A111 are aware'that its originvas,
secret''—the\details of the bargain between
the : Got err3:inent and the company—if
there .i8 onen existence= -lever baying
yet Been divuthe ed -that i
g ba „rn arty was
an extraordina good one for the coin-
.pany, as it is•well nown that another.eom-
:pan;y offered•. todertake the'coestruc-
tion of the road• of 'inttch mare favorable
terms for the:count y—and that the goy:
.�
ernm
eIIt has rc
done e
�r tar
y inh in the away
of ',aiding the. comps '.y, ...in.' ttie.• shape •.of
monopolies, '_imrniu:it es and • privileges.
This is all very well, nown,' and many
who are'supporters .of• the governinent,
who acknowledge that t conditions are
extravagant. plead the excuse' that the
country was relieved Of the burden' of
construction and ma ntenaaee. ;"Butitap-
pears the. country is by. o means freed
.from its demands, •as' tlie:crmpany is now.
an applicant for' 'tort er ssistanco and
concessions..'Front all the. vidence that
has yet been given, itis. not :hewn that a
solitary individual hat invest :d oiie dollar
in 'the undertaking, ;butthe the .means
for theconstruction of the r ad talus. far.'
has all'been obtainedfrom tit `country''in
one way or another tine gove nment sub-
sidy, sale ,ef.lauds, eicactions•i . rates, ete.,
-=so that. no individual has a just'claiui-
upoii the .road. 'This- being t e case ,the
road fairly belongs to. the' c.witry, and
the country only, and. the -sinal le question'
should be, is the country any 1 nger going
to submit to 'lie swindled by a rand ofads
vanturers,called air's "Syndics e?" for that
is just what it amounts to. There,3sal-
'ready more -road built than w Il:payinuch
x'iore than running expenses, or is Wanted
.for the needs of tlre.countr , and .to ex=
¢pond any more money. in 'the construction
pf the
most costly part will be a^ti act' of
sheer ruthless. The •Nor her°it Pathic,
whi,eh runs' parallel wit it. and only
comparatively' a few mile ,further south.
of, it; has been .pushed t com•pletion at
an enormous expense, to : xe ruin of many
men; and the loss ofm', y millions, and
it is net expected to pay rnuch Morethan
running expenses for s . fns years to c_oins
It is but idle talk o assert that the
road !ADA be built, n matter what it May
cost, as we are comm ttedJolt. 'The.pre-
eent government, 10 Committed an act
of folly in so dein _, pledged themselves
tO,;flnisli it by iso , thus therein ten years
yet to be withou a through route—let the
country suapon opetations till that time;
and ifthe roa is then needed, and there
DOING ETAiIME LABOR.
A great .deal of diser;tisfrctibn ista at -
the way in which statute labor is usually
performed,, and various suggestions have
been made tending to a reform in .this.
matter. The following paragraph, which,
appears as an advertisement in a county
of Elgin paper, ,shows thatthere, also, the
necessity for a change is felt.
"AA a huge number of Ratepayers are
.Of the opinion that the present mode of
doing statute labor should be abolished,.
and commutation therefor be made com-
pulsory and collected with the taxes. And
;n order to get an expression of the pee -
pie regarding the advisability of the
proposed change, the assesors will .this.
year, while taking, down the assessment,
ask each ratepayer their opinion for or
against it."
What townshtr in Huron will make
a similar movement?The extra labor
placed on the assessor is trifling, and then
some idea could be•. formed as to the ad-
visability of a change.
WHICH I9• TO BE BEi,IEVED .'
Xis his place in the. House the other
day, Sir John stated in;roply to Mr.Blake
that net a single settler in the west had
been ejected from his land, Mr, W. G.
Livingston writes to the Winnipeg Sun
as fell osis, emphatically contradicting this:,
0 "I see in your issue of to -day that Sir
John Macdonald denies that any bona fide
settler hasever been dispossessed.. Thie'I
am in a position to contradict, 'for after
residing on and cultivating my homestead
for nearly nine years, and having 'im-
provements to the 'meant of twenty thou-
sand dollars, my land- was sold by the
government, and I havebeen dispossessed.
Hundreds of others can tell the same
story."
' Our readers can believe whichever they.
like. Both •staternents, "hewer. er, . cannot
be true.•
'
IT is an undeniable fact that in all Ca-
nadian cities • there are large 'numbers of
men out of.employment, and with no bet-
ter 'prospects ,before thenf until spring
opens. Many of. them ..doubtless Kaye
-families to keep, 'end the winter being the
most expensive portion of the year; the
very closest• economy must be practised:
Fuel and mauy .of :the necessaries of life~
are ;made dearer by the 1\ational Policy:
Thi government boast of a surplus. Let
duty on -coal be removed, and all who
burn such will be benefitted by its re-
rnova]:' On 'laborers in particular, the
burden of'taxation falls Heavily, awl it
is simply because: Choy do, not realize the
injustice' under which they: rest that they
do not arise in their might and - demand'
relief. '
itlR . GII35Oiir'a S1•'EECII.. ,
The follewing i
n
terestrs
g and
sof
table
speech was dlivesed
by Mr. Gibson, Ai:
P. P. for East Huron, diaring the' debate
on the Governor's speech, in the Local
Legislature on Tuesday Inst., He said
•the:Speaker and . he were the only' two
rn.etribers present on the Government side'
of the House who came into the Legisla-
ture together in 1871; and were still - on
the right side. For a long :time the Op-
positiee were opposed to the Agricultural
College, but, theyaftcrwards gave up that
idea, and supported that institution.' .He
thought ita fitting time to say
with: reference to the agricnl'tural interests:
of this Province. They all—knew very
well that the principles .of::agriculture in
vogue25Or. 30 years ago when: he first
came to thiscountrywould not do now;as
:competition :spas so keen. Therefore, he
thought that it ryae.the duty'of'this. Gov
eminent to aid and assist the agricultural
interests sarin their power. In. the last'
returns of the trade it was found that five-
sixths of the 'experts of this' Dofninion;
were from the farms. He was not:••exaet:
ly sure that:the Free. Libraries Act was
entitled to all the, credit'it .was proposed
to give•ft, as it depended a great. deal .up
on the proper management, of that` new
`feature of theVlunicipal Act..'. Regarding
the matter of escheats,' before st Was re-
ferred to' the Privy Council, • Iron. mem-
sbers=on-•the-other"side of -the -.House ex-
pressed great fears that, the Government 'r
was treading upon uncertairground, but
their fears were not. relieved. - The results
were just what the Government •'Wanted.
-With reference to the. License Law, tiia'i
great 'constitutional lawyer Sir John Mac-
donald had stated 'that the Crooks. Act
was not worth the paper ;•upon which it
was written After reading the judgment
given.iri England, . he could• nut see how
'Sir John wouldpresume' to i.endeavor to
place the McCarthy .Act in force. '1'lie
C position took excepption to the working
of
Opposition
Act. In his distridthehad
,
a,Conservative cotnrnisiorier'gn his Board
ever since the Act had been passed, and
there had never been any frictien. lie
,contended that the allegations' w'era'en-
tirely unfair -ani unfounded, and finless
.the Opposition could produce.. something
moss substantial than they had hitherto
the charges • would amount to nothing,
Dealing with, the question of the Domin-
ion Railway Act, he showed that after the
Province of Ontario had spent $3,000,00.0
or $4,000,000 to the railways of the :Pro-.
Vince the Dominion Government had tads -
en control out of this Parliament's hands:
This, ate contended, was unfair to tlie'Pro-
vince, Speaking of the. Boundary Award
issue, hetwitted ,Mr. Meredith upon that
gentleman having yielded to the blandish-
ments•of his pblitical chief --and turned
back.on.11is own Province. He contend-
ed that the Dominion Governmeet had
shown the first example of a. British Pro-
vince or Colony repudiating an arbitra-
tion.,;,.Ile.shttived; flat Sir John Madden -
aid had the same right to have the award . of the boundary arbitrators ratified as he
had'to go to Washington, execute a treaty,
and. then ask theR
euse of Commons to
ratify it afterwards. After an allusion to,
the disallowance of the Streams BiIl;whioh
he redogt iced as 'involving an -important
principle to the House, he took. his seat
MAW cheers,
Pestci,s.--Clot yetis mm161 full by using
is every pros r eat that it will be a paying "Teaberrs," the new wonder for the Tooth
investment, o en and finish it, but net and ll'trath, 'Brush vigorous y, See diroo-
till such ti e•• and such eitctitnstanses. tions.
•
Of the most successful sale ever commence at
end: will be ,successfu�ll
a���m��l shed �y Feb. 29th,.
ur stock will be down
ures wanted
And to make s
uccess more Suc
-
cessful wewill
� 4.Winteil:Stock aY..o our
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,::or-protnpt •Cash, an opportunit. never
.. ..'this . .. Y . he�'ore heard, •
ofin,
cones .This ..
Y, . s ,means �p.os�txwely fess than
wholesale .figures,
•
EMBER THE DISCOUT
25 cents -off �caf
each. dollar
RE
MEMBER THE : T:I �+
Arorty this. date
until endof .Feb
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RE �- THE TUE oBJEC
o make roaoa.a
for the nes stock of New.Spring.
Goods -ever -brought to Clinton.
EMEMBER THE PLACE,
JOHN C "RIB'S, Glint