HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton New Era, 1886-04-02, Page 6OUR LETTER EWE
THE MORS OR THE SCOTT A.M.
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To the Editor of ohe Clinton 1Tab Era.
Dean. S,—Your .geiendery Ito *theneer
its a 010[4 two Acta exalt.eii, notice.
Tha so-called tempertiememovementebegan
about 1836, Years before then, S. PauPs
dictum est to •meate effered to idols ,gave.
•coenthry entoirly, a cold barren desert, no
ing money either. Howl,' 'Mary, tie it poor mr = • 1 I sucoEsson lir I'
, .
g- A Fisoner-1 , livE l'ischer
Merieyein it•aVall at ill. They be either tele e '' I I, ,. • j , TO . , I , )
beg MO the lite rebelliOn has made teolfeY
Pearce, atid ro?A the eounthry in debt, atlas° 'The Lotaadivigg r.raj.lqr;• cilintoin.
people hav'etto be eatin, they do say the piths- . . . , : - •
' mit goavernment ire 4 ruinous one for ths_ .„ , - - 1- •
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• reason for avoiding drinkiog °melons, which
before then had only been a reriutsion of een•
tintent. When the abstinenteffort began, I
eonkl ne& endente it, hemline, of the extrava.
and often untrue, assertions of its id-
vocetes. When nrehibition began to show
Reel!, about twenty. years after, I took up
pen in ita denunciatton. Myfirst had an au.
ewer, which was" Owed by " Misrepresen-
tatione of Prohibitionistee" When A vigor-
ous atteropt was made here, some seven
years ago, I leaded in four lettere,
were unanswered. The attempt was dropped.
While the movement wee going on in your
county, I depounced, under date of August
22, 1884, and• was unanswered. Some
months ago I had a letter in the Globe as-
serting "Prohibition to be contrary to n;ture
and to scripture." Toronto, Oce.. 14;" in op-
position to " Methodista are to tbe front in
this crusade. What is there in Wesley to
prompt thetn V' W. • H. Witheow queited
from a letter to Mr: Pitt, Sept. 16, 1784, to
prohibit distilling. The letter was written in
a famine year, to stop the uee (if grain in dis-
tilling, that it might be saved for food. Wes•
ley wile opposed to the use Of spirits, butnot•
of fermented drink. An intkesting feature
, in his Journals is, remarks en the book e he
read. In opposition to Dr, Cadogan, he calls
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wine "a noble cordial." -
• My objector was author of a traotepublish-
ed by the Methodist Book Room, many years
ago, to show that the wines Bo frequently en
• logised in scripture were unfermented, and
. which I noticed at the time. Had he etilt
been of the seine opinion he would have at-
tempted. controverting the latter nett of the
letter in which were the seneenoes.he object.
ed to. Thus, in the coerse of nearly thirty
years, I have had only two objecters, and
they did.not return to the charge... -
The scripture argement general/ aban-
doned. During the energetic contest here,
• some four months ago, I only attended one
meeting, to hear Mr. Howlaud ; -as itis my
habit, if I do g8 out, to ettend•among -my op.
po,nents, He gave up script*, with this
reservation, that if the saloondrinkieg habits
of this day had existed in Taleatine, Christ
would have denonnced theni. T ere .are retie
sons why, they did net; but they:Abounded in
• Rome and is surrounding cities. • • .,•
• • Pompeii was burned a few 'years after the
• execution of St. Paul,: and We knew by the
number • of wine shops, the wine 'jars, the
drinking tiipe, the stains ceathe counter, and
the sceibbling on the walls; that the statont
things which are so' vigoreenaly denonoceit
•now, existed when St. Paul wrote eipistle.
to the Romans. In the enumeration •of vices
closing the first chapter, drunkenness is net
mentioned; only near the close of.thetapistle
is thereh dehottation frometleartiare- • ---
ender the idea of relinquiahing legitimate
uses, if so be they are dangerous temptations
to others, Timothy acted, which, drew forth
the advice of St. Paul, to use a little wine.
And here is the limitation ese abstinence.; life
is the most precious of our truets,:and-We are
bound in duty to use every Means for ite ef-
fectiveneee'and prolongation. The neglect to
do so is suicide ; the prohibition of doing so
is murder. . The assumption, that alcohol is
• not necessary to some, therefore -not to Others,
is a grave and insulting position, to be Ai,
apritpel 174h_an ' 8 • 4
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oeunthrY, and is compelled chiefly of min whit ir
have no conscience,. and n4 °ere for anything Deg to announce that I have opened out in•the TAILORING -
only bow to fill their pockets, I wish I' was TRADE,where you canTely .on, getting the 'latest goods -cut
a roimber. Of Parliarnuit. They tell me how
there was a man hung a little while.ego for in the latest Styles by MR. M. FISCHER, as Cutter and
high tram, and that the goternmint was all Manager., Tha,nkingyou all for the patronage extended to him,
to lame for nob finding t� husiness,aucl that , , , .
ng to receiVe the .same.iii the future, Fine range of goods
the Orangemen had a hand in it too, Some- nopi
thing in regard' to future toting I think it
was that this man was hang for, and they to choose from. Cheap for cash, as I am:not in a position to do
eV there is one man I forget his name, has anything dise See our WORSTED Pantings & Scotch Twnars
• come down on the whole concern, like •
niug atriking a man in bed, whin fast asleep,
they gall it home rule too, and is et for this '
Oth, sore it must be a, rotten governmint, and. Mrs. A. Fischer.. Prop., NI er, Manager.
ould Ireland is striking? But excuse me,
• I forgot me own sorrow 'thinking of others,
• and feel jiiit like the prisent government, wid
no money in the (what do ye call it) exeheek.
er, is that right, and am working loike a
• home night and day, for -what boite 1ste.and.
then they afther saying 1 don't matte we
way of obtaining it, • is ei meet inexcusable
tyranny, 'deserving of the dagger .91•Eliud or
of Charlotte Corday.
I have •before me a medical work On the •
" Diseases of Modern Life." There.aremore
than twenty pages devoted to those produced
by alcohol. I copy part of qualifying para.'
graph. "It will be said :that aleohol cheek.
Ilee-whertiita
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the stomach's sake, is one of the lessons that
eorae from the deep recesses of human nature.
I am not go obstinate as to .deny this argn•
• ment There are times in the life Of man .
Wren the heart's oppressed, when the-cirefilfe-
ance to its motion iseexceesive, and • when
blood flows. languidlyeto the centres Of life,
nervous and muscular. In these m,einents ale
cohol cheers. It lets lohse thellearti from Re.'
oppression ; it lets flow a brisker current .of
blood into the failing organs ; • itaids
• tive changes,' and is altogether a; 'emnporary
service to man. So far alcohol May be good,
• and if -its -use could be limited -to -this -one -ac
Ii'.,• this one purpose, it would.be ainongst
the most excellent of the gifts of sertice to
. .
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mankincl.", • • . .• •
, Now is there any one fool enough to don.
tend. that beam:lie diseases are an gee/dents/
• cause of evil, arising from itnproper or exces-
sive use, that therefore ituy use of alcohol
a dPressary cause of evil? Li-• the power of:
Speechit cense of " evileapeaking, lying and
slandering ;" or thai property is the cause of
covetousness, fraud, or theft? . •
The causes of clrunkennuss cannot now be
• :•entered upon; but I protest entirely against
alcohol being considered an artificial .produe-
tion, or that it is a "gift of science," except,.
1, rhaps as to itte -extraction by distilling.. it
• is one of the most plentiful things in nature e
• and, in tropical eountries, -palpeble, that
man in his lowest estate 'could not help be.
, °ming acquainted with it, and with the least
exertion, secure abundance. This, with your
leave, I will showin another letter. • , •
March 22, 1886; " T, H.
BARNEY McGLONE TO • THE
• OF THE NEW ERA. '.
• • M ir. Eorron,—I ain't much used hi writing
letters to hewspaper mem And _don't know
how to begin. But I want you te do me ,a
favor. And I know you will do to, ,ast
,. gentleman does to another. '1Vinit l'want is
+ • for you to printraY letter: •Yrin nee Pin an
• outand out stranger in Canada, A perfect fur -
finer, just come •from Ireland about Chris Witte
toime • and I feel koincj. of lonely, and home-
"7,:717.71iiat'
• "-here, and och, murther, yhat a eowld boon.
thry. 'Tis not go bad now, but a month ago-,
1 used to thry and draw mysilf up in -0 alittla
• bit, to get all mysilf covered eviel My clothes,
and thin. I froze by legs and my nose. too,
• and had to plaiskenit all up. *id •little grips,
„ illtekrydrriirdlorwards; Scotch plaid;
.:T4:Vat71^.*RAC,r,IY.,,k4-1,A,PPF VP after
• • lelfehMtitIee'eteleeee•'7.feeit"14--Aers I
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MA want to court it, neither ler ,lofe*or
ornament, end iverybody I met used t�. look
at me andlaugh,and say that I wits apaid case,
dead• beat, oue of the real MeepYland it made
no mad, and, we willing to work •ana
couldn't foindll it, they tould me this vvas a
foine counthry, where a man could sloon fill
his pockets, and go hack home again, and be
a born armoire. letifI peas 'tie wid snow he
can fill lus.peekep, tor be jabers, I can't get
• enough to fill , me belly. • Oehone, nobody
says a koind word to me, ',and I got a letter
from home, telling me that me sister Pronoun.
(peace to her sowl), was dead,esind that ma
Colleen, Maggie Alcrmaw, was dying wid a
broken heart, becaSh .1. niver wrote till her,
• (Int 1 couldn't buy0 slitamp to write, and
ine hand trimbled so. wid the cold, that 1
couldn't write, 1 theught 1 had the palsy.
Maggie thinks I am quoit° A schatee, anti I
want to writes me beet to her, 'she hes great
1•1 nim', mid thinlee 1 et ill eneeteet 10
' eenei e Le, beet; and happy',
te„t.• ; e • 11'i 111:00. -
amCDCDIDStee.
• WE ARE NOLOPENING ONE 01:, THE LARGEST STO• CICS OF
salt.. Sure the people are as could as the •
counthry, and have no more mercy on a fur- BOOTS and SHOES at. Remarkably J.idw Prices.
riner. than Jack Frost, and they, call me a - ,
greenhorn, mid naake fun of me. Mr.
,nwwoiadwnttfihonerg pwtrhioeerekf,oafvaoaungro, oaIddvwmeraaboinht emyreooeiunntdto foytroruEuas, dmtaimtnaonde' A
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,•Es•s . TEA.M HARNESS *24
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willing, honest and sober, jest print my letter
and give me a obanoeto•make myfortnue,auni
will pay you loike a rale gintleman, and BABY CARRIAGES just arrived latest Styles veryCheap,
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when I go back home I will. amid yea a look . •
of Maggie's hair for aekeepsake, and pray to
all the eaints that you will succeed and soon • 2 •
TRUNKS & VALISES-bY the hundred Cheap.
have a better goverment, mid better timed,
and have subooribers enough to keep a paper
mill going on your own account; don'tidisap.•
. ,
point me, I will get your paper next week,
rrWIWC.11E1M.1_4"..., Clinton
and see my advertisement,- and will write to
*High land PINE "and CEDAR SHINGLES at Lowest' vices.
you ivery week afflict, andlet,yOu know hew
1 .ani getting along, end how math money 1"away down south" mat prove Of interest to
save, I are yours BATomr 1\floQLoxE.
• March, 22nd, 1886.
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senile of your readers who are still suffering
'• from thealsors of a Canadian winter •
• Strawberries ripen here•from the middle of
••Letter from the West.
• .• April, and fruit more Or less all summer, but
The following letter, Written by Mt•
the heavieet yield is, about the first of 1Vlay,
. II.
Smith, formerly a farmer, in 'the township of When peaches and plums -are ready to ship.
Grapes and peaches rotted exteneively last
Howick, and brother of ,Miee.- C. ,Stoith, Varna;
will be found of interest to year in the whole Southern States, including
dielnY cf our teed.' California. In some cages the whole_ mop:
• ers. The letter le dated Saskatoon, N.W.T.,
January 5th, 1886. Mr. Smith. says •
was lost from this Elapse, othera to'a less
2 '
Leeepig Gorrie on the 27th of April last degree. • The cause is suppoded to be not ex.
(lessor.°fame, but a peouliar state of the at -
opting, we arrived at Brandon on the lsb of inoephere, just,before the time of ripening,
May, but after staying aehort thne WO utolied "
which may be described as damp, foggyand•
to Mciesejaw, statigea65•mitee west of Bren-
sultry Weather, for a number or clays,et the
don; arriting, at Morliejew; we stored. up..our
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critical period. Some varieties seem to with.
weds and started by trail wite the team- and
load for Saskatoon, in the Temperance Colony,. - stand this tinfeeiorable weather better than
others, and as grape growing in the south in
'Arriving at Saskatoon- on the of •June •
only in its infancy, we have yet to select the
we creased the SaeleateheMen riler and got on •
meet hardy and prpflitablei . and this,
to our min land,'and pat hp olir,csinras tent
datt only'be aecertamed by experience, When
to lite in tor the timee. and we- done seine
I first came „to Ceetergia, four years" age, the
breaking,- and _out an'a drew borne logs andmeet popular Peach. to grow for 'shipPing
put tip a Wee log house, 18x22 feet, havine
north was:- the -Alexander, rurd-i:w
drew the logs 'about ten -hello • aticratetted tCes
.„vattra a_a_d...styth.teraoimft, 6utaRle, . bait -6g m peach trees was comereeof this ariety, nsidered piefitable unless
but
v
three feetmeen IS 0em. wells,_ whieh makes a good warm, .
HOW yen could hardly prevail upon any in-
state, being Well beveled, with ,.slough hav
• e' telligent pea grower to set out an orchard
we'eut and Put upint geed,loade otprame . :
tee this varietta if he elitained them as a gift,
hey, which makes eplend la fodder .; they don't.
an peaches' of till's class, viz.: Early Canada,
think of usiogetrave for feed here, In Sep.
Airisden, Goo Garlands, Shunaker, Waterier',
tember 1*.' returnedlo Brandon; leaving the
etc., ere found to be. Mcire susceptible to Nat
boys at work et the stableIgo
.• ._' • t. the crop than any
others known. Froit growers here
harvented and threshed, gpa part, of •it sold.
have bit upon some new varieties ,that. are
On the 2nd of November we had the rem n'
al conipaiatively free fronethis pique; One that
der of our'croPf effects and steel( aboard cars,
ripens.about teve weeks later, ,from Owlet to
and started all of :osier the NW. Attiving
the 15 of May, -Whirl .was brought here . by
at Moesejaw, we leaded; up . the *o teams
di
a Mr. Rusted from the State ' of..Michi an
took trailfor Saskatoon,I1
eith-eoPPliieeitud'e • .-sance • - of 170 anc as a ye lbw free -stone, The other, the
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Elbettrelaiehirge yellow free -stone late peach,
Miles.; we all seeped the trip well, and the oat- tle fed on the prairie as they travelled raseinbling the late CiaWford, but more pro-
lific; originating in -middle Georgia. With
through.. It being late iti the fall we did not thetie two new and very ilroniisitig kinds, a•
hate tie feed them tiny, ,other kind,of feed,
fresh impetus has been given to peach 'grow.
only the springechlies, which got a little gram
Mg here for northern- Markets; and already
and travelled through splendid., • We arrived
tb
at Saskatoon on.the 15th.ofhundreda of ars have een set out, and a•
.November. all in ,t• w,,,,e_,:imaee-teeeseeee. 1 InevePerbutfle
goo in . •. 1) o o as: as as
1,500 Alexander peach :trees in full bearing,
we could to get things fixed up.feittlie winter,
anand while they here heavily last -year, less
and got ourselves:into ' the ,: house, the:esti:tat( -protit Who:realized here them -than frere 100
into the stablepeand all the wood up foe.the
trees of the 'rusted vaiidi, and 260 trees of
winter, and are now quite comfortable. You
seemed to URA that we were going •almost
oat'of the world, but if you had just been
here on. Christmas eve, and ,had been invited
to aeupper, as we -were, by. one ot our neigh -
bars; you; being an Englishmeu. wahld have
thooghe you had really dropped in amongst
th'e luxuries of the Dominion. • There were
the Elberta,, only yet in partial. bearing.'
the
Alexander averaging a net profit of only 30e.
per neck, crate, while the latter sold readily,
for:55 to 57 per bushel during the whole sea-
son,• ad •theee • 306 trees actually made a
greater peofitethan the whole 1,500 of Alex.
enders. • • ••
• Atlanta, Ga.., Mar. 20. •.
125 persons partook of supner cnmppieed ,
the very best of beef, roast mid boiled, boiled ••
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Iramrwita-chruhe PteiLWoh-lOren1-"rahlift7148; "'kern Jones Oa Denthebed Repel, trinket's.
etebles in ,abundance, and fruit, • pies, and •• • •
•.1111iTES riteeM arms 1JAPITA,L.'
raiOnsTitTES D'ISSEo"10-
Tliere are several features of the eitithates
brought down lasb , Wednesday evening; by
the _Minister of Finance, whi, in a cursory
review, Wold hardly be noticed, That there
has been an attempt at retrenchment is slioivn
by a reduction of e8,920,278 or the arnount
Parliament is asked to vote as compared with
the fistal year ending 30th Jung, 1886. • Of
this reduction 0768,965 is . an account of
capital account and is made up Orf.ollows
Redemptien of. debt„ 52,362,367 ; railways
and canals, 53,946,57; public works, $440,-
900,; and - dominion lands 520,000. ' On
account of consolidated fund the balance ap.
poses mainly in the 'item ,of 52,300;000 spent
last year towards clefreying expenses ince,p•
nection* with tho„rebellion, which aincifint *1"1.
not now included: • It has -become apparent
that the expI.Elditure of• 5300,000 on ecceent
m
ef rinigration has not. prodeced the mutts
looked -for; assin1r79.000 -Miletes came into
-country -last year, in viesteeof 'which the
Minister of Agrioeltute says he will endeavor
to ruothat brach of his department next
,year on 5200,000. :When it was decided 11'
years ago to graut.ene, annual penshin to the
veterans of, the mar of 1812, Parlieratht was
called tp yote $50,000 for this purpoee, , littet
year 513,950 was, placed in the estimates,
,whichinteTteew beep red ecedto 59,840,1se pay
their pensiona, • an evidenet 'of how 'rapidly'
these old soldiersarc peesingeWay.Auitete
whicti.did not appear in the, estimates last
year; but whichnow appears, the sum of
520000 to pat iensions on account of the
e mono .o o, ort 0 loss.of her husband,
Mrs., Delaney, wife, of the Iedien agent who
mes,killed at •Frog Lake, • receives 5400. In
Iliioehepluperi000
n,nour and
an
. i,aceunt thm
ele is a rea-,
the Geological Survey
' breech $18,400, , This Will be e populereaote
until a more satisfactory sertice is given for
the. Money Voted; • The • superintendent of
einsprene isetreereeiteernirle48013millettler
lose than Prof. Cheiriman, hie predecessor.
Only $10,000 epjeked to_complete the eurvey
oilTdsoil'Opay„ineteed,of 590,000 voted last
year;' It is understkod that no relief- petty
will be sent hp agaie, but those aboehave re
,reamedeat theseveral stations vehere they
were left last year,. will' return home in the
"Alert," which Will leave abOntethe last • of
May ier' the north... . The workof puehingea
lend line along the north : shore of the St
.Lawrence to' Poipte aux Esquimaux Will .be
proceeded with,. fet • Which putpoee $5,000 is.
asked. •The item of, 810,090 to provide u.
eoWitly•of--$2,000 pereireyage-for five Vciyaree,
of eteaniers froni sport he New Brunswick or
Prince Edward Islaud to Great Britain -and
continental ports.,, whieh Wit's:voted :last.year,
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pastriestoe numerous to meetiorn. •The •mese w gennon imi chicago.) '
oonlyanY Wag enter.tained during the evening • " Death don't 'bother me half at much
by instruMentat'Und teed -music,. dialogues as life- does, bait You e eau take an empty
coffin and shake it•and frightenhine-tehths
of ahe Christiana out of the city. They're
more afraid of death eb1eo—Mrould like to
say of the 40.17j1," but they 'ain't afraid of
the devil, (Laughter.)• 1 don't believe in
death -bed repentance. 1 knew a minister
that all he's good for is to. Merry the living
and bury the dead, "I'm not mech. on
whinite•around sick beds; I want the live
kultng fellows, to vvork on, (Laughter and
-applause.) It's an insult to 'God te• turn-
over your old,,worthless carcass. to 'Him
when you've got n� further use for it.
a,aughter.) Yon shake a fellow over a
caffin a time Or two and he runs—but riot
froni sin eire's tinning from the coffin.
People talk about death -bed repentance,
and then they bring ill the thief on thp
mess. • The 'only. hope' nine.tenther cif you
Chriethiris haye is that somebody will sad•
edle tiP that thief and let you get on hise
back and go 'loping into glory. (Great
laughter and applause, followed by an en -
Core.) It's a disgrace. I'd be ashamed to
go loping in on the back pf a thief. (Re-
newed laughter.) admire the grit of the
Marl on his death bed whole giten straight
to the cleviland too brave to insult God
with his ola, worthless body, like a Coward-
-1y guppy.......(Morelaughter..).-Lstonttlimit.
thelneretotGottr-b-ut-Tou Wit -A -aye' had -
ten thousand- chances don"b bring up' that
thief ! Heaven is the home 'of men. who
have built oharader on earth, As long as
Cornelius VanderbiKeptild conduct e rail-
road scheme he cared liothing for Goct, and
ab lastT after his lasHellar- was' made, the
'Sinner turned to his wife to sing to hiro,
"Como Yei Sinnere," and I believe a good
diyine preached hirn into the kingdom.
(Laughter.), The enly claim _Vanderbilt,
haa for heaven Was that he asked!his wife
to sing hini a good song to Waft him into
glery, 1, don't believe in any -Buell non -
Sumac. believe you hav,e got kiln pre-
pared to go there." •
We are constantly receiving teschnony that
Dr. Oaason's Catarrialure is what its. name im.
plies a "Catarrh Cure." 'Your druggist is
authorized to refund the money if it fails to
give satisfaetion. What cite brimmed fair, mid
need you suffer any longer? '
• Le '
'Mt, James Ryder, of retrolia, ie con-
fined to bed by blood poisoning. Ten
daya• ago ho -hit his knee against an anvil
iti hie carriage works, and shortly after
kw as attacked with severe pains which he
at t r t 'to *A inatitl M. It has,lio w over,
developed into blood peieening, amt lie /3
a
nd plays, Until midnight, when we started
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home well plestsed with the 'evening's enter...
taitiment, and all being -perfectly sober—you
know..we are in the Temperanee-Colony-here,
Well, as or the Olimate bete. 1 retest shy that
I have meter seen as beautiful a fall and win-
ter as this has been do far, The test four
days have, been rather cold, • with about five
inchesehnoW, and we can drive over the
prairie anywhere with a good Weigh road. We
expect to have about fiveor six weeks of cold
weather; as it generally is here' then it mode
erates, and March is generally, a beautiful
month, seeding'oemmencing the first week in
April (see the peoPle.heig all say)e, We .all
like -the -country weltso far, it is really plea --
sant and delightful here in summer time; the
bloesomis of the preirie.ate beautiful, :and lots
of 'game, Tower& andAhrough the fall, the
wild dila% wild geese and Wild turkeys are
here by thousands, and lets of 'rabbit% and
chickens
'which are sonaewhat larger
and like your partridge, ,me deer of different
kinds, red foxed, prairie *elves, which are not
treubleseme; and lots of. finh M the titers.
B.tib with Oil the beauties bf the ,prairie, we
feel the want of a thiniete? amongst us very
Much, but we are in hopes of getting one in
the spring. We'hate an oceasional sermon
by a heal prom:A.1er in the an,
and
stometimei.a sermonie read by other parties,
which is bettor than' he Meetings at all. Wo
expeetstionaoehmee-aersdlroldefremetrandon
etelinslattiinrethenteettr-Battlefged;
froin Reginabee Saskatoon In Prince Albert;
then we won't be so bjed off. 1 auppose When
We get' a railroad to Saskatoon you will try to
take. a run over to dee ns.. • Batter is selling
at 25.006 per pound; -.pork, 14 - cents per
penudaglbeet,,llt sante per preemie freer 4 cte.
per pdrind ; " eats, 51 per !pellet ; .wherit;$1'.50
per bushel; barley, $1,25 per bushel, Jl
wantedfor seed. Please remember Me to all
my old friends, I kilo* very Well that there
are lota of my old acquaintanties that would'
do well to nuike a move out tolthe Northwest,
as there never will he 'the one half of the
bird labor here to make a living, that there
has boon, ancl still ie in Ontario, though at
present there are many privileges in Ontario
that we have not here, but we dertainlY hair+)
a tine country out here,. and many .privilege
considerieg the newness' of the eountry, The
first day that the boys ploughed here, when
they caul° in ab atoning • they said to nee :
"Malik goodness, we have ploaghed one day
without touching a stone or gtetel." It
will be delightful -to Work our land when we
get it broken and baeltset. • As I do tot
think of any more at indent, I Will close,
I remain yenta, . • INN= Hirtin.
S'epin• the :strife or eteoegin.
7e, L'4,1toe'ht lt" Rat/
-113P •Ea/W/t1:1 artiellps nf,lrattr8 mtt the'present vyry
has now been, &sniped, it having. -failed to
secure the ocean steamship service it waieex-
peeted to 'establish. Thirsubsidy of 04,000
to -establish comn3unieation between, Canada
and Germany, which_appeared--iti the esti-
mates last year, has been dropped. Ten
thoiketind dollars is, however, asikecle t6 pro-
vide: steam communication ' between Prince
Edward Island end the mainland; and 55,000
additional for winter inail • service.• to that
point. For the protection bf the fisheries
5100,000 is required, • or $59,000 ;more than
was asked for last year: In the vote an
account of Northevesit Indians an increase 61
5169,053 appears. The increases under this
head are as fellows :—dgricultural implements
eto., 51,060; seed. grain, 519,244; supplies to
destitute Indians, 5108,533; schools, $31,779;
farm maintenance, 54,582;.Sioux. Indians,
$1,452; general expenses, $22902; agency
• buildings, 523,900. - • There was a reduction
01.516,420 iniennnities ;• 58,096 in cattle fur.
nishe&; $5,428 in provisions 'aged at -annuity
payments ; 51,212 In ammunition ; 0,766 in
clothing; 5500 in.surveys, and $8078 in farm
wages. • There is little prospect at present Of'
.a reduction in poatagelrom a three to a two,
dent rate similar to that adopted in the
'United States, and which the Dominion -Gov-
ernment have been urged to introduce. ---The
postal branch of the public service will reqiiire
the coming fiscal year $2,841,0446r 5166,000
over the abaount , the Poetmaster-Gerieral
asked Parliameub 40 eleedeiteleste
-year.-- Of-thiwinerease-$1.11;0051e chargeahle
to Ontario, while Quebec is only to receive
• $154410.
Maoagrement of Ironing Lambs.• •
The sooner the.young lambs are docked,
ind the males einae6iiItitediAlle eithierthe
°petition may be ,perforrnod. We have
been in the habit of going through the
flock once a week with a pair of sharp
•sheep shears,and clipping the tails and
castrating by one single clip. • The -iamb is
hold under thri„,left armrand, the, skin- of
the tail is blipped up toward the rootwith
the fingera Of this hand the tail is then
dipped off With the shears. A pitioli of
Powered blue -stone (sulphate ,of copper),
ia put on the wound, and thp wool is drawn
down and fratted togotherrtvith the little
blood that*.eseapes. Nothing more is re?
quired, and the wound heals' quickly, the
lamb evinCing no indications of aufferingl
It is beat theet the tail about two inches
from the root, so an to Imo sufficient of
it CO escape' injury if the stump aqua tint
heal' favorably, and the joint next to the
out slostgba OIF this, however, rarely
happens if the aware are clean, mut gt the
same tnee saarp,---Amorican AgrtenItoriat
fur A ,e.il
Ripe' -0110erries;------
Those .0: pent PRUNES are going: •
'Wilke'', ripe cherries,. about A •
.500 lbs. left Everybody
• dellOted with them -
S. PAL.L.ITSER- and. -00..,
.461_1\1-0,77.7"S_
Havieg leased the'premisee now occupied by nen for another term of 7 years. We are
prepared to give the BEST BARGAINS possible. We have on hand a large and
• . and well selected stock-Tif'
• GROCEMES, CANNED GOODS, EXTRACTS,:
• • FRUITS and SPICES,
wA,y,RANTED puRE, woniniv BETTER IN THE 34AlticET. ALSO ,
BLACKING, 'BE.QOAIS; PATAIIES, I3AS1cETS, BISCTITS, CONFECTION', ""
ERY; CHINA, CROCKERY AND GLASSWARE..
We have the largest stook in totin. 'Combine quality with price and.we gannet be •
•• under sold.. ••
• . A.NGUS,. CI,ITTI;PN •. •
Great Induceme
• Having bought CI. J. s Stock of
. .
C1110.QIEEIVZc2 CMASBWARE.
At a:discount, will sell at"-WholesaleTrices until all is cleaned out
• - .F.c:NTE AS.S.ORTIM.Ne! eietele..J. S. KafaleS,-O-F-C111(4GO•
-
- F I 11! IE. !IQ I L T SOAP;: .
•FLEES1-11NIAN .CO:$,YEAT-,. formerly kept by Tuthill et.:-.c.loi.•• alss on haml
. •
JOHN 61.1-NINGH.A1VIE4 GROCER:, CLIN- TON.
•Cheap RA:TIT,
•3h�ap C2FLOO*RIES • and
I -Taxing a late stook of Salt on hand, orders will' he filled at the lowest, pricei
ever:Offered in Clinton, .as the salt works win • be sold when arringhments. are
completed. Will buy. and sell TIMOTHY. and OI.40-VER SEED, A. .lot of ••
' I • • • SA SAE• rid RAIN A,5 for ale •
• SIX LARGE 'BARS OF -N• •P' SOAP FOR ONE DOLL.A.E.
. •
:JOHN -1.1V OARVA. ctINTON. •••
DRUG -:STORE
The undersigned has just opened a New Druir Store in '
aCliiispzek
Two doers West of the City' BookSterg, where Will be found a complete *assort, .
Inca of Fine DRUGS and CHEMICALS; also PATENT 1VIEDIc.INES and
.DRUGGIST5 suqNToRigs.• All ' that thepublic mnay ask for in these lines;
' -P. S.—Of:lice ciiit4ed from residfinco to Drug Stem.
WORT_T-ITN:GE
• - ,
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D liEs j Aw4ir., DOIVN 'FOR . it A IU 11 I
C '•.f.PPIE xgAp TRA1E...11 . - 2.4111.1 u 1,
• '
Wegive 1.113i Nixed. andies for .10c. 1 lb. Sticks:
1 lb. Bullseyes 1 c4;.1.1b. Taffy Chunk§.10c. ,
.THER CANDIES EOIALLY
ORANGES- IAND LEMONS 2-c'rg,. PER. DOZE!.
, .
HEAD QUARTERS' FOR OYSTERE.—As get my Oystere,direct front Baltineore; you
• Can depend on detting Fresh Stoek. •
OYSTERS SERVED BY THE DISH •
• FietssZ SrOelt OF TOBACCOES, CIGARS, OIG.AILHOLDERSr TOBACCO• -- --
POUCHES, &v. All ef the very best quality to be had, A call, selicited.
EXT GRAND 'UN I. ON,.! 0141iINTON,
•
'
chat? tho quality! • the, aro orieq, land
•
the low' prices; t vrhiCkt tb.W•
• are. o16 at •
•
Ho had du hand a select stock...of GLASSWARE'AND CHINA O 0 0 OS
just the things you want, and at prices to suit. GREAT BARGAINS 'IN 0111NA -
" TEA S.ITS, PANG Y. LAMPS, ..%0'.; &et
Also, a dioico jot of Fruits and General. C4ROJERIES
•• fresh and cheap..
GEORGIE SHARMAN'' ALBERT 'STREET
k:-.7ritzsrrow