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The Huron News -Record
WEDNESDAY, JULY til, 1887
WHAT LS BEST FOR ONTARIO
FARMERS.
Since the Torouto Mail has swal-
lowed its former ,self nothing is too
absurdly outrageous for it to say, so
long as the -statement is oppposed to
its former ssi.aus. tiFktt,- all
neophytes in new doctrines, it goes
to the opposite extreme to that which
it formerly allowed itself to be car-
ried. It probably feels compelled
to this course in order to convince
the public of the• genuineness of its
conversion. At ono time it was a
very intemperate advocate of the
liquor interest, not iv the cause of
. morality but in tho interest of the
trade. It has since gone to the
other extreme. At one time it was
the most slobbering adulator of
"Hold Hengland," and British con-
nexion. Now it has transferred its
fulsomeness to the spread eagle and
hugs the bird o' freedom so amorous-
ly that the offal of that feathered
biped is in danger of smirching the
crest of its one time would bo slayer.
After throwing all the other por-
tions of the Dominion at the feet of
the American republic, Tho 1 ani,
a few days ago, said : "We have
said nothing of the benefits .that
would accrue to Ontario from con-
tinental free trade (couunerciAl unibn
or annexation) because we are desir-
ous of excluding selfish considera-
tions and of confining the issue at pre-
sent to the single question of patriot-
ism, by which wo mean the greatest
good to.1he greatest number ofCnn-
adians." But it Can be easily shown
that from selfish considerations, from
financial considerations as well as
from patriotic considerations, com-
mercial union with the United
States would not only not 'bereft -
Canada as a whole, but is particular-
11 calculated to injure Ontario -
The main reason is that the United
States grow more largely the .sante
Staple taint products that we do in
Ontario, and manufacture more
largely and want .to sell the Same
wares that we do, And it is not
likely that the United States, with
greater surpluses of precisely the
same articles that Ontario has for
sale, is at all likely to become our
customers, but on the contrary it is
possible, flay, more than probable
that they would flocs our markets
with precisely .the very articles ,of
which we already have a surplus
Stipposing the admit for the sake 'of
argument that' Ontario: 'breodors' of
horses and growers of harley would
be benefited to •the extent of the
American duty on these two classes
of agricultural produce. Can any
one conversant with the prodacts of
Ontario farms, either by observation
or by sfatistics, -coniine hinisolf to
the truth 'eel say these. two items
!form tate bulk of what Ontario
farmers have to sell? They cannot
truthfully say se. ):very fanner h::;,
n:or•' er I . t wheat to sell. Probably
Ontario farmers will average per
howl 500 bushels or surplus tvheat
to :..311 which, abolishing the duty of
Iit cants per bushel duty, would
cense him a loss of $75,• taking the
commercial unionists reasoning for
it. But lief only mould wo lose Alm
fiftes n cents duty, but the cunnpeti-
' tion of the immense A111erican eur-
plus having free access to our mar-
kets would reduce the price of wheat
iu
Canaan possibly another five
cents, which would canse.;a loss of
8100 per year to 1he, average Outaio
Ta:mcr ort wheat anode.
Now Ontario sells to the Ameri-
C.nus about -8,000 horses annually,
about a horse for every ten farmers.
Supposing tl: '''Mise trete gave him
the amount of Igo American duty IT is as near as may bo 300 years
more fur his horse he would gain since England started out on a vig-
e.
say, on a valuation of $125 for each mous commerical and industrial
animal, $25 And what we might career that has made her nanno, her
gain by free trade in barley would wares) and her laws famed through -
be more than offset by the deprecia• out the world, and the wort) Britain
tion in Ontario of the value of oats; the synonym for wealth, manufac-
apples and otlierfruits, Barley and tures, justice and probity. Tho
horses are not the hulk of Ontario greatest strides in manufacturing
farts products, and what Ontario were commenced by monopolies in
fanners might gain by free trade in Elizabeth's time. The woolen man -
these articles would bo trebly offset ufacturo then first became au iun-
by what they would lose by dope- portant element in the national
elation in the value of the greater wealth, England no longer sent
buik of their farm products. That her fleeces to bo woven in Flanders
>tis-tia a "inner ei1OSgI 49.11aV' t ,
114.19.*.,. farmer wo.ttld ^aiu y free
'trade Ise would lose at leas,l•tbree.
Then, as ta the greatest good to
the greatest possible number. - The
Mail says that free trade with the
United States would give the great-
est good to the greatest 'lunger of
Canadians. Fanners are more num-
erous in all Caotida thin' all other
classes combined. Free trade with
England would benefit there, if it
would in any case benefit them.
England is the best customer for our
farm produce, and England would
supply ue with the greatest number
of articles that we do not produce,
and eonsegueutly would not coupe so
much -into compeiitionwith the out-
come of 'Canadian industry. The
United States grow largely and ex-
cessively of what we grow and
manufacture more nearly than Eng-
land does tyares similar to what we
manufacture. If there is any 'virtue
in fret trade promoting the ,greatest
good to the greatest number of Can-
adians, that free trade' should be
with England, certainly not with
the United States. Self interest as
well as patriotism would suggest
this.
CANADA'S CUSTOMERS.
It might be well to run over a
few of the leading lines of Canadian
farm produce exports and note who
buys then]. Canada annually sells
$2,000,000 worth of horses to the
i)nited States, a Very small amount
to England. We sell $5,000,000
of horned cattle to England, some-
what over one-tenth of that amount
to the United States. We sell' of
butter $652,863 to England, $17,-
545 to the United States. We sell
Assiut $7,000,000 of elteese to Eng-
land, nearly $16,000 to the United
States. We sell $619,598 of bacon
to England and the enormous value
of $37 to the United Status. We
sell of apples $410,898 to England
and only $55,302 to the United
States. We sell about throe million
dollar's worth of wheat to England,
only one-quarter of a million to the
United States. We 'shit of wheat
flour to Eugland nearly two millions
worth, and a little over one-iivarter
of a million to the Milted States.
Of oats we sell to.England one and
adia1f- million dollars worth, and
only sevouty-five thousand dollars
worth to the United States. We
sell of oatmeal to Eugland $286,155,
only $15,680 •to the United States:
Of peas we sell $1,739,917 to Eng-
land, just one-fifth that amount to
the United Status. Of hogs Eng-
land takes $80,000, while the
United States take $480 worth.
We send $130,000 in extract of
hemlock bark to Eugland and only
$20,000 to the United States.
In the matter 'of barley, the pro-
sheets aro that wo shall ' in any
event gradually lose our grip in the
American market. Because it is
now. found that tho Northwestern
states can grow harley of similar
malting qualities to.the •Canadian,
and thio farmers there are -turning
their attention to growing it.
While wo have noCrefcrred to the
decidedly •cheapening effect tho
free ielmission, of American corn
into Canada would have on 'the
value trf all Canadian coarse grains,
it will readily be coticeded that it
would be ver) great. Take it all
in all Canadian farmers shotilcl
bear the ills they have, if any there
bo,rathor than fly to others they know
not of but can very shrewdly sur-
mise, if they will only keep their
weather eyes open, which We Lake
it they will assuredly do.
The ruinous cheers that free trade
with the United States would have
upon our manufacturing industries
are 80 obvious that one has only to
refer to it when every thinking
mind will be filled with alarm at
the general smash which such a
policy would cause.
IIVIAT BRITONS HAVE DONE,
BRITONS CAN DO.
and tgr > ba d ,yeti its Francon ...IIron
ii 1411yfaf;turesi sylaiell. diad ljitherte
been either imported o.r emi ttod 19Kent and Sussex, eetstnded to the
north of the Mersey and the Hum-
ber, and "the cutlery of ISheffreld,
the cloths of Halifax, the friezes of
31ancheiter, and -the coverlets of
York'• began to be known the world
quer. And English commerce kept
pace with its manufactures. And
at this time the population of r:ng-
land was only abont that of -Canada
to -day, between five and six millions.
Had the English people of that day
relaxed their upper lips and said
"there is no .use of our five or six
millions of people trying to compete
with the fifty or sixty millions of
continental people," she would 'de-
servedly have remained what she
was verging on—a pauper pastoral
country. Instead of that, by her
keeping a stiff upper lip and by
adopting a substantially protective
policy England bans ferred to her-
self the trade of the continent, and
"London developed into the general
este t -of Europe, where the gold and
raw sugar of the New World were
found side by side with the raw
cotton of India and the iron and
wool strafe of England itself." But
success engendered fears"' even as
Canadian success has. Lord Cecil
writes at this time : "Eugland spend-
eth snore on wines in one year than
it did in ancient time., in four years."
But the English people knuckled to
no other nation on the face -of the
earth, and drank their wine and
their hoer, awl the five millions
of English people and their descend-
ants have accotuplishod more in art,„
practical industrial development,
civilization and the general better-
ment of the human family than has
been done by their sixty millions of
continental contempoiaraos and des-
cendants. What the five millions
of English people of 300 years ago
accomplished, can be done by their
five millions of Canadian descend-
ants in this glorious greater Britain
of ours, even against the rivalry of_
sixtymillions in 'the .adjoining
republic. But our people must not
listen• to the few craven -hearted
croakers, who would ignore history
and the traditions of our race. What
English Britons have done, Cana-
dian Britons can do.
CURREN2' TOPICS.
ISISERY COSTS MONEY.
Said a pro,uitent official of the C,.
T. R. to a Toronto News reporter on
Thursday :-- ''The company will
be lucky if it escapes with a loss of
$110,000 by the St. Thomas acci-
dent. 1 t will take $100;000 at (east
to settle up the injuries claims, and
the odd $10;000 will cover the loss'
of the rolling stock."
TIIE ORIGINAL SIN.
• The Toronto :flail hazards the
opinion that if there lied been ne
disallowance in Manitoba there
would have been no Necessity for
the disallowance agitation. now Going
on there. This ought to he looked
hen). Yes, if there had been no
Canada Pacific Railway there would
have no disallowance, and, as • the
Mail says, no disallowance agitation.
Nor indeed any persona worth speak•
ing' of in 3lanitol a to indulge iii
agitation. The original sin and
prince cause of the whole agitation
was building the• C. I'. R. there at
all.. That was the gran,) mistake.
SAME AS IN HURON.
1'. Y. SUN :—Prohibition in the
State of RhotleIshuul is manifestly
a faihure. In the city Of Providence,
where an average of $100,000 was
-collected yearly in license fees, up
to about one year ago, liquor is now
scsld fret ly and without any restraint
whatever. Nett hnrroonts are be-
ing fitted up, and in many instances
the usual signs of the liquor traffic,
are openly displayed in the windows.
And yet Rhode Island is a law-
abiding commonwealth. Nowhere
in the broad Union .are the: laws,
'wart from those against liquor sell-
ing, more faithfully enforced and
more generally obeyed.
TiIE EXCEPTION 1'ItOvES `THE RULE.
The names of a few Cowtervatives
are paraded by a portion of the
Grit press to prove that•thejmajority
of Conservatives are in favor of
commercial union anti ultimate an-
nex•atiot. It won't do. The few
exceptions but prove that as a tule
Conservatii ei are, opposer) to such
a suicidal scheme. Aura- the Sect
that some (Grit papers are opposed
to the, scheme but proves that as a
rule the Grit ieederi are in favor of
it. However, it by no means follow»,
though the Grit leaders are in favor
of annextt:on as the only means of
obtaining office for the select few
who would rather be leaders in
pandemonium than workers in
heaven, that the majority of Re-
formers favor their unpatriotic
O.1)04i.Er ' e'Mhliella Asst thet
Wass
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said d
Keuzi
counts
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right
grey tvo2 TJM' MP.
of the Reformers of Can,aEia, havil, twee l•t K et heralded that
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au,ly all the great m.ajpr'►ty of Dr. Slleek:ti o' Ireland had
rvativus, would fallo'?Y'horses conte to Cteu ale to undo the mis-
chief done 3. agt T O'Briens, the,
e and prefer the ggptl of the Rev. gentleman since his arrival has
y to the good of the few office announced that his mission has rs whu.woald-cell their birth no-
thing whatever to do with politica
for a mess oil Yankee pottage. or hone rule or secteriariisut. He
is the aget.t of a society that has
HAIRR ON A wHITE MAN.
The Globe says that Mr. John
White, ex- M. P. for East Hastings,
declared Bah in f„vor of complete
R• eiprocity. The Globe has said
tunny hard 'Mines *About John that
wets: not true. This is about as
bad as any but it may- have the
merit of truth.
RELIABLE FIGURES.'
A subscriber who voted for the
Scott Act 'dike us : "Ate the figures
you gave in your editorial of the 20th
July under the heading of 'Is Ther
Value for the Money', correct
Ans.—They are. We never give
figures or crake statements unless
they are approximately correct, and
when we make quotations from the
Globe ate] public documents, as we
did in ,,rho article referred to, they
are absolutely correct.
YES, A FAIR SAMPLE.
A Tweet° merchant writes the
following letter to the Toronto
World -:1 year ago coal was sell
ing at $6 a ton. 1 tried to buy my
next year's supply to -day expecting
to get it 50 cents per ton cheaper
anywty, the duty haying been take»
off, but 'Vas told by the dealer that
coal would b.7 110 cheaper than last
year, the American railroads owned
by the coat companies having clap-
ped on nn additiaurtl 65 cents per
ton freight just as soon as the Change
in tariff w.ts made. Are w.: to take
this as n sample of what co»uner-
cial union will do to us ?
MAKE A.NOTE OF' IT.
The Chicago Tribune is getting
up a uaute for frankness that will
not 1)7 at all plea-vieg to its Cana.
diasr allies who would prefer die-
guisintl, for the present, the aim and
ultimata effect of unrestricted com-
mercial union—the aetexatiou and
absorption of Canada by the United
States, and the leveling .sown of our
prosperous Canadian farmers to that
of their poverty-stricken brethren
in Kansas and scree" other states
and the crushing out of our infant
but vigorously growing factories.
The other day The Tribune said :—
!`Let us (the Americans) make the
tariff for Canada an.1, we will soon
make their politics." That is its plea
in behalf of Commercial reciprocity.
GOOD READING AND PLENTY OF IT,
A friend, with whom we are not
acquainted, writes us under date of
Belgrave complimenting the News-
IbF:cola) on the "very large quantity
and the excellent (meta •y of
the reading matter" it containti. 17e
says, howeyer, that he is sorry we
have fallen into the tun common
error of "playing Jenkius to every
Tom, Dick and Harry and noting
their movements as though they
were of as much interest to your
readers as the movements of the
Governor General." In another
place he says : "I have taken others
of "the best" papers in this county
-and elsewhere; but I must award the
palm to Tne NEWS -RECORD. I may
not be complimenting you but I will
say- that what you printers term the
inside pages are as carefully edited
and as interesting as your local pages.
I an not aware of any other county
paper that this; will apply to. You
will pardon me, but having had some
experience in the newspaper line I
have been moved to give you a piece
of my mind where I thought you de-
serve it." [We publish the above
with some diffidence; but,would like
tq bear from our correspondent on
other matters. We believe THE
NEWS -RECORD is to some extent
worthy of his flattering testimony.
Since it has been enlarged it certain-
ly contains more reading matter than
any other local paper.-b;uuToe.]
RECIPROCATING,
Once and awhile one hears about
the incongruity of amicable relations
bring kept up between Orangemen
and Roman Catholics. We could
never understand why they should
not. It is said that the only prim
ciple in Orangeism that would pre-
vent a Roman Catholic from being
eligible as a member of that Society
is the provision that all members
must be Protestants. Equal liberal-
ity is shown by so called Irish So-
cieties which are generally considered
to be composed of Roman Catholics,
At a meeting in Toronto Last Creek,
of the Toronto branch of the- Irish
Land League, exception was taken to
the propriety of an Orangeman being
a member and sporting an orange
lily on the 12th of July. Mr. Sul-
livan, the member referred -_to,
pleaded guilty, and said he baited
his rQ{ht to membership on the con-
stitution of the League and contend•
ed that ire had not in any way eio-
Itrted it. The matter was referred
-to a committee, which, after consul,
kation, reported through President
Mulligan that an Orangeman coal,]
be a member so long as he was a
Home Ruler. That being settled,
and it being conceded that a Roman
Catholic can be an Orangeman pro-
vided he is a Protestant, wo may
now look to have pence all along
the lino,
for some years been engaged in
furnishing the Bible in the Irish
language to the large number of
of Irish people who still adhere to
the ancient tongue. His obje':t la
to raise money for the purposes of
said society. Even were he die -
posed to step aside from his Jeaiti-
mate Utisdion he is not the kind of
man to attempt to undo O'Brien's
work. O'Brien helped to make
Lord Lansdowne the most popular
would not, if he could, undo . what
Governor General that has ever
'been in (;gash. Dr. 111cBeth.
Mr. O'Brien labored so hard to
bring about.
1'r Li BRITISH CAPITAL.
One from time to tilne, and re-
eeualy very often, has heard great
laudation of Aniericau c.tpital, what
it had do»e, atel what it would do
for Canada were the trade harries
taken down. The much largest por
tion of outside capital invested iu
Canada is Ili itish capital, and it is
British capital that has developed
the railway and other largo indus-
tries of the United States. Even
no.v the extraordinary industrial
development, referred to by die
Globe in the American Southwest,
and which is stimulated by the high
American tariff, is backed up by
British capital dente!) handled large-
ly by Americans. British capital is
1te : eltsitlt•e-"nnd wide awake as
Amer'icen capital. Let it be shown
that we have unlimited quantities of
iron anal coal and timber, as we un-
doubtedly have, awaiting develop-
ment, and let it be thoroughly well
known, and last and preceding Pare
liaweuts have endeavored to make
it known, that we are determined to
give exceptional privileges to cool..
tttlists to manufacture this raw ma-
terial on Canadian soil, and 'we will
soon have millions of British money
and tens of thousands of Canadian
workmen employed upon Canadian
soil. The beginning of an indus-
trial era in Canada has already
coin meltcesiestuel-as- line never been
known in the history of -any other
country -of like population.
THE ST. THOMAS CALAMITY.
DEAD DONNELLY NOT DRUNK,
DEFECTIVE AiR BRAKES THE CAUSE.
It is always pleasant to properly
constituted minds to have criminal
odium relieved from the memory of
the dead, when such can be honor-
ably done. That has naw been done
by unimpeachable evidence in the
case of the unfortunate and slander-
ed engineer,''j11enry Donnelly, and
the cownraly statements of his small•
souled detractors refuted by those
who were in the best positions to
know whereof they testify. The Free
Press gives the following report of
"the doings at the inquest last Friday,
on the St. Thomas calamity : John
Bell, Q. C., and Superintendent Lar••
mour were present.
♦ CLINCHER FOR SCANDAL -MONGERS
The first witness examined was D.
McCoubrey, Assistant Secretary of
the Young Mens's Christian Asso-
ciation, London. Ile stated that he
never saw Engineer Donnelly before
the day,of the accident, when lie was
introduced to him. by Harry Don•
Helly, his son. I first saw him on the
ground, and he then seemed all
right; I went inside the cab of the
engine and rode to the statiotn ; T
could stake my life on the engineer's
*soberness ; I saw no signs of liquor
upon him ; lam not related to him
in any way ; I heard him ask a man
to see about -a awitcli before we left
the Port; ho spoke to mo about his
boy ; an told me to be very careful
and not let his boy out on the Lake ;
I heard the Boy ask bis father if he
wanted anything to drink, and the
father replied he would - take a
drink, and the boy gave hire some
tea ; I only saw the engineer hand.
ling a lever in the engine;. 1 heard
a man in a Port Stanley barber shop
say, since the accident, that the
engineer was drunk, and I have
openly and publicly refuted it. -
ant. CLARKSON ALSO ONES THEM A SET-
BACK
Jno. Clarkson, Station Agent of
Port Stanley for ten or eleven years,
said he had known engineer Don-
nelly for about twenty five years,
and when he first knew him he was
running on the main line ; have
known him to run to the Port before,
and think he was there twice before
this season ; he usually ran fast ex-
press trains; 1 should think he was
welt aequatrited with the road be
tween London and Port Stanley ;
saw him at the Port on the fifteenth
of this month ; he came on engine
754 ; don't think I spoke to him me
til about four o'clock, when he
came to my office; 1 could not see
anything wrong with the man, and
swear positively I never saw any.
thing tending to show he had been
drinking ; he only remained two or
three minutes ; I toid him the time
of departure of his train had been
changed from 0:40 to 7; he asked
why, and I explained it had been ar•
ranged to send down a St. Thomas
engine to take up some people who
had come to the Port on a regular
train, and I telegraphed Mr. Larmour,
asking why not hold Donnelly's train
and send all the people up together;
this he said to do, and I according.
ly told Donnelly; saw Donnelly again
a few minutes before the train went
°A►! a ho Aye. on tb .tO,OWatO at bo
euglne,, and I sgtitle NM!' Pl . OJPQR ;.'
440 tneffe, baby etltrioges 0.41.-.,4100•••
platf men ;" ria dad s •
o, and w,n„en
where I wanted hits F sea I, "fLftc
will do," and signalled #fiat to stop,
which he did ; that was all 1 said to
him ; never knew Donnelly to be
under the influence of liquor i 1
nevergave him any caution at the
Port about anything that night, and
did not see anyone else caution hiw;
the train which should have left the
Port at 9:20 ; did not leave until
two, on.account of the wires being
down ; we did not hear about the ac-
cident until after ten o'clock, when
the news was brought by a Tuan who
had driven down to the Port • it I
had seen anything wrong with Port;
1 would have considered him
incapable, and it would hav been .
my duty to take him off the a .tjne lr
and if I did not I would rends
self liable to dismissal and pe
punishment ; witness produced the
book ifs which was a copy of the
orders sent to the engineer on the•
night of the accident, 'Which on,
'-'-
"Run to St. 'Phomas, avoiding regu-
lars," which is the usual form of
order ; Donnelly was always regard.
ed as a first class engineer.
There was here discos in the
book an older showing th ounelly
had been in the Port in charge of
an engine on the thirteenth inst.,
two days before the accident, and
Mr .Clarkson, on being shown this,
remembered the fact of his seeing
him there.
THE FIREMAN'S t,TATEMENT.
Henry Angles, who said he had
been in the employ of the' Grand
Trunk for about ten years, was next
examined :—Was fireman on the ex-
cursion train on the night of the ac-
cident ; Donnelly was a temperate
man ; 1 knew him to take a glass of
beer, but I never knew him la --
under the influence of hgtror ; The
brakesmen on the train were Mason
and Davis ; Donnelly was not under
the influence of Liquor that night,
and any man who says he was does
not know what he is talking about;
I never knew Donnelly to carry a drop
of liquor of any kind in his engine,and
bad pone there that night; he us.
"ually carried a pint bottle, in which
he could put some liquor if he ever
needed it; we left the Port that
night at two minutes past seven by
my watch, and ran at the rate of
from twenty to twenty-five miles an
hour ; we came up in about twenty
minutes; I would not believe any-
one who says fifteen minutes ; it was
perfectly light when we reached
Stp'Phomas; I first saw that the sem-
aphore was against us as soon as we
turned the curve.; I told him about
it; he did not reply;. there was
nothing strange in telling him ; we
slackened speed before coming to
the semaphore, and I saw him apply
theair brakes a Couple of hundred
yards therefrom ; he applied all the
power of the brake ; he only looked •
at me, and did not say anything ; he
whistled twice—once for the sema-
phore, and the other time, • I think,
for brakes ; I could toll by the solitizt -
of the brakes that they were not
working properly ; no living man
could do better than Donnelly did
that night; there were lots of time
to stop the. train if the brakes had
been in proper working order before
reaching the semaphore : I had a
conversation 'with the conductor
afterwards about the accident, but
he never asked me not to give him
away ; he was on the same train going
home with me that night, but I: can't
say he talked to Ise about the accident
then or not ; he went with me up to
the dispatcher's office Mr. Hobson
and John Law, the Track Inspector,
were there, and all of them were to
ing about the/accident; after etiinin
out of the office I went straight
home; 1 saw the. Conductor next
day and gave him my verson of the
cause of the air brakes not working, .
which 'was that a pipe under the
box car, in which were baby carriages;
etc., might have made a "kink" in
.the hose, which caused a leak ; the
oonductor told me a couple of days
afterwards he did not test .the brake;
I went with the -conductor and brakes•
men to Hamilton to be examined
by Mr. Stiff on Wednesday last..
When the witness began giving his
testitnony Mr. Donahue asked that
Conductor Spettigue be excluded.
lie thereupon ieft the room, and af
policeman. (Sergi. )toss) was sent to
watch him.
After the evidence of the fireman
had been taken, 111r. Stewart, Grand
Trunk Agent at St. Thomas, was call-
ed, and testified that .it was the con-
ductor's duty to see if the air brakes
were working properly.
THE. CONDUCTOR ARRESTED.
Sergeant Ross and the conductor,
who were just outside the door, were
sent for, anti when they came in a
warrant was sworn out for the ar-
rest of the conductor, which was
promptly executed, and he was con-
yeyed to the police station.
NOTES.
A t the inquest on Thu~r4`*ay_ night
two witnesses—Mrs. W. II. King ltn-d---- .
Mrs. Chas. Wegg, both of St. Thomas
—swore they thought the conductor
had been drinking on that day, as
they smelled liquor on him.
—An Ottawa paper says:—Miss
Bina Farrow, the beautiful and ac-
complished daughter of T. ];arrow,
ex-M.P., was united in the bonds of
matrimony to Mr. Brownlee, mer-
chant of Carleton Place, by the Rev.
i1[r. Larson, at the Dominion
church.
—A thunderstorm- passed north
of Whitby on Saturday last doing
considerable damage and killing a
man. Benjamin Kite, of Saintfield,
Ontario county, was pitching hay in
the barn, where he and some others
wore unloading during the storm.
A flash of lightning struck tho roof
and on its way down through the
center of the haymow killed Kite
instantly. The electricity then
bored a holo down through the 11ay
to thegrouud,