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The Huron News-Record, 1887-08-31, Page 4a•: 1e ANNOPOCEMPIT. �x401140Injuired go. •.Clap, Mui in *there cAtuplf;rtltt is outdo f the - Waged 1 h 9444tlty orm$rim, 1al i O th p11FPA# Bre. lit, at .pll timet L.a, ?leased to Ti ge PI leMe Pt inews front our sob- cr`berdi. jibe want a good cores- . ias� ttft ever+,/. oeality, not already lre1,?resented., to coal ua 1031.14az,p net0e, SIlfDSCR IIEJtst. Patrons who do not receive their paper regularly from the carrier or thr uglc their 'local post offices will confer a • favor by reporting at this - office „gtt once. Subscriptions may commence at any time. . ADVERTISERS. Advertisers will please bear in mind that all "changes" of advertisements, to ensure insertion, should be handed in not later than MoNnnr Noorr of each week. CIRCULATION. THE NEWS -RECORD has a larger circulation than any other paper in this section, and as an advertising medium has few equals in Ontario. Our books are open to those who mean business. JOB FRIlYtl'ING. The Job Department of this jour- nal is one of the best equipped in Western Ontario, and a superior class of work is guaranteed at very moderate rates. The Huron News -Record Wednesday, August 31st, 1887 ONTARIO (,PROPS. Tho following statetuent has been issued by Mr. A. Blue, Secr,�tary of the Ontario Bureau of Statistics. It is a digest made of reports tin the 12th inst. by nearly 600 corres- pondents of the Bureau on the year's ',crops and harvest, and the yield of principal crops computed from their estimates. Fall wheat has suffered from a sac• cession of reverses extending all through the growing season. First' name the severe night frost and the cold dry weather of early spring, and then the extreme heat and drouth of summer, which continued up to the time of ripening. The effect was to cause the crop to grow thin on the grognd, with short heads, and the grain under the usual 8170. General. ly, however, the grain though small is reported to be plump and bright, with the exception of a few lot }lilies in central western Ontario, where it was shrunken by lust. In other localities the Hessian fly and the midge did some injury. Where threshing has been reported, the yield runs generally from 10 to 18 bushels per acre, the average being about 16 bushels, or 5 bushels less than the average for the past five years. The general•yield will pro- bably not exceed two-thirds • of an average crop, the estimate being 14,• 435,505 bushels against 20,635,843 for the average. Many correspond. nts, however, console themselves wr the reflection that after all fall wheat.has been the best crop of the seasow, the heat and drouth• hav• ing so serr��•ously , affected all the cereals. Spilgg wheat is almost it total failure in Western Ontario, and only a few districts in the east report a fair crop; the esti ated yield is 4,500,000.1ess than the 'erage of the five years 1882.6. The ha west came in unusually early, reaping b' owing quite general in the first tern counties during the first week -n July, and in the northern and east=, ern districts about ten days later, The Wheat was taken off in most cases without a chop of rain, and was therefore secured in . excellent conditiou. The labor supply was generally . ample; owing to good harvest weather and the increasing use of self-bthders and other labor saving implements. Owing to the prolonged heat and drouth, barley was ready for cutting almost as aeon as fall wheat. Some barley was cut as early as the 8th of July, and from the middle to the end of the -month harvesting was general. This early maturing had its effect on the berry, which is reported as rather small, and likely Oto prove two' or three pounds light in the bushel. Early sown came out best, both in plumpness and quality. The yield rune all the way from a hail to a full crop, and the straw was short all over. In t the extremes of Bruce Ice in the west' and the St. Lawrence counties in the east, cases of rust are reported ; but elsewhere it does not apwear to have done any harm. The redeeming feature of the crop is the splendid condition in which it was saved ; for though lacking in • size and weight, the sample is of a remarkably bright color; in fact it is many years since the barley crop of the province wee saved so free from discoloration by rain. The estimated total yield is 17,436,322 bushels, being 2,136,000 bushels less than the average of the five years 1882.6, although the breadth in crop is 50,000 acres more. Saving a few fields of late grain, the oat•harvest was finished through - the province by the end of the first week in August. From almost all the counties the repo"ts are 'well agreed as to the injurious effect of the drouth. In the Lake Erie, Lake Huron and Georgian Bay counties, and in the Northern districts, early sown fields matured fairly well ; but elsewhere the general tcompdaint is that the grain ripened too fast, turning wbite with the extreme heat. As a result, the kernel is shrunken and light, while the yield of grain is small compared with the • t1. o grtte4 eppers, The esti- Mated yield of the province Is only 30 bushels per acre, whereas the average yield Of the paat five years Was 37 bushels. Tho total estitlmte is 8,000,000 leas than the yield or Nat year, and15,000,000 lest than the average. The .rye crop of which there is but a small area grown, was perhaps not so seriously damaged by the drouth as other crops. Of no crop are more variable re- ports givon than of peas. A vigor ous grouth appears to have bees made up to the forming of the pods, when the drowth began and resulted in their being imperfectly filled, al- though from many points a good yield is reported. •Sealy sowing was the salvation of the crop. The straw is bright in color, and will likely be in great demand for foddsr owing to the shortage of the other straws, A few cases of injury by the wire -worm have been mentioned, but the pea. bug is almost unheard of. The esti• mated yield is nearly the same as the average of the five years 1882 6, and 3,000,000 less than last year. Indian corn will be a short crop, with the exception of a few localities in moist situations, or where the planting was done unusually. early. In many fields no ears have formed at all and the stalks are stunted and partly dried up. Fodder corn is also very light. Beans are almost every• where a failure, owing to the exces- sive heat in the blossoming season. The prospect of the potato crop can be fairly indicated, but the other roots have arrived at a critical period when everything depends upon rain. The drouth told severely upon pot. atoes, especially on late planted fields, and the bug appeared in un- usually large numbers. As a rule, the yield will be small ; there will be few tubers in a hill, and these will doubtless be of smaller size than us• ual. The fly and the grasshopper in- jured the turnip in several counties, already thinned by the dry weather at the planting season. Early rains may yet make an average crop of turnips, mangelwurzels and carrots, but otherwise these roots must be a decided failure. Though the drouth has reduced the bulk of the hay crop, its effects have not been so, serious as might have been expected. The weather during haying was of the most favorable character possible, and except that in some eases the crop may have been a trifle ove ' ripe, it has been housed in prime condition. As to the aggregate yield1 it appears prob- able that owing to increased acreage the crop will be little below the aver- age. Tho clover seed crop will prove as nearly as possible a total failure, aad much of this year's seeding will amount to nothing. Alsike with- stood the spring frosts and summer drouth much better than red clover. DON"T NAG EACH OTHER. Yuuu� wivt•s and husbands can- not he too atrougly reminded of the probable shiewret:k they will make w• .of their happiness if they yield to that ill temper which expresses itst-lf fliscorntesy, want of com- pliance, uuuleea nary oppostiou and, above all, that most disastrous atuusetueut. of 'uagging'and creating a row. Hundreds of households have ;;ane wrong from the were wuu•t of chtstking in time the habit of annoying as a relief to a momen- tary feeling of irritation or discerns fort. The wife who.,gets,.irrto the way of contradicting, or "checking," her hushand, of opposing him in small things and standing out in large ones -the husband who is sneering, tempestuous, tyrannical,, fault-hndiug ; perhaps neither side owing the whole extent elite folly at giving way to • it as more to fight and conquer it - people are doing their grave of their 'mar. sone day, poor,' yin, fall into it will never hat easy th these you hest to dig t rigid peace : an fainting little love stark and plumeless, a rise to life again. En the beginning these lite t tiffs and discomforts are made up wt a kiss from him and a few tear frou, her to add cement to the reconciliation. By time the till:., are more acrid, and the reconciliation is Less warm. By still further time this never cones at all : and things get into that chronic state when there is never an open' bleach, and never a formal 1 tealttr", trot an ever• widening rift and a never-ending coldne, s. Then two lives jar and grind like rusty hinges -locks which missiit the slot, wheels where tho axle is stiff, or anything else which would never work together in har- mony and stucothness, but which, for want of care to keep the ad- justment exact, perhaps for want of oil to the joints, creak and (tang and chafe, and do not fit -to the annoy- ance, and lucre, of all the bystand. ere. _Elizabeth Car r, ngerl 100 year,' Mei 9 months died at Mono \tills a ft -w days ago. -•A filmic.: living on the town line of 13•}ntinelc and Normnnhy, south of Allan Park, appears to be sorely afflicted. He says the grass hopper, are, so numerous in that dis- trict that they destroyed his crops and lie has nothing to harvest. His trouble dors not stop in the fields. On Sunday ,iast he took down his hest trousers and found the hoppers had destroyed them else, having eaten several large hales in them. os EXkE 1a " ;TAB QST 'TTI If7 WORKS. Statititioa are alwAyd looked• upon as dry reading, and as each are usually religiously avoided by the ordinary render. But there are times when their use is unaveidabie, and when a line of figures conveys a more lucid explanation than columns of editorial comment. In the Matter of expenditure figures are particularily valuable, and we therefore present the more concise of the tables published as a, supplement to the annual report of the Minister of Pnbli.c Works up to June 30th, 1886, that our readers may form a just idea of the manner in which the public money has been spent, and the share of it that hue accrued to each particular province. The total amount expended is $201,369,227, made up of the fol- lowing items :- Intercolonial Railway , , • $ 59,713,699 Windsor Branch , - , . .82,225 Eastern Extension " , , , , 1,500,381 N. S..& N. 13. R. .. , . , . . 2, 68426,801151 Short Line Ry . , 1 P. E. I. Ry, ,, ,. 3,071,475 Pacific Ry. . , . 61,166,515 Coteau Landing Bridge .. 522 Carleton 13ranelt ,. 85,611 Railway Survey .. „ , . 30,274 Subsidies .. 3,362,494 Generally.. . , . , .. 33,'172 Canals , •37,246,629 Road dyke alungLake St. Francis 9,318 Total, Railway and Canals..169,121,531 Public buildings , , , , . , 15, 484,102 Salaries of engineers , 92,866 Public heating , . . , ..104246 Harbors and breakwaters 7,187,233 River improvement 1,329,790 Dredges .. , , , . . , 610,003 Dredging (not apportioned) .. 121,235 Slides and booms , . , , 1,764,601 Roads and bridges .. .. 1,846,555 Telegraph lines , , . . , . 1,275,288 Lighthouses . .. ,. „ 1,874,486 Dominion steamers .. . , 289,653 Monuurents . , , , .. 10, 406 Miscellaneous- $ufvoys „ „ ., 516,475 Tug service, Montreat to Kingstou , , , .. , . , . 96, 303 Agent and contingencies, D.C. 29, 235 Sundries , . , . 11,916 Total , , $201,369,277 Of this total, the amount expend• ed since Confederation, on account of construction and improvement, has been $154,225,884, and that on maintenance and repairs $47,143,. 393. Divided into the amount ex• pended in each of tho several prov. inces it shows as follows: - Nova Scotia „ „ . , $ 22,712,42.2 P. E. Island.. 3,948,319 New Brunswick , 30,796,665 Quebec 40,521,179 Ontario 62, 095, 886 Manitoba • - 7,49.4,339 N. W. Territory, , . 7,549 630 British Columbia 24,598,633 Miscellaneous .. • 652,308 Total , , $201,369,277 A result that willl probably sur- prise some of our readers From this statement it will be seen that Ontario has secur-d the lion's share, having 50 per cent. more expendi- ture to her credit than her nearest neighbor, Quebec, while British Columbia has enjoyed the expendi• tore of a stun within her borders out of all proportion to her importance as a member of Confederation, Ptince Edward Island, 'Manitoba and the Northwest• Territories have receiyed the smallest slice off th public loaf, while Nova Scotia an New Brunswick have enjoyed 'th benefit respectively of the expendi ture of twenty-two and thirty mil Zion dollars on their behalf. Now since we are aware that on tho 30th June, '886, the net public debt amounted to $2`23,159,107,. while at Cbnfede•ation it was only $75,728,641, it follows that the total . ,increase since that.date is $147,430,- 466. If we then deduct from this sum the twenty-five million dollars represented by the readjustment uF provincial subsidies, and 'the . ten million dollars worth of lands're' turned by the Canadian Pacific Rail- way, we may stay that," roughly speaking, the real net increase in the debt is about ono hundred anti twelve millions. The tables just p=sented account for an expenditure of tt hundred and one trillions on public rrks, anti therefore we may safely corn_ de that for every dollar of debt incur ,d we Lave tut expen- diture on the pit ie behalf of nearly $1.80, r expended ode l o p n vorks of public u c .utility which have repr'd their cost over awl over again in t : develop-- ant evelop- mentof the resources of the 'untry, and the Consequent advance t•mt of the prosperity of its inhubit".in . This we -think ntust be looked upon as a favorable showing. It proves that although the expenditure upon public works has been large, as is unavoidable in the development and colonization of any new country, only about one,halt of it has •been added t0 the debt, a stats: of affairs which we believe minuet. h„ parallel' ed in any other of England's :;rent dependeneit's, and it therefore re- lieves the Government from the charge of reckless expenditure and uncalled for additions to the public debt which have been so freely launched at it, and which now turn out to have so little foundation in• fact. So good a shoeing its this cannot but have a favorable effect upon -Canadian credit in the Europe- an financial centres, and will t•er' tainly strengthen the hands of the Minister of Finance in any fut Ore arrangements he may be called upon 0) make.-J_tIntel of'Co,tr,rC,•ce, e d e $BA,MER-lU•RIsT 4 ,' SEA. Thu eteu,rer Oily. of Montreal car. rie+t; no Ort cabin passengers. The value of her cargo was $35Q,000 and tb.eateawer was worth $400,000. The crew numbered 85 men. The destruction of the steamer occurred on the 11th inst., five days after shQ left New York. A boat containing six passengers and seven ineuibers of the crew is missing. The occupants of this boat are the thirteen persons reported to have perished. The passengers and crew of the City of %iontreal were taken off the York City by the tug Mount Etna and Lauded at Queenstown. All were accounted for except the thir.. teen persons iu the missing boat. It is learned that shortly after the pas- sougers had gone to bed on the 10th, the ship being in latitude 43 N. at the time, they were aroused by an alarm of fire. A scene of constern- ation ensued and the passengers were greatly terrified when they found out the trne state of affairs. The smoke caused by the fire was suffocating. The passengers dress- ed and got on deck as quickly as possible and with but little appear, ance of panic. The fire originated in the cotton stored in the after main bold. 'I'HE BURSTED `BANK. It is • well known that President Taylor of the Bank of London, was interested in a number of manufact uring concerns and to these Iia ad • vaneetd money on security that was not of the best. That a considerable portion of these advances will be lost is altogether probable. This loss will fall on the shareholders. The depositors, it is believed, will get their money in full. 'I'lie nomis nal subscribed capital of the Bank of London was $1,000,000, but only $223,973 of this amount was paid up. The president biwself held $313,400, on which he had paid $35,- 156. The Water Works Depart, ment had on deposit $12,000 at the time of the suspension and some $3,700 of the Western Fair funds wore in the bank. It is reported that the President drew $29,000 the day he left London. WHAT' TIIE MANAGER SA] 3. Mr. Smart; manager of the Iniwk, said la 'the course of an interview to- day, that Mr. Taylor has been at Alexandria Bay since last Sunday. Ike would probably not corse back, as he. had been threatened by the Ontario Investment people. The depositors and noteholders, he said, would lose nothing, but it was pos. siblt that the shareholders Wight. Two experts of the Bank of Toronto reported, after a careful examination that the Bank of Loudon was worth 100 cents on the dollar, 'Cite Bank of 'Toronto was willing to buy, but Mr. Taylor would not return to complete the contract and the direc, tors would Dot.. go on without • -The sudden death is announce ed of William Quarrie, of Galt, Who iras been !Postmaster of that town for many years, He was one of the ,oldest residents and a native of Ber- wickshire, Scotland, -The scaffold 011 the new addit- ion to Forbes' Woollen Mills, in course of erection at Hespeler, about 40 feet high, broke one morning. About 15 men were hurt. One has since died, and two more' aro not expected to recover. "Jai •. McKay, a wealthy -- farmer of West Maui hero, attenlpt- erf to CUmnlit .vuieit.le by cutting his throat. The reason .assigned is that McKay got the worst of it on a real estate deal. Hs' is ,not expected to live. • 10.14 DR,HODDER'S 1, BURDOCK as 8/0 Compton.'' CURES Liter , Complaints, Biliousness, Int)11fre • Blood,. Dyspepsia, Kidney Complaint, Skin Diseases T111 14 GREAT REGULATOR rho Stonm^h, Liver, Bowels and Blood. Cures 1 dnchc, Constipation, Fefnnlc Complaints, and UM < np tha System. Read the following : "For years 1 - st 1 have suffered Iron) dyspepsia and I was recce (01(1 .] to try Dr, Hodder's Compo,md. I did so ar oiled It a perfect cure, -E. 1. CUR - '1(5 Tn^onto, ` it." Sold everywhere, Price,75c. n1t, 11<nn)Elr', C0U1711 AND L)•NO CURE Neve; falls. (Mar. Recd. Price, 25e and 50c, The Union Medicine C , Preprletors, Toronto, Ont LUMBER - ATEC • ---AT .� Canteloo's Carriage We I( CLINTON, .1111111111111111111111P - l TIRED Drudgery of FRUIT CANNING ! 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We have also an excellent stock of Flue Woollens, which we can trade for wool very cheap and we CUSTOM 1worf ive Two VENTS rd�quicker than ever, anlb. more thand we arre boet und to give satisfarice for wool. ction are prepared have a man in charge of that who understands his business. se Don't stop until you come right to the 1tllti, as we have no branch Oleo elsewhere M town. Our only authorized representatn• with a waggon is MR. JAMES SCOTT CLINTON WOOLLEN MILLS T. 0. GRAHAM, Manager. D. GRAHAM, Proprietor, IMPORTANT In returning thanks to my many friends and patrons for past patronage, I would like to call their special attention to my very complete stock of HARNESS, WHiPS,. CURRY COMBS, BRUSHES, ETC., ETC, Special attention is directed to my stock of :-:SINGLE:: HARNES-S:-: It will be found very complete, and for durability and finish cannot be excelled by any one. As I employ node but the best workman, and use the best material to be bought in the market, all who may favor me with their patronage may fuel confides of getting satisfaction. ABOIJECEMEST. PRICES AWAY DOWN. Trunks and Valises in great variety and Prices Low. GEORGE A. SHARMAN Farm, :-: Town, --AND- VILLAGE PROPERTY FOR SALE. mite EXECUTORS AND TRUSTEES of the •J. Estate of the late Josarn Iloaa offer for sale the following valuable property, namely; Bsl ldi•tg Lots numbers 420 and 421, in the Town of Godorich, quarter of an acre each, fairly fenced and very desirable for building purposes. Iran acre Lot fronting Mill Road, Townshi-' of Coderlch. being part of lot 3 in the Maitland Coecesston II the said Township. Nice frame cotta,; a and 'rame stable. 'Lot nombcr 3, south side of- Millar street, Ben- m'rle -, grarter of an acre. Small frame dwell- ing. 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