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The Huron News -Record PUBLIC P4UNTING.
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Weiliat stlay, Sept. 7th. 11887.
GOSPEL OR STATUTE.
We often hear it said that intem-
perance is a "great and growing
evil," but the statement is histori-
cally inaccurate. Thirty or forty
years ago it w.ts the custom iu ;ill
farming districts to furnish strong
drinks to hay ipakersand harvesters,
and no building could be raised
without whisky. Even miuisters
at eeclesiatical meetings were not
averse to using intoxicants half a cen-
tury ago. A larger proportion of
our people were' wholly free from
the drinking habit, at least from the
vice of intemperaueo, throe years
ago than at any time in the history
of the country. And how was the
change brought about ? By the
•onstant service of the Christian
church, in witnessing against the
minding of the flesh, and in exalt-
ing
the spiritual nature of man.
No other agency has accomplished
a tiehe of what the Christian church
has done or can tlo if its efforts are
not impeded by temperance "work-
ers." "And the most effectual way,"
writes tho Rev, Dr. Gladden of
Massachusetts, "if those 'workers'
only knew it, 'of promoting the
cause professedly clear to thein, is
to help the churches in preaching
the Gospel of Jesus Christ."
'1'he temperance "worker," how-
ever, if the churches do not join
him iu some special methods, such
as the Scott Aet, infers they are
hostile to toreporence. If tho min_
ister 'doge not enjoin his people
from the pulpit to vote for some
prohibitory. measure, ho thinks the
minister is not in favor of temper-
ance. But the )sinister may, and
justly so, think that the difficulty
is deeper than any iinperfoctioir in
thde -statutes, and that euro of
drunkenness must be more radical
tliau any contemplated by the tem-
perance workers." The ministers
may suppose .theiusolvos,, end right-
ly so, to be promoting teniporance
in the most effective, way when they
show iron the tyrauuy of tho appe-
Vies, the strength of evil habits, the
peril of subjecting the spirit to the
flesh, and the need of securing
• sup erintura1 alit iii usoaptng from
this bondage. By arousing noble
seutiuteuts, by showing how weak
wills carr be strengthened, by ,att-
ing before iu,eu the alluring ]rapes
and ideals of the gospel, .theyare
giving the bust help to sago innell
'from the curse of intemperance. ,Tho
intel'lrgent and faithful minister of
the gospel seeks, a radical constitu-
tional remedy rather 'than a local
remedy. -
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It is now the. worldly. temperance
"worker" who controls the church
instead. of his being subsidiary to
tho chard'. The cert is"put before
the horse. Christianity is to be the
result of temperance teaching, in-
stead° of' temperance beiug the. re-
sult of ehristiau teaching. And the
consequence is that in soine locali-
ties where the "workers" have sue-
ceeded in setting the higher work-
ing of the churches to oue side, the
massae.; have lapsed eo siderably
from their one time, touiperaucu pro;
clivities.. The temperance "worker,"
if he wool re physician would cure
neuralget u1 boils or dyspepsia
solely by .upunccial local ap.
plication instead of dealing with
such tlisordnas constitutionally. Ile
think that cls only remedy for in-
tempenince i, a direct attack upou
the drinking habit, and the pre-
scription uf somo of his statutory
speciace.
It is frequently started by temper-
ance lootul•eie th.tt sill the y.ist evils
of intemperance are du, to the
liconsirig systole. That is not cor-
rect. Worse evils of the sante
nature existed before the licensing
system wee ever known, and the
same glass of evils now exist, to.a
verygrpet extent, though np licenses
are granted. 1)runkeuness is not
produced by statute, and it cannot
be cured by.statnte.
letroseetiorameavoireaeritememeriereemetr
-Etc• iegi .trattrr ¥ Ls :a slut!
agaf net the beauty of 131 nee t entl.e
off hi Hawilton or# Sairt. 101rl}a
—Mr. -Robert Cuopor, of Vt�bo.rne..
h.aa purchuserl the Uotlgine,farm an
the 2ud cou.ceesion of $idilulplr,. 100
acres, for $6,800.
- Rant.ou Bros., general etoro-
keelatrs jof Exeter, have toreigned
taitb liabilities of $15,000, after be-
lie; over twelve years in burliness.
The assets are chimed to show a sur-
plus.
— Te mortality of cattle along
the Speed in Guelph township is so
alarming that a special meeting of
the township council is to be called
to consider the matter. It is sup-
posed that the trouble -arises front the
eating of poisonous weeds by the
cattle.
— Plums are a ulagniicient -crop
thisyear. Many of the trees are break
iug down under their Ione. R.
Leatherdale pulled a small limb off
one of his trees loaded with plums
that weighed nearly 41 pounds.
There will be thousands of busbels-
uf this kind of fruit sold this year
in Huron County,—Brussels Poet.
--lielforts from townships con-
tit:uoue, la this County in Brucri,terey
and 'Wellington show that spring
wheat bad cuff -red badly from rust,
was still a fair crop. Barley is also
fair, a very good sample, but rather
light. Oats, especially the later
crops, are very Tight. Peas are a
splendid crop. Potatoes and tur-
nips are very good. There has been
much more rain up there than has -
beim general throughout the Pro-
vince.
�..,.,. number on a 1nu11tieip:tl list. "Ali,"
Attention has recently been dra.wu
to the fact that -Tug NEws-Rzooso
reouived shout $500 for priutiug
Dominion Voters' Lists and adver-
tising. We plead guilty and are
only sorry tint t►ecount was not
Much larger. Someone had to do
this work. It
the reprusontetives of
Parliamteut assembled.
wrong to have it.done then the peo-
ple did wrong. For n general elec-
tion took piece titter the work was
completed and the electorate said
by their votes that the Dominion
Franchise Act was necessary in order
to have the Federal Parliament con-
stituted on a basis that would pro-
perly register the will of the people
ou national affairs.
As to who should
it be reasonable to
work to be done
should be done by
the Act was a fraud and the mem
burs of the Gov,ernlnont thieves and
robbers and their supporters iu Par -
'lament the same'? It would not bo
reasonable to expect this.
But the Government did not con-
fine this printing to their supporters.
Among Grit offices in Ontario who
shared in this work wo may name
the L'owmanvillo Statesman $235,
llracebridge Grit paper $300, a
lh•autford Grit paper $500, the Grit
Banner of Chatham $900, Elora
F.eepreee classed as independent Ro-
fornm $8.4 the extremely Witty
London Adeerti,er $355, and the
Grit Telescope of Walkerton $260.
The -above are a few selected from
the Grit printing (Aces which were
recipients of work in printing
Dominion Voters' Lists.
Now the Grit contention is that
all printing concerns that did print-
ing in connection with tho "iniquit-
ous" Franchise Aet are also iniquit-
ous, and tinge -serving "Tory" organs.
The papers whose names we give
above aro certainly not Liberal Con-
servative organs, nor are they sup-
porters of tho Government. It is
quite possible that they may be Tory
organs in the odious souse of that
term. The Lonflon Adeertiser is a
notoriously moss back Tory journal
if we use the word as meaning a
pull-back retrogressive organ.
Now we have. shown that it by no
means follows that an individual'or
fire) that does work for the govern-
ment Must of necessity be a slavish
toadior of the powers that be. Tho
papers whose names we have given
are rabid opponents of the Govern-
ment Let us concede that they are
conscientious in their opposition.
Shall we then deny that, supporters
of the Government cannot be equal-
ly conscientious In that support ?
Ordinary fairnoss would say that
we should not. But when' can ono
find a Grit sheet to leo guilty of
fairness? lever. It seems an in-
sepa able attribute of Grit tactics to
tie unfair. .Their unfairness in con -
damning Con ervative printing of-
(ices for doing Government printing
routs upon themselves and buries
some of their own Grit journals in•
the confusion they.would fain cause
the Conservatives.
the
was
we hear aotue one say, ''you :cru giv-
iug your whole case away." Were
we to stop hero such an impression
alight exist. But we shall show to
every fair-minded preen that, in
the face uf that admission, the Dom-
iniou work is much the cheapest.
Thew are only 2+)0 eopiei of
authorized by tnnllicip31 lists required. There
the people in are 600 copies of the Dominion
lists required. This would show
If 11 was on the face of it that three Tho Farmers' Iustitilte of Lincoln
times more should be paid for I has declared against commercial
the latter than the former. But as union. It is mainly composer-of-
trenelatore 'intended, 'which attain
out a gnat, and ziwallow a camel.'
It WAS lite cllatonl of the most ac-
curate and strietur Jews to strain
theite wiuu, viuegal• and other pole.-
bloc through linen or gauze teat un-
awares they should driukdown
sone little uuole.rn iuseot therein,
just as the llu'.lhiet's do now in Cey-
lon and Hindustan."
do it : Would
expect that the
in this matter
those who said
—In a cablegram to the colonial
leffine iii rgenettnunternmralenf-Camed
declares to be false the report that
Sir .John Macdonald, the premier,
had said that he would not hesitate
to ask the aid"of imperial troops to
stop the construction of, the Mani-
toba Southern railroad. It is stated
that the falsehood was put on the
wires by E. E. Shepherd, editor of the
Toronto News.
Blase it is with people who are
blinded by their overzealous partis-
anship ; they are apt to injure those'
whom they, wield . serve, and to
servo those whom they would injure.
Wo have shown that some ono
ihad.todo the public printing of the
Voters Lista authorised by Parlia-
ment.
-We have shown that Grit offices
did some of the said printing. We
readily concede that Liberal Conser-
ative offices did the most of
the priuitng. But if tho whole
work was an inil)oeition upon the
taxpaying public of the Dominion,
the pure -minded Grit offices, if true
to their professions, should have re'
fused to become a party- to the int-
positiou. This is true whether as
regards the doing of the work. or the
receiving of '911100 prices" for it.
As to the price paid for the work..
It was not fixed by those who did
the %voile: It was fixed by a tho-
roughly competent officer, a practioi-
t11 priuter recognised by the people's
t epresentati ves.
That 'l e did not fix the rate too
high is proven by the fact that some
of the Revising Dicers asked for
tenders from city offices and the
rate asked was higher than that
fixed by the Queen's Printer. This
was before it WAS generally known
that ;t rate had been fixed by the
1 iovernmrint expert.
Now the amount paid for the
Dominion lists is compared with
that paid for municipals lists, and
because much more is. paid for the
former the charge is said to bo ex-
cessive. This is done in such a
manner as to indicate either knavery
or ignorance on the part of the cri-
eoe
the printing trade know, that muni-
cipal printing is as a rule done at
prices below living rates. This is
caused by the senseless eonipetition
of local printers.
But take this unfairly low rato and
wo shall find that nearly double
that unfairly cut rate is paid for the
same number of' names on a Dom -
the ratio of price dons not increase
iu the ratio of quantity, we shall be
fair and say that three times ti
quantity is worth only double the
price. IIere thea wo have the bot-
tom knocked out uf the charge of
exhorbitant prices having been psi
for Dominion lists. We might test
our defence of the amounts paid
for the work under discussion right
here. But we shall not stop with
showing that the amounts, so paid
were properly paid but that they
were much below the low out muni-
cipal rates. For not only were thorn
three times as many lists printed,
but there was probably 25 0/o more
labor involved in printing thein.
That ie the 600. copies wore all
printed of the list as first fu'euislted
by the Revising Officers. 200 of
these were made up into books con-
taining respectively the several poll-
ing distracts, 2ndly the whole town
oi'township, 3rdly the whole riding,
the latter not only stichod but bound.
These 200 were posted up and distri-
buted by the clerk as the law directs.
Thou 0a1110 the preliminay Court of
Revision at which names were add.
ed or struck off as the case might
be. Then the lists as thus finally
revised were sent to the printers and
200 of the undistributed lists were
again put through 'the press anti
the added nines printed thereon.
These corrected lists worn made up
iu the .same manner as the first ones
and also distributed by the clerk.
A final Court of Revision was held
in order to revise or certify them. .Iu
most cases auotlior lot of names
were again added. Then the lists
as thus finally revised were .sent to
.the printers and the remaining 200,
the last of the 000, worn put again
through the press and the finally
added )names printed thereon.
These last worn also made up in
polling district, township or town
and Riding books, in the proportion
demanded by the clerk,- and by hint
distributed as the others were.
We have written enough to show
that tinge blues as many lists.. were
printed for Dominion purposes as
aro printed for municipal purposes.
We have shown tliat there is throe
times as much labor in making
Dominion lists ready, after first
printed, before putting into the
hands of the public. All of which
is ineoutestablc proof that the Dour -
inion lists 'instead of costing only
double that of low cut nt,unicpal
ones, they would be cheaply done at
three or probably four times what
would bo a fair living rate for muni-
cipallists. '
Now, it may bo asked, why all
this circoml.ocntion about I)omin-
ioii lists? \Nell, the answer is that
Dominion 1•iets have bean got.ton up
for the first time, and in order: to
provide the greatest safeguard against
injustice, in order to allow evory.
one, Grit or Tory, to bo ou the list,
so as to exercise his franchise, it was
necessary to give the greatest public-
ity to the. lists. Publicity, as we
have saidels the greatest safeguard
against injustice, and in no hatter
is it more imperatively demanded
than when it affects the voice of tho
sovereign people ,'Whether collective-
ly or individually.. If some such
modo as that adopted by tho'Govern-
ment bad not been followed, the
Capin Grit critics would have
beeni the first to cry ' out injustice !
injustice -I !
The greatest publicity was also
given to the charges allowed for
printing voters lists, but we do not
remember that any exception was
taken to the amounts by any mem-
ber of the House. Surely if the
charges were excessive the many
practical printers among the mem-
bers of the Opposition would have
boon aware of it, and they • would
have boon only too glad to have
ventilated a charge of extravagance
had there beets any foundation for it
But in the panting of tho voters'
list they would only have found a
mare's nest as Sontcrbille, ?I: P., of
the Dundas Banner, did when inves-
tigating the printing accounts some
years ago and had to bo sat down
upou by his chief, Mr. McKenzie, for
his pains and folly.
fruit growers whose business would
be rained by free trade. Neither
the vote of this Fanners' Union or
any other so-called Farers' Insti-
tute is any iodox of the veiws of the
farmers gouorally. And ww ►y 1 Be-
cause these 'Institutes aro all com-
posed of specialists who represent
hardly anyone but themselves. The
fruit growers comprise tho members
of one Institute, the breeders of
horsers run auother Institute and
raise:s of horned stock luluther.
But there are' hardly any general
fanners among the limited mombois
who comprise all the Institutes in
Outarior Nut ono -tenth of the
farmers belong to Institutes. And
the nine -tenths who do not belong
to thous are the general farmers who
have no hobby, no specialty, but
raise oats, wheat, peas, corn and
many other articles whose value
would bo much lessened by free
trade or commercial anuoxatior, to
the ;United .Status. 10, the votes
of Farmers' Institutes whether for
or against commercial annexation is
not the voice of the remove at largo
because nine-tenthe of them don't
belong to the' Institutes.
NZ,
e ••-Irfgt•r rept i t cr'nsideriug a sys-
tem ui waterwut'k. t •...cost $0,000.
---Puislev has keel ,reti in favor of
a by-law for Ihri erection of water
works by a majority of 54.
—On Sunday,\Vali er, a young son
of \Ir13. Th fwesford, elite
plty,ius au s1 straw steels, fell and
broke his thihh.
• —A branch factory of the Cort-
land carriage works is to bo establish-
ed in Brantford, and s company has
Ahem formed with a capital of $100,•
000.
—New tenders haves been asked
for the conveyance of Her Majesty's
mails between Gerrie and Seaforlh,
the recent tenders not being satin•
factory.
—Alex. L. Gibson and Rota.
Miller, of \Vroxter, left for Scotland
on Monday of last weak. They
expect to be away for two or three
motiths.
Tho 1' incrodine /lec•iee: tells of a
Mr. Emmorton of Huron township
who is going to make spirits for his
own use out of plume of which ho
has a superabundtuace• \Vc believe
the gentlemen is now under tlio
necessity of sending to Toronto for
what alcoholic beverage ho requires
as he lives in the Scott Act,county
of Bruce. With a simplycoiastruct-
ed apparatus, made .out of. pottery,
which he has .often soon usod in
England, lie will not have to resort
to the use of a "worm" as ordinarily
used in distilling. This incident
is merely referred to to show that
in cases where the liberty of ,tiro
sujbect is infringed upon in 040
flirection it will assert itself in
another. jean Ingolow- writes :
"Do you think that if every drop
of whisky, gin, and ale could be
sunk into the sea, it would make
all people saber? No• It aright,
with every other' aid that could be
thought of, put an end to halt the
druul ouues,l; but it a natural in-
stinct in nlal to long for stimulus
'when he is. overworked or weary,
and .site other half would all turn
brewers or distillers on Choir -own
account." Legitimate aims aro often
if not generally frustrated by tyran-
nous moasures interfering with the
iudiv'idual's liberty: The more
Vigorous and independent char -
actors will infallibly rebel whore
coercion is used to compel them in-
to prudeuco and temperance, though
they must expect that their rash end
obstinate conduct will lower them
in the opinion of'others.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
An inquirer wants to know what
intelligent meaning can be attached
to the scripture quotation "strain at
a gnat and swallow n camel." His
attention was called to it by seeing
�. rises. -in tit; "News-Rtreeen last
week, We caunot do better than
give Archbishop 'Trench's explana-
tion. Ile says ho cannot doubt but
that the words "contain a misprint,
which, having been passed over in
the first edition of 1611, has hold
its ground ever since ; and that the
Go4er>ich Township.
Air. John Porter of the 3rrl and
4th, brought [retie a splentlid now
wagon from Clinton. on Saturday,
Mr. Porter has a splendid 'orchard.
Ile will be able to sell about 250
barrels of apples this year.
Mr. George Burns of the 16th
concessiouhas bills out fora sale of
his stook etc. 011 the 19th. Mr.
Burns will rent his farm for a few
years. His intention is to take up
his residence in Detroit and go into
business there with his brother.
h`.
— Al the mooting of the Cana-
dian Medical Association in Hamil-
ton last week, Dr. Campbell, of
Seafurth, t gad a paper on Albumin la
of Pregnal,cy. •
— The oat meal mill of A. L.
Gibson, Wroxeter,is having another
story added to it and the new Hun-
garian system of rolls will be put
in, taking the place of the old time
stone process.
—John Vail, of Exeter, has been
sent to Goderich jail, to await trial,
either before the county judge or at
the fall assizes, on a charge of steal-
ing money from the till, of an hotel
in that town.
--The fine trotting bred stallion
Angelo Abdallab, owned by Messrs.
R. J. Whitely and W. Little, of
Lucknow, died from inflammation
of the bowels on Thursday
nig.
— Somebody locked the choir
in Knox church at Ctnnington, •the
other night, and the pai,tor, who
was present, bad to descend into the
cellar, crawl out of one of the wind-
ows and open the door before they
could get out. .
--'['he first Indy ever appointed
High School, pinci pal in Canada is
Miss Lizzie Fitzgerald, of St. Guth,
tines, who bas been chosen Drum-
mondville High School board. Miss
Fitzgerald far outstripped all others,
gentleman included, who were'in the
Sallie graduating class, and took acv•
tial gold medals.
—John Ogilvie, of the firm of
Ogilvie ez Co., Goderich has return-
ed to Winnipeg front a drip to the
\Vest. He is confident the amount
of wheat for export. will be between
Hoven and eight million bushels,
The average for the provinces will
not be less then twenty -dive bushels
per acre.
The most reliable crop reports
from theUnited States show that the
drought and heat have done much
more damage there than in Canada.
It is estimated that the loss to ,the
Amerieen fa•tuers on account of
these will 0111001/1 t0 at least
$20,000,000, or seven per cent. of
their annual product.
—Mrs. Thompson, of Beachv lila,
celebrated her 100th birthday last
Saturday. She wrote tiro invitgJ ions
to her friends herself, and a largo
number gathered at the Homestead.
She entertained them, with .several
tunes on the piano, and in other
ways showed that the weight of years
was not very heavy to carry. -
—A shoddy peddler, by thename
of 11icCornick, has been doing up a
large number of Alhermarle farmers
in great shape. He went to thorn,
sold thew a Targe bill of goods, deliv-
ered a small portion and got their
notes for the whole amount. Of
course the balance of the goods Have
newer been delivered. The notes, as
far' es possible, have been disposed
of to different parties and will have
to bo paid.
--Grimsby Independent': A valu-
able cow, belonging to Mrs. Lally;
lost on Sunday, Aug. 20, and
which was supposed to have been
'stolen was found on Monday, Aug.
29, by Mr. Andrew,Allen lying in a
sink hole in one of his fields: The
sink -hole, which was about tern feet
in diameter, and 6 deep, was cover-
ed-with'brush, and it is -supposed the
cow fell in while trying to pass over
the brush. Strange to say the cow
was not injured in any way, and be-
yond being very weak and emaciated
seemed none the worsofor her enforc•
ed and long fest of eight days.
Cou :tit mot at Hohuosville Sep-
tember 1st•,1887, specially, at two
o clock p. m., to take into considera-
tion certain matters in connection
with the road leading from Holmes -
villa to the Holmesvillo bridge. Af-
ter these bad been discussed and
disposed of the hour was late and
there was 110 ordinary business press-
ing for attention, with the exception
of a petition signed by John Hunter
sOn. and twelve others asking for
$25 to aid one Jessie Stevenson, who
is sick and destitute. After consider-
ation the council gave Mr. Hunter
$15 to be expended for her as occa-
sion required. The council adjourn
ed to meet again on the second Mon-
day in October next at the usual
hour, ten o cloak a. in.
JAMES P,tTTov, Clerk.
—Tho Bruce Telescope strongly
supports Mr. D. Er Cameron, of
Lucknow, ati the successor of Hon.
Edward Blake in the representation
of West Bruce in the Federal Pare
liamen t.
nxirn-
OUR WEEILY ROUND UP.
— Manitoba. potatoes are being
stripped to Outat•io,
— Tri Canadian P•teitic rates 'on
wheat from \Veetern points to Port
Arthur have been reduced.,
--John Ryan, of Brockville, has
got the contract for constructing the
Guelph Junction railway.
—Hugh Stewart, jr.. 16th arta.
Gley, left far Oregon on Tuesday
last.
—There are now over 2,000,000
bushels of grain in the C. P. R,
elevator at Owen Sound. • ..
—Half a million dollars worth of
cheese was offered at the Brockville
market Wednesday. • .
— The death is arutounced of Rev.
Hugh Rose, pastor of ICttox church,
Elora, recently called to ..,Erskine
Church, Hamilton.
—Witlellis usual enterprise) 1+. C.
.Nogers,of Brussels,has shipped one of •
the best salt exhibits from his works,
to the Toronto Fait he ever showed.
—The by-law to raise $100,000 to
pay for the proposed system of
water -works at Woodstock was de-
feated by 400 Majority last Friday.
-=Magistrate Bartlett, of Wind-
sor, has decided that "rats" is not
vile and abusive len uagu when yell-
ed by one person to another.
— The Delhi Canning Company
has 125 names on its pay roll. The
factory canned 62 tons of corn in
five days recently.
—Mrs. Bailey, of Morpeth, is now
hi her 84th year, arid has never
worn spectacles, as she has never
suffered in the least front failing
sight.
—A Paris young man sent a note
to his girl asking at what time he
should call, andreceived in return
the foliowing:-Deer Jon., Comet
afpastate,
-The \Vinnipeg City Council are _
on the lookout for ra new site for a'"
cemetery. They are evidently pre.
paring for the worst in case of a
collision over railway natters.
:l'hursdry last Miss Adeline,
second daughter. of M'r. Benjamin
C. Iliggins, of Exeter, died of that
fatal 'disease typhoid fever at the
early age nineteen years
—Maud Williams, of the Black
Horse hotel, has been committed to
goal for a violation of the Scott
Act. Her Husband recently served
two months for a like offence.
—A man named Jessup; in charge
of thirty cattle on a fai'tn near ,
. Prairie Park, Man: the property of
Aikins tit Montgomery, has skipped
across the boundary, taking the
whole herd.
—Michael Ragan, a H.anrilton
plasterer, was sentenced to twenty
days in j+til, without the option of a
fine, for callinganother workman a
"seab". because he worked on,Satur-
dray afternoon.
By 1110 death of Mr. John Sproat,
to aria -921111.-. year, .Galt ..has lost .one .
of its eery oldest residents. • Mr.
Sproat went to that section about
1834, and almost resided there since.
He was a native of Scotland.
—On Thursday last the 17 -year•
old son of Alex. Urquhart, of Udora,
Ontario county, went to lead a bull
to -the back fields, when in some
way the brute attacked and killed
him. The animal had never pree
viously shown any vicious tendency.
—One of the prominent Winnie
peg hardware firms has received a
letter from a leading manufacturer
of firearms in the States, making an
offer of arms and ammunition at
greatly reduced rates in case of
trouble over railway affairs.
--An old inan named Jas. Wats.
son, of Sunshine, attempted an out-
rage on Sarah, a little daughter of
Jno'. (:Currie, of the sante place. "Ting'
child is about 12 or 13 years of age
and had been sent on a message to
Mr. Watson's while Mrs. and Miss
Watson were away at Brussels. On
going into the house the girl was
taken advantage of by the person
stated above. A warrant was issued
for his arrest and bo was taken bei
fore the magistrates at Brussels
when, after hearing the evidence, be
was committed to stand his trial at
the Fall Assizes, at Goderich. The
father of ,the child is bound by n
bond, it is said, to prosecute when
the time coupes. Bail was accepted
for Watson's appearance at the
Assizes. The Watson family is
highly respected and respectable,
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