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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron News-Record, 1887-09-21, Page 24 rttiimen4p wary Wedxt'O:sdug Mprnf ng' r----- AT THEIR, POWER PRESS PRINTING Hp GSE, Ontario Street. Clkaton. Au wa th•o #i ll to .ti oaslauelt by N .s cobr. „tom* p,\p oils wbax 'after a; fearft4 F.spag l , dtlriP wh,;ycll s() oral :,idol iu, , bilin le were. recet:vcd on, both sides, attceeeded in ave',;p0wering the 1noonlightors, five of whom they captured. \Vlsee- �aan had beep twenty-two years iu the police service, and had been stationed at Ennis. Ile leaves a wife and five Children. In the House of Commons, last night, the' Tories made the most of Wheel:►n'a murder and were delighted at the loophole it afforded them to excul- pate themselves from any blame that attaches to them on account of the Mitchellstown tragedy. Mr. Balfour, chief secretary for Ireland, pinned his argument on this occurrence and found in it sufficient excuse for the results of the Government's coercion policy in Ireland. Mr. Gladstone, iu answer to the Secretary, made a moat drastic speech, in which he carefully drew attention to the dif- ferencebetween a band of outlaws like the moonlighters whom every- body, including the Irish, looked down upon and discountenanced, killing a constable and a cold-blood- ed and entirely unwarranted attack by the police. The venerable Home Ruler insisted that previous errors, even his own, were no excuse for the most regrettable killing at Mitohellstown. •The bulk of the speeches on this question in the House were calculated to affect the electors at large in England if they did not the Tory members of Par- liament. The greatest crowd that has been neon iu the house during the entire session was present. The strangers' gallery was crowded to suffocation. 11.26 in acloa:,,ce; $2-i/ not 80 paid. The proprietoraot' THE Goni'1r1011 NEWS, having purchased the .business and plant of THE HURON RECORD, will in future publish the amalgamated papers in Clinton, under the title of '"f HE HURON Naws- %mcoan." Clinton is the most prosperous town in Wejstern Ontario, is the seat of considerable manufacturing, and the centre of the finest agricultural section in Ontario. The combined circulation of THE NEWS. RECORD exceeds that of any parer pub- 'ished in the County of Huron. It is, therefore, unsurpassed as an advertising medium. s3'Rates of advertising liberal, and furnished on application. £'Parties making contracts for a speei- tied titne, who discontinue their advertise- ments before the expiry of the same, will be charged full rates. Advertisements, without instructions as to space and time, will be left to the judg- ment of the compositor in the display, iu- eerted until forbidden, tneasured by a scale of solid nonpareil (12 lines to the inch), and charged 10 cents a line for first insertion and 3 cents a line for each sub- sequent insertion: Orders to discontinue advertisements must be in writine. tV Notices set as READING MATTER, (measured by a scale of solid Nonpa•iol, 12 lines to the inch) charged at the rate of 10 cents a line for each insertion. JOB WORK. • We have one of the best appointed Job Offices west of Toronto. Our facilities in this department enable us to do all kinds of work -froth a calling card to a mammoth poster, in the best styie known to the craft, and at the lowest possible rates. Orders by mail promptly attended to. Address The News -Record, Clinton. Out The Huron News -Record Wednesday. Sept. 2lst, 1887 School Book Outrages• An exchange says :—"The county schools have again commenced op- eration. The demand for now books will, as usual, make the parent's pockets groan, for. although many of those on hand aro as good as new, yet the speculators who control the Education Department of the On- tario Government have obtainer authorization for many now ones, and they will have to bo procured. A promise was obtained from Mr. Ross, during the elections, that a curb would be put on the rapacity of the Globe gang, and the Grip publishing company, by retaining the books then iu use until 1889. But already the spirit of this agree- •ment is violated. For, although Mr. Rose is.apparontly keeping his -word'tiy'alto-WIng.•the `books to re• main on the lists, yet a large num- ber of new books have in the mean- time boon authorized. Tho exam- ination papers will, of course, be made from these new books, so that the pupils, in order to pass the ex- atninations, will be obliged to buy the books. A now public school arithmetic goes into operation on Monday, price 25 cents; a new pub- . lie school geography, price 75 cents; a new public school grammar, price 25 cents; a now text book on tem- peraneLi, price. .25 cents; a music reader, price 40 cents. Both the latter are new additions to the already overloaded curriculum. In the IIigh School wo have a ---�- ----"*"-rttfTrfitTfilTrI Irre 5 can s; I<'now Geography, price $1; a new Alge- bra, price 75 cents; a new German Grammar, price 7 5 •cents; a work on Zoology, price 75 cents; a now Chemistry, price 75 cents; a high school Music Reader, price 75 ceuts. Where is this thing to end ? The Ennis Tragedy. "It's an ill wind that blows no- body good," is a saying forever true. If one can call a sett and tragic murder fortunate, thou the murder of Constable Wheelan by the Moonlighters on Monday night, in a house near Ennis, is a most for- tunete. occurrence for the Govern- ment, coming as it does directly in the wake of the Mitchollstown affair, when the Ministry was at their wits' end to give some reasonable explan- ation of the unfortunate affray. It proves that there is crime in Ire- land. Indeed there is crime in Ireland. The killing of the head constable was a tragic affair indeed. Wheelan wee at the head of a posse of 12 police when they were con- fronted by eight moonlighters and immediately a bloody battle ensued. No firearms were used at all. They worn at too close range for that, but a hand-to-hand encounter was brave- ly fought. Wheelan was killed at the outset by a powerful blow on the head from a bludgeon. His A PROHIBITIO Y PARTY. A Scott Act Convention Adopts a Resolution Favoring the Or- ganization of a Party with Prohibition as its Principal Plank. The Scott Actor Dominion Alli- ance convention closed its sitting in Toronto last Wednesday after- noon. Arrangements were made for a campaign against the repeal movement, and all temperance peo- ple are called upon to assist the assailed counties. A vigorous pro- test will be made to the Dominion Government against the repeal vote in those counties in which the Scott Act has been in force for the full period of throe .years. A supple- mentary campaign fund will be created to render assistance to local organizations where the repeal vote is pending. A central committee was appointed to control the cam- paign fund: A lecture bureau was also formed. Several hours were spent in dis- cussing the formation of a prohibi- tion party, and the following reso- lution, moved by Rev. Dr. Suther- land, was carried : sat .4 e. Sty Wifliaw tiarc tart %hd Gledstptte attacked x. hp:,Government for endorsing the action of the police in the shooting at Mitchell - town. MR. BALFOUR'S REPLY. Ms. Balfor, in replying to Sir William Vernon Harcourt, said that the instructions the police were now acting under were the same they had received when Sir William was a member of the Gladstone Government. (Cheers.) With regard to General Buller, Mr. Balfour said he had always acted in perfect harmony with the pre- sent Government- His appoint- ment as Under Secretary • for Ire- landwas only temporary, and he resigned now simply because he de- sired not to delay his return to the War Office. (Cries of "Oh 1" "Oh !" from the Parnetites.) If any ono supposed that General Buller's re- tirement was due in the slighestde- degree to a difference of opinion with him (Mr. Balfour), the sup- position was absolutely false. Re- ferring Co Sir William's contention that the suppression. of public meet- ings las illegal, Mr. Balfour said that ho did not know at what per- iod Sir William lost Ms knowiedge Of law ; but it was a matter of his- tory that under the common law of Ireland Sir William himself act- ed with Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Forster in proclaiming 130 meeet- iugs. (Cheers.) It was again and again stated when these meetings were proclaimed• that the act of 1882 did not contain any new powers. The question really was not whethere the Government's action was legal, but whether it was politic. An important element to consider was the condition of the "Whereas, the experience of 30 years in Greet Britain, in the United States and Canada shows that no advanced temperance legislation need bo expected from the existing political parties as such ; whereas the public utterances of party load- ers in the Dominion afford no ground of hope that prohibition will be made a plank in their plat- form in the near future, if at all, and, whereas there is no distinct issue of principles between the ex- isting parties which render their continued existence necessary or important ;. therefore be it resolved that this convention is of opinion that the present juncture is peculiar- ly favorable for the organization of a new party, with prohibitiou as a chief plank in its platform." A Commercial Unionist. Jonathan Pitts, of Norwich,Conn., is a fast man, a shay man, a man of 5usine"�' ss-1acf:`-ndrivu i s foes into a store t0 trade he always gets the lowest cash price; so he says : "Well; I'll look about, and if I don't find. nnything that suits me better I'll take this." Pitts, like all fast then, is partial to the fair sex, and quite lately said to himself : "I am getting rather along in years, and guess I'll get married." His business qualities wouldn't wait; so off ho travels, and calling upon a lady friend opened the con- versation by remarking that he would like to know what she thought about his getting married. "Oh, -Mr. Pitts, that is an affair iu which I am not so very greatly interested, and I prorer to leave it with yourself." "But," says Pitts, "you are inter- ested ; and, my dear girl, will you marry me?" Tho young lady blushed very red, hesitated, and finally, as Pitts was very well to do in the world, and morally, financially, and politically of good standing in society, she ac- cepted him; whereupon the matter- of-fact Pith responded : "Well,®I'il look about, and if I don't find anybody that suits me better than you I'll tomo back." —A bricklayer named Sibley fell thirty fent to the ground, off build- ing in Woodstock, breaking one leg and both arms. He will likely recover. SLAW* TN ;1 ,ITSTR Tads ,. Some of t.110, P1ee41iPr E;prrss- ions Whit, are tTped in That Distant Land. A. writer in All the Year Round gives the, following examples of Australian slang : Log huts are commonly called "sbaz}tjes," and a curse of the bush districts of Aus- tralia is the "grog shanty," an insti- tution only too common. A hand employed -on a sheep or cattle sta- tion, where he receives a periodical check from his omylovor, will often forthwith "woke. _tracks" for the nearest "grog shanty and remain there until the whole of his 'hardly earned pay is consumed in drink. Should he meet kindred spirits there the money will, probably, be district of a notorious centre of agrarian crimes. It was absurd to describe such meetings as being for free discussion. They were heralded by placards of au inflam- matory nature. and it was obviously their object to defeat the law and foster outrages and intimidation. Regarding the Mitehelltown affair, Mr. Balfour said it had been clearly ascertained that the action of the police was in the face of [extreme provocation. (Cries - of "No 1") The police were assaulted with stones and blvckthorn sticks before they drew their batons. (Cries of "No, no," and "Hear. hear,") It was not till they were thrown into disorder by the charge of the horse- men, which knocked down and wounded a number and forced the rest to fly for their lives, that the police fired. It was abfolutely necessary for them to fire to protect the barracks and the • unfortunate police stragglers outside. (Cries of "Oh 1 oh 1" and cheers.) Tho fir- ing was not the filing of random men iu a . panic, but a deliberate act under the order -of the com- manding officer. He maintained that the conduct of the police was amply justified, and that they were in no way to blame. The sole re- sponsibility rested upon those who convoked the meeting. (Cheers.) SinViillam .hacT.on his lips the words liberty, justice and free speech, but the actual weapons he, and his friends used', iu tho Irish contest were obstruction in Parlia- ment and resistence to the law out- side, violence and intimidation worse than violence. (Cheers.) Did the opposition mean to further inflame the passions of the Irish, driving them into resistence of the law of liborty founded upon order - irat-was-ce e-detrr-rcr-bertlr past -ins of the state? He appealed to them to have regard to the community whose lives and properties were counters with 'which Sir William was playing a political game. (Cheers.) The Government did not waver in their policy. They believed that a firm administration of the law and a determination to do their utmost to remove the evils fomenting discontent would bring to Ireland a united people. They knew that they must expect little assistance from the Opposition, but nndisniayed by criticism and with unshaken courage they would per- severe in the course that must end in the conciliation of Ireland. (Loud cheers.) Mr. Balfour announced that teligram had been received regard- ing the affray at Lisd000nvarna lastnight. The despatch states that five moonlighters were captur ed. Constable Whelan was killed and three others severely hurt. A number of rifles ;and revolvers and a quantity of ammunition were cap- tured. The five mon captured were arrested inside the house of farmer Saxton. Two more were identified to -day. Farmer Saxton, whom the gang had meant to mur- der, had been summoned by the League and censured and he had promised to surrender his farm, but he did not do so. Tho gang, there- fore, who entered his' ]souse worn about to shoot him when the police, who lay in ambush, surprised them. PriahlhOton Al Qu as of 1"yrunlr- $040 .11, *i'g O1 s*— (PPM The 0°111134p Churcttmnn) Another and a very painful il- lustration of the danger incident to the use of prohibitory force in the interest of temperance has oc- curred in the oity of Toronto during the pant few weeks. The city coun- cil -last year .decided to close 74 saloons. With their intention to diminish the evils of drinking we heartily sympi,th.iae, but their policy is clearly not adapted to secure the end in view. The idea was to get in the ps'ohibtiau wedge, and year by year to drive it further until the city would be practially governed by the prohibition law and party. The immediate result of the closing of these places was to increase drunk - (mesas to such an alarming extent that the press is discussing the cause and remedy. Ono somewhat important factor in this and other questions, is however overlooked and is always overlooked when pro- hibition is discussed, that factor is human nature, 'particularly the human nature of mon of the British race. It is doubtless a terrible weakness in Britons in the opinion of prohibitionists that those born and bred in the old laud, or spring- ing from those who were, utterly detest abhor and indignantly resent that insolent and inpertinont med- dling with their private tastes and habits in diet which prohibitionists seem so',nueh to enjoy, which in- deed seems to bo the inspiration of their zeal. Heuae the mischievous outbreak of excessive drinking in Toronto, it simply arises from the same passion for liberty which has in all ages characterized our race, and won for it and the world all the liberty civil and religious now soon disaipated by the process of "shouting." Each man in turn "shouts"—that is to say, stands treats to the rest of the gathering. When the money is gone the bush- man, a sadder, not a wiser man, will return to his work ou the station and begin to Darn the wherewithal of another debauch. "Shouting" is a very common colonial expression for standing treat to strangers. A frequent invitation is to take a "long-sleeved 'un," that is, a drink from a pint glass. In the early days of the gold fever such hospi- tality was practiced ou a very ex- pensive scale. Many stories, some of which are probably apocryphal, are told of the various means by which lucky diggers would hasten to squander their gold. Ono man is said to have orderedthe stock of champagne in au .hotel, cellar, num- bering many scores of bottles, for which ho paid some hundreds of pounds, to be placed in a skittle alley, and on these costly skittles he bowled away until there was not ono left unmeshed. It may be noted, by the ._way, _that "inns_'.'_ not exist in Australia; every house of refreshment is a "hotel." It may be only a shanty up country, or it may rise to the dignity of a galvan- ized iron erection in a small town- ship, or, finally, it may be a palatial building in a capital city ; but the name remains the same. A native of Now South Wales is known as a "cornstalk," because the men gener- ally grow tall and thin. The oppo- site kind of build, short and thick- set, is called "nuggetty." A "gum - sucker" is a native of Tasmania and owes his elegant name to the num- ber of gutn-trees in the Tasmanian forests. A native of Queensland is a "banana -lander." "Jeoy" is a fa- miliar name for anything young or small, and is applied indifferently to a puppy or kitten or a child, while a "wood -and -water Jeoy" is a hanger about hotels and doer of odd jobs. A RIDE ON THE C. P. R. (Composed on' the train while coming from Manitoba.) From Brandon we start on the C. P.R. road To travel OIl0e more to our former abode ; The prtilries out -here are so covered with grain, They bring to our memory Huron again. As wo leave Winnipeg, on both sides of the road As far as we see there is nothing'.ut wood; Some places it's green and at others quite dead, As we speed on our way to our home far ahead. : Along through a wilderness now wo do ride, Low bushes and muskegs aro seen on each side ; Of birds there are few, of wild animals w none, As we speed on our way to old Huron our home. We soon leave Innate with a new iron steal, The rocks on each side do not hinder its 'speed Across rushing rivers, by many a.lake, Thronglt picturesque places our way now From Port Arthur now we are hurryinr,on, The track on each. side is still bordered with stone : We speed along quickiy 'ni(d rocks of such • height That the tops as we journey are lost to our sight. Log shanties 'mud ,boulders are here and there seen By the side of the rail track wham nothing is green Excepting the blushes and grass by the road, Which passes along 'mid burnt tamarack wood. As we, pear Toronto the scenes ollange again, Instead of the rocks we now see fields of grain, We sec better houses add barns by the track, And staples and beeches instead of team. ask. As westward we hie on the Grand Trunk railroad, We're4till getting nearer our former abode; We know that wherever we may or can Main, We cat find naught our holo. • to equal old Huron -13EN llrsTE11. —Mr. Geo. D. Raine, of Campbell - ford, died last week from blood poi- soning. About ten days provions he went out for a pleasure drive in company with his wife and children, and during the trip he stopped and gathered some hickory nuts which ho picked open with his teeth, Ho had a cold sore on his lip at tine time, which became ichy and gave him some uneasiness, afterwards causing death. ThR st'awes Ho er:i Before -the Qin #90,140nt. How sad and cruel was the fate' of those light-hearted, happy peo- ple so suddenly' hurled to their death; 1 It somas as if sullen rate, displeased with their happiness, took revenge upon them. The story of Mrs. Merriam Grant, one of the. of Pray, 'Atfftit- .- --• • wounded who resides att1499 North-; Madison street, Peoria, impresses• the mind with this. She was in the rear chair in the car with her husband. In this oar was a party of six .people. In order that they might sit together Mr. and Mrs. Grant changed seats with a young 'man and his bride. ' Their courtesy saved their lives, for the couple were both killed. Mrs. Grant thought this party were theatrical people or concert singers, they were so jolly and sang so well, They could. sing, and they laughed and told stories and anticipated the pleasure of the trip until late at!' night. Then Mrs. Grant composed herself in her chair and covered her face with her handkerchief to go to sleep. Nearly everybody in the car was quiet but the jolly party of six. About this time the young bride was requested to sing "Sweet Hour of Prayer." Something in the desire to sleep and rust recalled the sweet old song. The young woman sung and all listened while the train sped on : enjoyed. The result in this in- stance is revolting, but history abounds with incidents which show how serious are the evils arising from attempts to suppress by law that' which men regard as lawful. Wore the vegetarians to become a majority they would prohibit butchers' shops, as these persons as- sert and believe that pleat eating. is one of the chief causes of disease and crime. 'But if they did so there would be an enormously increased consumption of beef and mutton, as all sane people would feel bound to protest against an enforced vegetar- ian diet. Some would go to ex- cess and oat meat gluttonously just as so many have been drinking to excess to exhibit their anger at the prohibitionist policy at Toronto. That the closing of so many saloons has increased drinking needed not however this painful demonstration. Any person' accustomed to pass through the streets and observe could see that the saloons left open were crowded as they had never before been. We took pains to en- quire- about-=-t-h-isy and --have • infor- mation not only from an official source,. but from saloon keepers, to the effect that the business of the closed houses has been trausferred to those left open, and has largely_ increased the amount of drinking, as a crowded bar creates that rough joviality which is so tempting, to the saloon keeper so lucrative, and, to the drinker so dangerous. Wo take this opportunity of entering our protest against the falsehood being circulated in the temperance pres on this matter, and the shame- less mendacities being palmed off on the American press in reference to the present regime in Toronto. We have no hesitation in saying that;.vise ancl-rsehossiteveessysecdtases. reinvent iu Toronto as they are to -- day, and that if prohibitory .mea- sures aro carried further the result will bo Co tura ten thousand of our best citizens- into violators of the law. The Scott Act has demon- strated that the force of law cannot restrain men from what they con- sider a lawful custom. Tho same law in human nature which has Ever made restrictions upon social and personal habits, not inherently and universally recognised as sinful, to result in those restrictions being set aside because of there intensify- tho evils they were intended to check. That innate passion for person al liberty so masterful in the British race will make prohibition the deadliest antagonist of temperance. Human nature is too potent a factor to be ignored—as it is utterly ig- nored by those whose zeal for tem- porante is not according to wisdom. "Sweet hour orprayer, sweet hour of prayer That calls me from a world of care, And bids me at my Father's throne Make all my wants and wishes known." There was a pause and the clear voice went up again : "And since He bids me seek His face, Believe His words and trust Nis grace : I'll cast on Him my every care And wait for thee, sweet hour of prayer.' Oh, how little did the singer and her audience think that to most of them the morning never would come for another "Sweet Hour of Prayer." And thou what was it Did they sing it as the last and most fitting song before closing their eyes in sleep or did the angel of death bring the thought ta thew minds 1 Whatever it was, all raised their voices in the grandest of pray - ere, "Nearer. My God To Thee,' and singing it wont down to their death, "Though like a wanderer, the sun gone down, • Darkness be over me, my rest a stone►" went up the melody above tho roar of the doomed train. The sun had gone down but they did 'not know it. Darkness would soon be over them but they knew . it not, and as the little gleam of devilish' fire ape: peered far down the track theta voices swelled in "Vet in my dreams I'd be Nearer My God to Thee." - Tho speed of the train increased down the grade. Again the song swelled : "There let the way appear, ,steps unto; heaven." The way was already in sight. "All that thou sendest to me, mercy, given." ' And then but a moment of life, left for each.' Even poor Ed. Me- Clintock's hand was giving his last desperate wrench -to the throttle of the engine, the singers sane to their. God who seemed not to be holding them in the hollow of His hand : "Angels to•beckon me, Nearer niy God to Thee." Enough. It was finished,. The engines §truck the frail bridge and it sank. The car containing the singers crashed like a bolt of Jove through the two cars in front of it,, killing and grinding as a foot kills. • a worm. In the same instant an- -otlisi israshetl-th?otlali" -tiro singers were dead. —An olcl bachelor of Avon ad- vertised for a housekeeper recently. A pretty young woman from Tor- onto applied for the position in per- son. Tho baeholor had a marriage certificate all prepared, minus the name of the lady, and as soon as she arrived ho took her with him to a clergyman's house to bo mar- ried. Tho lady refused to give her name, and declined the offer of the gentlemen's hand. She wanted to go home at onco, but hadn't the money; but the villagers took up a collection and raised enough to send her home. • Pompey's Clever Answer. Away in the west it negro named! Pompey fired himself as a'laborer- to a farther who was very fond of laying out the work so that there... was always something pressing when Sunday arrived. When hay -time came he would sometimes cut down; a lot of play which would require-. turning over in the morning. Ono Sunday morning ho called his now servant : . "Now, Pompey, get up." "Don't want to get up ; Sunday. morning, massa." "But you must get up and get your breakfast." "Don't want no breakfast; Sun- day morning, masa; rather lay abed,, than breakfast,• massa." "But get up and shako out the. hay." "Don't do work on Sundays,, massa; I didn't hire out to work on Sundays." "Oh I but this is a work of neces- sity." "Don't see that, mosso, at all; don't see dat; it's no work of necessity." "Well ! but would you not pull your ox out of the pit on the SA - bath, day 1" "0, yes, massa; 0, yes, hitt not if I shoved hints in ou Saturday night."'