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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton New Era, 1888-08-31, Page 47 7.!'• ssaa 7 res in ...(Irtrttuiturtit$. te;;•00.413,--.Li, sliver Stray calves- S. ALcVittio Lege ter eale -Jgs. Brow ttouge to reut-W. 11. Mine Farni for male -E. G. POtter Boys clothing-- Jackson' Bros.. Duster found -e -New Bra °thee New drese goods-Petlqr & Co. Pot full tratte-LW. L. Ouimette MINita ry oveltiels-Be Ailey et Cu. 41inton Iflcwta FRIDAY, A.1.7t1 31, 18iS A I Ilter C all ItCttiIilttiOJI. President Chas.:land has raised a sen- sationi ii political Lind commercial dr - eh s, by asking for further powers to retaliate upon' Canada because of the alleged ill taeatinent of .American &h- e/ :lien by the Doi 11 i itin. Some Ameri• can aml Canadian paps re regard his actioe as simply a piece of electioo bluster, and while this leas be all that Cnit there really is in it, it is just pos. sible that he may mean to do all that he saris, His proposition, in brief, is that, to punish Canada for hindering the shipment of fish by rail front some Neva Scotia or New Brunswick port to Heston, the passage of goods between Cali ad a a 'id Enginardsthrcmgh - Melte, Miehigan or New York shall be forbid- Ien. This 11100.119 a great deal to Cana. it merchants and their customers. Some -Canadian papers have put.. on a bold front, and claim that "retaliation" • will be only partial, but it is safe to predict that if Mr Cleveland goes into the retaliation business he will hot be satisfied with simply blocking the amend Trunk company's road to Portland, or the Canadian Pacific company's Boston connections. The retaliation will be if midertaken at all; and. while it is highly improbable that there will be a complete blockade at the , boundary, it is likely that every pound ! of freight entering the United States ' from Canada, evhstiter it be goods in I bond for re•export, goods in transit from one United States point to another through Canadian territory, or orcli• retry esports f Veen Canada, will be trtated as an importations liable for customs dutv.. t is clear that such a regulation would deprive Canadian rail. ways of much of their western traffic, and the most profitable bustiness of the Crapd Trunk and Canadian Pacific companies vonsiets in the conveyance of grain from Chicago and other points • in the Western States to Portland and Boston, for shipment to Europe. The Canadian Piscine reed is now underbid- ding the American lines in the carrying of freights from an Francisco and other paints ii 1110 PaCik coast to the Eastern States, and one of the charges brought against President Cleveland by his opponents is that he Tuts been seo'• milting the (.1', 11. to entitle the lido -- State Commeree Act. President Cleveland admits that a ladies, of retaliation can eat 1)111 11 11. Ile says :- •• It will be impossible to injure our ',anadian neighbors by retaliation with inflicting.some damage on ourselves. .1.1ns results from our proxinuty, our esenumnity of interests, and the inevi• table commingling of business enter - poises which have been developed by mutual activity." ()or 11W11 011illi011 is that Ceineda would suffer a great deal mete than would the States, by this course. The ' sery fact that the message„.has mused such a sensation here shows how cont. pletely our commercial interests are in- terwoven with those of .the United States, and the absurdity of attempting n's maintain a tariff wall between two aountries so situated. The'eure for the threatened non -intercourse, and all the other diffieultiea between Canada and the United States, is unrestricted reei7 procity. The abolition of all restraints upon international commerce would not only give our farmers, fishermen, tanbermen and millesfo an enlarged free maiket.fOr'what they have to sell, bitt it would furnish our railway lines, and water transportation companies an • Ample field for the expansion and de- velopment of the international Carrying t rade. It is all very well to say that we can eet along just as well without American trade RS with it. but onr people would tied ou; to their sorrow that they could not, do anything of the kind. Canada cannot be strictly independent, if she ould. We would survive, it is true, leo our losscommercially, would be emiething enormous, and the.very best thing that Canada* tan do is to recede from its position, with the best grece possible. iVe have been acting unwisely with reference to our eanala also. By treaty the AMeriCall8 have a right to use our canals on the same terms on which our own people nse them. This provision has been dodged by h» arrangement about as smart as that limier which the Americans used to admit lobsters free, but charge n duty on the tin can in it Inch the lobsters were packed. All veseele going through the Welland Canal were charged a toll of 20 cents it tOn, but vessels going on through the St. Lawrence Canals got la ciente a ton re- funded. A Canadian vessel would be carrying' grain frotn Chicago, Toledo. Duluth or Port Arthur to Montreal. A United States vessel would unload at Oswego or Ogdensburg. The Americans seethe dodge, and President Cleveland threatens to mulct Canadian vessels passing through the St. Clair end Sault Ste. Marie canals. Mr Hugh McLen- xtensive Montreal grain ship- asser that if' the Amerioans Canadiau vessels passing through Saitlt Ste. Marie canal to iay tolis etre stain men might, as well chew up, as their trade would he tilt art. 1 OUR ToETTE 1 BOX ed to Buffalo." Aud such a strong sup- l INIWINIATs CA 1.,,ST- 111.1A I la LAIIVC,Pot) XXO.P09 glalAk 4,41:0 4,,NPP,Ii-4,1 4, +A porter ef tile government US WO Mon- treal Gossett, urges that the Welland 'Po eh P IfMitor V Is Yets Eiv• and St. Lawrence meals be made en- St;, -During the lest few days tke tirely free to American as well as Ca 'Petition bee been put to we, "Can a 'ladies' vessels and cerguee. frame building be bailt iu the fire lim. its," and I have had to flay, "No, if we '.- The Hamilton T Linea voncludes a sen comply with our by-laws." " Then,' sible article on the subjeet with the fol why do you allow it." I told theist 1 lowing remarks, whio•li we heartily en was not lathe council, and bad nothing more to do with the by-laws thew any dorse: - "Canada and the United States ought other ratepayer. The by-law painted in the year 1880, says that all wood build - to be good neighbors, each rejoicing in ings must be veneered with brick 4i the prosperity of the other. Our broth- inches thick, and have the shingles laid er sister i - in mortar. We found that some s, s and Coatii li ns are v ng in the Wilted States, and we have many nat. ties violated the by-law, by putting the ives of the United States domiciled in brick on the square tirnber, so, in 1883, Canada. The old notion of the merean. we amended it by stating that all frame tiie school of economists -that we buildings and additions must have a stone foundation of one foot in thick. nese. I have no doubt that a great many of our by-laws are vielated, through par- ties not knowing them. Then who is to blame? I say whoever is the in- spector, if he sees a party intending to build he should make inquiries as to what kind of a building they are going to put up, and tell them the by-law, if ' they do not know it. The same thing ' applies to streets. No one has a right ; to dig up the street, without permission 1 from the °council. A large number of our culverts are nearly filled up with rubbish since the late storms. It is the duty of the inspector to e t they are cleaned; the bylaw says so, or at least it mewls it. The hose tower is in a very dirty state, and for months the windows have been broken ; it is not a fit place to take visitors to our town. I have been in the habit of tak- ing visitors in the tower to see over our town, as it affords a good landscape view, but 1 hint to quit, for the above reason, The cellar also is in a bad state. The treea around town have been cut and hacked by the telephone men, after all the trouble that has been taken by our people to plant trees to beautify the town; the men belonging to these companies should see the au- thorities before they touch a tree. Further than this, I think if any ratepayer points out to the Inspector where bylaws are being violated, it is the duty of the Inspector to remedy the defect without giving the name of his 1 authority to the party complained against. Individually, I alfl trilling to bear responsibility for any action I take, but there are many people in town whet would give iuformation if they thought their names woula be withheld, and I believe it to be a breach of faith for the Inspector to, use the name as he has been known tucks Yours, W.C.SgA111.1% The first gang ottelephone men ' cut and backed some trees badly, but we understand that the foreman of the se- cond gang, displaying better judgment, has engaged Mr Searle to superintend the cutting of trees that obstruct their lines in this ,vicinity.- ED.: should not trade with another nation lest that nation should make a pt•ofit- Viet profit on one side involves loss on the other -is discarded by all enlight- ened people. Trade is for mutual ad- vantage, and there will be none of it, bet seen individuals or between natione, except such as is mutually advantag• eons. Then why act the part of the dog in the manger ? Why cut off one's nose to smite one's face ? Our tariffs and our canal tolls, our rigorous en- forcements of treaty stipulations made years before there were any railways, and our anxiety to vex one another are unworthy of the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Sir John Macdon ald s retaliatory bravado harms Canada as w°11 as the United States, and as we are the smaller and the poorer the dam. age to us is relatively greater. Quit it ! Do not wait to be forced, but retreat from an untenable position while it can be done without humiliation." -es,* It is possible for even a government to be idiotic, and that is, the only term which describes the action of the Dom- inion ( overnment in imposing a duty on American fruit baskets. ---sois••••••- - -- The -tall elihnney" of the Loudon Steel works has had a bad tumble, and all the creditors Call gather out of the ruins is Is cents on the dollar. What would be the amount of protection ne- cessary to have enabled it to make it 100 cents S • • • The TOr011ti) ‘Vorld is authority for the statement that Hon. Mr Drury has given the chair of agriculture in the- Cuelph Agriculture College to Thomas Shaw, of Hamilton. If this is correct, the appointment will give general satis- faction,for MrShaw is a practical Cana- dian fernier, with the advantage of al- so being:editor of the Canadian Live Stock Thema]. — - • • . Some time ago the NEW ERA received an illustrated catalogue descriptive of the beauties of Jacksonville, Florida, atal the man in search of " health, wealth or comfort" was advised to "come eolith," the place being a perfect paradise -on paper. Just now the city has yellow fever pretty badly, and every man who can flee away is putting all the distance he can between himself rind the afflicted city. Our owe visit shall be indefinitely postponel The Enipire remarks that Mr livery aleorge is .evidently a Commercial Un- ionist, as he says: • -What we ought to do toward Cana- da is to practically annex the whole country by throwing down the wall of tariff ditties and discrhninations, and let the influences that would quickly • make hs one people have free play." , Dropping out of sight for the moment the ostiestion of annexation, what would follow; supposing the 'United States did throw off all its duties and discriminss tious. Let those opposed to Commer- cial Union reason out this proposition and see where it will take them. • The public men prominent in the his. tory of the past keep moving off the scene of life's activities. Sir John Rose is the latest 'one, and died suddenly while huntirig in Scotland on Saturday. He was at one time a prominent figure in Canadian politics, representing Mon- treal West, end .subsequently don count, in parliament. He was Minister. of Finance front 1807 until DOM, when he retired to become a mem• tier of the London banking firm of Mor. tonsItose aud company. He was one nf the old time Conservatives, and was regarded as a man above reproach. The London Advertiser scores a good point at the expense of the Empire. That paper received a subscription from one of its subscribers in Springfield, Mass., who remarked that " He was filled with disgast at any paper that tries to belittle its own coun- try for the sake of a few dollars." . This was meant as a slap at Commcr • cial Unionists, and the Empire was so thick headed that it did' not see it was more a coedemnation of the N. l'., be- cause. As the Advertiser pointedly puts it, " Why did the writer forsake; his country, if notfqr the sake of a few dollars." Any paper that gets -the stfirt Qi the ,pithy paragrapher", of the Ad- vertiser has to rise v.ol'S carlY iti II"' in oriti • • eis- It hes been left for the Mitchell Ati. vocate to reply m our article concern- ing Mr (1reenway's turnover in this county. No paper itt Huron challenged the correctness of our remarks, because they knew the particulars to be exactly as we narrated them, but the old adage wes exemplified in this instance: sts)els rush in where angels fear to trese, The Advocate, in Re bombastic fa- shion, discredits our statement as to Mr Greenwaynever haying been a Con. servative, and indulges in a good deal of rant that is foreign to the question. The Oonservatives of Stift county made use of Mr Greenway, knowing exactly his position, and anything the Advocate inay say will not 'alter this feet We are not surprised that the Conserve. tives of Huron have no love for Mr Greenway,brit there is nothing to be gain- ed by attempting to distort faxes that are familiar to eyerybody who has tak• en any part in the political affairs of this county. We offered no justifica- tion of his course. further than to say that had he been aronservati ve all his life the eirettin-.1 abet * would hi% o Lou), different. NEWS NOTES. Crop reports froln Manitoba have a favorable tone. Senator MeCailtim is 111 with an abscess in the throat. Ilon. Mr Mowat returned from England on Saturday. The °raw Grand Lodge open- ed in Winnipeg on Tuesday. Eight hundred workmeu were drowned by au inundation in China. John Cahill, an old resident of Stratford, died there on Sunday Sir John Bose druppoi dead on Saturday while deer•shooting at Cad Hitless. Hon. J. S. If. Thompson, Min- ister of Justice, has been made a K. C. M. G. The Manitoba I ;,Ivortinient and the Northeen Pacitic officials have eigned the new vontract. Half of the people in Moroce are said to be in rebellion against the Sultan, and the country is generally in a bad state. Rev Isaac Crane, of Woodstock, writes from Carberry, Manitoba, stating that the wheat crop there is phenomenally heavy and has riot been damaged by the frost. Mr 0. A. Marden, of Northum- berland and Durham, was nomin- ated for tho Legislature on TUOS- day by the East Northumberland Refertn Convention. The Manitoba Logislatut•e op °nod on Tuesday. Mr Winram, once the only avowed Reformer in the Manitoba Legislature, was elected Speaker of that body. Olio of the supporters of the .00f of the new Baptist Church at Stt.atford fell Saturday morning with a terrible crash. Mr John Carey was huri by a falling tim- ber. 1\11. J Richardson's hotel at 11- lieellewaite, British eolumbia,was burned to the ground on Wed- needay last. 'Mr Richat•dson re- cently removed to that county from Dorchester. The Alice lino steamship Paris- ian, from Liverpool, which arriv- ed at Quebec at 6 o'clock on day, made the fastest passage on re eord, beeline' her own time .• several -hours.. Crop reports from Camelia!, Pacific in Manitukt agents SIlOW that grain is being cut in every directioo,. and there is IVC Py 11.M.• on•to believe the crop ti gathered in good (101(11 i. The farmers are t. • Geo Wiark, the poing tough tvhr, ro1,1,01. the. jovellery store of I. E. Solith Villtury Center, win.: found 011 iltt 11101 stil- tenc'cd too 2:1 month- at 1110 Cen- tral Prisoiii at lotted lalsir, About $150 tvorth of the soden property has Leen recovereil. •••-••••—•••••••••••• WAS THE SCOTT ACT TIIE • , I. I EVER, HAPPENED TO THE Cs?..1..T.NT1LY. • . 'fro the Elite). of the Cainton Era. • Stli,-The west difficult Oahe of tlti problem.is that those who driiik least most effectual] I ; 1 ..y ssiser tse prtigrets of temperrtnee. Is this proposition a harsh ' one ? I beliene it to -be true, and 1 • make the statement for the sake if truth and temperance. When 1 as• smile' that three-fourths of our male adults drink, I do not mean it to be un- derstood that three. quarters, ur eV011 Ono quarter, of them Inc intemperate or excessive drinkers. • The drunkards, the hard drinkers, and the liquor sellers all combined, could not for one hour hinder the progress of tentperance, if their efforts were not strengthened by the influence of the oceitatonal drinkers. The great majority of those who •drink are ocensional drinkers t,ii h t tie u who do not lrink enough itt their own esti- mation, or in the estimation of the general pnblic, to do any harm, but who thank just enough to thro.v their influence and their example on the side of intonmerance, and not on the side of temporanee. Jf it be known that a man drinks champagne once a Month, that is sufficient to destroy his influence for temperance. 11 a man drinks .beer once a week, and it be not generally known, he does not. usually advocate temperance, He does not reel like ask- ing' others not to drink, and cannot consequently rebuke .the man who sells him liquor. The most he can do is in a silent way. wish the cause of temper- ance success,and,in a quiet way deplore what be calls the evils of intemperance. It is just these occasional drinkers who constitute the barrier over which the temperance reform does notsand in the nature of things cannot, pass. If there were only two classes- only in- temperance and hard. drinkers in one chits, and total abstainere in the other -then the temperance problem would soon be settled. We would pass pro- hibitory laws in this Canada of ours, and enforce them. We would practi. (tally suPpresS the sale; and, better than all, when the present generation of in- temperate and habitual drinkers died out, we should beet no more forever, for the drunkard -is a full fledged habi- tual drinker, who began by taking a social glass, say once a week, or per- haps only once in a month. At first the downward course, like tho move- ment of the Niagara River. was slow and almost. imperceptible. There is no danger of me," he would say, but. oh, horror of horrors, ita he nears the abyss he hears the sound of falling WIL. tors in the distance; he tries to escape. but the roaring increases; the entreaties of all his f riends have been disregarded, bnt now death fest destruction ititt sure• ly before himand he som 1 pee•iihle way of escape. de- ',crate 1 speratioe fills his soul, lie etislies on to the abyss, and all is over. 13iit this wutild not be so had if it were all, fotr his place is sone' filled by another. Somebody's se:i goes 1,4 fill out the windier, bin t he nest s; rist s. whose eon will it hr..' Will o 1,, pow son or min4 ? we pa-., H.,,sostsry laws with a utiglT v strilastle . et e se force them only putts I Is le the most ttretet- ous effortealit what is werse time all. the proress of drunkard development goes on 1m -checked. Sir Will any one doubt rsot s mull peas, and easily cols.r.s. psoilibitory laws in Csinols11 5 0' leeisrity of our citizens were tile, 1..)1,11 141,15111°1'9 ? Who, thenstands in the way Who aro most responsible -for failures .1 I sorrowfully repent my conviction that it is the men who drink but occasion. ally,lind who ere eonsidered e temper. ate" men ; the men who only drink wine at (billion; or receptions, beer when asked, or whiskey when it seeing awk- ward to refuse. To such drinkers 1 appeal to become total abstainers, They can easily abstain,if they will.' Absti- nence would involve no sacrifice; would require no great Moral struggle; oh, what an uplifting of Immanity there would be as a result of swat abstinence But they say "the man 'het takes too much, is no man at all.- (.111, yes he is, he was a first rate fellow, when be was spending his money and drinking, but now that he has taken too innell. he ,111.1unly transmouriiiisl p no• t t f,,Ilote. "'a '1 ot,,t. .111. . hough a warm spell ha, unit. - ed. in ()tit:trio liottra ahead of the I line prophesied,the weather in the Ettat is yet void and Weals. New Ilitinpshire, , Thursday, waterieg-place guests hugged the fire and thero woe a fall of snow, sileceeded by a eold mist. A freight train on th,e Mani- toba roa4 ran into a herd of cat- tle near tinford, injuring five trainmen and killing 0, hundred cattle. Sam Vinton, a Minneapolis grain -dealer just from North _Da- kota, says he found thousands of' acres of wheat uncut on account of damage by frost. The yield will be largely reduced, according to the estimates of farmers and dealers, and not more than 20 per cent. of the crop will grade No. 1 hard. Official reports oftho world's harvest show that the wheat crop in Italy, Franco, Great Britain and Russian Poland is from 20 to 25 per cont,,below the average,and and in Austria, liungaty, South- eastern Europe and Egypt from 7 to 30 per cent. above theotverage. The barley crop in Great Britain, Austria, .11ungto.y, Franco and Egypt is deficient from 7 to 25 per cent. In Germany there is an average crop, mid itt Molduria the emp ts 25 per cent. above the average, Around the County. Mr John Coiling, of' lIay,depa ed this lifo on the 20th Aug. The deceased was over 72 years old. Mr Jos. McDonald, Wiegham, had the end of his second finger cet off a few days ago w h ilst work- ing at the new bridge in lower town. At tho regular meeting of the Quarterly Board of the 3Iothod1st ch.urch in Bluevale, the chairman presiding, Rev. Arch. McKibbon was engaged as pastor for'the bal- ance of this conference year. The salary fixed was $150, Mr W. J. Dickson, °Hie north- ern gravel road, Me Killop, has purchased the farm of Mr Thos. Meliihbon,.of Walt,:n, for the suM of $3,450. This farm contains 75 acres of excellent land and lies alougside Mr Dickson's present - farm. • ...OP. • East Wawartosh. Mr John NVightman is visiting friends in Hastings county, and is also travelling for his health. , Mr Peter D. Scott, mere of Nelson township, and brother of our respect - (Ai awl taterpisieg citizens, David and Waller Scott, is visiting friends in iticaris and this township. The jultiorm of tbe sixth line expect to play the juniurs of Westfield, on Saturday next, nn the grounds of the 'latter. The seniors are getting into Mottle for their return match with the Huron Stars, of Myth. They expect to be ready in a couple of weeks to meet them at lime. Bass Baia. Mal iirtere-t- ing game of base ball was played be- . tween the Juniors of tile stone school, Morris, assisted by four picked play- ers from Bluevale, and the Juniors of the btli line &CIA'S sc1io61, East \Va. wanted', last Saturday, on the grounds of the latter, and proved to be another addition to their long list of victories. At the close of nine innings fur the visitors, and eight for the Lorne team, the sore stood, for visitors, 8 ; for ' home team, 12 The playing was generally good, but special mention should be made of the splendid pitch- ing of Wm Scott, strongly supported i n the battery by .Walter Scott, of the home team ani Edgar Coultes, of the visitors, who, as pitcher and battery, realtyitt ur. good. The teams parted on good terms. Mr John Sandfield An • derson actcd as umpire in a creditable ne E. S. Cox, of' Central Bank not- oriety, was arrested at 'Niagara, Sunday evening.- The warrant 011 which E. S. Cox was arrested charges him with .having, on the 9th of:November,. 1887, procured .$10,000 in trust for the Central Bank, and unlaw fully appropriat- ing the sante to his own. use. .k.The Canadian Coal Colonization Company are sending from Eng- land to Alberta, N.W.T., a tine shipment of 900 rams tole) mated with ewes now being purchased in Montana: • The number of pedi- greed animals contained in the shipment itt said never to, have' been -equalled in the annals of ex- port trade. At Gtimsby Park Sundity,Tal- ... • mage said, I wish to make an apology. I was announced to preach here teat • Sunday 'and lecture here last Monday. I made a memorandum ht my diary, Grimsby Park, Aug. 20 and 27. I was at a loss to know how the mistake occurred, until I saw my own letter to Res' Manley Benson, and I now find the mis- take is my own. A series of seVere th under balms passed over Ingersoll and the veini try to the south on Sunday afternoon. The barn of Mr Mc- Gee on the town line between Deerhara and Dorchester was struck by lightning and burned. It contained the season's crops. (even Halpie's barn on the Town Line between West Oxford and Durham was totally destroyed with the conteuts,also a new barn owned by NVm. Shelton on the first concession of Dem ham, valu- ed at S000 and was insured in -the Western for $400 on barn, 5300 on contents. This barn was also full filld was totally destroyed, The weather throughout the Eastern townships is most unfav- orable for harvesting:. For the past two weeks the rain has been almost incessant, with very fro. fluent thunderstorms, and it still toOlts yery unsettled. A good deal of grain is cut and lying sprouting in the fields, and the standing crop is badly lodged, while in many places fine-looking potato patches are emitting a strong odor of rot. The prospects therefore, are that .thore will bea groat failure in the crop4, which a l'1\4 WCktt aLrli 1,,klSfl fine 1101,1 ising • ' seafortlt. SCHOOLS oreNiNo.—Our High and Public schools were opened on Mo, - day last. Both' are well attonded this term. Some of the junior divis- ions are so overcrowded that the schot I board has had to adopt the half day 7 tem. CALEDONIAN GAMEs.- On Tue.- day next the annual Caledonian games take place on the recreation grounds. $400 in cash will be given in prizes. Quite a number of 'noted pipers, d'ancers, and athletes will be present. If the weather is favorable no doubt a large gathering will be present. I raouttess 01."111E TOWN.—About au new buildings have been built this year or are in course of erection,most- ly dwellings. D. Johnston's hand- some new brick dwelling is about completed and is one of the finest looking places in town. There has bun a great boom in building both list year and this. ANNUAL FALL RACES, -On Tues- day last the annual fall races took place on Fairview driving park. The weather was cool and pleasant, and a large crowd was in attendance. The recent dry weather caused the track to be very dusty, which made it difficult for the horses to make good time. Some 17 horses started in the different races, which were all hotly contested. This was the most suc- ceasful meeting the committee ever had. A better or more numerous number of trotters never before ap peered on a driving park in this couLty. The absence of strong drink from the grounds caused every thing tc pass off in an orderly maner. The fon-owing is the list of races. Three-minute trot : Heats I 2 3 4 5 o; ,Tennie Scott • 1 2 1 I Thornwood Woodstock Meda " 1 9 9 Prince Frederick4 3 a 3 Gunhilde 4 4 4 Time --2:34,1, 2:37, 2:30!, 2:40. 2:40 trot ; Heats 1 9 3 1 5 1; 7 BillyE 1 2 I 1 Bessie It 9129 Donaldson 3 3 3 :1 Billy Rysdike • • , • 4 4 4 4 Rosewood 5 St. Thomas Boy ti . Time -2:43, 2:24h 2;4 ',12s43. 2:2A trot; Heats 1 2 3 A 5 5 7 s 9 Doc Frank . , 1 1 1 Hooey r 2 2 3 Florence 0 , 3 3 1 Hotspur Girl 4 1 2 Time 2:31i. 9;34, 2s1.1. The Wheat Crop. •••••••• The London Times,. of the 16th inst., makes the followmg important statement relative to the failure of the wheat crop of the Uuited King. dem: We may thus put down, the wheat crop 0( 1888 as one Of about 0,76800 gra., which, after deductions for tali corn and seed, would mean one of on- ly 5,009,000 for aale—probably the smallest wheat crop grown in these is- lands in the present century. This will leave us dependent on foreign sources for at least 20,000,000 Ts. That we shall obtain this is certain, but it is very doubtful if weshall get it at the low prices which have prevail- ed during the past few years. The rise may not be very great, but pro- bably the year may see wheat up to 40s per quarter. Short crops pre- vail generally this year in mauy mottled, and France must also be a large buyer. At the same time it must not be forgotten that, owing to the lateuess of the harvest, the 1887 crops have supplied us with 13 months' wheat, leaving only 11 months to be still supplied. This may have all effect towards keeping down prices, but it may be fairly ar- gued that higher prices must pre- vail. On the whole the prospect for farmers in this country is bad, and they are not likely tq realize much benefit front the rise which we may confidently expect in the prices ol breadstnfre The quality of English grain inuat be poor and damaged,aud the higher prices will go to those foreign wheats which produce a bet- ter grade of flour. Keep for stock is plentiful, and the year is likely to prove a good one for dairy arid stock farmers. To the arable farmer on heavy.and cold clays the year will be one (if disaster and ruin. BORN li-:ltIt. lit ernsole, en .1114. 17th, , if, at H. lerr of (Itt tstia ti.itmliter. DI ED SPliti.1T. AIN, 1.11h, Marian, Wife of -k‘Ir .11ex, sprout, aged 1-i ears and 3 months. Ett.t NN'itattno,-.1i, on .sugusi :salt tieail° of twa M, Currie, aged year,. FILL SHOWS. Fall Shows will be held this season its follows: 4 South Huron, at Seaforth,on Monday aud Tuesday, Sept. 17-18. Clinton, onWech iesday, Thursday atttl Friday, Sept. 19, 20 and 91. Exeter, on Monday and Tuesdhy, Oc- tober 1-2. Goderich, on Tuesday, Wednestla,t, Thursday and Friday, Oct, 1-3•1-5. Toyonto, Se. 10 to 22, Provincial, at Kingston, Sept. 10-15. Western at London, from the 20th to the 20th of September. East Wawanosh, 13elgrave, Oct. 8.9. Stanley, at Hayfield, Oct: Morrie, at Blyth, Oct, 10-11 The dates of others in which our read ors are interested, will be 141%1:11 AS soon as they are ascertained. . - BRITISH r ATI:77,11:1:24, t1 2:77. Receipts of cattle have been light, and prices have advanceti about per Ib. On this,market this morning there was a briSk demand, and prices ad- vanced to 13e per lb for the best Canad- ian cattle. Receipts of Canadian and American cattle were light, while the general supplies were fair. Sheep ruled firmer under a good demand and fair offerings. Best qualities were firm at 1.5e per lb. The following were the ruIittg quotations. being calculated at $1.80 to the C. Cattle -Finest steers, per lb. 13c, flood to choice, per lb. 121e, Poor to medium. per lb. ilia, Inferior and bulls, per lb. 81 to :10c. Sheep - best, per lb 14. Secondary qualities, per 11;1:t to 1 le, Inferior and rants 10 to Ile. MON THE A L TLVI STOC MARKET. The supply of beef, veal, mutton and pork was very small at the various markets Monday, and higher prices were asked all round, but the butchers were loth to take hold and many of the best butchers did not buy cattle on MOnday. The best buteher's cattle sold up to 4e per lb, with pretty good animals at front 34, to 4c do., and common stock from 3d to no do., while the lean stirks and dry cqws sold at from 2c to 3e per lb. Sheep and lambs were very scarce and pretty high priced, sheep selling at from $3.25 to 86.95 each, and lambs at from $2.50 to 114 each. The supply of fat .hogs is small and. prices .are from file to 6;jc per Ib. TORONTO LIVE STOCK MARKET. , Receipts this week have beenfair and under a good demand ; they have all been absorbed -at steady, rather higher prices. Cattle -There was a good steady demand for butchers' cattle, and all the offerings found it ready sale at slightly better prices. For the best 40 per lb was readily paid. Good loads Were firm at 31c. From this prices ranged down to a shade under 3c for inferior cattle. Export cattle were firm and in demand at an advance of 10 to 25c per cwt. There were it good many offered, but they were all wanted to fill space previously contracted. The best sold at equal to 85.25 per cwtwhile the range was down to 84 per cwt, for rough oxen. Sales were made mostly on it basis of 84.75 per cwt. There was a good demand for stockers at 21 to 3c for light, and 37 to 41.c for heavy. bnt buyers did not succeed in getting niftily as they were all taken at better prices by butchers and others. MONTREAL DAIRY PRODUCE. Burr att.—Business is quiet. We quote ; CreaMery Dfc to 200 ; new Townships, 17c to li/c ; medium 15e to ; West. ern, 15c to 16e. TORONTO 1)A1111: PRODUCE. Butter --Steady and unchanged. Tile bulk of the sales of good dairy are be- ing made at Ifie but for a few tubs of selections 19 and sometimes 200 is paid. Medium is in fair demand at 14 to 15e, with one round lot sold at 15c. Sale Register. t Tuanisemr, Kerr. 0. -Farm etock`, etc., of Mr W. Connel, lot 35, COIL 18,Goder- ioh Township. J. Howsou, sauet. ritti)A2 7.-Varm etock, etc., of Ur James Tretnier, lot 20., con. 2 Hal- lett, J. fiovesoa, auctiotreer. Mornay, Serr.17.-Farm of 200 acres, being lot 5, 14th Con., Ashileld, on tke premises. Tt. Barkwell, proprietor; J. Howson., Amt. Tureeser, Wier. 18. -Farm of 75 acres, being lot 24, cola. 11, Mullett, (near Londesboro). It. liarkwell, proprietor; J. Howson, Allot. L KIO WDER Absolutely -Pure. This powder'never varies. A- marvel of perity trongtft and wholesomeness, More economical than the ordinary kinds, anti eannot he sold itt e,,inpetition with the multitude of low test, short ,ight, alum or phosphate powders Sold only 'Itis Lt itt, IRKING POWDER CO., IOU Wail York, ctit Aducutiotincitto. • - —• (1001) (11iNEItAl. seavaNT WANTED N. 1 t 1,111.5, None other need apply. NEW ERA Otte,. 101' ND—ON THE 11111 CON., iirtillETT, 1,11101 Duster. Tito owner may hat 41 iIttS111.11ftilt paying charges and applying al the NE4V ERA OFFICE. - ---• • Troese To RENT- A COMFORTABLE sitt lwase oil 1Ittittttttii ty Streltt, tell minute,' walk YY0111 the Collegiate Institute, ltsot uuil soft water, good eellttr, and every convenience for sman Yana), Rent reason ti Ole W 11 HINE, Clinton CITItAN CALVES.— STRAYED FROM SUB 1.73 91.111I1F.11.11 mon iscs, Int 15, con. 11, Hullett, about 1.1,10 !St of June, two Yearlings, with rings in their right ears. Any person giving inforniation that will lead to their recovery will be suitably rewarded. 81:1108 kleVIT• TIE, Lontlestioro. 5 1-21.A UM FOR SALE Olt 1'0 ItEN1'—Tflio. 1: undersigned offers for sale or to rent hd, No, 29, cou. 12, (lodurie)t township, contalt, ng 80 acres, about 10 acres cleared,a ba rii wire fence 11011/814 1110 front of letnew frame barn, frame house, Il good well at tho and a neyer-failhig streani mining 0110 -4 tilt)1 tttk fir the farm. For further partieii lars apply to E. 5'. l'01-INN'aggon lIaIei, Holmes\ illy. 'ant fIlliortaitt Not ice. TOW N nors eon SAL E, --I it tile hr..), .1 sub-divkitm, lots facing on Huron, 'tittle'. Miry and Tritici streets. tho 1110St deifif able property in the of the (Led% and rapidly growing town of Clinton, beau. • t Sights ean be holight at Vi4k l'eaSOLIftliit• )vriees and terms to suit any lee eonteinplating a perch:1,e. Apply to .31AS, I1itO4VN, It unit' Road. .2trt 4411,1i IIE .5..T THE Commorcial Hold, ill Cliatop, Wednesday, Sep 5 4 It In 10 5 v. 111. Ola• (la Olily Pail IOW. 11109,0 TIIOS, SPEER, M.D. St: et; ewe ttes. sseasssi,s .find hoses). THE OREAT EMT. INDIA SPECIALIST f' -''or the treatment of all Chronic Discasta and Iiiseasts peenliar to Woolen. fie ,yeari' practice. Head 011ice- -31. l'houtas. The Doctor has been educe ted in nearly a t • of tho lending Medical Colleges and Hosintaie in Europe; has servoil asSurgeon in the Brit bill Army in the Bast Indies, Surgeon hi the American Army during Om late war, from 1861 to close of the same; ham treated all na• tionalities and circumnavigated the globe. Hie thorough education, large and varied practise and experience, entitleshint to rank I11a. Specialist -second to none on this co1. einem-tor the treatment of those dangerons tun) difficult diseases mat hare battled the skill -of tho local physicians. 'The following diseases,. with many others, 'successfully treated : Asthma, Bronchitis, Catarrh,, Diseases of the Ledge, •Dysnepsia Diseases of the Eye and Ear. Heart Disease Epilopsy,Paralysis. Nervous Debility, Goitre Fever and Agne,.111alarial Affections, Rheti. inatisin, Sciatica, Syphilis Strictures„ Run. tures, Skin Diseases, l'ilOS, &et Electricity used when required TESTIMONIALS'Or FlovrATIoN.—The follow- ing testimonials and diplomas may be seett at my °nicewith many others from nearly all the leading tnedical schools in Europe; Trinity College, Park St. School of Medicine a Mi Royal College ofSurgeons,Dublin; Royal College of Surgeons,Belfast, England; Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh and Glasgow Scotland; Licentiate in Midwifery, and en denied by the highest medical authorities in the United States and Dominion of Canada. The above witlt many letters from different parts of the globle are a medical passport- - without re-examination, denbt or ()ankle - over every sea, and in every land from 01.1 rising to the setting of the sun, :tetu st Vitt ito,,u Tree. Heed vitamin r anti fieniete Thos .Speer, M. D., Surgeon ittc.M. C. P. S. (4, S. and Ts T. C. D. Head office, St. Thomas. The Great East Indian Physician and Surgeon,for the treatment of all chronic, diseases and diseases peen. liar to women. for which he is so well qualified, will be at the Commercial Hotel, Clinton, on Wednesday, Sept. 5th, from 8 a. in. to 5 p. tit, One day only. Patiente please call early. Persons snffer in from diseases that have battled the skill of the local physicians should not omitthis favorable opportunity of seeing him,Hehas been educated in Dearly all the beet colleges in Europe, has been in the army,of the United States and the British army and has circumnavigated the globe. Consultation free, Remember the date. • -- Use llarkwell's sure Corn an 1 WartQui . . PROPERTIES FOR SALE 00D HOUSE TO RENT on FOR SALE kJ! on Rattenbury St, First-class Farm, good buildings, hard and soft water, in Hui. lett. Easy tOrma. R. M, RACES', Iron and liftribcare Merebaut, Maori. (el 41-ZIA W11414 111:1"r1IE 110c8E AND rp.s.e_Pe)vf hot owned by the undersigned, 1411,) occupied by Mr Lawrence, on Huron St. Clinton. Herd and soft water and good ate. ble. Terms of payntent easy. Apply to CALL/ANDER, 24 otanly St., London Souti;, HFOP, SAIX-SITUAVis La- on Osborne St. Tho house contains 91K Y001119 1411t1 geed stone cellar; there aro ou the promises, bard and soft water, a numbet of fruit trees and good stable. Tito lot coil tains of an acre, and will be sold cheap. NV. ROBERTSON, Pop Works, Clinton. I WARM TO RENT.—LOT :1;3, ON THE ituo .11..7 con. of the Township of Tuckersmith, offered to rent. It contains 9.5 acres cleared, with good frame 1101190 and outbuildings, good bearing orchard ; plenty of water. Tito farm it welt 'wooed and in first -delis cobili don. win be rented on reasonable terms, Situate about 7 miles from Clinton and about 6 from floaforth, Fun particulars may be obtained on apptication to 11.11ALE,Clinton. - TWO FARMS FOR SALE. Smith half of lot No 214 on the fith 0013099 • sion of the Township of Goderieb, contain Ing 40 acres more or less, all cleared and un der a good state Of cultivation. There is On the premises a brick twine with all conven fences, good frame barn with under etabline• good bearing orchard with noverfailing wel etc. Also lot No. 28, 71h conconsisting oor Senores more or less, 13 acres hardwood bust., balance eleare'd and tinder a good state of cultlyation,excellent well water. Both farniq are well fenced. Will be sold separately .,1 tit one parcel. Terms to Anit piir•hio•er I further particulars aPPIN 10 Iff 505 ll'A lON rin the preinisee, ttto1)5511)1 1,. LON. Clinton