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The Exeter Advocate, 1894-1-4, Page 4llOYO DilTF tie twocate+ SANDERS do1? 2'E1 , Props., THURSDAY. Sanua y 4th, 1894 well as by the country at large, there\and the preserft. commerciaiwdepression Cast be little doubt. The man or wo- removed or reitegated, And whatever EJYL OF THE YEAR, 1' IVT"onday sa:v the departure from us of :t893b The year ended in gloom in many parts of the world. Severe coo tnereial and financial depression has overtaken every civilized country but as leore marked in the United. States and Britatu than elsewhere. The neighboring republic has experienced a.sudden but 'iecisiye set -back to the onward flow of its prosperity. Early Ea the year symptoms of derangement made themselves visible, A .depreciat- ed currency was one immediate cause of the trouble, its effect being to fright- ,ene American investor's in Aulerieen se- eurities and to cause gold to pour out of the country, Within a few months. the loss iu the value of 'stocks reached nndreds of millions of dollars,. There a widespread crashing of banks nancial institutions. repeal of the Silver bill has not it with it the relief anticipated. ' ospect of -a radical change in the ff policy of the country and the in- eticn of a lower scale of customs is in the Wilson bill have tended rolon,g the uncertainty of the sit - ion., A; large number of .railways eve goueinto the receiver's hands; manufacturers feared to continue op. 'er atious wl e416/ . dations of their business seeYnea . ' to be entirely transformed within a few months; and hundreds of thousands of unemployed workmen stroll about the streets of the greateities, All this looks dark enough andoffers very little hope of a happy new year for our neighbors. The most consoling reflection is that things could root be worse, and that whatever change takes; place in the immediate future must be for the better. In England affairs show on improve- ` meat The diiliculties between labour and capital experienced in the United States have taken an acute form in England. During the whole year strikes and lock -outs have been of fre- quent occurrence. The most import- ant of these in the early part of the year was the dock labourers' strike in which the Wilson shipping company were embroiled. Later on the great strike of the coal miners in Durham and Lancashire prolonged for many ,reeks had such a calamitous effect pon prices and was so widespread in et. that the governments ehrough Lord. Roseberry deemed it ex- pedient to intervene and effect a settle- ment' in which the men were substan- tially successful. Ail reports from across the ,Vater represent the state of siness as being extremely bad. Ex- ve fallen off; manufactures are wages are being reduced and chequer, like that of the is threattinek with a de- 2ci Ulan has yet to be found who considers the visit to the World's Fair a waste of money, The exhibitors whose eontei butions to the seyerat departments helped to make the Canadian display the suCCeas which it way, do not prob- ably begrudge the expense. And the splendid showing, which Canada made of her agrieultnral, mining, fishing and manufacturing resources in gen- eral will in a)1 probability prove to be such an advertisement for the country as will amply repay the expenditure from the public funds, both federal and provincial, As an illustration of the appreciation which has been bestowed upon Can ada's exhibits, it may be mentioned that only yesterday the Minister of Marine and Fisheries received official acknowledgement of the indebtedness of the World's Fair management to his department,. In his letter to the Ca- nadian representative, Commissioner Collins, of the fish and fisheries depart- ment of the Fair, expresses his "hearty appreciation of the part which Canada has taken in making successful my de- partment of the Exposition;" And, it may be added, that in this as iu many other sections the Canadian exhibits received the highest awards, CANADA FOREVER. Among the latest despatches from England is one that concerns a wider knowledge of Canada and its resources among the people of the United King- dom. It appears that for some ` time past Canada's High Commissioner in London, Sir Charles Tupper, K.C.M.G, has devoted considerable attention to the encouragement among the schools of Great Britain of a better knowledge of Canadian geography—physical and commercial, The High Con missioner, has been in correspondence with some 3,000 teachers.n•TTnited Kingdom, and has furnished them with about 100,000 pamphlets to be used as °read- ers" in the schools—also with 1,000 large maps of Canada, the result of which has been that schoolmasters throughout the old country have testi fled to the interest taken in their' sev- eral schools on the geography and re sources of Canada. Such a course ,of action must sooner or latertell among the young people of the, Motherland who may desire to emigrate to a new country. Following the abase patriotic conduct of our High Commissioner, is a movement in the same direction by the Hon. Mr. Daly, Minister of the Interior, who has offered a number of prizes to be competed for by British pupils on the history, geography, and resources. of Manitoba and the. North West Ter. ritories. Seyeral sets of yaluable priz. es, varying from LI up to £5 sterling are offered in England, Wales, Scot land and Ireland respectively, for writ- ten papers on the aboye topics in the handwriting of the competitors. Ace cording to the latest despatches this competition is exciting much interest Our own U. try has so far weath while it will doubtless have the effect cared the storm better than any other. of spreading a wider kuowlodge of We have felt the pinch of hard times, Canada in the old country. Altogether, and the mercantile world has been when we consider the Dominion's ex: taking in sail .accordingly, but there Mas been no such flood of disaster as we lave witnessed in other Iands. We have reason to be thankful for the cone- prative immunity. It is due no doubt to the variety of our natural resources and consequently of the brandies of in- itastry dependent upon them, to the easeful conservatism of our business methods, and to wise government. We all be fortunate if our lot continues Abe favored as it has been so far. In that event 1894 which has now entered upon us will be what social tradition 'rinds us wish it to be, a happy new year. VTR WORLD'S FAIR .EXPENSES It lis• estimated that the cost to Can- a of her participation in the World's Pair will be about half a million dol- lars. Two hundred and fifty thousand i oilers represent the Federal govern, =; ment's share, the remainder sbAing thus "• rte ,e n: pport oned. among• the putegfe4irairr hibition at the World's Fair, the high financial standing of Canada in the money. markets of England, and the estimates formed by Americans as well as the people of other nations in :re- gard to the Dominion, we may well feel proud of our position as citizens of the largest, freest, healthiest, and best equipped portion of this North Ameri- can Continent. ACROSS THE BORDER. If the pessimists and croakers in this fair Dominion of ours want a text on which to hang a sermon, they have only to look across the border to get a glimpse of real national depression and 'financial embarrassment.' The British Ambassador at Washington: Sir Julian Pauncefote, has forwarded a report to the Imperial authorities ` in England giving sin impartia;j statement -of.:the . fiscal condition !efithe United 'States for the past t1Ytei 3refour years ever.since the essessio;i to power of the , stye te,A100,000,,Quehec,;$ 4000 Sate ,ife,ublicaui party. At that time, viz, ' rsktti tiiiib'niat; $25,0017 liken kVdst'MP in the spring of 1889, there was a sur- . tu,3,ttsX'i 's, x,500,. lidn:116,it441 $5,000 plus du the treasury of $100,000,000 in(.p, Edward Islalld,ii' 50f0. In the This'areoiint was'reduced in 1892 to ease oI -Ontario,` Quebec :n.ird-Bri.ttah 410,000,000; and notivrthis, decreased ' etdlutlibia the expenditure will probab sus plus has been converted'into a defic '.• y eitceed. this estimate, bringing the it of nearly $40,000,000! How is that aIn qt6ral coot to the country un, to :halt a „ for r high? This state of things the Brit- Billion at least, r ish Ambassador shows is owing largely Assuming the disburseneenti bya spxi-. to extravagance in the management of elate indviduals,both as ezlhibitors;:nrd the national finances, one item being immense sum aid'durin the -ase �z,�!tors, to have bean as mttc�h-`'1laore, thep g p lici is probably well within. the year intheshapea p0of pennonsc s to persons rsons x k„ Canadians will IONS C011trilmitcd� who enlisted in the last civillwar. Their twillion dollars towards making the number is eomputed at 900,000, Much i" show a suceesa, That benefit' of tneamouft thug paid out was used ttinmeurate with this Merge outlay for politieal corruption. The Augean /love been, or will be, reared by those stable surely needs a thorough cleans *lin participated b the Sxttkition, as in before eonfdence can be restored, c l i bl i k cuts maybe ll f0' pl'ttsl ca,�tn� y put >, ward as to thd necessity of tarriff re. form, and the currency question, there is no doubt that reckless ezttravagence on the part'of wire•putlers ,lies at the bottom of the.'preseut deficiency in the national exchequer. The "Excelsior", the largest diamond itt the world, is now deposited in one the safes of the Bank of England. Tt was found in June last, in the mines of Jagersfoi'tteln, Cape Colony, by Cap- tain Edward. Jorgenson, the inspector of the mine, In his opinion, corrobor ated by that of the. director; Mr. Gtffotd says "Excelsior' is &stone of the purest water, and is worth about a million sterling. Exceptional precautions were taken to have it convoyed from the mine to the coast. A squadron on the, 10th Lancers guarded the carriage to Cape Town, from which it was brought to London in the gun -boat Antelope. Itis fully ,three inches in height, and nearly three inches in breadth, weigh ing 971 carats or about seyen ounces troy. The color of the Jagersfontein diamond is white with a very .slight bluish tint; and its lustre is matchless. At the centre is a very small black spot, which experts consider will be easily removed in the cutting:. The German Emperor is reported the prob- able purcbaseil of the "Excelsior;. News of the Week in Brief. FRIDAY December 29th. London, .Ont. merchants reports the Christmas trade as having been the best in a long time:; Dr. Weldon, SI. P.. for Albert, N. B„ was married at Halifax yesterday, to Miss Louisa '`F. 'Hare. Johnston Brown, proprietor of the Stanley House, Kingston, has pur- chased the City .Hotel, in that city, for $20,000. William Ciifferd, an ex -convict, has been sentenced at Kingston to three years in penitentiary for haying stolen a horse and sleigh, Rev. Francis E• Drew, of Grand Ra- pids, died in St. Joseph, Mich., yester- day, aged 91 years. He had . been a methodist preacher for 70 years. The Western , Ontario Bar Associa- tion met in London yesterday and took steps in the direction of securingweek- ly sittings of the High Court of Justice in London. Oliver Curti$ Perry, the noted:' train robber and desperado, has gone crazy, and been transferred frozn ,Albany state prison, to the ..Criminal insane asylum at Matawan: ®Burglars brake into the Post Office, at Three Rivers, Que., Wednesday night, blew up the safe, and carried off all the registered letters and postage. stamps, with aleene $100 in cash. Yesterday was setting day on the London Stock Exchange and it passed easily. There were two small failures, those of Frederick Phillips, broker, and' Thomas 8 Grint, a jobber in railroad securities. Mrs. Nlargaret Martin, one of the most eminent women in the Methodist Episcopal church in the south and au - dim of many books on lfetbodism,;died at Columbia, S.C., on Wednesday. She was born in Scotland in 1807. SATURDAY December 30tk. The C P. R. land department sales 'for 1893 amounted` to 107,500 acres, for which $858,000 was received. St. Andrew's -society, London, dis- tributed • New Year's "cheer" to the poor Stotch of that city yesterday. The Canada Company at its annual meeting in London, Eng., recommend ed a dividend of 20:shillings per share. It is reported^ttret the City of Chica- go has been robbed $"1`x,200,00 by means of fraudalent 'pay aglls and in other means. •` U,, :.. sse The directors of t1 C. P, R: have de cared an annual dividend of 5 per cent out of actual' earnings for the' past year. Mr. J. R. Clarke, Secretary of the Northwest Land Company of this city, was drowned in the bay Saturday af ternoon: Rey. A. M. Phillips, of Euclid avenue Methodist church, .Toronto, is said to have accepted a call to Douglas church Montreal, at a salary of $1,800. The jury in the trial of Prendergast; the assassin of Mayor Harrison, of :' Chi- cago. have returned af guilty, with a recommendation that the prisoner be hanged. Miss Kate C. Strong, soprano, well known in musical circles' in Canada, wad' married last -Wednesday in New Yorkcity, to George McIntyre, an On- ario man. Mr. W. Bancker,"general superin- tendent of the American News Com pany, was found' dead in bed at his home In Brooklyn yesterday, supposed heart failure. Dr. Horace Hollister, aged 70 years, died. at Scranton, Pa,,yesterday- He was a pioneer in the settlement of that region, and was the historianof the Lackawana valley, Mr.'rhomas Clark, customs apprai- ser, :at 'Winnipeg, le dead, aged 60. He was a; son of the late Fltttchinson Clark, of Hamilton and father•of W.H. Clark, the basso, formerly of the Boston Ideal Opera Company, Canada's foreign g� tra a for the ' fiscal odad year 1893 18 the biggest on record, being $247,694,000, compared ' with. $241,869,000 in 1812. The exports touched $i18,619,C00, the highest point in the history of the Dotninien 0101H k) HEADACHE Po pt;RS. ALL 14EADAC HE. ;i'heJ are not a eery ttyeet to cure evoy thinU,in;t simply head, aches. V -y theirs, #A wilt cost but SG cents ,, a Loco anet they harmless. They are net a Cathartic. MIIRRAY & GO1, Propritoi'S of The Exeetr Foundry, (Successors to Verity & Son.) MANUFACTURERS OF Gang .plows, Walking plows, Pilpers, Harrows, Laud rol- lers, etc. Castings in brass, iron of every description. Farm implements , and all kinds of other machinery repaired on short notice. Give us a cw11. MURRY & CO., - .40161r MONDAY January 1st. David J. Williams died at Saratoga, N. Y, on Saturday at the advanced age of 108. He would have been 104 years old on January I2th 1894. Mr. Julius Ansley, an old resident, died at Parry Sound last Thursday, about 100 years of age. He was an Irishman and took part itt the battle of Waterloo. TUESDAY January 2nd.. Barney King, the sepposed murder- er of Angus McLeod," hardware nter chant. was arrested in Napanee yester- day. At Bowmanville yesterday Henry Burgess, aged 70 committed suicide by hanging himself in his son's kitchen. In Whitby yesterday majorities were secured for the by law allowing cows. to run on the streets, for free trade in fresh meat, and for prohibition. The Toronto `municipal elections passed off quietly yesterday. A very heavy vote was polled, resulting inahe election of Mr. Warring Kennedy by a majority of about 4,500. beveral Aldermen who ran for re-election were defeated. The plebiscite' showed a large majority for prohibition in the city. WEDNISSD Y, January. 3rd. The Hooper trial opens at Joliette to- day. Several persons were fatally burned in a fire at Buffalo yesterday. The. 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