Loading...
HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1894-3-22, Page 4THE eveter Abrooraf.r . SANDERS & DYER, 1 top, THURSDAY, March 22nd, 1894 MR. 111'.EREDIT [I'S REFORM'S. This country will no doubt' hes tily endorse the reforms for which Mr. Meredith, the leader of the Ontario Op- position, is now agitating the Proyin cial Legislature. In substance, the the resolution now under discussion aims at haying alternate or biennial sessions on the ground of economy, His speech bears upon its face the ele- ments of honest and straightforward manliness, as well as good statesman ship. Mr. Meridith's contention, if suc- cessful, implies a constitutional change which would reguire an appeal to Im- porial parliament.But if it can be shown that the sought -for change would be in the interests of the people, as ex pressed by the electorate at the ap proaching election, there is little doubt that the ImperialParliament would giye effect to the wishes of the people. What are the grounds on which Mr, Meredith urges the adoption of a biennial session of the Legislature? Mainly, of course, on the ground of economy. Look at the increased expenditure for ligisla lation and the civil seryice, as com pared with former years. At the tim of Confederation, the whole cost fo those two items—leaving, out the Mari time Provinces and the North West ter ritories—was $922,722; whereas now it has reaphed nearly four million dol. lars. Indeed, as Mr. Meredith clearly proved, we are "too much governed"— taking the Dominion and provincial parliaments all together. We have a Governor-General, nine governors and Lieut. Goverhors,members of Cabinets, 120 senators, and 584 members of the popular Assembly; and all this to goy - ern a population of about five million! counting the whole Dominion, our peo ple have to be taxed (indirectly of course) to the tune of over ten million dollars a year for legislation and carry_ in;; on the government of the, country. So far as Ontario is concerned, the ex- penditures have increased enormously; and there is no reason whatever why much of the publii, business could not be transacted by the municipalities, with far less expence; while legislation once every two years would effect a saying, according to Mr. Meredith's calculation, of $60,000 to $70,000 a year. As it is, the annual expenditure is not met by the revenue; while our timber resources are being squandered and wasted by reckless mismanage- ment. In the neighboring republic only six out of the forty States of the 'Union have annual sessions; all the rest have adopted the biennial system, which is said to work satisfactorily. At all events, it must bet apparent to every one that a change is needed if we are to study economy and save the people's pockets from over taxation, And we look upon Mr, W. R. Meredith as the "coming man" the Reformer for Ontario—the man who, if he be return ed as premier with a good solid back- ing, will make the wilderness and the solitary place blossom as the rose. e r SIR OLIVER S BLACKMAIL SCHEME. Sir Oliver Mowat has introduced an amendment to the marriage act; but he still compels every person who se cures a license to pay $2 of blackmail to some Grit politician Sir Oliver is a Christian statefman, but he does not hesitate to steal $2 from each of some tens of thousands of persons each year as a bribe to certain persons,i,;to vote for Reform candidates. An amusing part of the attorney general's bill is section 2, which is 'in • teeded to replace section 13 of the old bill, The first paragraph provides that i"r one of the parties to the marriage is under twenty-one years of age, the consent of a parent or guardian shall be required; but if either of the parties is under sixteen years, the consent of the parent or guardian shall be requir ed,"and the issuer or deputy issuer shall satisfy himself of the genuineness of such consent by satisfactory proof in addition to the affidavit required by section 11." To the ordinary mortal it appears that if consent of parents or guardians is necessary in any case, the issuer of the license should satisfy him self of the genuineness of the docu meats, If proof of genuineness is not accessary in any case, it seems that a certificate which may be iraudulent is not necessary, spicable thing that even the Christian statesman ever did, The marriage li- cense as now issued is the veriest sham. It does not put any bar upon improper marriages and it does not se cure registration, It is merely a scheme to levy blaekmail for political purpos• es, The issuer of the license receives the blackmail, but he is not even re- quired toregister the marriage, The clergyman who performs the ceremony is required to attend to that duty, and the receiver of blackmail does, nothing for his money; But the whole business of issu- ing marriage certificates is a fraud accompanied by robbery. If a license is necessary at all, let the applicant procure it from: the mayor or police magistrate of a city or town, or from the clerk of a court, or from the reeve in a township; paying such fee, say twenty-fiyo cents, as shall suffice co pay for the trouble of issuing the license. This business of fining a man who desires to marry and of giving the amount of the fine to some hungry political hanger-on of the Reform party is about the most de Manitoba with a Grit government has declared for prohibition. Ontario with a Grit government has declared for prohibition. Prince Edward Island with a Grit government has declared for prohibition. Nova Scotia with a Grit government has declared for pro- hibition. Now all that is necessary is Monsieur Laurier, Grit, to make the same declaration. and—. News of the Week in Brief. FRIDAY March 16th. Navigation is now open in Kinston, The Grand Lodge of the Sons of Eng- land has decided to meet in Woodstock in March, 1895. Mr. John Hunter for over 50 years a resident of Owen Sound, died there yesterday, aged 84. 112 Monchicourt, the judical liquida tor of the Panama Canal Company, died in Paris yesterday-. According to returns received the plebiscite in Nova Scotia yesterday favored prohibition 4 to 1. J H. Cavanagh, of Leithbridge has been elected President of the A, 0. U. W. Grand Lodge of Manitoba. West Elgin Patrons yesterday nom- inated Mr. Peter Stalker of West Lorne as their candidate for the Commons. Louis Kossuth, the Hungarian pat riot, is rapidly growing weaker. Pneu- monia has supervened and his fever is greatly increased. Charles McKay, who formerly resid- ed at Wallacetown, Ont., accidently shot himself at Victoria, B. C., lately, and died in five hours. Perfect health is seldom :found fir impure blood is so geeeral. Hood's Sarsaparilla really does purify the blood and restores health, The unemployed of Toronto paraded on the streets yesterday. Only 150 were in line, and the demonstration was considered somewhat of a fizzle. The Provincial elections in Nova Scotia yesterday resulted in a sweeping victoty for the Liberal Government. Premier Fielding and his followers carried 25 out of 35 seats. It is said that a syndicate of Buffalo capitalists have in view the construc- tion of an electric railway between London and Woodstock, to be used for the carriage of freight and passengers. A bomb exploded in the Church of the Madeline,Paris yesterday. One per- son was killed and several others were injured. Several persons were arrested on suspicion of complicity in the out- rage. A convention of prohibitionists at Paris, Ont,, yesterday decided to sup- port the straight Liberal candidate in North Brant in preference to the Pat- ron Liberal, because it was said, the Ontario Government had committed itself to prohibition. In reply to an invitation to be pres- ent at the C B.A. concert on the even- ing of St. Patrick's Day the Governor- General has written, expressing regret that he and Lady Aberdeen will be un- able to attend on account of the recent death of Lord Tweedmouth, Ex -President Harrison copyrighted his lecture on "Constitution and Law" with the purpose of having it printed in book form for sale, and when he lectured in San Francisco recently,had reporters excluded and promised the papers a 1,400 word digest. One pa- per got a stenographer smuggled in, however, and a full report appeared next morning; and now the ex-Presid ent is wrathy at what he calls the "steal." SATURDAY Merck 17th. J. B. Johnston, fishery inspector at lake Winnipeg, is dead. The past week has been the worst of the year for failures in Montreal. A shipment of 200 tons of pig iron has been made from Alabama to Liver- pool. Despatches from across the line chow a revival of industry in many branch- es. Brantford's rate of assessment for this year has been finally placed at 17 mills. Gordon Petherston, the four-year old son of W. Fctherston, organist, London, was drowned in a cistern yesterday. The Conservatives of North Hastings' will meet at Madoc on the 29th inst. to nominate a candidate for the Legislat- ure, W. 13. Crosbie, a son-in-law of Brig. ham Young, and once a well known eomedian, is now a hopeless maniac in Chicago. Kingston Conservatives' tnet last night and ratified the nomination of Mr: E, A, Smythe for the Legislature, Messrs Clancy and Catnpbell, M.PP.'s, delivered addresses. A Paris paper states that the Prince of Wales won 48,000 at Monte Carlo this week and donated the whole a- mount to the poor of Monaco, Superintendent of Police Byrnes, of New York, has ordered that the nickel - in -the slot business in barber shops and saloons must be. stopped at once. Rev. J. M. Douglass, of Moosomin,has been chosen by the Patrons of Industry of Eastern Assiniboia as their candi- date for the next Dominion election, It is not at all likely, from present appearances, that Toronto's rate of tax- ation this year will be a low one, In- terest on the debt wi'l negative the ef- forts of the Aldermen towards econ- omy. Mrs. Walter G. Oakman, of New York, daughter of the late Senator Roseoe-Conkling, has given the Utica public library nearly 1,000 volumes b, -longing to her father's private lib- rary Representatiye J. A, Lee has intro- duced a Bill in the UnitedStates House providing that foreign drummers shall pay an annual tax of $1,000, and shall pay a fine not exceeding $3,000 for vi- olation of the act. Judge Lacombe of New York has granted John Y. McCane's appeal to the United States Supreme Court. This does not take the convicted man out of State Prison. It merely permits his attorneys to carry his appeal to the United States Court. The body of Richard S. Davis was recovered from the Gaylord slope at Plymouth, Pa., yesterday morning, be- ing the fourth thus far found of the 13 victims. He was crushed almost fiat, and identification was only made by means of his watch, in which was en- grossed a picture of General;Grant. A number of Bishops, prominent clergymen and laymen of the Protest- ant Episcopal Church in the United States will visit London this summer to attend a missionary conference of the Anglician Church The proceed ings will begin May 28th in St, Paul's Cathedral. MONDAY 1Harch 19th. Navigation opened Saturday at Owen Sound and also at Goderich. Oxford won the boat race on; Satur- day, beating Cambridge three and a half lengths. Daniel McKenzie, aged 55, the father of a famiiy, committed suicide at Tiv orton on Friday night The next convention 'of the Ontario Sabbath School Association will be held at Belleville in October. Rich strikes of gold are reported at Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, A great rush for the new fields has set in. The Presbytery of Algoma has nom- inated Rey. Dr. McKay of Formosa as Moderator of the next General Assem- bly, South Perth Reformers met at Mitchell on Saturday and renominated. Mr, Thomas Ballantyne, M PP;:, ae ,their candidate for the Legislature.` .•• In answer to a temperance delegation at Ainhherst, N.S., Mr. A. R. Diekey, id. P., said he thought Canada was in duty hound to ratify the. treaty. A large number of United States fac• tories which have idle of late resumed work Saturday, and many more are announced to reopen to -day. Arrangements were made Saturday for a convention of railroad employees of the United States, Canada and Mexico, to be held in New York city on May 27, 28 and 29. James Kerr, a farmer living near Scotland, was thrown against a tele- graph pole in a runaway accident at Brantford Saturday; and reeei'ved 10 - juries from which he died a few hours later. A number of chorus girls. who are expected to arrive in New York to day from England, will not be allowed to land if it is proved they come under contract. 'There are 2,500 chorus girls in New York out of en ployment. Miss Hannah Lund, lately returned missionary from Japan, and daughter of Mr. James Lund of Woodstock, died in that town at 12.15 Sunday morning. Deceased had been ill only a week, The funeral takes place to morrow, English sparrows have become such an intolerable nuisance in Maryland that a crusade of extermination has begun in a novel way. Great numbers, of the birds roost in barns and outbuild- ings. The farmers, armed with broad light paddles and bright lights, go to the buildings at 'night. The light at- tracts the birds, they swarm to it and are killed with the pa'ddles. TUESDAY, Marek. Gast. Barrett's large flour mill, Port Hope, was destroyed by fire last night. The Orange Grand Lodge of Ontario East will begin its annual meeting at Ottawa to -day. The City of Detroit, the first line boat of the season from Detroit to Cleveland, passed Amherstburg yester day. William S. Ray, aged 54, committed suicide at Strathroy by taking Paris green. He leaves a widow and grown up family. Six or more persons were killed, about 50 wounded, and much property destroyed by cyclone in Texas on Sat- urday night. - Two old residents of London, Ont,, died yesterday- Mrs, Stephen Saunders, sister in-law. of Prof. Wm. Saundeis, aged 73, and Mrs, John Parnell, aged 84 years. Five thousand rolling mill and fact- ory men in South Chicago have gone to work within the past two weeks after several months of idleness, and 3, 000 more returned to work yesterday. Jolla McGovern, H.M. customs officer at the Niagara Falls carriage and foot bridge, has become a raving maniac, He is bachelor, aged 45, and was ap- pointed by the Mackenzie Government in 1876. London Presbytery concluded its session at -Loudon yesterday, Rev, W. J. Clark is the new Moderator,. "SrrpnnN COLDS ."--At the eommende- ment of a, cold, take a teaspoonful , of Perry Davis' Pain Killer in a little milli, and sugar, and the cure is more; •Sud den than ttie cold. Only- 25c. New Big Botte, East -end residents made strenuous efforts yesterday to procure a better eastern ferry service to the Island. Is Not What Wo Say, But What flood's Sarsaparilla Does, That Tells the Story, Hood's Cures Mr. I%: V. 7t arntoIZ Toronto, Ontario. A Narrow Escape Took Poison by Mistake Bad Effects Entirely Eliminated by Hood's Sarsaparilla,. "C. L Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass.: "Gentlemen—In April last, through the effects of a dose of strychnine tale in mistake for another drug, I was laid up in St. John, N. B., for ten days. After this I never seemed to regain my former health, and continually sus feted. from indigestion and heart palpitation, for which I could get no relief. I thought I would try Hood's Sarsaparilla. After. taking one bottle, I felt a little better, so con- tinued using the remedy until I had consumed six bottles. I found myself gaining strength and flesh every day, and am now as healthy as I was 1 efore taking the poison." F. V. FTAlareoxn, representing the Seely Perfumes, 30 Melbourne Avenue, Toronto, Ontario. Scrofula Threatened Life Hood's Sarsaparilla Saved Just in Time. "C. I. Hood dr. Co., Lowell, Mass.: "For the last three years I have been a suf- ferer from'scrofula in its worst form. I had tried all the best doctors in the city, and all medicines advertised, but derived no benefit from them'and had almost given up in despair, S rsap rma 8 when persuaded by a Irian 1 to try Hood's Sar- saparilla, which I have no',' taken for about five months, and am now nearly well. I consider it has saved my life, and cannot speak too highly of it and will recommend it to all my friends, and especially anyone suffering from scrofulous diseases." Wrnifnm3 C. Ii,.L•'AD, Toronto. Hood's Pills cure all liver iIls,constipation, biliousness, jaundice, sick headache, indigestion. For Sciatic Y .Neuralgic TR ONE APPLICATION rams OF THE • 438y x 91s Q� MENTHOL, etXo PLASTER IT WILL DISPEL THE PAIN LIKE MAGIC. Exeter Lilhiber Yard. The undersigned wishes to inform the general public that he keeps constantly in stock all kinds of building material, dressed and un- dressed lumber , . , B. C. Red, Ontario, High Land and Pine Shingles.. Special notice is drawn to B. C. Red Cedar which is acknowledged to be the most durable timber that grows; especially for Shing• les. , 36 to 40 years. . • It is said by those who know, that they will last from 36 to 40 years in any climate. , James. Willis, 'LUMBER MERCHANT ' Have a Very Bad Cough, Are Suffering from Lung Troubles, Have Lout flesh through Illness, Are Threatened with Consumptions Remember that theQ�`o IS WHAT YOU .tEQUIRE. Mr, Henry Jones,,,iL wishes to inform the farming community that he will have for sale the best line of farm implements in Ont. A Carload of Drills just in, also The Giant Cultivaters and Seeder, manufactured by J. W. Mann, Co. A full assortment of Plows, Sulky Plows, Root Scufflers, manufactured by the Cockshute Manufacturing Company of Brantford If you want a Buggy, a Cart, or a Waggon, give us a call: If yo want repairing, painting or horse shoeing done in a competent manner give us a all. No matter how small your order it will be prmptly done If you want the best Steel Wind moter that is made give us a call. . . , HENRY JONES, Prop. Shop, opp. Mansion House. HO! n BARGAINS. Atkinson's Furniture Ware - rooms is the cheapest and best place in the County to buy Fur- niture. . . . X9.00. . A first-class Bed -room Suite for only $9 and every- thing else in comparison. All goods guaranteed to be my own make, of first-class dry material, nothing but best hard lumber used. Lumber and Wood Taken in exchange for Furniture. Wire Mattresses. The only place in town where you can buy the Patent Dominion Nickle-Plated Wire Mattress,—war. ranted not to rust. J.D. Atkinson, Prop. Furniture! Furniture! ! • Furniture!!! •! ! ! We have moved back to our old store .again and have the finest stock of Parlor, Bedroom and Din- ingroom Furniture in the town, at prices that can- not be beaten. Elegant new bamboo goods just coming in. . . , . See our beautiful new waterooms. We are bound to sell if good goods nicely displayed at very low prices will do it. S. GIDLEY & SON, �? D FELLOW'S Block CLOTHI A. J. SNELL, Maim. et EXETER - ONTARIO Has now in stock ;.gig, 446 tutmor GOO=.. IN THE FOLLOWING LINES: West of England Suitings and Troy erings, Scotch Tweed Suitings and Trouser ings. French and English Worsted Cloth All made up in the Latest Style, at best Rates. A. J SNELL W. G. Bissett's Livery .First Class Horses and Rigs. SPECIAL RATES WITH COMMERIAL MEN. Orders left at Bissett Bros.'Hardware Store, will receive prompt attention. TERMS ; REASONABLE A TRIAL SOLICITED. W. G. BISSETT Bicycles, . . Sewing Machines, Baby Carriages . And Musical Instruments. . We are the only firm who make a specialty of the above named goods and therefore claim that we can give the people of Exeter. and vicinity,-- . Greater arg wins ! Greater Choice ! ! Lowest Prices. ! ! ! The latest and newest at- tachments for all our goods can be had by calling at our ware-rooms,—One door north Dr. Lutz's drug store PERKIWS & mBBi;K. J. HURRAY &C Wholesrle Manufacturers of. Plow poi and Casting Liberal Discounts to Cash Customers. J. MUrre & _ f 41rty CHRISTI S COMMERCIAL) LiY) nolomosillh First Class RIGS And Fi9R8E8 ORDERS LEFT AT THS' JIAWE SHAW HOUSE OR Al THE ' STABLE WILL BE PROMPT L'Ir ATTENDED TO. Telephone Connection