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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1879-9-4, Page 44 The Molsons Bank, TIIE TIMES SE,PTEMBER 4, 1879 INC011irerC.WED3Y 4C O' 1883. 0apital,$0,000,000..-- Kest, $400,000. HEAD OFFICE MONTREAL. 4.011N Ilionsou, Esq., President. 'lot:. T1104146 J CLAXTON, Vieu-Pres Sun IlluttolIyas CO .H.Ou D IJ Macpherson, Senator, 1t W 613011041,1,reti Ottawa River NaVig Co listrat Selou, Z Niles winisans, J. woaveascati Tilopms, Esq., - Cesitter. 111. - • • - • In vector. Exeter Branch. BEN= C. BUD 11, - MANACilfal, . LOANS TO EATtMlilliS. Money advaueed tofu:niers on easy terns, on their owe promissory. notes with ono or more go. en- dorsers. o moitgagereunirutt as seourity. SA.V1NOS AK 1.1PPARTALKN e per cent, Interest ra lowed on deposits. etk and currency drafts bought:mulsold. Seer nog. /xchangetteugut and. sold, Collections Made In all parts of the Dominion and returns promptly reunited at, lowest rates of exehange. Exeter, iingliat 15 0.1 1878, he xetqCriin5;. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4,1879. AN EX.TRA.ORD DIARY PROPOSAL. Tlib' other week the house of Mr. Dallantyne, Seaforth, License Inspect- or for South Huron, was destroyed by fire, causing him some lose. This is unfortunate for Mr. Ballantyne, and he no doubt receives, as he ought to do, the sympathy of the entire com- munity. But while the sympathy of the people may be very justly extended to the Inspector, we must protest against the :ill-judged attempts :of our Seaforth contemporary to evoke more ,,,,thau sympathy from the Government under which Mr. Ballantyne serves. I*its description of the fire our con- temporary says : "Mr. Ballantyne, as is well known, is Li. cense Inspeetor, under the Liquor Act, and it bupposed that, iu the discharge of his ditty- ; he etas given offence to some person, who has taken, this means of revenging himself. A. inure villainous act never was perpetrated, and no punishment could be too severe far the vile wre4ch who committed it." The only fair inference to be drawo from this extract is that some person was eugaged by the hotel -keepers of Seaforth to burn Mr. Dallautyne's house This the people will be slow to believe. The hotel-keeners of the town aro a tespectable class (Jinn, their ho- tels aro well appointed, and well kept, and it is an ungenerouspieco of busi- ness to make such ineinuations as are contained in the above against them up- on mere supposition. But that ib nut all. Oar contemporary again remarks : "The. Town Council have offered a reward of ;1.200 for the apprehension and conviction of the guilty patties, and we understand that the Mayor hes laid the matter before the Attorney General, and it is hoped. that the Government will liberally supplement this reward. Mr. Ballautyne is au officer of the Government,and it n•as the efficient and fearless discharge of his &dies that rubjeeteit Motto this loss and outrage, and it is in the interest of the entire Province that Oro perpetrators of this crime should be detected and fittingly panishea. If this act of intimidation is allowed to puss unnoticed by the Govermnent, there is no knowing wit", or where the next victim lusty be. Inthnidatious of this character may become general, and the usefulness and efficiency of these officers be entirely destroyed. It woulti indeed be a seri- ous thing if acts of this kind became general. and if such villeins as the originator of this fire were allowed to intimidate the officers of the law with impunity. Wo therefore think it clearly the duty of the Government, not only to offer a liberal reward for the apprehension of the offender in this instance, but to reim- burse Mr. Ballautvne for the heavy loss he has snstainel on account of .his faithful and fearless service es a public, employee." Our friend must be seized with a midsummer madness. How does he kuow that it W 48 the efficient discharge of his ditties that caused Mr. adieu- tyue's loss ? Doss he rnake the asser- tion on mere suspicion ? or does he know it to be a fact ? If on auspicion, it is idle and worthless, is unjustly castiug setious reflections upon the hotel -keepers of the town, and should be withdrawn until positive evidence is forthcoming to fasten the crime on them If the assertion is made upon knowl edge, then it is the duty of the editor to furnish Buell information to the Mayor and. claim. that $200 reward, aud have the guilty party punished jinn, the Berne as if he had burned any other luau's house, for there esu be no excuse for suell a flagrant crime, If the hotel -keepers have done it, they are liable to capital punishment, and the editor of our ciontemporary is not tieing his duty to society and Govern- ment officials who have to fill such oln noxious positions in not having then properly puuished, for if he knows enough about the fire to state that it wee due to Mr. Ballantyne's fearless discharge of his duty, Buell knowledge implies that he knows something which Lie fists not told. But did any person ever hoar of such an extraordinary, such an outrrgeone proposal as that the Government should reimburse M. Ballantyne for his loss, upon the mere suspicion that the building was burnt bemuse he fearlessly discharged his day ? The proper way is to find out the guilty parties. The Government have no right withont the strongest evidence to AMMO that 11r. Ballets- tyne is a martyr to duty, and on that assumptiou, pay him for his loss. But even had they the most indubitable evidanee that fearless devotion to duty caused the fire, the Government would not then be justified in paying a siegle cent out to reimburse Mr. Ballaniyue. If they fail to punish the perpetrators of the crime, they have neither right nor power to go farther and give him money to rebuild. Wo can all see where such a course would end. How mauy Inspectors' houses would be standing in a month and their own- ers have just as much reason .to charge the °rinse upon hotelakeepers as Mr. Ballantynehas. When a man aoeepte a position like that of Inapeotor, whore he is expected to do work which a high-minded man would shriek from with loathing, he must expect to make enemies, and he must be prepared to take the consequences of his "fearless devotion to duty." The law protects his person and his property, and if he cannot tell who touches either, he must be content and let his misfortuna pass as ono of the drawbacks incident to having a big salary and doing little work. If .1r. Ballantyne's hoose was burned by an ineendie.ry, we hope the perpetrator of the dastardly deed will be found and punished to the full ex- tent of the e.w. If no evidence be forthcoming to prove- that the hotel - keepers burned it, our contemporary owes them a humble apology for haviug publicly maligned them without the slightest reason. Will he apologise ? or will he allow a slander started by himself to spread without an effort to stop it ? To give Mr. Ballantyne large sum for a trifling loss would, however, be only in keeping with past actions of the Mowat Goverunient. THE N. P.. IN EXETER. Northwest to the snanufaturee of the United States is overcome by the duty, and again the Americans lose the trade of a territory which they had tionle to regard as peculiarly their own. In every branch of the business Mr. Verity reports things as brighter. He has quadraplett the number of his moulders since March and has put on other extra employees, and says he will be compelled to still further in- erease his force if he expects to be able to keep up with the looreasing reqeire- ments of his bminess. This may be taken m the best of evidenee. Mr. Verity is nob at any time an ardent politician ; be would abandon party any moment if he deemed it its the interest of the couutry that he should do so. He is an upright, conscientious kW - nese man, whose word may be relied npou at all times, as everyone, be his polities what they may, who has bosh noes interconrse with him will testify. If the National Policy were doing his business ita iujury, he would not fur the sake of party strive to hide the fitet. We believe his experience slues the National Policy became law is that of every other good business rnu iu the couutry. The trouble with some is that. they will not confess that that which they opposed has after all turned out to their advantage. However we wish thein all the heartiest success, aud none the less on account oi their per- verseness. It is not given to human uature, under all circumstances, to acknowledge cheerfully au error in judgement when such an error has been made public. The more the country sees of the working of the National Policy, and the longer that policy is allowed to de- velop° itself, the better the petiole in general are satisfied with its eiperienoe • Regarding the policy from a common sense staudpoint, without reference to politics, whin hy the way are not al- ways allied to common sense, we do not see how anyune could expect it to work us iajury. In Exeter, we have several times pointed oat benefits which were directly traceable to its agency. It may not have made us rich, but it certainly makes the country mere pros- perous, and gives a feeling of security which the people were strangers to be- fore. We have again to chronicle a benefit which Exeter has derived from the National Pulley. In an iuterview with Mr. Verity, of the Exeter foundry, the other day, in response to inquir- ies, we learned that an order had been received at the foundry about a week since from Chetham for one hundred plows. These plows, whieh are to be used in tho eeighborhood of Chatham, were previous to the impo- ettion of the new tariff, made in the United States and imported in large Lumbers into this eouutry. Mr 'Verity at first sent two plows, then three, then four, and these having given every satisfaeton, ho has had the oraer in- creased to one hundred,which are to be made as rapidly as poesiblo. This is ow- ing altogether to the National Policy, for Chatham being nearer the boundary lino than Exeter, the freight would be less than from Exeter ; bat at this point, the duty on the American article loom np betore the A.metiean maker and he cannot efford to make them so as to compete with the Cauastaiane. Lienee that trade is taken from hitn and transferred, to our own foundry. men, from whom, it should never have been allowed te go. Then Mr Verity has orders from Manitoba for seere1 hundred prairie plows which /16 never would have beersin a position to supply had it not been for the National Policy. The proximity of 140 kr aides o4 ou* 1110111111••••••• INDUSTRY IN THE UNITED STATES. The following, which we extract from the Scienlyic American of the 30th August, is a pretty clear indication that Protection is a benefit to the tidi- ed States, for most assuredly tho geo- graphical advantages are not so much greater in the Uuitec.1 States than iu England as to be alone a sufficient in- ducement for au exneusive usitinfaetur- iug owners to leave Sheffield for Bridgeport, Conuecticut, Tho advan- tages of Protection can be the only - valid reason for the ehauge of location which is mentioned below, and yet free traders will persist in their statements that Protection is an injury to the United States : "It is a grand thing for any country to be able to snow a balance of trade in material products ou the home side of the sheet. To be able to sell, year by year, two or three million dollars' worth of sluff in excess of what we have to buy abroad. as the United States can do, is substantial evidence of our progress m solid wealth. The nation is justified in rejoicing over so favorable a showing. But there is another phrase of our relation wan the rest of the world, which still tells more remarkably in our favor, and which promises to aid us in near future, even more than it has done in the past, in building up for us n grand and abiding pros- perity. There is nothing that contributes so much to the wealth of a nation as hopeful, en- ereetie, thrifty' men and women ; and the Old Verb]. is daily sending us these by the ship load. At this port alone, during the year end- ing with Mayi last, there were. landed nearly a hundred tiunsaid immigrants, mostly froiu the countdes of Northern Europe, and this year the influx is still greater. And what is more encouraging to us than the unmber of incoming citizens, is their high average character. The medal, uud industrial conditions in Europe are such a bet. ter class are eminigrating now than formerly, and the indications are that still larger num- hers of intelligent farmers aud skilled workmen will seek our shores in the immediate future. It is but a little while since a single party of Cr' erman-Russians,350 in num ber,passed through this city to make their homes in the West, carrying with them money and property to the value of 13400,000. The influx of well-te-do English and Scandinavian fanners, dining re- cent years,has been unparalleled,aud is proinis- es to increase. Meanwhile skilled mechanics are coming to us, not ouly thsly,. but in large companies. Moro than 150 .b'rench and Might& families recently took up their residence in New Albany, lud., to engage in the plate glass industry es- toblished there. The day before this writing (August 6), 22 larilies and 20 single mon, in ail one hundred skilledwwkinen'waved here w ou their ay to Bridgeport, Con.,in which pleas they had. emigrated from Sheffield, England, at the instigation of the Every Cutlery Com- oany, of Bridgeport. The men were, for the 'most part, between 20 and 35 years of age, picked workmen, intehieent, aud well dressed. They were preceded by a smaller party a few weeks ego ; and it is said that in, the fall about 600 more skilled cutlers will be brought over by the Hanle company from England and Ger- many," THE OPPOSITION AT FAULTS, The Opposition °vales have proved to be but poor prophets. They have been repeating for the last year, or more, that the establishment of the National Policy meant ruin to the country and a defioiency iu the revenue. Yet the country io not rained and as to tite exobeg.tter tt ho be st,94014t pining ever since the grits went out of office. For 801/011 months ending July last the revenue returns for Ow wale amounted to $7,660,500, being $089,890 in advance of the correspond- ing period of 1878. And the same gratifying results are seen in connec- tion with the Iuternal Revenue, The amount of duties paid to the end of June were $3,146,548, being no less a sum than $557,082 more than was col - leaned from the same source for the correspending periodical 1878. Taking the two revenue pi educing departments it 15 see that they have yielded $1,240,- 029 snore than they did daring the early mouths of last ytar. This is n very gratifying statement, and enterely disposes of the allegationwhile by the Grits that the new IN tutionel Pulley would be projudioial to the royeuue as well as to the general iutereste of the country. Sale Register. $aturilay, Sept. 13—Farm stock and imple- ments, the property of M. MuClinehey, lot 6, cum 20, Stephen. H. Orth, Tuesday, Sep. 9,—Farm stook aud imple- ments, the property ef John laliett, lot 5, ecu. 19. U. Orte, auc. Saturday, Sept. 13. Fara, stock, implements, village lots, house and baro, the prop - city of T. Dearing, Exeter, Jas. Oka, aue. NIMMIUM/1.01......14•11.1.1.00....11111.000,101, Married. Knut—ANnknsox.— At the manse, Thames Read, Osborne, on the 2ud inst., by Iter. Colin Fletcher, Ur. Luber& Kirk, of Os- borne, to Margaret, second daugter of Mr. Ww. Aederson, of BroukvMe. Wnsox—Dnisrenr.—On the 10th ult., at the Methodist parsonage, Bitylield, by ltev. J. Livingstone, Cli ales Wilson, Esq., to Miss Samantha Dirstein, all of the lown- ship of Hay. Dieas MelLtirox.—In Usborne, on the 26th ult. Goo. McMahon, aged 40 years McLirren.—In Exeter, on the 28thult., May A. McIntyre, aged 28 years. CLAint.—At Farquhar, on the 28th lilt, Maud, infant daughter of Mn. N. J. Ciark, mer- eltaut. 0•01.411111•41.0••• rp M. OILING & 3. W. Art- st.. • bVIONG, Licensed Auutioneem for the eurtuvy of Hymen UAL thT e ownsuips of ,Iltublilii- vray Bb• lulplt Soles couCtue..Lti with satic- fJ.etiun, win on 1 beret terms. Ali orders left at Chi Alausiuu /louse will receive prompt a- bout...ea. Supt. 4,1-y. ruo RENT FOR A TERM OF -4- Tata el l'13411S.—Two improved Satins of oie hummed acres each, tt. large bank barn nail o'mer oulleinss uo cash (cm. Tile lout must pp paid in IMAStl..1( 0 or satisfac tot:: beturity given. liur turtle, darticularo, on the, pleimiseeLte W, or R. QUI3e.t.'0.31, lot, I, con, 5, sixoter P. C., $120 03-'fttt)ilt Edi23::4Y51t.eli o1 Proportional returns every 80011 tat Stoel of *28, - KUO, - '500. Aua.toss, WIGH 2 & CU., Bankers, is Si N.Y art bovtly Chrome Cattcls, Nevr Stylesovith .ic." mime, RI cents, post paid, .1. J. hubrim, rassau, N. Y. $1717ttoruntotlittihr,eztend zeNNI,t sfc gnItuete,(1.1 ts $17,Ir7 17 A Y15111 end expeases to agents Outfit frao. Address P. O. Vickery Augusta, Maine, SIELF CIMOcnal. SMALL PROFITS AND QUICK RETURNS. TEAS, SUGARS, TEAS, COFFEE, COCOA, COFFEE, NUTS, SPICES, ESSENCES, BIOE,OATMEAL,POT BARLSY OYSTERS, SALMON, LOBSTERS, VINEGAR e EXCIILLENT FOR PICKLING. ORANGES, LEMONS, FRUITS, GENUINE, INDIAN CURRIE POWDER, SCALED HERItIJG 5, TOBACCO, CIGARS, SNUFF, full assortment of first-class Family Groceries in stock, cheap as the eheapest. GEO. ]EMP, Main street, Exeter: NEW 000DS,NEW 0 ,ODS R. ABBOTT El. D. $. , Graduate of ItoyalOollego of DENTAL SURGEONS, offir.. eves O'Neil bank, and opposite Saurwoll Pieltards. H KINSMAN, pRNTIST, L1cottato o tho 1 /on tal College of on t11110, may bo eonstilvd any &Jay. Office- noxt door to the Pest (Moo. Bxettar.Ont, Pacific flafl'ay Tenders. TERBIUM for the constriction nf about o. • hundred miles of Railway Woci, keit Rwur, the Province of kt,untebtt, will be eoeuived by the undersigned. until noon on Yrictay, 1st August next, The Railway will commence at Winnipeg, and run North-westorly to rohnect with the 1016111 11110 in the neighborhood of the Ith baso lino, and theme Westerly between Prairie la Portage :tad Lake 'Manitoba. 'Condors 711001 bt, on the In:lilted farms, which, with all otherinionnotiou, may be 11,1(1 (11 the Ps. - Olio Railway Dogineer's 0111000,111 Ottawa Ana 0,1111111)0g. Secretary, Departm ent of Bailways 111111 Oa reds, 1. orr(tva, iota JUne. 1171). TEN PE.R 11 , rTs OFF F 0 IR CASH on all our present Grocery Stock except SUGAD.S, . 0:0* TITIS :ES R. & E. SPICER, Exeter. FARMERS AND BUILDERS, Buy our Beanhville WHITE LIME and Star Brand Plaster Paris. and you will be pleased with your work. Frt-sh Lune always on hand. GLASS, NAILS, LOGES, and HflE very cheap for cash. White Lead, Oils, Tur- pentine and putty at bottom prices. llope Chain saws, Phtues and other tools at pi ieett that will astonish you. Carriage Makers, call and see Our Bent,Gitoorls. mado from dry, tough timber. Cheap for. cash O'BYENE al CO., The Farmers' and Mechanics' Hardware Mere, - Exeter. Money to 10(111 011 Mortgagee. 1Grocerlesx Contootonary. smoding Tobacco 25 Cents per lb constantly arriving at W. 1/. MeGloghlon's Mammoth Jowetiery Store, 180, Dumla street, London'Ufa trio. VVhonnver you visit the Pur- ees City fail to visit this into establishment, the only first -deco store of tho kind in the City, and hest arranged Jewellery store in the Domi- nion. The W, D. litcf7lethlon Watch stands un- rivalled, All who use them recommend them to their fr.ends, All kinds of Viatolies in stook. Clocks of every desorption, Rich Jewellery of (31. ery style, Diamonds and )'recions Stones, renoy Goods, Spectacles, and all VS adding Dings, Watches, Cloths, and Jewellery repaired and warranted W U MetoLuGHLON. CROICE TBOACCOS AND CIGARS always instock. SPORTSMEN'S DEPOT. Sohooll3ooks, Stationery, Magazines WITH ALL THE LATEST news N.B.—Sovvin g biaohtal Noodles ofevory kind. A. BOYD. GRAY'S SPECIFC MEDICINE. NEW BUTOREB SHOP filhe undersigned woulclinforr, the inhabi- A tants of Exeter and vicinity that he !las. OPENED A NEW BUTOBEIS atiOP ouedoor south of ).is lihtexsvititl,sh n dhopes thesameitheral patronage that hat, bean ac nortlerl to him in tho BTdiel(siiIra AZT)) ti.4.00N WARM one willbeextendedto hint 101118 now branch of ot loess, Bis meat wagon at the resi- dents of the villagethree time; one] weekend FRESH MEAT all kinds kept constantly 011 hand at his butcher shop. Blacksmithing And wagon nankin gcarrie d on as mole1 in al] its brai.act B. DA VIS. Allan Line! LIVERPOOL, LONDOND1,RRY, GLASGOW Short sea passage--Econonly—Conifort— Safety. CABIN, INTERIIIEDIATS AND ATEEBAOZ Man AT LO WEST RATES. EV ERY Ski URDAY FB01.3 QUEBEC. eassian September 13111, Parties wishing to bring out their friends fronx the old country will save money by buying their ticketsi at: theoffice off the agent at Exeter., Every information concerning routc,otc, bystp- plying to CAPT. G. KEMP, Exeter. 1!