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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1895-4-11, Page 4The MO ons Bank (QUARTERED BY PARLIAMENT, 1305) Peidup Gapitel $2,000,000 *teet 2 tine Leete000 Read office, Montreal.. WOI,FERSTAN THOMAB,Esq., GEN'EriAz N.ANAGEN _ Money advoneed to good farmers on their own uote with one or rnoro endorser At 7 tier ventpee annum. Exeter Branch. Open every lawful day, from eau, to p.m SATURDAYS, le ean, to l P. in - Current -rates a interesb aimed on deposit E. E. ViTAILD, ll.daenager., Established in i877 B, 01\IMIL, BANKER, EXETER, ONT ^ Transacts a generalbankingbusiness. Receivee the Accounts of Merchants and Others on favotable term. Offere very accommodation oonsistent with tele andoonservative banking principlee. Interest allowed on deposits. Drafts issued payable at any Once o the Kerchtints Bank. NOTES DISCOUNTED, and MONETTo LOAN oN NOTES and Momealcees. 1111■31111110.1111=1101...10111411211S111211211=2 lqttit MO. THURSDAY, APRIL 116, 1895. • Notice to Times" Readers. The publishers -would esteem it a favor if readers would,when malting their purchases, mention that they saw The merchant's adver- tisement in LEIB rIBLES. Pork. Take pork. In 1890 Canada iro,ported from the IT, S. 33,112.700 pounds of pork. This meant that the Canadian lumberman was buying lankee instead of Canadian pork. The Canadian farmers asked the Government to raise the duty and pro- tect their home market. The Canadian lumberman opposed the increased pro- tection. So did. the Liberal members of Parliament. But the Government stayed -with the farmers and their policy or :the Canadians. The duty VMS raised. The importation of pork last year amounted to 4,000,000 -one eighth of what it was before the duty was raised. Thus the Canadiau farmer sold at home 29,000,000 pounds of pork which had formerly been supplied by the Yankee farmer. Liberal Economy. ^a. The total popalatiooo I1dimaud, according to the last Federal eensus. is a little over 161000. There are 5,687 1Viethodiate, 3064 Anglicans, 2.954 Fres- byteriane, 1393 Baptists. 1,071 Catho- lies, 794 Lutherans and 432 Disciples- eWeerding to nationality the population is divided thes 13.941 were born in Canada, 890 in England and Wales, 610 • =Ireland, 353 in Scotland, 221 in the United States, and 219 in Germauy, x x All that reaches the east from Maui- toba regarding probable action in the sohool matter, comes from the press of thaeprovince and can therefore be read with a good deal of caution. The Leg- islaturebas adjourned, Premier Green- way is still far from well, so that any- thing like an official statemeet is prac- tically out of the questionIt is prole able that the government will decide weenies course during recess and that by the 10th of Vey that decision will be made public or at least will become pub- lic as soon as it reaches the Dominion. Parliament. x x x Section 122 of the Liquor License Act provides that when a man meets his death as - the result . of excessive drinking in a place where liquor is sold the legal representatives of deceased may reoover a penalty not exceeding $1,000 from the keeper of the place 10 which the drink was supplied. Acting under this section a widow in Welling- ton county has just enured damages to the extent of $600 in one case and $300 in another againsb two hotelkeepers who supplied her late husband with the liquor which the jury say caused his death by drowning. x x x On Saturday a Hamilton jury gave an important verdict in an insurance case which came before it and Mr. Jus- tice Ferguson, An insurance company Tee Liberals out,of office preach econ- omy but the Liberals in office do not practice economy. Quite the reverse. In Ontario the Liberals came into power in 1871. The expenditure that year was $1,816,783. In 1893 it had grown to $3,903.195. In:Quebecethe Liberals tame into power'rin 1887. The expenditure in 1886 was $2,032,607. In 1891 when -they wentout of power it was $1,096,520. The debt of the province was also =- creased by over $6,000,000. In New Brunswick the Liberals came Into power in 1883. The expenditure in 1882 was $514,236. In 1893 it was $996.000. The debt of the province • was more than doubled. In Nova Scotia the Liberals came into power in 1884. The expenditure • in 1883 was $541,099. In 1882 it was $822,352. The debt of the province was also increased from $1,014,744 to $3,142,922. In Manitoba the Liberals came iuto power in 1888. The expenditure in 188'7 was $520,190. In 1893 it was $632.000. The debt of the province was also doubled. This is the record of the party that preaches economy. resisted the payment of $10,000 of life insurance, on the ground that the de- ceased had not properly answered the questions as to his family record and personal habits. The allegation par- ticularly was that deceased was given to indulgence in iutoxicating liquors, and that he had. concealed this fact from the. company. The insurance company won. Insurance companiee are now increasingly carefulto avoid tak- ing drinking men as risks, and it is dangerous for those who insure to break the rules which have been drawn up for the protection of all parties to the contract. x x x • Whelp:Mr p Oameronwas in Clinton, a week or too Ellice the ieport went 1st CITES AND COMMENTS. The Oneatio Government is making a new contract for th6 publication of school books, whereby the cost will be somewhat reduced. In this as in other respects, the government looks after the interests of the people, never for- getting, however, their friends, the publishers, to give a good fat thing at every chaege. The- Latest INTe-ws. Tho tax rate of London for 1895, will be 81 mills or more. . Hamilton proposes to build. a high reeervolr at a cost of $98,000, Mr. A. a Cowan, of Galt, fell in with a (TM of Chatham toughs and. was beaten and robbed. The death is announced of Dr, Thos. Speer, of Toronto, which oc- ceirred at his residence, Queen street west, on Friday. Robert J. Davis, a carpenter, living at 58 Wright asinine, Toronto, fell off a building at College street and Brunswick avenue on Friday and was killed. The (barge of manslaughter against Alex. Fraser at the Brace .Assize ee in connection With the death of lefrs. Elder resulted in the acquit- tal of the accused. Messrs. W. C. 'Whittaker, of North Williamsburg, and T. 11 . Farrell, of Kingston, are the medalists in the graduating class of Queen's Univer- sity medical department. Wm. J. Farr, of the township of Thortild, has been arrested, charged. with stealing a letter containing a post °face order for $1$ 50 out of a Niagara Falls post office. At St. John, N. 33., the death_ oc- curred on Saturday of A. 13, M. Boyne, one of the leading temperance workers. Deceased was 47 years old, and a native of Wymouth. The leading fruit growers of Essex county say thatthe peach trees in that section have stood the winter well, and that there are good pros- pects for a large crop this year. The store of Robert, Pye, merchant OD the corner of London and Victoria streets, Thamesville, was burglarized on Sunday Morning and goods to the value of $100 taken. Rev. S. O'Neill, for five years pastor of the Baptist church at Beamsville, tendered his resignation, and has accepted the hearty and unanimous call of the Baptist church at Chelten- ham. a The old Board of Directors was re- elected Thursday at the annual meet- ing of the C. P. R. Co. Sir William 0. Van Horne and. Sir Donald Smith denied that the directors were selling their stock. A dispatch from Gleichen, •Man., says the Indian who killed Govern- ment Officer Sleyner was shot dead on Thursday night by Mounted Police. He made a determined fight before death. • A woman named Mary Sutherland was found dead on Thursday morn- ing at 926 Dorchester street, Montre- al. In a little bag in her room $828 was found and in a little hand satchel $25. She was 70 years of age. David Mack, of Carberry, Man., aged 78, died. on Thursday morning' from a rupture of the abdomen, -caused by the handle of an axe on Monday. Deceased was long a resi- dent of the county of Huron. Mr. East, of Toronto, has written a letter t� a Montreal eiewspaper con- tending that Ohattelle, the Listowel murderer, . is insane. The jail physician at Stratford, who seesthe prisoner every day, is positive that he is not insane. • At a mass meeting of McCarthyltes at Cayuga, Ont., Friday, to nominate candidate in opposition to Hon. Dr. Montague, Mr. Jeff McCarthy; a member of Mr. D'Alton AfeCarthy's firm at Barrie, was the unanimous choice, At the Bruce assizes at Walkerton the charge of emenelanghter against -Alex. Fraser, in.coiindotione With 'the death of Mrs. Elder,was not •-estabe' lished, and the jury returned ae verdict of not guilty by direction of the judge. Near Gleichen, Alberta Territory, Frank Sk-yner, the Dominion Gov- ernnaent issuer of rations to the Blackfeet Indian reserve, was shot dead by an Indian. named Atchawan: A posse of mounted police is now on the trail of the assassin. The Indians say Atchewa,n is crazy. A new railway scheme for which 0 charter will be sought is the Lindsey, Haliburton and Mattawa Railway Company. The proposal is to con- struct s line of railway from a -point on the Midland division of the Grand Trunk north of Lindsey to a point on the Ottawa River near Matta,wa. . The okl log sclaool-house, which a generation ago was such a familiar sight in almost every section. of On- tario, is now almost a thing of the past. There are to -day only 488 of these left. Of the other 4,834 school buildings in existence 2,448 are brick or stone and. 2,386 frame. Mr. Frank Nichols, an enterprising young farmer of con 14, Lobo, has purchased from Mr. Thos. Brittle a farm of 100 acres on core. 11, Lobo township. Theprice paid was $5,- 000. The farm is one of the finest properties in the township and cost Mr. Brittle $8,000 a few years ago. . Grover Leeper, of O'Neill, 18 years old, hanged himself Friday. He ' was discussing with several compan- ions the lynchingof Barrett Scott. Young Leeper insisted hanging was a painless death, and to demonstrate the fact fastened a hitching strap over a pole and around his neck and swung from a box. Before his com- panions realized his situation he was dead. Rev. Dr. Dewart will sail for Eng- land on May 25. At the last confer- ence Dr. Dewart was appointed delegate to convey greetings to the meetings of the Wesleyan Methodist Conference a England, the Irish Methodist Conference, the Methodist New 'Conference, the Primative Methodist Conference and the Bible Christian Conference, Rev. A. C. Courtice will assume editorshipof the Guardian early in June. "Boys," saicl a teacher in a Sunday school at Bayfield, "can you quote a verse from Seripture to prove that it is wrong for a man to have two Wives?" He paused, and, after a moment or two a bright boy raised his hand.. "Well, Thomas," said the teacher, encouragingly. Thomas steed up end std: "No man ca,n serve two masters." he qiieseion ended there. Neil McKinnon, of Parkhill, has been sentenced to 30 days in jail at hard labor by Police 1VIagistrate Wells, of that village. The charge was vagrancy, and Mrs. N. A. Ma - Kinnon was the chief witness in support of it, McKinnon is an elder- ly man, ancl has already served two enoriths fax a shriller offence. His mind is eald to be unbalanced. fortb. that be 4.lis 'about to open bratichlaw office here. We do not believe that he is likely to do anything of the kind& Mr Cameron more likely paid "6: visiefo eninten. for a political purpose -to, ascertain • and determine the local ,feelin$ este the candidature of Mi Forrestergind his own chances of holding the- diit patty together. To ascertain the feeling he interviewed leading Reformers. bere and found that many of them were pledged. to the Patron candidate: The reply our town cotem made to the public after seeing him, was that it did nob know whether Mr:Cameron would run or not. Mr *Caraeron is not .yet ie the ifighte Forrester is, and he is assiduously work- ing for his own suecess---Olinton News Record. x x x The revenue and eeperiditure state- ment of the Dominion for the month of March shows the revenue to be $2,740,- 1,53 and the expenditure $1,ff09,958-a reduction in both instances over the figures for March, 1894. For the nine months. of the current fiscal year the revenue amounted to $24,553,099, compared with $27,845,846 during the eorresponding period of previous nears) year --a reduction of $3,292,747. The expenditure was 23,844,991, so that on consolidated fund sceount there is a surplus of $708,108. This will be re- duced by several million dollars clueing the next two months, The net debb is now $248,150,854. x x M. Y. McLean, M. P. P. foe South Huroe, has beeorne quite a Patron, and on nearly every measure since his vete on the appointment of officials by the people, which he voted against, although on the platform advocating it, he has gone with that bedy. In hie first vote be was "celled. clown" for his =consist. eney, and to make good his public young, he has alone joined the Patrons in some very' ridiculous ineastires. The Pabrons look upon his willows as belt, While his party hide& laugh at hie folly, HoWever we trust his WOO are sincere, for "while the lamp holde but to burn the viless flintier may es - turn.° •x x x The business men of the United States have been rejoicing over a pro- longed rainfall which hes brought much relief to the wheat growing States in the West. February and March were dry rnontbs. The lack of moisture was especially remarked in the wheat and corn belts. A timely snowfall gaye some relief in Kansas, but not until the copious rainfall of the last few days were the apprehensions of f armers and business men relieved. Now the crops look decidedly better. Canada needs rain more than anything else ab the present time. We have had winter weather since the New • Year almost without intermission till the last few days. The snowfall has been heavy and the frost penetrating. In the Western Peninsula the snow is now nearly all gone, brit advices from the north state that many of the roads are yet almost impassable. • The soft snow, still several feet deep on many parts of the highways, render either sleighing or wheeling most •difficult. With a good, warm rain it would soon be wash- ed away, and the frost would be taken out of the ground. TJntil it comes trade will be slower than it ought to be at this seaeon and spring building will be delayed. When it does come, we look for a decided improvement in bus- iness and in out -door industrial devel- opment. Owing to the exertions of the Post- master, Mr F I Hutchins, the mail ser- vice from London has been consider- ably improved within the past few days: A closed. London mail is now received here on the morning train. Formerly mail matter coming on that train came yia Toronto end had to be posted early iu the afternoon of the previous day. It has also been arranged to have Lon- don mails to come via Strathroy on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, the stage days • Matter mailed • in London on the afternoon of those days will get here on the evening of the seine day. This improved London aervice will be much appreciated by the Public,eerarkhill Gazette. Is elm Senesce Nestle everybody needs a medicine- The imputities whieh have aeourreilated in the blood during the cold months mud; be ex. polled, or whop the mild days Come, and the effect of bracing air is lost, the bcdy is liable te bv ova -come by deb Icy or r ome terione disease The remarkable succees achieved by Howler ereeparills, and the word4 of praise it ems received, mato it woethy cf o nficitme We ask eu to give this medicine a trial. W. are Miro it de you good- ,d the testimonial, publiehed in behalf ef Hoods Sareee all from the re eeble grateful people. They tell the story. eveaveveaveve Great 1301:Ain bas recognized the Re pub 11 c of Floods have done great damage- in Southern Hungary. The Russiten Government is en- forcing the ediet of 1893 against the J ows, hir, John O'Brien of Westminster died from injuries i.,eceived by falling out of a tree. One hundred deaths from. Cholera are reported amongst the troops at the Pescadores; An unknown man was killed on the Grimed Tinink track ae crossing near Guelph. Mr. Patrick McAndrews of Hamil- ton, is dead from a does of muriatic acid taken in. mistake. The Synod of Hamilton and Lon- don will meo at Knox Church, Woodstock, on Monday, April 15. Sir Thomas • Powell • Buxten has been appointed Governor of South Austraha, to succeed the Earl of Kintore. It is reported that China has ac- cepted seven a the eight conditions of peace and this week will see the war ended. British troops had another brush with tribesmen north of the Swat River, scattering the enemy in all facturers was deemee necessary and for a If this explanation is rot enough, can 1 directions. few menthe prices which had Wien to give more. If certain gentlemen connect - The Waterloo House of Refuge is 90 cents were advanced to $1.25. There ed more or less remotely with the 0, P. 8, crowded at present and enlargement was no outcry in those days against this Isl. 00. will remove the pledge of honorable, at an early ate becomes an absolute movement. Farmers well remembered confidence I gave them, I will make d the days of $2, $3 and $5 a barrel for salt, matters still more lively and interesting • necessity A. Hales, butcher in the Guelph , and their gratitude to these who risked If this is satisfactory, on the other hand,. their money in a business that sai(ed them I have done. Market, has the finest spring lamb Oar epilog stook of footwear is now Qom- elete. We have on bend the verr latest Bo- les, eueb as reen's razor end box toes,piectadilly toe and Renee' Philadelphia toe, Qxford aud gaiters, en fact we neve the hest and cheapest stock ever offered in Hansen. before. Rave else iust received a large assortmeet of trunks aud valises wheel we win see at noek bottom priees for cash °all and examine our stoole before purchasing elsewhere. Butter and eggs taken in exchange for goods. Oallv truodublagetotabliliatwwgeoollsj. cbeal) far aasb* 00 A. WISsEL011. Follewing are the market quotations ; 'Wheat .„ „ 05 to 07 Barlee .................45 to 45 Oats . 32 to 34 Peas .......... 65 to 75 Hay 6,00 to 7,00 Butter... . . . .. . .. .13 to 13 Eggs.... . 10 to 10. BetaBre.-A handsome new pedal bass organ has been put in the , user Methodist church here by W. Doher- ty &Co., of Clinton, and in connect - 100 with the opening of it a grand organ recital and literary' entertain- ment was held on Monday evening. -Mr. Jas. Wright has disposed of his grocery stock and real estate • to Mr. W, 0. Davis, grocer of town. - On Saturday afternoon last Mr. Wren's friends and well-wishers, whose name is legion here, met in MeEwen's hall and -eresented lehn with a handsome vie.' watch, as a mark of their esteem, and. for remem- brance of the many happy social hours spent tog'ethee.-On Priday • last the pupils of the senior division of the school presented the retiring principal, Mr. I. T. Wren, with a handsome emblem ring, accampen- ied by a suitable address expressive of theie appreCiation ' of • services rendered to thein, regret at his sev- ering his cOnnection with the school and good wishes for his future wel- fare. -Mrs. William 'Elder, of this village, on Thursday evening, of, last week, received the sad intelligence of the death of leer sister, Bits. Fletcher, of near Tilbury Centre, and on Friday. took the morning train to attend the • f uneral.-Mr. Henry Dateis, sold. his fine yearling filly last week, to Mr. John Deeds, of Bla,ke, fere thehandsome sum of $75. This filly Was sired by SCraigronald.' -Mr. Richard Beek has.sold his neat dwelling on the- west side qf Brock street, opposite the . Grand Trunk Railway depot, to Mr. Geo. Hudson, son of Mr. Joseph Hudson, of Hills Green. Centralia. BRIEFS.—The nieMbers• of the R. T. of T. had a taffy pull on Friday evening last. Mr. .Iohn Evans, a practical confectioner, made the taffy, which all...pronounced first- class. An enjoyable. -evening was spent by elle-The event of th.6 week was the :visit 'of the O'BanYoun Jubilee Singers. On Saturday even- ing they heldiaveeng service in the basement 6f tie. church,1 which was well attended -n.0)1 Sunday even- ing Rev. Mr- O'Beinyorin preached. an able sermon:1o' a' 'large' cong.reg- ation, considerini tile state of the roads and the weather,' But Monday evening was the croevning meeting in the shape of a Jubilee Concert. The church 'wag -crowded and the program one of the best ever given in this placee The singers were en- cored. again and agaiu, and for two hours the large audience was kept in the best possible humor. They are expected to return at an early td,ate. OreditOn. BRIEFS.—Mr. Ira Bice paid our town a visit on. Monday last and made a boat. It looks as if he in- tends going into fishing this spring. - Two of our sports were at Grand Bend on Monday last; and .brought home with them as nice a lot of fish as we have seen: ler a long time. - Mr. Wm. Winer paid' Ira Bice a visit on Friday last. -Mr, Wm. Wintzel has engaged a peinter to do his painting for the season. -Mr. JDO. Hodgins and daughter, of Brinsley, paid our town a visit on Sunda -y - Mr. Chas. Fritz, of Dashwood., was in town on Thursday night on busi- ness. -There was a concert given in the Methodist church on 'Tuesday evening. It was aesuccess in 'every respect. -Miss Ida Winer, of Sea- ford), spent Sunday under the paren- tal roof. -Mr. H. Eilber was offered a lucrative situation last week as Inspector of fires for a large Insur- ance. CoMpany, but he declined.. The offer we , learn was 0 very tempting one. -There will be no Spring Fair here this year. The report of the interior depart- ment says that 370 settlers have ar- rived in the Alberta district eluting the month of March. The ice on the St. Charles River is breaking up, and it is expected that river steamers wiil commence run- ning this week. ' At a meeting of the Kingston City Council on Monday night, a motion to abolish the mayor's .salary evae. defeated by 17 to 2. A grain buyer of Carberry-, named Morgan, eloped with Miss Renwiek, a village belle. He leaves a wife and three children. ' George Darragh, a Kingston horse trainer, who was bitten by a colt, is now snifering from blood poisoning, and is in a critical.condition. The Masonshave decided to build a temple in Winnipeg that will cost $16,000. The site has been selected and work will be cornmacedshortly. Over 159 pests sat down to the banquet in the Russell House, Ottawa, on Tuesday night, given by the citizens of Ottawa to the New founclland delegates. • An old setblere 'Joseph Louie, was droevnecl at Selkirk. He was cross- ing the river in a dog sleigh when the ice broke, and he and his sleigh went, clown. It is altogether likely, that Toron- to's order for a Merrrweather fire engine will be cancelled, and that a second engine will be purchased from Mr. Ronald, Of Bruseels. Philip 13rowin a respectable reef - dent ot Raesedon, Itaetings county, was suffocate?t in bed eon • Suncl&y evening by- a, fire, which broke otib xn his dwelling. He was over 80 years of age, The Patron'e sot Deal. To the' Zditor of tile Exeter Timm SIR,- I 'letters good deal being wrltteu on this subject io tile papers Plat new, and as my name Ints been freely used and the grossest untruths told coneeraing my got, ions. I ask you, in sample feir Play, to allow -one an opportunity to plane myself right before the public. There are tome wbo consider. everything is fair in loye and war, but to lie, calmly a.nd deliberate- ly. about au appmaeut, behind an- onymous letters, is the lowest debt of meanness Now the true history of this deal that tbe Patrons of Industry beve made, so far as salt makers are concerned, is this. Salt was first made in Ontario in 1868; and from that tiMe to 1870 it solcl for about $1,30 per barrel, at Which "figure the makers received a fair return upon their capital, and w/eich the public consid- ered a fair and oheap price, for before that time they had paid American makers mach higher prices. Therefore, ", to start with, the salt makers conferred a great boon upon the public, by the inyestment of their capital in the developmeut of this industry. But about 1870-1 salt "worke begun to multiply to such an extent, that combination of intereets among the manu- say or write. Their paper, the Sun, tarot/ my money for an rolvertieenient with the one band, and with the ether inserts a letter 'warning Patroes not to deal with rue, beeline°, forsooth, if they foresake their Co. they will be forced into a corn - bine, and ealt will go up by lealet and bound's. It is an infamous lie, and nobody knows it boiler than thee° wbo will benefit by its publication I would ask Mr. Jail - brae or Mr. Tohnie if therWill dare te take an affidavit that they believe if their Co. joined a combine, crania salt be advan- eed by loupe tied bounds ? I ask them ir they believe honestly with the Windsoe Co. making 600 to 1000. Ws a day, can' salt eyer be plaeedin Canada under me et • favorable circumstances above 65o ? They know it cannot, yet this Co, pleada for business under the dire plea that if people' don't order from there they will be tom4. into e combine ! It took mighty little forcing in former years, and if they acted - the man to day they would be as 'easily' forced as anybody. I despise whining, deceitly practices. Let them own, as am willing. te concede to them, that they secured a bargain with the Patrons in a, smart way. The Patrons have to learn, like everybody else, where to buy cheapest. I.blarne neither one nor the other, but bee -- honest aboutlit. • yet brought to that city his season. hundreds of tbausancia 'if dollars, andopen-The treatinebt I have received fromt 'seas purchased from Mr. Bowman, ed up to them a market for all their tim- their paper "Sun" is too despicable -to even Guelph toWieship, and 'weighs 50 pounds. License Inspector Shoff, of North Middlesex, is now in his 7841i year and never had a day's illness till he was seized with the grip. Mr. Shoff has lived in the north riding for 55 years, and was one of the pioneers in this•western district. He is full of reminiscences of the early days. • George Keefer, consultipg engineer of the company which is reclaiming lands on the Kootenay River, be- tween Kootenay Lake and the inter- natiOnal boundary line, has arrived at Nelson, B. 0., and reports that the Kootenay Indians have driven off all the company's men by force of arms. New York, April 9. -The Journal of Commerce and Commercial Bulle- tin says :-"The fire loss of the United States and Canada during March, as estimated from our daily files, amounts to $14,230,000. • This is 0 de- cided increase over the Sinn charge- able against the same month in 1894. The increase is over five million. The month of March bore very heavily upon the fire underwriters, as the property burned in the important fires was largely insured. Conductors Mulligan, Defries and Tamblyn are being tried at Montreal on a charge of retaining fares from the Grand Trunk Railway, Philip Brown of Rawdon was Buffo- cated in bed on Sunday evening by a fire which broke out in his dwelling. He was Over 80 years of age. A report comes from Chicago that counterfeiting of United States postage stamps on an extensiye scale has been discovered, and the headquartees of the counterfeiters is in Hamilton The new Mulvey school building at Winnipeg was totally destroyed by fire at midnight Tuesday, The firemenwere unable to save the building, owing to the poor water supply. The Provincial Government Museum and Normal School library were burned Loss $30, 000 to $40,000 Insuredfor $16,000 The Lonclan Police have at length se- cured the Silverware stolen from the residence of Mr Geo Peters at Wood- stock two mon'ehs ago It seems that the Perrys, brother and sister, who are serving a sentence for purloining Mr Peters' furniture had sold the silver at a second-hand store on King street It was valued at $45. ber of every kind, had not expired. But this combination SOOR mime to an end, and with a few desultory attempts of one kind and anotber, cheap prices were the rule till 1882, in the meantime the public had profited to an enormous extent, and salt makers,in numbers lost all they efer pos., sessed. Works were for sale by tens if not by scores, at 10 cents in the Original 8. In 1882 an AssOciation was, formed, which for three years, kept up prices fair- ly well to a paying basie, But outside competition sprung tm at Brussels. Courtright, Hensall, Exeter and the cele- brated Grange well at Kincardine, known as the Ontario .People's Balt Manufaotur- log Co., with the a celebrated Mr. Doyle at the head of it. Mr. Doyle like his succes- sors took a good deal more credit to himself than he had any right to do, and claimed bis company of Grangers had smashed np that iniquitous combiae. We salt men knew that it was the Grange 06, and the Courtright Co. and several '!other causes, led to our disunion, hilt the Grangers had to blow a trumpet then like they are blowing to day, to keen up the spirits of their seleot circle. In 18,85 prices again fell, and for four long years Salt men lost money freely. Firm *liter firm failed. Many thousands of dollars were lost, and much more would have gone the same road, but the Salt men again made a deal and, mark it well, this Grange Co., the Ontario People's Salt Manefaeturing Co., this destroyer of combines, this smasher up of Iron heeled Monopelists, this Mur- derer of Salt Ditchers, thie"-Inearnation of Fair Play to the Poet, Varmer, this Co. who existed for the bene0„41 the down trodden tiller of the soil,. had had an ex- perience of four 'abort yeatis of competit- ion, not twenty,'ears .1i7ee others, four idled years inswhich,„ geeing. 'to - their stockholders all being consumers of stock (much on the sarne principle as the Irish- man who drove a *dying' trade in his saloon, by &bike:Tells oie`e .whiskey) they had obtained a better price on the -average than the rest of the salt mekers-this 0. I'. S. M, Go, were as glicl-aye gladder, as willing, as eager, yes, a good deal inore willing, more eager, than some to enter this combine, to share in the fp, gotten gains thereof 1 They continued in that combine, they reoriiited their wasted energiee, built up what had been a half siekly, moribund, dead and aliye institut- ion into a healthy vigorous concern. They took an active part, to put it mild- ly and rendered. yaluable service in the conduct of this Atrocious Monopoly. But time wrought chariges--Itnd early in the spring of 1892 we began to hear rumors of the U. P. R. going in for salt on a large scale at Windsor. This opened the eyes of all the membera of the Association to the faot that dissolution was not far dis- tant. Then it was that this Kiboardine Go. took action to semire business on a profitable basis. Any milt man knew that the price, which had been 85o, must go totE0c. without an aesociation, and nobody knew it better than the.managers of tho 0. P. S. M. Co. Now although this Com- pany had, by their managers, been inetrumental, (I can .prove ibis by the renords of the tneetings.) I repeat the 0. P. S. M. Co. had been mainly instrumen- tal in reforming the 'Association in Jan- uary 1892. Yet in the summer of that year, not much niora than six months after they had put seal and signature to a document binding themselves to keep faith with the others like horest men for twelve months, we, the Canada Salt Arno - elation had to obtain an injunction from the courts to force this honorable company to keep to the bargain they had been mainly instrumental in forming! In the meantime they had made bargains to supply the Patrons of Indus- try with salt at 65o., for three years, when the very day they were legally able to ship the drat barrel, salt could be bought for 500. These contracts, however. The residence of 0. F. Colwell, music instrument dealer, London, WEB damag- ed by fire Sunday to the extent of $1200. Robt. Chambers of St. Marys,' has i gone to St. Catbavines where he has secured a position in the large drygoods establiebment of McLaren & Co. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Medforth, who were recently married in England, have arrived in St. Marys and taken a mid- OAC0 on church street, north ward. Dr. 3. J cDonald a native of West Zona, recently died at La Grande, Ore. Deceased left Oxford county in the early seyenties, and eettled in the west, where he won fame and fortune for liimself as a physician Two brothers survive him— W. E., of Maplewood, and L. H., of St. Malys. Wednesday afternoon twelve young ladies of the Epworth Leapue of Main etreetliethodist church, Exeter, made a bee and. cleaned a large pile of brick from the debris of the late fire.. They are Nvoi ken, and it would have done the young men good to have witnessed the activity of the lecher do not last forever, t and have to be renewed to ne of any use, and it is just A. EMIL ENDSraVIENT. here that I have been abated. , tbe Patrons paper, the Sun, I have Rev. Alfred Bareharn: Ohapleau, Ont' been derrotibed as doing my beat to get -"While Rector of StMary's Church, Montreal, I reoeiyed, in ,answer up another Association at the beginning te of this year. This is a lie. I did not request several months ago, a package of take any part en bringing the salt men K. D. Ce I desired it for the benefit of my together. was asked to attend, and I wife who had been t,outi ei with dyspepsia attonded, just the same as the Secretary for a number of year e, I am glad to say of the 0. P. S. M. CO., Mr. Tolatie, was that she is complete y cured hy its use, although she slam d the one pacirage invited and attended the first meeting, I did a good deal more work than he did among friend& You luny be flute that we constantly recommended the remedy, afterwarde, for 15 would hardly do for tbe Patrons to know he was taking an active which has been So fTectivo in her case, while other remedies have rai ed to per- part in such bad tv, rk, they might have smelt a rat, who dan toll This deal MaTnheeptfloYregiorien;abould o ,n vitae the most fizzled out. Your readers woeld like to ekeptioal of the wonder working peer of know why. Well 5 one teaser?, and a yery principal reason was because this 0. Ir. D. C. $, M. Ca felt their oats eo much. felt by their deal witb these Patrons that Or INTEREST To Biezereees. they had such a whip hand over ue salt' Ter a few weeks horses ana cattle will be mere that alt they asked as their share in put et grase, and the greetest °arc is the emit VMS ppetioaliy one barth of ti e necessary to preveot the sudden °bongo of whole salt business I The O. P. B. wan - diet having very Serious effects. Dick's ted a pretty big elice,but this Come my, Blood Purifier tones up tbe whole s3.stein, that poses as the typos r of combines, the and the animal goes on thriving instead of friend of the farther, and all . such fetter] being set back by a change. twaddle, w ben ail the time it is dollls OATAititit Retie:vex) ze 10 TO 60 Mime. and ernts theyeare after, like ourselves/ tes,-Oneshortpuff of tbe breath through only we honestly own up to it, and they the Blower, aupplied with each bottle of Dr do not, only wanted about one ((nab of Ageettort Cetarrho.1 Powder'diffuses the tie° whole salt busineee I We told them Powder over the surface of the rimed pre- lie with a big N. And now, when I turn Sages. Painless and delightful to take, round and try and teem% some of the 'Pa. - retie gee instantly, and permanently cure son's totde by letting them know, tbrotigli Cater/h. Ilay Fever, Colas, Headache, Advertitetnent and otherWiee, that I will Sore Throat, Tonsilitie and Deafness, give them Belt 20% cheaper than this (1, 50 cent At C. Lu'z. P, S. M. Co, is doing, I am itaglin *busied, lied about uotlitiq is too bad to critioise. It was hardly to be wendered at that independent, honestly minded journalists, lin-owing the feats ot the case, - took up the matter and exposed to the light of public knowledge the way the "Sun" treats its cliente. %hey mut haye something worth hiding' when they refuse to name a price at which they will allow me entice to defend myself,. and will the public) believe it, refuee point- blank twgive me a list of the lodges of the P. of 1. No; that would never do, These "Pigeons of Innocence"`must not be en- lightened. It would never do to allow me to tell them what I know, and as they gel- dom read much elee than this prole -oil “Sun" they will never know much more than one side of the story. I confess haye in conversation interpreted P. of I. to stand for 'Pigeons of Innocence," and any salt man if asked, other than the wise headed managers of the 0. P. S. M. C�.. would any "and tarot rate name for them" After All what does all this faulf finding - with our combinations amount to? It is siMply self condemnations. Every • lines that the editor of the Sun writes • against 'combinations, every choice epithet that he extracts 1 rom the voluminous renesses of his wonderful brain to besmear us manu- facturer° with, is simply a atone that recoils on to his own house of glass. We, manufacturers combined to sell our pro: ducts in tbe beat paying market, and we are anathematised on all sides. The farm:: era combine in a wholesale manner, that places our puny efforts in the shade, to - buy all they want in the cheapest invite% Is that all? No, tbey go so far as te cern:. bineto send their'representatives to Local: and Dominion Parliaments to seek for legielation to help them along. Imagine the salt makers going one half, one quarter, as fat?,!Pity it is, if what is sauce for the - goose is not sabce for the gander. Me. advice to the editor of the 'Sun" Leto lieek" well at home, and first of all cleanse, themselves from all questionable tactioe before finding fault with others. Thanking - you for the space. I am yours, JOHN BANSFOED. Clinton, April 2, 1895. CARD Or THANKS. To Hrs. James Garland. Dean Mai:wean—I beg to transmit to you, by order of the Board of Directors of the Exeter Salt 'Works Company the following resolution viz. "That the heartfelt eympathr of this boa be transmitted to Mrs, James Garland in her - severe affliction in the death of her beloved husband who was for a. number of years' a most faithful and efficient servant of this board, and whose removal is deeply mourned, by us. We commend his beim ed partner to the constant care and protection of Him who leis seen fit in his divine wisdom to take to his full reword for faithful service to bis right hand ih Heaven. §ligned on behalf of the board, TH08.13. CARLING, Secy. - NTOTIOE TO CREDITORS. eel In the Estate of John, Andeison,deceas- ed. NOtice is 'hereby given pursuant to Chap. 110, Revised Statutes of Ontario, 1887, that all. Creditors and other perrions baying claims against the estate of John Andel son,late of the Townshin of Usborne,in the county of Iluron.„, Gentleman, deeeased, who died on or about the 4th day of April A. D.1898, are on or be- fore the let day of May, 1895 required to send by post prepaid, or deliver to William Bawden, Exeter Out, or Henry Anderson, Lumley, Ont. the Exoutors of tbe estate of said deeeasedi, their names, addresses and descriptions, with. full particulars and proof of their °horns,. statements of aceounfs and tbe nature of the, securities (if any) bold by them, and that immediately after the last mentioned date the - said Executors win proceed to distribute the assets of tae said deceased among the parties • entitled thereto, having regard only to the. claims of which notice has been then received audwifl not'b tillable for the asse ts distributed, or any part thereof to any person or persons' whose claim shall not havRe. ErbeecnoLreterevivse. Sd. at time of such distributio n olioitor for Execlitexa, Exeter, Ont. Dated at Exeter this lith day of April, 1898. WORTH ANJJ DUROC- TAM • T gSnWe di has fFo9rnsSaAl ebEa number of young hogs -male and fernalo-of the above breeds. !The stock is thero'bred, imported, and prize winners itt all the fairs laSt fall. Torms reasonable. Mo for service Thoro'- bred Tamworth and Duroc-Jersey Boars: Terms 1 for eithcr boar information cheer- fully given on application to the proprietor, Lot 4, Con 7, S teplien Township, (one mile north of Creditor.) C. PAHNER, .Crediton, P. 0.005. Mail Contract c,,,,IEALED TENDERS, address- 1,..../ed to the Pestinaster General will he received at Otrawe unlit noon, on Friday 3rd of May 1893. for the conveyance of Iter majesty's Mello, on proposed coatracts for four years from the st July next, Piret, between Mitobill and Rueseldale, six, throe per' week each 'way : - second, between Dublin and - Farquhar, six, times per week erne] WOY. Third, behteen Clinton and Sitionerhil twice a week eitCh var. ' Printad notices ,containing further infer- reetion no to conditions of proposed cent rains t may be teen and blank forme of Tender maY bo ' obtained at the Post Oftises along rine tive s and at this aloe. • , Out°0 G, HOPICHIH. Post Office 7 ispbetor.. Post Offiee Ineppoter's Office, 6 trat f Ord elst ma re h