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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1891-6-12, Page 1Volume 18, BRUSSELS, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, JUNE, 12 1891. Number 48. Prohibition. NI'EECn IN 'VIE 11006E O1•• COMMONS, nr. nn, 1IAaPONAI.D, AI. P. .TOR EAST IIUIION, Li approaching this vary important subject, I feel that am not capable of •disoharging my duty in proportion to the importance of, the subject brought before this House. I acknowledge that there is a great deal of diflioulty surrounding this matter, It is a matter whioh hoe knit itself luta the gonial interests of the people for a very long bime, but the fact that there are difhoulbies surrounding it ie no reason to lead ue not bo approach the question with candour, farrnees, and, above all, without any political bias. From the number of petitions whioh have been presented to this House during the last three weeks, it is evident to my •mind at least, that there is a strong feel. ing in favor of prohibition in the country •from one end to the other. The hon. member for Muskoka (Mr, O'Brien) stated yesterday that these petitions were signed by bbe father, the mother and all the family. The feat is, no one under sixteen years of age signed these peti- 11 tions, and about 2,000 petitions have been presented, signed by over 500,000 people. I think it behooves the members of this House, whether they are opposed to or in favor of, prohibitory liquor laws, # to consider this question fairly and squarely. It is a question that moat be decided by the people of this country be. fore many years elapse, and if we have prohibition approximately or remotely, it must Tee obtained, in my opinion, by a union on this question between the two great political parties whioh now divide the country upon other eobjeots. There. fore it is the duty of everyone in this dis. .00881011 to enter it free from any political partisanship or bias, and to approach the question in the intereste of the people whom we represent. This resolution has not bean brought forward by the temper. once men for the purpose of oompromis• ing the G-ovennment or compromising a single member of Parliament, but it has been brought forward for the purpose of ascertaining the sentiments of the re. presentaiivee of the people in regard to this vital question. Even if this resolu- tion were to carry, 5 do not believe, as the bob. member for Leeds stated, that the Government would regard it as a want of confidence motion. If it were of to carry, ite mandate would be merely directory. True, the Government would be required to give vitality and life to the resolution at the earliest possible r moment. We know that the sentiment of temperance is gaining strength in the country every day. The tide of temper. RUCs sentiment ie rising, and the waves 1. of popular opinion against the liquor traffic are making for the shore, and you may rest assured that the politician or the party who heed them not will sooner or later be overwhelmed. There must be no compromise in the settlement of tbie queatiou, because a compromise of priumple is a victory for 'the enemy. I would like to bury this traffic as the old Welsh lady said she would bury the devil, that is, with his face downwards, so that if be came to life and tried to dig himself ont he would only.dig himself deeper down. This trafficie eating daily and hourly more into the interests of our Canadian people. So I believe it is our duty as representatives of the people, not only in a politioal but in a moral sense, to pass what are called moral laws if we think the interests of our oonetibuents require them. I have presented petitions from 6,000 people from my riding and its adjacent neigh- borhood, and I wo'lld be derelict in my duty if I did not express my opinion in favor of their views. But it may be asked, why do we ask for prohibition 7 We ask for prohibition because, in my opinion, and in the opinion of most of the people of the oonntry, this traffic) is a blighting, damning eine upon every- thing decent, pure and virtuous, because it is the enemy of law, order, ,morality, Christianity and oivilizutioo. I make this indictment deliberately, and, having reade such a sweeping charge, you will expect that L bring my evidence to prove it. I am not of the opinion , which the hon. member for Muskoka (Mr. O'Brien) expressed, when he stated that in countries where they driniaa large quan- tity of liquor they are further advanced in civilization. If that were so, it would be advisable for the Government to en- courage the consumption of a greater quantity than we are , drinking to -day. Of course that argument is not worth following. What evidence is there to ' show that this traffic is 0 blighting curse upon everything decent, pure and Virtu- ous 7 First, I take into the witness -box a • man who is well known,by reputation, to everyone lu this House, a man' who oa- oupies a prominent position in one of the publlo instrtutipns of this country, and from whom I have received a letter on this subject. I have a letter from Dr.' Daniel Clark, superintendent of the To- ronto Insane Asylum, in whinhrhe says : 'leniently alooholie habits strengthens -b the hereditary tondenoy to insanity, and the t full results are an unknown quantity and cannot bo oxpreesed in flguxoe,' - This ie what came under his own obser- vation. and he gives it as hie opinion that 10 per cent, of the 7,000 casae of insanity in Canada arise directly from the use of intoxicating ligaors. Another testimony • that I will give, equally valuable in this ".00nneotiou, is that of Dr. Buok, Superin- tendent of the London asylum, who writes to me as follows': "I do not know that 1 have ever soon a case .- of insanity whioh I could say was canoed b y tbroug drink. At the saute time I ani as sure as I can be of anythingthat alcohol is one of the most potent ttetoro in the pro. ' duobiOn of mental disease ; but it is not so ninon the alcohol drank by the patient, though this is often an important eausitive agousy, no that drank bible ancestors, In- s, sanity as w0 coo it, is largely duo to bone diby; but if you go beak far enough, of • course, it has au origin entirely apart from that, That origin I believe to hays been Verytlargely a poryomio1 of the higher nerve a Centres, and nothing interferes with the healthy aotiViby of these more than intoxi• eating drugs of whioh alcohol is the thiol." There is the testimony of another emin. 1 eat man, a man who hue no personal in, toroet in expressing suet an opinion, bet f he gives the result of lie observations, the result or a number of years of study upon this question, 1 have a testimony from another source it) our country, and I think that when the vital interests of our people are affected, it is dos to the Canadian Parliament, it ie due se every representative, no matter how much they may be opposed to the mothode suggest- ed to move 1t, to give e bhorough and candid consideration of testimonies of this kind. We have an asylum establish- ed in the riding from whioh my hon. friend from Muskoka (Mr. O'Brien) in the town of Orillia, county town of the hon. gentleman's riding. In thab town there is an asylum for idiots, and I wrote t0 Dr. Beaton, superintendent, of that asylum, to get the facts in connection with the causes of the idiocy of those un• der his charge : "My experience, and that of the leading euperintendents on this eentinoub, is that a largo number of idiots aro the ehildreu of drunken parents, While, On the other hand, we believe that drunkenness is the amuse of physlosl and mental degeneracy. and that the drunkard's posterity inherits 'wantons diseases, epilepsy, nervous irritability, and, above all, moral obliquity. Therefore con- genital idiocy is not the immediate legacy of he drunkard to his posterity." But let mo refer to another thecae of in- formation to prove that this tropia is o curse to our country. I wrote to James Massie, warden of the Central Prison in the city of Toronto, a man who has cu - copied that position, I understand, since 1874, the year in whioh it was establish- ed. In his letter to me hs says : "Drink produces directly mors inmates for our prisons, more misery, more suffering among helpless wives and innocent child- ren, more sorrow noon parents and more depravity than anything alae in our country-," Six, that gentleman, who occupies a position whioh gives him the best oppor- tunity for ascertaining the practical re- sults of liquor drinking, states fan's wholly at variance with the opinions of the lou. gentleman for Mus- koka, who says that crime doffs not large- ly arise from the nee of intoxicating liquors in our country. Mr. Marais sends me some statistics to show that what we have stated with reference to gaols, is true. He gays that from the time the institution was established in 1874 np to the time he wrote this to me, 8,118 persons wore incarcerated in the Central Prison for various crimes, and after making a careful examination of the previous habits of those parties he found that 1,728 were temperate and 6,- 300 were of intemperate habits. Does not that show conclusively that intern. prance is a great element in the pro• duction of crime ? But, Sir, not being. yet satisfied with the evidence 111ad re. oieved on this point, I wrote to J. O'Reilly, superintendent of the Mercer Reformatory for females, established in the oily of Toronto in 1880, and he tells me that in 1884, 156 females were in- carcerated in that prison, of whom 112, or 71 per cent. were intemperate. In 1885 there were committed to the prison 142, and 04 of these, or 86 per cent. were drunken women. In 1886, 123 were committed, and 78 or 64 per cent. were drunkards ; and out of the whole num. ber of 1,075 received into the institution Mime 188 a similar) largeproportion 0 were invariably intemperate. i ,here we find even women oarried from the paths of virtue and integrity, and brought down to be outcasts upon the streets, through the operation of the liquor traffic ; and still we find hon. gentlemen willing to set tbee quoetion of revenue over against the virtue and integrity of the women of . our country. A letter from another gentleman in the city of Toronto, a gentleman particularly well known to those who some from the city of Toronto—I refer to Col. Denison, police magistrate of that city—says : In 1887 bbere passed through his hands 10,- 597 prisoners, and of that number 5,2`29 were drunk or disorderly. Col. Denison further Bays :— "0 nodal( of the eases of assault, one.11att of petty larceny, one-half of the eases Tag- raney, and a large number of other offences outside of the regular drunk and disorderly list warn directly attributable to intemper- ance." 'Sir, I have written to another gentle- man who is also well known in the pity of Toronto ; and here let me remark that if the use of strong drink produoss each ravages in the oity of Toronto, the beet ordered oily on the continent of America, how much greater are those ravages like. ly to be in other large centres of our population 7 I wrote to Col. Graseett, chief of police in the oily of Toronto, and be replies : "Total commitments In the city iu 1884.56 and 1588 .wore 25012, of whioh 11,785 were committed for drunkenness, or 40 per omit. of the whole," Now I will take the evidence of another gentleinam in the oity of Toronto, who has )lad control of the Toronto gaol for a number of years, and who is known by the name of Governor Green. He says that from 1884 to 1888, inclusive, there were committed to the gaol in Toronto 14,519 persons, of whom 11,208 were of intemperate habits, or 79 per cent. of the whole number. And this is hie testi- mony, oorroborating that of Colonel Denison : 'A largo portion of the crime of this pity is committed by parties under the intiusnee of drink. In fact one-half of tn0 petty ler, Genies, nearly all of the assaults and rob- beries of the person ate attributable to tine same souse, and certainly the amount of drunkenness prevailing, curd, the disorder and Immorality resulting therefrom, are alarmingl' (To be continued.) Tho General Sessions of the Peace open at Stratford the 9111 of June. Ilon. 'Thos. Ballantyne, M. k, 1'., sail- ed from New York for Great Britain last week. The Ante session of Perth County Connell opened at Stratford os Tuesday, and Jun. The Mitchell band has declined the grant of $72 made diem by the Oonnoil, and will run as an independent institu• bion, Bight ears of immigrants pinged through Stratford for the Western States on Wednesday night of last week. During tllo past month on an average from two to eight Dare Have passed that etatitn nightly, SIR JOHN IS DEA.0, BURIED AT KINGSTON, ME NATION 81-d11'.A'1'111515f4, • "Gentlemen, Sir John Macdonald is dead." The speaker was Joseph Pope, the Premier's Private Secretary. 2'he place was the gate of Earnseliffw; the time 10:25 on Saturday night, and the parties addressed a group of newspaper oorreepondents. He added in a husky voice : "He died at 10:15 without pain and in peace." The representatives of the press turned to the adjacent tent, in whioh the telegraph instrumento were al- ready clicking off the fatal news by pri- vate messages, brought out by Mr. Pope, and they flashed the news by land and am to newspaper. in all parts of the Eng- l'ieh.speaking world. The brief an• nouncement : "ern .r011N MACDONALD IS DEAD" meant so math that the words kept run- ning in the tars of those who hoard it, and the .mind eeemed hardly capable of realizing that the most prominent figure in the public life of Canada for forty years had disappeared forever, But a few days ago he was sitting in the coun- cils of the nation ; the master mind ; the directing spirit. But a few days ago he was planning a politioal program for the future months. The tolling of the bells in the otby tower rang out on the still night, telling Ottawa that her foremost citizen, the head of the Government, the great leader of alvictorious party, was no more: The people needed not to enquire the meaning of the tolling bell, they knew when they heard it that the master of Earneoliffe was dead, THE APPROACH 01' DRAT10. Saturday was a perfect June day, still as the air of tropias and bright with sun- shine. The grounds of Earnscliffe were deserted. The members of the house. hold were inside waiting for the summons to toms to one who, having lived a long and active life, was nOty dying in the peaoeful calm of a summer's day. Occa- sionally visitors approached the gates, read the last bulletin, made whispered enquiries and went away, wondering at the marvellous resistenae of a very old man. CON9010uS T11AT Ina RACE WAS HON. It appears that from the day, three weeks ago, when the Premier was struck speechless, in the presence of the Govern- or-General, he was conscious that his end was near, although he fought against it and insisted• that there was no danger and that he mast work, evidently trying to convince himself that his fears were unfounded. At length the worst was realized and what wee known 20 himself, his Cabinet and his home chola was re- vealed to everybody by the sudden and fearful stroke, which descended while he was quietly and hopefully conversing with hiehY What s'c'an. f e followed d ve since P that memorable night every reader in Canada knows. And1 now death like a skilful armorer was slowly encasing the wasted form whioh the soul was soon to quit. The feet and limbs had grown cold and life was etsadily leaving the body. Outside not a sound disturbed the still evening. Not a leaf stirred in the motionless err • no one came to the h house ; the time for human help bad gone. No one could now stay the sickle of the silent reaper. The bright spirit, who had arduously and valiantly won the world's fame and remained in later years in the front of the battle, bad at length reached the brink of eternity. The Rev. Mr. Pollard, of the English church, came down and was admitted to the sick cham- ber. From that time till nine O'oloolr it was one long period of suspense. The Premier was unconscious, se, indeed, he had been for the past 24 hours, and in a comatose state. At nine o'olook the ply. sioian noticed a change and notified the family, who gathered around the bed - aide, conscious that the cud was now at hand. Aruuud the bed gathered Lady Maodonald, Thigh John Macdonald, the Premier's son, and Mrs. Macdonald, and her sister Mre. Fitzgibbon, Miss Marjorie Stewart, the Hon. Edgar Dewdney and Mrs. Dewdney ; Joseph Pope, thh Prime Minister's Secretary ; Fred, White ; Geo. Sparkes, a relative of Sir John ; Dr. Powell, the physician, and Ben Chilton, the Premier's trusted messenger for many years. The dying man's irregular and labored breathing, which had been for hours a aeries of gasps and had not reached the rate of 50 a minute, ceased, and in its plane there came a deep, regu. lar and ordinary respiration. For an- other hour the terrible waiting in sus- pense continued. At. last, witbout a struggle, the heart stopped beating and the breath of life left the body. Sir 701111 was aged 76 years and five months. At half•past ten; fifteen minutes after death, the bullebiu announcing it was posted on the gate. The bulletin had not been up an hour before some curiosity hunter took it away. A special messenger al• most immediately left Earneoliffe for Rideau Hall to convoy the news to His Excellency, who the following day sent his secretary, Capt. Colville, over with au expression of his own and Lady Stan. ley'e deep sympathy for L'ady iiiacdonald and the family. His Excellency, on 05- oeiving the intelligence of death, cabled the news to the Queen, Lord Salisbury and Lord Knutsford. The death of the Prime Ministoe having dissolved the Ministry a Governor-General is, for the drat tine fn the history of the Dominion, left without an adviser, How long he will so remain depends altogether on himself. Shortly after the ennounoe- nhent of death the Hon. Mr. Dewdney drove off to inform his colleague) that his and their chief was dead. A special message wag sunt to Sir Hector Langovin: Mane Sherwood, o the 1 � c9 0 , Commissioner f Dominion Polies, came down to Earns. oliffo to stay on duty for the night and relicts those whom long vigils had fagged out, and Who gave way now that the neeeesity for watching was over, Mr, Dewdney returned again to Earnsoliffe, and Mr. Carling shortly afterwards same down, Sir John Tbompecn and Messrs: Charlene and Haggett were in Montreal and 011d nob gat bask to the Capital until four o'clock on Sunday afternoon. FUNERAL Am1AN0111IL+NTa. This young country has not paid to anyone such funeral holl0re as were be. stowed upon the late Premier. At a meeting of the Cabinet in Sir Hector Langevin's residence, the outlines of the funeral arrangements were made. The details were left to the management of the Hon. Mr. Dewdney, representing the family and the Cabinet, Col, Smith, De- puty Sergsant•et-Arms, and Major Sher- wood, Commissionerof the Dominion Police. It was a stats and military £un - oral. At the Ottawa end the Foot Guards, the Dragoon Guards and 43rd and the Artillery corps battalion took part, and the army of civil servante. The Cabinet and Houses of Parliament attended and all the city Corporation, civic bodies, and national societies of the capital. There were thousands of dale - genie from organizations of all kinds over the country, from party associations and officers of militia battalions and hun- dreds of distinguished persons, personal friends, who journeyed to Ottawa to add their Iasb tribute to personal friendship or party fealty. Maynard Roger's, of the undertaking firm of that name, and as- sistants went down to Earnsoliffe about eleven o'olook to prepare the remains for burial. No time was lost in embalming the body, that process being oonoluded by morning and the body clothed in a white funeral robe. Monday, the burial casket, whioh is said to be preoisely the same as that of President Garfield, was taken into the house and the body placed in it. It is of rolled steel with rosewood finish. The massive oxidized silver hand- les extend along the sides the whole length and at each end. The lifting plates of the lid are fastened with silver knobs, the lifts themselves being in the shape of a wheel with a pair of wings. Round the edge runs a tracery of foliage; the pattern is also in oxidized silver. The lid• bears two plates, one of whioh will contain the knightly coat -of -arms and the other the inscription. ATTIRED IN UNIFORM. The late Premier was dressed in the uniform of an Imperial Privy Councillor, and the decorations he has received from the Queen shine on his breast. His body is wasted very mush, but there is a sin- gular naturalness in his emaciated fea- tures. The remains were left with bis relatives until Tuesday. Before 10 o'clock on that day the funeral service of the Anglican church was read tit Earnsoliffe before the household. The remains, immediately afterwards, were brought privately to the Parliament buildings. It lay in solemn state in the Senate Chamber, whose crimson mag- nificence was shrouded in black. With a constant guard or honor the remains was left in the Upper House until Wed- nesday at one o'clock. At that hour the public honors was paid. The body was taken to St. Albans church and was met at the ent e trance bybe alar and th choir. The hymnwere : clergy our heads are bowed with woe," and "Now the laborer's task is o'er." During the service the choral from Mendeleohn's "St. Paul" was sang, "To Theo, 0 Lord, I yield my spirit, Who breakest in love this mortal chain. My life 1 but from Thee inherit, And dying. Yield it T4pe again.ain. Co Theet I 1: T o art ever r n Content, for Thou art ever n{ghl" At the close of the service the choir preceded the casket to the door singing the Nuno dimittie. The prayers were read by the Rev. J. J. Bogart, Rector of St. Albans. From the aburcb the re- mains were conveyed to the Canadian Paoido Railway depot and by special train to Kingston. In that pity the ar- rangements were in the hands of the Mayor and the civil and millitary authorities. Eight members of A Battery carried the remains to the City Hall, the scene of many politioal °enfiiots, where they lay until Thursday noon. From the City Hall a second funeral cortege followed the body of the oity'e late repre- sentative to Oataraqui Cemetery, some three miles away, where, beside father, mother, first wife and sisters it will rest in the long last Bleep. 018500150110 OF SUMMIT. Scores of telegrams of sympathy pour- ed into liarnecliffe this week. The Governor-General received a cablegram from Balmoral signed by Her Majesty, to the effeot that she wee pained to learn of Sir John Macdonald's death, whioh she regarded as a great loss to the Canada and the Sovereign, and asked His Excellency to convey to the bereaved widow and family her heartfelt sympathy, Sir Charles Tupper cabled from Vienna. Lord Salisbury and other prominent persons in England sent expressiolis of sorrow. Alt the lieutenant•Govsrnors sent messages of condolence°. The Hon. Oliver Mowat sent a message. Lieu- tenant -Governors Campbell of Ontario and Angers of Quebec also attended the funeral. VIEWING Tar mums. The dead Premier's late ministers went 20 Earnsoliffe fn ary body Monday morning at eleven o'olobk to view the remains of their late leader, and tender their sympathy to the mourning family. The draping of the Senate Chamber was profuse and magnificent and was placed in the ebargs of Mr. Buellao, the Montreal decorator. Following the Old Country custom, throughout the country during the funeral boor minute guns were tired. All the Cabinet ministers and politicians wore busy. all Sunday, day and night, Hamilton McCarthy, minter, arrived from Torouito Sunday and going to Earnsoliffe before noon, took a .net of the features of the dead Premier. ORDER OF 0005Es5ION. The order of the procession was as fol. low* :—Bight Dominion polio /non abreast ; eight Princess Louise Dragoon Gnarde, mounted, abreast ; the oilioiat•e ing clergy, the Rev, J. J. Bogart and S. Iiodgers & Son ; fourteen Privy Councillors as pall bearers ; two r arri- ages for the six Dominion Polioomen who carried the casket ; car containing floral tributes ; hearse, heavily draped and drawn by four horses ; two mourn• ing coaches; Ills Excellency Lord Stan• ley ; the Lieutenant•Governors or the Provinose ; Archbishop, Bishop, Clergy, Senators, Members of the Commons, and others in order of precedence, Guelph Methodist Conference. The annual conference of the Metbo- dist ohuroh was opened in the town of Berlin on Thursday morning of last week, the ministerial session convening the day previous. Rev. Joseph W. Holmes, of Owen Sound, was elected President and Rev. Wesley Casson, of Seafortb, Secretary. The statistical report showed an in- crease in all the funds over last year as follows :—Missionary, 31,750 ; superan• uuation, $4 ; educational, $102 ; contin- gent, $64 ; general conference, 314 ; union oberah relief, $14 ; Sunday school aid, $3.27 ; sustenbation, 34.44 ; women's missionary, $165. There aro, 130 minister's in the active work, 25 superannuated, 5 supernumer- ary, 161 probationers, 307 local presets - ors, 79 exhorters, 907 class leaders ; total number of officials, 3,242. The average salary paid in the Guelph Conference is $672. The increase in membership for the year is 868. The ordination class was introduced and presented the President with a handsome photographed group of the class. The Rev, Dr. Williams was elect- ed to fill the vacancy caused by the Rev. T.111. Campbell being removed to the Bay of Quints Conference. It was de- cided to hold the next conference in the Norfolk street church, Guelph, 1892. The following young men are allowed to go to college :-5, E. Couch, Henry J. Haswell, Francis M. Blathers, Judson Truax, Walter E. Treleaven,' Albert E. Henderson, D. D. Birks. Geo. McKinley, Henry J. Miller, Robt. H. Barnby, Henry A. Baylis, John S. Humphreys. nen MATT OF STATIONS. GUELPH Drssaror=Guelph First (Nor- folk street)—Jas. Hannon, D. D. Guelph Second (Dublin street)—A, Cunningham. Guelph Third (Paisley street)—W. H. Harvey, M. A. Ponsonby—Henry Caldwell. Eloro—W. W. Sperling. Samuel Fear, superannuated. Fergus—G. A. Gifford, M. A., Ph. D. Marsville=Henry Berry. Belwood—John Kennedy, S. T. L. Eramosa—Jas>Harris, Nassagawsya—J. W. Robinson. Rockwood—John Hart. (One to be sent,) Acton—Joseph Edge. Georgetown—Thos. Gee, T. W. Connie Erin—Jobn Ball, W. II. Graham. Chairman—Jas. Hannon, D. D. GALT DxsnsxaT—Galt—W, S. Griffin, D. D. Berlin—Geo. Richardson. Waterloo—J. 0. Stevenson. Preston—J. 0. Pomeroy, B. A. Hespeler—Geo. H. Cornish, L. L. D. Elmira—R. H. Hall. New Hamburg—E. Olivant. Wellesley—Thos. Grandy. Chairman—W. S. Griffin, D. D. STnATFORD DISTRICT—Stratiord (Oen. tral)—J. W. Holmes. Stratford (Waterloo street)—W. H, Hineks, L. L. B, Mitchell (Trafalgar street)—Francis E. Nugent. Mitchell (Main street)—John Mille. Monkton—W. J. Brandon. Staffa—N. S. Burwasll. (One to be sent,) Fullarton—Soloman 0. Edmunds, B. D., Herbert N. Casson. Harmony—Rob'. Godfrey. Embro—Chas. V. Lake. Chairman—J. W. Holmes. ST. Meri's DISTRICT—St. Mary's—Jno, Scott, M. A. Granton—Josias Greene. Luoan—Rich, C. Renders. Ailey Craig—Wm. Birks. Kirkton—B, L. Hutton. Woodham—W. W. Leech. Nissouri—Jas. Restle. Kintore—Thos. J. Sabine, Thamesford—W. E. Kerr. Chairman—John Scott, M. A. Gomuszon DrsTRICT—Goderioh (North street)—J. E. Howell, M. A. Godderioh (Victoria street)—W. A. Strongman, Pin. D., L. L. D. Clinton (Rabtsnbury sbreet)—J. W. Sk°lion, B. A, Clinton (Ontario street)—Joseph Gal. lo way. Seaforth—Wesley Casson. Holmesviele—Walter Ayres. Bayfield—Alex. Thibadeau. Varna—Jas. Walker, Hensali—H. J. Pair, H. S. Magee. Iiippen—Henry Irvine. Dungannon—Austin Potter. Nile—Ezra Fear Benmiller—W. M. Bielby. Chairman—J. E. Howell, M. A. Knicenn en Disnnrcr—Kincardine—W. C. Henderson, D. D, Tiverton—H, A. Newcombe. Bervie—Jno, R. Iesao,G. W. Johnston. Bethel—A. MoKibbin. Ripley—Joseph S. Cooke. Luoknow—J, S. Coiling. Ashfield—John Kenner. Whltecburoh—F, W. Crowle, M. A. Salon—A. Scratch, Chitirman—W. C. Henderson, WINOIIAsr DIsTRIOT—Wingham—S, Solo lery, di, A., 13. D. Teeswater—J. A. MoLaohlan, M, A, Wroxeter -•-I3, A. Shaw. Brussels—G, F. Salton. John L. Herr, Richard Paul, superannuated. Walton—Wm. Obtawell. Londesboro'—Jao, Ferguson. Blyth—W. F. Campbell. —, Auburn r:, Swann. Bolgravo—J, H. Dyke. Bluevele—L 13. Wallwin. Chairman S, Se)lory, M. A.,B,D. LIoToivEr DxsTRIGT—Liato9V0I•-4ames Arehdeaeon Lauder ; the undertakers, LIMO tono. Milverton—E. S. Rupert, 111. A. Trowbridge—Wm. Baugh, Corrie—Wm. Torrance, Fordwich-J. W. Pring. Wallace --Thos, Amy. Abwood—David Rogers. Iienfryn—F. M. Smith, Ethel—B. 811eloek, Chairman—E. S. Rupert, M. A. P5111ER5TON DISTRICT—Palmerston—J. T. Smibh. Drayton—E. A, Chown, B. D. Arthur—John S. Fisher. Alma—David A. Moir, W. C. Caswell. Peel -C. Hamilton, Moorefield—A. E. Smith. Stirton—Thos. C. Sandoreon. Minto—J. Markham. Teviotdalo—Thos, Legato, Chairman -0, Hamilton. MOUNT FOREST DISTRICT—Mount Forest —Wm. Williams, D. D. Harriston--Wm, Smyth. Durham—A. K. Birks, B. A. L. L. B. Holstein—Geo. Lounds. Clifford—R. Phillips. Gleneden—R, W. Williams. Kenilworth—J. S. Corcoran. Grand Valley—H. E. Hill. Varney—Adam Glazier. Cedarville—J. H. Watts. Chairman—Wm, Williams, D. D. WALEEaTON DISTRICT—Walkerton—R. Walker. Mildmay—W. B. Danard. Hanover—T. J. Snowden, Elmwood—R. C. Barton. Oheeley—W. H. Moss. Dobbinton—John Webster, R. Keefer. Tara—Geo. Buggin. Arkwright—J. W. Gilpin. Eden Grove—J. J. Noble. Paisley—Jas, McAllister. Port Elgin—J. Charlton. Southampton—J. Wass. Saugeen— Wm. Savage. Chairman—Jas. McAllister. OWEN SOUND DISTRICT --Owen Sound— G. R. Turk, Alex. J. Irwin. Brookholm—G. Hartley. Chatsworth—A. M. MoCallooh. Allenford—Dixon Sharpe. Woodford—R. I. Hooking, George 0. Balfour, Kemble—T. J. Smith, Hepworth—Andrew J. Parker. Clavering --One wanted. Wiarton—$. H. Edwards, Colpoy's Bay—George Smith. Lion's Head and Dyers Bay—J. W. Churchill. Tobermory—Ono wanted. Cape Croker—Robert Carson. Chairman—G. le. Turk. MARxo,LE Dxsrnicr—Markdale—Robert Davey. Flesherton—A. W. Tonga. Dundalk—G. H. Oobblediok, M. A. Melanohton—J. W. Sanderson. Eugenia—F. H. Thompson. Prioeville—Robb. J. Husband. Holland Centre—John Pepper, B. A. Walter's Falls—One to be sent. Euphrasia—Thos. R. Fydell. Chairman—R. Davey. People We Know. Gus. Goebel, of Mitchell, was in town this week. J. Stevens, of Seaforth, was in town on Sunday. Mrs. Ii. Gerry, Nelson and Theursa spent Sunday in Wingham. Mise Emma Knechtel is home from Kansas 011 it Visit to her parents. Mre. A. G. Dickson and children, of Toronto, are visiting relatives in town. W. B. Dickson was et Goderioh for several days this week on legal business. Postmaster Farrow went to Kingston on Wednesday to attend the funeral of Sir Jno. A. Mrs. Jas. Clark and Miss Sarah Clark, of Seaforth, ware visiting friends in Brussels this week. Thos, W. Gibson, of Wroxeter, has received an appointment at the hands of the Ontario Government, at a salary of $1200 per annum. W. H. McCracken is visiting the scenes of his boyhood in the neighborhood of Peterboro'. He will likely see Rochester, N. Y., before he Domes bask. W. Blashill are A. Koenig are away at Toronto attending the High Court in connection with the 0. 0. F. Order. They represent Brussels and also Ethel. W. Rands, who has been in Southern Dakota for several months, has ,returned and will continue to reside here, Mr. Randa disposed of his real estate in the west while absent. Stanley Anderson, who has been studying dentistry for some time in Brussels, has gone to London to assist a dentist for a few months. Mrs. Ander- son 00oompanied him. A. J, McColl, barrister, and wife, for- merly of Brussels, were in town last week. We understand they purpose tak- ing a trip round the world. , Their home is 1n New Westminster, B. 0. J. D. Ronald and wife have gone on au extended tour taking in Halifax, Boston, New York, Albany, Niagara Falls, &o. They purhased their tickets from T. Fletcher, G. T. R. local agent. Last Tuesday afternoon Mrs. Fletcher, Mrs. W. H. Kerr and son started for Winnipeg. They took passage from Kincardine on the "United Empire" for Duluth on Wednesday and from there Willgoby Groat Northern Railway, T Atwood Boo of last week says :— Wo had a pleasant call Saturday from Rev. S. Jones, of Brussels. Mr. Jones, notwithstanding his advanced age, preached Sunday morning and evening 10 Atwood and ill the aftsrnnon at Monk - ton for Rev, Mr. Henderson, His dis. courses ware able and eminently prated. cal in their bearing, and delivered with wonderful clearuoes and force. • Notice of revision of the Dominion .tors lid vfor Winnipeg has been given. Grading on the exteusicn of the 0. P. R. Souris branch from Melita to the coal fields will be commenced nest week. Rev. Jelin Mordy, lecturer for the Do. minion Alliance in Manitoba, wee rotten- egged by a gang of portage rowdies while hoarding the train at Pottage la Prairie the other day. The royerend gentleman was badly need up, and mach excitement prevailed for a time.