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Volume 17.
Political Notes.
Toronto Equal Righters have nomin.
atnd Ald. Reid and 14, D, Armour.
In the Legislature just di.eolved there
were 67 Liberals and 58 Conservatives.
A. 11, Pettit, of Grimsby, one of the
lending Conservatives of the county, is
out in opposition to Mr. Rykert.
Josiah Hampton, Reeve of Mount
Forest, was nominated on April 26th as
the Conservative candidate for Ent
Wellington.
The Globe of last Tuesday says :—A.
H. Musgrove, the Conservative candidate
for Best Huron, Bays in hie address to
the electors of the riding :—"Our fore-
fathers handed down to us from man a
blood-stained field the rights and liner.
ties we so happily enjoy, and we should
be recreant to our trust didw a not trana-
d
mit such libertine nullas re to our des
cendants." It is funny to think of a
Tory boasting of the liberties his fore.
Emboli a handed down "from many a
blood-stained field." What would Mr.
Musgrove say U Mr. Gibson wore to ask
his Tory opponent for dates and places?
Rarely has there been a larger and
more enthusiastic Convection of the
Liberals of South Huron than the one
lucid at Hensel' last Tuesday. Every
municipality but ono Bent a fall repre-
sentation, there being 114 delegates
present, besides a large number of
staunch and true Reformers who had
gathered from all parts of the country
to show their sympathy with the oaueo.
It was very evident from the hearty and
unanimous expressions of opinion that
the Mowat Government has lost none of
its popubcrity with all classes of the
people in the several municipalities re-
presented at Tuesday's Convention. At
the last Provincial election the Reform
majority in South Huron was over 500
and if the enthusiasm of those present
Tuesday may be taken as a criterion,
the above majority ie likely to be great-
ly increaeed at the coming election. The
nomination of Mr. Holmes, a young To-
ronto lawyer, after the lending Conserva-
tives in the riding bad refused to stand
is unmistakeable evidence of the weak.
nese of the Tory party in South Huron.
Idardly any candidate could have been a
more forlorn hope than this deluded
young man. Alter the work of re.
organizing the Liberal Association Tues-
day, Archibald Bishop, who for the
post eighteen years has represented the
riding, was unanimously chosen as the
candidate- It is needless to add that
lir. Bishop's election by an overwhelm-
ing majority is certain. iI. B. Clarke
addressed the electors on behalf of the
Conservative candidata at Seafortb on
Tuesday, but found the people of Sea -
forth in euoh hearty sympathy with the
Mowat Government that he will be most
wide to give this pisco a w da berth iu.
future.
BRU:,SELS, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, MAY 16, 1890.
Nurnber 44,
TUE CI\A::CI.1L RECORD.
Moderate and reasonable opponents of
the Mowat government do them the jus -
tire of sayiug that upon the financial re-
cord the Mowat goternment is unaessil
able. But some carping ethics endeavor
to pielc flaws, not iR their financial ad-
ministration but assert that they are de.
;riving the municipalities of funds that
should be enjoyed by the municipalities
and bringing the province to the verge
of direct taxation. A little attention to
the subject will show how unfounded ie
the first inference, that the Mowat gov-
ernment's financing is detrimental to the
municipalities. Within the twenty-two
and a half years since the confederation
of the provinces, of which term about
ntueteen years have been under Liberal
rule and nearly eighteen under the pre.
miership of Hon. 0. Mowat, the total
Provincial expenditure has been $01,821,•
722. This is an aggregate large sum, but
after all, it only represents, in nearly
twenty three years, the amount taken
out of the baxpeyere by the Dominion
Government is Lees than a tenth of the
title—in two years. And thie is how the
amount is chiefly made up—that is, the
principal,itoms of Provincial expendi-
ture.
inucotiou 410,722,800
Maintenance of Public InstItutious 0,712,401
Administration of Juslioe 6,920,049
Public Buildings 5,518,815
Md to Railways 5,164,010
Civil Government 9,040,401
Legislation 2,089,410
Agriculture and Arts 2400,148
Colonization Roads 2,170,354
A little consideration of these figures
will show that there is no foundation for
the charge that the Ontario government
is, and has been, placing burdens on ns
and robbiug the people who compose the
municipalities. The 410,722,865 repro.
Bents a corresponding amount of relief
from direct taxation for the education of
the children of the country. Snores and
scores of them who are now at man's
estate and taking part in making greater
the greatest pr0vlil08 of the confedera-
tion have received the benefit thereof.
The 511,712,461 expended upon the main.
tonna() of Public Institutions represent
a corresponding amount of direct taxa-
tion, for the Dare of the insane, the deaf
and dumb, the blind, who must have stat.
fared neared for or hove taxed the en-
ergies and absorbed the money of the
mdnicipnlibies. From both a humane
and financial point of view,' ,this exlhel-
clitma should aloe° the month of flaw.
finding critics who would,to gain a point,
rob then antortnnatee of tho care and
oomforb they enjoy under tho liberal
policy of the Ontario Government,
Other millions have been spent upon rail.
ways, with the toetit of opening up
new rotntry, filling it with an industrious
and enterprising eines of a0111e•s, when
wants result in in creation of a tl0•
Inn far the wares and produote. of our
merchants and huanufaatuters, building
up oar towns and (titles and flooding our
forest with the Over widening flow of the
tido of civilization. Agriculture, which
is the backbone of thee province, has
beou aided and enoouragod ; the high.
ways of the settlers have ben made
Ede:tight and rt11 round the province has
benefitted- And all Cite immense enm
1•epreeents n divot relief of the ramal.
panties to a aorrespoltdlug lmntnt,
Compare the expentIitere in gaostiou
With the results of the expenditure of a
like sum in the Dominion In the Inst two
years. Where are those results ? What
benefits have Canadians received in re.
turn for the sixty million dollars which
in the last two years they have paid into
the Dominion Treaeury 7 Out of this
euro of $61, 821,722, only a little over
six millions—about ten per oent.—has
been spent in the post of running the
tuaohinery of the government. Who
can consider these facts dispassionately
and come to the conclueion that the
Mowat Government is the enemy of the
munioipalities, or who on consider those
i° contusion
o stl
facts withoutcoming ing to ' i
of the organ of Mr. RferaduEl , the Mail
,
when it says :—"Tho (Mowat) Govern-
ment itself
aftBB 0 f
1 p an make out a 'oo [
neltc
ds
in regard to its adminietration of the
finances ?"
Washington Letter.
to
(From our Regular Correspondent.)
WAsainorox, May 0, '00.
The debate which opened Wednesday
in the blouse of Representatives will
have important results, in one way or
the other, either for good or for harm,
to the people of the nation. While the
tariff in some of its aspect(' is and must
always remain a local question, in others
it in a subject of national and even uni.
vernal interest, since the measure adopt.
ed touches at many points the vital In-
terests of the Union at large, and at a
smaller number of points the interests
of humanity at large. The nine dis-
crimination repaired in settling a
national economical policy can hardly be
over valned. Not only is it important
to know the wants of each and every
oommouity, but it is indispensable that
this knowledge shall dovetail with the
rights and interests of the whole people,
so that uone shall be ruined that others
may be promoted and that the best good
of the whole shell inter -relate with the
beet good of these parts. This subjeot
of the national revenues has so long been
before the country, arid has been' so ex-
haustively discussed in and out of Con-
gress, that it would seem on a stlperfi•
dial 011310 that no further debate was
necessary. But the question is a large
and ever changing ono. Even since the
last presidential election not two years
ago there hits beou modification in cir-
cumstances. The possibilities of further
change during the few months before e
congressional011041on shall again neer
make fho topic one peculiarly delicate in
the handling. Congress cannot, there-
fore, be too deeply impressed by the re-
sponsibilities of the situation.
Three weeks from next Monday th0
actual work of taking the 0011888 will be
begun. The preparations are now well
under way, and when the 1st of June
arrives the 40,000 or more enumerators,
armed with paper and penal will be
ready to begin their rounds. The busi-
est place just now in connection with the
census work in the ware -house in this
city where the population schedules are
stored. There aro some 20,000,000 of
these schedules and a force of men are
hard at work packing them into boxes to
be sent to the oaten supervisors, corm -
spending to the number of districts into
which the county is divided for census
eur ogee. The schedules are sent to the
npervisors to be distributed among the
enumerators. They are packed in 4,500
boxes in all and by the end of the present
week it is expected that they will all be
shipped. The boxes are sunt by mail
which means of course, that they aro
carried in the mail cars instead of in the
express cars. They are, perhaps, the
bulkiest pieces of mail matter that have
over been received in e, postal oar, each
box weighing 237 pounds.
Tho death of Senator Beck has made
speculation aotive in regard to the en -
cession. Many points were developed
at the time when a rumor was currant
that Senator Beck would resign as the
result of ill health. Naturally ox -Speak-
er Carlisle is looked as a man whose
(vide experience and broad statesman-
ship particularly 41 him for the United
States Senate. The Domooratio side
has developed enough material to fill the
Speaker's chair acceptably if the next
House should be Democratic and 1MIr.
Oarlisle not a member. If a Southern
Democrat is needed Judge Crisp, of
Georgia, is available. If a Northern
Democrat is required Wm. 11. Springer
is at hand to fill the oohing void. Sena.
tor Beak was chairman of the Democratic
Senatorial attune, and will probably be
stoaeeded by Senator Harris, of Ten-
nessee.
Even the old -stagers in the House
cannot endure too much in the way of
tariff talk. When the debate wee open-
ed Wednesday nearly every neat in the
hall was filled. Two hours and a half
later hardly half of the seats were oc-
oupi'ed, yet the discussion was unusual•
ly interesting considering t1101 it related
to the tariff. The foot is that the
studious members of the House do not
depend much on their ears to keep trash
of the opinions and utterance of their
aesoaiatos and opponents. They re-
ligiously road the. Congressional Record
and thus have the benefit of dolibsrately
ariticieing what lute been said after it
appears in cold type.
It was expected that Speaker head
would on Wednesday anent= tlio ism
pOintmet+t8 to 1111 the vacancies on the
committees on rifles and appropriations
caused by the death of Mr. Randall it
being understood that Mr. Blount, of
Georgie, will secure the forme' and 141x.
ldtit0Ule•, of Pennsylvania, the latter
place. The reason for the delay in the
urn 03180oment ie said to be that the
'Speaker will await the result of tho sena-
turittl contest in Inentsokyy before minting
the neeeseor to Mr, Randall an the 40311-
mittoa on rules, In 0480 Mr. Carlisle is
elected to 1110 Senate there will be two
places instead of ono to 130 fined.
Very recent events toad to corroborate
tin gamut] estimate of Col. D. Lamont's
wertih as private secretary.
Four white molt and fortybee n
blacks were lost by the 810013 of' the
5011oot141' .l4liza Mary 0u the coast of the
New flobriclts, many of the viabfins he-
ron tenlahswketl by the savages,
wiSIIIenn LIMITS POLICIES.
Under the provisions of the Dominion
Lands Act the Minister of the Interior
may sob apart any tract of timbered ter.
ritury and divide it into berths not ex-
ceeding 60 square miles euoh, t0 be re.
served from sale; and under regulations
respecting ground rents, royalties and
other dues, leases of right to out timber
on sun berths may be issued under the
following berme
1. The Governor -in -Council may order
that the leases be offered at public
auction at an upset bonus fixed in tfae
order and awarded to the person bidding
the highest bunes therefor, each bonen
to be paid in oast at the time of sale.
2. The Gevernor.in•Oouncil may
also authorize the issuing of a lease of
right to out timber to any person who is
the solea lioant for berth the
PP any
bonus to be fixed be the Order anthoriz.
ing the lease and to be paid in oath.
8. When one or more persona apply
for a lease, the Governor-in-t)ouocril may
authorize the Minister to invite tenders
from the applicants or the publio, and
the person tendering the highest cash
bonus wilt be entitled to tee lease.
4. Leases of berths are issued for a
term not oxceeding one yen, without
claim for renewal tunes provided by
the order•in-Council authorizing the
lease or by the conditions of sale or
tender,
6. The holder of a lease is required to
erect ono or more eawmille upon his
berth of a minimum nutting oapaoity,
and in addition to the bonus he is re.
quired to pay a yearly ground rent of 55
per square male and a royalty of 5 per
sent. on the sales of the products.
In the Province of Ontario the Com-
missioner of Crown Lands disposes of
timber limits subject to the following
regulations, adopted for the most part
twenty years ago and only modified by
the Moreno of rates and dues as 0ircum.
stances have appeared to justify :
j.. If the timber is in unserveyed ter-
ritory, the Commiesionsr causes the
section of oountry where it ie intended
to allot the berths, to be run out into
townships, each of which shall consti-
tuts a timber berth ; but the Commis.
Blotter may cause a township to 1/0 sub-
divided into as many berths as he thinks
proper.
2. The berths or limits when so sue-
veyed are explored and valued and then
offered for sale by publio notion at 111001).
set price fixed by the valuation, at such
time and place and subject to nob con-
ditions as the Commissioner may direct
by public notice, and each berth goes to
the highest bidder for cash at the time
of sale.
5, All timber licenses expire on the
Nth of April after their issue, and hold-
ers who comply with all existing regula-
tions are ontttled to have their licenses
renewed on applioation to the Commis-
sioner or his local agent made before the
Ist of July following the expiration of
the last preceding license. But no re•
newal is granted until all arrears for
ground rout, dues, oto., have boon first
Laid.
4. All timber limits are subject (in ad-
dition to the bonus paid for at the time
of sale) to an annualround rent of 411
g
per :quern mile, payable able in advance be-
fore
fore the iesuiog of any original leaseor
its renewal ; and all timber out under
lioense is eubjeot to the payment of dues
axed by the Commissioner, according to
the kind of timber, being for red and
white pine ab the rate of 51 per 1,000 feet
board measure.
The Dominion act permits berths to
be disposed of in three ways, vie., (1) at
public auction to the highest bidder, at
an upset bonus axed in the order of
sale ; (2) to any person who is the sole
applicant for the lease, at a bonus fixed
by the order authorizing the lease to the
party ; (3) by tenders received from two
or more applicants or the public, the
person tendering the highest bonus to
be entitled to the lease. The Ontario
regulations allow of berths to be acquir-
ed -at publio auction only, and by the
highest bidder. No provision is made
for private sole to an applicant, and
during the past twenty years there to not
an instance of any berth, Targe or small,
leaving been obtained sxeopt at the
competition of a public auction.
•
.Brussels Council.
The meal meeting of the village Coun-
cil was held last Monday evening. All
the members of the Board present ex-
cept Councillor Strachan. The minutes
of last meeting read and approved.
Accounts were presented are follows :^---
Mrs. Wallace, goods 5 2' 00
Mrs. Hart, charity 2' 00
Beattie Bros., Fire Department,2' 00
Thos. Stewart, St. improvements2 00
Mrs. J. Blashill, charity 6 00
Mrs. Brown, rent for Mrs. Wallace, 8 00
7. Maxwell, rent for airs. Williams 8 00
Geo. Birt, St. improvements......,. 5 00
Walter Smith, St. improvements11 26
P. MoKenna, St. improvements10 75
Turnbull di Ballantyne, itnp'bs, &o2t 00
ll, Stewart. Assessor's salary40 00'
Moved by J. M. McIntosh, seconded by
W. Ainley that above accounts be paid.
Carried.
Moved by J. 1I. MoIntosla, s000nded by
W. F. Stewart that Conti of Revision be
hold me the evening of Monday, June
231d, at 8 o'clock. Carried.
The tender for graveling was truss -
forted from George Avory to David
Shine en motion of W. F. Stowers and W,
A.inlay.
After some general conversation 0u
enneary street improvements the Conn.
ail adjourned.
A somewhat novel suit, in which a
member of the Dominion Parliament
will appear ao the defendant, is likely to
be hoard at the next assizes. Weilnes-
day counsel acting on behalf of ,Pahl(
Becker, applied for an injunction to re.
straits Jas, Livingston, M. P., South
Waterloo, from peeping ilealcor, who
married Mr. Livingstone's daughter,
apart from his wife. Becker has also
annimeneed ate notion against 1Ir. Liv-
istgsbonefar (1201080 datnag05 foe ellen-
Ming the Elf eetions of ilio wife and toe
depriving him of her eoolety. The story
goes that Becker was a eater in Mr.
Livingetonu's store at Baden, Ont., and
he formed an a1ta0hmenb with blo
master's daughter 110.0. The young
couple were married on the sly, and the
match was distasteful to Mr. Livingstone,
who separated the couple and refuoea to
allow his daughter to see her husband.
Huron County.
0. 0. Seine, of Gerrie, is laid up with
a sprained ankle.
W. Coats has been appointed Chief of
the Clinton Fire Brigade.
T. Veal, of Elimville, boasts of a row
ofotatoes upreedy for hoeing.
W. H. Elmsford, of Boston, has pre -
'tented Clinton with a handsome British
flag.
g
Hughh Ross East
Wawanoeh sold a
fine mare to Mr. Lucas, of Calgarry,
for
8250.
An orchestra has been -formed nn con•
section with the. Blyth Methodist church
Sunday school.
Michael Swans, of the Maitland con.,
Colborne, has a lamb which at birth
weighed 23 lbs.
Fred. Gemeinhard, of Bayfield, shot a
fine large hawk, which measured over
four feet from tip to tip.
A. two-year-old filly, the property of
John McCartney, of Goderieh township,
turned the scales at 1,400 lbs.
A grand concert under the aaepioes of
the Huron 'screens olob will be held in
the Grand Opera House, Goderieh, on;
Tuesday, May 20th.
Arbor Day, Friday, May 2nd, wag
observed at the Goderieh Central eohool
by the planting of flowers, to which a
half-day was devoted.
Fall wheat in Dungannon looaliby is
apparently improving, and, eo far es
present prospects appear, may turn out
to be an average Drop.
The Exeter baseball club has entered
into an agreement to play the club of
Parkhill a 'game of ball on Thursday,
May 22nd at Parkhill for a puree of $26.
On Wednesday of last week David
Marwick, of Goderieh, lifted part of hie
nets that had been down for eight days
and enured a haul of one ton of sound
fish.
A petition was signed by the leading
btslurss men of Exeter for the closing
of their respective places of business on
and after the 5th of May, 1890, at the
hour of 7 o'clock p. m., Saturday ex.
elusive.
7. Reich, who left Clinton some time
ago intending to settle in British Colum-
bia, did not find the inducements as
promising as he anticipated. He is at
present working in Tacoma, Waeltingt ou
Territory.
Lr eomplianee with a largely signed
requisition Mayor Butler, of Goderieh,
has issued rt proclamation naming Mon-
day, the 26th, as the day for celebrating
Ger Majesty's Birthday, the 21113 ooming
on a Saturday.
Redgrave has among its public build.
ings a handsome little brick church, an
Orange and Temperance Hall, post office,
000pershop, dressmaker's shop, the last
of which is at present vacant. The pop-
ulation is about 140.
Mies Millie Verity, of Exeter, met
with a bad acoidsnt. She was abont to
open the front door when she tripped,
and her arm going through a pane of
glees, it was ant severely, several of the
arteries being severed.
Allan McLean, formerly of the Sea.
forth Expositor, has purchased a neat
and newsy paper in Walsenburg, Colora-
do, called the Walsenburg World, and
will conduot it hereafter in addition to
hie ranching and stock raising business.
A mars belonging to Jae. Ford, on the
2nd con. of Hullet, dropped a tip-top
filly foal from Oburohill & Wallaoe's
"little pony" Fleetwood. The Dolt
measured 61 inches un the front leg and
7 inches on the hind. 1t ie from a light
Canadian mare.
Rose v. Township of West Wawanoeh,
—Before Justice Street, in Toronto, the
following deoision was given on May 2nd.
Judgment in action tried at Goderiob,
without a jury, on 1st April, 1890. The
plaintiff olaimed to be the owner of lands
in question under the will of bis father,
subject to the life estate of his mother,
Isabella Rose. The action was brought
to restrain the defendants from removiug
gravel from the land in question. The
defendants claimed the right to take the
gravel under a by.law passed by them,
ostensibly under Boo, 560, sub. -sea. 8, of
the Meniaipal Aot, It. S. 0., eh. 164. The
by.law provided that the path -masters
and other employees of the corporation
shall be authorized and empowered to
enter upon any land within the munici-
pality,when necessary to do so, save and
except orchards, gardens and pleasure
grounds, and north for and take away
any timber, gravel, stone or other mater.
ial necessary for making and keeping in
repair any road or highway in the town-
ship, and providing that the right to enter
upon atoll land, as well as the price or
damage do be paid to any person for guar
timber or materials, shall, if not agreed
upon by the parties concerned, be tattled
by arbitration, etc. Street, J., is of
opinion that in passing the by-law fu thio
form the council did not °eery out what
was intended by the Legislature by the
section referred to ; and what the Legis-
lature did intend was that the onuneil
should, as noaseltity arose for their doing
so, enrolee the right to take gravel from
any particular parcel or parcels of land,
having nest declared the n0cessity to
exist and chosen and doeceibocl the land
from which the parcel was to be Is n't by
a bylaw; that the by.lrtw is 11p0r1 its face
illegal because it purports to confer upon
the officers powers Inn wider and mute
extensive than the statute authorizes ;
and that tle010 is nothing in no. 398 of
the Municipal Aot to psevet t the plaintiff
front. maintaining tibia action s0 far as it
is based upon a claim to restrain further
damage. The defendants also denied the
plaintiff's title to the land upon which
they Moline(' the right to enter, <d this
involved the constrection of the will of
his father, upon th40 the omninsnn of
the learned judge le that the property of
which the teat131013 int01110d to diepom
was bis own property, situate in the
Heaond uunaoesion of West Wawanoeh,
upon which, or upon part of which, he
was living, and that any further desorip.
lion inconsistent with this construction
should be rejected. 11e, therefore, holds
that the plaintiff is entitled ander the
will to s voted remainder in fee, and, by
virtue of that estate, to nautili the de.
fendante from bus injuring inheritance
by taking away gravel and to the injuno-
tiou asked. The defendants to pay the
costa of action. No inquiry as to
damagee. Garrow, Q. 0., for plaintiff ;
Oamcron (Goderiob) for defendante.
The farmers of Huron and Ashfield
townships have formai themselves into a
joint stook company to erecta grist mill
in Homlook City. They have over the
amount of money required, some 86,000,
and the buildingis to be ereoted as soon
as they get the harter.
The Clinton New Era says :—"A lady
residing in this neighborhood, and who
has lived here for 80 years, attended n
public entertainment a few nights ago,
the first she had ever attended." Now
that you have the electric light there is
not Bo much danger of persons getting
mired who go out after dark.
The Exeter Advocate says :—Posters
have been issued announcing the oelebra-
tion of Her Majesty's Birthday in Ex-
eter. It will be oslebrated by a grand
baseball tournament, rapes and various
other sports. The celebrated baseball
clubs of Brussels and St. Marys will be
here, also other flret-class clubs.
Mies Maggie Spicer, of Exeter, met
with a Bever° &amdent. She bad just
Detailed a small washing, and was in the
act of parrying a. boiler containing a
small quantity of water across the floor,
when, tripping over a dog she tell to the
fluor, the boiling water splashing over
her face and body, scalding her person
most severely.
A little child of J. W. Hill, Clinton,
stet with a painful accident. She was
playing around the rosin, with the poiut-
ect end 01 a pencil inwards, in her month,
when she accidentally fell forward, the
point of the pencil piercing her throat.
The blood flowed so quickly that it al-
most choked her, but it was stopped be.
fore any injury resulted.
The barn of William Jordan, Holmes-
vitle, was struck by lightning and one of
the ridge boards, together with some of
the shingles were torn off. William, bis
father, and a son of R. Glidden were in
the barn at the time, but received no
severe injury. It is thoughtthat had
there not been lightning -rods on the barn
both it an. its inmates would have been
destroyed.
Perth County.
St. Mary's has a population of 3,844.
The Stone town will celebrate the
(7ueen's Birthday on Monday, May 26.
rho natural gas well is to be sunk on
Wm. Gordon's property in Romeo ward,
S trntford.
Mrs. Jane MoAinsh, of St. Marys, will
through the death of an uncle in Ireland,
Dome into possession of about 560,000.
The late Joseph Eidd, formerly of
Dublin, who died ea Sioux City on May
3, was 78 years of age at the time of his
de
b.
E.alL. Flagg, nephew of J. H. Flagg, of
Mitchell, passed very creditably in Latin,
Greek, Hebrew, elocution, etc., at the
Wesleyan Theological College, Montreal.
Henry Gilkinson, 14 eon. Eton, has a
ewe that gave birth to a lamb one day
recently and eight days after dropped an.
other, the latter weighing 6 pounds more
than the former.
The Mitchell cricket club has been
organized for 1890 with the following
oflioers :—President, Mr. Coutes ; Cap-
tain, W. Forrester ; Secretary, C. W.
Pollner ; Treasurer, R. Wynn.
Thos. Forbes, of the 2nd con. of Eima,
is the owner of a cow which recently gave
birth to three calves. A year ago she
had two oalvee, also two years ago,
making seven calves in three years. She
is six years old.
Tho Reform nomination for North
Perth was offered by the convention at
Stratford on Monday to Robert Cleland,
but he declined. Aballot was then taken
which resulted in favor of Dr. A, B.
Ahrens of Stratford. •.4.13
J. Trenaman, recently of Stratford,
has peen appointed a district superin.
tenant of the main line of the G. T. R.
from St. Lambert to Portland, and also
the Richmond, Point Levi and Cham-
plain and Valleyfield lines.
Tee Monkton school made a most ex-
cellent showing at the recent county ex-
aminations. Twenty candidata' were
Bent up for promotion and all succeeded
in passing --the lowest having 68 marks
and the highest 296 marks more than
were required.
The total assessed value of the town of
Eh. Marys is 51,268,110, an increase of
51,720 over last year's roll before it was
revised. The number of acres of resident
1n130 assessed is 2,016 acres and nee.
rosidett 12 acres, add the total popula.
teen is 8,644.
The egg men of this district met in
Stratford last week to discuse matters
aerating their interests. In view of the
recently imposed United Status duty it
will be necessary for those in the trade
to lvor'1t together if they would preserve
their interests.
The St. Catharines Athletics, lastyear's
emu Inu10555 abatnpions, have invited
the Stratford Laurogue Club to visit that
oily 011 May 26111, 1110 maatei011 of the
Queen's Birthday celebration, and play
an exhibition game. The invitation has
been aeoepted.
'Iltos. Pall, nn employer; of the Classi0
City mills, Stratford, scent up in the loft
Tnaeday to shovel a fond of bran down
the chute. By some 1000110 110 got in the
auto himself and was smothered.. Ile
had bene empleyed in the mill fora year.
llis wife 18 110w nl Toronto hospital.
Stratford O. T. It. aro brigade have
laid a 100 yard eituder sank on the coin.
patty's vivant lot 0n. Patrick street.
This they will use to praotiee on for the
grand annual G. T. R. fire brigade
tonrrtrtment. The tnnrnanlett wits hold
last year h1 Montreal and able year le to
be held in dtratferd.
The eopnittion of Stratford hae evi-
dently been steadily inoreaeing. In 1888
it was 9,002 ; in 1889, 9,404 ; this year
it reaclhee 9,906. The number of canines -
in the city this year is 464. The equine
population is 849. Tho bovines number
287 and the swine 14. Within Ebe city
limits are 21i &ores of orchard.
The members of the Perth county bee
keepers association met on Wedneeday,
the 7th inst., to discuss the new bill just
passed by the Ontario legislature for the
°oppression of a disease known as foul
brood in bees,which has become too
prevalent in soe sections of the province.
Wrn.a v the ins eo
M E oy, h tor, is shortly
to visit this county and enforce the law
in all cases where neooesary.
The Direotore of the South Perth Far.
mar's Institute purpose bolding a meet -
in in Mitchell on May27th and 28th.
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A number of subjects'n connection with
1
agriculture will be discussed. Promin-
ent amongthose that will address the in-
stitute arJohn McMillan, M. P., Huron;
Thomas Ballantyne, M. P. P. ; F. C.
Greenside, professor of veterinary science
Guelph ; J. 0. Snell, Edmonton ; John
Hannah, Seafortb.
George Richmond works off the follow-
ing joke in last week's Atwood "Bee" :—
To Robert Cleland, Reeve of Elma.
DEAR Sm :—If by accident, earthquake,
or other nun not now explainable, yon
should be elected to the Local Legieln.
tore at the next election yon will be
pleased to bave a law enaoted making it
punishable by fine or imprisonment, or
both, at the disoretion of the Judge, be.
fore whom the ease shall be tried, for
any woman who shall wilfully and 'with
malice aforethought refuse or neglect to
give her husband or other male mem-
bers of the household, over which at the
time being she presides, one week's
notioe of her intentions to commence
house cleaning.
lloueral Nowa.
Detroit has 1,015 saloons.
Prince Bismarok's health is much ire.
proved.
There was a slight shook of earthquake
at Sofia, Bulgaria, on Saturday.
Stanley deplores England's laxity in
regard to her interests in Africa.
A destructive tornado visited the
region around Akron, Ohio, on Satur-
daThe use of the Russian language in the
saboole of Finland has been made nom.
pulsury.
It is understood that among the 60,-
0011 Hebrews in Now York there is not
one single saloonkeeper.
Hon. Reuben R. Thrall, the oldest
practising attorney in the United States,
cis dead. He 40118 in his 95th year.
Talmage is to receive 510,000 for
twenty addresses which he will deliver
before Chautaugna societies this sum-
mer.
Queen Victoria Monday unveiled the
memorial statute of the Prince Consort,
the Jubilee gift of the women of Eng-
land.
The women who were eleoted as mayor
and council of Edgerton, Kansas, have
grown disgusted with their offices and
resigned.
'mit intimates that he is in
D t Pasha a
possession of information regarding
Stanley which would make a sensation
if made public.
Monday a cyclone visited Jefferson
City, Mo., and neighborhood. Many
houses and and
were wreaked, but no
loss of life is reported.
During the severe storm last Sunday
evening the Eiffel Tower, at Paris, was
etruok six times by lightning. No ser-
ious damage was done.
An aged negro, who is believed to have
been over 110 years old, died near Iberia,
La., last week. He was born 10 Carenero,
La., and left 69 descendants.
The sheriff has taken possession of the
Iron Car Company at New York on an
attachment for 550,000. The capital
stook of the company was 52,500,000.
A runaway horse at Hastings, Eng.,
dashed into a van in which 40 little
011114ren from one of the Barnardo
homes were taking an airing, killing four
and pounding ten.
The many friends of Sam. Grigg, (late
of the Grigg House, London,) will be
pleased to learn that be has been ap.
pointed manager of the Northfield,
(Masa) Summer Resort, owned by
Evangelist Moody, at that place.
The wheat situation in Illinois may be
summed tip as follows :—Tho are of win-
ter wheat in Illinois, by winter killing,
floods, fly and other causes, has decreased
from 2,062,888 acres sown last fall to
1,286,161 sores uow growing. The win-
ter wheat product last year in Illinois
was a little over 85,000,000 bushels.
This year it will not be over 17,000,000
bnsbele.
Artificial coffee is manufactured on an
extensive scale in Germany. It is made
from linseed meal, roasted to a dark
color and mixed with some glutinous
substance before passing through
machines, whish turn out the compound
in the shape of a real ooffeo bean. When
the false bean is well mixed with the
genuine product only an export can do•
toot the different).
Shipments for the California orange
season are about to close, and it seems
that southern California has shipped for
the season about 2,800 oar -.loads, the
greater part of which have beau sent to
the eastern market, The prices realized
for oranges have been very satisfactory,
and as a whole the season has been a
very eneessful one. The result is that
hundreds of acme in tho foothills are
being planted to manges, and tbat the
demand for young pees is greater than
over before,
The in0r0aefng sign of Atlantic livors
is likely to anise the Liverpool dock
authorities muds worry and expense.
The neeessiby of deepening the Hersey
bar was recognized a long time ago, but
the entrance to the dolts themselves
must be widened and deepened unless
big vessels lilts the Majestic are to be
driven away to other ports. During the
repent low tidos 1110 Ittajeetio was UR.
able t0 pass Oyer the shallow 5111s, and
had to be discharged, loaded and coaled
by lighters, at heavy eepens0,