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COMMUNICATION,
TUE SCOTT ,ACT.
BRUSSELS, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, 00T. 9I 1885-
Clinton, all hotel -keepers. James Davis,
= of Myth, laid tho information. The first
two wore fined, and Speoner's ease was
dismissed.
EARL OF SIIAFTESBURY.
Editor Pori.
Sia.—Referring to tite article in Trio
foes lint week on the questieli of appoint-
ment of County Police Magistrate, your
cobs'poneent aimed the objectionable
features of the proposed action of the Coun-
ty C'owtoil and that the Warden had car-
ried out the letter of the resolution passed.
'f'hie Appointment is sought to bo made in
the interests of the Scott Aot, trhioh was
carried by a large majority at the polls,
but is marc honored in the breech than in
the observaueo,for reasons that aro appar-
ent and in the language of a higher author-
ity than wino aro as follows ;-
1st, The Lagislattue has no right to say
what 111e citizens 1110y or may not eat of
drink.
•.nil, The law which seeks to do this is it
breach of the /higher law from whish Statute
111w draws its inapiratlons and sometime.
3rd, Any law which violator what every
plan knows to be a natural right, a right
w1iell 1h0 ererai'helmiug mass of mankind
exercise in the Utn1Oet innocence cannot
be entered.. lours truly,
A.1'OTNEN TA%PAYER,
Brussels, Oct.1st, 1885.
Brussels Scheel Beard.
Tho regular meeting of this Board was
field on Oct. 2nd. Present—W, R. Wilson,
Dr. Hutchinson, Mrs, Smith, and F, S.
Scott,
Moved by Dr. Hutchinson, seconded by
P. S. Scott, that W. 13. Wilson act as
ehairinan. Carried.
Minutes of Iast regular and special meet-
ings were read and confirmed.
Moved, seconded, and carried, that the
accounts of W.1. herr, postal cards, $2.25,
and Jae. Drowo, pail, screws, hooks and
bolts, $1.75, be paid.
Moved by 1!. S. Scott, seconded by Dr.
Hutchinson, and carried, that this Board
renew netts on bank of Hamilton, and bor-
row 9500 more to pay teachers' salaries.
Mover/ by Dr. Hutchinson, seconded by
hlrs. Stnith, and carried, that this Board
accept tho reeignatious of Miss Adams and
Miss Wicklifleld and that the advertise in
the Daily Globe four times, two Wednes-
days and two Saturdays, for two second
class (prof) female teaohers, applicants to
state salary expected and enclose testi-
monials from Inspectors. Applications re-
ceived until the 23rd inst.
Moved, seconded, and carried, that the
Principal be instructed to proouro five cop-
ies of the Authorized /loaders, First
Boolt Tablets and Monthly Reports for the
rise of tho sohool.
The Principal presented hie report for
the month of September, showing the at-
tendance to be greater than it has been for
the 0am0 month during tho last five years.
It was ordered that the report be planed on
the minutes.
Depart's-1st, Ind, 3rd, 4th, 5th. Total.
Average— 86 34 32 50 61— 213
Noon Roll -44 41 42 62 81— 270
The Principal was instructed to read to
the pupils in school the regulations of the
department, regarding contagions diseases
and that he intimate that this Board re-
commend the vaccination of all children at-
tending school -
Tho Board then adjourned.
SCOTT ACT NOTES.
A. Woodat0ok despatch says : Tho Grand
Jury for Oxford has given an unanimous
(101iver0nee expressing gratification at the
decrsa00 of drunkannese and oxime in the
county under the Scott Act as shown by
the feet that aim May 1st, when tbo Act
carne into fordo, there have been only seven
committed as drunk and disorderly, while
during the corresponding period of 1884
under license there were thirty committed
for this offence.
At the convention bold in Teestvater on
the 22nd, delegates were present from the
throe ridings of Bruce. Judge Ifingamill,.
chairman of the Dominion ooinmissionors,
communicated through the secretary that
be had received a circular from Ottawa
which slated that the Department is de-
sirous that in all cttstriots in which the
Scott Aot is in force, no effort should be
spared on the part of the Government ofir-
cars, loyalty and faithfully to carry ont the
provisions of the law. A0 chairman of the
board, Judge Iiingsmiil offered to call a
meeting of the commissioners to receive n
deputation from the temperance people,
with any engg00tiou8 whioh they were pre-
pared to hake, It was decided to thank
the chairman of 111e board for hiscour'teoue
treatment and to appoint a committee to
lay before the commissioners the desire of
the temperance people. Attention wae
called to the fact that thorn were a number
of appeal cases to be decided at the Quar-
ter Sessions, and it was decided to wears
the services of Mr. McLaren, Q. O,, of To-
ronto, to manage the 00800, Tho conven-
tion determined to renew its efforts to en-
force the Act, and as the temperance poo -
plc are now backed up by the Government
they have good prospects of making the
Act a 871coe80.
Comers O8 EIVnoa SCOTT AaT ASSOCIATION.
—A temperance convention will he hold in
the town ball, Clinton, on Friday, Oet.
13th, commencing at 10 o'clock a.m. Every
temperance worker in the county of Huron
is cordially invited to attend and take part
in thepro000ding0. 11`, S. Spence, of To-
ronto, Liao secretary of the Ontorio Dranoli
of the Dominion Alliance for the snppr080.
ion of the 31(100r Traffic, Will be in attoncl-
oclockp.m, e nnet on the preseress the nt aspect ofn athe
Temperane0 question, The future Potion
of the Temperance party in the county will
be d30cu08011
Three Scott Act oases wore tried at Clin-
ton on Saturday before Mr. Young, J. P.,
of Biyth, and Idom'y Stoops, 3. P., of Clin-
ton, navel; 1.1, Reynolds, llensall ; Xf.
Pelutelsr, Kipponr and Oise, Spooner, of
Tho Earl of Shaftesbury died last
week. Right Hon. Anthony Miley -
Cooper, the dsgeatted Earl, was the
-seventh in the succession and a bar;
oust. Ifo was born April 28, 1801,
and succeeded his father in 1851.
From harrow bo went to Christ
Church, Oxford, where he took a first
class in classics, and was made a D,
C. L. in 1841. In 1826 he was re-
turned, as Lord Ashley, Member for
Woodstock, and supported the Gov-
ernments of Liverpool and Canning.
In tho administration of the Duke of
Wellington lig was a Commissioner
of the Board of Control. He wae re-
turned for Dorchester in 1880 and
for Dorsotshire in 1884, representing
tho latter oounty (Ill February, 1846.
Iu August, 1847, ho became one of
tho members for Bath, a seat whish
he hold until be succeeded his father.
He was a lord of the Admiralty in
Sir Robert Peel's Administration in
1884.5, and took °barge of the Ten
Hours' Big on the removal from the
Rouse of Commons of the late Mr.
Sadler. He was invited to join the
Administration when Sir R. Peol
again took office in 1841, but refused,
as Sir Robert would net support the
Ten Hours' Bill. The chief object
for which Earl Shaftesbury labored,
both in and out of Parliament, was
the improvement of the social condi•
tion of the working classes. His in.
fluence fn the evangelical party with.
in the Church of England was con-
siderable, He wee President of the
Bible Society, the Pastoral Aid Soci-
ety, and the Society fur the Conver-
sion of Jews, and wise, at one time,
President of the Protestant Alliance.
He was a prominent member of all
religious societies founded on au
evangelical basis, and wae an active
advocate of the abolition of slavery
throughout the world.
Canadian News.
Potrolia has 82 telephone inotru
menta.
American dealers anticipate a pick-
le famine duo to the failure of the
crop.
Hog cholera is reported to have
broken out in Kent, near the Essex
county hoe.
Barnum's big elephant Pilot takes
a morning cocktail of twenty-seven
gallons of water.
Mr. Cairns, a Dutton school teach
or, has paid $2 and costs—$7,50 in
all—for unmercifully punishing a lad.
A sheep thief near Palmerston kill-
ed a lamb, throw the offal into the
out house, left the skin near the milk -
house, and bore off the carcass.
A special edition of the Ontario
Gazette contains the proclamation of
the Lieutenant -Governor raising
:Perlcdsie to the dignity of a town.
It is probable that the routes of the
0. P. R. boats will be changed
next season, and that one or more of
them will run from Windsor to Du-
luth.
Inducements aro being offered to
Beech, the Australian oarsman, to
come to the United States and row
13anlan for the championship of the
world. It is thought the match will
be made.
'1'he vote in the town of Niagara on
the bonne of ten thousand dollen in
favour of the Chautauqua Assembly,
was parried by a majority of eleven
after an exciting contest. The vote
was ;—For the bonus, 74; against, 68.
John T. Chambers colored, was ar.
rested at Windsor, Wednesday, for
assaulting Jamos+0. Smith, the col-
ored pastor of the Zion Church. A
dispute grew out of the ownership of
a crop of corn which Chambers had
planted "on shares." Mr. Smith or-
dered Chambers, out of the field,
when the latter attacked the preach-
er with his corn gutter, inflicting a
scalp wound and tearing Smith's
elothes.
Hundreds of prominent railroad
men from throughout New England
have arrived at St. John, N. B,, to
witness the formal opening of the
new cantilever bridge, which, after
two year's labor, has just been coin-
plated over the month of the S t. John
River. It cost 41400,000. It will
open for regular business on Thurs.
day. All trains may then run with-
out change between the United States
and any part of the Eastern Provino-
ee of the Do mien.
NO, 14
Salida, Col., has sixteen saleaus
and no church.
Tho Chit:ego /hock yard has fifty
miles of steel railroad track.
ltiol's Cane 18 to be considered by
the Privy Council in a fortnight.
The Port Hope Times has re -com-
menced the issuauco of its daily edi.
tion.
The grape yield in and around
Sandwich this sea80n will bo the
largest in 20 years.
Eight Indians on the Mohawk re-
serve have been committed for trial
at Belleville for disturbing divine
ssrvioe.
Toronto St. George's Society mot
last week when a motion to provide
lodgings for destitute Englishmen
was negatived.
To obtain one pound of honey the
busy boo must insert its proboscis in-
to 8,500,000 clover tubes that have
not been sucked by its companions.
A great many coins—English
shillings, six -ponces, coppers and one
Canadian piece --were found in Jum-
bo's stomach by the gentleman hay.
ing charge of his remains.
An extensive hatobery for the
breeding of whitefish is to bo built at
Owen Sound, and is expected to be
completed in time to be stookad this
fall,
The West Bruce Scott Act Associa-
tion will meet in Kincardine on Tues-
day, 18th of October, when matters
of importance will come up for con-
sideration.
Rev. T. O'Connell, of London, liar
received two offers from tbo United
States, one being a large and wealthy
congregation. A move is being made
by his Episcopalian clerical friends
with a view of inducing the Bishop
to restore the reverend gentleman's
license. in whioh case he will accept
one of the offers.
Daniel Freeman, of Los Angelo,
California, is stopping in Toronto. Afr.
Freeman ie a native of countyof Nor.
folk, Ont., and a brother of Jno. B.
Freeman, AI. P. P. of that county.
He raised last season over 1,000,000
bushels of cereals, and used 30 steam
threshers. He will remainin in
Toronto several years, in order to use
the educational facilities of the city
for his children.
Robt Walker, of Toronto, of Gold
en Lion notoriety and a leading
Methodist, died last Monday of con-
gestion of the lungs at his residence
on Maitland street, in that city.
The deceased, whose name was a
familiar one throughout the Province,
was 77 years old. He went to Tor-
onto in 1827, and oommeneed butin-
eses in 1886, retiring therefrom about
fifteen years ago.
The Executive Committee of the
Ontario Branch of the Dominion Al-
liance met in Toronto Friday night,
and adopted a resolution agreeing to
unite 1n organization for electoral
uuion and pledging themselves to
support for educational, municipal
and parliamentary positions only
those candidates who are known and
professed prohibitionists, and who
will veto for enacting, sustaining
and enforcing prohibitory legislation.
The following appointments have
been made by the Ontario Govern.
meat :--E. 1'.13. Johnson, of Guelph,
barrister, to bo Deputy Attorney.
General and Olerk of the Privy
Oounoil, in place of J. G. Scott.
Fisher Munro, of Orangeville, to be
Police Magistrate for the County of
Dnfforin, without salary. Archibald
G. Campbell, of Harriston, H. W.
Mickle, of Toronto ; John Dickinson,
of Barrie, barristers ; Alex Stewart,
of Glencoe, and John A. Forin, of
Belleville, to be Notaries Public.
There resides near the Centre inn
hotel, in Eramosa, a buxom lass of
seventeen, who delights in playing
jokes and making fun. The other
day elm made her parents feel very
anxious because of her unusual con-
duct. While they were absent in the
city, she donned a suit of clothes be.
longing to her brother, and started
out to call on her neighbors. None
recognized her in her male attire,
and the girl had heaps of fun flirting
with others of her own sex and mak.
ing the boys feel jealous. At one
farmer's house she consented to stop
and have Yea. While she was par-
taking of the very sumptuous repast
the young lady's parents put in an
appearance. They had learned of
her whereabouts and had found her
out. No morn such tricks have alnee
been played by this particular Bram-
sett girl,
Tho deaths in Montreal city on
Saturday were 45.
The hearing of the Riel appeal case
will take plaoo on the 19th Met,
Toronto Exhibition Committee
propene to extend the grounds.
There were 59 deaths In Mont-
real on Sunday from Smallpox,
A Toronto medical man has reach'.
ated 2,155 children and adults sinew
the Montreal smallpox epidemic sot
in,
The Toronto Public Scheel Board
voted down a motion that the next
election for school trustees be by
ballot.
A. Montreal lady has entered suit
against the Mount Royal Cemetery
Company for $5,000 damages 'bo -
cause the head of her infant had boon
taken from tho grave.
On Elio 14th inat, Brantford will
loect a mayor to fill the vacancy
caused by the appointment of W. J.
Scarfo to the shrievalrty of Brant.
Tho candidates aro C. B. Keyd and
Goo. Watt.
Judge Macdougall, of the Superior
Court of Quebec, holds that no more
than 6 per cent. interest on a loan
can be recovered although a loan can
be recovered although there is an ex•
press stipulation to pay a larger sum,
Goldsmith Maid died last week
having reached the age of 28 years
and 4 menthe. She began trotting
in 1867, getting a record of 2.24,
which she lowered to 2.14 in 1874.
She was owned by Henry N. Smith,
of New York,
The Toronto police magistrates
gave judgment in the Blue Ribbon
Beer test case, fining defendants $20
and coots. In imposing conviotions,
he said he did so ouly fur the parpose
of getting the opinion of the judges in
the impeder courts. Hie own impros-
sien was that drink of the strength,
whioh this beverage was proved to be
did not oome under the description of
intoxicating liquor under the Act. If
the conviction was sustained he would
not be ruled thereby in dealing with
the other defendants.
Professor Campbell, of Montreal,
advances the theory that the mounds
found in various parts of the west are
not the work of Indians at all, but
that they a•e the remains of the Hit.
*ilea of Scripture, who emigrated
from China to America. and of whom
the Indiana are the lineal desoen-
dents. He thinks that the Hittites,
on the capture of their capital on the
Euphrates by the Assyrians in 717
B. 0. took refuge in the Caucasus,
and thence were driven eastward to
Punjaub, from the Punjaub to the
Songari, and thence to Corea, Japan,
Ke.mschatka and the Alutian Islands,
the last named being the stepping
stone by which they reached North
Amerioa. Professor Campbell also es-
tablishes a family of languages or dia-
lects in Europe, Asia and America,
which in his opinion, conclusively
prove the Asiatic origih of the North
American Indian. The tumuli found
throughout Aeia mark, he thinks, the
journeying of the Hittite people, who
on their arrival here, erected the
mounds now found in the Ohio valley
and in the basin of the Mississippi
and its tributaries.
A report from Bell's Corners statue
that about two o'clock last Friday,
and while tho Fair was in progress,
a number of men who had been drink-
ing got into some difficulty, and a
fight ensued. Soon an immense
crowd surrounded the combatants,
the spectators becoming intensely ex.
cited. It was feared that a riot of
very serious dimensions had broken
out. In about live minutes the crowd
had swayed down from the hotel to
opposite the grounds, Stones were
flying in all directions. The gates of
the exhibition grounds were closed.
Ladies screamed and men wore seen
hurrying away with bleeding hands,
as stones, brickbats and other missies
began to fly about. There must have
been fully 150 men in the crowd, and
some outsiders had narrow escapes
from the flying stones. A constable
managed to get the names of the
principal participators. Seven or
eight persons were more or lees hurt,
none seriously. The dispute, 11 is
said, arose out of a drsoussion on the
Riel matter. After the disturbance
had been quelled one of those engag-
ed in tho fight went up to Sir John
Macdonald and said :—"Are you go.
ing to hang Biel?" A number of
bystanders shoved the man away,
when Sir John said " I am not the
bantl1/3211.';
Hiram Walker lately received 170
head of fine cattle at Walkcrvillo,
which are to be fattened for the I:ug-
iall market,
The Watford Y. M. C. A. have or-
ganize,/ with the following elli,vers:__
John Liviugetuu, President ; D. Wise
vivo Prooident ; John White, Treas-
urer ; D. :Eccles, Secretary; Com-
mittee;—D. Thom, Jolui Switzer,
President, 7100-Proaidont and Secre-
tary,
The arrangements for the grand
Liberal demonstration at Lnclrnow,
on Friday, 16t11 October, are now
complete. Tilo speakers will be Sir
Richard Cartwright, AI, 1.'., M. C.
Cameron, Q.C., MLP., 11on, A. M.
Ross, M,P.P., James Suuiervllle, M.
P., II. P. O'Connor, A1.P.P., and A.
II. Manning, of Clinton, Chairman of
the Executive Committee of the Young
Men's Liberal Association of Ontario.
k'red. Bahr's now flying machine,
whioh he is to test shortly at Wash-
ington, Is in the shape of a oigal•, and
ie furnished with wings. It is fifty
feet long by fourteen in diameter,
with wings like a bird, a tail and a
rudder. It will be inflated with gas.
The inventor will be suspended antler
the centre of the machine, which will
sail through the air horizontally, the
wings being the prepoling /,ower.
The editor of the Neepawa Star
speaks as follows ;—It was either
through a lack of common politeness
or through sheer stupidity that the
ladies present at the reception to the
Governor-General on Saturday, were
not introduced to His Excellency.
Instead of the Mayor remembering
that Lord Lansdowne visited the peo-
ple of this locality he appeared to
think that the entire program was
arranged for his (Jonathan's) exclus-
ive benefit. Of course it 1s not to be
expected that a person who has never
had an opportunity of observing soc-
ial customs should feel at ease in so-
ciety, but at the same time a person
who aspires to a public position
should endoavor,not to behave like a
loot.
At the close of the ascent North-
west Rebellion the Toronto Stove and
Manufacturing Co., offered as a pres-
ent one of their Diamond "A" Rang-
es, or a No. 14 square High Art
self-feeding base burner to the Vol-
unteer who served in the recent re-
bellion and was the first to get mar-
ried after the 17th day of July, 1885.
Applications with proof of marriages
were received up to the 1st of Octob-
er. The firm state that Fred. J.
Nixon, of 0 Company, 90th Battalion,
Winnipeg Rifles, and who formerly
belonged to G Company, Queen's
Own Rifles, of Toronto, was married
in Winnipeg on the 18th day of July.
The range or parlor heater will, it is
understood, be shipped to him as soon
as he informs the company whioh he
prefers.
A great sensation was mused here
on Saturday last by the announce.
meat that E. B. Rice and wife levant -
ed, taking with the $2,268.67 in
Dash belonging to the patrons of Shel-
burne and Badjeros cheese factories
and leaving numerous debts unpaid.
The rumor of Rioe'e absconding was
confirmed during the afternoon by a
letter delivered to one of our merch-
ants, signed by Thee, and wnich wee
intended to explain the cause of his
departure. Rice left Shelburn on Mon.
day of last week with the avowed in-
tention of visiting the Toronto, Ex-
hibition. For several days promos
he had been making inquiries at
Vickers Express Office Here for a
parcel of money accruing from a re-
cent shipment of cheerio, and before
leaving he told Mr. Belfry, the agent,
that he wae going to the Toronto Ex-
hibition, and that ho could give the
money to his (Ride's) wife when she
oalled for it. The parcel oontained
$2,268.67 belonging to the patrons
of the factories at Shelburne and Bad-
jore—less the 2f cents per pound
whioh Rice & Soott and Rice &r Watts
were toroceivo for the manufacture of
the cheese, Aire. Rice and her three
youngest children loft by the evening
train, going south the same day. No
ono suspected that a big flawing
game was being carried out. E. B.
Rice and wife were tbo last persons
to bo suspected of snob aotions as
have singe been brought to light.
Rico is supposed to be in American
territory with his wife and family,
having in hie possession from $9,000
to $5,000 in borrowed and stolen
cash.— [Shelburne, Grey county, ,d-
oonomiet,