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The Brussels Post, 1885-11-6, Page 1ST. VOL. XIII. BRUSSELS, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, NOV. 6, 1885, NO. 18. COMMUNICATIONS, 111:'S ON T11E WRONG TRACK. To tbt' 1din nr of Tins POST. Dente Bill.—With your permission, 11fr, 1';ditnr, I would respectfully ask "Another Ratepayer," through Tun Posr, to answer some gnestions,which I wish answered, and I will endeavor to adhere strictly to his first proposition, viz:—"That n Legislature has no right to say what a citizen may or may not eat or drink," There is none I think will deny that the citizens of a com- munity will instinctively desire to onnct laws to govern itsolf. I will suppose that the citizens of that community aro Dating or drinking some Substance which they have become comvinoed is injurious in its effects to its well-being, physically or mor. ally, wonlcl it not naturally and consistent- ly, if true to themselves, and to one an- other, if supposed to bo destructive and im- pairing the wealth, prosperity, oomfort, character, conduct and morals of that com- munity, create a natural desire in what we call public opinion, to ameliorate, or oblit- erate, what was patent to those citizens ? Would those citizens than, after they be- came so convinced bo truo to themselves as individuate, or love one another, bo loyal to the community of which they were its citi- zens, if they did not take such decided steps as would retain or abolish that evil from among them ? Should than these citizens brand those mon, who, from no other mot- ive, need all their powers in its abolition, but the general good, as fanatics and tyrants and do they violate any law, sacred or. pro- fane ? Yours truly, Grey, Nov. and, 1885, EttQOInzn. SA FLING DNIIER FALSE COLORS. To the Editor of Tan i'esT. Sri:. --Tho whole strain of "Another Ratepayer's" letter is that the rise of liquor in a source of comfort, health, and social enjoyment, and to prevent the nae of it is an interference with the liberty of men. Now, there is no man who ever becomes drunk, but interferes more or less with the liberty of others and drunkards are nearly always the cause of a groat deal of trouble, annoy. once, and insult, not only to their friends, but to every one with whom they happen to oonle in contact. Have not those insulted and annoyed citizens a right to demand that their liberties shall be protected from thee° who are slaves of the glass? I claim that the majority of those who use liquor abuse it and acoording to the principle that a law should be for the greatest benefit of the greatest number, since no law can suit everyone, the Legislature has n right to prohibit tho sale of liquor when it is for the benefit of the majority, even if it be disc. greeable to a few. Would "Another Rate- payer" have a law to suit the few, who can use liquor temperately and to ruin the many who use it imtempsrately ? He says, "liquor, as a beverage, is a source of com- fort, health, and so0fal enjoyment to the overwhelming majority of men." What ever can bo said in behalf of its being a source of comfort and social enjoyment it is ppt by any means a source of health, but quite the contrary. Nearly every ode is familiar with instances of men so worn down by excessive drink as to bo unable to bear slight attacks of sickness. It may be urged that a temperate use of liquor is beneficial, but I would draw your atten- tion, Mr. Editor, to the almost utter im- esibility of using liquor temperately. Quite true, the excessive use of even the most necessary articles of life would be in- jurious as well as that of liquor, but no- thing else than liquor creates that desire s take more, that fascination to go to ex- cess, and after recovering from an over dose, quite contrary to the effects of an over dose of anything else, the victim is just as eager to indulge again. Will "Another Ratepay- er" admit that drunkenness prevails and it is injurious, then what is his remedy ? He said in his letter, in your issue of the 9111 ult., that the Scott Act "ie more honor- ed in the breach than in the observance," wbioh statement and the tone of his whole letter would most naturally be understood as a boast of, and a glory in the violation of the Act. He says that many who voted for the Scott Aot and who were not previously total abstainers, violate it. This goes to show that the spirit of the Act in right even if it is not accomplishing all th.ut was ex- pected ; these voters, though'they may not practice what they preach when not con- strained to do so, by voting for the Scott Act recognized the necessity of some such law. Your correspondent says that the Scott Act has done far more harm than good, will be just point out any harm that it has done. The Scott dot may not be ao- complishing all that was claimed for it, but it is rho best available remedy for a pre- vailing vice. Truly yours, Toronto, Oct. 30th, 1885, P. Q. NOW IS THE TIME TO MOVE, To the Editor of Tun POST. Duan Srn,—Some one, not possessed of too much common sonse and whormust be very far behind the times re regard to the arguments on rho prohibition question, bas been trying to gain for himself a literary reputation by several communications, which have recently appeared in your valu- able paper. It is 'melees to 0ooupy time in replying to these, as nothing new has been presented, further than to say that they have all been answered time and again on the public platform and through the press ; nothing but ignorance of this fact could in- duce anyone, parrot like, to repeat over and over again statements that Men of bib typo bath been ashamed of when publicly inveet- igated, But, Mr. Editor, there is other and more important Work for the temper- autoe people than answering such worthlees communications. I she from the report of tbo Scott Act Convention, lately held at Clinton, a resolution desiring alt temper- ance people and Scott Act supporters to unite together to elect mhmbere of Perlis. mens, Eeovc(, Munioipa1 Counnjllert and School Trustees, who are known to be true temperance men. This is a move in the right dirootion which we bope to sea harried out, The want of radon has been a groat sonic° of weeknese in the past ; wo have allowed political and other minor questions to divide us ; unworthy mon have obtained aloe and in order to retain their position and stand well with both parties, some have refused to do their duty, while etbore have given eneouragonent to the liquor party. We have an example of this in the way Pat. Felly, warden of this county, has sot aside the vote of the whole (Jenny Council this year in deliberately acting contrary to the resolution passed, in not carrying out their wish, and our Reeve, who voted for Mr. Belly as warden, has refused to take any Scott Aot oases, because, he says, it would injure him at the next °Iontian. An. other instance, as referred to in the Con- ventionreport, of an officer, who is p<?aid an annual salary to enforce the An 1 11 this district, has refused to do his duty in con- nection therewith. In view of these fade, WO ask, what la the duty of every Christian man and woman, of everyone whose eyes are opened to the evils of the liquor traffic, of everyone who feels any interest in the well-being of his fellow man and the honor of kis country ? The answer is Blear, Unite together, leave .reeds and politica aside, feel this --as it is—the all important question of the day, stand like men, hurl those boneless, time.servers out of ofAoe and put in men who are temperance men, no matter what their politica may be, who will do their duty, and nee, as far as poss. ible, that the law is honored and respected. We would just like to have this fact im. pressed on the mind of every temperance man, that never can we expect to accom- plish the object desired until we get the right kind of men in every public office, and this can be accomplished by carrying out the resolution of the Convention at the Doming elections. To do this in our muni- cipality it is necessary that early steps should be taken as you know how high the political fever sometimes rises in our vil- lage. We think that at the next public meeting of the Sooiety here, the Committee should bring before that meeting the names of suitable persons qualified to run as Reeve and Counoillore at the coming election, and also for nohool trustees and I have no doubt but the resolution moved by Mr. Gerry and seconded by Mr. Stewart at a recent meet- ing here will bo practically oorried out in supporting and voting for temperance can- didates only. 'Yours truly, No Sunlumoon. Brussels, Nov. Ind, 1885, A. Trip to Iifihsas. I left Brussels on the morning of March 14111, 1885, and got to Listowel, where we had to wait one hour, met the new Captain of the Salvation Army. I might just say here in connection with the Salvation Army, I cannot see how they stay iu Canada so much where there are lots of churches of all kinds and not to be seen where there is scarcely a church. I never saw or heard of any in my travels, but many would like to sea them, they would have lots of room to beat their drums on bheiansasprairies and they would get people to hear them and they might do some good there. Got to Stratford at 10:80 and left for Sarnia at 12:10. There was lots of snow all the way. Arrived at Sarnia at 3:30, got our baggage looked through, passed all right and got over to Port Gratiot• I made one hour by eroding the river, if I keep on I will over- take the sun. There is a ferry and 2 car ferries running all the time, G00 oars cross every day on an average. Met a very heavy snow storm here. Most every person around here wears long, rubber bootie. We left this plaoo about 10 o'clock and about 12 o'clock passed a train like lightning. Blowing and snowing very hard. Vicksburg was reached just at daylight. It is a nice looking place, saw the first Oeeage orange fence or hedge. Snow ou the rails and can- not make time. Passed a beautiful semin- ary so nicely laid out. South Bend is a flue place, it is lighted with electric light. I saw a boy delivering news-papors and a butcher delivering meat and lots of people going to church. A great many railways run into it. Oliver Ohill's Plow Works are very large. Poor land moat all the way, a great deal of shrub oak. Wolford is a nice place, very level land, a great deal of ice on the fioids, not much snow, a great many email creeks, it seams as if there would bo lots of trout in them, Wo have 9 passing. er coaches on this train and it took 14 hours from Fort Gratiot to 0hioago. Gob to rho latter pity at 11:80 o'olook. One oannot have any idea of Chicago without Boeing it. Some building 12 stories high and it is Chicago for miles and milds along the lake on both sides. Passing through the oity I did not see a store closed, goods displayed on the streets as if it were not the Sabbath, cannot see anything but buildings where - ever you look. No time to wants here as our train is ready, and Chicago I must leave without seeing much of it. No snow on the street, sumo in piles. Rad to show my ticket 11 times before I got on the train, one cannot get astray and every person is very civil. Aurora was reached in one hour and twenty minutes, 40 miles. Double 110010, when we Meet a train wo oaunot sea the people in it. Thea is quite a large place, a railway centre, 12 aoaohes on this train, Mendora, another largo plane. Wo aro making good time. A fine tract of country, The buildings aro mostly frame. Cattle alit in the fields foeding, but not 011 new grass, it is old foggago and cornstalks. Prinootown is quite a Moe plane. ' nod some old coal mines, not working now. Light, sandy land, Buda, a small place, Kewanee coal minae heroin working order, saw lots of faotoriee working. Galva is a largo plaoo, has six cool minae working to- day. At Galeeburey we .hanged cars for Quiaooy, 200 nrilen from Chicago, This fn a plane of 20,000 inhabitants, I am told. Saw a prairie Are jest et dark. Parra houses in I1lfnols are frame, about 18x24 foot, two sbories high, painted white, with green blinds. Got toQaincey at 10:20 giro„ crossed the 1llisaissippi here, It is one mils aorows from target to target and yon would imagine that the targets worn hi the middle of ilia river, Monday morning saw the nuu rise in Missouri, it is a beautiful sight, Blackfoot is a nips plat,.. Boon ditching on the track, Passed about 100 hives of boos on the prairie. Sawa double undo team, also saw the first Rook of prairie obicken, they are about the size of a small lien. The prairie is very smooth, smoother than the Square in Brussels, The worst thing I sae is rho people have no stables for their horsed, As you pass along you can see pil- es of oorn on the prairie from 300 to 1,500 bushels in the piles, not covered with any- thing, and it is all right in the epriug. Lathrop is a beautiful town with three churches in it, roads very smooth. Passed through a very rough piece of bush with rock cropping out, very rough. Holt is a Mee village with a church in it, Harney, another town of good size. The land gets better here, Abordeen is quite a large place and has a good many mills in it, with broken country around 1t. Around Minni. vi1Io there is good bottom land, corn was not hnsked yet, it grows about 9 foot high. Crossed the Missouri here, it is a very dirty river like all rho prairie rivers. There wan a ferry here loaded with prairie schooners, that is waggons covered with canvas, At Kansas the clay bank is about 70 feet high and houses built on the edge of it, and further on stone work about the same height out in the oily, Tho buildings are Luo. Thera are five tracks in the station and you have to show tickets again, fine place but sharp people. 12 cars on this train, One would wonder where the people were going. Crossed the Missouri again. I am now in Kansas. Saw team plowing. We are travelling along the Smoky Hill river, lots of scrub on it covered with vines, The people are husking corn, there is corn in Kansas, whether there is in Egypt or not. Lots of fall wheat starting to grow, and it looks good, there are Lots of fields one mile long. Lawrence is a large place, with street care and busses at the station. It is 6002 miles to Denver and 38 miles from Kansas City. Wild geese and ducks are seen on the river. Psnzville is the next small place, then Domes Topeka, the oapital of the State. Wemet a anew storm here and it was very cold. I have heard very little swearing in this country. St. Marys comes next, then Wamejo, quite a large plaenand contains among other build- ings a gray stone grist mill 3 stories high. There are high bluffs on the one nide and a dead level of about 5 miles on the other side of the track. At St. George the timber is nearly all walnut, not very tall. Manhat. tan has the Agricultural College. Junction Oity is our next stopping place, here 1 saw genie dug -outs. Abilene is a growing town of about 4,000 inhabitants, I went to Robt. Nott'a, formerly of Brussels, yon can see his sign from the station. He has a nice plane and is doing well. Stayed two days in Abilene. Went to Oddfellow's Lodge and saw some people that I ought to have known, who lived about one mile from us in Scotland. This finishes my trip. I will tell you what, and who I saw in the coun- try in my next. J. G. SeaNE. Brussels School Bend - The adjourned meeting of the School Board was held on Oct. 28rd, 1885. Present, Dr. Hutchinson, E. E. Wade, F. S. Scott and W. R. Wilson. Twelve applications were read by the chairman. Salaries asked vary- ing from $825 to $875. After examining the testimonials of each applicant it was moved by F. S. Scott, seconded by W. R. Wil- son that Miss Hattie Sayers' applica tion offering to teach the 2nd depart- ment for $825 per annum be accept- ed. Carried. Miss Richardson having resigned her position as teacher of the 8rd do. partment and leaving applied for a position in the school in 2nd depart ment, at a salary of $825. Moved byr. Hutchinson, seconded by F. S. 'Scott that Mies Richardson be of- fered an advance of $25 on her pres- ent salary, (making $800 in all) to teach the department she occupies at present and if she refuse to accept said offer that the Secretary write Mies Lydia Hambly, offering her $800 to teach on one of the vacant rooms. Oarried. Moved by 1)r. Hutchinson, second- ed by W. R. Wilson that the Board pay $800 per annum, to a 2nc1 elate teacher to teaoh the vacant room. Carried. Miss Boos' application was left ov- er until next meeting. The Board then adjourned. Canadian NYewte. A true boll has been found against Wm. Kyle for forgery. Mr. Begin, of the Quebec Militia, has been appointed an inspeotor of the Northwest Mounted Police. The steamer Oaledonia, sailing from Halifax for London, took about fifty barrels of Canadian apples to be placed in the Colonial and Indian Exhibition. A census of new buildings erected in Hamilton during the past year, principally dwellinge, show the vain° of new buildings to bo nearly a mill- ion dollars. Twenty-two reoruite for the Mount- ed Pollee wore secured at Belleville. The Lioutenant•Governor of the Province has direetsd all public di - 000 to bo closed on Thanksgiving DiToronto street car drivers are be- ing dismissed or fined fur allowing prise 55rs to smoke on the platforme of the oars. Hamilton labor societies are pati. tioning for an amending Act of tbo Provincial Parliament which will make contracts for foreign labor void. A largo amount of counterfeit 50. cent pieces and forged two -dollar Dominion bills, of the issue of 1878, payable at Toronto, have been circu- lated m Montreal. Tho St. Thomas Board of Trade recommend the withdrawal of the waterworks by-law (to be voted on next month), which provides for the issuing of $100,000 worth of 0 per cent. debentures. At a meeting held at Wiarton last week, the Village Council was auth- orized by resolution to prepare a by- law to bo submitted to the ratepayers for the granting of $10,000 for the erection of a paper mill. About 100,000 feet of square pine and 90,000 feet of waney was sold on Thursday at Quebec. The lot comes from French River. Mr. ltloOaun was the seller and McArthur Bros, the purchasers. The rate is about 84 cents all round, or a total of $64,- 600. A committee, consisting of Messrs. Carnegie, M. P P., Blue, Wade and Drury, M. P. P., met at the Agricult- ural and Arts Association rooms, Toronto, Friday to revise the Ontario Agricultural Act. This is with the view of having the act amended at the next session of the Local Legis- lature. Wednesday afternoon John Thomp- son, 45 years of age, was accidentally shot near Sherbet Lake by one of hie friends with whom he was in company hunting, and who fired at a deer. The ball entered the front part of the left thigh, and tore a hole about six inches wide through both legs. It is feared that the accident may prove fatal. The Toronto grand jury in their presentment oomplained of the pal- try fess allowed grand juries, and asked His Lordship to bring' before the Government the necessity of in- creasing the fee to $5 per day. They also drew attention to the fact that nearly all the cases before them were the direct result of drinking and drunkenness. Mr. Dowse, of Duluth, proposes the gigantic scheme .of connecting some 4,000 miles of navigable waters through the great Canadian North- west with Lake Superior by the St. Louis, Missiseippi and Red Rivers and Lake Winnipeg, which would give continuous 'navigation running north and west to the Rocky Moun• tains and within less than .400 miles of navigable waters to the Pacific. To make a complete waterway ao• cording to Mr. Dowse's idea, with six feet of water, fifty miles of artific ial canal will be required costing about $4,006,000. A Quebec deepateh says :--Anoth- er miracle at St. Anne de Beaupre is related of Miss Bilodeau, of St. Rocha suburb, in this city, who has been an invalid for a long time and having no power in ha legs whatever ; a vehicle was fixed expressly to convey her to the spring, Asan illustration of her illness it is said she fainted 804 times on the journey of 24 miles. The morning after her arrival she was taken into church and as com- munion was being celebrated the girl arose and without any assistance walked to the communion rail, full power being restored to her limbs. A fierce political feud has raged in the village of Markham for years, and eases of libel and (lander have been frequently before the courts. A case of perjury, arising out of this feud, came before the Toronto Police Court Tuesday morning. Rev. Fred Smith, Presbyterian minister, Mark- ham, being the person charged with the crime. The complainant is a man nauaed Elliott, formerly teacher at Markham, and now an insurance agent in Toronto, and he charges the rev. gentleman with committing per- jury by stating in affidavit that ho (Smith) was an elector in the village of Markham, whereas he was not, and by making other false statements. The Polio() Magistrate refused to try the case. The Riverside Worsted Mille of Quebec have shut down, Capt. Babb, of Goderioll, has been appointed Captain of the Life Saving Station at that place. The Great Eastern, the largest steamship in the world, was sold by public auction for 2130,200. The forst train left for ilia Rooky Mountains from Montreal on the Canadian Pacific Railway on Monday. Fred. Golds uith, of London, has been appointed manager of the Tor- onto Base hall Club for the season of 1888. Mrs. M. G. Cameron, of Goderioh, ltae purchased for her own use a beautiful tricycle from Wm. Payne, of London. Bothwell is in need of better bank- ing facilities, and hopes to induce one of the ehartered banks to start a branch there. The Bond Street Congregational Church, Toronto, has increased Rev. Dr. Wild's salary by $1,000 ; it is now $4,000 per annum. Geo. Munger, of Lobo, raised 400 bushels of marigolds off one-third of an acre of land, which he claimsis the largest yield in the township. James Mulligan, a farmer living on the 4th concession, Logan township, while going for cows last week was attacked by a ferocious bull and killed. A former hotel -keeper on Palmer- ston has joined the Salvation Army in that town. He has given up his whiskey shop and intends converting it into a tea and coffee house. Last week Henry Eilfer, of Credi- ton, shot a deer at Lake Smith whioh weighed, when dressed 800 pounds. Old huntsmen say it is the largest they have seen for many years. Fifty sheep affected with scab were seized by Mr. Oouttee, Inspect- or of Animals. The animals were on the way to Montreal by steamer Three Rivers. They were for the most part from the county of Yamas- ka. A well known Montreal business man received word from a Philadel- phia firm who had large correspond- ence in Montreal, stating they would not receive any more lettere from Montreal, on account of the opid- mie. A young man named Thomas Eld- ridge, living near Sandwich, took a draught of bedbug poison from a bottle on Tuesday by mistake for whiskey. He was between life and death for a few hours, but eventually recovered. Mayor Baird, of Kincardine, has been notified that two thirty-two pounder guns, with carriages, are about to be shipped there for the town's defence. Customs officer A. M. Williamson, it is expected, will be appointed Head Artilleryman. The Ottawa Free Press says :--"It is generally reported iu political cir- cles that 0. H Mackintosh, M. P., bas been appointed to the Cabinet and will lie given the portfolio of the in- terior, Hon. Mr. White, the present incumbent, to take the portfolio of finance. A son of Daniel Bailey, of Guelph, was instantly killed Tuesday after- noon, The boy, 12 years of age, had been riding on a load of carrots, when he fell off, alighting between the horses, and before the man who was driving load time to stop them, one of the wheels went over hos chest completely crushing it in. A. 0. Reid, of Lucan, and D. Ben- net, of Toronto, wrestled in the Col- lingwood skating rink Friday evening last for $100 a side, The last fall took 22 minutes of tough work to de - aide. The first fall was decided in Reid's favor in 15 minutes. Bennett won the second in seven minutea,and Reid got the last on a foul• A Poultry and Pet Stook Associa- tion hue been organized at Exeter with the following officers :—Presi- dent, Geo. Barnwell ; Vice -President, Jas, Down ; Secretary, E, Spicer s Treas., D. Johns ; Directors, Jame; Down, J. 3, Pickard, J. N. Hooper, G. A. Byndman, W. G. Bissett, 1'. Russell, T. B. Carling and E. S. Howard. T. W. Orothers, of St. Thomas, has issued a writ at the instance of Mary Fletcher, daughter of Wm. Pletcher, mail carrier, Iona, asking $2,000 damages for breech of promise of mar- riage, against Luke Brown, a black- smith, living inthe village. The plaintiff alleges that she became en- gaged to defendant and the latter broke the engagement without good awl guiiiiaiu It rums.