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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1885-12-4, Page 1VOL. XIII. COMMUNICATIONS, "Another Couuly heard front," To the Better of !rat, POST, Sur.—In the issue of the IIuron Expo for of Nov, 9001, there is a seerrilous a abusive letter published against me, sign Prohibition, end the editor of that pap has denied me the right to reply, unless write to suit the fine susceptibility of Heron Expositor man, Ile says my lett in reply to Prohibition "is a gross and pe conal attack, &o," Perhaps it would thought go if published in any other new paper but his. One world naturally thin that after publishing Prohibition's lett there would not bo anything too tough f M. Y. McLean, Bet I suppose he wish to gratify his spleen again mo, because once tripled hint up About the Morr "pap," and at the time of the difficulty b lawn E. Hays and myself ho (Mr. IMIoLeat went out of hie wry to have a slap at m a little below the belt, and now he into fetes in a quarrel that in none of his, b trying to defend Messrs. Drummond an Young, J, P's. and Insults all the magi tratea in Huron and brings them upon par with Drummond and Yonng, Mh McLean made a comment upon one of in lettere published in his paper upon ter conduct of Drummond and Young in the Mullen Scott Act whiskey cases. Ho says "1 may however say that if two intelligent gentlemen, like Messrs. Drummond and Young have committed the errors that Mr. Armstrong says they did, it is the best pos- sible evidence for the necessity of the ap- pointment of a Police Magistrate." He presumes to say that all the magistrates in Heron would do ceDrummond and Young have demo. First by losing their temper and being insolent and trying to browbeat the witnesses before them, and became abusive ; second they sat and disposed of three cares without knowing whether they had any jurisdiction to do so ; third they made one or two convictions end issued e warrant that they dare not try to enforce. These aro the J. P's, that the Expositor roan tries to defend, and he publishes a libellous and abusive letter on me, written by Prohibition, assisted by his henobman, .engough, the Belgrevo tailor, and said letter is headed "A reply to Mr. Arm- strong." I fail to know what it is 0 reply to. If it is intended to be a reply to my lettere published upon the conduct of the magistrates referred as m the Mullan cases, then it has failed in that particular. It does not contradict or deny anything that I said against the conduct of these J. P's. Abase is not argument, and how the pure milk and water editor of the Huron Expos- itor could think of allowing such trash to appear in his just, good, righteous, rag - mus, temperance, and I may say non-polit- ical newspaper must be a mystery to the readers of his paper. I can understand by his note in the last week's issue that ha would like to draw out a little more about the selling of whiskey by the wayside and in the fence corners. In three years from the passing of the Scott Aot in Uuron, if ho will come to Belgrave, he will hear all about it. BORE=ARIh5TBGRO, Morris, Nov. 80th, 1885. BRUSSELS, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, DEC. 4, 1885. elections in '84, the woolen mill, the settle' moat eviEh Mr, itonaid and our general election, costing ne $204. Taking those items I have just mentioned with ober fire expenses amount to $1,105. There in sr- $1,000 of that extras that the, present nd Council did not have to spend a cent on. ed Wo did a lot of grading and other expenses or throb I have not counted that rho present tCoutake he thea $474 of ourltcleioito fromcil did noing of.hlthist $1,000 er that we spent that the present Council did r. not have to pond anything on and we bo would have had a surplus of $520 at the 0- commencement of '85, or if we had streak lc the rate as the present Council did, 871 or 9 mills, we would have had surplus enough to have paid our liabilities for this year bad the old Connell been left in office. It is true that the present Council did work that we would not do such as malting grav- el walks for private individuals from their door to the sidewalk on the opposite side of the street, and a good crossing 01111111 a few yards on either sides. Tho ratepayers will remember when I went into the Coun- cil in '82 their was a snit against Mr. Ron. aid for taxes which the corporation lost, between the loss of the taxes and costs amounted to about $1,200. We will now take those past three year's '82, '83 and '84 that tiro old Council wore in office, with Mr, Rogers, Reeve, and after taking those losses and extra expenses that I have just mentioned, our local rate for those throe years added together just 001008 to 12 mills on the dollar, the lowest local rate that has been struck since our town was incorporat- ed, an average of 4 mills for emelt year. We will take the present Council for this year. They have no losses nor law roosts except 8300 they gare Mr. Wade, for which they charged the old Council of '84 with ; $100 would cover their fire expenses this year ; they made little or no new sidewalks nor olid any turnpiking and their local rate is struck at 8}, mills and I am satisfied by the time the Auditors' report comes out and their liabilities added it will take tiro other 1-2 mill, which will make 0 mills, the highest local rate that was ever struck in Brussels, Looting the corporation for this year within three mills of being as much as the three previous years put together. There are other things done which I con- sider they spent money foolishly on but with respect to the the present Council I won't mention just now, The ratepayers may well ask why are the taxes so high ? I remain yours, Brussels, Deo. 1st, 1885. J. Wren. et or es Is e- 0, r. s - a y e Reply to F. S. Scott on the High Rate, To the Editor at Tnt: Pony. DENA Sia,—I see in your issue of Nov. 13th F. S. Scott endeavors to answer the question why 0110 rate is so high, which he fails to do. He trios to answer it by leav- ing the blame on the old Counoil and he takes and figures up a lot of "ifs" and "uncle" to the amount of $1,539 and adds to our liabilities of '84, and leaves it in a shape fora great many of the ratepayers to believe that we were $1,539 short of pay- ing our liabilities. I would just say here for the information of those who are not posted that our deficits for '84 were just $474, whiuh I think be will not dispel°. I acknowledge that the proseut Council lost the hotel license but they bad other prop. orty to assess Chet we had not. If assessed correctly the taxes of that property would be more than the old Council received from, the hotel license. The property I refer to is the brick stores of Messrs. Vanetone, Struthers, Dennis, Loatberdale, Drowe, and the woolen mill. There are six large brick buildings and rho personal property of the occupants of those buildings will 111000 titan Cover the loss of the license. Next it appears there has been a demand made on the present Council for $300 coats on the Ronald suit, which Mr, Scott adds to the liabilities of '84, which he knows we had nothing to do with. It was not the old Council that entered that suit, but liko the present Council we had to pay costsbut did net take it from our liabilities and add it to iho liabilities of the previous year. You can Bee that Mr. 8000 10 trying to take the blame off the present Council by adding up part of their liabilities and charging them to the liabilities o£'84. Then he strikes a rate of 5 mills on the dollar and adds it to the local rate of '84, which he tells you would bo 9} n11110, leaving this year's rate only Sit mills, If Mr. ieott had thought and charged thole street improvements of (Itis Near to the liabilities of the old Council of '84 it would have brought their rate to about 4 mills, which would hare been just as legal as the °bargee he made. Mr. Scott gays the reason the rate is se high this year is because they thought they would strike it high enough so as to have a clear, sheet for oneo, as much as to say the hooka have never been clear until the pros. eut Council got them. After hint giving the old Council credit for having 8 surplus of $209 at the commencement of '84, which is correct, the books must have been clear at that time, so it will notbe anything now to see a Clear sheet this year. When you consider the extra expenses that we were at in '84 you will say we managed well to eomo out es clear as we did and our rate only 4e mills, Yon are aware we had to build Unice and get new hose ; we gave the band 850 more than the present Cuunoil ; $38 more for charity and $12 for selecting Practical Working of The Scott Aot To the Vetter or Tan POST, Bir.—permit me to show in this letter practical working of the Scott Aot. Has lessened the consumption of intoxioati Liquor? ft is very clear to everybody has investigated the matter that it has n on the contrary it has led to a great inertia in the use of strong ligner each as whiske It may be true, and is very probable, 111 a decrease has occurred intheeonsumpti of light drinks, such as lager beer, ale, & in eomo localities, but it is at the expen of an increase in whiskey, &o, Before Soott Act it was very unusual for people parry a bottle but now it is a very comm thing. Then men would call openly f what they wanted, now fictitious nam aro given and the liquor is disguised b admtxture that it is often diffrou1t to s what the compound is. Then if an bot keeper sold bad, adulterated stuff his cn tourers would complain and he had a rigl to do so, now in many cases compound aro Bold that are highly prejudicial t health, having a bad effect on the syete and his brain, whereas a little of pure 1 quer, when needed, has the contrary effee There ie now a large amount of sly drinl ing, drinking in private rooms, and i many localities drinking in so-called clubs These drinkingclubs are utterly bad 1 their effect anone mph plane does mor to propagate drunkenness, lioentionsnes and other wickedness than dozens of hotel under legal rule. The Toronto News here tofore in favor of the Scott Aot points oil a worse danger than this whore the Boot Act is introduced it large contras of popu talon, that it loads to a large increase in iquor Belling in bawdy houses ; that this ands to increase in worse sin than drunk. nness ; that it is very difficult to detect aaemuoh as no individual dare say where e obtained the liquor ; another evil that the Act has led to is a fearful outbreak f ying and perjury, abundant evidence of his is to be found, at the Prohibition Con- ention, hold in Toronto, last month, tome of the delegates reported that the et lei) to a very great deal of false swear - ng. This is fat• worse than drunkenness nd if it becomes a general habit Strikes at he foundation of justice and right amonget mel. Another result of the Act ie whole. ale defiance of the law and by men who ire usually most rigid Observers of the law. his evil has afar -reaching effect because not ut breeds contemps t for other into law mother evil resulting from the Act is the ffort to establish an odious spy trystortr monget neighbors. It was reported at e Convention that there was difficulty in tting people to act as spies on their ighbors. This is a cause for thankful. ss as neighbors should live together in ace and good will. The spy commits a le offence against social liberty and de- nunished whenever t* practicand ing eo disttid be gusting and eo base n offence. Another result of the Aot is be found in the now and terrible Grime terrorizing the magistracy by threaten- ge, burning, and dynamiting if they try out the law, and the demoralization the magistrates by thefoar of vengeance. Th Scott Aot Is therefore a provoker of ire I .For what purpose is this flood of ime, vice and eoofal disorder brought on the country 7 Simply dile, to pro- nt men, by force of law, temperately es - g a beverage beo.euse a email percentage use it and besides all this there is a large Daae of taxation. All but a few kn Uro it ng who ot, a8 y. at on 0. se the to on or SS y ay e1- 0 - it 8 0 m t. c. n 0 8 1 1 b v S A n T it b A a th go ne ne pe vi sen ON 0. to of in ea of of 0r' up Ing roar ow jltrore, You will remember we had three what nixes mean, nearly 21 cents on the OST. NO. 22. $ in Brussels this year, an increase of more than b a cent, a considerable portion of which is hoes of revenue under the Scott Act, Nat only that hub untwist the over. bnrdened taxpayer puts his foot down there will be a Seatt Act Police Magistrate to pay thousands of dollars for. What a price is all this to pay for free trade in whiekoy 1 Yours truly, Doo. 1st, 1885. Auorasa RATReevsu, LAND [IIPBOIT31I';NT FUNII. Diin EDIT01t,—I Soo ono of the Old Coun- cil has spoken on this rennet, assisted by the peeve of Morris, and as usual ha, treat- ed your readers to a tisane of falsehoods, as I will prove before getting through I trust. Ho says the old Council settled this dispute, yes, the same as they settled their liabilities; the same as they raised the interest for 1884 under the Howe By-law ; as they collected tbo Town Ball rents ; the same as they sent the Assessment Boll to the County Clerk ; the same as they registered the Bowe By- law ; these= as they collected enough to pay their just debts ; the same as they reduced the controlable expenditure of the village, vis. by not doing it, but allowing it and the other things mentioned to lie over for thole successors to do, and 0111511 I will show they have done. On examining the records in the Cleric's office I find that the old Council appointed W. J. It. Holmes, F. S. Scott and Thos. Kelly a committee to ex- amine into this matter and reports as to the best means of settling it, they having prev- iously failed to make an amicable Battlement with Morris, That Committee reported to Bottle the matter by arbitration and failing that, to refer it to the Liout: Governor and recommended that Wm. Clegg bo appointed arbitrator for Brussels. This the Connell did but there is no record that they notidog Morris of their notion, in fact Morris, at the time, stated that they had not done so and I know for a fact that they were not legally notified. In this state the mutter stood when the present ("emboli took office, having been in at0S, quo for over 18 mouths. They at once appointed Dr. Holmes as their arbi- trator end served the Reeve of Morris with notice to that effect and calling en them to appoint theirs. After the required time had spired for a reply from Morris a copy of th e eotice was sent to the Deputy Abt'y-General with proof of service on the Reeve of Morris, and asking the Lieut. -Governor fir Council to settle the dispute, which they did on the 11th day of November, 5e the following let. ter will show, and without any costa to the village "Toronto, Nov. 14111, 1885. Sm.—Be•Bruseels and Morris Land Im. grommet Fund. I beg to advise you that y Order in Council, dated llth day of Nov- ember, 1885, it is declared that the said vil- lage of Brussels is entitled to share in the amount of $7,485, in the proportion which the assessment for 1867 of that portion of yliforrieear18now07. within Brussels bears to the as. easement of the rest of Morrie for the said Your obedient servant, (ed) E. T. B, Joax5Toxa, Deputy Atfy-General. P. S. Score, Village Clerk, Brussels." According to the figures furnished by Dr. Holmes, Brussels, is entitled to $288 as our share of the fund, so your readers will see that the present. Council deserve the credit of the settlement.' The old Contrail never referred it to the Lieut, -Governor as Ile says, and I defy him to prove such by the records of the corporation. It is only his bare asser- tion and which is not generally looked on as mush without corroborative proof, and es- pecially when assisted by the Reeve of Mor- ris, as is evident from his letter. Had he searched the records of the Clerk's office, without turning to his memory for informa- tion, he would not have made the fool he has of himself. As for the settlement with Grey none that knew anything about it con - echoed it a good settlement, unless the Councils of Grey and Brussels, and there were communications in Tne Pose ab the time protesting against the settlement. Grey got $10,000, Morris $7,485. Brussels was formerly more in Gray than Morris, Brussels got $100 from Grey and $288 from Morris, so your readers can judge whether it was a good settlement. His assertion that the present Council has not reduced the eontr011- able expediter° is no proof, let him give fig- ures showing it thug, I defy ]rim or anyone else to do so, Respectfully yours, Brussels, Nov. 30th, 1885. BATSVAvsir. Brussels School Maid. A. epode' meeting of the School Board was held Nov, 271b, 1885, Present—E, E. Wade, Mrs. Smith Dr. Hutchinson, F. S. Scott and W. R. Wilson. Moved by Dr, Hutaninson, second- ed by W. R. Wilson, that as Mise Hiohardeon agrees to accept the of- fer of the Board she be engaged at a salary of $800 per annum. Carried. The Boatel then adjourned. ONTARIO CROP REPORT. Following is a summary of the re- port of the Bureau of Industries for Ontario, issued by A. Blue, secretary of Toronto;,—Pall wheat is a no sample and the yield is Large ; but owing to the effect of rain and rust, spring wheat is a serious failure, hotel in quantity and quality. The bulk of the barley was disoolored by a widely extended rain storm at the harvesting season. Oats are below the average quality, having rusted in the ripeningstage. Rye is a fair average in yield and quality, but the area in crop is steadily decreasing. Peas and beans were affected by Vella of dry and wet weather in July an Auguat, and they ripened very u evenly ; the pea bug has alines wholly diaappeared. The growin and ripening season for corn wa short, cool and rainy, and much o it is soft in consequence ; in the Lak Erie counties it has done fairly well Sorghum 1a generally a failure, an farmers are ceasing to grow it. Buckwheat has given a good yield, and the quality 1s excellent, but in localities it was hurt by early frosts. Tho potato Drop has euffered severely from the rot. In all the southern parts of the Province, from rho De- troit river to the Ottawa, fully ono - half Of it is destroyed, and the disease continues its ravages in the pits and cellars. In the northern parte of the Province but little harm has been dune. Turnips are sound and in moderately good supply, and the ac- counts of mange) wurzele and carrots aro uniformly favorable. The midge has wrought havoc with the seed clover. It is only whore fields were pastured until the beginning or mid- dle of June, and then left to grow for seed, that fairly successful results have been obtained. The now crop of fall wheat has been sown in good condition, and it has a promising ap- pearance. Good accounts are receiv- ed of the fruit crop In the older counties there has been a surplus of apples of excellent quality, and large quantities have been shipped to Eng- land and the Northwest. Pears have been moderately plentiful in Western districts, and also in two or three Eastern counties. The supply of peaches was confined to sheltered oroharde in the Niagara peninsula. A good surplus of plume is reported for the Northern and Eastern die- tricts, but black -knot and the cureuli° have been destructive in the West Midland and Lake Erie counties. The black -knot has also ivron:4ht great damage to cherry trees, and cherries were scarce and of poorqual- ity. Grapes and small fruits were very abundant. Fruit trees have made fine growth during the season and are generally in a healthy state. Live stock are in good condition. The swine plague caused serious loss in some western localities early in the fall season, but there remain now only a few scattered cases. The market for live stook is reported dull,. a comparative absence of demand and low prices being the rule, A. good many sales of cattle off the grass have been made for the Brit- ish markets. ''here is a continued'' decrease in the number of sheep, ow- ing, it is stated, to the low price of wool. The dairy industry hos been very dull, and sales of cheese and butter in the early part of this sea- son were made at low figures. d I RE8f8ttT says another store will be n -I started before long. Fancy goods t ( will be the objective point. g 1 NEXT Sabbath evening Rev. Wm. s I Smyth will preach a special sermon f 1 in the Methodist church on "The e I valley of dry bones." I A M,1.N carne all the way from To- d route last week and ordered a stove from Haycroft Bros. Brussels busis nese men are reliable. There is talk of tllo Dry Goods closing at 7 o'clock each evening, Saturdays excepted, during the win- ter months. This is a good move. F. C. ROGERS informs the readers of Tuo POST that during the winter months he will close his Mores at 7 o'clock p, m., Saturdays excepted. PERSOEa ty1 o have not drawn their prizes in connection with the East Huron Fall Show are requested to call at the Garfield House and gel their money. A. VEAL has a new save ie this week's paper. Ho says he 1 going to give great bargain, in the furniture lino to clear out his stook. Elie shop as in Holmes' block, next door north of B. Gerry's hardware store. CONSERVATIVE. -4118 annual meet- ing of the East Huron Conservative Association will be held in the Town Hall, Brussels, an Wednesday of next week. Election of officers and the diecussion of questions of interest to the association will take up the time. Tam largest and probably the oldest fig tree in the world, standing in the garden of the Capuchin Monastery at Rosenff, is about to be sold, It was planted in 1621. Its branches Dover a spats of 484 square meters—suffice lent to shelter 200 persons, TREY have their own way of doiug things at Stratford. The officials of a pertain church advertised for an organist asking for references. Some ten or twelve applications were re- ceived, some as low as $150 per year, but none suited and a lady was accepted, without salary, who cannot play the organ. The young lady who has been officiating has resigned and the choir is withoat an organist. What they meant by engaging a per- son who can't play is whab patches ns. PowELX's Great Winter Sale of trimmed and untrimmed Millinery will 00010103100 011 SATURDAY, DEO. STs, and will be continued until 1st January 1886. As the season is getting advanced we are determined to clear out all our Winter Millinery at sweeping reductions for cash, and ES our stook is all fresh and new, the public can rely on getting the very newest and latest styles in Millinery, at elearing prices. Re- member this ie not cheap talk but Cheap Millinery. The New Garfield Rouse means business. Everyone come and see the Golden Bargains we are daring. Watch for advt. next week. advt. G. A. Powaere TEE Pose thinks being a eouneillor is a "nice" position to fill.—That there will be a lively contest for the vacancies at the School Board. -- Snow would soon lively np trade and make the business men smile —A big lime will be put in at the skating rink this winter if Jaok Frost will do his part in supplying its. --The band concert will draw a crowd, --Some people ars itching to get into office and if they got there they would itch to get out.—The cranks are not all dead yet. They generally bud out about this season of the year,-1ffun- icipal matters are being discussed at a lively rate and it will no doubt do good.—It would be a good idea to try and have a High School established in Brussels, LOCAL 1TIIILS. C. S. Pettet, of London, was visit. ing friends in Brussels this week. Mas. James GRIEVE is visiting at Roxboro' and a grass widower is left to paddle Ins own canoe. IT is said one of our townsmen, who by the way is a mechanic, is away to Michigan after his bettor - half LAST Sunday morning an appro- priate funeral sermon was preached by Rev. W. T. Chuff, in St. John's church, bearing on the death of Mrs. Town. OR Sunday, Deo. 18113, Rev. Dr. Bnrwaalh, one of the Professors of Victoria TTniversily, will preach an educational sermon in the Methodist church at 10:80 a.m, Gonne LINxs.—.On Wednesday evening of ]set week a goodly oom• pany assembled at the residence of John Croaker, Exeter, to wit0ess the marriage of their only daughter, (sign. ter to John H. Croaker, of Shelburn, a former resident of Brussels) to And- rew J. Starter, of Oshawa. The nup• tial knot was tied by Rev, Mr. Pas- cot. The groom was supported by H. Wilkie, of Exeter, and Miss Min- nie Pascoe performed the duties of bridesmaid. The bride wore a very becoming dross of golden plush, with natural flowers. The bridesmaid was attired in a myrtle green silk, The Wedding presents were something excellent and consisted of a Mason it Birch piano, gold watch, seal Dir- cular, silverware, glassware, kc., 25 in all. After supper the newly wed- ded pair left for Toronto from whence they went to Oshawa. The bride has a large number of friends in town who with her all the comforta of life, CAT-ASTRor5m.—During Stalf-Capt. Glover's last visit to Brussels some of the incorrigibles got somebody's at and threw it into the barracks, through the fan -light over the door. The fel- ine was kinked out to be sent in flying a few seconds after. This time it lodged on the chandelier and knocked off four lamp chimneys, 8 of them being smashed, the fourth falling in- to some sister's tap. The oat still hung to rho chandelier so the Staff - Capt. came down from the platform and took pussy by the tail and shied her outside again. This same eat made four subsequent visite much to the disgust of the worshippers, The Army at Seaforth had an hen•oount- re in their barracks on Thanksgiving Day, so it appears to be going the rounds, Fun is very Well in its place but its place is not where religious services are in program, and these ""too soon"youths Should be handlhd without glover.