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FRIDAY, JULY 30, 1980.
IT is time the Directors of our
Fall Show were putting forth an
effort toward providing attractions
for the coining exhibition. Other
Societies aro on the move and are
exerting themselves to place before
the public something of interest.
What about a band tournament or
something of that kind ? There
were hundreds of people did not
attend tho Show last year because
they said there would be nothing
now. There is not a doubt but
whatever the necessary expendi-
ture in providing something new
and attractive would be it w ould be
more than made up by the in-
creased number of spectators.
What is wanted is an energetic
move before it is too late and after
the Directors decide on some plan,
let it be well advertised and push-
ed until the clay of the Show. There
are some Directors who have never
exerted themselves very much and
they will now have an opportunity,
if this scheme suits them, of show-
ing how they can work.
THERE is a lack of system about
the management of our Fire Brig-
ade in their attendance at fires.
At the annual election of officers
persons are chosen to fill certain
positions, and only one, but it
seems almost an impossibility to
keep some •of them in their places.
At the fire last week the hose carts
were not properly directed and the
result was one of the old links of
hose burst and hacl the fire not
been extinguished the delay in
substituting a new length might
have been a serious one. We See
no reason,wby the Chief and Cap-
tain should not come right down
on persons who are too officious
and teach them a lesson they will
never forget. A good fire engine,
well manned, is a great money
saver to any town but unless there
is system and drill a great Ileal of
the labor is ill directed and conse-
quently almost valueless. There
are a lot of willing workers in con-
nection with the Brussels brigade,
and a number not connected with
the company at all, and there aro
also a lot of lazy folks who will al-
low five or six men to run with a
hose cart or pull at the engine
while they cooly make their way
to the fire, whore in nine cases
out of ten, they are neither good
for ornament or use. We would
suggest that the brigade keep up
their monthly meetings and see
that all vacancies aro promptly
filled.
OUR civic holiday is here and
will no doubt be generally ob-
served as such. It has been sug-
gested by several of our citizens
that from this time forth and for-
ever more we, as a village, do
away with our past manner of
,spending this local holiday and
make it a clay calculated to prove
-attractive to outsiders and of suf-
ficent interest to our townspeople
to keep them all at home. Do
you know we have been paying
out money to help railroad excur-
sions and celebrations at other
towns long enough, and while we
commend the enterprise of our
nzighbors we think "charity com-
mences at home" and the way to
make a new departure is by a
long pull, a strong pull and a pull
all together. A good day's sport
could be arranged, of a local char-
acter, in which some of the old
time fun could be introduced and
whatever money would be expend-
ed in prizes would go to residents
of this locality. We don't want
to have the proceedings under the
auspices of any society or organiz-
ation but with the Reeve at the
head make it a civic holiday in
earnest. What does it cost Brus-
sels to attend these outside gath-
erings ? Take the Tournament
iu Listowel, and that is as handy
a place as our residents could go
to, there is 60 cents for return
fare, 50 cents for dinner and tea,
25 cents for admission to the park
making a total of $1.35, without
allowing for any extras in the way
of 'bus or cab fare, seats at the
park, or refreshments of any kind,
Say 100 people go, there is 015
clear gone from the, place, with
THE BRUSSELS POST
JULY 30, 1880.
very little prospect of its return.
People complain of hard times,
and they aro close enough, but the
above mentioned instance is only
one of the many ways in which
the money goes, We think when
another holiday occasion comes
our residents will feel as we do on
this matter and hold one of the
best civic holidays ever known in
this locality.
ELECTORAL Unions are being
formed in a lar„ e number of mun-
icipalities, the object being to pro-
mote a temperance sentiment and
band themselves together to sup-
port candidates who will pledge
themselves to stand by the Scott
Act in the municipal and County
Councils and in the Houses of
Parliament. The desires and in-
tentions of the temperance party
have been baulked more than once
by opponents of temperance hold-
ing the majority of votes and in
many instances the temperance
electors are to blame for putting
these mon in the positions they
occuppy. We don't wani to trust
to "the early dew" promises of of-
fice seekers who, in many instan-
ces, aro "all things to all men" so
long as they may secure their
election, but we should be assured
that the principles and sentiments
of the candidate or candidates of
our choice are well grounded and
sound and' then irrespective of
party feelings or political lines, go
to ballot box and record our vote.
It is the intention of the Executive
of Huron Co. to arrange for meet -
boas in every municipality when
the question will be fully and free-
ly discussed, opponents of the Act
being specially invited, and "the
war carried into Africa" with a
resoluteness and power that will
tell upon the next municipal and
parliamentary election. We' ask
for a fair field and no favor, be-
lieving our object to be an un-
selfish one and calculated for the
public good.
meth
WE say amen to the following
article from an exchange on the
Assessment law :—The Globe is
doing a good work in showing up
the inequalities of the assessment
law. It has taken from the rolls
the assessed income of professional
mere, lawyers, doctors, and min-
isters in Toronto, and promises
further lists on the subject. From
the names thus given, it is evident
that the income tax is a fraud.
Men who live in ten and twelve
thousand dollar houses, and whose
income every year must be near
the same sum, are assessed at one,
two or three thousand dollars. In
the legal list the only firm which
seems to approximate the truth is
the blake firm, they paying taxes
on an income of $35,000. And
when the list touches the money
lender and the capitalist, it will
be found that the income and per-
sonal is more of a fraud still. It
is quite time that this partial and
unsatisfactory taxation of income
should be done away with. The
personalty tax is even worse. The a eeventh son.
manufacturer who has his capital Saye the Monetary Times:—As il•
sunk in plant pays a tax out of all lustrating the growth of the dressed
era( wealth of the community. Wo
hope another session will not be
allowed to pass before the changes
indicated are brought into effect,
for there seems to bo little differ-
ence of Opinion on the subject in
the public press. This and the
exemption business are now quite
ripe for legislation.
Caveitalirtf News,
The Toronto Boat Club scored a
victory Iasi week at Albany.
Becton pays its assessor the muni-
ficent salary of $10 per annuli.
The population of Portage Le Pra-
irie is 2,000, and the total assessment
is $1,578,865.
A Mrs. Deforest, of Naesagawoya
township, has been fined $1 and costs
for flogging her son-in•law.
Manitoba and the Northwest have
now three daily, thirty-seven weekly
and two monthly newspapers.
The Lieut, -Governor is to be peti-
tioned to enlarge the limits of the
town of Galt to the extant of 568 acres,
It is rumored that the head offices
of the Huron St Erie Railway are to
be removed from Chatham to Sarnia.
The Regina Leader advises the
Government to have a Land Act for
the Northwest distinct from that for
Manitoba.
Tho business failures in Canada
the first six months of the following
years ware as follows :-1884-762 ;
1885-690 ; 1886-810.
Three hundred and five hundred
ear loads of square timber, represent-
ing two million feet, have been ship,
pod by rail from the Nipiseing district
for Quebec this season,
The probabilities are that an Order-
in•Oouncil will be passed at Ottawa
providing that fines for violation of
the Scott Act shall be paid over to
the Provincial Government.
A thorough -bred imported Holstein
cow, belonging to'1'hos. Stothars, of
Peterborough, on Monday morning
dropped a calf which,, at the time of
birth, weighed 92 pounds.
The police should take means to
stave off the threatened barrel end
cork performances at Niagara. Plenty
of foole have been fed to the Whirl-
pool. The remainder should be tap•
pad gently with e baton and put on
ice for the summer instead of being
allowed to put themselves under ice
for the winter.
A German inventor has forwarded
to the Department of Agriculture au
application for a patent for a process
of manufacturing cattle feed. from
wood. The applicant claims that the
nutritive qualities• contained in the
wood can be utilized by subjecting it
to a chemical process which he de-
scribee.
Simeon Duck, of Victoria, B.O.,
who declares he is not a superetitioue
man, IS pursued relentlessly by the
figure 7. He left his native country
on the seventh of the month, and ar-
rived in British Columbia ou a day
of the same date. When eeeking re-
election as a member of the Britian
Columbia Government, he was re-
turned by seven votes. On the eeven-
th of this month he was defeated at
the general elections of the Province
by seven votes, and addressing a
meeting recently he happened to say
that although now a defeated candi-
date he might be in a different peel -
hon iu seven weeks' time. In addi-
tion to all this, a local slanderer has
alleged that he is the seventh son of
proportion to the man who has it
invested in mortgages. The man-
ufacturer pays the big end of tax-
ation, altough he runs far greater
risks, and his capital is of far
greater benefit to the community
than the money lender's, This is
neither fair nor just. The taxa-
tion of merchants' stocks also
opens a very large door for decep-
tion, and induces the merchant to
keep his stock, as far as possible,
unpaid for. Tho only fair way,
the system which equalizes the
taxation upon all equitably is the
tax upon land. When all of it is
upon real estate, it will affect the
rate of interest and thus reach the
lender as no other scheme can.
We have long and frequently ad-
vocated the abolition of the income
and personal tax. The true in-
cidence of taxation can only be ar-
rived at by placing it directly on
real estate, and not only upon im-
proved real estate, but union the
soil directly. We often see unpro-
ductive property rated low, because
the owner is making little or
nothing out of it. But such real
estate ought to be rated to the full
value„ and if this was clone, many
a man would be induced to make
his property productive as soon as
possible, and thus add to the gen-
beef traffic of Chicago, it may be slat-
ed that in 1884 there was shipped
from Chicago and from Hammond a
total of 498,000,000 pounds ; in 1885
Chicago shipped 465,500,000 pounds
and Hammond 110,500,000 pounds,
making an aggregate of 576,000,000
pounds of beef, or 28,280 car loads of
ten tons each, Tho number of oars
world make a train 180 miles in
length, each two rods representing
thirty-two cattle. To what magnitude
those branches of business will grow
in the next ten or twentyyears no
man living can' safely forsee. Even
now the farmers living near towns
remote from Chicago, St. Louis or
ICaneas City may oat to -day of a
steak, a roast or a tenderloin ',fresh
from , the very bullocks that a few
days ago were fatteningon corn at
the crib close by the farm house, and
were sent a thousand miles, it may
be, to be slaughtered and separated,
part to be eaten in European homes,
and part to, be eoneumed in hotels,
restaurants and private houses widely
scattered throughout the States.
Toronto free Library notes :—In
fiction proper there are 9,900 volumes,
which circulated last yeas to the ex -
tout of 187,000. Of the regt of the
library last year 18,900 volumes of
art, science, history and biography
circulated to the extent of 100,000.
There are 28,789 volumes in the
library at present,
The pernicious habit of tying lions•
es to Shade trsee still exiite in 21.
Marys.
A anion excursion of the Sunday
Schools of St. lilarys about the 16th
of August is talked of.
The sum of $250 has boon forward•
ed from St. Marys to Mr, Parnell to
be supplied to the Nationalist Parlia-
mentary fund.
Stratford Council have agreed to
grout free gas and water to Mr.
Reynolds, who proposes to establish
a biscuit factory in the oily.
The Health Oli'foer of Owen Sound
telegraphs denial of a statement that
emallpox prevailed in that district,
A testimonial is being gotten up by
the Ontario Temperance Alliance for
presentation to Polido Magistrate
Munro, of Orangeville, the victim of
the dynamite outrage,
The Essex Oounty Bank at Wind-
sor has purchased the franehiso and
plant of the Windsor and Sanclwieh
street railway for $10,000. The litre
will be mode a part of the Electric
Railway Lino now in operation be-
tween Windsor and Walkerville.
Tho Recorder of last week said :—
T. H. Race, in behalf of the Reform
party, has given notice to the Revis-
ing Officer for the South Riding of
Perth, that he intends appealing to
the Judge of the County Court against
the decisione given by the said officer
in several cages for the municipalities
of TTibbort and Mitchell
Some weeks ago an experimental
shipment of creamery butter was sent
furward to Leith, Scotland, by a Sea -
forth dealer. So much satisfaction
did it give that the consignee has
cabled for another lot cud on Wed-
nesday, the 7th, the product of the
Seaforth, Loudesboro' and Brucefield
creameries were dispatched, the price
paid being 18 cents per pound. It
will be an excellent thing for the but-
ter interest of this section, gays the
Huron Expositor, if Mr. Laurie, the
shipper, eucceede in opening up a sat•
isfactory market to the old conutry
for the bulk of our product. These
Gales manifest the benefits of the
creamery system of butter making.
At the time this butter was sold here
for 18 cents, the best home-made but-
ter was quoted in Montreal market at
from 15 to 15 cents, and in the local
market at 12 cents, so that the pat-
rons of creameries will realize at Bast
four cents per pound more for their
butter than if they haat made it them-
selves and save all the labor.
MOTE LOST.—TELE SUBSCRTB-
e. ma lost a note drown in 111,, fovea by ,Tae.
McNair for 00,00, The publiclswarned against
negotiating the sante es 11 has boon 11111(1,
BOB'S, r,noio ,
3. Cranbrook P. 0,
ri1WO FARMS, IN GREY, FOB,
saran, or to rent 100 08106 100 being to
Se, 0011,5, t he other lac en, con a Lot C3 is
situated two railed front the vJ1 1010 1 Ethel,
seven lures from I1reseals, twelve miles from
L11310 w3,1 and .t toile from a 318001' tailing areelr,
07 Runes 0 re alcoved, meal all clear of stumps
sad 001031 gond eulllvatloa end oieen, sixty
acres 0f limp, nand millet for draining, a cont.
fortahle dwel4 ug, hon lo barn, stabling uuder-
lien 111, a 000 hoaxing orchard and muesli, a
well e,. fie0!ent .o house rood yard. Price,
54,000, rent .'250 per year. Lot 20 1s situated
21nttb30 from Ethel, 10 Irma Listowel and it
front Brussels, 00 acres cleared and under
gond cultivation, the be lance well timbered
wall shot ash, serotech and hardwood. A
from 0 house sad 0u1butldblg and a largo ,v pang
orchard ere ou Gila farts. Brion, a4,0oa, 100000
twins will hu,.old ceparttte or together 1.1 suit
inrohuoor. Possession anal he (iron nt roily
time. Apply to Cent. Stratton, no t0
Al SVC RIEW ac 2E0. (MORTON,40.13 Propri:atars.
N
OTLOE T0 OREDITOItS.
Notice is hereby given payment to the pro-
vlsi0us of chap. 107, lt,s,b., and 10 vies., aline.
4, (03,0t) to all creditors and others having
alums against the estate of Alexander web-
ster,late or the village of Brussels, in. the
County of Reran, flax mill ntanngur, deceased
who died on or about the fifth day of Pabru-
ery last 10181, to 0031d by poet (prepaid) to W.
11, Dicksm,Brussels, h',liol(or for James D,
Webster and Catharine Webster. 1011080101'
andExeentrtx, respectively, of the lust will
and bestow ant o1 the said deceased, on u1' be-
fore the 3rd day 01 August, A.D. 1880, a sta.to-
mont of their n14331033 and addressee and fall
particulars of their claims, duly assorted, with
a statewont of all eoaurltlos (if any) bold by
them. And after the said 3rd clay of August
the said Executer0 w111 proeood 10 ol3401b1110
Chu assets of the said deceased oolong tbe.pnrt-
10s 01113111031 thereto, regard being had only to
the claim s of which notice shall have Fiore
given, a0 above required. The said Executors
will not a0 liable for too assets, or any part
thereof, to any person of whose dater notice
shall not have 30011 given at the time of such
distribution.
Dated at Brussels the 28011 day 91 Jerre, A.D.
1086. W. 13. DIClt8071,
00.1ine Solicitor for Executors.
NOTICE!
We, the undersigned Merchants
of the Village of Brussels, hereby
give notice to our respective Ons-
tomers that
NO .RUTrsTJ,
WILL Rh; TAKEN ON
Book Accounts
after October 1st.
F. C. ROGERSI
A. R. S,IIITII,
W. NIG5IITINGALE 4, Co.,
�
G. A. 1 owELL,
STRAOI'Lix BROS.
J. G. SriNn.
FALL IMPORTATIONS I
We are now receiving our New Goods for the Fall Trafie and hope to
be able to announce our Stock Complete in the course of a few days.
Miss Green, who has given such universal satisfaction, its again En-
gaged for the Winter Season. Through her splendid taste and good
management we have done the
BEST MILLINERY ' RA
this Season, in fact nearly doubling all previous efforts. We have to
hand our
NEW FLUSHES
AND VELVETS.
They are Cheaper this Season and Better than for many years past.
Being Scarce and Dearer is all Eumbug.
They can be had to any extent and we Guarantee to supply them at
the Present
LOW PRIGS THE WHOLE SEASON THROUGH,
As soon as our New Stock is Complete we will give due notice, and as
all classes of
Goods are Exceedingly Low
we intend to mark our Goods at the
and not allow any Store to Undersell us.
F. C. ROGERS,
40.
DOMINION HOUSE1