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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1887-8-26, Page 4Locals—A. Good. Honey—G. A. Deadman. Coming—Parker Dye Works. Mortgage sale—E, M. Ohadwiok. Garfield House—W. Nightingale S: So. Servant girl wanted—Mrs. D. A. Smale. .gin safe Vat. FRIDAY, rl UG UST 26, 1887. Tns petition against the return of Hoa. Edward Blake for West Durham has been abandoned. The petitioner has addressed a declara- tion to the ldigh Court of Justice, in which he says Le has been ad- vised by his counsel that he has not 'sufficient evidence to support his petition, and he therefore prays a day may be appointed for hearing his withdrawal. TEE situation in Manitoba is in- creasing in interest. The U. P. R. have carried out their threat of obtaining an injunction to prevent. the competing line passing through their property at Morris, and the Norquey Government propose to disregard the writ and push on to the frontier. It is not probable that an injunction, without actual physical force behind it, will be any more effective than a paper dis- allowance. When a whole coin munity is as determined upon an object as the Manitobans appear to be, legal formulae lose their effect ivenese. There is a talk of putting the law into force by bringing a body of British troops on the scene but a more suicidal course could scarcely be thought of. Bad as the Biel rebellion was this new depart• ure would exceed them tenfold. The 0. P. R. is no doubt in a bed plight but the people of Mani- toba evidently mean business and, the squabble between Norquay's Government and that of Sir John's will be watched with interest. War should not different railways in Canada reduce the railway rates from 8 cents to 2 cents per mile is a conundrnm often asked by the tray elling public. Surely the latter rate a onld pay them a great deal better than the 8 cents per mile did years ago. Tbere is a steady going and coming of passeugere in this day and the number would he large. ly augmented if the railroads made the reduction. The Toronto World advocating the change says :--Talco the question of the 8 cent rate. Is it just 2 Is it necessary 2 The railway companies will take it hog— a .four -legged one—say, weighing 200 pounds—will lift: him an the cars—Dare for him while ',hoard— transport him to ilinntre.11 im n fast freight—lift John off attain tier( fur - nigh hint with a place lo stop in for aDoat 20 cents a bemired pounds, or 40 cents in all. A 200 pound man has to gat aboard himself and carry his grip sack with him, attend to his own wants while in transit, climb off when Le gets to hi jour• nay's end, and in charged $10 for the trip. And the man won't get into Montreal much tload of the hog either. AN exchange expresses our son• timents as follows : —A. struggle not without interest to the people of this province is going on in Mont- real between the sugar refiners and a combination of wholesale grooera on the one Land, and two or three independent grocery firms on the other. Taking advantage of the almost prohibitory duty placed upou sugar, the refiner's and wholesalers combined to raise the price, but a few in the trade refused to join the ring, though threatened with boy= cotting by the refiners. Nothing daunted, however, they persevered in their opposition, and despite the duty, they have succeeded in obtain- ing supplies of sugar from Scotland at a price wbich enables them to undersell the monopoly. Such grasping conduot as that of the sugar monopolists, who have abused the protection granted in order lo foster native industry, to extort, unfairly highprime from the eon• sumer under the impression that the tariff shut out all competition, furnishes the' fres traders with their strongest arguments. If their example should be generally follow- ed by protected manufacturers in Canada there wnuld very soon be a revulsion of popular sentiment spinet protection. The tariff upon manufactured goods was not intend- ed to become an instrument of ex- tortion in the hands of unserupnlous rings. Consumers as well as pro- ducers ought to be oonsidered in legislation, and if the N. P. is to re- sult in raising the prises of the ne- oesaal'ioe of life ill order to give ex- orbitant profits t, a fow—tta loos been the case in some linos of man- ufacture in the United Stotos•--it will very quickly lose its popularity. Tens Hartford Currant, in speak- ing of Commercial Union, eaye : The Hon. Benjamin Butterworth is making by speeches, lettere and pamplets a vigorous campaign in favor of the re. ntovnl of all restreetions and tax upon trade and commerce between the United States and the Dominion of Canada. While an ardent proteetiouist so far as our (rale with distant nations is con- cerned, Mo. Butterworth is one of quite a number of eminent americans who have reached the eonolusion that it would be for the benefit of this country to treat our northern neighbor as a member of our own family. Tbere are obstaolos in the way, bot the advocates of the projeut do not regard them as insuperable. The Wet one would be the necessity of ex. tending our tariff rates to the Dominion seaports, and possibly pooling receipts and dividing the customs duties after the manner of the German zoliverein. Some modifications of the internal revenue system would also be necessary on each side of the line. On the other hand the benefits to be derived by. each country are regarded= far outweighing all ob- jections. In the first place it would ef- fectually do away with the friction and annoyance of the contemptible but un- ending fishery disputes. Geographically the two nations are so closely conneoted and their interests aro so similar that freedom of trade would be as reasonable and reciprocally advantageous as it is be- tween the different states of our Union. There is no suggestion that we need the revenue derived from the importation of Canadian lumber, etc., and, says Mr. Butterworth, 'the proposition that the underlying and controlling principle in our protective system would be infringed is not for one moment tenable." Tho territory of Canada is larger, than that of the United States, and it is rich in all the materialresources to make a pros- perous people. Our trade with Canada greatly exceeds our trade with the re- publics of Central and South America, with whom it was proposed a few years ago to establish a commercial union. How much wiser and more profitable suggests the advocate to establish a zoll. verem with our Euglish-speaking next door neighbors than with the Latin and other races of South America. Mr. But- terworth is careful to have it appear that he is in no way favoring political union, and to those who urge that he is turning his back on the protective system he says : "I am a protectionist, but we will agree that protection properly deals with the unequal conditions which exist in the field of competition as between our manufacturies and those of the old world. Those conditions, relating in the main to the cost of labor, and being so largely in favor of the plants of Europe, manufacturers there are in certain lines enabled, in the absence of the influence of our protective system, to control the market at our very doors. But this rea- son has no possible application to Can- ada, and the reason ceasing, the rule ceases with it." The question is an im- portant one. Mr. Butterworth proposes to push it before the Doming Congress, and ho means so have' the people of the country well informed on the subject so that the matter may be oonsidered on. its merits and if possible without partis- an bias." •CIsen1at ial1 Newel. Frost destroyed fruits and flowers in tho township of Huntingdon, Hastings county, the latter part of last week. A political picnic will bo held at Levis on August 81, at which Mr. Laurier and Mr. Mercier will deliver addresses. A by-law for $20,000 for the construe. tion of waterworke for the town of Milton was carried on Monday by sixteen ma- jority. Erastus Wiman, on the invitation of the Board of Trade of Napanee and the local Farmers' Instituto, will speak at Napanee nu the 5th or 6th of September, on the subject of Unrestricted Reoiproo. fry. Robb. Dunsmuir, member for Nanaimo, has been made President of the Council in the British Columbia Cabinet, and Jas. H. Turner, member for Victoria, has been appointed Minister of Finance and Agriculture. The Stirling News Argus reports that Robt.Danford,of Sidney, who is 85 years old, the other day walked to Belleville, a distance of sixteen miles, in less than five hours. Mr. Danford's father lived to be 111 years old. Journal of Commerce :—Sherbrooke, Que., has•droppped the imposition of the Commercial Travellers' Tax, and it is not now enforced, although they, along with Three Rivers and Quebec, had the prim, lege of enforcing it until May set, 1888. Some excitement is reported over a very valuable deposit of crystalised phase. phate which has been discovered at Noe- bonsing Station, on the line of the C.P.B., about fifteen miles east of North Bay. It is the opinion of mining experts that the deposit contains 90 per cent. of phos- phate. Acegrding to The Peel Banner William Kirk, of Huttonville, recently threshed on Wm. Arnott's farm, lot 1, eon. 5, Chinguaeousy township, 280 bushels of wheat, 487 bushels'of nate and 840 bush- els of barley, in all 1,057 bushels of grain, in 7i hours. The work was well done and the grain nicely cleaned. Brantford Expositor: --Some months ago an east end Salvation Armyman sent to p to herhis swa tto rt in tb s the wit , hat d uthey tmight be happily united for life, after 'a painful separation for several years. She came, and the other day the Army man went to the emigrant sheds to claim his bride -elect. Virginia Caroline by name, when he was harrowed to find she bad taked up with a fellow•omigrant mined Wm. Henry Robbins, and they had been married by Rev. Mr. Shaw as soon as they arrived in the city. The Salvation Army man bawled like a calf, and during the day the police had to be summonean action. It 15 understood that the twine to quell the boisterous meeting of bank will loeelnothing by Jones, as they the three. are fully secured by big securities. THE BRUSSELS POST The village of Watford and Townsend Township will etch grant a bonus of $5,- 000 to the Brantford, Waturloo and Lake Erie Railway. The Bishop has appointed the Rev. S. L. Smith, Rector of St. John the Evan- gelists Ohnroh of Berlin, to the office of Rural Dean of the County of Water. Loo, The Comber Independent newspaper has boon aurohased by Jacob 111. Keln- nedy, publisher of the Essex Centro Liberal, who will bereafter conduct both papers. It is reported that tate cod fishery on the northwest coast of Newfoundland is a total failure this year, and that many families ars already in a state of more than septi -starvation. The Lieotse Commissioners since the oommenoonlent of the year have granted no less than 1,106 licenses for the sale of liquor in Montreal, and have refused only 102 applications. Saturday evening Wm. Frost, a bar- tender for a hotelkeeper at Iona station, decamped, taking was arrested at Shod. deft and taken to St. Thomas, He pload- ed guilty to the theft. Dr. Grant, of Queen's College, has been very successful iu his collections on behalf of the endowment fund. He has already the promise of $140,000 and bas only fairly entered upon the canvass. Winnipeg Sun :—Manitobans are pre- pared to accept Commercial Union if it is offered to them, and they aro for the moat part convinced that such a policy would be to their material advantage. Hon. Mr. Mowat has written to Hon. Mr. Mercier that he will reach Quebec about the 10th of September. Mr. Mer- cier has decided that the inter -Provin- cial conference will take place in Quebec from the 12th to rho 15th of September. A heavy wind and hail storm passed over Ingersoll on Monday night. A number of buildings and trees were dam- aged. The roof was blown off the gas works, and a large chimney at the Bell mill was blown down. It fell on the mill doing considerable damage to the building. One day last week an old man residing in rear of Point Levis, Que., fell in a fit of epilepsy, and remained so long speech- less Dud motionless that he was given up for dead, and arrangements for thefu- neralwere commenced. These prepara- tions and the grief of his family were somewhat abruptly terminated by the old man opening his eyes. The other day an elderly gentleman ar- rived at Dorchester, N.B., by the early morning train from a St. John River county to marry a lady whom he had never seen. He came to the house of bis fiancee, he saw her, and after breakfast and a brief interview he quietly slipped from the house and disappeared, not waiting for the wedding ceremony in the evening. A correspondent of The Pontiac Ad- vance writes from Rowan's Landing :—A fisherman said to me last week that one of their mon took the row boat and land- ed on French Island, and that in about fifteen minutes he killed about fourteen black snakes, or racers, as they are more properly called. A host of them made for him, when he had to beat a hasty re- treat and take to his boat. There is also an island below here that no man dare land on as the rattlesnakes are so numer- ous. James Clark, of Hamilton, has in his possessiontwo valuable old papers. They are copies of the London Times of Thurs- day, November 7th, 1805, and Thursday, June 22nd, 1815. The former 'oontains a report of the battle of Trafalgar, with a full list of the killed and wounded, a let- ter from Admiral Nelson and an account of the death of the great man. The ]at - ter gives a thrilling account of the battle of Waterloo, also with a list of the killed and wounded. and a message from the Duke of Wellington. A man who gave his name as Couley hired a horse and buggy at a livery stable in Belleville Monday morning and visit- ed several farm houses in Sidney, where he demanded money, watches, jewellery and clothing from the farmers' wives, producing a revolver at the same time. The women generally ran shrieking from the houses, and the robber got nothing except a coat at John Wilson's. The neighborhood was soon aroused and sev- eral men went in pursuit m buggies. During an exciting chase the horse driv- en by the robber fell and he took to the woods. Bailiff English, of the Central Prison, Monday undertook to escort six prisoners from the Toronto jail to the Central Pris- on. They were placed in ono hack, and among them was Lon Cornish, the negro, who was sentenoedlast week to two years' imprisonment for assaulting Police Con- stable Beatty. Cornish was handcuffed to another prisoner named Edward Brom, from whom he succeeded in separ- ating himself by moans of a file concealed in his clothing. Near the corner of Queen and Chestnut streets Cornish leaped out of the hack and, darting up Chestnut street, was soon lost to view, the bailiff offering no pursuit on account of the other convicts. The excitement over the failure of the Bank of London had subsided consider- ably when it was rumored that George Jones, the accountant of the Watford agency, had made off with some of the funds of the Bank and that he had gone to Alvinston, and had hired a liyeryman to drive him to Courtright on Sunday night, where he crossed over to he land of the free. The safe of this agency be- ing a donble combination, of which the accountant kept one and the manager the other, the accountant's combination had to bo received from the head office in London before anything could be aster- tained. When the safe Was opened on the 29rd inst., it was discovered that about $2,000 was missing. The only op- portunity which Jones had of taking anything was the tow minutes from the time orders were received not to open till the cash was locked up, and' 'he must have slipped the packages of exchange and greenbacks into his pocket instead of putting them into the safe. The a- tilt hue created quite a sensation, as Jones was very highly =spaded and not a person ettpposed to be capable of such Inooudiarism 15 now suspected in con- neetimt with the horning of the City of Montreal. Ottawa County local election will take place on the 14th, instead of the 10th of September, Sewer excavators In Montreal have bit on the wall of Le Olutliieres' fort, built about 1095, Alex. Mills, of the Ord con, of Broolce, a few nights ago w001 out into 11ie yard and shot one of his best Cows in mistake for a burglar. W. B. Wilson, formerly chief coasts, bee of Ingorsoll, has commenced eh not- ion for $10,000 damsgss for libel, against Mayor Buobanan, of that town. Victoria, B. C., papers are protesting against the continuance of a lottery held in the Chinese quarters at 8 p. m. daily, and in connection with which white eiti- zous invest large sums of money in tickets.. The Globe train Saturday morning beat all previous rewords, as it came from Toronto to Windsor in five hours, includ- ing all stops and changing engines at London. From London to Windsor, a distance of 100 miles, the time was 2:.7. An Order -in -Council leas been passed pleasing on the free list wird of iron or steel, galvanized, tinned or ooppered, or not of No. 12 page or smaller, when -im- ported by me nufaturers of wire oloth and works to be used for manufacturing pur- p05 es. Messrs. LeFebro and LaFleur, 000001• parried by three ladies and four children, were Monday arossiug the river near Bouoherville, Que., when their boat upset. The men were able to swim, but the women and children clung to the boat and all sank. F. T. Shutt, a fellow of the Toronto University for a number of years and a chemist, has been appointed chemist in connection with the Central Experiment- al Farm. In company with Professor Saunders he has just returned from a trip to the best known laboratories of the United States. The Montreal Stook Exchange, in un- dertaking a crusade against the bucket - shops of that city, is a good deal like Satan rebuking sin. There is about as much moral difference between the op- erations in futures on a large scale on 'change and the small transactions at the buoket-shop, as thereis between playing faro or poker at a fashionable gambling house for stakes running into the thous- ands, and the more limited operations of the celebrated, though unpretentious, Thompson street poker club. The way to abolish the bucket -shops is to suppress gambling deals on the stook exchange. The Montreal Star of Saturday after- noon says : "Another Masonic misunder- standing is on the topics, which promises to prove as much a cause cerebro as the reoent quarrel between the grand lodges of England and Quebec. The present trouble is between the :Deputy Grand Master of the grand lodge of England, Wm. Hutton, and the Master of St. George's lodge, S. B. Thompson. The former has requested Mr. Thompson to deliver an order to burn the books of the lodge, which he hos refused to do, and has consequently been suspended by the Deputy Grand Master from all Masonic privileges, the suspension having been read in several lodges of English register. It is understood that Mr. Thompson re- fused to recognize Mr. Hutton, claiming that his appointment as deputy is illeg- al," As Mr. and Mrs. George Stanhoff, of Norwich, were driving near the village of Putnam, in Middlesex county, the lady discovered smoke issuing from under the lap robe, and exclaiming "There's fire in the buggy," threw the robe from her, when a volume of flamesehissed from be- neath the seat on wbicb they were sitting. Mrs. Stanhok's olothing was blazing fiercely, and, jumping from the buggy, Mr. Stanhoff, with the only means pro. curable, his naked hands, managed to quench the flames on the garments of hie wife, which were almost burned from her, but,strange to say, the lady herself was comparatively uninjured. Mr. Stanhoff was terribly burned. The buggy box and top were completely ruined, three washing machines in the beak of the rig were re- duced to a mass of molten metal and nothing was left of a halter, which was in the rig, but a buckle. The Hespeler correspondent of The Galt Reformer tells the following story : A most heartrendering ease came to be known here on Friday laid, when the history of a new arrival in the place was learned. A respectable -looking young woman applied for work at the office of Forbes re Co., and was assigned to the weave -room, where Mr. Matlatt gave her work and good pay, but in a few clays she gave out, and was taken suddenly ill at her boarding-house. Dr. MoIntyre, being hastily summoned, gave it as bis opinion that she would only survive e few hours, as she was suffering from brain troubles. From her incoherent ravings, and an ex- amination of her memorandums, it was lammed that she was worked nearly' to death, running three looms for $2 per week in a woolen mill at dampbeliford, from the effects of which she in now suf- fering. She is a Knight of Labor, and the local assembly here have sent two nurses for each night during her sickness, and have provided her with all neons. series. Tho Petrol= Topic relate that thirty yeere ago Chas. Byam married a wife at Lexington, Mioh. The issue of the mar- riage was four children, two of whom died When the war broke out Byam en- listed in the • 2nd Michigan cavalry and subsequently saw much active service. After the war he moved hie family to Myrtle, Ontario, where unable to find work, ]lo broke up his home. His two children were placed in charge of rela- tives and the mother went to friends in the States. Byam went to 0i1 Springs, where be married Miss Anderson. After the Springs oil boom bad died out he moved to Patrolee, where lie lived until his death a short time ago. By his second wife Byam had quite a Large family. In the meantime the first wife had been looking for her husband. She found her daughter where she hod been planed, but could got no trace of the eon, wito had been removed to Petrol= by hie father. It was only last week that elle succeeded in locating the family at Pe- twoie, finding her eon and learning of her husband's death. YOUR .DEBTS. MERCHANTS' PROTECTIVE _,ANn— COLLECTLNFi ASSOCIATION —0000)0 1U01151505IN— CANADA AND UNITED STATES. •-WAd- 915TAZIST.iTMT-T 27 20) lee x, Slaving for Ito objoet to collect fromall that is possible to collect from, thou pub• lleh the names of all that cannot or will not pay, which flet is supplied to every member of tate Association throughout Canada and United States. Thal membership now num- bering many thousands, and is aekuowlsdg• alton odbyallinexisto botenctbeefor mostabs powerful organist - COLLECTION OF DEBTS, Having flyer 0001]etablished Agencies. Menlberehlp Feu : 101 year 810 ; 20,1 year 50 50 ; and pans e5, if renewed wlth- ln r month niter membership exp,ree. And upon receipt of which, Oertifioate of Membership, delinusut book, full supply of notices with complete inetruetious for using Association will be sent. Send for testimon- isle. .r. ITIDWELL 7A ILLS .11 Do. Mgr's. :E3ca.1.ltom., Orat, Bt. Lawn. Analysis. Chloride of Sodium 677.4782 grains „ „ Potassium 113.6170 „ „ „ Lithium 1.6147 „ „ Barium .6099 „ . „ Strontium .5075 „ „ Calcium 3.8388 • „ Magnesium59.0089 Iodide „ Sodium .2479 Bromide of Sodium .8158 Sulphate of Lime.0694 Phosphate of Soda .1699 Bi-Carbonato of Lime29.4405 • Magnesia 82.1280 „ Iron .6856 .5880 1.8694 1.0118 Alumina Silica Density le I hereby certify that I have analyzed a sample of "St. Leon Water," taken from the bulk from the store Dollars in Montreal, and I am able to confirm the general re- sult of the analysis published by Dr. T. Starry Hunt, F. R. S., published in the report of the Geological Survey, 1888 ; also the analysis of Prof. 0. F. Chandler, of Columbia College, New York, made in 1876. (Signed). 3'01IN BAKER EnwAnos, Ph. D., D.0.5., F. 0. S., and Ex•Pro- fessor of Chemistry and Public Analyiet. Adam Good, Agent, Brussels. AUGUST 2(3, 188 7. pow "a, GROWL --EVIaN T',F--- This Is August You have noticed that it is hot and that people growl a good deal about it. You also know that Rural Schools open en the 15th inst., and all kinds of School Books I will be required. There may be had at Dan POST Bookstore Books, Slates, Copy Books, be11, Pencils, Scribblers, &C. Special Value in Express Wagons and Handy Baskets. —CALL AT— Tho Post Bookstore. Keep as Coal as possible. Near a Cabbage Leaf in YOU?' Hat. OVED! Dan. Ewan has removed his Blacksmith business from Hunter's Old Stand to the New Queen's Shoeing and Carriage 8ho1]s, Opposite the Queen's Motel Stables. No change the laws of Nature know Unalterably fixed are they ; They were, and are, and will be so Tho past the future as to -clay. But tho laws governing the destinies of nations or individuals must ever change to suit the exigencies of the hour and so Dan. Ewan, General Blacksmith, finding his rapidly increasing business demanding a more central location has made the above change, where with increased facilities, good assistants, and strict attention to business he hopes to retain all his old customers and merit the patronage of many more. From the Carriage making Department he can guarantee vehicles of all descriptions in first-class style, on shortest notice, and cheap as the cheapest, as he will have in connection the well known car- riage wood -workers, Messrs. Walker & Humphries, whose work in this line cannot be excelled, while Everydescription of Blacksmith work will always be attended to. Horseshoeing will be made in the fut- ure as it has been in the past—a Specialty. GIVE US A CALL at the New Queen's Shoeing and Carriage Shops, Opposite Queen's Hotel Stables. SATISFACTION GUABANTEED. D. EWAN. CARD OF TIIANKS. To the people of Brussels and vicinity, I would tender my sincere thanks for their kind patronage in the past and would respectfully solicit a continuance of their confidence by giving me a chance to still further merit it in the Now Queen's Shooing and Carriage Shops. Remember the place—opposite the Queen's Hotel Stables Yours respectfully, DAN. EWAN.