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ling officer for taking the said vote
:CI': Oast the Ithove is true copy of
which will be taken into eons
re Council of the Tema -ship of Turn::'
mooth from the. first pubficatiOtt
the dtu f iiiiirSt
in the -Unroll Expositoron the
ot.t.sis,ber,. a. It. lissa, and that the
gore of
tt s.iith•sertinal portion
-tifTittnIt will be taken thereon
he 26th (lay a DeCeMber,
amencing at nine • o`elork -in "the
*sing at tilt; o'cloek iu the; after -
t. day. at the place tat ntioned, set
f:is• eirlith clause ot the above
I saidpf....-„ior-ell
JAMES JOTINSTON,
Tearathip Clerk-
thtt Via above by-law ig sal),
; ttt f .rto. A-soli:lion,
t. fl 4Wgranting aid to the
id Bract; Ittribtra.: Coitipau he sub-
repayers. sulalivi to the conditions
;latter of th... Prt of th' mita
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MEDICAL.
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DATM' MITCHELL, M. D.,_ Graduate' of Tido-
ria College, Physician, Surgeon, etc.. etc.,
KINtirtiN, O -Nr. --Coroner of the -County of Huron.
Office -and residence, at Thompson. & Sta•aley's.
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day, and all day Saturday. - 159
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IARGAIL.
eCAT'GREY &HOLMESTED, Barristers, At.
tit Law, Solicitms in Chancery and
Insolvency Nottuies Public and Conveyancers.
Solieitors for the R. C. Bank. aforth. -Ageuts for
the Canada Life Astatrance Company,
14,---;s30,000 to- lend at 8 per cent. Parma',
Houses and Lots for sale. -- 53
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- ta; TAM, HOliatOrSitt Clmil(`Ory IIISOIV011eS,
Conveyancers, Notaries Public, etc. Offices—Sea-.
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11-NOX'S HOTEL, (Late Sharp'8.1 The under-
signed begs to thank the public for the libere-
patronage awarded to hint in times at inthe-
hotel butslot;;;;;a
, nti a18o to inform m thethat be:bas
again-resamed. business in tla° above stand, where .
.he will be happy to have a eit1I front old friends,'
and many new ones.
120 THOMAS KNOX,
-131IINCE. OF WALES IIOTEL, Clinton, Ont.,
- 11-: C. J. ."NteCI'TCHEON'„ Proprietor. First-class
° actionmiodatiert fur travellers, The Bar- Is sup-.
plied with the very beat titan:it-a and cigars. Good
stabling Itititebt'd. The stage lettVOS tiliS HOUK
every day for Winghatu. 201-4t
larrle El EXCHANGE liOTEL, Goderieh, Ont.,
- '-'' Ar.t.Aw.k'r ,Proprietor ; J. S. WraraAms, Date
of Aim-Fie:to Hott4,1Varsaw, N. Y.,) Manager.- 'This
lintel has rucently been newly furnished, and re-
fitted throughout, and is now out° of the most corn- -
fortable and emumorbous the Province, Crood
„ISanittle Doolds for Commeraial -Travellers.
rzy Terms Itheral. • 123
3111,441'1111.1.ANE1)1VS.
'I 001) IN ( l'atuking and , Ex ehange Mee, in
1-1.; W. S. Ito e'rsoN's Store, Seafortb. Green-
backs, American Silver, au d Drafts bought and sold.
Good Farmer's Notes discounted and pnrehlised.
1(1I ;JOHN WAl)DELL, Agent.
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- tit A. SHARP'S LIVERY; tti SALE STABLES.
Office - At Murray`a11o01, Seaforth. Good
Horses and tinst-elass Conveyances always on hand.
c.41-IARP'1 LIVERY STABLE, MAIN S'PREET,
N`j: Seaforilt. First-elass Horses and Carriages
nlways on hand at reaSonable terms.
„ A It it, Proprietor.
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OHN RIIEDIAM, Exchange Brokt°r, and Lail-
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G. T. Railway 80ttion, Seaforth, Our. Through
Ticket's issued. to ell point's in the Western States,
Califoruitt and Red River. itt. redueel rates, affordnIg
tiM grottetit to All necessary
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fireenhavka, Bonds, Coupons and uneurrt nt Money,
Gold and Sji er Coin, bought :tad sold al Is st rates.
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boopER, (alive:sane-ea Commissioner in
• Qneen's Staub, Insurance and (teneral Agent.
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attrance C.ompanies The lIcaNttr and Tenant, Mu -
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" the Reliance f.ile Assurance, and the Hari:ford Ac-
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All order,- by mail or otherwise promptly attend-
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INLEVV11-LE.
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ATETEIDX.1.111" CII.CrEON.-- FRED. COOKof
v 111.r.m in.:, would ri.s.prf.tritily inform the public
that he luot taken tip hiaria-idt nee in the village of
Delmore, Nilit•re he w Il bthappy to attend to all
(due peete oil 'nee in ilea emeeeional capacity. Mr.
Cook, 1.OLS Ottigitica to several eases of both horses
and etittle whit -ii weregiven up by otlusr practitioners
anti eirectutl pt•ilt.ct mires, ‘N 'licit can be pro% en by
eerti Sautes sigoed bv te el 201/ gentlemen. For
t esti nionials set° posiers.
Mr. COOK N% ill attend at .1in1eyville in the fore-
noon and tit the •Ttm Plot. itt the Ttonship of
Greys in the afternoontof the tirat and third. Tn.:K-
.1*Y of ain't month.- 166
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T cll RICH ELL, VETERINARY SF E ON
• 'Member of the Ontario .1 iderintit? ('ollege„)
begs to intimate to the inhabitants fa Seaforth
und surrounding "country, that. he has opened. an
Offiee itt :agleam where he may be consulted per -
or by let ter, on the Diseases of Horses, (at-
tle. eta. }tat % ing received a regular and prartical
ed neat it, n. ititil ha ing twit awful led t he 1)i plum a
tht. Vta inary College of Ontario, '1'. .1. Churchill
has evt ry confidence of it in, aatisfaction to all
who may. ea ploy lib a.
Reram-na Es- .1. Smith, V. S.. Principal Onta-
rio Veterinat.,v .1,-)nif,t,sor Dockland, Dr.
Thorburn, Dr. Rowel. and --- M. D.. A: V. S.
-Vett rinary Ae•lieines constaittiv• nu hand. .,
calls prinuptly attended to.
4) ce Cti rani elev 4's Hot el, Seafort h. 182-2m
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NOTICE TO DEBTORS.
underaigned des -iris to state that le has
reeei cud instructions to extend the time for the
PaYntent of debts due the estate of (Duren:ft
ta.vvres, until next Ceara day. All debts due at
unit time will positively be autal, -without respect
Lti persons,.
2-05 1,011TEB, Scalorth,
A Cil101Ck.
In yonder mansion in the park,
There dwells a man of 1 emey,
He owns both geld and ships and laud,
And all his days are sunny ;
He in a gilded chariot, drawn
By prancing greys, goes lstately,
His face is somethiog grinfor one
Whom fortune loves so greatly.
Hard,by the park a peasat wight
his straw -thatched but as (those;
Ile owns a jackabs and a cow,
And ducks and hens—a -dozen ;
He tills a field from morn tille eight,
And seldom looketh sadly,
But hath a merry face for one
Whom fortune treats so badly.
The gentlema,n a daughter bath, .
Too proud for common gallants,
Her face is somewhat coldly cut,
But she hath wondrous talents.
For Maud hath slowly nurtured been
By a wise man from college;
She plays Beethoven, sings with -taste,
And brimfull is of kuowledge.
The peasant has a daughter too,
Some happy wight may win her;
Poor Bessie cannot play or sing,
Though she can .took a dinner.
She milks the cow, She weaves the wool,
Knits stockings fox her father,
Her 'heeks are redder than the rose
You from the porch may gather.
Now both were fair and both were sweet,
Both willing to be mated,
And many a day between the two,
1sMy wild heart oscillated.
Between the cottage and the hall •
I Vent a wild !existeece,
And watched the maiden ;tea hawk
Eyes chickeus from a distance.
At lent the lady's learned eyed
And. white brew made me falter,
I spoke and wooed -that maiden wis ,
And led her to the alter.
Height) ! close by dwells Bessie, wed
To one of Jondy station ;
She milks, she spins, and she can love ;
But Maud hasa-cultivation.
IMMIGRATION AND SETTLEMENT.
T7 the E(Iitor of Pre 11 10'071 B:rpOSitOr
. Demi - Sae—There is no • subject . of
greater importance -to the future of the
Dominion and none in Which :patreotic
legislation is mote needed than thet of
immigration.. Raying had a good Many
years inacexpenencelnthe s e pie
meat brand) of the service,1 venturp to
offer a few suggestions as to the meas-
ures which I think:would be useful and
'an. to the defects -to be remedied iz the•
existing laws bearing upon the que.s.
- It is obviaus that if We desire to om-
pete for a share Of theoverflowing lebor.
of Europe, we mist- examine the Ind ce-
.
ments held aat by our competitors in the
market, and endeavor honestly to put
-our country as ileardy as possible bn a -
par with them, ab regards Ihe solid ad-
vaptages afforded. to. Immigrants.
Let us suppose, for the sake of a gu-
11101t, that our back woods afford as eli-
gible field ler agricultural settlement as
the prairies of the Western tatee.
What, till are the conditions vilieh
in the one aee attract so very large, a
share, of t1 e aninud influx, and in the
other, of lat?°) years; none at ? The
answer to this question iseeiniple and oh
vioui. -First, immigration is attreated
to the We: -tern States chiefly by the
constant a nple demand for labor' af
forded by g net public work- in- the im-
mediate vie' nity Of their field for sis
'•rnent. Alit, second, the great facility
which. these wot•ks afford for reaching
the lands. ilt is in this respect that Ca-
nada has of 1att years been so fat bee
hind her r'val, and until 'some El cral
se-stcmdbf cash Paying. employmeli be
a 'opted ant placed by legislation )0 a
:sound, -permanent, footing, we need not
look for Any important access of in mi-
gration. Let Ifs glance at the histor of
the laet tw eve years inthis respect. •
Certain free grant 'roads were .oric ned
into the interior of the country in 1 '56,-
- and a great parade was made in Europe
of the free grants to be obtained in C na-
da, but the system was found to ie a
hunting, so far a it bore on immigration,
for When . the ii lusigrante come, hey
found all the lot.. tit for settlement '1 ere
taken up by old eeidents in the ne gli-
'borhood, _and th remonstrances of tleci
agents `asking -1 r pereaseion to rive
alley lots Or to havre lots reserved for -
immigrants ,ware
.tion to this, tli
' thousand' della.rs
colomiration in
impression produced by yeati. of broken
pro lises•aud: hopes betrayed
A step in the right direction has been
taken by the Ontario Legislature, in the.-
ope ling of the remaining townshipS of
the Huron and Ottawa country as. free
grants, but th is measure lt heel} practical-
ly neutralized by the illiberal restrictions
and conditions attaehechto the- grant. It
Lyn . as these or any other ;narrow s re-
strttious are continued.' You cannot
- lam
are
eat your cake and -have it. If immigrants
orth having at the eost1of our wild
s as they .stand, then give the lands
abselutely and without reserve. If; on
the other hand, you think the lands 'are
mote Valuable without population, t len
kee ) them, and don'ttry to frombug poor
peo ile by pretending a gift. with ape.
bent while. with the other you sn•atch it
-away. But as I set out by hinting,. cash
pay ng employmeet is after all the great
desi leratum. . ;Without this -will be -
fom d of little avail to. offer lands in ny
for , •for the real laborer cannot exist in
the back country without cash paying
em loymeet of some kind. for a -portion
of his time.- How this kind of empl,oy-
met t can be best and most profitably ;ef-
fete ed is the real question at issue. Per
my part, I do not think that the cora
stru tion of large public works at a dis-
tan c fr6m• the .fields- of settlement would
be f Mitch avail for the promotion of
per anent settlement, and, although the
pee( rese such works as the Intercelo-
flied and other Railroads, the Georgian
Bay or the Ottawa and Lake
Hui on Canal would he useful
to •ome • extent in .promoting Mimi --
gra on, they would. not have the &Ltd
and permanent- effect which compara-
tive y small ailment would have, if ex-
-pen( eel in the immediate localities open-
ed f r settlement; and tlivided tatiOng the
iciei tical people who desire. t� make that
loea
hav
sett
1•011(
COD
mai
the
vete
aria
continue , to be inoperative as
ity thear permanent home.. I would
the money expended. amongst the
ers themselves in the 3naking , Of
s and bridges, and by this means
tantly increase the value of the re -
deg lands and still further facilitate
)(ogress of • settlement. i •
ith the large surplus now- in the
Is of the Ontario Governmentand the
reasonable .prosect of 1a. continue
of prosperity, it would not be too
..much for this Province to devote five
hundred thousand dollars per annum for
the - text tea years to the furtherance of
:sett ement, and there in no other way in
whi ,h it • conld be so efficaciously and
pro tebly. employed as in the constreic-
tion • of ., .roads and. opening rip the
cent try. - Money expended in. this way
pro( twos a double effect. It not only in .
due- s new people to come into the coun-
try and become. valuable permanent set -
tier;, but it also prevents the exodus of
the eble-bodied youth of existing settle -
1 men s, .by affording them the means of
earning a. few dollars at their own cloors
in ti e summer. time,• when too many of
the r are annually forced to seek such
emp oyment abroa,d. But, under exist-
ing eireumstaneee, it would 'tot be sill-1i-
cien to pass an annual vote of whatever
stun it hql,y be. for this purpose. Faith
has so long and so often been bre en
t
Witt . the immigrant to . Canada, . t tat
sem very soleren and binding pled (es
wend be needed. to prodoce any appr.ce-
.
able influx of people as permaaent Set-
tler,. It would. be necessary to pas . a
law pledging the coentry to an anneal •
exp aditura on Beads and other interp a.1
imp, ovements° hathe districts' opened for
sett cment, for a certain numher of years,
and Ilse the t the money'so voted she ild
be paid- to the. settlers for honest, faith-
ful I bor, at fair rates of wages, without
the ntervention of contractors -between
the Ievernment and the people enipl )y.
ed.. By these means the people aill be
asst, 'ed • of some fair remuneration for
thei labor and will enjoy the1 benefit of
the local im pre veni ent, While th e 0 overn -
melee. if they. emPloy -honest agents, will
get good value for the expeuditere in
wor done. 1 • ,
My plan for promoting inimigration,
..
thet; would be, shortly, this e . I would
pled -re th:e country tp expend a liberal
F..0111 in the eopetructioe of Roads and
Br•idgesin the portions openedfor settle -
men every year for ten .years. I woirld
Ove. the land out and. out, tunber, miner-
als end all -that - it containe;! on Or be-
low' the. dn Haul, • forever, to 1the actual
mei( .ent .settler, .. after fimr . years
;cont !tuella reeidence, giving he settler,
in t le meat) time, the tight to cut the.
. .
timler on :Ilis settlement land at the
same rate:of due4. to the Crewe . as are)
peid by. tTie ium-berers. Bat,1 Above all,
you Bust Mei; re. the cNish paying emeleye
leen to the settler for Some portini of
:the year, - without thia the 1inenigrant
eine ot sect:teed in our back conetry, • 1111 -
less .16 ha C. teinsiderable pii'meaee
_
.disregardeda - in a [di-
, annual vote of fifty )
for the prcmotimi or'1,
. pper e'tuiada, was :feet ‘
1
- many years dive tett from the pared b it
was voted for, am. 'the remote seetheempte
, languishede for want; of the aid wl ieli. if
I even this sniall sn ni would have a (fort e,d , .
1 it honestly 'expe
1 tiers, . according •
-I. Legislature. Cd_n
: it is eot astonishi
'
)(led amongst the
tai the intantiongd°
1er this etate of: fa
It! that the colonize
I SOh eine of 1856 pi eyed a failure, and
it has reacted I lost unfavorably a
!'Canadian generid.
1 would not Of any media for
t e go into the details o
the
•ts,
ion
hat
1
the -
these matters. r . he whole of the facte
which '1 alleo▪ e ter. of record in (did( nce
before various Coi inettees of bothtleusee
of the Legislat Ire (hiring -the y !ars
1 1861 to 1865. ',Iles record should
utilized to point out the cause of fu ure
in the past and ti e error§ to be avoi led
m the future. •
Of all errors to be avoided that of gul
; faith with inunigi Ants is the most fatal.'
1 The working chinees of every emu try
I have their owe internal means' of cnn-
• ifluiucating intelligence ; means u on
whichthey rely afid. which are alope ca-
pable of moviegthe people in large ne am-
bers. These means are chiefly the ri-
vete letters of friends Which are &en at -
ed in neighborhoods and Whith are. en -
()Tally A refle.ction of the actual fact, in
plain uhpulished language, We it ve
then a serious task before ns for it ill
not be sufficient for Canadatooffer ieal
substantial inducements for the intim of
immigration nate. She .must not only do
all this, but she must also accompany he
ofICr with such sol•nm guarantees as rill
insure conviction awl remove the bad
to f. 11 back npon ; and fT he have tide
p.m te means, he is -in most Canoe unfit
fer t to work of settlenamt. 11) .eriler to
do: ny good the italmittl itUfli Thritit be
liber 1 and its exnenditore must be put
hito the hands of honest, patriotic men,
who Will not idlow the greet interests in-
trusted to their handsete be sacrificed to
any private or local motive._
- 'Let it be placed on record aid publish-
ed t tat without any retteonahle doubt,
the )rovinee of Ontario' will give a free
-gran of one kindred acres to neer ILIA&
bodi al settler, over 18 years of age, who
choo es to become», resideut settler in the
ceun ry between the Ottawa and Lake
Hur 11, aod that he may also rely for
ears to come on having two or three
Mon hs' ettell paying, employment each
year in his own neighborhood, at fair
wag s, a,nd you may rely upon it, you
will lo more to promote" the perrnanent
and apid settlement of the country than
you an possibly (lo in any tithe' way.
It Vill probably be argued that the
rem aring lands of Ontario are in the
maue until f.r settlement, and that the
comlarative failure of the recent experi-
men in the free grant direction proves
this to be the case. This assertion is
not ounded in truth. It is made for
the nest part_ by parties whose im-
medi ite private interests are opposed to
the r. phi settlement of country. There
IS no 'man better acquainted With the
histb 'y of the free grant business of Up -
i er Canada than I am, and I am able to
a sert and to „prove, that its failure, (so
fi.r as it has proved a failure) is due not
tb the quality; of the lands offered, so
much as to the utter inadequacy Of the
measure in respect to area of land offer-
ed, and to the total want of any response
41 the part of the Government'. to the
petitions and 'recommendations of the
edrents Cliarged,with the location of. the
11 ads, fOr those steps which the ha-
re ediate requirements of the service sug-
dusted from'time tg time.
In order to illustrate this better than
I coull by any mete general assertion, I
1 ill give my own experieeen On this
p int as agent for one of the free grant
r )ads. The. read was opened. in July,
1 '56, and 4. single. .range of lots
f ontidg, on tbe road. ; were made
fi ee grants, Pamphlets were pub-
li hed. in Eneland • agents Were sent
t Germany and other parts of Europe,.
proclaiming the feet that immigrants
were entitled to a grant of one hundred
acres ot laud. 'in. Canada.. The (I tend
Trunk Railwa-y Company issued greest at-
tractive placards setting this fact in
prominent charaetere ; even the Ihitish
Government lent itself to the
seheme by .giving to the: Swiss
Legion; - when. discharging :-the men
after service in the trintee,, a.
document pnrpertitig to be a grant of olie
nimdred acres of land in Canada,' but
Which was in reality only a. recoinmenda
tine for a location on the free grant roads,
without ' which they would have been
jest as well entitled to the location, and
Which was in fact a cheat On these Men.
The road was opened, MS. We have sf en,
in the summer of 1856. Muir% that
-5 oar the whole of the grants fit for set-
tlement weretaken up by old residents
of the country, and when a great influx
of immigrants came in next epring and
'summer, attracted by the promised free
grants'I had. no grants fit for settle-
ment 4) give theen. My urgent and
most pertinacious applicatimis to be al -
_lowed to locate these people on the
lauds adjoining the free grant lots, in
the same townships, but one Image
back from the road., were treat-
ed with the most placid _contempt.
I repeatedly, in the strongest
language, urged upon the Govern-
ment the lamentable effects -which
Inust follow front so . flagrant
and gentinued a breach of public fan]) as
plas.atple, and I firmly believe that to this
'committed in the ease of these
cause, more than to any other single
cause, is due the great falling off m im-
ntigration to Canada foi the last seven
or eight years. I cannot preteed to de-
sciribe, but you may easily imagine), how
p iinful is was in hundreas of cases where
r spectable men with large families had
c me. • with - great inconvenience, hard-
ships and exposure, a distance of four
thousand miles, expecting to htive1the
priVilege of settling on their own land, as
promiied them by the Canadian Goeern.:
meat, to find on their arrival that there
letergno 'grants to be had. This answer
it has been my very unpleasant duty to
give in several thousand smell cases., and
the only satisfaction 1 had was in men,
tally joining the deep and heartfelt ex-
ecrations ot the Coverentelit which such
abominable treatment not unfrequently
called forth. The result of this thon-
strous policy Was, not only that immi-
grants were diegusted with Canada and
immigration ceased, but the settlere who
had taken' up the free grant lots were
unable to form .neigleorhoods end could
not exist in the, isolated position in
which they foiledthemselves-'and so the
scheme was pronounced. a failure, and
the country coodenmed.
My principal objeet now in to give you
sonic : insight into. the errors of
the past, in order . that you may '
know nail point out the shoals
upon which in*ichis immigration schemes
hew). been wrecked. Above all things
avoid flaming • publications' of the ad-
gaesages on.'eree, let the measnres be
broad and lilie.rallysconceived, but let. the
people filld them out for theieselves,
theuttgh their own channels. They will
do so fast enough, you may rely neon it,
if the measures adopted, are really of a
wide and effective character, and if their
permanence be guaranteed by solemn and
binding - legislation. Without this, so
bad a character has Canada anquired,
aniong the immigrating _ epannimitice of
Eerope that Very little goad can he done.
As to the pieces() method 01 using the
appropriatioes to --the beet advantage,
my experieece leads nie to the following
conclusions.' The existing colonization
loads were well conceived, as
regards the general phut, for open-
ing up the Ottawa and Lake
H nrOn countries, and had they
been moderately well located on the
Tot -m.(1, and honestly made, they would
1)4 very eirective for the prtrposiL But
these roads were laid down without any
regard for the formation of the ground,
and they were built in the most wretch-
ed manner by contract, hardly deserving
the mane, i. f roads. It is true that smne-
lino .la xen «m..i. o unpin\ c them,
but still they are any thing but what
they ought to be, ae main artenes of
cdminunieation. I would, therefore,
N rth and South roads, connecting them
it
-it prove the grading „ of these principal
bel• good roads - to the nearest railwsy
stition, and I would open cross roads
runninut'east and west at every five miles,
gat is to say a roa.d.on every township
line, and one intermediate, in -the centre
of the township.- By this means every
lot in the county would be) brought
'w thin: easy access; and such cif them as
are fit would soon be occupied 1)y a thriv-
ing and loyal popalation. Let the an-
neal expenditure he liberal ; it will re-
pay itself forty fold. . Let no false
economy stand in the way, for as has
been so well said
"When a cold penury blasts the
yeung _abilities of a nation, and chills the
growth of its active energies, the ill is
beyond all calculation. Mere parsimony
is ,not economy. Expense, and. great ex-
pense, may be an essential part in true
economy.. Economy is a edistributive
virtue, and coneists not in saving but in
selection. Parsimony requires no pro-
vidence, no sagacity, no powers of com-
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bination, nO comparison, no .judgment.
Mere instinct and that nat an instinct
of the noblest kind, may produce thie
false economy in perfection. The other,
and true economy, has larger views -; it
demands a discriminatmg judgment and
a firm sagacious mind."
Let us hope that these qualities may
be brought to bear upon the. subject of
Canadian.immigration and eettlement.
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The Mitchell Salt well has now reach-
-a depth of over 1,820 feet. The pro-
prietors intend to bore a distance of 2,-
000 feet, if they do not previously reach
sa
D. Hay, of Listowel, Was
last week made the recipient of a very
handsome present, in the shape of a gold_
watch and chain, front a member of his
friend and fellow townsmen, as a mark
of the high appreciation in which he is
heldi by them.
--- The Ayr Enterprise, after a struggle
for existepce for seven weeks, has died a
natural death. The plant of the office
hae been sold and removed from the
village. The question arises : If so
soon it was done for, what was it ever
begun for."
— The total amount granted by the
Odd Fellows of Ontario for the Chicago
sufferers was about $2,000.
— According to the present Census
Nova Scotia gets an increase in Sabsidy
of nearly $46,000 ; and an additional
two members. New Brunswick gets one
additional member and a,n increase in
Subsidy of $26,000.
-- A little girl named Susan Hawkins,
aged 11, an adopted. child. of Mr. Bell,
Lucan, returned to her h.oine on Satur-
day last, after performing ate errand,
coniplained of being .sick, and before a
doctor could be summoned was dead.
—Benjamin Everall and his sons
threshed on the farm of D. D. Campbell,
of Listowel, 120 bushel's of barley in for-
ty minutes, with a Climax threshing
machine, manufactured in Clinton.
— The -Watford 'Stow/met states on
the authority of Mr. John Watson,' 12th
conceAsion of Brooke, that their infor-
mant and his men recently cut down an
oak Which made five hundred pipe staves.
— Fuel is reported to be veryscarce
and i
dear in _Montreal, and there s much
suffering among the poor since the
whiter set in.
-- A very destructive gale occurred in
Nova Scotia, lasting from about eight
o'clock on Saturday night until five on
Sunday morning. The gale was most
disa•atrous to shipping. Much property
has been destroyed and many lives lost.
—Mr. Slack, ' M. A., Inspector of
Public Schools in the County of Lamb -
ton, states that he has recently been in-
formed. from the Educational Depart-
ment, that the new examination papers
for school teachers are sufficiently simple
ttroo_au_111);jela.linost any applieants with or-
dinary attainment to pass without much
needs, -while a young man
named Mills, was engaged in chopping in
a bush in the township of Garafra,xa, he
was attacked by a female lynx. He
managed to keep the animal at bay with
an axe until his cries brought assistance,
when he was relieved from his perilons
situation, ami the animal frightened
away.
-- It is understood that the Governor-
( :moral has been informed that the
Grand Duke Alexis of .Russia, will have
five gentlemen in his suite and five
servants, on coming to Ottawa. He is
expected to remain there a couple -of
(lays before going to Toronto. As he
will arrive at Ottawa on the 13th De-
cember, he will probably reach Toronto
by Saturday the, 16t1t.•
On Saturday morning, or Sunday night
last, Mr. E. 1?. Mosier, landlord of the
Lynden House hotel; London, left for
parts unknown. It is said he has taken
$8,000 m gold with him, the property of
.Mr. Nelson Elliott. He is supposed to
have left here by sogie freight train for
Paris, thence by No. 10 New York Ex-
press to the Suspension Bridge.
—A late on dit has it that a new op-
position daily ie to be started in Ottawa,
with Bon. Malcolm Cameron as fonn(ler.
Also that Messrs. Kingsmill, Belford and
Gregg have made the necessary arrange-
ments for bringing out a new morning
paper in Toronto.—Also tnat Hon. \V.
Macdougall, backed by the Rowlands
and Sandfield, will buy the TdPgraph.
—Rowland Cross, a son of Dr. (roes,
'inland Revenue Inspector at Chatham,
while groping his way in the dark
through the upper flat of a warehouse,
in order to yelease from bond goods
htored there fell through the hatchway,
six feet square, to the floor below, a
depth of ten feet, and became at once
unconscious. A wound was seen on the
back of the head from which concussion
of the brain probably resulted. In four
hours after the fall, he died-- -medical as-
sistance being of no avail. He was 27
, years of age, and was the Only survivine
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the tine, and this enabled them to track
and shoot Bruit) withant difficulty.
-- The Mitehell Adrueatr: states : Mr.
G. Kirk, of Stratford---- gentleman
known thronehout Perth as a person in
whom the fullest confidence can be
placed, has lately returned from a trip
through the Southern 6 tate-s. He speaks
highly of the clientte Itild Soil, particular-
- ly that of North Carolina, where the land
is fertile, well timbered in places, and
rolling. Those who have made up their
minds to emigrate he strongly advises to
settle in that State. A good improved
farm. ready- for the plow, can he bought
front some of the oid planters for a mere
song. A person with a small capital, he
feels confident, c(m11(1 there make a for-
tune in a few years.
— Small -pox seems prevalent through-
out the country this Set1§011. One or two
cases have occurred in London, and to
come nearer hand we learn that at least
one case has occurred in Mitediell. None
of these eases have, however, proved
fataL
— In the late census return the popu-
lation of the town of St. Marys is given
at 2,120.- The local papers of the. town
say the population is at least double this
number. _
— An agitation is being connnenced in
the town of Woodstock for the revival
of the Woodstock and Lake Erie Rail-
way Charter. Notice has been given
that a bill having: this object in View
will be introduced in the Ontaria Leeis-
lature during the present Session. Other
active measures have been taken for the
revival of this scheme id. although it
has been long delayed it in•ay yet he
worked out to suecessful completion..
--A Mrs. Gordon, of Woodstock', a
few days_ ago, daring the absence of
her husband, found her chimney was On
fire. Fearing that the sparks from the
chimney would ignite the building, she
climbed upon the roof of the house, and
while in the act of pouring water down
the chimney, she slipped and fell from
the roof to the bard ground below, a dis-
tanee of fourteen feet. Her lee and arm
were broken, and she received several
other severe cuts and bruises.
— Two counterfeit " Fives," on Mel
-
son's Bank, were passed in London
1 stores a few days ago. Our readers had
better look out for their, here.
—Francis Evaus Cornish, it is said,
has left London for the domain of Uncle
Sam'taking. says the Rerald somebody's
somebody with him,
— Scarlet fever is raging fearfully in
the City of Qaebec. Two sisters of So-
licitor General Irvine have died with it,
having caught the disease by wearing
dresses which had been made in a house
where the disease was. A brother of
this gentleman is also in a dangerous
condition, su &ling from the same dis-
ease. Several other fatal caseeljneve oc-
curred in the city.
—Bishop Tache, of Manitoba, is at
present sojourning in Ottawa. What
can he want now ?
—There are six different conpanies ap-
plying for railway charters from Belle-
ville, two of them to extend. to Georgian
Bay.
— The Presbytery of London held a
special meeting at Strathroy On Tuesday
last, and inducted the Rev. Mr. Lundie
to the Pastorate of St. Andrew's Church
itt that
— A number of workmen have been
employed in the Parliament buildings at
Toronto for bornetime back, preparatory
to the session. Backs have been pat to
the seats in the ladies' gallery, new mat-
ting has been liberally provided, 300 new
books have been added to the library,
and two new fUrnaeeS have been pat
for heating purposes.
—Some preliminary steps have been
taken towards the settlement of unoccu-
pied lands M Quebec. A French corn -
1 piny is about to purchase at twenty -
cents an acre, 320,000 acres in Beauce
and in the Metapedia Vallcy, on which to
isi.t11,epe.sixteen hundred families from
Last Thursday a Man named John
Innes fell down dead in the stable of
John Armitage, township of Kinlosa.
1 An inquest was held and the jury return-
ed a verdict of "Died of heart disease."
The deceased, Who was about 48 year of
age, leaves behind him a wife. and Seven
children.
-- The people of Kincardine, believing
that their village contained a larger po-
pulation than the census gave it, namely
1907, petitioned the council to appoint a
person to retake the census of the
The council has complied with the re-
quest, mad the Work has already been
begun.
— On Saturday night, about 10 o'clock,
the barn and elieds attaehed to the pro-
perty of Mr. George E. Risdale, of Drum-
mondville, were discovered to be on fire,
and. so rapiti was the progress of the
flames, that the premises, with some im-
plements therein, were °consumed ia a
few minuteSa Partially insured_ A few
weeks ago a hay -stack near the barn Wen
burned, and both are supposed to be the
work of an incendiary.
— In a Montreal sawi a young lady
of fifteen years, has just been forcibly
stripped, held by assistants and bastina-
doed ; so severe was the chastisement
that her person was literally cut in
several places. .
5011.
There has been an increase of about
500 in the number of vessels which pass- °.
ed through the Welland_ Canal this year, ,
over any preceding year. •
-- The ladies. of Lu•cati in. connexion
with the Episcopal Church have establieh-
ed. what, they cell the Church of England '
Ladiet; Aid Society. The objcct of the
Society is to visit the poor and needy.
and, not only relieve their temporal
wants, but administer to their spiritual )
ones by prayer and reading Scripture.
— The Sarnia Obst err e of last week °
says : We learn from a correspondent
in Medonte, that bears are remarkably
plentiful in the County of Simeoe this '
Fail, and bear -hunting has been as com-
mon there as deer-huntine0 was wont to
be in this County. Mr. John Sykes,
formerly of Moore, killed one a few days ;
ago 'that measured 6 feet 4 inches in
length, and 5 in girth, and weighed 350
pounds ; and four more had been killed
within two miles of his place during the
Fall. They had a few inches of snow at
---Since the 2nd of Jenc last, a young
man named George Manley, formerly of
Paisley, County of Bruce, has been mis-
sing from home. Any one knowing any-
thing of his whereabouts will please ad-
dress Mr. Wm. Manley, Paisley.
-- The other day in Drayton, a man
went into Knox's Hotel, and called up
ali who were in the bar and treated. giv-
ing the bar tender what was snpposed to
be a $10 bill. Some time afterwards
Mr. Knox noticed that the bill he had
received was a $1 Provincial Note with
a large cipher added to the large fignres
1 on the face and back of the bill. The
man who passed. 'the bogus bill was rec-
ognized as being a Mr. Welsh, of Water -
1
loo village. Before the fraud was .dis-
covered, Welsh had made tracks, and he
has not been h.eard of since.
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