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IDEONS:
is Store, Sealbrth.
the Dominion, in a practioal
or Mudd*,
a poone. Re can! Hell you en hunt.m..
veny best terms.
se2entji-ent, at
Aablishment, Seaforth.
9trUtXetLf cheap.
r five years;
- and stock to the " Goderich Form
for their liberal support during the pane
r orders to the new Company. .
R. NUM -MAL
ke
Eartufacturing Col
Oared to contract for.
-ST, AND SAW MILLS
e,
S, with steel boards ;
ORS, STRAW -CUTTERS, &c.
UTE-BARS,
WAGGON BOXES, &e
various
0 ORDER.
BLACKSMITH WORK..
ON SHORT NOTICE.
(3ILE.13S generally on heed tor sale.
ill receive prompt attention.
.IFIORACE HORTON,
President.
'ARCHIBALD HODGE,
Secretary and Treanurer.
S4a
EYVILLE
AGENCY.
0,••••••••••,,,W
iscriber having established an Agency
'Sale of Farm and Village Lots, which
erase (weekly) and sell on Commission.
f Commission or any particulars cone
m advertised will be made known on.
a if by letter prepaid, and encloshig
nessed
C. R. COOPER,
Dingle P. Cue
FOR SALE.
of Lot 24, Con. 5, Morris; 50 sores; 2
rpm Airdeyville.
s64 and 65 ...A.inleyville, Mornis.)
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No. 44 and 39 Ainleyville, (Morris;)
came cottage and frame stable.
Morris; 100 acrea 50 cleared;
Ise; 2 miles oft gravel roadt. -
1.1. N. -Morris; 100 rims, 60 leered;
)ghouse and frame barn.
a a, West Side of Howiek-street,. Wrox-
eentainiug 1 acres of Imid; two new
houses; stables, &e.
E.ots• 49- and 50, Ainleyvilre, with good
a ma stable? and log tannery in good
der.
ts 60 and 61, .Ainleyrille, township of -
Er, 212, ma, 221, Ainlee villa, (G-rey.)
house and Stable, 11 area of Land with
oto.,in Tillage�t Cranbrook.
C. IL COOPER,
Dingle P. O.
CATTLE FAIR.
CE- FAIR will be held hereafter at
>7S4- HOTEL, SEAFORTH,
(Opposite the Station,) -
rst Monday in each month,
BRGimImIte on=
OCTODER IS71.
abera of buyers- will: be in attendance,
(raving stock may rely on the beet Mar.
'tion with Loyd 'e Hotel aloughton's
eronamodions stables and yards. 198
O TEACHING..
PRITCHARD,
nonnaSon on strarn, i
form the inbabiterite of Seaforth that
'ettIed here, and in prepared to OM
fl ocal andinstrumentainatude„lanur
ifli(4fljfl154 as to ability auti aptitude, in.
lernns PRITCHARD,
t, oil painting, penciling, crayon and:
aui-stovor Mr. Griffith Davies'
d door south of the Post -Office.
239-13
LIME. LIME.'
ribers, lywingleirsed the Lime Quer.
rig to =1./Z. A. Wilaon, Silver Greek,
haying built a splendid_ new Kiln, on
roved principle, capable of turningottt
relay, are prepared to furnish ant
'Bt quality of Lime,
CENTS a bushel,
el Lime kept or sold.
SLATER & BRO.,
Huron Road, Seaforth.
AND QUEENSTOWN*
7E GP •.•,‘LnIL STE:WEBS SAILING
York, _
. THURSDAY AND ZVERY
SATURDAY,
to and fnern, England, Ireland, and
-. at as low rates as by any other line.
.,E,Afeent.
--,nialway, N. Y., or
JOHN S'E.ATTER,
Seaforth.
NOTICE-
rcn,, that apnlitation will be made to
[attire of Ontario. at its Lox'," sitting,
steanite. for municipal purposes/
• 27* :II, 32, 33, el and 35,
V▪ t•ntle Cenceesion, and Lots Nos. 26,
[na, n2, ;33, 34 mid ;;;, iu th o Figh-
lsei, of the Township of Grey, UZ
Huron, front the said Township,
eame, for the parposes aforesaid,
fritelzip of Logan, in the County of
13, A. J) 1S72.
:tHAI N FOUND
'titt!, len el juiy, on the Second
iTizekvrsmith. near the Brick School-
nrtit't field, a long chain with a grab
nd. The owner can have the seine
it the EXPO-.ITOR tt1iCe Seriforth,
/r.e.,-perty andpaying charges. 240-tt
241-T
VOLUNEE 3; NO. 3S.
WHOLE NO 246.
MEDICAL.
„Ix"
,E, Physician, Surgeon
S. ,tc., Graduate of Toronto 'University, Assuei-
ate Coroner for the Comity of Huron, A2V31-5.exAeter„
Criteria.
TA A.VID MITGITIML, M. D., Graduate of Victo-
-1-1 xis College, Phy-sician, Surgeon, etc, ete.,
nrastnee, OT. ---Coroner of the County of Huron.
Office and residence, at Thompson & Stanley's.
DRW. R. SMITH, Physieian, Surgeon, etc.
6ffice—Opposite Scott Robertson's Groconyn
lifain street, Seafortk. 53
_ . _
TAMES STEWAR.T, M.. D., C. M„ Graduate of
u MeGill, University, Montreal, Physician, Sui-.
geon, etc. Office and Residenee—Brucefield.
TT L. VERCOE, M. DI, C. M., Physician, Sur-
geon, etc. Office and: Residence, comm. of
Market and IligInstreetst next to the Planing Mill.
.DR. CAMPBELL, Coroner for the County. Office
and Residence, over Corby's corner store, Main
street, Seaferth. ()ffice horns, from 11 to 4, each
day, and all day Saturday. ; 159
?IV the inhabitants of Seaforth and. surrounding
country. Dr. J. G. BULL haviurg, been called
through sickness in his family, to suspend business .
for some time in this place, has pleasure in en -
flouncing to the public, that through a mud P/9-
videuce he has been permitted to return to the
rooras former -1n occupied by him, °ear Mr. A. G.
McDougall's Store, Main street, where he intends
permanently to remain, and will be pleased. to see
his oldpatrons and as many- new ones as may favor
him with a call. All operations performed accord-
ing to the latest approved style, and fees as low as
to be beand elsewhere. .
Office hours from 8 A. M. to 5 P. M. 224
T IL IMET, Solicitor, Wingharn, has been ap-
u • pointed Agent for the Colonial Securities COM._
parry of England, be is tdso Agent for several pri-
vate Capitalists of Toronto, who loan Money at
very reasonable rates. Interest payable yearly.
Charges moderate.
Wingham, Dec. 15, 1871. 213
lacCAUGEMY & HOT 'fl Barristers, It-
tornoys nt Law, Solieitors in Chancery and
Insolvency, Notaries Public and Conveyancere.
Scaicitons for tho R. C. Bank-, Seaforth. Agents for
-the Canada Life Assurance Company;-
N. Bane:7430,000 to lend at 8 per cent. Farms;
Housesiend Lots for sale. 58
RENSON & MEYER, Barristers and Attorneys
at Law, Solicitors in Chancery and Insolvency,
Conveyancers, Notaries Priblic, etc. Offices—Sea-
forth and Wroxeter. $23,000 of Private Funds to
incest at once, at Eight per cent. Interest:, payable
yearly-. 53
JAS. R. BENSON. H. •W. G. 31E171"..
ItOIVE
01,1ME11CLiL HOTEL kinleyville Ont.
-
ANNETT, Fzoprietor. This Htitc-1 is under
entirely new management and has been thorougly
renovated. The Bar is upplie.{1 with the best
Ligners and Cigars. Good. Stabling and attentive
Ilostlers. A First-elass Livery in connection. 228
-Patti-NCB OF WALES HOTEL, Clinton, Ont.,
J. McCUTCHEO-N, Proprietor. First-elass
accommodation for travellers. The Bar is sup-
plied with the very best liquors and. eigars. Crood
stabling attached. The stage leames this House
every day for Wingham. 204-4t
- LIVERY..
A. SHARP'S LIVERY AND SALE STABLES.
• Office—At 31/n -ray's. Hotel, Seaforth: Good
Horses and first-elass Conveyances- always on hand.
•
rrHOIVISON'S LIVERY, CLINTON.
OFFICE„—AT COMMERCIAL HOTEL. Good
quiet Horses and First -Class -Vehieles always
on, hancl. .Coneeeenees furnished to Commertial
Travellers on reasonable rates.
221 JOIDT THOMSON.
-RELL'S LIVERY STABLES, SEAFORTII, Ont.
'a" Good Horses and, Comfortable Vehieles, always
on hand. Farorable Arrangements made with
Commercial Travellers. Alt orders left at KNOX'S
HOTEL, will be promptly attended to. •
OFIsIGE AND STABLES :--Third door North of
Knox's Hotel, Main Street.
221 THOMAS BELL, Proprietor.
NIIINACELLANEOVS.
ep J. CentnRCHILL, VETERINARY SURGEON
"" ("Member at the Ontario Veterinary College,)
begs to intimate tp the inhabitants of Seaforth
and sarroanding cantry, that he has opened an
Office in Seaforth, where he may be consulted per-
sonally or by letter, on the Diseases of Horses, Cat-
tle, ate- Having received a regalar and practical
education, and having been awarded the Diploma
of the Veterinary College of Ontario; T. J. Churchill
bas every confidence of giving satisfeetion to all
who may employ hira.
Reenzitrazons—A. Smith, V. S, Prhacipal Onta-
rio Veterinary C4Ilege; Professor Bnckland, Dr.
Thorharn, Dr. Bowel, and — WoI1, M. D., &V.- S.
-Veterinary Medicines constantly on hand.
All calls promptly attendedto.
Office—Cann ichael's Hotel, Seaforth. 182-2m
VETERINARY SURGEON.—D. MeNAUGHT,
v V. S., begs to announce, to the inhabitanteef
Seatorth and aurrounding country, that ho ° has
been awarded the diploma of the Ontario Veterin-
ary College, and is now prepared to treat disenses
of Horsee and Cattle and all domestic animals. He
has opened an office in connection with his horse-
shoe-ing shop, where he will be found ready tc; at-
tend to calls. Diseases of the feet specially at-
tended to. Residence, office and shop in the . roar
. of Kinantri tt Ryan's new store. All kinds of Vet-
erinary Medicines kept constantly on hand.
Charges reasonable. ' 229
• P
ALBXANDER HUNTER, Licensed Auctioneer,
Cranbrooln Grey P. 0. Sales attended en
moderate terms. Commissioner in Queen's 13eneln,
Conveyancer, Land, Loan and General Agent.—
Also, Agent for the following Cornipanies, TiZ.:
Huron and Erie Loan Society, London; Fanners'
and Meehanics' Savings and Loan Company,Toron-
to ; Royal Insurance Company' a Liverpool and
London, Fire and Life; Ontario -Mutual Fire In-
surance Company and, the, 'Agricultural Insurance
Company. Any amount of money to loan at low
ratea of interest. Several good Farms for sale,
2
cheap. 24-6m
GOOPER, Convoy-ancer, Comnaissionor in
• Queen's Bench, Insurance and General Agent,
Agent for the Freehold Permanent Bdilding and
Savings Society of Toronto, whose rates are as low
as any Company doing business iu Canada. Appli-
cations for Loans pronejtly attended to. '
0i.—Opposite Ross' Tailor Shop,
18641 AINLEYVILLE.
JOHN ItJtIGUAM, Evehange Broker, and Rail-
way.Ticket Agent, Houghton's Hotel, opposite
G' T- Rivilwa-i Station, Seaforth, Ont. Through
Tickets issued to all points in the Western States,
California and Red River, at reduce rates, affording
the greatest taeilities to -Emigrants. All neeeSsary
information given respecting Land Agencies, ate.
Greenbarks, .Bonds, Conpons and allotment Money,
Oeld and Silver Coin, bought laid -sold at beetrates.
orrenneeneennenaneaseassmarmananosusagamssmassonr
EDWARD CASI-
Is buying and paying full prices for
GOOD DAIRY BUTTER,
du any quantities. Also
ANY- ODD LOTS OF WOOL
Brought to town,
FDR ONE MONTH.
Goderielest., Seaforth, June 20, 1872. 257
SIR JOHN A
SEAF
CLINTON.
On Saturday last
donald.gelivered his
Clinton. It had beei
would be..accompanie
was escorted to a
ance of !country peop
considering the occa
his place on the pled
read to Sir John by
to which hie made the
Sir JOHNA. .-M.acia
the address, said this
he had had an opp
the County of II,uro
knoWn in this petit o
among the people of t
the country generally
was n6w and always
to dray. Ever since
few months, he had b
aging the affairs of t
members of the G
without detriment to
find time occasionally
lies and friends, but
for John A. Macdonal
the enormous work t
Minister of Justice ai
al of the, Dominion
principal adviser of th
and conduct the pol
count/. . or the p st seventeen years'
the cle inies of the raft of State. had
been in his hands. J hn A. Macdonald
stands at the helm, and the ship goes
bra:vely on. They could understand,
therefore, why it 'w s he had been- un-
able to visit this part of Canada before.
He would not promis that while he was
at the head ot the Go_ err:anent he would
come often in the ftie re, but- he would
do the best he could. i that respect. He
believed_the Grits' w uld willingly give
tam an opportunity o visiting them fre-
quently by 40 ving im from power,--,-,
and. if they Wanted to see him oftener,
they would haye to on the Grits and
tarn him out if the overnment. That
such a fate was sto e for him was not
possible after the elde ions that had just
:been held, for the r suit .one-half of
the constituencies m de it a certainty
that when 'all' the e ections were com-
pleted throughout the Dominion he would
have such a Majority s would ensure his
being, if he lived, th First Miniater of
the Crown for the ext five years. It
would be no pride or atisfaction to him,
however, to know th t the destinies of
the) country would ag. in be entrusted to
his keeping unless it was with the con-
sent of a large majori y of the people of
Ontario. He was now ertain of a majori-
ty, but what he, wan ed was a large and
decided majority. N va Scotia and New
Brunswick had alre dy pronounced in
favor of the GoVerani nt. Quebec, Bri-
tish Columbia and 11 anitoba would fol-
low in the same dire tion, but he desir-
ed the strength of t e support (A the
Governinent to come from Ontario, and
to that strength. he desired the three -
ridinge of Huron to ontribute. There
were strong aucl su cient reason why
they should suatain him. In .1814 he
had surrendered a lar.e practice the
bar, which w-ouid no eitlit hove produc-
ed him a fortune and inade a mil-
lionaire, in order to devote himself to
the public interests ; -and in all his acts
since that time ther was nothing he
wished to conceal.
e hid a loftier and
nobler aim than to a ass *ealth. The
great and good Dr. mold, whose wise
counsels had greatly 1 fluenced the youth
of England, said that the mostworthy
ambition which coul actuate a young
man was the desire o have a voiee and
take a- part in the overnment of his
country. It was beca se of such a desire
that he (Sir Jelin) ha voluntarily giVen
up fortune and 'riches and in addition
to those lie would rrender -even his
own life if necessary order to sustain
and strengthen Ole c use he had under-
taken to advance—th t cause -which had
noviso happily result d in the -formation
of this great Dominic) . After the long
service he had given to the public he
could new come; forw rd and challenge
friend or to, to sta e on the hustings
before the people or in private discussion,
that he had ever bee gnilty of an un-
clean or disreputable Gt. In the United
States they had 'seen ne judge dismissed
and dying broken-hea ted, and another
brought - to his deat -bed because im-
proper conduct had b en -proved against
them. ;There; too, th y saw cOrruption
rife in all political p rtiesHiublic men
depraved, officials pur hased, whole com-
munities sold like she p in the shambles,
and the public outrag d by such indecent
venality. But nothin of that kind was
seen iu Canada, an 1 why? I3ecanse
„for seventeen years he had been
the chief member cf the Government,
and throughout th t time hes had
looked steadily to t e mother country
e might be. politic -
but whoever led:
ler Mr. Gladstcfrin-
f whom were his
might be certain
sed ot honest and
Censervatives or
Reformers, who woule earnestly devotel
the intellect aud Cap ity which God had
given them to the b st interests of the
McDougall, but for s
Mr. McDougall was
expected that Sir Jo
the_ten o'clock train
he did not reach Olin
of the afternoon exp
He was accompanied.
Messrs. D. H. Ritch
way, and other gentl
-atClsinton hewaswe
of his friends, and 'es
which was ia waiti
was then formed, anc
marched to the Tom
-was in waiting. Ti
compoaed of five or
about _200 (not 2,00
Mail has it) person
lunch in the hall, th
people.- After lunch
been erected in: fron
occasion. In front
platrorm, to listen to
were not more than 6
great majority of the
ton, Goderich and Se
Sir Jobn A. Mac-
nomised speech in
announced that he
1 by Hon. William
me reason or other
ot present. It was
n would arrive by
from Goderich, but
on until the -arrival
ess at two 4'lock.
from Stratford by
e. Thomas, Green-
men- On arriving
comed by a number
orted to a carriage
g. A procession
headed by a band,
Hall, where lunch
is procession was
six carriages, and.
- -as the Toronto
on foot. At the
ere were about 200
was ended Sir John
latform which had
of the hall for the
f, and around the
the address, there
0 or 700 people, the
e bsing from Clin-
forth; —the attend -
e not being large,
ion. After taking
rai, an address was
Ir. D. Ist Ritchie,
following reply :
NALD, in reply to
was the first time
rtunity of visiting
. If he was not
the country, and
e western part of
it was because he
ad been, a, martyr
1854, exce.pt for a
en engaged in inan-
e country. Other
v ern in en t igh t,
the public service,
to visit their fami-
there was no rest
, fon-in addition te-
rown upon him as
d Aitorney-Gener-
he hail to act as
Go vernor-General
tical affairs of the
,for an -example. The
al contests in Englan
the Govere merit; whet
or Mr. Disraeli, both
person al friends,, they
that it would be comp
upright men, whether
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RTH, FRIDAY, AUGUST 2
118 2
McLEAN nitouriEuts, Publisher's.
ta 30 a Year, in advance. _
country. It was his pride and. boast that
he (Sir John) had endeavored to pursue
the same course in Canada. He might
without dishones Fordishonor have used
occasionally the means of information
possessed by es ery M inister of the
the Crown, in er to amass a colossal
fortune; but from the beginning of his
political career he had laidclown this
rule—and net only had he observed. it
himself, but he -h, d insisted upon the ob-
servance of it by hs colleagues—that no
Minister of the (I own should naake one
fna thing beyond t le salary which he de-
rived from his office- If ever there had
been a, suspicion 'or a doubt, or a charge
to the contrary and sometimes there
had been charges be had investigated
the matter to the bottoin, and sometimes
they might have seen that Ministers had
disappeared from his Government. For
the last five years he had been the firat
Minister of the Dominion. He had en-
deavored to . govern the country accord-
ing- to the wish s and to promote the
best interests of its people. He did not
wean to say that he had been infallible.
He would -not arrogate - to himself- any
qiialityapproachi g perfection. The Gov-
ernment was not omposed of angels.Its
members were, at the most, human,
with human wea ness, and liable to, err.
He had DO hesita ion in saying that if be
life—it
recall t e acts of his political
was very asy to be wise after
the event- -there were seine instances;
but not many, w ere he would act differ-
ently and pursue mother path. In these
instances, howeve , the errors bad been
errors of the head and not of the heart;
and he could sak ith siticerity—aa
those who listen .d to him woeld agree
with him if they gave. dueconsideration
to human frailty-. -that in whatever re-
spect he and his lovernment had acted
at one time or ano her, it had been to the
-best of ..their ju plea, to the best of
their consciences, end with a due regard
for their honor as ublic men. He there-
fore knew that th people of Canada, be-
ing erring men h ern selv es, would, in
judging the chara ter aud conduct of the
Government, hav a regard for the old
Saying--
"Be to their /nits a little blind,
And to their v rtues always kind."
He (Sir John) wei t on to speak of the
inconsistent and ind ece n t manner in
which Catorge Bro vn with the Olobe and
the pa -al', that si pported him, had in
tarn atteinpted to stir up the prejudices
and them reviled nd insulted both the
Catholics and Pro estants of the country.
In 1843-44 he had advocated and sup-
perted a bill to pi t down Orange proces-
sions, and not onl that, but to prevent
Orangemen from eing witnesses or jury-
-MOE .and from ho ding Offices connected
with7the administ atlon of -justice. , He
(Sir John) alias lit le more than.a boy at
_ that time, but so trongly had hefelt at
-this attempt to cis racize and degrede his
brother Protestan s from Ireland thathe
had gone and bee sworn in as au Orange-
man on the spot.He had done -this, not
because he approv a of such processions
or of creating reli ious party feelings. of
any kind, but bee use all classes had a
right to. assemble ieaceablY together and
• form processions, they pleased, and be-
cause no class sho ild be excluded from
office and treated as outcasts m conse-
quence ..of .their religious -convictions.
All should stand Ilion the same common
ground of egnalit , and although he was
-as true a Protes ant as lived, he felt
that the sanrf lib rty he asked for him-
self should be enj yed by his Catholic
brother as well. George Brown . had
maintained his ancour , against the
Orangemen for $ veral years, but the
act had been rope led through the in-
strumentality of colleague of his (Sir
John's) in .the Government, Attorney -
General Drumnion , who was himself au
Irish Catholic, am who had thus shown
a praiseworthy c egree of liberality to
which -Brown was. stranger.. Some years
afterwards, who it seemed to suit
Brown's purpose, be had attacked- the
(1atholics with as ,reat viruleece en' he
had before shown towards the Orauge-
mem 'They woul all remember how he
(Sir John) had be n charged with being
a slave of the prie ts and a mere creature
of Bishop Cbarbon id. In addition to all
that, Brown had. a skilled • the hierarchy
and institutions o the Catholic Church,
as if they were th worst aud vileet pub-
lic enemies. Thei nunneries had been
characterized as everythieg. that was
bad, their religio si• women had been
charged with bein what they ought not
to be; and every orm,of insult had been
heaped upon the h ads of those who pro-
fessed the Catholic faith. Yet, would
they believe it, ti at this was the tame.
man who, in order to effect the present
elections,had sen round a circular at
the bidding of the Catholic Leaguer tell-
ing the Catholics f Ontario that he (Sir
John) was too nge, too Protestant,
and that he (Brow 1) was prepared to do
, a great deal more "er them than the ex.,
isting Governnien . He (Sir John) hail
been consistent th oughout—never mill-
ing, to the ex bre es that had disgraced
the leader of the 3-rit Party; and as a
Minister of the Cr wn he had never been
either an Orangem le or a- Protestant, or
a Catholic, but he bad administered the
Government with perfect impartiality,
neither -serving no • repulsing any man
because of his reli, ious oninions,"no mat-
ter what they wei . After speaking in
reply to questions rom the crowd in re-
ference to the - su sidy paid to Nova
Scotia, the Govei nor-G-enerars salary,
the Scott murder and the Washington.
Treaty, he referro to Mr. M. C. Camer-
on, the late mem er for South Huron,
Who Was again rui ning in the interest of
tbe Grit party. If elected, Mr. Cameron,
instead of co-opere ing with the Govern-
ment :in inalgura police, which
would cecourage and develop the salt
and every other In erest of the country,
would act with_ th Party in Opposition,
Of which Mr. Bre n was the actual, and
'Mr_ Mackenzie only the ostensible lead-
er. It would, pc: h: ps, be a safe assertion
to make that Mr. lackenzie either had
or soon would hay to abandon even the
ostensible leaders ip of the Party, in
which case it w uld again be openly I
nianaged by Mr. B own, its real head and, I
conductor. Tn. a h.ort time Mr. Mac -
• kenzie Would. have, to choose between
the House of Cominons and the Local
Le4islature, and it :would not sUrprise
hirh (Sir John) to learn that Mackenzie
had been forced to yield his- position in
the Dominion Parliamerit. Ilnd.eed, there
wile hardly any other cou.tee open, for if
he left the Local House; who was there
to lead- the Party 'there, except poor
Archie _McKellar, who was used un in
reputation 'and everything else, bOdy,.
bones- and breeches? He (Sir John)
would regret Mr. Madkenzie's disappear-
ance from the House of Commons, be-
cause he could -not have a.better man to
lead the Opposition against him. :When
" he went into a fight 11 liked to win, and
as long as he had Mr. Mackenzie oppos-
ed tobbira he nra,s always , sure to win.
For this reason, perhaps, Mr. Mackenzie
would be consigned to the ocal Legisla-
ture, where he might do on a pinch for a
leader, but it was certainly calculated to
cause an unpleasant feeling to sink from
the lofty position of a leader of a great
Party in Parliament, even althongh only
a nominal leader, to that of a fugleman
of the corrupt and blundering. Govern-
ment of 'Ontario. He (Sir John), heorder
to prove this to be the character of that
sAdminieteation, referred. it some length
to what he termed the shocking outiNes
-upon 'electoral rights that had been per-
petrated by that Government in Proton
and elsewhere, and conclude(' by appeal-
ing warmly to the people to suppoit Mr.
Greenway, a steadfast adherent to the
cause of Union and Progress.-
,
Causes ot MerOantile Fa4ures
From an interesting lecture delivered
by Mr. John •Macclonald, some Months
ago before the Toronto Young !Men's
Christian Association we extract fin in-
teresting paragraph relating to business
failures and the causes to which they
are due. After giving statistics showing
the number of failures in Canada abdthe
United. States, Mr. Macdonald states his
views as to the causesof thesemercantile
mishaps, and it is in that portion -of the
lecture that the following passage ()curs:
Eighty per cent. of our failures ere the
result of Extravagance. Don't be iiitartl-
ed. ; that, Will be found to be nnder,
rather lan over the mark. Extrava-
gance is , disease which, though in some
admitting V treatment, in others is in-
curable. There are some who act, as
soon as thephave obtained a credit, as
though their fortune had been Made.
Their business and 'home expenses as-
sume -.proportions �f , unwarranted
nature ; nor do_ they pause to consider
whether such expenditure can be long
maintained, or Whether it likely speed-
ily to come to an end. Snell mon run
their course in an incredibly short; time.
When the end comes, they call it im-
prudence. It is dishonesty, and nOthing
. .
else. 'rhere are many men in business
td -day, milli) are building houses, buying
lands, and living in a reckless and !extra-
vagant style, oirthe strength of a icredit
obtained for strictly business phrpeees.
There are others who fail through ex-
travagance, but do so more slowly ;
tenipfed first to indulge in some Unwar-
ranted expenditure, they resist- for a
while, perhaps, but then yield. The ap-
petite for further expenditure becomes
a craving one, and as it increases the
ability to resist it diminishes. ; They
wavered, when they should have been
•firm, vascilated wheii they should have
resisted, and from thathour their down-
ward course began. Supppse a young
man who has recently commencedI•busi
ness with.moderate capital, good Credit,
and fair peospecte.. Things go on !.well.
His wife, who knows little of buithess,
but takes it for granted that he is 'doing
well, puts in her claim, let us say for a
piano. If he studied her happiness and
his 9W11, his answer would be, " Gladly,
when we can afford it, and a piano istool,
and a music stand, ' and anything else
that we really require; but we must
wait patiently until it can be well afford-
ed, without inconvenience to bueinrse,
or without jeopardizing - the means of
others." •
Do not think that. I suppose an im-
probable case. There are few falilures
that take place in the country where you
will not find a piano. among the house-
hold furniture, and is a matter of 4ourse
you are always! told that it belongs to
the wife. ,
Now, he is the best husband who can.
talk to his wife in this way, and she the
best wife Who, fully appreciating. his
motives, is contented with snch a ijeply';
and each soelenying themselves, , I due -
time husband and 'Nrife with be buu-
dantly rewarded. Ent the man yields,
the piano is bought, for he says he can
get this bill renewed. Then the carpets
look :shabby, . and they must get new
ones. - The furniture is old-fashioned, and
thecurtains are faded, and when thf
first step is taken it is the simplest mat-
ter to glide into others equally .un4alled
for Then follow the neglect of busi-
n.ess ; the accuinulatiOn of bills ; th pro --
testing of notes; the stormilge of c eclit ;
the loss of confidence; the meeti ig of
creditors,; the visit of the sheriff s of-
ficer; piano Nine, carpets and cu tains
gone ; the man broken-spirite_d, b oken
hearted. The morning that shon out
..so promising, already auk and be, Joint-
ed. Then, in too mally- instances, the
bottle—then the grate.' •
Hundreds of men are -in iued. th rough in-
tempo ran ce . When it *Ian finds that he
requires stimulants 4give him the energy
needed_ tor his business, he, is in a, bad
way. When you ii#d them stand back
from you in conversation, or turn
their heads away from you leet you
should discover their habits, - they are
in a dangerous pokion. Wheri you.
find them constantly dell, dreamy,
and stupid, rnakei up your mind,.
if you are a creditor, that unless there be
a speedy and radical change, you may
look •forward to a b:a,d debt, and to the
man's destruction. I .
- In Great Britain, where a very large
amount . of business is transacted by
travel, thousands Of young mea and their
cnetomers have been ruined by the drink,
ing usages of the road. A young man
who is a commercial travellei need. not
be a. drinker. Not need he; to Sell
goods, offer drink to others. We would
be glad if the commercial travellers of
our young Dominiou and their customers
would alike set their face against an evil
which has already slain many bright,
promising young men, and desolated so
many happy homes, and show to the
same class in the Old World that they
can do business upou its own merits and
.are opposed to practices, which,- though
having the appearance of preseut profit,
are but sowing the seed which can bring
forth nothing but ruin and death.
Many fail through speculation. They
see those who -through long years of pa-
tient industry have acquired position,
influence and means, and whose trials, by
the way, they know nothing of ; anddes-
pising the slow but certain paths of their
own business (the safest at all times),
enter into some wild and reckless under-
taking by which they expect to make a
fortune immediately. Others, they are
told, have tried the something, but they
were stupid, had no business -talent, had
not seized the right time—were fools.
Upon such men words and arguments -
are wasted '- it is folly to talk to them of
meeting bills, either with the banker or
wholesale _dealers themselves within six
months. There is an oil property, and
in the venture there is a perfect mint of
money. There are a, few shares to be had
in some joint-stock company -which will
yield immen se 'returns, and they. are to be
bad at par. Or a village has just been
mapped out in the wilderness, or is go-
ing to be, and the place is destined.to be-
come one of the most important cities on
the continent, and they intenl to secure
a large number of lots. And so With a
thousand things; some of them as ridi-
culous as the South Sea Bubble days.
There is extant a list of nearly two
hundred bubble compa-nies, started in the
year of bubbles, none of which Were un-
der £1,000.000, and some went as far as
£10,000.000 stg. One was designed to
make salt water fresh ; another to fur-
nish merchants with 'watches ; a third -to
discover perpetual motion ; a fourth to
. plant mulberry trees and breed silk -worms
in Chelsea park ; a fifth to import large
jackasses from Spain in order to propa-
gate a larger kind of mule in _England ;-
while an advertisement was issued that
at a certain place " on Tuesday next,
books will be opened for a subscription
of £2,000,000, for the invention of _melt-
ing sawdust and. chips and casting them
into clean deal boards, withont cracks
and wi th-out knots." Not less ridiculons
are some of the schemes into- which men
run to-day,—with means not their own,
but entrusted to them only for legitimate
business purposes, bringing upon others
loss, perhaps suffering, a.ral 'stamping
themselves for all time to come as dan-
gerous men whom it would be unsafe to
trust,
t, haVe u-0 '` Wall &re. et " here, and
we are glad of it. Many of its lerolrers
to clay are but wrecks V. what Witlit once
thrifty busiuess men. Tempted to try
their hand at some fancy steek, they
listened in, an evil hour, were led on
step by step, until they lost property,
business habits. friends, all. Henry
Ward Beecher recently delivered a lec-
ture on "Wall Street." fie stated that
he had buried from it, in n period. of
t wen ty-fi ve }Team fourgenerations of men.
He says it is a dunghill of mushrooms ;
there is in every year a vast growth of
men and every year they are trampled
down in hosts. ." I know," he says,
"but one or two men in that period who
have been able to make permanent gains ;
nor was this done by speculation ; they
.a.dcled other means of aecumulation which
were the foundation of their stability."
Oanada:
A Lucan grain dealer and a hotel
keeper had a rough and tumble scrim-
mage a few days ago. After taking ex-
ercise. iu this ,way for some time, they
were separated by friends. One had a
bruised head, and the other lost nearly
all the .whiskers from one side of hie
face.
— The grasshoppers have become very
numerous in the vicinity of Ailsa Craig,
and have comnrnced to devour the root -
crops.
--0. M. Hemsworth, one of the oldest
residente of the township of Wallace,
and. for many years Clerk and Treasurer
of the municipality, died A his, residence
on Sunday the 11th inst. He was but
48 years of age. and was highly esteemed
by all who knew him.
South Grey, in which is Proton, has
been carried by Dr. Landerkin, the Re-
form condid.ate. This is the best answer
to the Protou Blander.
-- Dr. Agnew, who was returning of-
ficer for West Toronto, died very sud-
denly at his residence about five o'clock
Friday evening from heart disease.
— Mr. McRae, of London township,
Sowed two and a, half bushels of spring
wheat, from which he reaped eighty-one
shocks.
---Cu n terfeit twenty-five cent pieces
of the new Canadian coinage are in circu-
lation in Lucian and neighborhood. They
are well executed, but the metal being
base they are of course worthless. They
are easily bent
- The wife of Mr. Samuel West, of
McGillivray, met with an accident last
week, which, it is feared, may terminate
fatally. The seat of the waggon in which
she and her two daughters were seated.
was loose, aaid when the horses started,
the jerk threw them ont of the waggon,
and Mrs. West, falling on her head, dis-
located her neck.
— The congregation of St. John's
Church, Tilsonburg, surprised their pas-
tor, the Res. T. Sa.undeis, on Friday
evening, by a presentation of " a purse
containing $54, clothing of every kMd, a .
tea -set, groceries, and other articles Well
suited to the .wants of a clergyman's
family."
— Miss Kennedy, a young woman
working in the cane -seat department of
the Oshawa Cabinet Factory, was se-
verely injured on Monday. She went
into the main building and stood in tbe
front of the circular saw. A piece of
wood flew fromthesaw and struck her
in the face. The bone of the nose was
broken and the eye injured SO that there
is danger of a loss of sight from in-
flammation.
—A Canadian ;correspondent of the
New York Trtbune says: • " found
that the desire for annexation is rapidly _
growing in Canada, and I believe that a
majority of the inhabitants of Goderich
and its vicinity would to day if they had
'an opportunity, Vote for annexation. I
discovered also that a large majority of
the people of Canada believe that Horace
Greeley will be our next President" .
--Mr. Neil McPhatter, of Puslinch,
was . driving a threshing waggon along
the tenth concession of Beverly on Satur-
*day night last, when one of the horses
becaMe entangled in the harness. The
night was extremely dark. Mr. Me-
Phatter went on the bank at the side of
the road to set /natters to rights, when
the horse became fractious, and kicked
him in the face. His left cheek bone
was smashed and a bad cut made from
the eye nearly to the mouth, and the
whole face presented_ a terrible appear-
ance. His cries attracted. the attention
of people living near by, who came to his
--s A young woman lately employed in
a tailoring e.stabliehment in Stratford,
has by the death of a relative in England,
become joint 'heir to $2,000,000. As
there are but three heirs in all, the for-
tmaate damsel thus becomes the posses-
sor of a large fortune. This is a fine
chance for some enterprising young man.
-- = In Huntingdon, a child two years of
aze escaped flora his mamma and actu-
ally climbed a ladder 19 feet high, reared
against the side of a new building, and
got upon a plank scaffolding, where he
rested and amused himeelf casting down
nails into the cistern below. He -was as
composed as a cherub and happy as an
acrobat who had elicited the applause of
his auditory. Considering his age the
feat was an extraordinary one, and has
earned for the little chap deserved. re-
nown,
— Mr. Wm. C. Caldwell, B. A., of
Lanark village, and Mr. B. Rosamond,
of Almonte, one of the defeated candi-
dates at the Commons election, were
nominated. on Saturday as candidates for
North Lanark in the Local Parliament,
to till the vacancy caused by Mr. Gal-
braith's election to the House' of Com-
mons. The polling takes place ou Satur-
ie.
— Sir Francis Hincks was defeated in
• South Brant on Monday- last, by a ma,-
jority of 227. It is stated that- over
:3100,000 of bet money changed. hands,—
some of the bets having be en made as
high as $800. During the last clays of
the campaign many ludicrous scenes were
enacted. Among others, Alfred Watts.
-who vacated for Hincks and has worked
hard for him, took a :voter to his house
on Sunday night and slept with him. In
the morning, when Mr. Watts went for
a carriage, the voter slippedbut and vot-
ed for Mr. Patterson. firmest Joe Retinal
was also 'elected for SoutieWentwerth,on
She same day by a majority of 208.
— Last Sunday evening while the
Young Men's Christian Association were
holding an open air service on the mar-
ket square at Berlin the speaker, Mr.
Rothwell, and several otliers were struck
and seriously injured by eggs thrown by
the mob, which to the number of fully
600 had collected for the purpose of in-
terrupting the service, =on aeconnt of sev-
eral of the membere of the Sens of Tem-
perance, who are also members of the
Young Men's Christian Association, hav-
ing notified the hotel-keepeie of the town
to close their hotels orr Sunda:ys or else
steps would be taken to force them to do
so. Several of the meb have been ar-
rested, and it i3 hopecl they will not be
leniently dealt, with:
— On Thursday afternoon oflast week.
during the excitement of the election
contest, in East Hastings a man named
John Wieters was shot at Lougsdale
Jrom the effects of which he died at his
residence in Richmond the following
month) n.
-- A sad accident happened at Niagae
ra about nine o'clock on islonday morn-
ing. While Mr. R. DicksiM and his
brother Arthur, sons of Hon. W. H.
Dickson, were bathing in the lake the
latter sank, and on his brother reaching
him discovered he was drowning. He
immediately brought him ashore and ran
for a doctor. 0i returning he found him
again in the water. He was again res-
cued, but this time life was extinct. The
deceased leaves a young wife and many
friends to inourn his early death. Ha
was about 23 years of age.
-- Sir John Macdonald -has decided
not to risk his reputation in South Bruce
against Mr. Blake, -and has declined with
thanks the overtures made to him by
the Conservatives of that conetituencyn.
Mr. Hurdon hen again entered the field,
but if his chalices of euceess weee small
previous to his withdrawal they are in-
finitesmally less now.
— An internatiOnal game of Base Ball
was played in Mom N. Y., on Tuesday,
between the Clipper club of that city and
the Maple Leaf club of Guelph, Orate
which was won by the latter, by a score
of nineteen to eighteen.
— The Toronto Mail circulates a. re-
port that Hon. Alexander Mackenzie in-
tends retiring from the contest in Lamb -
ton and that he will not again take a
seat in the Commons. The wish has no
doubt been -father to the thought, as
there is not a word of truth in the re-
port. Mr. Mackenzie will not only con-
tinue to contest Inenbton. but will -be
elected by an overwhelming majority.
— On Tuesday of. lent week the Rev.
Father Sherlock, of Guelph, was injured
by a kick from a fractions horse. At
first the wound was not looked upon as
serious, .but since the 'occurrence he
gradually sank, and -died last Friday.
He bore his sufferings with. great resigna-
tion and fortitude, and cahnly awaited
the summons of the final enemy. He
was sensible till within a couple of hours
of his dissolution. The Rev. Gentleman
was highly esteemed by his paaishonera
and a, large circle of friends in the town
where he lived. His sudden death caus-
ed universal regret.