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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1872-10-25, Page 1. - VI; 40- • 187-2. S A -D E MG CAPS C01.1' Cawnty.. 30N Onnty.- 01 ON LEI Cheap for yN. VOLUME 31 NO. 47. WHOLE NO.435. t Attal gotalt or GWalt. rAita mi. SALE IN IEULL3ITI, OB SKLE. Lot 10, sit h COnoOnSiOn neer Einburtt, sevenmilesm froSeajorth and coven -miles from Clinton, the property ot Immo Johnson ; 100 semi, 93 cleared and in goo. cultiva- tion; Aplendid barn, stable, sheds and onthonsee ; Nage, yormg, bearing orchard; a stream of water rens across the lot. Torras to snit the purchaser. If not sad this farm WILI, BE LT,ASED for ten veers, for $1,000, paid in Earenee. Apply to H. ITALE, Clinton.. 255-40 FOR SALE. Q'PORE AND DWELLING in lib.e village of Harpurb.ey, wt. present occupied by HUGH BOB, Esq. For particalarnapply bo KUALORAN k RYAN, Seriterth. DWELLING -HOUSE FOR SALE. sebscriber offers for sale a dwellinghouse •x• and village lot in EgmotulTille, on North F‘ront street, opposite the Presbyteria.n Church ;Iforir bedrooms, sitting -room, dining -room, kitchen tte ; geed well; good garden with‘large number eetrait, frees; stable and outhouses eomplete. The lot vOmprisee about one acre. 'ormi 1ibcral.. - - JOHN STODDART. FARM FOE, SALE IN MORRIS. VOR SALE, on sooty terms, north half of Lot NO- -1; 12, Concession 6, Township of Morrie, contain- ing 190 acres, 50 of which. are cleared, well fenced, and in a good state of eultiTatdon. There is on the- premises a good log house and barn. This farm is Kittutted within two miles and a half of a good road, and fonr miles and a half trete the Tillage of kirdeyrillet at which place there. will be a station of the Wellington Grey andi Brice Railway this fall; it is waterediby neva- failing stream running -through it; there is no waste laud, and the uncleared ' portion is well timbered with hardwood; It is one of the most *hole° lots in the township. For farther par- ticulars apply to R. GRANT, Ainleyrille, THOS. HOLMES, Blyth, or to the undersigned proprietor, Nippon Post-offiee. 0..51 ROBERT MeMORDIE. FARM FOR SALE. T OT 29, Concession 6, north half, Toanaship of -A-I Morris; 100 acres, cleared; good frame hem and house; good bearing orchard tit& aboTe farm adjoins the Tillage of Ainleyville.. Terms liberal: Also, lots 27 and 29, South half of COncessiort 7; Township of Morris- For further part-jail:are, in- suire of THOMAS WALKER, 25-1-4 ,. • Dingle I'. 0. FROVDE ON TIM BELA- ' TIONS BETWEEN ifiNG4CAND AND IRELAND. • M. FROUDIt'S 1IRS1 fAcrunz. pecially when they have to put their ISeeenth's time, by which it a.ppeared Mr. James: Anthony Fronde', the emi- SEAFORTH FRIDAY, OCT. 25, 1872. is the most righteceie measure that has been passed as regards Ireland. in the an- nalsof history. Rieh nn find the world so comfortable that they can hardly be made to thiek it wants bettering, es- ineLEAN RUOTIGUI114; Pabliolhers. Si 50 a Year, in advance. Ite deserve to be hung." More than alf of the Irish were in the latter cabs - gory, and it irs idle to say that such a country deserved its freedom. The lec- turer then quoted a report made in Heery . ands into their pockets. I know well that there were at that time sixty chief Dent English historian, is riot's deliVering that this is 80, but an advance has been captains, who lived by the sword, and a course of lectures in the city Of New attempted, an effort of progress has been !divers petty chiefs of the same kid; , . York, on the relations between Ireland made, and it will not stop. I invite yon, !also thirty great Norman chieftains who , then, gentlemen, to pronounce the verdict, also JAved by the sword. All of these and England. The object of thelectures to give us your operion on the points of !made war, and obeyed only those who is to create a public sentienept in Ameri- Irish affairs. You may say, " Go out of were strong enough to make them. . e . . ble ca, which may react on the old country it, but this is impossible, and will never But the common folks were as misera 1 and be influential in settling the chronie he taitil lrelandis ancxtinet volcano. You as men contd. be and live. Such misery way say, "Give them a separate Nation- had been -seen in latter times, indeed, difficulties of the Green Isle. On the al Government," 1 do not say no, I do but it was a fair question then, not evening of the opening lecture Mr. not say yes, but I will ask 'you what you whether the English had interfered too Fronde was received withthe most diasay at the end of my fifth lecture. You ‘ much, but whether much of this unhap- tinguished plauditslie spoke with a are not unaware of the Irish statement piness might not have been spared if they clear voice, and with something of theof the case. They have not been reti- had interfered a little more. '' tone that is -usually associated with di- cent of their wrongs. I will constitute ' .---ese•-ea----.- vine service. Whenever he made a hit, mysely an advocate on the other side, 00unty Versus Branch Asetrioul- and the entire audience was conviilsed and will await your opinion. tural Societies, 1 , with his easy sarcasm, his eyes gleamed From this point the lecturer commen- PARISI S FOR SALE IN molmiz. n..NE N1)RED ACRES, being Soh half of \-•Lot2.6, Sth Concessionof Morris ; 70 acres clear of stumps and well fenced, tb.e remaining 30 hard wood bush; good orchard of about 100 fruit trees, apple,.pear, plum, cherry, -peach, and grape Tinem ; Iog barn 60x84 and stable; log hone() lutlf ruile from school house 1.1 miles from. gra-rel road lam- ming from Seaforitt to Aittleytille, 5i miles from Abalervilie. where a atation of the W. G. and B. Railwa-v will be erected this falyand 14 miles from Seaforib. Also 100 acres -of valueble bnah land, being north half of lot 26, 8th Concession of Morris ; there is a large quantity (If pine. cedar, Meek ash. hemlock, arid hard_ wood on this lot. No inerrmbern.nce, title indispu.table, being Crown with pleasure, but his countenance re. ced the history of the Norman conquest To the Editor of the Huron .gepos-itor. mained unmoved. The following is st of Ireland_ He began by describing the Being a farmer in Huron, and deeply synopsis of the lecture : ' religioes and social condition of the Holy interested in. the progress and well-being I have come to this country to addrees Tale; ethe peaceful character of the of our agricultural interests, I thank you on the connection between two is- inhabitants, and the scholarly attain- you for calling our attention as you r.lid lands, in both of which 1 presume you talents of the ecclesiastics as pictured by in the leading 'artiole of your last issue take sincere interest, and I canuot better early . narrators. There was 'much of to the working of our Agricultural. So- introduoe my subject than. by re:Kling a _ truth in this, he admitted, but the peace- cieties. While, however, thanking you letter written at the time of the revtolu- ful part of the programme was clearly for having broached the Babied, I nanat tion in 1799, conceening the seventy gen- mythic, since all the early poems relate say that I am not at all prepared to agree tlernen who were confined in Castle rein- to war, and war only, To pitinder his with your conclusions. Would you al - on. They had. been betrayed by their neighbor's goods and to split his head low me space in your columns to show in confederates, as has always been the case with re battle axe was considered the my own, perhapa, rather simple manner, with Irish conspiracies, but owing to right thrng for a young chief to do. It why'[ do not agree with you in thinking some perplexities there Was an objection was a fact that . there were no martyrs in that Branch A.grioulturai Societiesare a to trying them, and it was proposed to Ireland. and this proves that the clergy benefit to the county and should not be ., banish them to some foreign Country. It had managed from the very first to ob- abolished' I thiuk the importance of the was understood that this country was the tam a powerful coutrol over the minds of subject warrants attention, many of Your United States, and Mr. Rufus King, who the early Irish. In reading the accounts readers, will, no doubt, be benefiteti by was then your Minieter to ,England, of the saints, and the powerful impreca- the further discussion of a subject npon wrote a letter of reutonstrance, stet- ' trona which they launched from heaven .which few of them perhaps, have lever ing that *there was no country in upon offenders, the conclusion became thought much. 1 which. the Irish leaders could work more inevitable that they were pretty serious I am not among those who mainttain= mischief than his own. The letter was a antagonists when on earth. However and you say such exist, that County Sot curious one, and it will readily be admit- this may be, they certainly implanted a cieties should be abolished and Ceetra' ted that no American Minister could superstitious reverence in the hearts of Fairs eitablished," as this would neees- now write such a letter and retain his the Irish, which has nob yet disappeared. sitatelegislation, and we have had fer too pose It, is Unnecessary to say that his That Ireland had a civilization of its owe much tinkering in that line' already in remonstrance was not acted on, and. the is not to be denied, but that they hadi connection with our agricultural ques- majority of the gentlemen who awoke industries, as understood now, is erronel tions, and we CAU drop Branch Societies such apprehensions in his breast lived. ous. Beyond a few cyelopian templea without further legislation, if we think and died .quiet citizens of this great and a dozen ecclesiastical structures) fit -to do so, as the itatute now Stand'a. country, widch then ettablished herself there were no honaes, save wattled huts, - You maintain "hat Branch Societies as that. home for distressed patriotism before the 'armed of the Danish -free- are as useful ea County Sooieties or Oen- which the world now ecknowledges her to be. To thie land the Irishman looks Patent for both lots. Terms easy. A-Pply to as a natural protector, and. the men of all. Another farmer has had the hick to get some sheep enormously fat, in splen- did trim for the butoher, but eptirely useless for breeding parpoees, he too, goes the round of the shows, gets prizes at them all, and all this is considered great success. • But I ask any candid man if anytInng of this is in any way calculate -no meet a single requirement of the spirit or intention ef the Agricul- tural Act, or if it is hkelt to benefit the cause of Agriculture in `our County one iota? It is a pity that you had no high- er opinions of enterprising importeris and breeders of first-class stock, than to class them' with the men who never -exhibited. at all, they ehould not be mentioned in the same year together, let alone in the same sentence. Importers and breeders, as a general thing, are_not wealthy --their very enthusiasm m the cause keeps them poor—they mostly go in for the honor of the thing, for many of them have been heard to say that they would rather own the bests herd or flock in their County than be its representative in Parliament, or would rather have the honor of pos- sessing the best herd or flock in the Pro- vince than be Lieutenant -Governor there- of, and I assert without fear of success- ful •contradietion, that generally, the country is ten times more benefited by their enterprise than ever they are -them- selves pecnniarly. The class of farmers whotAke no interest in .A.gricialtural So- oieties, if wealthy, are too stingy- and dead to risk an extra dollar on an im- proved animal or article to exhibit, ane therefore do not, or " the lessavealthy " as yon put it, who are afraid to compete at the larger shows with their tnore en - enterprising neigltbors (I am afraid their poverty is a poorness of spirit and want of pluck, for but few are on). Canada - with a silver spoon in their mouth) I ask of a during a storm, and no trace of her body you what consideration should be had could be found until swashed ashore) as above steted. She had on her person bank receipts to the amount of $600, a marriage certificate and two golderings. —At the recent meeting of the Grand Tempters, held at Kingaton, Mr. James Somerville, of Luckaow, Was appointed Graud Worthy Chief Templar. —The Canadian Government, on the recommendation of the Postmaster -Gen- eral. Leta reiinced. the letter postage be- tween Canada and Newfoundland from boaters. They built Dublin and other tral Fain," while directly after you say cities, and introduced some ideas into the "that you do- not believe in keeping. or country, for which it was the better. But even in atterapting'to. keep alive, 'miser - they were ferocious to the last degree. able, sickly Township Societie,s rucrely and the begot an answering ferocity iri for the nauie of the thing," and that in - sach cases " union between two or more THOS. KELLY. on the premises, or b,y letter to Walton Post °Mae 2-4J-tf Munster and Connaught consider this ita their true home. Whether this is natural or otherwise I shalt not inquire, but the fact cannot be ignored in a consideration of lrish.politics, in which America must hold. a considerable piece. But if an .Aniericaltaiut'98ecoulil have Buell ideas of Irishmen; surely his canary men. will per - don some, English inisconctptions of lr land too. England and Ireland are married by nature, and caamot be separated. Though Englishmen are not desirous to hold men in :subjection, Yet to gii e up Ireland would. be simply to commit political suicide. Political freedom, also, is not a thing to be lightly earned. The fates do -not award political independence to oratory, and to newspaper eloquence. Nature in this has wisely wroughti. for those Who conquer liberty must forget their feuds and fuse themselves into. one common homogeneous body. To give a people incapable of governing themselves the privilege of auarchy would be to Mast them with the acutest misery.. Ire- land in all her frenzied (pies a.gainst Eugland, has always. shrieked for others to come and help her, never relying upon herself to do the work That had to be done., Compare the efforts of the Scotch when conquered by Edward I. He beat their armies in the field and that was all. He could not kill an entire people. So the contest was like holding wolf by the throat. The beast could not be strangled, and the effort to hold it down was too exhausting. So the attempt FARM FOR SALE. failed and the two countries when • FARM FOR SALE. 0.131`11 ,R.A.LF of tha South half of Lot No 24, Li Fifth Concession of the township of Morris, contaitting 50 e.eres, 35 eleared ; well watered by a spring- creek; good log house and frame stable. The above farm is only a mile and a half on a good road from the rising vi.11age of Ainleyville, whona station of the 'Wellington Grey and Brace Rail- way will be opened this fail. For price and tering inquire (if by letter, prepaid) of C. R. COOPER, 235 Ainleyville Land Ageney, Dingle P. O. CHOICE FARM FOR SALE. T OT No. 7, Stith Concession Turrtberry, eonsist- ing of 120 acres. nearly 104 -being cleared and in good state of ealtiTation. There is a good !rata° barn 55x36, a frame shed 303E60. There is also a. good bearing orehard. WM be sold. on easy terms. Apply on the premises to IAMBS BEENN1Na‘3. Wroxeter, July 8, 1872. 240-tf FARM FOR SALE IN HAY. -FOR SALE, south part Lot 21, Ninth Coneesttion, -12 Hay, known. as the "Troyer Farra ;" one-half mile from Zurich, on the Gravel Road ; 70 acres SO cleared; dwelling -house and barn - good yottng bearing orchard, the land is in a good state of cul- tivation and well fenced. For further particulars apply to W. G. WILSON, Ith*4 Zurich, Ont. FOR SALE. A VALUA13LE -FARM, 100 *tares, First Concea- ' sion, Mclidlop, near Seaforth, on. the main gravel rola to Godeeiert; 85 aeres eleared and free of pita mps, with ten acres of -a fallow, the rest ander grass; well la-atered and fenced; with large frame barn, stable underneath; log farm -house, boartled raitside, and good. orchard ; posseesion im- mediately ; title good and terms may. For far- ther particulars apply (if by letter, prepaid,) to 242 LCD WIG MitTEll, Suptforth R. 0. unit - there OT No. 26, Con. 5, Township of Morris, 50 • ' • ed met on eaual terms. In Ireland ' acres cleared; log hone(' ; there is a on y of good pine en the lot, within out mile and a half • of two good saw -mills. For farth.er partieulars, addreas - WILLIAM AMORS, 247-1Se • . Dingle P. O. HOUSE AND LOT FOR SALE IN SEAFORTH VOR SAI4E, e. hotme and lot on Goderieh street- • -L. For farther pal-tieulars, apply to 240-tf M. P. couNTER, Seiforth- YVILLE. James Leon - Buildings all HOTEL FOR SALE IN AINLE THE Hotel. at present occupied by -L- ard, will be sold cheap for enah. sew. Possession given immediately: AppSy to Ainleyvilie, May 23, 1872. . L.ECKI11. 233 ROUSE & 'I/3T FOR SAI.E HAPURIIEY. VOR SAL -Ft, in the Village of Harpurhey near Seatorth, a owelling-houet and lot. There is on the premises a good bearing Orehard, sever - foiling well of water; also, .good. work -shop and stablza, together with all ether necessary out- buildings. The house is frame, well finished and pleaetintIy located. For terms end other portion- ,. hare, aply PETER McCONNELL. Horparhey, or to the uridereigned propfictor, Harpurkey, or Seatorta Potit-omea. 248-11.3 • JOHN REMY: WINVI/N1/1/1/81T, The Henson Why Dn. WHEELER'S COMOTIND Elixir et Phos- plintes and Calisaya is oiled a Chemical. Food and Nutritive %mile,. because Phosphates toimsti- tate more. than half the nutteriel of the 'human body, and are libsoluttdy egseritinl to the growth of Bone, Niesel‘t. and Nerve, whieh cannot attain full tleveloptucrt ithottt them. Tb..)y promote a good 'appetite., pc,..(eqt Zlipstion, create pure, bealths, vitalizing 13-1144al, and supply the waste constantly going on in. the systoin ithe result of mental and • physical o:zertion. Being comiximodwith Calisaya. the Peruvian Om only $peciac for Chills and Eever, and tbat c•oniition of Nery.ous Prostration and Comer:11 1")eliitity alchdly, from low vitality Ord exhaustive dIsettses,It13rms el.-ont agrcc- able, invigorating Torii' nurely physiologic:11 in its artion tit niarbe taken safe15- under all ci r- eunistanceic and n.11 irkteasea cononions • body, as it builds np the constitution the same manner as ottr dail:y food. Sold bY all Druggists .at 81. VOTICE OF DISSOLUTION OF PART- NERSHIP. plus it, to certify that the undersigned, :Tosr.mi Cksal-nt and SOLIN (10,3Ns.N, have heretofore earlied bn-incas as buil.lers and contractors at the lillaae of Myth, in the County of Hero er the atc-Ie or firm Of CARTER. t, GO!,..f21.-, 14 • ft the said partnership has this day been dissolved by mutual consent. All debts due to the late firm 11 • onnts will be void by Joseph Cartel, an owing to the same will be col eeted by him. As witiitg.s our hands thief1..ent,--fourth day of t floptember, A, D. 1813. ' i1 ;r0RN GoSiti AN* , Q. 1 'Ign"'„" t'bDSEPli CAIIT.Iillt. IA i t n etm—W:g. $ 74N r._ 253.3 .. was no imaginary border land to crossed, but a broad and a tempest sea: Yet when StrOnghow came with his Knights, the- country was run and. held without difficulty• from that day to the last Fenian ri though Ireland has been writhing u what she is pleased tit call the yo the invader, she has never found a or a Wallace, and he history can r no field of Bannockbtirn. These 4 Englishmen were beaten back, Strongbow had nevet mere than men with hien. Arelthe Irish less than the Scotch then? y n they have proved their valor in a dred fights. But the Scotch were ed, and Irish were at strife, one, a the other. The O'Donnels and tit Murroghs were at swords' point, a Irish Prhice refused to assist the B invaders if he could help hirn elf 00 nous over over - And sing, nder ke of Bruce ecord 0,000 yet 1,500 brave eans ; -hun unit- gainst e Me- nd no. ritish to a the Iris , who, by the time they had. e pelled them, were no better than red I diens. To prove that this was not a exaggeration, the lecturer read a histor, of murders won* the Princes of Irelan for one year, which, multiplied by tw Inuidred, represented Ireland's conditio under home rulnfor two centuries beforie the Conquest. The cure for this condi- tion of 'affairs occupied the attention of townships should take place." I heart- ily say Armen to the latter propositiou, and it is just beceuse 1 think that nine out of every ten of the Branch Societies are misernItle and sickly affairs, as far as being beneficial to the Agricultural In- tereits of our Corney is coneerued, that they should therefore be abolished. Why are they miserable and sickly? the Pope Adrian, who saw that force • Simply because the gre-at majority of our could Only be repressed by force, and farmers know that 'little good to Agri that though freedom was good, disci- culture resulte from them, and therefore pline was good, too. Se he sent the does not support them. Any one at all Normans with their fe.utial system, acquainted with the working of Branch which men consider tyranny now, but , Societies inust be aware that if the mat - which in those days Was held as the pot • ter were left to the farming community lice force now. For similar reasens these Norman policemen had been sent to Eng.' land. It was not because the Saxoes murdered or plundered each other, like the Irish. They, en the contrary, mind- ed each Man his own business, and alloW- ed the Danish hordes to march throubh the country, doiug whatever they listed. day, and pay out $1. as a subscriptem in order that they may Drake $10. It alone, that two-thirds of the Branch So- cieties would die before a twelve-month goes round, that they are only kept up by the induence, efforts and subscrip- tions of the merchants and hotel keepers of the various towns and villages, who wish to drive a big business on the show horses were imtnedititely stopped, and while the driver was getting out of the wagon they backed up, causing the wheel to pass over the chilli the second time, and before hecould be taken from under the wagon, the horses again step- ped op, him, taking the *heel over hhn the third. time. The poor little fellow is so seriously iijured that no hopes are entertained. of his recovery. —Hon. Neal Dow, ex-Govetnor of the State of Maine, delivers a lecture on the subiect of Temperance Prohibition, in Brantford, this _Friday evening. Ex- tensive preparations for his reception have been made by the friends of the cause in that town. —A farmer named Fairbairn, in the townahip of Garafraxa, County of Wel- lington, last week. lost three'fine sheep by wolvee, which are said to be very elentifal in that section this fall. —Two young men, residents of West Zorre, who have heretofore borne a good. name in _their neighborhood, were, last week committed. to- stand their trial at the next Oxford assizes, for horse -steal- ing. At the Magistrates Court, one of, the offenders got frightened into a con- fession, which implicated the other. • The probability is, that ample opportun- ilty for repentance end moral irpprove- merit will be afforded theta in the public boarding house at Kingston. —Mr. J. L. Burgess, of Viroodstock, exhibited at the Princeton Fair, in the township of Blenheim, a cabbage which measured exactly five feet in eircunafer- ence, and weighed fifty pounds. —The -body of a woman was washed. ashore at Port Burwell a few days ago. It turns out to be that of a fem.ale 'cook The Saxons were soft iron ; the Normans came and. made them tempered. steel. The Saxon e had lost a national spirit, the Normans made them a great naticin. perhaps one of the very 'greatest. But the Normeus never made ally impression would be hard to find a township, with an ambitious town or village within its boriers, which has not an annual Agri- cultural Exhibttion. In the words of the Statute creating Agricultural &the - for such? Would you really misapply Goverment funds, the people's money, to accommodate or please them! Whe= 1 as far LIS they are concerned,* we might have still been trying:, to plow tvit u- diau ponies, catching buffaloes for beetor Lodge of British Aniericau Order of G-ood trying to put pork upon the nos of a creature that was all spout and legs. And you thiuk that if the owners and exhibitors of .first-clasa stock, who you say are opponents of Branch Societies, would cease to decry them, and would leud their assistance towards making them prosperous, that all would be 124 to 6 cents. All other postages haye stronger, and they themselves feel better been reduced to Canada rates. . sad and eingular accidettt occured satisfied." How could this beY? If the 'less wealthy," the poor in :gent I call them. do not compete at the larger shows with the more enterprising for fear of ridicule. Where would. the rulicele be if the "wealthy menebera of thwfratern ity," as you are pleased to tern them, brought their animals to the small shows? Why, .1 the less wealthy,'" the poor fa - upon nations when their spirit -was alive. ties and giVing theni an annual grant of They tried Se,otland, and Seotland defied money, "the obje.ct of such Societies them. When they tried Ireland halftee should he, to eitcourage improvement in Irish helped them to conquer the other :Agriculture, _Horticulture, or Arts and half. The conquest' was at the end; of Manufactures, by holding meetings for the twelfth century, rather more than a discussion, and for hearing lecteree on hundred. years after the battle of subjects Connected with the theory and Hastings. The Normans . C4nac with practice of improved husbandry, Or other the bull of Pope Adrian H in industrial processes, by promoting the their hands, for that potentate, fer circulation of Agricultural, Horticultu- some mysterious reason, considered him- ral and Mechanical products; by import - :self .as kipg of all islands. They intro- ing or otherwise procuring seeds, plants dieted the feudal system, which -was eot and animals of new and 'valuable. kinds properly understood. a ap Of land. by offering prizes for essays on questions 'rho lecturer here explained ,his view of • of scientific enquiry relating; to Agricul- ture -Horticulture, M anu iactures, and works of art. And by awardine premi- ums for excellence in the raisiug and in- troduction of atock, the invention or land-holdine, which, abstractly consider- ed,. could not be the property of any citi- zen but was the State's, to be divided according to the system of .each State. s Before the Norman conquest land as improvement of Agricultural. implemeuts property was but little considered.. and machinery, the production of grain, The stiongeat and bravest gave thien- and all kinds of vegetables plants, selves up to the noble profession of blood- flowers and freits, and generally for ex - shed, relegating to the coward the igno- cellence in any Agricultural or Horticul- ble occupetion of tilling the soil, without tural production or operation, article of any rights , at all. The feudal system manufacture or work of art." I am sorry -rights, at, least every.man iu those parts County Society, Fair, or even the Pro- attem1A• Yours= et"' = FARMER.. South Brant Fair, on Wednes ay. gave to every Man something of his to say that. eeither Breneh Society, -11.ch the Ti barons had vincial, Exhibition, itself, comes up the -see et last week, in the township of Metcalfe. On the Wth inst., Mr. Wm. Patrick died, and Mr. Richard Inch came to Strathioy and got the coffin. On Mr. Inch's return, while unhitching the horses one of then). kicked. him so that he dier'l on the 12th inst. lows would, have no retreat. iett, they —Mr. --Ted Crowley, the oldest sta.g&. would be gone and done. for entirely ! proprietor on the road. between Exeter And this perhaps would be the best and and London, has sold. out his interest in quickest way to wind up one half of the the line to his partner, Mr. Mtwkshaw, Branch Societies in Ontario. But you of Exeter, who is now sole proprietor, really should have given the enterpris- Ted. contemplates purchasing a ftrm. and ing "owners and exhibitors of first-class euding his (tars in a more peaceful man - stock," lime little credit for geeerosity, nor than stage driving. inasmuch as they have as a general —.NIL John Dalgarno, of 'West Gara- fraxa, turned up an 'Indian pipe while plowing in his farm one day recently. The pip t has been made a a light color- ed stone wes well shaped and highly sons for upholding Branch Societies, and polished, and no doubt 75 or 100 years I have done for the. present, which is, ago, had been the property of some In - that in a "social point of view" they dian chief, long since gone to his happy are beneficial. This I do not for a mo- hunting ground. ment doubt, I believe in sociality, and. —Two residents of Eatb Oxford were, that ferniers should meet oftener thee hue week. on com.plaint Of J. G. Pettit, they do for "social converse and friend- klig., Division Registrar, of that town - •4 opinions," although I ehtp, tined., one in the men of, including thing, stood quietly by and let Uie Branch Society men have it pretty much all their own *ay. A brief glance at another of. your rea- cannot coincide with you in the opinion cost" $7 10 and the other t5 60, for that the " smaller fair oilers a better op- portunity for this than the larger one," and I am somewhat doubtful as to the " reinweigoration fo the battle of life," after the-A:4y spent at the small show, mance of this Important uty, w e for I am afraid that a geodly nunibt t of should take a warning' from the above. us are too well acquaiuted with our en- - . terprising friends the hotel keepers, who —. 14"(111. last. Witham= son of Mr. , Alex. Petrie, school teacher, West have done so much to ad.vance the inter- ests of the shows in those places, not to Garafraxa, Walt standing looking at a mau boring an auger hole, when he put do the generous thing by theta, and con - his face close to the opposite side of the sequently often get a little too ,social, and the 1 timber. aud the auger coming through, feel for a day or two after rather pierced his eyeball. It is prohable the vioratized than otaerwise. But, waiving all this, and adinitaing,all teat, 1 decid- poor child vrill lose the sight of the eye. telly object to the spending df one cent of Mews. Hunter, of Pilkington, 'sold the Agricultural Igrant for . other purpo- to Mr, G. Miller, of Markham, for $600, ses than those set forth in the preamble at the Guelph Show, their prize- bull, of the act, and contemplated by the Oxford Duke, the winner of first prize Legislature M passing it. And I am and diploma at London. and also a prize almost certain the social element such as at Guelph hurt year. He also gained. the first prize at Hemilton„ this year. Messrs:Hunter also sold to Mr. Peter Rennie, of Garafraxa, their two grade heifer, whioh has stood first of her class wherever shown, for $200.. neglecting' to register births, accordeng to the requireineute of the Registration Act now in force. Tnere are many in this County, who are lax in the perfor- 1 understand you term it, is uot among the objects intended. Howthe $1,400 coming yearly to the County of Huron ehould be spent so as to meet the *spirit and intention of the Act, and best further the interests of —Prof. Buckland, of the Bureau of Agriculture in our County, is a theme Agriculture, and 11. C. Thomson, Secret - that would tax an abler pen than mine. ary of the Proviucial, Agricultural and, I hope seine one qualified will make the Art Assecietion, were present at the —The - .41fdd says r We understend f.Janada. that ;sir. M. H. Cochrane, the celebrated American contest, the Irish Pretestauts ct onnectioh between It ngland am re an , Act, but I also nay and believe that the During the prevalence of the horse dis- agriculturist and cattle breeder of Comp - slice of his neighbor'e dominwns. - In t e been able to hold. Had there been any spirit and intention of the Agricu titre o re aui were for the North, and the Catholics for or- could. the younger sons of the Norman . Township Societies are farthest from the ease in London, oxen were procured from ton,- is to be appointed Senator in the I England, net because. the -latter loved the nobility have recruited the forces ef their nerrk, that even if County Societies were the suriounding country and made to do place of Mr. Sanborn. friends in Ireland, thit cOUflrywould willina to place themselves in harmony duty in the drays and in other capacities —Alter his release from cuetody, Co_yle,, have been altogether feudal. But this with the statute, that it is impossible for instead of horees. in answer to the enquiries of _two or h d •ears the 'Norman cieties trifle away the funds as they are Se.hool has been located by the Ontario fdt as if the jury could bring hurt in —The site df the new Eaetern Normal three gentlemen, stated that he never • T but if they had convicted him he .was not the case, and the couSequwice them to do so, as long as Township So- ' been got for it. Ottawa is imt conveni- the crime charged against him. 1tnglish, but because they hated the ro- testants of Ulster. If fact, in the words of an old. hiatorian, whenever one ris could eltVays be found to turn it barons hail become Celtic c 1 e g .p . g.1 Thet the funds are man was on the spit, three other Irish was thatlir beefs stroll - ' at resent (loinGovernment m -Oeta.wa. e s ou c 0 The aspect of England may be summed • The Gerablines the Plankets, and few who have a knowledge of the er, fiercer, more cruet than taeir prede- trifled. away, is think eat), of. proof, think a more central. place could. have was prepared to die, though innocent of - . , . . ture before their eyes, will be prepered . int- of last week, wa.s not very anccess- also. The Irishman Lies between us two. llred to no ideas of chivalry end kurght- • mit many instances i proof might be i already. up in this.. Separation we cannot grant, . all else we are willing to accede to. You the De Burgos, adopted Irish ;habits. gentlemen who have so many Irishmen In their boyhood, the youlig chiefs,. un- ' .11 like their brethren in England, were . F II ' Anniversary share of public buildings and institutions•Ball, held at Mitchell, on Tneeday even - to deny the statement. Did space per - facts, and. the int awns of the Legisla- ently located, and has beetles, its u a.mong you must wtsa. wello bke —1ncentliaryism is again becoming fig. There were only about thirty America may. if ehe pleases, form a ly courtesy. They were nursed. ae the giveu in abundance, b t thist commuui- rife in the town of Woodstock and. other couples present. A very pleasant time combination yet unheard of. She may breasts of leish nurses, who taught ehem cation will get beyond *reasonable limits, places. In that town an ,empty fraane wa-s spent. pronounce Whie We I 11 b Irish legends. and they listened in the SO one or two must suffice for the pres- house in a, cent:evens position to valuable ; —Several hones in Newmarket and unable, and I think unwilling to oppose. hall. to the old harpers who sa, t e . A 11 -to-do farmer is fortunate in bl1LLocks of buildings was set on fire a few vicinity ha,ve died from the horse dist On' the other Inlaid, when the v_oice of the glories oi intestine bloodshe Ed- having a good crop, be goes to work, -and LF evepings ago. The prompt action of the , ease, S3 prevalent among horses in this . had justice done him, and that if he I anti !endeavored to stem the tide. 11-u much time and care, he selects from his ing in which it origina.ted and another been properly cared for or the disease fire briga.de confined the lire to the build- , virlinity just now. They could not have. America tells the Irishman that he has ward III. saw this decadeace with grief, by dint of farming mill and. fingers, am', .1 vio eted Celtic habits ; barley, peas and oats, with perlia,ps some frame building of little value alongside. 1 would not have proved fatal. ' he must couquer it, framed strong edicts against the Irish whole crop, say a bag fall each of wheat, t 1 — A. sad. accident .r r1 a few days ; —The finest wheat and root crops in wants mdependen T believe the Irishin u will be satisfied. Norman . The Irishman in A erica is a proof of , but he might as well have whistled to fruit, and it inset be some roots . . ..t what he can become in Ireland. He has 1 the partridges of the hills as ask a Geral- has forced to an unnatural growth. His ago, to a young child, son of Mr- Hector i the world may be produced In Marntoba, been alternately whipped and. patted ou 1. to cast off the usaties that had pene- good wife, not behied in energy for a ! McLellan, a farmer residing on the town- 1 as provedby experiment, and as witness - the back managed on English ideate trated to his toul. The Attempt WAS spec, ' brushesi` het•'Iti ilts that have 1 line between. McGillivray and Stephen. i ed at the late Agricultural Exhibition in netnad. on Irish ideas, hu never , 'ven up, and Ireland was left to itselfbeen prize takers at the shows, for it It seems the little fellow was riding in. a I that ProvhIce ; and tomatoes ripen m the God Almighty's ideas. 1 say the Irish Slie was free indeed, but her People vi ere t y 1 ., tl last ten years. Off they lumber wagon, when the hoves gave a. 1. open air ; but there a.re no fruits of any should be managed ou principles of plain slaves. 44 Mankind are to be divided in- , start to the first show in the County, i sudden jerk, throwine him over the side 1 kind there, except a species of small ge. natural justice. A. movement in this to those who work aud those who steal, i they go the. round of all the showsin the I and immediately in °front of the hind •I wild plum. which grows in. the woods, quarter has begun. The Trish Land Act into those who deserve to live and thosel 'tiding, anti quito. likely take prizes at i wheel which passed over him. The and is cultivated in gardens. Aetesestm==== el te.