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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1872-11-22, Page 11872. 0 at ITTERS I PRRISO.N, hi reapectfally Sett:forth and s=ar- re on hand and are of . . awl Stylea ale publ-io. k a specialty, and anica, and use only lent iu relying that te every purchaser. (TIGGIES: AND der to make room examine. toad -shop, i‘ -at Seaforth. o�. of Iodide of Iron r Oil. It ratty be nde Oil i% ordered,. Tier to it, This Palmonary Gou- ts, Chronic+ Kin. 1,rders arising frora . or nutrition. It Rheumatism and jpelpheaphileila Ora. containing the Soda,. Potash end_ tau% Acid. Thise iceenered Debilitya es and Scrota:1mm ;.eftal iu disease% of mad Incipient. standard medical ecret iugredionts, es without Ixesita- • WILLI& NIS, %exam, Ontario.. 'forth; S.R. Grant, ter and Druggists 25. TER& Seaforth Post -of Kisa Jane Rola John. r,f. John e. _Miss E. rAlfte 4 John v. 3•01ree relax nd, Jas. ai„ John Jae 4-, Miss E Dani Sas. US. Mr. Sane 4 t G. Wm. Phillip 4CKSON, P. af, IrOLITiTIE 3, NO, 51. _.‘111.01.1t NO 259. .SEAFORTII, FRIDAY, N6V. 22 '18 %tali ggititte tor Giiatr. FARM FOR SALE. NTORTH half of Lot 13, Con. 7, Morris, consist- -LI ing of 100 acres, 60 cleared, well fenced, aud in a good state a Cultivation, 15 acres of good pine and cedar in front, the rest of bush hard wood; one mile and a half from h saw -mill ; frame- shed. 66-x 28, log barn 59 x 32; good log house, 'good thriving orehard. Texans easy. For further par - 'Haulers inquire on the premises, or addrese JOHN MeARTICUR, Bus-I:afield P. 0. 259 FARM FOR SALE. T OT 10, Con, 8, Grey, 100 sexes, 60 acres cleared -"log honse and. barn, the • best of rail timber. For further particulars, inquire of C. R. COOPER, Land Agent, Dingle: P. 0., or D. LAMONT, Dingle P. O. 2584c •- FOR SALE. T OT 8, in the 6th concesSion, Sinless, County of -1-1 Bruce, 100 acres 45 acres meared; h good log house; land excellent and cheap. Also, lot 14, in the seam concession, '100 Sores, 30 acres cleared. Apply to Sameel Roach, on the premises or to 257.8 CAMERON a GAIIROW; Gixierich. FARM FOR SALE. -won SALE, north east quarter of lot 28, Con. 8, Township of Morris, containing 50 acres, 35 acres- eleared ; log house, with timber and lumber out for a frame barn, For farther particulars en- qaire, if by letter, prepaid, to C. R. COOPER, Land Agent, Ainleyville. 2574 2. f McILEAS BROTHERS, Pakilahera. 1 - ...el 30 ear, tes advastros. . • flIE DEAD -HEAD PASSENGER. A..1Praesleal Joke with a Moral. ,4‘ i Speaking! of railivays, there has . been a moat harineinicnis incident On one of our east country linei. In a .village nearly -five miles from a Station—which in Eng- land signifies % spot very much out of the world indeed—resided a certain yeo- man whomlsome of his convivial friends desired to persuade to become a Freemason.. Being a sensible though simple man, he had long declined these overtures, upon the ground that it would • do him no good. His wife was fond of secrets, he allowed: let them admit her into their confidenee if they would ; but for his own part, he cared nothing about such rubbish. He accepted, howe.ver, an invitation from a Masonic friend who asked him to oome down to Norwich, where a lodge *as to be held and (eepeeially)admnet given by the brother- hood. They arrived at the station some time before the train was due, and while walking up and down the platform his compaeion who had taken an opportu- nity to " interview" the station master, renewed hi a solicitations. `," You talk of ,it's being no ' good ' to beCome one of us,". said he. "Why, to begin with, if you were a Freemason, you would not have to pay for going to Norwich!' , -- "How so ?" inquired the rustic. • "Well, Freema.tons never do pay for their railway tickets. They only have to Make the sign, and then they piss • free," . ' ' . • ." I don't believe it,' said the farmer, stoutly. an the eastern counties flat contradiction, is thought nothing of) "Nay, but it is so indeed. If you will give me your honor never to make use of it agitin, unless ydu join US, I Will - teach you the sign to -day, and you shall . have an immediate proof of the truth of my statement." " What do You mean to say—" "Yes, I do ; but the train is already due. Willyou promise never to men- tion what f am about to disclose to you (for else 1 an a deed man), and also that you will not take advantage of it save on this occasion only? Very good. NOW Come intothe office, and rub your hand aleovite down your face three times- thus- - -as you will see me. do; then ask for your ticket." • . There were a good many people about the pigeon -hole through which the tickets were being givep out, and the save friend took their places in the queue. • • The Freeinaaon placed himself before his friend, and iwhen his turn came offer- s ed no money, ut ' saying. "First-class, Norwich'," gra,iely stroked his face three times, 'whereupon thestation master looked. at thim • significantly, and .gave hint his ticket. The rustic did the like, and similarly received his pass. • " Why. this is most extraordinary;" whispered he; "it will save me twenty • pounds a year in going to market" " Of eourse it will ;but remember I your promise ; you muet not take ad- vantage of the privilege unless you be-. come tine of us." , i "J'll do that as soon as you like, be gad ?" was lthe enthusiastic reply. At Norwich this sanguine individual was accordtngly admitted to be a mem- her of the. mysterious order, and what- ever personal .inconvenience the cere- mony -may have cost him, be forgot them . when on his return journey he arrived at the Nortvichtstation, and reflected that . there was Ailing te pay for his trans - Mission to Wisheach. His friend was no longer With him, but so siMple a sign as the atroking of the face three times was notne about which any mistake (1) could be Made. Aceordingly he ap- proached the .Pigeon -holo. with confi- dence,. a4c1, " Fi rst-clatis,- W isbeach , 7 and performed' the mystic ceremony. The station -Master looked at him very hard, and 'remarked, "Seven -and -six- pence." • " He couldn't have seen me do it," was the farmer's reflection, and•he there- fore "made the mysterious sign again, . with greater deliberation and, gravity' than before. ".' I don'tknow why your are -making those faces" observed tbe station -mas- ter ; " but your fare is seven -and -six- pence" . " Butalon't you see?" eXpoattilated the - newly made Mason; " I .am on the free list." .And once more he made the aig- nificant syinbol. "You'll; be in the lunatic ,asylum be, forelong,"` was the official's cynical re- joinder; and it .was not without some dill;cultyt.that; at the last motnent; the farmer obtained his ticket view by pay- ing for it, so persuaded was the station- master that he was eutof his mind, and ought to be:locked up. . The poor farmer was indeed very near- ly mad with rage and chagrin at having been so shamefully taken in, arid when he next met the friend who had so -deceived , him he addressed him by no means in a conciliatory manner. The hour'was late and the lane was lonely; the rustic was powerful, and he had an oaken cudgel in his hand. " I have got a little account to settle with you, my friend. You made a fool of me about that. railway:ticket You told me that I could alwaysget on.e -free by sttoting my face three times, if I became a Freemason.," . , "So you can, .my dear sir,"' said the eompanion, eyeing the cudgel with great " intelligence ; "1 proved it to you at ' BUSH FARR EOR BALE. T OT No. 21, Concession 8, south half, Township -5-4 Morris, containing .75 acres50 acres being the best hardwood land, balance in pine cedar and black ash. A good spring creek runs through the lot. The above lot is two and a half miles off the Northern Gravel Road. For furtherparticulars en- quire of C. R. COOPER, LandAgent, Dingle, P. Oa or to PETER McDONALD, Lot 23, Concession 8, Morris. 957'4 • FARM FOR SALE. VARMrof 139 acres for sale, 20 acres in woods, geed land and goodbuildings. Sia miles from Clinton and three and a half from Bavfield. 257 ALFRED STONEHOUSE. • FARMS FOR SALE M. MCIELLLOP. VOR SALE, on reasonable tern:es, the north half of Lot, 26, Con, 14, McKillop, containing 40 ii.cres, 2C of which are cleared, in a good state of cultivation,' and well fenced, the balance is timber land.; this lot adjoins the village of Wal ton, and. is well situated; there ia on the premises a. frante Image and barn. Also, for sale„.a LOT containing 25 acres of land, on the Gravel Road four miles north of Seaforth, this lot is all 'wood land, and is: well thnbered with hardwood; the land is of excellent quality and dry. For further particulars, apply to the undersigned, if by letter, address Seaforth P. 0. 256 N. H. YOUNG. STORE AND l'ARIC LOTS FOR SALE IN WROXETER. 'JHEsubscriber offers for sale the building in 'the village of Wroxeter now occupied as a store by Mr, A, Hood.- Also, eight PARK LOTS near the containing.in all about ten acres, in a good state of cultivation. The store and lots will be sold jointly or separately, and on easy terras, as the subscriber is about to leave this cotuatry. jOliN MOORE, Tarnberry, Within a mile of Wroxeter, on the Seaforth Road. Wroxeter, Oet. 28, 1872. 256-8 FOR SALE. - TORE AND DWELLING in the village of- Harprithey, et present occupied by HUGH ROBB, Esq. For particulars apply to KILLORAN & RYAN, Seaforth. 252 FARM FOR SALE IN MORRIS. VOR SA.LE, on easy terms, north half of Lot No. 12, Concession 6, Township. of Morris, contain- ing -100 acres, 50 of which, are cleared, well fenced, and in it good state of cultivation. There is on -the premises a good log hoose and barn. This - farm is situated within two mils and a half of it - good gravel road, arid four miles Red a half from the village if Ainleyville, at which place there will be a sration of the Wellington Grey and Bruce Railway this fall; it is wateredby a never- fathng running through it, there is no waste land, and the uncleared portion is well timbered. with hardwood; It is one of the most choice lots in the township. For farther par- ticulars apply to J. It. GRANT, Ainleyrille, THOS. HOLMES, Blyth, or to the undersigned proprietor, Mppeu Pest -office. 251 ROBERT McMOLDIE. FARM FOR SALE. (!)-ITTII HALF of the South half. of Lot No. 24, Fifth Concession of tip township of Morris, containing 50 acres, 35 cleared; well watered by a- apring creek; good log house and frame stable. Tbe above farm is only a mile anda half on a good road from the rising village of Ainleyville, where a station of the Wellington, Grey and Bruce Rail- avay will be opened this fall. For price and terms inquire (if by letter, prepeid) of C. R. COOPER, • 235 Airdeyville Land Agency, Dingle P. 0. • FARM FOR SALE IN HAY. . FOR SALE, south part Lot .21, Ninth Concession, Hay, known as the " TroYer Farm," one -hall niEe from. Zerich, on the Gravel Road; 70 acres; 60 cleared ; dwelling -house and barn; good young bearing orchard ; the land is in a good state of on1- tivation and well. fenced. For further particulars apply to W. G. WILSON, 240 -*4 Zurich. Ont. FOR SALE. A VALUABLE FARM, 160 acres, First Colleen- ' Sion, MeKillop, near Seaforth, on the main gravel road. to Goderich ; 85 acres cleared and free of stumps, with ten acres of a fallow, the rest ander grass ; well watered and fenced,4ith large frame barn, stable underueath; log farm -house, boarded outside, and good orchard; possesaion im- mediately ; title good and termS easy. For far- ther particulars apply (if by letter/ prepaid,) to . LUDWIG MEYER, Seaforth P. 0. FARM FOR SALE. T.Q$ No. 211, Con. 5, Township of Morris ; 50 =awes cleared ; log house,. there is a quantity of good pine en the lot, within one mile and a half of two good sse--raills. For further particulars, addrese WILLIAM :MOSS, 217-13e _ Dingle r. O. E0 -USE LOT FOR SALE in HAPURNEY. VOR SALE, in. the Village of Ilarpurhey; near Seaforth, a owelling-house and lot. There is on the premises a good bearing Orchard, a never. failing well *14 water; also, a good work -shop and stables, together with all other necessary out- buildings. Vie houSe is frame, well finished and pleaaantiv located. For terms aud other purlieu - Jars, apply to PETER MCCONNELL, Har,purhey, .or te the undersigned proprietor, Harpurhey, or 'Seaforth. Post -Office. JOHN REEDY. Millinery and Dress- making SZE Wisheaeh station. ,Dmi't you remember? Begs to intimateto the leak: if of Seaforth and vi- Yesbut you, saLd it was good for all einity that .ht has iota opened a Millinery and StAt1011%, and don't do for _Norwich. 1 Dressrnakine 'Estehlishment in Seaforth, in the -stood like an idiot for ten minutes strok- pm:1141es on Maite•street opposite the Farmer? Etnre.- .SIte Ii', also engsgeti a first-class Milliner and will be pia pared to execute in the neateat and -most fashionable styles work entrusted to her.' Seaentren, Nov. 9, 1872. tampitigforand Eanbroidery258,8 ". Did you stroke your face like that ? S. , returited the other. " Then, indeed, it le no *wider you- were not attended to. have no doubt the station-inaster thought you were an imposter." "But that was the way you taught me, confound you !" Yes, fer the dnen line. But , since you were travelling the . other way, my dear sir, you should have stroked your face upward, of course, like thit." "By Jove I" cried the farmer, slapping ing my face--al.ike this - before the ticket offiee, and very nearly get put in.the lock-up for my pains." NOTICE • • TS herehygaiven that the Municipal .Council of the Tqwnalrip of Grey wall. pass 0 Italaw at their next *-1 (n of Counell, to be held at Cran- brook, 25th Nevember next, fer opening. up 11 pulitte read, four rods wide between Lots- '31 and 85.Concessiona 8 and 9, anh. Mae ..1..read between. Lots nand 23, Concession{ 8 end 9. By order. J. 'X GRANT, : Township Clerk. Township Clerk's OflIce, Aiuley-rinc, Out. 8, 1872. ; 256-4 -- his own leg with his stick. "1 never thought of that. What a precious fool I've been !" ' "-Just so," returned his friend', who took care hi. leave that part, of the coun- try before next market . day. It would have been too expensive to have made a privets arrangement with , the station- masters every time that his rural acquain- tance took the train. -4•••410. i ' The' Bible in School'. To the Editor of the Huron Expositor. SIR; —Ingast week's issue of the Ex- POS1TOR appeared an article from tbs pen of a Mr. "3. A.," on the propriety of reading the Bible -in our Public Schools. The writer seeme to imagine that the reading of the Scriptures in Canadian Schools is absolutely necessary to pre- serve the morality of Canadian youth. Facts, however, prove this to be a mis- taken idea. In the majority of the Public Schools in -Ontario the reading of the Bible has been abandoned for many years. Yet crime and immorality has by no, Means increased. It is even extreme- ly difficult to show any connection be- tween the reading of its paged and the morality ,of the individual. ' History furnishes many examples of men versed in its.texts who have been guilty of al- most every crime in the catalogue, while numerous individuals might be mention- ed as.models of the highest morality who who have never heard a single chapter lepeated. John Stuart Mill, referring to this subject, eloquently remarks that .4 It dim do truth no service to blink the fact known to all who have the most -ordinary acquaintance with literary his- tory that a large portion cf the noblest and mt st valuable moral teaching has been the work not , only of meit who did -not know, but of men who knew and re- jected the Christian faith." It is true - that the moral training. pf his pupils ehould be the first care of the competent teacher, but morality is taught by eclu- eeting the pupils' sense. of justice aud right, and this can be -successfully ac- complished without the introduction of the. Bible.. - Remember, I do not attempt to depreciate the reading of the Bible, not by abny means. Birt:I maintain that to•read it in our schools and to teach the ten commandments and apostolic _creed without making, them sectarian is an im- possibility. • Attendiug the ntost of our Public Schools are Roman Catholics, - Preebyterians and Baptists. Each of these sects has its own Bible. So the single question, which should be read in a school consisting of these three denoin- inations presents at once an iusurinouut- able difficulty. Again, the making obligatory of the , above named religious performance in our schools would necessitate the teach, er's explanation of many scriptural pis - sages, which would not appear plain to tiremind of the enquiring pupil, heticew.e see\1 hat these explanations would be Mor - mo , Catholic, Adventist, Universalist, nitariau or Quaker, according as the teacher professed to belong to 'either sect. View it, if you choose, from an- other stand -point and "J. A.'s " ideas appear equally absurd: Each school iu Ontario is a state institution, to which every individual is compelled to pay ac- . cording to his possessions and in which every patent, whether religionist or seep - tic, has a right to educate his children. From this it follows that if " J. A. "can by any show of reason demonstrate the Protestant's right to compel the teacher to ' occupy a certain number of liters in the week in reading and teaching from the Protestant Bible, he will by the aame reasoning establish the Catholic's right to enforce the teacher to 'do the - same with the 'Catholic Bible. Yea, further, he will have conceded to tbe in. the right to.coeree the teacher in the section in which he resides to °cent:pt.; exactly the same amount of time in pro- pagating the doctrines of Thomas Paine. . It is to be hoped that ",T. A." will "dispassionately consider the question." If he does I have no -doubt- but he will; , see in that liberality of our educational. system which he it present considers such a defect its noblest characteristic. Yours etc. ANTI-Secrartratt. Usborne, Nov. 9, 1872. -moo el"' Religious Instruction in Public Schools. To. the Editor of the Huron Expositor. Your correspondent, "J. 4.." on the disuse of the Bible in Schools, lament& this defect in our ed,acational system, . and insists upon the religious' teaching of our youth through our common schools. I will notrefer to thetransparent bigotry which crops through his pretensions to enseetarianisne but I would ask your correspondent to point out the difference in principle between devoting the public money for the religious instruction of the toning through the medium of our com- mit' school system, and devoting it for the same purpose by means . of a state - :paid hierarchy. Has the grand princi- ple of religious liberty, which lies at'the basis of- Canatlian legislation, and which Britain is exerting herself to attain to, to be violated by such arguments as those put forward by your corresppudent ? it may be, or,it may not be true, that a few bouts each week may be devoted to religious instruction, (or rather to read- ing the Bible and rehearsing a dogma, without instruction, as your correspon- dent's argument seems to imply,) with- out any serious enoroachment on the teacher's time and attention; but, is it right. I would ask, to impose such a duty on the teacher at - the public expense? And, is it wisdom to neglect the trite but useful aphorism "Get in the little finger and then the whole hand.," in mat- ters so important as the conservation of the principle of religious liberty in toor system ,of legislation ? Nay, further, I would'ask if it would be right to sub - jet any teacher to a civil disability. un- less be consented to betray the dictates of his conscientious scruples? Of course, I can easily coneeive, that it may sound strange to your correspondent's ears to talk of "infidel or sceptical" teacher e havingconscientious scruples; but it is necessary to inform him that they may have such scruples, just as sus- ceptible a his out and that tbe civil and polif al rights of septics said ie. 1 fidels can by no nmans be ignored. It is et my intention` here to discuie the road principle of religious liberty and ta application to the subject of legisla- ion. I world, however g ask your cor- responde t, since he appears to acquiesce that p4nciple, so far, at least, as re- ards reli ohs sects, how he proposes to vuid sec ttria-nism in reading the Bible and rehearsing the treed., unless these }exercises,should simply become an unin- telligent ou-tine and parrot -like jargon? There.ift o man in his sober senses but met ad it that to read the Bible with underst ding and. profit the narratives therein mitodied require illustration ; the princi les of action displayed by the various a tors in the great drania of reve- lation, an the doctrines and beliefs in- culcated y the sacred writers ..require elucidatio , explanation and. a eertain amount of. discussion upon obscure terms, -.and how is all this to be ac. jomp1ished if a teacher is to be debarred mai pursuing the same method of train- ing the uederstanding of the young he is requiredo pursue in respect to other j• breeches of instruction, and thereby crammin the mind and loading the mem- ory with a mass of barren knowledge. And if, oo the other hand, he is required or permit ed to discourse, elucidate and explain e various passages of Scrip - tare whic •might be made the subject of the scholars' task, how is the evil of sec- tarianism, w, 'ich your correspondeet em- phatically di claims, to be avoided T Ts not all seetarianism founded on the pecu- liarity of the interpretation given' to va- rious passages? aid the questimewould then'arise, whose interpretation shall the teacher be required to give? When your correspondent solves this question without the introduction of sectarianism ici his edncational , scheme, be will have accomplished the Most wonderful feat of the age. ; But, again, does not the cred- itable manner in which, according to iyour correspondent's statement, the scholars whom he saw-exarnited acqui- tted themselves in the various branches a 'sufficient reason why the 13ible should not -be used in schools as a claee book, since the 'great end of public,. education can be so efficiently attained withput it? to Division Court clerks, bailiff, law- yers, pettifoggers, bummers, &c.Would prevent a great deal of hard teeling and false swearing. It would enable pony a poor storekeeper in the country to sleep sound at nights when he halo" note to meet—he could count his money and not his book debts for the approaching day. Credit has induced many an honest man to ruin himself and get himself the name of villam. " No credit" will keep many trom a debtor' e doom and from .the drunkard's grave. I would exempt debts to doctors, preachers, importers, andtthose who buy at wholesale to -sell again at wholesale. Lawyers can look out for themselves. My language may be rather abrupt but I feel what I say for I speak -from a little • experience. know in several cases that if the bad debts could . be colleced the amount would be wonderful to coutemplate," ean.ada. —Our old townsman, Mr. John Dann- cey, has been appointed Captaiti*40( the Parkhill junior- fire brigade. —The Earl and Countess of cattiness, Scotland, arrived at the Rossin House, Torento, on Saturday last. —A young woman 22 years of age, daughter of Mr. Marshall, Fulford, Hull township, near Ottawa, went into a trance one night last week, in -which cohdition she is said to have remained for 42 hours. • —The Dominion Telegraph Company has completed a uew line _from London to Sarnia and opened. offices at Ailsa Craig, Parkhill, Widder, Forest and Point Edward., —The Ontario Car' Company of Lon- don, 'has purchased the extensive saw mills of Joseph Northwood, Esq, ill OhatlIalll. They intend to greatly en- large and improve the works for the pur- pose of cuttiog the lumber used in the construction of ears. —One of thei Parkhill minintere last Sabbath forcibly denounced drunkenness. and stated, as an instance of Parkhill depravity in this respect, that at the late tire almost everybody, from doctors to hod -carriers, were intoxieated. —Of the many constituencies offered the Premier of Ontario, Hon. Oliver Mo - He should be prepared, at least, to Show wat, he has selected the North Riding of that that end would be better accom. Oxford—the present member, Mr. Perry, !plishecl aCcompanied with Bible reading having, with the full concurrence of his .aed the rehearsal of dogmatic .beliefs friends, consented to resign. - • than without them, before he attempts —Mr. George Baxter, a farmer of the to cibtain his proposed innovation. W. N. W. township of Logan, recently weighed on the Mitchell -market 'scales, two dressed voneidering the best mode . to be {Opted for the aisolition of , the system, of giving credit by traders and linsiness men, a coiTespondent of the 210netary Times, under the signature of " AtConn- try Merchant," proposes a rather novel although effectual plan, In the remarks which we quote below, every person who has had any experience of the, credit system will concur. With regard' to the proposition made by -this eorretpondebt, we believe that his plan is the only one which will eradicate the evil, and the sooner it is carried out, the better it will be for all concerned. The following are the remarks referrrd tb Without laying claim to any origin ality, I *ill give my view of the bust mode to be adopted for the carrying out of the cash system. We all know that the best cure for drunkennesa is to- tal abstinence, and to prevent the liquor traffic, the best way is total prohibition. Now, to make the cash system a success,. I would abolish the collection of debts by process of law altogether. with a few eitceptions, whicIN will enumerate here- after. I know that the very idea of this will startle some of your readers, lint perhaps they will get over the scare bet - fore they set throngh. I speak from personal experience and I again repeat it that the' credit system is one of the greatest evils " that human flesh is heir to." I may cite a case or two in point: a man here wanted to go into business, he went in, upon the strength of getting somil recommendations he got credit, and not being a good business man, is now. in 18 months nearly a bankrupt. 1{e got credit and it ruined hint.' lf he had been refused be: would have owed no- body. Another case is that ot a man, who stood well in the Mercantile Agen- cy books, besides being industrious, so- ber and very attentive to business; the 'commercial travellers pounced on him houhcis and tintlaced him to buy theavily, always bringine o up the argu- ment, "Why, I have sold such and such a quantity to your neighbor, surely 3-Q11 can•take as much." The -result of his credit in this case. .although he still stands, was that :he was Rifled many times and has paid fees to -lawyers, county courts, nailiffs &e, amounting. to several hundreds of dollars. -Oh. credit you are the cause of a great deal' of mis- t chief ! I might go on and mention sev- eral cases such as the foiegoing. You may reply that merchants and manufac- turers are not obliged to credit unlees they. please, I grant that, but if they want to do business they must follow the custom or shut up shop. To stop drunkenness—stop - the whiskey, &c. You cannot have a sober community and plenty of hotels at the same time. You may preach till you are hoarse, but it is of no use. I know fin- a fact that many bankruptcies have been caused by get- ting and giving too much credit. Many a man who goes into Lowness, does so with a firm determination of being honest, but after a while he gets behind, borrows from everybody, stratagems of various kinds are resorted to, sometimes in the shape of forgery, abscondiog, &c. He is too honest to steal and ashamed to beg. I know of no other plan to make business "cash '1than to a'xilish the har- ciftle coliection of 'debts by giving 12 or 18 months notice to _all conerned. The collectioof debts has been,a great nuis- ancen from time immemorial, and m as long as people are able to make en- tries in their books. it would prevent many a man from going into buaineas who is getting too lazy te: work on lie farm or at his trade It would save fees Abolition of Credit. , wh oign se,hewl was n42i; natnhas 50.71a5pothu*e livfrelighItieocf. tivelyt •• - • -7- -Iia4'epattet knui Toronto 04 ge. J. B. Cook., proprietor of the t (wont°. Evening Express, and foi'merly one of the proprietors of the Toronto Telegraph, has absconded, leaving- sundry sorrowful creditors behind. —Mr. Joseph Whitehead wee enter- tained at a complimentary supper by the citisens of Clinton, on Friday et ening, the 8th inst., prior to his removal from that village to Toronto. Mr. Whitehead has been a resident of Clinton for 23 years. —Mr. Penton, formerly of Seaforth, is agent for the Dominion of Canada for a weekly illustrated paper, published by lienry H. Sage,. of Buffalo, with the title For Everybody. His present headquar- ters is Toronto. —Mr. Thomas Grigge, of Blenheim; has a red beet which, when cleaned mid trim- med, weighed 11 pounds and 10 ounces. —And now Stratford has appointed a interview the Government on the Western Normal . ' new channel in such volumes and such force that it has already undermined a considerable portion of the embankment ana deist' oyed some of the docks. —Shortly: after the steamer Nipissing left Gravenhurst wharf on the 5th, inst. her course ,was slightly altered so as tfj intercept a deer which . was swimniing across the bay, and which, on approach.. ing near enough, • the engineer shot. Great excitement prevailed on hoard the boat duringthe chase, which lastea about ten minutes. —At a meeting of the Owen Sound Town Council on Monday last, in rest ponse to a communication from • the President of the Wellington,{3tey and Bruce Railway Comyany, a SUM 05 $500 was gravted. to the company ,to pay hall; the exp4nses of a prelinnnary survey for an extension of the road from Paisley to Owen Sound. tt : —A drove of 15 horses were. taken from Toronto last Monday, to the lum- ber regions of Michigan, where Cana- dian stock is highly appreciatdd. —Ae Y:ornuntgafterladyilI13Baarrilloewweenis by rPrisedth find- ing a barber's pole fixed opposite, her door. A. countrymatt called in to Je ahaved, but the lady in question do lined the job. - —About this time( the year we ex- pect to see in ninetymine out • of one hundred. ,of our exchanges, the poemnt " Beautiful Snow,' with rearks on its reputed authorship. Also Poe's verse about the sleigh -bells, beginning— " Hear the sledges with Silver bells I . What a world of merriment their melody foretells !" will be quoted very eatensively. .—A By-law, granting 8100,000 to as- sist in the construction of the Credit Valley Railway, has been submitted to the ratepayers by the Toronto Council, ill and wbe voted on before long. =The Guelph Sewing Machine Com- pany have been advised by a cable tele- gram that they were awarded a gold t medal for their sewing machines at the exhibition of arts and manufactures late- ly held in Lyons, France. —Nine deer, one of which—a buck— weighed,- when dressed 250 pounds, were shot hi the township of Ashlield, on Tuesday last. . • , - The Board of High School Trustees, Kincardine, recently advertised for a teacher for their'sChool. Twenty appli- cations have already been received. —Nearly all the horses in Halifax, Nova Scotia, have become affected 'wide' the epizootic. It is also reported to be • general throughout that section of the Province. —Six young women, all belonging to respectable families..in ltion*mid,' -hate pleaded guilty before the Police Ma.gietrate to -11, charge preferred against • them, of stealing shoes from shoe estab- •lishrnents in the city. It seems that these 'L' lasses " had been attending a dancing club in the city, and stole the shoes and afterwards pawned: them for money to pay their expenses at the club. Such is life. —The writ for Mr. Mowat's election in Neal' Oxford, has been issued. The nomination- takes place on FOday next, the 29th of November. Mr. Mowat will likely be elected. by acclamation. . --Mr. Thompson, the Reform candid- ate for Welland, was on Tuesday last elected by a niajority of 88, over Dr. King, the Government candidate. At the last election, the late Mr. Street, an uncompromising supporter of the Gov- ernment, was elected by a majority of 529. . This looks " blue " for the U. PH delegation to visit Toronto and e bdisalVintel struction trains now employed on the School locationSomebody will sureltline of the Canada Southern Railway, and witha month the road will permit —The Wellington, Grey and Bruce — There are nine locomotives and con - of the -running of through trains from one - Rail - end to the other. It will be opened for way company have purchased twelve acres of land. for station grounds at travel probably by the middle of January. Newry, in the township of Elm'. awl — Ou Satin - day afternoon last an em- heve now a gang of men employed. in ployee of the McClary Manufacturing clearing it off. The company must in. Company, London, met with an accident tend doing a large business at this 84- of a most painful and horrible descrip- tion. Thts is probably the -point at which the greater bulk of the lumber in that section will be shipped. —It is reported that a surveying party ia. passing through the country from Buffalo to the bt. Clair River prepare - tory to the construction of a railway par- allel to the Canada Southern. The party are working under orders from the great railway king, -Vanderbilt, and are vigor- Ouoly pushing the work entrtisted to them. *—The 'Stratford Beacon say's : The first of -eight new magnificent passenger carriages, intended for the Grand Trunk Railway, has arrived at the Stratford station. It is one of the finest on the continent, the inside being fitted and furnished in a most gorgeous manlier. --On Monday of last week, while Mr. John Quinlan, of the township of Rib- bed, residing near the boundary line of Tuckersmith, was chopping, he cut his foot severely in the instep. —Some speoimens of lead ore have tion. lie ie a young married man named George Shelton. He was conveying a lady' full Of molten iron from the furnace to one of the moulds, and tripped and fell.between two of the boxes an such a manner that he lost all control of the ladle,. :which fell upon one of the boxes and emptied the burning liquid upon his , body from his breast downward. He is expected*to- recover. A few Sundays age as a man in a church in Galt was descending the stairs from the gallery, with the -collection plate in hie hand, when about half way down his foot caught in the matting and he fell forward headlong, breaking some of his ribs, his arm, and one of his *fing- ers, and scattering the'coppers promiscu- ously over the church. , —A farmerin the township of reel, had a pocketbook containing over 42,000 stolen from his house a few days ago. Farmers having money in their, houses should be careful to have their doors and windows properly secured at night _Too many are frequently very careless m been taken from Lot No. '20, concession A, township of Galway, County of this respect. .y. , Peterborough. The vein from whi-- rri ch Ateble murder was committed on they were taken is said to be four feet Friday of last week in the township of wide. The specimens are rich in lead. Dummer, about 25 miles from the town —At the Provincial Agricultural Ex- of Peterboro. The victims are the wife . . hibition, held at Fort Garry, Manitoba, , It seems that on the morning of of a fanner named Payne. and his hired some weeks ago, the turnips exhibited averaged ten inehes in diameter, and a the day in.question .Payne had I one to weight of twelve poneds each, some of a neighbor's to thresh, leaving behind the beet roots were at !east two feet lona- hiln a,his wife, the boy above alluded to, and one mangOld wurtzel weighed sixteen and a hired man by the name of Bretton.. pounds, So much for Manitoba as a root On returning about 3 o'clock in the . gPOwing country., afternoon he waft horn -Wed at finding his —An Early Rose potato weighing d ' wife lying. about three feet from the three pounds was grown this year on. the oc:r of the house with her throat cut fern] of a Mr. McWilliams, near As- from ear to ear, and her head beaten to down, in the Muskoka !tree Grant Dis- a jelly,. a pick -axe covered with blood. .. and heir was lying aside her. On pur- trict. nil).et (7 the search, he found the boy in the —It seems that •,notwithstanding all turinp pit close to the hbuse, with his the money which has been spent in trying i throat cut also, - and gliite dead. The to make Goderigh harbor a 'harbcr of . man Bretton was no place to be foun& refuge, it is not a harbor of refuge yet, He was, however, arrested in Peterhoro butts, if anything _more dangerously in- the same night and has been committed secure than it previously was. During a to stand his trial for the murder. MTS. slight " wind biow " the water from the Payne was quite a young wornan, having lake rushes into the harbor through the been iharned only about two years. „