The Huron Expositor, 1873-01-10, Page 44.
THE HURON EXPOSITOR.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
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Farm for Sake -Cameron dt-Garrow.
School Teacher Wanted at Petrolia.
To Carlieuters—Wni. Ceate:s.
Dissolution of Partnership. `
Canvasser Wanted. --C. T. Doyle.
Highest Price for Raw Furs—E. Cash.
• Holidays Over—M. R. Counter.
List of Letters—S. -Dickson, P. M.
Regular Meeting—Britannia Lodge.
Selling Out Furs -=N. B.*Itewter.
No Market Fees—Allen'e Grocery. .
Weolen Goods at Cost --Hoffman Bros.
Another Sale—A. G. McDougall.
Free Markets—Thos. Kidd.
Insivent Notice—Thos. Kidcl.
won txpoitor.
FRIDAY, JAN. 10 1873.
The Pisa of the-Defaultincz Mu--
nieipahties.
• We have long been at a loss to
conceive upon what grounds- those
. municipalities inlehtq to the Mu:
nicipal Loan pa ad seek to 'se reliev-
ed from that' indebtedness, or what,
• arguments could -be-produced tp
show that they have no.iight to pay
their honest dues. Our curiosity
has, at length, been in part gratified.
We have before is a detailed report
of .the arguments submitted to the
Government by a defalcation repre-
senting the Couaty of Perth. In
this report the case of that Comity .
is.set forth es follows
" In 1852the united counties of Itu-
ron, Bruce and Perth borrowed under
the Municipal Loan Fend §500,000, in-
vesting that anemia iit the :purchase of
stock inthe Buffalo. Brantfoid and God-
ericherailroad. le December ,of the 88Ine
year, at the separation of Perth from
Huron and Bruce. ten thoutandehares,
or. $200,000 of this stock was transferred
to Perth. In 1856, on the re-orgenize-
tionof the company, under the title of the
Buffalo and Lake Huron Railway Com
-
poesy. this stock. was cancelled or wiped
I out, in order to enable the; eompany to
raise funds to complete the 'A:pad to God,
erich, almost the entire contributions of
the united coueeies having been expend-
• ed on works of construction east of the
town of Paris, in the County of Brant.
The grounds on- which the elounty of
Perth now asks for partial of erreite te-
• lief from the paYment of this railway
debt rest mainly on the -following con- t
siderations :•
1. That the investment proved a total P
loss to the County, so far asany direct I
returns are concerned. -
2. The national character ;of, the Un-
dertaking in aid Of which the debt wee
contracted. •
•
3. That the municipalities more -di-
rectly interested aid advantaged by the
read have not contributed toward its
construction in a fair proportion, accord-
ing to the advantage derived, as either
• Perth or Huron and Brice."
These are -:the arguments pat °
forth bar Perth. Let_ us see what
they are worth. First—"That the
ihvestinent Droved a .total loss to e
the County." -This we grant, so w
• far as clitect benefit is concerned; w
but hes the indirect benefit received
froM the construction of the road A
not much more than dempensated or
but although- correct, the Gove
`ment :would not be justified in
lieving Perth of her indebtedn
It is not pretended on behalf of t
COunty •that she has not recei
full value, indirectly, for the mo
she hail expended. If, ;,therefo
other municipalities. have got be
fag for which they have not gi
an equivalent, it would only
making wrong worse to place' Pe
on an equality with them, by f•
giving tier a portiontof her indebt
ness. • Every copper which Pe
is.allowed to pocket from this: lo
is taken from other municipaliti
which have either paid far the be
fits they have received from the
dertaking in question, or tlt
which have teceivecl no benefit fr
ie at all. So that, instead ot re
dying the evil, the Governme
w ould• but make it more wide spre
were they to comply -with the
maricls of Perth as above made
We also notice in the arguments
put before the Government by this
Couity of Perth deputation, a plea
of inability to pay is insinuated. •
This, we must confess, is pretiy
rich,- coming from such quarter.
It was.only at the last Meeting_of
the (.!onticil ot that County that the
Chm
airan, and spokesman of this
deputation, proposed a resolution to
submit a lay -law granting' $60,000
as •tt bonus t& another railway
scheme. • This rlsolution- was lost
by a msjority of ione or two. Had
it not been that the County was so
soon to assume the poverty stricken
role before the Covernmeut, the
resolution would: undoubtedly, have
passed. And just so sure as the
County is relieved of all V share of
this debt, just so sure will a similar
1 116801 tiOU w passed at die; follewing
meeting. It is not poverty th
prompts .the attempt to shirk ti
payment of this honest debt, but
desire to build up the interests
the County with money •filche
from honest neighbors: •
.1
• When there is so little baton' i
the arguments so ably and craftil
put forth by the Chairman of th
Perth delegation; we may fairly con
elude that theinnumfrable delega
ions from other bankrupt munie
alities, yvhich for the past feN
nonths have impoIturied the Gov
rnment, have not put on recor
nything of sufficient weight to con
vince the Government that the
should be allowed to -shirk Aiie pay
4ment of theirs just debts, by shoving
•thew ,froni their own shoulders •t
those of others.
pening of the Ontario Legis
lature.
The Ontario Legislature was or en
d at Toronto, on. Wednesday laht.
e expected to be able to give, this
eek, the Lieutenant -Governor's 1
rn-
re-
ess. -
hat
ved
ney
re,
ne-
yen
be
rth
or-
ed-
rth
an
es
110
un
ose
.oin
tutional pritieiples laid down by the
Governmentt of Mr. Blake, the judg-
markt of the Legislature with respect
to the management of the Blind and
Deaf and Dumb Asylums respec-
tively will be taken 'yen Bills for
thet purpose tobe laid before the
House. A Bill for the estaelish-
ment of an Inebriate Asyluin is
also one of the measures to 1::e tath-
-mitted.
" In the deliartment of Law Re-
form a Bill will be introduced which, sold °Jut his shares to Mr. Whit
e law Reid, who wasf principt
at editor of the paper under Mr. Gre
e ley. The price paid by Mr. Reid
d for these shares was upward of hal
u- a million dollars. Mr.. Reid is a
o clever young journalist, who made a
t, reputation as a war corresponden
but not regardad as more tha
moderately pecunious. The que
don thenaarises, where did be g t -
the half million dollars ? The ge
eral belief is that it was furnishe
by Mr. Jay Gould, the famous Wa 1
street swindler, who, if it were
easy to bring to justice a stealer •f
millions 88 a stealer of pennie
would now be in the penitentiarl
This impression is strengthened b
the fact that the Tribune ha' i of lat
been whitewashing Gould, and -tr
ing to palliate hie misdeed
o The -result of all this cannot hu.
be disastrons to a primal, th
prosperity of which hitherto ha
been due to its high mot al tone an
its advocacy of honesty and recti
tude in the administration. of publi
and private affairs.
Presidency. At this juncture, Mr
Orton, a large, capitalist, stepped in
and bought up enough of the stock
to give him 'a controlling interest in
the concern. Mr. Orton's intention
was to make the Tribune- again a
straight Republican paper. Dis-
covering, however, that its circula-
tion and business had- fallen oft im-
mensely during the past year, on
account of its political course, e
became sick of his bargain, and
whilst preserving to the respectiv
Courts of Law their independe
action and powers, will tend in th
direction of the fusion of Law an
Eqiiity. Another measure will i
troduce certain aniendn3ents int
• the Controterted Elections Ac
ale- ;with the view ,of further Oeapening
nt and shriplifying proceedlIngs under
ad that statute.
le- "The Dominion Government
have ileclined to submit the decis-
ion of the disputed Ontario North.
West boundary question to any
other tribunal than the Judicial
Committee ot the Privy Council.
Meantime the :Local Goverhruent
have been a3tively pursuing their
;nquiries- into the evidence relating
to this important matter, and,. from
the materials collected, the views
they have n3aintaine'd appear to
very conclusively estal;lislied..
"Quebec still maintains a position
hostile to the 4rbitratian Award,
and, as the Federal Government_sde-
clines to. act ttpdn the award until
the Privy Council has pronounced
upon its validity, the GoiTerntnen
pf Ontario are taking all the steps
possible to, msent their ease for
the deCision of the Judicial Com
mittee. -
"The Comrnissien to determine
at the boundary between • Ontario and
le Qfiebec is proceeding with its labors,
11, which are in the nature of a sur -
o vey, and do not involve auy terrao.
d tial difficiulty.
The financial calculations of the
n late Treasurer have peen fullY jus -
y tifieu with respe4 to the revenue and
e expenditure of the past year, to
- which fact the Public .Accounts bear
_ most encouraging testimony.'!
The Death of a King and Its
Consequences.
The King of the Sandwich Is-
lands is dead. He was the fifth of
Y his' name who reigned in these is-
- •
• lands and with him the Kaineham-
o eha family becomes extinct. • There
for the amount invested!? We ven- di
dire to say that there is' Scarcely a th
farmer or bositiess man in the Conn- 'al
• ty of Perth tOcday, who' would., be w
willing to part with the rod for the co
sum it cost. But, aside altogether in
from this, in order te show the in- di
• j ustice of the demand, it must be of
I maim bered th at Huron has also
•,.borrowed from the same soiree and Pi
for the same purpose as Perth' at
Huron,4althouh not More able, has tio
• proved more willing, and has m
• ated her dela, whereas Perth has fo
never evenattempted to pay the
first cent. Nov; We ask, Would it co
be just or honest to tax the rate- er
payers of Huron to assist to pay off re
• the liabilities of Perth. For dm ot
• past fifteen years Huron has been va
ground down with taxa tion to pay ye
• off this uebt. Pert 1, on the other in
hand, has talien the matter quite by
' easy, has paid off.none of the aebt, Pr
and now asks to be relieved, throw- do
ing the burden upon tope Province,-
and- CoMpelling Huron to assist in ist
paying.it, even after having paid its flo
own. Perth was as able to pay her in
debt as Huron, had she oeen willing. nu
Her unwillingness, therefore, should of
• nOt now fprin a, reason for her being de
entirely absolved 'froth it In fact, tri
were she freed from this obligation,. co
it woeld be but offering a premium of
for thriftlessness and dishonesty.
That the Ontario Go % ernment will
do this, we do not much.believe.
Second—" The national character
of the undertaking in aid of NVhich
the debt mas Contracted." The to
County of _Perth did not aid the un-, -ina
dertaking because of- its national all
character. The aid was extended title
• because of the local benefit the un- -
dertaking would confer. The debt4, pro
was, therefore, contracted to secure inc
a local benefit. That benefit has ing
been secured, and has been enjoyed
• by the Countfor years. The era
money which secured it to the Coun- mea
ing
al n
in a
cil
ame
the.
to P
for
logi
ter g
Toro
ddress, and a full report of the
;ening proceedings. We have been
sappoieted in this, however, by
e Toronto mails of yesterday not
here,—the mail trains, both
ays, having been cancelledon ac -
mut of the storm. For the'follow-
g anticipatory synopsis Of the Ad-
•ess, we are indebted to the Olobc
Wednesday: -
"The prosperous state of the
s;yinc-e and the success which has
tended the scheme of Confedera:
-1;s° far as Ontario is concerned;
ay be expected to furnish cause
r warm congratulation. • ;Without
ha.vina recouise to- taxation several
stly public institutions have been
ected, and liberal aid has been
ndered to ' various iailway and
her undertakings calculated to ad-
nce the prosperity of the country,
t there still remains, after provid-
g for all the sums hitherto voted
the 'Legislature, a surplus in the
ovincial Treasury of four million
liars.
"The pledges given by the Min -
during hist session, ;lad the
uriishing condition of, the finances,
dicate. the present as. a suitable'
mnent for effecting the adjustment
the Municipal LoanVund in-
btedness, and making such a dis-
bution of the. sqrplus ;may ,he
nsistent with justice to all sections
the country.-'
"The speechwill allqe to the
rapid progress made 14, various
railway enterprises already aided
by the .Legislature, and the House
will be asked to give further effect
the liberal policy it has already
ugurated, in response to the ap-
cations of other railways forassist-
e from the Fund.
Bold and energetiC measures to
mote' immigration to the- Prov-•
e will also be indicated as
the assent of the Legislature.
'Education will receive a consid-
ble amount of attention, the
sures .under this head co mpris-
: the esta.hlishment Of
°until schools; the impro verrient
popular directiou of the Conn -
of Public Instruction;,eettain
ndments in the School Law;
consolidation of the law relating
fiblic and High Schools, a Bill
the management of the Techno-
cal College,.and one for the bet-
oiernmen t ogke`Viiiversiq of
nto, by means of Con.vocation.•
In accordance with the consti-
ty borrowed from the Pi ovince,
and should be repaid. The County
has -received an .equivalent for the
.money they paid', but the Province
has received no equivalent fpr the
loan to the County. Would it be
right, then, that the. CAnnity which
borrowed the money, and profitably
invested it, should be relieved from
repaying it?
Third—The third argument as
above quoted is no doubt correct,
CC
•
is a question now as to who will
succeed. Co the responsibilities and
privileges of his high office. It
would certainly be DO easy matter
to fill his place, literally speaking,
for we are told. that the deceased
monarch weighed three hundred
pounds at the time a his death,' and
there seems to be quite as much
trouble to find one to take his offici-
al position. The lega! successor, one-
WiUiani Luanilo, is a drunkard,
and on that accomit ineligible for
the position. .Aniong, us Anglo
Saxons, who flatter ourselves on
our _high civilizatioit, di unkeness is
no bat:„ to the *Attainment of _mgal
or even 'Presidential honors) but
among the virtuous audwich Is..
landers it is different. A Mrs. Bish-
op, a woman of position and influence
in the islands, has been offered the
throne, 'ut has declined the honor,
and at present the Chief Justice'an
American named Allen, acts as Re,
gent. What the upshot will be is
difficult to foresee. - If the natives
were capable of seilgovernment, the
problem would he easily solved by
fmiaing a Republic, but this is un-
fortunately not the case. They arel
moreover, rapidly dying out, and if
the present annual reduction of
population continues, the nation will
be, in a few _years, like- their Royal
family, extinct. In 1823, the popu-
lation of the Sandwich Islands
amounted to 140,000 ; in 1853,
thirty years later, it had diminished
to 74,000. and now numbers about
55,000. Doubtless the islands ivill
ultimately fAinto the bands of the
Unitech, Stateg. Or Great Britain.
Their proximity to.the Pacific coast
of the United States, makes them a
lesirable acquisition for that- power,
while their availability as a, naval
station would make them almost,
equally valnable to Great Britain.
Some oftho English papers, among
them the -Times, are willing to let
the Sandwich Islands go to the
tates, t ie Fiji Islands, which are
also in ,an unsettled :governmental
Condition, be annexed colonially to
Great Britain as a sort of set-off: .
POOR 01X1 HORACE GREELEY'S pa -
• How DREADFULLY all Xi ORS 80 034
of our American cousihas are abort
their high tariff! The followin
paragraph which we find .in th
special telegraphic Washington coi-
.
respondence of the Buffalo Commer-
cial Advertiser, of Jan. 6, will be
very amusing to our Salt men :
"A SALT SYNDICATE.
The Canadian interest, which obtains
in the townof Goderich and. Seaforth, g
is preparing to make an attack on the' 0
United States manufacturers. through a
ConereEisional lobby, and members of a a
Sea -forth 'Syndicate' have already n
• made their appearance here. The Cite- P
adieus complain of excessive duties, and 11
expect to make Congress take' them off, C
so that the Canadian salt interest may c
subsist from the trade of the States. Of t
course Congress Will at once comply with
• the demands of the Seaforth 'Syndicate' ti
otherwise it might as well cease to exist,
and the Syracuse manufacturers Will suf-
fer in consequence."
This Washington mare's nest, or
" Seaford' Syndicate," as our alarm-
ed correspondent has it, is an illus-
tration of how " the wickid flee
when no man pursueth."
ed an address, reciting the benefit
conferred upon Ireland by the Jioly
See, and tendering His Holiness a
coetribution of Peter's pence. The
Pope, in responding, deplored the
ingratitude of people who permitted
the spoliation of the Church. Te
made an exception in favor of the
Irish people, whom he praised .for
their enduring attachment to the
Church, and congratulated them on
the preservation of theit feith. , ile
concluded by giving the Apostolie
blessing to Ireland.
Li43 In Kansas.
A correspondent of the Water
Ohrimicle who has been six years in
West writes the following from Law-
rence, a ansis . It will be 'observed hear
fpraeni
paints in a lese roseate vie* thth
an other
writers we have been accustomed to ha
.
The north winds are reEtraly frightfu,
and are felt severely by man and beast
Canada is by no means the only climate
• which; has sudden and severe chanes
in the weather. And although the tem-
ters -here ale shorter, and some of the
other seasons may have peculiar advan-
tages, yet this deponeet is of the opinion
that taken all in ali, a more uorthe
climate is prefera,ble, since this, from
geographical location, frequently becom
the battle -ground of the raging eleme
of the north and south, the east and t
west.
FEVER AND AGUE.
Chills and fever is the most comm
disease here. as T. believe ft is throligho
the West, although there are ma
other ills which afflict hunianicy on th
prairies. , Many people, in feet, the gr
majority- in the country especially, li
in such poor houses, that it isliard
possible foe' them to keep good healt
The laws of physical life cannot be co
sweetly vioteted, without beine follow
sooner or later, by the inevitable res.
—bodily suffeeieg. The high price
lumber and consequent great expense
building, prevents most people fro
having comfortable houses for seve
years after their -arrival, since there it
so many ways for them t� spepd th
ready money in getting a start in a ne
country. So it is easily seen 'why the
is so much sickness.
HARD TIATES—PRtcEs.
Just at this time the financial prospee
enerally ate somewhat dubious throug
ut the West. "Times are har," is t
complaint on all hands. Money matte
Attend have been, exceedingly tight f`
early a year. The farmers are co
killing very much, for they get next
othing for what little they have to se
oriels /0 cents Pef. bushel. Oats 2
ents. Pork $'3 50 per 100 pounds. P
atoes 33 cents per bushel. Best flou
5 50 per barrel. But the last nam
le farmers boy instead. of sell.
JAS, 1871,
a IlTeh yearl li fct ah u:asni ludg
morning of the fifth of
great terror to the populatiee. The
swlibilvieewara8ntac-ille)stevie- htienieganialinifgetgah:lee:edrrn in after the
very roughest sort of fashion. Let us
hope that the advent of an early and
genial spring bring hope and conso-
lation to the many hearts and homes
which have. been grieved and desolated
by -the visitations of Old Boreas during
t.11,17.11Dieter.lie!‘shepiPs, Chaaviiiiiagisc.ut the
mus of Suez, is already sighing for more
continents to sender, . Be hes fixed his
atteution upon the Isthmus of Corinth,
and proposes to cut a canal aeross it
which will obviate the necessity of the
loo daugerous circumnayigation of the Melee.
the The length of the coutemplated. canal
will be but five miles ; but the task of
cutting it will be nearly as great as that
of cutting the Suez Canal, The latter
traversed a nearly level eountry, where-
as the Corinthian Canal will has -e to be
carried across a chain of hills, the lowest
point of which is more than 300 feet
above thetsea. It might be worth AL,
De Lesseps' while to visit Central Ameri-
ca: There he would find a dozen differ-
ent routes for a e.anal to connect the two
oceans, and would thus have sufficient
steady employment in the work of canal
-cutting to occupy him for the rest of his
natural life. Inasmuch as the Anglo-
Saxon raae has not yet been able to con-
struct such a canal, M. De Lesseps
would have a fine opportimity to demon-
strate the superiority of the Latins as
rly
its
es
nts
he
• ditch -diggers. The Georgian Bay and
Lake Ontario Canal -might also furnish
011 a field forl_iwhe l‘L De Lessees'
ut genius*
• New Ways of Kindling M- regl
ese
eat The use or kerosene in kindling feies
re has long been extremely popular. There
eaxely passes( a week without an attenept
h,• of the kind by some enterprising person,
a_ and the bleze that ensues •M usually of so
ai brisk a character that it seizes not only
ult upon the kindling -wood, but upon the
of kiniiler and his imuse, and wipes them
of
rapidly out of existence. Suecessfal as
M. tins us t of kesCsene has ehitherto been,
ad that combustible fluid has failed to alto -
rt gether satisfy the wants of two ,Kentueky
el; negroes, who desired a more vigorousand
Nv. tapid. agent. They therefore bethou
re themselves of nttro-glyeeri9.4 and a y
or two since started a livelY blaze by the
aid of that vigorous explosive. No fault
has been found with the nitrosglyeerike
ts by either of those colored persons
h- neither have they themselves reappeared:
he since the first flash of the fire. In fact,
the colored ersons and th shanty
dt which they lived vanished with surprise
nit ing suddenness ; and, although there in;
to a rumor of the fall eftwo colored aero -
11. lites in the not part of Mississippi,.
6- thein has been or ever will be found!
0 it is whether the least trace o
ed - The Fur Trade.
A Maine newspaper gives a statenient
of the present condition of the fur trade,
he in that State, from which it appezu-s that
s, the eggiegate number of furs taken this.
it winter compares favorably rith that of
ut former years. Otter and bear skins are
d sometetat scarce; showieg that the vigor
A- with which these animals hae-e been
d hunted, has materially teduced their -
e, numbers. On the other Intud, sable,
to mink and fox. skins are brought to mar-
e), ket in larger quantities than they were
a last winter. That pleasant animal, the
I- skunk is very abundant and -as he has
n- been systematically let alone, until late -
y ly, When his skin first began to have a.
d market value, there ietno danger of his
y immediate extinction.- In time; how-
ever, the fur -bearing animals of Maine
will be killed off, and it is therefore
worth while to enqnire whether they
cannot be domesticated and bred for the
Market. Probably few persons would
uudertake to domesticate the skunk, but
the Otter, the Mink and the sable might
ii. be made a profitable bhsiness.—N.
boeasilypreserved, amt_8.1ly thus breeding
8
LOUTS NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, late',
Emperor of the French, died at
Chiselhurst, Eng., on Wednesday,
Jan. 8. The late ex -Emperor had
been in a. precarious state tit health
for a some time, and had)lately un-
The fact is, the great majority of t
people in, this country are poor farmer
else they might do a little better.
seems very difficult for them to get o
of the old ruts in which their fathes an
grand -fathers ran the agricultural m
chine. They do things in the good el
way, and keep on doing just the sam
until many of then! nearlee starve
death. but it is true that, farmers
these distant western. Statesethe best
them, are working under great d;sadvaa
tages. It is not a wheat -growing cou
try, and if it was there is perhaps onl
about one farmerin a dozen who woul
raise it, antil they were driven to it b
re necessity. The Kansas River bet-
det.gone a SUrgleal op6ration. from tom landis welt adapted for growing flax
the effects Of - which, it seems, lie
did not recover.
W
CC.
NEW OF THE WEEK.
The Erie Railway Corporation has j
undoubtedly had more " law and
lawing" in its time than any other
concern in the woild-. Lately they
recovered from Jay Gould $9,000,-
000 by legal process, now they are
suing old COW modore Vanderbilt for
three and a half millions.
, Count Von Beast, late Austrian
Minister of Foreign affairs, announ-
ces his intention of shortly publish -
g r 3 ;limp y to the statement
of the Duke de Grammonethat Aus-
tria was pledged to assist France in
the late war, explaining the attitude
of Austria at the time of the
break of the late war.
Stokes, who shot James Fisk, jr.,
about a year ago, was on Monday
last, after a very protracted trial,
found guilty by the jury of murder
in the first degree and sentenced to
he hanged.
The Emperor 'William tia,s decid-
ed that Gen. Von "loon, who has
been appointed • President of the
Prussian Council, to succeed Prince
Bismarck, shall remain Chief Minis-
ter of War.
The British aoverument declines
to su rort tl •
o t
id hemp, but -there is very little raised
id why ? beeause there is too mud;
ork required to make -it marketable.
There's the rub,") it akes too much
elbow grease,' and so it is in regard to
maty things which might be done t
contribute to the finecess of the farmer i
this country. But wheat 18 by no mean
a sure crop.
SHIF'LESSNESS.
What does the Canadian farmer think
of . a country where e about nineteen -
twentieths of the tillers of the toil buy at
the groceries every pound of the flour
which they and, their families consume?
This Might do well enough if they were
making money by. raising something else,
but if they -are not; *hat then" ffle
stacks of flour that are sold in this *city
to the farmers are big ones, and it near-
ly all comes from Missomi and Illinois.
This tells a ta1e.4-exhibits an ugly feat-
ure of the agricultural statue of the coun-
try.
LIGHT AND DA:RK SHADES.
The writer well remembers that he has
heretofore given more favorable account
ot Kansas, and although he says what h
does at present, it is nevertheless tru
that it is a very beautiful country, am
will evenenalky be a great and prosperou
country, wherein it will be desirable t
dwell ; yet it is dqually true that th
.
outlook at this tent is, in more respeets
than one, rathereloubtful and. discourag-
ing. The aspect of affairs is not nearly
eo blight now as was the case several
years ago. People know a little More
about this country than they used. to,
and there um perhaps as many leavieg
the State as are comingin. Kansas his
been ''a delusion and a•Sbare-"'to thous-
ands, yes, tens of thousands. ft is not
BETTER Tenets. --It is fully to be ex-
pected that the New Brunswickers i ill
shortly lay teige tor "better terms."
The suecels of Nova Scotia inthat direc-
tion inspires them with hope, and they
are making up a statement of their case.
They doubtless have never ceased to re-
gret that they did not take up, at the
outset, the belligerent ettitude of Joe
Howe and his friends; that they might
exact " better terms " as the price of
their reconciliation. As it is, they will
require a strong case to gain for there the
sympathy of the House. And the Gov-
ernment had oetter beware of this de-
mand lest they conimit themselves to the
breakers. Opposition 'on constitutional
grounds to the -demand for better terms,
will of -course hold water ; but there
are few,- without those who in New
e Brunswick are striving by this means to- ,
1 make•a local popularity, who will
s believe the absence of the strongest
o evidence that New Brunstieck is not a
e highly favored partner in ,the British
-.North American Ponfederation.—Com.
wall Freeholder.
e pi p le advisable for the Ca.nadian who is mak-
. Royal Geographical Society foil., ,,,,neg8ta,,_11Nhiengisinbehtistein, aofftivwe lancl to "go
sending out an Arctic expe Vt.
at the public expense.
The new census of France skows
her population to be 36,102,921 be-
ing 'a decrease of 366,935 since
1866.
There has hernia great inundatioi
of the city of Bogota; caused ioy the
overflow of two small rivers that
run through Much property his
been destroyed, and several lives
have been lost. The amount o
Though, during Creeley's life, the . damage is calculated at $75,000. all
per has fallen upon evil times.
the present. . The process of prices, mat-
ters and things &cling their (rye level,
las begun in this country which preba-
-Y
Those fabulous war- prices cannot be kep
accounts for the unusual stringency
cit
Th
chu
ed
roe
is
f pro
i'unous Storm in Great Britain.
I The people of the British Islands have
been alarmed by the furious assault of a
terrific storm, which spent its violence
to a veiy great extent over. Birmingham
and Southampton', Queenston, Ireland
nd the sin -rounding country. The wind
empest was accompanied by thunder
and lightning of unusual seventy and
dness. It raged during the night
the second. of January until th.
--esesees--
-Last Friday while four brothers,.
named, Lyons, were in the woods getting
ont square timber on their fatm Dane
wich, near Iona, County of Elgin, Ede
ward, the youngest, aged about sixteen,
was instantly killed by a limb that was.
thrown back by the falling tree striking
against a standing one,.
• -- A correspondent at St. • Johns,.
N: B., writes that the Intercolonial
Railway is snowed up, and that no mails.
helve been received from. Halifax for
More than a eveelte The difficulties oc-
casioned by natural &wises appear to be
t aggravated by a deficiency of rolling
stock upon the line, for which the Do -
1 million Government is responsible.
L —A female music teacher in Kingston_
: was at rested ou charge of stealing a small
far" of Tacy from the keepee of the _
boarding house where she lived. She..
ground, of extreme destitution.
Stratford margistrates for eharivaring a
respectable. reuton, in the township of
Dowiiiee who had taken to- himself a.
pleaded guilty, but was acquitted on. the
were fined the other day ..$2....ee 52 by the
--Eight frolicksome young Dutchmen
—The St. Thomas Jonrwd finds fault
ne o t e papers given at the re-
cent te.achers' examination, and thinks
that arithmeeicel problems, not puzzles,
ought to have been employed to test the
keowledge of those examined. .
be—fbeerelsd ma:n who.se ca.s. e was referred.
to in the report of the December meet-
• ing ofeethe County Council, also in the
Presentment' of the Grand Jury at the
New year,8 day.ts,sfaizer(.1 m the lad on.
forever. La-wrence is a, very pleeisant
y, and there ie good society here
ere are good schools and plenty o
'1;he State University is locat
here. There are quite enough rail
ds. The priacipal street of the city
paved ; we heve gas -works, and a
orse railway, aud other publie
vements are still to be made; but—
these things have.to be paid for,
which makes the taxes very high. And
It is a fact that the town is far too hive
now for the resources of the surrourding
eountry.
Tribune was owned by shareholders,
yet their confidence in him was such
that he shaped the policy of the pa-
per at his will. When- the old man
died, the shareholders could not
aareilamong themselves as to the -
future poliey of the Tribune, some
wanting to go haek-6,intethe Repub. a
lican,-140104 qtej*, ceerlitinue on
the conrse which had been pursued
since Greeley's ncmination to the
. President Morrales, of Bolivia,
after having threatehed Congress
with dissolution because it did not
favor his minim, projects and abus-
ing not only tnembers of Congresa,
brit his personal staff; was shot dead
by his own nephew while the latter
was being abused by Morrales. Con-
gres.s quietly elected Gen. Battesson
S the successor of Morrafes.
A large deputation of Roman
Catholics from Ireland waited on the
Pope, on the 6th inst., anc:1 present- from
with •
f,
AN.
BOLDING.--
Avlie of AI
STRONG.—I
the wife o
ion.
Ifeentestete.
the wife 0
a son,
1
Vetifale.
wife of M
daughters
. .
Jit7TCHINW)N
Day- thei.
• a daughte
I:Tenter-ewe-
-, age, Stra.t
Rev. W
..
elaugh
1872, the
son.
MeCiteeotee,
the et ife 0.
of a son.
Beee.e-In I
, Mrs. Alexi
Oerver
residenee
R. Moodi
Hibbert,
Mr. Rob• e
chester,
DAVIDSON—
residence 4
• ship of 11=
ma. Wm.
Rev Mr.
Helen Jan
Shute, Ea
FARROW -4Z,
the Wide's.
Ciark, 01
Mr. Mel)
• of Blueval
daughter
• usr esnuti Breton,s ttiEhl aedee lr're
lan
411111111111MMININIMINI
Jrhe deliv,
for the past
due 'ng any
Tuesday 'we!
and• fre.quen
and $1.22
'The prevail
about fr-oin
firm at old
cries, ve
been delivet
past week
• , quo ted
Airingye
paid. in o
heivy epeci
is ae quoted
menced ton
improseel.
quotatioes, -
Wood sells
lighter Aerie
of the yes.1.%
Spr• ing Wheat.
—
Oats.. —
Peas— —
Butter, No. V.
lie. 2. ;
Nu. 3.,
Flour
nese
—
Sheep Stills.
Calf Sichis. tre,
Salt iretail)
Petat.4)es, perl:
Fresh 144k
-OatraPal 14 -
Apples pey btu
Beef, per quail
Weed.
Spring Wheat.
Oats,...,.
Bailey ...
Butter... t AP 1
Eggs...
1=flvy, per ton,.
Pori
Wheat s<
,
$1.13 for rt
spring. Oz
Barley adv4
hundred brl
65e to 67e,
Hay was al
to $26,
Bogs were
t o $5. 2. 5, et
Flour
business to
strongat 1
.
rates ueel
por,
eel:amends
qualetee
Butter--
all:prices f
BU
The foll
ihipmente
fertile wee
Sunday
Sunday. ,
Monday. ,e
Tuesday -
Same time.
week..
Sneday
Monday.
Tuesday.. I
Same time
week -
CATTLE.
39 cars
head, mak
week thul
against 191
week- 1