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The Huron Expositor, 1873-01-24, Page 1JAizi4, t71S7& t were I ta one if they ever visit the sehoot roorn. onetty lit would be well for them to understand eon. that there is uothhig more encouraging rattan to a pod teacher than to witnees the eckie, presence of the parente in heischoot oet -Sea- cesioaalty. I sincerely trus$. me few. Alta remarks I present, will be on the t the mind a of all who were not aware of the tt the results a their indifference- and neglie Mov- gence. S. T. Ciruttont . Met Singing Master. ma- Btyirpu, Jan. 13, 1873; liatartek. Faxcaree MaarTaRs--The state of the. :rev- poll at the recent municipal contest in r, the elowiekt was as follows, Mr. Perkins, Mod- Reeve, having been elected Reet-e by ae- mtha lamation : Deputy -Reeves -Weir, fortibson, 285, Wallace, 189 ; Maguire )f the 127. Ceun,cilors-Wiggius, 36, Gregg, Port a74; tArdson, 208. ,Pres- TEA gEr.1TSG.—A tea meeting nell be ,he held in the Wesleyan Methodist Church, twotg Lekelet, on Menday, 29th inst. Revs. great Mr. Graham,. of Clinton, Blain, of Clif- 'I the. ford, and others are expected to aderess the the meeting. An efficient choir has bee ,-tht-atjes engaged. srltea. will be served from 5 taut. _ 7 pt Tickets 25 cents. - eateortatmenrom- Da/rem-About 7 eteeit . it &cloak, on toe evening of the election, a, t numberof the friends of Messrs. %Aria. It, to, . gins arid Gregg. two of the successal cannidates, met them rn Lakelet, in -T. ,were Itebbartre. Hata for the purpose of coni ran - gratalatieg them. Mr. J. Hainstock eard e- waa called to the chair, a programme et I rule.I epeakers was provided for ham. which elder cuusisted of. the fullowing gentlemen, ' eon MessrFs. Wiggins, Gregg, cee ssrt-yteego n_ Jacques, J. Hazlewood, R. totee Volum., A. Scott, R. Ferguson, J. 13; m t Williamson, Myles Young, and J. Scott. -ate. Wiggins, in coatina to the floor.. said he felt honored by being placed in tafter t the position whicb his numerous friends e ex_ t had placed, hun. He thanked the peo- ' was ; ple for the way they worked, for him. If s re- money Was expended on roads in the a retownship. he would go for equal rights '- set= to all parts of the township. He felt totle, proud_ to represent such an enterprising 5ve of ' people -Ma Gregg said he was no were speaker, but rose to thank the people ttme foe the way they worked for himfie istees I said he would go for fair ptay, and for las a 1 keeping down the taxes. He thought )04, the -people of the north had received , scant justice. ---Col. W. Young spoke ef, the next. He told a very amusing anecdote :.eeeit, illuttrating the Way NV -e- had carried the ice electionHe said 4is Words were iike f' the ice to his feelings. He spoke of the sel- stet"tiehness of the ptevious Council in laying eat nearly all the money on the -ninth Eara.e, beer -Mr. J. Jaques wee called on, and eteeein a brief, but telling manner expressed. :ewe_ his joy at haviag gained such a noble tatee_ victory. --Mr. J. Hazlewood showed the• 4sert_tt_ cause of taw present victory, was being Bart united in our efforts -Mr. R. Young tales. was highly -*end to know that we had won the vietory, and hoped that in the Tett future we, weuld get in:tam-Ma A. et,,,et I Scott felt glad that we no -e- had our just share of CotinciltarS and felt assured Z methat the " crooked would be made tete, straight,and the rough places phein."- estot. Mr. et, Ferguson said for the last five tee years he had advocated 'anion as a means tat of getting onr proper share of Councilors, and now that we had become utlited we etittg see the fruits of our union. He thought that in the future we would get justice. reent Ile said the , people of the South desetvithng t ed great etedit for the honorable way 1. to they zieted. -NI r J H Wil:iamson felt t the htIM over the result of the election. He spoke of the honorable way the elec. time had beea carri* d! out by all parties. He_amustel the audience for a tune with hie jokes and odd sayings. --Mr. Myles alent Yotteg wag called. en, and 'said that he atria,- felt highly Pleased over the result of our ereettoes. He hoped that in the future we would get oar rights -Mr Vereuson, who had been nomuutted without being present, received_ a vote of thanks for the honorable way he had acted in the matter. To which he made a brief reply. -Mr. Charles Webster sena the very beautiful song, the"Maple Leaf." -- Ma Vincent Halladay sang a beautiful temperance song, ' Friends of Freedom." nuit -The eetial eotes of thanks were given, three cheers for the Queen, and three fPr the liberal electora of ,Howick, after which the me.eting closed, ft -day loVed - telear - tvere te of the hider ent zrL CIL BRUCE TRACI:Mlle _EXAMINATION. -The following teachers obtained certificates at the late examination in Walkerton. The namesare puhhshtd in the erderof merit: Second etatesL-Grade B. -Robert Young, William Heary Smith. Meet Class - Martin, Gdpia, Daniel Finlayson, Anna Preudfooty oarah Ann Barges, Stephen Heine, jatnes. Frazer Maclaren, ErnaV Seabee Lizzie Mary- Dinning, Michael Caseidy, Edith Louisa Rebecca, DeHarte, . se- Francis Anderson, Ntrilliarn Russel, Mary McTavish, William Wilson, Jessie Rae, Willia.m Fraacis Moore, James McKtn- 1 non, - Donald MeLaggan; James Mc - t" Cheyne Johnstone, Joseph Carter Gra- . €•.'ver ham, John McGillivray. The Board. of it' ' Examiners -resolved to grant no le ovis- ienet certiticateein future to any candi- dates who may fail to pass the regular examinations.. . avor teing ,tand days tees, to eat, igen- t the tend -oast- .• • er me , their ithev „Few it aid - The neW -Canada PresbYterian Church, Stratford, will be opened for Divine service on Sunday. Jan 25. There will be three services on Sunday, and on the Monday following there will be a tea - meeting. - The friends of the Port Dover and Lake Huron Railway, to run from Port Dover to atratford, thence to some point on Lake Huron, are working vigor- ously in its favor, and holding meetinge in Downie ant the Zurrast with- a v:ew to bonuses. The forwarders of this scheme are ritatuty Stratford men wh° expect to raise their toWn. to- a oitY i toats • atpealtieg of the modesty of certain t. le- of our ettuadem politicians, the Hala- 1 the ittou Timm retharks : Were the mode 'that , it of these three great lawyers, polf- 'Mate ticiana, and statesmee, EL S. McDonald, 4nald Iteltert and hewer put together, roiled ; o, up- into one pellet, it would be .80 small rtrelv : that, if placed ia the quill ef a hummInge tliged hird and slice, iota a rausquito's eye, it would not make the insect wink." - Last week the chief of plice at Strat- 'jet s • ferd received a. telegram froin Bay -field, r the run -eating him to look out for a person Cf" re- woo had taken the tram for Stratford, with an overcoat and muffler in his post to he • teition, whieh he had stolen fram Mo- a'aents hetet, in that village. After his ef o making ailigent search the constable e are found his man at arm of the hotels in teem, Stratford, and found the stolen property, - ;great with other artielee supposed to have been lhrent stoleu from tither hotels, in his miesete linen sion. The man, who gives his name Seun Joseph. Standish, wae committed for teady trial, and will have his- hearing before ances the County Judge to -morrow. •••,••• -•••••••:•;, „et • ' I 4" 1• SIMNEL YEA:R. t W.HOILJE 1410p, .1 GS. j SEAFoR,TH, FRIDAY, JAN. 24, 1873. I iffeLEAN liROTHEILS, Publishers.. 1 ail 50 a "Year, in advance. 14 6git2te tor *Itr. FOR: SA LIE. ( tHEAP AND ONVIME. Lot 19, lith Turnberry4 Apply to CAMERON & GARRONV, , Banisters, , Clode 'oh. 265 -8 - TO CARPENTER. • T° be sold cheap, a .good Carpenter Sho Dwelling, with a quarter of an acre of g Stable, Pinup, and other conveniericei situ the Village of Kinburn, Hulfett. ext brisiness may be done. 26644 ' WM. COATES, PrOPAC Or. arid Men, te in nsive FOR SALE. LOTS Nos. 1-0 and 11., Con. 13, Grey, cont ining 200 acres, 100 acres cleared ;, balartee•we tim- bered ; good frame house and log barn ands able; a never -failing spring of water 1711DIS throu •h the property; the fences are all (good; •a yoni Sr or- ehard of 160 trees. The above properly is 24 miles from a leading gravel read and 4 mile from Brussels, (late Aiiileyville,). where a station t the Wellington,: Grey and Bruce Railway will be °Reli- ed this clueing spring. The above lots will le gold either together or singly. For further parcuIin address FRANCIS BRYDON, or C. Ir. po PER, Brasseh, P. Q., (late Dingle.) . 27.4 BRICK YARD TO RENT. . . 910 BENT;the Brick Yard on the Second C Aces- sion of Tnekerlimith; at Eginondville, the pro- perty of Mr. Thomas Onvenlock., McKillnp. This is A large yard, with four large nulls and a, ,• bank of splendid clay eight feet. a never -failing supply of -water ;'^ the yardis fur- nished with every convenience and faeili -3- for manufacturing. HOUSE and STABLE oi the be.sold-; alio, to be sold the cart, bar- rows, and other implements used heretoloie n the yard, and about 5,000 feet of good lmuber. Rent of yard :WO a year. The house andstable wffl be sold for $100 cash;: the other articles will a so be disposed of very low. This is au es:dello:at c nee ' for any one wishing to engage in the Bnckm king busineaS, us bricks are now selling at from $6 to ; :VT .50 per)000, antl'. wood obtainable at 50 a card .„. -For further particulars apply to JOHN BOWDEN, Egmoudville P. 0 • BLACKSMITH'S STAND FOR S I -10R SALE, on reasonable. terms, 121 acre it of d'i• LAND, with the BLACKSMITH'S SHOP eveeted: thereon and the tools- used Tin the op, situated 5 Miles north of Setliorth, on the' ;live] Road; .there iS on tho place' a new framo. s able, frame shop 2040,xframe houfie,And a never f iling well df. good water; it•thiiving young or htird. A good chance for either it wagonmaker or lock- smith, as it i a ooOE bush:toss stand, two good cows. for sale cheap. For further particulars apply to the proprietor ozi the premises, or address woitld take this way ofinforming those in ebted to .rue tint it they do not call aud settle th i ao- rotiats at ones!, they will be placed it court, with - wit respect .to persons. Remember this s flO empty threat. 2654'4 GEORGE BARR-FIR; Wint op.. STEAM sAyr MILL AND FARM, FOR S LE. TIL ENG Lot IA, Con. 7, McKillop, contain ,g 104 L-Pacies, all'blettred, with good barns and.st bles, two germ} orchards in • fall bearing; two nav •-fiii1- •ing Springs whieh supply the mill. Also, 1 t 35, .Con. 9, containing, 48 acres 'of bush. The prcsperty is situated 6 nules from Seaforth, with it good gravel road thereto. For further particulars apply ou the premises. If I* post, to JOHN THOMP- SON, Constance P, 0„ Kialburn, Ont. • 60, • FARM.FOR SALE IN MORRIS. 1741011 SALE, on easy terms, north half of L t No. -1" 12, Concession 6, Township of ItOrXiS, tain- ing 100 acres, 50 of Which are cleared, well fenced, - and in a good state of cultivation. There s on the premises good log house and barn: This farm is situated within two miles and a ha f of w• • good gravel road, and !Mr miles and a ,ha1f1frorni the village of Ainleyville, at which place Ithere will be a station of the Wellington, Gra and Brach Railwa2., this fall; it is watered by a, ever - stag stream running through it; there.- is no waste land, and the uncleared portion ,is wen timbered with, hardwood; It ,is one of the jrnoab choice lots in 'the toirnship. For farther par- ticulars apply t6 S. R. GRANT, Ainley vale, ' 0S. HOLMES, Blyth, or to the undersigned propitietor, Kippen Post -office. • 251 ROBERT .McMORD E. FARM FOR SALE. HA.T.N,of the South half of Lot o. 24, Fifth Concession of the township of or -is, containing 50 acres, 85 cleared.; well watered by a spring creek ; good log house and frame stab1o. • The above farrn is only -a mile and a half on o good road from the rising village of Aiuleyville, wliere a hr.;- station of the- Wellington, Grey and Bruce, Rail- way will be opened this fall. For price aridi emus "(quire (if by letter, prepaid) of •COOPER, :Or• Ainleyville Land Agency; Dingle ARCHITECTURE. • undersigned is prepared -to furniah -1- Specifications, &c., of Public and lirivate Buildings, and also to superintend the eree on of the same. Carpenters't Plasterers' and M sone' work measured and valued. ADAM GRAS, Seco'nd CQDC088i0I1, MK1i1op. NOTICE TO SAW LOG OWNERS parties desiring to have logs sawn at OEN GOVENLOCK'S Saw Mill should brine, them In ILO:time, as he intends removing his null- about the 1 -at of March. Until that dateparties br nging Jogs in can hove their lumber sawn so ai to eke it lieme With them. • . Jc.r.ac- GOi:ENLOCK. MeSillop, Nov. 26, 1872. •260 DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHI fraE.Partifership at present existing betwe ri the -t• undersigned as general merehauts in t e Vii - !age of 23-aussims (late A' eyville,) expires n the , :ff:it inst. Alt debts due th10 retiring firm 'must paid forthwith, either to j. ,Leckie, pr X. teu art,st their °Iliac.. • JOHN LEG E, Nigne.1,1 RSTEWA S. TROMPS N. With reference to the 11,bON't, notice is ljei eby given that on and after the' 1st day of ja 1873. the business will be conducted by`the Nitrified, and all debts due hint br the retirin fi - must be paid forthwith, pending it settlone t. JOHN LEC lIE. Brussels, Dec. 26, 1872. 264 , DANIEL McGREG R, BoOkbiuder, Harpnrhey, Seafort , jitst received &large Stock of the ma erials. • nsedin the business and is now fully p ern -- ed to execute. on the shortest "intim and i the laititet styles; all orders he .may be favours( with. REGISTERS, LEDGERS & BLANK 11 ORS OF ANY KIND, Ruled, Printed and made to order, on the sh Ant notice, and arp.iees which defy competiti v. faelies' Work Boxes d; Fancy Cases • Made to order. - OLD AND NEW BOOK Bound aliquipaired at cityprices. All e-nurrinnications s.ddressed to the untie sign- ed, mill reteive prompt attentionr DANTEL .MeGREGOR, Seaforth, (Harp • SUFFOLK BOAR. • TIE -proprietor wil keep for service auring the present season a first-elass ' SUFFOLK -BOAR, - Sired by the Suffolk boar inipiorted from En land ! by Mr. Fisher, of Colborne. TERMS. One dollar cash, with priiilege of returning luring season, JAMES LANDESBOROUGH, Tucker -- smith, Lot 23, Con. 0, H. R. S. :162 • , • •.• NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE. •Professor satyrical' Season -+Anetber Sort of Huebner's German .1..eeture4 An ,Apasitle Inaterialbons, From an Occasional Correspondent. i•Tzw YORK, Jan. 18, 1873. Professor Tyndall has .just coinpleted his series of lectures in New York and Brooklyn -incomparable in success as they are in excellence both a -matter and illustration. The apparatus he brought over Wi.th him to illustrate, the .phetioni- ena and theories with which he hacl to deal, cost $5,000. Besides this, with the personal expenses of himself and three assistants, travelling, transporta- tion, valuable materials, consumed:in every experiment -not to mention the rent of gas andadvertising bills common to alt performances -the eloquent and noble hearted savant was heavily out of pocket ev.ery day of his life, from the time wheif he landed in Boston until that of his first lecture in New York. Here, for the first time, he began to pay expenses) and not only so, but to make money handsomely, and, what was more to him'to feel that his wot k was a suc- cess. It is safe to compute his. eyerage andience for the- twelve nights ,in New York and Brooklyn at -2;000 nett -for great pains have been taken by thc. managers to Waste the leastpossible Inom on complipleetary Admissions, and as far as possible to secure. from. every • seat its dollar for •the lecturer. I do not see how the two. courses 'eta 'heve cleared less than $15,000. and I hope it is considerably mitre, though that wish would be warmer if he Were going to take the money home with him. t As he in- tencls•to give it th some public- object in America, it is too hutch like wishing in our own . behalf to: exeite much of a glow. . • - THE PRAiEtt tEsi. A. geed. deal et ,fresh attention, of eoerse, has been drawn by the lectures here to ProfessoreTyndall's opinions on. the subject of Peayee. It is curious to. see the effects of undue': excitement hi three classes of peraons •intetesteda-the infidels, who- are eager to secure Professor ,Tynclall'e fame And authority on their side ; and two classes of carer anxious be- liever, one of 'which is too sharply po- lemical in spirit to nntulate the courtesy Aud Candor which so • distiij- guish this man of . science, and vvhich would adorit a Chriatian's faith ; and the ether so fearful of the effeet of his seep- • 1 1 • diel admis- sion of the legitimacy of prayer as a hp pethesis- or experiment, and to pervert it irilo an admission of its efficacy or pro- . p ety,. `. The latter sort of performance toolvphre in ralton street prayet meet- ing, the other day ; Where Professor T Oars nettle, and.• ether names and things that ought to be of small account in hliplace of prayer, are often brought into the foreground be the silly kind of persons who. are necessarily "conspicucus in a free iieetiug. More commbniy, as in the religious press; the attitude toward Profetsor Tyndall:is positive, if net even true t• I have reason to think he has been stung by the uncharitable ?spirit with which he has been depouaced by many, and that if there had. been a ,more general disposition exhibited to examine his proposition's' With the candor and kindness- which their marked sincerity deserved, Professor Tyndall might have gained_fromns in enlightenment as imich as we should 'have learned from him in politeness. •3 DR. nerene'Ea, - .1 • We have the antipodes Profiteer Tyndall in every -respect, ai• a philoso- pher, as a man, and is a gentleman' in the Dr. Buchner, whom ethe Ge Turnees Association of this city are lan aid toluevet imported from the Fatherlaiecl td preach !!atheistic materialism and even worse things, for $15,000 a year.. I sus- pect-thAt it would • be perfectly fair to call himi a charlatan in science, a, ranter in philoimphy, and a sehsualist in Mor- els. As hp lectures only in Cteentan, ¶bichT I do not understand, I am able to report only from hearsay, but it is such as I confide in. I understand him to be no investigator or philosopher on his own ae,count, in the -smallest degree of origin- ality, brit merely , e peptiltrizer or vul- garizer of the views of the master -spirits of 'materialism. Without position, there- fore, in the scientific or literary world, even of materialism; he has a celebrity among the • commonality of atheists, • somewhat analogetts, perhaps, to that of .Toin -Paine. His principal productions are, a book on . Force and Matter, ant, onethe tit e, Man : where he comes from; what he is.; where he goes to ;"-----said to be in substance a rehash of such German materialists as- ' Vogt, Haeckel OuO Maeschott. Ile is also a • writer • in the Leipzic Gartenlaube, a , monthly magazine of circidation rival- ling Harper's in this couptty, and filled with the very renown of infidelity ; for which an antidote has been attempted by the Proteetant Christians of Germany in a newer magazine -now rising into suc- dess. In the Gartenlaube, Dr. Buelmet M. -D. --he has no other echolastie dis- tinction) is now writing " Letters'from : the Land of Freedom."' The title is sar- i castic ; the letters being filled. with ; coarse abuse of our people and institu- , tions. The writer is not only au atheist but a " Red" in politics, and a vehe- ment hater of all restraint, whether en y - forced' accepted, or selhlimpsed o. ()ur conservative and constitutional republi- canisin, our legal restrictions upoe the .fireeclom of the appetites, our protection of Christian order and worship and inst:- ' tutionse and our individual submission to Divine authority in religion and morale, all appear to this universal rebel to rep- resent a servile subjection to tyranny the most complete to • be found on the globe or in history. Not ,the most re - hgious countries of Europe, Catholic or Protestapt, present to his eyes •such a per 'ailing and potent element of religi- ous, moral and humanitary. zeal -in other worth', such an intolerable spectacle of superstition and servitude. He rep- resents our country as (what it is truly, from his point of view) the land of least freedom in the world --the lancl where the great "tyrant," to whom all others are petty, Almighty God, has actually the most power ever and M the tnind o: man. MANHATTAN. AN INDOOR TRACE11Y. Well nigh half. a century ago a newly married couple settled in one of the western counties of Pennsylvania- They had what their neighbors deenaell a fair capital with which to begin. 'well - stocked though small farm, sound health, good common sense, and a more than average amount of Shrewd intelli- gence and culture. Under all this was a sincere trust in God ancl a jealous, sensitive love for each other, neither of which their neighbors knew much about. American backwoods farmers take a pride in covering their emotions under a hide, as tough as that of their own beehes. They had three or four child- ren, and night after night, over the kitchen fire, the problem they set them- selves to answer was, what is the • best thing we cin _do_ with them, and for them; the question asked daily with such a. wrenching 6f heart -in myriads of homes, and answ'erecl so differently. The fear of God seemed to Jacob ancl his wife the best heritage to give them; the next best, plenty of money. To give theni the first, they began by hedging the child- ren's lives with a system of rules, bor- rowed -half from the „Jewish laws, half from the theory of their sect. Strict morality, the keeping of Sunday as a periodical day of penitepce and wretched- ,ness, the leartileg under penalty of dark closets and thrashiugs a the "chief duty .of man, therein was their religion. Life they were shown as a straight and heed path thrcugh a dark valley with the ter- rors ot Sinai behind, and the traps and Pitfalls of a. floating hell on either -side. tven'Jacob's wife,- Mary, holding her darlings- to her breast, than which no Mother's eVer ached or theobbed with more tenderness, had no other sermon to pteach tO tlfem. It never occurred to her or lier husband that it was into just such fields of grain mi. -those about them, under. just such towering cedars, •that Jesus led his cliciples and. taught them, by the sunshine and the • rain, the 'tender • mercies of God. • The World grew greet around them, faded again ancl wrpecl itself in snow, year after year; th4 river sang its mys- terious song to the voodi at their very door;• and overhead t e stars that had declared to the patriarchs of the ohl world the infinite eecrets of Jehovah • blazoned them forth still, unreeardett Day unto day uttered speech, mid night unto night showed forth knowledge , cf Htm, but both farmer and, wife were, deaf and blind; God was only to beap- • proached through a &geared catechism, and fields and rivers were 'worth only so much fish and wheat per,Year. The • children's salvation being thus provided for, the next thing to be insur- ed was money. Husband and wife worked and stinted as only a Scotch -Irish far- mer's family ci work or stint., pro- duce that was salable went to the Mat- ket ; the children were reared on the refuse, the skim -milk, poorest bacon, and watery potatoes; Their clothes were eoarse and patched, their feet bare and chilblained. The how grew barer year by year, the father's back more bent, his face harder, but the balance in the bank increased dollar by &loner. As for the plump, bonny Mary, she had 10hg ago joined the sisterhood of leap, yellow- • skinned, toothless women who, with dirty , calico dresses and wisps of hair twisted pp behind. are emnetimes found in farm houses like ghastly megrims, or daylight spectres of a wasted life. ten churning and scrubbing were dime wofild sit up until -near n.ornine shing and darning their plothes, that they might look more " genteel " than . she, dragging her aching body to look at them when they slept, praying for them with a fierce longing to have power to be God himself -to be able to protect and care for them. The boys had cen. tain strong animal propensities, and phy- sical tendencies which- required skill and knowledge to guide or restrain. One hel a morbid imagination; another a, tendencyto alcoholic poisoning, against which his diet and training from ihfancy should have defended him. The girls, left to theneselvee, were filling their -brains with sickly false fancies of life and their work in it. But what time had Mary to read or acquire in any way the power to comprehend or help her children? There was,the scrubbing arid • churning to be,' done, the money to be saved. Boys and girls were sent to col- leges and seminaries ; every advantage that education -could • give them was theirs ; the only mistake Jacob and his wife made, in this respect Was not to educate themselves as well. The child- ren went forward ; they sat clown and grubbed. What is the end of it all ? The daugh- ters grew up dyspeptic and sickly for the lack of early proper food ; they married and died before middle acre, brilliant, hard women, and neither or them in any Bente religious. One sou went into poli- tics, was suceessful. is now a member of Congress, one of the most influential of • his party. Jacob and his Mother read of his life in Washington, his wife's recep- tions, his poleularity. But long ago he was a stranger to them. It is years since he cressed the old threshold. What is there in common_ between him and the • ignorant, • boorish farmer and his wife? • A few weeks•ago, the last of the sons came borne . to die ; the one of all. the -children wbo had real power of intellect; the only. one who was not_ ashamed_ to talk of "mother " fondly to thc last. He died in her arms, a drunken, worth- less sot. The thin, haggard woman closed. his eyes without a tear. " I have lost all my children," she said. " I "must have matte a mistake semewhere " idthe beginning,. God knows." Is no other mother triadic this tin's - 1. take 9 -...-Yew YorL Tribune. • The average amount realized by the sale of marriage licenses in the Province of Ontario is about .$40,000. Who would w sh 117 think it? - The 'London, Huron and -.Bruce - anct Their' Bonuses. To the-Editor.of the Baron E.-cpositor. In a late issue of the Clinton New Era • there appeared an arti le eirtitled " Rail- way -Bonuses," the wri1ter having evident- ly reeeived 'inspiration from the London Railway Board. A few remarks on 'my part, in reply, will not be perhaps out of place. The article commences by anew- _sertion that "the question of granting aid to the London, Huron ani 'Bruce Railway has still to be submitted to the ratepayers of Stanley and Tnekersmith," completely ignoring the fact thet the question has been already -decided in the most unmistakeable -rnaamer at the polls in Tuckersmith ; ifehoweyer, it.is meant that the new project by which, ;t_ is said, the Great Western wW build, equip and mu the roaxl for a consideration of $6,000 a mile, his not been submitted, then I understand the writer's meaning, and it is upon this very point I take issue with the London Board. It will, I think, startle most peports to be told, that t -ie Louden Board cannot possibly make agreement with the .Great Western ailway Company until all the bonuses heve been voted. Perhaps not, but what guarantee have the ratepayers of 'tucker - smith. that, when all the bonuses are voted, the London ,Company -will hand the affair over to the Great Western ? If thereis no agreement and .nothing binding them, they may sell:the road to the Grand Trunk, or the Canada South- ern, or . they may attempt to build the road themselves, and, if they did.any of theme.things,the people ofruckersmith would, meat certainly, vote their money oil a false issue. _But, perhaps, the Lon- don Board would prefer to have the bo- nuses voted, as the writer in the .New Ira well pas it, on faith. Now, does it not seem a piece of the most consummate impudence for the dozen or twe persons composing -'the London, Huron add Brace • Railway Company, and having only the pitiful sum of $20,000 at etake, to !ask bonuses to the immense amount of nearly luilf it million of dollars, and then coolly -tell Township Councils that lip condi- tions shall appear on the face of a bylaw, and that all the bonuses required . will have to be voted before ratepayers' will be enlightened as tat the nature of the agreem,ent between the two :hallways. At a late meeting' of the Ttiekersinith Tewnship Council, Mr. Flock, Solicitor of the London RailWay Company, stated that_ the agreement between the two cotemanies woeld be' submitted to the shareholders in England foe their ratification in the early part of January. If such is the, fact, there mist at the present time be _a copy of stielr., agreement . in Canada, and tone'ought to Know this better than the legal adviser of the Lendon, Huron and Bruce Railway Company. WhY then do the London Board, object to produce these documents, 'awl why in one breath do they deny their aeisrence, and in tbe next affirm the contrary, unless under the reasonable supposition that behind. all there is a skeleton that must not see the light of day till all the bonuses have been voted? I take it for granted that the ideatof a conditional agreement has -never • dawned upon the minds of the London' Directors, though ordinary mortals mightthink it legal' and of every day occurrence. it would. occupy too much of your tipace for me to criticise the con- stitution of the Board of (three) Trustees. I -will merely remark, in passing, that anything more grossly unfair to ninnici- palities granting money could not have been devised, for in case of failure of ap- pointment, by neglect or otherwise, the London Board have the sole right of ap- pointing the odd trustee. The state- ments made toward the conclusion of the threw Era's article contain within them- selves clear proof of their falsity, for net even Mr. Churcher will have the hardi- hood to assert that I ever pledged Tuck- ersmith " to give a bonus of much larger amount than those now asked ror on con- dition the road should be built oxi another eoute." How much more cohfidence it Would inspire, even as a matter of policy, it a candid and truthful' course were adopted by the _London Board instead of the dark and etooked ways they seem to love so well. What humiliation they would- spare themeelves-what annoy- . ance they would satte to others. Township Councils have a perfect and undoubted right to tee that by-laws are submitted to the people in a proper shape, and when I see Directors of the London, Huron and hruce Railway handing M bills of five or six thousands dollars each for -a, few week's services, and stating that money will have to be employed for the passing of bonuses I do think that such men need watching, and that it would be a, cowardly abne- gatiim of the duties of the office I have the honor to hold if I did not take every business precaution in my power for the cases of interests of the mtcpayerS of Tucker- Ontario smith. Yours, - overtra -Eieves CRESWELL. • suns w T eatut 1111, Jan. 24. 1873. backin lagestout here have appointed an In- spector, to whom the farmer's wife must first go to have it inspected and receive her, card of grade, and then she is at liberty to go th the store which receives the aaticle as per inspected. This is working - very well in some places, but there are many villages with only one • store, and. if the .opinion or verdict -if you like -the, merchant may give is not . satisfactory to the wife we are charged with being arbitrary, &c. Now what we merchants want, as well as the farm- er, is a standard from some eeliable buy- er as to what constitutes good, first-cluss • butter, mole clay as they will take from the .storekeeper in future, naming the points, -if I may so express myself, -of the article. The etandard.* slaould be - something. very plain and intelligible. so that farmers marknow vtbat is market- able and what is not. If you would put this communieettioe into the hands of some respectable buyer, such for in- stance as bra W. Davies or other equal- ly large buyer, .both farmers and mer- chants 'would 'lino*. exactly what they are abm ancl try to get a good name in the foreign market." Canada. is expected 'that Mr. Stephen Richer will be appointed to 4 judge- ship. -1,1 Sherry, the iiittentor of the well- known McSheray Plow," shot a inan at Mount core,st, la.st week,' slightly injur- ing him -and wits cominitted to Guelph jail for he offence. -- A wsuit, about 19 inches of mill- dam, b tween Mr. James.. Wilson. and Mr Wi iam Robertson; of Fergus, and which 1 sted. foul years has ,been settled by the tter paying 14000 datnages. Vidal ate in 'Mathes Mitch° - A horse, mOttawaethod which, aniesion. - A hauling terienf Nkora fore as drownee & Roes, . -Rev. Me. Cochrane, of Brantferd, lectii • , last week in Goderieli, The Here M _rtyrs of Scotland." • eifort is being m,ade "to a.belish the toll gate nuisance in. the county of Carleto . • -Th rc was a smash-up on the To- ronto, rey and Bruce Railway, on Mon- day m of Grey man we jured, - Mi. E. Carbett, of the township ot Fullart ford in ed 625 appointnient of Hon. Alex. d. 11. W. Muirhead to the Sen - lace of the late lion.- Roderick , n, 'deceased, and Hon. Peter resigned, has: been gazetted. teamster etas much‘ troubled in a few days since With a kicking • d took the strangely original of tying a tin -pan to its tail, t is seid, friehtened. it into sub- . • Me span of horses, engaged in etone for the new piers, at God- cidently backed over the head t h Pier on Tuesday last, and be- istence could be rendered were . They were owneni by Harvey the contractors. rning, near Thornbury, County by which the eugineer and lim- e scalded, but no -passengers ine T the fasl new ra be mac Ontario propese wood, - Th paper Scotian( that II Outario ing bee "John , .000, diva -led into _800 shares of $50 each. The management of the college will be in the hands of ten lay directors and five clerical directors. Rev. S. D. Rice, D. D., Rev. W. t.f, Hunter, Ilev. _fames Preston, Rev. Enoch Wood, D. D., Rev, S. S. Wells D. -D., have been appointed. by the Conference as the first clerical di- rectors. - On Jan. 3, Mr. Ezekiel Haws • threshed 200 bushels of spring wheat in two hoars, on Mr. Richard Curtis' fann, Con. 10, Garafraxa, -An arbitration which has been going on for sonie time betWeen Mr Josiah Thompson, of Erma Township, and the Wellington, Grey, and Bruce Railway Company, re.specting the valued the land. taken off Mr. Thompson's farm by the Compa,ny's road, has hen brought to an end. The Company offered Mr. Thomp- son $25per acre for 'what land they re- quired off his term, which amount he re- fesed to accept. hence the arbitration. The award of the arbitrators Was that Mr . Thompson receive $30 per acre. Ac- cording to the terms of the statute the Compeny will have to bear the expenses of the arbitration. -The - el/on-dare Times hears that travelers for some houses have been out. with temples Of spring goods for some time past Thie kind of thiag is simply preposterous: Most of the articles thus offered are old goods.labelled afresh and not at all of the latest inakes and etyles. The fact is the " drummer system is constantly developing new evils or a.b. surdities - and we Cannot eXPeet but that each year will produce a tei rible crop of Meolvencies until this mode of doihg business receives a decided check. - .. -The folloviing Matt-maw:nal notice is . . taken, verbatim, from a -London paper : "On King etreet,. near the cemetery, on the lfith January, MT.. Thomas Littleton, aged 39 years, to Miss Elizabeth Bolt. - aged:15, both of this 'city."' a -The. Wellington, Grey and Bruze Railway Company was awarded a bonus of $250,000 by the county of Bruce, on three conditions, One of which was that the road should. be epoxied as far as Pais - let; by a certain:date. To a day a train ran into that village; _but the ballasting nothaving been finished regular trains were not run for some time after. That the Company satisfied. the Counte Coun- cil, and substantially met the require- ments on ;which the grant was made, was nothing to a dissatisfied citizen of Walk- erton, named Collins; and he entered a suit in Chancery to prevent the Company from receiving the balance of the deben- tures still remaining unpaid. The suit has been g tedious one, yetmore prompt- ly carried through than most eases in that court are, for it few days since Vice - Chancellor Strong diemissed the case with ',costs. -A prominent member of a church in Kingston, the ,other • Sunday, in a fit of abstraction, went early to church ancl took a seat in the pew ahead of his own. The next person that came in, knowing _that his pew was the one ahead of the , t ••' t.1 t imminent member's also sat in the rket a dressed hog W,htell weigh wrong pew._ E's one that came in mods. • afterwards pmeued a situilar line of ar- gument and in corm uenee that morn q , - mg everybody on that -side of the church was in the wrong pew. The man -who occupied. the front. seat thought his lew " didn't look natural; but as Brother B. was jut behind him. it wasn't possible he himself could be mistaken, e Guelphites, older to be in e at the present session of the 1 railway from Guelph to Coiling- ia Orangeville. ion, wipttesuree, have stilted, a way project.• Application is to Legislatute for a eharter for a Caithness Vorthern Er IN a ablished in Wick, Highlands of , mentions with pardonable pride . Oliver Mowat, the Premier of is a native of that -district, hate born in the region round about 'Groat's Bouse. ' The. ood people of School Section So. 9, Mint), have novel ways of combining amuse ent with instruction and maltiog each h lp the other. On New Year' eve the • held a " grand concert, ball and sum er," in Omit school house, and devote, the proceeds to procuring •a school brary. • -P. IcDonald. a farmer near Cale- donia, ied sudtlenly on -Saturday. He had ta en hie dinner as usual and gone back to the woods for a load of wood, aecomp Died by his two little sons. Af- ter plac ng one stick upon the sleigh. he fell upo his knees, ancl in a minute was a corps . • Heart disease. -Th City Coimcil of Hamilton has ordered that all wagons used in that city for carr ing heavy loads mast have tyres at least four • inches wide. This is done! on ace° nt of the narrow tyres cuitingi • up the treets so badly. withstanding the very general -No prosper ty which prevailed throughout , the Pro ince of Ontario -and, in fact, throug out the Dominion -there were no less_ tha four hundred and twenty-eight' bankruptcy during last year in alone. Does not this arise from in& and too free a credit to per - o have no capital as a reserve 9 -Th A eou.ntry Merchant on the F. Cla Butter Question. Mr. John Ewing, of Molesworth, writes to the Toronto Globe as follows in regard to butter business: . "1 take this opportunity of submit- ting for your consideration a question 61 . great importance to us merchants, as well as to the fanners of Canada. For a long time merchants have been paying the sante-price for all sorts of butter, and though they have been blamed in the matter, they have been helpless Competition has compelled them to do as. they have done, and buyers have made a ctee'i sweep of our stocks from time to fine giving something approximating to t' i het we have given in the stores. But tis fall the, tables have been turned. upon us, and there are very few but what have from $100 to.$1,00 worth on hand for which we can find no market. I do not teimplEtin of this; it was neces- sary to bring us up, though it is -with a jerk. ' But the spring will shortly be upon us, and with it the annoyance of the. butter business. The merchants itt some of the surrounding towns and vil- tether and mother of Rev. W. ke, late editor of the Can,arra Farmer celebrated their golden wedding lately at their residence in Dresden. -1 iffenstein, a goverummit ployee. who, it will be remembered, em- bezzled a large. amount of the public funds, •s said t� have served up to with- in one ear of the term of his imprison - Ment, as been released. • He arrived et his hon e in Ottawa on Thursday. The reason riven for his release is the state of his Ilea tb. -L ed the tourna rink o Februa peted. f Govern gentle of age, boys, u Duffer' • residen 4' rd and Lady Dufferin have effer- ollowing prizes for skating. A tent will be held at the Montreal Tuesday afternoon, the 4th of y, when the prizes will be cotte- r in the following order : Ladies' r - Generals' champion prize; en's. do. Girls. under 15 years Countess of Dufferin's prize ; • der 15 years of age, Countess of 's prize. Open only to amateurs, s of the Dominion. f I -It is proposecho establish in Dundas a "1 sleyan Boys' College," similar to the H milton Wesleyan Female Insti- tute. The capital Stock is fixed at $40,- 1 - As• Mr. Wm. Rumball, of Goderich, was engaged in loading dressed hogs in the oars, last Saturday, be had one of his thumbs taken off at the first joint, by it hog slipping, and the feet of it jamming his thutub. unfortunate galoott well known • at the bar, but a perfect strange e to the Pew, took it fancy, while in his dups to wancler Harriston church on Sun- day evening lately. Some portion of the lesson. offended him and he rose up sol- • emnly from hie. seat and in a stentorian voice told the clergyman that he was a — Ear. A writ of ejectment followed, but poor Ned. still =satisfied, •weeded his way to another church. The doctrine must have been more congenial there, for with rave familiarity he informed. the preac er after some particularly at- tractive sentence that it " was the best wdrd. he ever heerd." We live it did. him good. _ A Family Party. On Christmas Day a very remarkable euthrtainment M its way was given by Sir Sidney Waterlow, the Lord Mayorof London, in the Egyptian Hall of the Mansion House The Chief Magistrate of the city invited the whole of hicrela- tione, 210 in number, to dine with him, and 186 of them accepted the intritatioa and were present on the occasion. His father, now in his 83rdyear, had the pecubar grattheation .of dining at the same table with his- 13 sons and daugh- ters, 49 grandchildren, and _14 great grandchildren. The Lord Mayor was supported by his four sons and four daughters, his four brothers and sis- ters, 17 nephews, 22 nieces, 29 cousins, and one grandeon. • On the other hand the Lady Mayoress was surrounded by her steumother, four brothers, three sis- ters, 12 nephews, 12 neices, 41 cousins. Thirty-four years ago Mr. Alderman Wilson when Lord Mayor, gave a simi- lar entLrtainment to his relations, and in the same hall, but probably the com- pany was not so numerous nor so diver- sified as that of Christmas Day. "���- A GREAT ClIVRCH.- Beecher's Ply- mouth Church is a great institution. The receipts 13,st year were $76,000- $60,318 46 from the pews. Of this sum $14,000 went to the " Navy Mission." The ordinary expenses for the ensuing year are thus stated Mr. 13eecher's salary. .-...........$20,000 Mr. Halliday (dispenser of charity) salary.. 3,000 Mr. Weld (first sexton)., . 3,500 Mr. Rayner (second sexton). -.•1,200 Musi Insurane,e..... . 500 Current . 1,000 Plymerith Library.. , 700 • Total.... .... •,11 $48,900