The Huron Expositor, 1873-01-24, Page 4•
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TkiE ki1JR0111. EXPOSITOR.
NiNV ADVERTISEMENTS.
Tenders Wanted. for -S
Stave Bolts Wanted—
Estray Steep -Thom
_ Cheese Fac ry Meeti
Dry Goodee&c., Dun
Selling Off LE. & J.
Gardner Sewing Mac
Carriage Factory. -4v1:
Auction Sale ---Manch
Seadortli—J. C. Laidl
•-Tea—Tufts & Hambl
Cordwood Wanted—
To Dairymen Mrs:,
NOtice—W. G. and. B
heel Heuse.
tamuel Trott.
Snell.
g ---J. Hickson.
n &'Deurcitio.
. Sperling.
ne—P. Grassie. •
ntosh& Morrison.
ster House. .
w.
n, Brussels.
lex. Nairn.
hitney.
Railway.
Auton
1 timd before he enters ripen his land,
or if he doewenter upon it he must
ido so at the risk of having his prep
er ty invaded, and his improvements
destroyed by the lumberman every
time he chooses. We fancy there
are few who will, settle • on ste h
lands in Ontario, under such condi-
tions, _so long as there are millions of
acres of fertile lands in tither Prov-
inces and other counieies, wheie
no such annoyances are . imposed.
The fact of the matter is, as we have
alreedy said, and ag has been said by
XITOrtitor hundreds before us, these lands are
being the case, it was clearly' the
FRIDAY, JAN. 24, 1873.
The Recent Sale or Tineber
.Lirrii a,
r
Our readers will remember that
in Octener last the ommissioner of
Crown Lands for u ta rip sold by
public, auction som five thousand
square miles of timer limits, sithat-
ed on the upper sh re of Lake Hu-
ron. The timber tl us sold realized
an averagecof abou
acre) The purcir
• twenty-one years
move this timber
The propriety of tl
Commissioner hes
by members of the
the present sessioe,
discussion has alre
on the subject. Tr
his aution, the,Com
that his objf:ct in
for sale, at the ewes
a portion of the
was to stimulate an
one dollar per
is allowed
which to re -
from the land.
is action of the
eeir qiiestioned
Legislature dur-
nd considei able
dy taken. place
justification of
issioner al leges
throwing open
nt tnne, so laree
timber lands
encourage set-
tlement tipon those ands. He hold
that the lumberman is retturally the
forerunner of the aericulturist, and
that in order to get his supplies o
provision, &c., to eneble him to
carry on his I ti m be ing operations
he must induce settl ment, and thu
eocourege and pr tire te that ter
ritory . the agricult rist, who. 'wil
settle upon and cul ivate the lands
The Commissioner 1s� urges as an
other reason for disp sing of so !erg
a tract of the elm', e: lands of th
Province, that in ureions to th
territory were ann ally suede by
bands of Americans, the timber car
vied off in large qtr ntities,-and no
return made to the overnment, anc
that, besides this, in keeping it, the
Government were i danger of los
ing largely by fires. He maintains
that by selling the' 1 mits to. private
individuals or comp flies, they wi'l
be more closely lo ked after and
better 'protected the could possi b I y
be done.were they ept under the
control of the Gover ment.
We are free to admit that there
. .
duty of the Government to retain
that timber in their bends aS lona as
possilee. There was 'no pressing:de-
mand for it. It ie • continually in-
creasing in value:- Long before the
time ;dotted to these lumbermen- to
have _the lands 'cleared expires, the
valne of timber of all kinds will be
doable if .noe treble what it now is.
Might net, (hen, the Province as
well liave the benefit of that increase
in price as the speculators who have
p urehased Blit, says Mr. ,,Scott,
the timber was being_ stolr and de-
stroyed by fire. Surely the Govern-
ment, with all die machinery et its,
disposal, ie as .able and capable to
prevent it from fa'.11ing a prey to fire
and heing carried a‘eny bv thieves
as private individuals. , The fact
we can see no force in the argu-
in en Is put foreh to justify this
Wholesale seorifice of one of the chief
sources Of revenue which the. Prov-
ince in the future will have to -rely
ueon to save us from direct taxa-
tion. in sanctioning it, therefore,
we think the Government have
Cc! ni witted a great m iota which,
ed $3,006,000, to 'his wife and
three daughters. -
There is reason Co hope that the.
strike of the iron miners in the
south of Wales soon teliminate.
Should this surmise proee -eorrect,
it will doubtlesss have the effect o
lowering the price of iron.
Messrs. Onslow .and Whalley,
members of the English Parliament,
have been fined 1100 each for pub-
licly accusing Sir Jahn Duke Cole-
ridge of conspiring to deprive the
Tichborne claimant of his rights. -
Rev. Henry VVard Beecher de-
livered a lecture in New York, re-
cently, in which he most eloquently
pleaded the ;aims@ of conieu!sory
education. Ile clearly demoustiert-
ed the importance to the Spite of
not only providing for the education
of all classes of the community, out
of cOmpelling all tou receive instruc-
tion.
The Russian Govermnept, it ap-
pears. sent an agent to try to induce
the British Go-Vernment to co oper-
ate in the plaiis of the former for
the subjuifation of Khiva, but her
lier Majesty's Ministers ha' ve resolv-
ed to adhere to their policy as lately
Two rinks of, .Canadien Ceders
have recently beaten two. rihks of
American Curlers at tluT " Roaring
Game," by 27 shots. The contest
took place in New York.
Stokes, the Fisk murderer, has
been removed from the comforta.ble
quarters he has so long occepied in
the prison, to the condenaned crimi-
This Money goes into the general revenue
and is expended for general purposes.
Here there 18 a manifested injustice,
which, the Premier admitted, should be
. remedied as speedily as possible, but how
to do it is by no means easy. The courts
have never' yet been able to decide
f whether the Roman Catholics have_ the
right they claim under the treaty, but
their very hesitancy in tomirg to a de-
cision is evidence that there are some
grounds for the claim. It is not improb-
able, therefore, that the evil inoy be
remedied. by the entire abolition of the
license system, and 'the substitution in
its place of a registration system. The
Premier held out some slight hopes that
be might be able to deal with the,matter
this session, but at any rate he feele the
necessity of some legislation, and if time
will not peirnit this session, he will be
prepared with a, measure next sessioh.
The session is likely to be a lengthy
. .
'nals' cell, and it is said he ha'e lost
the self-important and confident air
worn during the trial, and has be-
come detected and, moody.
DOINGS IN THE LEGISLATURE.
f- mbe ' E -T1
THE DATE of the Meeting of the
Dommwe Parliament is fixed for
s the 18th of Febinery. -The session is
e likely to be a lengthy and exciting
1 one. Considerable speculation is
• being indulged in as to the probabil-
- ity of the aovernment being defeat-
ed. At the present time we do not
e think that the leaders of either par-
e ty are absolutely certain of a majori-
ty. SinJOhn will 11,17 to paddle
- his own conoe this time, as his first
inat, Sir_ George, will not be pres-
ent to render him assistance. We'
'have no doubt that he contemplates
- the perils of the voyage with fear
!end trembling. -So well he may,
for if his past extravagant and reek -
less legislation do not cidg his pas-
sage and swamp his craft, the peo-
ple's representatives are a greet deal
more lenient and forbearing than
their duty to their country requires
them to be..
is a certein amount•
in Mr. Scott's argil
also believe that the
of plausibility
'lents, and ,we
course wh i:Ch
he has taken in the natter wile dic-
tated purely be- a de. ire to advance
the interests er the •ountry. But,
in adMittiae, this we ma.ae far as we
can in his fav % e c'to not Lbitik
the •policy which ..11- 1 has persued
Virith4eterenee to dere- lands a wise
one or One which wil
crease the wealth of
encourage t he settler
- •
occupied territory.
last sale there were
12,000 square miles of tiniber berths
under license. It is
to be showo that
in any way in-'
the cen n t ry or
ent of our mi-
revious to this
d
were
a lea y some
not at tempted/.
these •w e
by any means nea exhausted
or that it was necessati to
place additional land the mar-
ket to supply the dem Ind for timher
It is generally ;1(111 iited, Am all
sides, that there -w- s, previous to
the last sale, abu oda ce of 4icensed
timber lands .to supp y t emend
for years to, come. —ft is also well
known that the sale as not render-
' ed necessary, ifor th - purposes of
revenue. We' must, herefore, hike
Mr. Scott upon his. own grotuals,
and examine the rea ORS which he
gives for disposing of this large
tract of valuable te ritory purely
upon their own mer t4. The first
reason given, then, that it will
facilitate settlement. It is well
known that the grea er -portion of
this land is utterly unfit for settle
rnent, .and thet the ',limber which
eovers it is all that re tiers it at all
yet aable. So that, n mattier whist
inducement may ffered to set-
tlers to locate thereon after it is de-
nuded of the timber: y the lumber-
man, no person can -be got to inhabit
it, for the simple rea on,' that •they
could not subsist. This land is good
only fur its timber, and to talk
about settling it is ere nonsense.
But, even supposing he land is fit
for settlement, is ie ecessary that
so large a tract shoul he disposed
of at once, or thee S long a tame
should be given to the lumbermen to
remove the timbe therefronl ?
WO011 it not be by fax the better
plan to sell only sinal sections at a
time, and have the cleatedup
rapidly, eay within four or five
years from the time of purchase?
This would give a c mice for im-
.
mediate, settlement, f settlement
•can be made. Any person settling
upon these lands must do so subject
to the lease of the lumbermen.'
Tinder the existing lea. es, which ex-
tend over a, period. f twenty-one
years, the settler must wait for that
•
Tnn Cet-Nee. Chu:4m of the
County of Hume will meet at God.:
erich, it Tuesday next There are
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e row Nears 01104 ie Timber
Saies — lillarringe 'License,. —Mr.
lEenrevrell'm Tenipernnee am,
Front Our Own Correspondent.
TORONTO,.Jan. 13, 1873.
Last Friday the membert of th
House visited (at tbe public exPense) th
Institution for the Blind at Brantford
and next Wednesday they are to pay.
similar attentions to the Institute for th
Deaf and .Dumb at Belleville. This, o
Course, is very agreeable relaxation fo
members in the midst of their ardueu
duties, but, if it is a precedent -to be fol
lowed each session. we may be allowed
to doubt its propriety. It is quite rig)]
thalt members should inform themselvee
by observation of. the operation of these
institutions. just as they should with re-
gard to all our public • institutions, bu
let them do it atstheir own expense and
during their own time, just as other_ peo-
ple. equally interested, do. In the lan-
guage of the poet, 1 lask, " Where is this
sort of thing to end?" Are we to liave
annual excursions to the Lunatic Asy-
hurls, the Penitentiary, the Hospital for
Inebriates, the Mold- School, the Uni-
versity and Collegiate InstitutiOns ?
With this little growi-. by way of warn-
ing to our represeetativea not to indulge
to excess in excursions at:the public ex-
pense, let us say by way of justification
of Mr. McKellar, who is .piiinarily res-
ponsible for the whole thing. that he has
special object in view in askin& the
House to see for thoniselves the practical
enelits of the lestitutiona for the Blind
1 th Deaf 1 .
a number of weighty qnestions which b
will come before the "coneentreted
seisdoin " of the County for consid-
eration and . settlement at, this ses-
mon, suet) its the Wardenship, the
County-Printinge the Dog Tax, &c.
Questions of minor importance, such
as the North Riding Registry office,
the County Poorhouse and a few
kindred subjects, sitil I probably be
left over for the consideratien of a
future Council.
411111011IIIII
THE " better terms" Counnissidn_
! ers of New firenswick have reopen-
ed corresp-mdence with the Dowi-
. niou Government. with a view to
obtaining all affirmative answer to
i'stheir demands. The Is_Tes'y Bruns-
wiceem have chosen a Very oppor-
tune tine to press th ei r
The !present political necessitif s of
the Dominion. toyern went will in-
duce: thew to iwomise almost any-
thing to secure the imited et -ippon
a the representatives of that Prov-
ince during. the trying ordeal which
awaits them after the opening, -of
Parliament. That this support will
be given for` such an. equivalent,
past experience teachee us to be- .
lieve. We very much doubt, how- I
ever, if Parliament will he found as
pliable as the -Governinent. There
never was a time in. the ' history of .1
the Dominion, When so great a ue-
assity existed for the united action
of Ontario representatives, in behalf 11
of their own interests and to pre- .
vent their Province beina farther
•
etwants to
make these institutions free to all, and
he could not have hit upon a better plan
to secure the cordial asseet o Members. ordinary cases of assessment. The ef-
• . .
one, judging,from the programme alread y
announced. Let us dot down a few of
the important subjects that will engage
the attention of the House. From Ithe
Government we will have: Settlement �f
Municipal Leah Fund- Indebtedness,
• Division of Surplus, Amendment to
&boo] Law, new Normal Schools, Con-
solidation of Public and High School
Laws, change in the Constitution of the
University of Toronto, establishment of
au Inebriate Asylum and a School fertile
training of idiotic and imbecile children,
improvement in the Administration of
Asticee Amendment of • the Election
Law, Consolidation of our Municipal
Law, Drainage, Income Franehise the
Estimates, and perhaps the Marriage
License Laws. FroM private members
we are to have a Ballot bill, Prohibitory
Liquor bill, and a host of .minor mea-
sures. Add toall this therroton outragt,
the "speak now " scandal. the Elgin
Association scandal, the judicial out-
rage, the Private bill practice scandal
and all the other outrages and. scandals
which are sure to take up a ,good deal of
time. So that if members • get back
home by the middle of March they will
do well. 1
Mr: Farewell will introduce a Prohibi-
tory Liquor bill, arid will subsequently
move to refer it and all the numerous
petitione on the subject to a special com-
hre trust, fnay not again be repeated.
mittee, who will havepower to take evi-
dence onthe whole subject, and who will
report upon the present state of the law,
aryl suggest what measure they may
think best to check or remove the ,great
evil of intemperance. Mr.. Farewell
does not expect his bill to become law
this session, but he hopes that the tem-
perance cause will be advanced by the
discussion of the subject and. the investi-
gations of the coirtmittee. He proposes
to abolish the retail traffic only, there
beim, seine doubts as to the power of
this
being
to interfere with the manu-
facture and whole"sale trade. He proposes
to, authorize municipalities to appoint
agents for the sale of aleoholic liquors
for medicinal, mechanical! and chemical
purposes only, and to ilicense public
houses for the accommodation of the
travelling public, but pot for -the sate of
liquors. Therefore, ihoulel this beceme
law, the • retail trade in intoxicating
.liquors, except for the purposes named
above, would cease on the expiration of
the existing licenses.
Hon. Mr. McKellar has announced
Iris Drainage bills, but they have not yet
been printed. I may say, however,
that one of them is, merely an amend-
ment to the act of last session which
authorizes municipalities to borrow
money from the Government and carry
on the work thernseves. The change
pro sed is merely to facilitate the sale
of t en: debentures to the Government.
The other bill will authorize the Govern-
ment to carry on the drainage works
themselves, but only. on application of
the Township Councils or the property
owners intereeted, and the aseeseora
mai), be appomted by the Township
Councils, and from their assessment the
same right of appeal is granted as in
ere ere let t e nstitution
'! for the Blind has only been iiiroperation
'since the 4th of September last, and that
the pupils, up to that time had received
little or no education. Now,i they can
read and write, know something .of
grammar and geogniphy aud a,rithruetia, persons appointed by the Township I
can sing and play on various instruments Coupcil, Poemee n
of music, and aro.. bright, intelligeot and f
apparently happy. • Alt. this; the mem- 1'l,"14""11) LEGISLA-17°1•
bers who were atthe Institutiou on Fri- HOSPITAL FOR INEBRIATES.
1
ment towards this meitioire, will be one or -
friendly neutralitf. Some members , of
the Cebinet we know are favorable to it ;
others may perhaps tree no necessity for
it under our reformed election law. It
will therefore, we presume, be left an ,
open q.uestion;- but if the House accep
the principle of the measure by pusm
the second reading, then of course it wi
he the (lilted of the Government to ta
the measure into their own hands, an
perfect it in its details. If the bill ge
this far We have reason totbelieye that
will be extended to apply to municip
elections. The machinery of tbe bill
very simple. Each man on going fo
ward to vote receives from the returnin
officer a ballot, on one side of which
printed. the naaleb of the candidates, an
on the other is written a number and ti
initials of the returning officer. Th
number corresponds to the number o
posite the voter's neme in the voter
list, and the object of this precaution is
to enable the vote to be traced to As
owner in case of any alleged fraud or
bribery. "Vithen the voter receives his
ballot, which must be heeded to hint
with tbe nomes of the candidates up-
wards, so that no one cau.see the num-
ber upon the other side, he retires to an
adjoinipg apartment, where be marks
tlr names of the candidates he wishes to
vote for, and then deposits his ballot in a
box., • At the close of the. election the,
ballots are taken out and counted by the
deputy returning officer, in the presence
of one agent for each candidate, all of
whom are sworn to secrecy. If any dis-
pute arises between the deputy return-
ine officei and any or all of the agents,
the ballots are taken. to the returning of-
ficer who, in the presence of the agents,
counts the ballots and settles the point.
The bill provides that the municipalities
will have to provide the ballot bexes.
which, of course, can be used in the muni-
cipal ele.ctions. -
ts
drained. Payraent pf the d.ehentUres will
be made, 'as under Mr. Carlingta act, in
22 annual instalmente. Mr. Carling's
provided that the work shall be as.
sessed by the provincial arbitratone
from whose decision there was no appeal,
Mr. McKellar's bill provid.es that the
township councils shall appoint the as-
sessors, and only in case they fail to do
so the Government appoints them. It
either case there is the same right elan_
peal from their assessments as there is in
JAL 24-, 1873.
inaportant difference between it and Mr.
Cirling's act, The late Government
took power to themselves to do the work
without authority from anyone. Under
this bill the Government will not proceed
lintil requested to do so by the township
*council or the owners of the land to be
ke
it
al
is
is
le ordinary assessments. It will, of course,
is be optional with monicipalities whiehof
the above measures they shall work im-
P-
der.
PROHIBITORY LIQUOR LAW.
This subject is to be brought before the'
Houle and thoroughly discussed, though
no one expects that the prohibitory la,w
wii pass ,this Semites'. Mr. Farewell is
preparing a measure to abolish the retail
trade in intoxicating liquors. There be
ing some doubt as to the power of th
Local Legislature to abolieh the traf
fie entirely, he does not propos
to interfere with the manufa,ctur
or the wholesale trade. His 'bil
provides that each municipality ma
appoint agents to sell intoxicating liquor
for medicinal, chemical and mechanica
purposes, and for no other. Should th
bill pass, therefore, municipalities will
not have the power to renew e-xistin
licenses, but the bill provides that the
may license public houses for the accom
modatton of the travelling public, bu
not for the sale of 1;quor. which houses
shall have a capacity for a certai
amount of accommodation. Mr. Fare
well also intends to move for a Com-
mittee to examine . into the whole ques-
tion, and. report the present state of the
lave and the. best means of staying the
great evil of intemperance. All that the
temperance people expect to gain. this
session is a full discuseion upon the sub-
ject and the -report from this committee
--both of which it is. believed will
strengthen the hands of those through-
out the Province who are striving for
the entire abolition of the traffic.
HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICTS.
WARD ELECTION'S.
Mr. Tooley, M. P. P., for East Mid-
dlesex, an old nannicipal councilor, an-
nounces a to divide each township in-
to four weeds, eaeh ward to elect its own
Counenor, and the Reeve to be elected
by the Whole township, township
that does not contain 1,000 electors to
have no Deputy -Reeve, but one Deputy
-
_Reeve to be given for every 1,000 elec-
tors. In every case the Reputy-Reeveto
be elected by the Councilors from ameng
their numlaer.
PROTECTION OF INsEGTIVOROuS
Mr. Clark, of Centre Wellington, has
a bill for the protection of inseetivorous
birds beneficial to agriculture. It makes
it a misdemeanor to kill any such birds
or to offer them for sale, and persons
found. shooting them may be arrested,
and his gun seize...di and if necessary, aold
for the payment of the fine.
THZ UNIVERSITY OF TORoNTO.
"Mr. Crooks has introduded a hill to re-
model entirely the mode of "constituting
the governing body of our national uni-
versity, by providing that the Senate
shall be in part elective. It is provided
that that body shall consist of the
Chancellor and 24- other members, ex-
clusive of ex officio. members, of whom. 15
- shall be elected by convocation and nine
appointed by the LieutenautsGovernor.
Among the ex ()lido members will be the
e Principal of Upper Canada College and
e, a representative appointed by each col-
' lege or school affiliated to the University.
Y Tne members of Senate hold office -for
"I five years and the Chancellor, who is
also elected by convocation to consist of
e the following graduates of the Univers-
ity : all doctors and bachelors of law and,
g of inedicineeall masters in surgery, an
Y masters of arts, bachelors of arts of
- three years standing, all doctors e of
t science of three years standing.
seuateeo FIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES.
- The Government, through. Mr. Crooks,,
have announced a bill to consolidate and
amend the laws relating to Mutual Fire
Insurance, Compenies. It provides that
ten freehelders in any municipality msy.
by advertising, call a meetingeand if 34
freeholders attend and a majority of them.
determine to establieh a Mutual Fire In-
surauce Company, they may at once
elect three persons to open subscription
book. Whenever one hundred. or more
.owners of property within the Province
shall halm signed their mamas and bound.
theinselves to effect insurances the
company to theamount of at least $200,-
000, a meeting of the subscribers shall be
caned at which directors nia,y be ap-
pointed and the company fully organfre,d.
and. put in operation. The directors
may adopt a tariff of rates, and. may is-
sue policies for any term not exceediog
five years. The company may insure
dwelling -houses, stores, ,hops, and other
buildinge, household furniture, merchan-
diee, machinery, live stock. farm produce
and other commodities. The con-
tains 74 clauses, but these are the inain
features. We understand. thig it will
meet with considerable opposition from
existing mutual companien
A number of petitions have`been pre-
sented to the House from Idigh School
Boards, praying for at act to -compel each
County Council to divide the whole
County anto equal High School districts
according -to the number of High School
districts therein, such division to he
based upoe the assessed value or of the
approximate assessed value of such High
School districts. At present a County
Council may Iona only such portions of
the count as the 1 t gh
School districts, and the object of the
proposed measure of course is to improve
th 1 • these sc oo s.
So Mr the, GovernMent have not, riven
ny notice of such a measure, but it is
lot improbable that it inay incorpor-
ted in their general school bill.
fect of these two measures will be that a
the parties desiring drainage may either
, do the wort: th4mselves, borrowing the a
money from the Government or they
May apply to the Government to sdo the
work, thee cost which will be assessed by
THE INTERDICTION OF DRUNKARDS.
Supplementary to the Government bill
or the establishment of -a hospital for,
abitual drunkards is Mr. Bethime's bill
or their interdiction. This measure pro -
ides that the wife, parent, child- or
deed of an habitual drunkard may ap-
ply by petition to the, County Judge for
interdiction, This petition ia served
pon inehrtate, and a day fixed for
earing the case. T4 Judge takes -viva.
(me evidence, whethet the inebriate ap-
ears or not, and if he is satisfied that
he person is an habitual drunkard, he
ssues an order for his i interdiction. At
he same time he places the management
f the man's property in the heuds of hie
ife, or if he has no wife, in the hands
f some competent person who must give
ecurited for Ail proper management.
he interdiction can only be for one
ear, and if before the year expires the
ridge is satisfied that the man has re -
welled; aucl become tit to manage his
state, he can remove the interdiction.
he interdiotion is held to be sufficient
otice to all persons deaiing with the in-
riate. the bill further provides that
ny tavern -keeper who sells or gives
quor to an interdicted person shall be
able to penalties, which mav be recov-
ed by summary proceedings before the
County -Judge. It also rkovides that an
interdictedperson may, with the consent
(..f the Provincial Secretary, r t to
the Hospital for Inelniates. As the Gov-
nment have accepted the principle of
is bill it will douhtless _become la.w.
INCOME FRANCHISE.
True to his promise Mr. McKellar has
nnounced a bill to give the franchise to
ersons m receipt of an income. Th.
easure has not, at the time nf writing,
ecu published, but we uederstand that
will apply to the law • 1, o
unicip.al elections and to elections for
e Legislature. That is to say in town
d cities all persons in receipt of an an-
al inconhe of $300, and in townships
id incorporated villages, of $200 shall
ve the right to vote and be placed in
ecisely the same position as property
iders.
day last •had ocular demoustration
and so delightdd were they with th
noble 'work the lusthadion is deing fo
these poor sightless cbildi•en that I doe))
if a siegle Member. will be foupd anion
the visitorwho will vote nay to th
proposition that the. Institution shall b
thierely free. Before leave this sub
ject, let ere reriiind your readers tha
this -111Stallt1914 18- a school, not ail asy
. .
luto
;. it. is for educational purposes sole
ly, not in any sense for C111111g
Looking back upon the pi occedings of
tlie House, siuce the date of my Iasi let
ter, -I find little of impertancee The
time has been chiefly occupied in the in
trodnetion of bills and hi moving fier pa-
pers on A variety ef subjeets. Members
have tot into the bad habit of discuesing
subjects on the motion for infermatioxi
thereon, whereas -the discussion, to 1)e
satisfactory and useful, should. net tak
place till after the information asked fo
s laid before the House, when it csiitl
cant, . on intelligently and wal
some practical results. , cannot lieli
thiukings that, if eonie
Imre for the advancement of
theille13117liccabit.iesc
ness and less to hear . themselves talk
ve would get along faster, and the pub
rc interests would be better sereed. W
iave had two diseusmons upon the tun
ber policy of the GovernMente-a vela
. .
mportant question, seeing that our fu
ere revenues must, in a great 'measure
be derived from our timber territory
But the diseussion- would have beer
much more satisfactory, had it been post
oned till the papers moved for Were
f, Hon. Mr. Pardee has introduced a bill
e • for the establishment of a hotlie spital for „
r habitual drunkards. The Government is;
t • Will recommend the vicinity of Handl- v
g ton as a suitable location for the institu- „
tion and no doubt the • Legislature will t't
approve of the recoinmendation Mr.
- Pardee's -hill provides in the first in- t
t stance for the edmissio f • f
non
- their voluntary application—the patient, w
- if able, to pay for his own maintenance.
But provision is also made in the bill for-
th8
e compulsory admission (if habitual T
- drunkards. The friends or neighbors of y
the alleged habitual drunkard may -ap-
- ply by petition to the County Judge to
have hint sent to the hospital. The e
Judge 'will at once serve the petition T
upon the alleged inebriate, and fix a day n
for the hearing before him of all the al- e
legations contained in the petition. Af- a
e ter hearing both sides if the Judge finds h
r that the person ie an side,
drunkard h
d he reports such finding together with
1 the evidence taken, to the Provincial Sec-
s rotary, who may issue an order directing
1 that the habitual drenkard be traesfer-
- d t capita , to be kept such
time, not acceding two ears as the
er
- shiperintendent of the hospital may deem th
O sufficient to effect a cure. ,
TRAINING SCH09L FOR. 'MOTs.
Hon. Mr. Pardee has also a bill for the a
establishment of a school for the training p
of idiotic children. This institution will m
I be entirely different from the Asylum for .b
_ idiots at London. The latter is for adult it
idiots incapable of receivine instruetiOn. 111
_ The former will be for youths between th
tlie ages of o and, 14, and will he wholly an
for educational purposes. AS soon as an nu
idiot is found to be incapable of receiving al
insinuction or benefit he will be removed ha
to the Asylum. The reports of such in- pr
stitutions • in Great Britain, Europe and ho
the it 'sited States show that over 50 per
cent. of the children trained and instruct-
ed in them are fitted. to be placed itt fam-
ilies, where they become useful and. earn , ac
their own living, instead of becoming, an m
.drained by the hungr suckers who
are trying to benefit at her expense,
than the approaching session of the
Dominion Parliamebt. 'We, P
1
fore, trust that no Ontario represen-
tative will prove recreant to the con- n
fidence reposed in him by his con--
srought down, and Members were 111 pos
ession of all the fa f th .
lay mention that Hon. Mr. Scott esti-
mates our unlicenced timber territory—
stituents at the late election.
a
xclusive of the sales of last October --at
t least, 10,000 square miles, of which
111111=111111.10.1
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
5,700 square miles are in the Ottawa re -
don alone.
It is estimated that the funeral of ,;
Napoleon the Third was attended by '
about 60,000 persons.
The state of the marriage license laws
ame up for discussion on motion of Mr,
lerrick, for any conespondence there
might be on the subject. A very unjust
nomaly at present existst [Zeman Catho-
es claim that under the Treaty of Paris,
vhich ceded Canada to Great Biitadn,
heir church has the r;ght to grant dis-
ensations for marriage without any ref-
rence to the civil authority, and, of
ourse, without the payment of any fee
a
A bill before the Italian LegielaJi
-
ture, forbidding theological instruc- N
don in the public schools. is likely t
to become law.
S. M. Pike, late proprietor of c
Pike's operahouse, Cincinnati. and t
an extensive American whiekey dis- h
o the public treasury. On tbe other
and some $30,000 annually is derived
this Province from imioriage licenses,
Itich, of course, comes chiefly from the
rotestant portion of the population.
in
tiller, who died a short _time ago, w
leaves the bulk of his property, vein- P
they otherwise would, vicious and de- ; ee
graded and a constant change upon the I ae
public. We understand it is the inten- up
ange proposed provides that within ten
DRAINAGE OF SWAMPS.
Yr. McKellar has announced two bills
this subject. One is to amend the
t of last session, which Authorizes
unicipalities to do the work, the Gov-
nment buying their debentures which
e to be paid in terms of from on year
to fifteen years at 5 per cent. The
tion of the Goternment t,o use the old ch
'
Orillia Asylumibuildings for this, institu- on
tion.
naefor BILL.
au
. ' r e, o entre ellington, has it
introduced a bill to providefor voting by be
ys after the passinee of a by-law by a
unicipahty for the 'sue of debentures, I
y person who intends to appeal against
must give notice within ten days. If
fails to do so the Government may
e other bill vides that the Govern-
.
ent may do the work; but there is this
ballot at elections for the Local LegiSla- th
ture. We believe we will be correct in 1 Th
saying that the attitude of the govern- m
ke the debentures and give the money.
The Death of Butwer.
Literature has sustained a serious loss
in the death of Edward, Butwet Lytton. ,
For ewers he has been apopular noddist.
In the mass of trash. which the press has
published., whatever came from his pen
has been sme of -appreciative and intelli-
gent readers. Lord Lytton died at the
age of 67, having been born in 1805. He
was hardly 20 years old before he made
his debut es an author. His first elforts
were confined to poetry, but in these he
was not especially successful. " Pel-
ham.," a novel of wonderful power, lint
brought him into notic,e. This was •fol-
lowed by other workt of fiction that are
found upon the shelves of every good
public or private library. Few „azthors
have ever owned, or evertgain
' reputation more enviable or deserving
than that which was obtained by Bulwer
in the " Last Days of Pompeii," " The
Caxtons," "My Novel," and " What
Will he do With it." As a dramatist
Bulwer stood in the front rank. Few
playa hold. a stronger place on the stage
than that held by " Richelieu " and the
" La,ty of Lyons" BaCrer Was given a
place Parliament when only 26 years
old. 'He was raised- to the Peerage in
1866. He did not shine,. however, as a
debater or politician. Re will. be re-
membered as one of the most versatile
literary -men of his age. Whateyer
wrote he wrote well, and hiopen WU a
Very prolific one As a writer of novels
he had, as we have said, lent very few
equals, and he had workedAn the field of
litera,ry criticism, history and political
orna-
ments.
With his death passes away one
of the world's brightest literary .
'AUCTIONSALES.
Saturday, Jan. 25, on the London
Road, near Kippen, Farm Stock and
Household. Furnitum. John Copeland;
proprietor; P. Brine, auctioneer.
d ( ae, au. 29, on o . 2, on.
7, Maintop, Farm Stock and Imple-
ments. James Dodds} proprietor ; J. P.
Brine, auctioneer.
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BIRTHS.
SHErnee - -In Tuckersmith, on Dec.
02 tl-e wife of Me John Sheppard, of
a son.
IVIARRIAGE.S.
Tom —1)EsJARDINS.-- t Bayfield. ou
Dec. 17„ by Rev. R Gibson, Mr. Win -
Todd, Stanley, to Miss Azle Desjar-
dins of Hay.
Youec—Honasse—In Aliteheli, at -the
residence of the bride's father, on dam e
16. by Rev. .1. W. Mitchell, Ms A-,
Mr. Andrew Young, of the towaseldp •
of Groy, to Mary, eldest daughter of
31r. John Horne. Sr.
itiritP11Y—CA.Ruw.—At Irishtown,_ by
Rev. Father Mur h on. 'Wed da
Jan.
Seafe ele t
fourtb dare
ot
seameasese—lt
gie, 4aughte
Clention, ag
MATiMON;—
on M
- Hon. Rod
the 80th y
BLANsITARD.-
residence,
Daviti 131ard
deceased
Yorkshire,
Meatan.—At
ing, the 10
son of Role
13 years am
et he Sinew
'Sweetly ,b
While his h
Home is 1
Far across
' Angels Ix
Then to dw
in the Tel
told our ZP
When tiv
O'er the eyi
With the
Cold and si
Like an i,
Thus our
Though,
0, the joy!
-Only will
He would
Y'orhe
Peace is 111
None ai
For our hal
Ile with ,
AnI altbon
Well, we
And Nvith
Whet). 13-4
'Then, he itz
Gone a n1
While nun/
Be iih
There is no
quotations
Aran. at quoted
week there le
market when_ '
ed. The delie
-leave been ver
-of grain wont
leusheles. Dee
read.ily and.
ways sure of
wanted to ehil
kinds, the al
been setarce.
there were, see:
in the market '
per ton, 41.th61
which sold. as
low as $13.
quote
Pea
Butter, tter.,1:,0o; .1
Eggs. s
Flour
'''' '
''
Sheep
,CalfSki s,(veal)
Salt (retail) -per
Potatoes, per hold
Fresh Pork per 1
Oatmeal
.A.Bepepfle,is)e).1).eiruthattusber,
Wood
Fall Wheat .
Spring Wiest.
tOats.
Barley_ ''
'
Peas.. _
Butter_ .
Zggs-
Hae„ per tom..
Fall wheat,
spring wheat,
69 cts. to 70 c
peas, 06 cts.
100 Amide, $:
Flour,
td 'to I2s 4(1
; white,
loa to 13s 7ele
oats, 3s 2d;
lard, 388 3d.
BUFFALO -I
The followr
shipments of
for the week
Sunday:
Sundv,y,
Monday...
Tuesday
Wedneeday.
Total. ,
Same titne las
we.et-
Sunday.„.
Monday.
Tuesday..
Wednesday ...
•
Total.
Sanae timelas
CATTLE.-
-or the Alban
maket becam
last weeks e
attenda
ern buyers, '
was good, em
prised about
were as folio
No. of
Head.
18 Illinois si
64 o
86
18 Ohio
45
32 Ohio co
steers,
Am.' 16 other
SlIEEP AN
opened active
week's itlos
We note the