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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1874-02-20, Page 11.874, —......dtwa atened to the praise which had beett warded to the importersaucl breeder a a fy, oroualibred steak, but he would sa e t tho importers and breeders wouI poor lot 'and would. be aible to t.comp&fl littleeood if they did not e eve th�agricultural societies and the haaiug commueity in general tO back eris up. He had no doubt but the leas )rter s of stock did. much benefit to the untry„ but speaking for himself he 'ould say that a was not for the bene - of the country but for his own bene - that he had liaported stock, and he asi glad to be able to say that so far he lal beevery successful and had done 1.•y well by importing stock, and if, F'We benefiting hieuself, he beneatted e country, so mach the better. Ile pia thia opportunity of thanking the irraiugs community for the hearty Fen- , st arageaaent they had given him as an .perter, and he titieted that, zilthaugh s main object lid really been o bet- ir his own circurnstauces, he had assist- . in bettesin,g theirs e.lso. ' IThe s. -Y- Officers aid Directors of the 'able Riding Agriduitural Society," was 'e next toast, and was responded to in itable: terms by the President and , teeTtesident, eaell of whom strongly iged the elainaa of the Society for sup. rt from the farming community, and owed the vast ansionnt of beaefit they iseifed from it, no matter whether they Ire .corapetitors or spectators at the Ihileitieas. 1" The. Press" was responded to by 1 , - i te Grigg of thoHionitor, Mr. Mc - km, of the EXPOITOR, and Rev. F. „ Clark, President of the Canadian ess AsSoeiations 1" The Host," "The ea" and a variety of ether voluuteer tste were _propeaki aud fittingly hona ed and acknawledged„ _ trhe pIeaaure andi amusement . of the lening Were much lenhanced by the ex - 'lent singing of Messrs. Rutledge, of ckersMith, Patterson, Joslin, Rye, erson :and Professor 11, Call. The triton. Orange Baas Band also played teral airs in a very pleasing manner. le company broke:up about 1 o'clock., ler singnag "Auld Lang Syne," and 11. baud playing "qod Save the Queen." r 1 Inspeators English. i the Editor of the i Huron Expositor. I an .7. After coming home from schocd irrlat and helping- to feed the cattle ii. split the wood arid do the other res, 'a fellow hasn't much time to read papers-inuok less write for them. yesterday the !folks were off to ech, all except me. so I hooked down Ex -Fes -ma and had a good read of it - n if it was Suaday. The first thing -w on the first page was the "County meil." 1 don't care a ceet for the - `Inv Council, and • was just going to ran over to the "-Gaieties,dywhen ray .; caught the line, c School Inspectors' ports," and I tholght i would read .en„ just to see sediat the old fellow io eGmes poking roundi our school once a while would have to report about - 1 skipped over !Mr. Miller's; that. kre't intereat me; I we ain't in his dis- et, and 1 don't think there was inuc.h it any way. But ,v -hen 1 came to Mr.. 'war's, I read it carefully, and, jint- ny, ain't it a queer one? i.ie begins by 4-irer all the seh.osts are not in that L11ealthy state of 1 vigoraus, efficiency t'' . &e , ildetshir.eayblea'xiebaatss' still, as f acc°tciusr is d- ears- • oulcl be expected." Ah, very good! w charmingly the; sour and sweet are rorraixed. It is like taking alternate rt goes on, "A pardon of our schools tythfuls of vinegari and molasses. The ie conducted in eh very effleient aud. ;atisfactary mariner, a greate-r propor- ion are canductt d with respectable fiielency, while the balance might be Otter." This rather stunned me. I ays thought that only things that ile equal would balance, and I believe , teacher told us so, too, bat here the Ipector tells as. the lesser balances the kiter-and, of course, it must be sa. I wed that seritenceito Jim Brown, this rid% Jim Etc.* is about the best olar in oar grammar class, and he said lie Inspector is an old" —(but I it repeat just what Jim said; he ietimea talks a little rough, for he's a t'3zn big fellow;) what he said was that word "balance" in that sentence was rrect and that remainder should have i used instead. 1i can hardly believe -In knows inorelthan the Inspector, '1'-d ask ou'r teacher about it, but rat already for e lot of discredit marks, :1 don't want to get any more, - The teeter says again,that "arithmetic kd the practical use of the English ngitage are the weak points of our hook generally.'1 should think laere,, I've been studying arithmetic y winter, ever since I could crawl, :tnever knew,. till! I read this report, the lesser proportion of anything i 'balance the greater. Thee, as to praeticaluse of the English lan- e," just as the report says, were bit better. A remarkable specimen e "practical use!" of the English 'age is supplied in: this report a ha - or Dewar. _ Who, without an te knowledge of the "practical use e English language" could so hap - blend the sweet a.ii€1 the sour, the taul the cold, the good anal the bad, k)ftest praise and t the severest cen- ; as has been done by our honored ector ', Who, 1 ask again, without thoroughly conversant Nvith the radical use of the English language," formulate such an elegant sentence ie following: "Preparations are now ing made for building quite a num- r during the year, and for making o-vements in existing respectable uses.," " Existing . respectable ea I." What an elegant phrase! see -, a kndwiedge " of the practical use ie English language" does for one! ay teachers had only properly in - ted ane in the "praetical use of the ish Ianguanc,",I' dare say I could Write as e?egantly and as gracefully br worthy Inspector. There are two hree other sentences in the report h I think I will have to ask Jim di about. Not, that 1 think Jim ai knows as much as the Inspector, nst to see w."-iat he will say. 1 shall to. stop writing, for father says it's _, trise long ago, and mother is taking glat away. Perhaps I will tell yon iother time what Jim Brown says the other sentences in Mr. DeWar's t, 1 remain your humble servant, A Senooa BOY. , N'' nEUDY, 'Vet. O, 1874, _ CAMPBELL, V. S„ Licentiate and Prize - eau efCornell 1-niveaeitaa Ithaca., N. and ate a Ontario Veterinary College, Toronto, ,;.tled permanently in Varna, vthe re he will be ready and willing; to attend to all kinds of et, in all kinds of animals (man excepted) imle of weather, and at an hours. Resi- t/idol:dee two doors east of Cook's Tem - e 416:02111111M1 ata litaidiaisaanorazazatemeamenueeri s 1 SEVIENTIM NO. 424. or *zit FARNI FOR SALE: FCR salef the South. half of Lot 9, Con. 9, Hul- lett, containing 50 ares, 10 of whieh are clear- ed and well fenced, the balance well Iiimbered. The timber on this farrcl is worth • the nibney ask- • ed for the farm. For fartlaor particulars apply at the EXPOsITOR Office, Seaforth, or to the under- gigned proprietor. . JAWS SUTHERLAND, 324 Constance P. 0. HOUSE 'OR SALE. A GOOD Brick Cottage in Harpurhey for sale ' -4-1- cheap, with geoeStone cellar, 5 rooms on ground floor,: and hall and frarne kiteleu attached. There is also a large s able few fruit trees therein. There is also a good well of water and pump. Fci • Price and terms apply to aand garden, with a. McCAUGu,Y & 110LIMESTED, no Seaforth. ,. ROUSE 13c LOT1 IN SEAFORTH FOR IMMEDIATE SALE, 'TIEING No. 104, on the South side of St. Jolla -1-? Street. Offers to be made by letter, pest paid to MINOAN McFaiRL4NE, Agent* 199 St. James St., Montrien.1, Jan. 130, 1874. 3204 FARM FOR SALE IN. TUCKERSMITH.: VCR SALE, on reasonable terms; tab west half -1-* of Lot No. 4, Con, 11,1Tuekersmith, containing 50 acres, 40 of which areleleared and in a state of , goo(l oultivatien, the balance is well timbered with beech and maple. IThe cleared laud ia well fenced and in it state of good cialtivation. , There is a small frame barn and a frame stable. There is 8 are of fall wheat, Which will be sold with farm. This farm is situatedon a good gravel road, and is within 7 milbs of Seaforth. For fur- ther particalars apply to the proprietor on the premises-. 317 - DONALD McDONA.LD.' FARIYI FOR SALE OR TO RENT vOR SALE, on reason& ble terms, Lot N. 16, L. Con. 3, Mauls, containing 70 acres, nearly all cleared, well fenced and"u a good state of eulti- il vatiou. There is a good SAW mill, with a circular saw, ciriveu by water, With an abundance of tim- ber corivenie.nt. Therejis also a good bearing orchird, 'Ilse a good frai e barn and hoase. There is a 4chool and. two churches on the corner of the lot. It is situated within one mile and' three- quarters of a station of the Wellington, Grey and Brace Railway. If the above farm be not sold, it will be rented- For further pnaticalars npply to the proprietor on the prelnises, or to Belgrave P.O. i 312 ALFRED BROWN. • HOTEL FOR SALE. - • ATIV.4. RODER'.CSON, Wishing to retire fromthe •-0-1- hetet keeping buainess, offers for sale that well-known stand, in Egmondville, now occupied by her; half I'm mere of land attached to the hotel ;• good stables, good ivell, and every othet conteni • ence for caming on the hotel business. Part of the parchicse money will be required in cash; the remainder will be allowed to go in easyinste.11- meats.; Appl3- on the promises to 1 310 ; MRS. ROBERTS.ON,.Eganbndville. FARM FOR SALE. BEING composed of Lot 1,boa. 10 of the Town- ship of '.Caek( rsmith, eoutaining 100 acres of excellent lead, upon whieh there is a new frame barn; 38a60 feet, and also a pee orchard. For tonna, which are c asy, and othet information, ap- ply to Mr. JAME, DAVEY, on Lot 1, Con. 12, of • said Townahip; or to the vendor, WALTER REN- • WICK, Sr., St. George P. 'O., Brant Co., Ont. 29b. .STEAM SAW MILL A1TD FARM' FORSALE., BEING Lot 34, (an. '7, eKillop, containing104 acres, all cleared, with geed barns and stables, two good orchardsfull bemiug; two never -fail- ing springs whieh. supply the mill. Also, rot 35 Con. 9, eoataining 48 aeres of bush. The properti; is situated 0 miles froth Seaforth, with a goOcl gravel road thereto. IFor further particulars apply • ou the prernisest If by Post, to jOHN THOMP- SOtnic N, Conste '. 0., Kinburn, Ont. 260 ; FARM FOR SALE IN MCKILLOP. VCR SALE; a 'good Farm, composed of North -1-- half of lot 15 and the west half of lot 14, con. • 12, McKillop, containing 100 aereS, 50 Cleared mid 'r ell fenced, mud in good cultivation; balance Well timbered with hardwood; a good frame hone • and new log barn; good bearing orchard; twO miles and a hall from a good gravel road; 10 miles from the village of Seaforth; there are two steani sawmills within 3A miles ; convenienato churehea, schools aud stores. For particulars apply to the proprietor on the premises, or, if by letter, to; Wirrthrop P. 0. 280*4 TA.MES DIGDOIsZALD. FARM FOR SALE IN GREY. • LOT Na. 12 and part of Lot No. 11 in the 181h Concession of Gray, consisting of 78 aeresj 50 cleared and in good cultivation; 2t miles from Gravel Road, 12 miles from Seaforth. Apply to 276 •A.NGUS MektILLAN, on the premises. • FOR SALE OR TO RENT, ik LARGE commodious Blacksmith Shop and two sets of Tools. Alae a good Dwelling House, either with the Shop .or separately. The lot on which the Honse is coat:Line half au acre of land and a full supply of first-elasa fruit trees and hushes, and an unfailing supply of water. Terms liberal. Apply, if personally, to the Proprietor, on the premises, Kinburn. If byletter, to • •JOHN STAPF, 322 Constance P.o. 11111111111=Pamomillik NOTICE TO DEBTORS. ALL notes and book accounts past clne m;ust be settled before the lati of February, 1874, else they will be put in Court for collection. 319-6 JOHN KIDD, Hardware Merchant. • HOUSE *10 RENT. 'PRAT comfortable dwelling house over the sub- ' scriber's store will be to let on Feb. 24. The rooms are large and ingood condition. Apply to • 320 • WM. CAMPBELL. • IMPORTANT NOTICE. 'MEW BA1113ER SHOP IN SEAFORT1I-The -1-1 public are respectfully invited to give Mr. Cremes a call in his new Barber Shop in the • Memnon Hotel. The best attention given to Shaving and Hair Cutting. Call and see him! Give him a Trial ! Razor and Scissor Sharpening strictly attended to. Come Otto! Corae all 1 Satisfaetion given, ' • • 321 WM. ()REMUS, Seaforth. ESTRAY. STEER. CAME into the enelosaire of the undersigned ‘---1 about Oat. .20, last, Lot 28, Con. 15, Grey, a one -year-old. STEER, red' and White. The owner is requested to prove proPert3a pay expenses and take it away. HARTWELL SPEIRA.N. NOTICE. A LL the Sr. ale Notes made in favor of MWood- -lel- riff, of Grey,are in my hands for collection, and muat.be paid at once to save costs. • S. G. McCA Seaforth, 322 Solicitor, CAUTION • TEE Imblie are hereby eautioned against cutting' tither standing or fallen timberror in any vay trespassing ou the bush portion- of Lot Ir>fo, 31, Con: 2, Tuckersmith, L. R. S. Any person found entting timber, or in any way trespassing An the said portion at said Lot will be prosecuted to the atraost rigor of the law. :120-4 ANN SMITH, Proprietress. PUBLIC NOTICE. • ri C. WILL:au:a`, of Seaforth, has been appoint- ‘-'• ea sole agent for the ealebrotedMathaishek Pi- ano intim County of Huroreand this instrument can ?lily be purchased through him or his duly author- ized ap,-ents.. Orders given to others than mfagente Or myself will not be tilled. The following gentle- men have been appointed to 'act as my agents in the County of Huron: -Thos. COIMOTS, U. P. Whitten and L. Murphy, Seaforth.; C. Doherty, Clinton. and L. S. Willson, Goderich. - 320 0, 0. WILLSON, Seaforth. a - lama HOW PRORHTION WORKS. . , _ From the iVew. York Tribitne. ' Nobody iexc t the politician Who manipulatei' alt public matters - for his private pu poseS, and the fanatic who is passionatel in Rove with his own way, cares mac for i prohibition which does not prohib t. •It is for the interest of the first til kelep the question always open ; the 'failure of one eiperiment im- plies yet wither, and so, in endless series, mac merOt is followed by atnend- 1 meat, and t e a vantage of a good .moral and philant rop c " cry " is maintained. The fanatic on ,he other hand, who may be thoroughly i earnest and as honest as the daylight, s s success'when every- body else sees nothing. but failure, and having star ed with the mistaken notion of dependii4g merely upon penalties, he relies co:nfic11envi.r upon the expedient of increasing them -always a weak and un-. philesophicil-re burce, even when it does not lapse into o s ething like posit* in- justice. We do iot object to any amount of • rhetoricin i depicting the dreadful (loom of thd dru3nkard, but when au ef- fort is to be mac e to save him by an ex- periment in law -making, we think it only right and. pri4ent - that mere feeling should be f r a Moment laid aside. • The world insti ctisiely asks for results. A law which i is impossible to. enforce is no novelty sue laws have been euacted ever singe - the days of Solon, and are at the bottc.m. Of a great many of the troubles and diasters recorded in his- tory. It hid o use to say that law is law and mu t b enfofeed. Saying this does not vif tcet, it. A law may be not merely sd ts popular, but so clumsy, so contradictor . or so inequitable that its enforcement will be .found impassible. • Nobodyalen es he sacredness of law in theory, and 11 the more necessary is it to make lawso" wise, so adapted to the emergency, o tient i their provisions, that their ejnfoifemen ma.y be certain and easy. Are to not ay that it is im- pessible to draftta Prohibitory law which shall meet all these conditions. We only sly, wi h g' eat re ret, that we have never seen �c t rough which sharp law- yers could ilot rive, cia abitlan, almosti a coach and ix. - I The war er . dvoca es- of Prohibitiona insist that we h ve no right to inquire; into thereat lts f the aw. In spite of this, the rig it s ill be daimed and will be ex&rcisec. b thin ina mail. The . 1, questiop, ijoes i Proldbition prohibit? will be aske , air& ace rding to the facts and the evi enc , it w 11 be answered ; and upon t is swer uture legislation should at lerist t.pend. Thus tar, such evidence az we 1 obt in is not, we are forced to sa , fa orabiel to the efficieucy of the law. Re . Di. ,iill says that af- ter 60 yeer '0 erVati ri. he has never known so a uci drunkenness in the- stalets of P• rthind as at present. • The 'fact is too p. infal to be quarreled. about, and too i1n)Ort1nt to be covered up. In Massaci useits for nearly twenty years the' tcp iriment of Prohibition. has been riej under the most fa- voreble eireumatances, and with per- petual amen me -let of the law ; and the' general testi . o47 from the most . trust- worthy sources.* that in Massachusetts, certainly ip that State, more =dr so ure. If thi ladies and ren opened a. e w perance eras de should we b temperance stating i:? Ef really doing Mg the (lain excess is slur he eities and.large towns of PrOhibition is something ething, worse than a. fail - be the - truth- -and the emen tvho have just nd extraordinary teni- re proiVing that it is-- denounccd as enemies of r of total abstinence for our Prohibitory law is i i ere harm than good, driv- ers iinto secret dens where str lined by the fear of ex- posure, or aki g liquor -sellers stolid, .. obstinate aril .s ccessfla defiers of the law, are not em ' mance men everywhere interested in kn wing the truth ? It is childish, it i wo se than childish, it is a gross. inimorialit to try to conceal it. Anybody ca re the long list of con- victions of chun enness which may be found in an Massachusetts newspaper which publishes police reports at all. Anybody. vi iti g Boston and other cities of Mas ac frusetts can see that all liquor shops , re lot closed, and are not likely to be closed. Is a man a bad tem- perance man be use he considers this undeniable fact to be important ? Es- pecially when heis told that the law is made an " intri ment of -persecution ?" that (as Mr. as -oe of.Boston says in a late well con (le ed pamphlet) " it has " led to an arnount of domestic and pub- " lic hypocr sy and secret drinking "which, to uet e mildest term, reflects 'the greatest d. cre,dit on the State it- self, and t re, tens, if the law, as at "present aclrninntered, be persisted in,. " to end in t orotighly demoralizing the " people ?" . When we are asked to ig- nore facts like thnse, and to acknowledge Prohibition to be a panacea for all the, dreadful evils of intoxication, we must beg to be xcu.sed. Nothing can . be gained by such a dogmatic way of dis- missing the ful). t. . To the rigid P ' hibitionist, " License" is a word of frightful import, but men who are honestlylbent upon the reforma- tion of society, 01 upon even a partial abolition of .ocja1 evils, ought not to be frightened by mere words. The scriptu- ral command is t4 prove all things and to hold fast to that which is good. The progress of 'the *inperaece reformation in England has been very great, and it is customary! te take it or granted that all this good has been effected by Prohi- bition. The truth is, whatever has been e(mined in Edgland has been the result of the Licensing act, which keeps the trade in the handd of reiilpoIlsible persons, pay- ing a rent of £30 o £50 within the city of London, or smaller rent in the smaller towns. Wel do n. t purpose at present to go into all the rovisions of the sta- tute, but we may specially notice that the police stlpervi ion is very strict, and that liquor Is not to be sold to any per- son under the age of 16 years, or to any drunken or disreputable person under heavy penalties, While the provisions for closing on unday and other holidays are oxtreue1y rigid. The naa.in point, however, to!which we now wish to cal I 1 •;: SEAFORTH, FRth AY, FEBRUARY 20, 174; attention is the testimony of magis- trates, of the police, of all persons whose testimony- is worth 'having, that ." the • " beneficial effects of; the Licensing act " have been p .oved to be very great." These are the words Of -Mr, Glossop, -Su- perintendent cf !Birmingham Police, and with them we conclude what we have to say Upon the subject lat present, adding only our since e sympathy with. all. well directed effort to regulate,and as far as possible to su press, a. clemoraliaing and elestructive tr ffic. • Penns vania Germans. A second a id enlarged edition of a voltune entitle• Penmy1vania.D4tch, has re:Gently been published. The . work is principally co posed of number of essays on diffe ent topics relating to the class of perm s indicated by its title, and contains. uch valna,ble information, though it 7doe not attempt td, present a full and sys emetic View of the entire subject, and ideed, that_ Wmild have been scarcely practiea,ble, except in a book of a goo I deal! larger size.. The word " Duteh " in the title, iS, as the author explain , emplayed on aecomit �f its being popul rly used even by the peo- ple • thenaaelve The word, properly, should be "G;rin,n"S .U441 withi 1. a fest years • past, the Pennsylvania It ermans were a singular- ly isolated clas of, an American popula- tion. We la ve sPaken of the wort " Germau" b ag a more appropriat designation th n " Dutch," but iU real itythey7are ne ther DutchnorGermans but American 1. act,, b difficult to era me any communities o whom a larger roportion have -been bor in this country The ancestotsof man of them cathe t our shores more than hundred, and s me of them over a him dred- and fifty years: ago. There are -indeed, a good many Germans„ in th strict sense of he word, in PeunSylvailia,, and, to some xtent, they mingle with the population.• f which we are apea,king , but net very m oh More, we think, than they do with o her portions of the peo- ple.. Indeed, t ie spoken language of the Pennsylvani. Dutch" is not by any means pure Ge .man ; and it is Other ar overstrained co plimeat to call it even a dialect • Of Ger an. They caia usually malerstand ger uine Getman pretty well when they hea • it, but their 'own lan- DicLEAN BROT1LEIM, PirMixbvirtit. $1 50 a Xesncl In advance. the population. A large number are in the West, though they . have usually shown less disposition to emigrate than most classes of our people in the old States. They are, on the whole, an ex- ceedingly Valuable portion of the com- munity wherever they are. Many of the most eminent men of Pennsylvania, in all departments of usefulness, are of this origin; and this will, no doubt, be hereafter still more the case when the difficulties in regard to education which their peeuliarity of language has occa- sioned shall have entirely disappeared. - New York Times. Canada. There are in the Province of Ontario .104 High Schools, with an average at- tendance of 7,968 pupils. The estimated cost of running these institutions is, $210,000. s -A wahmt.saw log, five feet in di- ameter, Attracted considerable attention from the citizens of St. Thomas a few days. ago, while it was being drawn through town to a neighboring sew mill. -John Hill, a lamer residing on the Second Concession of Minto, went home from Palmerston village a few evenings. ago under the 'influence of nitoxicating liquor. He ,retired to bed about 11 (o'clock, and some of the family going to awake him in the morning, he Was found dead. , O We regret to learn that Rev. Mr. - Pritchard, the esteemed pastor of the , Wingham and Bluevale congregations of e the Canada Presbyterian Cburch, has' f been for some time seriously ill from n typhoid fever. :His many friends will y be glad to learn that he is :again re, a covering. - -Thelarge manufactories in Hespeler, guage is a bar • araus, dialect, eaceeding- ly limited in it vocabulary, and having almost no:liter ure whatever. It is now disappearing - v ry rapidly, and in less than half -a .ce itury there will, in. all probability, be carcely. a trace Of it. • The Pennsyl ania German element in the Population of ,our! countryd has, in some respects, been very mucl under- rated. This ar ses principally from cir- cumstances_ co mected with their lan- aidese. The • ost intelligent part of -them have for eneratiOns been .1.e.arning English and be•oming identified ,With the English-speakii g population. • The great- er part of the " Pennsylvania Dutch" stock hes prob)ly thus beeu merged in the g,ctieral ma s of the American peo- ple. Fifty- ye rs hence this -will, no doubt, be the c• se with of it, so far as lani guage s co. cerneda and with ahnost all of • it M ne tly eve'y other respect We have no means of giving a definite estimate of the lumber of persons in. the country of thed ncestry of which we are speaking, but is much larger:than most people, even in Pennsylvania, One reason fm this is the manner in which many of the family names have been Anglicize I. Very many indivi- duals had, befo e learning English, rath- er indefinite ide s as to hew their names were spelt, and some of those that did know desired to . avaid the, mistakes' which English speaking people often make in ittern ting to pronoance the 'German spellin.. . . The distinct ve peculiarities of the Pennsylvania ermana have, as would naturally be su spased, been less oblit- erated or modi "ed. by modern changes among the agri ultural class than any other. The ol -fashioned. ." Pemisylva- ilia Dutch" fai is ha'ae !generally been considered an e -ceedingly .ignorant set -- of people, and e a large part of them Were, in regard to many subjects. At theeame time; here were some of the most ignorant mong them, so far as honks were conc rned, whocould,thirty or forty years a o, 'have taught the peo- ple of New Eno nd many thingoof value in reference to agriculture whieh they , or at , any rate, which learned vety. recently. United States has farm - en to greater perfection hardly know ye they have only In no part of th ing been carried than am.ong some of the mast .exelusively -" Dutch" neighborhoods in Berks and Lancaster counties.In noises probably, strange as it reales ocein, has agriculture been conducted oa more thoroughly . How, with the books that so many hey made out to ac - question which we r. - • • - Germans are often nd of money, but we. at they are, on the than othor people. iven to speculating, fer hard work to a values, as a means of roperty. There are opulation of the Unit- ulate their pecuniary i-vely • by what they er than by what they 'till, there is, in -many amount of enterprise scientific principle little knowledge of of them possessed, complish this, it a are unable to answ The Peimsylvani Spoken of as very f see no evidence t whole, any more They are seldom and are apt to pr prospective rise in increasing their few classes of the]. ed States that cal resources so exclu actually have, rat expect to have. things, 'an imm.ens among them. In the two, counties we have mentioned,. ansl of which they con- stitute probe* a larger proportion of the inhabitants; than in aaThr others, the roads, the bridges, and. above all; the railroads, are snch as few parts of the United States of the ' same extent and • • populattoi., on. could show anything at all equal The Pennsylvania Germans and their descendants ar piincipally found. in cer- tain districts o the old. settled. agricul- tural portions Of the State. There are comparatively few of them in the coal regions. A great many of 'them are in Philadelphia; 'but there they have gen- erally become ildentified with the rest of rendered vacant by the removal of Messrs. Randall, 'Farr & Co., to the Ifuit- ed States, have been purchased by Messia. Schofield & Co. This tirM in- tend to largely increase' the facilities of the works, and carry on, on a very lare,6 scale, the Manufacture of fancystlanneiS. This will be good for Hespeler. A curious suit is coming off hi the county of Monck. A person residing in Ceistor, naniedlicIntosh, a canvasser for: McOalhuia left a fiVe-dollar bill with a voter and told hiin to vote early. The voter did. "vote early," but for . J. Ds Edgar the opposing candidate. The sant' it to recover the five dollars, which the voter never asked ° for having previously ' refused. to .vote for McCallum. -----When the enlareementiof the Wel- land Canal is completed, its looks will pass vessels of 270 by ,46 feet, .with 12' feet draft. - -Robert McKey, a well-to-do tarmer residing near Glencoe, was tried at „that village on Saturday last, and committed. to stand his trial at the Assizes, for, : bautally assaulting and dangerously - A ounding with e knife a man named Mc= eary in a drunken. melee. ' • -A man mimed 1)1'. Charles Lorimier, • s n of a wealthy merchant of Amiens,'. . k ranee, committed aeicide in 'Montreal - II, st week, by shooting himself through ' a, le breast- with a pistol. - He, in -com- p My with his wife, came to New York a )out a year ago. On arriying in that c ty he possessed about 1100,000, the ' o a eater portion of which he spent there : ii fast living: .• He came to Montreal! a out two months ago, and lived at one o the principal hotels, in ease and elfin -- e ce. His -wife. seemed to be as "fast" a liver -as himself, and her infidelity is & id to be the cause of his taking his ' li e. -Application- will be made to the ominion Parliament next session, for • act to incorporate .a Company with ft p dnt on the shore of Lake Superior, at Wpowers to construct a railway from a- t& west of Nepigon River, to Winnipeg,. either in a continuous line, or with powers te utilize -the navigable waters along. tle said. route, for the purpoSe- of trans- port. ' . . :.-A young man named David Mathe- s n, while foolishly attempting to pass- el se in front of a moving train at. Inger- s 1 station a few days ago, was struck b the engine ancl thrown on the track. HS- head mile in contact with a post, a d his feet were run over by the train. II only lived a few seconds after beiug recued. , - At a recent', sitting of -the Division C urt in London, a case carne up to re - co er the sum of $20 upon a cheque made a d marked good by a late ledger keep- er of Molson. s Bank, ancl cashed by the pr • secutor. it ' seems that almost im- m diately after making the cheque the le ger keeper decamped and left no funds, but seeing that as the proper of- ficial of the bank had certified to the pa- per, the prosecutor claimed that the in- stitution was liable for the amount. Jndginent was ' given in favor of the prosecutor. : , -The members of the Roman Catho- lic Church in Goderich presented their pastor, Rev, Father Boubat, On the eve of his leaving for another parish, with a purse eontaMing $152, end a old cham i and. cross:. - A new invention in the hape of a "broom proteetor," is DOW ill the market as a candidate for public f vor. i It is said that it will prevent a Lroonl from wearing at the sides, and • ake it last three times the usual time. Hie ' pro- tector" Will wear out twe ty broon.s,• and only casts 15 cents. Ch ap enough. - Mr. Samuel- Cawley, o East Ox- ford, recently sold an oak tree, for - which he received $64. The tree was . some seventy-one feet to the first limb, anft in the neighborhood lif six feet through at the butt.. Such "monsters of the forest". are now-a-daYs not very ' , plentiful. . 1 -.The Loyal Orange Lodge of the ounty for South Huron held. its annual Meeting in Goderich on the 3rd inst., when the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: Bro. W. W. Con- nor, (.M.; Bro. John Whiteley, D. 0. M.; Bro. A. C. Simmons, C. S.; Bro. Russel, C. ' Chaplain; Bro. Joslin, C. Treas.; Bro. -Thos. Sturdy, C. D. of 0.; Bro. Cooper, Co. Lecturer; Bros. Sitn- • Ittp118 and Stevenson, Co. Auditors. It was resolved to celebrate the next anni- versary of the Battle of the Boyne at Seaforth, on Monday; July 13. It was also resolved that the 'annual meeting be held at Clinton. -The "Canada -Firit" party have established a paper of their own in To It is entitled the National, and is said to be a valuable, well-condneted sheet. But whether,it will live or not is a que.stion for the future to solve. --The agent of the 8ilsby Fire -Engine Company was in Goderich on Monday of last week, when the new engine was taken out for practice, and it was found it would not woik. 'A couple of hours were spent, but it-conld not be induced to pimp. This is rather a discouraging prospect for the Goderich people. -A new Masonic ,Lodge was started at Smith's Hill, in the township of Col- borne, on the evening of Wednesday of last week. It is called- the "Morning Star" Lodge. -The proprietors: of the Brownsville Cheese Factory, County of 'Oxford, a few. days ago delivei,eal at Woodstock .station their Septerober,'Octolicr and November make of cheese,amountipg to 2,400 boxes, which ha been sold for 13 cents per pound, an& 'realized the handsome sum of $21,000. -One day lately, ;while the men em- ployed. on Mr. Patrick Lannon's tarn -el. Lob 7, Concession Ellice, County Perth, were working in one of the fields, they wens -startled by the sudden appear- ance of five immense wolves, istuing from the.adjoining woods. Pursuit was at once macle„ but the animals- eecaped without any of their number being captured. it is many years sinceanimals of thisdes- cription have been Seen in the County of Perth. -A farmer named Calvert, of the township of Opps, met with -a -strange accident one day last week. - He was on a load of hay pressing down the binding pole so as to have it tied, when the pole broke, and he fell off the leaci on the ground, his weieht came principally, on his hands, breaking both his arms at the wrists. -Mr. Robett Tornpson, of the town ,shipof Beverly, It d his 'barn and its: contents completely destroyed: by fire one day last week. 1,?he barn contained- a , quantity of hay, gat)m and - implements, all of which were cOnsurned. Loss about $2,000. , . • d ---The Great Western Railway 'freight .house at St. Catherineswith- its con- ; tents, were destroyed by fire on Friday eveniug last. Alarge amount of vain- a,ble goods were consumed, and. the loss .will be heavy. . • - A livery stable belonging to Mr. 3. F. Morse, in the village of- Aurora, was destroyed by fire On Saturday morning last. All the buggies, •sleighs ead har- ness belonging to the establishment were .also destroyed, and three valuable horses were burned to death. , - A Very seriouS accident took place at the residence of Mr. B. B. Ozler, bar- rister, of Dundas, on Friday nieht` last. His gas made from gasoline would not work, and. he and Mrs. Osler went into the cellar to see the cause, when it ex- ploded, carrying away the stairs aaici landing, and igniting the clothes -of both Mr. and Mrs. Oster. In trying to ex- tinguish the flames from. Mrs. Oster's clothes, Mr. Osier was very sereerely burned. -A large flock Of wild geese passed over McGillivray, township last week, flying in the direction of Lake Huron. Sportsmen look upon this as a most re- markable occurrence, and are at a loss how to account for -it. . e ---At a congregational meeting of the Canada Presbyterian Church, St. Marys, a unanimous call Was given to Rev. W. 11. Rennelson, of Galt, late a student of Krtamr.wm. x'sColIcge. Cla,Ck, who for several years has acted asagent for the London Branch of the.Tiritish and Foreign Bible Society, died in London on Monday, in the 67th year of his age S11e h.ad been a resident of London for 40 years, having emigrated. from ,InvereessIshire, Scot- land, in 1833, and :settled here in 1834. He was one of the signers ok the call to Rev. John Scott, over ,twenty-three years since, and has always taken a prominent part in ehurch matters here. -Sanmel Miller, a resident of Blan- shard, was crushed to death by a saw Jog on the 12th inst. Mr, Miller had been engaged. in drawing logsfrom his own farm to the Woodham saw mill. On Thursday he Went to the bush about 11 o'clock, intending to be back at noon, but not coming, his Wife went to the bush and found him crushed td death under the log. Mr. Miller was one of the early settlerV„:. and was highly re- spected by all who knew him. He leaves a wife and five small cl ildren to- mourn his loss. • -Ili the township of Blanshard, a few days ago, a modest wi( ower of 68 sum- mers led to the altar a -duelling beide ef 73. Who need despan ? -Robins have bee • seen in several places, and flocks of w 14 geese observed flying northward. As .sual, the proph- ets " predict this as_ a iga Of spring. I -While Mrs. Boni on of the Third Concession of Howick, sva'S sitting in her house reading, a few e renings ago, some. person knocked at the door. Mrs. Boul- - ion said " Come in:" heA the door was gently opened and Ign te a large basket: Shoved into the room. The deerwas in-. stantly closed agaM-, a d the party neade off: Mrs. Boultois, being alone, was somewhat startled - at first, but after a second thought she w nt' to the door to: see who was there, b t DO one could be seen. She took.up th baaket, and upon examining its conten she found a fine healthy looking feMa e Child about six weeks old, snugly nM ed. up. A further examination brought to light a choice lot of clothing, a no e epntaining $10, with instructions to ake good 'care of the child, and whe the raoney was spent, more would be forthcoming. There was also in • e basket a small box of sugar, a law ing bottle full of 4.4 -4-.44=-44.44 • _ . fresh milk, and One dollar in silVer. Mrs. Boulton is qnite taken up with the child, and will bring it up as her OW* -Steps have been taken to have al Re- formed Episcopal Church established in Ottawa. Bishop Crimmins, of New Yorke has been invited tO come to Ottawa to organize the new Church. This Leave- ment is said to bel a tevoIt against the ritualistic tendency of the present Epis- copal chnrcheeizi the capital city. --A despetch frcim Thunder Bay, Lake Superior, says the minee progress aa nsual, and are all getting more or Jess silver. -Three A keeps the lead an<l is getting most. They are troubled With water at Silver Islet. There have heen several deaths front typhoicl fever there, said to be in coneequence of the water in the mine. Silver Islet is still open-tnot frozen - and .has not been this wi ter. fl If Horse feed is very scarce here this in- ter-Lhay $50 pert( n oats not to be had -Mr. Edward Jenkins, member othe . British Parliament for Dundee, author of " GinX'S Baby," &c., and. son of - ev. - Di-. Jenkins, Montreal, hasbeen 1 ap- pointed by the Dothinion Governme t as their representative in London, in lace of the late Mr. Dixon. He will iiave, _ however, more extended powers, en, rac- ing not only emigration matters, buil the, transaction of such other business as the , Government may 'require him to at- tend to. - -The editor of a -Wingbani paper was i asked by a strange "if it were pos ible that that little vill ge kept up two n ws- papers," and the reply was, ‘,` No ; it takes two -newspapers to keep up the village." A V lentine, , If features fair the ye can please; If form of fairest mould may char If modest mien. au grace, and ease In every act the iheert can warm; Then, sweetest girl, the power is thine, To please, to charm and te delight, Thine are the charins, the bliss is untie, To find in thee all these unite. But what are features, form and grace, If separate, or if conibined, Unless the nobler gifts we trace, The trusting son, the virtuons mind The face, the form„ the mind, the sold, To the in large upply are given, These contribute t at charming wh4s, The richest, choi est gilt of heaven. Then, best of girls, let ille but know, That thou art all and only mine, No higher good 1. a k below- -Content with sue a Valentine. CONSTANCE , Feb. 74, 1874. , R. T ..HARpER'S MAGA. .INE fOr March con- .. tains Nineteen arti es, aud over seventy enaravings. In the opening art etc, Charles Nordhoff e. estribes the mult far- . , ious duties of the sight -house Bare art the coestructon 41)(1 provisioning of light -houses. In the thirteen ac om- panying engra,vings illustrations _aid giar- ensof the various Lypes of light -he toes on (JUL sea -coast and on the lakes. " The - Chevalier Bayard" has become a prov rb, but how many readers really know ny- thing about him ? Those desiring uch knowledge will bq gratified. by James Grant Wilson's i teresting Memoies--- with four beautiful llestrations. A_ ap- ital paper .on she B mania Islands is on- tributed by Christi na .1.Zoinids. Nrith lif- teen excellent illustrations'including two aocal maps. Under the title of " Archibald Constable and his friends," Mr. A. G. Constable, a son of the noted publisher, gives a, graphic description. of the literary celeb"ri. ies of Edinburgh fifty years ago. His article is profusely illus- trate.c1 with characteristic views of that City, and portraits of Constable, Sydney Smith, Francis Jeffrey, liem•y Brougham, Thomas Campbell, John Wilson, Du ald Stewart, and James Hogg, ,The re ent zemarkable pi.ogres in astronomical re- search, the mounting of the great Equat- orial in the United States Naval Observ- , atory at Washington, and the interest ,: t ' asvakeued. by Mr. i) rocter'e lecture in - this country, render er peculiarly ti ely the review which, fa der the title of "Ob. servatories in the 1Tnited States," Prof. J. E. Nourse gives lel the observatories at Cincinnati, Washington, West Point, and Annapolis, andlthe work accompliah- ed by them. His *per is accoMpartied by seventeen engravings, one of which represents the new !Equatorial a Wash,- , mounted inthe new Mulock Craik's, and. Me's_ serial stories. ington, as it appear dome. Mrs. Dina Prof. James de both of which arest ustrated, are wain -- lied. Charles No dhoff contributes i an article on "The Rights and Wrongof Seamen," apropos of the recent publica- tion of Dr. Marshall Jewell's remarkable work "Among our Sailors." "The • Night Train for - Paradise (Acconnitla- ' • tion)" is a very entertaining bit of genial satire. Colonel T. B., Thorpe give* a chapter of interesting reminiecentes Con- nected with the late Lewis Gaylord. Clarke, and the "P Collections of an Old Stage?' are contine. cl. Two very inter- esting short stories are contributed-- " Jo and I," by Harriet Prescott Siliof- ford, and " A Scheme for Vengeande," by Mrs. Frank M'Carthy. Walt Whit- - man contributestnother temarkelble ) poem, the "Prayer f Columbu ;" 'and -- there are also poema by Elizabe h Akers Allen, Mary B. Dodge, John Jeafies 'Platt, Paul H. Hayne, and Fainnie R. Itohineon. In the ileditor's Ea. Ch ir, 1 George William Curtis discuses the c le - of Sam Adams's tea party, and Mot er Goose Tableaux, and pays a graceful tribute to the late Professor A.gasSiz. The Scientific Recorq bring the s minary of Scientific Progress down to -he close of 1873, and contain besides a of very interesting items of info The Drawer is fall . nuraber mation. f amueang aiecdotos and facetim, and is onclutlecl with a Aer- ies of funny ill-ustfations representing "Baby's Trials." Or - OUR Goons and Plated Ware not sold during the Holidays will ow be sold at a eOnSid- erable reduction. -E. HaPlisaar & Co. A FRESH lot of Ayer's Medicines inst reeeived aired from the Labratoty. consequotly they are Fresh and gennifm, also Ayers' Ahnaisacs. for Me, at ElQKSOlize 14ng Store.