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Home My WebLink AboutThe Huron Expositor, 1874-05-22, Page 1• 1 IEW SSIMERE CAPES. AT 4OFFMAN BROTHERS', NEW Cassimere Mantles AT 4OFFMAN BR THERW. New Lace Capes AT IOFFMAN BR THERS). NEW LAE MANTLES AT kOFFMAN BROTHERS!. NEW LACES;C,.A.RFS AT NIFAN BROTHERS'. iEW LACE SHAWLS AT OFFMANLBROTHERS". NEW LACE POINTS AT ptcrtviAN BROTHE RS'. NEW SUN HATS 1 • 0,=THERS". - AT MAN B PA RASOLS AT MAN BROTHERS'. lk Umbrellas FFM .-.FRESH ARRIVALS OF 1 InT 1=Z,, -4cr ....EVERYWEEK. Fi AT AN BROTHERS' MAP CASE STORE, SEA_FORTH. ' • iiimmeemeneelnle, • • SEYENT III YEAR. W1101.11 NO. 337. SEA FOR II, FRIDAY, MAY 22, 1874. 'Ant gotate }LOUSE AND LOT F R SALE (111ELP for cash or to Ren, in the Village of Roxborough, Township a caillop. A good Well on the premisesla,tely oe uroe! possession given immediately. ticulars apply to ROBERT A.TIAMR on the premise, or to B. EDEN, Har whey. 3364'4 FARM FOR ALE. Ilte BING composed of Lot 1,0 n.10 of the Town- -1J ship of Tucskersmith oon. ining 100 acres of excellent land, upon which th re is a new frame barn, 3360 feet, and. also a good orchard. For terms, which are easy, and ot er ifomationap- ply to Mr. JAMES DAVE!, o Lot 1, Con. 12, of said Township, or to the vend r, WALTER REN - WICK, Sr., St. George P. 0., B ant Co., On. 296 STEAM SAW MILL AND F RM FOR ISALE. lotEING Lot 34, Con. 7, MOTT, lop, containing 104 aces, all cleared, with goo barns and stabled, two good orchards in full bee. ng; two neer-fail ing springs which supply the mill. Also, lot 8, Cn. 9, cantaining 48 acres of bush. The property is situated 6 miles from Se forth, with a good' gravel road thereto, For farth r particulars apply on the premises. If by post, o JOHN THOMP - SON, Constance P. O., Kinbui ,Ont. 250 FARM FOR SALE I MeRTLLOP. "FOR SALE, a good Farm, omposed of North -1:1111,1f of lot 15 and the west alf of lot 14, Con. 12, McKillop, containing 100 a es, 50 cleived and well fencd, and. in good culhation; balance well timbered with hardwood; a good frame house and new log ban; good. be ring orchard; two miles and a half from a good g avel road; Mulles froni the village of Seaforth; here are two steam sawmills within si miles; con ardent tohurhes, schools and stores. For parti triers apply to the proprietor on the premises, r, if by letter, to Winthrop P. O. 2804 JAM !S MoDONALD. FOR SA E. TN the Village of WALTON, BACKSMITH'S HOP, TOOLS and DWEL ING HOUSE:For particulars applyto XAMES FULTON, Walton P. O. len". •'WOOD FOR SALE. voR SALF, &quantity of Stove Wood. by the cord, or in balk, also aquan fits' of Cordwood, in bulk. Apply at the Huron Carriage Works, Sea - forth. 33 A. J. McINTOSH. VVAGONS FOR SALE., R SALE CHEAP, a nuni)er of secod-hand Wagons, suitable for wilt- wagons. • Apply at the Huron Carriage Works, S.-,aforth: see A. J. McINTOSH. NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS. EALED TENDERS will be received by the undersigned until MONDAY, JUNE 1, :for the erection of -a- Grist and Floarng Mill on Lot 25, Con. 10, MeKillop adjoining the Saw Mill.. Plans and speebleations can be seen at his residence. The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted unless satisfactory. 832 JOHN GOVENLOCK. DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP. VoTICE is hereby given t at the partnership "LI heretofore subsisting be wean no, the under- signed, as Millers, in the T wnship of Stanley, in the County of Huron, and rovince of °uteri°, has been this day dissolved. y utual ponsent. All debts owing to the said p rtnership are to bo paid to ADAM SMITH, at B rn.e, aforesaid, and all claims against the said p rtnership axe to be presented to the said ADAM SAIITH, by whom the same will be settled. JOHN WEIR, .A.D ANT SMtTEE. LL. • 38544 Witnese--ALLAN MITC Dated at Berne this 4th day of May, A. D. 1874.. POCKET -BOOK LOST ---$25 REWARD. T OST, ON SATURDAY, th 18th inst., between Lot Ne. 20, Con. 11, 1 cKillop,, and Leslie's Hotel, on the Gravel Road, a BROWN LEATFMR POCKET -BOOK, containing 80 or $85 in $5 and 10 bills, also six promissoi notes, all drawn in favor of the undersigned, lin( other papers. The Knder of the above will rel ive -a reward of $25 upon leaving it at the Sege h -Post 0f5ee, or at the residence of the owner.1 he public are hereby cautioned itf,,,ainst perches' g -or negotiating any notes of hand drawn in nay vor, as there are none due me except those contai ed in the lost pocket- book. 333 A. GOVE WOULD beg leave to tha tomers for their liberal him since commencing THE LUMBE Ire would also inform them attention shall be paid to th • past, and all orders sent to promptly attended to. AM HANNAH. LOCK The IHuron Representation Bill. Mr l Cameron's bill to unite the town- ship df Tuckersuuth to the South Riding of Huron for electoral puroes, came up • for diScussion in the Semite on Friday last, and was vetoed by a majority of 13. The follOwing ie a summarized report of the dinciission Hon. ,Mr. Scott moved the second reading of the bill to detaich the town- ship cf r_Cuckersmith from the Centre Riding of Huron, and annex to the South . Ho. Mr. Read strongly opposed the bill aa one of a most iniquitous character, and an one which was designed, as he ds- criben it, to " Mackenzieize" the South Riding of Huron. He said that at pres- ent the population of South Huron was 21,512, and that of Centre Huron 22,791 -a difference of 1,279; bat if the town- ship of Tuckersinitil was takeu from the Centre and added to the outh Riding, there would be a difference between the population of the two of 6119. He con- tended that there was no good object to be gained by improving the geographical Shape of the Centre Riding, now that a man had not, as formerly, to go a long; distance to vote. He conaluded by Mov- ing the three months' hoit. • • bis numerous ens- atronage extended to Building and Fencing on Bar • R A _D , at thL same, strict business as in the inthrop P. O. will be amber Genenly for the erection cif a RING MILL er by the first of Sep- 382*12 He has made -arrangement. GRIST AND FLO Whicla will be.in vorldng or telpher. LIST OF L ppRateminn in the Se called for on May 12, 1 Anderson, John Aron, James Mei Burns, A. G. M Bell, Joseph • Mc Bryans, Edward Brownlee, Robert Barrett Hill Mc 131ackend, N. Mc ark, John M • ameron, John arke, M. L. TTERS forth Post OfficeUn- 74 : onnegall, Robert Riau, John elland, John ill op, John Garva, John maid, D. J. lymont, Alex, rill -an, Lauchlin rris, Patrick orehead, jaraes C rke, Georgeore & Co., A. Clarke, Miss Mize. M nn, James W. Crawfonl,Mrs. Matilda Pa st,'Will; Cllen, Mrs. 11 b, Gliaxles Chisholm, MiSS bbson, a. W. Dean, Mrs. Barbara R binson, John Doeglas James H. R se Alexander Dobson, jarnes R wley, Patrick Dumbar, James Forss,-W. Y. B. Gibson, Daniel Gatz, James Hayman, M. Hill, W. P. Heeginu, John J'amieson, Miss Devenia W Juole,j.G. joor, A. A. Kerr, Mita Hellen W • Kay, D. Kenezer, S. D. Littl, MissJessie Lenok, Joseph Lawso, Joseph Logan, David McMurray S. 886 • 0 • Sa e, Daniel St phenson, Margaret 3. S therland, Walter St ne, Mrs. Mary T1 omas, Mr. W Iliams, John itsides, John anis, Sohn lker, John W. son, John B. • ROA, L. S. son, -Samuel son, Mrs. Maggie est, V. T. I.% Liston, Richard. attle, Betsy .Ann nEgraond, Wm. DICKSON, P. q. 1 Hon. Mr. Letellier De St. Just ex- pressed his disapproval of the style in whih tie honorable gentleman had characterizecl the bill, and thought that when the measure was one which had beeu passed in the other branch of the LegNature s•t-ithout a division, and re- lated entirely to the represeutation of that Rouse, this House sheuld not inter fere with it. If they aid, so they would have no right to complain of the other House talking of rennoctelliug this one. Of coursnhe did not mean to say that the Senate had no right to interfere with the legislation of the other House. Hon. iVir.» Campbell Sain that he had. reflected upon the objections the honer - able Minister. of Agriculture had made to this How , opposiag measures rlat- ing only to the other ibranch of the Legislature, and he raust differ with the honorable gentleman On. that point. He did not think the bill could be defend- ed at all. It had been carried 'through the other branch of the Legislature by force of an enormous mjoriy, and he thought the people of the whole Domin- ion had a right to assume.that in such a, case as this this House should, if neces- ' ery, interfere for their neotection. Ev- ery one of them knew that there was a petition pending against he menaber of the ether House for the Sleuth Riding of Huron. • Let them assume that the trial on that petition resulted. adversely to him, and that he sl,-;ood another election, the effect Of this bill in such a case woulcl be to trangfer to him 260 votes more than he woulld otherwise have. They had SCa1 fram the -repo-As of, the debates in the other House that the ob- ject of the bill was tb give that gentle- man 200 votes from another constituency: (No, no.) A proposition Was made in the other House that the "bill, if passed, should. not go into force 'antil after thin Parliament, and one gentleinan declared that they wished to have the member for South Huron beak agein. He (Mr. (iampbell) declared, the had just ground for t avowed object of the bill . that gentleman again. that even -though &is measure only af feeted the repretentation of the other House, the case was a fair one for the in- terposition of the Hous. The electors of Tuckersmith had already enjoyed the privilege of voting for a re,presentative- Mr. Horton-ancl now they wished to have the- opportunity of noting a second tune for Mr. Cameron. He eharacterized the measure as one of a, inost -tyrannical character, passed by a narty avowedly Liberal, but in, reality not so liberal as the Conservative party -(derisive laugh- ter) -a party which was rather »what it nad been called, " an organized hypoc- risy." (" Oli !") They, knew that if this measure was passed they would ha,veeveral others of the same sort to eleCtion coming omwoul be erideavoring deal with, and eveey ml who had a new to have his Ricling readnisted. Bon. Mr. Montgomery thought it would not be proper to &we the eledtors i, of Tuckersmith, who hal already voted for one representatie, a, opportunity to vote for a seooncl, within a few months, • in the event of a special election taking place. If, how -eve, the bill was not t� come into force until the next general election he would. hot oppose it. Hon. Mr. Reesoiethought that as four- fifths of the electors of Tuckersmith had petitioned for the'change proposed, this House would not be doing its duty if it did not allow the bill to !pass. He gave the population of various other Ridings in the country to show that last year the honorable gentlemen now on the opposite side of the House were not so strongly in favor of the principle of representation by population as they now professed to be. Hon. Mr. Aikins asktl the honorable gentleman if this hill would have been asked for if the majority of the electors in. the township yere Conservatives in- stead of Liberals. . Hon. Mr. Scot gentleman, in eep SAMUEL Manufact Machine Tu,rned Of a Sugerio efore, that he ying that the was to retell]. He contended TROTT, er of tater Packages Q00.1 ity. Ali oders, either 'Wholes e or Eetail, PrOinptlY Fille SEAPORT , ONT. 836 asked the honorable y, if the adjustment of the country -antler the bill of the late Government was not protested against by these very same people., Hon. Mr. Reesbr went on to say that when the redistritbution of the County of Huron by the late Government was pro posed, the very ineMber who hacl brought in the peesent bill submitted a plan by which the division would. be compact and ,fair, ancli the Ridings SO nearly equal in population that there t would not be a eater am erence ong the three than thirtyesix, but the late Government di egarcled his request, and according to the 'argument of the honorable member from l'cingston, they .did so because t ey thought that if they did not carry on their on scheme, they would lose th political - advantages which would give them power. (Hear, hear.) Hon. Mr. Ho lan expressed hisinten- f tion of voting r the amendment. He did not agree witb tbe principle laid down by that becaus other Hou House ahoy. that if the the- o tiler election he he Minister of Agrioulture the bill was passed in the e without a division this d not reject it. He thought ember for South Huron in ouse were too beck for re- hould go to tie flame people from whom he had come a their repre- sentativeall the last elction, in. order that it .11:light be a,seertained whether he actually had the support of a majority of them Or non • Hon. Mt. Flint, in seconding the amendment said that he thought this measure wan. fraught with great danger, If Such. a measure should be • caaried, might they not not in time have the Governrnene so arranging; constituencies, just before the close of . a Parliament, that scarcely any man in opposition to them eould be. retiirnecl He had ex- amined some of the petitions for the bill and found that in some cases" the same name was on different jpetitions. He did. not call himself, a Conservative, but if there was anything which would make him a Conservative it was such legisla- tion an this., Hone,Mrl Penny thought that as the bill had been passed in the other . House . without a dvision, and as the people hadpetitioned for it, it should. be allow ed to pass, He cited. a aumber . of pre- ced.ents foil' such bills 6,8 this, among them one in which a private member in- troduced a similar bill with regard to the Counti s of Montcalm and Joliette, and one in which Sir George Cartier had a bill passed just before an election, taking Griffintown from One division of the city of' Montreal and adding it to another. • . Hon. Mr. Macpherson) considered this bill a violation of the principle of repre- sentation by populaton, and thought it of more. importance that the people should be fairly represented aecording to their numbers, than that the -Ridings should be geographically synmetrical. Hon. Mr. Scott said that that was not the basis of the last Representation bill. Hon. Mr. Macpherson said so far as possible it was. He miist vote against the bill. : . Hon. Mr. McLelan. said that unless some stronger arguments were brought against the bill. than. he had yet heard. he would be disposed to vote for it »The township had petitioned for it, and. the representatives of both of the Ridings interested. were in favor of it, and nuclei such ' circumstances, it was usual to yield to the expression of popular opinion; Hee- Mr. Scott pointed out the incon- - Sistency of honorable gentlemen now op- posing this bill, and said that when he moved for its second reading he was not awane that there was a protested elec- tion in the Riding to which it related. To show his good faith he was prepared. to add to ita rider that it should. have no force until the next general election. Hon. Mr: Alex.ancler thought that they should not -make the change pr0.• posecliwithout being petitioned to do so by the people of both the Ridings inter- ested.1 • ' Hon. 11.1r. Miller said that as the bill Would improve the Ridings -geographical- ly, and be a desirable measure, in other respects, and as the honorable gentleman who nut it in charge was willing to pro- vide that it should not go into operation during this Parlia,ment, he -would sup-- port it. . - - - After a few words from Hon. Mr. Sutherland, against the bill, and a few from Hon. Mr. Macfarlane in sapport of it, a division was takn,- and the three months' hoist was carried by Yeas 30, Nays 17. . have now entered pon) lbetweenirr1- deemable paper and s.) ecie payments WIe hope, therefore, tha Mr. (Fish, with° t yielding to all the pretensions of ouir neighbos, will make a treaty. 411410. Catada. • A school -teacher in Glencoe name Samuel Frederick was fined $20 an 1 costs, a, few days ago, for selling a lo tery ticket to a boy a Iiis school. - If the bill now before the House f Commons should p s, a3 no donbt t will, persons emploe ed to act as eng neers will be obliged to pass an examin tion and procure a icence, and it wi 1 not be lawful for ny man to run steam engine withou the proper pall cations. The freq ent explosiohs an consevent loss of . li e makes such a pr vision necessary. -An extensive eposit of heniati iron ore has been discovered on ti e banks of Bolton's. reek Township of Bathurst, County ofl Lan rk, by Georse 'Mitchell, of •Perth, lwho in prospecti for minerals came across this treasur bidden up to this fi in the prying ey s of mankind. The 4eposit is apparent inexhaustible, and Ithe »Ore contains very large percentae e i)f jure iron. M nlitehell has now se ;era]. Men .employ in getting out ore, hich Will be shipp to the American ma k t. --. A few days go, a little girl, s x years of age, daugh er of Ebenezer M - dill, a, resident of t e tovehship of Mar - ham, was found su pended by the ne k between two boar( s in the stable 104 t; quite dead. It app ars the child was n, the habit of collectii. g the eggs, and h d • gone to the stable 1 • ft for that purpos . nhe had put her hea through an apertu e of the partition in the stable and w s found as above desc ibed. -A brute, in hu an fOrm, on Sund last, in Elora took a dog down to the ri er, tied a rope around his. neck, with a stone attached. »to i7, andAhrew it off a high brdge. The Stone was loosely ti d on, and went to the bottom, leaving t e dog on top, The auimal then made n effort for life; and after showing n amount of energy at throwing stones, t 1 e mau coaxed the d g to the shore, a id then held his hea in the water u 1 death mit an end t the poor brute's s f. ferings. The- crie of the unforture te dog were almost eart-rendering. he man gunny of» this inhuman act, we re sorry to learn, passes PrAcnig his fe11owl3 for respectable • a , their new homes, in that highly e d I country; have come back • Some few before their return found cbasers, for their propert , and alth they sold it for less than half the m they paid. for it a year ao, they di better than hose parti who left local.agent advantage and p farm lann NIONIMIIII11111111111e IIcLEA141 BROTIKERS, Publishers. $1 50 a Year, in advance. - tonmemee of the explosion in his fae, and it is fear- ed that his eyesight is destroyed, his eyes being filled. with brick dust and scorehed by the burning powder. -A Mr. Bogart, near Napanee, made during the recent season 500 lbs. of sugar from 400 trees. •Messrs. Tubbs,' of West Lake'tapped 420 trees, from which they madel,700 lbs. of sugar and. 50 gallons of molasses. The molasses would make somethina like 500 lbn of. sugar, making in all, from the 420 ttees during the recent season, 2,200 lbs. of sugar. -Tt is elicited by the investigation now going on at Moutreal, that the i de- falcation m the accounts of the post i of- fice of that city, in wicket, tills, and carriers' fees amount to the gross su of 43,913 53, in 13 years, during Ir Freer's term of office or the annnall ale - age of the public money of $3,37 96 per year. When we remember that this is hilt the record of one post office there is little reason to wonder that our post office department- has not been selfap- portin g. -ThNws e Teeswater esays thatn ear- ly all the families who left that neigh- -borhood last spring for North 'Carolina, aftPr spending a summer and winter at lied n.e UT -The Manitoba Free Press of the th inst. says: " Seeding is being indul ed in in this Province to an extent wh ch fully proves that o r agriculturists m an business this year, each individual put- ting in. much. more crop than ever fo erly. They were ard at it in Kildo last week" • -Millie Ettplira ia, eldest daughte the late Hon. Th mas D'Arcy Mc was married in ontreal, on Thurs of last week, to r. F. A. Quinn, a cate of that cty. -On Thursday of last week a 1 r bank barn, owned by - Mr. Wilkie f Guelph, on the Eighth Concessio Of • Howik, was :burned to the ground, 'V lth its entire ciatents, consisting of a out 300 bushels of grain, a quantity of 1 ay, a very valuable mare, ncl a nambe of agriculteral impl men s, The los ;is estimated at $2,00- i sured for $ 00. The origin of the re i unknown. -A. proclainati n co tained in the last Canada Gazette A es Monday tne 25 h of May, as the day for e celebratio of the Queen's Birt day. Reciprocity. The proposition of a Reciprocity Treaty between the United States and. Canada, seems meeting with fainsupport from the press of the former country. The New York Tribeeze, which is noted for its uncompromising protectionist opin- ions, analyzes the figures of trade be• tween. the two countries, under the last., treaty and after its abrogation. and ad- mits that these statistics show that while the foreign commerce of Canada has greatly increased since1868, the pro- portion of it done with the United States -which under the Treaty gradually rose to over 52 per cent.. of their entire trade -has sinee rapidly fallen away in conse- quence of our changed plicy, until it is not now 35 per cent: of their trade -a fact in itself most extraordinary and suggestive. It will also be seen that, however the dispute as to the three years before the repeal of the Treaty may be settled, no doubt exists that, from the moment of repeal, the balance of trade went against the United States, and that the aggregate of this balance, in the seven years that have elapsed since the Treaty was repealed, has been $51,870,- 000. Again, as to a large preportion of the articles we have received from them free of duty under the Treat, it is un- doubtedly true also that our importa- tions have been gradually increasing since the repeal, at greatly enhanced. prices, notwithstanding. the duties we now impose upon them. For example, during the 13 years the Treaty was in operation we purchased from. the Prov- inces lumber to the aggregate value of $39,000,000, or an average of $3,000,000 per annum; but in the seven years that have elapsed since the repeal we have purchased nearly $57,000,000 worth of lumber, or an annual average of over $8,- 000,000; and it is susceptible of proof that the cash price of clear lumber. at Toronto is double what it was ten years ago, and that its price in Portland, Me., is double the present price in Toronto. We Suspect the deductions of the Can- adians, therefore, are not far out of the way, when they assert that we, and not they, pay the whole dut. It is clear that few more important topics -could occupy the attention of the authorities at Washington than the consideration. of the commercial relations between the United States and. the British North American Provinces; and it is fair to infer that negotiations may result in an enlargement of domestic trade, which • will prove most opportune during the period of transition (which we trust we i- •••••-•,•,...-Aer..,•• • - - As. z.,,,L• • • • - ••••' ,••••.• -At numer usly attended me of the citizens of Brantford and vic held. a few eveni gs ago it was u mously resolved. o entertain Hon. Wood at a publi dinter, in that t prior to his depa tare; for Manitoba committee was ppointed to name day and complete arrangements. - Satiirday evening last a named John Fawcett, a resident o township of Fullerton, County of P was run over by the night express train and killed, about two miles east of itch - ell station. The main hied been lyi g on the track, and is supposed to have been the worse of liquor. ting ity ani - .B. Ven, A the Man the rth, -On Saturday, April 25, a ew longing to Mr. Jelin Cendie, of the ty of Lanark, gave birth to a laro.b at two days old Weighed 16 poun 12 days after, 34- pounds. Both and sire were a the common Good for old Laark, --A farmer residing near the to Whitby, took into that town the s $1,000 in American silver, half d and quarters, for the purpose -of g it changed into bills. It seenas th had hoarded. upj this silver for ov years and only lecame aware the day that it was t a .discount. 13 then purchasing a farm and had te the silver in pa ent, but it was r by the raore knowing seller. H rather astonished when told he have to lose 20 per cent. by the tri tion. 1 -Thirty-one young men, can for the Ministrn in the Wesleyan odist Church, have presented the before the exa, ining board. for ad at the ensuing Wesleyan Conferen -Potatoes were selling on the ilton market on Monday last for bag. -One day li4st week two men township of E derslie, County of named. McDonald and Best, met most painful a cident while eng blasting stone A few days- a Duncan McDo1Ia1d, Con. 5, Elders John Best w re enaployed in stones on the iarm cf Mr, Neil S A shot had ben placed., but it f go offwhen t fuse was lighted. than make a new hole the men, wisely, underIook to drill out charge withoub using water. drill had near y reached the pow blast explode taking off Me 11 thumb, one of his 1 forefinge fearfully lace ating his hand, als ing the bone in two places. was using ti»e sledge and lea ward. at the i4ine received the $ 1 be- oun- hich and dam ade. n of ni of Hers tting t he r ten other ,was dered fused was ould nsac- 10 111 idates Meth - selves issi on e. Hain - $2 per n the Buce, with a ed in o Mr. ie, and. lasting ewart. iled to Rather ery un- ite old en the en the onald's , and. break - t who - » g for - property in t hands of be disposed of o the bee which • is . vi ually a, abandon ent. The North Ca olina che ex- citement, so fa as the T eswater s tion is concerned, is over. -The fifth session of Ithe General As- senably of the Cana a Presbyt rime Church will open in Knbx's Church Ot- tawa, on Tuesday, June a Ara nge- ments have been made with the se eral railway companies whetfeby memb rs of the AssenanIr avill be I furnished jwltli tickets forakfare. .- ; -The -Wingham Furniture Mannfa,c- tory, established and set in operation a few months ago has cllapsed. Work has been suspended, an the »prope»rty is offered for sale. Lack f sufficient funds on the part of the propr etory is ass gned as the cause for the sus ension. - A. barn belongin to Mr. ugh uey far heir to the woodwork of hundreds of reapers piled away ready for shipment, so great was the deluge of water, and so quickly was the fire got under control that only a very small portion of the woodwork of the naachines was even charred. This is the -third or fourth conflagration which has • been averted in Brantford by the • Waterous system ,of fire protection. -A few days since Mr. Ferdinand Schroeder had occasion to go to the barn of Mr. George Barthel, near Kastnerville, in the County of Perth. -Entering the premises without any thought of danger, he was suddenly pounced upon by a large Newfoundland. dog, which suddenly attacked him, seizing him by the throat and shaking aud worrying him in a hor- rible manner. Assistance arrived just in time to save Mr. Schroed_er's life, as the enraged brute 'would. have torn his thioat to pieces. -An old man, 80 years of age, named Buttn, living in the township of Osprey, County of Grey, committed suicide by shooting himself on Monday, May 18; -A large and» destruative fire occurred in. the village of Aylmer, County of El gin, on -Itnesday last. 0 me 40 build - nags, comnirising the gr r part of the principal terainess street, were all de. stroyed. nene, - The ex; illation of Hilton, late turnkey in the Guelph jail, for conniv- ing at the escape of McLean, the mail robber, took place at Guelph on Tuesday, before the Police Mgistrate. The evid ence was sufficient to warrant his com- mittal, and he has been lodged. in jail to await his trial' -A man named White, of Montreal, being out in the country was ta,keia ill of small pox in a very analigant form. On account of this he was refused admittance to every house at which he applied, and in this fearful condition walked home, a distance of over 40 miles. ."" II • -The Printing Committee of the House of Commons. on Tuesday last, awarded» the contract for the public print ing to McLean, Roger & Co., of the Ot- tawa Times. The contract is for a pe- riod of five years. -A Grange has been organized in the township of Plynapton, County of Lamb - ton, with Mn James Armstrong as Mas- ter. This makes 13 Granges of the Pat - eons of Husbandry in the Province. Two Mare will entitleOnterio to a Provincial -Grange. Robert McLean, of Galt, for Leckie, Con1, Sarnia, ownship, C juoniteny several years Inspector of Agencies for of Laaribton, and its contents, conssting the Gore District Mutual. Fire Insurance and a qu4 Company, has received the appointment were dest . to a similiar position for the Seaton by fire oil Thursday of llast week. Provincial Life) Insurance Company of Toronto. He has coneequently.resigned -A General Council of Indian Chiefs, Ins connection with. the Gore District, to and. delegates from all the Indian reeerv- assume the more important and rumin- ations Canada, will take place on the erative position in Toronto_ Sarnia Reserve, on June 25. The object -es el of» the Council is to take into consdera- ' tion the affairs of all the tribes in Cana- Beecher on Temperance da, so as to bring them to the notice of Answer to an Inquhw from a Afetitodist the new Government atj Ottawa. mong the questions to be coneldered is thle cap- acity of the Indians for self-government, ancl their right to the control of their own lands, like their white brethren. The meeting will be an interesting one, of a fine team of horse of farming implements ntity oyed -The Guelph Mercury says »t at on Tuesday, the 4th inst., Dr. Gro es of Fergu, in thee presence of severe, ()tiler medical men, among whom »NV' S Dr. Clark, of Guelph, removed an varian tumor, weighing betwen fifty ant sixty pounds from the person of Mr John McLean. The operation was in all re- spects highly successful and. satisf ietory, and the patient is doing exceedingly well. -In the small villag of Arthun there are no fewer than Bev n hotels in full blast, and two more in Course of costruc- tion, besides a couple of sideshows, where a friend can wet his whietle at al most any hou, if he says nothing about it Drinks ought to be cheap and strich- nine whisky abundant n Arthur. -The Lieutenant Goveror of Manitoba has issued» a proclamatinia prohibiting the importation a spirituoas liquors into any part of the Nrth-West Territori forbidding the manufacture of sue in. » Spirituous liquots are no brought into the territoies,fr Province of Canada, except by there- to be m any Special permission of the LieutaGoverno , under pains, penalties and forfeiture. So here is a prohibitary law, enacted by tie Dom inion Legislature, and eonering an extent of territory equal to :We aggregate of several States, and to enforce' wEich will be one of the gravest duties of tie Mani- toba Mounted Police. • I -A sensation was created in St. Oath arinea a a few days ago by the funeral of an unMarried woman being atter ded- by six female pall -bearers dressed entirely M -whiAe' most daring robbery took place at the Northern Railway station in Toronto on Wd.nesday last. Two men entered the cahier's office, andwhile one engaged his attention on pretended business the other robbed the till a over $3,000. -A young lad, son. of Mr. jDouglas McTavish, of South Easthope, qounty of Perth, while on. his way to scho I a, few days 'ago, was overtakn on the road by a ram, which knocken hine. d wei and butted him so severely tbatwh n found life was almost extinct, ' I -.A brass band has been organized among the pupils of the BlindtA,styslhuomrt,Brantord, and the playing of mem- bers said. to be wonderful for time they have been in practice -About half -past 11 o'clole, day night of last week, a fite in the upper story of Messr Son & Co.'s Kirby Reaper Works, Brant- ford, a large building 150 feet long by 40 feet Wide. It was nt discevered till the entire roof seemed in flames. t origin- ated. from some unknowncense about the elevator platform, which was hoisted to the upper flat. The heat melted the chain and let platform drop, thus al - owing the fire to communteate with the other three stories. r The fire brigade was quickly -011 the opot, and. although the flames were in the fourth story, four powerful streamwere son pouring an immense volume of Water on the fire. The roof is completely -burned away, and force althoUgh the uppd. M was filled with n Thurs- roke out Harris, Minister, Out West. B1200SLYN, May 6, 1874. DtA13, SIR: I do not think any man in health is the better for using intoxicating drinks. Total abstinence is the rational and safe remedy for intemperanee. I °am in favor of all measures for the prevention or suppression of traffic in alcoholic drinks, which experience has shown to be feasible; but, on the other band, I am utterly opposed. to bigotry or violence or partisan feeling in behalf of temperance, as I am to the same qualities in religion, in politics, and in all other causes. I have been from boyhood, »a»nd am now, an ardent lover of my kind, and desire to see my fellow -men free from the despotism of strong drink; but would_ win them from danger and disgrace by reasoning, by moral influence, and. by kindness, rather than by any form of violence. I hold. that Preventive Lnws are right in. principle, and should be employ- ed wherever public sentiment is strong enough to secure their execution; but, at present, the tone of feeling is so low that I think stringent legislation would fail of its end, and so be worse than use - leas. Yery truly yours, HFNRY WARD BEECHER. KANSAS Torrnsos. -- A letter frora Lawrence, Kansas, a place of 10,000 in- habitants, says, among other things, that five hundred thousand dollars' worth of cattle have dien, this winter and spring, from starvation. Prairie hay, usually 4 per ton, is now $18; Corn, 15 cents, now 75; potatoes, 25, now $1 75 per bushel -all owing to the people not gathering the grass or planting the corn, but attending Grange meetings, working their brains instead » of their hande, for- getting the old couplet " He that by the plow would thrive Riniself must either hold or drive:" The "corning" woman is Oil hand, and a power here, as her sign across the side- walk indicates in large letters, " J.- M. and. Lucy Taylor, dentists," she having the best business of that profession in Lawrence. te FASTEST RUNNING TIME. -The racing season. in the States began with a great victory for Tom Bowling, the great Lex- ington colt, which, On the 12th .iust, mads the fastest time upon record, by running a mile and a halt on the Lexing- ton, Ky., course in 2:34 -thus making the distance in two and a quarter sec- onds less time than it was ever inaAe before. A CELESTIAL MA.C.--A correspondent in New Zealand tells thee following story in illustration of the supremacy of the Scottish race in Otago. Tenders were the other day invited for some public work to be executed there. One Mac- pherson was successful. Mr. Macpher- 8011 wasaccordingly invited to attend tea complete his contract. To the amae- ment of all the officials, a Chinaman, with a noble pig -tail, pat in an-appear- anee. "Where's Mr. Macpherson ? asked the clerk. "Me !" replied Jon. How come you to be called. MacPher on?" Oh nobody get nothing in Otago if he be not a Mac," repliedl the un- abashed Celestial. - •