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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1878-05-24, Page 41 • NEW ADVEI:tTISE1VI-RNTS. May Goods—A. G. McDougall & Co. -Hardware—Johnson Brothers. - -Pianos and Organs—Scott rothers. Carriage Maker Wanted-- m. Edgar. Cheap Furniture—J. S. Po er. InsoIvency—Gibbons & Ro ertson. InsoIvency—Gibbons & Ro ertson. County Council—Peter Ad nation. Auction Sale—jones Bret ers. FltrIn for Sale—R,oderick cLeocl. Farm for Sale—Charles R amend. Zurich Mills--Williara Fe wick. - New Books --C. W. Papst. Horses Wanted—Scott Br thers. lir on tx p xtor. SEA -FORTH, MAY 2., we fancy, will net be serfo*iiiily objected to by the tax -payers. But our contem- porary reminds us that there is a deli- cieecy between- revenue and expendi- ture in two years of 06,000,000.-. Well, we must confess that this is news. We were aware that there was a defieiency, but in our ignorance We had.. no idea that it had reached such nantrnqbh proportions. We presume our conte porary will not dispute the Toronto Mail as an authority on such matters. In a recenkissue. that journal gives the deficiency as 03,360,800. Quite a little difference between this and six mil - liens, but then a- few -millions neither -here nor there with the Opp° 1878. tion dump orators and electionee journals whencriticising the financ management of the Government. admit, however, it is very unfortun that there is a deficit at all, but if it a clime for the present Government have a deficit during two years of trete° comnieteial depression, wh imports have decreased. one-third, h much greater must the crime ha been for the previous Government have hada very much larger deficit. times not any more Stringent th those of the past two years. For A years in succession the Government Sir John Macdonald had an annual d ficit of 02,181,478, or 24 per cent. of t entire revenue, while the deficits of 'th present Government are only 7 per cen of therevenue. We .clo not \ say th either Government was to blame f having a deficiency if their expeuditur had been economicalt becaude it is im possible for any Government to Comp people to import goods if they don went them, and the falling off in rev enue, in the present instance, at rateclue , is to decrease in custoine re ceipts. So much for the charge of 'ex travagance. Respecting the fourt charge, there are not now and neve have been, during the ex-istence of th present Government, large nunaber of members in the peel of the Ministry It is true that a few -members on heti sides of the House, had inaclverteutl violatetrthe spirit of the Ipdependence of Parliament law, but all those who were proven guilty in this respect, were. ea: forced to resign their eeats in Parlia- A convention of Reformers of South rnent, and receive the sanction of their . THE H RON E equal reason might the Canadian Ministry be held responsible for the famine in China. If we can believe the American papers of both political par- ties, there aremen in the United States who do beg for leave to toil, anct there are closed workshops, rusting ham- mers, &c., but we have yet to learn. that in Canada stich a state of affairs does exist except n the imaginations of such political agitators as he who gave utter- ance to the above libel upon his coun- try. It is perfectly legitimate for Op- position Speakers to criticise the whey and actions of the Government, but it are is, to say the least, indecent and die- si- graceful to deliberately falsify the ring record and attempt .to injure ial the credit and standing , of the We country, with the hope • that by ate doing so a political oppohent may also is be injured. Such a dishonest and un- to patriotic course may have a temporary ex- influence upon unthinking people, but en can only result ultiniate discomfiture ow to those who pursue it; and while such ve utterandes may not be productive of to real harm at home where the truth; is in I known, they can scarcely fail to exer- an cise an injurious influence abroad where ve the truth! may not be known. There of are, however, a class of people,who care • noTtvhat injury they do the country by he their replciess and unfounded utter - e ances, so long as they can thereby se- t. cure a temporary gain for the political at party to which they'belopg. Such egi- or tartars should not receive encouragement e or be ceuntenancecl by either political - party. For while they cannot scoote- d plish permanent good, even in a politic - 't al sense, to the party with Which thef ere allied, They can scarcely fail to in - y Ilia injury upon the country in which - both patties are alike interested. If _ party. enthusiasm ,ciumet be roused h without resorting to such appeals. it is r very evident that there are few griev- e fences to be complained of. And the e very fact that their opponents are forced • to resort to such appeals is the best pos- sible proof that the Government of the y day are faithfully and honestly con- ducting public business. The Issues Before the Country. The Galt Reporter, which sed to be very fair and moderate in it, criticisms of its political opponents, h is recently beeu puxsuing a different an less com- mendable course. Like it political leaders, the very thoughts o the com- ing contest seem to heve s it mad. In an article under the abov caption it e. lays down the following as tle "issues before the electors upon W jell they will be celled to deeicle " t the ap- proaching election : let.. 'The complete violation of principles Which the party now in power pro* ed while in opposition, and whieh thcv Pet the eh: tors of the country to believe they would mirky o t after they obtained the reins of Government. 2nd. The loss of all control by th- representa- tives of the people. over the large sax is of money entrusted to the Government, whereb; millions of money have been lost in, railway jol bery, harbor - lobe and "steel rails," and whereby a few have been enriched at the expense of the expayers of the -country. 8rd. The breach of faith with the pc °phi of the country, inasmuch as they were proud ed economy by the present Mmirlistration, an have been shown extravagance sueli as Canada 1 ag vu be- fore witnessed, and which has succe :cled in not alone deatroying the surpluses which 1 ad aceumn- lated under the Macdonald Athninii ration, but has created a deficiency during the pas two years of nearly $6,000,000 ; thereby causing an annual tax for interest Leone to be paid by th people of the Dominion of over $420,000. V= 4th. The keeping in the pay of the uistry, by contract and otherwise, of a large limper, of tho members of the House, when the " Indepindence of Parliament Act expressly forbids such a course, and whereby it Wa-g made impossible to procure such an administration of the affairs of the Do- minion an was best for itg interests. 6th. The alliance whiith has been formed be- tween the Dominion Government and the Govern- ments of the different Provinces, vrhereby those Governments, instead of directing thei • energies to the wise adimundration of the iiffa!rii of the aeparate Provinces, have beeorne little hater than paid electioneering iigents for the Governmentat Ottawa. Oth. The tariff poljey cif the present Administr tion whereby every frocitatt of our farins--esse ed In value to the extent of from 15 to 20 per cent every manufactory in our laud, cripped., and i many easea ileatrciyed; our worbnen thrown id or driven. awal ; and Whereby our resonrces as country are daily beemaink it ssened rine. More im paverished, causing greater inability on the part o our people to meet their already -large and ever in creasing indebtedness. That the above are false ilsties w ▪ need scarcely tell any person who ha Reform Convention. .; constituents before they were again per ` mated to sit or vote in the House, and Huron, Will be held at Clinton, on Wed- . neeclay next, for the purpose of selecting a candidate to contest South Huron in the Reforrn interest at the forthcoming election for the Dominioe Parliament. We believe we are correct insaying that the Reformers of Huron are fully aware of the importance of the situation.. They are convinced of the honesty and integrity of the men who now govern this Dominion, and they are equally convinced of the baneful results which will accrue to their country should their opponents be permitted once more to grasp the reins of power, and inaugur- ate -a reign of corruption and misman- agement such as they were proven guilty of in 1873. Knowing these facts, we feel that it is • entirely. unnecessary to ask every Reformer in the.Coputy toi be- at his post, and to remain therei steadily until the last voteis polled. The opening of the campaign in South Hurell'Will take place an Wednesday 'next,' end_ every man should be at his post; every municipality should b _fully represented. the law which secured this purging of the House was- forced through Parlia- e nient by Reformers, much against the s wishes of the party leaders whom the paid even the most casual atteption t public affairs for the past five years We believe the writer in the Reporte has done_ this, and that he knows the are false issues, and that he is cense iquently, wilfully endeavoring to mislei his readers. The Reporter, however, i not the only Oppoeitiou journal engaged , in this not very laudeble wbek at the present time, and for this reaso . it may be worth while to briefly examii e these - "issues," as they are celled, in t ie order in which they are. given,- In t e first place, then, it is charged that t e Gov- ernment have violated ell the princi- ples they professed while in Op osition. Among other prominent reform advo- cated by the Reform party whil hi Op- position were: A stringent eleati n law; an improved law for the trial of entre- e erted elections ; a law proviel ng ----for the independence (:.f Parlia,m nt ; le Ballot Act; an Act requiring the Gov- ernment to secure the epproval of the .peopIe's representatives to all cohtracts ,. and proposed expendithres of public moneys ; an Act establishing a S : reme Court, &c. These were all advoc ted by Rdorreers while in Opposition, and every one of them, and many bthers, have been granted during the five years which the Reform Government, have held power. We challeege oue con- temporary or " any oteer man " to mime one siiigle reform advocated by the leaders of oar party while in Opposi- tion, that has uot been .gran1 te since w they came into power. Sen , the Goverinnent are charged with l aving squandered millions of money i job- bery, and with having enriched t few at the expense of the tax -payer) If the country. , Now, our contem- porar , like its- fellowte iu Oppoeition, ,seeni, very ready at making general charge, but we wish in this, as in, the form e7 in- stanceit , to bring down to specie Titles. We wish it to specify, if it ea ono , single- instance of e jobbery" or . cor- ruption. " which has been cenel• u ively proven upon sworn testimony a iainst the present Government. If it w 11 es- tablish one such instance we p rinse - - never again to say one word in fa or of , the Mackenzie Government. ''' hird, the .Goveranneut are charged with '1ex- travagance such. as Canada neve nessed," If our contemporary ould ebandoia Senator Macpherson's pam- phlet and. study instead the publ e ac- conuts, it would very soon, if it w shed, : ascertain the falsity of its cherdi. It, : would ilea that insteadof extrava ance, the most rigid economy, as co eared with their predecessors, has been prae- 1 tised by the present Governme t ; it : would find. tb.at iu five years the con- . trollable expenditure has been refluced , from 08,324,076 to 06,835,088, or in ' °thee words, that the Mackenzie Gov- 1 ernment work the Government ma- chirie et an expense of $1,488,99 less ; per year than their predecessors did, 1 This is a species of extravagance w ch, i o Reporter now suppotts. Respecting the fifth issue, it is scarcely worth while ✓ 'occupying space referring to it. If the y people talthe several Provinces will only - support and tolerate Reform Govern- ments, it is certainly hard on the , s friends d our contemporary, but we do n01 know that the Dominion Govern - meet ere to blame for this perversity on the part of the people. The Reporter cannot establish. one single ca,se of col- lusieu between the Dominion Govern- ment and any or 'either of the Legal Governments. If it can, it is mete clever than any of its friends. NoW; for the fifth and last count in the in- - dictmente viz., that Canada is going to the dogs because the Geivernment won't !great Protect -ion. Why, we halt() more Ittotection now than we had when Sir • john was in power, and our coutemporl ary, seeme- .to think the country.- was prosperous then. . Why is it that the country is going to ruin now with 17t Protection and greeabecks at par, end it flourished, according to our coutem- porary, in Sir john's.time, with e duty of 15 per cent. and. gold .at a high pre- mium? Cannot our cout.emporery See that it is even as far asettay in this, its lest chaego, as in mit • of the others? Instead of the Gauntry Aeing to ruin, the figures thew that itis growing rich uu- der its interchange of products. Dur- ingethe peat six years, in our trade with Great Britain alone, we cleared aprofit of nearly lour millions. 41 If the Reporter and its friendS--were to hitve their Wee', all this, and a great deal more, would be lost. They would shut us up within ourselves, and leave us to work out our own salvation, to 'tiro* rich as the boys did. who were imprisoned in a clothes- press, end kept trading jack-knives t with each other until they both died of stare -Mien. • ausemiar A Baseless Howl: • - ett a Conservative Convention re- ' coldly held in a neighboring county, a, windy orator dilated as follows t " Tee tette sot forth in the resolution' *were in themselves -eloquent, flald if they were not sutlici- ent the unemployed working,mea who crowded our centres of population, and begged for leave to toil --the closed, workshops—the hammer rusting npon the. anvil—the motionless machinery that was wont to hurn with busy joy—the dawdling clerks in the merchants' deserted Warehouses—all these were powerfnlly, pathetieally and overwhelmingly eloquent upon the stibject of Ministerial nel.rleilt 01 Canadian inteasts." How sensible; tutelligeut men, such as those wli usually assenible at polifi- cal conventt us, can petiently listen to and applaud such abominable twaddle its the above, is beyond comprehension. Yet, strange as it may seem, it is never- theless a fact that they do; for we see by the report from which reee take the above extract, that these remarks were greeted with "cheers." Where in this Canada of ours are there worinnen beg- ging for leave to toil, closed workshops, rusting hamnaers,motionless machinery, &c.? And even if there were, how could such a state of affairs be attribu- table to "Ministerial neglect ?" With 1 NIP News of the Week. ROYAL INSPECTION dip. TROOFS.—T4 , Queen wilbshortly visit Woolwich an inspect the troops, for the first time • 22 years. Loss OF LIFE.—Forty lives wee lo -t rebently by fire, during a perferman e at the theatre at Ahmednuggur, Pres dency of Bombay. • SHOCKS OP EARTHQUAKE.—All eartl - quake .at Coa, iu Venezuela, last woe killed 600 persoue. Heavy shocks wee felt at Caracas. 'EXCITEMENT AT 'MALT.A.—Inteuse citepaent exists at Malta, in consequenee of a scheme of the English Government to readjust all taxation. . ! . THE FIRST PEACHES.—The first crate of Georgia peaches was shipped at 11 tie con last Satin -thy, for New York. Forty .thousaud crates will follow. •GOLL RECEIVED . —Over 05,000,000 jof gold 1ia1s been received at New t Y rk from meat° iu the past month, a d. the amount received shice January over $10,000,000. Pecalratitee LECTCRES.—T110 recei te of -Beecher's lecture in Chicago, fo church debt, were 04,789 ; audb the -re- ceipts for a lecture on behaif of Jewlish librery, Philadelphia, were $1,894 Teem: II0/114E THIEVES HANGED.—Acl, vices . from Caddo, Indian Territ ry, state that three horse thieves ere hanged JO miles west of that place), on the night of Wednesday. May 8 EXCITEMENT AT PARIS.—A fire balloon dropping near the entrance to the Faris Ex.positiou, on Tuesday last, caused great excitement, reports having circu- lated that an attempt to burn the bnild lugs had.been. mad.e. 1 DESTRUCTIVE STORM.' ---A. Very heavy wind and rain stolen passed overi the 'etty of St. Loins, lest' Friday, injnrin , g - eteht or ten persons. Upwards of a Mildred houses were d.aanaged. i The loss is, perhaps, 050,000. • I CONSIGNMENT OF CHINESE.—TwO hull dred of the Chinese who arrived at San Francisco by the last trip of the City of Tokio, were consigned to Honolulu, a contract having been made fin- between 2,000 and. 3,000 to work the suga plan- tations of the Hawaiian Island. - SUIT FOR THIRTY-FIVE MILLI°, few days ago, in San Francisco John II. Burke began a -suit against Jaiaes C. Flood, John Mackay another entle- xnen of the Consolidated Virginia min- ing and other companies, and theNeva- da Bank, on behalf of - the stockh rders of the Consolidated Virginia *Meg Company, to recover thirty -m- lions six hundred. thousand dollars, alleged to have been wrongfully acquired by the 24, -1878. defend nts in the manageinent of the Conso dated. Virginia mine. The com- plaint iso asks for the removal of the direc r of the company. Me mein CONFERENCE.—Thr gener- al co erence of the Methodist Episso- pal ch ch of the- South, have passed resolutions favoring a Methodist 'Eon- menicid Conference and. grand centen- ary of American Methodists in Boston, on D cember 21st, 1884. I Tr OLDEST Heerteetee—aPittrickReid, the- /ldest hackman of 'New York, is dead.j He weighed at the time of his deatl over 300 pounds. He had been President of the Fat Man's Association, and tie his death was Vice -President. His ifreakness, a friend said, *as a clam- bake 13 hA.CII OF PROMISE SHIT. -1 -MTS. Ca line W. Kimberly, a Boston widow, Gently sued Dr. Henry F. Shepard Broqielyn widower,for $10,000 damag for Ireach of promise and the result a ve diet for 01, the evidence in the c sho , ing that she did as much, courti as the doctor. E TENSIVE Ciueers.—Mrs. Myra Cla Gai es is about to enter suit to recov pro este, in the heart of St. Louis vain at jnaiiy millions of dollars, claim tha her father, Daniel Clark, was t rig tful po‘essor of lands there, e 'bra ing, among other important poin tthe1 site of the Southern Hotel and pr per y in that locality. . TUBREAK OF TYPHUS.—A Pesth CO res ondent telegraphs : Serious appr he sions are felt in Hungary that . th summer advances typhus fever an ch era will break out in the coun r The Chinese officials have done all that is possible. The Chinese have useally classed opium and .missionaries as among the chief evils due to foreign in- tercourse, but the latter are now win- ning favor through the practical help they afford. There are numerous re- fugees from the famine districtin Pekin and Tien Tsin. In the latter r?ity house made of mats for the accommo- dation of suffering women and children was recently burnedi One hundred and. fifty lives were lost. Recurring famines may lead the Chinese to recog- nize the need Of encouraging adequate means of internal communication. THE LANCASHIRE DIFFICULTY.— The cotton masters in the strike district in Litiaca.shire have aereed to. re -open the ro- mills on a basis of a 10 per cent. reduc- re- tion for three months, a conference with , a the operatives to be held at the expire - es, tion f that time. Although this is tac- is. ase ng rk er ed. ing he tS, 0- itly a4tcepting a compromiseproposed by the w rkpeople themselves, there is a prosp ct that it will not after all prove accep able to them. Further serious rioting is reported in several towns. At Haslingdon a mill has been burned and another badly damaged by fire. At Great Harwood, an attack having been made upon the house of one of the man- ufacturers, shots were fired from the windows and several rioters injured. Sir John and Protection. At a recent .political meeting held in w anailton .hr. Rymal, in referring to aS the cry for Protectionsaid the Con§erva- a tives were advocating in opposition that Y* which they had ignored when in power. They were not friends of Pretection at all: They were merely using the cry as a party football—as something to split the Reform party and help them- selves back to power and a career of 'misrule. If they were in _earnest, why 1 do they refuse to tell the people what ;they propose to do?1 Sir John certainly I does not know anything about Protec- 1 tion. He cares nothing for it. He I has never given! it is attention. He has been the political leader of a party and has entrusted these matters .in turn to Sir A. T. Galt, Sir John Rose and Sir Francis Meeks. He was always -guided t by their advice, and accordingly went in one direction one time and in an op- posite course at another. (Laughter.) At one time he was a Free Trader; at another a Protectionist—just as the wind blew. (Laughter.) In 1866 he put a tax on wheat, flour and meet, and called it a great boon. Then, after two years' trial he took it nff- and called it another great boon. (Laughter.) At the end of four years more he put it on again, and baptizing it the National Policy," said it was still another great boon. (Loud laughter.) But it was born out of due time, and at the end of eleven months was strangled by those who had given it birth, and this was called yet another greet boon. (Roars of laughter.) He was then the leader of a Government. Now he is in Oppo- sition, and being very hungry is very anxious to confer more "great helms." (Renewed laughter.) Three cases of spottted typhus are report. ed 'n Transylvania, and several occur- ile4 on a steamer coming from the Low- er enube. HE AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY:—At th4 annual meeting of the American Bible Society, it was stated that the SOciety had turned out about -,2,000 cities per day for every working day of the sixty years of its existence. Books had been translated into 80 different la guages. Last year there were over 5,/00 Bible distributers in -the eountry. R ceipts were nearly 0450,000. DEATH OP 'EX -JUDGE . Foot,•a gentleman who made his in- flience felt for more than two genera - Menses a lawyer, Judge; legislator and writer, and who was probably the old - et member of the legal profession in -I IS1ew York State, died at his home in: eneva on Saturday, at the ripe age of 88 years. His death was the result of au accident received a week ago. - SENTENCED TO BE HANGED.—A few ays ago at Buffalo, Carl Menke wa -tried and found guilty of the murder o John Alloff, of Blunt, on .April 2 last and sentenced to be executed. on Jun 1. It mill be rereemberets a case o eold-bloodedshooting of A loff, on th public highway, by Menke, the act be ing th.e culmination of neighboring dif iioulties. The trial lasted seven days and created much excitement., I THE . Doc+ Snow.—The second. annual Bench Show of Dogs was held last week lat Gilmore's Garden in New York. The /entries were more numerous than at any previous dog show in the country d 0 1 A 11 fr tr tr 2. fo re a 18 '10 at eaching 1,000, andincluding the finest ogs in the United States, some of them eing valued as high as $5,000 and 10,- 00. There were upward of 60 classes vhen the judges began their work. THE HAWICK BIITCHERS.—In. Hawick nd a number of other towns in Scot - and, the butchers have determined that heir prices shall not be lowered by the mports of Canadian meat. They have aesecl resolutions to the effect that merican meat, as they call it, shall ot be purchased by dealers in their owns, belie° the old prices, which are bout teo Or- three cents per pound igher thee. Canadian beef of equally ood quality, prevail. KING OF TRAMPS.—R. Lyman Potter as reached Cleveland on his tramp oin Albany, N. Y., to San Francisco;- undling a wheelbarrow. This king of amps is to travel the 3,324 miles in 50 days, or, as he does not break the urth commandment, in 215 days of ctual travel, end a wager of 01,000 will Tara his success. The feat can be cc mplished by an average distance of miles a day, but, starting on the th of April, he has thus far travelled the daily rate of about 6 miles. . THIEVES Panaersea—Alaska is a won- derful place for thieves. A correspond- ent of the San Francisco Chronicle says one merchant in Sitka hires Indians to steal for hina ,and recently shipped away a ton of copper that theyhad. taken from the fitoring and walls of a Government building for storing furs. The candle- sticks and other silver articles were long ago- stolen from the church, and even metal crosses have been taken from graves in the cemetery. There is not a constable or a justice in the territory, and there is no attempt to enforce any law. THE .Vereitee Eve:Nem-Ape. — The Rev. William Taylor, the veteran evan- gelist, who has visited. in his tours -every part of the world where the English language is spoken, has recentlyreturn- ea from an exploration of Peru, Bolivia and Chili. He has made arrangements in the chief cities of these countries for the organization of self-supporting mis- sions. He will endeavor to procure fifteen missionaries to fill the positions selected. Mr. Taylor laid the foundat tion of such missions in Southerin. India, Which have grown to be self-supporting churches. SITTING Bum, AND C OM PAN trader from the Cypress Hills says Sitting 13ull is campetl north of therein tW The Indians all seem friendly. Small bands are coming. across the line bring- ing in spoils of raids on Black Hills trains, iuchicling many wholesale pack- ages in bulk. The Indians are, so well supplied that- this trader made, advan- tageous purchases of goods from Sitting Bull to sell in Manitoba. He also says there is Much discontent among the Cauadian Indians at the diminution of buffalo. The Indians are stealing -horses from the whites at every oppor- tunity. THE PA3IINE IN CHfl.CA.—Mirtister Seward sends to the Washington Gov- ernment accounts of the.Chinese famine up to the middle of March. The dis- trict affected comprises parts of, or the whole of the Provinces of Shansi,Chihli, Shantung, Shensi, Horau, Szhnew, and Karst. The actual famine presses upon fifteen millions of people, while fully sixty millions are spffering. There is abundance of food in the country, but a great lack of transportation. The crops have been good immediately around the stricken districts, but as food can be transported only on wagons, or pack animals, it Cannot be taken thither in sufficient quantities to sare the people. ^1 The Eastern Question. ' Count Schouvaloff, the Russian Min- ister, returned to Lyndon from . St. Petersburg, en Wednesday, but -arrived. too late to have an interview with. Lord Salisbury. In all quarters favorable anticipations of the result of his mis- sion are indulged. in, but nothing de- finite will be known thereupon until next week, as the utmost secrecy will be preserved until the .reply of the British Government has reached St. Petersburg, whither it will be despatch- ed, not by- telegraph, but by special courier. _ Schouvaloff himself is said to appear confident that the proposals, of which he is the bearer, will not be rejected. Baden-Baden is once more spoken of as the place of meeting Of the • Coeferenee. The Senate. Independently of the question of ex- pense), which is no inconsiderable item in the country's ledger, it is becoming a • serious question if there is really any- thing to be gained by continuing' in ex- istence the Senate. as at present con- stituted. While we are so greatly con- cerned about the principles of responsi- ble government; it would be interesting to know to whom the Senate is respon- sible. Assuredly not to the people, for the people have nothing to say either as , to their appointment or their removal. Being appointed for life, the grave and reverend seigniors who profess to re- present the people in the Senate care for nobody, fully satisfied. that nobody cares for them.— Toronto Telegram. The Poor of the County. The following is a statement of the amounts paid by the several munici- palities in Huron for the support of the poor during the yeat 877:1 Ashfield Bayfield Blyth Brussel' Clinton Colborne Exeter Goderich Town Goderich Township Grey Hay Howick aullOtt Morris. Seaforth Stanley Stephen Tuekersriiith Turnberry 232 50 East Wawanosh Ushorne `2.)1.5 3.7 9811 West Wawanosh 1'1772 50, Wingliam 5 5 Wroxeter 10 00 21m t. paid. ..$213 00 10 00 ' 67 25 195 25 90 60 285 19 116 25 598 08 223 64 249 89 21 00, 92 45 840 00 . 263 52 116 00 175 30 18 00 i.. 60 00 125 oo e4305 Terrible Catastrophe at Galt. A lamentable accident happenecTt on the Grancl river at Galt about 8 o'clock on Wednesday night. Tie small pleasure steamer Enapress of India was out with a pleasure party of about 18 person, when the steamer becameun- manageable, and capsized over Blain's dam. All the passengers on board were plunged into the river below. As yet, only two bodies have been recovered, - those of Air. Harry Jaffrey, of the Galt Reporter, and a lad named. Fred. Cane. When found, life was extinct. Among those missing are John Fraser, James Montgomery, one of the proprietors of the boat, Andrew Jackson, and a lad named David Scott., There were some 18 persons on the boat at the time,eight of whom were drowned. —The Toronto Leader has the best authOrity for stating that instructions have been received for the formation, if possible,of a Canadian cavalry regiment to form -part of the Imperial Army. The men are to, be enlisted on the principle of the 100th regiment, four-fiftht3 of the commissions are to be given to Canadian officers. The regiment is to be continu- ously recruited in Canada. Huron Notes. G-eo. Davidson, who carried on photographing ie Blyth for the past year, has sold but to Mr. E. F. Rymal. The ratepayers of Clinton will, on the Sth of Julie vote on a by-law to raise 04,000 for the purchase of a dteaan fire engine. —Mr. A. H. Peatman, of , Galt, has purchased the Albion Hotel m Goder- ich t Capt. West having retired from the siness —The; ▪ Brussels Court Of/ Revision have their work before them. There are -about fifty appeals froin this year's assessment. —Mr. A. Allin, of Exeter, has at ap- ple tree in his orchard which is now out in full bloom for the fourth time within twelve necinths. —For the year ending December 31, 1877, the fish catch it the Port of. G erich, according to Government retur was valued at $26,940. —During a late gale thebarn of Jo McIntosh, and also of Isaac Humors were unroofed. Considerable dam was done in other respects. —A joint stock company with a cap ital d $2,500 has been form.ed. in How ick, under the name of the "People' Cheese and Better Factory:" -=-The sittings of the Chancery Cour for this county opened at Goderich, oi Tuesday, beAore Chancellor Spragge There.are lrcases foie hearing. —Mr. A. A. Bowers, late of Bruss carried. off the McKellar prize for t junior year, at the examinations of the ;Wesleyan Theological College, Mon- treal, recently. ' I —There are now two , tettins running each Way on the Toronto, Gr and Bruce Rail -Way. Passengers ca now go from Wroxeter or Gerrie td' T route and return the same day. —A few days snipe, J. Fishburn, V S., of Exeter, and his assistant ope ated On a sow belonging to Mr. A. Dea • ing, taking from her side a litter of nin pigs. Both old and youitg are alive an doing well. —The summer time table was adopt ed on the Wellington, Grey and ,Brnc Railway on Monday last. Trains no ran as follows from Brussels: Gom south -6.15 a.m., 12.15 p.m., 7.05 p.m Going North -10.25- a.m., 2.58 p.m. 9.08 p.m. —James Dunber, of Ethel, is erectin an addition. to hi.4 stere for the Use of tailor shop. There is no doubt but that a good tailor would' do well in Ethel. Mr. Dunbar saves no labor nor expense in giving encouragement. to business men to locate, there. —Mr. Wm. Lewis, of Stephen, has about the earliest barley of any farmer arotind. - The seed was sewn last fall on wheat stubble ground, and. about four or five weeks ago it was in head. This:is a curiosity. He ha S hope that he will have a good crop. —On Tuesday - evening a couple of boys found a tramp in Mr. D. Johns' shed, in Exeter, adjoining his house and that he had. in his hand a rag soaked in coal oil. He chased. the boys away, and. lit the reg. eed. left, when the boys re-entered. the shed, and folind. the fire had died out. —On the evening of Wednesday, May 7th, the Meth&list parsonage at Brussels was taken possession • of by a number of the members and adherents of the Methodist Church, When a valu- able China tea set was presented. to Mrs. Stafford, and a, purse of money to Mr. Stafford, with complimentary ad- dresses. —On Thursday last a smi of Mr. ceased, the deer previous to his death, was strong and. hearty and full energy and activity. He was about thirty-five years of age, an Irishman by birth. He received hi t3 education, which - was- of the highest order, et Rome, and had. there the title of D. b. conferred upon. him during the brief period which has elapsed. 8111e6 his settlement in this locality he had woe many warm and fast friends, and was respected and loved by his people generally. —On Friday evening, as a yotuig lady, daughter of Mr. Dew, of Usbortie, was driving her father's team through Exeter, one of the lines broke, and the horses freed from restraint, started on a fast gallop. Mr. McGloughlin, who happened. to meet the team, ran out on the road and caught the bridle i Te n, ot in a short time there woukl ha,ve been a runaway with. serious, if not fatal, con—sReqr Feeasth. er Brennan, the popular , Roman Catholic priest, who has been stationed. at Offa, in the township of Stephen, for about eleven years, has been removed to St. Marys. The Rev. Father was exceedmgly popular -with od- all his parishioners, and after .30 long an ns, - intimacy, was loth to leave. • The good wishes of his people follow bin wherever hn he may be sent to labor. The Rev. tin Father Kelley, of Bothwell, succeeds age him. - —Some days ago, as Mr. Malcolm - Lamont, of Chiselhurst, was returning- - home with a load of lumber, he fell be s .tween the hind and front wheels on one side of the wggen. The contact of the t Mild wheel with his body caused. the 1 i horses to stop, else he would have been . 1 run over and crushed beneath the wheels. . 1 His escape was very narrow; as it is, :is, i he is pretty badly injured, but is re- , he Covering. —On Thursday last Mr.. Win. Car- - rick, of Exeter, who was at work in Messrs. Staialake's saw mill, had a very ly, narrow escape while carrying lumber ey away from the saw. - As it was, he had. n several ribs broken, caused. by his I o- falling backwards through a hatchway into the engine -room, the plank he wa-s . carrying falling upon him.. He was ies I r- brought out home the same evening, r- and medical assistance rendered. him He cticin.ow doing as well as could be ex - I , —On Saturday, the 4th inst., the - 1 booms in Mr. Milne's mill darn at Ethel e I gave waet, letting the entire stock of ✓ ! logs in the river (about five- hundred) g I out. An effort was made to hold them, . 1 but without avail. A good share of them lauded in Brussels that afternoon. Mr. Milne had caused a new booin to be put in a short time since, fearingthe old one might break; but on account of the high water the pressure was too heavy for both. He will have the logs sawed. in Brussels, and dispose of the *lumber at that point. • —On Saturday morning,as Mr. Nerd - More, carpenter, of Exeter, was between two pilesof lumber. getting a plankfor Mr. Eacrettte building, 011 Which he was - working,one of the piles fell over on him, striking him on the hip of his left lee and squeezing him vice -like between the two piles. His cries for help soon brought a crowd. to his assistance, who speedily released him from his uncom- fortable position-. No bones were broken, yet the escape was a very nar- row one. —0-n Monday, the 6th inst., as Mr. E. Palmer, the salesman for Mr. J. T. Westcott's pop works, Exeter; was go- ing to the Grand Bend, over very rough roads, the whifiletrees of the pop wagon broke, and, on Mr. Palmer trying to keep the horses from releasing them- selves, the lines broke and the horses ran away, springing the axles consider- ably. The team was caught at Thompson's Mills, after running a dis- tance of three-quarters of a mile. Mr. Palmer arrived home the next evening at ten o'clock. —A few mornings ago, when Mr. J. Brown, of 'Exeter, went into his shop in front of the house, he was surprised, on going to open the door, to find. that one Of the panes of glass was broken and a bolt removed. There had evi- dently been an attempt made -On tho previous night to burglarize the premi- ses, the would-be burglars failing to gain an entrance. The door is half glass. _They had broken one of the panes, and had pilled back a bolt, ex- pecting this would give them an easy entrance. But alas for their hopes— there happened to be a second bolt near -the floor which they could not rezdtla, and thus they were foiled. —The residence of Dr. Macdonald, of Winghana, was burglarized on Wed- nesday evening, 8th inst., and a Cash box; containing about $20, mostly pa silver belonging to the Presbyterian Church, stolen therefrom. An. attempt was also made in the same place a short time ago, when the burglar was disturbed after taking the cash box out of the bureau drawer, but had not time to 'rifle it. He was seen running down stairs by a young lady who was in the house at the time. The Dr. and Mrs. Macdonald were absent on both occa- sions. A certain party staying about the itmnediate neighborhood is strongly suspected. --The Signal says: The prisoner Mc-a:Meld is quite ill, and has been con- fined to bed. for several days past from the effects of nervous prostration. He is quite resigned to his fate, and talks cheerfully with his spiritual adviser a d others. Dr. Shannon visits him daily. The petition for reprieve has been sign- ed by about 400 persons, and Mr. Sea- ger—prisoner's counsel—expects to go to Ottawa on Thursday, to present it to the Minister of Justice. It appears that Mmiro, the deceased, some time ago made a fierce attack on Mr. W. E. Grace, of Goderich, while in. a,--pa,ssion, inflicting a bad wound on the leg, andt this fact will be laid before the Minister of Justice. —On Wednesdaylast a case of juven- ile depravity occurred in Goderich, the like of which we have never before heard of. Three little girls named. Rob- erts, Bedford and Cottle, aged_ 5, 8 and 9 years respectively, were play:ng with a little son—aged 3 years and. a few months—of Mr. Robt. Black, boiler- maker, when they were incited. by sOlne wicked instinct to beat the child. They • therefore, took him off to the vacant Dominion salt block near the station, - and stripping off his clothes, leaving only his shoes and. stockings on him, beat hies about the body with barrel staves. One of the girls held her hand over the boy's month to stifle his cries. So badly was the child beaten that his body was literal:1y black froni his hips to his head, and his face was cut said. a • George Old's, of Goderich, about eight years old, was driving home in his lather's grocery wagon, when: the vehicle struck a stone and. he was thrown out, alighting on his head. One of the wheels also struck his heaa, and he re- mained insensible for some time after being taken home. —The council of 'Clinton. have so amended the by-laws that no animals but cows are now allowed to run at large, pigs, sheep, horses, &c., being_ liable to be put in the pound. They have also made the by -la -w more strin- gent with reference to the removal of sods from the highways, squares or -parks of the town, prohibiting it en- tirely. —The Methodists of Exeter have de- cided. to petition Conference to station there', Mr. 0. A. Mitchell, B. A., of Wingha-m, whose term of itinerancy at that place expires at the next Confer- ence. The statOning committee , of Conference have the deciding, of the matter in their hands, but, it , is .likely the wishes of the congregation will be -respected. — Mr. Richard Stanlake, of Exeter, has purchesed a farm of 57 acres of John Mitchell, adjoining; Port' Blake, for the sum of $2,500. He has sold the corner lot containing half an acre to Messrs. Pratt &- Neil forthe sum of $150 for a tavern stand. The rest of the farm he intends to survey into vil- lage lots, which, no clou.bt) will meet with ready sale. • — A short time ago the friends and acquaintances of Mr. Chris. Grimoldby, of Walton, assembled to bilry,him; as it was belie-ved he was dead—but dec-eas- ed_ rose up in bed, and asked the reason of SO many coming around, and seeIng a fish pedlar among the number told him to bring on some of his fish as he thought he could eat some. He was very low withtyphoid fever, but is slowly recov- ering. —Michael Zeller, Etta., treasurer of of the township of Hay, has retired from farming, and has bought the house and lot formerly owned_ by Joseph. Brennier, where he will, we understand, give his entire attention to ;convey- ancing, &c. We understand Mr. Zeller intends paying a visit this season to the Vaterland, and will probably extend his tourto Paris there to view the wonders of the "big show." —Rev. Father Byrne, assistant Ro- man Cath.olie priest, who was in Exeter on Tuesday, 14th inst., completing the purchase of- the church formerly occu- piedi by the Presbyterians, for the use of his people as a house of public worship, died very suddenly of apoplexy the fol- lowing afternoon, Wednesday, 15th irket. at the residence of Father Kelly, parish priest, in the village of Limerick, town:ship of Stephen. His remains were on the following Friday' followed by sorrowing friends and parishioners to their last resting place. The de- 3Ay: 241 leruised. When the wounds -on h frightened and raii tle boy also star tte bleeding, and vs, conimons he was of one of the litt little fellow in his heme. it was th might seriously e but he is now ru# tough showing, t his dreadful beati a good. deal of e. came known, tb depravity being were too young to but itis to be ho the parents gave motion- ' Ilia& TieneS A 'Wentworth f sible letter to the, some excellent s1.1 tion of road meld and as 13atich of , plicable to this s comity of Went following extract- " Of all the re. bettering the con at the present -st more urgent thar of our public ,r< of 4 hard times; feel that they ar' (to somAxtent) the had. of tla I31 this parl . of much farm pro4 that has been,w to market, but t utterly prevents. -country are sail quent stagnatio our country p' been actustom, think that beca so, it must of ii til we Can MaC WhiCh, of course_ tion for a long " No kind of r: repair by such iise among us.. in the zountu if you have any is done, or rat done. " I beg to in our townehip year, appoint oi exch concessio These oppointi pear to be in -efficiency, but MA past and f less have some of the pathro plied witi a to -call on ev for so many A takes place ear withstanding impassablesi wagons, horse. master usual better their c tif June.. He it suits his p all must be rt the morning 7 the company 1 4 to work for t you, sir, if th Majesty's ser the measure J inferred that subjects in 01: the first inqn ing to the ni ers, ecrapers, know for cet must hunt S ter finding it often out of go to the rep who need sk and those brought so mistakes MT is that very although it I allotted tin After three J in some ' is seen, in O worse than ' for the year exmet take c the conseqi The pathen rant, and. i that he heel or that be t the,year, bi has spent t on the. roai] "Now, sil is a 447m ment and c adapted to: country, it'. I beg to nu' improve oi action can, about a ge-J nieipalitiefi the (J -overt the 011114C 1 allY suffic Second.. .. stone ro managed, in the m)z- roads for in the w be done .COUnCilli t; tions and: the coutr tessary ti ehall be the epe to °pea le, require(' dry eno through°. "Nor 1 by this that in '' ships 5i) ute lab would f —I). erowiled Mitchell --The ing a f. Agricult sible mo —Al Lietowe siderabl in the n —Th.e althoug siderabl In Lon RIGS, it