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THE HIMION EXPOSITOR.
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JANumtv 21 1870.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Crown Ink -Harry Mitchell.
Shingles for the Million -A.. Paden.
Drugs -Hickson eit Bleasdell.
Estray Steer -Hugh McKay, Sr.
Satchel Lost -Hugh Chesuey.
Notice to Creditors -Samuel Stark.
Dissolution -Steele & Rowe.
Farm for Sale -Wm. Cluff.
Change of Business -C. Friel.
Church and Site for Sale -F. Hess.
Corn and Peas -David McLennan.
House for Sale -E. Briggs.
Dissolution -X. E. Briggs & Son.
Dog Lost -Thomas La,pslie.
Reform Meeting -D. McGillicuddy.
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SE AFORTII, JANUARY 31, 1879.
The Wardenship.
At the opening meeting of the Jan-
uary session of •the County Council, on
Tuesday evening, Mr. Thomas E. Hays,
Reeve of McKillop, was elected Warden
of Huron. Mr. Hivs. is, probably, the
youngest Reeve that has eVer been elect-
-
ed to tine honorable position in this
County, and he may justly feel proud of
the high compliment that has been paid
him by -his fellow members. We have
no hesitatien in predicting that he will
fill the honorable position with credit to
himself aria to theentire satisfaction of
the Council.
Mr. Hays' opponent for the position
was Mr. A. L. Gibson, Reeve of Wrox-
eter. The vote was taken by ballot,
and stood 25 for Mr. Hays against 17
for Mr. Gibson. We cannot but express
streerise at the -vote. Mr. Gibson is oue
of the oldest and most experienced
members of the Cot -Inca ;I he was, also,
universally admitted to 14 a laborious
and •painstaking couneillor, and foa
some year past he has occupied_ the
positiou of 'chairman of several of the
most important committees, and to add
to these qualifications, he 'comes from a
section of the County which has not yet
had the honor of furnishing a Warden,
while two of the recen , incumbents
have been chosen from th s section. In
these respects, it is not too, much to say,
that Mr. Gibson had claims upon the
position possessed by few other mem-
bers at the Boierd, and. we think that it
would only have been a magnaiiimOus
act•on the part of the Council to have
recognized those claims, and to have
placed -him in the posi n to which, on
account of seniority of m mbership, ex-
perience, ability, and loc ion, he had a
just right to aspire. We ave nothing
against Mr. Hays. He is a shrewd and
efficient representative, and a genial
gOod fellow, but we think ithat, the po-
sition being mainly an honorary one, Mr.
Gibson had claims upou it which he
does not yet joossess, and that those
claims should have been iecognized by
the Council. However, that grave and:
reverend. body thought differently, and
it is they who have the best, or at
least the most effective, say in such
matters.
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Our Senator. ,
, It • is currently reported that Mr.
David. Rood Ritchie, of. Bayfield, is to
be appointed to the vacar4 in the Sen. -
ate caused by the death! of , the Hon.
-
Donald Macdonald. Mr, Macdonald
represented what is knowa as the Te-
camseli Division. . .This ' Division, we
believe, comp -lilies the Counties of Hu -
/WI and Perth. It is, therefore., in the
nature of things that the new Senator
should be a local man. It would in fact
. be a Slur upon the many available men
we have in this Dieision, were an out-
sider appointed to represent it. This
being the case, we. should like that the
honor, such as it is, be conferred upon
a resident of our county. We may here
mention., parenthetically, that although
the honor attaching to the position- is of
ae somewhat doubtful character, the
emoluments are well 'worth 'looking.
after. So long as the Senate is'perrait-
_, ted to exist it is necessary that vacan-
cies should be filled., and wedo not,
i •
know of any in this county who is better'
.deservieg of such , 'recoaitien at the
,
hands .of his party : leaders 'than Mr.
.: Ritchie. He has on many occasions
lrendered eminent serviced to his party
! in this Comity, and on one -occasion at
. least he feught .& valiant Political battle
'in. their interests. We do, therefore,
feelinclined. to cast ma' inIfittence with the
Governmen4 in Mr. Ritchie's fever.
Messrs. Isaac Carling, oI Exeser, and
Joseph Kidd, .of Dublin, are also- men-
.
tioned as aspirants fOr the position. No
doubt both these gentlemen have strong
claims, and the appointment of either
. would, we presume, give satisfaction to
the party in this county. -We fancy,
however, that Me. Ritelie could_ pre-
sent a stronger claim, than either. Mr.
Crab and. Mi. Platt, of Goderich, are
• • also, mentioned. Tho fernier would, no
doubt, make a very dignified and bril-
liant Senator, but while 'dignity May be
a qualification, brilliancy is by mi means
necessary. As for Mr. Platt, :he is a
.-sort of latter. .dziy politician, who, al-.
though he fought a couple Of: battles
'within the past year very pluckily, his,
statesmanship is ,of rather toe recent
origin to entitle him to snail distinetion,1
and besides he has far too active a tene••
perament to allow him te hve comfort-
ably in the Senate.- 'He might do in the
House of Commons or the Local Legis-
lature if his politipal coloring were only
.of the properhue, but it; would, spoil
Mr. Platt to put him :in the . 'senate.
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H would blue -mould in less ti
y ar. Whoever the fortunate indi
ay be, we wish him no harne, b
country much good, when we e
t e fervent hope that his teen
o ce will be of short dUration,
n.t mean that we wish him a
p ysical existence, but simply th
people of this country will, speedi
c me educatedto that pitch of ci
t on when they will refuse to t
a d suppert an asylum for broke
• oliticiansle as our Canadian Sena
oubtedly is.
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Huron's Bepresentativ s.
'We much regret that lack of spaCe
prevents our giving even a resu u e of
tile exceedingly able speech del vered
bfr Mr. A. M. Ross, M. P. P. for West
uron, in the Legislature, on the occa-
s on of the ireeent debate on t e Ad-
dress. We heve perused it with 'glees-
ure and profit, and_ we are sur o our
readers would do so also. , He most
effectually and conclusively ShO s the
absurdity, if rot dishonesty, of th con-
tentions so ostentatiously put fo th by
Senator Macpherson hi his eceut
pamphlet, said gives many usefu ud
instructive hint e on other points. The
people of Wet Huron have just cause
to feel proud of their talented rep •esen-
tative, as he ie unquestionably a redit
to that wealthy and intelligent con-
stituency'. We can only say that those
who will vote to exchange him f the
other aspirant to that position WI clO
very foolish act, and one which they
will surely soen regret. For s ch
poSition, it is an iusult to Mr. oss to
even attempt tceraake a comparis in be-
tween the two men.
We have, also, a veiy full rep rt ef
the speech delivered on the same ()ma:
sion by Mr. Gibson, M. P. P. fo East
Huron. This speech was specia ly re-
ported for the EXPOSITOR by OUT o vn re-
porter, and we are sure its perus I will
afford our readers, and, Mr. G -i son's
constituents in particular, much leas-
ure. We had hoped to give it i this
issue, but en account of some de ay in
the postal department, we did n t re-
ceive it in time. We shall publ sh it
next week, When we shall again robe-
bly refer to it at greater length.
Township Shows.
We publish in another column' let-
ter from a .correspondent On the s bject
of Township Shows. We aro a ways
glad to publish letters of this kind,
whether we, agree with the senti of ents
uttered or not The discussion of such
subjects does good. We hope, the efore,
now the ball has been opened, to hear
mere on so -important a question We
may say, however, that we do n t by
ariY means. agree with the conc usiou
arrived at by our correspondent viz.:
that township shows are an evil and
that they should be done away with.
On the contrary, we believe the are a
great benefit and that they are j st as
important as either the County o Pro-
vincial Shows. _Our corresp ndent
very properly says that they h ve itt
the past answered the same purpose in
encouraging the improvement of
&c., -that the alphabet has done it
ing in attaining knowledge. We
agree with this sentiment, and
further and say that they answe
cisely the same purpose still. N
can attaip knowledge without firs
ing Mastered the alphabet,, and n
ever -will:; so that taking his ow
alogy; the township shows are a
ful now as they ever were.
shows occupy the same positi
wards the larger ones that the
Schools do towards the High 5
and -Universities. They are a s
training scheol for the highetei
tions. There are many who ha
hibibs which they can show atthe
ship show, who would be afraid
ing utterly swamped at the large
' where competition is so much stir
Now were the township shows
away with, ;these small exh
would not have the stimulus of .c
tition to encourage them. Th
not able to. compete at the big
and consequently they are shut o
atogether. Bet, let these seine
have the stimulus of the small
and they will gradually improv
they have products which are
compete in the Comity or Pro
Sliews. As for the loss of time oc
tock,
aid -
fully
ve go
pre -
man
hay-
mau
an-
use -
hese
n to-
ablic
.hools
rt of
stitu-
e ex-
town -
f be -
one,
Dgei.
done
bitors
mpe-
y are
show,
t al-
erties
hows,
until
fit • to
incial
asion-
ed by there being so Many show:, that
is no argument at all. Time sp
attending either a township or a
show is well epeut. It must be
shoiv indeed at which a farmer c
pick up some new idea, wine
benefit him in his vocation. T
dal recreation which the meet
gether of neighbors on such oc
nt itt
ounty
poor
e not
will
e so-
to-
asions
affords, will do much more than amply
rep aythose who take it,f or the tim e spent.
If th,e people would take 'more terest
in the annual meetings of the i ounty
societies, and. if farmers would come
forward. as they should do, and , olun-
tarily contribute their annual m mber-
ship instead. of having to be duun d. and
dogged. for it by the Directors, as is too
frequently the case, it would be fmind
that both township and county so ieties
could be kept to a very reasona,b e de-
gree of efficiency.
BANE TROTIBLES,-The London, Times
says the late return of the Bank o Eng-
land is unsatisfactory, an is the. .ign of
a disordered condition of things.
ONTARIO LEGISLATURE.
PASSING OP THE ADDPESSCHANGES IN
SCHOOL BOOKS-( ALLERY TALK -
SHORT SESSIONS -THE MAIL 15 LIST -
PERSONAL, itc.
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
On. ,
Oednesday the ebate on the Ad-
es brought to a close, the Ad -
itself forma., passed, and in
accor ance with t e usual custom
drder d to be engross d and presented
to His Honor the Lieutenant-G-overnor.
The aldreas of course is a, mere echo
speech from the Throne, the
aphs being a r petition of those
address, exce t that they are
in the wordin to make them
to emanate f om the House in -
)f from His II nor. The whole
bilsiness of receiving and paseing the
addrees is a formal o e,, and it is a pity
that se much valuablr time should be
expended upon it. s was stated by
Mr. Mowat on Tuosa y, the 21st, the*
spee41 from the Thro e and the address
in reply have now ecome more re-
ciprocal acts of court sy, between • the
representatives of th Crown and the
represeutatives of t e people. The
subjects mentioned i the tuldress are
of course sug,gestecl by the Ministry, and
it may therefore be lo ked upon as an
expositiou of the view of the G-overn-
merit to what mat ers in regard to
which they think legi lotion necessary.
It ma he further ass med that noth-
ing w uld be left o t of the address
upon vhich the Gove ennent deem ac-
tiou r quired, and t is assumption is
the b sis for treating any amendineut
propo ed by the Cppotition as a direct
vote if Ntallt of onfidence. The
amenc men tlidefo r. to reduce the
indere ity to member was very proper-
ly vo ed down: by oveinment sup-
porter:, whose =views S to the merits
of the queetion Werenot at all express-
ed by, -he stand they took. , It is nec,
cesar to state these; acts fully because
retren hment and ec norny are popular
things, and, deubtles • the Opposition
will ti Aceplac4 tiler selves before the
count' y ia the ligh of advocates of
economy. tr4tt is that a large
major ty e Ifoilts is iu favor of a
redu ion Aatl. are u tion will undoubt-
edly 6 115#easvlien the -proper time
arrive . 44leed pro ment government
suppo 'ter S 4reafaVor blo to a change
in thiS dirdetion so'. sweeping as will
satisf., the the{" ec nornical " of their
oppon iits -The Op osition have, in-
deed, offered thems Ives as martyrs,
but th y will gain litt e by their forced
immo ation.
In t e conesof tbe debate on the
addre s, several mem ers touched upon
the S b.00l system of he Province, and
pointe I out ,aMong it minor defects,
that t e text -books u ed in the schools
were too often chauge . This is a very
common complaint, a id an evil which
rely feltby ma
They cannot u
ok on, gram
has Served t
not be equal
13ges, and_ wh
dress
areas
of th
'anew
of th
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stead
is sev
lies.
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and w
by th
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shall
math°
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tees a
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the s
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lar s
them -
the S
they
choos
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a ne
thus
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trans
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the G
Duffe
Q uee
her re
:her
sures
ment
grief
death
• first.
of tlei
ful ac
but w
by all
vince
dress,
Mr.
dith;
to th
the s
the p
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I
y heads of fami-
iderstand -why a
ar or geography
e elder children
sr serviceable to
they should be
to be oontinuelly renewing the
schoolbooks t the caprice of
carcely, know vhom. The evil
• tedlY,sexists, and is a serious
nce to the satis actory workiug of
oolhtyStern. t thcasame time;
e lob need iot be tolerated,
ich. cap. easily e pu a 'stop to
e uporewhom it pr saes. One
regulations o liliel Edudation
tmeut rovides that 1 no teacher
have power to substitute one
ized tet -book for anether unless
e the eonsent thereto of the true-
• d. the School Iespector. It 18 no
of the truth tq say that many of
hool -trustees throughout the
y are se ignoraiit of what is going
heir schools as not to kuow what
•oks are in use ipon any particu-
ibject., , If theY were to make.
elves thoroughly acquainted with
hool Act, they would find that
aye the power to resist, if they
, any attempt en the part of the
r to introduce against their will
set of text7books. Parents have
directlremedy for the evil in a
aint to the truetees against a toe
nt change.
hursday the brincipal business
cteda was the passing of three
ses, to be presented to the Queen,
wer nor- G-' en eral and. the Earl of
in That addressed to the
is an expressiot Of sympathy with
eut bereavement in the death -of
aughter, Princess Alice. It as-
er Majesty of the loyal attach -
of her Ontario subjects and the
elt by them at the heavy blow
has dealt her ii thus making the
a.p in her house old. The passing
address was a fitting and grace-
, and one net o mere formality,
ich will be he rtily concurred in
classeaand pa ties in the Pro -
The -present tion of this tid-
es of the othei , was moved by
owat and seed ded by Mr. Mere -
ho in their ex ressions of loyalty
Throne may b taken as speaking
ntiments of the vast-, majority of
ple of the Pro ince. Mr. Mere-
• as doubtless ri lit when he said
that i would be a, lo g 'day before any
party wo-uld be 'formed to sever the con-
necti n between this country and the
moth r land. The address to the Mar-
quis f Lorne was one of welcome and
greeti g to him and his' Royal wife.
That to the Earl of Dufferin conveyed
to t e distinguished nobleman the
thanks of thepeople of Ontario for the
wise • nd judicious manlier in which he
occu ied the highest position in the
land. Aftea the passing of the ad-
dress s, the,Usual Se ecting and Library
Com • itteesswere st4tck, and. after Mr.
Scott hadgiveu noti4ie that he would
disci s the question f the duration of
the p .esent Parliame t at an early day,
the e ouse adjourned
On Friday the firstl instalment of es-
timat s for 1879 was rought down, and
the : ouse went into ommittee of Sup-
ply. Mr. Wood ga e notice that he
woulc ,on Tuesday iext move to set
apart a further sum j of $50,000; to be
expe ded in the ptuchase of munici-
pahte drainage debeiitures in a manner
simil r tO that of the $200,000 voted
last ession. The House adjourned.
after alf an hour's ittiag. Since the
mad sion of the de ate on the Ad-
dress members awai nig the Treasur-
er's b dget speech ha e shown a dispo-
sition to take things easy, and not to
force discussion up n every point that
come up. Some of the talkatiVe ones
have doubtless partially exhausted
them -selves, • and are nursing' their
powers -of eloquence to expend them
upon some fresh subject. As a general
rule, those who talk longest upon any
matter . are those who say least. The -
reports of the speeches which appear in
the daily papers are no criterion by
which the length of any Member's
speech cam be judged. A long-winded.
oration of two hours' delivery may be
compressed. into a couple of paragraphs,
while the half-hour's --speech of the
member who speaks next may fill a
column. The space which is given to
, the different speeches depends entirely
..upon the reporter's conception of its
importance. Some members there are
who can be long -handed" with the
utmost ease; that is to say, their
speeches can be taken down inordinary
long hand and made to contain as
much meaning and their points be
brought out better than if taken ver-
batixn. These gentlemen are prime
favorites' with those ubiquitous indi-
viduals upon whom the public depends
for a knowledge of what their repre-
sentatives do. By 'taking" them in
long hand, they do away with the ne-
cessity of re -writing their speeches 'be-
fore handing them to the printers.
There are othees, again, whose rising is
a signal for each reporter in the gallery
to seize his sharpest pencil and. follow
with his liveliest Pitman. They know
their remarks will be brief, connected
and to the poMt, and to lose any would
be to spoil the whole. There are, how-
ever, but few of this class of speakers,
though the business of the House
would be vastly accelerated were the
number larger. But it is seldom that
even the best speakers are reported in
full. Remarks, good in themselves, but
repetitions of what has been said before,
sounding phrases, flights of oratory, in-
deed everything but hard_ facts are re-
lentlessly cat out bythe merciless report -
era. And it is seldom that speeches are
hurt by this process. The object of a news-
-paper report is to give iu a small com-
pass the salient points of every speech,
and why should readers be put to the
trouble- of wadin4 through columns,
when a condensation would give it to
them in a paragraph? The speakers
who are most fully reported are not the
lawyers and professional men in the
House, -whose train -Ma has tatight them
to dilate and expand,"'but-the Matter-of-
fact farmers and business men, whose
object in speaking is to say what they
mean in the fewest words ancl the least
time. Such men, though their lan-
guage may not be so elegant or their
manner so easy as their professional
brethren, are nevertheless 'listened tb
with ,attention by the House, and their
woidse with a little polishing in the
gallery,' are read. by the public as they
are spoken. •
.„ On Monday there was another hall
hours' , session, the only business of
importance being the striking of the
standing committees, and the first
reading of Several Government bills.
One of these' was to incorporate the
Poultry Association of Ontario, an as-
sociation which in its way. will be some-
what similar to the Agricultural and
Arts Association. It is intended to
promote the breeding -of a better class
of poultry; and Will ;told exhibitions
and -offer prizes with that object: An
Act to extend the powers of Gas 'Com-
panies was also introduced. The ob-
ject of the increase is, understood. to be
an expansion of the privileges of Gas
Companies so as to enable them to take
advantage of the new electric light, and.
to engraft it upon their existing systems
without being put to the trouble of pro-
curing a special Act. This is in con-
formity with the policy of the Govern-
ment, never to pass a special Act when
a general Act exists which will answer
the purpose. Upon this ground
among others, they have hitherto op-
posed the passage of a special Act to
incorporate the Oraege body. An Act
for thatpurpose'introduced by Mr.
Merrick, is now before the House, and
the usual lively fight may again be ex-
pected. The indeninity question was
also incidentally reereed to. Mr. Sin-
clair upon a matte pflprivilege, contra-
dicted. a stateMenalmade in the Mail
that he had eigitedl e the round-robin
asking for an Mere* in the indemnity.
He pointed out the inaccuracy of the list
which tho Mail Trofessed to give of Gov-
ernment stippor`ters who had. signed
the round-robin bysaYing that it con-
tained the names of Messrs. Massie and
Masters, who were net members of the
House at the time of the increase, and
the name of Mr. "Gibson, who had. not
signed it. Mr. 5trikerewhose name
was also on the list, also denied- having
signed. the petition:
The House onTuesday sat, for three-
quarters of an hour. Aamnaber of pri-
vate bills were presented, and read. the -
first time, and a Government measure
introduced respecting Public, Separate
and. High Sehoola. . The measure pro-
poses to extend the school franchise to
income voters, to make` provision for a
better method of holding trustee eleci.
tions, to place in the hands of muni-
cipal Councilsaa larger control over the
expenditure for school purposes, and
to make other changes, which the exe
perience of the last few years has shown
to be necessary.
Mr. Bishop,member-for South Huron,
who had visited his constituency for the
purpose of being re-nomipatedhas again
assumed. his seat aitt.'i; the; nous.-
T.W.G.
were summoned, and, it was decided be-
tween the parties to allow the matter
to take the shape of a common assault.
The Campbells and Mather were fined.
a nosnival sum, and. Hickey was dis-
charged. To give some idea of the et-
pense which this littlf diversion has
put the parties to, it my be mentioned
e
that the costs of the ourt, witnesses'
and constables' fees, exclusive of the
charges of the lawyers, "were $157.20.
News of the Week.
SNOW AT PARIS. -There was a heavy
fall of snow at Paris, France, on Wed-
nesday of last week.
C OMPULS OR'S ED U cemos.---Compulsory
education is to be enforced in France
after the 1st of January, 1880.
THE ONLY EX6EPTION.-Queen Vic-
toria is said to be the only sovereign in
the world who does not hold a State re-
ception on New Year's bay.
SNOW IN RUSSIA. -Despatches of the
24th inst. state: A heavy- snow storm
for the past three days has blocIted the
principal railway's in Russia.
A TaOTTElt Ds:ma-Frank Works, a
noted trotting I aught for $8,000
four years ago, fell dead in Central
Park, New York, a fewl days ago.
FEAR OF DEATII.-Frk. Bissell, aged
18, cut his throat and shot himself fatal-
ly in Brooklyn on Friday. The cause
was fear of death from oonsuraption.
THBEA.TENING TO ASSASSINATE. - A.
youth has been arrested at Lille, France,
for threatening to assa sinate Gambet-
' ta. • The threat was a foolish attempt
to extort money.
BURNED TO DEATH.
Friday night at Boo
bowling -alley Samuel
tempting to secure so
burned. to death,
Cemucu SEIZED. -A Wesleyan Metho-
dist Church in Brookljyn will be sold
under mortgage foredo ure on February
1st. It was built in 18(9 and has been
heavily mortgaged ever since.
Guam ELEVATOR BURNED. - The
Dayton and. Michigan Railway Com-
pany's elevator, at Toledo. Ohio, con-
taining 100,000 bushels of grain, was
burned on Friday. Los § $85,000.
CITALLENGE.-A pedeArien man with
a wooden- leg, residing at Portland,
Maine, offers to walk any other man
with a wooden leg five- kir ten miles for
the championship and a round SUM.
RO;YAL MARRIAGE,-LaSt Friday in St.
Petersburg, Russia;with, great ceremony,
the Grand. Duchess Anastasia, daughter
of the Grand Duke Michael, was mar-
ried to Prince Frederick of Mechlenburg-
Schwerin.
BREACH or Tuuse.- harles X. Camel,
formerly.one of the est :prominent
Xewislicitizeos, of Nas ville,Tennessee,
is charged With embezz ing trust funds
Mb to a widow from t e Independent
Order of Foresters,
CHURCHNOMENCLATUIL .-The '‘Church
of the Eight Spot o Diamonds" is
found. in. Denver, Colorado. The wick-
ed gave it this name or account of the
resemblance of its fancy -colored slate -
Sof to the card designated.
'HIS CLAI1E.-An old . man had him-
self and his trunk lefll on a piece of
land that be imagined he owned in
Ocala, Florida, and. d Glared that he
would stay there until lhis rights were_
established. It was a cold night, and
in the morning he was found. frozen to
death..
Mons Hozons.-On Wednesday last
week, the honorary de4ree of LL. D.
was conferred upon Earl Dufferin by
Trinity College, Dubliial The Hall of
the College was filled by a most dis-
tinguished asserriblage and the Earl
received a very warm elcome.
NEW RAILROAD WAR. It is reported
that the railroads lea • ng out of Chi-
cago are again at war, and. that- rates
are being -cut from one o three dollars.
It looks as if ITanderb t's roads were
determined to force a ar in order to
compel Erie to change its position in
regard to payment of omraissions on
the sale of tickets.•
BREACH OF Pnoensn. At Freehold,
New Jersey, on Thursd y, in the case of
Abjigail Morris against Captain Seeley,
of Red. Bank, for d mages for six
breaches of promise of marriage, from
1870 to 1878, during which :time three
children were born to er and two suits
for damages were se tlea, the jury
awarded. the plaintiff 1,100.
MYSTERY. -Upon th arrival of the
midnight train last T ursday night at.
Fort Wayne, Indiana, trunk was put
out of the baggage car which emitted a,
horrible stench. It w s found. to con-
tain the nude corpse f a young man
with a deep' wound. on is left side. The
-trunk was put on at Wi, terloo, Indiana.
if
The body is probabli that of Adam
Seiglers, who has been missing from
Waterloo several days.
THE "PAD " SAN+ED Ell.-WID. Wal,
lace, of Springfield, Mass., U. S., is in
jail for recently shooth g at Mrs. David
Tilley:with intent to ill. The bullet
was Stiipped by the bet4vy cotton batting
which the woman -nee to _pad. out her
form, and. she is unhn t, Now, ladies,
paste this in your hats4 : and. hurl it at
any "horrid man" W o may have the
audacity to offer any seggestions in ref-
erence to the construction of your
"forms divine:"
New LIGHTING Peocass.-The city of
Detroit is lighted with gas froraNaptha..
The illumination is accomplishedby the
use of a very_ simple apparatus placed
upon the oliVstreet laMps, and is much
stronger flea from ordinary coal gas.
The city saves $15,000 a year by the
change. Heating the city by steam
from a central boiler, Or a series of boil-
ers, after the Lockport plan, has also
been introduced inta Detroit, steam
having been turned on some nights ago.
Go Wrse.-Mr. Greeley's sixwords of
t
advice to young men T ould be an ap-
propriate motto for he biographical
T
sketches of the new "eutenant-Gover-
nor of Colorado,. Not lona. ago he was
a stone -cutter in Augusta, Maine, and
'when he went -west be opened a miners'
store in. Leadville, Celorado. Now he
is worth $5,000,000, owns two mines,
from which he receives thousands a
day, is President of a bank, and owns a
large wholesale store1 and has been
postnsaster. Westward, ho!
A BIG DRUNK. -10. John Wren, of
_Cleveland, Ohio, ba S just recovered
from a4,000 mile drink. He went -to
London, England, sonie weeks ago, to
visit a son, got very 4runk at a wine
party and vanished. lWhett next heard
of he was at the dept in Cleveland,
where he was found. it der the influence
of liquor, and armed ivith two big bot-
tles of whisky. They itook him to the
-hospital, where, after itome days delir-
ium, he recovered. his (oases, abused his
English friends for de erting him in a
strange place, and asked for paper to
TORONTO, Jan. 28, 1879.
-They had a regular Canadian
" Donnybrook" over the municipal
elections in the township of Logan.
The particularof the affair, as nearly
as can be ascertained., are that about 7
o'clock in the evening of the election,
when the returns had been received, a
dispute arose between Patrick. Connol-
ly, James Campbell and. R. Keyes, in
front of the hotel in the village of Born-
holm. High words were used, and al-
most in a twinkling a general ruction
ensued. Fists were used at first, hut
soon the stakes were pulled. out of the
sleigh of Mr. Wm. McCulloch, which
was standing on the roadeand'they and
cordwood. sticks were freely wielded
with considerable effect. The trouble
lasted for about 10 or 15 minutes, and.
than ceased as :suddenly as it :began.
In the good. old days of the Green Isle,
all the parties would. have gone home
quietly and said nothing more about it,
but here the aid of the law was in-
voked, and the consequence was that
John, James, Wiliam and Robert
Campbell, Michael Hickey, John
blathers and Robert, Jones were sum-
moned before the police magistrate at
Stratford, on divers charges of assault-
ing and wounding. The case was set
for Monday, and. about 40 *itnesses
TIG -HT BINDING
At a fire on
e, Iowa, in a
ves, while at-
e. papers, was
write home to Cleveland for money
with which to return, to America. "My
God! have I crossed the Atlantic Oeean
drunk!" he exclaimed,- wheu =at last
theyconvinced him he was in Ohio, not
in England. ,
COIMERCH WITH CANADA. -Ill the
United States House of Representatives
on Friday, Mr. Cox, of New York, in-
troduced a bill to regulate the commerce
with Canada, and to provide for reci ro-
cal navigation..
Fon LADIES.-Eussian ladies are of-
ten inveterate smokers of cigarettes, and
at railway stations and other- points of
transit, scratch their Matches =on the
wailer posts like men. They frequent-
ly ask men for alight from their cigars,
and are asked in return.
Interesting Public Reports.
PUBLIC 'WORKS.
The report of the Cornroissioner of
Public_ Works for Ontario, recently is-
sued, shows that $418,642 88 have been
expended d. tiring the past year. The larg-
est sum absorbed by any one work was
$120,364 72, laid out on purchase and
improvement of the newInsase Asylum
at Kingston.
The contractor for the additions to
the Hamilton Asylum has nearly_finish-
ed, and. it is expected • that they will
be occupied. next mouth; $75,951 96
have been expended since the -date of •
the last report. Additions also were
made to the Insane Asylum at Lon-
don, costing $66;356 03, while the ex-
penditure for the Asylums of Toronto
and Orillia together, amounted to only.
$10,051 76.
The works connected with the hospi-
tal of the Central Prison were complet-
ed. early he the year, and together with
necessary repairs cost $10,679 75. Plans
are nearly ready for rebuilding the foun-
dry, which, together with the paint shop
'and saw mill, were destroyed on No-
vember 13th.
The following is =5 summary of the
cootherrincipal items in the year's ac-
uIt f
Dmf and Dumb Institutes.. . . . 02
Reformatories, jails and building con-
nected therewith 28,810 23
Educational buildings, &a 846:777261 1661
Drainage, cte
Works improving rivers........ . . . 18,611 57
The expenditure on improvements
and repairs at Government House
amounted to $4,156 62, and that on the
Parliament and departmentasbuildings,
$343' 03.
In spite of the continued ,depression
the extension of railways still continues,
136 miles having been constructed ready
for traffic during the year. The mile-
age Of completed railways in the Pro-
vince has been increased from 1,464
miles at the time of Contederation. to
3,213 miles now, and there are still 321
miles in course of building, exclusive of
340 miles of the Canadian Pacific Rail-
way west of Thunder Bay, of which
about 153 are now in hand.
All the money expended. on public
works.has gone either for buildings sncli
as asylums and reformatories necessary
to the public welfare, for necessary re-
pairs to existing buildings, or for the
completion and maintenance of such
reproductive works on drainage and riv-
ers as will be of benefit to the =adjacent
localities, and.not less to the Province
at large.
EDUCATION.
The report of the Commissioner of
Education, for the year 1877, has also
beeni laidon the table of the House since
the (Telling of the present session, Al
-
thourt
gh like the other repos, the in-
formation which it contains is noW
somewhat stale, yet it is not by any
means devoid. of interest, especially as
it has never been made public until
now. This report gives a full view of
the work of Public, Separate, High,
Normal andiModel Schools during the
year to which it refers, and shows a
matifying amount of progress in all the
departments of educational work.
The money raised. for Public Schools
OntariO during 1877 was very large,
being $3,423,185, or more than double
what it was in 1867, and More than 2.-1
times what it wash' 1860. The salaries
to 'teachers alone amounted to $2,038,-
099, being $199,778 increase on the- year,
the largest ever known since the pres-
ent school. system came into operation.
Theancrease of attendance for the year
has not been large-ouly 323, but the
average attendance of those entered as
pupils has been greater than during the
year preceding by 4,701. The irregu-
larity of attendance is still a matter for
great regret. To take the number of
children entered as pupils, and to sup-
pose that all are receiving anything to
be called education, would. be delusive.
Of a total. aggregate of 490,860 children
of all ages returned as pupils, 43,675 at-
tended less than 20 days, and 88,581
who attended. more than 20 days put in
less than 50, while of the whole num-
ber not more than 20,900 attended. more
than 200 days. during the scholastic
year. The daily average attendance is
not 50 per cent. of the pupils, and. even.this does not show the extent of the -
evil, for if children attended regularly
for half a year and stayed away the rest
of it, they could get a large amount of
good. The evil, however, is that a large
number are coming and going all
the time -aa few days present and. then
absent again, to the great- injury of
the school, and to the hindrance
and mortification of the best of the
teachers.
In the 5,140 Public School's there
were employed during 1877 6,468 teach-
ers, of whom 3,020 were gentlemen and
the rest la.dies. The Presbyterians are
most numerous among the teachers,
but Methodists are very little behind.
There were 812 Roman Catholic teach-
ers employed, of whom as many as 478
;were in the Public Schools, more by 78
than all -who were employed. in the
Roman Catholic Separate Schools dur-
ing the same period. The rate of
salaries is rising but slowly. For the
year the average increase was $13 over
all the schools in the Province. In
some cases salaries are mentioned as
lowi as $100. The total value of
school property was estimated at $6,-
624,169, or $1,218 per school. The
nuniber of Separate Schools increased
by 18, but the attendance decreased
by 342.
The general tone of semarks in the
report S of the Inspectors is hopeful and
eacouraging. With scarcely an excep-
tion progress is noted, and the interest
of the parents in. the education of their
children grows both in amount and in-
telligence. The County Model Schools
are doing good work.
The report of the High Schoonaspec-
tor is clear, concise and. discriminating,
giving praise where it is deserved, and
not at ali refusing to point out deficien-
ciem
S. The nun of High Schools was
seselame
104. The total receipts showed an in-
crease of $36,389, and the expenditure
exceeded that of 1876 by $38,761. The
number of punils was 9,229. Since the
Toronto Normal School was institu
there have been admitted 7,883 students.
Of these, 1,365 were of the Church of
England.; 355 Roman Catholics; 2,310
Presbyterians; 2,748 Methodists; 515
Baptists; 287 Congregationalists; and,
-303 of other denominations.
The steady progress of education. in
Ontario is very distinctly shown by a
tabular view of all the items of infor-
mation available for each year sine
1812. From this it appears that in 29
years the population of Ontatio increas-
ed. from 486,055 to 1,620,851. In 1842
there were only 25 High Schools; in
1877, 104. III 1842 only 1,721 Public
Schools; in 1877, 4,955. In 183.2 the
whole of the educational institutions of
Ontario, both public and private,
amounted to 1,795, and in 1877 to ,248.
There were no reports in 1842 to ghow
how many pupils attendedthe High
Schools, but there were during- that
year 65,978 entered at the Public
Schools, while in 1877 there were 490,-
860. In 1842 there were paid in salar-
ies to Public Sao Separate School teach-
ers $166,000, and in 1877 $2,031,099.
The first complete returns in reference
to every particular selected for compari-
son, began only at the year 1855. • s The
school population of that year was
297,623, while in 1877 it was 494,-
804. 111 1855 the grand total paid for
educational purposes in the Province
was $1,155,992, while ha 1877 it was
$3,587,481.
Strange ideas.
1111. EDITOR IS it 1.10t wonderful to
hear the ideas some men will express
about education in this enlightened age?
Not long since I heard a person say that
education made men rogues; Accord.
ing to this idea, an educated person is
one who is much to be dreaded. What
ULU our noble institutions of learning do
for such characters who hold such ideas
as this ? The question might well be
asked -Where Nvere they born and from
-what aid they spring ? Is Darwin's
theory of the hinnan race correct? Itt
fact, one would abnost be led. to believe,
when hearine the -expressions of some,
that they were descended from little
better than a baboon or a monkey. Let
such people get hold of little property,
and. in their estimation they think
themselves the greatest pe.ople in the
world. They are very careful to keep a
correct pedigree of their cows and
horses, but ask them who was their,
grandfather, and you have asked a ques-
tion they cannot answer. Therelis no
pedigree for him. I am afraid the sini-
dren of such parents will suffer 'On. ac-
count of their parents. They will not
educate their children, for fear it imakes
them •dishonest. Would it not le0 right
and just to carry out the -provistons of
the School Law to the letter, and. Com-
pel such to send their children to,SchoeI
at least for four months itt the y4s,r, as
the lawrequires.
C
IluLLETT, Jan, 29, 187975TANT Rn44n.
' I
To wnsbip Sho*s.
the Editor of the Huron Expositp%
Sin 1 have waitedepatiently for you
or some one else to express their (*bijon
on the township show question,a.s tile
subject has been introduced for discus-
sion and. your -opinion solizAed, but the
subject seems to have dropped. or no no.
bice taken of it1 think it IS it Subject
worthy of -consideration, therefore 1 beg
leave to occupy a short space in your
valuable paper for a few remarka? Tam
glad the subject hasbeen introduced for
discussion, and I hope it won't he drop-
ped. until there is a complete revolution
itt 01117 township shows. No one will
dispute for it moment that township .44,
shows have done a vast amount of :good.
for our county, but like everything else
'they have had their day, and theirdays
of doing good. are past and gone forever,
and they are now nothing more than it
sham, besides they are destined to 'keep
our county shows on the same level as
themselves. NOW, Sir, 1 think it is
time they were numbered with the
thit Lis of the past, and that we should
have but one show in the county„ which
could be held itt some of our. -towns -
which would be most -central for all
parts of the county, and after a few
years the County of Huron would be
able to compare with the Western Fair.
A great many fine animals throughout:
the county are never shown at our
county shows)and for what reason.? -
Because as each township has its own
show, and. timeeis generally very preci-
ous at that time', of the Beason, and no
one can afford to run round much &a
leave work of importance undon.e;
whereas, if there was but one show in .
the county, every one wouldfeel inter-
ested Rua would be willing to spend two
or three days to attend their county
show. Another reason why so many
fine animel.s are never shown at the
county show is this As I have said be-
fore each township has its own show,
which robs the county show of the in-
terest which it merits, and the result:
is it can't rise in pecuniary matters
above_the level of a township show.
Now, to induce any one- to bring ani-
mals from it distance, the prizes offered
should. be large enough to meet ex-
penses. There are not many sq foolish
as to spend $6 for the chane of gaining
$2 and the honor connected with it, but
there are some foolish enough to sacri-
fice anything to see their naines in
print, but they are in the minority.
Now, Sir, so long as- township: shows
are tolerated, we may expect to; see our
county show remain in the sande crip-
pled. condition that it now is and likely
to remain so, unless there is eat effort
put forth to Sliolre it out of the pia rut
which it has been in for years_ The
motto of our =county should be "ad-
vance," and. -without this the County of
Huron can, never make the progress
which it should make if it keeps on in
the old track whicb it has done for years
in the past. Township shows deserve
credit for what they have been the
means -of doing in the way of improv- _
ing our stock1 think they have an-
swered the same purpose in th.e way of
improving our stock as what the alpha-
bet has done itt the advancement of
knowledge, but had the student e of our
land. rested satisfied with their attain-
ments when they had. learned their A -
B Cs, they never would. have 'become
men. of science as they have done, No
more can the County of Iltiron. make
the progress in the way of further int-.
praying their stock, if township showe
are allowed to rob our county AhoWS of -
the interest which it should have. Now,
Mr. Editor, I feel confident I have tho