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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1879-03-28, Page 1MAR' CH 21,, 1870. order for that purpose are lt ies, Samuel. artd Hugh Wee_ 1 W. Paden.! In. HcAvick - gration will take place, ard a number are Messrs. Leech et and the wh,ele of the Miller 11 of_ thesecarty off -with them the ordinary', show of braille, ed stock. trational Policy beiog now the the lend, we beg to our custoneere that We hand a very large stook erent departmenter We -wiu netomers the benefit of the ra.tes. The advantages of this sie when the duties have gone iv instances to as meal as 35 Our stook comprises Scotch, Lied French tweeds, Freneh sh worsted coatings, Seotch serges. Hats and ceps eta aishings arrived this week, house ties, new Larne scar% new shades,. new Japatese 0 the latest styles iu linen I. oellar-attached white shirts fr.y. of prices. Our asaortment t department has never • tallied in any forinee td cannot be found else- Ve have a few of those $12 'call and see them. Reeve eet oak Ua1iSearforth, Ont. _ 1•110111M=MMIIMMIENIMMIN 777 McDOUCALL & C04 leasure in Announcing Numerous Friends and ars that they have add, heir already Extensive >ds Business a DEPARTMENT .er Engaged an Expert- Eilliner to take• Charge Department, we have Fnfidence in recomraend- to the Ladies of Sea- Ld vicinity. 8"11001C Pctrtrise the Latest Nov - the Season, Purchased owest Prices, from the Houses in the Trade. N OE STYLE, Constantly Added to, from all the Leading 3, English. Fashions, personally by- our Mr. 11, W110 ts now in Eu-. YTHING NEW. repay Every Lady to. Good before before making ng Purchases) as the, a all New, L.13-STOOKu urchaser can rely oft e Latest Styles gut. 'ENING DAY I.! esday„ April 26th. OUGALL & Gat ,orters and Dealers Goods Only. 11 TWELFTH YEA.a. WHOLE NUMBER, 150. SEAFORTH, RIDAY, MARCH 28, 1879. lifeLEAN BROS., Publishers. l..50 -a Year, in Advance. . t Mr. Priugle'S Reine y.t • To the Editor of the Huron Exjjositor. SIR, --.-There is one argument in favor of free trade- that I was afraid to corn- beathat it is the duty of England, the greatest commercial -eation on earth, to set the example- of sound coMmercial; preceete to the Test of the world, ' and ' . that Canada., her descendant; ;should - set a noble eaanapie to her neighbor; that nations, like indieiduals. should return good for. evil, trusting that it will bring its reward, that what is our loss_ , here will be our gin hereafter.I If this. - doctrine holds good,:it is cert inly the easiest end surest way of getting to the good land I know' of, to prostate oer- - seives humbly under: the great Ameri- can Juggernaut andallewour elves to be crushed decently to death; 1ut there is no use In discussing this question farther, seeing that the National Policy is now en accomplished fat.: . la my last letter I ehowed how :they diseriraineted ia the qualities ef pro- duce of all kinds in the English mar- kets, and that being our me, ket, we ; slao:aid adopt the same system. ; I will ; give yoa au example hov-ho1ice . arti- eles are appreciated, an&leetv jooi once are despised._ You are. awar - butter has been a drug for the last ' t , _e; years. Notwithstae ding that fect,crea ery but- ter has netted shippers 25coati; end 23 ' zenta per pound for • the .two v seasons' - make,. whereas' store -packed as been -selling at 5 cents and 10 c its, t To show the difference in their j- edgment and ours, I know an instance of a --ship- . per sending a consignment . lef - skim . milk cheese; it did not retelizefreight end charges., -whereas the smile party sold 100,000 pounds of the same quality in this country - at 1 cent pee pound less than the very • best manufactured. If therehed not been a. duty --of 30.. per pound on American, Cheese, out. , mar- kets would have been glutted with it, the same as with everything eke. Now, - how lintel]; better that WO supplied our wants- in this case. - If the Americans had dote so, themoney would have gone out of the country; byldoing it oarselves the money was all retained. If the consumers paid. -a big piece; the producers got the benefit, which miter - ally iecteased their purchasing powers, thee the consumers in turn were bene- fitted, Oar whole system of dej31ing is an kap-3sta= • on ourselves. Vhat I complain of is,. the American derive all. the edvautages in - depply ngour wants with uuraerch.antahle oats,wheat • and guar, that are just as evOrtlilees in the English market ;as .skim milk cheese; the motley paid for the trash is a dead Jesse the country is just that much paorer. It ,also depreciates the value of native preduce to such an ex- tent that fermieg beeomes. unprofitable:: This n.aterallyreduces production and. dries up the i fountain of our aationet wealth. : There is also an inelireet may; the present system strikes at our; national character and depreciates. the value of our products to the: extent of millions and Millions of dollars. The fa,et that we CaTI not supply our wants withour own poor and unmerchantable grain causes it to be naixed up -with the good and exported.. This de • reciates - the value of our whole crop, h nce the cause of Huron spring whea. , ruling ' several cents below Chicago N. 3, al- though t 00 miles nearer .merke t. - The ,discrinaination in freights, ,owever, .enables them to supply our was ts with No. 3 and rejected, while- they pocket 15c. and teic. more for No. 1 ani 2. It is plain-. that certain causes_ produce certain. effects,: The American system enhances the value of good w eat by improving their national cherecter in the markets of the . world. . Out rotten system bas the opposite effect, ,land re- duces the value of ;our entire wheat crop, at ;least: 15e. to 20c. per I bushel. Mr.; Gibson advoeates having railway conimissioners. In Illinois these men. not only look after railway matters, but have perfected e system otgrading and handling grain 'that has word .wort - dere, hence the cause of spriihg . wheat ranging 376. per bushel in prie In the the. coetrol. of bedepextdent . eighers west there are public elevatcr under and inspectors, who are resPon ible for the propo classification. Gra 11 buyers • give tiekets.tO these elevators • itli the price for No. 1, 2, 3 and reject . The farmer is -paid according to th inspec- tion. If a similar- system was adopted in this country, and public levators established at suitable places, what a reformation would. at once ta place. The value of grain is in its we ht. No. 1 wheat should weigh 60 to 65. lbs. measured bushels; No. 2, 5 to 60; No. 3, 54 to 57. Rejected sh id con- sist of poor, dirty,: unsound an (lamp e • - erein- How much more ratit nel that the last two grades should be iade the most of in this country, than u •ed as a lever to destroy perhaps ten t Mes the anionut of good grain. It -iv uld pay the country mach 'better to feed the Lower Provineesgratuitously vitiL poor flour, than pursue the present Jpolicyqf deceptiou. Farmers, with.* t excep- tion. of doctors and - tninisters,t are the most jealous_ class in the: cou - try.. It menus them badly if they hav to. take a less 'price than their neigljl Ors. If - this plan was adopted, and th'ealousy of the farmers' properly dire ted, it would be the making of them I nd the country. To obtain No. 1, Mc eggart's fanning millswould require to e used in eereest. Instead of buyers eying a uniform price, there would be differ- euce of 50c. - per bushel. Th. - would cause every -farmer to strive for .liis reputation. In doing so it well d secure and save the reputation of anadian produce abroad, the beneficial t ffects of which cannot be estimated. LI -7e every new proposition, this will d ubtless meet with opposition, . perha s with scorn and 'contempt. If so, it .i,ust be. by those who are ignorant of he pro - clam trade and whese prejadices ;ave got the better of their judgment. here ie no doubt that those who heir store- houses would be opposed to the change, as It would. be a temporary loss, but- - e that is no reason why the 'whole coun- try should suffer. The present store- houses have served their turn 1 and are even now a bill of expense to the owners as well as the country. The More the produce trade is contracted, the cheaper and moreadvantageously it can be done. Six market towns in this .comity, with a public elevator in each, with a sworn weigher and inspector, is all that is needed. When crops are geed these elevators would each handle 400,000 bushels and upwards, at a cost not ex- ceeding le. per bushel, or at least half the present cost. Grain buyers are, without exception, the most- honest class in the country, still ' that is no reason why both the weighing in and out ehould-be all in their . own heeds. There was one dishonest man even among the -apostles; it can hardly be expected there is not one aniongst se many grain buyers. One dishoneet buyer effects honest dealers mach more: than it does the farmers, hence the ne- cessity for such ai important trade being done on a sound basis. The present system has not onlyreduced the price of produce of all kinds to the farmers, but has ruine& nea.r134 all who have been concerned with the purchase of it. The banks have lostj Millions and millions in the export gad% which is the chief cause of the fall inestocks. Millers and grain dealers have all got nearly cleaned out, hence the eause of milling property having fallen nearly 50 per cent. during the Iast fiye years. • There is just as much difference in the value of grain in the English Market as there is in butter. I showed that there was a difference of 12c. to 05c. per bushel on grain, merely on acCount of 4 lbs. in weight. Think thenhat dif- ference there must be when there are 12 lbs. and badly out of con:Attlee be. sides. The ruinous losses that have been sustained have been . caused by the exportation -- of unmerehantable grain, flour and produce. - The grand result' of the Totten • system is it has robbed the country of its surplus wealth, and has reduced the purchasing -power of the people, which . has pro- duced the present commercial crisis. I have attempted to shoiethat a change of system in grain would .be just as good to the fanner as a "bonus" et 15c. to 20c. per bushel, thatlit would greatly increase the production, and would add to the wealth, trade and prosperity of the whole countty, with- out coming out of any oue'e pocket. Yours, &C., JAMES PRINGLi. P. S.—It seems to me . the gress- wells, Dickson s, Sproats ,L an dsboroughs, . Loves, and Litiegs should be heard from, also the sage of TuAersinith (W. E.) The Centre should also give out its light; the Moons, MeMillansl Sullivans, Evans, Hayes and Shaunoes should all be seen, and abovel all, the wise men of the east should speak out, such as the McCraes Leckiee, Scotts, Strachans, Moffats, Millers, Blacks and Messers. Because such a bonue is Weer - ed for nothing, that is no reasth why it ehould be refused. - . The Township Show QUestion. 1 To the_Editor of the Huron• .Ex...ositor. Slit.: rbeg leave to occupya short space, iu your valuable paper, as I wish to ma,ke a few comments on the con- tents of Your corresPendent's letter of the 17th of February, on the tovenship show question, styled " FairPlay to all." Your correspondent seers to be well posted in the statistics of shows in general, but he seems to thi nk that township shows are the most important of all others. He takes the trouble to bring forward a long list of figures to prove, their progress and supremacy over all others, and what is the result? Why, Mr. Editor,his figures prove better than I can _or any one else that " township shows are a hindrance tot only to. the county shows, but also to the other larger ones. Your correspondent gave a glowing acconntof the progress of township shows from their commence- ment up to thepresent time, and filially he puts the climax on by saying that the prize list now reaches from $800 to $1,200. Now, I would like to esk your correspondent, ill what year was the prize list $1,200? I fear he has made a mistake in his calculations,for I have taken the pains to count im the prize list of 1878, and I find that it amounts somewhere in the neighborhood o!. $811, that is, the Seeforth show, for I feel confident your correspondent • has reference to it, as he is a resident of Tuckersmith. If the prize list reached $1,200 CI years . gone by, it is proof posi- tive they are ou the decline. I -would call the attention of your correspondent to the show room in Seefortli last fall, and I si-Sk him if he can deny the feet that it Was a meagre affair, showing plainly that it was lagging ib. interest.A by- stander made the remark that it phew - ed., plainly that township shows were played out. Now, anything which has a limit to its progress, such as township shows .have, is bound'by the Imes of Na- ture to decline after it has reached its meridian, but this cannot be ' said of county shows, for they are bound by no limits to their progress if only the town- ship shows -are taken out of their way, -and if this is doue he Will seesuch a re- volution in our county show, which will .not ouly surprise him, but Will also gladden his heart. But he thinks that would be a step in the wrong direction, • as it would be helping the rich at the expense of the poor. Did any one ever heat of such an argument? Now, Mr. Editor, I would. judge from this_ state- ment of your correspondent, and also by the way he clines so tenaciously to township shows, that he has been rath- er a successful prize taker in the past at township shows ,!and now he fears if there was but one show in the{ county, his rich neighbors might deprive him of his wonted prizes. . N'ow, had your cor- . respondent paused and considered be- fore he made this statement, the con- clusion he would have arrived at would have been quite different to what it has been. Allow me to say in conelusion, by way of encouragement to him, that I also have been a successful, prize taker a township shows but I ant will- ing to rfeit my chance of all uture prizes or the good of our noble coujnty of Huron, nevertheless, the society shall never e ' without my support,ut I te shall a t upon the principle whioli I have en taught at school, wl ich is this—i at first you don't pecceed, try, try, try again. • ONE Wm FEELS INTERESTED. —Mi to own old. —A lucifer in Du —A the pr George — A in eig Cathar of $50 —B nounc throug swam — T quentl with p • is an a —A dollar the Re on We —0 while fell fro badly —It $102 t The a makes —In look •i owners meii n -Canada. hael Scanlon, of Peel, claims a goose that is twenty -fou e years actory fcir the manufacture of etches has lately been started das. ineteen-pound female lamb is duct of a, ewe belonging to Mr. . Taylor, of Sarnia township. - Norwegian walked forty miles it hours and a half at St. nes, on Saturday, for a wager rnum and Forepaugh both an that -their circuses will traril Canada during the comiieg r. e little girls of Manilla are f e- • to be seen going around to vn pes in their mouths. Verily this e of progress. i well executed couutei-feit One ominion note -was discovered? at • eiver-Gener l's office, Toronto, as. Wright, , Brantford man, at nesday cf las week. . runieg fruit gees the other day; a hill midi broke his leg so at it had to be amputated. • ost Mr. Kettchie, of Sheffield, recover his • stolen horse. nnal is worth about $90. This 't rather a high-priced one. 'consequence of the gloomy milt - the lum.ber trade, the mill- et Angus, Ont., have given their tice of a reduction in the rate of. wages. . —A an at Dresden attempted a i- cide b jumpier/ into the river, but found he water too cold, so returned to the here a wiser man it is to be hoped. • . —M at Nee bu sin e Ing on Count3. •*—Ar hbishop ilLynch on Sunday last donee oed, from ' the pulpit those who re- cently ried to induce the Legislature to app int a committee to inquire into separa e school matters. • —Se eral official assignees who dis- posed f bankrupt stocks at Ottawa re- cently aye beeu summoned to appear before the Police Magistrate, on a 'charge of selling by auction without a license —T e Presbyteries of G-uelph, Paris, Stratfo d, Bruce, and Brockville have una,ni ously nominated Rev. Dr. Coch- rane, o Brantford, as Moderator of the next G neral Assembly that meets in Ottaw in June text. —0 • e day •'test week a couple of youths employed at one of the cigar factori s in London, for a waer of twenty five cent, walked through the streets o their homes with no clothing coonothe except their drawers. Rather l. 11 . E. J. Hardy, harness -maker, Harciburgh, has closed up his s iu that .town, and intends go- o a farne near Zurich, Huron • • 11 111 --ja es Andrews, of the township of E d, aged about 35 years, com- mitted suicide on Thursday, the 20th b hanging himself in his barn. ve is s pposed to have been insane. lie lea es a wife to mourn his untimely death, —T a teams were coming to Mount Forest ith grain the other day. Just before ntering town the bags on one sleigh ere lifted on to the other. By this m nouevre a 10 cent Market fee was saved. "A penny saved is a penny gained.' — Mr John Osborn, of Orchardville, passed through Clifford on Wednesday Of last Week with a load of hoop timber. When near the village of Lakelet the load upeet, and he was thrown to the ground 'by which his leg was broken just above the knee. —As Mr. Christopher Costello-, of the 6th concession, Beverly, wag cleaning his barn floor he noticed alien watching the granary door and directly a large rat made its appearance, which the hen immediately seized, and- a pitched bat- tle ensued, during, which the rat got both of its -eyes picked out and was finally killed by this eggstraordinary hen. - —The Act, Chapter 176, page 1803, of the Revised Statutes of Ontario, calls upon Registrars to provide a book for the regietration of debentures issued by the corporation, or upon their sale or exchange in private hands. Every holder qf a debenture should register it, as some solid claim for the recovery of its value cam then be entered for it in case of loss by fire or accident. - —Between 12 and 1 on Saturday, a fire broke out at Woodbridge in a build- ing owned by Wallace Brothers, and used as a storehouse by John Brown. The building was entirely destroyed with the contents, which consisted of machinery formerly used in Brown's implement shop, patterns, blacksmith' tools, a number of threshing machines and other implements, all of which are reported to be insured.. The amount of the loss; is not known, andethe cause of the fire is a mystery. —The Cornwall Freeholder of last week says: "We would imagine that the hig duties imposed upon cottons would lave been agreeable to the Hud - on Cott n Company. It seems other- wise, fo Mr. Hudon has been at Ottawa this week protesting against the increas- ed duties, and begging that the duty should be left at 17, under which tariff he has recently paid a dividend of 10 per cent. with a prospective dividend of 15 per gent. en a capital of $300,000.• Be- sides the above dividend, the Company has a surplus of $70,000 to rest. He asserts :that the present duty will in - di . 1 -1 duce a umber to embark in the busi- ness, c use undee competition, over- stock th market,' mid ruin the whole of the ills." This is the other side of the pict e. —w... Smoke, whilst out shooting on Thu allay afternoon, on the 2nd concessi n of Moore, about six miles from Co rtright, idiot at a mark on a tree. lhe ball glancing off it, pierced the heaift of Angue Cameron; who was near by unknowa to Smoke, killing him instantl . • —On Weduesday night of last week the stable and barns of Wm. McAdoo, townshi of Pittsburg, near Kingston, togethe with contents, were destroyed ,by fire. A young•, man named Curtis, while e deavoring-to rescue some of the live sto k from the stable, was burned to deat . Mr. McAdoo was severely burned. —An School, pupils last we into ato gas, wit peritte were cu seriousl Since t conside in the s' eral pi: the reig closed . have so though Act. —A iuto the Previa° night. a the po assistant master of the High Gananoque, • was shewing bis hat he knew about chemistry, k, when a glees jar was blown s by an explosion of hydrogen which he was at the time ex - ting. Several young ladies • about the face, but none were inj urea. nice conuty contemporary says: e return to the Crooks Act, a able dimunition has taken place le of alcoholics in town. Sev- ces that sold openly during of King Dunkin, have been p or sell veiy slyly. People e respect for the Crooks Act, hey had none for the Dunkin 11 1 • an named Cyrille Dorval broke parish church at Varenner, of • Quebec, on Wednesday • d stole $18.85, the contents of r -box, and. was arrested by a bailiff ' the place, while he was count- ing out the money in a field near the ch role :He pleaded guilty and. was sen enced to two years in the Peni- tentiary. , --Fiv men, under the leadership of one Jac b Hold, of Detroit, attempting to land cargo of dry goods and other naercha dise, valued at $500, below the ruins of Rae's distillery, Windsor, last Fri ay night, were fired upon by some pe sons supposed to be Custom House o cials. They immediately row- • ed back to Detroit. They will try . again in a few days. --Am s Barkleyla farmer residing in'the 7 h concessio of Williamsburg, near M rrisburg, was found last Friday mornin by Isaac Hollister, buried un- der his load. It appears that Mr. Barkley started for home about dark the nig t previous with a load of pro- vender e had had ground at the mills, and. wa found in the morning where his load was upset and piled on top of him. 1—Ja es Miller, the person who was awaitin his trial at Woodstock for try- ing to p ooure an abortion upon Sarah Bond, nd who lately married her through advice, was discharged from jail und r a nolle prosequi, and was bound b his recognizance to make his appeara ce at the Assizes, when no proceed ngs will be brought against him, an accordingly a verdict of not guilty w'll be given. —At o'clock Friday evening, a fire broke o t in a barn adjoining a dwell- ing hou e occupied by P. H. Fick, pop rna,nufai hirer, at Simcoe. The build- ing and 1 its contents wertt totally de- stroyed. The latter consisted of a cern- plete se of machinery for manufactur- • ing pop, a large quantity of empty bot- tles, bes des the usual barn furnishings. The loss is nearly covered by insurance. Cause o fire unknown, but supposed to be incen iary. —A s ries of misfortunes is said to have jut befallenDr. C. E. Vailan- court, of St. Anticlite, Dorchester, Pro- vince of Quebec, Within less than a month e has lost four of his children by the h nd of death. On the llth of Februar a fine little girl was carried off; on he 13th l of March his eldest son fell victim; on the 15th he lost another on, and on the 16th his eldest daughte breathed her last. His re- maining child is sick as well as his wife. —On riday morning last, between three an four o'clock, two men drove up to th foundry of Messrs. Brown & Co., Ing rsoll, and tried to gain admit- tance to. he office, but when met at the door by "Terrance," the watchman, they tur u ed and got into the buggy again, wi en one of them asked the watchm n if any harm had been done. He answ red "No !" whereupon -one of the men 'truck ,him with the whip- stock ov r the head, causing a deep gash. ' hey then fled. No clue. —Alm st a fatal accident happened at Lind ay about seven o'clock last Friday orning. An old man named Charles riffith,1 a kind of gunsmith, came in o the office of the Benson House to show an old. breech -loading pistol w ich he bought and tried to sell it. It h ppenecle to be loaded, which he , professe not to have known, and while haudlin it carelessly it exploded, the bullet st iking the office clerk, named James atts, in the mouth. Fortu- nately I struck- his upper jaw, and glanced down and knocked out his teeth, a d saving his life, leaving a nasty sh woand, which will mark him for ife. —The notorious horse -thief, John Angus, as brought before the County Judge, t Berlin, on Monday of last week, c arged—lst, with stealing from Samuel Snider, of the township of Waterlo , on the 28th Jan. last, two buffalo bes and.a set of siugle harness; 2rid, wi h stealing from Abram C. Weaver, also of the township of Water- loo, on or about the same -time, one cut- tere tw blankets, • and a parcel of clothing; 3rd, with stealing from John Keachie of the township of Beverley, one ho e, halter and bridle; 4th, that he was onvicted of larceny and sen- tenced t five years in the Penitentiary at the s ring assizes held in Kingston • • 11 11 ; 11 • 11 • • in. 1874. To all of these charges Angus pleaded guilty, and was sentenced by His Honor Judge Miller to • twenty months in, Central Prison on each case—making five years in all. The culprit is only 22 years old. and boast* that he was only four mouths out of Penitentiary, where he had. served five years for burglary and horse stealing. —A Hamilton butcher, Wm. T. Hari- ris by name, has left the country, tate forging the tames of various parties t notes for such amounts as $207, T250, $400, and getting the money from banke upon. them. Some more farmers are supposed to be victimized, one for $600i. Detectives are after Harris. —Sawing bees are very popular ie. East Williams just now. On the fart •of Mr. Neil McKinnon, 14th concession; on Thursday last, a sawing contest be- tween the boys and the old men wae held—the former with the "champion saw and. the latter with the " lance tooth." The boys taroved too niuch for their sires and seniors, and won the match easily. • —A sad accident occurred at Freele ton on Wednesdayaof last week to a far- mer named Richard Williamson, who was helping a neighbor to remove stumps. The stump swung aroundand Williamson went to hold it back, when it fell and crushed him underneath. He was taken up unconscious and re- moved to his own home, where he •now lies in a very critical state. —The Massey Manufacturing Coin-. patty at Newcastle, which still contem- plates removing to Toronto, employ 100 men at fall time. They are full of orders for their goods, and. we are told • they have in process of construction 2,000 Sharpe's Sulky Rakee, 600 of their now famous " Harvesters," 400 mowerseand from 1,00010 1,200 plows. At a meeting held last week, the com- pany decided to move to Toronto. —John Wiggins of Schomberg, visit- ed. Newmarket on Tuesday of last weel, and on his return he atll tempted to wa; across a piece of marsh, where he wee found dead on Wednesday morning. He was brought to Isaac's Hotel,Schome burg, where an inquest was held and a verdict given of "death from exposure.' He, was supposed' to have. been under the influence of liquor. Much syme pathy is felt for the family.' —Counterfeit 'quo on the Ontarie Bank, of the second or white -paper I issue, are in circulation. Some menthe ago a counterfeit of the same denomi- nation_ was circulating, but it was de- tectable by the omission of the imprint of the "British American Bank Note Company." This omission has no been supplied, and to make the bil more complete the word " Peterboro " has been stamped across it in blue let- lers. • —On Wednesday morning of last week, aboutfour o'clock, a small dwelt ling situated a few yards from W. Jack- son's house, at Scotch line, six mike from Bobcaygeon, was burned down. An old lady named Mrs. Fletcher, °vet ninety years of age, was burned t� death. Mrs. Fletcher lived alone the house. The fire was not discover. ed until the house was all in flames and too late to rescue the unfortunate woman. Cause of fire unknown. _ turned with Mr. Russell, a. near neigh- " bor, and be, supposing. the note- to be good, endorsed it, and in the end. had to pay the $500. The triallasted..all after- noon. Mr. Ashton Fletcher addressed the jury on behalf of the prisoner, and Mr. Ball for the Crewel.. The jury, af- ter being out -about two hours, returned with a verdict, of " not guilty," on the ground of insanity. —Messrs. Thos. Saddler, 'Tilos...Couch and Nicholas De Hart,of West WU-- lianat,threshed one buelee.1 of cloverseed in eightrealinutee. They sa,y that in good yielding seed they can do much better. -The -same parties, with a "Vibrator " attachment. threshed one ; and three- quarter bushels of clover ' seed froin about a wagon box of clover chaff,which Mr. Writ, Randall, of Sylvan, ;threshed last year with an Able clover huller:, at Mr. S. Peck's barn,. concession 17. —F. W. Rimer, the absconder from .Toronto, left behind him amongst his assets threehorses. .To'save the, cost of boardiegt&o.„ the assignees determined' to dispose of ;them:. Two of them were accordingly -sold on Thursday, and realized the handsome- sum of $2.50 and... $5 respectively, the auctioneer claiming.forty cents of this .amount. The -third equine was ;suffering from such a severe attack of debility as to prevent ihis being .waiked around. to show. • —Messrs._ Archibald and. John Stew- art, drovers, East Williams, have usher- ed in -a new enterprise, being no less than a deer park. Two splendid sped - mens have: just been imported from Bracebridge, Muskoka. _In the new park the Messrs. Stewart have, besides the deer, an assortment of other small-. • er animals and. game of various kinds. This is a move in the right direction, and the taming and keeping of deer in this manner is far; preferable to the absurd practice of tying a bell around. a deer's neck aud. allowing him his freedom, to be shot down by the first brute he meets with a shot- gun. • —Over production in the professions has been not uncommon in Canada for some years. There lia;s been an -ae- .knewledged. plethora, of doctors and lawyers. 'Ministers were more numer- ous than good. charges, and teachers of- fered in such numbers and with so lit- tle claire to the position, that out of seventy-two applicants in one coutty, forty-six were adjudged by the exam- iners to be unworthy of a third-class certificate. That ,the better class of teachers are numerous is evident from the statement that there were thirty- six applicants, several of them Uni- versity graduates, for the assistant Eng- lish master's place at Stretford High School, .o.f Which the salary is $500. —4 man named Bond, living ;south of Paris, sold a steer some time -ago to Mi. John Robson:, drivel, in this way: Robson was to pay him 64.63 per hun- dred or $60 in a lumP sum, at his op- • tion. When the day .for delivery ar- rived (Fridaylas0 the ,owner on reach- ing Drumbo, not being sure how the offer ;would be accepted, and. being de- termined. if it went by weight to make something out of it, when he ;landed op- posite W. Irving's hotel, gave the ani - reel a pail of water to drink, but alas! nary a ;drink would. it take. The fol- - lowing soliloquy was then _overheard: "Drink, :old boy," (patting him on the back) I want You to. weigh all you can; I want yoii to pull up and . make sure of at least that 60." Such is life --Water or turnips. - —Mr. W. A. • Anderson, • carriage builder at Fernhill, bought a white - wood tree measuring seventy-seven feet from the butt to the first limb, from Mr. Donald McPherson, centre road, East Williams, paying for it $1.5. Mueh difficulty was found in getting it out of the woods. It was cid into -six pieces of the same length. At length the dif- ficult task was accomplished by the teams of Messrs. Jas. and Jim. Brem- ner, and Hugh Andersen, assisted by their 'stalwart . proprietors. It was taken to the mill of David McKeezie, by whom it was sawn, and it made six thousand feet of first-class sound lum- ber, the butt cut ;alone making one thousand two hutdeed feet. .; White- wood lumber being Worth. $20 per thou- sand, this would make the tree worth $120. —Quite. a little breeze was occasioned last Week in Napanee by the appear- ance of an inmate of the Lennox Poor House on the streets begging from house to house, and the citizenswere at .a loss to understand the anomaly. The explanati;on made at the .0ounc-11 on Menday was that Granny Cummings, the offender, had. been permitted after repeated. pleedings, to "go out for a walk." Her joy on ;gaining the street was very great, and the secret was solved when she returned with the pro- duct of her begging tour. The mania was so strong that ample provision for all her necessities was irksome, and she pined for a return to the personal so- licitation of charity from door to door. The episode is an eloeuent sermon on pauperism-, and the sit of bestowing charity indiscriminately: —Young Percy Atkinson, ;of Ailsa Craig, last spring had a splendid pet ground. hog. It made its home with the cats, and became so tame that it would run :all over the house and :come to the table at meal times, When it would sit erect .8,nd-:squeel for food. The ground hog is very cleanly in ite habits, ;and generally takes its food in its front claws like a squirrel, It had one bad. habit. namely- that of -climbing on the beds and making itself ;comfortable.. 'Ou one occasion there happened to be a clergyman stopping over night, and early it the morning the ground hog got in -the bed. and running up to his fecetouched hire 'with bis cold. nope. This startled the minister, who was very inteh,laoreified. on opening his eyes to see thisegreat hairy specimen ;snif- • fing away* his nose. Ifthe; gentle- man had* gtm at the time he ;could. h:ave riddled the impudent beast. In —The saw mill owned by R. & Dunn, Arkona, sawed 10,500 feet of lumber (hardwood) in nine hours and a half on March 12, hiving cut_ 1,980 feet it one hour and ten minutes, and. hav- ing dropped five brands in thirty-five seconds at one time, smallest log con- taining 48 feet; largest, 500 feet; num- ber of logs cut, 55; sawyer, J-1 Hoover; makers of the mill, Thompso & Williams. The mill since comirt into the present owner's'hands has beet thoroughly overhauled. and is doing ext cellent work. —Timber and ties have been freely -- stolen from their makers,on the Canada Company's lands, Essex Centre, 0nt.3 of late. and a party of colored men were detected abstracting these goods with teams, rest week. The Amherst burg Echo states that the reason th Canada Company's lands thereabout d not bring a larger price, is that the are quite commonly stolen from, an 'that purchasers, in tendering, make al lowance for these thefts, and calculat upon having to buy their timber an ties over again from the thieves. I would need a constable on every 2 acres to prevent stealing from -the Can- ada Company's lands. —A resident of Manitoba writing t an Ontario Paper says: ‘" I warn a men of families not to start before th first of june,as the roads are impassable until then, and the weather is not cere tain ; but after that the roads are goodej the weather fine, aud the nights warm.' If persons come to Winnipeg and can- not get out of it, it -will cost them a good deal. A small room rents for ten or twelve dollarS-a month. Wood costa_ from six to seven dollars a cord. Th re- gard to stock you will buy ten per cent cheaper in June than in April. Youngi men could get along in April or May. Robert McDonald, of High Bluff, is go- ing to Palmerston in May, to organize a party for Manitoba. —On Friday the Court House Woodstock was crowded. to its utmos capacity to hear the notedt Eaetwoo forgery case. The prisoner is a youn lady named Lizzie Begley, better know in Woodstock as the 31B4O00 heiress; o in Brantford as the young lady wh wanted to purchase a moustache at th barber's shop. The amount of note she is alleged to have forged. exceede $1,000. • The •defence set up the plea of, insanity. A number of witnesses testi fled to receiving notes from her to b cashed. The notes appeared perfectl good, and in some instances were cashr ed. The alleged makers of the note testified they did not make them, at knew notbinn of such notes until the were presented for payment. In on, instance she offered the tete of M. Virtue, for $500, at the bank, but the manager required it to be endorsed. After a few moments' absence she re- ; the month of June the animal waxed. fat and totally disappeared. Much sor- row was evinced by the boy, and the pet was given up as either lost or de- stroyed by dogs, when, strange to say, last Tuesday, after an -absence ,ef over nine months, the animal appeared once again, ran into the house, through kitchen, pantry, bed-roonas, and into the dinieg-room, where it at once -com- menced begging for food. After he got hisifll Jae made for his old quarters and friends, the cats. —At a late meeting of the Presby- tery of London the committee appoint- ed to examine the proposed hymn book submitted their °milieus to the Pres- sTing. ie —llreport bytery. They regarded. the eollection as being altogether too meagre; the metres of a character calculated to ex- clude the ola congregational tunes, and. the views expressed not doctrinally correct. The members present indi- vidualized hymns, in which the senti- ment was not 'accord with either common sense or the doctrines of the church. Be'. Dr. Proudfoot referred to the words "angels' wings." He could not find ha the whole Scriptures a single reference to the wiegs of angels, and thought that the idea would be more correctly expressed if the words lied been with reference to the wings of the Seraphina. Many other passages were criticised. It was finally resolved. to accept -the report and re -appoint the conamittee to further examine the hymns, and report during the meeting of the Synod. • . Perth Items. -St. Marys Oddfellows are making 'preparations for the erection of a stone tu that St. Marys has abol- ished the collection of market fees, turns out to be an untruth. —Mr. Tames McMillen, a resident of -Mitchell, has received anonymous let- ters threatening his life. --Mr. Gabriel Murphy, of Mitchell, follows the crowd to Manitoba, where he intends making his future home. • —Mr. Alexander West, for many years a resident of Milverton village,. left for the golden state—Califorrde.--a few days ago. —Elma spring show will be held at Newry, on Wednesday, April 9th. Elma and Wallace spring show, at Listowel, on the following day. —Rumford, of Mitchell, against whom three indictments for forgery stand, still lies in the county jail, the case not being ready for lest Assizes. The trial will not take place until next fall. —The Grangers of Trowbridge have just received three car loads of salt, per the Port Dover Railway, and. intend sowing the game on the lead. It was WWII to some extent last year with bene- ficial results. —One hundred and eighty-three dol- lars and fifty cents was awarded in prizes by the Mitchell Horticultural Society last year; $181.25 by the Ful- lerton Agricultural Society; $147.90 by Hilbert; $85 by Logan and $197 by E1,---raMa'r. Wm. Porter, of the Gore of DOwnie, is now •the possessor of the Canadian draught stalliou„ "Bobbie Burns," formerly owned by Messrs; Colquhoun & Dow, Hibbert. He is a fine, dark bay horse, of good style and action, 16f hands high, and weighs 1,800 pounds. • —Mr. Jacob Shardy has •sold. his fermi of 50 acres, part of lot No. 4, con- cession 5, Mornington,ifor 42,30.0. Mr. Shardy intends shortly to try his luck in Nebraska, to which State there has been a large exodus of the Ger- mans in that neighborhood for some time past. —A few days ago while Mr. George Kellington, of Trowbridge, was splitting wood from the sawing machine at Mr. J. Tughen's, near that place, the ex* • passedthrough the block unexpectedly, and cut his foot severely, but we are happy to say that he is nowiable to be mend again. —The contract of building the new butter and cheese factory, at Elms Centre, has been awarded to VT. Sutherland, of Listowel, whose tender was found to be the most satisfactory to the Board. of Directors. The building will cost about $2,000, and is to be com- pleted and ready for oecupation by the 1st day of May next. —Mr. B. D. Dipple, of the lst con- • cession of Elma, has purchased Mr. James Sanderson's farm of 50 s.cres, for the sum- of ;$2,000, and Mr. Sanderson: has bought a. farm from Mr. Thomas Vines, of the 1st concession of Wal- lace, consisting of sixty acres, for $2,500. Mr. Albert Edmonson, et Hol- land, bought from Mr. W. G. Hay, 011 the Elma gravel road, south of the toorve$ mtof .Listowel, five are lark lot f • —Mr. Charles Jones is a retired far- mer, living on Mornington road. near Stratford, On Friday; 14th inst.'he had 3177 in bills, which were in a lock- ed drawer. He and his family went to a prayer meeting that evening. On their return they found. that the holm had been ransacked. and the money ab- stracted. On looking outside • the house, two tracks were seen—one large and. the other small—but beyond. this TIO clue has been found to trace the thieves. • —The directors of the Cromarty Cheese and Butter Manufacturing Corn- pa.ny have issued their first anneal re- , port, and from it we learn that a • dend. of 10 per cent. has been paid to the stockholders The prospects for the coming season aretiacouragieg. Mt, James Russell, of the Union Cheese - Factory, near Na.panee, has re-engaged Mr. Wm. Harris, of Cromarty, as • cheese -maker for the season of 1879. Mr. Harris has sea excellent record as a cheese -maker. Last year he manufac- tured in the same factory 188,797 pounds of cheese, the average number of poui*of milk to one pound of cheese being 9 91/100.