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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1879-04-18, Page 4;- It• •11 • • • 1 • , • 4 Imeamia, isTENV ADVERTISEMENTS. - , ‘ ! ardware—Wm. Robertson & Co. ew Goods—Duncan & Duncan. olden Lion—R. Jamieson. ouse Cleaning—Hickson &Bleasdell. Millinery—Hoffman Brothers. l'alking Match—Hallv & Anderson. ardware—Johnson Brothers. or Manitoba—A. Armitage. ensall—Miss M. Mitchell. o the Ladies—Miss McKibbon. rums—Charles Scobie. - e Residence for Sale—Johnson Brothers. Store to Sell or Rent—Sohn Scott. Property for Sale—S. A. Moffatt. Property for Sale—Thos. Hyslop. Farm for Sale—Charles Murchie. Farm for Sale—Wm. Dynes. Anchor Line—S. Dickson. _ . • nton exporlitor. T SEAFORTH, APRIL 18, 1879. [ Dominion Parliament. The Dominion Parliament re-as- senabled on Tuesday, after the Easter helidays. The proceedings thus far have been tolerably tame, and no bUSI- 1263S of particular impOrts.nce has been transa- cted. A couple of Government measures, the most important of which were for the re -distribution of depart- rn nts, the taking of the census in 1881. anrl for the prevention of contagious diseases affecting. animals, were consid- ered and advanced a stage. The die - cu sion on the National Policy was re- sumed on Wednesday and continued yesterday, but there was nothing eew submitted; it was simply "cauld Keil het o'er again." There have been no. neW developments in connection with the Letellier affair since our last. Sir Franeis Hincks and Mr. Joly, the -lead- er 9f the Quebec Local Government, hate gone to England to look after the interests of the Lieutenant-Goyernor. juliging from extracts from English journals on the subject, telegraphed to the Globe and other Ca.-nadian papers; it s'eems more than probable that the home authorities will decline to sanc- tion. the dismissal. However, there can be bo certain knowledge as to the pro- bable result as yet, and these rumors can only be taken for very little. A • rumor also comes from Montreal to the effect that Sir John intends retiring frona the cabinet, that his place will be filled by Mr. Tilley, and that Mr. Thos. White will be appointed to the vacancy in the Cabinet. This, also, is very im- proba.ble. Nrr. Jackson's Second Letter. e As we stated last week, Mr. Jackson, the Local Conservative candidate for Smith Huron, has favored us with a secend letter. We are glad of this,as these letters afford us in excellent opportunity 1 of s 1.owing the public bow titterly baseless are Mr. Jackson's contentions of ex - tree agance on the point of the present Ontario Government. If Mr. Jackson wonld only permit us to complete our review of the pamphlet he issued, we should be only too glad to afford bim spade for a letter every week until the elections come off, should he choose to occupy it. As he, or rath.er his organ at Exeter, has thrown out a challenge t to aay person to confute the statements contained in said pamphlet, and as we have undertaken the task, we must de- cline' publishing any further letters from him, after this one, until that task is completed. After that, he will • have plenty time to set himself right, if he can, before the elections take place, • and es already stated, -we shall be only - too glad to afford him ample oppor- tunity. in the meantime, in order to econiernize space, ancl that we both may be better understood, we insert his let- ter here below, and. intersperse it with our own criticisms. In the first place he says : I 1 eve always entertained the idea that!a good local paper well supported is oflessential service in the promotion of the prosperity and welfare of a rising town such as Seaforth, and I must con- scientiously say, the able manner in which you get up and conduct TEM Ex- posieon fulfills that idea to my mind. It seems, however, that a paper in Canada, to be successful, must adopt either one side or the other in politics. In asking a space, therefore, in your columns, in a political sense, I must consider myself as an intruder. I hope, however, in my case, the rights of hos- pitality will not be violated. In dis- cussi g the public questions of the day,. I am sure the electors of this riding on both sides desire the different subjects to be treated upon their merits. Per- bell so -nal allusion, attributing dishonest or disreputable motives are uncalled for and not pertinent to the 9uestions at hand. 1 been unable to find but one error in the figures of my pamphlet, and that a clerical one, being Ithe substitution of the figure 7 for a 1:1 The other error of file thousand dolla out, as you well k public, accounts. fully corroborated 1877 in the daily GlObe dated April 3rd, in which a stateme intereeting charact of consideration. tinction of statuto u, which you point ow, occurs in the y totals are also p to the year of tat is given of a most er and well worthy The fictitious dis-- and non -statutory expenditure is there abandoned; in plain words, it had no existence. All Government expenlitures are made un - a statute assented the Local ASSaM- are to be found in der the authority o to by Parliament 9 bly. These statut the bound volume. of the Statutes of Ontario, issued yeai- after year. It is true the Kings of Englandeat one time -assumed the power that the sovereign had a right to say how much faxes / were to be raised attd in what way they ,looking upon the he people as tools az collectors. We hope this is not one of the amendments contemplated by constitu tion —the antiquated Tory de tunas ago. were to be expend° representatives of ta be used as mere t. Mowat to the ssumption of an trine exploded. cen- There are two di tinct points in the above paragraph o be noted: First, that we have not b n able thus far to find any serious fait t with the figures in the pamphlet ; s cond, that the dis- tinction between 4atutory and non - statutory expenditu e is fictitious. As for the reference to bie Kings of Eng- land, &c., we presurie that is thrown in as a sort of rhetoric I flourish, and we can afford to let it pass for what it is worth. To the firsit point, then: It is not to Mr. Jackson'• figures that we ob----,' ject, but to the uulfair way he- uses them. We showed n our first article on this subject the absurdity of the • mode of cornparisoni he adepts• in his pamphlet. The onlY objection he could make to our showin ' was, that while in Sandfield's time we 1 ook the total ex- penditure, in Mowate only a portion of i it. In replying we proved the incor- rectness of this char e, by showing that we took exactly similar items for com- parison on each side. Mr. Jackson can not, and will tot, try to dispute this, but he does try 6 get round it by saying that distinctinu hetween statu- tory and non -statutory expenditure is fictitious. This brings us to the second point. We never said ,nor even insinu- ated that anypart of the public expendi- ture could be,made without the author- ity_ of statute. What we did sae; was, that a portion of the expenditure of Mr. Mowat's Government was made under authority of a .tpeicific statute.. Mr. Jackson knows asyiell as we do that p while the ordinary ex enditure only was made under authority of the Supply Bill, the expenditure on account of the Surplus Distribution/ the Railway Aid, and the Drainage Fund was authorized, and the several amounts were set apart, by the authority of distinct Acts of Parliament, the sail amounts to be paid, not out of current revenue, but from the Consolidated Reveeue Fund, which means out of the moneys then on hand. These are th we excluded from on payments which comparison, and THE HURON EXPOSITOR. four years of Mr. S. Macdonald and his Conservative colleagues' administration they accumulated a surplus of $3,392, 638, in addition to which they expend ed $1,218,957 in the erection of publi institutions and on public works, which are a credit, an ornament and a boo to the people; they laid out.$171,957o colonization roads, and refunded to the settlers on Government lands •317,- 793; Common Schools were assisted to the amount of 51,262,052; public in stitutions were maintained at a cost or $628,219 ; one million and a half of dol- lars were set apart to assist railroads, and two hundred thousand dollars to .ereot the Central Prison at Toronto. 113esides all this, efficient _public ser- vants were liberally paid. Here, then, we have the actions of a patriotic, pru- dent • e.nd capable Government, who used the revenue of the country econ- omically, within their means, and, for the best interests of their fellow coun- trymen. It will be noticed by the above that Mr. Jacksou approves, yea, lavishly praises the pollicy_of the Sandfield Gov- ernment, iu liberally aiding the seVeral objects named, but he has not e word of praise for "poor Mowat," who not only continued this noble policy, but who nearly doubled the grants and added largely to the number of the pub- lic institutions, and who, in addition to this, distributed among the people as - per capita allowance $3,225,378.4; paid to assist in. -building railroads $2,279,000 ; loaned to the farmers to assist them in draining their wet lands, $400,000, and still hes a surplus left larger than Sandfield had. Oh, no! For doing all this, according to Mr. Jackson, Mr. Mowat is a dishonest rogue, but Sandfield, who gave us about &tithe of these good things, is to be honored as the white headed boy and the saviour of his country. Such is consistency as viewed by some people. But after such a glowing panegyric OD. Mr. Sandfield, he must of course come out with something ' terrible on Mr. Mowat, and here it is,: Now let us examine the other side, from 1873 to 1878., Mr. Mowat has been head of the Gewernment, with the member of South Huron as a servile supporter. What has been the result? Year of 1873 shows a surplus of $20,711 1874, a deficit of 425,145 1875 " " 447,918 1876 " " 551,405 1877 " " 610,338 1878 I I 44 508,4611 2,628,279 Less 20,712 Total deficit for 5 years of $2,607,557 This dodge of figuring etp a deficit, borrowed as it is from Senator McPher- son, is so very thin and has been so • frequently exposed that we are sur- prised at Mr. Jackson taking it up. If he will examine the ordinary exPendi- tureelie will find. that instead of a de- ficit there was a large surplus for every year named except that of 1878. He can only make a deficit by counting in the payments that were made each year out of surplus accumulations, such as those for Municipal Loan Fund Dis- tribution, Railway and Drainage Aid, already alluded to: The amounts dis- tributed to the people in this way dur- ing the years included in Mr. Jackson's statement were over five million dollars. Let Mr. Jackson take this amount into we excluded them be -a,use, in the first his calculation, and he will soon see his place, no such expenJ.itures were.made during Sandfield's time, and, in the second place, because the money thus provided was distributed directly to the •people under' authority of speciall' acts passed by Parliament for the purpose,and was thus removed feoM under the control of the Government of the day. Mr. Jack- son knows this all ver his purpose better t either keep silence or well, but it uits quibble than to acknowledge the truth. If he dare u t directly attack the expenditure male under these specific Acts of. Parliament, he .should have the manliness tit at least leave them out of his calculations, and not seek to drag them into a comparison of the expenditure under the respective rules, so that he Might found on them a charge .sof extravagance" against the present Government. 1The letter pro- ceeds : Before leaving thisl subject I again direct the attention o nay readers to the statement in the daily Globe of April 3. We accept that statement as nearly correct, except the receipts of 1877, whic,h is not,as $725,133 were bor- rowed from the banks, leaving , the proper amonnt as $2,503,566. t We certainly rejoice that our friend 1 has fallen back on so good an authority. We havelope for hint yet. We even eve that if he will continue to study the Public Accounts a while longer and will follow the dictates of his Lown con- science, he will come cent right after all. l as nearly correct. Let us now see the e He accepts the statem nt of the Globe eonclusion arrived al by the Globe. Here it is: "The cost of governing the " country was a little 'fver $600,000 a "year, while the amoupt returned to We have no objections to make to the above. The sentiments therein con- tained are entirely itt accordance with our own views, and we only wish that the balance of Mr. Jackson's letter was of sueli a character that we could en- dorse it as heartily. We cherish only the kindliest feelings towards him, and we shall endeavor not only not to "vio- late the rights of hospitality," but to do what lies in our power to convince him of the error of his political ways, and. to lead him to the truth as it is very plainly revealed in the Public Ac- , counts. That we may be successful is, we are sure, the earnest wish of his best friends, and if we do not succeed in our laudable object, we can assure him the fault of failure will not refit with is. So much for the compliment- ary part. Now for the balance. He proceeds: I have great satisfaction to know that tip to the present time you have deficit vanish. A very considerable amount of this money went to Mr. Jackson's own township, was invested by the Council at 8 per cent., and goae to decrease the direct taxation. Will Mr. Jackson say that it is not better that the people should derive 8 per cent. interest- from this money, than that it should be given to the banks and loan eocieties at 5 per cent.? Of.course he will. Why, then, will he make himself ridiculous by talking about deficits and direct taxation? His own - political leaders, during the last ses- sion, found fault with the Government Lecause they did not distribute more of the surplus and thus make larger deficits, as he calls them,and he blames them be- oaase they have distributed as much of the surplus as they have. How are they both to be pleased? Again Mr. Jackson says: To even keep it at this figure, he has sacrificed 5,000 square miles of timber berths, at a loss of 600,000;$sacrificed $1,500,000 of piblic securities, at a loss of a quarter of a million of dollars, and in 1877 has been reduced to the humili- ating position of a bankrupt merchant, to ask from the banks an extension of time by discounting paper. But this is notall ; they have incurred liabilities to the railroads, which must be paid in future yearsaof a sum amounting to $1,400,000. What other conclusions, then, can we come to but that if this management is continued, direct taxa -- tion will be the inevitable consequence, and the already overburthened proper- ty holder will not only have to pay lus already high municipal taxes, but will be waited upon by ne of Mr. Mowat's s officials with his little 'bill for settle- ment. The editor f a partizan news- paper may be atisfied with this state of things; the office holder may be "the people out of siirpius reven.- quite contented; the man blinded by " ue was over $2, 00,000 a year party feelings may accept the situation "during the whole p iod covered by without a murmur. But I am sadly "the Blake and Mo at Administra- mistaken if the majority of intelligent people will not pronounce the bad man - "tion" Mr. Jacksoaccepts this agement of our Provincial Government i. statement as nearly cor -ea, and yet, for a curse to the country, what otherwise might be made of infinite service. Ah! partizan purposes, he condemns the but we are told to appeal to Lawyer present Government asextravagantbe- Mowat, Lawyer Crooks, Lawyer Cam - cause they have increaSed the expendi- eron, and. Lawyer Richards', if every- ture, said increase havingbeen occasion- thing is not all right—gentlemen with princely incomes, yearly incomes that would buy two of the best farms in Tuckersmith—property that has taken the hard work of lives to accumulate. But I appeal not to these gentlemen with their well paid briefs and heavy bills of costs for a decision, but to the man who is obliged to haul cordwood ten or twelve miles and sells it for two dollars a cord; to the farmer who sows ed by them giving to th people annual- ly two millions and a hill of dollars. Should Mr. Jackson's friends get into power, we hope they may continue the same species of extrava ance. It's not r bad to take. The letter continues: What are the conclusions we arrive at from an examination? During • the twenty acres of wheat, plows, harrows, harvests, threshes, and brings 150 or 200 bushels to market and sells it at 80 or 90cper bushel. I appeal to the merchant who has bankruptcy and ruin staring him in the face at every tin -n, with depreciated. goods, ,butter bought at 12cper pound and sold at 8c., and uncollectable accounts; to the Manu- facturer with stacks of unsalable goods, with his hands on half time; to the mechanic and laborer with all their in- numerable difficulties and hardships, for a decision. If my appeal is just, it will bear fruit; if it is not, let it be re- jected as it ought to be. Mr. Jackson says the Government sacrificed the timber berths; Mr. Mac- dougall, one of Mr. Jackson's political leaders, said in Parliament that the Government should be impeached for swindling the lumbermen, by selling them those same limits for more than they were worth. Mae Jackson says that the public securities were sacri- ficed; the Toronto Mali once said the - samre thing, and it had to go upon its marrow bones and humbly apologize for the statement, and thus save an action for malicious libel, and from that day to this not one of Mr. Jackson's political friends dared insinuate, mirth less make such a charge, in. Parliament. Mr. Jackson says we are rushing on to di- rect taxation. The Globe, in the state- ment,he endorses, says "With refer- " ence to the bugbear of direct; taxation, "it is necessary to point out that a very "large proportion of the SEVENTEEN MIL - "LIONS restored to the people has been "given to them for the very purpose of " enabhug them to keep their direct " taxation as low as possible. This is "the case with the sums spent on "education, administration of justice, " maintenance of public institutions, "public works and buildings, and the "sums paid out under the statutes au- " thorizing aid to railways and the per "capita distribution of the surplus. But "for these enormous payments out of "the Provincial Treasury, municipal "and school taxes would have been "higher than they have been, and the "depression which has for five years "brooded over the country would have "been more keeuly felt." Mr. Jackson says that in order to save the credit of the Province the Government were forced to discount paper in the banks; the Public Accounts say that they fin- ished up the year with a cash balance in the banks of $26,675. Mr. Jackson repudiates his party leaders, Messrs. Cameron and Richards, when their statements tell against the position he has seen fit to take,and sheds a pro- fusion of crocodile tears over the hard- ships of the poor farmers. We have known men in his position do the same thing, and, after accomplishing their object, dry up their tears, forget all about the farmer, and go back once more to their party allegiance. We leave it those who know Mr. Jackson best, to decide for themselves whether or not he is capable of performing a similar feat. Still further, Messrs. Cameron and Richards were leading m enabers in Sandfield's cabinet. Mr. Jackson takes this Government as a model of economy. Mesta's. Cameron and Richards, in their places in Parlia- ment, declared. that the increases made by the Mowat Government in the salaries of the civil servants- were right and proper, and would have been made by the Sandfield Government had they remained in power. In the face of these facts, is it consistent for Mr. Jackson, in order to curry favor with farmers and make a point against his opponents, to repudiate his model by censuring these increases in salaries? We now come to the concluding por- tion of Mr. Jackson's second letter: A most absurd method of comparison has lately been adopted by the friends of Mr. Mowat to relieve him from his extravagant difficulties. Mr. Mowat's expenditure for 1873 is compared. with Mr. Mowat's expenditure of 1877; but we don't want to know how Mr. Mowat progressed in his wastefulness. What is required is to conapare the manage- ment of Mr. Sandfteld Macdonald with the management of his successor, with' the same Province to govern, with the same duties to attend to, and with, in many instances, less labor perfermed. This is fully exemplified in the state- ments furnished in my letter of last eek. I am accused of unfairness in hoosing the year of 1871 and compar- 'ng it with 1877, said to be an unfavor- ble year for Mr. Mowat. I will simply ay, such is not the case. The whole areer of himself and Cabinet exhibits he same dark shadows. Why, I am sked, did I take the year 1874 in the mmigration department? Because • fter that time the Dominion Govern- ent assumed the entire control- of anadian -immigration, so that 1873 nd 1874 are the only two years under r. Mowat. Now let us see how those ears stand with 1871:e n 1873 Mr. Mowat expended $159,178 1874 " " 134,640 1871 Sandfield Macdonald expended 29,702 11 118874 , a 1873 number of emigrant sett„lers.:.: 232955:,r1842 cc I think this is a conclusive exposure f the shallow fallacy of the plea set up ith regard to the European agenoieu f 1874. This European agency con- ists in nothing more or less than the ppointnaent of a number of Mr. owat's most worthless political friends o sinecure offices. So much discredit ave those same gentlemen brought on anadian immigration that the num- er has painfullydiminished ever since. shall take another opportunity of ex- osing the Crown Lands department in similar manner. In the meantime I beg to subscribe myself, yours truly, G-. E. JACKSON. The only point in the above worthy o notice is that relating to immigration. r. Jackson thinks that the reason he ki J., took '74 instead of '77 for comparison was because after that the Dominion took charge of Canadian emigration, and Mr. Mowet had nothing further to do with it. Well, the Public Accounts and he tell different atones. By the Accounts of 1875-6 and '77, we find that considerable sums were expended in immigration, and that payments w rere in de for simile purposes to those in 187-4. And, moreover, is it not passing strange that the expenditure to these "worthless political friends " in in 1873 and 1874 should receive the ap- proval of the electors of theXrovince at the general election of 1875, and that it has remained for Mr. Jackson at this late date to discover anything wrong about ? If it is a fact, also, that the number of irnmigra,nts coming to this country hal; painfully decreased ever since, owing to the discredit brought on Canada by thesee "rascally political friends," how comes it that of the 252,- 435 im ntigra-nts who left the British Isles in 1871, Ontario only received 25,842; or 10 per cent., while of the 119,971 who left in 1877, Ontario received 17,870, or 15 per cent.? We have now got through -with Mr. Jackson's second letter, and we leave our readers to judge how much of it is left to stand alone. We ask for a care- ful perusal of both the letter and our comments. The subject is an impor- tant one, else we would not devote so much space to it. We presume ' Mr. Jackson thinks he has done his duty by placing his version before the public. We have endeavored to do ours in like manner. More anon. News of the Week: A QUEEN ILL.—The Queen of Portu- gal is seriously ill. SNOW IN BRITAIN.—It was snowing in London, England, and the northern parts of the Kingdom, on the 14th instant. A PLAGUE.—A. terrible sporadic fever is raging at Casablanca, Morocco, among both natives and Europeans. Busi- ness is at a standstill. Huron Notes. —Mr. James Lynn is going to erect a brick cottage in Jamestown, this sum- mer. —A joint stock Company has pur- chased McAllister's cheese factory, near Jamestown, for $500. —Lately, a cow belonging to Mr. George Blatchford, Thames Road, Us - borne, gave birth to two fine calves. - —Wingham council has granted $75 to the town band, one half to be paid now, and the balance in November. —A new post office has been opened at the village of Maitlandville, which will henceforth be known as Saltford. —Mr. Hugh Alexander, of Blyth, has purchased from Mr. Colles, a line of stages between Dumbarton and To- ronto. . —Wingham town treasury has run out, and the fathers have been com- pelled to borrow $300 to run current expenses. —Some parties started plowing in Hullett last week. - It acted somewhat on the peinciple, "the rnore hurry the less spee ." i —On 4..pri1 8th, a ewe belonging to Mr. Phirp Baker, of the 2nd cousession of Stephen, dropped a lamb weighing 14i pounds. —Mr. James Watson's farm on the 8th conceesion of Hullett, has been let to Mr. Richard Brown, who will work it on shares. —Mr. S. R. Williams, of Gorrie, has purchased the furniture stock of Mr. Lona, of yordwich , and has re/moved it to Grirrie. . . —The proprietors of the Exeter flax mill intend to work the product of 250 acres this season, iustead of twice that amount aS heretofore. —A. Hullett stalliou, "0111 Hard. Fortune," owned by Mr. Warne& Wa 'son, has been taken to the county of al - ton, where he will travel this season. —A cow belonging to Mr. George Hackney, of Usborne, gave birth to triplets last week. They are all bulls, and were doing well at last accounts. —The statement of births, marriages and deathp in the township of Hay, for the year 1 78, .shows a registration of 96 births, f37 marriages, and 45 deaths. —Messrs. Win. Vanstone & Sons, shipped from the Brussels flouring mill, during the past season, 500 bar- ket. rels of fill- direct to the Glasgow mar- -A horse belonging to Mr. John Snell, of Turnberry, driven by his daughter, ran away, throwing Miss Snell on to terra firma. Fortunately no bones were en. —One Morning last week, dogs were caught in the act of worrying sheep belonging to Mr. D. McEwen, London Road, and but for the timely discovery, serious damages would have resulted. —A number of excellent cattle were shipped feom Clinton last week, for Buffalo, which were purchased by Mr. Thos. Neilans, of Hullett. Some of them weighed twelve and thirteen hun- dred pounds. —Dauncy & Taylor, of Brussels, shipped a car load of barley to Toronto, on Monday, at 8 p. me and received a telegram on Wednesday at 3 o'clock, that it hed been inspected and sold. Quick work. —On Tuesday morning of last week, Mr. James Buyers cut himself over the eye with an axe, which caught in a clothes line while he was chopping wood. The wound is a painful one, the cut being deep. —On Wednesday of last week, Mr. Thos. Sweet, of Stephen, sold to Mesars. Willis & Coates, of Exeter, a cow, which brought down the 'scales at 1,900, and received therefore five cents a pound. Not a bad price, either. —Through the efforts of Rev. J. H. Johnson, M. A., of Toronto, who preach- ed in the Exeter Methodist Church for two Sabbaths, the respectable sum of $1,000 was raised for the endowment fund of Victoria, College. —The semi-annual meeting of two days embodies some very intere ing subjects, which will, no doubt. productive of good to the members the Association. —At the recent Knox Church exam nations, in Toronto, Mr. R. Y. Tho son, of Hullett, a pupil of the Clint High School, stood first in every depa ment of first year theology. Hur County does not take a back seat anything. —The fall wheat around Bayfie looks well, an=d the last snow will im- prove it more. The farmers of Stan- ley and surreunding townships have sown more last fall than they did for some years, and everything bids fair for a plentiful crop, • —On Wednesday of last week, Mr. J. aoslin sold 3?,-, quarter acre lots, in Clinton, close to Doan's tannery, by auction. The corner lot south brought $113, the lot east of that $102, and the lot and a half east of the tannery $200. There was one other lot bid. in at $150. —One evening lately, some person at present unknown was mean enough to break a hole through the oven in Mr. Allen's bakery, Brussels. Had the fire been placed before the damage Was noticed the probability is that a des- tructive fire would have ensued. The st- as a workman, and. his liberality to el* be church and village. We understaaa of he is about to build another clock of a; like order, and have no doubt but -that the efficiency of the present work will place his productions in great slo. rt- ratt—ntr. Campbell Hanna, -of Ea* on in hWeam*.allacsfbew' WdaaiyilsraPgios,hwerlalsenMoTO weSitra; hands offered him a sack of flour iflee id. would carry it upstairs without ekes_ Ming. The sack weighed 280 pounds. and. Mr. Hannah remarked that -he could have done it sonae years ago, However, he was determined,to try, and offupliNiVSitchoaitt,lititheiankithneg tale easy way of getting a good supply,* etthoewn" sataaffino,f lifpuet." He thhisensicerighedaal drove off hoine, saying that he could easily have taken another hundreds went to try their fists at shooting, op. He says one of theiab:oheyinsskihnotpthh.aetseallooniata ho—wbn Saturday, 5th inst., several of could have taken it up_ if he only knew the would-be cra.ck shots of Winghant tesItisidcnarrot pco tiro ats hirtgeee s hLwolomts enough in. his gun, so ha ht got a friend to put another half charge in. All was quietness for a few see.. k, onds, then there was a sheet of flame ng bursted from the mouth -of the gua,asa ne in another second the very earth teems, an bled as if an earthquake had shaken The gun kicked like a mule, and struck the shootist on the nose,which flattened it completely out. There wa.s such aa immense charge in the gun, thatif the ped, hitadwniont sbtrengookinsgorayeetthi. ngTohned.wsotoriap., in general is hereby warned to get out of the way, for the shootist says he will not hold himself responsible for any da—mAagerniteenitiinghgt odfo.the farmers around occurs it wilr not fall so heavily on one first-class animal. This speaks welt aThooemcpoanncylu, slonnd cIoirar.eGteoorwgeasntoaeknforneey: thorough -bred cattle depending on. sFpa_orkqielunxheoatfre.r wisas held on 4th inst., to (Shorthorn) at the sale at Bow- Pork- ers to join together, so that if any loss and it was this Which cansed the farm - man. To Alex.ander Duncan, Esq.ei ers of this vicinity, who are deternained the custom and assistance of others, the praise should be ascribed. for get - to keep up with the times. It hag been rather risky business speculating ting up the company and undertaking for the enterprising spirit of the farms: of purchasing a thorough -bred bull to proceed to Bow Park and purehase take into consideration the advisability endeavoring to induce the Goderieh Foundry and. Manufacturing Company, to remove their busineee from Goderich to Exeter. The Com- pany have submitted. the following re- pose' : To accept a bonus of $20,000 and have stock subscribed to the amount of $20,000. This, together with their own capital and. it:lac-bins erY, $35,000, would give thena command of $75,000, with which a first -clam foundry could. be established- The stock is not a matter with which the. people of the town, as ratepayers, have anything' to do. However, the pro- moters of the scheme believe that $10,000 would be accepted from the: town. For this the Company wotild guarantee to employ eighty hands on an average the year round. If arrange.' moats can be effected, they purpose, going extensively into the manufactu.re of agriculturalimplements. —An open lodge was held in " Flow- er of the Forest Lodge:' British Atneti- cau Order of Good Tenaplars,Forestvillee on Friday, 4th inst. The first speak- er was Mr. Doig, teacher, who dwelt for a considerable length of time en- deavoring to show that moderation or the "social glasfi " was not harmful, and. that tavern -keepers were dealt harshly with under the present laws. The next speaker Mr. Granger, worthy lecturer, (whose views were almost the opposite to those of his predecessorl clearly proved that tavern -keepers are dealt with as much leniency as they be- stow on their victims after they haa possession of their propertY and also, that moderation is the keystone to iu- temperanoe The remainder of the programme consisted of recitations, dine lopes and singing. The lodge wee closed by singing "Three eheete for the Temperance cause:" Flower of the Forest is an old lodge established. in 1862 and at present has a 'Standing of 43 members. perpetrator should if possible be broug to justice. —At Wingham, one day last wee as Mr. Lawrence Tracey was drivi his horse and buggy along Josephi street, by some means the animal r into the Royal Hotel bus team, and one of the horses got badly hurt by beeline; the shaft of the buggy run into i 'breast. It is not likely that the animal will live. - John Prang, the genial host uotf the Huron hotel, Zurich, hate sold o to Mr. Simon. Walper, who took pos- session on the 15th inst. Mr. Prang about to erect a fine brick residence Zurich. We anticipate Mr. Prang natural activity will prevent him .froomr a life of quiet retirement, and. look f his appearance a new field of busi- ness before long. —The following is the score obtahaend in School Section No. 1, Turnberry, o Friday the 4th inst. -Subject—Geogra- phy. Fourth form—B. G. E. Sue11,79 ; Robert Moffatt, 69; David Thonasons: 53; Wm. Knox, 50; Mary Burges 40. Third form—John Thomson 8 49; Maggie Stewart, 45; Jane Hislo8p, ; Harry Palmer, 88; Alexander Moffatt, 34; Mary Farrel, 31; and Howard. Snell, W. —About three weeks ago the wife was Mr. Hartman Happel, of Zurich, w surprised to find that, without any feeling of discomfort, she had suddenly became blind of one eye. The eye was, able of all the natural muscular m to appearance, quite natural, and cap- abbe but quite sightless. A week lat- er the other eye lost its power in the same strange manner. The physicians say they have hopes of restoring her sight, and attribute its loss to prostra- tion of the optic nerves. —From information received. from a prominent Zurich resident, it turns out that the President of the Credit Valley Railway says that the Compan.y have no intention of extending their line at present, and that any use of the Com- pany's name in the matter is entirely without their knowledge or consent. This, of course, destroys all hope of a railway from that quarter. The people of Zurich, however, seena bound to have a railway and are about to try the Grand Trunk. Could that company be induced to run a branch from St. Marys, via Exeter and Zurich to Bay- field, the people would give liberally toward it. —There has lately been some trouble with the treasurer of Turnberry, in which certain accusations were made against that officer, and the following is the report of the parties authorized to examine into the matter : We the un- dersigned Auditors appointed by the Council of Turnberry for the year 1879 do hereby certify that we have exanain= ned and added up every column of the Collectors' Rolls for the year 1875, 1876, 877 and 1878, and when the Rolls were balanced the small amount of Two Dollars and Eighty Cents, ($2.80,) vats found to he in favor of the town - hip. Signed, Wm. McPherson, Robt. adie. —Mrs. Wilson, wife of Squire Wilson t present doing business as Bank agent n Blyth, has lately, completed a quilt, rtistic ally designed and beautifully xecuted, composed of no less than two housand and eighty-six different Pieces onsidering the good lady's ad.vanced ge, she being well up in her sixty- eventh year, the execution of such an rduous undertaking as that referred to eads to the inference,that Mrs.Wilson's abits of life have been of an active nd industrious character. Some of he antiquated matrons who go gossip- ing round their neighbors' houses ught to take a lesson from Mrs. Wu - on, who no doubt thinks that "Satan nds some mischief still for idle hands." —The Belmore Division Grange No. 1, met in the 9th line Grange on onday, the 31st ult., at 10 o'clock. hirteen subordinate granges are eon- ected ;with this grange, nearly all which were represented, and a large rnout of local members. A pleasing attire of the meeting was the number ladiee: present. In the afternoon an pen seSsion was held, while the sub- ct for he day "The advantages of dairy - g in connection with farming," was eing discussed, opened up by Brother 1 a a a a 1 a fi 2 of tu fe of ie in P. Hep nstall, followed,by Bros. Flem- ming, renache, S. McDermott, T. Walker, R. Fallis, J. Scarf, W. Ander- son, H. Smith, J. Johnston, W. Quin- nel, an J. Boyd, in short practical ad- dresses, the general thought being that dairyna naust necessarily form the leading branch of business here. The subject of discussion for the next meet- ing is" ows and their products," Bro. Fleraini g to open the discussion. Tho next me ting to be held in Belnaore, on June 2n , at 10 o'clock a. m. —Zureh has got what a good many villages ave not—a good town clock, a pi esen frona Mr. George Hess, to the Lutheral Church. It is placed in the church spire, about 45 - feet from. the ground, nd its five feet dials tell the time w' h unexceptional accuracy in all dire( tions. An 800 pound bell is placed ' a the tower, upon which the 30 und he a mer of the clock beats the urs, r:ndering the tones audible for a nsider ble radius. On clear morn- s it an be heard at Hensall. The ights by which it ts drivels., which ve a f ll of 16 feet, and weigh about la 00 po nds, are suspended. by stout re cab es. The entire work, save the go gear wheels, is the work of Mr. ss, and speaks greatly to his credit, PC' ho co the North Huron School Teachers' ing Association will be held. in the public we school, Brussels, on Thursday and. Fri- ha day, May 8th and 9th. On the even- 1,1 ing of Thursday, Mr. Q. W. Field, B.A., wi will deliver a lecture on "the duty of lar the hour." The programme for the Ile 4,444 A New Idea. Mn. EDITOR: In view of the policy now adcpted by -many towns and vil- lages for the encouragement and build- ing up of trade and general prosperity of those places by increasingtheirpopu- lation, &c., viz., the granting of bonuses and exemption_ from taxation, lionld not the same policy be equal' if not vastly more conducive to the prosperity of the country, if adopted. by our agri- cultural corporations.? We think it would. The 'scheme might take the following or sonae other equally practi- cal shape. Say let sorrte townshiR municipality offer a bonus of say.$15,- 000, with exemption from taxation for a period. of years on the increase of f toort° ,-cif the z -,o to hove!. tioy, anti ten the two the rea4: soy P3r. txtkiy, the the tufa Thug, vepley .vesee 7 year 1 town$11 with *3 e far, eropler *able trO) s.s of t. vest , ing =on olg ape; -van as wvh: pr: 'a': ales tote ▪ eg ta, onlYote r Mother111 1:14b1 k rft ta. n e arien1 'b9ttsePea:11,011: sf jettenasitte. eountry ist!ensvzioof.sttesbrir:::it4urohn-7- hvnittshuctriaraieiletdi:n:wie, ous Saa: = :17e1 chalii:reeto:hi nuei:8:° eo 11,fleetedb ymthteeth: te)31thullearnelmhtYyo:' a8bYerBeleLnIVICS: annionnaatenmtrrils3: 4 —T1143 eteieniattteerraTt '1116:1!• a;Fas - asrh tjrt:thr 11:er Exeter es.ch bre SthinaesPasnan - 15. Fr Dd li.c.1._11sTe elm' le - the Elm . spring V nesday cWtfor b---• .1edr4Y'SS:DI laillUSetEetrg.eabh4dri :1,tt• swo - ti:: : :1 lo—EitlATVitan 11 arlaeye; Ys three ye • . old, li:it.s_tt 'Yearling , Howatte,. the grou Eres:aia o: gelerali theyar ing Esta - ber of The toe ea:11 ean at -qti::no so gus _c3oa40 • all goo • - large ad bind themselves to erect upon their ' 1BI:rip value o property so aided. by bonus, , said bonus to be paid to such of the farmers in. the rnimicipality who would , eteess. premises suitable buildings as would . h la. 1.' accommodate families of say six persons Bess. ja each, each family so housei. to be ear - 1 y as extra help on. such farms, net taking the place of those now regularly employed, and each family thus em- ployed to be considered as two fell hands, and each farmer so enaploYing to be restricted to two or four hands u he may hinaself determine, the whole bonus of $15,000 to be granted, or a like proportionate amount, on the basis of the steady enepIoyment of 75 extra hands, thus averagitta a bonus of $30.9 for each hand, or $60b0 for each family. eLC of six. By this system the population - see j. 'Cita of the municipality would be increased' by 235, the sustenance of which would not only enrich by so much the muni- cipality in which they live, but adjacent AltMS'PR towns or villages, who would supply .SPACItat drew them with clothing and such Other Robe necessaries as the soil does not produce. e - Spiv, Also th P. Britt very hes roan Br forth. la;LARt- Gf Mr. extra machinery which. the employment of such an additional num- ber of hands would make requisite. The fulfilment of the agreement on. the port of the farmers entering into it, /night be secured to the municipality in some- what the following manner The bonus to be paid by the municipality oia the aged - -CAMP13.8 1.1ary• aged Peter /TAINS— letb, merly 79 ).•