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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1879-05-02, Page 44 EW AD V aiRITISE1VIENT S. 1 . No ice of Agreernent-0. C. Willson. More Bargee/is-WM. Hill. Boots and Shoes --Wm: Hill. P otography-Ohas. Moore: To Contractorse-Jaines. Johnston. Paeturage-John Thorp: - A I stract-Town of Seaforth. G .1 den Lion -R. Jamieson. A ,ction Sale -James H. Benson. I dd portuit Notice-rEdward Cash. A shire Bull -L. Lovell. Fe Salea-Gray, Young & Sparlieg. rj:itrou eipo:oit_0% SEAFORTH MAY 2 1879 Dominion Parliament. ince the National Policy has been dis osed of, a considerable amount of bu iness has been transacted. For the pa t week the House has been the gre ter portion of the time in Commit- tee of Sappier, and -various items of the est mates have be= discussed and pass- ed. The leading features of the past w k were the introduction of what is kn wn as the "Rag Baby," or as Grip cal s it the Little Elephant, by its author or tromoter in the House, Mr. Wallace, auo the discussion of propneed amend - me i ts to the Insolvency law. Concern- ing the first of these, or the Natipiaal Cu ency Scheme, Mr. Wallace sub- mit ed a series of reeolutions, and spoke to hem. Mr. Charlton strongly op- pos d the scheme of establishing an irredeemable currency, and cited the experience of the United States and other comitties as evidence ag. ist the scheme. • The dis- CUB lOrt was postponed. When it comes U p again we shall have more to say abo t it. It will be remembered that in -he Speech from the Throne the Gov rnment promised a measure for the mendment andimprovement of the Ins Ivericy Law. The Matter was refer- red o a special committee. That oom- mit ee drafted a bill making various alte ations in the existing law. That Bill was taken charge of by the Attor- ney eiaeral and was submitted for the disc ssion and approval . of the House on onda,y night. An amendment was racer d to this Bill bir a member of the Hou e, said amendment- providing for the bolition of the nsolvency Law al- toge her. Much to the surprise of every one, the amendenenti was carried by a lung majority, and the bill as amended Was iassed to its second reading. This was done very muchi against, the wish of the GovernMent, and it ie likely they will yet bring their supporters into sabjection, and force them to consent to allow! the Pres- ent 1 w to stand as it is until the text sessi n. This proceeding shows, how- ever, that there is a very strong feeling in th House in favor of repeal. Should they decide to repeal the law, we hope som provision will be made for the• equit ble distribution of the effects of insol ents among creditors, and also for reliee g honest unfortunates and pre- vent', g their being ground down and kept down by tyrannical or. . gasping credi ors. erasseszezisassimuzzamTh f Canadian Salt. , The anadian salt makers have increased the price o salt 10 cents more per barrel, making a rise of 5 cents altogether since the new tariff was introd ced. So much for the benefit of the N. P. to the onsurners.-SmAnkniu i3E.4.00X: W11 e it may be 14erfectly true that the r cent rise 'du ptice of danadian salt as neeessitated by the National Polic , it ie not correct toaseume that, the p otection from &Aside: competition afford d. this interest by the new tariff is suce as to permit of a rise in the price of the article.Liverpobl salt, whic • is the main conapetitor with Can- adian salt iu our own market, is admit- ted in o this country free as before, and in fan the country iS, at the present time, bsolutely flooded with Liverpool salt, ncl agents for its sale have -recent- ly bee • appointed in almost every ham- let. he only protection which the new t riff affords Caiiadian salt is from Ameri an salt, and that doee neither good eor harm, as Anaerioan salt does not coif pete with Canadian salt in the home, de arket to any appreciable- degree. But, vThuie the National Policy will not aid th salt manufactureplt will in- crease the price of the aetinle to the consuifaer, for this reason, that it will raise t e price of his fuel, iron and cot- ton fo bags. It is this which has caus- ed the salt manufacturers to reise their prioes, and not any decrease in corn- petitio • occasioned bY Protection. It is jus as well the public should know this fa t. The e is another' inatt& which we may so advert to in this connection. It has been stated it seirertil papers that C nadian salt is not as good for meat curing and dairying purposes as Liverp • ol. This is egreat mistake, as practi al experience has dearly proven. We kn w that Canadian salt -has been decrie • by certain purpia,sees of dairy prod= s who` are said no be interested in the ale of LiverpOol salt, but the "proof of the pudding is in the eating of it." We know that disinterested per- sons w o have experimented with both classes of salt, and who have no object to `serv by extollingthb one or decrying the oth r, have expreseed to us their prefere ce for Ca,nadien salt for the curing f butter and cheese. We also know. hat the Maks. Case, meat curers, f this town, use Canadian salt in pref relic() to Liverpool salt, and 0 meat cured by this manes the very h considered. American We also, k known 3,1.4 promi visited the Seaforth summer, for the pur cheese for a special set before him, wit cheese cured with another cured with after a thorough te former. Both chees same day, from the and by the same which could be rn any extent,' should as more valuable b the press and the firm always corn- ghest prices, and is s equal to the best lian cured meats. t a certain well - emit' cheese buyer Cheese Factory last pose: of selecting a purpose. He had hout knowing it, a Canadian salt, and Liverpool salt, and - I he selected the were made on the a,me batch of milk, aker. These facts, ltiplied to almost ertainly be taken .ty dealer r Cana/ now tha people, than empty by interested, but agents of Liverpool objections to out crying the Nation hearts' 'content, but empopuler, they sho important home in destined to be a sou wealth' to the count heory put forward ot very patriotic, salt. We.haVe no ontemporaries -cle- f Policy to their 'n order to make it Id not injure au ustry, which is yet co of very great The Leader of the Opposition ' on the Stump. Mr. Meredith, the leader of the Op- position in the Local Legislature, 'made his first appearance on the political platform during the present campaign, at a Conservative mass 'Tooting held on Friday lastahr the county of York. The meeting is -said to have been very largely attended and. the leading speak - 1 ers were Messrs. Meredith, Mprris and Scott, of Peterboro.niThe speech of Mr. Meredith was, however, the principal one. He dealt mainly with the finandes, and like abler lesser luminaries on the same side, he endeaaored to establish against the Government a charge of ex- tra,va.gauce. ' In order to show our read- ers the- modus operandi 1 by which he sought to establish this charge, we quote r from the report of his speech as given in the Toronto Mail. On this point Mr. J Meredith saad : , . "For the purpose of ascertaining what had been the normal- expenditure in the years 1868, 1871 and 1878, he had taken and Compared a few figures from the Public Accounts. He proposed to show them what had been the increases in the expenditure in the 'four years of Mr. Sa,ndfielel Macdona/d's regime, and the seven years of the Reform adiniuis- tration, and they would be able to draw a fair conclusion as to which had been the extravagant Government. The to- tal expenditure in 1868 was $1,182,388. This included expenditure which ought not to be claesed as ordinary current expenditure, viz.: that on, public build- ings, which vaned from , year to year He, therefore, deducted the expenditure on public buildings', 0125,846 in that year, which would leave 101,056,541 as the actual expenditure for ordinary pur- poses by Sandfield Macdonald in his first year. In 1871, the last year of his administration, the expenditure was $1,816,866, and making certain deduc- tions for the same reason as before, viz.: 068,884, payments to the munici- palities on account of sales of Crown lands, which were hot ordieary expen- diture ; land maproveineat id, 094,- 258, also exceptional expendie 8; relief to the.Ottawa end Saguenay suffeeers, 030,000 •, general elections, $19,505. this being the year of. the elections which did not occur in 1868 and 1878 ; 'public Works and buildings, 0430,620.45. These sums deducted gave a total expenditure ofe$1,173,597, so that the expenditure inoreased by $117,056, or less thau 12 pr cent. of the expenditure of 1868. In 1878 the expenditure per Supply bill was 02,408,530 ; deducting $298,618 for public works and buildings, $2,109,925. The excess of expenditure for 1878 over 1871 on ordinary current account, ex- clusive of public buil' ings, was there- fore $936,327, nearly '0 per eent. upon the expenditure of 181. (Cheers.) He asked any nandid man in that hall, no matter what his politics might be, was not this an alarming state of things, a fit subject for the grave consideration of every elector in the Province." It will be seen from the above that Mi. Meredith only deducts from the total expenditure of 1868 the amount for public works and buildings, while he deducts from the expenditure of 1871 not onlythis latter item, but exception- al items, such as relief to the Ottawa and. Saguenay sufferers. ecine would naturally suppose from this that there were no.sueh exceptional itetns in the expenditure of 1868, ,Onlreferring to the Public Accounts for th4 year, how- ever, we find that a sum of - $5,000 was given to aid the distressed :fishermen in Nova Scotia; 011,000 towards facilitat- ing transportation on Lake Superior, -making in all 016,900. INow, surely these items are as exceptional, and should be deducted frpm the regular ex- penditure, as well as the aid given to the Ottawa sufferers. WhY, then, does My. Meredith` not deduct these two items from the expenditure of 1868 ? Because, if he did, it would make the expenditure of that year less, find would, cousequently, make the increase be- tween 1868 and 1871 greater, and pre- suming on the' lack of. knowledge of his audience, he includes .in his starting year these exceptional items, and ex- cludes from the last year of his com- parison precisely similar items,' thus making the increase for the four years 12 per cent. instead of 15 per cent. This ina trick entirely unworthy of a gentle- man occupying the position Mr. Mere- dith does. This, however, is not the only deception practised by the leader of the Opposition. As will he seen from the quotation above, he excludes from the expenditure .of 1871 net only the amount invested in public works and buildings and the special items above alluded to, but the amount paid to the THE HURON EXPOSITOR. municipalities on account of sales of -Crown lands, viz., $68,884; and the land improvement fund, via., $94,258. Now, one would suppose that if he Wished to make a fair and honest com- parison., he would also exclude these two itews from the expenditure of 1878. But be does not do so. The only de- duction he makes from the expenditure for 1878, is that for public works and 'buildings, overlooking entirely the very same items as he excluded from 1871. Here, again, his intention is evident. He wanted to mak e the expenditure in 1871 as small as possible, and that in 1878 as large as he could'1 so as to make the increase under Reform rule greater than. under Conservative rule. Accord- ing to his own standard and mode of comparison, he cheats both. ways. He leaves in the expenditure of 1868 excep- tional items that he deducts from the expenditure of 1871, so as to make the increase under Sandfield's rule less than it should be, and :he includes in the ex- penditure of 1878 exceptional items that be omits iu 1871, so as to -make the in- creas.e under Reform rule greater than it actually is. It would be bad enough for our own Mr. Jackson, rash and reckless as he is, to jerrymander the Public Ac- counts in this way, but ,for a gentleman in Mr. Meredith's rosition, and of his standing and pretensions, it is simply disgraceful. Although we do not think that the mode of comparison adopted by Mr. Meredith, viz., taking the expenditure of the first and last year in each rule is the correct -or fair one; we shall adopt Hill the meantime, and shall show, even by .his own method, the incorrectness and absurdity °Nils charge of extrava- gance. We believe that the only fair and correct way to arrive at the in- creases under the respective rules is that adopted by us a few weeks ago, which is to take the increase in each year separately. However, we shall now adopt Mr. Meredith's plan, and _by it we shall eee the result. We shall take the expenditure of 1868 as given by Mr. Meredith, deduct there- from the sums paid for public works, and the two SUMS overlooked by him. We shall then take the expenditure of• 1871, with deductions as given by Mr. Meredith. We shall deduct -the one from the other. This will give the increase in the 'ORDINARY expenditure in Sandlielda time, according to his plan: Expenditure in 1878, less Pub- lic Works L $1,056,541 Relief to to Nova Scotia fisher : - men , $ 5,000 Grant to facilitate navigation - on Lake- Superior 11,000 16,000 ' „Actual ordinary expenditure in 1868 Actual ordinary e xpenditure in 1871 • Increase in Sandfibld's $1,040,541 1,173,599 $ 133,058 Annual average increase.... 33,264 We shall nowgive the expenditure of 1878 as per eupply bill, deducting there- from the items deducted, by Mr. Mere- dith from the expenditure Of 1871, and other items of extraordinary expendi- ture which are equally an exceptional as those which he deducted, and which never occurred in Sandfield's time, and. which were made with the fell concur- rence of members on both sides of the House, and their usefulness and validity have never been and are not now dia- puted ; we shall then deduct the ordin- ary expenditure thus obtained for 1878 from the -expenditure as given by Mr. Meredith for 1871, and Our readers will see -how much the annual inereate -in expenditure will exceed the annual in- crease under the economical rule of Mr. Sandfield Expenditure of 1878, less Pub- lic Works and Buildings.. $2,109,926 Deduct Land dmprovement Fund f 16,741 Municipalities Fund 27,818 Refunds on Crown Lands9,997 Normal School, Ottawa 11,373 Training of Teachers 20,815 Assize Reporters 6,300 Maintenance of Asylums and Institutions not in existence 'in 1871 219,074 Insurance of Public Buildings 16,179 Consolidation of Statutes.. 11,383 • -Expenses of Elections 1,767 Arbitration between Ontario and Quebec, , Paris Exhibition 4,002 2,920 Boundary Commission' 4,218 Revision of Voters' ' 3,793 Exceptional Items $356,980 Given to ColonizatiOn Roads in 1878 in excess of 187130,213 GiNien to Agricultural and Arts Given to Hospitals and Chari- ties 80,413 20,751 30,413 Given to Education in excess of 1871 204,750 Given to County Treasurers to aid Justice 60,9194 704,026 Expenditure in 1878 as com- pared with 1871 Expenditure in 1871 Increase between '71 and '78 Annual Average Increase.. Annual Average Increase in Saudfield's time. Annual Average Increase in Reform time $1,405,900 1,173,599 232,801 $ 33,186 33,264 33,186 .78 It will be seen from the above fig- ures, the correctness of which none -can successfully refute, that instead of the enormous increase in the ordinary ex- penditure, which the leader of the Op. position would have us believe has taken place, the increase under Sand - field's nde was actually greater, even by his own mode of comparison, than it has been under Reform rule. Were the proper mode of comparison adopted, the contrast in favor of Reformers would be much more striking. It must also be borne in.rnind that in our re- ductions we did. not inclnde the in- crease in the indemnity to members and in the salaries of the civil servants, for which Mr. Meredith, in his address, acknowledges both parties wee equally responsible. . In view of the plain facts which the above figures reveal, is it not too bad. that a gentleman in Mr. eredith's position should degrade hi self and. deceive his audience by making such false and unfounded statements, simply to *gain a temporary party a vante.ge. We ask any elector, in the County of Huron, we care not what his political leanings may be, if he thinks it would be in the interests of this Prvince to place a man who has so littl respect for truth atthehead of • its a airs ? If he will practise deception of his kind to gain power, he will not hesitate to do worse to retain it, should ke, unfor- tunately, succeed in gaining the. po- sition he covets. It is for the people to say on the 5th of June next, whether or not they will have such a ma to rule over them. ; Let the electors of this county earnestly and dispa sionately consider these things, and ac accord- ingly. Political Notes. The Hoe. Mr. Mowat vrill. contest both South Oxford and East 'Toronto. Mr. Morris is his, opponent in the lat- ter -constituency. In the event of his being elected for East Toronto:, he will represent that constituency anhl will re- sign Word. Hid Oxford constituents have generously consented to this ar- rangement. ----Tho probability is that Hon. Mr. Crooks will be elected with- out opposition for North Oxford. -Mr. Mr. T. B. Guest, the candidate chosen by the South Perth Conservatives, de- . clines to contest the constituency. A convention is to be held in Mitehell, on Tuesday, to see what will be dene. Mr. Ballantyne will have an easy Vialk over the course in any event. -Mr. A. H. Baird, of Paris, has been selected as Mr. Young's opponent in North. Brant. An opponent to the Mowat Government need not apply to the people of that constituency. -There seems to be a quarrel of a serious nature going oh among the Conservative menibers of the Senate. On two occasions Senator Alexander has given Senator Macpher- son an unmerciful handling. The Sen- ator from Saugeen does not now seem to be in such good favor with the party as he was a short time ago. It is hint- ed that he is becoming soinewhat troublesome to the Government and they are anxious to throw him over- board. -Hon. C. F. Fraser bas also been nominated for and will contest two constituencies, viz., Grenville and Brockville. He will most likely . be elected for both, in which event he will sit for Brockville. -The Reformers of Huron should see to it that their local organization is complete at once. The local chairmen of central committees who have not yet called. meetings for organization should do so without de- lay. Good organization is half the bat- tle won. News of the 17Peek. OBIT. -The Duke of Roxburgh, the head of the noted Scotch House, of Ker, isdead. PARD 0 NBD Predident Grevy, of France, on Saturday, signed 307 par- dons to Communists. EGYPT. -It is now thought that the Khedive of }Egypt will submit to the demands of.Eugland and France. SAMOA .-Germany and the United States are likely to come to a disagree- ent on the Samoa, Island question. Siuseare.-Two men were arrested in ersey City, , on Friday, while, dress - ng the carcass of a horse for sale to •utchers. ' SPAD.T.-There has been slight dis- urbances at Malaga and Grenada, in pain, en account of the high price of rovisions. INDIA:in.-A runner from Plum Creek, 00 miles west of Omaha, reports 900 ndia,ns approaching, and the inhabi- anta fleeing. . BLONDIN.-Blondin, the rope -walker, vho a few years ago was rich, has lost iis money through the failure of an uropean bank. STEEPLE -CHASE. - jackal won the Tend International steeple -chase at he second spring meeting of Landown ark Club, in England, on Friday. SERVIA:-The Servfans, assisted by urkish troops, have succeeded in driv- ng the Albanians from the country. oth sides lost heavily in officers and en. REGICIDES. - The Russian G-overn- ent proposes the formation of an in- ernational court for the trial and pun - i hment of regicides or royal assassina- ors. A MAMMOTH- CANAL. -It is reported hat the preliminary examination f plans for a canal from the Brit - h Channel to Paris have been con - luded. THE KEELY MOTOR. -The New York Forld's, Philadelphia special reports at Keely's motor now works a, vibra- Dry engine of a new design with perfect ccess. POTATO CRor.--Considerable damage as been done to the pot ato crop in est Cornwall, England, by the severe eather which has recently prevailed t roughont that locality. COLLAPSED. -It is stated. that Gan- aldi's proposition for the purchase of million rifles to arm the nation col - 1 psed through, a disagreement among s promoters, respecting the object in v.ew. ENDED. -Further adhesions of the urham colliery owners to proposed a, bitration on the whole are announced. he men are returning to work on that b sin It is believed the strike is prac- t cally ended. EDISON.-Edison's electric light was ✓ g,istered in the English patent office o Wednesday. The London Times s ys' the invention contains nothing n w in principle, nor is there anything to alarm the holders of gas shares. Mexico. -A leading Liberal paper an - n unces that for the first time since s,ximilian's usurpation the chiefs of C arch and State, in Mexico, are in a cord. While this accord lasts no at- t:mpts at revolution can become im- ( rtant. GLASGOW BANK CRIMINALS. - DT. K nealey has given notice in the House of Commons of his intention to call at- te tion to the proceedings of the Crown in prosecuting, and to the sentences p ssed by the Lord. Justice -Clerk on the G asgow Bank Directors, and to move " hat the House regrets the raiscar- liege of justice which took place in the trial of the Glasgow Bank Directors, 20th January, 1879." NAUTICAL. -1 nautical adventurer of Borcteaux, France, has built a whale boat' appropriately christened n L'Ep- reuve," whieh is six yards long and two yards wide, and has one sail, in which he proposes to cross from Arcachon to Dover alone. FIRE. -The elegant residence of Alex. King, at Pittsburg, Pa., was burned last Friday, with stables containing ten head. of valuable blooded horses. in- cluding the well known trotters, Nellie Ellis, Nettie and Lady Alice. Loss, 075,000.: No insurance. IlooD.-Extraordinary heavy rains throughout the State of Texas are re- ported, causing the streams ,to overflow the railroads, washieg away the road- bed, and traffic is entirely suspended. At Houston the water rose 18 feet in three hours, and carried away all the railroad. bridges and many of the ware- houses. CHANGE Or- FAITa.-The Rev. A. J. Faust, an Episcopalian clergyman, of Washington, has entered the Roman CathOhc Church. Rev. Dr. D. Gans, late pastor of the Third German Re- formed Church of Baltimore, Maryland, with his family and two members of his late congregation, were on Sunday flaaistthf.ormally admitted to the Catholic Meninx - The Sportsman says :- Hanlan has been suffering from severe pains in the head. He is now better, but is still very depressed. gawdon is in Very good condition. A late despatch says: Hanlan is progressing satisfac- torily in his -daily practice. Ha,wdon has a severe cold. and cough. The weath.er continues very trying. Six to four on Hanlan is now freely offered (and as freely taken. THE EGYPTIAN SITUATION. -The notes from England and. Frauce to the Khe- dive of Egypt demand that a Minister from the nations named shall be s,p- pointed, and that they are not to be re- moved without. their consent. If the "Khedive refuses, measures will be taken to make him sabnaissive. A Paris cor- respondent says: "1 have been inform- ed of the very names of the French and English men-of-war ordered to be ready to start for Alexandria at a moment's notice." It seems, therefore, to be seriously intended to ha& up forth- coming diplomatic note. PRECAUTIONS. - The United -States HOME; Committee on Agriculture bas practically agreed upon a bill, making it a, misdemeanor for common carriers to transport cattle affected With pleuro- pneumonia or other contagious diseases. After establishing the penalty for such action, the bill directs the Commissioner of Agriculture to appoint agents at im- portant points along the lines of rail- road, and, authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to designate agents at shipping ports to examine cattle. AreneenseeN.--Telegramsfrom India speak of the complete break down of the Quartermaster and Commissary -Departments of the Khyber column now at Jallalbad and Granadamack. Owiug to the lack of transportation the column is said to be incapacitated for -offensive operations, the garnson of Caudabar is in a similar position -the control of the transport has been trans- ferred from the Commissariat to the Commander of the column. This effects a radical change in the Indian military system. A Peshwur correspondent says everybody from the General down is tired of the war, which brings endless discomforts and little glory. EDWIN BOOTH SHOT AT. - Edwin Booth, while playing at Chicago on Wednesday night last week, was shot at by Mart. Grey, aged 28, who sat in the upper gallery of the theatre. The assassin is a dry goods clerk frone St. Louis, and says he has been preparing for the deed for three years. Booth was unhurt. Grey Says Booth wronged a, friend of his some time ago, and he has been resolved to punish him ever since. He was only thirty feet from Booth when he fired. He had a letter addressed to a lady named Katie, stating that he intended to shoot Booth that night. He is in • custody and. is supposed to be insane. The audience at the theatre rernained and the play . proceeded. FAMINE'. -A correspondent writing from Mizpah Mocador, Moroccoestates that more than 13,000 persons had perished in that town, from hunger. There were, dead or dying lying in every street in an*t out of town. The dead were buried not more than one span deep, and • dogs soon 'uncovered the earth and fed on the bodies. Small- pox, measles, cholera and typhoid fever prevailed. The latter is now raging. Every house has been turned into a hospital. The starvation was not con- fined to men. The cattle, camels, horses, asses, sheep and the poultry have all, or nearly all, perished, but a few dogs have survivedeand in their in- satiable huneer finding no food in the town and abudoned by their masters, who either died or left their villages in search of food, fed on human bodies. SOCIALISTIO AND REGICIDE NOTES. - A correspondent at Berlin says that thousands of political prisoners, re ost of them arrested only on suspicioneare be- ing sent from .St. Petersburg to the jails and penitentiaries of the ;centre nand east of the Empire. -A Berlin dispatch says Russian repressive meas- ures have hitherto failed to make any impression upon the circulation of Nihilist prints. -A military tribunal assembled in St. Petersburg on Friday to pass judgment on an officer of the Russian 'army for firing at General Daimoff, who had been ordered to search officers' houses. -It is stated. the Pope will shortlyepublish a document inviting all the European Governments to unite in purging society of the evils which beset it and join in an. endeavor to stamp out Socialism. -Dr. Wiede, of Zurich, editor of the Nene Geselschoft, was arrested a few days ago iu Milan on an accusation of engaging in a plot to assassinate the Queen of England and King and Queen of Italy. His friends declare he is incapable of such a design. -A Berlin dispatch says the porters to guard the doors of the hauses and to prevent the posting of placards in St. Petersburg, as required. by Gen- eral Gourkon regulations, cannot be obtained because the Nihilists threaten all who undertake the service with death. Gourko has apparently been removed from the dictatorship of St. Petersburg on account of the impracti- cable nature of his orders. A peasant has been arrested with a letter on his person containing a, detailed plan of an attact upon the winterpals,ce and prison in which Solovieff is confined. Al-. though the letter was probably a hoax, the entire garrison was called out. The Czarewitc received an anonymous let- ter warning him to go abroad. The eed Wheat Question. To the Editor of the Huron Expositor. Deem S a. -I this spring p-urchased sixteen -b shels of the now celebrated Annauta wheat for spring sowitg. Seeing in our paper a letter from Mr. James Pri gle, an old and experienced miller an. grain dealer, that this wheat would not make good. flour, I became alarmed, ud in order to test its qual- ities befor sowing it, I took two bush- els of this -auto wheat to Roxboro Mills and had it ground into flour. The flour I ha'e had baked into bread, and I must sa that 1 never -saw finer look- ing flour ii r have I ever tasted better bread. T e flour d. baked was taken from the t p of the bag, being the last that came from the stones, and conse- quently c tad not have been mixed. with flour 1 other -wheat I also got fife whea ground the same day, and the flour f omit is not nearly so good looking, ror does it make such good bread as t at from the Arnautka wheat. This is my experience of this wheat Let others speak for themselves. „ RORERT BuoCir. TOCKERSitiTH, April 28, 1879. Bankrupt Stocks and. Auc- tioneers. To ihe Editor of the Huron Expositor. A. communication in your issue of last week, under the nom de plume of n Merchant," has no personal applica- tion to any one in this town but the subscriber. You will, therefore, pardon the liberty I assume in making a few remarks upon the subject mutter eon - tallied therein. In justice to the corre- spondent of the Free Press and to the merchants of this town, allove nee to state that the article quoted did not emanate from this place, and no publi- cation of snch a character has appeared in the Free Press from Seaforth to my knowledge. " Merchant" has borrow- ed other people's brains to satisfy an alleged grievance of some remote ham- let, but which, in its application, seems to correspond with the narrow-minded views emanating from the chamber of his imagination. He may be one of a class who do not know how to cone- mand trade and secure the cesh. So long as trade exists merchants will be- come Insolvent, and bankrupt stocks must be sold on behalf of the insolvent's creditors, and these stocks will be bought by men who know their value, who undertake to pay for them, and who possess the business knowledge and. ability to diSpose of them to advantage to the public and with profit to them- selves. An auctioneer from time im- memorial, who pays his debts, has been looked upon as j ust as legitimate a trader as ,any merchant in the land, and in - the broad assertion that people buy "these worthless goods at prices equal to those charged. by ordinary mer- chants," is as much as to say that the merchants of Seaforth are in the habit of selling worthless goods, or otherwise to assume that a merchant's goods be- come: worthkss when the merchant goes into bankruptey. Any iutelligent reader knows that either argument is fallacious; the 'merchants' stocks in Sealorth speak for themselves.; they are as good as can be found in many cities of the Dominion, many of them im- porting their goods direct, thereby sav- ing the profits and commissions usually paid when buying through wholesale or jobbing houses. The claim that the cash expended at an auction sale is all sent abroad, is as absurd as it Would be to say the ea, le received by a merchant - iall retaine at home -either one or the other has to pay for themerchandise s he buys, and if in the former case goods are sold cheaper for cash than -when credit is givet, the saving to the buyer, whatever that may be, is retained. at home for other uses. The direct charge that an auctieneer is a transient trader , has no foundation in fact. It is true,' when I came here to locate in your town in goo -faith, an attempt was made to mak me out one, but as the proper legal t ibunal decided otherwise, - upon the reco meudetion of the Town Solicitor, it i rather late in the clay to Claim that I m one in fact, and. the assumption that I pay no taxes can be refuted by consulting the Assessor's Roll. The reason se many merchants become bankrupt, can probably be traced to the absurd system. of trade and credit, and- if merchants would adopt the cash plan and do what men in my profession alone follow, there would be fewer cases of insolVencen and, consequently, less cause for hearing the auction bell'in the land. If a system was inaugurated to make a - perceptible difference in the price for cash or credit, it would be a move in the right direc- tion, and save many people paying for those who expect to buy and redeem their obligations one-galf when they die and the other half when they rise again. The business I have been led to follow, is acknowledged to be as stables and legitimate as any other trade. It is true, sometimes it is made a cloak for deception; a Practice not confined. ex- clusively . to auctioneers ; but in the carrying on of the business, I rely for a verdict as to my systelia, upon a com- munity- from whom I have had a large share of patronage, and. towliona I look forward to extended support such as will in future be. solicited. through the ordinary advertising columns of THE HURON EXPOSITOR. Your obedient set - v aFEtA, STANLEY DAY. iroitm, April 26, 1879. " Perth Items. , -The debt of St. Mary's over and above all assets, is $42,832.22. -Mitchell' town band and fire bri- gade went to see Guelph made a city. -Black Creek cheese factory, town- ship of Downie, has beenopened for the season's busine,se. -arr. Samuel Robb, jr., of the Gore of Downie, has a lamb which weighed eighteen. pounds, when not a day old. -Mi. Fred. Godfret, of Wallace, has purchased Mr. Walter Patterson's farm on the 3rd line of that township, for $4,000 cash. Mr. Patterson speaks of visiting Manitoba. -An attempt was made at about two o'clock on Monday morning, the 21st ult., by some parties, at present unknown., to fire Burns' Hotel, in Monc- ton 'village. Fortunately, however, Mrs. Burns happened to awake, and hearing the crackling of the flames, got up to see what was the matter. She immediately gave the alarm; the neigh- bors turned out and succeeded. in get- 1879 ting the fire under coxitici, and fi :My extinguished it before an :eery aeleene damage was done to the buirding. -The municipal council of Walls* has granted five hundred dollats to an. sist in erecting a. High School at Lista.' teilo. u 7ahgaeinrsItetphaeyerarsataterre, agsoni sit 0 pe. agreed to furnish school accommodation at the formation of the district. -Tfollowingppoinmentsjncola nection with the Methodist Epi Church have been made for this ,o-unty for the ensuing year : Goderich, Gen.. Callarnore ; Stanley, R. A. Ilowey ana Wm. Clark ; Seaforth, F. J. B. A., and S. Terwilliger, Bruese fduoi Marys n g this summer. The Odd - operations will be lane fellows are putting up a $12,000 hat The Canada - Methodist congregatneaa are building -A 1M,-000 church Ineis Knox ,Church Presbyterian cone/age, tion are spendimg $8,000 on a char and the Wielder Street Presbyteriaas are erecting a ,fine church at a Cost about $12.000. There ate besides e large ntunber of fine private residenne going up. Apetition signed. by the Reeve of HHuibghherGtu, rarredm , whosetywas seofthnmeofrndiettxdstt 14th ult., sent to gaol for ciarunit - an assault on his wife, is to be prese ed to the proper authonties, praying for his release from his custody, it their opinion that there were extena ing eirdennstances in the case which were not cognizant to taany outside ot the jAmfrm. ePdi, WwhhokehX1IlliebilteiveLd stallion at the Spring Show at Kirktoni fronom• thbeeilE8gthk.juilleta.,. haird,:thaansahriosw sea horset Mr. St. John's stable, and while elan- iug hina the animal seizedhim by th shoulder with his teeth, threw him* the floor in the stall, and had it noli; been that he was rescued. by Mr. joint Stephens, who hearil the noise, hie would soon have beenkilled. Although, the wound's are severe, they are net da-ngernmis OMonday, the 21st ult., a mai giving his name as John Barry, droves; couple of cows into St. Mary's andoffea, ed there for sale. Ile succeeded * making a bargain with Mr. Jiones Lakee who gave a Colt and $2 cash, in ten change for the cattle. Chief Constable. Herrington, suspecting something wrong, questioned him as to where he came from. He stated that he hail been employed by a man to drive the cattle from Ltican for which be was to receive 02, but afterwards said he hall got them from a person named Gladan,i near Centralia, in the towuship of Bid- dulph, as part payment for work he had done for him. He was at once ar- rested, and Mr. rGJadan sommunieatedn with, who stated that such was not the! case, but that two -cows answering t description given had been stolen fronn neighbor of his named Lawrence Bare' ry. It appears that the -cattle were. ti6a in th.e stable, and must have beeU stolen between nine o'clock Sunday evening and Monday morning. Met Barry came to St. Mary's on Tuesdaye and identified lais property. The prig. oner was arraigned before nea,gistrates Ford and Box, and committed to Lon- don jail to stand his trial, , 1Vlisce1laneous. -The tunnel has been at last coine meneed at Grosse Isle. But it is net finished. Nature herself put in a prot test in the babbling water that told et - the fissured. rocks. These fissurenwill: prove a serious but not iusurrnountablei obstacle, and if the people of Detroit' go at their bridge with the energy thoe - project deserves, and get it ready for the crossing of trains, the tunnel at Grosse Isle may yet be abandoned-, as was that which was commence at the. Detroit and Milwaukee depot. -Public feeling is daily 'becoming more unsettled in. British Colnnibia as the lst of May approaches. The situ- ation is alarming, as it threatens the. permanency of Canadian. connection one the Pacific, if it does notimperilbeitishe connection. Parliament sat with dosed:* doors. The best friends of Canada are, despondent and discuss secession as . probable. The secret discussione wm Jong arid exciting. A stringent resolu- tion was passed and directed to, be cabled to London. It demands., fail- ing a fulfillment of the treaty- -obliga-1 tions, that the province be allowed to secede on May lst. The action of the House seems to meet with popni en- dorsement. --Three or four months ago a young man enaployed by Mr. Lucas, builder, - Toronto, secretly married a young ladn - attending school in the city, the daugh- ter of a wealthy farmer on. Yonge street. - Two -weeks ago the man went to Mani- toba, leaving behind him his young / wife, who has heard nothing of hint since_ his departure. Before going he sold 32 acres of land, situated -ou Yonge street, belonging to his wife in her owe . right, without her consent, for 41,21*: - taking the money with him, and leav- ing the girl penniless in a boarding is house. The land is valued at 02,000o1 and to have effected the sale he mint have forged his wife's name. An ace , tiori in Chancery is to be instituted- for the recovery of the property, and in. - the Meantime the girl has returned to her parents. -Paste the following in your pocket- :- book " There are -counterfeit fonts,. the Dominion Bank, which may be deal thecetreodubgyhutehsespoofernth also counterfeit fives of the Bank of eeSswoofrkth. e paper wen Commerce, in which the 4e' InTthheel7w074, note is made like an ‘o,' the vignette a! the Queen is the -coarsest piece of the „ twboarllk in the e face,genuine al s o, note.i less Th profile - a connterfeit on the GovernmeZisaisG tonea which is executed on poor paper; the work is rough and the colo etn:] pecially the- number. In a dition to - these counterfeits there are in °kettle- ,• tion some tens of the Consolidated, I Bank, which were stoienfrom the office of the Bank before they were signed. = The whole issue was then cane forgery." elled,aud no genuine tens of that bank have everik been issued. Any Consolidated 'tele that naay be presented for paymenbis , igain Jnothe Jai bi igtke o itwa;Y' Coll- vleme Wok, CANTET wife Pri,N10: of 11 TOUNG7 afr ninennf thee j1E14301 Mr. TROW",k witd,4 tiLIVEX- laiNV brine' 'woe. toan of the coreft--- Aenet Etr. eikati Neeonn4 INON-E un Willit both< ;WESTC01 bride Livin$ to AM Tuc aor.Es-1 ▪ T ISDER6X • tl vars. VOLQUEC A. Iaged' EITY-At of Mr. COMM Mary beth 3117.NN-Ii Slum( Eor.rdi:SI Thome CRESNET George PAERAND Sarah1 cf Mrs; Pall Wheat, - Spring Whi 13pri.'ng Whe Oats per bti Peas per bit _ Ber1-04)0r Butter, No. 'Flour, per Bay - Rides, per - Grubby Hid Pencil Ilide Sheep skins Salt retail!, Balt {wholoi Potatoes pi Oatmeal :,+t Tallow, per' Meet, ir cArm . Clover See! Timothy A\Ilint on. the Fashions. A hint from Paris interesting to Ile dies. For some time past, the decree of fashion has been that they shall have no bosoms and little hair. Hair been high on a knob, cleared frOill face after the classic models, or allow to fall in a hideous fringe over the fore- head.Pashion has now issued new orators. 1,10/ WheD.V Spring Wile; - Oats, verint • Barley,per b - Peas, per bti Clover Seed, - - Timothy Sc. Entter„.„,, Pork.. Eggs.........: lity,por top., TOBOXr a sprii _ winter, 9C :peos,.C)o LOON. eeental, 1. ,111.20 .to LS, $5et butter per dozen, 11.0 • .:ilVi :osoa per 88 Od white, -1s4a*: €dpe ee peas, lard,32a sa;1 ta TonoNTO .., 8 awl, An I the exp _ -anted_ bri hoice heal , o et stock , . ForI0 e; For 5; third, z a, fair '-St. .63 10 1 feriOr. AtONTIlE . IUD.. 1., - int., ree,ei - Per , fink-, j05 attle, ave -rib.; as Itok- Mr, alf for ne . erent part bree for 8 - b. ninegn :en cattle . tne, of Pe t teen . ., oael f ea .2 a Th eau ich b. live wet 40.711 5e to 'EPALO; rta and flay p five lo :weight e freea 84 stet,. eltion se note 5 . 674 to - id at •_