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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1886-08-27, Page 4• • • a • • , • "4.• • • t -!•• t 1 • •:4•4 ••4 '4• • 4. '14' • • • t. • 4 • , • • 74,t4:1••••P'41.' .444!....,147. 4 • j'4434.. 4 'THE MORON EXPoSITOR • , AUGUST 27, .igsg. ^ NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Mr The figure between the parenthesis after each tine denotes the page of the paper on which he advertisement will be found. Bargains for All—E. Mona (5) Wizard Oil—I, V. Fear. (5) Whyte Brothers' Concert. (5) Bishop Strachan School—Miss Grier,. (5)' Seed Wheat—N. T. Adams. (5) Cider—Roger Pepper. (5) - Probatdlities—E. McFall". (8) Dressmaking—Mrs. l3oulton. (5) First-cIass Farm for Sale—G. K. Matheson. (6) Legal Card --Seager & Lewis. Of) Private Funds to Loan—Seager & Lewis. r) re g) Cook Wanted at Kennedy's- Hotel, Seaforth. (8) White Bronze—J. a Meyers. 0) A Good Chance—a- Hamilton. (5) Servant ,Girl Wanted—Expositor office, (8) Private SchooI—Miss Johnson. (8) • Letter of Condolence—Geo. Patterson. (5) Card of Thanks—Mrs. T. E. Joslin. (5) Clerks Wanted—A. R. Smith. (g) House to Rent—Peter Cowan. (5) 'iron xpositor. SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, Aug. TT, 1886. The Irish Qinontion. The announcements made last week in. the Imperial Parliament ley Lords Salis- bury and Churchill show pretty dearly what is to be the policy of the new Con: servative Ministry on the Irish question. They will, in the first place, endeavor to maintain order in Ireland witheut hav- ing recourse to coercion ; that is to say, they will not at present ask Parliament to renew the Coercion Acts, but will do so hereafter if the necessity for special powers becomes apparent. They pro- mise to restore order ill Belfast, and to that end are determined, they say, to shrink from. no responsibility. One of the ablest and most eeergetic generals in the British armta Sir Redvers Buller, is to be sent to Kerry, and invested with such powers as will enable him to put down laffIessness there. They will ap- point a Royal Commission to make en- quiries during the ensuing autumn and winter into the working of the existing hind system in Ireland. They also pro- pose to appoint ai commission of three gentlercten of position and experience to advise the Governinent on such ques- tions as the creation of a deep sea fishery off the weet coast of Ireland, the con- struction of harbors of refuge, extension of railways, and arterial drainage. They propose to devote the recess te careful, consideratihn of the question of Local Government for all the three kingdoms, and expect when Parliament reassembles in February that they will -be prepared to submit definite proposals on the sub-ject. For the rest, the corner stone of theiipoticy is to be maintenance of the uoion. Such is the policy of the new govern - mention the Irish question, as defined by its leading members, and if carried out honestly, in good faith, it ought to be productive of beneficial results. If they can restore order in Ireland with- out having recourse to spedal coercive legislation, and if they take steps to de- velop the deep sea fisheries of the west coast, to establish harbors of reinge, to extend the railway system, and, to- carry out a well-designed system of arf t eria,I drainage,theywillnotonly deserve credit, but will prove theneselved the best Goeiernment Ireland has had for many a dayi __As for their proposed sys- term of local Government, to be applied to all parts of the three Kingdoms, we cannot of coarse say what it will amount to till the details are known. But it is very doubtful if they will be able to do any of these things ; and it is nearly certain that their proposed. -scheme of local. self-government will not be accept- ed by the Irish Nationalists. Already -United Ireland, -Mr. Parnell's organ, has declared war to the knife against the new Minietryeancl even so comparatively mod- erate a paper as the Freeman's Journal, the organ of the Irish Roman Catholic hierarchy, is dissatisfied. It demands immediate action, denounces the Gov- ernment's propos-al to ,postpene matters till February next, and declares that the Irish party in the House listened to Lard Churchill's statement with disguit and indignation. This is not an aus- piciona beginning, mid to all appearance the coming winter in Ireland will be a very troubled one. We much fear that Lord Salisbury and his colleagues are not on the right track for solving the Irish question. It seems to us extremely probable, in fact almost certain, that they will be forced into a policy of coercion in Ireland, pure and simple, be- fore three months are past., We do not see how else they can control the Land Leaguers, put down boycotting, suppress moonlighters in the south, and Ontiege and Green riots in the North, and all af which it appears they propose to do. Moreover, the mission af Sir Redvers Buller to Kerry looks very like coercion, though perha.ps it may be' celled by scnne other name. As for works of internal improvement iu Ire - laud, the Irish are not now disposed to accept them in lieu of Home Rule. They want Home Rule in some shape,and will not be satisfied till they get it. The ques- tion Lord Salisbury and his colleagues ought really to consider is how this may be granted to Ireland without. danger to Imperial unity. We bdieve thet by the introduction of the Federal systein, into Great Britain arid Ireland the true so- lution of the Home RUle problem might be attained. The Tories have now a fine chance of settling the matter satis- factoirily by preparing a general scheme of Local Government for the three king- doms, based en the Federal plan. We db not ielieve, howeveie that they will do so. Lord Churchill s scheme of local self-government, so far as we can see from the references to it in the de- ,spatches, is only a plan of local munici- pal government, something like our county councils ; and although it may be useful as a measure of reform it will not, if such be its nature, be ac- cepted by the Irish as a substitute for Home Rule. But unless separation .be their real aim, as their enemies in Eng- land allege, they would be content with a scheme based on the federal principle' , which would give to Ireland local self - _government such as is enjoyed in On- tario, or as in New York State. Such a plan ought to be practiceble, and we are confident would be found to be so. NeWs of the Week. AFFAIRS AT BELFAST.—Affitirs at Bel- fast have almost resumed their normal condition, and no more serious...rioting is feared. STEAMEil. BURNED.—A Russian steam- er has been burned on the Volga ; 200 liv'es were lost. FLOODS IN GALVESTON. —Portions of the cityaf Galveston, Texas, are inun- dated. Loss about $200,000. POLICE ARRESTED.—Nine Belfast pol- iCemen have been arrested and sent tq gaol in consequence of the verdicts of wilful murder returned by coroners' j uries. RIOTS IN ITAPAN.—Fatal riots be- tween Chinese and Japanese have oc- cured at Nagasaki, Japan. FIRE IN SAN FRANCISCO. —San Fran- cisco has had a two -million dollar fire. THE QUEEN'S SPEECH.—It is stated the Queen's Speech will be devoid of any statement of policy or matter lead- ing to controversy., • A NEW DISCOVEB.Y.—A river, said to empty into the 'Arctic Sea, has been discovered in Alaska. MORE Reetaneuenns.---There . have been further eanthquakes at Malta. ANOTHER WAR.—Fears are entertain- ed of another Servo Bulgarian war, the Ports having promised Prince Alexander assistance in such event. A DIFFICULT POSSITION.—The Belfast magistrates are in a quandary as to what course to pursue in the case of the policemen charged _with murder by cor- oners' juries. A RUSSIAN THREAT.--RAISSia threatens that the more she is forced back from Eastern Europe the more she will de- vote her attention " to Asia. CHINA'S CLAIM.—China lays claims to Corea, a,nd will resist any foreign at- tempt to dispute her pretentioris. DRIVEN, FROM WORK.—The Catholics in many of the stOres at Belfast and at the Queen's Island Yard have been com- pelled to give up their work. A LARGE SUM.—A million dollars in gold left Bremen for New York on Saturday. CHOLERA IN AUSTRIA.—Cholera has broken out in the Austrian Province of' Carniola. t. THE PARNELLITES TO BEGIN' WORK.— The Parnellite M. P.'s have decided to force a debate on Irish affairs during the discussion of the Queen's Speech. ANOTHER ANNEXATION. — Professor Brakenbusch has made a large annexe-. tion in South Patagonia on behalf of Germany. HURRICANE IN TEXAS.—A violent hurricane ewept over the southern part of Texas on Friday, doing immense dathage, and it is feared causing con- siderable loss of life.. A Goo') Cfretece For SOMEBODY.—The German Government offers an annual salary of 5,000 marks to any young teacher who will go to Cameroon and open a school there for the instruction of natives. A 0 LA,DSTONIAN VICTORY.—In 'the Leith election, rendered necessary by Mr. Gladstone's election, to sit for Mid- lothian, Mr. Ferguson, the Gladstonian candidate, was elected by a large ma- jority. SWAM NIAGARA RAPIDS.—The, only man known to have swum the Niagara rapids and survive is W. J. Kendall, a Boston policeman, who accomplished the feat on Sunday last. Ile took the water at 1.40 p. m. at a point about a quarter of a mile above the old Suspen- sion bridge, clad in a suit of tights and a cork jacket and struck boldly out for the centre of the river. The eddies took hiin close to the Canada Shore. In a few seconds he Was in a swift drift and was quickly carried to the first high breeker, which he safely rode, and unlike the late Captain Webb, who lost his life trying to accomplish this feat, Kendall topped all the fierce waves, but lost consciousness when tossed into the whirlpool. His cork life -preserver alone saved his life by keeping his body on the surface when unconscious. The feet was attempted for a wager of $1,000 but he says the trip nearly killed him, and no amount of money would tempt him to repeat it. corpse, but he was; met running along to eatch the train. His face was badly cut up by striking the gravel at the side of.the track, and he t sustained &disloca- tion of, the shoulder, which was reduced. when le got to Stratford. —Mr. McBride, of -the Albion hotel, Goderich, has been fined $50 and costs for a.breach of the Canada Temperance Act. —Mr. -George Baird, of Brucefield, meturned home a few days ago- from a three weeks' visit to St. Pauls. Ile is very much improved in health. —Mr., Daniel Dyer travelled from Zurich to Exeter a distance of 124r miles on his bicycle the other day, in an hour and ten minutes. —Messrs. Hamilton and Kilpatrick have the contract for building a new bridge over the Nine Mile river west ofitelfast. They ,expect to finis'h the job this week. —Mr. Atrill, of Goderich, recently lost one of his best bulls, the " Grand Duke," by death. The animal was Valued at $12,000, and was the best of his grade in America. —Mrs.,Curran, of the 8th concession of West Wawanosh, died on the 10th tnst.; from capcer of the stomach. Her (remains were interred in Dungannon cemetery. —Mr. Thomas Poeter has been en- gaged for the position of assistant model school teacher at Goderich, for the next three months. His qualification is grade I C. —Dr.. Macdonald and wife, of Wing - ham, left last week on a trip to Quebec, where the former will attend the annual meeting of the Dominion Medical Asso- ciation. —The people about the Grand Trunk station et Clinton were rather amused the other clay at seeing a woman sitting in the waiting room, calmly snioking a clay pipe. _ —H. I. Strang, principal of Goderich High School, was elected President of the Oatario Teachers' Association, which met, recently in Toronto, and also a director of the High School section. —Whilst returning- frotn one of the Wizard Oil' Company's concerts in Sea - forth, Master G. McCartney, of Bruce - field, lost his horse. Going through Eg- inondville the horse bolted and fell down. In a- few minutes it was dead. —Mr. James Hyslop, near Morris - bank, lost a valuable horse lately. He tied it in the stable at night, and in the morning found it dead. It had got the rope. with which it *as tied twisted, and was strangled to death. —The first new grain of the season wee brought into Wingham by Alex. Porter, of Turnberry. It was a load Of fine plymp barley, and Mr. Porter had it chopped up for his own use at Turner & Agnew's mill. - —Dr. J. Dennison, end wife, of De- Witt, Iowa, were -visiting in Goderich last week. While on the boat Mrs. Dennison lost her pocket book, contain- ing 840, and up to the time of writing had not recovered it., . —A large number of persons visited the green house of Mr. Thos. Kelly, of Brussels, the other evening to see his night blooming Jessamine. Mr. Kelly has a very nice assortment of flowers, and keeps them in good style. . —In one day ,at Mr. F. Scott's, near Lanes, in Ashfield; 523 bushels of fall wheat was threshed with a herse- power machine, and one boxful in .every ten was put in to ensUre good measure. Pretty good work for the old fashioned. Machine. —Last Saturday when . starting to. thresh at Geo. Thompson's, Zetland, the boiler of Leggett & Carriek's machine, exploded, causing a general stampede. Luckily no person was hurt. Steam in- dicators and safety valves -need great care. —The following visitors are being en- tertained at the manse, Whitechurch : Jahn McMillan, B..A., and lady, princi- pal of Ottawa Collegiate Institute ; John McJanet, principal of New Edinburgh public school, Ottawa, and John Ander- son, of Tiverton. —Mr. Robert Lindsay, of Kinburn, with his eldest eon, William, left on Tuesday last week for a trip to the old country. They took charge of some cat- tle for Mr. Winters on the way, hilt the main object of their trip is to revisit the land'of their early recollections. Huron Notes. —The Salvation Army. in Exeter in- tend erecting a barracks shortly. • . —There are 29 Conservative appeals -and 39 Reform against the voters' list in Brussels this year. —Mr., Murray, cheeeemaker, sold the July make of Kinburn cheese„ at a good figure at the Listowel cheese fair. —John Torrance, near Harloek, has a field of peas,- some of the straw of which measures over ten feet in length. —Robert Dickson, of Morris, has threshed his -fall wheat and finds that the average yield was 32i, bushels per acre: —Mr. Diincan Cameron left Brucefidd for Winnipeg recently where he takes charge of a railwa,y station in that vi- cinity. —Mr. Robert Gray left Brncefield on Monday last -week for Victoria, British Columbia, where he intends to stay for a T. Ross, of East Wawanosh, delivered at Blyth last week, 16 head of cattle, a pair of them weighing 3,300 pounds. —A couple of weths ago several Gerd mans from Hay took the train at. Clin- ton for Berlin, • in order te- attend the Sangerfest. After the train had left Sebringville, one of them was passing from one ceach to another, when his hat blew off, and without stopping to think \dint he was -doing, the owner .1 walked off the car steps to recover The train was running at thirty 'miles an hour, and ran over a mile befcre it coidd be stopped ; it was backed up, the occu- pamts expecting to find the old mom a —On Duncan McKellar's farm, East Wawanosh, according to bin measure- ment, allowing 2,160 cubic inches to the bushel, nearly 300 bushels of cleaned wheat were threshed, the product of 94) - acres, in a few hours one afternoon. The wheat is Democrat and Michigan Amber. --While a Belgra.ve hots named A. Taylor, was amusing himself along with some other boys rolling buggY tires on the street, he accidentally rolled one into Rev. Mr. eBurwash's rig, causing the horse to become frighten -ed. For- tunately, it was kept from doing any serious damage. - ,Mr. W. J. Morgan, of St. Helen's, has obtained a situation in Harriston as assistant masterin the high school. Mr. Morgan is an excellent teacher, and his many friends will be pleased to hear. of his success. Mr. R. Brown, another veteran in the pitofession, takes his_place in St. Helens. —A Brussels youth, who had evident- ly been imbibing " spruce," attended the Army meeting in Brussels on Sun- day evening, and after his stomach had turned a somerset he wound up the per- formance by falling down stairs. He was not injured. Shame on the man who supplied the liquor. —The Huron Signal says : Captain Zimmerman and wife, the new officers of the Salvation Army in Goderich, have arrived.- The captain, who was a sum geon-dentist with a large practice when he entered upon the army work, is' a cultivated gentleman, and is held in esteem by those who know him per- sonally. —The Goderich Signal of last week says : Registrar Dickson has been pros- trated for the past week or two with a painful illness resulting. from an ulcerat- to work next, morning, he was a good deal surprised to find a large ball of fire still burning, where the oats had. stood the ni ht before. r. Joseph M. McDonald is Just now visiting friends about Dunlop after an absence of four years. He is now foreman qf one of the leading lumber companies of Alpena, Michigan. He is taking -his holidays at the old home- stead, and his old cronies frequently ex- change experience . with him. under the tall cherry trees. —A couple of the Winthtop factory milk drawees were racing the other morning, when one of them by the name of Godkin, turned the corner near the factory too short, causing his wagon to take a, complete turnover. Nearly all the milk he had was spilt, and the cans were considerably bruised, but beyond this no damage was done. ' ---Mr. E. G. Courtice, of Holmesville, attended the Western District Rifle As- sociation competition at London and was quite successful, winning prizes to the amount of $25. This speaks well for him as a marksman, when it is known that he, had to compete with nearly 100 experts from various partS Of Western Ontario. . _ —A gentleman in the vicinity of Clin-. ton, desirous of letting his friends in the old country know what kind of fruit can. be raised here, has ordered a couple of tbarrels of firat-class apples for shipment thereto ; each apple will be wrapped. in tissue paper, in the same %trey in which manges are wrapeld when they arriVe here. —Mr. Patton, commercial traveller from Toronto, las been visiting his son, the Rev. J. Patton, of Holmesville. On Sabbath morning; 15th 'inst. he occu- pied the pulpit of the Methodist church, and preached a very excellent discourse from " Fear hath torment." This is something rather out of the line of the ordinary commercial travellers' practice. —On Friday evening, 13th inst., the barn of Mr. Robett Dodds, lot 17, con- cession C, Howick, was struck by light- ning and burned to the ground. All of this year's crop of fall wheat, and about 100 bushels of old wheat, -as well as some hay, was. in the barn at the time, and was all destroyed. The barn was insured in the Howick ,Mutual Fire Company for $350. —The Canadian Pacific Railway Com- pany are now building two large water - tanks at Gorrie station. The capacity of those tanks will be 40,000 gallons. They are also placing a stationary en- gine for the purpose of drawing water -from the spring at the foot of the hill on Mr. Roger's lot, and forcing it up into the tanks. This will cost in the neigh- borhood of $1,000. —While driving along the second con- cession of Morris lately, Messrs. C. A. Scott and F. Wright had an unpleasant *experience. A heavy storm was pre- vailing at the time, and just as they were under a tree lightning smashed it into splinters. Mr. Scott got struck on the head, Mr. Wright on the hand, and their horse was badly frightened hy the falling pieces. —The Clinton cricket club, aided by a couple of Brussels:men, Stanley Hayes and Dudley Holmes, of Goderich, and j. Guthrie, of Guelph, played matches with the DetroWand Windsor clubs last -week. At Detroit the visitors got left on a total score of 122 to 88 e but in Windsor the ta,bles were turned. The visitors made onlm63 in tbe first innings to Windsor's 103 ; but in the 2nd innings the men from Huron made 122 -to 44, winning the game by 38 runs. —The mission school picnic, held on the flats et Goderich, on Tuesday after- noon last week, was a decided success. About 100 were present, including visi- tors and friends of the little band. A suniptuous repast was given the chil- dren, who also enjoyed themselves in racing, boating, swimming, Sz.e. The school is now progressing very fairly under the earnest work of a few devoted men and women. —The voters' list of Wingham, for the year 1886, has just been issued. There are in Wingham 486 persons en- titled to vote at both municipal elections and elections to the Legislative Assem- bly ; 30 are entitled to vote at inunicipal elections only, and 93 are entitled to vote only at Provincial elections.' There are in all 609 names on the roll, and 280 ;pers-Ons are qualified to serve on j uries. —Mr. Geerge Agar, of Belfast, in the township of Ashfield, received last week from the Waterous Engine Company, of Brantford, Ms new traction engine .and separator, whith he purchased. from the a e t Mr W Allin It is a onderous Father Shea, of Seaforth, was also pres- ent and assisted in the service. Mrs. T. O'Neil, sister to Rev. Father DeCantil- lon,.presided. at the organ and led the singin . This part of the exercises was done m Mrs. O'Neil's well-known fine style. She always does- credit to the position. . —While a gang of men were loading telephone poles at the depot, Wingham, the other day, the ,upright post to which the rope was fastened for hauling up the poles, fell down, striking Davie, the seven year old son of James Angus, Who was playing around there. The pole first struck him in the mouth, knocking out two teeth, and then caught his left leg, making a terrible gash, and which required eight stitches to draw it together.. The unfortunate lad was picked. up and carried into a neighbor's house, and was thought to be dead. Under efficient medical aid, however, be was brought arciund and is now progres- sing favorably. — W. Wellwood, of West Wawanosh, Wm. Roach, of East Wawanosh, and Thomas Todd, of St. Helefis, arrived home from the old sodehale and hearty, on the llth inst., and brought an ex- cellent lot of ten Clydesdale horees. Thty arrived from Montreal in a palace horse car in good condition. Six of the animals belong to Mr. Wellw.00d, and Messrs. Roach and Todd own two each. These gentlemen are commendable to a community for their enterprise in in- troducing some of the best known breed of horse flesh. — One evening recently the members of the Wingharn. town band assembled at the residence of H. W. C. Meyer, president of the band, and presented that gentleman with an address expres- sive of their appreciation of encourage- ment and valuable assistance he has rendered the organization since he had become connected with it, accompanied by a magnificent gold -headed cane as a token of their esteem. Thepreseetation was quite unexpected, but Mr. Meyer made a happy and appropriate response, thanking them for their handsome gift. Refreshments were served, and a pleas- ant evening was spent by the boys. The cane bears the inscription, " Presented as a mark of esteem to II. W. C. Meyer by the Wingham Town Band, August 12, 1886." —The other day in Wingham a team- ster was hitching up a team of 'horses in front of -Mr. W. Holmes' blaciesmith shop, and was standing between the horses when they got scared and started. off up street, taking the wagon along. He grabbed the lines and attempted to stop them, but was unable to do so. Runnieg along in front of a wagon be- tween two horses, with one of them kicking, is anything but a pleasant place to .be in. At the British Hotel he turned the horses' heads, and they ran against the platfqrm of the pump, which stopped them. Duting their short run one of the horses nearly kicked the driver fair in the face several times, each time the -heels going just over his shoulder. Over the pump a new pita - form had lust been laid, the planks be- ing yet loose. Had it not been for this the ohance,s are one of the horses wopld have gone down the well: The only damage done was the man in some manner having his right boot torn off his foot .end skinning one finger a little. —The Clinton New gra furnishes the following itetn : A certain well-known stock -raiser of the county of Huron re- cently went to the Old Country for the purpose of importing stock ; he came back without any, and report says that his reason for so doing was because of his being swindled out of between fifteen hundred and 1wo thousand dollars. It is the old Story of putting confidence in strangers. It seems that while in the old country he fell ip with a couple of yoling nien, and thoughtlessly confided his business to them, so it is said. .Of course they were Canadians too, and were also over for the purchase of horses so they said. They became quite intimate with the Huronite, who foolishly became equally intimate with them. Wanting to make a purchase one day, they found they had no money ; they had plenty of che3ks and drafts for an unlimited amount, but no hard cash. Would the Huronite lend thein some, taking as security the drafts, until they could get them cashed. Of course he would. He never doubted but that they were as honest as himself, and without hesitation he loaned them all the money he had, finding \viten it was too late that they were swindlers of the meanest kind, and his money gone beyond the possi- bility of recovery. a air and required considerable time in unloading it from the cars. This is the second complete steam threshing outfit Mr. Agar is running in this section, and both- are getting all the work they can. do. —Rev. G. R. Turk, of North street Methodist church, Goderich, is the, proud possessor of the latest ancrbest style of tricycles. It is a' very perfect machine, and the reverend gentleman will find it very useful in making pas- toral calls. It has an _odometer, or dis- tance register attached to the wheel, and at the i end of hie term .Mr. Turk will be enabled with its aid to , give in- controvertible testimony' regarding the number of miles he has travelled in the cause. —The other morning a lad named Percy Naftel, aged about nine years, soo of T. C. Naftel, Goderich, was in his grandfather'e orchard about to• pick apples, when some person on the oppo- site side oftthe fence discharged e shot- gun. One of the tiny bullets entered the face of the lad just above the eye,. but owing to the great swelling which ensued, the surgeon who examined the wound could not tell the exact nature .of the injury. It is hop.ed the sight of the eye will be saved. —Messrs. Scott & Bell, of the furni- ture factory, Wingham, have com- menced the erection of a new addition to their factory. It will be 40x15 feet and three storeys high, and the main part of ed tooth. He has had much pain, and it will be used for the operation of an suffered severely from sleeplessness, but we are glad to know he is pow on the mend We hope to see him at his desk in a day or two. —On Friday night, 1* inst., during the heavy thunder storm, the lightning struck a nrhock of oats on the farm of Mr. James Walkinshaw, of the 3rd con- cession of-Hullett, near thc barn, setting the oats on fire. Mr. Walkinshaw saw the- flash, and thought it struck the barn, and ran out expecting to find it on fire insidObut seeing that all was right in the barn, he want 'back io the house, not knowing that the oats were burning. Although it rained heavily for about an hour, when Mr. Walkinshaw went out elevator, lately purchased by the firm at a cost of 8500. Besides this, they will add a new band saw, carving machine, sand -paper machine and saw table. The firm purpose 'slaking extensive improve- ments to the already capacioua building next spring, and when everything is completed it will be one of the finest factories of ithe kind in the west. —Rev. Father DeCantillon, of Colum- bus, Ohio, preached in the Catholic church, Brussels, on Sunday morning, 15th inet. His discourse was based on lst Corinthians, 10th chapter, 6th to llth verses. The Post eays : He has a very fluent style, and his auditors were greatly pleased with his sermon. Rev. Exeter, which I can also prove, that he had sold to the Messrs Shipley,the day of the trial a Toronto Binderand thatwehad to take theBrantford away. Now, Mr. Editor these are the men who try and make the public believe they would not mis- lead. How low they have fallen, when they have to resort to such knavish trickery and falsehood in order to raise themselves in public opinion, their end is not afar off. Thanking you Mr. Editor I remain yours Sro. . S. A. MOI.TATT CLINTON', Allivst 17, 1886. MR. EDITOR,—Would you be kind enough to allow us a few lines to correct a statement made by W. Stanley regarding that binder trial, in which he states that they' had to go with a scythe to mow the lodged places run over by the Brant- ford binder. This assertion we state to be a wil- ful and malicious falsehood, and the general tone of his letters all through is to mislead the public and not to state facts. We might also state to the public that we did offer W. Stanley 8150 for his Toronto binder, which was all we considered it to be worth. But that was previous to our seeing the Brantford machine, and now we are truly glad he did not take our offer, for we would have made a serious -mistake had he done soi and now after cutting .115 acres we find the Brant- ford binder to be all that it was represented. GEORGE SHIPLEY, THOMAS SHIPLEY. CLINTON, August 17, 1886. DEAR notice that Mr. W. Stanley, Toronto agent, in his letter of wilful misrepre- • sentations in your last issue asks where was my Brantford binder the day of the, trial of binders on Thomas Shipley's farm? I will be a little more courteous than he was with me, as he did not tell me on Saturday nig,ht that there was to be a trial on Monday, nor did I know anything of,it till Monday forenoon, and it will at the same time satisfy his suspicions imagination. My binder the day of the trial was working on my own farm, with a boy driving it for an ex- pert, which is all the Brantford requires, and I noticed at the trial it took several experts to keep the Toronto running at all and keep it from choking, and then only eutting with half of her width, and in tangled spots with much less, and it would have required an extra man to tie up the number of :loose sheaves, I have cut my en- tire crop on both farms, and the Brantford has given the best of satisfaction and in justice to the machine I must say I had not as many loose sheaves in my entire crop as the Toronto made in the few rounds it went at the trial. WILLIAM SHIPLEY. imeseei•- mimmememi Algoraa Doings. EDITOR EXPOSITOR,—DEAR SIR,—The crops in this part of Algoma are good. I have saved 20 acres of fall wheat in good order, and threshed part of it. The sample is good. The Clawson grew very tall, and. the grain is not quite so good as the Democrat, or Martin's Am- ber or Landreath. The Clawson seems, to 'do best on dry, stony land. The Demodrat does best on rich land. I sowed two bushels of Martin's Amber, and it yielded over 40 bushel?: The Landreath is abautthe same. On the . whole 20 acres I think it will average 30 bushels of first-class wheat to the acre. Spring wheat and oats are very good, and will be reddy to cut the last week in August. The kat of the wheat cut be- ing ripe and hard, we thought of trying how long it would take to cut, thresh, clean, grind, and cook the flour. At a given time a quantity of wheat was cut, and taken half a mile to the barn, top threshed, cleaned, and taken 40 rods to the mill, smutted, ground and bolted, and a pailful of flour taken up to the house, and a sponge cake baked—all done in 28 minutes. W. H. Day's Mills, August 14, 1886. Mr. Moffatt's Reply. VARNA AVG. 17th 1886. To the Editor of THE IICRON EXPOSITOR. DEAR. SI R,—Allow me a few tilICS41 your vain-, able paper, to reply to a lengthy letter signed by W. Stanley regarding- the binder trial, held at Thomas Shipley's July 19th and also to endorse every statement I made in my first letter, and I dare Mr. Stantey .to contradict one single item therein. Mr. Stanley tries to work himself into a fury and gives vent to his wrath, after being - defeated by stating I misrepresented the facts cif the case. Why then does he not expose them; I am satisified for the public to criticize every statement I made. -But the truth is; he knows he cannot, and like any other coward attempts to secure himself behind the rules of the Binder Association. For listen to what he says : the binder association by which myself as well as Mr. Moffatt is governed in selling binders, prohibits agents from entering field trials (on any consider- ation) now what does he do in his emergen ey,, as he calls it, he employs Mr. Churchill with his bin- der of 1886 to enter into trial, was that not a dir- ect violation of those association rules, for he says himself agents cannot, under any consider- ation enter into field trials. I3uthe got.another to do what he would do himself, if he • could es- cape the penalty. Does not such a person require watching? and what was this emergency, or what was the object of it? Mr. Stanley states he knew the Messrs. Shipley had bought two Brant- ford Binders. Now they must have had an Ob- ject in view, was it to give a free exhibition to the public,or was it to take a low li fed advantage, to try and sell a Toronto binder,which .you could not do on the square. If it was for the purpose of exhibition and for the benefit of the pnblie, why did they not let us know, and give the public a general invitation, so they could come and judge for themselves which was the better ma- chine instead of sending- special invitations to all the Toronto agentS and particular friends, on Saturday night and Sunday to be judges on the machines. But no, that was not the object, something meaner and f'rnore contemptible than that, they thought that the Messrs. Shipley were not endowed with - in tell igence enough to be their ow n judges, and that they could fetch in- fluence enough to bear on them to return the Brantford binder and take the Toronto. That was the object, like a snake in the grass, or an assasin in the dark would attempt to strike a blow when not seen. Mr. Stanley talks of nfis- leading the public, I ask who are the men who tried to mislead the public. Who told Mr. W. Keys the Toronto agent in Stanley township, that they defeated the Brantford binder and sold the MeSsrs. Shipley a Tovonto binder and that we had to take the Brantford away. Mr. Keys made this statement to several farmers in the- townships of Stanley and Hay, who are will- ing to prove it at any time. Now a man of Mr. Keys pretentionS and moral standing, would not surely make and,tell a deliberate falsehood, oh no, surely not, but nevertheless he had no hesi- tation in telling it, whether he invented it or not. 'Mr. D. Cantelon also stated to a party at of the programme. Some of the public js.—ORhitu the eify were also visited. crhe ihsecaist t,oteeonsl cdchahoonenorcl se Ind ai nyc. tille6aetgnhe.ninl 8Hrtee:olvanietndhedahnIrs. Ritchie spent the vacation among their frieuds in Grey cou—nTtyhe rainy holiday at Stratford proved a veritable bonanza for the dry goods men. -Men's and ladies' water.. uimll-bwreinlidasthwaetrdeotilgrbleaowt pdroomoaf flood .a tIst snadu sein—eAbohdayrdg_owo dor.king man living in St. Mokaaruyesd hrfagdh thoius t etnhteho.etheerabnbigaiglte streets. —A barn belonging to Mr. Richard 41)8140! cows of some better -to-do residents, who make .a cow pasture of the public Walker, near Brunner station, mati burned to the ground on Friday, asti, inst., along with several implements. The fire is thought to have orighiaterl from bush fires which were then raging in the neighborhood. It was insured in the—PAetrtthhIhuatitif a.ullofuorl2y0o0h. oese fair held in Listowel on Thursday of last week, 21 factories registered. 6,381 boxes, July make, about equal quantities pale atm colored. Eight buyers present. Before the close a the market all the offerings, with the exception of one lot, were sold saitt:,P('Cernoolftoesr.sa Gip, and a former' vesident of sor Bell, of Boulder Univer- Stratford, met with a painful accident recently in the vicinity of Boulder while out on horseback. The horse stumbled and fell, throwing .its rider to the ground with suds force as to eause a dislocation of the right shoulder blade. The professor was picked up in an un- conscious state, and for a time his life w a—s od ensep na iirgehdt af t. ely-some evil -disposed persons gratified their melicious and destruetive propensities by ripping webs of fulled. cloth with their tack -knives that were stretched on the stretchers at the Dorman woollen mills in Mitchell. mne of the webs were almost destroy- (- 1, and Mr. Dorman will well reward Lyone who will give information that will bringithe rascals to justice. —John O'Brien, who was incarcerated in the Stratford jail some weeks ago to stand his trial for a burglary committed in St. Marys, effected his esca,pe Monday night last week. He had cut three iron bars in his cell and three in the yard gate. A reward of 850 is of- fered for his capture. He is described as about 5 feet 9 inches high, straight, fair -complexioned,. sharp blue eyes,light hair cropped short, roughly done, fore- head large, nose long and thin, slightly turned up. lie is broad -shouldered, wears an old dark coat and vest, old blue pants and cowhide shoes. —A number of casualties occurred in Stratford on the Foresters' demonstra- tion day. A pocket bocket containing a large Kim of money, was lost on. the grounds.—A young man from St. Marys, named Offield, was run over and had some ribs broken.—The railing of the band stand, on the grounds, came down with a thud? brusing a number of people, one young man had his back badltihurts —By the upsetting of a three -seated carriage, Mr. T. D. Niven, of the Beacon staff, sustained several severe injuries, besides having a rib broken. Mr. Lang, city clerk,' had two ribs broken by the same accident. Alderman Trethaway also sustained severe injuries. Colonel McKnight received a few scratches. The carriage was totally wre.cked. Perth Items. —The fall show of the North Perth Society will be held this year on October 8th and 9th. — Miss Alice Wilson, of /St. Marys, has been appointed teacher in the public schools in Cayuga. —Mr. Maas, pastor of the Lutheran ehurch at Brodhagen, is now away ene joying his holidays. —A number of Foresters remained over in Stratford for two or three days, after the demonstration, taking in the sights. —Mr. John Hodgson, of Hibbert, a few days ago threshed. his fall wheat, which turned out forty bushels to the acre. —The first half of the July make of cheese at Newton factory was sold at the fair in Listowel on Thursday for 9 cents. —Professor Vall,ance has been secured to give readings on the 6th of Septem- ber, under the auspices of Knox church, Mitchell. — Mr. Shearer, of POole, received a bad kick from a colt the other day, which resulted in several broken ribs and other injuries. —Since the organization of the Catho- lic Mutual Benefi t Association, Strat- ford has received 810,000 out of 886,000 paid to families of deceased members. — Mr. Thos. Forbes, of the first con- cession of Elma,, bad two " Clansman " colts put on the scales last week, and they together registered 3,0:30 lbs. —One of Mr. Geo. Vance's boys in Tavistock, had his feet badly burned' hy walking through hot ashes, which had been carelessly thrown on the street. —The farmers in the vicinity of New- ton are busily engaged in threshing their fall wheat. The yield, although fairly good, is not equal to that of last year. —We regret to state that .Mr. W. Oliver, of near St. Marys, whose spine was injured by falling out of a ham- mock, is still in every critical condition. —Mr. George Honey, university stu- dent, has been engaged to teach the school at Fullerton Corners far the re- mainder of this year. —Mr. George Schweitzer, of Downie, brought the first load of new fall wheat to the Stratford market on Thursday, 12th inst. It was a fine sample and sold for 70 cents. . —One of London's city aldermen who attended the Stratford. demonstration, accidentally took the wrong train on his return, and never found out the dif- ference until he woke up in Hamilton. —Mr. W. Hodge, of Mitchell, who has been dangerously ill for some time and had to undergo a very trying surgical operation by Drs. Hurlburt and Hodge, is satisfactorily progressing toward re- covery. —The regular district meeting for the Stratford district of the Methodist church was held in Mitchell ou Tuesday of last week, to arrange for the mission- ary work and all other 'matters con- nection With the district work. —The bonus by-law, granting 8120,- 600 to the Grand Trunk Railway Com- pany, to secure the erection in Stratford. of the locomotive works and car shops, w a—s ent; syo lna r igse tjteirnigty m'a - chinery in his oatmeal mill, at Mitchell, for making pressed or rolled meal. Mr. Thomson was recently elected President of the Oatmeal Millers' Association. —Sir Frederick Middleton remained in Stratford till -Wednesday morning after the demonstration. On Tuesday afternoon he was driven around the city by Mr. BallantYne, M. P. P., and Mr. Mayor Macgregor. A visit to Mr, Bal- lantyne's farm outside the city and an inspection of his fine cattle formed part —Several weeks ago in Stratford, a woman closely veiled, and wheeling a nice-looling baby boy, about nine months old, asked a little girl to wheel the youngster down to Wm. Donaldson's residence, which the little girl immedi- ately did. The woman disappeared and never returned to claim her charge. The case was reported at police quarters, since whieh the police have been on the alert for the woman, and Chief Herring- ton arrested her on an-excarsion train coming into Stratford from the west on Monday, 16th inst. At the police court she pleaded guilty to the charge and was bound over to appear for sentence when called upon. She took the child away. The woman formerly resided in Mornington being a widow named Chal- mers. The'father of, the child is said to be a former welliiknown resident of Mil- yerton. Dashwood. BIBLE CLASS,—The ,Reve Mr. Ort- wein purposes to re -organize his Bible class on. Friday evening next. We hope that all those interested in the study of the Scripturese and in Sabbath school work will attend. FLAX. Mum.—The flax mill of Messrs. Cook & Lindenfeld is now running full time. This is an important industry, and gives a great deal of employment. REPAIR.S.--Our school house ha been 'undergoing some repairs lately. A new ceiling and a new floor has been put in, and the walls have been white -washed. BRIEFS. —Mrs. Fried and her son are away visiting friends in Waterloo and Oxford counties.—Miss Woodhall, Thedford, is visiting at Mr. John Hall's. —Miss Hortense Simon is 'Visiting at Elmirae—Mrs. Kellerman is improving her dwelling.—Messrs. Hy. Kellerman atondNtoghanraNI.Fiiatfiesl. took in the excursion HARVEsT.—Most of the farmers'in our neighborhood are about finished with their harvest. It is true there is here and there an odd piece of oats and peat, but the great bulk of the crop of 1866 is saVed, and on the eirhole we have no reason to complain, but should he thank- ful, a.s the ykld has been a fair one. Daiesiaxe.—Considerable threshing has already been done, in fact the great- er part of the fall wheat has already been threshed, and the yield has proved to be fally above the average, Of threshing machines there are a great many in the iield, but the " Old Reli- able " of Mr. John Voelker, who roan' dleadti.le veteran thresher still lt)aek eise rtne Goon OPENING.—There is a grand opening here for a medical man, There is no doctor nearer than Zurich, which is six and a quarter miles distant, and which has only one doctor. Crediton is seven and a half miles distant, andAbere is only one inedieal man there, so that a man of the medical profession would have a large territory. Fully three miles to the east, north and south could be counted upon; while to the west there tcwioierusintf ttyeadaudnvidsotiNaiv:elclalen-td is five miles, and south-west and north- oo.afdl lot -pvi lee lolpml- sieel tstkicoduld be Niith • •-•• ti$T 11001:esbe:::::aeagc5i:liellitivteisitel--irryvgto,138es.slam.1128:tatiheloubMasVfitotCerals.n'we. j,oeohrw.h:lehsndexesi.rtele:inttlhhseBicasirsl', coop e—P ter Fowler has ,--The Misses Wilson, fi euy farmer. They areis t miaarng :s/g:13 103aas vmh seff luef:3 I -1 a sb: hkowel:f b— 'Tr°, reaisd jeuhek! u. avh deoPr nkggeaht ntidha epd al3g ;him Ile is. at present at his fifth b {jonsiglasuptrsein::Fki:JepLsupSiig:uolEstecib.o.,---oisiiseestiga :Ig3e'rEfi'lefirute,sberrYatYthhea:arbleyenag:::ef cles5sf:,- ois young student has a bright rot of winning more lanrelsin th rasing the exarninaticlm for third DosovgmBrrs. —A number of rieraerecraie:PcsArithir::1:jlaeasiritbeosasuiliinrtTd.eahlhigiaiiiri:leigsoaulih:lealiisl armtilbbaerntloCiwofititehhi:sbt:EVtehbeasnrntaesbeliiigPtIlenIte teem/An-Robert Maxwell is puttii] 0, new brick house, Being hium oirriefwisoughutnetittwr*i?Iihe: bake° unooenv i:sonfjdu hs ttehili:whsot i'llavsivihTil.its:ilecesukpaaajumnppgdpemee'sreaortrietoeCdAesso.—Deen _Ow us thoeouctorlaudniqs oaf the Brussels Positurteuagari clFinirgetheiusjaui iu the Blum -ale ite company case- Thos. Jackson, e Jackson, of Bluevale, was ar a brought before Robert Miller, et Wroxeter, on Wednesday taste inilleentheg;rtsutapilLier,eheinssallyrsa"ileA8 yCo7arrin charge of arson, preferrerada:ybutht: livtiteenti;kitintwagbosyfou,raobtjaoatiCyktoSine.611,nygeSar•rs-' of.ikalgleo:Nr1 Iferhert Lightle, who was appr, biyaeTrhaot:nasofJase3kstoort,asaseicsotrdhlinmg tft: deuce, and indueed by the paltm an -empty house in Gorrie ONVD Jackson, sr., ancl insured in tin rempany for 8300, prevailing on ti that the house would. not sell fc:e $1$37) Sitt213w0 hian!h hifebuwzidd npaorutlidoi $100'. After arriving on the sp Jackson, jr., applying the coal oil own hand, urged the boy to stri fatal rea,tch, which was refus struek the match and handed. it boy, saying The property is o we can do se please.'? the place, he says the line defeoc to shove that the Lightles and J had long been at feud, and the in drawn was that the whole stoi concocted, more especially as the plenty of evidence to prove that . hour of the fire on the Sth of Jule Jackson wee at home with his and sisters. Allow. us to say, inference was drawn, as the forward evidence given by the b uncontradieted convinced all who were open to conviction, t prisoner was guilty and. deser puma' hment that was inflicted.; reference to the feud. that exi tween the Lightles and Ja the former certifies, th ill -feeling exLsts whatever part. It was considered by all that the house was burned pu the insurance, ana it would be v policy for the boy to criminate to implicate young Jackson thro imite, if there was such. Ile states that the trial lasted from until I a. m., and the facts are court was dismissed at 11.30 p -reference to more light T,32i the there was sufficient to conviet oner, and eonvince 09 per ceni audience present that Jaekson, the guilty party.—WATMINTAit. 6. Hay. EXP TOR — y 1 la s Tlionsinsui,nuIEummt_ot.ioritni:tettisv. - ticed a communication from stating that Messrs. Harvey were on the War path, and wc 'what they considered surprisi work. Your correspondent number of acres threshed., in different places, but was caret. tither of the places. Ile al, give the number of busb.els thl 11 rfistr Of Hthaervkeleyal.sonN,VilHeye heavvide not heard of the prodigious Messrs. Berry & Swinertiou threshing line, or he would for hold his peace. Take one -of big day's work, we may as their day's wor • vided it eau be obtained.—P e:petieshiners.413:11Boely & Swinerton's tmioanchthineye wcionnetlhurd:htfloiar wthheencotnlety, faa' fmd -that last week they th Mr. Frank Coleman 1,200 wheat in eleven hours. A number of acres a slay is an that a short time ago they nM1100 onervdsni a. ttPoghei ieryoganunmesdo: nnvi le3di nt ot hIei nm}o: 1 rdo: 40distaaenreees otfhetwsomireilaeas,yt.hrsese Provincial, Guelph, Sept. :kith to Industrial, Toronto, Sept. 6th to Central, Hamilton, Sept. 2.7th to ESNoalsr ttt Western, London, Sept. 27th to CoTning Fairs. -West Huron, Goderich, Sept. 2.1.: al., srku s:ar tsf °err t.,1 fh.21 7; „ELasistot \v‘v,eal:rasIelioits1.17:341telvail Sntie:Ihwertn, asnt4lairl.;:lowertnoel,w1::the.r, 4) e( '74111aanididb2t1hit • Hullett, Clinton, September 23 'vision our The Office of the Division Court, Comity of Huron every lawful da3 at the mil teethe, Goderich Street west, fr m. until 4 o'clock p. and eve done thartis possible in the inte Telephone communication in t Any amount of Money to Loall 'ertY,larm or town, at the very interest, and terms of paymen borrowers. JOHN BEATT