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THE HURON EXPOSITOR
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JULY 223 1887,
NEW ADVERTISEMEN'TS.
aer The figure between the parenthesis atter
each line denotes the page of the paper on which
he advertisement will be found.
Farm in Stanley for Sale—A. Stinson. (6)
Alma Ladies' College—Principal Austin. -(8)
Excursion to the Falls—J. S. Williamson. (8)
Farm for Sale—John Thrown. (5)
Farm in Grey for Sale—G. Avery. (6)
House and Lot for Sale—A. Charlesworth. (6)
A Desponding Lady Rescued—Geo. Good. (6)
Fall Goods—Edward MoFaul. (8)
Clearing Sale—Duncan & Dunoan. (5)
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SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, July 22, 1887.
What is Huron Doing?
There is not a county in the broad
Dominion that is more deeply interested
in the great question of Commercial
Union than is the County of Huron. As
a horse centre it is not surpassed in. Can
ada, while in products of the soil
it occupies an almost equally conspicu-
ous position, and as yet no movement has
been made to let the outside world know
what our people think upon a question
which is of so much interest to all, and
which is destined at no distant day, if it
does not do so already, to take the lead-
ing place in the public mind. It.ift true
that the East Huron Farmers' Institute
have considered the question and have
made a deliverance upon it, but as yet
no move has been made by the Institutes
of South and West Huron. Is it possi-
ble that the farmers of Huron are less
alive to their interests than are those of
nearly every other county in the Pro-
vince? In order to test the matter we
would suggest the propriety of holding a
grand mass Meeting at some central
point in the county at as early a date as
practicable, and that a general invitation
be extended to every one who has the
interests of his county at heart to be
present. At such a meetinithe subject
could be freely and fearlessly discussed
in all its bearings. An opportunity
c ould be given both to those in favor of
as well as those against the scheme, to
make their views known, and then the
meeting could decide on which side it
would be advisable to cast their influ-
ence. If Commercial TJnion would be a
good thing it would greatly aid the _
•
movement to have a mass meeting Of the
f armers of Huron declare in its tavor,
and if it be a bad thing it would be
equally advisable to have their opinion.
Harvest will soon be over, and if a+meet-
ing of this kind. is to be held during the
b reathing spell, which usually takes
place between harvest and seeding,
arrangements should be made as soon as
possible. Who will take the initiative ?
Let Old Huron be heard, from.
Politics in England.
We often hear grumblers complain
that there is too much polities in Can-
ada. This may be, but if we are to fol-
low English precedent in all things we
must endeavor to increase instead. of
decrease our political heat. In the
Mother Country politics seem to be at
t he boiling point all the year round. We
do not know whether the mercury has
been hovering in the nineties there as has
been the case here during the past ewo
weeks, but if it has, we pity the_
poor politicians. Parliament is yet in
session, and England's Lords and Com-
monors are still battling awa,y over the
Irish Land Bill. The Government are
not having as easy sailing as they Would
like, and the Tory Colleagues of Lord
alisbury do not recline upon a bed of
roses. In fact there seems to be ii their
l
political couch fully as many tho ns as
roses. Although Mr. Gladstone a,a d his
._
fol lowers, combined with the Irish
Nationalists, are powerless to defe
Government the other wing o
Liberal party is giving them no
concern. Without th-is support th
t the
the
little
Tory
Government would not live a da, and
all parties know it. Taking advantage
of this weakness Mr. Chamberlain and
his followers make their own terms.
They had demanded several amendments
in the Land Bill Which the Govebament
at first refused to make, and a crisis
was likely to result. The anti -home rule
Liberals, however, stood firm, and Lord
Salisbury had to cave in, and granted
them every concession they asked. So
far, therefore, as the Government and
their 80 -called Liberal -Unionist sUppor-
ters are concerned, everything is once
more serene and satisfactory. But the
Government are now threatened by dan-
ger from another quarter. The more
illiberal of their Tory supporters are
now dissatisfied. They say the aovern-
ment have surrendered everything to
their Liberal supporters, and in this way
have paid too high a price for their sup-
port; and threaten to oppose the Bill
when it again comes before the House.
While things are thus troublesome in
the House there is not much comfort to
•
Tory majority of 405 was reversed and
a Liberal majority of 16 secured, has
deepened the impression which the re-
sults of the elections at Spaulding and
North Paddington had already made on
both parties. The unexpected success
of the Liberals in these three elections
would seem to indicate a turn of the
tide in favor of Horne Rule, thus going
to show that right will ultimately tri-
umph, although it may seem at times to
be buried out of sight and forgotten.
be gained from the country. The Na-
tional Land League of Ireland have Rub -
Hely declared it to be their fixed policy
to set the Coercion Act at defiance and
take the consequences, and it is cortfi-
dently believed the Government lack
the courage to enforce it. In addition
to this the tide of public opinion seems
to be turning in -favor of Mr. Gladstone,
the Liberals kaving recently gained two
elections and greatly reduced the majori-
ty of their opponents in another district.
These victories were all the more grati-•
fying, inasmuch as they were unexpect-
ed. The result at Coventry, where a
2111•11•111•1111MONIMMIIIIIIIMI
Let the Truth be Known.
In his Twelfth of July oration, Sena-
tor Clemow, of Ottawa, like his brother,
Major White, of St. Marys, ventilated
his views on the question of Commercial
Union. Although the propriety or good
taste of introducing such a question on
•
such an occasion, may be fairly ques-
tioned, yet had these gentlemen confined
themselves exclusively to that question,
those outside of the Order, at any rate
would have had no special cause for
c omplaint, as the views of either gentle-
man, on any public question, are not of
public importance. But, the brave
Senator took advantage of the occasion
to make a fierce personal attack upon
Mr. Erastus Allman, who has spoken
and written so ably on this question,and
in addition he boldly accused all who
favored Commercial Union of being dis-
loyal not only to their Queen but to
their own country as well. These state-
ments have aroused the ire of the old
war-horse, Hon. Wm. McDougall, who
is not only an intimate friend of Mr.
Wiman, but an ardent and able advo-
cate of Commercial Union. In a letter
to an Ottawa paper Mr. McDougall
handles the blustering Senator without
gloves. In the course of this letter he
says:
"With all due respect to Senator
Clemow, let me inform him that he has
grossly misrepresented and wantonly
slandered a native-born British 'subject,
who has proved his loyalty by something
more valuable to his country than windy
harangues that have no raison d'etre in
Canada except to keep alive radial and
religious hatreds of the Old World. Let
him ask his Orange brother, Sir John
Macdonald', who it was that detected and
exposed the real authors s of the late
Northwest rebellion. Let him ask fur-
ther why the chief conspirator, a quon-
dam Tory, was permitted to escape, and
why his demented dupe, Riel, was igno-
miniously hanged. When he has made
himself as well acquainted with the
facts on the first point as we know he is
in respect to the last, he will probably
withdraw."
It has been long suspected that there
is a good deal in connection With the
Northwest rebellion and the hanging
of Reil which has never come to light,
and the remarks of Mr. McDeugall will
greatly strengthen that suspicion. The
best indication, also, that Mr. McDou-
gall knows whereof he speaks, lies in
the fact that Senator Clemow, althdugh
bitterly attacked, has not dared to re-
ply. We do not know what the inten-
tions of Mr. McDougall are in the mat-
ter, but it is quite clear that having
said so much he should say morelg If he.
is not prepared to do • this he sh$uld not
have referred to the subject. He has
either said too much or too: little. The =
charge he makes against Sir John Me -
Donald is a most serious one and in jus;
tice not only to himself and Sir John
but to the public, he should make pub-
lic all he knows in the matter. If the
Dominion Government connived at the
escape of the real instigator of the re-
bellion, and in order to assuage public
indignation made a scape goat and vic--
tim of an innocent man the public
should know it. This is, in substance,
what Mr. McDougall's charge amounts
to and he should substantiate it by giv-
ing to the public all the particulars, or
he should be compelled to retract it.
Both the Government and Mr. Clernow
are. compromised, and if either one rests
quietly under the charge thepablic will be
justified in concluding that it is true and
the whole facts will yet be brought out
whether Mr. McDougall Takes a clear
breast of all he knows or not. .
or perhaps a timber limit in that same
favored clime. On this sub, ect the
Montreal Witness remarks: In Canada
at present bribery is not regarded as a
crime. Our first and most honored
citizen acted as broker in the Pacific
bribery business since that crime was
condoned. The House of ,Comrnons has
been full of men who have made use of
theirnposition to serve their personal in-
terests. In fact, bribery has become a
fine art, and whole conetituencies and
provinces are openly bribed. It is not
very long since a large section of the
press of Canada openly defended several
men caught in the act of endeavoring to
bribe representatives of the peo s le. This
state of affairs is in no small d gree due
to the fact that there has been a endency
in the past to denounce brib ry as a
political crime merely, and e en those
who disapproved of it were c ary, ap-
parently, of invoking the pe alties of
the law against this class of c iminals.
The sooner this practice is ab ndoned,
and the New York receipt, wit out the
long trial that is part of the •rocess in
thatcity, is adopted, the bet er it will
be for Canada.
IN dayegone by we were accustomed
to hear much of the wickedness of Ameri-
can cities, and the corruption anll im-
morality -of American politicians as well
as the laxness of American i laws. It
now looks, however, as if in these re-
spects our American neighbors could
return the compliment and, point to Can -
1 •
ada with as great- cempassion and disap-
proval as we were Wont in olden times to
point at them. Bribers and boodlers do
not flourish there now as they did Ouse
years ago. The people have become
awakened, and they now follow
up and secure these gentry with a
precision which. the _people of some
other countries Might follow with,
advantage to ! themselves. , The States
prison now has withlti its pre-
cincts over a score of "practical politi-
cians," who are serving terms of
imprisonment for crimes against honesty
and political morality. The last instance
on record is an old, wealthy rascal,
named Jacob Sharp. He bribed a num-
ber of legislators to sell him a franchise
out of which -he expected to make a vast
sum of money. For this he has just
been sentenced to pay a fine of $5,000,
and to imprisonment for four years, and
each one of his dupes has been punished
ia a like wranner. Had this man Sharp
been in Canada he vtould, in all likeli-
hood, have been made a Senator, or a
deputy speaker, or he would+ have been
given a lucrative office in the Northwest,
THE Toronto Telegram sensibly re-
marks: It is announced that the Do:
minion Government contempla es send-
ing a trade commissioner to C ina and
Japan with the object of impro ing our
commercial relations. Would t not be
more to the purpose to send a t
missioner to the United States
same object? The Chinese and
are, no doubt, interesting p
they are thousands of miles aw
the people of the United Sta
our doors. Between Canada'a.
lies a wide ocean; between Ca
the States an imaginary bound
It is much easier to do buiin
blood relations next door than
ple of a different race on the o
of the world. It would be a
advantage if Canada had a p
agent or commissioner at Wa
as she has in London. Such
would always be on hand to
Canadian view of internatio
tions and see that it found its
the American press. he fish
tion was never placed fairly b
American people by their own
Naturally enough those jour
the American -view of the case,
Canadian view did not get a he
Canada requires a commissione
don, -where the officials are not
able to the Canadian view of
-that arise, she is much more in
one at Washington.
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HON. Mu. MOWAT, Premie of On-
tario, has gone to England. T e object
of his mission has not been efinitely
stated, but it is supposed he in ends ap-
pearing before the Privy Coun il to look
after the interests of his Provi i ce in con-
nection with the disputed case between
the Province and the St. Satherines
Milling Company, or more properly
speaking the Dominion Govern nent. It
will be remembered that this case was
decided adversely to the Domt ion, and
in' favor of the Province, a f w weeks
ago by the Supreme Court of Canada,
and it is supposed it has been appealed
to the Imperial Privy Council in Eng-
land and that -Mr. Mowat has gone to
plead the cause of Ontario before that
tribunal. A Toronto paper saYs : "He
is going over to have conferred on him a
title at the hands of the Qu en. Mr.
Mowat has been leader ef a Go ernment,
although of course it is only a rovincial
Government, for a longer c ntinuous
period than any other politi ian who
ever held office in Her Majeat 's domin-
ions. He is certainly as deser ing of a
title as any of the more or les distin-
guished people Of this and ot er coun-
tries who have received such d stinction,
and if it pleases Her Majesty o offer to
make him Sir Oliver, and he i desirous
elf the title,no one has any right to say him
nay." It is quite true that M. MoWat
is deserving of any honorable nistinction
that can be cbnferred upon hi , but we
do net think that any title sucl as that
hinted at in the above quotat on would
add anything to his dignity, or would,
it increase one iota the esteem in which
he is held by the people of is native
Province. On the contrary, ti e people
of Ontario would be very mi eh disap-
pointed should Mr. Mowat m nifest any
such weakness as to accept of a title
of this kind. These baubles ever had
much favor in the eyes of the people of
Ontario, and of late years the have be-
come so cheap and common s to lose
any charm or dignity they eve possessed.
Mr. Mowat needs no such tin el to raise
him in the estimation of the people of
Ontario or embalm his mentor in their
affections. They think more of him as
plain Oliver Mowat than they ever
would do as'Sir Oliver.
Edward Stanhope, IN
War, sta,ted in the English
Commons a few evenings a
Canadian horses which had
chased for army purposes w
lot, but he regarded the price
the horses too high, and he h
it was not worth while con
experiment, and he was consi
in future, horses required for
News of the Week.
VESSEL SEIZED. —Another British ves-
sel has been seized for fishing in Alaska
waters.
THE CRIMES BILL.—The Irish Crimes
Bill has passed itf3 final stage in the
House of Lords.
RAIL COMMIJNICATION.—There is now
direct railway commuhication between
Calais and Constantinople.
PLOT REPORTS DISCREDITED.—Berlill
officials discredit the reports concerning
plots against Emperor William.
NEW AUTHOR.—Prince Jerome Napo-
leon will publish a book entitled,
t"oNrs.apoleon the First and his Detrac-
MEDIATION.—Archbishop Walsh is
endeavoring to induce the Government to
suspend further eviction in Ireland until
the Land Bill has been passed by Par-
liament. He suggests a conference of
the leaders of the various parties on the
subject.
DROPPING Om —The New York Com-
mercial Advertiser asserts that the mem-
bership of the Order of the Knights of
Labor has fallen from 1,000,000 to less
than 600,000 within the last fourteen
months. _ i
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ADMINISTERING REBUKE.—Both Mr.
Dillon and Mr. Redmond have rebuked
Mr. Devitt for his ill-advised speech to
the Coolgraney tenants, urging them to
offer armed resistance to evictions.
PLOTTING TO KILL. —Religious fanatics
at St. Petersburg attempted to kill the
wife of Grand Duke Nicholas Constan-
tinovitch, cousin of the Czar, because
she persisted in remaining a Lutheran.
WILL ENTER THE ARENA AGAIN.—Sir
Charles Dilke will return to England on
the llth of August, when he will enter
politics openly and be formally adopted
as the next Liberal candidate for Chel-
sea.
SEVEN THOUSAND, CHIEFLY WOMEN.
—The Queen, on the 14th inst., laid the
foundation stone of the women's me-
morial statue to the Prince Consort in
Windsor Palace. Seven thousand per-
sons were present, chiefly women.
A CYCLONE IN WISCONSIN. --A cyclone
struck the town of Waupaca, Wisconsin,
Monday evening. Several public build-
ings, a church and numerous private
houses were either totally or partially
wrecked. No one was injured.
FRIGHTFUL EFFECTS OF AN ExrLOSION.
—Detail a of the explosion of the gunpow-
der magazine at Massowah, Rome, on the
llth hist., show that 10 Italian soldiers
were killed and 70 injured, and that
camp property worth $200,000 was de-
stroyed. -
FREDERICK KR11PP.—Frederick Krupp,
the well-known G-erman metal founder
and gigantic ste 1 gun manufacturer.,
died on the 14th "net., in his villa near
Essen, Rhenish Prussia. Her Krupp
was born at Essen in 1812.
SOMEBODY SURPRISED. —A sensation
has been caused in Sumpter county,
South Carolina, by the discovery that
Colonel Wm. J. Reynolds, one of the
wealthiest farmers in the State, who
died last month, bequeathed the bulk of
his estate, estimated at $600,000, to a
colored woinan, s ho was formerly his
slave, and with w tom he lived for many
years, and to her hildren, of whom he
, is the father.
FATAL HEAT.—Sixty-two deaths from
sunstroke or heat prostration occurred
in Chicago between Saturday merning
and Sunday nightir Philadelphia kports
47 deaths from t e same cause between
Saturday mornin , and Sunday noon,
and several other cities in the States re-
port an unusually large number of fatali-
ties caused by th4 heat.
CHILDREN'S R FUGE BUREED. —The
other morning at an early hour a fire
broke out at St. 4-offeph's asylum, New
York, in which were 200 children asleep.
By good manage ent all were got out
without injury xcept one little boy,
who was severely burned.
POLITE BUT UNGENTLEMANLY.—A
young woman visiting at a friend's house
in Portland, Maine, was the other
night awakened b a noise in her room,
when a burglar Iput his hand over her
mouth, kissed hr, and said: "Keep
still, sis ; I won't hurt you; all I want
is those trinket." She managed to
arouse the hous
"Good -night, sis,
' window, having
inieter of
House of
• that the
been pur-
re a. good
paid for
d decided.
timing the
ering how,
the army
could be obtained at home. It is unfor-
tuna that this experiment has not
prov n more successful.
, when with a polite
' he sprang from the
a bundle containing
every portable article of value- in the
room and a sum of money. He left his
hat behind, and it was hung on the hat
rack in the front hall to- be given to the
police as a clue. The family retired and.
the burglar returned and stole the hat.
STUNG TO DEATH BY A BEE.—John D,.
Van Gorden, 69 years of age, of Ding
-
man's Ferry, Pike county, Pennsylvania,
was- killed by a bee sting on the wrist
Wednesday morning, 13th inst. As
soon as he was stung he bathed the
wrist, and was returning to work, but
in a few minutes the pain became so in-
tense that he started for the house. As
he entered the harm he groaned, "Oh,
I am going to die," and immediately
expired. He was a prominent citizen
of Pike county.
TORNADO AT NEW YORK.—A tornado
struck the lower bay at New York on
Thursday night last week. The Bay
Ridge steamboat! Elijah Hancock, with
1,000 passengers, was entering her dock,
when she was caught by the gale and
spun round like a top, losing her smoke-
stack and bulwarks and smashing her
furniture. There was a great panic on
board, but no one was seriously hurt.
The boat, howeVer; drifted before the
storm and tide until near Bedloe's Is-
land. Herb, a yacht with her sails set
came driving'befcire the stdrrn and cap-
sized, her crew of four sinking before
help could reach them. A yawl with
three men on board was also enlfed
and all Were droWned. After the Wind
subsided the Hancock returned to her
destination. All along -the shores of the
bay the storm did great damage, and it
is feared many lives were lost.
glimpse, rushedbetween the the two
lovers, crowding his daughter's part-
ner from the sidewalk and talking her
into tears. The faces of both assumed,
periodically, the national colors—red,
white and blue. The young man swoon-
ed a couple of times, then made for the
nearest back street; and the daughter
was placed in *.e care of a female
guardian for the day. They hail from
the southern part r Usborne township.
—The Exeter Times is responsible for
the following: A buxom young maiden
of some nineteen summers, on Tuesday
morning last, while wending her way to
the depot with her comely admirer
marching gallantly at her side, was ac-
costed in the micist of a crowd by her
ever -watchful father, and severely re-
primanded for having disobeyed a com-
mand given on the previous evening.
As near as our reporter could catch the
strains of the conference, it seems that
the parent had prepared a code of rules
whereby the lass was to be guarded
during the day, while at Goderich. A
clause was that she was • not to allow a
certain young man to have any con-
versation with her. So far so good;
but no sooner had she arrived in town
than the said young man linked his arm
with hers and both set out for the first
special train. They had not gone many
yards when the parent, catching only a
Huron Notes.
A. R. Smith is going to move his
general stock of store goods from Sun-
shine to Brussels this month. Sunshine
will be at quite a loss for a store. -
—John C. Heffernan, of 'Ethel, has
sold his 50 acre farm, near that place,
which he bought from John Cober a few
months ago, to Chistepher Resynard for
$1,825.
—Mr. Hoggarth, jr. of Stephen town-
ship, met with a painful accident last
week by having the thumb of his left
hand jammed between the cogs of a self -
binder while in operation.
—Mr. George Moir, formerly of the
Exeter Reflector,' is now editor of the
St. Marys Journal. Mr. Moir is a
clever writer and if he likes he can make
a great improvement On the Journal.
—The estate of Mr. George Willis,
grain merchant, of Exeter, has been
placed in the hands of Mr. George
Samuel as assignee to be dealt with as
the creditors may direct at a meeting to
be held in Exeter on the 22nd inst.
—It is reported that John McIntosh
has been engaged as teacher of the Gran -
brook school, in the township of Grey,
for next year, commencing January lst,
1888. He has purchased • a house and
lot.
—Mr. Shapton, of Stephen, had fall
wheat growing on his farm this season'
the heads of which measured four inches
in length and all were well filled with
bright, plump grain. The wheat is of
the Michigan Amber variety.
—Farmers along the northern gravel
road in Hallett, were a little surprised
the other day at seeing a steam traction
engine hauling along the road over 5,000
brick; they were being taken to Blyth,
and this is about as much as would be
taken by five wagons.
—Last Tuesday Hugh Hanna, of Mor-
ris, was badly injured by his team run-
ning away. They were attached to the
mower, and the cause of the runaway
was a. broken bit. Mr. Hanna was se-
verely injured, and it will be some time
before he is able to work.
—Messrs. J. & J. Wilson, veterinary
surgeons, of Wingham, went to Mild-
may, in the County of Bruce, on Friday
evening and examined six horses, the
property of two farmers, and found them
suffering from glanders. The horses
were handed over to a magistrate who
had them shot.
—On Monday afternoon as Charles
Taylor, of Morris, was assisting at a
barn raising on the farm of Wm. Clark
he fell through the floor and ,had his
head and back injured by coining in con-
tact with a piece of timber. II was un-
conscious when picked up but is pro-
gressing favorably.
—Mr. Joseph Heapy, son of Mr.
Joseph Heapy, of Manchester, who re-
sides in Dakota, a few weeks ago got
his house completely destroyed by fire
Firehad been placed out in some grass a
distance away and having spread swept
away the house, all its contents, and a
large quantity of wood.
—When Rev. A. E. Smith, late of
Varna, arrived at Wroxeter last week,
he found his goods all unloaded from
the train and conveyed to the parsonage
for him, and as soon as they had got the
house straightened up, the Methodist
friends of the neighborhood assembled
and gave him and his esteemed wife a
very cordial reception.
other evening, while Miss Her -
.bison,. of Goderich township, was driv-
ing along by Fair's Mill, in Clinton, a
sudden jolt of the buggy, supposed to be
caused by a low culvert, threw her out,
and she fell down, the horse stumbling
also. She was somewhat cut and
bruised, but fortunately escaped any
more serious injury.
—Dr. McDonagh, who for some time
has been practising in Toronto, but who
is a Huron boy, being a native of the
township of Colborne, and having re-
ceived the rudiments of his education in
Goderich, has been appointed on the
new staff of the medical faculty of To-
ronto University, as lecturer on Laryn-
gology and Rhinology.
—A large addition has been built to
the residence of the late Robert McKay,
8th concession of Grey. This line boasts
of the best houses and barns in the town-
ship. Mr. Hugh Lamont, also of Grey,
has raised his barn and will have stone
stabling put underneath this summer.
Mr. Lamont has a splendid farm and he
takes good care of it.
—On Saturday, while Mr. John
Hooper, of Exeter, was riding on and
operating a sulky bay rake in the old
race course, the horse attached took
fright and ran away. Mr. Hooper fell
forward and got entangled in the bows,
and was dragged along the ground for
at least one mile. He sustained no seri-
ous injuries but was considerably bruis-
ed and shaken up.
—Mrs. Hamilton, of Lakelet, an old
lady nearly 80 years of age, left her son
John's to go to the residence of another
son a short distance away,one evening
last week,and got lost in a strip of wood,
through which she atteMpted to pass,
.and remained wandering about for two
• days when she found her way to John
Scott's, in Howick, in a very precarious
'condition.
—On the afternoon of the 12th of July
information was laid against W. H.
Barton and Henry Lacket, of Teeswater,
who were running A stall in Gorrie, for
infringement of the Scott Act. A search
warrant was issued, and the tent 'was
searched by constable Ardell, and a keg
containing whisky was found. The
parties were arrested and brought before
R. Rose and J. D. Smith, J. P's. who
found them guilty and fined. them $50
and costs, amounting in all to S63.415.
—The Women's Christian Temperance
Union of Brussels have decided to ar-
range for the formation of a Band of
Hope in connection with the various
Sunday schools in that town. It is ex-
pected that arrangements will be made
to have a mass meeting of the children
on every Sunday afternoon at the close
of the Sabbath schools, during the sum-
mer months, meetings to be held in the
town hall, and to be addressed by the
resident ministers and others.
—One day last week Mr. C. Avery,
of the London Road, Stanley, was lead-
ing a vicious bull down the road to
Brucefield, for shipment, holding it by
a ring in the nose, to which was attach-
ed a stick. A sudden toss of the bull's
head broke the stick, and -almost before
he knew it Mr. Avery had tumbled
over a barbed wire fence to a place of
safety. Knowing that to recapture the
buil involved risks which he was not
willing to take, Mr. Avery sent the hired
man down to shot the animal, which he
did.
—On Tuesday Of last week Mrs. John-
ston, of Wroxeter, Lachlin Campbell, of
Gorrie and Wm. Ward, of Molesworth,
were brought before Police Magistrate
Williams, at Wroxeter. They all plead
guilty and were each fined $50 and costs.
At Brussels on. Tuesday this week,
before P. M. Williams C. Dames, of
Cranbrook, acknowledged having violat-
ed the law and was assessed. $50 and
costs. The case against J. Hargreaves,
for selling wine for sacramental pur-
poses, was withdrawn, and the one
against G. A. Deadman, for a similar of-
fence was dismissed.
—An itinerant lecturer, styling him-
self Dr. J. L. Smith, arranged for .a
lecture in the Town hall, Brussels, last
Monday evening. His subject was
"Connecting Links," and he advertised
it as one full of pathos and instruction,
making plain to all that animals think;
that they reason and profit by mernory
and experience. Also showing man's in-
termediate rank, and the lessons to be
learned from the inferior creations
around and below us. It seems Brussel-
ites did not care to know anything about
the lecturer or his antecedents, as his
audience was made up of himself and J.
Meadows, janitor of the hall.
—Mr. Edward Roberts has purchased
Mr. Clark's interest in the mercantile
business of Roberts & Clark, Exeter,and
will continue the same as heretofore.
Owing to inability through indisposition
and ever failing health Mr. Clark was
ultimately compelled to give up business
and retire to private life. His sickness
is internal abscesses, and his physicians
have no hopes of his recovery and res-
toration to his former health. During the
three years that Mr. Clark has been in
business in Exeter he has made many
warm friends who will regret to learn
the cause of his retirement from public
life.
—At a regular meeting of the Gode-
rich Board of Trade held last week,
among other business transacted. was a
motion authorizing correspondence with
the Grand Trunk. Railway authorities
with a view to have the old excursion
rates to Goderich restored. Complaints
are made from several points that the
rates of former seasons cannot be had for
excursions to that town, and that the in-
creased rate is likely to prevent several
excursions contemplated this season. A
committee was appointed also to inter-
view members of the Provincial Govern-
ment as to the possibility of securing the
location at Goderich of the new insane
asylum buildings contemplated for the
Province. The county town, is becoming
ambitious in its old age. With a Gov-
ernment post -office and an insane asylum
Goderich would be set right up.
—On Friday of last week Mrs. Philips,
of Wingham, met with a sad bereave-
ment. Her little boy, Harry, aged 12
years and 8 months, accompanied by an-
other little fellow, Willie Lynn, were
sent raspberry picking, but Harry
thought to take a bath before going.
Accordingly they repaired to the river
to what is known as the "deep swim-
ming hole" situated at the junction of J.
Elliott's and M. Cassels' prairies. Harry
went in, but his mate would net, The
poor little fellow must have taken a
cramp as Willie says he heard a splash,
looked and heard Harry say "Oh Billie !"
and then saw him sink and never rise
again. This is the second case of drown-
ing in exactly the same place in two
years. Harry was an only son, and
much sympathy is felt for his widowed
mother.
—On Wednesday of last week a barn
raising took place on the farm of Mr.
Abel Walper, a short -distance north of
Exeter, in the township of Usborne.
There were a great many friends present
assisting at the work as well as many
who contented themselves by looking on.
The barn, which is 72x68 feet, is mount-
ed upon stone walls nine feet high, and
two feet thick, 1 and was raised in an
hour and a half ;without a hitch. The
frame work of the barn is 34 feet high,
and will hold snfficient fodder- for the
use of his stock during winter. The
stabling below will ,accomodate fifty
head of cattle besides there is an
apartment to be used for storing 2,000
-
bushels. of turni s. It is the largest and
best arranged barn in the vicinity. The
work was done by Mr. James Johnston,
of Rodgerville, and reflects creditably on
that gentleman.
—The severest rain and wind storm of
the season passed over Witigham on
Saturday morning the 9th inst. about
11.80. Five minutes before the rain fell
the sun was out, and no signs of the ap-
proaching storm were Visible. The wind
was blowing slightly, the rain began to
fall slowly, but increased rapidly. In
a few minutes it seemed as though a
small cyclone had struck the town.
Awnings were torn from one end to the
other, and half-inch iron rods bent. and
twisted, shingles were torn from roofs of
houses, bricks blown from chimneys,
beautiful shade, fruit and ornamental
trees broken down and limbs torn off,
two panes of glass were broken over the
Bank of Hamilton, the ornanient on the
south corner of the Baptist church was
blown off, together with some bricks,
water ran down either side of the main
street in streams six feet wide, hail big-
ger than peas fell, thunder could hardly
be heard, and lightning was scarcely
visible. On the 6th and 7th concessithss
of Turnberry the lightning was severe.
To the north a few rniles no rain fell un-
til the afternoon, and it was the sane in
parts of East Wawanosh. The storm
seemed to come from the south. -
—Rev. W. D. Ballantyne, who has
been appointed principal of the Ottawa
Ladies' College, has been pastor of the
Presbyterian church in Pembroke for
some years. During the last Provincial
election compaign Mr. Ballantyne voted
for Mr. Thornaa Murray, Reform candi-
date in North Renfrew, and defended
the Mowat Government from the
charges made against them in connect-
ion with educational matters. The mat-
ter was much discussed in and out of
the press, and finally Mr. Ballantyne re-
signed his charge, although at a meet-
ing held in the church some time be-
fore a large majority of the people sus-
tained his cor duct. Largely through
his efforts the Presbyterian congregation
in Pembroke erected a handsome stone
church at a peat cost. Mr. Ballantyne
is known to be an upright, conscientious
man, fearless and outspoken in his con-
victions. He is an earnest Prohibition.
ist and took an active part in the Seat
Act campaign in Renfrew. Mr. Baa
lantyne was born in Scotland, but
coming to Canada when young, was ed.
ucated at University and Knox Colleges,
Toronto. He graduated from the first:
named institution with first class honors
in English literature and modern lain
guages, taking the degree of B. A.
Formerly he had charge of the Wood-
stock Collegiate Institute.
Commercial Union and
Annexation.
(From the Toronto Mail.)
Two leading Orangemen, Senator C15-
mow,of Ottawa, and Major White, of
St. Marys, took advantage of the cele-
bration on Tuesday to condemn Com-
mercial Union as annexation in disguise.
Neither produced any evidence in sup-
port of this position. Both carefully
at ivo oni sd e i. do mtheent ii?.. ;
vinces which can only be settled on a
Singularly enough, Mr. White and Mr
na s ot ef nathoastied bwurenstgnqpersoa.
permanent basis by Commercial Union.
Cleinow were enthusiastic supporters af
the fiscal independence of Canada as
established in 1879; and so far as we
know their fresh -found solicitude for the
British manufacturer has not taken the
forrn of a protest against the iron du-
ties, It is to be regretted that they -
should have introduced the subject of
Comthercial Union and yet refrained
from giving both sides of the controver-
sy. We venture to direct the attention
of the Orange body to a few of the facts
which these gentlemen omitted to cite.
In the first place, we assume that
Orangemen are bound like the rest of us
by the obligation to be loyal to Canada
first. Love for the Old. Land, venera-
tion for her institutions, respect for her
Sovereign, these are not incompatible
with that patriotism which places Cana-
dian interests upon the highest level of
our esteem. If this be the case, then we
invite the Orange body to contemplate
the disaffection now rampant at the ex-
tremities of the Dominion, and to ask
themselves whether it is not their duty
e Canadians to seek to remove it.1 Some
i ; the strongest advocates of ComMercial
Union in the Maritime Provinoes are
0: angemen. They do not desire annexe-
tien ; on the contrary, it is precisely be- -
cause they dread it that they support
Commercial Union. The most loyal of
men must have a chance to thrive if he
is to remain contented. The throwing
down of the Customs line between New
England. and the Atlantic Provinces "is
the only remedy I know of," writes a
distinguished Presbyterian clergyman of
Halifax to a contemporary, " fer the
evils that now beset and oppress this
end of the Dominion." It won d give
the Maritime people that whicli they i
are now denied and without whiCh they
cannoc prosper, namely, customers for
their ships, coal and fish, which they do
not and cannot sell to ue in Western
Canada. In the Northwest and British
Columbia a somewhat similar state of
things prevails. Orangemen are among
the most ardent opponents of the policy
of commercial isolation to which ve are
subjecting those young communit es. A
speaker at one of Tuesday's gat ierings_
said the cardinal principle of Ora geism
was "to do as you would be done. by;"
and we should like to know what Mr.
Clemow and Mr. White would say if
they were compelled to trade in a mar-
ket from 1,200 to 2,700 miles distant,
with markets quite as good at their very
doors. In Quebec the same phenomenon
is witnessed—Orangemen are amongst
the foremost supporters of continental
free trade. They feel that the task of
converting that Province into ani actual
as well as integral part of British Canada
is growing more and more hopeless.
Instead of seeking to obliterate the race
divisions the politicians have sedulous-
ly encouraged their growth in order to
gratify the clerical party, whose future
lies in perpetuating New France. And
to speak candidly the English minority
in Quebec is justified in casting no small
share of the responsibility for this per-
sistent catering to clericalism upon the
Orangemen of Upper Canada who have
allowed themselves to be inveigled into
the maintenance of the reactionary
church by professional politicians mas-
querading as the champions of civil and
religious liberty. Unrestricted trade
with the United States is the only con-
ceivable agency by which the ecclesiasti-
cal system which weighs so heavily upon
the enterprise and intelligence of Quebec,
and which is a standing menace to the
peace and welfare of the Dominion, can
be broken up. The ingress of American
capital, attracted by the good natural
resources, by the unequalled water
power, and by the cheap labor of the
province, would help to ,drive snit the
sixteenth century and to introdude mod-
ernt ideas that would make for th eman-
cipation of the people. The :hagfish
garrison, now hard driven, wo ld be
strengthened by the advent of Men of
their own race and tongue; and in course
of time Quebec might become a N hiable
member of Confederation instead 4f being
an incubus and a nightmare upon us all.
We have said nothing of the enefits
that would accrue to Ontario fro conti-
nental free trade simply leeause re are
desirous of excluding sel *sh COI sidera-
tions and of confining the ilsSue at resent
to the single question of patriotilsm, by
which we mean the great t good to the
greatest number of Can dians. If the
measure would stifle the angry feeling
which exists in four of the provin ces and
bring hope to those who are str ggling
for the light and the right in a fifth, On-
tario would of necessiv profit by it -
She cannot prosper as she ought whilst
the rest of the Dominion is discontented.
The millions upon millions already spell
in bribing the smaller prOvinces to sub-
mit in peaee to the artifiCial conditions
of trade imposed upon them hav6 comp
in thei main out of her pocket; and shoad
Commercial Union be rejhcted at .tlei in-
stance the wasteful and i nmoral process
will have to be begun anew, though
many well-informed persims belive the
Maritime Provinces wo ld sunnnarily
terminate the partnershi ) by going out.
Against the.se weighty considArations
Major White and 'Sena or Clen,ow bet
up the bogey of annexat on. itip Man,
single-handed, has done ore ini recent
times for the maintcnanc43 of thinteg-
rity of the Empire than 'rolesso Gold -
win Smith; and the fact hat he .. pporbi
Commercial Union and is persuaded,
first, that it is the only availablemeans
of keeping Confederation together, andl
secondly, that instead of injuring it
would inure to the ad vAntage of Eng-
land, is worth at least aa much as the
off -hand weculations of Uesera. Clernow
and White to the contrary. But we do
not hesitate to say again that, W hilst it
th e CO
filwitir pareertbo:tdemaS
be interests of
, I". other conside
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harve,st throughout the t
—Mr, D. N. Hogg's
efotabli;ellinfreont rabinurnSintrgatthfc'enl<
coal oil stove used to hei
the tailor shop burst into
/Ally,' during noon hour
nately discovered in tin
Any serious damage:
—The garden party On
the
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Baird, of the Mitchell r
of Fullarton passed al
Another old settler I
- yawed _age of 81 years a
The deceased was buried
saemetery .Mitchell, on
noon,
—Mi's Fannie Byers,
ford lts December wl
for Indi as missioner
on June Ilst in that far
clergyman, Rev. Jose
of Bellary, also a for
Stratford. Miss Byers
Calcutta, girls' school
marriage. She will sti
-with her husband in nsi
--The Salvation Ar
Listowel had a narrow
the second time destr
was aye Nfi. rearnMS 1: 30 rigng°1St
. 413:1:1'ranleeeederfina°11reifdad. dalw3rlittle harm w
But water
apart of the roof. Tb
to have originated f
Moyer's gristinill.
. Ai -e -x-0. noav\Vane:Inineisailnady R
-De af P tA ul Iraend Btowy ° Y°
d. and1 1 1 3Bge n
the township of Elm
being connected with
of "swamp whisky'' • ,
Elmaknown, aleirN. 0C. 2a1,75,aonn,
he found the us
ti
quired,for a whisky ti
, whererder, ,
away, He failed, holl
"spirits," as it appear.
ery had not got fair
o;
1)owned —TiTThursday'T.
by
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est 11110iGrts"bWe liOani ;it gh JO
iriwithlegtu the 43tables, and
behalion, gf:oni.t GtroeytItoiewlnalsil
of the hotel were save
°:neerd nighthome while
ah
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Ivb ehdellit titlee tPhi i83 at gms u''pir
'Eeveral days, The s
am at l ih ey!‘ , oca ubli bno :ter! us a7pn5 d .i t bs escels,
delay, -
1113sejt:ne&'er \Yia.Thilirgtiojelk
weather was excessi
log Elora they took
the carriage, hitch
said sent one of th
of a fiddler. He d.
Over Elora, and
NA. When the
Gualph it was haral
and since that tin
heeli almost powe
thinks the horse ha
fron the loss susta
cruelty to an anini
-est reprobation.
--Among the f
I works which ha
receive authoriza
aelsoole from the
are two native te-
for the Public and
laelv arithmetic, it
Pear 'kith the ih113T
nett, and a High
tonibining