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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1887-07-29, Page 41 'tt 7 ' 4 • THE HURO ••• EXPOSITOR JULY 29, 1887. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Bar The figure between the parenthesis after own line denotes the page of the paper onl$vhich the advertisement will be found. Still Selling Out -R. &.M. Ball. (£1) Auction Sale of Farm -Robinson & O'Brien. (5) Teachers Wanted -Fred. Hess. (5) Farm for Sale-Jarees Cowie. (5) t • Cheap Sale of Remnants -Hoffman & Co (1) Done a World of Good -George Good. (5) ' Clintomnore Farm for Sale -James JohnitOn. (5) New Books -Lumsden & Wilson. (6) . Money to Loan -Expositor Office. (8) ' Attention -Court Sherwood Forest (8) Servant Wanted -C. M. Whitney. (8) New Stock of Goods -A. Taylor. (8) Farm to Rent -D. M. Buchanan. (5) ° • Fa.rrn for We -Michael Murphy. (5) Distinguished Specialist -Dr. Washington.; (5) Cheap Cash Sale -Frank O'Neil:(8) . demmansionema Tann exfooittit SEAFORTII, FRIDAY, July 29, 1887. The St. Thomas Disaster. The coroner's jury empanelled to en- quire into the causes which led to the dreadful railway accident at St. Thomas, of -still& we gave full particulars last week, have not yet rendered their vet - diet, but judging from the evidence it is not difficult to predict what the nature of it will be. A great many witnesses h ave been examined, and those who seem to know most about the affair, agree in attributing the accident to the f allure of the air brakes to work proper- ly when required for use. It heti also been brought out pretty. clearly that the conductor, whose duty it was to •zprame in,e and test the air brakes and prove that they worked properly, failed to do this before leaving Port Stanley: The conductor examined them but did not test them. In so far, therefore, as he failed in his duty in this respect, he is responsible for the accident. This is a terrible warning to all men placed in - • „. responsible positions where humap fife. may depend upon the performance of every minute duty, that nothing should be neglected. It is quite possible that this same conductor had examined and tested these brakes hundreds of . tittles before and had always 'found. them eight, and just the very time he had neglected the duty wasi the time the test was required. It has also been clearly established that the train was running at a high rate of speed and. chat, no doubt to save time, the engineer had disregarded the first semaphore raised against hini, ex- pecting that with the resources lat his disposal .he would have time epough to stop his train between the second sema- phore and the crossing where the, collie - lop took place. Here, again, had the rules been strictly adhered to there would likely have been no collisiop, for even had the air brakes not been work- ing the train could haye been stopped between the first semaphore and the crossing without them. This, theta was the second fatal blunder. Had the air brakes been all right the train could have been stopped in time even although the first semaphore was distegarded,but, unfortunately the brakes refused to work and consequently the disaster. Olcourse both officials are to Marne in so meeh as they neglected duty and disregarded the instruetions ladd down for their guidt &nee. But, the same thing occurs every day with thausands of people and in other spheres besides in conaection with railway trains. How often do men start out with vehicles and neglect some trif- ling detail which should be performed, but which, through familiarity with the work or some other cause, they over- look, although they know right well that should that particular part prove defective in a crisis the most 'serious consequences may result.; This sort of thing is done by thousands every day, and still, when an accident oc- curs as the result of sueli over- sight, it is often the case that the most neglectful are the loudest in their condemnation. We do not say this ,for t he purpose of encouraging or condoning such c-arelessnees, but we do say, that while such accients should be a yearning to all to be more careful and exact, the liability of all to err should temper with mercy the judgment of the public against those through whose 'slips calamities such as that at St. Thomas occur. It was also at first reported that tie engi- neer and conductor had been 'over -in- dulging during the day, and ti4t they were in a state of partial inebrietP. This, however, turns out notto have been the ease. The moat positive evideace has been given at the inquest in denial of this report. suffering death instead of m king an attempt to save his life. Ills cnduet is generally approved of, and is c e aracter- ised as the height of braver .. It no doubt does show a brave ep rit for a man to face almost certain dea h in this • way rather than to seek his ov person- al safety by deserting his post. We are not sure, however, that such ravery' is either discreet or juetifia 1 . If b remaining at his post and sa :Icing hi life he could have averted the Iaocident then his bravery was co But it is foolhardy for any m fice his life or even to endan believes heicannot do any g endable. to sa.cri it if h d by th sacrifice. On this occasion, *f 1 the engi neen.when he taw that clic inevitable,a.nd knowing that all in his power to ayett it, ed. his post and saved his o llision tva e had don had desert wia life, th act would be More commenclaWe tha, that of facing sure death simply as a act of bravado or through a false sens of bravery. , 1 Sound This Time. Some of the Conservative papers wh ca a not refute the arguments of the Com mereial Unionists seek to prejudice thei readers against it by stigmatising it Grit device to upset the Government o Sit John McDonald and bring about an- nexation. For the information of anel, who may have been misled bythis styl of argument we quote the followin statement of Mr. !John Whites -ex -M. P Mt. White, as every person knows, is Conservative of the strictest sect, and i addition is an Orangerna,n high up. W do not take much stock in Mr. Joh White, but his head is level on thi questioa. To a reporter of an; Otta,w newspaper he embosomed himself a follows a few days ago: "Really, I don't see how in the worlil we, as Conservatives, can go back on reciprocity. Why, that is what oulr party wanted when they were in Opt position ; and when the tariff of 1879 was passed, a clause was put in autha- izing the Government, without consults. ing Parliament, to -take the duties o everything that The Americans admit free. That being done, I claim that th next proposition should come from • the Arnericians : but if they come forward and offer us complete commercial rec.- procity, such as is proposed by ]tr. But- terworth's Bill, how can we refuse it? °If the Americans take down thel bars at - together, we ought to do the sat e ; th isthe simplest way out of the d fficul Of course I would like that Canad should be able to regulate her ow tariff as against the rest of the worl but I suppose arrangements in regar to that matter can be easily made. ani -not afraid of the disloyalty er If my loyalty is so poor that I can stand trading with Yankees, it is might poor stuff. I have been selling gra,i and horses to Ameri-cans for yeaa, years,, n it has not made a Yankee of 'me. am surprised that there should ls any talk about disloyalty to Eng land An connection with thi matter. ' It is purely a commercia question: A. few days ago a friend 0 mine, a leading man in Hastings County said to me, 'Why, Commercial Unio would make Yankees of us.' I said t him, 'Did you not marry. an America lady twenty years ago; are not all yo wife's relations in the States, and are yo any more of a Yankee because of that? I had him there. If marrying a American wife will not make a man Yankee, I am sure that selling horse.. and barley to the Americans won't. think that complete :reciprocity woul be a good thing in the country.' a There is this also to be said in favor of bath the conductor and engiaeer. It is possible that even had every Precau- tion been taken the air brakes might have proven defective. They are, it is said by some, a very MIxeliEible brake, and often fail- to perform the Work for which they are required. It would be well, therefore, for railway authorities to take steps to supplement them by some other. It is' quite certain it is. hardly safe to rely upon the air brake alone, and it might be advisable to compel railway com- panies to furnish, an additional brake, which could be used as a substitute to thme air brake in case of failure o emer- gency. If there were a peran nt rail- way commission this is a subi ct they could investigate and determine i but in the absence of this the Domiision Gov- ernment should take the matter up. In In this connection it may not be out of place to remark upon the conduct of the engineer in remaining at his post and 1111•1111111111.1111011E111=1•1111111111 3 11 • mistake which, we hope, will not be ratified by the rank and file of the party in that constituency. EDWARD HANLAN, the once, famous Canadian oarsmannieems to haste come to the front once more although iia some- what circuitous manner. 1n1a race at L Pullman, Illinois, the other day, be- tween himself and his recent a tagonist, Jacob Gaudaur,-for, the cham onship of America and $1,000 a side, he won by considerable odds. For some un- explained reason, however, the race was deferred until late in th evening, and most of it was rowed in the dark- ness: Hanlan came in first a d was de- clared the victor, but Gaudaur rowed a long way round out of his course, and there is a strong suspicion that the *hole thing *as a put up game to gull the public, and although. Hanlan has won the race his victory does not bring him much honor, nor does it seem to restore the confidenee of his friends in his con- tinued prowess. Rowing is a1 healthful and beneficial pastime, and as such is deserving of commendation, but like so THE Reforiners of South. Renfreu have selected Mr. Duncan McIntyre, o Montreal, as their eandidate to fil the seat in the Dominion Parlia meat rendered Vacant by 'th death of the late Mr.. Campbell. Mr McIntyre is the ex -Vice -President of th Canadian Pacific Railway Company,an is still a large property owner in tha mammoth and powerful concern. Asid from this, as far as we jolOW, he is very -estimable maneand no doubt th Reformers of South Renfrew have right to select whomsoever they will fo their candidate, but outsiders have a equal right to express an opinion o their action. It is not often we hap for the defeat of a Reform candida but on this occasion our sincere wish that Mr. McIntyre may be defeate The Canadian Pacific Railway Compan have too many of their creatures in th Dominion Parliament already, and 't ill- becomes the Reformers of Sout Renfrew or any other constituency add to that number. The compau possesses entirely too much power ovir the Do minion Government and Parli ment already. They have shown th t power on and in as now own cal party desirable sessed of a hundred different occasion many different ways. The the Government and one palit in the country, and it is n t that they should become the other party also, as the • many other sports, which ar selves harmless, it is bein brought down to ihe level course and the gambling s account of the betting and b ism connected with these rowi they are riot only uncertain in they are demoralizing in ever nine cases out of ten every p becomes connected with or d terested in them is, drawn in a Haulm', for a time, withstood sure, but he, too, seems to h and even his best friends cann confidence in him, and no pe those in the ring, have a whether any race in which part, has been honestly conte • COMMENTING on -John Brig on Commercial Union, which in another column, the Mon ness says it should. be pon.dere citizen of Canada. Mr.. Bri that, next to war, the protec is the greatest enemy of n -that Canadians, with all the ages, are voluntarily slaves. plain that the Commercial Li mentis the natural outcome of the high tariff, and is on step in the line of separ. Britain, that being the great seems to think it worth while Canada to revert to free tr She will do so some day, but she can only see one step in ti ion, and that is free •trade United States. seem anxious to do. It is imposs ble for a man to serve two master The Canada Pacific Company have ha -large dealings with the country in to e past, and the account is not yet close by any means. When questions affec ing the interests of the Company co e up in Parliament,how can it be expect that men like Mr. McIntyre, Mr. Smit 1, Mr. Abbott and others whose fortun are bound up it the Company, will a t independehtly and in the interests of ti: e country if those interests are inimical o the desires of the company of which th are members. The thing is contrary human nature and impossible. Tiny will go with the company to bleed ti e country every time. The Reform Co -vendors of South Renfrew have made a 0 in them - rapidly f the race loon. On ackguard- g matches result,but way. In rson who rectly in - d ruined. the pres- ve fallen, t now put son, save certainty he takes ted or not. t's letter e publish real Wit_ by every lit asserts ve system tions, and ✓ advant- Re makes ion move- nd sequel y another tion from one. He to advise de views. mean time at direct - with the THE Coercion Bill having b the Salisbury Ministry ha somersault on the Irish lan which has completely sur friends and foes. They has in a land bill of extremely lib sions, granting advantages much in advance of the exist tion, which they descried as tic- and a spoliation of the The change of front, in fact plete as to furnish consider for the supposition that. t meat, alarmed at the defecti ,of the British supporters, is the support of the Parnell have certainly thrown over lords and the Irish Tories. ecome law, taken a question, rised both e brought ral provi- • tenants ng legisla- comrnunis- landlords. is so com- ble ground e Govern - n of many idding for tes. They. the land - I 11 ponverts amongtt studeps. The Shah AN Ottawa dispatch says: Mr. McLelan, Postmaster-( en eral, has undertaken to get even with Cartwright for the drubbin latter gave him in the Ho mons the session before last, after Mr. ir Richard which the se of Com- McLelan had delivered his fi Budget speech. He has o name of the postoffice at Car West Durham, to be change wright to Blackstock, in h gentleman who opposed M that riding last February. erected a monument to Mr. and sat upon Sir Richard, MF. McLelan, has gone off to enjoy a two rAonths' holi- day. It is to be hoped the ex -F later will be able to Survi shock, although the hot wea shock together may be hard st and last dered the wright, in from Cent - nor of the .Blake in laving thus Blackstock cf Persia has alit orised the American missionaries, to , establish at Teheran a hospital in whieh, without regard to nationality or religion,' all applicants for relief may be receiv d for treatment. €1 Dr. Torrence, physicia to the missiop, has been appointed director of the hos- pital, and the Shah has named him Grand Officer of the Order of the Lion and the Sun of Persia. ! No OOMPROMISE.--t- Anti-Viverty Society New York Dr. Malty Labor Party would nu with any party, an s candidate for Presi dent of the United DEATH OF ' TH FRIEND. -Miss J essie Collins, who founded several c aritable institutions in Boston and was Iknown as the workd ing girls' friend, d'ed last night. RELIEVED BY RAIN. -A heavy shower in the South Western States broke the heated term. Dispatches from all over Central and Southern Illinois note heavy erareinpfs.alls 'which will greatly benefit THE ELMO ,SHIELD. -The rifle con- test for the Eldho Challenge Shield tok 'place at Wimbledon Saturday. The English team won by a score of 1,570 points. The Scotch team made 1,559 and the Irish t am 1,556. A GREAT V LCANO.-A violent vol- canic eruption ccurred on the Island of Galata, off the ' coast of . Tunis, on the 24t1i inst. Streams of lava are rushing from the crated of the volcano, and the glare of the flames was visible for fifty miles. FOUR THMAND RENDERED HOME- LESS. -Three hundred and fifty houses have been biirned at Svenzjany, in Vilna, Russia. Four thousand persons are homeless. WATER FAMINE IN MANCHESTER. - Drought is causing a water famine in Manchester. The corporation has ordered a limit placed on the city's sup- ply, having directed that the flow be stopped every 'evening at 8 o'clock. Is WELL SATISFIED. -The North Ger. mau Gazette thinks the Afghan bound- ary settlement' opens up a highly satis- factory prospect of peace in Central Asia. A it OTIIER SNUB FROM Rossi. -Under an edict of the Czar the frontier station on the Warsaw & Thorn railway, where Russian goods have hitherto been re- loaded for transfer td Prussian lines, has been pulled down and the raile, platform and sheds. have been removed. FORTY-EIGHT HORSES BURN -ED. -A fire broke out last Monday rriornin in a New York stable in which a hundred horses were stabled, and- forty-eight of them were burned to death. The build- ing is occupied by Fleischman's Vienna Bakery, and the horses were owned by that concern. Total loss, $40,000. THE AFGHAN BOVNDARY.-A despatch from St. Petersburg says :-The protocol regarding the.Afghan• frontier has been signed and Col. Ridgeway, the British Commissioner, is about to return to t a meeting of the he other night in said the United. keno compromise ould nominate a e t and Vice-Presi- States. ; WORKING GIRLS' n.ance Min- e the great her and the n him. News of the Week. DAMAGED BY HAIL. -A heavy hail storin has swept over Switzerland doing great damage to crops. • FIRE. -St. Matthew's German Luth- eran church at Chicago wat .destroyed by fire Saturday afternoon. Loss, $25,000. MISS CLEVELAND AS TEACHER. -Miss Rose -Cleveland, the President's _sister, will take a position in a Fifth avenue,• New York, school id Septei aer. UNDER THE CRIMES ACT -Eighteen counties and eleven towns in Ireland have been fully proclaimed nd twelve partially proclaimed under the Crimes Act. Risn i TOBACCO. -At Louisville, Kentucky, the price of tobacco has ad- vanced $2.50 per 100 pounds in three days. The rise is due to a, s, ort crop. HANGED. -Henry Wiggirs, colored, was hanged at Palatka, lorida,, on Saturday, for the inurder of William Porter, a white man, in 188. THE FREEDOM OF DUBLIN. The -Cor- poration of Dublin to -day co ferred the freedom of the city on Willi rn O'Brien and Patrick Collins, of Bos n. ABQUT M ISSIONS. -The w rld moves. It is just eighteen years sin e the firet Protestant chapel in Spain as opened in Madrid. To -day there are 14,000 openly professed Protestant belonging to sixty Protestant organ zations, in Spain. Until recently one f the most .celebrated schools in J pan, Mrs. Fukuzawa's, was avowedly i fidel. Last year some missionaries wer employed as instructors, and now the e are fifty England. TEXAS FEVE A :a one- ICAN SAS CATTLE. - Since the Tex s fever was reported at Greenleaf, Kansas, two weeks ago, the contagion has spread with remarkable rapidity. One farmer .has already lost ninety per cent. of his stock. The dis- ease came from Kansas City. The Legislature failed to appropriate any money 'for the protection of the cattle in- terest, and the State practically help- less to wage battle against the fever. THE NEW ROUTE FROM THE EAST. - Among the 'assenaers y the Sardinian, which arriv d at Liver ool on Saturday, were severa gentleme who had trav- elled from the East via Vancouver. They speak highly of the advantages of the new ro te and its attractions for tourists. .EIARPER' Miss Josie PRETTYCLERK ARRESTED.-- olmes,who was the exchange clerk of the late Fidelity National Bank in Cincinna;i, and whose visits and con- sultations ith E. L. Harper, late Vice - President of the bank, caused his re- moval to "the Dayton jail, has been served with a warrant charging her with aiding and abetting Harper in his illegal conduct, f trial. Up exarainati bond of $ done, and UNCLE The Unit has issued The total of the United States increased in round °in $428,000,000 in 1885 to 0 in 1886. The most impor- in this gain of $37,000,000 was the inereased production of pig iron from 4,044,525 long tons in 1885 to 5,683,329 long tons in 1886, and an appreciatiOn of 75 cents in the average value per ton, making a total gain of $30,489,360 in this industry alone. r which he is now awaiting n being arraigned she waived n arid was requirecl to give a 0,000. This has not been he still in custody. SAM'S MINERAL 7 WEALTH. - d States Geological Survey a report in which it is etatecl : ialue of the mineral products numbers f $467,000,0 taut factor Mr. Dexter to Drive on. 'By some means some of the tannery men and taken to the 'trip rope got round hi,- neck and the British hotel where medical aid was drew her up almost to where the car was, I procured and he was properly attended when Mr. Dexter noticed her and imme- diately released her from her perilous position. Fortunately she was not seri- ously injured. -A barn belonging to Mr. -D. Mill, of lot D, concession 7, Usborrte, was struck by lightning Sunday morning'about thtee o'clock. Several tons of hay and a new cutter were consumed with the outbuildings. -The other day Mr. Geo. Collinson, of Ilullett, met with an expensive acci- dent. He had the horses in the field attached to a mower, and. left them standing for a few moments, when they ran away, causing a bad lsreak of -the mower. - The other dap Mr. W. H. Way, of the base line, Hullett, extracted firom one hive 42 lbs. of honey, and from two others 74 Ibs., making a total of 115 lbs., all itrom the upper story, not touching the body of the hive, all three hives having been extracted from previonaly. --In the gravelling contract on the boundary between Grey and !anis townships Quintin McBlain was the suc- cessful tenderer in the north, .at 47 cents per square yard, and A. McKay for the south, at 49 cents. $80 worth of gravel was put on in the north, and $120 worth south of Brussels. -It is said that Mr. Erastus Wiman, the eminent -Canadian-American and millionaire stock' operator, who at pres- otorietp as the apostle niou, was a resident ear raforth, when a ying clerked in a store • 11.11=11....1111.1111111111111111111 ent is gaining of Commercial of Harpurhey, young man, he h there. - We regret to learn that T. F. Young, of Port Albert, formerly a school teacher in that section, and well known to many in Ontario as a writer of verse of more than average worth, has been stricken down with insanity, and has been committed to Goderich jail as a dangerous case. _ -On Saturday last Messrs. John Avery, of Stanley, P. McGregor, of Brucefield, and Isaac Rattenbury, of Clinton, left for the old country. The two first named take over their cattle, about 125 head, and all will govern themselves in buying stock or not before their return, ' -The date tor . holding the West Huron Fall Show has been changed to the 45h, 5th and 6th of October, as the three days originally specified were found .to be on three of the days of the Western Fair. Over $2,000 will be offered in prizes this year, and it is expected that fair week in Goderich will be one of the great events of 1887. -Mr. James Patterson, of the Lon- don Roaci, near Brucefield, has erected his mammoth new barn, size 50x85, with brick basement. The mason work was done by Mr, Copp, of Sea,forth, and the wood work by Mr. Keating, of the same place. It is one of the finest buildings of the kind in the vicinity. -Adam Sipple, who is out on bail on a charge of committing burglary at Zurich some weeks since, has been sent up for trial by Police Magistrate Wil- liams for assaulting one of the witnesses in the case, Edward Curwin, also of Zurich. It is alleged that prisoner threatened to murder Curwin if he ap- peared against him at the trial. -According to the voters' list for the township of Usborne which has just been issued, there are 731 persons eligible to vote at both municipal elections and elections tO the Legislative Assembly; 31 eligible to vote at municipal elections only, and 64 eligible to vote only at eleetions to the Legislative Assembly. There are 30 female voters, and 368 per- Huron Notes. There are in the Township of Grey 1058 duly qualified voters. Of these 526 are eligible to serve as jurors. -Clinton. has decided to have its civic holiday on Friday, August 5, and the Mayor has issued his proclamation accordingly. -Mr. John Robertson, of the 14th concession of Grey, has a Scotch thistle - growing in his garden which measures six feet eleven inches in height. -There are 972 qualified voters in the township of Hay as shown by the voters' lists. Of these 36 are female voters, and there are 362 - eligible to serve as jurors. -A farm of 100 acres, _being lot 15, on the 3rd concession of Grey, was sold by auction in Brussels a few days ago for $2,340. Mr. Henry . Savage was the purchaseri -Conrad Nebal, of Grey, had a span of horses I burned while stopping over night at the Commercial hotel, Mill- bank. The fire took place about 3 o'clock in the mo ning, but how- it originated is a myster . -County Clerk :Adamson has been served with a writ at the instance :of the Licence Cbrnmissioners for non:paymeiat of the sun claimed as the County's two- thirds sh -re. of :cost of enforcing the Scott Act -The s at Goderi forenoon running a earner Upited _Empire called h on her down trip Sunday and surprised everybody by sround at the mouth of the piers, notwithstanding the dredge has been at work for some weeks. -What might have been a very seri- ous accident occurred on the farm of Mr. Theo Dexter, of Hullett, near Kinburn. It appears they were unloading hay with !a hay fork; Mrs. Dexter was on the !load setting the fork,after which she told th. Meanwhile the horses kept on their mad career, until they had reached the top of the hill in front of P. Deans' resi- dence, where they were brought tie a standstill by Mr. Deans. Mr. Broachie's injuries are of a very serious nature, as he is hurt internally as well as external- ly, and being a man of about sixty years of age his recovery is not a matter of certainty. -We record this week the death of the wife of Mr. Thos. Miners, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Andrews, da,ughter Of Mr. Philip Andrews, of Us - borne, Which took place on Sunday morning after a brief but severe illness. Deceased some time ago contracted a cold, which seemingiftivolous received but slight attention, but whit& in the course of:a few weeks developed into in- flammation of the lungs. She steadily grew worse, until life departed as above stated. She had attained the age of 28 years and 4 months, and was highly esteemed by all who had made her acquaintance. -On Saturday morning as John Leg- gatt, of East Wawanosh, was' drivirig down a hill on his own farm, part of the harness broke and let the buggy in which he was riding, run against the horse, which became frightened and started to kick. In kicking it sent its feet through the dash board and caught one of them in the body of the buggy. The animal" tried to free itself, and in doing so, made a sharp turn around, which caused the driver to vacate his seat in the rig in a manner not to be desired. Mr. Leggatt lit on the ground on -his hands, and had. both his arms broken just above the wrists. No other damage was done, as Mr. Leggatt, even with his two arms broken, grabbed the horse by the head and held him until aid came. ---The following taken feplis an Ottawa paper will be of interest to rtiany of our readers :-Miss Bina Farrow; the beauti- ful and. accomplished daughter of Thos.. Farrow, ex -M. P., was united in the bonds of matrimony to Mr. Brownlee, merchant of Carleton Place, by the Rev. Mr. Carson, at the Dominion church, last evening, at the hour of seven o'clock. Notwithstanding that the wedding was private the bride received numerous costly ptesents and reeeived the con, gratulations of a large number of friends. The bridesmaid was Miss Bradley, of Huntley, and the groomsman the brother of the groom. The bride looked charm- ing in her travelling suit, and with her husband left for the West -on their wed- ding tour. The many friends of both parties extend to them their best wishes for their future welfare. d -The Clinton New Era of last week has the following : -A certain person in town who is noted for his good looks and size was over at Bayfield recently and concluded to reduce the temperature of ehislaell dybuyraenb,elimb- bathe in the cooling waters fia ; "He hung his clothes on a maple And jumped right into the water." After enjoying himself to his heart's de- sire he concluded to dress, but was startled to find that three girls, who were not apparently afraid of seeing a man naked, were calmly watching him from the bank. He waited in the water in the hope that they would retire. With annoying complacency they sat and enjoyed the fun, and after he had waited until patience ceased to be a virtue he pulled his clothes from the limb, and, standing in.fourfeet of water, he deliberately put cm his raiment in that undesirable attitude to the great delight of his unknown tormentors. If he had had even a "paisley" shawl to sons eligible to serve on juries. -Mr. Thos. Churchill, of the 16th protecthave beenhimsofrboamd.their gaze it would not about 85 acres et hay this year, and he Exeter Times of last week says ; concession of aoderich township, cut -The Ex lf The contracts for the mason work, wood thinks it will yield a good ton and a ha work, slating and cut stone of the Trivitt to the acre. Mr. Thornton Wallace, of Mm Hullett, cut about half this amount, aned tohrei Memorial acthe ruiraclhi,s beingExet esp., l aaereed aenl I tl ehte, Mr. John Mills, near Harlock, in Hul- with a similar yield to the acre, while ground. The generous donor, Mr. Trivitt, lett, housed over one hundred tons and is aiming at one object, only the beauty of the building regardless of the cost. got it all in in the very best condition. As the magnificent structure grows foot -A young gentleman recently arrived by foot, the people of Exeter will be in Exeter from the old country, leaving able to form an idea of the ornament to his wife and family behind him. He is the town which the piety ancl generosity of this gentleman erects. The arch over favorite with the fair maidens of Exeter, a rather comely person and soon became a i the western door of the tower will be paying particular attention to those o supported upon four pillars of red New his choice. By some means his wooing Brunswick granite with pedestals and got to the ears of his wife, who at once set sail for Canada, arriving in Exeter capitals of Ohio sandstone. The bell floor of the tower will be reached by a consequently cut his fun short. She the roof of nave and chancel will be con - spiral turret stair, and the cresting on Saturday last much to his surprise, and says she will stay right with him now. structed of tiles battlernented like those i '---The voters' list for 'the village of upon the town and aisles of banter Pareter, just printed, contains the names of, 506 persons eligible to vote at both municipal eleetious and elections to the Legitlative Assembly; 35 eligible to vote at municipal elections only; and 16 eligible to vote only at elections to the Legislative Assembly. There are 33 women voters; 11 land owners' sons; 5 Nkiage earners, and 5 income- voters. There are 204 persons eligible to serve at jurors. In all there are 557 voters. -We are sorry to record the death of Mrs, Abraham Crich, of the 2nd conces- sion of Tuckersmith, which occurred on Wednesday last week. She has been ailing for about a year past with con- sinnption, and leaves three small chil- dren. Prior to her marriage she was a Miss Cudmore. She was a member of - the Methodist church, and was only 28 years and 6 months old. Her husband has the sympathy of Ms many friends in his bereavement. --During the half year ending 305h June there were registered with the township clerk of Stephen, 55 births, 38 deaths and 13 marriages. The assess- ment roll for the same township for 1887 shows that there are 1083 children be- tween the ages of 5 and 16; 464 be- tween 7 and 13, and 436 between 16 and 21, the total population of the township being.4252. There are 456 dogs 1772 cattle, 1881 sleep, 812 hogs and 1290 horses. There' were 543 acres in fall wheat this year. I -On Friday morning as Mr. Robert Broachie was iriving a team of horses over the GrandsTrunk railway at Wing - Ram, a cart scraper which was attached to the end of die wagon, caught on the track and trilde a thundering noise, which caused the horses to run away. Mr. Broachie hung to the lines as best he could, when all at once the wagon fell to pieces, and the driver was pre- cipitated to the ground in front of the Wagon. The horses were going at a furious speed, and as Mr. Broacriie was thrown to the ground. the wheels passed overhis left arm, smashing it terribly. He was next struck by the scrapenwhich dealt him a terrible blow in the back and side,breaking some of his ribs, and throw- ing him insensible into the ditch on the side of the road. He was picked up by ' States are to be admitted into Canada free of duties, or at lower duties than from England, another and more serious step would be taken in the rection of separation. If the States and Canada could adopt free trade or a tariff with low duties, following thea ample of England, the example of the English-speaking nations would have a great effect upon other nations and would influence the world favor of peace. The great enemies of mankind are war and the tariff. . War and itei expenditure and waste give an excuse for tariffs or render them aecessary, and tariffs separate nations and make war more probable and more frequent. It is a deplorable thing that, im your great and free continent, the only thing not free is the industry of ymir people, and that you in this respect f011ow the per. example of the old and blind nations of Europe. England sets a grand example, and -it is always a grief to me that her children in other lands and on your continent do not.admire and.follow it. Yours, etc., JonN BRIGHT. cathedral, England. -The Goderich Signal of 18.4 week says: A man by the name of Daniel Morrison, a cripple by misfortune and a tramp by occupation, created some little excitement Tuesday last by attempting to cut his throat in the vicinity of the market. He first borrowed a knife from old John Sturdy, but it was not sharp enough to let blood without pain, and he gave it up in disgust. Then he got the knife of John Reid, caretaker of the courthouse, but was unable to tell the edge from the back, and after a fu- tile attempt to cut his neck with it, was forced to relinquish it to the owner. He was taken in by Constable Yule, and on commitment by ex -mayor Horton, was relegated to the jail for safe -keeping. Wednesday he was brought before his worship the mayor, and ordered to leave town. If it wasn't that the fellow is a cripple a dozen lashes with the cat o' -nine -tails would soon take his anx- iety for notoriety out of him. He hails from Cape Breton, and has been around Goderich for the past month. If heever commits suicide it will be by drinking whisky, and some there are who con- tend that that is a very slow poison. London, July 25, 1887. Commercial 'Union. DEAR EXPOSITOR. -Noticing by your article of the 15th thatyou have espoused the cause of Commercial Union, and are evidently a positive exponent of the views held by Mr. Erastus Wiman, per- ymnint rmter etaot mt take eefxtchercliouneettont, buS al istoo to its exposition by Mr. Wiman. I sin- cerely hope that I shall not add another contribution to "most of the sentimen- tal rubbish whieh has been written and spoken in opposition to the proposed change." However,I have given slue gence to all that has been written, from an economic point of view,on both sides, ffer haphtraaskee,11,tlirie. \al-) iomv ea law o'8 would anddr es were treDIuth be its proper designation. Your article at of the 15th contains about all of import- ance in his address, and this I shall ate tempt t� deal with in its economic aspect. It is interesting, on the outset, to observe the many eross-divisions and -onsistencies of which the advocates of t, e policy are guilty. Ile whole question is simply one of international trade, and as such only sb :uld it command the attention of either farmer or manufactater. This, however, renders it an important -ques- tion, embracing as it does; the great theories of free -trade and protection -a fact which its exponents seem entirely to have forgotten. You say "whether is its best to remain as we are, under a heavy protective tariff, or to go in fOr Commer- cial Union," Now, two wrongs do not make a right, and how we, ander a heavy tariff, could conipromise with the United States which- has a tariff -a third higher, and at the same time be benefit- ted, I cannot understand. We all know . 1 hat the United States is, and always has been, the strongest advocate not only of protective, but even of prohibi- tory tariff. It is, therefore, a glaring inconsistency for Mr. Wiman to tell Canada that "the absence of custom- houses along 'the borders of the various States of the Union, as against eath other, had done more -to make the United States a great and prosperous nation than her form of Government," Now, free -trade, if it mean anything at all, means international trade, find in what sense "the absence of custom -houses along the borders of the various States" can be so construed, is simply unintelli. gible. The farmers of Dafferin lake might have answered him that we like- wise have avoided the erection of custom- • houses along the borders of our sea- board Provinces, and have further imit- ated the United States in imposing a protective tariff whichbar$ Americans just as they bar Canadians and British. If such an argument in favor of free trade were only the literary garbage ef a picnic, it were excusable, but when the farmers of this county are "asked for an unbiassed discussion of the question, they should inquire into its validity. Again it is difficult to comprehend bows free-trader can link arms with the pro- tectionist, and say of the farming com- munity, who are "under a heavy pro- tective tariff ' that "even in this respect the cause of complaint is often more - apparent than real, for in many highly protected industries the home competi- tion reduces prices even lower than foreign competition could possibly do." I need not say that this is the language of the protectionist and not of the free- trader, for even if the fact were granted it would not follow that the "cause of complaint" would be removed. The free-trader would answer "such an argu- ment as follows : the indiscriminate pro- tection of nearly all articles of consump- tion must increase the cost of preduction so enormously as to prevent the estab- lishment even of those manufacturiks which are adaptedito the country. The same fallacy will re -appear as we proceed. Turning now to your positive argu- ment in favor of Commercial Union'you say, (1), it will create a market for Can- adian horses, barley, etc. (2); it wi!I develop our hidden natural resources ; and (3), your negative argument, it will not destroy our native artificialindattries. Now you say that "even on the items of horses and barley alone we paY $1,273,191 duty," and "that if the mar- ket were made free the farmers would just gain this amount." Now it does not follow that because we export we therefore gain one cent, or that this advantage would ,accrue to the farmer. The gain lies not in the export trade but in the import trade. I -can- not do better than quote theords of John Stuart Mill : "The only direet advantage of foreign commerce consists in the imports, a country obtains things which it either could not have produced at all, or which it must have produced at a greater expensed capital and labor than the cost of the things which it ex- ports to pay for them." A gain he says The vulgar theory disregards this benefit and deems the advantage to re- side in the exports; as if not what a country obtains, but what it parts with, by its foreign trade, was suppoted to conetitute the gain to it. An extended t , market for its produce -an abuntlant consumption for its goods -vent for its surplus -are the phrases by whieh it ha's been customary to designate the uses and recoinmendations of ce: erce with fOreign countries." The contention is here not that this cannot be proven -from the fact, but thafreni no other premise.; could a gain to tin fanner Ise deduced or anything but a fallacy eon' eluded. This point I will (Minns ate future time. Again, it is contended the eatCo naturalnmierrecsiottrUnio eesont cwaorivaldda.de\Nlop I,e,,en, just to such an extent would it be a bene- fit to both conntries. However, so far John Bright on Trade Matters. The London correspondent of the Toronto Mail has forwarded the follow- ing letter for publication. It is address- ed to the editor of the Mail: DEAR do not know what is intended by a Commercial Union be-. tween Canada and the United States. If you mean that no tariff should exist between the two countries, such a con- dition would be greatly to their matual advantage; but if it is proposed to ex- tend the States tariff to Canada as re- spects imports into Canada, then such a change would be hostile to England, and if the present Canadian tariff Were maintained for imports other than from the States, England would be at a great disadvantage in her trade with Canada. I always believed that the imposition, of high protective duties as against English manufacturers was and is the first in the direction of a separation of Canada from England, and if goods from the ait-t , 1887 1,..... 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Nicholls zannot subs he eanno , it wrotild be litreaatedyMepitt*DffothrNevaerads.e m that it isiproveu in alin on plalitii",a1 Seieneo aa point of the three to su Brumfield, July 20th 1.t.q•-: Goderi DOTS.-RBV. Father on a holiday trip. -R liamspreached itt lien, Rev 1r Musgrave p church on Sunday. I iverylus:leellei:s Ourusnedstyr Sunday -Rev. Dr. -Um preael sad Mrs. Salton ka azult.4foAr uhgounsiet t ; itshe.y2 been so extremely war who could went off ru- PlaCeR. The falls seen insert and many go th and her Sunday Schoo eating there this we team proceeded to Se. ago and got “downes. Thbeljeri her:asneol'uvrs airoudPoe f e8110: e aat jbtl lehS4 igf Sei tndrvai tnof (.11) -wonder what kind of chaps are. -At the tee ti6Sitilas14eRitelPei gt er li:tr ythj Can &r Prior of London dibtri tee at the Iast mee lumber of Royal Are teteekndtfluo WereoleeItell:iraIl; hyterian chureh is renovated this week. 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