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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1891-02-27, Page 44 -. LINENS. We would be pleased to have you call and examine our sitock of Linens, such as Creane and RAhite Tablings, Towels in Plain aud Damask, Towelings fine or heavy, and in all widths. You will find ; the values hard to beat. Edward McFaul, SEAFORT11. N E "ti'7 ADVERTISEMENTS sr The figure between the parenthesis after each line denotes the page of the paper OH which the adyertiseinent will be found. Teaa a Speciality—J. Fairley. (5) A Dead Sure Tip—W. R-Oounter. (5)- Notice—W. C. Davis. (8) Executors' Notice—James Snell. (5) Cheap Bread --W. U. Code & Co. (8) Holstein Bullfor Service—J. McGregor. (5) Auction Sale—Kingstone, Wood & Symens. (5) judicial Sale—F. Holmested. (6) McConnell's Annual Stock Sale. (5) Farm ter Sale—S. A. Jory. (5) Wanted—Address Box 1244 Seaforth. (8) Elephant Oil—Ferg-usson, Alexander & Co. (6) Notice to Farrners—Estate H. Robb. (8) For Service—R. Corley. (5) Stallion for Sale—John McEwen. (5) Dominion Jubilee Singers—[2]—(8) Executors' Notic4—J. H. Ansley. (5) itrort Olxpo5itor SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, Feb. 27, 1891 .Three Cheers For Hamilton. The citizens of Hamilton did a good ditty's work on Tuesday lat. It will -be remembered that at the Provincial elec- _ don, in May last, Hon. J. M. Gibson, Provincial Secretary in Mr. Mowat's GOvernment, was defeated by a Mr. Stinson. Stinson was subsequently un- seated by the election courts for corrupt eracttices on the part of his agents. The new election took place on Tuesday last, and the Provincial Secretary was elected by the very -handsome majority of 676 votes. • Although his election.*as hoped for by Reformers, any such majority as this was never expected, even by the most sanguine, and the result was a surprise alike for both Reformers and Conser- vatives. Although Mr. Gibson formerly repreeented Hamilton, it was generally sepposed to be a Conservative city, and Was represented in the last Dominion Parliament by two Conservatives. This, coupled with the fact that the Damin- ion elections are everywhere'monopoliz- ing the public mind, and no place more fully than in Hamilton, it was feared by many that this would result prejudici- ally to Mr. Gibson's cause. The )result is, therefore, all the more gratifying. Again we say, three cheers for Hamilton and the Provincial Secretary. We hope the tesult iri Hamilton is an index of Whet the reeult will be throughout the Dominion on Thursday ni ht next. The Three Hu ons. The prospects of Huron electing three Free Traders on Thursday next, are growing brighter every day. Dr. c- Dona;Id is making a splendid and spirit- ed fight in the Est Riding. His meet- ings never were so largely attended, while, his convincing arguments and bard facts drive home conviction to the mind of every one at all open to reason. Hie friends, also, are working with a vigor and hope that they never showed h,ef ore. We shall be greatly-elisa,ppOint- ed if he is not elected by a majority at least four times that given' him at the last election, and our hopes are laegely based on a personal knawledge of the feeling in the Riding. In West Heron Mr. Cameron and his friends are doing splendid worlt, and we learn that their cause is daily growing in public favor, as it must do the longer, it is discussed and the more thoroughly it is enquired into by intelligent people such sa those who compose the elector - Ate of West Huron. From every part Of the Riding -the moat cheering reports ;are received, and all that is required to insure victory is a few • days more of the eteady, earnest work on the part of his •f riends that has been going on for the past week. In South Huron there never waitany doubt as to the result. It is only a ques- tion of majority, and if we can guage public sentiment at all correctly the Reform majority on Tbeireday next will be as large, if not larger, than it ever was before. No less cheering accounts come from South Perth in which Huronites are also locally intereeted. Sir John Macdonald thought it worth his -while to pay this constituency a visit, with the view of Aiding in the defeat of Mr. Trow. 'He addressed meetings at Stratford and St. Marys on Saturday. But (tura information is to the effect that, further than momentarily increasing the en- thusiasm of his friends, his visit was not productive of good to his cause. On the contrary, if anything, it had an in- jurious result, as hie Speeches caused considerable disappointment, inasmuch as those who went to listen to him hoped to hear something definite about what he intends to do should he be returned. In- stead of this, they were treated to the old dose of what he had done in the past. This they knew all about, hence their disappointment. We believe Mr. Trow will be elected by an increased ma- jority, In North Middlesex, in which two Huron municipalities are also interested, there is an opposition candidate in the field, although he is not a Refor er. Mr. Hutchins, a merchant of Par hill, is the nominee of the Conservative on- vention, and is the straight Consery tive candblate. Tbe Patrons of Ind stry have nominated Mr. W. H. Taylon and he is now in the field as their candi ate. Mr. Taylor is a farmer, and i ex ex; Warden of the Copnty. He is, .ow- , I ever, a Conservative, but is pledg d to support Unrestricted Reciprocity. The Reformers do not intend to bring, n ut a candidate. Under these circunsta ces, the Reformers of the riding should give their undivided and hearty supp ;rt to Mr. Taylor, and elect, him if they an. . aimeasemen•temesni Political Converts. 1 The Toronto Empire publisb s a couple of columns of names of pe sons who, it rays, were " life-long " Re orm- ere, but who, being dissatisfied wit the policy of the Liberal Party, have c st in their lot with the Conservativee an are going to vote for Sir John. The fact that it has in int list the names of such men as Hon. Edward Blake and Mr. Gordon Brown, is well calculated ti cast discredit upon the whole list. ow. ever, we have no doubt but there cy 11 be a good many changes on both aide S this time. There are Reformers who * e op - poised to Unrestrieted Reciprocity and who will vote against it. These, -how- ever, are mostly confined to the rger cities, and are more or less cont cted with and interested in the highl ored and protected Manufaetor Combines of one kind or another such are interested in keeping thi they are, and there are Reform well as Conservatives who are sufl ly selfish not to care how ma hungry if they grow rich. Ther i are, however, on the other side, qii te a number of Conservative manufaci urers who are seriously hampered by ti • -N. P., by having their raw material h avily taxed and being confined in a 1 ited marketi These will vote for the L beret Party and Unrestricted Recipe city. So that, in this way, the Scales will be - fay - s or All s as 8 as ient• go about evenly balanced. There is, eve!, another large class to be calc on. I We refer to the farmers. have been used pretty roughly b N. P., and they have no love f They know the benefit Red would be to thern, and those of who can overcome their plenty dices, and we believe there are a many, will vote for it. It is n the cities, the Liberal Party ho make gains. The N. P., on the how- lated They the ✓ it. ocity them reju- good t in e to hole, is fa vorable to them, as it concentrates the trade of the country in the large centres at the expense of outside oints, wed hence it is only natural that they should support it. It is the country - districts, however, that are being equeezed, and it is from them the Liberal Party hope to get their largest support, and we do not think they will be disappointed. It is just possible that next Thursday will be a big surprise party to a good many. THE HURON EXPOSITOR, In the work of piling up the public debt. So much for the debt; now for the taxation. The total taxation of the Liominion in 1879 was $18,476,613; in 1889 it was $30, 13,523, being an in- crease in ten years of $12,136,910. That is, the people of &nada pay out over twelve millions f dollars more now each year in tate to the Government than they did ten years ago, and it is fairly estimated t at of this amount On- tarin pays two-thi ds. In view of these facts we ask, is it ny %ender that the 'values of farm la ds in this , Province have decreased o rapidly witlin the past ten years. Now, let -us bri this matter of taxa- tion home a little more closely. The/ taxation in 1889 %as $6.03 per head, and/ on the basis whi h we a4lopted above; $30.15 per family or $18O90 per town - stip. That is, etch family of five in the Dominion p ys into the public treasury $30.15 ea h year, making$1p90 paid each year ir Dominion taxa by each township. €r, as applied to the county, supposing the coanty of Huron did not pay more hen its fair proportion of the taxee,and it really pays a gooddeal more, theamount the people of Huron are compelled to ay into the Dominion treasury each year figures up to the enor- mous sum ef $404,160, nearly half a million, and they pay $ 84,240 a year mere now thin they did en years ago. If the municipal repreeestatives of the County of Huron 'this :ate they Wou people, and yet t wilt support and c lismentary repres would not tolerate for ran up the taxes at Id be lobbed by the ere ar not a few who rnmen in their par tative conduct they day in their s right or just? ay state that nada is $6.03 per head in our American sidered to be ple. penditure the avorable to the diture under $24,455,31, o $36,917,831, en years of iture per head 're the United municipal officers. As a cdmparison while the taxatio per head it is onl the United Statels, and _ cousins are gener Ily co a pretty highly ta ed pe In the matter of e e showing is not an inore Government. The expe supply bill in 1879 wa while in 1489 it ha1arisen 3 being an increas in - $12,462,454.. The expen in Canada is ,$7.2 , and States $4.32. We think tha given above are e no other reasons, Is th we n in C $5.4 Our ;Financial Position. In the present political contest the trade questioIn seems to be absorbing the whole interest. Other very important questions are, comparatively speaking, being lost eight of. The management of the public finances by the present gov- ernment, and the present financial posi- tion of the Dominion, are matters of equally great importance in deter- mining' whether or not the Government is deserving of a renewal lease of office,as the polio, they propose to pursue in re- gard to fiscal matters. With the view of throwing some light on these two points, we give the following particulars which we glean from the public accounts,• and we leave our readers to judge of the weight they should have in deter. mining them how to vote 'at the next election. Eor this purpose we take a period of teh years under Conservative rule, viz., from 1879 to 1889: In 1879 the public debt of the Do- minion was $142,990,188; in 1889 it was $237,530,042, showing an increase in ten years of $94,540,854. The net debt per head of the population wasiin 1879, $34,49; in 1889 it bad increased 'to $46.79, being s an increase of $12.30. This debt entails upon the people an an - I. • nual charge for interest of $1,74 per head; thai is, every man, women and child in hie Dominion is charged $1.74 each per year, to pay the in- terest on the public debt of the country. Taking five people as com- posing an average family, this entails an annual out ay of $8.70 on each family, and supposing there are on an average 600 families in each township, which is a very low estimate, each township has to pay annually $5,220 to meet the in- terest on the public debt of this Domin- ion. Huron's share of this charge would, therefore, amount • to about $125,280. This, it will be acImitted,is very cOnsiderable sum, and it is paid by the people, just as surely as the munici- pal taxes are paid, and if the Dominion had no debt the -people of this couaty would have at least $125,280 a year more io spend for their own purposes. The public debt of Canada, as we have already stated is $46.79 per head, while the public debt Of the United States is only $26.06 per head. This of itself - should cause the people of Canada to re- flect, and to seriously consider if it is not -high ,time they were calling a halt the fficien to just demending a change of acts we have , if there were fy the people Government. THE late Hon. home's to have held eoun1 view ject of unrestricted recip meeting of the Dominion held in Fetar-Oaryt_874,he we are with a com extending some 4, interests in com language, religiop proud of and Iola government, but national sentimen does seem to me can bring our cotninercia more prosperous will'bo come." White seems on the sub - °city. At the oard of Trade said :—" Here on line of frontier 00 mi es, with many non, ith the lame and radition, each, to his own form of, filing to respect the of the other; and it that he closer we • relations the h countries be - News o QUARRELLING ed that the dispe and non -Union sit land will lead to SMALL Pox tb.e HEEpA es bet ep she loodsh IREL 71' prevails in Belf ele to a tent. The muni ipal doing their utmest to c Of the disease. WAstrierwroe' SARY.—Sunday eery of Washingt event was appro the United State NEEDY INHAB Devitt, who hats' coast of Ireland tants are badly the children ar milk. STRANGE REQ ST.— of the Univer iy of writing to celeb ted me to examine thei rains FATAL LA G PPE, reappeared in ghorn, alarming fatalit . Th crowded with Pe pie su malady. The roops affected. PROFESSOR Alexander Wi ogy in the U dead. AWFUL COLT ISION.— ing a collirion ciceurred the New York nd New in New York city. Th inimediately todlt fire, were either killed by th ed. in the flamen ,which difficulty subtitled. THE LAST et" HIS Thomas F. Drayton Jeff Davis at West Poii at 'Florence, Sciath Ca the last survivor of the BIRTH as the n's bi Hotel heachc TANTS. een vi eports need ufferin EN.—It is fear- een the Union rers in Queene- d. NO.—Smallpox- alarming ex- uthorities are eck the spread AY ANNIVER- 159th anniver• thday, and the celebrated at uartern Mr. blichael Ring, the west hat the inhabi- f seed and that from a lack of r. Win:Pepper, ennsylvania, is • for permission (ter deep]. a grippe has Belgium, with hospitals are ering from the are especially 'SCHELL DEAD.,— Dr. c ell, p ofessor ef geol- if crafty of Michigan is aturday morn - n a tunnel on Eleven railway wreck almost nd four persons shock or burn - ere with great C LA SS. —George a classmate of t, has just died Ana. He was class. The Jiji Shimpo says that the silk trade is in a very bad way. Last year the loss to merchants was over $25,000,000. POPULATION OF NEW YORK STATE.— The tots' population of the State of New York, according to the census bureau at Washington, is 5,997,853. INVENTOR DEAD.—Frank -Anderson, an artist, and the inventor of rapid telegraphy, died a few- days ago, at Peekskill, New York, aged 47 years. KILLED BY A BULL.—Dennis Mc- Carthy, an old and respeotedt farmer of Grattan, near Grand Rapids, Mielaigan, went to his barn the other night, and not returning search was made for him. He was found in the barnyard a mass of broken bones and crushed flesh. A bull had attacked him, and after a desperate fight had killed him. COLONEL CROCKET.—Colonel W. D. Crockett died at Waukegan, Illinois, on Sunday night, in the 73rd year of his age. He was a Kentuckian by birth, and a lineal descendent of Davy Croc- kett. He was prominent as a horseman, being interested in the breeding of pure blooded trotters for 45 years. SKIN-GRAFTINp ExIERIMENT. — at.. Chicago,, upon e of skin, taken Knights of St. Knights Temp - time ago, died periment. All e properly at- tached, but the, patient's vitality was exhausted. 1 A MINNESOTIA , PIONEJER GONE.—Gen- eral H. FL Sib ey, a Minnesota pioneer and first governor of the State, died • Friday After a ong illnese. , IN GALWAY JAIL.—Messrs. O'Brien and Dillon haee been transferred from Clonmel to Galway jail to complete their sentence. SLACK SILK TRADE.—Sixty-four silk dealers met at Kanagawa, Japan, on January 12.th, to devise some means of rescuing the silk trade from its present condition ef utter stagnation. They de- cided to petition Parliament for a loan of $2,500,000 to enable a company to export silk dirrt to foreign countries. Knight Dickersen, of whose body a foot squa from arms of his brothe Bernard's ComMasdery was graftcd some three weeks af er the e 'Ian, the grafted a1in beca OUR MAINITOBA LETTER. (From 44ur Own Correspondent.) VVINNIPEG, FebyllarY 21st, 1891. I have been so busy over other mat- ters that I have utterly neglected my duties to THE HURON EXPOSITOR. Most of what I could have written was -mot of a very exciting character. Oar very tantalizing harvest season, with its con- stant changes, cost us a. great deal of money to save our crop, and some of us could hardly be said to have saved it at all. I saw one man for example,only the other day,who after threshing his wheat got so busy over other matters that he let his whole pile of rather raw grain get so spoiled by het that his pigs would not eat it. The Scotchmen, familiar with such risks every Season, generally build a stack that will turn a months rain and get little harm, but people who hardly ever saw a poor har- vest season, sometimes lost the half of their crop. Then in sequence to the Baring failure, prices got miserably low. No 2- hard, our best grade this year has not done so badly, but all below that made a dull and dragging 'sale, and though it has looked up a little ; these few days, our price,s except for the first few weeks have been very unsatisfac- tory to the farmers. There is alwaye call enough fer the top grade to mix with your -Ontario wheat, but for export to England, .from such far away porta as Boston, comrlion wheat must necessarily be ruled- in quotations by the Liver- pool price, less the long railroad haul and see voyage. There its just ,now a liveliee demand for good oats than for anything else that we produce, and if the eastern trade is to be a permanent one, good whlite oats will be worth grow- ing any seas n. They get comparatively littleharm fr m the season's peculiarities apd run up i4 yield to 100 bushels, with 60 bushels ar4 acre, as a very frequent yield, after ary easy metheds of culti- vation. To broadcast on wheat stubble about two bitshels ef good seed to the acre, plow it under a three or blur inch furrow and dive it a stroke or two of the harrow is n t a very elaborate sort of celtivation, et it has made rather taller yields than 11 dare record for reading by men who f len stiff clay in Western Ontario. I am sure our oats, however Iraised, wereithis year our beat paying crop, and till we get the Hudson's Bay road, or reciprocity, or seme other pat- ent political nostrum to help us to grow rich, I think we will slack up 9 little on exclusive! wheat growing. "Mixed farming" is an easy cry for those who don' put th ir own hand to the mixture, but th-cann t be denied that when a wheat crop s got, it puts money faster into the far er's pocket than anything he can put his hands to. It is equally plain that we will sooner or later work out this gold; mine, with its fluctuating luck, aud will be forced by circum- stances, generally not - very pleasant ones, to aim at rotation cropping and some form of dairying. This doctrine we all admit, but when you ask a man used to the old easy way of pioneer farming to•become regular and plodding and stay at home with his cows all the year round, it is a very slow and un- gracious submission he yields to the new teaching. tesidese the country is too thinly set led and farined generally in sol rudimentary away that enough money is W sted galloping over the prairie collec mg the cream or milk to make a dec nt profit on the business. Meantime th man who prescribes dairy- ing as the su, eat road to prosperity is looked at mugh as the dying man looked who was adv sed to see the ministenand the wheat f rmer says in about the same tone, "1 hope it is not come to thoatyet."pare Mine for the past two s months has beep pretty mutth taken up ; with forming and attending Farmers' , Institutes. The Government measure ' for their legal formation and encourage. ' ment was slow to take hold, but after the rush of harvest and threshing we ' caught on and are making a very credit- , able beginning. • In one or two cases they may go down unless helped along with outside talent, and in others the platform is too narrow for the-taetes of fern -len,. The act confines their oper• aMons, when receiving Government aid, to handling farming topics, but some of them want to form trading clubs, at least to the extent of buying lots of goods, a car of twine or similar enter- prises. The nstitute law does not in• terfere with any such profits, but it very properl says that if they wish to trade it nust be under another name • and constitution. We hold these institute' every fortnight as a rule, and I have seen farmers pre- -sent frem fifteen miles away when there was no very ' special attraction on the •programme. i I have not in all the time I have spel in the country seen so much of the pirit of real enquiry as is manifested here to -day, and from this I augur moat hopefully. The seasen is yet too young to prophesy as to its probable character. It has been very mild as a whole, not over 30 inches of ice on the Red River, and stock doing well. But we have a dread of fine winters, as they usually herald a dry summer. The land was never in finer condition for a seed bed than it is this winter, but the extraor- dinary amount of time lest in harvest, hindered fall plowing to a great extent, and miday of us will 91097 on last year's stubble without plowing at all. Where the land was well worked before that this way .is not so foolish as it looks, FEBRUARY 27, 1891. for in plenty of oases either fall or spring plowing leaves the soil too loose. For the next fortnight the most at- tractive programme that any Institute can offer *ill prove insipid and dull in comparird avith that of Dominion poli- tics. In this province we have been neore thoroughly controlled by the yoke of the N. P., than perhaps any other section of the Dominion, and the outcome of the elections in the three leading constituencies, com prising neatly all that lies west of the Iteed River, will be a. pretty plain text of the way this has affected the feelings of the mercantile and farming elapses. The man Whom of all others it is least to our credit to send as a representative sure to be unopposed. The cent* between John Taylcir, an old native and ai free trader, againat Ross, a clever ad venturer, will be Curious as, a means of testing the views of another old style constituency. But the fight between Smith, Miley and Boyd on the one hand, and•Cempbell,Martin and Watson on the other, ought to have an interest for ant - eiders far greater—than the numerical value of the seats fee which they fight. It is, on the whole, about a square issue between protection od free trade with well -matched men 4nd a strong team be- hind every one of them. There is a Minimum of person lity and mud-sling- ing—outside of the tress that is, and so fee as I can read veey few will stay out of the fight. Everti one of these six can- didates will poll a etrong vote, and how- ever we may decide you may be quite sure that the last ayailable wan wilt be polled.There ara a few conversions, perversions some people would say, but in the main it is a Grit and Tory fight with very much the same old war cries. New Yo*k Letter. (Regular Co reepondence.) NEW Yo K, February 23rd, 1891. On and. after 4FuIy 1st, 1891, ' the would•be physicians of the State of New York must submit to an examination by theBoard of Regents, and must receive a. license before •being allowed to prac- tise. Heretofore the graduate of any chartered college Could immediately be- gin to practise anyavhere hq saw fit. All that was needed was a diploma obtained in a regular manner. The older doctors elaim that this plaM worked to the dis• Credit of the profession, and hence they have labored hard to remedy it. After a number of years of effort and struggle between the different schools of inecii- t eine the matter hs been settled by es- tablishing three di tinct boards of seven rhembere each. One board is composed cif allopathists, a other of homeopath - its, while the thii d is eclectic, each at- tending to the c ndidates of its own echool, , but all diader control of the Board of Regents., An examination fee Of $25 will be charged, and doctors Om- ing.from other eta es must also qualify before allowed to ractice. RNTERTAINM,ENT F R THE UNFORTUNATE. A " Soqiety for iving free concerts rind entertainment to the poor and ,un- fortunate " has lately been organized here, and is preparing to give a series of free concerts, th first of which will take place on Mon ay, March 23rd. In order to provide ftinds for the project a preliminary concerit will be given at the Windsor Theatre ilne March 15th. Miss Henrietta Marketein, the eminent pianiste, is the Ileading light in the society, which hitalreceived offers of as- sistance from W hitni ark Brothers, Irving Pinover, Anna Randall Diehl, end others. Seveeal thousaud tickets ere out for the preliminary concert, and the directors are using every effort to make it a success.; Their intentions are evidently good and they should not be discouraged'. Perhaps the poor some: times need recreation as much as breed. TT1E FEATHER GAME. ) h The latest thing to amuse the children is called the " f ether game," and is ,c played with a b g sheet and small feather. The chil1 ren all sit upon the floor in a ring,holding on to the edges of the sheet, which they try to keep 9.9 taut as possible. The ane who is " it" tries to capture the feather with his bands, while the others strive to pre- vent this by blowing the feather across the sheet out of reach of the pursuer, who must follow until he captures it. .Then the 'player o whom the feather was nearest when grasped becomes and the struggle egins anew. It is a lively and interetting pastime for an evening party, and will no doubt be very popular A ith the children. ' Epwrn ARLINGTON. ih........ What Christopher Dale Says. Ileum, February 23rd, 1891. To the Editor of Tins HURON ExeOstroa. SIR, —The fifth of March is drawing pear when we sha I have the pleasure of voting for membejre for the Dominion House. I hope by this time every farmer has had Ime to consider the Mc- Kinley Bill and he heavy duties im- posed by the Americans on all farm pro- duce, Now, brother farmers, consider this, that on evehi horse you tell you pay a dnty of 3p per ceut ; on every bushel of barley ene-third goes for duty ; on eggs one half, and 013 other things the duty is equellfr heavy. Why the Americans havel done this I am at a loss to know, but I ithink because the Prime Minister and hi colleagues have put on a hesvy duty on certain things coming from the States they, knowing Canada to be a farming ,country, are retaliating iby putting on the heavy duties on farm Iproduce. Before you promise your vote to a man, Ask him if he will do his best to secure free teade with the States in farm produce, herses, cattle, and other things raised oe the farm, also on farm- ing implement, such as threshing ma- chines, drills, stoves, plows, and all im- plements used by the farmer. If he promisee to do this, then let him know that you will bothvote for him and use 'your influence to e cure his election. I • would also ad ise you to send farmers ' to Parliament, and not lawyers or doc- tors, as the fa mer will vote right every time, althoug, he may not be quite so learned. If y u send doctors, lawyers, wholesale mer hants or manufacturers, , they will promise great things, but at the same time they have only three things in view, namely: The honor of being a mernb r of parliament, the big pay, and the hence of a fat office, such as Sheriff; Re istrar, or the like. Now, brother farme e, just consider the state our County of'Huron is in. It has been , stated, and I think truly so, that from ; 80 to 90 per cent. of the farms are mort- gaged. 'The farmers are laboring hard each year to pay off the mortgage, but with the preset low prices for their produce how are they to do ,this. By the time they,pay for hired help, and threahing, store bills, tailor's, bills, taxes, and last, but by no means least, the interest on the mortgage, their money is all gone and not a cent left to pay off the mortgage with. There are thousands of dollars sent from England to Canada to be invested in mortgages, and no wonder. In England they have only to pay 3 to 34; pee cent. for money, but here we have to pay 6 per cent, and this difference the -farmer has to pay. These doctors, lawyers and manufac- turers, keep slaying that times are not so hard with the farmers, but If they were to tell the truth they would say that Since the Americans have put on the heavy duties they can get horses 30 per cent. cheaper, and all farm produce at a like reduction. Of course times are not hard with them. Our young men are also leaving our country and are go- ing to Manitoba and Dakota eirnply be; cause they see hovithard up their fathers arre:anlodse. see no brighter prospects here for them. But they also like to hear fonhome. CHRISTOPHER DALE, SR. IIINIMM=1111111011.11111NOMMOIREM Huron Notes. On Friday last Messrs. Thomas Strachan, Jr., of Grey, and David Mil- ler, of Morris, left Wroxeter -for New Westminster, British Columbia. —Mr. John Baldrow, of the 8th con- cession, Morris, has purchased a six acre plot of ground near Dungannon and will sell off his stock and remove there shortly. —Alexander, eldest son of Mr. John Clutton, of Leeburn, met with a painful accident on Friday, 13th inst., by letting a heavy iron rod fall on his toe, smash- ing it badly. —The action of the township of Morris against thd sureties of the late Treasurer, James Ne combe, has been withdrawn, the defendants having withdrawn their defence. ¶Fhe bondsmen will be held liable for $2,163 and costs. —The Methodists of Kinburn have made a move in the right direction by purchasing a site for a new church. ;,They intend building sheds next winter, and will build a new brick church in the near future. —Mr. J. Taylor, shoemaker, of Blyth, has disposed of his business in that vil- lage to Mr. T. W. Scott., who was form- erly in the furniture business there. Mr. Taylor goes to flensall, where he intends starting in business. —The Clinton New Era of last week says: "Mr. .W. Robb left us a hen's egg which weighs over 4 ounces and measures 8 by 7 this is the kind of eggs Mr. Farrow promised hens would lay when the N. P., dt into good work- ing order. --Mr. W. Herbison and wife left Clinten on Tuesday of last week, for Manitoba, where Mr. Herbison takes charge of a creamery. He has been a resident of the vicinity of Clinton for a good many years, but finde that he can .do better west. —At a meeting of the membere of the Huron Central Agricultural Society, in Clinton, on Wednesday of last week, the plans for the contemplated enlarge- ment of the building were submitted, and work in connection therewith will be proceeded with at once. —On Teesday, 17th inst., Mr. James Menary, of Ashfield, met with a painful accident while chopping in the bush. A tree which was leening against the one he was chopping slipped, and struck him on the head. , He was not so seri- ously hurt as was at firstahought. —Mr. Walter Rutherford, of Turn - berry, brakesman, between London and the Falls, is home nursing a badly mutilated hand, the result of an aeci- dent while discharging his duty. The thumb is gone and the hand is otherwise inj ured. —A short time ago a grade heifer,two years old, belonging to Mr. Wm: Snell, of the gravel road, Hullett, gave birth. to twin calves, - dropping them over in month before they were expected. The singular part of it is that one of the calves only weighed twelve pounds, and was perfe t in all respects. —Mr. hn Knox, of the base line, Hullett, h s just purchased a fine young Durham ull from the, herd of Elcoat Blethers, f Tuckersmith. He is a good animal. Ir. John earning, of the same township, has also purchased e splendid young bul , of the same breed, from Mr. Smith, of i.Ixeter. -,---Last Sunday morning • Jessie, daughter of Mrs. John Sinclair, of .Bruse sele, died at her home in that town,after a brief illness of less than a week. In- flammation of the bowels was the cause of her decease. • The residents of, Brus- sels were greatly surprised to hear of her death as but few knew of her ill- ness. —On Monday morning, )6th inst., Martha, wife of Mr. W. H. Birnie, and daughter of Mr. David Reid, of Gode- rich, died at her father's- residence in that town. She had been only three days home from Lake City, Miehigan, where she had lived since she was mar- ried. —On Friday, last week, Miss Annie Hamilton, of Blyth, met with an awl - dent while sleigh riding down Slaters hill, in that town, by coming in contact with another sleigh, which resulted in her receiving a severe contusion on the forehead, whereby medical assistance had to be called in to put some stitches in the wounded parts, —The tea meeting held in the Meth- odist church, Ethel, last week was a great success, the door receipts being over $45.00. Enough money was raised on subscription to wipe out the balance of debt on the parsonage. Speeches were given by Revds. Rogers; Smith and Caswell and W. H. Kerr. The choir supplied excellent music. The pastor occupied the chair. —On Friday, 13th inst., as Mr. Alex. Thompson, of Stanley, wee sawing stove wood with a circular saw, at _Mr. James Aikenheacl's, in that township, a stick with a knot turned, and threw his hand against the saw. Hie thumb was die- locatedat the secopd joint, and the flesh torn ofi his face with the teeth of the saw. Though the wounds are pain- ful, it is hoped he will soon be able to go to work again. —A very successful tea meeting was held at Johnston's church, Morris, on Wednesday evening the 18th inst. The ladies provided a bountiful supply of edibles and after ample justice had been done to this department, B. Gerry, of Brussels, was voted to the chair, a position he filled in a genial and accept- able manner. Short speeches were given in the following order by James Timmins, of Illuevale ; W. H. Kerr, of the Brussels Post; Rev. A. Y. Hartley, of Bluevale, and the pastor. Excellent music was supplied by the choir and in addition a solo was nicely rendered by Mies Robb, and two duetts well sung by L. and B. Ituttan. The usual votes of thanks were given. to all concerned. Pr—oceecleove over Atwo-year-old son of Mr. Mat Huffman, of Wingham, met with a pain- ful accident on Saturday, 14th inst. It seems his sister, about fourteen years ef age, was preparing to scrub the floor, and had a pail of boiling water standing ready ; she then turned away to get some cold water, when the little fellow —One e day recover.iastweek Mr. Wm. Lobb, got to the pail and tumbled paxtly in, scalding one arm and side very serious- ly. Although in a critical condition he is of the Maitland concession, neat Holmesville, let his horses out for oker- s. cise, when they galloped down the road. Shortly afterwards c,ne of his neighbors discovered one of the horses standing with a large sharpened stake in its side. The animal had evidently slipped on the ice and fell on a stake, which had pene trated through the ribs and to the lung It died from the effects shortly after- - wa_rtar. Wm. young, who lives near Dunleep, Colborne township, while clean- ing out a box stall in which one of his mares was kept loose, net with an un- fortunate accident one day Net week. The animal suddenly took fright, un- awares to Mr. Young, from the elam- ming of the stable door, and crushed him against the side of the stall, break- ing his collar -bone, and causing painful bruises. Medical aid was sent for and the wounds dressed, and so far he is do- ing as well as can be expected. —On February 13th dogs visited Mr. James Moir's premisee, Usborne, and worried a large nuniher of sheep, and of 26 only two of -the flock escaped injury. The sheep were in the barn where the dogs attecked them. There were several young Iambs among the number. Mr. Moir some time ago called the at- tention of the reeve of Usborne to' the necessity of bompelling farmers to, keep their dogs tied at night. A dog that is not worth tying is not worth keeping. There should be something done to pro- tect the sheep, as there are more lost by being killed by dogs than in any other way. —Mr. John Mains of Blyth, while working in Mr. A. IJacob's bush on Monday, of last week, met with a pain- ful accident, which might have proved very serious. While canting a tree front which three or four blocks had been cut, but not entirely severed, and which was 'edged, a block from the lighter end of the timber broke off and struck Mr. Mains on the head, giving him a very severe bruise and breaking the skin so that it bled profusely. Mr. Mains made his way home with difficulty, but after - having the wound dressed found that he was not so severely injured as he at first thht.Wednesday evening, 18th bast., ao—munmatrimonial alliance was consum- mated between Peter G. McEwen, of .Manitoba, formerly of the vicinity of Bluevale, and Mies Sophronia Etcher, of Bluevale, at the residence of the bride's brother. Rev. L B. Wallwin tied the nuptial how in the most approved style in the presence of a number of guests. Miss McEwen, sister of the groom, was the bridesmaid, and Angus Bell, of Manitoba, groomsnian. The wedding gifts were of a handsome and useful character. The happy twain purpose making their home at Souris Ford, Manitoba. —Teother evening, as Mr. Thomas Young, of West Wawanosh, was in the bush on his own farm, he met with what might have been a very sad accident, but fortunately for him and his family and relatives he was not so seriously injured as was thought when the acci- dent happened. Whilst engaged in chopping a tree against which another one was leaning, the tree being cut nearly through, the leaning tree slid. down and struck him on the thigh. We are pleased to be able to state that through good medical treatment, which* was speedily procured, and good care,he will soon be able to be about sgain. —The annual .meeting of Willis Pres- byterian church,eglinton, was held on Thursday evening, 12th inst. The vari- ous reports were read and showed the church to be in a flourishing condition. • There are 365 members on the roll, 22 have removed during the year, 2 have died and 29 have been add- ed. The Treasurer's report showed that there had been received by him during the year $2,594.19, comprising balance from last year—$175,74, pew rents, $1,070.50 ; ordinary collections,$647.03 ; special collections for missions, charity, Sze. $412.2.6 ; anniversary collection -for last year, $270.46. The total ex- penditure is $2,44L27, leaving a balance 0n—hanherdoediedf $5in 2.92. TWingham, on Febru- ary 14th, James Ross, at the age of 79 years. Born in Rosehire, Scotland, in 1812, he emigrated to Canada in 1833, settling first in Kingston, where he re- mained for about a year, then removed to the vicinity of Toronto. Ile went to Ilrucefield about a year before the -open- ing of the rebellion of 1837, and settled - in Stanley, being one of the first to make a home in the bust' an the Lon- don Road. He married Agnes Craig, • native of Prince Edward Island, in the year 1842, and had a family of 'six children—an equal number of boys and girls, all of whom are living. He rent- ed his Brucefield farm and removed to Turnberry to live with . his eldest son. He marrying, the father and family took up their residence in Wingham,and he has been a continued resident for the past thirteen years. Mrs. Ross died about sixmonths ago, and after a mar- ried life ot 48 years the aged couple were not long in being re -united. Mr. Rose was a member of the Presbyterian church, a Reformer; and a good citizen. —On Sunday, 15th inst., an old resi- dent of Grey passed away in the person of Wm. Hislop, at the age of 65 years and 9 months. He had taken ill on the previous Sabbath, but nothing serious was apprehended when inflammation of the right lung set in, resulting in his death. The deceased had been bothered_ for some time with dyspepsia. Mr. llislop was born in Attrick parish, Sel- • ir a ire, Scotland, and carne to Canada, along with hie brother James, in 1850. They sojourned fora :located in Grey ily . e continued towhile members of the fanearGalt, and in 1872 took up land in. Grey township, the deceased selecting lot 2, concession 15 which h d to reside upon until his death. was a bush lot when he purchased it 0ther about the same time':1h Johnd George Andrew and Thomasa, In seTtoehrrey: in 1849, and the father, all prospered, and by hard work trans- formed the wilder neas into fruitful fields. 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