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Your Memory
That there is one place in Seafortl*
for Fine Cashmeres, Fine Silks,I
Fine Dress Goods, Costume Cloths,
Fine Mantlings, Fine Millinery andi
don't let your memory drop the
very important fact that the price
and qualities will stand the test o/
any companion you like to make.
The Dress and Mantle Department
will be under new management this
season. Full particulars a little
later.
Edward McFaul
SEAFORTH.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
sr The figure betweenthe parenthesis after
each line denotes the page of the paper on which
the advertisement will be bumf.
A Splendid Opening—Wm. Homey. (6)
Money Found—Expasitor Office. (8)
McGill University—J. W. Brakenridge. (6)
Millinery Opening—Win. Pickard. (8)
Headquarters for Fibre Ware—J. Fairley. (8)
Teas a Specialty—J.. Fairley. (8)
Indurable Fibre Ware—J. Fairley. (8)
Butter and Egp—J. Fairley. (8)
Clothing—Wm. Pickard, (8)
Rissidence For Sale—Isaiah Holman. (6)
Millinery Openings—E. J. Spackman &Co. (8)
Ladies—E. J. Spackman & Co. (8)
Girl Wanted—Expositor Office. (8)
Auction Sale—R. G. Ross. (5)
Millinery Opening—Iloffnian &Co (1)
Seaforth Foundry—T. T. Coleman. (5y-
• Take Your Choice—Wm. Pickard. (5)
Hoosier Steel Grain Drill—T. Brown. (5)
Spring Opening—Duncan & Duncan. (5)
Card—J. M. gest (6)
Guardianship Notice—A. Scott. (6)
Take Notice—Hugh Grieve. (8)
Paints—Fergusson. Alexander & Co. (6)
Anniversary Entertainment—J. H. Pyper. (5)
New Goods—D, 8. Faust. (8)
mitten exPoi5ilcir•
SEAFORTEt, FRIDAY, March 27,1891
Poor Parnell. •
! Mr. Parnell, the once great Irish
h leader, is beginning to realise the full
force of the truism that "the.way of
the transgressor is hard." He is sink-
ing in publie estimation very rapidly,
an the numbehwho still delight to do
him honor is grewing small very fast.
After all, there i� something really sad
about this man's . fall. A recent de-
spatch from London, England, says:
"On Tuesday, misled by the vocifer-
ous cheers of a mob Of Cork groundhogs,
he wandered off into the bog of insanity
arid made an explicit declaration in
these exact words: I am willingto
go to my constituents to -morrow if my
colleegue in the represensation of this
city 4111 do the same.' This is the lit-
eral -I -report of his language, in his own
paper, the Freeman's Journal, which
also editorially laid stress upon the chal.
lenge. No one was surprised to see
Maurice Healy, the colleague referred
to, promptly take the challenge up, but
a vast number view with amazement Mr.
Parnell's pitiful refusal to make good
that challenge. Efis worst enemy could
not have devised a more ruinous calam-
ity for him than this. His one remain.
ing hold upon the Irish imagination was
the belief that he was a good fighter.
His own rude annihilation of this myth
has sickened and disgusted his backers
all over Ireland. The dismay of his
new Tory friends here in England would
be pathetic if it were not grotesque.
The Times fiercely turns upon him for
his cowardice, and says an English pub-
lic man who first dared his enemy to
come on and then slunk away would be
branded as a liar and poltroon. - The
election in Sligo was never in doubt, but
after this it will be a literal walkover
for the Nationalists. The Unionists
are too sick to say nuch about the mat-
ter. ,s
"The prieste of Drogheda denounced
from the altar lashSunday the Porall
meeting announced to be held in the
town in the afternoon. The result was
a practical boycott of -the meetihg, only
imported contingents being present.
The mayor and slaeriffrefused to attend.
Mr. Parnell repeated his usual state-
ments. He did not refer to Mr. Healy's
challenge to him to resign. Meetings
were held in the afternoon in several
places in North Sligo. At all of these
places Mr. Parnell was denounced from
the pulpit in the morning.
"A federation.meetingwas held in
Queenatown, and it was addressed by
Messrs. Timothy and. Maurice Healy,
Wm. Lane, and other members of Par-
liament. The speakers met with a very
hearty reception. Timothy Healy in
his speech asked where Parnell's impu-
dent challenge was now. For two days
they had been engaged in hallooing, but
had failed to make the fox break cover.
He had understood that the delay had
arisen from Mr. Parnell's going to
Brighton to consult a lady. Mr. Par-
nell had not got permission from this
Brighton banshee. Mr. Parnell's fol-
lowers complained that the challenge
was impolite, but his opponents did not
address Mr. Parnell as a personage who
ought to be sued and wooed. Mr. Par-
nell had broken a solemn pledge- in. a
shameless manner."
Information Needed.
It would seem that, notwithstanding
the immense sums of money that are
being expended annually by our Govern-
ment in spreading in the old world in-
• formation concerning our vast, fertile
fields in the Northwest,and encouraging
immigration to them, very little has
been done yet. The grossest ignoran4
still prevails, especially in the country
parte, concerning this country. Tons
of literature have been circulated, or at
all events have been printed and paid
for, and well paid agents have been em-
ployed for years, and one would think
that a good deal of light should be
spread by this time, at least in England,
Ireland and Scotland. We are afraid,
however, that much of the literature
has not been used to the best advantage,
and that many of the well paid agents,
instead of devoting their time on the
high -ways and by -ways among the rural
population, the people we really want
here, have been following the more eon-
geital in the cities and larger
towna, and that this is the reason ao
much ignorance still prevails in the
rurel parts concerning this country.
Premier Greenway, in the .Manitoles
Legislature, speaking of his recent trip
across the ocean, said:
• "It had been for the purpon of sat-
• lifying himself whether any plan was
adopted there of making known, the ad-
vantages of this country. He conceived
the idea that there was no organized
effort. He had recently had s letter
from an agent travelling in some of the
counties in England, who found that
there was absolutely no infOrmation
about this country. That had also been
his (Mr. Greenway's) experience. In
the rural districts people scarcely knew
Where Manitoba was, what kind of a
country it was and what it was cap-
eble of producing. The first thing that
Claimed the -attention of the Govern-
ment was to adopt the best method of
makieg known the advantages of Mani-
tobs as a field for settlement; that
could only be done by reaching the
agricultural classes."
One miter naturally ask, if this is the
case, what in the world has our High
Commissioner, with hie retinue of ser-
vants and agents, been doing till this
time. He is maintained there at a cost
of about $25,000 a year, and one of his
duties is supposed to be to make known
in the old world the capabilities of this
country and its many advantages as a
field for the thrifty emigrant. If Mr.
Greenway is right, and the results
would seem to indicate that he is, it is
doubtful if our High Commissioner has
proved a profitable speculation to any
person but himself.
How It Was Done.
The result of the recent Dominion
elections in Manitoba was a surprise to
every one. Not over a year ago the
Legislature of -that Province passed a
resolution,. almost unanimously, to peti-
tion the Dominion Government to take
steps to secure reciprocity of trade with
the Upited States. Besides this, if
there is one spot on the face of the earth
that free trade with its Southern
neighbor would benefit, more than an-
other, that apot is Manitoba and the
Northwest Territories, and yet, strange
to says out of a representation of ten,
only one has been sent to Parliament as
a supporter of that policy. The general
surprise at this result, however, will be
lessened when the means adopted to
secure it become known, A sample was
given by Premier Greenway the other
day in a speech in the Manitoba Legis-
lature. In reply to the taunt of his op-
ponents, that his colleague, the Attor-
ney -General, had been_defeated in Sel-
kirk, the Premier said : •
"Honorable gentlemen were welcome
to any consolation they could take out
of the returns for Marquette and Sel-
kirk. The lists were the most defective
ever compiled in any country In 1889
he, Mr. Greenway, had interested him-
self in the compilation of a list for Sel-
kirk. He had gone to a great deal of
trouble, and tient in upon forms, to the
revising barrister, over a thousand
names; but, having to contend with the
most partisan revising barrister that
ever sat, he could not get the names on.
in one neighborhood 75 names were I ft
out, the excuse being that the forxis
were not right, though they were 1he
same forms as were used in the
city."
massesessees.
• THE Toronto Telegram has - come to
the very sage conclusion that "Fighting
"against railw ys in Canada is hard,up-
" hill work. ' he roads practically own
"our Legislathres, provincial and na-
" tional." This should not be news to
the peple of, Canada; at least they have
had experience enough to make them
aware of the fact. The roadshvill, also,
con tinue to own our Legislatures untid
the people step in ind force the Legie-
laturea to pass a law making itan of-,
fence against the independence of Par-
• liament for any member to receive •a
pass or other pecuniary advantage or
favor from a railwaytoompany. So long
as our members of Parliament, irrespec-
tive of party, are allowed to pocket
their mileage allowance and travel all
over the country of pieties furnished
thern gratuitously by the railway com-
panies, the Telegram and every, pereon
-elate may rest assured that "fighting
against railway companies in Canada"
will continue to be "uphill work."
ANOTHER supporter of the Opposition
in the Dominion Parliament has been
eleeted. For some reason or other the
election in the county of Huntington,
in the Province of Quebec, did ,not take
pla e until Monday last. The candi-
[
da es were Mr. Scriver, who has repre-
sented the constituency for many years,
and Mr. McCormick, the former the
Liberal and the latter the Conservative
oupporter. After a hot and bitter con-
test, in which two Cabinet ministers
took an active part, Mr. Scriver was
elected by a majority pf about 216.
Thus is added to the Opposition 'forces
another prop front Quebec. Mr.Scriver,
although from a Quebec constituency,
was one of the "noble thirteen "who
voted to censure the Gevernment be-
cause they refused to veto the Jesuit
Estates Act.
WE ALL REMEMBER that the leading
excuse the Government gave for
dissolving Parliament one year -before
the proper time was, that they intended q
to try and negotiate a reciprocity treaty
with the United States, and that a depu-
tation was to be sent to Washington on
the 4th of March for that peewee.
Well, the 4th of March has come and
gone, and the 4th of April is not far ofl
but no deputation has been eent ,to w
THE OURON 'EXPOSITOR.
Washington yet. It was reported that
Sir Charles Tupper, Sir John Thompson
and Finance -Minister Foster, were pre -
pitting to undertake the mission, but of
late this talk has died out, and the Gov-
ernment organs are again ahouting about
the benefits of the foreign markets, and
instructing the people teew to get their
poultry and eggs laid down in the Brit-
ish markets in the beet order. It is be-
coming more evident every day that the
reaprocity professions were all a sham,.
and that's() long as thisGovernment lives,
the people will have to remaih content
under the dominatioia of the red parlor
and the combines. •l3ut, that wee what
a majority voted fora few weeks ago,
and why should they feel disappointed if
they get what they asked for?
ssamomeaumm
A CONTEMPORARY remark.: Some
one with a love of statistics, who has
been digging in the Auditor -General's
las
be
d
for
Pe
88
ate
Mi
Co
sen
ha
wo
ser
report, finds that the twelve mem-
o of the Government cost the country
ing the past fiscal year, $91,992,41
salaries, cab hire, and traveling ex,
sea. As the salaries amounted to
,000, the transportation of the Mini-
s cost about $7,000. But even three
isters are not equal to one High
missioner in the matter of expense.
spent nearly $26,000 upon our repre-
ative to England. last lyear." • If we
direct taxation these expenditures
Id soon be curtailed, and the public
ice would not suffer either.
Immommilielmeeemem
0 TARIO LEGISLATURE.
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
• TORONTO, March 23rd, 1891.
T e Legislature is feet settling down
to ork. The present week will, it is
tru, be broken into by the Easter re-
seese but that will be made as brief as is
• com atible with the scruples of. some
Men berg of the House, and after that
Ifusi ess will hum. e The .Treasurer is
read early with his first financial state -
men • It is to be delivered to -morrow,
and • ay be confidently depended upon
as b ing a careful, concise statement of
the nancial position 'of the province.
Mr. arcourt has a good deal to be
than ful for in having stepped into the
shoe of such a man as Mr, A. M. Ross,
the ietreasurer, who had few equals
any here, and none in the House, in all
per ming to the mysterious art of book -
keep ng, and who was hardly leas cap-
able n his management of the vast sums
of m ney intrusted to his care. As a
apes er, Mr. Harcourt is brilliant,
cour ly and polished, and of course out
of co parison with his predecessor, who
only imed at being able to make a
plain statement of affairs. If, in judg-
ment tact and foresight, Mr. Harcourt
prov s equal to Mr. Ross, the province's
linen es will be carefully handled dur-
ing t e next few years.. The past week
was very uneventful one indeed, so far
as th proceedings in the chamber were
conc rned. Only once, and that on the
last • ay of the legislative Week, were
the a hits of the members in the least
degr e ruffled by a show of party feel-
ing. The Subject of dispute on this oc-
credo i was the North Perth bye -elec-
tion. The charges against the govern-
ment were brought up on a motion made
by M . Magwood, the representative of
that onstituency. Mr. Magwood sim-
ply ade his motion and left his unfor.
tunat leader to do the rest. The gist
of th charge was that the government
had hurried on the bye -election so as to
have t over before the new voters' list
in St afford could come into effect. The
reply as very ready, and the members
of th Government, in giving it, were
meter ul enough not to rub too severely
into t e Opposition the voters' list on
which the Liberal party has just had to
fight he Dominion election& It was a
funny sight to. see the party which had
b3rne its share in a contest in which
fifty housand dead men appeared to
have otes, and very many of whom
actual y did vote by some strange pro-
cess o other, and in which 116,000
young men who had a right to vote were
rigid!' excluded—it was a funny sight,
let it be repeated, to see this same party
quibbl ng because the Provincial Gov.
ernme t had not postponed the North
Perth lection, and with it those of
North and South Norfolk and East
Durha , in order to allow a few dozen
extra otes to be cast in Stratford. The
Gover ment had not, and could not
have, 4ny assurance that the list would
be co pleted so soon after the election.
By postponing the issue of the writ, and
in con equence, the date of the election,
the Go ornment might have been com-
pelled O postpone the meeting of the
Assern ly. The fact that the session
was fter all, ultimately postponed
hadsof course nothing to do with the
case, for no opo on the Government side
of the Local House at least foresaw the
Dorninton elections. It should be borne
in mine that the policy of every govern-
ment—opposition, too, for that matter,
is to hare all bye -elections held together
whenever it ha possible. When Mr.
• Meredith had made his attack, and Mr.
Hardy 0.nci Mr. Mowat had answered
him, the Opposition leader looked wist-
fully around for help, but there was
none, anchSpeaker Ballantyne vvaii just
about te Put the question when Mr. IL
E. Clarke unwillingly stepped into the
breach and kept the bell rolling a few
minutee longer. • He intimated that
aome-le4a1 light of the Opposition should
have stood up in his opinion and tackled
the Government. But Mr. Clark forgot
how awfully weak is the Opposition,
either in legal or any other talent. So
he did his level best, and was hardly sat
upon.for his pains.
Although the \ week has been very
quiet in the chamlber, the Government
has by no means had an easy time of it.
Deputations have abounded, most of
them being of a municipal character, but
uite a few have been for railway 'bon-
uses. There have been as many as six
and seven of these in a day, and to one
and all Mr. Mowat has given his invari-
able 'reply that their representations
shall be taken into hie serious considera-
tionh.
Te only
bill of the week of any note
d which has advanced to a stage
orthy of being introduced to public
notice iv one Introduced by the Attorney -
General extending to Staff -Officers of the
Salvation Army the right to solemnise
man.' ages, and which may grieve the
hearts of a few people who have not kept
quite abreast with the spirit of the age.
The bjeotions to the measure will be
very similar to those that were advanced
sixty years ago against the solemnization
of marriage by any ministers other than
those of the established church. Opin-
ion!' differ a� to the net result of. the
work done by the Salvation Army, but
there are few now who refuse to admit
that they have a balance on the right
side, and that they deserveto be recog-
nized as an ally in the work of raising
falls manhood and womanhood.
A eniber of the House, given to
maki g interestiog statistical tabula-
tions has compiled the- following spate-
ment of the occupations of the members
of th Legislature. The figures. are as
folio s : • i
• Re- Conser-
form. votive. Total.
Farm re 13
Mere ants 10
Lawy rs 10
Doct re 6
Print rs 4
Luilmie e
em
ren
M
3
Stone quarrymen .. , 2
Contractors 1
Chees 1
Drove'a •0
Carri ge bnilders0
Baker 1
Aucti0lmeers
Tanner 1
One to be elected.
13 26
15
ai.t3 13
11
2 6
2 5
0 3
0 2
1 2
1 2
1 1
1 1
0 1
1 1
0 1
_
55 35-
90
Notes from the Queen City.
ToRosr0, March 23rd, 1891e:
Several well-known citizens have been
making remarks last :week on live top-
ics. y we could window the worthless,
there might be found a grain or two of
truth Orniong the chaff. For, first, Oars-
man Edward Efanlan has his ipse dixit
out that, the receiving- pipe of our
water ystem lies directly over a sand-
bar ruining parallel with the island and
one-forirth mile out into the lake. Ned
says mire drinking fluid is dirty from
the accumulation of filth among the
growing on the bar, This is a
eory and very ingenous. The ex-
on intends to run for alderman
weeds
new th
champi
next year if the Council takes no notice
of his idea. He says he should know a
trifle about the locality where most of
his life has been passed. Next, Dr.
Wild, the long -bearded prophet of Bond
Street, has a word to say on the result
of the elections. The Verdict was de-
cisive, he avers. Canada won't give up
her rights except by force, much less
for a paltry thirty pieces of silver. The
shouters for annexatien should cry halt
before they get into trouble, etc. etc.
Then springs upon the stage Mr. Mich-
ael Basso, a representative Italian citi-
zen, who pours cat torrents of indignant
protest against the treatment of his
fellow countrymen in New Orleans. He
does not say the Ring of Italy, will de-
clare war,but!bints of stringent Measures
if reparation be not made. Mr. Basso
says the existence of thelidafia is pure
speculation. The Italians of Toronto
are to Meet and declare themselves
ready to support their brethren in the
New World, it is said. There are other
talkers—Mr. Durand, for instance, who
rises to inquire as to what would be-
come of the supinosed million Canadians
• at present earning dollars in the States
in the event of a war between the two
countries. But the citizens are after
bigger game • they stand motionless to
hear what Mr. Van Horne proposes to
do with our water front; a longing ex-
ists for a dechiration from the Little
Premier as to the Ontario Government's
future mining policy, and perhaps above
all lives the desire to hear issue from
beneath the broad brim of his fashion -
scandalizing sombrero a statement as to
just how the great Edward Blake thinks
Canada should lay her course for the
long voyage of the future. His pub-
lished epistle to the Canadians had just
enough food in it to make thinking men
smack their lips and ask for more. A
general opinion prevails that much good
will result if Mr. Blake yields to pres-
sure now being exerted and consents to
accept a nomination for some of the
diatricts where elections are still to be
held.
NO ORANGEMEN MARCHED ON ST.
PATRICK'S DAY.
St. Patrick's Day passed off much to
the city's credit, with scarcely the ruffle
ing Of a single hair. Processions there
. were and dinners, but they were peace-
able. All the Irish societies effused
over the memories of the Emerald Isle
and the shamrock adorned thousands of
manly bosoms. The Irish journalists
had the best dinner held in town this
season. Wit and punch both flowed
freely, and both were of excellent qual-
ity. Mayor Clarke, himself a journal -
hit, was the most eloquent Irishman
present. The Montreal and Hamilton
papers were represented at the banquet.
OFF FOR THE WOOLLY WEST.
Two fifteen -year-old boys. one a son
of Mr. T. A. Wright, of Gorrie, Ont.,
the other, his chum Frank Williams,
are in the Toronto jail, having been ar-
rested on a telegram sent from Gorrie.
It seems the boys have all winter long
been imbibing too freely of the penny-
dreadful style of literature. They at
length made up their minds to go on the
warpath after Iddians in the Western
States. Wright secured $145 from the
parental safe, and a train was taken to
this city, where, report had reached
them, certain York -street pawn -shops
would have a full line of bowie knives,
revolvers, and rifles, from which a ju-
dicious selection might be made. Mr.
Wright will visit Toronto and take
back with him the rash wanderers.
'A COLLEGE OF EMBALMING NEEDED.
Member Joseph Tait, who distinguish-
ed himself during the late campaign br
speech -making iti and out of Canada,
notably, at Rochester, sent shivers up
the spines of all the Ontario legislators
on Tuesday, by presenting a bill to
regulate embalming, one of the Jclauses
providing for the establishmeet of a col. --
lege of instruction in the art by the
Provincial Undertakers' Association,
The chamber for a time presented a
solemn scene and all breathed freer
when the bill got its first reading.
SK PED BY MOONLIGHT.
Mr. J. LcArthur Griffith has made a
whole hosf of friends besides business
ricquainta ces very wretched by skip-
ping to IlontreaI. He is very well
known in town, and for years has been
regarded as the best accountant in the
country. He owes one estate, $2,500,
for which he is soignee, besides other
amounts not yet calculated.
A. BIG FAILURE.
A bidearprise was occasioned by the
failure of Daniel McLean, wholesale
leather dealer of No. 32, Yonge street.
A more honest man never was in busi-
ness here. He started thirty years ago,
and to old-style business methods and
long credits alone is ascribed his mis-
fortune. The failure is a big one, the
liabilities being likely to be. in the
neighborhood of $200,000.
NOTES.
• The various civic department�. have
submitted their estimates for the year.
The most interesting one is that of the
Engineer's Department. The toted gen-
eral expenditure required it $318,780,
while for local -improvement works a
cool $1,122,000 will be about the thing.
Of this last amount $896,000 will be
used for contract work. The increase
over last year is $7,400. The council_
decides on this matter next Monday.
At its last meeting the Council reach-
ed a solution of the long -entangled
bridge scheme out Dundee street. The
bridges are over the Grand Trunk Rail-
way and Canadien Pecific Railway
tracks, and the railways have promised
jointly to give $20,000 towards the cost
of construction, the city agreeing to de-
fray all expenses for maintenance. The
total cost osf7t5,he0010w,idges, which will be
of steel, is
The Executive committee meeting of
Monday gave us a look at the other end
of the rope when it authorized the City
Treasurer to dispose of £200,000 worth
of 4 per -cent debentures in London, at
a date not later than April 1st.
The end is not yet in the street -rail-
way matter. Owing to the award not
being in from the arbitrators, Mayor
Clarke has authorized Senator Smith's
company to continue running the road
as heretofore until May 16th. No one
seems to know whether the City will
then assume control itself or give it
out to 000 of the many companies from
whom tenders have been received.
The annual spring Stallion Show in
he Drill Shed was a pronounced sum
ess, and clearly pointed the improve-
ment upon the old standard of Celled -
an horses. Among the visitors was
Mr. M. P. Clark, president of the
Ctleydee:dale Associetion Of the United
t
Among the voters in Centre Toronto
n the late election was Mr. J. M. Tins-
ey, of Agnes street. Mr. Tinsley is
07 years old, but had enough enthusi-
sm left in him to take a cabdrive to
he polling -booth. He voted the Re-
orm ticket,
____toont••womsome__
Huron Notes.
Mr. Thomas Jewett has sold his
arm on the Bayfield Line, Stanley, to
r. Chas. Stewart. The price paid was
3,800. -
—Mr. George Garnet, of Westfield,
old a thoroughbred bull last week to
Ir. D. Radcliffe. Mr. Radcliffe will
ake it to Calgary, Northwest Territory.
—A branch of the Standard Bank will
e opened in Brussels next week. This
ank will be a great convenience to the
ople of Brussels.
—Mr. Joseph Risdon, of Winghami
as purchased the brick cottage near the
iagons,1 road in that town, from Mr.
easels, for which he paid $700/
—Mr. Hugh Gilmore, who has been
eking a lengthy visit to . friends in-
anley, returned to his home in Moose -
w on Monday of last week. He took
ith him a fine spelt of horses,
—Mr. W. Young, of Dunlop; daily -
ed on Wednesday of last week to Mr.
cIntyre, at Seaforti3, his three year old
tire Canadian bred colt, receiving a
od sum therefor. It is to be shipped
Nebraska. •
—James Derk, of Grey township, and
dam Sholdice, f Morris township,
ipped a car each of stock and emi-
ant's effects from Brussels to Mani -
ba on Tuesday of last week. Fifteen
wieners were ticketed for Manitoba,
same train.
—Oa Thursday,1 2th inst., the Sunday
hool class of Mrs. Thomas Fair, of
inton, met at her residence and pre-
nted her with a complimentary and
atly worded address, and a handsome
y's componion,
—Mr. George A. Fear, of Brussele,has
rchased and taken possession of the
ynne's drug business in Goderich. Mr.
ar is a thorough reliable young man,
ng well up in the drug business, and
11 no doubt do a good business in
derich.
—A little boy, named Armstrong, liv-
.
with his grandparents, Mr. and
s. McElroy, of Morris, had the mis-
tune to break his leg at the ankle last
ek. He was in the barn and jump -
to the floor, causing a painful frac-
e of the small bone.
—The following persons from the vi-
ity of Lucknow left that town last
ek for Manitoba, and the Northwest:
hn Andrew Roderick Purvis, Rod.
meron, 11 McDougall, Isaac Mathers,
drew Morrison, A. Gillies, Roderick
so and Wm. Webster.
—McGarva's Salt Block in Clinton,
ich has been idle for a, considerable
gth of time, will be put in operation
a season, as soon as necessary repairs
be made. Mr. James Sheppard,
o had considerable experience with
wells at Bothwell, will have full
rge of the works.
—What might have proved to be a
1 accident happened to a seven -year -
daughter t of Mr. John Welsh, of
ter, on Thursday of last week. It
ears the, little girl was in the stable.
ong,• the horses, when one of them
ek her on the forehead with its front
, inilioting an ugly wound.
Conductor Snyder occupied the
pit of the Methodist church in
ngham on Sunday last. This fact,
them with the preeence of the
anyoun Jubilee Singers drew forth
y large congregations, the church in
evening being so full that many had
tend during the whole service.
On Monday evening, 16th inst.,
and Mrs. Wm. Blashill, of Brus-
celebrated the twentieth anniver-
of their marriage. • A large num-
of invited guests were present and
njeyed a most pleasant evening. The
and bootees received many useful
beautiful presents.
A terrible drowning accident hap -
d to a little six-year-old daughter of
James Gorvett, of Usborne, on
rsday, 12th inst. A creek rune
ugh Mr. Gorvett's terra between the
e and barn, and it appears that
small ohildren were going to
barn on an errand for their
her, and while crossing a log, one of
slipped and fell into the water.
The other child was too small to render
assistance, and before the news could be
communicated to the family the little
girl had drowned and been carried a
dietance down the stream by the rapidly
flowing waters.
—On Sunday, 15th inst., while Mr.
Robinson, of Colborne, was attending
church at Auburn his horse, a two-year
old animal,backed out of the shed, and
turned round and by so doing twisted
the shafts off, and then made for home,
and when going down a hill at a terrific
speed it ran through the fence into the
river and was drowned. The beast was
valued at $130.
—The annual missionary services in
connection with the Main Street Meth-
odist church, Exeter, were held on Sun-
day, 15th inst. On account of the un-
avoidable absence of Rev, J. W. Holmes,
of Owen Sound, who was to have taken
the services, the Rev. Jasper Wilson,the
pastor officiated. The services despite
the very unfavorable weather, were
very successful. The subecriptions and
collections amounted to $335, s
—A telegram was received et Toronto
Police headquarters on Tuesday of last
week, from Gorrie, stating that Henry
Wright and Frank Williams.had stolen
$500 from the former's father. It was
thought they had departed for Toronto,
and P. C. Reburn, who was put on the
trail, arrested the two lads. They
partially admitted the taking of the
money and 8137 was found in young
Wright' it pockets, They were on their
way to Manitoba.
—Amongst those who left the Cana-
dian Pacific Railway depot, -Wingham,
last week were: Duncan Robertson,East
Waivanosh, bound for 'Virden, Mani-
toba ; Cantley Baines and Nat, Duff,
Morris, for Neepawa and Portage la it
Prairie, Manitoba, respectively; Mrs.
R. Vanalstine, Brandon, Manitoba;
Thomas Ford, West Wawanoah, for
Mooeomin, Manitoba. 'Others went to
Gladstone, Shoal Lake and Thornhill,
Manitoba.
—One night last sveek, while a Hal-
lett farmer was driving home from Clin- of
ton with a horse and cutter, the horse
became unmanageable, arid throwing
him opt, got away from him. When it
came to the railway track it turned up
on it, and ran along the ties, passing
safely over along, open bridge, and at
the next cross road it turned off and
landed in front of its own stable little
Tuckersmith.
ANOTHER GOOD BULL.—Mr.
Fotheringham, of the 4th concession, L.
R. S., has made a valuable addition to
his herd. He has purchased frem
Hobson, a • well-known breeder of
Guelph, the handsome young ,Shorthona
bull, " Duke of Burnside." He is re
year old, of red color, and is a very
handsome and likely -looking animal.
He will he a useful animal, not only irt
Mr. Fotheriogham's -herd, but in the
neAighGboorohnSALE.—• The auction sale of
Mr. W. J. Chesney, of the Kipper( road,
on Friday last, was very euccessfulr
There was a good attendance and stock
brought splendid prices. A breeding
mare, 8 yeere old, sold for $165 ; her
yearling colt brought 878 ; farrow cows,
5$445.
6;50t;hrtevevoyyeaersiolodmsteeteeersref: .so3m3 ;eaivei
541 to
$17.50, and grade Leiceater sheep front
$28 to $30 per pair. The whole sale
footed up to over $1,500. It was one of
the moat succeesful sales held in the
township this year, and the proprietof
was more than pleased, Mr. W. G.
Duff, oi:Seaforth, wielded the auction-
eerhi hemmer, and he did it well.
COUNCIL, —Tbe council met at Bruce -
field on March 20th, The •members
were all present. After reading the ,
minutes of last meeting, a petition WAS
presented, signed by Mr. George Wel:
ker and five other ratepayers, asking
that lots 30 and 32, concession 5, L. R.
S., be detached from school section Nos
7, and added to section 3. Mr. Walker
was heard in support of proposed
change. It was moved by Peter Mc-
Kay, seconded by John Shepherd, that
whereas the assessed valuahion of
School Section No, 3, is $265,250 and
that of No. 7 is but 8195,250, therefore
is undesirable in the general interest
that the proposed change be made. This
motion was carried unanimously. A
petition was also presented by John
Doig and ten others, asking to he re-
moved from Section No. 2 to No. 9,
This petition on motion of J. Welker,
seconded by J. Weber, shared the fate
the other. The petition of certain
ratepayers of Section No. 8, asking
weeping changes in several sections,
d which was laid over from lett meet -
g, having in the meantime been with -
awn, no action was necessary. Now
at the township Board is replaced by
e section system, the old bickering is
gun and the old struggle is renewed,
Ifishness asking that the burden be
rne by others. The auditors' report
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the worse of its adventure. How it man- se
aged to cross the bridge is the mystery, bo
but it nevertheless did so.
--The annual social in connection with
the Hullett Grange was held in Bellis
Hall, Londesboro, on Thursday evening,
12th inet. The hall was packed to .the
doors and all present had the pleasure of
listening to an excellent programme of
readings, recitations, dialoguee, music
and -speeches. The chair was occupied
by Mr. II. Snell, the Worthy Master,
wbo performed the duties devolving
upon a person in that position in first
class style. Although the audience was
so large the best of order prevailed.
—The anniversary services in connec-
tion with the - Baptist congregation in
Lucknow took place on Sunday, 15th
inst., when the Rev. Mr. Gray, of Kin-
cardine, delivered two able sermons to
large congregations •both morning and
evening, The reverend gentleman is an
was presented, examined and accepted.
The clerk was instructed to get 200
copies printed for distribution. The
collector'salary was ordered to be paid.
The clerk was instructed to order a copy
of the useful publication caned the
Municipal Miscellany," for the use of
the township officals. Some small ac-
counts were paid and the following sums
voted as assistance to the parties aliened:
E. Comber, $10 ; R. Reid, $2 ; D.
Grummet, 510. 'toms moved by John
Shepherd, seconded by J. Walker, that
the by-law appointing overseers of
be amended by making the follow-
ing changes :—Robert Stewart instead
of Val, Mitchell, Robert Elgie instead
of J. Caldwell, Wm. G. Plewes instead
of G. Nett, Robert Scott instead of '
James Brown, G. Sproat, jr. instead of
G. Sproat, sr., John Campbell 'instead
D. Campbell, IL Crich instead of W.
Broadfoot, John Reinke instead of
J. Chesney, Joseph Upshall instead -
C. Upshall, John Elder instead of T.
Elder, Wm, Sinclair instead of J. Doig,
A. M. Ross instead of G. E. Jackson,
John Folland instead of J. Branner,
John McKinley instead of J. Colhe,John
McCloy instead of D. ettcOloy, R. T. -
Elgie instead of Ale. Plewes. • The fol-
lowing is a list of the fence viewers for
1891 :—John Wood, Andrew Story,
John F. Dale, A. D. Wilsie, James Pat-
terson, M. McQuade, John McLean,
Mill road, James Lendesborough, J.
Doig, George Dobson, John Shepherd
and Alexander Ross, Brucefleld. The
pound -keepers are R. B. McLean, James
Nott, George Nott, Wm. Chapman, J.
F. Dale, R. Dennie, Brian Cleary,
Wm. Carnochan R. Leatherland, Wm.
Plewes, Robert Watson, Alexander Bite
chanan, James Brown, S. Cernochan
and Wm. Kineman. The council wilt
meet on the 5th of May, at 1 o'clock,
at Kyle's Hotel. —S. &LILLIE, Clerk.
of
earnest, • practical preacher, and his G.
discourses on Sunday were much appre-
ciated by all present. On Monday even- of
ing the annual tea meeting was held, and
considering the drifted state of the
roads, there was a very good audience
present.
—On Wednesday evening of last
week the members of the Main street
Methodist choir, Exeter, assembled at
the residence of Mr. D.A. Ross, leader,
for the purpose of bidding farewell to
Mr. and Mrs. EL Nelson, theirosteemed
associates, who on Friday took their de-
parture for Elmira, New York,to reside.
After the viands had been disposed of
and the gathering assembled in the
drawing room, Mr. Nelson vvas made
•the recipient of a beautiful Bible, while
Mrs. Nelson was presented with a hand-
some gold ring, as mementoes of the
pleasant associations with the Main
street choir.
—At a meeting of those interested in
the winding up of the affairs of the
now defunct Caledonian Society -and the
Driving Park Association of Brussels,
was held in that town on Monday even-
ing of last week. The sum of $570,
which is now to the credit of the above
societies in the bank, WAS given to the
credit of the Grey Branch Agricultural
Sociiky, provided they purchase and fence
enough land, with what they own,that a
half mile track may be built thereon,
and agree to make a lease to a Driving
Park Association, te be formed so that
the said Driving Park Association may
build such half mile track, said lease to
be at an annual rental for a lengthened
term of years.
—The Provincial Report cencerning
the working of the License Act has been
received, and from it we make a few
extracts that may be of interest. The
total number of hotel licenses in opera-
tion in 1889, in Huron, was 109 against
134 in 1879. There were 8 shop licenses
issued in the same year against 21
in 1879. The proportion received
• by the province for fees, fines, etc., in
1880, was $7,486.66. There were 5 per.• sent to the Goderich jail for drunkse
ennees in 1890, against 22 in 1880. The
report of the Deaf and Dumb Institute
at Belleville shows that there are 10 in-
mates therein, from the county of Hu-
-hon. From the Inspector of Prisons'
report we find that in 1890, 17 persona
were sent to, the different asylums of the
province -from this county, the total ad-
missions into the asylums, from this
ceunty, since they were opened, were
433, and of this number 117 are still in-
mates.
• —The following little pleasantry is
going the rounds of the county press:
"Some people are wondering if the
Editor of the Goderich Signal is going
out of business, owing to the appearance
of the following advertisement: For
sale.—If you are contemplating the
purchase of a windmill, a first-class one
can be had cheap for cash. Apply at the
Signal Office."—{Brussels Post. "No,
dear We are going to continue business
at the old stand; but we will trade the
windmill with you if you will let us
have that baby carriage whichsome time
ago you advertised you had no use for.
Seel —[Signal. "You are too late,Mr.
Mac., as Bros. Holmes, of Clinton, and
Colwell, of Mitchell, have already open-
ed negotiations for the conveyance. An
Irish jaunting car would suit you better,
however, soas to enable you to take all
the children out at once."—[Brussels
Post,
• Exeter.
• GRAND MILLINERY OPENINGS at E. J.
Spackman & Co's., SamwelPs Block, Exeter, on
Eriday and Saturday, April 3rd and #th. 12154
LADIES don't forget the date of the
Grand Millinery Opening at E. J. Spackman
Cos., Exeter, on Friday and Saturday, April 3rd
and4th. 1215-1
OBITUARY.—Mr. Richard Welsh, one
of our very earliest settlers, pease&
away to the great beyond on Sunday
last, 22nd inst., after a few weeks' ill-
ness with Bright's disease. He was
aged 78 years, 2 months and 12 days.
The deceased leaves a wife, one son and
two daughters, who surrive him. Mr.
Welsh emigrated from Devonshire, Eng-
land, in the year 1842, settling on the
2nd concession -of Ushorne, where he,
with the other poineers,' chopped and
cleared the 100 acres on that concession
where his son John now resides, who
retains the farm, Mr. Welsh has been.
a resident of this place for the past
twenty-five years. He was universally
respected by all who became acquaint-
ed with him. He wae a member of the
Old Thne Bible Christian, now Metho-
dist church, kr a number ef years. The
remains were borne from the house to
the James Street Church, on Tuesday
afternoon last, where a funeral sermon
was preached by Rev. A. L. Russell.
The Church choir sang eome beautiful
selections, which were appropriate. The
funeral was largely attended.The remains
were conveyed from the Church to the
Exeter cemetery for interment. . The
widow and family have our sympathy
in this their very ead bereavenaent.
BRIEFS. —Mr. J. IL Lands, from Pen-
nsylvania, shipped a car load of splendid
horses from this place on Tuesday last.
—The Firemen's cencert, which was
held on Friday night last, was not so
successful as on other years.—Messrs.
James Westcott and Thomas Riese% jr.,
left this station on Monday last. The
former for Douglas and the latter for
Snowflake, Manitoba. We wish them -
success in their newhomes.—Mr.Charles
Bayle, of London, attended the funeral.
of the late Mr. Welsh, on Tuesday last.
—Mr. James Acheson, who has been
recuperating at Grand Rapids for a few
days, returned on Monday last.—Mr.
Henry Kerslake is at present seriously
ill.—Mrs. Thomas Pollard, who has
been seriously ill of late, is reported.
much better. ----Mr. Charles Eacrett and
wife, of Sarnia, spent the beginning of t
this week attending the funeral of Mrs.
Eecrett's father, the late Mr. Re Welsh.
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