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GOODS..
We have rece ved another shipment of thoee
fine Black Dres Goods we have been selling so
much of lately, 1eauifu1 in finish and handsome
tternS. Also nice assortment of Linings and
Trimmings . D eases and Wraps made to order
in our Dressmaking Department.
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sEAFORTH.
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Pure Bred Cattle -J. McGregor. (6)
Farm For Sale- ichael Dorsey. (5)
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Leading Unde ker-M. Robertson. (5)
Wool Wanted -A G. VanEgmond's Sons. (8)
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Card -Dr. McFa, 1. (5)
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Parsonage for Sa, e -Rev. IL Iaine. (5)
Wool -Jas. Beatt e. (8)
Turnip Seed -J. airley. (8)
Exactly So -J. F irley. (8)
Bissell Carpet Sw epa•-J. Fair1ey. (8)
Pea Harvester -J s. G. Martin. (5)
Wide Open-Jacl son Bros, (5)
Football Match. (5)
New Goods -H. Fl Edwards. (8)
Organs—IL Wells (8)
Medical Card -Dr T. P. McLaughlin. (5)
Tenders -LF. Holn ested. (5)
Pound -keepers Sa e -R. S. Roberts. (5)
Patrons of Indust y -F. J. Bennest. (5)
New Grocery -Ki loran & Co_ (5)
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SEAFORTH,
RIDAY, May 22, 1891.
The 1 irst
The first di ision took place in the
Dominion Par iament on Wednesday
evening. The vote took place on Mr.
M. C. Camero 's Bill, repealing the
present Dominion Franchise Act. Sir.
John Thonipson moved as an amend-
ment the six months' hoist. The divis-
ion was a strictly party one, and gives
the Government a majority of 27 in a
full house. On ario gives a majority of
one to the Go ernnaent, while Quebec
gives the Oppo ition a majority of five.
Mr. Tarte, thei originator of the Mc-
Greevey charges, voted with the Govern-
ment.
Prohibition.
The question f the prohibition of the
manufacture, s le and importation of
intoxicating lig ors, is one which is
gradually gainit g friends and support-
ers both in and ut of Parliament. There
was a time, and that not very long ago,
when the very mention of the word
Prohibition in Parliament was- a signal
for levity and ridicule. Now, however,
the question has become a serious one
and has got to be considered in right=
down earnest. There are now only a
few representatives in Parliament who
would oppose P ohibition on principle.
t is quite true hat a majority will, in
all probability, ote against & straight
reeolution in fever of it. But, they will
do so, not becau?e they are personally
opposed to the principle involved in
prohibition, but because of the effect
which the passe e of such a measure
might have upon their political prospects
and partizan e111 ds. There are many
Conservatives wire will oppose it be-
cause it might embarrass the Govern-
ment, and there ' are many Reformers
who will oppose it because it might
cause a split in the ranks of their party.
It is gratifying to notice, however, that
most of these have) to cloak their
opposition by ouch devices as a pro-
fessed belief that the country is not
ready for it; that before if ie adopted
by Parliament a vote of the people in its
favor should be taken; that any Act
for Prohibition should be accompanied
with provision for compensation, and so
on. These are the excupes which will
be offered by many when the discussion
on Mr. Jamieson's motion comes up in
Parliament in a few days. But, when it
is necessary for members to put for-
ward excuses for voting against prohi-
bition, it shows that their constituents
are, as a rule, sound on the question.
All that is now wanted to secure suc-
cess is a little more unity between the
Prohibitionists belonging to the two
parties in the country. There are good,
conscientious Prohibitionists in both
parties in Parliament; there are a few
out and out opponents in both parties;
while the remainder are shysters, who,
while professing friendship to the cause,
in a sneaking way do all they can to in-
ure it. These are -not confined to any
particular party, but are found in both.
An open opponent is worthy of respect,
but a false friend is deserving only of
contempt. It is this latter class that
the temperance electors should weed
out of Parliament before they can hope
to get Prohibition.
It would almost seem, however, as if
the situation for the opponents of Pro-
hibition is becoming somewhat danger-
ous. Immense pressure is being brought
upon members on both sides of the
House by the various temperance or-
ganisations to induce them to vote for
Mr. Jamieson's motion. This is one
good sign. Another is that some of the
Goverment organs are loudly beating
the political drum. They declare that,
on account of existing treaties between
Canada and other countries concerning
imports, the Government are forced to
oppose any resolution declaring for the
prohibition of importations, and that
consequent y Mr. • Jamieson's resolution
is simply a Grit device to embarrass the
Governme t and injure the Conserva-
tive party. All this, of course, is the
sheerest no • sense. There is no neces-
sity for the Government, as a. Govern-
ment, taki g part either on the one side
or the ot er; the membera of the
Governme • t can vote as they formerly
did, in ace rdance with their individual
•convictions But, if the Jamieson reso-
lution is c rried, and the Government
are forced t
measure, it
what troub
way slight
them. It
organs are
simply mak
prefer part
•ump On, a
tituen ts .ar
•y such t
or tempera
iamen tary
ides of the
ho are wo
hese will
carry out a prohibitory
would of course be some-
esome, and might in this
y weaken and embarrass
's to avoid this that the
now working. They are
ng a soft place for those !who
interests to prohibition to
d if their temperance con -
foolish enough to be gulled
ales, so much the worse
ce. There are many Par
representatives, on hoth-
ouse, who ire sincere, and
king with a single purpose.
ot save the Govermdent
rorn Emcees ry responsibility on the one
ide, nor tvi 1 they unnecessarily embar-
ass it on t e other. The number of
uch represe tatives is yet small in Par
lament, but it is gradually growing.
hereare mire of them in this Perna-
ent than t ere were in the last, and
hen the ti e comes they may make a
etter show han any person expects.
It is all onsens7 to say that the
ountry is n t prepared for prohibition.
If the Go ernment and Parliament
c uld be ind eed to pass a prohibitory
1 w, we do n t believe there would be
olne constituency that would protest
a ainst thei action, ,and the enforce -
Ment of the I w could be secured if Par-
liament dela ed to have it enforced.
Remove the uestion from politics and
from having an influence on political
perties, and here would soon be a pro-
hibitory law ell enforced. To so re-
move it is th aim of most sincere tem-
prrance men but designing partizan
demagogues are continually placing
obstacles in he way which it takes
tine to overc me and remove.
A Bill hat Should Pass.
i Mr. John Shariton, the worthy repre-
seMtative of orth Norfolk, is one of the
most useful, s well as one of the most
ahle members of the Dominion Parlia-
ment. Ever thing calculated to a+d-
trance the mo al well-being of the peo-
ple -is alway sure of Mr. Charlton's
earnest suppo t. He has made -several
efforts to hay the laws guarding the
otiservance of the Sabbath improved and
mnde mbre st ingent, but has only been
, p Irtially sue° saint. It is due in no
sr all degree o his efforts, however,
th t the Well nd and other canals are
h reafter to e closed for traffic during
th hours of the Sabbath. To effect
fnfu ther impro ernents in this direction
h has introd ced during the present
ae sion a naea ure which should become
1av, and whic • should meet with very
little oppositi n in the Parliament of a
Christian country. That such a law
would be welcomed .by the people is
amply manifested by the large number
of petitions fr m all parte of the Domin-
ioi that have his session been sent to
P rliament as ing for legislation that
wi 1 secure a n ore faithful observance
of the Lord's c ay. The first four sec-
tioits of Mr. C arlton's bill are as fol-
loWe :
Whoever oi the Lord's day shall
either labor hi iself or compel his ap-
prentice, serva it, or other person under
his control or harge to labor, or per-
for4n any other1 work than the house-
ho11 offices of 4aily necessity, or other
wo ks of meet; ity or charity, shall be
de mod to be g ilty of a misdemeanour.
Whoever on the Lord's day sells, or
publicly show • forth, or exposes or
offers for sale r purchases any goods,
chattels, or oti er personal property, or
any real estate whatsoever or does any
wok or busine s of his ordinary calling,
woks of neces ity and charity only f ac•
cepe, d, shall b deemed to be guilty of
a rniedemeanoi r.
Whoever she 1 on the Lord's day r be
gui ty of promoting, directing, or caus-
ing horse rac ng, foot racing, cock
fighting, or do fighting, or shall engage
in any noisy public game whereby, the
peape and qulei of the Lord's day is
disturbed, and rianual labor made neces-
sary in prepari g for and conducting
the same, shall be deemed to be guilty
of 0 misdemean 'ur.
Whoever she I on the Lord's day tip-
ple in anyj inn, tavern or house of pub -
t
lic ntertilinme t, or ;hall allow ter per-
mit tippling in ny such inn; tavern or
house of public ntertainment, or ;hall
revel or publicle exhibit himself in a
state of intoxic tion, or shall brawl or
use, profane1 nguage in the public
streets or open ir, so as to create any
riot or disturba ce or annoyance to Her
Majesty's pea° able subjects, shall be
deerned to be guilty of a misde-
meanour.
In addition the bill provides that
there shall be •o huntiug or fishing on
the Lord's day. Provision is also made
that there shall not be publication of
newspapers, th t canals shall not be
ope1 for traffic n Sunday except by an
ord r-in-Counci after the first day of
November in • h year; that there
sisal be no Sun • ay railway traffic, ex -
cep two throng • passenger trains each
way onany tru a k line in Canada when
con ection with United States railroads
ren ers them ne eseary, and that there
be n. Sunday e cureions. The second
secCon of the cl use regarding railway
is as follows:
A such time the laws of the United
Stet a shall mak corresponding provis-
ion, no through freight in transit fr m
One point on the frontier of the Uni d
States to some other point on the said
frontier shall be allowed ,to pass over
Canadian roads on the Lord's day,
ex-
cept live stock and perishable goods.
The penalty fixed in the bill is a flee
not to exceed fifty dollars, nor ! to be
less than one dollar for each offeneh,
one-half to go to the party prosecuting,
prosecution to be begun before IC justiee
of the peace within one month after t e
offence and not afterward; for offences
committed by railway companies, how-
ever, the penalty is to be' a fine not e4.
ceeding $400, to be reco ered by an
person suing for the same
OUR esteemed Leadbu y correspo
dent says :
"An intelligen• t article n the Edito
ial columns of THE EXPO. ITOR of Is
week fully demonstrates he fact th
the American consumer pi ys, if not al
at least nearly all, the duty on eggs.
eggs are the same price,in Canada no
as they should have been t the sem
season last year, as alleged, how can w
account for them being four cents pe
dozen higher in New Yor than what
they were a year ago. W y, any on
with sense enough to come n out of th
rain can see it is the duty • oes it,"
Our correspondent is not quite correc
.11 his conclusions. It was .ot alleged i
he article referred to tha "eggs ar
he sarne price in Canada now that the
hould have been at the sa e season las
ear." It was, however, shown ver
learly that in a compariso of Canadia
nd New York price e last ear and this
he price of eggs in Canada this year i
hree cente lower than it w uld be bu
or the American duty. T is being th
ase it is nonsense to assu e that th
merican consumer pays the whole o
early the whole of the duty. Th
gures show that the dut is divided
etween the two parties, ti e Canadia
roducer paying 3 cents an the Ameri-
an consumer the balance, •r 2 cents.
r, in other words, but or the Mc-
inley bill, the Canadian would' get
t ireecents per dozen more or his eggs,
nd the American consurner would get
t ieni for 2 cents lees, although as we
iso showed, the difference gainst the
anadian is really more the this. Our
c rrespondent falls into err r by jump -
g at the conclusion that, b cause eggs
a e 4 cents per dozen dear r in New
-ork than they were this tirie last year,
before the duty was impose , therefore
t e American consumer muit pay that
p oporCon of the duty. II does not
op to consider that there aies a thou-
s nd and one circumstances entirely
o tside of the tariff which influence the
ew York prices. If our correspondent
c uld reverse the position and show
ti at the proportion of difference between
C nadia,n and American prices had re-
ained the same after the tariff was im-
p sed as, before, then his claim that the
American consumer pays the duty !
uld be good. But, the reverse being
e case, he must admit that the loss
used by the duty, to the extent of the
roducer as
ca
•d"fference, falls upon the p
W showed it did.
....mommemenel
THE last of the Dominiole elections
to k place in Algoma on Monday, and
re ulted in the election of 1 r. McDon-
al the Government cand date, by a
go d majority. This result ras almost
expected, as the constituen y hes been
re resented by Mr. Dawson, a Conser-
vative, for years. It is also ne of those
co tstituencies in which the C. P. R. is
all powerful, and the chief of that cor-
po ation never scruples to use the full
fo ce of his influence,wherever he wields,
it, in favor of the Government which
or ated him. This, however, is one of
th instances in which the creature has
be ome more powerful than the creator.
sammemastamommi
ON. MR. CHAPLEAU stated in the
House of Commons the other day that
there would be a revision of the Dominion
re' lists this year. Frequently since
n the Empire has been frantically ap-
ling to its friends to see that the
es �f -all Conservatives are put on
th4 lists. The anxiety, which the organ
ma ifeste in this matter would seem to
in icate that another general election
m be looked for before long. Mr.
Ch pleau's promisee, however, in refer -
e to the voters' lists are not much to
elied on. Last session of Parliament
olemnly promised that the lints would
revised before the general election
uld take place, but the election was
ered and there was no revision of
lists, and as a _result several thous -
who had a legal right to vote were
arred from doing so, because their
na es *ere not on the lists, and thou-
s& ds More who had no legal right to
vote were allowed to do so, simply be-
cause their names had not been removed.
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02)IINION PARLIAMENT.
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
OrrawA, May 18th, 1891.
he illness of both leaders in Parlia-
t has caused •considerable anxiety
their absence from the House gave
preceedings during the last half of
week a certain amount of tameness.
account of his great age—he is
is seventy-seventh year—the Prem -
illness gave rise to grave apprehen-
.
"smelly as it is understood that
in subject to heart failure. Dr.
ell, his physician, has recommended
lete rest and change of air, but it is
to say that hie distinguished pa -
will not consent to that, but rely-
• n his wiry frame and great powers •
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of endurance, will eo
so long as he is able to
Mr. Laurier has &Into
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EXPOSITOR.
tinue in harness
keep on his feet.
t entirely recov-
cold and lum-
THE FIRST DIVISION.
It is now certain that the firstdivision
of the session and of the Parliament
will be taken on the motion for the
second reading of e bill introduced
by Mr. M. C. Came on, repealing the
Franchise Act. It is to come up on
Wednesday, and the qpposition expect
that soine Government supporters—not
many but a few—will vote for repeal.
In this connection it nay be stated that
a revision of the vot ra' lists will be
held this year.
THE TARTE CHARGES.
The Committee on Privileges and
Elections, after orderiug the papers
wanted from the public departments
by Mr. Tarte to ass et in establish-
ing the charges against Hon. Thomas
McGreevy and Sir Hector La.ngevin,sub-
pcenaed two witnesses rom Quebec and
adjourned until Mr. Tarte has had an
opportunity of perusiu the official do
uments. The Committee is preside
over by Mr. G-irouard and eoneiste o
42 members, the lead ng men on bot
sides of the House, early all bein
lawyers. It has all he powers of
court of law and mac L greater juris
diction. All the evide ice is given un
\der oath, taken down i i shorthand an
priuted day by day. Witnesses can b
summoned from all parts of the Do
minion. The followiug members of th
Government were present; Sir Joh
Thompson, Sir Hector Langevin
Mr. Chaplean, Mr. Costigan and Mr
Tupper. Mrd Mitts, Mr. Edgar
Mr. Davies, Mr. Mulock and Lang
elier were the leadi g members o
the Opposition. Hon. r. Kirkpatrick
Q. C., acted as counsel for Sir Hecto
Langevin. Mr. MeG eevy was no
present, but he will have three eminen
Quebec counsel at the la xt meeting. Mr
Tarte will have the assistance of Mr
C. A. Geoffrion, QC., (# Montreal, and
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probably Mr. Casgrain. 1 The whole af
-fair has the appearance tirf a formidable
State trial, and Sir John Thompson,
Minister of Justice, weers the look of a
man acting as leader in Ithe committee,
in ,Ii, judicial capacity. ,
IN THE HOUSE.
A full hour or more has been con-
sumed in the House each 'day by the
presentation of thousands of petitions,
most of them for prohibition of the li-
quor traffic,a good number for raising the
age below which girls cannot give their
consent to men, and many from labor
unions asking for legislation in the in-
erests of the working classes. Some of
he prohibition petitions when present -
d by well known convivial souls are re-
eived with laughter, and frequently
hree or four rise to their feet at the
ame time, and as each thinks he -has
he floor they all kept it amid loud
ries of " order " until the Speaker in-
ervenes.
THE M'CARTHYITES.
Mr. Dalton McCarthy' s [peed' in in-
roducing his bill abolislif,ng dual Ian-
uages in the Northwest A.seembly and
ourts, and relegating control of educe -
ion to the Assembly, with the object of
bolishing Separate Schools, was deliv-
red with a tone of calm confidence,and
uggests the enquiry, how many follow-
rs has Mr. McCarthy got in the new
ouse ? Certainly more than in the
ld, and if they were allowed by their
espective leaders to vote freely, a very
arge number. As it is the re are
robably thirty who may be term -
d MoCarthyites, though probably
ot , more than twenty would
ote straight for his bald propo-
tions. The date for the debate on the
ill has not yet been fixed. The Mani-
oba questions are sure -to be elluded to
equently in connection with the North -
est questions.
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NOTES. .
To -day, the President and Executive
d
f the Dominion Trades a Labor
ongreas waited on the Gove nment to
rge their claims to legislatio .
Dr. Grandbois, who was to e Deputy
peaker of the House, is seriously ill.
The. Vice -regal party, including Gen-
al Herbert, leave on the 21st, for To-
nto, to visit the horse races and mili-
ry review. -
The death of Senator Ltionard, of
ondon, leaves only seventee Liberals
the Senate.
The Minister of Finance wIll recom-
end a(grant of $2,500 towards enter-
ining the convention of the School
eachers of America, which opens in ,
oronto, July 14. The Toronto City
ouncil have granted $5,000,the Ontario
overnment, $2,500 and a Dominion
ant would make the sum required,
0,000.
There are petitions for seven divorces,
t only three will be gone on with.
Hon. Alex.. Mackenzie is regularly in
s seat every afternoon, 'but he remains
home at night.
The motion for total -prohibition will
made on Wednesday.
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THE PRINCE OF WALES 4 GRAD-
FATHER.—The Duchess of ife gave
birth to a daughter Sunday m ruing, at
the Duke's residence. The Princess of
,Wales, mother of the Duchess, was prea-
lent, and the Prince of Wales and the
Duke of Clarence arrived in the after-
Inoon. The Queen wired her ,congratu-
litions to the Duchess and asked for
ontinuous bulletins from the • lying-in'
oom. .Both mother and child are doing
e)l.
KOCH'S FLUID FOUND WANTING.-_
n all the hospitals of Philadelphia the
se of Koch's lymph for thecu e of tub-
rcuiosie in man and cattle has been
ractically discontinued. Res dent doc-
ors of the hospitals say the fluid has
roved to be of such small value that,
gether with danger of exper rnent, it
was deemed wisest to dicontji ue its use
altogether.
DEATH FROM CIGARETTE SA OKING.--
Walter Clerk, aged thirteen, of Glen
Gardner, New Jersey, died on Thursday
f last weak, having been in convulsions
4 hours. His physician says his death
Was due to cigarette smoking. He be-
an to smoke when but eight years old.
e hasesmoked two packages of cigaret-
s a day for the past two years.
I STANLEY TO PRESIDE AT AI WELSH
FESTIVAL—Henry M. Stanley; who is
ai Welshman by birth, is to preside at
the next Eisteddfod, or Cy rid national
festival, at Swansea, Wale. He must
decide between competin bards and
bende of singers using a language of
Which he does not know a Word.
CREDITED TO A DYNAMITER.—A
magazine exploded Wednesday of last
wleek at Domighadee, ConntY Down,
near Belfast, Ireland, The sheick shook
the whore town and broke many win-
dows. It is supposed the explosion was
the work of a dynamiter. The police
are hunting for an American suspected
of having committed the crime.
BETTING IN FRANCE.—The Chamber
of Deputies at Paris, France, have, by a
vote of 312 to 160, adopted the bill al-
lowing the Paris mutual system of bet-
ting under a tax, the proceeds of the
tax going to the different charitable
institution, and placing the whore
regulation of the race courses under
Goverume t control.
MINNEA 'OLIS MILL COMBINE,—The
Minneapol a mill combination, with a
capital of $ ,000,000, has been, complet-
ed and beg in operations on Tuesday.
LOST $10,000 ON THE FLIP OF A
COPPER.— nnie B. Everett is suirig
John Stets n at Boston, Massachusetts,
to recover 8,000, which she claims is
one-third t e amount won at the Carle
ton Club g ming table from Jonathan
Bourne, a New Bedford millionaire.
The millio aire lost $15,000 flipping
coppers at 1,000 a flip. Then the vic
tim put up $10,000 against the $15,000
won from h m, flipped a copper and lost
Stetson is •resident of the clubwhere
the gamin is said to have taken
place.
A PRINT R IN LUCK.—Cyrus T. Gil-
lett, foreman of the Lacrosse, Wiscon-
sin, Mornin Chronicle composing -room,
has receive( intelligence from a solicitor
in New Yo k that by the, death of an
uncle he ha -fallen heir tol $2,000,000.
TURKEY REFUSES Bressre..--Turkey
refuses abso utely to permit vessels of
the Russian volunteer fleet to pass the
Dardaneiles on the ground' that it
would be a iolation of the regulations
governing ti e passage of the Straits and
agreed to b all the leading powers of
_Europe. T e Russians are very much
excited ove the matter, and a -St,
Petersburg report says it has been
seriously p oposed in the Imperial
Council to ei nip the Black Sea fleet and
force the pa sage.
Six YEA S FOR DEBT.—At Dover,
New Hemp hire, William Worcester
was released from jail the other night
after being i carcerated six years for
-debt. The creditors finally tired of
paying his b ard, and he came out of
jail an bld aid homeless man.
DESERTIN( PARNELL.—A London,
England, dispatch to the Times says:
What is left of the Parnellite organiza-
tion in hide d is to receive a fatal blow
within the !! ext few days. The two
Harrington frothers, Timothy and Ed-
ward, have ecided to give in their ad-
hesion to the Nationalist party. Timo-
thy, the rep rt says, will make the first
move. The wo brothers have been by
all odds the iost formidable of Parnell's
friends, bec use they controlled the
machinery of the old National League.
Unless the P rnellite envoy? in America -
hurry home hey will find i themselves
without enou h colleagues to fill com-
fortable the o tside of a car' on their re-
turn.
FATAL Bo LER EXPLOSION.—Three
men were sc lded and drowned and
three others 1 orribly burned Tuesday
night of last eek by the collapsing of a
boiler flue on he St. Louis and Missis-
sippi Valley's Transportation Company's
steamer, My Choice, 25 miles above
Cairo, Illin is, on the Mississippi
river.
STANLEY'S NARROW ESCAPE.—A
London, Engl nd, special says: While
Henry M. St nley was delivering a lec-
ture at Sheffield, Friday night the hall
was invaded •y a gang of socialists .who
began to sell among the audience a
pamphlet atta 'king the explorer. The
pamphlet was freely bought under the
belief that it c ntained a report of one
of Stanley's 1 tures. When the fraud
was discoverei there was great commo-
tion and the v ndors were violently ex-
pelled. The ang lingered around the
building, and s Mr. Stanley left the
hall they atte npted to mob him. His
friends gather d around him, and with
the assistance of the police kept off his
assailants. tle was then hurried into e
carriage and . riven to his hotel,
quarrelsome inhabitants in the Slide
like to keep their rows, as it were, in
the family, and seldom or never molest
the passer-by. Perhaps this is why the
police do not r ut them out. On Mon-
day night a po ceman found a drunken
inan lying in an alley near the Slide,
and a patroh.ws on bore him to the sta-
tion. A Beare revealed a state of
,
wealth not co mon among corraled
drunks. If the denizens of "the Tobog-
gan Slide" had flown of it there might
have been anot er story. The man ..htid
in his pocket s mething over £147 in
G,
English moufy.
THE DOU II Y GOLDWIN SMITH'.
Prof. Goldwi Smith is back in town
again from his t ip over the border and
has settled d4wi to business at the old
stand. On go day evening he lectured
before the Ydung Liberals on "Aristo-
cracy," and as sarcastic to a degree
-
upon the pre en ions to it which Cana-
dians have de eloped. The lecturer
went back to th times of Louis XIV.,
and told how thjat monarch's attempt to
- establish an i ri toctacy in Quebec had
evidence to -d y in but a single barony.
. Pitt had never 1een able to work out
his project for 4i hereditary House of
Lords to rule C nada-. The now -a -day
system of making colonists peers was
one of the sy p oms of that interesting
malady style ' Imperial Federation."
In the course o his remarks, Mr. Smith
took occasion tc get in a fling at Sir
John A. Mac o ald and other states-
men writing similar prefix to their
name. The 1 cturer, who, as ever, was
scholarly and eloquent, has raised a
storm about his ears that will live in his
memory. The Government organ on
Tuesday repli 4 to the aspersions the
Professor had chat upon its masters, and
saw fit to repr duce Disraeli's epithet in
Lothair "— 'A Social Parasite," with
the remark th t it wae as applicable
now as ever. Taken all together, his
friends must aye wished a more pleas-
ant return for the ex -Oxford- professor,
and regretted his tampering with the
hornet's nest.
TORONTO S CRACK REGIMENT. .
Residents o the historic Niagara dis-
trict will be t ented to a vieit from the
Queen's Own 1ffes of this city, who
will be under inves at the old town by
way of fitly celebrating the Queen's
natal day annidersary. It will be a sur-
prise to the p4 le who will flock to the
camp from St. 1 KJatharines and Clifton
and other poin , when they are given
an opportunit of contrasting our crack
regiment with the country corps that
visit them eery fall. The contrast
11
will be in the rilling one way and in 1
behavior off uty in quite another.
Files on parade and files off are differ-
ent; and nobody wants proof that a city
volunteer with his belt loosened is the
noisiest thing 1 ving.
PORTE. TS OF PROGRESS.
In a steady Way the Queen City is
progressing. !The bankers met this
week and adopted a resolution that their
needs demanded the establishment of a
clearing house to effect daily exchanges.
The old-fashioned messenger method has
become too laborious even for that con-
servative part of our population—the
bankers. Not has also to be made of
the welcome ari earanCe of, Money and
Trade, a new a enture edited by Mr.
William Galbre th, for rna,ny years com-
mercial editor �f the Globe. The sheet
is about as perf et as can be, and Mr.
Galbraithhenarne is a guarantee of its
success. The want of a daily financial
paper has long been felt here. There
is no other stich paper in the Do-
minion. SAM SMALL INDIGNANT.
Sam Small is in town and character-
izes the dispatches from Ogden, Utah,
which have appeared in the press, as
"devilish lies.", He says it is the sec-
retary who is trying to undermine Ms
reputation by charging him with appro-
priation to hisI use of the Methodist
University funds. He will fight the
whole matter o4 in the United States
courts. His lapse into a president's
work has not -tended to his financial
welfare, from the statement he made
the other day, and he longs again for
the lecture platlirrm, which,by the way,
used to net him,' per annum, something
like $10,000. '
WHY NOT M44IKE IT IN CANADA?
Notes fro os the Queen City.
TORONTO, May 18th, 1891.
J. J. Wesley Simpson, a gentleman in
the publishin
last year for o
dressed to Dr,
York, who had been acting as Simpson's
business, was prosecuted
pening money letters ad -
A. Wilfred Hall, of New
agent for me
jury threw ou
8011 proposes
associates sm
business by e
The case will
United States
GOVERNOR
If everyth
weather, the
outrun all the
Canada's Der
teal works. The grand
, the bill, and now Simp-
o make Dr. Hall and his
rt for their share in the
ing for $30,000 damages.
likely be fought in the
courts.
;tENERAL- TO BE AT THE
DERBY.
ng goes well with the
ntarionTockey Club will
r former efforts in making
y week a fitting copy of
that of the old land. They promise the
ings in the way of races.
ire more than a chance
etest stock in the country
d opportunity to place
public great t
If the latter d
of seeing the f
on: one field, a
their dollars upon their favorites, their
ht to be satisfied with the
hese will consist in the
of the Governor Genes
illed to arrive on May
nley of Preston will do
behind Bob Bond's fara-
d and see the Trial Purse
party, on the Queen's
160 escort him down to
e in the big events. His
nough to insure the pres-
ity's best and fairest-.
h as a look at vice-roy-
please Toronto ladies.
and May 30th Wood-
s gay as a big geranium
n soldiers in scarlet and
id among the attractions
predictions ou
accessories.
notable presen
ral and party,
23rd, Lord S
the Woodbine
ous four -in -ha
started. His
birthday, will
the track to ta
patronage is
ence of the
Nothing so mu
alty seems to
Upon May 27t
bine will look
bed with citiz
rifle -green. CI
will be the new Commander -in -Chief,
Maj. -Gen. Her ert, and a cavalcade of
distinguished, ilitary. The meet pro-
mises to be t e most successful ever
held.
A W JALTHY 6 6VAG• "
Cavilers agai*at the zeal of the police
have to admit t e total absence of any
district to whic the name " slum " can
properly be ap lied. It has, for in-
stance, never b en said of " the ward"
that it was uns fe for a peaceable man
to walk about 'nless armed with a cud-
gel or attended by an officer, and yet
the locality n ver had & particularly
good name. If there is any exception
to this satisfact ry state of things, it
must be in lowe Jarvis Street and the
locality adjacen . A spot rejoicing in
the unique title of "the Tobogganalide"
has not the oat savory reputation.
Drunken rows are frequent, and a
murder or two as occurred here in the
past few years. Even in this case the
public are not dmitted. The frowsy,
Local Hebrewa are hot over the re-
fusal of the CustOms Department at Ot-
tawa to allow unleavened bread, which
comes from Nes York, into Canada
free of duty. Is e tax is 20 per cent.
ad valorem. They were very anxious
to get the bill th ough before the cele-
bration of the Pe sover feast, and think
an injustice has, een done them.
CITY FINANCES.
The City Trerisurer has handed down
a draft estimate Of the coming year's
civic expenditnre, footing up over
$7,000,000. Toronto has a debt of
815,920,505, and assets amounting to
$12,000,000. Tile Treasurer has put the
rate at 17-d milli, Which, when submit-
ted to the City Q.:uncil, will grow beau-
tifully less.
VENETIAN SCENES ON THE BAY.
Families already -begin to flock to
their houses on the Island. Boats pic-
turesquely loaded with household furni-
ture of every sone are crossing the bay
almost daily, and out on the water they
make as odd an appearance as must ob-
tain at a well-conducted Irish eviction.
AGAINSI SMUGGLING.
William Gooclerham, the distiller,
was down in Ottawa on Tuesday trying
to interest the Minister of Customs in
hie plea for thb equipment of rev-
enue cutters to pfevent the smuggling
of spirits into Canada from St. Pierre
and Miquelon, on the lower St. Lawr-
ence River. Last year else, there was
talk of the cuttere being put into com-
mission. Presu ably if the Minister
harkens not to t e tale pathetic1 of our
millionaire citiz n, Lower Canadians
May expect to jsee his crack yachts
Oriole and Ai1eeii down in their direc-
tion each armed With the R. C. Y. C.
ensign and a bow -chaser.
—J. Little, sornof John Littl, Silver
Corners, Grey, township, thep with a
painful accident on. Monday of last
week. While engaged in assisting to
erect a hay fork he accidentally fell
from the top of the building which re-
sulted in the fracture of one of his
legs.
—Exeter district meeting sef the
Methodist church was held at Centralia
on Wednesday and Thursday of last
week. About 30 delegates were pres-
ent. Rev. A. L. Russell, B. D„ chair-
man of the district, presided. Rev. J.
E. Holmes was elected secretary. Rev.
Messrs. Ford, Kennedy and Allen were
appointed representatives to the respec-
tive conference committees. In a re-
view of the work during the year it was
-7 -
MAY 22, 1891,
found that there had been considerable
progress, all the funds of the church
showing a gratifying advance. one of
the ministers, Rev. W. 11. Fife, died
during wasth.eyearr.eceOivneed young m
canedniditt
c. .
for the ministry, having passed a cred-
itable examination. The meeting see
journed to meet next year in Exeter.
CantelonliBurortohnersN, of teelsinten, have
shipped 2,700 pounds of butter during
the past few weeks to afirm in Montreal.
—Messrs. G. Musgrove and R. Porter
haveconcluded their work as cenius
enumerators for Turnberry and find the
population of that township to be 2,668.
—Mr, John Vaneamp, an employe in
the Wingham chair factory, had three
fingera taken off one of his hands on
Tuesday of last week while running a,
dhiasmpoto
disposed of his J
a—c hsirre.
NI Wing.
'Harry Grahatin of Toronto,has
o John 0o u13. Ie houseCurrie. ini%Vi
Hill has also sold a cottage in that town
to Mrs. Piper, for the sum of $600.
—The property belonging to Mr.Thos.
Carr, situated in Exeter, was sold last
week by public auction. Mr. George
Manson was the purchaser, paying $700
s
for it.
—In the course of business the ether
day, Mr. F. W. Watts, of Clinton,
came across a copper bearing date 1678,
over 200 yearold. It looks as if it had
been in circulation all that time too.
—A couple of weeks athm Thomae
Gray, the 16 -year-old son of Nr. Mark
Gray, of Wingham, in some way got his
knee hurt. Blood poisoning set in and
the poor fellow died on Sunday, 10th
inst., from the effects.
—One of the oldest and most re-
spected citizens of Blyth departed this
life on Tuesday of last week, in the per-
son of Mr. John Clewit. Deceased was
in his 77th year, and was much respect-
ed by all who knew him.
— On information laid by Inspector
Miller, of Brussels, against Andrew
fluebchwerlin, hotel keeper, of 'Wrox-
etenhe was last week fined $20 and -costs
for selling liquor on Sunday.
—On Friday, 8th inst., Mrs. Richard.
Bewley, of Morris, passed to that
bourne fromwhence no traveller returns.
She was 40 years, 5 months and 26 days
old, and left a husband and eleven
children to mourn her loss.
— Mr. W. Cudrnore, of Tuckersrnith,
the well known hay buyer, has com-
menced the shipment of 20 cars of press-
ed hay from Goderich. This makes 143
cars that Mr. Cudntore has shipped
since August last.
—The Goderich Signal of last week
says: .A beautiful mirage of the Michi-
gan coast was seen on Monday morning
between 11 and 12 o'clock. The out-
lines of the opposite shore were dis-
tinctly visible, and presented a pano-
ramic view so long as it lasted.
— One day last week, while Mr. J.W.
Hill, of' Clinton, was transacting some
business at a farmer's in Goderich town-
ship, his horse (a livery) became fright-
ened and broke away from its fasten-
ings, running down the road and into
another fermer's yard. The buggy was
considerably broken, but how it happen-
ed is hard to tell, as it did not upset.
— Dr. J. W. Shaw, son of Mr. John
Shaw, principal of the Brussels public
school, who most successfully passed the
recent medical examination at Toronto,
has opened out in Clinton. Dr. Shaw
is a clever,- steady, industrious young
man, and will no doubt receive a good
practice.
—A four-year-old son of Mr. Sam
Wilson, carpenter, of Clinton, met with
an exceedingly painful accieent one day
last week. He was up a ladder and ac-
cidentally slipped down, a nail catching
and tearing his person. It was at first
thought that the result would be fatal,
but he is progressing favorably.
—Mr. W. Doherty, of Clinton, who
was attending -a big sale of trotting
stock in Cleveland lately returned home
last week. While in Cleveland Mr.
Doherty purchased and brought home
with him the great Sidney (California)
trotting colt, Mountaineer, two ye,are.
old, half brother to Gold Leaf, 2.11i and
Adonis 2.111, and others.
—Matthew Cunningham, of the 7th
line of Morris, had the misfortune last
week to get tramped on by a colt. Mr.
Cunningham was harrowing, when the
horses got entangled in the harrows,and
on catching them by the heads one of
them reared up and struck Mr.Canning-
ham in the breast, broke several ribs
and drove them into the lungs. He is'
improving a little.
—Mr. John Holmes, of the 'Huron
Road, Goderich, has purchased a fine,
young thoroughbred bull from Mr. Jas.
Snell, the well-known stock raiser, of
}lunette. It is named British Consul,
by the prize bull Vice Consul, and is 18
months old. It took the lit prize and
diploma where the contest for diploms.
was between itself and its sire, and is a.
very fine animal.
—A handsome new pipe organ has
been placed in the Main street Meth-,
odist church, Exeter, and was formally
opened on Monday evening of last week ,
by an entertainment. The instrument
was manufactured in Montreal, and cost
$1,500, about $1,200 being raised by
private subscription. The collection
taken up at the opening amounted to
$73, which will be applied, to the organ.
fund.
—ne day last week, while Mr. Sam-
uel Vanatone, of Colborne, wee cutting
wood in the bush, he had a very narrow
escape from being killed. A limb,
which was suspended in a tree, fell and
struck him on the head, making a gash
about two inches long. He remained
there unconscious for -some time, until a
neighbor, who was plowing in the adjoin-
ing field, came to his assistance and took
him home. Ile is ahle to be aiound, al-
though he still feels the effedts of the
blow.
=Mary Ann Isabella, youngest
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Swen-
son, of Goderich, departed this life on
Monday, llth inst., after an illness of
ten days duration. The deceased was
attacked with pleurisy on Saturday
week, and so rapidly did it develop
that, on the Monday following grave
fears were entertained as to her recov-
ery, acute pneumonia haeing set in.
During sickness several consultations
were held, but the disease had taken
sbuecthuranheodasid
ldth:t. king death could not -
—James Rinn, lot 27, concession 12,
McKillop, died on Sunday, 10th inst.,
from some growth in the stomach. Mr.
Rinn was born in the County Ferman-
agh, Ireland. He moved to Canada in
1857, first settling in Blanchard. In
1868 he moved to McKillop, where he •
resided up to the time of his death.
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