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Home My WebLink AboutThe Huron Expositor, 1891-09-04, Page 4; • 4 THE '.1-IURON EXPOSITOR... SEPTEMBER 4, 1891 NEW ADVERTISEMENTS, ar The figure betwe soh line denotes the the advertisement wil n -the parenthesisafter ro of the paper on whiob be found. To Fanners -D. M. McLennan. (8) House and Lot For Sale -Js. Beattie. (6) Fall Trade-Pyper & B attie. (8) Crockery and Glanswa Al. Young. (8) China Tea Sets-A.•Yo ng. (8) Apples Wanted --Scott 3ros (8) Opening -E. MoFaul.) Dressand Mantle Openng-E. Matted. (8) Great Exhibition -E. leFael. (8) Horses For Sale -Thos Brown. (8) Apprentices Wanted -Miss Oldfield. (8) To the Ladies of Seaforth-E. McFaul. (8) School Supplies -C. W. Papst. (6) Opened Out -Hoffman Co. (6) Seed Wheat -P. 0. Ca eron. (5) , For Sale or To Rent- - Blum (3) Prepared to be Pleased M., Robertson. New Goods -Wm. Pick rd. (6) 1 Boots and Shoes-Hami ton & McInnis. Who'a Your Hatter-Ja kson Broe. (5) For Toronto Exhibition S. Smillie. (8) (5) (5) yinvon spooitor. SEAFORTH, FRI AY, Sept, 4, 1891. Death Bed The Montreal Gaz to the conclusion th railways has been en that great abuses has °pentane°. tte has at last come. t the subsidising of '6 ' irely overd ne,and e been engendered by the system. Wr ting of the Baie 1 des Chaleurs enterprise the Gazette says: " Practically the public has been taxed to build a Irailroad for private croons to own, and the private persons ave, by the prooe s of ,building it, also put conviderable .urne; of money into their pockets. This ilia grosesabuse ' of the bonus system, for which Parliament and the Legiolaturo are responsible, more, perhaps, than the men who under- took the task of construction.- The Baia des Chaleurs road is not the only one that comes within the category, The Montreal and iJhamplaln Junction road was boomed t 111011 an extent that it 04 the propri tors not A dollar, i There are other rods of which it lo believed the HOMO hing can be aid, An Inquiry into the flosnobel poeition of all toed§ waiving 0.overnment assist. Anne would bring out infornistion that 'night be the mean of ediving tife oonn. try muoit money, he ease the Bale ties Chaleursxtren them the ifIa that the system of otin public money to railroads has beenoverdone." , The Gazette is one of the mod able, alit is also one of the most influential, IThe Census Ret rns. The returns from he rec ntly taken co sus have been I id bef re Parlia- me t within the past week. The details haie not yet been m de publ c, but the resialts, are known. The emits are claimed by both dies, be disap- pointing, as,the cou try ha not made the progress during he pas ten years that it was suppose to ha, e done, or that the people had right to expect, 1 considering the effo to that have been m °de and the money hat ha been ex- ded to develop t e coun ry and se- e immigration. he totel increase in population is less han ha f a million, exact figures bei g, 49 ,534. The ulation of Canada as oh wn by the sus, now is 4,823, 44. he follow - is the present po • ulation of the see- 1Provinces,togeth r with t e increase ach during the ten years: No 'Scotia P pulation Increase. N 50,623 9,951. No Brunswick 21,294 61 Pri co Edward Island 09,038 Qu bee 197 Ma itobe 2, 12,889 186,067 1, 88,586 120,569 On rio Th Territories 64,442 92,182 61,487 85,972 I3r1 ish Columbia 9 Uninganized 322:7166 43,808 87 1,237 s will be leen fr m the above the m ritime Provinces have ben almost st tionary, while the wo ba ner Pro. vi cal of Ontario a d Quo eo have rcely retained their natural increase fahi over deaths, say n thingl of increase by immi ration. On the le, the Dominion, •ot all wing for natural increase, h s barel held its , while the immigration he done lit-, ore than suprlied he bla ks made he removal of our own peo le, Au yids of the returno also, ill ohow any increase that as bee mode in Ider Provineee hoe been in the eity 1 distri ts have or insta oe, the ea• and Ontario nereflen in the ie 270, 53, The the p pulation ing OW s of the i of the organs of t e Ottawa Govern- ment. It is a pity hat rhjournal posses- sing, as it does, the entire confidence of the Government, did not come to see things in this light looner and to urge its viewa before so i much money was wasted and so: much injury done by this system. But, even death -bed re- pentance is better then none at all, and, although late in the day, ' it would be . well if this system of bonusing local rail- ways with Federal ,money were even i now stopped. This was one of the shrewdest schemes adopted by the late Premier for keepingi himself and his party in power, and it contributed more than any other single scheme ta that end. It not only kept his, own followers in line, but it waa occasionally the means of forcing an loppenent to give his unwilling adherence to a scheme which he knew to be Wrong and corrupt. It was, in short, a cunningly devised scheme for buying the political support of the people with their own money. 1 • .And, if the money had always gone to the people it would net have been so bad, but as in the caseof this Baie des Chaleurs affair, the general rule was that the bulk of the bonuses went to the boodlers and only the drippinge fell to the people. In many instances, while the bonuses have been gobbled up, the roads are not built yet, 1 -and never will be. There are hundreds of men, and some of them leading politiciane, who, before this system of pc Ofrii8CUOUS rail- way bonusing was a opted, scarcely owned the shirts on their backs, but who, through their eonnection with these railway schemes, have become in .a few years wealthy caPitalists, and all at the expense of the people. It is a hopeful sign, therefore, when journals like the Gazette are beginning to be _ashamed of the robberies perpetrated under the guise of aiding irailway, and it looks as if the systeni Might now be abandoned, greatly to the relief of the tax -Payers. The Oppoeition press and members of Parliament have for years , protested against the system and point- ed out the evils resulting from it. But all protests and petitions were in vain. It was one of the pet sChemes of the old man, and he would not hear of its ! abandonment. The people, evidently,or a majority of them, liked to be fooled by him, and they backed biln up in this as ; in everything -else, and iso the thing went on session after Seseion, and year - t after year, until the pre:a-toter of it drops from view, and then the truth comes out so plainly that the people, can not longer hide from themselves the fact that their humoring of the old man cost them mil- lions and brought them nothing in re- turn. Now, there is a revulsion of feel- ing, and it looks as if the railway ex- ploiters and boodlers will be forced to take a back seat, and that the tax- payer will have a respite. In other words, that the system, f subsidieing projected railway scheme for the bene- fit of political railway charter specula- tors must cease. The igoVernment and their organs now make virtue of neces- sity, and abandon the scheme when they find the public will not longer support them in it. While, therefore, they are not deserving of very much credit for their change of base, it is a good -.sign and augurs better for the future that they have been foreed, even at this late hour, to make it. i pe CU th th po ,ce in er in 00 of th wh the ow tle hy ano centre*, while th o rur eau 10/ &wowed, iota inerease in QII6 is 3 5,1120, while the citie .of these Provinces folio big iiguree sho and nCreise in 'the le Dominilon 181 Montt al ' 216 660 Toren] o 181220 Quebe 68y90 Hamil on 48,80 Ottaw 44, 54 St. Jo la 39, 79 Halite 88,56 Londo 3177 Winni25, 2 Kingst ri7 r 19, 64 I 708, Th4 increase in Montr is nea ly half as much as the 'ities and towns Whil the result, on t scare ly, be said to be di is, ce tainly, very uns falls 1 mentably short of dlcte and promisedby t hp. The result should point ng to those who the p ogress of events dur ten y arse We have seen hsve On expending mill to ke pkmr own people in and i providing inducem to co el to it, there has b and e er increasing steea peopl away from it. 1h potent to all not wilfully blind Those who have outp ur will hardly be di the r sult of the census, what hey expected. The ever, must be unsatisfac humi iatine, to all. We of th best and most fart the s n ahines on. We ha million& upon millions of d purp sell°, inducing immigr creasing our population, b made the mistake of trying country rich and prosperou the people, and the result i able ailure shown by the figur s of the census enu anyt ing would convince t • e people of the f lly of the policy whic has been purs ed by our rulers duri g the past ten y ars, one would think this would. We hase doubled our tax a ; we have more than doubled our deb, and a 1. we have oehow for it is a begg rly hal mil- lion i crease in our populat on and few indivhleals who have risen from p verty to affluence by boodling and the rivi- leges given them by act of Parli ment of robbing the long-suffering and ever - patient tax -payer. Surely it is high time a policy which produces suc re- , sults were changed. lIncrease. 61,413 85,024 644 13,020 12,847 2,174 2,456 6,711 7,657 6,173 12 2'1,711 al and oronto in ne rly all put ti gether. e who e, can appoin ing, it tisfacto y and hat «as pre - 080 in uthor- ot be disap- ere ob erving log th past that w ile we ons in trying the c untry nts to others en a teady of ou own s was fact ✓ poli ically bserve this appoin ed at it is only esult, how- ry, not ave her one le cou tries e expe ded Bare f the tion a d in- t we have o make our by taxing the miser- "ndispu able orators. If Tu natural tendency of a prot e po1icr is to make the rich r cher a poor oorer, by taking th mone the nany and concentrati g it hand of the few. That it has ha effect in Canada the census r abundantly prove. The ural m palities have been robbed f popu and capital to build up t e great of Montreal, Toronto an Win While country towns such as God Listchvel, Dundas, Napanee and have been depleted of their populati have had capital withdrawli from and property depreciated in vain large centres like Toronto have a doubled in wealth and population d the past ten years. As it has with munibipalities so has it been individuals. While the farmers zans and country merchants have gradually growing poorer and property decreasing in value, Stephens, McIntyres, Van Homes, Greevies, Redpath, Masses, etc., _ grown into millionaires and ctive d the from the this turns nici- ation cities ipeg rich: there nand them hm oethea uring been with arti-. been their the Mo- have havei emerged from comparative obscurit Into Barons, Peers and important railway, dommercial and manufac- turing celebrities. .Well, the cities and the barons end boodlers have enjoyed this soft snap for ten years, 'and it is a out time that the policy was changed a d that the farmers and other country f lk were getting an innings. The o untry people have the matter in their o n hands. Will they order the change made, or_will they continue to be the w lling beasts of burden for the aro% a d the boodlers ? That is the question w ich .every voter should put to him- self. IRUSSIA has, of late, years been one ofthe largest wheat producing end ex- perting countries of Enrope. This year, hewever, the crop has been a great fail- ure there, and instead of sending forth laige exports she will not have nearly enough for her own needs. This must halve a very material influence upon prices in the European markets, and forms one of the indicetions which leads us to believe that we Will this year re- , calve for our large Canadian crop bet - ler prices than have prevailed for some yes rs, The prices here, however, will, per aps, be somewhat checked or low red by the unusually high freight rat s being charged for Atlantic trans. por ation, occasioned by the apparent sho tage of vessel acoommodetion and the consequent slackening of competi- tion. Referring to the ° crops in Russia tho London " Spectator " quotes from F ee Russia " an article by Stepniak deal; ring that in twouty-six provinces in uropeem Russia the crops have been dest oyed, or almost destroyed, In eix pro Juges more than one.half of the diet lute are *filleted by the sem WAm. ity, in thirteen provinees the harveet pro lees to be middling-Intilleiont- for the eede of the population, leaving no sur Ins, Only in the northern Cf4tIOafinfh in few northern provineee, and in thre districts of the southeast, le the har est expected to be above the aver- age. 1111111111111IIIIIIIMINNIMMIMI THE LATEST thing in the " combine " or "i trust" line,is a burglar's syndicate, which is said to have been established in the United States. According to the statements of the American papers this " trUst " • was formed in New York by a confidence -man about a year ago. He had a theory that burglars, safe-break- ers, pick -pockets, sneaks, and so on, could operate with better success if they ed an association of twenty-five men, at iil joine their forces. He therefore form- . the head of whom he placed himself, actin as cgener 1 manager. He then formed a st. enter of correspondence and capital stock of $5,000, and proposes to map out routes,send out spies, and carry ciri the group of peculiar occupa- tions he controls systematicallyeand, he believes, safely. This is " organized industry " with a vengeance! 1 REFILRING to the disclosures of cor- , rfiptioe. and. boodling at Ottawa, the New York Christian Union very truth- fully r marks : All these revelations of corr11 ption in Canada, however, give to Arneicans no right to point the finger of scorn. A few years ago our political life was notoriously far more corrupt than hers. In both countries this period of demo alization was inevitable, for in both th policy of tariffs in aid of menu-. factorie , and subsidies in aid of rail- roads, ade the line between legislating for publ c interests and legislating for private interests a very shadowy one. When i comes to be regarded as a mat- ter of . ourse that public ofthe should be used s a means of promoting private fortunes, things are certain to go from bad to orse until the crash comes. limmumasmovemmi THIS s the doctrine THE EXPOSITOR has bee expounding for years, and we are gla that so influential a journal as our Bra tford namesake endorses it. , It says: ' It is a pity that appointments id the c vil service could not be entirely remove from the executive and vested in some independent tribunal. Proper examin tions should be rigidly insisted npon, p emotion should bel by merit,and I remove s for partizan purposes rendered impossi le. The Superannuation act should e abolished, and ithe hours of labor a d the ealarieR paid should, cor- reapon4 with those prevailing in the busines community. Such an Elysinrrs may no suit the heelers and boodlere of eithe party, but there should be suf- fident n oral sentiment in the commun- ity to d mand it." DO 11 The the -we k has been the returns of the Dorhin'on census which is taken once every t n years. The announcement has been re eived witn nothing less than dismay as the result has fallen far short 4f everything that we bad a right to expect. The total population of the Do during little o IN1ON PARLIAMENT. ram Our Own Correspondent.) OTTAWA, August 31st, 1891. oE,ft important announcement of Anion is 4,823,344, an increase he ten years of 498,534, or a er 11 per cent. In the decade between 1870 and 1880 our increase was over 17 per cent, and the percentage of increase in the United States is over 24 per cent., so the relative progress of the ts9 countries may be estimated from th ee figures. If the natural in- crease o the population had eemained in the lominIon arid we had 'kept our iminigr tits, the population of the Do- , minion to -day would have been around about .6,000,000. In - other words we have lost all our natural increase, that is the excess of births over deaths,amount- ing to nearly a million souls in the ten years, and half our immigrants, and that this latter is no small item may be judged from the fact that in the last ten years the official figures of the De- partment show that we have been at tremendous . expense, in bringing in 886,009 emigrants, the cost being about $2.58 Per head. There is no need for me to take up space here in giving the details of the census as every paper must of course publish them in full. A point which is attracting special attention here is. the effect of the census upon the representa- tion in Parliament. It will deprive New Brunswick of either one or two members, Nova Scotia of one; and add two to Manitoba. The only encouragi sign about the censusis to be found the figures for Manitoba and the Nort west Territories, which although n entirely satisfaotory nevertheless oho a rapid growth in the newer portio of the Dominion. For the first ti since confederation the census ad nothing to the representation of Ontar in Parrament. It is also said. th Prince Edward bland niust lime on The general result of the oensus ii th summed up, that we have made slower progress during the past ten years than during to preceding ten years ;- that the Maritime Provinces are at a standstill ; that Ontario and Quebec are going ahead at a rate less than that which the natural increase, to say nothing of . immigration renders possible, and that our principal growth is in the West where largo sums have been spent to induce settlement, Mr. McGreevy's return, he was incom- petent to resign his seat and the Speaker will therefnre be advised to cancel the warrant he has issued to the Clerk of the Crown iniChancery for a new election. Tam meano that when the Report of the committee, is presented to the House Mr. McGreevy will still be a member of it, and it wi 1 therefore be in order to de- clare that'tiie Hon. Thomas McGreevy is no longer a fit and proper person to sit intthe House of Commons of Canada. TITHER NTING BUREAU SCANDAL. Further f cts relating to the Printing 13,ureau sea, dal were brought out before the Public Accounts committee since I last -wrote. Other contractors who have been supplying the Bureau with material swore that 4hey had paid large Sums of money to Mr. Seneca!, thus justifying the obser ation which I made last week that Senecal was the chief sinner. ng The discle tires were so shocking that in Mr. Seneeal has been summarily h• dismissed tan1d has taken flight from the ot order of the House that he appear be - w fore the Ba to explain why he refused ns to answer the summons to appearebefore me the committee. There are now two de vacancies in the staff of the Bureau, io that of Superintendent of Printing and at Superintendent of Stationery, the two e. ohief officee.1 There are no lack of op- us plicants for these positions, but it is safe to say tbat the Government will be very careful of the men they select. lion, Prank Smith, acting Minister of Public Works, has suspended an of ficied in his Department named Talbot, who is euppoeed to have ordered goods for the Department and had them sent to his own house, Thie is the first case Itt whioh the Government have antici- pated the aetion of the Publio Accounts committee, where, the matter comes up to -morrow, It is believed that there are other offloials of the same_Depart- ment in the IMMO boat, Lieutenant -Governor Schultz is here to appear before the Public, Aecounts Committee to explain certain eharges brought ago, atit eirn by a citizen of Winnipeg in relation to the Yeeht " Keewatin," THY BMX 1)16$ (ASA JAMS $CANDAL, The Henan oommittee inquiring into the Dale deo (Aalefirif meendale le 4111 herd at work, As Mr, Langelier inte insisted Upon their enquiring further into the affairs of the railway, he Is now en. gaged in all attempt 'to eetablieh the charge that Senator Robitaille and his toolocietes mieeppropriated $115,000 of Pederlel subeidy granted on aecount of the first 20 miles. The affairs of this road, the management of the subsidies, the change of proprietors, the different subsidies from different Governments, are all so entangled and mixed up with claims of contractors and sub -contract- ors that it is safe to say not a single member of the committee understands it. One thing is clear, it stands out prominently that somebody hoodled large sums of money granted from the public chest to this road and the indi- vidual who seems to have suffered most in pocket is contractor Henry McFar- lane, who has asked nothing for himself but wants what is due to him for the purpose of paying his creditors, he having been driven into insolvency by the failure of the old company to dis- charge its obligattTns.E.S. Among the names mentioned as suc• cessors to Mr. Senecal are Mayor Clark and Mr. Sheppard. of the Mail, both of Toronto, and Mr. Rufus Stephenson, of Chathain. There are several French Cauadirtns after the position also, and the cha ces are one of them wi I get it. It is sad that Mr. Ogilvie, of Ottawa., will auctceed to Mr. Bronskiles position as supe intendent of stationery. Bowell, Minister of Customs, . had a veeak turn at the breakfast table in the Aussell House, Friday morning, caused by a temporary stoppage of the action of the heart, He is, however, now better. In the dining room of the House of Commons Mr. Robert Birmingham, the Conservative organizer for Ontario'was. presented with a purse of $2,200, by the members of the House and of the On- tario Legislature belonging to the, Con- servative side. IN THE HOUSE, In the House the charges of selling Government offices for money brought against Mr, Cochrane, the member for Emit Northumberland, Ontario, were re- ferred to a opecial committee whiah meets on Wednesday to examine 20 witueseesl, Cul, Tisdale is chairman of the coon ittee, The sm allot Government ms*Jorlty of the okn wae reeorded on Sir Itie erd Cartwrig Of motion &Jointing that the power to tem governor generai'm War. rude wi h whieh to raise money Wes groeely atueod by the 0 own ment,eepeo, belly itt r 'lotion to the Intereolonial and Prince dwerd 'eland Railweye, On thed1v1eIni the amendment wag rejeeted by 82 yea to 97 nays, a majority of 15, The qovernment, however, had a majority bf 25 on another division last week upon a motion by Mr. Davies to condemn the Government's handling of the subsidies to the West India steam- ship line. The return of Sir Donald Smith and Mr. Dalton McCarthy add two to the Government majority which has for the most part this session ranged a little over and a little under 20. 1 On Fri4ay, Colonel O'Brien and Mr. Bluebell, of Ontario, called the atten- tion of the Government to the agitation against the admission of live cattle from the United States into Can- ada for the purpose of being slaughtered here, and ME Haggart promised to bring down tip correspondence. There was a depetaton here the day before re- presenting! the Dominion Live Stock Assooiatioi, to protest againt the policy which Mr. Abbott announced in the Senate, that t e Government had adopt- ed of admittin American cattle, Mr. Dunn, peiha s the biggest dealer of cattle in Cana a, states that this is but the prelude of a determined effort on tbe part of thel American authorities to obtain admissi n for their live cattle into England. .Dr. Sproule, an Ontario member, states that between sixty and seventy of the 1Ministerial members of the House are pledged to oppose the new policy of Ithe Government as re- gards cattle as it is a complete reversal of their forme policy. Mr. Abbott says on the othe hand, that it is merely a commercial en erprise, that capitalists are willing to i vest a large sum of money in it, andj that if it injures our cattle trade wit} Great Britain he will cancel the newi privilege. The other people seem to t ink, however, that af- ter capital is inv sted and vested inter- ests established it will not be so easy for the Government o close up the bueiness as Mr. Abbott se ms to think. A GOVER MENT CAUCUS. A Ministerioll caucus was held on Thursday at wh.ch all the member e of the House of ommons and of the Senate supportin the Government at- tended in Room 16. Premier Abbott was present and nade a speech in which he declared onciagain his determina- tion to make no compromise with cor- ruption and to punish all evil doers. Mr. Chapleau al o made a speech, but Sir Hector Lan evin, who was present, did not raise hie voice during the whole proceeding. X question as to the eourse of the paxfty to be pursued in re- lation to Sir Hector was submitted to the caucus, although it is understood that the caucus was called for that pur- pose and only Sir Hector's presence prevented it from being discussed. SIR HECTOR AND UNCLE THOMAS. At long last the committee on Privi- leges and Elections have concluded with the Tarte charges and gone into camera with their deliberations. They meet again to -morrow when it will be discov- ered if there is any chance of agreeing upon a unanimous report. There is no doubt whatever, that the committee will be unanimous in condemning Thos, McGreevy, and the split will be over what manner of report they should make with regard to Sir Hector Lang- evin. Mr. Fitzpatrick, the counsel for Mr. McGreevy, in his address to the oommittee, admitted that enough had been proven to unseat half a dozen Mc- Greevys. He edmitted that he had re- ceived money from public contractors, but contended that he had used it for political and not personal purposes. He admitted that he had obtained and given out to Larkin, Connolly & Co. secret information from the Department of Public Works, He adfhitted that he was the owner of•the Steamer Admiral, which disqualified him from sitting in the last Parliament, but argued that it did not apply to the present Parlia- ment, as he had ceased to be the Owner. Mr. Geoffrion, counsel for Mr. Tarte, made no address, but left' the case in the hands of the committee. Mr. Osler, counsel for the Department of Public Works, summed up the facts as establish- ed by the evidence in regard to the con- tracts, but avoided expressing J any opin- ion as to the guilt or innocence of Sir Hector Langevin. The validity of the Hon. Thomas Mc- Greevy's resignation was referred to a . sub -committee of the Privileges and Elections Committee and they have de- cided that as there was a pretest againet i . , News of the Week. THE POOR JEWS. - Another large party of destitute Hebrew refugees arri- ved at New York Monday. RELIEF roa,, THE UNFORT UNATE . -- Over $12,000 has been subiesribed for the relief of the victims of the Park place accident in New York. SWIFTEST YET. -The C, P. R. steam- ship Emprees of Japan has cut the re- cord from Yokohama to yictoria to 9 days, 19 hours and 39 minutes. DESTRUCTIVE CYCLONE. -The recent Martinique cyclone did $1,000,000 dam- age and killed 378 people. A WILD TYPHOON. -TWO hundred lives were lost in a typhoon in Japan on August 16. The storm was the worst known in year and great damage W6_8 done. nlg Russian peasants is increasing. UATION OF Rrssee. - Distress Mosoow Council will likely compel all employers to supply their men with rye bread at the nominal price. - POPI7LATION OF ALASKA. -Alaska's population iv 3.1,000, it decrease of 2,000 in ten years. The native population has decreased by 8,000, but the whites and Chinese have largely increased. Miss WILLARD'S LECTURES. -Mise Frances Willard has cancelled all of her autamn engagements to lecture in •Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Con • nectiout, Pennsylvania, and Iowa on acoount of her mother's feeble health. Tiee ONLY SURVIVORS. -The steamer Arizona arrived in NeW York, the other day, with eight members of the crew of the ship Sea Gull, whichas wrecked iiiv on the African coast. T ey were the - only survivors of a crew of 26, TERRIBLE FATE. --Hogan, the Ann Arbor aeronant, made an ascension at Detroit, the other day, and was giving a trapeze exhibition at an altitude of 1,000 feet when he lost he hold and fell to the ground. He was smashed to a pulp in sight of 30,000 spectators. A LIBERAL BENEFACTRESS. -Mrs. M. H. Hotchkiss, of Lakeville,Connecticut, has presented $275,000 in cash to the trustees of the Yale preparatory echool of which she is founder. She has also given 75 acres of land. DUBLIN'S HORSE Snow. -The horse b show, just closed in Dublin Ireland ha been an unusual success, and the news- papers comment upon this fact as prov- ing that the prosperity of the country is increasing. The show has been visited by the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, the Earl of Zetland, by the Duke of Clar- 81100 and Avondale, Lord Woleeley, the Duchess of Mancheeter, and the bulk of .. the Irish peers and peeresses in addition to a large number of members of the English ariatooracy. The horse show was well managed, and no leas than 1,300 horses wereon exhibition. Of this number there were two hundred hunters and 'a few American trotting horses. " DEVASTATION. -A cloudburst deluged the eastern part of Rensselaer county, NewYork, the other evening, washing away several' houses and causing dam- age of $100,000. Further damage was done in Troy, making the total half a million. Three persons were drowned. DYNAMITE AND RAIN. -Large quan- tities of dynamite were exploded froin the highest peak of'she S000rra moun- tains, New Mexico, on the 27th ult. As a result, the heaviest rain of the year fell, breakingthe drought. • WHEAT. -A despatch of September 1st, from Duluth, says: The wheat in store here is now only 223,000 bushels, but the new wheat has begun to pour in at the rate of 50 to 75 cars a day, and advices from the country show the ship- ments by farmers from now on will be large. The farmers who are here in- dicate that a few farmers will try to hold their wheat, but nearly all will put on the market at once, The total re- ceiptir of Duluth for the. year is esti- mated at 50,000,000 bushels, TBRRIBLIC PRAIRIE FIRE IN DAXOTA. -One thousand equal.° miles of rich farming land in Faulk county, Dakota, are black with smouldering aehes and hundreds of thousands of bushels of grain and tons of hay have gone up in smoke, The fire occurred on Friday hist, and was the worst ever known in 'Dakota. Faulk county, which lies 200 r miles northwest of Sioux Falls, had raised enormouto crops this year, and the (annex% were busy threshing. A spark from a steam threshing machine near Faulkton ignited the dry stubble and in it short time the flames had spread over it stretch twenty miles wide and were rushing over the prairie, Nothing could ',top them and the brisk eoutheset wind which Wa9 blowing carried sperks for half a mile, At Loyelton the old, zone worked for eight hours and berely saved theirihomes, but lost all their r *grope awl o We, Doom of farm houses standing on the open prairie were wept away with, their outlying buildings, Several other villegee lay in the break of the blaze, but they Were Saved by the mold desperette exertione, The burned districts cover an area of 20 Allies wide by 50 long, and in all that territory there is not tree or hay stack or herd of cattle wh i oh escaped. So far no loss of life is re orted, but at least 1,000 persons are homeless and the loss of property is i calculable. Five thousand1 acres of hayj land, studded with stacks, were swept clean by a prairie fire on Tuesday ni ht, from Grand Forks westward. Biuron Notes. -Mr. Johnston, of the Zurich flax mill, has completed his flax pulling for this year. He had over 300 acres of it. -Mr. Wm. Cornish, of Brussels, has purchased the Blasi -all house, south of Brussels and has taken possession. The price paid was $325. -The man of Wingham, benefit of his will be please improving. -Mr. A. burn public s tion and leav intends goin will study Auburn will -A team Proctor, of afternoon o was thrown y friends of Mr. Jos. Kerr, who went to Texasfor the health some months ago, d to learn that he is still, rwin, teacher of the Au- hool,has resigned his posi- s in a couple of weeks. He to Philadelphia, where he entistry. Bin position in be filled by Miss E. Day. f horses belonging to Mr. orris,ran away on Tuesday last -week. Mr, Proctor ut on his shoulder and had his neck strained. The wagon was smashed. -11r. Samuel Eesery, of Crediton, has rented his farm to Mr. Joseph Ed - wares. MreEssery having other work on hand, cannot well attend to it. Joe is an excellent farmer, therefore be careful, farmers, lest you fall behind. -The poreable sawmill owned by Per- due & Donaldson, of Goclerich township, was sold by public auction on Saturday last by Thomas Brown, of Seaforth. Mr. W. Perdue was the purchaser, and he will carry on the business in future. -The Do Line, Flullet of five yea Holmesville, he is. Mr. sworth farm, on the Base , has been rented for a term s, to Mr. D. Gliddon, of whose time expires where -11iddon is a good tenant, and will leave the farm in good con- dition. -On Tue Peebles, sr. some straws the grist mil and pulled gash in it. days. -Mr. Fr d Siegeur, of Zurich, met with a elighe misfortune on Monday of last week. As he was eheeing a horse it threw itself upon his leg, injuring it pretty seveSely. He is able to walk around however, and we hope will soon be able to attend to his work again. -Master Willie Deichert, eon of Nicholas DOchert, of Zurich, while working in Mr. Johnston's woollen mill, in that villa e one day recently, acci- mto a tank of hot water, cgs and arms very severely. horse belonging to Mr. righarn, was being driven in that town on Sunday buggy became disjointed, ran away with the front id not go far, however, be - topped. No damage was sday of last week, Mr. of Ethel, was pulling out of the machinery in , his shirt sleeve got caught is arm in and tore a big 0 will be laid up for it few dentally fell scalding his -While King, of W along a street evening, the and the hors wheels., It fore it was done. -On Friday night the stores of Messrs. Finlayson and MacLennan, of Lochalsh, were burglarized, but luckily not much was taken and thus there was not much of a loss. Hats were found lying along the road td the east. The parties suspected were seen along the road that night about dark. -On Tuesday of last week Mrs, S. Fear, of Bressels, brought to the Post Publishing House, a branch cut from a raspberry bosh of this year's growth, upon which Were counted 60 berries, the majority of them lerge, beautiful fruit. The branch ineasured 2 feet in length. Mr. Fear ha one of the best fruit 'gar: dens in the icinity of Brussels. -Two of the Clinton bakers have een gettlngj themselves into trouble by selling bred under the stipulated weight. The New Era of last week makes the following remarks on the subject: On Saturday afternoon Inspec- tor Wheatley visited two of our baker- ies, for the purpose of testing their bread, and found about 200 loaves slightly under weight in the one, and about 50 loaves in the other, all of which „ • stone: and was injured While at work. working down at Kingston bleating Mr. Orant went down on the morning tra-irsoonnrSuaetaudradyay, ji saying he was dead. It appears he was cla-immed r. does nn Grant.ota ffec to ft Ethel, sraece et i jogne.4 a despatch on Friday, 21st ult., saying on Saturdey another despatch came was it not equally so for the Committee. his son Peter was seriously injured, and convenience to the purchaser, it That it was sold eimply as a matter of law is involved here, and it is alleged twat hilhoellitiltillidi°fenhOelatdiveheeet f not individual); If it was Hiegel for the breadmakers' selling some to persons who were want- ing it for Sunday ustyea.rnaAtivneicbeutp:ontfitteif $1 is ie eandceohnacfiroisstety: t. Committee,e diahne dpart of which rio they distributed to the poor, and also 2t5otb.Kingston. allrgthilrae,abt. the owners aseessewerde before aC ommagtniistttreaete he loved wife of David Henderson, of Ethel, died from a paralytic stroke re, ()dyed the Thnradey previous. This was the third attack, the first having affected her about four years ago. The deceased was the daughter of the late Mungo Wallace, of 13russel8, and was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, She wa united in marriage to Mr, ilendereen George Acheson & Co., of Goderich, ab-olh2e1 yoledarasandgo. well known arm of has retired from business'and has been Ittioceeded by a firm which will beenan- aged by Mr. John Robertson, who for the past flfteen or twenty years has been ono of Clinton's most popular business* men. Mr. Robertson is well kuovvn and highly respected in the vicinity, and the L dnmee: John,r9 new firm will no doubt do it good bu McMillan, of Blyth, is one of the oldest, if not the oldest, resident of that locality, he having been there for about 41 years, When his !ether first moved into the township of Morris there were only one or two settlers in it, Before coming to Blyth, Mr, MeMillan had peseed through/fem. ilton, and the only tilii0 that ha revisited it sine° was on Seturday bat, when he passed through on the.Niagara Palle ex. oursion, -A most remarkable 611§0'whieh hes bellied all medial ekill, and which h Said to be without a precedent, in the perrson of a healthy and strong middle- aged farmer residing near Teeswater, has come to light. One side of this gentleman's face will not permit him to place in his mouth any meat, no matter how fine it his been prepared; eggs he can eat, but milk he cannot drink ;water he can drink, and bread he can eat. The afflicted aide of his face will spurn any objectionable food as a child would med- icine. No cause can be found for it,and the effect is not at all pleasant. -The- Wingharn Advance of hist week says: A number of farmera and threshers have " blowed " considerably through the newspapera about big threshings, but we doubt if the follow- ing can be beatenieOn Saturday morning last, on the farm of Mr. John L. Little, Tnrnberry, Mr. M. Kennedy, between the hours of 7.30 and 11,30 a. m., threshed with a horse power naaehine 350 bushels of wheat, over 100 of which was spring wheat. They also drew in is quantity of oats to fill out the half day. Come along some more. -The Allianee Eeho, of Sharon Springs, Kansas, dated August 7, has the- following account of the death near that place of Robert, eon of Edward Sharman, of Goderich. The deceased was about thirty-two years of age and leaves a wife and two children: _ About noon last Wednesday, Horace Lemaster °tune to town and told deputy sheriff Hayes that Robt. Sharman, who lived on the Stnokey, east of town, had been found dead in the river. Mr. Hayes telegraphed the coroner, who was _ 'Wallace, and gathered up a crowd of men and went with Mr. Lemaster to where the sad accident occurred, The circumstances showed that Mr. Sharman had gone down to the river to bathe; his clothing was all lying on the bank, and a towel with them; a cake of soap was ale° found in the water. Mr. Shar- man was subject to epileptic fits, and it is supposed that one of his fits came on him while in the water, and he wan unable to help himself and drowned, Morris. PERSONA -1.8. -Mr. James Humphries, of Walton, was visiting friends on the 5th line last week. -Mr. Jonathan Moore was in Milton last week attend- ing the funeral of his brother David, who died after a long illness. -Mr. David Farquharson, of the 9th conces- sion, recently sold his quarter section of land near Cypress, Manitoba, for the sum of $1,400. There were no improve- - mento on the place. -Mr. Joseph Gray peid.a flying visit to Wingham recently. -Jae. J. Clennan- left on Monday to attend the Model School in Golerich, We wish him success. -Mr. James Smith left on Monday for Owen Sound to resume his studies at the Northern tBusmess College in that town ...Messrs. R. Stalker and Jas. Laidlaw were the guests of Mr. Janaes Moore last week. - Mr. and Mrs. Valentine Knechtel, of Seaforth, were visiting at Mr. David Moore's, 8th concession, this week. - Mr. R. Anderson, of Blyth, was visiting in this locality last week previous to taking his departure for Deloraine, Manitoba. -Miss Jennie Kirkby, a pupil of the Seaforth Collegiate Institute, haft en Mond ay to attend the Model School in Clinton.. Success to you, Jennie. - Mr. George Smith, senior, is recovering from a severely -sprained ankle, which be had the misfortune to receive some time ago. --Nr. Peter McVitty, of Woodstock, who has been staying at his tincle's, Mr. Donald Mclavieh's, on the 4nd conceseion, left to visit another uncle in Howick, called Malcolm Mc - Cosh. It is unnecessary to say that Peter is a Scotchenan, and. is fond of talking about his native land. -While standing on the street in an adjoining village a youthful resident of this local- iey had the misfortune to get a suit of clothes an 1 a mouth -organ badly spoiled by the bursting of a thundercloud im- mediately above hie head. Drysdale. BLOWN ASHORE. -The heavy gale on Thursday night ef last week blew six men and it woman ashore at this place, in a small yall, emly sixteen feet long., The surviving ()rev, bore the look of having experienced a narrow esospe from death. They had been exposedfor twelve hours in the tempest of a raging tea and in an almost nude condition. ,the lak The NMI °41 'being .jasneige Wee' :Sot the sod br The 05 Boren sista" Answer Wales, the 11 Go 01) the 4th verY V el -Seld e. j'e of op . chaff 11 slid i6 hardier ▪ to dispt Loca, # Oat& ii%/11 ,operatii wet Wei howeve .eleared - Londe& citizens menthe ars of tl ,eoneer 'There ronoith m• erected b 'est bi V 1 squall sever* Is rump ,Blyth TAOS I You dal to, and ;rumor NOV .attd Mi been shanks for the Currie tour th be aloe Made, in Tor Rebee :her pa week.- -home le work Hill at -Thesea the raj about -of Tie Thos, held its Sundae Watso scupied be cart the fel - 'The lat is now- eld, v place t A cce a Seafi risme, lines,' .,cure t „grainefi holds t the b man, (listen load e -down, him. right l'i blow I „should! that iiii son, c !Unless bad brl the aa eympa live. 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