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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1892-06-03, Page 1TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR. WHOLE NUMBER, 1,277. ) iitt SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, JOIE 3, 1892. BACK AGAIN. We are this week opening up in our old quarters, and respectfully invite you to call and see our magnificent establishment, which is now one of the finest in the county. We make a specis.1 display on Saturday, June 4th, Of the finest goods ever exhibited .in Seaforth, and will be glad to show you what we are doing. JACKSON BROS., High Class Clothiers, Seaforth. 11WIMINSISSIMMIS, OUR AMERICAN POLITICAL LETTER. [WRITTEN FOR TIM EXPOSITOR.] Since I wrote my last letter there has come to Doh ;ot rather strong opposition within the ra les of the Republican Party to the candidagy of Generel Harrison for a secand tarty as President. The leading spirits in th* movement are Senator Quay, the Boss otethe Republican machine in Penn- sylvania, and Thomas C. Platt, who holds a sinailar place in New York, Neither of these gentlemen has gone so far as to ex- press a wish for the office for himself nor has either, apparently, any decided prefer- ence. They simply don't want Harrison. If one tenth of what has been published in re- gard to the records and morals of these gentle- men and has never been contraclicted,is true, e President Harrison has received a very high compliment indeed and, as the " Chriatian Union" says, may well eepouse his cause be- ceuse of the enemies he has made. It is sitnply another CE1.80 of sentiment versus the Machine. There seems- Digo to be a renewal of the ob- jections to Mr. Cleveland in some degree. Mr. Hill lets the New York Sun do his talk- ing far hino while he says nothing, and like the man in the Proverb, saws wood. Al- though not much has been heard of,or from, him for some time,it is not for a moment to be supposed that he is doing natbing and has given up his aspirations. That is not his way. However, it will not be long now be- fore the National Conventions will meet and settle these vexed questions. It is well to re- member too, that a preliminary Presidential Campaign is much like a horse race, "mighty onsartin." WHAT WILL THE ISSITE BE ? The making of the issue in this Presiden- tial Campaign will rest with the Democratic Party. The Republicans have issued their challenge Ieng ago. They are committed beyond the possibility of retreat to the doc- trines of High Tariff and the Gold Standard in coinage, or, as they prefer to call them, " Protection to American Industries and Labor," and "Sound Money." So they are put on the defensive and the Democratic Convention at Chicago next month will say whether the issue shall be Tariff or Silver. If Mr. Cleveland is nominated for President at that Convention,the Tariff will be the question of the day, for he carries his own platform. 1f Mr. Hill is nominated the platform will be a structure fearfully and wonderfully made, with a plank calculated to appease every sect and clique in the country that can command votes. If a Western man is selected, it is just poesible that the platform will contain both Tariff Reform and Free Silver,but the probabilities are that the campaign will be fought out on the question of " Protection" pure and simple. any man would have the right to gu to the United States treasury and demand that -a quantity of silver which at the present time, ie worth about seventy to seventy-four cents be made into a coin which shall pass current at one hundred cents. Thisis the substance of the whole matter. The advocat ea of the plan have a way of juggling with figures so as to make out that the moment the United States treasury beeins paying this price for silver, the price of that metal in the world's market will rise high enough to balance things,but I never could see the connection between this argument and their conclusion. eShouId the Democratic National Conven- tion decide to go to the country on the ques- tion of the tariff the chances are, as things look now, that they will at least make a very strong fight and many of their organs, as well as a large number of independent journals, clahn that they will sweep the country, as the sentiment in favor of freer trade and cheaper living is rapidly growing. On the other hand, the Republican press claims that the Manufacturers and the Busi- ness men and the Working men will all vote to sustain the McKinley Bill and that the country has never been so prosperous, wages so high and living so cheap as during the past four years. My own impreseion ie that could we have a campaign of principle,fought out solely on this question, the Democrats would win as they did in '84-, but there are likely to be so many side issue and there is such a feeling of distrust of the Democratic party in many parts of the country,that they can hardly win. Their course in the New York Legislature, where they had full con- trohand the records of the Democratic major- ity in the present Congress are not celculated to reassure those who have their country's welfare at heart and unless there is 11 change for the better very soon it is likely that many honest, conscientious men, though strongly opposed to protection as a policy, will vote the Republican ticket because ,they feel that that party is, as a peaty, the mare uprigbt and patriotic. All this is, however, theory. The con- ventions which take place within a few weeks now, may change _the complexion of things entirely and it is possible, though not probable, that six weeks from now a new issue will be brought to light or a new light thrown on an old one that may so completely change it as to give et new significance to the contest ; but as I Paid, this is poesible not probable, for the State Conventions form a pretty fair index to the National Conventions and from their tone I judge that the Tariff will occupy poli- ticians' minds pretty fully until next Novem- ber, and McKinley will be lauded to the skies and dragged in the dirt on many plat- forms during the coming summer. What objection can you fairly raiee against that system ? Ten years should render a judge tolerably independent of the powers that may have created him. Then the cir- cuit court judges, 23 in number, are elected every six years. This is a court very close- ly resembling our county courts, and is an appellate court from the decisions of justices of the peace. A justice of the peace is elect- ed for a term of four years. Ile discharges functions very similar to those discharged by our county court judges when they sit in quarter-sestions, and on the bench at divi- sion courts. They have exclusive jurisdic- tion over matters of account up to twenty dollars ; when over that sum appeals can be taken to the circuit court above Mentioned. Such are the facts regarding the judiciary of the United States in general, and of Michigan in particular. They hardly juitify your animadversions upon the administering of justice in the States. What incentive to do right beyond his own conscience has a judge appointed for life ? An electivh judge has the people to fear. I think most people would prefer trusting the judge who has the fear of punishment from the people before his eyes should he do wrong, than the judge who, appointed for life, has nothing to fear, but becomes an absolute monarch within his own limited sphere. I say it without fear of contradiction, that the judges ou the bench in the city of Detroit will com- pare favorably, as regards learning, ability, and judicial mindedness, with the judges of Canada or any other new country. The state of justice in any community depends upon the moral tone of that community. Surely our moral tone is good. At least we are always asserting that it is. I think that if you consider this question apart from the prejudice all Canadians appear to have, that you will admit that your arguments are hued on erroneoue assumption, and that, even if they were not, there is nothing in the inference to be drawn from your conten- tion that the eagle eye of the elector being upon his servant, the judge, tende to de- stroy his usefulness. You assert that the elective sYetem of public offices in the United States results in " inefficiency, corruption and extra,vagance, as is manifested by nearly every city corpor- ation in the United States, as well as many of the rural ones." Is that true, or have you simply repeated stale buncombe that has paseed current for fact among Canadians for many years ? Again, I say, we need not elect our officials under Continental Union, but even should we elect =them the fear of punishment for wrong doing and 'expulsion from office at the end of term is more likely to act as a deterrent to the evil tendencies of human nature than to provoke them into doing wrong. What think you of it ? But, if the evils you have enumerated prevail in the cities and elsewhere, how comes it thet the municipal county and school debt of the United States average but $18 per head of the population, while in Canada the same debts cannot be much, if at all, under $150 per head ? " High Federal Taxation " is a trouble with us, but under Continental Union you say we would be jumping " from the fry- ing pan jute the fire." How do You make that out ? Tbe Federal taxation fit Canada is almost $6 per head ; in the States it is about $4 per head, and will soon be much lower, for they are still paying war debt, and over $100,000,000 a year in pensions, which, in the natural course of events, must soon mime altogether, and.which alone means a reduction of nearly $2 per head. We have no reason to fear Great Britain's opposition to Continental Union, but Can- ,adians should -be able to do what is best for themselves, whether England likes it or not. We have every reason to believe the United States would accept us. Blaine has said so distinctly, so have nearly all prominent statesmen in the United States, as well as nearly every leading public journal. Free Trade and Direct Taxation may be all right when the proper time comes for putting those principles in practice, but Canada's present necessities demand free access to the United States market, and in no other way can that be secured than by political union. Respectfully Yours, T. M. WHITE. Continental Union. . EDITOR HURON ExPOSITOR. —Sir : A friend has sent me a copy of your excellent paper of a recent issue, in which there ie an editorial on the subject of "Annexation." I am pleased to see that you have the courage to say that the question conies within the domain of legitimate discussion, and admit that its supporters mak be actuated by patriotic motives. Allow me, however, to criticize, in a friendly spirit, the arguments you have advanced against Continental Union, termed Annexation by you. Cana- da's difficulties, drawbacks and disadvant- ages are not, in the opinion of continental unionists entirely of her own making as you assert. Nearly every difficulty we encoun- ter is the result of our political separation from the rest of the continent. Am Framer Goldwin Smith . observes in his " Canada and the Canadian Question," which ehould be in the hands of every intelligent men who takes any interest in the conntry, Sir_John Macdonald may, to some extent, be excused for his corruPt government in -view of the stupendous task he had undertaken to bind together in one nationality several provinces having little or no community of interest, and one of them, Quebec, being an alien in race, language and aspirations. Honest government under the conditious in which Canada is placed is impossible. Ail the pro• vinces look upon the Federal Government as a rnilch cow. It was in this spirit that the Inter -Provincial Corgress assembled at Que- bec a few years ago. Mackenzie- fell because he was honest, and in the same way any other honest administration in Canacia must go to pieces. Provincial interests being di- vergent, there is, as a natural consequence, no loyalty to Federal authority or inatitu- , tions. Your assertion that "all Canada could gain under Continental Union would be -free admiseion to tbe American markets," and that " this can be secured by adopting Free Trade and giving to every country on the globe free access to our markets that will give us free access to theirs," will bear a little careful examination. Continental Unionists claim that one great advantage would be the wiping out of nearly $40,000,000 of expendi- ture now being made annually in Canada. Free Trade would not do that for us. It is not quite clear that if we gave the United States free access to our markets they would give us free access to theirs, aa you intimate. Suppose that we adopt the free trade you advise is it certain that the United States will reciprocate ? There is every reason to believe they would not. The New York Tribune has repeatedly declared they will give us no free access unless we join them politically. And why should they ? Free access to their markets is, I admit, a neces- sity to our less than five million people, but free access to our markets is not a necessity to their sixty-five million people. And, un- der Free Trade, there would be no guarantee that " free access," even if obtainable, would be perpetual. Continental Union gives every assurance that it would be. • You next proceed to say that we should be obliged to adopt the objectionable politi- cal machinery and system of the United States, and among other evils we would have to submit to an elective judiciary. Upon the latter aesumption you proceed to construct elaborate arguments. But, sir, you are wrong. The Provinces now composing the Dominion would have to submit to nothing of the kind, unless they be so minded. A little explanation as to how the political system of the United States is waked may uot be uninteresting to your readers, for on this branch of the question there appears to be more misinformation in the average Can- adian mind than on any other. The Wash- ington Administration has complete jurisdic- tion over all United States courts, as dis- tinguished from State courts. The United States courts are the Supreme court ; the United States circuit courts are the district courts, and a recently oreated circuit Court of Appeals, The judges in all these courts —the most important—are appointed for life or during good behavior. These courts sit in the principal cities. The different States have jurisdiction over the State courts. In Vermont and other States no judges are elected, but are appointed by State authorities, and politics cut no figure in such appointments, for Democrats are often appointed in Republican States. In Michigen, nearer home, the system is as fol- lows : The Supreme court of the State con- sists of five judges, elected for a term of ten years, One being elected every ten years. The rise of this question and its growth as the policy of the Republican party is an in- teresting etucly. It originated in the high tariff which bece.me a necessity after the civil war. This tariff was adopted, not be- cause of a belief in the doctrine of protection but in order to pay, in what was thought to be the easiest and least burdensome way, the enormous war debt which threatened to bankrupt the country, The plan proved eminently successful. Not only was the burden of debt removed hut the country grew in wealth and importance at rate un- paralelled in history. Under these circum- stances it is easy to understand how the party that had inaugurated and carried to so succesful an issue this policy, should grow into the belief that a high tariff was not only a wise economic policy but that " protection' was the rallying shout that would always lead to- victory. Probably,too, the constant and bitter opposition of the Democratic Party helped to fasten this policy upon their rivals. Be that as it may, the party is now solid on the policy of pure protection joined with reciprocity as embodied in what is known as the McKinley bill. To put it in a few words the McKinley bill provides for a heavy duty on every class of goods tbat can bentanufactured in the United States and admits free of duty or with a very slight duty tlae things that cannot be produced at all or else cannot be produced in sufficient quantities to meet the demand in the coun- try. In additioa to this, it embodies a reci- procity clause whieh provides that if any foreign country whose products the United States need,will, within a certain time, ad- mit free of duty American Manufactures, the United States will admit free of duty the products of thaa country. The organized movement for tariff reform is of later growth. Of course the Demo- cratic party has, from the first, opposed the policy of high tariff simply because it was Republican but it was not until the admin- istration of 'President Cleveland that they were definitely committed to the poliey of teriff reform, which means, practicielly, free trade with a tariff for revenue onlY. The Democrats have the disadvantege of being divided, however, as to the wisdom of mak- ing this the issue in the coming campaign, while the Republicans on their side are a unit in favor of their present policy. How the question af free coinage of silver attained its present irnpoatance is hard to find out. It appears absurd on the face cf it and I have studied hard to find if it was lese absurd a little deeper down. So far I have failed to see that it can benefit anyone but the men and the States directly interested in the silver mining industry. Were a free coinage bill passed, and one came within one vote of going through the House of Representatives a short time ago, perience in licensing the trade or triiffic in strong drinks, which are not needful for health and happiness. That is, protecting a few men in each community in this line of business, in other words they have a monopoly, and so making it almosh impos- sible for- good, conscientious, chriatien men to keep a hotel in our country, who have to compete with men enjoying this sinful pro- tection. The licensing of strong &ink in this way is as unjust between man and man as other forms of taxation, although called duties or tariffs, at the very threshold of what is called the temperance question, for this reason alone, I speak advisedly, ought not to exist one minute beyond the expiry of the present licenses. What is the reason this licensing system has been allowed to .continue so long and flourish in ouch a com- munity as ours? Is it not just because our eyes have been blinded to the enormity of the sin of injustice,—to the awful hideous - netts of this monster of iniquity and itjustice being enthroned in our laws in oppoaition to the universal, eternal law of a just and holy God, which we have violated and trampled nder foot' Has not this blindness to the McLEAN BROS., Publishers. $1.50 a Year in Advance. were swollen considerably, and, as is cue- ith such fish, they started to swim the source, When the water went rge numbers of them were found topiary towards down 1 lying on the ground, some having gone as far as the sixth concession. On a sunshiny day the revhole pond glitters like gold from the glist ning scales of the flah. —Mr. Thomas G, Lowe, the London cue - ding waiter at the Canadian Pa - way, died suddenly Friday morn - e dropped down while walking e platform. Canadian Pacific Railway steam- ship E press of Japan, which arrived at Vanoou er on Saturday, had 451 saloon pas- sengers, 480 Chinese and 70 Japanese, with a full cargo of freight. —Walkerton will spend $1,500 on her demonstration on the 16th and 17th of this month. Horse raging, band competition, etc., wi I be the prominent features of the day. —Ric lard R. Dent, against whom extra- ditioo p oceedings were commenced at To- ronto lately, has been discharged by Judge toms la cifio Rai ing. across t —The McDou all, the American parties interested sin of injuetice been caused to a great extent, having bandoned the proceedings. by our having licensed for a long time a —Lo don has now 11 Methodist churches, commodity, the evil effects of whiph have the t cuter atone of the Centennial church been so vast and enormous as to overshadow having been laid in the east end of the city. or blind us ; or that the desire to combat these evil effects, not the sin itself, but the effect, has led so many to take the metut they have been employing these many years baek to get the Dominion Parliament to pass a total prohibition law, while they have been at the very same time signing petitions to the powers that be, to grant licenses to cer- tain named individuale. No doubt their motives were good but that will not justify the end. If this be so, then our first duty as christians is to fall down upon our knees and confess our sins to a loving Father. And another duty will be to petition the local parliaments to cease homing or giving the power to issue such licensee. This has been my conviction for some time and when expressing my convictions to some of my most intimate and eeteenied acquaintances, and with all due deference to you, sir, some time ago when advocating the same thing, you said to me in reply " That of two evils we must choose the least." That has been the essence of all the answers I got. But my letter of thanks is too long, but from past experience I know you will pub- lish it in full although some things in it may not square exactly with your views. In this respect you are much in advance of some of your big daily contemporaries, not excepting the one you mentiou. When you differ from a correspondent's views you publish them nevertheless ; not only that but you come out manfully and give your reasons, all honor to you for this. Should you again revolve this matter in your mind, I trust you will give us and the whole Dominion another editorial on " Monopoly and Strong Drink," and that it will be as clear and truthful as that on Annexation. If so, wbo can estimate the good results that would follow. Apologizing for the length of this. Yours truly, ROBERT DOUGLAS. wroxeter, May ,21.et, 1892. WINDSOR , mee 28, 1892. Evils of' the License System. MR. EDITOR,—Allow me to express thanks for your excellent editorial of the 20th ult., under the heading "Annexation." It states the case so well in a few words,and so truth- fully. Would that the press in general would come out in the same manner and educate the people in this direction. Your article should be and deserves to be pub- lished from Vancouver Island to Cape Breton , and dinned into the ears and consciences of the stupid, sleepy, careleas, selfish denizens of this broad Dominion. Free Commerce is so evidently the right course to pursue, and this is the time oppor- tune for Canada to come out boldly. With- out doubt it is the only safe and sure road to national prosperity. Every individual, without exception, who wishes to buy or sell any article does so because it is, or he or she believes it, to be to their advantage, Why -then in the name of reason or common sense put difficulties in the way, whether by duties, tariffs, licenses or custom house busi- ness? Let us pay what its necessary for the government of the country, as we do in our municipal' affairs for our local government, when we know what we pay and what for. The Creator has told us " Earth hath he given to the sons of men." Does' not this mean that man should have the liberty snd freedom to engage in any lawful occupation he chooses, without being made to pay so much of the proceeds of his labor into the pockets of his fellows who have no claim to it ;' and for the nation in its corporate capacity to make laws, protection laws as they are called, whereby one man is made to take frem his fellow without hie consent, is' legalized robbery, a literal violation of the• eighth commandment, which we can no more violate with impunity than the others of the deealogue, without paying the penalty. We have a noble heritage in this Canada of ours, if we were only true men and wiamen. Our motto should be " Free Commerce in things needful for our sustenance and comfort ; Restricted Commerce in things not needful for our sustenance end comfort." If we had this with what it. involves, Free Trade with all the world ashfar as we were responsible for it, whether other nations would or would not reciprocate, and strong drinks confined to the apothecaries' shops as a dangerous commodity for general merchandise, what prosperity we would enjoy. Our country then would not be deserted and shunned by so many who love it, and we would not stink in the nostrils of our fellows as we do, and richly deserve to do. Without a shadbw of doubt we, as citizens of this Dominion, are being degraded and demoralized and our consciences seared and blunted with all the train of necessary consequences, until now the moral torpitude which prevails is eome- thing appalling and fearful to contemplate, all because we have exalted injustice and made it a corner stone in our edifice, We have now had 12 or 13 years' experience of protection in things needful for life and happiness, and how long I know not, ex - The ne a seatin _w Woods Police Court, on Friday last, for having his bar room open after 10 o'clock on the evening of the 19th inst., contrary to the new reeulations. —Thomas Stevenson late night operator at the Canadian Pacido Railway station in Peterberoh was killed on Thursday, last week, et Sutton Junction, through slipping and falling under the wheels when attempt- ing to board a train. —Mr. James Burrise, of Middlemiss, los a fine team the other nigbt. It seems h was in the habit of tying both animals to gether hy a baltee about their necks. They got on ppposite sides of a tree and choked. —Laet Thursday Mr. D. J. Donaldeon, second deputy reeve of Caradoc, was hurt at a barn ,raieing near Mount Brydges. He was stiuck on the head by a falling piled pole. He was taken home and is likely tci recover. —D. W. Clendennan, formerly Mayer of Toronto Junction and opponent of Dr. Gil- more, M. P. P. at the last Provincial gen- eral election, is reported to have gone across the border, owing to financial embarrass- ment and domestic trouble. —James O'Rielly, sr., the first settler in the north of Percy township, Hastings county, died on Wednesday evening, last week. .He was over 91 years of age, and had resided continuously on the farm where hr died, Once the year 1834. —It who c Grand eveni that v from I church will cost $12,000 and have capacity for 600. . Davis,- of the Central Hotel, ock was fined $10 and costs at the Canada. —Work is being pushed vigorously in the Crescent gold mine in Marmora, t Hastings county. —Philip Peer, of Amabel, trapped and shot a large bear recently,, weighing 400 pounds when dressed. -eTwenty associations of the Patrons of Industry have been organized to' date in Lennox and Addington. --Two typewriting machines have been placed in the Kingston public ehoels for the benefit of the pupils. —Mrs. Robert Leighton, who' lii'eed in Toronto when it was Little York, died the other day in Buffalo, aged 101 years. —Thomas Faughnan, an old British sol- dier, was buried with military honors by the 16th Battalion at Picton on Friday. —Hon. George Kirkpatrick has been ap- pointed Lieutenant -Governor of Ontario, in place of Sir Alexander Campbell, deceased. —Judge R. C. Skinner, of St. Jtohn, New - Brunswick, was drowned on Saturday while salmon fishing, owing to his canoe capsizing. —The other night dogs broke into the hen coops of Messrs. Brown and Guppy, of Newbury, when about eeventy-five fowls were killed. —An average of about 4,000 pounds of milk is being delivered at Flesherton cheese factory daily, equal to about 500 pounds of cheese. —Dr. Dunlop, of Alpena, Michigan, who is in Woodstock to establish an Institute for the cure of dipsoMania and the tobacco and opium habits, has begun treating patients. —The Geoid bicycle company of Brant- ford has in contemplation the removal of their factory to some other Canadian town with better railway facilities. —Mise M. E. Hay, whose parents reside in Toronto, died suddenly in Winnipeg on Thursday, last week, and the body was brought home for burial. —One of the Good Templar lodges in Toronto has set on foot a movement to get a local option liquor by-law submitted in Toronto under the ProYincial License Law. —Sir Joseph Hickson has been appointed director of the Merchants' Insurance Com- pany, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Mr. John Duncan. —A number of citizens of Norwood had an exciting bear hunt 'on Friday, and suc- ceeded in killing two fine black res about two miles from the village. —S. C. Foster, formerly of Cebourg, has been found wandering insane on 'the prairie near Broadview, Manitoba, with $1,300 in his pockets. —Edward Wood, of Toronto, the 11 -year- old lad, who was accidentally shot by a companion with a pea gun on Queen's birth- day, died at the General Hospital on Friday evening. —The cheese factory at Strathallen, a few miles north of Woodstock, was burned last Friday morning, with some 360 boxes of cheese ready for shipment. The loss was about $5,000. • —Messrs. Hiram Walker & Sons, of Walkerville, have bought the Walkerville Sugar Refinery from Mr. John Curry. These wealthy distillers bid fair to soon own the whole of Essex. —Last year there were about 1,900 Cana- dian horses shipped from Montreal to Glas- gow and other places. This season it is ex- pected that the total export will amount to 1,000 horse,. —About 'three years ago Thomas Heard, of London, gave hie brother-in-lavv, C. M. S. Thomas of Amherstburg, four carp (gold- fish), which he had obtained from Mr. Saunders, 'of London. Mr. Thomas put the fish in a jar, but in a very short time two of them died. Thinking they might thrive better in a pond or running stream he had the other two put into the pond near his mill, on the third conceesion of Anderdon, where they flourished and multiplied, until to -day there are thousands of the little crea- tures in the pond. After the recent heavy rains the small streams flowing into the pond —T Canada Bible Society was held on Thursda eveni g, last week, in Knox Church, To 1 onto. The report showed the ordinar revenue to have been larger than in an previolus yes'. by $1,200. , , —Gieneral Booth with a retinue of officers high in the Army list is to review his trooris in Toronto in September next, for which purpose the whole force of the Province will be billeted in the city. Arrangements are already being made for the occasion. —D. Sparkluell, of 'Windsor, died sudden- ly on Friday morning. While walking along the Areets of Detroit a few days ago he slipped upon a banana peel and falling on the sidewalk cut his head badly. Blood poieoriing set in with the above result. —Mies Carolina Hart, II. A., Superinten- dent qf the Kindergarten department of the Normal Sehool, of Toronto, has been atte pointed Canadian representative on the ad- visory Council Of the Womene Branch ef the World's Congress Auxiliary on Kinder- he took unto himself three months ago in Knoaville, Tennessee. 'ince their marriage garten. —The man who burglarized the house i.f the young couple have b en travelling in the Michael Cornwall, concession 8, South Na - South, and have spent a unusually long and wich, has been arrested, and Chief Pow, pf pleasant holiday. Sen tor and Mre. San- Woodatook, wants to find the owner for 1 a ford ere to give a recept on in honor of their black horse, 12 years old and 15 bands high, , children on the 7th f June, for which and a democrat wagoo, with dark red boh, nearly a thousand in •itations are being which are believed to be stolen. —John McGregor, 14 years of age, of To- iss—ute completion of the records of the ronto, was arrested in New York on Satur- London district meetin of the Methodist day night on a charge of larceny, amouet- church shows that ther are in the stations ing to several hundred dollars. He ran comprising the London district, 5,003 mem- away from home about two months ago after here and catechumens an increase of about stealing $50 from his parents and went to 100. The ministers have married 144 Broohlyn. has been learned that the old man mmitted suicide by jumping into the river at Caledonia, on Wednesda g of last week, was John Shirlock liege. He was mentally derange grippe troubles. e 52nd anniversary of the Upper on the following morning. The young man knew that he had not tang to live, and it was bee use of his earnest wish to die at at he was brought from Colorado in state. arent who was stemmoned to the ourt, at Hamilto , by the truant officer, charged with negl cting to send a daughter to school, told th -magistrate that the child had been with rawn from the echool becautie of the initnohal influences with which she had been s r ounded there home t his low —A Police through the presence of vic —Mr Richard C. Willi the Ideel factory, St. Tho a plenee in the factory whe piece ef wood, which caugh haw, fiche up, the corner str right eye, fracturing or crus Dr. Ryerson, of Toronto, jured optic. —Mr. John McDermott, was coming down stairs wi hand, the ether night, and the lamp to fall, breaking i to the 'oil. Mrs. McDerm pet, moil throwing it on the in smothering them befor was dote. ' —Mr. Wm. Tytler, M. master of the Guelph tute, lied recently appointed secretary of the Board of Education and Public School In- speetor in that city, was presented the other day with a valuable microseope by the staff, students and ex -students of the Collegiate Institae, accompanied by an addrees. —Mih. D. Goldie, of Aye, recently gave a lecture under the auspices ef the Women's Foreign Mission Society, in the basement of Knox Church, Erribro, and all present were intensely delighted with the address, the subject of which was Jamaica, and:what ltIrs. Goldie es4w while travel- ing on the island, and Dr.1 and Mrs. John- son's mission work on the island. —The ,Provincial authorities of Nova Scotia are to undertake the preparation of a displa of the minerals and fruits of that Province at the World's F ir. The Govern- ment ef Prince Edward Island has under- taken to make a very goo ' display of the agricultural products of that Province. The fishing interests will also be represented. Quebep will make a similar exhibition. —Jelin L. Jamieson, son of Mr. J. C. Jamieton, of the Belleville Intelligencer, aged '22 yeare,a young man of unusual prom- ise, who went to Chicago about four months ago to commence business as a printer, died in that city on Queen's Btrthday. His body was brought to Belleville for interment. The decemed was a grandson of Hon. Mackenzie BoweV, _Minister of Militia. —One day last week a gosnie of incorrigible boys leroke the seals off 4 dozen cars at the Grand Trunk depot, Braetford. They were arraigned at the Police Court, Brantford, and their parents were also present, by or- der of the court. The police magistrate gave the parents the option between send- ing the juyeniles to the reformatory and havink them given a dose of the lash. They chose the latter treatment in each instance. —On his farm near Yerexville, Ex -Mayor Crandall, of Photon, has set out this spring, 12,006 hop vines, covering about six acres ; 10,00) hills of strawberries ; 1,000 raspberry vines comprising Cuthbert' and Schaeffers ; 150 atple trees, the Wealthy, Wallbridge, Pewa kee ; and 25 pear trees. This is do- ing pretty well for one season. Next year he wip reap a crop. Mr. Crandall is an en- thusiestio and successful farmer notwith- standing that he is a town resident. —John II. Stewart, of Markham street, Toronto, described as a Christian scientist, surrendered to Inspector Stark, on Friday last, 9n a warrant attributing to him unlaw- ful means in eausing thee death of Robert J: DIcAeslan, of that city. Mr. McAuslan died a little over two 1 months ago from chronic indigestion, and had been under- going treatment from Stewart and another professor of the Christian Science doctrine named Longhead.. —Mr. Jackson Senior ilton on Fridsy night, o me, manager of as, was passiog a small square in the circular kieg him in the ing the eyeball. alloyed the in-- rO, of Kingston, a lamp in his tumbling caused and setting fire tt seized a car - flames succeeded serious damage ., formerly head ollegiate Insti- They managed to get the boat keel upwards, and by rendering assistance from time to time to the weaker ones of the party suc- ceeded in keeping all above the wster until help arrived. Timely assistance wart render- ed by the Niagara fishermen, who • went to the scene and took the unlucky: voyagers from their precarious position on the bottom of the upturned skiff. —A number of parties in Luther town- ship, Wellington county, had their: bees de- stroyed by skunks during the past. winter. Mr. Joshua Thomas had 28 or 30 hives de- stroyed, and Henry Thomas, who tives near his father, also lost 13 hives in the same manner. The skunlis got into the place where the hives were wintered, end then ate their way through the covering into the hives and devoured the bees, but did not take away any of the honey or comb. Mcst of Henry Thoinae' bees were destreyed since spring, the skunk's plan in this case being to make a noise in front of the hives te arouse the bees and then capture them as they came out. Mr. Thomas trapped five of the skunks. --Last year there were about 1,900 Can- adian horses shipped from Montreal to Glas- gow and other points. This season it is ex- pected that the total export will amount to 4,000. There are at present.no fewer than _ seven British buyere of horses in Canada, and they are shipping consignments from Montreal every week to Glasgow. They are doing their buying principally through- out Ontario but make Montreal their head- quarters. 'The horses being exported are mostly heavy, single drivers, and fast car- riage. The sales are held at Glasgow, and are attended by buyers from London and other parts of England and from Scotland. The Canadian horse evidently finds favor in the British market, judging from the healthy demand for them. The average profit to the seller is 25 per cent. —W. A. Thompson, a Canadian farmer of Chepstowe, Bruce county, arrived in Buffalo Thursday last week, from New York. He was a victim of the gang of swindlere, known as green goods men. It was the same old story. He went down to New York %n the understanding that he could buy $7,000 counterfeit money for $500. lie. was met by one of the swindlers at Poughkeepsie, taken to New York, planked down his $500, saw the bogus $7,000 count- ed out and apparently put in a box, which he was cautioned not to open till he reach- ed Buffalo. On arriving there he opened the box and found it to contain some paper and a piece of brick. He departed for home a sadder and a wiser man, out his $500 and his expenses to New York and back, as he - deserved to be. —On Monday night, last week, Mrs. Nancy Stewart, of the 10th concession of Beverly, about three miles from Clyde, left her home, and Up to a late hour she bad not returned, her family becoming alarmed, started eut to look for her. It was thought she had gone to visit a neighbor, but upon enquiry they found she had not been seen by any person living in the neighborhood. The search continued all night, and early the following morning her body was found by Mr. Blake in, a pond, near the Gore of Puslinch, about one mile from her home. It is suppoeed she set out from home to meet her daughter, who had gone to attend a prayer meeting, and having lost her way, accidentally fell into the pond and was drowned. Deceased was &bout 68 years of age. —Last Friday evening in Toronto Mrs. Grassett, of Peterborough ; Mrs. Stanton, of Belleville, and a young lady carrying in her arms a two -months old baby, all rode in - a street car to the Union station, The three entered the waiting -room and sat down to await the departure of the train for the east. The young woman asked Mrs Grassett if she would oblige her by holding her baby while she got her trunk checked, and on her re- quest being gtanted disappeared. She never came back, and when the train was ready to start Mrs. Graesett had only the alternatie of deserting the baby or taking it with hEr to Peterborough. She chose the latter, and to -day the census of that enterprising town has been increased by one. The supposed mother was of dark complexion and well- dressed. That is all that ie known about her. —The passengers on the early express, which left Hamilton at 6.30 a.m., Saturday, to connect with the Montreal express, had a, miraculous escape from what might well have been a frightful accident, Just after leaving Burlington the conductcr felt the car in which he Was seated give a heavy jolt, and suspecting that something was wrong at once pulled the bell cord and ap- plied the brakes. When the train was stopped it was found that the engine's axle had broken, and the large driving wheel had rolled off into a ditch below. The train was going at a speed of forty miles an hour, and was brought to a standatill within three feet of a bridge, which, had it been struck, would have sent many to instant death. Mr. Thomas Hutcheson, the driver, stood bravely to his Post, and proved himself a real hero. The passengers were nearly two hours late in reaching Toronto, but they were a happy lot for all that,for their escape had been wonderful indeed. —The Guelph Mercury says : Staff Cap- tain Mitchell, of the SalvaVon Army and well-known in Guelph died in Toronto on Tharsdar, in the 27th year of his age, of consumption. When the army first came to Guelph under Captain Churchill, he was c ne of the first members and took a great in- terest in the work. His first field of labor was in Galt, and then the Training Heme, Toronto, When volunteers were asked to go to India about four years ago he was one of the first to offer his services. While waiting for marching orders he married Captain Madden, who was stationed in Gnelph about six years ago, Both of them returned to Ham- ith the young wife couples. There are 65 local preachers and —Mrs. Ingram, of Adelaide, lately of exhorters, 122 male and 21 female leaders, 12 England, has been engaged as assistant ma- Epworth Leagues with 68 members. There tron of the House of Refuge at Strathroy, are 44 Sunday Schools, with 649 officers and and eommenced the duties. She has had teachers, and 5,878 sc olars. considerable experience in England in pub- —The ladies of Nia ara Falls are doing lic institutioes, and conies highly recom- mended. —Henry Bishoprick, the original inven- tor of baking powder, is very ill. Mr. Bisheprick was born in Richmond, York- shire; England, in 1812, and went to Canada in 1831. He conducted a drug business in Montreal and Ottawa, and in 1849 moved ,to Buffelo, where he invented baking powder. —Robert Graham, an old man from Keit- pel, whose only indite is poverty and. de- crepit old age, appeared before the court:in Owen Sound, the other day, as a vagrant; and was sentenced to three months in jail at hie own request. He is so feeble that he had to be driven to jail in a cab. —Four sportsmen of Chesley have leaeed what is known as Anderson's Creek in Bentick township, county of Bruce. They intend to put in a.t lewd 10,000 trout fry and have' fish in galore in a few years. leas repr to t Otle The is for ten years. In all nine ferment. senting 1,100 acres of land have agreed e terms. he eminent Toronto lawyer, &CB. Q. C., has advised the Finance Cern- mittee of the Paris council that municipali- ties eannot legally grant a bonus to any in- dustry whatever, and therefore the Petrie Knitting Factory cannot expect any aid froni the town although the people are will- ing .to grant a liberal bonus. is intended to rebuild the Moont Elgin Industrial Institute for Indians, at Muncey, oounty of Middlesex, to accem modate 120 instead of 80 patients, a& at peesent. Rev. Principal Shepherd left ifor Ottawa the other day to interview the minion Government in reference to a gr fot this purpose. - sad party arrived at Ancaster, near Dundas; on Monday of last week, bringing the body of young Herbert Kelly, from Ann Arhor, Michigan, to be buried in hie native village. The party consisted of Mrs. Jena - that Kelly, the bereaved mother of ,the you g man : A. R. Peterson, his uncle, and fout Oddfellows from Ann Arbor. He was in his twenty4ourth year, and was on his yolk home froxn Boulder, Colorado, whither he had gone early this spring for his health. He- wee accompanied by his mother, but on reaehing Ann Arbor on the previous Friday hislcondition became so serious that he could not be taken further, He died in that city 0- nt their best to make Mrs, Captain Wyndham, who was lately married and deserted by a sharper, as comfortable as possible, Mrs. Wyndham met the alleged captain while crossing the Atlantic in a mail steamer, and was persuaded soon after reaching Canada to give up her position 4is matron of the Ma- ternity Hospital at the Falls, and marry bine. He remsined with her while she had money, or clothes to pawn or sell, and then deserted her and left a large bill for board unpaid at the Robinson House. - —Ever since the firing and destruction of Mr. Richardson's bnildings at Rondeau, Kent county, on the ht of the 4th of May, the mob have had full swing, venting their fury by pulling up fe ce posts and cutting the evires. The outl ws virtually hold the forti and there is no ce tainty of a cessation of hostilities until t e Government inter- feret. For various re against Richardson is mined, and it is feare the Biddulph tragedy the '" law and order ' mueity organize to nu --4The funeral of the late Benjamin Sny- der look plaee trom his late residence, near Roseville,Waterloo co nty,on May 17th. He was one of the oldest settlers' in that vicin- ity., He was born in the year 1808, near the village of Doon, and when but a young map, married and seittled near Roseville, where he has lived ever since. Mr, Snyder watt twice married bot ourvived both of his wives ; he leaves a number of children and graod-children. He was an active member of the Old Mennonite church and a highly respected citizen. Being an old landmark in the community he will be very much mimed. His age at death was 83 years and 10 months. -aA party of mei/. caped death by drow Lalee on Queen's drews, of Cleveland dreves, of the firm of H. El. Fudger, of To- ronto, Mr. B. Avery, ;of Niagara, and seven or eight lady friends and children hired a sad boat for a row o the lake and river. W en at the mouth eons the " combine " powerful and deter- went to India, where they both labored for that a repetition of two years and then returned home, the hot may be enacted,unless climate not agreeing with Ceptain Mitchell. portion of the coin- Not being of a very strong constitution he press the riot. contracted the disease which carried him off. Since his return he ham been most of the time in Toronto. :He leaves a wife and one child behind him. —A very delicate operation was performed - by Dr. J. D. Thorburn, of Toronto, a few days ago, on a young son of Mr. James Bawtinhimer of Galt. It appears that previous to removing to Galt the lad was treated for catarrh in the head, but the malady seemed to become aggravated, On consulting a physician it was found that the boy was suffering from nasal tumor, Efe was taken to Toronto and the services of Dr. lhorburn secured, who removed the tumor by use of a " cold snare," worked through the right nostril. Owing to the nature of the operation chloroform could not be given, cocoaine being used to modify the patient's sufferings. The physician succeNd- ed in removing a tumor measuring SIx2i inches and 11 inches deep. The operation lasted twenty-five minutes, and naturally the patient was very much exhausted. After a few days' rest, however, he was able to return to hie home. A further operation will be necessary as a portion of the tumor still remains. The lad had suffered for -sev- eral years, and was latterly -unable to breathe through hie noetrila. makers narrowly es- ing at Niagara-on-the- irthday, Albert An - Ohio • Edward An- a Mile from shore, a s little craft precipitati the water. The gent hibited great coura 1 f the river, about half dden equal" upset the g the occupants into emen of the party ex - e in the emergency. A