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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1892-07-29, Page 44 NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. MirThe figure between the parenthesis after each line denoted the page of the paper on which the advertisement will be found. Vacation Time—Jackson Bros. (5) Cheap Supirs—John Farley. (6) The Sooner the Bettee—it. Robertson. (5) Sun Lite Assurance Corvany—John Fairley. (5) To Contractore—C, A. Stiror• (6) Ws a Fact. —Jackson Bros. 1) Homestead for Sale—John . Green. (6) Carriage for Sale—Scott Bros. (6) Farm for Sale—T. G. Shillinglaw. (6) Votere List—John Morrison. (6) In New Quarters—J. M. Best. (8) Caretaker Wanted—Wrn. Ballantyne. (6) Teacher Wanted—W. D. Wilson. (6) Legal Card—R. S. Hays. (5) For Manitoba—W. G. Duff. 0) Painter Wanted—James Graves. (8) Sale of Booths—A. C. Winter. (5) , Good News—Hoffman & Co. (6) sDoirtinion Life In urance Company—J. W. Clarke. (6) 0 itht cptratt expooitor. SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, July 29, 1892. The Manitoba ections. The Provincial elections in Manitoba took place on Saturday lest, and resulted in the Greenway Government being sustained by a good majority. There were losses and gains on both sides but the Government will have e safe working majority. Thia is oonceded even by their opponents. In a house of forty the Government have a safe vote of twenty-five while the Opposition will have ourteen, and an Independent, who will, as a rule, support the Government. Two members of the Government, Hon. D. Mc- Lean and Hon. J. A. -Smart were defeated, while Mr. Roblin and Mr. Hagle, the two Opposition leaders-ahared a similar fate. The three Winnipeg constituencies were car- ried in favor of the Governnaent by large majorities. Hon. Robert Watson, the new Minister of Public Works, was also elected by a large majority. The actual result is decidedly more favorable to the Government than the returns show, as several of the Op- positionists were elected by very narrow majorities, and none of them received as large a- vote as many of the Government supporters. Although the question of sep- arate schools was the main issue, other ques- tions of adtninistration were raised. The Government were accueed of extravagant and corrupt administration, and some very grave charges were made against them, both individually and collectively, but all these charges were promptly met and refuted, both in the press and on the platform. Mr. Greenway has given the people of Manitoba progressive and useful laws and has acted honestly and with reasemable economy, and it must be gratifying to him a,s it is credit-. able to the intelligence of the people, that they appreciate good government and honest and capable administrators. So Iong ad Mr. Greenway continues a course similar to that pursued by his Grovernment during the past four years, he need. not have much fear for the future, even if he may have toe brave detraction from his opponents. The recent decision at the polls also settles the question of separate schools in the Province. Mre Greenway and his friends declared that under their Government no state aid would be voted to separate schools, and no other schoels than the ordinary publie schoole would be countenanced. If the British Privy Council deeide that the constitution of the Province gives the right to separate schools to exist, and that the Government has no right to tax separate school support- ers for public schools, the Administration will continue to uphold the national system and do nothing to help the separate schools. This position has been' very emphatically endorsed by the people, so that separate schools are doomed, no matter which way the Privy Councirs decision may go. If it declarea that the act of the Legialature, which is now the subject of dispute, is con- stitutional, then ale will be compelled to contribute to the support of the public schools, and if denominational schools are maintained those using them will have to sapport them in addition to the public schools, but if the Privy Council decides the Act unconstitutional, then the support- ers of separate schools will be relieved from contributing, by way of muisicipal tax, to the maintenance of the public scheols, but they will have to maintain their separate schools at their own expense and without Crovernment aid. The Government will recognize none but the national system. In this respect Manitoba has taken a step in advance of any of the other Provinces, al- though it was in a better position to do so, being unha,mpered by the Confederation Compact, as Ontario and Quebec are. This, at any rate, will be the burning question in Manitoba for some time. A Gigantic Monopoly. The following statement is taken from the Hamilton Herald, and is given as a sample of many similar ones that have recently ap- peared in the press. It says : Information cornea from Montreal by way of New York that on his coming annum! visit to Canada Sir Henry Tyler, president of the Grand Trunk railway company, will confer with president VanHorne, of the Can- adian Pecific railway, with a view to effect- ing an arrangement between the two roads for their mutual benefit. This is what as- tute men, who have been watching the signs of the times in Canadian railway matters, have expected for months past. In his speech at a recent annual meeting of Grand Trunk shareholders in London, president Tyler hinted at such an uuderstanding be- ing reached between the two roads as will make the railsvay business in Canada more profitable. Where there is so much smoke there is certain to be some fire. It is scarcely pos- sible that so many rumors, from so runny different sources and all pointing in the same direction, are entirely foundationless. This is a consummation thet the people of Can- ada have been fearing for some time. Such an arrangement as thet hinted at would, no doubt, be profitable to the companies, but in the same proportion it would be unprofit- able to the people, A contemporary asks : " Under these circumstances, where will the unfortunate shipper come in ? He will be ground between the upper millstone of the Grand Trunk and the nether millstone of the Canadian Pacific railway, and be- tween them the two roads will manage to squeeze him as dry as a bone." That is just about the plain English of it. le it not about time that our Parliament was doing something to proteot the country ageinst ouch a huge and dangerous monopoly? If anything is done it should be done before the monopoly is consummated. It will not do for our legislators to stand idly by while the interests of the people are in danger. The rule of Sir John Thompson is bad enough,but the rule of a monopoly composed of the two monster railway companies of this country would be ten times worse. Prohibition In Manitoba. The electors of Manitoba did a big day's work on Saturday last. They not only gave Premier Greenway another four years. lease of office but they gave an overwhelming vote in favor of prohibiting the manufacture and sere of alcholic liquor in their Province. The vote was taken as a plebioite, simply to test the feelings of the people. The de- cision has been nearly three to one in favor of Prohibition, and strange to say the large centres of population, such as Winnipeg and Portage la Prairie, which ie was supposed would be lergely against Prohibition, were shown by the vote to be as strongly in favor of it as the rural municipalities. It will now rest with the Government to carry out the wish of the people by preparing_ a pro- hibitory law and having it 'ratified by the Legislature. There are yet some doubts, howeverewhether or not theProvincial Legis- lature has the right to enact a prohibitory law to apply to the whole of the munici- pslities under its jurisdiction. It is true that it has been decided by several judges in Ontario that the Provincial laaV enabling municipalities to enact Prohibition by local option by-lawa is valid, and it is reasonable that if the Province can grant power to one municipality to abolish the sale of intoxi- cants as a beverage within its bounds it can enact that a prohibitary law shall be ap- plied to the whole of the Province. The question, thereof, as to whether or not the Province has this power will likely have to be tested in the courls, and Manitoba seems dieposed to take the initiative. But, what- ever uncertainty may attach to this point it is quite certain that the Provincial Legisla- tures cannot prohibit importation from one Province to another, nor can they prohibit importation from another country. This power rests entirely with the Dominion, and it seems to us that it is right here where the weak point in Provincial Prohibition comes in, We fear there would not be very much gained by palming a law to prohibit the manufacture and sale so long as im- portation is allowed, In so far as Oif- tarie, at any rate, is concerned, and we fancy Manitoba too, the Temperance people will not gain much by expending time and money working and fighting for Provincial Prohibition. They will do far better bY de- voting their best energiesitowards procuring one law covering the whVbelDominion, and thus ensure unity of action throughout all the Provinces. At any rate, any prohibi- tory act that would not prohibit importation would not, we are sure, be satiafactory. Says the Guelph Herald : If Sir Richard Cartwright had chanced t6 be on the river bank at Homestead, Penn- sylvania, last week, when the striking iron- workers and Pinkerton detectives were dis- cussiag the labor question with Winchester rifles, he might' have been guided to the con- clusion that there are worse places in the world than Canada. - That is so, but there is another important point in this connection which the Herald has evidently overlooked. It was the fiseal policy which, for fourteen years, Sir Rich- ard Cartwright has been fighting in Canada, that was mainly responsible for the deplor- able state of affairs at Homestead, pointed at by our oontemporary, as well as the cor- ruptions and abuses in Canada which Sir Richard so vigorously and so justly de- nounces, By this policy of Protection, which is supported by the Herald, the pro- prietors of the Pennsylvania, ironworks have been enabled to pocket profits amounting to over one million dollars a year, and still; notwithstanding these exorbitant profits, they proposed reducing the wages of their workmen, which was the carts° of the strike .and the subsequent troubles which ensued. And it is because the same policy, being pursued in Canada, is producing similar re- sults, that Sir Richerd Cartwright and every other fair and just minded man who under- stands the situation, denounces it. That policy, both in the United States and Can- ada, while it protects the capitalist, affords no protection to the workmen who create the capital, and thua, while it enablea the manufacturer to pile up a colossal fortune, as in the case of Mr. Carnegie, the proprie- tor of -the Pennsylvania works, it impov- erishes and starves his workmen. THE Toronto Telegram says : " Give the Grits the advantage of power and three months at the Ottawa atchives, with inves- tigators of their own choosing, and the Con- servatives would go the way of Mercier." There is no doubt about it. If the Governor- General Was to take the Ottawa GOvern- ment by the throat, as the Lieutenant -Gov- ernor of Quebec took the Mercier Govern- ment, aome who now carry very high heads would be fortunate if they would escape the penitentiary. But, there is not much dan- ger of anything of that kind during Lord Stanley's time. The Quebec Lientensnt- Governor was a Tory while the Mercier Government was Grit. The Governor-Gen- eral is a Tory and the Ottawa Government is Tory too, and this makes a big difference all around. If Mercier had been accorded the same immunity that has been accorded the Ottawa authorities he would still be as strongly entrenched in power as they are. It makes a big difference some times how things are manoeuvred. Bad as Mercier is, he is a babe in iniquity when compared with Thompson, Ceron, Chspleau or Haggart. " THERE are men in Brantford," says the Expositor, " who feel the necessity of great- er railway facilities to such an extent that they are willing to contemplate the con- struction by Brantford of a branch line from here to Woodstock, in order to secure con- nection with the Canadian Pacific rairway." And Brantford has, accordingly, voted a large bonus to secure this connection, and, before the connection is built, the Grand Trunk and the Canadian Pacific railways will be an amalgamated concern and Brant- • THE HURON EXPOSITOR. ford will have the bonus to pay, hut they will not have the competition for which they voted the money. -That, at any rate, has been the experience of most of the munici- palities who, in the past, have voted large bonuses to secure railway competition. Ie is said that Lord Stanley will place his resignation in Lord Salisbury's hands before the British Premier leaves office. This is not mere conjecture, but the belief of those attached to the Governor -General's office. His Excellency has been engaged during the past week in putting things in order in his office on Parliament Hill, a thing he has not done since he took office over four years ago. His term will expire next spring. The sooner he goes the better. A more useless tool has seldom, if ever, filled a responsible position, The very best that -can be said for him is, that if he has not done any good he has not done much harm. A CONTEMPORARY remarks : " Perhaps some day Edward Blake will be Governor- General of Canada. Mr. Gladstone once said that the colonies could choose -their own Governors whenever they felt so dis- posed. As it is now, our Governors are chosen for us, and usually we know little about them until they have come over and we have had time to hunt up their pedigree. They say that Lord Stanley thinks of re• signing. Mr, Gladstone being about to as- sume the reins of power in the Old Country will have the appointment of our next Gov- ernor-General, and if Mr. Blake would ac- cept the position he could have it. He has frankly admitted thet he cannot agree with either of the Canadian political parties, and therefore could be depended on to hold the reins of office as Governor-General with an impartial hand. Canada is old enough now •to grow her own Governors, and Mr. Blake would be acceptable to all classes and both parties, being a man of remarkable talent, high character and great learning-, and pos- sessing all the graces of life. No better se- lection could be made, and after he has as- sisted Mr. Gladstone in fashioning his Home Rule measure for Ireland the best thing the grand old man can do is to send him back to Canada with his appointment in his pocket as Governor-General." Mr. Gladatone could not makeean appointment that would be more pleasing to the people of Canada. Mr, Blake would be an agreeable change as compared with the nonentity who now oc- cupies the gubernatorial chair. REFERRING to the recent trouble at the Carnegie Iron works in Pennsylvania and the bringioginof a number of Pinkerton men to over -awe the strikers, the Canada Pres- byterian says : , Advocates of political union should make a note of the fact that acress the lines mil- lionaire capitalists possess and exercise the power of hiring a small army to shoot down strikers. In such cases the law of the land is put to one side and the plutocrat lard a few hundred -men on the streets of New York and Chicago to do his shooting. The kind of men engaged may easily be "guessed" from the kind of work they agree to do. Were the labouring men thus shot down Russian Serfs, one could not help feeling for them. They are, however, American citizens witb ballote in their hands, and if they vote for laws that make millionaire in a few years, and that give them power to hire a small army to shoot their employees, they must just take the consequence. The same remarks will equally apply to Canada. It little use for the people of this country to cry out against the exactions of the combines so long as they vote in sup- port of the laws which breed and foster the combines and which in Canada as well as in the States, "make millionaires in a few yearn." at the expense of the producer and toiler. TraeseSt. Thomas Journal is in a bad way because it thinks the duty on eggs will raise the price. Only a little while ago the same paper was in an equally bad way because the poor farmer wasn't getting enough for his eggs. It is a hard matter to please a G rit ed itor. So says the Guelph Herald. it is not a very hard thing eometimes to please a Tory editor, especially in matters where the Do- minion Government are . concerned. The Grit editors would not complain of the duty levied on eggs if the raise in price caused thereby would benefit the farmers. But the duty will not affect the price at the times when the Canadian farmers have eggs to sell. It is only during periods of scarcity when the Canadian farmers have no eggs to sell that prices will be enhanced by the duty. Consequently, while the farmer will not be benefited the consumer will be injur- ed to the extent of the duty imposed, and the only gainer will be the Dominion treasury, THERE is more truth than poetry in the following equib by the Ottawa Free Press : The position which Mr. Blake was oom- pelled to occupy for years in the Dominion Parliament reminds one of the Italian who brought a troupe of tra,ined monkeys to London for exhibition. The monkeys were well drilled. They could dance the minuet, go through military evolutions and perform other extraordinary and interesting feats. But on one occasion, when in the midst of a performance, a wag threw a handful of chestnuts upon the stage. At once the monkeys forgot the instructions of their trainer and began scrambling for the nuts. Mr. Blake's arguments,logic and eloquence ; his appeals to reason, intelligence, honor and common sense were all forgotten when Sir John Macdonald, Sir Charles Tupper and Mr. McGreevy began to scatter rail- way subsidies, grants for public buildings, promisee of appointments, etc., among his followers. Mr. Blake could convince, but his opponents could buy. THE TORONTO GLOBE of Wednesday says : " We are sorry to have to announce that Mr. Farrar, who for the past two years has been the principal editorial writer of the Globe, has decided to retire from active journalism for a time and will sever his connection with the Globe on August lat. The Globe has found Mr. Ferrer to be a man of unusual ability and of the strictest in- tegrity, a master of his profession conduct- ing public discussion upon a high leVel, and scrupulously avoiding the meaner and coarser habits of political controversy, and the Globe parts from him with regret," smettasemeeme„„e " How to deal with the saloon," is the caption of an article in the St. John Gazette. It is better not to deal with it at all, but in this part of the cometry the terms are usually caert.—Globe. And the results : A sore head, disordered organization, depleted resources and ulti- mate ruin, morally, socially and financially. A MEAN TRICK.—Two weeks ago word was received at Seymour, Indiana, that Charles Finehart, a former resident of Sey- mour, had died at Vera Cruz, and relatives ordered his remains sent heme. A body came packed in saw dust in a pauper coffin, and with It a bill for$250 for expenses. The amount was paid. Suspicions were aroused that it was not Finehart's body. The other day Finehart telegraphed from Vera Cruz that he is alive and well. THE DOMINION CAPITAL. (By Our Special Correspondent.) OrrAwt, July 25th, 1892. A great variety of public topics are be- fore the Executive for Hettletnent. It must be remembered that all the talk is done during the session of Parliament but all minietterial and executive action ia taken during 'recess. There are disputes with the United States over fisheries and canals, over copyright and the Chinese, over alien labor and Behring Sea, In the domestic arena there are a variety of subjects being dealt with every day. At present the Cabinet is considering the appointment of 'several Lieutenant -Governors for the Provinces of Quebec, Manitoba, British Columbia and New Brunswick. Negotiations are in pro- grees with Washington to bring inte effect a common law of reciprocity in• wrecking which has been agreed upon by the legisla- tures of both countries. AFTER THE SMUGGLERS. / The Government are actively engeged in trying to put down smuggling in the gulf of St. Lawrence, which ha:s been carried on for many years with refreshing boldness. The French islands of St. Pierre aied Mi- quelon, which lie between Newfoundland and Cape Breton, are a free port of entry for French wines and brandies, tobacco, silks and such other articles which make large value but little bulk. Swifttsailing schooners load up at St. Pierre evith a twenty thousand dollar cargo and Sail for the Ste Lewrence, on the rugged shares of which, they have caves and confederates and every means for the evasion of Her Majesty's revenue officere and the disposal of their contraband stuff. One of the most daring of the smuggler chiefs is Captain Bouchard, in whose pursuit three govern - meat cruisers, armed and equipped, have been en aged for the last ten days. He kn wn to be on his way from St. Pierre and th cruiser Constance, named after Lady Stanley, was ordered to intercept the bold buccaneer. When the Constanee met the smuggler, Captain May was surprised to see that she did not attempt to escape but luffed -about and showed her teeth. As said teeth consisted of twenty well Armed and desperate men, Citptain May paused. The smuggler was prepared to give open battle to the cruiser but the latter funked and telegraphed to Quebec for troops and a detachment of " B" battery was sent- down but the night before they arrived the smug- gler gave the schooner the slip and has not yet been captured, although a portion of her cargo which she broke at a small island has been detected. The, four cnstenns officers, however, who tried to seize some of this stuff were openly defied by the sur- rounding inhabitents end driven off. LORD STANLEY'S TERM. Lord Stanley has been setting his qfficial papers in order and giving the impression to those about him that he intends to re- sign at once and return to England. This intention is ascribed to the change of Government in England, added to the fact that Lord Stanley has never cared for the office he fills. In any event His Excellency will not be with us longer than next Spring when hie term naturally expires. Lord Stanley has always been a strong Conserva- tive in England and generally a member of all Conservative Cabinets, so that he might have a reluctance to serve under Mr, Glad- stone. Some of the most illustrious states- men have borne the title to which Lord Stanley is heir, the earldom of Derby. THE CHINESE QUESTION. There are two sides to every question, and his is the case even with the Chinese,ques ion. That this has become a question with Canada was made evident in Parliainetnt a ew weeks ago by a demand on the part of Mr. Mara, of British Columbia, for au an- nouncement of what the Government policy vas to be. I had a long chat the other day with Mr. Parmelee, Commissioner of Cus- oms, who is also Comptroller of Chinese, n the whole subject. He does not sympe- hize at all with the prejudice against Chi- ese. He has visited British Columbia more han once and found the Chinese to be sober nd industrious men, It will surprise many, f us in Ontario to know that- 'the Claineee n Britieh Columbia perform nearly all the gricultural labor, raise all the garden F pro- uce, do most of the labor on the fisheries, n the mines, till the vineyard!, perform all he domeatic labor in the households of. hite citizens, and, in fact, do nearly all the abor that is performed in that Province, his leads Mr. Parmelee to say that if the hinese were excluded from British Colum- ia the inhabitants of that Province would e reduced to a state of starvation in two eeks. The last census shows a Chinese opulation in Canada of least than 1M00, early all of whom are in Britieh ColuMbia,. hose facts will explain why it is that, the hite labor in British Columbia are oprosed o the admission of Chinese, and why the mployers of labor are just as etrongly in vor of their admission. Mr. Parmelee, ke the late Sir John Macdonald, believes retaining good relations with the Empire China, and oultivating a trade with them. we could sell the Chinese goods to the slue of 25 cents a head per annum our total ade with them would exceed our total ade with the rest of the world, As there a direct line of steamers from Canada' to hina this Is not Impossible. 0 a a 1 13 fa la of If tr tr is IEEE CANAL TOLL'S QUESTION. The passage of a Bill through the House of Representatives empowering the Presi- dent to retaliate against Canada by impos- ing heavy tolls on Canadian vessels passing through the Soo caned, brings this question to an acute focus. They complain that the Can- adian Government, by charging toll to the extent of 25 cents a ton on all grain pasising through the Welland canal destined ' for American ports and only two cents a ton on grain destined for Canadian ports, for ex- port to Europe, is acting unfairly towerds the United States. They claim that under the treaty of Washington the Welland cenal should be as tree to Americans as to Can- adians, just as the American canal at tlie Soo is now as free to Canadians as to Am- ericans. I have obtained some ride aince figures from the Department here showing that during laet season 190,000 tons of gain passed throegh the Welland canal and was taken to Ogdensburg, New York, on which was paid $34,000 more than if that grain was sent to Montreal. The total quantity' of grain that went to Canadian ports, en route to Europe, was 291,217 tone. Negotiations are now in progress between the two G,ov- ernments leoking to a settlement of this question. If the retaliiitioq bill alluded to passes the Senate at Washington, and is put in force by • the President, it will be a very serious matter. NOTES, Hon. C. H. Tupper, Minister of Marine and Fisheriee, is on his way home from Lon- don where he has been prepsring the an- adian question for the Behring Sea arbi ra- tion. No fewer than five divorce cases have ;al- ready been entered for hearing at the next Session of Parliament. The plans for the Canadian building at the World's Fair show a handsome structore finished in native woods, to cost $27,000, News of the Week. SUICIDED.—Louis Bester, a big iron mer- chant, of Ironton, Ohio, hung hitnself at Cincinnati on Saturday. SHIPPED TO ENGLAND.—California fruit is now being shipped to England 4 the car "NdliESTERN GRAIN UROPS.-0Wing tO the severe weather of the Spring and the hot periods that followed there will be a great shortage in the Oregon and Washington grain.crop, RAILWAY A ccreene.-aThi ee peOple lost their lives and a numberl of others vi -ere seri- ously injured ia a railWay uccideat a few days ago, near Melton -Mowbray, Leicester county, England. FATAL ExeeosioN.--Two men were killed in a terrible explosion in the York farm colliery at Pottsville, Penneylvaniai on Sat- urday morning, Several persona were also badly injured. CHAMPION TROTTER DEAD Alto, 2.081, the champion trotting stallion of the world, died a few days ago on Senator Stanford'e stock farm in California, CHICAGO'S POPULATION.—The ri3sult of the entnneration under the auspices of the School Ceneus Committee shows that Chicago° has a population of 1,428,318. CONFLAGRATION' IN BAY CIT Y. —The greatest conflagration which eye: visited Bay City, Michigat, brdke out on Monday afternoon. At 8 o'clock over 300 huildiegs had been destroyed, including two Ourches, four hotels and about 40 stores, COLLIDED AND SUNKt —W. K. Vander- bilt's magnificent ocean Steamer yacht Alva wes run into by the steamer Dineock on Nantucket shoals Monday morning and sank. All on board the yacht were rescued and taken to Boston. GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS MING . — George William Curtis, the distinguiehed editor of Harper's Weekly and Chancellor of the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York, ik dying of cancer of the stomach, He may live a month VERY SUDDEN.—WIll. Patten, a wealthy Philadelphian, who had aken his wife for treatment to the miner,' bathe in Mount Clemens, Michigan, died suddenly while taking a bath himself ort Frdday. His son is the medical superintendent of the Phila- delphia Presbyterian Hogital, TORNADO.—Fifty houses in the southern suburbs of Springfield, Olio, were demolish- ed by a tornado, Saturday at noon, and several persons are reperted to have lost their lives. Damage, $150,000 to $200,000. INSANE ACT PROMOTED BY JEALIDUSY.— Shortly after midnight Sunday, Mr. and Mrs, Jacob Scott, of Deniter, Colorado, were almost chopped to pieces in their bed. Peter Heenan, the former hueb nd of Mrs. Scott, is supposed of having co mitted the crime, being prompted by jealo sy. A RAILWAY COMPANY., A despat .h from Kansas City says : Detectives haste been at work on a suspected cOnspiracy between the conductora and trairs agents, aad it is now believed that within a few days there will be a number of arrests, whieh will startle the employees of the various 'leads. CALAM/TY IN EARNEST4—A despatch says that the treasurer of the state of Mexico is short $900,000 in his accounts, while an- other gives the fact that the crope have again failed there, and that the present out- look is starvation for the inhabitants A CLERoYMAN IN LIMB0.—Rev. Samuel 0. Colton, formerly at ' the head of the Carogh Orphanage at liildare, I eland, charged with manslaughter in causi g the death of one of the children in his care and with cruelty to others, has been sen need, 1:e. on the cruelty charge, tO eix , months im- prisonment at hard labor -and to pa a fine of 400. FAST SAILING TEA. —The American ship, G-eorge Skalfield, arrived rat Vancouv, er on Thursday, last week, from Yokobaniii, with a cargo of 2,500 tons of tea, coosigaed to the Canadian Pacific Railway Co The Skalfield made the trip in 39 da is the first of the season's fleet of tea SMALLPDX IN CHICAGO.—A car c . pany. a, and ships. ontain- mg seventeen eeerman imtnigrants is quar- antined in the Chicago and Northwestern yards at Milwaukee, because one of them, a boy, has smallpox. The patient and the rest of tbe family have been removed to the peet house. The other immigre.nts will be detained until they can be safely allowed to go on. AMERicAN CORN FOR MEX1C0.—A des- patch from EELle Pass, TeXas, on the 22nd inst., says : fo-day's exportation of corn from the United States into Mexico through this port showe no abatement. Since the beginning of these experinients, four months ago, 24,000,000 buehels of corn have passed through here going south, All this grain commanded a good price. What the Yankees Know About Canada. [BY A CANADIAN GIRL IN THE MA L,] I am very much exercised about interna- tional questions just now. It seems a pity that those misunderstandings should exist, and that Americans not only have erroneous ideas concerning England, but also are so very far astray regarding their next-door neighbors. If they lived farther away, or weee not so " nice," we might ignore them, and go our way, but we are elbow to elbow, and we love them, Moreover they are not to blame—by " they" I do not mean the politicians, the party press, or any of that ilk, who don't care a button for us or our affairs—but the " folks " whom you meet in their homes and social gatheriugs, who welcome you with a heartiness and good -will which is a wonder- ful antidote for homesicketess, and makes you feel as if Uncle Sam himself had put his arms around you. How nauch this means to a stranger in a strange land, only those who have experienced it know. 't Then before you are aware you are in- terested in affairs around ou. Your calm } ,Canadian pulse quickens ; ou are conscious of the grand movement, th gigantic ground swell, as it were, of the life of this great nation. It is exhilarating. 1 I don't believe you feel anything like it anywhere else— and just here thousands df our Canadians let go of patriotism and old,associations and become the moat intense yankees. Under the influence of pleasant seeial cis -ales, the expanding sense of the geperal " bigness " of everything, and most of all, the business success a surprisingly large number of Canadians achieve, perhaps we ought not to wonder that they grow feat to their adopted country so soon, for many of the foremost Canadian business men over there, had a hard enough time here, and ,a large number of them have become rank annexationists. I fancy our cousins get their impreseioes of Canada's anxiety to " join hands " largely front them. i They will say, " And se you are from Canada ! Glad to see you ! Glad you have come ! Canadians are alWays welcome ! They rrlak e good citizens—fiest class ! Have all of you some day !" Once, in discussing school systems, I, of conree, stood up for Ontario. For once I came out a little ahead on the argument, and then I was silenced thus : " Indeedl ! I am very glad to hear it. Well, go right on, We are always pleased when this plass of people come to us for citizenship. I We have placee for them. So' many of quite another type come to us that we can only be profoundly grateful to Canada for taking such pains with our fUture iitizens ; for, of couree,it's only a question ofi time," etc.estc. This kind of talk you hear around !you all the time, for while, as a rtule, Amerittans are too much absorbed in their own affairs to bother much with other people's, Still, sooner or later, nearly evenly person whom you meet often enough to converse with ;will come to the question of ydur nationality, and in very few instances is there anyl ap- proach to an intelligent uaderstanding of our affairs, from the climate which most of them think arctic most of the year, to our relations with England, which everyone considera very humiliating to us, a foreign yoke, grievous to bear, and especially dis- graceful to a people living so near the great republic. During their first year in American pub- lic schools, two little " Canucks " whom I know came home indignant one evening be- cause their teacher had told them among other things (pointing to the map of our Dominion) that the people of Canada lived under the Queen of England and could not build a church or schoolhouse without first getting her permission. A lovely intelligent girl, to whom I be- came very much attached, asked me some funny questions, She couldn't see how a people could be free when any one had the power over them that the Queen had. I eaid, " What do you mean ? She has no more power than the Preeident has over you," • " Now," said she, " if the Queen were in Canada wouldn't she have the right to enter your"house and help herself or tell you to do anything she chose ?" "No more than your President has," said I, and she was quite surprised. Later, when she came over here for a visit, we patched up the breach in her education on the Canadian question, politics and all. There was a bye -election going on, and we took her to hear the big guns on both sides, and I assure you Uncle Sam has one enthusiastic Yankee girl of „the Mail persuasion among his loyal AmerMan girls. As I said before, they are not to blame. The schools teach them very little, that little mostly false—for instance, the battle of Lundy's -Lane is called aa American vic- tory. The papera are nearly all hostile to any understanding or discusaion which shows England in a favorable light. Scandals about royalty, Irish oppression, decay of England's power by land or sea, crippling her industries—everything mean or small, whether true or false, is grist for the mill which turns out the daily mental food for millions, who can get their information from no other source. No wonder they get things wrong. I was there when our last Dominion elec- tion was going on. They were very much interested, and the papers contained many untrue things. -A Canadian lady sent a let- ter to the lergest Republican paper in. the city containing some things new to them. This was published with a kindly reference, and she ventured two more containing refer- ences to Canada's relations with England, telling how little the Mother Country had to do with our affairs, how very slight the hold upon us was, using no language that could poeSibly offend American sensitive- ness, no sentiment about Canadian loyalty nor England's greatness—the commonest, coldest statement of bare facts. Every- thing about Canada was printed ; not one word abont England nor our connection with her. They had no use for anything of that sort. I would like to know why. What harm could the truth do them- or their institutions ? Many of their people feel this, aud talk about it, and when they come around you, asking kindly questions and showing an interest in Canadisn mat- ters, it seems like an offset to the unkind things the papers often say. But I have already exceeded the limits which should bound effusions to editors. So I back out of your sanctum with fear and trembling lest my long stay make you hope this will be the last visit of " A CANADIAN GIRL," , Two Rowed Barley. MR. EDITOR,—We are in receipt of a letter from a large firm of English malteters which in our opinion will be invaluable to the farmers iii your vicinity and would ask you to kindly insert same in your valuable paper. The gist of the letter is as follows : " One of our great objections with your Canadian two -rowed barley is occasioned by your farmers being entirely tco anxious to secure an extra bright article, and in order to attain this they harvest it whilst too green. Th:e consequence is that the grain is flinty arid will not produce the yield to the brewer which it would if allowed to ripen properly. We would much prefer a little color , and have the grain mellow and full of stt4rch than obtain a flinty white berry. I Aheo, it is moat important that the grain shoulld be allowed to "sweat well in the shock ;!and you must give your farmers positive ineetructions as to the threshing of of the graiii. Heretofore there have been so many brol* grains in your barleys (which will not grout when on the floor and are perfectly tuinous to the malting of the graiu) that all the other good qualities have been neutralized and only a second or third class article produced. Now this state of things could be easily averted by your threshers opening their machines and thresh- ing more slowly, and you can see the advan- tage of this when we tell you that it will enhance the value of the grain at least five to ten cents per bushel, and lastly you must be most careful that there is no admixture of six -rowed barley as this is very damaging indeed to the trade." If our farmers will zealously carry out the above instructions we can guarantee them a handsome figure for all the barley they can grow, and we earnestly hope that they will look after their intereets carefully in this matter and make it profitable both for themselves and the dealers. By inserting the above you will oblige, yours very truly, J. B. McKay & Co. 'TORONTO, July 26, 1892. Huron NoteS. —Mies Agnes Roes, of Grey township, has gone to Cypress River, Manitoba, —N. Bricker, 18th conceseion of Grey, has common pea vines that measure six feet four inches. —The apple dealers of the county esti- mate that the yield in the county this year will be 150,000 barrels. —One day last week William Taylor, of Grey, pulled samples of wheet from one of his fields that measured over six feet in length. —The Voters' list for the village of Exe- ter has been issued and contains the names of 565 voters, 250 being eligible to serve as jarors. There are 40 female voters. —Mrs. G. H. M. Dunlop, concession 15, Grey, brought a hen's egg to A. McNair's store, Cranbroole, which weighed 4e ounces, the measurements were respectively 6i and Fe!, inches, It was a whopper. —Mr. George 'Middleton, of Lucknow, has growing in his garden in that village corn that measures from the root to the tip of the leaf 72 inches high. This is a pretty good growth up to the 19th of July. —The trustees of school section No. 3, Grey, have engaged a young man named Oliver as teacher for the balance of this year at a salary of $160. He comes from Hilton, Ontario. —Mr. Alexander Galbraith, of Wingharn, received the gold. medal at the Chatham Commercial College for the term just fin- ished. He ha's been retained as mathemati- cal teacher of the institute. —Two carloads of cattle and a carload of sheep were shipped from Brussels station last week by Messrs Clegg & Davis. MT. Smith, of Toronto, also shipped two carloads of cattle from the same station last week. —The parties mentioned in the following paragraph which we take from a recent issue of the Toronto Empire, are well known in this county, especially in the Northern part,: " Auburn Villa, Grimsby, was the scene of a very pleasant gathering on Wed- nesday of last week, when Miss Lena, youngest daughter of the late Rev, William Hawke, and sister of A. F. Hawke, dry goods merchant, was united in marriage to R. M. Hazlewood, of the firm of J. & R. HazIewood, merchant millers, Clifford, Oat. JULY 21,), 1892 The bride and groom are well and favorably known by a large circle of friends and ae. quaintancea. Mr. Hazlewood hat beer, thrice honored by the people of Clifford with a net at the Council Board, and is one of the leading officiels of the Methodist iwn at ism aa rt re e church. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. J. II. Hazlewood, of Dunnville brother of the groom." —Aleiander Bossenberry, of Zurich, wee sit!idth soMmres.timelearar wfourenbne,inegf ttohoe same place, pleaded guilty in Port Hama to the charge, and was sentenced to two years at hard labor in the State -prison et Jackson, Michigan. When sentence was pronounced he wept like a child. —Mayor Doherty, of Clinton, last week aent two of his finest horses, Young Sydney and Lou Edsall, to Independence, Iowa. They go to have their inherent, speed de- veloped. —Mr. A. P. Gundry, of Aylmer, bee been engaged as science and commercial master for Clinton Collegiate Inetitute, He is an experienced teacher and well spoken of by those acquainted with leis work. —One day recently as Mrs. Jenkins, ef Holmesville, was picking berries on the rail- way, she had the misfortune to sprain her ankle so severely that t3he is not expected to regain the use of it for three moeths. —As Miss S. Runaball, of Holmesville, was on her way to a funeral on Friday, 1 -5th inst., she slipped end fell on the hard road and stones while desceeding the railway bridge and received a eevere cut in her forehead. --Oliver, second son cf Alex. Stewart, Sth conceseion, Grey. had the misfortune to fall from the scaffolding in the barn to the floor, a distance of about 12 feet, one day recent- ly. fie injured his right arm quiteeteri- ously although no bones were broken. —J. E. Coombes has disposed of his 100 acre farm, lot 9, concession 1, Grey, to Coombes will likely give up farming and turn to some other line. Mr. William Holt, of Howick township. Mr. Holt takes possession on January 1st, 1893. —On Tuesday of last week Duncan Mc- Lauchlin, of Grey, disposed of 25 head of cattle to W. Scott, of Seaforth. Nineteen neat sum of- $1,476 waa realized from the sale.remaining six were two years old, The of the number were three years old and the —On Friday,15th inst., as Mr. Forbea, who lives about two miles from Constance, was assisting Mr. T, Staples to draw hay, the horses suddenly started, and Mr.Forbes,• losing his balance, fell to the ground and broke his breast bone. —At a meeting of the Clinton Model School Board the other evening, Mr. G. A, Newton was engaged for the model term at a salary of 8130. Miss O'Neill was pro- moted to teach junior 4th work at a -salary salary of $325. of $375, and Miss Wileon to senior 3rd, at a —Mrs. John Robertson and sone, have on their farm on the 13th concession of Grey, oats that measured 5 feet 3 inches in length. Thia was a fair -eample of a large field that was sown on the 12tb and 13th of April. variety. The oats are of the White Egyptian —Mrs. Shaw, of Leeburn, happened with a painful accident on liriday evening, 15th beet. She went to ehut the storm dcor, but as the old lady is not now very strong, the wind blew the dcor against her, knocking her over and inflicting a gash in her head, also spraining her hand severely., —On Friday, 15th inst., during the severe rainstorm, Mr. James Weir's barn, on the C line, Turnberry, was struck by lightning and consumed, along with its contents, among which were several vehicles. The building was insured in the Howick Mutual for $600, and there was aleo an insurance in the same company upon contents. —Mr. George McHardy, of Toronto, but formerly of Luck -now, died rather suddenly on Saturday; 16th inst., in his 51st year. Deceased at one time kept a general store at Belfast, in this county, and was greatly re- spected by all who had the pleasure of hie acquaintance. The remains were interred in Lucknow cemetery., —On Friday afternoon, 1.5th inst, during the storm, lightning struck the brick resi- dence of Mr. A. P. McLean, on the Huron road, near Goderich. The brick chimney was broken to pieces, the stovepipes ehat- tered and two large joists broken, to splint- ers, abet a large hole made in the cellar. The carpets caught fire, but the fire was ioon put out. —Some idea of the extent of the export cattle trade may be gathered from the fact that during the months of May and June,Mr. Sydney Smith paid out at, Clinton the sum of $83,000 for cattle alone. This amount, taken in connection with what is expended by other buyers, shows a very extensive business that will admit of ahnost unlimited expansion. —In a discussion between two well known gentlemen in Brussels, th,- other day, as to whether Ethel or Cranbrook was the nearer to the centre of Grey township, a County atlas was called into requisition and careful measueement taken. It was feund that Ethel bad the advantage by an eighth of a mile. The centre is a point on the boundary between Thomas Moore's farm, on the 9th concession, and John Lindsay's, on the Stb. —On Friday evening, 15th inst., Mrs. George Avery, of Brussels, died very sud- denly and unexpectedly, The cause of her demise was heart failure. About two years ago she had a slight stroke of paralysis and she had never been really etrong after it, yet on the day of her decease she wee able to sit up and eat her dinner. Mrs. Avery's maiden name was Lucy Scott and her birth- place was Beverly, Leeds county, Ontario, the date of her birth being December 24, 1828. In 1848 she was united in marriage to her now bereft partner and after residing in that locality for a time they removed to Grey township in 1859, where they lived until December, 1888, when they became citizens of Brussels. The subject of this notice was most highly respected by all who knew her and the family ie deeply sym- pethized with in their unlooked for be- reavement. Mr. Avery and nine children are living, viz.: 4eorge, of Ralispell, Mon- tana ; Mrs. Thomas Shiels, Albert T., and John J., of Fort Ransem, Dakota ; MT11. Donald Campbell, of Grey township ; Mrs. Jessie Wilbee, Misses Lucy A. -and Emily M., and William 13., of Brussels. Perth Items. —Mr. John Knox, of Pilot Mound, Mani- toba is visiting friends about Atwood. —2e1r. Angus Campbell, of Fullerton has been engaged to teach in the Mitchell ifigh School. —Mr. George Hyde, of Shakespeare, is one of the judges of cattle at the Winnipeg show this week. —At the recent entrance examination- in Stratford 155 candidates wrote. Of these something over 50 per cent, have palmed, —Mr. George Carr, of 'St, Marys, has a split leaf weeping birch in his lawn, which ie 40 feet high and 20 across. —Stretford city council %ill send $100 worth a flour to the sufferers of St. John, Newfoutidland. —The !handsome BUM of 8154.50 was con- tributed 4:ter private subscription,in Mitchell, for the sufferers by the St. John fire. —Mr. James Fisher, some years ago a resident of Stratford, was returned to the Manitoba Legislature on Saturday by ac- clamation. —Rev. John Ridley, of Galt, has been of- fered the rectorship ot St, James' Church, Stratford, rendered vacant by the death of Canon Patterson. —One evening lately -Mr, James Parker, of Downie, -was driving along the road near St. Marye, in a buggy to which was attach- ed a young rolt. In a field alongside the road another colt was -frieking about which canted. to beet] a hill throwei his hes ineeng BUMThn was fol of the 1 pated. MiIverl Bath& c enta, —Th temple, Port proZ.Pel hospitr cloeed ling pi to Mr, on W —A Marys, ing the nee down, —Al have t park the Stratfi the fat day, is and A I —M VitWi. pare al Mr. ha plying tend t the pa to hese night, attrect eion ing t.15,500 Mr. CH to livtl frighti load, s Unto I there 1 his bre —51 aneoraA fit.Ma bank e tor, WI wae nj male Weis! 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