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Hays aa arbi- George aaked a - section the fith - Wel ton a taken ied that eut that lots be maiden litinsitoto TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR. / WHOLE NUMBER, 1,287. SEAFORTH, FRIDAY AUGUST 12, 1892. McLEAN BROS., Publishers. $1.50 a Year in Advance. STRAW HATS During these hot days nothing is more comfortable than a cool Straw Hat, and especially when you can bUy them for almost nothing. SATUR DAY —AND— MONDAY, August 13th & 15th, We give you an opportunity to pur- chase a good Straw Hat at a low price. Choice of any Boys' Straw Hat for '25e. Men's straws divided into two lots. Lot No. 1, your choice 50c. Lot No. 2, your choice 75c. You have your 'choice of our fine goods at these prices on the above 'dates. It's a snap you seldom get, and in order to get the best goods you will require to come early: JACKSON BROS., THE LEADING HATTERS. CONTINENTAL UNION. R.EFLY To. OUR AMERICAN CORRESPONDENT. TO THE EDITOR OF THE EXPOSITOR.—In your issue of August 5th, your American correspondent devotes his entire letter to the discussion of the great question now en- gaging the earnest attention of almost every intelligent man in Canada. He writes in opposition to the movement, oddly enough. As he makes an attempt to come to "close quarters" with those of us who advocate Continental Union, hie letters are deserving of more notice than would be given letters such as that written to yau by a man in the Western States, who, in half -a -dozen sentenctiecasatiatfies himself that he has con- futed all the argumente that have been ad- vapced in your paper on behalf of union. I ehould be pleased if you again allow me to trespaas upon your good nature, and the patience of you readers, while I attempt to dissect the letter sent you by your political correspondent in Washington. He attempts to make the following points: 1. That the movement is not Continental Union, but Annexation. People may call it by whatever name they please, but we should be permitted to name our own off- spring. We have no desire to shirk the is- sue with respect to the name or iu any other way. Annexation, to our minds at least, implies coercion. We wish no coercion. We wish the union to be one of hearts. For that reason the name Continental Union has been given the movement. . .2, Great Britain, he urges, would be very foolish to consent to the union, because the Canadian Pacific railway furnishes her with an easy way of transporting troops to the East. A column would beineeded to answer this thoroughly; but a glance at the map will show any one that England's best way of reaching the East is through the Suez canal, which she can guard at all times, and not over the Canadian Pacific Railway, which she could not guard in the event of trouble between herself and Russia, and an alliance between Ruesia and the United States. One thousand men from Dakota would render the Canadian Pacific Railway useless. When, in 1849, the celebrated an- nexation manifesto, signed by Abbott, Galt, Rose and others reached England, the Lon- don Times twice commented upon the pro- duction, and said Canada was free to go if she so desired. Furthermore, there is a wide difference between the Radical and controlling wing of the English Liberal party end the English Tory party. The Radicale, very properly, believe England c3hotild, turn all her colonies loose. They contend, and with truth on their side, that their possession is a toes to England, and so they are, especially when they are given self-government, for they then do as Canada has done, they set about legislating to im- prove their own condition, whether England likes it or not or is benefitted or injured by euch legislation; and the Radical element now control the destinies of the British Em- pire. England would have no need of the Britieh Columbia coaling station with the States and Canada united; but even should it be required, why could not the right to maintain such station be guaranteed by the treaty of union? for it should not be forgot- ten that Continental Unionists ask to have the union accomplished upon terms approv- ed of by Great Britain. The resolution forming the Ontario Continental Association expreesly provides for such approval. No Continental Unionist whom I know believes otherwise than that Canada would be divid- ed into States and Territories. We fancy here that we understand the question well enough to know that ? But, what of it? Why should we expect treatment different from that accorded other territories when admitted to the union? 3. I have no intention of challenging the figures your correspondent gives when deal- ing with taxation, &c., nor do we believe the public debt in itself to be any cause for alarm to Canadians. There are coun- tries with a heavier debt per head than Can- ada, but there is calm for alarm in all the circumstances which have attended the in- crease of that debt from $20 to $60 per head since Confederation. The man who pays this debt—the tiller of the soil—is less able to pay even $20 now than he was in 1867. It ie within your own knowledge, Mr. Edi- tor, that in 1867 a well -cleared farm was worth $80 or $85 per sere, and that when a farmer got his dollar in his hand it was worth about 80 to 85 cents. Now he is lucky if he can get $50 or $60 per acre for the same ferm, while every intelligent man in the country knowe that before the farmer of to -day gets his dollar he has to pay about 25 cents ot it in tribute to the United States government to get permission to sell his produce in the States, and has yet to pay 20 to 30 cente additional when he goes to the store to buy his goods, whether imported or home-made, for the price of the home-made article equals the price a similar article would be sold at in the Staaes or England with the duty and freight added. We have our municipal and poll taxes in Canada equally with the States, in addition to our taxation for maintenance of Dominion Government, The cause for alarm is not, as I have said, in the debt itself, but in the contrast afforded by our conditions to the conditions existing in the States. where, in spite of a war debt of $4,200,000,000 having been paid off since Confederation was enter- ed upon in Cenada, their national interest bearing debt has fallen from over $200 to $10 per head, and which country, it is important to remember, lies right beside us for 4,000 miles and competes with us for the emigra- tion from Europe, and, unfortunately, takes from us our beet young men. 4. t" The expenditure of the United States must increase," your correspondent says. There can be no honest difference of opinion on that point. I have not with me at this moment statistics showing the expenditure per head in the States since the close of the war, or about the time we entered upon Confederation, but I know the figures have remained at about $4 per head of the popu- latian, varying a little, going either up or down, as an extraordinary demand may have been made from year to year upon the treasury. But what we do say is, that,with the Continent one nation and all fear of trouble between England and the States consequently disappearing, there would be no real romp for expending upon a United States navytthe huge sum mentioned by your correspondent. .5. It may be true that in Obio the census returns show a depreciation in property of thirty million dollars in ten years, but the same returns show that, 'taking the United States as a wholo, the assessed value of property has risen from about (speaking from memory now,) $534 to $1,000 per hoed. As to the wages of farm laborers, I fancy so few are employed in Ontario, except at har- vest time, owing to the hard -up condition of the farmer, that it is impossible to say whether the wages here averege, in other than harvest months $10 or less per month. 6. He alludes to the low prices prevailing for stock and farm produce in Kansas, Col- orado, and other distant western and south- western states, If he intended stieh refer- ence to have any bearing on the question of Continental Union, he certainly meant to convey the impression that under union the same low prices would prevail here. But even without entrance to the United States market, good horses are yet selling for more then $30 and eggs for more. than 10 cents. Does he mean then to ask the Canadian far- mer to believe that with the great markets of Philadelphia, New York, Bouton,Chicago, Detroit, Cincinnati; Cleveland, Toledo, Du- luth, Buffalo ; in fine, does he ask them to believe that the addition to their present market of a market in the United States border cities, containing a population half as large as the British Isles, weuld lessen the value of their farm products? Evidently your correspondent's grown up Sundayschool class must be mariners who seldom come ashore, and who are prepared to take any- thing as gospel, but the farmers of Canada can hardly accept such logio. He should re- flect that the -agricultural portions of Canada are much nearer the great cities I have named, than Colorado, Texas, Kansas, and such distant States are, and that Canada is the natural supply grounds for such cities. The high freight charges, due to the die- tence to and from the market, is the cause of the low Prices he has quoted as pre- vailing in the States he mentions. 7. Your correspondent poses excessively patriotic from the Canadian standpoint. " Fancy," he says, " the descendents of United Empire loyalists celebrating the Fourth of July." Now, coming from a man possessing the intelligence of your corres- pondent, that is what the majority of people call "unmitigated rot," Why, thousands of such deacencants have taken the oath of al- legiance to the United States and are cele- brating the Fourth of July, while thousands more are cursing the folly Of their ancestors, wbich led them to reeist the United States authorities and thus cause their expulsion from the States, Elgin Myers is a United Empire loyalist descendent. Let sensible people give the United Empire loyalists a rest. They are all dead. There are people now alive in Canada who are living for themselves and their progeny, and have something else to do than fall down and worattip the memories of a lot of misguided zealots. Speaking of the Orangeville meet- ing, your correspondent is entirely mistaken wh,m he assumes that ignominy was heaped upon the devoted heads of those who spoke at Orangeville in favor of Union. k was at that meeting. The facts are briefly: The hall was filled with about 1,000 persons, mostly Orangemen. About 20,or a less num- ber of mischievous and whisky -loving young fellows thought to amuse themselves. They howled and pounded the floor and passed remarks rather wide of the discussion, and so prevented the 980 from hearing, as they wanted to hear. Orangemen and Conser- vatives came upon the platform after the meeting, and, apologizing for the misbe- havior of the boys, said they were with us in the question. Several of them gave us their names and addresses. One drunken man, instigated by the boys, threw an egg, but, owing to the low price of eggs in that section, the egg was a good one. Instead of giving us a stone, you see, as we expected, they gave us a good egg, which was almost scriptural conduct. There is nothing very ignominious in such treatment, surely. 8. The figures quoted by your correspond- ent as showing the industrial development of Canada, as no doubt you, Mr. Editor, feel assured, are altogether misleading. I was a census supervisor. One township in my dis- trict was returned as containing, I think, 173 industrial establishments, with very exten- sive productione, in what do you suppose ? —farmers' wives knitting stockings and making straw braid. They go to swell the number. That is all I wish to say on that point. 9. "Clean Government in Canada is all that is needed to put everything right," your correspondent intimates. CLEAN Gov- ERNMENT CAN NEVER SUCCEED IN CANADA. I emphasize that assertion. What was the fate of the Mackenzie Government? I do not wish to go from A to Z in proving my contentions, but will start your correspond- ent, and maybe others, thinking. Confed• eration was conceived in ein and reared in iniquity upon a foundation of corruption and injustice. It was a politicians' and not a peoples' move, as Continental Union is. No Province wanted it, except possibly, though not certainly, Quebec, and then onty the citiee, and Quebec, then as now. has a heavy debt which it wishes to unload upon others. The people were not asked for their assent. Tae fabric has ever since been held together by corruption ; now better terms to this Province, again railway bonuses to a second, then public works with their attend- ant opportunities of plunder to a third, a tempt continued to make them a part of Europe, 3,000 miles away. Let your corres- pondent get a copy of every statute imaged and every order in Council granted since Confederation, and he will become satisfied that my conclusion is right, that we are sim- ply eating one another up. and that there is no salvation for the people of Canada save in and through the merits of Continental rtion, which will -destroy the conditions eking this mutual destruction necessary. Tho longer tho delay the worse will the situation beconie,and, as we have an author- ity your correspondent believes in, for say- ing that pride goes before a fall, so deed the stiff-neckedness of such people as your cor- respondent precede the disintegration of Canada, and its glorious resurrection as a ptrt and parcel of the greatest country known in history. In conclusion let me state that so for as the question has been discussed here, the consensus of opinion is that the United States should _assume our national and pro- vincial debts, for while the public works they represent I are valueless to a stagnant country, they would have value in a pro - greasing continent, inasmuch as they con- sist of necessary entitle, &h, &c. We further ask the consent and "the God bless you, my ohildren," of Greet Britain. Trusting that I have not trespaseed too far upon your space, or upon the indulgence of your readers, I remain, Yotire Very Truly, T. M. Witten:, EXRTYA, August 5, 1892. The Marks Wanted. DEAR EXPOSITOR.—In reading the reports in the last issue of your valuable paper of the recent entrance examinations in Huron, I was very much disappointed to find that the ,marks made by the candidates -in East Huron were omitted, while those made by those in West Huron were given. In my humble opinion, withholding the marks made by each candidate is removing one of the strongest incentives to work on the part of both teacher and pupil. The fact that the public can compare results by referring to the marks -published in the loos! papers, causes not only scholars but also teachers to put forth their best efforts to secure the highest marks possible. In making this comparison there are many thiegs to be con- sidered, the most important of which are, whether the school attended be a graded school or not,and the ages of the candidates. Of course it would be absurd to expect pupils from an ungraded school to make as many marks as those from a graded school make. It would also be absurd to expect a pupil of 12 or 13 years of age to make se many marks as a pupil of 15 or 16 years, their advantages being similar. I think the report, to be sufficiently fullt should contain the names anclages of the candidatee, the name of the school attended and the number of marks obtained. In your issue of the 5th inst., I saw this item: "At the recent entrance examinations the highest marks obtained by any pupil in the county of Bruce was 688—won by Miss Maggie Miller, of School Section No. 10, Kinloss, of which school the teacher is Mr. M. J. McKenzie." To me this information was interesting, but it would have been much more so had her age been given. In West Huron the highest number of marks was 571. I feel certain that the teachers and all others interested in education would like to know the number of marks obtained by each candidate in East Huron, and I hope it is not too late yet to obtain this very desirable information. The marks were published in the Bruce local papers. Why not have them published in the East Huron papers for East Huron inspectorate as well as for West Huron? EAST HERON TEACHER, The Pinkertons and the Home- stead Strike. To The Editor of Tile EXPOSITOR: 1 notice by a couple of statements em- bodied in editorials in your issue of July 29th, that you, like many of your contem- poraries, both in Canada and the United States, have gone astray on the subject of the Homestead strike, and more especially as to that phase of it which involves the Pinkerton detectives. In almost all cases they have been repre- sented a's a sort of private standing army, ready and willing to do the bidding of any man or Company rich enough to employ them, no matter what that may be, They are represented us unprincipled, desperate men, a sort of cross between the border ruf- fian of the half dime novel and the detec- tive eo frequently employed to enliven the pages of the same class of literature. The investigation recently had to look into the business of the Pinkertons and to throw light on the manner of their coming to Homestead, and what they did after reach- ing there, has developed the fact that there are two branches of this agency, one em- ployed to ferret out criminals, the other to act as special watchmen or private police in cases of emergency, where property is threatened. These men are not continuously employed, but are gathered together for emergencies by means of the bureau in con- nection with the agency, and care is taken that they shell be reliable and respectable. In the Homestead trouble they were em- ployed simply as watchmen, and for the reason that it became apparent at the very outset of the trouble that the civil authori- ties would be utterly unable to protect the immensely valuable works and plant of the Company. They were not employed to shoot down the employes or anyone else. These watchmen oame down as quietly as possible, with orders to land inside the Company's property and proteot it from outside vio- lence. What arms and ammunition they had were boxed up and they had strict or- ders not to use them under any circum- stances unless they had previously been dep- utized as officers of the law. As a matter of fact only forty of the men were armed at any time. These are the facts of the case as testified under oath at the official investigation, and they may be found at any time in the official minutes of the investigating committee. There is no law in any country to prevent such action on the part of anyone. The re- tail merchant or the small manufacturer has a perfect right to employ a night watchman to protect his property. I dare say if there were to be a threatened riot in Seaforth al- most every merchant and owner of businees property in the town would employ some one, or give one of his ordinary employes ex- tra pay to watch over his premises during the night when they were deserted and at the mercy of a mob or of any evil disposed per- son or persona. Was it wrong then, for the bonus to the pauper fishermen of a fourth, Homestead Company to pursue the same and so on around. The burden of all this must course? ultimately fall upon the Ontario taxpayera, It seems to me the only ground for com- this being the only financially sound Pro- plaint is that it should be necessaty to adopt viuce in the Dotninion. If you are in part- such a course. As to the propriety of hav- riership with a man who, tater spending all ing such agencies in private hands, and the his profits, runs in debt you have to bear the t danger to be apprehended from the growth burden of that debt, as his partner. And of them, that is an entirely different the system will never etop so long as the question. people of the diffsrent Provinces remain Fe I also notice that you speak of the work- litically and commeroially severed from the j men in the Homestead strike as " impov- cortatinent to whi41 they belong, and this at eriehed." The fact is that their wages range from $50 to $200 per month, even under the new scale, and one of the members of , the Advisory Committee of the strikers has $22,000 invested in Kansas mortgages. The truth of this matter is that the work- men have blundered from the start. No one could be more in sympathy with honest labor than I am, nor fwish more than I do to nee workmen receive good wages for good work, for I am a workman, and at the pres- ent time, a very poorly paid one, but the right must triumph no matter who is in the wrong. The way to adjust these difficulties is not to start out by doing wrong and break- ing the Iwo of the Commonwealth as well as of common humanity, but to get right and keep right, and then go ahead straight to the mark. " GILLEAN." Canada. —The peach crop in the Niagara district will be poor. —This year Canada has exported 54,591 cattle to England. —It is reported that Canada's oyster in- dustry is in great danger of extinction. —Rev. Dr. Jackson, Galt, has started on a brief tour in Europe. —A resident of Glen Huron has a fig tree growing in the open sir and bearing figs. —The Home of the Friendless in Windsor during July gave out 2,104 meals. —Mrs. Klotz, widow of the late Otto Klotz, of Preston, is dead, aged 76. —Hamilton's tax collector has gathered in $130,000 in three days. —The total membership of the Sons of Temperance in Nova Scotia is 14,092. — rite repairs to the Cornwall Canal have been completed, and locking has been resumed. —Canada's lumber exhibit at the World's Fair will be specially fine, both in finished work and raw material. — B. Hakin & Co. boot and shoe manu- facturers of Montreal, have assigned. Lia- bilities about $3,000. —John Black, of Fergus, one of the first exporters of cattle to Greet Britain, died in Liverpool on Monday last week. —The bodies of Maggie and Grace Stevens, two of the viotime of the Wiarton drowning accident, have been recovered. —The Stormont cotton mills at Cornwall were damaged by fire the other night to the extent of $15,000. —The corner stone of the new Board of Trade building at Winnipeg was laid on Friday. — Samuel Blake, son of Hon. Edward Blake, has arrived back from England and Ireland, where he went with his father. —Mr. J. Roland Brown, barrister, of Picton, has been appointed Crown Attorney of the county of Prince Edward. —Montreal does a big business in rags with Germany, and the people are alarmed because of the outbreak of cholera on the Rhine. — Rev. L. P. Crawford, late .of Hamilton, was inducted into the rectorship of St. Luke's church in Halifax on Sunday morn- ing, —Dr. Agnes Turnbull, Belleville, who ham just completed her studies, has been am Ipte a sieve. When shoved into the water It was found there was no baling dish. In- stead of losing time to go back for a dish, Mr. Dance urged those with him to row out, ook off his boot, and kept the crazy boat float by baling with this improvised dish, nd in this way reached and rescued the hree drowning men, who were clinging to he bowsprit, the rest - of the boat being nder water. —On Wednesday night last week, Thomas annah, of the township of Hamilton, near 'ort Hope, went to milk his cows, when he as attacked by a large Durham bull and rushed to death. A dootor was called, but he man was dead before he reached him. mimed was 52 years of age and leaves a ife and three small children. —Mr. H. H. Dewart and Mr. J. W. Curry, who have been acting as Crown At- orneys for York county, during the absence of the late Mr. G. W. Badgerow in Ber- xauda, have now been appointed to the office left vacant by Mr. Badgerow's death,' Mr. Dewart. is a son of the Rev. Dr. Dewart, editor of the Christian Guardian. I —Mr. Alex. L. Whitlaw, of Parkhill, v se visiting his daughter, Mrs. J. Hudson, t Devizes,near London and retired on Sun- day evening in hie usual good health. On onday morning when Mrs. Hudson went o hie room she thought he was still sleep- ing, -but returning sante time afterwards, to ber great surprise she found her father dead. —The partnership between Messrs. R. unroe and D. McKenzie, of the Port Elgin imes, has been dieeolved, and Mr. Mun- oe will in future conduct that paper alone. Mr. McKenzie goes to Paisley, where he av purchased the Advocate from Ainsley McGraw, who intends leaving for British teolumbia. —The grain that remains in Manitoba and the Northwest of last year's crop is being eihipped east as fast as possible. The dif- flerent elevators are clearing out for this season's crop. During three days last week ver 150 oars were sent east. Trouble as been experienced at Fort William ; some f the grain is damp and whole carloads 4ave started to heat. I —Lest Friday at Wyoming a carrier pigeon with a ring on its left leg was struck by a hawk, and, though not killed, its wing is injured. The ring bears the following: "20. E. L. 16." The bird fell into an old disused oil -tank, and has a lot of petro- teum on its feathers at present. It is at the Post office at Wyoming. ' —Mr. Wm. Gordon Cumming, the well- known rancher of Albert, is on his way east With 500 range horses, which will be broked in Ontario and then sent to the English market. lr. Cumming is hopeful of being eble to secure as much as 40 each for many ef the animals for cavalry remounts, and a few, be believes, will bring us as high as 4.:50 each for other purposes. I —The death in Strathroy is announced of Mrs. Harriet Amelia Smythe, M. A., at the elge of 58 years. She returned from a visit :o her daughter in Cleveland on Monday vening, and on Wednesday was taken ill ith diphtheria of a most malignant type. She was born near Hornby, Ontario on No - ember 20, 1833, was married to Mr:Smythe n 1852, and removed to Strathroy in 1875. pointed by the Presbyterian church to the 1—Dr. Bourinot, the distinguished clerk of church mission in Central Africa. he Dominion House of Commons, referring —A few of the leading citizens of Paris o the decision of the Privy Council in the are trying to form a company to build a summer hotel and utilize the sulphur wells there for bathing, etc. —In several districts in Manitoba wheat is ready to cut. So rapid has been the ad- vancement of the crop that harvesting will be general by the middle of this month, —The late Henry Kent's will has been probated in Toronto. The estate is worth nearly $100,000, $10,000 of which is given to the Presbyterian mibsions, to be paid within three years. —The mayor of Galt has signed the agreement with the Canadian Pacific Rail- way Company for the supply of water at the station there. They will pay $500 per year for the privilege. - —The raspberry season at Kingston will close in a few days. The met was excel- lent, and lieveral producers paid la cents duty per box and sold in the United States market. — The. Winnipeg City council is investi- gating the source of the artesian water sup- ply with the view of constructing a new sys- tem of water works and adopting a new source of supply. —The number of vessels arriving at St. John, New Brunswick, during July was 463, aggregating 82,873 tons, of which 210 ' ight in his room at the Queen's Hotel, vessels of 14,336 tons were from foreign 1 alifax, and died in two hours. He was ports. laying on the cricket field Friday, but his —A sale of timber lands by the Ontario lace was taken by another on Saturday. Government is advertised for October 13, at He was disappoint eed with the play of his Toronto. The lands are in Nipissing, Al- eam, Deceased was 27 years old, in the gome, Thunder Bay and Rainy River dis- pivil service at Ottawa, son of Senator tricts,. Dickie, of Amherst, and brother of Dickie —Happily- the Quebec Government is re- M. P., for Cumberland. solved to put down the lotteries which 1 —In North Dumfries township wheat is curse that province,- Even the Province de burning out from 30 to 36 busheis per acre, Quebec Lottery, conducted by La Societe The quality of the grain is somewhat affect - St. Jean Baptiste, isnot to escape. ed by shrinking wherever it was lodged, but —Mr. Antoine Lefebre, agent for Govern- this is only a very small proportion of the ment properties in Montreal, has been dis- total in that section. In one instance a missed. No reason is given for such die- measured bushel from the machine weighed missal. It is stated he will be replaced by 64 pounds. From two bushels of Red Clawson sown, Mr. Menne Hallman, of a wealthy citizen. —The shipments of cattle from Montreal near Roseville, obtained a yield of 84 last month were as follows: Sheep, 11,239 ; bushels, the ground sown being not quite cattle, 19,480, including 3,192 stockers. The 'two acres: total cattle shipment previously ehipped . —The great storm which passed over was 35,611. ;Blenheim township a few days ago did con- -The Rev. Dr. Thomas, pastor of the isiderable damage in the vicinity of Drum - Jarvis street Baptist church, Toronto, has !ha , Thomas Edminston, on concession 5, gone on his annual vacation, part of which had one of his beat horses killed in the pas. will be spent at Atlantic City. In com- Iture field. About five miles farther east pany with one of his sons he will go the lightning struck Wesley Stockdon's through Watkins' Glen and the beautiful house. It entered the chimney, knocking it Wyoming valley on a bicycle. down, and tore the plaster off three rooms. —The Forbes land near Jeannette Creek, The hired boy was severely shaken up. Mrs. Essex County, it is expected, will this year Stockdon's sister had just gone down stairs a yield 4,500 bushels of wheat. A few years few minutes before. The room was badly ago this land was nothing but a marsh, but I damaged. was drained by W.Forbes, who got the land —George Murray, one of the Zorra tug -of - for his trouble. ' war team, died suddenly at his home on Friday, near Braemar. He was well-known —Commandant Booth, of the Salvation Army has issued instructions for a great and esteemed by a very large circle of ac - thanksgiving and harvest festival, to take eusintances. An attack of inflammation , place Sunday and Monday, August 28 and caused serious alarm from the first and in 29throughout the whole Dominion and less than 24 hours, Murray, of herculean , Newfounand. strength, was dead. His wife died last 1 dl —Mr. Malcolm, surveyor, of Blenheim, April and now three small orphan children ' Kent county, while surveying conceesion are left to the tender mercies of others. a back of Clearville, ordered one of his men to The funeral took place on Sunday under the cut into a certain tree, and there he would auspices of Embro Star Lodge, I. 0. 0. F. find the blaze that had been made 57 years —A horrible mishap is reported from the ago. Mr. Henry Watson has the block of village of Scotland, county of Brant. wood with the blaze in it in his office. Isaac Stenebaugh is well known throughout —Mr, Eli Perkins passed through VVinni- the county, having kept hotel at several peg the other day en route to the east. He point°. Latterly he has been plying the was accompanied by Mrs. Perkins and trade of a butcher in Scotland and returning daughter. While in Japan a few weeks hotne from Brantford one night last week, ago they purchased two Chinese dogs, each drove into the barn, where hung several weighing one pound. The little animals were the object of much curiosity at that sta—tirt is thought that the three men, John Dance, his son and young North, who went, out in the midst of the furious storm and rescued the three survivors of that terrible accident at Wiarton, should receive the Manitoba school question, says that a deci• Sion of the highest court of the Empire, which declares that no rights have been in- terfered with, leaves no room for any appeal tar for remedial legislation, eine° in law, and in fact, it is declared that there ii nothing to remedy. 1 —At the conclusion of his sermon on Sabbath, 30th ult., Rev. D. Perrie, of Cheeley, who wits deeply moved by the sud- den death of two members of his congrega- ion, Mr. and Mrs. George Stevene, made a ouching reference to them and paid a tribute to their nobility of character, among ether things referring to the esteem in hioh they were held by the Indians among whom they had been living. —While a representative of the Galt Re- porter was in convereation with Mr. Andrew Malcolm on Saturday, that gentleman re - Marked that that day (30th July) fifty-eight Years ago, was the day on which the cholera ()matted its awful ravages in the then ham - et of Galt. It was a day that will never be forgotten by those who grimly fought the disease, either in themselves or their friends —and, alas 1 there are but very few left. —F. Stuart ' Dickie, a member of the ttawa cricket team, shot himself Saturday fainted several times before Dr. Ghtssford's arrival. The doctor did all in his power to relieve the poor man of his sufferings, but he succumbed to his injuries on Saturday. Concussion of the brain and paralysis re- sulted. This case is the more sad, as a wife and large family of children were dependent on him for subsistence. —Knox church, Ripley, has lost by death an honored member, Mr. Norman McDon- ald, of Huron township. In the absence of the pastor it was Mr. McDonald's custom to lead thp Gaelic prayer meeting, which be did with great acceptance to the Gaelic por- tion of the congregation, by whom he will be greatly missed. Deceased was born in the island of Lewis, Scotland, in 1844, and removed with his parents to Canada about forty yearn ago. At the time of his death, he was member of Huron township council, receiving the largest number of votes polled for any one candidate at the last municipal election in that township. —The town of Lindsay is agitated over the disappearance of Arthur O'Leary, wbo has been for years one of the most prom- inent oitizene. It has transpired that he is a defaulter to the extent of $40,000 to 560,000. Nearly all the losers are Roman Catholics, to which church O'Leary be- longed. His wbereabouts are unknown. Among the losers by his frauds are the estate of the late Joseph Hetherman, whose children have been swindled out of $3,000, and Mrs. Tracey, a widow, who in- trusted him with $1,800 to pay off an encumbrance on her property. O'Leary is also known to have forged mortgages. —A Guelph paper say.: As a result of the onslaught on the Salvation Army in Waterloo one day lately, a number of arrests have been made. The first visit of the army to Waterloo was fraught with a like reception, but the soldiers of the cross de- cided to do nothing in the matter in the way of humiliating the culprits, but decided to give them another trial. The second visit was more 'disastrous than the firet, a number of Salvationists receiving, broken ,heeds and black eyes and their instruments !being damaged. A complaint was then laid ,and a number of Waterloo young men were ;arrested. They are of respectable families, Ibut will have to stand the consequences of Itheir night's fun. —One of the most successful celebrations of the First of August, in memory of Eman- cipation Day, ever held in Western Canada, took place at Windsor, on Monday last week, under the auspices of the colored Oddfellows' Lodge of that city. A crowd of 5,000 people assembled on the picnic grounds in the afternoon. They were a happy crowd—gathered from the four points of the compass. It was their day and they enjoyed it. Acquaintances who had not met for years met on Monday and the hearty greetings were pleasant to look upon. Not a sign of disturbance er improper con- duct was seen during the afternoon. "In this," says the Echo, "our colored fellow - citizens set an example the white brethren would do well to emulate." —The travelling dairy held a very stic- cessful meeting in Leitch's hall, Dutton, on ; Thursday, 4th inst. John Galbraith was elected chairman. There was a large at- tendance, about 250 farmers, their wives and daughters taking a deep interest in the , remarks of the lecturer, Mr. Linfield. The lecturer was asked many questions regard- ing the making of butter, which were answered satisfactorily. Mr. Hume suc- ceeded in making excellent butter in the short space of 22 minutes. The lecturer also used the Babcock tester in testing various samples of milk, The general conclusion was that the lecture was an excellent one and would be productive of much good in the community. —The commission on the liquor traffic opened court at Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, on Thursday, 5th inst. Mayor Burrill testified to the thorough enforcement of the Scott Act in Yarmouth; to the constant practice of temperance in the community within his memory, and the noniesnance of licenses even before the adoption of the Scott Act. The population is a little over 6,000 ; very little illicit sale occurs; that which is sold is sent in from Halifax, Nova Scotia; tem- perance sentiment is very strong and the license inspector carries out his duties thoroughly; the inspector is appointed by the town council; he is also chief of police; and is assisted by his three constables. Two or three employeis of labor gave the usual evidence as to the ill effects of the use of liquor on workmen. —Another precious citizen of Lindeay was Thomas B. Dean, at one time manager of the Dominion Bank there. Some time ago he was discharged from the employ of the bank for unknown reasons, and was next heard of when arrested at Lockport, New York, on a charge of attempting to smug- gle opium. When this occurred his record in Lindsay was looked up, and some ugly facts have come to light. One of his trans- actions was the borrowing of $900 from Mr. Unwin and the giving of his note for the amount. It is heedless to say that neither principal nor interest has ever been paid. Dr. Allen intrusted Dean with $7,000 worth of unregistered bonds for safe keeping. The bonds are gone and an en- deavor is now being made to recover their value from the bank. Dean is the son of County Judge Dean, of Victoria. —A Virden despatch says : 'Whilst cut- ting hay on the marsh, about 12 miles south of here, Messrs. Burge and Etsell came across a carpet bag containing letters ad- dressed to Robert S. Rankin, a razor and strop, coat, etc. On the outside of a note- book were writtep these words: "All the money in my purse and in the belt around my body to be sent home to my people, Mrs. Rankin, 4 Montpelier place, Black Rock, Dublin, Ireland. The watch and the con- tents of the bag and large carpetbag at Virden station to be sold and the money sent home. To be buried as cheaply as pos- sible." The large carpet -bag, as stated, is here at the station. A search party was organized,and bunted in the marsh for about three hours, but the grass is about 5 feet high, making it very difficult to see any- thing. There is a letter from a friend in Winnipeg, dated June 6th. —One of the oldest residents of Ottawa died Friday morning in the person of Mr. John Roberts, druggist. He has been ailing for the last six months, and his death was due to consumption. He was in his 64th year, unmarried, and leaves no nearer rela- tive than a cousin to inherit a fortune of half a million dollars. Mr. Roberts was born in Perthshire, Scotland, and came to Bytown with hie parents when a boy. Loot summer the deceased took a trip to England and the Continent, but very soon after his return he was taken ill. IT;. ..,.4. estate of half value of the estate which passes to the heir or heirs is subject to a duty of five per cent. The province will therefore be, ie round numbers, some $25,000 in pocket by Mr. Roberbe death. et -Last Friday at Windsor three promin- ent men had a narrow escape from instant death by a runaway accident. Win. ad e - Gregor, M. P,, Ceptain Sullivan and Rev, Mr. Holmes, of Walkerville, were attending a funeral. They were seated in the first carriage, a closed one. Just before the rig reached the bridge that overspees the Grand Trunk Railway at that point, a train came around the curve only a few yards away and when the team were on the bridge the loco- motive was passing underneath. The fright- ened horses swerved to one side overturning the carriage and freeing themselves from it. The rescuers were obliged to tip up the rig before the three occupants could be extricat- ed, and then it was found that Mr. Mc- Gregor was badly hurt, but the other two had miraculously escaped other than receiv- ing a severe shaking up. Mr. McGregor was badly out around the face and head,and his left leg was broken between tho knee and the ankle. The injured member was reset and the wounds -dressed, but it is thought Mr. McGregor has sustained intern- al injuries as well. When he was picked up blood was issuing from his nose and ears, and he complained of slight pains in his chest and back, Perth Items. --There are forty telephones now in Listowel. gate receipts at the Stratford la- crosse game last week amounted to $160. —Messrs, J. Hord & Company are doing a large and successful general store business at Monkton. —Mies Minnie Woodley, who has been spending a year with her brother in Wawa - nese, Manitoba, has returned to her home in Fullerton. —The rank growth of Canada thistles in fields and roadsides, in Fullerton township, is alarming thrifty farmers, who keep their own domains clear. —Mr. W. A. Phillips, of St. Thomas Col- legiate Institute, has accepted the headmas- tership of Listowel High School, at a salary of 51,100. —Mr. George Hearn, of Downie, has an apple tree, the one side of which is 'loaded with ripe harvest apples while the other is covered with blossoms. —Mies Nora Clench, formerly of St. Marys, has been playing in concerts in Lon- don, England, where she was advertised as a pupil of M. Isaye, the celebrated Brussels professor. —At the Epworth League meeting, in Main Street Methodist Church, MitcbelI, last week, all who took part in the pro- gramme were High and Public School teachers. —A night blooming cereus belonging to Mrs. Joseph Beavers, of St. Marys, was in bloom two evenings last week, expanding the first night two lovely blossoms and one the next night. —The funeral of the late Mrs. T. M. Daly, of Stratford, took place on Monday, -last week, to Avondale cemetery. The sera vices were conducted by Rev. Mr. Leitch, of Knox Church, Stratford. —Mr. John Whyte, of Mitclaell, presided at a meeting of stock dealers and porkpack- ers in London recently, called by the Do- minion Inspector to consider the disease that has broken out among hogs in the southern sections of the Province. —Mr. J. Y. Lambert, who publishes a Prohibitionist journal in Jacksonville, Illi- nois, is visiting old friends and relatives in Mitchell and vicinity. He was a resideut of 'Mitchell about 35 years ago. He is a brother of Mrs. John Babb. —Mr. Cyrus Hacking, of Listowel, wide- ly known in Ontario as the Canadian repre- eentative of the Chicago Horseman, has severed his connection with that journal and accepted a similar position with the owners of Clark's Horse Review, a Chicago paper. —A painful accident happened to a Grand Trunk trainman,near Guelph,early Thursday naorning,laiit week -Mr. Frankal urphy,a resi- dent of Stratford, and a apex° conductor, but acting at the time as brakeman on an eastbound freight train, fell off a car and had hie toes badly crushed by the car passing over them. He was taken to the Guelph hospital. —A few days ago Mr, Wm, Barker, of Fullerton, was driving a span of horses at- tached to a binder, when- the horses took fright and ran away. The binder passed over Mr. Barker, breaking his leg.and other- wise seriously bruising him. It is feared that he will be compelled to have the leg taken off, —The Mitchell Advocate, of last week, says: Mr. George L. Duffield, of Patterson, New Jersey, was in town this week. He is married to a sister of Mrs. Alexander Davison, f Seaforth, and many years ago lived in &nada. He ran the first train from Stratford to Goderich, and at present holds the position of conductor on a train running between Patterson and New York, —While using the bay fork in unloading grain, a few days ago, David, _Fen of Mr. Wm. Hodgson, of concession 12, Blanchard, received a heavy blow on the forehead from part of the tackling, which gave way. He was rendered unconscious, and remained in that condition for two days,- The blow broke in skull and made an ugly gash in his forehead. The doctor took out several pieces of brine and put five stitches in the et. wound. —afr. Wm, Dickson, of the 8th concession of Elmo, had a couple of working horses in- jured the other day. Veterinary Roe was called, who put several'stitches in the gash in one horse and dressed the wound of the other. Mr. Roe reports a large number of horses similarly injured in the township during the past few weeks. By the nature of the wounds of Mr. Dickson's horses it would appear that the animals had met with foul play, as the gashes in both were doubt- lessly inflicted by a knife. —A fine lot of fat hogs were shipped the other day from Atwood station. One lot of 41 hogs, weighing 11,395 pounds, purchased for White Brothers, of Mitchell, by Mr. George Pearce, and another lot of 60 hogs, weighing 13,430 pounds, were purclaaeed by Bawtinhimer & Hefferman, of Grey; all 101 hogs, weighing 24,825 pounds, making, at 5 cents per pound, over $1,200 paid out to the farmers. The average weight was about 250 pounds, one brought in by Mr. Hemphill weighed 500 pounds, and one of Mr. joim Little's 375 pounds, while quite a number touched the 300 mark. —It has often been said that Mr, Fred Marty, of Mitchell, raised an exceedingly clever family. His son who is a doctor,has meat hooks, and upon jumping out of tho a million is probably the first barge estate to a very large practice in son, Harnburg, and wagon one of the hooks caught him in the come under the operation of the Act paesed two of his 'daughters who are teachers, re - fleshy part of the cheek, near the under at the laat session of the Ontario Legisla- ceive $900 and 51,00,0 salaries respectively. jaw -bone, and passed up to near the temple.1 ture, which went into force on the first of Miss A. E. Marty, who has been a promo A little grandchild happened to be by at the present month, providing for the pay- tient member of the teaching staff in the the time and alarmed the family. Mrs, ment of succession duties, to be applied to- Lindsay Collegiate Institute, has resigned Stenebaugh, upon entering the barn, found wards the maintenance of asylums, hospi- her position for one year, to attend a course him suspended so that his feet could not tals and public charitable institutions. Five of lectures in Queen's University, Kingston. Humane Society's medal. The boat used • reach the floor, and by great exertion and per cent will be levied on the estate, as the After the expiration of the year she will be in the rescue had not been in the water be- presence of mind managed to lift him off the Act provides that where the aggregate value reinstated in her old position at an iecresed fore this summer, and in consequence leaked hook and help him to the houses where he of the estate exceede 5200,000 the whole salary.