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THE HURON EXPOSITOR.
OCTOBER 28, 1892.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
wr The figure between the parenthesis atter each
Una denotes the pogo of the paper on which the
advertisement will be found.
Do you Wear Clothing—Jackson Brcs. (1)
"Joshua Simpkins" Coming to Seaforth. (8)
Farm for Sale—John O'Brien. (5)
Rooms to Rent—Bank of Commerce. (8)
Rams for SaIe—Lancelot Tasker. (6)
Farm for Sale—Geo. A. Templeton. (5)
Highest Price for Fowls—H. Livens. (8)
Building Lots for Sale—Mrs. R. Demme, (5)
Wide Awake—D. Lothrope Co. (8)
The Canadian question, by Prof. G. Smith. (6)
The best value—R. Mercer. (5)
NOtice to Farmers—J. Stanbury. (6)
The best Watches—R. Mercer. (8)
Auction Sale of Farm Stock—J. Sutherland. (6)
Fall Goods—Edward McFaul. (8)
Great Sale for 30 Days—J. Morrow. (6) _
Notice to Members—Wm. Moore. (6)
Now Renovating Establishment—R. II. Barr. (8)
Professional Nurse—Miss Anning. (8)
$10 Reward—J. R. G:egory. (6)
Coming—Charles Clutha. (8)
Suits and Overcoats—Jackson Bros. (5)
In Liquidation—J. R. Gregory. (6)
Bulls and Rams for Sale—J. T. Dickson. (5)
fitron Clooftior.
SEAFORTII, FRIDAY, Oct. 28, 1892,
The Coming Struggle.
- -The appointment of Mr. W. T. R. Preston
to the position of Librarian of the library
of the Legislature of Ontario leaves vacant
the position of Reform Organizer for this
Province. It ie, therefore, an appropriste
time to say that the Reformere of this great
Province should make an effort to secure
the services of the very beet man available.
In industry, energy and devotion to the
cause, he may not be able to surpass Mr.
Preston, but he will be able in the light of
experience, to avoid some errors into which
his predecessor fell. 11e should be a man
of some prominence both in the party and
in the, Province and able to exercise some
personal influence over men. It is a very
difficult position, exacting and very often
thankleatt, and requires the possession of
qualities not always centred in an indi-
vidusl. Nevertheless there are such men,
and their services can be had if the party
will only compensate them for their time.
iItis the want of funds for the ordinary and
neeeisary purposes of organization, that
cripples the efforts of the Liberals in On.
tario in opposing the Ottawa Government.
In a wealthy Province like Ontario, this re -
preach should not exist. It is the duty of
everyone ta do what he can to secure to the
country an administration which he be-
lieves will benefit the country and increase
its prosperity. We believe the Reformers
of Ontario are as patriotic as ever and all
that is neceerary to induce them to take a
greater interest in the work of organization
is to have the matter brought properly to
their atteution. With a clear out radical
programme, including Free Trade with
every country in the world that will give tis
Free Trade, and an effective organization,
Ontario can be relied upon to "turn the ras-
cals out" at the next general election,
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A Queer Annexationist.
Mr. Erastus Wiman, in an address to a
large audience in Halifax, Nova Scotiai the
other night, on the subject which seems still
to linger uppermost in his mind, commer-
cial reciprocity between Canada and the
'Milted States, gave utterance to the follows
ing statement, which is no less patriotic
than true. He said :
There is not a yeetige of an argument
in favor of political union so far as political
institutions are concerned. It is only he-
ehaws of an absence of freedom of commer-
cial intercourse that there is any force in
_the annexa,tion contention. Unrestricted
reciprocity completely supplies the want,
bed the possibility of annexation sinks out
of sight. Political union and unrestricted
reciprocity are as far apart as it is possible
to be. Indeed, the difficulty in the United
States ia the belief that ieciprocidy would
indefinitely postpone annexation. Is it
not, therefore, plain tbattie both from an
American point of view aald from a Cana-
dian reciprocity in N'orth America iii
simply another word for the perpetuation of
Britieh rule within its borders."
Yet, notwithstanding the iteration and
re -iteration of such sentiments as these,
there are some snivelling " loyalists " id the
Colonel Dennison and Empire stamp who
persist in calling Mr. Wirnan and those who
hold similar sentiments with him, disloyal
and annexartionists.
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Gambling at Fairs.
It is reported from Toronto that the On-
tario Government will hereafter make its
grante to agricultural societies conditional
to their keeping all kinds of fakirs and
gambling games off their grounds. The
stand will meet With the approbation of the
public generally. It does not affect the
Western Fair, as the directors some time
since took effective action tf( prevent the
playing of . games of chance 'at their great
annual gathering. --
So says the London Advertiser. We agree
exactly with the firet part of our contem-
porary's remarke. keit the Legislature
should go a good deal further. It should
refuse its grants to all soeieties that en-
courage horse racing, circus and other
mountebank performances. There is in-
finitely more harm done by these, than by
the fakirs and gambling games, although
they are bad enough-. Indeed, the Legis-
lature should go further than this. It
should not only refuse to encourage horse
racing, 1/ambl ing and mountebankism by
witholding government aid from societies
that petmit such practiCes at their exhibi-
tions, but it should, if possible, prohibit the
_holding of such so called amusements in cont
nection with an Agricultural Show. The
Agricultural Show part is generally simply
a cloak of respectability to cover up the
other abominations, and on account of the
agricultural show connection many thous-
ands are induced to attend who would scorn
to attend,or svho would hate to be seen at, a
regular horse race or circus performance.
Besides this, the connection has a most de-
moralising influence on the young. At this
same Western Fair this, and Iast year too,
for that matter, purees were offered for trot-
ting and running races for horses owned by
farmera only, and it was made a nondition
that these horses should be driven or ridden
by the owners or their sone. Here is a most
crafty and dangerous bwit thrown out to lead
farmers and their sons into the horse racing
snare. Let farMers' sons acquire a taste for
horse racing and they will be mighty little
use on. the farm or any place else afterwards.
Inducements ouch as these, offered at an
agricultural fair, are the very surest means I
to employ to onitivate this injurious taste.
Let a young man win a raoe or two at the
fair and he will not long be eatisfied with
such comparatively tame sport. It will not
be long until he is a regular patron of the
racing circuit and pool box, and all this hes
beeo ccomplishtd through the agency of
i.
whet should be a harrnie,s and -bbneficial in-
stitution, the -agricultural society. The in-
jury sure to result from these so-called at-
tractions at shows now a-days,will not stop,
either, at the farmers' boys, because the
boys of other olesses atteud theee shows and
are even more sueceptible to evil influences
than are the farmer's boys. But this racing
business is especially designed to destroy
the farmer's boys. They have horses always
at their command and thus the temptation
is all the more dangerous to < them. How-
ever, the influences of all these so-called
show attractions is demoralizing, and, in the
interests of the general public they should
be discouraged and if possible, stamped
out by the Legielature. The London society,
however, is not the only guilty one, nor
even the most guilty. Toronto is worse
than London, and many of the smaller cnes
are following the evil exainples set them.
It is time the thing was stopped,
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A Tart Reply.
Colonel Dennison, Toronto's Police Magis-
trate, has again been airing his HP -loyalty.
i In an address to the Sons of England recent-
ly, be abused Mr, Goldwin Smith in the
coarsest and most ungentlemanly language,
because that gentleman sees fit to advocate
Continental Union as the natural and best
destisy for this country. Celonel Dennison
also declared that if this agitation is not
stamped out it will result in civil. war and
bloodshed. Mr. Elgin Meyers, the gentle-
man who was beheaded by Si °Over for
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hie advocacy of Continental Uni n,itnit who
is still a remarka.bly lively corps ,in a letter
in the Globe, tskes tIse valiant Colonel in
e ,
hand a,pd administers to him a tinging re-
buke for his ungentlemanly abuse of those
who diffar from him and his balderdash
about loyalty and treason. We take the
following extraet from Mr. Meyers' letter i
Another contrast I wish 6 present.
Professor Goldwin Smith said, in which I
heartily concur, that he desires a re -union
of this continent, but only afte a majority
of the Canadian people desire it, and not
even then until the Queen and ritish Par-
liament consent to the measure. How is it
possible that a proposal can be disloyal if
the Queen and British Parliament consent to '
it is a question that naturally arises here,
Colonel Dennison threetens to overthrow
the highest of all laws, namely, that which
is based on the will of the majority of the
people, if that will is contrary to hie own.
He threatens to deluge the land with the
blood of his own people rather than permit
the will of the majority on this matter to
govern, When he says that the union be-
tween the English speaking people of Ameri-
C9. means civil war, he practically avows
thie determination. If civil war occurs,who
will make it? Why, he himself, with the
exprees object of preventing the will of the
majority from prevailing. That is, this
man, occupying a judicial position, sworn to
bear allegiance to the law, threatens to
overthrow the highestref all laws by vio-
lence and bloodshed. No notice of this
language is taken by those in authority,
though more disloyal language it re impossi-
ble to conceive. On the contrary, his threats
are tacitly encourage& by permitting him to
continue them unrebhked, while punishing
others who adhere to strictly lawful and
conetitutional agitation.
THE EXPOSITOR does not take much stook
in the Continental Union " fad," but we
must say that in this instance Mr. MeYers
has, decidedly, the best of \ the argument.
Were it not for the utterances of such
" blatherskites " as this Colonel Dennison,
and the few pap -fed Tory organs of the
Empire and World stamp, there would be
very little Continental Union sentiment in
this country. But these stupid people make
more converts to that cause in a week, than
Prof. Goldwin Smith; Elgin Meyers, T. M.
White and all the rest of them could do in a
year, if left to themselyee.
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Is It True ?
We take the following from the Stratford
Beacon of Tuesday :
At the cheesemen's banquet at Listowel
last week Hon Thomas Ballantyne called at-
tention tnthe unfair attempt made at the
Toronto exhibition by Dairy Commissioner
Robeetson to boom Eastern Townships
cheese, at the expense of a high grade
cheese, known as " Ingersoll's," the product
of the district west of Toronto. Professor
Robertson, an expert in cheese, selected a
number of cheeses made in the township of
Quebec, brought them to Toronto, did not
enter them in the competition, which was
open to ehe world, but after the prizes were
awarded called in Messrs. Caswell and Pod-
more,of Ingersoll,and McLaren,of Stratford,
to examine them. He wrote a document
which they signed, no doubt net fully recog-
nising its import, which declared in effect
that the cheese was a better article than
that exhibited from the western district and
recommending it for a gold medal, The
testimonial or certificate, or whatever it
Might be called, was so Worded as to make
it appear that the distinction given the '
Quebec cheese was earned in open competi-
tion with the Western Ontario article. The
object of the paper appeared on its surface
—it was designed to give Quebec cheese a
reputation in England not only on its merits
hut at the expense of the Western Ontario
product which now commands the highest
price in that market of any cheese manu-
factured on this continent, Its contents
were promptly telegraphed to the papers all
over the country, accompanied by fulsome
eulogies of its signers, who were made to
appear as, the jedges at the Fair, whereas
only one of them had acted in that capacity,
and, appeared in the Montreal Gazette next
motning with the big heading, " Quebec on
Top." Long ere this it has, of course been
laid before the cheese importers in 'Great
Britain and is probably by this time doing
the work for which it was designed.
In view of the above statement, Professor
Robertson certainly owes the public an ex-
planation, Even with his reputation he can
not afford to allow sueh charges to go un-
answered. He is the servant of and is paid
by the whole people of Canada, and if he
has been guilty of such a deepicably mean
trick as that above described to build up
the interests of one portion of his constitu-
ency at the expense of the interests of an-
other, he is unfit for the position he occu-
pies, no metter what his mervices may have
been in the past ,or what his abilitiee render
him capable of in the future. Conduct such
as this, if proven againet him, wfil effectu-
ally destroy his influence and usefulnesse
It is to be hoped there is some mistake' or
misunderstanding some where, and that the
ease is not as stated by the Beacon. ThTese
who know Profeseor Robertann will be loath
to believe him capable of such conduct. At
any ratenhe matter must not be allowed to
rest where it is, and if it can not be clears
up in any other way it will furnish a -suit-
able subject for Parliamentary enquiry. In
the meantime Professor Robertson shoold
speak out and give hie version the affair.
The Christian Endeavor Society.
The Christian Endeavor Societe), which
held its annual Provincial convention st
London last week, is one of phonominal
growth and emcees. It has grown to great
proportions. It has spread witl surprieing
rapidity throughout Canada and the United
States. It has taken root in Great Britain
and has extended to the East. At the
present Rev. Mr. Clark, a native of Canada,
thee founder of the society, is on a tour
rouild the world. He is now in A.ustralia
and the succees attending hie efforts there
is as great as that achieved on this con-
tinent. Its rapid growth proves the need
that existed for such a society. It affords
scope for the proper development of youth-
ful talent and energy and instead of draw-
ing from regular church fellowship it is an
important auxiliary to church organizations,
ite one of its distinctive features is that it
pledges its members to fidelity to the con-
gregations to which they belong, and being
,
non.sectariang it encourages a friendly
and oordial relationship between the young
of all denominations. It, is an association
deserving of encouragement, and its rapid
growth must be gratifying to all who desire
the moral and spiritual well being of the
.young and rising generation. Membership
in it cannot fail to make of those who avail
themselves of its advantages, better men
and better women, who must have a bene-
ficial influence,both by example and precept,
upon all who come in contact with them.
The recent convention was the niost suc-
cessful yet held. There were 1,127 dele-
gates in attendance. Of these, 752 were
from outside the city of London. They
were divided, denominationally, as follows :
Preabyterian, 483 ; Methodist, 229 ; Bap-
tist, 113 ; Episcopal, 85 ; Congregational,
65 ; others making up the balancel, 4 The
election of officers for the year resulted as
Alf
follows : President, Mr. Thomas orri's,
la', Hamilton ; vice-presidents, Rev. panon
Richardson, London ;‘Mr. G. Tomer Fer-
guson, Toronto ; Rev. A. M. Philip , To-
ronto ; and Rev. A. F. McGregor, F relit ;
secretary, Ily. E. A. Hardy, Toron o (re-
elected) ; treasurer, Rev, H. W, arker,
Toronto ; superintendent of junior work,
Mr. C. J. Atkineon, Toronto ; edito Mies
Effie Carson, London (t•e•clected) ; coun-
cillort, Rev. J. It Dickson, Galt ; Rev. R,
J. Bovine, Hamifton, and Rev. G. E, Cob-
bledick, Dundalk. The next convention is
to Le held at St. Catharines.
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'TUERE is a world of treth in the following
short extract which we take from Grip and
it shows very clearly how a good deal of the
public business of this country is conducted.
It would be well for "the masses" to care-
fully ponder over the position and to act
accordingly. If we give undue power and
influence into the hands of any particular
class,it is only human nature for them to
use it to their own advantage. Grip says :
The question of whether the right to ap-
point Q. C.'s belongs to the Ontario or the
Dominion Governments is being fought out
in the courte, Hon. Dominick Blake having
charge of the interests of this Province.
Some other eminent and distinguished Q. C.
will oppose him representing the Dominion.
The case will, no doubt, in the end go to the
Privy Council, and before a final decision is
reached the lawyers will -reap a harvest in
fat fees. And abcut an empty title, usu-
ally conferred for partizan reasons, which
has long ceased to lave any significence.
Verily the professional classes of this coun-
try have a remarkably soft snap—thanks to
the ox -like endurance and stupidity of 019
masses.
THE ronto Telegram makes the follow-
ing refere es to the defeated and disgraced
ex-Premi r of Quebec. That what it says
is true,every reader of cerrent pol:tical his-
tory knows. " Mercier, with all his faults,
is as noble a figure as Sitj Hector Langevin
lurking in the House from which he should
have been expelled in disgrace, or Sir
"Adolphe Caron dodging the trial that
would paint him as black at the fallen Pre-
mier of Quebec." Our contemporary might
also have included Chapleau and Haggett,
and perhaps Dewdney, who has recently
been made Governor General of British Co-
lumbia. Had either one of these worthies
been subjected to a like ordeal with Mercier
they would not appear one jot whiter than
he does. Yet they are being honored, and
he is euined and disgraced.
MRS. HARRISON, wife of the President of
the United States, died at the White House,
Weshington, on Tueaday last. Mrs, Har-
rison has been ill for several weeks, and the
event was not unlooked for. Among the
telegrams. of condolence received by the
President was one from Queen Victoria, also
one from Mr. Cleveland, Mr. Harrison's op-
poneut for the Presidency. It is worthy of
note also that Mr. Cleveland, who was in-
vited to participate in the World's Fair
dedication festivities last week at Chicago,
declined to do so, because President Har-
rison, his rival, was detained at the death.'
bed of his wife; and he consequently re-
fused to take advantage of the splendid op-
portunity afforded to meet with and ad-
dress hundreds of thousands of his country-
men, rather than to evon appear to take an
undue advantage of his opponent in the
contest.
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Ax idea of how the public are fleeceditly
the numerous combines which have sprung
up in this country under the National
Policy may be judged from a statement that
recently appeared in the Toronto World,
which. is a sturdy Protectionist journal. As
our readers know, the various cotton mills
of this country are now under the control of
a large combine. This combine has been
formed within the past year, and it is get-
ting in its work in short order and good
ehepe. The World informs us, on informa-
tion supplied by a wholesaler, that shirting,
which is now sold at the factory at 10i
cents a yard, could one year.ago have been
bought for itt cents. Raw cotton cost then
cente per pound, now it oan be bought
for 7i cents. That ie an advance of 2 cents
a yard in the price of the manufactured ma.
terial, and cents lets f'ier the raw cotton.
This is only one satnple of what it costs the
°mummers of Canada to I support the oom-
t
bine!. Free Trade would smash these com-
bines in a week and wou d effect a saving of
millions of dollars to the people every year.
This money now goes int the pockets of the
cotton, sugar and oth r monopoly lords ;
under Free Trade it wo Id be left in the
pockets. of the people. !Which is best ?
THE MINING interests of Ontario are still
in their infancy, very much in their in-
fancy, and do not as yet amount to very
much. -The Ontario' Biireau of Mines, re-
cently established und r the Ontario Gov-
ernment and which is p esided over by Mr.
Archibald Blue, has is ued its first annual
report. It is a comp ehensive document
and contains a good d al of valuable infor-
mation. From it we learn that the total
value of mineral prod etion for the year
1891 waie$4,705,673. f thie amount build-
ing stone figures a $1,000,000, crude
petroleum $1,209,558, ommon brick $950,-
000, land nickel $270,0 . Iron mining, the
report states, was of a rospective character
only, thitotal quantit raised being about
200 tons.
S/R John Abbott an Hon. Mr. Foster
intend to combine business with reoreation
in the mother country, with the latter pre-
dominating.
So says an exohange. There will be just
enough business to enable them with a show
of decency to charge their travelling bills,
which will not be smd I, to the country.
THE DOMINION CAPITAL.
(By Our Special Correspondent.) -
Or wA, October 24th, 1892.
Things are moving apidly on Perliament
Hill and further che, ges may be expected
almost weekly from now till the House
meets, which it is announced will be about
the Imiddle of January. What a change
the Government will by that time present,
compared with the overnment of last ses-
gen ! The Prime 11 inister *ill have re.
tired, there will be new Minister of Jus-
tice, there is a ne Minister of the In-
terior, the Minieter f Customs announces
his retirement, ther will be a new Min-
.
ister of Agriculture, and probably a new
Poe master Generall as well as a new
leadPr in the Senate!, Mr. Chapleau told
the nomination mee ing in Hochelaga on
Friclit.y that Mr. Ou met would shortly be
the Isenior Minister from the district of
Montreal. As Mr. lhapleau at present is
the 4enior, that wo ld mean that he in-
tend to resign sh rtly, if Mr. Chapleau
meant what he "said. But does he? The
Mini ter of Custom is a rhetorician and
has worded this et tement in a peculiar
manner. He is a m n who says one thing
one day and anoth r the next. He is a
deep designer and h s mede this announce-
ment for some pur ose of his own. The
politician -8 are spec lating as to what he
is af•ter. " What's his little game ?" ask
the Conservatives, ho jibe the Montreal
hero of the flowin locks and flowery
tongue mueh more han the Liberals. It
is very doubtful if Mr. Chapleau's action
in Hochelaga is not intended to strengthen
his position in the, abinet rather than in-
dicate his retiremen . Sir John Thompson
intends to
BRING IN T THE CABINET
the present autocratic Lieutenant -Governor
of Quebec, Mr. Angers, and he would only
accept on conditiot that he was recog-
nized as the leader from the French
Province. Now, t at is Mr. Chapleau's
ambition, and it is thought by some that
he is only playing game of bluff in order
to get Sir John Thompson to ask him to re-
main, whereupon 6 could then make his
own cenditions, one f which would be that
he should be. the recognized leader from
Quebec. Again it 's a question whether he
oi Sir Adolphe Ca on shall succeed Mr.
Angers as Governo , and Mr. Chapleau is
capable of the deep design of appearing to
intend to take it i order to frighten Sir
Adolphe into taking it at once lest circum-
stances should drive him out of the Cabinet
a little later on wh n such a' coveted mor-
sel would not be itt the disposal of the
Prime Minister. u any event, no "one
places any reliance on Mr. Cha,pleau's an-
nouncements and I notice in Se,turday'a
.,
iesue of La Prone Mr. Chapleau's organ in
Montreal, a denial that Mr. Chapleau in -
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tends to resign. A man who uses peculiar
language to anno nce his coming retire-
ment and then gets hie newspaper to deny
it, is a schemer in t e first degree and one
suspecting as most o them do.
whom the Conserrtives are justified in
A POLICY 0 INTERFERENCE.
The Writ for the new election in Selkirk
is out and Mr. Dal , the new Minister of
the Interior, will ffer himself for re-elec-
tion on the 3rd of November, and, if he is
opposed (a very unlikely contingency) poll-
ing Will take place On the 10th, Thanksgiv-
ing Day. The fact !that during last session
Mr. Daly denounced the Manitoba. School
Act as unconstitutilonal and unjust to the
Roman Catholics, gives color to the belief
that hp has agreed Ito concur in some kind
of remedial measures in accordance with
the petition of the Bishops. The fact that
the Government int nds to do something in
this direction was noticed in this corree-
pondence some time ago and is confirmed
by a reference in Mi. Chapleau's Hochelsga
rt
speech when his 1 nguage was capable of
but one oonstructio , namely, that a policy
of interference ha been decided upon.
Thie means that tie Canadian people are
once' more to be plunged into a conflict of
race and religious rancour and bitter hos-
dt
tility. The Toron o Empire's declaration
that the Government must not interfere
with Manitoba, an its argument that they
°Mild not without violating the constitution,
shows the feeling among -the Government's
supporters in Ontario. Mr. Dalton Mc-
Carthy will have t9 arm once more for the
fight in defence of lhis favorite doctrine of
home rule for Manitoba and the Territories
in the matter of eduication.
A NEW DEll'UTY MINISTER.
Mr. Trudeau, Deputy Minister -of Railways
and Canals And Chi f Engineer of Canals, is
sheet to be supera mined. His place will
be taken by Mr. Collingwood Schrieber at
present Chief Engineer of Government It'ail-
ways and a new office will be created, that
of Assistant Chief Engineer of Government
Railways, the incumbent of which will man-
age the ,Intercblonial Railway. Mr.
Trudeau, whose Ube strikei everybody as
being so much like the late Sir John Mac-
Donald'e, has been in the public service for
thirty three years sInd is now 66 years old.
Speaking with him on Saturday evening he
told me that when he was regueeted to act
as Chief Engineer of canals in addition to
hie already heavy duties he said to Sir
John MacDonald, wiho was then Minister of
Railways and Canali, "Sir John, you should
not ask me to take so many responsibili-
ties", to which the veteran Chieftain with
his usual humor, replied, "That's all right,
Trudeau, you can't do anything wrong but
I hear of it within two hours." Mr. Schrei-
ber is only five years younger than Mr.
Trudeau and has been in the employ of the
Government since qonfederation. His sal-
ary will be $6,000. 1 Mr. Balderson, private
secretary to the Minister, is to be appointed
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Secretary of the Department in the place of
Mr. Bradley, who was dismissed for fraud
upon the treasury.
THE COPYRIGHT QUBSTION.
Sir John Thompson sent for thh officials of
the Canadian Copyright Association and
they were here on Saturday. He informed
them that the commission of three experts
appointed by the British Government had
reported that the Canadian Copyright Act
of 1889 was obnoxious to the 13erne Con-.
tention and against British policy and their
opinions had been transmitted in a despatch
recently received from the Marquis of
Ripon, the Colonial Secretary. The depu-
tation gave \Sir John reasons against the
views expreiteed by the experts and be
adopted them and will reply in a formal
despatch.
WILL WAIT FOR DOMINICK.
The appeal of the Dominion Government
to the Supreme Court to declare that the
Provinces have no power to pardon convicts
under Provincial etatutes, has been post-
poned until Hon. Edward Blake can find
time to argue the ease for Ontario.
News of the Week.
SPURGEON RECOVERING, —The Rev.James
Spurgeon has so far recoverid his health as
to be able to resume his pulpit at Croydon.
SNow IN NORTHERN ENGLAND.—The
North of England at present is having very
severe storms and heavy falls of snow.
ICE IN GERMANY. —In Central Germany
the rivers and canals are covered with ice.
CAPTAIN LAWLOR LOST. —Captain J. W.
Lawlor, who sailed from Boston in a 12 -foot
boat on a trans-Atlantio voyage, has been
given up by his friends as lost.
SUFFERING AMONG THE MEXICAN POOR. —
During the past four weeks 3,000,000
bushels of corn have been shipped into Mex-
ico, and still there is suffering among the
poor at the Mexican capital.
CONSOLIDATED. —The Colorado Coal and
Iron and the Colorado Fuel Companies have
been consolidated as the Colorado Fuel
and Coal Company. The capital stock is
$9,250,000.
THE GERMAN PRINCESS CHRISTENED. —
The infant daughter of Emperor William,
born last month, was christened on Satur-
day. Victoria Louise is the name given the
child. To mark the christening of. the in-
fant German Princess, 400 women, im-
prisoned for various offences, have been re-
leased.
THE DROUGHT IN ,filExico.—The cattle-
men in Southern New Mexico are moving off
the ranges, the long continued drought hav-
ing ruined the pasturage.
SALE OF A GREAT LIBRARY. —The great
library belonging to Count Apponyi, of
Huugary, will shortly be sold by auction.
This collection contains some of the rarest
book') extant.
A NOTORIOUS DESPARADO KILLED.—Jack
Walker, a notorious negro deperado, who
has escaped twice from prison by killing hie
keeper, has been killed by a posse after a
fierce encounter near Petersburg, Virginia.
SEVEN KILED AT A CELEBRATION. —During
a Columbus celebration at Los Angelee,
California last Friday night, a 6 -inch pipe
filled with, powder exploded prematurely,
killing 7 people and fatally injuring several
ethers,
I RECEIVED BY Rovovrv:—The Princess of
Wales and her daughters, on Friday last,
received Miss Kate Marsden, who is inter-
ested in a project to establish a leper hos-
in Eastern Siberia. The Queen has bum -
mooed Miss Menden to visit her at Bal-
moral,
DONATION TO THE AERONAUTIC SOCIETY.
—Emperor William recently donated 50,000
marks to the Berlin Aeronautic Society:
The society has decided upon devoting the
money to the construction of an immense
bsloon to make 50 trips annually for the
purpose of scientific observation.
THE CITY OF PARIS' QUICK TRIP. —The
log of the City of Paris, which arrived at
New York on October 19, shows the passage
from Queenstown to have been made in 5
days, 14 hours and 24 minutes. The dis-
tance traversed was 2,782 miles. The day's
runs were 148, 508, 503, 505, 530, and 288.
This beats the record for a westward pass-
age. The record up to this voyage was 5
days, 15 hours and 58 minutes, held by the
City of Paris.
CHILDREN' CELEBRATE. —One hundred and
eighty-five thousand children gathered in
the 287 public schools of New York on Oct.
2,0th to celebrate the 400th anniversary of
the discovery of America,
TERRIBLE TRAGEDY. —While the 20 -year
old son of Senator Bonachi, of Vienna, was
playing on a violin at a party, which had
been given to celebrate his success at some
examinations, he suddenly threw down the
instrument, and before any of the gueets
could divine his intention he drew a revol-
ver and shot himself dead. When the young
maa's father wae informed of his son's sui-
cide be appeared to be greatly shocked and
fell dead.
Huron Notes.
Mr. George McEwen, of the Hensall
flax mill, has disposed of and shipped over
8,000 bushels of flax during the past week.
—Mr. John McLaughlin has purchased
the Cassie property, consisting of a residence
and an acre of land, near the Methodist
parsonage in Fordwich.
—On Thursday evening of last week
James Driver had the end of the first finger
on his right hand taken off in a machine in
the flax mill in Brussels.
—The Lieutenant -Governor haa been
pleased to appoint Dr. Browning, of Exeter,
as associate Coroner for the County of
Huron.
—A.bout two o'clock Friday morning, 14th
inst.. the cooper shop of Mr. F. Elsie, Dash-
wood, was totally destroyed by fire,together
with his tools and a quantity of staves.
L -Annie Etta, eldest daughter of Mr.
Bishop Ward, of Brussels, passed away on
Thursday, 13th inst., at the age of 21 years.
Deceesed had been for the greater part of a
year ill with consumption.
—Chas. Bossenberry, of }Tamil, has a
pear tree in his orchard which is well adorn-
ed with blossom and buds. This is a very
unusual occurrencie, honsidering the tree
having been in blossom in the spriug.
—On Friday of last week Elwin Pentland,
of Dungannon, unfortunately was thrown
down on the sidewalk, which caused a frac-
ture in one of his thigh bones, and other
slight injuries.
—The other day while Dr. Worthington,
of Clinton, was alighting from his buggy,
his toe caught in the robe,and notwithstand-
ing all his efforts to. save himself, he was
thrown on his face.. A sprained foot was,
fortunately, all the injury sustained.
—Mrs, Robert Steitart, who resided
about a couple of miles east of Dungannon,
and who has been a terrible sufferer for a long
time from that dreaded disease cancer,
passed to her eternal reward on gaturday,
the 15th inst.
—The Goderieh Organ Company have let
the contracts for bricking up their factory
and putting in an electric light plant. The
contract for the brickwork has been given to
Jameson Reid, and the incandescent light-
ing to the Ball Company, of Toronto.
—Messrs. Hunter & :Henry, two enter-
prising young men from Brussels, have
bought out Darby Brothers' hardware and
tinsmithing business in Fordwicb. The new
firm are already in poiniession and are rspidi
ly making friends in the section.
—The other morning three girhi, Lucy
Webster, Lily McKay and Rosie LeBon, of
Brusseliewere proceeding to the Evaporating
Factory in that town, on the railroad track.
Either purposely or otherwise they were so
slow on -leaving the track as the morning
train we's coming in that the engineer, after
blowing the whistle, was compelled to put
on the air brake and reverse the engine to
save a terrible accident. Driver Handle
ton was as white as a ghost when he
got his train to the depot, as he felt certa,sine
his engine bad struck the MoKay, girl,
she was only a hair's breadth from being
caught.
—The insolvent Biseett stock in Exetteer
was disposed of on Monday of last week
Mr. John McDonell, of Hensall, for fifhtrye.
cents on the dollar. Having leased t
building from Mr. W. G. Biesett in Excite
Mr. MoDonell will conduct a hardware
business in the premises as heretofore. i.
—Mrs. Hodgins, one of the pioneer ree
dents of Crediton, passed to her eternal rhee-
ward on Friday night, 14th inst., at t
residence of her son Jamee. Deceased,whloe
was 88 years of age; has been in feeb
health for some time, She leaves a familry.
of grown up sons.
ilseeve Cranston, whose place is about tw
—On Saturday inorning, 15th inst., M ee
miles north of Dungannon was in a tre
pulling apples, and when about fourteen fehtehet
high, be missed his foothold and fell to t
ground, his head coining in contact wi
something that fractured his skull, causing
his death almost instantly.
street Methodist church, Exeter, on Sunday
—At the close of the service in the Maine
evening, 16th inst., the Verity family wer
presented with a complimentary addresst,
g
their departure from Exeter, and thankin
expressing the regret of the congregation se
pthart. for- their aid and able support in th
—What might have proved a sad accidengt
Inglie, on Sunday, 16th inst. While drivin
occurred at Huntingfield to Mr. Georgne
to chureh the tongue fell and the team, ra e
away upsetting the rig and throwing th
occupants out. There was a general shakinge
up and A few bruises, but fortunately n
one was seriously hurt.
—Mr.' Thomas Robertson, who residest
west of Manchester, in Colborne,has bou jgh
50 agree adjoining his own, from Mr. os..
Tewtley, paying therefor the sum of $1,700
It is without buildings, and has been bough:
at a very reasonable price. Mr. Robertsoie
has now a good farm of 150 acres, and he
one of the most indastrious farmers of the
locality.
, —Mr. William Warnock, of Goderich,.
has received from William Rennie, seedsh
man, the prize of $15 for the lergest squas
grown from seed purchased from that house,
last spring. The competition was,of coursel
very great, Rennie's seeds being grown al
over the Dominion, but Mr. Warnock eame
in firtt with 288 pounds, and tbe little
beauty twee shipped to Rennie at Toronto.
—Edward McNamara, of Leadbury, hale,
sold the " Taylor " farm li miles north o
Brussels, to Thomas lihoLauchlin, a well-
known resident of Grey township, for the
sum of $4,000. Mr.MoNamara paid $5,250
for the place less than three years Ago, but,
could not work it conveniently owing to the
distance from his other place at Leadbury.
Mr. MoLauchlin bas secured a good farm at
a low figure,
—Mrs. Robert Oxtoly, of Grey, who had
reached the good old age of 72 years and 6
months, was called home to the rest that
remains to the people of God on Monday of
last week. The deceased came to Grey long
years ago. Two sons, George and Fred,and
three daughters, Mrs. Murray, Palmerston ;
Mrs. II. Gill and Mrs. F. June, Michigan,
are the surviving cliildren.
—On Friday eveoingi 14th Wet., about 40
of the business and protessional men of God-
erich, met at the British Exchange hotel in
that town to express formally their re-
gard for Mr. George Drummond, the re-
tiring manager of the Bank of Montreal. A
most bountiful spread had been prepared by
Mr. Cox, the landlord, and an enjoyable
esevuegnein. g was spent in toasts, speeches and
—On Sunday morning, 16th inst., about
sixty members of the Ancient Order of
United Workmen of Luoknow, and Dun-
gannon marched in a body to the Presbyi
terian ohurch in Luoknow, where the Rev.
Angus McKay preached to them an able and
appropriate sermon. The Luckuow and
Dungannon lodges have large and constantly
ncreasing memberships. The turnout en
Sunday was a very fine one and a credit to
the order.
—A meeting of the Directors of the East
Huron Farmers' Institute. was held in the
American hotel, Brussels, on the 7th Wet.
The principal bueiness was to make arrange-
ments for the big meeting to be held about
he first - of January. -A triimber of local
mon were selected to give papers and ad-
resses together with Professionals fro m
Experimental farms, so that a large pro-
ramme of interesting topics bearing on the
arm may be looked for,
—On Monday evening of last week the
Exeter Brass Band serenaded Mr. Thomas
ke and presented him and his esteemed
wife with a beautiful upholstered rocking
hair. Mr. Oke has been an ever faithful
worker in the band, and to shew their ap-
reciation of his valuable seevices,presented
his token. After- he band played several
n a few able remarks, to which Mr. Oke
i\:n
eautiful selectiorit, 11 were invited inside,
when Mr. Bert Fake ' ade the preeentation
made a suitable reply. =
—Mr. Murdock Morrison, another of the
ld residents of Kinloss, passed amity on
aturday morning, October 15th, being 87
ears of age. He was born in the Isle of
kye in the year 1805, aud emigrated to
rince Edward Island in 1840. In 1853 he
ame to Ashfield and in the following year
oved to the 6th concession af Kinloss,
here he resided till hie. death. Four sons
nd three daughters are 'haft to mourn his
eparture. His father died . in Ashfield
boutetwenty-three years ago at the ripe old
ge of 105 years.
—Mr. George Hodgens, son- of Mrs. Hodg-
as, Clinton, who has been in Manitoba for
be summer, writes home as follows : "Now
hat harvest is over a great many have
hreshed and have lied good grain ; they
aye sold it at the highest price, and 50
onts is all that most- of them got. The
rope were cut this year before frost and
hat makes them all the better. Last year
he grain was partly frozen, and I know
ome who gOt ali high as 80 cents for some of
st season's grain. The crop of a party I
in acquainted with, only averaged about
3 or 14 bushel° to the acre this year, and to
ok at it before it was cut, you would think
was a very fair crop."
—One night recently Messrs. Philip Lang
nd John McLaughlin, of Exeter, ad a
easing rig, jumped against the side of the
vely experience. They were driv ng a
piriteci horse belonging to Mr. R. S. Lang,
hen the animal became frightened at a
ridge, throwing the occupants out. They
ere both badly bruised. The horse then
an away, and while ascending the Sauble
ill, ran against a horse driven by Mr. W.
. Perkins, of Usborneeoutting the horse so
adly that it had to be taken from the rig.
ang's horse continued to run and brought
self to a standstill at the station, none the
orse for its several encounters.
—Says the Lucknow Sentinel : The pottitd
ot is causiog great anxiety in Huron and
any parts of Bruce county. The ferment
sy the crop is the largest they have had for
ears,but in some instences the rot is so bad
hat they would not take the trouble to
ise them, but plowed them in. One &rut-
in TurnberrY had about four acres Under
op and a sheet time ago they were very
ne ii now they have taken the disease and
I are going. He would have had about
000 bushels. His lose will be in the neigh-
orhood of $800. In this locality the rot
as also affected the potatoes, but the - lass
ill not be so great as in some other parts of
e county.
—The worst accident which has occrirred
the Union furniture factory, Wingham,
nce it started, took place on Tuesday af-
rnoon of last week, when Mr. Lawrence
earen suffered the loss of four fingers on
e right hand. The story is easily told—
e buzz planer. The fingers were taken
Mien angle, going from the %lit joint of
e
the index finger to the knuckle of the little
finger. Much symptthy is felt for him in
hie misfortune, he having a wife, who was
away from home at the time of the accident,
and a family of little ones depending upon
him for support. The Union proprietors,
however, in recognition of his faithfulness
in the past, will continue his Wages as usual,
and when he is able to return will find some-
thing for him to do.'
—Magistrates' court was held in Industry
Hall, Myth, on Saturday, 15th inst., when
tho case of Kelly vs. Gougeon was up for
hearing. It appears that on the evening ,of
the llth, Joseph Gougeon was in the Queen's
hotel in that village of which John Kelly%
proprietor, and a 'dispute arose between
Kelly and Joe. The latter has been em-
ployed by W. H. McBride as baker, and it
is his custom to work at night. At about
ewo o'clock Wednesday morning,it is alleged
Gougeon went to the hotel -and with a club
or some like article, struck Kelly, who was
standing in 'the doorway, over the head,
flooring him, and then went back to his
work. Constable Davis arrested him forth-
with. The charge preferred by Kelly was
" intent to kill."I Considerable evidence
was given bearing on the assault but as far
as " intent to kill " was concerned nothing
was proven. However,the magistrates saw
fit to send Gougeon to Goderich for trial.
The British Wheat'Crop.
The Mark Lane Express of the 24th inst,
says that Sir John Lewes, the noted agri-
cultural authority, estimates the British
wheat harvest at 7,428,483 quarters, -one of
the lowest estimates ever published. The
price of English wheat is slightly in favor of
the seller in the provinces, but has ceaeed to
be so in London, owing to the fact that the
pressure of the chief foreign wheat and the
increased quantity in transit from both
North and South America have discouraged
holders and caused an increased readiness to
sell. The beat prices in London are 34s for
California, 34s 6d for Oregon, and 35s for
Duluth. The receipts of foreign wheat
since the harvest have been at a rate which
if continued for a year would exceed the
requirements by four and a half million
quarters.
The London Times says : In making our
final estimate of the harvest of the year
1892, we are brought face to face with a
most serious condition of affalv,at all events
with respect to the wheat crop. it Cannot
be said, however that the position is entire-
ly unexpected, because during the whole of
the smarten this cereal has been in a condi-
tion which promised nothing like an average.
June let the prospect was particularly bad,
for the °etiolates which were made for Great
Britain did not reach higher than 88,9 per
cent. and very little change took place dur-
ing that month. By the end of July there
bad been an improvement -to something like
3 per cent in the appearance of the wheat,
and some hope was indulged in that it
might, with favorable weather, approach
something near to, if not quite,- au average
crop. The condition of the plant, combined
with the weather, prevented this desired -for
consummation, and during the month of
August a great falling off was observable,
The deterioration continued during Septem-
ber, until on October lst it svas considered
that wheat was not more than 82.7 of an
average crop. This figure is very neerly 10
pee cent lower than the condition our re-
ports enabled us to arrive at on October ist
last year. How this great reduction will
affect the British farmer may be realized
when it is pointed out that it means a money
return for his wheat of about Z2,000,000
sterling lees than if the crop had been one of
average quantity, the value being calculated
at the low price which at present prevails
for this cereal. Last year there came from
different parts of the country some of the
most dunned reports it seemed possible to
reed, but this year there are similar com-
plaints of failures from almost eveiet quar-
ter. There are localities where wheat has
been wen grown and favorably harvested,
and a lew instances can be found where the
crop is spoken of as of excellent quality.
Nevertheless, no pleasing thoughts can be
indulged in about a crop which is nearly 18
per cent below an average.
The English Apple Market. '
The Montreal Trade Bulletin says: It is
only within the past two or three years that
Canadian shippers ventured to send fall o.p-
pies to the English market owing to their
. poor keeping grualities : but this year they
were forwarded in too large quantities, and
the result has been disaster, a number of
sales in Liverpool having shown a lose of
50 cents to $1 per barrel, while a good deal
of waetey fruit was rushed off at prices that
would not cover freight and charges* The
following report, dated Liverpool, October
8, will give some idea of the conditions of
things on the other aide : " During the past
week, supplies from this source have been
enormous, something like 13,000 berrels
having been offered, making a -total to date
of 16,419, whereas up to the same date last
year only 3,875 barrels had been. received.
In the face of these heavy arrivals, and
considering also that the general quality of
the fruit is very inferior, comparing, in fact,
but poorly with the plentiful supplies of
continental and home growths yet avail-
able, it is not surprising that the market
completely collapsed, the demand being very
dull indeed at the following rates • Culverts
7s 3c1 to 9s 6d, and Jennettings 7s to fis 9d
per barrel. The few Gravensteins and
Snows, which are practically the only
colored varieties, met a good demand, and
realized from 15s to 18s 6d per barrel, this
class as above noticed, being particularly
wanted."
Another Liverpool report says : " A large
proportion of arrivals have been from Can-
ada and consisted of early varieties, with
which description the market has already
been overetocked from America, and/not
being keeping quality they had to- be forced
off, resultipg that some very low prices had
to be accepted. There is no appreciable
improvement in the quality of Arrivals from I
other ports, and the market closed dull at a
declipe of le to 2s per barrel."
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Clinton.
NOTES.—The Mecha.nics' Institute library
is having added to it about 300 new volumes,
—The Rattenbury Street Methodist Church
will pay their pastor monthly hereafter.—
The several Sabbath Schools in town are
repiesented at the Provincial Sabbath
Sehool Convention, being held this week at
Guelph, by the following delegates : Mrs.
eked Rev. Mr. Smyth, Miss Shipley, Mrs.
Crich, thei Misses IVIcGarva, Helen Coate,
Mrs. GeiiSiw, allow, Mrs. and Rev, Mr. Shil-
ton and Mrs. Hodgene„—The congregation
of St. Paule' Church, having failed in their
efforts to secure- as pastor Rev. Mr. Hunt,
have left the selection of a pastor to the
Bishop.—An agitation is on fieot with the
view of inducing the town eoureil to pur-
chase four or five acres from Mr. Fair to be
added to the present chow grounds, and to
erect on the grounds a good half mile race
track. The council, however, seems slow
to move in that direction.—Mrs. 3. G.
Steep, of Goderich township, presented the
Editor of the News -Record with a quart of,
delicious full grown ra,sp-berries, freshly
picked from her garden. Feasting on Oc-
tober grown rasp -berries should make even
an Editor fat—Mr. W. G. Smith, of Ir -
win's grain elevator, happened with a very
unfortunate accident on Saturday inorningi
lie was alighting from a flat car to the
ground, after leisurely admiring some ma-
chinery and a stationery engine in the Grand
Trunk yard, enroute from Exeter to Brant -
ford. lit some way, while leaving the car,
or in striking the ground, his left leg just
above the ankle was broken.—The quarter-
ly meetinf of the Huron Medical Association
was held In the town hall, Clinton, on Oe
toiler 15th. There were present Dre
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