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Bissell's Standard—J. Fairley. (6)
Nixon Light Steel Binder—T. Brown. (5)
Grand Carnival—Duncan & Dnnean. (6)
Valuable Property For Sale—B. Thompson. (6)
Fruit Wanted—Wm. Morriss. (8)
Door Screens—D. S. Faust. (8)
New Goods—H. F. Edwards. (8)
Card of Thanks—Joseph Collie. (6)
Caledonians Attention—A. Dewar. (8)
$4,000 Farm For Sale—H. P. Wright. (5)
Tiles For Sale—John Sproat. (6)
Mandrake Blood Bitters—I. V. Fear. (5)
Garden Party—W. A. M. A. (8)
Farm For Sale—Michael Dorsey. (5)
Agents Wanted—May Brothers. (8)
Maitiandbank-Cemetery—Wm. M. Gray. (5)
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SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, June 20, 1890
One More for Mowat.
The re-ceunt in the Prince Edward
election case took place on Tuesday be-
fore Judge Merrill. E. F. B. JoLinson,
Q. C., and C. H. Widdifield, appeared
for Mr. Sprague. and Alcorn & Young
for Johnson. On the re-count fourteen
votes counted for Johnson were struck
off, and five votes counted for Sprague
were struck off, making a gain of nine
for Sprague, and giving him the seat by
eight of a majority. There has been a
great deal of uncertainty about the elec-
tion returns for Prince Edward county.
The first report gave a majority of 50 in
favor of Johnson, the Conservative can-
didate. This majority afterwards
dwindled down to a unit and Johnson
was declared elected by one of a major-
ity. A re-count was ordered with the
result as above stated, and the seat has
been secured by Mr. Sprague by eight
of a. majority,
eesesseemesimes
The Mercier Government
Sustained.
The general elections in the Province
of Quebec, which took place on Tuesday
last, have resulted in an overwhelming
victory for the Mercier Government.
In the late Parliament the Government's
majority wee only fifteen, while in the
new House the Government majority
will be from twenty-five to thirty.
.Among the slain is the Opposition lead-
er, Hon. L 0. Taillon, who has been
defeated by a large majority, and also
Attorney -General Turcotte, a member
of the Government, who was defeated by
a small majority. During the last ses-
sion of the Quebec Parliament •the new
franchise, which is equivalent to Mall^
hood suffrage in Ontario, was passed,
and this, consequently, was the first
election under the new law,the results of
which have been exceedingly favorable
to the Government.
The Duty of the Liberal Party.
Now that the Ontamio elections are
over, and the smoke of battle has cleared
away, and the principles of the Liberal
Party have again triumphed, it: behoves
the grand old party of progress and
liberalism to falter not, but to take up
the we.tchword, "Onward again to vic-
tory." The battle that has just been
fought and the victory won by the Lib-
eral Party has been one of no greater
importance in a party than in a provin-
cial sense, for we believe,what is for the
welfare of the one is likewise for, the
best interests of the other. It hap in-
deed been the proud boast of the Liberal
Party from the days of Lyon Mackenzie
down through the periods oi the Bald-
wins, the Browns, the Mackenzies, the
Blakes, and the Mowats, that the inter-
ests of their party and country were_
identical, and that the success , of the
one, and the trinenph of Liberal Party
principles, assured the wellbeing of the
other. This claim may be justly made
at the present time in behalf of Mr.
Mowat and the Liberal Party,in Provin-
cial matters. -
And now that the best interests of the
Province are securely lodged in safe
• hands, and its wellbeing assured for an-
other four years, a wider duty devolves
upon the Liberal Party than that limited
within Provincial boundaries. In one
or two years hence there id another great
party battle to be fought, and the time
for preparation is the present. All that
the triumph and success of the Liberal
Party and policy have meant for Ontario
in the past, and all that it assures to the
Province in the future, the triumph and
guccess of the Liberal Party in the ap-
proaching political struggle would mean
to the Dominion. The difference be-
tween prosperity and happiness on the
one hand, and depression and discon-
tent on the other, is the difference be-
tween the principles of Libeialism and
the principles of Toryism demonstrated
in political economy. This country
affords an ample illustration of that
truth. The Liberal Party were never
in better trim than at the present time,
and never had a better cause to battle
for. Stimulated by the splendid vic-
.t
tones they are winning in the provinces
they should fight with greater vigor the
_coming battle of the Dominion, and the
prestige of their provincial triumphs
will tell in their favor. The hopes that
were stimulated a few years ago by the
introduction of the N. P. as a financial
and economic panacea, and a sure way
to individual and national prosperity,
are fast giving way. The farmers and
working classes have lost faith in a sys-
tem which, after a trial of twelve years,
has made rnatters worse inatead of bet-
ter, and are now looking for deliverance
from heavy taxation, and the general
trade and financial depression that pre-
vails. That deliverance they will find,
we are persuaded, in the adoptii'm of the
policy of the Liberal Party. Restric-
tion and heavy taxation has had a fair
and ample trial, and the policy has
proved a costly failure. And now, it is
the bounden; duty of the _Liberal Party
to work from the vantage ground of
Provincial triumphs, and stop not till
class legislation and restrictionism are
overthrown, and a policy of Wider mar-
kets and a minimum taxation is adopted
in its stead. Unrestricted Reciprocity,
the greatest good to the greatest num-
ber, honesty and economy in the man-
agement and administration of publie
affairs, is a platform that should com-
mend itself to all intelligent men. That
is in spirit and essence the policy of the
Liberal Party, and with that policy they
should press on from the victory won
two weeks ago, to the victory to. be won
in a larger field a few months hence.
MINIM
The Future Outlook for Whe
We have been reading with much
terett a series of articles appearing
tile Country Gentleman, from the pen
Mr. C. W. Eiavis, of Kansas, on the f
ture outlook of wheata� a profita
product. Other journals in Ontar
among them the London Advertiser,
notice, have also been watching M
Davis' articles and studying' his conclu
ions. If Mr. Davis' conclusions are co
rect, and they seem plausible at
events, they certainly offer encourag
ment to the wheat producers of th
country, as well as those of the Unit
States. After a careful and exhausti
study of the question which he h
handled with surprising ability M
Davis arrives at the encouragieg co
elusion that the world's consumpti
has overteken the production, and wi
in the very near future, go beyond i
The era of low prices in the wheat ma
ket, according to Mr. Davis' view,
rapidly drawing to a close. In suppo
of this view he argues that the popul
tion of the, world is increasing at a mu
higher rate than is the increase in acr
age of wheat sown. If this be the fa
higher prices must, as a natural resul
follow. Mr. Davis does not, of cours
claim that wheat production has reac
ed its maximum limit. He takes in
account and gives due importance
the fact that the area of wheat produ
tion has vastly extend:ed during the pa
ten years, and is still `extending, in th
Canadian Northwest, in the Wester
States, in the Argentine Republic; an
in India. But, as before intimated, h
claims that the population of the worl
and the consumption of wheat is increa
ing at a much higher rate, and is ther
fore outstriding production. During th
last ten years the acreage of wheat sow
in North America and in India has no
increased over two per cent. while th
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But there is a phase to the questio
more than passing interest to us i
ntario. Whilst Mr. Davis haa bee
evoting his time and • great abilitlies t
e future of wheat, other Amlerica
ritere, equally able in their way, 1 hav
een engaged on the great problem o
crease of human souls. One writer
r. Andrew H. Green, confines' him
if more particularly to the! cit
New York, and he estimatei -a
O very lowest calculation, thatl fift
ears from now there ;will be a city o
O north of the Hudson, includin
rooklyn, of not less than 10,01;0,000
pis. When we contemplate the tre
endous consumption, of tilde a cit' an
ear in mind the fact that the State o
ew York does not at the present tim
early supply the demand of her, own
ntres of consumption, we mayi form
me idea of the value and importanc
y
of euch a market, close at hand, to the
farmers and producers of Ontario. If a
stronger argument in favor of better nd
freer trade relations with the repu
to the south of us is required than
yet been advanced, we have it he
but we need not rest our case on
possibilities of half a century hence;
physiological and economic truth is
ing demonstrated to -day that the nat
al sources of supply, to the gr
centres of consumption lying
the south and east of us,
the sections bordering on the gr
lakes, of which Ontario is the chief,
most -important. Take the estima
increase of population for the ne
twenty-five years when the city of N
yotie will have reached between, fo
and five hundred millions, and we c
calculate from the present tremendo
consumption of the City of Loodo
England, what a demand there must a
will be for the products of Canadian s
in that quarter. New York and Broo
lyn to -day, with their two millicais
les a of population, have a consumpti
equal to two-thirds the total producti
of the state. The remaining third do
not supply the demand in other centr
of consumption within the state. Wh
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and the great west also fills up with
human life. Mr.Davis' calculations with
regard to wheat may be verified, or at
least somewhere within the probabilities
fulfilment And the calculations whichfof
apply to wheat in such a case will apply
to every ether product oi the soil that
enters into human consumption.
Gambling on Steamships.
The following pertinent words from
the 'Christian Uuion, in regard to th
detestable, not to say foolish and wicked
habit of gambling practised on ocean
steamships, are worthy of notice. Some-
thing should be done by the proper
authorities to suppress the nuisance and
to awaken the commanders of vessels/
who apparently wink at the vices going
on under their very noses, to a sense of
their responsibility in this very import-
ant matter:
"Gambling on ocean steamships
comes up for reprobation every summer
as the outgoing crowds of pleasure seek-
ers send back the usual reports of the
disgraceful and uncontrolled nuisance.
But the companies do little or nothing to
abate it. It is true, as they say, that
they cannot absolutely forbid games. of
cards, nor inquire of the players what
wagers they may have. But public
gambling they might suppress if they
wished; they might put down the noisy
daily selling of pools on the ship's run ;
might expose quietly to the passengers
the reputation of the professional gamb-
lers who infest the smoking -room and
lie in -wait for callow victims. Why
they do not is explained by Captain
Charles W. Kennedy, late commander
of the " Germanic," in -a letter to
the "North American Review." Here
certainly is a witness who speaks from
wide experience and full knowledge of
the faots. He asserts that gambling is
"unquestionably openly allowed and
encouraged" in the smoking -rooms. And
he gives the reason in these words:
"Men who gamble, drink? and largely,
too. The profits derived from the sale
of wines and liquors during the trav-
eling—or, I may say, the gambling—sea-
son, are so great that it is nottto the in-
terest of the steamship companies to
abolish gambling or to interfere in any
way with the comfort and enjoyment of
a class of passengers who so materially
add to their income. So the officers
keep hands off while professional sharp-
ers, known to them as such, fleece some
passengers and annoy others, in order
that the coinpany may add to ttheir
purses the income from a profitable bar-
room. It will not be long before some
steamship company will see the advan-
tage to itself of assuring all its passen-
gers quiet, decency and comfort. As a
beginning, we suggest to such a com-
pany to furnish a special deck reading -
room for men, in which smoking, but
not card playing, drinking, pool -selling,
or loud talking should be permitted.
Then, if we must have also a floating
barroom on board, those whose tastes
that way incline will by natural selec-
tion herd there together, and other pass-
engers be relieved of their presence.
News of the Week.
RELEASED.—EX-Ald. Jelin O'Neil has
been released frOm Sing -Sing prison and
returned to New York.
NEW LAKE DISCOYERED. —The Alaska
exploring party are said to have die
covered a large lake in British territory
in the far north.'
OoT BY THE THOUSAND. —Thirteen
thousand dock laborers at Swansea are
on strike for higher wages and shipping
is at a standstill.
GOVERNOR STANLEY.—Mr. II. -M.
Stanley has accepted the governorship.
of the Congo Free State offered to him
by King Leopold'of Belgium.
IRISH NATIONALISTS. —Messrs. John
Dillon, William O'Brien, and John Red-
mond will shortly make a tour of Amer-
ica in the interestof the Irish National
movement.
AGAINST THE RAGE TRACK. —The
clergymen of Elizabeth, New Jersey,
made a grand and concerted effort Sun-
day night to protestagainst the Gover-
nor signing the race track bill.
TERRIFIC STORM. —A terrific storm in
the neighborhood of Binghampton, New
York State, on Thursday night last
week, did damage amounting to over
$80,000. Considerable live stock
perished.
STARVING INDIAN$.—The Indians on
the Cheyenne reservation in Dakota are
short of provisions and show signs of an
uprising. The settlers are uneasy.
FAILS]) IN BUSINESS.—GOO. P. Ladd,
a leading woollen manufacturer of Spen-
cer, Massachusetts, has assigned ; lia-
bilities, $70,900.
PRourec.—A census enumerator in
Richmond, Virginia, has found a colored
woman named Martha Gray who has
had 37 children since 1888. .
SMUGGLING CLOTHES. — American
tailors are protesting against the smug-
gling of English made clothes.
A Tittot Woman's CHOICE. — The
Archduchess Valeria has publicly re-
nounced all claim to the throne of
Austria in order that she might marry
the man of her choice, remarking that a
loving husbaod would make a true
Woman happier than a thousand
thrones.
DANGER or UNDERMINING.—Some
alarm is expressed in London at the
proposal to build an additional under-
ground railway which will run beneath
St. Paul's cathedral. Fears are enter-
tained that the foundation of the cathe-
dral may be undermined.
HIGH PRICED LECTURER. —It is stated
that Henry M. Stanley is to deliver
fifty lectures in the United States dur-
ing next fall and winter, and that he is
to receive £5,000 for lecturing in New
York, and £2,000 for those in other
cities.
TERRIFW EXPLOSION. —A powder ex-
plesion at Spandan, Germany, Monday,
was heard ten miles away. The shock
caused the collapse of another magazine,
in the ruins of. which 180 men were
buried, but all were safely rescued.
FATAL LIGHTNING STRIKES.—Over
20 persons were prostrated by lightning
at New Albany, Indiana, last Friday.
The barn of Wm. Turner was burned by
'lightning. Turner and his horses and
cattle perished in the flames.
OCEA.N GREYHOUNDS.—The White
Star steamer Doric, trading between
London and New Zealand, claims it has
made the fastest trip around the world.
The total time the -Doric steamed was
77 days, 6 hours and 50 minutes. The
distance was 28,000 miles. The engines
worked _continuously. The steamer
Columbia made the voyage from South-
ampton to New York in 6 days and 16
hours. Southampton is about a day's
longer sail than Queenstown.
A DANGEROUS Exemosrem.—An ex-
plosion of five tons of nitro-glycerine
occurred at Findlay, Ohio, on Saturday
morning, excavated a hole in the ground
large enough to bury a four -storey
house;and reduced the factory to match -
wood.
A COLORED STUDLNT'S SUCCESS.—At
the commencement exercises of the
Union College of Law Chicago, held the
other day, the member of the graduat-
ing class having the highest scholarship
and who delivered the valedictory was
Franklin A. Dennison, colored, of
Texas.
PROMINENT .METHODIST DEAD. --Jos-
eph Hillman, a prominent Methodist
layman, died on Saturday last at Troy,
New York. He organized tbe Round
Lake Camp Meeting Association, and
was the author of "The Revivalist," a
singing book, of which 150,000 copies
were published.
ATE TWENTY-SIX HARD BOILED EGGS
AND DIED. —Homer E. Newton, a farm-
er, died Saturday night at 'West Rich-
field, Ohio. Three weeks ago, on a
wager with a friend, he ate 26 hard
boiled eggs at a meal. Medical aid was
unavailing. He lingered in terrible
pain for three weeks without food. He
was known throughout Erie county as a
breeder and importer of cattle, and
leaves a large estate.
Huron Notes.
The Goderich Turf Association will
hold races in that town on the first of
July.
—Mr. Fred W. Johnston, Q. C., of
Goderich, has been appointed junior
county judge of the District of Algoma.
—Mrs. Reed, widow of the late Harry
Reed, an old-time resident of Goderich,
after a long illness died last week, aged
71 years.
—Mr. Jas. Angus, a former business
man of Clinton, died in Hanover one
day lately from the effects of a fever
contracted in California.
—Mr. D. Cantelon, of Clinton, and
Messrs. Jas. Armstrong and Thos.
Johnston, of Varna, left Clinton for the
west on Friday of _last week.
—The annual excursion of the em-
ployees of theKarnOrganCompany, Wood-
stock, will take place to Goderich on
Saturday, June 21st.
—Mr. Thos. Moore, of Pennsylvania,
formerly of Blyth, and son of Mr. Jas.
Moore, Blyth, met with a [serious acci-
dent on Saturday morning of last week
by falling from a derrick scaffold.
—The Goderich town council has
authorized the Mayor to communicate
with the Government about having a
fountain:erected and stone (flags put
down at the new post office in that
town
—The Boot and Shoe and Grocery
stock of Adam Good, Brussels, was sold
at Toronto on Tuesday of last week..
Miss A. Vanstone was the purchaser at
55 cents on the dollar. The stock
amounts to over $4,000.
—On Saturday evening 6th lost. a
frame house belonging to Mr. F. Ander-
son, Usborne, was burned down.* There
was no insurance on he building, but
the. loss is small. It ie supposed to be
the work of an incendiary.
—Robert Howard, jr., and James
Emigh, of Blyth, left that place on
Wednesday of last week to seek their,
fortunes in the Worth West Territory,
Calgary being their destination at pre-
sent.
—Miss Bell - and Miss Jamieson, of
Londesboro, left Clinton for Denver the
other day. _Miss Bell will go through
to California, but Miss Jamieson will
stay with her brothers who have a sum-
mer resort near Denver.
—Mr. John Walters, of Saltford, lost
a valuable mare one day last week. Two
days previous to her death he was
offered $215 for her. This is the second
loss of this kind for Mr. Walters inside
of a year. _
—The other day while Mrs. T. J.
Watt, of Bluevale, was standing on a
platform cleaning some windows she
made a miastep, and falling backwards
sprained her back. Under the care of a
doctor, however, she is in a fair way to
recovery. .,
—Geo. Forrest, of Grey, has a cat
which has become very much interested
in a brood of chickens. On one occasion
pussy carried several of the little chicks
to another part of the stable, and was
there caring for thetenderly. It now
m
carri s food and puts it down for them
to eat.
—Mr. E. F. Gerster, jeweller; of
Wingham, left that town on Tuesday to
fill a. lucrative position in Winnipeg.
On Saturday evening he was presented
with a gold -headed cane by some of his
friends, and on Monday evening he was
given a supper and presented with a
meerchaunapipe by the town band.
—About 3 o'clock Friday morning,
June 6th, the inmates of the house of
Mr. Tomlinson, London road, Stanley,
were wakened by the roar of fire, and it
was found that the inside of the kitshen
was all in flames, but by the quick ap-
plication of water it was put out before
it had reached the main part of the
house.
—Rev. J. H. Moorhouse sent in his
resignation as rector of St. Paul's
Church, Wingham, last week, and it is
learned that at the last vestry, meeting
of that church it was accepted. The
reverend gentleman will remove to
Ingersoll about the beginning of July.
It is not yet known who will be suc-
cessor to Mr. Moorhouse.
—On Tuesday evening of last week a
bear was seen at Mr. Kelly's pump in
Holmesville, supposed to have come out
of Ford's bush. It crossed the railroad
and went into W. Stanley's field just
next to the parsonage, where, after
scaring the cattle and horses and resting
for a few minutes, it re -crossed the
track and was lost in the bush again.
—One day last week while Mr. Jas.
Heale was engaged in kalsomining at
the residence of Mr. Joseph Williams in
Goderich, he fell from a scaffolding
erected near a stairway, and for a time.
was insensible, his injuries requiring
medical attendance. He was very
severely cut about the face, some of the
wounds requiring to be stitched.
—On the night of June 6th Robert
Scott, 15th concession of Grey, had a
sheep killed by dogs in his barnyard,
and on the night of June 9th Alexander
Stewart, 16th concession, had six lambs
killed outright and six others badly in-
jured not twenty rods from his dwel-
ling. The dogs are not known, but the
supposition is that the sheep and Iambs
were killed by the same dog or dogs.
JUNE 20, 1890.
This is a warning to farmers to have
their sheep and lambs enclosed at night,
and for dog owners to keep their doge in
at nights.
—A young man named John Howard,
formerly of Gorrie, was drowned by the
capsizing of a boat at Keewatin, Mani-
toba, on Monday of last week. Howard
with three other young men were out
sailing. When going through a narrow
channel they went to near the falls and
the boat filled with water and upset,and
Howard being unable to swim was
drowned. _
—Mr. Jas. Bailie,late of Detroit, died
at his father's residence on the 4th line of
Morris, on Thursday- morning 5th inst.
Deceased was about 28 years of age.
For some months he had been suffering
from consumption, and finding that his
end was near, he, a few weeks ago, came
home, his desire being to die and be
buried among the scenes of his boyhood.
He leaves a wife and two small children
to mourn their untimely loss.
—Mr. Peter Green, an aged pioneer,
88 years of age, walked to Dungannon
on election day, a distance of three
miles and recorded his vbte in the inter-
est of Reform. He believes the early
bird catches the worm, and if some of
the younger men had voted early as he
did they would not have to regret an
unpolled vote. Quite a number were
caught in the hailstorm. and failed to
get to the -poll in time.
—A certain gentleman in Goderich
answered a puzzle advertisemeot in a
Montreal newspaper recently. The
prize for a correct answer was to be a
silk hat. His answer appeared to be
correct, for in due time a hat arrived—a
silk hat too—but it was an old timer
and looked as if it had been worn in an
Orange procession in his grandfather's
time. The recipient is in a quandary,
and will neither wear nor sell the hat.
—A young man by the name of Alex-
ander Campbell, in the:employ of Mr.
Edward Turner, of Tuckersmith, met
with an accident last week that will lay
him up for some time. He and another
young man were sawing off stumps
close " to the ground, when the saw
pinched, and in trying to loosen it the
-saw struck Campbell on the knee, in-
flicting a wound which let the joint oil
out. A doctor was -at once summoned,
and under good treatment he is doing se
well as could be expected.
New York Letter.
TEARING UP NUISANCE—HYDROPHOBIA—
AN IMMENSE RAFT.
NBW YORE, June 16th, 1890.
Public attention has again been rudely
called to the dangerous tearing up of
streets by the explosion and miniature
volcano which raged for nearly a day at
the corner of Broadway and Fulton
streets last week. No one seems to
know who is to blame for this last out-
break, as each of the various companies
which virtually own the streets has a
different story. 'The gas companies
blame the steam company, the steam
company blames the electric companies
and the electric companies try to shift
the responsibility to some one else. Be-
tween them all the general public has to
suffer almost intolerable annoyance, and
run the risk of being blown to atoms be-
sides. A person living outside of New
York has no idea of the nuisance caused
by this everlaating tearing up of the
streets. Injunctions come and injunc-
tions go, bet the tearing -up goes on
forever. The only wonder is that there
is not an explosion every day in the
week. There is hardly a foot of our
main streets but that is occupied by
some kind of a pipe or wire. We have
steam pipes, gas pipes, water pipes,
pneumatic tubes and electric subways.
all the time something is getting out of
order. It is positively disgraceful that
New York has not a proper underground
system commensurate with its needs.
THE PASTEUR INSTITUTE.
One of the chief centres of interest
during these days is the Pasteur Insti-
tute, in West Tenth street. The Insti-
tute is a sort of hospital for the tteat-
ment of hydrophobia, and is managed
by Dr. Gibier, a former associate of the
famous Professor Pasteur, of Paris.
More than forty cases have been treated
there since its establishment a few
montha ago, and scarcely a day passes
without the reception of some new pa-
tient to be innoculated with the life-saving
virus. They come from far and near,
•and depart with no fear of becoming
victims of the dread disease. It is sug-
gested that the city build a hospital and
school for the Pasteur method,worthy of
the name. If Dr. Gibier proves the
method to be successful something of
the kind should certainly be done: Sev-
eral patients were received the past
week, among whorri was a lady who was
bitten by Ta mad cat. All are doing
well.
TIE BIGGEST TYING AFLOAT.
Another big raft of timber is being
built in St. Johns, New Brunswick, and
will be towed to this city. This raft
will be largex than the " Jogging " raft,
which was brought to this city a couple
of years ago, and will contain 400,000
more feet of timber. It will be made of
seventeen cigar -shaped sections, each 100
feet long, 35 feet wide and 25 feet deep,
bound together with chains. If the
logs were put end to end, one foot wide
and one foot thick, they would reach
300 miles. The raft is owned by James
D. Leary, the owner of the Jogging "
raft, and will be towed to this city by
two tugs.
EDWARD ARLINGTON.
imminsimminnim
Another Voice on the Turnip
Question.
MR. EDITOR.—The discussion of the
turnip question atarted by Mr. Michie has
grown to be very interesting and instruc-
tive. Mr. Fell in his letter of June 6th,
makes out a good case for the much
abused turnip, he thinks that turnips
are no more exhaustive to the land than
fall wheat. In this I disagree with him,
as I have noticed that one crop of tur•
nips exhausts the fertility of the land
more thane. crop of peas and a crop of
wheat. Give two pieces of land an
equal dressing of manure and after the
two crop -peas and fall wheat, I will
warrant the land will be in better con-
dition than the other after the turnips
alone. If Mr. Fell has not noticed the
difference it must be that his kind is
better adapted to turnips than wheat
The argument that a crop of turnips
cleans the laod of weeds, carries no
weight, for it is the work and not the
turnips. If as muck labor was put on
other parts of the farm in ploughing,
harrowing and cutting, the whole would
be equally as clean;however, with Mr.Fell
I do not think it would be good policy to
rule out the turnip altogether. Modera-
tion in turnip growing is as advisable as
temperance in other things. For milch
_cows in spring they are very beneficial,
in fact, I know of nothing so good, and
for young hogs in winter, pulped turnips
with a little meal make excellent food.
Every one will agree that turnips are
good when once we get them, but does
it pay to grow them? Mr. Fell proposes
the organizing of a society to meet and
discuss subjects pertaining to farmwork,
this I hope will be carried into effect and
would suggest that it not merely con-
fine itself to agricultural subjects, but
take up political subjects, that farmers
are interested in. Our system of taxa-
tion needs to be remedelled and the
workings of combinations tend mono-
polies ought to be looked into. We must
be educated in politics as well as agri-
culture, else our ploughing and reaping
will be in vain, we are too much divided
and a aociety of this kind will tend to
unite us more closely, a result that will
not only bring us prosperity but respect.
Hoping that this suggestion will find
favor with Mr. Fell and others interest-
ed in the farmers' welfare and thanking
you, Mr. Editor,for the space you have
given me, I am Yours Sincerely,
• G. B. WRAY.
BYLOSAVE, June I8th.
County Court._
The following is a summary of cases
tried at the county court at Goderich
last week. -His Honor Judge Toms pre-
siding.
TUESDAY, 10th June.
WALLACE V. DAN cEY. —Mr. J. M.
Best, counsel for plaintiff, asked for a
postponement of trial on account of the
illness of plaintiff. Mr. R. S. Hays con-
tra. Trial adjourned to the December
sittings of the court. Costs of day re-
served until after the trial.
QIITTEN V. BATEMAN. — Action for
goods sold and delivered by plaintiff to
defendant. After examining a number
of witnesses the court adjourned at
6:25 o'clock p. m. to 9:30 o'clock a. m.
Mr. R. H. Collins, counsel for plaintiff;
Mr. J. Folinsbee, counsel for defendant.
WsmoisDAY, llth June.
CUTTEN V. BATEMAN. — Continued.
Jury retired at 11 o'clock a. m. and re-
turned at 11:30 o'clock with a verdict
for plaintiff—damages, $157.60. . Mr.
Collins moved for judgment on- the
verdict of the jury. His Honor direct-
ed judgment to be entered for the
plaintiff for $157.60 with costs of suit.
YOUNli v. DEAN.—Action for wages;
non -jury cause. Mr. Collins, for plain-
tiff, moved to postpone trial. Mr. Gar -
row, Q. C., contra. Trial adjourned un-
til the October sittings of the court.
Costs of day to be paid by plaintiff in
three weeks after the taxation thereof.
CRIMINAL DOCKET.
James Wilson, previously found guilty
of horse -stealing, was sentenced by
Judge Tema to one year in the Central
Prison.
George Patterson, an Eginondville
butcher, charged with stealing a cow
from one John Aikens, of the township
of Logan, Perth county, on the 4th inst.,
was arraigned Thursday morning. It is
alleged that Patterson brought the ani-
mal to Egmondville, where be killed it;
he was followed by Aikens to Egmoncl-
vine and arrested and brought before
John Beattie, J. P., Seaforth, who com-
mitted him to Goderich goal to await his
trial. Prisoner pleaded not guilty, and
was remanded until Tuesday 17th inst.
William Haywood, of Renal/all, a boy,
charged with the theft of money and
other property from Robert Moore, of
Zurich, was arraigned on the 9th inst.
He pleaded guilty, and was remanded
till the 12th, when he was further re-
manded till the 17th for sentence.
PRESENTMENT.
The Jurors for our Lady the Queen
beg leave to present that they have ex-
amined the jail and find that the jail is
kept cleanly and in good condition, but
would recommend that the ventilation
be well attended to.
We beg to state that we find 11
persons confined in the jail, and would
consider some of them better fitted for a
poorhouse than to be living in a jail,
and we would recommend that some
effort be taken to secure a poorhouse in
this county. We feel gratified that the
criminal calendar in this county la so
light, as it is, and would hope that the
temperance and good morals of this
county may continue to increaae.
We would also express our gratitude
to the County Crown Attorney, Mr.
Lewis, for his assistance in our labors.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
Joint- RonanTscar, Foreman.
Gode1r8ich, Grand Jury Room, June 11th,
9o.
Christian Endeavor Society.
THE INTERNATIONAL coerveumnose AT
ST. LOUIS.
We give herewith some special cor-
respondence to the Montreal Witness
from the Convention at St. Louis:
St. Louis, Missouri, June 13.—Your
correspondent arrived here at 8 a. m.,
yesterday after a very pleasant trip,
though a long one, from Montreal.
After arriving in Toronto we joined the
Ontario delegation and went in a speoial
car from there to St. Louis'everybody
helping to make things comfortable and
happy. Twelve thousand delegates
have registered so far, so you can im-
agine the crowds that are about. The
St. Louis exposition building has been
secured for the Convention. It occupies
a space two blocks look by one block
wide, extending from Olive street to St.
Charles street, and from 13th to 14th
streets. About 9,000,000 bricks and
600 tons of iron were used in its con-
struction and coat 000. It is light-
ed by 3,0pm
00 incandescent lights. The
Grand Music Hall, in which the sessions
of the convention are held, is situated in
the centre of this vast building, the hall
itself being surrounded on all sides by
corridors and naves from 40 to 60 feet
wide. The corridors provide accommo-
dation for conversation, etc. The
weather is very hot here, and we Can-
adians are nearly wilted with the heat,
although the building is supplied with a
large air shaft 14 feet in diameter, and
extending from the basement to 20 feet
above the roof of the building. The
hall is supplied with 4,000 open chairs
and fifteen hundred chairs are placed on
the stage.
There is another hall in the building,
called the Entertainment Hall, which
seats 1,500.
In the front of the building is a corri-
dor 330 feet long by 40 feet wide, and
off this corridor are the committee rooms,
ladies and gentlemen's parlors and cor-
reapondence rooms, press room, post
office, cloak and parcel room, telegraph
office, etc., so you can see we are pee.
vided with all the necessary aoc0mme.
datien for comfort.
THN PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS.
Dr. Clark gave his presidential ad.
dress last evening, and some of the fig..
ures are startling. The numbered sock.
ties on June lot were 11,013 agate*
7,672 in July last, a gain of 3,341 in
eleven months. Of this number there
are about400 in Canada. The member-
ship is 660,000, a gain of 185,000 tie
eleven months. This increase is greater
than that of the society for the first
seven years of its existence; 70,000
have joined the church during the year.
In 1886 Dr. Twitchell prophesied at the
Saratoga Convention, that in five year.
the Society would number half a ran.
lion, and in ten years one million. This
prophecy, which seemed to be too good
to be.true, has been more than realized
so far, as in less than four and a half
years the half million has been passed
by 160,000.
TORONTO
has gotten up a big petition to the trus-
tees to have the Convention held
Canada in 1892, and are getting every-
body they can to sign it, and our COI-
tingent are in hearty accord with them.
The petition was presented this after-
noon to the trustees asking that the
Contention be held in Canada in 1892,
This was one of the four similar invi-
tations, but the trustees all spite very
highly and kindly of Canada. Your
correspondent had made a point of per.
sonally interviewing several of thtig
prior to their meeting._ I saW Bfts
Clarke, the president; Dr. Barrows,
of Chicago ; Dr. Hill, of Massachusetts ;
Dr. Leach, of 'Albany, and others, and
got their promise to do all they can to
secure the Convention for Canada in
2.
that the Convention would be held at
MINNEAPOLIS FOR 1891.
trustees decided this afternoon
M n eapol iswantsn189l.
CanadaIf
the Convention ia
1892 she will have to work hard for it,
as New York City is in the field and
they will make a hard fight for it.
At 6.30 a. in. prayer meeting there
were 1,400 to 1,500 present'th the small
hall, and 500 to 600in another hall, and
over 200 testimonies were counted in
thirty minutes. In the report from
States to the convention this morning,
your correspondent spoke for Quebec
and was well received, the report evok-
ing great applause.
The lew secretary, Mr. J. W. Bauer,
has p mised, if possible, to come to our
annu-i. Convention in December. We
hope to return full of good things to re-
port to the next quarterly meeting of
tbe Montreal Union. C.
imeassems
Port Albert.
JOTTINGS.—Mrs. Murray formerly of
this place now living in Melbourne visit-
ed her friends here this week, she WU
accompanied by her cousin MTS. Faulds.
--Miss Meta Irwine,of Ripley,is visiting
her aunt Mrs. George Irwine.—A great
many of our people attended the school
pic-nic which was held at Point
Farm. on Friday last, All report
good time.—Mr. and Mrs. Archie Mc-
Bride returned to Detroit on Monday.—
Albert Mahaffy is visiting his brother in
Kincardine.—Lots of good fishing is
going on at the harbor. One gentleman
last Monday caught five dozen herring,
and he was not all day at it either.
Grey.
NEWS ITEMS.—flugh Stewart, of the
16th concession, is splitting his barn to
make more room for grain, etc.—C.
Querengesser, of the 16th concession/
now has a grinder in his mill, and farm-
ers find it very convenient, as they have
not so far to go now to get their grain
chopped into feed.—Road work is de-
layed in some beats, owing to so much
rain having fallen. It began in James
Cusic's beat on the 16th concession on
Thursday. C. Bowerman, teacher of
School Section No. 8, will put in his
first day at it on Saturday, 21st inst.,
and his second on the Saturday follow-
ing. When Jim gets the reins of power
in his hands, teachers have to shoulder
the shovel and march to the gravel pit
to work for their Queen, like other loy-
al -subjects. — Another permanent resi-
dent has come to the 16th. May you
have many more such gifts from yonr
good lady, Angus. What is a home
without them, anyway ?—Alex. Barron
moved his barn on Friday of last week,
and is intending to put a stone founda-
tion beneath it, and James Cuthill, has
very much improved the appearance of
his new residence by a few coats of
white paint. The 18th is keeping abreast
of the times with a degree of speed a
little in advance of the average.--Onao-
count of the wet weather many fields of
grain on low-lying lands are being
spoiled. The importance of thorough
drainage is becoming more and more
forcibly impressed on the minds of the
rural citizens. In Blum township many
farmers have not put in half the acreage
of crops they intended to as the land
was not fit and it is now too late.—Mr.
and Mrs. John Douglas, of Woodstock,
were visiting at George Forest's last
week.—Mrs. Robert Scott, of Preston,
is visiting relatives and old acquaint-
ances on the 14th and 16th concessions.
Clinton.
REPRESENTATITR ORANORMEN MEET.
—The South Huron semi-annual meeting
was held in Clinton on Saturday. There
was a very large attendance. The
Worthy County Master, Bro. Todd,
occupied the chair, and Past County
Master, Bro. John Scarlett, the deputy.
A committee of county members was ap-
pointed to meet in Clinton on Saturday
next at two o'clock, to co-operate and
act in conjunction with the local com-
mittee in completing programme for the
12th of July. Worthy Bro. John
Scarlett was appointed Chief Marshal
for the day. A telegram was received
from South Perth, stating they would
join South Huron in Clinton, fon the
12th; a message was received from Elgin
to the same effect; West Bruce will
turn out to a man ; North Huron will
do its duty. An immense gathering it
now assured. The programme 18
immense and cannot fail to be satisfac-
tory to everybody. The committee and
the citizens of Clinton are ulive to the
importance of the event, and Saturday's
meeting indicates that the arrangements
already made will be brought to a
successful issue, _The County Master
was authorized to attend the Most
Worthy Grand Orange Lodge meeting
at St. John's, New Brunswick, August
19th. The lodge closed about 5 o'clock,
all resolved to make Clinton head*
quarters on the 12th of July.
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