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Home My WebLink AboutThe Huron Expositor, 1890-11-28, Page 1- I — - , - '*� - - , � F- -- - - I � I �, , -7 - - I - . I - - -- - -W - I � - � I . i - N------7! % t , . � V- . . I . . I � . I �- . I , - - — � -- 1-----1 I �,t�te � - — � �x -7 - � - 7, `- - -.,T-.! :.��-� -� F I . - I I I I I , I I - . I I . � F - . � . I � . . . - I - . . � 1. I I . . � � � � Vow ; * 1. - � - . - , I -- 4 i 4 -, � I I I . i I � I I - ?w , � � � . . . t I - � -it � , f � - I . : � I i � - I , I ; t I -1 � % / ( �Ih � � .1 = N. � - . 0 � . 4 . I I � 1; I .1 - . - TWIRXTY�-THIRD YEA R. �, I - �,��. ?-: I . wp-oLE NUMBER 1,1,9s. � I . : � — I — I I I :1 h I � NOVERMWE B E Rs'� I . . . I � I . � . I : . I FINE ASSORTMENT � I . f G. —OF— . � # I'� 111ILLINERY, � k � I �h i, MANTLES7 - � � . i I 7 . DRESSES9 � � i o , SHAWLS -1 - I � : ) - . i ; , � WOOL GOODS9, � � Z , I .1� t � . UNDERWEAR . . . . I � � . I " � i And Well Made Clothing for Men I 0 . � -1 and Boys, ,%t I . I . - I I ; I . 7 � I Ed ward . M'Fa u I's I I I � � I . I I 11 z Dvs. � . N , I I SEAFORTH. , . . : � - . - I - I - � - �— . � ----. ----. -- ------ — ly . 1, . . : ; HURON SALT MEN. . . C - . - I - I .1 : . s . I ANDWHAT THEY TIUSK OF RECIPROCITY. � � i . � I � � , 4 . I. (By The Globe's Inierviewer. . � I ) � ; - . , - . I One of the largest single pin salt - 1. works in Ontario is o ' Wned by Mr. Jos- , I . eph Kidd, of Goderich. His father, the � � lata JoeephKidd, was owner of one. ? �0�- � � , I � �w i7 fourth of all the salt h2terest in Canada , §-� at one time. The late Joseph Kidd, it . :e, "I I V.�. r� I will be remembered, ran for Parliament � ! I . �ty �-� for South Perth in the Conservative in � 18 ; - ' . � t -ut Joseph Kidd with I I tereat. The prese � � - .th 4 whom The Globe's, correspondent talked I , 11� I � . � about the Eralt industry and the tariff is I i � , � . I � a Conservative in politics. But he has ; I . . I � � been convinced that 'reciprocity would I I � ; - i,;t.- - 17 he to the advantage ,not only of the . f � : ;� '09, . . farmer but of the salt manufacturer. . I �-� 1e J, I' At the present time," he saidp "' the 1� . ge - situation with the salt indubtry ig more , * � Li, �m -1 1. � - r many years. Bat I T.; . ., er I.. I ,� z it is so precarious that I do not look for .. . C, . mf the e . I I a continuance � � - . I at, : � rangement. The association or I com- ag I bine' which we have formed in getting, 83 i - � us good prices. And our high prices . ; � � Of - � I seem higher still when compared with � , � is 4 � � the price& over in the' United States, . 9. � -- , iE where hot competition has carried salt V 1 - lid - & down to, 65 cents a barrel as compared ' :r. I- - kt with an average, of 98 cents. go you � r. !-- will see as things are now with us the - - I I a,- . 1, 1 4 - ,Ralt m- en would not welcome reciprocity. k . I 1. Bh,t if it were not for our combine our ,-e �,, prices would b,e aa low am 55 cents. Salt r, 1 here would drop to 55 cents in 24 bour;� r -Ir 1i if the combine were braken, and there 9- J Is such a strain on it that it is almost � T-1 - - of 3, , � certain to be broken on the 31st De- .., . ly ,4-� cember, when there oome6 to be made a, ... - t m 1 ,�� y -- new allotment. Ther allotments now In 1� ,h - force are unfair to many of the works i ��, ;� :)f ,�.� and unduly favorable to others. For � ie ,,; instance, a salt block Is so situated that . r I - from its advantageous position and rail - le � I . I . La ,� - way discrimination Its, salt can be sold � !I- . - 'nother. 'It I I- at ten cents more profit than a � r : is a small block, but the owner tells the � I I � � combine that unless he gets an 'allot- . . I 0 I : raeut of 30 000 barrels a year, may, he . will not ��me in. The allotments of I � ,Q . I . I t other worker must be cut down to meet .R is these demands until a block twice the � �% ain of the blocks that demands the , : I . % -- 30,000 barr�la most content itself with '3, � � ,a . 15,000 barrels. The war of prices out I of which the. combine lifted the salt 'a I trade was ruinous to most of the works, I le and they were compelled to come to the a � 't�rms of the rich, owners s;nd the works �Or . �* � r favorably situated such am the block I It ha,ve referred to. The allotment. that is d mow ruling will run out on the 31st Do - Ir cembor, and inr My opinion there Is small pr: obability of the combine 'con- tr , tinuing. Then the salt dealers will all 11 ; be in favor of reciprocity, .'At prebeut � I le I � I � the combine relieve@ them fr9m L the . , ; worry of com thio and gives good I . . PC , n I I � I t ��, � � prices. The large one& whose allot. , � I �`, I ments are satisfactory to themselves do i . a -A �r 1 7 not Want reciprocity or anything else to . . - �' break the harmony of the situation. In - � - i 1, 1887 the combine was not in force and - the salt man were talking redproeity as , , � :. . i I ; kr oneinau. Then, they wanted sh9VAited - � i 1, 1, i � - , , ,States market. Itandicappe4t "we are ; I � in the United States market, I would . , � �'. � - I . 4 , . I shut do,wa Mqar cosp,b�w-T, , , � � � .1 , - �, ep � ke , ,7 -� - - -# 'we Oe- 'only ; -11 Under this airran emej ' r ; I - � : running five mot,1C UX-11ii-jAiii; and a � I - � . � - F I high primis necessary to r;eoptip jig .for- , - I , ` �. � � lyin idle sei-en months. "SUt proper. � . � 9 I . 1 ties will depreciate mQre In valup lying � ; . . � . r idle than When running. The tubing im �, - . , - r . � the wells wil! rnst but, the pa"ta wift I I � , . 91 4 rust, and the whole place will go 'to do'. , � I � -. struotion U unustd. I . I : I ! ADVANTAGES OF RNWROMWe . rr I " If we lamd reciprocity the United , , - , �. States mar* e would take 6ur salk not . i X, 4 1 1� I;.- . at such priciew " 98 cents, but. sit fair � I . � I , rs, , i � market valnin,, Evon with -a warof corn- � I � k ; i . �- ; , Petition %si #10--ar as we havwev,er had the - . 1 r , t I I I United S "tot prieft are 65 cents a bir- � i L � � 7 1 1 - � rel, or toma cn,ota higher than we sold I . r � � . 4 salt for hai-�; i'�Z-1 1.887. Could we hold ., , z � 1, our own ,!a thb markets over thiere? - - I I � �f, % Ceitainly. The Chicago packeis ' have I I I � , frequently aald they prefer Canadi&u . A I 4 aalt. We coold man�facture as,dheaply I . I I as the Unit�ed States, works if it were f r not for dut'--," on the coal, iron: tubing ' �. . and other' ,:htkags %ye have, to buy over � � I there. the wal we use the duty P 11 OZ, ad ,V 1 7 - � 4 is 60 cents a ton. For this duty the an- , - � � ; � nuad charge on my business is $1,000. � I �- I � , There is a Inty of one cent to' one cent ,111 a - � I Z 4 �, ir &Qd a ha.If aa nails %nd $13 a ton on pan 14' - I � � R - iron, , ; which is an impo-rtan't-eheirge on %1 , � i � the, buziuesff. Salt bags in Newo��Iork I I !f I are $2 a thousand cheaper than we . can � I L r 1 i r . � � . F get them for. It is important, too, that 5 � 11 much less capital is invested in the . I : � Canadian works than in the- United �- .,r . . � . - '�tatea, according to the relati L �, - , Ve eapae�- L k7 - ties of the works in the two countries, . �, On a riadt works a great deal of money , . X can be spent on buildings that will not � � - Inerease at all thQjfacilities of the works, i A works costing $15,000 will sometimes - �, eDra as much as one coating - $100,000. � - I i Taking this into consideration and the , - ' i I saving if the dutlea were thrown off, we r L call Manufacture salt as cheap ly in Can� 11 L . ada, as CAD ork State inanu- i facturers. The Northern Michigan - I Works; 4y getting ,trood for fuel for next ,I . tO nothing, manufa,ati1r.a cheaply. But , .L that advantage- in cos . t is more than ,�.. � Counterbalanced by-jhe superiority of � , � . r � L I � �- � I . r�?�,._, 77-71T" 7T,��""!�— , . s . I . i I,; " , 4 4 X � -4- � 1. �, ; I . �.kll L I I I � '. r I I - . I , . . . I '. ii . . - . L � . � � � I . - . 4 - 11 - L� . . . I I . . - I � . - � I - � � I . . - � I -, - . 2;z,r � I I � - - -"---- I �-- , � -- —) . I " - . . . — I . - - I � � 7 i ..... 11 . 1. ----� . . I I I , + I . . . ..... . � I . I I ; , - - � , ,. , - . ,� — L I " � . � . I � . L I L � ', , - : -1 . ,� L � . � ; � � ; . -- . : I . - . - L_ I I ; . .; . : I I . . I i I -� . I .1 � , � I , . I I 'T- I- I . I . 11 11 5 1( jo I ."",!, � I - . : L . ! � . 11.1 of - i I , I . I i A, . I � LL . .. . . . . I . / , I . � I � . t . I . I .t I . I ... � . . .. L . I . —1 " , . I - . 'i � . 'L I � I I I . . I . - 11 � � - 4ME- i � —7!�, , .. I . � I , -- . . 4 - i . I � � t . , I � I I � . . ag - I I � - . - . . � I I i ! t L I ' . . i . I . Xclj]RAN BROS. Pub1ishers. � � -- . - SEAFORTHs FRIDAYs NOVEMBER 28i 1890A , I rz : � . . I . ! . $1.50 a Year, in Advance. �. � i � . � - I . j I . - - - : I . ; . our salt. Our brine". is stroo er than ' .9 . ' . that an English syndicate may be in- , Paid, �ho farmers do not like.to see suaded to become altogether persuaded, � � himself, throwing,his buggy and all in- I great pleasure of seeing all their ebild- . - 1, theirs. While theirs is 75' per cent, is 100 is duced to take over all the -wells in the . I t - gn,d ,he it; .,r �c go at the reduced prices " 11W and gave several Scriptural illustrations . - to the ditch, smashed the buggy to ren married .Land prosperous. All of � � them are living except one daughter, tL� salt ours per cent. ,Our salt country. . the hor'se trade has xeceive� a to prove that people who -had become pieces, almost ruin ingit, still the spirit- � ; Mrs. H. B. -Kalbfleisch. They have i preferred over the Michigan salt and 11 I have been talking as a salt dealer," serious' cbeQ1, and that reciprocity . almost persuaded .and who had not ac- ed animal wound its way down the - 14 forty-one grand -children and four I C commands a higher price in. --.Chicago. Mr. Williams continued, "and from that would be a d thing for the western � goo cepted Jesus Christ had fallen back road, swibging the cart fTom one side of . great- I - SUitaLble religious exer- I . L grand, children. , �� .1 . And shipment could be made as easily � ' from Goderich as from Michigan point!- - standpoint, but I can see that recipioc- ity would be of great benefit to the hun- pai t of the Province, Meears. Ratten- bury and MdMann are agreed. until connected with diabolical min. The after prayer meeting was largely the road to the other as it dashed a .4ongo fortunately no person was seriously in- . V cises were � conducted by Rev. 8. Krupp, i � , .11 I have been shipping dairy salt to Chi. � . ' dreds of thousands of farmers'of Canada. Mr. A. M It Polley, of Goderich, has attendedand taken part in by the pas- I jured. who delivered an appropriate address, I I �, after w-hieb a bountiful cago and have been paying the duty of I can see no pL%rticul%r in which it could L , carried on a horse buying trade through. tor, Rev. M. P. Talling, Rev. W. J. —A little inouse was the cause of a snpper was , 1. - � provided and a pleasant social time k twelve cents a hundred pounds on it. injure that grea class. I believe the t out the Huron district fur 30 years. Clark and Rev. W. M. Roger. The fire in Quebec suburbs the other might. was - �.; I �:. spent. I The North American �Chemical Works principle of protection is wrong, but as is The McKinley Bill," he said with em- choir furnished suitable music. Friday Its sudden soampering put of a box so . - 1. I— . —A strange fatality in cattle is re- . T!, ship more.than I do to United States markets, to ClevelIM& Detroit, Chicago" the situation with the salt industry is now, the association working harmon- phas e is, " has knocked the horse trad higher tbail Gilderoy's kite. The new night's meeting was the lost of Mr. Patterson's series of services. frightened the mistress of the house that I . she dropped a coal'oil lamp she held in x I ported from near Newmarket : Two of -, �' IZ, � and other points# association tow- the its last iouoly and prices being kept up, . red - � duty has, put a dead stop to the, trade I —Two, saloon.keepers at Neepawa, her hands, the lamp expl6ding and get- Mr. Mulock's cattle haviii' died very 9 - , mysteriously, an examination of the I �. t ered price of clampy salt at meeting. The United States works procity wou�d not be to the - advantage But in the . have beewd9ling, and I can do nothing Manitoba, have each been fined $200 for liquor license. ting fire to the premises. The flames, by ; stomach was made which revealed the .�.,�: - I I � of the salt waiaufacturers. until the farmers can be brought to see selling without a however, were extinguislied the - 1 probable cause of death. The cattle 1. seemed to have a big surplus stock of dairy salt which they could ship in here face of that I would vote for it because I think it would be for the �general good. that they milat sell for $20 or so less than in prev'�iious years. My trade here — Mr. Peter Graham, of Lobo, left the ,other day with a car load of cattle and brigade before much damage was done. —A fake was the other day doing ` . I � bad been fed partly on cutstraw, and a i I ; I in bags so much cheaper than our I , SimallL high they In the lumber trade, for insi-an-be, reci- I has-been largely in a cheap class of . sheep for the Glasgow market. confidenc,6 game on some Woodstooka . quantity of undigested binding twine ,� i had collected, clogging up the principal ; , present prices that could pay the duty awl undersell us. ro stop procity would have the effect of raising the price one dollar a thousand—the mares.for tt;� lumber camps of Michi- I and Wisconsin. The Pennsylvania —The Belleville police announce that Joe Hess hat; broken the craze for drink people. His system was to buy a plug of tobacco, a spool of thread or some digeati This ahowrs that care - I ive organs. �. �� be . � them the association indiiqed the Grand from present duty. Aiid so, altboujh some _gan trade which�we used to have has been in that town. No arrests had been other article of small value and present shoul'd exercised in collecting the 11 twine at the'tiine of threshing, as it � Trunk to raise the freight rates IPoint Edward and -other points into businesses might suffer, the great bulk of theiDdustries of the country would taken by Western horses raised on the At made from Thursday to Monday in- elusive. . a two dollar bill in payment. Rewould 1 may cause &good deal of trouble and I - I -the Province. The duty we have to pay On be benefitted and our resources would be " ranches. i present, although some horses are sent to Mozitreal from this . —The Rev. R. C. Tibb has been in- then ask to have the one dollar bill, re - ceived in change, chavged, and by a I 1 expense. I � I —Alderman Andrews and his wife, of : � the salt bags of 35 per cent. is Almost developed. I 1 district, myArade is principally with � ducted into the charge of Ruth Presby- little scheming get away with $1400 4 Winnipeg, were drowned i the A ini- a so j enough to give the dairy salt of the .United States entry to our market on . .. 0 Huron Iforse Buyers, ' Michigan. The McKinley Bill means that to continue to keep that trade we terian Church, Toronto, which has . . grown from a mission charge4o a flour- clear. I —Hamilton is exercised over the ex- � Z boine river, while sks,ting on Saturda . I 1 y 11 ", Alderman Andrews was a member Of - equal terms with us. I prefer recif roc- ity with the United States, I and AND WHAT THEY THIINK OF RECIPELOCITY. . � Must buy the horses from the farmers ishing congregation. —The marriage license fee in Quebec pense. attendant on L,he recent lunch, 11 '. .1 the Manitoba bar, and took an active -� I - - - - iron. bags, tubing,.etc., free market and Messrs., Isaa c R%ttenbury, of Clinton, and John McM ann,-of Seaforth, were. cheaper to be able to pay the duty. We � used tobuy"a lot of mares, not quite is $8. As a lower charge is made in the etc., given the iron and steel delegates. The caterer's charge amounts to $712 50. intereat in civic and local Politics. He .L 11 - . . � � was a son of Rev. A. Andrews, Metho- . continuous running of my works, and take my chances of the channels of , v Globe reporter the sound, but which worked very well in , United States, many couples liViDg near the boundary line cross the..border to and the hackmen's charges to $235. ) I i I dist minister, Qu Appelle. Mrs. An. . trade to the condition of a&irs that ex- other day with regard to the horse the Woods, and pay from $80 to $100 . get united. These amounts do not include the cost drews was only twenty years of age. and � � I isted in 1887. The price in the United trade. Mr. Rattenbury is one of the beat informed men in the Province on for them ; on these the duty used to be Only from $16 to $20. Tfie lumbermen I —William Ulman, a former. resident ?f liquoLro, and the citizens�'are wonder- ing what the liquor bill will amount to. 11 had just returned with her husband ; from a honeymoon trip to the �Old Coula'- I States under stress of strong 'competi- tion in now 65 cents a harrel. and I can the subject of horses, and Mr. McMann preferred m4res, because if they wore of Eastwood, County oi ,Oxford, was accidently killed in Sac*,mento, Cali- Some say the total cost will exceed try. She was &,daughter of Rev. Mr. . I sell salt at 60 cents and make a profit." - . e.of the largest buyers in the west is on They are both Conservatives in politics: ,out in the *.'code they could be used for I , breeiding,pui poses. So that nearly all I � fornia, on November 8th, by being $1,000. —After a great amount of squabbling � - McBean, &ad sister to Mr. Geo. M -c- I .. I Beau, Canadian Pacific 1jail-way travel- � MR. WILLIAMS' VIEWS. Mr. Joseph Williams has been pro- . but both are convinced of the necessity " . bought were mares. There was not ' much difficulty under the old lax law in trampled on by a runaway... horse. —Over 300 private dwelling-bouses and law, a fine new school building has at last been erected in the village of ling passenger agent. I _;� ;:, in prietor of the.Port, Franks salt works, in the county of Lamb"n,since IS8 3,and Of reciprocity. I am a Con. se'rvative," Mr. Aatten bury said, � � passing many of these mares into the have been erected in Winnipeg during the at a cost of $600,000. Be- Ayr. The old school property, about —Windsor ,,� � a great plate for mar- . ��. , riages, an d many Ministels make from - I . � for many years has carried on a whole- - 'eale " �but there is ,a' change coming -- - over this of. the' countr and. States free for breeding purposes, but now the M&Kinley Bill requires a cer- . past year sides this, large numbers of stores and which so many memories oliog, hax been sold to Mr. Geo'rge Guthrie, for the- very. $400 to $500 a year over their st-i nds. � pe � - � But they have soine queer c4ses, and . "I lumber business In she town of God�- is very old a rich, of which place he'is ' nd part, _y, e - turning toward reat- the people . ai- because their In- ' tifieste of ' three � r4gistration with from five cro W sees. There are not two mares blocks were built. . —Two men have arrived at Winn* 'Peg . low price of $375. Surely property in Ayr must have greatly depreciated in one � , i occurred the other day at the iesidence I . of Rev. Mr. Learoyd. When I esteemed residimt. The Crlobe's repre- procity they see that toreste demand it." NVith reference to . I in the county with five crosses unless from Wyoming, having ridden the entire value during the past two or three he came . to tie the nuptial knot he found that I sentative talked to him with regard to ip- the salt trade and the influence reci r horses he said: 'A There' has been a 'of . importedo and extre m-ely few with three, I distance, some 800 miles. They report the crops- in the districts which they years. - neither the groom nor the bride could I . rocity would have upon it. The a &It drop in prices $25'a head at least, and . this during the past month orsix weeks, t so hat that� stops us along that line. Not only cL 4 these niares not be shippied ass ed through in Dakota a total Failure. —Willie Friendly in the name of the young lad who was thrown on the world Peak English, neither could they speak � etc ea ch other, as one could only under- 11 mauufactutern are divided an this ques- tion. Perhaps' the greater number of since the McKinley Bill .-menaced "the " � I into the United States market duty free, but they'must a very heavy . —The Rocky Mountain cattle, which recently by a heartless Oxford farmer, because he wes' of - no further use, bav- . , stand German and the other one could -1i French. the Canadian salt mmufacturers, under the belief that . the abolition of the tariff trade. . . 11 I used to ship on an average about pay tax. On the' better class of horses the duty '� the Walkerville stock yards, near Windsor, are now feeding, do not ap- - ing broken his arm, and who was sent only speak Interpreters wer-o i e !I calle _ in, the ceremony performed,, but . -would not benefit their' businesses, are . two car loads of horses from this district new To' akes a big difference. I have an ord�r for some horses that will pear to take kindly to this ,climate- as , to London by the Ingersoll authorities. . He came oriainaliv from Picton. and the divine is still ,- wondering how the V I courtshin Wag enneln^+�A - 1. . . opposed to reciprocity, but a very. re- every week during the late summer and weiRh 1,500"pounds and be worth about several have died and others will soon has been placed in the Old Men�s Home —The annual con intion of the united - .. - I opectable minority stand by it. fall," Mr. MeMatin told me. 11 That $200 apiecei6 Under the old United follow, I until acme proper guardian for him ap- S oo Ve I . IV, 66 Our Wt trade is now in a pretty would be about 26- head evety week for I —Mr. Charles Briggs, of Paisley, has I Association of Middle- �-- I . . good position," Mr. Williams said, 26 weeks pay, or over 8W 'during the States tariTthe duty on them woul , d be entered action against a Port Elgin pears. Sex and Lambtdn convened in thi f. *6 and it will remain so as long an the year. They were high-pricod draught $40eaoh. Under the McKinley- Bill it _ magistrate for not making. return of a —Dr. James McLaughlin, one of the Methodist* church Watford on Wed- If - , will be $60 ��acb., The difference in the best known and wealthiest physicians of nesday afternoon' 12th int - truck 0 at. Durin - manufacturers do not resume the war horses for, Pennsylvania and heav tariffs amounts to from $15 upwards on conviction last spr it ;ppears Elgin county, dropped dead in his office the session Miss Carrie Cole,'of Luca ' , �- I - I of- competition. The present arrabge. horses for Detroit. This year have every horse."! I am goilig.out some day Briggs was fined $50,inga . P- is in Fingal at noon last Saturday., Do- being abnent through illness, Rev. J. as - -,- I T - an the � ment of an association by means of only shipped one car load. George Cox, charged with'retaining the amount. C. - - : soon to see �f*l dan�buy so -me horsies, but ceased commenced to practise medicine Tibbs D. A., read an admirable paper , which the demands of the Province are the Detroit dealer, in other'yeare would I do not e'xpect to do anyt i at the -J. E. Freeman, M. P. P. for North in Duart in 1862, but in 1870 removed r I I I sillotted to the nineteen works and all be up here half -his time. He has not - , � n Norfolk, died 'Saturday morning. He to Fingal, where he has practised ever p epared by her, on "A Country Infant t` . � prices 1 shall be forced to , ofer. Last Class," in which she gave the history 0 the salbe pan through the association's been here at all this ear, The A,er,fe was reared in London township, where a n I y year I shi ed out 30% all,bought in i ce. He leaves a family consisting of of a.most sueoessful etrokk in Wt&,brli � I - office at Clinton in working tatiefaot6ry price L,bave paid for horsis is ,. pri - p his parents resided many years. He . . h_� .., I � I ' y this distric * Some of the - . a son and a daughter. His,three broth- ing, retaining and developing'such a � to the salt men. The old association. $150, so that the purchase of the 800 high an S was an hot ta htforward man, ers, John, Michael, and Wilfiam,-. are �L, I L previous yea ., and the�averags would be ' I class In a country church, showing that - h ., the horse trade I did last kindly nd of good ab� I emefnt Was not oul 8- " broke up in 1885, and for two or three horses that in i i re my ship- $10% so t t a ility. wealthy farmers in Southw,old. - , such an achiev' -!, L - y * years the competition carried the prices meat embraced would amount to a dis- year amounted to $30,000 to the farmers -Many of the early residents of Ayr —The Galt Reporter. of last week sible, but, with well directed Moor: . below cost in some came@. This could tribution of. about $12,500 among the will remem-'b'er Peter 'Stewart. 11 Pete . e ort, � I . .. of this distii-ict. This year I have ship. says: Mr. Win. Scott, of, the firm of eminently practicable. -, . . not continue, and two of the dealers no. farmers; and this by only one of many ped only one car load and that was' be- Stewart " was altnost a househola word Scott & Hogg, e g, merchants� 'Galt, —A short time ago Mr. Hugh Itose, I... . $ L . �-. dertook to bul the produce of all the buyers. Now there are no horses going at one time in the village. It seems and his brother, fir. -Robert Scott, of of conceal ion 79 West Zorra, lost a very .., fore the McXinley Bill came into effect. a I ; other works. his they did for a year away and, of course, no money coming that he died on the 8th inst., at Grand .11 I - � and a half or thereabouts. Last August in." , I � , There are a� number of other - buyers Alliston. with their wives, left this valuable colt under peculiar circum- . � � - . I Island, Nebraska, after about &-year of week on a visit to Xogland and Scot- stances.' The fence wag down between ' ' here, and they.are in no bet:ter position I . I � , declininR bealth. - an association was formed and. is in Another way in which the McKinley than I am �� to do business this fall. I I I If - ' , . . - land. They sailed from New York him and his next neighbor, Mr. Clark, -4 . operation yet. The duty on salt com- Bill works against the Canadian trade, . —Mrs. Birchall, Accompanied by her � . . � � When the 0�0�mbined effect of the stop- . per State Line steamer State of Georgia. and the colt wandered down to Mr. � ing into Canada is 47j cents on each as Mr. Rattenbury explained, is this: , sister, Mrs. West -Jones, left Woodstock I j , page of the irade we have all been doing , While away they will likely investigate Clark's swamp, where there wag a . I il �; r � barrel, and the prices here are from 30 11 It used to be that we could buy a few - Monday for New York, en route for the possibilities of the British markets thicket Of willows and grape vines ; by - . ' I Iculated. it will be seen that the re- 4 I - re- I higher than in mares here and take them over to sel I - "' " , I I .11 �� cents to 40 cents a bar I . I England. Mrs. Birchall does not be- with a view to the shipment of eg ' sult must b� serious to the farmers." � I go. Bems means the polt got its head in be- � the United States. Even with the duty pass them through for breeding purposes t - lieve that her husband made' a con- � to, pay, the United States dealers were and escape the duty. Now that -is put . - � fession of guilt to Rev. Dean Wads. —On Friday night a young man came tween a 'bunch of willows and grapevines, . - I . sh I in two ways. A certificate bf �[ Canada. to St. Thomas with a horse and wagon and i astead of backing out or pressing its I ipping into our market dairy salt, and a stop to � . Mr. J. A. McMillan, B. A., for sev- i I � The population of Portage Is Prairie eral years Enszlish`ma#ter of the Owen which he offered for sale, harness and way ahead, kept turning round, and the at the last meeting of the association we registration is required to accompany . � . - found it necessary to reduce the price of every moire and the pedigree must show in now estiiiiated at 5,000 . . I Sound Collegiiate Institute haq resigned 11, to several parties for sums varying willows and vines formed a rope around � . --The H�Imilton Fair siows a surplus farlom, $10 to $25. He was arrested on the coWs neck strangling it. The colt � .. . that article. The effect of roci not less than three crosses; furthermore . his position. Mr. McMillan has do- . . t : ty : reel this-yearofIM3.63 over expenditnre. suspicion, when he admitted stealing was dead some days before it was -� � � I � I to the salt consumers in th?s Pro- the mare cannot be exported by a Cana- I cided to study medicine, and will pur- the ,horse and wagon from parties in found. - . I .� l . . Vinca. would -be that they would got than except he presents with the certifl-' —There"A're 70 ca3es of typhoid fever sue his studies in Toronto about the London, &aid he was hard up and weat- —Charles Clow, a Grand Trunk I their salt 30 cente or 40 cents cheal?.er' Cate a sworn- statement from the Ameri- in the Toronto hospital, about 26 leas New Year. . , I �, . - " than now. unless, indeed, all the mills can citizen to whom the ma: is beibg than lost w0ek. . ed to to Liver 001. He was re- Railway brakesmanp residing in London . � . ., . I re I —The match for the championship of I - on the continent were, brought under taken'dec-laring thi'purpose' for whiA 6 —Mr. Joe -Hess, the temperance lec- the Ontario Rugby Union between the mandefoand the roudon authorities With his parents, met a - tert'ible .de I &th 1 5 "i notified. ., � L ,on Fridaypnorning last He 1114 . t '. . was put- . one management� an has been attempted she is being imported to be breeding. turer,_ is holding crowded meetings in Hamilton and Q'ieen's 8ollege, )Cing- 1. - by an English. syndicate. But as an off- The new duty of S30 per bead o'n h oirseis Picton. , , c I ston, clubs, wai played on the Rojedals —Mr; Jont Irvine, of Richwood, near ting on tKi brako o a .-� . . . Paris, met with a very painful accident gravelArain running from -Komoka to � L I met te'the .salt manufacturers against worth less thw $150 and 30 percent. on —All the, space granted to Canada ground*, Toronto, on Saturda*. and re. 0 � . . ,L on Tuesday, last week. While in his Stratht Y. when he fell biusath the : cti h $150 or,more, cuts all around. t at the Janklaiqa Exhlbition has been sulted n favor of the Hamilton team by I . this redo on in prices there would be all wort I a h : 1. i . . � I yard he was attacked by so neighbor's wheels, tho caboose passlug ov r is I I the throwing off of the duties on coal I On a horse valued tit $140 'and . *on one 'taken lip. 1 8 points to 6. 1 I 11 �� , boar. His clothes were badly torn and chest and literally Cutting hiM n 6 - Iron tubing, iron plate, nails -and other worth only $90 the duty would Qike be .—Coloaal;Car*doo�.Herbert, the new —The D i mbo Record, after a short - . ru i commodities that enter into the cost of $30, whereas undeii the old 20 per cent. pemmauderliof:militis, has.sailed from career of some eighteen months, has two large cut& were made in.his log, halves. Dweased has -b"ii employed � . which had to be stitched up -by a doctor. on the Grand Trauk Railwsy-" brakes- � I I an salt tariff on the $90 ho"rs; �tbe '' auty woulk! En 1;,3d to)Ckmada. ceased ito'career as p Drumbo, publi- � narrow eam in .. ;1 mannfacturidg salt, The Michig ± v He had a pe of his life, but man for eight years, be' ', aged on works are ran lu connection with saw be but $18. On a horse worth $150 the .. iga�ion on the St. Lawrence cation. It hai boeit amalgamated with 9 - M I � . fortunately be, had a lisavy -mock oke In the Weptern 10041 train. 1� -ad juot I oth- new duty will be� $45 ai'com' &red with r' ow prA tically clooed for the the Beaver, published at , , mills, and their fuel ocats 'next to In p , ,kver ij n i a - Hillsburg beewappointed to -the -i . ra . 98811101:1. - ' his hand and maziageA to beat C ani-�, sm trar only $W updar the old. It: is on 'the � Wellington cotinty, and will hencefoith I . 101, .and ing, and fuel is the principal charge upon ` I I I I . - this was his first trip uid his Iasi. Aie . I � _ arse 11 '48' -1 I salt, inswinfteium' The Now Yoik Wt high-priced h . � s, and "the 4plugs' that Thirty m4rbli tablets are to be erect- lose its identity in that publication. L I � Go. , , - , ' ' I Wok)p . - -he AdvaaUW of not � the great diffir**nce between the old and ed in MoDtrlpal to mark historic locali- - —Mr.. Biokierdike,- -: preddent of the , -�-A 4%bbs th School tesicher. in, one of was.well kziown. by. the Im-aws)F men and � . -a blavi t � living the Pioton school* asked the question, WaS a gmkw favorite. � - , I I ! dutykxm . thel . r oosl and other necesokriee-, newtariffalies. OnA,$17pborsa$52.40 ties. . ! � , � � Dominion Liv'e Stock -Astociati6n, has . . . I I -- I . � . It in ,their ability to manufactUre, the, is,now tak" ,.�!, d - .` - - *dAh. 1200 ' —MPL 1hrehall, w" seen on Wood 11 Who As the Governor-General of - Can-, � , , � r . I ; I 60 pe 00. 11 - received a cablegrain infornmig "him- , . , ' , , , - . I � .. . � �lk tootil jeli ty that must be consid- a�d there are many Of that price, the stock streeti Friday, for the first time 'that the Canadian. c�'ttli being landed ad* 7" Tbe.answer came promptly an4 —00 $�bds,'j night, loth inat., - just - �- - - - I - " - , . . . � ia Great Britain'this fall Were in a - very decided)yt,. '� Babbitt," (town ponstab1c) after dark, . i e I iod as, rei=ble to a degree. for - their new dut '18 $60 a Minot $40 before. since her h"band's execution. , � t�hs 126171141 of Jivnes Stewart i I , - .1 . I � -6on i - --,-A On the oml geed in the Arid, an thave ilre:ly pointed out, this T —A thouiand turkeys bay* been sent bad 000dition from the effects of' the On being told he � was mr0mg, another lot -25. onsion 59, VMS, took fire,, .,�; . I I ., " �.�; low'" called out, -6 Dr., Platt. . The. latter , from �an unkno , , I salt f=-x� tbe'. dn'ty we must pay in measures only a part of the effect -of the from Mont eal, 9W'an 'wiper1knent, to weather eixperienced od the way &or*". . I wn cause and were totally - � - 60 Qense a ton. . If from eight to teA tariff, for the practice of the dealers of Abordemen the Christmas market. —Mr. Wallace M.- Bard - gentleman being the RefOrin TtPrOmth- destroyed with coimt*ntk Xp stwk WjW L, ick"form0y ,� ' tons of ooal areburned in a furnace in a getting mares over for breeding . 6tor iiid tivo of Prince Edward county hi- the lost, but only IS bags'of tile summer's . -,,I _ pur�. , �-7r--Attorn -Genetal.-Marde, of Win- of Ing6rooll, and, lately propri I - , , w I � . ungster grain had been 1 1 day, that ineiane an oxtm -charge of five poses *as�'a ,: soured� ot donil erabld - n eg, hai, loft on 'a busiben trip to editor of the Welland Coduty 'Gazette, Dominion Parliament. the yo marke"d, apd the pro. t � - . � , . I . give him the position of GoTirroor duoe - . or six dollars a day on . fuel alone. A profit.' Mo'r66vef, the -'new tariff makes 'C ifornia. 1 . died of q0tisam, ti as bin home 6 who � - oonnnied-wasmortIt Ov4r$1,00Q. 1 � 4 p ;t likely, brought uplin ai Grit family. � oonsid4tablo quantity of nails is used in the interference of the' customs ap- - —All tbie�� English .'armer.� delegates Niagara Nl*azwr thoauf body was broughtf was , � I � The,b&rng were built on Atono. found&. . - atious and ex- have thi ' butthe highest praisefor to Ingersoll4nd bmied froko his f thees a .amoftt- of the:roal and per- tions, with iwo* large nbediN worth - I � � connection with the salt industry, and prairra in aich wore vex no , 17 - - —Th , 1 em ne-neive. Before, if a horele were bought Canada. residence. He leaves a w N One Sts new binder 1 the salt men must'pay. a duty on th - ife Z janal estateg left by -the late Provincial about $606. Th w" & I . I , declared by the - —Cana"l ex I Land Surveyor, Hugh Wilson, formerly alid other farm imploweitte destroyed. . ; of Ic to lie per POMW This tax for -8145, and it was , ported nearly a million* child. � � �Amourite to a o be worth $175, the difference - Aollars woroh of goods b excess of- whiii --Some time ago Mr. Henderson, of 'of Mount Forest, Wellington county, The insuranoe wag �� -04 t - he barn and , r joid deal. In the matter customs tc . ; . of iron tubing. of which a great deal is iuth6dutywonld-b�96. Such a -pro- "Blie impo'te' contents, only A of the latter , I r , d d aritig the month of Norwich, had his general store broken and who -died in Toronto on the 17th $SOO on the � I used, the duty is from 15 to 30 per cent. ceeding. under the present tariff would October. 1 inaL, is $13,392. The bulk of 'it,fm left is collectabIp', awordIng' �1. I - open and over $M worth .of gooft - -f;06.,��, . . - F . , The mat pans, which are made ,of sheet mean a differenae of duty of $22.50. �About-2,000,shesp are being im- stolen. The Brantford police have is- to his ad ted daughter, Miss Birdie —The LimitOW01 BhUier olf 1*4 - week 11 - I � . , . iron, require to be redewed frequently. The v � aries of a custom's officer cannot ported by t6 Morm i wig fin* Case of specimens of Sys * Mr t, _ IN � . ag one at -Lea's Creek, ceived word that the -stolen property has W bon. - Goo. Little, sprom*ntand Sometinive they will hum o't in a few be accounted for or provided against, Southern Alberta, Worth West Terri- been found In a bay stack on a � farm in the woods of Canada, and the quarterly reqxw%ed farmer in Wai" was in town I . I U . ry., . � journal of the Geological Society, E119- an Wedneed Y d during . Weeks, and I know -one man, who keeps and so this. is a new and ; important to � Burford township, wherei - t was evident, , a , thifi week, an I his f a m,&CNL at'mrhite best, who renews factor inthe trade," . ,, —The New Hamburg poultry assocl- ly seerpted.by the thief. land, he leaves to the Canadian insil- the afternoon felt an oppression in his . - I 11 I the front' .half - if his pans every. six Replying to a question as to the ex. atiop will hold its first annual poultry —John Oliver,' Esq., of Blenheim tute, Toronto- head. An he drove hon a the pain mud- IL , i weeks or two months. This iron is a tent of the trade in this district, Mr. show -on January 13th, 14th and 15th Township,. Oxford County, who. 'Was —Last Friday morning Mrs. John denly became intense and he went ind I P . I I .9 I � ' I aerio" L Charge; it is taxed $13 a ton, Me Mann said: " Each year there has hext. � _ L stricken with paralysis; recently- while Dempsey, of RAmmore, Amelj�xburg, with his wife who accompanied him, to I I . - � ,. . . - " i and, I believe, is not made in Canada at probablygone out of this section L300.1 � —The prisoners of St. Vincent de visitiog a friend in Waterloo Township, who has for some time been in poor MY. Kohnedy's, expecting to get relief - I ,� L Paul Penitentiary presented Bishop County of Waterloo, died, -at his .own health, made IL desperate attempt to in a short time. He soon became: un- - .... - all. All the" are charges on the busi- horses wCich would average $150. or . . I'll LL Bond with 'a. silver home on the 17th I Perhaps ii in-- commit suicide. After cutting her conedons, and when medical aid was �� ness which sire the result of protection, $160 eich. Now, those horses would . -1 -headed cane on the Tat. 0 she ran out of the, Called it7 Wag - L . ' learned that a blood vftsel and the saving with regard to them is not bring the farmer, were than S12� or occasion of Me jubilee. . dividual was better known or more throat with a razor, ' L I - .to be taken into account when figuring $130 each. Or, instead of those 1,300 L-Evang list Schiverea has been hold- highly respected in the neighborhood house and. jumped into a well with had burit in the' - braIn. He has re- . on the result of reciprocity to the Halt horses at the old prices putting into the ing a number of religious meetings in than he for forty ; years. He was 64 thirteen feet of water in it. Her hus- mained unconscious since, and but little --- - F I band,- who saw the woman jump into , hope is entertained of his recovery. industry. How far this saving would pockets of the farmers say $195,000, at tODDection 'I with the ,Toronto Youn s of age. , i A I � , 'r; . - - recompense . - us for the drop, in prices present prices they would only fet6h Men's Christian Association. —A series of runaways are reported thewell, caught,her by the heir and —Mn. Mary Munro, relict of the late It I . ee. As Silas, son of saved her from- drowning.' Dr. Willson, Hugh Munro, of Wallace, died on Tues- 1. I . which would come if -the United States 8162j.500, that is- $32,500 le". We used --,-The MOico-Chirurgical Society of from New Dund - . - � � . salt were allowed to come in I cannot - . Montreal li�s decided to send two of its Benjamin Hallman, was returning from who is in attendance, sayt she will re- day morning last week. Mr. Munro I .�. m to, send a good many horses to Montreal, I , - � say, but I Incline to the belief that the and from there they would be sent members to, Berlin to study the Koch the Mennonite church on Sunday even- coven , .. I left considerable property at hia death, r � - . - -as - would stand to I � ose some- B thoughthis friends in front —On the -16th of this month there roported at $7,000, with Mr. Elijah . I It dealers across. into the New England manufac- method for the cure of consumption. ing last, hi . . " . 11. I - thing -by the .abandonment of the Nia- turiog towns for milk waggons, ice de- —Telesp�ore Coty, of Montreal, who of him were not driving fiat enough assembled at the residence of Mr. Henry Ellis, Mr. David Patterson and Mr. . -' tion4l Policy. Of coursemi . th no duty L, They is aiiffering1from the early stages of con- and undertook to pass, when his Simmons, of Tavistock, the chil&en, Geo. Little as executors. The old lady � L livery waggons and such uses. � I f . -- on coal, iron, nails, ,etc'., the Ontario were cheap horses that would ave L rage sumption, �-has left for Berlin, to horse became unmanageable and ran grand -children, neighbors and a goodly was somewhat eccentric and gave her, , 11'�,.;� I works would be in the same position as $go. On them the duty used to be $18, place himself under the care of Dr. away, throwing the lad from the road number of old friends, to celebrate the executors so inuch trouble that -they ap- . �- . I �L I I - the � New York dealers, except to the and tha extra $12 put on by the McKin- Koch. ! cart which it was hitched to, thenran fiftieth anniversary. of the wedding of plied to the courts to be relieved of ..- I � * extent of 'the difference of freight lay Bill has 'stopped -tbat trade cOM. —A series of special reli long meet- against Mr. John Cassel's buggy, upset- the aged c))uple. * Mr. Simmons was their trust, with the result that Mr.' ,)�- charges on the longer and aborter haul gs have been held in St. YS reeking it- considerably, born in Norfolk- county, England, and,, James P. Mabee was appointed Admini- �� pletely. Aubrey, the Montreal buyer, inj Ames Pres� ting it and b . -L � I � . � . r'l 11 � -f ";"a' - " i- ,U� -T ;a : - of coal. An to the market of the United - -States being opened to us, the capacity used to come up here regularly several h in times a year and take down a ents. byterian church, ondon, lately. ast Thursday �ight the church was crowded then passed on and ran against Mr. 1,11 Hallman's buggy, upset it and smashed came W anab eb an a y outas M teen, and after Rpellding a few years in a = &, " sw Z&rs, 10M master in chancery. Mrs. Munro had a mania for A I . I I of the wells over there is greatly,in ex- He was here once this fall, bjupt only I i ; whim Rev..',Mr. Patterson delivered a �' d from Mr Eli Hallman's h as It t i * or i X ==;; numanageable- an& ran Waterloo,cou][Ity, he United in marriage with Eliza Sherk, and'moved into tion' specula . . SheSpeculated in various properties with what money she could . - cam of the demand. In our country there an nineteen salts blocks, and five bought three or four head. Pat Dares, of Boston, was qp.horo lent week to buy, powerful an effective sermon Acts xxvi.�, 28: 11 Then Agrip said , a - a away. Silas'@ horse intending to mak* miles north of South FAstbope, two � control, almost always at a I ' ow. She or sijr of them. running full time coula' but only bought two head. buyers . unto Paul,,, almost thou peraMest me I a clean sweep of it dashed on and came Tavistock, when this oonntry was &'vast has no blood relatives in the vicinity, supply go demand of our market. The .The can only- pay vo mdch '' W they "a t L o -tObaa'ChM4tian." Hemadeanearnest in contact*ith another vehicle,, Mr. wilderness of forests and well isigh im- Mr. Dancan Munro, of Wallace, being a LL - � ,great hope of the Cw3adian: odt4nen is . make anythin'\after- the new dutjr is 9 � i I . -appeal to those who was, almost per- I " . � .. I Ben Hall which he was driving man 02 pamble road a. They have had, the I brother of her late hutiband. - � . L ,-I - I I -� � , � L . 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