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The Huron Expositor, 1897-10-15, Page 44 . NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Elr The figtre between the parenthesis, after each one, denotes the page of the paper on which the advertisement will be found. Ara You Talkea—Greig & Mandan d (1) DonlRead this—McKinnon & Co. (5) Plymouth Rooks for See—Mila P. J. CaldwelL (8) Notice to Debtors—R. E. (5) Valuable Faun for Sale—T. P. Stewart. (6) Estray Mare—Prancis Carlin°. (‘) Boars for Service—Wm. R. &011ie. (5) II-Oka:0 Credikore—R. Ir. Collins. (5) House and MM far Sale—John Kline. (6) Pig for Servioe—George BM. (5) How About Long Boote—R. Willis. (5) Too Many Csrpeti—Hodgens Bros. (8) Ladies Oxfords—RI—W-14- Willic,ffil Mortgage Sale—P. Kohnesttd. (5) Court of Revision—Wm. Elliott. (5) Exeter Show Prise Money—M. Y. McLean. (5) gilt *molt ttxpogitor. SEAFORTH, FRIDAY Oet. 15th, 1897 The Fast Steamship SerVice. - At the binquet in Toronto the other evening, Premier Laurier announced that he had received a cable from Minister Field- ing, who is now in London, stating that Peterson, Tate & Co., had made the re- quired deposit in the matter of the Cana- dian fast ateamship line between Canada and England. The depOsit question amounts to £10,- 000 cash and a guarantee of E10,000 as fur- ther security, and under the con,ditions of the contracathe firm must have two Of the steitiners in operation in May of 1899, and the remaining two during the following season, making a line of four steamers in all, equal in general charaeter and appointment to the Lueania and Campania, and steaming from port to port -at a rate of 500 knots a day. This will give a passage of about six days from Liverpool to Quebec in summer, and of bat little -ever fiva from Liverpool to Halifax in winter time. They =it not be less than 520 feet in length and muat be able to carry at least 500s ton of merchan- dise in cold storage on each trip. They will be built to conform with the Admiralty requirements for auxiliary cruisers, in time of war, and will receihe an annual subsidy of $500,000 from Canada for ten years and $250,000 from Great Britain. The announcement comes immediately after peraisten statements that London financiers wouI have nothing -to do with the project, an proves that the firm of Peterson & Tate have solid backing in their The Look Ahead. The businese out look this season is, cer- Minty, much more encouraging than has been the case for many 3 ears. It does really seen, as if the severe depression under which we have been suffering for several years is about to pass away, and that we are enter- ipg upon a period of good 'times. Money is becoming more plentiful, business in every branch is brighter, andavery person seems more hopeful. In anttlyzing genie of the causes which led to the late depression, the circumstances now existing give the best grounds for brighter. hopes in the future. For many years the Americans afforded us our principal market for many of our farm products such as horses, cattle, sheep, pigs, egga, etc. When the Americana increased the duty on our products to an almost pro- hibitory figure, and the depression, incident to over production, set in in that country the American market became practically useless to us for many of the products which we formerly sent there. In the course of two years our trade with the United States fell off nearly one half. We had not then established a market in the old country for these products. Shipping to the old cdun- try was, at best, an experiment, and the prices for these products fell off to a non laying figure, and general stagnation ensued in eeery department, as in this country every interest depends more or less directly for its success oh the farmer. All this, how- ever, is now changed. A good market hae been established in the old county for everythieg which we can raise and which we have for' salee We are in very great measure independent of our .American neighbors. Of eourse, i.hwe could trade i with them on fair and even terms it would t be to our advantage, as we would then have ! two strings to our bow, and, of course that , would be a great benefit. But, we are not needy so dependent on them now' as we ! formerly wete. Whereas a few years ago the consumers of the old land looked upon our prodneta with auspieion and distrust, they are now anxious to procure them, and, what is even more encouraging, established for our products among English purehasera, that they give them a preference. So " that we are nOw not only able to sell to them all that we have, but we are able to realize the very highest pritie-sl'attainable. This condition of affairs cannot fail to bring to us increased pros- perity. The very favorable impression. which Canada has been able to make for her- self in the mother land during the past year, through the preferential tariff which we give her Products, and the edvertising in. other wayit the country has received is already having an influence and , bearing fruit. In fact, Canada occuries a place in the eye of England to -day which she never before had. This, added to the established excellence and the adaptability of our pro- ducts for their markets, and taken together . with the improved facilities for shipment, must give us an unlimited market there for the bulk of our products as well as for many of oer manuf cturies at remunerative prices thus ensurin us continued prosperity. There is also another very important ele- ment at work to increase the demand for our products, and the inflow of money, which did not exist a few years ago. With- in the past two years immenee new sourcez of wealth have been developed. Tbousaads ! of men are now employed in working and developing the gold and other mineral re- I sources of British Columbia, the Klondike ! and Northwestern and Eastern Ontario. All .* these men have to be clothed and fed, and : the bulk of the supplies thus required must be drawn from this Province. Thus will be found new markets for our eggs, our dairy products, our pork, beef, fruits, etc. During this past season many car loads of dairy producte, eggs, pork, flonameal, etc., have gone from this county to these mining dietricte, and aa it has been widens, ao has it been with every other county in the Peovince, and as yet this trade is only_ in its infancy. These industries not only fur- nish remunerative employment foldour sur- plus population, but they will give us a good market at our doors, almost, for a consider- able proportion of our farm products, while tae money with which the men are paid and the products are purchased comee from other conntries, and is put into circulation here, thus inereasiug the wealth of the country as well as giving_employment to our people and furnishing a market for almost every- thing we can raise on our hems. It is fair to! assume, also, that this market will not only be a permanent one, but a groseing one alit°. The immense mineral wealth of the °reentry is now an enured fact, and although the booms will subside, the steady , work of extracting and pre - paling the ores for market will con- tinue. A good example of this is furnished by the Sudbury niokel mines. We now scarcely hear .a word aboat this industry, ana many no doubt hairs long ago coneluded that the thing his filtered:out. Such, how- ever, is not the case. Work is continually beteg prosecuted there, and last year over half a million dollars' worth of ore was wil it be elsewhere and with other minerals. tur ed out of these mines. As it is here, so The work will continue, although in a quieter way ; wealth will be turned out, Men will be employed, and supplies will be receeired to keep them going. The good crops, also, this year will help to relieve many a burden and give us a fair start. Un er all circumstances, therefore, it seems AB I a new era of prosperity has opened out or this country, and while there may not be room for extravagance and profligacy, ther certainly is cause to hope that the . worst is past, and that for messy years to coin we will have fair sailing. , he Auditing of Provincial Accounts. In his speech at Strathroy the other day, the on. G. W. Ross made the following re- ply to the oft -repeated complaint that the pub accounts of Ontario are not properly Le me show the course through which ever dollar expended goes before it is paid and will leave it ler yourselves to say whet er the audit is efficient or not. Take the aurae at my own department (and I presnme it is the same in all the other de- partments) as iin illustration. Before any good" can be purchased for the public ser- vice a requisition is submitted to me setting forth!in detail, as near as may be, the sup, - plies f equired. This requisition I examine, and I , on inquiry, I think the eupplies are necessary, I initial the requisition. The (modal are then purchaeed by the proper of- ficer from the dealer whose tender has been accepeed for that class of 'goods, or, if there is no ;tender, from some person in the trade. Wherk the goods are received the ;invoice is examined to see if it correspondi with the articles delivered and the price agreed upon. If found correct the invoice is certified and sent to the accountant, who draws up -a re- quisition on the Treasury Department for the emount of the invoice. This requiii- tion ii sent to me for signature, together with he detailed account which it repre- ., gents. If eatisfied as to its correctness, it is sigue and sent to the Provincial Treasurer, who Arks it for the consideration of the amin d, and if it is found correet sAid Par- liame t has provided money fold such a ser- vice 1 is certified and returned to the Treas- urer to be by him submitted for the approval of the Lieutenant Governor in Coancil. If apprdned an order in Council is drawn up for the signature of the Lieutenant -Governor and When so signed the account is paid and not till then. ,Now consider the various persons responsible for this, account. First there ia the officer who ordered the goods, then the officer who received them, then the accountant of the department, then the . Minister, then the Provincial Treasurer, ; then - the Provincial Auditor, then the ; whole Government, then the Lieutenant 1 Governor, or eight different < verifieations. I Now is it possible that -there can be collusion 1 or crookedness under such circumstances ? It may be said that these officers are de- pedent upon the Government, and they ! would not dare to object to the payment of I pose that is so. You have the intervention 1 of the Lieutenant -Governor, who is cer- tainly independent, and you have also the 1 intervention of the Provincial Auditor, who is equally independent. From some of the speeches made by Mr. Matheson, the finan- cial critic of the Opposition, one would suppose we had no independent Auditor of our peblic accounts as they have at Ottawa. Such is not the case. _ We have such an of- ficer, appointed precisely les the Auditor - General is appointed whose independence is guaranteed by the fact that whether we like him or not we cannot remove him ; he can only be removed by the Parliament which he serves. In fact there is nothing which the Auditor -General can do as to pay- ment of accounts or as to the details to be given of an account or to the branch of the public service to which it is to be charged, which the Auditor of the Ontario accounts may not do. He can even examine wit- nesses under oath, if he thinks it necessary, or suspects crookedness in any transaction. Now you witl be surprised when I tell you that this officer who has such power over the expenditure of the Government was given all this power by ourselves under an act Of Parliament passed in 1886. If ire wanted to cover up or hide any trans- actiop is it to be supposed that we would in- -treat any officer with power to scrutirdze the payment of every dollar of public money and report mion it just as he liked whether we wanted it so doue or not ? Is that the way crooked men usually do their work ? ; But the accounts, even when paid, are open to investigation every year by a com- mittee of Parliament called the Public Ac- counts Committee, and this committee has power to call for persons, papers and rec- ords ,- that is, for the accounts in detail,and for the persons who expended the money which they represent, and to examine wit- ha nesse! under oath in respect to any matter contaired in such accounts. This corn- mittee is usually largeand representative of '8, some of the strongest men on each side of E. the House. Last year the committee con- uy an at the public expense. Their proceedings are printed in the joernals of the Holum. They had every opporthoity tO expose the busmen incapacity of the Government or its corrupt practiceeeif au& there be. As a matter of fact, the Pablic Accounts Com- mittee works harder than any other corn- mitteti of Parliament, and possibly has cost Parliament during the last ten year* for wit- ness fees, reporting and printing $12,000, which is far more than any other committee of the House. As a proof of its industry I may state that the- report of its proceed- ings for the last ten years covered 2,204 pages of the journals of the House. Last year the number of pagea in the journeds devoted to a report of the examination of the witnesses called was 147 ; it held eigh- teen meetineet during the session. In the Tear 1894, Just before the general elections, it was particularly active, and for that year the proceedings of the Public Accounts Com- mittee °coupled 4fia pages of printed mat- ter, quite a respectable volume in itself. When I say that an ordinary speeeth of an hour in Parliameat would not cover ten pages of the journals, you can see how thor- ough the search for evidence of our guilt must have been. Now what irregularity has the Public Accounts Committee found, or whae over- expenditure or what crookedness ! Oar ex- penditure amounts to $3,000,000 annually, or $75,000,000 in 25 years. How many dol- lars or liedw many cents of that sum have been irregularly spent, or have gone for any purpose not authorized by Parliament ? Not one. And yet we have this wearisome, pur- poseless, pointless charge that our accounts are not properly audited, whereas the very men who make these charges are themselves auditors, and appointed by Parliament for that very purpose. Editorial Notes and Conunents. The Crow's Nest Piss Coal Company is now opening up the property of the com- pany. The seam is six feet thick, and -first- class anthracite. By the time the 9row's Nest'Pass railway is built it is expected that the mine will have a productive cepa= city of one thousead tons, or about seventy carloads per day. The Ontario men who, have been helping in the Manitoba harvest, are now being conveyed free by the C. P.R. to work on the new line through the Pass. Dominion Finance Minister Fielding is at present in the old country, and has succeed- ed in placing a Dominion loan on most ad- vantageous terms. The loan is for $10,- 000,000 and the rate of interest is 2i per cent. The amount is repayable in fifty years. So that not many who have reached the years -of maturity need concern them- selves mach about the • repayment of the debt. A considerable portion of this loan is required to take up existing maturing loans apd the balance will be required for the enlargement of the canals and the con- struction of the Crow's Neat Pass railway. Wentworth, who was again selected as the Liberal. candidate, having been compelled to withdraw on account of ill health, a second convention to nominate'a successor was held on Saturday last. The choice fell on Mr. A. F. Pirie, editor and proprietor of the Dun- .das Banner, and his nomination was made unanimous. Mr. Pirie will, therefore, be the Liberal standard bearer in the next con- test in North Wentworth. Mr. Pirie is one of the most clever writers and best plat- form speakers on the Canadian press, and will, we have no doubt, be the next repre- sentative of the riding iu the Provincial - The trustees of the Toronto public schools ,are having a good deal of friction just now concerning the introduction of religious in- struction into the schools. The clergy of the Anglican church are pressing a demand that religious instruction be given in all the public schools of the city. The Jews and some other sects 'are strongly opposing the proposition. The trustees seem to be di- vided on the subject, and thus far no defi- nite decision has been arrived at. The probability is, however, that there will not be any more religious instruction given in the schools than is now given, although the subject may form material' for an excit- ing school trustee acntest at the next elec- tion. The matter rests entirely with the trostees, as the act gives them the power to require that instruction such as the Anglican clergy demand may be given. The Toronto World, which is, perhaps) the most ably conducted Conservative paper in Cintario, /QS " Ontario has a splendid public • school - system. That is just what every sensible person says. The high stand which On- tario's sons and daughters take, and the ready demand for'their services, in all parts of the world, is the best certificate df the excellence of our system and the admirable and efficient manner in which it is adminis- tered, that could be,given. Canadian young men and women not only succeed at home, but when they go abroad failure ia the ex- ception and success the rule, thus showing that they are not only well educeeed at school but well trained at home. This is mething of which all Canadians should be BO proud. A very striking illustration of the com- parative fairness of the Toronto Globe and Mail in dealing with their political oppon- ents, has recently been given. The Globe has given very full and indeed flattering reports of all the meetings held throughout the Province by Mr. Whitney and his col- leagues. In most instances, its reports were as full and cotnplimentary as were those of the Mail. In fact, in so far as the meetings in this district were con- cerned, it was the opinion of e many that the reports of the Globe were more favorable than the meetings deserved. How- ever, in this respect it is, perhaps, always better to err on the safe side. Within the past few weeks several of the Ontario Min- isters have addressed meetings at several different points, and the Mail has given no reports of these meetings at all. It paid no attention to them further , than • to make editorial criticism of some of the speeches of which it had not given its readers any re - 'port. This seem to go to show that the Globe is not afraid to permit its readers to see end read the,very worst its political op- ponents can say of its political friends, but that it is willing to let the public judge be- tween them, while the Mail, on the other ncll while anxious to give publicity to all friends can say about their opponents afraid to permit its readers to see the re- ies made by thcaLiberals to these attacks their opponents. The Globe does justly d honestly by its readers, while the Mail is,evidently,afraid to let its readers see both sides. A good cause need not fear the full- est criticism. It is only those who have a weak case who are afraid to place the whole truth before the public. Several papers in, Toronto have recently been amusing themselves by abusing the Ontario Government because theY refused to violate the conditions of their agreement with the timber limit holders, by passing an order in cauncil forbidding them to export the logs on their limits to the United States, although they now hold a yearly Holum permitting them to do what they wish with their logs, and in this way cease the de - suite of 25 person; of whom .the fellowing represented the Opposition, via, Crawford, Kerne, Marter, Matheson, Meacham, Whit- ney and Willoughby, and the following so- called independent members viz., Haycock, McPherson, McNichol and' Kidd ; the re- mainder were Liberals. Now what the Provincial Auditor could not do, or may have neglected to do, surely the prospective Minieter of Finance and hie colleagues, aided by the four independent members, could have done. They had access to the vouchers and accounts of every department. They had power to examine witnesses under oath, Every dollar of the public accounts is open to their inspection. They claim to be capable men of business. They have a horthand reporter at their elbow, paid for s RUN. EXPOSITOR moralization of the whole lumbering , trade in Northwest --Ontario. The lumbeienen themselves, however, do not agree with these irate journals,and one would naturally think that they know more about the lum- bering trade and what it is best to do in its interests than the Toronto newspapers, al- though a newspaper is somethnes, very eraneously, suppOsed to be an authority on everything. The lumbermen arid mill own - era of the Province held a meeting in To- ronto the other day, and passed a titmice tion almost unanimously', practice y en - far. While they refused to endor e the cloning the course of the Governmen thus Proposal that the Government should break faith with the Atnerican holders of limits by passing an order contrary to the !condi- tions of their licenses, they recommend that when the present licenses expire, the Government should insert in the new licenses a condition that the logs be manufeetured into lumber in Ontario. Thiseno doebt, is what the Government will do, as the last timber limits sold contained a condition to this effect. So that the screstning Of the Toronto papers is simply for the pu se of making a noise. Gremeavrho was last week found guiltylby a Montreal jury of libelling Hon. Mr4arte, Dominion Minister of Public Work was, on Thursday last, sentenced by Judge Wurtell, of Montreal, to six months' im- prisonment without hard labor, and to give bonds to keep the peace for two yeara His sentence would, in all probability,; have been more severe, had not Mr. Tarte plead- ed with the court for 'leniency. News of the Week. WHISKERS PROHIBITED.—An edicit has gone forth that conclustors on Broadway cable cars, New York, must shave off their A. COSTLY FIRE.—Fire broke out in a salon at Gibsonbury, Ohio, Friday night. The postoffice, Oddfellows' block and about fifteen b.usinesis establishments were destroy- ed with contents. Loss $2 000 000 • insur- him light. NO RAIN IN THREE MONTHS.—Irt South- eastern Kansas the drought hex coritinued unbroken for over two. months. Not half an inch of raM has fallen in three months. Farmers heve to drive their stacit to the rivers for water. ROYALTY IN BLOOMERS.—Princess Louise, wifo of the heir to the Saxon throne has taken to bicycling in bloomers in the 'Dres- den parks,accompanied by Prince Frederick Auegustus, her eldest son. eei Hems GOULD TO WED.—New x ere eiety ds aflutter over the report that Miss Helen Gould, with her fortune of $20,000,- 000, is to become the bride of Alonzo Potter, the eldest son of Bishop Potter. The en- gagement, it is said, will be announced as return from their vacations. soon as all the members of both ft.milies BROKE THE FIRE BRIGADE RECORD.— The Denver fire department claims the re- cord for the United States on running 1,000 feet, laying 500 feet of hose connected with a steamer ; and getting water from the steamer through the hose. . The record was made by steamer company No. 4, Their time was 45 seconds. was the sixth anniversary of the death of Charles Stewart Parnell. Five thousand Nationalists paraded the streets of Dablinao Glasnevin cemetery,wbere they heaped high the grave of theirfamons end lamented leader with flowers brought from all the counties of Ireand. Committee of the Society of Amalgamated Engineers, of England, announces that 65,- 000 men are now either on strike orllocked out. ' The aum of 08,000 was distributed as strike pay Saturday. The committee of the London Trades Council has decided to appeal immediately to all trade societies and workmen's clubs of the metropolis for money to aid the strikers. A WORLD'S FAIR AT GLASGOW.—Gltsgo4 the second city in Great Britain, having de- cided to hold an international exhibition in 1901, the citizens have already started pre- liminary operations •and avow theiri atten- tion of beating Chicago's record. The guar- antee fund, though still in its infancy, amounts to $750,000. It is expected that the total $5,000,000 will be raised !within six months. ANOTHER STRIKE IN • THE COAL REGION. —The Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal; Com- pany's breaker employes at Hazleton; Pen- neaylvania, struck Friday' last, because, when given their checks, they found they had been granted leas than they claimed they were promised at the settlement of the recent strike. They said that if the officials offered no satisfactory explanation the 2,500. men of this company will again be idle. ARRESTED " AT HIS WEDDING.—Charles Hysall, a member of a gang that hati been terrorizing the inhabitants of Meigs and sur- rounding counties, in Ohio, has been arrest- ed under sensational aircumstances. Hysall was standing beside Miss Georgia Manley, at the home of Squire Long, in Pomeroy, Ohio, awaiting the word that would <have made them man and wife, when the officers suddeely appeared on the scene. Rewards aggregating $2,000 have been offered !for his capture and conviction. Perth Notes. —There is an agitation in Atwood for the erection of a skating rinlis —Mr. Arthur Mike'', of Fullerton, has opened an implement emporium in Mitchell. —The Stratford Young Men's Christian Association will erect a building of their own. —Rev. Dr. Potts of Toronto, will oc- cupy the pulpit of t'he Mitchell Methodist church on Sunday, 31st in.st. —Dr. Steele, of Tavistock, is taking a post graduate course in the New York hospitals. —D. M. Lineham, of, Atwood, has been elected president in his year at McGill University, Montreal. —Mr. Gotleib Pelke, of Mitchell, had &- serious operation performed on him the other day by Drs. Hurlburt and Wood. —Robert Donovan has sold his farm, lot .134, concession. 14, Elem, to his nephew, 'Robert Donovan, for a consideration of $2,000. —The Inland Revenue returns for the month of September in the Stratford diva. ion show the amount of collections, to be e—Fred Hackney, of Farquhar, 'has gone to Detroit, where he is going to purstie the Study of medicine in one of the schools of that city. ' —Miss Porteifleld, of Atwood, had the misfortune to pull a tea kettle of boiling water over herself the other day scalding one side of her face and neek badly. —While playin_g with some school mates the other day, Louie, the ten year old daughter of Mr..Thomes Male, of Elnia; fell and fractured her left ahoolder bone. —Mr. Wm. Edwards, Mitehell, has pur- abased from Mr. Wm.Porteous the property -lately owned by Mr. David Hodgson, west ward, paying therefor $380. ' —The barn of John Wilson, Elma, was slightly damaged by fire one day tecently. It is supposed to have caught from . a spark from a thresher which was working near the barn. !—John Murray, an old and esteemed resident of Downie, died Friday, let inst., at his home on lot 9, concession 6, of that toasnehip. Deceased was born 64 years ago iniDumfries-shire, Scotland, and came to this country in 1841. He settled on lot 16, concession 6, Downie, and some years later reMoved to the present homestead. He pea's:egged one of the best all-around farms en that locality, and was -noted for his honesty, thrift and industry. About six r• months ago he had a paralytic) stroke, from the effects of which he never ra lied. He was conscious, however, . until &beet a week .ego. He was en polities a staunch Reformer, - end in religion a Presbyterian, Two daugh- ters and three sons survive him. —J. R. Code, of Trowhridge, one after-. noon last week, had thirty-two loads of corn blown into his silo by a Watford Ensilage Blower. Fred Adams fed the —The Robson estate, lot 6, concession 3, Elma, 100 acre farm, was disposed of last Friday by auction, for $3,285, te Robert Smith. The farm is fairly good,1 but the buildings are poor. .1 --The fall show under the &names of the Mitchell Horticultural society Utile year was most successful, The receipts 'not Conly covered all expenses but wiped ou a debt of $225 on the building. , —While getting tip steam at the 'Advo- cate office, in Mitchell, the other dey, a hole was blown in the top of the holler. The proprietor :.Will have to invest iti a new —Mr. John Fitzsimons, of St. marys, was driving on Tuesday of last week, when his horse took fright at a load of hogs. Mr. Fitzsimons was thrown to the ground and -had several ribs broken. —A pretty and quiet weddingtook place at the home of Mr. A. Burnet, Poo e, Wed- nesday evening of last week, when his daughter, Catharine Brown, in the presence of a few intimate relatives was u ited in marriage to Mr. S. D. Robltrtson, o Galt. —Mr. A, J. Blowee has disposed of his property in the south ward, Mitehell, to There is on the lot a brick 'cottage and a nice frame stable. Mr. Blowes will move into his other house,on which lot his marble works are located. --Little Flossie Clyne, the. four year-old daughter of John Clyne, of Stratford, met with a painful accident Monday of last week. She was on a visit to her uncle, James Clyne, in the Gore of Downie, when in some way she fell and broke her left arm below the elbow. —W m. Bain, of Fullerton, -receetly pur- chased eight head of young cat le from sive farmers in Fullerton, intends fitting Fred Beek, of Sebringville, at $ 1 each. Mr. Bain, whd is one of the most progres= them up for the English market, 1 and ex- pects to double his money on them before —The annual fall fair Elf the Elelut Agri- cultural Society was held at Atalood, on Tuesday and Wednesda of last week. The threatening weather of Vednesday had the effect of keeping many away, but t e show, as far as exhibits is concerned, was a most decided succese. —S. McKee, of the firm of Carson & Mc- Kee, and his two daughters, left t istowel two, end purposes _visiting Los Angeles, San last week, on a trip to Southern -C lifornia. Mr. McKee will 'be away for a onth or Diego; Ontario, and other pointit in the southwest. His daughters intend epending the winter in Southern California, the trip being taken principally for the benefit of Miss McKee's health. 1 —Mr. Valentine Welker a for ' er resi- dent of Wallace, who has lived in Listowel for the past few years, died at his ome on Saturdity afternoon, 2nd inett, and was buried in the 6th line cemetery on Tuesday. Mr. Welker was afflicted with a eancer of the stomach and his death was expected. He was in the sixty-fifth year of hie age. ' —One of the popular young ladies of the Huron road, lieu. Mitchell, Miss ;M. Mc- Murray, became the bride of a ltandsome young citizen of Detroit, on W;edneaday afternoon of last week. The marriage took place at the home of the bride's father, Mr. Peter McMurray, and the bridegroom, Mr. R. M. Austin, departed with his i bride in the evening for their home in Detroit. —W. F. Robinson, son of John Robinson, of the 3rd line, Blanshard,enjoys a; lucrative law business in Denver, Colorado' and is so popular throughout the State thart , lie has been nominated for the position Of Justice of the Supremo Court of Colored°. The Denver News says the nomination! was un- sought, but rather urged upon' Mr. Robin- son. It also says that " the candidate ie 35 years of age, having been born in the town- ship of Blanshard, Perth county, Province of Ontaritain 1862." —In the closing hours of Mitchell's fall fair an accident occurred on the grounds which came very near proving • fatal. Mr. Fred Hanson, son of Wm. Hanson, Fuller- ton, was just getting his team ready to contest in the " walking match," when he fell backwards from the wagon, striking on his shoulders. The wheels of the wagon passed over almost the entire length of his body, and when picked up he waa thought to be seriously injured. He wes at once, driven to his home, where he was attended to by a doctor from Kirkton, who found a blood vessel ruptured, but beymid this he News Notes. —Premier Ralli, of Greece, teedered the' resignations of his -Ministers to King George, who accepted them.* —Fire, which broke out early the other morning at Willow Springs, 16 !Mies from Chicago, on the drainage canaL destroyed nearly half the town, and made fitty families homeless. Loss about $50,000; with but little insurance. , —Mrs. Langtry announces that she has retired from the stage, arri that her steam yacht,' White Ladye, will be isold. Her racing stable, which is conducted under the name of Mr. Jersey, will be reteined, and her horses will run as heretofore. —Professor Landerer, of Stuttgart, Ger- many, who has been experimenting for years inthe treatment of tuberculosis, has treated 400 patients with a soluble salt of cinnamic acid. Fle believes that almoet all the patients so treated have been permanently cured. —The retiring laird Mayor Of London, Sir George Faudel Phillips, has (achieved a record so far as charitable funds are con- cerned. During the twelve months he has been in office Sir George has raised f700,- 000, the bulk of it being India famine fund. —Henry George was unanimmisIy nomin- ated for mayor at the city nomination con- vention of the Democrat Alliance of Greater New York,'on Friday night, October lat. —A despatch from New Orleans says : " The fever is rapidly epreading in .enany districts. Twenty-eight new cas'es were re- ported the other day and four deethe. 1:1 Rich and poor alike have been strickeriest and • the board of health reports seem to tlehow that the beet in the trained and the best kept streets are presenting cases as numer- ous as those which are minus sanitation. —The Montreal express over the southern division of the Boston and Maine Railroad, due in Boston on Friday night, October lst, met with an accident at Vilest Medford, whereby nearly thirty persons were more or less injured, but none, it is belie ed, fatally hurt. Thera were eight cars on the train, which was eat -ming rapidly, and the three rear eoaches were derailed. —Mrs. Caroline Rezinius of West Point, New York, and her four childrenlwere found deed the other morning, in the liVest Shore Hotel, New York. Asphyxiation by gas was the cause of death. It is believed the; mother waited until the children were asleep, then closed all apertures and turned on the gas from two jets. —There are indications th t arrange- ments are being made for a re-union,between General Booth, of the Salvation I3Army, and hM son, Ballington Booth.' New has come from England -that both armies evould cele- brate October 7th, as reconciliation day, and the farther announcement that General Booth would visit this country in January. It has been learned that all the details have been arranged, and that Ballington Booth is to be taken back and is to have conunand of the forces in America. OCTOBER 15, 1i497. Times UST plr#0:g ettrria itou ly d day be durtped etanthiopl Moak in pankimiza *blob w atoutantty ieote:)dreloeph:naltitotogvosjeltti nstanthl caro in mare 74411 ii7ierbfkigea:Yretlirovl espeeially cies ads for anythini nia" in it, and Clifino among very of which grea inhillegthe:;ihdti) wwash°111 it out, ntinuinj ted out to him the the letter A. nit take his breath awe; distance to the the letter R bel detection ,of tbe lett as like an electric h explosion could nd more than the disco E. By the time he 1 remaining letters, Xi gaine waif up, and se ...precious map and red syllables arum ew that it was loot Bortiew with an artici disturbed condition d hit& empire followed h irome foreign new s Round Table. The People's - Y TO There is a lively trade going on among the Dresses, Jackets, Furs, Millinery, dco. Many people are making their selections early but the stock is very large, so it will take some big selling to dispose of it. In the Dress Goods Depart- ment alone there is enough material 0 dress every woman and girl in Seaforth three times over—with lots to spare after that. The Jacket cloths we show represents hundreds of' yards of faihipnable materials, that will make good, warm, serviceable, stilish common sense Jackets.; Our assortment of Made up Jackets and Furs should interest every buyer who is desirous of getting the best without payi#g to much money for it. Our grat collection of Newly trimed Hats and Bon- nets is meeting with speedy sale, and almost everyday New things are being added to the stock, keeping it all the time fresh and attractive. klere are some of the things you may want, and the best time to buy is NOW. • N.OTE THE PRICES`Va DRESS GOODS Double Fold Tweeds 12ic. Double Fold Plaid, 1,6e. ,Double Fold Fancy, 20e. Double Fold Heavy, 25e. The above are extra good lines for girls school wear. • - Finer Dresses, 7 yards each, for $2 all the new colorings, immmmismosimiimme Jacket Cloths. GoOd Colors, wide, $50e. Heavy Tweed, wide, 75e. - Nice Beaver Cloth, $1. English Nap Cloth, $1.25. Fancy Curl Cloth, $1.50. Extra Cloth for Capes, $1.65. Also sortie specially Fine Cloth, for extra choice Garments, running in price froth $1.75 up. Made up Jackets. Good Beaver, (nice fitting), $3.50. Mixed Tweed, (nice fitting), $4. Frieze Cloth, nobby, $5. Scotch Tweed, nobby, $6.50. Fine' Venetian, nobby, $8. Kersey Cloth in handsome colorings,. 1 Children's•Caps, as low asil0e. Children's Fancy Tams 20e, Cloth Tams Trimmed, '25c. Wool Toques, 20e, 30c and 40e. You can get just about what you want from us. Fine Trimmed Millinery at popular prices. Really nice Hats, at $1.50, $2.50 and $3.50. Misses sizes, from lee up. Better qualities, 25c. Ladies' sizes, 25e. Ladies' fiine, 50e, 75c and $1. Boys' sizes, 20c. Better qualities, 35c. Men's sizes, special value, 10; 50e, 65e, 85c,11. We have almost everything that may be_called for in Plain and Ribbed, in good•strong yarn, and in fine soft yarn—in Cashmere andll-in Worsted -- in ladies' and children's sizes. Prices, This store is full of Special Goods," which we are selling cheap ; scarcely a day but some new bargain comes 0 hand and we lose no time in placing it before the people, We keep nothing back, if a chance comes our way, o r customers get the benefit of it, There will be some great alues for the people this month—values that Will make more business, at The People's Busy Store, CFA MI A SMALL MAN'S Battles the Dignity of it -Cable The 'small sized, ts re enge now and old plill yesterday - *able r bound down -one vacant Oat Other stood up were clinging ioteerte the vacant plac .4trangers to each other, weaning diamond e ardiana of the ;vs as hardly wide ettoug small man to a 0 .-Xither of the women. -Ale, oould have made tut they chose to sit A ;statues while the di .vrowded into the place All the signs of being ,but theee implacable, Anoved not# At Tenth - Immo:, weighing atm boarded the car. Witl 'Chesterfield the 61116111 ;, .hat and said: "Fran take my seat started to sit doWn. Co .depictid upon the faces ly clad 'women as thel too latji, 'for the heavyl into the= neat and came 1 the other women. Ther .-of cruinpling cloth ain 4kirts as the two wome. from the weight pinnin ,:aud none more so tlia.0 'who had had his revec -Commercial. ' DRY GOODS COMPANY, Seaforth's Greatest Cash Dry Goods Store. The,,,:air is so clear loons that conversation las else bein asserted • ty that at Gibraltar t has been distinctly bald -eit ten Indies. liking, *efficient for nod THE; VARA Spring wises_ s per Auk* per alone per 1.00 _thy per ion new—a—a-- Sale (retell) per buirel— Wood par Gerd (sbert) Apples per bag Clover Beed. 'Timothy Seei.._ eserit, poi 100 — iluing wheat. 00:81 se 00,81 PIMS, per bush. 45e to tilio; lc ; dressed top, per too DaiirY likfnow, October 9th, 'toffee offered 8,843 boxes gef August at 9o, 305 Sept -market to -day the folit made 5,719 boxes large 1,920 small at 9o, 14i -•!„ .packages ereamery buti malt at 2Io. Cheese marl *Ws and dull. LIITLZ FALLS, October I were made to -day 85 boi le, 3,616 mall -creams itt, , of GO luxe at 8fic, 797 large at private term ; utter at isc. Mos - Oetober 1.1