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HomeMy WebLinkAboutHuron Record, 1881-06-03, Page 4HURON 'RECORD. CLINTON, FRIDAY, .TUNE 31iw,~ 1881• TILE PORT 0P ENTITY QATIS TION. . No doubtthepeople ofClinton andsur- rounding country will be much pleased to learn that the petitions which were circulated some time ago praying that' this town be made a port of entry, are all ready for despatching to the Min- ister of Customs at Ottawa. They have been unanimously signed in, the different towns and villages, especially in the county, and by the leading county officials. The committee having the matter now in hand are waiting until the next meeting of our Council; when. they purpose waiting on the Council and asking them to appoint a deputa- tion puta- tion to take the petitions -to, Ottawa,. This no doubt the Council will readily agree to, as the matter has now been pretty well agitated, and in fact every person knov-s that a port of entry here bas become a real necessity. During the. last week we have beard very favor- able opillions expressed on the uubiect from some of the leading men of •the. county—especially -from North Huron, If the public feeling all over the county will have any ifluence in the matter, our object will certainly' lie 'gained,; Again, our situation is the most cen- tral in the county, and our merchants here do a larger wholesale business than any other town in the county. .. number of our dry goods men, all.of our factories, and in the iron and hardware line, Mr. It. M. Racey imports directly from the Old Country and sends his goods from here to different points, in the adjoining counties. • Ifl conclusion we hope that our Council will appoint a good energetic deputation to take the petitions to Ottawa and work. for the granting the-. prayer.:• . _ _..._.. THE meeting which was to .have been held in Hyde park bn Sunday to pro- test against the arrests 4n Ireland did_ pot take place,, Mr. Parnell having re- commended its postponement until after thevote in the House of Commons on Mr, Justin McCarthy's amendment to the Land bill, TUE negotiations between the United States and Great Britain, relative to the Fortune Bay claims have been conclud- ed. The British Government agreed to pay fifteen pounds sterling, receiving therefor a receipt in full. The amount claimed by the American fishermen wes $103,000. NUMEROUS' outrages have been Com— mitted. by the Boers since the establish- ment of peace, and the loyalists it: Trans- vaal are much disturbed. In .one in- stance a'party of Boers attacked a num- ber of •natio es on .account of their loy- alty to the Queen, and killed ten. The native tribes are, all preparing for resist- ance. to the Dutehtnen, EDITORIAL NOTES. Sin Jomr A. MCDoNALD' has arrived in England being greatly improved .in health from the voyage. . . • Tun Canadian Pacific railway, syndi•. este have purchased for two hundred thousand dollars the lino of• steamships' plying between Victoria and. Puget Sound. A. PARLIAMENTARY deadlock exists in Denmark owing -to the inability of the. two Chambers to . pull together. A series of dissolutions _of the Diet will probably be the result.. SINCE Lord Beaconsfield's death, his late secretary, Lord Rowton; has been in almost. constant attendance on the Queen, and the London society papers are circulating a rumour that he. is about to enter into closer relations with the royal family, This is believed to mean'that the; young lord is about to contract an alliance with the Princess Beatrice. - MR. MOSES SPRINGER, who has ever: Once Confederation represented the I rth Riding of Waterloo • in the. Ontario Legislature, has_ resigned his seat with a view to accepting tile. Shrievalty of the county; THE proceedings in "connection with the Feehley's, closed at Detroit on Tues- day last. They are eaunnaitted toawait the proper proceedings at Washingtot for their extradition, when no doubt an exciting trial will take place at London: exclusive protection of France from its source down to Timbuctoo." The terms of.:.the arraug-ment ,are =eh that Eng,. land is now jealously watching its Re- publican neighbor, and it is said that the Imperial Government can no longer look upon the progress of Franke in Africa with a friendly eye. When Eng- land opens a new market by the expen- diture of money, or of blood all Europe ispermitted to share in the advantages which may result ; but France is pur- suing a policy of exclusiveness which may yet cause trouble. MR, HvGII MCEwEN, mayor of• Pal- merston, and a staunch Reformer, is on :a visit to the North-West Territories. From Grand Valley be writes to the Palmerston Telegraph, an interesting letter about the country. He says :— "The country is settling up very fast with a good class of people, the ma- jority being from,; Ontario. After all the cry about the migration to. Dakota, there is not one' hi' every ten goes to that place." ' Mr.' McEwen thus dis- • poses of the exodus cry which those of hisparty friends who are unscrupulous have been using. Mr. McEwen thinks, as his party leaders think, that the ex- emption of railway. lands from taxa- tion is a drawback, but he says:- "This, I think, will be balanced to a great extent by the liberal policy.' of the . company in selling their lands at a reasonable figure." Of course, if rail- way lands are heavily taxed, the synth= cate would have to find weans by which to meet the taxation, and would prob. .` ably' be• obliged to sell their lands at a less reasonable figure and: charge higher' freight : rates. If there had been no exemption from taxation, _ the leaders of• the.Reforin party would have been even more eloquent than they were: in their clenunctiatilsit. of the syndicate cQ ltxact,.".Here•,fi''...,IIr...''Blake. ..could h axe. said,,."youu:.are,•1iy. this .illiquitous- arrangeiln,ent, placing the company at the mercy of the,settlers, who. Will lie} in sa position Et. to burden' the under- taking•with taxation, as either to ruin What . was intended to .be great na- tional enterprise; •or tee chive the sypldi- rate' into charging- for the: land they sell, prices :sabigh as to frighten intend- ing settlersfrom. our, Dominion, .and imposing upon goods they carry, rates so . entirely out of proportion to the rates:which obtain upon other and com- peting lines as to cause the great 'grain. trade of the Worth -West to •seek the seaboard byway.of the United States;" (Loud cheers from Oppositionbenches) —Mei/. • A MEETING of the Cabinet was held at Quebec a few days 'ago,. at which Hen. Jas. Macdonald, of •.Pietou, 1;Iinister of Justice, Was appointed to the Chief Justiceship of Nova Scotia, made vacant by the resignation of Chief Justice Young. Changes"in the personnel of the Cabinet were made •as follows 't -Minister of` Justice, ..Sir.• Alexander Campbell; Postmaster Gen- eral,-Hour"John O'Connor • Seoretary of -Mate, Hon. J, -A:- Mosseaq;;President of the • Council, Hon A. W. ;141cLe1iu , of Londonderry,.Nova Scotia. IT Is proposed to erecta monument in eomnlelnoration of the Victoria disaster at London. For this purpose the ante- d imof $23,000 is to be raised by subscrip- tions. The:City will no, ,doubt give a grant of "a, very large part of this amount. THE nomination o canadates for the: representation of Colchester and Pictou in the I-Iowse of Commons hag:been fisted . for 1lth inst., andthe polliiigfer the 1Sth. Mr. Jones has,. it is understood decliued the Reform candidacy is the former constituenev .7'J] oodstock: Tunes -O'E London firm has shipped no less than *:75,000•.worth of reapers and mowers to the North- West. This fact, which Welearn' from: the Globe, 'gives one some idea of the benefits Ontario derives from the North West trade, yet, tbe'Glrits would much.• rather see this rich harvest: go, to'States as it undoubtedly would do had • Mac- kenzie, Blake:,& Co.. the control of the •affairq of the country. We know local Manufacturers who were sending their._ goods to the North-West and are thus' benefiting.thenlselyes and the town who would otherwise depend entirely upon a local trade, ancl yet we hear of'the injury isdoing the country...' air TUE nominations for the •representa. tion of North Ontario in the •Ontario 17egisiature were held•'at Port Perry. en Saturday. Mr. 'Frank 11[ailill, of Bea- verton, is the nominee of ti a conserva- tives, and Mr. Joseph Bigelow, of Port Perry, the •standard-bearer of. the Re- formers. - . • Wednesday's Mail gives fa list, of the crop reports from all parts of the Prey- - ince. In thegeneralityofcasesf l:lwheat is reported se only Half a cropi. Spring is generally• reported to be an average crop. In a great many sections It7tin is very much needed, for the a'atit• of ' ia& sotue of the crop* are damaged. . The Montreal Witness, tufa, leading religious. daily and general organ of the Grit party in :the Eastern provinces comes clown With the following; on• Monday last coni erning the Globe's: ut, terances on the health of Sir John A. McDonald. `Though sometimes very •bigoted, the Wieners at certain tunes, gives matters a calm and thoughtful consideration. The -following ie what it say s:—The.gleeful way in which tit e Tor- onto omonto Globe seems seems, to chuckle: over the presume& approaching .demise, or, necessary retirement through' illness, of Sir Sohn Macdonald is said to be ;very offensive to most of the party. •which has'. :followed the paper. , As lir:. Gordoa Brown; is on the Atlantic he cannot now be held directly responsible, for the coarse behavior of his paper, which.. we lio'pe will take a hint and for itis own sake act mere decently: When the time comeq, which may be yet far off, when the place ef 'r John Macdonald shall be only inhistory,, it will be•found that,however crafty aai,li strong: his methods of action,.. •lie• hats *at ,least played the part of a great maul. The annual picnic for .the' pupils of S. S. No. 1, Goderich township; will he held in Mr, . Polley's .;grove,: •nearthe school, on Friday afternoon, Jane loth.. Friends are cordially invited to come and bring 'caskets:' -FOA-SAL-E. WII!' undersigned offers tbo. followrnp aatiulbs• for L sale: -1 set of double harness, I iron.. beam thistle cutter plough, 1 set•of iron harrows, (now).. ..manufaetnred,bli1iller & Tedford, 1 lumber wagon,. 1 taw rack, 1 pair of •bob•sloighs, one fanning 'mill, whiffle -trees undlncek yoke, grind stone, forks, S.e. 14. COoKr • Clinton. Clinton, "Juan 2, 1881. . 14.4 Ileatisnt/am-1r France. had' shown her Mind as regards the Tunisian expedition, the result in the French expedition in the ; Nigerwas male known, • Very quietly the expedition, which starttied• in January, . 1880, proceeded up the Niger, and, reached the Domiations of Albmadoo, Sultan ,of Sego. With Abniadoo a treaty was mnda-by one• alt tiele of which "French subjects ondlyx to the',exclueion of all other. Europeans will have the right to ,eetablith theist-, selves and to open tracking ifaetoriee in tine Empire of Sego,." while lay another "the rater: Nie r is placed undettheaa ltonExeot„ April 311tilh 1881,, (2t. 4, sceratrai�. a NOTICE. TIIE COI NEIL, of the eorponition the he County of Huren will meet in the Court House, intim Town. of Godurfeh, on Tuesday, the 7th stat of June next. . PLTI:lt•ADAnsox, County c`ierk.: Goderich, may 13,1591 - 14 The Canadian .Paeifie :Railway. Co'y. EM IG RATIO N. —To•�— 11.0: 7i' 4 --AND TIIE— CANADIAN NORTH-WEST SALE OF LANDS.. TO encourage the rapid settlenenti of the Ctultitry, thtti:aurtttein Nettie Railway Company will be prepared; until fttrther notice, to sell lands required for agricttitutalpurposes at the low price of .82.60 an acre, payable by instalments, and will fnrtbor rntko ' an allowance by way of rebate from this price, of 81.25 for ivory acro of such land's brougght under cultivation, within three to five years following the data °LAIN:, chase* according to the nature and extent of tha othurtintprovements:made thereon, The lands thus offered for sale„ will not conipribo Mineral ,Coal or Wood lands, or tracts for Totwmstice and Railway purposes, Contrasts. at special rates will buimd9+ ada.for lanre, quires fe ncattle raising and other purposes noti4- volving lint»odlate cultivation. Attending Bottlers. and their offsets, on reaching:t e Cowpony's Railway, will ho fotwartfed thereon to theih place of destination on Ver' liherai terms. IF usthcr particulars will bo furnished ouapplicatian at thaotllktkof TILE CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY Co A1I.i;at 11lontrsal and Winnipeg. By cadet the Board, Clic. UROtKCW&TER, BLACK SILKS. • .Cratb, Macwhrrter &.Cc s JACK lo thing °vise, OLIN' ON:, :ONT• Just received by express for the Summer wear .a fresh lot-' of LINEN DUSTERS,. ALPACA DUSTERS, RE. DUSTS • `• • � LUST , • LINEN COATS, ALPACA COATS, RUSS:EL'CORD COATS, WHITE VESTS, :. • -Bich we Plavo in every size at reasent bl' prizes. Also our stock of Itcadmaile E 10111111 g' Will be found complete, as we. have better facili,•ties now than before. We aro dealing ole extensively in that line, and as• b m We'rnake all our own ready-made, people• can rely on them lie- ingmadejust the same as i€'youi measure was tals-on:.. • We;ntre'constantly recemg•new goods mid eau slim the finest stock to the county. TEOS. JACKSON, The "Noted." Qlothier.