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HomeMy WebLinkAboutHuron Record, 1881-07-08, Page 4HURON RECORD'. CoG1NTls FlizvAY, Juni .8T1r, 1881. • 4r11 ATTEMPTED MURDER OF PRESIDENT GARF.IELD. On Saturday ° morning this country —and no doubt all countries, was thrown into a state of excitement ori, hearing the news. of the attempted murder. of President. Garfield while " purchasing a: ticket in the Baltimore and Potomac depot at Washington, by an ex -consul named Guitteau. For a cold-blooded murder this attempt will eclipse anything that iias ever "before came under our notice. Without any cause, the pistol was aimed, and the bullets took their effect, There seems to have been no revenge in . question and nothing at stake. to. incite the as- sailant into his, bprrible deed,.; The President's own position at the' time seemed' to• Blake the deed look the more atrocious. He was purchasing a ticket to go by train to . visit his wife who was lying ill at a distance and not elcpected to recover. Ile was not in a proper state of health at the time to leave his bedroom; owing to the. coin bined anxiety of his wife's illness anct his dispute with Conklingiil upholding right and justice. Yet, at this. same ° moment •the evil design was• put into practise and, he was laid, low. Ever since, and ou Saturday particlarly, the telegraph office was besieged withnum- bers of people anxious to ' read every bulletin, and watching for every bul- letin to come. As we write lie is very much improved , rests easy,, and- good hopes are entertained of • his recovery. :ti few words with respectto his life may not, •be but of place. • He was, born in Connecticut .in 1831. • His father was a farmer and died when Garfield wae 111140. .blurry tint; itis} uyg ,ll7m to lcaxil, farm work, whicth.he' did successfully: Ile*besides learned to be a . carpenter and could, in•fact,.put his hand to and work at anything. After this he taught school for a .few years and then' entered college: •4fter a few year lie became president of Hiram's ;College, Ohio, during which period he preached several times, His public. carer was commenoecl in .1858, when lie was elect- ed to the' State House of 'representa tives. He occupied : the.. ?position of t'eloiiel dui iiig= the lvar about..this time.; He retirel,from the .service' in 1562," and was elected to Congress dewing the same year. . He served as a Congress loan until 1879, when he was appoint- ed to 'the :United States Senate in place of Senator Hurman. In June, 1880, the Republican . Convention for' the purpose ofselecting a caudidatefor the Presidence was held in Chioage; when Messrs. Grant arid Blaine seemed to be the two rival men for the claitms. Ga., field, however, being. a •third party was brought out as "Independent," and after several day's voting secured' the candidacy. ' After a: very= -'stirring election he -was. pilscedat the head of the polls, ti EDITORIAL NO2'.ES:• DR. BREREToN had a larger iSiajority in East Durham than. had the popular and universally respected John Rose- vear at the last election. The cohstit uency is true to the cause.. As our. mild-mannered: contemporary ia.of the opinion, that.. the majority by �vlricli a. local legislature, is elected an xpres-' sionof. opiirion on the subject of; the National' Policy,. it will no. doubt: tell its readers to-clayor to-m.orrow.thattthe increased majority given to the conser- vative candidate by East Durham.:, in- dicates that: the eleotors,of that constit ueney approve of the tarrift.•. TIIE Whitby .Gazette, After -discussing the question of free trade"and protection, comes. to , the lellowing very sensible conclusion :. ' "It requires no very gent amount of, reflection to preceive that a rule applicable. to England, with itis immense ense capital .Jew rate • of interest, , long,ox- perience. in uiaaufacturing,.and strong hold of:'the .world's markets,.. will not apply to a young country with limited capital,, high rate, of interest, slender owe p,erionce, and no, established r foreign t>;i tinier Vy:e.4 adapt. tbO, two., Wowing simple rules for our direction : 1st the home market is the best market; 2nd, diversity of talent demands a deversity of employment." This is the conclusion. to which all dispassionate' opponents, of the Govern- ment wilt in time come., Tea 1'riish land bill still drags its weary way through the 'Douse of commons, and it is going to. pass— though not very hurriedly. The third reading it- is stated will. not be con- tested by she Opposition„ancp the meas- ure with the few amendments the Govµ ernment has made in it will go up to the Lords, where its fate' will be de- cided. The general impression. ie that the Peers will give it a second reading,. but will materially modify it in com- mittee. .Several Irish Tory peers in- tend to support the second reading,, and it is considered that will. effect the act- ion of the English...Tory peers. _ The bill. is having along siege of it. While the doctors are wrangling over the char acter'ofthe medicine to be; prescribed a sick ligan may die. This may not be the casein the •present distance;. but it is evident that the patient Is not get- ting better. . ME New .2Vew Era of last week,, in corn menting on the remarks of the Mont- real 1Vitness, which we published in our last issue, anent the return of the lib- erals to power says :—Liberals fight for principles ; liberals fight conscientiously and without resort to all manner of subterfuge, 'liberals consider principle and honor of more value than; Ores (claiming that the conservatiwes.c10 not); hence carrying on a contest against the temporary,, yet great • advantages of their opponent's, isa Bard um:brtaking, but of the ultimate triumph of their cause, there. is scarcely any. doubt. = Tliis is refresliing'indeed. "-Principle." ,".honor" and' "•conscientiously" • are .new words; to' the liberals and 'don't seem_to be:,properlv..i ogerstoocl _ The :results of the election courts for , the past four ' or fivo years don't seem to give this. record .for the party. Per- haps • the `New. 3iha can e\plal:ii. The .probabilitis are when the great, lumin- ary Blake. calls • the. roll the answer will be to the foregoina scheme, "We do not." .Again,. as to.theadvantages of the Ono, servatives, they are ;teMporliiy,- tempore ary for years to come and are•eeitaiii.ly great.' '1,`licir protective . policy, "by which means' a great nation is :to be built up, and its successful 'working; no; doubt counts:a great advantage' to • the,. .party without anything else; yet.. Mrt McKenzie's 'government couldi never. have are advantage -like this. • • • SPORTING INTELLIGENCE: • TURF. The .races at Exeter.: on , Dominion :Day- were wolf' contested,and some good horses took part... •The. following are the prizes:—Local running, race - 1st, Mary Morning ; 2iid, Lady Byron., .Local trot-lst, • Little Nellie; 2nd, Little Nell. Open running race=•lst, Sam. Willard ; 2nd, Bay Jack.; •3rd, Little Maud. Open trot—lst, Brown' Prince; 2nd, Dexter; 3rd, 'Marquis 'nf Lorin... SASE BALL.' . • The Kratail boys played Dungannon at. Kintail on. Dominion 'Lay; with the following score—Dungannon `30, Kin. tail 23. r The' Good' Templars of Leeburn, played the Black Sheep of Millbury, at Leebirrn on 'Dominion Day, "having a long and exciting gauie with the fol- loing score ----. Good Templars 81, Black Sheep, .51•. - LACROISZ: The Seaforth Lacrosse club, about which so much braggadocio :has been indulged in for the past few weeks, player: the Brants of Paris, at that place on Dominion Day, the Brants winning iinthree straight games. They will in all probability receive the same treatment from Some of our home clubs ere long. •. . • The dauntless:lacrosse club of Clinton iilayed their that match with the. ", Exeters " of` Vixeter on the first of July and were defeated by three,games to one, Exeter winning the first, second and fourth gautes...•The game lasted over an hotir:and•a half• and was well contested some splendid playing being! done on both' sides. , thteter being as very heavy team had: the advantage over tha.Clinton boys. A return inateh'i will 'be -played before long when 01in- totonboys thou, expect to,.barl* tter. prepared 11 CR ICKET. Our club played at New Hamburg with a picked eleven on Dominion Day, Through, some disappointment some of the best players of our club could not make it possible to get away so that some "green bands .lead to be taken on, which accounts ikt a great measure for their defeat. The Hamburg club consisted of the best players in the county,.„ The following is the score := NEW irAmintiRo, - Zit' Innings.. 2nd Innings: Arown,l b w,b IGtnsford!0t c Dennis, b Harland, 0 Davtes„lf Ilarlandi 0. c`'and b%lianeford, 1 Plum, b,IIarland, Q c Wheatley b iiansford, 8 Sterling„ a Harland). b Itansford, 23 Cook, b llansford, 1 J. Ernst„b ltansfQrd, 0 F.D.Woodcock, not out, 10 T.Woodcocic,b Harland? 1 F, L'rnab, o Harland, 2 Brook, b Rwrsford, 0 plillar, runtout, f! ' Byes, 15 Wides, 1 03 b'Ransford,, 3 not out, 4 a b ilarland, 2(;, c Itansford b Harland, 2 c Jackson, b fiansford, 1 c Jackson, b Ranstord, 3 o Jackson, h Elmsford, 0 run out, 6 Byes, 23 Leg -byes, 1 110 0s CLINTON. lot Tlrninps. and Innings. c Plum, b Brown, NcEwan,e Cook ,b Brown 9 Fowler, c Woodcock, b Brown 3 Johnston, b Cook, 2 ltuusford, hit.wiokct, b Brown,. 0 Ilarl;und,, bBrow•n,, 6 Jackson, b Brown, . 0 Dennis, b Cook, 2 Lorfiwood, run out; • 4 ll: aggart.b Cook. 4 Wheatley, 1, Drown,. 0 Young, not out„ 2 Byes, 8 Widest 6 stint Brown, • b Sterling, c•Amok„b Sterling, o and b Brown, o Plum, b Davies, b Sterling, out b Dories,, h Sterling, 1, Sterling, ,Byes, Leg -byes„ Wider, 184 8 c 4 9 14 14 2 • 0 1 3 l 44 03. 44 107 OnDominion day, the Listowel boys played Wiugllam club with the follow- ing score :- LISTOWEL. lst Innings. R, Ilay, h Ferguson 1 It. Ferguson, b Webster, c l hart kc 0 W. liay b Ferguson. 0 Harkin •,-bFerguson,e -Hawke Wright, b and Fer tt, son, 0 Tracy; b Webster 0 McDonald, bWebster 7 'Miles, b Webster 10 (,bbs, b Webster 0 11. liar, b Webster 0 11.J .Ferguson, not out I.. Extras. 11 Qnd Innings.. li Prooutr r . b Proctor b Proctor b Webster thrown out Proctor, not out • not out to bat to bat • to bat • ti. Proctor isxtras, 4s • till\'UlIA11 1st Innings ?s,d innings. Edgar, run out 12 run MA' Dole, b W. ]lay 8 ' ti 1Jay; e Ilackhlg. Bray, b •Ferguson,' c (1ib5i 0 b "Ferguson • Ferguson, 15 W. Ifay 0 b and c IV. i4g:• Ilatrke, bINT flay,e11. Ihyv 3 run out 1Vob ter b Ferguson 0 b W. Illy Moyer, b Pel'gnoon '• .0 b \F. flay ('crbould, hit wicket 0 ruin out . Rlino, not out . 1 rrui otic 1lcMillan, run out 2 , run out Proctor, b W. flay 0' b W. ]lay, :Extras 3 LXtas• 0 1 0' 1 1 111 10. 0 14 -8 4. .0 0., 0' 1. 28. 'hat Qr esat Artists Say. - • : 1F rolls:"• %1&Daafia L.A. BLAME? 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