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Wednesday, July 17th 1889
+.DITORJAT NOTES.
Some spouters at public meet-
ings talk as though the chief agents
in political affairs are the passions
of men. They should belong to
the Clan-ua-Gael.
If proof were necessary of the
general incotrectnoss an 1 altogether
untainted of our totem's report of
Mr. Porter's meeting, we have it in
the fact that a number of Reformers
have volunteered to us expressions
of approval of our exceptiuua.
They also expressed their approval
of A'lr. Porter's explanations. -
If we want party refoim.that re-
form can best bo effected–within an
existing party rather that by the
formation•of a new party. Party is
but another name fut•'one moiety of
the people, TSI, say that all parties
are oor►upt el to say that the major-
ity of the people are corrupt. And
if the majority of the people ate
corrupt in existing parties, what is
there to prevent the majority in a
third party ,from being corrupt
also?
Tho Reform party says that in
the matter 'of preserving provincial
rights its representatives. acted pro=
perly iu voting that the Dominion
parliament had no right to interfer-
ore in Quebec legislation, regarding
exclusively local matters. But that
the Conservative representatives
had no right to do - so, This is
rather peculiar political ethics.
The Conservatives should have
done wrong because the Reformers
did right.
To suppose that any party can be
formed which will iu all its details
carry out the individual views of
each ntotuber of the party is to sup-
pose au impossibility. For there
will be as 'many phases of minds as
there are Members. The good
"citizen will belong to that, party
which on the whole is most liar.
monious with his convictions and
aims. To conclude that a party
can be formed that will work out
impossibilities is a very•comical eon.
elusion.
Our contemporary says that
some pronounced Conservatives
have endorsed its statements regard
ing Mr. Porter's meeting here.
That may be quite true. We have
neither denied nor attempted to
conceal the fact that there are some
Conservatives who can see no good
in Mr. Porter now, just as they at
one time could sec neither good
nor truth in the New Era. We
submit that iu neither case have
they good cause for the reversal of
their opinions, and as this is a free
country no one can prevent them
from seeing all evil where they
formerly all saw good, nor from see-
ing all purity and truth whore for.
merly they saw naught but traitorism
and lies.
Minister of Finance, Hon. Geo.
E. Foster, is not having his nuptial
couch a complete bed of roses. He
recently 'nettled Mrs. Chisholm, the
American divorced wife of au ab-
sconding temperance orator former-
ly of Hamilton, Ont. The elegy
hold that the couple are living in
sin, and the lawyers say, that the
divorce is incompatible - with the
civil laws of of Canada. There is
no justification for the laxity of
American divorce laws; nor is there
any excuse why a; properly
guarded divorce court could not be
established in Canada, in which for
just cause and without the expendi-
ture of a fortune aggrieved married
persons could got redress.
A Veteran Orangeman has asensi-
ble letter. in last week's Goderich
Star. He calmly and justly we'fghs
the constitutional and political
bearings of the action of the 188 in
parliament. We make this extract :
t' With regard to the Jesuits' Estates
Act there is no choice between Con-
servatives and Grits, for both sup-
ported allowance, but on the grand
question -of British connection,
which Orangemen are sworn to
maintain, there is a wide difference.
No one will deny that Sir John is
loyal and patriotic, which is more
than can bo said of Blake or Lau-
rier, the first a P41110114o and the
last a Rielite. Moth would dis-
member the British Empire by
separating Ireland from England
and annexing Canada to the United
States. Long way the grand old
chief live to frustrate the evil de-
signs"9f the elletniea Qt' British Con-
nection and the British Empire-,"
• Soveriogn Grand Master, N.
Clark Wallace, in his remarks of
the 12th of July warned Orauge-
meu against making a conftdaut of
the Globe or beiug guided by its
advice. That it was not good policy
to confide in or be guided by an
enemy. Bro. Wallace is right, and
Orangemen might as well trust our
local cotem as the Globe.
The statement that our . town
cotem has fur years been holdiug up
the forlorn and helpless condition
of the Canadian farmers is quite
true, in spite of its denial to the
contrary. It has persistently fol-
lowed in the steps of the Globe in
this respect, as its files will prove
and as its renders cannot but be
award of. To remedy this alleged
helplessness it advocated the com-
mercial' union fad, and sirb'witted as
a" last retort- political annexation.
There,a is no use for the. Era to deuy:
its assettiona 'and reiterations of
years. The alleged hopeless con-
,ditien of the Canadian fennels un -
`der existing conditions has beeu its
political stock in trade for years.
The alleged poor prices Cnpadian
farmers %veto receiving for their
bailey, their eggs their lambs and
their horses were dealt with by it
in such a lachrymose style as would
have drawn tears from the heart of
a turnip were that possible.
It is ofteu asserted that the refus-
al of parliament to iuterfere with
the exercise of legislative powers
exclusively belonging to the pro-
vinces was a bid for party advant-
age. When both parties take the
same view of a public question, it
is hard to see how both of them can
be pandering to party advantage by
so doing. No question . has ever
been dealt with in Canada in which
public welfare rather than party
advantage bas been so prominently
prominent. It remains for the
press at -this juncture, and all right-
thinking men, instead of pandering
to morbid and disintegrating tastes,
to cultivate progressive public opin
iou by diminishing ignorance re-
garding our constitution, and while
not suppressing agitation to en-
deavor to have it conduce to reform
of the constitution if necessary, not
to endeavor to have that constitu-
tion violated or totally subverted.
No law, no constitution ie perfect,
but it would be absurd that either
should be broken on account of
its imperfections. Elimination of
faults, not the destruction of the
whole is the rational remedy.
The third party boom ' don't
seem to catch on. The experience
of third parties as instrumentalities
in the interests of reform has not
been of that happy kind that would
warrant success. Adam and Eve
were the two first mortal parties.
We are not told that they had bicker -
lugs and mutual recriminations.
Doubtless thele was a difibrenco of
opinion between them." We are
justified iu assutning this from
Adam's statements : The woman
thou gayest me did tempt me and
I did eat. It is quite evident from
this that he hold it was best not to
do so until persuaded to the con-
trary . It is agreed, however, that
they would have got along very
nicely, and we now would be revel-
ling in fig leaves and fruits unoon-
scions of shame, and to toil and
sweating unknown, were it not for
the advent of a third party into the
field. And a nice kettle of fish he
made of it, demoralizing both the
other parties and bringing the
wrath of a sin cursed world upon
himself and us. It has been the
same story all through sacred and
profane bsatory down to the present
day. The third party had been the
dog -in -the -manger party. Unable
from overweening jealousy or sel-
fishness to, help others to make the
most of the eituation,it has preferred
to seek to bring things into one
eternal smesh, and itself as well,
rather than that another party
ehould have the credit of benefitting
the human race.. It hai generally
succeeded in smashing itself at
least.
A DISHONEST GOVERNMENT
•
The fact that Mr, Mowat bas
betrayed the people of Ontario by
partially destroying the public
school eyatent must not blind people
to his other political crimes.
He has increased the ordin-
ary public expenditure to two
and a half tines its volume un•
der John Sandtield Macdonald. In
1,$79. the payments fmM coitaolitIttt-.
ed fund were .$1,614,808 in 1888
they aneounted to $2,677,131. The
cash surplus of nearly $4,000,000
left by Sandfield Macdonald has
been squandered except $200,000 ;
the lands and timber owned by the
province are rapidly disappearing ;
nearly a million dollars has been
borrowed in the shape of annuities ;
and still the toad squanderiug of the
peoples's woueiy guts ou. Last
year's total outlay was more than
$3,500,000, of which about $2,000,-
$00 was provided for by Dominion
subsidy, interest, taxes anti other
legitimate rt -venue ; and $1.,500,000
was met out of capital. The magnifi-
cent domain of this ptovittce ought
to save the people from taxation fur
all time to come ; but Mr. Alowat
is madly bent upon plunging the
prov ince• in to -debx.
Ire 1870 the salaries lie the office
of the Atecrney-General• amounted
to 87,165: in 1888 they m4(1114.11
$14,300. In 1879 the .eib.t)tiriiertii•
cies amounted to $1;953.72. : in
1888 to $2,613.46. John Sandllehl
'Mactlonafd-spent for cab hire $1 :
Oliver' Mowat spent $91.50. In-
crease in cal, fall, 0050- per cent.
411.1870 1870 salaries in the Education de-
l: rt'rue•tat were $11.813: io 1888
they were $19,550. In 1870
salaries ill the C.owlt Lands
department were $30,273: in 1888
they were $39,126. In 1870 salaries
in the department of the secretary
ami registrar amounted to $14•,496 :
in 1888 to $27,093. The contin-
gencies in 1870 amounted to $1,270:
in 1888 to $7,770. M. C. Cameron
spent $7.50 for cab hire : A. S.
Hardy spent $154.45. And so on
through the list. The total charge
on account of civic government in
1870 was $104,909 : in 1888 it was
$200,685. Legislation, cosy, it,
1870, $37,487: in 1888 it sort
$127,030.
One of the wo:at corrupt and ex•
travagaut appropriations is that for
"colonization roads." It is proper
and necessary • that• the government
should open up roads in the new
parts of the province. It la not
proper that the. government should
maintain roads in old settled des
tt icts where the people. are asl well
allle to pay for their roads as the
farmers of Wentworth county. In
1870 John Sandfield Macdonald
spent $50,000 on colonization roads:
in 1888 Oliver Mowat spent $112,.
273. The greater }kart of the money
is spent, not in staking roads, but
in keeping thele in repair in die-
tricts in which the fiettlers are com-
paratively well to do. By means
of this fund, swelled to $150,000
or $200,000 in election years, Mr. ,
Mowat has means to change results
in every frontier constituency from
the Ottawa river to the border of
Manitoba. . And the actual expendi-
ture bears no proportion to the ap-
propriation. For the current year
less than $100,000 has been appro-
priated ; but the expenditure will
probably exceed $150,000. • That
has been the experience of former
years when - elections were in the
near future.
In this as in other particulars, Mr.
Mowat has used the people's money
to maintain himself in power.—
Spectator.
CURRENT TOPICS.
THUMB IMPRUDENCE.
The Court of Review on Saturs
day, at Montreal, reversed the judg-
ment of the court below, which had
grented $500 damages in a case of
Vital vs. Tetrault. The plaintiff in
this case was driving on a country
road, !eluting behind the cart two
horses held by a long rope halter
twisted rougd his thumbs. When
passing defendant's house two doge
mailed out and frightened the led
horses,•` so that they jerked the
halter and crushed off' a portion
of each thumb. The Court of Res
view held that the immediate cause
of the accident was the imprudent
manner in which the "horses were
led: Judge Wurtele dissented.
MONSIEUR BECHARD'S MISTAKE.
Chicago Tribune :—Mr. Bechard,
a liberal Nationalist member of the
Dominion parliament, created con-
siderable excitement the other day
by declaring in a speech, "If the
fanatics of Ontario continue to
persecute;us, bear in mind that We
can find shelter under the atarry flag
of the United States." Lest Mr.
Bechard and his Freud Canadian
friends may be diseppoitrted in their
anticipations, it may be as well for
4hem to understand that there would
be no room for then] under "the
starry flag" if they propose to cote
duct themselves in the United States
as they do in Canada. They conld
not bring into this country either
the peculiar French institutions they
insist upon there nor the peculiar
Roman church prerogatives they
impose upon their neighbors. They
would have to give up their notion-
al ci►arcteriatige aud i,e Ioyel Amer.
ieans, end abatalora religious domtuui•
tion and bat unsectarittn in politics.
if they ere not prepared to make
these concessions they had better
stay where they are.
NO FAITH IN M'CARTHY'S SINCERITY.
Tice Grits have no faith iu any
ono that does not propose to turn
:he CQueervetivee out of power and
put in Messrs. Laarior and Blake
and Cartwright. "I have no faith
in McCarthy's sincerity," said a
leading Ottawa Reformer one morn-
ing. "Ile goes rousing the Orange-
men by posing as a Protestant
champion and as a hater of the
French Cfenadians, while Sir John
Macdonald goes to Montreal and
bids for the Freuch support by
showing that he has boon all his
life.a protector of the French Can -
adieu privileges. And when some-
body proposes to tura Sir • John
Macdonald and Sir John Thompson
out of office next session, Mr. Mc-
Carthy will run to their rescue. Is
Mr. McCarthy not receiving thou•
sands of dollars from the Federal
Government as counsel for the St.
Catharines Milling Company ? Did
he not encourage the Quebec Ultra-
moutanes to persecute Liberals .un-
til the French vote split and it be-
came necessary to hunt for votes in
this Province ? When I see Mr.
McCarthy votiug to help turn out
of office the even be now deuouuces
I,wilt have some f;sith in his sin-
cerity."
Our Weekly Round Up
—Troops have been ordered to
Egypt front Malta.
— The dri•uth iu Manitoba has
not had the ill effect at tirst report
ed. .
—The mart iage of Princes.,
Louise of Wales and the Earl -of
Fife will take place July 27.
—Cloudburst in Penr:sy.lvautin
swamped several towns causing great
damage and more fright.. .
— Lord Edmund Fitzwaurice,
who is to marry Miss Fitzgerald, of
New York, is a younger brother of
Lord Lansdowne.
— At the meeting of the Aloutreal
.liar it was decided to urge that the
question of the Magistrates' Courts
Act be take.? to the Privy Council.
—J. Robertson, hotbl keeper of
Kinburn, paid $20 and . costs to
Inspector Miller, last west, for
selling liquor on Sunday. .
— Mr. John Atuheson, of Mc-
Killop, had two steers killed by
lightning, and Mr. John Elgie, of
Tuckertenith,, had one stecrsimilar-
ly destroyed.
— Last Sunday ftii-ious rain,
hail au.l wind storms prevailed in
portions of Ohio, Illinois and
Indiana, doing considerable damage
to crops and •causin;g some iess of
life,
--A St. Thomas man named
John Ketchum,• who served in an
Iowa tegintont during the Aweri•
can war, is to be paid $3,088
arrearages of pension and $12 per
month during life.
Rey. A. D. McDonald, pastor of
the .Seaforth Presbyterian Church,
was presented with a complimentary
address, at.companied by a hands
some purse containing tete sew of
$175, the other day.
—The three.year-old daughter
of. George Leek, of Logan to wntship,
• wl, running around with a sharp
stick in her mouth the other day,
when she fell and the stick penetra-
ted to the base of the brain with a
fatal result.
—The cure of St. Joseph de
Levis, Que., recommended to the
prayers of his congregation a native
of that parish named Joseph Le -
barrel who died some days since at
Whitehead, Minnesota, at the
advance age of 106 years.
— The Alderslfot, Eng., mans
oeuvres, now in progress, have been
suspended by orders from the War
Office, and two of the regiments tak-
ing part have been ordered to hold
themflelves in readiness for active
service in Egypt.
—Mr. Henry Freel, who left
Dublin about a year ago for Cali•
fornia, was killed there recently.
He was a son-in-law of Stephen
Keating°, of Tuckersnith, and
leaves a wife and two children to
mourn bis untimely end.
--The collector of customs at
Winnipeg reports that the number
of settlers srrived at that port for
the first six months of last year and
this year is as follows:
1888 9,620
1889 , .... 14,90b
—Mr. Robert Jones, of Mitchell,
has purchased Eden Farm, Logan,
belonging to the estate of the late
T. Matheson, of Mitchell. It coo•
prises 360 acres, and the price paid
is $15,000. About $42 an acre, not
a bad bad price.
—The nine-year-old son of Mr.
Smith Lucas, postmaster at Tapley -
town, ventured too near a mower,
which was being worked by his
grandfather, Mr. George Dewitt,
yesterday afternoon, and was badly
cut on the legis and feet,one of the
latter being almoet•cut otl:
—Mrs. Thompson, the mother of
Mrs. S. B. Hunter, living on the
ROBERTSON
is holding a THIRTY DAYS
SLAUGHTER :-: SALE.. --I--
CALLand . GET PRICES or SEND for SAMPLES. .—
Robeptson's Great Cash - Store
2nd 'concession of We, -4 Oxford, was
born in London, England, on the
17th -Aug. 1787. and is, therefore
nearly 102 years old. She is in the
peiss. ssiol of all her faculties and in
reasonably good health.
— 1+'ulher \Vhel..n has accepted Dr
11urlbert as the en 1 -Jesuit champ-
ioi to prove: that it is a Jesnit
l.trieciple that the end justifies the
means. He invites his opponent to
meet at the Jesuit. College, Mons
treat, on the 29th inst., to select the
fifth itrbitrat..r.
--L. O. Das id, M. P. P., of
Montreal, intends suing Dr. David
son and all papers that have pub
lisped part of his speech where
David is accused of having said that•
if the anti•Jesuit agitation continued
IF'reuce-Cauad►aua would hoist the
tricolor flag.
�VIrr"George Murray, of Se -as
forth, was seated in his stable door
the other day when one of the men
let a horse loose to go to water. As
the beast was going out of the door
it kicked, striking Mr. Murray on
the mouth and nose. Fortunately
he was too near the animal to receive
the full force of the blow, but his
lip was, Itit nod his nose bri4ised.
—Last week Messrs McLean
Bros. of (ode•ich..purchrtsed from
Messrs Case- sod Hawkigs, of the
Loddon road, upwards of 100 fatted
cattle forsliiputent to the old coun-
try, the average price paid per head
being $75: This purchase makes
700. of a total of 1000 which they
want. For the one shipment a total
of $18,000 will be expended.
— The Tate advance in the price
of Manitoba "No. 1 hard" from 98c
and $1 per leishel to $1.17? to $1.20
has been a surprise to many, in view
of the previous general supposition
that the coming crop Was one of
great abundance. . It is now a x-
'plained that it is Blue rather to as
expected scarcity, as a result of the
prolonged drought in those regions.
—Ex.Preenier John Norquay
died suddenly at his residence in
Winnipeg, on Saturday-. IIe was
taken ill previous night,but nothing
serious was anticipated. I1 eart
disease is supposed to have been
the cause of death. °Hon. John
Norquay was the second son of the
late Mr. John Norquay, a native of
Red River, and was born in 1841.
--Farmers had a picnic at Seeley's
Bay near Kingston. Aftet partak-
ing of ice cream nearly the whole
of the party were seized with most
violet t internal pains. Doctors
applied the stomach pump, antidotes
and other reniedies, saving the lives
of all, though at one time it looked
as if some five or six would die.
Doctors think the cause of the affair
woe the poisoning of the ice cream
by the zinc of the freezer.
A week ago last Sunday an old
resident of Morris, in the person of
Mrs. Edward Bryan, sr., passed
over to the great majority at the
good old age of nearly 90 years.
The deceased was born in the County
of Fermanagh, Ireland, and was
married to her aged partner, who
survives her, in the year 1835.
They came to America in 1849 and
settled at Capetown, not far from
Hamilton, where they resided until
1855, when they moved into Morris.
The funeral on Tuesday afternoon
was a large one, notwithstanding
the very hot weather. Rev. W. T.
Cluff, incumbent of St. John's
(Episcopalian) church, of which
deceased was a member for years,
conducted the services. The only
daughter of the family died in the
spring of 1860. There are still
living in addition to Mr. Bryan who
has attained to 87 years, three sons,
William and Alex. residing in this
township, and Edward' one of the
Deputy Reeves of Grey township,
all well known and highly respected
men in this locality.
BIRTHS.
Tonn.--In Clinton, on Thursday, July
11th, ;the wife of Mr. A. M. Todd, of
Tux NFws•Raoonn, of a son.
OWENS & JOHNSON
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,ALBERT STREE`R'', -,.POSTON.-
AND QUEEN STREET, - - BLYTH
E. W. J. OWENS. T. F. JOHNSON'
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MA RKET •RE'PORTS.
(Corrected every 'Tuesday afternoon.)
CLINTON
Flour $5. 00 to 5 50'
Fall Wheat, new & old 90 to 90
Spring Wheat.... 90 to 90
Barley....... . ........... C 40 to 0 48
Oats .. 0 28 to 0 28
Peas . 0 54 to 0 54
Apples,(winter) per bbl 1 03 to 1 50
Potatoes .. 0 85 to 0 40
Butter .. 0 121to 0 18
Eggs 0 11 to 0 12
Hay 800to900
Cord wood 3 00 to 4 00
Beef .. 0 00 to 000
Wool 0 18 to 0 24
Pork 6 50 to G 70
CARETAKER WANTED.
For Clinton Public School, applicants to state
salary expected, and tend in their applications
to the undersigned by the 10th of August.
Duties are as follows:—To have fires started
In all the rooms before 8 ()'clock a an, wbch aced•
ed ; to keep wood•bcxes full of wood, to sweep
the ffo..rs every evening after 4 o'clock, and to
dust desks, scats, .Stc., every morning, to visit -
closets once each half day and see that the floors,
Sc., are kept elms,, to scrub platforms once a
month, to wash'.bl: 8Loards, oitce'a month, to
keep weeds, tree4 .ehool yard and grass plots
in prop'cr condition, to scrub the floors during
the summer :end winter vacation,- to look after
schools during absence of the Principal at noon,
to prepare any room necessary for the meetings
of the Board, and in case the well becomes dry to
place a pail of water in each room in the morning
and another at noon, keep the woodshed filled.
and attend to the measuring and piling of the
wood. And in, addition, any little chores and
repairs, not mentioned above, that are of a
trifling. and inexpensive nature, such as mending
broken windows, Sc.
580 W. H. HINE, Secretary.
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ZirILLOVTRATAD CATALOGUE Fan=. (,,,'t
tiGO CHARLES F. M. McCItECOII, Vet
erinary Physician and Surgeon, Hon-
orary Member Ontario Veterinary
•Me ical Society. Treats all diseases of domesti-
cated animals. Veterinary Dentistry a specialty.
Charges moderate. Office—one door east of Tint
Nita',s-11Ecotm office, Clinton. 549-3m
MORTGAGE : SALE
OF t'ALVA¢LS
TOWN PROPERTIES
Business Stands and Dwellings.
Pursuant to the Pow•or of Sale contained in
certain mortgages, which will be produced at
time and place ef'sale, there will be sold by •
Public Auction, by DAVID DICKINSON,
Auctioneer, on • • -
Saturday, 10th of Aug. 18,89
At the hoar of 2 o'clock, p. in., at the
RATTENBURY HOUSE, CLINTON.
The following valuable Town properties, vlz :
FIRST --All that certain parcel or tract of land
containing 12 5/16 square perches of land, more
or less, and cotitprising a frontage en Victoria
street of 45 feet, 9 itches more or less, and
which said parcel or tract of land and premises
may he bettor described as comprising the whole
of subdivision A, of Town lot Number 292 of the
said town of Clinton, excepting the northerly
portion thereof, comprising a frontage on said
street of 20ft. 8 inches, which was conveyed by
John Finkle and Sophia Finkle to one Ann
McGowan, by Deed, bearing date the 21st day
of October, A. D. 1859. Upon these premises is
erected aood rough cast house and a frame
tenement. both rented ut fair rentals.
SECOND—All that certain parcel of land and•
premises in the said Town of Clinton, containing
by admeasurement 221t 6 inches frontage on
Victoria street, and being composed of the
northerly 22 feet 6 Inches of Town lot Number
292, on the west side of Victoria street in said
Town and better described as comprising a width
or frontage of 22 feet 6 Inches on victoria street
as measured from the north west angle, of said
lot and extending back the same width to the
Base Line, otherwise known as King street. On
this property there is erected a frame store which
is welteituated for a business stand.
THIRD—That certain parses' or tract of land -
and premises situate lying and being In the said
Town of Clinton, containing by admeasurement
one rood of land, be the same, mentor less; being
composed of Town lot Number 817, on the west
side of Osborne street, in the said Totvn of Cltn•
ton. On this property there is erected a first
class frame cottage in good repair and well
rented.
TERMS.
10 per cent of the purchase money of each
property to he paid on day of sale. Balance in
30 days thereafter. A portion of the purchase
money of each property may remain on mortgage
on easy terms. Farther conditions of sato made
known on day of sale or may bo had on applica-
tion to the undersigned.
DAViD DICKINSON MANNINO & SCOTT.
Auctioneer. Vendor's solicitors.
Dated this 8th July 1889, at Clinton, in said
County.
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