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The Clinton New Era, 1890-07-18, Page 4• •t#'4.�lt'NA. i :a Ever flat stwiuieaa,�-Ilpdgo a .$twtp.' Drape Nue,inp. t ,Detier, • •e" Fias*Nlillt. :r. Trick, (11hc'infThauite--J. Bi ging. reed buain sa ter 4a1e.. h tatMon ... , - Impounded .ssth Folatldr _ _ a Cheap BXourelort, W. Jackson. Nptlee to i7reditera.—D, B Kennedy. ''int?'.1' cede.—Jackson Bros, Down in Prices.—,Beesley J Oo. Baeli;et8.--vooper's Book Store. ,;A, Revelation.—Dr. $all'%. eintou. tewgra FRIDAY, JULY 18, 1890. A little plain talk. Last week we sent out bills to de- liquent subscribers, amounting to about $100 and in response we have received ft—Gerrie Vidette. Peopin will hardly believe usiwhen we tell them that when the books of the „,„.,...r,,.ta-blishment which the Editor of the Sun ws recently connected with, were banded over to the Sheriff for the bene- fit of its creditors, they represented some $8,000 or $10,000 of good, bad and indifferent debts.—Stratford Sun. Items like the above could be clipped • niaarly every week in the year, from our exchanges, and they indicate the most unpleasant phases of the news- paper business. An editor can stand all the abuse which his opponents oan heap upon him, and it may not cost him the slightest annoyance, but it is pretty hard to keep supplying people week after week with the best product of mind and body, and get little or no return for it. Editors are often asked "why they keep dunning so." Well, the answer is • not because they like it, but because they have to. We believe that our subscription list is as fairly well paid • up as the average paper in Ontario, • ' yet we have any number of subscrib- ers who are in arrears, and appar- ently think nothing of letting it run on, regardless of the great inconven- ience to which we are often put thereby. The annual subscription to any paper ,;;is a small amount, and barely pays for white paper, and could in most cases be just as easily paid in advance as later in the year. If subscribers only knew what a boon they would be oonfering upon publishers, and how much an- xiety they could spare them, all sub- scriptions would be paid in advance. In fact all subscripiions should be paid in advance. Every item of expense connected with the publishing of a paper repre- sents a Dash outlay,and when a publish - 'eh; le 'compelled to carry a list of slow- _ paying subscribers it sometimes goes pretty hard with him to meet his pay- ments. A single subscription unpaid is not very much, but hundreds of them are enough to cause a gond deal of mental worry. We believe we are safe in saying that when a newspaper publisher has failed in business, he has had sufficient un- paid accounts on his books to have not only carried him along but to have given him a fair living beside, had they been paid. The remark is some- times made that "if a paper is worth anything people will pay for it." This is not literally true. Take the Assaf dozen best papers in the county `of Huron, any one of which is well worth its subscription price, and we venture to say that they have on their ;books enough unpaid accounts to run ''fhe office for a year. This Should not be. No business :Man earns his money harder than a ."publisher. No one does more for the ii community than he, all the returns he looks for is the payment of what he 4egitimately earns. There is not a country peblisher who 61ras been any length of time in business, .but has, like the editor of the Stratford s' Sun, lost "heaps of money," and the ii °;only way this can be avoided is by the );:pre -payment system. r;,, es•h-Every person who is in arrears, Whether for the NEW ERA or any other paper, should at once pay up and pay 'in advance for the future, and they ;hvould find this so satisfactory both to ''themselves and the publisher, that they would never go back to the "pay titnytime or never " system so common lailsover the province. Getting more absurd as it travels. •¶the Vancouver Telegram publishes `this item:— "<'"The Grits of the eastern provinces Pare quite dissatisfied with Mr Laurier 'Oe a leader, and it is now proposed by fibkne of them to get Mr Erastus Wiman `fiver from New York, have him reside Canada Canada for a year to qualify him for election, and to make him leader of the arty. Eradtus Wiman, they think, . ail be sure to lead them on to viotory. The Reform party must surely be in a Maid way in the eastern provinces or no *:ono would ever have dreamed of mak- ins each a proposal." The Grits in the eastern provinces t)rid not quite dissatisfied with Mr Lanr- itdif, and it never was plropoged to get t, Wiman as leader. Ito was a Con- t fttiVe paper that •started the yarn knit; Mr Wiman, and as the 'story 'e gilled westward, they evidently re• itried it as fact instead of fiction. Al- though there has been a little diens- Olen concerning the Liberal leafler'ehip, t 0210 is losing any sleep over the mat- * , nor is it causing the Liberals as itch concern as it appears to ho caus- $ng their opponents. vs•a,•is. i'1be CttNTON Naar Eta, admitted to be Ole of the beat local papers in Ontario, Will be sent to new subscribers, for the BAitnee of -the year, for GO cents cnHh. rtl 1044,4100o or Trade. Abp, lluOtio4. 4t' 09curing inoreaiaa>t, trade facilitiee is theme that will most %/acorn the people of (*Ada for gouge Allik t.Q.lmefr-.T :4t4todioputos-thio4but the point on wtdoh opinions difijer is where ta.f iid the new avenues of trade. The Empire advooa,tos theoultiyation of trade with J'anuai,ea, and thinks that with "differential duties" there would be no difficulty in working up a pro- fitable connection there. Then we have an unlimited market open to us in Eng- land, whioh will take all the surplus we oan send it. "Differential duties" are by no means likely to be imposed upon imports into Jamaica for the sole bene. fit of Canadian products, audit any one builds on that hope they will find it ouly a delusion and a snare. England certainly dcea takes lot of suppleis from other countries, and the people there do not care where they come from so long as they oan obtain them at a reasonable ,figure. But Canada raises a large amount of agricultural products that must and do fled a market nearer home. If it pays better to send articles to the United States than to send them to Great Britain,uo amount of patriotic sentiment will carry them to the latter place. Trade seeks the nearest and at the same time most profitable channels. To say we cannot compete with the American farmer, who also raises a sur; plus ofpr•oduots similar to our own, isjto Wile our official trade returns, which show that we do compete already with the American farmer, and do so success- fully. It certainly s 3ems to us only resonable that if we can do an enormous trade w,th a country separated by a high tariff wall, we should do more if that wall is lowered. And if it is done at a profit now, the profit should be greater ueder bettered conditions. We have not the slightest objection to cultivating the most intemate trade relations with Great Britain, but if a market fully as good or better in sone respects, can be had three thousand miles nearer the place of production, looks like window to make use thereof. Whlakey drinking may be the prin- cipal cause of crime. But is not po- verty the principal cause of whiskey drinking.—Hamilton Times. Certainly not. But whiskey drink. ing is the principal cause of poverty. The business failures in Canada for the first six months of 1890, numbered 993, with Liabilities of over ten million dollars. This is nearly double as many as there were in 1885, and the liabilities are more than double. At this rate of progression it is a serious outlook for business. What has become of the virtue of the N. P. that was going to stop all this? The London Free Press used to take special delight in publishing a garbled portion of a speech by Hon. E. Blake, apparently landing up Kansas and other States, and then sneeringly al. luding to his "patriotism." Whatever Mr Blake may have said favorable to those States, he never invested his means there, and this cannot be said of Sir John,Tupper, Chapleau, and others, who have only recently invested in. land across the border. How about their patriotism? PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Charles Bsrillier, treasurer of the town of Windsor, died Friday. 18 election petitions have now been lodged. Nine are against Liberals and nine against Conservatives. Henry M. Stanley, the explorer, and Dorothy Tennant were married in West- minster Abbey on Saturday by Dean Bradley, assisted by Archdeacon Farrar and Bishop Carpenter. Mr Jas. Campbell, who was the head of the once famous publishing house of James Campbell 6r Son,died last Sunday evening, at the residence of his son-in- law, Mr J. Herbert Mason, Toronto.— He had reached the advanced age of 80 years, and was for some time past in poor health. He was a native of Scot- land. Mr Hugh Thompson, of Blanshard, the noted stock raiser, has returned from a seven weeks visit to Scotland.— Ho brought with him Clydesdale horses —three yearlings and three two-year olds. They arrived safe and sound, looking none the worse of the trip. Mr Thompson reports the crops in Scotland as unusually good. He says the pros- pects when he left were the best seen for many years. The rapid increase in the volume of trade between Ontario and the United States is demonstrated by the fact that the fees collected by the American con- sul at Kingston upon goods shipped across the line are now more than sufficient to meet his salary and con- tingency of his office. A few years ago the United States government had to pay $2,000 a year, besides the fees of the office, for the maintenance of the Kingston consulate. Premier Mercier's majority in the Quebec Legislature was increased to 30 by the defeat lot Mr Flynn, the Con- servative candidate for Gaspe, on Sat- urday. Mr Flynn was the prospective Conoervatide leader, and hiscompulsory retirement- is therefore all the more marked. The Liberals of Quebec mast regard the result with complacency, as Flynn was one of the five members who, while professing friendship for Premier Joly in 1879, Bold out to the Conserva- tives and thus compassed the defeat of the Government of that model States- man. It is intimated that the Dominion Government will make an effort to satisfy the demand for an appointment of a Canadian as commandant of the militia by selecting Col Chas. Robert - eon, a}Canadian, now Assistant Military Secretary at the Horse Guards in Lon- don, to the position. Col. Robinson is a son of the late Chief Justice Sir John Beverly Robinson, and a brother of Hon. J. B. Robinson, late L:eut-Govori net of Ontario ; of Mr Cbrtetopher Robinson, Q. C.; of Sir Lucian Robin- son, of Toronto. He has seen active service in Ashentee and Zululand and >Ctil;i, T8ikitMa AM) T#H lil Te ' (Number 2.) Thetight to freely exohnnfe our pro- ducts for, the QI_opg xleighborwcarriea with it":tbo right. to freely produoe• Irl fact trade is but a part of produot><gn. 'poigappeede ono i5 to impede. the. other. To 11 *Orate ; The poherty Organ. Company manufactures orgaos. TJ.'he material from which these instrumeute are zoade comes to the manufacturers through the ordinary avenues of pro duction and exchange, and every atom primarily, from the land. The making of the organ begins not in Clinton, but when the woodman fells the tree and the miner digs the ore, and its making is not completed until it reach the user. The railway brakeman, therefore, as part of the machinery required in the transportation of the material, is as truly doing his part towards the build- ing of an organ as the man who is more immediately connected with the transforming of the material in the fac- tory at Cliuton. The process, which begins at the mining or extraotingof the raw material and continues through the various stages of transformation and I exchange, is as natural in its operation and beneficent in its effect as the cir- culation of the blood, if unretarded by man's suicidal and shortsighted legisla- tion. By such legislation we seek to improve on Nature's plan, and with the usual result. The process of wealth making, briefly outlined above, is ob- structed at every step by foolish laws. Protectionists who argue that there is always sufficient competition or free trade in a coantry to maictain normal prices and prevent monopoly, betray a pitiable ignorance of the real meaning of the words free trade. A year ago 20,000 men in the State of Illinois were suddenly shut oat from their customary means of earning a precarious living, that of mining, for themselves and families, because they dared to ask for an increase in pay. Women and child ren actually starved to death during the execution of the terrible fiat of the employer. " Work for my wages or get oat," and thousands more barely subsisted for three months on the contributions of Chicago char- ity. It would be difficult to find clear- er evidence of what the restrictive policy can do in breeding helpless slaves and tyrannical masters, than in the mining districts of America. This re- striction may not be the tariff itself,but it is Watered by the indentical fallacy upon which the tariff rests: Let us name some of these restriotiens and note their resemblence to protection. First :—The mine owner stands at a fountain of wealth and asks the Gov- ernment for "protection" that he may limit the output and diotate prices to the consumer, or close the mine and dictate life and death terms to MS serfs. This "protection" may not consist of a tariff on imported coal, although that is demdanded in addition to other privileg- es. The greatest privilege or protection granted the mine owner is what virtual- ly amounts to exemption from taxation. He owns a valuable natural opportunity tapable of producing an inexhaustible amount of the things which most people want but cannot get, and yet he pays next to nothing for this privilege in the shape of taxation. Unused coal land is usually taxed as ordinary agricul- tural land. It therefore pays the owner to hold it out of use, and as is the case in Illinois at least, to buy up all ad- joining coal lands for the sole purpose of preventing other people from using it and thus becoming competitors. In thus throttling competition the exempt mine owner is carrying out the idea of pro • tectionism, although protectionists as a rule illogically claim that there should be free trade within a country. The single tax would abolish this barrier between the mine and the miner by taxing the coal lands at their true value, a tax that would enable capital and labor to mine coal profitably but which would make the, bolding out of use of valuable coal land for purpose of specu- lation, or otherwise, absolutely impos- sible. The effect of such a tax would be that if a man wanted to own coal Land he would have to use it or let it go to some one that would. The single tax would thus secure and perpetuate the fair play of productive forces and ob- serve the principle of free trade. Second :—Another formidable barrier in the way of free exchange is railway monopoly. A railway is supposed to be a public highway in all that the name "public" implies, not a public highway for private gain. The inland population of any country is largely at the mercy of the corporation who own these highways. The farmer may pro- duce abundantly but if he cannot ex- change his products to advantage be- cause of inordinate freight rates, it were mockery to tell him that he has free trade within his own country. This applies not only to what he must sell but to everything he buys. A railway under private control levying "all the traffic will bear" is a toll road on a large scale, and is indeed the entire protectionist system. Single tax men call railways, and all businesses using a right of way or public franchise, natural monopolies. That is, they are outside the domain of ordinary commercial compe- tition and as such should be owned and operated by the public for the public good, not by private corporation for private gain. Here again we would de- molish another "protective" gate and make another step toward real free trade. With the abolition of the mine and railway barriers considerable advance will have been made toward industrial freedom. But between the raw mater- ial source and the consumer and user of wealth there are other obstacles which must go if we are to have free trade. These I shall indicate in my next. JAMES MAI.col,M. years, with aboy4eault, ,fl4 has tipw tigke, ober votfktog1tralbw=ts?rke; ?,>ttRxq of, Which ho to wo g. It fa reported t at T' Nixon, of Blue• vale, baa _purchased "Grey Tobe,'! the • abderi'ob wonder, -"Here a mover, and Able to pace bis mile in about 2,1.8, it ie said. Roy, youngest can of Mr W. A. Mc- Olymont, Wiugham, while attempting to olunb in a paesiug waggon on Friday last, one of his lege caught in the wheel - and could not be extricated until the wheel was taken off the waggon. He was seriously, but not fatally injured. On Monday evening, a little son of Mr C. N. Griffin asked a driver on a load of slabs for a ride. The driver refused, and next moment he heard a ory. Upon stopping the team, he saw the little fellow lying on the road. He says he had tripped and fallen and the wheel had passed over his leg, which was badly crushed. Talking about big makings, William Ziegler, lot 18, con. 14, has two com- mon bred cows whiob recently gave 83 pounds of milk in one day at two regular milkinge. The mother of these cows, now getting up in years, used to yield her 12 quarts night and morning. Nothing more than good pasture, water and salt is supplied the above mention- ed animals. The Seaforth fire brigade, which went to the Toronto Carnival to take part in a hose reel contest, is suing the Carnival Committee for $125, the amount of prize money. They claim- ed they won it. It is conceded they won the rape, but it is claimed they did not take part in the procession, and are not entitled to the money. They claim they were in the procession. Mrs Walker, of Wroxeter, lost last week her purse containing three hun- dred and forty three dollars in bills and a promissory note for four hundred dollars. She is well up in years and has become somewhat eccentric, and for fear that her money would be stolen she always, upon going out, tied it in a napkin and pinned it to her person, one of the ends had got loose and hence the loss. While Miss Mabel Kent, of Wing - ham, and a little girl friend of hers, were going to a neighbor's across the prairie, in the Souriedistrict, Manitoba, they came across a large badger, which they attacked with sticks and atones. The beast showed fight, and they pluck- ily stood their ground and despatched it. They dragged it to a neighbor's, where they got a rope and attached to its leg, and then dragged it about five miles to Mr Griffin's. The beast weighed 29 lbs. The following interesting township statistics were furnished the Brussels Post by the Morrie township Clerk:— No. of acres, 55,055; No. of acres clear- ed, 40,045; value of real property, 31,- 755,455; value of personal property, $3,900; income, $1,500; total vague, $1,760,855; persons from 21 to 60, 1,- 31.2; day labor, 3,247; dogs, 332; bitches, 7; persons in family, 2,930; cattle, 5,- 521; sheep, 1,636; hogs, 1,222; horses, 1,710; acres wood land, 6,626; swamp land, 8,0971; orchard, 590.;; steam boil- ers, 5; acres fall wheat, 3,098. The Expositor says:—Last week Mr John Hannah, of the Seaforth, Londes- bore, Kirkton and Goderich creamer- ies, shipped from here 523 tubs of but- ter and 195 cheeses. The shipment was made to Edinburgh, Scotland. The cheese were made at the Kinburn and Blake factories. This shipment of butter clears out all of Mr Ifannalh's make until the 1st of July. The entire shipment amounts to about $7,000, of which $5,800 is for butter, and this represents the make of the creameries for about three weeks. This will afford our readers. soine idea of the vast im- portance of the dairying industry to our farmers. Here is the very consid- erable sum of $7,000 paid out in this immediate vicinity by one dealer for the products of the dairy. A case was tried before Judge Toms last Thursday, in which a young man named Thomas Dobson, who had been in the employ of Mr George Dale, of Hullett, was charged with attempt at criminal assault on the person of Mrs Wm. Campbell, of Harpurhey. It appears that Dobson called at Mr Campbell's house and asked his wife for a drink of water, and upon finding that the husband was absent, crimin- ally assaulted her. The screams of the children brought Mr Campbell and another man to the assistance of the mother, and the husband caught the man and gave him such a beating as required the services of a doctor to attend to repairs. Dobson was com- mitted for trial by John Beattie, J. P., and on the trial only the evidence of the woman was given, the children be- ing too young to testify, and the man who came to the rescue with Mr Camp- bell, having gone away somewhere, not being a resident of the section. Judge Toms deferred judgment until Monday next. News Notes Mond The Calmly The Choicest Stealings from Our County Exchanges. The remains of Charles E., Slack, a native of Goderdeh, but for many years past a resident of tho United States, arrived from Argentine, Kansas, 1 hurs- day last. Fred Webster, of Wroxeter, was ar- rested in Wingham, charged with have, ing over -driven his horse. He was fined 31 and costs, amounting in all to $5.60, or 30 days in jail. Mr Alex. Thompson, son of lairs Thompson, of Seaforth, and an old Seaforth boy, has been appointed She- riff of Thunder Bay District. He has been Police Magistrate of Port Arthur for several years. Mr Alex Davidson, of Seaforth, hap- pened with a very painful acoident this week. While attending to hie horses, one of them stepped on his foot whilst the other started, throwing him over and spraining hie leg severely. E. N. Lewis, Goderich, solioitor,for part of the Bedford heirs, last week paid over to Mrs Bedford, of our town, a sum reachin3 into the thousands, being a first instalment of a fortune he elsewhere, and ie a full colonel in the is recovering for them in England. Imperial service, Mr Lewis has been fighting this claim in the English courts for some two NEWS NOTES. Twenty years ago on Tuesday, Mani- toba entered the confederation of the Dominion. The province is a healthy infant. Seven hundred mill hands aro idle at Ottawa. The night gangs in the lum- ber mills have nearly all ceased work. This means a reduction in the pay roll of $20,000 a month. A South Easthope farmer named Alex. Murray appeared before Magis- trate O'Loane at the Stratford Police Court recently on a charge of brutal treatment to his hired boy. Murray was convicted and fined $50. John Gibbs, clarionet player in the 22nd Batallion Band, while in a som- nambulistic fit on Sunday night, walk. ed out of a third story window at the Thompson House, Woodstock, and fell to the ground, a distance of thirty-five feet. Strange as it may seem, he was only slightly bruised by the fall, and walked up stairs to bed afterward none the worse for his tumble. ' Mrs John Munroe, an aged lady liv- ing on the Governer'sRoad, Woodstock, met with a yery bad accident Monday morning. She was on a stepladder picking cherries off of the uppermost limbs. of a tree, when the ladder fell, and the old lady was thrown over a fence near by. She alighted on her head and shoulders, and it is a wonder her neck was not broken. As it was she sustained serions injuries, her col- lar bone being broken and a shoulder cap misplaced, besides receiving several bad bruises. As the N. C. It. train, which leaves St Catharines at 9.25 e. m., was pass- ing over the crossing at Merriton, a ten -year-old son of Rev. W. Mowatt, of that village, received injuries which resulted in his death. It is supposed that, along with another little boy of his own age, he had put some pins on the track and after the coaches; -which had two empty fiat oars had passed he was venturesome enough to try and re• cover the pins and was .truck on the head by the axle -box of one of the flat care and received the ietjuriee from which he; died on the accident being known he was carried to his father's residence and DtVanderburg summon- ed, who rendered all possible assistance but in vein. ..NEWS NAS No Ivo* will he done en the KudFon Day Ita#lvray this year. 4 Cueiph boy named John Carter., climbed on air i06ee `t 1 •hear`a sermon, and falling off, broke his leg. James Walker, G. T. R. agent at Clandeboye, was arrested at Montreal on a telegram from London charging him with forgery. Hon. Thomas Coffin, who was Re- ceiver General in the Cabinet of Hon. Alex. Mackenzie, died at Barrington, N. S., on Saturday. Warden Bedson has returned a curt reply to the communication of the De- partment of Justice regarding the Bremner for business. Masked robbers are said to have taken between eight and ten thousand dollars from the Northern Pacific Ex- press Company's office in Chicago. T. and A. B. Snider, the well-known stook breeders and millers of Waterloo County, Ont., have gone to May City, Iowa, where they will go extensively in- to business of a varied character. Details concerning the' destruction of Fort de France, in the French Island of Martinique, have just been received.— Three-quarters of the town has been burned and more than 5,000 persons were without homes and fool, 1,700 houses were burned. John Roth, who outdid Tanner in his celebrated fast, died on Sunday at the Ill-, County Asylum, having passed his 60th day of total abstinence from fond of any kind or nourishment except a slight quantity of water. Some sixteen tones of gunpowder ex- ploded on Tuesday at King's powder works on the Little Miami Railway some 30 miles from Cincinnati. Ten dead bodies had been recovered up to "trine o'clock last evening. Many people were wounded. Two thousand Arabs, men, women and children, are dying of starvation just outside of Suakim. The Aborigines Protection Society issue an appeal for money to help the victims, but it is feared hundreds will be dead before suc- cor can reach them. The effects of the Minnesota cyclone on Sunday were much worse than was at first reported. A steamer and a barge loaded with people were caught in the storm on Lake Pepin, and about a hundred were drowned. There were also fatalities in many other places. Thos. E. Matheson, of Smith's Falls, on the day fixed for his wedding was held in gaol on two charges of larceny. It turned out, however, to be the borrow- ing, not theiving, of a gold watch and chain to adorn the marriage vestments, and the bridegroom was honorably ac- quitted. There is no doubt that the potato dis- ease has attacked the crop in south and west Ireland. The district most effect- ed up to the present is the country round Skibbereen and Schull, county Cork, which the famine of 1848 ravaged so terribly. There is no fear of famine now,but the disease means ruin to thou- sands. A clerk named Quinn, who slept over hie employer's store in Kingston, had no fire -arms, but made such good use of his voice that he drove off a gang of burg- lars on Wednesday night. Therobbers threatened him with death and fired two shots, but Quinn kept up the shouting and saved a large amount of money which was in the safe. Among those who attended at Stan. ley's wedding reception Saturday at London, Eng., was a wealthy widow named Hatchard, While there she stole several silver spoons from the room in which the wedding gifts were display- ed. She was seen by a detective and arrested. She was arraigned, found guilty, and sentenced to two weeks' imprisonment. Four more election petitions were filed on Monday, viz;—Those for Wel- land, where Mr McCleary (Conserve• tive) defeated kir Morin, the late Lib- eral member; East Durham, where Mr Campbell (Equal Rights conserva- tive) defeated Mr Collins, the straight Conservative candidate; West Kent, where Mr Clancy (Conservative) defeat- ed Mr Fleming (Reformer), and South Ontario, where Mr Dryden (Liberal) was elected. This makes eighteen protests—an equal number on both sides. M. G. Hinkle was arrested at Little Rock, Ark., on the charge of passing counterfeit money. Hinkle lost a leg in the war as alleged. Examination of his wooden leg disclosed the fact that he had arranged the inside of it as a re ceptacle for the "queer." It was stuffed with bills, some of which were genuine. There were a number of bills on the Bank of Prince Edward Island at Char- lottetown, of the denomination of $10 and $20, which passed readily through the city banks. Ilinckle was gaoled. Entries for the Detroit International Fair and Exposition (Aug. 26 -Sept. 5) insure a rich display of fine carriages and elegant vehicles of all sorts. The most noted workers in America have entered into competition, and will show the richest importations from Europe and the most elegant inventions of American skill. One feature promised is the results attained in the best fac- tories in the use of rare native and for- eign woods. Real artists aro now em- ployed in designing the most graceful outlines, executing the finest carving, and perfecting the moat beautiful com- binations of colors in woods, upholstery and finish. Everybody who can appre- cite the best taste and the finest work- manship will beelighted with the car- riage show.--Deoit Journal. A detective rom police headquarters waited at Syracuse station of the Dela- ware, Lackawanna de Western Rail- road last Thursday, night for the even- ing !express from Oswego to come in. On its arrival the fireman, Fred V. Curtis, was taken out of the cab and to city jail, charged with a most unusual crime. His accuser is' Frank Granish, a fellow fireman, with whom the pris- oner went over the road to -day. Curtis has has been brakeman on the road for nine years, but has just been pat on an engine to stoke under instruction of Granish. Curtis came into the cab with a bundle, which he tossed care- lessly on the coal in the tender. He said nothing about its oontenta until the Crain painted Pleasant Bridge,a lake- side resort, when he picked it up and remarked that it contained all that was left of hie 4th of July. Curtis left bun - hie undisturbed until the train was his again in full speed, when he 'picked it np, and, unwinding the paper wrapper, .opened it in sight of Granish. It held the body of a wee baby. Curtit gaid to his astonished ccmpanion that it ,was own, and that he was going to have a quiet funeral. Without further ado he opened the 'flee box and deliberate- ly threw the body in On top of the blazing coals. Re said he had frequent- ly done„)rhe same thing before. Gar. nigh was appalled at the coolness of the man, but Curtis only laughed. When the traiu returned to Syracuse at noon Garnish gave information of the crime to the police, who made the arrest. Curtis denies the story, lent as hie wife was delivered of a still -born SKETS For the Picnickers. • FANS To keep you cool NOVELS For the Excursionists' pastime, AT CoopeisBookStore CLINTON Holmesville. Miss Brean has been spending a few days at Mr Scott's. Mr Ben Yeo and wife, spent Sun- day at Mr R. Docking's. Mise Moore, of Benmiller, was the guest of Mrs Ramsay last week. Miss Baker, of Clinton, is visiting her friend, Miss Elsie Pickard. Mrs John Holmes seriously hurt herself by a fall the other day. Mrs Holdsworth and daughter spent Sunday with friends in Kippen. Miss Rumball, of Exeter, spent Sunday with old friends in the vil- lage. The raspberries are flourishing now and some of our citizens are making good use of the'time. Beatrice Halstead, daughter of Albert Halstead, fell out of a cherry tree the other day and sprained her arm badly. The annual teacher's meeting of the Methodist Sunday School was held last week with but few changes in teachers and officers. The village looked kind of forsaken on Saturday, most of the inhabitants being at the celebration in Clinton. All seemed to have enjoyed them- selves immensely. The Bishop of the county of Huron held confirmation service here on Sabbath, a class of three heing con- firmed. Mies Addie Stephenson re- turned home from her visit to Bruce - field on Tuesday. Rev. W. Ayers preache,' last Sun- day morning and T. C. Pickard in the evening. A. K. Birks will preach next Sabbath morning, and at night the memorial service of the late Mre Jas. Rowden will be preached Who says our village bas not a market for the produce of the farm ? Last Wednesday Mr V. Fisher, of Colborne, took a load of cherries to Clinton, but failing to dispose of them there he brought them to Holmesville, where he found a ready sale. Varna. Mr L. Beattie is agent here for the Tolton Pea Harvester. It has been asserted nn good au- thority, and it is the general opinion as well, that Clinton has more genu- ine American enterprise than any other town in Huron county. The preparation for the 12th showed this to be so. The Royal Templars of Temperance intend holding a raspberry festival on Tuesday evening, 22nd inst. A good program will be provided for the occasion, besides lots of delieious berries, and plenty of fine, rich cream. A good time is expected. Mr James Armstrong and Mrs T. Johnston have returned from Mani- toba, after enjoying their pleasure trip for about four weeks. They re- port that the prospects for an abun- dant harvest in the prairie land is very good in some localities. The dry weather has injured the late grain to some extent, but the recent show- ers have wonderfully improved their appearance. ACCIDENT.—At Rev. Mr McCon- nell's, where building improvements have been in progress for some time under direction of Mr S. S. Cooper, of Clinton, a quantity of lime was run off for plastering purposes. During the night a number of sheep belong- ing to Mr Andrew Duncan, got into it, and some of it getting into their mouths, three of them have died, and others are sick. — • CONCERNING CROPS. The drouight in a part of India is very severe. A fortnight of almost daily rain in England and equally unfavorable wea- ther in many European districts has rendered the corn prospects anything but bright, and the price of wheat is ad- vancing in every market, the holders beign strong in their demands. An official report relative to crops in Ireland says the condition of potatoes is generally very fine. There are some signs of blight, however, in Limerick, Cork and Kerry counties. Oats and barley promise fine crops. Turhiipaare in good condition. The growth of wheat and corn is retarded. The Gananoque Reporter has sent speoimene of blighted wheat to experts who attribute the disease to extreme wetness of the season. The blight gives the plant the appearance of hav- ing been attacked by ruat or frost. Wheat on high, well -drained land in the neighborhood of Gananoque is af- fected to nearly as great an extent as that growing in low fields. Prot. San. dere, of the Experimental Farm at Ottawa, says :—"It began with ns with a peculiar whitening of the lower leaves of the young grain ; in a few days the whitened leaves became red and then a very deep red." The leaves wither and then rust seta in. Mr Sanders regrets to learn that the blight is quite com- mon throughout the Ottawa district. On some farms near Toronto the nate bxhibit the redness here spoken of. child on Tuesday the truth fa lingoes- 'The farmers lay the blame not on the tioned by the police. The woman has' Heavy mine but on some new (angled two children living. grub or louse. A terrible hail and wind stops *wept over the towns of Highland, Glasgow and Beyer, Minn., Sunday night about 12 o'clock which out crops to the ground clean. Damage estimated at fully $100 - 000. s, The blight which appeara to have affected the growing crops in some die- tricts, especially in the eastern part of the Province, is reported to have done great damage in Germany and some parts of Austria, where very heavy rains have fallen at long intervals. Nevertheless the crops on the European Continent promise to be above the asy- erage, but those in Britain will be poor. In the States it is estimated that the wheat crop of 1890 will be smaller by 60,000,000 bushels than th at of 1889. The Economist figures out that, after allowing for the short crop in England, Europe will probably produce 70,000,- 000 of bushels more this year than last. The Australian wheat crop of 1889-90 was largely a failure. In South Aus- tralia and Victoria 30 per cent. of it was destroyed in the field by rust. English authorities do nst look for any considerable rise in prices yet awhile. near Aduertioemeato. Trick's Saw Mill. rWe are putting in a boiler flume and will be shut down fora week or two. T. TRIOK. fl Card of Thanks. We, the undersigned, wish to return our sincere thanks to the Fire Company and all others, who so ably assisted in putting out the fire in Salt's block. J. S. Jc W. J. BIGGINS, Executors Flour and Feed Business for Sale. The business at present carried on by the undersigned, at Huron Street, Clinton, is of- fered for sale on very reasouable terms. A good business has been done for the past 7 years. Having decided to leave town, all outstanding accounts must be paid forth- with, otherwise they will be placed 1n court for -collection. THOMAS WATSON,Clinton, Impounded. In Clinton; 1 red steer, 1 year old, S red and • white Heifers, 2 year old, and 1 red and white Heiter,one year old. It not previously redeemed, they will be sold by auction at the pound, Kin • street, at 1 r. m. on Satur- day, July 2ttb. F. FOLLAND, Pound - keeper. 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