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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton New Era, 1890-11-28, Page 4• Ue Oooper 4i Co. -• lttkaapt Brea 'o*r Manly friend—j 17toberteen The Oh sp t—Jaokaon Sroa kieteralk NiatileseeWs Te, OIlitattte T'it#t $ le -»1 ,.Bigg s " X444'09940'4 Quningbame TraQk4 - • 'E w t 1011'• .`'lfiweru J,,.. uparngb&u e B rl, sire hear --14, lialeteed SLrx► r caths -.-W Weir «Unton tiveu `AU 4Y, NOVEMBER 28, 1890. Oft *bare? oh where is the "home" mar- ket ye,,t? Oh where? oh where can it be? 11Vit#its Itrices high end its profits to get -edit* now it ie "over the sea." ,r► General Booth ehould have no dil-h- enity in raining the eum of £1,000,000 with which to relieve Buffering and 4iatress in the old country, and his Eneeeg8 with the Salvation Army wanid, indicate the great likelihood of ttnaoees in his present undertaking. The Conservative papers have joyous- ly mentioned that several of the elec- tion protests against Conservatives re -- earned at the last election have been dismissed, but they conveniently for- got that several entered against Re- formers were aleo dismissed—an over- sigbt, likely. Some time ago the Dominion author- ities decided that when American bands came to Canada, no matter for how short a time, they should pay duty on their brass instruments. It was not to be expected that the Ameri- cans authorities would allow this to go without an attempt at retaliation, and an order was put in effect last week, that duty must be paid by Cau• adian bands, under similar circum- stances. This is a small piece of bust. nese for two important governments to be engaged in, but it is all a part of an abominable tariff system that should ' be wiped away. Last week Rev Mr Stafford, a Metho- dist Minister, of Toronto, preached a sermon against capital punishment, arguing that it was unscriptural. On Sunday Rev Mr Milligan, a Presbyter- ian, of the same city, preached a ser- mon in favor thereof,holding that it was scriptural. Thus great minds differ on a subject that tLere does not seem to be much room for difference upon. Our own feelings lie in the direction of capital punishment until we see a better form of treatment. There may be a measure of "brutality and lack of refinement" about it, as stated bysome persons, but tit we fail to P see -how it can be otherwise. We do not believe in the sentimental stuff thatis published on this subject. If we are not greatly mistaken the aboli- tion of the death sentence in some of the American States, has resulted in an increase of capital crime. This being the case life imprisonment does *et prove as great a deterrent as the fear of the death penalty. Soniaeo le P P will argue that even the death penalty is not a complete preventation of mur- der. True,neither is the fear of eternal punishment a complete deterent against sin. But what can be done about it ? Even banging does not seem to be an adequate punishment for some of the 'orioles committed. The "Vigilante" of San Francisco found hanging the only remedy for crime in the early days of that city. It was the heroic remedy, and its application was the only thing that gave security to life and property in those times. Chancery Sittings. Before the Honorable Chanoellor Boyd. (From the Signal./ The autumn sittings of the Chancery Division of the H. C. J. was held at the Court House, in Goderich, on Fri- day last. The first case on the list was Morris v. Newcombe and the Bank of Hamilton, and was brought by the township of Morris against its late treasurer and his surties for monies said to have been misappropriated by the said treasurer; and the Bank is said to be liable to the township on ac- oonnt of a special deposit said to have bean made by the council, which they allege was- improperly paid out to the defaulting treasurer without proper authority. The case was referred to S. Malcomson, Master at Goderich. Garrow, Q. C., for plff.; Holt for defts. The next case on the list was also one of some •importance to township souncile, being brought by the plaintiff, one Meehan, against the township of Grey, to set aside a sale by the county treasurer of some land in the said township, which had been returned "son resident," and upon which it was alleged certain' rates which had been assessed against the said land, ander "The Ditches and Water Course Act," bad not been paid. The law provides that these dues, when not paid, shall be collected in the same way as taxes. The land was sold and bought by the township. Judgment was reserved. Idlington Q. C., for plffe Garrow, Q. C., and Proudfoot fee :di+fte. The next case was that of Opper- heim v. Ducharme, which was settled by the parties and withdrawn. Collins for plaintiff; Holt for defendant. if Green v. Sthuart.—An action about $50 worth of threshing machine, and resulted in the plff. getting a verdict for $50 without cost. Garrow, Q. C., and Elliot for plff.; Collins for deft. The Ontario Bank v. Armstrong.— An dation to set aside a sale of the equity of redemption in some lands, but while the parties were fighting the matter out the equity of redemption disappeared in the general fall of pro- perty, and the plff. and deft. agreed to let the matter drop, each paying his own costs. Garrow, Q. C., for plff,; Holt for deft. West v. Reed. --This was an action to set aside the sale of a hotel property in Lucknow as fraudulent and void as agninst creditors, and judgment [was reserved. Garrow, Q. C., for piff.; McMullen for deft. Hopper v. Hopper was for alimony. No defence had been nit in, and deft. asked for time to apply for leave to defend, which wag granted. Onriow, Q. C., for plff.; Bolt for deft. Sturdy y. McLean. This Was n, motion to confirm the findings of the Master at Goderich, anal the verdict in ttecordance with ennernt minutes wan entered. G'rrroty, Q. 0.. for pill.; Hoit 'Cr cleft, AtTENTS MEDI AM. . We give place to the opt/alone, of s-ev- erel gentlemen well known tn'this neigh- borhood, @s to the effects of the Ale- Einley tariff on different branches of indue,ry. The opinions are the result of lntervtewa by a Globe reporter!. some one may tnentally oast doubt upon the oorreotnesa of the statereesrte made by the gentlemen interviewed, we may say that the "copy" of the inter- view was revised by each before it was forwarded to the 'Globe. The state• of Mesare. Rattenbury, Polley and Mo - Mann are particularly worthy of serious consideration by the farmers, be- cause they show the effeots of the new Will on the horse business so cleirly, and Dome from men who knew what they are talking about. The statements of Messrs. Forrester and Ferran are well worthy of careful pommel. Farm- ers will find a good deal of food for mental reflection in the followingstate- ments THE HORSE DaarFEaa. The effect of the McKinley Bill on the horse trade of the western part of the Province is severely felt. The farmers up here have for years gone largely into breeding heavy Clyde hor- ses, and the drop in price that has fol- lowed the increase in the United States duty is a serious matter to them. Messrs I. Rattenbury, Clinton,and John MoMann of Seaforth, were interviewed at the Rattenbury House, Clinton, the other day, with regard to this trade. Mr Rattenbury is one of the best in- formed men in the Province on the subject of horses, and Mr McMann is one of the largest buyers in the west. They are both Conservatives in politics, but both arc convinced of the necessity of reciprocity. "I am a Conservative," Mr Rattenbury said, "but there is coming a change over this part of the country, and the people are turning toward reciprocity because they see that their interests demand it." With reference to horses he said:—"There has been a drop in prices of $25 a head at least, and this during the past month or six weeks, since the McKinley Bill menaced the trade." am "1 -used to ship on an average about two oar loads of horses from this dis- trict every week during the late sum- mer and fall," Mr McMann told me, "That would be about 26 head every week for 26 weeks say, or over 800 during the year. They were high- priced draught horses for Pennsylvania and heavy tru k horses for Detroit. This year I have only shipped one car load. George Cox, the Detroit dealer, in other years would be up here half his time. He has not been here at all this year. The average price I have paid for horses is probably $150, BO that the purchase of the 800 horses that in previous years my shipment embraced would amount to a distribution of about $12,500 among the farmers; and this by only one of the many buyers. Now there are no horses going away and, of course, no money coming in." Another way in which the McKinley Bill works against the Canadian trade, as Mr Ratterbury explained, is this:— "It used to be that we could buy a few mares here and take them over to sell; pass them through for breeding pur- poses and escape the duty. Now that is put a stop to in two ways. A certi- ficate of registration is required to ac. company every mare and the pedigree must show not leas than three crosses; furthermore the mare cannot be im- ported by a Canadian except he pre- sents with. the certificate a sworn state- ment from the Amercian citizen c c t zea to whom the mare is being taken declar- ing the purpose for which she is being ( imported to be breeding. The new duty of 130 per head on horses worth less than $150 and 30 per cent. on all worth $150 or more, cuts all round. On a horse valued at $149 and on one worth only the ut "w oald alike be 30 whereas under the $ old d 2 0 per cent. tariff on the $90 horse tie duty would be but $18. On a horse worth $150 the new duty will be $45 as compared with only $30 ander the old. It ie on the high-priced horses and the 'plugs' that the great difference betweeu the old and new tariffs lies. On a $175 horse $52.50 is now taken; and onono worth $200, and there are many of that price, the new duty is $60 against $40 before. And as I have already pointed out this measures only a part of the effect of the tariff, for the prac- tice of the dealers of getting mares over for breeding purposes was a source of considerable profit. Moreover, the new tariff makes the interference of the customs appraisers much more vexa- tious and expensive. Before if a horse were bought for $145 and it was declar- ed by the customs to be worth $175, the difference in the duty would be $6. Such a proceeding under the present tariff would mean a difference of duty of $22.50. The vagaries of a customs officer cannot be accounted for or pro- vided against, and so this is a new and important factor in the trade." Replying to a question as to the ex- tent of the trade in this district, Mr McMann said:—"Each year there has probably gone out of. this section 1,300 horses which would average $150 to $160 each. Now these herein would not bring the farmer more than $125 or $120 each. Or, instead of those 1,300 horses at the old prices putting into the pockets of the farmers say $195,000, at present prices they would only fetch $162,500, that is $32,500 less. We used to send a good many horses to Montreal, and from there they would be sent across into the New England manufacturing towns for Mirk waggons, ice delivery waggons and such uses. They were cheap horses that would average $90. On them the duty used to be $18, and the extra $12 put on by the McKinley Bill has stop- ped that trade completely. Aubrey, the Montreal buyer, used to come up here regularly several times a year and take down shipments. He was here once this fall but only bought three or four head. Pat Dares, of Boston, was up here last week to buy, but only bought two head. The buyers can only pay so much if they are to make anything after the new duty is paid, and the farmers do not like to see their horses go at reduced prices." • That the horse trade has received a serious check and that reciprocity would be a good thing for the western part of the Province Messrs Ratten• bury and McMann are agreed. Mr A. M.Polley, of Goderich, has oar• riedon a horse buying trade throughout the Huron district for30years,"The Mc- Kinley Bill," be says with emphasis, "has knocked the harms trade higher, than Gilderoy's kite. The new duty has put a dead stop to the trade I have been doing, and I can do nothing until the farmers oan bo brought to see that they must sell for $20 or so lose than in previous years. My trade here has been largely in a cheap class of mares far the Inmber camps of Michigan and Wis. consin. The Pennsylvania trade which we used to have has been taken by Wes - torn horses raised on the ranches. At present, althongb some horses are sent to Montreal from this district, my trade is principally with Michigan. The Mc- Kinley Bill means that to keep that trade we mast buy the horses cheaper rom the farmers to pay the duty. \Ve used to bny a int of mares not rigite sound and pay from 490 to 41011 for them ; on these the duty only used to be from 810 to 820. The lumbermen t prefer' itni:aafes,: beceuea:if they wore out in the woods. they .could be used for breeding purposes. 190 that nearly Y a1 1 I bought were mares, There was not much dthioulty ander the old tax law in pawns many of theeq Marco Tote the states for breeciisgpurppoos�es free of charge, but new the McKinley )341 re- quires a certificate of regiettatron'wittl;t tram three to , five crosses. There are not two mares in the county with five creases, unless imported, and extreme- ly few with three, so that that stops us along that line. blot only can these mares not be shipped in to the United States market duty free, but they =net pay a heavy tax. On the better class of horses the new duty makes a big difference. I have en order for some homes that will weigh 1,600 pounds and be worth about 8200 apiece. Under the old United States tariff the duty on them would be 540 each. Under the MoKinley Bili • it will be 160 each. The difference in the tariffs amount to from 815 upwards on every -horse. I am going out some day soon to see if I can buy some horses, but I do not ex- pect to do anything at the prides I shall be forced to offer. Last year I shipped out 800, all bought in this district. Some of them were as high as 0200, and the average would be 1100, eo that the horse trade I did last year amounted to $$0,000 to the farmers of this district. This year I have shipped only one oar load, and that was before the McKinley Bill came into effect. There are a number of other buyers here, and they are in no better position than I am to do business this fall. When the com- bined effeot of the stoppage of the trade we have all been doing is) calculated it will be seen that the result mast be ser- ious to the farmers." THE FLAX.OttOWING INDUSTRY. Mr D. A. Forrester is preprietor of a flax mill in Clinton, and he shows how reciprocity would be of inestimable value to the farmers of that district and adjacent counties,if it only encouraged them to grow flax for the United States. market. Further, he speaks of how the McKinley Bill has reduoed the price of the considerable quantity of flax grown in Perth,Hnron, Waterloo and Welling- ton and parts of Bruce and Lambton. The old duty was $20 a ton on the long ton weighing 2,240 pounds. The pres- ent duty is one cent a pound. That is on scotched flax ready for the spinning mills. To those who may not be fam- iliar with how the flax is marketed, a word in explanation. The farmers de- liver to the local flax mills the flax straw with the seed en it. The seed is taken off at the mill and the straw re. duced to fibre. From the sale of the fibre Domes the principal profit to the Canadian flax mills, although the seed is in demand at oil mills at good prices "The only market for the Canadian flax fibre is in the United States: none is used at all in this country," Mr Forrester said. " If we lose that mar- ket we must go out of the business. There are upwards of 50 flax mills in these counties, and the industry is of no little importance. The output of the mills of fibre would average from 50 to 100 tons each. If we say the total annual output is 4,000 tons the duty amounts' to $89,600 in the year. This conies off the price the farmers here get for their flax. Before the McKinley Bill increased the duty the total imports on all the flax fibre imported into the United States in a year would only have been $80,000, so that $9,600 is the annual loss to the farmers up here by that bill. In anticipation of the Mo Kinley Bill we lowered the price of flax from $11 a ton to$10. The McKinley Bill as introduced to the United States Senate,provic e 1 fora duty on flax straw of one and a half cents a pound. The United States produces some flax, but not one-tenth of what they require. Russia, France, Belgium and other European countries compete with Can- ada in the United States market. Can- ada has a dui on flax fibre, re, but there is none imported. We have also a duty on flax seed, but it is no use, because the seed is always higher in the United States than in Canada, and when the Canadian mills buy western seed it is because there has not been enough grown in Canada. My mill uses up about 800 or 9001tons of straw:annually, which at $10 a ton, means between $8,000 or $9,000 paid out to farmers of this neighborhood. I employ about 40 hands in the summer time and 20 all through the winter, so that my labor costs about as much more as the straw. The farmers who have been growing flax feel keenly the reduction as a con- , sequence of the McKinley Bill, but even yet there is as much money in flax for them as in anything else. The average yield is about two ton .of flax straw to the acre, which realises at the present prices $20, or more than they make on their coarse grains. Three tons are are sometimes raised on an acre, but the average may be put at two. The product of two tons of straw is 500 pounds of flax fibre. The duty on 500 pounds of fibre is $5, so that if we had reciprocity and the duty were thrown off it would be $5 an acre more to the farmer, and the $25 an acre which would be yielded by flax -growing would be a very much higher average than he gets on any other crop. The crop is a reliable one, remarkably free from blights. With the increased growth of flax straw which would be induced by reciprocity, the mills would grow in number and output. The straw is too bulky to be shipped. It is not extrava- gant to expect that if the United States flaxFinarket were opened to us ther would spring up mills in all the towns and villages in Western Ontario. How much $25,000 paid out for flax and la- bor in every town would help the farmers they can well appreciate. The design of the McKinley Bill, with its 11c a pound duty on flax •fibre at first proposed, was to encourage the growth of flax in the United •States, but the benate seemed to understand that the prospect of supplying the United States mills with flax fibre from their own country was very remote and the duty was reduced to one cent. There are large quantities grown in the Western States, but more with a view to supply- ing the oil mills with seed. To grow flax for seed it is planted thin, about 35 pounds to an aore. To grow for the fibre it is planted thickly. The oil mills have been such a better market that in the Western States the flax is grown almost solely for its seed. Yet notwithstanding the great quantities of seed grown over there the prices are higher than in Canada. Thera would be an unlimited market for our fibre under reciprocity and for seed as well. Under the old reciprocity treaty we sold flax seed in that market and made a good thing out of it. Now the 30 cents a bushel they put on the seed is prohibitory. " We have no other market than the 'United States for flax fibre. Efforts have been made to sell in Europe, in Belgium and Ireland, but we have found that it will not suit the European market. Our fibro is dew -rotted, that is, it HI Allowed to remain ont in the rains and dews to effect decomposition. The flax used in Belfast and in I3elgiunr is water -rotted. We find we rennet water -rot flax !,ere, because there is too much lime in our water. ilence. al- though Ireland does not pr Once all the flax she needs for her mills, we cannot help to supply her Ix canse our fibre does not suit. lint t ho Americans nee our dew -rotted fibre, and with the ad vantage Ws would have by l4oiprooity• • 1 ,rif`ihru.Nffeh.ce mea we should find ;at, libelist Ikulluitt market, 11 0,3 Utl}tad .ftatala li3tt • onxheir frealt the 01041t th USd. enlist► llndlaetrywouldnot beappreciabla we should atilt have the 004Wetltt,on of Ruaropeten flax. With the advantage. that .reci realty would ..give us over 1tussia,, grange end the other transat. lentis flax growing countries, they eeuid he Given eat, and the whore market matte , ours. Fls*x-grow- ing here is long established. rot, 25 years the farmeire have grown it and utllfe bane been aiq operation, IA re. oeiyed an impetus under the old reei- prfwity treaty, and now when thero. fite of other linea°of agrioalture are less than int the years of that treaty the result of reoipprooity can hardly be over- estiiltated. Our flax is well liked in ilie'united Mates: The fibre is good and stong, and there is no fear that it would not hold that market." A AANIIFACTIIS>r*a le naval. The business of Masora Farrah, Mao- pherson & Hovey, menufaaturers of threshing machines, at Clinton, was establishing in 1862. The firm have acquired a sound reputation, and their machines are well known. They are ad- vocates of reoiprooity, and Gate, see In it the opening of a market to diem in which they will have ohanoes equal to the United States manufacturers. Mr W. W. Ferran, senior member of the firms of Ferran, Maopherson & Hovey, and also of Ferran & Tisdall, In Clinton, unfolded his views on the trade question to the Globe correspondent, and had something to say also about the great depreciation in the values -of farm properties. "In common with other manufactur- ers," Mr Ferran said, "we feel the re- striction of our small market of lige millions of people. We should like to be able to go into the United States and should be very willing indeed to give the United States manufacturers an op- portunity of taking chances among our five millions; if we were put on equal basis with diem among their 62 mil- lions. No fear but we could hold oar own with the threshing machine makers over there under similar conditions as to purchase of materials duty free. At the present time we are selling ma- chines rower than they are, and this al- though we are paying duties on every. thing we use in their manufacture. The competition in Canada is that much stronger than it is in the United States. Pig iron and bar iron on the other side is cheaper by the amount of the duty. There are heavy duties here on leather and rubber belting, malleable iron and on all the lines of hardware we use. Cylinder teeth are made in Toronto,but the price is kept up to within a fraotion of the American price with the 35 per cent. duty added ; and on steel, not made to any extent in this country, the duty is 30 per cent. In fact there is nothing except the wood that goes into the production of our machines but is taxed by theGovernment so that the coat of their production is increased. The protection on our finished article isnot of much value to us beoanse we are not troubled with American competition. Char machines, as I said, are selling cheaper than theirs, and as threshing maol.inee sell more by favor than or- dinary farm machinery, strange thresh- ers do not readily get into popularity. Then, too,'the Canadian manufacturers give longer terms of credit than the United States men, and we have been making a more substantial article. We could send machines to thresh all the grain in South Dakota because that State is settled with Canadians who know our threshers and would buy them.a have ve fro uent inquiries q from over there, but the United States tariff keeps us out. We have now a letter from Virginia asking about terms on a machine. If we had reciptocity we could send that Virginia manemachine and could supply the Canadian farmers who want our maohinesin the Western States. The benefit of the high tariff on the finished manufactures of the couutry is offset by the high duties on the raw materials. Before 1878, with a tariff of 171 per cent., our manufactur- ers did better because they could buy their materials free of duty. " We sent as many machines into the United States twenty years ago as we do now. The reason is that the cost of production has grown under this high tariff. We could compete with Michigan, Ohio and Indiana manu- facturers in their own market and pay the United States duty, if we could buy our raw materials as cheaply as they. We are feeling the effect of over -com- petition in our own country, but we are not as bad as the binder men. They sprang up with the great demand for binders which came soon after the in- vention. All other harvesting mach- inery was superseded and every farmer wanted a binder. This sudden and tremendous demand swelled the agricul. tural implement manufactories into large proportions. Foundries multipli- ed in number and capacity so rapidly that our limited market was soon sup- plied. Now the demand has fallen,and many establishments have left to them little more than the business of supply• ing renewal machines ; only a few of the largest are fighting in distant ter- ritories. If the market of the United States and the prairies of the United States were open to the binder men of Canada, there would not be these periodical failures of binder manu- facturers whose names have become well known throughout all the countrj. The binder men are the victims of a restricted market. "Every one who knows anything about it knows that the value of farm property in this county and in this dis- trict has depreciated one-third. We in our manufacturing business know this to be true, and the depression in farm- ing has had an effect on our method of doing business. Years ago, when we had confidence in farming and farm property, we sold threshers to anyone who might be steady and industrious; we were confident that the machines would earn the money to pay for them- selves. Now we refuse many chances to sell because farming is so run down that farmers have not the money and threshers cannot collect at they could years ago. It is a mild estimate to say that farm property has depreciated in value onethird, and I know of many farms that have gone down more than that. We find it difficult to get good security on real esteite for loans because of the growing depreciation and because the majority of farms are mortgaged and many of them are unsaleable. "I have no sympathy with Canadians who think so meanly of our country as to say we could not hold our own with the Americans. To talk of making a slaughter market of this country is to forget that with reciprocity such a pro. seeding would mean slaughtering their own markets. This they would not do, and, if they did not, the Canadian man- ufacturers could go there and sell. Under reciprocity we should not have so many other manufacturers to com- pete with es we have now. The num- ber of farmers to each threshing ma- chine manufacturer on tho continent would be Irma) larger than is the 11001 bet of (''anadinn farmers to ('anadian Oranfttctmrers. 1 nm Confident that reciprocity, with its continental market, for ns, would be a stimulant to our business, if it Iinrte some industries Clint will only be the natural result of a measure of such wide inflnenepa. That it will great ly increase the prnspr,rityof the fanners and develop the resortrces of the country is what I PPP in it," NEW$ TOTES Great deetruotion by loode £.ts repast- fad from. 42104d, 1 enemy and Austria. Ur Sarn Rushes has been nominated for the Commons by the North Victors» iConservatives. Mr J. M. Williams, Registrar of vvggentworth, tiled in Hamilton OA Tuts• da ftarnoan. Mr Jahn B Freeman, M. P P'. for North Norfolk, died at Simooe on Sat- urday morning. Ile understoodthat the of theOntario Leislature will t►openid the latter part of January. Four sheep herders in the Gallinar mountains of New Mexico have been killed by,a hailstorm and 1,600 sheep are missing. Charles Clew, fell from a flat car Thuraday,between Komoka and Strath - soy, and was out in halves. He lived in London and was unmarried. James Alison, an eighteen -year-old Toronto boy, was accidentally and fat- ally shot on Saturday with a ride in the hands of an elder brother. Cablegrams state that Canadian cat- tle landing in Great Britian are in a bad- ly damaged condition. The Cassius is reported as having lost 100 cattle. The London Star, the Home Rule paper in England, says it has reliable infiarmation that Parnell will retire frpm the leadership of the Irish Nation. alias. So be should. Hon Robt Bond of Newfoundland has gone to Washington to confer with the U. S. Government in regard te recipro- cal trade relations between the States ,and blewfoundland. t ` DrJames McLaughlin, one of the best known and wealthiest physicians of El- gin outside of St. Thomas, dropped dead while stepping from one room to anoth• ler in,b3s office between 11 and 12 o'clock ,.Fietirday. The e_trial of the petition against the return of Hon, G W Ross as member for West Middlesex opened today be- fore Justices Fergison and MaoMahon. No evidence was offered in sup port of the petition, which was dismissed with costs. A boy named Saunders was found dead in a neighbor's house near De- loraine with a bullet !mark under his ear. He had evidently placed a cart- iidge on the stove in which a fire was burning, and the contents struck him wuen it exploded. Five hundred people have flocked into Eureka, South Dakota, owning to well defined rumors that the !Indians are about to take the war path. Indian police sent from Fort Bonnett to in- sist on the stopping of the ghost dance were disarmed and sent back to the for Four young children named Cockburn passed through London route from San Francigso to Stratford. Their mother died in California, and the father sent them to their friends in Canada. The eldest was a girl of thirteen, and the youngest only two and a half years old, and they had no escort of any kind. A man named Arthur Waterman of London offered a horse and waggon for sale at StThomas for 810. Ho was arrest- ed and at the PoliceCnurt acknowledged that he stole the waggon from Mr Har ris of Horton street, London, and the horse and harness from Thomas Brien, Waterloo streot,London. 'On Monday afternoon Messrs J. Fitz- patrick, J. A. Edwards and B Reese, of the G.T.R., St. Thomas, drank a couple of glasses each of Hider, which had stood for some time in a zinc pail. Shortly after partaking of the apple juice they were taken ill, with all the symptoms ofoisonin A doctor p g, t was consulted add administered is Dred antidotes. The pi - Boning was caused by the Lead from the pail About 6 o'clock Monday morning a young woman asked Police Constable Hendry at the corner of College street and Spadina avenue, what time she could get a street car to the hcspitaI, and stepped into a doorway out of the cold. She said she feared she was go- ing to be confined. The constable went for a hack, but before he got one the woman had given birth to a child. She was taken to a livery stable and subsequently to the hospital. Windsor is a great place for mania* es, and many ministers make from $400 to $500a year over their stipends. But they have some queer cases and one oc- oared Friday at the residence of Rev. Mr Learoyd. When he oame to tie the nuptial knot he found neither the groom nor the bride could apeak English. nei- ther could they speak to each other, as one could only understand German and the other one only could speak French Interpreters were called in, the cere• mony performed. but the divineis still wondering how the courtship was con. ducted. Though the Dominion Government refused to interfere in the Birchall case, it has exercised its prerogative during the last year in 155 instances. In one case, the death sentence was changed to imprisonniient for life. In 66 cases the crimes for which the prisoners were sentenced were vagrancy and larceny. The longest sentence —one for twenty years, dating from October, 1884 ---was remitted so far as to give the prisoner his freedom after he had served thirteen years. The two next longest sentences —both for fourteen years—wore remitt- e 1 after the prisonershad been in prison for over seven years. It is open to question sew far this interference with the judgment of the courts is in the pubic interest. Mrs Birchall and Mrs West -Jones loft Woodstock, on Monday afternoon for England, and were accompanied by Dugald McMurchy as far as New York, whore they sail on Wednesday on the White Star steamship Majestic. They were furnished free transportations from Woodstock to England by the steamship company, who have been very accomodating to the two ladies, doubtless through the position held by their father as traffic manager of the North-Western Railway. Mr Leetham Birchall's college chum, went as far as Hamilton and then returned to Mon- treal. Mrs Birchall declined to visit the grave in the jail yard. "So long as the body is there," she said, "I don't care to see the grave, but if the author - ties will give me the body, as I believe they will after a while, I will return to Canada and have the remains interred in the cemetery." Mrs Birchall still believes that her husband was innocent of the actual killing of Benwell. She was greatly pained to hear that Rev. Mr Wade had intimated that her hus- band had confessed to him, while to her lid had protested to the last that he was not guilty. 01 will never believe that Reggie confessed to anyone," said she, weeping bitterly, "He told me he was innocent, and more, he implored me not to place any reliance in what other peoplelmight say after he was dead if Ile was guilty of that terrible crimn 1 know he %mild have confessed it te mc. I pressed hill) 00 to tell me all, and he said ho had.'• As a singular and some- what pain til roineidence:the first person they saw on the train ems justice Me - :Ifs bon, 1he judge who pronounced sen- tance of death upon Mrs Iiirchal'Is hue• band, •1 U usariamins 111111111111111111 messatiostionessiss mawnstai Git ! Skip ! Go long ! Gee whiz ! Now go! This is the age of steam you know ; Old Santa Claus is in the race, But he must take a second place. The trains are bringing Christmas Goods For the wide awake firm of Cooper, And if you don't skip you wont get there, Till the holiday trade is over. Be sure and see it, Our Holiday Stock; Appropriate gifts for All kinds of folks, Little or big, At all kinds of prices, Great or small, PLUSH GOOD, ALBUMS, TOYS, BOOKS, CHINAWARE and ANIMALS. Do you want any Art Materials for making fancy work ? We have a complete stock of 24 inch PLUSH ; 22in cb. FELT and all necessary materials. k7'STAMPINGam• AMERICAN MONEY TAKEN AT PAR. Wm. & Co BOOKS, STATIONERY and FANCY GOODS, CLINTON. , Additional Luca! News. A BAD Fix.—A farmer who resides not fifty miles froin here drove in the otber day to make the purchase of a suit of clothes, after which ne became somewhat inebriated, and shortly after dark started for home, and while driving home the idea m came into his mulling brain to sur- prise hie wife by appearing in fine clothes. Stopping on the road he undressed and threw his old suit into a creek, not knowing he had lost his new one out of the wagon. Unable to find either suit, he was obliged to wander home arrayed like a Zulu, and of course succeeded in surpris- ing his wife. IFR VHRISTMA9 TRADE.—Already the merchants are brushing up pre- paratory to the Chritimas trade. The stores and windows are assuming a holiday appearance every day, and large stocks of seasonable goads are being received in anticipation of a period of brisk business, which the NEW ERA eincerely hopes they will all have. The cute dealer, however, will not sit down and wait for cus- tomers to call. He will invite them through the columns or the NEW ERA to come and see him, and he will take care also to inform them what he has to sell. AGallant Captain Captain W. D. Andrews, a Canadian who has for eighteen years been engaged in the lifesaving service, and who after- wards became blind front the effects of exposure to weather and water, will be in town in a day or two, selling his little book, entitled "The Lifeboat." King- ston, Owen Sound, Toronto, Cleveland and Buffalo, have been the scenes of the Captain's many daring acts of bra- very, in saving life from drowning. It is fitting, therefore, that the Humane societiesof both Canada and the United States should recognize his valuable ser- vices in the cause of humanity. s eget eel, 'Iliui' r,. RN'f'ObF�„ At Lynn, Mass., the first church:known as "the mother of New Engl an'd' Metho i d em " has voted oted by211 to 34 in I e favor of admittlnn women into the goa- eral conference. 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Other is a light chestnut with four white fent star on forehead and white spot on inose. Owner is hereby notified to !prove property, pay elmrges and take them away. W. K'I.;Iit W. JACKSON, Town Agent G. T. R _ .a a -ir 'caro-_.,_ i, is" •f %At,li� IIVOC is 'Ciclrets to n11 points nt lowest fares. Pot. K.11 information i'C011e'rnin travel, ;Apply to