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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1890.
PUBLIC MEJI 1 INtI.
Sir R, J. Cartwright to speak
in Clinton.
Sir Richard Cartwright will deliver
' ,an address on the public issues of the
day, in the Town Hall, Clinton, on the
evening of Tuesday, ecemberll6th.
Accommodation will be 6r ladies
en the platform. This will be the only
place in this section where Mr Cart-
wright will speak, and all who wish to
hear him should avail themselves of
this opportnni ty.
It is altogether likely that Messrs
John McMillan, M. P., J. T. Garrow,
M. P. P., M. C. Cameron, and other
prominent men, will also take part in
the meeting.
Ow
Report says that several machine
men in the States have formed " a big
trust." What is troubling the country
newspapers more than anything else
is the "big trust" some of their sub•
scribers have formed.
The Conservative papers of this
country cannot find words strong
enough for their denunciation of Par-
nell, and. he deserves all that he is
getting. Bat was his conduct one
atom worse than that of Mr Foster,
the Minister of Finance, whoae action
was tastily approved of.
At Napierville, Ill., an election is in
progress for the Commons, and both
candidates ar3out strong for unrestrict-
ed reciprocity. Just make a note of
this—that if the Conservative is elected
the papers on that side will declare "that
the reciprocity candidate was defeated,"
trying to convey the idea that the Its
former only was in favor of reciprocity.
The average percentage of customs
duty levied by the Dominion govern-
ment upon goods imported from Creat
Britian laat y,,9,r., was twenty-two per
• cent, while the average, duty upon im-
ports from the United States was only
fifteen per cent. This is what some
people call a tariff policy founded upon
"+''• w _loyalty to Great Britain.
-
Although a largo number of protests
were entered against members return-
ed at the late local elections, no candi-
date on either side has yet been unseat.
ed for corrupt practises. The only
one who has lost his seat is the Equal
Rights candidate for North Victoria,
acid this was the result of an arrange-
ment to save the costs of an election
trial. Both the candidates were Con-
servatives.
A nephew of Mr Alonzo Wright—
"King of the Gatineau," and who de-
clares himself a pronounced Conserva-
tive, has come out squarely for annexa-
tion, stating that he sees no prospect of
the country being in any better condi.
tion so long as affairs remain as they
are. The Conservative papers will take
very good care they don't denounce
him as a "traitor," but if a Liberal
advanced the same sentiments he would
quickly catch it.
paper of Tory =aerate paliticai ltend-
pncice, and rte tatterangete are therefore
regarded -ea fairly impartial. When it
flubs it necessary to nee such language
se the following„ matters must be in a
pretty bad state indeed:—
"What a masa of swarming corrup-
tion the whole administration at Ot-
tawa has been during the last tep
yeara. Expoeure follows es ore and
each eeems worse than the last. The
Customs Department was the first to
be shown up as little better or other
than a blackmailing institution from
top to bottom. Then. the Department
of the Interior was exhibited by Messrs
Rykert and hie immolates se the resort
of swindlers who found there either im-
beciles whom they could cheat or kava -
ea whom they could corrupt; otherwise
Mr Rykert never oould have had his
own way. Now the Department of
Public Works is exposed as a den of
thieves. If the Hon Thomas McGreevy
or his alleged correspondence is to be
believed, he and Sir Heotor Laugevin
—not even Sir Hector Langevin and
he—settled with whom oontraots were
to be conolnded, and as a result the
Hon. Thomas' brother and friends
among the contractors got big things
both ttreeently and "in the future."
There to a remarkable family resemb-
lance between the scandals of the In-
terior Department and the Publio
Works. Just as Mr Rykert makes
free with the names of prominent
ministers, so the Hon. Thomas Mo.
Greevy also speaks of them as if they
were quite associated with him in his
schemes. If Mr Rykert ran the Inter -
for Department, Mr McGreevy ran the
Public Works Department. If we are
to believe the successful oorruptioniate
of all these departments, they actually
bought the influence of the Ministers.
There are only two or three prominent
Mtnisters. and those of comparatively
recent appointment, who have not been
aceused by their own supporters, in
private lettere, of having acoepted
bribes, and being under corrupt in-
fluence. These corrupt supporters were
in each case successful, at least in en-
riohing themselves. A parliamentary
inquiry into the Tarte exposure will,
of coarse, take place. Nothing less
than a clean sweep of the whole Gov-
ernment, bag and baggage, will suffice,
however, to rid the public service of
the corruption which has been accum-
ulating for the last ten years, during
which this Dominion has been plunged
to the lips in debt and taxation, in
order that the system might continue.
NEWS NOTES.
Parnell,the disgraced and dishonored,
is making a disparate effort to retain the
leadership of the Irish party, and mat-
ters art a fever heat in the old country.
If he manages to retain his position he
will lose the support of all men of honor
and Ilse Home Rule question will re-
ceive at setback that it will not recover
C from for some time. Parnell should
journery into oblivion, and he cannot
start too soon nor remain there too long
Bis usefulness is gone.
Rev Mr Carson, of Kingston Metho-
dist church, has accepted an invitation
to the pastorate of a Detroit Presbyter-
ian church, at a salary of $5000. The
Alien Labor Law imposes a fine of
-161000, and the chnroh undertakes to
pay this. Mr Carson gives as his
reason kr leaving the Methodist church
that he is tired of the short pastorate
—three years—and wants to secure a
permanent home. Doubtless a good
reason, but would Mr Carson have an•
cepted the call for the same reason if
the salary had been, say $2000 lower.
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TUE IMAM QVIPSTIQN• cheap Western; .corn $Jkar.011111$ their
:1 enwrap grains • /Ur White • eaitl 40,
Juterviows with Tottutirw Mon ' not find • any fault with. the throe cents a.
11t I4illtli tQ]Gl!. pound d'ety on Chicago pork conling in
Bore, dad sit bong as it itortlainij we i i5-Uk1i
Wrens the 01obo4 not gamble at it- IPA Welting at. the
Mr Alden Burrit, of Messrs A, Bo- question of our trade relations with the
ret & Co., of Mitogen, probably the United Staten broadly, I can see that
largest woollen hosiery manufacturers the poliey.of proteotlea*erks against
in Ontario, ie living in the hope that the farmere. Anytbi.4 that encour-
the polioy of the Liberal party may ages our !armors to enrich their land by
prevail and he be given a larger market gaining stook ought to be promoted.
by unrestricted reciprocity. All the atook steers Canada toe been'
"My market is in the towns and sending to England ought tobe fattened
citieit," Mr Burrit said, "and I am re- here. The American Dorn with which
etricted by the 60 per cent. tariff wall they are fed in England and, which
between us and the United States. I fertilises the land over there should gb
have covered the Canadian market• to enrich Canadian forme. If we had
from Charlottetown to Calgary, and free born to feed our hogs we could be
my traveller on his nest trip west will Exporters inetead of importers of pork.
parry them through to the Paciflo Last year I fed from 5,000 to 6,000
Coast. The cost of selling goods in hogs. The corn with which they were
such a market is enormous. To have furnished was brought from the United
to covertbousands of miles with travell-
ers and pay freight rates is a lose to
manufacturer and consumer t :At would
be saved by reciprocity. The allergies
of selling in our barineee amount to 7
per cent. of the Bales. A considerable
portion of that is as mach s tax as if
the protective policy levied it directly.
The greater portion of it would be
saved if I could go aoroee the border
into the great cities of the States to
sell. I should find no home competition
at whioh I would need beiat all concern.
ed, and over the European goods with
their duty -raised prices should have
such an advantage that I could take as
much of the market. as I could supply.
In Chicago alone I could find business
enough to keep my faotory with its
present capacity running all the time.
I know what I am speaking about. I
have tried the market over there. My
goods have been sold alongside those of
foreign make there and have found of fertilising our farms by not feeding
favor. heavy hods more extensively.
"This is being recognised by some
farmers, and they will not sell apound
of coarse grains off their farms. They
feed their barley, peas and oats, and are
beginning to see how every hundred
bushels of cheap corn would release a
hundred bushels of peas, which they
could sell as a rule for more than they
wonld have to pay for the corn. They
ought to see that they can generally buy
Western corn, with no duty to pay, for
$10 to $15 per hundred bushels less
than they can sell their peas, for the
corn will bees good feed. Every bushel
of corn a farmer buys lets him sell a
bushel of peas at 10 or 15 cents more.
This should be a plain economy to the
hog and cattle raisers who are feeding
coarse grains ; it needs no words to
show the cattle raiser who is bringing
in corn that he will profit by throwing
off a duty of 74 Dents a bushel. And
the poorer farmers, who think they
cannot now afford to raise hogs or cat-
tle, would he able to buy this feed which
is so plentiful in the Western States;
they would have the profit of turning
it into beef or pork and breeders would
have the manure for their land. As to
the relative values of corn, peas and
barley as feed, I would as soon have a
pound of Dorn as peas when chopped.
Barley is not so good a feed, and there-
fore not cheap because it does not have
the desired effect. As to price, barley
and peas cost about the same. Barley
is one cent a pound and peas are not
quite a cent a pound, but I world sooner
have corn or peas than barley."
Replying to the remark that the far-
mers have been told that free corn
would bring down the price of other
coarse grains, Mr White agreed that
it would undoubtedly reduce the price
of corn but not of any other grain. The
price of peas is controlled by the Eng-
lish and foreign demand, and the price
of oats is dependent on the manufac-
ture of oatmeal: the barley market, no
one can suppose is affected by the quan-
tity fed to hogs in Canada. We can
manufacture them here, and the mills
that crack them have been doing a
large business. Why not sell them all
we can raise, and soli the oatmeal mills
our oaten ? Let the farmers sell these
grains and bring in corn for feeding
purposes at say $10 or $I5 a hundred
bushels leas price. Why make the
whole country suffer for the benefit of a
belt of corn growing land in the west
hero ? If farmers can buy the corn
cheaper than they can raise it let them
buy it and raise something else. The
duty on pork is an offset to the duty on
corn. But I do not care if the duty on
pork is left on if corn is let in free. Let
ns have the corn and we can in this
country raise enough pork. Armour
kills 7,500 hogs every day, it is true,
but with untaxed feed and healthy
hogs I can get along. The margin
would not be as great, but it would not
need to be. We should have to be con-
tent with less than the present Si cents
a pound when the United States price
got down, as it is now, to 6 cents. The
customer would benefit 24 cents a pound
and we should raise our hogs at such a
less cost that the difference to us would
not be the whole of that 2},. The Eng-
lish like Canadian bacon. It is well de-
scribed by the Irishman who said the
pig was starved one day and fattened
the next. It is a layer of fat and then
a layer of lean, and the old country
people prefer it to American pork,
The American pork, too, is fed from its
which is generally too fat for their taste.
birth, so that it is not so firm and its
muscles are not developed as in our
Canadian hogs. We have the favor of
the old country market, and if we had
the cheap feed of the West we would
become large exporters."
Reverting to the question of raising
heavy mess pork, Mr White made clear
the point as to why the farmers do not
now raise more of it. "When the farm-
er's hogs have grown to six or eight
months and he must begin to fatten
them he decides that ho cannot afford
it ; peas, he thinks, are too high,"
Mr White said, "is the reason we do
not raise heavy mesa pork in this count•
ry. If he could get 100 bushels of corn
for $15 less than be could sell his peas
for, the farmer world find money in
going more largely into hog and cattle
raising. And there is even more to be
said of the benefit free corn would
be to the fattening in this country of
the stockers which are sent over in tens
of thousands to England to be finished."
William Coutts has been committed
for trial at Mount Forest, charged with
drowning his 2 year-old child.
W -.•H. Langworthy, the town clerk
and treasurer of Port Arthur, who
wandered away a few doys ago, was
found in an insensible condition in the
deserted roller rink,
Kenyon, the young plan who stabbed
Loughead at Combed a week ago, has
been released, the matter having been
settled by Kenyon assuming all costs
and payment for time lost,
Thomas Higgins, aged 63, an old res-
ident of Allanburn, dropped dead from
lung and heart trouble on the road near
his residence Sunday evening. lye -
ceased was a bachelor.
When a child David Moliry, a farmer
of Lehigh County. Pennsylvania, now
seventy years of age, got a cherry stone
in his ear, and all attempts to remove
it were unsuccessful until the present
week.
Rev. F. McCuaig, Presbyterian min-
ister of Weland, has written a strong
letter appealing for signatures So the
petitions for the comn•utation of the
sentence of death passed upon Day at
the last Welland Assizes.
Mrs Ernest Bohn, living near East
Dubuque. Ill., has given birth to a child
without eyes and no place in the head
for them. The forehead extende down
to the nose perfectly smooth. Tho
child is very bright and will live.
E. W. Boys, postmaster of Baden,
Ont., arrested on a charge of tampering
with the mails, came before Judge La -
course, at Berlin, for sentence, having
pleaded guilty. The Judge, after giving
Boye a severe lecture, let him off on
suspended seutenoe, he hitherto having
borne a good character.
James Stockton met his wife in
Memphis, Tenn., last week- for the first
time since the Johnstown flood. Each
had mourned the other as dead, believ-
ing that they had been bereaven by the
awful disaster. Mr Stockton had gone
to California, and Mrs Stockton was in
Massaohusetts.
Mrs Robert Carroll, of Dnnwich,
near the Village of Dutton, committed
suicide Sunday evening by taking Paris
green. All her life she had been sub-
ject to convulsions, and a few days ago
fell on the stove, upsetting a pot of
boiling lard upon herself, burning her
arms and body severely. She suffered
so terribly from her barns that it ie
thought in a paroxysm of pain she
determined to take her life. She,jeaves
besides her husband a daughter about
four years of ago.
A horse attached to a buggy became
frightened near the cemetery bridge
St. Catharines, on Sunday and plunged
into the icy waters of the canal, drop-
ping the occupants of the buggy after
him. They were the postmaster of
Merritton and his betrothed. A gentle-
man, who on a previous occasion had
been engaged to the young lady and
who was not permitted to continue in
her good books, providentially happen-
ed in the neighborhood, and, plunging
onto the freezing waters, rescued both
from a watery grave. The horse was
drowned.
An Amorcian paper calls attention
to the fact that clever as "Col. Bob. In-
gersoll" the infidel is, be cannot secure
an entrance into political or legislative
life, because of his agnostic opinions,
and makes the further remark, that he
eonld not even secure a nominative for
n lat-
anyprominent position. It is eco so
ion toknow that the Amerioans,who are
sometimes regarded as a race of infidels
bitdent res-
pectot�oifiebiritly eo) have sufficient
pect for fhb teaohingn of the Bible to
keep men gf snob pronounced infidel
views an Ingersoll, where their pres.
once at lead molal not be offensive.
aiotlee .of application .fol+ an act of 1
the l istatare to consolidate the ,1.
town� �h dA � o, �
a .t h e Ve Mix. the
Alayol has blood leis ogle for 4100
tarty the ueceapafy eapentiea .Qf de-
poen sand printing. ' tThe com.aaitee
recommended payment of the follow•
ing accounts;- -'l`. Cottle, work on
street, $1.6.70; W. Coate, for ettarity,
$L70; P. Evans, for. charity. $2; J.
Tedford, sundries, $12 ; Davis &
Rowland, sundries,' $6.70; Clinton
Organ company, for electric lights,
$5. 'The receipts of the weigh scales
were $24.10, and of the town hall,
$44.86. It was recommended tat pre-
pare the statuary statement of the
treasurer and have it printed.
TO THE Mitoa AND COUNCIL —
Gentlemen. --Having received a com-
plaint that the fences on the Bayfield
States, and I paid upwards of $1,000 o! �' road within the corporation trespass
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States,
on it. All summer long we have ed upon the highway, I have made an
killed from 60 to 100 hogs every day examination of the same, and find.
fedon American corn. Lumbermen that in eeveral places the roadway
told the Government at Ottawa last is narrow upon the owners
session that we could not raise heavy of the lands borderby from .4
mess pork. That ie not true. We to 7 feet. I have called
could raise it more profitably than the ing on this highway, and they state
Americans if we could get their cheap that the fence, as at present erected,
corn to feed them with, became there is stands exactly in the same place as
lase mortality among oar hogs, and our the old ones, and they all claim to be
losses from hog cholera and such dis-
within their rights. Mr Farrah
eases are slight, Th8 pork we raise in states that he will move his fence if
Canada now lis principally of the light proved to be in the wrongplace,but
kind. For the heavy mess pork that
the lumbermen want the hogs are kept a does not feel willing to call in a
until they are a year old, and are fat- surveyor at his own expense. JOSEPH
tened with corn or coarse grains. I be- WHEATLEY.—Ordered to be filed.
lieve that just as we are losers by let- BTRErT COMMITTEE REPORT.
ting the feeding of our stook steers go to The Committee reported that hav-
England, just es our land is made the in received an offer from Mr W.
poorer obyf the shipment of every bushel Jackson to pay a proportion of the
of cattle feed,so we are neglecting means cost of building a sidewalk from the
G. T.,R. to his residence, the com-
mittee. authorized the building of the
same. When the offer was made
there was every appearance of a con-
tinuance of bad weather .which made
the walk to Mr Jackson's almost im-
passable for pedestrians, and the
committee authorized the building of
the walk without the necessary sanc-
tion of the council. The ungency of
the matter necessitated prompt ac-
tion, The cost to Mr Jackson was
about $15, and the town has used
about 2,500 ft. of plank.
Mr Searle thought the matter was
decidedly unfair; he had no objection
whatever to;MrJackeon having a side-
walk to his residence, but; he Council
had some time ago decided not to do
any new work whatever, without
having sanction therefor, and the
lumber used had been intended for
next year. The chairman of the
Street Committee could not give hie
sanction to it, owing to hisillnesa.' He
did not think a sidewalk laid down
at this season of the year could be se
well put down as if iaid when the
weather wa; more favorable. We
would be getting the taxes too high,
and people did not want to live in a
place with high taxes.
Mr Kennedy said that the chair-
man was in favor of having the work
done.
Mr Plummer said that the under-
standing some time ago was that the
work was to be done this fall if we
had the lumber.
Mr Manning said the town had a
perfect right to anticipated next
year's expenditure, if we like to,
and had done so in previous instances
He was sick and tired of this con-
stant fault-finding,by Mr Searle.
There is not a town in the county of
Huron and very few in Western
Ontario, where the taxes are as low
as they are here. Our assessment
was purposely kept down, and be
believed the ratepayers would be
willing to see our taxes raised and
necessary improvements promptly
made.
Mr Cooper had expected that the
work would have been done some
time ago, ;but he thought it should
have came before the Council.
Mr Armstrong said that Mr Searle
forgot Mr Jackson was paying half
the expense, and we might not have
secured the same next year.
The report of the Street Committee
was adopted, Mr Searle alone voting
"You may say," Mr Burrit concluded
"that if we had not that 60 per cent.
tariff against us I could send my travell-
ere into New York State and Michigan
tomorrow, and that I am confident my
business would double itself rapidly
under reciprocity. And then there is
the effect reciprocity world have on my
Canadian business by the bettered
condition of the farmere, and through
them of every class in the ooantry.
The prosperity of the people to whom
my goods go is so intimately associated
with that of the agrioultural commun-
ity that I have felt equally with other
manufacturers the effects of the de-
pression of these late years."
OATMEAL AND SPLIT PEAS,
Mr Walter Thomson, of Mitchell, is
proprietor of two oatmeal mills, and
as well as his oatmeal milling has
done a considerable business in splitting
peas. Had the MoKinley Bill not gone
into effect this fall the oatmeal millers,
he says, could have shipped rolled oats
into the United States with a margin
of profit. "This would not be the case
every year," Mr Thompson told the
correspondent, "but reciprocity would,
in my opinion, place us in a better
position than we are now. The posi-
tion of things is exceptional this year.
There has been a largo crop of oats in
England, and a short crop in the United
States, and oats are therefore double
the price they were last year. If the
tariff did not hamper us we could sup-
ply them in years when like this they
have not enough oats of their own,
while in other years when they have a
largo crop we could buy from them.
If the price of oats here was affected
the consumers would benefit. At pres-
ent if we are short and want to buy
from them it cost us ten cents a bushel
and the duty on oats going inti the
States is fifteen cents a bushel. The
privilege of milling in bond is depreci
ated by the red tape and annoyances
by which it is surrounded. It is re-
quired that American oats be kept
separate from Canadian oats, which is
not possible unless the mills have large
storage capacity. As a rule the farmer
is not helped by the Canadian duty,
because we only give him the bonded
price for his oats except they are par-
ticularly heavy and good. If oats in
the West were plentiful and selling at
23 or 24 cents, and in Canada they were
scarce and selling at 4.2 or 43 cents,
the duty might be a benefit' to the
farmer; but such a condition does not
often happen and cannot be taken as an
argument for the tariff. Against ajih
a profit, probable only under exception-
al contingencies, the farmer may put
the sure profit from free corn. If the
duty on corn were taken off it would
mean that he would get it at Western
prices, but the Chicago market would be
unaffected by the abandonment of this
ditty.
"Free corn would not affect the
price of peas," Mr Thomson said, "be-
ckuse the English market rules it.
The farmers have been getting higher
prices for their peas than they would
have to pay for corn if there were no
tax on it. And the withdrawal by the
United States of the new duty on split
peas, which would come with recipro-
city, would restore a branch of our
trade that has beeen considerably af-
fected by it. A limited quantity of
split peas has been sent to England,
but we have found a large trade in
supplying the United States consump-
tion. This we did, and paid a duty of
20 per cent. ad valorem; now the duty
is 50 cents a bushel, which is -equal to
$1.75 a barrel. That shuts us out of
that market completely. This domestic
business was the largest part of our
split peas trade. The result of the
McKinley Bill on the pea market has
been a marked depression, The manu-
facture being stopped, we are not em-
ploying so much labor. In several
other directions the influence of the
McKinley Bill is felt. Shipments of
split peas haye boon made to New York
in bond which are going to market in
the West Indies. The English market
is also left. But we could always do
better in the United States than in
England, and the American market is
the market we want opened to us for
milling purposes. Oar milling indus-
try has been injured by the new tariff.
The old duty of 20 per cent. was a tax
on it, and the way it developed in spite
of that tax showed that the trade was
running in the right channel. Much
greater would be the growth under un-
restricted conditions. The farmers
suffered from the new barley duty
severely, notwithstanding the eagerness
with which they rushed their crop intc
the market. The egg business escaped
this year, but so large a trade cannot
be diverted without serious loss. In
the horse trade the farmers of this
western district are deeply concerned,
and the interference with their revenue
from that source will have far reaching
effects. The farmers who talk to me
do not speak hopefully. Allegiance
10 party make some of them reluctant
to acknowledge the failure of the Nation -
al Policy, but they are all hoping for
something that will relieve them of the
burden of tariff taxation."
Rev Dr. Smith, formerly pastor of
Knox church (}alt, the largest Presby-
terian congregation in Canada, has just
resigned the pastorship of St. John's
church, San Francisco, under rather
peculiar circumstances. A contempor-
ary explains:—"The congregation was
deep in debt, contracted before the
dootor took oharge, and he was charged
with preaohing Christ and Him crvoi-
fied too strongly to 'draw.' The peo-
ple were not so anxious to learn the way
to Heaven as the way out of debt, and
they would rather have their ears tickled
than their souls saved."
On Saturday George II. King, a div-
inity student at Acadia College, was on
his way by train to Annapolis to preaoil.
He unintentionally sat down upon the
far cap of Rev. Mr Brown, rector of
the Episcopal) Church at Middleton,
which was lying on a vacant seat.
Without the slightestprovooationlirown
jumped rip and gave King a terrific blow
in theface blackening aY
both es and
breaking his nose. Intense indignation
!prevailed among the passengers. King
did not strike back. Brown's fury cal-
med down in a minute, when be profus-
ely apologized. Rev. Henry How, who
was a fellow passenger with Rev. Mr
Brown, denounced the attack as a most
brutal one and .will report Brown to
Bishop Binney.
THE CORN AND non OTES ['ION.
Mr John White of this town is th
largest boh feeder der in
Canada. He
also
carries on a packing establishment and
has a farm of 260 aures in Hibbert
Township. The Globe's cortesponder t
interviewed him with reference to the
probable effect of unrestricted recipro-
city on the trade in whibh he has spent
30 years. Ho has clear and strong
views on the subject of the duty on corn
and the profit to the firmer of feeding
TOWN COUNCIL.
naMr Handing laid before the Coun-
cil the proposition of a joint agree-
ment between the council and direc-
tors of the Huron Central Fair, where.
by the Council is to assume the
grounds of the Society for a public
park, and make the Society a slight
money grant, the cost to the town,
under the proposed arrangement, be-
ing no more than the annual grant
now made to the Society. The mat-
ter was received, and a test vote will
be taken at the time of the municipal
election. It should receive the cor-
dial and hearty support of every rate-
payer.
TIIE OLD RELIABLE.
s Every day adds testimony in favor
of the view that all people in all lands
are growing more and more in favor of
that which is absolutely reliable. Wheth-
er dealing with men or things people
want them, above all things, to wear
well, 90 they can be depended upon.
It is this healthy tendency that creates
such a universal demand for that great
and reliable weekly newspaper, the
FAMILY HERALD AND WEEKLY STAR of
Montreal. It is safe to say that it is
rarely that any enterprise in any quar-
ter of the globe meets with such magni-
ficent MACCBsa as the FAMILY HERALD AND
WEEKLY STAR. It counts its readers
by hundreds of thousands and it is a
recognized authority upon all matters of
public interest. Those who have the
FAMILY HERALD AHD WEEKLY STAR have
a treasure, those who have not got it do
not know what they are missing.
The regular meeting of the board
was held on Monday evening. The
treasurer of the Collegiate Institute
Board applied for an order for the
town estimate of $1,400 which was
agreedito. The Clinton Organ Co.
asked for the remission of their taxes,
their letter stated that"they have been
Blow to ask for any favote from the
town, but owing to a combination
of circumstances it would be a boon
to us to be relieved of our taxes for
this year,and possibly result in being
beneficial to the town." The matter
was referred to the Finance Com-
mittee.
A largely signed petition to have
an electric light placed at or near Mr
McKenzie's a corner (near the station
was received. It was decided to as-
certain if the Electric light Co. car-
supply any more lights, what this
light will coat per year, and see i
the G. T. R. Co. will bear any parf
of the expense. -
1 INAN('E COM hiITTEE'8 REPORT.
The committee reported that
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MARRIED
SritIPARD—JoIINs.—At the residence
of Mrs Allcock, on Dec. 2nd by the Rev
W. Craig, Mr James Sheppard to Mrs
E. Johns, all of Clinton.
WALL—HEARN.—At Washington, D.
C., on the 3rd inst., Mr Julian Wall,
(son of the late Rev Dr. Wall,) to Miss
Nellie Hearn, daughter of Mr James
Hearn, of Clinton.
7ORNSrON.—KENNEDY.—On the 3rd
inst., by the Rev Jas. Walker, at the
residence of the bride'a father, Mr
Edward Johnston,) of Stanley, to Miss
Eva Kennedy, of the same place.
COVSENS---WALKrNS.--In Clinton, on
the 2nd inst., by the Rev W. Craig, Mr
A. Cousens, of Ashfield, to Miss Jenny
Walkins, of Ashfield.
MAY—ATRINSoN.—At Exeter, on the
3rd inst., by the Rev S. F. Robinson,
Mr John May, of IIsborne,to Mies Alice
Atkinson of Exeter.
SANDERS—SANDERS, —At the Rectory,
Exeter, by Rev S. F. Roberson, on the
1st. inst., Mr Thos Sanders, to Wire
Mary Sanders, both of Stephen.
HEvwonn—SANnRRR. -At the bride's
parents 2nd con. Stephen, Mr Eli
Heywood, of Ushorne, to Misa'Harriet
4th daughter of SaInttol Sanders, oi;
Stephen.
THE MOON, Dec. 1, 1890.
MESSRS COOPER & CO.,
COOPER'S BOOK STORE, EARTH.
GENTLEMEN,—
Please notify the public that I
shall hold High Carnival at your estab-
lishment during the month of December,
and if my stock holds out it will be neces-
sary for all the good Boys and Girls to
Have unusually large stockings hung up
on Christmas eve.
Yours, as ever,
Santa Claus
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the head quarters for HOLIDAY GOODS. Make your selections
now while the variety i3 complete. Our stock of
BOOKLETS and CARDS
Never was nicer. Variety never so large.
PLUSH and LEATHER Goods
Ladies Companions, Manicure Sets,
Cuff and Collar Boxes, Glove and
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Including the Boys and Girls Own
Annuals, Sunday at Home,
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Prayers and Hymnals for Methodist,
Presbyter Ian or English Churches
Remember your friends by rending them a Christmas
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BOOKS, STATIONERY and FANCY GOODS,
CLINTON.
MARRIED.
HARRISON — MCCLENAGRAN. — At the
residence of 'the bride's father, White-
church, on the 29th Nov., by Rev W .
Geddes, Nicholas Harrison, of the
Township of Stanley, to Margaret, se-
cond daughter of George McClenaglian,
Esq., Whitechurch, Ont.
Geovrs—HART.—At the residence of
the bride's father, Lower Wingham, on
the 20th Nov., by Rev J. Scott, M. A.,
John Groves, of Wingham, to Miss
Lavina Hart.
L1NELATER—BRrcE.—At the residence
of the bride's father, Turnberry, on the
26th Nov., by Rev II. McQuarrie, John
Linklater, of East Wawanosh, to Miss
Jenny Bryce.
SIIIsoN—MILLHAN.—In Wingham, on
the 19th of Nov., at the residence of the
bride's uncle, Mr Jas. Millman, by Rev
J. Scott, M. A., Mr Walter Simeon, of
Howick, to Miss Isabel ,Millman, late
of Guelph.
FEnousoN—So)IERVILr.E.--At the res-
idence of the bride's father, on Wednes-
day, Nov. 26th, by the Rev Colin Flet-
cherofFarquhar, W. S. Ferguson, M.
D., of Seaforth, to Miss Maggie Gracey,
daughter of Thos. Somerville, Esq., of
Kirkton. Ont.
Purif
The importance of
keeping the blood 4
a pure condition is
universally known,
and yet there are
very few people who
have perfectly pure
blood. The taint of scrofula, salt rheum, or
other foul humor Is heredlted and transmitted
tor generations, causing untold suffering, and
we also accumulate poison and germs of dis.
Lase from the air we
breatS,pe, the food
we cal, or the water
we drink. There 19
both ing more coth
elusively proven
than the positive
Dower of Hood's Sarsaparilla over ail diseases
of the blood. This medicine, when fairly
tried, does expel every trace of scrofula or
ealt rheum, removes the taint which causes
catarrh, neutralizes
the acidity and cures
rheumatism, drives
out the germs of
malaria, blood poi-
soning, etc. it also
Vitalizes and en-
riches the blood, thus overcoming that tired
feeling, and building up the whole system
Thousands testify to the superiority of Hood's
Sarsaparilla as a bloo(1, purifier. Full Infer.
motion and statements of cures sent tree.
ur
to
BORN.
WRIGHT.—In Clinton, on 28th Nov.,
the Wife of Mr C. H. C. Wright, Lec-
turer in Architecture in the School of
practical Science, Toronto, of a son.
PLEWES.—In Goderich Township, on
the 26th Nov., the wife of Mr Joseph
Plewes, of a son.
PEARSON.—In Stanley, on Nov. 23rd
the ,wife of Mr Robert Pearson,lof a
son. _-
Hood's
Sarsaparilla
Botd by all druggists. on; six for Sb. Prepared only
by 0.1.1100D & 00.. Apotheearies, Lowell, Malls.
100 hopes One bullar
r1IED
IilNcnir..—In Wingham, on the 25th
of Nov. John Kincaid, aged 70 years.
WELsn.—In Usborne, on the 29th
nit., Elizabeth, beloved wife of Mr John
Welsh aged 53 years 6 months and 19
days.
CrrrslroLN.—In Colborne, on Nov.
2.2nd. William Chisholm, aged 58 years
MCKAv.—In Tuckersmith, on the 2nd
inst., Mary Sproat McKay, relict of
the late James Walker, aged 68 years
and 5 months.
WESTAWAY.—In Exeter, on the 3rd
inst., Ann B., wife of S. Westaway,
aged 44 years 6 months.
JENKINS.—In Goderich township, on
the 4th inst., Elizabeth,wife of Thomas
Jenkins, aged 47 years, 4 months and 4
days. Funeral will take place Satur-
day at 2 P. M.
/lent (duertioetnento.
Piire Bred Suffolk Boar Pair
Service.
Subscriber keeps for service at his pre•
mines, lot 43, L.R.S., Tuakersniith, a pure
bred Suffolk Boar. Torms-61 at time of
service, with privilege of returning if neces-
sary. JAMES NOTT. •2m
Farm For Sale.
That well-known and valuable farm, lot
eighteen in the sixteenth concession of
Goderich townsnip,eomprising eighty acres.
will be sold on reasonable terms. Has good
frame house of ten rooms, large frame bank
hare, with stable under barn good orchard,
etc. Now occupied by Mr John Smith. Ap-
ply to the owner, MR GEORGE F.IBURNS,
112 Sandwich Street, Windsor, Ont., or to
H. HALE, Clinton.
— _ NOTICE.
The partnership heretofore existing be•
twoen the undersigned as Physicians and
Surgeons under the firm name Reeve and
Turnbull has been Ibis day dissolved by
mutual consent. A11 accounts duo this said
firm are to be paid to Manning and Scott
who are authorized to give receipts for the
same, and all liabilities against said firm aro
to bepresented to them for settlement.
Dated this 28th day of November 1890.
Witness. JOHN REEVE.
A. H. MANNING. JAMES L. TURNBIJLL.
W. JACKSON,
Town Agent G. T. It
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