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The Huron News-Record, 1891-12-23, Page 4i.eator inane To buy their Goods during the Holidays, while this get:AT 1OVtNG SALE -!s going on. We have aeitainly soldaxeamount of reputation Goods far exceeding our expectations, pectati ns, and fully l established- � o a� Store beingas POPULARDRY-GOODS HOUSE of� and.o hng but Prices has done it. Our Stock is still full of Fine Th1'igs in DRESS GOODS, MANTL/NGSI FLANNELS, HOSIERY, .UNDERWEAR, 00886TS, GLOVES, TWEEDS; COTTONS, SHIRTZNGS, LINENS, CANTONS, FLANNELETTES, HA.1V'DKERGHIEFS, and until we are compelled to move out we are going to make the Prices draw the People. Will YOU pay us a visit J. C. GILROY, CLINTON. The Huron News -Record 1.50 a Year—$1.25 in Advance. Wednesday Dec.23rd, I831. • CIIRISTMA8\1891, Frielay. of this week is the day THE NEWS-ReuOED wishes a I11431ry Christmas to all. Pence, good will to our renders and all mankind. Through the still splendor of the Orient night, To shepherds watching, waiting, on their plains afar, Breaks the glad rapture of the Angel Song, Shines the calm radiance of the wondrous Star. "Glory to God on high !" Sang the bright, j �p.'uv throng, While cJentieas boats proiong Ceese!ee t', a echoed rang, ' Glory to God on Hieh Pence and (lootl-will ! netl'a Peace on Earth from Heaven This day with I -Iia Son is given. Glory to God on High ! ' Pease and toed -will to men !" And the Siar, leading then, Led to the Christ.— Harpers Bazar. THIS ONTel RIO OF 0 URS. Mu. H. I1..PnounrooT, D. L. S., our former town engineer, and since -then, until last spring, a member of the Toronto firm of Wadsworth, Un- win and Proudfoot, was in town the past week renewing old friemlahips and describing to willing listeners the beauties and practicalities of the Rainy River District of North- western Ontario. During the past summer Mr. Proudfoot has been surveying iin.the Rainy River Dis- trict for the Ontario Government. We have always been under the int - pression that that District, though chiefly known for its rocks and vast mineral and timber wealth, was possessed of a considerable area of - rich agricultural land. We aro pleased to have such excellent auth- ority as Mr. Proudfoot confirm our ilrrtressions. It, is really one of the mdct desirable sections of our rich- ly endowed Dominion for farming purposes. Climate and soil all that could be desired, while a ready cash market is close at hand for all farm products that will be raised until better communication is, made with the outer world. It would pay the Ontario Govern- ment to melts arraugements with Mr. Proudfoot and have him pre- sent to those wishing to migrate from other parts of Canada the many advantages offered to settlers in this District. He has had ex- perience in surveying in Manitoba and Northwest Territories and, while admitting all that can be said in favor of these he is of opinion that, the Rainy River District pre- sents greater attractions to the in- tending industrial settler of limited moans, The people of Ontario have been so dazzled with the legitimate and boundless t•csources of the farther North:vest that they have overlook- ed their own more immediate Northwest which in many ways offers greater inducements to set- tlers than any other part of this continent. If the ;Vowel, Govern- ment would bury its hankering for parish politics and devote some of its alleged 86,000,000 surplus to the settling up the vacant lauds in the Rainy River District, and other portions of the Provincial North- west, it will deserve well of present and future generations. Tho policy of the Ontario Gov- ernment with 'nerd t4 �!o e 4.tle,. ment of these lands is, we believe, a very liberal one. But, it should, through the press and by individual agents, make more widely known the conditions upon which the -lands can he had, their accessibility and their fertility. We Canadians are too, prone to hide our light under a bushel. The world is moved by self -assertiveness and advertising - A merchant may have the moat valuable stock imaginable, but he must loudly proclaim its value, and the reasonable prices at which it may bo purchased, if he would pro- fitably utilize it. It is not sufficient to bo aware that we have a good thing. The were unceveloped pos- session of it is of no more use than weio the commodity practically worthless. The development of the agricultural lands of North ween Ontario should, go hand in hand with the development of its almost inexhaustible mineral and timber resources. PERSECUTED CAMERON. Not long since the Goody Mont- real Witness bewailed the slaughter of so many innocent Grits for cor• rupt practices at elections. It was all the more shocked, or pretended to be, because, "better things were expected of members of the Liberal party." But when M. C. Cameron was unseated the other day the ?Witness had no word of condemna- tion for the immaculate of West Huron. Instead, the Witness sought to make a martyr of this politician than whoml no member ever sat in parliament who obtained his seat by as disgracefully corrupt means. Hark to the Witness : "No Liberal has been so persistently per- secuted as has Mr. Cameron." We have either to attribute to the Wit- ness' gross ignorance of the circum- stances attending Mr. Cameron's various elections, or a wilful desire to condone the most nefarious err ruption of the electorate over per- petrated in this or any other coun- try. Persecuted ! Great heavens, the man has been almost coddled by the leading lights of the Conservative party, many of whom are lawyers, and acting on the well known prin- ciple enunciated by County Attor- ney Lewis that "dog don't eat dog", they have generously, too much no according to some of the party, refrained from exacting the pound of flesh though it is so nom- inated in the statutes that they were legally as well as morally entitled to it. Mr,Caiueron persecuted? Just look at the abnormally lenient manner he was treated in the recent petition against him. There wore 80 charges of corrupt acts by agents and himself. Most of them at any rate, if not all of them, of the most substantial des- cription, involving the exposure of many of his friends of reputable character. Involving the punish- ment by find or imprisonment, at the discretion of the court, gentle- men who allowed their indiscreet party zeal to override the laws' re- gulating the conduct of electionfe Involving the disfianchiment of Mr, Cameron himself and disquali- fication from holding a seat in the House of Commons or any office in the nomination of the crown for seven years. ,. Aare evelu tn- seM. Ocrrnermr fuse • witted to do. with this eyidence in 1 possession of the Conservatives ? He was allowed to select the most trivial case in the whole 80, treating the electors to whisky, by an agent, on election day, and to ge into the wifeless box and save hiutself and his friends the exposure.end plate tab ment the pro auction of the whole evidence would have brought about, by permitting him to acknowledging, only this ono corru•pt act by nu,' agent. Is there any persecution iii this'? Certainly not. On the con trary it is a question whether the managers of the petition are not liable to prosecution and punishment for condoning offences which might be legally construed into felonious ones. The Conservatives persecute Mr. Cameron ! They are indiscreet friends of Mr. Cameron who assert this, as it may drive the alleged persecutors, in self-defence, to lay bare the whole network of corrup• tion which Mr. Cameron and his friends have spread throughout the Riding to cozen, deceive and entrap the unsophisticated and well mean, iug electors, Persecuted Cameron I Why, the same leniency was extended Mr. Cameron five years ago when the Conservatives withdrew the petition against him and allowed him to re,. Iain his seat upon his paying costs already incurred. No one who knows the combative character of Mr. Cameron can be stuffed with the idea that ho would have paid several hundred dollars did he not feel sure that the election court would decide against him. Then at the election previous to the last one referred to his glaring acts of personal bribery were so patent that the trial judge was forced to remark :—"All the water in Lake Huron would not wash Mr. Cameron free from personal bribery." Maliciously persecuted Cameron ! whom the court declared to be guilty of acts carrying with them disqualification, and yet he was let off es in the last case with merely having the seat voided. And ,the full court in Toronto when con, firming Mr. Cameron's first unseats ing declared, oh looking over the evidence, that if the trial judge bad disqualified him, it would have sus- tained his decision. The treatment of Mr. Cameron by the Conserve, tires could best 'bo expressed by a word the very antithesis of persecu, tion. His many personal poccadilos, to use no harsher term, though irre- levent in connection with hie politi cal conduct, yet totally at variance with what a Christian community has a right to expect at the hands of its parliamentary representative, or one seeking to be such, have been glossed over and religiously or irre- ligiously kept in the background. We repeat there is no man in pub. lielife in Canada 'who has been treated so leniently by his political opponents and the courts as M. C. Cameron of West Huron. The leniency meted out to him has bor- dered on criminal generosity by those whose duty it should be to allow no personal considerations to interfere with their endeavor to have the electorate represented by a politically honest and moral man. —The corporation of Wiarton, Bruce county, is being sued for $10, 000 damages by Mr. B. F. Chitp• man, for iejur•ios received by his wife last summer falling on account of a defective sidewalk, by whi,yll, -"UMW ifflior arms was-llrolien• CLINTON GUN CLUB. The annual meeting of this Club ,Was held Monday night at Kennedy's hotel. President McMurray from the chair made his annual statement, t in which he reviewed the doings of the Club during the past year, It was brought out that the Clinton Club had contested with- Goderich, Exeter, Seaforth 'and Brussels, and had not suffered a single defeat. In justice to Brussels it was stated that the Club of that place had tied Clin- ton. Secretary Treasurer, J. E. Hovey, in his report showed the fin- ancial standing of the Club to be as follows : — ASSETS. Cr Cash on band $ 37 90 Cash Dr to Club 9 00 2500 Blue Rockets `' 20 45 3 Blue. Traps 15 00 3 Pigeon Traps..... 2 00 Club house and equipments25 00 $109 35 LIABILITIItS—Nil. Per centage of points made by members shooting during the year: NAMES Jas. E. Blaokall. John McMurray.......... Goo. Hinchley.. • 0. S. Doan Alex Innis ................ 'I' Rance .. John Powell ............... Chas Overbury John Johnston J. W. niter W. Grigg 0, Grigg E• Grigg A McRae J. Wheatly. J. E. Ilovey W. Foster W. Watson L. Kennedy H. B. Combe R. Wallace J. Ryder W. Young E. Cantelon T. Miller ....... ... J. Whitehead C. Hale U. Cole PER CT. 72.31 71.84 (16.84 30.16 54 23} 24 6/11 39 35 20 6813;19 44 62l 0 20 66. 50 20 00 60 40 342/7 27I 44 43 40 10 661 50.67 Birds shot at by us 59.49 No. hit. 3379 Per cent hit. 50.67 ELECTION OF OFFICERS. President, John McMurray; Vice President, J. E. Blackall, V. S; See. Treas., J. E. Hovey; Official Referee. J.Ryder. Before the close of proceed- ing vote of a thanks was unanimously tendered to Sec-Treas.J. E. Hovey for the efficient manner in which he had performed his duties. SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATES WHO HAVE PASSED AT THE RECENT TEACH- ERS' EXAMINATION. The Board of Examiners for the county of Huron on the professional examination of candidates for 3rd class certificates as public -school teachers in the Province of Ontario, completed the examination on Satur- day last. The following candidates have passed: AT OODERIOH, Florence E. Ball, Annie Dalton, Apha Essery, .Alfie M. Johnston, Aggie Jones, Mary Melvor, Rosalie O'Reilly„ Mary Potts,�Edith Johnson, Ruby Robertson, Margaret Simpson, James J. Clennan, Albert Christilaw, George A. Foster, Claude L. Fisher, William Hoggarth, Edmund IIamblin, Jarvis Henry,. Alex. Keine, Alex. Moir, Henry Morrish, Alex, Mc- Donald, John McLean, John McNay, George A. Russell, Herbert Thomp- son. AT CLINTON. Agnes. Eadie, Jennie Grant, Jemima Holmes, Lizzie Kinney, Janet Kirkby, Ida J. Kydd, Jennie Mustard, Lizzie .1. McLauchlin, Mary Smillie, Beatrice Stonehouse, Emily Thompson, Robert Y. Ferguson, Edward Kagan, John Holdsworth, Edwin W. Jarvis, John C Lindsay, Albert S. McDowell,Joseph E. Mee Donagh, William S. McDonald, Wm. Rea, Wm. Robinson, Frank D. '[urn• bull, Andrew Taylor, Edgar Whit- more, Loui9 Wild, John Wood. The certificates will be mailed about the 31st December. S. P. Mote, M. A., seeo4•Bein 1. _- Goderioh, Deo. 21st, 1891. This Gentleman will be in greot demand for a few days now. EVERY FATHER will buttonhole him and speak a few words of kind advice bearing on the dear children, bless 'em. EVERY MO'l'iHER will consult him during office hours with a heart run- ning over with love. EVERY SWEETHEART, with eyes downcast, will ask him what will be suitable for her Johnnie, and EVERY CHILD will endeavor to make friends of .this bringer of joy and happiness. CHRISTMAS TREES are very popular an we have already supplied several School Sections with suitable presents and we still have stock enough to supply hundreds more. Are you having a Tree in your locality ? Then why not make all you can happy by selecting Gifts from our large stock. Our stock of iloliday Books and Annuals is selected with a view of pleasing Children., from the oldest to the youngest. We have all the Annuals, in- cluding the BIUTISH WORKMAN, CHATTERBOX, and BOYS AND GIRLS OWN PAPER, and a jarge amount of Profuse Illustrations. Our Toy lepartinent, whicbais UPSTAIRS, has been pronounced by our customers who haye seen it, to be great in variety and reasonable in price. We claim it to be equal to the best Toy Department in Western Ontario. Pay us an early visit and look through our Stock of XMAS CARDS AND BOOKLETS. We can give you some Genuine Bargains in BOXED CARDS, or the LA'l'ES7' FLAT CARD or NEWEST BOOKLETS. Come and join the throng. W. COOPER & CO., Clinton. • F- i T LJLLA.. S J I±, OF THE TOWNSHIP OF - STANLEY, In Account with the said Municipality for the rear 1891. 0 - The following is the Financial Statement as made out day of December, 1891, according to Statute : Dec. 15th, 1891, r Total receipts to date $14901 68 Expended on roads and bridges $1413 92 Expended for charity. .... • . 339 1.2 Expended for printing 27 14 Expended for sundries 57 15 Railroad account 6209 20 Gravel- 347 20 Salaries 535 50 Schools '2214 15 Borrowed money .850 00 $10993 38 Balenco on hand $ 3908 30 Debts for county rate $3137 21 Debts for schools 2377 03 $ 5514 27 Credits uncollected taxes $2549 63 $...2619 #t3 ••-- _•• JOHN REID, Treasurer. JOHN TORRANCE, Reor'e.