HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton New Era, 1896-07-10, Page 5Supplement to the Clinton New Era. Tuly 10 1886,
Political Pointers
John McMillan's majority in South
Huron is 307
Archbishop Langevin will visit Rome
in connection with the Manitoba school
question and the complaint of undue
clerical influence in the last election.
The announcement is definitely made
by Hon. W. D. Balfour of Essex, speak-
er of the Legislature, that he will join
the Ontario Cabinet as Provincial Sec-
retary.
The returning officer has declared
Mr John A. MacGillivray elected for
North Ontario, by a majority of one.
A recount has been applied for by the
Liberals.
In the re-count at London Major
Beattie's majority over Mr. Charles
Hyman was reduced from 118 to 41.
Ballots marked outside the circle were
not counted.
Mr J. E. Jackson, returning officer
for South Huron at the late election,
states that the most exact returns from
any polling sub -division were made by
Mr J. J. Irvine, of Leadbury, not even
a spoiled ballot.
Mr. John Charlton, M. P., has enter-
ed suit against the New York Central
Railway Company for damages for in-
juries sustained at Tonawanda in Dec-
ember last, from which he has not yet
recovered.
It is probable that when Sir Oliver
Mowat resigns the Attorney -General's
portfolio of Ontario, his deputy, Mr.
J. R. Cartwright, will also step out.
The appointment of a successor will
rest with Hon. A. S. Hardy, and
members of the legal profession con-
sidered it altogether probable that J.A.
Barron, Q.C., of Lindsay, will take the
post of Deputy Attorney -General.
An unconfirmed report comes from
Winnipeg which most Canadians, irre-
spective of party, will he glad to see
confirmed, namely, that the Manitoba
school question is likely to be settled
without any furthut reference to the
Dominion Parliament. the Greenway
Government agreeing to give Manitoba
Catholics the same privileges which
are enjoyed by the Catholics of Nova
Scotia.
Some of the general public seem to
be in a haze about Mr Laurier's major-
ity. The closest count that can he
made. dividing the House into two on
a vote, is 124 Government, 89 Opposi-
tion, giving Mr Laurier a majority of
35. This reckoning concedes Mr Clarke
Wallace, J. R. Robertson, Dr. Rpr•oule
and Mr Rogers (Patton), of Frontenac,
to the Conservatives, though it is by
no means certain that all these gentle-
men may scot give an independent sup
port to the new Government.
Mr Bostock's victory in Yale, B. C.
was by far the most significant in
British Columbia. if not in the whole
Dominion. An Englishman, he came
among his present constituents an un-
known man, with little to recommend
him beyond his personality and the
fact of independent means with large
investments in the country. He found
a most formidable rival in Mr Mara,
the late member who was the chief
factor in a combination known as the
Mara•Barnard outfit., which had tor
eigb teen years dominated the country,
and who by reason of his interest in
connection with the British Columbia
Express Co. monopoly, relatively as
powerful as the C. P. R., and various
lines of local steamers and other en-
terprises was generally supposed to he
invincible. The people laughed at the
idea of Mr. Bostock unseating him.
The Conservative press from one end
of theprovince to the other scoffed at
his temerity, and made fun of his cam-
paign. But they did not know the
man they were dealing with. Mr.
Bostock set quietly but fearlessly and
systematically to work. Incredible as
it may seem he covered the whole of
his vast constituency of 200,000 square
miles in .extent, almost as large as
France, personally visiting the electors
making himself acquainted with their
requirements and holding meetings in
every conceivable direction. Nobody
unfamiliar with the nature of the co-
untry and the enormous difficulties,
to say nothing of the expense, atten-
dant on travel through it is capable
of forming an idea of the labor under-
taken by Mr Bostock, and it is univer-
sally conceded that the victory he ach-
ieved is unparalleled in the political
history of the province.
The five constituencies of Middlesex J
give an aggregate Liberal majority of
511, yet so effective has been the gerry-
mander that the Conservatives get
three seats and the Liberals only two!
That game was tried with Huron, too.
but in spite of repeated carving the
three ridings are again in line. As ger-
rymandered Exeter, a Conservattve
nest, and Stephen township are part of
North MIddlesex, and Ushorne is tack-
ed on to South Perth. Yet some pap-
ers have the audacity to say the gerry-
mander was no disadvantage to the
Liberals.
The appended list has been revised
from the latest returns. The members
are classified as Conservatives, Liberals
and Independents:—.
Ontario 44 4LI.
Quebec... .... 6 48 5
16 48 1
Nova Scotia ...10 10 0
New Brunswick . 9 4 1
Prince Edward It land 3 2 0
Manitoba 4 2 1
North-West Territories ............. 1 3 0
British Columbia ... ..... .. 2 3 1
• 89 115 9
{living the Liberals a majority of 17 over all
or 26 over the Conservatives alone.
Clinton's Inquisitive Boy
ok"Pa, I'm afraid it's all up with
me at the Entrance Exam. this
year in geography. Bother that
map of Ontario of yours. I studied
it, and it seems it is all wrong about
the counties."
"That can't be my son. It was
made by reliable publishers."
"Well, somebody loaded them up the other
way. Just see here. Mid$lesex looks like
a frying pan, and the handle rune up so as
to take in Exeter. Then look at Perth; it
comes right over almost to the London, Hu-
ron & Bruce R.R., and it has in it Rodger-
ville, Elimville, and several other important
tows that, they tell me, should be in Hu-
ron county. Oxford county rune away up
between Waterloo and Perth, and leaves
Stratford out by a narrow shave. Lanark
runs along the Ottawa, Ontario county looks
exactly like the stairs in the town hall. I
can't begin to tell you all the blunders I
have found out, but it's too late. I'm gone
for this year. I wish you would burn that
map."
"Well, my boy, I am afraid it may as
well be burned now. It's usefulness will
soon be gone since the Grits are in power.
You should have known that this map was
built according to what they call the gerry-
mander of 1882. It is a monument to the
astuteness of that grand old statesman, Sir
John A Macdonald. whose ideas of British
justice were thus chrystallized in an "equal-
ization of constituencies" and a hiving of
the Grits so as to keep them from doing
harm, A grand old man, my boy, take
him for all in all, I shall not look upon his
like agatn.' "
"Speaking of the gerrymander, pa, re-
minds me that I heard there was to be a
secret meeting in the Grit black hole in
Jim Smith's block. So I listened at the
keyhole. They were planning a new gerry-
mander. I can't remember all the changes
they are going to make, but I pity the map
of Ontario. They are going to put Sangeen
in with North Bruce, so as to clip oat gen-
tleman McNeill; Sutherland can spares, few
out of his 1800 majority in N. Oxford to
add on to East Middlesex to make the Grits
nate there; then a township of South Mid-
dlesex is to be tucked on to London to fix
Hyman; N. Brant will give a couple of
hundred_over to 8. Brant, and Billy Patter.
son won't be struck next time. A slice of
West York is to be put in with West Tor-
onto—Clarke Wallace can spare a thousand
or two— and E. F. Clarke is to be lett in
the cold to mourn divisions in the ranks of
the Orangemen, and dream over "Buts"—
"Stop, lad; that's quite enough. 1f the
Grits try to get in any suoh devilish work,
there will be a howl from Atlantic to Pa-
oiflo that will reach high heaven."
"But the Tories did the same in 1882, pa,
did they not?"
"No matter; if the Grits were soft enough
to endure it, that's their funeral. The
boot is on another foot now, and at the
least hint of any such diabolical work, once
more, in loader tones than ever before, will
resound the cry, 'Revengel About? Seek!
Burn! Fire! Ktll! Slay! Let not a traitor
live!' "
"Won't there be fun, pa? Good night."
Ottawa Liberals have been circulat-
ing a subscription list with the object
of securing enough cash to purchase a
residence for the new Premier. Mr
Hutchison, a member -elect for Ottawa,
opened the list with a subscription of
$500, and other subscriptions aggregat-
ing over $4,000 were raised in two
days.
CLINTON MARKETS
Corrected every Thursday afternoon
Thursday, July 9th, 1896.
A. commercial paper Bays:—An advance in
wheat prices may be looked for, according to
the best authorities, It is remarked that chief
among the influences which in ordinary times
would be instrumental to this end are the
numerons reports of the Nerth-west, owing to
rust and excessive moisture. These reports
have came from thoroughly reliable soumo:s
and conservative authorities place the damage
at upwards of 25 per cent.
Wheat, spring 0 60 a 0 62
Wheat, fall 0 60 a 0 62
Oats, 0 18 a 20
Barley 0 80 • 0 40
Peas 0 40 a 0 45
Flour perowt 1 85 a 2 00
Park 450a475
Butter 0 10 a 0 11
dgge per doz 0 74 a 0 08
Hay, new, $6; old 800 a 800
Sheeepakins 0 25 a 0 25
Wool 0 18 a 020
No. 1 Trimmed Hides 4 00 a 4 25
MONTREAL LIVE STOCK MARKETS
Thero were about 500 butchers' cattle, 350
calves and 500 sheep and lambs offered for sale
at the East End Abattoir to-dey. The butchers
were out in large numbers. But trade in cattle
was dull and prices rather lower, more espec-
ially for half -fatted stock, whim' were much
more numerous than were 4.eeded. Primo
sta,l-fed beeves sold at about 34c per lb and
shipers'paid alittle more for thebest large steers
prett good stock sold at from 210 to 31e and
common half, tatted beasts at from 21c to
21c per lb t'alves were in fair demand at from
$2 to $9 each. Sheep continue very diffil ult to
sell and prices are from 21e to 3c per Ib. Lambs
sold at from to$2 to nearly $3,75 each. One lot
23 good lamas were bought at a little over $3,25
each. Fat hogs aro rather plentiful and lower
in price, ranging from $3,75 to $4.10 per 100
lbs.
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The Famous Tourists Resorts
v}eorglan Bay,
Lake tl iron, Districts
Muskoka Lake,
Midland : Lake : Districts
BURLEIOH FALLS. : MOUNT JULIAN,
UHEMONO, : KATCHEWANOOKA,
CLEAR LAKE, STONEY LAKE,
Balsam Lake, Coboconk, Lindsay,
Lakefleid, Peterboro, Oshawa.
On Lake Ontario:—Lorne Park, Burl-
ington Beach, Grimsby Park.
On Lake Erie:—Crystal Beach, Port
Dover, Port Rowan.
All reached by the Grand Trunk Railway sys-
tem. Full information can be had from tali
Agents, or write to M C DICKSON, Diacritic Pas-
senger Agent, Toronto, or
W. JACKSON, Agt., Clinton
The item of repairs is one of the im-
portant considerations in buying
shoes. It is far better to put a
dollar more on the shoes and a dol-
lar less into repairs, you [will have
more satisfactory service. A shoe
that is warranted first-class is the
cheapest shoe to buy.
.Test arrived, the Rocker Baby Carriage
shoo a car of British Columbia Red
and Native Cedar Shingles.
JAS. TWITCHELL,
VICTORIA BLOCK