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The Clinton New Era, 1878-08-22, Page 41,11 . ..t71 THE CLINTON NEW ERA* , 1:57R. • NEW ADVEliTISIMENTS: Seed Whet,—J. MONTair. Pa.—Fisher, Oraih & Co. For S4e.--.1. 0, ,310Intosh, Stray Sheep,—R. Townsend. 'New Fail GI ods.—J. 0, (lihsty. Servant Wanted.—Mrat ,\ , S. -Fisher. Attracting Attention•--4.104InUg' Pty. - Cheap Excursion. --C, P. Sunday Sated.' eaves oi tostais. :jeer Bits only be naa iv ;be ao‘k atm) o loitsts•zoe A. nail aid J, L nenea •Albert street, Prier 5 conta per copy - (glinteit 41,cw 00FI0IAL OV. THE COUNTY, THIT.R.S AN. A0:1UST 15, .18.78,;-s smolt Alnico:N. • _ • The following' al -peered • as a teleserain in Saturday's Mail • , • , , . . • Since the no Wa ou.iilyapproaco of the elections there inte been great eon - fusion here among. the .Griis, especially respectiegSouth Huron. • ' C. Cam- eron wants to be the nalididtit V, and a telegram was lerwar‘led to littawit to have elections postpesed:;- as the Gei* 1N'' pro not ready. .tIstssitty wits also tele- grip1iet.1 Coy, /tad ttt oftsit'' (141.00 to (I al or-. ich, and for 1,11e days he was here no- gotiating tor •Rs retirement fi'.0ni the contest. Tile novo, thins, it is Said, have been siteeessfe*---terminated. Geden- way has hese hough t otl's ' 'Ube repot that lie receives jive hundred ,dellars as to recoup him for is expenses since, his nomination, and it. is .(3x1>ected some time hereafter :to obtain en tiP- pointment j "...Sfanitoba. The *feral Convention has been called for tho 22nd• hist, to be held at Hensali, to receive 31r. Greenway's resignatiou, and noini-• natio &new man i. ins.stead, which Will, Of eburse, be Mr. Cameron. _ '1116 gozr- seevative candidate, 3.fi, Porter, is nut afraid 4if Mrs Cameron, and is anover-, match for hi ra indehating • 'Tbeforegoing is dilly. 'partially c.orrect, and contains a few iinaginary-statementi. That Mr. Greenway has tendered his re- signation to the Ileformei5Of South Hu - ran, we believe to be the Case, but the same cannot be accepted until the riteet-' Mg to be held to -day; at Hensel], i?ot that he litts received anything therefor, further than expenses' incerred canvas, we believe to •bc. untrue,..nor-is he likely _ ThoappointmentMani-. oba spokt;:n. 15 as unlikely itathat the - fl is going Jo become Ileforni. Even the. 6'111 r of last week; inyeferring tot*. matter, was crinik enough. to..state that. :Vt.% fackenzie had refnsed to give -fain an office. hut we have: 01.11' (1011)?.k \vhe- ther he ever applied for 0.11e. " However,; the probability is that 1 -he resi.gnatiati be accepted; and a fresh candidate. nominated. Who it •Will..1!0‘ 1101, de. finitely knyira, 'but in.ah likelihood it will be :11r. 0..Catnerom .this ;gentleman; accept. it, there .ia 110 -dauht-but that he will be returned by a handsome majority. P(31,80118 Ayll t1.1'1; liequainted with both Porter and (Jame. • ron, will smile when- they read the last sentence of tho foregoing' extract. The writer tuuet certainly. be poking' fun. •al Mr. Porter. Till?, SALAMI* INC11141CASIL ' • • • Among the other chargesnitide egainst the present Alinistry, is, orm.. that 1S1r. 31ackonzie e reas.d. the' selftry of hitn- self, front $5,000 a, Year to $8,000, and at• tempts are made to creak) (vital against him oil t 86018 01 ex travap,ance. ere _the cliiirgl; true, they might, .1)6 juetified itir rises but as-itsis-ziete the,y had het - ter have let it alone. 'Me real ratite two that SirMillirblieit the salaries' ta the 0.0801111110re during the last Year of his reign, and. drew las last halryear's ry at those figures, and .therefore, if 31e. • Mackenzie --br-deriterwrong in drawing - his salary for tltis amount., Sir Jo.bt. roust he 81), ' order that eur readers may not charge us With presentation, we quoto from the slfoit of the 10th inst.. whieli two inippose many will accept as an notherity. .IIere aro its words :- " From the 1st ;NV, 1567, to the 31st Deeember, 1874 the salary of 'each tho thirteen Ministers was $5,000 a year. From the 1st .larioary, 1873, Sir Xolin Macdonald as First Minister re. eelved $8,000 a year, and Ms colleagues $7„000 a year eiteli. inercasa was made in thaiirst sessient V1873." As the Macdonald Ministry did not, %sign until October, 1813, it will be n that Mr. Matkenzie cannot be held esponsible for 'the inerease. Many the charges against hitn are based on imsy a striteture as this ono, I° . . • - • • CONTRA; IlUltON, 'FACTS FOIL trust stsnetreoitts, not now -be -the "World'a monitor. Let ine„ be was not fitted, or placed Lite teliind. a Tile inniorted carrin to etallien " 6 -therefore, warn your pile ageinst the counter to Spend. his life in misery and of Engsammi theysopesty of All.e J. care diminiShin the purchasing power of da use a arge amount of tea email s ee a • MR, PLAIT, OF GODEMCII„. THE In the coarse of a speech before the fenny that a country Dan ecome rich by disconten as tco many do ? Wein Cana• - ter of Tueltersteith died last W k f would it.be Wifie to lay aside some of t le ParalP19. Ire became „afflicted several ' land whieh was allotted to wheat or alter, Weeks 'ago, just about the close of the grain, and raise tea? Certainly not! In season, but for A time ItOpes were enter - the same way every. country or people twined that he would recevee. He lost will thrive best just in to fin. as they make th e wee of his idea . ie: es ,,,,,a ..o,t s,_....... , the .hest use of' the, meanS which nature had ' c's 1 ' '• * has Placed in their henda. If they use ti,„ ,ast that he pallid neither get up these means they san ohtain, a geed thins, ,Alone nor stand when be was up. lie without the aid of proteetion,or anythin; was a veluable animal, and his death is else, Senator Garfield seems tofor that A heavy lose on the °wale's Wile base* , jf the U. 5. became an agricultural coitus had hid). one season, .• • try there wild be nothing to do for men , of brains, Do farmers not need brains? Mr. J. Galbraith, a farmer noinamplpivinii ' Aro they of all men the only ones tyho in the township of Turnhetry, died etr, have no brains? Honestlywe (Jo not ther suddenly on the night of the 13tIt'' think they aro. 11r,e think.that the far- inst •While in the act of 1 ' ' pima as the merebant or mechanic, His mer hes opportunities of using brain as some. years ego, Mts Galbraith received . succes4 depends, ' on the ' use 'of brains as. a fracture of Om Outli !IY the branch of . much as that of any other producer. Then a tree falling upon him, '•After a time • in the last Place Senator Garfield looks he eomidetely recovered, and was abl'ii upon airriculthre as drudgery and takes tdearry on MS. business as uSual, • Lat. • nartietilar pains.tosay sO, •Ns•otrwe would telly he was suldeet to occAsional fits of have thougbtnothiug of the MO/ passing E • d ;" ne of thoie fits amtnes.e, an Ist o , . , . ne error all the foregoing part %-sithout corn- .s. 3 C4104.1 ' 1V11'.. Galbraith • wits zespeotably • ment, but we did think that a paper which •Claims to be such a friend to the farmer ,connected, his brother beluga prominent . woithl not Iet such a slur be cast at its fa- l‘rahodist minister in Montreal. -, • . vorite without resenting it. Need 1 any CONSERVATIVE NOMINEE At a meeting, held at Seafoith; yes. terday, Platt,. of Goderiele, was nananated t!ti the pouseevative cank date for the • Centro When: told a friend with whew he was con: versing aftee hie nenninetion, that ho woitld oeztainly be defeated, he Thiloso- phically refilled, 44 Well Vin used to de- feat Bo it will not hurt mo." One of his Whines is protection to the salt in- terest, in the mannfactare of will*. he i intereeted As the late r I le t • , electors of Eassex, last week, Mr, 'Kee. I wept., An able financier; made the f1 - lowing remarks in reference to Praec- tioa 9.0 Free Trade, which we repro- taince, as being. eapecially. worthy of pe- . • ' rtieal tide time :7", • . . ,gove i n n crammed tillis constitnency with all • the Reforniers they convenielitly eould, added per cent to the tatill*, which there is; Of course' uo chance for him. t brought them an increase to the revenue • • e .. o• f $3,000,000, which, put thetu in ta pesition , 14 HU thought it was: duo them that be . iir., soul° woad Wive thew. believe that ,. q.:shouldeutietpsttiori. ttlyieasryos:fl ifyeporortoomttitel letlioa;v1soi 0.8 .i. :,11,tiiiioeIlsei ;et; Revenue eirl itlitl; -the question..dividinr the parties was Pro - divided the present adminiStration, andits .14 -see Trade, but eueli was.really ohm -pitying and. pattent labor, and • cease the candidates and their canvassers who climb, up hystratupling down their neigh - said Kenai:tat remember that we \vets) •119Wr • net the 'eaSe, :and thopapera, the .electersi strivingbo,..t.o. .rise. by el.mbli.ri:g or. te elass ' to Paying a ditty. of.17ii per ceut on our lin- The -.present) tisintinietration •had money or hiding men to pay more for goods than thy are worth in corder that some Of the commnuity may became rich. There is no roYal road to wealth. Capital cau only hespeoduced by ittbser ; etre wish for preSperity ness'onSt earl • by honest tiiil: Nothinria added to our wealth by taking money out of the pockets of the many and putting it into those of •the ieiv. •On the chntrarY it ie An injusry to both Parties, beeauee it destroys the manliness and self reliance of the mann. theturer, while it depletes the pockets of :\l, the consumer. lf, therefore, we would have the grotto 1 resulta wc must have • • DI/TY OF itnitoitansits. Ypurnal nral4Oa aciad. very sensible ree i Under thiS heittlitig the' St.' Themes i• ' • • . . to meet the demands on the nationel. ex- chequer. Now, if they added to Una 17ii I marks, • end as they ere zu harem a ay C"t tbr freight'. I. tier own views NV'Q, 'give Wear. entir per cent, tariff, 21i- Per eoininikision and lose rani:Oil° per cent for' the wholesale merehalit's pro0 Land 20 per We helm no .:11,efortuer will allow `Ideal cent fee the retailer'., they would, see that I ‘rejudiees' to prevent: Itint Our manufacturers are in reAlity .prOteeted $91,1 • nowto the tune or 50 per cent, ...It was said showing SYmPatIlY -with the 'proSent by hie 0PPonents 'thet the mantis,- was Gieeei,imenti and irasi that every pot. overrun With foreign goods; that Canada • Was ti slaughter market for the .-(Inited' 6.'en cut'tica. wAII,RNerotse Ins State,. N.ow,. \s h( .th6y conSidered the franchiSe; • The artieloin rinestion is as matter, what slid they. find to 'he the facts taii.oN•v-s..ss . of tho-case? A cry had been:raised that •-• • the nutrolfaeturets of forniture worebeing ." The friends Of the 1.1oforin Govern - ruined by the .imporis of this artiele from wont -shouldliow give an earnest of their the United States, but how much did they really purchaSe? • Li 1871 them ivatorianu- faetured in Canada. $3,5.80,000. Wirth of furniture, or $2 7.-15sper head oldie popte. -Mon, while they only imported last year 71.e, worth per head... In carriages • there' were inanu tactiired $4849,000 worth, and oiniported $91,7.70 •that iniports Were less -than le. on die'dollar„:as emit - pared :witli the nutnufactines; The value .0 Clothing manufaCtiired in 1110 7coiNi try for' the same..time was $9,84$,000, while the imports were only $162,958, or $2.08 werth matteractured for every. head of .p.o7 •pulatioe, aoti 81e..worth per head import., ed. • For !mote And shoes—and had it beon 'rung in r ears that this brinier or trade. had: been terribly inapoSed..at by. ?Oath tram the other side—I:hey had $20,06'0,000, worth nianufactured and $265,458 wertif. imported, that is $.5..werth per head menu: lectured, and filc.!,ivarth inverted.; anctsu on.throngh the catalogue of atticieS. cooSemed. - in the country. These fa* and .figures • Were taken from the trade re- port, and could net be called. i n question. '.A.gaiesthe cry had been raised that the. Americens were absorbing the markets of Great .13:ratan-. 'Now,. -what was. the ,fact.? Tbe experts Of Britain • turn:meted to -Os': 269,00%000 worth, 'while, those OA:merle:a .were only $018-M0,00:. bio .been.tostd. :them that America. protected tier inthis-7, tries till they were ablo to stand alone,' and .eould defy. the contnetition of •tlid ' Se -w, it•heit they examieed into' the truth- of dieSe assertienS; they 'relind that in 1860, when the free rad eprin ei pi a ••nas tried for- a time there; for prior to the„ Wits it Wits onlyin lits•and.starts they bad protective thrill there, the •valtie or e -X.: pints amounted to $366,243„2-13„, or $1,0 per head of the populetion,-While 1111870, when protective. tariff had been sonic time in force, they. haddeolimed . to $7.07 . per head.. A raw all the noise. made over the eXtetit of American manoraseures, witee the facts- were enquired •Into they found that • wes really Dliiniteiletaire more . per head by ,$):88 of tho.populatioi tliaii they de,. for in .1876 theirs. only ainounted us•Sie,no, while mire: w:18 7,4A. .11 pro- . teetion Wait] le• great boon .their oilpenenta represented it to why did Sir John. itto them When lie held the reins It'tpoiver? Why did. he not pat his. polity into. operation -from' 188tlto 1873? If .11 was.. the secret .of national greatness, and :the means to. be 1030d.. for the attainment, or tt niver.41 prosperity, he* did it happen -that, there were at this moment 4,000,000 trtunpa in the 'United fitittea?' ferreat 09' platise.) this protection is all that it is represented to be, how is it that 418 glass aful iron litetzries are now. closed in the United Stack, And $5,000,000 stink -in them, yielding no returns- whatever. EbITORIAL NOTES. Ds. Sposs'e meetings last .weelss in the western part of the Biding, were all wellItttended. His prospects of success are .vevy ene,ouraging, a raot that causes his opponeat considerable imeasineSs, • TaE AfOiltrfldl Gazette (donaor. ative) • strongly advises the C.ianservatives not: to 1)0 (Asa. confident as 16 the result of the vowing elections: They have •not mut+ grounds fin, .confidenee .as .to the. suCcess or Oohs party. . Wimx isi.11 Teeple display comMon . . . senee in. the use Of coal •oil f It would nlinost appear sits if some. needed .brains, te. beinserted 'hythe rise of a pestle, for tio matter how many warnings ere giveh; in the way of at:eh-lents: throtigh lighting . fires. Witlithis material., there still seeins " tI 1/0 'write who eontinue its use.. 1,ast week, at Winghael anti Parkhill, two pet soUs woo killed by this 'means, and es winter approaches, We really ex.- . pea to. hear' of more, '.Any on0. seen. pouring; CoUl .,oil en a: fire should be. knocked .down .with. anything' handy.. 'Elm, accidents of thie kind will soon form auother :feet -ere 0E1 '1, didn't, know it Was . qbaded :" , 1,1x. Tiris issue Of the NEW' EltAi . . .1.14.ye 116. time to say anything partu...: "lady of, what we Saw in Toronto; having Only returned hist • :night, we. will .juiit Say, without fear of contradiction, . that if there is' any serions depression' in Canada, it 18 not in that city, and oe 11111,)rei it diced perspu; who .knows. any- thhice of the 'irMwth ofilieronto. but what niust Acknowledge that its 0.0-, ,something wonderful. • How. any elle den Lave the e.eheels" to assert the contrary :is something • marvellous,. Facts without :timelier Ceidd 1:),0 given. , , . . • . to prove ,our assertion, but the following suilice jnst now.: ',Two Ameriettiis;: a few days ago, stood. upon the Wharf at 1.Tereino, and as they witnessed: thou; • sin& .goiug 011 excursions. to. .Scarber- _ , . ..dugh Heights andOther places. 011es claimed; $'Well, 'I never saw anything 'like this before, whore do ell the people - come fi Qin, and 'w$1Tere money ?" get their. •;kb.: MActosszte has fregsfently bop . charged. With 'faveritisni tho,awarding ot Contracts, :givieg onlyl. to those who were. his pelitidal friends.. 'Let us take the Contracts on the Welland ,CanAl. 0.1 'we-coll.).- the f?Ilowing hitter 1.001. tIi :sec hew trne the charge cs.' The follow- Stratford ; as the writer :speaks from .tixperienei., he having .1freti fat soma years in the' 'United Stater., and he gives fill (50111011, '010101'0Po, worthy o attention _ Tront-theootite1:-,-4ide-o.A. _the liftenn. visitste foreaermeighbOrs r am sorry to find your people so unduly miercised. :on the' "protectirni" question. No. 13,tI 1.00....YY-S,6 313,160 - It 'should have been impossible :to lifid twn Aides to this matter after its thorougl eilinustion in the :I/other Country at the time she adopted, a Free Trade ladies-. The enormous expansion of her wealth and power which grew out of that should s -how us -that VeesTrade le the true bast of netional prosperity. ..ind When We add to this the disaster which has over- , taken tho 'United States .111 consequence of their itieh' toxin, Which hasinvolved the natien in inflation; extrayaganee and -folly, , we should. not now listen to those who agitatefor " protection." HI could sitoW your readers the thonsandS ofunemployed laborers on the other side of, the line, and 'confidence in. it, And there is no- better ; ; 1: 1 1 I wity'...n. -.1 4 Can eone Lunt by going Estenestly to -work fe'bring oot the full strength of the party on polling day. To aecomplish this reqiiires thorough or- (ranization. They should know how eVe musi)in their' seVeral vote,, . . and 'see, to it that every- f ie f the Liberal oeuee does record Hi 'vote, tz sem° places there may bo 'objections' te the pan), candidete ; it can • blirellY otheineise,'geolug bow- nemy :men there are out of whom to make elmice. But personal .differenees tliis• sort should' not' be alloived :any weight. The qes tion iS not whethez• -or 13: is ft hsolutely .witheat fault, but whether the intereste of the -country cell be beet premeted nu• der :Mr. :Maelsenzie ankr the Liberal pals • ty,;er Sir. John 31:acdoneld and the ,Cori sorVatisle party. Th e :Gems° eVatiVes hove had a long; full •iind fair ti Canada:. Sir jolin .1‘lacdonald has held- ofriee for about -eighteen years,' and it is doithtfid if tiny other,pill;lic mail tlie eontinent of America Inis ...left. a worse record be- hind him. ',Politically • olya • parsonaily biS conduct cannot be defended, and what he baSrdone hi the Past_ lie would • de • in the future. ' •'rho leopard CaUpet Clian‘le his spotsi... The Liberal. (-lOvera4 went, .the co.urse: of the past yearS.- has sinitlea record Of wilichlanyl:ecinitry . .inight lie, proud, and neithei'. in their, public nor thcir private relations can: h single. cliarge of,wrongsloing,be sustain- ed.,,agitinSt 'them. It dormers, if they .1faye any st,nke of gratitude, have now 11)1 opport Unity o•i" j >161'111i it' faith by their works.,:". , •• • :0 p inz 11 P 0 le ,D E •IT 0 E - We wish it to he dist loctl, micrst nod that we do not hold •)•irsolies fOr 1110 opluiohs prungna by ,int. 3 )vrospcontenta.' qi tlo! ?;(.1itor tit! ,Vem &a. 7 1' • Sin, noticing (he following item in' the • Atif'of the 19tkinst;. Wish to say.11 words reesirding it, mom especially as the time tvill. soon come tui the electors to • say, by their. vete, which they prefer.-;- Pyotection or klree trade l'Ilf/T.e(11,10N IN Win STATI.:K. ing ate the'contractstbat have been let on this worls; with the figures at whit+ they were taken : ' . „ • .„ . . , , , ,S39 0,•:165 • : No, 3• if•10/”.• . 32,8,415 ' • p A 1)12041).i . Nu, (1 58;000 No, 7 s'o, • • ••••••11:11 283;1):3Z1 •No. —.. 292,30r; To *lions -were these contrecis awarded ? Meesrs, Denis & I3elden, (active ..frionds ;Met, Nre48114. 'tIatlIlitlgt(r, Ginty, (Conwrvatives), No, Patrick Shannon, ('siberal), No. 6, Mesers‘ itigginson & (Censers vativcs), 3to, 7. Alessi's. Manning & • Ginty, (Conservatives), No, 13, John* Drown, fConservative)„. N. 1. 1. NOW it does not look as if there was a surplus of Reformers among those contractors, and these facts prove that Mr. Macken- zie hes been honest and straightforward itvewarding contratts, .• • The Gette,ral Etections. A special issue of the Canada Gatette, on Saturday, eontained the proclamation ordering the dissolution of the third liar- ,Ilament,of the DONA/110M 11011111114101/8 wihI take"plitee on the loth or soptembor, and polling on the 17114.exeept Maws toba, svhere the nominations take place on the 19tin " n recent nyench TnekaY, nn tu tense Free Trader, maintained the)the tnited 'Staten scOnlit be vlord prosperous if th0y dropped their iron Indust VICS and 0x0hanged thois ogrkulturs1 produce for English iron,. .Senator Garfield answered: 'Far a , single season, porhapo,,his plan :night ho profitable to the consaniere of iron; hot if his policy were adopted !VI mpOrinniinnt ono, it would rednoo us to a inerey ag. inultural peopie, -whose chief haslet:se votildne•to pro- d: co the: 011004t: raw tnatetiebeby the loot skill and eulture, and ad 06151110f brains of MIMI, coma:lei do our thinking ref aud pr.Mdc for 114 all products re. Attiring the cunning' hand ei filo artisan, while we wonld be cot:Idled tit ib. tho iirdlgery for ouri.dres • mains tit040' , . . the .:11aft is an advocate, of protee- tine, and inserted the above paragraph 'without any continent, infer theta roily endorses the Wtifilt4 Of ;$eilittor Oarflehr; Will, thefeANT, eOlisider th011i aq' 'em- bodying Or views of the • .4/id& • Itt the first place, then, Senator Clartield admits siluttAlui4)11su of,Mrs,Tttekeis.ftbitt ratrop ping the irtin indtistriCs exeltaneing their agricitItural proditee fug Enpisli iron) mir,bt. be profitable to the' so/ so nt. er.v• of the riffled States. Now,. are the. COnStIll101.8 of iron? • 'Pie whole population of the 11-,S,, whatever be their occupation, whether fartnere, me- -ehanies, merchante, professional inen, or men. of eeience-:•all are; more or less, con - stutters. al iron in, some ,slutpe 011. others_ Who are the producers 01' iron? Only a very.small fraction of the population, and in only- one stattrof the'vast Union, . As the iron industries of the tr. 5, could not. compete with those of England. 'without the aid or protection the (potion stands thus t ft.better to make laws that *ill enable the few .producers to live on the unjust spoil extorted from the consumers, the other thousands now dteconten tally' or to make ,laava wilt& give eqttal oecupieinn 'What tboy eonsider tneorige-1 to all Witheut respect 'to persons? .f.et every thinking men answer, and wo have no doubt as to the verdict., "nut" saYs Senator Garfield, "if his policy were adopted as A periatuteet one it wetild ro: duet us - to a, merely . agricultural people, whose chief business would he to produee the simplest raw materials by the least skill and ealture,!' or in plain words Mr, Tacker would have them de what Nature fitted the eountry to do best—produce food ttnd material for clothing. 11,0,0y parent had it ehild whose constitution and onclinetion fitted him to become a first •elasssintelligent' farmer, woold he not be vet - Unwise—nay guitty—if he forced the ed by the high tariff, that country, would • child to efinty tor profeeston for winch nisi pursuits, all brooding over the vexed question of political teenomy, wondering why protection alai inflation h.tive ruined them, and ready to catch at any solution, 1 would not need to write a word, att de- sire for tbo monster. Would cease. That "protection" is the bane of that country is shown by the fact that the States mbst largely engaged in industries affected by tho tariff, are the very parts moat depress- ed, wherein now prevail poverty, want and disorder, If the populatiort had zzot been unduly drawn away from rural lite into sneehanioai occupations by tho to beconte suddenly' rielt, whielt was treat that farming has no more dmidgery con- 11111 (.10111IIAT. 'meted with it; if intelligently carried on; than anything else? True, there may be (e0NrainureM: some disagreeable things connected's/1th Tho tock or North !ritruti.a,w,oke wan ttarilawL, , the fatiner!s work,' but 80 is there With A, ad loudly he -sounded Ifts30-1„1tgle horn: ' tho:ohemitit lt1 theldbOrntory, the physieliin To chalking() King Leo, a knight int renOwn; in his praetiee and °seri thej udge upon the- To Meet bun in any Plane; Village, or town ; . if. n' .bench...• Agriculture is .10 be -honorAnd he provedot ed and (lie a Whine would pall, respected, whether as regards:its antiquity That Lee utelilea, fa anuAtenesny yak. ' In dellecitd "Pau gunge the challenge went l'ortb.; —being the first-oecupetion Assigned by God" to mans -or- its impoitance. As I. corn° list to my '` innelc," ye knight Of tiro north; "• ' have eireedy,taken up snore space than I. anticipated, I will draw to a Close by.ask- ing the farmers, and • everyone •else; to study the ritiestiort of Free Trade and Pre1 tection in ell iti; bearings before corning to -a decision, and to examine theiritould ho friend's before giving them their confi- dence. • Thanking. you; Mr. 'Editor. for •your space, I remain yours &e. HAD, clhfton, Aug, 22, 1878. 'HURON has.' started nii ,()rango .(Yornig Blatant Lodge. s, . oosn has been gsswn ill tesnoseh that t. • - -.Ives:hod 13 ft: 0 inohes. W: Jordan, •NVinglinin, has ,dis7'• posed. of his drag busineSsile...)Its Steong„ ef . .• . .nrytai ..to have a.. 110''am& 'store.. A gentleman in that-lineis ges. ing to remove ,froti l3aytkhi.- • Mr. W. 'Wilkie') died "seven'acres of. . peas in four days ,reeentlYi.ett the' farm formerly f?cciipied. by; (lottleib ,StunnS, •.Grey. . Vine :of let.' un1oy bound 24- • aereS df Itettro _wheat- on his farms on .,94t1(1.1.43011.•:ril1...1.111 If li.'(.111-Y: WO good • Exeter 173604 :Board: li,kyc- engaged pi.o' new lady teachers—:Miss Sehram at 8$9;., and 'MSS liendersen atii400, till .end of. the 'year. •. •INUessrs, 'L. 1iaiio tk; Co. haVe entered a a :het ion against the Vorporation....:sif Blyth for, damages sustained through haviiiir their ocinar flooded, causing dit- . z!, niage to goods. ": ' Work, is now progressilet •on -the neW, • ; bridge egress the Daytied rester, at Bay-- . whiehis to replece the Ohl one, a littla.further °est, •wlriel .Nyini condemned,. some time• since, • • . • . Last week Messrs. Madee Kerniek threshed for Mr, Geo. .Blatchford,. eter,' ene hundred and five: Isusliels of Scott wheat: fMtu two Aviv.; • Thig • hard to be .strepassed: , fro Tnesdity morningthe steam: saw inill on the ,10th.. con, ,of. East Wawa -- nosh, owned by Mr. Thos. Agnew„ Was struck bY lightning an 3 + • ad with till its :.conteuto... On Thursday evening, ,Ist inst., 111100 lamb' belonging to 31r.401tri. Iolinston ;Morris, was instantly killed by lightning, winch seMned to drop 'Nem this flock, who were all in It bunch.. Fortautztely nen° 01 di,. tithe's wins-) injuveirin tho le• :NI • ass J. Taylor. a brother -hi -Inv. of r. Sparks, of Stanley lied, been visiting his- 011.,Wedneeday went st2._?eLeich foestliejturisso of fin t elute:nisi sOme shoop from Me. 11, Happol„ and Wes, to ail appetteatice, 01 perfectliettith bnt on. rettnattig home rit night1 slid - deftly dropped detut The .cause of his' sodden'. death is euppesed to live beett •lianin it place toe 'the Meeting; without more • delay, , •. Or " cowar(d!'..ho.tailleil; whiollsodi;er yon'SaY.. At Plueertle, the colt 01stsorta Man* n:Nyoire, 4.14 tile 't1.1140S.S$ of inorlifitglisi;evosentiy broke.' With, morale, that resounded the countrynrouni4 The People all guthOred to hark to th� soniel; • .asio, sou ea so,rotteil ems or.strugglo and stOln. 'A:wakened the slumbering dloWittrnlyth',',.:' Ile roustrt, ;With a gatilernig-tire in Ills eye; And thus to the Cock of the North wade •rciety • -`• TU0SdaY, 110011,•" lit the /tall, •we will meet; • • And list td yoitr nitufid," surpassingly swee t. At Vic hour appollited.tho challenger came; Ills manlier was gentle. his a speoldWas tame; ile cuiared the hall without bluiter of blow; • lIut hrooe:in. o1,1 chickens brought with 111111. to crow; : • • Ile mounted the platform, tlic chtelis•gtivo threo cheers, • Nyity tiott tioto doogiittoi to Joto3lood-oom. And linvbigrAlii hinierod position attiiinedi And -hong long eliderethy the fillteks ..111 Ids • • tinfe, ' /in beginlo. strut roiuld, 'nun Ids fliatherS to plant(); , • ••. • Attracting 'attention:from all in the rooni. Ills courage rose high, and he a demand, ' And, meddled winitsines he 010 not andel:stand; A.gainst ail -the roles of hIgiusiti1,ality know;."'s ' Tete cholch 'of the :Weapons, he claimed En) his. , Tinftirttplate.rooster your•knoWledge 11001.. • 01! Wiint, Oki Xou study ehl yalry's lord ' , To, you, Information, gratis kiire, • The clial hinged , the' choice of the weaptins skottled issits Leo (imitated tito poi otonit gavo in. • AS a matter 'so. trthing be (mina not,to wiii ; ' Add Chantielehi) taking' fresh emirttrA hard. . • d vatar to.tiro'ie.. • • Ile slitimintert 11111 lane.e. Ana !ifs sveors, Hite. • •O'f, tbeut 7'e:tie• red tript, or• , linsaiiiii•nions '.-Iraggleit", and dripping,with• And sail was hiS Plight, eretwo !Emirs were o'e.r,.•: n..iiiit,isietiz.ite tuoligli.bis c • oluage.bait.. And oft 'Aire the !mum of the'llon it ouanea. . . .. • . Ire knew in Ms boort that that latiec sae aortal'. ., It was Strengthened. and sharpened, an(IstipPett .with the trath.'. ' • • ' 'Be weak' WOW partipi, 1.10it ...spek1r intfineut diank ; The in attend:tit .m kid .ieng ceased :to Aitii11.9:::ttiiiied in niern; aittac. k oi tiie. foe; ,And seeing their champion golowto cefea loudly and fonglfor tram", oh a truce. The combatants Wear.r, vonsented vialt Next hvouliig itt Belgrtive again try their latt*: 011 ClinditiOcer listeit, while yet iliere • Olt listen tonic. aim give licedito my rhyme, turn het your ei•e to the Sun, uer askance, rot, .cannot nov08/frilly eiVe leilh Ili at lanm • Tis vans -ail in ram 1. how:Weyer yea, try, The KIngfof tim Forest Was no'or known to 111 . • N.:11(1 Itegli5ter. • ' Horse, bitigy,..eutteis Cart, harness; stable, &C„ property .of T. Fair, at the 1.Market Square, Clinton, on the:31st inst._ Jas. •'Howson, end. • Iuttrl disease. BORN. • (Aintrin on On 11(11 inst, the Wire of 3lis 3ieLtteghlin, or a daughter, - • • •.• on the lOth the wire or Mr. J10111; Iftinter of dettelner. • • , MARRIED. Me', D. Reid: of Stiiitlee•, hall 01) :it 7 Gitmt4.M.v-:-Ilonur.:tvg".—On the 13th. inst., item field 613. elnie cs of silica' of 12 ,1.1?;0111,01?iildteelvie*e.J6.-(.1%trillielipuTA'00,:f2;01ttltblitotrP,ailar..b '1,hig, Wits thelleaviest- neorge JI.odgenS, King street' east-Mr:7- Nouse thatlittinc, to, Miss .Iarte lIodgens, both Toron MD. E • mow*Bitiy,—In Clinton on the 13th inst., .3lowbrity, Aged 33 yCitN. licKluox. —In Myth, on the 14th inst.) Charles Seymour, infant son of Mr. '..Nt• F. 31eKinnon, Aged 4 tnonths too 7 days crop ()Wheat ' he ever harstested speaks widi for the prodizetiveness of th soli of.this sectien., He expects to have at Toast 50 -bushels to' th e Imre. The above gentleinnn has Also a „grape vine which has .a.bratich 03 feet long. The vine lies borne heavy erope caoh :vette foe the last nine years:. On Thitl*Stlay evening, smite Imola, cipIed ecounitt els entered, the Queen's mid stole oto or tbe btte-tooto, $8 and a eeven•shot, revolver. Ott the following evening somo mere of --it is to be presumed - the samb party of light-fingered gentry, nixed. the sash of a bed-roem window itt Me, II. P. Toms residence, which was °coupled by a young man named X., Adams, and stole TOTH !MOTORS OF NORTH HURON w 1111N rr,sint Travrov wrintea a meeting 1.6.11eit •• preve twenty falsehoods in Ise belt Cisettlar. what eia he prove? That thelvortlt•evrry should he 1115511. Odin the Gil; ilesnhitioii, foul 616 sor1g.r51? MinisTriatn latish hist o ohnnu. Did he denY that the resolution() ,wore ettepted li, the !louse, that he was sitting there, arid therefore voted toe thsto, that thtty tiddad $800004 from. eat the pocket. of his coat, which o out animal ex411101t0re, making One And n4bair hanivillg 011 tillico abset6tw pest,24211v4,745hieTi osioionatooliz:ihemlrie,eitafriltizeasutral,,:paniat=thttost fri'ntbout otirouse4csOii bilis aurfa silver, I at $26. No clue has been 'obtained of 4"t"' w117 1,,, Lot 81,00 the perpetratera of either outs 1 robberies.