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The Huron News-Record, 1887-02-16, Page 2s ,.M e got Pon Mels $c o 4 19. YUDLigltED " *very' Wednesday ?doming • VIT%% teVS &. 0&64, AT THEIR OFFICE, Ontario Street; Otintarn-, -On ti $1.25 in advance; d';: if not ao paid. The propriatorsofTuEOoucnion Ni.ws, having purchased the business and plant of THE IiultoN RECORD, will in futgre publish the amalgamated papers in Clinton, Vauder the title of 'erns %:unit NEws- RECe1tD." Clinton is the most prosperous town in Western Ontario, is the seat of considerable rgayufae lriug, and the centre of the Guest tngriculturalsection in Ontario. The combined circulation of TIIE NEWS - RECORD exceeds that of any paper pub- ,ished in the County of Huron. It is, therefore, unsurpassed as an advertising medium. at -Rates of advertising, liberal and furnished on application. reParties making contracts for a speci- fied timue,'eIto discontinue their advertise• meets before the expiry of the same, will be charged: full rates. Advertisements, without instructions as to space and time, will be left to the judg- ment of the compositor in.the display, in- serted until forbidden, measured by a scale of solid nonpareil (12 lines to the inch), and (barged 10 cents a line for first insertion and 3 cents a line for each sub- sequent insertion. Orders to discontinue advertisements must be in writing. ire Notices set as READING MATTER, (measured by a scale of solid Noipariel, 12 lines to the inch) charged at the rate of 10 cents a line for each insertion. JO3 WORK. We have one of the best appointed Job Offices west oTToionto:'"' Cin' Paiili�i:iisin this department enable us to do all kinds of work—front a calling card to a mammoth poster, iu the best styie known to the craft, and at the lowest possible rates. Orders by mail promptly attended to. .dddre The News -Record, • Clinton. out becei fiber, 1882. The Huron News -Record :Wednesday, February 9th VHAT A WORKINGMAN SAYS. THE NATTIONAL POLICY AND FREE TRADE COMPARED. At a meeting held in Oshawa lately by Mr. Smith, the Liberal Conservative candidate for South Ontario, Mr. M. Foley, a- moulder in the stove foundry in that town, was asked to• speak. The Oshawa V wl icatot , reports him as. follows: GENTLEMEN,—You have called on ane, but perhaps what I have to say will have little interest for you, .though it'had I assure you, a great deal of interest fir me :litho time. The time to which I refer was the last time Sir John Macdonald ekppelled to the electors of Kingston, in 1S74. A great hue and cry wa a got tip against him that ho was a non-resident of Kiugstou and was aiot doing much for the city. I was working at the locomotive works at the time. It was comparatively a small concern but was gaining and getting ready to do the work of the country. Amongst other things we were told that if we would put out Sir John the works would be given contracts for the Intercolonial, and would run full tirno, and the Hien be kept busy. Well, sir, they put out Sir John, and the promised change was looked for. It came coon enough. The liackonzio Gov- Pru.m3nt gave the contract for 22 loco no ives to a United States firm•. The hiugaton works were closed down and we wore turned out ou the street.. But then we had the I; rest comfort of liaviug Mackenzie Hud Blake in power. I went look - i ug for work, and finally gut a job et .Barrio for a short tirno, but the hard times and American goods sent nae adrift again. But you see, sir, there was the comfort of thinking WC hard alt) Mackenzie party ruling the country. 1 came down to Tor- tetto,'and tho first eight that mot ire was eight car loads of sewer pipe front Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. It struck me that it' sewer pipe was in such demand, why the Hamilton foundry which was specially equip- ped for such work would bo busy. Well, sir, I wont there but found the -foundry almost closed and the Band heaps dry and levelled down. No work there when the So Wer pipe was made in Pittsburg. But the Mackenzie Government rnled. I was on a general tramp ;and finally landed iu Ottawa, the seat of this Goverunlent. When I gotthere the member* of the Oovernment were giving veld banquets and dances to their friend, and all about `them was high fluke and jolity, but it was not so, unluckily, for the laboring men. They wore digging sewers and men begged and prayed to -be taken on—the-vork; I saw men seize a pick or a shovel and jump down into the nmud, and start to work in hopes that they could force themselves on the foreman, but it was no use. The suffering thele I don't want to see again. You may not believe what I'm going to tell you, but it is the truth for all that. A workingman passing along the market seized a piece of beef flour a farmer's vehicle and ran %tome witn it. He was followed by the market clerk and others, and they saw him open the door and throw the 'neaten the floor, When they got up they saw the starving children tearing the raw meat and devouring it like dogs to stop their hunger. The market clerk was' sickened at the sight and turned to the Ivan and said, "Why didn't you tell us you were reduced to such a state." "fell you," ' said he; "Haven't I begged the city and the Goveanment and everybody to give me, anything to do that I might earn bread for toy children honestly, but none was to be had anytt-i►ere. When I saw my children starving then I could not stand it'auy longer and took the meat." Gentlemen, I vote for the National Policy that changed this and gave work to those who wanted work, and when I think of my wile and family I could do nothing else. I don't see how..-an-y...w-orkingman_.can do. any- thing else when he thinks of the sufferings of the • uniinployed work- ingmen under the Mackenzie Gov- ernment. THE PRICE OF WHEAT. IIOW THE DUTIES ON GRAiN BENEFIT THE FARMERS OF ONTARIO. Correspondence Dominion Milling News. I will take the farmers case, as he belongs to the largest class, and with hint associate the miller, since their interests aro thb sante. All the wheat grown by a farmer has to lie sold, except what he requires for his own flour and for seed.. Ifo has his choice of two classes to sell to --the, only, two --the miller and the exporter ; the miller of his own town or tho buyer for some other Canadian miller. or the,oxPorter or the exporter's agent. Which of the two '1 To the one who pays him the best price. \Vhich of the two does give him the best price? Which of the two hits given hint the best. price during the past seven years t I tvaut the answer. of these ques• Lions to colne. from any man who comes nlucir in cout.act with Toron- to exporters or their agents at any outside places, such as Aurora, New- market, Bradford ; and I want that man. to say how continuously he hears this remark': '•\Vo are nut getting auy wheat, the miners are taking it all." Why are the millers taking it all ? There is only ono apswur to that gnostion, and the an smer is, because they are paying more - money fur it than the exporter cau allow his agent to pay. I am not stating more than the fact when I sad• that nine months out of ovary twelve the state or ail:airs is exactly as. set forth above, and in minty large farming sections where there are plenty of stills, the exporter can scarcely ever touch a bushel the year round because "the mills are t rking it all," and of course paying the grower More money than the ex- port price warrants. I chellengcaany man to establish any other conclusion than this— tho millers pity the farmers better prices for their wheat than the ex- porters do or can pity. This is under a system of protec- ti ,n. Change that system. Come bick to' free triode. Remove the duty from wheat and flour, and what will resuIt? The great mliters of the western states will send their salesmen to Toronto, and Montreal, anc Quebec, and Kingston, and Ot- tawa, and Loudon ; the later on the smaller citi.)s and the -towns and the villages of this country—to every place where there is a flour store with cash enough to pay for a car load of flour—and will soli car loads and train loads of flour at prices lower than the Canadian. tniller can afford to sell at, even if he gots his wheat at .export figures. There will bo no more complaints among wheat shipper's that the mil- lers are taking all the wheat. The miller will have to shut down, and silent mills will become as plentiful in Canada as they are to -day in England, Ireland and .Scotland. When once thoroughly shut down, workaten ecattered---gone to the United States to help make Ameri- can flour out of American wheat to supply Canada with—when custom- ers are lost, it is an easy matter for the American millers to keep them shut down and get high prices for their flour, too. The plan is an old oue, well tried and found satisfact- ory by the manufacturers of the protected United States who want- ediree trade Canada for customers in years gone by, before the N. P. was taken hold of by this country. I ask any farmer to recall the prices he has - had from millers all the year round,. the eager competition between millers in his own town and buyers who. wanted his wheat for millers at other points iu Canada, to say whether he can afford to kill off this competition for the wheat he has to sell. I am not a politicicn—certainly not a Tory one—and never gave a Conservative vote in my life ex- cept on two occasions when I vot- ed for the protection candidate who wasa Conservative candidate as well but I am interested in getting the bust pay for my labors that I fairly ly can get, and do not propose to give my vote to assist in clearing the way for American wheat and American flour to deluge this coun- try audthrow mine on the mercy of the exporter, who, however patrio- tic he may be, is limited in the price he pays me by the competition he has to meet in tho European mar- ket, from every wheat field from India to California. N. P. FACTS. The National Policy came 'into operation at the close of the fiscal year 1879. Its effects were not felt till the year following. Now let us state a few simple facts :— • 1. Our total trade with Great Britain has been increased. In the five years ending 1879 it averaged $82,000,000 a year ; in the six year:s.ending 1885 it averaged $90,- 000,000 a year. Iucrease, $8,000,- 000 annually. 2. Our total trade with the Unit- ed Staten has. been • iucrcased. In the low tariff period it averaged $84,000,000 a year. 3. Exports to Great Britain have been increased. In the first period they averaged almost $41,000,000 a year ; in the second ,period,. $46,- 000,000 a year. 4. Exports to the United States have been increased. In the first period they averaged $30,000,000 a veru' ; in the second 'period almost $40,000,000 a year. • 5. Exports to the ,United States have increased more rapidly than those to Great Britain. - STILL A PROTECTIONIST. • 0. Imports- from Great Britain hlive iucreazed. It. the first period they averaged nearly $.42,000,000 a year; iu the second period, $44,- 000,000 a year. 7. Imports from the United States have decreased. In the .first period ally averaged $48,000,000 a year ; in the second period $14,600,- 000 a year. 8. The total trade of the country has increased. In the first per;od it averaged $175,000,000 a year ; in tho second period $205,000,000 a year. 9. Exports have increased. In the first period they averaged $77,- 000,000 a year ; in the second period, $04,500,000 a year. 10.. Imports have increased. In the first period they averaged $98,- 000•,000 a year ; in the second period nearly $110,000,000 a year. 11. The-, adverse balance of trade has boon reduced. In the first per- iod it was $21,000,000 a year ; in the second period it was $15,500,000 r► year. Our Free Trade friends aro invit- ed to study these facts and ponder upon them. GRIT PLEA FOR DISUNION. Mr. John A. Kirk, Liberal candi- date for Guysborough, N. 8., says in his address to the electors: "Should you do me the honor of re- newing your confidence in me by re-electing me 118 your representa- tive to the Canadian Parliament, I shall deem it to be my duty to cor- dially co-operate with the Local Government and Legislature in effecting a repeal of the British North America Act so far as it affeete Nova Scotia." Of course he will have the assistance of Blake,rebel Laurier, and other secessionists. A FAIR PROPOSITION. There could he no offer more fair than that of the proprietors of Hag - yard's Yellow Oil, who have long of- fered to refund every cent expended for that remedy if it fails to give satisfaction on fair trial for theme - tiara, neural Pia, sore throat and all painful comp amts. Mr. I'owdealy, the chief -of the Knights of 'Labor, says :--"I atm A protectionist from the mole of Illy foot to the top of my head." This is the pO1 Ilion of this country. Vot- ing for free traders is voting to re- duce the wage; of the workingman and to take the bread from his wife and children. --Springfield .(Mass.) Union. THE GRIT BOODLE. SOMETHING ABOUT WHERE IT CQMES FROM. Do people wonder where the Grit candidates get the means to ribe the electors 1 They need not. The cause of the Grits is the cause of the manufacturers of the United' States. Let Mr. Blake succeed in gaining power and breaking down the National Policy, and the United States manufacturers would again use Canada as a slaughter market, and the times of the reign of fr. Mackentie would be ' repeated. The American manufacturers would willingly pay, as they did in 1878 and 1882, in the shape of heavy contributions to the Grit election fund. Tito cause of the Grite is likewise the cause of the American land monopolists and the Northern Pacific, and other railway systems. Mr. Blake's success will mean the tapping, hariassing and crippling of the Canadian Pacille railway and the retarding, of the settlement of the North-West. The American land monopolists and •railway sys- tems would willingly .pry abonus to have the Canadian Pacific tapped and the settlement of the North- West hindered. and they will like- wise pay it iu the shape of liberal contributions to 'the Grits election fund. THE '5VEAI -KNEED • PARTY. So long as Sir. John Macdonald remains in power the country ,may rest assured that neither its honor nor interests will bo sacrificed in the matter of the fisheries. The veteran Premier his'trikeu a firm stand on that matter, being guided by the terms of the 'Treaty of 1818, which defines strictlythe mutual rights of Canadian and -American fishermen. But how lung this attitude would be sustained should'tho Grits obtain office, no oue is able to say. We should find thein not only pulling Blown the tariff itf on the Canadian side of the lines, but giviug away - our fishing privileges without compen- sation to the Americans, as was pro- posed by the Hon. Gaorge Brown. That the Americana expect some such result, we learn from, the Bos- ton Traveller, which says "It is pretty certain that a change in government will bring with it a modification of the. fisheries policy; of the .Dominion.. Should Mr. Blake become Premier in place of Sir John A. Macdonald, he would ho morally certain to repress the piratical insfincts-ofthe Qnigloys and the unjust discriminations of Canadian Custoins officials when ho found himself faced by the opera- tion of t110 Eduiun Is Retaliation Bill." Our neighbors aim counting upon it that the Grits could bo more easi- ly coerced by the Retaliation Bill than the Liberal -Conservatives, which makes I1Ir. Blake and his friends popular at the New England fisbiug ports. - HORRIBLE. Mr. and Mrs. Wendelin Mott, a young couple living eight miles from Boulder, Col., to all appear- ances had been very happy until throe weeks ago, when their first child was born. Since then Mott has been very :abusive and quarrel- some. Monday morning last week lIott got up early, built a fire, made some coffee, drank it and sat down to smoke. Ilis wife was still in bed with her child, and had fallen into a dose, when site was awakened by the report of a gun. She jumped up, but fell to the floor uncenseious, a ball having entered her shoulder and passed into her nock. In the meantime Mott disappeared. When Mrs. Mott regained consciousness site got into bud with great difficul- ty and sank into a stupor. When she came to herself again her child was crying, but she, having become paralyzed, was unable to reach it. Tho fire went out, and the Who cried until midnight, when it died. Mas. f Mott'e plight'was not known until Tuesday night, when relatives called at the house. She cannot recover. Officers and a posse of citizens are in pursuit of the murderer. „ $127 FOR A POUND OF COAL. A CFNADiAN FARMER'S ADNENTURE WITH NEW YORK.CCNFIDENCE MEN, A tall countryman carrying a gripsack wont into Chief Drurn- mynd's ,office, id the Post OIliee building, yestorduy, and said that he had come from Canada, and that he had been swindled by a young man fruit% whom he had bought counterfeit money and who had palmed off on hint a bag containing paper.' "I am sorry he didn't give ,the couutert'eits to you," Chief Drum- mond answered consolingly, "for then I might have locked you up fur having them in your possession." At this the Canadian hurried away without even telling his name. - It was learned hater, however, that he is Henry C. Hill, whose hove is. near Stratford, Ontario, Canada. In sunnier he is a farmer, butsellsjewelry in the winter. Not long ago he got the'regulation let- ter from the "green goods" man, offering toliet him have sono beau- tiful couutorfeits for almost nothing. He answered it, and got a second letter directing him to this•city and to put up at the .International hotel. He enure on the West Shore road. At the furry a man dressed as a policeman asked him where he wanted- to go, and when he said the International hotel took him into a side street and pointed out a saloon, over which was a lodging house. Hill was mot in the office by two men who took frinn hint the. two letters, and put him in a cab, which took the whole party to another saloon., There Hill thought he saw ono of theta put $500 in green hacks into a small hand satchel. When it was handed to hire he gave the man $127. "Tho best thing you can do," the "green goods" man said, "is to drive to the depot and get oft' for home, and don't open the bag, until you gut there.>,.,. They bundled hill into the cab, which took him to the depot. Therm he opened the bag. In it weirs—Twoo old newspapers and about a pound of hard coal. 4. FARMING AND STOCK RAISING. A POWERFUL ENGLISH SYNDICATE OR- GANIZED To w0118 100,000 ACRES OF LAND IN THE NORTH=WEST TER- niTORIES. Ottawa, February 8.—Sir John Lester Kayo 'has. completed the or- ganization of a powerful syndicate for the purpose of working ten farms of ton thousand acres each in the North-west Territories. His associates are all Englishmen, and they have decided to place the cap-, ital stock at the high figure of .1,- 300,000. Farming and stock rais- ing in every department will be carried •on, giving employment to thousands of persons. Sir John Lester Kayo will sail for England from 'New York on Saturday for the purpose of making final arrange- iuonts. The fauns aro located at points along the lino of the. Cana- dian Pacific. Alt thoroughbred) stock will be imported from Eng- land. The syndicate has secured au enormous oxtontof territory lo- cated on Pod ])eer River. Newly acquired sections will be -converted into a cattle range from which ma-. terihl for farms will be selected from time to time. Arrangements have been completed for the pur- chase of seventy thousand head of cattle of all descriptions. This vast herd comprises 'T prises all classes of cattle, and will be driven to the new feed- ing ground in the spring. j4;aoh department will bo under the direc- tion of English exports. Building operations on all the farms will bo commenced the first week in April. Sir John Lester Kayo will return to Canada early in March, and will fetch a small army of employes, tenants,and others,drawn principally from their own estates in Yorkshire. —A singular coincidence occurred last week. On Thursday Mr. Wm. `Brown, Deputy -Reeve of Sheffield, received a telegram apprising him of the death of his father,"and sum- moning him home. On, Friday Mr. 13. Defier, Reeve of' the same town'ltip, received a telegraphic message notifying him that his father was also dead. The elder Mr. Brown was 83 years of age, and Mr. Det- lor 78 years. 'ABOUT OLD, 1'Ebl'LE, PASSED AWAY 4T 106. Mary Ponahtte, who had attaint' the age of 106 yoar,e, died Jany. 29, • 18.87 at her residence, Chicago. Mrs. Donahue was remarkably ac- tive until a few cues ago, when 'elie WAS severely attacked with bron- clhitis, to which eh:e- ject for many years, and after ton weeks 'sulfuring expired last week. NEARLY 110. Justice Spann hold au in fleet Jany. 25, 1887 upon the body, pf an old negro named Sings Cole, r t hie residence, G.alve"sfon, Texas, the previous day. According to the tostim,lay 'of' a witno<s, be was near- ly 110 years of ago at the tune of his death, and, a verdict was render- ed by the jury that he canoe to his death from natural causes. DEATH A1' THE AGE OF 102. Dr. Leo Farrand, &lied at Charles- ton, W. Virginia, .laity. 17, 1887, aged 102 ye;ii- ' He was -born ip Litchfield, Conn, and was a gradu- ate of the'Jefferson Medical college, of Philadelphia, iu which city he practiced medicine for fifty years. Ye became quite feeble a few years before his death, and came to live with a daughter in Chicago. Dur- ing his entire life he used neither stimulants n01' narcotics in any form, and could see to real the finest print up to the Bine of his'doatll. A DAUGHTER OF ERIN AGE 110. The oldest lady in St. Louis, or perhaps in the United States, Mrs. Mary Murphy, aged 110 years, is now living with her son, Daniel Murphy, at 3038 Lucky street, and is at present cutting fir wisdom tenth. Mrs. Murphy was born at Cast iney, county Tipperary, Ireland, and her mother lived to the advanc- ed ago of 112 years. ,Her mothtir .cut an entire set of teeth at the age of 111 years. The o',;1 lady came to this country in 1847' with' her husband, who diorl in 1848, sineo wh ich ti 1110 8110 has been supported by her children. They are al halo and • hearty. The old lady talks very much but very • incoherently. One of -her eyes has been destroyed, but she nevertheless gets along very nicely. Her teeth, which are being replaced now, disappeared twenty years ago. She has no idea of dyine. for suing time yet, and she eats as regularly as'any of the family. 4. FINGER NAIL INDICATIONS. .SIGNS THAT SIiOW THE TEMPER AND DISPOSITION OF PEOPLE. IIo who 'bras whit,g spots on his nails is food of the society of lad:, s, brit is licklo iu his attachments. Fro who keeps their well rounded at the tip is a proud luau. Ile whose, nails are deiitehud from the finger at the further extremity, and when cut showing 'a huger proportion of the finger than usual, ought never to gait married, as it world be a wonder if he were master in his own house, for short nails betoken patience, good -nature,. and, above all, resignation under severe trials. Nails which remain long after being cut level with the fiugor end are it sign•of generosity-..__Tra1dSpap- out nails, suffused with light red, mark a cheerful, gentle, and amiable disposition. Lovers with transpar ent nails usually carry their passion to tiro verge of madness. If you collie ,across a man with long and pointed nails you take it for grant- ed that he is either a player of tlio guitar, a tailor,. or an attorney. He who 'keeps his nails somewhat long, round and tripped with black is a romantic poet. Any one hav- ing "the nail of his left thunib all streaked, as though it had been stained, with snuff', is sure to be a schoolmaster. Thick nails indicate obstinacy and ill -nature; Ile whose nails aro dirty all over is a recluse, a compositor, or.. a dyer. A non with yellow nails is one who itn- dulges iu every species of vice, that of smoking being the moat, pre- dominant. Be careful not to con• found with these such as are in the habit of peeling their oranges with- out a knife. Tho owner of very round and smooth nails is of a peacable and conciliatory disposition. He 'Taiga has the nail of his right thnti$b slightly notched is a regular glutton, even nibbling at himself, as, when having nothing eatable at hand, Ito falls to biting his own finger nails. And lastly, he who keeps his nails irregularly cut is hasty and deter- mined. Men who have not the patience to cut their nails properly generally come to grief; most of thofnconlmit suicide or got married. Wo advise the fair sex to koopitheir eyes on the nails of intending line - bands if they are to look for hap- pincer+ in their wedded life w�l