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The Clinton New Era, 1888-04-06, Page 12•<, rf: • ••23 trtifit • 4 0 .,"01,0‘0i. W. A, great 40. Dickson e-RBader prijig greetterk4ieesley 44 Co er 14 pesh,---Pay ct Co etion sale --Mrs Martin Show mem opening -J 0 Detlor Print at 8c-,4 daokaon, Pe Great picnic Robertson OsTArtt wanted-14re T ditelsson, sr Servant 'wanted-34TR W. Doherty Piirharrt e 3 Boarderawanted-rs C Career Pentietry-41acdonead Dean go Notice to Creditors -7C. 4 J. Ridout Bargain!! baboots-4gwitobell Show room opeuing,EstateJ.Hodgens • • Union Reiv(o)ra FRID.A.Y4PRIL 6,1888. • • pITORIAL NOTES. We must apologia() to our readers , . foeathe Urge amount of space taken opthis week by Scott Ant matters. Th;S-carnpaigu will soon be ote:r,and after' that our space will not be cc. eupied to the same. extent it has bet iv the discussion of thia queee. t Ilia is likely to be an important year in connection with the history ' of Clinton,. and our tow-nspeople shOuld' stand shoulder -to shoulder in everything that will advance its interests and contribute to its mat- -. -er-lal-PrOpeas, Let -personal-differ- es and petty jealousies be lost t.�! altogether. 4,, Referring to a Canadian, who had returned from California', the *Empire attributed his trip to that State to "Unpatriotic journals which send Canadians , to starve in the United States." This is a hard • slap at the LondonFree Press which lately had a double column "ad' ad- vising Canadians to invest in South- ern California homes. ' Mr Greenway has returned to Manitoba with a written promise by Sir Jonu Macdonald that the monopoly in Manitoba and the Northwest shall cease and thera . will be no more dissalowances of provincjal railroad bills. Mr Green - Way stood so firm that Si4Johe evidently found he bad no alternat- ive but to yield. Recently Mr Purscell, Liberal, was unseated and disqualified (for bribery in connection with the Glen- garry ,election. He appealed to the Supreme Court, and his appeal was sustained, on the ground that procceedings should have been en- tered against him, before the lapse of six months limit. He is there- fore M. E. for Glengary still. The technicality upon which ho escapes .the penalty of the law is the same as that upon which half -a -dozen Conservatives got off, but that does not make it light in any case. If he was guilty of what he was charged against Mw, he should have suffered therefore, and his .be- ang a Liberal does not improve the •matter Any in our opinion. Mr L. A. Oliver, of Ottawa, it is p.authmitatively Stated, is to receive the appointment of County Judge of Prescott and Russel. Mr Oliver is still a young man, only thirty - years of age, but he has been for a considerable time one of the prin- cipal lawyers of that city. This position was virtually promised to Judge Doyle, the intention of the Goveinment being, as announced some time age in these columns, to appoint Mr F. W. Johnston, junior judge, but there were a good many local applicants for the office in Rus- sel, and the Government found con- siderable difficulty in making a sat- isfactory appointment, and the offer of the position to Mr Doyle was, it is right to say, entirely unsolicited. Ix A letter to the Mail, complain_ ing that the Government has treated the a a manufacturers very shab- bily, Mt' John Ransford says :- " I have worked for and sup- ported the Cqnservative party for twenty years, but begin to find they .bear steiking reeemblance to • 'that bruised reed Egyit.' Can anyholy wonder that we want and are working for Commercial Unionf To us it tneans, so far as salt manu- facture is concerned, life or death." We de not wonder that. the salt men, or any others, for that matter, want Ceinmercial Union, for it means.money in the pockets of Ca- nadians, and is a coming issue in Canadian polities, in spite of all that el paid-to.be-loyal" politicians and papers may say to the contrary*. AutztATV. To 0.44 Arm •, •• • **pat gmd, walt?Wing ettme140. the Order of 'the, 401"4,ngeott 4410140448, P;1§* whqhot,',A1, stiorApagog eQtecl kikifoft. 044*y ,to. 4,0(14shat they think proof in *Meting urre, bad CAW, Se the no'. glect OM* own Male. In their (great eagerneee the blood of Christ is,euttreiy overlooireci, and looked upon as only a secondary 'coneideratiOn".'In the Bible we find, woes pronounced against the- drunkard and drunkard makers, also againet those who condemn the righteous and back wren -deers and tvorttere ef iniquity. Have the workers of iniquity any knowledge, has been asked. sIf there were false pro. phut and teachers in olden time, it is anu wrong to infer that we Iwo the same at the present. time, and of such we are to beware,for although they may be great with the pen, mighty at quot- ing scriptures, preach greet screams, and do many mighty works, the sen- tence against them will be "depart from me yeworkers of iniquity." They were workers of iniquity in that they were in sympathy with the workers of iniquity and partakers of their sins. I have no. fault to•find with men who keep re- spectable houses of accommodation, barring the drunkard husinees, for often men who were overtaken by. night have been hospitably entertainedlat -a country inn, when shelter for man and beast was refused by the wealthy well-to-do farmer. Next week may have more to. say. Y,ours, Anon. McDoneaLL, Porter's mn. " THE .SCOTT ACT."' To the Editor the of New gr. Sin -Having in former comnaunica- lions made it sufficiently plain to come •within the reach of the average in- tellecr-That, inasmuch is alcoholic liquors are admitedly indispensible for certaiu puiposes, therefore to talk of the 'total prithibition" of their manufacture, importa.tion and sale is simply absurd ; mill that any measure •to suppress their general use, can onlybe- a measure calculated to re strict their sale to certain purposes. Secondly -That the Scott Act,though productive of much good by way of calling forth thought and general discussion, has not filled the full measnre of good in the way of sup- pressing the traffic, which its promot- ing had desired, I wish now in my own weak way, to call attention to some under -lying principles, which to my mind, have been the cause of this admitted failure. It has been claimed by those op- posed to the Act, that it has been the cause of a vast amount of perjury, law -breaking and anarchy, and cer- tainly these crimes have been perpe- trated, The question then arises, has the Scott Act been instrumental, in whole or in part, in the perpetra- tietebf those crimes. This is a very imPatant feature in the measure,and I ask the closest attention of every reader of these few lines while I re- view both sides of the question. In answer to this do I hear. some good censistent friend of the temperance cause say, " Yes, most assuredly, in order to be eonsistent,we must accept the responsibility of these wrong -do- ings. The.,,Scott Act is based on the principle that it isaaot the poor drunk- ard, whose weakness renders him in- capable ot resisting the temptation to indulge too' freely, that should be punished, but the one who bells him the liquors. If weakness on the part of the drunkard is a sufficient excuse to exonerate him from blame, it can also be plead in behalf of the person, who has not the moral courage to tell the truth when placed in the witness box, in a Scott Act case, and also in the case of persons whose animal pas- sions so far over power the moral sentiments, that they resort to fire and dynamite to avenge what they look upon as a wrong. If weakness is a sufficient excuse in the one case, it is also in the others. If we are go- ing to be consistent, we must admit that the Scott Act and its promoters are the real authors of those crimes." Now, certainly this hi a very con- sistent stand to take, but is it right? I think not. It is a great and a noble thing to be consistent; it is greater and nobler yet to be right. It is great, grand and glorious to be both right and consistent. But hark ! Do I hear some one say "That is all a mistake. The Scott Act and its pro- moters are in no way responsible for the wrongdoings of thoe men. The Scott Act never caused any man to, swear to a lie, unless he was at least half willing, nor to set fire to a build- ing, or resort to, any other violation of the law, unless impelled to by un- governable passions for vrhich he alone is responsible, and for which he alone should be pnuihed." Now let us apply this course of reasoning to the other case. I have been young and now I am old, yet have I never seen say man made drunk unless he was at lewd half willing, 'neither have I seen a man made a drunkard of, unless with hie own concurrence. If placing spirit- ual liquors within the reach of the poor drunkard, whose weakness ren- uers him unable to withstand the temptation to indulge, removes the responsibility from bis shoulders to those of ihe rumsellers, as le done by the Scott Act, then must the pro moters of the Scott Act shoulder the responsibility of the crimes perpetrat- ed by those who resent its enforce- ment. If on tbe other hand the Scott Act and its promoters are in no way responsible for the wrong doings of those persons, then the rum -seller is in no way responsible for the wrong doings of the drunkard, and every p,rosecution of the liquor ven- der, a gross injustice to an innocent party, and the Scott Aot itselt, based On a false conception of the rights of others. This looks to plain to me, that "the way -faring man though a fool, may not err therein," yet I venture to say that there ale manyeo blinded by preconceived notions that they will fail to see it, let us, therefore, eluci- date the matter a little further, When Man first emerged from the hand of his Creator, the first right which be had conferred upon bitn, was to eattf the fruit °revery tree in the garden, except of the tree of knowledge of good and evil; this privilege was supplemented with the kinetic% "Thou shalt not eat of it, for in the day thou eatest thereof; thou shalt surely die," Here then vre find man, an his first advent into mlatence,fully endowed by 'God hitneelf, with the nuequitocable right to do right, and enjoy the consequences, �r to disobey and stand the result. There was 110 tow temperance friend there to tell . Wro OVIEPII#11 grow Within the Melt ot4heriOneaper:i sped pewee who would POI, like t4i'poor4rfaier4t itee,' Weak to W1th etio4 ihirlfmptttion• 444 00 olttAnN4,34,goax out the Sack of our first parental, tkat Would ,have ,heca. prohihigoe, , pad, rgrsaw. 11,11.00ags; He'knewJust what would be et 9. tha forbiddqnfrakt- Within tbSir ;:,.rips0* !With ithe dhitingt underatatidiris that they:Otte bear the reapousibility Qf.L- their owa-gptio; there wee p0 shirl4gt the resnon,411- 10 Ae.eull1e tileY coujd not withstand the tcreptitfoa. Beady it looks as though does not see things just ea Scott Act ,folks see there. We flIrd.frOm dot to last the same. Front Adam' first inception he was treated as a free moral agentsand held responsible for his own acts,and from that time, through a long vista of succeeding years, if we look through nature, up to nature's god, we find the same principle pervading all of GrePs dealiug with mae. But the Scott Act is not built that way, and I must confess to having but very little hopes of any very beneficial results accruing from measures that run cross -wise with God'a measures. 'rak- ing this view of the subject we must at once and forever exonerate the Scott Act and its promoters from any complicity in. the criwes perpetrated in the attempts made to enforce it,and on the same grounds we must cease throwing all blame on the rumseller, and exonerting the real culprit, the drunkard. It we wish tb curtail the. the road. 1 was 04 4014110t Otto firliVtutall ' ea 4n r hoaes t eel, his 4,940, bode tla the wagon. I carried 41. - Ai' 14 r 4 she A M.frOM, 0444 tothe--cley''e ever death Four MCMtke. 'after tlott, ehe died, Tie 1?,1004. her. 0.4.0w,” . said .hamYtoQvy";80rathrt!;tietZ:ulded)44744r114s46114994r; he wiRt'uly Wherry' InerdererA ,'. T. saw' in 'I1L • other''tlitiTice?41,`'hate*:!New, vptker wboiiaver here le unit giuetother ntions, 444 .160,.$11P4:.$01,ffi tor .,progootowscirici &uri • 74t4,0 in."„tw ie41044:115118:44,/et rt3. 991 4:4444' 4Mtit't or; Oflgglitera.and ar* •*,Tralgor,. tend to 4P9re4V,040 !crttotH454;:ga 91:Prie:tiet-Y,'::111°7911::.ftt'''aniil the .di8tant, 0,4rauinettelti4o.m1(.)el.lc407piot to put an end'to_ sectional jealousy, as was the cast the thirteen original Oates in :theamieu, a "Greater Beta united and strong, in the Southern 3citio will not he in our day and gaiter - Olen. At present the Victorian eon aver to Sydney and twee nothing to ad. mire, every thing is far behind Mel bourne, the people still hear the same characters that their forefatherdid, and in fact nothing is right line the her7 bor audthe Sydneyites tnatte,no Wert tuQntiomgy9rine,yhaiirs Q but say 81,1reretsiolen) The New South Welshratta frona the land of immense farms and grazing sec- tions that would put to shame even those of Dakota and our own Northwest, comes to Victoria and 'callsthe tillers of the soil "cockatoo" farmere, though some of them cultivate hundreds and even theneends of acre, while the col- ony_ iteelf with is 90,000 square miles, he designates- as a "cabbage garden." Even.the Government of the two ool- • pules cannot rise superior to sectional- ism. Between the mere Murray and 'Murrannbridge its a large tract of coun. try called the Riverina District,. one of the best traots of land in Australia b in, as its name implies, a well-wate ed section, and consequently very val able to the farmer and grazier. Th piece of country is in • S. W., but is nearer to.Melbourne-than Sydney and of course all the produce was being ship ped to England via the former city. This did not please Sydney, or at least Sir Henry Parkes, so he haspately been working the railways in that part of N. S. W. at a' loss in order .to divert ti e trade out of its natural channel, a,nci the farmers of Riverina arehaving their carrying done at the expense of the rest of the colony. There are many sensible men in Au ralia who would like to see oonfeder ton- accomplished and despise thos mall • minded biokerings, and as hrough line of railway is now comple d from Brisbane, in Queensland, t uetralia, in South Australia, touchin oh Sydney and Melbourne, thus uni ng the capitols of the four colonic ith an iron band 1500 miles in length he people will see one another oftene nd gradually this bitterness will wea ff and another British "Dominion ny be found sooner than the signs it. leate at present. When this take lace Australia will advance with a ra idity . equalled only by - the Unite tate, for like that country i these oo nies possess every variety of soil an lirnate and having within themselve 11 that a nation requires, they are we alculated to prosper under the protec ive tariff which is almost certain to b dopted. The mild climate will alway 1;litat pi the ,oity* few !el:to Irk intexml ,o9000tolt $911, r4)1 take you 4), the thrall, gannet keep my"' heeds from $3ou.' What did he say? wren touch me, young Man, you dare to lift the weight of your finger on rue, will take tin law of you in minute." Ohl yes, mho had lizid his eands upon laim, be would have been fined for an assault upon the murderer of his father, and he would have no r.e.. drs. (Life agcl oration of Jou 13. t1146sGuup'13) os a perfectly ineffeneive man go into a dram shop. When sober he would not harm the meanest creature on the faee of the earth. He comes oui sat on fire of hell; there is fire in Lis blood, and in his heart, and in his brai. No goes and murders his wife. And what do yoe do? You try him, conviet him, an4 if not pardoned, yo o hang him in front of Newgate, before ten thousand staring men and women. And what do you do with the liquor Feller ? License hhat. And what doyou no with the place whore the liquor was bought? You protect as neether place to protect; ed by law. That is the way it4which ym treat, cause and effect with;regard to the evil." (Life and oration If JOHN B. Gomm.) • ou fanjece S0'44 al In. egol: Ilea saWhitur to% , ravages of intemperance we must cease beating the bush and assail the Austrati pondence au7.....„_corres eviljust where it lives. Here in Olin- jdo:al correspondence of the New r ton,with a population of nearly 3,000, think I would be safe in saying that Lox YANG, VICTORIA, FEB. 18, 18 I could write the names of everyone DEAR ES,The oldest of these Sou ern Colonies (New South Wale) h who can propedy be called a habitual big reached her hundredthibirthday 1 drunkard, on my thumb nail; and been making merry with her youn instead of this ignoble few being sisters over the event. On the 26th placed in a state of purpilage, by January 1788, Captain Arthur Ph which they would be taught to be- formally took possession of the grou come a law unto themselves; not only where the City of Sydney now sten tliey, but the whole community are, in the name of the King of Engle by the Scott Act, placed in the posi- and to commemorate the event the 26 tion of wards, with barriers and im- was this year proclaimeda ,publio ho pediments placed in the way of ob- day throughout the colouies. taining what occasionally is essential Melbourne intends to. celebrate t to their welfare,while those for whose centenninal year by holding a great benefit the Act was really intended hmiubrietireieouf hich I hope t fwter, but Sydneytowrite ariltreeay find ways and means of obtaining the had her innings. • The last week objectionable article, in defiance of January was a grand holiday time Scott Act, Maine law or any other the capital of New South Wales, a legal enactment. It is now about the streets were gay with banners a fifty-six years since the name of the arches, the harbor was brilliantly writer of this was first put to a tem- lumiated, the corner stone of the n perance pledge; through all of these Parliament Buildings was laid, a many years, I have been a consistent Ism of all, every poor person in t advocate of the temperance cause. city wastreated to a square meal. T I do not think that any person could governors from the seven coloni have a more deep seated contempt for !ioel,eusitandv. tNer Zealand, Soo habits of dissipation than I, and few wales, Waere ppireas'enatnadndNer•aiserr t would sacrifice more to have it abol• harbor, and the city in general and iehed. I have given the subject a post office especially. The celebrati careful consideration,and come to the %yes in short a grand success and t conclueion that there can be no law Melbourne "Age" a strong protection made which will compel all to " live paper and no friend of free trade Sy soberly, righteously and godly, in ney, cannot refrain from reminding t this evil world." If suy such jaw people, of that city of their Beta can be made, let us quit clamouring Bay ancestors; while its special ooree about Scott Ackand have a law passed pondent the "Vagabond" speaks cf N tsbe compelled S'uth Wales as a bankrupt colony wi that all persons shoul to go to Heaven when 'They die, but iaatbizaunkrupt statesman -Sir Heu human enactment dont work that s, for premier. Having heard t statement made so often by Victoria way. No greater mistake ever entered that New South Wales was bankrup the mind of man, than to think that and read it so often inthe newspape Scott Act folks know any more than of this colony, 1 wasfinally led to b God knows, or that they can formulate lieve it, but what was my surprise any better method of dealing with notice in a Melbourne paper the oth transgressors than He can. God'sday that New Smith Wales four p ways are, to allow every person the cent. bonds are worth t111 -10s on t freedoff of their ownwill to do right, London market, while those of Viotor or to do wrong, and to reward or pun- are only qiioted at 2109, a slight adva ish accordingly. The Scott Act pun- tap after all for the free trade colon loins the party who, at most can only iffVictorie has adopted a protective to, d be held as an accessory to the crime, it, abnut Nap.pse.ar. taol esbe sftiirl Ivsedtdoe dt and allows the real culprits to go free. I am fully aware that .by far the doctrine DI Bright and Cobden and lik ly will do so as long as the prese majority of well-meaning friends of premier,Sir Benry Parte lives; althou temperance,do not see the matter in a strong feeling in favor of protecti this light, and will vote for the per- is growing up among the New Sou pettiation of the act,which they have Welshmen, particularly among ti a right to do, but it would be well for working classes, the professional class them, while doings°, to bear in mind and all men of fixed salaries, 'scho that they are trampelling under foot teachers, railroad employees, P a precious God-given righryouschafed era, &o. favor free trade in order elr Lo every human. being, namely the make living cheap. The enemies sovereignty of the inoividual to do Sir arkes declare that he wou swoarrr right or v and be responsible for free trade principles t the use they make of this freedom. mew if 1e thought it were necessar v i in order to retain (Age. This gent! I have much more I 'wotild like to man is in many risspects a counterpo, say on this subject, but my article is of our Sir John, He gets more abus getting pretty lengthy. and I must than any other six men in Australia stop. .7. T. Wreare, but rises superior to it all and invariab • ly comes out on top, after every polit SOMETHING FROM GOUGH. cal shaking up. Nobody ever speaks o wha t the N. S. W. Government is like ly to ilia, but it is always " what wil Parites do about it?" or "whardoes Si Henry think?" He never asks advic froth his concaves or heeds oppositio from his opponents; he simply doe what he thinks best and informs both friends and foes of the fact afterwards He is called the Czar of New South Wales. He began life as a poor man and has held his own ever since, and one of the slurs his enemies throw a him is the fact that he is financially a bankrupt. Politicians in Canada work on a different basis; not many of them could be accused of Sir Henry Parkes' failing. His enemies state that he has turned his coat several times and is ready to do it again if he finds the pro- tection cry strong enough to render a free trade premier unsafe in his seat, but as the feeling in N. S. W is yet strongly free trade, and if protection were adopted at all it would only be as retalitory measure against Victoria, the veteran Statesman is likely to have a life lease of office without taking an- other political summersault. Sir Henry has been a true friend to hie native colony. He has stuck for it first, last, and all the time, but some- times his zeal has not been tempered with wisdom and he has made himself and his colony appear ridiculous. A few months ago he conceived the idea that the name, New South Wales, was unpoetical and cumbrome, and that the name, Australia, should be applied to the oldest colony, while the others might struggle along as best they could; and so earnest was he in his efforts that he actually made an attempt to in- fluence the Imperiai authorities to sanc- tion the change. It is generally believed that he thought that if he got his little plan worked successfully that the col- ony with the name, Australia, would have a decided advantage if confedera- tion ever took place and that Sydney would have a better chance of becom- ing the capital of the united colonies. This scheme of Sir Hhitry's was the subjeet of much comment, the neWspa- pers found it a good subject to write humorous articleon; one Melbourne sheet suggesting that if Parkes found the name, New South Walesclumsy and inexpressive, he might eallhis dear- ly beloved colony "Botany" in honor of its earlier setters. Even the man- ager of the "Fisk Jubilee Singers" made a little joke about it, and worked it off on every platform where the troupe -appeared throughout Viotoria. The .petty spite the sister colonies of Victorta and NeNv South Wale§ hold ft. Fainst each other would be amusing if it were not injurioue and t serious oh - stack in the way of confederation of (Publisned by Re(1ues) A. heard a young man in a ral way Carriage tell us his own story while conversing on this subject. Said he, "My father was a drunkard for years, my mother was a strong-ninded, ener- getic woman, and, with the help of the boys, she managed to keep the farm from debt and mortgage. When my father signed the pledge, that which pleased her most, next to his having signed it, was that she could tell him there was not a debt or mortgage on the farm. My father used to drive into the city, eight miles distance, twice a week, and I recollect my mother saying to me, "I wish you would try and persuade father not to go any more; he don't need that which he earrle ; and, George, I am ef raid of temptations and old asso- ciates." "Oh," said T, "don't think of it ; father's all right." Well, one even- ing we had a heavy load,nd were going towards home. it was evening and my father stopped at one of his old places of resort, and gave me the whip and reins. I hitched the horses, tied up the reins, and went in afterwards. The landlord said to father, "1 am glad to see you; how de you do? Upon my word you are a stranger. How long is it since the temperance whim got hold of you?" "Oh, about two years," said my father, "We"," said the landlord, you see we are getting on here .very well," and they chatted together for some time. By.and.by lie asked my father to take someihing to drink. "Oh no," said he, "'I don't drink now." "Oh but I have got a little temperance bitter here, "said the landlord, "that temper- ance men use, and they acknowledge that it is purifying to the blood, especi. ally in warm weather. Just try a little," and he poured out a glass and offered it. I stepped up and said, 4,'Don't give my father that." Then he had got just what he wanted, and he said, "Well boys aren't boys now -a -days ; they are got to be men amazingly early. If I had a boy I think I should take him down a little, What do you think, Mr Meyers? Do you bring that boy to take care of yon? Do you want a guardian?" That stirred the old man't pride, and he told me to go and look after the horse. sat and drank till ten o'clock, and every time the landlord gave him a drink, I said, "Don't give it him." At last my father rose up against me -he was drunit. When we got upon the waggon, I drove. My heart was heavy, anoi r thought of my mother. Oh, how wilt she feel ' &bent it? When we got about two miles from hom, my father said, et will drive." No,'no,' uald / "let me drive," He matched the reins fromme, fell from the wagon, and be. r- -'ff)34t. < - v • • - „ • • of the negative side Mops Kitty DRWeeAD.-,-Dr SVorAlpiiton 114,410_,egiutelogewleamx4ptswwp,rrrt 4:04.49Y:41fotr coot 'Kg, 7,4thlr elleatirt. DEArar-900 of the old realden of Clinton, in the Wean ot1,4dpoVar ter,wifeMr e 4.4:6,coercetxterkelop8e,d slaturailarfo4i!tert. ,,ofinu:807rp,atite:17107. place .f Colborne. Rev Mr Cameron, of Dungannon delivered a temperance lecture itEeonnratiallylenrigbtet,h4414 church, las Mr Nicholas Morrish has been laid up for tho. past week with a severe attack of mtiammation, but is now recovering. The revival services, which Rev Mr Keetle tun been holding iu Bethel Methodist church, for the past seven weeks, were closed last Friday night. Much' good has been done during these meetings. pet4ppevotatenHmart, 4144V4r40:4,WANoorigto7, #40:4 PRA:Pt..q43130, 0•70: .01A. 0, roligoos 18! W04244 orgRysti",t_wzr_iginvar,0 se ifooti 0-13iNEBA4 ,401::"4,,W,:981:Eallw :LourSy gervot, a 1010. 10 Aol. vitiate On Viaterl ply tO W. JONES, Pltaen, 74-1271---ktaR71-".T4747; eat, in fever or. John draw by, %%MOP *.latiittrirdstusinga ueke 000414 Joree, eeerigh to, jegailomit the same berms been pale. 0 - ooisnaie J30X4X3 FQ-It ISE4V10/4. AVJABOAtipett keeps fartories', at hie farna, base lin, Goderich terillhiP a t/seeo'bred Derhara Bull. Terme, SI et time of service, with privilege of returunig,_ if uecessary. a. TaasDALL, Proprietor. I CARDERS WANTED SUBSCRIBER LP has now her hem% thoroughly and coin- eart31y trels/led througheus, end 15 pre- pared to aecommodate a Waited uumber of boardem at very reasonable rates. MRS. C. CARTER Towneend Street, CliuMn, NOTICE TO CREDITORS The creditors of alisioAaET COLcrnornalf, late of the Townehip of Cioderieh, in the County of Huron, widow deceased, who died on or about the twenty-eighth day of Marh, A.D., 1889, are hereby notified to send by post mepaid, en or before the fourth day of drew,, next, to Messrs O. and J. Hit:knit, Clinton P.O. executors of the last will and testament of the said Vargaret Colclough, their christian and Alma:ne, -addrsss and,:- descriptions - sselult -Damararra their claim, a state- • meat of the* accounts, add the nature of the securitiee (le any)helcl by thew, and inarne- diately atter the fourth daY of June next, the asseta of the odd Margaret Colelonghwill be distributed among the parties entitled to, Laving regard only tothe claims of which notice shall have been furnished, as above required, and the executors willnot be liable for the assets so distriblitd, or any part thereof, to any person of whose eleim notice shall not have been received by them at the t Summerhill. IsmErs--Ait wishing for spring. Wood bees are all the rage now. Wm Neebitt had tbe miefortune to cut his _leg_while-cutting-wodi - The literary society had a debate,on Wed- nesday evening, 4th inst., the subject was, ", Resolved that the Scott Act is a better measure than the Crooks Ace the decision was given in laver u. k• and Lower were the captains. is Goderich Township. We have a letter referring to cer- tain things that appeared under this, heading last week, but it is unavoid- ably left over until next week. NEWS NOTES. Traffic via theNorthrn Pacific Lein) Manitoba has commenced. - Dr Widdifield, M.PP., forNorth., aga; gyeoorsrroklIlwiaas been appointed Sherff of t• The Grand Trunk station at In- s destroyed by flee Friday t. morning. • The Arnprior Town 'Hall, with the town's fire appAatus, was burn- • r ed on Tuesday morning. The exports of lumber to United • States trona Ottawa for the quurter e4n5d6i.ngMarch 31 amounted to $262,- 1- a Dulrnage, the Bluevale merchant, s has returned bringing back the girl we. who accompanied him. The pair • were treated to a ehirivari. s The president and cashier of the - State National Bank, of Raleigh, N. C., were arrested in Toronto on , Thursday, with $24,000 concea/ed a in their clothes. The quantity of wheat marketed at Virden since the commencement e o the season amounts to about 8 400,000 bushels, and it is estimated that there are 200,000 bushels yet to be delivered. The Manitoba delegates left Otta- wa for home last Friday evening bearing with them Sir John Mac- donald's written promise that there would be no further disallowance of Manitoba railway charers. Tho. Speer, M, D., Surgeon tto.M. C. P. S. G. S. and L. T. C. D. Head office, St. Thoms. The Great East Indian Physician and Surgeon,for the treatment of all chronic diseases and diseasea peen. mtract more immigrants than our rig orons Canadian winter does. and hay ing no large and prosperous nation a longside to draw away the bone and sine of the country, a united Australi would distance Canada in a very shor time; butthis does not make the fax mer the better country for all that. The "rabbit question" is one of th most difficult problems the Australian have to solve at present. These play ful quadrupeds were introduced fron England a few years ago by sporting men or philanthropists, nobody knows which, but at any rate "bunny" has bred and increased till he is just alien; master of the situation. . It , has been estimated that one pair of rabbits would iacrease te one hundred thousand in the course of a year; but though this may look like tall figuring, yet the facts of ills case would seem to bear it out. Every known method has been tried to check their advance, but they grow more numerous every year and spread over wider stretches of country. Hun dreds of miles of rabbit -proof fences have been built and thousands and thousands of pounds sterling have been paid in royalties for rabbit scalps, but with no effect, till at last the Govern. manta of the different colonies acknow- ledge themselves beaten, as govern- ments generally have to do when a task arises that really requires more than ordinary knowledge. The New South Wales' Government has made an offer of •E20,000 sterling to any person who shall suggest an effective scheme for ex- tirpating the rabbits from that colony, and some of the plans suggested are to say the least very original. One man suggests the wholesale int- porte.tion of the common house cats and turning them loose to make war on the. rabbits. Another advocates the estab- lishinent of large meat canning houses in order to make useful what is now pest. Still another, this time a Ger. man from Dresden, advises trapping them in large. open ditches filled with water and covered over with boards so as to trip and let the rabbits in during their periodical journeyings, these traps to be ot course too snaall to admit a sheep. Even Mr. Pasteur, the eminent Fretichmen, has entered the lists to compete for the £20,000, his plan being to introduce chicken cholera among the rabbits, whichhe claims would rapidly exterminate them and do no harm to anything else. His scheme isllooked upon with difavor, however, as people "would rather bear the ills they have than fly to others that they know not of," for if the chicken cholera is so deadly as to kill all the rabbits it would also kill poultry and wild birds, an l perhaps sheep and even man himself. But to a brickmaker in Brisbane the credit of suggesting the cheapest -remedy must be awarded. He says that theyabbits have been sent as a punishment on the people for their unbelief, and recorn. mends general prayer and humiliation as the only way ont of the difficulty. Yours sincerely, ARCTER COSENS. -40 • • ONLY $1.00. We would like to add a large number of new subscribers to our subseilption list, and with that end in view we offer the CLINTON, NEW ERA to the end of the yen; to new sub* scribers, for • the sum of $1. cash. Send in your names at once, and thus get thelargest paper in the countiof Huron, and at the sante time One of the hest local newspapers in Canada. liar to women, for 'which he is so well qualified, will be at the Commercial Hotel, Clinto, on Thursday, Apr. 12tb, from 8 a. m. to 4 p.m. One day only. Patients please call early. Persons suffer, . ing from diseases that have baffled the skill of the local physicians should not ornitthis favorable opportunity of seeing him.11ehas been edueated In nearlyall the best oolleges in Europe'has been in the army,of the united States and the British army and has circumnavigated the globe. Consultation free, Remember the date. • 'BORN MSON.-In Hullett, on the 201h ult., the wife of Benjamin Mason, of a son. BEKER-In Clinton, on the and inst., the wite of Jacob Bei:ergot a sort. • POTTER,. --in Holmesville,1 on the 4t5 int., the wife of Elias Potter, et a daughter. CALLANDER.--In Arkona, on the let inst., the wife of R. 0. Callender, of a son. RA.CEY.-In Goderieh, on the 2611, ult., the wife et Rev. G. W. Racey, incumbeht, of a son. MARRIED FOWLE1t--KEAG.-At Goderich, at the resi, dance of the bride's father, on the 28th int, by the Rev. Dr. Ure, Mr Jas. Fowler to Christina, second daughter ot Jas Keag, all of Goderich. MALLOUGH-WAY-On the 28thult., at the residence of the bride's parents, by Rev James Kestie, John II. Mullough. of West Wawanoeh, to May P. Way, of Hallett. BROWN -HOWARD -On the 141h ult, by Rev J. H. Dyke, at the residence of the bride s parets Devitt Brown, of Morris, to Elizabeth Howard, ot Grey. KING-McKENZIE-In Morris, on tiet'23rd alt, Wm King to Mary Elizabeth, eldest daugh- ter of Joseph McKenzie, of Ethel DIED BLACK --Iii Turnberry, on the 20th ult , Geo. Black;" in his 63rd year. . McLELLAN. - In Morris, on the 2811 ult., Enitly McLelland, aged 26 years. LEVY -In Colborne, on the 2615 Mat thew Levy, in his 64th yer. SteQUARRIE-In Colborne, on the 25111 ult., Catharine Meguarrie, •in hor 9015 year, TILLIARD-In Gederich, on the 201h all,., Male Tilliard, in her 66th year. BURWASII-In Beigrave on the 25th ult., Ethel Gertrude, adopted ditiaghter of Rev. N S Burwash, tn her 515 year. POTTER-ln Hohnesvilto, on the 411 hut, the infant daughter ot bit and Mrs Elias Potter BRETZ -In East Wriwanosh, on the 2nc1 inst. Rebecc, wife of Geo Bretz, in her 56th year CARTER -In Clinton, on the eth beet, ti:fe of 5,fr E. Carter, sr, aged 82 years [Funeral will take place on Saturday, 715 !net at 2-80 p In 11, FOSTER PHOTOGRAPEIER CLINTON' Jcw Nuartistmento. QtillERAti SERVANT WANTED- Appl to MRS. W. DOHEI1TY, High Stret. OOTTAGE TO RENT, CENTRAL location Terms reeonable. Apply at the NEw ERA Mike, OtOVER SERD-A QUANTITY CROICR Clean Clover See* tor sale by IW. G, GRANT, London Road. time of such distribution. CHARLES and JOHN RIDOUT, Executors. Dated this 4th day of April, A.D., 1888. AUCTION SALE! —OF A -- VALUABLE FAR IN GODERICH TOWNSHIP The undersigned will otter for sale by Public Auction, at the COMMERCISL HOTEL, in CLINTON, on SATURDAY:AMU 14 At 1 p. in., that valuable farm of 74 ace, being lot 67, Maitland Cc,.mession Goderich Township. The property is all clewed but about 8 acres of good hardwood bush. Good frame house, bank barn, Leering orchard of 3 acres; plenty of water on the place, which is convenient to both school and church - The property is about six niilee from Cilium) Terms -A small payment down at time of purchase, and balatice on time to snit pur chaser. 11. BAKER, Prop, T. M. CARLING, Auct, WILL DE AT THE Commercial Hotel, in ---- Thursday, Apr 12 From 8 a. in, to 4 13, m. Ono day only Patients please call early._ THOS. SPEER, M.D. - SURGEON, &c., M.C.PSG.S and L.T.C.D. THE GREAT EAST INDIA SPECIALIIS T For the treatment of all Chronic Diseases and Diseases peculiar to Women. 80 years' practice. Head Office -et. Thoma. • The Doctor has been educated in neariy ail of the leading Medical Co/leges and Hospitals in Europe; has served as Surgeon in the Brit- ish Army ifl-the East Indies, Surgeon in the Araerican Arfny during the late war, from 1861 to elose of the same; has treated all na- tionlities and circumnavigated the globe. - His thorough eduction, large and varied practise and experience entitles him to rank as a Speeialisoecod to none on this cou- tinent-for the treatn3ent of those dangerous and difficult diastases that have baffled the skill of the local physicians. The following diseases, with many others, successfully treated Asthma, Bronchitis, Catrrh, Diseases of the Lunge, Dyspepsia Diseases of the Eye and Ear. Heart Disease Epilepsy,Paralysis, Nervous Deblity, Goitre Fever and Ague, Malarial Affections, Rheu- matism, Sciatica, Syphilis Strictures„ Rup- tures, Skin Diseases, Piles, etc. Electricity used when required TEETTAIONIALS oF EinicATION—The follow- ing testimonials and diplomas may be seen at my, office. with many others from nearly all the leading medical schools in Europe; Trinity College, Park St. School of Medicine and Royal College ofSurgeons,Dublin; Royal College of Surgeons,Belfast, England; Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh and Glasgow Scotland; Licentiate in Midwifery, and en- dorsed by the highest medical authorities iu the United States and Dominion of Canada. The above with many letters from different parts et the globle are a medical passports -- without re-examination, doubt orquibble-. rising to the setting of the sun. • ver every sea, and in, every land from alny - altdaattio.n free.Read circular and Reinein- ALLAN LINE. W. JACKSON • AGENT, - CLINTON. 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