The Huron Expositor, 1879-02-28, Page 4NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Auction Sale—N. McMillan..
Important to Farmers—T. Tipling.
• Notice to Debtors—Oscar Rudolph:
Estray Ram—john Workman.
Farm for Sale—Daniel McPhail.
Auction Sale—David Hill.
Kiuburn,Cheese Factory—j:
American Nails—Tohnscin Brothers.
New Spring Goods—Hoffman Brothers.
Raton Foundry—R. Runcinaan. .
The Vollmar Cooperage for Sale.,
Hog Feeding—James Lang.
Harness—John Ward,
Huron Sabbath School Convention.
Dog Wanted—Bak of 'CommerCe.
Caution—Thomas Whitesides.
Card of Thanks—Mrs. Markey..
Cheese Factory Meeting—J. Duncan.
Ladies' Shoe Lest—Expositor Office.
Insolvency Notice—Charles Davis.
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SEAFORTH, FEBRUARY 213, 1879.
Our Senator. .
Most of our readers will be surprised.
to learn that a Dr. Bull, of the city of
Hamilton, has been: appointed to the
seatin the Dominion Senate, rendered
vacant by the death of Hon. Donald
Macdonald. What transcendent abili-
ties or virtues this gentleman possesses,
that he should be preferred to many in
the western section who had just claims
upon the position, we have not yet been
informed. We are equally at a loss to
know what speciai virtue there is in the
city of Hamilton that it should be bless-
ed with two Senators, while the whole
of this western section of the Province
is left without a representative at all.
'Had the Reform Government made such
an appointment,our Conservative friends
would not be slow to saY that it is an.
insult to the intelligent people of this
district; and we must confess they
would have vety just grounds for the
assertion. However, if the Conserva-
tives of Huron and. Perth, and. the
more immediate friends • of Messrs.
Ritchie, Carling and Kidd, can quietly
swallow such an ipsult, and can tamely
stand leeing slapped:in the face in this
manner, we scarcely think the Refomi-
'ers of the District will raise any serious
objections. We can but repeat thehope
to which we gave expression On a form-
er occasion.: That the new Senator will
not long be a pensioner upon the public,
but that the rotten institution, (we
mean the Senate, not the Senator) will
speedily be swept- out of existence, as
one of the last relics of barbarism which
a patient and long suffering people have
tolerated thus far in the Nineteenth
Century. -
Reformers and Conservatives should b
alike anxicks for the speedy prodUctio
of the ei imal, and it is on these groun • s
that bot parties have now just eau e
for coi4jilaint at the, what we belies e
to be, min' ecessary delay.
During the past week the House h s
not occupied more than one hear t
any one flitting. The Government o
not seem .to have any of their measur s
. t
reedy, and even if they had, we fan y
the House is not in a mood to deal wi h
them until the National Policy is ds.
posed Of. So that the delay is causi
pleat loss` in two ways: First, in
• &Li:ding and unsettling trade, and s
o d, in retarding the business of Pi r -
ardent at enormoue daily expense o
the country:
We notice that that august body of
public pensionersthe, Doriainion Sena, e,
baying nothing to do, adjourned ma il
the 9th of March, but their Bessie al
allowance still goes on, and the count ,
during the adjournment, has to p y
them nearly $8,000 for remaining at
home itnd attending to their owti bu
ness--those of them at least who h e
a,ny business, and who are not so ag d
antl iJfirro. 'as to be incapacitated or
bucsiness of any kind. When will t e
conntry repudiate this terribly exp u -
sive farce?
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°Mit CAUSES—BLACK KNOT—THE EDU A.
TION ESTIMATES—FLOGGING IN T E
CENTRAL PRISON—THE YIIRORS' AC —
TOitoNT0 1.4.EGistaTION,
(Front Our Own Correspondent.)
• After routine on Wednesday, the 1 th
inst., a motion was made by Mr. Cur e
to the effect that the Legislative gra ts
to High Schools should be distribu ed
according to lthe pcipuletion of t • e
counties or cities in which they re
situated. He produced. a number of
interesting statistics showing that the n-
eqaalities lin the ,arnounts received y
various High Schools were very gre t
and advocated a return to the old s s -
t m. The Motion besides being ru ed
olltt of order was discouraged by 1.0
'Government, and nothing canae of it.
A discussion took place upon the nat re•
andresults of the- work •done in tI e
Schools Of Technology or Pr 0 -
deal Science, during which Mr. Cro ks
gave a eatisfactory statement of ts
condition, and _expressed a hope t i at
the increasedexcemodation and cou se
of study that has been lately provi d
would be more generally taken adv
tage of by thetyoung Of the Mecham
'classes to 0 tain s practical knowle
The Dominion Parliament.
There has not been any business of
importance transacted bythe Dominion
Parliament since last week. It wasprom-
ised that the National Policy Scheme
would be submitted. bythe Finance Minis-
ter on Friday last,but the expectant mul-
titude have been doomed to disappoint-
ment- once more. Friday cameand
went, bat the National Policy has not
yet been. put on the boaads, and there,
can be no definite inforMation obtained
as to when it will be. this is certainly
unfortunate. Owing to the expected
i
increase in tariffs, eve business in -
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terest in the country is n an unsettled
condition. Business men do not know
whether to buy or to abstain from buy-
ing, and as a consequence the wheels of.
,
trade are completely clogged., and. this
uncertainty is doing much to stimulate
and increase the digress in every.
branch of trade. In Vie,1w of this fact,
which must be patent ti) every person,
it is almost criminal car the part of the
. , ;
G-overranen1t to thus trifle with the
I .
people. We I were always willing to
grant the Government due time to
forraulat their policy, but had they
used ordinary diligence, surely they
might have been prepared by this time,
to take the country into' their confi-
dence in this all inapaant inatter.
eao
They have now had over five months.
Consequently it is not surprising that
the people are growing impatient under
the delay. We notice_by reports from
Ottawa that several of the Ministers
have found. time to entertain their
friends at banquets evening after even.-
ing since the session commenced, and
the Finance Miniater, during the
present week, has issued invitations for
a grand ball to be held next week. This
does not look as if Ministers were over-
worked or that they- were hurried for
time. One would naturally think that
the balls and suppers might be very
properly delayed, at least, until alter
the suspense of the people on the ques-
tion of the proposed duties was allayed.
If Mr. Tilley has time to devote to at-
tending and seperintending a ball, he
should not compladn if the people im-
patiently urge him tb complete and
submit to Parliament his National
Policy Scheme. We • do not believe
that the so-called Policy will do any
good to the country even when it does
come into force; on the contrary, we
fear that it will be productive of evil,but
it will allay the uncertaii4 and di -
trust whici at present exist, and -which
are doing more actual. damage than the
National Policy can possibly do, and it
will also let people know just exactly
-where they stand. -This is the reason
why we say that delay is dangerous,
and not because we believe any good
will result from the National Policy in
itself. On these grounds, therefore, it
is quite consistent and natural that
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ge
in their arta Mr. Monk moved. t e
second reading of his hill, which p o-
vided that in the Courts of' Aesi e,
jury capes should be disposed of bef re
non -jury cases. The subject is not •y
any means a new one, as meas ix es
similar to'that of Mr. Monk's have ben
brought forward in the House befo e.
It is admittedt-hat much.. expense a d
annoyance are' prevented by grenti
jury eases the precedence, as the t-
tendance of jurymen is thus reduced. to
a mitilinurn. The practiceof the Jud es -
now is to try jury cases first where itis
practicable to do so. Circumstanc s,
howevewametimes prevent this, or
make it necessarSr to take a non -j ry
case first,and it was not thought adv s-
able to restrict the power of the judg s
• in that respect, as any one acquaint d
with. the working of the Nisi Pr is
courts knows that the judges in &lea es
consider the interests of jurymen: of
i
paramount importance. The moti n
for t e second reading of the bill was
lost . pon a division of 37 to 33, seve al
GO nment supporters voting for t e
bit', Which was an Opposition o e.
Mr. Morris moved the second reading of
his bill to amend. the Election A t.
As the law now is, income voters re
required. to swear that they ha,ve p id g
their income tax before they are alio of the County Court Judge, the Wa --
ed tete. In some places, the tax is den and the Sheriff, to which appea s
collected in instalments, and if as y from the decision of the County Cou
election should take place at any ti..e cil can be made, instead of the Coun y -
between the payments of the - int 1.. Court Judge alone, as at present. Co
mensit is easy to see that the ince 'selsiderable - objection was taken to t e
voter would not be able to take II e appointment of the Warden on t e
oath that.he had paid his tax. Suc a, board, as being the representative of a
case actually happened. at the 1 te particular municipality, his judgme t
electioh. in East Toronto, where he in all cases might not be unprejudice
• polling tvas held before the last instsl- It was suggested that the County ;mai,
merit of the income tax became. d • e, trar should. be substituted for the W?a,
ani as a consequence a number of n- den, or that the County Council shou d
come voters were disfranchised. It is have Power to elect a member of t e
said. that the majority of these wo Id. tribunal. It is not Impropable th t
have cast their -votes in favour of Ai r.. one of these propositions will be acce
Morris; hence perhaps that gentlemas 's ted by the Government, and embodi d
anxiety to have the matter put rigs t. in the bill before it is read a third tina
His bill proposesto change the for,. of The bill providing ' for the establis
the oath, so that it may be taken b a ment of an Industrial Refuge for gi
voter 'who has paid any part of his ai.- was also read a second time. The i
come tax. The Government • assen ed stitution will afford a home for p
to the second reading, and the bill ,.a,s girls who from their circumstances a
• referred to a select (Jommittee. A. ter likely to be led- into evil ways. T
the b•ettlement of a point of order in remainder of the sitting was occupi
faVour cif the Opposition, which ad with a discussion about the estimat
been takeh frona the Government s de for miscellaneous expenditures, chie
of the Rause at a previous -sitting, r. for colonization roads, the Gover
Creighton moved the second. reading of ment's policy in this regard being
his bill for the prevention of " bl ck with approval from both sides of t
knot in plum trees, and of " yello 's"House. House. •
in peach trees. The bill °out& us I
• Mr. Crooks' bill respecting publ
stringent provisions for the destruct on high, and seperate schools, was d
of all infected trees, and proposes he cusssed in •Committe of the Whole
appointnaent of an inspector who s all Tuesday, and one or two sections pa
have power to cut down any such t es ed. One of these gives the power
without the sanction or consent of he public school boards in cities to ask
proprietor. A ehort discussion ar se, funds with whiali to establish 1.1, Mo
Mr. Currie aivina the House the he rt- I School after the plan of 'County Mo
e a
description of the effects of eider° ng i
Mt. Scott that the franchise for trus
.
Schools. • An amendment moved
lest laiagh of thetsession by a humor )11S1
the provisions of the bill. Thelaugl ter 1 a.ncl municipal elections 'should be t
was, ihcreased when. Mr. Roseveax s ho t same was lost by a vote Of 35 to 25.
is generally the foremost in fun, ve- t The Bill introdnced by Mr. Hardy
hemently denouncedethe bill, evide tly 1 amend the Jurors' Act also received
having misundetstood the remarks of , second reading. The Bill fixes t e
the previous speaket. He electrif ed. ' qualification for jurymen. at $600, aid ' public men, it contains an album of
the i House by protesting against be , ina.kes some alterations in the meth
theory which he thought had. been s ip- of selecting jurors, It also proposes
parted by Mr. Currie that black knot. limit a grand. jury panel to thirteen
was a contagious disease affecting cat le. stead of twenty, -four, as at present, a
The bill was ou the point of being wi h- • the number to find a bill to seven .
drawn ,when Mr.Wood. on the part of he stead of twelve. It is doubtful whet er
Government accepted th.e principle e n- the jurisdiction of the Legislature —A few days ago the residents of the
alined in it,bysupporting thesecondr ad- . chides the power to make these lat er suburban little village of Yorkville were
ing,and suggesting that it should be re 'er- , changes, but if the Bill ' as introduced aroused from their usual quietness by a
red to a select committee, which as t can be carried into effr
edt, M. Har y report that a fashionable wedding was
accordingly done. anticipates a saving in the ,expense 1 of about to take place in. one of the prin-
011 Thursday Mr. Wood moved.- a re- t the jury system of $40,000 a year, ne r- i cipal churches. It was soon definitive -
solution by which the terms of the n- ' ly one-third of the entite expenditqre 1 ly known that a gentleman from Brant-
tario Tile Drainage Act were exten ed , now connected with it. The Bill a as I ford was to lead an accomplished. young
to. cover wood earl stone drainage. ar- I cordially received by the House, the 1 lady to the altar on a certain Tuesday.
,
mers who find it more convenient to
drain their lands by means of stone or
wooden drains than by tile, will thus
.have an -opportunity of receiving Gov-
ernment aid for that purpose. Th
House then went into Committee o
Supply, the item under considerable
being $516,935 for education. Mr
Crooks, in a very long and exhauttiv
speecla.completed his vindication of th
educational policy of the Government
, and returned an answer which will b
satisfactory to the country to the per
tinent query of Senator. Macpherson i
his .celebrated pamphlet; referring t
the increase in the educational esti
mates from 1871 to 1877, ." Increase o
$200,000—•who benefits, the placema
or the scholar ?" He pointed. out tha
nearly the whole of the entire sumwe
paid directly to the schools of the coun
try, either as grants or in the way o
promoting their efficiency, by thoroug
inspection, and could in no way hay
gone to benefit any pi/woman. H
showed. that while the Government
expenditure on education had. been i
creasing, it had not et all kept pac
with the peitple's expenditure for th
same end. Contributions towards th
maintenance of the school system ha
increased from $1,930,000 in 1871 t
$3,153,115 in 1877, while during th
same time the Legislative grants ba
only increased from $194,196 to $272
708. Mr.- Crooks also informed th
House that a considerable improv
ment had been going on of late in th
matter of teachers' salaries, showin
th.at in 1871 county teachers were r
ceiving di an average • $254 for mal s
and $182 for females. In 1877 the fi
ures were $379 and 1,260. In °Woe
pedagogic salaries in 1871 were $62
and $236, and in 1877 $735 and $30
The school population during the sa •• e
time had increased from 489,655 t•
494,804, and the registered number fro •
446,326 to 490,840, exhibiting a market
improvement in the attendance. :re
contrasted the amount spent in inspe
tion of public schools in Ontario wit
that in other countries, greatly to t
advantage of Ontario, one .of the ao
pazisons being 14 cents in Ontar o
against $2.74 in the State of Pennsy
. He gave & very full stateme • t
of the items upon which the propos
expenditure would be laid. out, and co
eluded perhaps the ablest speech he h: s
yet made on educatitin, amid loud. a
plause. Considerable discussion. fo
lowed, which was participated in • y
Messrs. Meredith, Harcourt, Deroc e
and others., A. feeling friendly to t e
Governmental policy on education w s
exhibited. by members on 'both sides of
the House, and no desire was shown io
make capital out of the undoubted I y
large expenditure upon the school sy
tem. • It isgratifying to See that po
tics have been so successfUlly kept o t
of the Education Department, and. th t
the predictions of those who prophesi
the debasement of educationalinterest
by the addition of a Minister of Educ
tion to the cabinet, have not been f
filled. After the passing 'cf the educ
tion estimates, 'ma the remainder
• th appropriations for public instit
tions, a brief discussion took pla e
'upon the item of $27,000 for immigr
.tion. The item was finally carried.
• That much-discussed. institution
the Central Prison—came up again f r
ventilation on Friday. Mr. O'Donoghu
member for Ottawa, moved for a retur
showing the number of prisoners flogge.
since January, 1878, and brought so •• e
charges of cruelty in flogging for trivi
_offences against the authorities of tie
jailevhichhe dechired himself quite reit
to prove. Mr. 'Wood furnished the
formation required, by saying that tho. e
had only been ten prisoners flogged du
ing the tinae mentioned, and deprecate
any unnecessary debate upon the ma
ter, as it was kuoWn that the prisoners
in the Central Prison were fully aware,
by what means he did not know, of
everything said. or done about • the in-
stitution on the floor of the House wit
in forty-eight hours after the occurrenc
If the charges of cruelty were formula,
ed, he was quite willing that th;y
should be investigated. thoroughly, a i d
he would see that re,quisite punishmei t
was meted out to the offenders.
On Monday Mr. Mowat's bill relati
to the equalization of assessment w
read a second time. It provides for t
establishment of a tribunal consisti
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E HUItON EXPOSITOR.,
only objection taken from the Opposi-
tion side of the House being to the pro-
posed reduction in the number of grand
jurors.
A. protracted fight has been going on
for some days in the Private Bills Com-
mittee over a couple of bills introduced
for the purpose of re -consolidating the
debt of the city of Toronto, and for the
compulsory adoption of a froetage tax
to defray the expense of street improve-
ments. The discussion has not been
among the members of the Committee,
but among the representatives of the
city, who appeared before the, COMMit-
tee, and who are not by any, means a
unit as to their views • on the proposed
legislation. The city debt is proposed
to be limited to $6,000,000, and one of
tha most attractive features of the
scheme to the overburdened tax -payers
of Toronto is the proposition to in some
way consolidate the six mills instal-
ment still remainiug due of the taxes
of,last year, and so do away with the
necessity of their payment. The con-
solidation portion of the scheme is very
generally accepted by the citizens, but
the greatest division of opinion exists
as to the Other proposal, that which
provides for the imposition of a local
frontage tax for the purposes of street
maintenance and improvement. The
greatest opposition to this part of the
scheme comes from the Property Own-
ers' Association, who oppose it on the
ground, that it will have the effect of
throwing the entire burden of taxation
upon real property to the exemption of
personal property. The City Council
have finally come to the conclusion to
have the debt consolidated, and to be
allowed to introduce a scheme of per-
missive local taxation for street im-
provements. It is expected. that this
compromise will be endorsed by the
Legislature, and it is for the time be-
ing satisfactory to both parties, as those
opposed to the scheme think that the
permission will never be availed of, and.
those favorable to it imagine that once
introduced the benefits will be so appar-
ent that it will be immediately adopted
by the whole -city. T. W. G.
• TORONTO, Feb. 26th, 1879.
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News of the Week.
• BEATEN. TO DEATH.—It iS reported
that the Greek Archbishop ofAdrianople
has been beaten to death by a Bulgarian
mob.
OBITUARY.—Rev. Dr. Ruben Nelson,
Sr.,' whose illness was mentioned last
• week, died. in New York Thursday
morning. •
Ititsiom rre— It is rumoured that
Right Rev. Casper H. Burgess, Bishop
of Detroit, has forwarded his resigna-
tion to the Pope.
HEAVY FAILITRE.—The National Stove
Works, at Peek's Rill, New York, have.
been seized for debt by the Sheriff.
The liabilities amount to fifty thousand
dollars. t
SWINE PROHIBITED. — The Italian
- Government has prohibited the impor-
tation of American swine, or any prep-
aration of their flesh, as a precaution
against trichinosis. -
• FLOODS IN Eumorn. — There are ex-
tensive floods throughout Europe. The
rivers Ebro, Adour, Vistula, and Loire
have overflowed their banks and -done
much damage.
CAPTURD.—Barr, who lately killed
Pollock, the tallest printer in the Unit-
ed. States, was captured. on -Saturday
near Cherokee, in the woods, where he
has hid, cold. and hungry, since the
murder.
A MARRIAGE ANNULLED.—An action
has been begun at New York, for the
annulment of the marriage of Captain
Blair, to Mrs. Gordon Granger, because
of Blair's previous marriage. He will
make no defence.
• A PRINCE'S LIFE ATTEMPTED.—Prince
Krapotkine, Governor of Charkoff, Rus-
sia, wbules returning on Friday night
from a ball was fired at with a revolver
andSeverely wounded. The perpetrator
is unknown.
Rearm—The death is announced of
Henry P. A. Pelhana-Clinton, Duke of
Newcastle. He was born in 1834, and.
succeeded to the Dukedom in 1854. He
will be succeded by his eldest son the
Earl of Lincoln, at present fifteen years
of age.
TRICHINA .—There was four cases of
• trichinosis in R. Redinus' family, Pike
township, Illinois. • His daughter, aged.
19, has died. Trichinosis was found in
the sausages, which the family had
eaten.- The other members are expect-
ed to die.
A MIXED RELATIONSHIP,—At George-
town, Massachusetts, the son of a
widowed girl whose brother married
the widow, while the child born to the
first couple has an unde and a grand-
father and a grandmother and: an aunt
in the same persons.
EXPLOSION.—While a large number of
people in, Stockton, Caliafornia, were
witnessing a new pump in operation, on
Saturday, the boiler of the engine, ow-
ing to the carelessness of the engine
driver, burst, and sixteen people were
killed. and twenty-six wounded.
On the night previous to tie wedding
the young men arrived fromi Brantford,
and was met by his affianced, who ac-
companied trim to he4 aunts residence.
While the happy bridegroom slept in
joyous expectation of the corning event,
the bride quietly dressed, and, slipping
out of the back dooroeloped with an-
other admirer, and was married the
same night And the dejected fellow
returned sadly borne to face his friends
and relations without his b -de.
1- ROBBERY IN A_USTRALIA.—A gang of
Is bushwackers recently raided_ Euroa,
New South Wales, at high noon, locked
✓ up the people at the bank, 42 in all,
e including women and children, inapris-
e oned the railway officials and -hands,
d end rode away with $6,500 in cash and
s thirty ouuces of gold.
• A JuNEVILE THIEF.—Mary Smith,
aged 15, was detected last Thursday
et robbing the rooms at the Adelphi Flats,
le New York. She rushed into the dumb
waiter on the fifth floor, and attempted
to slide down the rope to the basement.
s- She fell, breaking her ankle, ard was
n arrested.. Pawn tickets representing
s- $1,500 worth of property were found. at
to her home.
or DIE CENTENNIAL Seyea—The • large
el iron safe, known as the Centennial
el Safe, on exhibitiou at the Centennial,
y (contributed by Mrs. Diehm, was closed
ee on Saturday, in the statuary hall of the
e Capitol, Washington, in presence of a
large number of spectators. The safe
to is to be opened by the ruling President
a in. 1976. In addition to a voume con-
taining the autographs of prominent
d photographs of a large number of them,
to with recorded souvenirs of the Centen-
nial. The photographs of ladies are
• few in number, and those of Mrs. Grant
u.. and Mrs. Hayes.
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• Butter extol Chebse.
At the the ,annual meeting ()Me Ontario
Dairymens' Association, held last week
at Ingersoll, the opening address was
delivered by Prof. BOLO Belleville.
The address was 'practical and able, and
demit at considerable gebgth with the
dairying interests, making Special men-
tion to the manufacturing and. market-
ing of butter and cheese. Ille said. that
butter, like cheese, is one cif the solid
products of milk, and is in Universal de-
mand. by all nations. The Coneurnption
of butter is largely in exceas of that of
cheese, and. the quantitm of butter
which can be made from the milk of
the average cow, is rather loss than one-
half of tlie possible quantity of cheese
from the same amount, as it requires
from 20 to 27 pounds to make one pound
of butter, while a pound o/ cheese can
be made from about nine :and a half
pounds of milk. The market price of
each commodity bears neatly the same
proportion. Looking at the marvellous
success which has attended the factory
system of cheese-making,4 needs, in
my opinion at least, no argument to
show that if we wish our bhtter to at-
tain an equal position in the estimation
' of the consumer, the best course we can
pursue is to apply -to its production the
same means we have adopted with re-
• gard to our cheese. The great merit of
• the factory system is that it is sure to
attain at least a respectable degree of
excellence. He gave the fellowing pro-
• positions as containing the ;substance of
his address in a condensed and con-
solidated. form : i
1. That in the competitien which ex-
ists itt the produce marketabigh quality
is the property which ia most required
and most remunerative.
• 2. That Ads unprofitable, aud, there-
fore, unwise; to make inferior articles,
and especially so to export them.
3. That it would. not bel advisable to
send poor butter to England in the face
of the success of butterme lin replacing
the lower grades of butter in the fa-
vor of a large section of the English
people, as this proceeding could only
result in loss to the exporter, and detri-
ment to the character of Our national
products.
4. That under the presei t system of
making butter in farm dai, 'es in small
quantities, it is utterly inipOssible to 'ob-
tain even an approa.ch to the evenness
of quality which forms an important -
factor in the establishment 0 a nations
al reputation.
5. That the residuary matters, skim-
med milk and. buttermilk, are much
more valuable than the Whey of the
cheess factories, as they render it pos-
sible to raise the calves; thus affording
-a large additional numbeil of animals
for the live and. meat trades the feeding
Of which will not only increase the far-
mer's money profits, but fford him a
greaterquantity of manure to restore or
imeaintain the fertility of the soil ; while
the raising of pork in o r cheese fac-
tories has been deprived of 1 much of its
profits by the excessive co, petition of
pork from the Western States, in which
immense numbers of hogs are fattened
upon the cheap corn of these new and
fertile soils which are early being
brought into cultivation, i9 a continual-
ly increasing area.
6. That the trade in bUker- ' May be
increased to an almost indifinite extent;
provided only that the ar4c14 produced..
be first-class, as butterine pelmet com-
pete with the higher qualities, and is
only forniidable as a conaPetitor to the.
lower grades. 1
I-
•' For these reasons I have came to the
conclusion that the establishment of
butter factories would. be ir, most bene-
ficial enterprise, and materially aug-
ment the prosperity of tile individuals
who might promote them and of the
country at large, and 1 hoe that a few
years will see them as nurikerous and as
successful as the cheese 1 factories to
which we owe the present prosperity of
our agricultural populati n, and their
exemption from the diff.culties they
would have to endure fron exhausted
lands, failing crops, insect 1 enemies, ex-
cessive competition and loiw prices, had
they been constrained to 'confine their
enterprise to grain growing.
The plan proposed by fhe following
resolution, which was ad9pted by the
Association, if carried onit, cannot fail
to produce beneficial resUlts : It was
moved by Mr. Losee; sec nded by Mr.
Morton, " That one of the most efficient
means of promoting th lirnprovement
of the quality of cheese Would be the
employnaeat of some competent person
to visit the factories and deliver lectures
at certain places during the season of
manufacturing, and, wouild, therefore,
• strongly recommend to the directors of
this • Association the employment of
some person for such purpose, and. would.
respectfully suggest the mime of Prof.
Arnold as one erctinentlY qualified for
the performance of such uties."
a few coppers with which he bought
soup dinners, sleeping in the police sta-
tions, sheds, etc., and leading a life of
misery generally. He was condenmed
by the Recorder for vagrancy to two
weeks' hard lator in the Montreal
jail, whence he will. be sent to the
Sherbrooke Reformatory for five years,•
where he may be taught it useful trade:.
Miran Notes.
—Mr. J. Ross has sold his farm near
Rodgerville, consisting of 50 acres, for
$3,300 cash.
—On Monday of last week Robert Dur-
nion. Jr., of Brussels; while chopping in
the woods cat bis foot badly.
—Mr. F. C. Wilson, late of Bayfield,
is about to open •a drug store in the
premises of Mr. T. Jackson, Clinton.
—A sitting of the Chancery Court
will be held at Goderiela ou Monday,
April 7th, beforeVice-Chancellot Blake.
—The fees of the market weigh scales
in Clinton have been sold to Mr. Thos.
Stanbury for the sum of $160 for the
year.
—Mr. Janes Forest, an old and re-
spected resident -of Morris, is very ill.
Little hopes areteatertained of his re-
covery.
—Messrs. Boland. & McLennan have
FEBRUARY 28, 1879.
borne for themselves in this Dew cone:
try should apply to Mr. Greenway at
MCC. His knowledge of the ountzy
will serve those who go with him to
'good purpose.
—The following is the score made in
School Seetion No. 1, Turnberry, ou
,Friday, February 14th; subject, gee.
graphy : 3rd class—John Thomson,
Harry Palmer 89, Wm Iltighes
Sarah Stewart 52, John Hoopfer 52,
Snell 35. 4th class--Bertie Snell a
David Thomson 59, Wm. Knox e'ae
Maggie Stewart 44, Jane Hislop 17, sta..
bert Vogt, . ,
--The same Commissioners and Tea
specters, under the Ontario Liquor 1.4.
cense Act, as officiated last year in t
county, have been re -appointed for this
year. Should Mr. Scott's Billprobibit.
ing municipal officers actino°as tom-
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-missioners become law,Mr. L. Doyle,
Mayor of Goderich, and Mr. Thomas
Strachan,Reeve of Grey, will have to he
substituted by some other persons.
—The Blyth Review of last week sayst
•" Mr. M. A. MeNaughton has resigned
his position in the post -office and Mon-
treal telegraph -office in this town, axid.
has engaged. with Messrs. Anderson at
Elder. Mr. McNaughton will be
missed from the post he has 'filled se -
long and faithfully, but it is a gratifice,
given up. buying grain in Blyth, but • tion to know that the still .rentains
continue in the markets of .Hensall and amongst us. Messrs. Anderson:4:ft
Kippen. - • der have secured. a trainable assistant.
—Brussels hotel licenses have' been • in Mr. MeitTaughten."
put at $100.a shop licenses,- $150.. A
motion to Make hotel licenses $90 was
-voted. down.
—Mr. Alexander Campbell, of Stan-
ley, sold, last week, a two-year old ,colt,
to Mr. Harry Mason, ,of Tuekersneith,
for the :sutra of $104.
—Mr. 4. Watson, of the 8th conces-
sion, Hullett, intends giving up farm- • several songs,readings, and dialogues,
ing, and *ill engage in the purchase of which were excellently rendered. The
horses for Manitoba. •
—Messrs. Huber Brothers, of Londess
boro„ have gone intp the manufatture
of brooms, whisks, Atc., in connection
with their other business. -
—.Some evil:disposed. person has been
poisoning the dogs in Zurich •wholesale
:lately. :Some very 'valuable ..and barna-
less :animals. are -among the victims.
• —The Union Literary Assoeiation
held an open meeting in the soloed
house, Sehool Section. No. 3, Grey, en
Tuesday evening, Ilth inst., which was
very successful, and altogether au ea-
joyable time was spent.. During the
evening the members of the Association
favored the audience with a debate,
I
—During last week Mr. James Mur-
phy, of Mitchell, met with two Mishaps.
On driving up the river from St. Marys,
his horse broke through, precipitating
the occupants of the cutter into the
cold water. At Mr. Hart's Hotel, Ful-
lerton, Mr. Murphy dried himself both
inside and out. Again, on Tuesday
while corning to town flap Logan, he
met with. a similar mishap so far as his
horse going through the ice was concern-
ed, but fortunately the cutter kept above
the water.
- —The following incident, which oc-
curred in Montreal, will s;erve to illus-
trate the way iD. Willeh idestitute and
forsaken children condunt themselves
• in a large city: Samnay Young, a
bright lad .aged 11, readiily conversant
in both French and English, was ar-
raigned. before the Recorder last Faiday
morning, on the charge Of loitering in
the Grand Trunk Rail -wily Company's
yards and sheds. He had become ac-
quainted with the signalti employed by
the railway men to inOve and stop
trains, and. he had annoyed them. by de-
ception about these signals. • On the oc-
casion of his arrest, he lid signalled a
train and then dodged a4ross the track
1 immediately in front of Ilse locomotive
and. hid himself in a she. He was an
orphan, destitute, and without friends
or home. He has exist4d by begging
club is making rapid progress.
—Constable English, of Brussels, has
got a. feather in his eap. In company
with another constable, he has succeed-
ed in eapturing-Thos, Nevells, of Cleve-
land, Ohio, who is charged with shoot-
ing a policeman of that city in June,
1878, while in the discharge of Ins duty.
A reward of $50 was offeredfor Nevell's
our last issue we inadvertently arrest. He was arrested in the county _
announced the birth and death of an of Bruce on Saturday, 16th inst., and
infant, reading R. Kilpatrick. It taken to Sarnia to be estradited,
should have read R. Monteith, of Credis —On Sunday, 16th int, as Mr. Wm.
Crawford was hitching up a fine mare,
belonging to Mr. R. Monteith, Thames
Road, it took fright at the buffalo robes
Or some colts running about,. and run-
ning away it attempted ,to jump the
gate. In doing so it struckits shoelder,
bruising the top of the post, and smash-
ing the shoulder bone into many pieees.
The poor brute was mercifully killed.
She was a ,fine aniinal, and valued at
4100.
—The County Orange Lodge of North
Huron met at Dungannon on. the tth
inst., when the following officers were
elected. and installed: II: Perkins,
ton.
—Messrs. Lynch and Clennan, from
the neighborhood. of filyth, took the
London, Huron. and Bruce- on Friday,
on their way to Kansas, where they in-
tend to settle.
—Mr. R. McMurray has rented his
farm on the 10th concession of Goder-
ich township to Mr. H. Kake, for $270
per year. Mr. McMurray contemplates
returning to the county of Hastings.
—Mr. George Thomas, of Exeter,
drew from Pickard's mill to the sta-
tion, one day last Week, one hundred
bags of flour -100 pounds in each. He
said he could: have taken. a good -deal Gerrie; L. Nethery, D. Ms, Wawa
more.
—Mr. Wolper, who recently pur-
chased Mr. Hawkshaw's hotel in Blyth,
has rued Ins bargain, and. the old and.
popular proprietor will still continue to
dispense the hospitalities of his excel-
lent hotel.
—Clinton Independent 'Foresters
visited the Seaforth brethren in th.eir
Court Room on Tuesday evening of last
week. A pleasant, sociable time was
spent. The Seaforth Court visited
Mitchell last Friday evening.
—We understand that Mr. H. Wal-
lace is contemplating the starting of a
creamery, or butter factory, at Londes-
bore. Factories of this character have
done well in other places, and we do
not see why they should not succeed
there.
- son of.Mr. Angus Lamont, lot 13,
concession 7, Grey, aged two years,
fell from a high stool and broke' his Mr. Stripp, painter, of Wingham. The
thigh bone oiae day last week. Under h'ttle girl, it appears, 'was about to ebat
careful medical treatment, thel suf- the room door, when she was thrown
ferer is doing as well as could be ex- sideways on to a red-hot stove, and held
pectedthere some time by the door. When -
- —One day last week Mrs. Rowland, lifted off a large portion _ of her elatek
while going north trona Brussels lost her adhered to the stove, and one of her _
pocket -book containing a sum of money, arras was also badly burned. A apetor
which was highly esteemed as a keep- was called and dressed the little saffer-
sake. The property was returned. er's wounds. The -child was a most
throush the post office by W. Gray, beautiful one, and, in all probala—
having been found by himthis accident will disfigure her for Me.
.
—On Sunday night, 16th inst., the _On Monday evening of last week,
barn of MrFrank O'Neil, 9th comes -
fl: complimentary supper was given Mt.
gether with all his last year's crops,exand yicirnty, -
sion, East Wawanosh, was burned, ,pbreyvihoisusfriteonhdisstmBoavyahietold
cept fall wheat. His loss will be very Clinton. The spread was got up 'at the
heavy, there being but a sin -all ilisur- Commercial Hotel, in that village and
ance on the buildingswas well attended. Mr. W.W. Conner
— On the morning of the 15th bast, as acted. as chairman; the custoraary
Mr. W. McNabb was working at a tap toasts were drank, Mr. D. H. Bitehie
on the engine in Messrs. Wilson & responding to that of 4'the Navy," Capt.
Moore's bending factory, Hensall, his Jackson. to "the Army," and the chair -
foot slipped and he fell, turning the man to the " Volunteers," ands.,ntanber
valve in his fall. The escaping steam of other gentleman to various other
scalded the right side of his face rather toasts. A pleasant time was spent, and
nosh; Win. Wilson, Chaplain, Manches-
ter; Capt. W. Mallough„ Secretary,
Dungannon, W. Magill, Treasurer,
East Wawanosh; J. Gibson., D. of Ca
West, Wawanosh; A Davidson,. L
Wingham. Next meeting of County
Lodge will be held. in Blyth on first
Tuesday of February; 1880.
—On. Wednesday evening of last week
the annual dinner of thelfullett Branch
Agricultural Society was held at th.e-
Comm.ercial Hotel, Clinton, and was
well attended. The supper was got up
hi first-class style, after partaking of
which the asual toasts were responded
to, some of the speakers making some •
good. points in their remarks. Singing.
interspersed. the proceedings, and the
company broke up at an early hour,
having spent a very pleasant time.
—The other evening a very painful
accideat befel a three year oid child of
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—A writ of attachment has been is- night.
sued against the goods and. chattels of
—Two young gentlemen who reside
Messrs. Nation & Whitehead, mer- in Exeter are ardent lovers of the Terp-
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chants, of Blyth, and their store has siohorean art, and in order to indulge .
been closed. The difficulties of this en- in. their favorite amusement thewent
terprising firm were precipitated by to Hensel' to attend the quadrille as -
the failure of a couple of large firms in Senably in that little town last There -
Montreal.
. day evening.. After the party had
—Mr. Hugh Grant, of Portage La broken up these two gentlemen. started
Prairie, was in Wingham. last week, home at an early hour. They had not
visiting Dr. Macdonald, his brother -in- gone far before both were sound asIeePt
law. rfie proceeds to Ottawa to con- and when they awoke their horse was
sult with the Government in reference off the road, the cutter bottom aide larl
to some land questions in the North -
with one of the boys underneath. The
West. Mr. Grant is an extensive laud other was several yards behind hunting
for his cap and wondering if there lua
owner there, he having upwards of two
thousand acresbeen an earthquake. After they had
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—On Monday of last week the roof of got everything in ship shape, they start -
the house on Princess street, in Brass ed. on opain and reached honie abouta:
sels, owned byMr. Oscar Boynton, -was well, before daylight.
discovered to be on fire. Messrs. j.. —One evening last week, a person
Angus and A. Thomson got on the who had inabibeda little too freely of
roof and: subdued the flames. The lack a tangle kg" was put to bed in one of the
of a brick chimney was the cause.
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hotels in Clinton. Soon after, peraons
The stovepipe passed. throug.h the roofaround the hotel were surprised to see.
—Messrs. Snaith Brothers, late of the the man come running out in his bare ,
Brussels Planing Mill, are about to re- feet, and with no other clothing on,aian .
move to Chesley, where they have put- a pair of drawers and undershirt, and.
chased. a planing mill. Brussels loses going, as if for dear life, up the street
and Chesley gains two men who, by and out towards the base line. Parties
their gentlemanly and. business -like at once followed him, but never caught
manner, have made for themselves a sight of him till they got out to the
host of friends during their residence in tank on the railroad, about a mile and
th_e frinsheorrttime
a half from the starting point, wherehe
A. c% ago
a man in Morris was found nursing his feet. Had he
was ,taken ill, and sent to a neighbor's not been attended to at once he woulil
for some salts. By mistake the neigh- undoubtedly nave been frozen to death
bor handed a paper containing powder- as the night was bitterly cold.
ed. saltpetre, and the sick man got a —One evening last week, Mr. W.
dose that nearly killed him. The les- Perdue, of the Bayfield. Concession,
drugs or chemicals should be card
son to be learned is that packages of Gode
11-11Y left his team in charge of a youth
rich Township,,=. while in Clinton.
labelled before being put by after use. named Richard Watson, enjoining hire
—We understand that during the
next month Mr. T. Greenway purposes
starting from Centralia with a party of
about sixty for the Northwest. They
will be followed by others during the
suranier. Those desirous of makin a
to be exceedingly -careful with them•
but disregarding the caution, he care-
lessly left them standing alone io 'CEO
neighborhood of Trick's mill; in s
moment the team started off, and wonb
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