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The Huron Expositor, 1882-12-01, Page 44 a THE HURON ZXPOSITO NEW ADVEBTISEMENTS. IISr'The figure between the parenthesis after eaehline, denotes the page of the paper on which the advertisement will be found. Central Grocery -Laidlaw & Fairley. (5) Cheap Goods -E. McFaul. ( 1 ) Xmas Presents-Lninsden & Wilson. (5) Drugs -C. Dancan. (E) Groceries -T. Kidd. (5) New Store -E. J. Hill. (5) Winthrop Cheese Factery Meeting. (5) Teaohera Wanted-e-Robt, Paterson. (5) Farm for Sale -David Pollock. (5) Farm to Rent -R. Turner. (5) Walton Cheese Factory Meeting. (5) Estray Heifer -G. E. Cresswell. (5) Estray Cattle-,Saxauel Harris. (5) Pigs for Service -dohn Stanbury. (5) Berhshire Pig Michael Heffernan. (5) Betray Steer-Sarnuel Carnochan Jr..(5) Legal Card-Kenciedy & Coldwell. (8) Girl Wanted -A. G. Aalt. (8) Xmas Goods -Laidlaw & Fairley. (8) ' Wood Wanted -EXPOSITOR Mee. (8) Holiday,Discount- Scott Bros (8) Crockery Ware -Laidlaw & Fairley. (8) Meghart Institute Meeting. (8) - Boy-Wa.nted--Exposrroa Office. (8) Poultry Wanted. -Laidlaw & Fairley.(8) Dressed Meat Wanted -E. Cash. (5) Cheap Groceries -M. Morrison. (8) 411V011 xpeoitor. SEdEORTH, FRIDAY, Dec. 1,18:82. lating of the liquor traffic into' the hands of the Local Legislatures. One general law passed by the Dominion Parlia- ment wouldnotoperate nearly so satis- factorily, nor yet so beneficially as the Joni laws which are passedby the Local 'Legislatures. The habits and sympa- dis- u im- 1 law thies_ of the people are similar that it wauld be possibility to frame ene gener that would work smoothly and properly in all the Provinces. A law that would be only properly strict for ofie province, might be needlessly sa for another, and as a result would be `disregarded, and would consequently be worse than no law at all, and vide versa. Until the time comes, therefore, when the traffic can be entirely abolished, it is much better to leave ite regulation in the hands of the Local Legislatures] If they do not pass laws to suit the people, and administer those they do pass properly, we can turn them out and put in others who will give as what we want; but let the Dominion Government tah-ke the management of the machine, and we will have to be content with what the other provinces choose to give us, whether it suits our circumstances or The Liquor License Question. Some time ago it was stated on the authority of the Toronto Globe that a deputation from the Licensed Victual- lers waited upon Sir John Macdonald at Ottawa to ascertain whether or not A is , the intention of the Dominion Government to make an attempt to brMg the licensing and regulating of the liquor traffic under the control of the Dona:Mien Parliament, and if so to impress upon the leader of the Domin- ion the desirability of having the new law so framed as to permit licensed hotels and saloous to keep open on Saturday night. It was also stated that Sir John promised to meet the views of th.e deputation on this point. The gentlemen who composed the deputation have since pnblicly denied that they requestedor that Sir John promised any relaxment of the law as it now stands in reference to the Saturday nightbusiness and Sir John has also made a similar denial over his own signature. The Globe, however, has reiterated ita statement, and says that the authenticity of • its reports was only denied when it was found that the proposed ahange would be ex- ceediagly unpopular iu the country, so ranch se that no Government dare make A. Which of the parties is telling the truth A is not for us to say nor does it now roake any material difference. What is vastly more important has been learned, viz., that public sentiment is so determinedly and unanimously op- posed to any retrograde movement such aa that alluded to, that there is no dan- ger of anythiatg of the kind being at- tempted. no M4 -ter in whose hands the regulation of the traffic may ultimately rest. Another important fact has also been learned. The deputation admit that Sir John intimated his firm determina- tion to have gut legislation passed at the first session of the Dominion Par- liament as will bring under the control of that Parliament the licensing and regulating of the liquor traffic. Sir John bases his justification for this pro- posed assumption of power upon the decision of the Privy Council declaring the Scott Act legal and within the power of the Dominion Parliament to enact and enforce it, as he claims that the authority which possesaes the power to prohibit must also possess the power to regulate by license or otherwise. It would seem, however, that in this, as in some other matters, Sir John is assuming greater powers for the Dominion Parliament and Govern- ment than the constitution grants them. The regulation of the liquor alloWance. It is difficult to understand traffic has rested with the Provincial Legislatures ever since Confederation, and it is passing strange that if Sir John's contention is correct, it has taken fifteen years to discover that these Legislatures were exercising important funotions unconstitutionally:, Besides this the wording of the British North America, Act is very plain and unmis- takable. Sub -section 9, of Section 92 of that Act, reads as follows: "In each *Province theLegislature may exclu- "sively make laws in relation to shop, "saloon, tavern, auctioneer and other "licenees, in order to the raising of a itreventie for Provincial, local or muni- "cipal purposes." As this provision cannot be altered without the consent of the Imperial ParliarnenA, we do not see how the Dominion Premier is going to carry out his threat. No doubt he can have a licensing sot paBSed by his Parliament, but that will not deprive the Provincial Legislatures of the power whit they are given by the constitution. The vetoing power will not work in this instance, because the Provincial laws have been passed and assented to. If the Dominion sot is passed there Will be raconflict of authority and stinking trouble, as the Local Legislatures will not yield unless they are forced to it. It is to be hoped, however, that Sir John -will permit wiser counsels to prevail, and that he will be satisfied with the power he now possesses, and cease he.ukering after that whicb does not belongto him. It is a wise provision in our constitution which gives the regu- not. MIIIIHMISIMMO0012111100 The First Warning Notes. It is the opinion of many keen ob- servers of the times that we are again commencing to enter upon another period of cOmmercial depression and financial stringency. Circumstances seem to indicate that these fears are well founded. The bank discounts in this country are very much larger than they have been for veal s at this season; money is becoming tighter and dearer, and the Manufacturers in many branches are complaining of being over- stocked, and as a aatural result com- mercial failures and suspensions are becoming once Mgr° somewhat too prevalent to be comfortable. Pretty much the same state of things exist, only we believe to a greater extent both in the United States and England. The following is the recerd of one day in one single departmenaddis taken from the telegraphic despatches: The Katatdin iron Company, of Bangor, Maine, . has suspended. Its unsecured debts amount to $90,000. - The Edgar Thomson Steel Company, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, has deoided to reduce wages on January lea -The Lackawanna Iron and Coal Company, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, announce their suspension on December lst. The reduction of wages will be 15 per cent. instead of 10. -Owing to the depression in the Iron trade,werk has ceased in the puddling departmept of the Allentown, Pennsylvania, rollipg mill. Two hun- dred men are out. Almost daily announcements similar to the above appear concerning other branches of trade and in other parts. It might be well Jot those who wish to weather the threatened storm to com- mence judicious preparation in time. It will do no harm to pull down sail a bit if there is too much breeze on, and put tha ship in good storm order. The last depression conanaenced with just suoh ominous 'announcements as the above, and appearances are very decep- tive if the next is very far off. We in Canada, however, will have good warn- ing. These periodical commercial cyclones are always felt pretty keenly both in the United States and the (Ail world before we know much about them from personal experience here. However, it is always best to be prepar- ed to meet such troubles when they come, although it is not wisdom to try and meet them half way. were also endeavoring to secure • con- trolling interest in the Glebe, but for- tunately for the count7 they failed in their altempt. Had they succeeded there hi no doubt but the Globe, instead of being the sturdy advocate and defen- der of the people's rights which it ziow would be found' working shoul- der to sho lder with the Herald, e,ndeavbring to fag -ten the ma,naoleg of monopoly All more firmly upon the people that they might bleed all the, naore profthiely for the benefit of their masters, the Syndicate. AN esteemed Seaforth contemporary labors to prove that ' the Federal au- thori4s o n only disallow statutes whichuare u tra vire, q the Local L gis- ; latUre. Ou conteropprary will s rely not dery that a Local Legislathre can page sobill authorizing the construetion af ii.; bk.:Igo acroas adtiver. If it is true that the Dominion ,iauthorities cannot vetq le isla on which is not idtra pires 1 i of theli egis atnre, why did Mr. Blake disallow the Manitoba bill providing for theiconstruetion of a liridge across ' the r Assini, °bre -Mail. If t1,is is he best argument our ' con- ternpa1tary can advance in support of its position, it had better give up the con- troversy an "come over and help us" to ma ntiain Provincial Rights intact from Fe eral int rference. We have no re - cone° ion o the particular measure re- ferifed to, a d copse uently in the ab- sence of a nowled e of the circum- stances athinding th alleged disallow- ance, we c not. Ea whether it was. justifiable r not. We do, however, say most uhesitatingly, that if Mr. , Blake disallowed a Measure passed by thri Manitoba, or an other Legislature, Yi which did not intehere with the righte of the Dominion, and which the consti- tutioo places within its provincethen he did wrong. But the fact that neither the Mail, nor yet the people of Manitoba, any ault with Mr. Blake's con - of it,is the very, best e that the cases iri llel, and that the bill ij found the how completely wrecked, his wife and children insensible and horribly mangled. A boy aged five was dead, s.nd . Mrs. For- syth, who sat nearest the stove, was gashed and bruised, presenting the ap- pearance of a person riddled with buck - Shot. Death is inevitable. Forsyth is nearly crazy and attempted suicide. THE Uerrox PACIFIC. -The Directors of the Union Pacifiol Railroad say the earnings of the current year, partly estimated, show a an plus of $4,500,000. The floating debt of I$2,700,000 will be extinguished by p acing $3,000,000 collateral trust ix) ds already nego- tiated. RAILWAY DISASTER found dt?t prof pout specified b our coptemporary does not eta, with n the range of such measures as we point • ed out• hould not be disal- ' SOME of the Conservative papers whit defend the action of the Dominion Government in dieallowing the Mani- toba Railway' charters, are rejoicipg over the fact that the Montreal Herald, a confessedly Reform paper, also at- tempts to defend and justify tihe dis- _ r comPlaine we + addu are hot par lowed. N ws of the 'Week. FAILING HEALTII.—The health of the glet Hon. Hugti C. Childers, War cretary s broken down, and he has b en ordered to go abroad. WESTEITS CATTLE COMING TO MARKET. -Montana cattle are arriving at St. Paul in bit, herds by rail, and all destin,- ed for the Chioagq market. why the course cd any journal or in- dividual on a particular matter should be put forward 'in justification of 1 & wrong principle,encept on the theorythat that principle cappot be supported by argumenteand the defenders of it are ready to grasp at any straw which is likely to assist in covering up the we k - nese of their position. The fact of t Herald, a Reform paper, defending e disallowance, dges not justify it or prove it right. Meagre. Stephen, Angus and McIntyre, the leading rnemberci of the Pacific Railway Syndicate, all claim to be Reformers, and yet it was at their instance that the Manitoba Railway charters were dieallowed, and the con- stitutional rights of that Province trampled upon by the Federal autheri- ties. The couree of the Herald ' in this matter is net at all mysterious to those who underiatand the true position of affairs, but or the contrary praves the very great danger of placing too much power in the hands of wealthy speculating corporations. It is a well- known fact that the Herald is lately controlled and influenced by oer ain• individual members of the Syndicate, and it dare not oppose the desireil of that corporatican no matter how inimi- cal they may be to the interests of the country. In the light of these facts the course of the Herald will not be a f3ur- . prise to any one, and its utterances on Pacific Railway matters will have their proper weight. At the time that these gentlemen secured an interest in the Eferald, it was rumored that they IN SCOTLAIRD• - The train on the North Scotland rail- way, which left Macruff at 4, o'clock Monday afternoon, fell through the bridge at Fyrre, Aberdeenshire. Four- teen persons were kOed and many in- jured. . The engine riresed ever safely, but all the carriages:here wrecked. DEATH8.—GeneraW5milt00 N. Eld- ridge, a distinguished soldier and. law- yer, died Monday morning at Chicago, aged 49. --Rev. Philip Astrabel, of the Lutheran Church, ihineleeck, died on Sunday, aged 80. N. F. Whiting, financial editor of tl4e New York Even- ing Post, died Monday morning, aged 42. A TEMPERANCE L CITIIII,E.--John iTo- bin, ex -President of the Hudson River Railway, formerly a millionaire and a power in Wall Stree , was arrested in itin New York on Se, urday for drunken- ness, and was discharged with a repri- mand. He lost Ithe we lth between 1866 and 1869, and 6ver s nee he has been a hard drinker: MAIL ROBBERIES.:$',', -The Denver and ea.sternds cities, New York, Clevela and been eystematicallterobbe authorities c I ai mac'd hay trouble east of th tissou losses in valuabl s and hardly be estimated, but drafts, bills of eitehang money orders aggregate 5 ILLNESS OF THE DUKE 0 -The Duke of Edinburg with a serious attack Thursday night, of last Coenerribe Horseass.-The condition of the Archbishop_ of Canterbory is declared hopeless Elie physiciaes are uhited in the opinion that there' is no pessibility of his recovery. I SUEING A.Yourio Lartr.-At Ne W York 5atarday,1 Raeffelo Dirago recovered a verdict for $1,0001 ags.inst Miss Fanny Roby for breach i of promise, of I mar- riage. i A' STEAMER WRECKED. -The steamer `Tinton with grain from the Black Sea, ill fon dered off thelIsland of Ushant, ou the coast:of France. Thirty persons were drowned. 1 Ti!) VISIT A.MERICA.—Mr. Dillon, will go to America shortly to make a length- ened sojotirp with his brother in'Color- iliththe Commons before departing. e! He iosists ion resigning his seat 1 THE FILLSE PRF F -HET. -The Porte has decided to send troops to South Arabia, here secret agents of the false prophet 3' re trying to incite a revolt, ENTERPRTSE.-Ten new refrigerator cars are in use on the Northern Pacific for onVeying fruits and other perishable property to Montana, and return with reesed heed, that business having been already &tatted. EnTREHE PENALTY. — Rey. H. Woodruff, of Baltimore, pleaded guilty to opening a letter addressed to another Person;with the intent to obstruct cor- respondence. He was fined $250, and !ailing to pay it was jailed. , DEATH OF MASONIC MORGAN'S WIDOW. -Mrs. Jelin Smith,ds,ughter of Morgan alleged to have been killed by the I masons in 1836, died at Portland, Ore- igon on the 20th ult. She retailed to throw alp, light on the Subject. ALLAN 'STEAMER LIBELLED.—T4e Allan line steatner Phcenician has been libelled by the; owners of the Gloucester steamer la._ M. Todd in 55,000 damages received; by the Todd' by being 'crushed at the Grand Junction wharfion Sep- tember 7th. • ' Amwats IN Trionsag.-The Imperial Governineut has been officially:notified that great distress is anticipated in Ire- land during the coming winter. Owing to the falling off in the contributions from America many farmers have been unable to purchase new seed. A. DUBLIN DETECTIVE SHOT. --A de- teative was shot in Dublin on Saturday night in company with other officers watching men gapposed to be Fenians. One of his assailants was shot by a brother officer and several others cap- tured. Poeta AMY Tuinkeulair.-The attempt to enforce the law against polygamy in Salt Lake City has failed. Two Mor- mons got on the Grand Jury and only three indio tm e ts! were secured out of the twepty leases presented. Those pereons against, whom 'indictments were found _ were warned aid 'absconded. ails between particularly uffalo, have L. The postal located the i river. The currency eau the losses in and postal 00,000. _ feet. Fortunately, for his bones, there were over five feet of water in it at the time. nailed Vrindl EDINBURGH: , was seized of illness- on eek, entrain- A number of the neighbors were in, and with the assistance of a as they raised him to terrafirma. e was thoroughly chilled by his two ours'lliath in cold water, but otherwise sweep -T Ville, the B Injury. e Messrs. Gcettlem Of Sebring - ave juet put up a wind pump at s,ck Creek, to pump water to their mill, their nsual supply having given out, o acconnt of the long continued dry w ather.1 r. John Edwards has sold his f 100 acres, on the boundary be - Ellice and Mornington, to Doerr, of North Easthope, for . .Mr. Edwards intends removing itoba in the spring. r. D. j. Mungovan, of North East - ho has for some time past edited rangeville Sun, has, through an on of the eyes, become blind. He e a young man, which makes his .fliction all the more distressing. -Mr. Alex. Brown, of Downie, has tted a claim of 512 to the Strat- own Council for sheep killed by Another man asks for indemnity LO ravages of sparrows, which, he estroyed ten bushels of hie grain. ' arm ween Mr.0 $4,60 to Ma _ - hope, the affect is qui sad a ating in a cold of the soy rest descrip- tion, attended, by verir high fever. His physicians remained with him all night and. the Duchess never left the room. , BILL FOR PRIVATE E ., consequence of the receu at the public execution i the Dauish Government a bill in- the Legislature the Use of the guillotine be private and within tib RAILWAY MATTERS—T Michigan Railway car' shops were d.estroyed LOSS, 550,000. -The e Chicago, Milwaukee an the second week in November were 5475,000; increase, $11,000. -In' the last three months the Northern Pacific Land Depaxtmen't has sold land in the , Eastern divisiop ialued t 51,000,000.d THE OIL GAMIONC t AiE.-The ex- citement on the!' Oil E. change, at Oil City, Pennsylvania, -on Friday last, Wag tremendous. Among the losers were many laborers, mechanics, clerks, and boys, and even women and. shop-girle who were carrying thousands of barrels or more on small margins with the sav- ings of years. Men, who had lost all, were seen with blanched faces, and Bev1 eral women were crying.bitterly. terrible suene Copenhagen, as introduced_ providing that shall hereafter walls of jails. e Muskegon, and machine by fire lately., rnings of the, St. Paul for subm. ford dogs. for t says, tng a singl him striki of his hurt &MU ity Russia. -There is very great concern at St. Petersburg in consequence of the alarming increase in mortality from epi- demic diseases, especially diphtheria. The recent visit to St. Petersburg of the Emperor' and Empress was attended with extraordinary precautions. Police were posted every six yards, Dvorniks were massed at the corner of each street, and soldiers were drawn up out- side of the barracks. ColicruicnIG EGYPT.—The trial of Arabi has again ibeen postponed, with the consent of the President of the Court. A ver$ uneasy feeling is begin- ning to prevail. Itis announced that soon the question of the joint control 'will be brought to a, 1 satisfactory settlement, compatible with the interests cif France and Englandi t Tnuitiow WRED.-Thurlow Weed, the great Amirican politiciaa died in New York, on late 22nd ult. He was surrounded at death by his children, grandchildren,' physicians, nurses, and attaches of the household. A DentEgare TRAGZDY.—One Forsythe, a coal miner of Belleville,Pennsylvanis, took several sticks of dynamite home for the purpose of fishing. Not know- ing its dangerquel qualities he placed it in the kitchen it0; thaw out. His wife and three children sat down to dinner. In fifteen minntes Forsythe was startled by a load report. Hurrying home he MOW 13 Mr. Ross,of Downie,was open - ate for the passage of a horse and a buggy. the gate iu its recoil threw efore the animal, and the shaft g him in the back detached one ribs from the spinal column. The s a very painful one. etty thieving seems to go on d Trowbridge with great tranquil- -A few nights ago, some rascals stole fifteen turkeys from Mr. Bell, and sewed from Mr. Rowel. The same night there was also some wood stolen from anada Methodist Church. The ency must be very great when are to steal church wood I great number of new buildings contemplation for next season in Wahlitce Township. This is certainly an i farm ing Dani tirel ston prep the emer they are of June. He sowed 350 acres of oats, 20 acres of wheat, and the balance in roota and other crops. He eommenced to sow on the 5th of May this year, and com- menced to cut his wheat on the 26th of August, the season being late. At the date of writing, Oat. llth, he had threshed 14,000 bushels of oats, and finds the yield 58 bushels per acre. The wheat would yield 30 bushels per acre. The remainder of the letter gives infor- mation as to the demand for labor, wages, etc. The writer expresses his conviction that there is no difficulty in a man farming here if he has ordinary energy and ability. He estimates in his own case that he will have his entire expenditure returned with 100 per cent by the first crop. -The Winnipeg Free Press, of the 23rd ult.. says: There was a rush to the Canada Pacific Railway Land Bu- reau yesterday to attend the great sale of Southern Manitoba lands. As.early as 9 o'clock in the mornirig the ap- proaches to the office were filled with eager crowds anxious to purchase the lands offered for sale in the district mentioned. The Company has placed on the market, free of settlement and cultivation duties, all the odd numbered sections allotted to them under their contract, west of Red River, between the twenty-four mile limit on the main line and the international boundary as far as the western boundary of the old Province, and. west of this boundary, between the main line belt and the line between the north and south halves of township 5, that is at a distance Of twenty.one miles from the international boundary, extending west to the longi- tude of Moose Jew, comprising 2,500,000 acres. The buyers embraced all classes of the community, from the ayaricious speculator down to the peasant farmer. There was a large sprinkling of intends ing bona fide settlers, who invested their aurnmer's earnings in what they hope to make a comfortable hotne for the selves and their farcdlies. Several sec- tions were purchased in some instances, but the average purchase was a half sec- tion. The result of the day's sales were summed up at night, when it was foubd that 7,840 acres in all were disposed of at a price averaging $6.50 per acre. The total receipts from the sales amounted to W,040. dication of prosperty among the re. •Mr. Wm. Follis intends erect - magnificent brick mansion. Mr. I Detweiller is having his barn en - remodelled and placed upon a basement. Mr. John Rupple is -ring to build a large bank barn, and several others are following up. -Ir. Samuel Huston, one of the first settlore of Blanshard, died on Friday, the 1I7th ult., at the age of 68. He has beenl suffering from a lingering disease for t last from e last twenty years, and was at arried off. He came to Blanshard, the Emerald Isle, when buta mere boy, and assisted in clearing a farm on the IIitcheJ1 Road, on which Mr. A. M. Driv r now lives, and afterwards re- d to third line, where he has re- , ever since. As, a pioneer, who d the hardships incidental to life ensely wooded country, he deserves mov Bide( bray in a to bat remembered in his death. He has left a. large family comfortably provided he other morning, in getting up to thresh for Mr. Thomas Jaok- near Trowbridge, the fireman &i- d that there was something wroug the boiler. This every moment e more certain, and he blew off steam, just in time to save the e apparatus from being blown up. s found on examintion that it was no longer eafe to run it. The engine has only beeu used a very short time, and evid of t lute 1)EcEmBERI, 1882. for. stea son, eery with beca the who It sv Perth Items. The Fisk Jubilee Singers appear in Mitchell on the 26th inst. -Mr. Robt. Fuller, of Logan, lately purchased four splendid Cotswold ewes at the Model Farm, Glielph. --Mr. James Tuffts has erected a fine brick residence in Kirkion. His park lot, in which the building is situated con- siets of four acres. -Fullarton Council have made ap- plication to the County of Middlesex to have , two or three indigents admitted into their House of Refuge. -Out of 60 head of cattle and 350 sheep, -which Mr. Robert Jones, of Lo- gan, took to Liverpool, only three of the latter died on the passage. -Mr. David Dow, of Hibbert, ha' s purchased' Mr. Alexander Melville's beautiful farm of 145 acres, the ptir- chase money being $8,500. -Grand Trunk men say that the St. Marys merchants are the best served with regard to cars of any town mer- chants along the line. -Mr. Wm. Anise'', of the 14th cdn-- cession of Hibbert, has disposed of _his farrn of 100 ,aotee to Mr. Rundle, of Pickering, for the sum of $8,000. -Rev. J. K. Hislop, of Avonton, who has been confined to his room for neatly two weeks, is recovering, and expeets shortly to resume his usual ministerial avocations. -The Ahonbank Farmers' Club this week opened their winter session by dis- cussing the subject "The Winter Care of Stock.". The subject is an interesting one to the craft. -One day lately, no fewer than nine through express trains, all heavily loaded, passed through Stratford going west. This is the largest number ever known in the same space of time. -A young man, named Charles, F. Roe,belonging to Elma,, died on the 20th ult. in Toronto, where he was studying for a profession. The body was brought home to Elma for burial. -As Mrs. G. Murray, of StratfOrd, was proceeding home from Knox church, on Sunday evening of last week, she slipped and fell on the sidewalk, near the old bridge, and broke her arm. -Mr. Thomas Coppin has parchased from Mr. Davidson the Hornibrook property in Logan. The farm contains 100 acres, and the soil is good and vell improved. -Mr. Thos. Young, carriage manu- facturer, of Listowel, shipped last week about seventy sleighs, with an equal number of neckyokes and whippletrees, for Manitoba. 1 -A few days agO, a two-year old colt, belonging to Mr. Oliver Smith, of Avon - ton, attempted to cross a_ well, the hov- ering of which Was badly decayed. .His eoltship was instantly precipitated to the bottom, a distance of twenty-seven ntly the boiler was not constructed e proper material. Mr. Stockford cis to have it examined by the en- gine r of the locomotive works, Strat- ford neve will and if A can be proved that it was ✓ safe to be run, the manufacturers doubtless be the losers, and not Mr. Stodislord. aaaaaa.aaaaaa. exceedingly high, for we find. that the six principal f all wheat-growg States only Inal4e the following averages: Ohio, sixteen bushels to the sore; Michigan, seventeen; Indiana, fifteen; Illinois, Sixteen; Missouri, fourteen - 1" --"Alli' tgthntee tlinerecentil municipal elections' in Scotlaud women voted for the first time. We do not read that any special affliction has fallen upon Scotland in consequetice of this, and it is altogether probable4hat the world would go on just as s oothly if women were allowed to vote everywhere. In fact, the net result might be a better class of repre- sentative.hRi sAei lad on Saturday, tinder circum - i -11 named Genereux met with while hunting in the Gatin- e stances Which call forth the severest condemnation of the crimnal careless - trees which brought about his death. He had. entered the woods hunting for deer, and ran against a gun -trap which had been set by another hunteacontrary to law, discharging the gun with fatal res-utttis s. i . stated that a deputation con- sisting of Messrs. W. R. Meredith; Q, C., M. P. P., A. Boultbee, j. B. Plumb, and C. W. Bunting, held a conference with SirJohn A. Macdonald at Ottawa the other day, upon the political -situa- tion in Ontario. The three last named gentlemen composing the deputation have an eye upon Senators' chairs, but it is believed that Sir John and Mr. Meredith want them to try their luck for seats in the Legislature before re- tiring -The hiloPriptei er sCaht am beDublinron tir-inTghtoe Wed- nesday decided to proclaim the city under the Curfew section of the Re- pression Act, which authorizes the police to arrest any suspected person found cm the streets between an hour after sunset and an hour before sunrise. It was also resolved. to offer a reward of five thausancl pounds for information leading to the appreheusion and COUVie- tion a the assailants pf the juryman. Field, With the usual premise of pardon and protection to the informer. -In the Supreme Court on Tuesday a deciskon was rendered. in favor of the appellant in the celebrated case of Mc- Laren I vs. Cold -well. The decision of the court was unanimous. The sub- stance lot the court's decision was that the streams iu question were in the state of nature non floatable, and. -could not have been made use of for the pur- pose of navigating saw logs and. timber down 1t3 market during the spring, summer and fall freshets, and that McLaren having made these improve- ments iso as to enable saw logs and lumbei to be taken down if the defentnt desired to make use of such improt ement, conapeusation ehould at least have been made to McLaren. Manitoba Notes. • The machinery for a new grist -mill at Birtle has reached that point, and is to be put in operation as soon as pos. sible. The Rev. Mr. McKellar, of High Bluff, has taken up his residence in the new manse, which has been erected in connection with his church. -eddr. P. L. Knappen, lately of the Knappen Idolise, Winnipeg, which was destroyed by fire last winter, has as- sumed control of the Grand Union, in Wirinipeg. --Mr. S. Philips, B.A., of Elora, On. taria, has been appointed head master Of the collegiate department of the Por- tagi la Prairie school, which will be ope ed on the lst of January next - +To give an idea of the food -consum- ing capacity of the city of Winnipeg, it ma' be mehtioned that during fine days the importation of poultry by a single dea er amounted to over five thousand poupds. The birds were shipped from St. Paul. -I-Messrs. Bell and Nash, the delegates whe recently went to Ottawa on muni- cipal business for Emerson, have put a claim against the corporation for $250 each for expenses. The International seats that unless the amount is paid an .action will be entered to recover. -1--The Emerson International says: Our friends the Mennonites are giving good proof that they truly appreciate the privileges andother blessings of this greet and glorious country. There are already some 250 actions against them, entered for the next County Court, moStly hy machine men and others, who have supplied them with the agri- cultural essentials; and. we are told that many of their villages are so hope- lesely involved. that they will never be able to pay their debts. 1 --The reporter of the Winnipeg Free Press recently enjoyed a pleasant treat in listening, by means of a telephone, to a parlor concert being held at the resi• deice of Mr. Henry Foote, Portage la Prairie., The transmitter at the Portage end of the Great Northweetern Tele- graph Wire was in the parlor, and the telephone at this end was in the tele- graph office. Each piece sung could be diitinotly heard, and even the piano am companiment. The choruses, in which a number of voices joined, formed an agreeable melody as heard through the telephone. "God Save the Queen" was heard as audibly its if sung in an adjoin- ing room, although the distance inter- vening is some 65 miles. a-, A letter to Mr. Thomas Connolly, from Mr. Charles Whitehead, of Bran- don, is published in the Dublin Daily Express, of the 1st inst.'as being from. an experienced settler in Manitoba, and 8.9 containing information which may be useful to intending emigrants. The letter states that the writer has located on a farm of 640 acres, two and a half m eouth of Brandon, 400 acres of it he has had under cultivation this son, He arrived at the town site of .andon on the 28th of May, 1881, and coinmenced to break his land on the 5th Latest. News Notes. , , -The dissolution of the Manitoba Legislature was proclaimed yesterday. The nominations are to take place on the 16th of Januarf, and the elections on the 23rd of the same month. _ -Gerry Brothers, of London tovbri- ship, have imported eighty-one head, of Polled Angus cattle from Scottish herds. -Arabi's trial has been fixed for the 7th inst. Arabi has written a vigorbus article to the Itiineteenth Century, de- fending his action in connection with the rebellion. -The senteiace passed. upon fifteen Boston aldermen and ex-alderaien, con- demning them to imprisonment- for over-riding the mayor's veto, has been confirmed by the upper court. -Mr. Gladstone stated in the House of Commons Wednesday that the total cost of the Egyptian war, including the transportation of the troops homewards, would be about three and a half mil. lion pounds. -Two mail bags containing Prince Bismarck's official correspondence have been stolen while on their way to Berlin. It is stated that they contained no documents of importance, but that is as it may turn out. -The remains of the late Biehop Crinnon arrived at Hamilton on Thurs. doy, and the obsequies was to take place on Friday morning. .-All the persons arrested., in connec- tion with the murder of Detective Cox in Dublin have been discharged, with the exception of two,' Poole and Divine. -Itis now stated that Her Royal Highness Princess Louise will spend the winter in British Columbia, and that the Governor-General will not return to Ottawa until the middle of January. -At Albany, on Wednesday, the State Attorney -General announced his decision to grant permission to Jay Gould and others to commence an ac- tion to vacate the charter of the Mutual Union Telegraph Company. -Mr. Mousseau, the Quebec Premier, intends reducing the expenditure of the departments of the Quebec Govern- ment at the forthcoming session. It is stated that the reduction, 0.8 com- pared with last year, will be at least 50 per. cent. -Sir Hector Langevin will be feted next month by the merchants' clerks of Montreal connected with the early closing movements. A banquet at the Windsor said an amateur theatrical performance will form the programme. -Corporal Blucher, an American citizen, and lenial descendant of the Waterloo general, has been offered a staff appointment by Baker Pasha in the reorganization of the army in Egypt. -Earl Granville has directed the gun -vessel Sea -bird, to proceed to Ma- dagascar to protect British interests there, and to obtain information re- garding the proceedings of the French representatives. -It was reported in Montreal that the Canadian Pacific Railway directors have requested the corporation to allow them to bring the depot to Jacques Car- tier square, which is much nearer to the centre of the city than the location on Bonsecours street. -Twenty miles of the Winnipeg and Hudson Bay Railway. from Norway House have been located, and it is ex- pected that three hundred miles will be located by next August, which will en- able the Company to commence the work of construction by June, 1884, -The last report of the Bureau of Industrie& corrects a misapprehension which has existed regarding the produc- tiveness of Ontario. In 1870 we had a poor crop. In 1871 the census was taken. The census dealt among other things with the produce of the province of the year before, and in the mattemof fall wheat it gave us advery low average of production -somewhere about seven- teen bushels to the acre. This report of the small wheat crop of 1870 was used against Ontario in discussions on the other Elide of the ocean regarding _emigration. The Bureau of Industries has carefully coltected information re- garding the fall wheat production of Ontario this year, and. it has establish- ed the fact that we have had on an average twenty-six bnehels per acre. This takes the "small average produc- tion argument out of the months of Ontario's opponents. In fact it shows that Ontario's fall wheat average is Huron Notes. -Mrs. D. Ruxon, of Gorrie, who has for a long time been suffering with a cancer in her breast, died at the home of some of her relatives near Milbank whom, she was visiting, on Saturday last. 'Her remains were brought to d,Caorrie on the Monday evening- train and buried on Tuesday, a large num- eber Or sympathizing friends of the stricken family attending the funeral. -11rona the annual report of the Secretary of the Clinton Canada Metho- dist Sabbath school we gather the fol- lowing statistical particulars regardine the standing of the school: Noon roll last year, 346; No. on roll this year, 357. Average attendance of scholars, 217; teach.ers, 26; officers, 4. -Total, 247. Verses recited by the girls, 14,134; verse e recited by the boys,8.100. -Total, 22,234, or an average for each Sunday of 478. -The Brussels Post is sorry to learn that J. II. Beemer, the obliging agent at Brussels station, has tendered his resignation and the same has been accerked by the Company. His term expires on the 4th of December. The name of his successor is not yet made publie. Mr. Beemer will remove his family to Exeter and he will then pro- ceed to Manitoba where he holds con- siderable property. -A few days -ago while the workmen at the Grand Trunk freight sheds at Clinton were unloading a car they came upon two young colored men. Chief Paisley was notified and. arrested them for the larceny of a ride on the railway. A. person in Brucefield had shipped several boxes of dressed poultry to Clinton, one of which was missing, and it is Supposed the prisoners know some- thing about it. -Mr. John Blake, of Goderich, and brother in-law of Sheriff Gibbons, died. last week in the 80th year of his age. He was born at Hammerstnith,London, England, and came to Canada over fifty years ago, 3ettling in Goderich. He was fora long period of his life a mem- ber of the Methodist church. He leaves behind him a widow, three sons and two daughters, one of the latter being the 'wife of Councillor Bingham. Mr. Blake at the time of his death was perhaps the oldest settler in G-oderich. --Oa Sunday evening last, while Mr, Alex. Forgie and family, of Winghara, were at church, two men went to their hone, killed thirteen hens and. chickens, put them in a bag and carried them off. i When Mr. Forgie returned he was told of the circumstance by a young girl who saw the man enter the hen -house and come out again. He immediately went in pursuit of them, and succeeded in finding the bag with the fowl in it in a shed at the back of his stable. No clumas to who the thieves are h9.-8 yet been -ascertained. -,-Mr. Richard Lees, son of Mr. An- drew Lees, of Morris, who has for general years been assistant teacher in the: Norwood High School, having re- signed ,his situation to assume the prqprietorship of the Orangeville Adver- tiser, his pupils previous to his depar- ture presented him with & highly fla tering and complimentary address ompanied by a handsome present. 1 lour young friend is as successful a i iv, spaper man as he has been a dent and teacher be will have no se to complain. Orangeville is s art town, and he has a loxge and god field to work in, and will, no doubt, succeed well, although he will flod the newspaper business a good deal harder work and more weating than his fottner profession, that is if he peg in to Make of it a success, as we are sure he will. /-One day last week as Mr. John Reid, of the tovvirship of Ashfield, wm gong home from Lucknow with a load. of ;umber and a large parcel of nails* it cotLmenced to rain when he was some di, tance from town. On looking around Wi se Bi If ne at ca 8111 DECEMBER .manixim!roriimm he perceived th.at t . and that a, quantit 'lost. He immedi farm house to g nails, and, to his fonnd on his rel wagon., lumber and ed. He at once Se ing that, hie horse On his arrival t another disappoint they had not returi steps and when he mile he found then but the nails, a, t never got. Wedneedil Week Mr. A. Hum; &Way from the gide rah furiously into t Catiapbell's hotel, , Dar. John McLat er.:dashed it corisid of -the wagon was t and dInLaughlin's but fortunately noi 1. --Mr. if. Fowell gaged as collecter_i of:Exeter, during t Sliout removing to where he has obts.i thin in an agriculte lielament. Mr. Fe irt'Exeter, has fori acquaintances, evh departure. 0: i aT- 4nah:tepueoinumot el;ti. herEttaa triail rsxci young nannan vell i 1 From Harp mere panting an feet are squeezed heel in the midddi compels her to et she tries to walk, 1 apraising the enj and American civi E:Uset Z eS V Th: Sgrat te s , i t i that respect, at which squeezes ti.J It is in both instar ception alike,of be tion of woman. the squeezed foot 1 diatortion of the autiful, and th the highest sphere, But the imperft oivilizatim shows forms involving v cuous herding of 2 loners in jails, the ( tories and peniten wOmen, and in g4 13ovide, as a mati attendants and W WI:Me-a prisoners nal illustration of , tin. The most i this abuse was the 13.422amer that the t insane hospital it bathed by male at 1'It should not /14 ttIlhero aiplirCiispelellstloaaf require that in a women should be oc women. A wii t e year to provid4 s atioas for the ei Who are arrested ' I is hard, upon tht .utto uuders tand w ,arrested may be et or vagabonds, or sick. But whatev arrest, there can vithatever, in a Munity, that a 1 such circumstam Oiled to personal tion by the kind o basinees is usuallt sign of the civilizal ie its treatment of grass of our civiliz constant =chore. But the unteason lag circumstances treatment of thei &stages over our - i The squeezed w of -the kind show lis.s not yet outgr the most mentrici in exists for the Meant to be a kin 44age(lhisliie, ants and naerti driers and ?atien ilized disr+ard o fiex. We Are fa therefore Cie pos Country is to be li in China, where ' . denied them son Savage tribes, wh not wallowing in la;,easts of hurdet it does not follov the House Beaut has climbed to ti M.OULti.,, and sea tatretchl3d f at bf 'above hilithe " Sovrs.n Blanc.' may have rRa;elifi point to gain. are women so f nOwhere ought 1 than in this coun ilon that the Ned be possible, whi and love of justi so many ba4r.....riep should press oe ever to remove t_ Fortune in . Small 1)i 44 'Who is this , thee carries risera go oov Hi !followed ,by a' blanket? I Do y ist. Fine m populate Al -crowd of ad him. He is ve benefit the oth $500." i 44 Indeeil ; h " k ran°ai bhYain sia Woislolngholamaths ist and hie seeme thinly weather,. i Do tr&i7elheBrgYeey4iaatn. h 1 * * ' hie life, but p : bei:?,, t,too, th 4‘ Oh, in n i "1 d al el