The Huron Expositor, 1885-12-04, Page 4^
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XPOSITQA
DECEMBER 4; 1885
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SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, Dec. 4, 1885.
The Voters' Lists.
The Revising Officers under the Dom -
ham, Franchise Act are now commenc-
ing the work of -preparing the voters'
.lits for next year. It therefore be-
hoves the Reformers a every munici-
pality tOr see to it that a full list of all
those entitled to vote is fernished these
-
officers at once. Any whose names are
now on the assessment rolls of the pres-
ent year wxll no doubt, be placed on the
voters,' lists, but under the new Fran-
chite Act there will be a very consider-
able number in every municipality who
are entitled to vote whose names are not
on thehissessment rolls. These are the
names that should be looked after. The.
ealls of every municipality should be
carefully examined by a deptition ap-
pointed from each, polling sub -division
in each municipality, and a list of those
eligible as -voters and whose names do
not appear on the assessment rolls should
be Made out and sent th the Revising
Officers. This should. be done at once.
There is no time to be lost, as if these
names are got an the first lists prepared
a great deal of umeecessary labor and
expense will be avoided.— Reformers,
especially, will need to attend to this
matter, personally, if they wish to be -
properly represented on the voters' lists.
Tim Revising Barristers' 'clerks,- who
vii be appointed, will be all active eon-
Servatives, and they will see to it that
every Conservative voter Win be repre-
sented, and as Reformers have no such
active officer at headquarters to look
after their interests, they must do the -
work themselves et- it will be Ieft un-
done. Ie nets now to be prepared are
• the important ones, and it will be -
by them that the fate of the respective
political parties will be decided for
tly next Perliamentary term. There
is now little doubt but a general election
win take place in this Dominion before
another year passes round, and if Re-
,
formers neglect this important duty of
having the name of every voter placed
on the lists, they will he left behind in
thyme. We would earnestly urge
upon the Reformers- of Huron to attend
to this matter at once. Meetings should
he caned in each minticipality, and corn:
mittees appointed to examine the assess-
ment retie, and then to make out a list
of every Reform elector who is net there
represented. The voters whose names
it is likely will not be found on the as-
sessment rolls, and who should be hunt-
ed up re those whowillhave the rightto
vote onsaIariesof $300, and sons downers
of real estate, other than farms, which
real estate is of sufficient value to give
$200 in towns, and ,,150 in villages and
townships, to the father and the same
amount to each of So many of the sons as
it will qualify, beginning with the eld-
est, and tenants who pay a rental of $20
per.artium. F_or nearly all of the other
classes entitled to vote, the Assessment
Rollswillbe apretty accurateguide to the
Ilevising13arrister. In many electoral di-
visions there will be a suf6 cientn um ber of
tleese voters to turn the election either one
way or the ether. The importance,
therefore, of having their names placed
on the lists will be evident to everyone.
The Revising officers, no matter how
anxious they may be to make a complete
list, have no means of ascertaining these
names miless they are furnished to them
by the parties themselves, or some others
who will interest• themselves in their
behalf. If, therefore, when the lists are
made out, Reformers find that through
neglect they are not properly represent-
ed, they will have themselves to blame,
and not the Revising Officers. Let
meetings be called at once; therefore, in
each municirality in this county and
have this matter properly attended to.
For the convenience of our readers we
append the qualifications of an elector
under the DominionFranchise ` Act.
They are as follows :
L Tenancy, $20 per annum.
2. Owner, occupant or tenant—cities
$300; towns, $200; counties, $150.
3. Sons of owners, if -value of property
sufficient to otherwise qualify.
4 Fishermen, owners of real property
and fishing appliances worth $150.
5 Income or earnings amounting to
$300.
•
Is it a Reaction ?
The friends of Prohibition in thie
Province have recently met with two
very ' decide& reverses In the first
place the Scott Act was defeated in the
city of St Catharines .by a majority of,
about eight hundred. Following closely
on this, it was defeated in the counties
of Prescott and Ruesell by a majority of
. .
over one thousand. On the strength of
thesetwo reverses, the opponents of the
Act throw up- their hats and shout - that
the reaction has set in, and that the
reign of the "Temperance .fanaties " is
at an end This mak be so, but we are
inclined to an! 'opposite opinion. We
believe that these defeatwillresult in:
stimulating the temperance party to it-
.
creased exertion.. There is no doubt but
the very indifferent manner - in Which -
the Act ts enforced in this and some
other counties where it ha ls been adopt-
ed has had a good deal to do with the• :
reverses in the counties named. This'
also should stimhulate the friend e of the,
Act to put forth renewed exertions to
secure the necessary machinery to en-
• force it. In so far as this county is
• concerned at any .rate, it is no secret
that the violation of the Act -is univer-
sal. This is not due to any faiths or
defects in the Act itself, but to the cut=
pable neglect and indifference of -those
whose duty it is to enforce its pro-
vieions. We have here in this county a
Board of Commissioners and three In-
spectors who are paid by the Govern-
ment to enforee the Act, 'tmcl they abso-
lutely refuse to take the first step in the
direction of performing the duties for
which they are so liberally paid. Their
supineness and indifference , has been
reported to the Government -time and
again„ and still no change..• All they de
is to draw their salaries and wink at
infraetions of the Act. If, therefore;
the • people wish to have the Act ob-
served, and desire to preveht the threat-
ened reaction, they, must start, at the
ottntain-head and they must force the
Goverment to appoint officialiVeho will
do their duty. If they can not muster
ufficient courage or overcome their p0 -
Weal prejudices enough to do thisethey
majt just as well throw up the sponge at
nee end go back' to the el& .sYstem as
oon as possible. The Act has within it
heelements for great good if availed of,
ut these elements i not availed of are
roductive of just se great evils. The
attle has yet to be fought at the foun-
tain -head, and If the people desire even
moderate degree .of efficiency, they
must recognize this act. If the 'officers
ppointed to enforce .the Scett Act in
his county would only perform their
uties as faithfully as did those who
ere charged with the -enforcement of
he Crooks -Act thee would. very soon
e a manifest change, and the benefits of
he one would be as apparent as were
hose of the ether. But se long as the
fficials wink at open. violations Of the
aw and the Governmetit wink at the
difference of their officials, we need
ot expect much better than we are, now
eceiving.
• A Proud. Boast?
We are so accustomed to look up to
the mother country for precedent and
example that we frequently lose sight of
the feet that we in Canada are many
years in advance of the people of that
country in several 'very important re-:
• spects. • So much so is this . the case
that instead of our. being directed so
frequently to follow English precedent
the order should be reversed and they
should be instructed to profit 'by our
precedents. It is a significant fact that
nearly every one of the burning public
questions Which have so agitated and
convulsedtlie people of the. old country
during the present election campaign,
have been satisfactorily settled in Can-
ada long ago. Ori a . recent public bc-
• casion, Hou. Edward Blake had the
proud satisfaction of rubbing this •fact
into his English audience most effectu-
ally, although he did it in such a pleas-
ant and inoffensive way that his remarks
were cheered to the echo. At a large
and distinguished gathering - in Edin-
lamgh a few days ago*Mr. Blake said:
• I can point you to a country where
the land, largely in the urban centra
and still more largely in the rural com-
munities, is associated in occupation
with its ownership, where there is a
practical, simple and expeditious mach-
inery for its transfer and. for •the regis-
• tration of titles; -where primogeniture
has been long abolished; where an en-
tail is a curiosity almost as good as the
dodo; where it is the oilstone of the
peoplet to divide theit properties and
estates amongst their • children ;' where
property is very equally. diffused ; -and
if there are not, as •there are not,
any grand estates; there is not either
• any overwhelming mass of grinding
poverty. I can poiGt you to a country
country where the churches have long
since been disestabli hed and disenclow-
ed ; where they work on terms purely
voluntary and of ! perfect equality,
and with large and 'fraternal Christian
feeling between the different bodies.- I
can point you to a country where the
• general system of education is national
and gratuitous, compulsory and unsec-
tarianl; where out of a population of
under two millions there are half a mil-
lion of children on the rolls, and • where
there is a public expenditure of over
X600,000 annually Or eleinentary edu-
catio . I can point you to a country
whith ias an extensive and thoroughly
organiz d system of the local municipal
govern ent for its counties and for its
townships, and for villages, for its towns
and for its cities, so that the people's
business is done according to the people's
will by freely elected representative
boards; and where the great question
_
't•••••
to which allusi
-of the liquor
direct popular ,
country where t
Government,
large powers fo
and expeditiou 1
people whose c
age,- to attend
Federal State
of leis concern.
has been made, that the Province of Quebec, an
raffia,' is settled by a
te. I can point to a
ere is a system of State
Government having
doing business cheaply
and sintouch with the
(terns they are to men-
the business of the
embarrassed by.mattem
The Eng
• The old count
in progress this
take :place tole
tions the urban
strongly Conse
came off first il
that it was all
and his friend
ish Elections.
y eleetions have been
eek, and the hest will
. _Contrary to expecte-
unicipalities have gone
vative, and as these
wale feared for a time
p with Mr. Gladstone
but the results in the
• rural mimiciPalities have turned , the
scales In the 1 st Parliament the Gled-
.
'stone Governtne it were strongly eup-
Ported by the urban constituencies,
while the rural O es went largely against
them. This tim this order has been
-
completely reversed. It is .now almost
certain that the Conservetive Govern:
motet will have to stele down and out, and
that Mr. Gladsth %will be returned to
;
power,. and it i hoped he will have a
working majorit although it may be
small, independ ntly of the Parnellite.
or National meii hers. It is significant,
however, to note l that the National c4n-
,
didates carried yerything. before them
in Ireland, and'e last ad ices everY one
of Parnell's candi ates had been elected.
The cry of d sestablishment raised
against the Lib rale iby the Coneerea-
tives did the, fo mer serious injury in
the cities and n many English con-
stituencies, but * Scotland, and in fact
in most of the rural constituencies and
with the masses, disestablishment is
very popu are and no doubt the cry,
upon •the whole; aided he Liberels
more than, it inhered their cause. The
great „pity is _that they are not mo
firmly pled
however, t
question wi
ed to it. There is no doulet,
at in the next .election
I be a living issue.
A P int d Rejoinder.
,
Mr. Loan Tart , a prominent French-
Canadian B eu of lilac -bee, has published
ahreply to t e To ento Mails blood and
thunder art el w ich was indited upon
that journal b coming aware of the fact
that the Bli i reVelt was genuine. In
tat article t eFrench-Canadians are
threatened ih cjxtermination as a race
and other di e cal mities if they persist
in their d te en. ation to °prose Sir
John. Mr. 1 rte very naturally _ feels
hurt that hi Pre eh -Canadian country -
i
men sh-Ould be sti matised as rebels and
threatened . h p litical obliteration by
the organ o t e ian Whom they.have
kept in pow r so, "pug, simply because
they now pr p e se to desert him because
he has, as ti e b ieve, dime wrong and
deceived the n ai dehe does not hesitate
to speak:rig it oe i plainly and firmly.
In justificat o o the course they are
!
now pursuin ri Tarte says :
. ," What h v w idone to cause each a
change in y u 01 ittion in such a short
time that y u hr, aten ns with a war of
races, with n p eat totheAnglo-Sax-
ons of the o, ii in for another con-
quest"- of L er Canada, it conquest
which wouicI n.t e! followed by another
treaty of 17 3 1
" We hav k di for . a commutation
i
of the sente ce pa sed on Riel. I admit
that public op ni inl was ahnoet unani-
mous on tha ti bj et. •' .l _ • 1
" In sa d in h le ewe sinned against,
the constitu io io against the spirit of
. .
parliamenta y $ ithtions ? As long' as
we remain v it in legal bounds have we
not the righ , a ell as you have, of
expressing o ir op don oe all uestions
affecting pul li in er�st ? YOn opinion,
sir, was that a 'R ell had been guilty of
high treasonI h s 'meld be puni hed with
death. Vey •.e , .you had an absolute
•right to yoa o n on. I e
"My opin'o w s that Riet who like '
you I find gad y of high treasO • —should
not be pun's e with death. s much
as you are, a 1 a Beitish subje .t. Why
should 1 not h ve Ithe same rigl t as you
eto my opini n 4nd if I expr ss it, in
•'a regular an on titutional • anner, I
ask you what rgi t You have t threaten
me with brutal fo ce and, if I under-
stand you w 11 to threaten me ven with
a recourse tc arm ?
* * * * *
,
"To all the rea ons we give, to all the
arguments we sub ni, you tens - er that
the Province ot Q ebec has tra sformed
a felon into a heri, aed that th English
majority is boup to !check s. You
threaten us. .
"You ar stro g enough te let me
tell you, in our me' paper, hat you
are neither j st n r Prudent, nd that
you will bef re long -egret the position
which you now take. .
"In order to I denounce u to the
hatred of other races i you lend us mo-
tives which are not ones. You I have I10
right to act ih that Manner. 4ew, for
example, can you write that we want to,
form a French patty whose object would
be to rule ver the ,British --e ement ?
Since our all mice with the C nserva-
tives of Upper can da have we not
nearly always l bcen u ited- in e der to
support Sir .Joh _Macdonald You
have never thought that this uni n was
a threat to the British of this country.
If we decided to unite against Si John
why should you consider that m re of a
threat? Do you deny us the right of
judging the Government? Is it ,only by
tolerance that We,shall exercise the pre-
rogatives which are cOmmon to all sub-
jects of the Queen? Because we have
been your alliesl dii4ring twenty-five
years shall we be obliged to march arm
in arm with you eternelly ? 1
Are all the Ettglishmen living in the
possession of her Majesty in Canada go-
ing to rise up in ainis against us, if it
nowsuits_us to su port Mr. Blake Sir
Charles Tupper, o arty other political
chief? Allow rne,i sir, to say, that I
have my doubts about that, just as
much as that I have grave doubts that
you are acting in a prudent manner when
you say that you are ready to reconquer
this occasion the conquerors
renew the treaty of 1763.
"We are the minority in t
-ion, but, frankly, we hav
slightest apprehension of the
dieted for us by The Mail.
no one, we respect the law, a
province we treat our Engl.. •
subjects with the greatest f
-As long as weshall keep th t
it is we who shall be within
tution, the spirit of which y
in provoking a war of race
tIit different provinces—alwa
we!would think it to be ou
secede from Sir John Macdon
"Sir, you put to a stron
feelings of loyalty to the cons theinhabitants ;of this co
especially of the minorities,
tell them that at -a certaid
the free expression of, their o
be punished by brutal force.
What idea do you give of
talons to foreign nations,
proclaim loudly that we are
the first signal, to jump at e
throats? 1
* * *I *
"In concluding this letter,
long one, it is true, but yet t
Say bow Much I regret' the ,po
have taken, I ask of you to
account . of the accusation
Made: that the Province of
been an obstacle to the p
Canada.
" Our system of education
pare favourably with yours.
"Our political men are
Yours.
" Confederation, the const
the Intereolonial, the Canadi
the Grand Trunk, the proper
open up the Northwest to co
Scc.,. in fact, all that has
of some importance since fifty
been done with our co-oper
speak the plain truth, it is,
the help given hy the French
arliament, that Sir John
as been able to accomplish
acts of his career. Until t
never gave us to understand, a
that we had been an obstac
progress and welfare of the D
that on
shall not
Domin-
not the
vile pre -
e attack
in our°
fellow -
reaped.
ground,
condi-
violate
between
because
• duty to
1#
te▪ st the
ution of
try, and
hen you
moment,
tons can
I
News of the Wee •
I GOLD MINES. —The tgold ines in
Alaska are proving very p olific . at
Present. . '
1 SNOW IN, THE EAST.—A hea y fall of
show occurred 'last week in ew York
and Pennsylvania. . I
I RESPECT TO ALFONSO. --Th English
Court goes into three weeks' ourning
for King Alfonso. ''' •
"PLOT TO ASSASSINATE THE P ESIDENT.
The statement is made that resident
aqevela,nd had been counsell d not to
tend Vice -President Hendrie s' funeral
because of a plot to assassinate im.
, ON SiEIBBOARD. —The steam r Buenos
yrean, Which arrived at Lon ft
on om
hl‘ oenntrreadlewasietdh sfmraelmlpoqxuaornant aer.d, The
patients were removed to the h spital,
, SOLD OUT THErR STOCK.— VIII. H.
anderbilt and Cyrus W. Fi ld have
sold all their New York and ew Eng-
land railroad comfOn stock, and Mr.
Field resigned as a director.
QUARANTINE DISCONTINUED —Small -
p x quarantine ' inspection on the New
ork.frontier is to be,discon ued from
December hat, on acedunt of th close of
navigation. ' ar .: - oti.
.AGAINST BILLIARDS. —A ethodist
cergyman Of Chicago !strongly denoune-
S hday night, declaring that C tristiani.-
1
•
e( billiard playing in his se mon on
ty and billiards were entagoni tic. .
BULL FIGHTING IN MEXI 0.—Ten
thousand spectators witnessed he open-
ing bull fights in Montery, Me ice, Sun-
day afternoon. , The animals were ex-
cdedingly fierce, and furnished ne sport.
boy of 14 year killed the ereest Of
the bulls. ' i -
i Mn. GLADSTONE'S DCLARATI N.—Mr.
Gladstone says: "My •best eff rts have
always been in behalf of the Iri h. -One
of the most potent motives tha, • led nel
, ,
• l my advanced age to forego lo g-oovct-
ed repose was the hope Of beim able to
rehder Ireland further service.
GREAT INTERNATIONAL EXH ITION. —
Ai company has beea ineorp rated in
Chicago for the purteese of h lding an
international exhibition in th t city in
1892 to celebrate the fourth c ntennial
Christo-
' t
ur insti-
hen you
eady, at
h others
* *
hich is a
short to
tion you
nder an
on have
ebec has
grass of
an com-
qual to
iiction of
n Pacific,
means to
nization,
een done
ears, has
tion. To
hanks to
group in
• acdonald
the chief
day he
you do,
e to the
minion 1"
•
)1
of, the discovery ef America b
1''
plier Columbus. .
IDEATHS. —King Alfonso of S
on the 25th ult., at the early
years.--Vice-Preside t Hendri
suddenly on the arhc day at
dence in Indianapolis.—Capt
Bradley, the largest hip -own
northern chain of la es, died
land, Ohio, on Saturd y, 'aged
iGRAND CABLE SCHEME.—Th:
-Gaveenment i4 contemplating a
ate scheme forplacingthernotl
trly in close and constant cabl
nieation with all her colones
dencies. The system "der cons
involves the employment of e
tirely under British control;
those cases', in which the pres
Atlantic rums are concerned.
SOC1AI.TM IN GERMNY. —Th German
government has presented in ti e reich-
stag its annual report, on Social sm. The
report saysthe doctrines of the ocialists
are spreading despite the act ve meas-
ures of the government to repr a them,
being propagated by the ana ehists of
other countries. Coniplaints re made
that socialistic newspapers an pamph-
lets printed in foreign; capitals re smug-
gled into Germany. Of 5,000 .opies of
the Freihe t, printed ill Amer ca, only
500, the report says, are ipte i ded for
Ainerican readers.
an died
e of 28
ks died
his resi-
in Alva
r on the
t Cleve -
1.
British
• elabor-
er coun-
commit-
d depen-
deration
bles en-
xcept in
nt trans-
TERRIBL
gihen at
celebrate t
Wales of the museum Whetet
AOCIDEN .—A ban net was
irmingham Fridayenight to
rince of
e Prince.
number
lcony to
crowd-
magis-
• famous
ed from
ment, a
dy was
•nt was
ormous
e openiif by the
and party Were about to retire
ot other guests rushed to the b
%fitness their departure. In th
ing that enued Mr. Bennett,
trate and bank director, and
Wel philanthropist, ,wes pus
the balcony, and fell he the pay
distance of 50 feet: His b
dished to 'pieces. The a,ceid
witnessed by th aPrinde and an
Cri/WCL
WARLIKE PRErA repara-
Ube's are being made on an -xtensive
scale m both Alexandria an Cairo,
under instrtIctions froM the Lon lon War
Office, for anew expedition. to Dongola
to check the advance of the Ma di's suc-
ce6or. The indicatihns; are t at the
proposed expedition will; be ma, e suffi-
ciently formidable to effectively protect
the Dongole, and Ntibian fron ier from
the threatened incartion of th hostile
Arabs. At present the intenti itt of the
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War Office eteoul seem to be to se i d out
a force of 6,500 men, half Engl h and
half Egyptian, and to reinforce th army
by a Nile fla illa comprising about 1,700
British and 1,000 native troops. The
river transp rtation service is now being
overhauled, it is thought, for the re -
page indicated. • The expedition, it is
believed, will soon start. The retention
of 3,000 British -India ,troops at Suakirn
is taken as an- indication of Lord Salis-
bury's intention, if he remains in power,
to re -conquer the Soudan.
Huron Notes.
Mr. T. M. Hamlin has been sp.-
Belay of $50 . peran-
num.pointed ,.Iiibr Han. for the Exeter Meehan
ics' Institut at a Bel-
—Miss Wynn an accomplished vocal-
ist, of Goderich, left I st week with the
Telgmann fa,
. ineilti
—Thos. It maulers, Of Ethel, has met
with au accident by which he may lose
the use of his arm by getting his elbow
badly lacerated in a chaff -,cutter.
—Mr. Robert Armstrong, of Brussels,
has purcha ed thirteen acres of land,'
with a neat cottage,- near Teesevater,
and intends noving there next spring.
—A monthly fair is to be held in
Gorrie on the Thursday before the first
Friday in,eech month, commencing onl
Thursday, tl e 3rd of. December. ---Mr. .
John
McMullen who recently
sold his farm.. on the 3rd concession of
Hullett, to Mr. Hunter, of Stanley, has
purchased a house in Clinton for $500
and intends removing there to live.
—Mr. Wm. McLean, the well-known
cattle' deale . of Goderich, intends re-
moving to ntreal to reside, and will
dispose of l h s personal effects by public
auction on t e 12th inst.
—Mr. Da id Cantelon of Clinton,
has purch sed and ;hipped over
200 car loads or 25,000 barrels of apples
this year. i e hope he may realize 50
cents a barrel profit on them.
—The Clinton Driving Park Associa-
tion, after paying all liabilities for this
_year has a balance of $36. on hand. It is
the intention l to hold the annual races on
the 24th of May next. -
—The Wingham salt well is now down
to a depth Of 1,400 feet, and although
brine has been secured it is not as strong
as is desired, and the council have de-
cided to sink it 150 feet deeper before
abandoning the hole.
—The late Isaac Beharril, of Grey,
was a member of Brussels 'Lodge, An-
cient Order Of 'United. Workmen. His
membership „ entitles :his. widow to
$2,000. The amount has already been .
paid over. . •
—While Mrs. John East, of Hallett
•
was visiting her sister, Mrs. W. Farqu-
har, the other day,li Mrs. Farquhar was
going te scrub and* pail of hot water
was poured out, when *little child of
Mrs. East fell backward in it, and got
badly scalded. 1
—Whilst; the threshers were at work
on the premises ,of Wm. Young, near
Dunlop, in Colborne, on Wednesday
morning last week, some sparks from
the steamer got into the stack and set it
in a blaze., iThe -employees with great
exertion managed to get dt wider.
—Henry Hawkins, of the 5th conces-
' sion of Turnherry, who has been ill for
' the past eight weeks, has finally suc-
cumbed to the fever and died. He was
interred in the Bluevale cemetery on
Wednesday. i Henry was an honest,
upright young man, and was highly
thought of in his neighborhood. .
—After a p'osperous summer's work,
the Sabbath • Schools held in Burns'
church, Huileft, and Harlock school-
house, have be en closed for the • winter
months. It is intended*, however, to
keep up the i terest manifested at liar -
lock in the S Meath School, by holding a
weekly bibl lass. i
—Mr. Geo . e McKibben, formerly a
merchant of inghem, .has purchased a
:
residence in orontO, 'where he purposes
making his ;f iture home, and where he
will go into ti e reel estate business. He
expects to ret ove to that city about the
first of nextat arch.
• —Mr. Thomas J. iBell,the well-known
horse man of Lond.eboro,returned home
from Kansas Iasi week where he has
been travelliiug 'three stallions during
the past season. • He reports . having
done well, and before his return dis-
posed of all his horses at good prices.
—Mr. Jos. Rutledge, of the Huron
read, near Helmeiville, recently ran a
needle .in his foot, which broke off,
leaving part - itt the I foot. He has not
been able to get it out, although the
services of. a doctor were called in, and
is now so laine he can hardly walk.
—Owing no doubt to the unfavor-
able weather] last Week, the plowing
match of the . tephen Plowing Associa- '
tion did, not take piece on Thursday as.
announced, there teing too few compe-
titors present.: The match is. put off for
this year. ' I
—Mr. James Wilson, formerly of:
ilye to fill a Short engage-
/
Blyth, and whose family are still there,..
is now running a sew mill on his own
behalf, in Dakota and is said to be do-
ing well. His ina'hy friends here will
hbeis_feet
thagain." thet he is "getting on .
'
Anail lg scene took place at
Ethel station }3, few days ago. A woman
wished to go to, her father's funeral
against the wishes of her " lord," who,
to keep I herlrom boarding the train,
snatched the child from her arms. To
her credit she jumped on board and the
train left, thei noise of the engine being
smothered by the frantic crie of the
child for its maternal parent.
—Mrs. Bro kenshire, of Win am, is
I
rapidly , recov ring from the effects of
the operation he underettent at the Tor-
onto general le spite' a couple of weeks
ago. The wound is entirely healed, and
the attending physician was enabled to
remove the stitches last Saturday. She
suffers no paini and is gradnally growing
stronger, and It is expected she will soon
be able to return home.
-=-Mr. T. M. Elliott, formerly of God-
erich Township, but now of Dakota, has
in that state .altogether 1,440 acres, of
which he had this year 700 in crop, and
from which herealizedover 10,500 'bush-
els of grain. This is onlyan average
of 15 .bushelsan acre. Mr. Elliott is
said to to be making money, and is spend-
ing it in improving One of the finest
farms in Dakota.
—The Wingham Times says : In our
last issue we gave Ian account of an old
from Inverhuron on his way te Buffalo,
..
nian named ichard Greer, who came
with but $1 in his pocket, and who took
up lodgings .provided by Chief Petty -
piece for several nights, and was then
sent back home. It now Wens out that
Greer is not the poor tramp ie wished to
,be taken for. He owns a farrn of 140
lacres in the 'township of Inverhuron,
has -some $3,000 or $4,000 in the bank,
and generally speaking is pretty w.ell
fixed. However, he does not appear to
enjoy his wealth like other peoPle, but
I, in the
way.
a pr-
. -getee
prefers to -go about the countr
guise of a tramp and sponge
Those who know him say he
fessional beggar.
—The Clinton New Era say
less than fifteen commercial tr yellers
were in town on Wednesday, an on the
evening previous twenty were on the
train for Goderich." According to this
Goderich must be a better pia e than
Clinton, for where the drumn ers do
congregate there is the trade entred.
Be careful, Mr. New Era, or yo x won't
get the county town .removed ast yet
a while.
—The Winnipeg Quoit Club pitch-
ing for the season was finished 1 st Fri
day, when the match for the but er dish
given by Wm. Elliott, in th
weight class, and the cruet stand given
by J. Patterson, in the heavy weight
class; was concluded. There e'en bat
few competitors, only six ente ing for
the light weight and three for the
heavy. The former was won. by T.
Leslie, and the latter by Wm. eCIY-
mont.
—A few days since a deputatioln from
Blyth went to:Goderich for the purpose
'of securing the influence of the Judge in
getting the Ontario Government to form
a Division Cdtirt at Blyth. Thismatter
has come up I3evera1 times before, and it
is questionable if any action will be
taken, as the impression prevails that
with courts at Wingham and Clin-
ton, there is no necessity for another at
—Prior to Lek, departure fori Michi-
Myth.
gen, a number of the friends and neigh -
bore of Mr. and Mrs. James Lent of
Stanley, asseenbled at their residence;
and treated them to an oyster supper.
After .supper' they presented the host
with a gold Watch chain,and the laoste4
with a gold broach, accompanied with
an address. The host replied to the
addrees in a very feeling and appro-
priate matinee. A very pleasant even:. t
ing was spent! lin social converse by the
old, and by the young, in the usual man- B
ner. c
—Many Of Our readers will regret to
learn of the death at Wingham of Mrs.
James Shaw, formerly of Kippen. The n
sad event occurred on the 21st ult.
For a long tithe Mrs. Shaw suffered front
an internal &neer, but she bitre up
bravely and n� serious results were an- t
ticipated until quite recently. The best
medieal skill of Wingham and leondon c
proved unavailing, and the fatal isease h
was not cruelty to use the animal • as it
had been, Mr. Elliott Claiming that he
brought it in a waggon and had not
used unnecessary cruelty. Mr. Black.
all also stated that the dislocation, hale.
ing healed over, would cause no pain
whatever, The Mayor took a contraty
view, holding thatit was cruel to keep
the animal at all in the condition it was,
as well as an Set of cruelty to load i
into a waggon and drive it o town. He t
accordingly inflicted a fine of $10 and
costs. Most of those who saw the
t
mat certainly thought it a shame that
live in its crippled
state.
—On
allowed to
—On Tuesday morningeMr. John Wil-
son, V. S., of Wingham, out froth a horse
by
aMrstoneR°bThe peculiar
., hard, tWarwick,gaittyIoMor,okngsub
feature
sub-
stance,
tweda nhn eall,
resemblingregarding this operation is that
the substance was taken out from. the
ribs just behind the forelegs. In what
manner or by what means this ball
would form there is 'a question for
'veterinary surgeons to pnezle their brains
over.
—The following additional particulars
concerning the eudden death of Mrs.
Thomas Town, of 'Brussels, of which
mention was made last week, are taken
from the Brussels Post: She had at-
tended church on Sunday ev:ening in the
enjoyment of about her usual health and
appeared quite cheerful on her retitle •
home. About 10 (*lock she retired)
epd we are sorry to say she never arose
from her bed. Near 4 o'clock Monday
morning Mr. Town iwas awakened by
her heavy breathing end heard a, kind of
rattle in her throat He immediately
summoned the - members of the family,
but before they got to the bedside the
mother's spirit had fled. Heart disease
was pronounced as the cause of her
death, and the phystcian said a blood.
vessel had. probably burst. Some two
years ago Mrs. Town was trouble,c1 with
an affection of the heart, and the doctor
prescribed freedom from excitement as
he only cure. It seems that last week
when the fire occurred in her son's house
he got very much excited, and to this
ause her sudden decease is attributed.
Mrs. Town was born in Kent county,
England, where she was married to her
ow bereft husband. They emigrated
to Canada about twenty-one years ago,
and settled near Woodstock and aftere
wards removed to Seaforth, froin whence
hey came to Brussels ten years ago.
The deceased was the mother of fifteen
hildren, nine of whom are living. She
ad been an uncommonly healthy WO -
man, hardly ever knowing what sick-
ness was. To say that she enjoyed the
respect and esteem of all who knew her
is giving but feeble expression to her
real worth. •By her death a loving wife,
an affectionate mother and a gO9d neigh-
bor has passed Sway.
was pernutte
Shaw was an
an affectiona
bor, and she
young family
—The annu 1 meeting of the emigre-
ndrew's church, Blyth,
Thanksgiving da All
to run its eoursej Mrs.
tive, industrious Woman,
mother and kindlneigh-,
ill be sadly 'missed by her
nd circle of friends
gation of St.
wa,s4 held on
the reports re
'that this co
flourishing st
higher than ever before, it bein
nearly 250. The congregation e
p
uted during the past year over
for all purses. The debt
church building is now reduced
This congregation erected the eh
which they no-tv, worship 8 years
a cost in round numbers of 8,
two or three years ago, raised th
&ter's stipend from eight himdre
thousand dollars.
—Union revival services are n
ing held in the Methodist and
terian churches, Goderich, und
leaderehip of 'Rev. Mr. Crossle
" Singing Revivalist." The s rvices
are largely attended, and many converts
are being gathered in. The Signal says:
e not
filcult
ath in
sesses
a power, nevertheless, and la manifesta-
tion of it has; been apparent a every
meeting thus fat." It is to be ferhently
d the
these
y the
lemen
the musical evangelist could net have
better subjects to work upon dr ones
more needing conversion.
—A correspOndent gives the fol
estimate of fareh products in Go
township this season: Fall wheat
excellent crop this year,averaging
35 bushels per acre, while not a f
port a yield 01 40 to 45 to the
Spring *heat with a few exce
was a camplete loss, owing to the
which witheret the .grain and re
the straw alnuist valueless for fe
Earley gave a fair average, b
sample was greatly damaged b
weather. Oats are not up to the
age, some thinh it was owing
blight. Peas are a good crop and
sample, with no bugs in them.
root crop gen rally was good,
greet many re ort about half t
tatoes as rotten, Apples have be
ihnormous crop, and of the best q
We cannot give the exact num
barrels, but we shall not be astray
we say it was a good way up amo
thousands. We think there are
w
fetownships hat can compete n
in apples, and i we hope that Go
ways hold her ow
Wiggins, of 'Gor
t of the towns
n Wednesday o
year of his age.
ative of county
nee to this cmmtr
township of Darr
, about 38 year
s Margaret Wade
'd at the meetin show
gregation is in a very.
te. The member hip is
• now
ntrib-
S-2•000
n the
$800.
eh in
go, at
and
• Min-
to a
I I II
w be-
resby-
✓ the
the
•
"The methods of the revivalist
of an extreme Order, and it is a d
thing to discern wherein his stre
moving audiences lies. But he pc,
hoped that the Goderich!Editora a
Public School officials will attend
meetings. If we are to judge
newspaper bickerings of these gen
township will
—Mr. Jelin
pioneer reside
Hoe:tick, diedi
week in the 66t
ceased was a
Ireland. He c
settled in the
county Durha
He married Mi
died six years a
owing
erich
is an
0 and
w re -
acre.
tions,
light
dered
ding.
t the
wet
aver -
O the
good
The
uta
e po-
n an
ality.
er of
when
g the
very
th us
erich
te, a
ip of
last
De -
&van,
and
gton,
ago.
who
(nand by whom hel ad 12
children, six sons and six daughte s, all
of whom Survier him. About 32 years
i
ago he moved. t the township of ow -
ick and settle on the 2nd conce sion,
'when the towni ip was a dense f rest.
-By industry a d perseverance • eider
meaty difficultiee, he hewed out fo him -
'self and. family a eomfortable ome.
1
;Seine three yeers ago he sold his farm
;and purchased a property in Corrie,
,
where he hoped to spend his. rem' Ming
lyears in Iconifer. A, few mont ago, he comPlained that he had no
tite and felt rat er weak, but not
few weeks ago 4ras his case cons'dered
dangerous.
1
l —Says the
Saturday last S.
cession, of • Go erich township,
into town a small heifer that h
traded with a man in town, un -sight -
n the
very
dislo-
• pel-
e of
him;
ayor
at it
aPPe-
ntil a
linton New Era . On
Elliott, of the 8t con -
drove
had
unseen for a ho
corporation. •T
poor condition,
cation of the shoulder, and was c
led to -walk on three legs. A cha,
cruelty to animals was laid ttgains
and came up fpr trial before
Forester. The 1 defence 4was t
se, and left it
e animal was in
had sustained a
•
I
An -Interesting Letter from
Algoma.
DEAR EXPOSITOR, -1 Ste ill scone of
the lateissues of Tite Exeomon that
you have been getting a good share of
the, news from this. part -through my
neighbor'Mr. Wm: Murray, jr., but
thinking that a good country ean not be
, too well or widely known, 1 send you.
the following. 1 will first give you a
I sketch of how some of the old Huron-
' ites, of which Mr Murray either forgot
. or neglected to make mention, art
. prospering. Mr. Charles Granger, for-
merly of liullett, wile came here in the
spring of 1881 with My brother and my-
• self, is well and doing' well. He says it
. is the hest in`Ove he ever made in his
life. As an instance of how he is get-
ting alone, I may state that during the
• summer ''he sold three head of cattle
• which netted him the handsome sum of
• $175 cash. _Now is that for stock -rais-
ing in Algoma? He has two good lots
and he knows how to,.'work them, and is
at present in very, comfortable circum
stances. Mr. George Riley, of Tucker -
smith, is another inttance of what in-
dustry, pluck and perseverance can do
in Algoma. When he came here he had
nothing, and to -day he has 160 acres of
• land allpaid for, a house up and ten
• acres of a clearing, a kood part of which
is in fall wheat. He only came here
two years ago this fall, and the first
winter he chopped for Mr. Wm. Murray,
sr. Mr. Murray is ariother gentleman
who has done well and has got a good.
start made on a good farm. His sons, '
Thomas and 'William, have also _good
farms near their father's and are doing
well. -Mr. John Armstrong and. Mr.
John Dunlop, also of .lullett, have good
places and are in goOd circumstances.
The Gibsoes, Henry and Alfred, also
from that township, I are doing „well,
There are also quite -a, number in this
township from the township of Ash-
ifield. • Mr. Lidstone, Mr. Baldwin and
Mr. Davidson also have good places and
are in good circumstances. I must not
forget to mention Mr. Thornas Nett,
whose place is the Wonder of all who
come to this eountry, and shows what a
man with a little capital, coupled with
industry and perseverance can ac-
complish in a short time in this Algoma
of ours. I I
I will next give a 'description of the
soil, and having been 'here now ening 011
five years and having seen it tried itt
various ways,1I am in a better position
to judge of its capabilities than a
stranger coming into the. country. It is
for the.grea.ter part of a sandy loam top,
from two or three -inches to a foot or
two in depth, underlaid with a red clay -
of a peculiar nature. It is not all that,
however, for there - are large portions
where the clay comes to the top and is
only covered with an inch or two of
black muck. The peculiarity of the
clay consists in, this; that no matter
• what depth you go the clay taken from -
the bottom will, for instance, produce
as good a vegetable growth as the sur-
face soil. My reasons for saying this
are, that I have, helped to dig some
wells and have seen it tested in this
Imanner. The depth of the clay is from
18 to 30 feet wherever tried as yet, that
being the depth at -which water ef first-
class quality is found, and] vegetables,
grass and grain will grow at luxuriantly
in the clay taken from any depth in
• those wells as it will on the surface soil.
So your rea,ders will see that we in this
country have a subsoil of inexhaustible
fertility, and the deeper and more it is
worked the better the crops. Another
peculiarity is that while it is very still
to break it never rani! or bakes with the
action of the weather, but on the other -
hand it crumbles down and gets like an
ash bed as mellow and nice as you could
wish for a garden. Of course the coun-
try is not all like this There are por-
ti(Ms of it in places broken by bluffs of •
I -oche but in place of this being a dis-
advantage I claim it it an advantage to
the nountry, as those bluffs will never be
cleared but vai
bleak whids wil
--sey as they do on t
• Inch devaetation
-Another advautage
• vie bash beg
tountry, is that t
evenly aistribu
aner season, thus
of less frequent oce
the rain generally f
showers. We haven
,or two heavy thtind
summer yet since I
eerily one .doing any I
companied with hai
The crops her th
good i- excep
which was cut by
,and 7th of Septe
first frost to do any
sown grain .was Gut
is as fine a sample a
wish to see, The
-virheat in this pa..
.straw being nice a.
low as gold. 1
vegetables of ali
country and are $
-toes, especially, ar
grow to all enonnou
weighing -from two
4imate is healthy,
alight in the summe
•pressive-heat being
'lent throughout son
whiters are cold. and
ln,not 201degrees bel
raining the next, hu
thermometer ran,
below, with an oeca
40° below for
-only. The only gr
this part of the ,cou
tirae is the want
'which. we hope wi
as the Canadian P
promised to beild
bury to Sault Ste
already conitracted
• leaving the disU.n
only about 90
fall are -quiet, there
out, but there is g
ber woods not ve
good wages, aides
all of the settlers,
the winter in the
Mining is also goi
in the silver mine
-known as the as
sinstrious settler n
Tarte, as there is a
in the winter time
when he could no
home onhis laud,
" guid wife '" and
tend the bit of stock
he can go and alway
ries of life and thus
table. Schools,, eh
stores, and such 1'
reaeh of all, and no
a blizzard going to
plenty a wooa k
home. Hoping you
your ever -welcome
remarks I will draw
sing myself as well
country andas
their Place of al3ode
• tering their eonditio
this 'Algoma of
elsewhere. We hea
-more of the indus
sons of old Ihron..
• FORT rnillAT, 8.
(Emu Our Regale
WASIIVOTON,
A walk about *
summer absentee,
astonishment are he
the transformations
absence. In rapid
ington is perhaps It
city in the world.
hand of -%he :Wale
new designiof
New streets are ope
asphalt. - Vastpubli
e& Dreary waste
morphosed into
District Governme
much to make the
the AMerican peopl
all winner. Its
manifest by new asp
the improvements
parks; and the litt
patches, which for?,
lique evenues treat
streets, also indicate
tivationa PrOVISi011
for planting shade
vania avenue, whin
beautiful smooth str
She Capitol to the
Treasury Departmen
ear track down its
MOOD, at four o'eloc
the Government d
with fashion in ap
north sidewalk, in
almost deserted so
nue. It is curious
vania avenue'that
traffic and the mai
is upon the nortb s
ern sidewalk iit are
. The exterior AP
House its design
indeedsomething of
den-i9ens of the Nati
is a,musing to Ilea
mations always rif
flecthig upon the
Congress in relation
the Mansion for
truth the interior
eorrectly froni t
It possesses all tl
that could veil be
lors, save the Bin
Room were entirely
the tatter; the grea
the house, was re -fu
The following seaso
•completely regilded
nished, and many g
repairs made. !
bought for and don
in the past four yew
was done in tlie sam
its history. 4)f la
been more restri
President's house th
publie receptii,Msba‘
and the perMane
mansion- have bee
fore. Still it cost
the buildiugitt pr
wonder why it eotts
a peep it some of Ifb
ard and the Co,
Buildings have to'
Painting the "WE
$1;200. The ex
nonsom the co
great de al of coa
of the furniture in
needs that in any fi