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The Huron Expositor, 1887-09-02, Page 4• 4 4 • TiiE HURON EXPOSITOR. SEPTEMBER 2, 1887: 1 NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. United States over those from Great Britain, four ndllions in excess, but the rate of duty exacted absolutely averagei four per cent. leas. The Dominion, in 1886, imported of free goods from Eng- land, $10,215,000, while from the United States the free goods brought in were $15,198,000. These figures go to shbw that the existing tariff, while it appears as uniform against all countries, never- theless is a practical ediscrimination in favor of the United States. eir The figure betweAn the parenthesis after fesoa line denotes the page of the paper on which t he exlvertisement will be found. , Honest DealinK—E. McFaul. (8) Farmers' Banking House—Logan & Co. (6) Farm for Sale—John Taylor. (5) You Haven't the Time—E. McFaul. (5) Fall and Winter Trade—J. W. Millar. (8) Estray Sheep—Thomas Livingstone. (6) Energetic Business Mem—E. McFaul. (1) Teacher Wanted—Robert Douglas. (6) Town Property for Sale—A. Shaw. (6) Clothing, Clothing—j..W. Millar. (5) Female Teacher Wanted—A. Foster. (5) Elegant Photos—Cooper's Studio. (8) Estray Cow—Wm. Pinkney. (5) Money to Lend—Dent & Hodge. (5) Tile and Brick Yard for Sale—R.:Collie. (5) Booths for Sale—J. P. Brine. (8) Public Auction Sale—Wm. Sturgeon. (5) Farm for Sale by Tender—R. Murdie. (5) Brine's Biz Sale—J. r. Brine. (8) Sugars—Wilson & Young. (8) Crockery and Glassware—Wilson & Young. (3) Seaforth Efigh School—D. Johnson. (6) House Keeper Warited—Exsoarros. OFFIGH. (8) Farm to Rent—Wm. Fowler. (6) St. Leon Water*—Geo. Good. (5) Horses for Sale—Scott Bros. (8) Dissolution of PartnershipL-Laidlaw &Fairley. (6) 111:011- xpooitor. REAFORT7i, FRIDAY, Sept. 2, 1887. • The Irish National League. In the face of their reCent defeats-, and in apite of strong protestations from the Liberal Unionists, the English Govern- ment have proclaimed the National League in Ireland. This does not mean that they have taken forcible steps for its suppression_ under the new Crimes Act, but that they have given warning that such steps will be taken. The next step will be to put the lave in motion under which whoever attends a meeting of the League, reports any of its proceed- ings, or takes any part in them, may be summarily convicted and punished. Boycottingand all other forms of dis- order may also be summarily punished. This action on the part of the Ministry has strained the loyalty of the Liberal - Unionists to the utmost, and has already resulted in the secession of Mr. T. W. Russell, a very effective and influential political speaker. Mr. Gladstone moved a series of resolutions condemning this statism of the Government, but they were defeated by a majority of 78. The result, however, shows re very coneider able weakening on the part of the Gov- ernment supporters, and especially among the Liberal -Unionist wing. These latter were divided, the Radicals, head- ed by Chamberlain, voting . with Glad- stone, and the Marquis of Hartington with his supporters, voting with the Government. It appears that Mr. CharaberIein's following numbers about nine, as that was the number who voted as he did in favor of the resolutions. Seventeen Liberal -Unionists shirked the vote altogether. Had every Liberal - Unionist voted for theiGovernment the majority against the "cautions would have been 113. The nOrrnal majority of the Government, prior to the introduc- tion of the Coercion Bill, ranged from one hundred to one hundred and twelve. at the Liberal - alarmed by the show incontest- becoming favor - It is clear, therefore, t TJnionists have becom recent elections which ably that the country i able to Mr. Gladstone. 1 Whether or not in the face of this warning, the Govern- ment will proceed to put the law in 1 motion, remains to e seen. Defeat almost certainly awaits them whichever way they turn. If -at this juncture they display a feeling of weakness and fear, they -will ' disgust and disappoint the more rabid of their own supporters, and if they proceed on the line they have entered, they will lose the entire Liberal support, and some of the more moderate of the Conservatives. It is beginning to look more and more every day like as if the Grand Old Man is destined to come to the tap once more, ancl triumphant victory again perch upon his banners. ......._ a_ Discrimination. One of the strongest, as well as one of the most plausible, arguments used against Commercial Union is that we, in Canada, would have to adopt the American Tariff, and that it would be , unfair and ungrateful to discriminate against Great Britain by placing a heavy duty upon her goods coming into this c ountry while we admitted those of the - United States free. On the face of it this does look to be unfair. But if we can benefit ourselves, and at the same time not injure the Mother Country, why should we not do it ? If by Com- mercial Union the Canadian Tariff is not increased it will not make any difference to the Old Country manufacturers whether the goods of the 'United States are admitted free here or not. .But if, on the other hand, ,we can induce the Americans to lower their tariff on im- ports, as it is likely we will be able to do, that decrease will mean vastly more - to the British manufacturer then any in- crease we will be required to make in Canada. But, we have been disci imi- nating against Great Britain in favor of the United States alI along, and these very parties who are now crying out about the proposed discrimination are the very ones who. introduced and sanc- tioned the carrying out of this principle. This is shown in the statistics for 1886. In that year English goods were brought into Canada to the value of $40,601,000. These paid a, duty of $7,817,000, or equal to nineteen and a quarter cents on the dollar. During the same period goods from the United States were imparted, amounting to $44,868,000, paying duties thereon of only $6,790,000, or slightly above fifteen cents on the dollar. Not only were the goods imported from the The Ball Rolls On. The work of stirring up the peopleon the question of Commercial Union still goes bravely on, and the movement con- tinues to grow ini strength and popidari- ty. The more the people become en- lightened on thequestion the more do they become in favor of it. Daring the past. week several meetings have been held. Professor Goldwin Smith, HOD. Mr. Butterworth and Mr. Wiman have addressed large and influential,meetings at Detroit and Buffalo, and a few days ago a large meeting was held in the county of Essex, which was addressed by the above-named gentlemen and sev- eral Canadian politicians belonging to both political parties. Two large meet- ings have also been held in the Province of Quebec, at which prominent men of both parties spoke in favor of and iden- tified themselves with the mohement. At all these meetings resolutions strongly in favor of Commercial Union were adopted. In the good old county of Huron, also, a movement is being made, must, if it benefits the one, injure the other. It is no more than need he look- ed for if everything that has been said to prove the benefit of such reciprocity to Canada, and all the hearty approval it has met with from Canadian farmers should be used to the Americans as con- , elusive arguments that it must prove highly injurious to them. The absurdity of this needs very little thinking to prove it. Suppose some authority set up a toll upon a village street, and refused to let the people on one side deal with the people on the Other side without paying toll, and somebody on one side con- vinced his friends that it would be to their benefit that the toll should be re- moved, it would be childish for those on the other side to say "because those people want it it must needs be a great injury tous." eseemseseeeseeseemes Commercial Union and An- nexation. Some of those Who oppose Commercial Union say it is Only a measure of An- nexation in disguise and they denounce its advocates as disloyal. In his ad- dress at Detroit last Saturday night Mr. Wiman met this objection very effectu- ally. His remarks should be carefully read. It must be remembered also, that Mr. Wiman was speaking to an audience of Americans who are represented by some to be panting to gobble up this country holus bolus. We quote his words: and the people of this county will soon be afforded an opportunity of expressing an opinion upon it. Thus far,however, the movement in Canada, in so far as public demonstration is concerned, has been con fitted largely to the agricultural classes. But, other classes are now be- coming interested as well. As en in- stance of this we may refer t� the reso- lution passed the other day by the Millers' Association of the counties of Huron, Perth, Bruce, Grey and North Wellington, which speaks out as strong- ly as any of the resolutions passed at the farmers' meetings, and which can be seen in another column. Many manu- facturers are equally strongly in favor of Commercial Union, and we may expect before long to hear from them. Thus far the question has been kept clear of party politics altogether.' Many of both political parties are found -work- ing side by side both for and against its. while the. leading politicians on both sides fight shy of it, and are apparently looking on and viewing the progress. What is now wanted is a general move- ment in its favor all along the line, so • that the party leaders on both sides will be made to see that it will be to their - interests to adopt it. This done and the battle is completed, and victory accom- plished. Let the good work go on, so that at the very next session 61 Parlia- ment we can have a strongly worded. resolution passed asking the United States Government to meet us helf way and uniteln forming a basis upon which the Union can be accomplished. If this is done, there is not much danger of • the Americans turning a deaf ear to our prof. position. They have already manifested a desire to treat with us, but they hold, and rightly so, that the initiative steps should come from this side of the line. There is no inn in our standing on cere- mony or permitting questions of etiquette to interfere. If we are to receive we must ask, and the sooner we ask the better. An Important Question. Why is it that -so many Canadians go to the United States? rt is estimated that there are over one million Cana- dians who are residents of the United States, or in other words that there is one Canadian a resident of the United States for every 6 residents in Canada. Canadians can be found in every city. and State of the Union, and in many States there are whole settlements of Canadians. Indeed, we might say that there is scarcely a town, nity or town- ship in the Dominion that is not repre- sented in some one State of the Union. The county of Huron is -probably as prosperous a county as there is in the Dominion, and yet we venturethe state- ment that there is not a town or town- ship in the county that has not repre- sentatives in some part of the neighbor- ing Republic. In the States of Kansas, Michigan, Dakota and Minnesota, there are whole settlements populated by people from this. county of Huron. Now, can any person point out a settle- ment of Americans in this country? Is it not a rare thing for an American to come to Canada, to settle. Why this difference? IT,Thy do so many Canadians go to live in the United States, and so few Americans come to reside in Cana- da? We have, on the whole, a much better soil; a more even and a better and healthier climate, and lam have at least as free institutions at the United States. Why then do we find so many Canadians living in the United States and so few Americans residents of Care- _ ada ? This is a question which those who oppese Commercial Uuion would do well to consider and answer. ONE of the obstacles in the way of Commercial Union, says the Montreal Witness, is the absurd idea prevailing in the minds of most people, that , any - cOmmercial agreement between peoples But it will be said in the United States that a political union between the United States and Canada would be a much greater boon, and that in order to obtain all the advantages of a free Amer- ican market, a political union is a ne- cessity. 'This may well be doubted. Indeed, in many respects, Commercial Union between Canada and the United States is much to be preferred to a pol- itical union in the present juncture of affairs. When the political millennium in the United States arrives, which all politicians are after, there will be a per- iod when, if Canada desires to be admit ted, it might be done, for then she should come in without entirely upset- ting the political status of the whole nation. At -present the admission of five millions of people into the Union, whose political tendencies were unknown, would precipitate into politics such an element of uncertainity as to completely baffle the calculations of the most as- tute politicians. While parties are so evenly balanced that a single speech of an inoffensive dominie, who loved to in- dulge in alliteration, is credited with having changed the character of an en- tire Administration, what might not be the consequences when such unknown quantities would' be introduced. into the contest as.the French vote of Quebec, the Orange vote of Ontario, or the Catholic vote .of-- all the Provinces. No office -seeking patriot in the United States, no calculating politician, not even the mild-mannered partizan, be- lieving that his country was safer with the party of his choice, would feel con- tent with the admission of Canada into all the privileges of suffrage, or partici- pation in the government of the country, when thereby every calculations was up- set and every combination destroyed. Again, the admission of Canada into the. United States would..inyolve the assump- tion of her public debt, 'which 's a very heavy an.c1 increasing one. Ha eng been largely created by expendit re for a great system of public works and the perfection of the meaes of co munica- tion extending from the Atlan lc to the Pacific, the obligations incurr d would have to be adjusted, and he assets assumed in a manner entirel different from that which has grown u with the growth of each State and erritory. Aside from these difficulties, s hurried- ly sketched, there are numer us other considerations which make it 'mpossible that Canada could with adv nto,ge be admitted into political union with the United States. The chief of: these ob- jections, however, does not rest with the United States but lies i the fact that Canada herself is strongly opposed to a political alliance. other on the broad continent of North America, the vast products of which are the rightful heritage of all who occupy any portion of it. But it may well be asked, how is if possible to provide for an alliance so close that both countries may so greatly benefit, and yet be politi- cally separated? Is it not possible that Ohio and Onterio may interchange each other's products to great mutual adhn- tage, and be as closely intimate in com- mercial matters as Ohio and Pennsyl- vania, and yet be politically different and under different forms of government. • Some will ask how it is possible that the Republican form of government in Ohio can assimilate so ciosely with the Mon- archical form of gOvernment in Ontario4 that the closest commercial relations may ,exist? The reply is that forms of goy - eminent have nothing whatever to do with the quality of the iron which Can- ada possesses up the Valley of the Trent, and which she is very anxious should be sent to Cleveland to smelt and market for her. The coal which Ontario wants, and wants badly from Pensyl- vania, possesses no greater advantage because it was mined under a republic and is to be consumed under a monarchy. So with everything else. The same pro- fit that comes with the vast internal trade between the States would come with trade between the States and Can- ada, if all the barriers between the two countries were removed. Suppose that Canada really sought for admission to the Union, which she is not doing or likely to do, the chief advantage which would come to her would be that which would result from an open market among sixty millions of people for her products. The advantage which the United States would gain by this admis- sion of Canada into the nation, and dividing her territory into half a dozen great States, would be that her vast stores of raw products ivould be made freely accessible, and so available that her own people could go in and possess themselves of these riches. Now, it is claimed that under Commercial Union this would follow jest as freely, and just as completely, as it would under political union. It can be successfully maintain- ed that by a uniform tariff against all the rest of the world, and complete and unrestrintecl intercourse throughout the continent of North America, all the vast riches that North America, possesses are available to all the inhabitants thereof, no matter where they may be. Mr. Wiman's argument is that the full advantages of free trade liberty to buy and to tell whenever there is mutual advantage in so doin —can be attained without any changes f existing political •relations. The following ex- tract makes his idea clear; What is there in a political alliance with Canada, so far as commercial ad- vantage is concerned, which would not now be possessed by this country if the relation existing between the two coun- tries was that of a purely business part- nership ? Do not men with different religious belief join each other in busi- ness pursuits, and achieve fortunes? Do not communities widely different in race, religion, and even color, trad freely and with profit? Suppose that so far as trade and commerce were concerned every barrier was broken dow , and that the interchange of commoditi between the United States and Caned was just as free and unrestricted as it s now be- tween the States of the Un'on, would not the profit on that trade e just as acceptable and just us advan ageous as the profits on the trade betw en States themselves? If the manu adturer of agricultural implements in,0 do, or else- where, could sell the prod et of his establishment in Manitoba, a d through- out the Canadian Northwest erritories, without let or hindrance, is te not bene- fitted to au extent just as gre t as if he sold his wares to the farmer oi Minne- sota or Dakota? If the boot and shoes, which are made at Haverhill or Roches- ter, or the collars and cu's that are made at Troy, yield as good return to the manufacturer, it matters not to him whether they are worn by a Tory or striking Mr. Ireland. several times. He Liberal in Ontario, or by a Democrat or had to be caaried home but is doing well. Republican in Michigan. T ade knows —At the Clinton woolen mills some no political boundaries, and in this age cloth was left out on the stretchers to it is trade that we are all trade of Great Britain -has b tremely profitable one, but been confined by any means with which she has been poli nected. The kind of union can make the United States one is a Commercial Unio which knows no barriers, so merce is concerned, a unio freedom in its highest fore freedom in transactions one recently been attending the Normal. She is an excellent teacher and the Wal- ton trustees have made a judicioug selection. ,-h-The annual fall fair of the Turn - berry Agricultural and Wingham Horti- cultural Secieties will be held in the Horticultural park in Wingham on September 27th and 28th. —Mr. Robert Cooper'of Usborne, has purchased the Hodgins farm on the 2nd concession of Biddulph, 100 acres for $6,800. If it is ars.good as a majority of the farms in Usborne it is cheap enough. —The fruit growers association at London has appointed Magnus Swanson, of Goderich, to seleet the fruit for can- ning Purposes.' for the Colonial Exhibi- tion. He shipped a consignment Thurs- day of last week. —The other day, while Miss Alice Cottle, of Clinton, and her mother were walking along the railway track near that town, the former slipped irapassing a cattle -guard and fell into it, with the result that her collar bone was fractured. —The Brussels Council is trying a sample stone street crossing between the Garfield•block and Dr. Graham's block, by way of experiment. James Kelly has the job and is assisted by John Meadows. —The other day as Mr. H. K. Mc- Intosh's horse " Rarus " was speeding on the Exeter course the animal bolted with Squire Leathorn and injured itself so bedly that it had to be killed. All veteri- nary 'skill was of no avail. The animal had to be shot. —On Tuesday of last week, while a couple of the employes of A. J. Snell, merchant tailor, of Exeter, were fooling, a somewhat serious accident happened to Absalom Snell, one of the two. He was thrown on one of the tables, and fell upon a pair of shears which he held in his hand, the shears penetrating his right leg several inches. —On Thursday afternoon of last week the been of John Hildebrant,three miles from Zurich, was destroyedeby fire, with all its contents. The fire started from a spark of an engine. Mr. Alex. Bossen- berry was threshing. The fire spread so rapidly that not even the cleaner could be saved, and it was totally destroyed. Loss about $600 on the barn and $200 on the cleaner. No insurance. —On Monday of last week a five-year- old daughter of Mr. Wm. G. Strong, of Gorrie, fell off a chair and pulled the table over on tnp of herself and cut quite a gash in her head which had to be stitched. On the following Tuesday she fell down .Rairs cutting the same wound open again. She is improving as well as can be expected under the circum- stances. —Miss Nina Strachan, of Goderich, had a narrow escape from severe injury while out driving on Monday evening of last week. The horse became frightened at something, and after kicking the front of the carriage to pieces ran away, but Miss Strachan fortunately was able to jump out at the beginning of the trouble, and thus, no ddubt, saved her- self. —Last week Police Magistrate Wil liams levied fines for violations of the Scott Act to the amount of $1,000. Three of the cases were for a second offence and in another after the hotel keeper had sworn that he sold no liquor he was caught in a tight place and admitted that he had sold it. He was fined $50 and costs and it would have served him right if he had been indicted for per- jury. —Mr. A. Couch's slaughter -house, just outside of Clinton, is supposed to be securely locked every night, never- theless ono night recently some tramps made it their headquarters. In the house is a stove, and a dressed beeve had been left hanging till morning. The tramps cut off what beef they wanted for supper and breakfast, and cooked it in a frying -pan they had stolen some- where. —Some person or persons visited the residence of W. F. Vanstone,of Brussels, last Saturday, obtaining ingress through a window, and after looking through the drawers of a bureau secured $2, after which they decamped. Mr. Vansthne was away at Boston and the thief evi- dently knew it. People should be on the alert for these prowlers and make' them acquainted with 20 or 30 grains of IT is said to be an ill wind that blows no person good,. The statement comes from Chicago that, owing to the exces- sive drought, the losses of live stock in the beef -producing states of the west have been enormous, amounting to about a million and a half head of cattle. If this be even approximately correct, the now depressed ocean cattle trade of the Dominion may be expected to revive be- fore long. The stock -raising indu ry 31 of Canada has not been materiall n jured by the drought. • News of the Week. A BEEP FAMINE. —A beef famine is anticipated in the Western States. STILL HOLDING out.—Zanzibar de- spatched say that Emin Bey is well and is still holding out. _ Russian LOAN. —It is reported that a new Russian loan of £6,000,000 has been negotiated in Paris. PICKED Ur.—The missing passengers and members of the crew of the City of Montreal have been picked up. RUSSIA PLOTTING AGAIN.--RUssia is reported as about to adopt the plan of preventing any Bulgarian legislation under Prince Ferdinand. MR. GLADSTONE DEFEATED.— Mr. Gla,detone's League resolution was de- feated in the House of COM/110118 the other night by a majority of 78. AN ENCOUNTER WITH INDIANS.—Sheriff Kendall's posse had an encounter with the Utes Thursday last, wheu. one of his men was killed and several wounded.. A NEW AliOUMENT.—London Union- ist papers- are using the Manitoba dist pute as an argument against Mr: Glad stone's home rule scheme. AN ATTEMPT ON THE CZAR. —It is rei ported in Berlin that a fresh attempt was made to kill the Czar on the 20th inst. A Nihilist, disguised as an officer of the Guards, approached the. Imperial carriage on a journey from St. Peters- burg to Krasnoesels, and fired a revolver twice. The first shot missed the Czar, but the second perforated his coat. The Czarina has since been suftering fromnervous prostration. THE RED RIVER VALLEY RAILWAY.— In the English House of Commons on Monday, Sir Henry Holland, the Colon- ial Secretary, reed a communitation from Lord Lansdowne relative. to the Manitoba railway. It denied the report about Sir John Macdonald threatening to apply for Imperial troops. It added: —"The Provincial Act for the construc- tion of the Red River railway was dis- allowed by me on the advice of myse- sponsible advisers, on the ground. that it would tap the Canadian Pacific railway, which is not yet fully established, and would seriously injure the interest of the whole country, which had 'submitted to large sacrifices in order to unite the Provinces by a national road. The Pro- vincial Government are proceeding with the line. under the Public Works Act, but an injunction has been obtained by the Canadian Pacific railway e My Gee,- ernment have not interfered except by disallowance." October. Mr. Burchill was selected from among 62 applicants, and we be- lieve the schoel board made a judicious choice. The 141aries asked by those who applied - for the position ranged from $375 to $550. —On Thursday morning of last week a reception was tendered Rev. J. T. Legear and bride at the parsonage at Ethel on their arrival home from their bridal tour. About seventy people, young and old, Methodists and Presbye terians, assembled and enjoyed a very pleasant time. After supper the even- ing was spent in social chitchat and get- ting acquainted with one another. Rev. Mr. Legear expressed his thanks to the friends for their kindness in thus we1- c9ming his bride and himself to Ethel. —During the storm of Thursday after- noon of last week the house of Mr. D. McCorvie, of Clinton, was struck by lightning " and slightly injured. The electric fluid entered the chimney and passed down through the pipes and stove, burning, a hole in the zinc and then passing through a hole in the floor into the cellar, but doing no particular damage beyond knocking the stove -pipe all over the room. The family were all away at the time it happened, but the accident was seen by persons working close by. —There died in Morris, on August 200, Margaret Clark, wife of the late Wm. Clark, at the great age of 100 years and 6 months. Deceased was born in the County of Londonderry, Ireland, and removed with her parents ewhen quite young to the County of Mayo, near Castlebar, where she lived until the year 1851, when she came to. Can- ada, coming with her son, Wm. Clark, to the township of Morris in the year 1855, where she had lived till her death. She was always a staunch member of the Church of England, kind and good to the poor, and her end was peace. —One clay last week ,Mr. Thomas Walsh, of East Wawanotth, near 13e1 - grave, died very suddenly. It appears he was engaged drawing manure, and had just got on the load after coming out of the house when he dropped dead. Mr. Walsh was about 62 years of age, and was an old and highly respected. resident of the township. His sudden demise has cast a gloom over the neigh- borhood in which he resided, and his wife and family have the heartfelt sym- pathy of all in their sad bereavement. Heart disease is supposed to have been the cause of death. —One of the most respected and esteemed young women of Meliillop, in the person of Mrs. David Ross, died on Sunday morning of last week. She gave birth to a daughter about ten days pre- vious to her death, and had not recover. ed from the effects of her confinement. Nothing serious was anticipated until a short time before her death, inflamma- tion having set in. The news of her death was so unexpected that a great many could not at first realize it. She was the second daughter of Mr. Roder- ick Ross, of the 3rd concession of Stan- ley, and had been married only about two years. She was highly esteemed by all who knew her, both in Stanley and McKillop, and her sudden death is a sad blow to her many friends. —The Wingham Times says: On Tuesday evening last a young man who claimed to be a doctor and hails from out west, made hie appearance on the market square, and commenced selling medicine. To draw a crowd he com- menced singing Songs and telling funny stories to amuse his audience. After a while, however, he commenced giving away what he claimed to be gold watches to every purchaser of a $1 bottle of medicine. Nearly every man on the square invested, imagining that he was going to get a handsome gold watch for a dollar. However the elegant gold watches turned out to be of the purest brass, with ao works. If any of the purchasers are asked anything about it they will claim they bought it for the medicine and not the watch. —A very interesting social event took place in Blyth on Wednesday of last week, the marriage of Miss Alice Grace Sloan, daughter of Dr. Sloan, of that place, to Mr. Emil Geo. Hess, of Toronto. The marriage ceremony was performed at the residence of the bride's father by Rev. A. McLean, pastor of the Presby- terian church, in the presence of 35 or 40 friends of both the contracting parties, The esteem in which both are held was well exemplified by the large number of very beautiful and costly presents made to the bride. The wedding cake, which was furnished by Mr. D. Chamberlin, was pronounced by all to be the hand- somest they had ever seen. The newly wedded couple left on the evening train for a trip to Quebec, and will return to Toronto, where they will reside: 'We unite with their many friends in wish- ing them a long, prosperous and happy wedded life. Huron Notes. There have not been any appeals en- tered against the voters' list of Hullett for the Current year. —Miss • "McCannel, of Exeter, has about here the peo-ple not feeling the necessity of it, being able any moonlight night to cross the river and take in -week's supply. The greatest drawback to this part is the lack of interest taken in stock. As long as the cow gtees milk it makes no difference whether she is great or small, black or white, or no color at all. A thoroughbred animal is a curiosity here almost sa great as the once famous Jumbo. The next draw- back is the scarcity of barns, the farmer here stacking his grain with as muchl contentment as a Huronite has putting it in his barn. But the land being of first-class quality, aa- getting opened up and drained more every year, conb billed with the shipping facilities, having either railway or water, these two di- _ culties can easily be overcome if the . farmers would only see the necessity of it and the benefit derived by having .good stock. HENRY JOHNSON. buck shot. —The people of Morris were very much surprised to hear that Thomas Walsh, a resident of that section for over twenty years, had dropped dead while working in the field the other day with his son. He had been in apparent- ly good health and the shock was con- sequently all the more severe to fris family. A. wife and ten children are left to mourn his decease. Mr. Walsh was 61 years of age. —Mr. J. W. Shaw, principal of the Blyth school, has tendered his resigna- tion and it will come into effect in October. Mr. Shaw intends entering on the study of medicirte and Will attend the Medical College this fall at Toronto. He has been a very shccessful pedagogue and we have no doubt but that greater success will attend him when he has M. D. attached to hie name. ' What might have been a serious accident happened on Monday of last week, when Robert J., son of Joseph Clegg, drover of Moeda, was returnieg after leaving his !lather at Brussels. While crossing the bridge opposite Mr. Somerville's, a plank broke and the horse's two front feet went down throw- ing it on its head. I The result of the accident was a broken shaft and some .broken harness along with some had bruises on the horse. —A man named Itlichael Kenney, of Kintail, in the township of Ashfield, appeared before Police Magistrate Wil- liams in Clinton last week and pleaded guilty to the charge of selling liquor contrary to the provisions of the Scott Act. He was fined 1550 and costs. It seems that•Kenney keeps a small black - been engaged to take charge of the mil- smith shop in the place and combined linery department in Mr. McKinnon's with his occupationi of fashioning iron store, Blyth. that of dealing in forty rod. The fine —While I. Ireland, of Wingham, was will kill a year's prOfits. engaged in shoeing a horse the other —Last week's Goderieh Signal says : day, the- animal commenced kicking, A fakir calling himself " Doctor Red- wing," who arrived. by boat from Sarnia Saturday last, performed the bogus watch act on a lot of our gullible resi- dents on the evening of that day. It is said he took in over $100. Constable en an ex -sharp knife cut half a dozen large holes Yule should have treated the fraud and it has- not to nations ically con - ,1.... fter. The dry over. Sunday, and some one with a in the cloth, thereby destroying it. his black and white accomplices after —Miss Hillen, daughter of Mr. James the summary fashion.in which he dealt Haien, of McKillop, has been engaged with the thimblerigger on the 12th of as principal of Walton -Public School for July. nd Canada next year in place of Mr. McIntosh, who —Mr. A. M. Burcihill, who has taught , a union goes to the Normal School. Miss Mc- in the ,IcGowari settlement, West ar as corn- Dougall, the present assistant, has been Wawauosh, for several years, giving the in which re-engaged at an advance of salary. utmost satisfaction, has been engaged as prevails, !, Miss Hillen formerly taught as an principal of the Blyth Public. School, an with an- assistant in Walton school and has and will commence duties the 1st of The Seaforth Races. The races held on Fairview Park on Friday last sere eminently successful, so far as the sport was concerned, but the crowd of spectators was not so large as on some former occasions. The (ley was clear, cool, and pleasant, and the track in splendid condition. Every- thing passed off very quietly, and there was no unseemly conduct of any kind. The races were all well filled, evenly contested and interesting. The first race on the programme was the TUBER MINUTE TROT For a purse of $125. In this race there were five horses entered but only three started, as fellows : Wm. Pialeney's brown stallion, "Robert Bonner," R 13ossenberry's black mare, " Maud B," and Dr. Whiteman's white gelding, " White Ned." From .the first it wee evident that the race would be 'between the stallion and the mare. They both worked well, the mare taking the first two heats and the horse the next two. The fifth. heat Bonner kept well to the front, until the last quarter, when he was overhauled by the mare and they were coming up the home stretch neek and neck, the mare gradually working to the front. At this juncture the eer of "White Ned," who seem. e,: to be an adept at the mud road beetles of a rural twenty fourth of Itley celebration, but to have little' lusowledge of the rules which govern a properly regulated driving track, whip- ped his horse into a run and crowded in ahead of both the other horses and passed under the wire first. For this conduct the judges declared the heat a " dead heat' and "distanced"White Ned. The sixth heat was won by " Bonner" in good style. 4 SUMMARY, Robert Bonner 2 2 1 1 d. h. 1.—jt Maud B. . 1 1 2 2 d. h. 2 -2nd White Ned. . 3 3 3 -3 —die. Time. -2 45-2.46-2.48-2.46-2.48-2.64. TWO TI3IRTY-FIVE TROT. The next was a race for horses that had never beaten 2.35, and was for a purse of $200. This was one of the most interesting races ever trotted. on Fair- view Park. Five horses entered and aii started. The horses were as follows ; Along the Frontier. WALL.tessunc, August 22, 1S87. DEAR EXPOSITOR,—I am a Huren boy from Morris, and your paper is like a letter from home. At present I am en- gaged with the London Loan Company of Canada, London, Ontario, looking after and selling farms under mortgage foreclosure. At the time of writing I have four farms in hand, containing in all 598 acres, more or less, improved lands. The fall wheat in. this immedi- ate vicinity is turning out better than in either Huron or Middlesex, here going 26 bushels per acre l while in Middlesex this year it is 22, and I see by your paper that in Huron it will barely reach 20. There is a small acreage of wheat sown here; the principal crops being corn and beans. The Deans are good, but owing to the very dry summer the corn will not be up to the usual average, though where it was planted early it is looking splendid. On the estate of Mr. Clancey, M. P. P., there are 84 acres of corn, 34 of which is looking better than any other in the settlement. The prin- cipal export of this port is theber, and it is well that the expokation duty was not placed on elm logs, as it would have killed the chief industry, making a few mill -owners rich at the expense of the farmers. All summer the Sydenham river has been alive with -huge rafts of logs bound for Detroit and other places acroes the lines principally. One raft- ing gang informed me a few days ago that it will take them till about the first of November to water all the logs they have to handle this season. Times lia-ve not been SO good on the water during the last ten years as they are this year. The St. Clair river is the scene of ever moving vessels; one day, in nine hours, 110 craft, great and small, passed. Port Lambton bound on business or pleasure. Commercial Union is very little talked " Post Boy," owned hy Hodgins & James, London; "Billy M.," by J. H.' Nielton, Newburg; Rosy 13,," by Thos. Hetherington, Cedar Springs e. "Florence. G.," by . George Whiteley, Seaforth ;." Mollie B.," by J. Stafford, St. Marys. At the commencement of the race Post Boy and Mollie B. were the favorites, -the former taking first and the latter second place in the Bret heat. - In the second heat pretty much the same order was kept for the first round, with all the horses close together, but on the second round "Florence G." came to the front, and up the home stretch it was neck and neck between the three horses, " Post Boy" coining under the wire half a neck ahead of "Florence G.," but was set back by the judges on account of his driver slashing his whip contrary to ruks. At the close of this heat the backers of " Rosie B," • tomplained that her driver was holding her, and asked to have him -changed. A - Dew driver was put on, and strange to say she won the heat although it was very close between her, "Florence G." and "Post Boy." She was never able to keep her place again, however, and in the last heat her old driver was allow- ed to take her. The. next two heats were won by " Florence 0." the lastone being a very close one. It wee quite evident, however, that she was ilecided- ly the fastest animal on the ground. When she liked, it seemed little trouble for her to leave daylight between herself and all the others. She is ugly to start, and as a result she always comes up to the score some lengths behind the others. This put her at a great disadvantage. Had she got a good send off it is every way probable she would have won the race in three straight heats, but as rt wsa she was uncertain and consequently the race was rendered all the more inter - • esting. SUMMARY. Florenco G l'ost Boy Rosie 13 Mollie 13 Billie M....... ham. 2.:4p3123,.319:_ist and several 2.45. There were four horses catered, .1:1.1rdd 3 5 4 2 This race was for a purse of $1,Z, 5 4 4 drawn THE TWO FORTY-FIVE TROT. open to horses that had never beaten but only three started. These were "St. Thomas Boy," owned by Forbes & Donovan, Seaforth; " Rising Sun," hy Dr. Ball, St. Marys, and " Fear Naught Chief," a bay stallion owned by James Berry, Hensall. It_ was also a very evenly Contested and interesting race. In each heat there was a severe struggle for firstplace between Rising Sun and the stallion, while St. Thomas Boy made a good third every time, and could he have been brought doesea to his work he evidently had the speed to make it hot enough for his competitors. , The other horses, however, did good, honest work, and in each heat it Wafi close contest between Rising Sun and Fear Naught Chief. Sometimes one would be leader and sometimes the other but the etallion was invariably collared on the home stretch, and in three heats hci(smsopponentrir)tehraotn,ihmeiviyhtlatyr:1,11 Jen' sr cianiml. potedtedsd. tliitutliensgsh1;)ewc(filigdoosdpl burstseticiill;f a heavy season and only had a few day's Thne.-2,441-2.45 -- 2.141—.2; .1, 21 .1, Rising. Sun Fear -naught (Ilia Wilson, Stratford, and A. Roe, WIng- versal satisfaction : A. Essen and James 3-2rd St. Thmims1;oy all seemed to be thoroughly pleased. This race finished the day' e sport and The following gentlemen acted as judges and they appeared to give uni- • WrOXet 01 Ai: they ern 1obert Mil :".161581:tailed t efear7ii Mari:, 0 aroup of their furl d cxpcct Ir scoaesesee,e3f ztiattlhaetesirreir:deeatrhtia: eote tut ,:rifeetcerhpiimraioirsitebtzre.eofr ,i for ufor feveGi:soe: yhood's hills and v weetelb'y umber so min illnurrsailysasixon3, 101.„ nv *I" eff anrbteSesenria:f ezh25ur,ehte 88 CO by his co with ulin Itiormseetila°41)arno0;;Ilawduba;:eelFvehtrhitrgeav;islAeynPitrargare;lie'nerirlse:1111 besikeesabhise:teinprelietaitiwilasc:uccrucap:n1d,.1 Os bpi Rev,. Mr. Smith WI' tbeYothodist church wa in and petted about lield last Wednesds brick hovuLmir:liTTOISteetr% ram and is an ornuan7t11 Ls : n Ing another storey to ,4 ombeanaof dt tehpr eiya iilnlatfg for full r the M eed granulated ineaI., it' toots of the flour mill, fellow & Howson, ar.e te teofintomhbetriteisaotrintri,nohtayhtioerniro.ofiftitil ewe& of 'this place. Mr erell-known in this locahigbiv l reeommended as e a miller anda square TUrnberr je:oits:rirdreEyl: v eL"' Eei. eoi frs'ar: on the ni MUSidal an voininstlirfetgAhrthty,s;:tpLireilitEcEoheuax.AesesmcesAarsehnb rysler,Miss 1 le3n't reading md ir/st,h ir es .D nAffle yis s eBbna rna Itienufrey thought that I AB" caught a fowl," and on4istealingab so were indeed andnel Aggie Caldwell and Mr jr., favoredd the compel tion each, both of whin eeived. Songs were givi Caldwell, Miss Wylie, Bentley, Messrs. John al Ai% and others, all bell tributions to the even and edification. we w with instrumental inuS sings. Two dialogues' make up a fair variety programme. The presi verbal synopsis of Arl Scales," that all enighl eiple contained there views for the Literal', Whisperedaround that hem are agitating for talent nte nionnaghho iunt tthher is an excellent coneert, it will be well patroniz I ean promise an A I next meeting will be ing of the 9th of Sepal elceneueeiene! toMurils.jeChaladleiver ed A more pleasant forveenYilg,eolids e ungPel°P 1 et:reser:ill we hope the members' persevere in the goe. affording themselves n eel improve their DI and give pleasure to o Zuri< : BARN BURNED. —Or while Mr.Alex. Bossel irtg for Mr. John utiles west of Zuricb. fite, and the flames That nothing could be, The barn and: the el Were completely eons nstor wals also burned, saved. It is a. bad _ brand, as he had no il PERSONALS. —Mrs. L. Ziller and B. OrtW el the excursion to ti day and spent Sun Buffalo, returning I iflii.ghlYehdieerligol;tet'llse ILI rt . has been in Miehig, tit. five months, retu t)'. He has purely ihtends removing t few weeks, to mak -1--Mr3. David B. (In tin last week, on a Iter son's wife, who frem the effects of teoeived,—Mr. We IoIs toW as been here atten r four wee'ks, ha: n s 1 Indisaia...---Mran eneut a few days Ooderich last wee n8Man, Mr. R. 1 and family of New ignests of Messrs,. 1. all look well and le ations are being in• to he held Ilert-' lin- September. Bel 13ARG A I NS, Barn below cost, liar - Pelt Hats, 1,roclo acid to make ro(4,1i 1%, and all and .sul,e -DOTs.--Mr. Met lar tailor, wanti tailoresses the. fi Xi fast for suits ani splenr3id opeeine aied -mantle, make erected a nice of his sister Mini farmer harvesting now, as out end find the yi Peeted.—A.-raylo Moth stock rapidl up the long ere( ruinous to neen I goods will be sh