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The Huron Expositor, 1897-06-25, Page 4I 4 esiwiannermemenueiese URON EXI''OSI O NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. itir The lime between the parenthealis after each one. denotes the page of the paper on which the advertisement will be found. Don't Deceive the Public—MalCion3n & Co. (5) Public Netice—A G. Smillie (5) Jubilee Day Aoeounta Settled (8) Cedar Posta—P. Keating (8) ght pron expooitor. SEAPORT'', FRIDAY, June 254t, 1897 The Dominion Parliament. The Dominion Parliament has not yet been prorogued at t6 time of writing. It -was supposed, that Wednesday, at latest, would suffice to get the business all through. A large numbenof the memlecre, relying on this expectation, secured pairs for the re- mainder of the semi* and left for their hoinea on Saturday, bat, judging from ap- epearances, they may have to return* again - It is not the Opposition In the Commons that is the trouble this time, but the Op- position in the Senate. In so far as the Cominons is concerned, the Government seem to have stolen the clothes of the Op- position, or if not thiaithey have, at any rate, destroyed their thunder. The largest and, most expensive schemes of the Govern- ment this session are the enlargement of canals ; the fast steamship service ; the Crow's Nest Pass Railway, and the exten- sion of the Intercolonial. Railway to Mont- real. The first three of these are projects which the Opposition, when in power, had in view, and the present Government now not only purpose to carry them out, but have arranged for them on a much cheaper scale than the late Government had. Con_ sequently, the Opposition had no resource Iefe but to quietly approve of them, and tthe Opposition with which the Government were met did not come from the Conserva- tives, but from their own friends. We, therefore, had the unusual spectacle of the regular Opposition voting for and speaking in favor of Government measures, while ;supporters of the Government not only spoke but voted against them, as was the ease on the fast steamship agreement. The Oppositioni, however, bitterly opposed the scheme for the extension of the Interoolon- ial Railway to Montreal, which is, in our opinion, the least objectionable of them all, and, as they have not strength enough to *feat it themselves, they are working their friends in the Senate, to get them to do what they can no do themselves. It in likely, therefore, that the Intercolonial ex- tension bill, although passed in the Com- mons, will be vetoed by the Conservative majority in the Senate. Should thia the re.sulti it is possible that the Crow's - Nest taas Railway bill will be withdrawn by the Government, as the talk is that the passage of' the one scheme is contingent on the passing of the other. There may, there- fore, he live timesin store yet for the poli- ticians at Ottawa. The Intercolonial Railway. One of the big schemes that has been* put through the Dominion Parliament during the session just closed, is ehat for the ex- tension of the Intercolonial Railway to the city of Montreal. The raiiway, as every t person knows, is owned by the country and has been run by the Government ever since its construction. It has been a white elephaat on the hands of successive Govern- ments and has been run at a loss varying from twenty thousand • to fifty thousand dollars a year. The road is 1,200 miles long. It commences at Halifax and tenni: nates at a small village in the Province of Quebec, on the banks of the St. Lawrence, some 175 miles from the city of Montreal. Why it was made to terminate here no one - seems able to explain. It will thus be seen that while its eastern terminus is at a har- bor open to 9aean-going vessels ali the year round, it had, practically, no western terminus, and as a consequence was used only for local traffic. The present Govern- ment contend that this is the principal reason why the road has not paid, and they now purpose to extend it to Montreal, the largest diatribating centre in Canada, so that it can secure its legitimate share of the through Eraffic of the country. To secure his result they had to adopt. one of two schemes, viz., to build 175 miles of line to Montreal at a cost of about fifteen mil- lions of dollars, or lease existing lines and faeilities for a payment of so miich per annum. This latter is what the Govern- ment propose to do and what Parliament has authorized them to do. This errange- ment will require an annual payment from the Government of $210,000, of which $146,000 will be perpetual. The Govern- ment consider, however, that through securing connection with Montreal, they will not only make the Intercolonial a pay- ing line, but that it witll yield, a dividend sufficiently large to datirely make up for the increased outlay, as the Drummond County Railway, which they practically - buy, yielded a clear profit last year of thirty thousand dollars. It is a bold scheme, and it may pay. We hope,. hew - ever, that it is net throwing good money after bad. A year or so wiU show whether or notahis will be the Case. The details of the Government plan are as follows : (1) TO pay the Drummond County Railway Co. $64,000 a year for 99 years, for their 115 miles of line from Chaudiere to St. Rosalie, at the end of which period all payments cease and the road becomes the property of the people of Canada, free from all eneum brances. Of this line 42 miles are not' completed. The company agrees to buil d that portion equal to the standard of the Intercolonial, and hand over the finished road in first-class order by November 1st next. per annum for the half undivided ownership of their line from St. Rosalie to Victoria bridge, $40,000 per annam for the perpet- nal use of Victoria bridge, $62,500 per annum for the unlimited use of stations and all terminal facilities at Montreal, and $6,000 per annum for the use of the ehaediere bridge to donnect with the Inter. col ial from Levis. The Grand Trunk Rail,way firther agrees to deliver or receive all freight for or coming from the Inter - colonial atildontreal upon terms whaoh are eguivalentlo free runniug rights over the One of the First Fruits of the New Tariff. A large wholesale and export firm of London, England, established since 1814, writes us as follows : THE PROPRIETOR, E.XPOSITOR, SEAFORTH, CANADA. DEAR SIR,—The new tariff regulations which your Government proposes to adopt, have naturally excited an immense &meant of interest among the traders and manufac- turers of thisimountry. Perhaps no other action in -this, the celebration year of Her Majesty's diamond jubilee, will be so appre- elated in the mother country nor found so far-reaching in its benefits, not only in the increased commons which will result, but also in its significant)* as to the nature of the ties which (mitt between Great Britain and her colonise We believe that there will be a general movement amongst merchants in order to take advantage of these preferential regula- tions, and we may look forward to an amount of *business between the two coun- tries many times exceeding that of past years. This will probably lead to a large number of British -firms advertising in the Canadian press, andeur object in writing you is to see if we can arrive at Oome arrangeinent whereby this can be thoroUghly seen after in our mutual interests. We shall be glad, therefore, to know what special terms you can put us on for European advertisements, and shall be pleased to consider any suggestion that you may have to offer. Editorial Notes and Comments. Premier Hardy and two of his colleagues, Hon. Mr. Harcourt, Provincial treashren and Hen. Mr. Dryden, Minister of Agrioul- tore, addressed very successful meetings last waek, at Lancaster, in the county of Glengarry ; at Carlton Place, in the county of °Lanark, and at Pembroke, in the county of Renfrew. At all the places they were warmly received and greeted by immense In his address at Renfrew the other day. Hon. Mr. Harcourt, Provincial treasurer, gave utterance to an important truth -which ie too frequently lost sight of by many pre-' pin He said : "'We rejoiced at the hon- ors that were being paid the Hon. Mr. Laurier,ibut we should remember that the chief factor in the greatness of this Domin- ion was the greatness of this the premier Province, and the two men who had done most to make_ it great were Sir Oliver Mowat and his first lieutenane and succes- A special despatch from Winnipeg to the Toronto Globe, on Saturday last, says : " It ia stated on good authority that Monsignore Merry del Val has approved of the school Jaw and regulations of Manitoba, and that, in accordance with its decision, the Catho- lics ot the Province will accept public schools. This will, of course, end the pub- lic school controversy so far as the Province is concerned." On the propesal of the Dominion Govern- ment to grant a -bonus of $500,000 a year for a fast steamship service across the Atlantic, being submitted iao Parliament last week, the three members for Huron, Meier& Cam- eron McDonald and McMillan aind the and the member for South Perth, MraErb, all voted against it, while Messrs. MdDon- ald, McMillan and Ratz spoke against it as well as voted against it. They did right. The scheme, however, carried by a large majority, only one Conservative voting against it. $500,000 a year is a big sum to pay for the " luxury " of a fast steamship service, as Sir Rtchard called it. It* is buy- ing time at too high a price. The Toronto Mail says that the Liberals won in the recent Provincial elections in Nova Scotia and Quebec, " by declaring that large sums of money would be taken from the Federal treasury and devoted to Provincial purposes. Nova Scotia is prom- ised $1,350,000, which sum the party leader said would, if he were elected, be got from Ottawa and distributed among the peeple for road making. Quebec, on its side, is' to receive a larger subsidy." The old Mail is a good yarn maker. Another county treasurer, the . tresaurer of the county of Simms, has skipped out, and is said to be a defaulter to the tune of thirty thousand dollars or more. It is also eaid that although the auditors were sup- posed to have done their work every year, the items in the ledgers have not heen checked over for ten years. The treasurer was in the habit of preparing a _statement for the auditors, which they exaniined and took it fopgranted that the man was hon- est and everything was all right. It would seom as if a Provincial auditor had not been appointed any too soon. _ The Reformers of North Perth did a good day's work at their convention last week, when they -nominated Hon. Thomas Ballan- tyne as their candidate for the Provincial Legislature. North Perth has been repre- sented for two Parliaments by -Mr. Thomas he is on the wrong side of politics. '.Mr. -Ballantyne es one of the ablest men in the Province. He has done as nuich for the agricultural interests as any other man, while the splendid position which Canadian cheese now occupies the British markets is due in a large measure to his enterprise and ability. Mr. Ballantyne has been a true friend to dhe farmers, and the farmers of North Perth should not forget it when he asks them for their votes. In his speech at Lancaster, the other day, Premier Hardy, in comparing the position of the late Dominion Government with that of 'the present Ontario Government, directed attention to the fact that the late Govern- ment at Ottawa was in a perpetual quarrel. Te the country its weakness was everywhere apparent. It steadily lost 'in the bye -elec- tions. Its majorities in the House fell in almost every division. In the Ontario Leg- islature Mr. Hardy pointed out, the Lib- eral majority had steadily increased. This year, the lowest majority wes 13, and that only once. The next lowest was 15, and so on up to 32, and. once near tlied- close of the session to 52, and if the session had lasted a little longer the Government might have got the whole 94. And he might- have pointed out that in the by-elections the Government candidates were returned by majOrities varying from 300 to l,023. In his speech at Pembroke, the other day, Hon. Mr. Dryden pohited out a few of the inaccuracies indulged in by the Opposition- ists when on their recent tour through Western Ontario. For example, one spdaker said that the man employed to purchase cat- I tle for the Government receives a salary of 1 $2,000 per annum, whereas he only receives $900- ; then they said the roadi instructor is paid $1,800, while his salary is '$1,500 ; an- other said the agricultural college cost $97,- 000 a year, whereas its cost has only been 'A London, England, correspondent says : "Mr. Laurier may now be appropriately ree ferred to as Dr. Laurienfor Cambridge Uni- versity has conferred on him the degree of doctor of laws. Asnong the other distin- guished men. singled out for honor was the Marquis of Lansdowne, formerly Governor- . General of Cantina and at present Secretary,. of Statelier War in the Salisbury Adminuo tration. It was quite evident that the -Can- adian Premier WW1 the centre of attraction, and the students, with the irreverence which the highest compliment which they. pay to distinction, were quite as familiarly' Joon- ler as is their wont on such occasions. Barney Barnet°, the great diamond king, committed suicide a few days ago, by jump- - ing from a steamer on which he was a pad senger, from Capetown to Liverpool. He WAR at one Uncle supposed to be the Holiest man in the world, bat of late his wank - tions have not been so successful, and he is supposed to have lost a lot of money, line even yet his estate is said to be worth over fifty million dollars. That should he enough to satisfy the ambition of any man. His ntind is said to have, been unhinged for some time. He was abeut 45 years of age, and commenced life a poor boy. He has been in South Africa 20 years. He leaves a wife and three children. Money won't keep a man living, and it seems it won't even keep him from going crazy and drowning The righteous soul of the Toronto Mail is vexed sadly on account of the adulations be- ing showered upon Hon. Mr. Laurier in the 'old imuntry, and the favorable ' eon:moots vrhioh tide being passed upon the new Do- minion tariff -by the English papers, irre- spective of party. In its dispair it sayel : If British newspaper editors have not time to stud. the Ca,nadian tariff in the original they should pay some attention to Mr. Laurier''s exposition of it or read the article of Sir George Baden-Powell in the Fortnightly Review. Either of these glasses - will show them how much their own com- ments have been beside the mark." Poor _61d Mail, the world is going against' it just now. The London, England, corrospondent of the Toronto Globe writes, on the 22nd inst., as follows : It is well understood here that Premier Laurier accepted the distinc- tion of Knighthood from her Majesty only because it was the personal wish of the Queen that he should do so, and I may add that if her Majesty's desire had been fully realized the Canadian Premier would have receive yet higher honors. The Premier's title is the Right Hon. Sir Wilfrid Laurier, G. C. M. G. Sir Wilfrid received to -day a cablegram 'of congratulation, from fifty thousand Freneh-Canadians m Chicago. While all this will, in a measure, be very gratifying to the people of Canada, we do not supplesethey will think one whit more of their Premier with this formidable prefix and cabalistic tail to his name, than they did when he was plain Wilfrid Laurier. Mr. Andrew Pattullo, M. P. P. for South xford, contributes a vigorously -written article to the current Westminster, calling attention to the urgent need of good com- mon roads in Canada, and presenting effec- tive arguments in that behalf. If, -he says : " Good roads are the index and the agent of civilization, judged by this criterion Can- ada has scarcely emerged from barbarism. Almost everywhere in the- rural districts the highwags are bad, and neithei they nor our stomas reflect the intelligence and pro- gress of the people." If brother Pattullo will visit this good county of Huron, where the people have reached the highest notch of civilization, he will find roads almost, if not altogether up to his ideal. We are not sure whether the following, which we take from the Toronto Telegram, is intentendecl as a • compliment tip the On- tario Legislature or not. It says : " The Ontario Legislaturea which Sir Oliver Mo- wat ledi we0, with all their faults, super- ior to the Dominion Senate which he now tries to lead. The average standard of ability in the Ontario Legislature, even at the present time, is certainly not below the. average standard of ability in the Senate of Canada. And the Ontario Legislature is not yet controlled to the extent that the Senate is. influenced by the pleadings of peivate ambition and incorporated greed." The people of Bayfield and those interest- ed in that picturesque little village will be pleased to learn that the claims of their harbor have, at length, been recognized by the Dominion Government, and that the supplementary estimates submitted to Par- liament on Friday night contained an ap- propriation of $7,500 to be expended in closing the gap in the pile work on the north side ot the harbor, with crib work. The amount, to be sure, is not very large, but we presume it will be sufficient for the pur- poses required, and that when the contem- plated improvements are completed,Bayfield will have a haebor which will be ac- cessible for vessels at all seasons during The Globe, in discussing the rumor that the Senate intended vetoing the Government bill providing for the extension of the Inter - colonial Railway to Montreal, directs atten- tion to the fact that for twenty years the Senate has been simply a machine for regis- tering the decrees of the Commons, and that if, now that a Liberal Goyernment is in power, it commences to show its teeth and attempts to harass the Government simply to embarass them and in this way accom- plish their defeat, it says, " a new issue will be aaised that can only be settled by the smashing of the institution that stands in the way of the declared will of the peo- ple." It should be i smashed anyway. We do not know that it would be any mode useful as a registering maichine for a Liberal Government than it was when acting in the same capacity for the Conservatives. The Senate should go. It never had any useful- ness to outlive. Her Ma jesty has conferred jubilee honors upon Canadians as follows : The Order of the Grand Cross of St. Michael and St. George has been conferred upon Mr. Wil- frid Laurier, Sir Richard Cartwright and Sir Oliver Mowat. The Order of Knight Oommander of St. Michael and St. George has been conferred upon Lieutenant -Gov- ernor G. A. Kirkpatrick, of Ontario ; he Hon. L. H. Davies and Mri Sandfield Fl m- ing. Deputy Minister J. M. Courtn y, Auditor -General J. L. Macdougall, and been made companions of the Order of qt. Miehael and St. George. Louis Honore Frechette, for his services to Canadian liter- ature, has been made a Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George. Sir Donald Smith, the Canadian High Comm s- sioner in London, has been elevated to t e peerage. Sir Donald Smith will° hereaf er be known at Lord Glencoe, that being the t* le which he has selected. The Chief Jus - ices of Manitoba and Quebec, Mr. Ta nd Mr. Tait, and Mr. Ilitgarty, ex- ief Mice of Ontendo, have been knighted. someomeseomema News of the Week. HAWAII ANNEXED TO THE STATES.-•-•- he treaty has been signed in Washington ann ANOTHER ARBITRATION TREATY.—Prijai- ing Hawaii to the United States. dent McKinley is preparing a new arbitra- tion 'treaty with Great Britain, and a draft will very shortly be submitted to the Eng- lish Government. QUERN'S EYESIGHT 000o.--Theisensation- al stories as to the Queen beifig almOst totally blind are contradicted in London. Her sight is no, »more impaired than iniiht be expected in a woman of. her advanced years. S. MINISTER DEAD. —Hon. John M. Francis, senior proprietor and editor-in- chief of the Troy (N. Y.) Times, and exontn- later of the United States to Austria, °mice and Portugal; died on Friday. Ie CANNOT LAND...- Praticlent McKinley has refused permission to the Compagme Francaise Cable Telegraphique to land tee new cable of that company at Cape Cod, ;or indeed, anywhere upon the United States coast. GOES TO JAIL FOR SPITTING.—W. B. Bradbury, the San Francisco millionaire, will have to serve the sentence a 24 hours' imprisonment in the county jail, imposed upon him by Judge Low recently on Ns Oonviction for the second time for spitting in street cars. noon,15th inst., Bishop John S. Foleteof the Romeo Catholic See of East Michigan,uni d in marriage Count Manfred Von Matusehk , Baron de, Toppeleseenl and ,Spatten, anti Miss Ella Walker, at the residenee of the bride's fathee, Franklin H. Walkee, De- troit. Miss 'Walkee is a granddaughter of Hiram Walker the founder of the great dia.- tillery at Wanterville. The wealth of the Walker family jE estimated at from fifteen to twenty millions. alliauce was formed at Kankakee, Minoan en Friday, when &aleph Dupuis surprised his friends by leading to the altar MissiJosi ephine Huneau. The groom is the smallest man of his age .n the United States, if not in the world, being over 93 years old anl standing only 3 feet 9 inches in height. II has had two other wives, and he is th , father of sia stalwart, eons and one daughte4 all of whom are married. The bride toweri fully eighteen inches above her husband,t and haa only seen 38 springs and a.utumns. She is pretty, shapely and intelligent. MISFORTUNE UPON MISFORTUNE.---MIDOSt thee whole province of Assam has been devastated by earthquakes. The ruin is appalling, the courts treasuries, jails and hospitals having conapeed. The loss of food supplies is enormops. The crops are mostly ruined, and great scarcity of food is expected. All traffic is difficult, as num-, bets of the roads have been completely' demolished. Earthquake shocks continue to be felt in the province of Assam, and re- newed shocks are also reported from various places in Bengal. Heavy rains immensely increase the damage. 1 As INHDHAN WHETcH.-4 bill for divorce has been filed in the Circuit Court at Grand R.apids, Michigan, on behalf of Eliza- P. Raymond against Leander A. Raymond. The plaintiff is only 15 years old and was married a year ago to the defendent, who is an Old rag peddler living near Cedar Springs. The child's father, who was re- cently murdered by his son, went to the county clerk' and gave his consent to the marriage and was drunk for a week after-, wards. Raymond is more than fifty years old, and lived with his child bride only a few weeks when he drove her out of the house with's pitchfork. THE HYENA GOT LOOSE. --Prowling about Graceland cemetery, Chicago, on Tueeday night, "Jim " the big hyena which escaped from Lincoln park by gnawing a hole through the door of his nage, ravaged a number of graves in the burying ground where, with unerring irstiet, he had made his way immediately after his escape, and made night hideous. with his hOwls. Head Keeper Sweeney, of Lincoln park, was no- tified of the animal's whereabouts, and, reinforced by a small army of men and boys, spent the whole day in trying to capture him. , When the police were asked to assist they refused flatly, saying they had no par- ticular objection to) being shot at by bur- eglars, but had an unconquerable prejudice against being echewed by a hyena. i A TREASURE TROVE.—James Arthur, a veteran of the Civil War, now a resident of Buffalo, N. Y., arrived in Superior, Wis- consin, a feve days ago to make inquiries concerning a transaction, dating back nearly 44 years, and to complete arrangements for starting on a mission in quest of a treasure supposed to be sunk at a point not far from La Pointe, Ashland County. According to Arthur's E tory a bag containing $35,000 in gold was buried by Eli Pingers in 1861, and has never been discovered. Pingers was killed during the war and no other person knew where the hiding -place was. A paper has come to light recently, which furnishes a clue to the location of the trea- sure, and Arthur expecte to be richer by $35,000 within a fortnight. The Member For South Huron. The Ottawa Parliamentary Correspondent of the Toronto Telegram gives a brief pen portrait of South Huron's respected repre- sentative in the Dominion Parliament. Al- though in some respects it is.so much over- drawn as to savor of the ludicrous, in othere it is so true to life, and it contains so many grains of truth,that it igworth reproducing. It is as follows : Against the wall futherest from Mr. Speaker in the eaat side aisle is the seat which since the downfall' .of the Tory Government, has belonged to John -McMillan. No sunbeam which finds its way through the stained windows above, ever gladdens the place of South Huron's member. It is too far to the east side, and thus the desk upon which more than once the callous Palms of John McMillan have fallen with the weight and regularity of gen- uine applause is ever dark and gloomy. The clothes which McMillan habitually wears are the colour of stiff, clay loam, through which he has long followed the plough on his own fine farm, in South Huron. To Kirkconnel, of Dumfrieshire, belongs the honour of being the birth -place of South Huron's member. When Victoria ascended the throne of Britain, Mr. McMillan was a raw country youth of fourteen. He is still a farmer, but a discriminating and rewarding neighborhood has not pasted unnoticed the eminent qualities of John McMillan which peculiarly fit him for public life: • He took a big step forward when at the head of the township council table of Hullett he eat as an able reeve. .But the dingy council room of Hullett, even the more spacious assembly room of the county council, was not the end of the ambition of John McMillan. In 1882 a wise constituency sent him down to Ottawa. It waei a fitting reward for a de- serving and an honest man. Above all his' excellent qualities, and they are many, Mc- Millan's honesty is pre-eminent, so much so that South Huron's member has loaf; been known as Honest John McMillan. No man in the House of Commons, not even " Wullie" Gibson, of Lincoln, can talk the broad Scoich, whether in Parliament or out, with the accuracy and fluency of South Huron's worthy representative. Honest John is not ashamed to proclaim before all sent." What McMillan has done in Parlia- ment the press has freely, faithfully re- corded, for his words are never empty. He is not a man who talks for the sake of mak- ing official stenographers work, and accord- with. 0 ing the grand economie principles of Jam er McMullen, would that others in this lieu e of Commons might be able to eay the sam As an orator McMillan has not been a au ess. When any good agricultural aubj ots came up which needed home treat - men McMillan wax never backward. But he is earnest to a fault. The wrongs of the back oodsman the undue favouritism of these of higher tanks stir the good Scot° blood of McMillan to boiling point. Then it is that his tine ideal* bis valued ad- vice, all far short of their mark. For, save to a, ery few, hie worde are lost in the ac- cent Mob, in moments of emotion, will out. • Whe You see the brow of an industrious officia steno re. her lowerin is he fiellows the matorica ow of McM1 lan, know that South Huron's member is agitated for the weal f his constituents, or for the countoye of wid h they form a part. Not until Me - Mills s speech is, over, may applause be heard. There are, no dulls in the storm which McMillen raises against an evil cause or an vil person.. In, his constituency of South uron, McMillan has done deeds of daring which about the hearthstones of his belove electors are told to budding grangers to -day. McMillan is a strong man. Though bowed is shoulders and stiff his walk to- day, t ere was a tune when few but feared, the wr stling grasp of the brawny arms of John afillan. He was afraid neither of man no beast; Records go to prove that his sup emacy over the latter has been even more c mplete. One incident in particular illustra es the lion strength of McMillan. He was leading a bull to water when the animal ecame angered aud turned on him. Twice °Milian was thrown reeling to the ground the hems of the angered beast made t ntative flourishes in -the air; they felt the iloehes of McMillan, but got no fur- ther. 'V ith a vice -like grasp his hands cloned a out those threatening horns, he held the struggling frenzied animal.. And though i the unequal struggle' some three or four if McMillan's ribs were broken, he was hol! ing the enraged brute to the ground Ad a o mpaigner, the deeds of McMillan have gon far and wide in the country. One joke is t ld at his expellee. -Danger threat- ened the iberal candidate in a constituency further n rth. McMillan was called to his aid. He went, he worked hard for the good can e and the Liberal cause triumph- ed. But, Arange to relate, the returns were in one or two districts a mystery. In the very polli g divisions where John McMillan had work d., the Liberal candidate suffered reverses. It was a problem which few could solve. A I might think as they pleased, but who coul say, in the face of a long and brilliant r cord, that John McMillan's good Grit argu ents had coined ballots for his cattelidate' adversary. It was John Mc- Millan hi self who explained the whole " I wen up into those districts," said he, eondeshun vera deplorable. The vote was all agin ou mon. But I went awork, an' it was not 1 ng afore I had things lookin' bright for dm." interrupted an incredulous lis- tener, " e. made a worse showing in those distr cts than we ever did before." " Maybe maybe," answered honest John ; " but look, mon, what it would ha' been gin I never we 't there eh" Accent nd all, there will be sorrow among th e i'vho knew him beat when Honest Joh McMillan gives way, as soon he must, to a -younger, may be an abler, but not a truer man than he who in 1882 was A great lage of Blyt the arrest o McElroy, al village and against the After an , of laist year, 1Jessop, and rested by D Icoaveyed to itbheebntrhoaurgghet, creditors of 'were issued Blyth Sensation. nsation was caused in the vil- on Thursday of last week, by S. Jessop and wife and Mrs. well-known residents of the icinity. The charge preferred was the conspiracy to defraud vestigation of several months which took place in November S. Jessop, his wife, Milesia Irs. John McElroy were ar- tective Patrick Heffernan and derich jail, where they will fore the Police Magistrate on f conspiracy to defraud the ilesia Jessop; The warrants y Police Magistrate Seeger, of ting under instructions from ey Lewis. The prisoners will :the remanded for a week or two before being .brought up f r trial. There are a large •nurnber of•w tnesses to be called, and the trial promise to be decidedly interesting. C EDITORS SUSPICIOUS. i The histor of the investigation has its :curious feat res. Mrs. Milesia, Jessop, trading unde the name of Jessop & Co., ran a general store at Blyth. Jessop him - Soli had prey oiisly been in business on his own account, but had failed, and the busi- ness was tak n over by ,hie wife. She also essigned in N vember last, and the estate *as in stich b d condition that the creditor] leecarne suspi ious that everything was not -right... They thought that there should re goods • in sight than the eitatemept showed, and there were rimers 'cm had been cutting prices A short time previous to the endeavored to purchase onto, but even then some houses refused to sell him, ilton houses were willing to it. At the first meeting of at:the office of Richard Tenn- signee,the assets were shown 74.96, while the liabilities ounted to $3,650.75. Since Mies have been found to ch larger surri, between four nd dollars. have lama' m elso that the extensively. failure Jesso heavily in To local wholesal although Ha give him ere creditors held Toronto, the then known a then the liab amount to e m and five thous the failure, D 'conclusion th eese, was given for the past fo working on the climax Thursda acting under se reSidence of Jeissop's moth was successful residence of goeds of every the store of Jes is eituated et 1 id B1 th, other go The merchansdi CCESSFUL SEARCH. finally decidedto investigate tective Patrick Heffernan, usly brought to a successful 13radley-Clark conspiracy charge of the matter, and r months had been quietly case. The affair reached a , when Detective Heffernan, rch warrants, searched the Mrs. John McElroy, r-imlaw, and the resi- sop himself. The search n both instances. At the ohn McElroy were found ind, similar to those sold at op & Co. McElroy's house t 13, concession 8, township b of the goods were in the a. At Jessop's place, in ds were also discovered. e comprises dry goods, goods, boots, hosiery, sh:,w1s, glasswa e, china, groceries, silver- ware,. gloves, fu s, carpets, lamps, linens and Other arti les. In tfact there were sufficient to stor a sample room at the purchased a tick t for Toronto on Tuesday la.st, but returne to Blyth, and he, with his ;wife and Mr . McElroy, was arrested ThUrsday mor The McElroys own three large farm in the neighborhood of Blyth. Mr. J. Shaw,of Smellie & Shaw, Toronto, will conduct the trial on behalf of the 'creditors. 0 her goods are supposed to be Missing and i is thought that these may have been c rted acroas the country to tobe. A permit ill be asked of the _ Cana- dian Pacific offiei Is to examine the books at Wingham. 0 T ON BAIL. The parties abo e named came up for a Seeger, at Goderi h, on Saturday, and were .adniitted ito bail o $2,000 each until to -day, i(Friday), when th ir trial will be proceeded 4 JUNE 25, 1891 EOPL LXCE FOR • May a month of 'big business, and we wa0 to make June a month of bia selling too. We opened the season with an,exceptionaliY heavy stock, and. al- though al large quantity of Spring Goods have beim "soldil there is still a yery good assortment of Sr,-6imer Goods to sell. The continued coldnelss of the weather has pro- longed tlik sale o prmg Goods, and re- tarded the sale of Summer Goods, so much so, that from eve,ry appearance the season will be phort, ailad the Selling of Summer Goods of ttecessity have to be done quickly. To affect a'spo dy clearance we are pre- pared to gell EAP. HOSIERY. We have never had a .)etter st,Or. to pick from:, All sizes in almost olYery kind required—Coltoi; Lisle, Qash- mere and Silks. The value we are giving in Ladies' Ilosier)t from. iqd to 25c per pair is soniething dietra, Children's 'Hosiery cheall to. PORSETii . A large assortment of good fit ing Corsets in stock. The materia161 are -the best, colors, white, fawn and Prices from 35c to $2 each. almost every width and shade, in th Silk and Satin. There le some .4 ht shades for trimming, wh,2.h are bOing sold far below their value MILLINER There will be quite a stir this m in the Millinery room. 'Oere are - of Hats to sell, and we &MI intend, carry them over, we depend upon low prices to sell them. th to Light ground Print, an several d lines of washing m.aterial n put on ,a counter by theMselves,-. d. are bargains here that yon . can't find - anywhere else. - GLOVES. We have a very large stock of Glom just now --in ,Kid, Silk, Taffeta and Lisle. Our assortment of Sununer Gloves is especially- good 'value, Oa_ range in prices from 10c to $1,25 per pair. Children's sizes at low prices. LADIES' UNDERWEA ‘. A great otock to select from, Thera are lots of cheap, medium, and fine qualities, all of which are- put before you at the closest possible figures. LAOE'6. We ' are selling good Laces cheap.. There is a very large stock of some kinds, and some of these we have marked down to about one third their. value, you should see 'these Laces. they are special bargains. Blouse Waists are the correct for the warm summer days, and we have a (rood range of these goods to show. °They are in good qualities and - colors, and low in prices. Plain Lawns, Spots, Sprigs, Checif,s, Vines in cheap, medium and firm qualities. A stock so large that won't pay to carry them past the sum- mer season. Oall and see how cheap we are selling Muslin& _ Besides Ithe foregoing Summer Goods you will find manybargains extending from one end. of the stor'e to the other, odd lots here and their, Renmants, full pieces, etc. We are bEint upon maki9.,g a complete clearance of this season's go'Ods at as.early a date as pcissible. 64'1' AEE dozen fino 'he" atom the frilet' IFianinio--J:::ditingLiadrounizigoolmiGBC-147.0tit 1 ,OLeasioTtavrafesiohniallr—itiomedenibligfAmlizmrightueepar:ertbe:80:try.wrief°611:eaof.iiii...3.1,114 geside in future. nstrontimouflreallWrineeellEangcr,V°711 .i• e viez.tEer fr-ii i sun gliepanipP:a rfur e is etrid:1 isre:;;wddhrmwi nige vi is.lien -elected directors -4 ter's jewel by the —The followit . *ill take possesei J. 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