The Huron News-Record, 1889-11-06, Page 4`l
The Huron News -Record
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f New York.
Wednesd;iY, Nor. 6tlt 1889
BY THE PEOPLE.
At the convention which nomin-
ated him as the Cousevvative candi-
date in East Huron for the Local
Legislature, Mr. A. H. Musgrove
declared himself in favor of the
election of sheriffs and registrars by
the people. This is somewhat radi-
cal, although theoretically in har-
mony with sound conservative prin-
ciples. While not able to go quite
so far as we opine Mr. Musgrove
would, we believe that county offi•
dale should be called to office by
the voice of the people of the coun-
ty. It is questionable, however, if
a direct popular vote would be any
improvement on the present mode
of appointment by the government
at Toronto. All the same Mr.
Musgrove has shown himself in
touch with the people in their grow-
ing desire to assume a more direct
voice in the selection of county offici-
als. Since Mr. Mowat's accession to
power the right of the people to
control the appointment of county
officials has been very much en-
croached upon and their local gov-
erning rule in many ways serioualy
infringed upon. The appointment
of gaoler, license inspectors, division
court clerks etc., have been taken
altogether away from the counties.
But while we are pleased to note
that Mr. Musgrove, as one of the
people, advocates the extension of
their power to select their county
or local officials, it would seem that
a less expensive and yet conserva-
tive popular mode of appointing
local officials would be through or
by county councils. Those bodies
are under the direct control of the
people ; the nearest responsible leg-
islative body to .the masses and just
sufficiently removed from them to
not be swayed by the popular
clamor and clap trap so often in-
dulged in by demagogues in
the more general elections. Mr.
Musgrove deserves well of the elec-
torate of East Huron and the Pro-
vince for, at this stage of affairs in
our Province, calling the attention
of the public to these matters, for
upon investigation they will find
that it has been the policy of the
Mowat government to rob the peo-
ple of their local governing powers
and centralize them in an oligarchy
at Toronto, ivhich in turn is largely
governed by a hierarchy that is ab-
solutely beyond the control of the
people. It may bo asked : Where
would you got more capable and de-
serving officials than Sheriff
Gibbons and Registrar Dickson
)yell, we do not think it would be
a hazardous assertion to say that
these gentlemen would be the
choice of the people if the appoint-
ing power rested in the county
council or even directly with the
people by popular vote at the polls.
But it might also be asked where
would you get a more efficient and
popular official than the present
• county clerk and he was appointed
by the county council. The point
is, the people of the county or their
county parliament, the county coun-
cil, should have the appointing of
their local officials instead of having
that power invested in a body one
or two hundred miles away, which
is not so directly in touch with the
people and consequently not so
capable, if ever so willing, of carry-
• ing out the well understood wishes
of the electorate in the selecting of
public servants of the county.
DO AS YOU WOUL)) DE
DONE TO.
In another column we are pleas-
ed to be able to give the criticism
of and 'exceptions taken by Rev.
Father West of Goderioh to our
article of last week on the 5th of
November. We will premise our
Duke of, Norfollt, wag Convicted of
being engagad in tt)ein and exocut-
eCl, and the Duke of Northumber-
land followed him." These at least
were not very very obscure conspira-
tors.
Then, Par. 791, "Pope Gregory
resolved to support, his military
efforts in Ireland lay a fresh mire
present remarks thereanent by say- sionnry effort 'to invade England.
ing that our objectionable article Philip (of Spain) would invade
set down naught in malice against
England if the o0 operation of the
those who differ from us, nor sought Cstholica was secured, and the
to extenuate aught in the conduct of seminary priests and Jesuits were to
Protestants. Our remarka were
suggested by the dictates of tolor-
auce ;animated by a spirit of charity
toward all and are permeated by an
expressed desire to do to others as
we would be done to.
We are pleased to nota that Rev.
Mr. Weat ie unwilling to accuse 08
of falsehood or misrepresentation.
We know that he cannot accuse ns
of faleehood, for that would imply
that we made a statement believing
it to be untrue. We eau challenge
hien or any one else to show that,
during a 25 years connection with the
Tress as a writer or publisher,
we have been knowingly the author
of a published falsehood or even of
the minor offence of misrepresenta-
tion.
We will now proceed to show,
that we neither stated a falsehood
nor were guilty of misrepresentation
when we said that "while condemn
ing the system that led up to these
(the massacre of St. Bartholoutew
and the bloody acts of "bloody"
Mary—and we may now add the
massacres of Protestants by Philip
of Spain and the Duke of Alva on
the continent in accordance with
the same system) let us not forget
the retaliatory measures of Elizabeth
by which Catholics were put to death
for being such, but priests only, lay-
men were not molested for being
such" (Catholics.)
The italicised portion above
Father West considers to be a false-
hood or a misrepresentation,
In order to properly understand
the matter we may quote from
"Green's Larger History of tho
English People" the circumstances
that led the historian to uae,subatanti-
ally, the objectiouabte''tsrards which
we repeated and which our critic
takes us to task for using.
Par. 661, Bonnet, Mary's burning
Bishop, asked a youth who was
brought before him if "he could
bear the fire. The boy at once held
his hand in the llama of a candle
that stood by." Another boy at the
stake, William Brown, asked of a
bystander "Pray for me." "I will
pray no more for thee than I would
for a dog" said Mary's myrmidon.
The case of these youths, and many
others of au equally persecuting
nature, yet rankled in the hearts of
the people. These youths were
guilty of no offence against the
state. "Of the two hundred and
eighty whore we know to have
suffered during the fait three years
and a half of Mary's reign" etc.
Par. 666, "Mary clung as tonecious-
ly as ever to her work of blood."
Par. 691, "The bloodshed, indeed,
went on more busily than ever. It
had spread from bishops and priests
to the people itself, and the
sufferers wero sent in batches to the
flames."
The remembrance of these and
the conduct of the Pope instigated,
and to some extent palliated, but
did not justify the retaliatory
measures of Elizabeth. But while
her measures were rigorous they
were not as a rule directed against
laymen, who were considered the
dupes of Jesuit missionaries end
seminary priests, who, backed by
the authority .of the pope preached
treason againet the civil as well as
ecclesiatical authority of the Queen.
Par. 758, "In February, 1569 the
Queen was declared a heretic by a
bull which assorted in their strong-.
est form the papal claims to a
temporal supremacy over princes.
As a heretic and excommunicate,
she was 'deprived of her pretended
.L -to the said kingdom' her sub-
jects were absolved from allegiance
to her, commanded 'not to dare to
obey her' and anathemized if they
did" * * "Dr. Morton was sent
to England to denounce the Queen
as fallen from her usurped authority,
and to prouounco the speedy issue
of the sentence of deposition." Par.
761, "And the plots of his agents
threatened the Queen's life." Par.
763, "Enough of theeo conspiracies
prepare the way. From Loudon
the Jesuits wandered in the dis-
guise of captains or serving men,
sometimes, even ice the cassocks of
the English clergy; through many of
the countiea ; and. wherever they
went the zeal of the Catholic gentry
revived." Those doings, that is the
doings of these emissaries of the
papal see," the. seminary priests who
were English refugees educated at
Rorpan Catholic Seminaries. on the
continent, and the Jesuits caused
"an act, Par. 792, which prohibited
the saying of mass In private.houses,
increaaed the fine on " recusants to
twenty pounds a month and enacted
that 'all persons pretending to any
power of absolving subjects from
their allegiance, or practicing to
'withdraw them to the, Romiah re-
ligion, with all persons willingly 80
absolved or reconciled to the see of
Rome, shall be guilty of high
treason' ."
It will bo seen that , Elizabeth
acted ice self defence, in support of
her crown. The pope made war
upon her ; urged her subjects to re-
volt both directly by a bull and by
the isemivary priests. and Jesuits.
Her punishments may have been
severe, but were the same defiance
of Queen Victoria's authority at-
tempted in England in these nacre
liberal days, most assuredly would
the actors be declared guilty of
high treason. It was for high trea-
son against the state, for endeavor-
ing to deprive the Queen of her
Throne, that Catholic laymen wero
fined, imprisoned and executed ; not
because they were Catholics. And it
was for similar offences that many
of the priests suffered.
Par. 792 : "• No layman was
brought to the bur or block under its
. provisions "—that is the provisions
of the act quoted in the first part of
paragraph 792 above quoted --"Tho
work of bloodshed was reserved
'wholly for priests, and under Eliza-
beth this work was done with a
ruthless energy." Their offence was
high treason against the state,
though the victims of course declar-
ed that "religiou was 'their only
crime." We have established the
correctness of our former statement
by quoting ipsissima verba of the
modern historian Green, whose re-
search, accuracy and fairness are
generally acknowledged.
As to the number of persons put
to death in the reigns of Mary and
Elizabeth, undoubtedly the weight
of evidence tells against Mary. The
above authority, Par. 661, says :
"Of the two hundred and eighty
whom we know to have suffered
during the last throe years and a
half of Diary's reign," etc. This
was more than was put to death
during the whole of Elizabeth's
time. Dodd's Church History says :
"On the whole more than 160 per-
sons were put to death in the reign
of Elizabeth."
We have drawn this out longer
than we intended, but we had to do
so to show that however unneces-
sarily, harsh Elizabeth may have
acted, she acted within her right.
If to put persona to death for high
treason, conspiring and plotting
against the person and crown of the
sovereign, is putting them to death
for conscience sake, then Elizabeth
was guilty, not .otherwise.
There is one point more in Rev.
Father West's criticises that we shall
briefly advert to : "Why did you
not at least tell your readers that
there was at least good reason for
believing that Garnet was innocent"
of any complicity in the Gunpowder
Ploti Because there is no good
reason for so believing. It is
pleaded for him that ho only knew
of the plot through the confessional.
Well, if he know of the plot where-
by hundreds of lives were to bo
taken, he was morally and legally
bound before high heaven and the
state to have informed the civil
authorities, confessional secret to
the contrary. Even on this show -
were discovered to arouse fresh ing, ho was an accessory to the crime
ardor in the Protestants. The and legally deserving of death.
The wife of a laborer named
Fortier, at Chicoutimi, Quebec, has
just given birth to triplets, all doing
well. Tho wife of John Bender, a
prominent farmer and politician of
Bendersville, Pa., recently gave
birth to four infants. The quartette
of little boarders are apparently
strong and healthy. Both Canada
and the United States are under
protective systems, and the higher
tariff seeing to be more condu-
cive to home production, though,
relatively, triplets,in Canada under
a 22 per cent. tariff is a'botter show-
ing than a quartette under a 40 per
,cent. tariff.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
At the meeting of the National
Missionary convention of the
Christian (Campbellite) Chucb at
Loulevillo, Kentuoky,the other day,
Mrs. King, superintoudent of chil-
dren's work, showed that $5,000
had been expended on a children's
missiouary home at Bilaspur, India.
And yet a competent authority
states that there are 60,000 vagrant
children in the United States home -
lees, and uncured for either phy-
sically or morally.
An advocate of the pseudo equal
rights movement asks that its leaders
be judged by their own speeches
and not by the assertions of their
enemies. John Charlton is one of
its own leaders, and according to
John it is a movement to whitewash
the Grits and turn Sir John Mac-
donald out of his place.. And
which of his speeches will we judge
him by 1 When he said that Orange-
men should not have incorporation
or when he said they were tho fair-
haired boys who should have what
they asked for.
Garnet, who waa wholly innocent of
any crime connected with the con-
spiracy." "All that had been proved'
against bim " say a Lingard,pp.478 and
479, "was that he had nqt betrayed
the secret confided to him in con-
fession. It was false that the Jesuita'
had been the authors of the conspir-
aoy,or even held' cona'iltations with
them (the conspirators) on the subs
ject." Why did you not, at least.
There has often been a discordant
note Bounded from the capital of Brit -
hilt Col uinbia. There has always been
a large American element there,
and political annexatiou has often
been talked of in times past. But
times have changed: Owing to the
resignation .of Mr. Baker, M. P. for
Victoria, an election was held there
the other day for a successor. And
oven the rouud about anuexationists
who favor commercial union as a
means to political annexation were
afraid to put a candidate in the field.
The consequence is that Mr. Thomas
Earle, an out and out supporter of
the Conaervative Administration
and Britieli connexion, was elected
without oppositiou. This in tho far
west, with Richelieu in Quebec is
pretty strong evidence that the sur-
render of Canada either politically or
commercially, to the United States
is not the sort of a grit plank that
the opposition can walk to power
on.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
4
124. 'price of fate Goderiob,loaf is
rldloulouely high. This argugaent ss
about as valid as that because the
price of wheat In Chicago Is 50e, and
because the price of the rye -meal
loaf in Russia is 2cta, therefore the
Goderich bakers' charge of 120 per
loaf is exorbitant and that of Webb
or Nasmyth's 14u loaf of Toronto ie
the climax ot "Bakers' Robberies."
One conclusion is equally sound with
tell your readers that there was at the other; but neither is eorroot.
least good reason for believing that Let ua see the facts of the ease. I
begin by a direct denial of the state•
moat -of these papers. The flour that
the bakers of Goderioh use for their
bread (I speak Mr. Editor of facts
which I know and which the Goder-
Leh press may not know) is purchase
ed at 05.50 per bbl and not at $4.25.
I admit. flour can be bought at
$4.25 in Goderich, but I also say that
in the pity of Hamilton '!flour" can
be bought at as low as 03.00 per bbl.
Further;l deny that the best bread
in the city of Hamilton is sold at 9cts
per loaf. It is both, ridiculous and
impossible. Let us take a glance at
the bread market of Toronto. Bread
is there sold at 12c per loaf by the
ordinary baking establishments,
nevertheless the best bread cannot
bo obtained from Webb or Nasmyth
(the acknowledged beads of th4 Tor-
onto baking induptry) at leap than
14cts- per loaf. Bread is also sold
cheaper than 12c per loaf there. But
between the l0c loaf of the side -
alley bakery and the 14e loaf of
Webb or Nasmyth there is the same
difference as between the $3.00 per
bbl flour and the choice $5,50 or
06.00 flour. This is a very necessary
fact to keep in view;' N.otq in Hamil-
ton it is argued bread ia" acid at 9c
per :oaf. To this I answer ,that at
present there is in Hamilton an
extra keen competition maintained
between ' the different secondary
firms and so the publio, like the
lawyer in the oyster story, comes
along between the fighters and gets
the oyster. But we would like to
ask your Goderich brethren as to the
composition of this "oyster" gift to
the public. As in the printing busi-
ness so in other brauches of trade
there are many and devious tricks.
Now I make bold to say that the
chuckling public of Hamilton are
getting a yery stale and unpalatable
"oyster" for their bargain.. It could-
n't be otherwise. In this cheap loaf
of 9cts, cheap flour is unquestion-
ably kneaded. And the Goderich:
croakers must remember well that
if in buying a watch, for instaace
they be unwilling to pay for a genu-
ine "English lever" or an "Elgin" ;
in this land, in their very town, they
can purchase a "Waterbury." But
the Goderich bakers keep nothing so
shoddy as "Waterbury watch" bread.
The superior goodness of our bread
can be be clearly established. This
very day on which I write one of our
bakers has received an order for 32
loaves for a Seaforth person, who,
though bread is sold in Seaforth at
loo per loaf, is yet satisfied to pay us
12c (and then pay the freight besides)
because of the extra goodness of our
Goderich bread. This is but one in-
stance of many that can be cited.
Garnet waa. innocent? 'fine, of
course, would not answer your pur-
pose. At most there were orate
thirteen Catholics connected with
that infamous plot. Why then hold
the Catholic Church responsible for
the conduct of these men ? Your
philosophical way of reasoning would
hold Protestant denominatious re-
sponsible for murder, adultery, sui-
cide,.gunpowder plots and hummer -
able, other crimes committed by their
members. But this is neither logical
nor just. Speaking of the conepira-.
tore, Cobbett Bays, page 189 and 190:
"They amounted to only about thir-
teen, and all except three or four, io
rather obscure situations in life " It
"was fully and judicially proved that
the Catholics in general neither ins
stigated nor approved the Gunpow.
der Plot." "The number of conspir.
ators," says Thompson; page 195,
"was gradually raised to thirteen."
What a whirlwind is raised every 5th
of November about these thirteen
meo, whose conduct Catholics as
well as Protestants condemn? You
apeak of bloody Mary, but you care.-
fully
arefully avoid to tell us of the crue,
deeds of bloody Elizabeth. "Eliza-
beth put, in one way or another,
more Catholics to death, in one year,
for -bot becoming apostates to their
religion which she had sworn to he
here, and to be the only true one,
than Mary put to death In her whole
reign.—Cobbett, page 143. I shall
conclude this article in Cobbett's
words : "This would," says be, "be
enough of the famous gunpowder
plot; but, since it has been ascribed
to bloody -mindedness, as the natural
fruit of the Catholic religion; * •
let us see a little what Protestants
have attempted, and done, in this
blowing -up way. This King James
as be himself averred, was nearly
being assassinated by bia Scotch
Protestant subjects, Earl Gowry and
his associates ; and, after that, nar-
rowly escaped being blown up, with
all his attendants, by the furious
Protestant burghers of Perth. See
Collier's Church History, Vol. II.,
page 663 and 664. Then again, the
Protestants in the Netherlands, form•
ed a plot to blow up their governor
the Prince of Parma, with all the
nobility and magistrates ot those
coubtries, when assembled in the
city of Antwerp. But the Protestants
did not always fail in their plots, nor
were those wbo engaged in them
obscure individuals. • For, as we have
seen in paragraph 309, this very King
.James's father, the King of Scotland,
was, in 1567, blown up by gunpowder
and thereby' killed. This was doing
the thing effectually. Here was no
warning given to any body ; and all
the attendants and servants, of
whatever religion and of both sexes,
except such as escaped by mere
accident., were remorselessly murder-
ed along with their master. And
who was this done by ? By blood,
thirsty Catholics' ? No : but by the
lovers of the'Avangel,' as the wretch•
es called themselves ; the followers
of that Knox to whom a monument
has just been erected,or is now
erecting at Glasgow. The conspira-
tors, on this occasion, were not
thirteen obscure men, and those, too,
who had received provocation enough
to make men mad ; but a body of
noblemen and gentlemen, who really
had received no provocation at all
froth Mary Stuart, to destroy whom
was more the object than it was to
destroy her husband. "* • Let
us hear no more, then, about tho
bloodthirstiness of the Catholic re-
ligion ; and, if we must still bsve our
561 rf November, let the `moral' dis-
ciples of Knox, the inhabitants of
'Modern Athens,' have their loth. of
February. Let them, too, (for it was
Protestants that did the deed) have
their 30th of January, the anniverasry
of the killing of the son of this same
king James. Nobody knew better
than James himself the history of
his father's and his mother's end.
He knew that they both bad been
murdered by Protestants, add that,
too, with circumstances of atrocity
quite unequalled in the annals of
human - infamy ;• and therefore he
himself was not for vigorou0, measures
against the Catholics in general, on
account of the plot ; but love of
plunder in his minions prevailed
over him ; and now began to blaze,
with fresh fury, that Protestant refor-
mation spirit, which, at last, gave
him a murdered:son and successor,
as it had already given him a mur-
dered father and mother."
Yours sincerely,
T. WEST, P.P.
Goderich, Nov. let, 1889.
We wish 0 to be dtstaeetly ,understood that we do
mit hold ourselves reeptn,siblejor theppinions
Expressed by Correspondents.—•l ;u. Nave -RB -
CORD.
Editor News -Record.
SIR,—Unwilling to accuse you of
falsehood or misrepresentation, I
leave the public to judge your recent
statements in reference to the Gun-
powder Plot. You say by the re-
taliatory measures of Elizabeth,
" Catholics were put to death for
being such, but priests only, laymen
were not molested." Now, let us
see if what you say about lay Catho-
lics in Elizabeth's reign is true or
not. In Lingard's history of Eng-
land, p. p. 433,'438, 4391 and 4401we
read : "The first victims who felt
the vengeance of this tribunal, called
the High Commission Court, were
the Catholics ;• from the Catholics its
attention was directed to the Puri..
tans." °+Some Puritans died martyrs
to their religious principles, but
their sufferings bore no .comparison
to those of the Catholics." "Eliza-
beth continued to persecute all her
subjects who did not practise that
religious worship which she prac-
used." "No Catholic could enjoy
security even in the privacy of his
own house, where he was liable at
all hours, generally in the night, to
be visited by a magistrate at the
head of an armed mob." Flow can
those facts before you that the
you, Mr. Editor, tell us with
Catholic laity was not molested ?
The truthfulness of Lingard's history
is admitted on all hands. "Hie
work," says Chambers, "was subject-
ed to a rigid scrutiny by Dr. Allen
in two elaborate articles in the Edin•
burgh Review, and by Rev. W. Todd
in his defence of the character of
Cranmer." By the Act of Uniformity
a heavy fine was imposed on Catho-
lics, whenever they absented them-
selves from church, "as establisheu
by the law." "This," says) Thompson,
a Protestant, page 182, "bore heavily
on the Roman Catholics." What
would be your feelings if you were
forded by law to attend the Catholic
church every Sunday ? Would you
submit to this law ? No, you would
not. You would be the first in the
rebellion to carry the flag ot "civil
and religious liberty." Collier, a
Protestant history which has been
used in the public schools, refers us
to this unbearable tyranny of Eliza-
beth In speaking of the Act of
Uniformity, he says, page 178, that
it "forbade under heavy penalties
all worship except in the established
form. Many Roman Catholics suffer-
ed death by these laws." You will
understand now that not only the
priests, but the Catholic laity also
were molested, and with a vengeance
for conscience' sake. Garnet, you
say, saves executed for complicity in
the Gunpowder Plot. Why did you
not tell your readers if you wished to
be just that there are Catholic snd
Protestant historians who declare
that Garnet was unjustly put to
death ? Here is what Cobbett,. a
Protestant of the Church of England,
says, in his Iliatory of the Protestant
Reformation, page 191: "The rest of
them (the conspirators) were execut-
ed, and Eatso Cho famous Jesuit,
Further we have never raised a
loud complaint against the Goderich
printers when it was found by our
town fathers that the public were
being taxed too high for their print-
ing, when as you know, Mr. Editor,
Glinton,would do the same at a much
lower rate. The bakers alone of
dealers seem to be the sole mark of
these editors. We would suggest to
our generous friends to "call off their
dogs" awhile, and if .it is necessary
for them to have an outlet for their
croaking to give the public mind a
change by turning the engines of
their plaints against the new plumb-
er's establishment just set up in
Goderich. 'trate the jibes against the
plumber hairs become a veritable
chestnut, but much snore so have
become the croaks of the Goderich
press against the town bakers.
We are not a rich cooperation, our
bank books show small assets, our
mode of living is not luxurious nor
regal. It never strikes the public
mind with envy at our happy lot.
We have to work hard, early and
late. We ask not for wealth. We
have long since lost the golden
visions of our youth that we could
reap the ducats of a millionaire from
the bread harvest. We only ask a
decent living from our patrons,
wherewith to keep in comfort our
wives and children.. We have always
had too much to do to take • very
seriously the continuous complaints
of our press, but at last we have
arisen and now appeal to the publio
.on the justice of our' -cause. Thank-
ing you Mr. Editor for the use of
your valuable columns,
1 remain yours, sec,
GODERICH BAKER.
THE GODERICFI BAKERS.
Editor News -Record.
DEAR Sia•—It is generally thought
in this district that your sad -eyed
Goderich brethren of the quill—the
"Signal" and "Star—are given over
to croaking not a little. They pose
as the redoubtable mouth -pieces of
"progress"—and occasionally of "pov-
erty." For a long time now they
have been harping their peevish com•
.plaints against the balcing fraternity
of Goderich.
Occasionally they let up on their
mournful song of "Bakers' Robber-
ies," but in the stilly atmosphere of
a dearth of news again they come
forth and like the fretful cricket by
the lonely hearth they chirp their
mournful lay.
Let us remember then our breth-
ren's weakness before we come seri-
ously to face the subjeot of their
croaking. They say the public are
oharged too much for bread.
It is argued by them that because
bread sells for 90 per loaf in Hamil-
ton and because flour sells for 04.25
per bbl in Goderioh therefore the
In And About The County,
—Mr. Wm. Drafter, of Thamess
villa, has already turned out about
10,000 tipple barrels this season.
This means over 820,000 has been
paid fur apples in that neighbor-
hood.
—The Coroner's Jury at Gait
found that the train which killed
young ll)keniau, the groeers wagon
driver, was going 'too fast, and re.
commedned the Grand Trunk Co.,
to show that corporations have a
soul "by dealing promptly hnd
generously with the widowed mo•
ther who has been deprived of her
eldest son and chief support."
—A tramp entered the residence
of Mr. Wilcox, near Welland, on
Wednesday and demanded fool.
He was given some cold meat, but
this was not to 1110 taste, and he
ordered Mrs. Wilcox to furnish bins
with a cup of tea and became very
abusive. Mr. Wilcox appeared on
the scene at this juncture, and the
tramp failing to leave, he was club•
bed into insensibility.
— Mr. George Hess, of Zurich,
has received a patent for his electric
clock. The invention is one f