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Weekery,—Cooper & Logan
Varna 'for sale—H. lisle
Qvercgate—W. L. Ouimette
Glassware—Cooper & Logan
Shooting Match—g. Miller
G'rrocefiiee—No t1urray & Wiltee
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h'1aD47, NOVEMBER 7, 1890.
The Exeter Times speaks of a good
yield of two.rowed barley harvested by
Mr James Moir, Ueborne. There is no
doubt but the grain yields well, but
swill the Times state how much per
bushel it weighed.
A. telegram says that "Canadian eggs
are selling freely in London, Eng;, at 7s
to7s, 6d. per 125 eggs, that is at the rate
• .Qf 15e or 10o per dozen." An eggs are
quoted in Clinton at the same price'
will some of the restrictionist papers
tell ns where the profit will Dome in
when eggs are ezported to England.
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The Hamilton. Spectator has discon-
tinued! its morning edition, and
dropped the price of its evening one to
a Dent. Pia,tical newspaper men will
at once recognize this as one of the evi-
dences of the great ph oiperity that the
Spectator continually boasts the
country is experiencing.
The Government has issued orders
planing restrictions on Birchall, and
stating that no manuscript, whatever,
be allowed to pass from the prisoner
and outsiders. This should have been
done before. The idea of a man, dead
already in ;the eyes of the law being
t. allowed as much liberty, as ho was, is
simply preposterous.
This appears to be a hard year with
newspaper men. Within a couple of
months three newspapers have been
put in the hands of assignees, the
Brantford Telegram, Dundas Standard
and St Catharines Star, and all of them
were Conservative. This is hard 1 uck
in any ease, and the proprietors are to
be pitied.
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The London Free Press thinks that
"Next year we shall probably begin to
export two -rowed barley to the British
market." •
Wi11 the Free Press tell its readers
why we won't export two -rowed barley
this ? Will it also state in how many
instances the seed sold by the Depart-
. ment has grown a grain that meets the
Epglish standard ?
Because nickel abounds in parts of
Ontario, and is likely to be much used
by American manufacturers, some of
the papers have been advocating that
the Government put an export duty on
it. What Dr Bell, of the Dominion
Geological survey, (and likely to be a
Conservative) thinks concerning this
proposition, must be complimentary to
these editors, for he says that "whoever
made this suggestion was, so far as this
question was concerned, simply an
idiot."
The Goderich Star, commenting on
the rebuke adminstered to Lawyer
Blackstock by Judge McMahon, says:—
"There are not a few of the legal frater-
nity who are too big for their clothes
as it were, even for the ample folds of a
lawyer's gown, and they bully and
snarl at witnesses in a manner that
they would never dare outside of a
court room."
Our totem, has evidently been at-
tending Division Court lately, and
based its opinion en what it heard
there,
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Farmers, who !want to better their
condition—ani they all do—cannot do
't in any eerier or more certain way
than by following the advice of Mr
John Charlton, who, in an address at
the village of Enterprise, the other day,
said :—
"Hitherto the majority of the
farmers in the county of Addington
had voted for the supporter of SiriJohn.
He would tell them of a better mkrf to
vote for, one who would look more
closely after their interests, would
sympathize with them in trouble and
would not tell them that because they
did not ride in a lumber waggon, be -
'hind a team of oxen, they were living
too high. That person for whom he
advised each farmer present to vote at
the next election was the farmer him -
,self."
At the Sunday School convention
held at Brantford last week, Rev Dr.
Potts, an earnest conservative, paid a
high tribute to Mr Mowat as a chris-
tian statesman. Referring to Mr Mow-
et's address at Woodstock on Christian -
t y, Dr Potts said he hoped if the time
ever came when Mr Mowat ceased to
be premier of Ontario that the Knox
College :,eople would make him a pro-
fessor of theology! If they did not lie
.evit9 gore the Methodist church world
make him a local preacher. The Hon.
G-. W. Ross, he said, had addressed the
Convention, and he thought that gentle-
man in his noble position could not
° lend hie talents to a better cause, but
when he read that article on Christian.
ity by the AttorneyGeneral of Ontario,
lie ttaw in its clearness of thought; ho
I Bags in it ability and genius, but be -
bind all this he saw the gleanings of
b pure dhristian heart. ' "And, Con-
aervative as I am," said Or. Potts, "1
elt like drying out, 'Thank God that
the")inti. Oliver Mowat it Premier of
It in a 4 tuiat at the next aeseiort of
I?arliamant,"a measure will be introduc-
ed reducing letter postage to 2 cents,
Thin will be a move in the right direc-
tion.
Certain politic:sue are forever boaet-
ing of their loyalty to Great Britain
but they conveniently forget that they
are levying a duty of about 50 per cent
on British ironware.
The proposed "vigorous foreign trade
polioy" of the Dominion governmen t, is
simply a means to divert attention from
its failure to develop the promised "home
market" and will result just as unsuc-
cessfully.
An A.menioan paper states that three-
eighths of the entire population of De-
troit are Canadians, and many of them
office holders. Give a Canadian an
even chance, and he will compete with
an American every time, whether it le
for a public position or trade.
Messrs Frost, of Smith's Falls, Cos -
sit, Brookville, Watson, of Ayr, Harris,
of Brantford, and Miller, of Morris -
burg, and many others who could be
named, have declared in favor of unre-
stricted reciprocity with the United
States, and say they are not afraid to
face competition with American imple-
ment mannfaoturers on oven terms.
This is the true Canadian spirit. Give
them an open market and Canadian
implements can face the world.
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What other Papers Say.
MOC'H TO ANSWER FOR.
Important as are the issues involved
in the question of reciprocity, let it
never be forgotten that the term im-
plies an agreement between two parties,
and that Canada can only be one of
these parties. It is highly desirable
that the advantages of freer trade rola•
tions with the States should be thor-
oughly understood, but it will not be
safe for the Liberal party to make the
teaching of this lesson their one mission
in life. That is the position the Con-
servative press i endeavoring to place
the Liberals in. By a constant fuellede
against reciprocity, they are attempting
to divert attention from their thousand
and one sins of omission and commis-
sion. These should not be lost sight of.
—St. Thomas Journal.
WOULD DEA VAST IMPROVEMENT.
It cannot be doubted that straight•
out Free Trade would be money in the
pockets of the consumers of Canada,
for it would vastly cheapen living, and
we verily believe it would at the same
time prove a benefit to all legitimate
manufactures in the country. Of course
we would have to resort to direct taxa-
tion for revenue—and that, we are
aware, is tantamount to suicide in the
opinion of the superstitious. It is high
time the superstition were banished,
and nothing apparently will kill it but
a practical demonstration of the advan-
tage of knowing precisely how much
taxes we aro paying.—Toronto Grip.
CRIME AND ITS CAUSES.
The bulk of opinion of those having
charge of prisoners, judging from the
evidence laid before the prison commis-
sion, attributes crime mainly to intem-
perance and poverty. These may be
among the causes, but they are as cer-
tainly among the effects. One sheriff
who gave evidence came nearer the
truth in the estimation of many who
have studied the subject, when he put
hereditary and association among the
pauses. The conditions of life to -day
tend towards crime, inasmuch as they
apparently make ease and pleasure the
great desideratum. Honest toil is no
longer held in the esteem it was.—To-
ronto News.
A POINTER FOR FAR?[ERS
Canadian barley shipped toltheUnited
States before the McKinley bill wentin-
to operation is sow selling in Buffalo
for eighty five and ninety Dents per
bushel. In Toronto barley is selling for
from fifty two to sixty cents per bushel.
The American duty on barley is thirty
cents per bushel. It is easy to calcul-
ate from these figures who pays the
duty on barley. Barley can be shipped
from any part of Ontario to Buffalo for
almost the same freight as to Toronto.
Hence, unrestricted reciprocity would
be worth just 30 cents per bushel to
those who raise barley.—Ottawa Free
Press.
Conservative Opinion.
FROM INTERVIEWS WITH FARMERS, PUB-
LISHED IN THE OLO0E.
Mr Going, of Wolfe island, is a Con-
servative in polities, but finds reason
in present conditions to doubt the ad-
visability of restriction for the future.
He says : --"No man can live on Wolfe
Island and not see that the McKinley
tariff has done us a great deal of harm.
No man can live there and not see that
in some respects at least, if not in all,
we should be better off if we had free
trade with the United States."
Mr Halliday and Mr Joslin are among
the solid men of the Island. They are
sound Conservatives. "Nobody needs
to tell us that the McKinley tariff is
going to do us harm," said Mr Joslin;
"we know that already. We got 73 to
75 cents for our barley a while ago,
those of us who were ready to deliver,
and those who weren't are now offered
about 52 cents. The increase in the
duty is the falling off in the price to us,
and even if there is an improvement in
the market the middlemen will get the
benefit of it. I got my barley away at
72 cents, but my son didn't have his
threshed and he can't sell at better, so
far, than 52 cents. About 150 head of
horses were taken over from the island
to the American side before the 6th,
and now you can't sell a horse better
than about $15 less than the old price.
You can't eels hay at all just now, be-
cause the presses are not working. The
men who run them are waiting to see
how things turn out. Farms are not
worth near as much now as they were
ten years ago. I believe that our whole
township of Wolfe Island would not sell
for the mortgages on it. We are strug-
gling on and hoping for better times to
Dome. And the way to bring the good
times is to give us reoipromai trade
with the United States. We are tired
of being bled for the benefit of other
people."
Mr Robert Bullis, another Wolfe Is-
land farmer, said : --1 have followed
farming for a living, and have until re-
cently been a Conservative and a firm
supporterlof that party. I have,l•,owevar
withdrawn my support, being taught
by bitter experience that the policy of
protection is injurious to the best in-
terests of the country, and that to the
farming community in particular it has
been most disastrous in its effects. --
Protection is to Canada what landlord-
ism is to Ireland, the beggary of the
many for the benefit of the few. 'There
tett be but t'lio opiiliop,•of the 344lt)loy 1
Bill, and that is that it is ruinous to'
Canada, the only silver lining to the
cloud being that fife `enormity of. the
loss may awali'.on the Canadian fitrmer.
to a sense of his duty, and that with
this awakened sense of duty Sir John
will have on hie next appeal to the
country to adopt free trade as his plat-
form, or make way fox those who will.
Popular opinion is decidedly in favor of
the closest trade relations with the
United States, and I further believe
that if men had the courage of their
convictions such a ory would go up in
favor of annexation as would surprise
the party leaders. To my mind this is
the inevitable destiny of Carada, the
natural outgrowth of our proteotive
system and a coneummation to be de-
votedly hoped for. I would hold up
to -morrow both hands in favor of it.—
This I find to be the opinion held by
nearly all my neighbors. '
Notes about Birchall.
Detective Bluett, who was employed
to work up Birohail's defence, bas sent
the prisoner a lone and earnest tele-
gram, in which he beseeches him to
prepare to meet his Maker by making
a clean breast Of his crime. Such a re- ,
quest coming from such a source may
be considered as very significant. Bir-
chall appeared to wax very indignant
on the receipt of the despatch.
It is reported that Birchall has given
up hope of a commatatldn. That does
net prevent him, however, from appear-
ing to enjoy life very well. It is re-
ported that the Crown contemplates an
investigation as to the manner in which
Birchall got "Tho Colonel" letter smug-
gled out of the gaol. Mrs Birchall re•
ceived a day or two ago another alleged
confession, this time from,a lady in the
States, who said she had shot Benwell.
To judge from the style of the letter it
was evidently sent by a lunatic. It
was genuine, however.
An effort is being made by the boom-
ers to turn Benwell's boots found on
him to account, the theory being that
they were not Benwell's. The defence
examined into this matter in the most
thorough manner. The boots were
Benwell's beyond a doubt. They were
of English make and corresponded in
size with those in his trunks. Birchall
said in one of his letters that he told
Benwell that morning to put on heavy
boots because the roads would be bad,
and Benwell seems to have put on the
heaviest and oldest pair he had in his
outfit.
Ono exceptional fool, who signed
himself "O. K.," and asks Mr Black-
stock to reply to his offer through a
New York paper, agrees for $1,000 to
come to Canada, and after making
himself conversant with the Swamp of
Death and its environments, to confess
to having fired the fatal shots at Ben -
well. He goes on to state that his life
is a burden to him, that his mother
and sisters are in poor circumstances,
and that ho would be satisfied to risk
himself in Birchall's position to see his
relatives lifted from the abject poverty
in which they are now living.
A Woodstock telegram says:—All
this talk about the tido of public opin-
ion here turning in Birchall's favor is
humbug. Sensational newspaper cor-
respondents are working their imagina-
tions over -time, and sending out large
returns. Everybody hero continues to
believe Birchall guilty and continues
to believe he will be hanged. There is
absolutely no hope of a reprieve and
Birchall knows it. The evidence at
the trial was clear and convincing to
both judge and jury. It showed plain-
ly that Birchall was the perpetrator of
a murder calmly premeditated for days
if not for weeks. It will be impossible
for the Minister of Justice to go behind -
that. No new evidence has come to
light. What then can he act on? Not
on a petition signed by a few thousands
of people whose only knowledge of the
3ase is through newspaper reports.
Birchall is being boomed with an ob-
ject, but it won't effect the prospective
tragedy which will take place early in
the morning on Nov. 14 all the same.
The following letter was received by
the Minister of Justice.
MONTREAL, Oct. 31.
HoN. Sim, --Should Mrs Birchall press
the petitions there is this to remember,
namely, that she crossed with Banwell,
Pelly and her husband on the boat from
England, Birchall's farm must have
been alluded to by the young men, and
the fact that ,they were to buy it, yet
Mrs Birchall never told them that her
husband had no farm or money but
what he could fleece people out of. She
passed as Lady Somerset in Woodstock.
After her husband was placed in goal
we read that on her first she met him
coldly, not even embracing him or
shaking hands. What is the reason ?
Her husband evidently threatens her
if she does not lend her fascinating
ways to save his neck that his post-
mortem confession will appear, and
her participation in his rogueries and
possibly this murder will be shown up
Yours with respect.
(Sgd.) W. STREET.
The inspector of prisons evidently
thinks that the publicaare hearing too
much about Birchall's gaol life and has
decided, as far as he can, to put a stop
to it. He was in Woodstock on Satur-
day and left strict orders with the gaol-
er, in consequence of which Mr Cameron
declares that not only will no reporter
be allowed to see the prisoner, but not
one of them will be allowed to even en-
ter the gaol. Not only that, but the
gaoler is forbidden to allow any manu-
script to pass from Birchall to the
papers, and in this prohibition is in-
cluded such part of the autobiography
as has not yet reached the hands of his
Toronto publishers. It is known that
the publishers are not in possession of
all the manuscript, so that it looks as
if they may have some difficulty in
ge''tting the autobiography completed.
Another significant order given by the
inspector is that hereafterkll Birchall's
mail matter shall pass through the
hands of the Crown attorney, Mr Ball,
Q.C., instead of through the hands of
Mr Cameron, the gaoler, as has been
the case hitherto.
The prisoner continues to enjoy
himself. He retires about five o'clock
every morning and sleeps until noon.
Then he rises, dresses himself with
groat Dare, takes a turn up and down
the corridor to increase his circulation,
drinks a glass of water, and about
one o'clock partakes of bis breakfast
The meal consists of some oatmeal.
porridge, followed by sausages, canned
salmon or chicken, potatoes and a cup
of coffee. He then takes a few turns
up and down the corridor, lights edger
and reads the Mail and other daily
papers. Them his correspondence is
handed to him by Jailer Cameron, who
first examines it to see that everything
is all right. Birchall spends an hour or
so over the correspondence, which is
very volulnihous, and has many a
hearty laugh over the ravings of some
cranks who are constantly writing to
him. At six o'clock he dines on some
beefsteak or pork-chop,omelet or poach-
ed eggs,with vegetables, tea, and dessert
of canned fruit, principally peaches, of
which he is very fond. He then smokes
another cigar, chats with the guard and
Turnkey Forbes until about 10 o'clock,
when ho begins work on his biography,
and works all night.
�Q��,1Ilt�ily.
A Mgl;IMcllol Y 4R.—It be.
comes mu palest ditty this weak to
cbrouiele one of the saddest events
that ever occurred in Chit vicinity.
Mr Jaynes Calder, a comparatively
%ouog rutin, aged 61,who lived on the
3rd cunceesiou ut this towpsbip, end.
ed this life, Inst week, by hanging
himself. 'vir Calder was a bachelor,
and lived alone during the past few
years, slice the death of his sister,
who kept house for him previous to
her death. It seems that Monday of
last week was the last time Mr Calder
was conversing with any one, and on
that day be was in Soafortb, and bad
tea with his brother, who lives there,
and while there he appeared as happy
and cheerful as on ordinary occasions,
On the following day he was seen
plowing on hie own farm, and stab-
ling his horses in the evening. On
Wednesday morning he was seen by
some of the neighbors, going to his
barn, but on that evening his light
was missed, as also on the following
eveniog, and on Friday morning his
nearest neighbor, seeing his cattle
and horses out in the storm, and sup-
posiug him to be away, went over
and tied in the horses. At noon of
the same day, the same neighbor sad
his little son went over to feed the
horses, and the boy, being sent up
into the mow for bay, discovered the
unfortunate man suspended from a
rafter in the barn. As Mr Calder
was in very comfortable circutnetan-
ces, very steady, cheerful, industrious
and apparently happy and contented
at all times, the cause Allis rash act
will always remain a mystery. His
death has cast a gloom over the com-
munity, and the symyatliy of all go
out to his two brothers, Andrew, in
Seaforth, and Robert, of Winthrop,
who survive him.
Iiippen,
NOTES.—The Royal Revivalists are
having good meetings here,and we hope
to see a strong council organized. Mr
Henry and Mise Ivison are visiting
friends in Toronto, Peterboro and other
eastern points. Miss L. Whiteman is
home again. Mrs R. K. McAllister and
daughter are home.
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News Notes Around The County
Mr John Hanna is in the field for
the Reeveship of Wingham for 1891.
Mr Geo. Cox, sr., con. 6, Goderich
township, raised a squash which weigh-
ed 171 lbs.
Mr Behder, of Howick, has bought
the farm at Mayne Corners, owned by
B. S. Cook for the sum of $4,700.
Chas. Elsley, of Colborne, is still suf-
fering from contusion of the brain, the
result of a fall in his barn two months
since.
The Brussels Post says :—W. H Mc-
Cracken shipped 500 bushels of potatoes
to Chicago last Saturday. The duty
was $125. Who loses it?
••Geo. Hewitt, of Elma, has purchased
the Pybus farm south of Brussels, on
the road to Seaforth, from the Western
Canada Loan Company for $2,700.
On Tuesday while assisting to put in
one of the electric light poles Mr C. J.
Reading of W ingham,had the misfortune
to break his right leg near the ankle.
The case of Morris Council against
the bondsmen of the late treasurer for
the shortage in his accounts is set down
for hearing at Goderich on Friday Nov.
14th.
R. McCorkindale has sold his fifty
acre farm on the 6th line of Morris, to
Mr Albert Cole, for $1,900. Mr McCork-
indale intends going to Belgrave to reside
in the future.
Wm. Knechtel, Brussels, had the mis-
fortune to have one of the bones in his
left arm broken, last week, by a kick
from one of his horses with which he
was working on his farm.
Jno. Grafton, of Wroxeter, was fined
$25 and costs for selling liquor to a per-
son when he was warmed not to. He
has appealed against the decision. The
case will come off at Goderich.
The rector of St George's church,
Goderich, recently asked for a special
collection, the proceeds to go toward
reducing the mortgage debt on the
church, and Sunday last the congrega-
tion responded to the request by con-
tributing some $275.
Probably the oldest Orangeman in
the county of Huron to -day is Mr Dan.
Dunlop, of the 2nd con. of t a township
of Howick. He was born in the county
of Derry, Ireland, and join lodge No.
737, Ireland, in the year 1 5, and has
labored in the interests of-slodge'for
the past sixty-four years.
Eliza Spahn, the German woman
sent up from Exeter, on a charge of
threatening to burn the mill of John
Sweitzer, was brought before Judge
Toms on Wednesday last. Theprison-
er pleaded not guilty, and as the indict-
ment stood the Crown Attorney an-
nounced that he had no evidence to
offer, so the woman was discharged.
A child about three years of age,
daughter of Mr A Murray, of Wingham,
met with a very severe accident on Sat-
urday afternoon last. She was playing
with other children on the roof of a play
house, when the roof full in, and the
little ones were precipitated to the
ground, some lumber falling on them.
Both bones of one of her legs were
broken.
Master Stewart Straiton, of Goderich,
who strayed away last week, was re-
turned to his parents on Sunday morn-
ing, having been found wandering along
the road between Clinton and Seaforth.
He says he was induced by threats
from a band of gypsies to accompany
thorn, and taking an opportunity to es-
cape at night, when near Clinton and
started to walk home, but got on the
wrong road. Ee was discovered by Mr
James Elliott, of Goderich township,
who broyght him to his parents.
William Barrie,a well-to-do farmer of
the township of Morris, lost his •two
valuable bank barns last Tuesday, also
a buggy and some other implements.
Mr Barrie had entered the barn, and
hung his lantern on a beam and im-
mediately set about feeding, or arrang-
ments to do so, in the lower part of the
baro, and when he got through and
came up -stairs the upper part of the
barn and contents were in flames.
Nothing could be saved, owing to the
combustible nature of the contents.
The whole structure was built on a
heavy stone foundation. Lose on
buildings $2,000, and on crop probably
91,500, with an insurance of 91,500.
NEWS NOTES
The peanut crop. in Vir einia will
reach 3,000,000 bushels, and the nuts
have sold in Norfolk as low as 3,,f cents
a pound.
Mr Charles Fairbairn, of Verulam,
has been solected as the Consevative
candidate for the coming election in
South Victoria.
An rinithown person Saturday night
held up the Welis•Fargo express agent
at Meadville, Pa., and sunoesded in
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getting several Manny pacitagee valued
hat imus 000 to 920,000• No clue..
The tlraussatltiaelateal express cow.
panies on Satarday raised their rates
50 cents per hundred. This was the
rate in forceon April 1, 1880.
Opium smuggling has beep detected
at Seattle, Wash., and two potigemen
have been arrested for seizing and
selling 50 pounds of smuggled opium.
At Chatham -'ori-2aturday,,Justiee
MaoMabon sentenced Gustavus Park,
who confessed to a charge of man-
slaughter, to two years in penitentiary.
Munioipalelections were held in Eng-
land and Wales Saturday. Where the
results turned on politics the Conserva-
tives gained 59, and the Liberals 87
seats.
By the recent sudden death of Loring
A. Robertson in Brooklyn, N. Y., Judge
p Strong, of Staruooa, Wayne county Pa.,
I falls heir to property valued at 91,000,-
000.
Wm. H. Pickering of Kingston, was
assaulted by footpads late on Thursday
evening They robbed him of 912 and
an artificial arm. They were mighty
mean thieves.
The post mortem examination of the
body of W. J. Littlejohn, of Uxbribge•
who died at the Detroit sanitarium on
Thursday, shows that death was
caused by an abscess of the kidneys.
Alice Wallace, charged with the mur-
der of her husband, James Wallace, at
Port Alma, Kent county, Ont., was on
Saturday declared not guilty and im-
mediately discharged by Judge Mac -
Mahon.
The paoking firms of Armour & Co.,
Swift & Co. and Morris & Co., of Chi
Dago, have bought 3,600,000 acres at
the southern end of lake Michigan,
Lake county, Indiana, and will remove
their plants there.
The Quarterly Board of the Dundas
Street Center Methodist Church, Lon•
don has invited Rev Hugh Johnston,
D.D., of Trinity Methodist Church,
Toronto, to become their pastor at the
end of the present conterence year.
At Newark, Ohio, on Friday, Mrs
Logan and her daughter, Mrs Nellie
Mead, while crossing the track of the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad in a buggy
were run into by a train, The women
were hurled a hundred yards, and in -
killed stantly.
A thief bolted into the store of Men-
del's jewellery establishment,Hamilton,
on Saturday evening, while the pro-
prietor was in the back room, and
grabbed two gold and two silver watches.
He then decamped in a hurry, and has
not yet been arrested.
A man who registered at the Getty
house, Yonkers, N.Y., as George Smith,
and who was found dead in his room,
has been identified as James H. Edgar,
a wealthy English druggist. He had
lived in a flat on Ninth avenue, New
York, and was worth 990,000, Foul
play is suspected.
At south St. Paul, Friday, George
Robarge, in a quarrel over some prop-
erly, shot Benjamin Rogers dead, badly
wounded his son, and then went to his
own barn and blew the top off his head,
pulling the trigger of the shotgun with
his toe. Robarge was an anarchist.
Some time ago Collector of Taxes
Cribbs skipped out leaving the town-
ship of Amable in the lurch to the extent
of some $2,000. The council then
brought an action against Cribbs' son,
on the ground that the property had
been made over to him with fraudulent
intent. But the council failed to make
out its case, and the township has been
saddled with the expense of the court.
Harry Crout,city bill poster,Stratford
died very suddenly at his residence
Weinesday evening. He went to bed
early saying that he did • not feel well
but about 11 o'clock he sprang out of
bed and, seizing the bedpost, exclaimed
"That man has done it. Send for a
doctor; I am going to die." He was
assisted into bed and died in a few
minutes. It appears that he got into
a dispute over a drain last summer and
was severely beaten. Since then he had
complained of pains in his side. and his
wife is of the opinion that the injuries
he received hastened his death.
Canada's Farm Wealth;
Mr John Charlton, M. P., speaking
at Prescott, made some telling points
in favor of unrestricted reciprocity.
He proved by the aid of Dominion
Government statistics that notwith-
standing the tax wall that has existed
between Canada and the States, the
trade between us and our neighbors
was last year greater than that between
Canada and Britian. Here are the
figures:
COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF EXPORTS.
To Great
Britain
Mines .$ 422,000
Fisheries.. .... 1,249,000
Forest 10,197,000
Agricultural3,674,000
Manufactures1,679,000
Miscellaneous53,000
Animals and
products 16,237,000 7,137,000
The following were the principal
exports of farm produce, exclusive of
cheese:
To United
States
8 3,753,000
2,839,000
11,043,000
9,125,000
1,822,000
727,000
To Great
Britain
Horses .. $ 26,975
Sheep .. 303,009
Ptaultry... ....... 1,127
Eggs
Hides 7,070
Wool 470
Flax ....
Barley 3,838
Beans
Hay 84,610
Malt
Potatoes 345
Vegetables........ 514
To United
States
9 2,113,782
918,334
110,793
9,156,725
•154,105
216.918
121,807
6,454,003
405,534
822,381
105,183
195,576
5.2,660
Total 9427,876 914,124,801
Mr Charlton pointed out that of these
products Canada sold to the United
States 34 times as much as to Great
Britain. But we are told that South
America and the West Indies will make
upfor the lost markets, and therefore no
new steps looking to holding our trade
with the States and to increasing it
need be attempted. Will they ? Mr
Charlton give this statement of what
these countries took in agricultural p:o.
ducts from Canada last year :—
South America 8 25,022
West Indies 162,667
China .. 708
Japan
Mexico
Spain
1,039
Nothing
.. Nothing
ALL OTHER OFFERS ECLIPSED.
It is acknowledged on every hand that
Tho Western Advertiser of London is
the king of all the weeklies. Its twelve
to sixteen bages each week are filled
with Cthe latest and most interesting
news from home and abroad, while its
literary and other popular departments
are unrivalled by those of any other
paper, The Daily Advertiser is a mar•
vel of cheapness. It contains all the
news of the day the latest telegraphic
dispatches, market reports., etc, with-
out additional charge that magnifloent
new monthly, Wives and Daughters—
writton by woman for woman -=is incl ud•
ed with each yearly subscription to the
Daily -or the Weekly Advertiser, f'2
our Boys -and Gir
and - Sleighs
AND THE BABY NEEDS A
BABY :-: CUTTER
We have a large assortment of both Hand Sleighs and
Cutters. Our prices for cutters are almost 50 per ,cent
less than usual, as we have altogether too large a stock,
and we must reduce it,
snowshoes gad Toboggans
All lengths and sizes. Our Xmas stock of Fancy Goods,
Novelties, and Toys is almost complete, and it would be
advisable for intending purchasers to examine it as
early as possible, so as to see the assortment and get
your choice of the Newest Designs and finest goods of
the season. The addition of our extra flat gives us
splendid accommodation for our large stock.
AMERICA MONEY TAKEN AT PAR.
Wm. (cooper & Co
BOOKS, STATIONERY and FANCY GOODS,
CLINTON.
Cheap - Crockery
—AS WE INTENDS--
Gliving up the Crockery and Glassware
Branch of our business, and want to clear out the stock by Jan. let.,
we will, on and after Nov. 1st, offer
The Entire Stock at COST
Tho stock is all now and consists of DINNER SETS, TEA SETS, CHADI-
DER SETS (in white and colored ware,) GLASSWARE, &C. This is the -
best offer over made in Clinton, and intending purchasers should ex-
amine our stock before buying.
TERMS STRICTLY CASH
COOPER&LOGAN 1
NEXT TO COUCII'S, CLINTON.
At Akron, N. Y., on Friday night
Sarah McMullen, aged 18, enticed two
little girls, named Delia Brown and
Nellie May, to a high bridge and threw
them off,killing the latter and probably
fatally injuring the former. She after-
ward triad to throw herself off another
high bridge, when she was prevented
by the father of Delia Brown. It is
said she was in love with Brown, who
was paying attention to another wo-
man.
Purif
The tmportanee d
keeping the blood in
a pure condition 13
universally known,
and yet there are
very few people who
have perfectly pure
blood. The taint of scrofula, salt rheum, or
ether foul humor is heredited and transmitted
tor generations, causing untold suffering, and
we also accumulate poison and germs of dis.
lase from the air we
breathe, the food
we eat, or t In a water
we drink. There is
nothing
mrseof Con.
Elusively pven
than the our ptl0
power of Hood's Sarsaparilla over all diseases
Of the blood. This medicine, when fairly
tried, does expel every trace of scrofula or
Balt rheum, removes the taint which causes
latarrh, neutralizes
the acidity and cures
rheumatism, drives
out the germs of
malaria, blond poi-
soning, etc. It also
vitallzee and en-
riches the blood, thus oVereoniing that tired
teelina, and building up the whole system
Thousands testify to the superiority of Hood's
Sarsaparilla as a blond purifier. Full Infer.
matron and statements of cures sent free.
00
Sarsaparilla
Sold by all druggists. 1t1; six for ss Prepared only
by 0. I. IfO$t) & 00.. Apothecaries, Lowoil, Mass.
100 Doses One Dollar
yehaeeeseesc
Mr James Roblin, of Bowmanville,
dropped dead in his garden on .Friday
evening.
New subscribers are entitled to the
balance of the year free when ordering
the weekly Mail, Globe, Empire, Star,
Witness, Farm Journal, Farmer's Ad-
vocate, News, Free Press, Advertiser or
any other weekly paper. They also re-
ceive as a premium, The Farmer's
Manual ($2.50) when ordering to the
amount of $5; or for 25ets, $4; 50cts, 93;
and for 75;cents when the subscriptions
amount to $2. We will also supply any
premiums that are offered by the pub•
lishers. For further particulars apply
at once to COOPER'S Boot( STORE
MARRIED
SHOWERS-- JOHNSTON.—At the resi-
dence of the bride's father, Turnberry,
on the 22nd Oct.,by the Rev John Scott,
M.A., Mr James Showers, to Miss
Elizabeth Johnston, second daughter of
Mr Wm. Johnston.
TnnerNs — CARSON. — At Trinity
Church Belgrave, on the 5th inst., by
the Rev Mr Parks, of Lietowoll, Mr Jas.
S. Timmins, merchant, Bluevale, to
Mies Tillie Carson, second daughter of
Mrs Tuffts, of Belgrave, formerly of
Clinton.
Attu `avertioententO.
HOOTING MATCH. — A NUMBER OF
IJ Turkeys, Geese and Dunks will be shot
for, at Hy. Miller's Lot 30 con. 9, Goderich
township, on Thursday, ivov. 13th. A Ball
will he given in the evening.
GOOD CHANCE FOR A
YOUNG FARMER.
No Money Required Down.
fx• s9.al
Tenders will he received until Nov. 12th,
Inc the purchase of Lot 31, in the 12th Con.
of Goderieh Township, now occupied by
Thomas Jordan. The farm hss 80 sores, all
cleared; soli, light loam, yielding good crops.
About 30 acres in grass; throe acres in fall
wheat' six acres ploughed. Small honse,
good drams barn, malt orchard. Good
situation; within 4 miles of Clinton station,
and about lj miles from Iloimosviile.
TERMS—$500 cash or good soourity; bal-
ance on mortgage at 0 per pent., with prfbi-
lege of prepaying any part of the prinolpal,
not less than $50, at any time.
Apply te ii. HAtt2, Clinton.
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