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+ * where in th fntavioBhsecher ONLY ONE DOLLAR A YEAR Editor. 'Qur County Council. The Reeves and D. Reeves of the several municipalities throughout this County meet as a County Coun- cil at the Court House, Whitby, on Tuesday next, June 5th, when the' eoncentratod wisdom of the entire pounty wilt be brought to bear on whatever matters may chance to come up; but if we are not much mistaken the bill-of-fare will be the most meager possible. There is MNttledoubt, however, that the session will continue during the entire week, for if there is little to do whatever is done will have to be hammered out all the more. The removal of the equalization contests has taken the poetry outot the June sessions, and has deprived councilor diplomacy of much of its practice and rearly all it value. Our not overly affec- tionate alma mater, the County Town, will most likely take a final adieu of her too exact'ng children, cast us from under her Mmatorual roof and send us off motherless to seek a step-dam somewhere else. Whather or notshe will send us off portionless: remains to be seen. She may sup- poso that her sons have not been sufficiently dutiful, but she will find out her mistake, perhaps, when it is everlastingly too late, when, she, as a dejected, lone widow, is left to munch her crusts alone. and has pretty hard work to get them. This matter, should it come up, won't bear discussion, the disconsolate, exmatriated children will bear the affliction with meek and humble submission, and go from under the maternal roof with all the penitence of a returning prodiga'. Had she given us the chance we would have admitted our guilt, confessed our sins, acknowledged that we were unworthy any longer to be called her sons, but would have been glad to remain as her hiredservants if she would not turn us off; however, she may not give us the chance, but east us off us fugitives and vagabonds. There is no other matter of much importance to come up at this ses- sion ; in fact our absorbing Local Legislatures encroaching so rapidly on the domain of our counties coun- eile that precious little is left ory them to do, and itis not alittle surprising to see these councils sit quietly by and allow the Local Legislature to take away their power and snub them with impunity. Some modern authors assert that each succeeding generation is getting weaker and wiser; but whatever may be said of the proposition as affecting the whole community, we think all will admit the truth of the first part of it as far as it bears on our county eouncil, for county coun- oils gone by would have resonted the insults which our Legislature now offer our councils with impuoi. "ty; and while the truth of the second part of the proposition may very patarally be questioned by some, we hope the wisdom of the acts of the coming session will leave no doubt of its aeeuracy. ------ Imprisoned but Not Guilty. There can be little doubt but that the coming session of the County Council will have a day or two de- voted to the special benefit of a county Poor House, the June ses- sions of each year generally witness. es a special and protracted airing of thie, to rome, favorite topis. Esch day of the County Council costs the County at least one bundred dollars 80 that rhe day or two spent in dis- cussing his hobby from year to year costing the county about a couple of hundred dollars may fitly be charged to the poor fund; but the , dear knows, receive very lirtle jcood from this annual expenditure of two hundred dollars worth of gas. Wo do not for a moment quastion she sincerity of many of the advo- oates of this erimeless prison, others again having an eye to business 'would fad it eonvenient to have the revenue of sueh 8n iustitation ex pended in their midst while the out- Jay in the erection and maintenance the buildings would be quite a y item; and should it ever come "that the County Council is foolish ' enough to goin for the establish- * poent of the proposed incubus there will be a big fight over its location, of course it will bo established some North Ontario. The few snug a tments which such an hment open up will hate its influence in some rs fn securing advocates for half the amount which it would cost to take cave of these indigontsin the Poor House they would make them Jussiciy moro comfortable than they could be in a poor prison. But tor every ono descrepit or invalid indigent who may require their full maintenance from the poor fund there are twenty, aye fifty who can chore around their own residences or those of their family or relations and only require, if their relatives are too poor to do all, a small amount to ussist them, while their working around is conducive to their own bealth and they will enjoy more comfort in one day going round their own home than they would in twelve months within the cloistered precinats of a poor man's prison.-- The indigent's services are of value to his poor family or relatives while their society and his own liberty is worth all the world to him, and the little he receives from tho munici- pality saves him from being a bur- den on his poor relatives while the expense to. the municipality wayld not be one fourth of what it would atherwise be were he cast into the indigent limbo. The advocates of the measure contend that the Poor House system would ba more econ- omical but it 18 scarcely possible that thoy are sinscere; itis true thoy will parade an array of figures from other counties wheré such institutions are in operation, but these magnificent figures and spaci- ous guildings all come from interest od parties, partios redolent with the sweots of office or parties who are only half informed and who suppose that even in these counties where such houses are maintained that the inside relief amounts to one half thfit w hich the outside relief does. It is true that such reliet may not appear in the records of the county, may nol appesr in any record but it is naverthelessdragged from those who can badly spare it, but loving friends would rather stint themselves to starvation's point tuan see their in- digent relatives cast into prison for no other crime than that of poverty. In this celebrated poor house would be founda few who could rough it, who cared little for friends and where such feolings were recip- roeal but the most deserving poor would almost prefer death to guiltless incarceration. The coun- ty would have first some twenty or thirty thousand dollars to pay for grounds and builings, this investment for intevest, tear and wear and repairs would cost the county about $4,000 a year; then there is the maintenance of a staff of sleek officials living on the cream of the establishment, their red tape developments alone costing the county more than would maintain a fifth ot her poor. We imagine that we hear the more sangnine advo- cates of the scheme boast that, "We as a County Council will see that there is no mismanagement and that strict economy shall bo practised." This may be all very well for the boastful ones but how long do they suppose that 'we the members of Council" would have any control over the affair 2 It might be till after the buidings are made, very likely not so long, for at the rate the Ontario Government is curlailing ile powers of Counties Councils the day is not far distant when Counties Councils will scarcely have control of the shirt that's on their back. They now strut around our CountyJails holding on to tho fag end of their expiring authority, pay- jog a simi-annual, perfunctory visit to the jail and its surroundings and always, as a matter of course, report- ing favorably; but so slight a tenure have they of even this shadow o© wuthority that a few wecks ago when the council of # neighboring county refused either to carry or bire carriages to drag an unusually lazy pack of grand jurors from the Court House to the jail, the aristocratical grand jurors took the pet and would not go but went whining to the Judge who threateped to wipe out the Counties Councils or see at least that they ave deprived of the little rag of authority which they still hold over County Jails. From all appearance the time is not far dis tant whon Counties Councils will be ost buildings on the grounds. If they sre inelined to go into this Poor House scheme do not lot them suppose for a moment that they with no It would a burden on the people corresponding benefit, representative giving his vote to saddle any such useless burden upon the ratepayers without first meeting his constituents and having the ad. | matter fairly disenssed ; it would be #hom and if these relations who may Fhomssien bo poor were only to get a little too much in apy Reeve or Deputy Beeve to seek to introduce _ {on his own authority say such insti- tation ; there sre matters which are and ought to be left pretty much to | the judgment of the representatives but the establishment of 8 poor | House is certainly not ove of these, 1 Reeves and Deputies suppose that the establishment of any euch insti- tution would bave a beneficial ten- dency let them first discuss it be- 3 fore their own constituents ere they stripped of all acthority and will odin to scarcely be admitted into the small- | respect for would thus increase their official in- | recreant fluence, they would only beiaflicting | be the height of finsolence in amy ! be seen by and by that whatever of censure on theirown account take so im- portant and costly a step. -------- Sewing Machines as They Should be. For years gone by as the patents for cer- tain portions of the sewing machines expired the public naturally expected that these patents would not be renewed, that the monopoly would be done away with, and that in future the public would get sewing machines at something near their real value and that would be about one-third of the ! price at which they were selling. But the monopoly secured hy the patents afforded the patentees so enormous profits that they could well afford to buy up enough of Con. | gress votes to grant a further extension of i practice was continued from time to time, | still renewing the patents, the patentees. paying in bribes to Congress men in some instances as high as $500,000, and doubtless a similar purchase of corrupt Congress men would have taken place at the expiration of these patents had it not been that at this time corrupt officials were getting a scath- ing, from Doss Tweed, the monster thief, down to the most' weakly subsidized tools, 80 that when the patents expired a couple of weeks ago a renewal of the old game was found critical, and the most corrupt Congress men, who would willingly have again clutched the accursed bribe and agaiu re- newed the patents, dare not do it in dread of the avenger, and the consequence was the iniquitous patents were allowed "to expire and thus the wholesale robbing of the public in the purchase of sewing machines was brought to an abrupt conclusion & couple of weeks ago. The parts covered by these in- iquitous patents are for the double thread machine, the vibratory needle, and recipro- cating shuttle ; and for the single thread machines, the vibratory needle and rotating hook. The continuous feed, whether secured by fore motion or wheel motion, was also covered by patents, and the patents from the feed alone have secured to the patentees a net profit of over 4,000,000. A single manufacturing company who did not hold a patent but who paid to the patentees a cer- amount on each machine they manufactured paid in this way to these patentees no less a sum than $800,000 during the last ten years. In short the profils on sewing ma- chines were from four to five hundred per cent, that is the public huve had to pay four or five times as much as the machines were worth, Machines which cost from $60 to $70 could have been sold at from $12 to $15 and leave a fair margin of profit to the man- ufacturer. The question naturally arises as to where all these enormous profits went ; a large portion of them went into the hands of the patenteer, a luge amount to the manufacturers who paid royalties, and a very significant portion of it to agenis, the 'agent in almost every case getting more for selling the machine than it was worth; agents generally received from $15 to $20 for selling a machine which is really worth no more than $12 or §15; of course the ma- chines are sold for $60 or $70 but they are really not worth one-fifth of the money. Sewing machine men squirm fearfully at the idea of having to reduce their rates to about one-fourth of their present prices, bu however reluctantly, they must come to it and already $60 machines are being offered for $18, and $70 machines for $22. This is in the right direction, but it is only the be- ginning of the downward movement, the iniquitous profits of the patentee have ceased, manufacturers in futore will have to be satisfied with fair profits, and the silken handed agents will either have to go to work or be satisfied with greatly reduced profits. ---- Orthodoxy on the Defensive. * Itcannot well be denied, in the face of tho facts prorenting them- selves on all hands that orthodoxy will bave its hands fall for some time to come as some of tho most learned, most talented and most ac- tive Ministers of several of our churchos are struggling for more latitude, more liberty of thought and action. The Rev. Mr. Roy, of the C. M. Church, who has lately had to cover his connection with that church is an additional instance.-- From the following remarks ot the Rev, Mr. Bray it will be scen that his sympathies are all with Mr, Roy. A couple of Sundays ago Mr. Bray in his sermon alluded to Mr. Roy's ease and was reported by a Witness reporter. Mr. Bray eomplains of the inac- euracy of the report, as follows: -- «Yam made to say with regard to the judges of Mr. Roy that sthey have acted the genius and spirit of the thodist denomination and I have enough their discipline and their teach. | ings, &c,' The first part of the sentence is | correct, the second @ot so. I didn't say I had respect for the disclipine and teaching | of the methodist denomination--how could I said: ¢ Having respect to their dis. | cipline and teaching they woald have been to their principles had they done other.' A slight difference, you see, « And then--I did not say that Mr, Boy had made an attack 'on the orthodoxy of the Bible,' but ' on the orthodoxy of the rohes: Read that way I hope it will my remarks may have had it was not on | Mr. , bat on the Methodist system, | which is as pitiless a tyranny as ever wag devised by brain ecclesiastical. Mr. Roy and his judges are but victims. " Axorage opr THE TRACK. of the Bev. Jobn Miller, of ew Jersey, by the Presbytery of New k has sled in ie suspetision from the ministry. ¢ heretical matter {oon alleged to be coutalaed in threo pro- positions found in Mr. Miller's vecently published book, entitled i by the Bible: (1) that the buman soul js not Immortal ; (3) that Christ needed to be re-- deemed, was redeemed by His own death : (3) that there is bat one person in the Godhead, On' the trial Mr Miller de- fended himself with much eloguence, end, claimed the liberty of deviating from the! standards of the Presbyterian Church in He} matters named. The charge and { cations were unanimously sustained by the res! . Mr. Miller will appeal to the Synod of New Jersey, « The Princeton, place, Russia appears in no hurry about, it but she is certainly making vast prepara- and thus bring her to terms.' Asiatic, Turkey cisive conflict, and from present appearances the whole war is a farce, the poor men on debt. aimies, King's navivs, &c., but the King's debt is never herd of it is always the Nation- al debt , the debt is always considered to delong to the nation and of course the nation scheme wouid be a provincial calamity ed on King St. west of the residence of Mr. residence and post office on the east side of Simcoe St., nearly opposite Mr. Goodfellow's store. east of the village Mr. Alvoid bas purchased a seven acre plot and is having a splendid brick residence erected on it. Mr. John Jeffrey, 10 the east of the village, s having a beautiful brick resi dence built. beautifol new residence with substantial out. buildings. they will sdd materially to the appearance and business of the village, will largely increase the amount of its assessed value. buildings going on at once make things lively in the village. G. H. Goodfellow, Esq, General Merchant, and mine host, Park, of tte Anglo-American Hotel, are kept pretty well on the run attending to the wants of the nu- merous parties employed around in addition to the regular trade. ' should at once get the side walks taken up from the B. C. Church north as far as the end of the beat extends, there are several old horses kept constantly feeding on the road walks every few yards and there is 00 say- ing how soon the brutes may get their legs broken and thus cause their untimely de- cense ere the crows get an opportunity of closing the mortgage which they hold on all of them and which would soon close legitimately. through the holes thus made and may break their legs or their necks but that is as no- gives to the hungry quadrupeds to be break- ing through a lank" every Cther step. of course, horses and side walks are incompati- ble to cach other and as it would be too much to ask that the old horses should be prohibited from running at large on the streets the only alternative is to remove the side walks and if the time should ever come when parties shall be probibited from allow- ing theic old nags to run at large and break the side walks, then tho sidewalks can be put down again. a good thing for ratepayers to tax themselves for side walks, and then allow a brigade of old horses to brenk them to pieces about as soon as they are made. The owuersof the horses can be made responsible damage done to the sidewalks, . Volunteers Attention | ca The Bastern War. That ¢ Great Battle" has not yet takeu tions ubviously with the intention of crushing her antagonist on the first great onslaught elgewhere asthis loans, will doubtless be the theatre of the first de- it would almost seem as if the Turkish com. mander was relying more on luck than skilful generalship to carry him through.-- A disastious defeat at Batoum, Erzeroum or especially Kars would go far towards bring. ing Turkey to her knees; and in fact, all present indications appear to point to such an event at no distant day, an event which the thorough disorganization at the Turkish that every volunteer belonging to the com. pany, and many who wish to join. will be at run its credit to the utmost stretch if not | the Port Perry station to meet the Col. on to keep up with its neighbor at least to get capital would do much to hasten. Of course the arrival of the 10:30 train tomorro neither side have a right to be butchered to i morning. It is to be hoped that No. satisty the whims of & few would be rulers. the time of the patents, so that the iniquitous reo paperor of Russia had any quarrel Company will give a good account of them- ai selves by a full and prompt turnout to meet the god of war, There is no other section of most destructive guns appears to have sct capable of in with Midhat Pasha, Mukhlar Pash orany other pasha why not fight it out between themselves without bringing the poor sold. their Colonel country in the Province ---- Get the Largest. - | The volunteers of No. 5 Company, and all | In taking a survey of the map of Europe, wishing to become volunteers, will see by | inspecting its dock-yards, its arsenals, its the advertisement of Lt. Col. McMillan, | barracks, its military camps, &c., &c., ome he (the Lt. Col. ! could scarcely resist the conclusion that the | of the 34th Bat.) will come to Pony Perry to- whole duty of man is to kill or be killed, | morrow, Friday, Jute 1st, by the"motning &nd that bis «* chief end" is to be a soldier. train, which arrives at Port Perry at 10:30, | when all voluutéers belonging to said com- | while her waters are dotted with the huge, | to Miss Mary J. McLaren, all of pany, and all wishing w join are requested unsightly, frowning iron clads and gua boats ! to meet him on the arrival of the train. panting to thunder forth devastation and | The Col, has much to communicate fo the death. company that is important for them to know, only limited Ly the purchasing power of the besides making arrangements for the import. several nations, as it is every dollar that can ant drill shortly to take place at the head possibly be screwed out of the foiling ones quarters of tne Battalion. It is expected and when the cash runs out the credit! Fall Wheat What is Europe but a vast military camp, The men and material for war are | system is introduced and the nation must w all it can; and thus the honest sons of in 5 dustry and thrift must give their sweat and waste their energies to provide sacrifices for A strite for the biggest and It is said that the 56-ton breech loader ending out a better company of volun- which was shown by Herr Kru at th fers of the two nations, who have really 10 po. : 3 i y tLe pp 8 ' y teers than could be mustered in this locality Centennial Exhibition last year, has been cause of quarrel between them, into the malee. and we hope to see such a company meet The toiling ones In eve instance must pay ' the Col. as well of those who belong to the i | company as of those who wish to join,as will delivered at Cronstadt. the piper. They musf from their sweat and purchased by the Russian government and It fires a charged 1d credit to themselves and honor to the steel shell of 1,222 pounds. with an initial toil, furnish the sinues of war--the cash-- | jcality, Eternal vigilance is the price of velocity of 1,590 fect a second. The Sultan their sons must do the fighting and those | liberty, but at no previous time in the world's history was it ever of more importance that a people should be prepared, not for aggres- sion, but for thoroughly reliable self. defence. | was exhibited in Philakelphia it was the It is much to the personal as well as to the | Jargest breech loader in the world; but Herr national advantage that our young men | that are not killed in the fight bave,atter the close of war saddled on them an everlasting We have our King's highways, King's should be thoroughly drilled. Suxpay Scroor ANNIVERSARY. --The Epso must pay it. -------- The Toronto & Ottawa Railway. a of June. The By-law for granting a bonus of $50,000 to the above scheme, by the Township of Pickering, was voted on on the 26th inst, and detested by a majority of 158. Under ordinary circumstances it would be hard to account for such adefeat. That the road is a necessity all are ready to admit, and that it will prove to the Township of Pickering worth one bun- dred times the bonus asked cannop well be disputed, and that Mr. Scott, the Pi ident of the Company, has done everything which could in rewson be asked is no less§truc, but outside influence has been fatal to the By-law . The front of the township could be easily wrought upon by having it shown that they had already all the railway accommodation they required ; but as we view it, even they made a big mistake in oppos'ng the By-law: for even to them the road will be of vastly more benefit than all the money that is asked ia the By-law. The healthy effect of the com- petition of the two lines would be largely to their advantage in a direct way, while the in- crease in the value of property 'in the back part of the township would raise the assessed value of these lands and prove an jndirect benefit to the front by lessening thelr taxes Bat why any parties in the back part of the township should vote against the By-law is passing strange, and we should judge that any who did 50 will regret it when they come to consider the matter, for the defeat of this But the scheme is not to be defeated, it is an abso- lute necessity and mus? go forward. Tt would be wrong to retard its progress a single day nunecessarily. The By-law, somewhat moc' fied, will be re-submitted in Pickerii ere long when there can be no doubt of its success. All desire to seo the construction of this road fairly agoing ere the close of tke present year. en m. . On Monday the chair will be taken at 2 and music will entertain the company till evening commences at 7:30, enjoyable time. They deserve the counte! less they will have a large share of it. et fr after tomorrow, the first day of June, the e and not by the 7th Concession live as former] farmers wont be particularly busy at th: time a lively fair may be expected. thankfulness that seyere as it was that was no worse. rr ---- Musical Festival. Uxbridge to which we called attention Building Operations. The village of Prince Albert continues to make an onward, steady progress The village is now extending westward, sonthward, and eastward ; a number of substantial, handsome buildings are now in course of ereetion, some of them frame but most of them brick. There is a fine brick residence just commenc. Music as for the pleasure of listening to th Spence. Mr. P. Hurd is bujldiog a frame ed, such opportunities but rarcly occur. Mr. Cash is overbauling, almost rebuilding, that building in the centre of the village, lately Campbell's workshop. In the be expected, ee pee Rffects of Lightning. and other necessary buildings were visited by short but sharp thund Mr. M. Weir is surrounding his All these valuable buildings, while tating powers, All these o1t of it, ------------ A --t Those Sidewalks. i several of the timbers being carried to The pathmaster on the Prince Albert beat was also injured, no lives lost, though there were exceeding] narrow escapes. The dwelling of here and they are breaking through the side 0 considerably damaged. Mrs, Of courso people too fall thing when compared to the annoyance it sitting in it titi the the same stroka whi some though not fatally. ---- ee Grand Lodge. Itis a little too much of for all the a7 Bovixe Woor.--The Wool market is | perity in the future, y opened with 8 rush. Mr. Worthington is te prepared to purchase all marketable wool Pile on the Damages presented, A ocoreuspondent of the Montreal Star ------ March On! We learn with pleasure that a highly im- | stood, have been Sgr igh McGreevy to enter an action agai portant addition is about being mede to the McGreevy Bo SHEE CO fr, TL 0 pl 'by Hon. Tho nedy & Hoitt are getting on for the erection of an extensive, new, 2 Flouring mill which is to be located onPerry Damages are laid at $100,000." him as contractor St. The enterprise will prove highly advan. | It is mot long since this brace of Grit libelers against as Mr. MoGreevy charges thew, were fat and Hine the horse Tenbroeck ran a mile in 1.39% kicking with joy at the idea of the Mail and other Conservative Journals being up 08 the pop ebroeck in the property of Mr. Frank B. movement of certain Grits for heavy libel Harper, of Kentucky ; is 5 years old; sired by tageous to this whole section of country. iets em ------em Dunkin a Fraud. A rule nisi was granted on Friday to quash the Dunkin Act Bylaw in Frontenac, damages, Sunday School in connection with the C. M. Church hold their anniversary services on Sabbath and Monday the 3rd and 4th days Services on Sabbath at 2 and 6 p. m. when addresses, recitations, dialogues p. m. when Tea will be served from that time till 7 o'clock. The concert in the Thepastefforts of our Epsom friends: are the best guarantee for an interesting and ance and support of the public and doubt. We ARR INSTRUCTED to state that on and trance to Beechenhurst, Dr. Sangster's resi- dence, will be by the new street lately opennd et meme Maxcarster Jose Fam--The Manchester fair for June fallson a fine time for a good display of cattle, lots of time will bave been given by the 13th June, when the fair comes, to have the grass feed show its effects, and as ------------ Acaiy ar ms Post.--It was a matter of much satisfaction to the entire community but especially to the members of his congre- gation that Rev. C. C. Johnson was again at his post on Sabbath last. The Rev. gentle- man has got well over bis accident and under the circumstances, all have reason for The Musical Convention to be held in couple of weeks ago, has now been brought into trim and all things definitely: arranged. The Festival opens on the cvening of Mon- | (he Emperor should feel anxious that his day June 18th, and again on Wednesday and Thursday holding three sessions each day. The proceedings of each session will be highly importantas well for valuable in. struction in the rudiments and practice of choice music which shall be discoursed, -- Members of choirs should not allow so favorable an opportunity to pass unimprov- grand concentration of musical talent may | On the evening of Monday the 21st inst, the village of Cannington and neighborhood storm which during. its brief visit gave some decisive and disagreeable proofs of its devas, The heavens became black as sackcloth, the wind blew a fisrce gale and nature put on one of her most threatening aspects, when presently the hghtning began to play, torrents of rain began to pour and the scene wi terrifically grand, but the (de- vastation it cansed took the poetry entirely During its stay, which certainly did not exceed half an hour, the barn of T. Amey, Esq, D. Reeve of Brock, was struck and shattered to pieces, part of the roof and great distance, and the surrounding fences were badly destroyed ; Mr. McKinnon"s barn Fortunately there were Mr. McDougall, proprietor of the Beaver Grist Mill near the village, was also struck and McDougail and a young lady, who were both in the same apartment, were badly stunned, the shoes) were torn off Mrs, McDougall's fect, and the shoe was torn from the foot of the youog lady which was nearest Mrs, McDougall, and while the hecls of the parties were lacerated no material Injury was done to either. One Mr. McBain had driven his carriage under a shed near McDougall's house, and remained should pass over; struck the house struck Mr. McBain knocking him out of his carrisge Lo the ground and injuring him The meeting of the Grand Lodge of True 'Blues was held in Hamilton on the latter part of last week This young but 'fmport. ant order is progressing most satisfactorily. It is little more than eighteen months since its inception and it already numbers thirty active prosperous lodges. The state of the order and the proceedings of the grand lodge gave universa] safisfaction with every reason to expect even increased pros. OS O'Connor & Hogg. barristers, it is wader: iantr ucted le mus t the steam Shore railzond, 759,000 is unnccounted for, bas ordered a companion piece for the de. fence of Constantinople. When this gun Krupp, anxious to prove that cast-steel guns can be manufactured on- a scale to vie with the heaviest wrought-iron ordnance, is now finishing at Essen an 80-ton gun. This is about the weight of the great Fraser gun m experimenting for several months at Wool- wich and Shoeburyness. It falls short of p | the 100.tun Armstrong guns which are being manutactured for the Italian navy. The 5 | Prussian gun maker is not to be ontdoue ; he is willing to make a 124-ton breech loader if some nation will give him a chance. Ace cording to the London Zimes the projectile which such a gun would discharge would weigh about a ton ; the charge of powder would be about 500 pounds, and the weight of the carriage would be 62 tone. These big guns are enormously expensive. The 80-ton breech loader costs $100,000 ; the 124-ton gun cannot be made for less than $167,500. Herr Krupp is supplying the Russian government with a number ot 11 inch steel breech loaders' weighing 27} tons each, n- ---------- | The Emperor becoming Impatient. The Empe.or of Russia is already begin- ing to chafe at what he considers the laggard progress of the war, and his great anxiety is aftecting his bodily and mental health so much that his medical advisers begin to fear the consequences, and hence their advice to him to join the army, where the surround. ing activity will tend to engage his mind. It is little wonder, however, that the Em- peror should feel anxious under the circum- stances, with an army of two or three hundred thousand men in a region of country that proved so disastrous, just fifty years ago, to a picked Russian army of 120,000 men. In the region of Bulgaria and acrcss the Pruth, in the region of Adrianople, dis. ease and death so preyed upon that fine army that within a couple of years all that were left of the 120,000 were 6,000 men, # | thus leaving the bones of 114,000 of her sons bleaching on the swampy regions of the Turkish frontier, and it is little wonder that at it army should make short work with the enc- my and hasten to recross the frontier into their own land. 'They can fight, and we believe, conquer the Turks, but they are no match for the pestilence which walketh at noon day, or the plague which steals around them in the stillness ot the night, Such is war, he, A As Clear as ilud. The Clerk of the township of Dumfries having written to tle Attorney General for information regarding the get wp of the Voters' List as required by the New Act re- ceived the following reply fora copy of which we are indebted to the columhs of the Galt Reporter :-- «Toronto, 16th May, 1877. Dear Sir --In reply to vours of the 15 inst to the Attorney General, I beg to say thatin Towns the only part of the voters' list which will contain any names is the first, the second and third will bave written npon them sim- ply the word none." Upon appeal the Judge may Afterwards insert in these parts the names uf per ons disqualified from voting at elections for the Assembly or Council ax the case may be. In Town<hips the second part will contain the namics of DUTRODS A. sessed for real property to the amount of $100 and not to the amount of + 200, Your's truly, J. G. Scott. er a | Thomas Maishall, Exq., Township Clerk, Dumfries." P T Barnum's Own and only Great- est Show on Earth, at Osha: Press and people are an enthusiastic unit in recognizing P. T. Barnum as the Great Object Teacher of the age, and his world- wide famous museum, menagerie caravan and circus, which will reach Oshawa by three monster special trains of his own solid steel cars, on Thursday June 7th, by far the most stupendous amusement enterprise ever pro- jected. Something like half a million dollars' worth of foreign features have been added the present year, including Baroum's Scriptural Behemoth, the only living hippo- potamus, this side of the Atlantic ; a stud of six most magnificieutly beautiful « Trakene" trick stallions, which cost Mr Barnum $30,000 in gold, in Paris, and for whose equals in either appearance or intelligence $50,000 is freely ofiered ; Capt.Costentenus, the remarkable and sole survivor of Tartar Chinese barbarity, whose person is covered, literally from head to foof, with tattooing, and for half as skilfully illustrated a being as he $50,000 will be paid; Miss Hengler's original and dauntless £50,000 challenge double manege act, with her two suberb tandem stallions,and Charles W. Fish, the chief among the bareback equestrian cham- jons. And all this butan inkling of what 8 to be seen, nict to speak of the more than monarchical free street parade in the morn- ing, with its huge elephants in harness, drawing stupendous golden chariots, lions and anacondas performed in procession, and other princely and novel sensations, far too numerous to 'mention. How can Barnum aftord to show so much for so small a price ? ly i ---- ¢ Summer Outfits Choice and Cheap. Beg Pearce's new advertisement in this fase. 'He is offering eomething in the way summer outfits which cannot fail in cre- ng & rush ; he hasa splendid stock of 'just stich goods as all require and would like to have, See his stock, as it ought tobe is what all want, A turf event of such an extraordinary char- acter 8s to merit especial notice occured at Louisville last week. In his race Ws bel for ng two seconds faster than the best time that distance previously accomplished. + imported Phaeton ; dam Fanuy Holton, sbi with which the British engineers have been | His Gent's furnish- | ; y Ota for i afactures of Port Perry Messrs Kem= To) io othe report that out of $2,000,000 ings are superior. Choice materjal made up vinterials hy iy Port for the North BIRTH, wife of Mr. K. Brabazon, of a so! . MARRIED. | At Uxbridge, on the 24th inst., by the Rev. Mr Browning, Mr. Edward, second son of Joseph Letcher, Esq., to Miss Julia O'Dell, all of Port Perry. At Port Perry, on the 23rd inst, by the Rev, C. A. Simpson, Mr. William. Tordiff, Darlington, At Uahridge on Wednesday 30th inst., by the Rev. Mr. Davidson, Mr. James Fair to Miss | Martha F. Murta. At Snintild, on Monday May 15th, "P . T B A R N uM ' 'The Markets. OBSERRVER Orrice May 31, 1877, $0 00 tc $0 00 Spring Wheat ............ 140% 148 BArIeY susenesisnerre raves 950 14C. 0.60 Oats ... eivasaveines @ 5010052 Peas . . 060to 0170 Clover Seed ............... 600to 700 Hay perton........cc.vv0 11 00 to 12 00 Butter .. 018to 018 BEES «reasssnaaiesciss vv 01210 '032 Pork sivss sivsseversssves 650 t0 675 Cheese..oouu ove 0ll1to 011 080to 090 500to 550 025to 025 SPECIAL NOTICES. 'WOOL. Now that the Wool season has commenc- ed it is most important that each and every : farmer having wool to dispose of should in the first place, wash the sheep thoroughly, this is most important and unless the wool is washed clean, it is im- possible for the buyers to receive it as good clean washed wool, immediately after the sheep has been washed turn them out into a clean field free from dirt or anything that may tend to dirty the wool after washing--after having allowed the sheep to run 4 or 5 days (they should never be allowed to run longer than 6, that is, provided the weather is fav- orable) then shear and be particular never to roll up inside the clear fleece wool any dirt cr pieces nf wool, I mention this, for on buying wool. 1 have so often found perfect rubbish neatly folded up inside the fleece, and then it is sometimes, though not very often, that the | yer should take this as good fleece wool Roll the good fleece wool up by itself, and the cotted and fragments by themselves. This saves time and a great deal of trouble to the buyer, as we'l as doing away with misander- standings that sometimes ocour on this very point, I have taken the liberty of makirg these few suggestions, with the hope that it may be a benefit to both buyer and seller.-- Krom foreign advices received, the prospects at present, at least, are not in favor of wool being high priced E. WORTHINGTON. Port Perry, May 29, 1877. a NOTICE. In regard to the reduction in the price of sewing machines it will be limited to the States only, machines retailing there at $65 are retailing here in Canada for $15, so that machines in the States are retailing for the same as in Canada, NOTICE. Mr, Urquhart asks the farmers of this see- tien of country to hold off giving orders for purchasing Light Reapers until about the first or tenth of June, as there is so much said about Light Machines, and some, that have been placed upon the market have not a box in them bavitted, and only run in cast iron boxes. If the Kirby Light Machine is not the best by far, he (Urquhart) will not ask an order. They will be to hand at the Sign of the Plow, Port Perrg, by the lst or 10th "of June* Trusting as this is early to order a Reaper it will not be overlooked. This Kirby Light Reaper he speaks of is and will prove to be the best of all light machines--its weight Is §75 or 700 pounds. It has more good points than any other, and I defy the contradiction, that it is not by far the most durable Light Reaper yet introduced--the principal parts of it are made of malleable iron and steel. The pitman or connection box Is worthy of great , raise. To see It before buylog or ordering a Reaper will hurt no one. It would be well to see them. ee ee To Consumptives. Consumption, that scourge of humanity, + great dread of the human family in all civilized countries I feel confident that I am in possession of the only sure, infallible remedy--uow known to the profession--for the positive and speedy cure of that dread disease, and its unwelcome concomitants viz: CATARRE, AgTHna, Broxcmimis, NErvous Desity, &c. Twenty years experience in the best Con- sumption Hospitals of the Old and New Worlds as a busy practitioner, has taught me the valine of this Medicine in the cure of all Throat and Lung Complaints, Those suffering with consumption, or any of the above maladies, by addressing me, giving symptoms, shall be put in pos. session of this great boon, WITHOUT CHARGE, and shall have the bendfit of my experience in thousands of cases successfully treated. Full directions for preparation and use, and all necessary advice and instruction for successful treatment at your own home, will be received by you by return mail, free of by addressing. - operely Di. Joux 8. BurxerT, 167, Jefferson Street Louisville, K'y. -------------------- ---- ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING | HE Annual General Meeting of the Stock Holders of the. PRINOE ALBERT PUB- LIC HALL JOINT STOCK COMPANY will be held in their Hall, Prince Albert, on the evening of | TUESDAY, JUNE 5th, At 8 o'clock. A tall meeting is requested. Prince Albert, May 30th, 1877. Horses in Pound. ROUGHT into the pound of the sub- B scriber on lot No 6 in the 8th con. of the township of Reach, on Monday, May 28th, a Bay Horse with a white streak down his face, and a Dark Brown Manp with some white on her nose. If not previously replieved they will be sold 01 Wednesday, the 20th day of June, at the hour of four o'clock p. m. as the J WILLIAM McGBEGOR, Pound Keeper. JAS. BAIRD. Pres Reach, May 0th, 1877 (QomTY COUNCIL. The June Session of the County Council of Ontario, will be holden: at the COURT HOUSE, inthe TOWN OF WHITBY, on information as will NEW AND ONLY CREATEST SHOW ON EARTHY TRANSPORTED BY RAIL UPON THREE IMMENSE SPECIAL EXCURSION TRAINS OF ITS OWN SOLID STEEL CARS. Will Exhibit, in all its Overshadowing Vastness, at OSHAWA, THURSDAY, JUNE 17. Beyond comparison by far the largest Amusement, Enterprise in the world, canopy- ing many acres, and exclusively showing more new and imported features, more Ma~ rine Monsters, more and rarer Wild Beasts, Birds and Reptiles, moregmarvelous Human Prodigies, more curious and costly Mechani= cal Wonders, more distinguished Equestriunsg and Athlet:s, and more Educated Animals and ificent Trick Horses than were ever before presented in any age of place. 50 50 5O Magnificent Pictorial Cages. An additional Half Million invested in famous Foreign Features, including A $30,000 Stud of Superb Ed ¢ Trakene" Stallions, ait For whose equals I will cheerfully pay $50,000, introduced all together, they simul - tancously, and as one company, execute the most astonishing acts and evolutions, with all the precision, activity and intelligence of army drill, even standing as erect as soldiers. Their performances beggar description. Miss Jennie Louise Hengler's Original and Electrifying pourLe MANEGE Ac, introducing: two magnificent $10,000 Stallions, ridden which I will also pay $50,000. The Tattooed Greck Nobleman, APTAIN COSTENTENU Tattooed from head to foot in Chines Tartary as punishment for engaging in rebellion against the King. 388 figures, necessitat- ing 7,000,000 blood punctures. I will give $50,000 for the production of half as exten- sive and perfect a piece of tattooing, or for the correct decyphering of the hieroglypbics on his body. Barnum's $25,000 Bibilical Behemoth, The only Living se» HIPPOPOTAMUS "wv In America. A thousand-fold greater attraction than all ordinary menageries com= bined. : ADMIRAL DOT! A living atom among pigmies, and the smallest and most intelligent Dwarf ever known, A GRAND FIELD MUSEUM of life-sike Automatons and Mechanical Wonders, operated by a Solid Silver Steam Engine. $2,000 per Day in Salaries! To over 100 Peerless Principal Circus Celebrities, including CHARLES W. FISH, the unchallenzed Champion Bareback Rider of the Universe, and to whose compeer I will pay §50,000 yearly salary. Each mornirg about 9 o'clock « TRIUM=- PHAL GOLDEN STREET PROCESSION, fre to all, far eclipsing in magnificence and size any Lord Mayor's show, and well worth weing 100 miles to se+. Huge Elephants inv Harness drawing Titanic 'lableaux Cars and Colossal Chariots in Golden Glory ; an end- less vision of Animals, art and Ar asic Pomp. Monster Lions in their Gilded Lair, performed in public as they pass, by M'lle Damas, the European Empress of the Dens , Stupendous Serpents seen encircling the Hindoo in their Crystal Den. A Jewelled and Bannercd Army moving in Majestic Splendor through the thronged streets. Bring all the Ladies and Children and secnre good places to see. THE MUSEUM, MENAGERIE and CIRCUS le' ng cach ex- hibited in Entirely Scparate Tents and returning more than Ten times the Price of Admission, ONE FIFTY CENT TICKET admitting to Every Tent and Department-- Children under nine years, half-price, with free admission to all purchasers of my auto- biography, or my new Story, '. LION JACK," as explnined in my Illustrated News and other Advertisements, Doors open at 1 and 7 pm. Grand Spectacular, Animal and Areni: Entree 1 hour later pe Arrangements have been made: for ion trains at reduced rates to the Great ion Show. THE GREATEST SHOW on Earth will also Exhibit in all its vast entirety sé TORONTO, Friday, and Saturday, June; 8th and 9th. pe TRAYED or Stolen from the premises of th: Subgeriber, 'ot 15, in the 19h co... Man- vers, (near Lifford), on the 18th inst., A Brown Mare and a Brown Filly. The Mare is about 12 years old; grey strip on her forehead and shoes on 'il Ties ot, -- The Filly 1s two » ears old, a little low: he shoulders and raised on the back cv'r the kidneys. Any party Tetrhing them or giving sw lead to t recovery will be suitably rewarded. ¥ or WM. HOWDEN, Manvers, May 20, 1877. Lifford B. 0. Annual Drill ! VOLES, ATTENTION 0. 5 Company, 34th Battalion (V. M.)} are hereby required to meet at PORT I KERRY, On the arrival of the morning train from tte South, for the purpose of arranging to put in their annual drill for 1876-77, at Head- quarters of the battalion (Whithy),_ A full attendance is expected (without uniform.-- Other matters of great importance to the Company will be then discl 3 Volunteers reading this are snd word to those at a distance, " RECRUITS WANTED, , By order; iii i dguk bots cellent Farm, being the Kast: half of lot 15, (the gore included), in -the.3th.con, TOWNSHIP CF *UXBRIEGE, Tuesday, the 6th Day of June, 1877, at two o'clock in the afternoon. All Accounts against the Corporation _ must be rendered to the Clerk of the Council by Monday June 4th. H.J. MACDONELL, County Clerk's Office, C. C. of Ontario. | Whitby, May 22nd, 1877, 25 2} miles west of Utica, 3 Ter, is acres cleared a nina 3 culs tivation, The property is wel fenced. -- | There ate on the premises a New Frame Dwelling House, a good Framo "Man; a vigorous Young Orchard of Ch Fruit Trees, and aWell of fine Water, . ¥ tg fl : TERMS REASONABLE, For further particulars, apply hy prietor on the premises, 890 7 Ah gro- JAMES BOWLS, i Uxbridge, May 23, 1877. r:Reopeietot, and driven tandem. For the counterpart of em