RW ADVERTISEMESTS THIS WEEK 'talk OR r -- , EW Cheap Extursion--Grand Trans Bassas. | aes BU etat Woties to Contractors W.& F. Workmar os of sll ; North Perth Election--8.B. Besson. | cmt liinetesithe ts Mesting--Conturvative yond Q. + -{ Wanted--Mre, J. P. Won | Z j Noticee---D. W. Comming } t WW. Mowal & San |" =e fom u - &Co LOCAL NEWS. Clothing--J. A. Fonter. Jowels--Next Week. = Cirem--W. W. Cole. | ; : Hurrah-for Hesson! |", saat NORTH PE 2RT H ELEC-! Fa = TION. Fae ; . A ' MEETINGS. OF Com MITTEES : ! youNa MEN bare y Conservative lane "Ronnie | . To-Night, Wednesday , AND EVERY NIGHT Up te the evening before Pollina, M ms "RADE Y+RABEY-RALLY | ' rs AND ENSURE : a Ar A GRAND VICTORY b pn nmuenday, Sept. 47. "WE. Stratford, Sept. 10, 1878. She Stratford Times, AND COUNTY OF PERTH GAZETTE. Sratroap, Wroseapar, Sarr. 11th) isT4 H, T. BUTLER, Editor and Menayger eon ablish in this week's issue Mr. Fuiler, Flax nant a +» that 'emp slays som asand hands, which wool never have been started been for the encouragement ve n té it by the United States Tariff. This ment is owned and rin Ty Messrs. Berbour Ds ros. from Peélfa Ireland. NATIONAL POLICY AS AMPLIFY Tr ye Be en - In his a celles at ipted ah Eilers Hawkins pat a case as tow © Soue jared no did impalse to our far arme ts. = TL results of Aa gon ion gent ous, The ih nr INFORMATION WAN hy did it « +95 bended ea "of casts mt PTentee ackenzir, wh ile t one et 36 to 'collect every h amir customs revenue in IsTvs aurwer 6. Mr, Mackenzie ip Ts 6-7 | in the offices at ¢ m 1672-3 Sir Job» only pak «i therm 87 S,1 y is thie thus Who squandered Three Million for Btee! ails ? MAC to be rot and { t the" mel the country Thirty wae 'De Rare ¢ Harbour? MAC 9 squander) Four Handed T pees The Part Preametr tz MAC KENZI ho paid A. B. Foster, $100,000 for 2 wie of railway that wat.never ? MACKE Who bought an 0 " ame barn, 'Neebing Hotel, 73s ea KEN? Who gave the Speaker of [arliam Eee Thousasel fi lar Govern: tt act' ment MACKENZIE Who sank Two Hundre« rhea minal De in the Pacific Telegraph Lin LACKENZI Who increased the ae debt ~ fty | Pour Millions of Dollars in the poets 5 years MACKEN? ho inereased salaries of Governmer odious ty bite) 000 rte year? MACKENZIF Who brought the Country tu the very ruin' will resent this 'naa in a open hus eyes to their | Collar, and place yournecks 'under George Brown's hee! i VOTE for FISHER and Ino | VOTE FOR | 2 WORKINGME wT wran SHORT TIME AXD LOS VOTE PU THR GRITS oer . A LONG PULL, AND A STRONG AND A ALTOGETHER, J tt SUN ON THR itn WILL SET UP A OOTNTRY REDEEMED POM -~-POVEETS_AND MISHELS. oes "Business a bent Che tom: & than there 8 ha aa 'The ene of N.P. AGRICULTURAL 80- coluikade he PROSPECTS OF a GOOb EXHIBITION. |™ r PS AN} (OMe ODIOUS KEW BUILDINGS ie Siceday teat, In a caRpAny with Mr. ail, se ient of the resent 'Tariff. THE STRATFORD FLAX SELLS TO CEASE OPERATIONS UN- LESS A CHANGE OP TARIFF 18 EFFECTED. A ae PACT For THE ELECTORS UO PONDER OF: To the Editor of The Stratford Times. I have been asked to republish my Jetier to Andrew Monteith, Req., late M.P., (of the 20th March, 1876.) on the fax industry of has} *¢ country, and would thank you to give it 'THE- Gil, 1 "LEPT BEHIND PY MARCIIED A AY. GALLANT ANB { GAY, TO THE KOCKY TOWN OF 8T. MARY d 2 Companies, at the Town « to Bt tina week a drill cher weak ere being only five to 42 t a, @ they took the th will pa Ba Lie Paigey: 4, . Cape. of cede te oa nan oll i Mn take place on Friday yt t a wor Yes, 1 ie Oar Taat mais t the tre ath af hea nsec. Your this eer quite a crowd pre i the volun rire 5 treate the time the men Are cr may will oo! reo t and ¢ nesday @ a favor of the + prop cau stud THe overs N adant, a owing space in your valuable paper. This business, like many o the present time in Canadas, is almost at a -- i for want of a Protective Tar i shoald not have ran my # ere = Tarif, co as this important industry, I shal not, for one, continue the business kn y others that will not, © Youre tray, . 8. 8. FULLER Plax Manufacturer, --Steallord. Sant, Oth 1874. " Sraatromp, Mancu 16th, 1876. M.P., * Andree Manisith, Eeq., Ottewa, Ont. " Dean Sia, Fee favour of the Mth is! daly to band. I has I consider it hieetne thas both the Agri- eul the Committees mato reply thereto, as hould be falty inform: subject to which you refer. [had the honor of ad drewsing a iettier on the su the pre. sent Minister of Finance at the time of his taking -- - presented the same through Mr. Trow. ., showing the great injustice pot ae: - rsaod farmers yy the present -- by -- off os duty of 15¢. pe hy seed, whieh formerly poll ander the gr ters tration of Sir John Macdonald, but to which communication | had no satisfactory reply. You had better sec Mr. this ject " I then pointed out that the flax industry was first started in this conntry by the the existing Government giving every aid and encouragement by placing a daty on flax seed of ie, per buabel, and also by import. Trow on aab- production of fax, Ov this point Mr. nari Emigration Agent, can give you think, en erged -by the Government io lecturing on the cultivation of flax. tion, as he was, I Mr. Perrine, ot a you very iufor tion 'ti hé wae treb-whe tate: = ed the flag Vislaons into this pountry. shirty.tero present fax mills in rrarae employing on the ayer age about Sfty hands each, making about 1, 600 bande im all. A great portion of the fas scutching is done in the fall and winter, . on : Ps * the <p most of those employed in the fisx mills to find employment Pacrtac whieh iss great advantage to th ree | loutities where flax wills are " witamted? tu? thvested ix the business is about $500,000, -- The quan gly of flax raised by all the mille and by the far. mers supplying the same would be on the averagr about 25,000 tons. This re _ sents & mouey valoe of about $275,000 of flax ig ite raw state with the seed om. [t is mated that from 150,000 4. 200,000 oma of flax seed is raised in the Counties of Wat erloo, Perth, Huroa and Middlesex " The dax-seed ist bought and erushed in Canada, imto off Make aed linseed oil. As the Ameri epg sain' iv widetly "es cupid States. Notwithstanding a daty of $20 per ton on dressed far, and $10 per tun on tow, Jixpnt sith ad tungi ate it | it is otimeied | deat thie year ce 15,000 Tanna ee wil be » = at on ute Left th The sels m3 raise t 7 w his ES, bob, wet | average value of $472 per ton. Total, 6357, n SO. On this willbe paid, jn duties and | regpon the + thy pre grees of the case, Mr. apo a that he, aeer4 be'e. mals. Nobody can lass of THE NEW Hon SCHOOL Stratford Tie little "Low-wow wring umans of tbe eae va, T thin mation, peru f that robed himself in the might fur cea! rance of ae mat- Yours, &¢., FORTISSIMO. $+O0+ ts. Fisuee and Trow say that kingman should fire well on 60 s a day, and eave money at that! ive well on Grit porridge and Ore -- - ENT CARTOON, of, The Stratford Times. Por over a week on going to t OM 1 @ posse: my a t sivscalis didi te for not take -- antage es every whi * to inenlt us. reapantta y. A COLORED ELECTOR. Sept. Oth, 1878. ensheeiiinananinnten , i seven years, under Conser- deficits amounting to $3,360,812. @ kind of work you expected from jorermment+- Sarely not. . Then ognindt Pisher and Trow, Thy support form Gorernnidift. ossrEsehE rer ae sbould not forget that at the sete the Dominion Geverninent at the last iow rushed down su extimates whieh will the wa 137% wp to $97,003,000. joan in- cTeate of SEVEN MILLION DOLLARS cover the last year of tule. Mr. ae to eat down the expeiditare. 'This is the way they are doing freight to deliver ist te the a0 augiscverers srt the States, $27,700. The ol fiets the tex wrll-bealout the same weight, though of ese say $50,000. Total value, seed, flax, and tow, about $700, amount valne, about @ flax manufacturers of this' section mber of 'skill and others, bat & receiving any encouragement, they dropped the enterprise "A large pertion of the daz sent to the States comes back to this country in fine twine, &c., after paying « duty of $20 per ton in the United States and a duty of 174 per cent. when entered here. be immediate effect of the unhe! fi faking ad in this county giving employment to both labor and eapital whieh is so much neoded. * As it is at present there is no encourage- ment to go mto the business, as capitalists will not invest in a venture of that character without some encouragement. " Lhope the pet of the present enquir- 4 will be the country = fri whieh will te the welfare of both the manufacturing larming interests of the Dominion, for manu 3s and artisans cannot succeed without the farming com- manity receiving the ee as the build- ing up of villages, tow: ties has the effect of se ee mes valee of all ol forms pro ducts. oe the value of farm lands, for hea md them. " Any other laformaiion required I shall be pleased to give, either, by letter or sonally. per- ' " Yours traly, "8. 8. FULLER, "Secretary Canada Flax Association 2 +++ "FAIR PLAY IS BONNIE PLAY," Says the old Geoteh Proverb. Fair Play is all that Canada asks from the United States, and Fair Play" tea we will have. oo ee Farmers in Canada who sold their wool this year paid about 1%¢, -per th, duty, and now the unweleome 'comes <(DR. HORNIBREOK: =| duty robly that day. The |, Beauties of the ON THE ter JAN, <M BLAKE S8UED "Ghoot the G. T: R. pwaine Driv- ~ "ers and Firemen _-- spring, bined bread or work, "Shoot doon thae Scoundreis sk for Bread!" AND THEY WERK "EmOT AccOnnrxety! {ME FIFHER SAID IN : THE TOWN HALA STRATFORD, "SHOOT THE TRAMPS!" Oh, pens ae Grits glory in = spect] ng oF} ing the Working brave warriors" with your hallots * VOTE CAST FOr FISHER | Ie adding @ fresh link im the | TYRANNY 1 | TH TESTIMONY OF A DBO VER. Bormwrtt., hay = allusion has been 26, 1874. the vous organ Bothwe a | thet when the farmers that eis a heavy im- will give you THE Fact % purchased stock large I har | snd tell them now, that were x lam naar ogra te pay "pon all their 0 the United States, I ULD AFFORD TO. Pay PROM SAT AGO FREE. C ke Had : Te WILL HAY FOR THEIR 8U he LU! . ae community are ering more fron t the one-sided Pree Tr ra poliey r of the aon farmers, fo raiment than our indestrions the y have po con "id ovr ets ; neither duets to the United 'Btate from i: ian But I find the homens yeom: mente will rapport the National Polley by voting for men that will look to their requirements 'and give ier protection they are certainly entitled to Yours traly, . "JOmS SHEPHERD | +90. + TAVISTOCK. Doo Potsorreo,-- Woes e person or have, during the last two weeks, ereaiad A poisoning sume ane qnite an aye foe to, out, town iewiatbas be hed becige ae weet wr some poison. vata- -- ones were two large -- to O. F. Ernst, merch ur 4. Rsck' 't, and several "othe m1. 'S108 miaebaae | should any | any argiary he will have a warm reception MIL. LB) BANK Basz Batt. mate rame of base' ball 4 played on Saturday afternoon last ween the el D the * 8 scote af 19 lo 8 = tage played well and certs ialy deserve ered Who will be the next club to chal I oe ys t--Com, VOTE FOR at ESSOMS IN NORTH PERTH. "VOTE FOR IN SOUTH PERTH. Brave Nehon said at Memorzble Trafalgar, "This day England expects" every miaw to-do hia duty And the Lion-hearted Sailor died with victory before hiseyes. Britons did their Let the Electors of Can ada do their duty on the I7th Sept, glorious and a victory will issue from the ballet boxes af sun-set. Vote for HESSON and HOR NIBROOK. e people | are ts ing the workaaen. "Uh 'ou "tow want Protection. I make pe of work here, and thea work would com: wis, a tower wages, Why don't they protect labor? put a tariff against workmen ing i The * protects itecif. hen times are good, and work plenty, trade unions find no diftcu! ity ia ing wages up. Give our cities plenty of factories-- give us cur home marke: aoe workman will cither lack labor or i wages for yeara The 'nenies Sentine! aska rather imyper- "By the way, why have ten thou- sand Canadians Pe - Wisconsin within three years?" And t! ids, andy inently enongh: | "Got 'tee of ngettiog at on free trade. oppose." is is the way our beighbcrs keep -- ring as for our absurdly telf-sacrificizg pe NOMIN ake ELSEWHERE, noni aia _-Hornibrook, il Conservative ;. 'aterioo-- Mern: Recs Wallienon oath vey Porter, kt ;, Cameron, G arling, C. alkey, G. Hamilton Kilvert, eumee Cc; Vood, = Lam! bton --John A. Mackenzie, C Alex. Makenzie, G Cardw . Thomas White, of Montreal, C Pattullo, € - 'enter Wellington Dr, Orton, ( Young, G, Drew. C.; Higinboth. Irving, Hon. : Robin- South Wellington--Goldie, Cc; cent G. South Oxford--Gibeon, C; Skinner, Kingston--Sir John A ' Masdonsid, "C; Guan, G. South Brant---Watt, C; Patterson, 45 North Brant--Ora , C; Pleming, G. North Waterloo--Kranz, C.; Bowman, ( North Huron-- we, CL; a. Toronto (West)--Robiason, C.; Hodgins G. Toronto (East) ete, ha ley, G. Toronto (Centre}-- gs 'Lineoln--Ry kert, C, ; Norris, G, GRAND RALLY --or-- C onservativeS Wackentia sil fo the Mayor of Quebee Inst \aborigg men Rally ta = Potts, wten-of Canada, and Chain of Grit == | the CANADIAN j P vert duty on cattle I woald be ahle to pay a it. Oe wersion, ! | pectively. 'They axe pledged to advance THE GREAT SHOW COMING. ww. poy SRnAT XEw TORK AND SEW SERE, CTHCTS 4xD coweREpS on | { amen SGNPEM. ,AROEAS ARD SENT. ; att te Fes De * Wom. MOUS FACES. 4 ™ KILL. Siivnueine WITQoOrT. rN, «Phat OF BOPNDLERS PLEasvEe Ti institution comes on Taewday, | Sep. 17-- preced ¥ mopt favorable mention | from the ones re ate ye os. It'is er } ed with magu: bovelly, elegance, en Ormeous site, ani; # without x MY x em and wpe er formane tts an | on paral is eh on of as & pageant of roy j Tbe greatest novelty presented howe rs ie be the talicst man and woman in ovid, whet statixties dhow to be rertaia Mrs. MW. V v he Bu, we a one | . hits jewelry, aa pre Both symme nd an en tte the cirens an mens Teme m4 pamphlets { reniem th ate. Toes Rept. 17 MLE. HESSON IN PALwkhn Laat I day ( orvatire . for the North 'Biiing { Pert Ir aul the n the t American Hay! lowed ine spraes of an heey ' i c sed the oh protects 1 ATie a | wie , he 'bd { Li Was bD.D. Hay d on D. ami T. fh. Hey z be bs at the heeierey-- Horiterad" who ¥ e 1 to 'ebildren be) t t Curservulive elector with t a thee conte! Oh, wlacagie dgsnie ont lw mer penalties with your "TE key mor he neede - t t " © kirk; when the « n is OW're Hurrah for ti t H's. Hoseon They are bound to rin Hurrah, and He rnibrook NORTH |} ABTIION My, Pisher held wevera! meatings thits iomnelp last week, at all of 'whieh Mr. Hes son Was present, nu Friday last two meet- ings we '. beld, the one at Brecker stavern and the other at 2" school b The fo meeting was called fur ack, bat waa * commenced til) 2 o'e! wing no doubt to the non-arrital the iP we wa numbered about 13, amc ong whom dicuce we Fishers, Hyder, Stewarts, ing mo cauaeel y hos went 'ane or thirty, rs] veut. The audience was prin siptlly com. posed of intelligent Germans, The eff r. Fisher to into the ends = voter ideas osed ° Daly, jr., aid J... Schasidt, "the watt or speak ing in German, -- David has a story pa ee a sailor, two oxen and « horse, which is becoming so heen ate _ tad is nauseat ing | Lp are ite frequent repetiti Tt seems ton t re repre. bese re os D. D. and James sci the we predict per in North & -- Bd bran eget will take ters in ito Stratford from this omhig a Vittle inter est is tuere taken in lection THE HARNESS ----e The Belleville Intelligencer says :-- barnem of € along enadae do not o ment. They are od uy compete against harness hy the conviets in t Si . whose la! hired at 25 cents a day, In this case 17} par cont. duty. is no jon, and there is no wonder | makers in this country find {t almost im i to make a li - It ls bad enongh our me- chanics to be obliged to compete the labor of prisoners in the Canadian Peniten- tiation, but to allow the product of foreign | Larry bearer say alten poorsnl with free labor at home iss grons trying injustice, and the cousequence is "that the harness trade in Canada ix in @ ruined con. dition," --------- © +00 FARMERS! \ Mark--Your ballots for Hasson and', Horni- ated ngs emp eR lo z Jer were wi ay 9% ot Free Trae | Mr Hy arty we 4, ae oe. ae as at lately be 2 th ughily enliphte nen Spee ah titien! qrestioes of the day. On Tues t NEW ADVEMTISEMENT 10. TIMES LARGER! 100 TIMES MORE GRAND | : Stratford Sept. Meth, 'Coming on 3 Special Trains! Fifth Tour of the Continent by Railroad. |A Congress of amy Attractions! 0 Separate and Distinct Novelties! mIVAST WILDERNESS ( OFE r all represented {i XHIBITION TENTS, ITE 1 EY ADMITS TO abt. si THE 81x - MOST FAMOUS FUNNY , ee CLOWNS, SOCIALES 50 " Performers PANOF! RQUALS. = W. W. COLES Great New York and New Orleans Circus, Meneagerie, Museum jana Congress of Living Wonders! 4 Mammoth Museum, A Stupendous Menagerie, A Famous Circus. «|W. W.COLE......... -: SOLE PROPRIETOR. thie vast and unparalle ie ualbdas ion of inter a re ; aay, tha sperience a b cutie the Mackenzie Government, ! placin belure the | mbive the 'GR NDE ST EF rokr oF HIS LIFE. comparison of the Gladstone policy compa ainahle novelties of the [rate Creation fre ro all raof the world, with that of dhe mrersepert of Earl Haenr- | an rewithe- = 1) be found the mest ca: -- 4, dew ste Uretergue field how the former was er pmonn | and id Female Artinte to ve foun: i im any par he Workl. This grand Cngland's progress whil Sof Bew 1 1 wholly ' Webee wererners ton tly field's aised the prbatige of Eosls me teat eabibitic is nothing ever pre higher, sha it bad before sttabed.-- od the at a crntintoas seretehel Lee niter: *, OF they most' exacting Higin than Wee Shen called to | take excepts as rr "ag anid « @ Wor ©o ' te ee iba tre tesene the oppor. | p= Our dapacinsies over any other ere 3 America. #0 prevent the necessity of calling tilly : ahe W ondere and Beautios of Nature! Ocesn The Gaucko Horsemen Attend another meeting, His adc ites was the Pamp- st jortenby Diepiey +f nic Prowees! Monarchs ary mi of wtatistt wt epeect: . of the a Sciugiae of of C Todin Africa, also delivered by Mr. D. D,, Carapbel * % | ; -- . Je ott at Wert 'feline iy % 1 Chatlenye the World te Equal wy New and Great Show, --Heasen. -- A moti ioe eas ¢ gare rth of Goble biean Oa. vb Ch e Mou ius ra ee hiny "100. 000 :: won we of Cahier Ta + Cara and Charwmts, like Mountains ot Berminpedt he meeting broke up at a quarter o'clock, after paring a vote * ayy te th '" rman, srl giriog Foto ers for the | 5 Bir Joh: Masdticat: amit Mit. p> Hesron, -- 7 -Ssoneatis | EXTRAORDINARY Peaturss Just ADDEWU At an expense, for the season, exceeding 20,000 DOLLARS, 1 HAVE ARRANGED WITH The Two Giants! Capt. M. V. BATES and WIFE To Give their Levees in my Show. nd the Tallest Woman | liviig upon the face of theearth. Ve all mankigd. ach are 8 Feet high (lacking only one half inch) Ton, They are reountly from Europe, where they amazed all, new, for the first ome upon @xhibition here, and uO extra h o om a Tex Ine Ticket admitting to Cireus 2 back my omstiion with Ten Thousand Dollars that Me} People that at 'present exist, and { no amthentic record : ore. existed two people of such enormous size, Perfect in Form and Festare, thoy are undoubtedly now the Greatest Cariceition to he seen io the world, LIVING ALASCA OCEAN IC LIONS! (Tho only specimens of Real Fur Seals over upon exbilition;) Baby Riephants, Baby Dromedaries Baby Li aby Camels Baby arene Ons, boy Leopards. Den of Monster Serpents, ome of which are 0 feet long.) Baby Sea Lions, A Sea Elephant Captured in the Bonth Sea.) The Walrus. A Drove of Bactrian Camels, Traimed and Performing Wild Beasts rr A Herd of Elephants, speciaity in this Great Show 30 Cages, Dens and Corrals of Rare and Curious Animals. eS The most EAE sath Street de ages ever Seen More Wild Bestt« and Seeks. See 8 }- Magnificent and Gorgeota Wardrobes, Heralds, Koos Knights, Body. Ladies of th af 'the Court, Soldiers, Battlemen, mart_of Silver, Stee Sponmdr Fisting *, forming ® 8 Beene of Sphander never before fot See the Grand Hippodramatic Street Pageant sme tg raga Railroad Cars. oe = a fine condition. . All aes re owe From New and Great Show ai © ta all, _ Rares 26 Cente. To Binaaal Menagerie, Aviary: Mu Aquarium, Giants, and T soa Animals, "sige tay of Wonders. ee ae wt the. Geoet Show:ot interests of the coant:y, hah he "Forme ne_legied. the won, 7. Amaia