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1f ‘p‘ ) .l.’ “ | I{ E{ ) It will be within the regollection of our| readers that in the session of 1873 a mem. |I vrial was presented to the Government ta the Lllowing efect :â€"* Te petition of the | Legiâ€"lature of the Provines of Ontusio, | praying tat the Government will in its i supplementary neetion . with the Conservative party. That he does not is fresh evilence of the depthe to which Conserrative politicians will go in the garrying out of their purâ€" ed that no political eapital should be made of this matter by either party, and that Mr. Meredith, the present leader of the Oppoâ€" sition, on several occasions, reiterated simiâ€" lur sentiments, Mr. Fuahey is bound by every rule of fair doaling between man and man, to accept the policy of his leader on this question, so long as be remains 1 conâ€" YVuhey. _ Mr, Fahey is avowedly the Conâ€" servatiye candidate. He has been chosen as the candidate of the Conservative conâ€" vention of this Riding. He is an out and out admirer of the National Policy and its ndvocates, and if successful in his candidaâ€" tare hbe will ally himself with Mr. Meredith nud the Opposition in the House of Assemâ€" My, In these cireumstances, and in view ol the fuet that the former leader of the Opposition, Mr, Camercn, assumed his full share of the responsibility connected with the ingrease of the indemnity to meraâ€" bers, and distinetly and foreibly proclainâ€" It is evident from the speech with which the Conservative candidate, Mr. Fahey, vpened the campaign on Saturday evening last in the Town Hall, that the action of Mr. Mowat‘s Government, in reference to the indemmity question, is to Le the chief «bject of attack in the present contest. We need searcely say that such conduct is any» ‘ thing but honorable on the part of Mr. creasing the price of coarse grains so much vsed in the fittening of cattle, and theroby lessening the prices paid for cattle at our monthly fairs, These facts will show that Mr. Fahey is a very unreliable authority on the working of the National Peley. sos will be from $40 to $60 more this year than it was lest, while his wages are the rame, or reduced from 5 to 15 per cont, and a clergyman writing to one of the duily papers, stated that his expenses would be increase $200 per an. while the paying power _ ot his â€" congregation was loss than it was last year. Fot a whit better,but worse, is the so called protection to the farmer. It is a delusion of the most palpable kind, and this they begin now to realize. It is an admitted fact that the fifteen cents of duty on wheat @nd oats eannot in the nature of things do the farmer any good. But it has already done harm by closing up large mills, such as those of Ogilvie & Co., and Hutchinson of Goderich, and thus a large body ef workâ€" men have been thrown out of employment. And as for the duty on corn, it will in itâ€" relf be a positive and present injury, by inâ€" ‘ave lormed a ring and raised the price of salt from $1.75 to $2.25, per barrel, the furniture makers who now charge $1.35 for the washetand which a month ago could be purchased for one dollar. The vlockmaker, stovemakers, and all others in whose special interest the new tariff has been constructed. But what about the iaâ€" borers and meehanies who form the large majority of the people, the agricultural and the professional classes. They are all proâ€" ducers of labor in ono form or another, and we have yet t» learn that their labor s any better remmunerated now than it was tit months ago. ‘The reverse is the case. Those manufacturers who have increased the prices of their wares have, in many instances, reduced the wages of their men, im others discharged a portion of the hands ' employed, and in some cases have done both. But in no case has wages baen increased, so that the purchasing power of one dollar now is from 20 to 60 per cent. loss than it was one month ago. As a mattar of fact a labourers current expenâ€" | (One of the fallacies which Mr. Fahey is f md of indulging in, is, that the consumer i: nlways a producer, and therefore, that although the Nutional Policy increases him everything he buys, he is amply comâ€" pensated by, what Mr. Fahey alloges to be n fact, that he gets more for everything which he sells. Now we need scarcely say t .at this is as pure and unadulterated a piece of humbug zs the National Policy itself. In a few cases the consumers are producers, and are amply compensated. The cotton manufacturers who have lately formed a ring and raised the price of cotâ€" tons from 1 to 2 cents per yard, cotton l ags 8 per cent. and cotton yarn 11% per cont, are certainly repaid for the increased price of everything which they buy. So with the salt manufacturers, who, following the bad example of other manufacturers, i have formed a ring and raised the price of salt from $1.75 to $2.25, per barrel, ".l.] furniture makers who now charge $1.35 of the Company‘s Engineer at Mount Forsst, on and after the 15th inst. Sealed Tenders must be addressed to the Secresary at Durkam on or before the 28th inst., when the Board of Directors will meet for the purpose of opening the same. ‘The irectors do not hind themselves to accept the lowest or any Tender. â€"We observe that tenders are asked for the construction of the first section of the Georgian Bay and Wellington Railway which extends from the junction of the above line with the W. G. & B. Raihuy at Palmerston to the Town of Durham. Plans and specifications may be seen at the office Archibaid Thom, Thes. Nickeols Colin C. MeFuyder Panicl Keith, Alesander Faylor, THE REVIEW Agsnts for the Grey Review CONXSUTMERS As PRODUCERS Durham, May 8, 1879 w nb 4 n p + THAT IXDEMNITY. $A estimates bring dows a Mr. Hunter then referred to the excelâ€" lent system of education in force in this Province and the great eradit due to Mr. Crooks in connection therewith, the great economy practiced by the Government in this and every other branch of legislation, the benefits conferred upon the people by the Act for the payment of Criminal witâ€" nessesâ€"$10,800 having been paid anonuâ€" ally for this purpose by the Government all of which re‘ieved the expense incurred by the peop‘e in attendance on court, and the beneficial character of the logislation of the Government generally. Mr. Hunter resumed his seat amid t great applause. Mr. Fahey being calied to addross the meeting said that he deplored the cinu-l lation of idle ruamors at this time, that if auy man had any chirge to make against either candidute he should come to tie! platiorm and not be suevGiaz around ‘corâ€" I ners defaming the câ€"aracters of public} men. . As to Societies,he would accord the" fullest liberty to all societir, aal tat The essablishment of an Agricaltaral ’College. for the special development of sound, practical and thoretical husbandry on a good basis was then dealt with by Mr. Hunter. He spoke of the great benefits which would acerue to the farmers by seuding their sons to that Lustitution. That the tution was free. That the only expense was board which cost ouly $2.45 per week. But that students who were industrious could earn more thin the price of their board by working on the farmâ€"ten cents an hour being allowed to all who chose to employ their spare time in that way. Farâ€" mers‘ sons could attend a session from October to March at a cost of from $25 to $40. Aund that ifindustrious, as he had said they could come home with money in their poekets. Mr. Tunter then went on at length to diseuss the great attention which the Govâ€" erament of Mr. Mowat had given to the bettering of the condition of the Agriculâ€" tural classes in the Province, and dwelt especially on the ecxtonsion of the franchâ€" ise to ftarmers‘ sons as a most praisworthy measureâ€"that the farming population were as well qualified in point of intelliâ€" gence and in every other way to exercise the franchise as clerks and salaried officials in towns and cities, and that the franchise having been conferred on these classes it was equally just to confer it also upon those who were the bone and sinew of the country. or any other secicty, but he held that inâ€" corporation of any society could be obâ€" tained more cheaply and expeditiously under the General Act now on the Statuts Book than by any special Act. _ Mr. Hunter on taking the platirm reâ€" ferred at some length to the rumors cireuâ€" lated by interested parties with the intenâ€" tion of prejudicing his position with the electors, but that he was too well known to them all, and that he was confident tuat such idle stories would be treated by them with the contermpt which they deserved. He then referred to his position in referâ€" ence to the Orange Incorporation Bill. He ‘ was noi opposed to Incorporation of that nean, who after a fow introductory remarks called upon Mr. Hunter to address the meeting. _ The first of Mr. Huntor‘s moeetings was held in Clark‘s School House, Bentinck, on Monday evening. There was a lorge attendance of the eloctors. With the exâ€" ception of a few cutsiders the mocting was enthusiastic in favor of the Mowat adminâ€" istration, Mr. Collison was chosen chairâ€" W. R. Mzzzeortu. In 1877 when Mr. Crooks moved in Committee of the whole that the allowance be reduced to $600 seventeen mombers of the Opposition voted nay, and only 12 supâ€" ported the motion made by Mr. Crooks. At that time Mr. Meredith voted for the raduction, but in speaking to ths motion said that $800 was not an "undue indemâ€" nity." _ Aund in a speech which he deliverâ€" ered tho other day, zt Richmond Mill, in reference to the question of indemnity he said that "ho assumed in the fullest se nse, as a momber of the Opposition, his share of the responsibility for the course taken in regard to the indemnity. The increase ] took place immediately after the general election of 1875. At that time many of the members had been subjected to election trials, and were largely out of pocket, and when the House met there was an agitaâ€" tion in favor of an increasod indemuity, and whether right or wrong, it was concurâ€" ed in by a large majority of the House, and the Government acceded to it on their representations. No man on tho other aide of the H »use was eatitlad to make poâ€" litical capital of this matter, ard he dofied anvbody to say he had ever attempted to do so." This clearly shows the position which every honorablyâ€"minded member of the Opposition takes upon this question, I and the course which every Conservative candidate seeki»g the suffrages of the peoâ€" ple at the present time is bound to pursue in regard to it. The crror of increasing the indemnity, if crror it was, has been rectified. The Government during the last session proposed that the indemnity be reâ€" duced to $600. ‘This proposition reccived the support of the House, and thore the matter should end. POLITICAL MEETING IN BEXTIXCK My Dear Str,â€"With regurd to the proâ€" posed increaseâ€"of the Member‘s indeomnity my own idea is that $600 is a sufficient swin. But I have no desire to stand in the way of the increase should a majority of the Members of the House consider it neâ€" cessary. Under no cireumstances, howâ€" ever, should the proposition, whether acted on or not, be made use of outside of the House for political purposesâ€"Mr. Lauder takes the same view of the matter as I have expressed. Yours truly elause increasing the indemnity to the memibers of this Legislature to one thousâ€" and doliats for cacih sessional allowance." This document was signed by .nl--@ bers of the Opposition with the exception of Messrs. Meredith and Lauder. â€"But Mr. Meredith wrote the following letter to the Member for North Nérfolk, endorsing the action of his fellow urembers and accepting his full share of the responsibilitiy attachâ€" i0« thereto .â€" # 4 n + ‘NHoORN which the Govâ€" rat had given to the ition of the Agriculâ€" Province, and dwelt | Maynas.â€"The long looked for .iu‘].ylmith. Mary McMillan, Maggie McKenzie. |seull race on the Tyne, between Haulan 1st class, soniorsâ€"Sarah Vollet, David Mo. and Hawdon, for £200 a side, took place }Kcnzio. Arthiur Jobnston,, Juuiorsâ€"Louisa on Monday, and as was gonerally expectâ€" | Harrup, Aunie Sutherland, Agnes Austin, ed resulted in a victory for Hanlan. The , The following are reported for regularity weather was splendid, and the course was | of attendance, punetuality, and good conâ€" from. High Level Bridge to Suspension | duct. _ 1st divisionâ€"Laura MecKenzie, l]hdp at Scotswood, distancy three miles| Miunie Whitinore, Lizzie Moore. 2ud diâ€" and dlree turlongs. Hanian wo i the race ;’Ifll:nâ€"-' Ohl’ll Gl"!lll'x- -;;‘ll"u!‘"lffil‘:ofl- A. Tok . cheuzie, ugh chay, [ M mitttsn m hnd ie Pn e e ons ts arint |led from the start and had the ruce in hand , }'::.";xlx)s::l::l,’s‘l‘?k l\t;iqx:&,’i:x F.I&'.',‘ } |.h;~ou‘;ht|mt ; he rowed with groat deliheraâ€" Arthur Gun, Minnvie Spenece, TW m. God-lu: tiom 1o mg over his shouldor, ligarely ut , Jemina Avowaming Râ€"beit Herpon tP ) _ Expuostox is Hwtiurox.â€"About 10:45 Monday morning as an eimnployee in Prof. Hand‘s pyrotechnie factory, named Chas. Drew, was filling a rocket it exploded in his hand. Dropping the rocket it set all the fireworks in the building off, enusing a terrific explosion, demolishing the building, which was of frame and detached and shaking the surrounding buildings conâ€" siderably. Strange to say no one was hurt, Drew eseaping with a burned hand. Prof. Hand‘s loss is about $2,500. No insurances. This is the sccond disaster of the kind within a year. U. T. A.â€"The following are the otficers }olsctod for the current quarter at the last meeting of this United Temperance Assoâ€" ciation, of Eurham :â€"President, Brother Caldwell ; Viceâ€"President, Sis. MceLaughâ€" lin ; Secretary, Bro. Jackman ; Treasurer, Sis. Porter ; Seniorâ€"Counsellor, Bro. Townâ€" send ; Financier, Bro. MceDonald ; lteâ€" corder, Sis. Laidlaw ; Marshall, Bro. Austin; Deputyâ€"Marshall, Sis. Matthews ; Guard, Bro. Rose ; Deputyâ€"Provinci il, Bro. Jones. Ore ror Mastropa.â€"This Thursday morning, Albert Ery, and James Patterson, two promising young men who have spent most ef their life in this town, left for Maniâ€" toba,. We understand that money was too rearee in Durham under the N. P. and hope they will have better success in their adoptâ€" ed home. TiEs.â€"Some of the Contractors for ties for the G. B. & W. R., have been floating them down the river for the past few days. We understand they have about seven hundred to float down which, will save a great deal of Imbor in linuling thuin to the place of delivery. ment in the sueccess which had attended so many Seotsmen all over the world, and in the high position which Seotland had atâ€" tained among the nations of the earth, was the liberal education wuich was provided in that country for all classes of the people. After some further observations on Mr. Fahey‘s specch and his attack upon Mr. _Brown, he satdown. Mr. Fahey amid someo interuption claimed a hearing as two genile» men had zpoken on the other side. After order was restored, Mr. Fahey was urged by Mr. Hunter and Dr. Gun to speak, but positively refused to do so, having wisely come to the conelusion that in this instance, silence was the Lest reply he could make. The meeting was closed in the ordimary way. Dr. Gun on being called to the pl.tform said that he had to complement Mr. Fahey on the intreductory part of his speech. and regretted that the gentleman had not continued in the same vein in which he had begun. He thought that geutlemen seeking the suffrages of the electors should discass the issues before the country in an intelligent manuer. Instead of doing this Mr. Fahey had attemnpted to mislead and excite prejudices, so much so that the greater portion ef his speech was an insult to the intelligence of the electors whom he was addressing. His statements in referâ€" once to the subjects taught in our schools, the manmer in which school moneys wore appropriated, the powers of Inspectors and Trustees in the building of school houses and the introduction of new bouks, were untrue, (here Mr. Fahey said he would not take that word from any man). The Doctor continued, and sa‘d the stateâ€" i Iments which Mr. Fahey had made were entirely incorreet and unworthy of a gen. tleman occupying the position which he did before the eloctors. He then showed the cost of Public Education and how, while in the States of the Union the cost per pupil was from $6 to $24, in Ontario it was only £5.29, and s0 with rogard to the cosi of Inspection. As to school bouks and school houses the power lay ontirely with the Trustees and people, the Inspecâ€" tor being simply a public officer for the purâ€" pose of secing that the provisions of the School law were obscrved. Mr. Fahoy in a very trifling way had endcaveured to depreciate the advantages of a good eduâ€" cation, but that all who had regard to the best interests of the people wore of an onâ€" tirely different opinion, that wherever liberty had taken root there education was tostered, higher and lower, and that as nearly all present were Scotsmen or the descendants of Sceotsmen, ho would in i:-l lustration remind them that the chisf eleâ€" vative party but thathe understood it to be ‘ a charitable and bon@volent society and as such was entitled to incorporatiou.;" As‘ toâ€" the Orange Society being Conservative, he‘ contended that if it was such in Ontario, itl was Grit in Quebec, that the Grand Masâ€" ter in Montreal was a rabid member of that order. He then referred to the Montâ€" real riots of last year, French domination and the Hon. Mr. Brown. â€" He dwelt‘ at leugth on the School question, the expense of edncation, the firmers paying enorâ€" mous sums for the education of the few in Latin, Greck and the hLigher Mathomaaties. That he and many others who had receivâ€" ed their education in the old log school house at the four cornersâ€"had made their way through the world as w:ll as tha next one, that the Inspectors had too much power in the matter of School hovses and school books and thereby that the people were put to great expense. _ He then reâ€" ferred to the indomuity question in . the nsual way and having praised the Nationâ€" al Policy and theadvantages of living in the United States although it was a dear country, he sat down. what was wanted,was the educition of the people up tothe point of perfect tolorance ms to sect, class, and ereed. > The !,S)rnngo as to sect, class, and creed. > The ,Orange Society was charged with boing a pbl.tical organization in the interest of the Conserâ€" vative party but thathe understood it to be n chARMnhla®WA hanf@alanKinaniate ssm as Local and other Item:s. Christina Rose. 3rd d‘ Jessie Deviin, M iry Ru Joseph Brown, M <rk \W Arthar Gun, Minnvie Sp Jemima Arrowsimith, ] Hil, H. Parrott. Hoxor Rort.â€"Durham Pullic School for the month of April. 1st division, 5th class, seniorsâ€"Mary Porter, Jessic Brown, Elsie Sutherland. _ Juniorsâ€"Laura McKenzic, Augusta Stowart, Minnic Whitmore. 4th classâ€"Wm. MeKay, Geo. Tucker, EMc MeFarlane. _ 2nd . division, $rd _ class, seniorsâ€"Lizzie Arrowsmith, Hugh McKay, Juniorsâ€"Jessie Dunsinore, Mary Hastie. 1st division, 2nd classâ€"Jemima Arrowâ€" Milligan. â€"Tros. Lzoxaro, Teacher. j Moxor RotL ror Arri1, S. S. No. 4, Artexesta.â€"The ollowing are the names arranged according to merit:â€"4th Divisâ€" ion, Senior, Ettie Armstrong ; 4th Division Junior, Hattie Armstrong, Joseph Stiuson, Mary Jane Bannon ; 3rd Div., Sen., Reâ€" beeca Stinson, Annie Johnson, Matilda Milsap ; 3rd Div. Jun., Joseph Higginbotâ€" ham,M. Millsap, Wi‘liam Stinson; 2nd Div., Sen., Annie Carson, Edith Aricstrong ; 2nd Div., Jun., John Stinson, Jamos Higâ€" ginbotham, Robert Neilson ; 1st Div., Sen, Robbie Moore, Thomas Taylor; 1st Div., Jun., Edith Bannon, Ads Millsap, Ella Neilson.â€"M1ss A. F. S«exx, Teacher. 1 Hoxor Ronu, S. $. No. 5, Bextrxor.â€"â€" Regular attendance and good conduet is the basis of the following list. ‘The names are arranged in order of merit:â€"â€"4th class John Kineaid, Alex. MeGregor; 3rd Class â€"Win. Earls, B. Privat, Wm. Boyd, E. Storrar and Jas. Redfora ; 2nd Classâ€"Thos Sherman, Geo. Sherman, Harriet Brown, Geo. Johnston, A. B. Earls and M. Burâ€" gess; 1st Class and Junior 2ndâ€"J. Sherâ€" man, J. Johnston, Wm. Lembke, J. Milliâ€" ligan, (2) J. Redford, John Werrmer, H. Steinfield, Jus. Stortar, S. Johuston, D. Milligan, S. Weidendorf, M. Chittich, B. Bainford, J. Milligan, (1) C. Steinfield, G. )“”i'.'flll. â€"TrHO8. Lrovima Taaahaw [EPCPCACOO SCPPO" Was pertiien nl, E8 t up h.\' ‘\ir, Atkinson, in his usual good style. 1'l‘ho playors seemed to enjoy the evenings entorâ€" tainment heartily. ‘They are to have a reâ€" turn match in Dandalk. The gune was };lnye(l in the foll »wing order :â€" RICEVILLE, Duxpack, Da‘s. T. A. Conkey, 6, ag‘t R. MeDougald, 1, 0, T. Nichol, 2, ** W. Clarkson, 8, 2. W. Conkey, 6, " W Nelson, 1, 0. D. Bounet, 4, " J, Hanbury, 0, 8. Jas. Tryor, â€" 2, * J. Gardner 4, 1. C,. MeMillan, 2, * Dr. MeWilliam, 4, 1, The Priceville Draught players receiyed a challenge from the Duandalk Draught Club to play them in Priceville, on May the second. ‘The challenge was accepted and resulted in defeat of the Dundalk elub by nine games. ‘The players paired off and played seven games cach, after which a x‘)lendid supper was pertaken of, g ¢ up by SEEVEWECOTETA 14 & sIC. . N Who ever heard of the Dexter King ? and only a Sandwich. Wheel barrowing is the favourite exercise at present. Malcom to Elinwoodâ€"is the race course, one hundred pounds is the weight. Since the last shower of rain fell, the meadows look well, and should we haveno frost, pastures will be good in a short time. Carpenters and masons are busy here at present, Several local improvements are going on. We expect that our pathmasters will have a busy time this summer in movâ€" ing cordwood and lumber out of the Public Roads. Will they require steam 2 ‘The President, and others of the Stratford and Huron Railway, were in this village on their way north, last week. The Pexter Sawmill being built by the Joint Stock Company is going abcad with a dexterity unknown in this part of Ontario. The frame is up, and building in of the boilers is almost finished. Shingle nails are getting searce in this village. Where is our Hardware Merchant? Must we depend on aneighboring village ? Is that the National Policy 9 The Elmwood Steam Saw and Plaining Mill bein,g rebstilt by Mr. John tm Swith has had a delay lately. in wuiting for plans to come from Galt, but now all is ready to commence and fiuish the mill. Farmors say that some of the full wheat has been badly hurt by frost or wet. Some pieces have been ploughed up and spring grain sown on the fields. A number of young men left this neighborhood last Monday for Manitoba. Quite a lot of logs have been floated down the river Styx from the northern part of Bontinck. The parties who sold the logs had to float them to the Saugeon river.: Dealers pay 45 ets. a standard for heralock. The B. C. R, T. A. S. meets fortnightly as usual. _ When will the necessity for united acticn in the cause of total abstinence end 2 Will Mr. Halfâ€"awake, arise and explain? If he canâ€" i not, let im come to the meetings of the. B. C. R. T. A. S. for light on the subject. ‘ Quarterly Mectings were held in the Canada Methodist Church, in this villuge, on Sabbath last. ,.Oxtazto Engoetioxs.â€"J. HL. Hunter, Esq H ;flr&h“c @lcctors f south Grey at| â€"M the following places :â€" Egremont Towuship f abDrewery‘s Bchool Honw,'$ߤn i Friday,‘May 80th at 7 p. m.; at Holstein, | 1B4, on Monday, June 2nd, at 7 p.m.; at Alâ€" | 169; lan‘s School House, 2nd con..'fine 8rd, at Al%.:‘ T p. m. Normaoby Townshipâ€"at Gadd‘s 167; School House, gon. 3, on SugM®@8Â¥,.May | Jén: 31st. at T p. m.. at School Seetfon No. 11.| &. N School House, gon. 3, on Sutgurday, May 31st, at T p. m., at Schoul Section No. 11, Alsfeldt, on Wednesday, May 21st, at 5 p. m. _ Bentinck ‘Townshipâ€"at Stewart‘s School Honse, on Tuesday, June 8rd, at 6 p. mm To all of which mocting Mr. James Fahey is invited. T p. m. on H;udn_v; June 2nd, at 7 1\ lan‘s School House, 2nd con., Total... 22, HONOR ROLLS. Priceville Items. lex. MeGregor; 3rd Class Privat, Wm. Boyd, E. Rodfora ; 2nd Classâ€"Thos Sherman, Harriet Brown, A. B. Earls and M. Burâ€" Elmwood. Hanover. e elcctors cf 3 laces :â€"Egren ichool House, Oth at 7 p. m. *4 <> + + nenee, TW m. Geddes, | COVCt to study th R.be:t Harrup, H. | have left footâ€"prints Jl.".mL' of time. T.o+ 18, eV townayg, 33. ; _ ; _ . _| *MBVS® Without critioisim â€"At the time ; and tience we are to journey towards thia‘hti-,nlw you may now and then hear a ous inlheritunce : fuith in a ecrucified| little earping mt this or the vubs«r jeature o. Saviour, in a eovenant God and pou'.ucci it, thereâ€" has never to this day been sug» to submit mooekly to all G.d‘sâ€"will. Aud â€"gosted by auybody a comprehensivo achemo it helps us greatly in Hig‘a pilgrimage ‘aud which it was even cluimed would lmuve contlicts to study the exam,1> 0o: thuse 'ho,b..,, superior to ours ; and I therefore have left footâ€"prints behind thein in the venture to say there nover will be. That sends of time. Lt us be folowers of the wes one great Provinci.! Proklem, thop, ians we have great prospects before us, Nothing less than a kingdomâ€" of glory: and crown$ of gold," * fullness of joy and pleaâ€" sure for evermore." It is by fnit, a «2 .._ Sinee 1 heard of Mr. Swmith‘s donth these words have been much in my mind "Be ye followers of thein who by faith and paâ€" tieuce inherit the promisos." As Cuarist N: pnacke x CC20°6 befmeverin vhnst, a man whose actions were always m ore eloquent than his words. ‘Then, after my . connection with the congregation ceased Duncan MceDonald passed home after a short illness with a full assurance of faith. ‘Then the call came to David Hastie who had been long looking tor the Master‘s coming. â€"And now Dun. can Smith after a lingering and painfal sickness has gone to juin the * general asâ€" sembly and clmmrch of the Firstâ€"born," and to greet his fellow elders on another shore. We are sad toâ€"day because we miss lhm‘ men with whom we touk sweet counsel : and with whou we went up to the house of God. But we are glad. We are glad that they finished their course with joy, that they dicd in faith, they are now, as we hope, at rest after the conflict and that they leave behind them worthy successors in the elderslip in the congregation, two others were ordained and added to the session :â€"David Hastie and John Duncan, Four better elders a minister could hardly oxpect to find than these four men. So very unlike each other and yet so very wall suited to walk together. For years we wrought without an angry word or the the â€" slightest misunderstanding, for the Lord was with us. The first to leave us was John Duncan, who died as he livcd‘nn | humble believer in Christ, a man wlwu] netions were always more cloguent than i. ’ At the funeral his pastor, the Rey, Mr. MeDiarmid read the scriptures and after prayer and praise Me asked the Rev. Mr. Cameron, Chatsworth, the former pastor, to speak to the people. M. Cameron sail We are mot toâ€"day, friends, to bury the last member of your first session. When I became your pastor in 1859 I found two elders ordained here, Duncan McDonald ‘ and Duncan Smith. Shortly afterwards ‘ It was, howeve>, in Christian work and as an elder in connection with the Prosbyâ€" tcrian congregation at Latona, to which post he was ordained by Rev. David Ingâ€" lis, late of Hanulton, 23 years ago, that a passing notice is due to the memory of the decoased pioneer. Although Duncan, who has just gone to l his grave at the age ef 67, was not the oldâ€" est, yet, as often happens, he inherited the ‘ birthâ€"right and was the ruling spirit in the family. ‘This did not come from any suâ€" peri>rity of talent or education, but from his deep and decided picty in union with rare gool sanso aal very _ consistent cmlact. _ H»+ _ was a very skilled and succossfal firmierr, took a great many prizes at the township and county shoWsl and was a member of the first municipal ecunoil of Glonelg. | . The harcy Christian pioneers who felled ‘ | the first trees in this country, who opened our first Sibbath Schools, and dreow with their exen, and hewed with their axos, the | logs for our first school houses and meetingâ€" houses are passing fast away to their eternâ€" al rest, having honestly served their genâ€" eration, Duncan Smith, of the Township of Glenelg, near Latona Post Office, who lied on Sabbath, the 27th of April, ultimo, was one of a noble Land to whom our counâ€" try owes more than this generation underâ€" stand. His parents, James Smith & Ann Fraser, natives of the Highlands of Seotâ€" land (Parish of Duthill,) settled in this county, from Glengarry, in 1844 with a family of eight sons and three daughters. The father of this large family stalwart sons and handsome daughters, we were told, walkod with two of his boys all the way from Glengairy to Glonelg, driving before them a herd of sinall cattle. The log shanty of James Smith was for many years, in the first seitlement of the county. a home always for travellors and strangers. Merchants, such as the Hon. Isaae Buchanâ€" an, who ounce spent a night there. Bishops, among others, Bishop Strachan, who supâ€" prised the Presbyterian patriarch by prayâ€" ing out of a book. Doctors of Divinity, among whom was, of course, Dr. Robert Burns; rich and poor, all classes and all denominations were welcome to the homeâ€" ly fare of the spacious shanty without fee or charge. When we state that all th» eight sons save ono are marrigl, and that each are blessod with large famiâ€" les, and some of their children married with large families, the reader will be preâ€" pared t> learn that the descondants of James Smith of " Smith‘s Corners, " imay be mt with in various localities in considâ€" orable numbers in Grey, Bruce and Maniâ€" toba, and they are genmerally esteemed as honest, industrious and religious. Elien MeNally ; Junior, Fanuny MeNally, Robert McCracken, Wm. A. Burnet, Jos. Firth; Juniors, Michael Kenny, Catherine Ector, Elizabeth Banks, Joseph MceNally. My special class of young men have left for the farm, commercial college, &e.â€"with ome solitary exception. May they all push forward and prosper as they deserve to.â€" N. B. Grrer, Teachor. Hoxor Rour, S. S. No. 8, GizxgLG.â€" 4th Class, Senior, Margaret Aun Ritchie ; Junior, W. D. Staples; Lealear A. Banks, Wm. D. Gtier, Elizabeth E. B; Morrison ; Srd Class Senior, Patrick Kenuy, Junior, Mary Aun Ector, Emeline Ritchic, Patrick Senior, Margaret Collior, Aunio D. Moffat, Morrison, Wm. McCracken; 2ud Class, Jénnie Grabham 191, Jennie Lamon 180.â€" R. N. McDoveaar, Teacher. Dundalk, May 6th 1879. Anothner of the Pioneers. Hoxor Rour, Dusvar« Scuoor, Armiu. Marks .obtainnble T# @n@h, classâ€"200. ‘r Fifthâ€"Colwell Graham 186, M»;gie F?:Ofl(gf Fifthâ€"John MeGregor 1, Amelhia Graham 169, G: Graha in 0; Fourth Claasâ€"Mary J.:.G.&wny 6, Wm. H. Graham 191, Kate MeArthur 4; Third Classâ€"Jonnieâ€"Middleton 194, D.b fAAuakim 101 TanniaFamaniIgn _ ArLL. | brother who ds unaw lef; us in which were ‘neither Toty mor Reform, if tiere were any sucu. Our sCutimo pBosed whnost without Critioistm At the time ; and although you may now and then hear a #haats oo +0 ww s 1 "In Crat M,:f ’vcrc ebscrved"; AJ Tory munici Whica wore Ref JUSTICE To ALL Dpox®. .. We found a way, which ‘the BegMature adopted, and by which the $ndebted muniâ€" cipalities woere relieved, ‘xpou principles admitted at the time to b’ just and at the same time satistactory to the ‘unindebted _municipalities ; ‘aud we compeélled those ‘.!Jfauhiug manicipalitios to pay, that woere able t pay, and had no equitable reason to urge for not paying. We required those to pay to the extentof théir ability, and we defined certain â€" principles by which that ohject ‘should be accomplished without favouritism to any," XO P2EPERENCE suowsy "There was another evil which in one sense was n worse one than those I have mention»d ; namely, that the danger, which every municipality in default was in fear of being at any time called upon suddenâ€" ly to pay, had the effect of keeping municiâ€" palities to a large extent in chains to the Government of the day, and was a source of an uadue influence over some of those municipalities, from which the whole country suffered. *# # &# % +# You: know that we took up the subject in the first session after you had given me your confidence and clected me as your repreâ€" sentative ; and to settle ths difficulty â€" it was our good fortune to devise a measure which gave «satisfaction io. the whole country and to all parties in €re conatry," was, that impamn( sections of our country were not partaking of the general prosperity of the rest of the Proviuce, and which it was the common interest of the whole coritry that every part of it should enjoy," IMPROVEMENTS RETARDED. *Imp wtant sections of the country had been kept back i1 the race of improvement in cossaquence of the heavy indebtedncss which lay upon them, and which it was we‘l known that they could not dischargeâ€" which it was utterly beyond their power to pay. In some of these cuses sums so large had beenlent that from the first it was beyond the power of the borrowing muniâ€" cipalities to repay them ; and im othr cases, where it had not 1cen beyond their power to repay the louns originally, it had ‘ hecome beyond their power by the aceuâ€" mulations of unpaid interest. Property in these localities was depreciated ; mon were afraid to settle there ; and the consequence THE MUNICIPAL LOANX DEBTS AXND sUm®PLUs DISTRIBUTION | SCHEarE was thus described by its author in his speech at Woodstock, December 12, 1878 : ENORMOUS INDEBTEDNT as. "In 1872 these Municipal dobts, with the interest upon them, amounted to someâ€" thing like twelve millions of dollars. Muniâ€" cipalities which could have paid, and had no sort of equitable or just defenc: for not paying, had not paid. Some of these, which were owing very large sums to the fund, had for many years made no payment on ascount of principal or interest to the Province, and others had for a consider able numler of years been equally negleetâ€" ful of their duty. All this time the body of the people, including those who resided in unindebted municipalities, were paying the interest upon the money which had| been borrowed by the indebt2d municipaliâ€" | ties, and which they had not ropaid. ‘Those who had derived no benefit from the money | were thus paying for it, as well m« those who had derived all the benefit. And that was not the only wrong connected with this rtate of things." Ben »ath these rugged clms, the yow troo‘s shado Where hoaves the turfin many a mould‘ring honp Each in his narrow cell forever laid The rude forefath»rs of the hamlet sleep. The churchyard lies on the lot adjoining the farm of the deceased, and there he was laid on the last day of April, between two dear members of his household, and surâ€" rounded by not a few of the old settlers, such as John Mclntosh, John Skene, and the three elders named above. Him because He first loved ns "_ was Ahe motto of his life and refrnin «of the song he was eÂ¥er ringing. He made choiee of Christ‘s service when he was a. merte youth. Thenceforward he ceased from the company and pleasures of the world, and his chief end became to please hbis Master. Let us aim at the same spirit. Let us be followers of him then in his attendance on ordinance. His place was never empty in the house of God save in sickness and his eye never drowsy. Let us be followers of him further in his moekness and gentleness: Duringâ€"the thirteen years that I was asâ€" sociated with him in Session and© Presbyâ€" tery I never saw him angry or his temper ruffied. He always put the best construcâ€" tion on doubtful things and words and was ready to overlook, forget, and forgive. Let us be followers lastly of him as his diligence in Christian work. Fornsarly 35 years he was working for Chnst around this neighâ€" borhood, dropping a word o comfort here, a word of warning there, in his own kind humble way, teaching in Sabbath schaols visitis g the sick, cornd icting prayorâ€"mootâ€" ings. His last trip from home was to atâ€" tond a prayerâ€"mceling. He discharged his duties that night with great comfort to all prosont. It was his last public act for Christ. Then he ontered a dark valley of intense and lingering suffering. He bore up meekly and pationtly till the Lord set him free. "Be ye followors of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises." I Facts for the Electors. POLITICAL BoXpaGE. cipalities as we did to eform, and‘as we did to imeut no party preferences we applied the same rule ++ @+4 . ©Times are very hard in Massachusctis in the manufaeturing localities. It is «stiâ€" mated that where earnings used to be from $50 per month they are not over a fourth and a fifth of that sum. The Autest "cwindle" has occurred in Stunstead, Que, &A man lhas sold 4) cout. packages, *warranted sure deutli to potuto bugs, uy risk wi polovitisg utuiiny o Wiki Paris preou 1" The puceages were uut io be upened until time to use them. One victam hl\iu‘ t ree, opened un, nl.adT«-uud two equare blocks of wood, on ome of whuch was written, "Place the bug on this block and pross Krmly with the uther." | _A few minutes before 10 o‘clock, Monâ€" | day morning the whele town was shaken ‘|as if by an carthquake. Windows were ‘| blown in, and even the sidewalks upon | which people were walking were shaken so |as to cause pedestrisns to Aall. The cause was soon made apparent. A car ladon with dynamite had exploded in the G. T. 1;. |freight yard. The wreck the explosion made beggars doscription. Underneath the dynamite car a hole several feet deep had been scooped out, the end of the brick freight shed and a portion of the roof had been blown down, several frame buildings were levelled to the ground, and long strings of freight cas lying in the yoad were uttorly destroyed. The business part of the town is nearly a mile from the soene of the explosion, but it shared in the dis aster. Valuable plate glass windows we;o broken and many others were. blown in frames and all. The damage done to property is estimated at many thousand dollars, but there is too much confusion to ascertain anything definite at presont. 3 railway employees working in the yard, Frank Lemoine and Det. Pigeon, of M .a treal, and Thos. Dolan, of Stratford, wore ‘blown into minute fragments, the foot o me of them being found two husived yards 0%. Others were injured, but the whole extent of the disaster cannot be known for some time yet. The report was heard 40 miles off. Terrible Explosion of Dynaâ€" mite at Stratford. to vote,though ui(‘)' miél:t have ;u‘»;;;m.:u- property." â€" Aftorncy â€" Genrral _ Mowat‘s Speech at Woodstsck, Dec. 12, 1878, I We have also made provision for giving the franchise to furmers‘ sons, and tho propriety of doing so will be obvious ts those who are aequainted with sqaicaltural life in Outario, {\'o had already provided an income franchise, by which residents in citiss and towns were chiefly benefited. Now, it is the wellâ€"known enstom in this couutry for one ortwo of a farmer‘s sons to remain en the homestead, after cc ming of ago, to aszist their parents in workine ond maunaging the furmâ€"an extremely dozivabie arrangemest, and one ts be encourczed, both tor the comfort of the old people ud the bonefit of the sons. ‘Tiese farmers‘ sons are, is a class, well educsted. and quite as intelligent as either income voters or as those who live on farms of their own : having had the advant=ge of our excellent scetool system, wluch perhaps their tathers had not. The Legislature thought, thereâ€" fore, that no sufficiant reason existed why th: + zass of persons, living and working on their fithers‘ furms, and being prastically partners therein, shouldmet be permitted to vote.thouch they mirhÂ¥ hnÂ¥a wa Ennancy. The extension of the franchise to incomeâ€" tax payers who are usually resident in the towns and cities, vory neturally suggested the propriety of passing a similar measure for the benefit of an analogous class, the farmers‘ sons in the rural districts. This measure was indicated in Mr. Biakeo‘s speech at Aurora, in 1874, and was passod by the present Government in 1877. TOMAIL.......».:ususe $8,225,B78 5 1 â€"Budget Speech, 1879, p. 46. In paying share of cost of county buildings,and aidâ€" ing in the erection of mills and manufacteries In buying and laying out pablic parks and agriculâ€" tural society grounds .... In the purchase and improveâ€" ment of cemeterios........ In aid giver to unorganized districts, in making roads and bridges, and building BORLDDNS 13 Â¥+4 +s +re00 se 000 cceun In In town and village improveâ€" ments, by construction of water â€" works, _ making sidewalks,planting «h ade â€" trees, and buying steam In building and improvring on Lallk .................. (72 tewn halls have been built or paid for, and a large number of markets and In oducational purposes, inâ€" cluding schoolhouses granting aid to railways 987,889 13 In paying other debts incurrâ€" and all in works of great public utility follows : HOW THE MONEY HASâ€"BEEN arriiup, In roads and bridges ............$1,181,682 06 In paying debts caused by BURPLUS DISYRIBUTIOXN, Under this Act not only has the va; load of municipal indebtedhoss been relioy ed, but the sum distributed in pursurn, of ‘the scheme, has amounted up to Blst December, 1878, to no less than which had defied our predec:ssors, a~j with which we grappled promptly and suc. Farmers‘ Sons‘ Franchise. fivreâ€"engines........... lockâ€"ups) ............ school purposes.......... ed Tor permanent works and investments _ for built, @choo!l debts paid, +4 ++ *4 ++ improving 705,468 36 147,346 10 43,749 16 27,642 27 18,382 50 76,432 65 6,384 82 1,917 0 28,579 56 4,954 26 th M hiw No d dats laud 1 W "‘hl‘ .\; 4 enguiny w Nr Forta a foun ling, tor t t e Malitax aw: lution m a tw o elaime 1 th u co mach more e u with Mr. Me apparently : Iutions. . Hi to a close hy e« an impress uf and regulating it ha moved that th t:an of specie payment «if his speoch was occu mature of money, and gold offered as a mediu claimed that instead of mONCY, as d here the people h: of the proceeding, a Â¥ erdict on their pre M Mr. Charlton (North Nort Jh ongth the argnments advocate: ef the resolution, and reterred i history of paper meney in the t ies which had made the expe cantended that the exneriment M protection that Ftates was due 1 r some leng wolheme. the markets of t Ds considered as a nation al eurre it was to the iss M+, Wallaes hrought up the "“I,: to a national enrremey { DVe rcforned to the ridionle v «Marta bad been met Al n wpimion, was fiat, and the op #pecial application to paper n was only made money by the i. emment. . Japer could he ti« claimed that the rational ons the Iabar and public works of : had a sounder basis than the = now in cireulation, enly 25 per. exuld actually 1 the Dominion, cansidered as as Ile M W Mr AMr Afte lack ance ha pecia M Dominion Parliament atly t th was ocoupre) woney, amd the d as a medium » at aumtead of 420 Mr. Wallace cla exs wpon the mor ting it. In cone! rt V 1a v xpe been 1 M Jf ¢ M eÂ¥ion®s action 1 r da paper 1 1%n