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gal Au 8 Page. 48 Oollimn Newlvpef. 1: Published from the 0_1oo. Dunlop Street, I)`--1.` I-. 41.1; l'VnnnbII AC GI-manna `Inn I)-gnu E No new name will be added to the Sub- aorl tlon List untllthe money is paid. ` . Bulnorlbere new in arrears for three months and over will be charged $1.50 per annum. II C IIIIIOIIIIVIO DDIIOOO voov voopvvg oauooovy Diva-Iavvp Barrie. in the O unty or Blmcoe. the Pro- vince of Ontario. Canada. every Thurs- day morning. by ` unmm. wnsuw. 1-not-nxirron. In the case of Ontario it was proposed to give three additional representatives, one to Algoma, one to Parry Sound and: one to Toronto, and for the purpose of doing this and under the pretence of equalizing the population, the boundaries of no less than thirty-four constituencies were changed. The total vote polled for the Conservative candidates at the last local election was, says Mr. Meredith, less than 500 below that polled for Reformers, yet the result was that 51 supporters of the government were returned and 37' Conservatives, which means 14 Reformers for 500 votes; In the Dominion election of 1882 there was a Conservative majority polled of about 5,000,. not including Frontenac and Lanark where the elections were by acclamation, and the Conserva- tives elected 54 members and the Reform- ers 38., Thus, after the passage of the Dominion Gerrymander Act, with a popu- lar majority more than ten times that of the Reformers at the _Ontario `elections, there was but a slight dierence in the relative majorities in the two Houses. Notwithstanding this, the measure of the Reformers made changes in the boundaries of constituencies, so as that if the same vote` he polled at the next general election as was polled at the last the disproportion in the number of representatives returned by the two parties according to the num- 0 bar of votes polled will i be greatly in- creased. Mr. Meredith's masterly speech j sets this gerrymandering question in its true light, showing that while Sir J ohn s alteration did the Reformers no injustice Mr. Mowat s has been most unjust to the Conservatives in the Gerrymandered counties. In the district composed of the Simcoes, Cardwell and Peel, there were three constituencies upon which the hold of the Grit party was becoming insecure. At the last general election West Simcoe retuned a Grit by a majority of 42. By adding the townshipof Tiny and taking away Stayner, Collingwood and Notta- wasaga a gain of 135 Grit votes was made`, thus increasing the majority of Mr. Mowat s snpporter to 177. Tiny was taken from East Simcoe, thus increasing the Grit majority at the last" general `election from 20 to 190.. The Tory voters thus disposed of were hived in South Simcoe and Cardwell, in the former of which the Conservative majority ranges from 200 to 500. In Peel where Mr. Chisholm had a majority of only 83 at the last election, the Reform township of East Caledon was taken `from Cardwelle and added to Peel, making the Grit majority this riding now 24.6. It was necessary . to dispose of the able and energetic mem-_ , bar for North Perth, the only German representativeon the Opposition benches ' `in the Ontario Legislature. Last election ` he had a majority of .118, so the township of Logan, which is largely German. was` taken from the North and added to the 0 South reducing p,Hess ioritr to:8- ' The i- In`! or Grit fairness and honesty to "thei`r.':E 1';oliticai * * opponents. ` ;Mr,.MZeredith*thus T The,0i of.Tononto isstrong Ca V." 0 3' . ,. .. g 3]. , , i 1 . , . -N A. . uowarseannnvnltsxnnnme. Sir John Macdo_nald s scandalous gerrymander of the constituencies, and the_ infamous Franchise Act are stock portions of the. Grit writers melancholy` song, and its constant repetition is apt occasionally to draw the reader's attention from Mr. Mowa_t. s peculiar style of cutting up the Ontario `constituencies in the interest of his pure, honest and patriotic friends. Mr. Meredith, the talented leader of the Oonservat_ives~ in the Ontario House, called attention to this in a speech a few days ago at Hamburg. If the alter- ation of the constituencies before the last ceneral election was bad the gerrymander- by Mowat in 1885 was innitely worse- Mr. Meredith has shown that in conse- quence of Ontario being entitled as the result of the decennial census to addition- al members it was necessary to rearrange the constituencies for Dominion purposes; but no such reason existed in the case of the Ontario measure. y the sources of the streams, the springs will give out shortly after the winter rains cease. As summer advances they have disappeared and with them the small brooks and creeks which have fed the larger streams; and these have greatly de- creased in volume or have altogether dis-' .appeared. Then come drought, poverty` and disease, and soils rendered barren" for lack of moisture. Then the destruc- tive ood, as another -result of deforesta- tion, tells its story of lcss of life ' and pro- perty. Spain, Austria, Germany and Hungary, and to a certain ' extent France and Italy, suffer every year from oods as the consequence of the destruction of trees. When the rains come they are not detained by the natural woods, but run 011' at. once - into the valleys, where they swellvthe creeks and rivers to enormous volume, and cause those frightfully de-_ struotive oods which every now and then form the burden of European dispatches. nIL_ ' ,_ __ _` -__-- _._.',_._v. The iieedvwail comes from tte valleys of our American rivers. but yet the remedy in only imperfectly eppliei. We wish the writings of Mr." R. W. Phipps upon this important matter were in -the hands of every citizen of the Dominion. uuz. val nnluy got none, whore, Thurs- day; night,` ho went` may agd unow. 3 , Blasphemy Punished. BRADFORD J UNOTION, O.,_ July 26.--- Simon Wilcox, a well-to-do farmer, is a raving maniac, his mental malady being the direct outgrowth of a stroke of para- , lysis visited upon him, it is -generally believed, by the Almighty as a punish- ment for blasphemous language on Thurs- day last. Wilcox s farm, with others in the. vicinity, was visited by a heavy storm of wind and hail on Thursday afternoon, which beat down and ruined almost all his crops, Wilcox was absent from home at the` time, and when he returned and surveyed the ruin in the elds about him he gave vent to the most fearful oaths, cursing God for allowing and causing the destruction`. In the midst of his ravings he fell to the earth, and when his family and neighbors-ran to his aid he was sutfer- ing- from a stroke of. paralysis. On at- tempting to raise him from the earth they found the soil so hot about him that they could not tread upon '_t with comfort. and atlas end of a pole with whichehe was -pus_h- j at uni! luIlIl|.ll.\D .LVUVlUW III spulllilll OI Dir. lt Gladstone. uotes this as illustra- tive of the Review s anguage : The un- conscious or half conscious contempt of the demagogue for his dupes is exemplied in Mr. Gladstone s eulogies on the wisdom of the masses. * * * ft is by no means certain that, if Mr. Gladstone could have subdued the two passions which ex- ist in him, lmperiousness and duplicity, he might not have squeezed his measure through. The Deacon remarks : The `funniest thing is that the Review often remonatrates with the dailies for failing in courtesy. N ow in view of the gross and scandalous language which all through the period of last session of Parliament the Globe used toward Sir John Mac- donald and his political supporters, in cotr -. parison with which the Review s phraseo- logy is mildness itself, the Deacon s broad humor becomes irresistible. Never was there a more apt illustration of Satan re- buking sin. NOTE AND COMMENT. Dmcon Osmsaorz is not without a touch of humor in his constitution, al- though it.is reported that it takes till next day for him to see the point of a goak. Last Saturday the Globe has an article on VChoice En lish Journalism, and pre- tends to he s ocked at the language used 11;? the Saturday Review in speaking of P _ nvinriltnnn Tl. nu:-Mm: Hui. an Il....a..- T vaxnamsu. Yesterday morning the people of the town were astonished to see a man with hammer and chisel hacking to pieces the ornamental _stone work at the west door of the new Post Oice. When asked what was the object, he replied : I don t know, `ours not to reason why. Who ever is responsible for this vandalism ought at once to be removed from any control over this building. If that orna- mental work was an architectural defect it should have been rejected from the plan and the cost ofits construction and subsequent defacement saved ; but if re- moving it is an afterthought the fate of whole building will evidently depend upon how far such afterthought -will be per- mitted to go. Perhaps it would be better to erect a rough board fence all around the building after the ordinary drill shed style rather than knock to pieces what gives it its main architectural value. Again we ask, who is responsible for the vandalism? vuv uasssvasuy sss 5sVI1u_l.'UpIUlUlllalIl:lUua , Now, the result of all this is, that should the calculations upon which the measure. was based be veried at the next election, the present injustice which I have pointed out, of the less than500 Reform majority giving a majority in the House of four- teen, would still be further extended, and this majority more than doubled. I think I may say that I have shown that while the Dominion measure did not in its result deal, unfairly, but sent to the House of Commons a representation as nearly proportioned to the number of votes polled by each party as seems to be procurable under our present system, and that there is no justification for the char- acterization of that measure as an infa- mous one, and that the attempt that is ` made to lead the people so to view it, is made for the purpose of distracting atten- tion from what, when it is fairly under- stood, every ' ht thinking man must be- lieve to be a s enie devised for the ex- press purpose of enabling the Ontario Re- ormers at the next election to retain their hold upon the Province, which the result of the last general election showed to be insecure, and to do this by xing the constitutencies so as to make two Re- formersoount as in the result .for more than three Conservatives. (App1ause.) I think what I have told you has convinced you that if the term infamous" is to be applied, it may properly be applied to Mr. Mowat s measure -(hear, hear), and that the conduct of the Grit party with re- ference to its actions against the Conserva- tive party on this question, is of the same hypocritical character as the pretence which it makes, that while the Conserva- tive party and its public men are corrupt and rotten to the core, they are the purest of the country. (Cheers) sion of the city so as to make sure the election of a single Reformer, and so the ingenious device was hit upon of adopting Mr. Blake's minority plan, limited to the city of Toronto. Toronto, therefore, w: s given an additional member} making the number of its representatives the` ; but inorder that the Reform minority must elect one of these, each man being given not three votes, one for _each representa- tive but two. The pretence tnat this was done to make a trial of the plan of minor- ity renresentation was a transparent fraud, the real" object being to get one addition- al supporter for the Government of Mr. Mowat. If there had been an honest de- sire to try that system why was it not tried upon the 'county of Bruce ? (Ap- plause.) The answer is plain. Bruce could be divided so as to send three Grit representatives. It was so divided To- ronto could not be divided so as to send even one`, and so. contrary to the rule prevailing in every other constituency, the minority is given representation. NAG tho Ilnnnl n` 43'` #1:`: :n `hub nlnnnlrl THE NORTHERN `AD VANCE. To snoxmnf-E; For a.ll~the nu 'nmn..n.. ru---v JOHN D. MAOMURCHY. Inspector. Omoe :-QUnm s _Hd1-Ir. Buumn. j 15 j. _.__-( ma STANDARD uvgnggsumrn cum. -un. anus; -:soutn 4} not won the 5:]: Con- ' oession of Flos. There are about 66 acres clear and under cultivation, and the balance com osed of good hard and soft timber. Soil mo cl Ly.` "On the gene is s trsmebsrn and s_ ble, the ham ing 40x7 . Anioe frame house 18:24 with good water within 3 miles of Phelpston station, and 1 m es of school and postomoe. A plyto Gt 0. LAWSON `on the I xtcngses. if y letter. to Phelpston _.__.__..____.____._.; OR SALE -South {Lot leon Con- h__ce:3_i>:_x__3_1.?`_lo_s;j{'h9;e about acres Tnmms AND CoNnI17ro1?s.-0ne tenth of the purchase mone to be paid down at the time of sale and the once within one month there- r. With interest at 7 per cent. Other terms and conditions will be made known at the time of sale. or in the meantime on application to LOUNT, STRA'l;IY 85 LOUN T. HTIl\`P, ll` fans | umm. unu oy vu-we or a power of sale U contained in a certain mortsie made b Archibald McFee and Hugh c ee, whic mortgage will be produced at the time of sale. there will be offered for sale at Public Auction b Mr. G. R. Ford. auctioneer. at the QUEENS OTEL, in the Town of Barrie on SATUR- DAY, the 7th day of AUGUST. 1886. at the hour of Twelve t_)'Clock, noon. the following parcel of land. viz: _ The W of Lot No. 2. in the 10th Concession of the sai Townshig` of Oro, containing .100 acres. more or less. here are erected upon the said lands a. log dwelling house and kitchen. The soil is of excellent quality. CONDI'I`ION8.-On6 money to be mm nwn ..+ n... u..... -- uwaen the hours of 9 3. m. aid! p. m; A tered Letters must be handed in 15 mira- utes tore the close of etch mail. The letters (and all other mail matter) are taken from the street letter boxes every day. Sundays excepted, at 8.00 o'clock a. m. and at 3 o cl%:l:1nd at 8.00 p. In J. EDWARDS Postmaster In the Township of Oro. UNDER and by virtue of of mortgagg made by Arnhihnla 113.13-- ...-I `'77 ' ' FARM FROPERTY Tn IA 'I`nn-nu-sln an A Orillin ..... ..... ..;.'L.'.'jI.'I,'II Hilllsislfe, Craighurst. Dalston, Crown ...-uuuuvu uuu. nccuun nrunou 1.1811 way...... ............. ... Meatord Branch Railway... . ; . . . .. . Collingwood. . ..................... . . Collingwood ....................... . . Orlllia . . . . . . ....... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. (II-HA ' noun a unsun nxnnua uuna ISSUE! Toronto ......... . Toronto ... ................. . ._ ......... .. Toronto.. ..... ............ ... Ottawa and Montreal. ............. . . ; Northern Railwa.y(North) . . . . . . . . . . . . : (}I`8.l ldTl'11DkE83t-........-....' o . . o an . Northern Railwa South). ... ...... .. North Simcoe Ra. lwag, Peneta.nguj- shone and Midlan . ............ .. Newmarket ........... . .. . . . . . . . .. Newmarket ........... ..... .. Hamilton and Beeton Branch. Rail- 1 wav . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 n O `I 1 Rugbv. Edgar Steele, Mitchell s Square and E 9.3!: 0ro.. . . . . . . . . . . . . ` t-Grenfell, Tuesda and Friday.... 4 :--Midhurst, Mon ay. Wednesday` a.ndFrida.y. ............... ' British Mails. ma (N. Y.,) Monday, ' Tuesday and Thursday ........ . . ma (Ha.1ifa.x,) Wednesday ...... .. -..-o.. _- ___. ____ __ _ 1' UIIULHII 1118118119, mlmana and Nort Simcoe Railway. . . . . .. Grand Trunk East .... . . .. .......... .. Ottawa and Montreal"... .......... .. Oril1ia...... .................... j Orillia .............................. . . Col1ingwood...... .................. ..; Collingwood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Northern Railway North .......... . . ; Meaford Branch Rai1way..... . . Hillsdale, Craighurst, Dalston alnli ' Crown Hill . . . . . . . . , 4 , V . . V , ` nuxsmue, uyalgnurst, ualston and CrownH1ll.. ........ ......... ..` Rugbv. Edgar Steel Mitchell's: Scum-A am-I Jtnf. nm , Barrie, 7th J nly. 1886. nnronnsrarxon. We consider it an imperative duty fre- quently to call attention to the evils of forest destruction. High above many of the questions of a -political nature, which monopolize so much attention. is this which is so closely connected with the well-being .of the country in the future. The droughts which have produced such distress in many parts `of the United States this year, may be attributed mainly, to deforestation. We never hear of the sale of our own timber limits without ` being reminded of destructive oods, van- ished streams, lessened crops and other evils to come as the result of present greed of gain which leads to the destruc- tion of our trees. Every man should be conversant with the value of trees, in the various ways in which they are valuable to a country, of the springing from v t V ...`, I 4 I cu----. 1----up -vow Toronto. ..... .......... Toronto..... ...... ........... Toronto..................... ......... .. Northern Railway South .......... .. Newmarket .... ................. .. Nowmarket .... ................. .. Allandale .......................... .. Allandale Hamilton 8: Bee ton Branch Railwa Penetan hone, Midland an Nnrt Qimnnn l?,uilwnv ` l Our Stock is large and attractive. We Went to dispose of all Summer Goods 1st August, and will give every bargam advertlsed. When we commence a sale We business; So come along and secure some of the many bargams bemg offered. BARBIE POSTOFFICEI Commence on SATURDAY, 3rd JULY, their G ` Sale of ~ re i DRESS GOODS. PRINTS. { MILLINERY, M AN'l`LI~' s, PABASOLS, GLOVES, HOSIERY, I W LACES. EMBROIDERIES, CLOTHING, HA_TS, } F I CARPETS, HOUSEAFURNISHINGQ R. STEPHE_ljz ()0. Our Tailoring Department is now Complete with all the newest Patterns in Suitings, Engsh and Fml h W A ` H " C 01 Remember the place, R, A_ STEPHENS & Late of W. R. PHILLIPS 81. Co. t T C 3TRONG 8` DQNNELLI -uuunurst. Monday. Wed: andFridav................v. T from the Dominion to the States, have ..of his life in luxury, escapes the punish- `under consideration of the Governments ' in luxury. We fear also, that the scound- IXTRADITION TREATY. So-called respectable rascality `has of late years been increasing to an alarming extent. Banks haye been robbed of large amounts by their oflicers, condential clerks have swindled their employers, holders of trust funds have put to their own use the money of widows and orphans conded to them. and stepping across the lines from the other side, or taking a trip lived in luxury upon their plunder. In many cases the thieves have been taken into society and petted and lionized as though the money on which they were living had been honestly earned. Instead of calling these robberies by their right names, they are softened to defaulting or some other misnomer, and the plunder- -eis-have escaped the just punishment of their crimes. The unfortunate petty thief, who steals a small sum to supply his wants for lack of labor to do it honestly, is promptly arrested and sent to prison, but the man making of!` with money enough to enable him to live for the rest ment which he justly "deserves. Though the Extradition Treaty, which is now of Britain and the United States, to a certain extent will remedy this scandalous defect in international criminal exchange, it falls short of accomplishing what is needed. It fails in not being retroactive, and therefore the robbers now withinour borders may remain and snap their ngers at those upon whose money they are living rels of the O Rossa type will still be safe, because they commit crimes against humanity under the name of political offences. We are thankful however, that we are likely to get something to check the crime of respectable stealing, and every honest man will rejoice if it leads to the repression of dynamite outrages and to the punishment of the monsters who ad- vocate the murder of public men and the destruction of property on the pretence that it is necessary to bring about political changes. Such beings are foes to humanity and have no right to `the protection they claim. ` AUCTION SALE DAILY MAILS DUE FROM ._A.- Grand Summer Clearing Sale! 111... . .".T.'.'.'.".Tf.'.'.'.'I: ; . E Steel .............. .. ` hu1qs8t.ar']!Jondz$y. Wednesday |dFridaY.... .......... DAILY IAIL8 FOR u o o u uoaaootooaonouooooonuovaat ............. . . . . . . . . . . . ....... 410 pm uououoooo-ooovonooo o c o u - u o - - m LRa.ilwaySouth............ 41opm ket . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410 pm ket 650 am e 1030 am 3 410 pm L&Be*.on 10 p m- :uq1hene.D Midland m M OF VALUABLE .'1`l-IY 85 LOUNT. Vendor : Solicitors. 99- Q` Mr. Gladstone and his Government have resigned and Lord Salisbury will be called on to-form a Government, but in the present condition of -parties a purely Conservative Government is animpossi- bility. With the exception of `preserving the integrity of the Empire, the Unionist Liberals have no view or sentiment in com- mon with the Tory party, and therefore cannot support it. It is impossible ' to carry on a Government in a free country without party. Coalitions cannot succeed. Old parties in England are utterly broken up and. disorganized, none being strong enough to stand without aid from a third party. How will the deadlock be broken? Would another general election make such a change that a party Government could be carried on without the aid of the Parnellitesl If Lord Salisbury should propose some comprehensive plan of Home Rule, embracing England, Ireland, Scot- land and,Wales,_ such a plan as would give each of these parts of the United King- dom that control of local affairs which the provinces of this Dominion have, there can be no doubt the Government would be sustained in an appeal to the country bya sufficient majority to carry `on the Government. The present condition of things cannot last. Something will have to be done to change thepresent political chaos into something like order. Strictly party Government is anabsolute necessity and the best interests of the Empire would be subserved by the Conservatives being enabled to -form a strong and eflicient administration. We have no doubt a new election will be held within a year. ALI. THE LATEST sl-moss Ill nnass GOODS. mam: lmwaml 400Dm TERMS on suascnuvrxox. , V $1 Per Annum in.Adva.nce. $1. cnosn ` AND A LARGE STOCK OF 'I'.`El'U'I\TIiS A and `VA '2 Cases of our famous = Plough Boots 2 Cases of Women s Prunella Boots 1 Case of Women's But- C ` toned & tie shoes 1 Case of Women's But- toned Boots 1 Case of men s ne Lace Boots [JUST coma INTI SPOT OASH SHOE HOUSE -JUST ARRIVED .A.'1`----~-- STRONG & DONNE}.L, `THE POLITICAL SITUATION IN IN CALL AND SEE THEM. NEILL BROS, VALISES. Vorateda. 150' '|'-'l.--E"N6"l-?THEFi_NVADVAml;CE,w. -_ In -'I__`.A An41-n__.... 'l'4j_.______