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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Aug 30, 1877
Page
2
Fragmentary notice from a local newspaper edition listing Hacking as proprietor and editor with a yearly subscription price. The readable portion shows address hints and the phrase free press style, but specifics are unclear due to garbled text.
Mr Mackenzie seeks unity of observance across provinces for a harvest thanksgiving. He has arranged with Premier figures to attend Reform demonstrations in Orangeville, Beampton, Galt, Simcoe, Aylmer, and Teeswater on specified dates in the near future.
The Conservative picnics for the fall season are listed for Essex on September 3 Napanee September 7 Lindsay September 15 Newmarket September 14 and Barrie September 19. Hon Ms Blake will also address meetings in Brace county in the coming month and in Essex after the Liberal Ascotation in London Ontario.
The article states there is no basis for claims the Canadian government will send commissioners to the Lux now on British territory. It notes the government has only agreed to provide the United States commissioners with a strong escort of mounted police from the car to the Indian camp. The US commissioners will retreat to the frontier on Monday.
The Christian Guardian lists four factors for the defeat: a single polling place causing crowding. heavy whiskey money spending and a large subscription list. organized efforts to tour anti Dunkin voters with carriages and checks. and Archbishop Lynchberg’s anti measure stance swaying Irish Catholics. It says selfish interests prevailed for now while temperance supporters may claim a moral victory.
The Fortnightly Review, an English liberal monthly, is published in America via Toronto in a bid for wider reach. The August issue features D Mackenzie Wallace on Secret Societies of Russia and war causes, Grant Duff on rational education, sea and mountain air health debates, and a painting of Modern Italy by Civour, with notable coverage of Holbach, Voltaire, Rousseau, D'Alembert, and Frederick the Great.
The American press cites 1877 wheat prospects with estimates from 380 million to 20 billion bushels. Domestic use set at 160 million, seed 40 million, exports 75 million, carryover 125 million. Potatoes may lift bread prices and idle labor may reduce provisions demand. Experts peg cash prices around eighty five cents per bushel.
The Montreal Witness notes a forthcoming improvement in trade as farmers hold crops for higher prices. Rain in Western Canada delays harvests, but overall this season’s crop is expected to be a good average.
Stratford Beacon reports Perth townships show a bountiful harvest with yields better than many years. Fall wheat is excellent and bright, spring wheat may suffer slight rain damage but overall strong. Barley and oats look good, roots up surprisingly well after heavy rains.
The New York Times reports business men across trades foresee healthy activity and steady, enduring improvement rather than rapid profits. They cite better current trade versus a year ago, with no great euphoria but solid progress expected. A Wellington Grey crop update notes minimal rain damage and good prospects if continued sunny weather. Also reported is Mr. Vennor's discovery of a coral reef on the Upper Gatineau, the second known in the country.
Tolton Bros of Guelph announce a pea harvester trial at C Egy’s farm near Waterloo. The attachment lifts pea straw to knives and throws it onto a platform. The machine harvests eight to ten acres per day and costs twenty two dollars.
A morning blaze in Paris totalled H. Finlayson & Co tannery and Bullard & Best furniture store with extensive losses. Fire spread from the tannery warehouse, possibly caused by thieves who left a burning match. Insured amounts vary. total estimated loss about 30,000 dollars.
Lord Dufferin replied to a Mennonite address at Wissipee Manitoba on August 24 assuring they would not shed blood while urging support for western civilization and Canadian progress. He welcomed the Mennonites to Manitoba with affection and land, remarks met with wide approval as about 1,000 attendees showed emotion. The Mennonite population in the province is estimated at 6,500.
An effort to pass the ten dollar notes of the Consolidated Bank is reported. The bank had warned against issuing such bills since their original theft at the bank’s formation. A court rule nisi calls on Sarnia Canadian proprietors to show cause why a criminal information for libel against the Premier over the Kaministiquia land purchase should not be exhibited. Justice Guilt decried the libel as scandalous.
Robert Colby wood surveyor employed by Mr Stark of Brompton Falls visited William H Jackman’s house near Windsor Mills and after drinking with Jackman, assaulted Jackman’s wife and was shot by Jackman. Coroner’s inquest returned death by willful gunfire. Also notes a lighted blue pigeon with a Quebec address and a separate violent assault on a woman in Allan Dale leading to remand.
In Osnabruck a house carpenter's wife in Wales Ontario was shot in bed around 3 AM as her husband and infant slept beside her. The bullet struck the abdomen. an outside shooter through a raised window is suspected. Capt. Adams investigated as the victim died around 5 PM after a post mortem was arranged. No arrests yet.
The Times editorial argues the Local Government and white population should oppose further obstacles to settling grievances with aboriginal peoples. It praises Canada's prudent pacific humane Indian policy and warns delays in British Columbia could endanger the Dominion's credit and peace.
A man who robbed A. Taylors store in Shelburne was seized in a nearby bush. Part of the stolen goods were recovered near the capture site. He escaped from his captors at a hotel and has not been found since. Also notes Guelph girls push for a temperance club to discipline drinking youths.
A Civil Service Gazette blurb commends cocoa as a digestible nourishment that builds constitution and wards off disease. The piece notes the product from James Ervis & Co at Threadneedle Street and Piccadilly, London, sold in labeled packets.
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