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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Expositor, 1869-01-29, Page 4e. Land Reform in Ireland. A correettpudent of the Nesit,Yock: World, Writing ifroni Ireland,thus cle- ecribea the . land reform desired by the ultras, inclticling some .of the Roma Catholic Clergy :-",It is based* upon the, principle, as neat as 1 could make it out; that the soil is a sacred heritage belengineeto the; people; for whom the got/eminent should be the: trustee anct the guardian, regulating the distribu- tion and the texturee-so that the omit - pante ssliteild be the .virtual if ,not the aatual owners of the land they tilled. 4f, Ma Gladstone' is *to be held to this, lie has a hard and thtorny path before him!! This Means. Socialism. or Fourier - 13111 scarcely disguised Or adulterated, a scheme for ro'obing the industrious and the thrifty of :the rewards of tneir ene ierprise, .and.industry, and thrift, and bestowing them upon. the indolent. -kAreles8arid unworthy.. What would Some of 'orir Irish landholders in Mon- treal think of the interference of a pa- tereal goyernmenti here to maintain a ---. thriftless tenant in possession of a half cultivated potato or cabbage ga,rclen, when (Jia,ving himself earnecrthe monej7. and.paid for it) Our _proprietor sought a : better return for hisinvestment-say, to convert ' it into building lots ! • Or, ., principle-ehat .he only aesired s t‘il . ten- suppose --and there is no differe ce in ant who would earn andpay.iiis.rent, ' instead of one whb was running down the property and never paying, would he not 'reSelat: the; interference of an -Y .. government who kept a tenept On his- -property to his manifest disadvantege. and against his will'? The doctrine. is as impracticable and noxious -fts-,:U• is - false: The man Whet owns lana, as eve Ana.y still call it, holds it because of Mo- ney furnished to the people out of his earnings or those ofhi. ancestors, and with whieh they have procured clothes; Ittod, -and other necessaries or luxuries. They can bave.no right tostlie, land and the .use of thatmoney also, unless upon -the princiPle of eommunisme unless; industry; thlift and intelligence must' confer no advantage' on their possessor -sinless he must toil and scheme, a.nd perchance, . weaa,. himself out 'while others are idle,. and reap no reward either for himself or his family, but di- • vide all with those who have , deserved lose, or nothing at all. .- No other blow 80 terrible as this could be struck at industrial progre.se and development - none so fatal to the itnpreveraent of the land or the advancement of agriculture as the geneial adoption Of this princi- • ple. No magic is required now, no court favor or*political influence, to..eie- able the" ppor man in Ireland to- become the proprietor of landetsonly industry, economy, ' ateshenterprise. Without these no men -deserves to have this world's good, 'for he -would net use them wisely t. to force, propertyspertna- nently into sticli hands as a reward for . oppoeite. qt-tafities, by Act of Parlia- ment, would be to curse the pOssessor and the couni-y.. Tenants should be given a legaletecourse for fthe value of improvementsmade . upon- land. Far- - ther thanetliat it seems te.,Ius, pai-lia- - tnentary Meddling with the land tenure would oulYt-12-0-- tmischievoue.--.3forctreal Gazette. - ,,- - , ' A Op1134tial Phenomenon. The • night*sgenge of men employed near VirginiaiCity Nevada, ewitnessed a beautiful celestial phendmenon at Vur. o'clock On titea. morning of: No-t?t!-'sl. The sky was 'pe! rfectly cleatin -'eVei:y di- rections .and the eastern horiZon Was peculiarly blue and bright not the slightest aigli of mist about, the ridge§ of the -distant eastern zangea e yettethe morning stet rose of a'bluered colors and with,e light white halo; appareeitly five or six feet in .sliametere surrounding it. From. the lower pert . of the halo extemred downward a tail apparentlY eight feet long and two feet in breadth 'at the upper part This tail was slight- ly curved, of a sabre swipe, bluntly - rounded at the lower end, and -both it' 4 and. the haleappeaa-ed to be filleCt with , thcretands of smell -" and exceedingly .leeilliLtnt sterS. ThiS strangelight lasted' .some fifteen or twenty inimates; or until the star liad risen so high that the • tail of the halo appeared to be two or three feet above the erect- of the -distant a, ,iige, when it suddenly faced out. The plie- • nomenoe was witnessed by hundreds of • pereons. . c • - - . i 1 ' 1,0 • e es -A certein pan hit toe against a pebble, and fell headlong to the ground. -He. was .vexed, 611d , Under' t he in fl uance of anger .,,,,,,a self-suffici- ency, he ki•::ked _ Mother earth right 'saucily. With impertuxbable gravity, he looked to see the earth itself' dis- solve and come to naught - But the • earth eemeined, and only his poor foot e Ives. injured in the encounter. This is /5 the- -ay of men. Aiatarticle in a news - pap 9, teuchee him in a w&d.t. spot, and stratglitway . he eends to stop his Paper. Wiih great self -complacency- he looks° to see the crash, when the Object of his spleen Shall cease . to be. Poor fool, he has onlir- hit hie orentoe ageinst a world , that does not perceptibly feel the shock end_injures ne one but himself.-Itranz- .. • 0077, TOMS. THE sgA704.vi.: •.Whor'vcras Jolut CY.Groat. I Itt'the reign of efames, IV. of Scot- land, three brothers, Malcom, Gavin, 'and John. de Groat, natives of Holland; caMe to the country', carrying • With them a letter in Latin, *from, the mon- arch, recommending _them to the pro- tection and countenance ofhis loving subjects in Caithness, They purchased, or obtained by royal charter, the lands of Warse and Duncansbay, in the parish of Canistay ;` in process of time by the increase of their- families, and time, sub- chvision of the property, their came -to be eight different proprietors of the name of Groat. An annual festive meeting having been established to coin- Memorate the annivsrsary,of the arrival in Caithness, a dispute arose 013. one Of these ohcasions respecting the riglit of takingthe door, the head of the table, "&e., which increased - te such a iheight threatened to be attended with very ditegreerble • consequences, whentJohn, who was now considerably advanced in- Yeara, happily interposed ile expati- ated *on the comforts which they had hitherto enjoyed in the land of their adoption., and conjured • them, by, the ties of blood • and their mutual. sefety, to return quietly keine, pledging him- self 'that he would satisfy them on all points of precedency at the next meet - tinge They a:equiesecd, and departed in peace. In due time, to fulfil his en- . gagement, John built' a house, distinct by itself; of an octagonal form -with eight doors and windows; and jiaving placed a table of oak, of the same shape in the middle, when the next- meetng took place, he desired each of his friends to enter at his own door, and sit at. the head of the teble. s By this happy con- trivance any dispute in. regard to rank was prevented, and the former harmony* and good nature Of the party, was re- stOred. Such. was the origins of John s .0:Groat's House. 0 Desolation of Sebastopol. • Up the -wide street, igrass-grown and silent, there is nothielg but ruin. T doer -ways of some of the r tined hott have been_blocked with - elude those who have iic the walls 3 but in palac 1' es tones, to e x - right with'n s and alike, weeds are growillg high and ran their green luxuriance chooking tie cellar -stirs, and waving above the Ot‘the ground floor,n the summit of theetidge, about the ce -tre of the town, stands a tolerably w all executed model ofthe Temple of Th s- eus at Athens; the design is copit d with much fidelity,- butth Inkerire n _ freestone is imworthY of comparis with marble from Mount Pentelicu . from a distance this bitilding. like tl e origioal • of. Athens, appears perfect ; but front a neer Tiew, day -light can le seen through the hole a .cannon-sh t has• made in. the ,uPper angle of t e pediment. One 'column has been struc at the base, iind the -pavement spl away from it ; another has received ruel blow in the • middle of the .shaft ; and the soft stone has split into fra,e- ments, lettering only one thir4- of th tiameter of the column to support thi portion of the messive 'entablatur. The building, which was a church, ha received many lees significant bu sever e blows. Not a vestage of th covering or any •part of the interne wood-woik remains, and where the \roo rested upon the walls'--tvild flowers ay growing. 1 made my way towards th building through the enclosures ir which it stands,- knee-deep in weeds my e footsteps embarassed by hiddei ones, the ruins of the 411 which n eted ground aad present, ed grandeur. • escattchcons, ing holes, o • 1 longer sequesters the negl $trept after eb-eeet the, gr tae same 'aspect .of raii Broken pillars', defaced Walls •pierced with 'gap deeplyout into. with -artillery ; these things are never out of sight L-Fronz the -Levalit; the Black S'ea aitd the. Dan- ube. • SEEING THE HEART A.ND" LUNGS OF LIVING MAN -A man 'named Jack 'Stead, who had been shot by an Indian, was brought recently to, a hospital in San Francisco, being bonsidered almost incurable,- and it 'W118 there concluded best to cut the man open and take, a look inside of hitu. He, was placed un- der the influence of cheloform, and an incision of :tix or•Seven.inches in length Made-tht ough. his left side, through the eevity containing the heart and langs. Looking through this incision, when it was helciopen, the heart could be plain- ly seep. The lungs could also be di -S- ting* seen, and the left one was found to be cola,psed,_.flat and dead -he waF.1 only 'breathing by aid of the left lung. Oneofhis ribs'rwas found to be shatter- ed, and a section some three inches length was cut out of it, leaving ;the the envelope,.and bad•metal plates made .1 . EXPOSITOR. Thteving Some persons haft an irresistible._ des sire to steal, without any Other of insan- ity- Gall says that the first ICing of Sweden was always stealii g . Instances are mentioned. of a German who was constantly pilfering ; and of another who, having the desire to steal, entered the army, hoping the severe ca ciplme there would restrain him. But he ga-ve way to the ' propensity . even there, and was very nigh being bane'. He then became a friar, with the same. hope : but be still felt the sa,me desire. and carried all the things he could to his Cell : but as he could only get trifles, he was not noticed, Gall also mentiens that a person at Vienna, in the habit of stealing, hired a lodging in which to deposit his thefts : and, when. he got a stOck he sold them. He stole only hauseheld matters. The wife Of a, cele- brated Physican at Leyden never went into a shop to 'buy anything without stealing ; and a countess at 'Frankfort had the saniepropensity. Another lady, notwithstanding' all the care with which she had been brought up had the same desire to pilfer. You will find it re- lated of a phyeican that his -wife was always obliged to search hie pockets. in the evening and restore to his- patients the things she found there. He always took something as well as his fee. Meritz epeaks of a criminal 'who, at the moment he was about to be executed, Stole the confessor's snuff box. Dr. Burner, who was on.e of the physicans to the king of Barvaria, speaks of a person who enjoyed attendance, and -had been Well educated,' • but -who,- nOtwithstanding, was always stealing s • a )(.1 was made a Soldier by his father, and at last got hanged. The son of a celebrated .and learned man -himself --Very clever and respectible connected - in every respect -could not resist his propensity ; and I could go on to furn- ish instances without -end ofindividuals who acted thus (as. it would appear) fienainsanity ; not from any criminal motives, but from a blind desire too stong for them to resist. • Death -Dealing Invention. A Tennessee mechanic has invented -Kn. instrument of warefare whiele if it does half that is claimed fel. it, will prove more destructive than the needle - gun. It consists of a °range of guns of 0.76 before, and about four inches long, mounted on a caa-riage of very simple structure, to be hauled by one horse. The'width of the carriage Letaveen. the wheels is six feet. The gun barrels -- twelve ininumber-are ranged appar- ently parallel, but divergent, so that at three hundred yards alistant the twelve bullets sweep e line of about thirty feet. They are ranged. at equal distances from each other, dxcept in the middle, where their is a -space of ten inches,in. whichis placed a telest,ope of considerable power, and a nice arangement for adjusting the guns in taking.aim. .This contrivance enables the operator to send a bullet theoegh the bull's eye at sixteen hun- dred yards nine times •out of ten. The tobee or barrels tt.ie loaded at the breach and are conected by a rod attach-, ed to a crank; one turn of which leper and shuts all the ereech pieces and loads the gun. • They are made ready for -fir- ing by another turn of the -crank. The whole cartridge is combustible, and leaves nothing behind. The bullet can ite flied a distance of three milee, two th ousand yards, wit h accuracy. Fierty-seven out of sixty shots filed struck a target four feet higle at a dis- t f fifteen ce o -been hundred .y0,rds. The inttentor is confident that at the dist- ance of a mile and a halflae could shoot down a whole regiment of men in four minute's time; the invention weighs 500 miinds and is intended to be hauled by one horse, and Work by two men,. one to driVe and the other to operate. The loading of the apparatus is so ar- tanged that it can be destroyed in a moment, when the other part of the deadly engine becomes perfectly useless. One ofthem can be finished off coni plete, with horse, &c. for $1,000. The contrixence is at once to be submitted to the War Deeartment. .7 • THE INVENTOR OF ENVELOPES. -A1)011 -t forty years ago there lived at Brighton a bookseller and statiener of the name of S. 1C.. Brewer, andhe used to place in his shopwindow piles of paper, begin- ning at the largest up to °the small- est size, 16mo, but to finish' off the pile he cut cards so as to bring them tip to a point, Laides used to go in ard ask for that " dear litile paper," °Which in- 'cluced him. to cut paper in small sizes. Then came the dificulty of the place for address; and the result was he invented ends smooth. Several pieces of splin- for cutting thein to shape and sizes. tered bones were taken out of his chest, .this just pleased the ladies, and orders and -weber or some other liquid 'vas came to him for the little paper and en - then pouted into the cavity of his chest, velopes fronrall portal This? at length agitated therein, and afterwaids turned became such a demand upon his time, mit, When the incinion was sewed upthat he got Dobbs and Co., of London, The man was kept half an hour under to make them for him. , Such was the,. the influence of choloforna. It was not beginning of the envelope trade. - supposed he could recover. a 112...- TAKE NOTIC THAT JOHN HALDAN;t.os been appointed Official Assignee for th k 1 County of Huron. Office at SEAFORT11,-J. S.' PoR0-iaes. Office at GODARICH,.--Pirectlyoliksite the Post Office. - 1 • Goclerich, March 5the 1868. '13-tf. <142.-- • - .04 Zi• C=i1 k'sJ ta-t 0 WALL PAPER, WALL' PAPR JUST RECEIVED, AND FOR SALE 0 E • A Fresh Stock of Wall Pae. Also a splendid. assortment of I • FAMILY AND 15,061tEi‘ TESTAMENTS, • PRAYER BOOKS, - &HVi A CHEAP EDITION 'OF THE Byron, Bums, Scott, • Shakespeare, &c., &c. -2 CI -10,01J 13 0 CDTCO„ •SLATES, • PENS, INK, • PAPER, • COPY BOAS, At LTTIVISDEN'S Corner Drug St4re. Seaforth. Jan. 8. 534 ONTARIO HOUS The oldest in the trade, and the onlY eral Stock in Seaforth. FRESH TEAS & NEW FR LOT. GROCERIES OF Ail:KINDS. A WELL SELECTED STOCk OF CROCKERY & LAMRS. WA general stock of liardw.are id • Glass. . A fine lot of HATS & CAP. ALSO DRY GOOD8 Staple and Fancy, -suitable for All seas qs manneis, BinnIcets, and Buffalo Rohm Dealer in all kinds of Produce. EDWARD CASH, Gederich Street, Seafostie Seaforth, Dec. 14, 1868. 63-lyt • INDIA cfi.:- CHINA t1E4. COMPANY, ..--........,. Home Depots, London aid, Liverroil Can. ada Depot, 23 gospit 1 Street, Montreal IX 0.-OL1) MEDALSI! have /XXIII obtain - cd at the Pa,ris L1lLIthon for TEASfrom India, an,/ Not vie prize f a lorreeavitrin'in.a. tiOn. .(Vide "The Groc ," 24th August, '67 The Company import 1.these Teas - direct from' their Plantations n Assarn and the DE.I. RA DIIOGNS,- and sell them in Packets and 'Oannisters through t mir Agente in every City and -Town in. Canad . Only t1.0 qual- ities, "Viz. 10e. awl one d ir per ib.; either 'Black, da Green, or Mixed. gent for ei_aftforth. MR JOHN SE:131'ER. ' Obser -c the Trade Mailk. February 6th, 1868. .-- i9-ly Gold Medal, London, I 1, 32, Paris, 1867. THEOWE 'EW' VACHINES5 ) - . For Families •and le aamfacturers, • L. G MEN --N-TO. 3, Rossin House B etti ,AVest, Toronto, and 0- St. ,th_arinee. Branch N. -WATSON. IkTHE HOWE LOC LETTER, A -Family .1 achine. LETTER B-Pamily a id Manufacturing Machine. ock, King • Street Si-. Paurs Street, gency for Seaforth STITCH. LETTER - 0 -Best Le ther . and. Cloth Alanufa,Auring Machine. : LETTER, E -or Cylin er Alechine. for Harness making, Boot ai -I Shoe- Fitiiegs, and Saddlery Work wheere the- form of Che work ineet be retained 11 ile Stitching-, is the most comiilete and per .c.t i -la the world. T.IIESE WORLD .8E3' Jr_ATED SE lr- /-.2A-G AtAaIIIIY7,-,TS were al arded the High- est Pi emium. at the World' Fair in London, 1836627: and Gold Medal at axis Exposition, • They are celebrated .fo doing the best - work, using a much small er needle for the same thread than any other machine, and b,y thelintrodaction of the in st improved. ma- chinery, we are now able to supply the very .: best machines in the world THE QUALITIES' lir UCH, REC:031- 21,11._VD THEM ARE : 1. Beauty and Ex- cellency of Stitch, alike bee% sides of the fabric sewed. • 2. SU ngth, Firmness and Durability of Seam t at -Ted not Rip or Ravel. • 3. Economy of ehreag. • 4, At- tachments and wide range of application to purposes and 'materials. The abeve e,ahbe had at e Branch Office m Seaforth, from W. .N- W..te-sOes. ' • 1-1-1uo is also Agent fo.i. the 'celebrated , S 1/71,4.YZEIZ SBIFL.VG _AfA IIIINES, which 1 for •faciliy- tof managemen , neatness and durability of stite i, and wir1 e range of seams and innivalled as a Family 4'eWillg Maga:43:1e. Thread, ilk, Twi.st, Sh Ales, Bobbin; Needles, Sprins, Oil, audj all me,,chine ap- . plianees for sale at the Bra, ch Office at Sea- ,k)apirriledl.'6th . 1868 .. 1AT NWA. orth, where machines in 7 be neatly re-, :. SON, Seaforth 1- . lOsly. GUELPH ELOD ON AND CAS FACT• OR BELL, WOOD OULD intimate to. th Dominion that they lodeons and Cabinet Organs on the continent, at prices a, • any other good maker. The tion and challenge coraparis firm are practical Melodeon Mr. Wood has worked as the best faetories of Canada States. His tuning hag inva 'first prize 'Wherever exhibit locl.eons are all Piano styled, anid durable than the portabl All instruments are war -years. -Perfect satisfaction lustrated Catalogues contain' from a great number of.celeb sent free on application. FIRST-CLASS PIANOS Factory- and Ware -rooms Square, Guelph. W241. BELL, • H. B. WOOD,• J. . WILKIE, January 16.. 1868. Co, • public of the anufacture Uperier to any low as those of , defy conipeti- m. All of the -fakers. head turner for nd the United iably taken the d. Their Me- -. )eing more firm style. anted for five aranteed. • 11- g testimonials ated musicians OR SALE. East Market . t. W. BELL; . MeLEOD. ent, Clinton. 6-1 y REDUCTION IN LOU111 SEAFORTH 'ILLS. MITE Sdbscribers are now p epared. tosup- . ply thO inhabitants .$)f ekaforth with FL.UR tk :FEED! • AT REDUCED R1ATE$. •.ORDERS 1.;EPT AT erte MILL • OF ICE, Or at W. Scott Robe EMI'S Itaii4n. Warehouse will have ieanaediate attentiorj, 'and be de- liverea at the residence of the party. V. A. Shear46 &c9 a Seaforth, Dec. 2nd 1868. 2-3m. a -a At Leetko ho 14114 be en' ben, - received -with the tat -o • hall of the •angle, ninth • 3.4r1iiertq in- s prisoners were that the eittn. 15.-- -caused t sv.ozilistIrrottbi,t; r• .„-t!.e.eiryti soto 11;o: sere nu of - 7and howling , ie had receiye t'k;iity'-fivo 1. twel ve striike the cat. For • he teas perfect itud firmly Nva brought to thc fr • 4liki he groan besk.tringly, 811tt of bus att to his cjL 11 me full of fear e _ hen -Tits . Solomon Bohii to the ordeal 4in to put Oit Though the Was infinitely Ile never ttttet • stroke to the 1; The uituqnit • sPecimine Of ti) abut three a.. • Adis:teetered by of t -e,tali‘,11e ,nnN'tlefile:Otzh * It was bieW1ri • then. hollow has engraves! 'ofist8aligioTi.l.:' a e the 'Iattstr giass head, be wbo h\ ed ab numente tart. then thie. •On the e which. belong I, who reign. •--figures of gl stioilenen.i.to.‘itiTat:en,; tlrdwings of bl •7containing red tlit)ioliiine:_ at .sntocipibil iil, • here must Ix eonsequenee' 'Whieh tithe ea the glasi-Vie :and scene •produtti •ltutlae insa*me traue: _found :‘no rnit • specimen of t served, eIt by one41i-4cl i in thickness, *bird resembliri • and varied ,6151 • mThe Most titre xt-iiater greater` sharpn ball or the- -Wings." Themost' 'is that the pif glass, so that - figures. Ti been mad s wa of colored an a manner as t fgure at eae threads weie • thread. being 1. ar ef glass ti to horizontal course eoitai cases of snnk 1ui1yti acco:4 fin its maiml int-ecorveseting r,iint • PoBAiLi the returils of marriage o Slightly- supe and ineompa a widow oft lapse a y probabilitie8 • being for seven; fora and for a-wid flow of the -the spinster of five to one, -ber mystieallt live reaslinest a ee of atul hes 11