HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Expositor, 1869-07-02, Page 4,
''..
•
rr
a
•
4
BUIS as Instruments of iduslo for
• W01.81111).
In Russia the bell is an instrument
of music for the Worship of GOde as
truly and -really as is the organ in any
other country. This fact is not men-
tioned in the faccounts we have Of the
wonderful, eiiermous and almost incre-
dibly heavy bells that have beeu cast
in Moscow ; but it is the key to , what
it would otherwise be', difficult to ex-
plain, It' appears bound to cast, bells
so large is to be next to impossillae for
-convenient use -u1 danger always of fal-
ling and dragging others to rein_in
their fall. But when the ;.beli a
means' of conunimion with the Infinite,
and the worship of a.people and empire
• .finds expression in. the majestic ! tones
of a bell, it ceases to be a wonder that
a bell should .fiave'a tongue which re-
quires twenty -tour men te move,- and
whose music e should send a thrill of
praise into every house in -the city, and
float away beyond the river in the
plains afar. e
Moscow is the holy city ofthe Greek
Church. Pilgrims ., come ,hither from
thousands of Miles- off and on foot, and
sometimes without shoes, I have seen
them, with staves in their halide and
travel -worn feet, bound up in eloths,
wending their way to the sacred hills.
And when they draw, nigh unto the ci-
ty, and on the evening air the music of,
• thee -bells is borne to their ears, ithey-
fall
upon their faces prostrate and wor-
ship God. If they couldigo no further
they 'would be contented to dip there,
for they have heard the bells of 111.0s-
cowaand on their majestic tones their
souls have been taken up to heaven !
This' is the sentiment of superetitions
peasants, and it is a beautiful send-
ment–eicleal indeed, but all the -more
delicate and exhalted.
. _
As long as fife hundred year ago,
this casting of bells wae.ans art ii Rus-
sia. It is one' of the fine arts now-.
Perhaps our great bell founders, the
. i
Meneelys, will not admit t at the
founders there ha,ve any more s ill in
--their manufacture than we have, and I
am not sure that their bells have any
tones more:exquisite then our.; would.
have if we would pat as muck silver
and gold into our bell metal as they do.
But so long aS the precious metas are
at their present premium, little or none
of them will find its way into our
church bells. We have not the mista-
ken idea of the,liussians as to tie use
of a bell. We use it to call trht peo-
ple to the house of worship.
At the foot of the Ivan Tower, in the
Kremlin • of Moscow, supporte by a
pedestal of stone, is the larges that
ever was in the world. A piece is bro-
ken out a fr
its side and the-ain
g eitt, is
_lying near. The breadth of the
bell is
so great—it is twenty feet across—that
s,
the cavity underneath has been used as
e• can
a' chapel, where as many tpeop
stand as in a cireIe sixty feetlaro
This one great bell is thd gro
centeries. • In 1553 it was ,e.
weighed only 86,000 pounds.
in a fire, was recast in 1654, b
• creasei to the aStorrishing wei
288,000 pounds. This was too vast a,
weight to be taken up,to the top of the
tower, and was sustainect by a frame at
the top of it. In t700 it fell in anoth-
er fire and was broken into fragments,
about
.1783,
e was
it has
ncf,
th of
,:and
t fell
a in -
'ht of.
• •
which lay there on the ground.
thirty years.. If was recast ix
and. fon, years afterwards a pie
knociced out of the side of it, an
been standing here on the ground more
than hall a. century: It weighs 444,-
000 pounds ! In the thickestirfai
,two feet through. It, .has relief pic-
cares on it of the Eiliperor anrrl Em-
press, of the Sa-viour and the Virgin
Mary' and the evangelists.
Ascending the Ivan Tower, We finct
.
on three successive stories, bells..to the
number of thirty-four. Some of these
ale of a size to fill one - with astonish-
ment had he not seen the giant, below.
the largest is on the first storyl above
the chapel, snd weighs more thaa sixty
tons. It swings freely and is easily
rang. I smote it with the nal4. of my
.hand, supposing that such a blolv could
not produce the slightest -vibration in
such a mighty mass of iron, butlit rung
out as clear and startling as if a spirit
within.' had fespondrd, to my knock
without. TWO bells are of solid: silvbr,
and their tones are exquisitaly soft,
liq-uid and pure. It was exciting to
go from •one to another and strike
them with their tongues or With the
hand, and catch the variety and rich,
Less of their several melodies.
trH StIAFORTTI tXPOSITOR,
steeling in with the setting sun upon
the crowded town. It is the eve of one
of the -most holy festivals of the Church.
One vast Church edifice is directly in
view of roy window -and but a short
way off. As I he musing, from the
church • at hand cc nvs the softest,
sweetest tone of an evening bell. ,An-
,
other tone responds A third is heard
The Ivan Tower on the height of the
Kremlin utters his tremendous voice,
like the voice of .many waters.' And
all the churches and towers over the
whole city, four hundred bells and more,
in concert, in harmony " with noths
almost divine," lift up their voices in
an anthem of praise, such as I • never
thought to • hear with mortal ,ears;
waves of melody, and ocean of music,
deep, rolling, heaving, changing, swel-
ling, sinking, raising, sounding, over-
whelmini exalting. I hadi beard. the
e
great organs of Europe, but they •-were
tame and trifling compared with this.
The anthem of nature at Niagara is fa-
miliar to my ear, but the thunder is
one great monotone. The MUM of
Moscow's bells is above and beyond
them all.
Meetly Revelations.
A somewhat ghastly incident has
catised,considera,ble eicitement in Ma-
drid within the last fe weeks. • With-
in
cier a few hundred yar s of the new Pla-
zo de Dos Mayo, ina igurated on ,the
2nd of this month, t iere is a locality
caMed the Ci:us del Q emadero. It is
field some three huud E d metres square
at the top of the Call Aricha de San
Bernardo, near the ho ;pital built by the
ex -Queen. Through t a. new road was
lately opened, and as the ground was
elevated, e, cutting of c nsiderable depth
had to be dug'llhe workmen laid
bare several peculiar Ihorizontal strati
pf irre,e,fular tormationl One was one
hundred and fifty f( et in length, an-
other fifty, another teii. The thickness
varied front eight to e ghty centimetres.
in coloi the soil was lack, the lower
e k.er than the su-
mps of charred
terspersed with
•emains of some
as soon excited,
Ons demonstrat-
hese ugly looking
upon small piec-
hich yielded, like
Iron rings were
ones, a _cranium,
ving belonged to
ese were more or
the iron was par-
xture of bone in -
was' plainly dis-
turned up. The
hese lugubrious
d - at once. The,
Quemaciero was
iquisition clispos-
strata b
pe *sir
g much bia
s.
11 xamination 1
wood teh found
es es, e idently the
hue fige.1 Curiosity
hi investiga
in portions of
he finger cam
pose matter,
o !the touch.
• • human
uft ohair, , h
ale. All t
red. • Some o
sed and the
and fiir
ed that
strata.,
es of ad
butter
grub ted
a ]iolig
some fe
less cha
tially f
termineiledwith sand
cernible. A gag, too
question, what were
records I was answer
field of the Cruz del
the place where the I
posed ef, some of iijs victims. Here
were the ighastly proots of the horrors
of which this place ha
suddenly brought to
lapse of two centuries.
May, 1689, eighty -t
eluding twenty lIebr
were women, -weee i
svery spot.' The pile
ty feet in length by s
.A. great concourse w
da je, and the, horrib
pleted, thepeople bu
of their ; vietims nu
eartiell These irresed
d been the scend,
light after. the
On the 12th of
ree heretics, in-
ws, of whom five
nmolated on this
f wood was eigh-
ven feet in height.
inessed the adto'
ce; e monial cornied the remains
ter cart -loads of
r, geological stra-
the silent testi-
% perpetrated on
o of religion and
at of one your
hooked out with
• The chapel below -is dedicated to the
patron saint of all ladies about to be
married, and it may be readily -believed
ithat the bell that gives expression to
their prayers will have,. at least to
their ears, the sweetest tones of all the
• bells m Moscow.
, 1 had to dome down from the ICrem-
lirt to ray lodgings at Billott's, and,
wearied with the wandering of the day,
tp. are naught else bu
mony to the atrociti
the spot in the •nee
Catholic Unity."
special cerresponden
lus own finger one e tire bone of a hu-
man vertebral colum 1, a portion of the
tibia, a fragment of a shoulder blade
with a hole throug
rib all baring
ethe in
wards of two cart -lo
this sort have been
decently buried. 13
strata! They may
•own tale and in.stru
it, and a bit of_a
arks of fire. Up
ids of -remains of
carried away and
ut toese horrible
eraain to tell their
et the present ge-
neration, On the 13th a poblic meet-
ing was convened, to be held at the
,Quernadero, by the Republican youth
at Madrid, to prote4t against priestly
intolerance and to advocate freedom or
conscionae. , That this .discovery should
have beenniade at a'neoment when the
Spa,nishalergy are striving theirutmost
toaffirm the " unity of the Roman
CatholiciChurch," and. are preaching in
the churches of the inetropolis against
heresy, is a striking coincidence.
-; The Quemadero is so frequented by
people inTsearch of relics, and the ex-
plorations of these straea have been so
extensive, that the authorities have
barred the frontage off, and prohibited
access. It is their intention to cut a
square block, and there erect a mo -
Ailment. It is estimated by Lloriente,
Ole great historian.' of the Inquisition,
that this atrocious tribunal has depri-
Ved. Span of twelve millions of souls,
was lying on. the bed and looking out 1iciud ng tue Moors and Jews expel -
ow the -city. It is just before sunset I led from the .country. Thirty-one
and theday has been. oppressively 1 thousand and ninty-two perished by
warm. A delicious glow from the gor- t tire, 17,659 were first' butchered and
geous west is bathing all the domes and 1 then burned, 221,985 died of torture.
roofs in splendid colors, and silence is - Total, 270,736.—Loudon Star.
Throwing the Wedding Shoe.
The brother of a childless lualf,was
bound to marry his widow, or, at least
he had the refusal Of her, and she
could not 'marry again until her late
husband's broth( r bad formally rej :cted
her. The ceremony by which this re-
jection was performed took place in
public, and is mentioned ia Deuter-
onomy xxxv. -5-10. If the brother re-
fused her, she was obliged to loose
his shoe from off his foot, and spit in
his face,' or, as borne Habraists trans-
late it, spit before his face. His giv-
ing up the -shoe was a symbol that he
abandoned all dominion over her ; and
her spitting before him was a defiancy
and an assertion of independence. This
practice is still further illustrated by
the story of Ruth, whose nearest kins-
man refused to marry her, and to le -
deem her inheritance. He was, there-
fore, publicly called upon to do so by
Boaz, and he publicly refused. The
Bible add, 'as it was the custom
Israel concerning changing, that a man
plucked off his shoe and delivered it
to his neighbour,' the kinsman pluck-
ed off his shoe and delivered it to Bo-
az as a renunciation of Ruth, and of
the right ,isf marriage to her. These
ceremonies were evidently not unknown
to the early Christians for when the
Emperor Walclimir made proposals of
marriage to the •daughter of Ragnald,
she , refused him, saying that she
would not take off her shoe to the son
of a slave. Gregory of Tours, Iwriting
of espousals, says : The bfidegroom
having given a ring to the fiance, pre-
sents her with a shoe.' Mitchelet in
his Life of Luther,' says that the
reformer was at the wedding of Jean
Luffte ; and after supper he conduct-
ed the wife to bed. •He then told
the bridegroom that, according to com-
mon custom, he &gilt to be master
in his own house when his wife was
not there; and for a symbol he teok
off the husbands shoe and put it up-
on the head of the bed, 'afin
prit ainsi la domination et gouvern-
ment.' In some parts- of the East it
was an early custom to carry a slipper
before a newly -married couple as a
token of the bride's subjection to her
husband. At a Jewish wedding at
Rabat the bridegroom struck the bride
with his slipper as a sign of his auth-
mity and supepaccy. It has long been
a custom in England, Scotland, and
elsewhere to •throw an old shoe over
or at a bride and bridegroom upon their
leaving the church or parental home
after their wedding. Sometimes it is
thrown when they start for the church,
and occasionally the shoe. is taken
from the left, foot, Theo usual saying.
is that it is thrown for luck; but
possibly it originally was meant to
be a sign of the renunciation of domi-
trio-n and authority over the -bride by
her father or guardian. - One author,
hoe ever, suggests that the hurling of
a shoe- was first intended to be a
sham assault on the person cart -lying
off the woman, and is a relic of/ the
old 'custom of opposition to the capture
of a bride —The, Wedclinig Day in all
Ages and Countries. By Edward J.
Wood.
•
The Largest Elephant in the World.
The elephant Empress, formerly the
property of the Emperor Alexander, of
Russia, arrived, at New York on Mon-
day by the Holsatia, from Ilanabui'g.
She is about twenty years old, and
stands twelve feet and a half high. At
an eaily hour the Ilambure Steamer
dock at Roboxen was crowded with an
eager throng, who waited paitently for
the enormous animal to come forth.
At last came the Empress slowly and
deliberately, ; turning sharp at the
gang-planka .she suddenly gave a snoTt
and a roar that sounded like dist nt
thunder, and seemed disposed to make
trouble. • The keeper sprang ahead,
and, in the Most endeaiing manner
persuaded her highness to descend.
The ship almost careened as she ad-
va,nced a little more to the side, and
one huge foot, like a pillar of the Cus-
tom House, rested on the gang -plank.
There was something absolutely touch-
ing in the way the gigantic beast would
reach forth her trinak and put it around
the keeper, who -would pat it; and
again invite the Empress to come on
and not be afraid. The huge animal
slowly descended, the crowd parting
silently as she advanced. When she
reached the dock the people cheered
•loudly, and the keeper put his arms
around her trunk, and kissed it with
delight. As for her Highness, she
trumpeted out her pleasure in a series
of vvhiatles and screams. Then ad-
vancing stately up the wharf, and
reaching terra firma once again, she
expressed her satisfaction by taking
dirt in her trunk, and tossing it up on
her back. On reaching the stable pre-
vided for her, the Empress appeared
delighted with her quarters, and -pranc-
ed and whistled, and seemed well pleas-
ed with everybody. After a short
rest, Her Highness. will accept
freedom of the Central Park, Tendered
by Andrew . A. Green, Esq-, for the
Commissioners, and on and after Fri-
day will be happy- to receive her'fliends
near the Mall.
YOU WANT A
P LA) H I
GET- A
1
"Vietor" or Improved "Yocum."
Steel 'Mouldboard,
• From JOHNSON Bud
TAKE NOTICE
THAT JOHN HA IJDAN, ", has been
appointed Official Assignee for the County
of }broil.
Office at SEAFORTII,—J. S. PORTED'S.
Office at GODERICR,--Directly opposite the
Post Office.
Goderich, March 5th, 1868. 13-tf.
MILLINERY!
DRESS, A.N.13
1MANTL MAKING..
wiNTOSH
1811ES to announce to the ladies of
Seaforth and. vicinity, that she is pre-
pared to execute*ali orders with neatness and
despatch, and in the latest style and fashion
of the season,
From her experience in the a.bovebusiness,
she hopes, by unremitting attention to the
wants ancl tastes of those who may favor her
With a call, to merit a liberal share of public
patronage.
114VROOMS over Corby's Store. Entrance
Second Door North: of the Telegraph Office.
Seaforth, April 2, 1869. 69-3m.
"CANADA WAREHOUSE)"
In Scott's Brick, Block,
SEAFORTH.
THE subscriber has received his first in -
t Ita
Si;iiiic4NG GOO. DS
LADIES & MISSES'
Brown, Black, Colored and. White
SUNDOWNS.
GENTLEMEN'S
Straw, Canton, Panama, Felt, All -Wool
• and Merino .
HATS!
Decided Bargains in Union, All-WOol and
BRUSSELS .CARPETS.
• Also some very choice Gunpowder, and.
331.a.ACK
• Sugars, Syrups, Coal Oil, &c.
CLOVER AND TIMONTHY SEEDS.
A large stock of BOOTS & SHOES ex-
pected in a few days:
WHighest price paid. for Butter, Eggs. &c.
ARCHICALD DipPOTJGALL.
Seaforth, April, 1869. 53-ly
300 KEGS
• JAMES'
NO I AND GENUINE.
BEST QUALITY
LINSEED .
WILED AND RAW.
TURPENTINE,
•*BENZINE,
VARNISHES,
GLASS,
PUTTY, &c„
At Johnson Bro's.
Seaforth, April 9th.
70
SEAFORTH MILLS!
SEED STORE!
THE undersigned have just received
IMPORTED DIRECT,
1,000 LBS.
• SKIRMING'S IMPROVED PURPLE -TOP
SWEDE,
A quantity of Early
*"GQ 144)
T. X.. SIMONS
FRUIT OYSTER
- 0 T
•
For Fresh Oyster, Sardines, Lobsters,
Cakes, and Sweets of every'detexiption.
GALT, AND gEE
His Fresh Stock .1' !
Opposite McCANN'S Old Stand.
Saforth, Feb. 12, 1869. 63-4 r
• More of Those
12 Dollar Suits!
AT
GLE *6HO'RN' S,
ALSO
A Choice' Selection of Silk -mixed and
West of England
t W E -E D S 1
T
ASTONISHINGLT _LOW PRICES..
PS.•
.that itave been run for a- short
—A few Sewing Machines ler Sale
time. Just the th,no for Tailors or Dress=
makers. Call and see them working.
Seaforth, March 18,
• • :dr SIM
SP
-GOODERICH POTATOES;
Also a fresh stock of
GARDEN
AND
=AQRICULTURAL SEEDS.
Will have el:instantly oii hand a choice se-
lectionio wer and other.
BEDDING PLANTS.
SBORNE'S GRANULATED WHEAT
possesses all the qualities of Farina and
Oatnieal, for Porridge. '
W.A. She4rson &Col
-
Seaforth, May 211 • 52-1y.
'grOodsis
• CHEAP PRINTS,
DRESS GOOD&
MUSLINS,
TIC*INGS,
SWRTINGS,
LA
IES' STRAW HATS,.
GEA TS
CC
1GENTS FELT
Ready -Made Clothing,
:BOTS $t SHOES.
• Also ea Nice- Stock of
refsh Groeries.
To be had at
Bonthron & Sons,.
Opposite Hickson's Old Stand.
-
Seaforth, May 7- 52--tf
J. SEATTER
EXGEIANGE BROKER t
And dealer :in Pure
•
DRUGS, CHEMICALS & DYE STUFFS.,
The Drug Department is under the Special
care of ap experienced Chemist,
1 R. M. PEARSON:
January !21st, 1869. -v9-.11e •
HOS. BEL,L.
CABMET&CHAIRMAKER
UNDERTAKER &c.
A Large Stock.
05
A LL kinds of furnitnrekept c0nstant/y-4
hail& consisting of the best varieties-
Krughru.ff's Spring Mattia.sses, Children's
Carriages. Coffins kept constantly on hand:
Work made on the premises.
4111r A Hearse for hire. Wareroom 01)-
pcssite Kidd. &
THOS. BELL
, -
March 24, 1863: -
r I
,
ni5Eziat.
uldas •soon grow
est ps expect a
-wityout the use 01
.wate that many be
blackberry find its
it can, 'end it is pret-
tbat it Will hrive
• no othertfrlit can g
not alter the fat th.
tion on. -121,37 011,1 wh
to the giver -
- oVer sod. over
bas frequently n
• by treatment ox,..st
therethroughoul
-11As watched Vie
them fromthe tim
iting. In nearly
manuring or cnitiva
the crop of fruit was
realized very low.
hand, wherever the'
well inanured and c
ries were larger,
•anti brought a. beta
Hence, we say, it1N
kinds of small fruit
never pay a. 'man to
fertility of the soil.
quantity of stable ()-
let hint s.pply. br
OT as a mu
during the winter ;
*scarce or dear ether
used. All fortilizer
are splendidthen
• of aotash dissolved
-will make the ranne
Wood -ashes unleac
doubt, the very -best
ure to be'found.
ie instance of this
ninnber of ruin
parent plant happen
as field just where
-ashes of a bonfire -
the eummer the ru
than thei_ r paren
have botight up all
find, and eonsidered
per bushel.—Ijoitie
COXPOSITING
;claiin this meth
• ble, but that it
4i.vhi4 are two 4er
-where one; like . m
farm work
tically, inexhaustibl
•,on it. In inatulrin
spring wheat, 1 pr
heap in the Tall an
to be plented or so
winter wheat, -or,
the compost hea
spring-. A spun
may be made s
swer for Indian ze
• not for spring evith a.
a load of barn-yaid
• to start a heap ; upo
of muck, upon thkt
two barrels of utti.ea
• on that a..other lo
order I repeat *gen
the heap is the deals
is left flat to -catch
load af: yard inanui
when thu.s eompes
rience and my soil
satifactory than if t
nsanure Were • use
ashes come in eon
'nuick at wher
are produced. It
s'iovel -over these
but in the vv* ter
done, and is alws.
pense. I only
-wanted, and let th.e
ing, the spreading
• the mixing. The r
satisfactory I have
upon the metb.od.
-observe here that, th
pl ow e d ander, but a
face, and as thorot
-commingled with t
will do it. Appli
should be bushed
spreading; rains wi
Where one has a
eilities for catchin
;male, and hogs to d
. workingover, in
.doubtless be made
• ic the barn or ysr
tbe aninsal exrerae
•or time te time, as
above oiverf comme
peciallmy where such
not at hand, or will
especially, NYhere
-.of the proprietor is
-possible. The Mlle
tains all the anamon
ied ashes am benefi
Clan one. While
manures, I will 01
-very velua,ble
soften overlooked in
aninaal dies, it is m
to sense outesf-the-
there to dewy and
If Cut up and inixe
and dry niuck, it
the house or baa -n,
'the -nasal organ a.
of Its presence, a
VIM/Mee Tieh
iilise inJ
•
•
•