The Expositor, 1869-08-27, Page 2t
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THE SEAFORTH
EXPOSITOR.
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The Ofilcial Paper of the
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 266,
869.
TO OUR PATRONS,
Without any previous intimation,
we this week erdaege the Eposttpr one
fourth, making it The Largest Pa er in
the County of Huron. Tnis improve-
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ment will be a permanency, or at least
it will be eontinued till such time as
we enlarge the paper ittelf. We thank
tour patrons for coaferring that . support
upon (iur efforts, to produce a 'good
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Paper, which -warrants us in niaking this
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and ! to -ensure further imijroernent.
ask hut the same for the fut e, as we
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hay& received in the past i ii. the time
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EXPOSITOR, rfeW _papers ever lived,.
againet which such a weight of, preju-
dice , existed ; and though we have held
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the position, as yet scarcely nine months,
without being ellarged with 'egotisiti,
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we believe we can truthfully- say, few
country- papers in the province are
moie highly respected, have warmer
friends, and, more of them, than this
same. Our policy has been,. is, and,
will ever be, sat forth ine the inotto,
Freedom in Trade, Liberty in Reli-
gion, Equality in Civil R•iglits:"` Bee
lieving that in seeking the ends, to'the
uterrcost, involved in this, will be ac-
compliehed, that, which is' the noblest
undertaking of !very citizen, we deter-
mine to spare nothing coming between
us and that, and respect no institution
interrupting, the carrying out of a jiist
principle, whatever be the honer paid
it by other men, or the -prestige- it may
have,gained by the prejudics of its vo-
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BANK AM.ALGAMATION-
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It is well known that the Gore Bank
has 4r some time rated about as low as
a Bend vary well could. The manage-
ment, in itself perhaps was faultless, or
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as neatly -so as that Of aan.yother similar
institution, but the cpit'al was very
limit ii, and the business likewise, 'fol.
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that eaiiin. •.
Le, ly, how it could get over its diffi-
cultier and take a -position somothing
near on a par with other Banks, has se-
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riously flIngaged the attention of its
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managers. At length an arrangement
to amialtiamate with the Bank of Com-
merce has been made, subject only to
the a probation of the stockholders of
each talk. The arraneement is ome-
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thing n this wise : The etockholders of
the G)ore are to receive shares of the
Bank of Commerce fcr a certain per
centage of their Gore stock, and that
per centage is considerably more than
the present market value, of the stock.
We hopetto see the union a mutual.-
ly ben efieial one. The Gore S toekholders
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. will obtain the full.valueof their stock,
in thel stock of a Bank at par, that is
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now at a largepremiuna, and has a rest
of $100,000. All the capital of the
Gore will remain- in the hannels where
it heretofore has, been ei ployed, with
much moee added, and the saving ef-
fected in expenses of inanagement by -
the amalgamation will be a profit of itself.
Moreover, the stockholders of the Gore
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will have the setisfadtion of being tmit-
ed with one of the most prtidently -con-
ducted and Most successful Banke in
Canada, . The stockholders of the Ban.k
of Conainerce, on the other hand, will
acquire an excllent body of shatehold-
ers and customers who will bring lew
strength to their already' prospeeous
concern.
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PRINCE EDWARD ISLAN.U.
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Sir John A. McDonald has eft for
•Pi ince &heard Ldaud, Ieavn nly the
Hon. 11..angevin at Ottawa to nanage
Government affitirs. a The Ho - S. S.
,Tilley and Mr. Kenney have eeii at
Prince) Edward Island for sone time
and will; no. doubt, when joined by Sir
John A:, at once attempt the pacifiica-
don of the plucky isla,nders.
From the tone of the leading erten, it
would seem that pacification is quite
practiceble., True, there are differencis
of °pillion which require discussion, and
demands which may require some con-
sideration, but nevertheless it is quite
clear shat a 'ood supply of provincial
notes and ai few fat offices: will do a
great deal in the way of ppnoiliatiOn.
What is the exact price that will bei,
paid% we ate not prepared to say.
Knowing, however that Nova Scotia re-
quired, $2,000,000 and I, seat in the
Cabinet to the bargain, we may safely
say, that in the, same ratio. P. E. lisland
must have somewhere about $1,000,000
and a cozey .place. beside Jain A., to
the tune of $5,000 a year., That such
tunes tis those will be granted we have
every reason to fear. Sir John is im-
pressed With the importanee of consoli-
dating the Dominion, and he seems
prepared to do it at any Cost, and as a
matter of course Prince Edward Island
must bo paid her price.. We await the
restilt with curiosity-, for rwe anticipate
that many such violations:of the consti-
tution at that by which Nova Scotia,
was nominally peacified nit* lead lo
serious results,- No man can thus
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wantonly tread on all that is sacred in
the institutions�f a, country with impu-
nity ----unless the country have lost all
respect for their rights. A few weeks
at most will decide the question.
• For the cheapest Boots in
forth according to quality -go to 0
kry's. 87
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WHAT DOES IT -MEAN
What does it metn that the Toronto
Leader is trying to evtite the Hon. S.
Richards out of the Ontario Calenet I
What r was the crime that the Co mis-
stoners of Crown Lands has been sanity
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of that he Ph oul d receive such treat-
ment ftom his friends? We know the
Leader urges the reason of incempe-
tancy, but this is nothing new. Nobody
eiier believed Mr. Richards to be quali-
-fied for the office he holds) and none of
the Acts passed under his manpulations
have given any proof that he ever should
have received , such an' appointment.
From his, first -peerile attempt at fram-
ing a " Milling Law"- down to the last
moment of his life he has neither done
himself or Ontario any honour by his
actions.
Strange the somnolence of Govern-
rrient organs. It is only after a long
sleep like that of Rip yan Winkles
that they awake to' find that something
is wrong. Two years have now elapsed
since the Ontario Government was in-
stalled into office, and all this time the
Lead( r at the seat of Government has
been quite unconscious of any defect in
the Orown Land Commissioner. Per-
haps before another two years elapse it de
may be discovered that the whole Cab-
inet is equally defective and begin lee
advocate and entire change of Govern-
ment. Canada certainly needs a change
b yen should that change involve the
overthrow of the Patent Combination.
"Orthogriephici Vanclatlism."
VNDER this disparaging title whicte
is stupidly used to designate the Spell-
ing Reform Movement) _ the tEu
,Signal attempts to discuss the prome.
ty of the introdurtion of that philoso:
phieal method of representing. the ibrit-
ten and printed words of our langea,ge
known a phonetic spelling. We say
that the -Sigma stupidly misapplies the
term "Vandalism ;" for it is no more
applicable to the Spelling Reform than
it is to those grand discoveries of
,science and improvements in art which
have displaced the defunct nstitutions
of a previous age, whose at ly utility
and importance consist in b Mg relics
to iflustratel the progress. of human so-
ciety; as that reform contem dates only
the stibstitution of a' simple and scien-
tifically . correct systeni-. of spelling
through which the arts of reading a
of the preeent orthography, .and to a FACTS .AND SCRAPS:
tense of self-congratulation at having
lae.tai able to surmount its difficulties
af er 'year e of arduous toil, that we can
at ribute that forgetfulness of the ob-
st cles which have stalked up before us
on our entrance , into the gateway ef
knowledgeand have robbed us of the
tibia and energies which should have
been more profitably spent in acquiring
a knowledge of other 'useful bainehes
of education.—Coes.
The Bank of Montreal has itseed
circular :to the effect that it will ad-
vance mony to produce buyers at 5 per
ri on invesbigasion however it is
easily seen that, this will not be done
until aftei all risk is .removed, and more
than that, not till the money is compar-
nd ativeiy ot little use. No doubt this is
writing are ,easilyi attainable, for t
cumbrous, contradectory and barbarous
mud now in use. ;i Hence the use of the good will alBanle should have.
the term "Vandalism" to designate t
Spelling Reform Movement conveys
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us the idea of being nnadulterateu no
sense. But the Spelling Reform Mov
ment is niot , one that has just Kart
into being, as we are led to infer fro
the eS'iipiars. article ; but has been
existence for about thirty ye 4 Fs, an
ha.s during that period, obtained in i
favor the unqualified verdict- of tho
who rank, aniong the most emine
statesmen, philosophers, and me.n
lettere, from . whom it has reeeive
both aid and encouragement. That ti
movement should have arrived at th
state wheit_ it 'cart excite the silly fea.
for the extinction of our mother tongu
entertained by that pedantry which b
lieves that a thorough knowledge, an
a punctilious observance of a stupi
orthography constitute the ne plus ultr
of learning and politeness, is a sig
that the devoted wish of he SigVa
Editor is not likely to be realized. Ou
present orthoeraphy, like its predece
sors, -is no doubt destined to be draw
under the Juggernaut wheel of huina
progress, and assume its station aroma
the "fossil history"' and "hidden re
ords" of o ur nation's history. .But Wit
-etpect to our learned editor's _Geo
ogical and Archiological argument, w
may say that we have no desire to in
errupt the dignity' of his labors i
ompany with the reverend clignitar
e cites. of disemboweling "the hidden
reasure of 'England's Past and Pre-
ent,' of Roman Invasion, of Scanda-
avian, Saxon and Northern Domina-
ion," nor to disturb their devotional
every over the _relics of a past age ;
ut in the -name of common sense what
as all this to do with a phonetic sys-
em of representing the words of our
anguage, unless upon the assumption
hat its introduction would there the
iiraculous powet of immediately ex-
ertninating evety vestige of the great
hoilglits of men of genius—of consign -
g Ito litter oblivionthe laugnage, as
ell as the typography in which. they
-a "fossilized,',' and of obliterating
very trace of their record and their
eening? Such a stupendous result,
hich our learned friend imagines a
ening indicating the correct pronoun-
ation of a word would introduce, is
hat the most radical changes of pre-
isting orthographies, modifications of
alect, and the extinction of spoken
uguage combined, have never been suf-
ient to effect. Hence his argument
ounts to nothing more than a sysnp-
in of the groundless appreheneions
hich are ever awakened by the mareh
improvement. With respect to
lat the, Signa/ means by designating
onetic spelling an "artificial inter-
rence," and those changes of ortho-
a.phy " prOduced be the usoage of in-
ential speakers and separate localities,"
a "natural growth" it is not easy to
thrnane, unless it' is to explain the
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THE French Emperot is evidently
anxious to conciliate his 'subjects. The
movements of -recent times point clear-
ly in that direction-I—hot the least
striking among them being the recent
Amnesty Proclamation on the lett an-
nitersary of his birthday. By this
proclamation all press and political of -
tenders are fully pardoned, and per-
mitted to enjoy their wonted liberty
Napoleon fully understands the French.
character. . Whatever may be his faults
he is'evidently a close observer of the'
signs of the times, and the many ways
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in which he endeavors to to conciliate
the people, shows thet he is not by any
means uninfluenced by public opinion.
fact that the former is really an art
based on a scientific analysis of the
phonetic elements of speech, whereas
the resent orthography is the caprici-
ous combination of letters resulting
from some natural .power, as if rained
accidentally out of the. clends. The
free; translation which he gives of
Parjson Dale's very wise maxim—"Let
well alone because you cannot make
better by tinkering" --very aptly ap-'
plies to the several changes which have
been made on . English orthegraphy,
which he believes is a "natural growth;"
for those natural agencies of "influen-
tial, speakers, etc.," have been at work
for ages tinkering, our orthographic
defects, and yet• it has not been remov-
ed beyond the tiecessity of being again
tinkered; Our hope 'is 'that the next
time it is tinkered, it will not undergo
the repair of Paddy's breeches ; but
will have anew dress (body ad sleeves),
which art, based on a scientific analysis
ofsound, alone can give.
With reference to the' orthographic
difficulties which the Signal affects to
despise, we may observe they are such
as cannot escape the moet cursory ob-
server, and as have called forth the un-
lified condemnation of teachers, of
educationalists, and of emi-
t scientific men. . It is simply owing
lone established habit in the use
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(WIf you want good value for your .
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money in Boots and Shoes go to T. Jaen
Coventry's. 87-tf.
to a
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Irishtown.
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La.st Sunday Rev. Father Gahan
preached ail able sermon against the
accursed sere Slander, its evil effects
socially, morally, and spiritually; and
different modes' of giving scandal ill
example direetly and indirectly. Father
Murphy ( dilated on the vita ircport-
ance of inatructing the youth in the
Christian d'octrine, and took advantage
Of the occasieon to reprove parents for
their supineeess in educational matters..
lie had looked over a school register
and noticed some children attended
school on average two days out of six,
it was impossible for the children to
cope with their more punctual com-
panions. After a few years parents
would complain that the teacher was
no good, their children made* no pro-
gress under his tuition which was both
false and unjust. Besides the disgrace
and injustice of raising a family in ig-
norance, leaving them liable to (commit
sin and crime or fall into grievous errors
or indifferentism. Parents were responsi-
ble to God. for the smile of their off-
spring ; therefore it behoved fathers
and mothers to look well to -the spirit-
ual and seculor instruction of the e
minds go entrusted to their keeping.__
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Rev. J. Denovan late of Smith Fills,
has become pastor of the Stratford Bap-
ti8theCh:lePro'bu:
Tins of the Rev. Dr, Burns
I were intered in the Toronto Neeioyolis
°.11Saturday
- TheI
ieliinla'ts
gsof the Windsor and
Amapolis Rail wily in Nova Scotia, took
piece on the lath inst.
Aman named Thebe near Port El-
gin was killed OP s Ailouday by falling
off a load of hay and the waggon peas-
e* oveiehis body.
Last week the Granton Post Office
was burglariously entered and both
government and private property ex.
tracted therefrom. .
Mr. George Gibson a land .snrveyor
committed suicide in the tost-nship. of
Grantham on Tuesday, week, by cutting
his throat with a razor.
The election in North Lanerk is not
expected -to take place till next Novem-
ber. Mr. McDougall will hardly be
appointed till October.
A dock which has cost a million
poll/Ida sterling, and bas been niue
years in building, has just been com-
pleted at Hull, England.,
A. nein named Hunter living in
Garafraxa fell into a well on a dark
night and was injured beyond hope of
recovery.
The Canadian Navigation Co. have
hendsomely compensated the $01 d lent,
who suffered loss by the gtounding of
the steamer' ,Grecttan.
A large lynx was killed eonie few
clays ago, by Mr. A. W. Brown, Belson
Lake near Lindsay which. WAS twenty-
nine inches high and measured over
five fee6 length.
• In Montreal, George Predham, aired
twenty-eight, a clerk in the Post -office,
has be- n committed for trial at the next
Court of Queen's Bench, for stealing a •
poet -office package containing a gold
watch, -
Thos. AlcAlurry, the temperance
orator intends establishing a paper_ at
Parry Sound, on Lake Huron, nearly
100 -miles north of Orilla. Its approp-
riate title will be The, Northern Advo-
tte. •
THE Signal denominates the action
of George Sprcae Esq., Reeve of Tuck-
ersmith, "rath4 small" in excluding
military bands from competition for a
prize of $20, "'hich he generously gives
at the cerning South Huron Show. If
the Signal has env idea of what should
be the chief aim of competitive exhie
bitions.of thip kind, it very well knows
that it is to foster and stimulate inde-
pendent action. If the "Goderieh
Battalion Band" has not vet received
any government money, it -ultimately
will, and it is a very unlikely story
that AIr. Sproat should give his private
fundS for government benefit. If the
Goderich Band was desirous of parti-
cipating in private perquisites, it should
have dispensed with "hifilutin" nipmes ;
that's what we think. So apart from
the common sense fact, that Mr. Sproat
has a perfect, right to give his prizes' for
just what he sees fit, with e+ being ques-
tioned, we hold that in the present in-
stance, he has taken the most advisable
course no to defeat the object sought,
viz., seeking to incite an auctbition to
excel, amongst the mange It is unrea-
sonable to "pit" institutions depending
soley upon private funds, against those
nurtured by public "pap." B -it this is
the saMe old Goderieh story, "We
want all."
Cricket. ,
To the Editor.
Sir,—can you give the
publie any Information of the cricket
club, fer the equipment of which ccn-
sicleeable money was collected last
Spring ? I was one of the subscribers,
expectieg that those soliciting funds
were doing it With an honorable pur-
pose, but T must say that I now hold an
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opposite opinion.
Yours eta
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(Remark by' Eilitot.—Our personal
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experience is very smlar to your own,
and our Own -present opinion of things
in that coueection is. but a very slight
modification of yours also, that's 'all
we know about
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The Lontton Advertiser says: the ene
tries in horses, eattle, sheep, swine and
poultry, for the coming Exhibition, at
London are considerably in. excess of
list year's.
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The Base Ball Tournament a Lon-
don has been a very happy time thus
far, a large number of clubs being pre-
sent. The attendance, however, is not
very great.
Mr. E. Marshall, residing on the 4th
concession, London Township, killed a wo
It, measured over five feet in length. ed
Georee Moir, a stone cutter employ
ed 011 Air. Allan's dam at Guelph was
accidently crushed by a falling stone
on Tuesday, and died while being con-
veyed to his home in town.
About ten o'clock on Tuesda,y evg.
the steams' chest of the Locomotive
" Stag," ettached to the steamboat Ex-
press, exploded about a quarter of a
mile east of Thorald station. on Great
Western, .no one injured.
A Dry goods store in Londen on the
corner of Dundas and Riehmond streets
was robbed of goods to the amount of
four el- five hundred dollars sometime
between Saturday night and Monday
morning last. •
Mr. J. Bonner, dentist, of Listowel,
the other day placed a vulcanizer on his
stove to heat, and the steam generated
too mutch, and caused am explosion,
which smashed vulcanizer and stove in-
to MOMS. driving to esieces, the ceiling
and partitions. Mr. Bonner was as-
tonished at finding himself inahert.
The Sewing -machine factory of C.
Irwin & Co. and the woolen factory of
S. 'Ostrom at Belleville, together with
the contents, and *O.se two Amu en-
gines, were totally' destroyed by fire en
Tuesday night. Loss estimated at
$20,000. Partially insured. The ori-
gin of the fire is unknown.
Reiffeitsterin the government .default-
er since sending a letter, to one of the
Ottawa papers, touching his position
has addressed a memorial to the Gov-
ernor G-4nera1 praying for an investi-
gation into. his case by a committee of
three persons, to be chosen in a way
dictated by himself ! Impudence could
hardly be carried further than this.
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Mr. Russell Assistant -Commissioner
of Crown Lands, who has been fee ty-one
years in the public service—a maia of
the most upright character ---and who,
so far as we know, has always discharg-
ed his duty. faithfully and efficiently,
was informed to his astonishment last
week by Mr. .Richairds that his services
were no longer wanted in the office.
The City of with Prince Arthur
on board, arrie-fed at 'Halifax at nine
o'clock, on Sunday morning in six and
one-qtutrter days from Qneenstown, an
unrivalled passege. The Goveinor-
Geueral, Lieutenant Governer,, at d
other efficials received the Prince t
tle warf. A military guard of hon -
was in a ttenetance.
On Friday evening last in Hamilton
an altercation °mired between a c
pled vagabond vagabond named Fritz Taylor and
a negro named Jackson Fort. The for-
mer • stabbed the latter with a pocket .
knife, Meting an ugly wound in the
negro's side just under the rtbs. The
blade of the knife penetrated betwea.
three and four inehea but evidently
did not reacli a vital point, as the
monster rattle -snake on the 16th -inst. die
raided man was able to walk some
hence. Taylor had not been arrest.;
at last account.
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DISTRICT MAT
itEAT) advertisement of C
Oellege in another column.
THE caop af barley on
Agri(inttlialli Gee unde wee se
tretE Fall Wheat Showin
-with the North Riding or,
bad at 01 uton to -day..
00247; RMATI ON IN WING:.
Loaelehip the Bishop of Huse
ed eighty pereons in the new
this place on the 28th ult.
The memben of the Seafi
be terieri Sabbath School to
-,of Some two 'hundred had a I
nie in Payne's grove yesteitli
THE Assizes for this Co
menee on the `136. int, at
House in Goderiche Chief Ji
gutty presiding -
:AT Nile near Goderith
Jackman. WAS killed by tal
a saw in a steam mill. Ire
nearly in two and clied inet
-James Taylor's celebrated'
Troupe," will give one of t1
splitting" entertainments ,
Hall on Saturday ens neXt.
moth poste's around town.
, FOR THE FIIHIliM0k.
th-at Mr. Graham Williams
place, is eonstruct* a very
plow, of the Mahatty pat
Provincial Fait% -
Tn aceordance- with a
signed petition; the,Reeveli
ed Monday next a' publi
,Seaforth. The Qrand Trim
ieturn. tickets at siT.Igle fare,
anelph:, Bnffalo, and Lone'
three days.
Moran zhargeel A
with mine indecent langi
daughter, riefeire Squire Sil
ham denied the charge.
allowed the case to be se tie
the plaintiff arrived, lir.
ing fine of$I and oas
ledged the charge prefer•
his wife.
P°T
fbis place planted A
t-aullteRdA:13_Mt.
o-ne p
Earl Rose" potatee. WhiU
• took up one thirteenth 0
"crop, and -upon 'digging th
had_ one hundred and
pounds. Can this he be
eeed was purchased of Ali;
plaee.
FAREWELL. CO CERT.
young toWneinen Mr. Ge
being about removing from
will give a farewell. concert
on Tuesday evg next
the Ameteues of the place.
on a bumper boute, as
that our eotsaiseeopie wisi
Cline to leave them withe
vantage of so favorable ait
of manifesting their .appr
ability, _mid. the personal:
*1iich he is -deservedly h
VERY Biome—the
serves the thanks of thos
in either Clinton or Seafo
-eery ontspoken manner
has come down Otr the God
for their misquotations of
prices ranging in thoee t
The Counzy seat papers--
. "writing up" their town tio:
way than this, if they wan
The fact that Clinton aied
ways pay more than Goder
duce, is too well known b3 -
of this County for such ,a
moveuient as the oie the
called in_ question, to a
thing.
Love in High
Thome. Adams, an impo
of the population of Setif
evelybody knows . is, or
wideseset in his day arid is
alone with his children,
mered of a fair yonng sd.
.Charlotte, whom, accordin
he visited three or four
In anticipation of takin
another wife said Thomas re
house at a cost of sixty
moreover gave.unto Marls
niue dollars in cash to g
brook to get the iifixins."
behold, Cherlotte did not
on the stage of actien
thither by the constalite
weeks atter, at the i
Thomas, and then - to
a charge of obtaining'
flee pretenees, before hie ..
13, -eve. Here is where 41
est" began Thomas set
etecordaame with the above
thought that he should ha
Lack, more especially, co
Let, as he avowed, that a,
sum belongo- el ione 0
whieh he bad oerrowed to
A step inetliers Charlotte