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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Expositor, 1869-09-03, Page 10Sas; t•to SEAFORTH TURE WARII nity, for Sp.ectacleF„ ed m Great he past eigl.t the nuder- iu 'ordinal, seen in their , during the construction preserve the ges unneces- ., iliiancy ant amount of enjoyed by which the ed speciaDY , hard an scratelld. ch they are areufthel — anteed.per- reserve Cheap- stmg many sary. 'Seaforth, at months, having di- es soId Will be ex periy fitted -as o mann- , . tTL Ofly that he aithing at ICS HOTEL i -Shoeing. 63-1 RoBERTso mporter and mann acturer of .aal kinds HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE1 SUch SOFAS, LOUNGER. ' CENTRE TABLES, MATTRASSE* LiKFAST TABLES, -MG RS, and , BEDSTEAD$, In Great Vane MrIL has great confidence in offering oids to the public, as they axe made of 'Good Seasoned Lumber, and by Firsti•Class Workmen. CO FF EN MADE TO ORDE On the Shortest Notim. W000 TURNINci Done with Neatness and Dearatuk • I arerobms 2W0DOORS SO TTII SIIARPS HOTEL . ! Main Street. Xan. 6th 1869. 00 NEWS TO Farmers and 0 thers,. - undersigne.d having newly ,fitted otit - hisirnil m a first class style, m hjb he *now grinding for every PIFTEENTH BUSHEL Or exchanging flour for--,,gooi wh.-3at lbsto the bushel. IRE! MILES RICE IN CASH PAM' FOR ALFRED BREWER; Roxburgh Mills; June 4th, 1.869. 78-3m: MILLINERY AND 3:DX1P SS IVI.A_I-M\TO._ MR& GUTHRIE & MISS CLEC- ,( RE now prepared to execute all orders A_ in Millinery, Dress and Mantle Mak- ing, in'the Latest Style and Fashion. Par-,„:,. ticelar attention devoted to Straw Goods, Oorders left at the house of Mrs. Guthrie, Main Street, will receive immediate atten- tion. 70-tf. Seaforth.„ April 9th, I869. UTHERLAND BRO,FSi ILO R S 11...A.VE-removed to their new premises, GODERICH STREET,. NEXT DOOR TO Luna sden's Drug Store, THE O.UTTINC..:DfPARTMEN Attended to by MR(...111.,.A.R. LD, from London England. SW" Style, fit„ and workmanship, guaran- teed, -CHARGES MODERATE. R. F. SUTIIERLAND. CHAS. SUTHERPAND. _ Seaforth, June 4 Bea 46-111.- - SEATTEFt HATS, EXCHANGE BROKER ce DES of Sor [Stand. 2-tf And dealer in Pure OEMS, CHEMICALS & BYE ST The Drug Department is wider the s care of an experienced Cheraisti It. M. PKARSO January V st, 1869 BEAUTIFUL ! SPLENDID ! is ate given by all who ti.se EMPire GIOSS. It makes dry, harsh, stiff hairge glossy and beautiful.: It cleanses the i emoves pimples, strengthens the giaA prevents the hair from failing, and will II-tail:11v make it grow strong, 1ux.11-0,a0, beautiful, and it i only 25 cents per gold everywhere. DYSPEPSIA =reit by using Dr. ri.,,cilbf .ti -Costive and. Tonic Pills They -re the Bowels, correct the Liver, clear the ,lexion, and renovate the system ; tJI corapialed of active ingredients concentrated form, mut strike at the disease, curing almost like ruagi.e. ands testif3r to their extraordmary properties. Sold, by all dealers. 4 paxris. '• THE DIFFERENUE- MAN. ' 11 Ie Welt/13 a good coat, t hixn -apt ,lift, him up ; Though liebe but a bloat, • Lift him up.' If he has setcommori nse, And boasts ofa few Pews, Lifs him. up. If his face shows no shame, Lift him up, lift him up; . crime is his name, Lift,hiri up. - Though. disgrace be his sport. Let your dluighters him -court= Lifthina up. WOMAN. If woman encerrs Kick her down, ick her down; ;. If misfortune i hers, • Kick her down. Though her tears fall like rain, Anal she never smiles. again, Kick her down. • If e man breaks her heart, Kick her down, kick her down; Redouble the smart-- , Kick her down. And if in low condition, On, on to perdition, , Kick her down ! AmosommommummiN NEW YORK. A, Nigh,t Arci-orig the Detectives. (FROM SUNSHINE AND SHADOW.) HEADQUARTERS. In the elegant, marble, building on 'Mulberry Street, ',here the IVIetropoli- ta-i Police force .centre, there will be 'found the headquarters of the: detect- ivese Thougn it is under the charge of ' the general; superinteudent, the detect- ives are an independent .body within the uolicee force. _ The chief, Captain John -S. Young, Jas been many „Years at the head of this department; He is ,a heavy -built, stocky Orson, with an imniense head: and face, sandy hair, .sontesshat curly 9 tolicland heavy look at d nothing but lus se7e indleaues that; , he is the sharpest, coolet, bravest, ;•isid most adroit ,cletective in the civilized world to -day. Its roorn is homely, furnished; and, unsightly. He never seems to be doing anything;or to have -any ling on hand. or to be interested in nythinet. His aesociates , in the roo —a dozen men, more or less, dress- ed i4 quite ordinary citizen's clothes— lie rouad on the beadles, straddle the chair's, lean up against the wall, --talk- ing, smoking,•and doing nothing, look - in like a band of idle loafei.s without a purpose. In this group the ' uniti at - ed would fail to recognize the company of he most talented, preserving, sharp sighted keen-acented, and most succ:ess- fulcrimrnal detectives ; men whe have been in the criminal business . from their .boy -hood ; men who have been se- lected from- hundreds, and who have been in the force. for a, quarter of a century': -They aye silent, suspicious, secretive. . They never talk of what they have on bend, Of the past_ they 'will Speakeof the future they have noth- ing to 'sayThey have incidents and adventures m, their possession more thrilling than any criminal novel ever written. In their room I passed a night not :long since, and learned from them the rOmantic incidents that I am aboat to state; . n • • THE AORF.ST OF A PICK -POCKET. Said one of the deteCtiyes, '-The chief c;311ed for me one clay, and put a citse in'my -hands that I was required to work up.. A gentleman of the city, who was, supposed to be'worth a for- tune suddenly failed. Iris failure was e, bad one, but his honor was without a stain.. He was guardian of two orph- t childten, and took the cars one morning for the purpose of investing some three thousand _dollars that lie held in the name of the Children-. When he reached the office up town where. the Investment ,was to be made, he -found hie Money was gone. He had been robbed in the cars. In great dis- trese he came to the office, and com- municated his loss.tO the chief.= ile said, when he -wag rich his tale of rob- bery would have been believed ; new To The CC - SEAFORTH SEPT. .1869. he was poor, it would be said at he had robbed himeelft I examined tile meg closely, and had no &did that his stotdy was a true one,., Heim& but lit- tle light td ,to throw on thie robbery. The car was crowded, and 'he stood on the platform. He remembered that during the passage, as a person got out of the car, a .y.oting man was thiown against me. Ire had a dim recollecti- on of the person; thinking no wrong at the time. Car -robbing is veey comm- Ohbut it is very delicate -business, and' few can do it well. I had my susp-ici- ons as to who committed the robbery. 1 took a car to go clown to wns In it was the very man I was in Search of. His new ,clothes, new bat, and boots,/ and watch indicated that he was flush. I stopped the car, touched the young man on the shoulder, and .told him to follow me. , His face crimsoned rn an instant, and I knew that 1 had got my man. ,1 toolt4im to the station -house) and accused him of the crime. 1. -told -him that.,, the man who had lost the money would,' in the language of the pickpockets, 'bat' him ,to death' if be did not restore' the money ; but if he would 'turn of the money' be might crear out. These robbers, elf of them: have accomplices. They never can tell. when they 'peach.' liked no evidence tb t would conviet this person., No jiicge, would hold him a minute on my .st -swim., • but the thief did not know tl at.' He pulled off his boots, and the oney came back, all but one hundred dollars which he had sp -ant. The grate- ful merchant received it with tears of AN OLD MAN IN TROUBLE, "Very few men typo come here for relief," said one of the officers,'" tell the truth. They make "up 'all sorts of Stories to impose upon us, to save their reputation, and to keep themselves out of trouble.-, If a. man tells us the trou- ble.i If a man tells us the truth ; if lie has been robbed at a bad house, and will say so ; will give us the.numlier Of the house, and describe the pa,riles by whom he has been robbed or wronged, e can relieve him. We can go on board a train of cars filled with hund- reds of people,- and tap a pifKpocket on ;his shot r, anrl. say, I want to see , you,- sir,' and never male a mistake. We can tall,a te egyap descri Lion of a rogue, and with it walk up Broad- way, where thousands are r ush lug al on g, pick out our,man and march him- to, the Tombs, and never get the wrong person. One day a se,(14e-1ooking man fiorn the rural disticts called at'our office.. He waz) a merchant,he -said. He came to the city to buy- goods. He had been robbed of fifteen hundred dol- lars Which he had to pay that day. He was a ruined mast unless he cculd re- cover his monc2y. He named the hotel where he staid, a,nd iii which he hill' ben robbed. His room -mate, a man unknown to him, was -asleep when he left the roona m the morn ng., He had not been out of the hotel since tea, till he discovered his robbery. The Mat must haye robbed him, aud _he wanted him arrested at unce. Captain Young was satisfied. that the 'man was not tel- ling the truth. He put the -case in my hand and ot dered Me to work it up. went to the hotel and found everything right there. The room -mate was a Mer- chant ftom the west, of. uequestioned integrity. I came -to the conclusion that the man had notold us the truth. T knew that he' bad been: Out, of the ho- tel, had been in disreputable company, and had been robbed. I seat for the victim, and he came, accompanied by a friend. , • who promiSed to vouch for his honesty. 1 said to him, 'Sir, you have ied to me. You lost your money in. bad company' by the panel game.' At first be denied., it withgre at vehemence, .• then he, evadecl, and finally confessed. with a slight clue as to the locality, .1 foul:id the panel thief and brought back he money." A. MINISTER IN TROU13LE. "One day some very excellent peo- ple came to the headquarters .to com- plain. The city 'was unsafe for respect- able men'people could not walk the streets without assault and robbery-. It was a pretty state of things if getlimen could not walk the streets of New York tit seasonable hours, without m- ing beaten, eullied, and robbed, and there life endangered. 'hat is the matter now?' said the officer. 'We a are respectable citizens,' said . the corn- planiers, 'and officers of a church. Our minister was assaulted, and beaten, and robbed last night in one ot the streets. He came over' to New York yester- day afternoon on business. Re was returning 'through Beekman Street about, ten o'cloek. When near Cliff Street a band of rowdies assailed him. knocked him down, beat him, muddi- ed • and tore his clothes, robbed him. of his Watch and money, and he reached his. affrighted family _almost dead.' The case was put into our hands. The night on which the assault was said to have taken place was a beau- tiful, Ifight moonlight evening. The place of assault was so near the sta- tion-honse that the cry of distress would heve, been heard lay the cap- tain at his desk. At that time of night, a man would -have been as safe on Beekman Street as. on Broa,c1wlay. It so happened that two of our qfficees were on the spot. within five minutes of the time the assault -vas said to have taken place; conversing- on matters" that detained them ten or fifteen minu- tes.i I was satisfied that no assault had iaken plitce, that no robbery had been committed ;" that the whole story was tramped up to hide some disgrace- ful conduct in Which the party said to have been wronged was engaged. With this impression, I sent to the minister. He was greatly- annoyed that his people hal taken any notice of the „matter, or brought it to the attention of the authoritieT. I told .him it Lad been brought to our at- tention that we were censured for net ect of duty, and that the fame of thel city suffered ; that -we 'intended to, -probe the matter to the bottora ; that we intended to folloNt him every step he had taken that afternoon, from the time be left home till he re- turned. We would Inow all his com- panions, and all the company he had kept that day. I told him the story was an improbable one ; it Ayes impos- sible that the robbery could have oc- curred at that time or lace, the night was to light, the hour was too early, it was too near the 'station -house, .and more than two of -our captains were ou the spot on the time, and they knew the story was'not tine. tlIf he had a mind to make a clear, breast of it, and tell the facts as .they were, I would would keep his name- from the public, if not, I would make a thorough inves- tigation, and pubysh his name to the world. He was greatly agitated, blam- ed his friends for Meddling in the mat- ter, began to cry, arid at length made a ,clean breast of it He had ')een drink- ing that afternoon, went where he Ought not to go, and was -robbed of his Money and watch go in st 2 ecount for his situation, did not want to be dis- graced, and so had 'trumped up the story he told to his elders. -The affair was- hushed Up." • A SEA C.A.PTA1N I. DIFFICULTY. "The harbor pOli' ., notified us,' satd one of the cletectiNtes, " that a, ship was lost off Sandy Hda by fire. As the case wais reportedilithere was soznethinge about the ioss that' did not look right. The next clay the liapers blazed with an .count of the bold_ robbery. • It was said that a sea captain. lost a large sum of money at Barnum's. The captain was said to have been peculiarly unfor- tunate. He lest his ship by fire off Sandy Hoek. He had just been paid his insurance, a very larg,e stun, which he was to take to his owners in New 'England. He visited Barnum's with the money in. his pocket, and on leav- ing the place it was gone. The audaci- ous robbery flamed ia every_paper. The statements were so nearly verbatim, that it was evident - the. captain had written. them himself or furnished. -the material. The captain issued handbills offering a reward of five hundred doll- ars for the recovery of his money The handbills were cirulated only among the shipping and on the wharves In i, adqua:rters. I was put in t a few days ' e received a visit from the captain at l charge of the case, wed I took down the captain's statement! It differed but. slightly from those made in the papers. I was satisfied that he had not beenrobbed at all., 1 strongly sus- pected that_ there was foul play in the destruction of hie vessel, and that the captain intended to appropriate the money. . Making up my mind bo* he 17 • did.this, I directly accused him of the fraud,. and described the manner in which the affair was done. He suppos- ed I knew the whole matter, although be could not imagine how 1 got bold of it, and was greatly excited. He was astounded when I told bira that the money was in his inner vett pocket, and that if he did not take it out at once I should search him, and he must take the consequences. I hit the thing exactly. He bad his money hid away Li the place I bad designated. In tears and in terror he bsoughe forth the money, which was restored to the • owner. We could not hold the man for a criminal .trial on ;the evidenee we held, and so let him run. He has never saileti from New ,York since." Shocking Affair at Concord. N. H. A most distressing accident occurred in. Concord, N. H., on Friday after- noon: George A. Dots, of the firm of Dow, Kew. ef & Cc., well kno\N n triaMez masons was engagea wieh two or more men in digging a well on the premises of Colonel George. H. Hatebens, on. Merrimae street. Up to noon every-. thing had gone on well, The workmen, had reached a depth ofabout thirty- eight feet As far as the shaft decend- ed. the plauk curbing was -put in by Mr. Dow in porson. His wife asked him in the ma nibg if he did not con- sider it a duigerous. undertaking. He answered, "Yes, somewhat, but I have no fears, for I shall build all curbing myself."' At the time of the accident', which occurred about a quarttx• past three o'clock, Mr. Dew was at the bot- tom if the well at work upon the curb- ing. " His assistants wue at the top let; ting down lumber and toolssAs the clock struck three be sung out pleasant- ly to the above, Three o'clock and well. We are gettin.g along nicely." These were the last words he was heard to speak. Soon afterwards there WAS a rumbling in the bottom of tin well, and the men looked down and saw that the bottom was one confased mass of broken curbing and earth. As the rumbling sound commenced theyleard Mr. Dow's voice, but could not. distin- guish his woi•ds: The al:um Was at once given. and hutdreds rushed to the spot. Part of the crowd coiumenced digging away the aurface of the ground near the top of the'/ell, aud others be- gan the construction of new 'curbing, ta be let down inside of that which re- mained whole. The work was prose- cuted with all the rapidity and earn- estness that hundreds of strong men from all classes of society were capahle exhibiting. At five o'clock the first piece of new curbing'fifteen feet r. length, was successfull let down Oth-\ elpieces were got in With considerable difficulty. At about three o'clock the foiloWing morning, after nearly twelve honrs of unremitting and dangelous labor. the body of Mr. Dow was discov- ered at the depth Of samethirty-four feet He aas in an upright position and lifelees. The question then arose as to how the remains could be extricated. The men had reaehed the bottom of the lowest section of curbing, and as each piece excepting the first two had to be smaller than, the -one proceeding, it was evident that still another section would have to be. much more contracted. The work was then pronounced very darg- erous by engineei.s, who said that anoth- er caving was •Ekely to occur at any time, and which- would inevitaely carry - death to all in. the shaft. Still, brave inen whose heroic deeds will long be remembered came forward and calmly volunteered to go to the bottom, and relieVe those there whose herculean la- boi s bad almost exhausted them. La- dies were present dispensing hot coffee and refreshments. A rope was placed at a suitable distance from the well to keep back the eager crowd, whose pre,s- sure upon tie eitrth, was: likely to in- duce another caving. Just ousside bf the rope stood reliefs of strong men* ten times as many as could possibly be wanted under any circumstances --all anxious to join. ii the work. The vicinity of the well was brilliant- ly lighted up with lamps, while lant- erns were. thickly hung in the 'trees near by In all directione the boluses were lighted, showing that the people could not sleep under the excitemenp of the OCeaSiOn. All night long bettyy 4. [ (*RAINS teams were rattling to and from the epot carrying away gravel and bringing back lumber and tools. The scene was a sad and painful one, whose .impression will not soon be forgotten. The nexs step towarils recovering the 'body was to construct another section of curbing, which could be only two feet square. This was let to the bottom, directly over the remains, so as to inclose them as it settled. Then commenced the toilsome and difficult labor of removing theearth from the body. Only one man at a time could work inside of the -curbing, and the dirt had to oe removed with a trowel. It was six o'clock this morn- ing before the remains could be drawn up. , The head Nuts pressed against one side of the well, and death by suffoca- lion aged compression Must have been sudden. One hand was placed on the top of the head and a hammier was grasped in the other. Physicians were on the spot, who were Ithalli111011Sin pronouncing life to be extinct. A Boy Agabx, A couple of gentlemen in Reno were not long since, whiling an evening away by singing, songs and relating anedotes when one' asked for .the eong Wtinid I were a Boy Again,' ait -which Cid Pi Ute' (John K. Lovejoy), who was present, broke oe't as follows : boy again I Who ould be a boy again if he could ? to have the measles mumps and itch, to get licked by bigger boys and scolded by older brothers, to stab your toes, to have the belly ache from swallowing cherry stones, to slip up on the ice, to do chores, to get your .eal s boxed, to get whaled by a thick-beetle:el schoolmaster to be made to -stand lip es the 'dunce' for the antusement of. school, to have visitors come to Uses school and tell. you how miserably weak and stupid you Well'e born, and to ask yon what would have become or you at that interesting time iri your life_ is your parents had not been so patient with and kind to you (of course It WAS all one's fault that he was born, and his parents were in no way concerned or interested in the matter.) to ett at the secend table wl3en company comes,, to set out cabbage plants because you are lade, and consequently it won't make your back ache muchrto be made to go to school when you don't want to, get spelled down in school, to lose you marbles, to have your sled broken, to get hit in the eye with frozen apples and soggy snowballs, to cut your fing- ers, to lose your knife, to have a hole • in the rear of your only pair of - pants when your pretty cousin from the city comes to see you, to be called a coward if you dorektight at school, to be whaled at home if you de fight at school, to be struck after a little giri and dare not tell h.q., to have a boy too big for you to lick tell you your s-weetheart scinints to have your sweetheart cut you dead and affiliate with that boy John Smith, whom you hate particularly because he set_ your nose up the week befote, to be made to go, to bed when you know you ain„'t sleepy, to have no fire-crac' kers on the Fonrth of July, no skates on Christ- mas, to want a piece of bread and but- ter with honey and get your ears pul- led, to be kept from the circus when it comes to town and when all the other boys go, to have the canker rash and stone bruises, to be ealled up to kiss all the old women that visityour moth- er, te be scolded because you like Mag- gie Love better than your own dear sister, to be told of what a scorching time little boys will have who tell lies and are; not like George Washington, to catch your big brother kissing the pretty school Ma'am on the sly, and to wish you was big so you couId kiss her too- and—ohbah, on being, a boy again.---:Creseszt. se A Kansas compromise Some one asked Te L. Robinson what answer, would he make if the governor's people demanded his arm's "1 would propose a compromise measure," he said : keep the rifles, and give them the contents." Lady) who is canvassing for a choir at the village church) "1 hopes Mrs - band to join us, I am told' he has a G.u.b, by, you -will persuade your buss very sonorous voice."—Mrs. Gubby : 4. A snorous 'Mee) Minn. Ah 1: you, should bear it a coat& 011.D of his. nose when he's atleep."