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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Expositor, 1869-11-12, Page 5iF THE, (SjQLLA 4,s- to inform the farm - [le County of Huron., rst class S ADDLERY s 11 r. ROB IITS-61V and manufacturer of all,kinds ef HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, Such as FAS, LOUNGES. C.ENTRE TABLES, MATTRASUR MNLNG & BREAKFAST TABLES -gt to pay cam for au BUREAUS ablialtment, he eau CHAIRS, and inducements- to any _BEDSTEADS, s here. In Great iiulariv, re cknow- tr. X hs great eqnfidence in offerin ait juage -co be su- geed& -le the pehhc,- ' as. they ar_tematad_egela'asoi c county, and from I t400d Seasoned Lumber, and yy te with the wants ! Workmen. ilAistied that all who 1 4roirti-te will have � Fp/. pit MADE T9 ORD On the Shortest Notice. in heing given to all Ls sh(p, places him all work sold by ie the nimble six- . " tome along Etseives. .No charge WOOD TURNiNG Done with Neatness and ,Despatch. lArarerooms : TWO DOORS SOUTH SI-IARP'S ift-YITL Main Street. . :)st Office, Seaforth, Seaforth.. Jan. 6th. 1869. 57-tt II. 01,EVER, 80 -if. G001) NEWTS I C flATHEIVIAT A kt 1866.) Lonclo,74 Com- , frge. , . of CJIEAF npIete the course one year is al a without extra '2tt n. advance. included.) circular which d address :LLAR, Principal, oderich, qnt. 89 ol05. TO Farmers and Otheis. ; THE undersigned having newly fitted out his mill -in a first class style, in whtella he is now grinding for every FIFTEENTH BUSHEL, Or exchanging flour :for goOl what at 41 lbs. to the bushel. - THE. HICREST PRICE 111 CASH AT. ALFRED BR,EWER, _Roxburgh Mills, eeiforth. June 4th, 1869. 78-3m. ti. SEATTER EXOTIANGE BlIOKElt And dealer in Pun 0.1131111CS, CHErdiCALS & DYE STUFFS. t is The Drar, Department is under the special care of an experienced Chemist. R. M. PEARSON. 6u -i • -r tEMOVED to (14111m7 Vat, 1869- byE. Hick, 1 pay the highAity of good Ty, Main S4-,. TasoN 7Y-tf. el. 1864. AM FER- n solvent. day of No- .si--g-ned will nty Court discharge rney 1'669; SE Wm gootl, -..iefatE Prtil, I Fitz, be'rt : m.tve.iing : ;StafIrth, Sept. 10tX rniattiro.. FURNITURE THOS BELL has now on hand_ the it largest stock in Seaforth, of every des- cription of Furniture, from the commonestto- the finest, and all at the lowest prices. Qual- ity of material employed, and -workmanship, guarantee(t TaTIVDER'T In all its departments, attended to in a satis factory manner. A Hearse for hire. T. BELL'S PATENT SPRING MATTRASS Kept constantly on hand, and fitted to any bedstead. This article is the best and cheap- est nude, as attested to by allc who have us- ed. A, Warranted to give ?Satisfaction. W-Remeraber the plate, OPPOSIT: KIDD & KMULKIN Seaforth, Aug: 5;1869. 874f R ER 01- Get your Ilameruades Out. Out -114 With Economy & Taste - AT SUTHERLAND BR0,581. TAILORS, God eri eh, Street. 0- 00DPTS And WIr uLp Guarantegd. giagGES MODERATE NEXT DOOR TO umsden's Drug Store. _ SUPPLEMENT To The EAFORTH "EXPOSIT GRATIS. ] 17 SEAFORTH,, NOV. 12, 1869. TT E OF SUMMER. 'Tis the last fly of Summer, Left buzzing alone; All its black -legged companiops _ Are dried up and gone ; Not one of its kindred. No bluaocttic nigh, To spirt 'raid the sugars, Or in milk to die., l'll not doom thee, thou lone one, A. victim to be ; Since the test are all gone, Come dine you with me. Thus kindly I scatter Some crumbs of my bread, Where thy mates on thi table Lie withiFectand dead.. But soon you will perish, rm sadly afraid, For the glass is at sixty, _ Just now in thc shade; When wasps ha‘10 all vanished, And bluebottls flown, No fly can inhabit This, bleak world alone: Putting up Stoves. THE VEXATION OF THE SEASON-7--DES- wrirox OF THE CEREMONY BY ONE VPHO HAS ' BEEN THROUGH IT. In consequence of the arrival of cold •weather once more, about these days there is kuuiversal putting up ofstoves preparatory for the winter campaign, and, undoubtedly, a great deal of pro- fanity is indulged in. One who has had considerable _experience in the work of putting up stoves, says the first step to betaken is to put on a very • old and ragged coat, under the impi es- sion that when he gets his mouth full - of plaster it will keep his shirt bosom clean. Next he gets his hands inside the place where the pipe ought to go, and blacks his fingers, and then he carefully makes a black mark down ona side of his nose: It is impossible to makedany headway in doing this work, until tais mark is made down the side of the nose. Having- got his face pro- ,• Deily marked, the victim- is ready to begin the ceremony. The head of the family—who is the big goose of the saciifice--grasps one --side of the bottom 'of the stove, and his wife and the hir- ed girl take hold of the other aide. In tlis way the lead is started from the woodshed toward the 'parlor: Going through the door the head of the family • will carefully swing his side of the stove around and jarn his thumb nail against the door post. This part of the ceremony is never omitted. Having got the family comfortably in place, the next thing is to find the legs. Two of these are left' inside the stove since - the 'spring before. The • other two •must be hunted after for twenty-five minutes. They are tisuallv found un- der . the .coal. , Then the 'beadof the family holds up one side of the stove -While his wife puts two of the legs i,n place. and next holgs up the other siile while the other two are fixed, and one of the first two falls out. By the time the stove is on its legs he gets reckless, and takes Off his old coat regardless of his linen. Then he .goes off for the _Tye and gets a cinder in his eye. It don't make any difference how- well the pipe was put up -last year, it will be found a little too short or a little too long. The head of the family jams his hat over his eyes, and takyng a pipe un- der eaeh arm. he goes to the tin shop to have it fixed. When he frets back he steps upon one of the best parlor chlirs to see if the pipe fits, and the wife 'makes him get down for fear he will scratch the varnish off from the ,chair with the nails of his.boot heel. In getting down he will surely step on the cat, and may thank his stars if not the baby. Then he gets an old chair and eiimbs up to the chimney again, to find that in cutting the pipe off the end has been left too big for the hole in the chimney. So he goes to the wood shed and splits one side of the end- of the pipe with an old axe, and squeezes it in his hands to make it smaller. Finally he gets the pipe in shape, and finds that the stove does not stand true. Then hiraseil and wife and the hired girl move the stove to the left, and the legs fall out again. Next it is to move to tke right. More difficulty with the legs. • Moved to the front a little. Elbow not even .With the hole_in the 'chimney, and he goes to the woodshed after smile little blocks. While putting the blocks under the legs the pipe' comes out of the chimney. That, reme- died, the elbow keeps tipping over to the great alarm of the wife. Head of the family gets the diuner table out, puts the old chair on it, gets his wife to hold the chair, and balances himself on it to drive some nails into the ceil- ing. Drops the hammer on his wife's head. At last" gets the nail ariven, makes a vire-swing to hold the pipe, hammers a little here, pulls a little there, takes a long breath, and announ- ces the ceremony completed. Job nev- er put up any stoves. it would have ruined his reputation it he had.—.Y. Y. Paper. The Valley of Mexico. Jf the Valtey of Mexico •is ever up- raised, aed left dry, as geology shows is common, and as events seem to indicate as now -going on, there will be strange revelations made. Some of the mas- sive structures erected in the days of the Spanish conquerors are supposed to have sunk entirely out of sight, the ground is so moist and soft. Beneath the Conveilt of St. Domingo has been found anotner edifice with columns, rooms and all, the whole being full of ',eater. Excavations • have been made with a view of discovering several mil- lions of treasfire said to have been hid- den there and revealed in certain deeds, and. also:various spiritual manifesta- tion& .A. coropany formed for this purpose drew out the water by means of a steam pump, and an hem:muse quantity of earth was removed, which brought to light the structures already mentioned, although the money was not obtained, when the scarcity of funds and the abundance of water put an erd to the enterprise. It is there- fore probable that in the tinie of the first Spapish conquerors, or much more likely before their arrival, a,temP.le was erected on this spot, which after- wards sank into the earth and served as a foundation for the present build- ings. The boring of *ells prove that there is a solid stratum of tepetute, a stone probably formed of volcanic ash, which would afford a resting place for the building after .passing through the intervening mud. Jesuft Missionaries. - The Jesuit missionaries, with un- doubted heroism, made their way into the dark places of the earth. They founded a flourishing settlement in Brazil, that seemed for a long time full of delightful promise. They half con- verted the Japanese ; they ruled at Pekin and made the Chinese ,acquaint- ed with Western science; they pene- trated to Ethiopia; they softened the savakes of Canada, and Illrnois, and they proved their sincerity and heroism by a, thousand arduous exploits. Yet a similar ill.forteme seemed to aittiand all their enterprise). and China, Japan, America and Ethicipia once more repell- ed with bitter hatred the oppressive sway of Rome. A multitude of pious and earnest Jesuits, whose 'pure and holy lives have been sacrificed in vain, have labored and die&in savage wilder- nesses, in heathen cities, in malarious jungles, and in icy solitudes; but the intrigues and vites of their Italian masters have uniformly destroyed the fruits of their' martyrdom- and self - devotion. With their home missions the Jesuits more successful.Herei too,' they strove to unite arms withletters, and to plant their free schools in the here- tical North by diplomacy and the sword. • They steeled the heart .of Charles V.—if, indeed, he ever possess- ed one—against • his Protestant sub- jects; and he was soon induced to commence a bitter war against the her- etical league. At the battle of Muhl - berg, where the Germans were routed and overthtown,"Bobadilla appeared in the front ,ranks of the Catholic . forces, mounted upon a spirited steed, waving his crucifix on high, aud, promising vic- tory to the Inaperiel cause. The Prot- estants fled, and soon in all their terrifi- ed cities flourishing 'Jesuit colleges sprang,up as if by raagic„ and thousaLs of children were instructed and .,.con- firmed in the visions of Loyola and the decrees of the Council of Trent. The Jesuits made admirable teachers Loy- ola was resolved to make his colleges splendid with erudition *and genius. At home he gathered around him the most accomplished professors the most abundant learning; and be lavished money in profusion toprovide fine buildings, libraries, and all the appa- ratus of letters. The most intelligent scholars were noted, rewarded, encour- aged ; every promising genius was snatched from the world and devoted to the cultivation of inferior minds; a severe and perfect discipline prevailed in all 'his schools; and it is chiefly as teachers that the Jesuits won heir lasting triumphs in the German cities. Their free schools educated the rising generation, and the Protestants,, wt.() had heretofore poasessed all the litera- tare of the age, soon found themselves met and often overthrown by the keen casuistry of the"Jesuit scholars. A re- action took place, and Germany seem- ed swiftly returning to the- ancient faith. _Eugene Lawrence, in Harper's Magazine for October. A Horrible Religion. All efforts of the Russian Government have proved unaviling to put a. stop to the extravagances of the Skopzi. The pon a usually well informed paper gives an, account of their last exploits. On the 13th of September a party of 400 of these fanatics left the "town of Ballat- ochow aril proceeded to a neighooring wood ta pray. The scene witnessed on their return was horrible. A madman named Wasiloff, declared that he was the son of- God, and after choosing twelve apcstles from the party, he call- ed fora human sacrifice. Five victims were at once selected, plac&. on a num- her of waggons which had been piled up for the purpose and burnt alive. A woman who had distinguished her- self by the :violence_of her religious par oxysms, seized the shafs of the cart and beat two young girls to death, while another female was first trodden under foot, and then literally torn to pieces by the fanatical crowd. Other details are given of the horrors enacted, which are utterly unfit for publication. It is impossible to say what further excesses might have .been coininitted; if the Goverror of the town, being informed of the facts, had not dispatched a com- pany of soldier and atreated- 'the whole party, who are now in , confinement pending the enquiries of a commisson from St Petersburg to report on 'the subje-ct. • The Cost of Monarchy. The most .expensive of all monarchies seems to be that of Russia, whiab costs considerably more than that of France. while that of France may be placed side by side with that of Turkey. In Russia, royalty costs £4,700,000 a year, in. France, £1,400,000 • and in Turkey, £1,320,000. Other European nationsindulge their sovereigns with much more modest figures. Among this less expensive class Austria heads the list, providing for the maintenance of the Hapsburg, £800,000 a year. It- aly comes next, with £'640,000; then Prussia, with £480,000 ; while Eng- land provides something like .£470,000 for its royal family. Among the cheaper sovereignities, the dearest is Bavaria, which sets apart for loyalty about X250,000. Portugal tolloWs with the moderate sum of £133,000. Holland, is content with an, expenditure af -.£100,000 ; Norway and !Sweden with £52,000; Denmark with £43,- 000; Wurtemburg with £44,000, and - Rome with £44,000. In round figures the kings and karsers of Europe cost the Europeans something like L8,000,- 000 a year, paid to than for their ovn private use. he London Five Points on Sunday Seven Dials on Sunday morning! Why, surely it is a market day—a fair,, a dog -sale, an open-air bazaar. No, it is t Seven Dials on, Sunday. What crowds of people, what shouting, what buying and selling. To a visitor fron3 a Devonshire valley, a Yorkshire dale, or a Highland glen, the uproar is sim- ply astounding. Hundreds of the poor are buying and selling all kinds of [ GRATIS things as fast as they can; „ Nearly ev- ery shop is open, hatters, butchers, bak- ers, shoemakers, clothiers, confectioners, grocers, bird and dog fanciers, drapers, cheese -mongers, aim news-vendoi, are eagerly competing for the poor man's shilling. Little Earl street swarms with people sellmg fish, combs, vege- tables, walking -sticks, pictuies,, boot, jacks, onions, braces, and other sun- dries. In Great St. Andrew's street crowds of rough loungers are making bargains for dogs, ferrets, birds -and rabbits. In. Great Earl Street you may buy furniture, beds, old keys, boots_and shoes, and many -articles of a similar kind. Barber shops, butter shops, and grocers' shops flourish in Great White Dion street. Returning to Seven Dials we find the 'crowd great- er than ever. Everybody, seems to make a noise. The :butchers shout "Buy,. buy, what'll you buy ?" The fish hawkers, the cheese -mongers, and the news boys try,to shout louder than the butchers, and they do it. Babel is come again, and deafness would almost be a comfort. But another aspect of Sunday life begins to force itself upon our attention, namely, pleasure taking. This is the day /or an "outing." Men with fishing rods and lads with tin cans go hurrying past. They are off to Hornsey, or Lea Bridge, or Harustead, for a day's sport, su411 as it is. Omni - busses, traps, cabs, carts and vans thun- der across Seven Dials, all of them lad- en with smoking, noisey people, and very drunk some of them will be when they _return home from the sweet coun- try. It is 2 p.m. Alas! this is the golden hoar to many—the hour when beer and gin may be sold across the counter to thirsty souls. Since 12 30 crowds of men, and women, too, have been 'converging toward Seven Dials, ad getting nearer and nearer the doors ofthe gin shops, and bar -maids and 'shop -boys have been dressing for the. opening of the portals of the gin tem- ples.' One! Open go the doors and in rush the crowds, and soon smoking, drinking, gabble, and loud laughter, mark the 6ommencement of the revels which blight many a home and bleak Many a heart. But these people eat as .ive.11 as drink. Down tbe street, up the street, across the street, fiit hus- bands and wives with hot dinners fresh from. the bake -house. Beef, mutton, pork—but beef by preference—fot m the staple dinners of those who dine at home. .1.,.lany of them do not. The cook-shoiis are open, too, and do a rare ousiness. It is 10 p.m. Tnere is a doer banged, a window broken, a shout, then a roar of voices, and a sudden rushing of feet. It is a fight! Joe the blacksmith and Bill the plasterer are "at it" pell-mell. In a moment the street is full of a yelling crowd: "Give it to him, Joe." is shrieked out by mad women, drank with gin. and heavy blows are heard as the men beat each other with tremendous force. lip come some of the police, and all is over. But both Joe and Bill are the worse for the fight. it is 11 p.m. The pub- lic houses send forth great crowds of drunken people, thieves prowl about, fallen women in .gay attire strolrhome stupid with wine, homeless children fall asleep on doorsteps, hawkers with •empty baskets and sore feet limp to- wards the cellars where they live and die, the oranibusses cease to thunder past, the last reveller staggers into the passage of his house, the silent po- liceman watches lest some thief should slip in, knocx him down and rob him, and as twelve o'clock booms forth, our visit to Seven Dials on a Sunday, comes to an end, and we return !home sad -- very sad, for have not we seen sad things 7—London Ch,ristian World. .A Hundred Years .Ago • One hundred and.ten years ago, there was not a single man in Ohio, Kentucky Indiaua, and Illinois. Then, what is now -tbe most flourishing part of Amer- ica was as little known as the country around the, mountains of the moon. It was not until 1767 that Boone left his home in North Carolina to become the first settle]. of Kentucky. The first pioneers of Ohio did not settle until twenty years after this time. A hun- dred years ago, Canada, belonged to France. and the whole population did not exceed a million and aahalf of people. A hundred years ago the great Frederick of Prussia was performing those great exploits which have made him Immortal in military annals, and with his little monarchy was sustain- ing a singlehanded contest with- Rus- sia, Austria stud 'France, the great powers of .Europe combined. 31 hun- dred years ago Napoleon was not born and Washington, was a modest Vir- ginian colonel and the great events in the history of the two worlds in which.. these great but dissimilar men took lead- ing parts, were then scarcely foreshad- owed. A hundred years ago, the Un- ited States were the most loyal part of the British empire, and on the political horizon no speck indicated the struggle which withina score ofyears thereafter es- tablished the great republio of the world. ' A hundred 'years ago, there .1 -were but four newspapers in America.. Steam enginci had not been imagined. and railroads and telegraph's had not, entered into the remotest conception. of man.— When we'conie to look back at ia through the vista of history, we find to the century passed has been al- lotted more impoi tent events, in their bearing upon the happiness of the world than almost any other which has elapsed &awe tho creation. THE STINGIEST HUSBAND ON BE- CORD.—A Chicago tourt has just grant- ed one divorce for gool and sufficient cense. The petitioner was Elizabeth Edgeworth, and the bill of complaint makes her hUsband out one of the meanest of moil. After their mai-nacre the man would carefully measure the contents of the sugar bow:after meals, estimate the size of the butter left, and count the crusts of bread remanting, and tske a general over -look as te the remnauts, and require their presence at the next meal. He denied her ac- -cess to the pantry, save when she put food in it and took it out, keeping it locked. He dial not allow her whole- some or sufficient food, and wasniggard.- ly in the extreme. During the last 'six weeks they lived t64ether, he fol- lowed her to her bedroom when she went to make up her bed, remained there daring the operation, and then locked the door, not allowing her to go in again until bedtime: He would not allow her to remain in the house alone, and frequently when she has stepped into the back yard, he has lockbd the door and gone off, compelling her ta remain outside until his return. She was a Widow when married to Edge- worth, and bad a child, which he pro- mised to support j • but after the mar- riage, he turned the child out and for- bade its return. She used, occasion- ally, to furnish it with crusts of bread, but he diseovered and stopped it. Shei was then obliged to leave him and work and support he/ child, but they bath returned, when Edgeworth treated them so cruelly that they were compelled to leave again. It is alleged that he woith $15,000. SouND MADz VISIBLE.—At the Roy- al Institution in London, recently, ac- -cording to the. London Lameet, Profess.. or Tylidall repeated some of the inter - eating experiments by which he has, on Previous occasions, given ocular proof of the' effects of sonoroua vibra- tions. When a jet of gas is burning under an amount of pressure which i& but just short of the flaring" point, ie becomes excessively sensitive to a momentary increase of pressure, and will respond in the readiest Dian - to the slighest acute Sound, vibrat- ing actively to the merest "chirrup" of the hps. A. still more remarkable de- monstration was niade with a thin column of smoke, of which. the shadow was cast an a screen, by means of an electric light ; here the smoke became. so senaitive that the slightest vibratioh of the air affected it, and two tuning - forks making a discord produced the well-known beat, which was attended by a marked pulsation of the edges of the shadow. Perhaps the most beauti- ful ocular demonstration of the effect of somas', was produced by throwing the electric light through a minute stream. of falling water, the effect be- ing to produce a sting of glittering drops, of the most brilliant appearance. When musical notes were sounded in the vicinity, these drops altered their arrangement in obedience to the wavcs of sound and clearly indicated, by their modified appearance, tlw effect produce4 upon them.