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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1870-01-21, Page 3Jan. 21, 1870. HAI~1,; TRADER tte. tkc. ;aa j=ust recei+ared; a. Iarge assort- LEOCERS elOURN 3111 Books, Contain House Diaries,. fares for I Books,Psalm Books --and a rmisce llaneous books in splend Suitable for Christmas- and School Books ?' i ard Tickets, &c. y Note Paper and Envelopes, , School Books, etc. Instruments t Baas, Violins, Violin Strings. Bridges,, &c. chasm Pipes, and Fancy ut of O S For Girls: and Boys, r - N1SDEN'S earner Drug n-wl Book Store.. lst,. 1870. 53-tf- 0RS: HOUSE. Subscriber has. O E ED I be above House, .1'€ T STOOK P FRESH CFIRIES! I S I UGHS! AND rs FI1411) t lith he will sell at the PAYING PRICES the entire stock; .is Fresh from kets, should be sufficient aargu... etronage. AIL PRODUCE. age for Goods at Cast ices.. _ 'an. and Ryan's Old 'PHITLIP CLAPP. 2lat, 1870... 1.03-tf. E BEST. ;lsf American AND STRATTON & ODEL EO BUSINESS COLLEGE. host extensive and complete FOL in the country. It has Teachers, the 'most practical siness forms, and the best a r mmvdious apartment&. mag cent of thorough busi- eF to all the -requirements of =unity. ad facilities affe:dad in this felled in the country, and no nter a business career- Ivith- h-irnself of its benefits, W N BUSINESS WRITING d Exhibition at London. As seeutive year that we have feel confident that there cau as where to go to learn to Vriting, banknotes, eirculam OD ELL & TROUT, Toronto J»r : 21, 1870. Uncle John---te Tru My grandfather's fatally onsisted of.an only son and two daughters. I was grown up before I saw my r iot1ier' brother, but often, heard.° him spoken of a Uncle John. Uncle _ John learned to be a mechanic. After his apprenticeship w out he emi- grated to America, and wr tight several years in New York. He a in returned to this country, and got ernpl yment at his calling on the not th banks o the Fourth. A farmer's widow in the coo try had sold off her stuck, bought propert In they town and came there . to . reside,, a d with this widow Uncle John got l gings. The widow had: an on:y daughter, and by -an -by Uncle John and she grew cious. The mother saw "what was who fu' brawly," and fell on a scheme how to deprive her daughter of a husband, and . cure ere to herself. It was the costo every night when Uncle John came in f m his work to have a basin with water sta ding on the dresser -top to wash himself in One night besides the usual basin there ere two milk ones ; one was empty, the ot r as full of apples as it could hold, -but Ilncle paid no attention to the cogs. .At leng h the widow broke silence by saying, "Now, John, whieh of the twa cogs would you fanc- ,?" "That's easily decided," says UncleJo n ; "I'd grip tae the fu' ane." " Aweel th ," says she, " thee twa cogs represent me a d my docht- er ; if ye marry her -that's. th tume cog— ye get naething =.but if ye mart me ---that's the fu' cog— re'1 get everythin I have." .After that the courting we t on, being removed from the daughter to the mother. Uncle John and the widow were married, and Uncle John. had bound by contract, to him, her whole properties, which were worth £80 yearly income, an the yeurg damsel was left to 'whistle on her thumb. Not long after Uncle John's marriage with the widow, the daughter made a hasty marriage with a farmer, and in less than .a year she was in her grave.e ncle John and his wife lived together fo a consider- able number of years, when "e died and he remained a widower for a number of years. He again married a ter • man in the same town, who bore to him a froily. They - lived lived together for about sixteen ears, when she died. Uucle John was aga'n a widow -1 - er for about mix years. Appar : ntly he bad I been very agreeable with his firs !two wives for in his old days" he though v to have a .third.In his native town was a family of P. Uncle John had courted one of them before he left for sernerica, and as to have, made her his wife --once he wa in the po- sition to do so—?jut during Unc o's absence she was favoured with an offer fro tin another which she accepted. On Uncl : John's re- turn he found his false lover an o ther man's wife. She became a widow and Uncle John went and asked her for a third wife. The widow never ance said pay, But like a piece of potter's clay, 9 Story. Complied wi' ease` that day. A costly dress was bought for and beautiful dresses for all 1 Uncle John returned_ home, roc never recovered, but died, and ti pointed for the wedding was t his burial. --Stirling Journal. Journalism as Influenced by Advertise- ments. the - bride, is misters: k distress, e day ap- e day of. Mr. Richard Gran White i -contributing a series o articles o ass and Manners of Jo rnalism t axy, in which he tak s strong several questions of editorial e among others on the desirabili editor of a newspaper being freed infiueuce of considering the amo Tertising which his journal would to obtain, if a, certain article was Mr. White says : The moat insidious foe to -the f journalism is the advertisement 'd fortunately for the independence o ism, the system of newspaper p now is that the paper shall be e just now the Mor - the Gal- ounds on hies, and y of the from the nt of ad - be hely u blished. r fame of sk. Un- journal- elication 1d° at a 0 price so low that little or no profit comes of its circulation, which, from a buso ess point of view, is valuable only as it flakes the paper a more desirable medium of advertis- ing, from which the publishers e ; pact to receive their gains. It would be well for the honor and independences of j o urnalism if not only this system were aband sued, but. if no 'advertisements at all were ublished _ in newspapers., The- corruption of the press by this influence is very great, a o d• for it the public are hadly less responai le than the journalists. If men Will not h .sitate to offer a large advertisement on the ondition that its publication shall be accom anied by a favourable opinion of the thing o the pro- ject advertised, if they will, upon a.iournal's taking a course which they regard as inimi- cal to their interests, withdraw their regu- lar. and necessary•advertising from it, as was recently done in a very conspic stance by several insurance com must expect that their demand wil supply of the " article of journalist, to their taste. But when they fin other respects that journalist's op not perfectly tr+istworthy, that his "indorse- ment" of some other pian or proje t is not entirely disinterested, it would be well for them' to remember, before they break out into denunciation of the press, that they are only having it meted to them as th y have helped to mete it to others. Advert' ements must be published in newspapers : nd the only safe course to pursue in regard • them is the adoption of a rule, absolute d with - oat exception, that nothing in the ' terests of an advertiser, ne matter what his mport- mice, shall be adrhitted • into the e' itocial columns for any consideration. It should be understood, and cif neceusary, ann i un.ed, that payment for advertising, h o wever large, secures the advertisement, an. noth- ing more. This rule should be rigiy en- forced, without exception ; forung this ik Fro uous in - es, - they cause a " suited that in ion is done, and it is regarded as dishonorable to "puff" his horse,, jotirnirlum will not be' in- tirely free from a debasing taint which now pervades it far more than is generally sus petted. It was but the other day that the agent ,of a company, bringing a`fat adver- timement to a paper of -standing, and asking a paragraph in approval of tho company's project and being refused, produced, as a good example -to be, followed, several ar- ticles of the kind he asked for, which had appeared in a leading journal, and which he owned, in the most a natter-ot=sourse way that he himself hid written! Of what real value are the opinions of that paper upon financeal projects ? With •'what face Can the 'editors and publishers of that paper ask the public to trust tham upon any matter.in which there is money to be made by the former, and lost by the latter? Do journa- lists suppose that this practice can go on, and their profession not suffer in the esti- mation of every man who does not regard the getting of money, no matter w, as the one object of life, "the be alTand the end all here?" Can they regard it as consistent' with tire candor and the good faith, without which journalism is bet a daily inrjtosture, a systematic nuisance? And if it is said thet the innocent must not be confounded with the guilty, the pure with the corrupt,it and that the character of a whole profession should not be judged by that of certain of its members, the reply is that this is true, and that therefore the world does not rate journalism according to the exceptional virtues of some of its professors.—Advertis- ing Gazette Fall of a " Flying Man " in a Boston Theatre. (From Me Boston Adverti8er, Dec. 13.) During' the entertainment at the Adelphi Theatre Comique Saturday evening; one of the Watson brothers, gymnasts, fell while performing their feat called , " The Three Flying Men." The apparatus used was a sort of trapeze, held stationary, from one end ofwhicha gymnast, hanging by his legs, head downward, swung one of his companions to the third, who was hanging in the same manner as the first, at a dis- `tance of about eight feet. -In attempting this perilous swing from one to the other, the "flying man" failed to connect securely at the end, and fell to the stage, about fif- teen feet. Instantly there was intense ex- citement, women screaming and fainting, and men almost beside themselves with ex- citement and anxiety, making a scene of utter confusion. The unlucky gymnast was taken behind the scenes inert and ap- parently unconscious; but soon the audience were informed that no bones were broken, and afterward the pian appeared with his comrades to prove the statement. He was badly contused, however, having struck on his head and shoulders, and the affair decid- edly dulled the appetite of the -audience -for further entertainment. The Potato. The introduction of the potato here, and, we believe in t th E p states the erd , riles o er uro can has been very generally attributed to sagacity and good taste of that "mhbph of the ocean Sir Walter Raleigh ; but proof of the -fact exists, nor is it possible establish it after -the lapse of three cent les. Itis extremely difficult to cencei moreover, that he was the first adventur in the New World to make known t -value of the esculent in the Old ; for Hu laoldt in his Essay en the Kingdom of Ne Spain (book iv. chap. 9) has clearly show that previously to the Spanish Conquest was unknown in Mexico, and farther nor of course. At the period. therefere, wh Raleigh founded his colony in Virgin (1584). the potato must have been bat comparatively recent importation from t western shores of the - southern continen its true birthplace ; whence it must ha been brought by those who preceded hi n the same direction. There is a trxditio o the effect that when Raleigh's unfo (mate colonists were most opportunely re ucd by Sir Francis Drake (1586), the brought back with them ` to this countr he primary stock of potatoes—the verit lo patriarchs of that prolific race whic as since over run the whole of the Britis sles. We are unable to say whether ou German neighbors are indebted to us fo heir first supplies of the rtrticle, but the ave adopted the tradition just referred to nd signalised their gratitude for the boo y erecting the statute in question. Th risk estates of Raleigh, comprising abou 2,000 acres, and forming a portion of th onfiscated domaines of Desmond and h' dherents, were situated in the counties o Cork; W aterford, and Tipperary. Sir Walter acquired them in 1584, and sold em in 1602 to Richard Boyle, afterwards art ef Cork, a much more fortunate "gen email undertaker" in Ireland than him - If. Raleigh, when visiting the country sually resided at his Castle of Lismore, unty Waterford, and at his manorhouse, Youghal. Mr. Edwards remarkir, in his Gently -published Life of Raleigh. " It not without interest to remember that e possessions which thus passed om Raleigh to! Boyle included the land which he had planted the first potatoes oer set in Ireland ;" but he does not indi- te the precise locality of the priicaary ex- riment. 'These and other fruits (he ds) of his distant colony in Virginia had en quickly turned to the advantage of colony in Munster." . There can be no question bout the 'true mology of potato. The Spanish patata the same as the American battata. Our signation has been derived from the renh potads. In the days of the Stuarts name was commonly spelled patado.— m Notes - :Qucrii.• iio to car- ve, err he m- w n it th en is a be t, ve i t c b I h a b I 1 c a th E tl se US co re is th fr on e. ca ad be his ety is des the m n r- 8 - y a- h h r r y h e e is f at 1[114i The Interool'oni'al Swindle' Yesterday we referred briefly,to the dis-1 graceful incapacity which has characterized the government management'of -the' inter - colonial Railway, and which 1 is already bee= gining to bear fruit. • The ,fe ou :;Board Cocumissoners are at present in- this cit endeavouring to perform the same intellect- ual ntellect ual feat that once on a time • disturbed the youthful • Miiabeau,—trying to' Make two and two five. But the • suin won't work force it as they will. Under the specious plea of economy, the system. of giving contracts to the low�lst tenderers was adopted in the face of the declaration. of Mr. Sandford Fleming, that it was titter- ly impossible to perform the work at the price for which it was given. Now these gentleman, so jubilant a few months ago, come begging to Ottawa for government aid, or failing in! that, to be relieved of their contracts. Now, when the contracts were given to these people, the-.coruisson- ers and their masters knew perfectly well they could.not be performed for the money, and it savors of sharp practice on the unfortunate contractor., or tworse—cov- ert designs on the public treasury. So wholesale has been the jobbing perpoatrated under the name of various schemes of econo- my. that it is - but. reasortahle to look for another big humbug - in connection with the Intercolonial. The personal of the commission, it must be confessed, is not coinposed of men possssed of entire confit dente cf the'Provinces which they repre- sent. Indeed fewof them can be 'said . to have a perfectly clean- public record, and their entire subserviency to. the Dominion Cabinet is a very poor guarantee 'of good conduct. They have besides a hole and coroner way of doing business, which is not calculated to raise ' the public confi- dence, and the pack always in full cry at their heels, every cored which is provided for, is .a pleasing indication of 'the number and efficiency of their. staff, if of nothing else.—Ottawa Ev'g -Rail. - - s•s .' Brudder Dickson." Mr. Dickson, "a colored barber in one Qf the' large New England towns, was shaving one of his customers, a respectable citizen, one morning, when a conversation occured between them respecting Mr. Dickson's former connection with a coloredchurch in the piece. I believe you .etre convected with the church in Flm street, Mr. Dickson," said the customer, " No, sah, not at all." "Why, are you not a member of the Af- rican church?" "Not dis year, sah." " Why did you leave this communion, Mr. Dickson, if I may be permitted to ask ? - - " Why I tall _you, sah," said 4r. Dick- son, strapping a concave razor oq the palm of his hand, "it was jes like ds I jined dat church in good fait. I gib ten dollars to- wards de stated preachin' ob de gospel de fastyear, and the people call me Brudder Dickson. De seemed year nay business not good,' and only gib five dollars.` Dat wear de church people call me Ir. Dickson." " No, sir, goes tol'hul well." " Well sah, de third year I feel berry poor—sickness in my family an' I gib noftln for preachin. Well, sah, arter dat dey call me ole nigger Dickson, and I teff ern." - So saying, Mr. Dickson brushed his cus- tomer's hair, and .the gentleman departed, well satisfied with the reason why Mr. Dickson left his church. Imprisoned in an Engine Boilor A somewhat extraordinary and alarmin accident occured at the steain printing o fice of Messrs Norman, at Cheltenham. Th engine boiler is a powerfulCornish o of Texford's make there being two fir holes.i i paral=lel tubes passing through th middle of the cylinder. At the time of th accident, the boilor was cleaned, and tw persons, a man. and a boy were at work in side it, the man being in the further end o the cylinder, and the boy just inside th man -hole. It is supposed that the lad w about getting out througu the man -hole when his foot slipped between the tw tubes, and loosing nerve, his struggles t extricate himself only forced his leg farthe in until it became above the knee -joint An effort to pull him out was resisted b the lad, and very soon his leg began t swell, so as to make its removal increasing ly difficult. His body being fixed in th apertu^e • of the man -hole almos excluded air from the man at th end of the Boilor, and things were looking serious before a couple of surgeons and gang of smiths from the waggon work could be fetched. Fears being entertained for the man, the first task was to wrenc off the safety valve pipe, and so give hi air and pass stimulants ' to him. The me then applied themselves to ' the extraction of the lad, and at first tried to free him by forcing wedges in through the man -hole to drive the tubes asunder. After some time this was found to be impossiblethe lad's body leaving little room for the insertion of the wedges, and the tubes bruising instead of bending. The men then had to face the task of loosening one of the tubes from the boiler plate ; and as they were fastened to- gether by counter -sunk rivets, the task was a formidable one, and 2 or 3 hours before it could be affected, the lad had'fainted sev- eral times, and it was with difficulty that life could bo kept in him. Atlength, after the' two had been confined nearly seven hours, -the tube was so loosened a f to allow of Cowly (the lad) being pulled out, and though 'his leg was much swollen, he was exceedingly faint and weak, it was found that no bones - were broken, hawetncn f- n e ne e - e e 0 f e as 0 0 r 0 e e a 3 h m n (the man) ' was then also' got out in a weak state: Both were Well enough to be re- -moved to their :howes,after a little: while, but are now . suffering severely from the effects `.of .the shock, and from the bruises which the. jarring of the boiler under ` the ami tea'' blows occasioned.` The efforts made to free the two prisoners as quickly as. poi- sibie:have left the boiler a wreck, =and the damage sustained by the a Messrs. Norinon must be considerable._ Extitraordinary Feat in Surgery The Pall Mall Gazette" says. es–" A Florence ne wspaper,L' Italie, extracts from the 1'Annale dela Medicine et de- la Chirarge Etrangere'-the following extraordinary his- tory : On the 18th of April 1868 in the prison of Viliarica, province of Mines Gar- aes, in Brazil, two men, named Aveiro sand Carines, -were executed . at - :the 'l anie thine. Dr. Lorenzo Y'Carnio, of Rio Janeiro, ob- tained permission to profit by this event, in order to -experiment me the power of electri- city. Dr. Carmo's deign was, if possible, to unite the head tb the neck' after decapi- tation; ,The heads of the two critainalefell within a- fe w minutes of each other into, the same basket, first that of Carines then that of - Aveiro. Immediately after the • second execution, a compression Was effected on the carotid arteries of one of the 'heads, so as to stop the heemorhage. The body was then placed oii,a bed, .and the head ,wasp stuck as exactly as possible on the section, and kept in that position: The cells of a powerful electric pile were applied to the base `ofr the neck and on the ;.breast. Under this in$u= -rice the respiratory1noreemeets were it Once perceptible, and -the head ;was fastened to the body by stitches and by a special :ap- paratus. The .physiologist wished to ascer- tain for how long a time this appearance of life conld be " artifically meintained. His astonishment was great when he saw that at the end of two hours not only .did respi: ration still continue under the influence of the electric current, but that circulation had even resumed *a certain regularity. The pulse beat feebly but sensibly. The ex= periment was eontinued withoutinterfission for sixty-two hours, A little later signs f life manifested themselves spontaneously in the head and limbs, till then deprived of motion. At this moment the director' of the prision, arriving for the first timein the experiment -room, observed that by. 'a' sin- gular mistake the head of Canine's had been applied to the body of Averio. The, ex- perinient was continued notwithstanding. Three days later the respiratory move- ments produced themselves, and electricity was suppressed. Dr. Carmo continued the process .of circatrisation, which progressed under the most favorable conditions. By means of an wsophagian probe, liquid nour- ishment was introduced into the stomach. At the end of about three monts the cicatri- sation was complete, and motion, tzough still difficult became. more .and, more ex- tended. At length, at the end of, '•seven months and a=half Aveira-Carines was able to walk, feeling only a slight stiffness in the neck and a feebleness in the limbs."' w ten ve of do hI wh wh an it the fam lig far ly eha kep eve Ore ru boa eac aga per to S bro was on that The ple The ner -elk•i • One of the most remarkable stori bice we have ever found in geographica mmaging is the'followi ig, which we g iv ry shortly. It is from Martin's accoun the Western Islands, in 'the second ed n of 1716. It is from the mouth of M orison, a venerable minister of Bary o died at the Brest egos of 86 years, an ose glebe contained the Island of -Ron d Ronal', lying 40 miles north of .Lewis is the most N. W. point of Europe. A time of Mr. Morison's visit, at the be ning of last century, it contained fiv Hies, who received him with "intense de ht - but with the strangest aupersitions more Pagan than Christian : apparent sacrificing sheep: to him. .lie" found pet dedicated to St. Ronan, which the t carefully clean and neat, and.in whit ry Sunday morning they repeated the ed, the Lord's Prayer, and the Ten Com andnients. On the altar was -a long rd with ten holes in it, and a stone in h bole, each one of which was Fetish ainst some evil. They were singularly ocent, but tenacious of their family pro- ty, showing not the remotest tendency ocialism. One of the ,natives, being ught to Mackenzie's at Cou1, in Ross, so astounded at hearing people walking the_ upper floor, that he was convinced Mav�kenzie's house was coming" dawn. y seen to have been. wonderfully sim- and4cod, but their end was coming, it misfortunes began in a singular man - by the int=roduction of rats out of some passing s` ip ; the rats increased so that they are up a 1 the corn in the island, and some wander- g sailors came and stole their only bull. .SStorms prevented any cominunica- tion with Lowis during the usual time, and they were left to spend"the{ long darn night of those northern regions alone in the wild Atlantic. The Steward of St. Kilda put - in therein a storm, but they were all dead, he only saw a woman with a child at her breast lying dead by a rock ; that was all. After 120 years we find the island described` as containing only some ruined huts, with a ruined chapel. Sir James Matheson a few years ago offored this same island to the Government for a, penal settlement, but was refused. That is the last we know of this same solitary Rona.—Daily Review. A Singular Story. es 1 e t i - r. as d a t e a h hip HAZLEHURST, Licensed Auctioneer for • the County of Huron. ` Goderich, Ont. Particular attention paid to the sale of Bankrupt Stock. Farm Stock Sales attended on Liberal Terms. Goods Appraised, Mo t ges Foreclosed, Landlord',e Wsrraate Fzecut�ed. Ake,. Bailiff Fi Division Court for Huron: Juno lith; 1.869. ' I 'BLACKSMITH SHOP. THOMAS - WATSON. Begs to inform the ptrhl -e gen rafily that he st 11 tarries oileneral Bloc th ii at 6 Old Stand g him NEARLY OPPOSITE ARMSTRONG'S HOTEL Al NLEYVILLE. Special attention paid to Horse -Shoeing. ,A inleyville, Jan'y. 21s -t, 1870. 62-1y. StiITS 20 per cent Cheaper Than Ever, FSR At NTITH'S C1-1 - CLOTHING STORE, S`EAF O RT H. 0 osite Scott Robertson's Seaforth. Jan'y. 21st, 1870, SIGN OF THE OOTCH COLLAR, THE undersigned begs to inform the Farmers-' : and others of the bounty of Huron, that he - has opened a first class HARNESS & SADDLERY IN And- being in a position to pay cash for all ._ material used at his establishment, he can, "via - will offbr superior inducements to any oto party doing business h=ere. - .TTIS COLLARS particularly, are acknow. 11ledged by competant-judges to be 'supei oar to any made in. the Coun=ty. and from In a thorough acquaintance with the wants of the community, he is satisfied that all who favor . nim with their patronage will have no cause to regret doing so. - His personal supervision being given to work manufactured at his shop, place him iu.a, position to warrant all work sold by him, andhil. motto will be "the nimble aixpencii before tte- slow shilling." t=ome along F:armeratand judge for youselvee. No charge o showing goods. isi-Shop opposite the Oki Post Office, Seafor ;, WM.H.OLID1..4 Seaforth, Jan'y. 21st, ' I870- Ore WAGGONS, BUGGIES( ND all implements for farm use rt Jj ed by M'NAUGHT AND TEEPL ,z Good and Cheap se- Remember the stand. NORTH ROAD, OEA #R-TII *dere, Jany. -2K 70. e 3I ► T