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The Huron Expositor, 1870-02-04, Page 2.Ms TheNewcastle Collier. The following extract is from an inter- esting article in Good Words 'for. Jai uary : Now for a etroll in the tinder worlds I men asked nough, .seer' is erefore oVer- erday's ay the scientific edifieation, tbe !, dips' of the coal seam, and ribbony hands of iron; stone'.in the wolls we ,pass: He has been showing, me the -splint whickentailsi a fine of 3d. per.tulaon the miner who sends a Here is a pit employine. five hundre tub so adulterated up to bank: He has and boys, and a liundre-Cr horses -mid been distinguishing the props, some of below ground. Leave to descend is Which are broken or bending, that support . of the viewer,' and granted readily the ceiling of the eorridor--Norway fir, he so far as he is concerned, but the 'ove says, in- proportion to size, is about twice supreme ia the undo:- \wild, and t: as strong as Scotchl He has proudly he has next to be hunted up. Th pointed out, for ay partienlar admiration, man 'is in bed -1 -he is fagged with yes the. capital letters ,and the grotesque cutriea- work, and to -.'ay he will have to 1 tures. which the pit -boys have chalked on men -colliers pays in the north bei sg fort- smooth surfaces of the outcropping rock. nightly and a week on.' The overman, But the artists in charge of the halting howeveris a very good natured Pluto, and, trains have a keen eye to business. With as soon as he is aroused from slumber, sends a, trequericyi which would empty _one's. to SUIEUTIOn an efficient Mermy - for the pcskets if generally ,complied with, they visitor who has so unceremonionslv disturb- exclaim -in a tone erescendo in emphasis ed his sleep, and sends out also 1 ht ke of but the opposite in politeness-' Pay yer his office, that I may make use of it as 'a footin', sir,' Pay yer footin r Footin,' dressing roOns. By the time inyant-toilette footin,' 'footin'!' as • pplash into the is completed, Meiscury makes his appear- further darkness. Ever and anon, as we ance a °MI, short, square-shoaldered• de- ':surable ot-er the rough aleepers of the trans: puty,attired- in flannel 'lip -jacket and way, we.have to lift up a csanvass curtain, knee -breeches, and -blue-a orsted ribbed push open a swing doei, or have a door stockines. . He carries a Safiity-lanip..• He swung open for us by the griiny urchin who has a preasant, half -washed, thickly -mous- crotic'ies beside in the dark. These ails to tacbed face, and a chr•ohic cold in as head ventilatiori are -common place looking Aich makes himtalk as if the coal -dust heeuoogh, but the lives of hundreds depends _has inhaled for half a centutT wereclose ;upon the free action of their hinges. A ging up his throat. We mcquit magniftet'd door plopped back against the wall,' or So -hen's ladder, and cOme out upon the • coal; hung as to be able to stand open of itself, „..dusty adatforat of a tarred Weather-boar;d might turn the mine into a furnace - COM= to the eneineliouse: A timber -1a_ prisons_ - den eogie' ahnoest runs.Over.us, as its pro- Every now and then a muffled little limos beys 'butt at it. Up comes the boom is heard ---the repo.; t of a collier's THE HURON EXPOSITOR Feb. 4. 1870. cage witli jarrilig clash. Ladee coal tuts? axe run oft it. Empty tubs are ikin on to.its two 10 W431.' stories and we take our places; criliaching on tile third floor. .Down we drOP through the damp- darkness for nearly a quarte.s of a mile. My guide, as he leeds tne way, spesks -of the different 'shot.' To see ho re the work is done, we halt beside a tall stalwart young fellew, Who, my guide tells me, has been a soldier. Another brawny fellow, engaged in put- ting up fresh timber props hard by, is chatiiine the ex -soldier on his former occu- - le potion. 'Hoo many times ought you to be . ... - members of the carbonacceous circle, into hug, George?' the pit -wit asks-' hoo whose midst we descend at the foot of 'down- nianny lads bee ye kilt? Ye'd rather be cast,' as thisor' that ;gentleman.' We enter here than in the army, wouldn't ye, G-eorge' the overman's cabin a tt get) o hewn ef 'Ay,' answerk George, -and/ as he shifts his . I 1 ou t the coal, with benches running rowel hs lamp, its light shows a broad corroborative . -walla, with lamp and a barometer and a On upon his dark/ damp face ; but whose ears polite would be harrowed by therm oche ter hangine upon them. He takes George has no time to SlAre on repartee. the coarse language which provokes no com- ing the cage that was coming up, plough- ing off :timber; eafth,-and stone from the shaft's. sides and Piling them in. 'a vault above ten wore men , and boys, whilst meanwhile thi filthy fideds, which the dis- abled pumping engine hadolet loose, rushed out ragingly, eager to drown the buried alive like cornered rats in a flushed sewer. . Some years ago it was calculated that for every 100,000 tons of coal sent up to bank in England one collier's life was lost. • If theaceident average had been struck during the last two years it would, I think, have been coneiderably higher. -Amy reader of a newspetoee must havesbeen Startle&by the recent 'frequency of colliery _explOsions, &c. The colliers, no doubt, ar4,. often to bl a m e. Anything th a t a man bath, we are told, 'he will give for his life,' bat a collier frequently will not give up the tobacco -pipe, that may bring death on scores of his fellows as well as himself; for the sake of a little more ilium- inasion too, be will use a naked light, al- though' carefully previcied with an improv- ed safety -lamp. There is a large auSciunt of recklessness amongst co.liers .beIow , ground, and it sometimes still breaks •out in brutal behaviour above the ground ; but the average collier is no longer the savage he was in Wesley's time, and in the later times in Which careless 'Society' still dis- graced itself by allowing ball -naked women. and girla to take- place of beasts .of burden in the pits that fed its fires. The pitmen are still rough, but most of them now will behave decently towards them; and amongst them are very many who are not merely honest and 'respectable,' but genu- inely God-feaaing' men. Their piety may not be of the type that flourisheth in soft cushioned places of worship -they hear, un - shocked, language which .weuld horrify the daintly-clad worshippers svho sit on these seats ; but they have- a real faith in the God before whose judgment -seat they may be suddenly calted at any moment of their regular employment, that might be edify- ing to some of the easy-going religiorists es _down two oil larups, lights them, and when he thinks I nave sufficiently rested, path's - es to start upon our•ramble;'I have explain- ed to him tpat I have been , down ...a, mine before, .but when beilearus that it was an c iron -stone ?it,' 'leg is .only half . satisfied -with . -such previDus mining' experience. .Men rue working in kis pit two miles 'from the pit's mouth, and we have a walk,- of . snore than two mdes, there' and back,' be- iu front of him in readiness for his next fore us. • . blast. As the small coal falls dt,wri, it Sight-se'ers'-sometimes go down coal - e. . crackles like damp firewood. George bores pits for the 'fun of I the thing.' if . their a hole rams in his cartridge, sprinkles -Water He shovels the loose coal his last .shot ment from these pious colliers. - brought dewn into rl e tub that is waiting for it, as if he had staked his life on a shovelsug-matich against time. (The col- liers are paid per score a tubs, eac'.1 ,man's being distinguished by his token.) Then Getirge takes up his pick again, ami swings it like a crusader battte-ax.-eing Payenims as he makes a ledge in the coal -face eoal-ceilars at home 'be at all damp and low -roofed, they might have got as 'much -4.-fun' by lighting candles and groping about for an hoia or tWo oyer their own coals, as they are likely to get by exploring the hol- lows flax) which those coals are hewn., It • -does not foster the sense of personal dignisy to get kknock On the lead every two or ' three minutes from a projecting knob in the ceilings of corridors through which one is floundering with spine almost at right from his ship's -block -shaped , canteen upon some coal -dust, rams that in, and then puts a lighted quickmateli into t1 hole. hole. . We shelter close by -behind, some timber. In a minute the dull boom is neard. When we , scramble out George is already .shovelling the loosened coal into his tub. Where George is working he has a flawless seam of splintless coal to operate upon, and be can almoststand upright whilst he oper- ates upon it. Therefore, remembering the angles with the legs, and to have tine's hat cramped positions in which - he has been sent down like au extinguisher - up: n one's obliged to work, and the comparative poor - lamp. When, in reponse to a shout of, 'I -ness of the results of pievious toil, George say-, oldfellow, my light's out,' the guide -acknowledges by a grateful grunt that he ahead turns round to look after his clnirge, does think the lines have at last fallen un- it.may betemporarily pleasant to follow his to him in pleasant places. friendly advice to sit down and rest in a , The Wit is a reading man, and lieding mixture of moistened emery -powder and. that I am something in the writing line, liquid -blacking, With head resting on a pil- he proceeds to iemark on the false state - low that. tutus steaming perspiration into ments which he says he has often found - Indian ink ; but subsequently, that is not a at first to his astonishment -in print. position which any one who plumes`himself 'You've read Joyce's Scientific Dialougues, on his walking powers is likely to ' look lad? Noo, Joyce says that ye can see .the back upon with pride. When five-foot- stars at daytime, if you look up from the three Guide comforts his taller. Chargewith bowels o' the earth. , A h've tried many a the assurance that 'we'. are soon coming time, but ah never could.' .. backsheeshseravers still shout, 'Foot - to a passage in which ' sve"Can stand up- The _Tight, how can Charge -however much he in,' footin'.' as we re enter the cage • the raay respect him othei wise -help thinking ory rings up the shaft _atter las. When Guide a tantalising,humbug, when he ' sees black as a, cro, w atid blinking like an owl, Guide s head; in tbe proinisecl pleasant I re-enter the overman's cottage, it looks places, as upright as an . onion's whilst his so clean with its freshly -washed floor,. and own has still to hang like a bulrush ? h r r- -e he looks so clean with his freshly -shaven ucts me to. Of course they are I feel inclined to back out again. He in. chin and in his freshly -ironed shirt, that guidecond mine -stables are the first raine-show my,' - very dark, but they are also verycosy, and. sis- ts, however, on my coming in and wash- tbe horses champing their fodder in their ingany face and hands in presence of his faith- eavern-mangers are plumper than a greas 131/ one or other of whom is good enough to • many of their brethern above ground -far SUrplY Ille with basinful after basinful- of worse housed. I made this remark- to my fresh water, after carrying tivvey a basinful guide, and he repeats it to the overman of turbid ink. i On the wall of the office -when we beet above ground again, as if he in which I iestime the garb of those who were -proud, not only of the Fact, but also of walk and wonk. in upper day, hangs a copy capable of makingso strikingly briginal an - ot the 'General and Special Rules , of ITS"- having been in the company. of a person observation.' At different halting places ton -Colliery,' The wages are to be paid at the office, 'suchoffice net being contiguous throughout the mine. bay lies ready for to any house where spirits, wine, beer, or ` the horses and ponies.' In one of the man- any• other spirituous liquors dre sold.' No a tub -train sound asleep. The deputy flash - of swearing or fighting is to'oe allowed in the gers so stored we find a youthful driver es laioplight in his smutty face ; ' the grimy pit. The regulations Os to ventilation ; the waist, ,:i lc the use. of open and 'safety lamps ; the ex - boy, half -naked above . Ile listens,stens, with 2.(.7co 1tet-esronups amination of ‘goaves' and 'j uds ; the consul - with a startbetvildernment, to.the official Wigging he tation of thermomenters, barometers, and receives, and then, as soon as we have pas- sed, drops back* his heavy ' head upon his couch of bay. Boys in the mine get ls. 3d. a day, and have to work. for twelve hours, the men working for eight. At Ease in Society. did rather thresh wheat all day in the barn,' said Reuben Riley to his sister, as he adjusted an uncomfortable collar about his sunburnt neck, 'than go to this peaky 'par- tv. I nevei knotwhat to do with my- self; stuck up there in the parler all the evening. If the fsllows would pal - their coats off and go out and elm/ on ;a patch, there'd be some sense in it. 'Welt, • I hate it as bad as you do, 'Reub,' said sister Lucy. 'The fact is, we never go nowhere nor see any body, and no wonder we feel so acwkard when we do happen to " Clann nan Gaidheal ri• Guallaibh a Cheile." THE CANADA SCOTSMAN* ! A FMK' - CLASS LITERARY AND 0 ENERAL NEWS - TAPER . VOLUME III, 1870: "THE CANADA SCOTSMAN" has been en- . arl3d41 to nearly double its former size, embel- lished with a beautifully engraveo beading, and 'Otherwise improved. Volume III, commences with the number for January, 1st. 1870. All who seni in their suberiptions now for the year 1870, will get the paper for the balance of this year FREE, thus dating their subscription from January 1st. 1810, 'and ending with January ist, 1871. - It gives the latest news from the i diffprent counties of Scotland,with a summary of Catiadian, United States, English, Irish, and Foreign NCWS together with Commercial and. Market Reports, Editorial comments on the event3 of the day, original articles on Scottish and. general subjects, Histories of the Highland Clans, Tales, Poetry, &c., &e. The "ScorsmaN" is strictlf independent, takine no sides with any politiuI orreligious party or sect. Nothing is omitted that on be of interest to the Fanner, Mechanic, or 11)rofessional man. The Gaelic De- partment is continued. It is 'acknowledged. by the Press and rublie to be the handsomest, best and most complete family newspaper on this continent. Eery Scotaman.and descendant of Scotmen should subscribe for it OPINIONS OF THE PB.ESS ; \ "A first-ciass paper "-Montrea Gazette. •‘Written With ability and Spirit ."-Montreal ilerald8. altogether a well go up paper, far su- perior to the New York Scottish, Americar."-- Toronto Glebe. "The Highland reader will be delighted with a few columns in his native Gaelic. -Montreal Wiliness. Published weekly at Two Dollars per annum, .in advance. Letters containing money, if regis- tered, are at the risk of the publishers. Fine list of premiums and liberal terms to agents. Canvassing agents wanted for every county in the Doininntm. For further partieulars address, A. G. NICHOLSON & Co., Publishers. No. 65 Great St James Street. Montreal Canada stir out.' The remarks of this brother and sister were but echoes of the sentiment of many other farmers' boys and girls, when invited out to spend a social evening. But poor Lucy had not bit the true cause of the difficulty. It was not because they so seldora went to any place, but because their was sueli a wide difference between their home and company manners. The true way to feel at ease in any garb is to wear it often. If the pleasing garb of good manners is only put on apon rare occasions at will never fit . . . well and never seem comfortable.. Learn to behave properly at hoine-to cultivate yourselves. Do not it, or stand, or lounge about in nugainly attitudes, but acquire a manly, erect and graceful healing, I have never seen such. vigorous, hearty, manhood as among cultivated farmers' sons. Let table manners be especialy looked af- ter. Note carefully low well-bred people behave, and do your best to imitate them. It is noble to be an imitator of that which° is good aim beautiful. Above all if you wish to be at home in. society, fill your brains with ideas. Set your mind to work. Wake it out of the sluggishnese it would naturally sink into. Take the newspapers, and read them thoroughly. Knowledge is power in more senses than one. If you go into society with something in your mind worthy of explanation you will not fail to find listeners who will treat you with re- spect, and where you are well received you will not fail very soon to find yourself at ease. As we pass along the back -crooking,. • traan-Jined thoroughfares, We are often stop- ped by trains of Lilliputian trucks. A dis- tant rumbling is heard -a light is coming toward us- a shout is raised when our lights are. Ceen-and, as we juiqp.. from the road way and crouch in angular holiowc at its side, the train rumbles past, its half -naked driver whistling blithely, because the breeze. which 18 blowing downcast .on eur unappreciative backs is blowing refreshing- ly full in his face. At other times we come uponljstanding train, and have to lean over On them as -we grope along, to arid get- ting up to our knees in Reasoupy ponds: My guide has been painting out, • for my anemometers the inspection and manage - Congress, gave testimonials of its utility for warming and ventilating churches, courts of justice, hospitals, manufactories, etc. This was probably, the first attempt to use The History of --the Stove. arriage Factory. MAIN STREET, SEAFORTH, AND NEARLY OPPOSITE, SHARP'S HOTEL. MHE undersigned would intimate to the in- . 1. habitants of Seal orth and g surroundin country, that they have on hand a large stock of first-class HICKORY BUG-GY STUFF They are now ready to receive orders for all kinds of Buggies, Carriages &c., made up by experienced Workmen, in the very latest styles. Old Work repainted by a first- eass Carriage Painter. REPAIRING PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO. CHARGES MODERATE. GIVE THEM A CALL. McINTOSH & MORRISON. Seaforth, Jan'y 21st, 1870. -111-tf. Stoves are comparatively of recent general use, though they were in this count- ry as early as -1790. In that year a Mr. Pettibone; of Philadelphia, was granted a patent for a stove, which was capable of warming houses by pure heated air. Petti- bone'a stove was soon after put in the at- mosphere at Philadelphia, and Dr. James and Cha.pman, and several members of . . ment of machinery, &c., &c., all seem as completelas experience andsharpened wit can make them, but, reading that comple/e code, one, cannot help fancying that the grim Death who hunts coal pits, is read- ing over one's shoulder, with a sneering, self-satisfied grin. Rules may be excel- lent, but who can be sure that they will be obeyed ? .And even if obeyed, they still leave a terribly wide margin for chance' to play its fatal freaks in. Flood, fire -1 damp, choke-da.scp, wil1. burst and creep outin spite of all precautions, and metal that looks. as if it would last for ever sud- denly snaps like sealing -wax. Not far off, ou the other side Of the river, is the New Hartley Colliery. Its men, wearily cheerful, were.being drawn up from work one winter morning when the huge beam: of the pumping -engine snapped in two. Down the shaft thundered one half, crush - stoves, at least in this country. From this time forward, for many years, the stove was confined to public places, its use for warming private houses, or for cook- ing purposes. not having been thought of. The long box stove, capable of taking three feet wood was the only stove our ancestors knew anything about. The first advance toward a cooking stove was making the Franklin stove with an oven; and the first that deserves the name of cooking stove was an oblong affair, hav- ing an. oven running the whole length, the door of which was in front and directly oyes the door, for supplying fuel; and having also a boiler in the back part of the top near the pipe. Victoria 'Organs AND .Nlp,..9DEONS MANUFACTURED BY R. S. WILLIAMS, REMOVAL DR. VERCOE intends removing from Eg- mondville to fgeaforth. on Wednesday Feb. 2nd. Residence aid Office. corner of Market and. High streets. immediately in the rear of Kidd & McMulkin's Store. • Seaforth, Jan'y. 21st, 1870. 1 1I1-tf. MR. JOHN THOMPSON THANKS his numerous customers for their liberal patronage during the last fifteen years, and trusts he will receive its continuance, He has now on hand -a large assortment., of Good Sound Green Hemlock Which he warrants -vril.! give satisfaction. ALSO 2003000 FEET OF PINE! TORONTO ONT. LIST OF PRIZES TAKEN .BY 11 S• Williams' Instruments. UNION EXHIBITION, TORONTO, 1861. FIRST PRIZE AND DIPLOMA F1 Provincial Exhibition, Toronto, 1862. FIRST PRIZE AND DEPLOMAI Provincial Exhibition, Kingston, 1863. FIRST PRIZE AND HIGHLY COMMENDED Provincial Exhibition, Hamilton, 1864. PPLIZP, Provincial Exhibition, London, 1865. First Prize and Highly Recommended, Provincial Ex- hibition, Lower Canada, _Mimi- treal, 1865. FIRST PRIZE, Provincial Exhibition, Toronto, 1866. FIRST PRIZE & SPECIALLY RECOMMEN- DED, Provincial Exhibition, Kingston, 1867. We have kept no record of County Exhibitions, at -which our Instruments have always taken FIRST FRIZE84 whenever exhibited in competition with others. € UT FOR BUILDING AND GENERAL PURPOSES Which he offers on liberal terms. Orders will be promptly attended to. PIANO FORTE Our stock will be found large and well select- ed, and comprises -first and second-class appriSved makes, and the new Union Piano Company's Piano. An inspection is solicited before buying. Address, He has also on hand. a large assortment of WELL SEASONED ACCOUNTS ! To which he calls the attention of his old. custo- mers, who will find. it to their advantage to re- tire them promptly, and without legal proceed- ings. Seaforth, Jan'y. 21st, 1870. 84-tf. LIVERY STABLE JAMES ROSS desiries to inform the public that he has opened.a. New Livery Stable in connection with his hotel, where parties can be accombibdated. with first class horses and vehicles, at reasonable prices. Seatorth, Jan'y. 21st, 1870. 97-tf. R. S. WILLIAMS, Toronto, Ont. Toronto, Jan'y. 28, 1870. 1124y. T IS UND_ENIABLE that the Lockman Ma- l_ chine is not only the Latest but also the best of its kind, before the public. IT IS UNDENIABLE that tbe Lockman Ma- chine, although not much exceeding M price the very cheapest machine manufactured any- wfiere, is yet Incomparably Superior to any cheap machine yet brought out, IT 18 UNDENIABLE' that the Lockman Ma- chine has senieved an immense popularity in the short time it has been before the people - TT IS UNDENIABLE that the Lockman Ma- l_ chine already occupies a position only -'acord- ed to others after years of toilsome effort, J. SEATTER, EXCHANGE BROIKER, And d.ealerin Pure . DRUCS. CHEMICALS. AND DYE STUFFS The Drug Department is under the special care of an experienced sClemist. J. • SEATTER, Seaforth, Jan'y. 21st„. 1870. 59-tf. IT IS UNDENIABLE that the Lockman Ma- chine, by the,ane-re force of its inherit ood qualities, is bound to become the universal favor- ite of the Canadian public. TT -IS UNDENIABLE that every fami1y eith- 1 er in country, town or city, should have a. Sewing Machine, and it is equally undeniable that none is so well adapted for universal use as the Lockman. -110[TIFE, Sister and Father within the bounds V of our happy land, naportune their re- apective. TTITSJBAND,. Brother and Fatheruntil the Milleniuna (which is sure,. to follow the .universal introduction of the Sewing Machine) has been ina,ugurated. WILSON, ROWMAN & CO. Hamilton, Jan, 21, 1870, 111-th INSOLVENT ACT OF 1869. In the Matter of HENRY 'HARVEY SMITH, An Insolvent_ The Insolvent•has made an Assignment of his Estate to me,- and the Creditors are notified to meet at the store where he carried on Business situate in Village of Seaforth, in. the County of Huron on Saturday the 5th day of February, 1870, at the hour of Eleven o'clock in the fore- noon, to receive statements of his affairs, and to appoint an Assignee, Dated at Goderich this 17th day of January, .A. D ., 1870 - JOHN HALDEN, • lntriem BENSON & MEYER'S Solicitorifor Seaforth.. Seaforth, Jan'y. 28, 1970. 112-3ins. A toile Th 44 if both quest wa ter two 4Lt w ... 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