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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1870-03-04, Page 3March 4 1870. CAN IN TIIE FOR. OCK, e subscriber makes this article: lead all intending purchasers market affords, to, at least try Liquors ! stoek of Staple and Fancy always on hand. JAMES C IAID}LAW-- 1. :.21st, 1870- 9g-ti- MR THAN RVR : AT A.S BELLS 0 11'I prepared to furnish Houses a •s- TAKINC-1•, rents, attended to m a satisfact- . ner.. A hearse for hire - AS BELL'S T SPRING MA.TTRA.ASS on hand and fitted to any bed- -tide is the best and cheapest �(I to by all who have used it. re satisfaction..: the place t. + SITfE M iUL .INS. Y 21st, 1870. 87-tf. F :UMBER! Lied have on hand at their Mills, forth from the Village of Ain - cl. feet of Good DRY PIKE ie following different kinds; viz - a half, and two i=nch, clear. A 00.00,) iuo11 and a quarter, and louring, both dressed and: under - Lela sidling,; eorinon boards and d 16 feet long. Board and strip which will be sold at redaced ely added a first -class planning it other machinery, and intend lumber ( f all kinds constantly elk upon being able toproeure we articles of -Lumber at their . it its here adve -tised; is; lumber to the mill can have it shortest notice and lowest.possible M. & TP SMITH.. 1870. 114-tf t for Sale >R1 TO RENT. GMO D-VILLE, ire d has for sale or to rent ; on berms, a good Fraime House, with. In, pump and good yard in con - remises were lately occupied_ by s apply to JOHN l . WEIIAND,. Hotel Keeper, t`gmondville,. Feb_ 11, 1870, 114-4ins. AND LOT FOR SALE. 'ser erffe_ s for sale a large Frame ,, new, and Village Lot on the they Baptist Church, Seaforth. vault' be taken in exchange. Ap- rises. ALES, McAU RTHER. 8, 1870 - 112-6m. OE TO DEBTORS. imdebted to the late firm of eeallum, are hereby requested to he same with the undersigned on t. of March next, otherwise coats: ZARFE & CARTER. Scaforth Foundry. 1870 115-tf. to Lend. Lend on Farm Lands at 8- per - P. F. WALKER, Solicitor, Goderieh` 874., J14-8 s E TO BUILDERS. r has at lr >:a Kiln, Con. 5, T.t)#; 4. R. S.,alarge quantity of first ich he offers cheap for Cash. JAMES PICKARD. 11 1870: - 114-6in5. Feb. • March 4, 1870. d THE HURON EXPOSITOR. Louie Nf peioenie Eece.po from Ilam. A writer in one of theFuglish magazines, who: has lately been proparilig x series of articles entitled `The early days of Na- poleon, III.," gives a description of the Prince's escape from Ham, where -he was undergoing a sentence of perpetual impris- onment. The :account is very readable, both from the inherent interest of the circum- stances, and the straightforwardness : with which they are recorded On the 23rd of'May, ,1846, Louis Napol- eon was visited - by c,oine • English gentle- men whom he had known in London. He begged diem to lend him their passport,, on the ground that his valet, who wanted ito Lake a short J 'ourY, >,e wonld find them: use- ful in procurin.g.post horses. The travellers, whether suspecting more or not, -- were happy to render the service, it trifling, still more happy if impoi tant. By this means, on the evening of the 26th. The line managed to engagefor the next day a cabriolet to the small village of Ham. Orr the 25th the. Prince rose early, cut of his moustache and imperial, and put on the prepared disguise—a complete laborer's dress, consisting of -the blue linen blouse and trousers, dli}.rated cap, rough wooden shoes. and a dirty apron. The costume was completed by blackened eye -brows, a black wig hanging ahcut his ears, pain ted face, and a short clay pipe, which might betray: his iidentity; he would - not part with a couple of letters one from his moth- er,the other from. the Emperor.. He might esp- eciaily value the letter frons its contain- ing the;senten:ce "1 hope that Louis Napol- eon, as be grows up, will make himself wortl,.ty of the destinies w lr.icli await him. At 7 in the morning,, the masons entered. the fortress to resume their woi k. `Odin offered thea .something�to drink,. and hawing got them together around nd the table; in the vestibule, .; ran to tell his; master that the .mo- ment bad come. The Prince ' shouldering prepared - . a plank beforehand v lked down- - the stairs, avoiding the vestibule where the. men were drinking. Thelin dressed as for a journey,also stepped into the courtyard, leading his' clog by a string, and walking a fewpaces f r ii in � it of the Prince, as he had 1. . obtained permission .the previous evening, � P to go to St. Quentin; at whites he stopped to -- chat with him, to divert his attention frons the Prince, who wa gravely advancing with the plank on his boulder, held in such a way as to screen its ft.ce. So impossible to guess who he as, that a laborer; taking him for cne of his comrades, went up to him ; but Thelin with great a:ddr•css'directed his attention to, something else. A little further on he met an officer, who, luckily, was busy reading a letter. Then he had to - pass through a group of thirty soldiers, _ ais- serubled in front of the guard house: Fin- ally passing through all the courts,he.earne to the outer lodge. The porter, fearing -a blow from the plank, quickly withdrew his head. A few paces bs-vhnd tele last sentinel who' followed him with his eves, the Prince -dropped his pipe and picked r& up again. The movement served" to hide his face; : al- ready half concealed by the a►:lafrK: At last crossing the draw -bridges, he wasiee ! Thelin ran to fetch the cabriolet tie had hired the day-. before. Dining 1 -is absence, I the fugitive waliced with the most fever- ish impatience on the road to St. Quentin. Unconscious of the weight of his wooden shoes, he soon reached the cemeeiy of St Sulpice, nearly a mile .out of the village. He threw himself at the foot of the lofty crucifix, which rises in the midst of the graves, and thanked Heaven, foil the haj,pi .ness vouchsafed to hien. He saw 'Tlieli.ri 'advancing with the cabriolet, but another ) carriage: wag following. He -waited- till the latter had passed it Then,- jumping into the cabroilet, he thre-v his wooden shoes in- to a field and took the reins, now playing the part of driver. A few minutes after- ward, two mounted gendarmes rode out of St. Sulpice. But they took aiother direct- son --namely, toward Perone. Before entering Saint. Quentin, which is al. busy marulfaetuting town, Louis Napol- eon got out .of the calrroilet and walked through the streets, tits lie left the town by the road to Cambria, whei.e Thelia we s. to. ton duck, which not only ate and swftllo w.ed, 'but digested food= --that is it ejected, in due time after the eating, the apparent results of digestion; which really were an artful mix- ture of spinach, chalk, andother ingredients. Now, the cunning Doctor, :a little after 10 in the morning, ' displayed a composition of coffee,- milk, boiled bread, nitric acid, and eau de Cologne, in :proot.. of the Prince's .omrynissentenis, at 1 o'clock the command- ant of the fortress, remembering the efj ci- ency of .the muster's eye, .carpe himself to see how things were going" oil: The Doctor told him the Prince was very fatigued, and required repose. At 7 in the evening, the comma ndaint returned, declaring that as the Prince had been *kali day, he was obliged to make his rept�rt of it; with which intent he entered the room. - - "The Prince is asleep," said the. Doctor, "make as little noise as possible," "It is strange," observed the commandant, •" that he has not awakened by the rolling of the drtxtus justno ay.". So saying, he stepped uj to .the bed and laid his hand on a l►tandle.on the pillow, which was a: capital imitation of a sick man's head bound with a sills pocket handkerchief.: The Doctor was arrestetl im- mediateiy, but what was that to hiin '? The bird had fairly flown, and was safely housed in Brussels. It would have been no use setting the .telegraph to` work, even had at telegraph in those days connected Ham with - the lines of railway. "He's .over the boi der and Hwa'," not with. Jock- o' Hazledeen, but with CharlesThelin :end his favorite retriev- er. Being pretty well .assured of that, what did the good Doctor care about being march- ed off to Peronne in handcuffs like a con: pion felon;between a couple of gendarmes' Far a. �risouer to este when lin It, violence � 1p� to,. his keepers had been committed, bas al- ways leen' held a. venal offence; fo a fellow piisoner to aid that escape is held much more pardonable: :b'or this offence; he was tried a Peronne on the 15th - of July, 1846, Hoe neither extenuated or vaunted the act .of which ho was accu.ed. He simply said that what- he hal done was in obedience to the dictates of his heart, his attachrr,ent, and his 'grati- tude. In spite of the eloquence of hitt counsel, Maitre Nogent-Saint Laurel:t one ;o the most brilliant advocates of the Court of Paris, who said very fine things very little ;o the purpose, he was .condemned to 'tree months' imprisonment, a sentence whi.cl,, under the' circumstances, may 13t; looked non •as another form of " severel reprimanded ; because when a man has unilernre a five years' im >risonment, and -1 remains in prison after its expiration .for the i urpose of attending a prisoner for life. it is laughable, contemptible, too give. that man three months, for helping the •p ei•pe- tua4l prisoner to regain his liberty. Charles Thelia, never a prisoner himself hut.mct•ely a prisoner's valet de cltaanbre, was condemn- ed .i e containace, in his. absence, bt;cause he did not present himself to; take his triad, to six months of durance vile. Whether six months oi' sl:,ty, it would be all ` the, same to him When once beyond !thee gripe of the Fre-ich gendarmes. We may here add, that when Louis .Napoleon became Presi- dent, Dr. _Connean was still his physician and friend For the Cheapest Boots and Shoes n �Meaforth according to -quality, go to Coventry's. Janet And her Web • ;1011. DAVISON, - Many years- ago in the parish of Oarspih- airn, in Galloway --a rude and sequested district—there were only three freemasons, rhe minister, a tailor and a mason. The mason -being desirous to introduce his :ion g �. to the same mystery,,caused a lodge to be called for the purpose at a lonely cottage. where the ceremonies - were proceeding when a knock was heard at the doer. The mason,who.,e name was Dun, went to see who it was, and found an old woman who addressed him as follows . 'The masons are suet the nicht?" "Yes." "Well, ye ken - my web was stolen last week." "Yes, Janet ; but- what has that wi' the mason meetin'?""Oh, ye ken, yell be raising the de'il, and .j wad just like if ye wad ask him, since lie's thee at :my, rate, wha stole the veti." "Ou, ay, :Janet ; just gait; away then, and we'll see what we can do." Mr. Dun then returned to the interior of the cottage and mentioned to the minister. vhat had passed between Lim and the old woanan The, clergyman rebuked him :;cs- verely for - conceding to the superstitious notions of an aged crone, and said he feared` ha it would affront them a' "Nae fear o' hat," answered the man "just leave it a' to ire," Next day when Janet called on Mr. Dun e told her that "the de'll" had not exactly ommunjca.ted with the name o' the thief, ut he had mentioned that if the goods were of returned before Thuisdaty next, the house of the guilty person would fall upon him in thenight-time, and the whole family would be killed. This, he said was a great ecret, and:strictly forbade her contthunicat- ng it to mor e ,than one person. Away went J. met quite satisfied. although might have ieen expected ily her, that 1Jredietion of a punislunent to a thief pick him up with another vehicle. He wair,ed andwaited; but no Thelia came. He suit crown by the roadside, leaning his head onhis hands, and asked 'himself 'whether he. was again to be made the victim of a `third disappointment. He felt Somet,hing--gently jogging his shoulder. I1, was the dog that Thelin had led with a string, running be- fore the carriage, and come to caress'. hirn. In a few minutes they were sitting behind a t good Marie' of post -horses, on the road tri Valenciennes, where, at 4 o'clock in the af- ternoon, they took the train from Paris, h which stops there on its way to Brifssels. While the Prince was thus hastening to- a ward Brussels, Dr. Conneau,-,who remained n in the fortress, employed every wssible - stratagem to give hires full` time to cross the frontier. He 'placed a puppet or -effigy in . the Prince's bedroom wh'.cli opened into s the passage; lighted a fire tin the sitting - room, and kept a supplyof.toffee before it. When the man who waited on him arrived, "We will breakfast in t-ny room," said the it Dr. "The little table will -suffice, because tlie 'Gen; Montholon is indisposed." That morning the cure was expectedto celebr=ate mass. The Doctor sent him' a letter which the Prince had written overnight, begging hire to defer saying mass till another day. He then paid a short visit to Gen. .Mon- tholon, who -was still in bed. °At 9 o'clock the commandant of the fortress sei to make enquiries about tho - Prince. He replied that the Prince was indisposed. p The trick which the Doctor :played to b confirm the bullietin . was particularly in- th genious, if it was riot a.- plagurisui from P Vaucauson's duck.. The artist, among the at mechanical marvels, produced an•automa- ru was- not exactly a char<acterestic piece of conduct on the'part of Old Nick. The sec- ret. was immediately impared to her next- door neighbor,. with many injunctions; as to -the propriety of letting it go no further ; notwithstanding which, it was known to the whole parish before night. On the next morning thereafter, Janet's web was found. lying at her door, - with a art which had been attached to the main ody of it -with pins. The story is here (for e :first time)put in print, as in two res - Bets illustrative of the superstitions which no distant period ;prevailed among the. stic people of Scotland. SALE. IN CHANCERY. STAVELY vs. RUMBALL. PURSUANT to a Decree in this Cause, bear ing date the 1st December, 1869, there will be sold BY PUBLIC AUCTION, By me the undersigned at RATTENBURY'S HOTEL ,•= IN THE Village of C1,into',, In the County of Huron, on - Wednesday, March 30th, 1870, at Twelve o'clock, noon, in one Lot, The south half of lot number - Thirty in the Fourth Concession of the Township of v'(zwa'nosh m the County of Huron, containing 100 .ACRS S_ Tho property is situate about fifteen' miles from the Town of Goclerich, and about the same distance from the village of Clinton, and three miles from gravel roads,als, and the village of 1au- nchester. The lot is uncleared, ands with the exception of about five acres is good hardwood land. The purchaser shall at the time of - sale pay down a deposit in the proportion 3f x;10 to everyb 1OU of hispurchase money.neY. tothe vendor or his solicitor, and the remainder within ten days thereafter. Lr other restiects the condi-. tions are the standing : conditions of the .Court of Chance? y. The: conditions of sale and further particulars may be obtained at the Chambers of the: said Master, and at the offices of John Davison, Esq., Barrister, alid Peter F. Walker, Esq., Solicitor, in tlae$said. town of f4odcrich, and of 11. 1-Iale, Esq., in the village of Clinton. Dated this fourth day. of February, A. 1) 18 0. HENRY MMLDE11MOTT, Master in Chancery at Godericb. Vendor's Solicitor.. 1 16-3ins. VILLAGE (iF "NEW YORK HOUSE." The Subscriber has JUST OPENED! 1n the above House, ' A SELECT STOOK OF FRESH GROCERIES WINES! AND LJQTTORS.! AND. FLOUR ` FEEI) All of which he will g _l I at the LOWEST PAYING PRICES The, fact that the entire stock is Fresh from the wholesale Markets, should be si f%cient arga- ment to induce patronage. FARM PRODUCE 'filen in exchange for -Goods at Cash -Prices. g>*ti-K.illoran and Ryan's Old Stand. - t PHILIP CLAPP. EAFORr i‘H_. Seaford), Jany. 214, 1870. 103-tf. i;. AUDITORS' REPORT. _STATEMENT OF ACCOUNT, BETWEEN THE :Ni C.N T.(' IPALITY OF THE VILLA(YE OF SEAF(ORTIT, ANT) TRE .-\S- lT tERTOR THE YEAR 1869. DR. To balance on hand from last 3 ear, - 250 77 Taxes collected on the unpaid portion of last year's Moll, - - 32 48 - . Amount of this year's Rolla $1779 02 Cineol lected thereon, 196 14 Collected, - - - 1382 88 1582 5d " Licenses. - i t t 0U Market rent and fees, 1228 24 " Fines, 19 00 • ( Glergy Reserves, - - - - - - - .2.1;3 34 '• Statute Labor and Poll Tax - 7U €1t) �c- - - , LineAccount, Boundry co 51 �.i M7 • ` Royal Canadian Bank,' - • - - 500 Ott " do do Maid for overcharge, 1 •' cli> 1654) 80 ,do U(1 Total amount of income. By Count, Taxes, '• School, "- Charities, " Market.' tales, • - " Royal Canadian Bank, Printing, - - Stationer v - - " Legal Services, - " Salaries to Officers, - ` ` Labour and• material on streets & side -walks, " Sundries, • - - 54 740 79 1800 00. 159 Iii. 194 (;! :106 63 i i 1 45 10 90 107 24 •Tail 97 1623 22 258 94 - 6384 016 Total am't of Disbu racmcnts $5974 94 $597.1 9.1 • Balance of cash iii Treasurer's la.2n�3s; 409 12 We have audited Treasurer's hook,, compared the several items with 1- ouche_ a{, and foued the above balance in his hands 'W. N. WATSON, 1 A. G. McDOU(ALL. Seaforth, Feb. 10th 1870, 116. 1 NOTE LOST. - T OST, on or about the 15th of January last, 1 J a ProMissory note for $22, dated December. 1868. and due December 1869, niade by John Roddick in favour of Zapfe & McCallum. All parties are hereby cautioned :against purchasing j said note, as payment has been stopped. ZAPPE & cCA LI AVM , WM . Seaforth, Feb, 17th 1870. - Canada, Tweeds . for 80 cents. AT rYork EASE AND COMFORT L - SINO OF PERFECTWIRL There is nothingsovalua leasperfectsight, and perfect sight can only be obtained- by ming :Perfect Spectcles, the difficulty of procuring which is well kuown. - Messrs. Lazarus & Morrie, Oculists k ( )ptici- cans, Hartford, Conn., Manufacturers of the Celebrated Perfected Spectacles,shave after years of Experience, and the erection of costly nla- chinery, -been enabled to produce that Grand Desideratum, Perfect Spectacles, which have been sold with unlimited satisfaction to the wearers in the United States, Prince Edward's Island, and Dolninien of • Canada, dining the S- ast nine years three Celebrated Perfected peotacles never tire the eye, and lust many years without change. Sole Agent for Seaford), .M. R. Counter, from whom only they can be procured. LAZARUS, MORRIS & CO., Montr( al WE EMPLOY NO -PEDLERS . Seaforth, Jan'y. 21st, 1870. 76-1y. Carriage Factory. MAIN STREET, SE 1FORTI , AND NEARLY OPPOSITE, ITE, HOTEL. T HE undersitined would intimate to the in: habitants of Sealorth and surrounding country, that they have on hard a large ��to k of first-class HICKORY BUGGY STCIFP They are now ready to receive orders for all km is of Buggies,- Carriages cue, , made up by ep(: i need Workmen,. in the very latest st) les. Old Work repainted by a iirst-glass-Carriage Painter. - - 11EP.AIRING PROMPTLY ATTEND} D TO. CHA RG ES :1.01) ERAT E. GIVE THEM A CALL. M0TN'TOjSHH 1. monvi 'O . Seaforth, Jan'y 21st 18 7.0. I 111 � f -1Cll OF THE THE S GOLDEN M I E subscriber begs to inform the public that he has just received -a great variety of Sad- dles ad cues and TRUNKS, Which be is prepared to sell At - I'riees AImost U pccrelleled. COLLARS of every description, warrant- ed not to hurt the liorse'a neck, In - the way of harness OF ALL 111N] S, He is, as heretofore, in a position to give his customers as good value for their money as anewy other establishment in Ontario. - i_Iouse.work Quality of and material, employed, iridis- putable. - 1 " SHOP ()PPO ITE KD & 1l'1M(r cilfLKIN' .101IN CAMPBELL. Seaforth, Jan. 31. 1:8/0., a 52-tf. JUST ARRiVED INTER STOUK ATI NOW COMPLETE _i.t the New York House. A. Large Stock of WOOLEN AN 1) READY-MADE CLOTHING t CAMPBELL. LARGE I;TOe'x OF I IN llireut from the manufacturers, ALSO TOYS, 'ETC, AT . R. COUNTER'S. SHOP OPPOSITE CARMICHAEL'S HOTEL Seaforth, Jany. 21st, 1870- - IN°SOLVENT APT OF 189. In the Mat;er of JOHN COX, An Insolvent. A final dividend - sheet has been prepared, subject to objection till the Seventh day of March next, after which diyidend will be paid. " W. F. FINDLAY. - Official Assignee. Hamilton, Feb. 17th, 1870. 116-2ins. •P ,