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of all kinds constautly
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, made up by experienced
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SU & MORRISON.
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reot No. 9,, and the West
leaf of Lot No.. 10, in the
Morris, 150- acres. —100
stumped. A good square
-A nee.- frame house with
pod cellar and good well,
ble, Two splendid °reh-
eat, to be taken at a Yalu -
wet about one and a half
-oaci quite convenient to
e the old Ellieon farm and
10-treliest aituatecl in the
[potable. The whole or a
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THOMAS HOLMES.
Blyth
APRIL 1, 1870.
THE HURON EXPOSITOR.
The Posielem and Prospects of the
Graud Trunk
(From the Montreal Daily Witne;;s.) •
We have jest bten famished - with the
following importent information conterning
this greet national road, for ptiblieation t—
Duting the three years 1867,-18 8, and
1869, 456 miles of the line have b ett re-
.
hid with - new rails of a much heavier
weight than there() ,originally laid. This is
an average of 152- miles a year, tit rails
haying been partly imported front E gland,
and partly rolled at Toronto, Portlar d and
Detroit for the different sections of the
line.
During 1870 it is intended to lay about -
170 miles of new rails, of which 5.0 Miles
will- be of the very best Beeshaee, steel
[
mede-espeGlahlY at the Barrow Works near
FUrness, in Lancashire.
'These steel rails are to be laid b..tween
Kingston and Sherbrooke„ where t le clit
-mate is most severe and the difficulties- of
, working a railway in winter the gre, test.
No more iron -rails will be import, d from
--England, the quality of thosesent et of
late years having proved unequal to i, at the
strain of a Lower Canadian wintere - Fifty
miles of steel oils will be imported -in fu-
•ture every year from England, en il the
whole distance from Kingston: tc Sher
brook° is laid, with eteel- rails. It is. aiso in :
tended then to extend the 8terl rails as far
West as Belleville, and Reit to - thq home-.
dary with the TInited.States.
The balance of the 17,0 miles to b , relaid
this year will be of iron manufactured at
- 1
Portiand, Toronto and Detriot, • t
The sleepers throughout the who e line
are in a very satisfattory conditicie it •re-
. quires about 400,000 new ,sleepete every
year to keep that branch of the work in
good order.
The ballasting of the line is also reCeiving
attention. About 60 miles were. ballasted
last year, and it ie intended to, ballast about
100 miles yearly during this and the follow -
mg years.
These several improvements will rapidly
make the Grand Trunk, equal to triy rail-
way on the continent
During the last e WO years- the Com pany
has reeeived 25 large and powerful freight
engines from G.' asgow, besiees a consider
&file number built at Portland and by the
Company itself in Montreal, to replace old
or sniall engines, which, 'from length of
service. are no longer of much use. During
the last six years, about 30 powerful en-
gines (irrespective of the 25 from Glaegow).
have been thus bought or -built to improve
the stock, Very extensive improvements
have also been made to the stock generally,
which now amounts in all to 322 en-
gines. .
During the last two years 200 cats, 'wit -h.
wheels_aud axles so constructed that they
can run throegh between Boston and Chi-
cago and SE Louis over the different gacg-
es, have been placed upou the route._ They
have welted so verv satisfactorily that 300
111011z have been OT &red, and are now under
construction. They are hieing delivered . as
rapidly' as possible, and the whole 500 will
be at work by tee end of the year. ,• '
Within the last tew meths a number of
the leading:merchants of Montreal formed a
Com Rely, to purchase and lend rolling stock
to the drand.Trunk or other Itail way Com -
That Company' has contracted to
supply the Greed Trunk.Curnpany 'with
500 box freight ears of the -very best kind.
Fifty have already been delivered`, and are
now at work. The whole 500 will be com-
pleted by the end of this year. 1 .
The Grand Trunk Co. will thug be en-
abled to do a very large increased freight
traffic, and. thus materially benefit the trade
.
of Canada.
Coryesponding improve' men t s :tee also to
be made in the extent etid character of the
passenger trains of the RAH way. The tete
at present owns 147 fiist class and sleeping
Cars,—I31 being ordinary • passenger cars,
and 16 sleeping cars.
The oldest of the ordintny cars to be
turned i CI to second class or em i (*rant cars,
and the whole of the present sleeping cars
will, as soon as possibb , be conewted into
the tery best description of 1st class day
MFR.
A contract has been made with the well -
know 11" Pullmen Car Co" to place their
palace sleeping -cars upon elle Grand Trunk
Rtt1ssay • It will probably take upwards
of 20 ofthese cars to properly stock the
line. Eight ofthem are now ender Con-
struction in the workshops at Point St.
°harks, under the direct supervision of the
Pull mail Co. They wi 1 be proceeded
as raeidly as possible, and settee 'of them
will, it is hoped, 1)e running in a few
months.
Within the last -few days a contract has
also been made with `the "Wagon Manu-
facturing Co ," of Springfield, Mese, to
build 12 of the very best description of 1st
&tee passenier cars. They are to be equal'
to any clue running Ilion any lines in the
Illpited States, and al'e all to be delivered
by the middle of August at the latest
The existing stock of 1st class cars being
thoroughly overhauled and improved, - and
by the end of the present year the passen-
ger cars of the Graled Trunk Railway are
intended to be equtil itt every respect to
those on the best little in the United States.
It is intended also to run the passengee
trains quicker than has -hitherto been done.
Toi assist in this 1-2 passenger engines have
been contracted for within the last few days,
especially adapted to this kind of work.
Six of them have been ordered. from the
well-known establishment, the "Baldwin
Locomotive Works," in Philadelphia, and
aee to be used on the Portland and Detroit
divisions, and are to be delivered by • June
next The (Abel six, for*use in Caeada,
have been ordered at Kingsyon, and are to
be very similar to those- to be built at the
Baldin Works.
As sole as some of this new stock is -re-
ceived it is intended to improve the train
service. Through trains, with Pullman's_
sleeping -cars, will be run betw,een Portland
and Sarnia in about 34 hours. The time
between Montreal and Toronto will pto-
bably be about 13 houre,_ and passengers
leavipg either city at night will arrive at
Montreal or Toronto at or before 10 o'clock
the next morning. These thrcugh trains
will be in direct connexien at Montreal with
the through extress trains to and from Bos-
ton, and also with the Michigan Central
flout Detroit, ,
To enable these trains to be run as pro-
posed, local trains will be run on some parts
of the line, so as to prevent the -necessity
for the through express trains stopping at
so many >mall stations.
Both as regards passenger and freight
business, therefore, the railway it beieg ra-
pidly placed in first-class coedition, and will
be enabled to afford increased facilities and
despatch to the rapidly growing trade of the
eouetry through which itpasses.
The gross earnings of the Company have
increased from $5,600,000 in 1864, to up-
wards of $7,100,000 in 1869, and the re-
ceips for the present year so far show a con-
siderable increase ()Vet -those fcr 1869.
The bridge at Buffalo will be proceeded
with this spring, and will, it is expected, be
completed by the close of I 8 7 1. When
that is opened it will tteld largely to the
traffic of the line in the western peninsula.
It is satisfactory also bat the credit of an
undertakipg of spelt intporetnce to Canada
as the Geand TrUnk Railway is rapidly im-
reeving in Englend, and that it will thus be
ena ol ed to ivake vet y onsiderable im pro v e -
meets and additions to its rolling stock,
both as regateit quantity and quality, and
to continue and extend the improvements
which have been going on for several years
with respect to its permanent way. s
The Truth Truth about the Siamese Twins.
These " great twin brethren" were born
about the year 1825 at Bang Meklong, a
village of fishermen situated at the mouth
of the river Meklong,• and distant about
thirty miles from the populous capital of
Siam. Their father was a Chinaman, and
their mother was of Siamese 'descent only
on her maternal side. The twins!ere there-
fore three quarters Chinese by bleed and
one quarter Siamese. Anyone familiar
with the oblique eye, and other strongly
marked featurts -which characterize the
Mongolian race, will at once notice how
thoroughly the twins betray by the cat of
their countenances, their Chinese origin.
The land of their birth is a land where
the religion of Buddha, has taken the firm-
est root. The practical rules of conduct
which the great Messiah of Brahministu
taueht have sunk deep into the hearts of the
people of Siam ; and there is no tenet on
which Buddha laid greater stress than on
that. which -upholds the sanctity of every
form of animal life. "Shed not blood, for
blood is the life," is one of the great texts
which the apostle from Magadha was con-
tinually enforcing ; and it is probably to -the
practical application of this rule that the
Sim -nese twins owe their escape from an un-
timely destruction.
Perhaps in other countries such twins
may have been bore, but they haee prob-
ably been destroyed, or severed by a sur
geon's 'knife, to take their chance of liv-
ing or dying, as the fates might determine.
But in Siam, maternal affection, being
Strengthened by the maxims of religion, al-
lowed no interference with this whimical
freak of nature, and so the Twins, who, be-
longed to the humbelest ranks of life, grew
up to the age of seventeen or eighteen years
amidst the fishermen of their native village.'
In these days the -gates of Siam were close-
ly barred against foreigners, no trade Willi
Ott white-hiced strangers watt permitted ;
,and -the rulers of this little kingdom, trem-
b1bg with hatred and fear, sat watching
.the progress of English arMS itt Birtnah,
with a conviction that they themselves,
too, Were one day to be swallowed up by
the paleegrey-eved invaders.
In the midst ot these agitations, there at -
rived an American vessel in the roadstead
at Bangkok, laden with a large quantity of
condemned guns and other military ttores.
which the astute Yarkee had bought up in
Government euction at Calcutta,and expect-
ed to sell at high prices to the Siamese au-
thorities, 'who as no imagined, would be on-
ly too glad to procure European weapons
to turn ie case of need against European
intructers. It was then his plan to invest
.the puichase mcney in rice, in those days
abundant and cheap in Siam, and scarce -and
dear in China. But the jealeus rulers of
the land would not buy his guns, lied they
displayed their malice in foebidding any of
their people to sell he stranger rice. •
By 'some piece of good luck, the disap-
pointed mariner fell in with the Twins and,
hating once enticed them on board his
Graft, he was not long weighing anchor. and
tient whistling down the Gulf of Siam,
quite alive to the value of the prize he had
secured. By exhibiting these Twins in the
civilizedworld, he made a fortune for him-
self and .for. them • and when they had au-
;
cumulated sufficient means, the Siamese
brothers settled in America where they
have heen peaceftilty residing for many
years. They each of them °married, and
have each of them a family. It was citly
very recently that' their parents in Siam
died. In consequence of pectiniary losses
sustained during the late troubles in the
Southern Statea of America, it became ex-
pedient for these TWiPS again to appear be-
fore the public. They therefore came to
London during the early part of last year ;
and the discussion which then arose in some
of the current journals in connection with a
proposed surgical operation, was probably
nothing more than a," puff," cleverly got
up to 'draw" a wonder -loving public. No
severance by the knife of a surgeon was
ever seriously contemplated.
tette
A Farmers' Question
(From, the London Free P-reas.)
Perhaps there is no word in the English
language that has been so Much perverted
•as that taking phrase, "protection," As an
abstract question, whether it is not the duty
of ,a government to protect the interests of
citizens it has in charge there can be but one
answer, and that in tee affrmative, Itet
then, the question arises, "What is protec-
tion 7" Some persons appear to think that
it is by raising the Cost of every article te
the consumer that protection is ensured, and
they seek to enhance the price by depriving
the censumer of a choice of markets by ex-
cluding the cheap products of foreign coun-
tries. Thus it is that the &riper, who is
obliged to accept the markets of the world
as the standard of price for the *results of
his industry, is prevented born going. into
the same' merkets in whi0 to buy that
which he needs. 1fe is thus placed at a
disadvantage, for while be is obliged to sell
cheaply, as at present, be is compelled to
buy dearly, under the- pretence that he is
being protected." No delusion could he
mote clear and absolute. Ntetariff ehith
our ,government can impose can raise the
price ef the principal cereals te other pro-
duct. here. The English market is the
great absorber- of breadstuffs ; of butter,
cheese, pork apd beef It is the require-
ments of the population there, taken in
connexion with the supplies from Egypt,
the Baltic, and the wheat fields of. Ceetral
Europe, that fixes the Price—prices to
which the Canadian producer must submit
or keep his grain shrineing in his barn.
Th6 European rearket obliges him to sell
at its own price, while the "protectionists"
seek to compel him to pin:chase from mark-
ets restticted to. a particular area. The
odds are, therefore, two to cite against the
farmrr ; anthe is asked to -plod away, to
'work aed sweat awey, to bend his back with
labour and harden his hands with toil
in order to build up special interests, while
he hts to face the world in competition?
And yet some people have the hardihood to
call that sort of thing " protection," and
some farmers are willing to bele(' astrry- by
the idea. When people talk of "protection'
at the expense of the farmers it is pretty
good evidence that a seltieh end is in
view.
-ewe
The Ienpending Change in -English
Polities.
Intelligent observers of the signs of the
6.638 can scareely have failed. to artive itt
the conclusion that a eti eat social and moral
revolution is impendiug over Great Britain
—that the rapid growth of liberal opinions,
and the, gradual accumulation of liberal
CLEARING SALE
OF
WINTER GOODS
READY-MADE CLOTHING,
CANADA_ TWEEDS
Flannels,
Clouds,
'Hoods,
Also'a large assortment of
WOOLEN GOODS.
10 per cent allowed on all
Cash purchases over $2.00.
a
J. Bonthron & Sons
Seaforth, Jae'y. 28, 1870.
52-tf.
legislature, are undermining; the authOrita-
tiy0 position, the long claimed right to gov-
ern, and the long accorded superiority over
the masses of the tiritish alise;ocracy. Der -
ring de last session of Parliament a strong
resistless current of popular feeling exhiei-
ted itself, shoving hotelinsecure is the basis
on which aristocratic institutions rest; how
rapidly the antagonism between Lotds and
commons is growing and developing; howl
revolution, bloodless, but none the lest; :a -
died in the changes which it will bring,
must before long bring matters to an issue ;
arid showing which of the contending parties
is likely to be wet:stet] in the encounter.
The Irish Church Bill not only meent re-
oI ution,lat t was intrinsically revolutionary;
andtthe ease with which this great popular
measure was carried showed how poWerful
must be new feelings which at .0-1)eriding
in the English mind—feelings int:wise, in-
deed, and yet vague and indefiniee—aspira-
dons felt, but imperfectly understood, rath-
er than pi epoundiug theories, and. requiring
careful training and education ; pointing to
a' greed but unknown future for the people ;
the positive side of which is as yet but
faintly sketched, but the negative side of
which appears in the convictionthat tome
new basis for the arrangement and consti-
tution of societies and nations must be
sought in orier to advance the happinees
and the amt. -vial interests of their commu-
nities—that he days of arrogance and eelf-
ishness 'lilies are:numbered, and that
the days of justice to all are fast approach -
g.
Worse than Brutal.
Atthe Jefferson Market Police Court,
the ?ther day, appeared a man, in i1 health
ard vigor, clad in a fashionable suit of
clothes, with heavy overcoat, warm gloves,
and all the requisites for mitigating the dis-
comforts of winter weather. lie visited
the court to procure the eelease of his young
child, who had been found at 12 o'clock the
previous night in the streets, bare-footed,
half naked and half dead with the bitter
cold, and taken to the station house for the
night. The boy asserted that his father
compelled him to go into the streets in that
condition and beg for alms, and that if he
returned home without the expected am-
ount, he was liable to be shockingly beaten
by his disappointed parent. The brute of a
Mall admitted the relationship, but pleaded
teat he sent the boy to sell papers and not
to beg, as if that were any excuse for his
shameful cruelty. That man's heart is hard-
er thee. the Cardiff Giant, and proof against
even the keen denunciation of Justice Led
with, who sent the boy to the Juvenile Asy-
lum, despite the entreaties of the man, who
doubtless saw, in the execution of that de-
cision, the boding necessity to tare, in the
future, his own living and fine clothes.
FARMERS GO TO
M'NAUCHT -AND TEEPLE,
FOR.
WAGGONS. BUGGIES.
A GRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS, and in
1 -le fact, anything .drawn by the horse. A lerg,e
assortment always kept on hand. And for first-
class .HORSE SHOEING & JOBBING thatis the
place. ^
A large stock of Dry Oak, and. ot4r Lumber,
also Dry Waggon -Spokes, for Sale.
Seaforth, Feb. 4th, 1870. 11-1y.
JOHN LOGAN
HAS
No Wheel of Fortune
No deluding buncombe,
No free gifts of nostrums,
No clap traps to decoy one,
- BUT
Ile has (in hand a large and varied otock of
STAPLE and FANCY
DRY GOODS
READY-MADE CLOTHINC,
AND
ci-Rocnmtins1
Seaforth Jan. 21st, 1870.
Dr.. Caldwell's
DYSPEPSIA
DYSPEPSIA
can be effectually cur-
ed by using DR,. CALDWELL'S
DYSPEPSIA REMEDY. See circul-
ar and certificates accompanying each
bottle.
co
CD
Sold by R. LUMSDEN and E. (-4-
HICKSON & CO, Seaforth, and -
medicine dealers generally.
WOODRUFF, BENTLY 00.
117-25ins: Brougham; Ont.
D•LTIMSDENP
Has just received a Fresh Steck of
PURE DRUGS
. .OHEMIOALSi .
Toilet and Fancy Soaps, Combs, Hair, Toed"
and NaireBrushes, French, English,
and. American.
GENUINE DYE STUFFS.
Guaranteed to be of the best quality.
Horse and Cattle Medicines!
Condition Powder.
Physicians perscriptions carefully and accur-
ately dispensed.
LUMSDEN.
MR. JOHN THOMPSON
MHANKS his numeroxls customers for their
-
liberal patronage during the last fifteen
years, and trusts be will receive its continnance,.
He has now on hand a large assortment at
Good Sound
Green Hemlock
Which he warrants wirgive satisfaction...
also
200,00 FEET OF PINE!
'err Fon.
BUILDING AND GENERA;L PURPOSES
Which he offers on liberal terme. Orders vini)
be promptly attended to.
He has also on hand a large a-sortnient tAi
WELL SEASONED ACCOUNTS!
To which he calls the attention of his old 4,eiatee--
mers, who will find at co their advantage. to re-
tire them promptly, and wiehout legal pr000elle-
ings.
Seaforth, Jan'y. 21st, 1870. 84 tf.
STRAW CUTTER.
The subscriber desires to intimate to the pale -
lie that be is sole agent in 'eaforth for the sale
of
MAXWELL tit WHITELAW'S
Celebrated,.
STRAW CUTTER!
'NORSE AND .HAND POWER.
Also for Massey's improved
iGRAIN CRUSHER.
A Stock kept constantli on
OLIVER C, WILSON,
Market Square
192-tf
Seaforth, Jan'. 21st, 1870;
J, ,SEATTER4
EXCHANGE BROKER,
And dealer in Pure
DRUCS. CHEMICALS AND BYE STUFM
The DrugiDepertment is under the specida
care of an experienced Clemist.
J. SEAVER,
Seaforth, Jan'y. 21st, 1870. 5.94L
rr0 MERCII ANTS, TRADERS,
Ste. Ate.
The subscriber has just received a large meow
ment of '
DAT .BOOKS, LEDCERS, JOURNALS,
Blank Books, Bill Books, Ccunting-House-
." Diaties,
t
Pocket Diarie§ Jr 1870,
Bibles, Prayer Books, Psalm Books—iaut
large assortment ofeniscellatieous hook; in epliende
did gilt bindings, suitable for Christmas mei
New Year's Gifts.
Sabbath -School Books
Reward Tickets, &c..
•
Plain and Fancy Note Paper an' d Envelope*,
.Pens, Ink, Pencils, School Books, etc.
Musical Instruments !
Aceordeons, Concertinas, Violins, ViolinStrineps-
Rosin, Bridges, &e.
Briar and Mereschaum Pipes, and Pansy
Goods of all kinds.
A large assortment of
TOYS
For Gir/s and Bp,
At LUMSDEN'S
Corner Drug -and Book St,***.
Seaforth, Jan'v- 21st1 1870. suf.
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