HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1870-04-01, Page 72'k2., 1870.
issassiammusaussamisamsang
GE DENT'S.
S.TtJ1IE
:171,AC° i OR TRE
) CHEAPEST
OO:DS!
AND
SERI ES
ecl out an immense stock of
L lines, and would say to his
ethers,:
gire us a trial.
;cls sales, small protits.and sa-
Idress,
of Scott Robertson's Grocery.
EORGE DENT.
st. IS7�
111-tf.
GE F
IOVALII
beg to notify their customers,
generally that they have re -
lately occupied b Ah
eco'nd DoorAlrove W.
son's Ital1art are-
eep: coustautly on hand a large
FAMILY GROCERIES and
:KX FAMILY FLOUR, and all
_'heap Feed.
e taken in exchange for Grace-
Jour and Feed.
teased from us will be delivered
my part of Saaforth, Harpur
Ile.
xehange wheat,. &c.,., for Flour
Ttkl at the highest value.
W. A. SHEAFSON & CO.
r,8th, l h•7, E} 52-ly.
ptrp To,
ZEFFIN'
BEDS
SEED STORE,
IT A_ LL�
USED 1855,
A ES GRIFFIN,
PROPRIETOR. •
aega to inform his friends that
aaniplete; w ith Field, Garden and
Wien he offers to the public,
tail, in price and quality second
rovince Also hoots,; Vines,
11I Bedding .Plants. " Cabbage,
tEr, and Tomato Plants in season,
usually -found in permanent
't Establishments.
titalo tea. gratis to intendin
.11;71 N,
,dsman and Florist,
IMndon Seedstere, (sty Hall.,
(Freenbouse Westminster.
Ito Millinery..
r l=iege to aF _nouns e t) the Ladies
such vicinity, that she; has open
rich cif
AND FANCY G'O DS
occupied ; . byMrs. Guthrie and
pxc.d t
gan'e store, and from herr long
business in Toronto, she feels
Eng that those favoring her with
'i11 be perfectly satisfies.
1 to execute orders,on the short -
kinds of
_iINT
ss
a MANTLE MAKING- "
acid
BRAIDING STAMPED,
E STITCHING'
AND HAIR WORK
Inc with neatnes&.
v of Ladies' Drs . Gape. kept
rich .
et<fally aolieited..
MISS I RWIN.
4, '870. 113-tf.
i=!
APRIL 1, 1870.
THE HURON
EXPOSITOR.
Heating Railroad Cars by Electricity
A statement has been going the rounds of
the newspapers for some time that clear ici-
ty has been applied successfully as a heating
medium at the Hotel Dieu Hospital, in`
Paris, and it is acrid that other large .hospi-
tals of that city, will be warmed Dy'it in-
atead of by coal.
The Washington Republican " says ---
Of course we know nothing of the appara-
tt.s by which this result is accomplished; in
Paris ,. but we had the opportunity ot -Wit-
nessing, on Wednesday last, at the Win&r
building, the experiments of Dr.f Leigh
Burton. in applying electricity for warm ing
railroad cars, which were entirely success-
ful and satisfactory. The invention consists
of a chain made up of alternate obstructions
and free conductors, arranged compactly by
being reflexed in. grooves, and the appara
tus covered by a metallic plate and placed
in front of each seat, in order that the f ket
of passengers may reat on them. When a
-current of electricity is sent through th se
heaters it is obstructed by the . intervening
non-conductors; of small diameter, and the
evolution of heat is the. result, and of er
the chain has become warmed the heat is
radiated to the metallic plate.
Associated with the apparatus is ano h-
er, which is called a ' circuit changer," and
by means of it a current of electricity o` a
given power may be sent through an almost
unlimited number of circuits, and from t e
fact that the same current is sent throe' h
each circuit at each revolutionof the instiu-.
ment, the same caloric effects are produ 'ed
in each, It may. explain this instruni nt
mors fully to compare it to a musical b x,
except that the points on it are arrang d
spiral ly, and instead of a musical sound a
contact is effected. Now, by revolving,tl is
with great speed, an almost continuous ct r -
rent iskep.t up in each circuit.
"_The•diffcullies in the way ot applying
chemical electricity for beating purposes 1 e-
ine thoroughly understood by the invents
o
he proposes in this applicatin of the art-
ventiol to employ the magneto -electric a -
chine, and the object of the experiments n
Wednesday was to test the fitness of tl is
machine for the purpose. - The Army a d
Navy Departments have Stendered Dr. B_ Bt r -
ton everyfacility 4r f making these tests,t ie
,
large magnetic machine of the Smithsonian
Institution was brought intc requisition,
and the small steam engine in the base-
ment of the Winder building employed to
drive it, The 'numerous persons, present
were amazed at the power the current pro
duced, for with it twenty feet of No. 29
iron were rendered red-hot ; and when it
was applied to a single heater the platiaa
connections were melted in a short . time.
Afterwards the current was applied to sev-
eral heaters connected together, and in a
short time the heat was equally • developed
in each, thereby ptoving conclusively the
equal distribution of the current. Follow-
ing this experiment, the circuit changer
was connected .with several of the 1ieaters,
and it was found to do its work thoroughly.
"The advantage of employing this meth-
od of warming railroad cars must be obvi-
ous. By connecting the magnet machine.
with an axle of the car a motive power .is
-obtained at scarcely any additional cost ;
and regarding the entire feasibility of this
proposition, the inventor is supported by
the best scientific men of the country, as
well as by practical railroad men.: In case
•of having a train thrown from the track, in-
stead of being roasted alive with 'red-hot
stoves, the passengers escaping the peril of
being crushed by the wreck of the car,stand
some chance of escaping a horrible death by
burning. Upon the whole the experiments
were entirely satisfactory, and demonstrated
clearly the entire feasibility of employing
electricity as a heating agent."
--sen4
Steel Rails.
The Railroad CoMmissioners of the State
of Massachusetts have made a report upon
the use of Steel Rails in the United States.
They addressed a circular to the officers of
all the railways in the country, asking them
if they used such rails ; when.they began to
use them ; the weight pet yard; the relit.
tive cost of steel and iron rails ; how lorg
steel rails will last their durability com-
pared with iron, rails ; comparative break-
age ; and several other questions of similar
import.
To these questions the Commissioners re-
ceived -replies from seventy five railway
companies, 20 of which had not used steel
rails, and 71 "had tried them only experi-
mentally, butsufficiently to pronounce them
equal to iron rails. Twenty six roads had
laid esteel tracks in amounts from 100 to
15,000 tons, and their reports were favour-
able to the use of such rails, especially where
-the track is subject to heavy service. Up
to February of this year, the entire amount
of steel stock laid in the Unfitted States was
49,800 tons, equal to 518 miles of railway.
-Of these rails some were manufactured in,
Europe and others in the United States,
and the cost, delivered on this side, varied.
from 50 ,ler cent. more to a little over 100
per cent. more than the cost of iron ru.i.1.
From the reports received from all sec-
tions of the country the commissioners de-
duce : 1. That -extremes of temperature do
not injuriously affect steel rails ; That their
durability farexceeda that of the best icon;
That heavy grades and sharp curves do not
-materially effect the wear of steel rails ;
Thatthe railsshould be inspected, with a
-view to the detection of flaws; before laying,
thereby obviating risk to Life and property ;
that holes in therails for s7iking -them down
should be drilled, not punched.
Stel tops, welded on iron bases are ap-
proved. Of 21,786 -such' rails made at
Trenton, and laid on the ,Erie Road, only
107 proved defective. Experiments show
the ctomparative strengtlr.of steel and iron
-rails to be as five to three, and the compar-
ative stiffness as four to three. Steel rails
are needed to meet the requirements of the
locomotives, the . weight of which has been
more than doubled since their first use in
this country. Except for h3avy trafic,they
say it is not necessary to use steel rails; if
only care ;s taken to select . the best iron
ones. It is more economical to use steel
rails, if they cost not over fifty per cent•
more than iron ones.
origin ot the Gulf Stream
STUPENDOUS UNDERGROUND RIVER—COI.-
LAPSE OF THE ANTILLES.
A geological work about to- be issued by
the celebrated Catiiu, reveals some curious
facts. This savant has been studying Wes-
tern geology for may years past, and his
personal acquaintance with the scenery and
peculiarities of that regiou, give weight to ,
.his opinions. Ono of the striki,ig features
of this book seems to be, to quote his own
words, " The discovery of a river under the
Rocky Mountains many times larger than
the Mississippi, its course twice the Mis-
sissippi's length, and gliding through the
clean and ;vast cellars of the upheaved
mountains without the losses iy the allu-
vial absorption and solar evaporation which
diminish_ valleys and rivers, it takes along
in its course the sinking streai,is and lakes
of the mountains of Mexico, and with- them
perhaps by a hundred months in its deep
bed debouches unseen in into the Caribbean
Sea and Gulf of Mexico, Through the vast
and heated vaults underneath the Andes,
1 contemplate a similar "river, running from
the thirtieth degree of south lattitude to the
north, and carrying their overflowing waters
also to the Caribbean sea. The Antilles,
but partially sunk in the ocean, are a
chain of mountain tops which, six thousand
nears ago, stood up in their grandeur, a part
(and probably the glory) of the Andes ; and
at that date the two mighty submontagne
rivers meeting. then debouching together
into the ocean, east or north of the Sntilles,
combined with extraordinary volcanic in-
fluences, undermined the Antilles chain,
which went down in the Cauacylsm well es-
tablished in Indian traditions, which 1 have
I gathered both in �Toi•th and SouthAmerica,
'and also by unimpeaceable records on the
rocks themselves—by shapes and grooves
left in the giant walls at Caraccas and San-
ta Martha, on tl,e coast of Venezuela,.where
this mighty chain was broken ; records
which I have twice seen, which may 'be
read by all ages to come, and which are not
myths or fables. In this tremendous cat-
astrophe, probably the most stupendous
that ever took place on the • surface of the
globe the Peninsula of Yucatan, with its
splendid Aztec cities, sunk, and since has
partiitlly risen, leaving the two grand sunken
est caries, the gulf of Mexico and the Carib-
bean Sea, into which the two subterranean
rivers, from the constant overflow of their
vast cisterns under the mountains, now
spread their clear and blue waters, heated
by the volcanic furnaces they have passed.
By the joint influx of the rivers into the
Caribbean Sea, its western surface is ele-
vated several feet above the level of the
ocean ; and pouring into the Gulf of Mex-
ico, sweeping its western coast, and taking
its way to the waters pf the Rio del Notre
and the Mississippi, the vast flood debouch-
es with them into the Atlanuic, at the
Florida Cape,`and there becomes the Gulf
stream; until now one of the mooted puzzles
of the world. .
THE PUNISHMENT OF DEATH.—Forty
years ago, says the London " Telegraph,'"
any morning at eight o'clock, after a session
of Old Bailey, you might have heard the
bell of St. Sepulchre's tolling, and have seen
a row- of strangled wretches hanging from
a beam in ` front of the old prison. Many
of them had been clerks or shopmen who
had been gulity of pilfering, from their em-
ployers. Now-a:days we should give them
three months' imprisonment for a first of-
fence, andA there lengthened term -for a
repetitrt ` In practice,'1,:::::s i s:3rtion
g.,.Oir
r mail.
of Recons `dons is wo a
The sarhe. ldf things prev €1 t ivtfgh-
out the country. Rustics were bung up by
the score for horse and sheep stealing; We
don't hang them now, though our horses
and sheep -are far safer than before. - When
the last step shall be taken, either in North
Germany, or in France, or in England, is
a point on which we express no opinion.
We }address ourselves to the consideration
of this most important subject without the
faintest feeling of mawkish sentimentality
—for if we could save innocent people from
being murdered by hanging the murderer.
we should say. bang him by all means. But
in the presence of such signs of the times as
we have enumerated, it is possible to
doubt that the greatest nations of Europe
is seriously asking themselves the question
—I -is rife rendered more secure by the in-
flicti¢n of death."
o►
PRUNING of currants and gooseberries, if
neglected in the fall may lie' done now if
they are not frozen and the'weather is mild.
Cut with an eye to a well balanced bush,
recollecting that fruit is borne, on the cur-
rant, on old wood. Of currants there are
none preferable for general culture, to the
Red Dutch, White Dutch and La Versail-
les. Houghton's Seedling Goosebery and
other American Seedlings are themost
healthy. The larger imported varieties sel-
dom escape mildew in cut culture.
HOUSE ANDOT FOR SALE
THE Subscriber offers for sale a large Frame
Cottage, 30 x 40, new, and Village Lot,
opposite. the Baptist Church, Seaforth. Farm
property would.be taken in exchange. Apply en
the Premises.
ALEX. McAURTHER..
Seaforth, Jars. 28, 1870. 112-6m •
uu
J
W
z
0
0
cn
0
z
W
itO)
W
E
rE
•rte
a
re* 4�
•peei - O
74a
1• r�r J
;4:4
•
c.)Pool
_ct
Cd
1w.7FIC
47
romi
Eve:
0
te
co W414�
oe
r.0
421
;474
C�3
a
1
z
"NEW YORK HOUSE."
The Subscriber has
JUST OPENED!
l.n the above House,
A SELECT STOCK
OF FRESH
GROCEIi,IES
wzrTES1
AND
IQUOItS
AND
FLOUR 2,4 FEED
All of which he will sell at the
LOWEST PAYING PRICES 1
The fact that the entire stock is Fresh from
the wholesale markets, ahoiild'be' ext cient argu-
ment tie induce patronage..
FARM PRODUCE
Taken in exchange for Goode at Cash Prises.
Killoran and Ryan's Old
Stand.
.PHILIP CLAPP.
Seaforth, Jany. 21st, 1870. 113Z -t
DIA:MOKDS
—OF THE—.
FIRST WATER
o*,
PURE 8c, GENUINE
SEEDS!
Of all kinds except Foul .
Red Clover,
Alsik Clover,
Yellow Trefoil Clover,
White Clover,
Timothy,
Tares,
Hungarian Grass,
Flax,
Turnip,
?Mangle,
Red Carrot,
And a Large Assortment of
GARDEN SEEDS,
TO BE .HAD AT THE
CHE'AP
.;
SEED GROGERY
STORE 1
W. SCOTT ROBERTSON,
PROPRIETOR.
SKATORra, March 24, 1870.
Victoria Organs
AND
MELODEONS
MANUFACTURED BY
R. S. WILLIAMS,
TORONTO ONT,
LIST OF PRIZES
TAKEN BY
R. S • Williams' Instruments.
UNION EXHIBITION, TORONTO, 1861. .
FIRST PRIZE AND DIPLOMA 1
•
FIRST PRIZE,
Provincial Exhibition, Toronto, 1862.
FIRST PRIZE AND DEPLOMA,
Provincial Exhibition, Kingston, 1863.
FIRST PRIZE AND HIGHLY COMMENDED
Provincial Exhibition, Hamilton, 1864.
FIRST PRIZE,
Provincial Exhibition, London,
1865. First Prize and Highly
Recommended, Provincial Ex-
hibition, Lower Canada, Mon-
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
Fleur PRIZES, whenever exhibited in
competition with others.
PIANO FORTE
Our stock will be found large and well select-
ed, and comprises first and second-class approved
makes, and the new Union Piano 1"ompany's
/Piano. An inspection is solicited before buying.
Address,
R. S. WILLIAMS,
Toronto, Ont.
112-1y.
Toronto, Jan'y. 28, 1870.
Agents Read This
E.will pay agents *salary bf 00 per week
and expenses,, or allow a l&age commiobion,
Ito bell out iaew wonderful eetione; A
Address, • M. WAGNER & °Co., Marshall, Mieb.
DANIEL MOPHAIL,
LICENSED AUCTIONEER 1
FOR THE
COUNTIES OF PERTH AND HURON,
BEGS' to return his sincere thanks to the in-
habitants of Perth for their liberal patronage
during the past six years. He wonld respectf'il y
announce that he will attend to all orders in
PERTH or HURON for. 18i0. Oraers left at
the ".ExPOSITOa" Office, in Seaforth, the Beacon
Office, Stratford, or the Advocate, in Mitchell,
will be promptly attended to.
Conveyancing, and Real Estate Agency attend-
ed to, and loans negotiated.
OFFICE—Eastside of the market, Mitchell,
Ont.
Mitchell, Feb. 25, 1870. 116-tf.
SIGN OF THE
SCOTCH COLLAR,
HE nndersigned begs to inform the FannersT and others of the county of Huron, that he
has opened a first class
HARNESS & SADDLERY 1
IN
SEAFORTH 1
And being in a position to pay cash for all
material used at his establishment, he can, and
will offer superior inducements to any other
party doing business here.
HIS COLLARS particularly, are acknow-
ledged by competant judges to be superior
to any made in the County and from his
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.
Hie personal supervision being given to all
work manufactured at his shop, places hien in a
position to warrant all work sold by him, and his
motto will be " the 'nimble sixpence before the
slow shilling." Come along Farrnei a anti judge
for youselves. No charge for showing goods.
is •Shop opposite the Old Post Office, Seaforth;
WM. H, OLIVER.
Seaforth, Jan'y. 21st, 1870. 80-tf.
;K , ' ``'
sc. 4 441 -t v
1
A .. ____:A....._ ___ .
TEETH EXTRACTED WITHOUT PAIN.
CARTWRIGHT. L.D.S., Surgeon Dentist
C
•Extracts teeth without pain by the use of
the Nitrous -Oxide Gas. Office,—Over the 'Bea-
con' store, Stratford. Attendance in Seafortb,
at Sharp's Hotel, the first Tuesday and Wednete-'
day of each month ; in. Clinton, at the Commerc-
ial Hotel, on the following Thursday's and
Fridays.
Parties requiring new teeth are requeated to
cail, if at Seaforth and Clinton, on the first days
of attendance.
Over 54,000 patients have had teeth extracte3
by the use of the Gas, at Dr. Coupon's offices.
New York.
Stratford, Feb. 11, 1870. 1 i4-tf,
THE SIC'N OF THE GOLDEN
THE subscriber begs to inform the public that
he has just received a great variety of Sad-
dles and
TRUNKS,
Which he is prepared to sell
At Prices Almost Unpa relleled .
COLLARS of every description, warrant_ -
ed not to hurt the horse's neck.
In' the way of Harness
OF ALL RINDS,
He is, as heretofore, in a position to give hie
customers as good value for their money as
any' other establishment in Ontario.
Quality of work and material, employed, india-
potable.
' SHOP OPPOSITE KIDD &
McMU,LKIIV'S.
JOHN CAMPBELL.
Seaforth, Jan. 31. 1870. 52-tf.
NATIONAL PILLS.
NATIONAL PILLS.
NATIONAL PILLS.
NATIONALPILLS.
NATIONAL PILLS.
The National Pills
are a new discovery
in medicine. They
are composed of
purely vegetable
extract prepared
by a newlydiecov
ered process, end
are sugar coated.
They are the great
blood and stomach
purifier. They act
on the liver with
magical effect. • ilii
mild, searehis ,
yet a thorough
purgative, k ham
no equal as a first
class family' p
See circulars with
each box
Sold by R. LUMSDEN and E. HICKSON L .
CO., Seaforth. and medicine dealers generally.
WOODRUFF, BENTLY & Co.,
Proprietors, Brougham,
117-25ins. Oat