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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1870-06-24, Page 3LITER E BROKER, ler in Pure L AND BYE STUFFS eat s ii-ndei the special Clemist„ i•JSEATTER, 59-t HAIL, LUCTIONE ER Ti,rE ERTH AND HURD 1- sincere thanks to the t for their liberal patronage xs, He would respectfully - LI attend. to- . all orders in for 1870, Orders left at Seaforth, the Beacon ie Advocate in Mitchell, ied to. teal Estate Agency attend. 4ted- of the market., Mitchell; • t . 116-tf. BER _ ve on hand at their Mills, from the Village of Ain. of Good _DRY PINE ,win g different kinds; viz t f, and two inch, clear. A ) inch nada quarter, and both dressed and under - i, common boards and tetniong. Board aiad strip will be sold at reduced -- ded first-elass planreng ✓ machinery, and intend ✓ of all lands constantly upon being able toprocure ides a Lumber at their iere advetised. her to the mill can have it t notice ani lowest possible & T SMITH. 870‘ 114-tf ILLS, The National Pills areanew discovery =medicine. They are composed of LLS. purely vegetable extract prepared by a newly cliscov- , ered process, and ILLS, are• sugar coated. They are the great blood and stomach pailfier. They act L LS. on the liver with magical effect. are mild, searching, yet a thorough purgative, & have no,equal as a first class family pill. See circulars with eaeli box and E. HICKSON Klicine dealers generally. 1 S. BEN TLY & Co., roprietors, Brougham, Out I THOMPSON nerons customers for their Et during the last fifteen kini receive its contnanance, lid a large assortment of k 3 give satisfaction. T OF PINE! "T FOR (1EN ERA It, P. CR posEa liberal terms, Orders will Ianreassartnaent of .ED A.TOUNTS 1 :attentioxr of his old custo. co their advantage to re- 'nd without .legal proceed - St„ 1870. 844f: F T11E6 GOLDEN ga- to inform the public that -ed. a great 1,3ariety of Sad es and N K S s prepared to. sell to -et Unparelleted. very descriptio -n, warrant. e horses neck. Of Harness a position to give his value for their money as blishment in Ontario, material, employed, indis- utable. PPaC7TE KIDDt CAMPBELL. n-tf. tine '241 1870. A Sad Story, ; • Tlrodore, eldest on of Henry Clay, died in Lexington .Lunatic Asylnm, on the 16th instafter a long confinement The -record of his blasted *life is briefly thus :--- At thirty years of age Theodore Clay was a promising lawyer: He was the image and the hope of the statesman whose 'fame was on every tongue. It is true that there were whispers of wild living and of indiffer- • ent morals; that somewhat tingecl. the fair repute and even darkening the future pros- pects of this scion of a noble house. Still it was hoped hat these were but the results .of youth, and would be cast aside when circumstances called upon the matured man to assert himself and make his talent felt in the community. It was at this turning point in his life • that Theodore Clay began to pursue with an unwearied perseverance that caused his friends great uneasiness, a young lady of Lexington, whorn ballad long loved hope- lessiy. The object csf his attachment, who is at the present moment one of the bright= est ornaments of Kentucky society, repuls- ed, firmly but kindly, every attention offer- ed by the infatuated young man, afterhis meaning had become manifest. It was of no use; he would not be refused, and fol- lowed his fair fate in the streets by clay and wandering in the neighborhood of her home - by night in an annoying fmanner, until at last it became evident that he was not all there '—to use the soft phrase by which a kindly peasantry express ,insanity. Subse- quent violent cleea onstrations tendeq. to con- firra the impression, it being even relaied that lae went th the house of Mr. and demanded his daughter at the pistol's point, until at last the wretchedtruth could no longer be ignored and confinement in .the astthina became a stern. necessity. This was aCcorclingly done (in 1833, we believe,) his father providing for his support at that time, and leavhag $10,000 in his will, the income of which was secured to, Theodore for life. That life after thirty-eight- years ,of imprisonment in what in the earlier , days of his confinement he was wont to call' .‘ a good boarding-house, but having some of • the biggest fools be ever saw as boarders,' has just closed. For nearly thirty years he was one of the most noted of the inmates, not only his proud descent, but his *graceful manners and conversation rendering him an object of interest to 411 vtsitors. He labor- ed un.der the •hallucination s that he was George WaShington, and was fond of as- suming the traditionary attitudes of the Fa- ther of His Country. At the ocoasional balls given to the inmates (averaging some five hundred in number) he was always ex- Cluisitely diledsed in the Style_of his day, and was the beau pair excellence. During all these long years, despite his general gentle- ness and cheerfulness of manner, he was restless and discontented, and1eguired close watching, it never, in fact,.having been con- sidered prudent to allow him to go out into the grounds without attendants. About. the year 1860 his condition began to grow worse, and soon after became demented, continuing in hopeless idiocy until a few days since, when death, greater healer than time, placed him • again upon an equality with the peers of his early manhood who had gone before him to the God that creat- ed him and clid with him according to His inscrutable will. And so ends as sad a story as the truth of history ever command- ed to be written. Two sons of Henry Clay yet survive him —T. II. Clay, ex -Minister of Honchiras, now residing on his place, Mansfield,' near Lexington, and John M. Clay, the stock raiser of Kentucky and one of the greatest turfmen living. - • Or• Presence of Mind. The following introduction to some sto- ries of great presence of mind, in the last • num her of Chambers' Journal, contains a fine analysis of an obscure mental faculty. Take away the force of gravity, and cen- trifugal force uncontrolled would scatter us in fine dust through space. Abolish on of the constituent Farts of any well organized government, and the result, in moral sense, woula probably be pretty much the same. Even the blade of a pair of scissors won't work without its fellow. Norls the brain aii exception to this rule. An eminent phil- osopher (Dr. Richardson), still living, inex- perimenting recently, on animals, With the object Of testingAbe •comparative value of various anesthetics, discovered that at least two antagonistic forces reside in the brain, one having its abode in the interior and up- per portion (the cerebrum), the other in the lower and posterior Part (the cerebellum). In his experiment, he.observed that if the ce- rebrum of an animal be rendered insensible and its powers thus temporarily destroyed, the animal is immediately impelled to rush forward; on the other hand, the cerebellum being paralfzed, retrograde movement ill the result. Thus he accounts for that im- pulse which Many people feel to precipitate themselves fro 90- a height; cerebrum, which contains the thinking and directing facul- ties, undet such circumstances becoming pa- ralyzed—dizzy—and so the control which it normally exercises over the cerebellum be- ing partially removed, the influence of the latter declares itself. The learned professor having opened. the gate for us, we may walk in and observe for • ourselves. Many things come to our recol-t lection whiCh we can now account for by this double brain force. • We can compre- hend why that partridge dashed madly for- ward after the fatal charge strucklim; and why the'other, although flying at the same speed, fell back in the air like a tumbler - pigeon, fluttering still backward to the ground. If we take up the one, We :find a ET* of shot has pierced the skull a little above the eyes ; and we see the death wound of the other at the back ofthe head. We can understand why those oveicome with fright so frequently ritSh into the danger they wish to avoid. Nor need we confine • ourselves to examples of a. purely physical nature.t We may place in the' same cate- gory the bashful man who. talks nonsense when he should hold his tongue'the awk- ward man, who only is awkward because he is nervous—the directing power bf his brain is in'abeyance-and the passsionate man, whose words and actions are uncontrolled by his reasoning powers. In a word, we can trace half our foolsh words and actions to a want of between these two forces that inhabit our brains, and it is only when the balance is correct that we .are fit to govern ourselves. •" Presence of mind is the popular term to express this mental equilibrium. • A Bridge of Monkeys. • 'They are coming, and will be most like- ly to cross the river by the rocks yonder," observed Raoul. - How,swim it?' I asked c It is a tor- rent there !" • • Oh, no,' answered the Frenchman, 'monkeys would rather go into the 'fire than water. If they cannot leap the stream they will bridge it.' Bridge it! and how ?" 'Stop a minute, Captain, and you shall see.' . The halt hunian voices now sounded near- er, and we could perceive'the animals were approaching the spot where we lay. Pre; -sently they appeared on the opposite bank, headed by an old chieftain, and officered like so many soldiers. They Were as Ronal stated, of the comodreja, c, ung tailed tribe.. •' One—an aid-de-camp, or chief pioneer, perhaps--ran-out upon a projecting rock, and after looking across the stream, as if calculating the distance, scampered back and appeared to communicate with the leader. This produced a movement in the • troops. Commands -were issued and fatigue parties were detailed and marched to the front. • Meanwhile several of the comadre- jas—engineers, no, doubt ---ran along the banks examining the trees on both sides. • At length they all -collected around a tall cotton -wood,- that grew over the narrowest part of the stream, .and twenty or thirty of themscampered up its trunk. On reaching a high point,the foremost—a strong fellow ran out upon a limb, and taking several turns of his tail around it, slipped -off, and hung head downwards. The next on the limb, also a stout one, climbed down the body of the first and wiped his tail tightly around the neck and fore arm of the latter, dropped off in his turn, and hung heid down. The third repeated the manceuvre on the second,an.d the fourth upon ihe third, andSOon, until the last one upon the string rests his forepaws upon the ground. The living chain now commenced swing- ing backwards and forwards, like -the pen- dulum rn tv clock. The motion was slight at first, but gradually increased, the low- er monkey .striking his hands violently upon the earth as he passed the tungent of the oscillating curve. • Several others upon the limb aided the Movement. This continued until the .p.onkey at the end of the chain was thrown among the branches of a tree on the opposite bank. Here, after two or three vibrations he clutched a, limb and held fast. • This inoVement was executed adroitly, just at the ctilmina,ting point of oscillation, in order to save the intermediate links from the vio- • lence of a too sudden jerk ! The chain was now fast at both ends, • forming a complete suspension bridge, over which the whole troop, to the number of fourjor five hundred, passed with the lapi- dity of thought. It was one of the raost cornical sights I ever beheld, to witness the qnizzical expres- sion of the countenancesalong the living chain! The troop was now !on the other side, ha* were the animals forming the bridge to get themselves over This was the question -which suggested itself. Manifestly bynum- ber one letting go his tail. But then the pnint 'd oppui on theother side was mach lower down, and number one, with half a dozen °this neighbors would be dashed against the opposite bank or soused into the water. Here, then, was a problem, I waited with some curiosity for its solution. It was soon solved. A monkey was now seen attaching his tail to the lowest on the bridge and another girded him in -a Similar n3an- ner, and another, and so on, until a dozen were added to the string. The last -vvere all powerful fellows; and running up to a position almost horiiontal. •Then a sereani. from the lak •monkey of the new formation -tamed the tail end that all was ready, and the whole chain was swung over and landed safely on the oppo- site bank. - The lowermost links then -dropped off like a "melting candle, while the higher ones leaped to the branches and came down by the trunk. The whole troop then scamper- ed off into the chapparal and disappeared, THE APPROACH OF SLEEP. ---it is a deli- cate moment certainly; that of being well nestled in bed, and feeling that you shall drop gently to sleep. The good is to come —not past; the limbs have been just tired enough to render the remaining in one pos- ture delightful; the labor of the day is done. A gentle failure of the perceptions comes creeping over one; the spirit of conscious-, ness disengages itself more and more like hushing degrees, like a mother tletatching her hand from that of a sleeping child; the mind simsto )athave a balmy lid closing over it . (3 the eye—itis closing—'tis more c1osing—'tis closed. The mysteri- ous spirit hasgoneto take its airy rounds. URO N EXPO SI Odd ChinescPCustoms. The mariner's compass is 'made to point south, instead of north, by putting the index on the now opposite end of the needle; a rider mounts a horse from the off side, in- stead ofblacking shoes, we whiten them with chalk; the old men fly kites; while the boys look on. An American, as an act of hospi- tality, treats you to a glass of wine. Chinaman .introduces you to his dea grandmother, in her coffin. He shows yo his own coffin with as bland politeness as • Frenchman would show yonhis pictures • an Englishman bis dogs. To xpress hi pleasure at meeting you, he does not sha,k your hand, but his own, moving them u and down as if he were 'pumping out h feeling's, and the gush was slow. Instea of taking off his hat, on coming into you • presence, he takes off his shoes. As mark of special boner .at a feast 4Q seats yo at his left hand, not at his right,'„ and send your ladies into an inferior rooth, to eat b themselves, -so that you can get as drunk. a you please -without gratifying their curios ty. Unmarried women are regarded as o very little account ; but mothersalway rule their children and grandchildren, t whatever age they may 'attain. Here, o the contrary, pretty young girls com-man all who approach them,' and the rule o ,children over their parents is only less per Ifeet than their sway over the grandparents Here you ask father how 1nany children h has, and he answers, perhaps, three. I China he would answer "one child and tw girls." When a man marries, his mothe acquires the right to " boss " his wife as wel as himself, which is very consoling to both parties. The mother-in-law is consoled by having one more to boss over. The hus band is consoled by the feeling that his la bor is divided. The daughter-in-law is consoled by knowing that she'll do th • same when she becomes a mother-in-law. A book is read from the left page to the right, from the bottom to the top, and beginning with the last page and ending with the first. The written language is net spoken, and the spoken language is not written, se that two persons may be able to.understand each other .perfectly by writing when neither can comprehend a word the other may say. The detectives sound a tom tom as they go through the streets to wain rogues and thieves that they are coming. The tax col- lectors are regarded,not as officers of the Government, but as licensed thieves, au- thorized to take all they can get without exciting any insurrections which they can- not themselves suppress. But one of their wisest customs, worthy of all imitation is when they get very angry with their friends and nothing but vengeance can slake their fury, they kill themselves:, in the confident belief that the enduring remorse of their friends at having been the cause of their death will far exceed their own temporary and trifling inconvenience in dying. This brings the sweets of revenge within the reach of every young "man and woman. It en- ables every afflicted person who can afford to invest five cents in ratsbane, or half that sum in rope, to punish his enemies to his heart's content without ever being subject- ed to trial, except by a coronets jury. wlio would generally find a verdict of complete justification. 'le • II Land Slide at Memphis, An immense commotion took place on the 1st inst. at Memphis. A space Of seventy-five feet of the batture, about four acres in ex- tent, between Washington and Poplar Sts., tumbled into the river, causing. (says the 1VIemphis Appeal) a general 'smash-up' among Brown & Jones' coal flats, besides, frightening every one in the vicinity aut of their wits, and into the belief that a first- class earthquake was about to come off. The excitement for a time was indescriba- ble. The Des Arc's bell was rung lustily, flat boatmen yelled and screamed in affright the docks and steamers in the vicinity roll- ed and tossed like ships in a gale of wind, and the alarm generally was of a first-class character. Several of Brown. and Jones' loaded coal -flats were ca.psized and daniaged, and the loss will excess $15,000. The tug- boat Little Giant appeared on the scene qnickly after the cave occurred, and rendei- ed great assisiance in safely moving several loose fiat -boats. The swell caused by the cave conapletoly swamped Eve coal -flats, and literally smashed them to pieces while un- der. They afterwards rose, broke into worth- less wrecks, and floated off down the river. The bar opposite the city, which a few years since was an insignificant -affair, has increas- ed by every rise and fall of the liver, until it is now of huge proportions, and extends from the point opposite the mouth of Wolf to the the point a short distance above Pre- sident's Island, a distance of nearly three miles. Previous to the last rise the point of the bay was but a short distance -below the foot of Beale street. The ferry -boat could then easily psss around it and run up the opposite shore to Hopefield. Now the bar looms up along the Arkansas side for the distance above mentioned, and there is no landing place below the point opposite Wolfe, while the am river is confined to a narrow space .of1ss than 1500 feet, and the cui rent sweeps a ainst this shore from above Wilt' River to F rt Pickering, with a velo- city that is really hreatening. In addition to the huge slice hat went into the stream at the upper par of the old navy yard last Tuesday, and th one yesterday, a half -acre or ,so of the bluff above Fort Pickering crack- ed off and also tumbled in. • If it keeps on in its present mad career, it win, doubtless, ere long, take off the leeve in front of the city, and necessitate the grading of the two bluffs between Jefferson and Munroe streets, to give sufficient levee room. - • GREAT CLEARINC SALE! MHE term of partnership having expired by li- mitation of time, the subscribers are disposed to sell off the whole of the stock a present in their store as quickly as possible. WE HAVE DETERMINED TO SELL At and Below Cost FOR E MONTH, FOR CASH ORTRADE FARMERS AND OTHERS MAY DEPEND ON GETTING _ BARGAINS AS TH-ril STOOK' MUST BE SOLD& N. B,—No goods entered during the sale. CAUTION.' THEpublic are hereby -cautioned against pur- chasing or negotiating any note of hand drawn by the undersigned during the year 1870, as no value has been received for any note given by hirn during said year,. WILLIAM COOPER; Tuckersmith, June L 1870. 130-3in. - CAUTION. IHEREBY Caution all partieS against purchas- ing, or negotiating for a promisory note, dat- ed Seaforth; May 13th, 1870, payable one year after date, for $200, raad.e by me in favor of -- Brownell, as I have received no value therefor, and payment will not be made. FBANCIS G. STARLING. Seaforth, June 3, 2870. 130 4ins. HOUSEAND'LOT FOR SALE. • THE subscriber •offers for sale a large Frame Cottage, 30 x 40, new, and Village Lot on the corner opposite. the Baptist Church, Seafortla. Farm property would be taken in exchange. Ap- ply on th•e pr•emises. ••ALEX, McAURTIIER. Seaforth, Jan. 28, 1870. 112-6m. • 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 accommodated with first class horses ajad. vehicles., at reasonable prices. Seatorth, Jan'y. 2Ist, 1870. 97-tf. '50 000. MO lend on the security of Real Property in the • County of Huron at from 6t� 10 per cent., by DOYLE & SQITIER, 11.7-6n. Barristers, Goclerich. MONEY TO LEND. ON Farm or desirable village property at 64- per cent. Payments made to suit the bor- rower. Apply to A. G. McDOUGALL, • Insurance Agent and - Commissioner, Seaforth, or to JOHN SEATTER, Exchange.Broker, •Seaf•orth. March 25th, 1870. •MILLINERY — A151)- 3DIR,SSM..A..•1K,11\TG-1 MHE MISSES STODDARD, AT THEM Residence in ECMONDVILLE. are prepared to execute orders for all kinds of 'MILLINERY, DRESS AND MANTLE MAKING. Air A share of patronage is respectfully solicited-, EGATONDVILLE, May 19, 1870. • 1284f— • KIDD .8z McMULKIN. AND LATEST- AND MOST FASHIONATiEE DRESS MAKING ESTABLISHMENT . Seaforth, June 14th, 1870. 131. •IN SE &FORTH. Toronto Millinery" Scott Robertson's Is the place to get a CHOICE HAM, SIDE OF BACON PORK OF ANY DESCRIPTION, Or quality from. 8 oz. to 8 tons weight. CHOICE FAMILY Flour and Oat Meal. • CHEESE BY THE TON WHOLESALE OR RETAIL FAMILY GROCERIES FRESH 84. CHEAP. BUTTER AND EGGS • TAKEN IN EXCJIANGE FOR. GOODS: Sectorial; June17.. 1870, MISS ERWIN begs to thank the Ladies of Seaforth and. vicinity, for their liberal pa- tronage, and to intimate that sheis just reveiving a large and well selected. stock of MILLINERY GOODS in endless variety, suitable to the' season, and at such prices as to defy competition and Please the niost fastidious. All orders will receive her UM - al prompt attention—and. as regards taste, latest styles, neatness of paterns-:—she has confidence in • saying she cannot be surpassed_ in the country. New book of Boston and Toronto Foshions re- ceived regularly. Embroidery and. braiding stamped. Straw and hair work done with neat- ness. A good. supply of LADIES' DRESS CAPS KEPT CONSTANTLY ON HAND. A call is respectfully solicited before purchas- ing elsewhere. Seaforth, April 22nd, 1870. 124-tf. EASE AND COMFORT THE 'BLESSING OF PERFECT SIGHT. There is nothingsovaluable asperfectsight, and. perfect sight can only be obtained by using Perfect Spectcles, the difficulty of procuring which is well kuo-wn. Messrs. Lazarus & Morris, Oculists & Optici- , cans, Hartford, -Conn., Manufacturers of the Celebrated Perfected Spectacles, have after years of Experience, and. the erection of costly ma- chinery, been enabled to produce that Grand Desideratum, Perfect Spectacles, which have been sold with 'militated satisfaction to the wearers in the United States, Prince Edward's Island, and Dominien of Canada, (luring the past nine years thtise Celebrated Perfected Speotacles never tire the eye, and» last many years without change. Sole Agent for Seaforth, M. R. Counter, from whom only they can be procured. LA_Z.A.RU4'i MORRIS & Montreal. WE EMPLOY NO PEDLERS: - Seaforth, Jaafy. 2Ist, 1870. 76-1y. TEETH EXTRACTED WITHOUT PAIN. CCARTWRIGHT, L.D.S., Surgeon Dentis Extracts teeth without pain by the use o the.Nitrous-Oxide Gas. Office,—Over the 'Bea, con' store, Stratford. Attendance in Seafortb, at Sharp's Hotel, the first Tuesday' and Wednes- day of each month, in Clinton, at the Comtherc- ial Hotel, on the following Thursdays and Fridays. Partiesrequiring new teeth are requested to call, If at Seaforth and Clinton, oil the first 1a31 attendance. Over 5000 patients have had teeth extractea by the use of the Gas, at 'Dr.. Vioulton's offices; New York. 131. j Stratford, Feb. 11,1870. 11444 C.