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THE HURON EXPOSITOR.
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jULY .22, 1874..
Five Minutes'ACCore to Live.
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akitung man stood up before a large au-
dience in the most Will position a human
being could be placed. He steed on the
platform of a icaffeld. The nOose had been
adjusted around his neak, and in a few min-
utes more he would be in eternity. The
Sheriff took out his watch and said :
"If you have anything to say, sptak now,
as you have but free minutes more to live.",
Oh! what awful words for a young man
to hear, standing -there in. full health and
vigor. Shall I tell you his message to the
youth about him? He burst in tears, and
said, with sobbing.:
" I have to die! 1 'had only one little
brother. Hehad beautiful blue eyes and
iiiixen hair; and �h! how I loved him.
But one day I got drunk, for the first time
'in my life. I came home and found mylit-
tie brother gathering strawberries in the
garden. I got angry with him without
cause, and I killed him with a blow from a
rake. I knew nothing abeut it till 1.woke
next day and found myself tied aim guarded.
They told me when my little brother was
found his hair was clotted with blood and
brains. Whiskey has done it. It has ruin-
ed me. I have only one more word to say
to the young people before I go to stand in
the presence of my Judge. NEVER, NEVER)
NEVER touch anything that can intoxi-
cate!" As he said these words, he sprang
from the box and was in eternity.
Dickens' Private Life.
Mr. Dickens'. private life was singularly. -
unobtrusive and withdrawn feom the public
eye. Year ago his domestic troubles Made
his family circle painfully conspicuous bo-,
fore the British pee-ple, and censure was.
freely bestowed upon One or the other par-
ty to the deplorable conjugal quaarel by the
intimate friends of either. But Dickens
lived down the scandal, and itis a sufficient I
refutation of it, perhaps'that his children
have always manifested for him the tender-
est affection. One of these, a son, has grown
to man's estate and is an honored member
of society. Another is the wife Of Mr..
Charles Collins, author of " After Dark;"
"A Cruise on Wheels," and other novels,
which have been overshadowed by the great-
er popularity of the writings of Ms brother,
Mr. Wilkie Collins.
In London Dickens. lived mostly at, the
Carrick Club, where - he filled- as large a
place as John Dryden used to fill at -Wirs
Coffee House. There was, at one time,
some alarm created lest he should leave
the Carrick, in consequence, as it was Whis-
pered, of the factsthat one of his friends and.
publishers had been black -balled there, but
the trouble was coniposed, and the Carrick
knew himii to the last. His town apart..
nients Were comfortably fitted up, but were
not in the fashionable quarter. They con-
stituted the second floor of the* house iu
Wellington street, Strand; the lower part of
which was cecupied by the business officers
of All the Year Round. Mayfair saw little
of Dickens, nor was Belgravia one of his
familiar haunts. We believe he was nevel.
presented at court; but it was not long
ago, since his lastreturn froin the -United ;
States, that the Queen invited him to come
and see her, and he spent a day with her
tit Windsor Castle.
When in London, Dickens miggt be seen'
at dinner _more frequently than anywhere
else at Verrey's, a restaurant in the upper
part of Regent street, where, often with
Wilkie Collins, he sat at a little table in
the corner reserved for him especially by
the mature di hotel.
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Locomotive Driving--Semetlaing about j
Our Every Day Heroes.
'1 don't care much to tell you of it," said
Carpenter'the "train dispatchei," of the
Michigan Central Railroad, at this point,
when he was asked the other afternoon_ to
enlighten our readers orathe subject of lo-
comotive driVing. " itis something which
the public don't appreciate, something never
thought of, unless it be to find fault when
an accident h. -appalls. People hurry to catch
the train, are speeded to their journey's end
in safety, but who among them ever gives
a thought to the grim and dusty figure,
whose watchfullness has prevented a whole-
sale slaughter or a terrible accident? I
tell you that the railroad engineer is not
appreciated' - people pass him by too often
and too caredessly.
Ever since the locomotive came ieto gen-
eral use, it has been a wonder and an ob-
ject of terror.- Rushing through meadows,
dashing through forests, cutting its way
through dark gorges of the mountain; his-
sing, smoking, screaming, the people mingle
awe with admiration at the eight of the iron
steed. Staad you elm() to the iron ra.i1S,
and watch the approach of the Monster,
whose rush made the earth tremble, can you
help but feel a Creeping chill of terror, a
faeter beating of the heart, a da,zallng of the •
vision, a desire to flee from out his path
But once behind it, seated in a luxurious
see, perusing a book or a paper, and we on-
ly think of the time of arrival at a certain
.point, feel that we are going :faster or slow_-
er, are stopping, and, unlelss these shrill
. screams axe -blown back to us that indicate
danger ahead, the man who holds the reins
of the fire -fiend never enter our thought 01
conversation. .
It is not only an art, this drivinea loco- ;
motive., but isa work that -requires every ,
sru.cessful engineer to be a hero, to have.
nerves of steel and a frame of iron.
We hear ryf heroes every day ; we read of
brave deeds of men, of lives aaved, of heroic
velf-sacrifices. It is well ---the World likes '
brave men. But, there is no gicater hero,
uo braver Mall, 110 0110 W110 t_C_Als harder or
sceeitices more' than that quiet, modest
genius,. whose steady nerves shake death
from the path of his rushing engine, and
lands his human freight at the end of his
route without man or woman dropping even
one word to show that the danger_ was
known and the heroism appreciated.
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21. Brave Little Lady.
At a little station called Shunpike, on the
Butches and Columbia railroad, a few. days
since, occurred the scene we are about to re-
late. As the .5:2C) train was nearly due on
Thursday morning, Frederick Case, station
agent at .Shunpike, and living a short dis-
tance from the track, -left his home for the
purpose of opening the ticket office. He
had not been gone long'when his little Son,
two years old, found his way through the
open gate to the track, where he was attract-
ed, n� doubt, by the childish curiosity of his
a,ge. His sister, eleven years of age, busy-
ing herself about household duties, did not
at first notice his absence. Suddenly hear-
ing -the shriek of the approaching train, she
looked for her little brother, and &wiping
through the open door, was for a moment
paralyzed at beholding him standing in the
path of the approaching train, clapping his
hands in childish glee at its unuseal appear
ance. Recovering herself in a second, with
a cry of agony she .sprang through the open
door and down the garden path with the
speed of the wind, thinking and carieg for
nothing but her brother's danger. The en-
gineer noticing the flying form, whiistled
down brakes, but too late, for just as the
heroic girl was lifting her brother from the
track, the remorseless engine crushed them
both down under the terrible -wheels. The
train was finally stopped, however, when
they were picked up.—The boy, beyond a
feW slight bruises, was uninjured, -Thd,
brave girl was terribly mangled, one leg and
foot being literally torn in pieces, and beine
otherwise badly bruised about the limb':
and body. She was taken back to the house
and physicians summoned, who are making
every -effort to save her life, and from late
accounts, they are likely to-succeed.—A
ray Journal.
PREACHING. —There are few things more
tantalizing and intolerable than to sit out
a weak, twaddling, dull, dreary—as we say
in Scotland "dreich"—cold, perhaps, to boot;
unlike even the last cup of tea, where the
beat may -somewhat compensate for the
want ef strength. °Preachers,—let them
pardon me for saying in,—they should con-
sider that, through newspapers and periodi-
cals, the public are now familar with writ-
ings, distinguished alike for their vigor and
brilliancy, and that the standard of taste is
mucliahigher than it used to be. More is
now expected from the pulpit, and no man
can fill it who does not bestow on his dis-
courses much time and not a little study.
You may think it an easy thing to preach,
that the work of a few hours, o r a day or
two at the end of the . week, is all that the
public requires. Not so thought Isaac Bar-
row. It is told of that philosopher and di-
vine, that he had once heard another preach
one of his own printed discourses. He ask-
ed the plagiarist, -----who either did not, know
that Barrow was the ! owner of the stolen
pi operty; or was his 4uestioner,—how long
it took him to make that discourse; and on
the other saying five hours—"It is very
curious-;? 'said Isaac, "kir it took me. not
less tbaa five weeks." Not so thought Rob-
ert Hait. This greatest of modern orators
declared but a shott time. before lie died,
that he had tormented himself all his life
Jong in trying td preach well, and had aiev-
th- succeeded. !ti
se •eis
'AN ASTONISHING LEAP. —The terrific leap
of a passenger from a moving passenger
train on the Vallejo route, from Sacra-
mento, on the 17th int, forever puts Sam
Patch's Niagara exploit in. the shade. The
train, it appears, was about ten minutes 'be-
hind time, and was making it up at the
rate of twenty-five miles an hour. When
about five miles above Suisin, the paasen-
gers in the smokily -,e car were astonished at
n
seeing a man, who/had been eleeping in one
of the side seats, spring to his feet, • and,
with one bound, plunge head foremost out
of the window on the opposite side of the
car. The window was up at the time, and.
the man went through like a dart, showing
that he was an expert diver. He threw his
heels up when he made the. plunge, and
they came in contact with the sash, shiver-
ing the glass in atoms. The alarm was at
once given that a man was 0\Tel-board ; the
train stopped and backed to the place where
the fearful leap was made, for the piirpose of
picking up a mangled coipse.. The flying
passenger was found, however, sitting on the
ground, rubbing his eyes and trying to col-
lect his scattered senses sufficiently to 14.s -
certain where he was and how he came to
be there. He was handled tenderly at first,
but it was soon aseertained that the only
damage he sustained was a slight tibeesion of
the ekin on one of his elbows. -
E v t La OF .1 N TE RMARRaGE. —A Mel all 0110-
ly caSe of the evils of intermaexying has oc-
curred. .We give the story in the sufferer's
own words ; "1 married a widow who had
a grown up daughter. 11ty father visited
my house ver`y often, fell in love with my
step' -daughter, and married her. , So my fa-
ther became my own son -hi -law, and my
step -daughter became my step -mother, be -
ca -use she -was my father's wife. Seine time,
afterwards my wife had a sol—he was bro-
ther of my step -mother. My father's wife,
that, IS, my Step -(laughter, als-O had a son ; lie
-was, of course, my brother, and in the mean
time my grand-chlul, for he was the son of
my daughter: My wife was my grandmoth-
er, because he was my stepenother's moth-
er.- I was nit wife's husband and grand-
child at the same time. And. 4's the hus-
band of a person's grandmother is the grand-
father, I was my own grandfather." After
fully convincing himself of the immutibility
of the above facts, the victim, in a fit -of. de-
spondency, cut lus own throat.
Dutehi
9.111991.999949
• An old plain -looking and plain-spoken
Dutch farmer, from. the tific;nity of Helder -
berg, in pursuit of dinner the other day,
dropped in at, the Excelsior Dinner Saloon
in Nassau street, New York. Taking a
seat beside a dandy lissimo sort of a fellow
—all perfume moustache, and shirt collar
—our honest idayhneer ordered up his din-
ner.
tc What will it he, sir 7 " 'asked white
•apron.
"You got goot corned beef, hey 7 ' says
Dutchy, • /
"Yes !"
"You got saurkraut, too, heyV'
"Oh Yes !"
" Veli, gif me some both," said llyn-
heer.
Off tarta white itpron on a kee jump,
and presently returns with the desired fod-
der. The am -a -kraut was smoking het, and
sent forth its peculiar flavor evidently sat-
isfactory to Mayhneer's nasal organ, and
Vice Versa to that of our dandy friend, who
after the dish had been deposited on the
table, and Mynheer was about commencing
exclaimed:
"1 say, my friend, a -are you going to eat
that stuff"
: Myline,er turned slowly around, and
looking at his interrogator With evident as-
tonishment, says he:
"Eat it 7 Vy of course 1 eats it!"
"Well," says dandy, would as leaf de -
your a plate of guano."
"Ah well," replied Mynheer, pitching in-
to the saurkraut with an evident relish,
1-dat depends altogedder on how von vas
brought up !"
Dandy looked kinder caVed in, and we
left with the opiniou that Dutehy was one
ahead.
BENEFITS or UNBOLTED FLO Li —M Os t,
if not all niedical authorities agree on the
superiority of unbolted, over bolted flour for
consumption. Fine flour from entire wheat
is proven to be in every respect the most
wholesome and nourishing, and ought in the
nature of thine to take the place of the
purely starchy compounds now in such gen-
eral use. The London Lancet l'ecoids the
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result of a recent analysis of unbolted wheat
flour, by -Prof. Attfield, as follows :—He
finds that this flour au naturel, contains
15.2 per centof moisture, 14.1 of gluten,
1.16 of phosophates, and 1.91 of cerealin.
By the application of heat, as in gentle roast-
ing, a portion of the natural moisture escap-
es, and the starch is in part changed. The
amount of rnoistur'e is 10.8 per cent., of glu-
ten 15.0, of phosophate 1,65 and cerealin
one-half of the roasted flour, which, in fact,
is richer in flesh and bone -forming substance
•than before. Moreover—and this is a rnost
important faCt—six-tenths of the cerealin
remains in the soluble .s tate, to act as the di-
gester of starchy foods taken in the stomach.
It was especially as regards the state of the
ce,realin in cooked flour that we need infor-
mation.
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WO'
PRIT, GOODS.
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New Suits,
New Dress Goods,
Boots az Shoes.
ALSO A NIcE STOCK OF
ROCERIES,
AT
a
Bonthron itt
Seaforth, April, 14, 1870. 52-tf-
NOTICE
:BATHS! BATHS
• MR,. PILLIVIAN,
IIA.S pleasure in announcing to the gentlemen
of Seaforth and N icinity, that the BATHS
iormerly kept by Mr. Lubelski are now ready
for use, and he hopes that by keeping everything
clean and comfortable to receive a liberal share
of public patronage.
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TAILORINC
MR. PILLMAN,
CILD also beg to state that he is carrying
on the
WATCHES.
WATOHES
WATCHES
WATCHES
WATCHES
WATCHES
WATCHES
WATCHES
WATCHES
WATCHES
WATCHES
CLOCKS
CLOCKS
CLOCKS
CLOCKS
CLOCKS
• CLOCKS
CLOCKS.
CLOCKS
CLOCKS
CLOCKS
One of the Largest and.Best Assorted Stock
in this line, s to befound. at M. O. COUNTER'S,
OPPOSITE CARMICHAEL'S HOTEL.
SEAFORTH, .March 31, 1870. 52—•
SPRING GOODS.
WM. CAMPBELL
Merchant Tailor,
SPRING
AltitIVALS.
T. K. ANT -ARSON'S
SPRING STOCK or
English Scotch,
and Canadian Tweeds
BROAD CLOTHS, like
HAS ARRIVED.
SPLENDID ASSORTMENT -OP
Prince Arthur Checks.
TAILORINC
, IN ALL ITS BRANCHES, DONE IN A FIRST
CLASS MANNER, AND ACCORDING TO
THE LATEST, OR ANY OTHER
STYLE, TO SUIT
• CUSTOMERS.
8EAFORTI-1, March 31, 1870.
SEAFORTH
HAS JUST RECEIVED A COMPLETE STOCK FURNITURE WAREROOMS
—0 F -
SPRING GOODS.
EMBRACING EVERY STYLE
THAT WILL BE WORN
FOR
SPRINC&SIUMINER
ALL GARMENTS GOT -UP -
BY THE BEST WORKMEN,
AND AT MODERATE -I
CHARGES.
WM. CAMPBELL,
NEW YORK HOUSE
SEAFOIITII, March 31, 1870,
58 --
Carriage FactoryH,
MAIN STREET, SEAFORT
AND NEARLY OPPOSITE,
SHARPS HOTEL
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MHE undersigned would intimate to the in-
-1 habitants of Seaforth-- andsurrounding
country, that they have on hand a large stock of
first-class HICKORY BUGGY STUFF. They
are now ready to receive orders for all kinds of
Buggies, Carriages &c., made up by experienced
Workmen, in the very latest styks.
Old Work repainted by a first-class Carriage
Painter.
REPAIRING PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO.
CHARGES MODERATE.
GIVE THEM A CALL. I 1,
:McINTOSH & MORRISON.
Seaforth, Jan'y, 21st, 1870. 111-tf.
TAILORING BUSINESS,
In all its branches, in the shop formerly occupied
as a Barber Shop, and from his long experien.ce
in this business feels confident in saying that
parties favouring him with their orders, will
have there garments made in a manner which
will be second to the work of no other establish-
ment in Ssaforth.
; A TIDAL IS RESPECTFULLY SOLICITED. i
. Seaforth, April 14, 1870. 123-U.
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FARM FOR SALE.
FoR.Baie—tn excellent farm of. 25 acres, 21
• cleared, ,well fenced, with a good log house,
frame stable, young IVaring orchard, and a first
class well and pump, being the .east corner of *lot
No. 6, 1st on. Townshipof Hulled, Co. Huron.
Gne half mile from the uron Road, 5 naiks from
Cluiton and 4 from Seaforth. This farm is well
situated for a ga,rdener. Will be sold either with
the present crop or without. For fUrtherparticu-
lars apply to -the proprietor on the premises.
ENOS MORTON.
Seaforth, June 17, 1870.
M. ROBERTSON
Importer and maamfacturot of all kinds of
H Us E 01....8Duch FLU R N ITU RE
SOFAS,
LOUNGES,
k :ENTRE TABLES,
MATTR ASSES
DINING & BREAKFAST TABLES,
BUREAUS,
CHAT -Rs, and -
BEDSTEADS,
In Great Vaxity.
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Mr. R. has great conidence fn offering his,
goods to the public, as they are made of Good
Seasoned LuMber. and by First -Class Work-
men
COFFINS MADE TO ORDER.
On the Shortest Notice.
WOOD TURNING
Done with iNeatness and Despatch-
Warerooms
TWO DOORS SOUTH* SHARP'S HOTEL,
• Main Street.
Seaforth, Jan'y 21st, 1870. 57-tf.
INSOLVENT ACT,
OF 1869.
IN THE MATTER OF
JAMES YOUNG, the Elder,
AN INSOLVENT.
1\--0TICE IS HEREBY -GIVEN, that pursul
_1_11 ant to the powers vested in me as Assignee
of the above named Insolvent, an iny right, title,
and interest in the following lands and premises,
as Assignee; as aforesaid, will be .eold. by
Public Auction!
At the Anetior Mart of .Mr.GEORGE IVI.TRUE-
MAN, in the Town of Goderich, Co. Huron,
ON WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 1870,
AT THE HOUR OF TWELVE O'CL0C7K,
NOON, VIZ.
All and singular, that certain parcel or tract of
Land and Premises,situate, lying and being in the
Township of McKillop,
! In the said County of Hurion, and Province of
Ontario, and being composed of
'The Westerly Half of Lot No. '27
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in the 3rd Concession of the said Township
of McKillop. The said Property con-
tains by admeasurement
FIFTY ACRES, BE THE SAME
AIOBE OR LESS,
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Of which about 45 acres are cleared. The land
is a clay loam of good qu.alitY. The buildinga
thereon consist of a Stone House about 18 x 28
feet, with a Frame Kitchen- attached, and A
Frame Earn 34 x 54 feet. There is also a good
young Orcharc1 on said premises. The property
is well situated, being a mile and a half from the
nourishing Village of Seiferth. For further par-
ticulars apply to Assignee, or to
S. B. GORDON,
Solicitor. Gederieh.
JOHN HALDEN,
Assignee.
Dated at Goderich,
this lith day of June, 1810.%
133:4—
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IVIoney ! 'Money !
riviE subscriber has received another large re -
1 Mittance of money for investment on good
far 4 property, at 8 per cent; or 10 per cent, and_
no charges.
JOHN 8. PORTER.
Seaforth, Jan'y. 21st, 1870. 95-tf
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ea,'" ...!=sewNeMple
Baby Farnii
The cable brings
Mrs.. Walters, a we
London, has been f
ing a number ot 4,
car '), either by star
particulars of the
London Times of Ji.
Within the last fl
of infants were fon
don. They were in
aLrtieles,of clothing. '
No clue could be ('
vere responsible for
one recent inques
Waters' was found
piece of paper in whi
• The next scene i
opened by an 2-dver
quote in full.
A Do Pron. —A g(
er's love and care. is
able pelon wishing
adopted, Premium
eludes everything.
to Mrs. Oliver, Poi
Brixton.
To the disgrace of
tisement was allowe
lv paper, if notir
advertiser being cc
-an in7itation appea
and the police prol
:alight have some (:
,-ov-eries. of dead
ment 'we have quot
swered bv a Seaman
. b
ply he reCeived a 1
Oliver " displays he
gnage a parental af
her great pleasUrft
the little boy, if
wishes for one as yoz
it may know none In
" We are both," slix
children, and should
one to our care, you
ceiving the love and
gives an acCeunt of h
from wiaith it won'
everything to make
dren. •
Tht sergeant then
a railway station, )..)
son now in custoci)
" Mrs.- Ellis." Afte
lowed her, and .trac
Brixton. Simultan(
to her home in the
woman who had rev
illegitiMate child.
take the father of
" MrS. Ellis" hen
the child was pr
c -dreadfully emaciat
ine Further hag
which we prefer to
of the report ..:—
" Witness asked t
Itad got any more
there were more d
down, and on a sofa
found five infants, a
old, all huddled
gowns and shawls.
asleep. They were
ed to be. neglected.
to be dying."
The reason why O.
quiet may be minis
a doctor :-:.'
" There were ten
old up to three naon
were emaciated; so.
was very little chan
with such food as he
One of the children
of a narcotic. On IL
rooms he found a bo
'Elixir.' "
A More rlistressin
been revealed, and, i
to the just indignati
. The, Treasury hav
up the ease, and un
yesterday, it isumei
is, at 411 even -4 a sin
thename "Whters,'
, . f
was written on a pie
dead ehild wag, found
name under wfhich ti
advertisement is in C
is stated on. the part
other artieles found '
can be traced to thel
tant installment of ttI
by a girl who was it
where the 'Baby Fat
states thaq during th,
been in service foull
away. TWO were td
at night, and were 1.)1
prisoners saying thel
train. But -the neX
taken away,and the i
out them, saying, pel
taken them 4 home 1
This girl had fete
tAirs, Moir.' She h
laudanum, and by
has procured lime a
tants' food. She st
while she was there,
teral of the atticie,s f
fants as having been
worn by ow,- of the
and-sentalWe wca
THE ,ADULTIITRATt
ileCti011 with the eta]
made the other nig
mons to the effect t
dation foi the belie
ated to any ex n
Mr. Williara Smee,
ago 'with the 9bjimil
the beer .sold in Lo '
tabled six samples ii
six in the south.
aut selection, of 1,1