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The Huron Expositor, 1870-07-29, Page 2• egt • 2. ' i:111140101MORNINCON43111011670M(3tili=d0 • - ,ry- Scottish Surnames: The danship of Scotland has tended to limit the nember of surnames in that t MD - try. A hundred and fifty surnames repre- sente nearly half the entire three million of population. First in number in Scotland, as in. England, stands the cosmoPolittair Smitles ; but Jones, the name •which pies the second placein Elighind, is "no- -where" in Scotland. M'Donald. is second - in Scotland ; and _thenroll ow Brown, Thom - • son, Roon berts, Steward, Camp e . , son and Anderson- Dr. .Stark, of -the registry dice, has ascertained that the regisfei's of births in 1863 show these to be thq nine strongest names ie Scotland, and the same lisult was obtained on a -former occasion, from an examination of the registers 4af births, deaths.and marriages in 1855; 1856, and 1858. Scott is the tenth mune upon the births register of 1863, followed by Miller, McKenzie, Reid, Mau, Johnson, Murray, Clark, Peterson, Young, the spelling,sometimes varying a little in different families. In the liat- obtained from the misters of 1856, 1856, and 1858, Fraser and Maclean. had place among the first 20, and Clark. and *You -lig were alittle lewer on the roll. Notwithstanding the large modern accession of Irish and other immigrants, several Scottish surnames still • very decidedly predominate in certain ,parts ,7,f,the country. The. M7Donalds are Ivery strong in Inverness,' and also, indeed, in Ross and Cromartv7 but the APKenzies, se outnumber theen in Ross end Crcmarty. The N? -Kays preponderate in Caithness and .utlierland '• the M'Leodsd . in Ross an Cromarty ; M'Learis are pretty generally divided among the three counties of Argyll s Inverness. ROSS, and Cromarty. Nearly one-third of the M'Intosh baths occur _in. Inverness, Nairn, and -Banff ; the most nu- merous section of the M'Gregors is in Peeth- shire, -where, also, the Stewards{ are strong- est - and the Robertagon there and in Forfar. The Campbells areistrome in Argyll, and there are apwaedS- of 67009 in Glasgow. The Hamiltons are also numdrous, in Wes - go 7-- and thloughout Lanai' Ishire ; the Fraser, in Inverness, the Grants, in Elgin, NannBanff, and Inverness : the Kerrs in - Renfrew and Ayr, the Oamerons, in Argyll Inverness and erth ; the Scots in Rox- lamer F,(elkirle ncl Forfar • Ross in Ross and Cromarty.-'- In proportion to popula- tion there are much fewer surnames in Scotland than in Eng -land ; the total num- is about 0,800. The most listed Christien names in Scotland are Sohn and James for men, Mardaret aiid Mare for women. The-Tirst-Icaval Battle Between Iron: • clad Ships. At -the very beginning of the war the Confederates t)ethought them of an iron- clad ship of w-ar. They took hold of an ,old fligate which the Federals had sunk in the jellies River. They sheathed her in iron plates. They roofe'd her with iron rails.' At her prow, beneath the water -line, they fitted an ircnclad projection, which may be driv--an into the side of an adversary. They armed her with ten guns of large size. The mechanical resources of the Confederacy were defective, and tiliS 110N -el structure `Was eight 'months in preparation. One morning in March she steamed slowly down • the James River, attended by five small vessels of the ordinal y sort. A powerful Northern fleet lay guarding the mouth of the river. The Virginia—as the ironclad had been named—came straight. toward the hostile ships. She fired .no shot No man. show- ed himself upon her deck. The Federale assailed her with well -aimed discharges. The shot bounded harmless from her sides. she steered for the Cumberland, into whose timbers she stuck her armed prow. •A huge cleft opened in the Cumberland' s side, and. the gallant ship went down, with a hun- dred men of her crew on bbard. ;The Vir- gin; a -next attacked the Fedel.al ship Con: gress . At a distance of two hundred yards she opened her guns upon the ill-fated ves sel. The Congress was aground, and could offer no effective resistance. . After sustain- ing heavy loss, she was forced to sari -ender. I\; ight approached, and the V irOnia drew ota-, intending to resume her -work- on. the morrow. Early next morning—a, bright Sunday morning—she steamed out and made for the Minnesota—a Federal ship which had been grounded to get beyond her reach. The Minnesota Was still aground and helpless. Beside her, however, as the men on board the -Virginia observed, lay a mysterious structure, resembling nothing they had ever seen before. Her deck was scarcely visible above the water, and it sup- ported nothing but an iron turret nine hun- dred feet high. This -was the Honitor, , de- signed by Captain Eccirson—the -first of the class of iron -clad turret -ships, which are des- tined probably to be the fighting ships of the future, so long as • the world is foolish enough to need ships for fighting aurposes. By a singular. chance she . had arrived thus opportunely. The two ironcladsmeasured their strength in combat. But their-. shot produced no impression, .and • after a heavy but ineffeetive firing, they separated, and the Virg inia retired up the James River. This fight opened a new era inidaval war," fare. The Washington Govern Tnen t hasten- ed. to build turret ships. All European Go- vernments, perceiving the worthlessness _ of ships of the old type, proceeded to recon - construct their narVi.es _according to the light which the actin of the Virginia itnd the eltanitor afforded them. A Texas editor has had presented to him by his admiring lady readers, an embroider- ed shirt, which presents a pieterial tlistory of the State including the Mexican war. The editor wears the shirt outside of his coat, and wherever he goes he is follo-wed by crowds of admiring boys studying from the back of it the fine arts and booking them- selves in Texas politics. ARM1041111r601111111.1P-onk:MIZMUZIK The Black Death. 3 THE HURON txPOSITOR The •Black Deatlfor Great Mortality of 1348, 'though usrualy regarded as an aggra- vated outbreak of the ordinary Oriental plague, which is by very general consent assigned te Egypt as its birthplace, is traced by Hecker, in his DiseaSes of the Middle Ages," to China, fifteen yea-rs before it showed itself in Europe: Anglada; in his Etude sur les Maladies E teintes , traces it by , three distinct routes from Black Cathay ; the northern route by Bokhara and Cartary, the Black Sea and Constantinople, having brought it-bY the Bosphorus into the Medi- , t?rranean fmd so into Etu ape. . Here as in Asiaaatmospheric and volcanic distur- bances prepared the way for itt aprroach. China'', between 1333 ancl 1347, was visited with dreught. families, torrents of rain, earthquakes, swarms of locusts. The ad- vent of the plague in Europe wns heralded by similar atmospheric or terrestial distur- bances. •The island of CypruS was in 1348 converbed into a desert by an • earthquake, accoMpanied by hunicane and inundation. There was noticed a peculiar offeasive state of the air, sometimes spoken efas a stinking inist; and attributed to the heaps of dead lo - ousts whose swarms had darkened the sun of the 25th of January the same year. An unexampled earthquake, lasting several days, visited Greece, Itaiy and the neighboring countries, shaking down or swallowing • • • • up whole villages, and seriously nalulang every great city. Frequent shocks oceeered from time to time i11. all pets of Eui ope. in: chiding England, up td the year 1360. The, Black Death first reached England 111 1338, 1 appearing in Dorset, thence spreading through Devon and • Someiset - to Bristol,. G.loticester, Oxford, and - London.' It took three. months to reach the capital. Few . , places escaped, and not mol 0. than a ;.tentli of the inhabitantsare said to haveremained alive. Dr. Gay in his recent. lecture on plaice health, has no 'doubt that the sylup- toms .of the Black Death Were no other than those of the true Oriental plague, Marked according- to Heeker's statement by inflam- matory boils and tumours; of the glands, such as break oift in no other ferblie (hs - case - it most often, pro xa A , fatal .on the Sp c .nd or thhal day, in the midst of prefus.e diseharges of offensive. blood from the lung-, _ such as are known Qo attend and. charaethr- , lee- gangrene of those OfleallS. The best ac count. of this Visitation is that of 'Guy (le cliinliae, one of the glories of Montpelier, pliveanaa to t'ope Clemerit,V1. This -brave ana skilful men, though himself attacked. by the pest, remained true to his ,po8t, While his colleagues Meanly sought safety in flight. Medical treatment, he tells us, -a-as useless, for -all the sick died expect a few at _ , the end, who escaped with ripe . buboes, FOE' preservatives wereireccommended "ale- etic pills, letting of blood, purification of the air by fire, . comforting -the , heart by theriaca apples, and thinge of good odor, and resisting putrefaction. by acid thing -8,Y For the cure were bleeding andevacuations ,electuaries, cordial syrups, figs,. and cooked onions, .ini4d -with plantain and butter,' to ripen the swellings, followed • by incisions aind the usual teeatment Of open sores, the earblincles to be cupped, scarified, and cau- terized. The ineetelity hi- Loudon is rat dOIVII as,100,000, in Norwich 51.00y, in Yarmouth 7,051, Paeis lbst 50,060, Mar- seilles 6,000, including the Bishop and a1I-' China, 13,000,000, Europe at large.. 40,- 1/ his chapter, ,Germany in all, 1,244,435 ; 000,000, ASia' and Africa, exclusive ofi China, 2 4,poo,000.-,sfatn-clayi- Ieeview. • The Rhine as a Boundary.. A- generation ago Victor Hugo wrote a book on the Rhine, in, whith, besides giv- ing the mostfascinating and poetic ofall de- scriptions of that famous" stream, he cried "France take back the Rhine," as he stood at the tomb of Hoche, who was buried :on the shores of that river, and .SN-hosegrave is to this day pointed out to the curious tourist. .• Napoleon, the bitter hnemy of Hugo, had tried on se-veral occasions to make ,f this cry a national slogan, to call to his -support all parties in France. The Rhine is a.Ccording td many Frenchnien, theenatu- ra:1 boundary of France. The Germans. whom the Emperor would like to make his subjects, however, do not agree with him. The people of the German Rhenish Prov - noes are German in language, tastes and- -feeling, and have no admiration of Napo- leon 111or his policy,. Belgium, with its Frenoll spea.king population, and with but forty yeare of national existence to overturn would be, a mueli easier acquisition for France. France already owns the bank ef the Rhine from a few miles north of Baa.e, in Switzerland,. to the frontier of the Pala- tinate at Lauterburg. Tne possession of the last-named district would add to the list of French cities Spires, with its old Cathe- dral, and the fortified places of Landau and Neustadt, besides a large number of smaller towns and villa.g,es, In Rhenish Prussia— speaking always of the western shore of the Rhine—the first town of impoatance is Lu- ther. After passing over the flat, highly cultivated district through which the Rhine here!sluggishly rolls along, the towers and bridges of 1Vlayence loorn in sight. This is a city of strategic an.d historic importance. Shortly further on is Bingen, and there be- gins the marvelous scenery which has given to the Rhine such world-wide celebrity, and ,has made familiar thenames of such trifling though picturesque hamlets as Oberivessel, St. Goar, BObbart, Andernach Bacharach, Remagen, and the like. Midway among these is Coblentz, - overlooked by "Ehren- breisstein's castled height," and still further down the stream is the collegiate town of Bonn. To add all these to the long list ofFrench towns would certainly be a splendid gain to 413171=1111712751.41111993715111111111, I France. aThis is What is meant when Frenchmen cry, with Victor Hugo; " Take. back the Rhine." It is, however, a. large enterprise' and not likely to succed.—iVew I York, Post BY -CAIN NO. ; A -BY-LAW TO RAISE BY WAY OF LOAN THE SUM OF $4000 FOR THE PUB - POSES THEREIN MEN- TIONED WHEREAS the Municipal Council of the* Village of Seaforth have resolved to raise, by way of loan, the sum of $4000 for the fol- , lowing -purposes, namely - Fir st,— The purchase of a plot of ground within or adjoining the limits of the Corpo- ration, for the purposes of a cemetery. S • gracling,6 in„ and oth- eiwisee improving the Main Street in said 77/4/.—FOr the construction of ceitain 11ecessal7 drains within the said village and ;aallosurtle—For the conetruction of side. lafithin the said village, and to carry into effect the said recited objectsit will be ne- cessary for the said Illunicipal Council. to •raise the sona of $4000 and to issue deben- tures to ihat amount in the manner herein- , after mentioned. • AND WHEREAS it will require the sum of $546.67 to be raised annually by special rate for the payment of the said debentures and interest as also hereinafter mentioned.' And whereas the , amount of the whole rateable property of the .eaaid municipality, iriespective of any future increase of the Victoria Organs • - A ND. MELODEONS MANUFACTURED BY.. 4 R. S. WILLIAMS, TOLON TO..ONT: LIST OF P 1ZES TAKEN BY R S- Williams' Instruments. 1 -UNION EXHIBITION, TORONTO, V01. FIRST PRIZE- AND DIPLOMA ! FIRST PRIZE, Provincial Exhibition,- Toronto, - 18G2. FIRST PRIZE AND DEPLOMA Provincial Exhibition, Kingston, 1863. .JULY -29 i$7O. STRAY COW. CAME into 1)1y premises, Lot 12 Co). 3, in the township of Grey,. on the f6th inst., A RED GOW, with white back. The owner is re- queste(1 to prove property, ply chaages, and take' her away. • e„ ROBERT LAIDLAW, Grey, July 15, 1870 137-3— ESTRAY SOW. /IAMB Into the premises 4)f the !lot No. 10, Coh. 4, Turnberry, the 6th of July last, A SOW PIO, is request4d to prove property, pa3r take her away. „LA, M ES Turnberry, July 20, 1870. bubscribers, - on or about The owner charges, and ELLIOTT. 137-3— NOTICE TO DEBTORS. ALL persons imdebted to the late firm of Zapfe & McCallum, are hereby requested to - call and settle :the 8ame with the undersigned on or before the lst. of -March next, othenvise costs ZAPFE & CARTED: Seaforth Foundry. Seaforth, Feb. 1-5, 187o, 115-tf . will be incurred. HOUSE .AND LOT FOR -SALE.! u0R8ALE. CHEAP, A DESIRABLE LINC HOUSE Pleasantly situated, on 84 John Street, Seaforth. For further particulars apply to JOHN SEATTER, Druggist, &c., Main St. SE.A.Folerir, July .14 1870. , 1364f.— FIRST PRIZE AND HIGHLY COMMENDED MONEY TO LEND. •Provincial Exhibition, Hamilton, 18C4. PLER,S772 Provincial 1 Exhibition, London 1865. First Prize and pg. -Illy Recommended, Provincial Ex- Lower Canada, Mon- • . • treal, 1865. same, and also irrespective of any income to FIRST PRIZE be derived from the temporary investment of the einkitt fund hereinafter mentioned, •or any part thereof, according to the last re- . v -h -',.ed and equalized assessmenroll of the said municipality, being for the year 1870, •was $137,690. And whereas the amount of the existing debt of the said municipality is . as foilows: interest, nothing. And.whereas for paying the- interest and creating an equal yearly sinking fund for paying the said sum of 84000, as hereinafter mentioned, it will an equal annual saexcial rate of four in the dollar in ad- dition to all rates to be levied in each year. De ittherefore enacted by the municipal council of the village eiSeatorth 1. That it shall be lawful for the Reeve of -the village of Seaforth to taise by way of loan from any person or persons, body or bodies corporate, who may be willing to ad- vance tile same upon the credit of the de beetures hereinafter mentioned,a sum of money not exceeding in the whole the sum of $4.000, and to cause the same ,ko be paid into the hands of the Treasurer for the pur- poses and with the objects above recited. 9. That it shall be lawful for the •said Reeve to cause any number of deben- tures to be made for such sums of money as may be required, not less than.1100 each, (and not in the aggregate to exceed the said sum of..$4000),. and that the *said debentures -shall be sealed with the seal of *the corpora- tion ot the said village, and besiened by the said Reeve. 3. That the said debentures be made pay- able in fifte-oar years from the day hereinaf- ter mentioned for this by-law to take effect, at the OftiC5 of the Treasurer of the said mu- nicipality, and shall have attached to them . coupons for the payment of interest thereon. it. That the said debentures shall bear interest at and after the rate of seven per cent per annum from the date thereof, which interest shall be payable on the first days of March and September in each year,at the office of the Treasurer aforesaid. 5. That for the purpose of forming a sink- ing fund for the payment of the said deben- tures, and the interest, at the rate aforesaid, to become due thereon, an equal special rate of four mills in the dollar shall in addition to all other rates be raised, levied and col- lected in each year, irpon all the rateable property in the said municipality during the continuance of the said debentures or- any of them. 6. That this By -Law shall take effect and come into operation upon the first day of September 1870. 7. That the votes of the electors of the said village of Seaforth shall be taken on this By -Law, at the Town Hall, in the vil- lage of Seaforth,on Monday the eigth day of August 1870, at the hour of nine of the clock in the forenoon, and that the poll shall remain open until five -oclock in the afternoon of the same day, and that Thom- as Porter Bull act as returning officer_ on the said occasion. • Take notice, that the above is a true copy of a proposed By -Law which will be taken into consideration by the council of this mu- nicipality after one month from the first publication in the HuRoN ExPosiToR,the date of which first publication was Friday the fifteenth day of July, 1870, and that the votes of the electors of the said municipality will be tak.'en thereon at the Town Hall in "the village of Seaforth, on Monday the eight day of A-ugust, ,A,D 1870, at nine of the clock in the forenoon. • T. P.4 MILL, Seaforth, July 6th, 1870. 136--6i. A Sunday sdhool teacherin. Minnesota up- on enquiring of one of lab juvenile pupils what he had learned durisug the week, was electrified by the answEi0 that he had "learn - not to trump his partner's ace." • , Provincial Exhibition, Toronto, 1860. . . -FIRST PRIZE & SPECIALLY -RECOMMEN- Provincial Exhibition, Kingston, 1867. We have kept no reeord of County Exhibition at which our Instruments have always taken - FIRST PRIZES, WheLever exhibited in . competition with others. • PIANO FORTE (AN Farn1 or desirable village property at 64 -kf per Cent. Payments made to suit the bor- rower. Appbr to - A. G. McDOUGALL, !nsurance Agent and Commissioner, Seaforth, or to JOHN SEATTER, - Exchange Broker, Seaforth, March 25th, 1870. MR. JOHN THOMPSON • THANKS his numerous customers for theiz liberal patronage during the last - fifteen': years; and trusts he will receive its continnanee, He has now on hand a large assortment of Good Sound Green Hemlock I Which be warrants mil] give satisfaction. 2003E00 FEET OF PINE! OUT FOR. BUILDI.NO. AND GENERAL PCIZPOSES Which he offers on liberal terms. Orders will be promptly attended to. Our stock will be found large and well select-. ed, and comprises tirst and second-class approved makes, and the new Union Piano Company's Piano. An inspection solicited before buying. Address, R. S. WILLIAMS, Toronto, .Ont. 112-1y. Toronto, Jan;y, 28, 1870. THE SIGN 01- THE GOLDEN HE subscriber begs to inform the public that he has just received axrea,t variety .of Sad- dles and TR UNKS 5 Which he is prepared to sell At Price. Ahnost Unparelleled. --o COLLARS of every description, warrant_ ed not to hurt the horse's neck. OF ALL .E..1NDS, He is, as heretofore, in • a position. to give , hig) customers as good value for their money as any other establishment in Ontario. Quality of work and material; employed, indis- putable. leg- SHOP OPPOSITE KIDD & -0 In the way of Harness JOHN CAMPBELL. Seaforth, Jan. 31. 1870. • 52-tf. NOTICE OF REMOVAL!! rpHE subscribers beg to notify their customers and the public generally that they have re- moved To the Store. latel y occupied by A. Mitchell, Second Door Above W. Robertson's Italian Ware house, Where they will keep constantly on hand. a large stock of FRESH FAMILY GROCERIES and. BROVISIONS, XXX FAMILY FLOUR, and all kinds of Mill and Cheap Feed. Conntry Produce taken in exchange for G-roce- rfes, Provisions, Flour and Feed. All goods purchased from us will be delivered free of charge in any part of Saaforth, Harpur hey, or Eginondville. FarmerS'may exchange wheat, &c., for Flour and Feed at our Mill, at the highest value. W. A. SHEARSON & CO Seaforth, Jan. 28th, 1870. Agents ! Read This ! WE will pay agents a salary of $30 per week and expenses, or allow a large e.oramiSsion, to sell our new wonderfu inventions. Address, M. WAGNER & Co., Marshall, Mich. He has also on hand a large assortment of WELL SEASONED ACCOUNTS To which he calls the attention of his old custo- mers, who Will find it co their advantage to re- tire them promptly, and without legal proceed- ings. Seaforth, Jan'y. 21st, 1870. 84-tf. FARMERS GO TO M'HAUCHT AND TEEPLE, FOR WAGGONS. BUGGIES. A GRICULTUDAL IMPLEMENTS, and M _L -L. fact, anything drawn by the horse. A large assortment always kept on handand. for -first- class HORSE SHOEING &JOBBINGthatis the place. A large stock of Dry Oak, and other Lumber, also Dry Waggon Spokes, for Sale. Seaforth, Feb. 4th, 1870. • HAT, .e• --el•-?. • • fEETH EEXTRAOTEO %WHOM PAM,. CARTWRIGHT, L.D.S., Surecon Dentis, 1,) Extracts teeth without pain by the use of the •Nitrous -Oxide Gas. 'Office,—Over the 'Bea- con' store, Stratford. Attendance in Seaforth, at Sharp's Hotel, the first Tuesday and -Wednes- day of each month ; in Clinton, at the Commerc- ial Hotel, on the following Thursdays and Fridays. Parties requiring new teeth are requested to call, if at Seaforth and Clinton, on the first days of attendance. - Over 54,000 patients have had teeth extracted by theuse of the Gas,- at Dr. Coulton's offices. New York. - Stratford, Fed. 11, 1870. • EASE AND COMFORT THE BLESSING OF PERFECT SIGHT. There is nothingsovaluable as perfect sight, and perfect sight can only be obtained. by using Perfect S'pectcles, the difficulty of procuring which is well kno-wn. Messrs. Lazarus & Morris, Oculists a; Optioi- cans, Hartford, Conn., Manufa4urers of the Celebrated Perfected Spectacles, WA after years of Experience, and. the erection of costly ma- chinery, been enabled to produce that Grand Desideratum, Perfect Spectacles, which have been, soll with unlimited satisfaction to the wearers in the United - States, Prince Edward's Island, and Dominien of Canada, during the past nine years those 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. • LAZARUS, MORRIS '& CO., -'Montreal. WE EMPLOY NO PEDLERS; Seaforth, Jan'y. 21s, 1.874 76-1y, co JULY igamimmiswo =et - I? eloqu-enee bf O'Connell, sPI a nave lis nity of Wb graer.,- of Ew. of the logic o • the inegiaetis my fortune speakers of a- side of the lavishly gifte harmonicus ster, the grace houn, and the seenis to have- thenese of our 'everything tha - summate tribul place, he llad pressive'bearin ter --Webster the inaja,sty of There was s ence before it what *Webster have lent --gr tv, perfeet ture, so natitro ing but nature had a voiceethe He coulki endo- tv of Bulke..- send my ;oice like the thund to tell the slay' God reigns_aud and. to remind his redemption with the slight( which is the plk story that woi riment, and t „ melt the whole -All the while h ing as effortless: violets up .to p The 'SU Rev. Theodoi address to the cal Seminary, • - the felldwing is The successfn • fearless preachei tions which we instead of true is sore pressed t even'tempted so souls. The Ev " You get only must not drive . B ,your b subtle whispers s hind me, Satan to tremble befor Fear God alway. In dealing vou must expec come quite as of as from wronged you really please offend. On a. ee ministrv. I 1,reat phatically again vending alcoholi :that subject prominent truste made all his man liquor, sat durin 013 fnid of hie whole jlongreg-at people said " Squire of. sure. ' to him timidly, that r he very no man believes it, after he sent for etand by his dyir Another temp •did sermons," aiA iro be told after 3. magnificent disc you; but to lie to the heart," o blessing beyond the spirit. You an elaborate, ern ish it with the p lable, and say t that is a good. Ser that God will nl- nd he will smasl ceit, by making the East wind. sometimes deli\ that you* are alit shall afterwards poor sinner to tiu The year after Saratoga. Tlie 3 lage said to me, stranger here, a ,when you began, a critical audiene 1 have noticed th convince his dong, five aninutee, that to save their sou,, in the house." 1 baker for the bes, miracle is re aielv .of mon .c;tedensds.6't'dhTebh)'; aeaileLvie l spi "I will net go !" two hears, At la his prey inthe haa was suceessfal, an. ani overcome; questecl to be - geese' but the o: the harsh injuncti depths of hell, he ha-ved in an outra ter of an hour, tea, less child, and ext body with the gt