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The Huron Expositor, 1871-01-13, Page 1-VNTARN 6, . 1 ."--'*Z4Ci.S9111E0111111•1113 .7aALk NOTIC.E$ can safely and cansisteNt- .d your itvaluable prepare- s. Compound Syrup of Hylto- n a variety ett caaes, especi- seases havieg suceesefully Ilroncliitie, Asthma, De - Liver Complaint, Delrility and Debility front impover- . come truly, JAMES SALMON sing Physiciat aud Surgeon. (1 a bottle. ; G for 87 50 Sold -lea and by Ottadil elite. Montreal. wants a battle of whiskey, !it awl take it home like a A sneak home with a bottle ; or "Cordial," and pretend dieite. Hie wants a. tonic thing better than a tempori, ehou d get a bottle of 'rue, fan Iron Tonic) that the blood, and give a durable he system. MONS EASILY A NSWERED, wear beards? Bccuse reat protection; to the throat nil add ntuck to their pereart-- r we use BrNe-an's Pulmonie °cause when `used for coeghs, in the thr, at, hosr e like a charm. Ministers use them, Physicians rec.. hem. and eiagets and public they are the very best medi- anee for the same sueh coma eery (Imagist and most of the stores threughout the Pro- cents- per box-. Best!-• [I-RITISti AMERICAN AND STRATTON & (DELL QNSOLIDATEO NESS COLLEGE, • largest, roost extetsit-e and, ESS SCHOOL in the _lt has the largest staffof he most practiced and best .siness forms, and the beet ar- al Most commodioue apart - is, under the manageinent of !neiaess in n, fully alive to all ements a the business coni - rhe adrattages anc faeilisies ! this it etitution%re unequaled itry, and na young mat should. 4T-ISikteSS career without fully rasilf of tts benefits. We were . - rize m .130$ -Mess Pen- manship _ te Provincial Exhibitien at this is .the SIXTH consecu7 hat wa have tat en this prize, daeat that there can be but aa where to go to learn to meas of tvritmg, bauk notes, address CYDELL & TROUT, Toronto. r-R.QN a.-WILL71ANIS ttenclaCiug the celebrated WS" STRAW CUTTER already met with Unrivalled hi other parts of Canada. Kt to- giN-e perfect satiafaetion a either by horse or head pow- tY.FACTI-RE A NEW 6 S HORSEPOWER, !ty•tz, BfAivtNa STRA.W 'OCTTEITS-, C`LF N EN Cr LIN DE S, httea e IAN T RESRERS. ;kinds of 1:ernaing Iinplementa • Fatting Mills, eadtivatoes„ ned Maehiuee, Horse Hoes, - Weeders, S' Power, Plows, • iwina Machitiee, Gana lakaas, Mouldboard Maws, E.C. MUTING & EN GIN - (.1 DE pA Rer M EN T.. ngletes, taf' all Sizes Bunt. Maim Mills": Tiztx -*.ater or .steam,,. Ana 411 kinds of COURACTEO FOR AND EE IR THE MOSTAp- _ VIED STYLE. :k - 4; WATER WHEEL, OAS, STT NG -LE AS, BRAN DUSTE RS' ia(16 ot machinery of the be • ota supplied ors short notice AND MACHINERY hataptly attended to ! — . • iYM SON & WIL1JAMS, - • Mitchell, P.O., 6th, ISM 144-1y- ' '!Rrta FOR SALE. E, the west half of Lot No. township of Hallett, a good gravel road, contain- rq of which are cleared and There are on the premises te house andbarn, alf30- a neva Erring of water,. convenient to There arealso4 acres ot fall a which wilt be sold with the 4irther particulars apply to tot the,premises, or if by . t • ;, Tit OS. BOWYER, (:kinstan.ce, P. O. -Dee. 14 1870. - 158-tf.- rING HURON. iN THE rd CO-NCESSION. ET.TT-4.1..t=r; ktter ltirown as the '.1A141 THOMPSON FARM For Bak,: it is. admitted by all this Lot, that for ereps and es no- superior in the county. Add•ress„ BOX175„ Seaforth. Nov., 3, 1870. - :152- v11 • 4 s, i MACLEAN BROTHERS, I .• " Freedom in • • 7 Trade— belly: n Religion—Equality in Civil Rights". • EDITORS & PUBLISHERS. VOL. 4, NO. 6. SEAFORTEt, ?RID JANUA Y 131 1871. WHOLE XO. 162. BUSINESS CARDS. . MEDICAL. Tip TRACY, M. D., Coroner for the 1-1,. 'County_ of Huron. Office and Re- sidence—One doorEast of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Seaforth, Dec. 14th., 1868. 53-ly • T1 C. MOORE, M. D., C. M. (Graduate slaa of McGill University, Montreal,) Physician, Surgeoa, &c. Office anciresi- dence -Zurich, Ont Zurich, Sept. 7th, 1870. - 141 T AMES STEWART, M. D.; 0. m., Graduate of McGill. University; Montreal, Physician, 'Surgeon, &c. Office and residence—Brucefield., Brucefield? Jan. 13, 1871. TAR. W. R. SMITH, Physician, Sur, geon, etc. Offiee, —Opposite Scott Robertson's Resi. lence — Main -street, North. Seaforth,Deo; _14; 1863. 53-ly TT L. VERCOE, -M. D. C. M., Physi- cian, Surgeon, etc, Office and. Re- sidence, corner of Market and High Street, _immediately in rear of Kidd's Store. Seaforth, Feb. 4t1i. 1870. -53tly. pR. CAMPBELL, Coroner for the Courity. Office and residence, over Corby's, corner store, Main street, Sea - forth. Office clay, Saturday. • 159 LEGAL.' F. WALKER, Attorney -at -Lai . and 'Solicitor -in -Chancery, Con- veyancer, Notary Public, eo. Office of the Clerk of the Peace, Court House, p-oderich, °Kt. N.B.—Money to lend at 8 per centan Farm Lands. Goderich, Jan'y. 28_1870. 112-1y. _ ICAUGHEY • & HOLMSTEA.D, IVI'Barristers, Attorneys ,at Law, Sol- ,leitorS• in Chancery and insolvency„ No- taries publii and- Cotveyancars. Solici- tors for the R..C.Bank„Seaforth.„ Agents for the Canada •Life.Assnrenee Co. s tN.Ift's—$30,000, to lead at 8 percent. Farrasi Houses :and Lots for sale. • •Seaftorth„ Dec. lIth, 1868a 53-tf. ' -DENSON & MEYER, Barristers and LD Attorneyat Law, Solicitors in Chan: - eery and. Ins‘lvetcy, Conveyancers; No- aries Pubiio, ete. a Of tices,—Seaforth and! Wroxeter., Agents foe the Trust and' Loan Co. of Upper Canada, and the Cel - other Securities Co. Of London, England. Moneysat 5 per cent ; no conunsision, charged. JAS. 0. D EsOY, H. w. 0. MEYER, - Seeforth, Dec. 10th 1868. 5371y _ DENTAL. G. W. HARRIS, 'L. D. S. Artisgiciv Dentures inserted with all the latest improve- ! merits. The greatest are taken for the preservation of decayed and tender teeth. - Teeth extracted withoat pain. Rooms over Me.Dougall's Stores Seaforth. 'Dec. 14., 1868. ,ly. • HOTELS. -t I ri0MMERC1AL HOTEL, Ainleyville, k.) James Laird, proprietor, affords .firet-dass accollunodetion for the travel- ling public. The larder and bar are al- ways • supplied with the best the marke ts afford. Excellent stabling in oarinec- A ialeyville, Aril 23, 1869. NOX'S HOTEL (LATE SHARP'S) The undersiened begs'to thanks the public for the iiherlai patronage awarded to him in times pa4 in the hotel business, and. also to inform them that he has again resumed business in the above stand, - where he will be happy to have 4- call , from Oil friends, a,ncl many new ones. . THOMAS KNOX. So anxious are ant about hisisafety, that Seaforth, may 5, 1870, • 1264t, • you have not a moment todbestoW upon your own. And why ?—t eibea,St is bor- 13RITISH EXCHANGEHOTEL,(40d- WRI FO I saw him • A, bonny, A dawtecl IJis e retin caus Gae'cl ma But ' he r bo him 'n tod times ' while iechtin? e'd. ma But ye he H r.,bonn I sa ; And His But 11 I sa And -A Som him i TrER'Si.o THE HURON* EX his mither' ar bonny boy1;-- eat, a loving pet e' .muckle Jo apartlin', a glf my much- o ce a his mith r pe ; bonny bairp the road ' tie the 4ch e alk-ed likle p. ike onyfjii uarreliti, ell y ranch on a Isis mither' , bony bairn. die glen a mony hi gs he said t ng wi' Ley Gray d mac had she tee tuarre dancin',1c 'dma miy muCh oii • he w s his inither's r , bonny bairn him ' hope actions d actio look' A • d som But till he 11 r bonn - - I se hint A d trou Forsf ken b • W iich ca Warned and Th t ma.d. But . till he! Het bent E. OSITOR. ' a ; ' tricks jjL y sage, reb tricks cbt 1 e h.er rtin' tricks ern the priMei;! fe, atd joys and ears, thatgie'cl nines delight s that gie'd drs, at him loy •g een, wi' viSage ster • va,S his 'is:tither': pet, , bonny ; i' his haffete g Ie in his '.eye, I his dearest file s, . sed him Merry a sigli, hnisca'd by tinqo folk it their eo cern Was his riiitiiett's ppt, , bonny !be - - I N Ai. N ROU IHIN IT ,IN T LIFE 14 c. BilSH ADA. BY IRS. MOO C APTER°' OUR FIL5TSET EAT ENT, AN ORROW- NG SYSTEM. To lend or 'not to lend—is t tat die guation. . - ,‘;'.Tho$e who! go a-borros es- a-sor- 'rowitg, ' saith !the old adage an a wiser .saw never cam! , Ont of •the' ni ti li of .ex- perience. . I have tested t: e it i h of this proverb' since iiiy settlement ni Canada„ maty, many tii ses„ to my co id ; and what ensigratt hAs n t? Soavers: have I ever • been •to this .pr' ctice, that . ' (add at all times rather qt. ietly submit it). a- tempo- rary ingonVean' nce than -obtain any thing I wanted'in th s Mainter. 11 verily be- lieve that a.cicnionof •mis lti f ,presides over borrowed goods, .and takJ3s e tvieke.d pleasare in. 'pl. ing off a t ' ot sand ins.li- cious nratlis in' on yon •the hioliieiit he est- - ters yourdwel Mg. Plate and diehes, that had been the pride ;ant .na,ment of theirown etipb mat for ye, , no sooner , epter upon few !•giaseratee 1 .. they are broken ; wine -glasses andu blot* that have be.en handled by a hundred eareless wenches in safety, ecarcel •pass into the liandd of your servants tithes), they. are sure to tumhle ipon the oor, and the aecidciii turns 'ut A comp in i 1 'fracture. Hyatt b rrow garment o . any kink be sure.th< t you s ill tear it ; a .aeatela that You will break t ; a jewel, that you will lode ib.; a boo . - that it wiill be 'stolen , • frona yo 1. Th re is no end to the trou- ble and vexati n' arising out of this evil habit. , -If jrou 13.,:rtow .a lioi se, and lie ; has the repata ioi ' of bein„he est be- ! hayed animal. i the district, ; , '6110 soot- . ' er becorte ress mssible tor ' its conduct 1 • than he; loses 1 is character; The ino- •thent that You Um:net to dx1ise him, be shows that hel as -iii will of ' hie,. (iwn, . by taking the rein into his. Own mla. nagement •and running ai ay ina contraaly direction to the road.:thit yot tvished tamj to tra- wit. ' He never giv s aver ; hih. eccentric capers until he laS broken his stein knees„ and the borrow d carriage an 1 heatless. ericli, ONT. , CALL :AWAY, PROP RI• wro R ; J. S. WILLIAMS, (late of Ameri- can Hotel, Warsaw, N. Y.) , Manager, This hotel has recently been newly fur- thala-4, and refitted throushout, and is nowone. the most comfoetable and coals modioue in the Provinee. Good Saniple Rooms foe Commersial 'Travellers. Terma Goderich, April 14, 1870. 123-tf.- rowed, -rid yo; are expeelled. tO return him in as good you. Btit of a 1 is perhas 8 the ceases to be one you are bound of oblig tot. in this country, sum; an 1 von whielt tiose seas. • tradition as 1 Came to evils, to ,b ar wl money orst. If o friend. he you feel that Whes we fire MISCELLANEOUS.% thing.su Prised .to whiel this p • • ried, bo h 133r t BHAZLERURST, Licensed Anetion- Europe, settle ,cer for the County of Huron. Ged- Ont- Particalar attention paid to . the sale of Bankrupt Stock Perm Stock Salea atte,mled on Liberal Terms. Goods A ppraised, Mortgages Foreclosed, Landlord's Ntiarrants Executed. Also, Bailiff First Division Court for Huron. God:crick June 90-1.41869 •76.tf G& W. McPHILLIPS, Provincial Laud Surveyors, Civil Eneineers, etc. All rammer of Conveyateing done with neatness and. dispatch. McPhil- lips, Cammissioner in B. R. Office— Next door south of Sharp's Hotel, Sea- ! forth. Seaferth, Dec. 14, 1868. 53-1y. • Alt eric out the • ed variot • " merchant assured us th,4t this ; cou d b made very comfortable until suCh th. e a it Suited H.— to remove, and; the own er was wilting to let us have it fo th moderate sum of four dollars a Mont . Trusting to Mr. C—'a word, ana be ing strangerkin the land, We never too the precaution to examine Ithis clelig s tfu summer residence before entering upo it, but thought ourselves ery fortunat in obtaining a temporary homeso near t our own property, the distance not ex ceeding half a mile. The agreement wa, drawn up, and we were told we coul take Rossession whenevert suited us. T4few weeks that I had sojourned in the country had by no means prepossess- ed me in its favour. The Ihome-sickness was Sore, upon me, and all my solitary hours were spent in tears; My whole soul yielded itself up to a strong and_ over powering grief. One simple word dwelt for ever in my heart, and I swelledit to burstin —"Home !" I repeated it wak- ing a t ousand times a day,. and my last prayer efore 1 sank to sleep was still -1-1- tit . Oh, that I could return, if on- ly t4 di at honie !" And nightly I did ;I my feet again trdd the da,isied mea lows of England, the song of her., bird Was in my ears ; I -Wept ;with de- ligh to find myself once More Wandering ben ath the fraera,nt shade of her green hest e -rows ; and I awoke toI weep in earn st when I found t but a dream. this is all digaessione -and! has no - to do with' our uuseen reader Must bear with me in my fits elancholy, and takelme as I am. was the 22c1 September that we left teamboat _Aratal, to take possession But thin The of , it the of o ii new abode. Miring the three wee s we had sojourned' at --a I had not een a drop of reit, and I began to thin that the fine weather 'weuld last for ;vela; but this eventful day arose ii clout is. Moodie had hired a covered ear riag to convey the baby, the servant man: , and myself to the farm, as our: dri verinagnosticated a wet i'ay ; while he foll• ,ed with Tom -Wilson and the teams that conveyed our luggage ' T e scenery through w1 -jell we Were pass ng was so new to me, so u like. any thin that I had. eyea beheld he ore, that it s Ate of its mouotononsl charact r, it won me froni my melancholy, and I b gan to lo.k about me with con iderablei iter - est. Not so my English serya,nt,. Whiod.e clar d that the woods were •frigttful to look upon ; that it was !a :country only fit fi r wild beasts ; that she hated it with all her heart and sou, aad. \valid go b, ek as soon as she was able. iu Al out a mile fromthe place o or des- tine ion the raitbegan to fallin t orrents, and he air, which had been ba my pa a Spring morning, turned as chilly as that of a November day. Hamsali shivered ; the baby Cried; and I dkewI my summer psirloat"' 11 selves,while waiting for .the coming of the party, by abusing the place, the country, and ur own dear selves, for our folly in comin to it. Now, when not only reconciled to Ca- nada, but lovi g it, and feeling a deep in- terest in its pr sent welfare, and the fair prospect of its future greatness, I often look back ancl augh at the feelings with WhichI then, r garcled this noble country. , When thing come to the worst the ge- nerally mend. The males of our party no seoner arrived than they set to making things more Gomfortable. James, our servant, pulle• up some _of the 'decayed stumps, -with .. hiCh the sniall clearing that surround d the shanty was thickly covered, and xiade a fire, and Hannah roused herself from the stupor of despair, and .seized thecorn-broom from the top a the baded agon, and began to sweep the house, rasing such an intolerable eland of dust that I was glad to throw my cloak over iny head, and run out of doors, to a'v-oi4 suffocation. Then corn- _ nienced the awful bustle of unloading the two heavily -lo led wagons: The small space within t e house was soon entirely blocked up wi h trunks and packages of all descriptio s. There was scarcely rOom to Move, without stumbling ov-er some article of household stuff. • - The rain pot red in at the .open door. beat in at th shattered window, and dropped.upon cur heads from'the holes in the roof. - The wind blew keenly through a thousand apertures in the log walls ; and nothing c uld exceed the uncomfort- ableness of our situation.- -For a. long time the box iihic1i contained a hammer, and nails was ikot to befound. At length! H-annah discovered it, tied up with some bedding which she was opening out in or- der to• dry. T ortunately spied the 'door lying, among snne boards at the back of i the house, and Moodie immediately com- menced fittitg it to its place. This, - . once accomplis ed, 'was a great addition ' - to our comfort We then mailed a piece of white Cloth ntirely ;over the broken window, whic , without diminishing the• light, kept ou the ram. James coa- structed a ladd r out of the Old bits of . boards, and To Wilson assisted in stow- ing the luggag away in the loft. But what h s this picture of misery and disco-mfor to do with borrowing? 'll; Pei mice, my I ear, good friends; 1 wiis all about iby and by: tnt • 1 tell. , ' While we w re all busily employed— even/the poor aby„ who was lying on a pilWwin -the ol Cradle tayilig the strength of her lungs, a cl, not a little irritated that no one w. s at leisure to regard her laudable endea ors to make herself heard —the door wa suddenly pushed open,. and the-a,ppara ion of a woman squeezed itself into the rowdederdom. 1' left off arranging. the f irniture of a bed, that had been just put p in a corner, to meet my unexpected and at that moment. not very welcome guest. Her whole appear- ance -was so extraordinary that al felt quite at lloss how to -address her. Imaginel. a. girl Of seventeen or. eigh- teen year of age, with sharp, knowing- looking- -featur a a forward, impudent carriage, and a pert, flippant . voice, stending upon one ot the trunks, and surveying all ot r proceedings in the most impertinent m nner. - The creature -was dressed in a, raged, dirty purple ' stuff gown, -cut very low in the neck, with an oli red cottorij handkerchief tied over hr head ; her incombed?-.tangled locks falling Over heij• thin, inquisitive face, in a . tete of perfe t nature. Her legs and fe t were bare, anda in her coarse, dirty rel hands, she wung to andfro an empty sil as decanter. • b "What can he want?" I • asked my - se 1, " What a strange creature r— A.nd there shp stood, staring at me in th most unc remonious manner, her ken black ey s glancing obliquely to ev ry corner of 'the room, which she ex - an Mal with critical exactness. - Before I could speak to her, she COM- _ irt riced the c nyersation by drawling ,through her no e, . • • "Well, 1 gu ss you are fixing here." I thought sk had. 'eons° to offer her services ; aml told her that 1 ffid not want a girl, for 1 lad' brOught one .out with rise. • 1 as closely round as m pos ible, to et her frothe , sadden. change in our hitherto „delightful •- !tem erature. Just then, the carriage ttrted iuto a nar- row, steep path'overhung with lofty tvoods, and afterlaborin up it with con- Sidera,ble difficulty, and a the risk of breaking our necks, it b -ought us at lengtlh te a rocky uplanii cl axing, parti- allyovered with, e a s ond e'rowth of - I timb e., end strrounded. dit -all Sides by the cllark forest. . guess," quoth our Yankee driver, " thdi; at the • bottom of this 'me swell, yon'l find yourself to ht, t ;?' and plung- ing -1 to a short path bat throtigh the woo he pointed to a nisera1k hut, at the atom , f a deep dosoont, and crack. I cat! on th ta I wish yon Britishers ing 1.1•8 whit , exclaimed , ""Tis a smart r lay njoy it." I !Awed upon the„pla e in perfect dis- may, for I had nevei; SCfl sucii a shecl cone a house before, • You lutist be mist ken ; that is not a house, but a cat- tle s ed, or pig -sty." I Th man turned his knowing, keen eye pot me, and smiled, hal-huntoronsly, alt x abeiouslyl,as he s14, 4' Ou were raised in the ' old country, 1 gu ss ; you have muchitd learn, more Lerh, ps, than you'll like 0.1knowi before the nter is over." . I ! •1 I -as1 perfectly bewilgered-HI could only stare at the place, I with my eyes swimming in tears ; but as the. horses plunged down into the broken' hollow, my attention was drawnfrom my resi- dence to the perils which endangered life and 1iunl. at every -step. 'The driver, how- cver,Jwas well used to such roads, and, steer lig us dexterously between the 11aek stumps, at length drove uP, not to t e c ems for there was none to the house Alt t the open space frinnwhich that absent but very neeestarya pendage had. two eifers, which the d iv r proceeded i[ been Irernoved. Three y u , g steers and to dr ve out; were quietly reposing upon the -its or A fewttrokes of his Whip, and dou I burst of gratuitousenrses,lsoon ef-- e ted an ejectment ; 'and I dismounted; a d t • ok possessionof thiduttenable tene- n en t _ Moodie was not yet in sight with the t &Up . ' I begged the niat to stay un-_ t 1 he had arrived, as I felt terrified at beine Ieft alonein this wild, strange-look- tg p act?. He laughed, as well he might at ou fear, and said that he had a long vay o o, and must be off then, crack - ng • s whip. and nodding! to the girl, who al crying aloud, ,he went his -way, and a nah and myself were left stand- ing i • the middle of the dirty floor. -Th prospect was indeed , dreary. With u , pouring rain ; within, a fireless heart ; a room with but one window, and t a only Contained one whole pane of gl s not an article of furniture to be seen, saye an old painted pilie-wood cra- dle, hi h had been left there by sense freak of fortune. This, turned upon its side, se ed. us for a seat, and there i we impatiently awaited the mai valof Moo' ie, Wilson, and a man whom the forraer ad hired that indining to assist on the farm. Where they were all to be stowed might have ared a more sagacio s brain than mine. , t is true there was loft,- bulb I could Aee no way of reaehin it, for llad- der t ere woe none, so we amused our - t the moment 1 o him by tip. iheavy Clog of a usurerithe interest soon d.oubleS the original we an increasing debt, wallows thp all yon pos. ° came to t colony, no- te more thal thi extent rincious oin was eer- ie native CA ailians, the s, and the t wer order of erhad spied etid borrow- i olat So much tee owner. ns. ny of the 1 toodne4siof the la -u( ts portns of it, wi as asking leave Of the abs Unfortunately, 8ur slew h e odious sq rant as_sa d kindness rounded by the we found as ign their COlirreSy first_ occup atter eg,es, as. sur- , iwhom ithout • The place w as pur- chasectof Mr. C'a ni t, who took it in payment of sundry large debts loyal - Id Jee ad. prom is - , altt e com- d as the bar- orith of Sep - us to plough ary t gbe up - t 1efound o d, save a e which ti ist, had 11. - ed to qu mencem lit of sleighing ; a concluded in the • and we, were 1131-X4 SMAILL & cnooKt, Architects, etc. heat, it wasineces LO own een ub he pre t it WI ,acl New Eip.g1 •ble to settle' ent occupant, h his fansil gam wa tember, for fall Plans and Specificatione'drawn on the cor- ot. No house redly, Carpenter's, Plasterer's, and. Ma 7 son's work, measured and valued. Office Over J. C. Detlor & Co.'s store, Court - Rouse Square, Goderich: ii in the insmedia e neighbor small di apidat d log tene adjoinin farm which was ec a claim.ed from t e bush) that laths without an. ow 111 Goclerteh, A.pril 23, 1869. 79-1&- some ni 1 t, OR' an • ely re - hu d been ier The ma, e. 1 !"-How resaonded the creature, 't • hope you don t take iIe for .a help. I'd have youto_know that pins as good a lady as yotrse f: No ; I .just stepped over to see what was going on. I seed - the teams pass (men about noon, and I keys to father, ` Them strangers are ctun ; 111 go andlook arter them.' 'Yes! says he, 'do—and take the decanter along. Maybe they'll want one to pit their whisky:in ' ` Pm goin' to,' says I ; so I cum across with it, au' here it is, But, mind—doi 't break it -.--'tis the only -one we have t hum; ancl father says 'tis so mean to rink out of react glass" My surprise nereased- every minute. It 'seemed such an act of disinterested gmerosity thus to anticipate Wants we hail never thou ht- of, I was regularly taken in. 1`. My good I," I began, "this -is really verykind but---" "Now, don't go to call me `gal 1—and pass offyour En dish airs on us. We are genuine Yankee', and. think ourselves as good—yes, agr at deal better than you. I am a young la y. "Indeed !" s I, striving to repress my astonishme • t, "I am a stranger in the country, and m acquaintance with Ca- nadian ladies an gentlemen is very small. I did not mean o offend you by using the term girl; was going to assure you that we had no need of the decanter. We have bottl don't drink whi " How ! No you dont say !- be ! Maybe. th i- Id country ? ""Yes,! we ha anadian whisk ecanter home Will get broken " No no • fa 1 and there it is;' s of our own—and we key." drink whiskey? Why. How ignorant you must y have no whiskey inthe e; but it is not like the y. But, pray take the am afraid that it n this confusion." her told me to leave it— and she planted it reso- lutely down on the trunk. "You w41 find a use for it tid you have unpacked your own.IP Seeing that she was determinedto leaVe the bottle, I said no more about it, but asked her to tell me where the well was to be found. . - "-The well !" she repeated after me - with a sneer. "Who thinks of digging .wells when they can get plenty of water from the creek? There is a fine water - privilege not •a stone's throw fromthe door," and, jumping off the box, she dis- appeared as abruptly as she had entered. We all looked at each 'other; Tom Wil- son was highly amused, and laughed until he held his sides. . "What tempted her to bring this,emp- ty bottle here ? said Moodie. "It is all an excuse ; the visit, Tom, was meantfor you." A "You'll know more about it in 4 lew days," said- James, lookina up froin his • work. "That bottle is not broug4 -here for naught." I could not unrayel the mysteryt, and.. thought no more about it, until it was again brought to my recollection lify the damsel herself. (TO BE CONTINUED.) . , Canada. The Toronto Globe claims to circulate 25,000. —Mentreal is expecting to have a new Catholic college. —A poem written by a daughter of General Lindsay has lately been publish- ed. in -Montreal. ! —tithe average depth of snow at Mori- treal;is thirtyeour inches. 4 --Mr. Hulbutt, a railway contractor Of Quebec, has invented a self -loading and dumping cart. _ —The thermometer in Quebec, ola Friday, indicate& the temperature to. be twelve degrees below -zero. —The ice -bridge has been formed at Montreal, and- they are making a road aeross the river. . -- Wyllie, a Fergus distiller, has been committed to trial for perjury. —Mr. Brydges declines the banquet in his honor his friends in Montreal prd- posed-to 1 get up. . --The Manager of the Great Western Railway Company has extended" to thh clergy the privilege of travelling on the Great Western line for one half fare. I — The Erskine street Church, Monj- treal, reduced its debt to $10,000, an raised the salaries of its ministers, Rev Dr. Taylor and Rev. Dr. Gibbons. — There is a report current in St. Paul that Riel has' been poisoned—by bad whiskey. ., 1 — The inclue "3, on of Rev, J. K. His- lop into the ch rge of the Presbyterian congregations of Avonton and Carling- ford, County of rerth, took plabe at Avonton, a few days ago. — The English system of one -cent cards, without envelopes, for unimport- ant messages, is to be adopted by the Dominion postal authorities. -- The Listowel Banner complains of the disappearance of deer in • the bacla townships of Perth and. Huron. Sqnir- rels, both of the black and red specicia are very numerous, and wild cata minks and foxes are occasionally trapped ; but partridges and other kinds of game are very scarce. , — The Dominion Parliament is expect- ed to meet on Feb. 10. -- The Dominion Board of Trade meets at Ottawa on the 18th inst. — At a meeting of Grammar School Teachers, held in Toronto, last Week, the new School bill was unanimously con- demned. • -- Scarlet and typhoid fever are epi- demic in Hamilton. The public schools have been closed on account of the alarm- ing prevalence of these complaints. - — The Toronto Telegraph, has ine- crea,sed its advertising rates to ten cents a line for the daily edition, and twenty cents for the weekly. One of the Exeter merchants has gone to Parkhill to start a grocery and liquor store. Oam A aw-mill of -Charles Slaw - son, West Oxford, near Ingersoll, was destroyed by lire on tile morning of the 41h inst. The loss is between $3,000 and $4,000 j no insurance. —The other day, a gentleman in East AN'illia,ms caught in a trap a beautiful speeimen of the white owl measuring from tip to tip, four feet ten inches. -- The salary of the members of the Local Government of Manitoba is to be $2,000 a year, each. Members of the Local Parliament will receive 8200. -- The traffic; receipts on the Grand. Trunk, 3,377 miles in length, for the week encling Dec. 3, amounted to £36,- 200, an increase £1,400 over correspond- ing date last year. --A nmtual benefit association has - been established by the Free -Masons Of London, with Rev. Brother G. M. Innes, as President. The scheme is a Boat of life insurance, on a plan that has been in successful operation among Railway conductor's in theUnited States and Can- ada. 'The entrance fee is $3, and upon the death of any member of the Associa- tion, a call of Si is made upon each mem- ber, which sum goes to the heirs of the deceased. The membership is, limited. to 2,500. — A Montreal correspondent of a Ma,ssashusetts paper is responsible for these statements; Society here- is sin- gularly different from what it is in the I States. The Irish seem a different race.1 Many of the Itish girls are Southern -1 looking brunettes, an ethnic absurdity in the States. In fact, considering our geographical position, the number- of tropic complexions among the- women is singular. A blonde of the New England type is as rare as a white -crow. The wox men are all ruddier and stronger than, American women, and make nothing of walking four or five miles in the bracing air of this latitude. Of course, tlaey lack the spiritualness of the Boston girl." United State. - Ship buiping is unusually brisk in Detroit this winter. — Arnis and. ammunition' continue to be shipped froin New York to France. .. —Buildings valued at $1,435;000 have been erected at Duluth, Minn., during the past two years. —Baltimore claims to haye sold $11,- 500,000 worth of boots and shoe i last year.. —The Female Suffrage hill was de- sfeiviteen.d, last week, in the Dakota Territo-- rial Legislature, by a vote of sixteen to --Rev. Dr. Albert Barnes, the well- known Biblical commentatea' l and author of several theological works, died recent- ly in Philadelphia. ---- A lady stenographer is astonishing the old fogies in attendatee at the pres- ent term of the Supreme Court in Sore - &set County, Maine. -- Of the late applicants for admission to West Point, over fifty failed on exam- ination in the "four ground rules of arithmetic," and. M the simplest rules of -A-Hon. Caleb Cushing has purchased. the tract of land, situated in Virginia, about two miles from the aqueduct bridge, known as the "John Brown Farm." . 1" vichigan Courts are pectdiar. The last dictum issued by one of them in- volves the principle that travelling on foot is not a "private or public convey- ance '-' and a suit could not be sustained in that State for an accident insurance policy in favor of a man who had been robbed and murdered while walking home. e- The Jeff Davis mansion, in Rich- mond, which has been purchased by the Board of Education of the City ctif Rich- mond, for school purposes, was opened, la t week, with a grand house Warming. A Cohnecticut fire insurance eoni- painy which started. in 1850 on $20,000 cash capital, has 'paid $1,028,116 for losses has made thirty-six' dividends amouLing to 8398,500, and. has now assets to the amount of $403,925. —Mr. James T. Fields, of Boston was some time ago invited to join one. Ithe largest and oldest- established publishin firms in London. He declined; and. A • continue; as has been stated, to edit the ,A t/antic.illOnthly„ laviLng 'withdrawn from the firm of Fields, Osgood & Co- — Some Kansas boys thought to have a little fun on Christmas Day by playing war. So • the French" took refuge be- hind a hay -stack,. and "the Prussians" dislodged them by binning the stack. The question which agitates the little community towis, whether the fathers of the Prussians or ft -16e of the French should pay for the stack. ' . • — .Rev. Mr. Sabine, an Episcopal cler- gyman in New York, is denounced by the Press of that eity for having refused. to -read the burial service over the re- mains of the late Veteran cornedara„ George Hollatd, an account of his being - an actor. Mr. Holland had been 30 at- tendant at Mr. Sabine's church. _ — A happy youth in Connecticut :has • three living grandfathers_and six lining grandmothers, making nine grand.- - 11..ents. Hgrandfather,is gran%nother, great-granchns7ther andgreat-great-grancl- motharaaa- living in the same fanilly. Net door live his grandfather, grand - matter and great-grandmother,and wit -Rinse mile live his great-grandfather and a thiMsgreat-grandmother, — During thcatoraty-eight hours ending at noon, on Tuesday -jam. 2, there were five homicides and thirte%„ attempts to kill in the City of New-YOrk. The av- etage number of hoinicidee.aad attempt. sci harnicides in that ,ariee,_place is nine per day—makitg slifYsthree pee week, or 3,375 per annum. , To one murder 'there are a hundred othev. felonies—lar- cenies, robberies, woman -beating, and crimes •of general wickednesC: ' Transatlantic. • There is a report that Dr. Living- stone has airived at Maeanabique, and. that he was waiting for Di vessel bound England. •I e- The Presbytery of Belfast, Irela -have denounced kr. Gladstone for the interest displayed by him it the wel- fare of the hpix3., paper is to he started. M Lon- don, England, for the purpose of (hems, sitg and disseminating informationas to the dairy produce and producers. It is to be called the „Milk Journal. -- The male medical students of Edin- burgh, ;having barred the academic gates against their fellow -pupils of the weaker sex, aud otherwise demeaned themselves in an offensive manner, sundry exceed.- • ingly stern elderly femalehare organ- ized a protective brigade to eseort the young ladies to college and back.. - A terrible fight occurred retentla among the French prisoners in the bar- racks at Offenbach, Germany. They fought for over four hours, and many of them were killed. It required the inter- ference of the German guards to quiet the infuriated eombatants, and even these could restore order only with the greatest difficult. — The feeling in Alsace increases in bitterness against the Prussians. Many if the women have -put on mourning -- not for slain relatives, but for the na- tional. huraihation.r Some have vowed. never to- quit their tooras while tne Prus- sians remain in Strasbourg. The fash- ionable streets there, once exceedingly bright and gay are now deserted. On. the Promenade de Broglie, a Prussian. band plays daily, but no one comes to listen. When the German soldiers tramp by; children rush out to hoot after, them and to chant the,Marseillaise. The men. have even given up theirAlsatian patois, and speak only French. This certainly does not look likel accepting the situa- tion, or as if the ilnhabitants of the sub- ject provinces, ans more than the rest of France, would willing1y "concede the principle of territo ill cession," I 4 1 ; 7, ti7 7, .2)