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BY-LAW
1871.
by way a Loan„ the sAue of Ten
ant dollars, for the parpos-ea
a Mentioned.
MEAS the Council of the ear -
oration of the Township of Ste -
the County of Huron, have re -
extend the- Gravel Road run-
stward through Ceeditou, and,
tend weatward the N .Boundary
Bomadary Roads, of Saiti: Town -
whereas tn. carry into effect the
ited object, it will be riecessary
'ouricil of the said Corporation to
. suet of Ten thouaand dollars in
.net :iereinafter mentioned.
vheiea it will require the stun
en- hundred dollars- to be -raised
s ley special rate far the payment
and interest as also here-
entioned. -
hereas the amount of the whole
propeaty of the said Municipali-
Ohm, 'irreepective of any future
of the Sante, and irrespective of
mee to be derived from the tem -
investment of the sinkiug fund
'ter mentioned, or any part there-.
irding to the last revised. and
„al assessment roll of the said'
beine far the year One
d eight hundred and seventy,
inaked and -fifty thousaed two
and twelve dollars.
Whereaa the amount of the exist -
of the said Municipality is as
;prpal ROthilag, intereat. nth -
for paying the intereet
iacing an equal annual sinking
k paying the said sum of Ten
• dollars and interest aa hereini
entionek it will require an equa-
;rate of one mill and forty-seven
eiredths of a, mill (1 mill 47-104)
:1 donee, in additien to all other
id taxes to be levied in each year.
therefore enacted by the Council
A..,orporation of the Township of
of the County of Huron,
irMt it shall be lawful for the
hr the time being of the said Iaet
ed Corporation, to raise by way
Irrom any peraon or peraens, body
es corporate, who may he willing
Mee the smile upon the credit of
beia-tatres• hereinafter mentioned,
flot exceeding in the whole Tee
id dollars, and to cause the, same
aid nate the hands of the Trees,
:said Muuicipality of the Toweship
eerie for the purposes and with. the
a•beve recited.
That it shall be lawful for the
elee
to cause any Manlier of De -
to he made for suchsums of
not Ls than One hundred dol -
h. ti that aa,id Debenturesshall
ei ith the seal of the said Cor-
e, and be - singed; fry the said
That the said Debenturesshall be
Cavable in twenty years at furthest
•te day hereinafter mentioned, for
either in London, in England,
plaee in Canada, to be-designatecl
itebentureS. aaal shall have at--
thean Coupena for the pay
-
4" the interest half -yearly. '
That the said debentures; and
cs shall be mak. outiin either ater-
ey °tithe et -err -el -icy of this Demi-
the option of the said Reeve, so
ae' whole amount a said debens
041 act exceed the before men -
f ten thousand dollars and_
4aill bear interest at the rate of six
lepee anninn, is interest shall
etde on the first days of January
1.y. in each and every year durieg
[van -trance of the said debentures,
It -where the said debentares.
de payable.
That forthe purpose of forming&
fund forthe payment of the said
ewes, flee iuterest at the rate afore-
beettme" due thereoa an equal spe-
pv of 1 imil 47-100 of a mill in the
shall in .addition to an other Tates
x,ee be reiseel, lea ied mut colleeted
year upees all the rateable proper
-
n the said township of Stephen
the etintinneece of the said deben-
r any of them.
That thie By -Law shall taketeffect
ae into operatien upon the first day
one thoesaud eight hundred and
-
V one.
; That the votes of the municipal
,s within the said township of
'n cin this By -Law, shall be taken
'jay and. hour and. place as follows: I
'• to sey oe Wednesday the first
`Atwell,. A.It. 1871 to coramenee at
er• et eine o'clock in the forenoon
,at the Poll shall remain open un-
. tkielock in the afternoon of the
ay at the Town Hall, inn-1,recliton,
r Itroutta Returning Officer.
NOTICE.
above a true copy of a. reposed
-
w, to. be taken lute, coesideration
etunieipal ttouricit of the Town -
Stephen, County of Hurons after
nth irom the first publication of
d. y -Law in the litatoes. EXPOSI-
ewapiper, the at of -which pub, -
n was Friday the tenth day of Feb -
,A D 1871„ and that, the Totes: of
,etere a the aaid municipality win
en, thereon at the atoresaid polling
n the said toweehip ef Stephen •On
eslay the first day of March, A. IX
et and froM eine of the clock rn. the
nutil five of the clock in the
CHESTER PROUTY,
ToWnship Clerk,
Stephen_
ERN FOR SALE.
well-known and old established
lotel, Tife; ROXIICRU-If HOIST.,"
txl in the thrivint•bvillage of Rex-
alortg with thehouse is ones half
.Ientl and good stabling. Rigtet
te is "Rock's Mill," doing the la7-
eiating business in the county: To
With a small capital this is one
..best sterols in the County of Huron.
ly to the proprietor,cHOtrAS WILSON.
-burg, Jan. 23, 1871. 164-4*
St,IeTEIt RENWICK wishes to M-
i., ferre the people of ,,Seatorth and
tye that he has began the business
ayman„ and is:prepared to exeeute
dera with promptness and. dispatch.
=s for araying may be left at W. S.
son's, naie Street, or at Day house,
em Street,' near Main Street, adjoin-
' N, Watson's.
WALTER RENWICK,
FOR SALE.
KE of good working OXEN.
pply to Dr. SMITH. .
forth, Feb. 3, 1870, 165-tf
a
MeLEAN B ROTHERS, PuniASHEns.
Freedom in Trade—Liberty in
ualitij in Civil Rights."
$it. 50 A YEAR, IN ADVANCE.
VOL. ‘4, NO 11.
SEAFORTII, FRIDA
An!=rrtiMICAMMULIIMIri
BUSINESS CARDS.
MEDICAL.
RTRACY, M. D., Coroner for the
. County of Huron. • Office and Re-
sidenee —One door last of the Metnodist
Episcopal Chiareh.
8eafortle Dec. 1.4th, 1868. ° 53-ly
•fl C. MOO D. ,i.. M. (Graduate
Of NI •I_Tn versitv, :N.Iontreal,)
Physician, Surgeon; &c. Office 'and resi-
dence Zurich, Ont.
Zuri:la Toe 144
•••=4.
T AMES STEW-A:UT,
Graduate of IcGi1l 'University,
Montreal, Physician, Surgeon, &c. Office
:and residence—Brneefield.
Brucelie Id, Jan. 13, '1871.
TAR. W. R. SNIT IT, Physician, Sur-
geon., etc: Oilice,--t-Opposite Scott
Robertson's Resi lence Main -street,
North.
Seaforth, Dec: 14, 1863. 53 - 1 y
TT L. VER(1,0E, :M. D. C. TvL, .Physi-
ciaaa, Surgeon, etc. Office and Re-
.sidence, corner of Market. and High
Street, immediately in rear of kitla's
-Store. .
Seaforth, Feb. 4th. t870..53-ly.
• ,
_
,
R. CAMPBELL,. Coroner for. Ithe
County. Office and residence, over
Corby's, corner store, Main street, Seas
forth. Office day, Saturday. -• 159
LEG&L.
-re V: 'WALKER, At 37.ney- 04-taly
and Solicitor inachancery, - Con-
veyancer, Notate' Public:, &O. Mice of
the Clerk of the Peace, Court- House,
Goderiela Ont.
N.B.—Money to:lend at 8 per cent on
Farm Lands.
Goderich„ Jan'y. S. 1870. 112-1y.
-
GFIEY & HOLMSTEAD,
VI Barristers, Attorneys at Law, Sol-
icitors iiL Chancery and Insolvency, No-
taries Public and Conveyene !
oiici-
tor for the JLJ Bank, Sea,forth, A,gents
for the Canada Life Assurance Co.
N. B. ---30,0{)0 to lend at 8, Per cent.
Farms, Houses ana LOU for sale.
Seaforth, Dee.' tlith, 1868. 53-tf.
Tit ENSON & 1EYER, B natio tiers an el
Attorneyat Law, Solicitors in Chan-
cery and. tnsoivenoy, con v-zy eCTS, N -
aries Publie, e te. )11i.ces, —Sea for till and
Wroxeter. Agents for the Trust and
Loan Co. of Upper Canada, auel
canal Secerities Co. of_Londen. England.
Money at 6 per Gent ; no commeiejon,
charged.
TAS. It. BENSON-, It. W. C. MEY-En.
Se4forth, Dec. 10th 1868. -'53-ly
HOTELS
rtOMME ROI AL HOTEL, A inky vill e,
kes James Laird, proprietor, afford'
first-class accommodation for the travel-
ling pulmic, The larder and bar are at -
ways supPlied with, the,,Lest the markc
ti afford_ Excellent Stabling in connec-
tion.
ialeyville, April 23, 1869. 704f.
-yr NOX'S HOTEL (LATE SHARP'S)
ThQuadersigued begs to thank the
peblic for the liberal patronage warded.
to him, in times pastin the hotel baseless,
and also to inform them that he has again
resumed business in the above stand,
where he will be happy to lieve a, call
from old friendle and many new ones.
THOMAS KNOX.
Seaforth, May 5, 1870. . -126-tf.-
1 Th
tilDRITISH EXT ANGE HOTEL,God-
Jet °rich, ONt, J. 'CATA.AwAy-, PROPRI-
ETOR • J. S. WILLIAMS, (late of Ameri--
can Hotel, Warsaw, . N. Y.) Manager.
This hotel has recently -been newly fur-
nished, and refitted throughout, and.. is
nowone of the most eomfertable and com-
modious in the Province. • Good Sample
Rooms for Commercial Travellers.
Th
Tc -Tins
Goderich, April 14,170. 123-tf.
THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES.
BY A YOU -141, LADY.
intitten fin. the Vuron ExpoQO
Ha ,e you he rd of this queztion the
,N1,1
Doctors aniong,
ether all lieing things from
have spun ?
Thi
s has lately ° been said, an(
shall be sung, ' '
Which nobody can c
Not one or twc ages sufficed for
it required. a few mill- on,' the c
camplete, •
—But now the thing's don t; and
rather meet
‘•Isteli nobody,can Leity.
•
The originalmonadour great-gre t -grand -
sire, n
To ittle or nothing at -fir -A clid Spire,
Bu at lett to have off pring it ook a de-
sire, •
• Which uo ody can
eny.
the feat,.
lenge to
it looks
Thii monadtbecoming father o
By buddiug-or bursti g ptodu
auother •
And shortly there fo Ice 'ed a sister of
brother,
- Which nob cl) can c
Be monad ne lenge deeigna
well,
They are a cluster of oleeeles
. ;
But which of the two doctors
tell,
Which nob (13 can
sa.y, th
can
'eny.
niaother,
.16c1 such
Th. sebeings inereasi g—grew
with life, .
And eaclt to itself. 'vas both
wife, 1 ,
,f
And at first, el rangete
•ed w4hou t, strife
Wu iclenobo
1*
But se (...• ere w di ia g tog- t
such a• sta ...e.,
That Pluto i supposes tha
fate, • i
Human I elves run ab
of ite mate, ..
Which nob
Excrescences • fast 'we
shoot, e,
SOE le -put out a feeler,
Some set up a mout
• down a ro et,
Which nob
Se lye ae and. spo
bite.
,A.1 1 flies, fleas, and 1
eced,
While iehthyo aurii f llo 'the lead,
W ich no odcan (key.
eny.
es, them
now Or a
only can
eny.
buoyant
hu band and
two liv-
eny.
er produced
s vered by
tit each in search
dy clan eny. e
e now trying to
11 ame ' ut .uta foot,
, atid so o e struck
dtr an leny.
•gee and. starfishes
b ers in order suc-
Item 're1 itiles and fi he to birds we
a.Scelu, —
Au quadrup ds next t eir dimensions
ext4d, -
Til we ethe u ) to me es alad men—
wheie we end,
W nobod can deny.
.are bulky,
s�m creatures
;-
the few or for
Sol e creature..
are
°As nature aencl.food for
alt,t. •,,
1 the weal est, we
the wait,
W1 ich rio
- ;
A. deer 'with neck
lialf, _
Thin the rest of its
laugh,) \
By straehing. iad str
giraffe!
Which no od
A 'Cry tall pig, with
SM ds forth e Frobose s
toes,.
A d he ttlen y the n
-
trues1t<
.0 .
LO1r, ver go to
call deny.
t is longer by
(ry not to
tc iiig, )econies a
11
Po
MISCELLANEOUS.
D , IIAZLEHURST, Licensed Auction-
eer for the County of Huron. God-
erich, Ont- Particular! attention paid to
the sale of Bankrupt Stock. Farm
Stock "Sales atteuded on Liberal Terms,
GoodsAppraised., Mortgages Forecloted,
Landlord's Warrants EXceuted. Also,
Bailiff First Divisioe Coutt•for Huron.
G °aerie -le June fit% I See 76. tf
& w. lePHILLIPSHProvinei:il
• feand Surveyors, Cjvil Enbineers,
etc. All manner of: Coeveyaneteg done
with neatness and disPatch. • G. McPhil-
lips, Commit -shiner m B. R. Office—
Next dour smith of Sharp's Hotel, Sea -
„forth.
Seeforth, Dec. 14, 1868. 53-1y .
0 MAIM, & 9frOOKE, Architects, etc.
0 Plans and Specifications drawn cor-
rectly. Carpentr's, Plasterer's, and Ma .•
son's work, measured and valued.. Office
Oyer J. C. Detler & Co.'s store, Court -
House Square, Goderich. .
Goderich, April 23., 1869. 794y
Q HARP'S LIVERY STABLE, MAIN
kJ Se., SE:VFORTII.„ First Class Horses
and Carriages always on hand_ at as reon s-
able terms,
R. L.Sneee, Proprietor.
Seaforth, May 5th, 1870. 3-tf
eny.
a nose,
e d wn to his
m of a
ich no o(1. can
four foote 1 beast w i ich w
a whale; 1
hi Itis hind legs o ldse
grew to a tail.
ich lic use ior tines mg ti
a flail, •
WI ich no od - can
h
iters, turn. ters an
the ame ource;
race aied hack
horse;
mei WerE level
cour. e, .
ich no
a pliable t
of the < abh
--of
Aa iebaniewith
r)tai
e gift
to g,
A a "Lord of Cr ati
cIino od
iBttI'm..bdily afraid, if
care ••
•A ela.pse to h w life m
impair;
So of boaStly iropeee
W iich nol
T eir 1 fty osition
lose,
Ai d reduced kali he ars
row thei views
hicla would wholly un
mg si; o e s ,
'oh no od
Ti eir
athey'd
hen
some day
0 the pitiful
his reign,
T us loweri
name,
A d descendi
of shame
T ey'd retu
we all ca
'
a nex
ink to
part of
ich no
g humani
a
elephant
eny. •
now call
that they
e sea like
deny.
are from
traced to one"
o monkeys
deny.
uxnb and big
had. managed
stablished
an deny.
ds not take
on prospects
1st a s beware,
an deny.
us
t th
an
ht
ider,
y ian
g throng vary
to the m nad f
e,
ich nolodjy can
11
FEBR
JOHN- KITT°.
DB. •KITTO'S LI:PB. ANI). WORK.--4.,EC
TUBE BY liftv, MR. GRAHAM'
• 1 .
On IVIondal• even I Feb. 6th, Rev.
'JIr. Graham, of Eon ondville, delivered a
, e
lecture in the 1 Canada Presbyterian
thurch, No. 2. McKillep, on the "Life
and Labors of Dr. Kitto."-, Dr. Kitto
wasbornat Plymouth, in, December,
804.- Like several other distinguished
ndivieluals, who ,afterwards -became Ilse -
el in theworld and to the church, he
as very :sickly at fitst, and it was even
eared that . he wanulhl die in infancy.
s he grew up he been,* a great favorite
ef j ie. ....neline-1:1” 1.•
her library' a Fauelyi Bible with engrav-
Inge, a Prayer Beek, Bunya,n's Pilgrims
regress, and Gelliver's Travels. he de -
orate& all the engravings in these with
he `blue his grandmother usedin wash -
ng operations, having only a feather for
brush, thus gieting early evidences of a
talent, which Was afterwards developed
with so much lienor to himself, and ad -
tentage to the canee !of truth. As he
grew up he became ',lack of all trades,"
li)ut it is not true that lie was "master of
noue." He was apprenticed to a .shoe-
maker, but was nforced to leave from mal -
,treatment. He ehiefly wrote prose, but
sometimes poetry.: Of the poets he was
attached te Young and SpeucerShelat-
ter continuing his special favorite through
life., He was much delighted with Long-
ireelrlosetv;s ''Psalmof Life," especially the
1
Art is long -am time is fleeting, -
1 And. our heart though stout and brave,
Still like niuffiectdriims are beating
Funeral marcl es to thc grave:"'
In February, 18- 7iie
,catti riible event hap-
pened. to laiinov geared as hodman
to his fatheie iii. repairing a house at Ply-
. .
Mouth. Hethac ni just leached the highest
Part of theldbl, le el Id NV:VI-about to step
on the roof, wh 'a 1 is foot slipped, ad
n . i
l'il\fell. froni a h irdi of 35feet, on astene
par ment AR th yard
beneath, No linab
. - i 7
'was' fractured, I tit Consciousness was lost
foe some -ttime. I On recovering, it was
faind that he hall. lc.ist the sense of hear -
1.0.. No one w blies uot been in a shn-
lar position can 'estimate the extent of
his lost. ,- Dr. Reid says,, that sounds!
4ave probably w! less a variety of mocli-
'mations than ti
he first places
he_ ear is cap
live hundreu va
ith probably .
f strength, so
ards ot 20,000
nee front each
then nar-
m for fill -
deny.
be taken'
•r shellfish'
Platt
deny. .
ature and
• g stages
om which
,deny.
11; tastes and odors. In
Okla differ in -tone, and.
ble of perceiving four or
•leties of tone in sound,!
many different degreeS
that thus we have up.
siinple sounds all differ -i
other either in. tone or
strength, hence, i any one :Who has been
ltuddenly depriviect of the sense of hearing
. s necessarily cit off from 1). vast ar110111A
f pleasurable st:nsatioes. . He MAY fOL14d
hat he was coniparatitely shift out from
he rester the lrorld, and that one of the
venues of knoxledge was .for ever sealed
o him. - Nothia k daunted, he determin-1
cl to make up for Ills les.s by diligent ap-1
plication, ami by using to good purpose
the senses left to him. lie studied bookl
with avidity, and gathered S information
from every souree at his command.
order to attain matter for Biblicai. illus-
trations, he first went to Malta, and then
•eturned again to England. i Thence' he
et out on a toie through Eastern coun-
ries, and trave led as far as Persia, in
rcler to be .able, by .studying the man-
ers. and =stole 8 Of these conntries, to
hrow as much light aspossible on the
acred page of Scripture.As he
ravelled, whatever he saw striking in
'Aural phenomena he compared with
tcripturalobjects asking, "is there any-
hing like this in the Bible?" Of his
orks, his Daily Bible Illustrations dis- -
inguishet him most. It comprises eight
olumes. It is divided into week -day
eadings and Sunday teadings.. The
eek -day readings are divkled into morn -
ng and eveninglessons, and m
m e illustra-
led frothe daily life of eastern coun-
trita ; while the Sunday readings are of a
piritual. nature, adapted to the sacred
liaracter of- the Sabbath. When in
Salta he wished to get married, but the
ady to whom he had formed an attach-
-lent, from some cause or other drew
ack. By and :by, however, he did, get
married to another. At first Mrs. Kitt()
was annoyed that he was a mere book
wornabut in a short time she fell in with
his ways, and -gathered what matter she
could for his -work. No one was allowed
to arrange his library but she. His
daughter was expected to arrange his
table, and as illustative of the order
which he carried iI40 everything, his in-
structions to her are very suggestive. .It
is as follows : 4: L. Make one pile of re-
ligious books. t. Make another of books
not religious, 3. Make another of let
ters. 4. Make anot eref written papers
other than lett ts. 5. Make !another of
printed papers. . 6. Put these piles upon
the floor. . 7. he table being now clear,
dust, rub; serul i and scour the table, till
you sweat, an1. having exhausted half
a gallon give o'er, leaving the final dis-
tribution to Jr. Kitto—signed sealed
and d.elivered- t is the 2-1th day of May,
in the year'of our Lord, 1852." What a
contrasts obser •es Dr. Eaclie,in a critical
estimate of hi ', writings, between the
deaf and pa,up r boy of 1819, wheedled
into a workhou a to keep him from hun-
ger. and fasting cold and nakedness, and
the John Kitto of 1854, Doctor of The -
elegy, though e layman, Member of the
Society of Antiquaries, Editor of the Pie-
torial Bible and the CyclOpedia. of Bibb: -
cal Literature, and.: author of the Daily
Bible Illustrations. He died on the 25th
November, 1854. Hee
vine spent his time
, •
in benevolent objects he had attracted
the attention of royalty itself; the nation
considering itself entitled to provide for
his wife_ and family by pensioning her.
Mr. Graham concluded by quoting thp
words of Profe sor Eadie, "Take him all
in all he was a rare phenomenon—an
honor, also, to iis agc and country. He
struggled man ully and gained the vie -
I
ARY 17 1871.
iytory. Na , out of his misfortunes he
constitutcd the steps of his advancement
Neither poverty, nor deafness, her hard
usage, nor milieus warnings, nor sudden
cheeks, noi unpropitious commiserments,
nor aband necl schemes chilled the: ar-
dor of his actV ambition. He Eyed not
be a long age, but he had not lived. in -
vain. When death at length came, it
was but t le master saying as of old,-
" Ephahat la," "Be Opened," and his
spirit, *hi h had so lone dwelt in dis-
tressing si ence, burst 'away to join the
hymning yriads, whose song is lender
than the hunder's- roar, or the fullness
of the sea when it bursts upon the
shore."
, A. fl-er a 1 ote ef tlilnicq 4-ef'; re. ea lean .
for Ills la' eresting iectureai
,-eae lleta.ug
dispersed., 'ghly pleased with thee en-,
tertainmen .
Jared J nes on Things General-
- ly and Ilailroad Traveling Es-.
Deeleal
MR. EDIPOR EXPOSITOR : A certain fa-
.
. mous philo opher, In forget his name, has
electrified be thinking portion of man-
114nd by as erting this is a most wonder -
fel age we live in. Upon a careful col-
lection of 11 the proofs, I have eome to
the conclu ion that, after all, he may be
right. • Of 11 the,ages of' the peat that I -
remember eeding of, there was only one
anything 1 ke as wonderful as this age,
and that as the age of IVIetausalah.
No rationa being will deny thathis was,
indeed, a Plost wonderful age. Turning
to the pres nt day, I have no hesitation
in assertiee, that there is no age on the
..face of the. eaath that can hold a candle
to our own ; and as tithe iteem of the fil-
tere, the statistical records, , notwith-
standing ti e laboi e of Dr. Gemming, are
rtet sufficie itly reliable to fouiel a com-
p jarison uj on. In- regard the dis-.
ting,inshin feattre .ef owe noble age,
some write s have argued that it is, be-
yoml emit •adietion, theage of steam ;
others ha c roundly declared that. it is
the acre of ron e still others have assert-
ed, aud. I must confess, with an amount
of oral and documentary evidence almost
unanswere le, that it is, par excellence,
the age o brass. Rejecting these va-
porous. and metallurgical views, I hold
ti) the opi ion, and am ready to defend
it against ,11 opposition whatsoever, and_
iii defiance of the bitterest persecution,
that this i the age of great inetitutions.
It is impos ible to enumerate a tithe of
the grand nstitutions that now lift their
pent prop • rtions aloft efore the gaze of:
ah admiri e world. There are, to inen -
tion•a few, Niagara Falls, Hon. John
Sandlield 1 lacdonaid, Mammoth Cave of
Kentncky, Hon. Josh Billings!, thelluron
and Ontar o Ship Canal, Patent Com-
bination, nd, last and greatest of all,
the great i stituticm on the diacussion of
of which 1 propose' to spend a Small por-
tion of m valuable time and. occupy a
large porti n of your invaluable space..
• Time w is when it might have been
said, with . little sacrifice of truth, that
-the Grand Trunk Railway was -not with-
out its imperfections. But that time has
gone by, for since it came under its pres-
ent able and energetic. management, the
institution vast and cumbrous though it
be, works es smoothly and efficiently as
one of Mulligan's New Patent Lightning
.Turnip-Outtero. The Grand Trunk,
winding :in almost interreinable length
through the wide forests and fertile
- and along the shores of 'n the far -
stretching lacustrine waters of our &-
lions coun ey, with its manifold ramifi-
cations, at d multiform political conuec-
time,. bad& fair, in its maeageineet, to
puzzle th & profoundest engineers and
navigators of the land. But a mind. has
at last bee found. vast enough to com-
prehend it; a will sufficiently resolute to
centre]. -it. The Grand Trunk hap found
its master, and the 'country is safe. fn
this conn ction, I would beg leave to
suggest al appropriate device for the
coat of ar 1 s of the noble family of De
Brugge, n w being ,exhumed from the
vaults of a itiquity. Let Canada be rep-
resented b1 a tbeautifril but unfortunate
inv ilved. in the deadly folds of an
enormous oa constrictor; labeled Grand
Trunk, w • ile the valiant chieftain ot
the house 1 De Brugge, gallantly springs
to the res ue, holds the tail of the rep
-
41e firmly between the thumb and. fore-
tinger of h is -right hand, while with the
ether, he '"ontrols the movements of a
still huger eerpent, bearing the 'name of
" Intercol -Dial." .But, to return to my
subject, as I have said, the Grand Trunk
now work to a charm. There are no
"smash u s" on the line now, unless,
indeed, as sometimes will happen, a train
runs off t ie track from a defective rail,
Or collide with another through some
pardonabl _misunderstanding, or leaps
over the s de of a bridge or embankment
from 44pu -e cussedness," as it were. But
ie the Ma ager to blame for these things?
-tocornoth es, no matter how carefully
trained, o ten display strange perversity
of nature nd decidedly mischievous ten-
dencies, ns emingly inherent, and which
io am -bun of switching would appear to
eradicate. They will, when in their
vicious es roxysms, run off the track or
jump into a gully in the most surprising
9.nd unacc luntable manner, and run. into
and :butt •ne another, like a couple of
irate ram.. in the Maddest fashion, and
without a y apparent prOtocation. Now,
-
• *hen tw heavy bodies, such as they,
come viol ntly in contact from oppoEite
directions and at lightning express
peed, I should like to know what
mount of ability, on the part of the
- Manager, could possibly prevent a
i
mash? 4 smash is inevitable; and if,
in the co fusion, some poor fellow's life
should be expressed eht of his body,why,
it is a pitr, but it can't be helped, and
there's alt end. of it. . :Such little mis-
haps occitir, of course, occasionally, but
hot so frej1uently or fatalty- as to cause
any mark]ed diminution in the popula-
tion of Vs country.
But- th best feature of this admirable
institution is the infallible punctuality 1
observed in the running of the trains. If
you wish to know -when the train wili.
arrive at any given station; you hare
merely to look at the time -table, and if
the train should not be there at the ex-
act time indicated, you may set it down
as a phenomenon -which can only be ac-
counted for in one of the following ways a
Either you are laboring under a mental
hallucination, consequent upon a trace of
hereditary 'insanity in your, constitution,
or superinduced 13y an 'abnormal quaa-
tity of brandy and. water on the 'brain;
or, otherwisp, whieh is the most satisfaer
tory reason,Ithe train is, strictly speak-
ing, somewhere else, , and consequently
t+,. be re.ea ',a:sail:P:0-v. he e4.
The lateer explication is lateea
upon the generally recognized princinal
that the same° body cannot be in two
separate places at one and the same that.
(VielSangster's Elements of Nataral
Philos4hy, chapter -27, 16th verse
Isaac Newton's Treatise on the Binomial
Theorem, &c.) Now, speaking from per-
sonal observation and eeperience, I as-
sert fearlessly that •there are no cases of
delayed trains on Ihe Grand Trunk, ab-
solutely none—which cannotbe account-
ethfor in one of the above ways. But I
must admit that in the last trip I made
on the line, from Toronto to H—, the
train was—well. I -shall relate the cir-
cumstances. We started from Taranto
at 5 P. M., and were to reach H pre-
cisely at 31 minutes past' 10 .P. M., of
the same day; but when I consulted my
chronometer; on arriving at our destine -
tion, I found it was 4 P. M.iexactly-.
You will imagine that we made the trip
in less than no time, which would be
quite true, were it not for the melan-
choly fact that we started on the 14th of
the month and finished our journey on
the 15th.. The whole matter was, how-
ever, satisfactorily explained to me be
one of the obliging officials. It a,ppeats
I had. by mistake, got into one of the
sleeping ears. which, I was assured,'when
in motion, stumble along at a slow and
drowsy rate and; moreover, indulge in a
prolonged. doze at almost every station.
Notwithstandingthese little matters, the
presentmanagement of the Grand Trunk.
is so masterly that the whole country is
lost inadmiration and swallowed. up in
wonder at the exceeding greatness of
the iststitution, with the one solitary ex-
ception of that cantankerous individual,
George Brown. This man Brown,
as
you' may not be aware, is the publisher
of a Toronto newspaper, which., I- am in-
formed, circulates pretty freely in that
'city and surrounding townships. It ap-
pears to be printed. and published for the
sole purpose of vilifying, or, to use a
more classical phrase •-"pitching into ".
the Grand Trunk aad its Manager.
do not suppose that the great De Brugge
deigns to notice its puny and Plebian at-
tacks, but, believing: that Brown richly
deserves a trouncing for bi audacity,. I.
shall, ifii my next letter, h mile him in
such a manner as to make him feel "hor-
rors unspeakable and pangs unfelt be-
fore." JARED JonEs,
February 11,1871.
• ...-
Canada.
A good lawyer is badly wanted in the
village of Parkhill. So says the Gazette.
—Very great uneasiness is felt in the
vicinity of Galt, regarding the safety of the
fall wheat.
—Hon. Mr. Carling heads the Sir John
A. Macdoeald testimonial in Loud on w ith
$1,000. •
—Servant (girls are scarce in Ailsa
Craig, anE1 as high as $6 per month is cif-.
fered.
—An entire block of „buildings was de-
stroyed by fire at St. Thomas on Friday
morning.
—Taxation is so high in Quebec that
many- persons are renting houses 6utsi4e
the city walls.
—Ktiox's Church congregation, Mon-
treal have given a call to Rev. It. McAl-
pine Thornton, of Ontario.
The store of Mr. M. P. Empey,
Hawksville, was bullied down with con-
tents, on Sunday the 5th:in*
—The people of St. John, N. B., are
making active exertions to rate° contri-
butions in aid of the Pars sufferers.
—The Dominion Parliament :will be
called upon to'consider a number of ex-
tensive railway schemes this session.
—The old Kirk at Guelph is about to
submit to the innovation of an organ—
$1,000 having been already subscribed
for the purpose.
—A silversmith in Montreal, in at-
tempting to cure defects of the eyes, has
destroyed the sight of several people on
whom he lia;* experimented..
—Mr. Peter Warren, of the township
of "Wallace, has recently met with a se-
vere family affliction. Within a wet'. he
lost his wife and three solo,
—Messrs". Schragg & Son have recent-
ly completed the erection Af a fine new
Foundry and Machine shop in the -Village
of Tavistock, County of Oxford. -
--Another serious fire took place at St.
Thomas last week, by which a block of
buildings were- completely destroyed.
Estimated loss, $5,000; insured for $2,-
000.
—At a recent meeting of the Presby-
tery of Toronto, the Rev. T. McPherson,
Stratford, was unanimously recommend-
ed, for Moderator of the next General As-
sembly.
—BaronaDeCa.min, the notorious, is
now engaged in endeavoring to enlight-
en the people of Ailsa Craig and iticittity.
His effortsiare but little appreciated, anci
his meetings slimly attended.
—Quite a number of well-to-do farmers
in the tow hip of Fullerton are making
extensive preparations for the erection of
brick, stone, and other substantial dwell-
ings during the coming season.
—A Woodstock paper mentions that
three sisters, who had been separated for
WHOLE NO. 137.
many years, and. whose -united ages are
.209 years, met in that town 6ne night
lately and. had a pleasant cup of tea, to-
gether.
--Mr. John Begg, formerly an old res-
ident of the townslip of Hibbert, com-
mitted suicide a short time ago, at the
residence of Mr. Hugh. Craig, near Inger-
soll, where he had for some time been
staying. -
1—A meeting , of the electors of the
Township of Elma, is called_ forSaturday
the 25th inst., to discuss the propriety of
g eating a bonue to arailwaY from Strat-
1 rd to Listened., passing through that
t wiaship. .
—A circelar has hem issued by Mr.
a ;taller, tee 'i isa. pal el ille crittalio In-
s itution for the. deaf and dumb at Belle-
ille, to the ministers of all denomina-
t ons in Ontario.. He wiehes it to be
known that the Institution is prepared
tp receive and'instruct all deaf mutes be-
veen the a,geaof seven auid nineteen, not
hysically or mutually imbecile,
—An accident of a painful nature QC -
carred to George 1.,teeves, employed at
tae steam cooperage �f Mr. Elder, Strat-
f rd. The- man employed in cutting
staves requested himin his temporary
absence, to work the machinai and. while
se occupied the stave cutter so severely
c aished the fingers of the right hand,
t i let amputation of- the little finger be-
e me necessary, the other fingers being
• ulled out. ef joint, and the forefinger
token. .
---A couple of Jehus, a few days .ago,
used themselves, ani a number of
s ectators, in Stratford, by testing the
s length, a their teams, fir a bet of $20 a
s de. na sleigh were placed. sevetial
ieces ot.timber, weighing ia all, sevtn
tans and a half, and thisl one of the
t awe failed to move, but broke their
,arnese and whippjetrees in the attempt.
resh harness being pvenred the team
as again attached to the' slei,sh, but
t mei apparently applying tiu•ir 'utmost
s rength, the load didn't stir. The other
tam, upon being "hitthed to," dew the
s me lad with apparent ease a distance.
of 12 feet, 'with an addition thereto of 13
en, increasing the weight an.additional
tan, said making the load 8. tons in all,
'3 near as could. be judged. Both teams
s elated to be about equal in size and
eight.
Old Country News..
The London Times has received $125, -
DO for advertisements in a single month.
--Excessive frosts have endangered
reps of all kinds in. Eegsdand.
—The affairs of a Duk , two -earls, and
lord, were before the . :ourt of Bank-
inptcy. last week,
—Earl Granville aecte ted Bismarck's
rOposalto pay for the Biitish ships sunk
t Duclair.
—A politi6a1 society, entitling itself
he Scottish Reform -1731i011, has been
ormed. in Edinburgh.
—The Prussian ainiy, lin respect to the
auk and file, is essentially young—i. e.,
is formed of men from twee.ty to twen-
y-six years of age.
—The camp table of the King of Prue-
ia is graced with the curious, thin, wen-
vorn, old histori•cal plates Which the
)reat,Frederick took to, the wars with
---Tt is said that Sir IllmiltonSeymour
a about to contest -the Will of the 14e
Iarquis of Hertfoid, as far3:31-60-aads the
isposition of the large rash estates situ -
ted in the ()aunty of Aiiitrina and yield -
1 • g him au income estimated at beyond
1
i
'50,000n year. -
—The deadi is annou4ced of Thomas
Villiara liobertson, author of ``((i'aostthr.
e,e'°
'Ours," 4`School," ' ' W
'ar," a13.
°pular dramas. Ile wae born in New-
rk-upon-Trent, in then e ear 1829. He
as brought up on the -tage from the
adle, his father beinginanager of the
yl
rincohishire Circus, with a family of
hirteen children, all of whom embraced
he drama as a profession,.
tI
i
The Arne3aities o the Press.
We respectfully come end the follow -
mg paragraphs to the attention of the
'anadian Press. Association, and suggest
hat they be referred to the Home Mis-
. ions Committee of that body, for imme- .<
Hate action :
"The editor of the Woodstock TI11143
ketends net to believe in proprietors of
iewspapers employing writers. We
llama not at this, coming from the
ource it does. A publisher who is too
nean to pay his printer* for their labor
s not exactly the person to give a disin-
crested opinion on the Point. Try again,
Japta.m Jinks.222-47igersoll Chrunick
"The impertinent, interference of Ttan
is, of the Mitchell Atelcisill--otherwise
ailed the A4rocatP—in the affairs of his
teighbors is well known. A year or so
go, we gave him a lesson which needs
0 be repeated, judging from his impn-
lent anti untruthful reference to this
Journal in last week's etiedmill. We eut
hie paper from our exchange list longago,
oping thereby to cut him also, but the
neak has become more impertinently
ncl maliciously 'attentive in cense-
pence ."—St. Marys Argus.
"A Rag published in Walkerton, edit -
d. by a fellow generally and generously
upposed to be cracked., has had the
,ounty printing, or a little of it, for some
ime, but owing to the blundering mail-
er in which it was done, the county
council refesed to pay the scamp for his
vork. Since the fellow is really half
• aft, and since the Council knew it when
they gave him the contract, we fear they
have acted. rashly, if not hastily, in the
matter When a -Wilder emanates from
a jackass or nincompocipit ought not to
be received. or entertained by an intelli-
gent body, even to burn the fingers of a
notorious fool. "—Kineartline Renim.
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