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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1873-06-06, Page 27 ass. 2. R.V.,RON ::EXPOSJTQL IUNDER THE .,SEAT. Smokirg carria.ge, sir?" asked the tip -expecting porter, as he bore my rugs and minor packages along the platform, I said yes and he mane me eleinfertable, of a bird under the power of a snake. Of one only could I tell the use—a thin, trenchant blade, which cat you almost to look at it.. He knelt across me, ar- ranged his implebaents on the seat to his right, laid a, note -book, pencil and watch on that to the left, `tied took off my 'neck - received nis sixpence, and was appar- cloth •and collar, murmuring, he • ently left alone—alone with tneTins, and all the comic weeklies, and a modern' poem. The doors were banged, the engine whistled, the train began. to move. It would not stop again until we got to • Peterboron la so :that I was- safe to be undisturbe clothes sun very much in the way, Wish that you were properly prepared for the operation:" He smiled and shook his head. ." Life is sweet, I will not trust to you," he said unfastening my wads -Worst, and *turning back the lapels as far as he so far. There were six couldThen taking a pair of scissors, he seats, and I could oceupv as many of piaceeded to cut my shirt front away,, so them as a limited number of members that presently my cheat was boned to his ) riensboys. If they were to scream and permitted. I abnost wished myself an eiperimeats. Whether 1 closed my eyes bellow in London asthey do in New Octopus, to take full advantage of the er was seized with vertigo, I do not York or Washington, they woulcl be situation. Calming down, I hung up my know, but for a moment or two I lost auppressed by the police, as they ought hat put on a gaudy piece of needlework sight of everything, ancl hail visions • a to be. - ,The,vender of papers snand at the corner of ehe Street, with hie goods in his mans, and a large -placard: qpread. �t at his feet, giving in big lettets the principal news .headings. . ter anti manners of the people gentler and sweeter than I had been led to be- lieve they, were No loudness, brazeness, impertinence; no oaths, no swaggering, no leeriug at Women, no 'irreverence, no flippancy, no bullying, no insolenee of porters, or clerks or conductors, or im- portunity of boot-bla,ckg, or newsboys, no omuivorousness of haelamea—at least,. • comparatively none—sail of winch an American is apt to -notice and I'hope to appreciate. In London, the boot-blaek salutes you with a respectable bow, and touches - his cap, and. would no more think of pursuing you or answering your :refusal than he wOuld of jumping into I the Thames. • The same is true of the won in a bazaar rafile, lit 'iriy pipe, cut ray papers, and. began to enjoy myself. I sat in the left hand corner with my back to the engine, absorbed in a big Iaw suit. It is great fun to read a cross, • examination, and watch how a clever lawyer will Make honest man perjure hiniseIf " It reads alniost like a crime," I remarked aloud, "but then it is an honorable, lasvfid, and. beneficial crime. Soldiers kill people's bodies, lawyers kill people's reputations, all for the good of society in the long run." • While I was muttering the word. "Run," my ankles were grasped sud- denly and firmly then, before I could. recover from the simek, they were jerked. backwards under the seat with such -• force that I* was • thrown. - forwards, sprawling.' I tried to rise, but my wrist Was seized, and the arm twisted till I was helpless, and. presently I found . my- self on the floor of the carnage, face downwards,: a sharp knee being scientifi- cally pressed into the smat niy back, and both arms fixed be ind me. -My elbows were tied together, and. then the knee was removed, and my ankle's were secured. During this latter operation • kicked and struggled. r " Hum said a deliberate voice, that will be awkward. Let's see ; ah, these will do." "These were my stick and umbrel- la, whieli smile one proceeded to apply as splints to the backs of hey legs, using the steeps which, had kept them in a bundle to fix them at the ankle and, above th.e knee. When he had. done, n was as belpless a trussed turkey. • Then I Wag turned over carefully and tenderly, and for the first time Saw my assailant. He was a gentlemanly looking man, • dressed in a black coat and waistcoat, grey trousers and tieckeloth. His hair and whiskers were just turainn grizzly, his chin and upper lip were clean shaved. His forehead was high, his eyes promi- - neat and fixed intheir expression, his nose aquiline, his mouth a slit. He was of middle height, spare but wiry; indeed. his muscle inust-hane been exceptionally elastic and feline, for you would never have thought to look at him, that he could stow himself away under the seat of a railway carriage so compactly He contemplated me, with his chin in his right hand, and his aight elbow on • his left hand, and said, thoughtfully :. "Just so. All for the good of society in the long ran—an admirable sentiment, my dear sir; let it be a consolation to you, if I should cause you any little an- noyance." He took a seagreen spectacle ease from • his pocket, wiped the glasses carefully with a silk handkerchief, and adjusted. them on his nose. Then he produced an. oblong box, whieh he unlocked, a.nd placed on one of the seats After whien he sat down quietly in the place I had occupied five minutes before—a position which brought him dose pver head. and chest; as I lay supine and. helpless at his feet. • "Do you know anything of anatomy?" • he asked. As I was as completely in his power an a witness in the cross -ex - &raining counsel's, prudence dictated that • I sh.ould be equally ready to answer the most frivolous and impertineet ques- tions with politeness. I said that 1 did not. "Ah !" he said.; "well, perlia-ps you • have heard of the spleen! Exactly. Now science has never as yet been able to find • the use of that organ, and the man who bequeathed that knowledge to posterity would rank with the discoverer. of the circulation of the blood, and confer an inestimable 'benefit On humanity for the remainder of the world's lease. - I pro- pose to dissect you." "You will not get macn glory by that," said I, fpreing myself to seem to take this outrageous practicale joke in good part. "An ungrateful generation may or may net profit by your discover, les, but it will infallibly hang you." " Not so," he blandly replied. '" I am a surgeon, who once had a very consider- • able practice, but I had to stand my trial for an experiment, which proved fatal, on one of my patients. The jury unable 4 sort of grotesque nightmare it was, th.ehg- ares in which recall but very indistinct- ly ; butel remember that the most pro- minent aniong them: Wb.S a' pig, or rather a porker, hanging rip outside a butcher' shop, the appearance of winch bore a raysteiions resemblance to myself. These nlysterions fantasies were dispelle,d by a sharp pang; the anatomist had made a first slight incision. I saw his calm face leaning over me; the cruel blade with which he was about to make another and a deeper, cut; his -fingers already crimson with my blood; and 1 struggled • frantically. My operator immediately withdrew his armed. band' and stood erect. _Then watching his opportunity, he placed his rightnoot on the lower part of my breast bone, so that by pressure he could' su ffocate me. ".Listen my friend," he said ; "1 wil endeavor not to injure any vital organ but if you wriggle about I shall not b able at avoid doing so. Another thing; if you---" He was interrupted by three sharp whistlesfromthe engine, so shrill and piercing as to drown his voice. "Impede sne by these absurd. convut- sive movements; shall be compelled. tla sever those muscles which lie never . completed his .sentence. There was a mighty shock, a. crash as if all the worlds had rushed together. 41 was shot under the seat. where. I lay une injured and in safety, amidst the most horrible din ; breaking, tearing, shriek- ing, cries for help, and the :roar of tne escaping steam. 1) [had strained the bonds which senui- ed my elbows in my struggles, and the jerk of the collision snapped them; so that when began a get my wits 0- -nether, • I found my hands free. liberate my legs was then a very eas matter, but not so to extricate myself, the next thing I set about. The -whole top of the carriage from where the stuffed cushion ends, was carried sheer away ; and amidst the debris which encumbered my movements lay' the mangled and de- capitated body of the ma.dthan who, in- tending to asssail my life, had, by keep- ing me down at the bottom of the 4 car- riage, saved it.—Chcanbere' ,Tottival. +lb • ENGLISH CHARACTERISTICS. England is a mellow country, arid the English people are a raellow people. They have hung onethe tree of nations a long time, and. will, no, doubt, hang as ranch longer; for windfalls. I reckon, are not theorderin their island. We are pitched *several degrees higher in this ,cou.ntry, By contrast, things hare are loud, sharp and garish. Our geogra- phy is loucl ; the nianners of the people are halide our climate is loud., very loud, so dry and sharp, and full of violent changes and. contra.sts ; and our goings - out and coraingsnu as a nation are any- thing but silent. Do we not occasional- ly give the door an extra slain, just for effect? . Street -criers of all kinds are less no- -,ticeable, less aggressive, than in this country, and the manners of the shop - men make you feel you are conferring a benefit instead of receiving one. Even their locomotives are less noisy than mire, having a shrill, infantile whistle that contrasts strongly with the demon- iac yell that makes a residence near a railway or depot, in this country, so un- beara,ble. The trains themselves move with wonderful smoothness and celerity, making a mere fraction of the racket made by our flying palaces as they go swaying and jolting over our hasity, illsballasted. roads. • It is characteristic of the English pru- dence and plain dealing that they put so little on the cars a,nd. so meoh on the road, while the reverse process is equal- ly ch.aracteristic of American enterprize. Our railway system, no doubt, has cer- tain advantagee, or rather conveniences, over the English, but, for my part, I had rather ride smoothly, swiftly and safely_ in a leggage-van, than be jerked and jolted to destruction- in the velvet and veneering of our palace -cars. Up- holster the road first, and let us ride on bare boards, until a cushion can be af- forded; not till after the bridges are of ,granitenand iron, and the rails of steel, do we Want this more than aristocratic splendor and luxury of palace and draw- • ing-room cars. • To me there is u9 more marked. sign of the essential vulgarity of the national manners than those sruacely cars and beggarly, clap -trap, roads. It is like a man wearing a ruf- fled and jeweled shirt front, but too poor to afford a shirt itself. I have said the English are a sweet 4,nd mellow people. There- is, indeed, a ' arm about these ancestral races that es to the heart. And herein. was one he profoundest surprises of my visit, dye that, iu -coming from the New rld to the Old; from a people the most recently out of the woods of any, to one of the ripest and venerablest of the European nationalities I should find. a _race more simply youthful, and less so- phisticated than the one I had left be- hind me. Yet !this was thy impression. We have lost immensely in some things, and what we have gained is not yet so obvious or so definable. We have lost In England, every thing is on a lower key, -slower, steadier, -gentler. Life is, no doubt, as full, or fuller, in its materie al forms and measures, but less violent and aggressive. The buffers the English have between their cars to break, the shock, are typical of much one sees there. 411 sounds are softer in England. ; the surface of things is less hard. The ey of day and. the face of nature are less bright. Evetything has a mellow, sub- dued cast. There is. no abruptness in the landscape, no sharp and violent con- trasts, no brilliant and striking tints in the foliage. A soft, yellow, pale sun- light is all one sees in the way of tints along the borders of the autumn woods. English apples (vertesmall and inferior by -the -way) are not no highly colored as ours. The blackberries, just ripening in October, are less pungent and acid; and the garden vegetables, such as .-cabbage, celery, cauliflower, beet_ and other root crops, are less rank. and. fibrous; and I am very sure that the meate- .aiso are tennerei and sweeter. There can be no doubt a,bout the superiority of the mut- ton; and the tender a.nd. succulent grass and the moist and agreeable climate to understand the seer -dices which an , must tell upon the beef also. earnest in tauircr is ever ready to offer at English coal is all soft coal, and the the shrine of science, declared me mad, stone is soft stone The foundations of aad I was placed in confinement. You see that I can -act with. impunity." And he opened the box. I broke out in a cold sweat. Was it all real? Could the man be in earnest Ts " But," said I, "surely you can get dead bodies to dis- sect, without having recourse to a crime? And again, if generatiens of anatomists have failed, in twenty thousand iavesti- gatiees, to discover the use of the spleen ..if you yourself • have always failed hitherto, why should you suppose that this one attempt should be more success- ful than the others.' "Because, ray dear sir," said the man; with the smile of one who has caught a bright idea, • all -former investigations, including my own, have been, made on dead subjects, while I propose to exam- ine your vital organs with a powerful • magnifying glass, while they are exercis- ing their normal fuuctions." " What !" I gasped. "You willnever have the barbarity "—and here my voice choked. " 0, yes ; 1 have conquered that prej- udice against inflicting suffering tvhich is • natural to the naiad enfeebled by civiliza- tion. Far many years I "seeretlY prac- ticed vivisection upon animals; I once the hills are chalk instead of granite. The stone with whinh Most of the old churches and cathedrals are built -would not -endure in our climate half a eenn tury S but in Britain the tooth of Time is much better, and the hunger of the olkl min less ravenous, and the ancient architecture stands half a Millennium, until it is- slowly worn away, by the gentle attrition of the wind and tann. • At Chester, the old Roman wall that surrounds the 'town, built inthe first century a,ncle repaired in the ninth, is still stanning without a break or a swerve, though in some places the outer face of the wall is worn through. The cathedral and St. -John's church, in the same town, present to the beholder out- lines as jagged and broken as rocks and cliffs; and yet it is only chip by chip, or grain by grain, that rum approaches. The tiraber also lasts an incredably long time. Beneath one of the arched ways, in the Chester *all above refer- red to, I saw timbers that must have been in place five or six hundred years. The beams in the old houses, also fully exposed to the weather, seem incapable of decay; those dating from Shake- speare's time being a,pparently as firm as hacl a cat, an animal very tena,craus of ever. • . life, under my scalpel- for a week. But I noticed that the cnaracteristic,. as we have no time to Waste in coaversa- pect of the clouds m England was -dif- tion. You will not be put to any need- ferent fronn ours —soft, fleecy, vapory, less suffering, these instruments are eot indistinguisha,ble—never the firm, com- my own, blunted for want af use, I = pact, sharply - defined, deeply - dyed took the precaution of borrowing themasses and -fragnaents so common in our case of the gentleman under whose care sky, It rains easily but slowly. Storms I have been placed, before making my es- accompanied with thunder are ' rare, nape." while the crashing; wrenching; explosive While speaking thus, he took out the thunder gusts so common with us, del - hideous Iittleglittering instruments, and aging the earth arid n convulsing the examined one by one. They were of heavens are never known. :various appalling shapes, and I gazed In keepin tvith this elemental con - upon them with the horrible fascination tliennnblice and there can be but little doubt that gatherings of the kind re- ferred to, if permitted in our great cities, would be ten-folt1 more scandalous and disgraceful tha,n they are in London or Paris. There is something so .reckless aria desperate in the career of man or wo- man in this country when f they begin to -go down, that the only feeling they too eften exeite is one of loathsomeness and • disgust. The lowest depth must be reached, a.nd it is reached quickly. But in London, the same characters seem to keep a sweet side from corruption to the a you will see good manners e verywhere We boast of our deference to women brit, if 'the Old World made her a tool, we are fast making her a toy ; and the latter is tile •most hopeless conditioa. But among. the better classes in England I am 3onvinee,1 that woman is regarded more as as sister and -an equal than in this country, and is less subject to in- sult and to leeriva, brutal comment there than here. We are her slave or also derive great benefit from the use of tyrant ; so seldom her brother and them. Sold by all medicine dealers, at fniend. I thought nab significant fact 25 cents per box. that I found -no place of amusement set -nR. 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The readiest a.nd -best means known for the cure of these complaints is Bryan's Pulmonic Wafers, which have' been thoroughly tried for the last twenty years, and have never been known to fail. Singers and public speakers will the other went, what was sauce for the gander Was sauce for the goose ; and the spirit that prevailed was soft and human accordingly. The hotels had no " ladies' entrance," but all paseed in and out the same room, and the place was as much for °fleas for the other.- It was no more a masculine monopolyethan it was feminine. Indeed, in the country lawns and villages .the charaeter of the inns is unmistakably given by 'woman ; hence the sweet, do- . mestie atmosphere that 'pervades andl -fills them is baleat to the spirit. Even the larger hotels of _Liverpool and Lon- don have a private, coey,. home cheat:- * ter that is most delightful. On entering theni, instead of finding yourself in a sort of a public thoroughfare or'political caucus, amid crowds of men.talking, and smoking, and spitting, with stalls on either side, where cigars and tobacco, books endpapers are sold, you perceive you are in something like a larger hall of a private • house,. with perhaps a par- lor and coffee-anorn on one side, and, the office and smoking- room, and stairway, on the other. • You.inay leave your coat and hat on the rack in the hall, and stand your umbrella there also, with full assurance that you will find them there wheu you want them, if it be the next morning or the next week. Instead of that petty tyrant, the hotel clerk, a youeg woman sits in the office with her sewing or other needlework, and quietly teceivee you. - She gives you your card, rings for a chambermaid to show you to your room, and directs your luggage to ,be sent up; and there is. something in • the look of thins and the way they are Eloise, that goes to the right spot at once. A t the hotel in Londoa where I stop- ped, the daughters of the landlord, three fresh, comely young women, did the du- ties of the office; and their presence, so quiet and. domestic, gave the prevailing hue and tone ;to the whole house. I wonder how lo*ng a young woman could preserve her self-respect and sensibility in sunh a position in New York or Wash- - ington ? The English regard us as a wonderful- ly patient people, and there can be no doubt but we put. up with abuses un- known elsewnere. '11 we have no big 'tyrant, we have ten thousand little ones, who tread. upon our toes at every turn. The tyranny. of corporations and of pub- lic servants of one kind ancl ,another, as the ticket -man, the railroad conductor, or even the country stage driver, seem to be features peculiar to American demo- cracy. In England, the traveler is never snubbed, or mad_e to feel that it is by somebody's sufferance that he is allowed aboard or to Tess on his way. If you get into an omnibus or a rail- road Or trainway carriage in London, you are sure of a seat. Not another person can get aboard after the seats are all full. Or, if you enter a public hall, you know you will not be required to stand up un- less you pay the standing up iprice. There is everywhere that eysternis and order, and fair ,dealing, which all men love. The science of living has been re- duced to a fine point. You get a- six- • pence worth of everything you buy. in reverence, in homeliness, in heart and conscience—ip Virtue, using the word. in its proper sense. To some the difference - which I note may appear a difference favor of the greater cuteness, wideawake- ness and enterprize of the American, but it is simply a difference expressive on, our greater forwardness. We are a for- ward people, and the god we Worship is smartness In one of the worst tenden- cies of the age, namely, an impudent, superficial, journalistic intellectuality • and glibness, America, in her polite and literary circles, no doubt, leads all othee nations. English books and newspapers show more homely veracity, more single- ness of purpose, in short, more character than ours. A London crowd I thought the most normal and unsophisticated I had ever seen, with the least admixture of rowdy- ism and ruffianism. I. went about very freely in the hundred and one places of amusement where. the average working - classes assemble, with their wives and daughters andsweethearts, and smoke villainous cigars and drink ale and,stout. There was to me something notably fresh and canny about them, as if they had only yesterday ceased to be shenherds and shepherdesses. They-certa.inly were less developed, in certain directions, or shall I say depraved, -than similar crowds in our great cities. They are easily pleased, and laugh at the simple and childlike, but there is little that- hints of ae impure taste, or of abnormal appe- tites; Iaoften smiled at the tameness and simplicity of the amusements, but any sense of fitness or proportion, al de- cency was never once outraged. They always stop short of a. certain paint—the point where wit degenerates into mock- ery, -and liberty into licence ; nature -is never put to shame, and will c6mixionly bear nnieh more. Especially to the American sensadid their humorohs and coniic strokes,' thenr negroministrelsy, and attempts at Yankee comedy, .a minor key. There was no irreverence, and slang, and c dry in the whole evening' ment, to have seasoned one 'line on some of our most comic popular poetry. But the music, and the gymastic, acrobatic and other feats, were of a very high order. And I will say here that the characteristic flavor of the humor and fun -making of the average English peo. ple, as it impressed my sense, is *hat one gets in 8terne—very human and stomachic, and, entirely free from the contempt and superciliousness of most current writers. 1 did. , not get one whiff of Diekens anywhere.: No doubt, it is there in some form or other, but it • is not patent, or even appreciable, to the sense of such an observer as I am. I was not less pleased by the simple goodwill and boahonne that pervaded the crowd. There is in ' all the gatherings an indiscriminate mingling of the sexes, a mingling without jar of noise, or rude- • ness of any kind, and. marked by a mu- tual respect on all sides that is novel and refreshing. Indeed so uniform is the courtesy, and so human and censid- erate the interest, that I was often at a loss to discriminate the wife or the sister from the mistress or the acouaintance of the hour, and had many times to check my Arcierica,n curiosity, and cold criti- cising Stare. For it was curious to see young men and. women from the lowest social strata meet and. mingle M a pub- lic hall without lewdness or badinage, but even with gentleness and. consideration. 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It con- tains no alcohol or other volatile liquids, conse- quently loses nothhig by evaporation. • Wherever applied you get the benefit of every drop; whereas with other preparations nearly all the alcohol is lost in that way, and you get only the mnall quan- tity of oils which they may contain. • S. N. THOMAS, Pier.Les, N. L. • And NORTHROP & LYAIA/s1, Newcastle, Ont., • Sole Agents for the Dominion. NOTE--Electria—Seleeted and Electrized. Sold in Seaforth by E. Hickson & Co. and R. Ltunsden. 197-9 JUNE 6, 1873: LEG-A.E. uT. orin.iteleAgT'enSt°flioeritt°11re' Co_linong_inhalmeehtifiriflibelitlieeenc4:tior •Py verya° 'it2eY Cr0aefyi LiElv tnoangl alitli:tnie de' oliCTei gsn .2 a. l onto,gAInterestgwenhtofploottraTale r attyerei 1 • e -Tee- teenees at Law, Solicitors in Cbeeteory ita CjIlinjrhis'atorrci/giv:ceAgnhijcafy:111,GRE:11:1NelYe.ott:ta.e41:1511:81°8PL7711'bliScTaEnDd, 330noria.vis-elyvaranlmeetArt.ie • 8th°veli• .C6Batn1:_raBd;foLor,ioalfoeocAittsoSuCire'aiBuldacileali-Ct'o8rn8epaif)a,:nrryt.h,c.'ent.• rarrala , 15-J-JP:a8:11tes8L°ftaiN-ilvd, &Ls 0°:1118eEiftIoolEi..etlitalin:B.Clailailneteelar'sain"rInsAtotplvIllenelyi: Conveyancers, NOtalles Public, etc. oaces--see forth and Wroxeter. " $23,000 of Private Funds to invest at once, at Eight per cent. Interest yearly. BREA1CFAST. --EPPS'S COCOA. —GRATE- FUL AND COMFORTING.--` By a thorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern the operations of digestion and nutrition, ancl by a careful application of the fine properties of well -selected cocoa, Mr. Epps has provided our breakfast ta- bles with a delicately inavoured beverage which may save us many heavy doctors' bills."--Civit Service Gazette. • Made simply with Boiling Water or Milk. Each. packet is labelled—JAMES EPPS & Co. Homasopathic Chemists, London." AIAN UFA.CTUR E OF 0-010A.— We will now give an account of the process adopt- ed by Messrs. James Epps & Co, man- ufacturers of dietetic articles, at their works in the Euston Road, London" — G'asseit's llousehold Guide. " ANOTHER. CASE OF BRONCHITIS CURED. Bridgewater, N. 8., -March 2, 1869. Mr. James I Fellows—Dear Sir: While in Windsor on a visit in December last, I fell in with an old friend, Captain H. Conan and fiading him looking so hearty and robust, was led to enquire what had produced the great change, for when 1 last saw him two years previous informed. mewas •a mere skeleton. He me that your very valuable Syrup of •Hypophosphites had effected a perfect cure. He persuaded me to try the Syrup for Bronchitis, from which I had • suffered much for several years. I Pur- chased one dozen of this Syrup, and have used only three bottles, and my health is now better than it has been for years. • Not requiring the balance of the dozen, I sold it to different parties, and now there is a general demand for it from all parts. Respectfully yours, • W. J. NELSON. Captain H. Coffin is the person who -was cured of consumption in 1866 by Fellows' Compound. Syrup of Hypophosphites, whose letter was published some time ago. VERY SENSIBLE.—Horse dealers who are supposed to know what effects their interests purchase Darley's Condition powders and Arabian Heave Remedy by EXTENSIVE AND UNRESERVED AUCTION SALE Of 44 acres of land, in valuable Village and Park lots on the Stretton Survey, in the Incorporated Village of BRUSSELS 5 (LATE AINLEYVILLE,) ° In the County of Huron, on the Soutgern Exten- sion of the • WELLINGTON, GREY •AND BRUCE RAILWAY, ON WEDNEADAY, JUNE 25, 1873. The incorporated village of Brussels, (late Ain- leyville) is beautifully situated in the Townships of Grey; and Monis, on the Maitlancyltiver, on the Northern Gravel Road, between Seaforth and Wroxeter, connecting with all the, main roads to the principal villages and towns in the Counties of Huron, Bruce and Perth. There are in the Til- lage two Grist Mills, two Saw Mills, Planing and Shingle Mill, Woolen Factory, five Churches, Foundry and Machine Shops, and a large number of first-class Hotels and Business Houses• . The Southern Extension of the WELLINGTON, GREY AND BRUCE RAILWAY Now approathing completion, runs direetly through the village, having the Station and Grounds im- mediately adjoining the above property. Buildbig operations on an extensive scale are now in progress, and reel estate Of all kinds is rapidly changing hands at largely advanted prices. • BRUSSELS Is very favorably situated in the midet of the rich- est and best agricultnral section of the Western Counties, and from the fact of there being no com- peting villages within a radius of ten miles, it will inevitably become one of the most thrivirig and prosperous manufactwing and commercial towns in the countr3-. This property being in every respect the most desirable hi the market, it assures a safe and pro- fitable investments to purchasers. All of the above valuablo. property will be offered for sale by public auction,, at Brands, on the grounds, at 11 o'tdock A. M., on the 24th day of June, 1873. TERMS OF SALE. One-fourth of the purchase money to be paid in cash at. the time of sale, with balance in three equal annual instalhnents, secured by Mortgage at 7 per cent'. peranrium. Title perfect. Further particulars may be learned and plan seen on application to JAMES STRETTON, pro- prietor, Brussels, or to C. R. COOPER, Land Agent, Brussels, Out. 28-1c6 3414: ell B 17. ,:xs0N1 — C Le, ticrich, Ont. Office—over d. O. Ir. . InzrEh. 11 SORER, Ilarrieter, Attorney in Chue. Detlor & Co.'e Emporium, Market 8quare2..._269... • Squier ARRISTERS, Attorneys, Solieitors in Chancery, &c., Brussels, Ont. Office—two demo nathe P• i the Post Office. W. R. SQUIBB., DANIEL MeDoNALD , 271 Goderich. Brueseh, MEDICAL. TIE. CAMPBELL has removed to the house on Main -street, near the Station, OM dOOt SOU% Of Ross' Hotel, and oppohite McCallum's nee; lately oceupied by Mr. Frank Meyer, where bevel be found as usual' • TAMES STEWART, M. D., C.. M., Gniduat,e MCGill, UlliVersity, Montreal, Physielen, Eue. geon, etc. Office and Residence--Brucefield. ' TT L. VERCOle, M. D., C. M., Phy-sician, See. 1-"" geon, etc. Office and Residence, corner 01 Market and High streets, next to the Planing 31ile • A M. CAMPBELL, V. S., formerly of Cornell -L'A. University, Ithaca,N. Y., and Graduate of-On- teeio Veterinary College. Residence — Cooke% Temperance House, Varna,. Will be at Brumfield every Monday afternoon from 2 till 5 o'clock. TERINARY SURGEON.—D. MeNAVORT, V. S., begs to announce to the inhabitants of Seatertb and surrounding country that he hu been awartled the diploma, of the Ontario Veterie. ary College, and is now prepared to treat diseases of Horses and Cattle and ail domestic animas. Re has opened an office in coeueetion with his horse - shoeing shop, where be nili be found ready -to at. tend to .calls. Diseases of the feet epeciallyat- tended to. Residence, office and shop in the sear of Killoran & Ryan's new store. All kinds of Vet. erinary Medicines kept constantly on •hand. Charges reasonable. 229 91 3. CITURefilfiL, Veterinary Surgeon, (mem-- a- • ber of the -Ontalio Yeterimuy College,) begs to intimete that he has returned to the practice ef his profession in Seaforth, and nifty at all times be consulted km the diseases of Horses, Cattle, ice. Veterinary 'WedieineS constantly on hand.' All ca.11e promptly attended to. Office, at Mansion Rouse, Seaforth. ••278 J. G. BULL, L.D.S., r11.1:111GE0N, Dentist, &C., Seaforth, k3 Ontario. Plate -work, ideet Styles, neatly executed All sur- gicel operations performed with care anti promptitude. Fees as low as can he ob- tained elsewhere. Office hours from 8 A-. 5.t. to 5 P. M. Rooms over Mr. A. G. McDougall's Store, Main -at. 270 11:0113i.11413.' T-40YAL HOTEL, Seaforth, Ontario. SIMON -2-41 POWELL, Proprietor. The subscriber has thoroughly renovated and newly furnished the above house, so that it now affords good. accommo- dation for the travelling public. Choice liquors . and cigars in the bar. The table is supplied with - the delicacies in season. • Oysters in season. Large stabling and an attentive hostler ton - motion. pRINCE OV WALES HOTEL, Clinton, Ont, a- C. 3. McCUTCHTION, Proprietor. Firsteclass accommodation for travellers. The Bin is sup- plied with the very best liquors and cigars. Good stabling attached. • The stege leaves this House. every day for Wingham. 204-0 A. SHARP'S LIVERY AND SALE STABLES. Office—At Murray's Hotel, Seafortb.. Good Horses and first-class Conve3-ances alwaykonlumd, - - - - -- -potELL's LIVERY STABLES, SEAFORTH, Ont. Good Horses and Comfortable Vellieles, always on hand. Favorable Arrangements made with Commercial Travellers. All orders left at Knox's HOTEL, Will be promptly attended to. OFFICE AND STABLES :—Third door North of K.1103:18 Hotel, Main Street. • 221 • THOMAS BELL, Proprietor. J. P. BRINE, T ICENSED AUCTIONEER for the Comity of Huron. Sales attended in all parts of the Country. All orders left tit THE Exeosrrou Office will be promptly attended to. • 198 S. L. KENNEDY, . TT OUSE, SIGN- andfMNAMENTAL PAINTER 1- and Grainer. Paperhangie,g deo attended to. Work done as cheap as by any other good -work- man in the business. All orders left with 4r. Kennedy,or for him at the Exposrron Office will be promptly attended to. 279 PLOWa- MUNRO & HOGAN, PLOW -MAKERS, SAPQITI i\fUNRO & HOGAN desire to thank the farmers - of the vicinity of Seaforth for the liberal patronage -which has been afforded them Singe • they began business here. They woald also say that they are prepared and that it is their intention to maintain the excellent reputation which their work during the pest season achieved, not only among the farming -column nity of Huron, but as • well at every show and eehibition where, they ex- hibited. We make the following Plows, and -devote • special attention to theirrmucrufactuTe our ex- periente hhowing that they ..are the kiLds best adapted to agricultural purposes in this section: IRON PLOW, • IRON -BEAM PLOW (wooden handles) • three styles,- . • DOUBLE MOI/LD-BOARD PLOW, - IRON AND `WOOD SOUFFLEBS, • HORSE HOES. The above Plows we furnish at $20 and upward, and guaeantee them to give satisfaction--.li na, they can be returned. The Scalers we furnish at le9 to $17, "aceording • to quality, and also guarantee satisfactir. GREY'S PATTERN OF MOULD BOARDS AND CASTINGS AlwaYs kept on haml. Or stand. Sea -forth, IIeN°aGuAgliN' t's old e North Main -street, 27548 FIRST PRIZE PLOWS AT G.. WILLIAMSON'S OLD ESTABLISHED MANUFACTORY, SEAFORTII. ethoeafisr:tt atthethineIsres HAt-11\ G- " - taken the first prize for Iron Bears e sxhiteibui tFioanirhheltdinill» u amilndtoonn: and besides a high recommendation on the same Plow, I ca.n, with confidence, recommend. ray Plows- for' efficiency of work and lightneee of draft, being second to none in the Dominion. The following is a list of Plows constantly on band: Iron -beam, with wooden handles, Steel Landside and Mouldboard, Iron Plows, Wood Plows, Double Mouldhotual Plows and Seufflerat Iron Harrows, &c. Ineyepxia:wins.:ion of my Plows is respectfedlY Cuetings and Boards kept on hand for repairing solicited before purchasing elsewhere. 276 G. WILLIAMSON. • 'J. Ash:2t,.,,T,Ilihehe weds; 73e. snail:a:a reekhrea, nP ePodi:(i; play,vnthrong,tee " ::::dTlinnthetrde bwEeasteid.L.:01:171Evrirta:Eaxii.,lleaoeho.ndiiiesmgoe,h,seneanvgse,h, shins NaAatbf:ull-:,%fv:rn2.e, AenraahaaYff a -dream, st7inikglin; g tongue, ThAsReotswv:r1:irugohgathdipt yi'isnot:eisiwrthcltieladhterhebitnrilirgigehniej)ittoaiitieeluit(rue TT,hbveeuhntiertiligiawniegatwne.1:10telhvgtpl.hiatelue: 41 yrhonatthlbVriiiNtsebstatill°awyY:ilirfraie away, ac.‘4)hrreiv:prleangdlea,flresvleaernle"ath her beams, - Thatbirdbeside the river— , 13.,I.A.I:ahtdchnurnsyaholctlee:;:thniseggone, on, 1-41111 Forever annef,8 jerevEeTr 1111.1' Chicago poet begins an apits- it; ooliplueldAue49 .a,totr imio) 0 oppa rtnahr ewesfnseoicl aoh,gentleman7ns wwwhai tot:hi Ihu sst aP:iedlczodmiL,_ raised the money with a lever. young lady home under an um- brellal. be fitly designated a. raja —A bachelor is politely describ- ed as a, man who has neglected his opportunity of making some poor "----EnaTilhentebaryaoil. -eof a Portuguese city once enumerated, among 'the marks by which the body of irowned man -might be identified, "a marked impediment in bh BP-eeclLm" • —Athe conditions of sale, by an Irishauctione,er was the fol- lowing : "The highest bidder to be the purchaser, n nless some gentle - ma avniolbeirdist mmane' —" Do you thn.k I ana foo once asked of the late Rev. Dr. Bethune. 44 Really," re- plied the doctor, "I would not ven- ture the assertion; but now that you ask my opinion. must sa that I am not prepared to deny it —It is stated that in a certain district‘in the tar west mospitoe • are so plentiful that they are nt. able to get on a stranger all a. once, and 60 tileV stand round i reliefs, and wait for their turns hlt customers in a barber shop. —A retired sea -captain, who hat made the tour of Continental Ear ope and the HoIy Land, was asket how he was impressed by his vt.s" • to Jet maim. " Jerusalem," he, " is the meanes+ place • visited 1 Thete is not a Aro liquor in the whole town fit • ari----111A2' Missourian who stole a k from a pretty gn 1 was fined by magistrate, horsewhipped by I brother, and worried into a brai fever by his wife. The dergyma also alluded to the affair in his s mon, the local editor took sid with the clergyman and reviewe the case in print, and the potat bug ate up every blade of the, mal • factor's wheat crop. /I Manners IA aTeJegraph. In illustration of the importan • of pod manners, aT London paper calls an incident which °male a Scotch telegraphie <Alice yearsarl°VRiisellw Minister in atendanLupo: Majesty at Balmoral, and one eve • int, there came a messenger ACoyne—a little otzi man, buri 1 s. gi-eat neat—with a telegra from his lordship to one of hisii isterial colledgnes in Loudon. T message was banded to the clerk charge, a peremptory person, seeing that it did not bear a s ture—it was in the days of the companies, when a signature necessary—threw it contemptum back, with the authoritative eo "Put your name to it; titopsietyndyoazizrsater:2,donT'itaeklomwe added, and the message han " eirthke'r !" cri\b eVdt3T'3 he e7:uCa ragednif ter vainly endeavming to wake the signature. 44 Here, let me very deliberately, is John niftlainitie:IITis:i.td'sthTe°111;t1Be'aonlIdenr:esse Bel." It was the veritable - clerk was removed from Abo Jobn himself, and the unha • Danbury Speet2.cIe8. ittiahnaWhen an elderly itkli61" Eltsiblisicolslthii,ozst,ea,clia,es,n\,\i-alalotpd:13aseinttze taihe aro a: ytidatli,t'Iolhtedie,lizekierfitiihn)itnde gthutisl::_attnph e felsol:dtiette. 18quiteoldg ea np tt l et mo al neaew- en-tirei.o.of nirete recently g: ehnTbtpiliryle' is tacles*? Merciful heaven l rnunity into a state of excite iwobteedwaa slItieci:oetirffe:Tii,eneletytoa.chirell . likely to conceal itself, such der the wood pile, in the s stove, and on the top of the but to no avail. Saturday mo he was taking a sittit0 hen