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BeT LAST.
The sun was setting behind the little
port, and all the softened splendor of hie
rays was diffusing in a rosy gush across
the sea whose great waves weltered lazily
in that August night, their iftby masses
breaking in lines of silver on the beach.
Just Vanishing in the purple bank of the
horizon some sails had caught the warm
flusk and were glowing in it a moment
fere they turned to the shadow ; and a full
moon was slowly swinging up the rim of
her shield of sil?er in the east, to •com-
plete the calm brillianceef the scene.
But hthe grimp that clustered at a
window looking out upon this view, was
not much in accordance with its sweet
and tranquil 8pe,11,—a group full of the
small raucors and acriMonies of earth,
except for youug Tom, into whose nature
had been strained something sweeter
than was to be found in the ordinary
Waite blood.
"A silly simpleton !" said Sister
Waite, snapping her knitting needles till
they might have struck sparks, while I that he had gone at
she talked over young TOM'S strange
news.! "And that's what she is 1" -
"A consumed old fool," said Mr.
Waite, as if his language were a cor-
rective to his wife's weaker English.
"And. there's no fool like an old fool.
as I've often heard you say," simpered
Nies Amelia, while she looked down the
shore and. twisted her long false curl, -
into whiek that morning she had, by a
singular inversiou of the fashion, artis-
tically sewed some grey hairs plucked
from her own head. "I declare," she
cried, -"I declare it makes me sick ,1"
And there was so much of the green and
yellow in Miss Amelia's face that no-
body would. have doubted her.
"Poor thing! POQr thing 1" cried. old.
Abby Morse. "Her wits have been
wool-gathering ever since Earl Warwick
went away, I guess. I'll never forget
that day she, fainted in the choir when
he carne home from the wreck—such . a
slit as I made in my challis, and you
know how that tears, criss-cross and
qaatery cornered like a blind. man's
walk! There's no sueh pretty good* to
be had now. But there, —just fancy it,
—at her time of life 1 It's a Sleeveless
errand, a sleeveless errand, poor thing !”
And she shook her head, as though she
looked. down• a woful perspective.
‘• Well," said Mrs. Waite, emphati-
cally, "I wash my hands of her, and
she'll sup sorrow, if ever any one did. •
It's nothing bat her money, and you
needn't say a word, Toni! Land sakes !
—There they came ! I shall give up !
Just look at her face Oh, it's all John
Anderson, my Jo, John. Married last
night—well, I hope she won't repent it !"
concluded Mis. Waite in a tone that
plainly meant she hoped she would.
"But for my part," cried. Tom, wind-
ing up his narration, "for my part, I
think it's beautiful !"
• Aral what did. Acbsa care? The idle
wind that blew about her soft thin hair'
was more to her now than any breath of
their's—unless it might be young Tom's.
Forty years ago, perhaps—ah, forty
yearago !'Whines had been very dif-
ferent with her °then ; she had been
young and strong and. gay;,pretty,
maybe, with the round rosiness of youth,
dark braids just shading into black, and
great gray eyes, and velvety lips that
parted over little pearls of teeth—she
had them yet, those pearly teeth; but
as she looked in the glass it was not
with a smile, ancl so she seldom saw
them. Seldone, indeed, she looked in
- the glass at all, since she saw there now
no vestige that was pleasant to her of
the sweet young face whose wistful eyes
gazed after Earl Warwick as he hastened
down the lane that night, with all the
apple-blossonis shaking off about him—
that night he went to sea.
A time when. Achsa had not loved
Earl Warwick was a time she could not
remember. They had kissed across the
picket -fence the first day each had seen
the little laughing_ face of the other
peering above it; they had. played to-
gether in the garden -beds, gone berrying
in the 'fields and wading in the surf; she
had. divided h.er luncheon with him at
echool, and. prompted him in his classes,
and he had brought her May -flowers in
the spring, and bulrushes in the sum-
mer, and nuts in the fall, and had
'--dragged her up -hill on his sled in winter.
And then they had. ,gone to singing-
sehlOol ; and of course Earl came home
with Achsa—for they lived almost next And Achsa and her mother used to talk
door to each other; and at leugth they about Earl, alone by themselves, and
sung side by side in the choir together, fix him on imagmary meridians ; now he
and their voices blended, her sweet had touched at St. Helena ; now he was
treble and. his golden tenor, like two weathering the Cape; now he was among
• sunbeams into one ; and the people of the Lasears and in Hindoo temples ; now
the port who saw theta fishing down in he was on his homeward trAck ; now the
Melvyn's Channel, their boat rocking at pleasant winds and fair weather might
• anal:ion used to look after them with 'ming him when they least expected it.
good-natured smiles and pleasant pro- Certainly it was cruel that just at
phecies of what had not yet begun to this time, just when the Bonnibel was
trouble them. Thus, in all that early nearly due, Aunt Goodenough, an uncle's
time when the impressions are the widow, who had, lately been at Mrs.
strongest and take deepest hold on vi- Waite's, and who had taken a great and arriving by slow degrees at com-
tality, Earl Warwick was a part of fancy to poor Achsa, should have sent prehension of the fact that -she had been
Achsa's life. But in all their childish .for the chilrl to make her a visit. Achsa sequestered here that she might not meet
d.
THE: HURON EXPOSITOR.
like you! You are so sweet, so good !"
And, Achsa—when •I'm ashore—"
And then he left a kiss upon those vel-
vet lips, a different Ides from any ever
hid upon them .befbre—another and
another. And Achsa, all blushing in a
warm, sweet wave of bliss, willinghe
should take the sea for his profeesion,
—as she would have been to give him
the moon, had he cried for it and she
been able to pluck it from the skies,—
was watching him out of sight.
When Earl ran up the little garden
path two nights afterWards, and cried,
not exactly as UlysseS did:
"There lies the port; th4 vessel puffs her sail
There gloom the auk, broad Beaa;"
but wolords of similar effect : "Good-bye,
my little girl ! I'm off ; _the Bonnibel
is slipping her cable new, wind and tide
• in her favor, and I'll be outward bound
for Singapore to -night 1" Then Achsa
shook from head to foot, and everything
swam before her, and she was conscious
only of his arms about her, and that he
Wee calling her dear, teuder names, and
last, and left his
ring on her finger.
All night she knelt at the window of
her room in the roof, watching the
ghostly shimmer of the sail that softly
swept across the purple darkness of the
waters, and down the far horizon's rim,
praying Heaven t� fill it with prospering
gales, to keep her darling well, to brine
him safely back—her darling, so hand':
some, so daring, so noble, so kind ! And
she was as white as the sail that she had
watched, when she came • down in the
morning.
•
But when Mr. Warwick, who, as it
chanced at that time, kept the village
pOst-office, found,. that Achsahad known
of Earl's going, he came out of his way,
one. day, to accost her as she walked
along the grassy sidewalk; forea.though
he had always knowti of Earl's fondness
for her, he hacl thought it prucleat, hav-
ing other !plans for him, to take no notice
of it, but to wait till itshoutd blow over.
Now he towered above her, swinging his
.cane, till it seemed to her that he was ed it.
lifting his heavy hand threateningly, as
in the place turned, as flowers turn in a
black frost, and she was faint with an
unknown fear, when, without any other -
warning, some one had -called out that
the coach •had come, and her fatber-
kissed her good-bye, and climbed to his
seat and was off, all in less than two
minutes. But she stifled het feeling ;
and perhaps an angry reclognition of Sis-
ter Waite's hand in the business, and as
angry a determination to; get the better
of her yet, assisted Achsa. She thought
that, after all, she could safely linger a
week or two wad brighten the solitude
of which her Aunt Goodenough com-
plained so much—and, on the whole, it
would be all the pleasanter if there
should. be Init little time to wait at
home before the Bonnibel came in. _
Bat bow long the days were at the
farm there now ! Her eyes were blind
to the beauty, she could hardly say that
the birds sang still, she ;could only count
the hours as the penitent mounts her
• beads, with prayers. And when a week
had somehow gotten by, she asked her
aunt if her father had. left no money for
her homeward journey. But her aunt
said he would send. it ehortly ; and then
she begged Achsa not to be impatient,
and talked of her loneliness with no
young face to cheer it, and said that
Achsa always put her in mind of her
own Achsa who died not long ago, at
• just her age, and that in only looking at
her she seenied to have ler child again ;
and so she urged her in such sorrowful
wise to stay, •that Achsa's little heart,
though bursting with impatience, was
not hard enough to reflse her.
Nor was Aunt Goodenough playing a
treacherous part, at least to her own
conception of it ; she did love the child,
and wanted to take ber for her own.;
'anclehe thought if she pould safely tide
her over this affair, ao her father had.
expressed it,:it would lie better for her
in the end,— far better for her to be the
heiress of that rich farm than the wife of
any roving sailor, with other wives in
other ports, as her inland fancy paint -
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JANUARY 12. 18'77.
dare anether year without the sight of
'his dear face !
She went to her Aunt Goodenough
without delay, and confessed to her the,
'whole matter in broken sentences, start;
ing up and turning away, and wringing
her hands as she came back.
give me the money to go
she cried. "I can't, I
bout seeing him ! _And
ne I will come again and.
f you want me to."
( o be Co,ntinued.)
evertheless, though lingering yet,
he declared that none of her airs and when one week had ended and another
graces should entrap ono who was meaut had begun, and by and by a month had
for her betters, with such an oath that gone, Achsa felt sure the Bonnibel might
the little, quivering creature took to her any day. arrive, and she burned with
-heels withotit a wordof reply, and eagerness to be gone, ',though her kinde-
s-campered.home, where she threw her nese and her shame-facedness held her
arms around her mother's neck, and fast. These green meadows about Aunt
sobbed. out the whole story of how Mr. Goedenoughhi farm had lost their novelty
Warwick had insulted her, and how she and had grown hateful to her too; she
believed she was engaged to Earl, and was thirsty with desire for the bright
how she didn't .know ! And her mother reaches of the sea with their morning
comforted her, and told her father; and and evening enamels of blue and rose
her father, who was one of the hapless and beryl, with their vast.cool twilights
sort that needs to rely on.. others, went and lofty stars, with their foamy fringes,
and told his Daughter Waite';. and their fresh winds, their music, their
Daughter Waite,—who felt it incumbent Wanda—she dreamed constantly of see -
on her, for some half dozen years, to say ing one sail grow into being on the
what Achsa should have to wear, and horizon, as • a. breath might become a
how she should behave in it, and had
kept as good watch,over her as she had
been able through her rather distant
windows, and had.rather- approved than
otherwise of her intimacy with Earl
• Warwick,—said t� him that certainly
he was right, and, of course, it was no
lookout at all for /Wise if Earl was
going to follow the sea, and they had
been badly used in having the expecta-
tion kept concealed from. them ; and, for
her -part, she had alwaysbeen led to
suppose that he was going into trade,
and that Ach-sa should have her 'own
horse and chaise to ride in ; and now she
supposed they'd - Eiee the advantage of
consulting her a little earlier next time !
And the poor man found himself at his
wits' ends presently, between- his desire
to make his pretty little Achsa happy
and his fear of his Daughter Waite's
sharp tongue—a tongue that was the
more effective because he had sometimes
been obliged to have recourse to her
open hand. And all tthat he knew how
to do now was to use his best exertions
to divert Aclisa's thoughts from herself,
and thus from Earl;
"Yea must
home, aunt!'
Can't do wi
when he is g
work it out,
But the mothe was less wor0-wise
than the other twO • and she end Achsa
puzzled over the ship news together, and
when they happened to come across the
name of a vessel that had spoken the
Bonnibel, they cut out the item and
pinned it ou Aclisa's wall beside her
looking -glass ; and Achsa used to read it
there morning and night,—it kept Earl
alive for her,—and she chose the sr • ,e-
neath it to kneel and say her pray drEl
as if it were before a shrine, witba heart
as white and innocent as any devotee's.
cloud, and. a cloud a living shape; she
longed to be at home with her father's ORO U
spy -glass, sweeping all the /shining field
below it, and giving her view, heart -
leaping view, when he was yet a mile
away, of.Earl Warwick, standing in the
shrouds and. looking as eagerly to 'shore.
iOne day, when iu the absenceeof the
. usual messenger, sh had gone tip the
store for her aunt, she happened to' hear
mention made of somibady who was to
sail for India seen in the good ship Bon-
nibel. Then of course the Bonnibel had
gotten in ! And she bad not heard from
Earl! Well,. in a seeped's thought. that
did not trouble her much; she had not
written herself, had. rot written because,
glad as she would, ha.s.e been to have hacl
a little labored letter there in waiting
for him, she knew that not he; but an-
other, had. hacl the reading of it ; since
when letters came to others concerned in
that long voyage no letter came' to her,
and she and her mother had put their
heads together then and decided what it
implied, but had thought best to say
nothing, for Daughter Waite made -such
a pother, the mother said, that least
said was soonest 'needed, when she had
a fish in the net! Doubtless Earl had
written then, doubtless he had written
now, and doubtless! the Phstmaster, of
the little port had made -a prize of all
such writing. Still ; the matter could
not rest here, --the Bonnibel was in,it
seemed ; when would she put out to sea
again? Achsa was a timid little soul,
and had never spoken the first word to
another in all her days • but here Were
life and death in the balance, or as good j _
as life and death to, her. She plucked 1
up courage, a,ncl with the signal of her i
fright flying on her cheeks, she asked
the person speaking if he knew how long
it was before the Bonnibel sailed. "To-
morrow or the next' day, my pretty
maid," said he; and she thanked him
mechanically, and went out in a com-
plete daze. _ • .
"To -morrow, or next day," she kept
repeating, as she walked along. "To-
morrow, or next day." And she went
loiteringly, thinking the matter over,
trying to ravel it by the right threads,
--A-Parisi
himself oblig
to seek refu
of Auvergne
house one ev
oges enamel
Through a fr
the dish and
the end of t
all $800, and
museums fo
buy it, howe
it tor $7,00
who COnside
and has lent
seum, where
n dealer in curioeities felt
d,dtiring the siegeOf Paris,
e in his native mountains
While in an old farm
ring he remarked a Lim -
of wondrous brilliancy.
end he succeeded in buying
returned with it to Paris at
e war. it , had cost him in
he offered. it to the Parisian
$4,000. They could not •
er, and he eventually sold
to Sir Richard Wallace,
s it worth at least $10,000,
it to the Kensington Mu -
it is now, on exhibition.
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V STRAY STEER.—Came into the prernbsea of
-" the subscriber, a year old red and wtte Steer.
he Owner is reqnested to prove pro rtsy, pay
chargee and mid it away. 11118. GREER, Brun
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STRAY SHEEP.—Came into the premises of
"1:4 the undersigned, Lot 15, Con. 9, Stanley, dur-
ing the fall, a Sheep. The owner may have it by
proving property and paying expenses. GEORGE
STEPHENSON. 474-4
ESTRAY CATTLE. --Strayed into the prep:noes
of the subscriber, Lot 7, Con. 12, Stanley, a
Heifer and Steer coming 2 yeani old, both spotted
red and white. The owner can have them by prove
mg property and paying expenses. DANTEL B.
STICKLE. 472
ESTRAY STEER.—Csene into the premises of
the undersigned, Lot 11, Con. 8, MeKillon, on
or about the first 'of October, a small red ffteer,
corning 2 years olcL The owner is requested to
prove property, pay charges and take it away.
FRANCIS OrPf ARA. 472%4
ESTRAY into the premises of
the undersigned, Lot 2, Con. la, L. P.. S,
Tuckersmith, alma the first of September, a' red
Heifer, 2 years ;told. The own ee is requested to
prove propirty,pay charges and take her away.
ALEX. YULE. 469
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A FRESH LOT OF
Canned. Pears, Peaches and
Plums
Put up pound for pound—Warranted the Best in
the Market. Thee Goods obtained the
INTERNATIONAL PRIZE
At the late Centennial Exlifbition. No humbug.
ALWAYS O'NelAND,
FLOUR, OATMEAL.,
CORNMEAL, &c.
Just Arrived, a Lot of Lake Huron
Trout and White Fish.
plays a wild element had mingled, —
they were on rafts, in cyclones, on desert
islands, exploring the poles, fighting pi-
rates ; and what it meant appeared to
Achsa as . they came home from choir -
meeting, one Saturday night, and Earl
told her he was going to sea.
"To sea ?" she cried. For she under-
steocl on, all sides that his father had
laid out a different path in life for Earl.
"To sea," said Earl. "Haven't I al-
ways told you I wanted to ?"
"Oh, yes, indeed ; but I thought :you
couldn't. I thought---"
"Why, what am I staying' here foe?
exclaimed Earl. "Father may hate at, naother's remora:but, by no means, her
• heart. •She ca do better with herself:.
And, as Daughter Waite• says, sh'e
needn't go into aey family that wants te
bar her out."
"Daughter Waite says anything but
her prayers 1" oined the mother, who
was rather tired,
singing second to
But the moth
the arrangement
more than suspected that it must be at with Earl while e was
011 silore,
her elder sister's instance, and though at might have time to outgrow her fancy—
any other time the journey would have as if she could outgrow her own identity !
been 'delightful, now she feared there As she thought of it, theugh her sense of
was mischief in i.t—the more, indeed, wrong centred on her Sister Waite, the
when she found !that her father had • edges of the cloud. for a little while over -
talked of selling his big silver watch to shadowed all those at home whom Sister
raise the money' regaisite, and Sister Waite had fund it so easy to persuade;
'Waite had. supplied it from her own . but she, could not bring herself to be-
purse—a purse that always had the lieve that her simple and honest Aunt
"devil's penny" in it. . 1 Goodenough had understood the thing.
"Achsa's too_ pretty, Mother, to throw And m
now it rushed over her, aking
away," said the father, as he discussed her heart stand still, that unless she
the matter with his wife in the watches could get home befone the ship sailed,
of • the night, winning, perhaps, the she should not see Earl at alt! And
what would he think of her ! It Would.
almost break his heart! He could not
know that she was the poor little victini
of a well-meaning conspiracy,—that she
had been ignorant of the Bonnibel's re-
turn. He would only know that ehe was
off taking her pleasure elsewhere at the
otily time when she could have seen him.
if he will—'
• "He says he had enough of it."
"Well, perhaps I may hate it; too,
when I have had enough of it. Enough
of it ! I can never have enough of it !"
he cried, breathl ssly. "I see the great,
hi in
t
rosy thing rolline
see it all gray and at
voice is always in
rise and fall on
morning ; I
night. Its
y ears. I long to
swells far out from
fihe sometimes said, of
Daughter Waite. answering none of his letters, writing
r wholly pleased with none. If he had not been made to suppose
or not, the lumbering that, he would. have found her out; he
one day took up Achsa would have come all the way to see her; no-
thing but anger with her could have kept
m
hiaway, and she remembered. what his
old bursts of anger were at school, when,
standing white and with blazing eyes he
did not even see her, and. shook off her
hand on his aim as if it were a raindrop.
Oh, yes, she must see him now ; sne
must be there to explain it to him. ! She
would! Why, what if he should sail
away again still angry with her? It
was of no consequence that they , hacl
lost all the happiness of the little while
he was on shore, if only her absence
could be explained, and they did not
lose all other happiness. She would not
wait a day ; he was her own, the darling
of her soul, her other self; he never
should think she had been false, he
should not be sent away to sufter doubts
and tortures,—and how could she en -
land, as all my race have done before olcl stage coaoh
to see nothing but its stretch—to and her father and a, kit of mackerel,
nee ;
and left them, at Aunt Goodenough's
hear nothing but its wash.
"Yes, you ought tp go to sea, Earl," -
said Adige, sadly, looking down.
"Well, then, I've—got to run away."
"Run away ?"
"Yes, runaway. For fatter '11 never
listea to a. word I say, about it. He's
eet upon my going into trade and marry-
ing Mr. Jerson's daughter, and being a
rich man--"
"And you?"
"Pm set upon the sea I'm, set Upon
the sea 1". Ile cried. 'q'ta going to see
the NioxId—the round world ; to have
other Stara over me at midnight l"
• "Yes, it would be beautiful -to do."
"But I'm coming ;back to- you !" he
suid, turning and looking • at her. "I'm
coming back to you, for there's no one
farm. And for il. day and a night Achsa
was in an ecstacy—an ecstacy over the
dairy, over thc: great Ilbarn, over the
comical fowls, over the large -eyed oxen ;
the fields were full of the new -mown
hay ;the roses were red under every old
sthne wall; the honey -suckles- made
simple breathing rapture; in the night
she heard a golden robin open his throat
with a sigh of such song as his first pa-
rents sang in Eden; and while it was
still night she heard all the dark break
up in music, and u,sher in the blushing
day. She tbouglit that -life here with
Earl would be Eden over again.
Achsa, of coats°, had not supposed it
was intended the should stay after her
father left, and nddenly all her pleasure
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JANUARY 12 AND 13
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ESTRAY HLIFER.—Came into the premises of
the undersigned, Lot 11, Con. 11, Hallett, on
or about the first of November, a grey Heifer with
red neck, rising 2 ears old. The owner is re-
quested to prove propertyypay !sharps and take
her away. JOHN IM-‘ 46S
D00s—Lost, in Seaforth, on Monday,
j"i December 11, a Week Coolie Dog, answering to
the name of "Raglan." He has a scar on each
hind leg aud has a lump on the nigh front foot.
Any person giving such information to the under-
signed or at The Expositor Office as will lead. to the
recovery of the above animal will be suitably re-
warded. W. J. SHANNON. , 472
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FLANNELS
GLOVES
SHAWLS
WOCil. SQUARES
LACES, '&0.
SPECIA BARGAINS
TRIMMED HATS
BONNETS
FUR SETTS
FLOWERS
FEATHERS
ORNAMENTS, &O.
''STRAY CATTLE.—Strayed from the premisee
of the -undersigned, Lot 16, Con. 6; MeKillop,
in May last, two Heifers and one Steer, nil coming
2 years old, each one of them has a large white star
on forehead, with ft. white espot on the shoulder,
mostly red along the sides with some -white on
their bellies. Any person giving infonnation that
will lead to their recovery will be suitably reward-
ed. DONALD McCeREGOR, Seaforth Post Of-
fice. 473-4
%VA NT ED.
\VANTED.—A. first-class Boot and Shoe Maker.
Y Constant employment will be given. None
need apply but thoee of temperate habits. JAS.
STANLEY, Ccsnstunce P. 0., Milburn. al large
stock of General Goods always on hand and for
sale cheap for wish. • 464
TENDERS WANTED.—For the hauling of milk
East and West of Egmondville to the West End
Factory. Also for the Alexander route from Broad -
foot's bridge to WaBier's, thence to O'Brien'e.
Tenders to be received on or before the 17th of
January. A. SALLY, Secretary of the West End
Cheese Manufacturing Company. 473
NEWEST STYLES
All
IN
LADIES' JACKETS.
EXECUTORS' NOTICE.
XECUTORS' NOTICE TO CREDITORS.—
The creditors of Isaac Rattenburry, late of
the Town of Clinton, in the County of Hann,
Esquire, deceased. who died on or about the 19th
day of September. 1876, are, on or beforethe llth -
day of February,. A. D. 1877 to send by letter
post-paid to Messrs. Garrow & Radenhurst, of
the Town of Goderich, in the County of Huron,
Solici tors for the Executors of the said Isaac
Rattenbury, deceased, their Christian names and
surnames, addresses and dtscriptions. the full
particulars of their claims, statement of their
accounts, and the nattere of the securities -1i any
—held by them. And. immediately after the said.
llth day of February, tshe assets of the estate of
the said Isaac Rattenbnry, deceased, will be dis-
tributed sanong the parties entitled thereto, hav-
ing regard only; to the claims of which notice
shall have been received. And the said Executors
shall not be Iioble for the assets so distributed, or
any part thereof, to any person of whose claim
notice shall not have been received by them or
their said Solicitors at the time of distribution
This notice is given in pursuance of the Statute,
22 Vie., Chap, 28, Sec. 27. Dated at Goderich,
Ont., this llth day of November, en D. 1876
G.ARROW & RADENHURST, Solicitors for the
Executors. 467-14
SPECI FIC ARTICLES.
XTOTICE TO BUILDERS.—Any peen= want-
ing Sa d, Gravel or Stones, can leave theiy
orders at T S. LEE'S f3-rocerseand it will be de-
livered on the shortest notice. THOMAS CUR -
RIE. - 488
DRESS MODELS FOR SALE. --Miss Quitilen
has in her poeeession the right to sell Mad-
am DeLand's Patent Dress Model or Pattern
This Syetem is the best that has ever been
brought into Seaforth. Full instructions will be
given upon applying at, MISS QUINLAN'S Dress
Making Booms, over Johnson Brothers' Hard-
ware store, Seaforth. 457
20
EDAR POSTS FOR SALE.—The
000 °
subscriber has for sale about 20,000
Cedar fence and, gate Posts, on his farm, near the
Village of Londesborough, in the Township of Hal-
lett, all of which are of the best quality, and will be
cut and taken out of the ssyrunp during the present
winter arid piled in lots to suit purclutters on dry
land, -where they can be easily loaded. and teamed
RW:Ly. Terms, cash or credit until the first of Jan-
uary, 1878, secured by approved notes bearing in-
terest at the rate of 8 per cent. per annum. JAMES
BRAITHWAITE. 478
DIZESSMAIiING.
1110(sEMOVAL.—Miss Qujulan bus removed to the
-'-`) rooms over Johnson Bros. Hardware store,
where she will continue to earry on dress -making
in all its branches. A good fit and. perfect satis-
faction guaranteed. Apprentices wanted. immedi-
ately. 464
-VIM MI, LINERY SHOW BOOMS.—I beg
-LI leave to inform my many friends of the Towil
of Seaforth and surrounding country that I have
egedu resumed business over Allan Mitehell's new
atore, opposite the Commercial Hotel, and -will on
Saturday, the 28th inst., open out a Complete
NW Stock of Millinery end Fancy Goods, com-
prising all the Novelties of the Season. An early
clan solicited. MISS LEA.CH. 4.64
Goods Sold at The Very Low-
est Prices.
ALLAN MITCHELL.
, NOTICE TO DEBTORS
_
OTICE TO DEBTORS.—All parties indebted,
to Mabee & MeDonald, Lumber Dealers, Sea-
le th, are requested -to settle the same on or 00-
o e the first of February, 1877, and save costs.
ABBE & Mc nONALD. 474
.4_
PAN UP.—All parties hs.debted to me either by-
-a- note or book account- must make prompt pay-
ment. All accounts not settled on the first day of
February fleet will be put into other hands for
collection. My loss in the late fire compels me ti
take this course. T. COVENTRY. 474
LOs4T _ OK FOUND.
-
VIVATCH LOST.—Lost, on the Scooted Canoes -
T sion of MoKillop, between Lots 20 and 21, au
open face English Lever Watch, No. 4988. Any
person findieg the same and leaving it at M. R.
• Counter's jewelry Store will be suitably rev:Lulled.
JAMES McINTOSH. 472x4
STOCK F OR SALE.
11 ORSES FOR SALE.—For sale cheap, a good
-'-'-working horse, rising years old; 1 good work-
ing mare, rising 5, also twp colts, one rising 1 year
old, and one rising a years old. For further par- -
ticelars apply to the undersigned on .Lot No. 33,
Con. 8, McKillop. ROBERT McMILLAN 473x4
LANI3ous.
eaJ OTICE.—A new Blacksmith Shop in Hensell,
opposite G. Beverly's Carriage shop, whic`h wiul
be in full operation by the 1‘.lew year. Blacksmith -
lug done in all its branches, a first-class shoer kept,
repairing done with neatness and dispatch. G. C.
INGRAM 473x4
• FISH, —WILSON & YOUNG have just
received a large lot of Labrador Herring,- Leke
Huron Herring. Lake Superior White Fish and
Trout, all fall catch, and warranted first -1a,
which they will sell at the lowest price for cash.
•• THE Cheapest and Best Teas in Town
to be found at FAIRLEY''s Cheap Cash Grocery,
Seaforth. 474
• BUCKWHEAT FLOUR, Cornmeal and.
Oatmeal at FAIRLEY'S Cheap Gail Grocery, Sea -
forth. 474
FAIRLEY is Selling all kinds of Grocers'
Articles Cheap for Cash. Give hirn a cali. 414
A LARGE Stock of Late Huron Her-
rings for sale cheap at M. Mounzsox's. 474
CRANBERRIES, 'a Choice Lot at FAIR,-
LEY'S* 474