The Huron Expositor, 1879-01-24, Page 22
THE
HURQN EXPOSITOR.
JANUARY 24, 1879,
T1:111 ClIARCOAL . BURN
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A. strange race are the char
burners. Living apart among the
woods, in huts roughly put together,
• and rarely mixing with the denizens of
town or village, they seem, by their
wild ways, to be a link between the- old
savage times and the modern days of
civilization. They are a solitary peo-
ple, pursuing their calling in the lone-
liest glades of the forest, never seeking
to associate with others, neier seeking
• to change their manners and modes of
living, never assimilating themselves to
the refinements, the religions, or the
culture around them. Some say they
never go to mass, and. all their bap-
- tisms if ally), and all their marriages,
are settled by laws of their own. At
all events, they marry only among
th.emselves ; the reason, perhaps, being
that to the rest of the community they
are pariahs, with whom a man would.
be ashamed to connect himself.
Strange tales have reached my
of the savagery of the charcoal burl
Their children are as untaught
as wild as young wolves," said
" They attend no school, they go t
church."
"Their dwellings are foul •
smoke and dirt," erica another.
doors, no windows, no chimney, an
to water, they can't understand the
of it. In fad, they live like savag
And why do they live sueh a str
life?" I asked.
ER. 1 is youi face lobks so old when you • are
still young. Why, Pierre, he has 'just
guessed your age at sixty."
coal- We all smiled except the charcoal
burner, whose harsh face seemed to
grow a shade older as he listened.
"1 am little used to talking," he
said, 4' especially in houses. Out iii the
woods I might tell the story, if the gen-
tleman is not afraid to come."
"1 am not afraid, Pierre," I answered.
"We charcoal burners are a wild lot,"
he continued, "and I should. be sorry
to tell a tale before them; but any-
where beueath the trees in quiet, I
might, in my rough way, draw you out
a shadow of the truth—only a shadow
at the best, for words don't tell suffer-
ings."
"1 will meet you anywhere you
please," I cried, eagerly. " The loue-
lier the spot the better I shall like it."
I'm watching a pile of bur 'ng
wood in the forest, neaa the old c oss
in the Ba,stoigne road,", he answe
"and if any day, for a week to c
Monsieur will travel that way aiad low
•his horn,t I shall hear it, and I vill
nd
'ears
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and
one. .make my way through the trees,
o no 1 bring you to the spot."
"1 will come on Monday, Pierr
with said, "at two o'clock."
'No Hano.daled to me without a
d as more', and departed.
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Down in a little glen, where the t
ange are thick and tali, shutting out the
and the loneliness was so intense
aYs the voice'grew hushed, and the h
un-
" I don't know. They have aiw
done it. They lived like that h
dreds of years age., and they live so
still."
l'his was the answer I invariably received. No one seemed to pessess any
deeper knowledge; sol was fain to put
np with the ecanty information I could
get. Aud, indeed, this is all 1 know of
the charcoal burners to this day, for
their huts lay so far in the recesses ,of
• the forest that I never found time to
. pay them a Visit, and prey°, by the
evidence of my own sense's, whether
the strange tales told me of their
,stevage life were too highly colored , or
not.
I could fancy that in the lonely
glades of that great wooded belt which
stretches into the Black Forest, a race
of men might grow savage. And find-
ing themselves despised and shunned,
they might learn, on their side, to con-
temn the civilization end religion of
those who ,scorned them. But would
this make them wicked? Surely in the
green, quiet cloisters of the wood, in
the long, leafy naves of this great tem-
ple, in its , shadowy and arched ohoir,
the,human soul was more attuned to
worship the holy and the pure than in
the city, where sin walks unabashed,
insolent end. loud.
"You wanted to see a ohercoal-
burner," said. Madame Rodiere to me
one morning. "Well, here comes the
charrette of Pierre, the charcoal burn-
- er. Now you can talk to him,- Mon-
sieur, if you will."
I ran pat into the road, aild followed
the wheels of the cart till they stopped
at the grocer's door. Then a tall, spare
man, with iron -grey heir, sprang to the
ground. and entere& the shop. His face
was hard and bronted, the features
good, the eyes piercing, the cheeks thin
and hollow, with mouth firm and grave
to such a degree that it seemed never
to have smiled. It was this which
gave to his face a peculiarity so re-
markable that I could not refrain from
• watching- him alraost rudely. He took
no notice, however, of my steady gaze,
as, with a singular display of memory,
he .enumerated the puzzling variety uf
articles required by the community,
whose commissioner he was. For all,
these things he had a pile of little
packets, each containing money, end to
my surprise he made no single . error
either in the reckoning of this, or in
the name of the person to whoni. it be-
longed.
“ I am astonished you. should trouble
yourself to remember all this," said I,
" Why not write it down ?"
" Monsieur, 1 cannot.write," returned
the Charcoal -burner, gravely. "We
cannot learn writing in the woods; we
must trust to our memories. The mem-
ory of a charcoal burner is god," he
added.
He said this with a, sudden flash in
his fierce eyes,'while there fell on his
face an expression of hate and suffering
indeseribable.
• " That man has a his• tory, and a
strange one," I thought, as 1 Watched
• the Shadow .of pain come over his hard
features, and leave them as composed
and passionless a,s before.
"How old should you think Pierre to
be ?" asked the grocer, in his usual
nail:icing voice, as the charcoal burner
strode away to help Adolphe, the shop -
man, stow the packages in the cart.
"1 should think him between fifty
and. sixty," I answered.
The grocer chuckled with •delight at
this reply. -
"Why, tea years ago," he; cried,
" there wasn't a handsomer young fel-
low in the woods than Pierre. At
the utmost he is not more than thirty-
four."
I was so astonished that I could only
turn my eyes in bewilderment on the
the worn, hard face, whose aged lines of
care and sorrow seemed so utterly to
belie the grocer's words.
"Ah !" said he, "yon may well look
Surprised, but I tell you the exact
truth. That man has not seen more
than thirty-four years of life—.a hard,
strange life certainly, and it has made
him what you see him. In fact, .he has
never smiled since."
" Since what? since when ?" I cried,
half angrily.
"Since the murder. Of- course you
know all the story, Monsieur ?"
"
Of course I know nothing," I an-
swered. "You Ardenuais are the most
aggravating people upon earth. No
sooner does a stranger come among you
than you talk to him as if he knew
your village gossip since the days of St.
Efubert."
"Monsieur is half right there. But I
thought Madame Rodiere had told you
the story of poor Elmire's death," said
the grocer.
"1 would rather hear it from Pierre
himself," said I, "if, as I suppose, the
story is connected with. him."
"Hush, here he • comes. Pierre,"
cried the grocer, "will you take a glees
of pekie ?'
"Monsieur knows I never drink aught
but water," returned the man, taking
up his last packets_ from the counter.
"This gentleman prays you to drink
a health with him, and tell him how it
*The Ardennes -kg eneva.
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would kill her, as a snake or a wolf
might when hungry or angry.
"1 la glied at'this. ''Ile dare not lift
his hand. against thee,
Elmire,' I said.
He is coward, and he knows that I
should cill him if he did. but touch
thee.'
"Ind ed, my anger burned so fiercely
against Ithe villain that Elmire had
with d' (luny kept us from, blows. But
for her ravers and tears, I would. have
rid her path of him long before. There
was another hindrance, too—her father.
With hiim lay all the root of this misery.
He wast drunkard, and for drink he
was willing to sell even his • daughter.
He was lost, swallowed up'in that one
vice; reason, affection, conscience; all
drowned in it.'
"Look yonder, Monsieuf, down that
deep, narrow pathway, where the trees
arch overhead so closely that the sun-
light does but sprinkle sparingly the
ground beneath. Do ydu see, high up
on the tellest tree, a white cross cut in
the beak. That sigh„ cut by these
hends, i a memorial 6f _the. foulest
naurcler ver done in this land. There
it-anot a lonelier spot in all the forest
than th little glade. that lies beneath
that tree.- It is Autuma now, and the
' I leaves are spare; but ill full Summer
the, tiii31, pathway you see yonder is
ord eovered up with foliage and long grass,
so rank that only. a forester's eye can
trace th track, and. sc. roe any but a
forester' foot can folios it, as it winds
down. o er °rags and recipices, into
the soli ary dell below i In that -dell
the und rgrowth is cleaied away, giv-
ing place to the softest terf, and through
the midst there runs a- little rill, trick-
ling Mu ic all the day. Lilies of .the
valley, f rget-me-note, find wild. roses
edge the stream, with many other herbs
and flowers, for which nhy rude, unlet-
tered tongue can find. o name. But
Elmire knew them all, and she came
hither cOnstaaatly itt S • mer time to
cull and dry them in th sun. Except
for that tall, solitary ttae, the dell is
open to the sky, and th ugh it is so
small that a masa may p ce it from end
to end within a miuutr, yet here he
seems to breathea freer, fresher air, as,
looking pward, _no sh cloys falls be-
tween th face and the lue heavens.
Think of the ionelin ss of this spot,
where a ebble flung into the stream
startles he ear,-tand t e sound of a
footfall •onies ° like a, wonder. If 'a
shriek of agony—if a cry for help went
up to he von from this one place, no
human e r would • hear it. J If some
dreadful eed were done j here, no hu-
man eye would witness 'it—no tongue
could ev r testify against the evildoer.
" Teu years ago„ one Afigust day,
when th sun was blazing in the sky, I
crept awd.y from my fellows, and hent
my steps toward this della All the hot
morning, as I worked, Iliad thought of
it longin ly, and the sound of the cool
rill tric iling over thepebbles had
haunted me, whispering of rest and
freshness So, while the others betook
themselv s to their siesta, beneath the
trees, I c ept away and wound round
through 1»e wood; following the music
of the bi- ok.
" Soine ON-4.;icf• &e.emed to Me that I
did not tep thitough the underwood,
but that brokethrough it suddenly,
like a ma would in a dream, and then
I saw El ire lying on the grass in the
glare of ti e !noonday sun. It did not
come upg a-ine 'gradually that she was.
dead. 1 I new jtlike a flash, even as I
beheld he s
1, The acelwas as silent as a wreck-
ed ship in naVI-ocean might be. Not a
leaf stirre tit; the hot airi, not a blade of
grass qui ertdI asiI stood looking at her.
I saw she ani*dearl, yet I would not see
it -1 wo d. riot believe it.. So, as the
color ca.m back slowly toms face,as my
heart beg las; to beat again, I cried
et softly:
e " 'Elini e Eimire !'
t- "There Was no answer no move-
ment in t e prostrate form; and then.
I knew th :Silence was the silence of
death. -
"1 spra
her in m
whit I fel
fering has
not betray
ees
hat
art
seemed stirred with the rnemorie8 of
other worlds, I heard in broken phras-es,
uncouth and roughly spoken, the s
of Pierre, the charcoal burner.
" am the poorest man alive,"
Pierre; " iu all the world there's is
poorer or rougher. In saying 1 a
charooal burner, all's said in one w
1'ra an outcast of the woods, an
know it, and 1 rarely trouble a to
for there I feel myself alone—
tuned, as it were, to the tone about
Hove the wild,. free woods, and
loved the forest, too, with all her he
There wasn't a sound in it she caul
tell and interpret, from the song of
nightingale down to the weakest cry
the small insect on the grass.
"People said she was ignorant.
couldn't read and write; she .coul
say a Pater ' in Latin to save her li
she was as untaught and ignorant a
bird or a beast. I've heard the to
folks say this of her often, and
smiled,. and wished they were out
the woods with us for a while. Igu
ant, was she? .Why, she knew ov
tree that grows; she knew every h
that springs out of the grass.
could tell you where the freshest wa
ran, and. the greenest cresses gr
There wasn't a healing leaf in all
woods that she hadn't learned to und
stand; and if you did but hurt y
finger, she would spring aside, a
come back smiling, with soine swe
smelling remedy in her pretty hand.
"Then the flowers! There was
eye like hers for flowers. She ku
them all, and never gathered thein
town -folks do, to throw away wh
they faded. No; she dried them
the sun, and kept them for the sick
Winter. The rose and the
for colds, the lime blossonas for fev
Ah, what a store she gathered. eve
Summer! And with what ' wreat
and posies she decked. out our little hu
ory
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"We were brought up together, S
so I know what 1. am saying when I t
you she was not ignorant. But like
all, she had no town learning; her on
books were the forest and the sky;
out of these she got a wisdom al
might have put learned men to sham
Pierre paused here, and his ey
looked out far away beneath the -gre
glades, as though he saw there so
sight that filled. his soul with the an
terable longing of sorrow.
." DoWn there, at that old gnarl d
tree, she used to meet me every da
Sometimes, at sunset, I think I see 'h
still; but I know it is only fancy. I
am so afraid, as you listen to. -my poar
taIk, you will think her rude and rou:h
like me. You will think, because s •
was a charcoal burner's daughter, a,
because shedoved such a man as I all
that her ways Must have been like my
ways; but I tell you, no. It is not in
me to -have such thoughts as she ha
and. to put them in such noble word
And it is not in me to learn thin
from sky, and herb, and -tree, that s
learned. Every little leaf and flow°
cup told' her its secret, and the star
as they looked down on her, breathe
into her soul such thoughts of, infini
love, of an ever -yearning pity and ete
nal glory, that my heart would' sto
beating as I listened to.her.
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"Was .she beautiful? you ask
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do4't know, Sir. Her face was not lik
'any face I have heard tailed beautift 1
in:towns and. villages ; but once, in
picture, I saw a faee- like hers. It wa
the picture of a woman itt the wide
nessoveeping, as she lay on the ground,.
with her hand resting on a book.
"Mary Magdalen," said I.
"It. anight be, Sir. But her name
you know,:was Elmire. I've made th
woods ring with her name many a tiro
in the old joyous days, and in the sa
times since, I've whispered it to rnyse
in prison, in such bitterness as few me
know. You wouldn't think, Sir, tha
she was a girl whama wicked ma,
would dare to love, in a wicked way
And yet that misery came to her.
you were to climb ,to the top of *the
green knoll, and look westwardove
the slet4ing trees., yqu'd see the smok
of the village where he lived. I neve
go there now. .The sight of the place
would set my brain on fire.
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"He was a farmer's son, well to do :
vile and cruel as a wolf; but clever, so
the schoolmaster said, and rich, as all
the world knew.
"He crept into the wood, and came
upon her in lonely places, and insulted
her with hot words of passion. Or he
stole upon her unawares, when she sat
at work beneath the tree, and fawned
and. cringed for a werd from her. Or
he threatened and frightened her when
she came into the village with flax and
wool, and lie gained only her quiet
scorn and her untold loathing.
"We wild children of the woods have
an instinct which warns us of a hurtful
reptile, or a poisonous plant, and thus
we avoid them, though we know not
their names, and though we could not,
in our ignorance, utter our reason for
our fear. So with her; she hated this
man from the first, and one day, in our
wanderings, she tom me she thought he
tTravellers and sportamen carry horns in their
pockets, to blow if lost.
a across the brook and lifted
arms. I do not tell you
. As I have saidebefore, suf-
no words. The tongue can -
the agony of the soul, strive
as it may No; it cannot even utter
the pangs 6f the flesh; t ue grief and
pain are
chatter of
" She w
could see
silent, and t e woes that
heir smart are uobhing.
s stabbed befo e she died. I
he blood upon the grass. I
could see, the places wiliere she had
knelt and egged -for mem . And from
her knees he had fallen en her fape,
and so I found her—her hands clasped
as she had lifted them in prayer, and
her fair faoe pressed against the
ground. _
"it is Luc Leroy,' I said, as I laid
her back gently on the grass. • CLOUDS,
"1 had not cried aloud for help. - I
had not -even thought of it. Whether
the horror of the scene, or the in- WOOL SQUARES,
stinotive knowledge of the uselessness
his lone place kept me si-
v not. Neither do •I know
sat with my dead love in ray
GREAT CLEARING SALE
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----FOR ---
-DAYS"15
COMMENCING ON THURSDAY,
JANUARY 2zsie, 1879.
SMITH & WEST.
• bier the Following Lines at
ANNOUNCEMENT EXTRAORDINARY
Haa'aig determine -d upon a very important change in my business durhig the com-
ing season, itis necessary that I clear out my large and varied
STOOK OF STAPLE. AND FA, NOY DRY GOODS
And with a full 'determination to do so SPEEDILY I. am now offering
my whole stock of
DRESS GOODS,
SILKS,
CLOUDS,
TWEEDS,
SHAWLS,
SILK VELVETS,
WOOL GOODS,
FLANNELS,
MANTLES,
RIBBONS,
CLOTHS,-
FURS,
HATS AND CAPS, AND READYMADE CLOTHING,
A GREAT REDUCTION AT REMA
— ON—
USUAL PRICES.
THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR
OBTAINING GOODS AT PRICES
HITHERTO UNHEARD OF IN
SEAFORTH.
PLEASE READ
The Followieg Quotations :
RKA.13)._,E DISCOUNTS,
MANY LINES POSITIVELY BELOW COST PRICE -
Buyers of DRY GOODS will please bear in mind that _this is no puff, but a
bona fide sale, and will cLusult their own iutereats by going direct to
JOHN ROGERS, SEAFORTH.
N. B.—As we close ourTheoks on January 1st, 1879, all accounts must positively
be paid. forthwith,
••••••=a,
THE .GREAT ANNUAL STOCK -TAKING -SALE
NOW,GOING ON
AT HOF MAN BROTHERS'
allEAP CASH STORE,
CALIR:TYLNT 0 zn- 331.J0 sp_A.PoivE7i
Overcoats. at Seventeen Dollars Re -
Parties that have taken
dvced to • Twelve Dollars,
will reruemb
Overcoats at Twelve Dollars Reduc-
ed to Nine Dollars.
Overcoats at Ten Dollars 1?educed
to Eight Dollars.
Overcoats at .Nine Dollars Reduced
to Seven Dollars.
Overcoats at Seven Dollars Reduced
to Six Dollars.
Overcoats at Six Dollars Reduced
to Fiv Dollars.
Overcoats at .Five Dollars Reduced
to Four Dollars and -a -half
A LOT OF HEAVY ALL - WOOL
TWEED, AT 45c., 50c., 52c., 55e.,
60c., AND 65c.
advantige of these Cheap Sales for the last four years
r the BARGAINS that they used to get,
nd we are determined to give •
LARGER DIS OUNTS AND BETTER GOODS
Than at any of the previous sal
important. matter, viz., instead
Seasonable Goods of everytbing
COARSE AND FINE T
SHAWLS,
SHIRTINGS,
TABLE LINENS,
-COTTONS,
RIBBONS,
MEW AND BOYS HATS,
UNDERCLOTHING, SU, TS,
s. This sale differs from the usual advertised tales in this very
f offariug shelf -worn and unseasonable goods we offer New and
in. our line, of which the following are a few:
'EE DS, FLANNELS,-
CLOUDS,
DUCKS,
HOLLANDS,
YARNS,
GLOVES,
CAPS,
OVERCOATS,
BLA NKETS,
WINCEYS,
TOWELL1NGS,
PRINTS,
CORSETS,
TIES,
SHIRTS,
&c.
EXTRA BARGAIN in Dress Goods, Millinery, .ilfantles, Ulsters,
Ulste? Cloths, Min • and other Furs, and Han,dreds o f other articles
too atatineTOUS to 171 ntio-n.
REMEMBER THAT TIT BEST BARGAINS GO FI RST, _SO CALL EARLY
AND SECURE SOME.
CA.RDNO'S BLOCK, I
SEAFORTII. I
HOFFMAN BROTHERS.
SEA FORTHNOT CE OF
REMOVAL. SEAFORTH
CHA.R'LES MOORE, Photogra her, be as to intimate to his numerous patrons and the public
generally that he has R MOVED TO WHITNEY'S BLOCK—oPpo aite
Messrs. Win . Robertson & Co.'s e,rdware, where he has fitted tip splendid monis on the ground
floor, replete with every modern that; riven* which render it the
THE FINEST TUDIO WEST OF TORONTO
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, And where he will be in a better position _to turn oat Most Attractive Produttions of the Photo -
WI NCEYS AND• graphic Art in every class and style. He has been fortunate enough to sectire the services of a
; . First -Class Artist, whose experien e in the best Uoited State i eat Canadian galleries is a sure
NELS. AT COST.
t establishment, and at prices to s 1 the times.
guarantee that Artistic Excellene and Perfection will be attained in all work entrasted to this
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C. Moore has laid in a large an varied stook of Chromos, Mottos, and other Fashionable and
Fanciful devices. Also a splendi assortment of Pictures and Pieture Frames, as well as a full
1 stock of Plain and Fancy Mouldi gs, which he can make up in frames almost at the cost of the
„ Moulding.
BUFFALO ROBES AND HORSE
BLANKETS, THE CHEAPEST
IN SEAFORTH.
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LADIES! LADIES!
'IF YOU . REQUIRE
MANTLES,
MANTLE CLOTHS,
ULSTER CLOTHS,
of cries in
lent, I kno
how long I
arms before I roused. myself and rush -ed CHILDREN
0
FUR SETS,
FUR OAPS,
FUR BOAS,
FUR MUFFS,
FUR GLOVES,
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from that dreary sunshine into the dim
wood.
" came up this rugged
man, blind witlagrief and
met Lac Reroy then. I
torn his heart out. 1 ra
the place where I had 1
panions, but before I reac
met E.er father staggering
wood stupidly drunken.
me with bleared eyes, a
blood on me.
'What's this?' he said,
ing him helpless, I would
him iu a silence that was h
disgust; bu the miserable
me and. shrieked aloud for
"'Let .'ine pass on,' I '
daughter lies murdered in t
The sease left in h.
little that he caught at
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WEAR,
ath a maxi -
rage. Had I You will do well to EXAMINE
ho-uld have
on toward
ft my corn-
ed thein I
hrough, the
e stared at
d saw the
agerly. See -
ave .passed
11 it h lf
P 3r• a
man seized
elp.
ried ; 'your
e dell.'
was so
the words
wrong1
" 'Doi you dare to own th t you have
killed her?' he shrieked.. 'Help, com-
rades ! help.'
" We were struggling tog ther on the
groundwhen they came ru ning to the
spot, and as they lifted. me, y ghastly
looks might well make the deem me
guilty.
" 'He comes red from the eed!' cried
Pere Martin, shaking ith terror.
Look at his hands!'
"The old man's drowned penses were
so bewildered now that he struck at me
frantically, crying aloud th while 011
his daughter s narae, and ra, ng of her
beauty and goodness.
" 'He was jealous—this as
—he knows a rich man
child; Luc Leroy would rave made
her his wife.'
(To be Continued.
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BARGAINS IN DRESS GOODS
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OUR STOCK.
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WE ARE CLEARING OUT-- OUR
IMMENSE STOCK OF BOOTS AND
SHOES AT A DISCOUNT OF 25
• oPuEsRLyCLEONWTp.. ROIL
OsU. R PREV1-
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We are always Happy to Show you
through our House, and will-
ing to Quote Prices, --that
, you may coMpare with
Others in the
Trada,-
Whether you. Buy or not.
assin here
SNIITH & WEST
anted my -
No: 3; Campbell's Block, Seaforth,
He invites an early inspection
they will favor him with a call:
Photographer, 'Picture, and Plata
Dealer, Whitney's Block, Sea
y his lri lads of his extensive stoek, which is now ready, and begs
Frame I
rth.
CHARLES IVIOORE,
N. B.—Picture Frames Made t� 0 rder, and Pictures Glazed and Mounted on the Shortest Notice .
REMOVAL.
Kegs to intimate that he
Brick Building en 13
South of William
' hitherto, carry on the
General Insurance,
In thanking the publie for the
has carried on theke branches in
them the Bente satisfaction which
keeps on hand the best Sewing
Oil, and Machine Attachments.
capable of making any kind of wo
threaded up machine of any mach
—a Machine that has never faile
sells the Wheeler & Wilson Mach
Farmers' Wives, Mechanics' Wi
and try our Sewing Machines—Io
the celebrated Elena and Pope
given to custoincre gratis on any
of Sew;ng Machines repaired. T
REMOVAL.
REMOVAL.
1\1-- -W-ES-rrS01\1- •
has Keinored his Office to D. McGregor's New
t Side of Alain Street, Scalorth, and Fourth Door
upbcil's Clothing Emporium, where he will, as
y Loan Agency, and Sewing Machine ltusiness.
enfidence they have reposed in him for the past fifteen years he
eatorth, he wiehes to inform them he will still endeavor to give
they have invariably expressed with his transaegionsHe still
achince that are manufactured in the world, as well as Needles,
He sells the Osborne A Machine, which is the simplest, the most
'rk in the most perfect manner, and the easiest and quicktait
no made hi the Dominion. He Rolls the Genuine Howe Machine
to give satisfaction to every customer for the last ten years. He
nes,-the most rapid and least noisy Machine in the world.
es„ Merchants' Wives and Manufacturers, do not fail to examine
mily and Manufacturing—when yon want one. Also Agent for
Whig:Machine, capable of doing all kinds of work. Instructions
the above mechines. Sewing Machines to Rent. Also all kinds
EMS LIBERAL.
WM.
WATSON, General Agent, Seaforth.
TIJT =7MIR,
, A. G. AULT HA, JUST RECEIVED A LARGE STOCK Olv
ALL KINDS OF
Which will be sold at Great Barge
and quality of Good s will snit
60 cents per pound; try his Black
pound—you will find them the be
ROCRIES AND PROVISIONS
ns. He solicits a call from all, feeling confident that both prices
ho may favor him with their patronage. Try his Green Tea, at
Tea at 50 centaper pound; try his Japan Tea at 50 cents per
m town for the money, also
4 pounds of Green T a for $1.
5 gallons hest Coal 01 for Si.
20 pounds of Currants for $1.
16 pounds of Raisins fpr 81.
20 pounds of Rice for $1
20 pounds of Pot Barley for $1.
20 bars of good Soap for $1.
0 pounds of good Sugar for $1.
Baking•Molasses, Golden Syrup, lBest White Sugar, Drip Syrup, Vinegar, Codfish, Cheese, Pork,
Best Family Flour, Cornmeal, OatWeal, Cracked Wheat, Brown Float, Pastry Floar, Potatoes, Ap
pies, Pork Sausage, and good Butt r and Eggs always on hand. Remember the place:
A a. AULT'S GROCERY, SEAFORTH.
GOOD NEWS FOR THE BAREFOOTED
AND ALL PARTIES WHO WISH TO BUY LARGE QUANTITIES OF
BOOTS AND SHOES FOR A SMALL AMOUNT OF MONEY.
TO 'KEEP abreast elf the times in the General Reduction in Priees of all kinds of Goods—but
*1- more particularly, if possible, 4o induce people to buy for cash—I have determined to make the
following reduction in prices to cash buyers in Custom Made Work:
Gents' Long Leg Itoots all kinds, 25 cents per pair.
Shoe Packs and 8 ort Boots, ail kinds, 1!;/1 cents per pair.
Ladies', Boys' andiGirls' Boots, all kinds, 12i cents per pair.
I have just opened an Immense Stock of Factory Made Work in all the different lines, 'which I
think intending purchasers ought tp see before purchasing elsewhere, especially my Men's and
Boys' Riveted Work, which unclon tedly surpass anything in the trade in. Pactory Made Work All
of which will be sold at a redaction correeponding with the above to cash buyers. Parties buying
on time will be charged the old pri es. As I sin the first in iny line in Seaforth to puil down the
prices, I trust the public will show Jheir appreciation by an extensive patronage, as I am deter-
mined to make it to their advantage to do so.
Sign of the BIG BOOT, Stark'a
Block. East Side Main Street, j
THOS: COVENTRY, Seaforth.
CHANCERY SALE
Of Valuable Farm, Property in the
Township of Ifullett.
1)1711SUANT to the decree Ana final oilier far
1- gale, made in a certain atria° of AICT4gpOt
DanCall, and beating date respective:
Ninth 'Gay of March, A. D. 1878ani the Second
dey of December, A. D. 1878, there will be siela,
with the -approoatiou of Hello, MacDerniotta
Esq., Master of the said Court at (+oderiela by
the said Master, at Baia enhury'a Hotel, in toe
Town of Clinton, az the hoar of Twelve o'clock
noon, on Saturday, the Tweaty-Fifth day -of
January, A. I). 1879, in ono parcel, the following
'anus and premises, being all an•t sitaplur that
certain parcel. or tract of Jana and preanis.,satilla
ate, lying, and being in the townehip of Hallett,
in the Conlin y of Tinton, being catnpoaeal of frit
number 'Fourteen, ib the S,,venth Coneeesom
the eaid townsidp 01 Hullett, cantai11ie4 100
acres of bind, na)re or less, rhis propelay
silo •i abaat .311 and one lisif miles from
the Town of 0,iaton and /nue rades from the
Town of Seaforth, to both of wine& tnarketh it is
readily accessible by good roads ; 80 acres of -the
property are c1. FU ex d free from stumps ; the
soil is principally a day loam, end there is
abundanee.of good water. On the lot are erected
at frame dwelling, house Ivith a stoat; cellar, sal
frame earn ana stable 70z4a. The titje th.e
land Is indisputable. -
TERM:S.—The: pu achaster inuet pey down At
the time of -sulfa to the Vendor or his Solleitors,
ten per cent. of his puiehase money,and wait
pay the balance into 001.1it WItinU One month.
without int, Yee% and upon payment of sa•di: bal-
ance he will De entitled lo his deed and pOttsetl-
Bien of the land. The other eon litions ,,.
axe the emalaing contlitions of the -Cpart of
Chaneeiy.
Farther particulars can be had from Hasem
Garrow & aleyer, Benisters,Goderieh, 'i
son Ihtiristeri'
i -Clinton, the Veatione
Solicitors, east the Master.
Dated tne al-st day of Deeember. A. D. 188
MACDERalOTT,
Mester at Goderloh.
I‘IALCOIS ON S.% MeFADDEN,
578-4 Venaors Bolicitors.
EXCHANCE BANK OF CANADA.
HEAD OFFICE, MONTREAL.
oADIERItroAT0L'
Rs—IL u.. 'R1,000,000-
Gault,Persident;
CarierinJl,Vree Piesident, A. W. Ogilvie,M.P.P.,
E. K. Green, Thomas Tiffin, Alex.Buntia, James
Crathern; C. Pa Murray, Cashier; Geo. Bartits
In"oercat°1C
Ana of this Bauk hos been opened rip itt
Brassels, where a General Banking business; will
be transacted. Notes of h Ind etitzeounted, and
Loans effected at fair bueiness rates.
A Sayings Bank department has also been
opened in coimeetioa with this, where depoetaa
will be received froni ono dollar upwards, and
interest allowed thereon.
Drafts issued payable at par at all officeof
this bank, th a beak of. Montreal anti the Federal
2.1.1'10kI°tEfCIGalNlaiA'as
falaNTS.—London—The Alliance
Bank, limited. New York—National Bank of
Commerce, Helmer's, al eGowati & 6,, Wan
Street. Chicago—Colon National 13sailt.
565
81111h1CBS hours 10 to jtafiRaLtagradayIst,1, 1Man
/ tol4er
PROTECTIOI.
J'AVING the Protection guaranteed to viv
one who uses only good material and doea
first- class work, it has eimbled us to sell all our
BUGGIES AND CARRIAGES,
And we have now on hand e good supply Of those
handsome CUTTER'S, and a number of thoae
SILIE1G-11S whicli evexybody says eatil
beat, and we will Bell very Wimp such terms
as will suit Mt enstotuers, I have also engaged
the services of n zompetent and attentive Blaek-
smith for a term of years, and sill prepared to
execute All Minds of.lob Work, frartit
needle to an aneher.
Price4 Very Low and ail Wel* War*
rattled.,
should be happy to receipt all past accounts
during the next month.
578 JOHN WILLIAMS, Kinburn.
THE COMMERCIAL LIVERY
SEAFORTB.
ARTHUR. FBS,
T_T &TING purchased the St oek and Trade of 'the
Conanierzial Livery, Seaforth, from
George Waiteley, begs to state that he intends
earrying on the business in the old stand, and has
added several valuable horses and vehicles to the
formerly large stock. None but
First-ClaSs Comloytabk Velticks and Good
Reliable Horses Will be Kept;
Covered and Open Buggies and Carri'agee, and
Double and Single Wagons always ready for use,
Special Arrangentent,S Made frith, Com.
mercial, Men,.
Orders left at the stables or any of the hotel
prornaltly attended to.
THE COMMERCIAL. LIVERY,
SE AFORTEL
A,17 ILLIAM MeNAUGfITON boo to intoxim
T the business men of Seaforth and the travel-
ing publie that he has puaehased the Livery -
Business and Stock of Messrs. Carnochan
Abell, and -will to all in his power to retaiii the
reptttation whieh this favorite establishment 40
secured.. Ile will keep only good driving and PS -
liable hones, and his carriages will be kept
clean and ill good order. Calls, night or day,
will be promptly attended to. PIC -NIC AND
WEDDING PARTIES Liberally Dealt with.
Terms Reasonable. All orders left at the -Com-
mercial Hotel or at the °tibia 'will receive prompt
attention.
Offiee and Stables on Market Street, opposite
T. Kidd's Store.
544 WM.., MCNAUGHTON, Proprietors,
PARTNERSHIP NOTICE..
rrHE undersigned haviag entered into partner-
-2- ship, are now prepared to manufacture Plow's,
Wagons, Buggies, &c. By using first-class Ma-
terial and having all the work cooling through
our own hands, we can gaaraatee a. good attiele.
Particular attention given to repelling, hors..
shoeing and general j Isfr. Batton hal'
ing had over thirteen years experienee ittdesaae
bag mill picks, we will make that a specialty.
Agents for Wateon's Celebrated Agrieulta.ral
plements.
REID & BA.RTON,
Williamson's old stand, Goderieh Street Sea -
forth. 60
THE
THE SEAFORTH PORK FACTORY
It 0 B B
Ts PREPARED to pay the Highest Price fot
-2- any quantity of Hogs olive or dressed. An
kinds of Cared Meats conslinatly on haaid- Fine
Lard, Sugar Cared Rams, Spied Roils, Beef
Ham, Side Meat, Pork, Sausage, Bologna. and
Choice Meat of all kinds. As I have beett in the
business for the lat two yearn, and haying one:
of the best tuttere and ^arvers of meat in Can-
ada, I think I will be able to give as good setts-.
faction us in the past.
H. ROBB. '
N. B. --:-Pork Cuttings always on hand. 568
DRESSMAKING.. ,
1VIISS SCOTT
BEGS leave to announce to the Ladies of Sea.
-2-• forth and surrounding tottutry that she has
commenced dressmaking in all the
LATEST, STYLES 'AND VARIATIONS, ;
And hopes by Neatness, Good Work and Pancttal
-patty to merit the patronage of all.
Rooms over Lumsden & Wilson's Drug Store,
Main Street, Seaforth,
Sixapprentices wanted. 559
_
HAIR DRESSING.
MISS STARK
AvisnEs to inform the Ladies of Seafotth an
Vicinity that she la prepared to make up
SWITCHES, CURLS, BRAIDS, Zee.,
In the Latest Fs.shion from Combings.
PriCe13 Moderate, and all orders punctually ate.
tended to. A. call solicited. Residence—Matti
Street, Seaforth.
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