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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1879-01-31, Page 22 THE HUhON EXPOSITOR. THE CHARCOAL -BURNE CHAPTER -11—Continued. "Meanwhile Ifought with my fello _workmen like a maniac. 7, strove - speak to them; I strove to tell the all that had paappened. to me; but reason had. gone wild, my heart w breakmg, my lips were ci•acked, my voice ouly came in gasping sobs. Elmire, Elraire ! They say I kill- ed thee! I, who loved thee better than my life. Are you Mad, com- rades? I tell you Luc Leroy is the man." : " Luc has just left me; he 'has been in my hut with me all the morning," R. I put his watch back, and by his and oth- er means deceived his half -drunken • companion? 1 w., "According to their ,own testimony, to they had sat together drinking for near- na ly two hours; but I did not believe this. my I imagined they had been together only - an 'hour, and the impression of a longer period had been cunningly made by Luc Leivy on the dr mkard's mind in order to screen his own guilt. "But it was i a vaiu my counsel and 1 criestionecl and cross-questioned ; we elicited nothing beyond the feat ' that Pere Martin ha4 I tasted' the pekie on his way to the hut. " 'Did you sit' down to taste it?' I asked. " ' Well, yes, I think so.' " ' Did you taste it more than once? " 'I don't know, but I might' have.' , "'And you sat d'own each time?' " ' Well, yes? - ' Then how °bald you get from your tt hut to the cross, and back again, in less thaa half an hour ?' '1 walked. fast. •" After these questions and answers the distance was measured, and it vas found. a man coLld walk it in . half an -• hour. "'But not an old man,' said my counsel, 'not h man who sits (lc ma foul or five times by the way to k.' 'He must have left the hut earlier i lialf-past nine,' observed the cureur. du. roi 'His ideas of ' t me are vague till lie sees Luc Leroy's .vat he' . We fought- good fight, Monsieur, my counsel and but we were' defeat- ed. I was foun guilty, and condemn - o a prison fo life. My exact state - t of the tru h was entirely discred- ; the loss o nay knife, especially, looked ea a- a flimsy invention; but for the '. extenuating came' m- yere presumed to exist • jealousy, and. poor El - villain Leroy,I sho cad d. under the knife of said Pere Martin: "As he said this, 1 flung myself the gamed in utter despair, and suff ed. silently the cords with , which" comrades bound me. Then scene sta to watch me, while others ent to t village to apprise the authoi ties of t murder. " You perceive, Monsieur, that wh the gendarmes arrived., they ere nece sexily already prejudiced a ainst m therefore, my bearing and m Words seemed to them proofs of gu lta But mere certaih proof was now forthco ing. Down in the dell, nea the bo of the murdered girl, Clay fO ind a kW —my knife; it was covered ith bloo and had evideatly been the apon us against her. " As the mail spoke of thi , 1-rerne berecl, with a ghastly sinkii g' of m ife a day tat had elmire and. ,now re - on er- my id he he en s- e ; all a m- dy 'fe d, ecl dmn .4 thee y Pro heart, that I had lost this, k or two before in the - wood, mentioned this loss only to her father. I appealed to hi winding him of this fact; but he answer- ed me angrily that he remora hag of it. " Then I sank into sullen d went silently- to prison." III_ 1 Pierre paused a moment to recover - himself,- and then centime d his sad tale. "The trial drew crowds t; the court. . , The chief -witnesses against Me were Pere Martin and Lae Leroy. 1 The girl loved me,' sai , . this last villain, insolently; ' naturagy she pre- ferred a man of imestation a a mere charcoal -burner. She flatte ed herself I should marry her. • I had no inten- tion of the. sort. so I amused. myself in talking to her.' • .. When did you last see her?' asked the Judo: . . . " ' At a cll.-tarter to 10 o'clock, in. her father's hut.' . _. , " Was her father there?' , " ' No, and I only saw her for a • mo- ment or two. She seemed frighten -ed and begged me to go. away. r: She 'said the man Pierre was jealoo , and.. she should not like him to s e4'us to- gether.' . , " ' Did you leave the hut t her re- . quest ?' " 'No, I refusedto do so; and . then she left it herself, saying. sh was go- ing togatherherbs to sal to he &hem- , ists." "'Did you follow her?' . Only a -step or two, and after a little talk beneath the trees, I return- ed to the hut, where her fat er found " 'If you loved the girl, ud were pleased to be in her society why did you not accompany her in h r quest of herbs?' . • “ 'Well, the. till th is, -I didn't 'inue-h like being seen -with a charco 1 -burner's daughter; I should. have bee jeered at by ray friends. Then, again, . was un- willing to arouse the prisoner's jealousy ; - he had .threatened me on varoue occa- sions, and I wanted to avoid his vio- lence, for the girl's sake.' . - . “ Other falsehoods h.eutter .d. I can- not repeat to you. They m d.den me . with indignation even now, a I think of thene. Enough that he slanlerel the girl he had murdered, while le , strove to swear away my life. - I never doubted he had illed her, and as I looked in his shrin ing, 'cow- ardly face, I knew it, as •urely as I knew there Was a sun in he . heav- ens. , - . . "When -Pere Martin was called, I gazed -at him eagerly, to tee if; there were any signs of sense in b. ; But no; his face was hopelessly dull, his brain hopelessly . drowned in intoxica- tion. . • ''" When. did - you see you daugh- ter alive?' was the first qttesti n ',pat to fa ered noth- spair,and ed t /1161. tad was and h don't kno sr the hour, but I think it was about half -past. 9.' "'Why did you leave her, and what was Phe then doing ?' "'She was sewing. 1 ief1 her to fetci a jar of pekie, which Mo sieur Le- roy had. put for mo behind the bid cross, on the road in the forest that leads to Bastoigne.' ." At what hour did yo-uret ra to the hat?' " At ten, said I then found onsieur Leroy there waitiug for me.' " Bat if you do not know -the ex- act time at which you left the ut, how can you tell it Was ten when y•u return- ed ?' " I know because Monsie Leroy showed me his watch; it NVEL ted two minutes of ten. He was ange because I had kept him waiting ; he ad been there, he said, nearly half u j hour. This is how I became aware that it was half past nine wheili I left home.' " You seem to know the time only from Monsieur Leroy; how is that ?" " I did. not know it 'froin him. I looked at his watch myself.' ‘" And what did .you when you reached the hut?' " We drank pekie.' " Till what hour?' I don't knew. Wo drank together till just before the moment whn Imet the accused., aud he told me be had murdered my ddughter.- " 'How did he look when you met him?' "'He was wild and haggard, and his hands and arms were covered with blood.' "'Do you recollect his having told you he had. lost his knife?' " • 'remember nothing of it.' "I repeat these interrogation and re- plies, Monsieur, to show you hat the chief point at the trial rested o • a ques- . tion of time. ' "Up to, a certain hour I wa toiling with my fellow -workmen, and I Was supposed. to have commlarted th crime in the period which elapsed Detween the time I left them and the msment I was seen by Pere Martin. On he oth- er hand, was Luc Leroy really found in. the hut two minutes to ten, or sad he • sta ces ' which . in ey passionate mir 's love for th hay lost my he the illotine. " h, Monsieu , when I tell you that I, aa innacent in 1,11, spent four years in all t e sufferings of the Bagne, you Will hot wonder th t my face has ;he line of'age, the t larks of an iron ser- vitall eethe scars i a fire not yet quen ah - ed. " lave 3rou e er seen a wild bird beat itself to de th against the bars of its c ge? I " Alell, I shelll have thine that but for one thought the thought of Elm re. The burning desi e toetveage her. kept me live, and su taiued me through all my ie iseries.. - tt his gave me hope to study a plan. of es ape; this g ve the courage and for- titu,i e to pursue i . '" G-od is a just God,' I said to myself, cont nually, 'the efore I shall not flail in • i purpose.' "-lid I did not. I escaped, but how, and y what mea s, I am bound no 'er to te 1. " our years of prison had so changed mot at none of my old compauioas, looking on in face,. would helve said, • There goes Pierre the &hare )al burn r.' ' " o a fre&ma of the woods likel ne chai sliad been a living death, and my nguish had made me old' ahd ghas ly when, on , 1 brea, • ed again t b.e fores . "1 knew it 4vas ru one f zny o d' ii. hith r, nevert ele ed d e more at liberty O fresh air .of t • dangerous ,to retu I came: .1 trust riends, and he prov e and 'supplied rie eat of the search for me NI LIS over. It is a hard. thing f gend• rmes to find a man in the forest; as 7 11 hunt for a wolf or a wild boar - with ut -dogs, asle k for a fugitive in. this ildernesse. "1 six month. my hair and bea .cl had rown 'long a d thick—it had be, come gray, nearly white, as you see, and felt that the eye even Of a detective woul scarcely r cognize the escaped forca , much les then would the villag rs see in thiswhits-hairel, the charcoal bura- i to my friend, as a servant o .ned at My seheme, ssuade me from it. m him that Luc Le. married again, but had died sadden]. a • infant of whom she lid. This child WI s urce of constant quarrel between r, a,ndin this dissen- a weapon of defense faith • 1. He hid with i ood till the SO • aged Wan, Pierr er. • " laude,' I sai shall hire anyser Mad e Leroy.' " e was fright but h could not d " ad heard fr rov'i mother ha her w husbaad leafy]. g her with a was p ssionately f the s Luc sion and r IC 11 • d his moth hoped. to fin tribution. oreover, Pe e Martin, no longer suppl ed with dra k by young- Leroy, was n w his swor enelny. Thus th e groan; was prepar d for me, and I ea- tered n the battle without fear. „V. , . "0 you mean to hire that old man said uc Leroy to. his mother, He as fool a,ad pest ev rk.' e can. work lard enough,' retun— ed Mc dame, and s age is in his fa- vor Ild fools are Gamely such fool e as young ones:' "r °ids grew la.gh between them; but, a ter a bitter dispute, the wido had h r own way, nd hired me . for a, year. It I oele here,' sad Luc Leroy to nee the n 1 day, wh se servant do you mean o be, hers 'o mine? If you are hers, '11 put your ones nuder. the hal - row ON ery hour of be day; if you are mine, and you p ease me, you ma' have have much rink as yon like, -and as '11 cheat the old Woman togeth- er.'• it t m yours, y ung master, body and so 1,' I aneweral ; give me a driak now.' • "1 i ever touche anything but watee, Monai ur, and Ilida hard time striv- ing t� • eceive .Luc Leroy, with regard to my drinkinepro ensities ; yet, nerv- ed as I was, a d knowing' failure woulcl be death, -I s icceeded in this • as all els'. "1 brew apparen ly so helpless and drunk n, that the eillaw at last put his life in •y hands. O here,' he said to inc oue day, as he eized bit little stepbrother by the arm, isn't it bard a man should be cheate• out of his inheritance by a wee.- zle lila this ? Why don't you take the fever all d die, little miserable? Pshaw- not ye' ! there's no- such luck. as that for me!' " I etched him more narrowly aftei this, ai d twice I saved. the child's life when a seeming accident would have crushed it to deatlae First, when stuni Wing ainst the boy, he flang him be neath he heavy wheel of a loaded wag. It Ca on; and again in the mill, when Only despera;te exertion- of strength en ray - part extracted him from a :frightful fate. "But this constant- watch over the child wore out my nerves and. strength, anal r solved to put an end to it. So ioae night late, when i,Madame Leroy • nd I sat up together, waiting4 for her dissipated eon, Isiticl sudden, - clam if you wieh to save your, d's life, send i away., at do you mea , imbecile?' she grily ; you ar drunk again tca iought, Made ,you knew .by that I -am a ot so fond of I pretend to e.. 'I tell you Luc is resolve • to kill the lit - woman. turned pale, and look - in glartstly tee or. belie, you,' she said; I 10 is 'icapable f any .wicked- ly- 44 eae little ch 44 w cried, aa night?' "'1 t this ti11:1 drink a your SO tle Hen "The ed ati m- - "'1 know L nesaa - • 4, 'a e in worn out with watching the chil I niturned, ' nd I . will not preinise you that I ca save his life ." Her I told her wh t bad happened, and tho oh she had he trd this before from th child's imper ect speeoh, yet, now thu, it came to her circuaistantial- ly, she t •embled. • I NC ill sen(1 the child to his father's 'o -morrow,' she cried, and. I y no louger to •• ake my will. I gain nothing •y his wicked - friends will del Luc sha uess.' "'1(0 p your own cou answe ed, and take tray wh t I have said If he die harges me you friend.'. "She nevv this, and oar made her cautious " What new whim s this of my mother's?' asked. Lue' L roy of me on the next ight, when he ound the child acme. "How can I tell,' I a swered. " Fin out -then," he etorted. 'What do I pay you and give yo drink far, un- less it ie to be my spy?' " Yo let your moth clearly t at you hate th ed; 'tha has made her of the w v.' ." Ah, likely-enougha do hate im, and let m when I ate auy one it i for him. I hated a f thought should never doing hiii an -ill turn, b came.' ,ilow Monsieur?' sit way, as 1 filled my glass r mind ; I foun in the w ed.' how could finding- his knife_ ?' said I, with a drunken sel as to that,' are not to be - to your son: will have no 444. }rev - r .perceive too boy,' I return - send . him out e said ; 'and I tell you that a bad thing llo w- once, and get a, chance of Lit the chance 'd I, in a stupid. d. a knife of his .i1 Ail hurt hi laugh. "But 1 could get no more out of him then.. "A fee days after thie it came some- how to hs knowledge that his Mother was.goint to make her will in his broth- er's favor This made him resolve on desperate crime. • 11 ;Tha ,'he said to me, you are good her aliet. Can't yu gather m somethin that would lc' " Yes, Monsieur,' I know wh re the hemlock ly nights • ado grow • and decoction from either of kill a ma , much lees a " Gat er ma some said. "Taste d of gatherin them, I went to the Ca, ytain of the g ndarmes, who was a kee , quiet man, a i1I told him as unieh f the truthas thought safe. I did not onfest my ide tity, but I let him kuo-y that Luc Lero had. confess- ed to me he finding of knife ha. the w-oocl whi le an enemy of his had. lost, and he he also avowed that he had drugged o' d Pere Martin n the morning of his sdau hter's death. "This ast fact had ese ped him when talking to me of the ni htehade. He tried to re all his words i mediately he had spoke thew, but see ng me stu.picl, careless as d unheediug, h :grew at ease again, and dropped .the sti ject. • "The C 'Attila of the gendarmes was a keen-wi ted man, silent and cautious. He hid a etective in the farm haus°, who by ra aid crept ,'abo t unseen like a cat, and from a chink in the wall watched uc Leroy as h brewed his deadly chinks. /le h.a , of. course, gathered t e poisonous erbs himself, and it wa easy to see by the skill with which he taught hi He -tried t rabbit; b ly satistie filling a go ly water h " The d the wrete existence: life by eN feigned ill my seat b saw every took. As own food, ence, hidd lumber ro Arres given by h the crane "Alas! prevented. " As I S the fire, a erly fromet Madame "'Tho p • La dog?' answered. I and the dead - if you make a hese it would og.' to -night,' he guilty of this little sufferer's pain; and running wildly toward the village, I called upon n31 I met to help me to seize Luc Leroy, the murderer. "We found him at 'work in the hay- field, sullen and quiet, but with a sup- pressed excitement in his manner, which told his guilt. . '"Unhand me, sot !' he cried, as I clutched him. "As my fingers gripped him, I lost that quiet, self command that for years had hidden my rage and despair. " 'I ani no. sot 1 I am Pierre, the charcoal -burner, whose affieaced wife you murdered, and whose lib you tried to swear away.' • "I was mad, and they had to tear me from hum, -as he lay writhing with ter- ror on the ground. My unexpected words had,pierced his shrinking soul, and in abject cowardice he confessed his crime. His little brother's life was saved, Monsieur, but Luc Leroy was most just- ly guillotined at Liege, for ' the murders of his stepfather and of Elmire'the daughter , of Pere Martin, the char- coal _burner. Elmire. was avenged, but I was a lonely man henceforth for ever. "Ab Luc Leroy's trial he .confessed every circumstance of his guilt. To insure Pere Martin's absence from the hut, he had informed him the night before of the spot where he would find liquor in the morninu. No sooner was her father gone than ho presented him- self before Bin -lire, who, to be rid of him, escaped. from the hut and ran, as she thought, nuseen to the dell. But he followed her. and grew 80 insolent that the unhappy girl told him- that she hatea. and scorned. him. He laid his rude hand, on her at this, ancl then she shrieked aloud 011 my name for help. That roused his jealousy to madness. and he struck her, first with his hand alone, then with the knife. Even with the first stab be remember ed the knife was mine; and when his fury was over, and his victim lay dead, he began to think he might put the crime on me. He washed the red stains from his hands in the brook and re- turned to the hut. Here 'he put back his watch,' persuading the foolish old. man, whom he had drugged.; that he bad been but half an hour away. On his return home. he put his watch right again, and t ok care to 'compare it with a neighbors. "Monsieur, you know the rest, and there.is much I have not told you can guess. I have nipt touched 011 all I have suffered again in confinement, while the tectioue process of Luc Lev's, trial aud my rehabilitation were 'got through with. The Jaw would not give me my liberty this while„though justice acknowledged I was innocent; and when freedom came at last, it could not bring back my youth acid my dead love. Neither could it efface from my memory those sufferings in the Bagne, which are marked hence on my a face. As for Pore Martin, I worked for himl and took dare of him till the a day of bis death.. I cut that white e cross you see yonder on the tree on • that day the law pronounced. -me a guiltless and injured wan. I shall always keep that cross white and. neat while I live. It is the only me- morial Elinire has. Monsieur, you have heard Row all the story that Pierre, the charcoal -burner, has to tell." —The Argosy. distilled the self something ie poison on a (1th died ; and n , he ceased his work, after •dly-sized vial ith the dead - bad distilled. !active and I loth -thought ed man aimed t his mother's therefore we ery possible ess, and never the kitchen leal booked of 'or the policem Ind. no one susp .n carefully as 113. him to-nieht,' was theorder s chief. ust prevent le meditates.' ve were too lat . It was not • t that evening t my post by nessenger cam running eag- e little Henr 's relatives to eroy. - or little thing is ill, clesper- . Come at with. fear, I ther as she The cottage ng with his mie off, but• minutes, and. auce I took at the little co told. me he as dying - 11 1 • • , that he had of 'chemistry. g and a tame w, apparent- • • rotected her recaution. stirred from fire, where I hich we par - n, he hacl his cted his pres- e was in the ately I' lied the woma once!' "'Sick a heart, and fai followed t e distracted m rushed fro . the house. where -the hild was sta gra,ndinoth r was half a we reache it in a few the first g sufferer's f poisoned. " This vas how his said old Madame Co she seized he hand of her law. "The yo lifter Madame oupieune— or Leroy, a I have coati ued to call her—sank, own by the be side sobbing. All her hea .6 was with th little crea- ture, whos aaans now dun I around. her in agony. "'Oh, lay darling! y darling! what shall do for thee?' she moaned, piteously. "'What lave you been • rinking, lit- tle one, .sai I.?' - "'Only e u-sucre, that .rother Luc gave me.' "I could bear no Wore _,My heart reproached «. 0, as though I had been ether died,' pienne, as daughter -in - SI The Little Maiden. One may as well be hanged for a sheep as for a latub. "Once upon a time- there Jived a mitideu,"—and. very charming little maiden she was, by the way,—with whom it was Caus- er's good fortune to be acquainted.. 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Cloth*, Mink and other Furs, CO d Hundreds of other Articles too numerous to mention. • • REMEMBER THAT TRE BEST BARGAINS 60 FIRST, SO CALL EARLY I AND SECURE SO -IE. FLANNEL CLOUDS, DUCKS, HOLLAND YARNS, GLOVES, CAPS, OVERCOA S, e BLANKETS, WINCEYS, TOWELLINGS, PRINTS, CORSETS, TIES, 'SHIRTS, &c., &c. ess Goods, dillinery, Mantles, Ulsters, SEAF CARDNO'SORTIL BLOCK, 1 TIOF IVIAN BROTHERS. -SEAFORTH NOTICE OF REMOVAL SEAFORTH CHARLES MOORE, Photographer, bees to intimate to his numerous patrons and the public generally that he has REMOVED TO WHITNEY'S BLOCK—oppoE i te Messrs. Wm . Robertson & Co.'s flardware, where he has titted up splendid rooms on the ground flobr, replete with every modern contrivance, which render it the THE FINEST STUDIO WEST OF TORONTO, And where he will be ilia better position to turn ont Most 4ttractive Productions of the Photo- graphie Art in every class and style. He has been fortunate enough to secure the services of a First -Class Artist, whose experience in the best United States an i Canadian galleries is a sure guarantee that Artistic Excellence and Perfection will be attained in all work enerusted to this establishment, and at prices to shit the times. C. Moore has laid in a large and varied stock of Chromes, Mates, and other Fashionable and Fanciful devices. Also EC -splendid assortment of Pictures and Picture Frames, as well as a full stock of Plain and Fancy Mouldings, which he can make up en frames almost at the cost of the Moulding. He invites an early inspection by his friends of his extensive stock, which is now ready, and begs they will fever him with a call. Photographer, Picture, and Picture Frame 1 Dealer, Whitney's Block, Seaforth. C AR,LES MOORE. N. B.—Picture Frames Made to Order, and Pictures Glazed a d Mounted on the Shortest Netice REMOVAL. REMOVAL. REMOVAL. W. IV_ V‘T_A.Tsc)i\T , ;i1 M Begs to intimate that he has Removed his ee—to D. McGregor's New Brick Building on East Slide of Alain titre t,Seatortk, and Fourth Door South of Williatn Campbell's Clothing E ',parkin)c where he will, as hitherto, carry on the ' General Insurance, Money Loan Agency, -and Sewing Machine _Business. , . In thanking the public for the e onfidence they have reposed in him for the past fifteen years he has carried on thee° branches in Seats:nth, he wishes to inform them he will .still endeavor to give them the same satisfaction which they have ineariably expressed with his traniumeions. He still keeps on hand the best Setvieg Machines that are manufactured in the world, ate well as Needles, Oil, and Machine Attachments. Ile sells the Osborne A Machine, which is the simplest, the most capable of making any kind of -work in the most perfect manner, and the easiest and quickest threaded up machine of any machine made in the Dominion. He sells the Genuine Howe Machine —a Machine that has never failed to, give satisfaction to every customer for the last ten years. Be sells the 'Wheeler & Wilson Machines, the racist rapid and least noisy Machine in the world. Farmers' Wives, Mechanics' Wives, Merchants' Wives and Manufacturers, do not 1 Ail to examine and try our Sewing Machines—Family and Manufacturing—when you *ant one. Also Agent 'for the celebrated Franz and Pope Knitting Machine, capable of doing all kinds of work. Instructions given to cust-omers gratis on any of the above machines. Sewing Machines to Rent. Also all kinds of Sewing Machines repaired. TERMS LIBERAL: WM N. WATS° General Agent, Scaforth. 01-1A_IE:=R• TIT 'IV A. G. A -ULT HAS JUST RECEIVED A LARGE STOCK OF - ALL KINDS OF GROCERIES ND PROVISIONS, Which will be aold at Great Bargains. He solicits a oaThfron all, feeling confident that bethprices and quality of Goods will suit all who may favor him with their patronage. Try his Green Tea, at 50 cents per pound • try his Black Tea at 60 cents per pound try his Japan Tea at 60 cents per pound—you will find them the besten town for the money, al co 4 pounds of Green Tea for $1. 5 gallons best Coal Oil for $1. 20 pounds of Currants for $1. 16 poudds of Raisins for $1. ' ,20 p)unds of Rice for $1. 20 pounds of Pot Barley for $1. 20 bars of good. Soap for $1. 13 pounds of good. Sugar for $1. Baking Molasses, Golden Syrup,1 Best White Sugar, Drip Syrup, *Vinegar, Codfish, Cheese, Pork, .Best Family Flour, Cornmeal, Oatmeal, Cracked Wheat, Broan Flour, Pastry Flour, Potatoes, Ap- ples, Pork Sausage, and good Butter and Eggs always on hand Remember the place : A. G AULT'S GROCERY, SEAFORTH. GOOD NEW& 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 of the times in the General Reduction in Prices of all kinds of Gooils—hut -L- more particularly, if possible, to induce people to buy for cash—I have determined to make the following reduction in prices to cash buyers in Custom Made Work: G cuts' Long Leg Boots, all kinds, 25 cents per pair. Shoe Packs and Short Boots, all kinds 124 cents per pair. Ladies', Boys' and Girls' Boots, all kinds; ll2f 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 to see before purchasing elsewhere, -especially my Men's and l3oys' Riveted Work, which undoubtedly surpass anything in the trade ha Factory Made Work. All of which will be sold at a reduction corresponding with the above to cash buyers. Parties buying on time will be charged the old prices. As I am the first in ray line in Seakirth to pull down the prices I trust the public will shovt their appreciation by an extensive patroriage, as I am deter- mined te make it to their advantage to do so. Sign of the BEG BOOT, Stark's Block. East Side Main Street,- I THOS. COVENTRY, Seaforth. EXCHANCE BANK OF CANADA. HEAD OFFICE, MONTREAL. CAPITAL, - - - - $1,000,000, DIRECTORS—M. IT. Ganit,Persidente Tele. Carrerhill,Vieo-Pi esiden t ; A. W. Ogilvie,M.P.P„ E. K. Green, Themes Alex Buntin, Ames Crathern; C. B. Murray, Cashier; Geo. Berne Insuector. A ora itch of this Bank hire been opened up in Beasaels, where a General aeuking bneineee will be tiauvatted. Notes of fiend enkeetuited,eaet Loans effected at fair business rate. A Savings Bank department hid also been opened in connectioa with this, where deeoeits will be received hone on, eoller upwards., interest allowed thereon. - Drafts issued payable at par at all oftleee ef this bank, the bank ef Montreal cord the Federal Bank of Canada. FOREIGN AG-ENTS.—Londcm—The Alleanee Bank, limited. New Yorke -National Bank of Commerce, Ilehrecr'e, eleGowAn & Co., 63, Vali S treet. .Chicago —Uoion National Bank. - Bueitaess houre lie to -8 Sateirdaye, JO to 1. 56:3 .110111ei LECKIE, Menager PROTECTION... flAVIN1+ the Protection, gRaranteed to tiVy one who 'titles only gooe mfterial an I atee• fleet- class work, it hes enabled Us to Bell all our BUGGIES AND CARRIAGES, And we have now on 111111d.o.goo4 supply of tbose hang) some VITUVE KAI acid a number of those -es it Ei 46`. KIS which everybody sees in't oe beat, and we will Sell very cheap —on steel eerrai as will euit our euetorners. I have also engaged the services el n competent and Atteneive Week - smith for a term en years. and am peep tre 1 to extente til 1nds of Job Work, from a 11Pe•e•diCeett: Neance_IL-711:111:ro';vateric nit lilre146.. War - should be happy to rwece ktiptt ixailzKt :beonur,:ts 578 8ring the nexs 1.113.0ii )fnbl THE COMIVIERCIAL LIVERY 1SEAFORTJI. AliTHUR FOR.BES, a a- ANING'perebeeed the Stock and Tiede Commereial lAvery, Seaforth, from Mee George Whiteley, bege to state that he intends carrying on the business in the old stabil, and hat added several valuable horses and vebiclesto the formerly laege stock. None but First-Classeomfortable Vaiclesantidooel Reliable .Mrses J./rill be Kept. Covered and Open Buggies and Carr'agee, and Double and Single Wagons always ready for too. Special Arrangements 31;cule With, Com- • mercial Men. °Mere left at -the stebles or any el the hotels promptly attended to. ITHE COMMERCIAL LIVERY) SE AFORTIa. WILLIAM elcleTAXIGHfOle begs to Wenn the buibiess men of Soaforth and the travel- ing public that he has purchased 1,he Livery Business and Stock- of Messrs. Carnoehan & Abell, and will do all in his power to retain the 4 reputation which this favorite establiskient has ' secured. He will keep -only good (hieing' and te - liable horses, aed his carrieges will be kept clean and in good eeder. Calls, night or day, will be promptly attended to. PIC -NIC AND, WEDDING PARTIES liberally Dealt wit Terms Reasonable. All orders- left at the Com- enerciae Hotel or at the &flee will receive prompt attention. , Office and Stables on Ma.rket Street, opposite T. Kidd's Store. 544 WM. MeNAUGHTON, Propriet-or, 1\TCY.rI0 TO G -RANGERS, FARMERS AND OTHERS. A S THEY oceupy the sttentigen of all, three e --e- hard times, the subscriber is determined to meet them by offering geed inch Hemlock, not e usually soldier inch," at the bellowing TAUB: 12 foot Hemlock. at $7 00 per thousand, 14 feet -Fencing, at $7 50, forCash. All orders. over 44000 5 per cent. discount. .Call and see if you don't get what is represented. Book Accounts over 8 months Will be -charged 8 per tent. The stabscriberthanke his nnenerons customers for their liberal support, and. solicits a continu- ance of their favors. JOHN THOMPSON. 488 Stearn Saw Mills, Mt BUTTER TUBS S. TROTT, SEAFORTk jS now prepared to supply all zustometa vitt any number of his SUPERIOR BUTTER TUBS, At $80 per hundred, Cash. These Tube are so well and favorsbly known to the trade that it in unnecessary to say anykhing in their recommen- dation. - MR. TROTT also manufactures a small Hard. wood Tub, suitable for washing butter in. Orders by mail or otherwise promptly attend- ed to. 495 S. TROTT, Seaforth, PARTNERSHIP NOTICE. THE undetsigned having entered into patteer- -1- ship, are now prepared to manufacture Plows, Wagons Buggies, etc. By rising first -ohm ma- terial and having all the work coming theough our own hands, we can guarantee a good article, Particular attention given to repairing, home - shoeing and general jobbing. Mr. Barton hay ing had ever thirteen years expe,rlence 1dreee- ing imil picks, we will make that a specialty,. Agents for Ws.teon's Celebrated Agricultural plemeuts. REID te BARTON, Willianison's old stand, .Goderich Street, Sea - 1 orth. .560 THE SEAFORTH PORK FACTORY II. ROBB s TS PREPARED to pay the- Ffighest Priee for any quantity of Hoge, alive or dressed. Ail kinds of Cured Meats -constantly on hand. Fine Lard, Sugar Cured Hams, Spiced =Bells, Beef Ham, Side Meat, Peek, Sausage, Bologna. and, Choice Meat of all kinds. As I heve been in the business for the .1...et two years, and having one of the best eaters and I -Revers of meat in COM- thiXtk I -will be able to give as good satis- faetion as in the past. IL ROBB. N. B.—Pork Cuttings always on hand. 568 D4ESSMAKI NG MISS sooTr pEGS lea.ve to announee to the Ladies of le'8a- forth and surrounding tonutry that she has commenced dressmaking in all the LA.TEST STYLES Akri) VARIATIONS, And hopes by Neatness, Good Work and Punctu- ality to merit the patronage of all. Rooms over Lumsden & Wilson's Drug Store., Main Street, Seaforth. Six apprentices -wanted. 550 HAIR DR.ESSING MSS 8TARK wislizs to infoem the Ladies of Seaforth and 1r Vicinity that she is prepared to make up SWITCHES, ou_rtLs, BRAIDS, &o,e In the Latest Fashion frora Combings. Prices Moderate, and all orders punetuallytt- tended to. A. call Bonoited. Residence—Main Street, Seaforth. DRAYAGE. THE undersignedhavini entered into to -part- nership, are prepared to meet the wants a the Merehants -of Seaforth and ethers who may require their services as -carriers to and from the Railway freight sheds and elsewhere on most reasonable terms. Orders may be left at eeseph Brownell's Groemy store, and win receive /women and -careful attention. NORMAN BROWNELL., JOSEPH A.BELL. Seaforela, Aug. 80, ism