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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1879-05-30, Page 24 2 THE , HURON EXPOSITOR. MAY 33, MEG. BY JULIA 0. R. DORB. Margaret Neale, a girl of 20 or there- abouts, sat on a low broad stone near the edge of a cliff that overhung the sea. Her features were irregular, but she. had a certain dark, gypsy -like beauty of her own. Her brown stuff gown clung closely about her ; her hat had fallen back and hung carelessly by the strings ; a red woollen shawl was wrapped around her shoulders, one end trailing off over the scant, gray herbage. Her hands were clasped about her knees ; there was a hard set look about the un- smiling mouth ; and the eyes, that were sometimes; most tender, had a danger- ous light -in them as they gazed stead- fastly off over the darkening sea to the distant horizon, still red with the re- flected glow of the sunset. Ata little distance, but with his back towards her, and his steel -blue eyes just as steadfastly bunt in the opposite di- reetion,stood Mat Erickson, a handsome young fellow enough, in the rough dress of a miner, tall, strong and ruddy, with a full, curling, chestnut beard, and hair. of the same rich color. A blue ribbon dangled from his left hand. There had evidently been a quarrel ; and a love quarrel in a straggling min- ing hamlet on the north-west coast of „nglanci -does not differ greatly from one in a scattered fishing hamlet on the eastern coast of : Maine. Forms of speech may differ ; brut love and anger are much the same the wide world over. As for the queer, quaint dialect in which this especial pair of lovers poured forth their mutual -grievances, no -attempt will be made to reproduce here. You nutty be sure they said "yo" for "you," and "tOwd" for "told," and "canna" for "dannot," and "ta" for "thou." But all that shall be taken for granted- if not for your ease and comfort, at least for mine ! Tired of the silence at length, the young miner sauntered away with an air of assumed mdiffe ence, and picking up a handful of pebbles slowly tossed them, one by one, into the waves be- low. Margaret's eyes did not waver, but none the less did she follow every motion of his hand. Having watched the fall of his last pebble he camp back and stood behind her, winding the ribbon round his finger to its evident detriment. " So you will not wear it, Meg ?" he said at last. "c No, I will not," she answered, without turning her head. " Why do you vex me ? There's no more to be said about." " But why, Meg ?" and he laid his hand en her shoulder as with an attempt at conciliation. " Tell me why ? Surely you can do no less;" " Because—because I can't abide blue, Mat Erickson. It's hateful to .me." " But I like it, M g, and if you cared for me you wo d be glad to wear a blue ribbon to t e fair when I ask it." " Why did you buy it ?" she asked shortly ;; turning towalrds him by a hair's` breadth. " Not to please me that's sure." , " Yes ; to please you, and to please myself. Jenny wears ibbons as blue as her own eyes, and I m sure you can not say they are not petty. You are just stubborn, Meg." Poor Matt ! In his u educated, meas online blindness he could not see that the delicate color that harmonized so well with his pretty cousin's pink and white cheeks and su ny curls, was utterly unsuited to h s brown Meg, who needed rich, dark } ues and warm reds to brighten her somewhat swarthy complexion. And poor Meg ! She :had an instinc- tive sense of fitness t : at taught her this, but she was not ise enough to know how to explain it her somewhat) impetuous lover. She ould only say she " hated blue." Besides, Meg carried a sore spot in' herheart for two months ; ever since this same cousin Jenny bf Matt's came on a visit to Rysdyck. She was a dimpled delicate little • creature from the south from near Lindon, in fact— where, as Meg was veraI certain, every -1 thing was nicer and .finer than in Lan- cashire. Jenny's hands were soft and white, and she had pretty gowns as be- fitted the daughter of a well-to-do far- mer who kept men-servalnts and maid- ' servants. And she hada pair of real gold ear -rings and a laane scarf I Old Mother Marley said it was reallace, but of that Meg was not qui e sure. That Was a height of magnifi .ence to which she was not certain eve Jenny could attain. And Jenny had s eet little coax- ing ways with her ; and he was always purring round her cousin Matt, like a kitten ; and—and—sloe yore blue rib- bons ! Meg would none of them. She sat for a moment s if turned to stone. Then she blazed out.. "' Jenny !' ' Jenny !' am tired of ' Jenny !' _ She has turn d your head with her flirting ways lie a butterfly, and, her yellow hair a d her finery. Give your blue ribbon to her and take her to the fair—for I'll not wear it !" And you'll not go to he fair either ? said Mutt, in tones of pas- sion. ressed as - pp sion. " Is that what you mean ?" " I'll not go with you," she answered, growing cool herself as he grew angry. " Yet it is likely enough that _I may go. There are plenty of lads who would' bo glad to take me with no ribbon at all." With a strong effort the young man put the curb upon his tongue, but his face darkened. You will go with me or with no one, Meg," he said. This is all nonsense —and. we to be married next Michael- mas 1 But come," and he put out his. hand to raise her from the stone: " It grows dark." Meg, still angr3r, but willing to be pacified if she must, allo ved him to as- sist her, and stood beside her stalwart Levet with burning Ghee s and down- cast eyes. She rather liked, on the whole, his tacit refusal to defend himself and his masterful way of telling her it was all nonsense." But just at this moment, as ill luck won d have it, a small browu paper parse dropped from the folds of her shawl. alt stooped to pick it up. It burst open, and a yard or two of scarlet ribbon ri pled over his fingers. Now our poor Meg, not, to be outdone by the fair Jenny, had bdeght this rib- bon herself that very evening, meaning to wear it to the fair next week. But it so happened that when Matt went to Mother Marley's shop to ,buy his own blue love -token, he had found Dan Willis there—the only man in Rysdyk whose rivalship he ever, feared. And Dan was buying a ribbon precisely like this. Mother Marley had wrapped it in. this very piece of paper Matt was sure, and he had seen Dan put it in his pock- et and walk off. And now, here itwas! His gift was spurned then, and his rival's accepted ; and all 'Meg's talk about Jenny was est mere subterfpge—an. excuse for a quarrel. ' It was easy to see, now, why she had been so irritable of late, and so prone. to take offence. But a man could . not stand. everything, and if Meg preferred J Dan Willis to him, why so be it. Yet if she would not wear • his love - token, she certainly should not wear. Dart's. He hardly meant to do it ; lie Iwas sorry the next minute. But what he did, as the tide . of passion swept him off his feet for an instant, was to wind the two ribbons into a knot and throw them vehemently into the sea. " There !" he cried, " that's settled, once for all." " And something else is settled, too, 'Matt Erickson," retorted Meg, in a white heat. " There will be no mar- riage for us next Michaelmas, no mar- riage then or ever : You would strike me some day, for aught I know, if I should choose a red knot rather than a blue. I'll not ruu the risk. I'll have nothing More to say to you while the stars shihe," and darting round. the cliff, she was half way down to the beach before he ever.thought of stopping her. , The next day Erickson, magnani- mous, great-hearted fellow that he was, after all, having, gotten over his pet, be - quarrel from • Meg's urred to him that he uncalled-for infer - might have a dozen L liked red ribbons for aught he knew! And how like a fool he had behaved; losing his temper like a hot-headed boy, and throwing Meg's poor little tr'nkets over the cliff. No wonder she wa afraid to trust him. More than. one hus and in Rysdyk was in the,habit of be .ting his wife on as slight provocation as the hue of a rib- bon ; and it was not strange that a high-spirited girl like Meg should de- cline to run the risk after she had once seen him in a fury.. ' As for Jenny—she had come in be- tween him and Meg. He could see it now. .But she was going home the day after the fair, and 4e would see Meg that very night and tell her so. For he did not dream that all was indeed over between them. I" e could hardly wait for the hour to lease the mine. He changed his foiled clothes, ate his supper -hurriedly, and was soon on his way to Meg, stopping as he went to buy another .ribbon-rsd, this time, and broader and richer ,and handsomer than the one he had robbed her of. Then he went on` through the crook- ed, scattered little - illage, till he reach- ed the Widow Nea e's cottage just on the outskirts. .To his surprise lie found the door locked and the shutters closed. As he stood still in his perplexity, a white - was turning somer- ed : Erickson ? It's no The widow and. M'eg gun to look at thei standpoint. It oc, might have drawn ences. Dan Willi sweethearts who a headed urchin who saults near by shou " Ho, you, Matt good to wait there. have gone away." "Gone? Where " Don't know. enough -or to Ame —or somewheres. ?„ To France, like iky—or to London They took a big box and a bundle,and they don't know but they'll stay forever 'n ever. Meg said so ;" and, makinga rotating wheel of himself, the lad vanished round the corner. Just then the dodr of the nearest cot- tage opened and a woman's face looked out. It was growing dark. - Is it • you, Erickson ? There's no one at home in the lhouse there.. But I have something here I was to- give you way." n and set and white tis he took the little packet from the woman's bands. " Where have'they gone ?" was all he said. I don't just kno their kin folk a widow said. " Oh !' but she's a close- mouthed one, she id—and Meg's a bit like her. They're, not a 'gossipy folk. You never get much out of there," she added with an injured air. "Not but I've found them goon= 'neighbors enough, but they're rather -high and mighty for commoners." As soon as he went out of sight, Mat- thew Erickson opened the packet. He knew what was in itl before he untied the knot. A string bf curiously carved beads with a strange, foreign, spicy odor, that he had bdught of a wander- ing sailor and fastened round Meg's neck one happy night : and two or three other trifles he had gveu her. And -he found this note s1c`wly and painfully written, badly spelled perhaps, and not punctuated at all. But what of that ? The meaning was plain enough ; all toxo plain Matt thought, as he drew his hand across his eyes as if to clear his vision. " I gave yon back your troth last night. Here are the beads, _ and the sil- ver piece, and the heron feathers. 'Now all is over between us." Here she had evidently hesitated a moment, wondering if her words were strong enough. For on the line below she had written, as with an echo from the prayer -book reverberating in her ears : " Forever and ever, amen. Margaret. Neale." when you came thi. His face was ster in the fading light, V. To visit some of reat way off," the Not Meg, his Meg, his proud, high- spirited sweetheart—but Margaret —Margaret Neale ! It set her at such an immeasurable dil;tanco from him. " All is over between us." As if she were dead, and buried out of his sight. And he had spoken fo James Ray about the swig cottage bey'ond the bay ; and they wete to have been married at Michaelmas ! He knew enough of the widow Neale's habits to ask no more questions of the neighbors. As one o them had said, she was close-mouthed. He knew she had a sister living in ' Scotland for whom Meg was named ; but where even the did not know. Sootland was like a distant, foreign land to the people in ,ysdyk. But the widow had money enough to go to Scotland, or farther if she wished, even on Such short notice. She had never worked in, the _mines, neither had Meg, She had a comfort- able annuity left her by an old_mistress; for sheehad served in a great family be- fore she married John Neale. Month after month passed. Michael - Inas was over, the winter came and went, and Rysdyk knew no more of her or of Meg than when they left. The.. silence, the void, grew unendurable to Matt. With the early spring he car- ried into effect what had been the one dream of his life before he learned to love Meg. America was the land of promise for miners as well as othe ; and had he not a friend who worked lin the great iron mines at Ishpeming, n the shores of the wonderful north' n lake that was itself almost as large as all England ? He had no father or mother, only a half uncle whose ho se had beeu the only home he had ever known. What better could he do than to seek work and forgetfulness together, where there would be nothing to remind him of the past ? So when, one fine morning nearly) a year after her sudden flittingethe nei h- bors awoke to find the door of Wid w Neale's cottage ajar and the shutt rs open, the first bit of hews Meg he d -was that Matt Erickson had gone to America. It struck her like a blow. Now, 'n deed, he had dropped out of her life, as utterly as months since she had dr p - ped out of his. For she, too, had h d time to repent. Almost before the bl e hills of Scotland had dawned upon er sight, she had repented in dust a d ashes. How foolish she had been, li e. a child who throws away its bread i a pet and goes to bed. hungry. Why h d she not worn the blue ribbon to ple Be her lover, even if she did not like i ? As for Jenny—hut what nonsense w s that ! She would have been ashamed of Matt if be had not been kind to her. To be sure he had been cross and h d. thrown away her ribbon. But then e was a man—and men were strong a d masterful and could not boar contr diction, and she had angered him by h r foolish persistence. I Ah ! if she could but undo it all arid have her tall, brave, handsome lovr back again. She would have turned round a d gone back to Rysdyk the very next day if she could have had her way. But a journey was a journey to people of the'r rank and condition, and her mothe , who had taken into please her and som what against her own will, was not be blown about like a feather by h r caprice. She had suspected alov - quarrel wast the bottom of Meg's su den and impetuous desire to go imme- diately on a' Visit to her, Aunt Margaret n Kilmarnock. But once being there he old lady was determined to have " the worth of her money " before she went back. She could not afford too jaunting around the country, she sag as if she were the Queen herself wit all Parliament at her back. !When s e had her visit out she would I -go horn , and not before. Meg was. ai'good 1 but she was a bit hot-tempered. Th s lesson would do her good. - But why, do you asic, did not Me write to her lover, if she felt she ha been in the wrong ? Ah, why do n t wiser ones than she always do the be t thing, the right thing ? Besides, sh Was a woman, and a proud one. After having discarded her lover she wou.r not forthwith fall at his feet and as him to marry her. But, ah ! sh thought, as the long, slow days wor on, if she were only with him • ° gal , if she could but look upon bis nine one more, he would know all withoet th telling. There was another - reason: Writin was a hard and unaccustomed task She could not talk with the pen. Some time, if the good God would let her se Matt face to face, she might be able to explain. But she could not write: _ And now, after all the months of waiting, she was back in Rysdyk, but he —he was in America. It was as if he had gone out of the world: One day she went to the rec- tory and asked. Miss Agnes to let herr look at a map of America. The young lady did so, and showed her England, also, end the wide waste of waters that lay between the two. What a speck England was;• to be sure ? Then she asked to be shown Lake Superior, and Miss Agues pointed it out, wonderingly, How far it was ! As far from the sea- board almost as the width of the Atlan- tic itself. She turned away with a long, shud deiing sigh. Hope was dead within her '' atthew Erickson had.gone out of he little world into another of which sh knew nothing. He' would have bee nearer if he had been: -dead. Once in a while, as the years went on, at rare intervals news of him came back to• Rysdyk. He was well ; he had fair wages, though gold was not to be had for the getliering in America any more than in England ; he had been promot- ed and had charge of It, gang of men. At length/there was a long interval 'of silence. _ Then came floating rumors of ill; then after a while a letter in a strange handwriting, a letter to his uncle, who had died three weeks before it came. There had been a bad aoci- dent in the mines—an explosion ! and in the effort to save others; Matthew Erickson had himself received danger- ous injuries. No one thought he could live. But now, after months, he was 'slowly recovering, if recovery it could be called. For he was blind. The poisonous vapors had destroyed_ his sight. It was five years since he went away —five years that had brought many changes to Meg. It was a sobered, thoughtful woman, not a hot-temper- ed girl, who . knelt . by the Widow Neale's side a week after the letter came and said : " Mother, have I been a good, faith- ful child to you these many years ?" Her mother looked at her wondering- ly. Two quiet women living alone, they were not in the habit of being over de - in on strative. " A good child ? Why do you ask that, Meg ? There's not a better in all Lancashire !" " Have I ever vexed you or given you sorrow. Tell me, mother 2" " No," said the Widow Neale slowly. " Only—it vexes me that you . will not marry. An old maid's no good, and you know that two of the best men In Rys- dyk worship the very ground you tread ca this day. I call no names and I say nothing. A woman must answer for herself. But I wish you were married, Meg. I've saved up a good penny for your dowry ; you know that." " Yes," she said, her lips quivering. Whatever was the reason you did not have Matt Erickson ?" her mother went on querulously. " You'd have been a proud wifenow, and he here, hale and hearty-" With a quick gasp Meg threw up both arms, and then buried her face, in her HATS. HATS. HATS.. FOR TEN DAYS ONLY. SMITH & WEST PROPOSE TO OFFER AT SPECIAL PRICES Their Immense Stock of Gents' and Boys' Hats, Caps, &c. We find ourselves overstocked in some lines, and have determin- ed upon Clearing them out. Also Ladies' Sunshades. Children's and Misses' Sailor Hats,in all the New Colors. .Don't Fail to secure yoursel f a Hat when you can get it at Half Price. Our Boot and Shoe Department is Complete. Just to hand, a Lot of Yankee Ties for Ladies and Children. Also Prunella Work of Every Des- cription. - A Careful Examination of our Stock and Prices will be sure to convince the buyer !flat t pays to purchase when we sell for Cash only. SMIT EI 8c WEST Ontario House, Seaforth. D U NCAN & DU NCAN, SEAFORTH. NOW LS THE TIME. We have Just Received our Second Lot of New Sum- neer Goods, bought for Cash, much under their Regular - Value, and will be sold Cheap. SILKS.—Black Silks, from 60 cents to $1.50. Colored Silks in Browns, Drabs, Blues and Bronzes. Cheap Black and Colored Satins. DRESS GOODS .—A New Lot of those Beautiful 'Colored Lustres, at 18 cents, worth 25 cents. A New Lot of those beautiful Brilliantine Lustres, in all the New Shades of Drabs, Browns, Blues and Prunes, at •24 cents, worth 30 cents—see them. Cashmere DeBaize in Light and Dark Greys and Browns, all wool, the Cheapest Goods 'in Town. Cashmeres, Serges, Cords, &c., and Black Mantle Cashmeres. HOSIERY.—Our Immense Stock only requires Inspection. Ladies' Heath- er, Seal Browns, Stripes, Blues, and Balbriggan Hose, ranging from 7 cents, 10 cents, 12 cents and upwards. See our Celebrated 12} cent Hose in Ribbed and Plain, worth 18 cents. Children's White and Colored Hose in all sizes. Men's Socks, at prices to suit. See the best 12 cent. Sock in town. G LOVES.—Ladies Black and Colored Kids, from 50 cents up. Ladies' Colored and White Lisle. Ladies' Black and Colored Toffeta Silk. Child- ren's Lisle Gloves, all sizes. PRINTS. PRINTS. PRINTS. ill 1 LLI N E RY.—The Largest, Best and Cheapest Stock of Fashionable Millinery in Town. We have this department under superior manage- ment, and guarantee first-class satisfaction in every article. Weekly ad- ditions of Ladies' Bonnets, Hats, Flowers, Feathers, &c. MERCHANT TA II.O R'1 IOtG.—Our Cloth' Department is now fully stocked in every line. Scotch, English, and Canadian Tweeds, Worsted Coatings and Broadcloths, at all prices to suit the times. Clothing Order- ed will have our best attention and perfect satisfaction given. BOO, TS AND SHOES.—A Large and Full Assortment! GROCERIES.—Regular Supplies of Fresh Groceries to hand. DUNCA.INT & ID ITN0A. MAIN STREET, SEAFORTH, 1879 SPRING .AND SUMMER 1879 IMMENSE OFFERING OF NEW GOODS AT THOMAS KIDD'S 'EMPORIUM, -SEAFORTH. My Spring Stock being now Complete, I confidently invite your inspection of the same, knowing there is no better assortment to be found in Canada. Having made much larger purchases than ever heretofore, on account of the advance of the Tariff, I am now iu a position to show you first-class Goods,, marked at prices to suit the times, In all my purchases I have studied to get the most Eialeable lines, and from my experience of the Trade, I feel safe in saying that myl customers can select their requirements from my present stock with every degree of confidence as I do not deal in any inferior class of Goods. A few of the Leading Articles may be inferred from the following list : Black Alpacas, Black Cashmeres, Black Crape Cloths, Colored Crape Cloths, Colored Lustres, 2elange. Twills, Mottled Jfoluairs,, Costume Dress Linens, Black Grenadines, Figured Grenadines, Colored Muslin, Few Colored Brocades, Russel Cords, Dtugon als and Serges. Black Broadcloths ands Worsted Coatings. English, Scotch, and Canadian Tweeds,• White and Colored Dress Shirts, Full Line of Oxford and Regatta Shirts, White Vests, Hosiery, Braces and Gloves, Scarfs, Ties, Collars, Cuffs, Handkerchidfs, Ulsters and Waterproof Coats, White Cottons, White Sheetings, Grey Cottons, Grey Sheetings, Fancy Prints, Fancy Shirtings, Lace Curtains, Counterpanes, Toilet Covers, Toilet D'011ies, Table Linens, Towels and Towelling, Ducks and Denims, Plaids, Striped and Hessian Tickings, Black and Colored Silks, Black and Colored; Satins, Crapes and Ribbons, Flowers and Feathers, Hat Ornaments, Straw Hats, Sunshades and Sailors. The SHOW ROOM will be open on and after this date. TRIMMED MIL- LINERY will be a Special Feature this season. _ ''EAR No R rv-AL,s- My Friends will find the Goods in point of Style and Value unsurpassed - The Clothing, Boot and Shoe, Grocery, and Wine and Liquor Departments are fully assorted. I respectfully request you to give me the pleasure of showing you through my stock before making your purchases, and I guarantee you fair and honorable dealings in all transactions. THOMAS KIDD, SEAFORTH. IMPORTED STALIN 'FHE Celebrated Imparted Stallions, E prhie and Chan plain, �iil -tray follo►s ng rontee this season ENTERPR=ISE'S ROUT - ll'OtiDAY Wiiilcaye his o stable, fc, North Last Boundary, Lsborne, and East to Mr-13allantyne's, for noon; tb ist Farquhar, thence by way of the Thames the Stone church, at Mn McDonald's, fpr rt-' TUESD Y — 'Pest to Exeter North Brown', hotel, for noon; thence nortih' , don Road to 1 e holds' Hotel, Hens tJi,for QP l~ D"Q]SDAY— horih to Scbnffer's Hotel; pen, for noon ; thence North to I;ruceteM, Turner's Hotel, for night. 'HURSDAY the Mill Road to Seafortb, at the 0 oma Hotel, nxi-jyjng at noon and z-emain ugunt following turning. FRIDAY—South along Hipper' Road to tne lied £'nvern for noon, Ent to 'Spring Hill for the night, iSATU _ —By way of Cromarty to Robert Hnggsrt e, noon, thence south to his Own 'table, why 'Fill remain until the following Monday mol The above route will be coximenced on due, April 28, and will be co .tinned during the season, health and weather ting. CHAMPLAIN'S ROUT; MONDAY—Will leave his awn stable, Lot North East Boundary, Usborne. and prQei West by Bonthron's Corner .to Iienaah nol�ls' Hotel, for noon; thence reit al= Zurich Road to the Parr Line, t,ence d along the Parr -Line to'V .na, at Joslin'a for night. TUESDAY—Along the Bayfield to;3rucefield, et Turner's Hotel, for noon; t, Wong the Los,don Road to John Avery's, zap ing one hour; thence north to Granton, t; east to Broadfoot's Bridge, then a to the Hotel, for night. WEDNESDAY --will p north to Jelin Torrance's, Hullett, by ,RA ginburn, for noon; thence east to Davis' II Leadbnrv; thence north to Walton, at Bit Hotel, for night. 'THURSDAY—South to Hotel, Leadbur_y, for noon; thence south to. forth, at the Commercial Hotel, for night, Fit DAY—To Dublin, by way of the R ift Road, at Pendergest'sHotel , for noon ; memos. Spring Hill, for night. SATUR33AY--.-$: the 12th concession of Hibbert, to his owuey ii where he willrernain iambi the followi gO neee morning The atovo route will be commenced on lkiii. day. April 28, and will .be continued regal*. during the season, health and weather ting. 594 McEWEN dr NORTON, Prophet ELECTION ADD;E To the lElecteme of South Moralist GENTLEMEN, Having been selected by Reformers of South Huron, for the " t' time, as their Candidate to represent the stituency in the Local Legislature, I ragaiti pear before you soliciting your suffrages for position. During the six years I have represented&„ the Local Legislature, I have endeavored tit advance your interests to the best of my abij Ton sent me to . Parliament as an indepeu�lj, supporter of the Mowat Administration. Below ing that their Legislation has been in the, h interests of the Province, I have given thenS fair and generous support. Shouldvoa : meati the approaching election, and shotsLl -: Mowat Government to sustained, I shall tinne to support them so long as I consider._,, measures just, and management of Public aid. honest and economical. 1 have net given trot a sl.aviah,support in the past, nor snail T dose* the future; bat Will vote for such rueaeares- in my judgment will advance year hist emanate from whieh ever side they may. It is unnecessary for me to :say more st 1I present time. I shnllhave an opportunity of dia': cussing publicly before you,the various .iasogi;'r interest in this contest,when,I th nk,Teanprerela' you that the course Ihave pursued as yonrip ok sentative in the past as well as that I prop:NO •' the future, is the proper one for your repreae_` tive; and has been end will be in the beat hi- teiezts of the Prov ree at large- Roping AI will accord me the same generous and haat;: support in the coming election as you did . those whieh have passed, I have the honour be your obedient servant, 586, ARCHIBALD BI5U EXCHANGE SANK Of CANADA. BEAD OFFICE, MON'-FIt1AT.. CAPITAL, - . $1,000, DIBECTO,ESfil. H- Gauli,Persident; Carr orhill,Vice-President; A. W. C;gilvie,M,p E. K. Green, Thome Tirot, AJex.Buntin, Ault Crathern, C. H. Murray, Cashier Geo,B it Inspector. A uranch of this Bank has been opened n Brussels, where a General Banking business be transacted. Notes of hand disconn' Loans effected at fair business rates. A Savings Bank department has also b.* opened in connection with this, where del. will be receive& from one dollar upwards, interest allowed thereon. Drafts issued payable at par at all oleer_ this bank; the bank of Montreal and the 1?e&ue Bank of Canada. FOREIGN AGENTS. London -The Bank, limited_ New York—`National Bank Commerce, Heinier's, McGowan Street. Chicago -Union National Bank. Business hours 1{i to 3, Saturdays, .1.0 to L 563 TORN LEGATE Ilion/ SEED WHEAT, PEAS, BAR 0ts, and all Kinds of f Field, G. den and Flower Seeds. TN returning thanlow to my patrons for e ral support accorded me the past year, pleasure in infomming the public that 1:. considerable expense, carefully selected my ent large stock of seed grains from the liable growers. I can confidently recoMmesrd LOST NATION and WHITE RUSSIAN u: beet spring varieties grown, botbfor c, quality and milling purposes. " My peas alp and to none in the Province for parity and. Barley and Oats of the very best rat Clover an dTimothy Seed, Turnip, Marigolds all other Field and Garden Seeds fresh send 1 always take special care to select seeds and free from all noxious weed seed. A glad to s how ray seeds, and give any int. tion desired by fanners and others: Rest my stand on Hamilton Street, above the borne Hotel. 587 JAMES MoNAIR,'LTodetia : ANCHOR LINE, UNITED STATES MAIL STEAMERS Every Saturday from NEW /OBE GLASGOW (via Londonderry) and LO Direct. _ TICKETS for Liverpool, Londonderry, now, -and all parts of Europe. Fares as log any other !fist -class line. Prepaid Passage Certifiaates.iseued to wishing to bring ottt theirfmiends. The Passenger accommodation .of Anchor Steamers aro unsurpassed for elegeneeand fort, Apply to 583 S. DICKSON, At the Post Office PARTNERSHIP NOTICE. THE undersigned having entered into pit ship, are now preparedto manufacture 'Wagons, Buggies, &a. By using first-class tenial and having all the work coming our own hands, we can guarantee a good Particular attention given to repairing, shoeing and general jobbing, Mr. Barton ing had over thirteen years experience in d ing mill picks, we will make that a spec„ Agents for Watson's Celebrated Agricultural plenients. REID & BARTON, Williamson's old`stand, Godeiich Street, forth. - BUGGIES AND WAGGONS. THOSE sleighs are soldand we have,,, hand a good supply of buggiesand w8, whioh we hatter ourselves aro hard to best in style, material, -workmanship, finish or Call and see them and satisfy yourselves. buggies taken in erobange, and secondhau for sale- Horseshoeing and general jobb tended to promptly,andsatisfactiongnsxan'. no pay demanded. 'Come and get rigs at own rices as we are bound to do a bn 598 JOHN WrT.7,TA fS, Xis R • N. B R E TT, SEAFORTH, Wholesale and Retail Dearer in LEATI SHOE FINDINGS of EveryDascriptl None but the Very Best Stock keP moderate. A Til Solicited. All off: or otherwise promptly Shed. 4pe R. N. Bpi]