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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1885-08-28, Page 2-E• 14.-TIRO.-T1I-EXPOSVIVRI. AUGUST 281 missmemiStimssamitatattaw - INDIAN SUMMER, Midway of the Ponte Vecchio atFlore enee, where three arches beak the line of the little jewellers' booths glittering on either hand, and open an approach to , the parapet, Colville lounged againetthe mier of a., shop and stared Out upon the ` river. •It- was the late afternoon ofa day in January; which had begun bright and Warimbut had suffered a 'cliaiage (Amami is its hours passed, and now from a sky aime reed with flying gray. deeds was threatening rain. There must already have been rain in the mountains, for the yellow torrent that seethed and awirled around the piers of the bridge was swell- ing momently on the wall Of the Lung' Arno, and rolling a threatening flood to- ward the Cascine, where it lost itself tinder the ranks of the poplars that seemed to file across its course and let their delicate tops melt into le pallor of the low horizon. ! ; The city, with the sweep of the Lung' , Arno on either hand, and its domes and towers hung in the dull air,and the coun- try with its, white villas and black a presses breaking the gray stretches , f the olive orchards on• its hill -sides, had alike been growing more and more insufferable; and Colville was finding a sort of vindictive satisfaction in the power to ignore the surrounding frip- pery of landscape and architecture. He ieolated himself so perfectly from it, as he brooded upon thti river, that, for any sensible difference, he might have been standing on the Main Street' Bridge at Des Vaches, Indiana, looking down at the tawny sweep of the -Wabash. He had no love for that stream, nor for : the ambitious town on its batiks but ever: since he woke that morning he had felta grng conviction that he had been a great ass ta leatm them. He had, in feet, taken the ptodigions risk of break - lag his life sharp off from the •course in which it had been set for ,many years, and of attempting to renew it in a direction from which it had long been diverted, Such an act could be precie pit:atm' only by a strong impulse of cau- se:knee, or a profound disgust, and with Colvilkat sprang from disgust. He had eaperieneed a bitter disappointment. in " the city- to whose prosperity he had giVen the energiei of his best years, and ireithose favor he imagined that he had tri' mphantly -established himself. He had certainly made the Des Vaches Deirtocrat-Republipan a very good paper; its ability was recognized thtoaghout the State, aud in Des Vaches people of ' ell parties were proud of it. They liked miery morning to see What Colville said; they believed that in his way he was the artest man in the State, and they w re food of claiming that there was, no • math writer en any of the Indianapolis papers. They forgave some political heresies to the talent they admired, they permitted him the. whim of free trede, they laughed tolerantly when he came eat infa'of civil service reform, and no one had much fault to find 'When • the - Democrat -Republican' bolted the nomination of a certain, politician of its patty for Congress. But When Colville pe Med. Ms own name to be used by th opposing Party, the people arose in • their might and defeated him by a tre- meadous majority. That was what the regular nominee said. It was a wither- ing, rebuke to treason, in the opinion of th* gentleman, it was a good joke,any- way,with the Democratic managers who had taken Colville up, being all in the Republican family, whichever it was, it waila mortification for Colville which his pride could not brook. He stood disgreced before the community notonly as a theorist and untaactical doctrinaire, bun as a dangerous man.; and what was wokse, he could not wholly acquit him- seii of a measure of bad. faith;.his con - mike= troubled him even more than his ; pride. Money was found, and a printer bought up with it to start a paper in op- po ition to the Democrat -Republican. Th n Colville contemptuously offered to sel ont to the Republican committee in charge of the new enterprise, and they acc pted his terms. I In private life he found much of the ' old kindness returning to him; and his successful opponent took the first oppor- • tunity of heaping coals of fire on his head_ in the public street, when .he ap- peared to the outer eye to be shaking hands with Colville. Daring the months that he remained -So close up his a.ffairs, after the sale of this :paper, the Post- Derilocrat-Republicana, (the . newspaper - hadlagglutinated thetitles of two of its predecessors, after the fashion of Ameri- can journals) was fulsome in its; compli- mentary allusions to him. It politely invented the fietion that he was going to Eerape for his health, impaired by his journalistic labors, and adventurously - promised its readers that they might hope to hear from him from time to time in its celarrins. In some of its ally. - to him Colville detected the point of a ;fine ironye of which he had himself intraduced the practice in the Democrat-- Repithlican ; and he experienced, with a seese of personal impoverishment, the curiOus fact that a journalist of strong characteristics leaves the tradition of liiraself in such degree with the, journal hehas created net he seems to bring very little away. . He was obliged to confess in his own heart that the Pap& was as good as ever. The assistantt, who had trained themtelves to write like hire, seemed te bewriting-quite as well, and his honesty would not patina him, to receivel the consolation offered him by the friends who told him that there was a greet falling off in the Post-Demomat- . Republic n. Except that it was rather more Stalwart in its Republicanism, and had tam d d quite rounon the question !",,.. of the tar it was very much what it had Owe been. It kept the old de- ceney of one which he had given it, and it mai t ined the literary.. character width iewas proud of. The new mare: agegUont list have divined that its po- iderity, with the women at least, was argely il e to its careful selections of verse an fiction, its literary news, and its full ncl picmarit criticisnis, with theg Ien exttacts from new boeks. . It was eam time since he had personally looked a ter this department, and the youngfe lemin charge of it under him had. renr Med with the payper. Is con - Untied elceellence, which he coih1 not . havel de ied if he had wished, see ed to leav biri drained and feeble, and it was partIyi frjoin the sense of this that he de - alined tie overtures= well backed u with nio ey, to establish an independent paper in Des •Vaches. He felt that there was not fight enough in hini for the work, even if he had not taken that strong disgust for public life which in- cluded the place and its people. He wanted get away, to get far awa,y,and with the ubrupt and total change in his huinor he reverted to'a period in his 1 when jourualism and politics and t ambition of Congress Were things u dreamed of. _. At that period be Was a very you architect, . with an in.rlinition towa the literary side of lila &derision, Whi Made it seem profitable to linger, wi his Raskin in: his hand, among the mas erpieces of Italian Gothic, when perha he Might have been better employed. designing red -roofed, "mank-verandae consciously -mullioned sea -side cot -tag on the New England toast He wrot magazine paper on the zoology of t Lombardia pillars in Verona, very Ru kinian, very scornful of modern motiv He visited every part -of the peninsul but he gave the greater part of his tim to North Italy, and in Venice he m the young girl' whom he followed Florence. Hie love did not prosPe when she went -away she 'left him possession of that treasure to a man his temperament, a broken heart. Fro that time his vague dreams began lift, and to let him live in the clear lig of common day-: but he was still linge 111-'14 at Florence, ignorant of the goo which had befallen him, and cowerin within himself under the sting of woun ed vanity,' when he received a lette from his . elder brother Suggesting th he should come and see how he liked th architecture Of Des Yaches. His broth hadbeen seven yearsatDes V&A -es, whee he had lands,and a leadmine'and aschem for a railroad, and. had lately added daily newspaper to his other enterprises He had, iii fact, added two newspapers for having unexpectedly and 'almost in voluntarily become the owner of th Des Vaches Republican, the fancy o building up a great local journal . seize him, and he bought the Wabash Vale Democrat, uniting them under the nam of the Democrat -Republican. But h had trouble almost from the first wit his editors, and he naturally thought o the brother with a turn for writing wh had been running to waste for the las year or two in Europe.- Ilia real purpos was to work Colville into the manage ment of his. pa-aer -when he invited him t conie out and look at the architecture o Des Vaches. - • Colville went, because he was at the moment in the humor to go anywhere and because his, money was hinning low and he must begin work somehow.: H was still romantic enough to like the no tion of the place a little because it bot the mune given to it by the old Frenc voyageurs from a herd Of buffalo cow which they had seen ,grazing on the sit of their camp there; but when he cam to the place itself he did not like it. II hated it; but he staid, and as an archi teet was the last thing any oee wanted in Des Vaches, since the jail and court , house had been built, he became, hal without his willing it, st, newspaperman. He learned in 'time to the Manor ous intimacy of the life about him, and when it was cledided that. he wan no: fool —there were doubts, growing oht of his 1 Eastern accent and the work 1)f his New York tailor, at first—he -fou d ;himself the objeet of a pleasing popularity. t In due time he bought his brother out ; he becarae very fond of newspaper life, its constant excitements and its .endless variety; and six weeks . before he sold his paper he would .have scoffed at a 'prophecy of his return to Europe for the - resumption of any artistio purpose what- ever. But here he was, lounging on the Ponte Vecchio: at Florence, whither he had come with. the intuition of rubbing up his ,formere Studies, and of perhaps getting back to put them in practice at New York ultimately, He had said to himself before: corning abroad that he was in no hurry; that he should take it very easily—he had money enough for that; yet he would keep architecture before him as an object, for he had lived long in a community 'where every one was intensely occupied; and he uncon- sciously paid to Des Vaches the tribute of feeling that an objectless life was dis-. graceful to a man. In the meantime he saffered keenly and at every moment the loss of the oc- cupation of whieh he had bereaved hiin- self : in thinking of quite other things, in talk of totally different matters, from thedreams of night, he woke with a start to the realization of the fact- that he had no longer a newspapet. He per- ceived now, as never before, that for fif- teen years almoet every Meath of his life had been drawn with reference to his paper, and that without it he was in some sort lost anlii.aa it were -extinct. A tide of ridiculous homesickness, Which was an expressioie of this _passim:tate re- gret for the life tie had put behind him,, and the first pasSages of a letterto the Post-Demeetat-Republican began to shape themselves in his mind. He had always, •when he left home for w York or Washington, or for hi ew weeks of summer vacation on the Cana- dian rivers -or the New England, Coast, written beck to his readers, in whom he knew be could count upon quick sym- pathy in all he saw' and felt, and ,he now found himself addieseingtheni with that fraek familiarity which comes to the journalist, in minor comamnities, from the habit of print. He began by con- feseing to them the defeat of -certain ex- pectations with which he had returned to Florence, and told them that they must not look for anythinglike the ordi- nary letters of travel from him. But he; was not so singular in his attitude to- ward the place as he supposed; for any tourist who comes to Florepce with the old-fashioned expectation of impressions will probably suffer i disappointment, unless he arrives very .young and for the first time. •It ie a city .superficially so well known that it affects one somewhat like a collection of views of itself : they are from the most' striking points, of course, but one has examined them be- fore, and is disposed to be critical, of them. Certain emotions,- certainsensa- tions, failed. to repeat themselves to Col- ville at sight of the familiar Monuments which f,i, eeme a to wear a hardy and in- different air, as if being stared at so malty years • by so many thousands of travellers had extinguished in them that sensibility whiclrone likes to fancy' in objects of interest everywhere. , The life which was as vivid all about ' hint as if caught by the latest instanta- neous process made the same compare- c tively ineffective appeal. The operatic spectacle was still there. The people, with their cloaks statuesquely draped a over their left shoulders, atoned down I the street; or posed in vettementdialogue a on. the sidewalks ; the drama of bargain- n ing, with 'the customer's seorenthe shop- s man's pathos, came' throagli the open h shop door' ,. the handsome, heavy eyed s ladies, the bare -headed girls, thronged n the ways; the caffes were full of the t well -remembered figures 1 over their newspapers and little cape ; the offiders h — I =1 s were as splendid aft old, with their long cigars in their mouths, their swordss kicking against their beautiful lep, and their ' spurs jingling; the dandies with their little dogs and their flower-like ' smiles, wer still in front of the confectioners' or the inspec- tion of the ladies who passed; the old beggar still crouched over her scaldin9 at the church door, and the ;young man with one 17, whom he thought to escape by welkin .fast, had timed him to a second &mill the other side of. the street. There was the wOnted warmth in the sunny squares, and the old familiar damp and !tench in the deep, narrow streets. But some charm had gone out of these thifigs. The artisans coming to the doors of their skrallow booths for the light on some bit of carpentering,or cob- bling, or tinkering; the crowds swarm- ing through the middle of the streets on , perfect terms with the wine carts and cab horses ; the ineffective -grandiosity of the palaces -huddled upon the crooked thoroughfares; the slight but insinuat- ing cold of the southern winter, gather- ing in the shade and dispersing in the sun, and denied everywhere by the pro- fusion of fruit and fiow_ers, and by the greeneey of gardens showing thrOugh the grated portals and overthe tops of high -walls ; the groups of idle poor perma- nently or teMperarily propped against the bases of edifices with a southern ex- posure i the _priests and monks and nuns in their gliding passage; the impassion- ed snapping i of the cabmen's whips; the clangor of bells that at some hours inun- dated the city, and then suddenly sub- sided andleft it to the banging of cop- -persmiths ; the open-air, frying of cakes, with its priMitive smell of burning fat; the tramp of soldiery, and the fanfare of bugles blown to gay measures—these and a hundred other characteristic traits and facts still found a response in the con- sciousness where they were once a rap- ture of r.o-V-elty ; but the response was faint anithin ; he could not warm over the old mood in which he (once treasured them all away as of equal preciousness. Of course ' there was a pleasure in recognizing some .details of former ex- perience in Florence as they recurred. Colville had.been met at once by afesta, when nothing eould• be done, and he wai-„, more than consoled by the caressing sympathy with which he was. assured that his broken trunk could not be mended till the day after to -morrow; he had quite foimeaten about the festas and the sympathy. That night the piazza on which he lodged seemed full of snow to the casuallglaace he gave it; then he • saw that it was the white Italian moon- light, which he had. also forgotten. Colville -had r ached this point in that sarcastic study' if his own condition of mind for the aeleatitage of his late read- ers in the Cst.DemocrattItepublicaa, whea- he was evSareef a polite rustling of draperies, with an ensuing well-bred murmurs which at -once ignored him, demoted intrusion upon him, and es .serted a common right to the prospect on which he .had been dwelling alone. Ile looked round with an instinctive ex- pectation of style and poise, in which he was not disappointed. The lady, with a gracefal hf :of ':the head and a very erect carriag',almost Bernhardtesque in the backw td fling of her shoulders and the strictcompression of her elbows to her side,was pointing out the different bridges to the little girl who was with her. 'That firskone is the Santa Trinita, and the next is the Carra,ja,, and that 1 one quite - down by the Canine is the iron bridge.. The Cascine, you remem- ber—the park where we were driving— that clump ofLwoode there--" A vaguenes expressive Of divided in - tercet had. c ept into the lady's tone rather than hr words. Colville could feel that she its waiting for the right moment to tufo her delicate head „sculp- turesquely - defined by its toque, and steal an. impeeceptible glance fit him.; and he involuntarily afforded her the coveted excuSe. by the slight noise he made in .changing hts position in order to be able to go away as soon as be had seen whether she was pretty or not. At forty-one this question is still iznportant to every man with regard ft) every woman. "Mr. Colville l'' . The`gentle :isitrnrise conveyed i i the exchorration, -Without time for re ra,e-ni- tion, cerivinced Colville, upon, a co 1 re- view Of the facts, that the 18,d had known him before their eyes met. - "Why, Mrs. Bowen !" he said. She put out her round, slender arm, and gave him a frank clasp of her g oved hand. The glove wrinkledrichly p the sleeve of her dress half way to her 6 bow: She bent on his face a demand for just ; what q ality and degree of change he• found i hers, and apparently' she satis- fied he self that .his inspection was nob to herdisadeantage, for -she smiled brightly, , and devoted the rest of her glance to an -eleetric summary of the • facts of Colville's physiognomy : the sufficiently good. loutline of his visage, with it a full, rather close -cut drabbish- - brown heard and miistache, both shaped a little by the ironical self-conscious smile that lurked under them ; the eon; committal, rather weary looking eyes,• the brown hair, slightly frosted., that showed while he stood with his hat still off. He was a little above. the middle height, and if it imust 'be confessed; neither, his face nor his figure had quite preserved theiryouthfullines. They were both much heavier than when Mrs. Bowen saw them last, and the latter' here and there Swayed beyond the strict hounds of symmetry. She was herself in thatmoment of life when, to themide dle-aged observer, at least, a woman's looks have a charm whicleis wanting to her earlier blodm.: By that time her character haawtought itself more clear- ly out in her 'face,' and her heart and mind confront ybu more directly there. It is the youth of her spirit which has come to the surface. "I should have known you anywhere,". she exclaimed, With friendly pleasure in seeing him. . "You are, very kind," said Colville. ' I didn't know that I had preserved my youthful.beauty to that degree. But I an imagine it --if you say so, Mrs. Bowen." , . ' " Oh, I assuret you that you havet!" * he protested; and•now she began gent - y to pursue him; with one fine question fter another about himself, till she had iastered- the main facts of his history ince they had last met. He would not ave known so well how to possess him - elf of hers, even if he had felt the same ecessity ; but in fact it had happened hat he had heard of her from time' to time at not very long intervals. She ad married a leading lawyer of her - 1 Western city, who in due time had gone to Congress, and after his terni was out, had "taken up his residence" in Wash- ington, as theneu ipapers said, "in his elegant mansion. at the corner of & Street and Itlaho'Avenue."1 After that he remembered reading that Mrs. Bowen was going abroad for the education of her daughter, fro) i which he made his own itiferenees coneerning her marriage. And "You knew Mr. Bowen was no longer living ?" She said, with fit obsequy yYes, 0 es , . if tin ie.knew,' , be answered, with decent sympathy. I (To Be Continued.) REAL EST TE FOR SALE. TT OUSE FOR SA E.—For sale, cheap, the ill house on Goder ch-Streeteat present mon- ied by Mrs. P. Logan, There are! in all clever, rooms besides pantrie and elosets, together with , hard and soft water. The house rests 'on stone oundation and has a sple'ndid cellar. There re two lots nicely pl ted with fruit and orna- nental trees. It is o e of the most comfortable, ommodious and: ple antler situated residenees n town. Apply to WM. LOGAN, Seaforth. 909tf ARM FOR:SALE. Coneessiori 2, pg 50 acres, 45 erwhi tate of cultivation, ells, 2 frame *barns, en, log house with fr rohard. Two miles di ensall,one-half mile o.1 neighborhoodean aeasoriable terms. . A S. PHILLIPS or Hen For sale North -half Lot township of Hay, contain - h are cleared and in a fair ell' underdrained, 2 good also drive house and pig me addition, good bearing tent from either Kippen oar row sohool,this lot is in a will besold cheap and on ply on the premises to B. 11P. O. 91651 ARM FOR SALE. LI sion 5,MeKillop, y all cleared, well fen In a first-class state o stone house, bank.b `mildings all in first - orchard of bearing tre runs thrbugh a corner no waste land. It is kook orgrainaand is town of Seaforth on cin the premi UGH J. GRIEVE. For sale, Lot 25, Conces- ontaining 100 ecres, near- ed and underdrained, and cultivation. There is a rn• and other necessary lass condition. Also an s, and the river Maitland of the farm Net there is first-class farm either for within two miles of the he northern gravel road. s or tol Seaforth P. O. I" 911-tf TJI0It SLE.—For sa e in the thriving village of ,Flensall at a g eat bargain, that valuable roperty situated on . he west aide of Brooks treet,' et:insisting of a ood new frame dwelling 8x26 feet; and well Walled throughout, with good well and stable n the premises. -Reason' for selling is that the u dersigned intendsleaving the village about the e idol the year. Peesession can be peen at any time within a weeks notice. Terms of Sale.—Very liberal. Tor full particu- lars applY to D. MON -BRAY., Mason and Con- tractor, Hensall P. 0. 905 Concesslon.8, Tu OOD FARM FOR acres, abut 80 of whi stumps, i4iderdrained, tion and well fenced. log housd and a large underneath. Also a y well. The land is all d It is conveniently s •Kippen stations, with to each place. For fu the Proprietor, Egmor the Egmondville mill *prietor. ALE.—For sale, Lot -1, kersmith, containing 100 *h are cleared, free from in a high etate of cultiva- There is a comfortable ank barn with stabling ung mimed and good y and of the best quality. tuated to - Seaforth and ood graver 'roads leading • her particulars address ville P. 0., or apply at L JAMES KYLE, Pro- 904-tf . . "L1ARMS FOR SALE OR TO RENT—The sub- . ,U scriber offers for sale or to rent Lots 19 and 20, let concession of Tuckersmitt , consisting of 100 acres each, about a mile wet of Seaferth. Good frame house on one farm, , vith orchards, - barns, andlusual outbu ldings on both. Will be rented or Sold in block, hut not 'separately. If put -Chaser may pay obe-thirclelown, and the ifa.M lance can remain on mortgage. WILLIA OWLER. . 873 i ARM FOR SALE IN TI -IEE TOWNSHIPa OF . , TUCKERSMITIL—For sale in the township Tuckersmith, county of Hurn,being 'Lot 36, oncession 2, L. R. S., dontaining 100 acres, 90 res cleared; the remainder in bush. The -ferns le well fenced, with a god orchard, a good one and a half story -brick "ibuse with: a Mate roof, ie'wo frame -barns and sh,ed, and good wells. The f tin is of firstaclasi soil. It is two miles from rucefield station, six f rim eClinton and six from aforth, a...good gravel roasl leading to each -place. Apply on the preahises to JAS. WALKER, or DAVID WALKER, Mill Road, or to Bruce- fi id P. 0. . 904-tf ARM IN GREY FOR,SALE.—For sale cheap, Lot 4; Coneesaion 17, Grey, containing 100 •acres, about 70 acres- cleared, free from stumps, e ell _fenced 'alai in a h gh state of cultivation; the balance is well timbered, there being seven acres of bla k asli and 'cedar. :There is a good orchard anc splendid spring water. It is situa- ted within one mile of the 'flourishing village of Walton, wherathere are churches, school, stores, mill, cheese factory, &e " It isawithin six miles of Brussels and a good gravel road running .past the place. A7good new frame house and that - class outbuildings. Th's farm will be sold on _ reasonable terms, as thesproprietor wants to get more land. Apply on the premiees or to Walton P. 0. THOS. adcFADZEAN. • *913 GOOD GRAIN AND dRA2ING \FARM 'FOR SALE.—For sale, being Lot 2, Concession 13, Hullett, containing 160 acres, 130 of which are cleared; balance well timbered' with hard- wood. Superior soil, .well underdrained, and workable -with any in hinery, 28 aeres seeded for stock. Good bearin Orchard and three wells • aj to grass. - A never fa ling spring creek runs through the back end. 'here are two log houses, frame barn, large shed rid comfortable housing Six and one-half miles ftdm Blyth, 10 tram Sea forth, and a like distaz ce from Brussels. • One mile from school and. pestoffice. Churches con- venient. Terms . easy. Apply to J, ALLAR- DYCEaHarlock P. 0. 89951 SPLENDID FARM IN illtUCE FOR SALE.— For Sale, Lot 30, Ci neession da township of Bruce, containing 104 as res, of which abut 30 acres are eleared,.fence and free from stumps, the balance is timbered- sincipally with splendid hardwood and a little einlock fencing. There are frame bnildin an is never failing spring creek running thro gh e place. It is within 6 miles of the 'flouris ing town of Paisley and an equal distance fronj tine erwOod; There is a good school opposite the plac , and it is in a splendid settlement. Ther As- a good clay bank for bricks or tile, whicli is a orth one fourth of what is asked for the farin. his is a splendid farm and will be sold ve y eh ap. Apply to box 24, Sco,forth E O. . ' 877 TWO HUNDRE I AC E FARM FOR SALE. —For sale Lo 84 a d 6, in the 95h Conces- sion of Tuckersmit , co kilning 200 acres, about '140 of which are °lea ed, free from stumps, underdrained, wel fend d and in a good state of Cultivation. The ialari e is well timbered with hardwood, except few c •es of splendid Black Ash. , There is a lo houae. and good beads barn. Two orchards and two giood wells'. There are about 40 acres seed d to 'sass: It is within five miles of Seaforth, = ndsame distance from Hensali, witha gi .d gr., • 1 road leading to each place and is &nivel ient o sehools. It is a splen- did farm and will ue soli on easy terms. It not sold it will be rented. ply to the undersigned, Egmondville, or dress Seatorth P. 0. . 913 UNCAN McMILLAN. TIARA{ IN STEPHEN FbR SALE.—For sale _I! Lots 4 and 6 4nd pa ,of 3, Lake Road East, Stephen' , containing- 282 .aCreti, mostly all clear- ed, goodbuildings and a updancesaf good spring water. This farmj is in stly clay loam and is good either for g sing il oropping. There is also a young orch rd-. I is within 12 miles of Park Hill. The atjove wi 1 be sold in o e block or separately to"sujit pu h ser. It is all in one block except a snuill part on the opposile side of the concession. I not sod it wili be rented. There are churche and schools convenient and on the farm will b sold with the land if suitable. 1 good reads leadin to market. Apply to the un- dersigned, Blake . 0. JOHN REITH. 899t1. N. B,—A large took of *ell bred cattle now 899tf VALUABLE F1111 ' FOR SALE. ---The sub- scriber offers for sa e his farm of 100 acres, being South East halt of Lot 37, Concession 8, East Wawanosh ; ibout 65 acres arecleared and free from stumps, 'the halftime is, well timbered with hardwood, heinlock Mid- cedar. The farm is in a high state of eultivition. It is situated one and three-quarter miles from Belgrave 7 miles from Winghlun, 8 miles from Blyth. 'is within one-quarter, mile froM school. There are on the premises a good frame house and frame barn and stabling, a young bearing orchard, a never failing well, andcreek running through the back part pi the WM. -Thls property will be sold cheap. For further Particulars apply on the premises, or to GEORGE A. TYNER, Bel - grave P. 0., East Wawanosh • 894 , e— GREAT BARGAIN HO a • Receive,d per steamer Csalpian, State of Pennsylvania and Parisiaii and open- : 1 ed up for inspection, our British riaid Foreign importations of Staple a • Dry doods, comprising Dress Goods, Prints, Linens, Cretonnes, Glove, Satins (in great variety) Muslins, &c. English Coatinge Scotch Twee Ca tains, Carpets in Hemp, Unions, All -Wool, Tapestry, Brussels and . OiI loths, &c.,the whole of which we have determined to sell at the . • po . ible advance , on cost. See our 47 inch Black and Colored Cash-iner ani 60c per yard. Examine our Print, 13 y rds for $1; hold up to the 1 I • Ilc and 15c 'Dress Goods. ct Fancy ks and Is, Lace elvet raallest s at 58c ht our Suits made to order. Ready-made Clothing in all sizes—Mens', -Yours' and 4 , Boys', prices and quality guaranteed right Hats, Hats, Hats in great variety and every style. W 0 OLJ WOCDT.4 ! "ccrOOLi ! I Wool, Butter and Eggs, taken in exchange for Goods, and the highest market price 'JAMES PICKARD, OF THE RED FLA iliP13ELL'S BLOC MAIN STREET, SEAFORTH. Direct Importations —nom— LONDON, ENGLAND, Turkey Sponges For the Toilet and Nurse. Tooners Celebrate • TOOIH 134USHES. Soli d Back apanned HAIR BRUSHES, Made of a solid blook of wood, -cheaper and better than ordinary makes, light and elegant ; the back (lees not split nor warp, and the bristles eannot come out. For sale by - J. S. Roberts, APOTHECARIES' HALL, Cardno's Block, Main Street, Senforth, FARMERS' BANKING HOUSE coo Rowed. BANK -El -18- ex - BOOKERS, SEAFORTLI, - - ONT. Go to a W. PAPST R FINE ART WALL PAP - • FROM; THE CHEAP BROWN BLANKS TO THE FINEST - a and Plush Papers, Ceiling Pannellings,. Dado Decorations. Window Shades —Decorated and Plain— , in Paper and Cloth. 1. Window 'Fixtures, Prices in Carpet Felt, all Lines. Call Baby Carriages. and See Them. OW 0 W. PAPST, Bookseller land Stationers MAIN STREET, 8E1AFORTH. , WALL' WALL WALL WALL WALL WALL WALL WALL WALL WALL WALL WALL Borders and WINDOW WINDOW WINDOW AMERICAN' ENGLISH' CANADiAN GILT PkPERS. , PAPERS. PAPERS. PAPERS. PAPERS. PAPERS. PAPERS-. PAPERS. PAPERS. PAPERS., PAPgRS. PAPERS. Ceiling; Decorations in gre variety. BLINDS. BLINDS. BLINDS.' AT ROCK BOTTOM PRICES, AT Lumsden & Wilson'sJ Main-st., Seafort Office—First Door NORTH of Commercial Hotel. Notes discounted, and a general banking btisi- ness done. Remittence to and collections made -in Mani- toba. Business done' through Bank of Montreal. ; A limited amount of money received onalepo.sita Money to leann on real estate at best rates. S. C. M'CAUSHEY, WM. LOCAIL P. S.—S. G. McCaughey will attend to CO- veyance in all its branches, lending money on real estate, buying and selling farms, houses, ke. Seaforth. Restaurant Stili ,Ahead of All! M R. S -M I T H Begs to state that sinee his last advertisement, he has been again compelled to increase his already commodious fee Cream and Oyster Par- lors. Call and see thern, the coolest place is town. Luxuriantly fitted up; separate parlors for families. lee Creaisr, Oriental Fruits, Do- mestic Vegetables, Tobaccos, Cigars, &c. -Oysters in season. As I am doing a- large trade this season; and can hardly satisfy myaniany customers, I will still endeavor to keep to niy old motto, "satis- faction to all." Pic-nic paa•ties or others wis-hing Ite Cream in bulk can be supplied on reasonable terms, and with THE 02CLY first-class Ice Cream in tows. Remember the place, net door to Reid & son's herdware store, Main Street, Seaforth. H. L. SMITH, Proprietor. PUBLIC NOTICE. DISSOLUTION OF PIRTNERSHIE—Notice is hereby given that the partnership hert- tofore existing between !us the undersigned as' Blacksmiths and BOW Manufacturers, in the town of Seaforth, the style and firm of Munro &Hogarawas this day dise.olvedby Mutual consent. Dated this 18th day of April, A. D. 1885. Witness, J. M. BEST, Barrister, &e. Sea- foTrtihie..un. dersig*ped begs to inform the euttomers MALCOLM MUNRO. DENIS HOGAN. • of the late firm and the. public in generalathat he will continue the business of Blacksmith and Plow Manufacturer in the old stand, lately oe- =pied by Munro & Hogan. He a•ishes to ac- knowledge with thanks the liberal patronage of his numerous customerin the past, and trusts with care, attention and first -class work, . to merit the continuance of such patronage in the future. Horse shoeing a specialty. D. HOGAN. N. B.—All accounts due the late firm must be settled at once. tO8 10E1 10E1 10E1 For Everybod. The Subscriber begs to inform the people of Seaforth and vicinity that he has stored a large quantity of ice an4i is now prepared to deliver it daily in any quantity desired. For terms and particulars apply to MRS. JOHN KIDD, C. WHITNEY, WHITNEY, R. COMMON, DEALER IN ICE AND WOOD, ais-4 SEAFORTH PLANING MILL SASH, DOOR AND BLIND FACTORY MHE subscriber begs leave to thank his puma- s" ous customers for the liberal patronage ex- tended to him since consineneing 'business is Seaforth, and trusts that he may be favored with a continuance of the same., Parties intending to build would do well to give him a call, as he will -continue to keep on hand large stock of all kinds of DRY PINE LUMBER, SASHES, DOORS, BLINDS & MOULDINGS, SHINGLES, LA'ittl, &a. " He feels confident ef giving satisfaction to those who may favor him with their patronage, as none but that -class workmen are employed. meticular attention paid to Custom Planing. 201 JOHN II. 'BROADFOOT: ST. JAMES' HOT' s!` TORONTO: SHARP & BRIGHAM' ,(Fornterlw of Shafp'sHotel,Seaforad PROPRIETORS. nims Hotel, which iseituated4ireet1y4posite j, the Union Station, has recently been refitted and refurnished throughout, and is now one the best and most comfortable hotels in the City. chierargli'meryociperaostseib.le attention paid to guest. sad R. L. SHARP, t p‘e• • 845 . JNO. BRIGHAM, j AUGUST 28 • Cheap, but Mealy yeatra ago, wh M. Charlton; oi eiat-a.0 quite B, yoting Map, he his father, Hon. th P. every summer in, the of Clarksville, in Nom One day Mien the street in Clarksvil ing to he election Congress were then el called the general ti met by a verdant bit the mountain, who ae 41 Mr. Charlton, is 3 is running for Congr ,‘ No, ir ; 1 am father is, hewever. this inquiry ?" .only 1 h If it is consi,itent then I would like it if for my father,. "1 would just as so for anybody." , Mr, Charlton thank ing perhaps his frie treat, invited him taiern. "What will you "1 never drink they have ginger ea one of them with you " Very weir taVe 4'4 My brother is in ti All tight. Take _ray respects." Another cake was p Lor and the two "Greiney'" to find h Charlton. to join in with his yering friend. The golden bourn eased rapidlytaway Bis friend was soon f the evening there wt dance, and our much to the surprise • into the parlor and Charlton. • Of curse all eyes w friend as he a.pproac Taking a four -by -six bosone, he said - "Mr. Charlton, brotter voted. afore - Both in this says the " Electrical moat of ballet girls light has added mina Hance and attraethmx fonnances. Accordin the " New York l'hn carried out to an ext even by Mr. Edison. fiarin.a.tion of the Elee 'Company is an event ance only to the in This-compan ply girls of fifty- inquantities to The girls are to ed by the tont ers will be permt the company's style of girl may pi very beautiful desig girl is now en exhi patty's office, 409 present systeta of lig of a dwellirtg-house -bilge-that the light — light or an electric burning all the eve vant BMA be empl belt, Thus there IS a A the' eost of the tight a servant. The Elee ;Company will furnish fifty or a, hundred - will be on duty from , —Or as much later as \\Zhe eleetric ligbtivg euded as being far conveitieriere to m - and students' lamps. - A Herm A *writer in the Monthly" tells ofeth opium habit forced u by 'aceident or des undergraduate in who had become dermic use of morphi hir father, who was bming interest, into t of Maine, hoping th months with the w he able to tight out th abandonment au strange fatality, just arrived at their were transporting .stream, the ease of m by an apparent amid scattered into the wa haggard young man ment, comprehend th tude of the calamity 200 miles from the He survived the terri words eotiM exp tortures and agony passed during the He was elosely watch would have drown beaten his brains Months aftetward h world a skeleton, from his terrible experience to whie afterward refer witho ful eneotione. Not t* point in this veritable •that the young man his father had pu a• ,te.atresealle for _th matters to a, speed usual treatment df th eians at this day anyt is much better than t method. The Richest United Stat me= A eorrespondent of Stock Record says.: evaman hereabouts is who caused the fail & Co. Mrs. thman iar person in firma probably the riches having some 840,000 but the is as mean as never, spends more th for the support of her An acquaintanai of same boom with Mrs, itt the city, and he se- xless passed belief; ly ainounted to a di she had read her MO she alwa.ys did beti son, the i a boy 10 o in front of the house Passers-by. Them i mean orcontemptild ut into practice.