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The Clinton New Era, 1890-05-23, Page 2ku: 1@RIP4X, )t ,& •t"a, 1" 9' rte few whispered words. with. hint, At so111,erhi,ng he said John tttarte4 buck las though he were going to fall, but clutched the railing of tbe staircase and I ecpvered himself. He looked so frightfully ill when be rejoined Rush that the latter proposed that they should go home NEW YORK CITY. at once; but John said there was nt,thing the matter with him=he only needed the fresh air out under the trees of the square. "Mortimer seemed to have some- thing unpleasant to tell you," said Rush, as they seated themselves on a pat k bench. "I wish, John, that if you have any business troubles you would confide in me; I might help you." "Thank you, Rush, for your kind offer; but it's nothing --a mere no- thing; just a fluctuation in mining stocks that may hurt us, that's all. To -morrow, for all we can tell, they may look better than ever. It's a worrying business. Take my ad- vice, Rush, and keep out of stocks —particularly mining stocks." John lighted a cigar, puffed it once or twice, and threw it away. Then he sat for several minutes with his hat ot1, engaged in his old trick of pul!iug his hair over his forehead. Jumping to his Leet sud- denly, he took his hrother by the arm. "Come along, Rush; I've kept you up late enough; it tuust be after 1 o'clock. I1! walk down to your lodgings with you." They walked the whole distance in silence, which was broken by John when they reached the door of the house. He took Rush's hand, and holding it tightly, said: "Good night, Rush; pleasant dreams." Then, suddenly, "We've always been good friends, haven't we, Rush? We've never quarreled, have we? Philip and 1 have had little fights once in a while; but you and I, Rush, at ere always good friends. When I die I'll depend upon you to defend me against my enemies; you'll do that, won't you, Rush? You'll see that I have a Ebred of character left just enough to bury me in." "I wish you'd stop talking about dying, John; you'll live to put a monument over all our graves—a big, hearty fellow like you." And Rush tried to laugh; but his bro- ther's manner, even more than his words, impressed him unpleasantly, and he couldn't shake off the im- pression. It hung over him all that night, and all the next day, and long afterwards. CIIAPTER XIX. It was the day before John Hurl - stone's wedding day, and where was the happy bridegroom? Wandering aimlessly around the streets, expect- ing. every moment to he seized by the t olice. They were not on his track, hut he thought they were; and they soon -would be, for his con- nection with the fraudulent Mutual Dividend Mining company was known to them, and they were only waiting for certain proofs to clap the handcuffs on his wrisrs. John felt no temptation to run away:— Mortimer had tried to induce him to Ely with him to Canada, but John seemed to be in a dazed condition, and positively refused to do any- thing. He knew that he had com- mitted a state's prison offense, and that it would not be long before he was made to answer for his crimes; but he did not intend to answer for them in a court of law. He sat in his rooms all day and drank brandy, and thought—not so ruuch of the -future asof the present. Ile thought of Leoni,whom he loved and to whom he wes honestly mar- ried, and of Amy, his expectant bride, eagerly waiting his corning in the little country town not a Hundred miles away. He had not had the courage to tell Amy, and lie had hoped that something would happen before the fatal day; but nothing did happen that could help him in any way. His troubles came thicker and faster, and he saw a felon's cell before him. "After all," be said to himself, "what is the use of fighting against fate? I can soon end the difficulty, and why not do itV' Before he put his thought into execution he was seized with a wild desire to see Leoni. "She is my wife, and I love her — God knows how well --and she loves me. I must see her once more," IIe hurried off to West Tenth street, but only to find that she was not at home. Her mother thought that she ha°d gone to see a member of the corps de ballet, who was Buf- feting from a sprained ankle, and had no idea when she would return. Signora Cella would not have told John even if she bad known, for she was indignant that he had neglected Leoni for so long after having paid such serious court to her. John left the house in a very unhappy state of mind; but he could not bear to tear himself away from a spot hallowed by its associations with Leoni. He walked up and down on the opposite side of the street for an hour, and Signora Cella, who watched him from her window, was touched by the hopeless expression of his face. She was just going to raise the sash and call, him over to wait for Leoni, when ho turned sud- denly and almost ran up the street. His thoughts were tearing so wildly through his brain that he hardly knew what he was doing. A few moments later he found himself at the stage door of the Academy of Music. He atood there a while and watched the groups of chorus singers as they lounged itAREN BY SIEGE ITQ1X OFA YOUNG JOURN- -414IS.T'S EXPERIENCE 7LI A Story From Real Life. CONTINUED. In the meantime, the affairs of the Mutual Dividend Mining com- pany were l:eooming more and more involved, and the nature of the work that Jchn was called upon to perform by Col. Mortimer would not bear the light of day. John was getting more and more reckless. $e drank deeper and played high- er, and didn't seem to care much what became of Lim. Ile only went to see Leoni occasionally, and she—poor girl!—was worried to death about Lite. He told her that luck was against him, and that it always was against him when he tried to do what was right; and that was what he tried to make himself believe. When Rush came back to New York from his visit to Farm - 'aced, John invited him to dine with him at the "Club," and questioned him closely as to the wedding pre- parations. Rush was >eriously alarmed by John's appearance and Juanner. There was a restless, wild look in his eyes, and he start• ed at er,ery strange sound. When Rush asked hint if he was not well he said that he was never better in his life. He ate very little, drank a good deal and talked incesssantly abo`ht Amy and the approaching wedding. "So I am to he married September third, am I?" he said. "Well, I suppose I shad have to give up my bachelor ways and set- tle down as a family man, They're all waiting for the wedding day, you say. Well, it's corning: you can't keep it back. I don't say that any one would keep it back. I only say *hat no one could keep it back. Do have a brandy and soda, Rush; it will do you good. You fellows avho stick to one wine through a dinner are too prudent by half.— Good brandy never hurt any one. Yon are going to be there, Rush. Every one is going to be there. -We'll have a jolly time at the fune- •;ral — I mean the wedding ; but where's the difference? They both •start you into an unknown country. Queer world, eb, brother? Now, tell me something about mother and the girls. J know they are well, but are they happy, Rush?— that's the point; are they happy? You may be bursting with health, but what's health without happiness? • They are happy, are they? I hope they may always he so, Rush; I hope they will never be mado un- - happy on my account; but it -takes so little to make mot:lers and sisters unhappy. They are naturally nerv- • ous—a great deal more nervous than fathers and brothers. Well, Rush, old boy, you can't refuse me • this toast" (rising unsteadily to his feet): "Here's to the dear ones at home, and may they always love us, •Rush, always love us as we—what do I mean?" "As we deserve," suggested Rush. John knit his brows for a second. "More than that, Rush. That might do for you, but it would nev- .er do for me. 'May they always love us, no matter what comes'— that's it, Rush. 'No matter what comes, may our mother and sisters _ always love us.' " Then he sat down and pulled his 1hair over his forehead and said nothing for some moments. Then the broke out again : "Queer things families are, hush. Look at you and me. No one would ever take us for brothers; we are as unlike in feature as we are in character. You know your duty, old fellow, and you do it like a man, I know mine sometimes, God help me, but I can't do it. When I die, Rush, I want you to have Toe ex- amined. You'll find my heart in the right place; but when you ex- amine my head you won't find my moral qualities what they ought to be. Then you'll forgive ane for lots of things, won't you? You'll say, ``Poor fellow! His heart was all right if his will wasn't as strong as •ours; we musn't be too hard on him.' You'll say all this, won't you, hush?' And John leaned across the table and seized his brother's band with a tight grip, and gazed with an ex- pression of intense longing into his face. Rush knew, of course, that he was flushed with wine, and he sup- posed that all this talk was merely the result of his potations. To humor him, and because he really loved him, he replied: "Have no fear on that score, John; we know too well what a warm heart you carry about with you to be hard on you for a mis- step." He supposed his brother alluded bis increasing habit of drinking. "Thank you, old man; thank you more than words can tell. I'm nervous tc-night. You mustn't mind me; another pony of brandy ° will set me all right." And, suit- ing the acting to the word, he drank one down without winking. "Suppose we walk around Mad- ison square," he resumed. "my bead is on fire: these August nights are beautifully cool; perhaps the air will help it." On their way out they met Mor- , timer in the hall. Ile looked dog- ged and . sullen. Seeing John, he beckoned him aside and exchanged Children Cry for 'Pitcher's Castoria. against the Aron trailing and. tallied' ;and.6tometiutes with frimado. 'Whore over , Voir little troubles. He Signora Colla, Leoni and Antonia thought .of Leoni in a confused sort reached the ante -room of John's of way; and then he started off on a • apartment, Leoni said in aloe bask walk for his rooms. Antonia whisper, "Where is her Antonia was out—gone to eat a dish of spag• pointed to the front room. Motion- hetti with a fellow countryman— ing to the others to stay where they and the place was quiet as the grave, were she advanced to the door, and as lonesome. John sat down opened it and entering closed it be - in front of a large picture of Leoni, hind her. The gas was blazing as and gazed longingly at it; then he Antonia had left it, and there on walked over to it and kissed the the floor in front of the mirror she cold glass that covered the bright saw the strong, manly form of her young face. husband, stretched cold and dead. "Al, my darling, if you only threw herself down beside it, and knew what a state of mind your taking the dear dead face in her husband is in you would be here by I hands, kissed the unresponsive lips his side; but, dear girl, you don't and laid her cheek close to his. She know, and it's just as well that you did not weep; she only kissed the don't." - cold face and the lifeless hands, and Then he get up and arenti o his petted them and murmured words bath room and took a bathe, and of passionate endearment. dressed himself in fresh linen, and Signora Cella and Antonia became put on a suit of clothes that Leoni alarmed by her long absence and particularly liked. Walking up to the stillness, and, opening the door, the long mirror that hung between found Leoni stretched by her dead the front windows, be looked at husband's aide, as lifeless and still himself from head to heels. as he. Terror rendered them speech - "Not a bad looking fellow, as fel- less. They both thought she had lows go," he said softly to himself; killed herself on the body of her "it's a pity to kill him. But why husband, but, hoping against hope, not? He's only a cumberer of the Signora Cella put hor hand on the earth. You wouldn't think himr, girl's heart and found that it was such a bad fellow to look at him, beating; she had only fainted. They but ha's a rascal—a born rascal.— laid her on the sofa and brought Ah, there it is; it was born in hits. her to by slow degrees; but she was But where did it come from? His still in a dazed condition. Signora 1 father was the most upright of men Cella deemed it best to get her home —his mother" (bis voice trembled) before the officers of the law took "his mother a saint on earth; yet possession of the place, so she and their son is an outlaw, only out of Antonia led the unresisting girl to jail because he has not been captur- the cab, in which she was driven ed. He is an unhappy wretch, and home, while Antonia went to the has made all his friends unhappy, nearest police station, and gave in - and is going to put tho4inal touch formation of the tragedy. to their unhappiness. Yes, it's got In a short time all was confusion to come, John IIurlstone; there's in the house where John Hurlstone's one way to cut this knot." body lay. The police were perfectly Saying this, he walked over to satisfied that it was a case of sui- his luxurious dressing table, deliber- cide, and the coroner gave his ver- ately opened an upper drawer, took dict to that effect. The address of out a silver and pearl mounted re- the dead man's family was found volver, and, going over to his writ- among his papers, and the next ing table, laid it down beside him. morning a telegram informing them "Poor Leoni! I must write her of what had occurred was dispatched a line before I gc." to Farmsted. He took up his pen and began to write. "Leoni mia,my own darling, my wife, forgive"— The oldest inhabitants of Farm - But he could not write another sted agreed that they had never word, for his eyes were blinded seen a more beautiful day than that with tears that ran down his cheeks which dawned on the 3rd of Sep - and fell in scalding drops upon the tember, 1875. The sun shone with paper. the brilliant light of June, and the "This is unmanly," he said sud leaves of the trees looked as green denly springing to his feet. "Am as though they were just budding. I a woman, that I should give way The birds seemed to know that it like this?" was gala day, and sang in their Then crossing over to the window merriest songs. Nowhere did they he gazed put upon the street. How sing more sweetly than among the strange it looked! It seemed al- branches of the black heart cherry most like a new place to him. But tree that stood guard over the vil- no; there was his landlady's little lage rectory. They must have daughter playing out on the side- known that this was the wedding walk; she looked up and smiled and day of their kind friend, the rector's he kissed his hand to her. The daughter, who fes them every morn - clerk from the drug store on the ing with crumbs of bread. corner walked by, an ordinary, Inside the rectory all'was pleas - commonplace young man, but be unable excitement. The wedding filled John with a strange interest, was to take place at 10 o'clock, and for he was the last man he should the groom was to meet the bride see in this world. He watched him at the altar. The bridesmaids out of sight; then he took the re- spent the night at the house, that volver from the table and stood in they might be with the bride as front of a long mirror again. He long as l,ossible before their final smiled sadly as he caught sight of separation. By half past 9 they his own face. wear all dressed and ready to enter "They call this a coward's act. church. Amy never looked sweet - Perhaps it is; but it takes a little er and prettier than in her pure courage," he said, and, placing the white dress and orange blossoms. muzzle of the revolver close against The bishop of the diocese and Dr. his heart, he pulled the trigger. I3ayliss were in the vestry room, A sharp report, a puff of smoke, putting on their robes. The hands and the body of John IIurlstone of the clock in the tower were fast reeled backwards and fell to the moving around towards the hour, floor. And there, with one arm and the picturesque little church thrown over his head, the other by was filled with eager friends. Tom his side, he lay when Antonia, who Bayliss saw Rush Hurlstone hurry - had spent the evening with his ing around to the vestry room, friends, came home and found him. which the clergymen were just He was cold and still, and the ter- quitting, and, believing that John rifled Italian knew that he was was with him, he gave the signal dead, for the bridal party to move up the —Antonias first impulse when he aisle. The organist played a five - found that his master was dead ly waltz as the procession advanced, was to alarm the house; but he saw a buzz of admiration passed over by the revolver at his side that he the assembled guests and the bride had taken his own life, so he deem- stood before the altar. ed it best to go for his brother, At this moment Rush IIurlstone, who ho know was connected with wild of eye and white of cheek, ap- The Dawn. Locking the door peared inside the chancel railing. carefully behind him, he ran with He whispered a few words to Dr. trembling limbs down into the Bayliss, and the old rector's cheeks street, and, calling a cab, bade the turned as white as his. Without driver go as fast as his horse could a word he stepped outside the run to the office of The Dawn. chancel. ('here he learned that Rush had "Come home with me, my daugh- left the office at 6 o'clock, saying ier," he said, putting his arm around that ho would not return until the Amy and leading her down the next evening. Antonia know no- aisle, while the others came after, thing about the wedding prepare- followed by a murmur of surprise tions at Farmsted, and John had from the wedding guests. not inters dad that he should, for• the The frightened bride could not man knew too much about another find voice to speak. She kne w wedding in which his young mast- something terrible had happened, er had figured as principal. Al- but never for a moment dreamed of most beside himself with terror and the truth. He father led her hack grief, Antonia drove to the Callas' to the rectory, and, taking her into to break the news of the tragedy to his study, said withbroken voice: Leoni. In the dramatic manner of "My child, ask God's help to bear his countrymen he told his talo to a terrible blow. John Hurlstone the horror stricken household. is dead." And the tears ran down Signora Cella wrung her hands his wrinkled cheeks and tell upon and wept. Leoni teemed turned his gown. to stone. When she recovered Amy seemed turned to stone. speech she laid her hand on her Her large blue eyes gazed in speech. mother's arm. less wonderment into her father's "Mother," said she, in Italian, face. He took her cold hands in his. "that dead man is my husband. I "It is true, my dear child—aw- must go to him. Will you go with fully true. Would to God your me?" mother had been spared to comfort So the mother and daughter got you in this great trials" into the cab, and Antonia, mounting Still she did not speak. Her lips the seat with the driver, could not seemed to move, but there was no help thinking of the last time he sound. Dr. Bayliss led her to a had sat on the box with Leoni in- chair. She sat down and stared at side. vacancy. He would have given all It was after midnight when they he owned if he could tave seen reached John Hurlstone's rooms. tears in her eyes; but they were The house was still as the grave. dry as stones, and encircled by The sleepers might have been roused black lines that~ seemed to grow by footsteps on the stairs, but that larger and darker as the moments was nothing, for the second floor went by. John Hurlstone's two lodger was in the habit of coming sisters in the drawing room had to in at all hours, sometimes alone, be told of what had happened, but CHAPTFR XX. Children Cry for f . l,n J., s_. :• Pitcher's7 astoria. he. We* ,afralid to leave Amy alone; , Zi1Qt EE't MQNET 1. MONEYt so he rang the bell and sent for • We can Uiitk gtewgoodloi+nafroinrt'tvlite ;hem to go to him. They canoe their tunes Cr; VIP Mynd tnogerato ez."n @. Torma m d t it b g .oro. � a OQu f) r'ow young faces as white es the dresses M NNINGf 48°4)17' Gunton they wore, and the oldman broke — —'� `— --- the news to them. Their grief was , terrible to see. Amy looked at them with vacant eyes. Thed threw themselves on the floor at her feet, and the tears fell thick and fast upon her wedding dress, but she sat silent, stunned by her sorrow. Rush had told the news to the bishop, and he in turn had broken it to the wedding guests, who left the church with sorrowing hearts. for John Hurlstone was a great favorite in Farmsted. All day long they stood around the streets in little groups, disoussing the strange news, and wondering what on earth could have induced that handsome young man to take his own life. At the homestead the shutters were bowed, and the bereaved mother lay prostrate on her bed, surround- ed by her children. At the rectory they succeeded in getting Amy to her room; but she would not take off her wedding dress. For hours she sat in awful silence, or paced the floor with monotonous tread, her white veil floating about her and the orange blossoms filling the air with perfume. Rush took the first train to New York, to make arrangements for bringing his brother's body home. It was a sad journey. tie thought of the last evening spent with John, and of his wild words, which his death explained. But what did it all mean? What reason had John Hurlstone, of all men, to take his life? Arrived at his brother's rooms, the body was given over to him by the authorities. Then began those heart breaking but necessary details that have to be attended to after a loved one's death; and then the dead man was ready to be removed.— Antonia was left in charge of the rooms, and Rush went away with the body. He had nbt been gone long when, Leoni, accompanied by her mother, came to the place. Her grief at finding her husband's body gone was terrible. In moving about the room she came upon the sheet of paper containing the few words John had written to her. As her eyes scanned the tear stained page she threw herself in her mother's arms and wept for the first time since John's death. Piteous as was her grief, her mother rejoiced in it, for the stony silence of the hours before had filled her with alarm. It was a sad home coming to Farmsted. A few intimate friends met Rusn at the railway staticn and accompained him with his brother's body to the house. There it lay in a coffin in the little old fashioned parlor where many of John's ancestors had lain before, but none after such a death. TO BE CONTINUED. The spooks and goblins that delight To fill with terror all the night; That stalk abroad in hideous dreams With which dyspepsia's fancy teens, Will never trouble with their ills The man who trusts in Pierce's Pills. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pellets; —vegetable, harmless, painless, sure! grottootonal and other (!rardo MANNING & SCOTT, Barristers, Solicitors, CONVEYANCERS, R.C., onnnls.vonnrs for Ontario and Manitoba OFFICE. N1•:xr O. )Da To Ni;w ERA, CLINTON MONEY TO LOAN. MORTGAGES �IYYll Bought. Private Funds. C RIDOUT, Otffce overJ Jackson's Store, Clinton. MARRIAGE LICENSES.— APPLY TO the undersigned at the Library Rooms, JAMES SCOTT, Clinton. MARRIAGE LICENSES ISSUED i4Yh`iii undersigned, at'residouce or drug store. MRS A. 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ULuton Clinton Post Office Time Table Mails are due for delivery and close for despatch at the Clinton Post Office as follows:- - —Cf—.6314 ollowst— _.I—Cl.0a5 I DUB Hamilton, Toronio, Atrai' - - - ford, Seaforth, Grand Trunk east and interme- diate offices 7.00 a.n1. 1.50 p.m Toronto, Stratford, Sea - forth, T. and S. east..., 1,55 p.m, Goderich, Ilolmesville and Grand Trunk west 1 p.m. 8.10 a,m Goderich, 8,45 p.m. 2,40 p.m Hamilton, Toronto, 4,15 p.m. 10.25 a,n1 Londpn, L., If, & B. south a.m. p.nm, a.m. p.n, and intermediate offices 7.00 4.15 10.257.00 Blyth, Wingham, Kincar- dtne,Lucknow, L.,II,&B north and intermediate offices British mails, Monday, Wed- nosda , Thursday Bayfldaeld�, Varna, Herbison, ily Summerhill, Tuesday and, day, 8 a. m a.m. p m. 9.30 6,15• 7.00 a,n1. 2.30 pun. a.m. p.m 8.10 5.00 12.45 p. m. 5.30 p.m. 5.30 p.m Money Orders issued and Deposits received from one dollar upwards. Office hours from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m, Savings Bask and Money Order Office close at 6.30 p.m. THOMAS FAIR, Postmaster, Clinton, April 29, 1889. HURON AND BRUCE Loan & Investment Co'y This Company is Loaning Money or Farm Security at Lowest Rates of interest, MORTGAGES PURCHASEI SAVINGS BANK BRANCH. 3, 4 and 5 per Gent. Interest Allowed on Deposils,according to amount and time left. OFFICE—Corner of Market Square and North 9 IIORACE HORTON. MANAGER. Goderich, August 51h 1890 BIBLES & TESTAMENTS Jar COST The Clinton -Branch Bible Society have for sale at DR WORTHINGTON'S DRUG STORE, AlbertStreot.,a fine aesortmetlt of Bibles and Testaments TESTAMENTS PROM Bata. UPWARDS BIBLES FROM 21kfte UkwARDs. COME AND SEE. DR WORTHINOTON, De• poeftom ra DOe01410A co ai A. O. • 7. W. The Clinton Lodge, No. 144, meet in Jaok- son's Hall on the lat and 3rd Fridays in each month. Visitors cordially invited. R. STONEHAM, M. W. J. BEAN, Recorder. A COOK BOOK FREE Sy mall to any lady ending us her post ark address. Wells(Rlchaedson & Co„ Monireal- OLINTOE MECHANIC'S INSTITUTE, Library and Reading Rooms, Town Hall, down stairs. About 2,000 Volumes i r the Library and all the Leading News papers and Periodicals of the day on tbe table. Membership ticket *1 per annum Open from 2 to 5 p m., and from 7 to 9 p. m. Applications for memberehlp received oy the Librarian in the room. BENMLLLER NURSERY FRUIT AND ORNAMENTAL TREE( NORWAY SPRUCE, SCOTCH AND ASTRACHAN PINE. TB& LATTER Or WUICII WE MAKE A SPECIALTY LARGE STOCK ON HAND, The above ornamental trees and shrubbery wt be sold at very low prices, and those wantiu anything in this connection will save more 'purchasing here. Orders by Mail will be promptly attend ed to. Address, JOHN STEWART, Benmiller. McKillop Mutual Iasurono Co. T: NEILANS, HARLOCK GENERAL AGENT. Isolated town and village property, as wel as farm buildings and stock, insured. Insur- ances effected against stock that may be (tilled by lightning, If you want insurance drop a card to the above address. PAINTING. PAINTING. The undersigned desires to intimate to the people of Clinton and vicinity that he has returned to town, and intends to remain here pe maneutly, and is better prepared than ever to do anything whatever in the painting or paper hanging line. All orders entrusted to him will receive prompt and careful attention. GEORGE POTTS, Kirk St., Clinton. J. C. srEvEsoN, —THE LEADING— UNDERTAKER —A ND— EMBALMER. A FULL LINE OF . GOODS KEPI •ill STOCK The bestEmbalming Fluid used Splendid Hearse. ALBERT ST.,CLINTON, Residence over store. OPPOSITE TOWN HALL FARIJAN & TISDALL BANhERS, CLINTON. ONT Advances tnatle to farmers on their own notes, at low rates of interest. A general Banking Business transacted Interest allowed on deposits. Sale Notes bought J. P. TISDALL, Manager. • I C H LY Rewarded are those who read this and then act ; they will find onorable employment that will not take thorn from their homes and families. The profits are large and sure for every industri- ous person, many have made and are now making several humired dol lars a =Mill It is easy for any person to make $$ per day' and upwards, who is willing to work. Etthe sex,young or old ; capital not needed,we star you. Everything new. No special ability required; you, reader.can do it as well as any one. Write to us at once for full particulars which we mail free. Address Stinson d; Co Portland, Maine. CLINTUIN' Planing Mill —AND— DRY KILN! rJ1HESUBSCRiBER HAVING JUST CO J. PLRrBD and furnished his new Planing M with machinery of the latest Improved patter Is now prepared to attdnd to all orders in hi lino in the -cost prompt and satisfactorym.tnner and at ream ,nabie rates. He would also rater thanks to all who patronized the old m before they were burnod out, and now being Ina bet • ter position to execute orders expeditiously fools oonfldent he can give satisfaction to all. FACTORY—Near the O:andTrun Railway, Clinton. IHOMAS MaKENZIE ROBERT DOWNS, CLINTON !Jam facturer and Proprietor for the hest Saw M1t1 Dog In use. Agent for the sato and application of the ,t3rPIPIIP.R PATENT AUTOMATIC Botnsa CtISANsR, STEAM FITTINGS furnished and applied on shirt notice. Boilers. Engines, and all hinds at Machinery repaired esp..diti4 ri.I3r and in a astiNthetory manner. Farre, implements manufactured andropai Steam and Water Pipes fnrniehe position. • Dry i1;ilns fitted tin €i 5arge moderate ; ,,