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The Huron News-Record, 1892-01-27, Page 6• NEW VALENCIA, SULTANA, LONDON L4IYER$ AND YBLK. BASKET RAISINS. NEW SEASON'S CURRANTS, CANDIED. PEEIB- APION, ORANGE AND CITRON ; ESSENCES„ EXTRACTS, SPICES, ORANGES, . FIGS, DATES. AEI- CANDIES CHEAP. •0^-_— ' —T1\1'" . TZ.A.S- I have excellent value in highest grades of BLACK TEAS, FORMOS OOLONGS, DIONING CONGOUS, .PACKLING, half chest and caddies. TRBLENDOUR OF YPUDE INDIA AND CEYLON TEAS, put up in one pound packages at 60 cents per lb. 1 Be,»t value in PACKAGE TEAS in the market. 0 Extra Value in Crockery, China and Glassware. CIIINA TEA AND TOILET SETS, CHEAP. We offer Special Induoements during the Holiday Trade to Dash Purchasers. 0 ertY 0•i xN to Rhetmatism, BEING due to the presence of -uric acid in the blood, is most effectually cured by the use of Ayer's Sarsapa- rilla. Be sure you get Ayer's and no other, and take it till the poisonous acid is thoroughly expelled from the system. We challenge attention to this testimony : — "About two years ago, after suffering for nearly two years from rheumatic gout, being able to walk only with great discomfort, and having tried various, remedies, including mineral waters, without relief, I saw- by an advertise- ment in a Chicago paper that a man had been relieved of this distressing com- plaint, after longsuffering, by taking Ayer's Sarsaparila. I then decided to make a trial of this medicine, and took it regularly for eight months, and am pleased to state that it has effected a complete cure. I have since had no re- turn of the disease."—Mrs. R. Irving Dodge, 110 West 125th st., Now York. inflammae tory ear arhetmat rheI was umatism, conen ill - fined to my house six months. I came out of the sickness very much debili- tated, with no appetite, and my system disordered in every way. I commenced using Ayer's Sarsaparilla and began to improve aT once.i gaining in Wtrength and soon recoverinqg_ y usual health. I cannot say too much r ise of this well-known medicine." — L. A. Stark, Nashua, N. H. Ayers Sarsaparilla, PREPARED BY Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass. Price $1; six bottles, $5. Worth $5 a bottle. ..111101112.1. The Huron News -Record $1.50 a Feet—U.25in Advance. unploasaut. Ho stood still in the middle of the floor, looking at me. Presently I said, 'Whence art thou? What dost thou require?' " "And what did he say ?" cried the bishop, fixing his eyes upon tho odd expression of the lawyer's face. "He said"—replied the lawyer, speaking in a hoarse whisper—"he said : 'I beg yer pardon, sur. I'm the watchman of the street, sur; au' I thought 'twould •be bast for me, sur, to come -up an' tell yer that yer front door stood open I If yo do be lavin' it that way, sur, it's bad luck ye'Il have before the morn- i n' I' „ AN ERROR IN A TELEGRAM. TELEGRAPI-I COMPANIES CANNOT FREE THEMSELVES FROM RE- SPONSIBILITY. The Montreal Court of Appeal rendered judgment; in the case ofothe Great, Nertti ' teetern Tele• graph Co-, and. .B. La.etrence & Co. This was an action for $200 damages taken by respondent on account of un error in the transmission off a despatch sent him by his clerk here while he was in New York. The despatch ended with the words "writing to•night." but it was trans- mitted as reading "waiting to -night." The result was that Mr. Laurence left his New York busines and at once carne back. Hence the pre-, sant action in which the Court be- low granted $30 datnages, being the actual cost of the journey. In Wednesday Jan. 27th, 18 92. rendering the judgment of the Court in Appeal, Chief Justice Lacoste remarked that although a very „small amount was at stake, the, dace waif of consiilerahle importance as establishing the, extent of the company's reaponsibility. Could the appellant be taxed with negli• genes in this instance? One letter "I have become thoroughly con- only was changed, the letter "a" vincod," said the Lawyer, "of the being used instead of the letter "r." existence of nocturnal apparitions, After• a personal inspection of the for I have seen one I" despatch referred to the Court Dame to the conclusion that the latter r was distinctly formed, and if the proper diligence to which the public aro entitled had been exercised, the - error would not have taken place, Consequently, on tho question of fact there was negligence. Now, on the question of law, the company defendant plod that when sending the despatch plaintiff's clerk signed a form stating that the company would not be responsible, even if there was negligence on their part, for any damage over and above the Price paid for sending the telegram,ra m , exccpt.-howove , if tho-dosls4trli was repeated, but even in the latter case the company's liability was not to exceed fifty times the price of the despatch. The conditions on the form and the signature were ad- mitted, and the only question now to decide was whether the Tele• graph Company could stipulate for itself immunity from its own faults. The Code provides that a contract cannot bo based upon an illicit and immoral consideration. Now to stipulate immunity from one's own fault, is an immoral and illict con- sideration, and consequently the eonditiona mentioned in the form referred to and upon which the plea is founded, cannot be binding. For all these reaeone, the judgment of the Court below must be con- firmed. THE LAWYER'S GHOST. A lawyer and a bishop (perhaps the bishop should come first) were talking, and this was the manner of their talk : "Dear me 1" exclaimed the bishop. "I aro very curious. Relate the story." "I will, my Lord,' I will," said the lawyer. "It was between the hour of eleven and twelve. I had gone to Led, and was just falling into my first comfortable sleep, when I was wakened by a strange creaking noise. riLvunded as if some ono was'walkit g up stairs ! The steps sounded nearer and near- er, slower and slower ; solemn and measured they were, and presently they halted at t Y door. d r . Ic ]New the s • • }feet ovn-r .m� }runt};' irnfl lay. there trembling,not daring to move. • "Something," continued the law- yer, "entered my room, and threw the sheet over my face. I fell rather than saw a faint yellow glimmering light. I could not move at first, but I presently tnanaged to gain a little courage. I drew the sheet cautiously down from my face, and —loolred !" " Well !" cried the bishop excit• ed ly. "In the contra of the room," said tho lawyer slowly, stood a tall old man. Ito seemed gaunt and worn with age or hunger, and his long gray beard hung Wolf way down his breast. Ho was dressed in a queer loose cloak with a cape, and he wore a broad loather band about his waist. In rine hand ho hold a pecu- liarly shaped lantern, from which flowed the yellow Light, making strange ghostly shadows on the wall behind him. In the other hand he hold a staff, the look of which was Don't experiment with your health. You may be sure of the quality of your medicine, even if you have to take much of your food upon trust. Ask your druggist for Ayer's Sarsaparilla, and qo other. It is the standard blood -purifier, the most effective and economioal, UR, QW$ItIt GUTS V11 OMP. 7,'1,X4 s tVElle WI) iiia z.ow "A RPM' HAMIIYlil 3146E T>I;AT Nt? a'ERBON QV ANT sTItEN4Tlit A 044.1t4t0TER. 14 EVER Four or five weeks ago; wh@it Mr. Bowser came home one evening and found Mrs. Bowser in bed, and was informed that it was a ease of grip, he blurted out ; "Grip ? Aud. Sou have gone 'to bed and had the doctor for a case of grip? Humph "But I am awfully eiok 1" she re- plied, 'Rate, Mrs Bower 1 Yon just imagine it 1 This simply goes to prove what I have often asserted— that no person of any strength of character hes ever had the grip. It's a namby-pamby thing, which oven a child three years old ought to be ashamed of." "You may have it before you get through." • "If I do --if I am silly enough to lay down with any such thing as. that— I hope somebody will pound me to death with a fence rail 1 I have the grip I I call a doctor for such a nonsensical thing as that ! NOT IF MY NAME IS BOWSER !" Mrs. Bowser was in bed threo or foul' days. and Mr. Bowser lost no opportunity to to talk about the foolishness in giving up to a trifling ailment. He likewise remarked to the doctor that he thought it was foolish in the medical fratern- ity to encourage the public in any such delusion, "You'll probably have it, and when it comes you'll change your opinion," curtly replied the doctor. "I will, eh 1 There isn't enough grip in North American to pull down one of my ears ! I'd really lilce to be attacked, just to show you how strength of will could throw it off." A week ago, at 3 o'clock ono af- ternoon, Mrs. Bowser heard some- thing fall against the front door She called to the girl to open' it and see wheather it was a bag of pota- toes or a corn•sheller. It was nei ther. It was Mr. Bowser—not the Mr. Bowser who had gone away in the morning stepping high and carrying his chin in the air, but the Mr. Bowser who had come home SHAKING AND SHIVERING and all bumped over until he didn't appear to be four feet high. It was a case of the grip. As he sat in his office gayly whistling "Old Black Joe" a sudden shiver shiver- ed up his back. He looked around to see who lrad flung it, but it was toll4sveiinWST-Nvdtiivar'e'. He jumped upc;with a feeling that all the ice thus far cut out on tho Hudlo.u..had been loaded on his:back. A whole drove of shivers and shakes and chills kept waltzing front his heals to hie neck and back again, and there was a roaring in his head as if he stood on the brink of Niagara. A boy who came in with a tele- gram, looked Mr. Bowser over and said : • "Old man, you've got it, and got it bad 1 If you've any home to go to ,you'd better skip. If I never see,you again then farewell." Mr. Bowser didn't stop to exer- cise any will power to throw it off. He got into his overcoat and made • for • home. Ths•--surest -car•-colydrtn: -tor tried to console him by saying that he would probably be out in four weeks, and a woman on the car named over twenty-two of her acquaintances who had been carried off in a week. ' • "Heavens, Mr. Bowser 1 but what dons this mean ?" demanded Mrs. Bowser, as he staggered into the .hall. "I'm—I'm a dead man?" he gasp- ed as she pulled of his overcoat and helped him on the lounge in the parlour. "HAVE YOE GOT A MILL "Y—yes.1 Got forty bad quilts to cover me up." "And does your backache ?" "Does it 1 Great Scot, but I don't believe I can live half an hour long• or ! -It's a congestive chill, I sup - 1 )oan. f , "It's a situ rl :' rt simply the grip, p, Mt:-3315'wxe'r. That's exactly time way everybody is taken. Hadn'tgsou better exercise a little will -power 1" Mr. Bowser looked at her re- proachfully and shivered and shook. "Curious how it took hold of a roan of your strength of character," she continued as she got his shoes off. Mr. Bowser's chin began to qui- ver in a auspicious manner and she said no more on the subject. He had been put to bed and was groan• ing and shivering, when the doc- tor came in. "Well, your ear has been pulled down, I see," remarked the doctor as he rubbbed his hands together in a cheofful way. "Have you tried to throw it off by strength of will ?" suppose its pneumonia„' replied Mr. Bowser. "Well, I don't. It's grip—just grip.” "And I'm sick enough to die !" "Pehaw, man 1 you have got a t>lilti attaokn,-ttboiit (fa .thQ babi'e have *t, If ypu land it•,aa,bad ani Your w,ite did X e114uld feel'.' very aufffQ98, rTt>et keep quiet 4.144 take: thialn'edioilao every two .h.oure," "'IOW many woke will .,I be in the house it, "Weeke i Why, you oan go out tommorrew if yap feel like it, Bet- ter ;get up after supper and walk around, It's t wonder to see that such a slight attack brought you home. run Mu. I34WSER'8 fAOIC-4.011E gtew worse, and when the chill fin- ally went off he was o'it of hie head most of the time with the fever. During Mrs Bowser's sickest ,night he had gone to bed to Bleep and more and rest undisturbed by her moans. She had to sit up with him, of course. He wanted vichy, water, lemonade, ice -water, ginger ale, pickles, tea, toast and a dozen other things, and he seetned to take solid comfort in keeping up a groan ing so doleful that it finally stopped the clOok. Tho doctor returned in the morning, to find Mr. Bowser's pulse jumping, his tongue covered with fur and his throat almpst raw, but bo expressed his groat surprise that Ile had not gond to the office. IIe encouraged him to get up and go down collar and upstairs, but Mr. Bowser stuck right to the bed. "Dr., I dou't think you realize how serious this case is," he groan- ed. • "I am sure I do. It's a very mild case of that namby-pamby epidemic called the grip. I have five children in this neighborhood who have it worse than you, but all aro up and playing with their dolls. Very curious that a man of your stamina should give up. Keep on with the medicine, however, AND I'LL SEND A GARGLE." For four days Mr. Bowser •emrg lad and dosed and groaned, Mrs. Bowser had to attend him as if he were a baby. Ho had very little to say during this interval. Ho seem- ed to flatten all out and lose his con- ceit. Once he even went so far as to observe that if his life was spar- ed he would be an humble man in future. On the fifth day, however, after getting but to the gate and back, his meekness seemed to be disappearing, and on the sixth, as he started for the office, he said : "I propose to visit two or three different doctors to -day and find out what caused my sickness." "Why, it was grip, of course, re- plied Mrs; Bowser. "Not much ! There was a com- bination there and I know it, and it was a mighty serious one, too. Nothing on earth but day determin- ation not to give way to it puled me through. Plenty of men in my situation would have turned up their toes, and plenty of others would have been in bed for months. Grip ! Humph 1 Mrs Bowser, you don't know me yet. When I knock under to grip I'll have the decency to go and drown myself ? Grip and brain fever are too widely different things, and I want you and that fool of a doctor to know it, too 1" A BLACK CAT FARM. Some time since a wave of sym- pathy pervaded the civilised world on behalf of the domestic cat—due to•a rumour that an American had conir'liate d-o'Rtipp);y 'levo tons of cats' tails to a firm which used them in their business. Five tons of tails certainly represented a good deal of cat, and humanity was justi- :fied in being sympathetic over the waste of cathood with the contract suggested. Fortunately, however, it was discovered that the cat tail of commerce was not the tail of the cslncert-loving Tabby, but was a horticultural tail, of time bullrush variety, which was used for stuffing' chairs and other furniture. Though the extermination of th9 cat's tail was thur averted, however, the com- mercial aspect of the animal has not been lost sight of, and a Cun- solidated Black Cat Company has just been formed in Washington State. The object of the -company is one which is likely to succeed, and it would not be surprising if a hap daome' •den dlv t d results from the -speculation:a"TNeFe'is ria finer fur than that of the cat, and the com- pany has been formed for the pur- pose of raising black cats,for the sake of their skins. With this view an is- land in PugetSound has been leased, and an exceptionally fine strain of cats has been secured from Holland. Some two or three years einco a Glasgow man conceived a eimiPar scheme, but it was laughed at and treated as a joke. His idea was to lease the Little Cumbrae, Scotland, and there organise a oat farm. Tho isolation of the island, he contend- ed, would prevent the cat farm be- ing a nuisance ; plenty of fish as food would be easily secured from the Clyde, and a fine crop of excel- lent fur might be expected. His scheme fell through, and the Cum- brae is still utilised to feed half•a- dozen sheep. —A severe blizzard occurred in Texas last week. Many cattle were frozen to death. —The famine favor is increasing at a terrible rate in Russia. A 1u1TTL ClRM,r'$ PANG'S Ayr. Hent/ Naxonitbe, Beyland.:S.t., Plackburp, Leaden, ing., states. that .hia 14041 fill ,and Struck .her knee against a curbstone, The knee began ,toswoli, Ingenue .,very painful and terminated iu w at doctors' call "whltewglling,t+ ,She', was trea%ecclt by the beet. tzaedicai :Ineu, ;asst: grew worse. Finally ST. J COBS 'OIL. was used. The contents of one bottle completely reduced the swelling, killed the Pain and cured, her, BALL RICHT! ST. JACOBS OIL Di!D iITO' KISSES FOR A QUARTER. HOW MONEY'WA8 RAISED FOR THE CHURCH AND THE GOSSIPS WERWH;ORRIFIED.. There is'a split among the mem- bers of theaLuthei'au'Clrurch in the town of Burns, Michigan, over a mode of raising money which was introduced at a social ono night. The affair was given by the young ladies, and it was announced that, the girls had a groat surprise in store for the good people. The social was given in the church parlors, and they were thronged when the time came. Across one end of the room was a curtain. For an hotly the guests chattered after the oldfashioned chureh•sociable style. Then the curtain was suddenly withdrawn. There in a row stood six of the prettiest girls in tiro congregation, blushing and giggling, each bearing upon her bosotn a placard, on which were the words: "You may kiss me for 25 cents." It was fifteen Minutes before t device began to work, but when did the silver quarters fairly showe ed into the aprons of the you ladies; circle; Old men and youn eagerly rushiid to the front to e change coins for kisses. The show lasted only a short tin) when the Curtain was again draw Then the storm burst. Sonlebod thought it was not quite proper somebody else insisted that it w decidedly improper. The criti were largely of the feminine gend and did not include any of th pretty gills. The social finally di persod with several members in huff, and the tongues of the gossi have been continually busy eve since. ho it i - ng r' x• e n. y a8 08 er e 8- a Ps r ROUND TO HAVE IT. I MCST and I will have it, exclaimed the little man and he dashed the paper to the floor, jumped from his chair and brought hie clinched hand down on the table vigorously ; then, mopping hie brow and adjusting his glasses, he Boated himself, seized his pen and in a nervous, excitable hand wrote 1). ie . N'elrry & f e_., Ssleda men, %Vindsur;' Ont.,' Oeiittanten ' `erer log to your advertisement in the National Intelligencer, I notice that you -hay that your Seed Annunl for 1892 is free to all, applicants. As 1 buy considerable quantities of vegetable and flower seeds each spriog, I would esteem it a favor if you would mail mo your Catalogue. My neighbors say it is thea best. Very truly yours, • RICHARD DOE. NEWS OF THE DAY. —The Countess of Cavan died at her son's residence in Ottawa on Monday. Reports compiled -in Winnipeg show that 33 per cent. of last year's crop in the Northwest has left the .farmerst•bande,.... •• .•. —A girl in Venezuela wont to a ball against her mother's wishes, and the latter poured kerosene over her daughter and sot fire to her. The girl died in great agony. —Mr. C. S. Hymn], M.P., has presented the Royal Humane Society's medal to John A. Bland of London, who saved Miss Ruby Smith from drowning at Port Stanley. —An individual known as "Jack the Slasher" was arrested by New York police on Sunday morning, charged with a series of assaults on drunken men. Iu each case the victim's throat was cut. --The exports from Montreal last year amounted to $31,464,783. against $32,027,176 in 1890. Tho imports in 1891 were $300,000 more than in 1890. ---Mrs. • A it o g st Walker, of South Easthope, died on Jan. 1 at the age of 45 years. Several weeks ago Drs. 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There being Benue misunderstanding with re- gard to wreckage, 126 it be distinctly understood that if any personakes possession of' any kind of wreckage and fails to report to me I Shall at once take proceedings. Rememberthis is the last warning I shall give• CAPT. WM. BABB- Receiver of Wrecks, Godorioh. Goderich, Sept. 7th 1891. Dressed Hogs Wanted. The subscriber will pay the highest market price for any number of dreesed hogs delivered at the Commercial. hetal...Ggaton.. ,Arrangomonts -, ran be .made at any time for future delivery. Apply to HY SHAEFER, Commercial Hotel, Clnton. M. 0. JOHNSTON, BARRISTER, - SOLICITOR, COMMISSIONER, Etc., Orrtcel:—Cor. Hamilton and St. Andrew's Ste, GODERICH, - - ONT. Money to loan at lowest rates. CAUTION. EMfl PLUG OF TUE fliijrtIe Navu IS MARKED T. & B. IN BRONiZE LETTERS. NONE., OTHER GENUINE. —George Boosa, a German far- mer living near Elmstead Station, Essex, Ont., has been frozen to death. —Lavinia Lindsay has been sen- tenced to gaol for life at St. John, N.B„ for manslaughter. —A snowstorm in Spain put a atop to all telegraphic and railroad communication with France. —A Russian Famine Committee will purchase 10,000 horses to re- place farmers' animals killed and eaten on account of the famine.