The Huron Expositor, 1870-05-27, Page 3AY 24Y 1870.
This !
salary of $30 per week
ROW a lame commission,
inventions.
& Co.,Marshall, Mich..
R &'SON,>
S, HULLETT
waie binding in every
iding at a distance by
he Signal Book Store,
*si`oR office, Seaforth,
upon them being well
rEsT PRICES.
without delay;;
870. 804f.
DDPHA.1L,
LICTIOEER !_
TrrE
RIK AND:HURDN
sincere thanks to the in-
Erni
n
Eo their liberal patronage
s. He would respectfully
attend, to all orders` in.
or 1840, Orders left at
in Seaforth, the BCaC011
Advocate, in Mitchell,
ed to.
cal Estate Agency attend.
ted.
)f the market. :litchell,
►. 1.16-tf.
R SALE,
th, Township of Hibbert,.
acres of choice land, all
it, Maple and Elm, with
ani ng through it. West
the 2nd Con., within 1
id, ore mile from the vil-
id 5 miles from Seaforth.
Ralf of Lot 21, in, the lst
• ares cleared and : well
finder being well timbered
leing nearly the same die-
rurishing villages, and one
Leslie Church. The above
sr separately or both to-
rs. Terms of sale made
rhe subscriber, on the pre -
EDWIN DOW N EY.;
1870.
ILL
VOR, AND
'ACTORYI
leave to tender their ,sin-
tr numerous' cestomers and
the very liberal patronage
icing business in Seaforth.
a very large stock of Dry
lately' enlarged(
and having 1 �
ell New Machinery (there
dries for doing work with
afident of giving every sa:-
no ma,y favour them with
he but first-class workmen
paid to custom planing.
kROADFOOT & GRAY-.
E, 1870
LLS. The National Pills
area new discovery
in medicine. They
are composed of
LS� purely v egetabre
extract prepared
by a newlydiscov-
ered process, and
U.S. are sugar coated.
They are the great
- blood and stomach.
purifier. They act
L LS. on, the liver with
magical effect, are
_ znrld; searchin.
yet a thoroug
purgative, & have
no equal as a first
class family pill.
See circulars with
each box
DEFT:` and E. HICKSON &
diene dealers generally.
BENTLY & co.,
oprietors, Brougham,
Ont.
s
TO
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OF
ad Tweeds,
LOTS, e
RIVED.
ri,SSORTME T OF -
flaw Checks.
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AND ACCORDING TO
OR ANY OTHER:
, TO SUIT
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MAY 27, t87o.
Carrier Pigeons at Sea
When the probable loss of the Inan
steamer City' of Boston was first suggeste
in the newspapers, on account oI her - no
arrival cit Liverpool, some one . proposed th
employment of carrier pigeons asi-sea me
sengers of distress. A. prominent Londo -
journal devotes a long article to this ,Pro
i
position, and urges that a test of its pract
cibility be made. If it is certain, or even
'only probable, that had there been suit-
ably trained carrier pigeons on the City o
Boston, we_should know the story of he
fate: The; fact is one of no slight interest an
importance:
There can be little doubt that the. 'Ms.sing steamer is finally and, forever lost.
Whether she was destroyed by collidin
with an iceberg when a few days out from
Halifax—or whether she was consumed by
fire caused by the overheating of her en-
gines, as_ has been rumored, we shall pro-
bably never know: And, if anything, it. is
this dreadful want of knowledge that it.,
the anguish of those . whose clear
ones formed a part of the precious human
freight on board the fatal ship.
In order to employ carrier pigeons - for
the conveyance of messages.from vessels in
distress, it would be necessary to establish
large dovecots as homes for them at one or
two of our important sea -ports, from which
they could be tekeu by outward -bound
ships. In case of accident or peril, a slip
of paper attached to one of the birds would
the swiftly borne to the cot from which the
pigeon carne, provdied the distance were not
too great, and the bird would be induced to
fly from the ship.
Five hundred miles is a long flight for.
the carrier pigeon, . though sea -birds can.
scarcely traverse a longer distance without
touching the water more than onceortwice.
But the speed of the carrier bird is very.
great At the annual pigeon race in Bel-
gium last !uly, some 1, 2000 -birds were
sent from` Brussels te.a place near : Tou-
louse, 520 miles distant There they: were
let go, and the winning bird: reached "Brus-
sseis in twenty -hours from the time he was
liberated. In England, carriers have flown
200 miles in three hours and a -half.
Useful, however, as carer pigeons might
be in some cases, as where a ship was short
of provisions, or her machinery disabled,
they would avail nothing, probably, on the
occurrence of a sudden disaster. The out-
break of fire, or a collisien with an iceberg,
are accidents so terrible in their nature that
they leave no t rrie for any thoughts but
those of how to escape. And it is pro-
ba,ble that some such sudden and unexpect-
ed fate betel The City of Boston ; some dis-
aster that would have rendered the writing=
of a message and attaching it to a bird ut-
terly impossible. But ifs e went down in
a storm at sea,. and before s1el had half
crossed the ocean, carrier pigeons taken
from this side might well have brought u s
the last *bilis of hes passengers to those in
the world.they had left. ,
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THE TIPA.s-TREE.—.A careful investigati-
on has revealed the fact that the Upas -tree
is perfectly harmless, and that the destruct-
ive power is due also to fumes .of sulphate
and carbonic acid gas coming from volcanic
openings in the region. There is a famous:
Valley of Poisson" at the foot of the vol-
canic Papandaging, in Java, were scientific.
travellers have found a great number of dead
animals of various kinds, as dogs, cats, birds,
tigers, rhinoceroses, squirrels,;; and snakes,
The soft parts of the animals, as the skin.
and muscles, and hair, and feathers are pre-
served, while the bones crumble end disap-
pear. No living thing is found in the vi-
cinity save the 1Tpas-tree, and it is not sur-
prising that superstitioas notions of its ma-
larious power should have been wide -spread.
The true cause of death in this case is very
obvious, as there are many crevices and
openings in the side of the mountains, from
which carbonic acid gas and sulphurious
fumes are emitted in greatq q uantities. It
was by such missions that the elder Pliny
and his companions were suffocated, at the.
time of the .. destruction of Herculaneum.
though they were miles away from 1esuvus.
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A ROYAL QUANDARY. -On the first con-
signient of Seidlitz powders to the city of
Delhi, the monarch was deeply interested
in the account of the refreshing aeveeage.
A 1 ox was brought to the king in full court;
and the '-interpreter explained to his Ma-
jesty how thtey
ajestyhow.tltey were to be used. Into a
goblet he pit the twelve blue papers and
having added the water,- the king drank it
off. This was the alkali, and the royal
countenance exhibited no signs of satis-
faction. Ic was then explained that in the
combination of the two .powders lay the
luxtuy, and the twelve white powders were
quickly dissolved in water, and as quickly
swallowed by his majesty. '\Vithi a shriek
that will never be forgotton, the monarch
rose, staggered, and exploded—and in his
agony screamed out: .`Hold rte down.'
Tlieii rushing flour the throne, he fell` pros-
trate en the floor, where he lay y _during the
long continued effervesence of the com--
Bound, spirting like ten tlousarrd _ penny-
worths of imperial pop, and believing . him
self in the agonies of death, a melancholy
proof that kings are -only rnoital after all,
s•s
THHE TABLES TURNED. —A miser having
lost a hundred golden eagles, sealed: up ina
bag, promised ten of the eagles as a reward
to any one who should bring it to him. ' A
poor man finding the bag brought it to the
old gentleman) b and demanded the ten eagles;
g )
but the miser, to baffle him, alleged there
were a hundred and ten eagles in the bag
when lost. The poor man., however, was'ad-
vised to sue for the money, and when the
case came up to be tried, it appeared that
the seal had not been broken, nor the bag
ripped, the judge said to the defendant's
counsel ; The bag you lost had a hundred
and ten eagles in .it, .you say 1Yes,
your Honor," says lies " Then," replied the
,judge, "according to the evidence given in
court, this cannot be your money, for here
arefonly a hundred eagles ; therefore the
plaintitrmust keep it till the true owner ap-
pears. ..
The Adventure of a Shinplaster.
A gentleman at market` the other morn
ing, bought a salmon trout, aed received a
new crisp shinplaster, but unfortunately the
hands of the fishmonger were covered with`
the slimy mucus, which makes dead fish so
nasty, and the shinplaster was by no means
clean when he handed it over. Our friend
went into the meat market and gave the
little greenback to the.' 'butcher's for sortie
meat. Easter beef this year is very fat,
and the butcher's -hands were greasy. The
shinplaster, well daubed, found its way in
his pocket. At the moment a blacksmith
came to get pay for shoeing' the butcher's
horse; and the little promise to pay was
made to do duty as a " circulating medium,"
again. The son of Vulcan, well pleased,
took it in his sooty palm, thrust it into his
pocket, and went back to his shop; he is an
industrious fellow and was soonokin at
p g
the fire and hammering at the anvil like a
very Cyclops. The work was warm and
the perspiration rushed from him` in streams
his clothes were drenched. ..By and by he
went up street to.settle an iron bill with Mr.
G-tass, ane ,the paper currency was trotted.
out again, but "what a change was there
my countrymen," the crisp little picture was
a rag, half pulped, the jaunty maiden was
sorely disfigured, her cheeks wore smouch-
ed with tobacco, her nose was stuck up with
chewing gum, which he had in his pocket
but there was no discount on it, and into
the till it went. A young lady stood by
selecting a pair of scis sere, and it was hand-
ed to her in change. She looked disgusted
but it was a legal tender by Apt of Parlia-
ment, and so she thrust it daintily into her
portemonio. When she got home she de-
clared it smelt like the small pox or some
other awful disease, and put it to air on. the
shelf in an out -house. Yesterday she want
ed to buy a St. George's favor for her lover
and went to get the "medium." Alas,
there was nothing left but a few little scraps
of green paper on one, the little lion stood
rampant, the audacious rats had not dared
to attack it, but no where the words •1 twen-
ty-five cents 1' to be found. She was that
Much poorer but the Government had made
the difference between what it had cost to
make the plaster and that sum, so the coun-
try is safe. -Weekly Ontario.
The Chinese Mind.
Lord Elgin says, the distinguished chara-
cteristic of the Chinese mind is this : that
at all points of the circle described by, man's
intelligence, it seems occasionally to have
caught glimpses of a heaven far beyond the
range' of its ordinary ken and vision. It
caught a glimiise of the _ path which leads to
naaratime supremacy when it made, at a pe-
riodequally remote, the discovery of the
mariner's compass. It caught a glimpse of
the path which leads to literary supremacy
when, in the tenth century, it invented the
printing -press.
It has caught, from time to time, glimps-
es of the beautiful in color and resign. But
in. the hands of the Chinese themselves, gun-
powder has exploded in cracketls and harm-
less
barmless fireworks: The mariner's compass has
produced nothing 'better than the coasting.
junk- The art of printing rinting has stagnated in
to stereotyped editions of Confucius ; and
" the most cynical representations of the gro-
tesque have been the principal products of
Chinese conceptions of the sublime and
beautiful.
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Suez.
The immense saving in distance which
will be accomplished bythe Suez canal
r
from the, various ports of Europe and A-
merica, to Bombay, India, is shown by the
following table, Atlantic route being by the
way of the Cape of Good Hope :
By the Atlantic. By Suez.. Diff.
Constantinople - 7,100 1,800 5,300
Malta - .....5,840 2,062 3,778
Trieste...., .......4;960 2,340 3,620
=,Marseilles 3,650 2,374 3,266
Caclis( :.....5,200 2,224 2,975
Lisbon 5,350 3,500 2,850
Bordeaux .,.5,650 2;800 2,820
-Eiavre... ..,.5,800 2,824 2,976
London.:... a...,.. 5,950 4,100 2,850
Liverpool.:. 6,900 3,050 2,850
Amsterdam5,950 3,100 2,850
St.Petersburg6,550 3.700 2;850
New Yp rk6,300 3,761 2,439
New . 6 4: 2 7 2
Cidleans50 3,724 � f �6
,
-The advantages to commerce, which these
,figures indicate, ought to make the Suez
canal one of the most profitable as well as
t enterprises in the world
useful-
•••s~
How •To KILL A TowN.—Some one makes
the following excellent suggestion If you
wish to kill a town, put up no more build-
ings than you are obliged 'to occupy your-
self If you should. have an empty build-
ing, and any one should wish td rent it, ask
about three times its value. Look at every
new comer= with a scowl Turn a cold
shoulder .to every business man and me=
chanic who seeks a home among you. Go
abroad for your wares rather than purchase
from your own merchant and manufacturers
at the same prices, and make sure to get up
the animus of Sectarian partizan partiality
among the people and against the printer,
if you should be fortunate enough to have
one refuse to advertise, so that persons at
a distance -.will not know that any business
is being done in your place. ° A prompt and
close obseryance of these rules will ruin any
town in two years.
THE HURON -EXPOSITOR.
PRJNG GOODS.
•
•
_\ew Sbits,
New Dress Goods,
Boots & Sloes.
ALSO A NICE STOCK OF
GROCERIES,
AT
J. Bonthron c Son's.
Seaforth, April, 14, 1870. 524f -
HURRAH FOR SPRING!
AND
HURRAH POR DENT
T XTB O has made provision for all your wants.
V V He is now receiving a spring stock of
STAPLE & FANCY
RDY GOODS
That baffles description, together with a thorough
stock of
MII : TRFY_
And the best of
Fresh Groceries !
In fact, everything that you can need or
desire. Dont neglect to call at 3
GEORGE DENT'S.
Third door north of Scott Robertson's Grocery.
Seaforth, Jan. 21st. 187e. 111-tf.
NOTICE.
]3AT11S ! BATHS
•
MR. PILLMAN,
HAS pleasure in announcing to the gentlemen
o€ Seaforth , and vicinity, that the BATHS
formerly kept by Mr. Lubelski arenow ready
for use, and he hopes that by .keeping everything
clean and comfortable to receive a liberalshare
of public patronage.
TAILORING
PILi.MAN
MR.
,
WOULD also beg to ate that he is carrying
W kite
on. the
TAILORING_ BUSINESS,
In all its branches, in the shop formerly occupied
as a Barber Shop, and from his- long experience
in this business, feels confident in saying that
parties favouring him with their orders, will
ave there garments made in a manner which
will be second to the work of no- other"estaUlish-
nient in Ssaforth.
A TRIAL. la RESPECTFULLY SOLICITED.
,Seaforth, ;! pril 14, 1870. 123-tf.
FL? ' NITTJRE
CHEAPER THAN EVER
AT
THOMAS BELL'S
ATE-ROQMS
0
TBELL ss now prepared to furnish Houses at
. Toronto prices •
-CTN'ED
In. all its departments, attended to in a satisfact-
ory manner. A hearse for hire.
.0
THOMAS BELL'S
PATENT SPRING MATTRASS
Kept constantly on hand and fitted to any be
stead. This article is the best and cheapest
made, as attested to by all who have used it.
Warranted to give satisfaction.
GitrRemember the place
OPPOS=TE
KIDD &:M'MTJLKINS.
Seaforth, Jan'y. 21st. 18 70. 7-tf
y i -
SICx:\
OF TH
•
=-j
CIRCULAR SAW
Wm. Robertson ' Co.
DEALERS IN ALL XIMS OF
SHELF AND HEAVY
HARDWARE
Paints,
Iron,
Oils,
Glass,
Steel,
Putty
Blacksmith Coals,
NOTE LOST.
HEREBY FORBID any person, or -persons,
purchasing a NOTE OF AND} against R._ -
IT p , g o
BERT HoaG, payable to 1FTvNRY 'NEIL, or bearer,
for the sum .?f Sixty Five Dollars, bearing date
February 15th, 18'10.
NEIL.
'GaEy, May 9th, 1870. HENRY°
128-3—
A HOUSE TO LET.
TENEMENT consisting of Kitchen, Dining
Room, Parlor, and three or four Bed Rooms,
good condition is now to be let by the proprie-
tor,
W. CAMPBELL,
12'2-tf.
COW STRAYED.
0 TRAYED FROM THE PREMISES OF THE
Subscriber, Lot 22, Concession 12, McKillopp,
about the 8th inst., a BED FOUR -YEA OLD,.
MULCH COW, with straight horns, the pbints of
Which are cut off; the teats were very warty,
Any person giving such information, either to the
Subscriber or at Montgomery's tavern, will be
liberally rewarded.
THOMAS GERMAN.
MCKILLoP, May i8th, 1870
12:8-4--
TUCKERSMITH,
lE COURT OF REVISION for the Town -
J. ship of Tuckersmith, will meet at DALY'S
HOTEL, VILLAGE OF EGMONDVILLE, ON
MONDAY THE THIRD DAY OF JUI4E NEXT,at
the hour of Ten o'clock, a. m., pursuant to d-
journment.
WM. MTIR, Tp. Clerk.
TUeKERsnnrn, 13th May, 1870.
128 -td
HOUSE AND LOT FOR SALE.
THE subscriber It -:offers for sale a large Frame
Cottage, 30 x 4Q, riew, and Village Lot on the
corner opposite the Baptist Church, Seaforth.
Farm property would be taken in exchange; Ap-
ply on the premises.
ALEX, McAURTHER.
Seaforth, Jan. 28, 1870.. 112-6m.
NOTICE TO DEBTORS.
' LL persons indebted to the late firm of
A Zapfe & McCallum, are hereby requested to •
call and settle the same with the undersigned on
or before the lst. of March next, otherwise costa
will be incurred.
ZAPPE & CARTER.
Seaforth Foundry.
Seaforth, Feb. 15, 1870. 115-tf.
Hubs,
Rims,
Spokes,
Weaver's' Supplies , of all kinds.
pP .il
JACK SCREWS TO HIRE.
Seaforth, fan'y- 28, 1870. 112
NEW
'FALI, & WINTER
GOODS.
KIDD & M'MULKIN,
ARE prepared to show the Largest Stock of
DRY 000DS!
Consisting of the Latest Styles of Dress Patterns,
m Irish and French Poplins, all Woel Plaids,
French Merinoes; and Twills of various kinds,
ever offered in Seaforth.
Their Millinery Depart-
ment.
Is furnished with a large assortment of Hats,
Bonnets and Mantles of the Latest Fashi-
ons,
ashions, VERY CHEAP.
READY-MADE CLOTHING!
For the Million. GOOD TWEED SUITS FOR
TEN DOLLARS.
BOOTS Sc -SHOES!
CHEAPER TI -IAN EVER.
Also a very choice stock of
Fresh S
Groeeries
Be sure and call for their 1.00 Tea.
25 lbs. Rice for $1 11 lbs. Raisins, and
10 lbs. good bright Sugar.
FETE AND COURSE SALE
Give theins a Call.
KIDD & McMULKIN.
Seaforth, Jany 5th 1870.
LIVERY STABLE.
TAMES ROSS desiries to inform the public
0 that he has opened a New Livery Stable in,
connection with his hotel, where parties can be
accommodated with • first-class horses and
vehicles, at reasonable prices,
Seaforth, Jan'y. 21st, 1870. 97-tf.
Money! Money
MITE subscriber has received
iv
ed
anothe
r large ra-
mttance of money for inveatmenot on, good
farm property, at *per cent ; or 10 per cent, and
no charges.
. JOHN S. PORTER.
Seaforth, Jan'y. 21st, 1870, 95-tf.
%350 :000.
To lend on the security of Real Property in the
!_ County of Huron at from 61 to 10 ,per cent.,
by
DOYLE & SQUIER,
117-6m. Barristers, Goderich
MILLINERY-
-Aim--.•
DP,EssM A E1NG-
Ti
HE MISSES STODDARD,. ATzxEIR
executli�e : es deoruced
iners for ;to
ECMONallkinDYIds _LoEof, MIareLLpNETepdII,ied�'
DRESS AND MANTLE MAKING.
A shareofpatronageisrespectfully solicited. •
EGMONDVILLE, May 19, 1870. 1284f—
NOTICE.
NOTJCis hereby given that the partnership
E heretofore existing under the name e and sty
of B
REWER & ROCK, Millers, Roxborough, has
this day been dissolved by mutual consent, Geo,
Rock to receh e all debts due the late firm, and
Alfred Brewer to pay all debts due by the said
firm
ALFRED BREWER,
F. HOLMESTED, GEORGE ROCK.
Witness.
RoxBOROUGH, Apri1 27, 1870. 125 -6 --
NOTICE.
TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN
1TOTICE is hereby given, that the Corporation
of the Township of Usborne, Co. of Huron,
intend passing a By -Law, on SATU R DA'Y THE
FOURTH DAY OF JUNE NEXT, authorizing the
sale of Road Allowance, between Lots 17 and 18,
North East Boundary, and in front of Lot 26, on
the Eighth Concession of Usborne.
By Order of the Township Council,
SAMUEL P. HALLS,
rk.
UsEoRNE, April 2, 1870. Tp.
125Cl-e6----
- MR. JOHN THOMPSON
THANKS his numerous customers for theeir
1 liberal patronage during the last fifteen
years, and trusts he will receive its continuance,
He has now on hand a large assortment of
Good Sound
Green Hexnlock. Y.
Which he warrants will give satisfaction.
ALSO
200,000 FEET OF PINE !
CUT Fon,
BUILDING AND GENERAL PURPOSES
Which he offers on liberal terms. Orders win
be promptly attended to..
He has also on hand a large assortment of
WELL SEASONED ACCOUNTS I
To which he calls the attention of his old costo-
mers, who will find it to their advantage to re-
tire them promptly, and without legal proceed:
Ings.
Seaforth, Jan'y. 21st, 1870.: 8 4-tf: