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THE VOYAGE OF THE "AMERICA."
It seems rl,3 wild as Constatince, as
eerie as lin di n des far as Morte di A rth u r,
as big as Robinson Crusoe, as hard. as
Jonah. '
I sit Upon the jutting lava rocks of
Eas ern Point, and say it seems impos-
sible. 1 '
Lazily upon the rich and tortured hues
which. the beating water and the burst -
in e fire opened for my pleasure ages ago,
falls the liquid August sunlight, as only
Gloueeeter ;eurilight falls, 1 think the
. wide world over. Through it, the liar.
bor widens, gladdens to the sea, The
tide beats at my feet, a mighty pulse,
slow, even, heelehy and sereme Soria
weeds of uniher shadeeitnil green, with
now and • then a climb of carmine, are
aucked in by the olive-green ba.rmicles,
or wash idly past me through the levee
gorge. The near waves curve and break
in quiet colors ; across the harbor's
widln they deepen and purple, if one can
place the eyes, beneath the blaze of •the
climbing sun, upon them. A- shred or
two of foam'curling lightly against the
cliffs of the Western shore, whispers
that far across the broad arm of the
Point, the sleeping east wind has -reared
his head to look the harbor over. Be-
neath the bright shade of many -hued
sureumbrellas the dories of the pleasure -
people tilt daintily. At a distance near-
ly of two i iles—the harbor's width—I
can see the glieter of the eunners caught
sharply from the purple water; as well
as the lithe, light drawing of a lady's
hand over the boat's side against the idle
tide. All along the lee shore froth the
little reef, Bleck Bess, to the busy own,
' the buoys of the mackerel nets bob
sleepily; in and out among them, with
the look of men who hate toiled all night
and taken nothing, glide the maCkerel
fishers, peacefully and poor. The phan-
nel, where thewind has freshened now,
is full. Tile lumber schooner is there
from Machiae, the Coal -bark bound for
Boston, the fishing -sloop headed to the
. Banks. The water -boat trips up and
down on a supply tour. A revenue cut-
ter steams in and out importantly. The
Government lighter struts by. A , flock
of little pleasure sails fly past the , New
York school -ship, peering up at her like
curious caearies at a solemn Veatch -dog.
A somber old pilot -boat, indifferentto all
the world, puts in to get her dinner after
her morning's work, and the heavily
weighted salt -sloops tack to clean the
Boston steamer turning Norman's Woe.
And Norman's Woe, the fair the
cruel,—the Woe of -song and history,—
can it ever have been a terror ? Now it
is a trance. Behind it the blended
greens of the rich inhabited shore lclose
up softly; upon it the full light falls ;
the jagged teeth of the bared rock round
smoothly in the pleasant air; the eolors
known to the artists as orango, chrome,
and yellow ocher,and burnt Sienna,
caress eaeh other to make . the reef a
warm and gentle thing.
Beyond it, stirs the busy sea. The
day falls so fair that half the com erce
of the Massachusetts coast seems to be
alive upon its happy heart. The sails
swarm like silver bees. The black hulls
start sharply frpm the water -line, and
look round and full like embosse de-
signs against the delicate sky. It is one
of the silver days, dear to the hears of
dwellers by the shore, when every 4etaii
in the distance is magnified and 8 arp.
I can see the thin fine line of departing
mast -heads, far, far, far, till thei dip
and utterly melt, Half -way Rock—
half-way to Boston from my lava gorge
—rises clear-cut and vivid to the 'maid-
" ed eye, as if brought within arm's-length
by a powerful glass,- And there the
curved arrn of the Salem shore stretches
out, and Marblehead turns her fair neck
towards us : in the faint, violet tinge of
the outlines I can see gale specks where
notifies cluster thickly.
Beyond them all, across the flutter of
uncounted eels, whie,h fly, which glide,
which creep, which pass and revalue
wind and interwind, which dare me to
• number them and defy me to escape
them—dim as a dream and fair as a
fancy—I can distinctly see the long, low,
gray outline of Cape Cod.
Cape Cod? I will take the "Sand-
piper' and row over there after dinner.
Nothing were easier.
I say as much to the Ancient Mariner
who sits below me in the lava gorge,
bracing his foot against the death of half
a hundred green and golden snails, en-
gaged, as Mr, Coleridge, you remember,
tells us, in the honorable, if prosaic,occu-
pation of cleaning cod. The Aneient
Mariner is of a literal turn of mind, and,
to my inhocent metaphysical attempt to
"conceive the inconceivable," super-
ciliously and succinctly makes answer:
"Think so !"
And indeed, after some moments of
reflection, the bold idea seems so to work
upon hie feelings, that he turns slowly
around, as far as he ever allows hirnself
to turn around when honoring me with
his society/for he considers it a point of
gallantry that he keep his busy shoulder
broad across the range of vision which
interposes between the cod and me; and
for that knightly instinct, may all the
cod in Cloueester •harbor take it as a
pleasure -trip to come into his net and be
cleaned! Ife turns slowly, halfway
round, and articulates distinctly :
"Think eo 1 Cape Cod! The Sand -
p7 !"
4, N
gearseermausrmaerseeeereere
tide beats restlessly.
"Wal, tell you about that if you'd
ar. Times I've sat in th
tier and heerd my grandfathe
skerce. You see my grand
one of 'em. We -used to con.
like to h
! chimley-cm
tell ..it, aint
,1 father Was
sider it a great honor in our days, folk
did, to be.c ne of that there crew. True.
It's true as Bible, And Pm an old
fashioncld inan- that believes in Bible
Mehbe because Iwasbrought up to,' an
it's hane..y corning by your religion, in th •
course of natur', as it is by your eye
brows orour way of walking. Then
mebbe t's 'the way a man's made up
Some fo ks take to religion, and From ;
folks take t shoes, and it may be fish
ing, or, pe •haps, it's rum. My grand
father was pious man.
"It was Lir a hundred years ago ;
Anne DOmino.es 1779, as my grandfathe
used to Say - that the schooner 'Amerie
weighed fr rn this port bound for th
West I die on atradieg voyage.
"Thee was five in the crew, an& --m ,
grandfather he was one. They were
Gloucester boys, as I remember, grow'
up around here. And Cap'n Elwell
everybody knew him; he was post
master. They sailed the last of July,
1779.
" 'We sal
grandfather
•
language can express the immense
atmospheric pressure of scorn to the
square inch of accent, contained in this
irreverent remark. I catch my breath
with horror, The "Sandpiper"—the
dignified, the 'delicate, tbe dear ; the
"Sandpiper" that skims the glowing -
bay, now to the measure of Celia Thak-
ter's poem, now to the beat of swift and
tiny wings above my head—now to the
throb of the rower's own unspoken and
unspeakable fanefes —iny boat—the
"Sand -peep"! ' •
It may be that my breathless silence
penetrates the superb superiority below
me with a dim sense of desire to make
amends for an uncomprehended but pal-
pable injury ; for, after a e.ertairi pause
in the serene slow voice peculiar, I kye-
lieve, to an old salt about to spin an
intricate sea -yarn, there float to me the
words:
"Did ye ever hear about the schooner
'America' ?”
In an instant I forgive him. Ile
might have called it, as the reporter did,
the "Sand-scraper"—I could have for-
given that, yea, unto seventy times seven.
I clamber into the softest corner of tbe
Java gorge; 1 court the tenderest em-
brace of my Himalaya shawl; I fix , my
-07011 12p011 the violet hosizon and the •
Silver sea. The Ancient Mariner, sitting
still, impervious, betireesrbis honorable
ecenpation and my own, gestureless,
impassioned, half -hidden, tells the tale
with the serenity and insistence of,
•old Greek chorus; and between the
„pauses of his unvfiried voice, the rising
lecl the last, of July,' says m
' 'seventeen hundred anc
seventy-nine,' says he, and if I've beer
him say it once I've b erd it fifty times
my igh a and hear him talk. Th
lit
I was a itt e shaver. used to sit o
stor
only thing I ever hadagainstmy grand
father Was 1 the time he tock to stee
through family prayers I whittled ou
a dory rudder once before he got throug
praying. i i But when it come to yarns
Iyou couldn'tlacl his beat. And that'
' what perplexes me. Why, if a man ca
tell a good yarn to folks, con't he tell
good one to the Lord? For that a pray
er's no more nor less than that, to m
mind—a mighty yarn—so big you be
lieve it when you're telling it beeaus
you can't help yourself, and other folk
believe it when they listen because the
can't help theniselves. Eh? Well,
don't know , 'that's the way it seems
me. ) I
"There was one chap among the boy
booked for that voyage in the 'America
that I must mention. The boys the
called him Bub. He was a youngis
,
fellow—the youngest of the lot, An
I've heerd tell he was pal eh in his make,
and slight, sort o' like it girl ; and ho
be had a , pretty face a d that his hai
curled. Light hair, randfather said,
and blue I °yeti, I ea remember Once
his sitting uagainst he kitchen boiler
and saying -l ow that fellow's eyes re-
rnembere him of a li le sister that 1
had about that time. But her name
was Dorothy; and she lied of scarlet
fever. ;
"Now, , you see, this yo ng chap tha
they called Bub, he'd just got married.
Barely nineteen, says grandfather, was
that boy, and married to \ft little gir
mebbe a year the less. And the cutting
thing about it was these poor young
things hadn't been married not mor
than six weeks when the 'America' set
sail.
"I don't know if folks took things a
hundred years ago as they might take
letn now uppose so. Don't you?
Seems somehow as if they was made of
different dough. Now, ;I've seen women;
and women, and the way wives take on,
you know, when their men set sail from
Gloucester harbor. Fisbing folks are
used to that. i :' Them that go down to
the sea in ships get used to bitter things.
It aint so ;noel' taking your life in your
hands,as Other mattera that are wuth
more than life to you to think on and
remember of: '; If you've married a good
woman angl set anything by her, and she
set anythiln$ Iby you, a mane takes her
eyes with !WM as they look with tears in
'em ; and!her hands along. as they felt
when they got around his neck; and her
voice, the sound it had,. when it choked
in trying to say good-bye that mornin ;
and the look of the baby in her arms s
she stood ain the door,
"Women -f lles are plenty, but th ey
skerce inl their wPyri. One don't to
things like another. ou'll never find
two fish jLlflIp on the h ok in the same
manner, n t if you fish to the next Cen-
tennial.I've seen a little measly cunner
make fuss enough as it had been the sea -
I've seen a three pound
int' the dory polite arid
1. only dome to dun you for
. ,
ren they take on like to
serpent ; ted
mackerel slip
ip
easy, as if he'
a little bil
"Some o
make you deep. Screech. Have high-
steries, Soine they follow him to the
wharf and stancl sobbin', sort of quiet.
There's others they„stay at home, and
what they saYs and What they suffers no
man know bnt him that they belong to.
That's the Way my wife always done.
Never a mesimate of mine saw that
woman- cry. Once I saw a woman at
the launrry ,over there, doing clothes
among a lot of folks, and a man steps up
and says to her before them all—and ,if
Pd been nigh enough seems I should
have knocked: him down—and says he :
'Your husband's drowned ; and your sdn
Tom.' Like that! Wal, she just put
,her apron 1 over her head, that woman
Idid, threw it across without a word, and
she dropped her irons, and she put and
run. She run right through us all, and
up the streets, and straight for home.
And in she went and shut the door, and
let no one bentiel. her.
I "Nigh as 1 can make out, this Young
fellow's wife I'm talkin' of, was some
like that. Folks say she was a pretty
have when they're just married : as
11
dreettle, with that look some women
happy as an angel, and as searey as a
little bird—I've seen 'em ; shy of every-
body but him; and think themselves
too well off to care if ever they speak to
other folks again. I like to see a woman
have that look. It wears off quick
enough. So doos the shine on a fancy
bait; but all the same you want your
bait to abide ; you don't go trading for a
dull one, if only of respect to the feelingje
of the fish.
, ' I
"Now, of all the plata that have been
forgotten in ihE affair, ;it's never been
disputed to my knowledge, what the
name wal of that _poor young woman.
Cur'ous, auit it? Her name was Annie, ,
I've seen linen sit and wrangle over big-
ger matters in the story, as how the
wind was. on a certain day, or who it
was that picked them up, and. so on;
but I never heerd one yet deny that
the young Woman's name was Annie.
"You See they was mostly older and
settled down; used to their wives by
that time. And then it turned out PO
with Bub. The chap was musical too.
I've heerd tell, Anatolie* had it, that
Called her Annie Laurie. - l' anppou
'you've_ heerd a song. ;called 'Aani
Laurie'? ! All I know is what fol E' ?, Didn't sing 'Mini
.Laurie those as days they singoit these'n
don't know.
said.
THE HIJRON E3POSITOR,
"It was a blazing hot Jiily, I've heerd,
the July the 'Amerie.a', BO sail. Night
before they was to seil, itiwas dead -still,
and hot !ike to weaken you to rags. My
grandfather he was out a Ilittle late, to
get a sou' -wester that bel had mending
up in a little old shop thr+ used to stand
over there beyond Davie's' Fish Dinners
—tore down long ago. Kis house, you
see, was there—about therie, acrost Front
street ; and them two you ig things, they
lived in a little alley, Joiig since made
away with, and he had 1 to pass their
house in going home. And because they
was so young, and beesus4 of what come
after, I suppose, he said, s
never forget to the day I
•the sight I saw in wal
Bub's, eays he.
"It was so hot, he st.ys, that the
curtain was rolled up, andI they'd set the
)
light off in an inner rpm, thinking,
mebbe, that no one would dee. Or mebbe,
in their love and misery], they didn't
think at all. But the l light shone
through aerost, and ther0, they sat, he
says, half indistinct, likl shadows, in
one another's arms. '
"He thought she must have had some
wrapping -gown on, he mid, of a light
color and thin, because it I was so hot;
but not considering it quite, proper to re-
flect upon, - and ha f ash4med to have
looked in, although not Meaning to, he
couldn't say. But t te poor'young woman
she sat in her husba A's 1 ,p, and Bub,
poor
fellow! WAS brushing off her hair.
She had long yellOw hair, folks say,
almost to her feet. , So there sits poor
Bub, brushing of it for her and just. as
grandfather went by, she put up her
L.
little hand—the May a woman has,
you knew ---against be hnsband's
cheek.
".To the day he died my grand-
father never mentioned that outside the
family. It seemed a w'ekedness, he
maid. He jammed his hat a rost his eyes,
and hurried home to his ()slim folks. It
was an old story to him and grandmother,
he said.
" 'But,' says he, 'I felt i as I'd have
taken a five year voyage,' ! says he, `if
them two young things, kilit six weeks
married, could have been, let alone a
little longer. They was liiing,' says my
grandfather very solemn, , 'what, never
comes but once to no one. They'd ought
to have been let be. That kind. of
thing's too skerce in this world to be
easy spoiled. God pity us 'says grand-
father.
"Wal, Flo the next morng down the
crew come, when the title nade, to the
old wharf—rotted away, that wharf did,
fifty year agp—where the ',America' lay
at anchor. And the yourfg man that
they called Bub was among lern—pale as
one twelve hours dead, folks sad; and
about as still. But he spokue no word to
nobody.
"The boys said she see ed to have
said good-bye within the doo ; and when
she'd let him go, repented o it or found
it more than she could beali. And how
she fellered him a step or tlwo—but he,
never knowing, didn't turn. 1 And when
she saw the boys,- and folks about, she
•stood a minute looking scared and unde-
cided; and then they say she turned and
ran—and never spoke; and that he never
knew, for no one had the heart to . tell
him. Ancl as she ran, a e flung her
hands above her head, and that long hair
she had fell down and float4d out, I've
heerd, But she never spok nor cried,
And Bnb walked on ; and t e boys they
looked the other way.
"They had a likely voyage, I've al-
ways understood, and made itheir port in
safety; although in war tim' s, ad feel-
ing,i 1 suppose a little ner ous all the
while. I forget the Ow. It was some-
where in the West Indies. : They took
in a cargo of cocoa and rum. 1 1779, you
know, was in the lievolutibnary War.
I had a great-uncle that was killed in
Stony Point that year.
ys he, 'I shall
rre,' says he,
ing by poor
i
r
"Wal, the 'America' s114 sidled for
home on the 25t1 of , Noveedber. Cap'n
Elwell, he calculated to be ihome, some
folks said by New Year* some by
f.Thristmao ; but that seems t� be onreli-
able, though the facts come ' nigh enough
to it. They sailed in par icular good
spirits. Sailors are like hoses beaded
for home. Seems as if they'd take the
A'mighty's wind and weath r like bits
between their teeth, to get there.
'Li particular, I've heerditell, it was
so with the young chap that they call
Bub. On the out voyage re'd moped
like a molting chicken ; saidjnothing to
nobody ; never complained iser fretted ;
just moped. He hung round -grandfather
a good deal, who was civll to him, I
guess, being sorry for the lad Once he
drew hine on to talk about her, of a quiet
evening, when they were ou watch to-
gether • and he told him how he'd find
when he got back, the comft that she'd
a
taken in counting of the days, nd how
women he had known grew quiet after a
while, and contented like, and how the
first voyage was the. worst; and what
grandmother said to him when he come
back, and things like that. II guess he
cheered the ereetur up.
"From the hour theY Weighed for
home, folks say, you never iJaw another
like him. It seemed as if the 'America'
n
wasn't big enough to hold hr. He said
nothing to nobody, even th--only he
began to sing. They say he, had a beau-
tiful voice. Of nights, the 1loys set out
on deck to bear him.
"About half seas home, tile 'America'
she entered on a run. of find weather.
There was fogs, aud thin* was head -
w i nds, and there was some riain and sleet.
And there come a spell, tii*ed cold as a
woman when her fancy's de agin you—a
chilling, erawlin', creepin' ffish sort of
cold, that of all things is in st onpleasant
when on sea or land.
"Elowsomever, they made good fight
against it, though discouraged, till they
got a'most to Cape Ann. 19/hen come up
an awful storm. "There's n hymn I've
heerd my boys sing to Stinday-school.
They sing it this way; '
"'Safe, oafs at hom 1
No more to roam;
Safe, safe at home l'
I tell you now, it take o a s4iilor to sing
the seuse into them words. i There's no
other callin' that I know o where the
nigher you come to home Ole bigger your
danger. Most folks when, herr° going
anywhere feel safer nighertl atthcycome
to it. At sea it's different The very
rocks you played acrost wh n you was a
baby, the old reefs and be es and cliffs
ou 'know' by inthes, an4l kive like
brothers,--i-they'll turn on . fou and gore
you to death of a dark night, ma if they'd
been bounding bulls gon mad. And
the wares 'you've Zearned tto swim in,
and 'plashed about and pd4lled. .in, and
coaxed your lather's heavtdery through
when your hands wasn't begcesmosigia. to
hold lb tor—theseirites 'midit tug* agin
you, se if You'd.been their 'deadly doe,
end:Coed yoiCup as if - yet &splinter,
and grind you to pieces as eliff; five
rods mebbe from your mit front door,
with your chiklren's shadows on the
window -curtain before your yes,
"There's an old proverbi we used to
have round Gloucester 'A ilor's never
got home till he's had hisdiner,' mean-
ing, 1 take it that same idea.
"Wal, you see, when th 'America'
j
was hove nskoff Cape Ann, then come.
up this storm I speak: of. They was
within an hours' sail of bo*e. they'd
had eest by soa'-east winds, and a fine,
drivin' snow -storm, squally and ill-tem-
pered. ,That was about thefirst of Janu-
ary, most folks say. My gr.4ndfather he
said it was the 27th of Deeember, two
days after Christmas, by hie reckoning.
That Was off over the P'int-t-in that di-
rection. He was up the inain-fo'Fail.
Grandfather was trying tO tie a reef -
point, With his fingers nigh frozen t,o t,
and the bitter wind a-blindieg him. All
at once there comes a dead l shift. The
wind she veered to the nor'rd at one
awful bound, like a great 1 opard, and
struck thim like to strike ijrn down.
Throtigh the horrid noise he:bears Capin
Elwell shouting out his orders like a
man gone mad; but whethci: it was that
they didn't understand, or Whether be-
couse so many of the creW bad froze
their fingers, I can't ; say. Anyhow, it
all went agin them, and the mainsail
froze and the jib balked, and scoot they
went tinder full canvas, headed out to
sea beforethe dead north wir0.
"Wal, by the time they'd; furled and
come to their wits again, and strove to
look about 'em. and crawled up gaspin'
from the deck where the wind had ham-
mered'of 'ern down as flat as, dead, they
made a horrible discovery, for at•hheern and blow was lighteoed more
ilwegosttidSnh:
'America' she began to flop' t
yon in that manner that yo
think much of if you didn't understand
it; butlf you was a seafarin man your
heart
iiillntaomseef
,,.1,1 whioan,di nstandea
cries Cap'n
Elwell, turning pale, I've hserd, for tbe
first time upon the voyage, 'has happened
to the rudder?'
"Then up steps one of the ys,---him
that had the helm,—and tells him, short,
like this :
" 'Sir ! we've lost our rudd r. That's
what's happened.'
"Wal, there's disaraters an ditarsterce
and some are AS much wusa wins than
others as the small -pox is wuss than the
chicken. I've been to sea a _oat part of
my life. I've been wrecked, four times.
I've been in Death's jaws till I could feel
'em crunch upon me times again, and I
give it as my personal opinion, ruther
lose my mainmast, or I'd ruther run
aground, or I'd be stove in aft, or I'd
take my chances mostanyhow, before I'd
lose my rudder.
"Wale the 'America, she lost hern. and
'
there they was. It was the first of Janu-
ary, 1780. Cold. COld as the eternal
grave. On an almostonsailed sea, five
poor freezin' fellows by themselves. Al-
most in sight of home .too,
"There they was. No more power to
been five
wash -tub.
and -peep'
arbor and
manao her than if i they'd
young ones put to sea in a
Just about as if you and the
I was to put out here int' the
leave your oars to hone.
"I've heerd my grandfath r sit and
tell how she behaved1 Possessed as if
she'd been a human Creetur, fust she'd
start and put like mad for sea, head
nown and keel up, aft she'd scour the
"wean over. Then again she'd back, and
go for boine, like to dash hers lf agin the
coast just for temper. T en she'd
change her mind, andlseem to draw her-
lelf up and step along, sta.telly, like a
oady ou a pleasure brie', and minding her
own business. Then Tebbe she'd strike
hop -seas, and just set these waddlin'
like a mighty, helplees, dull old duck.
Then more like she'd take the notion
and make for the nighest breakers like a
bee,
"Hey? No. I never read about her.
Constance, did you say they called her?
I had a second cousin of thate\name.
Put aboard without a rudder on the
Mediterranean ? Lived five year? We
—all. I don't know. That's a bigger
yarn than mine. Did you have it from
any of the lady's relations?
(To be Continued. )
4. Trio of iant
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There is on exhibit on in 4 store on
State street in this cit perha s the most
remarkable couple in he world—a man
and woman who are giants in stature.
They are Mr. and Mrs. M. V. Bates,
whose home is now in Sevii e, Medina
ilt
county, Ohio. They are eh 7 feet
14 inches in height, the husb nd weigh-
ing 47$ pounds, while the wife weighs
413 'retinas. The common sized visitor
when placed between them, feels very
much as Gulliver must have felt. when
he fell among the giants. Mr., or Cap-
tain Bate/ as he is ca11d, is a lfinely pro-
portioned man, of ruddy, healthy -looking
complexi n, straight and military -look-
ing in his regimentals. Hist immense
stature,io not so noticeable as 'that of his
wife, who seems almost awkward some-
how on account of het' length, she being
actually taller for a woman than he is
for a man. They are evidently people
who, if not so wonderfully tail, would
be considered commonplace. They are
intelligent, however, and the lady
especially feels the awkwardnes of her
position as the object of the Curiosity
and open-mouthed wonder of the multi-
tude. In an interesting conversation
with our reporter, she showed openly
her dislike of the life she is leading, and
her longing to return to her home in
Ohio. Their home, by the way, was one
built and furnished especially for them.
The ceilings ate 12i feet high, and no
doorway is less than '81 feet high. Of
course they find the hotel aceommoda-
tions unsuitahle to them wherever they
go, as the doors as solow,
_ low NA tbe beds
so short. One of the strangest facts
about their history is that they were the
children of common people. Mrs. Bate's
father Wius only 5 feet 4 inches in height,
while her mother was only a common -
sized woman. /ler brothers and sisters
are of no remarkable height. Captain
That's father was 6 feet 2 in height—a
tall man, but a dwarf, compared with
his son. Bates is now 29 years of age.
He is a native of Lacher et:may, Ken-
tucky. His wife is, a Nova Scotian, 27
yearn of age. They were married in
London, : England, while travelling in
that country on exhibition.--Rockester
&press.
A New iiiPorting Enterprise.
A Nov Weans wrecker lately under-
took to complete -*-e,ontract in a given
time, but, A* the„ fmal .day approached,
lound that hiailiverawere making little
Prigrolleri, wit,* 411. Mkt. auci that- his
cosksetwasilt dan..E.Pf beingrorfeited.
aviigM.ur,,/i40.49Pa40
efts tor of in , and, baring
reached the bottom, found Lis seven
workmen intently watching seven crabs.
Close examination diseovered that the
name of some, celebrated race -horse was
inscribed upon the back of each of the
crustacea, andthat they had been match-
ed for a series{ of races, ione of which was
in progress at the time. I The came of the
delay, was explained.
I /II:14 Itk Ai,
GARROW & liADENHUIST, Barristers, At-
torneys, 8o1it6tors in Chancery, Sze. Office in
McLean's new binck, corner Market Sqnare and
Hamilton Street, Goderich.
CAI:110W. 456 G.. A. RA DT:NM:ST.
cAERON 3IcFADDEN, Bo rrieters and
1.--/MSolicitors in Chancery. Goderich. 342
' M. C. CAMEDON.1 11. MCFADDEN.
ODST
CA
.E.ptEmr,Er. 8
_
FFiCE STORE, WAtiON.
! OF THANKS
1 ---
1, 'elf:10112137 1:13%;folleili:1:ehtsdbroyeas..iiihre:oildtea::ed3sipb;:ent:r:llGroEn4;deiaogainear:jedgforiee t:
at relpectfully to thank my lItuneyrra
'1;11Onf
loYitunel 36360,t7 tIqrttatiprpera,ot:1;:eaw,vtenodkrten:ei:td,0arzaeitat:el.
1 i8
who have n rt paid up their ace-ounts,
°I°1i.w411131-otlinifdji136'st'iB limit respectfully intimate:ittei
1878, to c and fie so et °Me, either by t
note, as I nst have It settlement. tieuettji
without any further rtditice..
If von wa
You would
NNTILLIA:‘I C6nveyancrx and Commi.4- where, as I
sioner in B. It., Wroxefier. Auctioneer and twain the
Appraiser. Accounts and notes collected on
reasonable terms-
f yon wa
11131 Agent
RI L. DOYLE, Barrister, Attorney, Solicitor in , c ; Ag
out
over JOrdan's Drag Store, Goderieh, and mparay,
-1-7* Chancery, tte., Goderich and Seaforth. Of- ; pr sperons
10 , and co
Ridd's Store; Seaferth. 854 •
ei es. •
QQUIER 8c McCOLL, Barristers, Attonaeys-at- 1 tr
s-7 Law, Solicito s in Chancery, Notaries Public, .1
eke Goderieh and Brussels. W. R. SQUIBB, 6-0d-
eric.hi A. J. McCOLL, Brussels.
:mtOto:.:blE:11.-,:T„ft.„07othIn,ce0y::Nnt 1......27: tt:::
, 0 u eid to call on me before .g oing,
°tIlliy Iii°113;feiTneslultuesdEZ. me atemiti,
IF INSURNNOE.
or the Sun Mutual Life lesee,*
f Montreal, one of the bestendeot
if
B114703-8,
nsutance Companies in the Boren;
duetrd on the most economical
lways Attentive tO-pee
-1
,Give life a Call.
...iicaini:a!,,i ,aGt ePnia jtlagiousei, sIperAfj:yTaoin:oswses:n:tprit:B87rvofaceest, st000:61::
Sn r, Tea, &c., all very cheap for tash it al;
Po t °like tore. ,
E S f AFORT11 DRAY AYI)
S T A GE B USIIVES 8,
ltirA.LCOMSON WATSOE, Barristers, Attor- ;
311- neys, Solicitors in Chancery, cte„ Clinton,
Ont. 'Onice—Firet door east of the new Royal ,
Canadian Bank blinding. MOney to loan on farm I
property.
8. MALCONSON. 404 G. A. WATSON. 1
BENSON & MEYER, Barrters and -Attorneys 1
at Law, Solicitors in Chancerrand Insolvency, I
CyRoanrvieyy.ancers, Notaries Public, etc. Ordees—Scu-
forth andBrussela23,000 f Private Funds to
,
invest at ouee, at Eight per cent. Interest, payablt
. $Oi 3
'
STEDI arrister 5s, :A1 t 1 til .
'I I
JAS. H. BENSON.' 0.1 C. SIZI:Elt. ed
McCAU(HEY & TIOLME
Insolvency, Notaries Public; and Conveyaneers, GO)" bY r
Solicitors for the R. C. Bank, Settforth • Agentsfot Til
the Canada Nfe A. Rushee Cotapany,P i Cie
N.B.—$8O,000 to lend at 8 per eent. Farms fitt
Houses and Lots for sale.
To The People of seaforth.
HN CAMPBELL bele to return thatks tot}
Merchants and Business raen of Seaforth for
liberal Patronage awarded hinisinesheasima.
ontrol the Draying BusineesofSeafortit.
He would a o stete that he is now betterle,pir.
ed than eve to attend to the wants of his mtge.
placed another team in the sent%
il delivered pr omptly. House Ferret
carefully paid OD reasonable tout
ed, and all other chores intkIslias
n the shortest =Hee. Promptitude,
=aerate -charges are the carding -
ich he observes MIAs bnianses,
torneys at Law, Solicitcirs in Chancery eine erB haying
l'011101,1!
dens plo
nded to
lity, an
ciples w
58 CiY
ptiJ
E ACAS,
jG. SCOTT, M+ D. &c„Phisielan, Surgeon and Tile om B
Acconehenr, Seaforth, Ont. Office and real-
tortili and B
sal st and
careful and
the poaches
BEL, Pro
deuce south side f Goderich Street, tint door
east of Presbyterian Cluareli. 242
HL. VERCOfEci0M. D., C. M., Physician, Sur-
• geon ete., roner for the County of Huron.
Ofilee and Regidence corner cif Market and High
streets, next to the Planing Mill.
TIES, CAMPBELL &BIJRGESS, Physicians,
Surgeons, rand Aceouchenrs. OFFICE—.Main
Street, Seafosth, near the Stetion. 30TIN CAMP -
PALL, M. D, Coroner for Huron; JOHN A. Bun -
GESS, M. D.
424
:I- B. PHELAN,;M. D., C. M., (late of the firm
(-1 • of Shaver &,Phelan, Stratford) Graduate of
McGill University, Physician, Surgeon and Ac-
oeuchenr, &stadia, Ontario, Office—Rooms in
hleyees Block, formerly occupied by the late Dr.
Ring. Residence;Commerciel Hotel. Will at-
tend at Cerronbroek on Tuesdeys and Fridays. 898
!CC.BULL, L D. 8., Surgeon
u • Deutist,&e.,Seaforth, Ontario
Plate work, latest styles, neatly
exeented. All surgical operations
pedormed with cane and Promptitude. Fees as low
as can be obtained elsewhere. Office hours from
8 A. M. to 5 P. . Rooms ever MT. A. G. Mc-
Dougall's Store, Main-st. 270
'
D MeNAUGHT1, Veterinary Surgeon, Gradn-
• ate of Ontario Veterinary College Seaforth,
Ont. Office and Residence in rear of killoran &
'Ryan's. Calls prOnrptls attended. to, night or
day. A stock of iieterinary medicines an band.
Charges reasonable. Horses examined as to sonnd-
ness and certilleatee given if required. 407
_TAMES W. ELDER, V. S., Graduate of the
' Ontario Veterinary College. After devoting
two years to pre ice with Professor Smith, a
Toronto, has settled 'in Seaforth. Office at his
residence east of W. M. Chureh. Calls promptly
attended to by day or night. A large stock of
Veterinary Medicines constantly on hand. Horses
examined sag to sorindness and certificates given.
Horsos bought and sold on commission. 424
AM. CAMPBELL, V. S., ',licentiate and Prize-
• MPH of Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., and
Graduate of Ontario Veterinary College, Toronto,
hag settled permanPntly in Varna, wherehe will be
found ready and willing to atterrd to all kinds ot
diseases, in all kinds of animels (man excepted),
In all kinds of weather, and a all hours. Resi-
dence and office two doors east of Cook's Tem-
perance Hall. 319
Ditit1iii431.AKI NG.
A11813 BORLAISD, Davos and Mantle Maker,
Booms over‘the Bank, Seeforth. N. B.—Ap-
prentiees wanted. 408
nIZESSMAKING — MISS QUINLAN, Dress
Maker, Seaforth. Dressmaking -done in all its
branches in the rooms over Thine Reld's store. A
good fit and perfect Batistes/Men guaranteed. A -
prentices Wanted iMmediately. 448
IIIIMOIDIAL.ANIE 0 US.
3- P. BRINE, iAcenced Auctioneer for the
' County of Huron. Sales attended in all
parts of the County. All orders left at the Ex-
eosimore Office will be promplly attended to.
0.031MERCIAL LIVERY, Selaforth, Ont. T. A.
SIIA,RP, Proprietor, Comfortable and elegant
carriages, and first-class relleble horses always
ready. Charges moderate. Criiice'and stabler; on
Huron street, second door ertat of Main gtreet.
Orders left at any of the hotelpromptly attend-
ed to. 1 899
THE Proprietor df the Woolen Mille, 31itchell,
-1- would reapee,tfully tender' his thanks to the
public'and farmeris in particular, for the very
Liberal Patronage during the ;net eepeora end in
doln8 so would cell their attention to the fact
that having purchaser the abowe mills and being
determined to build up a custom trade—It good
work, fair dealing rind strict attention to businese
will do it—and having spendt sb geed deal of time
and ;stoney in reps
"e31e 1:f main-
ery, he is now proper de kinds Custom
work in the very hest style and on the ghortest
notice, an especial ' atter ties' will be paid to the
Custom Work this season,
My stock of GOods is now complete In tol
branches. Expechil care has been taken in the
manufacture of these goods; which have been
made for imy own retell trade, embracing Heavy
Tweeds, Extra Fulled Clotb, Scarlet, Grey and
White Flannels, ana Fancy Flannels ungurpage-
able, Union Flannels and Stocking Yarn in vari-
ety; all of which I em row selling cheap for cash,
or trade for wool, a cent a pound snore than mar-
ket prlces allowed.
anufacturing done at the following rates;
87q; Fulled Cloth, 85e; Satinet, 80e;
lankethag, 25e, and I find cotton; Fancy Shir
Ing, 28c; Spinning, 4eper pcund, and 9 ponndis
of yarn given out o/ 10 ponnde of wool; Carding,
c; Fulling and Pr/riming, 10c Coloring, 10e.
All work done ueder roy own personalsupervis-
io n, and all work warranted well done or no
charge made.
D. H. DORMAN,
445-18 Proprietor, Mitchell.
NCTICEI
TO GRANGEOETSH, EFRsArIERS AND
A8 THEY occupy' the attention of all these
hard times, the subscriber is determined to
meet them by offering good inth „Hemlock, " not
12allionotRii=17., rialisf,Osteirl,t1g.412_1111affi:fet
Fencing, at $7, roar Caeh.P All enters ever 4.000
5 per amt. discount. Call and see if yon aril;
get what is represented.
/300X A7
Thoants over 8 months will be charged
8 Pererenctutbseriber thankg his mannerons customers
for their liberal support, and solleits a continu-
ance of their favOrei .70EN 'THOMPSON.
438 Steam SsirMillielleKillop.
MARRIAGE LICENCES
OR ex KIT Ill iv, ALT E
1332,4*!th4riM4111(rit•t,b!
enteuant-Govemor c4
IPOIllrfauttolity °tofu177i_ gAftlirr0
Udn
On saL
TS !ALIN A
"^L alId DA.
on the She
isuitlall who
1
all and
fore
1
the Traveling Public.
yalltail Stage still alive and-flour-
ies .requiring to travel between Sir
Ages will find the lime Suet*
osti comfortable. The Adversity
ber; the horses fast and renal/timid
arm, arid comfortable. JOHN gap.
deter.
•441
;
RS; AND DAIRYMEN.
IITNEY, Scalar*
sgilotViillatifeer11
at once,and at prices thatwili
ant* geartiele.
See; What She Cox Lo Be.
uitehasing Elsewhere.
THF PWEST AND BEST COAL OIL
i In th market Wholesale and Retell.
Eveky Ki21(.1 of Tin, Work, C0118tantly on
I nt.lor Made to -Order,
Bein
483
Str ember the place—conzos7winohuiTeslisie
,
EAFORTH PLANING MILL,
SASH, 000RAND BLIND FACTORY
trust thathd May be favored -with a COlitinSantil
ts
TH subscriberbegs les.ve to thank blame:nem
-i- c tomer for the liberalpatrolaege eztendedte
him since commeeeing business in -Seger*, Abi
of th same. :
Pa es intending to build vonld de well login
him 4 call, aahe will continue to keep ea band a
arge stook of alitinds el
pi, r'PINE LUMBER
, ] 0
411.1411.E14,
' Dli)0118, BLINDS, MOULDINGS,
1 SHIt.NG ES, LATH, ETO.
He eels cofffident of .givingsatisfactiontothaii
who ayfavOur him with theirpatronage, us**
but fl at-class:workmen are 0711ployed,,
1 t4
--articarattention paid to custoniPitalas
201 JOHN II. BROADFO0T4
.,.•••••••asst
THE CMMERC1AL LIVERY,
SEA FORT1J.
GEORGE WHITELEYI
TTAVING pUrchtcd the Stoc'A and Trade -dike
Comm rciall Livery, formerly Bell's, trots
Messes. Mo eon IS.: Co., begs to Mete thatbe ir
tends earryin on the businegs in the eldslindi
a r d has adde I.several valuable borsciand vehicle; -
to the forinci1v laige stock. None but
Firs ClaRsponifortable VelLieksantlOod
Rer ble floraes !rill be Kept
Covered end Open Buggies and -careseessal-
Doub e and S nele Wagons Always Ready bate, -----
tipfl lel Al en esigemeysle ivith Gamma'
1C1H1 Men/
wiOnrod rigirloenaft ttlytheattSentadrelea isoo.r. any of the Eolell
OS
001'101110N STEAMSHIP COMFY,:
vg BEL'S all Weekly from Quebec for Liver
91, ea ling i at Belfast, Through Tit&
ssne from Segforth to Liverpool.,
1
Steerage, S afoith to Liverpool,- ..
Cabin, Seat Alai to Liverpool., -.m. 68
A. ARMITAGEektot
A few thou Audi dellars to loan on ilelsari
liarm properts , prifeippte ye
lpayable at
nt;tagesimissu
floma Yv2:111113• XI° T11til Al3g Lots for gsle Sellerth
end gnRndvLlie. ; Cell and see elan, isiaffltiw
tie rs.
488 A. MINIUM
11
U TER TUBS.
8 NIVEL 'TROTT
8 now o band at the )3-eaforthlriblise100
a numb r of his well and favoriblylutots
Mdchine wrp,e,cl Butter raciatio.
These Paegesarethe beet in use,ervi irr,d
give satistact on.
PECIAL NDUCEMENTS TO
LA1GE PUROBASEitit
r. Trott e peets in a Albert time to osorloSeg,_
the amputee tae of -'-• Tubs Onalarceein
SAKCEL IBM ,t40-4#
INSOLVENT AOT OF 1815,
In the Matter of PHILIP VOLL
an Insolvent.
I SAMUEL GLYN MeCAUGHETeM hess
of 8es(orb,uthetozrnfyof Ett,rat
ites
beat -appoint Assignee in tb nra
C -w tossohrwe not already filed tbsirflaW,,k_
are nested Lo file their claim; be1als-r.r7
in otie month.
B. -G. IllecAucart mew*
forth, A gust.18, 1870.
G oil pEWS0,
glivE come to , the cowing= that
hT
those Tvo D07411 Sewing Machines itilbe"/
price. Come now if you want tAxaske -
A 8 G BARGAIN
All4 84we your 11101107. COMO SOON
g9ArAlg "440 .440140
.BI� DAYS._
1 ,tl�bold Atikvioe &OASIS
art arlastittarywirffiait
114,
TWA door Boslaz of tin Fos vaus,
- Seadoeth.
nire:ehre
aespo,
ng
,, 10 Ito al nWI1Yllir, legr te iy. 1 nt oetite ystlin .yoy,eun %ell Ilzdajek:aahediv:!::eis
TO dear moth
•
nothing of
4:.' i Ittio14:17011t :in:: irri 01:ye 1 aYEi ailr lh, aktuw' iiniagl::::suyi ra sr,iya_ta sstl;':
,esSurnj* 't tan:tip-top,
1°11 call
4tIllinS:ttUII-
Welitley
*444 3743 as
y dear, return
*16, n' t.
was the 4-eply.
e. "That's cutti
pi tia‘y00teititifeii.x,ht:Csitobufftrmisceie douhal,to:w.::ii
ra Uning their agt
e *Old "taxidermi
00.4tifoeste. were looking
ithditriniritJanitsa.11 statito:ughl
ilderthillitoliboseills:opianualhrdliyilliselcoreivf:eredx:
Finally be replied e .
Taxidermist is the 3
stli(i:droly jo;heoine&en,flessr,0:ine.,n1s ewl
4--.4.4rbere was a K
ibeit:00:celehovelidfitwer,piTteptioasAti
5.big mountainy fend
111111:41;;I:AY1- :1°Di:it:W.:ill:: ithb4 Teraitkai
.tte;c4i'ei)°.? sia:"Tbell-ars-ql-tilii
''i ; kilt an Orangefe
the priest, rubbin) oil
elanee out all the res
day'satIiiii-aheA, ,, elh a alb!, ee (t,o, r:la, :in; utlkun :lin: 1-1
Dunlop a t wIla
likepthat-Paasilhe we asw,
kiOly --offered. to se
,aialiat7ta.k, 'it'Ith'sainune:
but ;I . pi. ye
hltoh'en:,,110,senn:letai'vt4ong,
wary." exPlisriTneeveantiinvel
GOrilian isnot, "J
1
cheese in the ither
belanee." The him
se on, and, like
pig, he moved awae
tilli2L'ss
. 11 ela„ Stewat
very -old -and, privile
vssite,d lAnrUsh, Chi
4)14 iiithilee4es i41,1r2rtsii:ditge
well -kept Gerd's-acr
far ilieer place tae
Ptwla:blM::15:11k:V:Inika'cA),:'14::4*Neli eel i It 14alti 1::
ktrk
s'tani:elikti rs aboew1:317tY)
Ylewr-olnunge' r3ri)taca uh°ekre
at halm, an: ken 1
vfhiell rm. wankel:1.
trait,
Praetil
1 A aitarlemout
livering goods °in
en leaving the hou
tard pie setting in
Lady ef the h.ouse
for dinner, liki -i
4nti driving diree
la,dy's husband, -01
him he had ,11,134
:itla if Ihe would
'Weald have a nie
isourse the cheese
after eatiefactoriI
tlie question ares
plate. The merel
tare of th.at, atid
his words, dashe
When the inerchl
ner that day his
boxing any tcesan
custard pie for al
window to cool,
boys must 'have
tValin't pie bun
pleased about
"mum." Next
meeting the mar
In reply the oth
'whose plate was
Rolston Transcr
For
It was a job
thing at a deee
Bell him at all
hauthd. over g
they wer-e tee h.--
day our bead 45a
ha and told the
wonld certainly
for. be left th
'back and waite
"What's the
said Twister, t -
'were lying in a
-"These, Mr.
eee-half cents a
'naming half a
41:welve and
t twelve we rb
"Well, we
said the sales
"Well, .I
men -
bali I'd Ins& an lob
finy.
"Well, you
and a half," sa
«1 he should b
"Well, I do
said Twisters.
"Very well,
tor yn
threik m the