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The Huron Expositor, 1876-10-27, Page 7NOVEMBER a, 18V1 'S. oath. OF ation it e. E ful have way TEAS. TEAS. TEAS; FROM THIS DATE UNTIL NOVEMBER FIRST': 1 WILL SELL TBA-. Ili 5 OR 10 POUND LOTS AT PRICES TO SUIT THE TIMES. PRICES WILL RANGE FROM 25 TO 65 CT1+eTT` PER POUND. COME AND CET YOUR WINTER:: STOCK AND SAYE MON By Buying in Lots. at CHEAP CASH GROCERY: HIGHEST MARKET PRICE Paid CASH far 500 BZTSIM ELS OF GOOD POTATO ES, Delivered: at the CHEAP CASH GROCERY. EKED DELIVERY. . FAIRLEY, Seaforth. DOMINION BLOC SEAFORTH • BROWNELL HAS JUST RECEIVED AITOTB1 3 LOT .OF FIR/S1-1 TEAS WARRANTEDTQ GIVE SATISFACT1ON.: CASH • PAID FOR BUTTER AZV D EGGS. J. BROWNPL AT IT AGAIN. WILLIAM CAMPBELL,. MERCHANT TAILOR AND -CLOTHIER, SEAFORTII. AFTER having passed through the Fiery Far- nace is again at business purified and regener- ated. Through the kindness of Messrs. Killoran & Ryan he has been permitted to take up TEMPORARY QUARTERS in one side of their large and commodious brick store, where he will be glad to see and serve bilk_ old friends and customers. He has yet a Superb Stock of 01 ths OF ALL KINDS, And- is daily receiving more. so that, he is an Ka prepared as ever to give satisfaction Remember his location and call and see brim W.M. CAMPBELL. CID! Mk E. B. HOLLIS, Comic Character Vocalist, AVING taken up his residence in the vicinity of Seaforth, respectfully informs Parties ting up Concerts and Entertainments, air Tia Lo sing be at liberty to accept engagements at the sumo,, either in town or cotuitry, dU 1 the present winter season. The Toronto says : " Mr. E. B. Hollis is powerful in fscial pressions, and as a stage comic singer Isere{) Xc•, ad% any and superior to most`'T For ams, . dress Mr. E. 13. HOLLIS, Comic Yoc,, forth, Ont. CARD 4h` THANKS. We ti oundeisiga eA feroreby the late Are at Seaforth, s ndOrrair for the amounts severally' placed o names with the Gore District gutuai i> saes Company, beg to tender our' ami #s thr-origh their Agent; W. N. WATSON. ' for tha very prompt and satisfastOTY which our defrost have been Botled. Ls ,tom; v'sm.'Gra*.Hie, $1 "; $2, ; Julius" Durran, $1,000; W. $213. . N±DVEME& .3; 18 0, 111. Where is My Txunkl I"t is well known in Scotland that the road from Edinburgh -ter Dundee, though only 43 miles inextent,. was wont to . be ,dated tedious aud troublesome by the ition of, two armis of . the sea, owe y, the Firthk of Forth and Tay, one of which is seven, and the other the miles across. Several rapid and welbcondacted stage coaches travel upon this road ; but, from their frequent load- inq ld unloading at the ferries, there is not only Considerable delay to the -travel lers, but also rather more than the usual risk afdamage and loss to their luggage. On one occasion it happened that the common chances against the safety of a traveller's integuments were mul- tiplied;in a mysterious, but most amus- ing manner—as the following little nar- rative will show, The gentleman in question was an in- side passenger—a very tall man, which was seemuch the worse for him in that situation—and it __appeared that his whole baggage consisted of a single black trunk, one of medium size—and no way remarkable in appearance. On our leav- ing Edinburgh this trunk had been dis- posed of in the boot of the coach, amidst a great variety of other trunks, bundles and carpet bags, belonging to the rest of the passengers. Having arrived at Newhaven, the lug- gage was brought forth from the coach, and disposed upon a barrow, in order that it might be taken down to the steam- boat which was to convey us across, .Just as the barrow Was moving off, the tall gentleman said— "Guard, have you got my trunk ?" "Oh, yes, air,'. answered the guard ; you may be sure it's there." "Not so sure of that," queth the gen- tleman ; "whereabouts is it r The guard poked into the barrow, and looked in vain among the nuiiiberless articles for the trunk. At length, after he had moozled about for two or three minutes through all the holes and corners of the -Mass of integuments, he drew -out his head, like a terrier tired of earthing a badger, and seemed a ltttle nonplussed. "Why, here it is in the got," . ex- elaimed the'�passenger, "snug at the bot- tom, where it might have remained, I suppose, for you, till safely returned to the coach yard in Edinburgh." The guardmade an awkward apology, put the trunk upon the barrow, and away we all went to the steamboat. Nothing further occurred till we were all standing beside the coach at Petty- -eur, ready to proceed on there princi- pal terraqueous part of our journey through Fife. Everything seemed to have been stow- ed into the coach, and most of the pas- sengers hadtaken their places, when the tall gentleman cried out -- "Guard, where is my trunk ?" "In the boot, sir," answered the guard, -"you may depend,upon that." "I have not seen it put in," said the passenger, "and 1 don't believe it is there." "O -h, sir," said the guard, quite dis- tressed, "there can surely be no doubt (1, - out the trunk now." `F There ! I declare—there !" cried the owner of the missing property ; "my trunk is still lying downyonder upon the sands. Don't you see` it ? The sea, I declare, is just about reaching it. What a careless set of porters ! I pro- test I never was so treated on any jour- ney before." The trunk was instantly rescued from its somewhat perilous situation, and, all having at length been put to rights, we went on our_way to Cupar. Here the coach stops a few minutes at the inn, and there is generally a partial discharge of passengers. AN some indi- viduals, on the present occasion, had to leave the coach, there was a slight adis- composure of the luggage, and various trunks and bundles were presently seen departing on the backs of the porters, after the gentlemen to whom. they belonged. After -all seemed to have been again put to rights, the tall gentle- man made his wonted inquiry respecting his trunk. "The trunk, sir," said the guard, rath- er pettishly, "is in tho-boot." "Not a . bit of it," said the owner, who in the meantime had been peering about. "There it lies in the lobby of the inn." The guard now began to . think that this trunk was in some way• bewitched, and possessed a power, unenjoyed by other earthly trunks, of removing itself or staying behind according to its own good pleasure. "The Lord have a care o' us, sir," cried the astonished custodier of bag- gage, who, to do him justice, seemed an exceedingly sober and attentive person. "The Lord have a care o' us, sir. That trunk's no canny. "It's canny enough. you fool," said the gentleman, sharply ; "but only you don't pay proper attention to it." The fact was, that the trunk had been taken out of the coach and placed in the lobby, in order to allow of certain other articles being got at which lay beneath. It was now once more stowed away, and we set forward upon the remaining part of the journey, hoping that there would be no more disturbance about this pesti- .lent member of - the. , community of trunks. All was right till wee came to the lonely inn of St, Michael's, where a aside road turned off to St Andrews, and where it happened that a passenger had to leave us to walk to that seat of learn- ing, a servant having been in waiting to carry hieabaggage. The tall gentleman, hearing a bustle about the boot, projected his immensely long slender body through the coach window, in order, like the lady in the fairy tale, to see what he he could see. _ "Hallo, fellow," cried he to the ser- vant following the gentleman down the St. Andrew's road ; "is not that my trunk.? Come back, if you please, and let me inspect it." "The trunk, - sir," interposed the guard, in a sententious manner, "is that gemman's trunk, and not yours ; yours is in theboot." "We'Il make sure of that, Mr. Guard, if you please. Come back, my good fel- low, and let me see the trunk you have got with you." The trunk was accordingly brought back, and, to the confusion. of the guard, who had thought himself fairly in- fallible for this time, it was the tall man's property, as clear as the brass nails could make it. The trunk. was now the universal. sub-- =-jest of talk, both inside and out,;. and everybody said he would be;surprised if it got to its jeurney's end in safety. `;- All agreed that it. manifested a most extra- ordinary disposition to be lost, stolen or dyed, but yet_overyone thought that there was a kind of providence about it, 4. AT THE SIGN OF CU ON, E •. ROB 7 THE GOLDEN LION. OG4N At JAMIESON, SEA'FCRTi HAT HAT HAT HAT HAVE OPENED OUT THIS WEEK S AND S AND S AND S A ND CAPS 1 r HATS AND OAPS CAPSi75 ng aAND CAPS CAPS HATS AND CAPS CAPS OF HATS AND CAPS SELLING tO F F CHEAP. OVERCOATS FROM $3 UP .TO $20. All our Readymade Clothing is Splendid Value, Buyers day So. MR. MITCHELL Is on the Premises and Turning Out Good, and Stylish quits. (LOG -AN & AMIE SUN, THE GI -01.031\T LION, SE.A-r'ORT1, - ON'TA,RIO_ 1876. WADDELL & Co., SEAFORTH, 1876. U,. SUCCESSORS TO GRAY, YOUNG & SPARLING. Owing to the Steady Increase of our. Business since we commenced we have had to visit the Markets again, and PILES MORE Off' NEW AND FASHIONABLE GOODS ARE TO HAND THIS WEEK. We are therefore prepared to offer our numerous Customers better bargains than has ever been offered before in Seaforth. We would Call Special Attention to OUR BEAJTIF1TLBLACK LUSTRES. ,e THEY CANNOT BE SURPASSED IN VALUE. Our PLAIN and FANCY DRESS GOODS are Superb. Examine our WINCEYS, Plain and Checked, all Prices. Call_ ,and See our WOOLEN GOODS in Clouds, Shawls, Pelarines, &c. Ladies' SILK TIES and SCA RFS in \all colors. Gloves, Hosiery, Rufflings, Collars and Cuffs in endless variety. Our FLANNELS and SHIRTINGS cannot be beat for Variety, Quality and- Price. Damasks, Linens, Sheetings, Towellings, Ti ckings and Blankets at prices that sell them and satisfy everyone. We have without exception the largest and best assorted stock of Men's and Youth's READYMADE CLOTHING ever shown west of Toronto— Call and See It.. Gents' Ties and Scarfs, Shirts and Collars, Under -Shirts and Drawers. Our TWEEDS, for Price, Variety, Pattern and Design, are PAR EXCELLENCE. CLOTHING- MADE TO ORDER. We Have a Full Stock of General Groceries. Call and Get. THREE POUNDS of FIRST.RATE TEA for ONE DOLLAR:: SEAFQ. RTH, October 27th, 1876. WADBIi & Co., 9eaf Iwhich kept it on the right road after all; apd; :therefore., it became a` subject -of dlebatil odiether,the---a chancelagainst or the ehancea for, were likely to pre- vail. - Before we arrived at Newport,,where we had to go on boar&the ferry steam- boat for Dundee, the conversation had gone into other -channels, and, each be - ng engaged about his own concerns, no one thought any more about the trunk, till justssthe-barrow'was descending along the pier, the eternal long man cried out— "Guard, have you got my trunk?" "Oh, yea," cried the guard very Tromptly, "I've taken care of it now. here it is on the top of all." "It's no such thii%g," cried a gentle - wan who had come into the coach at Cu. - par ; "that's my trunk." - Everybody then looked about for 'the enchanted trunk, the guard ran back, and once more searched the boot, which he knew to have been searched to the bottom before ; and the tail gentleman gazed over land, water and sky in quest of his precious encumbrance. 'Well, guard," cried he at length, "what a pretty- fellow you are ! There, don't you see ?—there's m trunk thrust into the shed, like ee .piec of Ju�mer !" An) nd so it really was. At the head of the pier at Newport, there is a shed with seats within, where people wait for the ferry -boat ; and there, perdu beneath a form, lay the enchanted trunk, having been so disposed, in the bustle of nu - loading, by means which nobody could pttetend to understand. The guard, with a half -frightened look, approach- ed the awful objeet, and soon placed it with the other things on board the ferry- boat. On our landing at Dundee pier, the proprietor of the trunk saw so well after it himself, that it was evident no acci- dent was for this time to be expected. However, it -appeared that this was only a lull to our attention. The tall gentle- man was to go on to. Aberdeen by a coach then just about to start from Mer- chant's Inn ; while I, for my part, was to proceed by another coach, which was about toroceed from the same place -to Perth. A great bustle took place in the narrow street at the inn door, and some of my late fellow travellers were getting into the one coach, and some into the other. The Aberdeen coach was soon- est prepared to start, and, just as the guard cried, "all right," the long figure devolved from the window, and said, in an anxious tone of voice— "Guard, have you got my trunk ?" "Your trunk, sir !" cried. the roan; "what like is your trunk ?—we have nothing here but bags and baskets." "Heaven preserve me !" exclaimed the unfortunate gentleman, and burst out of the coach. It immediately appeared that the trunk had been disposed of by mistake in the Perth, instead of the Aberdeen coach ; and unless the owner had spoken it would have been, in less than an hour, half way- up the Carse of Gowrie. A transfer was immediately made, to the no small amusement of myself and one or `two other persons in both coaches who had witnessed its previous misad- ventures on the road through Fife., See- ing a friend on the Aberdeen vehicle, I took an opportunity of privately request- ing that he would, on arriviug at his destination, send me an account by post of all the further mistakes and dangers which were sure to befall the trunk in the course 4, the journey. To this he agreed, and, about a week later, I receiv- ed. the following letter "DEAR ,'., All went well with my- self, my -fellow travellers, and the trunk, till we had got a few miles on this side of Stonehaven, when, just as we were passing one of file boggiest parts of the whole of that boggy road, an unfortun- ate lurch threw us over upon. one side, and the exterior.gpassengers, along with several heavy articles of luggage, were all projected several yards into the morass. As the place was rather soft, nobody was hurt; but, after everything had again been put to rights, the tall man put some two-thirds of himself through the coach window, in his usual_ manner, and asked the guard if he was sure the trunk was safe in the boot ? " `Oh, Lord, sir !' cried the guard, as if a desperate idea had at that moment rushed into his mind, 'the trunk was on the top. Has nobody seen it lying about anywhere ?' "If it be a trunk ye're looking af- ter,' cried a rustic, very coolly, `I saw it sink into that well -en a quarter of an hour sync.' - " `a`ood God !' exclaimed th. tracted owner, 'my trunk is gone ever. 3h, my poor dear trunk 1--- whis place—show me where it disappereearedthe,' '"The place being pointed vut, he rush- ed madly up to it, and seemed as if he would have plunged into the watery pro- found to search for his lost property, or die in the attempt. Being informed that the bogs in this part of the country were perfectly bottomless, he soon saw how vain every endeavor of that kind would be ; and so he was with difficulty in- duced to resume his place in the coach, loudly threatening, however, to make the proprietors of the vehicle pay sweet- ly for his loss. "What was in the trunk, I have not 1 been able to learn. Perhaps, the title- deeds of an estate were among the con- tents ; perhaps it was only filled with bricks and rags, in order to impose upon the innkeepers. In all likelihood, the mysterious object is still descending and descending, like the angel's hatchet in Rabbinical story, down the groundless abyss in which case its contents will notjprobably be revealed till a Brent many thiugns of more importancdand equal mys- tery are made plain." —Even the cacti of the Western plains - f can be made useful ; we are fast learning that nothing in the world is worthless. An ingenious inventor has just started a ninety horse -power engine, crushing cac- tus into pulp for making paper. He sends twenty tons of this prepared fibre every week to a publisher in Philadei- phial He has a per mill of his own, and will use the ,cactus pulp from the deserts of the Pacific slope instead of straw. Hitherto, California has import- ed nearly all ita paper from the East., But this discovery will lead to the erec- tion of paper mills there, and the produc- tion rodtion of paper- so cheaply that it will bear shipment to the Atlantic coast. The supply of cactus in the Califor nil moun- tains isalmost u€ilissnited, and probably its use may even reduce the price of 'tater in then:sr-kat tithe world. T-hzia, thede$srt thistles of the Almost =trod- , denalopeirottboraciftAtre to aid /Jas diffusion of inter gence and learning, 54