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A liberal discount a to and ohe-s who advertise by the. year or half-year, Thess terms will i sil cases be het bard to ns Job De Pam Bills, aes Sporn : in 5. pansoms.' gramni Bote; Blan Forma, t) Books, Chocks, Books, I Blslnto Cards, Bal Cards, eo. of every style and tiouats i the. nce and i will bo a ound ed takes this op) TU pe Fim extensive practice which I ave of and' parties favoring me with their Sates | BU may rely on their tected. No effort i § profijable for patties: to place their Sales hands, at Laing Store and at iy own residence, A venue, Port Perry. Port Perry, Au. 17, 188). ary yecelved ag 'Auc, his, he Ew Ahlen n the raf and aiaranice INSURANCE CoRPANIES: * The Phitniz, The 7 The nh The Citraens, The Canada Fire and Marine, The 30 Union, and The Travelers. all classes of insnr- Fine PoLIcTes Poliel raed to interests being fully pro- | A will be spared to make ay Sale Register will be 'Meharry's Hardwate Union C. DAWES, Auctioneer. Proteastonal Caron, | AE D. ANDERSON, MB. M.D, FTMS, A i Boia Tn Solan R.C.P.. Sdwipobite © Paiversil to, graduate of Tris Coll Fellow of Trinity Tooat Rg of the College lege off + Royst College of Physicians, Edinburg, Physician, Surgeon, and Acconcheur. * Office over Mr. Corrigan's Store, Port Perry, ' § H.SANGSTER, M. D., Physician, Sur J. geon and Accopeheur, "ie Coroner for the County of Ontario . PORT PERRY. Office over Nott's Furniture Store, corner of qmreen and Perry Rtreets. ce hours from 9a, m. to12 m. wi leat the dwslling recently oecupled RB. WARE, Soronor for the County af of sapehen celts the town hall. Port Perry. M. F. SMCBRIEN, M.D, Mx Bl OS Lg pital tal, London, England.' a Oshaws. f Beaverto IN, incriice wag Abtomoey.ae La: ote josiu nC hancery, 'Gonveyancer, Notary Pub- a Brown & Currie's Store. 'Port Perry. Guy's The lsyeR. | T fe a § Pasig days of Sales wishing his services can call at the "Observer Office, Port Port Perry, Jan 10, 1879. B, MAJOR, AUCTIONEER. All parties Perry, sudaange for WwW! and Eldon, PEF" Parties Lice onsed Auctioneer, Valuator, &&. F% the Towuship of Brock, Uxbridge, Seott, Thorah; Bama, Has, Mari may rely on the utmost attention being given to their interests. T M. GORDON, posa able ace or on vious Tr ETE ath bY a ool: Hont, ad and weekly =r kv Yideenses Issued, "GX ani Tieketx for Passage He and from Great lemnity in case of ne n sold at lowes! Port Perry, April "4 Patan: EOF (from Brasth chats Goss FR bottle Sonviuces; bottle cure Port Perry, May 30, 1878. MONEY TO LOAN. HE Subsoriber is Ta prepared to lend mune, on improved property for terms frotn one to twenty years. Agent for, Western Caxapa Loan aw Savines Coxpany. He has also been instructed to invest large amount of Private Funds. No Commission, Inter st Eight per cent. N. F. PATERSON. entrusting theif Bales to me 'WM. GORDON, a Sinderland, Brock. T. of Brock, North Ontario; lected in Can ICENSED Auctioneer for the Towhship of Victoria. 'Residence--Cannington, Brock, Orders left at this office, or at his residence will be punctnally attended to. Debts col H. WALSHE, Thorah, Mara & Rama in Mariposa, ete., in the County ington, or otherwise, and w A \LS HE, the North Ontario Auctions WM. H EZZELWOOR. Licensed Auctioneer - WM HE Subscriber i prepared to ] Farm Hesurty, <A 4s per cent. Also on Village Security at a Higher Rate #9 MORT@AGLS BOUGHT. HUBERT L. EBBELS, BARRISTER. Port Perry, May 10, 1881. Solicitor - LEND ANY AMOONT y Zo, and tell hbor | hoa Ih Sanat] a| to cure Dyspepsia and Bile M0138 03UHIIN43S = AN EMPIRE'S DUST LIES of tetitrhing »ihcere thanks for the very liberal paironage bestowed upon the late firm of Roe & Shaw of Port Perry Marble Warks. 'I'he liberal patronage received in the MONEY [Private Funds] I'o Loan on good Farms, at 8. per cent in, o terest. - LYMAN ENGLISH, BaRmsTRR, &0., : TE 'Undersigned baving taken out a FILLINGS & CAMPBELL, Barristers Solicitors Office in. Bigelow's and Attorneys-at-Law, &c. orihe Ontario Bank. flack, Queen Queen St, Port Perry, Ont. COLIN H, CAMPBELL. Ao port rt Porry, Feb. 12, 1881, WELL, LL. Cannty Crown J FAREWELL L, B., ney Crown street, {oi Fa bie: Ofiod ate ly oe- Cochrane, 8q., Brock # | Whithy. niletton stad » 8. H. License as Auctioneer ir now prepared to attend to all sales entrusted tohim -- Having had much experience in handling Real Estate, Live Stock such as Horses, Cattle, Sheep, &c., Also-Farming Imple. ments of all kinds, Farm Preduce, &c, &c., parties placing their salesin my bands may rely on getting all forthe property thatis posible to bring. All orders promptly attended to, sale bills ade otiland sale notes jlurnished free of " HLL. EYMaN [] 1. BGI Gonier 4 Ry Oshaw fete street, rats the Post Office Ti. B., Barrister, At NG /SMIT < ibe A leltor in J hd Insolvency, Neary Publse, &e. +¥Meo--Moutilan's Block, Brock street, CIWhithy. Nolialtor in Chancery, charge, Parties leaving ele orders' at "the Osssrver Office, Port: Perry, will receive immediate an.i careful attention. Charges Moderate, WM. HEZZELWOOD. Raglan, Sept 10,1878. shaw November 21, 1866. past han had the effect of causing every Ceme- tery th hout this and adjoining Couptice To Bristle with Tomb Stones and Monuments, FROM THE .| PORT PERRY C. M'K KE INZIE, PROPRIETOR. re HE Subscriber having now fully ecuipped ve Liv very. Stablas with his new and hy a hails A of Supe Onrriages, | Pian Arse class Leis) LIVERY RIGS On Moderate Terms. C. MCKENZIE. Port Perry, Aug. 6, 1878 PORT PERRY LIVERY STALE YAREIE WORKS | The undersigned now takes the business and with intreaged facilities and if possible greater attention to business hopes for a still further increase of public patronage.-- BB. SEBNG one of the finest Sculptors and most Artistic Carvers on Stone, have been secured, ®| All orders promptly attended to. Choice Materiul, First-Class ship and Moderate Prices, Work . C. BHAW. Port Perry, Ang. 17, 1881. MACK'S MAGNETIC : MURRAY, a, March 28, 1877 O.N. VARS, L.D. 8. ; on all the latest princi- | Yous Sandaschete oa: shied (exfone) Brain Is Sure, Prom 30s SporaL A neral Loss vous Was rative es It the mowuey, MACK'S re? 3 NN TRADE MARK. (AFTER) ousness in He pi Eomfiin Power, RESO Proniraon, oa mato: 'ante, Kejivanaios i #3 wh and yor 5, he EXhauk! J or 12 CE free 2% ol pocivge, on and Nerve Foo. aud Rifectust Romedy for he Enfeehled nee of thon medy. . The and eae! an Invali te o! 8 mol WESTERN ASSURANCE COMPANY.|m INCORPORATED 1881. OCADITAL 8800000. (With power to increase to $1,000,000.) HEAD OFFICE, TORONTO. BEF" Insurances effected at the lowest nd cmrent rates on Buildings, Merchandise, lect, 'nd other property, against loss or damage JNO & D. J. ADAMS, Agents, Port Perry, Port Perry, Jan 22, 1879. we Ma Lo tid AGRETIC aE, Motels. THE WALKER HOUSE, PORT PERRY, I COMPLETE in. all its Departments W. HASLAM, Dec. 15, 1880. Por PERRY HOUSE, The uedersigaed haying leased for. aterm of years this-.comfortable, pleasantly located Hotel will endeavor by strict attention to the convenience and comfort of gneéte.to make the Port Perry Horse a desirable place of | entertainment for the general pnblic. Choice supplies for the table and har. The stable and yard carefully attended to. JOHN RUDDY. Port Perry, Dec 9, 1879. OMMERCIAL HOTEL, The subscriber hating succeeded Mi Dewart in the Commercial Hotel, Williams: the comfort and conven Elie supplies for the table and bar care- fally seleoted. PETER HOLT." La: wright, Maroh 4, bx RR SE A . burg, Cartwright, intends fitting it up with s oe ving to ience of the east of them, thé ftage stopped. | "Hold tip your hands, gentlemen, [1 and be lively; wo have no. time to waste." Ono aftor another the passengers were robbed. 'The man who had talked the loudest of his bravery and of hig' utter contempt for those who would allow their money to be taken without a fierce fight, gave up bis ple | money and his excellent pair oent | gelf-cocking revolvers without a struggle. Tho man who had talked | man of the investments he was about to make in the West, and who had | boasted of his wealth all the way that day, was fervently cursed by £0 | the robbers, who found barely five dollars on his person. The lady who i | had spoken at least once every half- bour all day long of that wonderful person, "My husband, the Colonel," and who bad manifested an air of superiority ever sincoshe had in- formed tbg.company, as she did very oarly on the journey, that her entire life had been passed on the frontier, fainted deadaway. A young lady from Vassar, who shrieked & full five minutes when a spidet ran across ber hand in the morning, sauced tbe whiter under the cold light of the | Bas been gone fifteen minutes." i |OLR, « - the stage and off with you,' Ie that did not need to 8 day--aud whioh hal sok varied was & command be uttered a scoond time. "On to borses, and wo are off was half an hour slow this morning too," kod pdr and and bad cost him bis daughter. of | its tones brought prompt obedience. a man floated after the stage, and | Miguel Gordon is more popular and drifted down the wind to the ears of the fleeing freebooters, "May its posssesion be #n ever- lasting curse to yop." CHAPTER II. If the neighbors and acquaint ances bad been asked why he was so poptler with them, the amswer would have been varied. To the i is wom- enter- prises would have been sufficient reason, To these who loved manly sports and wild life, his horsemah- ship and bis marksmanship would have appealed first, Those who had rode by bis side in the many fruit. less quests for robbers and. fugitives , pure and simple, derfol good luck in all bis fellow who took her y and actually asked him why he dida't take 'ber, too. A black-coated, whife-crarated gentleman, who bad insisted on asking grace at each meal that day, stood apd swore in not less than five languages while the robbers did their work. After this it wasn't to be wonder- od ut that every one looked at the quiet awkward lite man, who had been langhed at more or less all day ® see how ho acted ander presaure, He was going to the gold fields, he had rad, to seek his fortune.. When, therefore, the robbers tock from him a larger roll of bank bills than any of the passengers had ever seen be- fore, they hali-forgot their losses and the dangers of the situation in their interest in what was going an. The little man's shabby coat which had prompted more then one unkind re- mark during the day, was opened, and a diamond sind of great valae torn.from his vury plain shirt-front, At last they took his watch --a large old-fashioned thing in a very brassy- looking case. "See here, sir," hesaid, in an even tone, and with more dignity than any of his friends of a day had ever heard in his tones, "see here; you béve taken my diamonds and forty five bndred dollars in money, and I have pot complained, but I want to kéep my watch. ' It was my grandfather's, my father's, and mine. I meant it to be my son's after me. Spare me that." «Tt don't look worth much," said the man who had taken it, and he moved as though balf inclined to give it back. The other robbers were "assisting' the passengers to their places in the stage the little man and the robber wete" holding their parley ) linle a "Ivn & good watch for all its looks," said the little man, sturdily, in the sincere tones of a person who not for its valge." tomptensly. d the simpl the love he manifested for his two children Manuel and Manuela. Any man for miles around would have given time and money, would have even risked life for Miguel Gordon. Gordon worked in the litle camp of miners among the hills, He never loafed, he never drank, be never quarrelled. Once in two or three weeks he would tide to the settlement which had grewn up around the railroad station thirty miles to the south, where ho had made a home for his 'children. The miners bought their supplies at this little place, and most of them knew Manuela and Manuel--knew and shared theis fathet's admiration for them, Maniel was a slight and rather sickly youth of eighteen; Manuela was sixteen, and strung and band- some. The mining camp would have been proud to have them there. Every man in the camp woald have constiuted himself a protector of the children. But the father said the sottioment at the station was better for them, and that settled it, CHAPYER III. The twilight had not brightened into day one morning when a man rode up to Gordon's door and roused him with alperfecte hurrican of knocks Danger at the settlement and po time to be lost," was his summons. The note the swift rider had brought was a short, but only t00 definate. Some friends ofGordon's " A good-timekeoper? oiid gol the care?' Both qucslions Wore asked con- \ bad heard by sctidentectrtain rumors and ssen sail Sghhih bed led to au in 1 Examina tion showed that Manuela Gordon was about to elope with a certain looking stranger who bad won money at the the most of the sottioment by his skill at cards. will assert the worth of whas be They were going on the train al piss loves whatever. may come of it;|o'clock that morning. Soute were | « hat I want it for its posiations, af the handsome stranger ; g quiet and having ple and terrible earnestness of the man. Men who had families, and the women who lived with their husbands and child- ren on the frontier, loved him for ot 1 WR now?" in bad carried fora ates Sorin téb sbboiids in all that 'time before SHAFTER IV, more prosperoas than ever. His daughter has never been beard from and his térrible loss has aged him greatly. Still be is not entirely an- bappy. Hia life is bound up in-his son, He has brought Manuel with him to the camp now. Manuel uses his weapons, his tools, his horse. Father and son seem to be one.-- b his son wishes the father getd for. "He is a model father," is said of one, and "He is & model son," 'is said of the other. This morning they are working together amang the ledges. * We must put ié a blast bers, and loosen up the rock," said Miguel " we can fire it from the house. will light the fuse at exactly twelve." Ac ten o'clock all was ready and the two men seperated t0go to other parts of the camp. « At twelve o'clock wo will fire it were the last words of the old man " Al twelve--yes," veiled the When the shock of the great blast at Gordon's was felt, every cne in the camp or in the claims along the ridge looked up; and a half minute later the whole camp was flocking towards the place of the explosion, for the old man grown grayer and in the past fow minutes was bring- ing down from the rocksa shapless mass that had once been human. -- His watch was a half hour fast that noon, and had cost him his son. CHAPTER V. A strange. yogng man stood m the largest saloon of which the mining camp could boast and slowly finish- his story. "Three years ago, and more, since he left homey, and we have never traced him toa certainty.-- The man who was killed three years ago to-night, when resisting the robbers a balfdosen miles east of your camp, may have been my father. The despription is farily accurate. Bat I never expect to know eertainly whether it were he Every newcomer was éxpedtted to tell something of his story, and young Johnston had told his with simple directness, ending as stated An old man, with sad look and snow-white bair, bat straight and strong yet, entered the the. room, walked to the bar, drank; took a large old-fashioned :watch from his pocket, looked at the time, and walk. od over (0 the stove. « Any errands over to the station {his afternoon 7" heasked, "Jam going over on horasback for some light supplies." sf ¥ ar negative and tis old gag walked apt aa attra jothe} Johnston tarned towards the bar | "It exn't'bs Wl iwaid id oer bi ) . And it was '00 decided. far to the east | A ponible ht The women and children should be left behind, together with any male passengers irho might show a lily of pluck, aod that as many of theni as thestage would hold, folly armed and ready for the-atusclk, should ride into. the little miving town that' night. He offered po reason, but simply said that thero would be ag attempted robbery, The moon had beep up The night. was silent and pas boi would have seemed lonely - enough to the driver of the stage but for the strange'load be carried that night .| The stage was crowded with men armed with heavy navy revolvers . --and men who knew how to usa them. The " Professor" was half-d in hie pgrner, and muttering some= thing akant infinity and zero; the man who bad distrusted the boy | Johnston, was eo far asleop that he' might have been trapped or betray~ od. ~The stage tnrned a curve in the road and stopped just whore if bad three years, bejore. " Hold your hands, gentleman, and be lively; we Lave no time to lose," came the quick nervous com mand. : The drivers : heart might almost bave been heard to beat in the silence for one long moment, and the next there was a voile trom the well aimed arms of those within the stage, and with & cheer ti :t might have been beard for miles, the miners sprang dowa 10 moet the robbers who had vazz'sd and 'defied them for years. The wild shots cf the astonished outlaws did no barm, bul they went down under the fierce onslaught of the miners like grain: Gcefore the reaper. 3 In five minutes the aver gers were, in a position to solve the mystery fully. Of the half-dozen der 'men only one was known tc 'he winiers; the rest was strangers. The puzzle unsolved still. But, no, a cozen rods away young Ji stood, ver in hand, over the robber chief who had fallen only when the last ball wag fired, In his hand was a watch which he had. takai from the dying bandit. «Tt was my father's" said Johmson, with a sob. "It has been an everlasting curs to me;" groaned the prostrate mag with his last breath. The watch will never run again, for the ball that carried death to the one ; "with a face hike 'marble and 1 ins case, aud plato ab thet but as good & timokeeper as there is in America. Jt Jos'E: vary »