Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1871-08-29
News Items.

boiler inspectors are working away at
inspections.
A Bristol England woman, in great
distress of mind, was arrested as dis
orderly. She complained that her hus-
band had sold her for fifty pounds.
The Sultan of Turkey takes his
snuff from box costing $4,000. He
takes better care of his nose than his
morals.
Only one Californian in nineteen is a
Church goer or Christian.
The New york Star AYERS that Hen
ry j. Raymons was murdered, and the
Globe supports it. Self-murder, proba-
bly,.
A prisoner at the waupun Penitcn-
tiary gains quite an income by writing
religious music.
St. Cloud had pigeon shoot the
and day, and seventeen pigeons and
three men were peppered.
The Chicago afternoon papers barely
make living, and one of them is said
to be likely to 60 under soon.
A pale transparent ghost thrills
the souls of the people of Hartford.
A Cuban "sylph" is to make the
eyes of the New Workers glisten with
her graceful feats on the light fantastic.
political Scraps" and "Candle
Ends are the names of to branches of
the Radical party in Massachusetts,.
. The people of Hartford are to give
one million of dollars toward improving
the State Capitol.
At Kenosha, Wisconsin some thieves
stole the smokestack of steamboat.
A negro woman in Atlanta, Ga, on
Monday last, threw her child out of a
window on pile of stones and killed
it. She rocked it to sleep.
Mr.. Jordan challenges the world
to excel him in playing on horn.
Birch canoes still float Economically
upon Lake Champlain.
There are q thousand deposits and
Withdrawals from the savings banks of
Boston every day.
Dublin is suffering from the bad
odor of the River Liffey and can't help
herself by canal cut as did Chicago.
Mrs. Mary Cleveland, of Magno-
keta, Iowa, has sued ten saloon keepers
for five thousand dollars damages for
furnishing liquor to her husband.
Thurlow Weed now wants to get his
health before the public.
A Cairo man got rid of cockroaches
by exploding gunpowder in their re-
treats. There wasn't single cockroach
left when the firemen quit.
some of the ready made houses ship
ped from Chicago to Colorado have
been blown over by what Colorado
terms their gentlest breezes.
Vermont farmers don't care for the
grasshoppers. Their sheep eat them as
soon as they come.
Chattanooga is to have S125, 900
opera house, although the streets are
knee deep with mud.
The New York Standard pays more
attention to local affairs than any other
New York paper.
The climate of Wyoming is said to
be trying to the hair. A good many
husbands have had all theirs pulled out
since removing to that Territory.
"Mean-and-dirty- Tom-Nast" is the
title of Havper's principal picture
maker
Young Bennett is trying to sell his
yacht, finding the amusement too cost
ly.
A st. Paul man has sued the
mayor to recover ten thousand dollars
damages for being chained to tree.
A Cincinnati lover shot his sweet
heart because she would not 60 to the
Scottish games with him.
Several hundred of Daniel Pratt's
photographer have been sold in Vermont
for Grants.
An English paper knowingly
speaks of Horace Grant and Ulysses 5.
Greeley
Seventeen kinds of stomach bitters
are sold by one Nashville druggist, and
still he refuses to be comforted.
The tenements recently erected by
New York philanthropist expressly
for poor people rent for $500 per year.
At Fort Wayne the town clock stri-
kes hehours only to let the inhabitants
know when to take their quinine.
Xenophon Baldwinsville John Perry