Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1871-07-13

Thursday morning. The body Of a
man, supposed to be Fonda Groesbeck,
a man who lounged about the premi-
ses, was found among the ruins, burned
to crisp. Dennis Sullivan has been
arrested on suspicion of setting fire to
the stables.
The new California poet, Joaquin
Miller, has wonderfully pleased the
London critics.
The Naval Academy students are
very indignant at the promotion of
Admiral Porter's son to an nsignship,
over the heads of many surprising
him in merit.
A huge trout in Skancatcles Lake,
pulled Silas Moore, who for forty years
had anglcd in that pool, into the water
and drowned him.
The internal revenue receipts for
the last year have fallen off forty mil
lions.
General Lees famous war horse,
Traveller" died the other day of lock
jaw.
England imports butter from Au-
stralia.
A New York firm has obtained
patent on new cancer remedy-endu-
range, rum, sugar and cloves.
Two New York ladies, and real
stylish ones, too, were arrested, the
other day, for jobbing each other with
parasols,
Several Ohio ladies were expelled
from church, the other day, simply for
trying to horscwhip a deacon.
Gambling is not allowed in John
MOrrissey's gilded place of sin, except
in heightened way.
The Pennsylvania ccnsus-takers be-
lieve that more than 1000 women in
that State returned false ages.
New York humanitarians are look
ing coldly on Bcrgh, because he lets
his sympathies interfere with business.
A finely executed portrait of Grant
recently sold at auction, in Cincinnati,
for twelve shilling.
A Pittsburgh man is in jail for prac-
ticing the playful trick of swinging
his children around by the ears.
Virginia papers assert that there is
a horsestealing gang in that State
over 100 men.
A brewer at Salem Ohio, has been
fined $50 for giving away three quarts
of lager.
The Cleveland Leader says that I'M
less the steam whistle nuisance can be
abated, many families will remove from
the city.
The ugliest man in Ohio lives in
Lorraine county.
Harvard has student seven feet
high and proportionately thin.
Desertions are frequent from the
posts in the Southern States.
The insurance office of Jones &
Porter, at Lansing, was entered by
burglars on the night of the Cd, and
$50 in money, belonging to f. II. Por-
ter, was taken. Several gold pens are
also missed.
Samuel Casey's horse, at Ypsilanti,
ate some Paris green, and Mr.. Casey
is now looking for another animal.
o. ii. Irons has received the APP
pointment of postmaster in Vassar, in
place of j. ii. Burgess.
The Peninsula Railway is now COM
pleted from Lansing to Cassopolis.-
Two regular passenger trains each way
are run daily between Schoolcraft and
Lansing.
A little daughter of +. NJ. Latting,
of Ovid, was gored by an unruly
heifer, recently, and severely injured.
On Friday last, little son of Mr..
Hayner, of Rochester, broke his arm
while skipping rope.
John Finlay, of Allegan, in attempt
ing to cross the railroad track on the
morning of the 4th, was struck by an
incoming train, and so badly injured
that he died about nightfall.
Rev. w. II. Perrine has painted a
panorama of the Holy Land.
Valmaseda is at Santa Espiritus.-
Advices from Hayti to the first state
that fears are entertained for the safe
ty of the steamer City of Port au
Prince from New York, which was
then sixteen days over due. Adviccs
from Jamaica to the sixth state that
in two months the seat of government
will not continue the arrangement with
the Pacific mail steamers. The Rising
Star will sail for New York on the
seventh. Commander Selfridgc and
other exploring officers are among her
passengers.
Hon. j. ID. Morrell was thrown from