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

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Prof. Coo, who made a balloon as
cension at Oswego, N. Y, on the 4th
of July, has been heard from by tele-
graph from Irish Creek, Ontario. He
landed in personal safety ninety miles
beyond the st. Lawrence River, but
his balloon is total wreck.
George III. Chandler, of the firm of
Chandler G. Abbott, grocers, at Cleve-
land, Ohio, doing business at Sc Mon
umental Park, made a desperate at
tempt at suicide Friday morning
From appearances he first cut his
throat with a penknife, and then tried
to shoot himself with revolver, which
was found near him with three of the
chambers empty. He cannot recover.
No cause is known for the act.
Reports from all parts of California
show that the wheat crop is much bet
ter than was anticipated. The total
product will be little short Of last
season.
California potatoes of this years
crop are being shipped to Denver, Col
orado, paying $3.50 per car load of ten
| tons.
Information has been received of the
falling in of a portion of the bottom
of the Wyoming Canal over Burrougs'
coal mine, near Wilkesbarre, Pa. The
accident caused hole fifty feet long
and of the width of the tow path and
involved the flooding of the Enter
prise mine, of the Sawyer slope, and
the shaft of the Mitchell mine, part of
the Buckley mine, Elliott & Co., and
probably the works of Mr.. Hilleman,
as these mines are all connected with
gangways. The amount of damage
will be heaviest in the stoppage of the
works probably for some weeks. The
canal will also be useless for time.
For refusing to permit her to get an
egg which her hen had laid in Mrs.
Foot's barn, fight between her and
Mrs. Fisher, participated in by two SONS
of each, only ended when Mrs. Fisher
had broken her antagonists back with
u club.
The Mississippi river is rising and q
big rise is expected.
Marriages in New Albany are called
building castles in the air. The PEG
pie of that town, Notwithstanding the
large amount of pork they consume
are very ethereal.
A one legged man at Jacksonville
gaines livelihood by walking rope
Saginaw salt is in good SAVIOR at the
South.
Ebenezer Bastard, rich Louisville
ian, goes to Ireland to live on estates
bequeathed to him, valued at three
and half millions.
Mrs. Grenmann, of Utsalady, Ore.
gon, took cargo of lumber to Hong
Kong, and received ten dollars thou
sand more for it than the heather had
ever paid before.
London theater-goers present popu
lar actresses with bags of guineas.
"That pot of gold" which was dug
up so regularly by poor men last year
seems to have been exhausted.
A Philadelphia hack-driver drove a
dead man around for half day and
swore fearfully when he went to col
lect SIC
For mildly requesting his wife to
remain at home from the circus, james
Price, of Alexandria,. has the care Of
three small children.
A Louisville man went up to Gin
cinnati on business, saw handsome
girl, proposed, was accepted, went to
a clergyman, and was ready for home
again in twenty-one hours.
A Georgia widower believes his
wife to be making faces at him from
the moon.
1t took three hundred dollars worth
of security to bail an Omaha lad out
of Jail after being arrested for steal.
ing fig.
The Byron, Ohio, Democrat has a
subscriber ninety -five years old.
A "young lady" of New York baosts
of having made the tour to Europe
every year for thirty-two summers.
One New York soda fountain pays
its proprietor a profit of $1,000 per
week.
The cucumber fly is said to be a
destroyer of the potato bug, but he is
nothing TO the cucumber collie
A dying Indianian laughed merrily
at the idea that he WNs about to cheat
the tax collector.
A Boston dressmaker never thinks
of presenting a bill until the next year.
DENTIST.