Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1871-08-17
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In some portions of the South at
'. tempts are being made to revive knee
N breeches and shoe buckles.
IS The Quoquinnapssakessosanagos
II House is the name under which New
l, Hampshire tavern struggles.
;. AT Lake Mahopac, a lady rows two
G hours before breakfast every morning
/ when the weather permits.
General Mcclellan is about to visit
n Texas on railroad business. He has
I an interest in the Galveston and Hous-
q ton railroad.
I Mrs Mary Ann Cleveland, of Ma
quoketa, Iowa, has sued ten saloon
keepers of that city for $4,000 dam
ages done her by selling liquor to her
husband.
i Widow David Long, of Greenfield,
Mass, 93 years of age, took tea one
evening recently, with eight of her
children, two of whom are over IS
years of age, and two others over 60.
A young woman in Connecticut re-
Gently, when sick, mortgaged her body
to her physician for dissection in case
of death, as compensation for profes.
sional attendance upon her, and then
maliciously she got well.
Two boys, brothers, named Peter
and William Robertson, aged 10 and
II years respectively, were drowned
while bathing in the Little Sioux
River, near the railroad bridge, in
Cherokee county, Iowa, on the I'd.
One Sunday recently Methodist
preacher in Iowa advised the sisters
to mortify Satan by giving their jew
elry to the Church on the next Sab
bath evening The result was one
galvanized watch and three brass fin
ger rings.
Oakland county appears to be going
into decline. The number of deaths
was 10 greater in 1870 than in 1860,
while the number of births was 140
less, and the marriages Ii less.
Bartlett pears from San Francisco
find rapid sale in New York.
Bryant Gevine, colored express
driver, was sunstruck at Evansville,
Indiana, on Friday.
Hon. Jesse X. Dubois, of Spring
field, ILL.,, has been started by his
friends as candidate for Congress-
man at large.
A personal difficulty occurred be-
tween two men at Arcadelphia, Ar
kansas. One was killed and the other
escaped.
Bayard Taylor and j. III. Harper,
of New York, and the Red River edi-
torial party arrived in Chicago Friday
morning
The fire in the mines near Mauch
Chunk, Pennsylvania, has been extin-
guished The damage is not so seri-
Gus as at first supposed.
A dispatch states that the jose
phine, of New Brunswick, went ashore
and will probably lose cargo of seven
hundred barrels of -four.
Charles Lamphire, lad aged eight
years, while playing near mule, at
Louisville, KY, Friday, was kicked on
the head and fatally injured
"A recent thunder storm visited APP
pleton, Wis, Thursday night, doing
much damage, and German woman,
name unknown, was struck by lightn-
ing and instantly killed.
Thursday night Charles Schultz,
while attempting to get on a freight
train of the Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy Railroad, at Jefferson street
crossing, fell under the train and was
instantly killed.
Thursday night, at Rockford, ILL.,, a
negro named Smith committed a rape
upon the person of daughter of Rev. !
E. M. Walters, aged eleven years.
The excitement is high, and there is
talk of lynching the beast.
Notice has been served upon the
captain of the Elliott Guards, an IT.
ish military company in New Jersey,
that the permission accorded them of
using the city armory by the Common
Council of last year, has been rcvok-
ed by the present Common Council.
The Supreme Council of Templars
of honor and Temperance closed its
session at st. Louis, Friday. A large
amount of business of Importance to
the order was transacted. The next
session will be held at Erie, Pa, on
the third Tuesday of August, 1872.
Last Saturday week fatal ARRAY
occurred at picnic four miles north
of Salem, Ind, in which man named
Jackson received wounds from base
ball bat and knife, from which he
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