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Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1873-07-29

hardly seems possible, still it is true.
About three hundred buildings
within the city limits are now be-
ing erected or completed, while
preparations are being made for a
great many more.
The new brick block of Alex.
Mcdonald, ]. w. Creighton, and
u. N. Blackburn is an ornament as
well as a valuable addition to the
business portion of Second street,
and when completed will be second
to none in the city. And as anoth-
er improvement to this principal
street, j. II. Bostwick is preparing
to build two story brick building,
twenty-five by sixty-six feet, on the
corner Of Second and River streets,
which he intends to occupy as a
drug store.
The two new brick stores of C.
Golling, on River street, are in
fair way for early completion, they
now being nearly ready for the
plasterers.
And everywhere, and in all di-
rections new buildings are spring
ing up every day, and ere one
would suppose hardly time enough
had elapsed to erect the same, they
are occupied by some energetic
men with their families. And yet
there is plenty of room for more,
and all DESTROYS of a home, can OBJ
tain one very easily in this city.
One very noticeable improvement
IS in the cleaning up of the streets
md the burning of the stumps, etc,
md when this job is completed our ;
,ity will look better by one hun
lred per cent.
Another Improvement will be in
he erection of q new and more !
bath house, on the bay t
hore, near the Fletcher House, by
leo. N. Fletcher, who is now the |
ole proprietor of the Alpena Mag 0
etc Springs. a
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1873-07-29

Thomas A. Slack freight agent a
Toledo, was drowned at For
Wayne, Ind, on Wednesday.
III. Merriman, a defaulting post.
master at Coreway, Faulkner coun.
ty, Ark, was arrested and tried al
Little Rock, Thursday, and bound
over for trial.
At Philadelphia, on Thursday,
three women against whom charges
had been brought for fortune-tell-
ing, keeping for sale drugs to be
used for Illicit purposes, etc, had a
hearing and were held in 81 900
bail each.
An ordinance for subscription on
the part of Louisville for 100000
to aid in the construction of a
bridge across the Ohio river at
Louisville, was presented to the
Louisville Council Thursday night.
A convention of Wisconsin gran
GEES is called to meet at Milwaukee
the DIST of August.
In a drunken fight in Russell
county, Ky, few days since, in
which several men were engaged,
q. III. Harris was stabbed fatally by
Jas. Rayburn. Parties all arrested.
A hotter runner of Indianapolis,
named w. Mead, fell in a fit at the
Union depot, Friday, dying almost
instantly. Whisky is the supposed
cause.
At Indianapolis on Friday, Ed.
Thomas, a timer, fell from the fifth
story of building, and was instant
ly killed.
Browns hotel OH Rideau street,
Getaway, Ont, and two adjoining
buildings, also block of frame
buildings in the rear, were burned
on Wednesday night.
Jordon Fields, negro, was shot
md probably fatally wounded, by
Alex. Webster, also colored, at
NASHVILLE, Ienn., thursday. ,
The Iowa train robbers are be- i
ieved to have been traced into
county, Mo-, and it is +
thought they will be captured. :
Frederick Scholtz, of Pleasant C
Hill, Neb., recently cut off the head "
# his sister, Mrs. Luckrouse, with II
n AK, and then cut his own throat. "
70 cause assigned. "
AT Mount Carmel, Pa, Thursday, d.
fire commenced in Geo. Pointers :,
and destroyed ID build 10
lgs in the same square, comprising -
lie business portion of the place.
oss, 100000.
The steamboat men of st. Louis
ave forwarded to Washington re-
onstrance against the completion
the bridge now being built across
e Mississippi river, at that city,
the ground that if finished ac-
riding to the original plan, it will st,
a great obstruction to naviga- r,,
N.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1873-07-29

According to a recent opinion OF
Secretary of the Treasury Rich
ardson, if any clerk in his depart
ment, male or female, marries any
person employed in any position by
the government, such clerk will be
promptly dismissed. Mr.. Richard
son gives as reason, his disbelief
that the civil service was ever in
tended to provide places for whole
families. This opinion we consider
highly disrespectful to the Presi-
dent, and if Mr.. Richardson's po-
litical shoulders do not soon be
without q head it be because the
President has given up his habit of
resenting insults. If there is a rel
ative of Mr.. Grant or his wife who
is without an Office under this gov
eminent nobody knows that rela-
tive, and yet we never hear of one
of them vacating an Office unless he
dies. But if one-half the stories
told about the Treasury Depart
ment are true matrimony is not in
high favor there. The mistresses
of Congressman and other high of
ficials are preferred in the depart
ments to the honest wives of honest
men. The authorities have offered |
n premium on so many vices in
Washington that it is not surpris-
ing to find them encouraging free
love and discouraging lawful ALI
ances among their employes.-Un-
ion.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1873-07-29

Here it is The August number
of Woods Household Magazinc j.!
1t brings with it ray of sunshine
which reaches clear to the heart
We always feel better for reading
it, and it will make any household
brighter that it enters. Among
the many articles of the present
number are: Advice to Young
Men, by Hon. Joel Parker: A
Glimpse at the Siamese, by Karl
kase; The Other Girl of the Pc
Rod, 10y Mary Hartwell Darkness.
by III. V. Osborne; Old Pinchem,
No. III, by Chas. Dickinson, &C.,
&c. Price of this Magazine only
one dollar year. Address. Woods
Household Magazine, Newburg N.
Y. This magazine will be furnish
ed with the ARGUS at $3.50 per
year.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1873-07-29
AlPENA WEEKLY ARGUS.
Another Great Fire.

This time Baltimore takes a
: scorching. That city was visited
by a disastrous conAagration last
Friday, and about one hundred
houses, including a few business
places, were reduced to ruins. The
loss is estimated at about $500, 900.
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improvements.

Alpena has seemed to grow and
improve faster this season than ever
before. Our citizens, Dotwithstand-
ing the hard times for money, are
building up the town at a rate that
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1873-07-29

- County of Alpena, IS.
AT Session of the Probate Court for tho
county OF Alpenn, holden Mt the Probate Office
IN the city OF Alpena, on Wednesday, the six.
teenth day of July in the year one thousand eirht
hundred and seYcnty-three.
Present, Hon. Obcd Smith, judge of Probate
In the matter of the estate of William White of
West Roxbury, Massachusetts deceased:
I'm reading and filing the petition duly verified
OF Albert w. Brown, praying that Rufus III
Spaldlng be appointed administrator of the es-
tate OF William White, deceased.
Ihereupon II is ordered that Friday the fifteenth
day OF August, ut ten o'clock in the forenoon, be
assigned for the hearing of SAID petition and that
the heirs at law of said deceased, and all other
persons interested in said estate are required 10
appear NJ n session of said court, then TO be
holden nj the Probate Office in the city of Alpenn
ana show cause, IL any there be, why the PRAYER
OF the petitioner should not be granted And IL
Is further ordered, that said petitioner give no.
tee 70 the persons interested in said estate of the
the tendency of said petition, and in hearing
thereof by causing copy of this order TO be mil.
hshed IN the Alpena ARGus, n newspaper printed
ana circulated in said county Of Alpena. three
successive weeks, and also by causing tho same 10
be personally served nj least fourteen days preyi
Gus TO said day of hearing, upon the heirs of
said William White and all others known 10 he
interested, II they be found in said county.
"A true cOpy.l
lows OBED SMITH,
Judge OF Probate.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1873-07-29

THE Science Of Health for Aug,
is an excellent number; opening
with an illustrated article on the
Care of the Feet; The Confessions
of the late Sir Edward Lytton
Bulwer is given; Sins Against tie
Body; an excellent article on Green
Corn, giving dozen or more modes
OF preparing this universally used
article Of food; Causes and Cure
of Summer Complaints; Health
Resorts of America; Signs of Mad
ness in Dogs; and q variety of
other rich reading, including An
swers to Correspondents. Terms
$500 q year. A new Vol. began
with July. Sent six months on
trial, for S1.00. S. r. Wells, Pub
Usher, $50, Broadway, New York.
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EBROBATE ORDER.-state os I,

Remittances made by draft payable any part of
the United States. az
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-11-25

Caroline Mining Company. -Loca.
ton Of works. Ely Mining District, Lin
coin County, Nevada.-Notice is hereby given
that at meeting Of the Board Of Directors,
held on the 18th day Of November, 1873, an
assessment mo. 81 Of thirty cents per share
was levied upon the capital stock Of the corpo-
ration, payable Immediately in United States
gold coin, to the Secretary at the Office of the
company, No. 419 California street, San Francis.
co, California.
Any stock upon which this assessment shall
remain unpaid on the 22d day Of Decem-
her, 1873, will be delinquent, and advertised
for sale at public auction, and unless payment
Is made before. will be sold on the Thursd ay,
the 18th day Of January, 1874, to pay
the delinquent assessment, together with
costs Of advertising and expenses Of sale.
By order Of the Directors.
CHAs. z. ELLIOT, Secretary.
Office: Room %. Hayward's Building 419 Cali
fornia street, San Francisco. Cal. n18-td
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Phoebe Silver Mining Company
Location of works, Ely Mining District. Lincoln
county, Nevada.-Notice is hereby given that
at a meeting Of the Board OF Directors of said
Company, held on the 30th day Of October,
1873, an assessment mo, 81 of One Dollar per
share was levied upon the capital stock of said
Company, payable Immediately, in United States
gold coin, to the Secretary, at the Office of the
Company, 4l9 California street, San Fran.
cisco, California.
Any stock upon which said assessment shall
remain unpaid on the 10th day Of Decem-
Der, 1873, will be deemed delinquent, and adver.
tised for sala at public auction, and unless
payment shall be made before, will be sold
on Tuesday, the 9Th day of January,
1874, to pay the delinquent assessment, to-
gether with cost Of advertising and expenses
| Of sale.
by order Of the Board of Directors.
| CHAS. E. ELLIOT, Secretary.
Once: Room 2S Hayward's Building, 4l9 Cali
| fornia street. San Francisco, California.
| n4-td
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lnEOm0f silver M1nlnK company
Location Of principal place of business, San
Francisco, California; location Of works, Ely
Mining District, Lincoln county, State of Ne
vada.-Notice is hereby given that at meeting
of the Board Of Directors, held on the 9th day
of November, 1873, an assessment (No. O. of
twenty-five cents per share was levied upon
the capital stock of the corporation, payable i'm
mediately in United States gold coin, to the
Secretary, at the office of the Company, Room
% Hayward's Building 419 California street, San
Francisco, California.
Any stock upon which this assessment shall
remain unpaid on the 10th day of Decem-
her, 1873, will be delinquent. and adver-
tised for sale at public auction, and unless pay
ment is made before, will be sold on Thurs
day, the sth day Of January, 1874, to
pay the delinquent assessment, together with
costs Of advertising and expenses of sale.
CHAS. s. NEAL, Secretary.
Office: Room % Haywards Building, AIS
California street, San Francisco, California.
n11.h
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Bowery Consolidated MIL and Min.

Bowery Consolidated Mill and Min
ing Company Location Of principal place Of
business, San Francisco. California; location Of
works, Ely Mining District, Lincoln county,
Nevada.-Notice is hereby given that at a
meeting of the Directors, held on the 5th day OF
November, 1873, an assessment mo. A. of fly
cents per share was levied upon the capita,
stock Of the corporation, payable Immediately
in United States gold coin, to the Secretary, at
the Office Of the Company, room % Hayward's
Building, No. 419 California street, San Fran
cisco, California.
Any stock upon which this assessment shall
remain unpaid on the 10th day Of December,
1873, will be delinquent, and advertised for
sale at public auction, and unless payment is
made before, will be sold on Friday, the
9th day Of January, 1874, to pay the de.
linquent assessment, together with costs Of
advertising and expenses OF sale.
CHAS. z. ELLIOT, Secretary.
Office: Room % Hayward's Building No. AIS
California street, San Francisco. California.
n11-td
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No. of No. OF

And in accordance with law and an order Of
the Board of Directors, made on the sth day of
October, 1873, SO many shares OF each par
Gel of said stock as may be necessary will be
sold ut public auction N the office of the Compa-
ny, 81 New Merchants Exchange, California
street, San Francisco, California, on Monday,
the LIST day Of December, 1873, at the
hour of one O'Clock p m. of said day. to pay
said delinuuent assessment thereon, together
with costs Of advertising and expenses Of sale.
J. NJ. BURLINGTON, Secretary.
Office: 81 New Merchants Exchange, Cali.
fornia street, San Francisco, California.
nl8-td
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And in accordance with law, and an order Of
the Board Of Directors, made on the 30th day
of September 1873, so many shares Of each par
Gel of such stock as may be necessary will be
sold at public auction, at the salesroom Of
John Middleton & Son, No. $40 Montgomery
street, San Francisco, California, on Thurs
day, the 27th day Of November, 1873,
at the hour of 2 O'Clock p. IN. of said day, to
pay delinquent assessments thereon, together
with costs of advertising and expenses OF the
sale.
GEO. r. SPINNEY, Secretary.
Office: No. 800 California street, Room No.
5, San Francisco, California. nll-td
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lslinqusat Sales.


American Flag Mill and Mining
Company.-Location of principal place o. bus,
mess, san Francisco, California; losauoh oi
works. Ely District lincoln county. Neysd ,.,,
Nctice.-There are delinquent upon the oiioM
no. 81 levied on the 18th day of september
1873, the several amounts set opposite the
names OF the respective Shareholders rs fol
lows:
to,r,s,o,.p No of No. of
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NOTICE OF
Dissolution of CopartnersnlP'

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THU ha,.een
IN copartnership heretofore existing ~ Clute
the undersigned, under the firm name s,.u.I cor.
4 Young, is hereby dissolved BY mu ,sss 4.
sent, bearing date from SEPTEMBER Q, ,s;ness, 7
W. Into os will continue the same. Either p'"
will sign in liquidation. =, NJ elite,
A. A. YOUNG
Phoebe, Neysds, October 20. 1873
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-11-25

An act of Congress of June s, 1872, requires
that bids of S. 600 and upwards be accompanied
by certified check or draft equal to five per
cent. OF the bid.
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Offifial.
PROPOSALS
-EOR-
CARRYING THE MAILS.
POsTOFFICE DEPARTMENT,

WASHINGTON, October l. 1879
nROPosAI.s WILL BE RECEIVED AT THE
Contract Office Of this Department until 3
y. M of February ., 1874 Ito be decided on or
before March 2, 1874, for conveying the mails
of the United States in the State of
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arrivals and Departures Of Mails
to and from Phoebe.

Eastern and Western Mail.
Arrives about p. M; departs q III. luz
mail closes at 7A5 =. IN.
Salt Lake and Utah Mail.
Arrives about 7 p. M; departs a. NJ '''
closes at p. m.
Hike Mail-Weekly.
Arrives Tuesdays. at II =. m; departs IN Il
days, ut 8 D. IN. All mail matter for ni mn. n
not mailed before Tuesday, should De en, s,tsr.
some one inside, and not dropped N inc '''
box. Mail closes at 4:30 p. IN.
BulliOnville and Panscn.
Arrives daily, at IL q. M; departs : X X mai.
closes five minutes before departure Ma iia me
ter for these places should be handed inS''' -
same as Hike. ,,.rs and
~ PostofRce open daily Except SUNDAYS ,r'
legal holidays), from a. m. until p M
days, from to 10 a. m, and to p, m. M.
Letters registered from .. NJ !" r
daily except as above. nos.,o,s,er.
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-11-25

Lincoln County. Nevada; principal place OF
business, San Francisco, California-Notice.- -
There are delinquent upon the following de.
scribed stock, on account of assessment lev.
led on the sth day Of October. 1873, the sew.
eral amounts set opposite the names of the
respective shareholders, as follows:
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-11-25
NEVADA,


on the routes and by the schedules of departures
and arrivals herein specified; being routes es-
tablished at third session of 4lst Congress. and
first sc ssion OF AID Congress, and Others.
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-11-25

Examine carefully the forms and instructions
anneIed.D
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-11-25
Bidder.
GUARANTEE.
-r.l raatltTan ,

The undersigned, residing at =, State Of
-, undertake that, if the foregoing bid for car.
rying the mail on route No. - be accepted by
the Postmaster General, the bidder will. prior
to the LIST of June. 1874, enter into the required
obligation or contract to perform the service
proposed, with good and sufficient surities.
This we do, understanding distinctly the obi
cations and liabilities assumed by guarantors
Dated
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-11-25
MINING COMPANIES.

Following are the principal Mining Companies
on the San Francisco Stock Boards, together
with the number of feet in each mine and
shares to each foot:
NEVADA MINING COMPANIES.
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FORM OF PROPOSAL, GUARANTEE,
AND CERTIFICATE.
PROPOSAL

Office address is -, county OF -, State of
-, proposes to convey the mails o. the United
States, from July l, 1874 to June. 30, 1873,
on route No. -, between - and -, I'M
der the advertisement of the Postmaster Gener-
al dated October !, 1873, with CELEBRITY, GER
tainty and security" (law of June 8. 1872, for
the annual sum OF -- dollars.
The proposal is made with full knowledge OF
the distance Of the route, the weight Of the mail
to be carried, and all other particulars in refer
ence to the route and service; and, also, after
careful examinations OF the laws and instruc.
tiuns attached to advertisement of mail service
and of the provisions contained in the act OF
Congress of June 8, 1872.
na,ol Ril6pr
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Notice.

AL PERSONS KNOWING TiiE ~ tbs ists
n to be indebted to the esIs.e n,s forward
John II. Lynch are requested " St delsy.
""' ''i'''"'' ' JOHN L. DONAHUE,
Attorney for Erecp 1,ncse.
NJ dow valley street. TAI sn1.H
August 9, 10
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Tie undersi med Postmaster at -, State of
- certifies under his oath of office, that he is
acquainted with the above guarantors, and
knows them to be men of property, and able to
make good their guarantee and that bidder and
guarantors are above the age of 81 years.
Bids of IS, 600 and upward must be accompa-
MED by a certified check. or draft, on some sol
vent National bank, equal to five per ceutum on
the present annual pay on the route; or in case
of new service, not less than five per centup of
one years pay proposed in b'd.-(Section 253,
Act OF Junes, 1921
The Postmaster must not sign the certificate
until the sum of the bid is inserted AVID the bid
and guarantee signed by all parties, and dated.
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NorE.--When the oath is taken before Justice
of the Peace, the certificate of the clerk Of u
court OF record should be added, under his seal
of office, that the person who administered the
oath is duly qualified Justice of the Peace.
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-11-25

mail on route No. -, from - -, do
swear that have the ability pecuniarily to full
fill my obligation as such bidder; that the bid is
made in good faith, and with the intention to
enter into contract and perform the service in
said bid shall be accepted; and that the sig
natures Of the guarantors thereto are genuine,
and that belive the said guarantors to be pecu-
niary responsible for and able to pay all dana.
ges the United States shall suffer by reason OF
my failing to perform my obligations rs such
bidder.
Sworn to and subscribed before me -, FOL
the - of - this - day of -, A. d
1877, and in testimony thereof hereunto sub
scribe my name and aiiix my official seal the da!
and year aforesaid.
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Oath REQUIRED by Section $40 of an
Act of Congress Approved June :,
1872, to be Affixed TO Each Bid for
Carrying the Mail. and TO be Taken
Before an officer Qualified to Adj
minister Oaths.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-01-09
LIVELY BIDDING.

sale OF LYDIA ThOmpson's Cotton Bale.
The st. Louis Democrat OF Saturday con
tains the following report:
The bale of cotton presented to Lydia
Thompson by the citizens of Savannah
about a wear ago, and recently donated by
her TO the poor of this city, was sold at
auction At the Merchants Exchange yes
terday, in aid of the object to which the
sair donor has devoted it.. II had been eX-
pected that Miss Thompson would be pres
ent and ufiiciate in the capacity OF auc-
gioneer, but thesady's aversion Ia appear
ance in public overcame her charit1 bic in
stincts, and though she had given mp her
cotton bale. she could not yield her natural
timidity In anticipation of her presence,
quite large multitude assembled, and IL
became necessary to find some one TO 80 per
senate Miss Thompson as 20 deceive those
not intimately acquainted With her appear
ance. Chief McDonough was selected, and
il was not until after the sale of the cotton
that the fraud was discovered.
The chief entered the large room Of the
Exchange at about twelve o'clock, and was
assisted in mounting a table, near which
stood the bale, decorated with ribbons and
estreamers. The chief curtsied and smiled,
and then announced, in voice closely re-
sembling N iss Thompson's, that the bale
would be sold to the highest bidder, and
Che proceeds donated to the deserving poor
of the city. He then called for bidders,
and the bale was knocked down to Mayor
Brown for 500. The Mayor Immediately
put it up again for the benefit of st. Vincent
de Paul's Asylum, and it was captured by
Mr.. Miles Sells for $l0J. Again it was
put up, the aenount realized to be applied
to the benefit of the PrOvident Asso-
citation. Mr.. COlville, agent of the
Thompson troupe, bid it in for 500, and
offered it once more for the aid of the city's
cooor Mr. Rowland took it on bid of SIS
The chief then undertook TO leave, but his
winning ways had so completely scooped in
che affections of the crowd that they refused
20 part v it'll him, and he was compelled to
sout itup once more. this time ia aid of the
Southern Orphans Home, of Kansas City.
at was started at $50, but was finally
knocked off to Mr.. John Il. Picton at SIS.
Thus, cotton bale, worth $50, in the
Glands of Chief McDonOugh, brought $505.
At the conclusion of the sale there were
loud cries for Miss Thompson and a song.
SIR. McDonongh again assumed the table,
and sang sixty verses of eff Ever | Cease
ItO Love" and then retired.
After his departure the deception was
but the assembiage took it
good humoredly. 1t is said that the Mayor
the imposition practioed on him,
and will address the chief on the subject
To-day.