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Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1874-02-03

The people of the United States,
says the New York SIN, are almost
all of them suffering from financial
distress. They owe more money
than they are able to pay. All
public enterprises are interrupted.
Manufactures are shut up. Com
merce languishes. Workingmen
are everywhere deprived of em-
ployment, and cases of positive star
walton occur in the great centres
of population, and yet, under such
circumstances, it is proposed in
Congress to appropriate from five
to ten millions of the public money
| for the proposed Centennial EXhi-
bition in Philadelphia. In other
words, it is proposed to take this
vast sum from the people through
the machinery of taxation.
If there is in this country any
adequate desire for such an eXhi
bition, the necessary capital will he
furnished in season. If there i:
! not such desire, the plan is a mis-
, take. Twelve millions will certain
" he enough for it. Two or thre
millions have been raised in Penn
sylvania, and the invitation ha
gone abroad calling upon ever.
/, State to furnish its quota. So ia
! the enterprise is all right, and W
!. have sincerely hoped that moneyc
: men would come forward and max
= mp the required amount.
y But now it is proposed to mal
a a the people pay it by taxation. TT
y voluntary plan is to he abandone
'e and force is to be applied. Again
:" this we earnestly protest. III
government has no busine IS to spel
=, =, millions of the peoples money oil
az az public exhibition. 1t was not c
" tablished for any such purpose, al
v it's powers do not include authori
o. to apply taxation tosuch an ohje
~ We denounce the proposition, a
=. we warn those who attempt to ?
y. y, it through by party means. or a
~ othey means, that they are ent,
" ing a charge against themsel'
~, which will not soon be forgiven
", w. forgotten. HN
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1874-02-03
Two Liliiputians.

The Kalamazoo correspondent
says that Friday evening week the
wife of Mr.. J. b. McCrum, living at
So Parson street, gave birth to a
pair of twins--a boy and a girl.
The surprise of the parents can
be imagined when, on surveying
the party, the nurse held mp the
tiny pair of infants in the palm
of one of her hands. They
were soon after weighed, and the
aggregate avoirdupois of the twins
was three pounds and four ounces,
one of the pair weighing one
pound and eight ounces, and the
other weighing one pound and
twelve ounces. They were less
than eight inches long, and perfect
" formed. A bed was made for
them, which consisted of a minute
basket filed with cotton-hatting,
and clothing had to he improvised
for the strangers that, which IN
expectancy had been made up
proving world to wide for their
little limbs. Some doubts was eX-
pressed by the physician who at
tended the mother as to whether
they would live, but up to this
morning they are not only alive,
but are lively, bright. and wide
awake, and claim a place in this
big sphere as well as their own
immediate brothers and sisters, OF
which there are several in the fami-
~ grown up.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1874-02-03

Bay City was burned down on the
10Th, losing all her funiture-a
heavy loss for woman who has to
support herself by her daily labor.
The case of Timothy Lynch, ac-
cused of an attempt to ravish
Mary Carney, domestic in his
employ, in May, 1873, was Tues
day on trial in the Bay county
Circuit.
A ball is contemplated at Sagi-
nav City for the benifit of the
families of the six brave men-who
were drowned in Saginaw Bay in
the effort to rescue McEwan and
Smith, afioat on the ice.
Two marriages on short acquaint-
ance, if mot on sight, AT Grand
Rapids during the State Fair, have
resulted most disastiously' for the
brides, two respectable girls from
one of the interior counties, and
suits for divorce and bigamy are
now in progress,
Skeptical persons about Saginaw
now insist that the "six days on the
ice" story of McEwan and Smith
was a grand hoax. Old settlers
and seamen- are confident that no
ice foe could remain intact for six
days under the heavy sea which
prevails in that stormy portion of
Lake Huron. The Bay City pa
pers affirm the story to he true.
Justice James w. Hopkins, of
Kalamazoo, Tuesday impaneled a
/ jury whose aggregate weight was
l,V-o-F % sBEESE ELutC.ETXA
The grangers of Hillsdale are re-
solved to organize county coun-
ell.
The Michigan Southern Railroad
last year carried away p, I3O,23t
pounds of freight from Hillsdale.
Bay City has sportsmen's club
whose object is (paradoxical as Il
may seem) to protect fish and game
At independence, in Oakland
county, they have weekly debates
of q character so interesting as t
engage the attention of all the cit
Zens.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1874-02-03
Preserve the Forests.

A correspondent of the Chicago |
Times, evidently well posted on the
subject on which he writes, gives
some excellent suggestions to lnm-
bermen generally, and states many
facts that ought to be better under
stood. ..t
He says: Animated with the
magnitude Of the trade and with its
present and future commercial im-
portance to Chicago, your cores
pondent evidently contemplates its
! perpetual enlargement commensur-
ate with the growth Of your city,
and the wants of the coming mill
ions to be added to the present pop
ulation of the great valley of the
| Mississippi, forgetting in his en-
thusiasm that his statistics showing
the immensely of the trade, also in
dictate brief. though brilliant fu-
ture. They in fact fully Justify the
fears rs to the fulfillment of the
predictions of Mr.. James Little, o
Montreal, who, in q recent speech
: asserted that from the ratio of in
crease in the demand for lumber il
a the United States for the past fev
years, it would require but twclv
9 year to use up oil the pine, spruc
Z and hemlock forests east Of tn
: Rocky mountains; that the lum
y bermen OF New York, Maine an
y other Eastern States now work tn
d spruce and hemlock almost exclr
ii sively, from the fact of the almo'
, total depletion of the pineries I
p those States. That Nova Scots
'e once covered with the most magnii
1t cent forests Of pine grown on Il
" continent, n as now, almost rs ba
Is rem Of that product as were u
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1874-02-03

The School Committee that met
recently, in Boston refused to grant
seats to the ladies elected to the
Boird, the vote declaring them le-
gally disqualified stood 40 to 80. If
women are not competent to sit up
ron a school committee, they are
surely not competent to conduct
tie education Of the men that claim
tie right to decide by vote the
question of their legality of their
Gains. The same question has
been decided adversely by the Low
er House of Missouri by vote Of
80 ayes to II hayes.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1874-02-03
VEGETINE

yerctine is ma 10 exclusively from the juices Of
carefully selected banks, roots and herbs, and so
strongly concentrated that it will effcctualy Grad
icate from the system every faint OF scroiuip'
sciofulous Humor, Tumors, Cancer, Canccrous
Humor, Erysipclas, Salt Rheum, SyphiIitic Dis
eases. Cankcr, Fantness at the stomach, and all
diseases That arises from impure blood. sciatica,
Inilnmmatory and Chronic rheumatism, Neural
lia. Govt and Spinal complaints can only be ef-
fectually cured through the blood
For Uulcers and Eruptiye diseases of the Skin
Pustuics, Pimples, Botches, Boils, letter, scald-
head and Ringwor1n, ycsetine has never failed to
effect a permanent cure. t ..r-
For Pains in the Back, Kidney Complaints
Dropsy, Female wc,,keness, Leucorrhea arising
from internal liberation and uterine diseases and
General Debility, yegctiue acts directly upon the
causes of these complaints. 1t invgorates and
strengthens the whole system acts upon the secre'
tive organs, allays inflammation, cures liberation
and regulates the bowels. ~
For Catarrh, Dyspepsia, Habitual Costiveness
PaIpitation of the Heart, Headache, Piles, Nerv
business, and General Prostration,of the Nervou
tsystem, no medicine has ever given such perfec
satisfaction as the vegetine 1tpuriiies the blood
cleanses all of the organs, and Possesses aeontrol
ling power over the nerSons system. a.
? The remarkable cures Effected by Vegetine hnv
induced many physicians ndapotheearicswhom W
know to prescribe and use it in their own families
In fact, vegetine is the best remedy yet discov
erred for the above diseases, and TIE only reabl
= Blood urifier yet placed before the public Pre-
I pared 10y - (sE
: ii. r. STEVENS, Boston, Mass
{ Price 1925. Sold by all druggists aud dealer
4. vxxhe
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1874-02-03

From the following dispatch
from London, dated Jan. 81, it will
be seen that DIR. Livingstone, the
African explorer, is no more, and
the world will now be set at rest on
that question. 1t is to be lament
ed. however, that he did not live to
return, that the civilized creation
might hear from his own lips, what
he saw and learned of the wilds OF
Africa:
"Herr Bremen, the German eN-
plorer of Africa, in letter to Dr.
Peter Mann, of Gotha, dated Fan
zibar, says that Dr.. Livingstone died
on the fifteenth of August. This
date differs from that of the prcvi-
Gus report, but all doubt has been
set at rest by an official dispatch re-
ceived by the government from
Zanzibar to-day. This dispatch
. states circumstantially that Dr.
Livingstone died in Lobisa, after
crossing marshes with water for
hours above his waist. The suffer
ings of the whole party were terri,
BILE, and ten of them died in conse'
ouence. Members of Cameron's
expedition were suffering from few
er and opthalmia, but would await
the arrival Of DR.. Livingstone's re-
mains and bring them to Ujili
From the latter place they would
be conveyed to Zanzibar, where i
is expected they will arrive next
month"
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1874-02-03

The Lander Trade, paper pub
lished at Boston, in the interest OF
the lumber trade. has been advocat-
ing for some time National Lum-
bermen's Convention, with the
view of harmonizing and making
uniform the inspection of lumber
all over the United States and
Canada. In the last number OF
this journal it says:
"We learn from the Chicago
Journal, as quoted in another col
umn, that the lumbermen OF that
region, purposes to hold a conven-
ton ''to discuss their peculiar in
terests." 1t is also stated that
manufacturers and dealers of lum-
Der, of the Eastern British Prov
inces and of Maine, will shortly
meet at Bangor to consider the
condition of the lumber trade"
These proposed gatherings point
very significantly to the importance
and even necessity, which is felt
for periodical gatherings of this
kind, of those who have common
business interests. The brief az
ticles which we have also Quoted
in this issue, from the Saginaw
Courier concerning the matter Of
inspection, is one of which refer
ance is made to the difficulty and
discrepancy arising from a single
locality, from the want of uniform
ity of inspection, are also very sug-
gestive of what is certainly one Of
greatest needs of the trade.
The difficulty arising from
want of uniformity in teclnica
, terms, and in methods and rules Q
inspection, can only be remove
by uniform laws, and agreement
, as to terms, which can only be Sc
cured, it seems to us, by the cref
q ton of a tribunal, so to speal
r whose authority shall be recognize
S everywhere throughout the trad
# A national association, embracir
. the leading men of the trade fro
q all parts of the United States al
II Dominion of Canada, would
n. such tribunal. Its decisions al
er recommendations would form Il
40 basis of uniform legislati
= throughout the States and in Ca
VI ada, and would I've accepted by {
- trade, as every one would see I'll
the convenience and interests
his own business would be thus pl
ot NOTED.
II If this result can he secured,
-. say nothing of the other consid
10 ations TO which we have hithe'
Mt, adverted in our discussions
IN this subject, we are sure that
ge individuals and the whole ira
.en there be ample compensation
a. any expenditure of time and IN
Tue ey, which would be involved in
L. organization and periodical {
ted sions of a National Association
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1874-02-03

I An election was held at Middle
town, Conn, recently, for city and
ward officers, and the entire Demo-
cratic ticket was elected for the first
time in thirteen years. Middletown
since 1861 has been laboring under
the Radical yoke, by majorities
ranging from 100 to 200; but this
election would indicate that the
people were determined that they
had lost all love for the Republican
party.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1874-02-03


The Michigan Changers are not
by any means to be disposed.
They are respectable in numbers
and comprise much of the talent,
wealth and energy of the common
wealth. The growth of the grange
order oil over the country has been
truly remarkable. Although the
idea is only about year old, H.
600 oranges are in the United
States, having in all 100000 men,
bers. In this State there are ZIG
oranges, having 10000 members.
The origin and chief abiding place
of the organization is in the west
where the farmer can be ruler Il
he wishes to he. 1t is claimed
that the grange is not a politica
combination, but that it will h'
kept out Of politics, whatever 1T
professions, no one will believe
There is no doubt that it will exer
n powerful influence when tn
tina comes that its members con
slider it necessary to act. Some c
the more cunning Of the politician
have long since recognized i
promises Of power, and are cour
ing its favor assiduously. The
are generally laughed at now Il
their pains, but who can tell no
soon the laugh may he on u
other side Of these prudent mel
OF There is no question that the farr
ers can make the grange profitab
10 themselves. Its cooperate
features have many advantag'
By meeting together and comps
ing notes, considering the b
means for carrying on their ou
ness, finding out the benefits OF !
proved agricultural machinel
and purchasing the same at .ra'
IN Nh below the ordinary pric
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1874-02-03

Two of our railroads to the
East have been seriously embar-
ressed during the past few days
from widely differing sources.
The troubles of the Great Western
arise from to much water, which
has overhowed and carried away
the track for miles where it runs
along the shore of Lake st. Clair.
The Grand Trunk is embarrassed
by too much ice, which has blocked
up the rapids at Port Huron for
the first time since 1857, so as to
prevent the crossing of passengers
by the ferry boat. The great iron
ferry boat Of the company spent
three days in the middle of the
river unable to progress either way
and was obliged to havc her pow
erful engines ingloriously supplied
by coal brought upon sleds from
land. Travellers crossed the rive
ON a precarious footway Of board
put down across the great cakes c
ice from whence they could see tn
swift running waters of the rive
cutting their way beneath then
The distance is not great, howev'
anl the novelty of the experien'
repail nearly all who crossed f
the apparent danger incurred
JniOn.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1874-02-03

Gen. Cushing should have joined
the Confederates, and fought with
them as Grants Acknowledgement
GAckerman did, and whom the Sen
oate ''approved," if he wished to Sc
cure favor from the supper branch
oof Congress. Gen. Longstreet is
another Confederate fighter whom
the Senate delighted to honor, to
say nothing about Mosby's kind re-
ception by Republicans.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1874-02-03
Ice Blockade in the River
81. Clair.

The Port Huron Times Of Mon
day evening says:
The present condition of the st.
Clair River in front Of this city is
a matter of wonder, even to "the
oldest inhabitant." The north
wind, commencing two weeks
since, and continuing for several
DAYS last week, drove the broken
and drifting ice on Lake Huron
directly into st. Clair River, and
ten days ago it was packed up TO q
point some distance above st. Clair,
and the people were crossing at
that point on the ice. Not until
last Friday night, however, did the
river FIJI opposite this city, hut
before morning the jam had extend
ed through the rapids and out
into the lake. This condition OF
affairs has occurred but once be.
fore during the past fifteen years
and then the jam remained only |
short time.
The international was still lynn
in mid stream this morning, bu
her officers were industriously try
ing to extricate her. On Saturda,
|. night she froze in solid, and all da
: Sunday nothing could be done, an
4 she had TO be recoaled with COS
! hauled out to her upon sleds. Tt
day she has got back to her sli
: ON the American shore. tn
:, Spicer has kept a channel abor
q eighty yards wide open nearl
!. from shore IL shore, but II
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1874-02-03

they cannot fail to derive large adj
vantage. There is no wisdom IN
ANYBODY sneering at the institution,
for il looks as though it had come
to stay. It Is better to make
friends with it.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1874-02-03
Tuesday, FEB. 8, 1874.

The Executive mansion has late
" been renovated from top to bot
tom, yet the appropriation bill pre-
sents an item for $4,000 for re-
pairs during the coming fiscal year.
and $4,000 for its maintenance
This is specimen of the retrench-
inent we were promised under
Grant.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1874-02-03
Statc Items.

Pound parties are features Of
social life at Saginaw City. Each
visitor brings a pound of sugar,
tea, salt, bran, gold or anything
they please, and 1t Is auctioned off
to the highest bidder. The pro-
ceeds are devoted to charitable
purposes. -
Mrs. Crnningham's house at
The daily gazette., 1874-08-31
STRAY WAITS.

The churches, yesterday, were gener-
ally well attended.
Don't fail to vote tomorrow, and do
all you can for success.
The Artic Ice Company is selling ice ut
greatly reduced ratces. See adv.
The result of the election will not af-
feet the low prices Mt Franks, 5ll Mark
ct street.
VIM. LEO nish, of Elkton, was thrown
from his carriage, Saturday afternoon,
while returning from Woodlawn Camp,
and was severely injured.
p. Monaghan, at 3O5 Madison street,
has n very fine lot of shoes, purchased at
Sheriff's sale, which he is selling at ex'
t,emely low rates-25 per cent. less than
wholesale prices. II
The daily gazette., 1874-08-31
A BALLOON VOYAGE.
THE POLICE CASES.
RE0RaANlzINc A SOCIETY.
BARNUMS BALLOON,

ITS JOURNEY THROUGH THE AIR-How 1T
PASSED OVER WILMINGTON
A Philadelphia Ledger reporter accom-
panied Prof. Donaldson on his trip in
Barnum's balloon, Friday night, and he
thus describes the passage Of the party
over this city:
At $50 P. M. we were at height of
5000 feet, with the thermometer at 20
and the barometer at 1853. We continu-
ed to rise until Cos, when the height was
$500 feet, the barometer marked 236
and tho thermometer GO degrees. At
this time we We're opposite Chester, a
little to the Southwest of Media. We
passed on course nearly parallel to and
seven or eight miles from the Delaware,
in the direction of Wilmington, Del.
Philadelphia, West Chester, Media, Mar
Gus Hook, Chester, Bridgeport, N. j.,
and Wilmington, Del, were in full view
We were above tho clouds, lying near
the horizon, on all sides of us, but far
| away from them. The sky was other
Wise cloudless, and at no part of the trip
was our view of the earth obstructed by
| clouds beneath us. After reaching the
altitude OF G,5Oo feet, we rapidly de-
scended to 1000, the thermometer at the
latter height marking 62 degrees at 6:2s
7. M, when the sun was getting low
At 6:35 We passed northwest of Whining.
ton, and possibly four miles therefrom
our course being more inclined to the
west than it had been.
We crossed Brandywine creek with the
drag rope trailing on the ground, seeking
a place to land. Several men ran about
| the fields below, trying to seize the rope
but too many of them miscalculated the
rate at which it was travelling, and were
incontinently thrown to the ground. Al
length three men and a boy seized the
rope and commenced pulling us to the
earth. They did not obey the instruc
tions of Mr.. Donaldson. to climb the
rope, and we were consequently dragged
into field beyond them-the boy hold
ing on to the rope and crossing the fence
with remarkable agility. He stuck very
bravely to his work, however, and, with
the aid Of the men, landed us safely, al
Gas 2: M, on farm belonging to a Mr.
Chandler, three miles from Centreville
Delaware, and seven miles west of Viii
mington. The basket was loaded will
stone, and in a few minutes we were sur
rounded by fifty or more men and boys
The daily gazette., 1874-08-31
"BIG OUARTERLI."
LARGE INFLUX OF NEaRoEs--dooD Or
DER.

A LARGE INFLUX OF NEaRoEs--dooD OR
Yesterday was the day for Big Quar-
terly," among the negroes. and the occa-
sion was celebrated more extensively
than has been the case for several years
past. All the colored people OF this city,
tndthe surrounding neighborhood turned
out in force and their numbers were
greatly augmented by the arrival OF two
special trains and the steamer Jersey Blue
from Philadelphia crowded with cclored
humanity.
French street was the chief promenad-
lug thoroughfare of the crowds during
the day, and presented IL lively aspect.
Gaily dressed darks skipped along, and
the more staid and sober ones, with an
eve to big kept themselves behind
little stands and booths, where they dis
pensed candy, cakes, beer and ice cream,
to their hungry and thirsty friends.
Services were held Mt all the colored
churches and being largely att ended were
conducted with great spirit and fervor.
But all the churches i'll the city would
scarcely contain all the visitors and of
course the greater number had to roam
the streets. They We're however, gener-
ally very quiet and n" disorder was oc-
casioned.
IN the afternoon the Jersey Bla,e, star
ted for Phildelphla shortly aftef TOUR
o'clock, leaving behind u hack full OF ex-
cursionsts, who arrived ut the wharf
Just after the boat departed, and had to
go to their homes on. the evening trains
As did the other excursionists. The
visitors from the surrounding country
remained until late hour in the even
ing.
Of course the ''Ring" politicians were
hard at work, endeavoring to secure more
voters from the ranks of the sable visi
tors. But they were not entirely successful
in their efforts as very few of the visitor
stayed over night and all left to-day