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Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1875-03-17
How Is Your Pronunciation :

The following extract is suggest
ed for use by teachers and pupils
in schools as an exercise test of
pronunciation. 1t must bo read
off Immediately without pause to
consider which is the proper way
to pronounce the words:
1. A courier from st. Louis, an
Italian with italics, began to adj
dress or recitative as to the mis-
chievous national finances.
2. His dolorous progress was
demonstrated by a demonstration,
and the preface to his sacerdotal
profile gave his opponents an ir-
reparahle and lamentable wound.
3. He was deaf and insolated.
and the envelope on the furniture
at the depot was covert for leisure
and the reticence from the first
grasp of the dancing Legislature Of
France.
4. The dilation Of the chasm, or
trough, made For servile satyr and
verile optimist vchemently panegy-
rise the lenient God.
5. He was so aspirant after tho
vagaries of the exorcists and an
memorable coadjptor Of the ire
fragible, yet exquisite, Farrago, on
the subsistence of the despicablo
finale and the re-, ognition Of the
recornizance. rt
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ON the Atlantic.

Fast through the stormy night,
Bright with phosphoric light,
The steamship glides.
High on the slippery ridge
OF the stOrm-bcAten bridge,
The watch abidcs.
Deep in the hollow hold,
Safe from the sleet and cold,
Nesiles warm life.
Vainly the savage wave
Outside the ship may lave,
foaming in strife.
Half sh.ouded IN the storm,
The iccbg rg's awful turm
II tho Path hes.
What Il. before the gale,
Some shlp with H,raining sail
To meet us flicsl
Across the waste so stark,
Studded with dangers dark,
What power guides =
What but the living soul,
without whose keen control,
Grim death bctidcs.
Mighty the giant strength,
Driving the steamers length
Athwart the main:
Nightiu tie subtle power,
OF nj life tie flower,
Bound in mans brain.
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VIM. III. PHELPS,

D'ller in Lime, Water Lme, Plaster Paris, and
Halt kerIy-Muis Mortar for sale at all times
Contracts taken FOR AL kinds OF Mason Work,
plain or ornamental. Mkterial furnished II re-
luirsl Uiic, on Second street. Sc
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tened over it the protecting wire
netting.
"They bore me up in their arm:
to the side of the boat, where the
hungry waves were leaping up, n:
though greedily opening their foam
ing, frothy jaws to receive me.
81 dropped into the waves with
q splash, sinking swiftly dowr
through the brilliant sunlit waters
which, though rough and bolster.
Gus at their surface, suddenly grew
calm as ] passed below. ! glanced
mp at the sun, which appeared as a
great ball Of fire, hut, growing
smaller and smaller as / sauk lower,
it finally seemed like the tiny red
spark Of Il candle, and then faded
from sight. | noticed that the
waters were lit by n pale greenish
haze, much like the effect Of moon
light in light, drifting fog: but
these observations were cut short
by my realizing that | was near
the bottom, and looking below, /
found myself over a bank of tall,
thick sea-weed.
"Knowing that if I were once
entangled in them they would hold
me there forever, | pulled the sig
nal rope, and my descent was
checked just as my feet touched
the treacherous grasses. The tide
bore me slowly away and past them
turning me around again and again
in the eddies, and making my head
so giddy that l was heartily glad
when / cleared the bank and stood
at last upon the bright sandy bot
tom. The shells and gravel on the
bed Of the waters were most deli
cate and beautiful in design, but
so tender that even shells crumbled
at my touch.
81 hurried on with the current
until / saw before me what / judg-
ed to be the great wooden walls of
the Conqueror, but on nearing it !
found it to be q reef of rocks, fan
cifully honey combed from end to
end, and In and out among the lit
tie arched halls of these fern COW
cred chambers the fish were chasing
each other playfully or hanging
idly in the waters.
passing around these rocks, l
came upon mass Of tangled rig
Cing, and few steps further on
brought me to the man-of-war half
buried where she lay, in tho drift
ing sand, her spars and top-masts
crushed aud splintered upon her
deck her sails and rigging hang
ing over the side and resting upon
the broken bulwarks.
"Great caution was necessary
lest I should become entangled
among the ropes or caught under
the shifting timhers, and making
my way slowly to the companion
way, sent up the signal.
'3---23-.''7-.' ("I am about
to enter the vessel--I shall be in
ianger-play out rope freely and
give me plenty of air.')
81 made my way TO the lower
ieclS, aud found myself in the for
ward cabin. 1t was very dark,
and | CROPPED about for the door
way, knowing that once in the
main saloon, the deck-lights would
enable me to see more distinctly.
"Cleaiing the rubbish and drift
ing sand from about the doorway,
| burst II open, and was about to
enter, when I paused to summon
courage before entering. A mo-.
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Jossrh Nephew has opened q cooper shop on
Msrch4nt street, aud IS prepared TO do all kinds OF
ooUperinc, cistern making, and repairing. lGs
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W. II. Simpson.
Cooper shop.

Saw nnutacturcg, with Thompson, Smith & sons
luueaK G,y, Mich. All saws sent for repairs will
receiys prompt attention l5I
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A Memphis fortune-teller told q
man that fortune Of $780, 900 was
coming TO him next week, and he
shelled out $50 to his wife to buy
q new suit. When too late. hsD
learned that his wife had fixed the
thing with the old woman, asf
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1875-03-17

A school In Vermont is presided
over by cross-eyed teacher. A
few days ago he called out: "That,
boy that | am looking at will step
out on the floor" Immediately
twenty-seven lads walked out in
front of the astonishei pedagogue.
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coming, praying God that it might
come upon me gently, and asking
that ] might fall into unconscious
ness when it was close at hand.
Vas / crazed? Was mad. or
was this q new torture for me in
my last moments ? had laid quite
for moment, when | started up
in terror, uttering a cry-a weak,
miserable cry, which died on my
lips as l sank again on the deck
and closed my eyes to a terrible
sight before me,
81 had left the cabin door open,
and freed the imprisoned dead men.
One Of the dead sailors had foated
up to the deck, and by some hor'i-
ble chance, the tide bore him di-
rectly toward me. Was I to die
surrounded once moro by those
ghastly sentinels as a death-watchi
Gle was borne slowly along on
the current, his eyes wide open in
an awful stare, his arms outstretch-
ed, as though to embrace me, well
coming me to the unknown world.
/ fell pr stra.e on tie dec's in my
terror, but he floated so slowly, the
tide casting him up against me,
when he fell at my side.
81 caught him, in my despera-
ton, to fling him from me, hut his
arms closed about me in al iron
embrace, and his face was close TO
mine-the face Of old Lott, the di-
yer, who had come down through
the waters to save me, and in whose
stout arms / was borne up, and
carried insensible to the boats
above.
1--WE saw what was wrong right
away, dear hoy" he said to me af.
terward, ''when the ragged ends of
your ropes 1oated to the surface,
There was only one way of reach
ing you, old fellow, and I can tell
you we flew around lively. We
had no "bell" to go down 10 you
in, so we Just fastened some weights
to my feet, and ropes to my arms.
| took a rul her mouth-pisce be-
tween my teeth, and then dropped
overheard. The water oppressed
me fearfully, and / couldn't bavo
stood it more than few minutes.
IN that few minutes | found you,
Did boy, caught You in nv arms,
md signaled them to haul us up
mighty quick. l couldn't have
stood it much longer, dear boy, for
t was killing me-
81 took his dear hands in mine,
Ind looked into his good, honest !,
yes. With a swelling heart told
Tim in such words as / could, Of
ny gratitude for his heroic efforts
When he came down through the
waters at the risk of his own life
o save mine"
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f lint & Pere Marquette R. R,

The shortest, quickest. and most reliable route
TO egd front Dutioit Toledo, Cleveland, Cincin-
nati Saginaw and Bay City.
'uotSG FAST, soUtH Asp WEST.
Leave Alpchd daily, except sunday, by AlpenH
and Bay ity line of stages, AT $50 70. nl.
Leave Bay City at lO:Oj p M, 200 a. ifi.., ll0O
a. m. and 2Oj y. IA.
East saginaw, 1910 7. m, 1888 n. m, 1885 am.
and s:i0 ?. IN.
Flint. i2;lO n. m. $50 a. IN, 1855 md $50 p. m
holiy, $50 ami $40 II. IA l. 90 and 4:i5 p. IN.
Arrlyu at Detroit at 7:25 and ll:25 a. m, and
0:2O p. m,
Leave Plymouth. 7:I5 and ll.oS a. m, Clio p. NJ
Wayne, sos and ll:05 u. m, 500 p. IN,
Monroe, 92j a. m. and 1880 p IN,
Toledo, 1880 u, ~. and 5CO =. IN.
Midlcnd, lnl1 a. m, and 5:33 y. m.
FHrwcB, S35 a. m, and $50 p. m.
Reed city, 200 a. IN, and 2:lO p. m.
GOING NORTH
Tolelo, l2lj a. m and 500 p. m.
Monroe lao y. IN. and 9;l0 p m.
Wayne, 2lh =. IN, 90 p. m. and l0:4o p. m.
Detroit, S:i5 u, M, 5:lu aud lO:jOp. M
Holly, lOij a. M, 36j p. IN, 7:iS p. III. and i:l5
u. IN.
Flint, ll?s A. M, 4c5 and s:?7 p M, and ass u.
m.
East Saginaw, I245, $50 and o:5s p. M, and
G:2A u. m.
Bay City. leo, Cos aud 1925 p. m. and 7ss a.
m.
Midland 6:2s p. m, and s:5s a. m.
Farwell, sos p. m, and loss n. m.
Reed City, arrive 1915 and 9:40 p. m.
TItsT RIVERS DIVISION.
Leave Flint 5:25 p. m. Leave Otter Lake 'Soan n.
OusvIlle, G;l2 =. IN. Otisvilc, 7:42 n. m.
Otter Lake arrive G:25. Flint, arrive, S:25 a. m.
n L. FLETCHER,
General Ticket Agent, Alpena, Mich
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ADyERTIsING RATES.

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Will locate Pine, Timber and Earmn. Lands
Pine Lands examined and estimated. Particular
attention pail 20 selecting Homestcads. Long
Lake, Alpena, Mich.
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Which he has opened the old stand Of Roenha Co., and in
vites the public in general to and see him.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1875-06-25

-
he obtained positive proof Of her
guilt. She confessed it all to her
husband, and told him that she had been
Woodard's victim ever since the death of
her boy. Fitzgerald sent word to his
brother.in-law that would kiushin sa
sight. Woodard discharged him from
the employment of the railroad company
and put detectives on his track. II Fitz:
gerald starts in W GODDARD drectiond,' ond'telh the u
latter knows sit.instantlysan evadetai him.
Theswrongsd ahnsbands f0lloweda9the So
d,icer all over the west, bat, could mot
reach him. One day lately they found
themselves in the same town-at Sey-
mour, Indiana. Woodard was attending
the funeral of his mother, and Fitzgerald
swore that he would not touch him
then. But nevertheless hes. (Fitz-
gerald) was set mnpon at night - by
roughs, beaten and left for dead, and he
declares that the would be assassins were
paid by his enemy. Meantime Fitz-
gerald has lost his health, and is almost
in the last stages of consumption. lie
says that Woodland knew this, and
thought he could be easily killed o.. Sey.
mour. Butss$thef ayenger is tenacious; of
life. He has gone to Colorado springs to
regain his hold upon, existence, and
swears he will yet end the days of the
man who has spoiled his home, and
blasted his life, and driven away his
health. The papers somewhere will yet
be full Of the Fitzgerald w GODDARD trag-
edy, he says, and then he is willing to
go. After that Woodard's detectives
may follow him to h l,--he doesn't care.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1875-06-25
A Traseay fer she. Fasure.

Big Joe Fitzgerald, railroad engineer
and conductor on the Missouri, Kansas
and Texas railroad, is in Colorado, trying
to restore wrecked body to health, in
order that he may have strength enough
to meet and kill brother-in.law of his.
Big Joe's story, rs he tells it, is not With
out interest. He began life as ,newsboy,
and became locomotive engineer, and at
length freight conductor. Ten years
ago Fitzgerald and his division superin-
tendent on the railroad, named w ooda ard,
married two sisters in Seymour, Indiana.
Fitzgerald's wife, after proper lapse Of
time, had a son, who died when some.
thing less than two years old. =, IL was
when the parents were sorrowing over
their boy that the little Paul episode Of
the Tilton family was repeated in, the
home of the Fitzgeralds, Woodland, the
brother-in-law, being the Beecher in this
case. : He visited Mrs. Fitzgerald under
the guise Of sympathy, during the hus-
bands absence, and then, horrible as it
may seem, seduQed the stricken wife.
Fitzgerald>was much away from home,
and the guilty intimacy between Woodard
and his sister-in.laW was kept up for sew
eral years. = At last the husband was in.
formed by his friends that everything
WAS not right. He visited GODDARD one
day and asked him what he would do il .
man were to seduce his wife. w GODDARD
replied "I:would follow him to heat;
would moi; sleep until I.had taken the vii.
lain life...' fitzgerald watched his wife,
but it was Il mot d until 1872 sa that
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1875-06-25
mlAcellalpe0als.


The centennial celebration of the Battle of
Bunker Hill was an occasion never to be for
gotten by those who participated. Among the
most interesting occurrences was the hand
shaking between Massachusetts and South
Carolina: The namber of visitors is estimated
at It, ,O0O
The railroad war between the PENNSYLVANIA
Central and the Baltimore and Ohio companies
has been settled by an agreement upon tariffs,
to continue in torce for ten years.
The long strike is ended. The miners of L.
high and Wilkesbarre counties made an un-
conditional surrender, through their delegates
'on the 10th. at a meeting with Mr.. Parrish. A
dozen or more meetings were held yesterday at
different Places At Ashley a delegation Of
seventy German miners went to the meeting
for tho purpose Of voting for resumption, but
their object became known to the leaders, and
they were excluded from the meeting.
They then held a meeting Of
their own and decided to be governed no long
er by the Association. At another meeting the
Irish and Welch disagreed and the former
withdrew. At other places there was also q
lack of harmony, and during the course Of the
day there was:a general oounclas to fnture nc
tion. .se The f,lnass goft the. Il men were in
favor aof going 10 .werk but the
eaderss fought pghhtt .l'1' hard 3D. q aA asnst it.
he sentiment was, however, too strong for
them 1otigsr 10 control and d, part yielded. In
the evening regular meeting was held and
the delegates then went & nr. Parrish's oace,
where long and harmonious = q conference took
place. which ended in ali agreement to
go toa work upon y the =. company'a
terms, With No concessions whatever. The
men afaasd they had mace ) mistake in hold
ing out 70 long Or in making the strike, and
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1875-06-25
An Indiana False Shepherd Steps
Down aud Out.

Down ana Out.
fSyracuse, Ind, June 18th, Correspondence of
Chicago Tilnes.]
A 'tragged edge case came to light at
this place yesterday morning, in which
Rev. NJ. Coates, Of the Church of God,
is the chief sinner. A day or so ago, the
Church held secret meeting. at which
he acknowledged his guilt Of adultery,
and at the same time begged for mercy,
which the members considered .'too
thin," and did not give. At last even.
ing's prayer meeting Of that Church the
case was first made public, and there
being quite congregation present,
it created no little excitement, and the
town is full of rumors Of all kinds to-davl
1t seems that he and one of the "gentle
lambs have been quite intimate for some
time, bat were not detected until quite
recently. They were both read out of
the church last evening, when one of the
elders gave both old and young some
good advice, and told them how naughty
it was to practice ''ways that are dark
and tricks that are vain.'' The reverend
gentleman has .'@lit OUT" and it is not
Known where he has gone. Last October
he had to leave Ohio on the same charge.
1t is not-now known how the case will
end, as there are so many conflicting ru-
mOrS. %t- -"
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1875-06-25
The Notorious Paul Scheppe.

"A Baltimore telegram Of the 10Th says: :
In the orphans court to-day, in the case
Of Paul Sch9ppe, petition to revoke the
probate Of the will of Miss Maria NJ.
Steinecke, deceased, and letters testament
tary granted hereunder, upon the ground
Of an alleged marriage at Carlisle, Pa,
between the testatrix and said Scheppe,
emitting him to her entire estate, Judge
English delivered the opinion Of the court,
holding that the petitioner had failed to
prove the marriage alleged. and that the
documents produced by him to establish
it were forged. In the progress Of the
trial a certified record Of the polio court
OF Berlin was produced, showing that
Scheppe had been convicted Of larceny,
forgery and extortion in a Berlin court.
|Schmppe is now convict in the Illinois
State prison at Joliet, having been con
victed in Chicago Of forgery, under the
name Of J.. o. Schulenberg.
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Murder win Ont.

The Androscoggin Fishing Club, nun
oerlng some ten persons, all from Prov
aence, Rhode Islands except Dr.. Brick, q
Keene, N. H., ths President bftheeiir cldl
were passengers on the steamer Montreal
between Quebec and Montreal, on tn
night OF the 18th Of June 1874. Abou
mne O'Clock the pilot and steersma,
o1mly saw man move forward on tn,
oeck 9r eths ryessel toward tn. bow Is j
searching for Something u %WSetis fheessII 81
the capstan and larboard rail the mar
rose, put his hands on the rail and some
how tumbled overheard. The vessel VA,
promptly'stopped and ID boat lowered bu,
the lost man could not be found. Can't
GAG. Cahoone Of Providence, secretar,
OF Ithe club above mentioned, was discov
cred to pc missing Captain, !Cahoon,
vas, during the late war, commander O.
the United Train Artillery Of, Providence
and he was an honored member Of the
highest branches of the; Masonic or.
der in his city. He was also
widely known as an expert diamond jew.
eler. 'Heswas never :kaowne to be Rintox.
icatcd, and his movements as described
by the pilot and steersman, were unac.
countable. Two days afterwards his
body was recovered, SO marked with cuts
and bruises that it was apparent when
he went overheard he must have floatcd
into the larboard wheel of the steamer.
But on the back Of the head was a large
round lump. with the skin unbroken. It
could not have been caused by blow
from the paddles. This mark continual.
iy haunted the brother of the deceased Z;
ne suspected foul play and communicated
his suspicious to police and detective off,
GERS.
The next month the chief Of police of
Montreal received letter from Boston,
P9rporting to be from man who with
his wife was on board
the steamer named at the
time of Capt. Cahoonc's loss, He wrote
that himself and wife, sitting on deck,
overheard an angry dispute. One of the
parties said to the other, appealingly,
Don't, Joe, don't, - and the other replied
ansrily,' ,''God damn ysu, will" Imme-
diately afterward they heard the cry of
man overheard" They thought from
the voice that the one called *'Joe," was
one of the Providence party. Search for
the writer of this letter has proved un-
svailiug. There was ssJoe' among
The party. but it is impossible to
even suspect him. Yet quite recently
Capt. Cahoone's body was disinterred,
md it was then found that, though the
skin was not broken, his skull was frac-
'ured under the lump ON the back of the
1ead, and surgeons declare the fracture
vas the result of a blow with some
blunt instrument. 1t is believed, there
lore, that Capt. CahQone was struck with
! billy and then either pushed overheard
or crawled overheard when deprived Of
MS senses by the blow. But who mur.
Tered him? And who and where is
Henry j. Merton, who wrote the letter
'eferred to?