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The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-06-20

A negro burglar was caught while
in the act of breaking into store
house in Nashville, on the 9th inst.
and arrested by the policemen, but
before they got him to the lookup
they were surrounded by thirty or
forty men, pactly disguised, who
took the prisoner from them by force,
put rope around his neck and drag
ging him to the river threw him in
and drowned him. The neighbor-
hood had been infested with burglars
and robbers, and this was the plan
by which they proposed to get rid of
them. Later Nashville papers pro-
nounce this a hoax, gotten up by
some smart policeman, who will
likely retire to private life on account
of perpetrating SO poor d joke.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-06-20

The Brownsville Sentinel announ-
ces that a dieease something like the
cholera has broken out among the
troops at Ringgold barracks. About
thirty are in the hospital. and six
have died. The attack commenced
with diarrhea and collie. A similar
disease has appeared in Matamoras,
and several cases have proved fatal.
So far it is not certain that il is Ash
attic cholera, but appearances seem
to indicate that it is more than the
usual cholera morbus incident to the
incessant use of fruits.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-06-20

What trees are those. which, when
burnt up. are exactly what they were
hefore1
Ashes,
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-06-20
FRED. A. SHOTWELL,
SURGEON DENTIST
ROgersvilIe. Tenn.

ecJers his professional services to the citizens oI
4vernment him With their patronage that he
aon--iL.0u to give perfect satlsfac-
Terms, cash. Ladies Prefering 1t VIII be
Aited upon at their homes, without extra charge
p. Sept, q, 1S76-v 10 n 80 II.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1877-01-11
Making War by Contract

From the Pail Mall Gazette.
An ingenious pamphlet has been
written by German, on impr ovements
in war. Believing that war is but a
natural outbreak of the pent-up forces
of humanity, which must from time to
time occur, he proceeds to show that
its horrors are in great measure due
to the injuries inflicted on peaceful
civilians by a wantOn destruction of
life and property. War, he maintains.
if properly conducted, should in no
way affect n0n-combatantS, except in
so far as they must suffer by bereave-
ments ; and, moreover, much may be
done to make it less disagreeable to
actual combatants. With this view he
suggests that some neutral territory be
set aside by the European powers, and
devoted entirely to bloodshed. No
fighting, under any pretense whatever,
is to take place outside this territory,
which is to be fitted up in the most
elaborate fashion for war. There is
to be training school for nurses, a
college for surgeons, and large hospi-
tails. Prisoners of war will be confined
in suitable buildings specially prepared
for their accommodation. There are
to be vast cemeteries, and depots for ara
tificiai limbs, &c. These cOnveniences
will be open to all nations wishing to
fight, at fixed and reasonable charges.
Weapons of every description-and in
fact all the appliances for war-may
be bought or hired but no credit is
given, and the charges for battlefields
are to be paid before the first gun is
fred. All profits, after payment of
expenses, will be devoted to the MAIN
tenance of the widows and orphans of
the fallen.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1877-01-11
MISS HETIY PARKER.
MILLISEE-


In the Small room on Tenth street.
whose window contained her modest
sign, Miss IIetty Parker, milliner. was
engaged ut work on Friday evening.
She was sewing on a baby's garment.
for Miss Parker'S millinery business in
the strict sense of the world was. un-
fortunately, not extensive. and she
was glad TO exc out better livelihood
on work little out of the regular
line. The world to her rs she stitched
probably didn't seem just as it did to
the mother for whom those pretty
things were being made, for Miss Par.
ker was quite alone in the world, with
no hulking man to pet and nag and
ScOid, and love and depend on, and to
he all alone Is gTieVOuS thing for a
woman not strong minded. She was
not strOng-minded, this patient milli-
ner, and she felt her isolation. keenIv.
She was not very pretty. nor oyerwIse.
perhaps, but her face had something
wOmanly about it, and, If she had
grown into some slightly old.maidish
mannerlSmS, and ways of thinkinr.the
fact was due rather 10 the force of cir
cumStances than to any natural bent.
She was muSlDg about il all.
''llOw time does pass. Only ten
years ago. and tomorrow such a differ.
ent New Years Day! Minnesota such
a long way Off-and 10 think of the
deaths an my drifting away down
here. What happy days. But such
changes. such changes Dear me -
The milliueT rubbed her eyes with
an inexpensive but very neatlv-hem-
med pocket handkerchief. and resumed
work pensively upon the babv,s gar
ments. all frilled and pleated and Gar.
mShed, as young mothers like them.
and the millineT uncOnSciOuslv became
interested in her work a little. She
held up one finished article and inspert.
ed it.
Il do hope it viii suit. It's A per-
feet beauty. How nice the baby will
look in it.
Her thoughts wandered back into
tie past.
Il wonder where John is nowl
Poor fellow, How cruel and foolish
was, and how sorry afterward. I Won
Ter if he has forgotten me, or what he
would say if he could know that l am
alone in the worldl What fOOlishness : |
he must be married somewhere and /
never thinking of the past. Oh dear |
It's hard lot for lone woman, but |
maybe it's al for the best. III do my |
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1877-01-11
Never Too Late to Learn.

Socrates, at an extreme old age,
learned TO play on musical instruments.
Cato, at eighty years of age, learned
to study the Greek language.
Plutarch, when between seventy
and eighty, commenced the study of
Latin.
Bocacio was thirty-iive years of age
when he commenced his studies in
light liter allure yet he became one of
the greatest masters of the Tuscan dia-
lect@Dante and Plutarch being the
other two.
Sir Henry Spelman neglected the
science in his youth, but commenced
the study of them when he was be-
tween fifty and sixty years of age.
After this time he became most
learned antiquarian and lawyer.
DIR. johnson applied himself to the
Dutch language but few years before
his death.
LudOvico Monaldeico, at the great
age of rs, wrote the memoirs of his
own times.
Ogilby, the translator of Homer and
Virgil, was unacquainted with Latin
and Greek till he was past fifty.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1877-01-11

him so my husband-tell him so =
sobbed poor Annie, as Charles opened
his eyes once more.
A groan that seemed to come up
from amid the wrecked fragments of
broken heat-a look of indescrib-
able agony-was her only answer
His tongue could not utter the word
which would clear her fame before
her.
What did she do! Did she, as other
friends afterwards did, turn from him
with sudden scorn and lorthing-
friends too who had shared the pro-
ceeds of his guilt9 Did she do this /?
No; she placed her hand upon his, and
said TO the officer: ''Lead on, sir; we
are prepared to go wherever you deem
it your duty to conduct us y
''But lady,you are not under arrestr'
II am his wife, sir and where he
goes l will go. Even though he is con-
victed of this crime of which you ac-
cuse him, will not desert him. | am
his wife, his widowed mother S daugh-
terra
A last scene. He had been tried,
convictek, sentenced There is no
need that should have waded through
all that in this sketch-its main incl
dents, true as they are, and the moral
they convey, the lesson they inculcate
to the young and the tempted are all
that purpose to lay before the reader.
An elderly lady, dressed in deep
mourning, trembling with agitation,
leaned upon the arm of Annie Albro,
who has been utterly disowned by
her proud father. 1t was the mother
of Charles, and they were waiting al
the railroad depot to take a farewell
of the wretched convict, ere the Sher.
iff bore him away to the distant State s
prison.
He came, pale, a shadow of his for
mer self, utterly abashed and almost
heart-broken. And a sneer was on al
most every face as they placed the
young convict in the car. Not a look
that was not cold as the iron which
gyved his hands, except the glance OF
that mother and that wife.
Wife young, and early baptised il
sorrows bitter waters, yet wifely ii
the noblest sense.
Where now are the sneerS of the
assembled crowd who had gaZed so con
temptiously on the wretched felon; now
where, when they heard that lovely
and accomplished woman utter cheer.
full words, call him husband. and speak
of a future yet to brighten for him
and her
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1877-01-11

the watch is regulated. sensation
among the audience. Here is what l
have seen gentlemen! / asked from
the director of the Waltham Company
a watch of the fifth grade. A large
safe was open before me; at random
| took a watch out of it and fastened
it to my chain. The director having
asked me to let him have the watch
for two Or three days, so rs to observe
its motion, | answered, son the con-
trary. persist in wearing it just as it
is to obtain an exact idea of yonr man.
ufacture." At Paris, set my watch
by regulator on the Boulevard, and
on the sixth day observed that it had
varied SO seconds And this watch is
of the fifth American grade; it cost
IS francs movement without case.)
On my arrival at Locle L showed the
watch to one of our first adjusters,
who asked permission to take it down
that is, to take it to pieces. /, how.
ever, wished first to observe it, and
here is the result which / noted:
Hanging, daily variation, l II Sec
onds; variation in different positions
from to seconds; in the heated
room the variation was very slight.
Having thus observed it, handed the
watch over to the adjuster, who took
it down. After few days he came to
me and said, word for word, 81 am
completely overwhelmed; the result is
incredible; one would not find one such
watch among fifty thousand of our
manufacturer This watch, gentle
men, | repeat to you, took at hazard
out of heap, as we say. You under
stand from this example, that the
American watch may be preferred to
the Swiss. have finished, gentlemen,
and have told you of things such as |
have seen them. 1t remains for us to
profit from this sad experience, and to
improve our manufacture.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1877-01-11
The Income of the London Times.

The Times of to-day consists of one
hundred and twenty columns Of solid
matter. There are twenty pages, each,
as you know, Just the size of the pages of
the New York Tribune. But there is
no display in the Times every page is
packed solid, and there is not vacant
line. There is no loaded matter, ex.
cept the leading articles, the special
Geographic dispatches and one of the
foreign letters. The type is small it
is BREWER, miniOn and nonpareil. If
the amount of matter in this number
OF The Times were given to any of the
New York morning papers TO print ia
their usual style, all of them, except
the Sun, would fill not less than forty
of their pages with it. There are six
ty-seven columns of advertisements.
1t is easy enough to calculate what
these advertisements paid, for the
terms of The Times can be ascertained
and there is never any abatement or
discount from them. The sixty-seven
columns in tO-day's issue, according to
my calculation brought in fl,576, and
sure that am not ESQ out of the way.
If the Times has this amount of adyer-
Using every day, its income from this
source would be f552, AS a year. But
the Times contains but six
teen pages, and all the year round il
has about fifty columns of advertise
mentS day. At this rate its income
from advertisements would be about
$50, 600 a year and ii is from this
source that it must wholly, or chiefly,
paw all its EXPENSES other than those
Of its papeT-makers, its compositors,
and its press work. At threepence a
copy, the Times probably has the cost
Of its actual mechanical production,
but no more. Out of the $50, 900 re-
ceiyed for advertisements all its other
expenses must be betrayed. The ex-
penses are vast; but with $3.50, 600, one
may pay all of them and probably have
4 clear balance of $1,000 or $40, 900 |
profit.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1877-01-11

1t took Sir Isaac Newton less than
three years to thoroughly digest the
principles of gravitation, while a
Rhode Island farmer has spent eleven
wears trying to find out why a COW new
er kicks till the pail is nearly two
thirds full,
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1877-01-11
BANKS.
AND TRADERS BANK.

II Hastings, MINI.
GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS
transacted.
Deposits received, domestic and foreign ex-
hange, passage certificates, gold, silver and
Government securities bought and sold. Rep
resent first.clas Fire and Lite insurance
Companies. WIN. THOMPSON, Pres.
B. e. Howes, Cash'r.
DIRRcToRs ~ A. Smith, VIM. Thompson,
B. C. Howes, Geo. Barbaras, Oscar Howes, f.
G.. Howes.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1877-01-11

Since orr last issue we have heard
OF several persons who have used Durang's
Rheumatic Remedy for rheumatism: and all
pronounce II a success. II comes to our mar
ket highly recommended; and as il is the on
u reliable remedy now in use, it viii have a
large sale. It is taken internally. Price 81 90;
six bottles, IS. 90
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1877-04-18

1t will be recollected that last
summer B. w. Coovell, clerk of
Sault st. Marie canal agent, alb
seconded with $4,000 of the States
money. He left the Sault on the
propeller Celtic, and suspecting
that word would be sent for his ar
rest to the lower lake ports, when
the Celtic was within about two
miles of Port Huron he strapped
iife-preserver around his body and
jumped into the lake, leaving the
following note:
CAPTAIN KILE:-Desperate men
take desperate chances. Twill send
you the pay for your life-preserver
some time if it only does good SER
vice now and takes me about a
mile to shore.
All search for him failed and it
was supposed he was drowned, al
though the precaution was taken
to furnish the police of the large
cities with a description of him.
1t seems that he succeeded in get
ting ashore, went to Philadelphia,
Brooklyn and other places, and had
a good time generally. Presenting
too confidently, however, on the
belief that the public entertained
of his death, he came to Detroit,
where he fell under the eye of a
detective who promptly arrested
him. Mr.. Coovell will now have
an opportunity to cogitate on the
fool he made of himself in visiting
Detroit, as well as either making
restitution or going to prison
Courier.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1877-04-18
What Has Become of All the
MOney!-MOre Than Eight
Millions Missing.

From the New York Sun.
The new Attorney General of the
United States finds that the appro-
priation for defraying the expenses
of the courts of the United States
for the fiscal year ending June Goth,
1877, is rapidly approaching ex-
haustion ; and he informs the Dis
trict Attorneys that, as the last
Congress denied all applications
that we're made by bis predecessor
for an increased sum to bear these
expenses, they must make all pos
sible retrenchments. Inasmuch as
retrenchmeuts in the expenses of
keeping open the courts of the
United States for the transaction
OF civil business and the trial Of
prisoners detained in Jail, can only
be effected by not holding courts,
the circular OF the Attorney-Gen-
eral Is nothing more nor less than
a warning that the courts must be
practically closed, for q longer or
shorter period, until new appro-
priation is made. Considering that
L was only last July that Congress
appropriated for this purpose 81
500, 900 for the fiscal year that will
md on the goth of June next, it is
rot remarkable that the last House
II Representatives should have re-
used 20 grant TO Mr.. Taft more
moneys to make M for his squan-
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1877-04-18

is, moreover, quite familiar with
the expenses necessary to keep
the Federal courts for the transac-
ton of their ordinary duties, will
afford to Congress every facility for
ascertaining what has been done
with the $500, 900 spent by his
two immediate predecessors. 1t is
true that the present Administra-
ton is obliged to kick down a good
many ladders by which it has
climbed into power, and the pro-
cess may not be agreeable; but it
is nevertheless necessary. Attor-
ney-General Devens, while he may
not serve his predecessors, can
serve the country, by a full disclo-
sure of how much it has cost to
keep open the Federal courts for
the transaction of their ordinary
business, and how much has been
spent in experimenting elections.
Here is a field for reform into
which this de de .tacto Administra-
ton may enter with profit to the
nation, although it may not afford
much profit to the party which put
it in possession of the stolen Pres
idency.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1877-04-18
Wednesday, april Is, 1877.

An unusually large emigration
to the west from Maine this spring
calls attention to the fact that the
population of the State is rapidly
decreasing, the loss between 1871
aud 1875 having been about TO-
600. The Bangor Commercial ar
rives at the conclusion that this is
owing to the rule of the Republi-
can party, and that a high protec-
tive tariff, extravagant administra-
ton and prohibitory liquor laws
are draining Maine to the advan-
tage of her neighbors. Eighty-six
persons left for the Black Hills the
other day.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1877-04-18

The daily statistic of crime fur
nish few case of a more startling
nature then that which occurred
near Lima, Ind, on Saturday week.
William Meachemer, farmer, was
in that place on Saturday and start
ed home with his team in the early
evening. Not reaching home, his
family became alarmed and at day
light a search was instituted which
resulted in the finding of his body
in his wagon, two miles from home,
with his throat cut from ear to ear.
The theory is that he was murder
ed for his money, he having a con-
siderable sum in his possession.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1877-04-18

The prospects of peace grow
beautifully less daily on the other
eide of the Atlantic and indications
all point to the conclusion that
the Russian anaconda, which has
been gradually lightning his folds,
will soon envelop the Turk in a
deadly embrace. The latest adj
vices are to the effect that war is
inevitable and imminent. The eff
feet of this intelligence on the
breadstuff markets in this country
on Monday was marked. In this
contest Europe's loss will be our
gain. If they must fight, the soon
ed the disturbance begins the bet
ter it will suit US.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1877-04-18
ORDER.

State of Michigan, County Of Presque Isles.
At a session of the rebate Court. for the county
of Pressure Isle, held at the Probate Office in the
VILLAGE Of Rogers, on Monday, the 5th day Of
March, in the year one thousand eight hundred
and sevonty-seven.
Present, James McLaohlan, Judge Of Probate.
In the matter of the estate of Edward Sullivan,
deceased
On reading and filing the petition, duly verified,
of William e. Bennett, that administration Of
said estate may be granted to HIM, the said NIl-
lam T. Bennett.
Thereupon il is ordered, that Saturday, the
18th day of May 1877, at two o'clock in the
afternoon, be assigned for the hearing Of said pc
ttion, and that the heirs at law of said deceased
and all other persons interested in said estate,
are required 10 appear AT a session of SAID Court,
then TO be held at the Office of Judge of Probate,
in the village Of Rogers City, and show cause, If
any there be, why the prayer of the petitioner
should not be granted And II is further ordered,
that said petitioner give notice 10 the persons in
terested in said estate, of the tendency Of said
petition, and the hearing thereof, by causing copy
OF this order TO be published in the ALPEsA
WEEKLY ARGUS, a newspaper printed and pub
lshed in the city Of Alpena, Alpena county, three
successive weeks, previous 20 said hearing.
JAMES McLACHLAN,
tseal.l Judge Of Probate.
IO7w3
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NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that for the purpose OF
making nm examination of all persons who may
offer themselves candidates for teachers of the
primary schools, of the School District No |, OF
Alpena, the Board of School Inspectors thereof
will meet AZ the Jones School House in the town
ship of Alpena, on Saturday, April the 2lst, A.
d. 1877, applicants to furnish their own station
eryl.
CONRAD VESSEL,
Township Clerk.
Alpena, Mich, April 18th, 1877.
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