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Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1878-01-09

"Well, may / hope then, dear
that at some future time | may
have the happiness of making you
my wisep "Yes. | hope so, ain
sure," she replied, "for | am get
ting tired of suing fellows for
breach of promise"
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A DMINIsTRATRIX SALE.

State of Michigan. County of Alpena, IS.
/ In the matter OF the estate of John Louden,
deceased.
/ Notice Is hereby given, that in pursuance OF an
order granted toIhe undersigned, administrators
of said estate by the Hon. Judge OF Probate, for
the county of Apena, on the Goth day of Noyem-
Der, A. ID. 1877, there will bc sold at public
due, TO the highest bidder, ut the front door of
the Potter block, Second street, in the city OF
Alpena, in said State on saturday, the goth day
OF january, A. d. 1879, at ten o'clock IN the fol
noon of that day, tsubjeet 10 MI encumbpnces by.
mortgage, or otherwise eXis ing at the time of the
death of said deceased, and also subject 10 the
homestead rights of the widow on children of said
deceased therein, the foil wing described real
estPte, TO wit: Lots one and two, OF section thir-
ty-three. in town thrtytwo north, range six east,
containing sixty-hve and seycnty-five one-hun-
dredths also lots three and four, in section
thirty-three, town thIrty-two north range six
east, containing seventy-two and seventy.eipht
onc-hundredths acres; also the southwest quar-
ter OF the southeast quarter; and the southwest
quarter Of the uorth-e ist quarter; and the north
west quarter OF the southeast quarter of section
twenty-eight, in town thifty-two north, range
seven cas-.
SARAH 4. LOUDEN.
Q0NE I,,f
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Our Minister'S Wife.

Louisville, Ky, Feb. l6, 1871.
Mn II. r. STEVENS.
Dear sir Three years ago was suffering ter
ribly with Inhamma DRY rheumatism. Our minis
teI's wife advised me to take Negetinc. Afei
taking one bottle, was entirely relieved. This
year, feeling return OF the Il sease, again com
menccd king it, and am being benefited great.
ly. IL also greatly improves my digestion.
Respectfully,
MRS. A. BALLARD.
lnll Wnst InInrsnn strnnt
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Cheap Guns for the People.

Double Shot Guns, from a. 10 $50 Brcech
Loading Shot Guns, from s25 TO ESQ sing
Shot Guns, all kinds, IS to S25. Rifles, Muzzlc
and Breoch londing, Single and Repeating 7, 10
and "a shooters. Revolvers, sc and shooters,
a.. sc to S2O.
Goods sent by Express c. o. D., with privilege
10 examine. Price list tree. Address, GREAT
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MORTGAGE SALE.

MORTGAGE SALE.
Default having been made in the terms and con
diious of u certain indcnture of mortgage, bear
ing date the Itch day of October, 4. H. 1874, and
executed by and between Henry w. Pollard, of
the city of Alpcna. Michigan, OF the first pant,
and samantha Hitchcock, of the same place, of
the second pnrt, and duly recorded in the office
Of the Register of Deeds for the county of Al
penH, on the 2jth day of October, 4. u. 1874. in
libcr one of mortgages, on page 50 and 10y which
said default the power OF sale in said mortgage
contained has become operative. and il being claim
ed iat there Is now due AMI unpaid, at the date
ana one aud siNty-twO Onc-hundrcdths dollars,
1901 G2-lOO, Tor principal and interest together
with mn attorney fee of thirty dollars, $4,000.
provided tor IN said mortgage and no suit or pro-
cceding, either al law OF in equity having been
instituted to recover the amount secured by said
mortgage. OF any part thereof, now, therefore,
Notice Is hereby given that on the thirty-frst
day Of January, a. ID. 1873 ut two o'clock ia the
afternoon of said day, at the front door of Potter
BROTHERS brick block, on Second street. in the city
OF Alpen,, county OF Alpena, aud State Of Michi-
gnn, that being the building in which the Circuit
Court Tor said county in which said mortuau,d
premises are situated is held there will bc sold at
public auction, to the highest bidder the premises
described IN said MORTGAGE or so much thereof us
may be necessary to satisfy the said debt the in
tercst thereon, and said attorney E,c and all
costs and charges allowed by law. sand mort.
gagged premises arc situated in the city Of Alpcna
county of Alpena. State OF Michigan, and de-.
scribcd ms follows All that pieco or pnIccl of
Land described in said mortgage rs follows 10
wit Lot number three, 81. in block nne lgl in
lhtchcock's first addition 70 the village, now city,
OF Alpena said mortgage being given for the pur-
chase price of siil described premises.
SAMANTHA HITCHCOCK,
Mortgage.
j. ID. TURSBULL, Attorney for Morris agee
Dated Nov ], 1877. 39GwiJ
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"Work & Doolttle," is the sign
over wholesale store in the city of
New York.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1878-01-09

The following letter from Rev. G. w. Mansfield
| formerly pastor OF the Methodist Episcopa
/ Church, Hyde Park, and at present settled il
| Lowell, must convince every one who reads hi.
letter of the wonderful curative qualities OF Negc-
] tine rs a thorough cleanser aud purifier OF thC
blood:
hyde Park Mass, Feb. Is, 1876.
| Mn. II. Il. STEVENS
Dear sir - About ten years ago my health fail
cd through the depicting effects OF dyspepsia
nearly year later l attacked by typhoid
! fever in its worst tom. 1t settled in my back
and took the form of large deep-scated absccss,
which was fifteen months IN gathering. ! hud two
SURGICAL operations by the best skill in the State,
but received no pcrmanent cure. | suffered great
pain at times, and was constantly weakened 10y Il
protusc discharge. also lost small pieces of bone
al times.
Matters ran on thus about seven years. till May,
1874, when friend recommended me TO 60 TO
your Office, and talk with you of the virtue of
NCgetiue. | did so, and by yuyr kindness passed
through your mdnutactoly, noting the ingredi-
cnts, etc, 10y which your remedy Is produced.
Ivy wfttt saw aud heard 4 s,incd some CONN.,
deuce in Ncgetiuc
| commenced taking il soon after, but felt worse
from its effects; still p TseyCTed and soon felt
II was bench ING M in Other respects. Yet did
not see the results | desired TIL had taken il
faithfully for a little more than year, when the
difficulty in the back WAS cured; and for nine
months have enjoyed the best Of health
| have in that time gained twenty-five pounds
Of flesh, being heavier than ever before in my life
and was never more able TO perform labor than
now.
During the past few weeks l had scrorulous
swelling rs large my tint gather on another part
of my body.
took vcsetine faithfully, and it removed II
level with the surface in n month. think
should have been cured OF my mum trouble sooner
1T | had taken larger doses, after having become
accustome 10 its effects
Let your patrons troubled with scrofun o, KID
ncy diseases understand that IT takes time TO cure
chronic diseases; aud, If they will patiently take
Negetinc, IL will. in my Judgment, cure them.
With great Obligations am
Yours very truly,
q. w. MANSFIELD,
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There is often much more pleas
ure in giving a thing to another
than in receiving 1t. Any one who
doubt this should try the expert
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door, full of desire to escape int,
the next room.
"Come, Freddie, come to papa
like a good boy" says the father
with a faint effort at patience.
The child keeps on his cource.
"Fred !"
This sounds so much like bnsi.
ness that the youngster stops, turns
and lacking slowly up TO the now
stern-browe parent, gradually gets
within reach, when n sudden grab
of his arm brings him into position
where the damp towel filings around
on the fathers clean shirt front,
and the stove wrench plumps solid
/ ly down upon the very top of his
boot.
"Immortal Julius !" he screams
in agony, nursing his foot with one
hand and shaking the poor inno-
cent with the other; whereupon
the innocent sets up an accompany
ing yell.
A voice from below, where the
wife and mother is busy in getting
breakfast, joins in the chorus:
"Olmstead Molleson, what on
earth are you doing with that child"
80, you be darned !" goes back
the quick reply, in n short, ugly.
desperate growl that silences all
further inquiry.
Then the father, after rubbing
his foot aud groaning awhile,
squares the child ronnd and begin,
the process of dressing him, which
is mostly made up of dreadful
struggles between clumsy fingers
and smooth porcelain buttons,
general misplacing of garments
hind-Side before and upside down.
searching after the missing arti-
cles, and talks like the following:
"Turn aronnd y
"Stand still !"
"Holi up your arm :"
Thunder and lightning! Can't
you let things he ="
"Stop reaching !"
"Hold up your head !"
up, | say ~
Cant you keep still !"
where's that other skirt !"
. "Shut up!"
"Let go!"
"Bast that baton :"
How, where in blazes is that
pin !"
"Stand up!'
"There by thunder!'
"Why don't you fall down and
,e done with it !"
stop your bowling"
"Stop -
Couch Dure take that pin !"
leave me be !"
Behave !"
Great Scott !"
"Say, why don't You have four
" five thousand more buttons on
'our clothes !"
"Now, where's that stocking !" !
keep your foot still ~
"Say, keep-your-foot-still"
"By Jove in Jerusalem !"
Gimme the other foot ~ ,
"No, the other I" c
Cant YOU see !"
"Sanctified Solomon what do
on want to spread your toes all /
mt for How do yon suppose Im !
.oing to put your stocking on in .
lat shape !"
"Stop it {"
"Stop it, say y !
"Prow WOW! ecu! Who ,
tuck that pin that way!"
"You, of course !" says a cold, /
hin, cutting voice and he glanced ,
Up and saw bis wife looking down a
N him in a haunting, exasperating
ort of way. aid he ashamed Of 6
nyself," she continued, "to go on
II that way and get ont Of patience
With little hit Of baby. You've
made noise enough to wake the
lead, and his clothes look as if they
lad been thrown on with o pitch
ork. Gimme him !"
And he gets up sheepishly and
and slamming and stamp
NC around the house after the lini-
nrnt bottle, and banging doors and
making as big n noise as he can,
he works himself mp into sn"h a
tate OF mpanness and modification
hat tn spite himself he goes down
own without his breakfast.
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VECETlNE:

l2O Monterey strcet, AlIegha
The Columbus journal., 1878-12-04
Set a Good Example.

The first, and perhaps the most
potent influence determining the
career of our children, is our own
conduct. We have little reason, and
no right, TO expect them to act Bet
ter than we give them an example.
If we are hasty, violent, unreasona-
bic, intemperate or profane in our
speech, careless in our habits, i'm
pure in our lives, we have every
reason to expect that our children
will grow up to he like us. Nay,
we may properly fear that they will
make bad haste to distance us on
the evil road; for experience, and
the terror OF the law, and a whole
some restraint from society, keep us
somewhat i'm check. To the child
all these things are wanting. Think
of the effect on boy, of seeing his
father in a rough-and-tumble fight,
or of hearing him threaten to kill
neigbbor, perhaps a member of his
own familyi This is the kind of
education too many children have
who are growing up TO be your fel-
citizen and mine, and whom
some reckless demagogue will try to
persuade ought to be at the top of
society. Think of the influence on
a child of habitual coarseness, harsh
ness and the want of self-control In
those who stand to him as his types
of men and women! Let il never
pass out of our thought; let il cling
to us and haunt us day by day, that
our children are deriving a large and
formative part of their education
from our daily manners, aud espe-
ciallv from the tone of our daily life.
The spirit that rules us creates the
spirit that rules them.
The Columbus journal., 1878-12-04
An English Opinion of nm Am.
erfcan Joker.

What is called American humor
(and various as are its kinds, every
one knows what is meant by the
definitiou) did not take with us
readily, chiefly because nothing for
eign ever does take readily with
us; and secondly, because there was
a great deal of native humor just at
that time when the American began
TO be imported. Was, for instance,
Sam Slick ever thoroughly appre-
ciated in England? We should like
to see whether a reprint of the
clock-maker's quaint and shrewd
philosophy would be acceptable to
a generation much harder up for
laugh than was that to which Judge
Halliburton discoursed of soft saw
der and human nature. There IS no
resemblance between the Clock
maker and American humorists Of
the present day, most of whom are
inspired by conditions of life and
adventure, by whole social systems
that did not exist i'm the time of the
side-splitting 'Bluenose,' and they
have the great charm for us, of
rootlessness, absolute novelty and
perfect audacity. They can't be
conventional because there's no
conventionalism where their jokes
hail from, and they are a law to
themselves concerning themes Of
joking, not TO mention that their
funniest effects are often uninten-
tional, and funny only to us. Thus,
Artemus Ward, Mark Twain, Mr..
Brete Harte, and more recently Mr..
Haberton, have established them
selves with English play -goers, and
as laughter-compelling friends of
bored mankind.-Londou Spectator.
The Columbus journal., 1878-12-04
Inconvenient Questions.

A gentleman recently invited a
well-known lecturer TO his home to
take tea. Immediately on being
seated at the table, a little daughter
of the gentleman said to The guest,
quite abruptly, "Where is your
wife?" The gentleman, having re-
Gently been separated from the
partner of his life, was surprised
and annoyed at the question, and
stammered forth the truth, 81 don't
know" "Don't know?" replied the
infant terrible. "Why don't you
know?"
Finding that the child PERSISTED
in her interrogations, despite the
mild reproof of the parents, he con-
cluded to make clean breast of the
matter, and have it over at once.
So he said, with calmness, "Well,
we don't live together. We think,
as we can't agree, we'd better not"
lie stifled a groan as the child began
again, and darted an exasperated
look at her parents.
But the little torment would not
be quieted until she exclaimed !:
"Can't agree! Then why not fight
it out, as pa and ma do ?"-Provi-
dence Journal.
The Columbus journal., 1878-12-04

You should never judge by APP
pearances. The other day little
weazen-faced man, wearing $3.50
suit of clothes, went to one of the
big hotels and registered himself
from Texas, asked for a room, and
if breakfast was on the table.
The Olympian clerk gazed at him
scornfully for a moment and then
languidly remarked:
"Any baggage?"
"No," replied the guest.
sIn that case" said the clerk,
"the rules of the house compel me
to insist on payment in advance"
"yery well" said the guest not
appearing offended "take two days
board out OF this"-and from a wad
of greenbacks as big as his arm he
produced a one hundred dollar
note.
81 beg your PARDON" stammered
the abashed clerk "but we are so
often taken in, and your face not
being familiar to me, L"
mo offense," cheerily responded
the guest; cuisines is business, and
rules are rules. 1t does look little
odd 10 be without baggage; ) but as
cattle dealers amt much on style,
and"
"That's all right, Colonel" said
the clerk "put up your money we
know a gentleman when We see
him. jim, show the gentleman up
to lac. Call for the best in the
house, General"
The old man slowed away an
ample breakfast; got the clerk TO
give him small bills for the hundred
dollar note, ask where Billy Cool
baugh, the banker, had his Office /;
inquired when they had dinner; de-
sired the clerk to tell Mr.. Farwell if
he called, that he would be back at
two o'clock; then-went aud hasn I
been seen since.
The clerk subsequently discover
ed that the 800 bill was bad, and
the sad event has cast a gloom over
the hotel office.
The Columbus journal., 1878-12-04
LIFE S MEASURE.
BY II. III. BROWNE.

"He loveth long who loveth WE'LL"
30 ran the legend terse and bold;
To keep this truth in mind were well,
For truth is better kept than gold.
The one viii perish in an hour;
One never dies; but bright and pure
As Heaven itself, when earthly power
Has passed, forever shall endure.
Not by the years Of life is told
The length Of lie, but by the zeal
And kindly works. as growing old,
Men for each other do and feel.
His life is long whose work is well,
And be his station low or high,
He who the most good WORKS can tell
Lives longest, though he soonest die.
Then, as the swift-winged moments
speed,
Freight them with wealth OF truth and
love,
With garnered sheaves OF thought and
deed
For the glad harvest-home above.
Within the ranking breast Of Hate,
In desert ways where no flowers bloom,
In the scenes where folly sits in state,
In wan-faced Sorrows house Of gloom,
Sow love, and taste its fruitage sweet,
Sow smiles and see the desert spring,
Sow wisdom for its harvest meet.
Sow sunlight for the JOY Twill bring.
The Columbus journal., 1878-12-04
The Story of Moses.

A few days ago fisherman, whose
name the reporter could not learn,
living a mile or so below Covington
in Nebraska, noticed a box floating
down stream and as it was not far
out of his way he secured it. 1t
proved to be water-tight and i'm it
was a passenger, healthy looking
baby, alive and tugging away at a
bottle full of milk which it had in
its hands. The babe was dry and
comfortable and well clothed. There
was no clue about it as to its pater-
nifty nor by which to tell the dis
tance il had come. The box could
hardly have floated great distance
however. A day or so before this
discovery the same man saw the
body of a dead child, apparently a
new born infant, floating in the
stream, but he could not get it.
The Columbus journal., 1878-12-04

81 know where there is another
arm just as pretty as this one" said
a young Oil Citizen to his sweet
heart, as he pinched her fair arm
yesterday evening. The storm that
quickly gathered upon the lady's
brow as quickly passed away when
the young man pinched her other
arm, and said, at is this one, DEAR
Derrick,
The Columbus journal., 1878-12-04

The Western Rural comes 10 our
table from week to week complete
in all its departments. In matters
relating to the farm, orchard and
arden, it is unsurpassed, and yet it
does not ignore the family circle. 1t
is a freside companion, much en-
joyed by the women folks and the
children, each having department
full of interest to them. The Rural
is increasing in circulation and in
fluence, and deserves the patronage
of all interested in the cultivation of
the soil, or in increased intelligence
among the sons of toll.
The Columbus journal., 1878-12-04

A Scotchman was asserting that
some OF the most celebrated poets
and brightest intellects the world
ever produced were descendants Of
his race, and quoted Scott, Burns,
and others as evidence. An Eng
lishman who was present retorts /:
81 suppose you will claim next that
even Shakespeare was Scotchman." !"
"Weel," he replied, "I'm nae so sure
o. that; but ane thing I do ken-he
had intellect eneach TO be a Scotch
psan.n
The Columbus journal., 1878-12-04

A little boy who went to church
was told TO remember the text, which
was: "Why stand We here all the
day idle? Go into my vineyard and
work, and whatsoever is right, that
| will pay thee.' Johnny came
home and was asked to repeat the
text. He thought it over a while,
and then cried out. what do you
stand around here doing muffin for /?
Go into my barnyard and 60 to
work, and I'll make it all right with
xot,
The Columbus journal., 1878-12-04

At the depot, the other day, a
young man put his head out of the
car window TO kiss his girl good-by,
when the train pulled out so rapidly
that be kissed an old African
female at the next station.-Jones-
horo Nasrs