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Girl Graduates In a Broil.

1t was at Fort Wayne, Ind, and the
High School Commencement was under
tull headway. Fort Wayne, be i, known,
has a School Board, and that body had
promulgated a mandate that no flowers
should be presented to the graduates
During the proceedings, in violation Of
this order, bouquet was handed to one
of the ladies. o., She was commanded by
the powers that be 10 give it up, She
begged leave to decline. Then squad
of police we're called in. They charged
the stage. They captured the valiant
Joan dare and forced her TO surrender
the floral casus belli. She thereupon
gathered the drapery Of her skirts about
her and with eyes flashing with dis
dain, she swept from the stage, followed
by eight members OF the class who re-
fused to take any further part in the pro.
ceedings. The audience vented their
feelings in shouts, yells and hisses.--Louis-
vile Courier Journal. ,..-
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History of Alconol

Alcohol was invented $50 years ago
by the son of strange woman, HaGar,
in Arabia. Ladies used it with pow
der to paint themselves, that they might
appear more beautiful, and this powder
was called alcohol. During the reign Of
William and Mary an act was passed en-
couraging the manufacture of spirits,
Soon after, intemperance and proiigacy
prevailed to such an alarming extent
that the retailers of Intoxicating drinks
put up signs at public places, informing
the people that they might get drunk for
penny, and have some straw to get
sober on. In the sixteenth century dis
titled spirits spread over the continent
of Europe. About this time it was In
troduced into the colonies, as the United
States were then called. The first notice
we have of its use in public life was
among the laborers of the Hungarian
mires of the fifteenth century. In l75l
it was used by the English soldiers as a
cordial. The alcohol in Europe was
made Of grapes, and sold in Italy and
Spain as medicine. The, Genoese after
ward made it from grain, and sold it as
a medicine in bottles, under the name of
the Water of Life. Until the sixteenth
century it had not been kept by the
apothecaries as medicine. During the
reign of Henry VII brandy was un-
known in Ireland, and soon its alarming
effect induced the government to pass
law prohibiting its manufacture. About
100 years ago it was used as beverage,
especially among the soldiers in the En-
glish colonies in North America, under
the preposterous notion that it itprevented
sickness and made men fearless on the
battlefield 1t was looked upon as q
sovereign specific. Such is brief sketch
of the introduction of alcohol into society
as beverage. The history Of it is
written in the wretchedness, the tears,
the groans, the poverty and murder of
thousands. 1t has marched the land
with the tread Of giant, leaving the
impress of his footprints in the bones,
sinews, and life's blood of the people.
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A Horrible Scene.

r,.o movement in Fance 10 have all
;.,I ~ sentences executed in private is
's.p''a' I,, ~ receive remarkable impetus
;ihsH .be horrible scene which occurred
b HOt,, nron at the execution Of the parricide
al : ',nt5ade, made When Deioer, Roch's sue.
Lst, ".1or entered the condemned mans cell
e5'I :'I his three aides, Laprade sprung into
"''o @nrner and refused TO sit down on the
a.ool H and have his hair cut and his toilet
,ode s..C "No; | want to 60 as am" he
ln; na;S and when the eXeculioner said
o,oo,b;nrlv, "Come come; we don't want
~ make YOU suffer-" shouted, "But you
do % make me suffer, and rnjustly, too; l
W. uover hurt any one" 1t took the four
avecutioners nearly half an hour TO get
him down, so desperately did he defend
himself M with hands feet and teeth in
deed, four keepers had to be summoned
~ their assistance. Then, when they had
,ied III his legs, he refused to sit down on
the the stool, and, breaking the cords with
which he was bound, began another fierce
struggle, crying all the time, "You don't
think it's painful wish you were in my
Mace" A, last one of the keepers took
tbe pros,ratc man by the hair and ears
and pounded his head against the stone
aoor until he surrendered and promised
n struggle no longer. After feeling the
stsel If the scissors as the neck of his
shirt was being cut off, Labarde made no
,psistance, but renamed in a horrible
2.alm, muttering only from time to time,
o"This is palnful--very painful" As is
done with parricides white shirt was
thrown upon his shoulders and black
veil knolted about his head, decending
10 his feet. When at the scaffold the veil
was removed and his face was to be seen
all bruised and bleeding from the pound
ing he had received. After his head had
been placed in the lunette he writhed
round, endeavorng to get glimpse OF
the axe, but in moment it was placed in
position and the axe fell.
A similar case occurred in I84o, when
apoacher al Nievre, who had assassinated
acame-keepcr, was condemned to death.
He resisted in prison first and then on
the scaiold, and finally assistance was sent
for and the victim was literally. forced
under the guillotine. The crowd heard
his groans and struggles until the fatal
blade cut off his head. Charles and
Francois Hugo, the sons Of the poet, re-
lated the terrible affair in the Evenement
at the time, and were condemned to inn
prisonment for insulting the law and the
magstracv.
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Making a Home.

The home is both the bud and the
blossom of civilization. BY their homes
we Judge of the real character of any
people. Here are the things which most
surely indicate disposition and taste as
well as national character and tendency.
The home is also the most precious
place, at least among all English-speak-
ing people The most beautiful things
are made for the home, for the purpose
Of adOrning and beautifying it, and if
there may be some seeming exception in
the articles of personal adornment, yet
these are kept in the home and mostly
worn there. This is the place where we
Keep all our treasures, excepting those so
costly as to require putting away in
dark vaults for safe keeping. Costly
houses may be reared for business; fine
hnishings and furnishings. can be found
IN steamers, hotels and banks, and other
public offices, but these are either poor
mutations Of the home, with rarely its
perfect neatness and grace of finish, or
tley exist for the sake of the home. In
nine cases out of ten the business man
plodS on through all his weary compli-
Gatlons that he may support his home.
II Is the vision of the home that cheers
'Ae day-laborer at his tasks; it is the
center and jewel of the farmstead, with
out which the latter seems like a body
without soul
y Inc home may also be called the high
@I expression of art. There are other
Individual things which, like fine paint
tasS Or pieces fine of sculpture, are
more generally recognized as the works
VI art and called 50; but even these
most frequently find their ultimate
pace In the home asaparts Of its adorn.
mentS' The finishing and furnishing of
v'f homes enlist a very large share, cer-
@lliy very great variety Of the skilled
Uork OF civilized countries-the marble
naa'els, the rich frescoes, the elaborate
Sua S,on1e hardware, thelpoliShed woods, the
aIa l,' nanglngs, the velvety carpets, the
ws ~sSaht draperies, and the costly cabinet
a.OIrk-these ..I are each but the headings
long lists of artistic designs which
~ oaOine IN ever-varying forms according
s'.i %.nilalyldual taste. Into this the family
s''ie8 down, as the individual does into
Iao h" Vtocthlng Here they bring their
~ g'au'lful things, their treasures; here
% n'y establish places for what they like
al, well or need so much that they must
'Nays have it near them.
, 1879-07-31
Bedstead Superstition in Germany

b. Having ordered neatly CONSTRUCTED
single bedstead, says correspondent of
London Notes and Queries, with some
what high and ornamental sides, 1 was
surprised when it was brought home to
find that the ornamentation of one side
of the bedstead was not repeated on the
opposite side, it being, in fact, quite
plain. l expressed my surprise and dis
satisfaction to the maker, saying that
when u bedstead was placed with it's
head against the wall of a room, the
sides, then showing, will appear quite
unlike-one ornamented and the other
plain. AT this the maker expressed his
surprise that | should be ignorant Of a
German custom and prejudice; for" >"
says he, Gin Germany, single bedsteads
are only placed sidewise against wall
or partition, and only removed from this
position and placed with the head against
the wall to receive a dead body" And
the verify maker assured me that no
where in Germany could a native be in
duced to sleep on single bedStead which
had not its side placed against a wall or
petition. The same objection does not
hold against placing two single bedsteads
side by side, with their heads against
wall.
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Firinness and Obstinacv.

These two qualities are continually
mistaken for each other, but they are
not all alike i'll reality. Fhmness is es-
sential in success, while obstinacy may
plunge It's victim headlong into the
abyss of failure and defeat. Eirmness
is persitency of action, founded upon a
clear and conscientious conviction as to
the right and wrong of a question. The
obstinate man on the contrary, will not
examine the merits of anything. He
jumps at conclusion, and sticks to his
decision with pertinency. The great
beauty of all law, human or divine, is its
inexorable frmness, but we all know
what animal is distinguished most for its
fiat, stubborn obstinacy
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nna.. "a Boston clergyman speaks of "a
sAcned wooS gentleman holding piece of
,ga,' ~Ou to his shoulder and frantically
v;"ing poor horse-hair over the dried
sJSa stra Of dead feline" Hang up the
~UuIe and the bow.
, 1879-07-31

The total number of failures for the
second quarter of the present year in the
United States were 1884; liabilities,
$22,000,000. Notably less than during
any quarter for five years,
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Postmaster General Key is making
an official tour of New England
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1879-10-04
Bridge Notice.
TO Whons it May Concern.

NOTICE is hereby given that we, the under
In signed, the Township Board and the Com
missioner of Highways, of the township of
Burt, in the county of ChebOygan, and state of
Michigan, and citizens of said township of
Burt, have petitioned the Hon. the Board of
Supervisors of the county of Cheboygan, state
of Michigan, agreeable to the provisions of
chapter ten Q0 of the compiled laws of 1871, to
grant to said township of Burt, permission to
build and construct a bridge across the In
dian river, within the said township of Burt,
at point near where said river empties into
Mullet lake, and on or near where the section
line between sections fiver(S and eight 81, in
township thirty-five (35) north, of range two (2)
west, crosses said river.
Said bridge to be constructed of wood, and
to be supported by piles, and to be about elev-
en- hundred and twenty-five Q125) feet in length
and sixteen Q6) feet in width. - --. = -
Such bridge to be constructed with and to
have a span seventy-two TIT feet in width, sup
ported by a Whipple truss, across and over the
main channel of the river, and to have an eleva-
ton across said channel of about sixteen ll6]
feet above the water across this channel for the
passage of boats and vessels. .-,.,.,
| The said petition will be presented to the said
Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, the four.
teenth day of October, 1879, at their annual
session to be held at the court house. in the
township of Benton, in said county of Cheboy.
gan. .r8alIgsA },H s.-4
Dated Burt, September 18th, 1879
l. rt @niT.iFsf : L SMITH BOCKES, ....
II Supervisor of the township of Burt
DANIEL DAVENPORT,
Justice of the Peace of the township of Burt
| tF9 2. FRANCIS NJ. TRAIN,
Justice of the Peace of the township of Burt
THOMAS CRUMP,
| Clerk of the township of Burt
MOSES HAMLIN, g..
Commissioners of Highways of the township Oh
j PUT B. JAY TRIP. - 5.llg r"
A Al Se Er sHE T; a O4}G
/ JOSEPH WEBwETUM.
| JOHN C. GRANT.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1879-10-04
The Sharp Chambermaid.

1t has been generally supposed that
the Ocean House at Watch Hill was
about the last place in the world whence
to expect practical joke from any one
connected with the management, but it
appears that such is not the case, and
that one of the chambermaids therein
not long since perpetrated one upon one
of the bOarders, which must almost have
made good old Capt. Nash turn over in
his grave. 1t seems that some of the
beds in the house are much inferior to
others, and a lady who. occupied one of
the good ones desired to secure another
of them for a Philadelphia friend who
was coming to the house, so she request
ed the chambermaid to see that room
containing such an one was reserved.
The maid soon reported that none could
be procured, whereat the lady gave her a
dollar, saying: "There must be plenty
of people here who don't know the differ
ence; so just watch your chance and
shift some ones bed so that my friend
shall have good one, and no one will
be the wiser" The maid took the dollar
and promised to perform the required
service. The result was that the Phila-
delphia lady that night slept on a good
bed but the lady who bribed the cham
bermaid was somewhat astOnished to
find in her own room upon retiring for
the night the inferior bed substituted
for her own. She saw the point and
tells the story at her own expense.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1879-10-04
Mortgage Sale,

.hEFAULT having been made i'm the con-
IL ditiOns of a certain mortgage, made and
executed by Nina Miller, of the village and
county of ChebOygan, and state of Michigan,
to Robert Patterson. of the same place. dated
September 10th, A. ID. 1875 and recorded i'm the
office of the Register of Deeds, for the county
of lOheboygan, and state of Michigan, on the
twentieth day of September, A. ID. 1878, in liber
sc" of mortgages, on page 327, on which
mortgage there is now claimed to be due at
the date of this notice the sum of one hundred
and nine dollars and twenty cents, and an at
torney fee of fifty dollars, provided for in said
mortgage, and no suit or proceedings at law
having been instituted to recover the moneys
secured by said mortgage, or any part thereof:
contained in said mortgage, and the statute in
such case made and provided, notice is hereby
| OF NOVEMBER, A. ID. 1879, at ten o'clock in
| the forenoon, l. shall sell at public auction,
| to the highest bidder, at the front door of the
court house, in the village of Cheboygan, that
| being the place where the circuit court for
Cheboygan county is holden), the premises de-
| cribed in said mortgage, or so much thereof
| as may be necessary to pay! the amount due
and all legal costs, together with an attorneys
fee of fifty $3.50 dollars covenanted for therein,
the premises being described in said mortgage
as all that certain piece or parcel OF land SIT
in the county of ChebOygan, and state OF Mich
igan, known and described as follows, to-wit:
The northeast quarter of the southeast quar-
ter of section number two (2) in tOwnshipnum-
Der thirty-seyen (3D north of range two (2)
west, containing forty acres of land, more or
less; reserving, however, two (2) rods wide on
the quarter line running east and west across
said e \ of of said section two (2) as
right of way to one James Brown, as per deed
| of said Brown, recorded in Liber ''E' of Deeds
page 3OS. Such sale will be made, and said
premises will be sold, however, subject to the
payments still to become due and payable on,
and secured by said mortgage. - - .
Dated Cheboygan, Mich, August 18th, 1879.
t. ROBERT PATTERSON, Mortgage.
GEO. w. BELL, Attorney for Mortgage.
26augl3t -. e.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1879-10-04
- p. ID = III p
/; MOrtg0ge Sale.

T. .
WHEREAS, Mary DeGray. of the village of
w Cheboygan, county of Cheboygan and
state OF Michigan, on the oath tay Of Decem-
Der, A. ID. 1873, mortgaged to Thurlow Weed,
OF the same place, all that certain piece or par
Gel or land situate in the village of Cheboygan,
IN the county of ChebOygan, and state of Mich
lgfn, and described as follows, tO-wit: lot num-
per two % in block number one a, in r: Pat
terson's second addition to the village of Che
Doygan, according to the plat thereof on file
In the Register of Deeds office for said county
OF Cheboygan: This mortgage was, on the 26th
day OF, December, A. D. 1878, recorded in the
office OF the said Register of Deeds for said
Cheboygan county, i'm liber s'E" of mortgages,
on page g.; which said mortgage was after
wards, to-wit; on the 18th day of May, 1879,
duly assigned by said Thurlow Weed to Myron
b. Champion, of the township of Benton,
county OF Cheboygan, and state of Michigan,
which said assignment was, on the 18th day of
May, 1873, recorded in the Office of said Regis
ter of Deeds, in liber "D' of mortgages, on
pages l52 and 153; upon the said mortgage
| there is claimed to be now due and unpaid the
sum OF sixty and 2S-lOO dollars (S60 2s) and no
suit at law or equity has been Instituted to re-
cover the same or any part thereof. Default
having been made in the conditions whereby
tne power of sale therein. contained has be-
come operatives: Now, therefore, notice is
hereby given that by virtue of said power of
sale and in pursuance of the statute in such
case made and provided, the said mortgage
VIII be foreclosed by sale of the premises
therein described at public auction, to the
highest bidder, at the front door of the court
mousse, in the village of Cheboygan, in said
county OF Cheboygan, that being the place OF
the 9th DAY OF OCTOBER, A. d. 1879, at ten
O'Clock in the forenoon, to satisfy the said sum
due as aforesaid, and interest from this date
together with the legal costs of foreclosure
and including an attorney fee of fifty dollars
as stipulated for said mortgage. q, yn
| Dated July 11th, A. ID. 1879. ,rr fs III
-, MYRON B. CHAMPION, Assignee.
ERANK SHEPHERD, Atty for Assignee. ..i,.
I. - - -"
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1879-10-04
Notice for Pub 'ic0tjOn.

I
90 ic..-.-.... Sept 2, 1879. {
NOTICE is hereby given that the following
IN named settler has filed notice of his in
tentiOn to make final proof in support of his
claim. and SECURE final entry thereof at the
expiration of thirty days from the date of this
notice, viz Bernhard Roehm, for the n w
of sec. Is, t37 n, r 3 W, and names the follow
ing as his witnesses, viz: Joseph Sill, OF Che
boygan. and David E. Clark, of Cheboygan.
4 EDWARD STEVENSON, Register.
. ecaptSt
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1879-10-04
Burdette Seasick.

| We lett Portland In the evening and a
bit of storm. There was heavy sea
with its usual depressing influences.
Before we were well outside the port
l made up my mind that the best thing
| could do for my unhappy country was
to lay her little serene highness away in
her peaceful berth, that l might have
the hours of the gathering twilight to
undisturbed reflection. l think / laid
her away with some haste. 1 will con-
fess, indeed, that the customary deYO-
tiOnal exercises were dispensed with,
owing to the pressure of business. re-
member that L was glad when she was
snugly slowed away for the night, and
can recall the peaceful look that played
over her face.as she remarked, referring
to the rolling and pitching of the vessel
isn't it nicer" For her little serene
highness is a good sailor, and was rather
disposed to to (make merry over the
spasmOdic haste with which l tucked
her away.
isn't this nice?" she repeated, with
ridiculous feminine emphasis. 8
1t was rather nice 1 believe, but |
hadn't time to observe lit just .then.y j
wanted to think about NsOmethingO And
then, to my great annoyance, L couldn't
remember just what it was Twanted to
think about. 1t was something beauti-
full and sad, know, but couldn't ex-
actly catch on. Somehow or other it
seemed to run by.
The sea grew rougher, and as T the
pitching and the rolling of the steamer
increased, my spirits did not RISE Your
spirits are hot apt to rise, I find. They
are the only things about you that do
not rise. however. LIJ3 u GIAEUI9N
My subject of reflection having eluded
my rather inactive mind, became SEN
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1879-08-01
GREENRACK TICKET
For the state Legislature.

To THE VOTERS OF HICKMAN
AND FUTON COUNTIES: We.
the members of the Greenback Club,
at Rush Greek, present to you the
name Of ". W. WEBSTER, our
nominee for the State Legislature,
hoping you will give the principles
he represents your careful consid-
Grafton and support:
The taxing of the necessarics OF
life to be abolished ard a graded
income tax to be collected in its
stead.
All property, whether corporate
or individual, TO be taxed alike.
The general reduction of the
salaries and fees of State and Coun-
ty officers in proportion to the de-
creased value of labor and its pro-
ducts and the increased purchasing
power of money.
We cay to every law that robbed
labor and blasted enterprise you
must go from the statute books.
The National Banks must go.
The National Bonds must 90.
The land monopolists must go.
The Internal Revenue Depart
ment, that costs the people twenty
five millions per year, must so.
The mountains of idle money in
the treasury must go into the chan
nels of business.
The millions that have been alb
sorbed by coin bonds must go out
once more to make glad the heart of
the toiler and redeem the bonds
that bind him, hand and foot.
We ask, in the name of a party
that knows no north, no south, but
pleads for just laws for all
That every true and honest man
stand with us on the principles set
forth in the platform of the Green
back party of kentucky for his
rights and liberties.
This July 26th, 1879.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1879-08-01
The truth ABOUT II.
( HaIf-sheet Memphis Appeal !

j
Complaint comes TO US through
some OF our exchanges that all the
cases of yellow fever are not reported.
Were our contemporaries on the
ground as we are, and possessed of the
facts that have come to our knowledge
they would write differently. The
truth is that our physicians, ever since
the first case was reported, have been
20 particular that, if they have erred
at all, it has been on the side of yellow
fever. Many persons have thought
that some of the doctors were too ca
ger in this respect; that they seemed
TO be moved by desire to find in
every case of disease the symptoms
that alone belong to the dreaded mon
ster. For ourselves, we have no fault
to find with the doctors or the author
tiles. Everything considered, they
have acted with great discretion. and
have been honest in all their dealings
with their fellow<citizens here as well
as those abroad Nothing has been
concealed. Every case has been given
to the public. 1t required an inn
mensc amount of courage to report the
first case. But the ice once broken,
the public sense of security once as
sailed, all the rest was easy, plain
sailing. Our contemporaries can rely
implicitly upon the reports made in
the city papers from the Board of
Health, and can rest assured that so
soon as yellow fever becomes epidemic
it will be so declared.