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Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1879-06-18

ed aromatic and balsamic herbs as
preventives of plague and pesti-
lence; and during the prevalence
of a plague which devastated Italy
in the second century, refugees
crowding into Rome were advised
by the physicians to retreat to San
Lorenzo (then called Laurentum
from the bowers of laurel which
surrounded it), in order that by q
cooler atmosphere and by the odor
of laurel they might escape the
danger of infection. Many in
stances are recorded of the extinc-
ton of the plague by means OF
fires of odoriferous woods, green
laurel, worm wood, chamomile,
sandal-wood, etc, and it is now
claimed that such result was due
to the production OF ozone, by
which the pestilential constitu-
ton of the atmosphere was cor
rected and purified.
Although the ozone producing
property is mainly confined to the
odorous plants and shrubs-the
most highly scented producing the
largest quantity Of ozone-there
are some exceptions, of which the
sun-fower is the most notable
Testimony is abundant as to the
efficiency of this CANDY plant In
reclaiming regions from the diseases
produced by marsh miasm, the ma
iarial fevers; and it has been de-
monstrated that every part OF the
plant, leaf and flower exhales ozon-
lied oxygen in large quantity. 1t
isn't necessary, however, to sacri-
flee on the altar of the sun to this
extent. There are many pretty
and graceful plants and herbs which
ii is not even yet too late to set out
or sow, or plant in this neighbor-
hood. Tuberose, heliotrope, mig
nonette, sweet alyssum, thyme,
spearmint and peppermint, lemon
verbena, carnations, myrtle, rose
geranium, and the odorous ver-
benas may all still be cultivated
and the practical florist could no
doubt add many more to this list.
Readers of this paper, especially
its lady friends, will not fail to re-
cognize the practical argument for
class of disinfectants which do
not come under the criticism OF the
young sanitary student above quot
ed.
Home cultivation Of flowers
should be encouraged. And the
denser the population, the more
necessary is such cultivation
Around schools and all places
where animal exhalations abound,
especially in the slaughter house
districts, the atmosphere of which
is loaded with the gases and pro-
duets of decomposing animal mat
ter: in low, swampy sections where
malaria is bred-in short, every
where, plant flowers and grow sweet
smelling shrubs, until this place
shall indeed be a veritable Garden
City.
The following table will show the
condition of ozone at Alpena for
the month of May:
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JAMES A. BARwIcK,
Serg't Sig. Corps, U. S. A.
lorFIcIALl
Board Of Education.

The Board of Education OF the city
OF Alpena met in the Secretary's Office,
on Wednesday evening, June 18th, 1879,
and was called to order at eight o'clock
by the President.
PREsENT-W. III. Potter, President !;
A. r. Mcdonald, Secretary, and Trustees
D'Aigle, Harshaw, Maltz, Morse and
Wall.
Absent-Trustee McRae.
Journal of sessions held May 14th and
18th, 1879, read and approved.
BILLS.
The following bills were presented and
allowed and warrants ordered drawn
for the payment OF the same, to wit:
Harshaw & Co.. sundries, si45l
Charles Wahl, saving IS cords Of wood
at 40 cents, 1000
AIrrsA WEEKLY ARGUS, printing and
sundries, 2s.65
REPoRTs OF COMMITTEES.
From the Committee on Schools, re.
port that all OF the present corps oil
teachers desired to remain for another
year. The committee recommended
that the Board determine as TO how
many of the present teachers they de.
sired to retain, and that the Committee
on Schools be authorized to enter into q
contract with such.
Report accepted and committee dis
charged from further consideration o
the matter.
The question being on concurring In
the recommendation OF the committee
on motion the matter was laid on the
table until next meeting.
NOTIONS AND RESOLUTIONS.
On motion OF Mr.. Morse, the Secreta
~ was instructed to forward to Prof
j. A. Corbin, OF West Bay City, Super
intendent elect, contract TO be exc
cuted by him In pursuance OF the pre-
vious action of this Board.
Moved by Mr.. Morse, that the Execu
tive Committee be and are hereby III.
rected to ascertain what repairs arr
needed on Third ward school room and
other school buildings and that the,
cause such repairs 10 be made during
vacation. Motion Carried.
Moved by Mr.. Harshaw, that out
present janitor for the Central building
be retained for the coming school veal
TO perform the same services as hereto
fore and at the same salary. Motor
carried.
Moved by Mr.. Maitz, that the janito,
at Central building be retained during
vacation TO perform such services a,
may be required by the Board. Adopt
ed
Moved by Mr.. Morse, that the reso,u
ton by which the Board decided 10 en-
gage a male teacher for the Secondary
department, Third ward, be reconsider
ed, which motion prevailed by the fol
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The following article is taken
from the Chicago Daily News and
is appropriated by Sergeant Bar
wick in connection with his ozone
observations for the month of May:
FLOWERS AS DIsINFECTANTs.
"What is the use of disinfectants,
and how do they actl" asked the
professor Of the student.
"They smell so bad that people
open the windows, and so let fresh
air into the rooms where they are
used"
And the embryo sanitarian was
more than half right, in view Of
the sickening odors Of chloride Of
lime, carbolic acid, aud the various
compounds which are popularity
valued in exact ratio to their Of
fensiveness. But Of late years it
has been discovered that sweet
smelling flowers and odorous vege-
tation are among the most power
ful disinfectants and health pro-
noting agents. They have been
found to convert the oxygen of the
air into ozone, that most potent OK
idizier and atmospheric purifier.
They do this more continuously,
and in larger quantity even, than
does the action Of electricity upon
air, familiar illustration of which
action is found in the thunder
storm, whose refreshing effect is
due to the conversion Of common
oxygen into ozone.
Prof. Mantegazza, an Italian
first pointed out the hygienic value
OF flowers In this connection, and
he has shown that their cultivation
should be encouraged on this
ground, as tending TO reclaim ma
larious and miasmatic regions, and
to convert them into healthy and
salubrious abiding places.
Some plants develop ozone on.
" while exposed to the direct ray.
Of the sun; while in others this
action, once begun in solar LIGHT
Is continued in darkness. Hello.
trope, hyacinth, narcissus, cherry
laurel, Glove, lavender, mint, lemon
fennel, migDonette. etc, all produce
ozone largely during exposure &c
the suns rays. While the object
Of this paragraph is to urge the
cultivation OF flowers on sanitary
grounds, IL may also be observed
that the same results are produced
by the oxidation, or evaporation oil
many Of the essential oils. such as
nutmeg, sDise, PEPPERMINT, Glove,
thyme. bergamot, lavender. turpen-
tine and some Of the alcoholic ex-
tracts and essences, millefleurs
colognes, etc. The apcients plant
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lowing vote: Ayes-D'Aigie, Hars m
and Morse. Nays-Maltz ana Wall WALT,
The question being on the res "s Mr.
thus rcconsidered. on motion ., w
Morse the same was laid on the tao'e. =,
On motion OF Mr.. Harshaw the boaru
adjourned. ,y TT porrFR
President
A. X. MCDONALD,
Secretary.
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hands of the rebels is on a par
with many other statements made
by Mr.. Horr. The fact is congress
is Democratic, and Mr.. Horn, who
is a radical, takes advantage Of an
invitation TO make q Decoration
day address to characterize the
Democrats as enemies of the gov
eminent and thus insult two-thirds
of his audience. What contrast
is exhibited by Gen. Joseph john
ston of Virginia, who, on May 10th,
rose in his place in the house OF
Representatives, and moved an adj
iournment of the House over Dec
Grafton day.
The Eagle calls attention to that
portion of Mr.. Horr's speech, in
which he mourns because the "boys
in blue" are not represented in
congress, and lays the blame there
of to the rebels and Democrats,
and closes as follows:
Now we can inform Mr.. Horn OF
the exact reason why the boys in
blue have not larger representa-
ton there. 1t is because the Re-
publican party in the north has
been captured by and is run in the
interests of such politicians as
Zach Chandler and Mr.. Horn. the
two gentlemen from Michigan.
Such gentlemen as these have
crowded the union soldiers to the
rear, and if Mr.. Horn is honest in
I his lamentations concerning the
few union soldiers in congress be
will resign his seat Immediately
and give place to the union soldier
whom he defeated. While the rad
zeal party is largely represented in
congress by such stay-at-home pa
triots as Mr.. Horr, the Democrats
of the north are represented by
such gallant union soldiers as Gen.
eral Bragg, General Ewing, Gener-
al Warner and a host of others,
AS far as the south is concerned,
it cannot be expected to be repre-
scented by boys in blue, for the boys
in blue live in the north. But as
far as Republican districts in north
ern States are concerned, the boys
in blue should hope for that recog-
milton they have failed hitherto to
obtain, and Mr.. Horn should direct
his energies in their behalf so far
at least as to indite his own resig-
nation as a member of Congress
1t would be a more gallant act than
to misrepresent the facts for par
tisan ends upon a day when all par.
ty feelings should have been held
in subsection.
The foregoing criticism may
seem rather passionate to many
but it must be borne in mind that
Representative Horr's genial ma
ture and patriotic impulses are not
perhaps, so thoroughly understood
at Grafton as in the Saginaw Val
ley, where such speech would be
only referred to as perhaps more
Jealous than the occasion required
and rejecting the political rather
than rhe personal views OF the
speaker. 1t is natural that the pol
10 the main chance" and politici-
ans generally are not very apt to
let an opportunity to air their pol
itical prejudices pass, however in
appropriate the occasion. Mr..
Horr's address contained some real
ly fine sentiments, and the Eagle
did wrong, possibly, in remember
ing only the harsh and untimely
sentences.
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BOARD of Review.

For the purpose OF txfmining the hsse 49, N
al, tor the city of Alp tor the year 1879, 90.
at;n, any errors -four therein, ION cause shown
ducing, equalizng increasing the vhuaa'on a,
any and All property Il und in said roll, anu aae
. thereto any taxabi, property in said city that
nav have been omitted, and yaluing the same
The board of Review, of sand city, will mes. nhu
be in session AZ the Common Council room a so,h
~ o. :, laws OF June, from A. Nj. TO IL NJ, ann
IN, - nj. TO $50 p. NJ. OF said days, at when
time ali persons desiring TO do SO may examine '
go ~ any. why the valuation thereof should
Oe n, witness whereof. and by order OF the Tom n
mon Council, we have hereunto SET oe. n""a' ~
the city of Alpena, the Sis' any vi may
1879. w III POTTER.
Mayor
A. r. McDoSkLc, ans
| Recorder.
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ESJ?JyyzS ] a s5KANSasSsM|
EssItTsSeIsIy EE1EcSe3
1871, Eas, Larned ST., Detroit, Mich

Seminal weakness, pimples and impure blood,
loss of energy. distressing night emissions, and
the many vital evils resulting from early error
and excuses which il neglected end in premature
decline. treated with unparalleled success on en-
iirely new principles, efecting cures in many
days as required weeks, and sometimes months,
under old nauseating and dangerous remedies.
TREATS on Debility" and list OF questions sent
in plain sealed envelope receipt of two scent
stamps. RI Treatment by correspondence a
speciality. 4OOwl3.
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! Bills allowed as recommended ana
warrants ordered drawn for the pay
ment of the same, on motion OF Alder
man Phelps.
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.
From the Committee on Streets and
Sewers, sundry miscellaneous reports
which were referred back TO the COM
mittee.
REPORTS OF SPECIAL COMMITTEES
From special committee appointed to
locate hydrants in Second ward, that
the committee had performed the duty
assigned them. Report accepted and
committee discharged.
special committee on new bridge at sec
ton 10, submitted plans and spccifica-
tons.
Moved by Alderman Golling. that the
plans and specifications submitted by
the committee for new bridge at section
10, be approved. and that the Comp
troller advertise for proposals to he sub
mitted ut next meeting. Ayes-Brown,
Golling. Gebhardt, Healy and Phelps.
Nays-None. Carried.
pRUGGIsT's BOND APPROVED.
J. Z. Field, suretics A. Wilkinson and
G. III. Gray.
MOTIONS AND RESOLUTIONS.
BY Alderman Golling, that the Com
mittee on Ordinance confer with the
City Attorney, prepare and submit at
next meeting, an ordinance requiring all
billiard halls, bowling alleys, etc, to
close at eleven o'clock p. NJ. Carried.
On motion the Comptroller was in
structed TO see that the City Treasurer
execute bond to the city In the sum
heretofore ordered.
BY Alderman Phelps, that the city
surveyor be and Is hereby instructed to
make sewerage map of Third ward.
Carried.
BY Alderman Phelps, that Street Com
missioner cause Merchant street TO be
sawdusted, provided he can get 1t done
free of expense. Adopted
BY Alderman Phelps. that Street Com
missioner confer with Bewick, Com
stock x Co, and ascertain IL they will
furnish sawdust free of expense, for the
purpose of sawdusting the road from
Poor House to city limits, and in the
event of their agreeing to do so, that
Commissioner hire one or two teams "a
haul the same at an expense not exceed.
ing three dollars day for each team
Carried.
Moved by Alderman Golling. that the
Committee on Streets and Sewers be
discharged from the further considera.
ton of petition OF Geo. l.. Maltz. referr.
ed TO them at this meeting. Carried.
Moved by Alderman Golling, that the
prayer of the petitioner be granted, and
that the Street Commissioner be and Is
hereby instructed to see to IL that tho
sub contractor of the Alpena City Wa
ter Company level the streets in good
shape after laying the pipe, and also
that he does not leave bitches open for
an unreasonable length Of time. Motion
carried.
On motion Of Alderman Golling the
Council adjourned.
w. III. POTTER,
President.
A. r. MCDONALD.
Recorder.
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IoFFICIAL..l
Council Proceedings.

Tho Cannon Council of the city OF
Alnena met I'm the Council Room. on Mon
dny evening. June 10th 1879, aud was
called 10 order at $50 o'clock by the
Mayor.
PRrsFSr-Wm. ii. Potter, Mayor !;
A r. Mcdonald. Recorder. and Alder
men Brown, GOlling, Geoharut iie"''
and Phelps. -, 1870
read and approved.
PETITIONS.
Petition from George l.. Maltz, ask
inc permission to occupy certain por-
tlons of the street on Second and RIVER
streets with building material whlle
constructing building. Granted.
From the same as follows:
To The Hon. the Common Council city 81
Alpcna:
GFNrLEMFN.-I would respectfully
ask that your honorable body cause
the Athena Water Work Company or
its contractor 10 place the streets In as
good condition as they were before lay
ing their pines.
Yours respectfully,
GEO. L. MALTZ
Referred to Committee on Streets ano
Sewers.
REPORTS OF OFFICERS.
Chief Engineer of Fire Department
that he had caused sundry repairs 10 DC
made on rooms in engine house NO -
Accepted.
From the Comptroller, recommend
ing the payment of sundry bills lie,
ferred to the Committee on Ways and
Means.
Comptroller, recommending the pay
| ment of the following bills:
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A. II. MCDONALD,
Recorder.
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TENDERS.

Tenders viii be received by the UNDERSIGNED
until fonr O'Clock in the afternoon Of the seventh
day OF July, 1873, from parties willing 20 contract
for the construction Of new bridge AZ section IA
Plans and specification can he seen on application
10 Moses Brown OF William III. Phelps. zach
tender must be enclosed IN an envelope securely
viii be rejected. Security for the faithful pcr.
formance OF contract willie required. The Conn
cii reserves the right 20 reject any and ali hids
BY order Of the Common Council.
3. II. PANGBORN.
D...s, Comptroller
'e'eo = unc w. iew. lf0wa
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Eminent DR.. H. R. Walton,
Annapolis, Md, Writes:

Golden's Liebig's Liquid Extract Of Beef and
Tonic lnvigoraior is most excellent preparation,
IL is par excellence. Superior TO Cod Liver Oil or
anything ever used in wasted or impaired consti-
tuition, and m excellent preventive Of malarial
diseases. I. II. Hinchman Son, Druggists
Agents, Detroit.
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Ozone.

The following article is taken
from the Chicago Daily News and
is appropriated by Sergeant Bar
wick in connection with his ozone
for the month of May :
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-05-17

Another grave objection to the bill is its
discrimination in favor of the State and
against the National authority. The pres
ence or employment of the Army and Navy
of the United States is lawful under the terms
of this bill at the place where an election is
being held in n State, to uphold the author
lty of State Government then and there in
need of such military Intervention, but un-
lawful to uphold the authority of the Gov
ernment of the United States then and there
In need of such military intervention. Under
this bill the presence and employment
of the Army or Navy of the United States
would be lawful and might be necessary
to maintain the conduct of the State elec-
ton against the domestic violence that
would overthrow it, but it would be unlaw
election against the same local violence that
would overthrow 1t. This discrimination
has never been attempted in any previous
legislation by Congress, and is no more com
patiDle with the sound principles OF the Con-
stitution or the necessary maxims and meth
DDS of our system of Government on the Oc-
casion of elections than at other her times -o- =,
which the militia of the States was the only
military power resorted to for the execution
of constitutional power In support OF state or
Government were put upon the same footing.
BY the act,of 1907 the employment of the Army
and Navy was authorized for the performance
of both Constitutional duties In the same
terms. In all later statutes on the
same subject matter some measure
of authority to the Government has been ac-
corded for the performance of both these du-
ties. No precedent has been found in any
previous legislation, and no sufficient reas-
ons have been given for the Discrimination
in favor of the State and against the National
authority which this bill contains. Under the
sweeping terms of the bill the National Gov
ernment is effectually shut out from the OK:
an imperative duty to use its whole execu:
tive power whenever and wherever required
for the enforcement of Its laws.
R. ID. HAYES, President.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-05-17
The Galveston "Musquito " Fleet.

Any one travelling down among the
wharves can hardly fail to discern the
numerous fleet of small craft lying in
the shelter of the different basins, and
unloading their cargoes of fre-wood.
brick, vegetables, fish, charcoal, and
numberless varieties of country pro-
duce, but few realize that these craft, OF
insignificant appearance, furnish the
greater portion of the delicious articles
of food consumed in the city during the
busy winter season, and many of the
necessaries used in o.her portions of the
year. The epicurean who sticks his
fork in one of the large and luscious
Matagorda Bay or Pepper Grove oys-
ters, would probably appreciate the deli
cate bivalve still more if he could expe-
rience the toll and exposure undergone
by the red and blUe-shirted men who la
bor at the oyster-beds throughout the
winter, exposed to cold and rain and
the tempestuous waters of the bay and
gulf. The fishing business alone en-
ploys a large number of boats-gener-
ally small "cat' - rugged affairs, carry
ing from three to five men, who cast
their seines in all portions of the bay
where the fnny denizens of the deep
are supposed to be-from Hannah's
Reef, the Vingt-et- Un Islands and Moses
Lake to San Luis Pass, generally re-
turning to the city after nightfall with
their g s'catch," which is exposed for
sale in the markets or shipped to the
interior in the morning. The lift, it Is
hardly necessary to state, is one fraught-
with hardships of every character, and
the housewife who haggles over the price
| of reddish at the Central Market, can
| scarcely have an idea of the tribulation
necessary before his fishship was safely
landed on the market stall. A still
greater number of these crafts penetrate
the different rivers, creeks and bayouS
emptying into the bay within 80 or go
miles of the city, and manage not only
TO carry cord wood and brick, but pota-
toes, onions, cabbages, carrots, beeti
sugar cane, chickens, eggs, charcoal
etc. Some of the sources from whence
the supplies are obtained, are Boiling,
Point, High Islands, China Grove, Smiti(
Point, Double Bayou, Anahuac, Turt
points on the Trinity, Old River, Ced
Bayou, San Jacinto River, Buffa|
Bayou, Red Bluff, Clear Creek, Dicki
sons Bayou, Chocolate Bayou and ot
ers. The Captains of these small Graf
often buy their own cargoes and brin
them to The city for sale, and can not,
any means, be considered as "slouche
on a trade. The masters of these CRAM
are generally very cautious sailors, an
although "when the breezes blow
!. they generally do not ego below,
they seldom venture far when tn
weather looks excessively dirty"-t
use nautical phrase. The number
these little vessels can not be detinifc
ascertained, as no craft under five to(
burden Is enrolled in the Custom Hon,
, and the mai ority of the Galveston
mosquitoes" are of less size. II
, beyonu doubt, give employment to
eral hundred men. who are hardy,
gal and Industrious GGtueston N
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-05-17
FATHER AND MOTHER INDICTED.

HERR KRUPP, the manufacturer of
great guns in Germany, had his little
love romance and marriage, as many
another great man has had. One day,
being in the theater at Cologne, he was
struck by a girlish face in the box OPP
posite; he begged one of his friends,
who was acquainted with the family, to
introduce him. Next day he was en-
gagged, and in the following week the
wedding took place. This marriage,
concluded so hastily, has proved most
happy one, Frau Krupp being esteemed
and beloved far and near. A kind, po-
lite hostess, and a most generous bene-
factress of the poor, there is not per-
son in the whole factory who does not
brighten up at the sight of her face, un-
less he be Socialist of the lowest de-
gree; for Socialism has penetrated even
to Essen.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-05-17
The cultivation of fax for the fiber

The cultivation of fax for the fiber
in New Jersey has of late received con-
siderable impetus. Previous to 1860 the
largest product of the State in any sim
gle year falls short of $4,000 pounds !;
but the amount of yield has since been
quintupled, although the cultivation of
the staple has been retarded by the ne
cessity of employing, to large extent,
hand labor in all the processes. 1t is
stated, however, that a machine has re-
Gently been invented to separate the
fiber from the shive, and its per-
formances. examined by a committee OF
the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia,
and by some experts from the north Of
Ireland, have been pronounced highly
satisfactory.