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Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1881-08-31

The political outlook in New York
State, as seen through the rather par
tisan eyes of the Albany Argus looks
favorable for the democracy. The
Argus SAYS: The condition of the
Democracy of the State is excellent.
The tone Of the Democratic press Is One
of entire confidence. Its counsels are
for union, organization and harmony.
Journals in various loculitic- are press
ING the claims of 'favaritc sons. IN
measured and kindly words, and with
a full expression of complete trust in
the wisdom of the representative oi
the party, in convention assembled;
The intention to carry the State of
New York, and the hearty conviction
that that intention will be realized, are
apparent in all parts Of the State,
among the journals, the leaders, and
the rank and file Of the Democracy
As goes New York so goes the union
we believe"
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1881-08-31
The Outlook In Ohio.

The Prohibition movement in Ohio
excites the gravest alarm in the Dos
oms Of Charles Fosters friends. The
ticket nominated is q strong one, and
the leaders of the campaign are evinc-
ing an earnestness which Is without
parallel in the States political history.
They have begun their canvass already.
and are rapidly flooding the State with
speakers. The Republican papers keep
very mum about these meetings, but
the Democratic journals obig!ugly
print long reports Of the speeche--and
some OF them are interesting reading.
The Rev. DR.. \. B. Leonard. i'm his
speech al Cincinnati the other night
before a large audience repudiating
the Republican claim that the move
ment was got up by few disgruntled
Methodists, made the curious reyela-
ton that tn President Of the late
Prohibition Convention was 4 Presbv-
terrain minister, the Clerk q Roman
Catholic, and the First Vice President
a Quaker. There isn't much Of de-
nominational flavor about this for q
fact. Il must begin 70 appear to che
Republican managers that when DR..
Leonard said This Is q peoples move
meut, as the Republicans will find out
when the votes are counted. he came
perilously near the eternal truth. The
Prohibitionists do not expect Prohibi-
tion laws from the Democrats. The
Democrats are openly against such leg
islation. But they do expect to punish
The hvpocritical Republicans for their
systematic rupture Of Prohibition
pledges made before elections-and We
Shall be glad 70 see it done.--Saginaw
ian
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1881-08-31

An influence which will tend TO save
the Alpena railroad to Bay City is the
interest Of Detroit in its construction.
No Detroit capital will likely go into
railroad connecting with the F. d 2.
NJ, which is a feeder Of Toledo and
not unidentified with Detroit. Another
saving influence is the interest Of the
Michigan Central company. The shore
railroad will, almost certainly, be con-
tinued to the Straits of Mackinaw, and
and the Michigan Central would not
be following out its traditional policy
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1881-08-31

In reference to the Albany lumber
market the Argus says The adj
vance in prices meets with no opposi-
ton on the part of purchasers, who
recognize the necessity Of meeting the
moderate advance asked by the mer-
chants without question, and a. time
wears on it is within the probabilities
that prices may be raised still higher.
We obtain from reliable authority that
the stock on the Ottawa will be about
two.thirds of what it was last year, and
the destruction by fire of two promi-
nent mills, one at Trenton in the early
part Of the season, and the Wauba-
shene mill of the Georgian Bay Lum-
Der Company on the 18th lust lessons
the supply from those sections $1,000
900. The northern mills are still both
cred for want Of water, and the de
mand for coarse lumber has become
immeasurably ahead of the supply.
Prices are firmly held" The receipts
at Albany from the opening navigation
10 August 10, were 202,9S6,000 feet Of
lumber. against POI $4,000 feet for the
corresponding period last year
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1881-08-31

The only absolute specific we know
Of for sneezing, shutting and choking
catahrrh or head colds is Sandford's
Radical Cure, which for the small sum
of 81 affords instant relief and inva-
riable cures.-Medical Times.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1881-08-31

part supplied the lack Of commercial
bills. How largely we can rely in flu
ture weeks upon these shipments of Sc
curities remain to be seen. In the
meantime the falling OIL in our exports
continues very pronounced.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-04-06

In closing an account of the recent
trip of a party of Maine men to the west
and southwest, Frank Dingley writes
in the Lewiston Journal: We have
over twenty-five states and
journeyed over five thousand miles. We
have met nothing but courtesy and kind.
ness. We have seen lands rich in cotton
and fertile in fruits ard grains Most of
us return, feeling that, if money making is
the supreme object of life, there is OPP
portunity in the tar southwest and in the
far west. But AS for me, after somewhat
of wauderings over the continent, north,
south, east and west, amid civilizations
drawing their inspirations from the ex-
tract of corn, as we'll as from more spiritual
sources. still adhere to New England.
believe more than ever in New England
economy, in New England thrift, In New
England industry, in New England char.
acter. II a young man proposes to follow
Horace Greeley's advice, let him take
heed. The west is to all young men who
IRE doing well and to young men who are
doing i'll. Said leading western man to
me-: There is room enough in the west
for young men who can stand up against
temptation; but we have lots of bloats here
now If a young man of pluck, energy
and discretion wants TO carve out fortune
the west is an inviting field-and all the
more so to the young man who can carry
with him the backbone of Puritan charac
ter. He may go to Texas, or to Arkansas
or to Missouri, or to Kansas-and he Can
hardly fail, if he mixes fair share of
brains with his toll and his virtues. The
world is large. Fortune is an accident
nowhere. save on those rare occasions
where lotteries are honest. Industry,
patience, frugalty and brains, east and
west, generally will float. The west, and
particularly the southwest, is in need of
no more adventures, of no more men
born tired of none who want to emf
crate so AS to live easier" II a man has
no work, no means, no opportunity in the
east, and can make none, advise him to
pick up his carpet bag and move toward
the sunset. Lands may be had for the
asking, and few questions asked The
tide of population sets eastward now with
unprecedented flow. Hour after hour you
will see throngs of almost penniless immi-
grants pouring through the gates of Cas-.
tie Garden toward the prairies. We saw
hundreds in every train moving west. For
immigrant or native without opportunity
at home, and plucky enough to carve out
opportunity, the west and the south
west are Gods country, in view of the
vast undeveloped countries of our west
and southwest, the unmeasured capacities
of our grazing lands in Texas and in
Kansas, the vast resources of the cotton
lands of Texas and of Arkansas and of the
millions of acres of fruit, corn and wheat
lands west of the Mississippi, still given
over to the wolf and the prairie dog, what
visionary is there who can measure the
future of this great republic? Give it but
good government, the church the and school.
house. and ask no seer to assure me that
the second centennial of national existence
will see the most populous as well as the
most prosperous nation on the globe.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-04-06

BUTTER FRAUDs.-It is not common to
carry Goals to Newcastle, neither is it the
general practice to ship butter from Bos.
ton to St. Adams, but some of the Boston
butter dealers are on the point of tracing
spurious butter (olemlrgarine) from Bos.
ton into the hands of st. Adams farmer,
and by him sold to butter buyer Tor
Boston houses as butter, and shipped to
the latter city rs such. The Boston
Herald says of the ctse. On Saturday.
the firm of Gardner & Murphy detected
three tubs of olemargarine in an invoice
of butter shipped to it from its buyer a,
st. AlbanS 1t WAS billed IN one lot of "a
pounds at 25 cents per pound, and without
any distinction whatever from the rest oil
the invoice of genuine butter of several
hundred pounds. The firm at once adj
vised its buyer of the fact, and finds from
letters since received that the buyer,
although he bought and shipped the spur
ious butter innocently, is able to trace the
article from the hands of the St. Adams
dealer back TO the farmer who brought il
to market In the investigation of the
case of these three tubs, nine more appear
to have been sold by the same st. Adams
dealer, six of them to retail provision
dealer in that town or vicinity, and the
other three are accounted for in this wise
Wednesday, Messrs. HinckIey, Aver &
Co., OF this city found that they were in
possession of three tubs OF absolute cleo
margarine, billed 10 them rs good bntter,
shipped by their butter buyer in St
Albans, and bought OF the very same
huVpr as the three fuhS shinpad IN 90 rdna,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-04-06
News and Gossip.

Virginia paper records the fact that two young
men sons of millionaires of Baltimore, have en-
gagged work at a tannery IN Luray, intending to
learn the trade Thoroughly.
The highest salaries paid to New York city cIer-
gymen are $4,000 to DIR. John Hall, aud Sl2, 900
each to Dr. DIX OF Trinity Church and DR.. Potter
ofGrace Church.
Florence Percy" the author of " Rock Me to
Sleep, Mother" now lives in Maine and edits a
paper there. One of her young daughters has for
u name her mothers nom.ie- plume OF Florence
Percy.
Stephen X. stockwell late editor of the Boston
Journal is very low and it is not expected that he
can long survive His nervous system has given
way and his mind is in very weak condition.
Capt. E. P. Dorr of Buffalo, who died the other
day at Aiken, s. g., was of the mo At prominent
insurance men In the country. He was born in
Hartford, VI.
The American Fish Association has elected as
members w. n. Wilcox, Secretary of the Boston
Fish Bureau, and the Hon. Charles Barrett Of
Grafton.
The W lillian Newton farm at Basin Harbor, near
Lake Champain, comprising 200 acres, has been
allowed TO go on mortgage Of $4,000. The prop
erty was at one time valued at $4,000. This IL
another illustration fthe remarkable deprec atior
in the price Of Vermont real estate during the last
ten years.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-04-06
BOSTON CATTLE MARKET.
AT CAMBRIDGE AND BRIGHTON.
For the tOeek ending ruestav, A prtl 5,

For the toeek ending Tuesday, A Drti 5, ISL:
cattle Sheep. Hogs. Crlc.s
market this week, 1857 4.6gr l!,O9) ~
last week, 3,49S 9, IS 0,is1 1O2
" q" one year ago, 5,533 5,s44 /! 4sl j4}
PRtCES.-Extra tat aud heavy premium oxen
sh25a775: first quality, f6.2lG7O), srconI
quality, 1925 as 90; third quality, {l7jq5CD
per 100 lbs on total weight of hide, talow and
dressed beef. lew choice single pairs -sOl
ny. Bulls, ETC., S4.jOG0.00. WorKlngoxcn, 800
DIES par, or accorilngto their value rs beef.
Steers, S5OOl0s Mich cows, 5000 rs 90: extra
good, s3s.0O045O0 with or " lthout calves rs may
lie agreed; farrow and ordinary, 10 OUn9gb0,
stores, yea.lings, S7OO'1l2.OO; two.yetr-olds,
sl3.OOH2400; three-year Odds, s2O.OOd45.0O sheep
jG5hc; extra, 6dG%c T. nor '2.5od6.I5 =
read. Spring la nbs, 5,,as4c . II . sheareu sheep
3d6c y b. Fat hogs. 6<a71c p northern
dressed hogs, OG0c p h. Veal calves, 3n6t,c
n. Brighton hides, 7dec; country lots,
6Xd7c; Calf skins, i2dl3c per H. Talon
j05Hc, per ID; country, 3td4c. Pelts with
wool on SlG$i.75c each; country lots, sld
tl.75; selected skins, 81 Oh each.
REMARKS-In cattle the supply runs remark.
ably steady but not as largeas deslredo required ,
and as we find that the western are gradually ad.
vancing, costing dealers at Chicago lul as much as
the rise here, the stock from the nortl OF neGes.
sity aherted thereby Medium grade northern
cattle cost very nearly Nc higher than last uuuced
with very light supply. Western are : higher.
A. n Monroe sold thirteen western cattle, average
433 lbs at Ga per ID, live and thirty ohe, aver.
age l,06j lbs, al 80 per cwt; AhirIch x Johnson
sold Il oxen, AVERAGE 800 lbs, at Sleeper H. live
sheep ami lambs are very irm, ami some lot,
shade higher. We quote lot of $50 head averaging
LOS lbs, sold by q. W. Jones at &c per Do, +. w.
Sears sold nlDety-two mostly lambs, averaging rs
lbs at nc; Wood ROundy sold tortv jn ta u.ut
lambs at other hocks were sold at jt11 per 10.
some were sent TO butchers on drllt Mich COWS
are in moderate dem md and range from - uu to
$50 as to quality. Working oxen, which are most
| ly from Maine, are IN lar movement.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-04-06
AUGUST.

Boston makes terrible hurrah over the
removal of the Poncas, who acknowledge
that they are all right, but we have not
heard OF any mass meeting in behalf of the
thousand unfortunates who are starving in
its own limits. BY the way, Tibbles, the
Ponca prime minister, is going back to
omaha as reporter.
"Old Abe" Wisconsn's famous war
eagle, died at the state capitol, Saturday
night March 18th. The bird was in the
Eighth Wisconsin infantry in 1861, and
was with the regiment through the long
four years of the late rebellion, and at the
close OF the war was presented to the
state. This famous feathered hero has
been all over the nation since, and in
500, at the great fair in Chicago, his
exhibition netted $4,000 while at a
Milwaukee fair, the same year, $4,000 was
realized. "Old Abe" was four months at
the centennial at Philadelphia.
New York has been suffering all winter
because of the filth which has been allow.
ed to accumulate in the streets. in some
places making them almost impossible and
lndHcing disease to n large extent A bill
for the more effeclual cleansing of these
thoroughfares is now pending before the
legislature. All acknowledge that it will
be of inestimable advantage to the city.
anu the city representatives and press
demand its passage. 1t hangs fire, how
ever, in order to allow the politicians to
consider first what effect it will have upon
the distribution of patronage. and in the
meantime the city protests in vain.
The Massachusetts House of Represen-
tatives. after two days of debate, declined
to pas prohibitory liquor law or to refer
the draft of the law to the people. On
the other hand, the Pennsylvania House Of
Representatives, by vote of 80 to 80.
gave second reading to bill PROPOSING
an amendment to the constitution forever
prohibiting the manufacture and sale Of
intoxicating liquors, except for mechanical
medicinal and scientific purposes, in the
state. There have been presented to the
legislature during the present session
PETITIONS signed by at least 100000 people
favorable to the passage of the bill, and
the indications point to its enactment into
law by decided majority.
The statements of witnesses before The
New York legislative committee inuuirnp
into butter made of OK fat, and cheese
made of lard, show that sometimes the fat
is extracted by melting it ut a hundred de.
grees below the temperature necessary to
destroy animalcules in III that hogs show.
ing signs Of sickness are hurried to marke,
and used in the manufacture of lard
cheese; that cotton seed oil, peanut oil and
alum are used in coloring and clarifying
these mixtures; that lardine and oleomar
garine affect the trade in butter an,
cheese, because people do not eat as mucI
of the latter through fear of what the,
may be getting, and that spurious butte,
and cheese are sold at vast profits in orde,
to make them pass as genuine,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-04-06

We live in beautiful world and a tenn.
peratc enjoyment of life's blessings j, both
reasonable and right; but to do tin, we
must have health. Dyspepsia and Liver
Complaint is the direct cause OF seventy
five per cent of such diseases ~ Bilious.
ness Indigestion, Sick Headache, Cp,live.
ness, Nervous Prostitution, Palptaton Of
the Heart, and many other distressing
symptoms. Bakers Mandrake Brters.
taken according to directions. will remove
the cause and cure the disease Olly %
cts. per bottle.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-04-06
Superiuteudents, Meeting


The School Superintendents Of Wash
ington County held their annual meeting
al the Court House in Montpelier. on Tues
day. April 5. and organized by electing j..
H. Senter, Chairman, and z. s. Stanton
Secretary.
There were present the following gentle
men: DIR. J. II. jackson, Barre; t. ID.
Hobart. Berlin; NJ. s. Hathaway. Calais ;
V.V.Vaughn, Middlesex; +. f. Donahue.
Moretown; Charles Dole. Mortified; Il.
S. Stanton. Roxbury; j. H. Senter. War
rem; W. A. Jones, Waitsfeld; I. G.
Wright. Waterbury; H. W. Collier, Wor-
cester.
1t was voted to have five questions in
the several topics for examination except
that in Grammar. sentence for analysis
and parsing be used instead, and that some
recommendation be made rs to examina-
ton in reading.
The following committees were ap-
pointed:
On Geography-M essrs. Hathaway. Col
lier and Wright.
On Arithmetic-Messrs. Donahue. Ho-
bart and Vaughn.
On Granamar-Messrs. Wright. Dole
and Jackson.
On History and Civil Government
Messrs. Stanton. Jones and Senter.
On General Questions-Messrs. Wright
Stanton and Jones.
On Reading-Messrs. Dole, Jones and
Stanton.
Al the afternoon session the reports o.
the committees were discussed, and with
some amendments were adopted.
The following is the report of the com
miltee on reading, which was unanimous
ly adopted:
The examination shall consist In read
ing such selections as the superintendent
may require, and in answering orally sucf
questions as he may ask. The marking
will be the same as OIL any one of the sub
iects for the written examination"
Itw.s voted that all teachers be required
to give daily instruction in writing anC
drawing TO the younger pupils.
April % and November 10 were fixet
upon as days for public examinations, anC
it was voted to require all applicants fol
certificates to attain an average of 20 pc
per cent on written examination, and L
pass an oral examination satisfactory t.
the Superintendent; also that all appli
cants for private examination be required
to attain an average of rs per cent oil
questions other than those used at public
examinations, and that the legal fee b.
paid in advance.
Prof. Charles Dole Of Mortified, Johr
H. Sener of Warren, and A. N. Wheelocl
of Barre, were elected County Board o
Examiners. L. S. Stanton, DR.. j. II
Jackson and NJ S. Hathaway were elect
cd committee to arrange for the forma
ton of Il County Association of Common
School Teachers and superintendent.
Voted to ask the State Superinten lent o
Education to hold as many educstiona
meetings in the county AS is allowed b,
law during the present year. Adjourned
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-04-06

The prosecuting attorneys in the case of
Silas M. Waite of Brattleboro say that an
effort will be made to begin the trial at
the next term of the court at Newfane in
May. There is said to be much criticism
of the easy way in which Waite is treated
in Jail, he having everything that the hoe
affords, while another Brattleboro man,
confined there for appropriating $500, is
kept in prisoners cell, and has only
prison fare.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-04-06

HE RETURNED.-A woman of Bristol
thus advertised in the Herl,d of that
village: Lost. strayed or stolen. from
his bereaved household. one red headed
man. five feet and eight inches tall, full
set of false teeth on upper jaw, and one
real one on lower jaw. Please cause said
man to be arrested and returned TO his
bereaved wife," 1t is pleasant to add thai
the man thus astteringly described re-.
turned Of his own volition to the bosom of
his family.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-04-06

The new Methodist church at Brattle-
boro is nearly completed, and will be
opened for service April 18th. in the even
ing. Bishop Andrews will preach the
sermon on his way to the conference at
Bradford. The church will have cost, at
the opening, Sl5,500, all of which is fully
provided for, though all OF it has not yet
been actually paid over. This does not
include the larger furnace which must be-
put in next fall; nor some other small
matters on grounds, etc., which will make
the entire cost of the church. including the
lot. about $4,000. The church will not
be dedicated until fully completed and
every dollar of expense paid.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-04-06

Tho newest thing in gentlemen's elo'h.
ing is silk pocket Innings which serve two
purposes. TheS answer for lining and
also take the place Of a silk pocket h,nd
kerchief by being pulled out - little 70
show. The willy pickpocketS regard them
AZ a perfect fraud on their profession.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-04-06

Nearly half a century ago Frederick
Douglas found himself unable to obtain a
hall or church in Vergennes in which To
speak his niger sentiments" on the
abolition of slavery. and when he attempt.
ed to sit at the dinner table in the leading
hotel, the citizens gol up and left the
table. Now the city has temperance
reform club, and one Of its leading officers
is negro. and at the last charter election
the city elected Frenchman for liz
mayor, negro for its sheriff and n yoang
woman for its k.-Ezchanoe. .
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-04-06

A CONSERVATIVE TowN.-The pictur-
esque town of Dorset does not banker for
new-hngled Notions. Pastor Pratt has
been minister for rs years. bis chorister
has started the tunes for so years or more ;
his deacons have held Office, one for 40
and the other for 20 years; til Sunday
school superintendent hsS RE ided Is
years, and one of the teachers Tas taught
50 years.