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The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-05-26
A Wife,s Portmonnaie.

When Pat was asked why he was
thinking of getting married, he answer
ed: he could almost support himself, and
1t would be a poor woman that could
not do a little toward it. Many a man
besides Pat has been married for the
same reason, but has not been honest
enough to own it. No doubt Kathleen
will be much happier with her honest
husband than she would if he has made
her believe he was worth his weight in
money. What if she does have to go
out to work, doing other peoples drudg-
cry. She will have the pleasure of re-
ceiving pay for it, and that will be more
than some of her more favored sisters
do. L have known q woman to do the
same amount of work in a year that her
neighbor across the way hired done at
So per week, besides caring for q large
family of children. And what wages
did she getp Just enough to keep her
from freezing, and not a glove or collar
ever found its way to her wardrobe
And yet her husband was Just as well
off as her neighbor; ''but,2 said he, 81
never allow my money to slip through
my fingers without knowing what it
goes for" When there was anything
needed in the house he got it, and if his
wife was not suited whose fault was FTP
He said that Cheap Johnny was his pat
ron saint, and he was too short-sighted
to see that the best was the cheapest;
too bigoted to believe that his wife's
judgment was better than his in any
such matters. l never knew her to have
adollar she could call her own.
Talk to him about letting his wife
handle a share of the profits of the farm,
he would tell you that women don't
know how to use money. II they don't,
its for the same reason that the slaves
did not know how to use their freedom
when irstemancipated. twas because
they never had it to use.
Ihave no doubt but that many farm
ers who read this have been in the habit
of dividing the money received from the
proceeds of their united labor, but there
are hundreds who cram the well-filled
pocketbook down into the deepest pock-
ct with a self-satisfied air that seems to
say palmer than words: ats all NINE"
and long before all the plans he has
been forming for its use are carried out,
the poor pocketbook looks as though an
elephant had stepped on it.
Brother, try q new plan. Let your
wife help invest that money.-Rdnsas
Agrtculturist.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-05-26

expected. There was no excitement,
no shadow of fear when at last he
bowed his gray head in calm
resignation to the stroke of death.
"Whatever the Lords will is, | am
ready to accept it," he said. off l
am to stay, very well. If l am to
60, the Lords will be DONE" 81
have nothing now to live for but my
children"
And now he is gone, and it will
be long ere we shall have among us
so useful a citizen, so loving a father
and so faithful a friend. His desire
was that he might have rest and he
has found it. And yet a rest not of
inactivity, for that would be no rest
for him. But such a rest as consists
with and results from the full en-
ployment of all the faculties and
energies of the soul, in freest and
most joyous activity. That only
would be a rest for him. Here in
declining age, burdened with his
slowly-dying body he was like
Lazarus, bound hand and foot with
the grave clothes. But now God
has said "Loose him, and let him
CO." Here in the incipiency of his
powers, his life was like a little stream
Of water running under matted grass
in the meadow. Now it has found
its way out into the broad river of
eternity, where it shall flow on swift,
strong, mighty, forever and increas-
ingly forever.
And such is the glorious rest
which his God has given him.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-05-26
GLEANINGs.

Sophia (sentimentally)-'I dearly
love to listen to the ticking OF a clock.
1t seems to me that q clock has q Ian
guage of its own" Mr.. Smart-"YeS,
Sophia, the clock has a language-you
might say a dialect"
Some Princeton College boys offered
to saw wood for a poor widow, but she
replied that if they would relay the four
rods of sidewalk torn up by their crowd
she would ask Heaven to see to the wood
pile.
There is n giant measuring six feet
eight inches in height and weighing 234
pounds among the working population
of Crisfield. Md. He is a colored youth,
only ~ years old, and has grown up
under u diet consisting principally OF
sweet potatoes. His shoes are sixteen
inches long.
Forest and Stream charges the resi-
dents around Lookout Mountain with
making bogus war relics. Don't pay
ten emit apiece for bullets from any
battlefield. You ban buy 'em ut the
junk shops in Richmond for five cents q
pound, warranted pure.
A party of New York capitalists have
purchased $50 acres of land near Rock
away at $500 per acre, and will COM
mence the work at once of laying the
property out into villa sites and erecting
dwellings for sale or rent.
A speculator in the neighborhood Of
London, Ont, is buying up all the cats
he can get, and paying therefor from 10
cents to 40 cents each. He says the
pelts are cured and manufactured Just
the same as fox, mink, etc.
The Toronto Mail claims that the
number of registered letters lost in Can
ada is SO small that it may be said to be
absolutely nothing. 1t says that of q
400, 900 letters registered last year SO
were reported as lost or tempered with.
and that all but two were recovered or
accommodation.
Two naughty boys in Toronto, Cana
da, tied q kitten to the tail of their kite,
recently, and sent it up, mewing pite-
ously. When it had assembled about
four hundred feet the string broke and
the kitten was borne away toward the
clouds. Neither kite nor kitten has
since been seen.
Mr.. Wilde wherever he goes in Ameri-
"a carries with him q heavy fur rug,
and invariably receives reporters reclin-
ing on a couch, amid the picturesque
softness of this rug. II forgive every
thing" Mr.. Wilde observed to the re-
porter of the Gazette of Cincinnati, ''the
critics ignorance e l applaud
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-05-26

General Meigs, in an article on fire.
proof buildings, speaks of bricks as the
only really lireproof material available
at reasonable commercial cost, to be
used in masses sufficiently thick to be
safe. Another plan, which is Endorsed
by the New York Fire Underwriters is a
novel feature of the new eight-story
building on Broadway and New street,
New York city-the placing of thick
wooden beams for the floor, n foot
from center to center. The interstices
are filled with cement, thus forming a
solid floor of two feetin thickness, which
would withstand the flames for several
days. The building world is generally
arriving at the conclusion that iron
beams and joists are unsafe, bending,
and burning even in great heat.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-05-26
He Won't Re Killed.

The Norwich Conn., Bulletin relates
the story of Norwich town man and
his dog. The dog has been a pet, but
was old and it was deemed best to put
him to a painless death. The family
voted in favorof chloroform. The dead
ly liquid was obtained, and was APP
piled to the animals nose as he lay on
the hearth late n evening. The dog
quietly inhaled it, and peacefully passed
to O comatose state. The master, as he
bore the limp form to the wood shed,
remarked, poor Dick, / will bury him
in the morning" In the morning he
went to the shed to act the part of q
grave digger, when the dog, with the
sponge still tied to his nose, welcomed
his master with q familiar bark, and APP
peared as grateful rs IL he had been the
recipient Of a favor. 1t has been de-
cided to let the dog die a natural death.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-05-26

Bunthorne languidly from my opera
box. 1 greet Du Maurier blandly atthe
club; but the objectionable sin Is to say
l am impractical. That is to stick q
dagger in me-"
A Canadian farmer recently died
leaving behind him q farm and o will
with the following strange provisions: A
son Is to work the farm until his step
mothers death, at which time he is to
begin paying to the rest of the family an
annual installment of $50 upon . lien Of
$4,000. When the entire obligation has
been discharged the farm will become
his property. The stepmother is in the
prime of life, and, barring accidents,
good for forty years more; 1t will take
sixty years to pay off the $1,000, and
the son is now so years old. He may
therefore confidently expect to secure .
clear title to the farm while he is still q
frisky young fellow of 100 and lay up a
competency for his declining years.
The packing business in Maine has
reached immense proportions. There
are ~sixty-one c~orn-canning establish
ments, with an annual production OF
about IL, 350, 900 n The packing OF
fish is roughly estimated at 100000
cans of lobster, 10000 cans OF macker-
ell, and $50, 900 cans of CLANS annually.
The sardine business, which had its ORR
gin four or five years ago in a small shop
at PASSPORT, has attained vast proper
tions, there now being fifteen or more
factories in operation at different points
in the State, and others are projected.
Several factories are also quite extern
sively engaged in the canning of meats,
chiefly mutton. Others ut present are
canning apples, while immense quanti-
ties OF blueberries and other small fruits
are put up at the various establishments
throughout the State during the summer
season.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-05-26

Hysteria, nervous excitsbility, wasting
of the muscles. impurity of the blood,
quickly relieved by using Browns Iron
Bitters. W ''
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-05-26

absorbed in meditation, can
have no conception of the quiet,
loving gentleness and freedom of
his life at home. l have often COM
pared him, as he went forth to the
business Of the day, to a soldier who
reaches down his sword and helmet
and buckler from the wall and goes
out to battle. And his coming
home at night was like the soldiers
return, when he takes off his armor
at the door and crosses the threshold
with eager JOY to find rest and peace
in the comforts of his home, and
happiness in the love Of his family.
1t seemed to be his greatest pleasure
to spend his evenings in the society
of his family. He wanted them all
about him, and listened always with
quiet satisfaction and fatherly inter-
est to all their conversation. 1 think
| have never known a man who
realized more perfectly the ideal of
a father. He was all tenderness and
charity and love, as if he had before
him constantly the remem brance of
the Father in Heaven, "who pitieth
his children and considereth their
infrmities." His conduct in the
immediate presence Of death was
precisely that which might have been
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-04-26

The belief is that after this temporary ex-
citement subsidies the Pond and Smith
laws will be acquiesced in by saloon keepers
without an effort 10 enforce the absolute
laws which have aroused so much opposi-
ton.
DAYTON, o., April 23.-The Journal has
been boycotted by members OF the Associa-
lion of Dayton who withdrew all subscrip-
tions ard advertisements from it. Joe
Hermes, Kentucky saloon keeper and ex-
member of the Kentucky Legislature, made
violent speech urging resistance OF the
laws The saloons here have sll been closed
ana quiet during the day.
CINCINNATI. April 23-This was the first
day of the operation of the Smith law clos
ing saloons on Sundays. Out of over I, 600
saloons in Cincinnati, $50 are reported up to
10 O'Clock tonight as paying no attention 10
the law. 1t Is estimated that 1000 giil be
reported in the morning. Warrants viii be
issnedand litieaiions commenced at once.
All the hilltop resorts were open selling
beer and wine. No,aTrests have been made.
The plan Is to arrest on warrants tomorrow.
The DAY has been unusually quiet. 1t is es-
timated that much more than half of the
liquor sellers complied with the law.
The liquor dealers snd their sympathiZers
held large meeting in the city this after
noon 10 express their indignation against
the Pond and Smith Ills. They were bit
ter in their denunciation against the Dayton
Journal. Cincinnati Gazette and also the
Commercial
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-04-26
Train Robbers.

DALLAS, April 24-News was received
this afternoon that one of the Texas and Pa
cific train robbers has been captured. 1t is
supposed he was mortally wounded. He is
the son of a respectable old farmer living
near the scene of the robbery, and was shot
in fight with Texas Rangers. His father
last night informed the Rangers Of the
whereabouts of his wayward son,
requesting his arrest, stating he would pre-
fer having him an inmate of the Penitentiary
to being a member of the gang of robbers
1t is thought the entire gang will be bagged
tonight or tomorrow, as about thirty
rangers are on the trail, and are securing the
country. 1t is believed this is the same
gang that robbed the Gulf, Colorado and
Santa Fe train three weeks ago. The robbers
attempted to wreck the east-bouud passenger
train between . and 3 o'clock This morning
in the canyons OF the Brazos River region,
eight miles east of the place of the robbery
of the night previous. They removed two
rails from the track on a high trestle. The
engineer discovered the absence of the rails
just in time to save his train from heing
hurled in the canyon abyss below.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-04-26
THE ELECTION CASES.
Indictments Returned Against Election Of
ficers OF South Carolina for Conspiracy
The 1Iaysville Case.

Indictments Returned Against Election Of
ficers OF South Carolina for Conspiracy
The Maysville Case.
CHARLESTON, S. c., April 1S.-In the
United States Circuit Court to-day the Grand
Jury returned a true bill against Henry
Dickinson and Others. OF Barnwell County,
charged with conspiracy to intimidate the
United States witnesses The Grand Jury
was composed Of thirteen Republicans and
seven Democrats.
The Court then commenced the trial of
the managers of the election az Maysville
Precinct, sumter Coun,y, chsTged with
stu the bsilot-b0E aaa interfering with
tn ,I4 "a States Supervisor. Ihe Jury
con 'e.V,i, eleven Republicans and one
Dem1elSi. tne District attorney old rot
find il recesSar 70 use bly, Il the chai iienges
70 which me ptos ecation Is entitled fnding
the new system Ot standing aside JErlf- al-
lowed BY Judge Bond 10 be sufficient %
secure his prcpvr Juuv. Several OF lhe Gov
eminent wines ~ ;t.e calored. Tiie iesti-
m9ny showed there was a misunderstanding
rs 30 where the poll was 70 be located Tie
/ liged States Snpelviso- die not reach the
poll until 6:o3 ia the morning. when the
voting had commenced and several ballots
deposited The Supervisor testified lie asked
the Manager to open the box So ne C. AID see
into it. but they informed him the voting
had begun and they could nos again
open the box, and that they rad
exhibited the box before the TUting
commenced. The election. proceeded quietly
all day, and when the box was opened and
the vote counted a bundle OF ten Democratic
tickets and two packs OF Republican tickets
with two Republican tickets folded together
in each were found in the box. The man.
agers counted one ticket out of each pack
age and destroyed the others. The number
in the box exceeded the number ON the
poll-list by 221, and the managers drew out
The surplus number without seeing them
and then destroyed them. OF the ballots
destroyed, 147 were Republican aud a
Democratic. The Government then closed
the case for the prosecution. The defense
will Open tomorrow
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-04-26
TaE Loss OF THE JEANNErrE.

Interesting Details OF the Loss of the Ex-
ploring Steamer and the Escape OF the
Crew
SAN Francisco, April 1G.-The Call to-
morrow will publish a letter from DR.. II. c..
friend in this city. At Irkutsk Ledyard
met Lieutenant Danenhaur, who gave him
interesting details of the loss of the Jean
nette, from which the following extracts are
made: Since the first fall, when they were
caught by the ice in trying to reach Herald
Island, they have never taken the courses
but were held as in the jaws of death
squeezed till every timber quivered; turn
ed this way and that; thrown,
then floating and then caught
again and every hour passed in suspense
never knowing when the ice would close
upon them a little more and the deck sink
beneath them. Throughout this strain they
were we'll and trying TO be cheerful, work
ing very hard, for the engine and men were
barely able 10 keep the water out They
had TO pump for a year and half June
IL, 1881, the crisis came. The ship showed
greater straining than before, the deck quIv-
cred and inexplicable movements warned
them. They prepared their boats and made
their camp beside the vessel. She rose and
turned in her cradles till the guards touched
the ice. then the rigging gave way and the
masts lay PROSTATE. At l o'clock in the
morning the foe parted and all went down.
The cry of alarm called all to escape from
the crevice in the ice. 1t opened just
through the captains tent. They then began
a retreat. For twenty-nine days they strug-
gled southwark. Three hundred miles of
broken ice were thus passed over. Four
miles day were thought good fortune.
After one series of fourteen days they were
twenty-seven miles farther north than at
first. While working over the ice, dragging
three boats, they discovered Bennett Island,
to explore which they spent three weeks
of their precious summer days and
expended much of the limited supply oi
food. TO this detour those who survive at
tribute much of their suffering and the
death of the Commander with nineteen
men. After three months of this perilous
and exhausting work they came TO blue
water, and then, with fair winds, took q
cruise for the mouth of the Lena River.
Melville's boat was stove against block OF
ice, and the Captains boat lost her mast and
sail. The Captain landed with all well, but
abandoned the boat, as the water was shall.
low and would not make the channel Of the
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-04-26
ST. LOUIS sEWER.
Great Damage Done TO Business Houses by
the Bursting of Mill Greek Sewer-Heavy

Great Damage Done TO Business Houses by
the Bursting Of Mill Greek sewer-Heavy
Loss.
ST. LOUIS, April 2S-An examination to-
day of the districts flooded last evening by
the bursting of Mill Creek sewer revealed
quite a different state of affairs from that
supposed to exist last night. The loss to
private property will foot up heavily, per-
haps reach 5000 900, possibly largely exceed
that sum. Among the heaviest losers are
Bartle & Cochrane, pork packers, who had
several thousand barrels Of lard and about
million pounds OF meat flooded
with the muck and slime
and filthy water from the sewer,
rendering IL understandable and entailing
very large loss. Their claim against he city
will amount 10 about 100000. Barnes
Brothers bad the cellar ami first floor of
their pork house Hooded and 900 packages OF
lard swept away. Their loss VIII Be large
Charles +. Cox, pork house. had 200 pack
ages of lard and $50 600 pounds of meat sub
merged and re ndered unfit for use. d lniels,
Boyle d Co, cracker factory, had neatly 500
boxes of goods and $50 barrels of -four
flooded.
The United States Touring mill Of f. God
dard & Sons had 100 barrels and sacks OF
-four estroyed, besides the damage TO the
mill. j. NJ. Estel & Co. grocers. had their
stock damaged fully 5000. The Western
Machinery Works were damaged for bout
the same amount Meyer & Stralmann,
livery stable, lost some $1,000 in feed and
damage to carriages. The st. Louis Coal
TAR Company estimate their loss at So 600.
Thomas foeke, grocer. was damaged about
$500 The Gas Works were flooded, fires
put out and work stopped. The damage
here will he considerable, but the chief
trouble in this case is the cutting off of gas
from a large part oi the southern portion of
the city. Besides the above named losses
there are probably 200 which will range
from $50 10 81 600 consisting chiefly of
household effects in dwellings ard small
stocks of goods in stores. saloons, etc. Three
fire engines have been at work all day pump
ing water from cellers; not much headway
was made. In some cases the water was
running into them as fast rs taken out The
sewer that burst is perhaps the largest in the
country, and drained all the central and
suburban districts of the city. Il is evi-
IDENTIFY partially choked at It's mouth. and
being unable 10 discharge the immense body
of water which poured into it by the heavy
rainfall, its weak spots gave way and its
filthy contents were spread out oysr a dozen
or more blocks of tenement houses and man.
ufacturing establishments. The loss will no
doubt have To be borne by the city. and will
certainly reach several hundred thousand
dollars
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more you investigate the more you he Ar and
the less you know. One thing is certain,
whether there were fifteen or $50 in the mob
no one knows but the participa' ITS them
selves and they won't give the snap
away. At least 1 don't think they
will. L learned from reliable
source tonight that nephe " OF Walton
who lives in Kentucky was in the city a
short time ago and made the remark in
Smiths saloon that 'Gsrr' 1T has got to die
/ don'tgive this as fact but il comes from
good quarter, and froI a this story grew the
theory that the mob or its leaders came
from the blue GrT SIS District Another
story is that there we're but ten or twelve
in the party. and that hey were from this
city. There are go many conflicting reports,
however, that th : truth, perhaps, Will never
be known, End a good many are
not over anxi Jus about il one way or the
other
1t was also rumored that the mob was an
organization of Mrs. Welton's friends. This.
like the others, is mere rumor 1t was said
Garrett had. by his testimony ST Vernon,
made Mrs. Walton's conviction certain, and
he had to be disposed of. This. too is urged
as the reason the negro and Mrs. i-Ial,on
were not disturbed.
Guards were placed throughout the city.
Deputy Marshal Bennett and one FOrsytne
were whiting away the time on Seitz corner.
"Hoiloo.' said Bennett: there's 6
crowd down toward the Jail; let's go"
They were intercepted very soon,
however, by six Of the vigilants. They
made no objection to complying with orders
for the men looked like fnll-fedged ,iespera-
does, with masks, revolvers and guns. When
the crowd dispersed Bennett was forbidden
telling his superior what had occurred for
one hour.
THE JAIL.
The following is a diagram of the frstand
second floors of the Jail, showing the VIC
TINS cell, the hallway on the first floor
where the fight occurred:
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-04-26

Here the mob organized and marched in
fours to the Jail. 1t is also rumOred that
party Of men, supposed to be Kentuckians,
got off the late train at this place last
night, but this indicates that the mob came
from st. Paul, the scene Of
THE RECENT TRAGEDY
in which John NJ. Walton was shot January
Q, 1882, by the negro Aaron Frazier, who
confesslng the deed implicated Ellen Wal
ton, the murdered mans wife, and Garrett,
her paramour, the victim Of last night >
mob Readers of the Sentinel will remem
Der that Garrett, on change Of venue, was
,ried and acquitted in the Jennings County
Circuit Court The other two accused par
ties are still in Jail, and their trial will
come 10 at the present term Of Court,
shich convened to-day. Garrett had been
rearrested upon charge OF burning house
nea. the Wslton residence, because, as be
admitted on his trial at Vernon, the inmate:
could keep too close watch over his Grim
inal visits to Ellen Walton, the murdered
mans wife.
TIE BODY.
When the body was cut down It was found
that in the struggle all his clething excep
his drawers and socks had been torn off
His lace was bruised and battered. Severa
large wounds, as if made witA. knife, were
found upon the head. His fists were broker
and battered, doubtless by blows dealt IL
defense of his last breath. His entire body
showed the marks OF the blows, kicks, cuff:
and dragging he had endured. 1t is proba
bic that be was dead before he was hung.
The following inscription on placarc
was attached to mis- feet: