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The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 18??-1882, 1882-01-20

The Mississippi river was closed by
ice, at st. Paul, on Sunday night. Nav
igation stopped two weeks ago by the
closing of Lake Pepin. The closing of
the river this season is the latest on
record, with one exception, Jan. 4, 1873.
The river was open from st. Paul to
the Gulf from Feb. 20, 1877, until Jan.
A, 1873. There was partial closing
with thin ice on Nov. 30. 1877, but
mild weather followed Immediately
and the crust of ice speedily disappear
ed. During the past season the river
was open from April 80, to Jan. l, or
period of 244 days.
Inasmuch as Baroness Burdett-
Coutts loses 975,0O0 q year by her
marriage, the Inter- Ocean figures that
IN ten years she will have paid for a
husband $3,750,00O without interest.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 18??-1882, 1882-01-20
} feed sulphur quite often with the

salt
Mr.. Benedict said Mr.. Kies told him
that he had observed that many fleeces
of wool were light and not strong,
while sheep fed upon corn gave heavier
and stronger wool, and were also
healthier sheep. He did not consider
oats as good feed for sheep.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 18??-1882, 1882-01-20
HEALTH IN MICHIGAN.
| BULLETIN ISL

Reports to the state board of health.
Lansing, by 65 observers of diseases i'm
different pa Is of the state, show causes
of sickness during the week ending Jan.
z, 1882, AS follows:
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 18??-1882, 1882-01-20

NunuSer and per cent
DISEASES, IN ORDER OF vi observers by whom
GREATEST AREA OF each dissass wns ra-
PREVALENCE potted 'r-TrT
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-07-29
Dinner Innovations.

An alteration in the arrangement of
the dinner table has been already adopted
by the more refined and delicate dinner
giyers of London, The tablecloths are
no longer of the snowdrop white which
their grandmothers were so proud to
display on the polished mahogany board,
but are of the color best suited to the
furniture and the walls of the room.
Some are now being exhibited in the
show rooms in Waterloo Place of a neu-
trail tint of brown ''made to go with
every Color The table is adorned
with flower pots all down the centre.
These are enclosed in covers of bright
colored plush, embroidered in gay colors,
and are really more effective than the
most expensive Sevres china could pos
sibly be. But the greatest innovation
of all is to be Sc, in the new Japanese
dinner napkins. They are of cut paper.
and can be used but once, of course, but
are curious, and considered much pref
tier than the shining white square Of
damask.-N Y. Sun.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-07-29
MATTE AND THE DUsEPAM

I've sung my love in many a rhyme;
I've wound her life in many a story
What better worth hath poets time,
Than adding to his mistress glory!-
I've sung her dainty morning dress;
I've sung the needle in her hand;
I've written verses to her curls,
And strewn them broadcast Ger the lana.
But there's one weapon She can WELD,
One before which Lever yield;
To her 1t Is both sword and shield
Her dainty little dust-pan.
All! dusts thing you might suppose
. That never could be made rom antic,
And placed before the poets nose,
Would have effect to drive him frantic.
But poets still must eat and drink,
However far they like to roam:-
All! Dante's self had smiled, think,
To find his Beatrice at home
cottage in Italian land,
Jolly dinner neatly planned,
And in his lovely lady's hand
A dainty little dust-pan.
Ali Matte knows the poet-soul
Is not sustained by fairy dishes
At breaktast-time 1t wants roll,
And has some fixed ideas on fishes;
That ecstasies are very well,
But cleanliness must have place;
That heavenly raptures as they swell
Will not support our fallen race.
And so ut morn she comes in sight,
Armed with the symbol of her might
To put my troubled room to right
Her dainty little dust-pan.
-Harper's Weekly.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-07-29
The Duty Of Democrats.

When q new sect or party arises it is
of course able to give reasons for its
birth and existence satisfactory to those
who join its organization. If it failed
in this it could have no membership
among intelligent and conscientious
people. 1t follows, therefore, that the
Independent Republican party which
has sprung up in this State within the
last year must have some reasonable ex-
cuse for existing or it could not muster
the numbers that have focked to its
standard. The chief raison. d. efre of
the new organization, as announced by
its founders and opponents, is the
qualification of the Republican party.
This object can be effected only by Re-
publicans avowing their purpose to re-
main Republicans and claiming in fact
to be better Republicans than those who
control the old and corrupt organization
of the party. The inventors and pro-
motors of the Independent Republican
movement were wise enough to perceive
and comprehend this fact and therefore
nominated a ticket for State officers
composed of the most ardent, uncom-
promising and aggressive Republicans
in the State. The political character
of that ticket is notice to all parties that
the new movement looks for no assist
ance from the Democrats, but on the
contrary declines and repels it. 1t is
also declarative of policy which is in
tended ultimately to defeat the Democ-
racy after the Republican party shall
have been relieved of the incubus of
''bossism." Republican independent
ism means that the barnacles are to be
scraped off the Republican ship so that
in 1884 tine old hulk may be the more
seaworthy. OF course the present Stall
wart crew dislike the process, and the
piratical bosses oppose it furiously, but
it is nevertheless plan to enable all
ON board to make successful voyage
two years hence. Hence it is apparent
enough that the true policy of Demo
Gratis is not to NEEDLE in any way. least
of all by their votes, in the struggle
that is now going on between the indie
pendent Republicans and the adherents
Of Cameron for future mastery in the
Republican party. Democrats have no
interest in the quarrel except to hope
that it viii serve to place their own par
ty in powez.-Har7isbnrg Pa Patriot
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-07-29

A horrible rumor comes to us of an
incredible act of foolishness on the part
OF some colored children living near
Etoniah Creek, Putnam County. Florida,
by the name of Williams. It seems the
children had been to a funeral shortly
before, and while playing at home the
other day the idea of burial came into
their heads. A large hole was dug, and
one OF their number, young child hardly
more than baby, was put in and COW
cred up entirely. The other children
played around awhile longer. but soon
forgot their companion buried alive, and
wandered off. At night, when inquiry
was made after the missing child, the
horrible story was told. The affrighted
parents fastened to the spot pointed out
and dug up the child, but, of course, too
late.--Palatka (Fla.) Journal.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-07-29

Sand and dirt may accidentally get
mixed with cotton to increase its weight,
but beans and peas don't hop into coffee
sacks without help.
Queen Victoria celebrated another
birthday, recently. We are too gallant
to keep count of them, but we believe
the last one was her twenty-seventh.-
Norristot0n Herald.
-"What shall we do when all hope is
gone?' asks a Cleveland paper. Don't
they generally order q new supply
through the telephonep That's what
the telephone is for.-Detroit Free Press.
"A little boy, whose parents are al
ways moving from one house to another,
was asked by the Sunday school teacher:
''Why did the Israelites move out OF
Egypt?r because they couldn't pay
their rent" was the reply.
Bronson Alcott, eishty-three years
of age, has just published book Of
poems, all of which were written within
the last six months. Eighty-three, we
would say to our young friends, is the
proper age to begin writing poetry. -
.Nev Hdvcn Register.
The United States Fish Commits
sioner has recently placed in the rivers
Of Arkansas and Texas 1900, 900 shad.
This statement may be believed. It's
not the number Of fish they put into
river,E hut the number they take out that
men lie about -Boston Post.
Ella Wheeler wants to know If we
are going 'swhcre the summer shadows
dance" No, love, we are not. We are
going tosit in the skylight Of the COM
merciGl building and howl for paste, and
claw the exchange fiend, and pray for
the man who stole the scissors, and
swear that the deaf editor wrote that OBJ
noxious paragraph. That's our voca-
ton. Perhaps some other people win
change their shirts and go, but il the
summer shadows'' have any business
with us-with us personally-.they want
to come right around to the Office, Ella,
and sit beside NJ for awhile when the
foreman announces that the column is
shorty Y. Commercial Advertiser.
The date burned in the bottom Of
the Cincinnati indestructible railway
sandwich has led eminent archeologits
to infer they were originally cast for the
Mayhower supplies. They are four
inches thick each side, and lined with
apparent traces of ham. The assay also
shows up some indications of butter Of
the Queen Anne period, but not in pay
inc quantities. They can be reduced
By strong acids or intense heat, but can
not be crushed by friction. As food
they are not nutritious. but are perfectly
harmless. Prof. Doremus, who has sub
iected them to = careful analysis, says
there Is not enough ham in 2. zoo, coo, 900
of them to endanger atwo-year-old baby
from trichine. Prof. Proctor says If q
comet ever threatens the world with .
collision that one blow with railway
sandwich will knock the everlasting
nucleus out Of the biggest comet that
ever swung tail. This sandwich Is Of.
ten bought but never eaten--Bardetses
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-07-29

The cheapest Of all political pretenses
is that of the so-called Independent Re-
publicans of Pennsylvania, that their
movement is in the interest of genuine
Civilservice reform or general reform
within the party. There are many who
are acting and will act with the boiling
faction. who honestly believe that It
represents what it processes to represent,
simply because in order to accomplish
its purposes it has had to break away
from the tyranny of Cameronian dicta-
ton; and after the yoke has CALLED one
spot for a long time, it seems IKE liberty
to have it shifted to another. Though
Senator Mitchell probably lacks the pc
culiar talent for political management
that has distinguished the Camerons,
father and son, we cannot say that he
will not be more agreeable boss, at
least at the outset, for it is necessary to
win the confidence of his followers be-
fore he can command their services to
that extent which may seem to him de-
sirable. But in spite of the endorse
ments that he has received from Half
breed organs and the epicene press, and
the flattery that has been so freely dis
pensed, the fact remains that in his pur-
poses and ambition he is as much B boss
as the Cameron, and has in his mind q eye
the possession of = machine that shan sur
pass in splendor and effectiveness any
thing that his hated rival has been able to
bring into the field. When we see the re-
form notions of a party or faction leader
finding expression in man, it q q good
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-07-29

question Polly herself, she only laughs
and bushes. and hides her face.
because, you know, I'm not a grown
woman get, says Polly.-Saturday
NiQhk
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-07-29

Tho present Chief Justice Of Ala
bama used to stick type on q weekly
paper for IS per week.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-07-29

here and bring his daughters back to
New York with me. Here is letter
from him. He has taken a furnished
house in Forty-seventh Street, and"
Goodness mer gasped Polly, clasp
ing her hands over her eyes. "And l
shut him in the coal-cellarr'
For one dread second there was silence
and then they all burst into peal of
contagious laughter, which broke up all
ceremony at once, and rendered them
all excellent friends.
Mr.. Sinclair, with the tall waiter and
the blackthorn stick, departed; and Polly
with little of Nannie's amateur assist
ance. served up an impromptu supper of
bread and toasted cheese, which was
pronounced a success. Mary Eliza re-
turned ia little while and all was well.
The next day commenced the packing
for removal. Mary Eliza was to remain
in the Stone Tower until Mrs. Baird s
convalescence, and the three girls re-
turned to New York with Mr.. Stafford.
And Mr.. Stafford, strange to say, ap-
peared to have no malice toward his fair
little jailer.
"On the contrary" said the shrewd
Amy, as the season advanced. 81 do
believe he likes Polly the best of us all,
or he would do If she wasn't such a
child"
But she'sgrowing older every day."
said Mamie. kf.'
And prettier." added Amy. with a
laugh.
So that. as the two sisters agreed, there
was no telling what might happen one
Of these days. But if they venture to
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-02-04


Like damask rose you see,
Or like a blossom on tree,
Or like the dainty flower in May,
Or like the morning to the day,
Or like the sun, or like the shade,
Or like the gourd which Jonah made;
Even such is man, whose thread is spun,
Drawn out and out, and so is done.
The rose withers, the blossom blasteth,
The flower fades, the morning hasteth,
The sun sets, the shadow flies,
The gourd consumes, the mamie dies.
Like the grass that's newly sprung,
Or like the tale that's new begun,
Or like the bird that's here to-day,
Or like pearled dew in May,
Or like an hour, or like a span,
Or like the singing of swan;
Even such is man, who lives by breath,
Is here, now there, in life and death.
The grass wthers, the tale is enGed,
The bird is flown, the dew's assembled,
The hour is short, the span not long.
The swans near death, mans life is done.
Like to the bubble in the brook,
Or in glass much like look,
Or like the shuttle in weaver's hand,
Or like the writing on the sand,
ike Il VI hNS q VI >''iS
Or like the gliding of stream;
Even such is man, who lives by breath.
Is here, now there, in life and death.
The bubbles out, the look forgot,
The shutte's flung, the writings blot,
The thought is past, the dream is gone,
- The waters glide, mans life is done.
Like an arrow from bow,
Or like swift course OF water flow,
Or like the time twixt food and ebb,
Or like the spiders tender web,
Or like q, trace, or like goal,
Or like the dealing OF dole;
Even such is man, whose brittle state
Is always subject unto fate.
The arrow shot, the food soon spent,
The time no time, the web soon rent,
The race soon run, the goal soon won,
The dole soon dealt, mans life soon done.
Like to the lightning from the sky,
Or like a post that quick doth HE,
Or like a quaver in a song,
Or like Journey three days long,
Or like snow, when summer come,
Or like pear, or like plum;
Even such is man, who heaps up sorrow,
Lives but this day, and dies tomorrow.
The lightning's past, the post must 60,
The song is short, the journey so,
The pear doth rot, the plum doth fail,
The snow dissolves, and so must all.
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-02-04
RECIPROCITY WITH MEXICO.

The Views of Ex-Minister Romero OH the
Subject.
p. The correspondent in Mexico of the
Boston Herald has talked with MIR.
Romero, formerly Mexican minister to
the United States, on the subject of
reciprocity between this country and
Mexico. Mr.. Romero said:
I'm my opinion it would not be wise
to attempt to establish treaty on the
basis of unrestricted reciprocity at the
present time. Among certain classes
here there is still some fear and jeal-
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-02-04

RfY~Snbscribe for the LIGHT, only ten cents
a week-$S year.
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-02-04

The UNIvERRAL STOMACH BITTERS have
been fully tested, and carefully examined by Mr..
George Kalteyer, a well-knowu chemist, and fDy x
Menger, city physician. Both declare them to be
manufactured o pure herbs and the best of spirits
and recomn end them to ali suffering from taeak
stomach. The Bitters also very effeetual as a
preventative.
Also keeps constantly hand a well assorted
stock of the best Liquors, Cognac and Blackberry
Brandy, Whisky, Kummei, Flor de Cafe, Anisette,
CordialS. Etc.
The Universal Stomach Bitters are manufactured
by Grenet, under the personal supervision of
Mr. n Keifer, the inventor OF the renowned
Mslakoh B,ter, i-t7-,n.
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-02-04
Mans Mortality.

THE following poem is justly considered a
poetcal gem of the highest order. The orig
nal was found in an Irish MS, in Trinity
college, Dublin. There is reason to think
that the poem was written by one of those
primitive Christian bards in the reign of King
Diarmin, about the year 554, and was sung
and chanted at the last grand assembly OF
kings, chieitains and bards, held in the IA
NOUS halls of Tara. The translation is by
DIR. Kenovan. A manuscript copy Of the
poem was sent by Professor Stewart, OF Irinl-
ty college, to this person who furnished it for
publication in the Boston Commercial Ad-
vertiser
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-02-04

The value of the present orange
crop in Florida is estimated at about
$1,000, 900 against $672,I76 for last
year, an increase of nearly 40 per cent.
This industry is yet in its infancy, but
if this large increase continues, it will
soon attain great proportions aud be-
come a source of wealth to the state.
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-02-04

Mr.. Arthur said to KentuCkian a
few days ago that he had been an
noyed more by applications from Ken
lucky than from any other state, and it
seemed as if a large portion of the
population were abandoning business,
home, family and friends 10 pursue the
phantom of office.
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-02-04
AMERICAN HOUSE.
BORNE, TEXAS.

Invalids and others wishing to visit the
country will find the above house the equal of
any in point of real comfort; table bounti.
fully supplied with the best of fresh milk,
butter, eggs and poultry, and beef of a very
superior quality.
TERMs-By the day, ST.; month. SIS.
I-S-d A. w. BARR, Proprietor.
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-02-04

The phylloxera is rapidly spreading
in France. In 1880 only $4,000 acres
of vines were reported as infested,
while last year the acreage had in
creased to 100000. The vintage was
reduced to $4,000 900 gallons, or
only 10 per cent. of the average of the
last 10 years.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-08-19
Nom,nation of George d. Wise.

without dissenting voice, the Demo-
,r.,,c convention OF the Third district
Yesterday nominated Hon. GEORGE ID.
WISE for reelection 10 Congress. This was
a tribute well deserved by faithful, true,
djligent, and Trustworthy public servant.
The Abingdon Standard calls attention to
the difference between the case OF GEoRGsD ID.
WISE and that OF Mr.. FULKERsoN-the latter
distrusted by his own-party men, whether
he claims n be a Roadjuster or Demo-
Graf. whilst the former hears nothing but
applaudIng voices In his district, and has,
as he deserves to have, the confidence
Of every Democrat in 1t. Everybody
knows GEORGE to be as true as steel, and
everybody stands ready TO invest him again
with the honors which he has so worthily
worn for two years.
Mr.. JOHN AMBER SMITHS candidacy
can hardly be regarded as anything Dut .
Joke. The Washington correspondent OF
the Alexandria Gazette says he removed
hack 10 Richmond in the hope OF falling
heir to the District Attorneyship for the
Eastern district OF Virginia IN case captain
,JoBy S. WISE should be elected TO Con-
gress, and Of course calculates that 10 be
defeated by GEORGE d. WISE would be to
establish to that Office claim which Mr.
ARTHUR might possibly recognize.
GEORGE WISE will now take the stump
and render 10 his constituents an account
OF his stewardship. When he pours iorth
his fiery denunciations of MALONE and his
works, and in his imprisoned, nervous
manner rousos the indignation OF his
hearers against the Coalitionists, the place
becomes red-hot for the Mahoneitcs. The
people viii turn out TO hear him il he Will
only notify them when and where he ex-
poets to speak.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-08-19
Stafford.

AT meeting OF the Democratic party Of
Stafford county, called for the purpose OF
selecting delegates 10 represent the party
In the Congressional Convention which as
scmbles at Tappahannock on August %,
1882, to nominate a candidate to represent
that district in the Forty-eighth Congress,
the following resolution was offered by d..
NJ. LEE, Esq, and unanimously adopted
by the meeting:
Resolved, 1, That the only candidate in
the field FOR congressman at large being the
Hon. John f. Massey, a Democrat, Parson
Dawson. a Straightout Republican, and
John s. Wise, Repudiating Republican,
Il Is the duty of the Democrats Of Stafford to
vote for the said Hon. John +. Massey, be-
cause by that course only can they assist
in adding another Democratic vote TO the
Democratic side Of the next United States
House OF Representatives.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-08-19
Mahcue's WaveriBS Column.

Adam Stephenson, William Hevener,
and Ambrose Wilson, leading Readiusters
of Highland county, are lighting on the
Democratic side in this contest, and they
will carry hundreds OF votes with them.
Bath is bound to catch the contagion.
Franklin is booming for Massey. In Bed
ford many changes are reported from Ma
hone to Massey. Colonel Fulkerson and
Judge Ward refuse to crook the supple
hinges OF the knee, that thrift may follow
fawning, and there is trouble growing in
the Southwest; DezendOrf in the Norfolk
district has opened his batteries, and is
said TO be happy in the prospect OF beating
Spalding, the Mahoneite; Colonel john
Volt, in the Fredericksburg district, who
polled over 10000 votes for Congress two
years ago, and who now has good follow
ing, is kicking up row; and here and
there throughout the State the Malone line
OF battle appears to be wayering.
The truth is, the tyrannous, despotic
rule OF political boss doesn't suit Vir-
ginians, and many of Mahone's first fol.
lowers are getting tired OF it, FSncaStlt
Herald.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-08-19
The One Question for Every True Vir.
gilman to Consider.

To the Editor Of the Dispatch:
The Whiq i, simply wasting its thunder
when it prints from day TO day what Demo-
cratic journals had TO say in the past about
Mr.. Massey. All that now does not
amount to row OF pins; for that is not
the question at issue. The question Vjr-
ginid has to face Is MAuoNEIsM AND ITS
HORRORS; and believing that Mr.. Massey
better than any other man can utterly de-
molish it. the Democrats will support him
gladly. Before MahoneiSm all other queS-
tions sink into absolute insigniticance.
The people OF South Carolina were made
to sweat blood for eight long years under Il
rule exactly like it, and those who COM
posed that rule were all Administration
men EVERY one OF them.
Let every white man in Virginia get the
Malone gerrymander bill and diligently
study it. 1t will make him shudder, but
the exercise will do him good. He will
find how the Big Four" and Mr.. Massey.
in preventing the passage OF this infamous
bill, saved this old State OF Virginia from
being put under the heel OF that wretched
ward politician Arthur and the "Adminis-
tration men, who do his bidding.
Colonel Rutlin is doing yeoman's service
in showing up the Boss; and the Colonel
is not the only Readiuster who will be on
the side OF Virginia when election-day
comes.
Az OLD-TIME OPPONENT OF MASSEY.