The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-10-06

u Cne Dran. from wnIcn ne soon ex-
pired.
A referee appointed by the supreme
court of New York has recommended
the release from the insane asylum of
Rev. Joshua Aldridge, colored, on the
ground that he is able to take care OF
himself and is not lunatic.
The National Liberal league elected
It. A. Wakeman, of New York, presi-
dent. The calendar was changed by
making 1900 the starting point, and
substituting +. NJ, meaning the era OF
man, for Ammo Domini.
Secretary Teller has decided to re-
open for settlement tract of ten mil
lion acres of agricultural land in north
Secretary SchurZ to await decision on
the claim of the Turtle Mountain In
dams. tttf
Samuel L. Clemens, of Hartford,
has brought suit in Chicago against
Bedford, Clark & Co., to restrain them
from publishing book entitled
Sketches of Mark Twain" and asks
for an accounting to ascertain the
profits.
At What Cheer, Iowa, Mrs. Benja-
min Williams shot dead boarder
named Allison, whose attentions had
caused her husband to leave her, and
then blew out her own brains, leaving
for her husband letter conveying her
regret for her course.
ID. L. Jewett. formerly United States
senator from Missouri, filed petition
in the st. Louis court of appeals for
the disbarment of w. III. ClOpton. The
latter retorted by going to Jewett's of
flee and commencing fight, which was
stopped by friends.
The tug Ann Long has arrived at
Owen Sound with the bodies OF six
victims of the Inflated Asia. A large
number of cOrpSes were seen floating
about the scene of the disaster, but the
Long had no appliances with which to
secure them.
The decrease in the public debt dur
ing September was SD, sos, 948. The
bonds continued at 81 per cent. are
$50, OO0,O 900, and the per cents. re-
Gently issued aggregate $237 ,233, 200.
The total debt, less cash in the treas
ury, is ST. 644, 12O, 223.
The Eastern railroad, in the endeav-
or to brighten the Revere Beach mar
row gauge into making lease, adver-
tises to carry passengers from Lynn to
Boston for FIVE cents and give ferry
tickets. The pony road sells season
tickets for S..
Henry G. Fisk, clerk of the Pacific
railroad committee of the house Of rep
resentatives, disappeared June 16. 1t
is feared that he lost his reason, as his
mother and brother died in the insane
asylum at Utica. He was a colonel in
the union army.
The mining community at Wilkes
barre was greatly startled Wednesday
by the appearance of flames in the head
house of the Stanton shaft while sixty
men were at work underneath. The
lab0rers escaped by gangways leading
to the Empire mines.
A passenger train on the Memphis
and Charleston railroad was thrown
down an embankment of fifty feet by
striking broken rail. OF twenty-five
passengers in the coaches seventeen
were more or less seriously injured,
among them being Mr.. and Mrs. Sam.
Tate, of Little Rock.
The English military review at Cairo
was watched through the bars of the
prison windows by Arab Pasha and
TOulba Pasha. The khedive placed
over his canopy the union jack and the
Egyptian flag. Admiral Seymour and
the naval brigade have returned to
Alexandria.
Professor Tilden reports that the
bouquet given Guiteau by Mrs. Scoville
contained over five grains of white ar
senic-an overdose which would have
defeated the intention of the donor.
District Attorney Corkhill is now en-
deavoring to discover who poisoned the
lowers.
The citizens of Bridgewater, Massa-
chusetts, are very indignant over the
marriage of granddaughter of the late
Hon. Artemus Hale to divorced man
from Denver named Henry A. Blake.
Believing that the scheme was pre-ar..
ranged between the parties, a mob of
twenty-five men and boys serenaded
them with fish-horns and tin pans.
George fainter, a half-breed Indian,
residing near De Witt, Missouri, while
riding home in wagon with three
neighbors, killed Robert Williams and
shot James Anderson with almost fatal
effect. He was found guarding his
victims on the road, but took to the
brush, where he was captured and
taken to Jail.
The stock of the Louisville and Nash
WIG IdiilOtu OCcluS w Dc tnO lOOtOdll
in Wall street. One of the Gould pa
pers represents that the road requires
$40 900 per month to meet its interest
obligations, and is netting only S341,-
600. 1t is generally believed that new
stock will be issued to raise money to
pay necessary OUTLAWS.
A transport has gone to Suez to en-
bark the Indian troops, and the house,
hold cavalry will this week he Skinned
for home. The khedive will give med
ais to the British expeditionary force,
and the notables will present swords to
Wolseley, Seymour, and Lowe. All ma
tives suspected of participation in the
June massacres are to be sent to Alex
andria.
A police lieutenant in Philadelphia
startled the members Of a wallpaper
firm with the information that for ten
years they had been Systematically
robbed by various employees, at least
$40, 900 having been traced out. The
ring had regular customers, and the en-