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The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-09-29
WASHINGTON NOTES.

Colonel George Bliss has approved bill
Tor S537 against the Department of Justice
Tor lunches furnished the government coun-
sci at saloon near the Court House during
the star route trials. The bill includes
thlrty-nine bottles of champagne and three
boxes of Reina Victorias.
Inc nrst comptroller of the treasury, to
whom the subject has been referred, will
1t Is understood, decide that the laws do
not warrant the practice which prevails to
some. extent, of substitute clerk. There
have been some abuses i'm that department
arising out OF the system of farming out
clerkships by the persons who are nominal
~ designated as clerks, the principals often
securing several months leave of absence,
curing which they employ substitutes at
much smaller salaries.
=, 1t is now said that Gen. Grant and Mr..
Prescott, the commissioners appointed to
negotiate a commercial treaty with Next
co, will leave for that country about Nov.
!, after danger from yellow fever Is over.
PERSONS Interested In American enterprises
there are OF opinion that this commission
will obtain such concessions from the gov
eminent of Mexico as will open the mining
regions OF that country to American capt.
tai. The decree of the Mexican govern
ment abollshing the export duty ON silver
Will go into effect Nov. 1.
:. The department Of state has received n
dispatch dated Aug. %, from Minister Cra-
failure OF the potato crop in Switzerland.
Potatoes forming one of the principal ar
tlcles OF diet of the Swiss, Mr.. Cramer as
slimes that large import must necessarily
take place, and he suggests that American
exporters of breadstuffs should at once
make arrangements to supply the deficit
caused bv the failure referred to In his dis
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Attention Comrades.

The second annual reunion of the Shia-
wassee county Veteran soldiers and Sailors
Association, will be held at Bancroft, on
Wednesday, October %. 1882. Every
soldier in the county will be expected to
answer at roll call. The unlimited gener-
osity of the people of Bancroft on former
occasions, is sufficient guarantee to all old
veterans of the success and good time
which you may expect at this, our second
annual reunion. Programmes, giving par
ticulars Of the days proceedings. will be
published in due time.
Bancroft, Aug. 80, 1892
G. A. PARKER, Pres.
j. ID. JEWELL, Sec.
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Examination of Teachers.

The appointments for the examination of teachers
in shiawassee county, for the Fall of 1882, are
follows:
Regular semi-Annual Examination at corunna,
Friday, Oct. 81.
AT Vernon, Saturday, Sept 0.
At Owosso Saturday, Oct. 81.
At Byron, Saturday, Now 49,
Examination to begin promptly at o'clock a. M
Fees for private examinations In all cases 81 90.
Applicants for certificates must pass satisfactory
examination in photography, reading, penmanshp
geography, grammar, arithmetic, theory and art OF
teaching, U. >. History and civil government
Any further information may be obtained upon
application to the Secretary of the County Board
Vernon, Aug, %. 1882.
The papers used by both successful and unsuccess-
full applicants in answering questions, are kept on
file at the Office of the Secretary, and free for
inspection by any person who may not be satisfied
with the grading or for other causes.
BY order of the Board of Examiners.
GEo. w. SIcKLEs, Sec.
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A Stray Pig.

Cameinto my possession, on Section
aa in the Township of Owosso, about
three weeks since, small white boar
pig, about three mont tbs old. The
owner will please call, prove pro-
perty, pay charges and for this notice
and take him away. JACOB THowE.
Owosso, Sept. FL 1882.
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NARROW ESCAPE
OF A MASSACHUSETTS, ENGINEER
TIMELY WARNING OF MIR. JOHN
SPENCER, BAGGAGE MASTER
OF THE ii. Il A. R.R.
Cure of Stone In the BIadder--
Large Stones REMOVED by "Ken-
ncdy's Fav0rite Remedy"
From fhe Piffsfcld (Moss.) Eao

ncdy's Favoritc Remedy"
From the Rttsaeld (Moss.) Eagle.
Stone in the Bladderis a very dangerous oil
ment; but many most remarkable cures have of
late been wrought by "Kennedy's Favorite Renee
dy"--the invention of DIR. Kennedy of Rom
dout, N. Y. Another striking is now added
TO the list. Mr.. Peter Lawler, OF Dalton, Mass,
states in n letter to DIR. Kennedy that he had
been troubled with bladder complaint for IA years
and had consulted at different times seven phys-
clans; but nothing beyond temporary alignment OF
the pain had been worked. Towards the end of
last january Mr.. Lawler called on DIR. Ken
nedy. Sounding him, the doctor "struck stone"
He decided that Mr.. Lawlcr should first try the
"Favorite Remedy" so as, Il possible, to avoid an
operations. And here Ia the remarkable results:
"Dear Doctor Kennedy-The day after / came
home passed two gravel stones, and am doing
nicely now. IL you would like to see the stones
will send them TO YOU" This letter bears date
"Dalton, Mass, Feb. 6th," and Is signed "Peter
Inwler.o The stones, which 80 large as to war;
rant for "Kennedy's Favorite Remedy the claim
that II Is the most successful specific for Stone yet
discovered. nre now in Dr. Kennedy's possession.
Incidentally Mr. LAWYER also states that the Fav.
orite Remedy" at the same time cured him OF a
stubborn case Of rheumatism; and Il is fact that
in all affections arising out of disorder of the lveror
urinary organs IL is a searching remedy and works
marvellous benefits. Itisin itself almost medicine
chest. Order II of your druggist. Price tl.00
bottle.
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CINCINNATI.

AS .o WmrSTFirSS fNs No. faR ReS win Seg
p6@97c. CoRN.-Lower; No 2 Mixed,
&c. OATs.-Lower; No. Mixed, S6c.-
RyE.-Quiet; No. Fall, 64c. Provisions
Pork dull at S22.T5. Lard quiet at $40. 3d.
Bulk Meats firm; Clear sides SIC. O0C114.371<.
Bacon dull; Clear sides $1,000.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-09-29

ST. LOUIS.

WmAr.-Lower: No. 2 Red Sept, 9OJ<t0
91%c; October, 00sl@9l9sc; November, 926
GohSLowNsr Sept ss lsS5e October
Lower; Sept, 31140l32c; Oct, 30s9@301<c:
The year 295EC029%c. RyE-Lower at 551<c.
BARLEY.-Steady at 70@S0c. PRovI-
sIoNs.-Pork lower at $3.50. Dry Salt
Meats quiet at $10.s716, 14;75, 1925. Bacon
steadyat S11.25 1900, 1929. Lard lower;
S.25; butchers to best heavy, Ss.5O(99.1O.
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MILWAUKEE,.

WHEAT.-Lower; September, 951<c; Oc-
tober, 92slc; November 9236c; No. 3, S3c.
CoRN.--Lower at &c for No. 2. OATS
Firm: No. White. a0e<c. RyE.--Lower:
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NEW YORK.

WHEAT.-Lower; No. Sept, S1.04
1.04s6; October, $1.041S(d1. O51f; November,
S1.051T@1.07. CoRN.-Quiet; Mixed West
ern Spot, 67@71c.
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BOSTON.

WooI.-In good demand and firm: Ohio
extras, 41045c; Michigan fieeces 39a4Oc for
extra and fine combing delaine 42a46c for
me; fSaooc Ior me ana NO, NO. &c 40
17a35c pulled WOODS firm at 42a50c for choice
supers; 26a40c for common and good.
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BALTIMORE.

FLoUR.-Quiet; Western Supcrfine, $500
@9.62; do. extra, S3. 75@4.0O; Family, S4.75
Winter Red Spot and Sept, .Si.Os@i.osk
Oct, S1.0211@1.02sl; November, S1.O41S6
1.o414. CoRN.-Western lower; Mixed Spot
and September, 70@7311c; October, COO
zoe. OATs.-Lower; Western White.
43@44c; Mixed do. 4l1E@42 RYE-Higherat
7O(p15c
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$500 REWARD !!

We will pay $4,000 for the
arrest and conviction of the
parties who attempted to bur-
glarize our Store Tuesday
night, 10Th Of September
OSBURN & SONS.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-09-29


self George Harmon, from Canada, and
says that he will do 1t again. Speaking of
some of his previous exploits, he said:
Last summer / balanced myself on the
railing of the great iron bridge which spans
the Mississippi at ST. Louis, and after walk.
ing about on the rail for a while l stood
gazing into the muddy waters below, when
Waterman stole up behind me and seized
me. He thought L wanted to attempt
suicide, and 1t was almost impossible to
amusement on my part. He wanted to ar
rest me. L have done the same thing on the
suspension bridge at Niagara Falls Then
he continued, during moment of inspira-
ton: while at Niagara clambered over
the the brink over-hanging the Sturgeon rock,
stood upon a small slate shelf, gazing into
the seething torrent below, to the great hor-
rOr of numerous spectators on the Ameri-
can shore, but it's nothing when you get
FOREMAN DIcKsoN's CHARGES.
Inquiry. at the Department of Justice
fails to elicit any definite information as to
when Messrs. Brewster Cameron and Bow
EN-, the two officials who, Mr.. William Dick
son alleges, attempted to bride him in con-
nection with the verdict In the star. route
cases, will return to Washington; Imme-
the announcement was made that these two
officials had been ordered home, and that
prompt investigation would follow. 1t is
now said at the department that Mr.. Brews-
ter Cameron Is In Arizona on government
business, and he is not expected here at
once, unless he has been instructed to come
by Mr.. Kerr or Mr.. George Bliss, of the
special counsel IN the star route cases. IL
this has been done, the Department of JUS
tice has now been advised Of the fact The
question Is now being asked whether the
counsel for the government have changed
their announced intention of making q
swift Investigation into the severe charves
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-10-05
winning the Race With an In
feriOr Horse.
San Francisco Chronicle.

EAA
The writer met the jockey OF Ruth
erford while dining at the Winter
Palace, in st. Petersburg, a short
time after that huge sporting wrangle,
and, in the course of a conversation
on turf matters, the astute prodder Of
horsehesh said, with IA childlike and
ingenious smile:
Would you like TO know the dead
inside facts as to how the race was
won?"
why, you rode the best horse,
didn' your we asked.
mot a bit of it, replied the jockey,
with a grin. The fact was that
Rutherford was only about the fourth
choice, and was not rated at more
than eighth or ninth in the pools.
True Blue, Katy Pease and rhad
Stevens all had the call over Ruthy.
Bnt it happened that my horse was a
'bolter,' and to steady him and pre-
vent his flying the track | put binders
and goggles on him. You noticed
them. IsupposeY'
There we're two horses rugged that
way" we replied.
Exactly; Stevens was a nervous
%critter also, and as o 0 as the
trainer saw how the goggles steadied
my horse he put EN- on Thad, too,
The day before the race a big idea
occurred to me. | got a couple Of
pairs Of magnilying lenses and quietly
put EN- in place Of the pair Of glasses
in the goggles Of both horses. Hook
on to the idea?'
well, partly"
"The only difference was that in
Stevens brides [ fastened the glasses
with the bulge inside, so as to make
them diminishing glasses, don't you
see?'
Like looking through the wrong
end of an Operaglass, eh2'
Exactly. The result was that while
Rutherford was encouraged all the
way by the course seeming only a
couple of hundred yards long, the
quarter flags appeared ten miles apart
to Stevens. You see, a horse can be
discouraged just as well as a man."
"Great scheme, that
well l should smile. Rutby
thought he was in for a little quarter
race, and it kept up his heart, so that
when he had nearly done the last mile
and swung into the homestreteh and ]
called on him to let out his last link.
he thought the judges stand was right
under his nose, so he came home like
an express train on a down grade, but
Stevens, who thought be had about 10
miles further to 60, went all to pieces,
as you remember. and almost lay down
on the track he was SO mentally caved
in, as it were"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-10-05
Monday, October %. $50.

all the interest Of defendant R B HAYS in the
real estate mentioned and described in sai5
decree as follows: GUS
First-rhe ostatutory equity Of redemption
OF defendant X Is Hays in the following de-
scribed real estate, TO. wit:
Lots Is and II in block At, in what
Is known as Fort Pickering. lying lust
south OF The city Of Memphis, in Shelby coun-
", Tennessee, reference being made to said
lots and blocks as laid down on Williamson's
mar Of tse city of Memphis and enyirons, is
~Sec9nd-The equitable interest Of defendant
RI HAYS IN the 'W oodlaWn Place" referred
to in the bill and described as follows:
Lying IN shelby county, ennesseo. near
Wythe Depot. on the Memphis and Ohio rail-
road. beginning at a large red oak marked
X on the south eide of Loosa Hatchio
river, ana running thence south 5 de-
groes cast, l20 chains p links, 10 an elder tree
maThe7 \ in a field crossing the M. 10. R.h.
at 81 chains and so links; thence south 10 de-
Frees east, II chains and ca links TO a stake In
the center of the Brownsville road; thence
south, 62t3 degrees west, IA chuins and 20
inns. with the Brownsville road to a stake:
thence south ~ degrees east. 20 chains and 80
Ijnhs to a take in Haywoods' north boundary
line ofa6 I acre tract; thence south ,S7kdeareeS
west, with said Haywo0ds' line 81 chains and
~ links to a stake near q branch, one of Hay-
woods corner; thonce north, q Dc 5rees west.
" chains to a small willow ON the south side
" ~ nv L'ANf NuNnNu NNNln Oorn "a.
grees west, q chains and 20 links to Law
woods northwest corner, from which soutb
llT degrees east 65 links is asweetgu,n mark
cd d thence noytN 20 chains and IS links 10 a
stake, 40 links Of hickory mar ked X, thence
west 20 chains to an elm marked ET X; thence
north 80 chains, crossir gthe said railroad for
merly known as the Memphis aud ohio rail
roao, but now called The Memphis and Ionis-
willie railroad, at 7 chains and 20 links to 4
sycamore tree marked II, on tao south hanE
Of Loota Hatehie river; ID nee north bS de-
groes east, cutting and equalizing the mean
dering Of said river, Al chains TO A stake, in
the south boundary line OfJ Wills 800 aere
grant; thence east Is chains TO j Wills SOUTH
east corneri thence horihwi h said Wills ease
boundary line, 43 chains to Loosa Hatshie
river, thence with the meanderinRs of said
stream, ~ chains to tho beginning, containing
oy estimation $40 acres, being a portion OF
what is known az the "Woodiawn Ilace. ~ be-
longing to the ate Samuel j Hays, ard con-
Veyed. by Al Hays and others TO h b HAYS nv
and Of record Ia the Office Of the Register Of
SHELBY county, In book u, page 26, to which
reference Is made.
Terms of salo-0n a credit Of reyen A-d
twelve months, taking purchasers notes with
approy,d terstnQl security, bearing interest
from date md retair ing n lien arc the prop-
erty until said notes are paid. Equity Of re-
demption barred.
jackson, Tenn, september q, 1882.
JOHN II. FREEMAN, Clerk.
III Mcfarland, solicitor. 1sB
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-10-05
VeTdIctIna Star Route Case Con.
spiracy.
Philadelphia Ledger.

4F@hFAf
The jury in the case of Joseph r.
Black, Joseph Blackman, Joseph
Funk, Harry Arbuckle and William
X. Cason, who were charged with con
spring 10 defraud the United States
in Star Route mail contracts, brought
in a sealed verdict on Saturday morn
log. They had agreed to the acquittaI
Of all the defendants but joseph X,
Black, and TO bis conviction with an
earnest recommendation to the mercy
Of the Court.
Judge Butler complimented the
jurors for the effort they had made
10 agree, and said that 1t was plain,
in making up their verdict, they had
taken the statement Of Funk, Black.
man, Cason and Arbucklo ay TO their
part 10 their transactions. The young
mon had committed aserious mistake,
and he hoped il would be a warning Ia
them in the future 10 be more careful
how they signed papers.
A motion Tor q new trial and an ar.
rest OF JUDGMENT WAS made In the case
Of Joseph X. Black, and be was re-.
feared upon entering bail in the sum
Of $4,000 AT Judge Buffers sugges.
ton, Friday next was Fixed for The
argument on the motion for a new
trial. Blackmsn. Funk, Cason and
Arbucklo were discharged from Gus.
tody.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-10-05

then asked them I'd purchase for bin
q few thousand francs worth Of The
kind Of bonds that his employer had
lost.
This was done. The numbers on
the scrip given him corresponded with
those which the agent de change had
shown him when he first commenced
the inquiry. His work was then plain
enough. The head Of the firm was
accused Of having in his possession
documents which had been stolen,
knowing them q have been SO. By
making a clean breast OF the matter,
and By restoring al be had bought
from the son of the agent de charge
(for which he paid a fourth of their
market value, )he escaped with a years
Imprisonment In England the affair
would Lave been impossible. Bat
the question remains whether it is
not better to hght rogues with their
own weapons than to allow them, from
motives which are correct in them
selves, to 90 free. There can be little
doubt that the present state of the
world, when so many men live by
preying on others, it is very necessary
to keep some sort Of supervision owe
seoundrels, or it will often be very
difficult for honest men to come by
their own,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-10-05
4HE PaETTY NiRiLisn
The Woman who Gave the sig.
nal for killing the CEar.
phileaelakss Ffsss

AAANA-@aEN AA&H
Sophia Perovski was handsome
"a little, fair head, With a pair O
serious and searching blue eyes, 4
broad, lofty forehead and a rosy mouth,
which in smiling displayed two rows
Of most beautiful teethN-such i:
Stepniak's description OF her. She is
a descendant of that Rasumovski
whose beauty indamed the passion OF
the Empress Elizabeth; her father was
Governor General Of St. Petersburg,
Her desire for emancipation" was so
strong that at the age OF fifteen she
ran away from her parents in order to
educate herself" She at once Joined
the revolutionary party, and became
one of its principal members.
The most important missions we're
entrusted to her; where danger was
greatest there was her place. The
fair, pretty, smiling Girl that looked
like an innocent child, and seemed
but to dream of a first love, thought
day and night of assassination
and planned it with the GOODNESS
of an old soldier. 1t was Sophia
who lived in the house at Moscow
where the mines were laid. She
talked good-naturedly with tie neigh
bors while eight conspirators dug
underneath; she cooked for them and
during the meals amused them with
Jest and song. On the table there
stood a flask of itro-glycerine, and in
her pocket she always carried a revolt
yer. In case of being surprised by the
police she was empowered to fire
into the flask and thus blow up the
house.
She lay in wait when the Imperial
train approached and gave the signal
for the explosion. Smiling she also
stood on the the 18th of March, 1881,
on the Catharine Canal. Sometimes
she would wave a handkerchief, as il
to greet an acquaintance, in order to
inform her confederates of the ap-
proach ofthe Imperial carriage. Sud
denly she raised the handkerchief and
waved it over her head; at tie same
moment Rysakoff threw his bomb,
1t would have been easy for her to
escape alter the assassination, but
anxiety for the fate of her lover,
Zheliabof, kept herin st. Petersburg,
and eight days afterward she was ar
rested. She died together with
Zheliabof.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-10-05
An EventfuI Lie.

Seldom is there recorded a NOR
eventful life-stOry than that Of Scar
beck de Malezewski, whose death al
the age of one hundred years has JUS
been announced in Warsaw. He en-.
tered the Prussian army in his you'll
and wal made a prisoner by the French
at Jena, when he at once changed his
flag, joined Dombrowski's corps, and
fought so well at Eylau as to receive a
high decoration at the close of the
battle. At Hanau he was badly
wounded. He accompanied Bona.
parte to Elba, and came away from
there with him. going to Italy as
orderly officer to King Joachim Murat.
At Gaeta the English captured him
and handed him over to the Austrians,
from whom he escaped in time to join
BOnaparte at Waterloo, where be was
again seriously wounded. Under the
Cars proclamation of amnesty he
went back to Poland, entered the
Russian army, and rose to a high rank
but when the Polish insurrection OF
1890 b:5ke out he joined it, fought
desperately, vas wounded, captured
and sent to Siberia for life. After
spending halt a century in penal exile
he was pardoned, and returned to his
native city to die.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-10-05

A SCHEME is working in the min
of a well known gentleman of this city
q practical one too, which promises t
knock the spots out Of "Mulberr,
Sellers Asiatic eye water project
Pumpkins are to do il. There's mill
ions in pumpkins, and there are u
visionary features about the proposed
plan. lie has invented q machine
which will peel and prepare for thu
drying house two and a half tons o
pumpkins daily. Dried and powdered
pumpkins are worth ten cents
per ID in all cities where
pumpkin pies are used, but al
lowing for an increased supply to be
caused by his invention and a natural
decline in value, to say five cents per
ID, the yield of a single machine would
be $3.50 per day, of course, making
no allowance for the cost of pumpkin
production. The latter item, how
ever, is of small considera.
ton he says, for he has seen
pumpkins grow in this vicinity heavy
enough for one hundred to make a ton,
and six tons can be produced annually
from an acre without difficulty. Six
tons Of pumpkins would yield $500.
Think Of it, and the little trouble it
is to cultivate pumpkins. And that
is not all. The entire cost of running
tie proposed pumpkin peeler can
more than be made from the peelings,
which may be readily converted into
vinegar, and will yield handsome re-
turns, while the seed will make a lot
of oil besides. To encourage the cul-
tivation Of pumpkins, the gentleman
proposes to get a supply Of seed from
the East and distribute them free to
the farmers ~hereabouts. He expects
to be in fall operation with his peeler
and slicer by the end of another
year. 1t is true the people
Of this end of the country
have never taken kindly to pumpkin
pies, but when pumpkin powder is
cheap, there is no telling bow a liking
for them may spread. The down,
casters, however, have never been
known to have too much Of the article.
The results promise better than grow
ing castor beans, unless like the
young married man, the Rev. G. X.
Marshall has been telling about for
the last thirty years, who went into
beans until he made enough to buy
half a dozen darkies, then quit to raise
cotton, our pumpkin grinder should
follow suit and turn his attention to
cotton, after getting the pumpkin
trade fairly under way.