Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1882-06-29


Centre. last Friday evening. The
proceeds, $50, were donated to Rev. G..
Carter, of this place. A very pleasant
time was had.
NoTICE.-To every lady who, buy
ing TO the amount of so cents or over.
worth of goods in my store. on July
4th, Will make present of good
fan. G. e. ROSWELL.
Elder j. III. Patton, of Almont,
will preach the funeral sermon of
David ). Stephens at the Jones school
house one mile north and one mile
west of here on Sunday, July End at
8 p. M.
The number of immigrants who
entered at Port Huron during the
month of May was 1O,620; Of these
$685. were from Canada; and the
next largest number, 4,60S from
Norway and Sweden.
Come to BrJckway Centre on the
4th of July if you want to enjoy big
time. Great races, grand trade pro-
cession and calithumplan parade.
Everybody else will be there and you
can't afford to stay away.
One of our exchanges says: 1.-THE
| tongue of slauder is hard at work just
now" Poor old tongue. how it does
blast, and wither, and corrupt, and
contract, and defile, and defame the
wagged at, and the wager.
Tomorrow friday the curtain
drops npon the last scene of the great
National Tragedy, and Guiteau makes
his final bow to all things terrestrial.
Justice, though tardy in this case, is
sure, and the world satisfied.
This week the Fort Gratiot Sun
comes To us with Joe L. Soults as sole
proprietor, Mr. Finn having taken up
his abode with the Port Huron Times.
Bro Sonlts is capable of making the
Sun rise each week and we are sure he
will do his biggest to have it shine for
everybody
-Thos Rapley gives up possession
of the house lately purchased by
Reuben Emery, on Saturday, and Mr.
| Emery will move i'm and hereafter
conduct it under the name Of the Com
mercial House. Mr.. +. has had con-
siderable experience in the hotel busi-
ness and will, no doubt, make good
| landlord.
It was evening. Three of them were
| killing cat. One OF them held Ian
! tern, another held the cat, and the third
! jammed pistol into the cats ear and
fired shooting the man in the hand
who held the cat, and the man with the
lantern was wounded in the arm. The
cat left when it saw how matters stood
and that ill-feeliny was being engen-
dered.
They had been married exactly 10
months. and one day, when she found
it necessary To sign paper. she
wrote her maiden name III fall.
"What !" he calculated. "Oh! how
foolish" she said, 81 forgot that / was
married" And then he jammed his
hands down into his pockets and Won
dered IL that was a reflection on his
character or what, and finally conclud-
Ell IL was what.
"A small cyclone of the blizzard
style came down upon our village last
Tuesday morning about O'Clock, do
| ing considerable damage to the furni-
tuTe. crockery and woman in a house
on Woodward avenue. The storm
spent its force i'm one spot, and the
way il swored and rOaTed was terrible
in the extreme. What raised the wind
(or the DeviD was, Johnnie come
marching home" with too much bon
zine under his waist-coat.
"A young son of Anthony Welsh
was left to mind the drug store of +.
G. Baker yesterday for few minutes,
and. thinking it a good time to replen-
ish his pocket with cash, slipped be-
hind the counter and took from the
drawer a So bill. He waited until
Fred came back and then going over
to W. ii. Palmer's asked him to
change it saying man at the post
Office sent him over. Mr. Palmer sus-
pecting there was something wrong
wen over to the post-oifice to see who
the man was. but could not find any
one. On looking around he found the
owner as above stated.
Sir knight A. r. McLenagan, the
Record Keeper of Pontiac Tent, Is the
editor of the Daily Bee, spicy little
sheet which he shoots ut the Pom.
tiacers every evening. A Bee printer
in a Maccabee Hive ought to make
things hum. Port Huron Bee Hive
His Knigbtship was once resident OF
our village, and was Record Keeper OF
Red Ribbon Club and other things. He
made very efficient keeper" but
how he got transmogrified into the bee
family is IA mystery yet to be explained
Perhaps the business end that does the
stinging has been extracted and Mac
made qeeen bee, accounts for it. That
Hive will hum and swarm too.
The Rawson Reapers and Mowers
handled by + S. Poole are the li9htest
and strongest machine in the market
The mower is the easiest managed
machine in the trade, and the one bes
adapted to all conditions of grass anC
land. In the improved reaper for th'
season of 1882. is presented mode
machine tried in all its parts anC
found wanting in none Iiohtest draf