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

MARKETS. Wheat, No. l per bushel,
92c, corn per basket, % to 3Oc, oats per
bushcl, 30 to 32c, barley per centum, s1.75,
apples per bbl., $3.50 to 80 .00 potatoes
per bushel, 30 to 35c, butter per ID, 30 to
24c, cheese per h., full cream, 10 to 12c,
eggs per dozen, zoe, pork per hundred,
2 to $S, beef by the side per h., 5 to &c.
chickens per lb. dressed, s to &c, turkeys
per ID. dressed, ~ to 12c.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-10-06
The Press SAYS stalking things a

Tne Press says stalking things as
they come is not very distressing"
Wonder if that has any reference to
his support of the fusion ticket And
as if in anticipation Of the fate that
awaits these parties in November, it
adds, "its the parting with them as
they 60 that cuts one to the soul.'
Yes, defeat is sad to contemplate, but
you should remember, Doc, the fate
of "Poor Tray"
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-10-06

The Saginaw Herald: "The editor
of the Lansing Journal writes that
"Ben Colvin, the brains and charac.
ter of the Greenback kickers, is re.
ported by Greenback papers as com.
ing out for the combination ticket
and Ben Colvin retorts that "the edi.
tor OF the Journal is blank-blank
liar
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-10-06
Advertised Letters.

The following letters remained uncalled
for in the Owosso Post Office for the week
ending Sept. 30th, 1882.
Mrs. Harriet Wilson, w. G. Wiley,
Mrs. Il. NJ. Williams, Thos. Clark. Mr..
Clark. Mrs. Lydia West, Jno. Barkman,
Harrison Aikens.
Persons calling for the above will please
ask for advertised letters"
LA. HAMBLIS, p. M.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-10-06
Barry County.

FRIEND DEwEY:-I will endeavor to
fulfill promise long since made to
to write letter for your journal,
although l confess it seems to
me that it will be impossible to write
anything for your excellent paper
that will be in any degree interesting
to your readers.
Politics, however, are as interest
ing in one locality as in another. Old
Barry is destined, as usual, to come
out of the political battle this fall
with colors flying at mast head. Bro.
Dewey, it would amuse you if you
could be here and see how the green
les squirm. They now see their mis-
take in not fusing with the Demo-
Gratis when they could have done so.
They, the greenies, are doing all in
their power even at this late day, to
marry into the Democratic family,
but the Democrats say no ; we gave
you the opportunity, the marriage
feast was spread, all things were ready
for the ceremony, and you spurned
our overtures, and now you must go
your weary way alone, you cannot
have our company. That is the way
it stands at present, but whether the
Democrats will hold out remains to
be seen. Both parties know that
separately they can do nothing to-
ward electing candidate, ard should
they now join hands, they certainly
cannot. The Greenback party is a
thing of the past. If there ever was
reason why the party should have
been that reason ceased to exist when
resumption of specie payments took
place. From that date, at every
election in every state and county,
unless it was in Barry, the political
battle field has been strewn with
Greenback corpses. But here, in our
own county, their death struggle has
been harder than any place / know
of; but the appointed day makes
haste, when the party or what is left
of it will give its last gasp, and many
of its now members, will wonder
what they ever belonged to it for.
Next week promises to be week
of interest and excitement to the peo.
pie of this county. The county fair
commences on the sd and ends on
the 9th. There is every indication Of
the fair being a good one, and / pre-.
sumo it will be. On Thursday even.
ing the Fire department will give
its annual ball. The evening previ
Gus, Wednesday, Hon. r. G.. Horl
will deliver political address in
Union Hall, ,and thatit will be rousel
no one but Demo-greenies can doubt
After the fair closes, the politica
campaign will be pushed to the utter
most till election day.
| John, of google fame, continues tc
print cheering words in the Journal
and he, but no one else, not even o
his party, knows of any accession
to the Greenback party, from Repub
lican ranks. BY the by, this week.
issue of the Journal has a paragraph
in which John asserts that soon afte
the Greenback county convention,
Republican approached w. F. Hick
and told him if he, Hicks, would joil
the Republican party, that two year
hence he could have any Office in tn
county. When Hicks read the arti
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-10-06

The Free Press, published at Leba-
non, N. H., talks as follows about the
senseless twaddle of which SO much is
printed by Democratic and fusion
papers, concerning political asses
ments, which we commend TO the
careful attention of our readers:
"After all, we would rather carry
elections by the aid of voluntary
contributions" of Office holders, a Ia
Hubbell, than by the voluntary con-
tributions of liquor dealers, as the
Democracy are doing in Ohio and
Indiana. In one case a man buys
security in position which enables
him to earn bread for his family by
contributing to the party fund; in the
other he buys the right to rob mum
erable families of their bread by
like contribution.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-10-06

DONALDSON-PRATT.-At the Bap-
tist parsonage, Oct. I'd 1882, by Rev.>R,
r. Coon. Mr.. j. M. Donaldson, Of Pom
tiac, Mich, and Mrs. G. s. Pratt, of
Shiawassee town. al
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-10-06

According to DIR. Mitchell beer
contains 8 per cent. of alcohol and oe
per cent. of dirty water. 1t is surpris-
ing what demand there is for dirty
water.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-10-06

The Mormons do not seem to be
discouraged. They sent out aa mis-
sionaries to Europe Tuesday.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-10-06

The value of the agricultural pro-
ducts of Kansas the present year is
SI85,ooo,ooo.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-10-06

Post and Tribune: Questions about
the tariff-"Did the tariff make the
emigrants2"
Yes, it did; it promised them high
wages and they came for it.
Question 2-"Did it make them in
dustrious?"
Yes, it did; by securing them
prompt pay and ready market.
Question 3-"Did the tariff make
the railroads."
1t made many of them possible in
new fields, and it gave freights and
profits to others in old fields, thus en-.
couraging new roads.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-10-06

The St. Johns Republican gives
editorial prominence to the following
which is certainly too good to be con-
fined to the limits of Clinton county:
"'A towi- that boasts inhabitants
like ME can have no lack of good So
ciety.' / was nominated for circuit
court commissioner by the "princi-
be-damned-party" at St. Johns.
and now Brock, Ben. Colvin and the
"wild ass of the prairie" in conven-
tion assembled, have nominated me
for attorney general of Michigan on
the straight greenback ticket. Truly,
the eyes of the world are upon me-
VIM. III. Castle, Ovid"
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-10-06

The Gratiot Journal: "The nomin-
alton of Mr.. G. ]. Willet for con-
gress on the fusion ticket in this dis
trict, gives Hon. r. G.. Horr CON-
plete walkaway. Mr.. Willett is a
gentleman in every sense of the word
and the Journal has not word to say
against him personally; but from the
conglomerated mixture with which he
is connected, good Lord deliver u.s. y
And when the votes are counted, II
will be found the people say "amen,
to this.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-10-06

1t is expected that the Republicans
will elect at least ID of the FL mem.
bers of Congress in Ohio next Tues
day, and we think there is better
chance for us in two other districts
than there is to lose any one of the
ID unless there is some unexpected
change in the Cincinnati and Cleve.
land vote. The vote on the state
ticket will probably be close but Re.
publican by small majority.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-04-20
Longfellow's excelsior. !.

The following letter to c.. X. Tucker
man, written many years ago, is now
printed for the first time BY the London
Telegraph:
Il have had the pleasure of receiving
your note in regard to the poem Excel
sior. and very willingly give You my in
tention in writing It. This was no more
than to display, in series of pictures,
the life of a man of genius, resisting all
temptations, laying aside all fears, heed
less OF all warnings, and pressing right
on to accomplish his purpose. His mot
to is excelsior higher. He passes
through the Alpine village through the
rough, cold paths of the world where
the peasants cannot understand him,
and where his watchword is an 'un-
known tongue. He disregards the hap
plness OF domestic peace, and sees the
glaciers-his fate-before him. He dis
regards the warning of the old mans
wisdom and the facinations of woman's
love. He answers to all. Higher vet
The monks of St. Bernard are the repre-
sentatiyes of religious forms and cere-
monies, and with their oft-repeated
prayer mingleS the sound of bis voice,
telling them there is something higher
tLan forms and ceremonies. Filled with
these aspirations, he pcrishes without
having reached the perfection he longed
for; and the voice heard in the air is the
promise of Immortality and progress
ever upward. You will perceive that
excelsior an adjective of the compara-
tive degree, is used adverbiallv; use
justified by the best Latin writer's, re-
main, very truly yours
HENRY w. LONGFELLow.n
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-04-20
Searching for The SURVIVORS.

WASHINGTON. d. c., April IL. Secrc-
tary Hunt has received dispatch from
Hoffman, Charge d'Afaircs at ST.
Petersburg, under date of March 81, in
closing a letter from Chief Engineer
Melville, dated January 81. and written
at point on his way to the mouth of
the Lena, 353 miles beyond Yakutsk
Hoffman states
The Governor Of this port appears
to have shown much good while sending
your orders Of January 10 to Melville as
Estafette had been ordered and paid for
to Yakutsk only. The speed with which
IL went through is quite remarkable.
Lieutenant Danenhower telegraphs me,
under date Of January Is, from krasmo-
iarok, about 1900 versts from ST. Peters
burg. that he may be expected here
about April 20. Chief Engineer Mel
vile. in the letter referred to, says he
las every reason to hope 10 find belong
and his people
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-04-20

The report of the Department of the
Interior, furnished in response TO a
resolution of the House requiring the
names of all railroad companies to which
the government has granted lands, con-
tains somewhat of interest to the resi-
dents of this state, as the following will
show: By the act of June 5, 1859, q
grant was made to Wisconsin to aid in
the construction Of a road from Madison
or Portage City to st. Croix. This road
is now known as the Chicago, St. Paul
& Minneapolis and the whole amount of
the grant is 1905, 900. of this the state
has received S42, 500 acres. The next
road is the one now known as the
Chicago St. Paul & Omaha. The esti-
mated area of the grant to this road is
], 40s, 452, so acres of which has been
received $40, SO acres. One hum
dred and six miles of the road rs located
are now constructed. The lands along
the uHcohsLuCtSui oau testhl ieeciNtu
for sale or entry. Next in the list comes
the Wisconsin Central. The area of the
lands grantedfor 257 miles constructed
by this road is 1,644, 800 and allowing
for change of location between Portage
and Stevens Point leaves 1893, 100
There has been approved to the state tol
this road 375, s44, SO acres. These land.
were in no instance earned by compli
ance by terms of the grant and it is now
believed that there will be such legisla
ton in Congress the present session a
shall cause the restoration of all forfe;te,
lands to presumption and entry.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-04-20
PARASOLs.
DRAWING DELEGATES.
Each District Will Go II Alone Unless there Tome
Sudden Change of Heart.

Each District viii Go 1t Alone Unless there Comes
Sudden Change Of Heart.
just what has been done in the mat
ter of providing for delegates to the
next national convention is given in the
following statement eminating from
Chairman Jewell. AT the Republican
national convention in June, 1880, a res
olution was unanimously adopted d.
recting the committee to prescribe with
in twelve months of that time method
or methods for the election of delegates
to the national convention to be held in
1884, TO announce the same TO the coun-
try, and TO issue a call in conformity
Herewith, provided that such methods
or rules shall include and secure to the
several congressional districts the right
to elect their own delegate to the ma
tional convention. At a meeting of the
committee the LIST of July, 1880, re-
quest was publicly made for the trans
mission to the committee of plans and
suggestions on this subject from any
period prior to February /, 1881. A full
meeting of the national committee was
held at Washington, in March, 1881. to
consider this subject. At that meeting
a committee consisting of William f.
Chandler, George G. Gorham and Ed
ward Mcpherson made report on the
question. The majority report repre-
sented the views of Chandler and Me
Pherson. The minority views were held
by Gorham. Both plans were fully dis
cussed at that meeting, the discussion
chiefly turning on the question of dis
trict representation and representation
based on the Republican vote, the issue
of this debate being the unanimous
adoption by the committee of the fol-
lowing resolutions:
Resolved, That, in accordance with
the order of the r publican National
Convention of 1880, the call for the con-
vention for 1884 shall provide for secur-
ing TO general congressional districts
the right to elect their own delegates to
such national convention, that the de-
tails, methods or rules to be included in
such call shall be determined at future
meeting of this committee to be held
within one year from this date. and
that the whole subject be now referred
to committee of five who shall make
a report at such meeting.
William Z. Chandler, Thomas G..
Plat. John NJ. Forbes, John A. Martin
and Chauncey I. Filley were appointed
committee under this resolution to
consider and report upon the subject of
representation of the territories and
District of Columbia in the national
convention and on national committee.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-04-20

Other states than Wisconsin have fall
len prey 10 reapportioners, and whole
delegations are threatened with private
life. There is no case. though, approach
ing the crying shame Of the Wisconsin
reapportionment that Gusts everyone Of
its representatives now here or throws
them upon strange communities for nm
election. The state has just now reach
ed prominence and consequence that
it never enjoyed before by reason Of its
men in Congress being placed at the
head and front of the most important
committees. The nine new members
sent another year viii be promptly put
at the end of the committee on reyolu-
tionary and invalid pensions, and never
heard of until they have passed two or
four years course of instruction in their
proper duties. A new congressman is
VIGOROUSLY useless, and pretty much the
same kind Of "hazing' and tagging
that distinguishes school boys militia
ton awaits him, until in the slow pro-
gress of sessions he gains some atten-
ton and becomes of any recognized
Importance or influence in he body
Washington Cor. MilWaukee Rerublican
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-04-20
Blue Blood.

Western breeders of Jersey cattle, as
a result of careful and iudicious breed
ing, are rapidly becoming known as
among the leading and successful pro-
motors of the butter breeds The fol-
lowing extract from a Springfield paper
indicates the growing popularity of this
particular tribe, and demonstrates the
value placed upon well-bred represen-
tatiyes:
There has been quite novel and ex-
citing contest the last few days by wire
with seven prominent breeders of Jersey
cattle residing in various parts of the
country for the ownership of the Young
bull calf ElmWood Duke, bred and own
ed by Charles L. Mills, of Springfield,
LII.
Elmwood Duke is son of the famous
COW Lady Nell H., LBS. that has been
made the best monthly butter test of any
COW on record. During carefully-con-
Quoted trial which lasted sixty-one days
this COW produced 1873 pounds of butter,
an average of three pounds of butter per
day, OF nincty-three pounds of butter in
month of thirty one days.
The contest for the ownership of Elm
wood Duke has narrowed itself down to
three bidders "a Georgia banker, Mas
sachusetts Judge, and a syndicate of
capitalists at jackson, Miss.
At this writing the bids have reached
81 900, q sum that will doubtless be larg-
ely increased, as the parties bidding are
large breeders, with abundant means,
and each appears determined to secure
the nliZo The Orice has haan ranidl,,
advanced at the rate of 800 per bid
and the wires are still in constant use
by the parties
'fhe former bull calf of Lady Nell
H., 1,795, named Elm wood Royalist,
6,758, was purchased at large price
by the largest and one of the most sue
cessful breeders c Jersey cattle in the
South. W. b. Montgomery, of Stark
vile. Miss, and 50, 900 has been refused
for the bull ChicaqO Herald.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-04-20
Kinds OF Kisses.

The Maine girl. tall and rudy, kisses
as though she were taking an impress
sion in the chewing gum Of her native
state. The Massachusetts girl kisses in
the Greek style. favored with brown
bread. The New York girl goes at it
as if she were dabbling in Wall Street
speculation. The kiss of New Jersey
girl is as fiery as a taste of applejack
better known as Jersey lightning Lit
tie Deleware's girls are as soft as the
peaches which grow there. A Mary
land kiss is as rich and juicy as a terra
pin stew. In the Old Dominion you are
met with genuine hospitality; the
girls kiss as though they wanted to stay.
The Ohio girl is described as possessing
the comprehensive qualities of an Ohio
man-she wants all she can get and gets
all she can A louisiana girl is said to be
like eating sugar cane, while North Car
Dina Girls stick like tar
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-04-20
Commence at the Foot.

A Correspondent of one of our British
exchanges. in discussing the subject OF
Judging horses at shows. talks in this
wise about the manner of judging in
Scotland: i think the Scotch have the
correct grip of the art, for they adjudi-
cate from the foot up, hence are never
carried away by a fascinating top line at
the expense Of the cardinal, fundamen-
tai conditions of the horse as a beast of
burthen. Time is saved, disappoint-
ment avoided by this plan. TO be fav-
orally impressed with a horse till you
arrive at his knees or below his hooks is
vexatious, and results in labor lost Tn
less horse is carefully bred at his el-
bows, and knees, stiles, hooks, cannons,
and feet, his shoulders, middle, and
quarters count for little His power,
quality, and capability to wear in work
must be proportionately reduced as the
defect or defects affect the above points
and their intimate relation to the super
structure - Prairie Farmer
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-04-20
The Cost OF Law Making.

MADISON, Wis. April 10 The last
Legislative session was eighty DAYS in
length, and the money paid to employees
thereof, S29.S99. In the Chief Clerk 5
department OF the Senate there was paid
out S5,975; in the Sergeant-at-Arms'
department, So, 200: for clerks of Senate
committees. $50; amount for Senate
employees. Sl3,0l5. In the Chief clerks
department of the Assembly there was
paid out S6,7l0; in the Sergeant-at-
Arms department. 81 ,997; for clerks of
Assembly committees, 81 1898: making
a total for the Assembly of Sl6. 100.
For Joint-LegiSlative-C Committee Clerk
there was paid $751; Thus making the
grand total Of S29, 800 for eighty days
session. In 1881 the session was eighty
three days long, and the cost of en-
ployes was but $40 00i. In 1880. for a
siNty-four days session, the cost was
SO, 464. The reason for the excessive
amount paid out for employees ut the
session OF 1882 is easily found The
clerical work was nearly double last
winters session, and the session laws
will make volume fully twice as large
as in 1881.
The Governor has appointed the fol-
lowing 20 constitute the State Pharma
cutical Board under the new law: +. c.
Helmstreet, Jancsyille, for five years:
Adam Conradt, Milwaukee. four years;
Frederick Robinson. KenoSha, three
wears; 4. H. HOLSTER, Madison, two
years; /. ii. Spence, Lacrosse. one
year
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-04-20
As Nature Made Them.

The New York Herald contains the
following from a Connecticut cores
pondent on the subject of working
horses without shoes Over three wears
ago articles appeared in the Boston
Journal and several other papers adyis-
ing the working of horses without shoes,
and at the same time giving the expert
ence of several persons who had used
them with complete success. | was so
impressed with the statements and the
success of the experiments that | was
induced to have the shoes of one of my
horses taken off. turned him out to
pasture for about month and then put
him to work, lightly at first, and,
confess, with fear and trembling: but
after a trial | was so pleased with the
result that | took the shoes of of my
other Two horses and | have worked
them that way ever since. ! find they
work better, are more sure footed and
less Liable to lameness, and | am well
satisfied that horses feet as nature
made them are sufficient for ordinary
work. After my experience | would
now as soon think of going to farrier
myself to be shod as to send my horses
What surprised me most was that one of
my horses was continually going lame
and we could not discover the cause.
but since she has been worked without
shoes she has not shown the least symp-
toms of lameness, and never stumbled,
which she did very much when shod.
Our roads are rough, billy and stony,
hence my success cannot be attributed
to superiority in this respect. Equestri-
ans would find it far safer to use horses
unshod as they would be less liable to
stumble. The toes should be kept
rounded by coarse file, and, as tie
feet should always be looked to when
the horse is groomed, the time required
for this is triiling.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-04-20
chilling the Gentiles.

SALT LAKE, Utah, April lG. During
the late Mormon conference there were
limitations that the Saints would retail
late upon the Gentiles for the anti-Mor-
mon legislation, and refuse to purchase
goods from Gentle merchants To-day
this mode of warfare was openly advo-
Gated by the elders in the tabernacle
They preached that the Mormons should
buy goods only from Mormons. and this
will, it is said. be the burden Of sermons
hereafter in their churches The Cen
tiles are very indignant at this manner
Of fighting. and they threaten 10 stop
all dealings with the Mo. mons if the
lines are drawn tightly f,Iancial
troubles may be lnoked for.