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Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1883-01-03
MORTGAGE SALE.

Default having been made in the terms and con-
ditions OF certain indenture OF mortgage, bearing
date the 30th day of September, A. d. 1872 and ex-
ecuted by and between Daniel Carr and Agnes Carr
his wife, of the first part, and Charles w. Richard
son of the second part, and duly recorded in the
office of the Register of Deeds for the county of
Alpena, on the Both day of September, A. ID. 1872,
in Liber b of Mortgages, on pages $50 and 533, by
which said default the power of sale in said mort
gage contained has become operative, and il being
claimed that there is now due and unpaid, ut the
date hereof, on said mortgage, the sum of one hun
dred and ffty-one dollars and thirty-six cents
tsljl36l for principal and interest, together with
an attorney fee of thirty dollars $3.50 CO., provided
for in sad mortgage. and no suit or preceding,
recover the amount secured by said mortgage, or
any part thereof, now, therefore;
Notice is hereby given, that on the
LIST day Of March, A. ID. 1883,
ut two O'Clock in the afternoon of said day. at the
front door of the Court House, in the city of Apc
ma, county of Alpena, and State of Michigan, that
being the building in which the Circuit Court for
said county in which said mortgaged premises are
situated is held, there will be sold at public auction,
TO the highest bidder the premises described IN said
mortgage, or so much thereof MS may be necessary
to satisfy the said debt, the interest thereon and
said attorney fee, and all costs and charges allowed
by law. said mortgaged premises are situated in
The city OF Alpena, county of Alpena, State OF
Michigan, and described as follows: All that piece
parcel of land described in said mortgage fol-
lows, to-wit: A part of lot No. 3, in section %,
town 81 N, r. east, commencing in the center
of the State road and about "a rods below II. III.
Campbell Co.'s railroad leading from his mill TO
the Dock thence down said road rods, thence
northwesterly Is rods, thence north-eastery rods,
thence south-easterly 16 rods TO first bound, all
said lines to be right angles to said stateroad line
Said above described land is lot No 8, in block No.
90, In map made by William Mirre and to be
corded us Htchcocks second addition to the city of
Apcna. -
II. j. KELLEY, Mortgage
Attorney for Mortgage. 59iwls
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An Assertion Falsiflcd.

1t has been said that lightning never
strikes twice in the same place, but the
assertion has been falsilicd. Farmer
Cobb, of way-down-East, was milking a
cow in the barn one evening recently,
when all of sudden thunder-bolt
crashed down close by the barn, tearing
the limbs off tree and shattering one
side OF the barn. The old gentleman lit
out for the house without bothering him
self about the milk, but just as he had
gained the kitchen door along came a
second deafening report A few sec
onds later the barn was in flames, and
the COW which Farmer Cobb had been
milking was roasted alive, along with
seven others and the seasons hay crop.
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Rochester, N. Y.
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The NeDs, of Fort Jones, Cal. says
that the Umatlla Indians are becoming
more self-reliant every year. They have
two thousand acres OF land under Quilt
walton, flour and saw-miu, thrashers,
yeaplrs and other agricultural mblN-
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fernaps, as time went on, the Thought OF
the dead so continually present in his life be-
gan to affect Pere Perrault's mind. lie had
dreamy fancies, when he would apparently for
get his wife was not active and about lie
would mutter aud talk to himself. Once or
twice, as he strapped on his hottie, he had been
hoard to call, "Hurry, old woman! Hurry
time for work" Owing TO his confused state
Of brain, one morning Pere Perrault, after
having sorted and disposed OF his pickings,
went Into Pere Michers gGrgotte, and instead
OF drinking his soup on the premises, as had
now become his habit, carried home two por-
lions In covered Jug, as In his old days. II
was not until he had poured out the soup into
two cracked bowls that he suddenly recognized
his mistake. He sat down for few blank
moments, then, without touching his meal,
went out. As he turned out Of the Rue
Moutfetard the fcverish sense Of his wife's
presence gradually again came to him, dull
Ing his senses TO outward sights and sounds.
He was not dependent upon his eyes, how
ever, for finding his way to his goal. Cross
Ing the Place de la Bastillc, the old man had a
sudden impression OF excited shouts and
Gathering OF wheels He started up to the
consciousness OF fast-driving horses just
upon him. He made an instructive plunge
forward, lost his footing, aud the next mo.
ment horses and cart went over him.
The insensible body was brought to new
hospital at some distance. That night and the
next day Pere Perrault remained unconscious.
For q passing moment he would wake, and
then he would seem struggling 10 speak In a
feeble manner. The doctor and the kind Sisters
bending over him could discern such words as
" lie cImitlere la-bas." They could not un-
lerstand, but the strainIng expression of the
last glazing eyes seemed to indicate there was
something on the dying mans mind.
No human being could restore the mangled
ody to activity. On the second day, toward
night, Pere Perrault raised his head from his
pillow, saying; "Oh, there I told you so.
II 10 like garden. Every one knows 70 by the
flowers" He would have risen from his bed
but for the restraint OF the Sister praying by
struggled and went on: "There, round the
corner, Just behind the pyranM. Yes, and
thsro n sQld woman coming a-laughIp6, her
SO go ~; s:se "a sAls e. re- ~ r.
Morris tribune., 1883-04-18
General Banking and Exchange
RmSimeSS
TIE crrr AND COUNTRY:
This Bank conducts a

The Rev. Robert Collyer made the re-
mark on one occasion that during his
twenty years. residence in Chicago he
had not known of single man who had
come prominently to the front in any
pursuit who was born and bred in large
city. All the leading men in every call
ing-Judges, lawyers, clergymen, edit
oss. merchants, and 80 on-had been
reared in the country, away from the
folhes, the vices and the enervating in
fuences that are known to exist in all
large towns. The New York Times takes
up the same subject, and says:
Fashion reduces all young men and
women to the same dull and uninterest-
ing level. New York is an old city. 1t
has produced generations of men. How
few of them have ever made their mark,
here or elsewhere It cannot be said
that they go into other parts of the
country and there develop the higher
forms of manhood. They are never heard
of except in the aggregate, concrete
form of our sfellow-citizens. How much
of a man is due to qualities born in him,
and how much to his early environment,
no philosopher has been able to tell us;
but it is impossible to conceive of
sagacious intellect like that of Lincoln,
or glorious mind like Webster's, emery
ing from the false glitter and noisy COM
motion of the city. We think of Wash
inston, the patrician sage, pacing among
the stately oaks of old Virginia, of JET
ferson in his country seat, and of John
Adams tilling his farm in Massachusetts,.
These men, it is true, fourished in
time when there were no big cities in
the United States. But later on we see
Lincoln, Grant and Garfield reaching
the topmost round of fame's ladder from
the obscurity of country homes. Not
one American President from first to last
was born in city"
Morris tribune., 1883-04-18
TREE PLANTING.

The following is an estimate of the
returns that may be had on an acre of
land planted with forty-two black wal
nuts, $40 catalpas and 1850 cotton
woods, willows or locusts. The cost at
the end of three years will be about
$50. He says that at the end of the fifth
season or sooner the removal of the
nurseries, should begin, and the re-
naming nurseries, should be taken out
at the end of the eighth season. Be
tween the tenth and twelfth years the
catalpas should be thinned, and the rest
taken out between the fifteenth and
eighteenth seasons and the twentieth
and twenty-ffth, leaving plantation
of black walnuts. He estimates the re-
ceipts from the acre up to the twenty
ffthyear as follows: First cutting, 1000
poles, $40; second cutting, 1000 poles,
$50; third cutting, 700 posts, $40;
fourth cutting, 1920 posts, $240; fifth
cutting, 1900 posts, $500; total income
for twenty-five years, $500; deduct ex-
penses of planting and cultivating, $50;
net income for twenty-five years, $3.50,
or an annual gross income of $25 to
cover taxes and rental, saying nothing
of interest ano expenses, which has
been covered by the interest on re-
ceipts.
The black walnut trees, beside pro-
ducing crop of nuts for fifteen years,
should have, when 50 years old, an av-
erage diameter four feet from the
ground of sixteen inches, which would
represent yield of $50 feet of lumber
to the tree, or 10000 feet to the acre.
At present prices this would be worth
81, 900, or $40 per year for the first
twenty-five years. and $40 for the whole
period from the time of planting, not
reckoning the value of stumps, tops or
nOstS
Morris tribune., 1883-04-18
THE roc ! yoY FoRETER.

After the trash had been disposed of,
two roast pigs, each with an apple in
his mouth, were brought in and set in
front of the host and hostess. / had
not seen such a thing in years, but it
was sayory reminder of many lavish
board under which my youthful legs
had twined about each other in ecstasy.
There's good deal of sentiment in the
memories that hang about the hog.
Where is there festival that compares
in solid enjoyment with "hog-killing
time" on an old plantation? How
many time have l sat ON the warm
side of big fire in the cold of a Decem-
Der dawn and licked my half-frozen
chops as I watched the sleek carcasses
being drawn and quartered or hung
over the huge scalding-pot, Ikea young
Macbeth over the witches cauldron!
The late Senator Hill loved nothing
SO well as a plate of gatherings. I
have seen Gov. Herschel V. johnson
eat a pigs ear with infinite relish.
What were Gov. Browns collards q
refuse to spell it coleworts) to that
great and good man if underlying his
historic love for the fine esculent there
was not an unconfessed love for hogs
jowl? I once saw Gen. Gordon rush
ing through Wall street, when We both
had more stocks than was healthy, with
a bucket of hogs brains that. he had
bought from downtown butcher for
his table at the st. James. Gov.
Stephens dotes on broiled ham, and the
nearest to death Gen. Toombs ever
came was from indigestion caused by
overeating of head-cheese;. so that a
little more hogs head might have pre-
vented secession. More than one his
torian holds that Lees army was never
whipped until the bacon had given out
and it had to fall back on beef. Mayor
English frequently greases his distin-
guished chin with fatty bread, and it
was at Governors table that | saw
the sucking pigs that evoked this train
of memories ". Grady, ifo the
atlanta Constitution.
Morris tribune., 1883-04-18
THE PARROT WONDERED.

Two sailors went with a tame parrot
to a show in Toxic, where japanese
was giving an exhibition of sight-of-
hand, interspersed with acrobatic feats.
At the end of each trick the sailors
would say: "Now, isn't that clever
Wonder what he'll do next?"
With each act of the performance
their establishment increased, and they
kept muttering: "Wonder what he'll
do next?"
The parrot heard this exclamation so
often that he picked = up off hand, as it
were. zr
Presently the Japanese undertook to
keep in the air number of bamboo
sticks ignited at both ends, but, having
his attention distracted by movement
in the audience, he allowed one of the
sticks to drop. Unfortunately it fell
upon heap of firecrackers, bombs, etc.,
which exploded, blew out the walls,
blew off the roof, scattered the audience
in all directions, and sent the parrot,
minus it's tail.feathers and one eye, about
400 yards.
AS the bird came down with a flop, it
shrieked: Wasn't that clever Won
der what he'll do next?"
Morris tribune., 1883-04-18
S4GACITY OF DOGS.

The owner of number of rabbits
near Barnicu, in Germany, found that
for six successive nights one of his rab-
bits was stolen from the house which
he had made for them out of wooden
case which stood few inches above the
ground. At the top of it an opening
had been made about the width of two
hands, which was closed at night by a
board on which heavy stones were laid.
The house having thus been secured,
and as it was found each morning that
only one rabbit had been stolen, and
that all the rest were uninjured, it was
considered impossible for weasel to
have effected the theft. 1t was, there
fore, supposed that human hands had
been at work. The owner consequently
first made the opening more secure by
mailing down one side of the board and
covering it with grass and stones, and
then hid himself in order to watch for
the GQlGI. Az 1 y ClOCh III buO
he heard noise at the rabbit-house,
and was not little astonished to see
two dogs instead of man on top of it.
One was large dog of the neighborhood,
we'll known to him, a cross between
ST. Bernard and large woody collie,
feared by all other dogs the second
was stranger, a small terrier, just
slender enough to get through the hole
into the rabbit-house. The big dog,
who on other occasions never noticed
his smaller comrades, had evidently
come to an understanding with his little
friend about the nocturnal rendezvous.
The big dog scratched away all he
grass and stones, dragged up the board
and let the terrier Jump through the
hole. The latter returned in few min
utes with rabbit in his mouth, which
he presented to his great friend, and both
proceeded to devour their supper undis-
turbed.-Land and Water.
Morris tribune., 1883-04-18
Il VERY HOMELY MAN.

A correspondent writes that during
his trip on the great American lakes
his companion was Canadian, jolly
fellow, who loved joke, told good
story, feared God, admired the ladies,
and was withal an abominable stammer-
er. We hadn't been long aboard when
the Captain called our attention to re-
markable looking individual seated at
the other end of the cabin, whom he de-
clared was the ugliest man that ever
lived; whereupon our friend from over
the line offered to bet the drinks he had
seen worse one in the steerage. The
bet was taken and off he started to find
his man and bring him up for compari-
son. He found the fellow, who was a
bit of wag. as an intolerably homely
man is apt to be, and with the promise
of "nip" readily gained his assent to
the trial. AS they entered the cabin,
Kanuck, with an air of conscious tri-
umph, turned to direct attention to his
companion, when he found him trying
to insure success by making faces. ''St-
st-st-st-op!' said he, "no-none of that.
Stay just as God Almighty made you.
You ca-ca-can't be beat" And he
wasn't .-Bufalo Express.
Morris tribune., 1883-04-18
TABLE ETIQUETTE.

Macaroni should be cut into short
pieces, and eaten with an even, graceful
motion-not absorbed by the yard.
Oranges are held on fork while being
peeled, and the facetious style of squirt
ing the juice into the eye of your host is
az reUoir.
Stones in cherries and other fruit
should not be placed on the tablecloth,
but slid quietly and unostentatiously
into the pocket of your neighbor, or
noiselessly tossed under the table.
If by mistake you drink out of your
fnger-bowl, laugh heartily and make
some facetious remark, which will
change the course of conversation and
renew the friendly feeling among the
members of the party.
In drinking wine, when you get to the
bottom of your glass do not throw your
head back and draw your breath like the
exhaust of bath-tub in order to get the
last drop, as it engenders feeling of
the most depressing melancholy among
the guests.
IF you cannot accept an invitation to
supper, do not write your regrets on the
back of pool check with blue lead
pencil. This is not regarded as rico
chet A simple note to your host in
forming him that your washerwoman
refuses to relent is sufficient.
On seating yourself at the table draw
off your gloves and put them in your lap
under your napkin. Do not put them
in the gravy, as it would spoil the gloves
and cast gloom over the gravy. If
ycu have just cleaned your gloves with
bcnzine, you must leave them out in the
front yard.
Morris tribune., 1883-04-18
rnr rpror EAH1 OF oaun1AsR1a.

Connected with the Dukes residence
IA Queensberry House, against which
the whole fury and maledictions of the
inobs were directed at the time of the
Union, there is tale of awful mystery
aud horror. His eldest son, James Earl
OF Drumlanrig, is simply stated in the
old peerages "to have died young" 1t
is now proved, however, that he was an
Idiot of the most wretched kind. rabid
nd gluttonous as wild animal. and grew
an enormous stature, as his leaden
md unornamented coffin in the family
.;.ult at Durisdeer attests at this day.
his monstrous and unfortunate Great
re was always confined in ground
toor room OF the western wing OF
lueensberry House and It'll within
csc few years the boards still remained
" which the windows of the dreadful
eceptacle were darkened to prevent the
not from looking out or being seen"
. On the day the Treaty of Union was
,assed all Edinburgh crowded to the Vi
atty of the Parliament House to await
le issue of the final debate, and the
hole household of the Duke-the High
otnmissioner-went thither en- masse
~.r that purpose, and perhaps to prevent
i'm from being torn to pieces by the
xasperated people, and among them
cent the valet whose duty was to watch
and attend the Earl of Drumlanrig.
Tearing all unusually still in the vast
ouse, the latter contrived to break out
Of his den, and roamed wildly from
room to room, till certain savory odors
drew him into the great kitchen, where
a little turnspit sat quietly on stool
by the fire. He seized the boy, took
he meat from the fire, stripped and :
spitted him, and he was found devouring
the half-roasted body when the Duke re-
turned with his train from his political
triumph, to find dire horror awaiting
him. "The common people, among
whom the dreadful tale soon spread, in
p:ta of the Dukes endeavors to sup
press it, said that it was judgmentupon
him for his odious share in the Union.
The story runs that the Duke, who had
regarded his offspring with
no eye of affection, Immediately ordered
The creature to be smothered. But this
is mistake; the idiot is known to have
died in England, and to have survived
his father many years, though he did
net succeed him upon his death in I'LL,
when the titles devolvee upon Charles,
Younger brother. -CdsseWs Old and
Men,
Morris tribune., 1883-04-18
4 FARLE ron A CENT.

A Goose, which was travelling across
the country for tho benefit of her Dys
| pepsia, was resting herself in bit oil 4
thicket, when along came two Foxes ia
search of something not too utter for
dinner. Being tired and disappointed it
was only natural that they should feel
quarrelsome, and as they halted near the
thicket one of them observed:
eff you were half as sharp as the
books make you out to be you would not
now be hungry enough to gnaw at the
bushes"
And il you were only half as big as
you think you are, You would pass for a
lion, minus the roar" sneered his COM
panion.
81 don't want any impudence from no
15-cent animal of your buildl" warned
the first.
"Don't give me any chin music or I'll
make complete wreck of you'll" yelled
No. 2.
You're thief
"Ditto
you're a"
At this point the Goose could stand it
no longer. Walking out from the thick
ct she put on benevolent look and OBJ
served:
Gentlemen, let me settle this. dis
pate. In the first place, I want to re-
mark"
But she never remarked. The Foxes
made rush and gobbled her up, and as
they picked their teeth of the last of the
feathers No. remarked:
"No one but Goose would have
sought to settle dispute between two
Foxes"
"And, while have great respect for
a Peacemaker, added the second, 81
have invar iably observed that they are
the eaten party. Neighbors who quar-
rel can not only take care of themselves,
but in most cases of the Goose which
sticks her bill into the fuss. This BAN
quet will now adjourn"
Morris tribune., 1883-04-18
ORANGE CULTURE IN SOUTHERN
CALIFORNIA.

The orange-tree grows all the time.
That is to be thought of 1t calls for
the frequent cares which are its due as
well in winter as in summer, Not few
persons of the invalid class who had
looked upon its culture as mere pas
time have been broken down through
this cause, and having taken up more
land than they could manage. The les
son OF such cases is not to attempt too
much, but to keep to the five or ten
acres perhaps within ones personal ca
pacity. Nor has it been polite to put
everything into the single crop of oran-
ges. The smaller fruits-peaches,
plums, and especially apricots-for can
ming, which come into bearing quickly,
are useful in tiding over the rather
tedious period awaiting for the orange
trees to mature, and are always in
profitable demand. To start existence
comfortably here the newcomer should
have capital of from So, 900 to SIC, 900.
Peculiar energy, of course, will do with
less.
1t requires about nine years to bring
an orange-tree from the seed into full
bearing. On the other hand, it is found
that by deftly inserting an .orange bud
into small shoot of lemon-tree slitted
in an X shape, and setting this in the
ground, a tree can be obtained which
bears marketable fruit after the second
year. The controversy RACES as to
whether it is worth while to do this,
since the product is but dwarf, like
the dwarf pear-tree; and though it
yields early it can never yield much,
and its fruit does not stand shipment as
well as that of the Seeding. Against
this it is maintained that it lives longer
tnan the Seeding, yields choicer varieties
Of fruit, more uniform in size and quail
ity, and not subject to the singular form
of destruction which sometimes over
takes the Seeding, that of being dashed
against its own thorns.- William Henry
Bishop, IN Ha,per's Magazine.