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The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-07-13
registration Notioo

c of Is hereby given that the Board of Registration for +
ts Will meet the several Wards in said city,
forenoon n u1 4tn Gay of July 1888 from o'clock IN the
In the First Ward at NJ H. Ridey's store. Exch.nn .44
street 49, -. He"SS store, Washington
In In the the Third Ward at the City Hall, Main st,a.+
ming sbon Ma, WARD at George Carpenters carriage trim
i; a; 'e purpose of completing the list of qualified oto
~ u Guy, at which time it is the right Of eb 1ec.o
laca .hea actually residing in the Ward and who Of cry
pafed ee" TO De held the Monday following NAV be-
t"imeu elector and whose is not arpod, rt9T
o5 ms name entered in the registry according to an ae TO
guard a a' to + further preserve the purity Of elections and
Feb ID s5e n 'e ABUSE OF the elective franchise approved
~ LATED CIty of Owosso. June 90 1883 HI Jru,1o
W. y. DAWES, Clerk. Chairman Board of R;. 10
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-07-13

How is this for high: The Chicago
Anti'Monopolist convention refused
the notorious Dennis Kearney seat
IN the convention as representa- ,e
from California on the ground that
he is now in the employ of TIE rail.
roads OF that state.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-07-13

Inc reports of the press on the
ceieoratlon of the 4th, from all parts
VI tue country, are 10 the effcct thar
ceieorations were more numerous
'han usual, the attendance large
everywhere, with few accidents to
mar the festivities.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-07-13

"ould-be Speaker Carlisle, of
kentucky, favors a re-opening of the
'afih question at the forth coming
session OF Congress. He is an our
and out. free trader.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-07-13

AZ least 100 good tenement houses
are needed in Owosso to-day. Car.
peniers, would you ensure their con.
s'ruction' vote next Monday for the
loan Tor public improvements. and
you will be building them as rapidly
as men can do it, at good paw for
your services.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-07-13

Gent Hancock, according to the
statements made by his personal
friends, is still in the field for Presi.
dent.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-07-13

Inc Chicago Times says that | d.
McCutcheon, late of Charlotte and
now Secretary of Montana, has lust
D.. psen married at ST. Paul, Minnesota,
MS II true, is disgrace that ought
70 cause the prompt removal of Mo.
ou'cheon from the position he now
noids' as he has at Charlotte a wife
as loyal and true as any one in the
State of Michigan.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-07-13

nc contest Tor the speakership is
becoming of considerable interes,
IN a double-leaded telegram to his
paper the Louisville, KY, Courier.
Journal, Mr.. Watterson implores Mr..
Nandallto retire from the contest
ana almost promises the Presidency
as reward for such a sacrifice. This
Is consistency of MgA o,as,, worthy
Of the "attersonian order, unit for
Speaker, FIT for President.
"The banks through venal ,eo;s,.
Ilon OF the last Congress will here
ailer cost $4,000, 900 more ner
me above appears in the editoria,
columns OF the Shiawassee Green.
packer loaded, showing its endorse.
.hent OF the statement, though the
Item is credited to the 'TowaTribune D
WI, brother Pulver please give his
readers the items that make m ,h,.
little bill of $4,000 600. For one
HE ZINES is very anxious to see The
Dill OF particulars. and to know inst
wnat that yenal legislation was.
That British organ, the Detroit !
Evening News, says, "the iron trade =
IN England is more active because &c
inc increased demand from the ;,
United States on account Of ths : :
ariff," and it tells the truth. But J.,
'ou VIII look in the Evening News d,
lno elsewhere in vain for a trutb6,, =,
tatement that the American iron :,
fade is active on account Of the IL -
resent tariff. On the contrary, it is h
eng DESTROYED with fearful rapidity. pl,
no this the News understands FIJI, =,
ell, by this same activity that i ny ~
used in England by the tariff. of,
rec trade or any APPROXIMATION to il 4,
'u'd entirely destroy the iron in. h,,,
'stry OF the United States, and at on,
z same time increase the cost TO The al
nsumer OF everything made of iron or
s'oes turning large army of men t;or
OF what, under the Morrill, tariff.was are
aging business to become tramps tern
vagabonds or worse, because the wild,
JorIty OF them are totally unfit 20 enc,
age in any other paying occupa. pros
J. agriculture not excepted. its !
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-07-13

HE ZINES cannot understand why
an freshman should be a Democrat
ana we think it is one of the things
'has cannot be explained when the
tarlf is the leading issue for it is 4
TACT that he could not render his fra
oitlonal foe greater service than 70
vote Tor the free trade or British poll
cy OF the present Democratic Marty
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-07-13

S.oria Is so well adapted TO Children thu,
known 10 s u as superior to any prescSintion
" in ID. A. ARCHIE, NJ. d..
SHORTHAND Ave., Brooklyn, NY
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-07-13
for Infants and Children

Eastoria promotes Digestion
ana oyercomes F1atulency. Consf;Sa.
ION, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea and
reverlsnness. 1t insures health anJ
""'urai sleep, without morphine.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-10-13
Ladies and Tramcar Accidents.

The reason why so many children are
run over by tramcars is that these We
hicles are made to stop too often. The
driver, having to accomplish his jour
ney within a given time, quickens his
speed after every stoppage; and he can
not, like the coachmen of other car
riages, pull up his horses short or swerve
from his course. If. therefore, any per-
son trying to skip out of his way Stun
bles over the rails there is sure to be an
accident, and generally fatal one.
Ladies', we are sorry to observe, are
the greatest offenders in the matter of
inconsiderate stoppages. Men gener-
ally alight while the car is in motion,
or wait till it stops at some regular halt
ing-place; but ladies have no such deli
cacy. They seem determined to get
what they want out of the tram to the
last yard. If the ear stops within half
minutes walk of their destination they
will let it go on and stop it again sooner
than lose the benefit of that half-minute's
ride. Similarly as to getting in. A car
may have its appointed stopping place
at the corner of A Street; but
party of ladies will coolly wait for it at
the corner of B Street, not stones
throw distant, rather than put them
selves to the trouble of suiting the
drivers convenience and that of his
horses. The poor horses really deserve
some consideration, for the strain of
starting a heavy car afresh up an in
cline is most severe, and when this pro
cess has to be repeated some twenty or
thirty times, as in journey from Moor
gate Street to Highgate, one cannot
marvel that most tram horses should
have to be invalided after two years
service. On the Continent there is a
good rule that cars should not be stopped
on gradients or within hundred yards
or so of station. Graphic.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-10-13
A Peaceful Race.

All the villages round Msuata belong
principally to the Bateke men, and the
Bayansi people that one meets with are
mostly traders, and not as yet settled
in any permanent colonies. Further up
the Congo, these two races are strangely
intermixed, the villages being often
alternately of either nationality. Still,
while the Bateke seem to have their
real home and origin to the N. W.,
and toward the Ogowe, the Bayansi
come from further up the river and
border on the (so-called) savage Ban
gala of the Equator. The Bateke are
peaceful, kindly race, easily moved
to laughter and strangely susceptible to
pity. They shudder at the shedding of
blood, and exhibit a singular affection
and sympathy for animals. Moreover,
they are quite capable of approaching
beautiful flowers or fine effect of
landscape. They are not so ''smart'
and enterprising as the Bayansi, but in
many respects they are more kindly
and lovable. Some of their great
chiefs have apparently borrowed from
the Bayansi certain customs of cruel
nature, no doubt with the idea that
these practices tend to increase the
prestige of their positions and, there
fore, when a great chief dies, vary
ing number of slaves, from two to ten,
according to the extent of his power,
are killed, and their dead bodies put
into his open grave for the great man
to repose upon, and also with the idea,
doubtless, that their spirits may ac-
company him to the other world, so
that he may not join his ancestors I'M
attended. But this idea of putting in
nocent persons to death meets with
great disfavor among the populace,
and it is probable this human sacri-
fee, already very rare, will soon
cease to exist. Capital punishment is
only inflicted for grave crimes, and
perhaps hardly ever on a free man, who
may buy himself of. Slaves and
slavery is largely practiced among them
are very kindly treated, are allowed
to marry and make money for them
selves, and are often granted their lib
erty. These persons are generally of
races in the far interior, and some offer
very low types. On the other hand,
many of them belong to the great
Wabuma tribe inhabiting the lower
course of the Quango River, people
almost equal in mental and physical
development to the Bateke. The Wa
buma make a regular traffic Of their
offspring, whom they sell to their neigh
bors at aboat the ages of nine or ten,
the Bateke preferring also to buy them
at that age and rear them to maturity
because ''it comes cheaper" TSese
little Wabuma children swarm in the
Batelle villages, perfectly happy and
joining merrily in the games of their
masters families. The Bateke arc very
strict about their women, and girl is
generally only married to young man
when he can buy her outright. The
prices range from LOO brass rods to
POO or thercabouts, the women being
regularly valued and classed according
to their attractions or the want of them.
Cor. Ko0i0H Telegraph.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-10-13
Temperance Items.

ONE OF THE WORST EVILS connected
with drinking in this country arises
from the fact that many brewers are the
owners of chattle mortgages on saloons,
which. being thus "ted," are COM
PEELED to sell whatever compound may
be delivered to them for ale or beer
81 ADVISE ALL you saints and sim
pers," said Henry Dickerson, as he
stood on the trap of the Plaquemines
gallows, last Friday, mot to fool too
much with whisky. l did not kill the
man; it was whsls." Henry had to
suffer the penalty, however.-Bostom
Transcript.
A STATISTICAL RECORD of habitual
drunkards is to be kept in Prussia. All
city physicians are directed to present
TN future an exact account of the d ter
mined bibbers, by putting in the official
reports 'P'' opposite the names of
the culp1its. In this way, apparently,
the drunkards will be under the pater-
nal eye of the Government, and may be
led to redemption.
AND NOW the members of the free
whisky association of Portland begin to
pose as poor prosecuted saints, of whom
the city is taking unfair advantage.
Victims of ''fanaticism," they are COM
PEELED to take out licenses or run the
chance of paying fines which would foot
up startling total. The wonder is
that it doesn't occur to some of them to
quit business which the law, for pro-
lection of the community, must tax and
ban. - Oregonidp.
REV. EDWARD EVERETT HALE said at
the first meeting of the Harvard Tenn
perance League: 81 well remember the
severest day of my experience when, as
a reporter of daily newspaper, | re-
ported the dedication of Bunker Hill
Monument There were til reporter
at work, and we had to take down in
shorthand the Grafton of Webster, the
speeches of Faneul Hall, and the adj
dress of President Tyler, We got to
work at ten a. m, and the one best off
got done at four the next morning. OF
those who had bottles of beer to stimu-
late them not one is now alive, and not
one died an honorable death. The men
who have lived were those who stuck tn
cold water, which is the only thing for
literary man to use. Carjytiaa See
rotary.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-10-13
The Crater of Mount Tacoma.

Mount Rainier, otherwise known as
Mount Tacoma, in Washington Terri
tory, has been assembled but twice-the
first time six years ago by Hazard Ste
vens and J. H. Van Trump, and the sec
ond time only last week by Messrs.
Longmire, Van Trump, Bayley and
Ewing. They camped over night in tho
crater, amid fleecy clouds of smoke and
steam. The rocks in the crater were
so hot that they could not be touched
without burning their hands. OF all
the peaks in the Northwest, Mount Ia
coma is considered the most difficult of
ascent. A Washington Territory cor
respondent, in recent letter to the
San Francisco Chronicle, speaking on
this point, says: Two persons claim
to have scaled the mountain to the very
summit. Notwithstanding their asser-
tons, the story is very generally dis
credited. 1t is thought no human foot
has ever pressed those lofty regions of
everlasting Arctic rigor. The ascent is
considered beyond the power of human
achievement. Indians who nave lived
a great many years near the peak, and
who ought to be personally conversant
with the difficulties and perils of the
ascent, affirm that it is impossible for
any one to reach the top. The distance
is so long, the obstacles so great, and
the cold so intense, that no person,
however Injured to toll, hardship and
exposure, could accomplish the trip
and return in one day Virginia city
(NeU.) Enterprise.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-10-13
FRANZ.
A True Story.

A family whom we shall call Stein
lived in Germany near the famous river
Rhine. This was in the time of Napo-
leon. During the wars between Ger
many and France they were alternately
subject to the one or to the other country.
When the German arms were victorious
Germany claimed their allegiance;
when Napoleon carried off the victor s
crown they Immediately became French
subjects.
This unhappy state of affairs soon re-
duced the well-to-do family to extreme
poverty, making it necessary for the
white-haired father to become day
laborer in order to keep the wolf from
the door, and forcing the good woman
to turn washerwoman that she might
do her part towards keeping the tradi-
tional pot boiling. Their eldest son
Franz, bright, ambitious lad, who for
one short, happy year. had been al
lowed to attend the village school,
must needs 90 to work also, that he,
too, might "help along" Although a
cruel fate thus thrust him from the
school room, it could not bar the doors
of knowledge, and accordingly each
night found the ambitious Franz be-
side the little garnet window, when the
''moon was at the full''-for he could
afford no other light-industriously
porting over his beloved books.
One fine day when the father was
busy sowing seed, and had given Franz
a sack of seed-graln to plant, and the
lad had gone to one of the trenches to
put his seed in, the schoolmaster came
along, and, taking the father aside,
began speaking to him in a very earn
est and confidential manner. This
Franz could perceive, although he was
too far distant to overhear single
word Of the conversation. Fearing the
master had come to report some tale
detrimental to himself, which might
possibly entitle him to a thrashing -for
in those days the elders had faith in
the rod aud never failed to WELD it, be
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-10-13
sour Old Mammy.~

"What's that forP" asked a. Free
Press man, as he saw car driver on
Woodwarc Avenue take a nickel from
ms pocket and pass it into the fare-box.
''For her.
"What her?"
Inc car stopped and the driver oot
down with a Good morning. NAM
my. and assisted an old woman of
seventy to enter the car.
"Dld you pay for her?''
"Why?''
wen, the story runs back for almost
two years" he said, as he picked up
his lines. 81 reckon you know Bill
s.Yes.n
swell, two years ago he was one of
tne toughest men in Detroit He drank,
swore, gambled and had all the other
vices lying around loose. / tell you he
was terror when off duty and on a
spree. he was getting so bad on his
car that another week would have
bounced him, but something hap
pened."
''What?''
"He was coming up one evening
hall drunk and full of evil, and some,
where about Davenport Street he
lurched over the dashboard. He caught
and was dragged, and the horse began
to kick and run. That old woman there
was the only passenger on the car, and
when She saw the accident she came
:: nlhrahRed the flying lines with one
hand and the brake with the other, and
looking down upon Bill she called out:
"'Oh! Lord! help me to save him
He's wicked young man and not fit
to diep
"Well, she stopped that car and held
to the horse until some one came along
and Helped Bill out of his fix, and she
was allthe time calling him poor boy,
and my son, and thanking God he was
not killed. He had close call, though,
and it was a solemn warning. From
that night he hasn't taken drink, and
no driver on this line has cleaner
mouth OF is taking better care of him.
self"
"And the old woman?"
''She lives away out, along with q
daughter. Many's the dollar Bill has
sent after her since that night, in the
way of clothes and provisions, and he'll
never forget her. The story came to
the rest of us after awhile, and we've
sort of adopted her as Our Old Nam
my We help her on and of, pay hel
nickel out of our own pocket, and wher
the car isn't too full we have aminute'
chat with her. She likes us all, and we
wouldn't trade her off for the whole
line. It's bit of romance among our
selves, you see."
ayes. Did she ever talk to you?'
''Did she? She sat right there on
that stool one day two months ago and
/ said:
&c My son, let drink alone! 1t robs
the pocket, cheats the brain, and leaves
you friendless Don't swear! Oaths
90 with vicious soul! Keep YOU
temper. The man who can't control
his temper is no better than Gagged
| wolff
"She said that with her blue eve.
reading my soul, and her voice trem-
bling with earnestness, and every wore
went right to my heart and lodged
there. She's had something to say tc
most of the boys, and [ reckon eacl
one is the better for it. Curious, ain't
| 7ssl9w we found our old nanny, and
maybe you'll believe with some of tn,
rest of us that Providence had hand
| in IT, ~ Detroit Free Press
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-10-13
The Boy That Wears a Watch.

The boy that wears watch is an i'm
portant character. At school he is
envied and onthe street he is respected.
None of the boys grab him and throw
him down, for they might break his
time-keeper. He has way of twisting
the chain when he talks, and of looking
at his watch when he hears a railroad
train, and saying twelve-ten, or siX-five,
or eight-sixteen. The other boys stand
around and regard him with admiration.
He grows up and probably goes to col
lege with a distinguished ale, but in a
few years he pawns his watch with q
man who, as a boy. often stood around
and admired it.-BoStOR Globe.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-10-13

"A Salt Lake citizen has raised this
year fine crop of Egyptian corn on
dry and barrenland near that city, and
without the assistance of drop of water
to help it along.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-10-13

-Wanted-an English writer Of
travels who will not speak of the At
lantic Ocean as the "old herring pond. !"
AZ Y. Herald.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-10-13

"A party of campers in the Pan-han-
die (TeXas), came near being drowned
by a cloud-burst few nights ago.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-10-13
Temperance Reading.
THE TEETOTALLERS PLEDGE

THE TEETOTALLERS PLEDGE.
A pledge make
No wine to take;
Nor brandy red
That turns the head;
Nor whisky hot
That makes the sot;
Nor fiery rum
That ruins home;
Nor Will sin
BY drinking gin;
Hard cider, too,
VIII never do;
Nor brewers beer
My heart to cheer;
Nor sparkling ale
My face to pale.
To quench my thirst I'll always bring
Cold water from the well or spring;
So here | pledge perpetual hate
To all that can intoXicate.
Linton Si0nI.
Huntsville gazette., 1883-10-06
OUR STATE CAPITAL.
Society Gossip. Filling Vacancies
Among Teachers. Items OF Interest
Spicily Told.
MONTGOMERY, ALA, Oct, 2.

MONTGOMERY, ALA, Oct, 2.
Since we have two cent postage every.
body is busily writing to everybody
Therefore, you see, l am following the
fashion.
regret to oe compelled to say that our
city is yet very dull and business is almost
at stand still.
This week ushers in another "Anniver-
sary of the Old Ship Church, the ceremo.
nies in honor OF which event. now in prog
ress will probably last fifteen nights. They
have there preaching, eating and drinking,
water. and you pay from ten to twenty-five
cents Tor anything you get.
People say, and you know people will
talk, that the gentlemen at the Govern
ment building" is still trying to coax cupid
to come to his aid in some of those tender
affairs of the heart, leading to-you know.
We had an examination Sept 25th, for
colored teachers applying for the two va.
can't places in our schools-one in the
Swayne College and the other Assistant
Principalship in the Madison ST., Public
School. The examination was rigid one
but Mr. E. j. Lewis and Miss Venus Hard
away passed No. l. and were selected by
the Board to fill the two vancancies.
Among the many disappointed applicants
was one with his "Sheep Skin." He and
his diploma failing to help each other, he
got left.
By the by. Mr.. c. 0, Harris, Is proudest
man in the city. The Madame is doing
we'll, also the lively guest--a Miss Harris.
Charles been looking for o cradle.
INITIAL.
Huntsville gazette., 1883-10-06

DR.. J. L. Tucker has at last risen before
a Mobile audience to explain his real views
on the colored people. Instead of an enc
my he claims to be one of their best
friends. At another time l will notice his
address.
The colored people of Mobile had in
Hicted upon them worse slander, if possi-
BILE, than the Tucker slander, coming as it
does from source least expected. The
Editor of the Mobile Gazette makes the
following gross charge against Rev. Benz.
Burke, the venerable and honorable pastor
OF one of our largest churches, Rev. Mr..
Burke had better, instead of pomelling his
Bible so hard, pay strict obedience to the
Seventh Commandment Here is an i'm.
piled ihsult to every member of his conere
CATION. If the charge be true every mem
Der or person attending his church and
knowing what the GAzETrE says to be true.
is lost to all sense of morality. Had the
same reflection been made upon a white
clergyman and white congregation, the
neck of the individual would have been
likely to test the strength of hemp. The
sin of the Pastor seems to have been in en-
forcing the rule of his church that no mem
Der should belong to secret club or order.
think differently. but he has a right to
his views.
Mr. A. Jemison, an enterprising colored
merchant. has had telephone line run to
his place of business.
Misses E. Russell and Agnes Brunson
have returned to the city after Summering
at Beloxi, Mss, Oyus.
Mobile, Ala.
Huntsville gazette., 1883-10-06

The colored people trusted their
money in the Freedmen's Savings
Bank because they believed they were
government institutions. 1t woHld BE-
no more than evenhanded justice if
'his rich and powerful government
should pay the poor depositors the
money they lost AUdlanche.
Huntsville gazette., 1883-10-06

AFTER its very able 81 line crit
cism of Douglass Convention speech,
possibly the independent, while com
ing out daily next week may find
room in its eight columns to accom-
modate its readers by publishing that
speech, or at least synopsis Of it,
Huntsville gazette., 1883-10-06

THE State still prepares its poor
convicts for slaughter at the coal
mines. How long will the Christian
people suffer this great wrong to 60
on inviting the vengeance Of Prov
idence?
Huntsville gazette., 1883-10-06

WHEN the people begin to look
around for a man whom they can
trust, they should select one faithful
to his professed principles in sunshine
and storm, when no banners are wav-
ing or mnsic sounding. Judge men
by their deeds and not their words.