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The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-07-27
WHOLE NO. 21S
Common Council Room,
Owosso, July 23, 1883.

Regular meeting of the Common
Council of the city of Owosso.
Present, Mayor Mccormick, Clerk
Turner, Aid. Dawes, Jones, Matlock,
Wells, Frieseke, Lewis and Wolver-
ton.
Minutes of two last meetings read
and approved.
Aid. Dawes presented the follow
ing petition which was referred to
committee on grading and sidewalks.
Owosso, July 20, 1883.
To the Honorable Mayor and Coun-
Gil of the city of Owosso Whereas
the town Council of the city of
Owosso, in the year 1871, laid out
and had built a ditch commencing
on Washington street, running east
through L. and M. Osburns' lots
through to Washington street south,
thence east on Lyons lots, thence
south to King on Hershey and Lyons
lots, thence south on King street to
Oliver street, thence south to the
Shiawassee river through lands of
Williams and Laubengayer and 9TH
ers, said ditch has become filled up,
we ask that the Common Council
have the ditch surveyed and dug
out all along said lands at one and
half feet on the bottom and slope
of about As degrees and on true
slope, and bottom to take the sur
plus water of said lands, so we will
ever pray. ]. Osburn, and others.
Aid. Lewis presented the follow
ing petition which was referred to
committee on grading and sidewalks.
To the Honorable Mayor and
Common Council of the city OF
Owosso
We the undersigned, residents and
freeholders of the city of Owosso,
respectfully petition your honorable
body to cause tile drain to be laid
along the south side of Main street
commencing at the east line of Ian
sing street, running west to intersect
drain at the M. c. railroad, and your
petitioners will ever pray. NJ. Wood
and others.
The following accounts were pre-
sented and referred to committee on
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-07-27
Continued next week. }

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says: "Brown's Iron Bitters are we'll
liked by those who use them.'
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-07-27

The following is the report of the City
Marshall to the Common Council of the
sidewalks laid this year:
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-12-12
RusSia'S Enormous Deficit.

CSt Petersburg Dispatch to the London Times.l
The financial situation here is being
severely criticised. The fact is that the
state of revenue and expenditure for the
current year shows an enormous deficit
of about 100000 rubles. This, of
course, may be very much reduced by
the income of the second half of the
year, or, as the pessimists think, 1T may,
perhaps, on the contrary, be doubled,
Then there is only q sum OF about 8, 900, :
600, it appears, wherewith to pay the
$4,000, 900 interest due abroad, SO that
another loan is absolutely necessary,
MeEsrs. Raffalovitch. of Paris, assisted
by M. Sack, of st. Petersburg, have been
trying hard to negotiate a loan for sum
of 200, 600, 000f, during several months
past. They have up to the present time
been unsuccessful, or at least, If they
have concluded the matter, it Is tolera-
bly, certain that they have accepted the
money at an unusually high figure.
The loan, it is said, will have to be
issued at something like rs or 78 per
cent.-that is, rs rubles for every 100.
Had The car succeeded, as it was hoped
he would, in obtaining an interview
with the German emperor during the
visit to Denmark, there is no doubt
that the loan would have been speedily
and more favorably obtained. But as
matters turned out, the confidence of
foreign capitalists has not apparently
been increased. The price of the Rus
sian paper ruble on foreign markets has
dropped so low during the last few
weeks that there is a general outcry
here, as usual on such occasions, against
the Berlin Exchange. Should the loan
be concluded, even on more or less I'M
favorable terms, the value of the ruble
will, of course, at once go up.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-12-12

clergyman of that place annually tur-
key for Thanksgiving, and as one gener-
alton passed away, the survivors had
never failed in this pleasant remem-
brance. This year, the last one TO per-
form this duty being on visit to this
city, the minister was well nigh forgot
ten, but on being reminded while seated
at window and seeing the we'll filled
baskets delivered, message was instant
ly flashed over the wires to have that
clergyman's turkey delivered at once,
free, and fail not"
The report just issued by the New
York Tribune OF the work accomplished
during the past season in connection
with IFS fresh-air fund is full of inter
est. The receipts from 917 contribu-
tors amounted to $16, 745. 81; the ex-
penditures to $15. 908 81, leaving bal
aDce of 81 1877. Il for the operations of
next year. The sum expended in this
noble charity was less than usual,
owing to to the cool summer
and the generally healthy con-
dition of the city. Not the least
satisfactory feature In the report is the
information it carries with it that every
cent was legitimately spent in carrying
out the exact intention of the fund.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-12-12
Mysterious Disappearance.
rFrom the Hartford Post.J

from the harIIOrQ HOsJsI
1t often happens IN the transaction of
business that coins and articles of value
disappear III the most mysterious way
and no search for them, no matter how
carefully it may be made, Is rewarded
by recovery OF the missing valuable.
Many an honest man or woman Is left
under a stigma OF suspicion for months
and years by these mysterious disap-
pearances. Some time ago visit at the
paper mills In South Manchester, where
large amounts of waste paper are used
for stock, brought to light an interesting
explanation of losses of the character
spoken of. It was ascertained that the
discovery of gold coin, gold rings and
other articles of value was not an infre-
quent occurrence by the help of the
mills. One man had discovered two
finger rings, one of the number being
IN the box In which 1t had evidently
been purchased, the owners first name
being engraved on 1t, and also a gold
coin within a few months time. It
is easier to see how rings can get into
paper stock than how gold coins can get
so mlslaid. The ring may be removed
from the finger while some work IS be-
ing done, and afterwards get accident
ally dropped into lot of paper. But
gold CONS are generally watched with
greater care. An incident that occurred
IN a business ofice here d number Of
months ago viii show how even coin
can get mislaid and lost. One evening
one OF the most honest employees in the
city came into tine off 3e IN question with
his days collections. In the amount
was a So gold piece. 1t WIS laid aside
as was supposed on the counter, and the
bills were gone over and ADDED up.
Several envelopes Of letters were also on
the desk, aud being in the way were
torn up md thrown in the waste-h asket.
Subsequently the gold piece was called
for, bur could not be found anywhere.
A long search was made for it, but with
out success. Finally the waste basket
was o7erhsuled, but still no trace was
found of the missing piece of money.
As a last resort il was decided 10 pick
out each piece OF paper separately.
When this process was nearly through
with the money was discovered in bit
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-12-12
A CROOKED DETECTIVE.
The Chief Of the North Western Railway
Service Arrested.

CHICAGO, December g. Charles
Haley, who has been employed as chief
Of the North Western Railway detec.
tive service, has been arrested, charged
with compromising felony. The general
claim is made against Haley that he has
been directly connected with an organ
lied gang of monte sharps, and by Civ
ing them his official protection has
shared in the moneys obtained from
gullible travellers, and particular in
stances are cited where he shielded train
gamblers who had obtained large sums
of money by three-card monte and
other well-known confidence methods.
Haley was reputed to be worth $40, 900
to $50, 900.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-12-12
NEW DAKOTA LINES.
A Movement that will Force Extensions
of the st. Paul and North Western.

CHICAGO, December 4.-President r.
r. Gable, of the Rock Island, left for
New YORK last Saturday evening accom-
panied by Mr.. FL. FL. Porter, director
of his road, to attend meeting of the
board Of directors in that city. The fact
that Mr.. Porter accompanied Mr.. Gable
on his trip, indicates that the directors
OF the Rock Island intend to take action
regarding the proposed line from
Albert Lea to Bismarck, Oak. It is
understood that the Rock Island will
push the new line from Worthington,
Mimi, to Ordway, through Moody,
Lake, Kingsbury, Clark and Brown
Counties, Dakota, connecting at Ord
way with road to be built by a syn
dictate, headed by Mr.. 81. H.
Porter, through Mcpherson, Nc
Intosh, Logan, Emmons and Bur
leigh Counties to Bismarck. This bold
strike for northwestern territory has
been contemplated for some time by the
Rock Island, but has not taken definite
form until now. It is believed that it
will force the Milwaukee and ST. Paul
and the North Western to extend their
lines to Bismarck, Notwithstanding their
agreement not to intrench upon the ter
ritOry of the Northern Pacific.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-12-12
LAPSED LAND GRANTS.
An illinois Congressman Trying to
Rake Them In.

WASHINGTON, December s. Judge
Payson, as soon as Illinois is called,
VIII introduce bills to forfeit the follow
ing lapsed and unearned land-grants
The land-grant to the Texas Pacific
Railroad, involving 15,0U0,000 acres;
Oregon Central portland to AstOrla)
Railroad, i, 10000 acres; New Orleans
and Jackson Railroad. involving 1,000.-
600 acres, estimated; Elyton and Boards
Bluff Railroad, 100000 acres, esti-
mated; Iron Mountain ana Ar
kansas Railroad. 1,300,0 900 acres,
estimated; Memphis and Charleston
Railroad, 500, 600 acres, estimated; Sa-
vannah and Albany Railroad, 1000, 600
acres, estimated; Gulf aud Ship Island,
and Tuscaloosa and Mobile, 625, S0Oacres,
and Mobile and New Orleans, involving
1900. 900 acres, estimated; Ontonagon
and State Line, involving 142, 40; Ore
gon and California and Oregon Rail-
roads, unpatented lands, 4, 168 307; GER
tain lands OF the Northern Poetic oval
lula to Portland, etc, y 5,504, 900; Mo-
bile and Girard, 482, 421; certain lands
of the Atlantic and Pacific east of AlbU-
querque, n. NJ, and west of Majave,
CAL, unpatented lands, about l, 10000
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-12-12
TIE WRONG GIRL.
Ohio Abductors Seize Servant by
Mistake and Drop Her in Disgust.

CLEVELAND, O., December IA most
dastardly attempt was made at this place
Wednesday night to abduct prominent
young lady from her home at Belpre.
o., but the scheme fortunately failed
through mistake of the abductore.
About 8 o'clock stranger knocked at
the door of the residence of Mr.. Parker
Lewis, prominent and wealthy citizen
of the place. A servant-girl answered
the knock and was told by the stranger
that a Miss Hunter was waiting
in buggy in the street to see
her. The servant-glrl started with
the stranger, and when few feet from
the house he threw her apron over her
face, and, taking her up in his arms,
conveyed her TO the carriage, in which
there was another man, and they then
drove RAPIDLY away. When about two
miles from town one of the men asked
the girl IL her name was Lille Lewis. q
daughter of Parker Lewis, but on her
telling them that she was not they
threw her out of the buggy and made
their escape. She was picked up in on
unconscious condition by farmer, who
took her to his own home. The abduc.
tors were after Miss Lewis, and she was
only saved by the mistake of the alb
duCtors. They would probably have
wanted ransom from Lewis,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-12-12
SPORTING.

DUNnAP's salary to play with the new
st. Louis team Is said TO be So, 200, with
81, 900 paid IN advance.
Mr.. LONDON, of Canada, has bought
Lloyd Daily, a colt, by Kyrle DAILY, and
a chestnut colt by War Dance, for 81, 500
each.
EDWARD HANLAN, the champion oars
man, says that Stevenson, the San Fran
cisco sculler, is one of the best men IN
the world. The Californian stands SIX
feet three, with long reach, and weighs
about $50 pounds.
New YORK CRY can boast of six
double teams that can beat 900. These
are Edward and Dick Swiveller, Maud
s. and AIdine, Cleora and Independence,
Shepherd Knapp's bay team, Maxy Cobb
and Helene and London and COrnelia.
THE fourth competition for the six
days twelve hours daily championship
and belt presented by Sir John Ashley
(now held by George Mason) will take
place at the Drill Hall, Sheffield, Eng,
during the week commencing on the
Oath.
THE Athletics, of Philadelphia, have
secured A. w. Atkinson, the phenomen-
al young Indiana pitcher, who last
season, with picked nine at his back,
easily defeated the Indianapolis club,
who only made four hits off his dellv
cry, sixteen men striking out.
The new st. Louis club has complet-
ed its team. It consists of Taylor,
Dickerson and NJ. Marsell, of the last
years Alleghenys; Dunlap, from the
Clevelands; Shaffer, from Buffalo; Null
lane, st. Louis; J. Gleason. Louisville;
d. Rowe, BALTIMORE; and Brennan and
Woulffe of New Orleans.
Mr.. WILLIAM KLAHR, of Myerstown,
Pa, has patented an improved bicycle,
to be driven by pedals operating pawls
on rachel wheels in place Of the crank
and levec. The small wheel is In front
of the bicycle and the rider sits in front
on top of the large wheel, a position that
gives him unusual power over the drlv-
ing mechanism, the pedals being con-
siderably in advance of the hubs of the
large wheel.
The sale of thoroughbreds at Laucas-
ter, O., on the 5th, was most complete
success. Twenty-four head were sold
for S27, 525, beng an average of 81, 147.
The imported Kyrle DAILY was bought by
John Mackey, of California, for $500;
also Bonny Kate, for s., 900; Lady Md
dleton, 50, 500; Nellie Peyton, 81, 200;
Bessie Peyton, 500. The chestnut colt
WeanIing, by Kyrle DAILY, 1886. Nc
Miller, of Pickway County, paid 81, 625
for the imported stallion Champion. W.
FL. Fearing, of New York, bought i'm
ported Hurrah, foaled in 1862, for
1880; Doras. a brown mare, $3.50;
Wanculla, FLY, 81, 800; Fannie Pey-
ton, FLY, $3.50. Belle of Lancaster, q
FLY. was bought by John Hyland, for
the Preakness stable, for 81, 925.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-12-12
South African Inns.
from the London Globe. !

South African inns are proverbial for
their horrors. Sometimes the rough
ness of the food makes it difficult to
support life; sleep is nearly always only
possible by the unlimited application of
insect powder. The slaughter effected
by this valuable compound considerably
astonishes the stranger when he rises
from his bed in the morning and finds
numbers of dead insects, of which many
are worse than feas. On one occasion
last circuit, the judge and some barris-
ters, who were sleeping at farmhouse
between two villages, were literally
driven out of their beds in the middle of
the night, and spent the remaining
hours in their travelling carts. The inn
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-12-12
A VERY BAD SHOWING.
Statement of the Affairs of the Oefunot
Firm Of Culver, Page, Hoyne & Co.

New YORK, December 6.-Between
sixty and seventy gentlemen represent
ing New York and other eastern firms,
creditors of the defunot printing corpor-
alton of Culver, Page, Hoyne & Co., of
Chicago, met at the Stationers' Board OF
Trade, 80 Nassau Street, this city, yes.
terday afternoon. They had been
called together to discuss the af-
fairs of the above-named firm
and to take such steps as would enable
them, if possible, to secure something
to themselves from the general ruin
which unfortunate management had
brought upon the well-known western
stationery, printing and binding estab-
lisbment. There appeared to be gen
eral ignorance Of the actual condition of
the firm, tine impression prevailing that
the statement Of it's assets and liabilities
would show somewhat better than it act
ually did. The firms attorney submitted
a statement, of which the following is
the vital substances: Total liabilities,
1873, 1926; paid by sale of stock, fixtures,
and lease, 1877, 127.8S; paper since
taken up and which had collateral back
of it belonging to M. A. Hoyne and IL.
z. Culver, $74, 450 Is; present liza
bilities unpaid, 1856. 675.51, owed
as follows: Commercial debts, S144,-
$40 81; to Nj. A. Hoyne, money and col
laterals furnished by him, 500, O13 81;
outstanding checks, rents and taxes,
$11, 1909; total, 1886, 67551. Contin-
gent liabilities about 100000. Assets,
good Totes secured, 81, 900; real estate,
about $500; bills receivable, about 81 800.
Total, $4,000. Much surprise and in
dignation were manifested over the I'M
favorable showing, and it was decided to
hold 8 private conference in committee
on the statement.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-12-12
Parsee Funeral Ceremonies.

[From the Northwestern Christian Advocated
The funeral ceremonies of the Parsee
are a most remarkable usage. High up
on the ridge of the Malabar hill, Bonn
bay~-indeed, on one of the highest and
finest peaks, where a splendid panorama
of Bombay lies at the feet of the admir-
ing spectator, like the Bay of Naples
from the summit of Posilppo-the
Parsee community possesses beautiful
garden full Of palms and flowers. In
this cemetery stand the six dorkhmas,
or towers of silence. They are cylin-
drical. white towers, from thirty to
forty feet In diameter, and about the
same height. The inside is divided, like
an amphitheater, into three concentric
circles, subdivided by radiating walls
into a number of open chambers. Each
of these divisions holds a body, those
of children in the center, those of women
IN the second circle, and men in the
outer one. As soon as the white-robed
servants of the dead have received the
corpse which the relatives have escorted
to the cemetery, they carry it, &C.
companied by chanting priests, and
place it in one of the open graves, where
they leave it. Flocks of the sacred bird
of Ormuz-the fine brown vulture-at
once come down from where they have
been sitting on the neighboring Palmyra
palms. They fling themselves on the
body inside the rooHess tower, and in a
few minutes the whole of the flesh is
devoured. Numbers of black ravens
finished off the slender remains of their
meal. The bones are afterward col
lected in the center of the tower.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-12-12
FRIGHTFULLY MANGLED.
An EmbezzIer's Desperate Attempts to
Commit Suicide.

CINCINNATI, December GA. @.
Ayers, local ticket agent of the Cincin-
natl Northern Railroad, arrested last
night for embezzlement, made most
desperate attempt this morning in the
central station house to commit suicide.
He cut his wrists with broken glass,
sharpened a lead pencil and thrust it
deeply into his neck and then used a
pocket comb in an effort to cut his
throat. He says he did this at o'clock
this morning and then lay in the utmost
agony hoping for death. he Is young
man of good family. His friends claim
that his mind is unbalanced. His con-
dition is critical,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-12-12
Forgetting Her Own Child.
From the London St. James Gazette


Can the mother forget her child :?
From story told at the Thames Police
Court, on Saturday, it seems that she
can. The mother ID question has a son
In the royal navy. To her came a young
man asking for lodging rs a friend of
her sons, because he was sure that ''the
mother of such man must be a good
woman" The mother was favorab1y
impressed, and captivated by bis pleas
ing ways, took him in-in another sense.
Finding her SO credulous, he told her a
week later that he :" could keep up the
deception no longer-that he was him
self the lOng-absent son." Her obiec-
tons to this assertlon-that he was
shorter and darker than her son-were
explained away by the statement that a
foreign climate had changed his color
and that s. hard campaigning had pulled
him down." and when the good wo-
mans husband called her +" a fool for
not knowing her boy" she was con-
vince5. So the fatted calf was killed. A
day or two later, having obtained from
the too credulous mother the sum of ESQ,
the young man went forth and never re-
urned. Then the mother received a
etter from the genuine son, and so the
truth came out. The story is good IL
Illustration Of the old prOverb as to the
proportionate strangeness of truth and
fiction.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-12-12

of one of the envelopes which had been
torn in two. Had not the last search
been made the gold would have gone
into the paper stock and probably would
have been found in some of the mills
hereabouts, and the loser of it, though
absolutely honest, would have worried
for months over the suspicion to which
the occurrence would have subjected
hun, When gold coins are lost in offices
the waste. basket should never be over
looked In searching for il.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-12-12

PARIS, says writer in an English
Magazine, is the plainest city in Europe;
it Is without individuality or expression.
For the most part the vaunted boule-
wards are but planted with planes, the
least pleasing of trees, whose leaves pre-
sent an unvarying green till they drop
dead brown; and the horse cbestnuts In
the Champs Elysees are set in straight
lines to repeat the geometry of the
streets,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-12-12

JAMES WALTON, whose death In Eng
land at the age of 81 is announced, was a
noted inventor of cloth-weaving and
spinning machinery, and his two sons
were the inventors of linoleum hOor-cloth
and new material for the decoration of
walls and ceilings,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-12-12

keepers, moreover, have no idea of each
person having room to himself. Two,
three and four are put into the same
room, and often more than one are ex-
pected to sleep in the same bed. Baths
are lucky accidents, which turn up
sometimes, but are not by ang means to
be counted upon. Fresh butter is rarely
TO be met with, good milk is luxury,
and vegetables are scarce.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-12-12

GEN. AUGUSTUS O. DODGE, formerly
United States senator and minister to
Spain, died at Burlington, Iowa, Novem-
Der Goth, aged Y.