Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1883-01-24

Moses Brown returned home last
Thursday from Ashland, Wisconsin,
where he had been experimenting the
construction of saw mill for +. w.
Gilchrist and others. The mill has
been completed.
The case of Fletcher VS.. Spaulding
has been reversed by the Supreme
Court. This is a part of the famous
suit by Mrs. Brown, Of Boston, to re-
cover certain property in this county
that she claims belongs to her.
Two hundred and fifty scholars in
the Tawas school, one day last week,
had to be satisfied with only two hun
dred and forty.fve seats. The teach
er will have to put out sign with
the notice thereon: standing room
only"
Rev. F. N. Barlow and wife return
ed home last week from their trip to
one of the southern States, where they
had gone OH a health recruiting tour.
We regret to state that Rev. Barlow
has not been much benefited by the
journey.
Several persons in town have lately
received a considerable allowance
from the government, or rather the
taxpayers, for services during the
rebellion, and hereafter will regularly
receive a certain amount per month
as pension.
The local of the Reporter last week
calls Gus a large majority" Well, if
the young man has been comparing
us with himself, we think he is about
right in terming us large majority"
and then we don't have anything to
brag about either.
Sheriff Denton returned home last
Wednesday night, having been but
four days in making the round trip
between Alpena and the Pontiac asy-
lum-the greater part of the way
being by stage. The sheriff knows
how to travel fast.
The official journal Of the Michigan
House of Representatives makes the
distance from Alpena to Lansing and
return as 442 miles. Only seven
Representatives have to travel further
than Hon. Geo. j. Robinson in order
to attend Legislative meetings.
Robert Rayburn, with two camps,
is reported to have been banking
about 100000 feet of logs per day,
and expects to haul to the landing
this winter, between six and seven
million feet of logs. Up to last Sat
urday he had nearly 100000 feet of
logs at the landing.
When the Albion Mirror sends us
another paper like the one they sent
us last week, we would be much
obliged if they would send transla-
tor with it. We are not able to ac-
complish the task of reading two diff
ferent impressions made on one page,
and one of them reversed.
The number of scholars at the Cen
trail school building has been increas-
ed by about fifty, as compared with
last term, and the new scholars are
mostly grown up boys who are unable
to attend school during the summer
months. No difficulty was experienced
in arranging them in suitable classes.
S. H. Davis, at Detroit, has had
the keel laid for new and large fish
tug. The dimensions of the tug are !:
Length of keel, "a feet; depth, 16
feet; beam, on deck, 20 feet; length
of boiler, II feet; diameter of boiler,
81 feet. The tug will draw about
eight feet, and be completely housed
in.
The, Cheboygan Driving Park asso-
citation claims July 4th, 9th and 9Th
as the dates for the summer trotting
meeting of the association. The races
heretofore held at this park have CIV
en- good satisfaction and we have no
doubt the races the coming summer
will prove equally interesting.-Bay
City Call.
The locomotive on the Fletcher,
Pack e. Co. railroad in the pineries,
is busily engaged at its work of draw
ing saw logs to the Upper South
Branch stream. About ten trips per
day is made and some 10000 feet of
logs are banked daily. There has
been, we understand, no attempt made
at heavy drawing.
The snow storm of last Wednesday
was the means of dumping six inches