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Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1883-08-01

On Thursday last Geo. ID. Brad
ford had in his market a beef which
showed a queer freak of nature. Mr..
Bradford had killed two year old
steer, and on dressing the animal it
was found that the fat OH one of the
kidneys was of enormous size, while
the other was about as ordinarily
found. Curiosity led to weighing the
fat, when it proved to balance the
scales at 40 pounds, after the kidney
was removed-the kidney weighing 2
pounds 2 ounces. The quarter with
the kidney of ordinary size was good
fat beef, while the quarter with the
large kidney was rather lean, showing
that the fat of that side had gone to the
kidney instead of the flesh. 1t can
be imagined what mass of fat there
must have been on that kidney, when
it is known that the tallow on the
kidney of an ordinary beef is of from
7 to 0 pounds in weight.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1883-08-01

The little steamer James Atkinson
is to be taken to Long Lake, where
it will be used as pleasure boat for
the use of the many persons patron
izing that popular pleasure resort. +.
III. Furbush has the contract of re-
moving the steamer from this city to
Long Lake and is doing the work for
A. Bosely and f. A. Davis. A steam
boat has been needed on Long Lake
for some time, and we are inclined to
the belief that the enterprise will be
well rewarded.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1883-08-01

Mrs. Hugh Hunt left town last
Monday morning, by steamer Pearl.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1883-08-01

Baby carriages, hammocks, easy
chairs, croquet sets at 80 cent store.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1883-08-01

F. S. Steele was passenger on the
City of Cleveland on her down trip
Sunday last, and returned home last
night, accompanied by Miss M. Steele.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1883-08-01

The steamer Keweenaw left port
last Saturday, on her fourth trip to
Sault st. Marie, having on board over
one hundred excursionists.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1883-08-01

Rev. A. w. Westgate left by
steamer Keweenaw yesterday.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1883-08-01

Thos. Jermain left town last Sun
day by City of Cleveland.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1883-08-01

Charley Rowley, of the Detroit
Paper Company, was in town Satur-
day.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1883-08-01

The Asch building, on Water street,
is being re-shingled.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1883-08-01

Sheriff Denton got home Saturday
last. Came up on the City of Cleve-
land.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1883-08-01

Mrs. G. Bartram came to town
by steamer Pearl, Thursday morning.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1883-08-01

The frequency of cyclones and
wind storms and the great destruction
of life and property attending them,
has created a demand for insurance
against such loss. Seage & Kelley
have arranged for such insurance, and
will issue cyclone policies in first class
companies at low rates. For first
class insurance in fire, marine, cy-
clone and accident, call on Seage q
Kelley, agents, Mcdonald & Creigh-
ton block, Alpena, Mich. 625w2.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1883-08-01

The Western Union Telegraphic
company has $40 offices in Michigan.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1883-08-01

The scow Hines unloaded 1S1 tons
of coal for the Messrs. Davis, this
week.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1883-08-01

Fine line of glass and tin ware, at
99c. store.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1883-08-01

John Ketchum is making consider
able additions to his residence on Fifth
street.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1883-08-01

Representative Geo. j. Robinson
has returned home from his trip to
Detroit.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1883-08-01

Rev. DIR. James Cooper, of Detroit,
will preach at the Baptist church next
Sunday.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1883-08-01

Fred Lincoln started on a trip to
Detroit last Monday, by steamer
Pearl
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-06-28
value Of Mauures.

In Hints to Young Gardeners the
Country Gentleman says: "Of man
ures, that Of the COW is the poorest, that
of the horse being double OF value, and
that of the hog five times that of the
horse. Hen manure, mixed with two
or three times its own bulk of muck. or
even loan, is as good as most guano
kept for sale. Ashes, leached or un-
leached, are excellent. The contents of
the closet are kept inodorous, and in an
easily workable condition, by casting
plaster on them frequently until re-
moved, and then, by adding four times
as much more of muck or loan, YOU
will have fertilizer equal to poudrette.
Bones, old boots and shoes, hog bristIes,
and all old scraps, which would other
wise lie about as nuisances and eyesores
to all who see them, may be made solu-
BILE and fit for fertilizing by burying
them in unleached ashes, with an occa-
sional light watering and stirring of the
heap, and addition of ashes, until le-
duced to proper state for pulverizing.
The pig should be supplied with all the
weeds you can gather before they seed.
and peat, muck, turf, etc., if thrown
into his yard, he will work over. and
pay for his Seeping by largely increas-
inc the amount of manure. He will
work ten or twelve loads if given to
him.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-06-28

worth the possessing is ever obtained
without paying for it, and education is
no exception. But, in the breast of ev-
cry man, however rich or however poor,
dwells the desire to give his sons and
daughters good education. With
out it they are mere straws, blown
by every shifting wind, grains of sand
beaten by every ram and swept by ey-
cry gale. With it, they are numbered
among the forces that move the world.
Education is the fountain head of
American citizenship. The day is not
far distant when it will be made sine
qua non 70 the exercise of the right of
suffrage. To neglect II is to deny one 5
patriotism. To increase the facilities
for obtaining il is to add untold posi-
bilities to the joys of every living crea-
ture, while to increase the capabilities
of obtaining higher education, to
place before every child in the land
the means to raise himself to the high
est pinacles of knowledge, is some-
thing bringing so much brightness to
the future, not only of the town but of
the county, state and nation, that it
must sweep everything before it.
There is a tide in the affairs of men
which taken at its flood leads on to
fortune etc. The important question
now to be decided is whether that time
has not arrived for this city. We be-
lieve it has.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-06-28
Feeding Sulphur.

MIR. i. S. Wright, successful Yer
mont hockmaster, gives his experience
in feeding sulphur: ~ have expert
mented with sulphur for sheep for the
last thirty years. The trouble is with
the quantity of sulphur used it is not
reasonable to think that sheep will eat
salt enough with only one-t third mixture
of sulphur to affect it in the least; if
herdmen would mix two parts of sui
phur and one of salt, it would be of
some use. My method is to put the
grain in the feed-box, and then put the
sulpher through on top of the grain,
two pounds to 100 sheep. once week,
on certain day after the sheep got
used to eating it. buy. at our drug
gist's, fifteen pounds for 81. am feed
ing 100 Cotswold lambs this winter,
which are free from ticks, and / attrib-
ute it to the use of sulphur
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-06-28
Cattle i'm Holland.

The care given the Holstein cattle in
Holland is thus described by a cores
poudent: I'm Holland the care taken
of these cattle is worthy of notice. The
farm-houses, we are told, are in COM
mon with or part of the barns. con-
structed to afford the greatest possible
comforts and convenience under the
same roof. The cattle stand on brick
floors, and back of them is deep gut
ter to catch all the excrement, and this
gutter is thoroughly cleansed. morning
and evening, with a stream of water.
AT the rear of the cows is a cord. to
which the tail of each COW is attached.
SO that when she lies down it is sus-
pended beyond the reach of dirt. The
feeding and watering is done with per-
feet regularity. and the whole treat
ment is characterized by the greatest
Kindness and most tender care, which
has its effect in the amount of milk pro-
duced and the producing of docile
and intelligent race of cattle. The
stables are wei built and warm. In
the pasture they are often clothed with
a light blanket, which keeps off the flies
and protects them from frogs at night.
The droppings are gone over every few
days. and scattered evenly about; and
this with the peculiar, humid atmos-
phere, has, no doubt, great deal to do
with their wonderfully luxuriaut past
ures. In reading of the great care be-
slowed on them in their native country,
some doubt as to their ability to endure
the climate might arise; but it is found
that the range of temperature in Hol-
land IS as great as here, and further.
from the many herds which have been
established in all parts of this country.
with uniform success, is found the best
answer as to their adaptability and
hardness. Y
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-06-28

In the course of letter TO the New
York Sun, denouncing the "persecu-
tons of which he has been made the
alleged victim, Mr.. Dorsey assumes
that said prosecutions have long been
detested "by every free and honest
man in the country" Either the
gentleman has been seriously misled
in regard to public opinion, or his
standard of honesty differs materially
from that held by the majority of his
fellow citizens. If the senator accepts
the voice of crowd of whiskey soaked
Washington bummers, crazed over the
free liquor furnished for their parched
throats by the great acquitted, for the
voice of public opinion throughout the
country, he is laboring under a serious
misapprehension of facts. In the minds
of the vast majority of people, Dorsey,
Brady ct al, occupy the same position
to-day that they have all along. Not
withstanding Mr.. Dorsey's hearty eulo-
GUM Of the twelve honest men who said
to him and his brother conspirators,
go and steal some more, the impress
sion will remain the old Scotch YER
diet of not proven will the nearer fit
the exact status of the case. If the
ex-senator is possessed with the idea
that he can win public opinion by such
assumptions, he is committing another
grevious mistake II will not assist him
any to cast himself in the title role in
the play of persecution; his interests
can best be subserved by n quiet
place among the ranks Of the super
numaries, the farther back the better
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-06-28
A Hitch in the Ceremony.

A few days ago a stock-dealer from
Flora, H., arrived in this city with q
couple of carloads of stock, which he
disposed CT to good advantage. While
down about the Ohio and Mississippi
depot, over which road his stock had ar
rived, a pair of bunko sharks sized him
up, and concluded he was just the man
they were looking for, and that they
would turn an honest penny or SO by
bunkoing the sucker So No. / APP
preached him and said, in the most
cordial manner possible, at the same
time holding out his hand: 'sWhy, how
do You do, Mr. Blackp When did you
get here?"
The stock-dealer said to the nice
young man: 81 guess you are mistaken.
My name isn't Black, but Joe Brown,
and I'm from Flora, Ill. / came here
and sold out to-day and made a little
money!
"Oh,n said the nice young man,
''you must excuse me. | thought you
were an old friend of mine by the name
of Black who lives at Indianapolis.
mo harm done, mister" said the
stockman, as lie turned around and
started up the street.
He had not gone more than coupl e
of blocks, however, before nice young
man No, 2 came up all smiles, held out
his hand, and shaking hands, said
''Why, I'm real glad to see you, Mr.
Brown. When did you leave Flora, and
how is father?"
Said Brown, looking the nice young
man over from head to feet: 81 left
Flora a ouple of days ago and brought
some stock to the city, but I'll be gosh
darned if can tell you how your pap is
for don't know him.
'Don't know my father in Flora
said the slick young man; "why he S
president of the First National bank
there; you most certainly know John
Thompson.
s'Oh, ho, SO you say John Thompson,
president of the First National bank
at Flora, is your pap"
eyes do" said the nice young man,
all smiles.
"Well, then, il that the case, know
your pap, you bet your bottom dollar
do. have known him all my life;
but see here, if John Thompson is your
pap, who in the h II is your nanny,
for old John was never married"
The nice young man suddenly left.
Cincinnati Enquirer
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-06-28
A Natural Mistake.

Sad case, that of Tompkins, which
was sympathetically whispered about
among his friends yesterday and gained
the tribute of sigh from all who
heard it. He is person of somewhat
conyivial practices and has been out to
the West Indies all winter, where, as
report goes, he had time which for
once seemed almost too jolly. When
he started for home he didn't feel well
at all, but he had hopes that the sea
voyage would bring him around all
right, and in fact when he reached
New York he felt great deal better
On arriving in Boston he met friend,
with whom he drank to his happy re-
turn and then started out for stroll.
Presently they encountered a young
woman who had hideous cast-iron
spider fastened on her cloak and Temp
kin's friend noticed that he shot an I'M
easy glance at it. Soon after they met
a second, who had a frightfully loath-
some beetle in the lace at her throat,
and presently a third, about whose hat
was twined a lizard a foot and half
long. Tompkins' trepidatlon visibly
increased at these unwholesome sights,
but he shook it off as well as he could
and had about recovered himself, when
he broke out into scream: Look
at that snake ON that woman's ankle
who is getting into the horse-car!
Great Cesar, I've got 'em again. and
rushed for doctor. In the ignorance
born of his protracted exile, he did not
know that the prevailing feminine taste
is toward reptiles and noxious insects,
which they not only wear upon their
outer garments, but utilize in the en-
brolderies upon their hosiery.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-06-28
Coming West.

Gen. Sherman is making his farewell
tour of the frontier forts, preparatory
to turning over his office to Gen. Sheri-
dan in November next. After his re-
tirement Gen. Sherman will take ND
his residence in st. Louis, in order to
escape the hollowness. hypocrisy and
snobbery of Washington society. AS
the major portion of the division which
he led so VIGOROUSLY to the sea, came
from the west, and the great majority
of his old comrades are located here, it
is eminently fit that the old general
should pass the declining years of his
life in their midst. The body guard of
sixty thousand, which escorted him
down through Georgia, have had their
ranks sadly decimated by the grim
reaper, but the roll has been increased
by the names of their children, who
share the love and generation of the
parents for the bluff old chieftain.
Surrounded by these it is to be hoped
that the remaining days of the beloved
General will be as pleasant and peace
full as the earlier years were stormy and
exciting.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-06-28
A Curious Story or Gen. Burnside.

The General was native of Indiana,
and was entered as Cadet at West
Point from that State. He was gradu-
ated in the class of 1847; went to Mexi-
co and joined the army under Scott,
then engaged in "conquering peace"
from that country. After the success
full close of the war he was granted a
furlough, and visited his family, resid-
ing at Liberty, Union county. while
at home on previous visit" says Mai.
Ben. Perley Poore, "Lieut. Burnside
had made many acquaintance in the
neighboring town of Hamilton, Ohio.
Among them was o Kentucky belle.
who united to the vivacity of the North
the soft and languid style of the South.
She was highly educated. and her in
dustry in acquiring knowledge was
only surpassed by her conversational
power to impart it to others. The
young officer was dazzled by her per-
sonal beauty and accomplishment
charmed by her affability and bewitched
by her destinations. Offering his hand.
it was accepted; the necessary license
was procured, and on the appointed
day for the nuptials the young people
stood up before clergyman to be
joined in wedlock. Asked whether he
would take the woman to be his welded
wife, etc, Burnside responded affirma-
lively; but when the question was put
to her, whether she would take him for
husband, etc, she said No. and could
not be prevailed upon to change her
mind. A few years afterward distin-
guished Ohio lawyer obtained from the
same Lady promise to marry him, and
the wedding day was fixed. He had
heard of Burnside's humiliation. and on
their way to church exhibited re-
volyer and admonished her that she
would return either his wife or a
corpse. When the important question
was propounded she promptly replied
whether from love or fear-'I fciH.
and made most devoted wife.
by curious coincidence, when Gen.
Burnside was in command of the Mill
tary District of the Ohio, the lady's
mother and sister were arrested as they
were about to go South, CARRYING cor
respondence and articles contraband OF
war on their persons. The General
ordered them to be sent through the
lines, and the husband Of his former
lady-love had hard work to obtain from
President Lincoln permission for them
to return home"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-06-28
Close Planting.

Every farmer must know that to pro-
duce the heaviest possible crop a Ger
tain number of stalks must be upon
the ground. 1t is often observed that
the great sin of American agriculture
is too thin sowing. Grass is nearly al
ways sowed too thin, and the same is
true of small grain. In England they
SOW four and five, and sometimes six,
bushels of oats to the acre; in this coun-
try generally not more than bushel or
a bnshel and half. Hence in Eng
land they yield three or four times as
heavy as in this country; while in this
country we never hear of an extraor-
binary crop where less than three or
four bushels to the acre are sown.
Now, we venture to affirm that no
very large corn crop was ever grown
unless it was planted more than usually
thick. In the crop of George w. Will
liams, of Bourbon county, KY, the
corn was planted in rows two feet apart
with stalk every foot in the rows.
This crop produced 167 bushels to the
acre. Yet there is another advantage
of close planting. The corn very soon
becomes so dense that the ground is
shaded, and the growth of the grass is
prevented and the moisture retained in
the soil. BY this method of cultiya-
ton no grass is ever allowed to absorb
the moisture from the earth, or to take
up the nutritious gases which ought to
be appropriated exclusively to the corn.
-ET.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-06-28
French Justice.

The French authorities have way of
answering the question, IAN ! my
brothers keeper" in the affirmative,
which is exceedingly uncomfortable to
schemers of all kinds, be they patrician
or pleibian. Some time ago the Mar
quis de Rays, shrewd nohleman, to-
gether with others, conceived the
scheme of filling their pockets by the
sale of imaginary land on an island in
the Pacific, to would be emigrants.
Their plans succeeded admirably, the
responses to their inticing circulars were
numerous and four ship-loads were sent
in old sailing vessels, 50 poorly provided
that most of the unfortunate wretcnes
died on the passage and, such as sur
vived persisted from hunger and disease
on their arrival. Now the noble Mar
quis and his companions in the outrage
Gus transaction are brought before the
court charged with manslaughter, and
with prospective prison term staring
them in the face.
In America, with its accommodating
ways, the outcome would have been
entirely different. Ii some inqusitive
newspaper man had drop ped on to the
matter ii might have made sensation
for nine days wonder and possibly the
confederates might have been called
upon to answer in court for their mis-
deeds, but skilled attorney would have
been at their elbow, ready for certain
dividend of their ill-gotten gains to con-
vince court and honest jury that his
clients were the noblest of philanthro-
pists, whose schemes for the ameliora-
tion Of mankind had gone wrong; simply
this and nothing more. The tilted
criminal would have stepped down
from the felon's dock a tree man and
with sufficient advertising to give him
good start in some other roguery of 8
like philanthropic character.
1t cannot be denied that in some
things those effete civilizations of the
old country lead us several laps TO tie
mile
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-06-28
A Curious Case.

For the past twenty years. the city of
Watertown, in this state, has been
lodging the United States Marshal.
Judgments, one after another, have
been fired at it; but when the Marshal
arrived, the city, or its corporate repre-
sentatives. was not there. The cause
of this agility dated back some years
before the dodging process commenced.
1t had its inception in that feeling which
is characteristic Of all new countries that
believe proper state Of development
can never he arrived Mt except through
n railroad, and thcfore load themselves
down with bonds in order TO assist the
appearance of what, in most cases at
that early day. proved misery in the
first degree.
In the year 1858, the city OF Water
town voted $4,000 dollars in bonds to
the Milwaukee & Watertown Railway.
Iater on it voted an additional $500.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-06-28
Increase Of Speed in the Last Decade.

The increase of speed in American
trotting horses during the last decade,
due to careful selection and breeding,
has been remarkable. According to the
record, it is found that, while in 1871
there were ninety-nine horses that could
trot in 2:27 there was only one that
could make a mile in 2:17. In 1875
there were five horses who could do this,
and in 1880 fourteen. But additional
speed was obtained; for beginning with
1874, there was one horse that could
trot in 2:15, two horses in 1877 that ac-
complished this, and in 1880 this num-
Der was increased to six, and overtop-
ping that, one animal that made her
mile in 2:11. About two seconds to the
mile have been gained by the trotting
horse in every three years since 1871,
and it is believed that the fastest horse
of 1890 win trot his or her mile in about
2:0S. ''R go
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-06-28

background of half-forgotten field and
me officers. 1t has ever been the fate
OF the private soldier. Napoleon is
dead and all his marshals are dead.
But the private soldier who fought nm
der the Little Corporal at Waterloo,
Is ne not found in every state? The
Iron Duke is dead, but does not the
last surviving soldier of 1.-The Guards
die some place nearly every month?
washington is dead, but his body SER
yant. is not his name Legion, of Legion
oountys And SO some day the last gen.
eral who fought in the war of the re-
beilion will pass away, the final colonel,
much against his win, must die. Mai.
ors and captains will join the innum-
cradle caravan, but the last surviving
private soldier of every regiment that
fought anywhere will never leave us,
but will live embalmed in the peren-
NAL paragraph: It'll suns shall rise
and set no more.