The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-03-28

College on Thursday voted to concur in
the vote TO abolish the prOfessOrship of
ancient, patriotic and modern Greek,
established in 1860.
1t is rumored that the Rock Island
road has purchased the James River
line in Dakota, which has been graded
for one hundred miles between James
town and Columbia. ..
] Charles Barrett, of Ashburnham.
Mass, having outlived the mortality
table of o life insurance company, was
sent check for his policy and the div
idend for the year.
Henry Hicks, color-bearer fort he 18th
Wisconsin volunteers, died at Palmyra.
Thursday. Col. Norman Curtis, the
Oldest Freemason in Illinois. passed
away at Rockford.
The governor of Illinois has been adj
vised that twenty-four head of horses
and mules at Shannon, Carroll county,
are afflicted with CHAMBERS, and that
several others have died.
The Canadian house of commons has
passed bill to enable the Grand Trunk
road to lay double track from Mon
treal to Toronto and amalgamate with
the Great Western road.
The Mississippi ut New Orleans is
one inch higher than was ever before
known. All the levees OH the Louis
lana side between Vicksburg and
Matches have given away.
The democrats of Rhode Island NOM
mated George II. Corliss for governor,
but he promptly declined the honor.
Amasa Sprague had twenty-six sup
porters in the convention.
A fnI,
claims that by prayer and the laying on
gia, asthma, and cerebro-spinal disease
have been completely cured.
George M. Riley, a pilot at st. Louis,
who for years had refused to support
his family, shot his wife five times and
then blew out his brains. Eve small
children are left to charity.
Samuel M. Dixon, attorney for the
n Northwestern road, has been nOmina-
ted for mayor of Milwaukee by the
democrats. John Rugee claims to have
carried the republican primaries.
Augustus Schell, prominent in bust
ness and political circles in New York
for many years, but of late in impaired
health, has reached point where there
is little hope for his recovery.
The stockholders of the Chicago and
Eastern Illinois road will in May vote
on proposition to issue $1,000 900 in
consolidated bonds with which to can
Gel all outstanding Indebtedness.
III. j. Blythe, an attorney of Law
renee Kansas, has proved his relation
ship to gentleman in San Francisco
who died without making will and
left an estate valued at $4,0OO,0O0.
A defalcation OF $4,000 by VIM. G.
Morgan caused the dissolution of his
banking firm at Hartford, and civil
suit for the recovery Of the deficit has
been brought by the other partners.
G. u. Huntington is said to have Sc
cured controlling interest in the Ore
gon Railway and Navigation company,
and has been heard to boast that he
controls every mile of Pacific coast rail-
way.
Levees along the Louisiana shores
are reported broken at Buckridge,
Point Pleasant, Shipbayou and Fair
view. The latter cost $4,000, and it
is believed to have been cut by timber
men.
The police of Boston captured fifteen
members Of gang of thieves ranging
from II to 16 years of age. Their meet
ing-place was an old cellar, and they
had almost perfected distinct Ian
guage.
Charles Cleaves,a member of a chari-
vari party at Coleman, Mich, was kill
ed with a shotgun by an old man
named Van Valkenburg, who was dis
turbed at midnight by the deafening
racket.
On complaint of the Baltimore and
Ohio road as to cut rates, Commissioners
Fink has ordered q reduction to 20
cents per hundred pounds on pig lead
and bullion bars from Chicago to New
York.
Godfrey WeitZel, whom General But
Ter promoted from lieutenant to briga-
der general at New Orleans, and who
since the war has been lieutenant colo
mel in the engineer corps, died We'd
nesday.
Frank l.. Chamberlain, of Cleveland.
has perfected machine capable OF
charging fifteen hundred sh0t-guns per
hour. A company to manufacture the
invention was formed with capital
of $250,000.
Colonel j. ID. Watson on Wednesday
completed his term of service in the
Ohio penitentiary for offering brides to
legislators, and at once went to work in
the lobby for the Cincinnati belt-rail-
road scheme.
Hon. David j. Brewer, Of Kansas,
has been appointed judge of the Eighth
circuit, to succeed Judge McCrary.
He was born in Asia Minor, where his
father was missionary. and he is a
nephew of David Dudley Field.
Robert Hill, judge of election in
Chicago, last spring, refused to allow a
challenger to enter the room where the
votes were being counted, for which
offense he has just been sentenced to
six months in jail and fined $500.
A sanitary inspector and squad OF po-
lice in New York made sudden raid
on wagons carrying meat across the
Hudson from New Jersey, and confis-
Gated $50 carcasses of bob calves,
which were sent to the offal dock.
Lorenzo ID. Bean. Il respected farmer
of Spring ArbOr, Michigan, has become
insane from investigating the Crouch
murder case. On Friday he sat in q
buggy. with a rope around his neck,
galloping his horse through the streets.
The Kansas house, in maturing. a
cattle law, is mainly discussing the
amount of compensation to be made to
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