The times., 1884-12-19
Pay your taxes.
Christmas next week Thursday.

Pay your taxes this month and
save three per cent.
Hon. Rosselas Reid, OF Vernon,
who has been seriously sick at Fort
Worth, Texas, is convalescent.
More new street lamps are i'm
peratively demanded. Will the city
fathers heed the demand.
A dance will be given at Palmer's
Hall. Bennington, on Dee. asth by
Rose & Pate. Tickets including
supper $r.oo, fine time is expected.
1t is the opinion of The TIMES
that the best interest of the city will
be subserved by rendering reception
dinner to the editors who are expect
here on the goth inst, and we hope
arrangements will be made.
The department at Washington has
been petitioned to establish a post
Office at Altenburg's on the T., A. A.
& N. M. r. r., with Henry Smith as
P. M.
You make money when you save it
by buying your necessaries and lux
uries at bottom prices. You can al
ways do that of the men who adver-
tise literally. Hence before making
your Christmas selections do not fail
to consult our advertising columns.
The exhibition of Santa Claus
goods at The Famous is simply won
derful, and the prices astonishingly
low. See advertisement.
Send THE TIMES for 1885 to some
Of your friends. 1t is the represen-
tative paper in Owosso, wide awake
and up to the times on all the live
issues effecting the local interest of
Owosso and Shiawassee county.
Osborn Bros. tell the people in
this issue all about their holiday
goods. They have an elegant line,
and bargains can be had there.
Charles, son of E. M. Burgess, of
the west side, died of diph,heria on
Tuesday evening.
The Michigan Central and the d.,
G.. H. & M. railways are now selling
tickets from Owosso to New Orleans
and return, good for 40 days, for
sas.
Again we urge upon our people to
second the untiring efforts OF the
Board of Health to stamp out diph-
iberia. A little care nozo may save a
sight OF suffering and sorrow.
lust too late TO notice it last week
we learned that Morris Osburn, Esq ,
had been rendered the u. S. Consul
ate at Auckland, New Zealand, at
81, 500 year. 1t was most emphat-
ically an appointment fit to be made,
and we regret to learn that owing to
the distance it would call him from
his other business interests and the
political uncertainties of the future,
he has felt compelled to decline the
proffered honor.
Manager Horsman has secured
Carlos Albert, the "Ionia Wonder
to appear here Jan. I'D. Albert is
now an inmate at the prison in this
city, from which he will be liberated
on the roth inst, after having salts
fed four years sentence. BY good
conduct and conviction on the part
of the prison officials that he had re-
formed, he was made discharging
clerk. The spare time that was al.
lotted him he devoted to perfecting
himself in feats of legerdemain and
magic, SO that now, those who have
seen his performances, say his illu
sions are perfectly wonderful. Friends
of his, anxious to see him succeed
after his liberation, have invested
$4,000 in the finest magical apparatus
manufactured, with which he is to be
put upon the road. In addition te
his magical entertainment, he vii
present some novel and original il
lusions in electricity, showing to wha
large extent that element can bt
used to practice upon the credulit,
of the people. Furthermore, a move
feature will be added to his program
being simply an exposure of crime
and the methods resorted to by Grim