The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-03-21

Matt Lewis, q colored citizen or ST.
Louis, was executed Friday for killing
his wife seven years ago. lie enjoyed
one year of liberty by breaking Jail, and
has been tried four times.
The Red Cross relief steamer, Josh
Y. Throop, arrived at Paducah Wednes-
day afternoon. after distributing cloth
ing, bedding, coal and cash all the way
from Evansville down.
The New Haven Conn. Kennel Club
exhibition commenced Wednesday.
-Four hundred dogs, worth $4,000. are
present. Three are valued at 5000
each.
The Meiggs elevated railroad hill
passed by the legislature Of Massachu-
sets authorizes the building of an ex-
perimental section from Cambridge to
Boston.
An aged citizen of Lind, Wisconsin,
named Peter Vierka, who usually car
ried large sums of money on his person,
was murdered with q mallet near his
barn during Tuesday night.
A tract of six thousand acres of pine
land i'll Lincoln county, Wisconsin,
/ containing one hundred million feet of
timber, was recently sold to a Chica-
goan for 100000.
The cattle disease in Louisa county,
Iowa, has been found by DR.. Paaren to
be only the foot-rot. Fifteen head are
afflicted on the farm of j. G. Drake,
near Wapelio, and five have died with
in the past five months.
Forty prominent catholics of Du-
buque met Wednesday evening at the
residence of Bishop Hennessy, to pro-
test against the passage of the bill be-
fore the Iowa legislature to tax church
property.
Fred Douglass, although a constant
attendant on the wOman-suffrage con-
ventiOn in Washington, was quietly ig-
nored on account of his recent mar
riage, notwithstanding his bride was
always prominent in the cause.
A valise containing $4,000 obtained
ut the treasury department by Phila-
delphian was thrown by thief from a
car window at Wilmington, Delaware,
and seized by confederate. The own
er quickly pursued with revolver, and
recovered his property.
The crevasse at Carrollton, Louisiana,
has been closed. A break occurred
Tuesday morning in the Mulatto levee,
was forty feet wide and six feet deep,
Plauuemine.
Book OF Seeds.
Messrs. Hiram Sibley & Co.. of Roches-
ter. y. V, and Chicago H., will send, free
OF charge on application, to any of our read
ers, book in which is described all the test.
C. new and standard varieties of vegetable,
flower and held seeds, which is we'll worth
sending for and reading carefully.
Seed Corn Famine.
Probably nineteen farmers in twenty must
buy seed corn for next springs planting, on
account of the failure of the 'S3 crop to
ripen. We must look sharp to the seeds
that we buy, that they are better than our
own, as many unreliable parties will offer in.
ieror stocks, to take advantage of the de.
mand. We suggest that every corn grower
should send to Hiram Sibley 81 Co., the re-
liable seedsmen at Rochester. n. V, and
Chicago ILL.,, for their Catalogue and seed
corn circular. This house makes specially
of seed-corn and we believe that they will do
what they say they will.
Seeds that Talk.
Ics--seeds that talk. Can anything speak
palmer than full row of seeds, which have
forced their tiny leaves above the surface in
garden and field? They fairly shout TO us
that they are alive and can be depended up
on every time. Such are Sibley's tested
seeds, they talk right at you, and can be had
promptly by sending postal card to Hiram
Sibey Il Co., Rochester, N. y, or Chicago,
H.. for a Catalogue and price list.