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The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-09-05

every face, that seems to be born with
every babe, should be the only char
acteristic expression one remarks
among the people here! -
When the watchers of the dikes see
danger, the alarm-bell is rung, and
every soul either flies 10 the bikes for
safely. or to hclpthe gangs of workers
TO stop the threatened breach. All
was calm enough ut that moment. the
tide was far out, and yet the village
seemed far below its level. The cottage
window lights were twinkling in the
gloom rs evening was just coming on.
The church-bell was tolling for even
ing service. and the warm glow of sun
set just touched the top of its tower.
Through the tall lancct-windows one
could see flush of warm lamp-light
within. All sounds and sights were of
peace and calm, and yet there some
how came upon the Imagination the
grim reverse of the pictures; the clang-
ing alarm-bell, the hurrying TO and fro,
the wild fight for safety from the mad,
hungry sea. We were feeling deadly
oppressed by the prevailing Serious
ness of the place. George III. B1ughtoa,
IN Uarncr's Magazine. ...U
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-09-05
Black Skin and Golden Curls.


A dispatch from Cleveland, Ohio,
says: 1.-THE strange sight of girl with
golden curls reaching nearly to her
waist, and yet with skin as black as eb-
ony, was presented in this city Mon
day. This freak of nature Is the only
child of a family named Lorgan, resi-
dents of Philadelphia until within a
short time. She was noted for her
beauty. and moved in tho best circles
of society. 1t was finally discovered
that for some time she had been hab-
itual arsenic eater. and steps were tax
en- to overcome the habit Shortly .af-
ter she became seriously iii, and for
long time her life was despaired Of.
Upon her recovery yellow spots began
to show themselves on her face, and
these rapidly extended and grew dark
or until she became as black rs an
Ethiopian. The skin on the body not
exposed to the air, however, remains
yellow. The. case battles the physi-
clans, and she was taken to the Hot
Springs of Arkansas by her dirtsacted
parents, but all to no purpose. The
young lady is otherwise in good health,
but is morbidly sensitive, and has iso-
lated herself from the world, refusing
to see even her most intimate friends. T"
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-09-05
Healthfulness of Natural Gas.

Some of the papers persist in speak
ing of natural gas as being poisonous,
and that the wasting of it in the atmos-
phere vitiates the air we breathe. Its
gravity is only half that of the air, and
consequently it must ascend with great
velocity to higher strata-where, even
if it were poisonous, it would do no
harm. The mistake originates, think.
in confounding it with ''choke-damp,"
or carbonic acid gas, sometimes found
in the bottom of wells or illy-ventilated
coal pits, where it hugs the floor close
ly, being heavier than mir. Such gas
produces asphyx ia in the course of a
few minutes. Natural gas is the Sire
damp" of mines which floats over the
miners heads and can be inhaled with
comparative impunity. 1t is composed
of IS per cent. hydrogen gas. mixed
with various proportions of olifine va
pors. differing, of course. in different
localities. In but few instances is
carbonic oxide. which is deadly poison,
found in it, aud so far only in almost
inappreciable volume-lcss than l per
cent.-Pittsburg Dispatch. .,-5
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-09-05
Willing To Sell Him.

A Louisville physician has a pet
monkey, Jocko, which always took
great delight in watching the ladies
painting and powdering their faces,
says the Times of that city. One Sum
day after the family had gone to
church. Jocko got a can of green paint
and brush, hoped into the dressing
bureau and painted himself from head
to tail. The DOCTORS wife, who thinks
q great deal of the pet, got q pint Of
turpentine and tried to wash the paint
of. He stood the operation heroically
until the turpentine began to soak into
his hide. Then, with one wild bound
and horrible screech, he sprang
about fifteen feet in the air and struck
on the kitchen roof, over chimney tops,
along telegraph wires, down q pole
and went tearing around the block as
though pursued by cyclone. Return
ing to tho house he made war upon the
doctor, for whom by the way, he hasn't
much love, and before the contest end
ed the DOCTORS hand was badly lacer-
ated. The doctor offers $25 to anybody
who will steal the monkey. ~"
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-09-05
rcacning.

o.
b The tenth census shows, for instance,
that there are in this country "a, 69S,i or
in round numbers $4,000 clergymen.
Suppose, for the sake of illustration,
that each one breaches but two sermons
a week, which is perhaps rather below
than above the average, and we shall
have in the course of a single year q
total of 6.760. 600 sermons. Further,
suppose each sermon of only thirty
minutes duration, also perhaps less
than the average length, and at the
rate of hundred words q minute,
each sermon will have about 5000
words or twelve book pages each OF
$50 words, and all the sermons preach
ed every year will give total in print
ed matter of 81, 100000 book pages, or
1862, 22O volumes of 500 pages each,
while if an average congregation OF
fifty listen to one sermon, total OF
100000 worshipers is presented at q
single scrvice.-St LouiS Globe Demo
c1.Uf 100
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-09-05
Still There.

You in the hammock; and ]. nenr by,
Was trying to read, and TO swing you, too;
And the green OF the sward was SO Kind to
the eye. ~ Elk Nm fH -
And the Shade OF the naples so cool and
blue.
That often looked from the book to you
To say as much, with sigh.
You in the hammock. The book we'd
brought
From the parlor-to rend in the open air
Something of love and of Launcelot
And Guinevere. believe. was there
But the afternoon IL was still more fair
Than the poem was, thought. fsl
You in the hammock; and on and on
droned and droned through the rhythmic
stuff,
But always with half OF my vision gone
a. Over the top OF the paHe-enough
10 caressingly g, zeat you, swathed In the
.s 1uH w. - 49, ..fs.' -. Nlsaas
or your hair and your odorous lawn"
You in the hammock-and that was year
Fully ayearago, guess
And what do wecare for their Guineverc
And her Launcelot and their lordlinesfI-
You i'm the hammock still, and-yes-
Kiss me again, my dear! -.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-09-05
THE DIKES OF HOLLAND.
An Incessant Toll and Vigilance by
5000 Which Safety is Secured.

Skirting along the bikes we had q
good opportunity of seeing some of the
incessant toll, some of the constant
engineering and battling with the sea
to keep it at anything like safe dis
tance. The dikes about this island
are, perhaps, the finest, the most con-
stantly guarded in all the country.
The dikc-workcrs are distinct class
guild, in fact, jealous of their craft
and its rights and privileges. 1t is
not the first conner who may be regu-
lar dikc-worker, even if he should wish
to be. We saw great gangs OF them
going from point TO point with pick and
shovel, ever on the lookout for weak
spots in the great embankment, ever
refacing it with miles of concrete. and
strengthening every point with strong
groins running into the sea.
1t was almost pathetic to note with
what solicitude every blade of the
binding bent-grass was coaxed to
grow. Every little tuft was watched
and tended as if it was some choice
tulip. The top of the dixie formed q
level, firm road, stretching away for
miles. The sea looked so mild, and
gay, and innocent as it gently Tapped
the edges of the mighty barriers, that
it seemed On effort to fancy it an enemy
capable of mischief. The breezes were
simply delicious and fresh, coming
over the wide North Sea. Inland, the
scenery was fiat, and grim, and seri-
Gus. Farmsteads in the far distance
looked green and fat enough. Sheep
and kline were plentiful about the rich
fields. just over the edge of the dikes
were the little scattered hamlets of the
fisher-people and poldermen: the dixie
workers lived more of ~ rowing life,
camping out here and there, as their
work called them from one point to
another. Sometimes the wind had
blown up and the seas tossed up great
long meandering mounds of sand,
helping to back and strengthen the
dikes. On these billowy hillocks the
grass was carefully planted in little
regular tufts, and stunted pines were
set wherever the tempest would spare
them to grow. All sorts of binding
vegetation were carefully protected.
The very children knew enough to let
it alone.
We stopped atZoutland. and climbed
to the, top of the dunes to look about
JUS and sniff tho sea- breeze. Down far
below us lay the%village4so far, that
had the waters swept over the rim of
the sandy dixie. the sea would have
only reached its level when it played
about the, tail of sthe weather-cock on
the gray old church-towersaA There are
watchers ever on the lookout, day and
night calm and storm. No wonder
that the set. anxious look one sees on
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-09-05
POlygamous Economics.

The private home routine of po-
lygamous family is q matter upon
which SO much curiosity is constantly
expressed by my acquaintance that I
venture to say here what little know;
but the reader must remember that
less than 10 per cent. of the voting
Mormon population of Utah are polyga-
mists. ,', e tV.
The polygamist, as o rule, has accu-
mulated some property and owns q
house before he takes q second and
successive wives, though sometimes he
begins by marrying two or three at
once. All of these marriages, how
ever, except the first, are made secret
ly by the church, and no record OF
them is accessible.
In the city, at least, it is seldom that
the different wives share the same
quarters. In the country this is not so
uncommon, but the natural unpleasant
ness follows in most cases. The gen.
eral method is to have large house,
the main part of which, perhaps, is
occupied by the first wife. and wings or
additions by the successive candidates
for marital honors. These large,
Struggling, hotel-like houses are COM
mon in Salt Lake City, and mark q
difference between it and a town of
small houses like Cheyenne, and most
other western villages. In many cases,
however, the husband setsup his wives
in separate homes, either side by side
or in different parts of the city. In
any case each has her own Kitchen
garden. have in mind a wealthy dig
nitary Of the church whom you might
easily have mistaken for the late Peter
Cooper and who is possessed of seven
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-09-05
The Cigarette.

1t is said that the cigarette is COM
paratiyely new in its popularity, and
that prior to 1876, the centennial year,
it was very little affected by the Amer
lean smoker. Since then its consump.
ton has increased wonderfully. In
1876 the number of cigarettes manu-.
featured in the United States were
So. 0o0, 000-an Increase of 800 per cent
over the amount manufactured in any
previous year. Last year the number
manufactured exceeded 100000. 900.
OF this number 40, 600. 900 werer ex.
ported. and the remainder consumed
in this country. The revenue derived
by the government from this source
was $3.50, coo. IRichmonq State.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-09-05
Bad Luck to Move q Cat.

b., An Englishman named Jackson APP
peared to the superintendent of Castle
Garden the other day for free passage
back to his native land. He carried q
small square box under his arm and in
it cat, and this is what he is reported
to have said to the superintendent:
"She is the only friend have. We
have been companions for the last six
years. / have always encountered
hard luck. About four months ago
decided to come to America, thinking
to better my condition. Well, would
you believe it, spent my last penny
in buying my passage. Il was penni-
less the day ,I landed. l have not
handled one cent of money since then.
l have travelled all over the country. 1
could get no work. l have lived rs a
campaigning or stealing my meals
wherever / could. My poor cat here
has been my only companion. She has
shared my sorrows" This melancholy
story will strengthen the superstition
that tits bad, luck to move cat. 81.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-09-05
I'M PORTANT.

When you visit or leave New York CITY save Bag
gage Expressage and Carriage Hire and stop at the
Grand Union Hotel opposite Grand Central Depot.
Elegant rooms htted up at cost of million
dollars, reduced to 81 and upwards per day. Euro
pean plan. Elevator. Restaurant supplied with
the best Horse cars, stages and elevated railroad
to all depots. Families can live better for less
money at the Grant Union Hotel than at any ether
frst-class hotel in the city.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-09-05
LAKE SUPERIOR TRANSIT COM
PANY!
THE GREAT DULUTH ROUTE.

THE GREAT DULUTH ROUTE
Intended sailing of steamers from Detroit for
Saut Ste. Marie and other Lake Superior ports:
Mondays. Tuesdays. Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fri
days and Saturdays, II pm.
For Cleveland, Erie and Buffao Sundays. Mon
days, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays at PM,
making railroad connections for points East and
South. Rail connections at Washburn and Duluth
for st. Paul, Minneapolis, Pacific coast and other
points on Northern Pacific R.R., Manitoba &C.
Baggage checked to destination. ' -
For tickets and other information apply to J. 7,
WHITING, Gen1 Ag't. Dock and office at Brady
IL Co.'s warehouse, foot of Woodward avenue
Detroit, Mich.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-09-05
Detroit, Grand Haven
& milwaukee Ry.
GOING EAST

+, GOING EAST
Trains leave Owosso as follows: Detroit
Express. $3.50 a. m; Through Mail, 1:i5 d. m; ;
Steamboat Express, 6:55 D. M; Atlantic Ex-
press, 1850 am.
ID. GOING WEST.
Morning Express, 1902 am; Through Mail
LAS p M; Grand Rapids Express, 40 PM:
Night Express, 1850 a. M; Mixed, G:00a IN.
Mixed from the West T:10 p. m.
Refreshments at Detroit Owosso and Grand
Haven. Mail east and west has parlor day car
attached. The Telegraph Line for the Public.
,Ss- Through Sleeping Cars on all night trains
between Grand Haven and Detroit
Nigrt Express east and west daily and all ether
trains daily Sunday excepted.
CONNECTIONS.
T. u AT DETROIT-GreatW Western Railwayt points
east. Michigan Central Michigan Southern and
Grand Trunk Railroads.
AT MlLWAUKEE-Witht the Milwaukee and ST,
Paul. Western Union, Milwaukee and Northern,
and Chicago and Northwestern Railways to all
points north and west.
sW-The Railway Company's Ferry Steamer
leaves d. G.. II. & M. Dock, Detroit on arrival OF
trains. Tickets are sold at the Detroit. Grand
Haven and Milwaukee Railway Ticket ONCE, to
al principal places in the United States.
7. TANDY. Genl freight & Passenger Agt.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-09-05
FARM FOR SALE.

The subscriber offers for sale his
farm one mill South and "a mile East
of Bennington Station, on Section I6,
ID the Township of Bennington, COM
2r;siDg ITO acres, on which there is
SO acres Of improvements house
and barn, windmill on pump, two
orchards, one young, peach and apple;
and II acres of wheat on the ground.
For terms, etc., call on or address
]. F. RATHBUN,
Bennington Station.
Bennington, April II, 1884. If
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-09-05
Chicago & Grand Trunk Railway.

Time Card, IN effect Dec. 30th, 1888.
eS- All trains run by Central Standard Time 40
TRAINS LEAVE DURAND AS FOLLOWS:
EAST. WEST.
Mail....l 500. 25 p m Mail. ........... Q 45 m
Limited Express11 06 m Day Express. 10 80 a m
Atlntic Express 90 a m Pacific Express. 10 As p m
Passenger 500. 8 25 m Passenger ...... 90 pm
Way Freight. 80 p m Way Freight. 8 80 m
Connections at Chicago for all points in the West
and Northwest .''
Connections made at Durand with d. G.. ii. & NJ.
trains for points East and West. Through Pullman
Sleepers on all night trains.
GEO.B. REEVE, w. J. SPICER,
Traffic Manager. General Manager.
J. OBRIEN, Local Agen t, Durand
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-09-05
TO FARMERS !

Blast Stone, Blow-up Stumps
Or other similar work. Call on me at David
Blair's shop, or address G. M. DEHN,
A 22tf Owosso, Mich
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-09-05

+ A California Colonel has lost his
voice through excessive smoking. ri
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1884-10-08
Hall Break mt Eureka.

Spanish Abe, Frank Hoppin and Bert
Hines. under indictment for horse steal
inc. broke Jail at Eureka and made
their escape by removing from the bot
tom of one of the cells piece OF floor
ing twenty inches long by fourteen inch
en- wide. Through this hole they went
with but little difficulty to the west
wall of the prison. They then removed
some large rocks from the wall, and
after raising up three feet through the
ground, they got into the open air. In
the cell from which they made their es-
cape was found case-knife made into
a saw. Sheriff Sweeney and number
of deputies are in pursuit OF the men,
and there is little doubt but that they
will be caught. After leaving Eureka
the escaped thieves went to Buzzetll's
ranch, Diamond Valley, and stole two
horses. From there they went to Nc
NinomIs ranch, Diamond Valley, and
stole two more horses, and then went in
the direction of the Utah line. Spanish
Abe and Hoppin are old offenders, and
are desperate men.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1884-10-08

Forty years ago there was not tele-
graph office in existence. To-day they
number 81 $40. ,,-1,,..
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1884-10-08
FASHION SAMPLE ROOMS.
BELL & BURNS. =. .Proprietors.

ky G ALL ON "a
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Our Fdporite. Rock and Rye,
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Imported saxarac Cognac
Imported Green Seal, Imperial, Zinfandel Claret
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DOMESTIC AND IMPORTED CIGARS.
fBA luxuriantly furnished private CLUP
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Club. with private entrance.
a, BELL h BURNS.
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The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1884-10-08
STOVES FOR SALE.

offer for sale, at q bargain, Five Cooking
and Heating stoves, almost as good as new.
ss... EEa'H WILLIAM SIMPSON, ,.p
s27.Im Ice Cream Vender.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1884-10-08
$500 REWARD!
PERSONS INDEBTED

To the undersigned are hereby notified that !
have left all UNPAID CLAIMS with Messrs
MACMILLAN h HANNAH for collection, and
they are authorized torollect and receipt for
the same. Those Wishing 10. avoid costs, must
settle at once. ,s
FRANK NARAMORE.
vinnemucca, March 20, lSs4 Is Nh
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1884-10-08
SECOND DAY-Thursday, october 9th,

RUNNING RACE-Premium, S175; free for
all two-y ear -olds owned in Humboldt county;
four or more TO fill; three or more to start;
single dash of one-half mile; first hor1e,
S13l 25; second horse. $43 IS.
Trotting Race-Premium, $500; four or ore to
fill; three or more to start; mile heats, two
in three, TO harness; for Robert 0'Neal's
Wallace T.. W. Crutchers "Gray Mare
VIM. Stocks Brown Mare" j. r. Harveys
"Lodi,v and o. p. Crawford's Dexter" first
horse, $3.50. Second horse, $50
Running Race-Premium, $50; free for all;
three or more to fll four or more to start;
half-mie heats, two in three; first horse,
$112 so; second horse, $37 so.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1884-10-08
THIRD DAY. Friday, October 10th.

RUNNING RACE-Premium, 1925: free for
all: four or more to fill; three or more to
start; mile heats, two in three; first horse;
sl6S IS; second horse, $50 25.
Trotting or Pacing Premium, S225; free
for al; four or more TO fill; three or more TO
start: mile heats, two in three, to harness;
first horse si6s rs; second horte, s56 rs.
Running Race-Premium, SIS; free for all;
four or more to fill: three or more to start
single dash OF 800 yards first horse, $50 25;
b second horse, SlS rs.
There will be no money paid for walk-over.
No entry will be considered without it Is ac
companied with the entrance money. All en-
tries must be made under cover, and by 1880
o'clock the day preceding each race.
The entrance fee will he fifteen per cent. Of
the whole amount offered. 1
All entries must be made with L. A. KENT,
Secretary Of the Club
Except in short races, the rules Of the Pacific
Blood Horse Association will govern: National
Trotting Association rules TO govern trotting
races. 70 ..
sl-td I. A. KENT; Secretary.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1884-10-08

RUNNING RACE-Premium, $50; free for
all; four or more to fill: three or more to
start; single dash OF 500 yards; first horse,
$1l2 so; second horse, $37 so.
Running Race Premium, 5000; free for all;
four or more to fill; three or more to start;
single dash of one and one-quarter mile; first
hor e, $50; second horse, $50. -
, 1884-04-29

ALBUQUERQUE, n. NJ, April 2S.-The
news reached here from Fort Wingate to.
night that the rumors which have been
atloat for a few days past in regard to an
uprising of the Indians at Mitchells
ranch, in the Ute reservation, have been
confirmed, The Utes attacked the ranch
men in that section and a desperate battle
ensued, but the Indians were repulsed
with a loss of two Indians killed and two
wounded. No whites have been killed
thus far, but several are wounded. Cant.
Smith left Fort Wingate Yesterday for the
scene of trouble with a company of cav
airy. Troops from Fort Lewis are already
there. but the situation is 50 desperate
that Captain Lewis was sent for to rein
force them. The Ute reservation, the
scene of the trouble, is located in parts of
New Mexico, Arizona and Utah and news
from there cannot be readily obtained.
Reports of another outbreak were re
ceiyed by the department to-day. The
N~avaios of San Juan valley have uprisen
and fears are entertained for the safety of
the settlers. Although perfectly reliable,
the advices are so meagre and the situa-
ton not being thoroughly understood,
the Adjutant General has ordered Captain
Heyl, of Fort Wingate, to send Il
of soldiers to the scene and ascertain the
extent of the trouble. Captain Heyl will
leave Fort Wingate tomorrow with n
, 1884-04-29

PARIS, April 2S.-The Mptia news
paper publishes the announcement that
mo. T. lyman, is in England. 1t also
alleges that a party from whom its infor-
nation was obtained recently interviewed
lyman in London, who stated that behind
him was a force before which England
would one day tremble. \ new party
which aims to unite all patriotic Irishmen
has been organized. There has already
been raised considerable funds with which
to begin the campaign. Cruisers provided
with revolving guns will protect the crews.
These vessels will be employed against
the British men of war in various harbors.
, 1884-04-29
The Powers and Egypt.

LONDON, April 2s.-Waddington, the
French Ambassador in Great Britain, will
return from Paris Tuesday, bringing with
him Premier Ferry's response to Earl
Granville's proposal concerning the
Egyptian question, Ferry generally APP
proves of the scheme of liquidation.
German and Austro-H Hungarian Govern
ments will maintain silence on the subject
until entents between the French and
English Governments is assured. The
British Government refusal to send ex-
petition relief to Berber causes great ex-
element in political circles in London,
\ non party coalition is being formed for
the purpose of attacking the Govern
ment's policy.