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The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1884-10-23

Republican Ticket.
For President
JAMES &. BLAINE.
For Vice President
JOHN 4. LOGAN.
For Delegate to Congress
OSCAR S. CLIFFORD,
OF Lincoln County.
Le@islative-FirSt Dist
For Member Of the Council,
A. c. HUETSON
OF Lin5oln county
WM. DUNCAN,
OF Union county.
For Members of the House of Representatives.
OLE P. HELvIG,
Of Lincoln county.
JOHN LARSON,
OF Union county
ELI DAWSON,
HANS MYRON,
or Clay county.
County.
L c. JACOBS.
For Register of Deeds,
NELS VI. JACOBSON.
For Sheriff,
j. VI. NORTH.
For County Attorney,
A. r.. BROWN.
For Clerk of the District Court,
WIN. NJ. CCPPETT.
For Probate Judge,
A. B. WHEELOCK.
For County Superintendent,
". L, BENEDICT.
For Coroner,
\. G. Mold.
For County Commissioner, District No.. .,
FRED GERBER.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-06-26
BroCkway Centre Bank,

of JNO. w. LAMON,
Brockaody Centre, Michigdn.
New York Exchange bought and sold.
General Banking Business done.
Limited amount taken on deposit.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-06-26
BROCKWAY CENTRE County, Mich, JUNE g. 1884.
DOCKS DAsHisS

Every age and every generation t. on
the remotest to the present has had its
signs and wonders. While some have
been common to several ages, Others
have grown out of peculiar conditions
of particular age ilourished in it and
finally with it, vanished into the past,
retained only in the annals of the
worlds history. The ancients, in
their suporstitions, male. and female
alike, believed with sincerity in many
absurd signs which to-day are renounc-
ed, especially by the stronger sex, as
absurdities. Modern civilization is
dissipating the clouds of Ignorance
and superstition which have, i'll the
past, obscured scientific light, and at
the present time we have in our midst
very few of those relics of superstition
of the past and darker ages. But
while those nonsensical signs have
mostly disappeared we still retain,
even in the upper stratum of society.
lsigns, by some considered more ration
al. at the beginning of the Christian
Era signs were very common and it
was authoratively declared that signs
should in all nations and all ages fol-
low the righteous. "These signs snail
follow them that believe in my name
they shall cast out devils, speak with
new tongues, lay their hands upon the
sick and they shall recover, etc, etc. Z"
These signs we believe should ut the
present time follow every devout per-
son; hence "by these signs ye shall
know them" While many of the
signs of both the present and the past
do not particularly concern US, it is,
we think. matter of vital interest to
mankind whether or not we should
measure the faith of the believer by
his ability to exhibit to the world the
above signs. 1t is matter of fact
that in these latter days we seldom see
one of these signs but we are con-
tinually seeing and hearing of others
of less Importance. Whether of a
social, moral or scientific nature they
have been Cal efully studied in all ages :;
but Notwithstanding that every age
has had its philosophers, every nation
its men of genius and every genera
tiOn its stars who have stood out con-
spicuously as bright and shining lights
to the intellectual world, it remained
for the youths of Brockway Centre TO
reveal the fact that the manufacture of
"rick-rack" is Indicative of a cOntem-
platlon of matrimOpy on the part of
the lady engaged in the business. The
interest of this 10 the young men will
be at once recognized. If any of the
young ladies in your midst are making
"Tick-rack," know ye, young men, by
this sign that the same are already
taken; therefore DO not make your
selves disagreeable by attempting to
win their affections. We also think
that it is only "A matter of justice and
courtesy that every young lady who is
engaged should manifest 1t by the
usual sign--make ''rick-rack." Veri-
ly. verify | say unto you, they that
heareth these sayings and believeth
them not deceiveth themselves; but
they that believeth them the same are
wise and shall not be deceived.
nnCE
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-06-26
spec,aII Invitation TO All.

If you wish to select some choice
styles in Prints. Ginghams, Lawns,
Buntings, Nuns Yelling. Cashmeres,
etc., call for them at 4. & Z. O'Leary'
Brockway. If in need of Boots and
Shoes examine their stock before buy
ing. Ladies Busters in Mohair, Linen
and Poplin. Gloves, Hosiery, Laces,
Buttons, sc to suit close buyers. II
you wish good Tea cheap call fol
sample. In Stationery we will save
you fully 10 per cent from prices you
are paying. a full supply of General
Groceries, Glassware and Granite, just
received, at prices that will sell. Call
early and secure bargains.
A. 81 L. O'LEARY, Brockway.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-06-26
As a good many stories are ailc

AS good many stories are afloat
in regard to the pedigree of my horse
Yankee Boy all of which are false, i
hereby publish the following postal
card received by me from G. Wymer
". s. III. SwEETMAN.
Minden, May 1 lth, 1884.
MIR. SwEETMAN.-- our bin of horse
just received, In reply will say that /
sent copy of pedigree of your horse
in enqulring of NJ. j. Burns, of Grees
Co., N. Y. He indorses the pedigree
by saying that it's "A true and correct
pedigree. / think your patrons and
surrounding locality should feel proud
to have such high bred animal in
reach. IVA G. WYMER, V. 5.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-06-26
Local Expositions.

Grand
Celebration
AT Brockway Centre,
On the Fourth of July.
Everybody is invited to come.
Sunday was the warmest day we
have had as yet.
Wild strawberries are said to be
thick in the woods.
r.. Herbert, OF Brown City, made
us call on Friday last.
"A splendid rain Oh Monday cooled
the atmosphere in fine shape.
Go to Grandy's for your tea. lie
has the best 80 cent tea in Michigan.
Lee Saunders, our tonsorial artist,
visited his "best girl' at Capac this
week.
Mrs. II. F. Leonard visited friends
and relatives at New Baltimore last
week.
Read the notice cf the Fourth of
July Celebration in the supplement of
this issue.
Mrs. l.. Fraser, of Port Huron,
visited her relatives and many friends
in town this week.
Peck will celebrate the Fourth of
July in grand style. A good program
is arranged. Everybody is invited.
Oscar Scully is at his home in this
place nursing his fingers which he had
sawed off in the shingle mill up at
Evergreen Centre.
On July 1st the quarterly dues of
the Library Association should be
paid. All members drawing books
please come prepared.
Miss Lulu Ferguson is at Port
Huron this week and will assist in the
exercises at the commencement in
Sacred Heart Academy.
Read the prices quoted in M. l..
JGrandy's change of ad. in this issue,
after which call in and make a pur
chase, while he is offering such low
figures.
DIR. Howell has sold his saw and
grist mill to David G.. Williams of Pt.
Huron. Mr. Williams is an expert
enced mill man and will probably push
the business.
Mrs. S. Z. Pearce and son, of AL
gonac, who have been visiting her sis
ter, Mrs. Levi Morrill,, Jr., and other
friends in this place, returned to their
home on Saturday last,
Those parties who stole the wheat
from Wm. II. Scott's grainery nearly
year ago are known. They have had
plenty of time 10 return the same and
had better do so at once or their names
will be published.
Rev. J. w. Gray is at Adrian this
week visiting his old friends at the
college. This being commencement
week he will probably take part in the
sexercises. Mrs. Gray accompanied
him as lar as Oxford where she will
remain until he returns.
"A grand Fourth of J uly dance will
be given in Emery's new billiard hall
by Geo. w. Barrett and John b. Kiel.
Dancing to commence at 10 o'clock a.
m. Everybody invited. A good time
will be had. First-class music in at
tendance. Bill S1.o0. Supper at Em-
ery's hotel extra.
Capt. +. B. Shepherd, proprietor
of the Brockway House, Old Brockway,
Mich, VIII give a grand Fourth OF
July Celebration Ball" at his hall in
that place on Friday evening, July A.
He has secured the services of Jack.
sons string band OF five pieces to fur.
nish. the music and good time may
be expected. Everybody is invited.
The Ladies Aid Society of the
Methodist Episcopal Church have ar.
ranged to give strawberry festiva,
next Wednesday evening, July 2nd, in
Duties Hall. The public in general
and everyone in particular are most
cordially invited to attend. The straw
berries and cream are donated to the
society by Mr.. and Mrs. James Holdef
and can be depended on.
] Admission 25cts. by order of Com
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-06-26
MONEY TOLOAN

am prepared to place loans up
on farm property in sums of $500
and upwards, at Z per cent. interest.
Apply to GEO. p. VOORHEES,,
Stevens Block, Port Huron, Mich.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-06-26

STRAYED-.F From the premises of the
undersigned in Greenwood on May Il,
one yearling roam steer, one roam heifer
with notch In lower part OF left ear,
one white yearling steer, one red steer
with white back and forehead and one
red heifer with white spot on left side.
Any person knowing the whereabouts
of these cattle will please leave word
at this Office or at the store of Samuel
Strevil Greenwood Centre.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-06-26
Cholera.

And the milder forms of bowel difficulty.
dysentery, diarrhoea, &C., ali come from a
disordered digestion attended with pain in
the stomach. cramps, cholii, sc. Be wise and
ward Off these attacks by taking Hamiltcn's
Jamaica ginger tonic and pain cure, which is
asure remedy. Never known to fail to give
immediate relief Az an outward application
in Rheumatism. Neuralgia, Siatica. sprains.
strains. Lame back and side it can't be heat
en-. Price 10 and so cents. Sold by c. A.
Wells q Co.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-06-26
HANOVER. O.. Feb. I3.

HANOVER, o.. Feb. -, 1884.
After having lung fever and pneu.
monia l had dreadful cough and
could not sleep at night. The doctors
told me had Consumption and would
die. / have taken six bottles Piso's s
Cure and my cough is entirely gone
and am well as ever.
EMELINE FORD.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-06-26

Mr. A. Bought his wife one bottle OF Par
melee's blood purifier, and now he thiuks he
has got himself into business, for she derives
SC much benefit from il that she must try an.
other bottIe or two aud be permanently cured
There is no Purifier known so efficient in
its workings as this. Ouy $i.00 per bottle.
Sold by g. A. Wells & Co.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-06-26

LOST. The undersigned has lost
two yearlings, one red steer with white
face and one deep red heifer. Any
person knowing Of their whereabouts
will be suitably rewarded by leaving
word at this office which will lead to
their recovery OF WITHIN. w. Lennon.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-06-26
MARRIED,

MyERs-BRowN-At the residence of
the brides parents in this township
on Monday evening, June 80, by
Elder +. j. Doyle, of Capac, Mr..
Myers. of Port Huron, to Miss Eliza
Brown daughter of Geo Brown of
this place.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-06-26

@ L. BALLENTINE & CO., Wholesale
-. and Retail dealers in Dry Goods, Boots
& Shoes, Ready Made Clothing, Hats, Caps,
&c. Teas Specially. No Huron Avenue,
aud No 3 Quay Street, Port Huron, Mich. 9
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-06-26
s.PATTERsoN, PORT HURON,

Dealer in Jewelry, Watches, clocks, knives,
forks, spoons, pitchers, card receivers, gold and
silver plated ware. We always have good
stock OF Holiday Novelties. You are cordially
invited to call in and examine our stock and get
prices before purchasing elsewhere. 81
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1884-06-20
Plain Talk.

New York Special: Following is
an extract from column leader in
the Sun: "There was a firm of
swindlers in the city of New York
doing business under the name of
Grant & Ward. They called them
selves bankers and brokers. Their
occupation consisted in receiving
money from their customers to in
vest in government contracts from
which fabulous profits were prom
ised. No such contracts existed. If
they had existed they would have
been fraudulent. There were plenty
of men in this honest community
who were ready and willing to share
in the proceeds of a scheme to plum
der the national treasury, however,
and who found no difficulty in be-
lieving that Gen. U. S. Grant, who
was partner in the firm of Grant
& Ward, would engage in such an
enterprise. They put their money
in. Some of it they got back in the
guise of profits some of it went into
the pockets of other people. Finally
the inflow ceased, and the firm was
without funds to pay any more
imaginary profits. Then it collapsed
Mr.. Fish's letter to Gen. Grant had
notified him that the firm was sup
posed to be dealing in government
contracts, but there appears to have
been no hesitation on this account.
Gen. Grant did not say to Ward:
"This thing is disgrace and shame,
and must stop" He did not write
to Fish: 81 don't know anything
obout any government contracts and
don't believe there are any," But
he has declared his perfect willing
ness that man who has turned out
to be one of the most remarkable
swindlers that ever lived should use
his name and influence for all they
were worth. The purpose in view
seems to have been pecuniary gain,
and nothing else. For the love of
money, the greatest military reputa-
tion of our time has been dlmmed
and degraded by it's possessor. The
people look on with shame. Keenly,
however, as they feel the degrada-
tion of the man who led their armies
to victory and has twice been their
president, they can not accept in
extenuation or defense of his con-
duct apologies which only tend to
throw q darker shadow about his
acts, or excuses which can not be
reconciled with the truth,
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Guying the Girls.

It isn't good manners to ask the
young lady you haven't known quite
three weeks where she bought hel
teeth.
In India girls never marry before
they are twenty-five years old. There
must be a good many girls from In
dia in this city now.
The girl who thumps the piano in
the parlor while her mother is doing
the washing in the kitchen is the
girl who will make a first-class lazy
wife.
1t has been found that the reason
why the girls generally wear white
dresses upon picnic parties is be.
cause the bugs can be seen upon
them the easiest.
"What will the coming girls
wear?'' is a query in a fashionable
magazine. We don't know what
the coming girls wear will be, but
the coming girls swear is usually
"by gum"
An inquiring young lady wan IS to
know if girls can be too much edu-
Gated. Really, dear, we can't say
positively, but judging from some
we know, we should imagine that
many of them thought they could.
No girl is successful with a ham,
mock until she can get IN and out of
the bloomiug thing without every
body finding out whether the stripes
on her stockings run round and
round or up and down.
Matthew Arnold says that what
he likes about the American girls is
their "takingness and engaging
ness" Matthew wasn't so far out
of the way either. American girls
will often take anything they can
get, in order to be engaged.
When Barnum's circus train was
wrecked the other day the elephants
were used in lifting the cars back
on the track. Good! And now
comes the capital suggestion that an
elephant should accompany all pic
mic parties to lift fat girls over the
fence.
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praised and kept from harm. You
may not know it now, but you will
know it some day.
Women in journalism

A woman who has spent half her
life in journalism at the West, and
is now editing a magazine in New
York, says: "The women who sue
ceed in journalism, or any other
profession or business, are those
possessed of brains and energy
enough to make way if there is
none already prepared for them.
Success does not come to those who
sit quietly at home bewailing the
fact that a portion of our laws are
unjust to women, and that women
have not all the rights to which, in
their Judgment, they are entitled.
No good is ever gained without an
effort, and the only way know of
to get ones rights is to take them
they will not be brought to one ON
a silver salver. The woman who
feels the necessity of work, either
from force of outward circumstances
or pressure of energy and will with
in, will find her pathway hard, un-
even, and full of obstacles. If she
possesses the talent of patience,
which in nine cases out Of ten will
serve her better than genius, she
will succeed. The chief difficulty
with the majority of women is chat
they do not begin to labor until they
feel the need of money; then, in ac-
cordance with their necessities rather
than their abilities, they demand as
much salary as those who have served
years ofapprenticeship. I shall never
forget the first money I earned! 1t
was paid me for New York letter
written for the Cleveland Leader.
No check for a hundred times that
amount will ever seem to me so valu-
able. 1t opened the way for me,
and when, after a few months, I did
general utility work for that journal,
l was willing to learn. The editor
in-chief once asked me, what would
you do if things went wrong with
you, madam-cry?' No, SIR Ian
swered, 4 would fight This answer,
born of my boundless ignorance of
the world, pleased him, and he en-
gagged me. There came many times
when I felt more like crying than
fighting, but kept my work, and
now look back with tlankfulness to
the experience gained in apprentice
ship.n
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For The Ladies.

A single banana and a glass of
sherry constitutes the breakfast for
the dudes.
Silk petticoats with embroidered
lounces are worn by the most fasti-
dious women.
Epicures now grow enthusiastic
over Oregon salmon, with or with
out green peas.
Dark compilations coming into
favor: There is what is known ais
sunburnt powder introduced for the
make up of ladies' faces, both young
and old, who fain would keep up
with the procession. - 4, 81
Jennie June says: "There never
was a time when the dress counted
for so little in the estimate of char
acter as now. It is getting to be
pretty we'll understood that a woman
who is celebrated for her clothes is
known for nothing else."
An editor thus explained to a
youg lady the difference between
printing book and publishing one
for her: "If I should print a kiss on
a beautiful young lady's cheek it
would be printing, but if were to
tell the whole world of it, that would
be publishing"
1t has been decided by the men
composing the general conference
of the M. E. church that woman is
not qualified to preach the gospel.
The church will not license or ordain
her. And yet, if it were not for
faithful, earnest, devoted woman,
there would be fewer churches, per-
haps, and fewer believers for the
men to preach for.
Home love is the best love. The
love that you are born to is the
sweetest you will have on earth.
You who are SO anxious to escape
from the home-nest, pause moment
and remember. this is so. Never
again, after strangers have broken
the beautiful bond, will there be
anything SO sweet as the little circle
of mother father, and children,
where you are cherished, protected,
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Moorhead, II: Thomas O'Neil,
who has been held in the Moorhead
Jail for year or more for safe keep
ing, from Becker county. was taken
back to Detroit a few days ago, and
has now been adjudged insane, and
will go to St. Peter. He charges
some attorneys with having sold
out case which he was bringing,
and another in which he was defen-
dant in which he was represented
by them. There are many people
who claim that the whole matter of
his imprisonment would not hold
water, and his subsequent alleged
insanity was merely trumped up by
prominent men to get him out Of
the way, though for what purpose
is not known. From all accounts,
it seems that the man has been, and
is, the victim of outrageous perse-
cution. 1t is said the case will be
looked into.
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mortgage on his place and return
the money; but the investment was
unfortunate, and to cover, the loss
he took more, and so on till he had
taken 100000. The directors of
the bank met at the hotel last even
ing, and after consultation held
Stanley prisoner at the hotel in
the custody of a detectives To-day
more conferences were. had, result
ing in the arrest of Stanley, who
has assigned his property apd some
speculation deals. The bank an
nounces in card that it will re-
cover part of the loss from this, and
will not be affected by the defalcation.
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JOHN NELSON

the whole bed Of the river appears
to be underlaid with Ignite. The
quality is stated to be similar to the
Souris coal, containing about 41.3O
per cent carbon, 42.12 per cent of
volatile combustible matter and All
per cent of ash. On Melville penin-
sula, coal has been found on the
shore in small quantities, but no
exploration has been made to deter
mine the situation and extent of the
veins. Amongst other minerals dis
covered Nn Hudson bay, Prof. Bell
reports gold, silver, copper, soap
stone, mica, plumbago and lead.
Steam navigation is easily possible
with such coal deposits available.
The projectors of this road see
chances for another great city to the
north of Winnipeg. The spot selected
for crossing the Great Saskatchewan
is at the head Of the rapids, where
two islands divide the channel of the
river, and the banks are some twenty
feet in height. There is plenty of
stone here of suitable description
for piers and abutments. The len ngth
of the grand rapids is nearly three
miles, and the fall in that distance
forty-four feet. Looking forward
to the time when the immense pro.
ductive area of the Saskatchewan
valley shall pour its golden harvest
OF grain down the channel of the
mighty river, in the steamboat and
barge lines of the future, conveying
it's wheat to the seaboard, this may
be destined to become a Canadian
Minneapolis. 1t requires no pro-
phetic eye to see, in the near future,
the development of this magnificent
water power, and the building up
by it's means of city that may rival
any upon the British-American con-
tinent. With a harbor in Cross
lake, the banks of which are suited
for the construction of twenty miles
of wharves and hundreds of el-
evators, where fleets Of barges could
lie safely out Of the current, and the
shipping of the river and of Lake
Winnipeg find their cargoes, it is
not difficult to conceive that the
wilderness Of the present may be
soon transformed into the city of
the future. This is the radiant
view taken by-our Manitoba cousins,
who want to dodge Canada by way
of the north pole.
The Casual Listener.
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Voice of the streets in Pionee

Voice of the streets in Pioneer
Press: A Winnipeg gentleman,
speaking of the proposed railroad to
Fort Churchill on Hudson bay, which
has been secretly surveyed, and will
be built if ever the controversy be-
tween Manitoba and the dominion
can be favorably settled, says coal
exist in large quantities on the
shores of Hudson bay. On Long Is
land, opposite Great Whale river,
$50 miles from Churchill, is an ex-
posure of anthracite containing by
assay 94.91 per cent of fixed carbon,
and only IS per cent of ash. It is
probable that other seams of similar
character are to be found on the ad-
joining mainland, where the strait
ticatiOn is similar. On the Missi-
naibi river, $50 miles from Moose
Factory, there are no less than five
exposures of Ignite; and Professor
Bell says: In the interval between
one and two miles above this stream,