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The Farmers telegraph.

TEcUMsEH, February 3.-The an
nual meeting of the Commercial
Telegraph Company was held yester-
day. This is the line that the Free
Press published in 1881 as the only
farmers telegraph line IN the world"
At the time it was only a half a mile
long; now it has grown to fifteen miles
in length, with nineteen instruments
and pays specific tax of s1065 to
the State. The stockholders elected
the following officers to serve one
year: President, II. B. House; Vice
President-O. p. Bliss; Secretary
L. G. North; Treasurer-W. B. Key
ser; General Manager-R. j. W..
Bowen. The operators are mostly
farmers, and enjoy very much hav-
ing communication with towns and
their brother farmers. They connect
in town with the depot, freight Offices,
bank, doctors Offices, stores and some
private residences Stree Press.
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Let it Return to Salt Creek.

The Journal says it is waiting for
us to answer its question in regard to
the legal printing, which we promised
last week, if we could spare room.
We are waiting for the Journal to
apologize to the American people for
its article endorsing murder, in its is
sue week before last. If it is an
American paper it owes the American
people an apology for the insult it
offered them, and whose hospitality it
abused. We can not recognize it by
answering its questions until it apollo
gizes. If it is an organ of assassina-
ton and murder, let it say so, and we
shall then decline to have further
controversy with it. We shall mere
ly point out its misdeeds. IF it is an
American paper, then it has no bust
ness to advocate murder. Let it
apologize to the people, and then we
don't mind having a little friendly
controversy with it during the dull
season of the year. If it had apollo
gized, we should have dissected its
wonderful four column article of last
week would tell it that it was fool
ish to tell such weak lies as it invent
ed last week in regard to the ARGUS
getting up petition to get the coun-
ty printing, and would also have ask
cd it what the Assyrisns, the Medes,
the Persians, and the Egyptians have
to do with the Journal and its % per
cent sell out. Those nations passed
out Of existance over thousand
years ago. They do not know any
thing about the Journal, and their
evidence is of no use. Let them rest
in their graves of antiquity. We
might have told it that we object to
having four musty nations thrown at
us, and we might have inquired if he
came honestly by his historical know
ledge, or did he get in secondhand
ed at % per cent. We want its apol-
ogy first.
One part of the dispute concerns
the Democrats. The Journal was q
strong Butler paper. 1t was bitter
towards the Democracy when they re-
fused to endorse Butler. After cleo
ton change came over it. 1t did
not like its Salt Creek quarters. 1t
deserted and left its great leader. 1t
is now trying to steal over the Demo-
crat fence. Salt Creek had no charms
for it. 1t is hungry for the Demo
cratic pastures. In such cases it is
necessary to ascertain if its motives
are pure and its change of political
faith sincere. A soldier who deserts
when his commander is in trouble be.
comes an object Of suspicion, and, as
this is what the Journal has done, pit
became necessary to examine it. The
result of our examination Of its ac-
tons since il deserted from Salt Creek
compels us to report against it. Hy-
pocrisy and the advocacy Of murder
are not the qualities that entitle it to
join the Democracy. 1t must return
to Salt Creek, and, like the Prodigal
Son, ask forgiveness. If Ben refuses
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Detroit Marketa

The following market quotations
are copied from the Detroit Free
Press of February 7th:
Wheat, SO to 81 per bushel.
Oats per bushel, 81 to 80.
Flour per barrel, 1915 to 1915
Pork, $500 to sl4.5O per Dbl.
Mess beef, $1,000 to $40 .25 per Dbl.
Butter, Is to 2S per pound. 81
Apples, $3.50 to $1.75 per barrel.
Potatoes, 80 to 35 per bushel.
Onions, 1925 to $3.50 per barrel.
Hay, balcd, $13. so to $14 per ton.
The quotations, given by the Free
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ture. The prices at retail stores must
be somewhat higher.
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Game Law.

The State Legislature tinkers at
the game law at almost every session,
and, at the present session, it is MAX
ing sundry changes-one Of which
fixes the deer killing season, in both
the upper and lower peninsulars, from
October 18th to December 10Th, and
forbids the use of dogs in hunting
deer. q
AS any citizen can express his
opinion ON this subject, we most re.
spectfully request our Representative
at Lansing to try and get the follow
ing game law passed, for and in the
interest Of the members Of the deer
family.
The People Of the State Of Michi-
gan enact, That after the passage Of
this act, it shall be unlawful to hunt
deer with rifles, muskets, carbines, re.
volvers or any other dangerous weap-
on-clubs, % calibre revolvers and
pepper box revolvers excepted. .,,
Any person found guilty Of violat.
ing this law, or any part of it, shall
be fined one nickel, and the said
nickel shall be used to purchase q
copy Of the History Of Alpena county
from the commencement to 1876, fol-
the use Of the public libraries.
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Winter on an Atlantic Steamer.

The Hamburg-American packet
steamer Suevia glided into her dock
at Hoboken yesterday encased in ice
from stem to stern, her rigging fes-
TONED with icicles, her sails frozen
hard, and her starboard deck draped
with big tarpaulin, cloths frozen stiff
and cncrusted with silvery frost. The
deck under the cloth was mass of
wreckage. The steamer had been
through the toughest and most ad-
venturous voyage she has made
since she has been afoat, and had 13
cabin and 176 steerage passengers
aboard.
She struck bad weather almost i'm.
mediately after she left port. and the
passengers who ventured on deck to
see what winter at sea looked like
scooted to shelter again as fast as their
legs could carry them. They told
those inside that it felt as if their
hair was being blown clean off while
they stood cut in the whistling gale,
BY Saturday night, when two-thirds
of the tempestuous trip was over, the
waves kept getting bigger and bigger
SO steadily that even Capt. Franzen
watched them with an uneasy eye
BY Sunday morning the.sea was in a
regular fury. The passengers looking
out the plate glass port holes in the
smoking room on deck at the thun-
dering Niagara of green water that
dashed necessarily over the prov
could see a huge ice pond extending
all over the forward deck, where the
water froze before it had time to wash
overheard.
A wave struck the steamer on the
starboard. 1t felt as if SO much solid
iron had been hurled at the vessel
The wave smashed all the starboard
deck doors to flinders in an instant
The skylight of the engine room was
wrecked, and a deluge of water
poured into the cabins and rushed
down the staircases. The men in the
smoking room were knocked down as
if struck by a tornado, and FIVE Of
them were washed out on the deck
like logs Of wood. The front door Of
the kitchen withstood the rush Of
water, and the room filled with water
like a giant bath tub. The fire wa:
drowned, the cook and steward knock.
ed head over heels, and the passen.
gers dinners went floating out on
deck.
When the wave rcceded, passenger
Jacoby was found jammed against the
side Of the smoking cabin, scnselcss
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and bleeding from cash in his head.
Cook Miller was unconscious and
floating about among the pans and
tin pots in the kitchen, and steward
Rose was swimming out Of the door.
Lots of things in the cabin were
afoat. The balustrade of the saloon
was torn from its iron fastening, and
the floor of the boiler room was COW
cred with water. Twisted bits Of iron
shattered plate glass, and splintered
woodwork were scattered everywhere
The crew nailed rough boards over
the broken doors and stretched tar
paulins over the wrecked skylight.
1t kept the waves from swapping the
passengers altogether. The storm
lasted until Monday afternoon. When
the passengers again ventured to look
out the movable deck furniture was
all strapped down with ropes and en-
cased in ice a quarter of an inch
thick. The crew had been kept busy
nearly whole day pumping out wa
ter that had washed into the ship.
At 8 o'clock on Saturday morning,
the lookout shouted that he saw
flaming torches through the darkness.
They were signals of distress. Capt.
Franzen bore down toward them till
he made out the outline Of a disman-
tied fishing schooner. The lifeboat
was lowered in jiffy, eight sailors
and the coxswain leaped into it, and
pulled for the wreck. Eleven half
frozen sailors stood upon the deck of
the wreck and shouted for JOY as the
boat shot up alongside. Then they
slid into the boat. A little man with
his beard covered with frost, who was
the last to drop aboard, seized the
coxswain's hand and in husky voice
said: "Messmate, God bless yer. Ye
saved us, by gosh yer did,"
He went through more extravagant
demonstrations of joy as he hitched
his palm into Capt. Franzen's big fist.
He was Edward Daniels, master Of
the Gloucester fishing schooner Carl
w. Baxter.
"On Sunday" he said, "after we
had taken aboard bait at Grand
Manan and got out to sea, between
Brown Bank and Georges Shoals, a
big sea struck us all of a sudden. 1t
was 3 o'clock in the morning, and
the sea carried away both masts, and
swept the deck clean of everything
else. Fisherman Peter Threasher, who
was on watch, went over with the
wreckage, and we lost sight of him in
INC uAThHeSS. lHc sCnOOucT sWSpt
helplessly before the wind for two
days, and then the weather let up,
and at A in the afternoon we caught
sight Of a west bound ship only five
miles distant. We. rugged up the
union jack upside down on bit OF
spar, and waved it as a signal of dis
tress. The ship did not pay the
slightest heed to it. At 8 o'clock the
next morning we saw the lights Of
another ship going east, and we burn
ed torches to attract her attention.
She, too, kept right ahead on her
track. 1t was two hours after that,
Captain, that you came along and
took us aboard. We couldn't have
stood another night of it, because the
wind was coming up and the sea get
ting too ugly for broken-up schooner
like ours to ride through it."-New
York Sun.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1885-02-11
have been a,ffIilcted with catarrh for 20

have been afflicted with catarrh for 90
years In the left Gnostril. 1t had become
chronic, and there was constant dropping
of mucueus matter from tile roof Of my
mouth. 1t extended TO my throat, caus-
ing hoarseness and, great difficulty In
speaking, indeed for years was not able
to speak more than thirty minutes, and Of
ten this with great difficulty. ! also, to a
great extent, lost the sense OF hearing In
the left car, and OF taste. q BY the use Of
few bottles of Ely's Cream Balm l have
received more relief than from all other
remedies beside All droppingof mucous
has ceased and my voice and hearing are
greatly improved and will no doubt be
entirely cured. jas. w. Dawson, Attor-
ney at Law, Monmouth, Warren Co., Ill.
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woLdorr IN. YsApril 5, 1882.

Rhe,matic Syrup CD ~
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the rheumatism over eight months in
my left hip, at times SO could not
get nights rest, or even lie on that
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through my hip and down my limb,
the Rheumatic Syrup was recon-
mended. After taking one bottle the
pain left me, and Il could lie on that
side as well rs ever. i have felt no
symptoms of rheumatism since. /
think as rheumatic cure it has no
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Rheumatic Syrup. have been
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taking your Syrup. l had taken it
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help me, and to-day ! am perfectly
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Ice. Ice. Ice.

Having purchased the Davis ice
business, l would announce to the
public that / have erected large ice
houses on the bay, and will next sea-
son be prepared to furnish the citizens
with pure bay ice, at the lowest prices.
1 am also prepared to fill all ice hous-
es for those who desire, as cheap as
the cheapest, and in first class man.
ner. Drop me card in post Office.
MOSES CHABANEAU.
6Q9
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Upward and onward is the motto that
Mishler's Herb Bitters has used ever since
the presentation OF the medicine to the
American people, and In all cases OF liver
complaint, kidney diseases in their multi
piled and intricate form and arrangements
of the stomach and bowels, it has proved
its title TO be the best remedy extant.
Bryne Stamford, of Troupsburg, Steuben
county, New York, writes; "The testl-
mony or all who use It Is, that 1t Is both
beneficial and reliable. ~ "a" h'-"
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Better chan Foreign Port.

Speer's Port Grape Wine is better
than Imported Port, and has taken
its place. 1t is pure, and really ex-
cellent and healthgiving. Troy
Times, .p. .,t
Members of the Board of Health
of New York, and other prominent
physicians, use this wine for their pa
tients and in their own families, much
on account of the iron contained in it
from the soil on which Speer's vine
yards are. situated.-Tribune. Mr..
Speer furnishes this wine to druggists.
For sale by J. T. BostwicE.
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pemocratic State Convention.

Tbs Democratic State Convention to nominate
candidates for the offices Of Judge Of the Supreme
Court and Regents of the State University will be
hold at the Westover Opera House, in Bay City, on
wednesday, February 25, 1885, at ten o'clock a. m.
All voters OF this State irrespective of past party
associations who can unite with us in an effort for
. reform Of abuses, and pure and economical adj
nainistration Of government, and all who favor n
reform in the civil service and reduction and re-
adjustment Of our tariff laws and tariff taxation
are cordially invited TO participate in sending dele
gates 10 this convention.
Zach county is entitled 10 ono delegate for each
Ave hundred votes cast for Governor at the last
general election, and one for every fraction OF not
less than two hundred and fifty votes. Every Or
EanEed county is entitled to at least two delegates
and each delee ate must be resident OF the county
JEROME EDDY,
. Chairman
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to receive it on account of its base
desertion and its actions when it was
at large, then let it shed few briny
tears of contrit;on and make salt
creek of its own. II don't need q
very large one to float itself in.
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March Blizzard.

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whether General Gordon was killed
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All kinds OF goods are very low now
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Ell Mardi has captured Kartoom,
on the Nile. 1t Is not yet known
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