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Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1885-01-28

moils of labor exerted themselves
that capital has become shy of invest
ment, depending for its profit upon
labor, and the artisan and mechanic
are suffering in consequence. The
so-called antagonism between labor
and capital is, in great measure,
fictitious. There are instances where
laboringmen revolt against the exac-
tons of hard masters, but they are
to-day the exception. The trouble is
the natural outgrowth of our civil
cation, which, while elevating the
laborer intellectually, tends at the
same time to the Capitalization and
capitalization of wealth. When the
laborer and the employer are in most
respects equal there is seldom, if ever,
trouble between them; but when
wealth is centralized in the hands of
a syndicate, as it Is in the Hooking
valley, or when it is capitalized in
heavy corporations like railroads,
trouble begins. In this country,
where VIC have comparatively loose
government, and where the laborer
exercises equal civil rights with the
employer, this condition of things has
reached point where discussion and
argument can be of little avail. The
government is in duty bound to af-
ford the same protection to the labor
er as to tho capitalist. and it is-leav-
ing out of sight the question of profit
imperative that it establish and
compel harmonious relations between
the two. There is no authoritative
way of settling the differences that
will arise between the laborer and
employer, and it is the duty of the
general government to provide by
law some cheap, quick and easy way
by which such differences can be ar
bitrated and adjusted. The strike
and the lockout arc both barbarous
and wholly brutalizing in their ten
denotes, but so long as they are the
only court of artisan and manufacture
err they will be resorted to, and both
will suffer in consequence. In some
of the higher branches of industry,
like the steel and iron trades, in
which the workman has fair share
of intelligence and education, differ
ences are frequently settled by con-
fercnces between the employer and
his men, which result favorably, but
when the laborers are unreasonable
and unthinking men, governed wholly
by passion and prejudice, as was the
case in the South Bend riot the other
day, reason and judgment are out of
the question. 1t would not be diff
cult matter to pass law providing
for the arbitration of these difficult
ties, which, if it had no other binding
force than that it would show which
party was at fault, would go a long
way toward solving these questions,
from the fact that human reason will
induce the one in the wrong to yield
when it is made apparent. We do
not believe Congress could pass a
more useful act than one providing
for the adjustment of differences be-
tween laborers and their employers
by means of arbitration, in which
both parties shall be represented.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1885-01-28
BUTLER. N. Y. Sent. 1. 1882.

BUTLER, N. T., sept. L, 1857.
Rheumatic Syrup Co.,;
Gents-Feeling grateful for what
your medicine has done for me, l de-
sire to make the following statement :
For two years or more 1 have suffer
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food to my mouth, and suffered the
most intense pain all the while. Some
five weeks since was persuaded to
try your Rheumatic Syrup. Before
/ had used two bottles, the pain had
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l can now dress myself and need no
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the use Of the best medicine in the
world-Rheumatic Syrup.
JOHN WICKs.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1885-01-28
ALPENA WEEKLY ARGUS.
Wednesday, Jan. %, 1885.

The European nations are following
the plan so long adopted by the peo'
pie of this country, of putting high
and to a certain extent, prohibitive
tariffs on imports. The object is to
drive out American grain products
petroleum and manufactured goods
Americans can not justly find fault
1t is only doing what they practice
themselves.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1885-01-28

DIR. j. T. Baker, a physician of New
Castle, Pa, writes: During the past
eight years, have had opportunity for
studying the effect Of Misher's Herb Bit
tiers upon my patients-those who have
suffered from dyspepsia, loss OF nervous
energy, diarrhea, etc. l have never
known IL to fail in eflecting the most radi.
cal cure, and l have no hesitation In
pronouncing IL the most efiicacious RENE
dy discovered for diseases ensuing from a
disordered stomach, liver, bowels, lungs
and heart.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1885-01-28

There are several big jobs pending
in Congress that excite suspicious
The Nicaragua treaty is one Of them
and perhaps may be assigned to the
first place in the column Of great ex-
pectations. Commit the United
States to that little arrangement, and
multitude of concessions, claims,
and grants will spring up like armed
men from the dragons teeth, each
with hugh bill for the treasury to
pay.-Justice.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1885-01-28

No matter what parts 1t may finally az
feet, catarrh always starts in the head
and belongs to the head. There Is no mys
terry about the origin of this direful dis
ease. 1t begins in neglected cold. One
of the kind that Is "surc to be better In q
few days" Thousands of victims know
how 1t is by sad experience. Ely's Cream
Balm cures colds in the head and catarrll
In all Its stages. Price so cents.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1885-01-28
March Blizzard.

The United States Government Census Volume,
Just published, speaks of tho Remarkable
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subscription list than at any corresponding period
in twelve years. The able corps of Editors, who
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visitor to hundreds of thousands Of readers for a
quarter of century, are still bending all their
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Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1885-01-28

The toiling millions cannot be re-
lieved from the burdens of taxation
so leng as the government is made q
pack horse to be loaded down with
appropriations never contemplated by
the constitution nor by the spirit Of
our free institutions. Burlington Ga.
zette.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1885-01-28
Grape Wine for Communion and In
valids.

The superb quality and entire puri-
ty of Speer's Port Grape Wine, OF
New Jersey, and the success that ply
sicians have had by its use, has Undue
ed them to write about it, and caused
hundreds of others to prescribe it in
their practice as the best and most
reliable wine to be had; both this and
Speer's unfermented juice is held in
great favor for Communion purposes.
and is of great service to consump-
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Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1885-01-28

The heaviest sleet of the season fell
on the night of the 22nd, at Shreve-
port, Louisiana, and the next day the
whole country was covered with ice,
presenting scene seldom witnessed
in that part Of the country.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1885-01-28
Little Wolf Improvement Co.

The regular biennial meeting of the stockholders
OF the Little Wolf Greek Improvement Company,
for tho election Of Directors and such other bust
ness may come before IL, will be held at the Of
flee Of Fletcher, Pack Co., in the city Of Alpena
Michigan, on Monday, February 9th, 1885. at II
o'clock A. NJ.
ARTHUR PACK, Secretary.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1885-01-28

The audacity with which France
and Germany are moving in the d.
rection of completely shutting out our
leading products from those countries
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1885-01-28

SPECIAL NoTIcE.-The next time your
grocer's boy calls and you want Saleratus
or Soda, order DeLand's. Try it; If you
do not say it is the best you ever used, re-
turn 1t to your grocer; we guarantee sat
isfaction, and will make it good.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1885-01-28

The secret art of beauty lies not in
cosmetics, but emily in pure blood and
healthy action of the vital organs, to
be obtained by Burdock Blood Bit
ters
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1885-01-28

Ayers Cathartic Pills cleanse the
system, stimulate the appetite and di-
gestic organs, vitalize the blood, and
thus renew the golden age of youth.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1885-01-28
North Branch Improvement Co.

The regular biennial meeting Of the stockholders
OF the North Branch improvement Company, for
the election Of Directors and the transaction OF
held at the Office OF Fletcher, Pack a Co, in the
city Of Alpena, Michigan, on Monday, February
9th, 1885, at 10 o'clock, A. NJ
ALBERT PACK, President.
SAMUEL II. PANGBoRN, secy.
702
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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-25
st. Paul & Northern Pacific.

The operations of the st. Paul & North
srn Pacific Railway company during the
year 1855 were mainly confined to the ex-
tension of its main line from Minneapolis to
St. Paul and the building of the car shops
IN the company's property between Lake
Como and Hamline. The building of the
main line between st. Paul and Minneapolis
vas very important and costly piece of
work 1t embraces ten miles OF double
rack double-track iron and steel bridge
superstructure over 1900 feet in length
across the mississippi river at Minneapolis,
and tunnel in st. Paul under Westminster
street and the tracks of the Manitoba COM
pany. In addition to the ten miles of
double track six miles of single track were
built between the Minnesota Tranter and
Northtown junction, a points short distance
north of the city limits of Minneapolis. A
line was extended northward from the main
line near Bardwell & Robinson's mill in
Minneapolis, on the west side of the river
to Huntington's mill. This. with line
built on Ramsey street to accommodate
manufacturing interests in that vicinity.
and the Mulberry street line, or cutoff,
provides about three miles of additional
spur or business tracks in the city of Mime
apolis. About FIVE miles of yard tracks
were provided at Como and in the terminal
grounds of the company in Minneapolis,
making the total new trackage equal to
about thirty-four miles of single-tr track rail-
road. There was expended i'll this year for
the construction work of the company
something over 81, 600, 900. This includes
about $500, 900 on account of the Como
shops,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-25
FURs.
The Most Complete Line of Fine Furs
in the City.

The Most Complete Line of Fine Furs
in the City.
Continuous success is the real test of all
business houses. and this being the happy
and weIl-deserved fortune of Messrs. Ran
som & Horton. No. 80 and lOl East Third
street, importers and manufacturers of
ladies' fine furs. seal-skin sacques and
dolmans, also fine fur overcOats for
men and all small furs, such as muffs.
gloves. mitts, etc., etc. In fact q eat
majority Uf the elegant seal garments worn
by the ladies and the fine mink and fur
lined cloth coats worn by the men have
been furnished by this enterprising firm no
other conclusion can be drawn but that
they are entitled to the entire confidence of
the trade and public. This business was
established ten years ago by Ransom &
Horton, who gained an envable reputation
for the unsurpassed quality, elegance and
general excellence of their ladies' fine furs.
The premises occupied are very spacious
and commodious, and are fitted up with
every appliance and convenience for the
trade. The stock is very extensive and
comprises a splendid assortment
from which to make selections.
The goods are made of the very best
materials and finished in a richness of detail.
the utmost perfection and taste being shown
in their ornamentation, cutting and shap-
ing. 1t is a well-established fact that furs
are never out of fashion. particularly in the
metropolis of ST. Paul. although it is occa-
81 ,naly reported in fashionable journals
'that furs Will not be worm" it is easy to
see that these fashionable journals are
not published in St. Paul or vicinity. These
reports are little needed by Messrs. Ransom
& Horton. who know well, as the proper
season approaches, that these rich and costly
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-25
minneapolis & st. Louis.

The present mileage of this road Is s541<
from Minneapolis to Angus, La,
and Hopkins to Morton. Mimi;
connections are with the Burlington,
Cedar Rapids & Northern at AL
bert Lea and Livermore la. This road
operates also the Wisconsin, Minnesota &
Pacific, running from Morton. Mimi, to
Watertown. OAK, 1913 miles, and from
Eagle Lake to Red Wing Mimi. "a miles.
sc miles of this route being the old Cannon
Valley ruad from Wateryille to Red Wing
During the year one mile of track was laid
in Minneapolis to connect with the St. Paul
& n. P. and so new cars Isl freight and 3
passenger), were bought or built. The
present equipment consists Of SO locomO-
tives, 80 passenger cars, 1857 box cars,
665 coal and fiat cars, SO cabOoses and So
stock cars. One new brick car repair shop
has been erected in Minneapolis at cost of
S27,0 About twenty miles of track has
been re-laid with new steel rails, and $780,
900 ties have replaced old ones. Total cost
of Improvements. S1O7.9 92. The enlarge
ment of the NJ. & st. l.. system is contem-
plated, though no definite plans are yet
perfected. The physical condition of the
road has been improved, and is in frst-class
condition throughout Traffic has been in
excess of that of last year, and prospects
for the coming year are tiattering.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-25
st. Paul Union Depot.

The present building is the one remodeled
from the one burned in the summer of 1884,
and at a cost of S125, 900. Cost of new
baggage room, $4,000. New track laid this
year 400 feet from Sibley street to the
Minnesota & Northwestern bridge. cost
SO. 900. These were the principle expendi-
lures for 1885. The idea that the present
depot is inadequate for business is erro-
neous. In midsummer of 1885. the aver
age number of passengers passing through
the depot was IL. 600 daily. and the trains
averaged 17s. Greatest number of cars
handled in any one day, 1885. Average
number of freight cars per day 800. Among
the improvements contemplated will be
train sheds of iron to take the place of the
present wooden ones and to extend to
Broadway. New paving will be placed
at the hack stands fronting the de-
not building. Business for the year has
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-25
Minnesota 81 Northwestern.

Work Oh the Minnesota & Northwestern
began in Aug. 1884. and completed Oct.
3. 1885. Track laying was completed be-
tween St. Paul and Lyle July 4. 1922
miles, at an expense of So, 100, 900. With
the bridge and side-tra in West st. Paul
the road cost 50, $50 900. An extension
from Lyle to Manly junction, twenty and
one-half miles, was completed Dec. 1,
1855, and an extension from Haytield to
Dubuque, ITO miles. is in process of con-
struction, eight miles of it now
being finished. This extension will
be completed by Oct. 1886.
fhe Improvements made by this line within
the city limits aggregate 81, 900, 900, includ-
ing the bridge across the Mississippi river,
cost $500, 00O The company owns 80 acres
of ground in West ST. Paul. brick freight
house, 600x5O feet in size, passenger de-
pots in West st. Paul: IA locomotive with
more coming in few days, and 30 more
in the spring; 500 freight and passenger
cars. to which number 1000 will be added
next spring.
Two daily trains are run between St.
Paul and Chicago and one between st. Paul
and st. Louis and Kansas City.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-25
ST. Paul & Duluth.

This line is an important factor in the
railway system of Minnesota, and as long
as it remains independent it will be pow
erful agent in regulating tariffs. Under its
present management it's service and condi-
ton is being greatly improved and it can
now handle much larger business with
more promptness and economy than it could
a year ago. No new track was laid by the
company this year, but its improvements
amounted to SIS. The company is
contemplating many Improvements along
its line next season, the most important of
which will be at Duluth in terminal facili-
ties. The improvements made by it this
season were as follows: Built new yard,
Rices Point, S39 600; built new yard. Du-
luth. 81. 500: improvements. Duluth docks.
81, 500; built twelve miles fencing $1,000;
built four and one-quarter miles side tIacks,
$14. 600: built station house, Barnum. $3.50;
built station house, Franconia, 600; built
station. Claymont. 1,055; built new tele-
graph line, St. Paul to Duluth. 81, 900: new
wheel lathe, 81, 206; total, SIS, Ill.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-25
Fetsch's paul Morphy" standard; nine
years OF steady growth The above brand
OF cigars has become standard.
1T GIVES US WATER.
A Big Record for the Water Board
..Miles of Mains

Big Record for the Water Board
-.Miles of Mains.
The annual report of the water board
shows al. amount of improvements during
the past year that is wonderful and almost
incredible. The figures given show the
board to be in an exceedingly prosperous
condition. There have been more than
twenty three miles of pipe laid and ovel
sixty-seven miles of mains put down, and
l.0O9 new connections made Water ratei
have been reduced. Secretary Caultield's
report, which deals principally with the tinan
cial part of the board. shows the revenue to
be 5000. 233. Sc: disbursements, S522. 971 "a;
leaving balance of Ss3. 1862. go. OF
the receipts S401. 1855, 81 was derived from
the sale of $500, 900 of bonds. $50, 00e
from temporary loans made; S12, 269 90
from frontage tax. The present bonded
debt is 81 $50. 600; this includes the $50, 0Oe
OF water company's bonds issued by the
city. The total annual interest ON the
bonds is SS4. 800. which is paid out Of the
revenue of the works. One hundred and
seventysiX hyrants have been put in service
this season: 365 low service pipes, and GA
high service. more than double the amount
ever put in in a single year before in this city.
Two hundred and fifty thousand gallons Of
water are being used daily on high service,
and 3, 500. 600 on low service. Recommen-
dations have been made to lay next veal
131. 265 feet OF pipe on various streets at a
cost Of SLIT. 566.41. There are now 8, TAO
water consumers in the city. 47l fire hyrants,
SO sprinkling hydrants, and $40 gates and
valves.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-25
p. HI. KELLY MERCANTILE CO.
Wholesale GrOcers and Tea Inn
pOrterS.


No business house in st. Paul has en-
joyed a greater degree of prosperity during
its many years of existence than that of
the P. FL. Kelly Mercantile company. Be-
sides doing the largest wholesale grocery
business in the Northwest, they import
more teas than all the other houses put to-
gether. and were chiefly instrumental in
the inception and success of carrying out
the new enterprise of making St. Paul the
primary market for distributing teas
throughout all the Western and most of the
Northern states. On the nth of August,
1885, the ship Isabel, from Yokohama.
Japan. arrived at Tacoma. w. T., with a
cargo of %, Ats half-chesLs of Japan tea
consigned to St. Paul, Chicago and New
York. This was the first importation of
teas over the Northern Pacific railroad
and not only opened up new route for this
merchandise, SURPRISING all others in ecOn-
omy and rapidity of transit. but made st.
Paul. as stated before, the primary market.
Being the terminus of the Northern Pacific
railroad. the cost of bringing teas from
Japan to St. Paul is considerably less than
it is to either Chicago or New York.
The P. II. Kelly Mercantile company
were by far the largest shippers, and with
their connections controlled the tonnage of
the vessel. In addition to their Eastern
shipments, they consigned one entire train
load CT 1000 half-chests to st. Paul, COM
prisng the selections of the first crop of the
season of 1856, in all staple grades of
regulars, sun dried Tor pan fred) and bas-
RETIRED. About month ago second
cargo, with the same amount and grade of
teas, arrived at Tacoma, w. T.,
in the ship Artisan. and reached
St. Paul in rapid time by the same route.
Owing to this firms superior facilities for
selecting and buying in Japan, as well as
in the aforementioned economical methods
OF transportation. they are enabled to offer
such superior inducements to buyers as to
give them a decided advantage over any
competition in the country.