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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-09-14

The nebula Of Andromeda is the mothor
OF the new star. Between and 10
O'Clock on any clear evening the newly
born may be found in the eastern sky,
we'll up from the horizon, as a glowing
pointot the eighth magnitude, surround
ed 10y the cloudike mist of the nebua
from which it sprang. A good pair Of
opera glasses win clearly show both the
nebuIa and star
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-09-24
A French Canadian Bride.

At one of the smaller landings, where
the boat did not usually stop unless
signaled, q man was seen standing
gesticulating wildly. The captain came
forward and with an amused expression
.af af.--,-.--------.--s a aAsl the
irslividual was in that wedding party
was coming on board. And his prog
nostication was soon verified, for as
soon as the boat touched the landing
motley procession came trooping down
old and young and middle-aged, from
the infant in arms to the aged couple,
who, John Anderson like, were tottering
down. The procession was headed by
the bride and groom, the latter looking
excessively uncomfortable and out of
place in his "dressed-up" condition ;
but the bride presented great con-
trast to her new-made lord; her self
satisfaction was supreme. AS the cap
tain remarked, "If you really want to
witness happiness and contentment,
you must see French Canadian bride
from the rural districts. She has at
tanned to the height of her ambition !;
she is at last decked out in bridal
finery." She went straight for the
saloon after coming on board, and
looked around little nervously at first,
then sat frigidly down on the extreme
edge of the nearest bench, and cast
down her ewes, as was supposed, in
blushing modesty. But no it was not
modesty; it was her shoes upon which
her admiring glances were directed.
The rest of her costume was common
place, consisting of a black dress OF
some cheap material, which one of the
ladies designated as "luster." She
wore a hat trimmed with a wreath OF
tawdry-looking pink and blue artificial
flowers, while bows OF yellow and green
ribbon relived the somber hue of the
dress. But it remained for the shoes
to give the true bridal character to
this somewhat remarkable toilet. They
were q white kid, low cut, with huge
rosettes on the instep. Her pedal ex-
termities, which were of rather colossal
proportions, were augmented by home
knit wooden stockings, which appeared
just triAe incongruous. Her husband
soon joined her, and took seat beside
her, and as he sat speechless, with his
wife's hand lying in his own, 1T was
| SuDpOStu DC bOO was lOob IL NeAOA
and wonder at the beauty of the slip
pers. A half-hour later found them in
the same position, with the bride still
casting loving glances at her feet.
When the newly welded pair left the
boat they were met by an old man and
young girl, who, by the way they en-
braced the bridegroom, were set down
as his father and sister. The former
took the bride gently by the hand, who
received them with rigid stateliness
The girl timidly ventured to kiss her
newly made sister. The caress was
passively permitted, not returned, and
afterward deliberately wiped off with {
blue cotton pocket.handkerchief. The
last seen of the kid shoes they Were
almost invisible as their owner trudget
up steep sandy hill on hot Angus
afternoon. Fraser Sandman
IN Hdrper's Magazine.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-09-24
UNCLE sis FAMILIAR EPISTLES
TO THE YOUNG.
1-"A Life On the Ocean Wave."

"DEAR UNCLE 81: Pa wants me to be
n minister, but L want to be sailor,
and get to be sea-cap'n, and sail all
over the world. Would you be sailor,
if you was me?"
This is the beginning, and all
that need be published, of a
note received few days since from q
lad of IA, as he states; and to which L
reply, as follows:
SO YOU wish to be q sailor, my boy !;
become q sea-ranger, Jack-Tar, an
"old salt" q "shell-bark" of the vastly
deep, ell, your father wishing to make
q parson of you? You prefer to go
down to the sea in ships and do busi-
ness upon the great waters to going up
into the pulpit and doing business as
an expounder of theology, eh? Well,
there is great disparity in the wishes
of your father and yourself, my lad.
Many would look upon it as step
from the sublime to the ridiculous, in
one who, rather than be a pulpiteer,
would go forth to be toiler of the
troublous seas; but, under the circum-
stances-you desire to be rover on
the bounding billows-I don't look at it
in that light, my boy, and for this rea-
son: No one whose heart beats IN
unison with the tumultuous heavings
of the vastly deep, can ever delve sue
cessfully in the somber depths
of theology. With your heart float
ing out in the surging sea,
the rest of your corporeal parts would
be as out of place in the pulpit as q
bull in china shop; therefore you had
better leave the pulpit to him who
feels he has "call" in that direction,
and go your way upon the raging main.
But, my boy, have you thought suf
| ficiently of "a life on the ocean wave
and a home on the rolling deep?" ol
we've you caught by the inspiriting song
"a Life on the Ocean Wave"-whicl
| throws glamour over the domain of the
shark and the octopus, and divers scaly
submarine toughs, which glamour, wher
abroad on said domain, you will never
discover in century of Sundays, sal
you where you will or where you may
1t is oil very well to sing of life OF
the ocean wave, when comfortabl,
fixed on terra firma-the song is {
rousing one, and stirs the blood anC
fires the imagination; you can feel th
spray as it comes swooping over TIN
ships bows and cools your feyeret
cheek; you can hear the patter of TIN
reef points, the swash of the sea as
swIrls under the counter, the clatter o
the sheets and halyards, the groaninl
of the timbers, the creaking of TIN
spars, the rattle of the chains, tn
shrieks of the gale, and score O
other sounds, a medley of melod
in your auricular appendages, whe
Imagination is fired by the song
but il is shekels to shingles that it
never sung aboard ship by the old o
Young "salts" thereon. No, my boy
thev know what "a life on the ocea
wave" is; that the glamour of romano
is not spread thereon like honey on
buckwheat; and if they ever sing, it
of something else something the
J know nothing about, probably, wher
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-09-24
Toot Part in Perrv,s Victory.

A. II. NJ. Fitzsimmons, of Reading,
writes to the Detroit Free Press as follows:
I'm your issue of to- day you give an in
teryiew with gentleman who claims he
saw the engagement on Lake Erie, known
as Perrys Victory There is now living
in the Township of California, Branch
County, this State. Mr.. Alexander Odren,
who was in tho battle under Commodore
Barclay, and was taken prisoner by
Perrys forces at that battle. Mr.. .Odren is
of French descent. lived in Detroit at the
time was over in Canada with two other
Young men, and was arrested and pressed
into the British service. After the battle
he was taken as prisoner TO Erie, where
he enlisted in our army and served until
the close of the war. He is now a pen
soner at SO per month for such services.
After the war Mr.. Odren returned TO De-
troit, and owned ten acres of land at or near
where the City Hall now stands, which he
sold in 1886 for $40 per acre and bought
the land on which he now lives, having
moved on il in 1897. He has lived there
continuously since. Mr.. Odren is 96 years
old, is active and intelig mt, and relates
the old scenes of those days as if they were
Of but yesterday. Nothing delights hinf
more than TO get with some Frenchman
with whom he can talk in the Ia guage of
his boyhood. His wife is still living and
also enjoying good health, although she has
been blind for n number of years. They
have raised large family of children, most
of whom live near them"
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-09-24

banker for pre-adamitic hard-tack, by
courtesy yclept shipbread;" if you
yearn for the toothsome lobscouse, the
"salt-horse" of leatherY toughness, the
rancid mess pork. and other pleasan-
tries of the fo'c's'le's festive board; if
your souls in arms, as it were, and
eager for the roaring gale when seas
run mountain high, anon to tumble
into caverns sheol deep; if you sigh
for the rollicking roll and pitch of the
disabled ship in the trough of the angry
sea; if you pine for the hospitable lee
shore, off which the breakers chant
gleeful welcome; if you long for the
excitement consequent upon the ship
going to pieces in said breakers, with
life Gf you save it, of seclusion on
desert isle for weeks or months, raw
fish and crabs your only menu; or, to
vary matters, If You don't object to the
ship taking fire IN mid-ocean, rather
liking the idea of taking to the boats
in the open. sea, thereon to drift for
days under o broiling sun, with hunger
and thirst getting In their work on the
internal economy of your corporeal
system, death or cannibalism staring
you in the face; if you itch for the dull
routine and dreary monotony of q
months drifting in the "dol-
drums;" in short, if you are pre-
pared to brave the hard fare, hard
labor, and hard masters you
will find on shipboard if you like
the now well-nigh finished picture,
in "distemper, of "a home on the rolling
deep"-the best thing you can do is to
seek that "home" as quickly as pos
sible, for you will never be "at home"
in any other calling. Albeit, you would
be "all at sea" in the pulpit. yet is the
pulpit no place for you, my lad. This
is only paradox, you understand, the
business end of which, in your case,
points toward the sea, whittier you
'"HYes Yes, my my boy, sail IN and 6e sailor
If you can't get billet as horse
car pilot-and sail on to sea captain
cy, which you can snatch from the hand
of fortune if you have the sand" and
the quicksands of adverse fate do not
gather you in. But, my boy, before
you decide to sail in" read "Two
Years Before the Mast" and ponder
we'll the same. If that work, and the
picture L have tried to linn for you,
suffice not to deter you from sailing
in, then sail at once and stand not upon
the order, nor your fathers wish, which,
carried out, would spoil a good sailor,
perhaps, in the making of apoor par
son. = Uncle 81, i1e Chicago Ledger.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-09-24

LEARNING to read the English Ian
guage," says Frederick A. Fernald, in
the Popular Science Monthly, "is
one of the worst mind-stunting proc
esses that have formed part of the
general education of any people. Its
evil influence arises from the partly
phonetic, partly lawless character of
English spelling" He further says
"The spelling OF each word must be
learned by sheer force of memory. In
this work the pupils reasoning powers
can not be utilized, but must be sub
dued, while his memory is sadly over
worked. In the affairs of the child's
daily life the logical following out Of
rules is rewarded. In learning to spell
it brings him only discontinue and be-
wilderment." And again: "On the
other hand, the child has been ex-
pected to develop strong logical facili-
ties. Thus, boy who had long been
at the foot of his spelling class was one
day given the word ghost, and, making
desperate attempt at the sort of spell
ing he had oftenest heard succeed, ne
spelled it g-h-o-g-h-j-s-t. This bring
ing upon him shouts of laughter, he
said, with clinched fist and fearful
eyes: you needn't laugh; you all spell
homelier m thatp"
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-09-24
ALL SORTS.

SAVANNAH, Ga, has put up $4,000, 900
worth of buildings this season.
A SMYRNA (Del.) pastor refuses $4,000
for corn harvester invention.
MICHAEL WAGNER, who died at New
Riegel, Ohio, was 102 years old.
FIVE daily papers in New York have sus-
pended publication since the 1st OF last
January.
CHARLOTTE M. YoNGE is now past Go,
but since 1854 she has written 12O books of
various sizes.
The latest map of the British dominions
includes lands at the south pole as well as
islands near the Antarctic circle.
THE Queen has granted q pension of
$500 year to tho widow and children of
the late Mr.. Radcliffe, the cholera investi-
Qntor.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-09-24
Crushed to Death.

A special from Ann Arbor says: At 4
o'clock Sunday mort ing tenement house
in the rear OF a shoe-shop on Fourth street
fell in and killed colored woman, Mrs.
Ausman Bailey. There were ten persons
in the house before it fell. They were
Will Bibbns and family; Ben Williams
and VIII Hinch up stairs, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Au,man Bailey and Mr.. Tolbert.
down stairs, all co,ored. All escaped with
slight injuries, save Mrs. Bailey. She was
about GO years old and had been affected
with paralysis for several years She had
risen up in bed as the crash came, when
she was struck by the brick wall. She was
heard to scream when struck. Her remains
were secured after two hours work by the
Fire Department.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-09-24
MICHIGAN AFFAIRS.

The champion roller skater is begin
ming to bob up in different parts of the
State.
An Adrian man has a horse which he
wants to match against any other horse in
q walking match.
jacob Hancock, who had resided in
Hillsdale County since 1889, died in Cam
bria township, aged 7G years.
Addison, Lenawee County with pop
ulation of about four hundred, has four
doctors and an equal number of druggists
Mrs. Hannah Phctteplace, of Madison
Township, died last week, aged go She
was one of the earliest settlers of Lenawee
County.
AT Crystal Falls fire destroyed Bishop
g. Runkles building, the Green Bay
House, and several smaller buildings
Loss, $30C00; insurance, $4,000.
Some resident of Toledo, whose name
for property in Detroit valued at $4,OO0,-
900. The person claims to be a long-lost
heir TO the Dequindre family.
There are over 400 boys in the reform
school at Lansing. New cottages are about
to be erected for the boys, who are divided
into families of fifty each. The new hos
pital building is well under way. few
cases of diphtheria have been reported, but
as n rule the inmates have excellent health
An increased attendance this year Mt
the Michigan Agricultural College is cred
tied to Mr.. Willis, its new President. He
is energetic and efficient. If anybody can
0lAgnt tba bit upjoto tdre' itnrs rmTed to
persuade large proportion of its graduates
that farming is desirable occupation. Be-
ing farmers sons, they may have thought it
was not before they went there and went
Only to get an education and avoid farm
life.-Free Press.
The action Of the Detroit Justice of the
Peace in protecting witness from what he
believed to be an attorneys imrertinent
question. is good example for ali the
courts to follow. am here for both
sides, said the Justice in answer 10 an in
sole remark Of the attorney. Judges are
altogether too prone to allow the attorneys
to conduct cases to suit themselves, regard
less of the rights of the witnesses or the
appropriateness Of the ground they try to
occupy. In this case the attorney resented
the interruption, because, he slid, the
lawyer on the other side hadn't objected.
| The idea that nothing cou d be improperor or
| illegal unless the other side cllled the
novelty. 1t is altogether too much OF
novelty y-Frce Press.
William NJ. +. Round, OF New York,
Secretary of the National Prison Associa-
ton of the Unit d States, visited Detroit
last week, to perfect arrangements for the
meeting of the association in that city Oct.
II to u. He says the coming meeting
promises to be very successful one
large number of prom nent mea are to take
| part in the proceedings. Ex- President Il.
| B. Hayes will BE- permanent Chairman, be-
| ing already President of the association.
Among others who will probably be pes
| ent, most Of whom will read papers are
| Theodore Ropseve.t. Treasurer of the as
sociition; Judge Francis Wayland, Dean of
the Yale Law School, Charles Dudley
Warner, Professor Carleton T. Lewis, of
New York; representatives. of the Govern
ment from the Departments of War and
Justice and many others of national repu-
| tation.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-09-24
Moman,s Extrayagance.

This talk about woman's extrava-
gance is only accepted as truth because
the male man keeps the ledgers and his
wife has nothing but debit in them.
It isn't fair. If man were to deal hon
estly and squarely aud figure up his own
expenses and all he gets for them, the
woman would rise up before him per-
feet angel of sense in expenditure and
make him blush.-San Francisco
Chronicle.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-09-24

| One night, Barney DAILY and johnny Malone
Tim Deegan. and two of the Cooneys
| Sat down 20 a nice little spree of their own,
In dacent old Judy Mulrooney's
| The order was given. the liquor brought In,
| And the glasses arranged on the table
| Aud drink the good stuff while we're able"
More power, Tim Deegan; come, give us your
It's yourself that knows how to please
Barney.
Come, now, Mr.. DAILY, and just how'd your
And give us no more of your blarney"
"A round more for me" cries out Johnny
Says Judy, "II make you wager
That this is dhrop of the real Inishown,
That ne er saw the face OF the gauger.
"Arrah, Judy" says Johnny, as sleek as mouse,
i know YOU are reckoned a Doteeni
But the water was not very scarce in the house
On the day that you christened the potheen."
Nora drop that would moisten you quicker,
10 empty your glasses, and order in more,
And show that you love the good liquor"
Come, Ned, you and Tim haven't stood treat
tonight,
So call in a round and be dacent,
And show that the Cooneys can do what is
right"
Said Tim. with look so complacent
Here, in with more liquor" replied Tim and
For never a one of the Cooneys
Was caught in a mean thing, or put into dread,
Or turned out OF Judy Mulrooney's."
So the drinking went on. and they shouted and
Attending meanwhile to their smoking;
There were flashes of wit, and good deal OF
slang
And rather too much pointed joking
"Arrahl Tim, do you mind of the last Lammas
When YOU fought with young Mickey Null
heron,
And shouted for help like pig in despair?
FalX, I'm thinking he gave you your fairin'.
Then Johnny Malone gave the Uaure u ununrp,
And shouted, "Hurrah for the Cooneys!"
And then the whole party got up with jump,
That night in poor Judy Mulrooney's
And they rushed at each other with venomous
rage,
While smash went the tumblers and glasses,
And they worried each other like bears in
cage,
And shouted and roared like wild asses.
Tim Deegan hit Johnny Malone on the nose,
And hoored him as fiat as a founder,
And dealt both the Cooneys few weighty
With fist like thlrty-two FOUNDER.
They fought and they tumbled o'er tables and
And used jugs and jars and shillelahs,
For the Cooneys were never too choice in their
tools
When carving the heads of the Daleys.
Some Joined in the fray, but the cream OF the
joke
CTis picture of facts that I'm wrting)-
Although they got nothing the wrath to pro-
woke,
They fought for the fun of the fighting
1t happened, however, that no one was killed,
Tho every one there was well battered,
And great deal of blood in the parlors was
spilled.
And their clothing was dreadfully tattered.
friends
Till drink came their reason to smother,
And changed them from brothers to fools ana
to fiends,
To hate and destroy one another
= -, A.. - 49,, 80. ,,,o,. . o,l 90 Iie schanas
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-09-24
Trlcycles and Dress Reform.

A tricycle-riding woman must turn
her attention to dress reform. The
present voluminous skirts will strike
her as cumbrous and "in the way )"
she must wear sensible underclothing,
and corsets must be discarded. Here
are three small reforms which, if uni
versally instituted, would reduce the
death-rate ten per l. 900 among women.
= Cleveland din-Dedter.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-09-24

"A reward of $3.50 will be paid for the
body. whether dead or alive, Of Clarence
Pierson, IL years of age. who wandered
from his homo, in the township of Victor,
Clinton County, on Tuesday evening,
August 90.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-09-24
FRACTURED Their Skulls.
[Eugene City tOregon) speclal.l

Eugene UIty lUregon specIaII
Mrs. s. M. Yoren, wife Of the proprietor
of the Register, and Mrs. Thompson, her
mother, while out riding to-day, were
thrown from their dog-cart. The skulls
of both women were fractured. Both are
unconscious, and there is no hope OF their
recovery.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-09-24

A GOAT browsing on green sward
approached o pig-pen, and said to its
occupant. Why do you stay in that
horrid place, when there's such a lovely
spot as this handy - The pen is
mightier than the sward, grunted the
pig.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-09-24

The acting Comptroller Of the Curen-
CIV has authorized the Pontiac National
Bank. of Pontiac. to again begin business
with capital of 100000.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-09-24
COTTON.
Statistics of the Year.
New Orleans speciall

The annual report of the National Cot
ton Exchange shows the cotton movement
of the United States for the year ending
August 81 to be as follows:
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-09-24

friends
Till drink came their reason to smother,
And changed them from brothers to fools ano
to fiends,
To hate and destroy one another.
In vain the reformer may tell of his schemes,
And write about Erins disorders:
His plans will be futile and baseless as dreams
Till drink be expelled from her borders.
Ouahap
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-09-24
AN IRISH SCENE.
BY s. MOORE.

One night, Barney DAILY and johnny Malone,
Tim Deegan. and two of the Cooneys
Sat down TO nice little spree of their own,
In dacent old Judy Mulrooney's.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-11-12

boarding with friends or others, or
doing sewing, teaching, ETC., in the
winter season. A remarkable DEM
onstration of the good state Of soci-
ETY., and the absence Of disreputable
characters, is the fact that some Of
these ladies have lived in entire secu-
rity upon their claims in their little
dwellings, feeling safe by night and
by day. It certainly requires consid-
erabls courage to do this; but SO far
as We can learn, there have been no
instances of disturbances or insult
Indeed, we think that that Vermont
society once in existence, if not now,
which aimed to provide homes in the
West for teachers and other single
ladies, might well turn its attention
to Dakota. There are many young
men Of good character who have
lived in their lonely dwellings, ani
who have now got into comfortabl,
positions as farmers, that would NJ
doubt welcome intelligent, comel,
single ladies as owners of neighbor
ng farms and not be at all 10th to en-
ter into permanent partnership.