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Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-06-25
MISCELLANEOUS.

General Middleton has arrived at
Beaver River, in the Northwest Territory,
with 200 cavalry and two Calling guns.
Colonel Smith with three companies has
crossed the river on his way to Cold Lake and
waterpan. Big Bear is of to Green Lake,
and there is little hope of q speedy end TO the
campaign.
The Austrian Government has inti-
mated that IL can not grant an exequatur to
Charles Jonas, of Wisconsin, recently APP
pointed United States Consul ut Prague. The
action is due to Mr.. Jones writings while
student in Bohemia, many years ago.
The Indian exhibit at the New Or
leans Exposition will probably he presented
to the French Government, as the respre-
sentatives of that nation have indicated
desire to secure the collection, which exhibits
the progress made by the Indian tribes
toward civilization. The ontire Government
exhibit has been transported to Washing
ton, 1,SOO cars being required for the
purpose. A part of the exhibit will probably
be turned over to the Smithsonian Insti-
tuition for permanent exhibition.
Perry and William Melton, father
and son, were hanged at Farmersville, La,
for the unprovoked murder of John w. Cher
ry, an old farmer, year ago. Charles
Campbell was executed at Pointe a la Hache,
La, for killing Theodore Tuplevich last Au-
gust. ueury Erncriuge, coiored, was nanged
for murder at Clinton, Ga. George schnei-
der was strung up ut Hamilton, Ohio, for the
murder of his mother, and william Morrow
10. IL
ing a colored man named Dick Overflow
A mob OF masked men stormed the jail at
Coshocton, Ohio, and took out Henry How
ard, negro, who had assaulted two young
women. A confession was extorted from the
culprit, and he was then. hanged to a tree in
the Court House yard.-At Richmond, Va,
T. ]. Cluverius was sentenced to be hanged
Nov. 80 for the murder of Fannie Lillian
Madison.
There were ITO failures in the United
States during the week, against 1917 in the
preceding week and 1877, 17s, and 1877 in the
corresponding weeks of 1884, 1888, and 1882,
respectively. Brddstreers, in its weekly re-
view of the condition of trade, says:
Especial kilograms from the larger
cities throughout the United States con-
tinue the record of almost uniform
midsummer duilness. At a few OF the
smaller cities there has been an improved
demand for loans, notably at Detroit. Al
the larger trade centers the reverse is true,
with the sole exception of Cincinnati, where
the demand for money Is mainly to move the
new clip of wool. The volume of produce
and general merchandise moving throughout
the country Is light, probably smaller than
| at a like period last year."
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-06-25

military leader OF Germany IL announced
that OF Field Marshal Baron Won Manteunei,
the Governor of Alsace- Lorraine. He was
70 years OF age. The news OF his death COM
pletsly Frustrated the Emperor william.
London dispatch: "A terrible explo-
sion took place In tho Pendlebury colliery.
near Manchester. There were working In the
mine at the time IL occurred $40 miners. One
hundred and sixty OF these were at work in
the level in which the explosion occurred.
20i have been recovered alive, twenty-five
bodies have been taken out and 122 are still
unaocounted for. The work OF exploring is
impeded by bad ventilation and water"
BY the laundering of the French
Funboat Reynard I'm q recent cyclone I'm the
Gulf Of Alden, 127 persons--the entire crew
were lost.
The Ameer of Cabul is massing his
troops in Afghan Toorkistan, which action
viii endanger the Russian forces should they
move toward the Oxus River.
One hundred and sixty persons are
known to have been killed by the explosion
in the Pendlebury Colliery, near Manchester,
England.
The French Chamber of Deputies
have defeated a measure for the exemption
or priests from service In the army reserves
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-06-25
The Treasury Department has de-

The Treasury Department has de-
holes or sprung slaves are not entitled 10 the
benefits allowed in cases OF casualty.
In contracting for supplies for the
Freedman's Hospital for the next fiscal year
the Secretary of the Interior has made q
saving OF Sl,55D from the prices paid for
supplies during the present year.
The judgment of the Court OF
Claims in the Pacinc Railroad case, for S1,57T,-
COS in favor OF the Government has been
formally entered, the Attorney General hav-
ing decided TO make no further contest over
the computation OF the earnings of the Kan
sas Pacific branch. Payments already made
and other set-offs will reduce the indebted
ness upon this judgment to about 100000.
In pursuance of Secretary Manning's
economical policy, 800 persons employed as
storekeepers, gaugers, ETC., in the internal
revenue service have been removed since
March 20.
The War Department has received a
telegram from Capt. Bennett, of the Ninth
Cavalry, at Fort Reno, Indian Territory,
stating that Lieut.. Stevens, of the Ninth
Cavalry, has returned from Oklahoma after
having thoroughly secuted the country. No
boomers were found in Oklahoma.
The wives of three naval officers
having Joined their husbands in Japan, the
latter have been detached from duty for
violating an order forbidding naval officers
from having their wives with them on for
eign stations.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-06-25
SOUTHERN.

All the gambling houses in Memphis
have been closed by the police.
"A ram-storm IN Dyer una adIacent
counties, Tennessee, entailed a loss of over
100000.
Seven passengers were injured, one
fatally, by the overturning of a stage coach
near Abilene, Texas
On Chincoteague Island, in Virginia,
William Freeman, aged eighteen, shot limo
thy Hills, his wife, and daughter, and then
killed himself. He had been Tilted by the
daughter.
The operating expenses Of the South
ern Pacific Railway being in excess OF the
earnings, a number of general officials Of
the company have been asked TO resign.
Since the beginning of the year $500 names
have been stricken from the pay-rolls.
Job Barbour and Horace Terrill, both
colored, were hanged at Charlottesville, Va,
the former for the murder of Randall Jack
son, and the latter for the murder of Mary
Foster. Barbour confessed his crime on the
s,affod.
George e. Pyers, convicted wife
beater, was publicly whipped by Sheriff at
Baltimore.
Link Banks, desperate, entered
James II. Frazier's store at whitesburg,
KY, and, drawing his revolver, said TO Mr..
Frazier that they would settle accounts. Mr..
Frazier snot tho rufSan dead. In Knott
County. Kentucky, tho war between the
Hall and Jones factions is still raging. Nine
men have been killed on both sides during
the last three weeks.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-06-25
ssOld Iniin Rubber"

The author of "Up and Down the r.
rawaddy" relates the following incident
of his visit, on an elephants back, to
the Caves of Gautama, and an encoun-
ter with huge boa constructor:
"Shorly after emerging from the jun
gle, our iveliest curiosity was aroused
by the eccentric movements of our ele-
plant, and the sudden excitement of his
mahout, or driver. The man was lean
ing over the head of his beast, explor-
ing the ground before him on each side
with anxious scrutiny, talking all the
while to the elephant, in quick, sharp
CALCULATIONS, sometimes shrill, some
times subdued, sometimes almost whis
pered in his ear.
"'Old Iniin Rubber'-the name of
our elephant-crept forward cautiously
Gmagine an elephant on tip toe hesi-
tarInB, SUSPICIOUS, y1giiant, defensive,
holding his precious trunk high in the
air. Presently he stopped short, stared
before him in evident agitation, for
felt the mass of flesh vibrating beneath
me as when heavy-laden wagon crosses
o suspension bridge.
Suddenly, with trumpet pointed to
buo SKY, u6 OlcW buhIp, OIdLou DldSg,
and trotted forward. At the same mo-
ment an exultant exclamation from the
mahout told the story in word:
@'The boa the boap
Right in the path, where the sun
was hottest, lay serpent, his vast
length OF splendid ugliness gorged,
torpid and motionless-not coiled, but
outstretched, PROSTATE and limp-ab-
ject under the weight of his own glut-
tony. The boa-constrictor had just
dined.
"'Old Injin Rubber paused, as if for
instructions; he received them from the
mahout's boat-hook on the back of his
skull. Half dozen more rolls and
lurches, and he planted his huge fore
foot on the drunken dragons head.
The monster wriggled and squirmed,
now twisting his great girth in SEEM
ingly everlasting knots; now erecting
all his length, without kink, in the
air; now thrashing the ground with re-
sounding stripes, till at last, beaten out,
his strength all spent, even his tail sub
dued, he lay dead. Then again and
again the elephant tossed the serpent's
dying bulk Indignantly in the air, and
dashed it to the earth"
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-06-25
WESTERN.

Des Moines Qowa) dispatch: ere
ports sent in to the different insurance COM
panies of Des Moines show that the damage
by the late storms is heavier than first re-
ported. In Ida, Woodbury., Monona, Cerro
Gordo, Sac, and Greene Counties the loss
was heaviest. In and about Sioux City the
damage is Appropriated at Sl50,OOO In
Buena Vista County largo number
of farm-houses were bown from their
foundations. In the western portion Of
the State, as far south as Pottawatta-
mic county una rne TWO uortrrru
tiers of counties. houses, barns corn-cribs,
fences, and live stock were scattered all
over the prairies. The Hawkeye and State
Insurance Companies, of Des Mones, and
the Home, of Sioux City, are the heaviest
losers in the northern and western parts of
the State, and the Pacific and Continental
the heaviest in the eastern part An officer
of the Hawkeye Company says the total loss
from both storms may aggregate SEQ 0Oo,
OF which probably third is covered by In
surance."
The tenth meeting of the American
Association of Nurserymen, Florists, and
Seedsmen was held at Chicago with $50 MEM
bers in attendance.
The flour production of the Minneap-
oils mills last week was but 46,5l2 barrels
the smallest since the milling there reached
its present proportions.
A magazine at Pueblo, Col, contain
iRs N 9N tacp Wss e and a RSBBaaAE
ut mark on the door of the magazine. Tho
riieman was killed, his companion fatally
wounded, and buildings within a radius of
two miles more or less injured.
Ex-senator James w. Nesmith died
at Derry, oregon, I'm his sixty-sixth year.
His end was peaceful, and death was as II
sinking to sleep. He had been in failing
health for some time, his mind having be-
come impaired He achieved national fame
as the great Democratic War Senator from
1861 to the close of the rebellion.
Ernot Reburg, an ex-Mexican war
veteran and the Oldest member of the Grand
Army of the Republic in the United States,
died at Vancouver, w. T., aged ninety-one
years.
During the year 1884, 1926 insurance
policies were written in Illinois by life and
accident companies, the risks aggregating
$22, 453,3s9. The amount paid in premiums
was 81, 23s, 421; losses paid, 81, $1,000.
The Illinois crop report for June
shows that the area planted TO corn this sea-
son is much larger than last season, owing,
probably to the failure of the wheat crop in
many parts of the State. There has been
more complaint of insects this season than
heretofore, and the stand of corn is very un-
even, owing to the repeated replanting.
without a favorable fall for maturing the
crops there will be an unusual amount OF
damaged corn on the market. The corn has
generally been well cultivated, and since the
first of June has made very satisfactory
growth. The root-web worm, which has
damaged the crops in many counties of the
State, has disappeared or ceased TO do any
damage since the first of June.
Sam Lawrence and Charles Barry
members of Coles Circus Company, sho
each other fatally in a dispute at Houghton
Mich.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-06-25
Mexican Flowing.

The average Mexican peon is said not
to be q success with pair of FIVE hun
dred. pound steers hitched to modern
sulky pillow. He reclines luxuriously
In his seat, however, and tears up fur
row two inches deep-after fashion.
The ancient pillow to which he is used,
says q correspondent of the New York
EUeni1lg Post, is stick of hardwood
four or five inches in diameter, sharp
shod with iron. About the middle of
this the beam is attached, and at the
back end single handle. The beam
has cross-piece, to which the oxen's
horns are dashed with rawhide. The
peon then takes the handle in his right
hand and long goad-stick in his left.
The pillow makes round-bottomed gut
ter in the ground two or three inches
deep, sometimes deeper if the ground
is in good condition. This gutter is
about as straight as a rut in New Jer-
sey clay road, and varies about the
same in depth. The ridge of hard
earth that remains between these gut
tiers varies in width from an inch to
four or five inches at the top.-Chi-
cdlO Tribune.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-06-25
NEWS CONDENSED.
EASTERN.

The first night spent by Con. Grant
IN the mountains was bad one for the Illus
trious invalid, and he arose from his couch
ia the morning in q depressed condition.
During the day no walked a few times around
the cottage, and once TO the brow OF tho
mountain, returning In an exhausted state.
He indicated by sigma that no wanted
writing paper. and then penned two letters,
one being headed, Memoranda for My
Family the other Icing addressed 20 DIR.
Douglas. In the former document he stated
that he thought he was failing, and gave
certain instructions. DIR. Sands was hur-
riedly summoned from New York.-It is
stated that the charges OF the physicians at
tending General Grant have been ascer-
tanned; that through private contributions
their bills up to the present time have been
Ii luidated, and that a balance of $500 re-
mains.
Chauncey Depew, of New York, has
been elected President OF the New York
Central Railroed Company, 10 fill the va
cancy caused by the death OF Mr.. James II.
Rutter.
Lamson & Goodnow, cutlery manu-
facturers at shelburn Falls, Mass, are re-
ported insolvent with liabilities of several
hundred thousand dollars.
Twenty-Five iron mills in Pittsburgh
have resumed operations since the signing
of the scale.
Buddensiek, the builder of man-traps
in New York, has been found guilty OF man
slaughter.
Dispatches from Mount MacGregor
state that Gen. Grant has been greatly i'm
proved by his removal TO the mountains.
The swelling in the neck and the irritation
of the throat have decreased, and the Gen.
eral has partially recovered his voice.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-06-25

AN eminent scientific man lately paid
a visit to an old college chum, minis
ter in Perthshire. The minister being
asked about the visit, said: HE came
to see me here some time ago and
stayed day or two. He is terribly un-
sound" "You had q tough argument,
L dare say" "'Deed had we; he is
awful clever, and we sat up half the
night debating. He is awful unsound."
"But you felt that you had the best OF
the argument, didn't you @Weel,
am not vera sure that I made much
impression he is awful clever; but /
was upsides in the mornin'." "How?"
II pat him Until my prayer.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-06-25
She Caught a Severe Cold In Jerusa.
lem In 1868.

lem In 1868.
On est-bound Michigan Central
train the other day were delicate-ap-
pearing young woman and an lntelli-
gent-looking young man, evidently hus-
band and wife. Immediately behind
this couple sat the man-to be found
on every train, who would die If not
permitted to hear the sound of his own
voice at all times and in all places.
The young lady had troublesome
cough, a fact which seemed to bother
the talking machine behind her greatly.
At last he leaned forward and addressed
her escort:
THAT gals got bad cough"
Eyes"
@Ever try catnip tea?"
"She hasn't drank anything else for
more than two hundred years. She
caught a severe cold in 1868. 1 had
fifty barrels of catnip tea put into the
baggage car for her use between here
and Chicago" (Pauso)
"Lungs?"
"No, bunions. That's purely bunion
cough you will notice, if you watch her
closely"
"Aint the draft leetle strong from
that Window" after longer pause.
"No, she has to have it. It takes
$4,000 pounds of air to make her q re-
spectacle breath. We have q patent
breath incubator which she uses at
home. 1t covers 1900 acres of valu-
able land"
did you say she was your wife?"
mo; didn't say anything of the
sort. She's one of these new-fashioned
Internal machines that Pm taking over
to England to blow up the Queen. The
only trouble is that 1 am subject to
fits, and when 1 get one of them break
things up terrible"
What brings them on to your"
talking. Why, it was only yester-
day that l killed three men, a woman,
and pair of twins before I could be.
got under control. 1 feel very queer
about the head now. I"
Il reckon I'll go out into the smokin'
car" said the bore, siding out of the
seat. Il don't feel very we'll myself"
Don't hurry away" shouted the
young man, while general litter ran
through the Charlottesville Courier
Journal.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-06-25
A Secretion That Con.aminates the Blood.

A Secretion That Contsminates the Blood.
When the bile is diverted from It's proper
channels, into the blood, which is always the
case in liver complaints. it ceases to be healthy
secretion, and becomes poison. It's abnormal
presence in the circulation and stomach Is in
dicated by the suffusion of the skin with a
hatfsea. paff m rfte- right side and under the
right shoulder blade, by indigo stion, obstruc-
ton OF the bowels, and other minor symptoms.
Order may be substituted for this state of chaos,
and further bodily evil averted by using the
benehcent Alternative and tonic, Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters, which, by relaxing the bowels,
promotes the escape from the circulation OF
bilious impurities, besides rendering the action
of the liver regular, and removing everv trace
OF dyspepsia This pleasant and purely vegeta-
BILE antt-bilious medicine is not only Infinitely
more effective than any form of mercury, but Il
is.on account OF its freedom from hurtful prop
critics, infinitely to be preferred to that poison
GUS drug,
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-06-25
Daniel Webster's Personal Finances.

On one occasion Webster had invited
some friends to dinner. AS he left
home in the morning he requested his
wife to send John down to the Office
about ten o'clock to go to market with
him. John came down accordingly.
Mr.. Webster was busy writing. He
asked John if he had any money. John
replied in the negative. @Then," said
Mr.. Webster, ego down to Mr.. Bur-
rift and ask him to lend me So" bur
rift was stationer in the lower story
John came back and stated that Mr..
D.a--:At ls5 not S5 -l--t~.~osse mini Stv,
which Webster took and put in his
waistcoat pocket. Pretty soon a poor
woman came in on an alm-asking
errand. Said Webster, still writing:
II know all about it; you've lost your
husband and have five small children
and nothing to eat. Take thisl" and
he gave her the ten-dollar note which
John had borrowed from Mr.. Burritt.
BY and by he finished his work and re-
marked to his servant: "Now, John,
we'll go to market" Down they went
through Court and Washington streets
and Dock Square to Quincy Market,
DelOW Eh0cull 1hlls MI. WeDSbeI
bought of the butchers at the south end
of the market what suited him, but
made no payments, as he had accounts
with them. At last they reached a
vegetable dealer of whom Webster also
made purchase and was about to pass
on as before when the faithful John ar
rested him with the remark: "Mr.
Webster, this man is a stranger to us
we never had dealings with him."
"True," said the great lawyer, "very
true" and put his hand in his pocket
for the money to pay the amount.
Finding none. he said to his servant !:
"John, I thought you gave me some
money just now?" $50 1 did, sir, but
you gave it to that poor woman who
came into the Office" "Ah," said Web
ster, $50 did, but l had forgotten all
about it. Well, John, you must bor-
row some more money and come down
and pay these people; and now we will
go home. Ben: Perley Poore, IN the
ROatO7l B1Ld0eL
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-06-25
Browns Little .Ioke.

why, Brown, how short your coat is,, n
wittily replied: 'Yes; but it will be long
enough before get another" Some men
spend 80 much for medicines that neither
heal nor help them, that new clothes is with
them like angels visits-few and far be-
tween. Internal fevers, weakness of the
lungs, shortness OF breath and lingering
coughs soon yield TO the magic influence of
that royal remedy, DIR. Il. ". Pierces Golden
Medical Discovery"
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-06-25
FOREIGN.

The cholera is spreading in Spain.
In one day 401 new cases and 23s deaths
were reported Tho French Government
sent a commission to Spain to study the
origin and progress OF the epidemic.
The death OF another distinguished
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-06-25
G500 Reward

The former proprietor Of DIR. Sage's Ca
tarrh Remedy, for years made a standing,
public offer in all American newspapers of
$500 reward for case of catarrh that he
could not cure. The present proprietors have
renewed this offer. All the druggists sell this
remedy, together with the "Douche," and all
other appliances advised to be used in con-
nection with it. No catarrh patient is longer
able TO say &c cannot be cured" You get
$500 in case of failure
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-06-25
MrNsMAN's PEproNIzrp BEEF Tonic. Il

MENsMAN's PEProNIzED BEEF Tonic, the
only preparation of beef containing it's en-.
tire nutritious properties. 1t contains blood
making, force generating, and DEMONSTRATING
properties; invaluable for indigestion, dys-
pepsia, nervous prostration, and oil forms Of
general debility; Also in all enfeebled condi-
lions, whether the result of exhaustion, nerv-
GUS prostration, over-work, or acute disease,
particularly IL resulting from pulmonary
complaints. Caswell, Hazard & Co., proprle-
tors, New York. Sold by druggists.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-06-25
A Barrel Hammock.

Bring your old flour barrel from the
cellar or storeroom, knock it to pieces,
clean and paint the slaves. Procure o
rope four times the length of the place
where il is to be suspended, and in size
a little larger than clothes line. Now
halve the rope, double each piece in the
middle, and commencing two yards or
so from the end, weave it over and un-
der each stave about three inches from
the end of each one, which will bring
the rope crossed between each; do both
sides the same and your hammock is
complete. One end Of the rope should
be fastened up higher than the other.
At first this may not seem firm, but
when there is any weight on it, the
rope becomes "taut" and secure.
It Had Its Effect.
"You are much taller than you were
year ago." said q gentleman to a
friend.
"Yes, have reformed; that makes
me taller"
"And how is thatp"
"Well, as 1 have reformed, 1 have
become, necessarily, more upright.
Carl Protzeps Weekly.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-06-25

THERE is no subject or proposition
that should not be investigated by the
mind. If it be of evil, investigation
will determine the fact, and give us an
opportunity to avoid il; if it be of
good, mental investigation will apprise
us Of the fact, and permit us to enter
tain or favor it.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-06-25

Whom you visit or leave New York City,
save Baggage Expressage and Carriage Hire, and
stop at the Grand Union Hotel, opposite Grand
Central Depot: 600 elegant rooms fitted mp ut a
cost of one million dollars, reduced TO 81 and
upwards per day. European plan, Elevator,
Restaurant supplied with the best Horse cabs,
stage and elevated railroad to all depots Fami-
lies can live better for less money at the Grand
Union than at any first class hotel In the city.