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The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-03-19
MISSING A MILLION.
How Near - Legal Luminary Came to
Making Fortune.

Judge" said reporter to awcll-
known representative of the legal pro-
fession in San Francisco, II have been
told that you and some of your friends
came near buying Alaska from the Rus
sian government before the United
States made tho purchase. Is it true,
and will you tell me the storyP"
"Well," said the judge, 1--WE were not
going to buy the whole of Russian
America. We had our arrangements
made to buy the best part of it, though.
If you would like TO know how L missed
being millionaire will tell you"
81 think it was in 1860 that jew
named Goldstonc, who had been up to
Alaska, came here. He gave glowing
account of the great fortunes made in
the fur trade in the north. He wanted
me to furnish money to start a trading
post up thcro. In the course of the con-
vcrsation he mentioned incidentally
that all the trading posts, arms, and
ammunition. stores. forts. and vessels in
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-03-19
WOMEN AS GARDENERS.
Circumstances that Place Gardens on
Western Homesteads In the Hands of
Women.


If there are TO be beautiful flowers
and fine vegetables raised in gardens
attached to farms in the ncwly-settled
states and territories Of the west it is
likely that they will be produced by
women. As rule western farmers do
not take kindly to the raising of flow
ers or fine vegetables. They have be-
come SO accustomed to the use of ma
chimes and implements operated by hor-
SEES that they do not like TO handle small
tools, like the garden hoe, rake, and
dibble. Having become used to killing
weeds in the fields by the employment
of the pillow and cutivator, they dislike
to destroy them in the garden by pull
ing them out of the ground by hand.
In u majority of cases western farmers
who keep no help have very little time
to devote TO garden work. The season
for preparing lands for crops, for SOW
ing. planting, cultivating, and harvest
ing is very short, and the time of the
farmer must be devoted to the fields. If
hired men are employed on the farm the
chances are that they know next to
nothing about gardening operations.
They are very awkward in the use of
garden tools, and if they are foreigners
it is quite likely that they are unac-
quainted with our methods of raising
flowers and vegetables. In European
countries field laborers do not raise
flowers, garden vegetables, and small
fruits.
The men on western farms can be re-
lied on to apply the manure to plat of
land set apart for a garden, to plow it,
to make the surface soil smooth and
light, to open walks, if they are desired,
and to harvest the vegetables that re-
main in the ground in the fall They
will also provide brush for supporting
pea vines, set poles for running beans,
and on rainy days they will transplant
vegetables from the hot-bed or nursery
row to the places where they are to
tand and make their growth. A few
men will manage cabbage plants, beets,
carrots, and turnips through the season,
as they can do most of the work with
cultivator. If the table is to be supplied
with lettuce, celery, cress, tomatoes, egg
plant, fine peas, beans, and sweet corn,
they must in the majority of cases be
raised by women. Ii there are to be
flowers i'm and about the house the wo-
men must raise them Men do not like
to bother with squash, melon, and GU
cumbcr vines, though they have no
aversion to eating the fruit they pro-
ducc. OF every hundred beds of cult
waited strawberries found on western
farms an investigation would show that
ninety-ninc were planted and cultivated
by women. Most of the other small
fruits pro- ucrd on western farms are
raised by women.
1t may be admitted that the wives
and daughters OF western farm rs have
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-03-19

ONCE, where hc paid for four years
subscription in advance, and made the
editor sign an agreement TO knock him
down and rob himif he ever ordered.
his paper stopped again. Such is life
without a ncwspaper.-Abiline (Ier.)
ReUieaU
One night Bob fell in with fellow
who was English, you know" Tho
latter was berating the Yankees for do
ing all manner of business in their shops
and not following the better English
plan Of sticking to one branch. Tho
next day he staggered into Bobs shop
to be shaved. Bob gave his face an
extra good soaping and left him, ut the
same time seating himself TO read. The
Englishman kept quiet for few min
utes, when, seeing Bob reading, he
blurted out "Why don't you shave me,
sirP" ''You will have to 60 up street
for your shave quietly replied the
barber, two only lather here" The
answer took the vim out of the cockney.
Boston Transcript.
The representative of one of the great
so-called religious papers of the country
called at the office OF one Of our large
Connecticut factories and offered us
personal favor to write up the whole
concern in big shape for $1,000 The
offer was declined in the same noble
spirit of self-sacrifice with which it was
made. Then it was renewed at $500
(under request of secrecy if acceptcd.
This was declined, too; and the religious
representative knocked himself down
step by step until, while his first demand
was for 81, 900, his last offer was to do
it for nothing if they would take fifty
copies of the paper containing the pro-
posed article! And they wouldn't ac-
cept that; they didn't so much object to
being written up, but they didn't know
what to do, they said, with the fifty
papers.-HarJord COurant.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-03-19
A Man with u Big Appetite.

There are u good many men who
enjoy the table d 'hotc at the hotels and
get the worth of their money" said n
and Express reporter yesterday. "A
peculiar fact about the greatest eaters
is, that they are not so large in size.
One of these phenomena struck the
hotel the other day. He lives in Albany.
The guests at the same table complained
that the amount he slowed away made
them sick. He sat down ut the table at
4 o'clock and left at G o'clock. Tell you
all the menu? Why he duplicated the
regular menu five or six times and then
left the table grumbling. To give an
idea of his mammoth emporium capaci-
ty, he dispatched the siXty-scven dishes
on the menu five times, as stated. He
especially dotted on the entrees, such as
quail braiso with green peas, tilct Of
mutton q la jardiniere, curry of chicken
with rice, Goldfish fried English style.
salmi of duck with olives, and apples
fried with pork. One dish tickled his
palate. if he had any, and caused him
to order it seven times in succession;
hat was cardinal punch. lie reveled
and Illustrated in the virtues of cardi-
nal punch. Waiter he would softly
call, here, give me another what do
call 'em? Dyes, punch; let it be cardi-
nal
''The seven cardinal punches aroused
the ire of the other guests who happened
TO be ut the same table. They each
came around quietly, and asked TO be
placed at another table. Il like your
hotel they would say, but | swear, L
can't sit ut table where one man eats
seven cardinal punches. There is u
limit to the capacity of some stomachs,
but not to his Well, we moved them,-
and left the Jumbo eater alone at Il
table. He liked it immensely. After
one of his wholesome meals he asked
the waiter for q toothpck. The waiter
brought him box.
"'Why did you bring a box? only
want one, he said. The waiter replied:
Il thought you wanted enough to go
along with your appetite, sir. y
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-03-19

Mobs in Asia appear not to be dread
ed, and apparently are not dreadful.
Kings never dream of prohibiting them,
and the people are not in the least
afraid of them. All over Asia, from
Constantinople to Shanghai, vast mobs
continually assemble for worship, for
Notification, for curiosity, and nobody
interferes. The kings do not apprchend
revolt from them, the police do not look
for riot, the people do not fear accident.
In India, Burmah, Ceylon, Arabia,
China, immense crowds continually as
scmble without disturbance of any
kind, without endangcring public peace.
and without disaster, save when, owing
to the consequent breach of sanitary
laws, some devastating epidemic is occa-
sionally generated. A true .'mob' of a
hundred thousand persons is a constant
phenomenon in India, and is as little
regarded by the magistrates as a crowd
OF thousand would be in London.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-03-19

All Train DaiIy except Sunday.
FRED. NJ. BRIGGS, Station Agent Owosso (.
o. w. RUoo LES. g. 7. 6 Il. A. Chicago,
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-03-19

Aaron Burr, Vice President of the
United States. while making n journey
TO Boston in 1908 was stopped on the
highway by Connecticut tithing man
of the town of Milford for travelling on
Sunday. 1t required all the cloquence
and authority of the naughty Vice Presi-
dent to obtain permission to proceed
in violation Of the Connecticut blue
Lowe
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-03-19
Detroit, Grand Haven,
& MILWAUKEE Ry.

GOING EAST.
Trains leave Owosso as follows: Detroit
Express, 900 a. M; Through Mail, las D. M;
Steamboat Express, 6:S5 n. M; Night Fx-
press $50 am.
GOING WEST.
Morning Express, loco AM; Through Mail
1895 p. m; Grand Rapids ExpI ess, a:S5 pm.
Night Express, 1850 a. M; Mixed, COCA m.
Mixed from the West 7:10 u. IN.
Refreshments at Detroit, Owosso and Grand
Haven. Mail east and west has parlor day car
attached The Telegraph Line for the Public
eSy- Through Sleeping Cars on all light trains
between Grand Haven and Detroit
NiRrt Express east and west daily and all other
trains daily Sunday excepted.
CONNECTIONS.
AT DETROIT-Grea Western Railway points
east. Michigan Central, Michigan Southern and
Grand Trunk Railroads
AT MlLWAUKEESNithtbe milwaukee, and st
Paul. Western Union, Milwaukee and Northern
and Chicago and Northwestern Railways to all
points north and west.
rg~The Railway Company's Ferry Steamer
leaves ID. G.. II. & NJ. Dock, Detroit, on arrival of
trains. Tickets are sold at the Detroit. Grand
Haven and milwaukee, Railway Ticket Office,
uprincipalpacesi in the UnitedStates.
WJ.SPlCER. General Manager.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-03-19
Toledo, Ana Arbor 4 kOrth-Michisan I'd
NnprrIEpN r,fyrctp~ -

D0-All trains run by Central Standard Time.
FD-All trains run daily except Sundays.
III. w. ASHLEY, Gen' Sup't.
w, II BENNETT, Gent Pass Agt.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1886-05-20
Logan


The Postville Review, which was
the frst paper to bring out Vim. +
Fuller for congress, frankly confess.
that it was mistaken in the man and
will favor some other republican this
year. What's the matter? Fuller is
sound on Fitz John Porter and the
sanguinary garment, as Interpreted
by the republican party, votes tor
the people on the silver dollar,
lodges perhaps on interstate COM
merce, and has laid by greenbacks
enough to secure q denomination,
after which he'll be just the man
wanted by the Review.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1886-05-20
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Will Not INCORPORATE.

It was stated by y prominent rail-
way attorney that the various COM
panies operating Iowa lines, and the
Western Union Telegraph, also.
would ignore the law known as the
Sweeney bill. which requires non
resident corporations to incorporate
under the Iowa law.-(Telegram to
Daily Press.
II such q refusal came from some
poor devil at work by the day, he
would he set down as an anarchist.
And yet the disobedience Of law In
the one no more tends to such re-
suits than In the other. Obedience
to law should be the rule for corpo
rations Us well rs individuals, for the
former have no rights but such as
are given by law, while individuals
have natural rights which the law
may not take from them except in
punishment OF crime.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1886-05-20

If the demand for ten halrs' pay
for eight hours wnrn Is iig u, WHY
not make it four noun ia loi
twenty hours pay.
This is the dippant way sne mo
nopoly press oi the country iidlcu!es
the the demands OF labor. Ten
hours ray for eight hours work,
There is not grain OF trath in the
statement; lahoring men toiling ten
hours fol ninety cents. and skilled
labor ten hours for one dollar and
twenty-five cents. The fact is, each
has given ten hours work for six
hours pay. With correct financial
SYSTEM; with the corporate monoI O.
lies deprived OF the AM ust franchises
conferred upon them by s;ock-job-
bug Legislators, by just interstate
commerce law limiting freight eharg-
es 10 just and legitimate compens-
alton, manufacturers and producers
would be able to make better COM
,.ensation to labor, with Moee profit
to themselves than they ut present
have, al the same time yielding to
capital all 1t il entitled to in justice
and equity.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1886-05-20
GOings on in CrescO.

TO acertain whether Cres:o had a
little life left or not, We have taken
paius to look over the village, aud
tind that there is life at the extrenli.
ties. whatever the appearance may
indicate at the bushes center. In
North and north. eastern part Oftown
the most is being done at present,
though signs Of life are found in 9th.
n parts VI town.
Thos. J. LomaS has nearly doubled
he size of his residence, and were
the elevation what it should be, ne
would have one Of the best appear
ng homes in tie village.
Nj. j. Bowers has added q kitchen
% the lear Of his house.
BF aidlaw is embelishiDg his
premises with u tine new fence.
W. r. Owen has put down q good
plank walk in front Of his fine brick
residence and put nice picket fence
all about it.
w. X. Barker i.ac entirely rebuilt
his former residence, maksLg Q fit
companion for his elegant ne v home
S. B. Carpenter is making nice
new barn on the rear OF his home
premises.
The residents Of north part OF Elm
st. are putting down drain tile to get
rid OF the surplus water which has
aeeewplatcd in their cellars. The
sewer they .Hre putting down will
furnish drainage Jcy b. Caward's
basement. for H. T. kes4s, DIR.
Hoome's, L. T. Wcodcock's, And
sa,ay be tapped ard used by oil In
that nrigAborho I'd.
J. p. Howe has noved the old
Dr.. Bowers residence TO tbe vest
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1886-05-20

tide OF the lot and is collecting the
material for an elegant home on the
site Of the old one. Being q strong
advocate Of "nfptection to home in
dnstry.' he will probably import his
labor from some town about us.
John McHngh has nearly COM
pletcd neat little cottage for teEe-
ment occupancy.
VIM. Benson has put up and NOV
ell into tidy..home, two blocks north
OF the school buildings.
Jerry Barker who has bought the
Madison Taft place on the Gill
lett farm is making it all over and
will have one OF the lovliest homes
in Cresco when completed.
John Bertwhistle Is making q good
house and barn next lot to the NJ. E.
Church.
Geo. w. Combs has removed hia
ice house and greatly improved the
appearance OF his home, by change
In the location OF his barn, sheds and
outbuildings.
Dan Priest, now that his wife and
daughter are visiting in California
| Is adding to his residence additional
room on the west side.
Geo. h. Kellogg is ornamating hi,
home property by adding com.
modeous barn.
William Kellow has doubled thu
capacity Of his store and with suita
BILE effort will largely increase hi
trade,
ST.. Kellow is putting in the foun
dation for home on Cherry street
south OF the railroad.
Mr. Manning has built and movet
into . comfortable story and hal
residence In the southeast part o
town.
John Hallman who was burned on
In the south part OF town. has rebuilt
and moved into his new house.
John L. Harlow, at the south en,
Of Cherry street has added to hi
home about one third more roor
than he had heretofore, making hin
quite comfortable on his little tw,
acre farm.
q But the most important local worl
that is going on about town, and tn
greatest institution for the count,
is the Cresco Tile works, situated o.
the ground heretofore used as
brick yard, west OF the Swensu
Mower works. They comprise
J building for drying purposes 2Oxl5
! feet, with capacity for drying 10000
tile ut time, en- engine room 30x4
feet, and kiln or arch for burning
with its modest smoke stack, com
prises the buildings. The works EN-
ploy from fourteen to sixteen me
every day.
Other building and work Is pro
iectcd and will be entered upon i
the season advances.
Edgar Taft has built and occupie
, . neat little cottage on High street
two blocks east OF the Mason House
Henry w. Young has put en- al al
dition to his house, on the corner !
Cherry street, and added \ new fenc
to the premises.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1886-05-20

In New York City, the trial Of the
first OF the bribed Aldermen resulted
in conviction, and the result will be
q term in the penitentiary. This i
as it should be; but after the aiucr-
men are safely behind the bars, what
is to be done with Jacob Sharp, tie
man who bribed them? Aid the
President Of the Third Avenue street
railway, who has employed Cow
boys aad ruffains to operate the
road which was chartered through
bribery and corruption. What about
him? The country viii De he bet
ter when the entire yany is al a fsde
In Sing Sing.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1886-05-20

That uncalled for expense to the
State, u Soldiers Home is to be To-
Gated at Marshalltown. When com
pleted the INDECENT aud perhaps in.
dignant old veterans. what there may
be left OF them, eau leave their gooC
old wives to the tender mercy Of
frieods, or the county, and 60 to the
.Heme" aud be assigned 4 room
where they can cit and rejoice over
battles won In the long ago, and
brood over the household ties jus,
broken, and reflect that his county
10 poor aud couldn't afford to keel
up y separate establishment Tor hin
and bis wiie.-[Postal Card.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1886-05-20

Perhaps the orthodox liar OF the
DEBORAH Republican can Inform an
anxious republican constituency why
the records OF naturalization in Win
neshiek county fails to show that
Dan Noble, Geo. Draper, e. Buck
nell and 7. Eckert were naturalized
In 1857, at about the time John Finn
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1886-05-20

The State Register said the Wcav-
cr-Campbell contest was decided IN
favor OF Weaver by strict party
vote. We accepted the statement u
true, as most ls.readers did prota.
bly,, while the fact is the vote in Ia.
vor Of Weaver was practically uuani-
nous. but five voting in favor OF
Campbell, and against Weaver.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1886-05-20
:. W. Reecher says it Is .'vile e,

Fl. W. Reecher says it Is vile econ
o,ny to put away Tor reconsideration
half chewed quid Of tobacco Ever
so H. W., hut there are certain Shy
locks who have done it, do it now
ahi always will do it, and We hav'
kaown men with u halt chewed qGi,
OF tobacco in their Months lift III
their pharasaical voices, and ask til
almighty to stop the liquor traffic
Sinciairyiile Commercial.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1886-05-20

The saddest part Of the Chicago
mob to the republican party, is the
fact that Carter Harrison, the true
American citizen and Mayor OF the
great metropolis OF the West, demon.
strated the absolute power OF al ct
ficient local government to cope
with u mob without the aid Ut federal
soldiers. Such conduct is hard on
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1886-05-20

The tariff is q boycott on the pro.
ducts OF foreign labor. A similar
tariff on foreign labor would have
been protection to American indus
try, and would have prevented in
corpoIated monopolies from import
ing the dynamiters they have
brongh. to this country to take the
place OF American labOIers.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1886-05-20

The board Of trustees OF the orpans
home Of the state, met in Davenport
last week. The present enrolment,
Ill boys and lab girls. The newly
appointed organized by the election
Of G. G. Hipweil Of Davenport as
president, Clinton Circuit Of Cedar
As treasurer, and William Wilbraham
OF Howard as secretary.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1886-05-20

W. s. Kenworthy Of OSkaloosa
helped make the straight out tick
ct ut Cedar Rapids. Those who
know him need no other fact than
this. to know that he will bolt the
platform and nomination before Two
months roll around.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1886-05-20

S. J. Randall is said to be the
choice of Penn. democrats for presi-
dent. Why should the democrats OF
Penn. prefer him to w. ID. Kelly OF
the same state? Both favor class
legislation, and the class for which
they favor it reside in Penn.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1886-05-20

Campbell has been confirmed as
Marshal OF Minnesota, which ought
to suggest to the Spring Valley Vi
dette that the republican senate
don't pay much attention TO its in
quotations and wishes. Now Van,
give the House or Lords
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1886-05-20

The harbor and appropriation bill
did not give a cent to Iowa rivers.
It Is we'll: Iowa had its appropria-
ton for the Des Moines river more
than quarter Of q century Ago
That is ali the disgrace the state
ought to have for this century.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1886-05-20

WHY is IL candidate running Tor
Office like IL good article put on the
market? Because both run down are
IL the lowest notch.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1886-05-20

The Senate has tackled an $500,
600 annual Subsidy steal to foreign
mail service. No such iGfamy should
be allowed to 20 through the House.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1886-05-20

AIDES WANTED tn work for Us at their
own homes. 81 10 SO per week can lie easilv
made: u" canvasStng; fuscinatiny M steady
"!nal0Hment. Particulars AMI sample 81
- .he work sent TOR stump. Ad liess HOME
Mf|G o., I. q BOX 1916, BOsfOn, Mass. Il
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-09-18
,rofessorships-Greek literature ethics,

professorships literature ethics, physics, mathematics, poetry and elo- quence, and who so enriched the library that it is often said that he created it, and who built palace in the old castle, the ruin of which is wonder of grace and beauty. Another picture was the young, ight-hearted Friedrich V., with his bride, Elizabeth Stuart, the beautl- ful grand daughter of Mary Queen of Scots, at his side, as they rode through the Hauptstrasse to the great castle on the heights. A young and beautiful English woman who was visiting the town simulated the bride. She sat on a spirited horse, and was covered with blue and white canopy on four upright shafts. The colors of the Palatinate and the three feathers of the Prince of Wales were at the four corners of the canopy. and & royal crown in the center on the top. The lady wore cream colored brocade dress, embroidered with pearls, and a high ruff, trimmed with rare old lace.
 Some of the windows of the Darm- stadter House were rented for high prices. The costumes for the process sion are said to have cost over $50, 900. There was a set banquet in the evening, at which the Grand Duke presided in the uniform of Colonel of Dragoons. Every body's health was drank, begin ming with Kaiser Wilhelm and ending W ith the students in arms" A grand ba Il brought to an end the grand jubi' lee. Chicago Times.