Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1886-10-29
SIXTY YEARS AGO.
How Our Grandfathers Lived and
Acted.


! Chronicle, Of Windsor, VI. were left mt
this Office Yesterday and were found to
contain many things of interest To the
readers OF to-day.
Under the head Of Marriages. in
The Spectator of March %. 1888. APP
pears the following:
lin Kingston, Mr.. Jacob Gu mby to
Miss Dolly Pollard, after a cour ship of
twenty years.
What does the bushng ouug maid
en- of II or 8 summers who is Ito be
married this fall" think of courtship
of that length9
In the same number is printed let
ter written by Gen. Andrew Jackson to
Samuel Swartwout. 1t is dated at
Washington City. Feb. -. 1925. and is
Of strong political cast, being a reply
to Mr. Clay. who had referred TO Mr..
Jackson as a military chjcftain' in a
dcprcciatory way. as the latter was ut
the time candidate for the United
States senate. Mr.. Jackson reviewed
his war record with considerable pride,
and closing the letter said ''Dema-
gogueS. am persuaded. have in times
/ past done more injury 10 the cause Of
freedom than ever did a military chief
tain
The returns of state election are
/ published. showing the election Of Hea-
/ ley to congress. Several political tricks
of the campaign were shown up in the
editorial column i'm ital cs and small
caps
\ later copy of The Spectator. dated
/ Dec 1880 shows a change of owner
ship and size, and great improve
ment in appearance. In this issue. in
the funny column. several Of the latest
circus and minstral gags are 'now pub
lishcd for the first time
In this copy OF The Spectator APP
pcarcd an editorial of considerable
length commenting upon the continued
~uccess of the democratic party in
Maine, and asserting positively that
Andrew Jackson would b. elected to
he presidency at the election soon to
take place. In rehearsing st of the
states that would certainly give their
electoral vote to Jackson the name of
Missouri is prominent. In this issue OF
the paper appears poem credited to the
The albany -4rgUS, the paper now un-
der the Management, of Secretary Dan
Manning son.
The spectator of March 10. 1882.
gives an account of the drowning of
thrcc boys in the canal at Newport. two
of Thorn bc - brothers of Mr.. II. y.
Mitchell Of this city.
Among ;hc patent medicine adycr-
tiscmcut> are published remedies for
cholora. catarrh. resumption, and other
standard diseases.
The lcrmoat ChyonicIe of April -.
1881. publishes number Of communi-
cations from which it appears that the
prohibition racket was being worked at
that tine and with every promise of
Ultimate success.
In another part Of the paper, under
The head OF summary. IS the follow
i"g clipping from Inc AaI'"'ofe liner
'c"t on railroads which would break
me heart OF the railroad cdi'or OF to-
Jay
'lhc experiment. OF the transporta-
ton of two hundred barrels Of flour
with snglr horse was made on the
railroad on saturday with the most trl-
umphaut success The Hour was depos-
ited IN tram OF eight ears and made,
together W'lh the cars ana passengers
who rode on them an entire load of
thirty ionS-viz.' two hundred barrels
Hour, twenty tons. e.ght ears. eight
tons; passengers, two tons. The train
was drawn by one horse from EIlicotts
MIL TO the Relay House N'N and half
miles. IN ioriy->N IL mites. The horse