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Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1886-07-08
A Washington Crank.

One of the characters Of Washington
is young fellow who pads his clothing
so as to make him. seem to be nearly
twice as large as he is. His clothes are
always neat, but as he wears them he
looks more like stuffed man than a
real one. He wears a pair OF boots with
heels fully four inches high. His coat
sleeves are so long that they cover the
tips of his fingers, and even beyond
that he has pair of enormous cuffs
This young man is the son of wealthy
parents, and is generally regarded as
being trihe daft. One of his peculi-
arities is a love for his own figure
He thinks he is the handsomest man
alive. He rents an Office in an uptown
building to which no one save only q
favored few are admitted. This room
he has arranged so that the walls and
ceiling are entirely covered with mir
rors. Strange stories are told of the
Is is said he will remain there for
hours admiring himself as reflected in
the glass, all the while cutting up the
most extraordinary antics. On the
street he never looks to the right nor
to the left. He never speaks to any
one unless first addressed. Several
times he has been guyed by young fell
lows who thought they would have q
lark at his expense. In each and
every instance they have been soundly
thrashed, for he is one of the most ex-
pert and scientific sparrers in the city.
This man is one of Washington's most
notable oddities. philadelphia Call.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1886-07-08
POLITICAL.

The committee appointed by the last
| convention of the Knights Of Labor to watch
legislation at Congress has written to Messrs
Carlisle, Randall and Morrison asking for the
passage by Congress of bills repeating timber
| culture, presumption and desert land acts, ad-
justing railroad aud other land grants forfeit
ing all railroad land grants the condi-
| tons Of which have not been strictly
complied with, organizing the Territory Of
Oklahoma, opening portion of the great Sioux
reservation TO settlement prohibiting aliens
from holding land in the United States, making
Presidential and Congressional election days
holidays, Furnishing bribery, directing the dis
bursement Of at least 500, 100000 Treasury
surplus, and substituting Treasury notes for
bank notes retired
The Indianapolis Sentinel, the lead
ing Democratic journal of Indiana, has been
sold by John G. Shoemaker to w. J. Craig the
consideration being SCI, OOO Mr.. Craig will
be managing editor
A Cincinnati paper says Murat
Halstead is to take charge of the New York
Tribune and switch it from Blaine to Sher-
man for the Presidency, and that Whitelaw
Reid is to use his spare time in perfecting
plans TO capture United States Senatorship
The Democrats of New Hampshire
assembled in convention at Concord, and
nominated Themes Cogswell for Governor.
The administration Of President Cleveland
was indorsed
The Republican State Convention of
Nebraska has been called to meet at Lincoln
on September %
The Democrats of the Second Con-
gressional District OF New Hampshire have
nominated John H. George, of Concord, for
Congress.
The Prohibitionists of the Four
tenth Congressional District of New York
nominated Jesse H. Griffin, Of Yorktown, for
Congress.
A. Orendorff, of Springfield, has
been elected Chairman Of the Illinois Demo-
cratic State Central Committee
Gen. James A. Beaver, nominated by
the Republicans for Governor OF Pennsylva-
mia, escaped Deing President OF the United
States by declining to accept nomination with
Gen. Garfield at Chicago
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1886-07-08
The Numerals.

When the noble Roman of remote
antiquity wanted to mark the number
one he drew o single straight line or
digit to represent the uplifted fore
finger. In our modern type we print
it 1. For two he drew two digits, or
ii; for three he wrote III; and four
he represented, not by ~, which is a
comparatively late innovation, but by
the good old clock-dial symbol, iii.
These, in fact, are nothing more than
just the fingers of the hand. But how
about FIVE? Why should it be repre-
sented by the apparently meaningless
symbol v? Simply because V is not
V, but rude hieroglyphic of one hand,
the broad stroke standing for the four
fingers united, while the narrow one
stands for the extended thumb. V, in
fact, is nothing more than very de-
generate pictorial symbol, like the esBF-
still used by printers in certain circum-
stances to call special attention to O
particular paragraph. AS for X, that
is usually represented as equivalent to
two such hands set side by side; but
this Interpretation L believe to be err
roneous. think it much more likely
ION the Indian analogy to stand for
zone man up" that is to say, ten, with
people who counted by fingers alone,
or, in other words, employed decimal
notation. II this hypothesis be true, X
represents a double of the Indian man
figure, with outstretched arms and legs
like colossus, the hand having disap-
paarad ant rely hx disnss, as often hap
pens in the evolution of what are
called cursive hieroglyphics. CornhiU
Mag1sine.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1886-07-08

Fifty-ons persons have been killed
IN Gillian election riots.
Further fighting has occurred be-
tween tho Dacoits in Burmah and tho British
troops. The latter lost seven killed ndtwenty-
three wounded
Two men have sailed from the Clyde
for New York In boat nineteen feet long.
The names of Prince Murat and his
SON have been stricken from the rolls Of the
French army because they belong to former
reigning family.
A manifesto in Gladstone's favor has
been issued by the Irish Protestant Home
Rule Association.
The libel suit brought by Cyrus w.
Field against Mr.. LAbouchere, OF London
1Lssfh, has been settled, Mr.. Labouchero pay
ing the costs and agreeing to publish retrac-
ton In Truth.
OF the committee of eleven appointed
by the French Deputies to consider the bill re-
lating TO seditious placards, five members are
opposed to the measure, five are in favor
Of restricting its provisions to pretenders, and
one supports the bill
The sanitary condition of the Parlia-
ment buildings in London is illustrated by the
fact that workman passing by them was in
jured by an explosion of sewer-gas.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1886-07-08
SOUTHERN.


AT Baltimore Geo. Forsythe killed
his wife and then shot himself through the
heart
A lumber firm of Grand Rapids.
Mich, has this year entered 100 900 acres Of
pine lands in Louisiana and Mississippi Other
Western men are prospecting in that section.
A cotton-buyer in Texarkana sold to
Eastern parties three thousand bales Of good
middling by sample and arranged to draw
against them. BY filing his orders at st Louis
with the cheapest grades he robbed his GUS
toner of $4,000
During the past year the tobacco
sales at Danville, Va, aggregated $41, 200, 900.
Stone Basemore quarreled with his
father near Windsor, N c., and fired two loads
of buckshot into the latter's breast After
shooting his father young Basemore broke into
his safe, stole $500, and fed
Ed Williams, powerful negro, was
lynched at Gainesville, Texas, for an attempted
outrage upon an estimable white lady.
James Gibbons, on the twenty-fifth
anniversary Of his being ordained as a priest
In Baltimore, was invested with the scarlet
berottl of n cardinal
Severe storms and floods have caused
distress in Rapid, Grant, and Catahoula par
ishes, in Louisiana, and Governor McEnery
requests the people OF the State to send con-
tributions TO aid the sufferers
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1886-07-08
Musical instruments.

The lutte came originally from the far
East. It is said to have been brought
to Mecca in the sixth century. and
thence to Europe. The invention of
the piano is attributed to Cristofalli, an
italian; J. @. Schroter, German; and
Marius, a Frenchman, in the eighteenth
century. 1t was suggested by the old
harpsichord and psaltery. The chief
difference was using small hammers for
striking the strings, instead of quilts, as
in harpsichords. Archimedes is said to
have invented the organ, and it is also
attributed to Ctesibus, barber of
Alexandria, about $50 b. @. The organ
was in use in European churches about
A. ID. 657. 1t is said that one was con-
structed for Louis ]. of France in SIS.
One of the largest organs in Europe is
at HARLEM. 1t has 60 stops and 5000
pipes. There is an organ at Amster-
dam, Holland, with a set of pipes that
initiate human voices in O marvellous
way. The tradition exists that the violin
was invented by Ravana, King of Cey-
Ion, 500 b. G. An instrument some
what like the violin, called the Ravan-
astron, is yet played by the poor
Buddhist monks OF the East, who go
begging from door to door. The violin
is mentioned as early as 1900 A. D., in
the life of st. Christopher. The earliest
violins in general use seem to have
been those of Gasparo di Salo, in Lom-
hardy, 15G0-1610.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1886-07-08

into eject. n also psrraits. from ana after tbs
hut Crandies and vlnos Tree o. internal reye-
neS ,ssss gness ,s ne ne hs'd g ss 81, soea
msndations q Assistant Secretary Fairchlid ia
his letter OF june "A. 1885. 70 the Chairman OF
the Committees ON Ways and Means, already
namely: Clothing. combine and carpet woods.
In the first and second classes the duty IL fixed
a. 10 cents per pound. and ON the third class
cents per pound. Washed wool Of the first
woods of all CLASSES fhe duty Is nxed at three
times the amount to which they would be sub
iected II imported unwashed, On carded or
combed woods on tops, the duty Is hxed at As
Woods ON the skin are taxed the same rate as
other woods. Woolen goods, waste and nocks,
10 cents pound. Wooden or worsted cloths and
.unenumerated manufactures OF wool, valued at
not exceeding 90 cents pound, 80 cents a pound
and 80 advalore m: between 90 and 80, rs and IS
cents advalorom; above 80, IS and 40 cents adj
valorem. Flannels, blankets, knit goods, COM
posed wholly or In part OF wool. and all manu-
factures OF alpaca woods, and the woods OF other
animals not specifically enumerated. valued at
30 cents or less per pound, 10 cents per pound (;
between 30 and 40 cents per pound ~ conts be-
tween 40 and so, 10 cents between 90 and 80, "a
cents. and In addition upon all the above-named
articles, IS per cent. advnlorem Women and
childrens dress goods, coat Innings and goods OF
like description. composed In part Of wool ami
NAL hair. NOT exceeding 20 cents per yard In
value, cents per square yard and IS per cent.
advalorem above 70 cents cents and 40 adva-
loren. Clothing ready made and wearing APP
parel, except knit goods not enumerated, com
posed wholly or In part OF wool or animal hair,
and wholly or partly manufactured, As cents
per pound and as cents al valorem. Marble,
block, rough or squared, so cents per cubic foot ;
yeined marble, sawed, dressed or otherwise, in
cluding slabs and tiles, 81 per cubic foot. Salt
In packages, 10 cents per 100 pounds, and in
bulk, cents per 100 pounds.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1886-07-08
WESTERN.

Twenty-Five passenger conductors on
the Lake Shore Road, running between Buffalo
and Chicago, were dropped by an order from
the company's headquarters.
Sam Jones denied at the Red Rock,
Mimi, camp meeting last Sunday that he had
said the previous day that "down in Georgia
the Lord didn't object to the use Of tobacco, /"
but that he used different expression. Jones
called for vote and several persons Endorsed
his version, but the reporters, who took down
his statements, voted in the negative when the
nays were called, by mounting table.
3 Henry Primrose, Captain in the
Salvation Army, operating at New Philadel-
phia, Ohio, has been arrested and taken to
steubenville, where he has two wives living.
Lima Ohio dispatch: "The people
in the neghborhood of Grover Crossing,
small town west of this city, just across the
Van Vert County line, are in state of great
excitement over the advent of a wild man in
that locality. He is described as being gigan-
tic in size and wearing no clothing except an
old SLOUGH hat and pair of boots. His hair
is long and matty, his body tanned until it is
mud color, and he is very ferocious, and has
frightful appearance. He is very bold in his
adventures, and can run like a race-horse His
eyes fash like fire. and his uninteligible utter
ances are thrilling and blood-curdling"
In blowing open the safe OF John
Kemmerling's store, at Elkhart, Ind, the bur-
glars used so much powder that the safe and
store were partially wrecked and adjacent
houses shaken, starting the people from their
beds. The robbers fled in dismay
The remains of Judge David Davis
were Inferred in the cemetery at Bloomington.
III, on the 10Th ult, the funeral procession
being the largest ever seen there. For five
hours the remains lay in state in the Davis res
idence, and hundreds Of persons gazed on the
placid face of the deceased jurist Many men
prominent in public life were present
Corrigan's interest in the Corrigan
Consolidated Street Railway Company, at
Kansas City, was sold for $3.50 900 to Boston
syndicata 81 - = - = s.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1886-07-08

That rheumatism and neuralgia are 20
PREVALENT This question has not been
satisfactorily answered, but II Is certain
that these diseases are not only the most
painful but among the most common, and
some member Of nearly every family in the
land is the victim Of one OF these dread
tormontors. Ladies seem to be peculiarly
liable to neuralgia attacks. which, in tho
form Of neuralgia headache, pain in the
back, or nervous pains, are Of constant oc-
currence, particularly at this season OF the
year. Not until the discovery of Athlo-
phoros had any remedy been found for
either rheumatism, neuralgia or nervous
headache, and they were generally conceded
10 be incurable, but Athlophoros has been
proved TO be not only certain cure for
these diseases, in oil their varied forms,
but safe remedy. III in the use of Ath-
lophoros, the bowels are kept freely open,
its success is certain, and to aid this, Ath-
lophoros Pills are recommended, which,
while providing the necessary cathartic,
will be found to be a valuable aid to the
action of the medicine. Athlophoros is
no new experiment; 1t has been thoroughly
tested, and has proved its wonderful eff
cacy.
The Athlophoros Pills were originally pre-
pared as remedy for use in connection with
Athlophoros, for rheumatism and neuralgia
and kindred complaints. Used in connec-
ton with that remedy, they are certain
cure for either of these very common and
distressing diseases. They have also been
found to be an invaluable remedy for many
other complaints, in fact for any and all
diseases arising from vitiated blood or
general debility. They are especially
valuable for nervous debility, blood poi
soning, dyspepsia, distress after eating,
headache, constipation, loss of appetite,
and all stomach or liver troubles. For dis
eases of women they are invaluable. These
pills are perfectly harmless, and may be
safely used by adults or children.
Every druggist should keep Athlophoros
and Athlophoros Pills, but where they can
not be bought of the druggist tho Athlo-
phoros Co., 112 Wall St., New York, will
send either Carriage paid on receipt of
regular price, which is $l.00 per bottle for
Athlophoros and SOC. for Pills.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1886-07-08
Great str,ko.p

Among the $50 kinds of Cloth Bound Dollar
Volumes given away by the Rochester IN. "
American Rural Home for every 81 subscrip-
ton to that great SPACE, 4s-coL, 1O-year-old
weekly (all SKI inches, from 800 to 900 pages,
bound in CLOTH are:
Law Without Lawyers, Daneison's Medical
Family Cyclopedia, Counselor,
Farm Cyclopedia Boys Useful Pastines,
Farmers and Stock Five Years Before the
breeders Guido, Mast
Common Sense in Poul- Peoples His. Of United
try Yard, States,
World Cyclopodia, Universal History of
What Every One Should All Nations,
Know. Popular His. Civil War
both Sides.
Any one book and paper one year, all post
paid, for si.15l Satisfaction guaranteed Ref
erenco: Hon. G. r. Parsons, Mayor Of Roch-
ester Samples, 20 Rural Home Co, Ltd,
Rochester, N X.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1886-07-08

REMARKS of carpet. bag politician
on the occasion of his reception on ar
irving in the Territory with Govern
ment commission in his pocket Ladies'
and gentlemen, L must take this early
occasion to thank you for giving me SO
kindly a reception. Always having
lived in the East, 1 should probably
have remained there had / not been
selected to fill this Office. I hope and
trust that my life among you may be
such that when / return at the end of
my term / may carry away none but the
most pleasant memories" One year
later he hires brass band to serenade
him, and to the crowd the noise at
tracts speaks as follows; Fellow citi-
zens: AS you well know, year ago
voluntarily left my home in the East to
settle among you. did so because /
had grown tired of that effete region,
and longed to cast my lot with the
hardy pioneers who have pressed to the
front and built up this great country.
1 am glad and proud that 1 am one of
you. And, fellow citizens, will speak
plainly; want to represent this grand
Territory in Congress; / want to tell
the assembled statesmen of this country
that / am proud am a resident of Da-
kota. "-Estelti1le Bell.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1886-07-08
NEWS CONDENSED.
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Concise Record OF the Week.


AProyidence. r.. l., dispatch reports
distressing accident, BY which six lives were
sacrificed Z. @. Farmer. his wife. Mary T.,
and daughter Mamie. aged sin; Mr. O. W.
GiEsch, wife, and two children, both men being
members OF the firm Of Farmer, Girsch a Co,
engravers and printers; also William q.
Brayton, their travelling salesman,
and his wife, went for q sail
down the bay in the sailboat Wanderer.
They reached Bristol safely, and, after short
stop, started toward Prudence Island The
wind wns blowing strong. and Mr.. Brayton,
who was sailing the boat, was unable to man
ago the craft When entering Potter's Cove
the boat capszed, and six Of the party were
drowned. The four children were in the
cabin, and wero not again seen alive.
The New York Central Road has re-
Gently invested $4,000 in new sleeping cara
with which 70 equip q Boston and Chicago
train, making the distance in twenty-seven
hours, with only twelve stops. f
The intercollegiate boat race be-
tween the Columbia and Harvard crews, four
miles straight away, was won by Columbia;
time, 81 :SO1l; Harvard time. 22:0SH Column
bia led throughout
The win of the late Col. J. B. Fol-
som was probated at Warsaw, N Y, last week
BY its provisions Mrs. Cleveland falls heir TO
s2N,OO0
An equestrian statue of Gen. Israel
Putnam is to be erected on the site of the post
Office at Brooklyn, Conn, and a great-grand
son Of the hero offers to transfer the remains
TO vault beneath the monument
The income at Yale College last year
was slS7, 45O, and the expenses sl67, 2S5.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1886-07-08
Saved by a Dog.

A paper called The Age tells how in
Birmingham, England, q child's life
was saved by Newfoundland dog. A
little two-year-old girl, the daughter
of the train-master at the railroad depot,
is very fond of her fathers Newfound-
land dog, an affection which the ami
NAL is evidently aware of and recipro-
Gates by constant devotion. The two
are playmates, and the attachment be-
tweer them is most interesting. A few
days ago the dog was observed to be
acting strangely. He went from one
room to another until he found the
mother Of the child, when he rubbed
himself against her hand and pulled at
her dress. The lady took no notice of
him, and the dog persisted in his efforts
to draw her toward the door. $50
away" said the lady, ego and find Nell
lie." The dog went away whining. A
few minutes afterward the mother
went to look for her little daughter,
and found her lying asleep so close to
a large fire that her clothes were
scorched. They would have blazed
had it not been for the dog, who had
crouched down between her and the
fire. taking care to protect her we'll.
Marks on the child's clothing showed
that the dog had tried to drag her out
of danger. When he failed he inter-
posed his own body, and the mother
found him in that position whining,
while the hair was being singed from
his back. The child was still sleeping
peacefully. If dog, without any soul,
can be so loving and self-sacrificing,
what should we expect from little
children who have been trained in the
Sunday-school anG at home ?-Anon.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1886-07-08
WASHINGTON.

1t is said to have been pretty defin-
itely settled that the love-sick Senator Jones of
Florida win not return to Washington during
the present session Of Congress- His daughter
graduated at the Catholic seminary in George
town last week, but he was not pr esent on the
occasion He still remains in Detroit the
home Of the object Of his hopeless passion.
Randall's tariff bill reduces the reve-
nue go, 81, 065, as follows: On account OF du-
ties reduced, szO44, ASP; duties removed,
l,526. le4; internal-reyenue tax removed, $685.
4O7,O SS
Land Commissioner Sparks has rem
dered decision in favor Of settler named
Walden, who settled upon unsurveyed land
which was afterward selected by the Northern
Pacific Railroad Company as indemnity The
Commissioner holds that unsurveye1 lands
were not affected by the indemnity withdrawal
William T.. Smith has resigned the
Assistant Secrotaryship of the Treasury to be-
come solicitor for the Manitoba Road Hugh
3 Thompson, Governor of South Carolina, has
been appointed to the vacancy
Generals Sheridan, Schofield, and
Terry have been appointed by the Secretary of
War 70 examine the sites offered for military
post near Chicago and 10 report which in their
judgment Is the best one, in order that no may
recommend its acceptance to Congress.
Following are the main provisions of
the Randall tariff bill, as autographed from
Washington:
Tho additions to the present free list are
squared timber. boards, and lumber In the
rough, hubs for wheels, and wood Of all kinds I'm
the rough iute butts. and bristles. The bill re-
poais all forms OF internal revenue taxation ON
tobacco Of every description, and All laws re-
strictng its sale and disposition by farmers and
producers aftor Oct. next. IL allows a draw
rack or rebate OF the full amount OF taxes paid
ON tobacco Of every description held by manu-
facturers or dealers at the time the repeal goes
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1886-07-08

This widely celebrated institution, located
al buna o. N. r.. is organ zcd with full
star OF Eighteen experienced and skilllul
Physicians and Surgeons, constituting the
most complet9 organization OF medical ana
surgical skill In America, for the treatment
or all chronic diseases, whether roquir ng
medical or surgical means Tor their cure.
Marvelouf success has been achieved IN the
cure or all nasal, throat, and lung diseas q,
liver and kidney diseases, diseases of the
digestive organs. bladder diseases. diseases
peculiar 10 women, blood taints and skin
diseases, rheumatism. neuralgia, nervous
debility paralysis, epilepsy (lts), spermar
torrhea, impotency, and kindred affections.
Thousands are cd at their homes through
correspondence Tho cure OF the worst rup-
ures, pile tumors varicocele, hydrocelo, and
structures Is guaranteed, with only a short
residence at the institution. Send 10 cents
in stamps for the Invalids' Guide Book 168
pagos), which gives ali particulars. Address,
Worlds Disponsary Medical Association,
Buffalo, N. Y