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The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1888-06-08
DRAIN LETTING.

Notice is Hereby Given, That 1, G. Il. Mason,
County Drain Commissioner of the County of Sha-
wassee, State of Michigan, will on the 18th day of
June A. ID. 1885, at the farm of Elisha Mitchell, in
the township of Rush, at ten o'clock In the fore
noon of that day, proceed to receive bids for the
"Mitchner Drain" located and established In the
said township of Rush and described as follows,
to-wit:
Commencing at point situated 80 links north
of the north quarter post of section 10 In of
2e, Rush: frem thence running south 30 links,
north line of section nineteen 81 45-100 chains,
thence IA deg. ego 0100 chains, thence SO "a
deg, e 4 50-1O0 chains; thence s y deg, chains:
thence SO II deg, Q 56-100 chains. to point Il
feet east of west line of the east half Of the
of section No. 10; then deg, e2 44-lO0 chains.
and to have slope of one foot each side to each
foot rise, average depth about three feet. The
land to be taken for said drain is strip six feet
deep and twelve feet wide on each side Of the
above described line.
Said job will be let by sections or divisions. The
section at the outlet Of the Drain will be let hrst
and the remaining sections In their order up stream,
in accordance with the diagram now on hle with the
other papers pertaining to said Drain and bids will
be made and received accordingly. Contracts will
be made with the lowest responsible bidder giving
adequate security for the performance OF the WORK,
In sum to be fixed by me. The date for the COM
pletion Of such contract and the terms OF payment
therefor shall be announced at the time and place
of letting. shall reserve the right to reject any
and all bids.
Notice is Further Hereby Given, That at the
time and place OF said letting the assessment OF
benefits made by me. will be subject TO review.
Dated this both day Of May a; d = l MSsoN
County Drain Commissioner of the County OF shia-
wassee.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1888-06-08

Amanuensis was the name given to a
slave among the Romans who was EN-
ployed in writing for his master.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1888-06-08
Burmese workingwomen.

Poor women work hard in Burmah
and perform their allotted tasks by the
side Of the men, and rival them in the
quantity of work they do In building
q pagoda, for instance, have seen them
carry shallow, wide mouthed earthen
jars, filled with bricks or mortar, poised
on top of their heads, and ascending the
frail looking bamboo ladders with them,
for the use of the men bricklayers who
were building the monument. This
habit, universal in Burmah, of the women
CARRYING loads upon their heads no doubt
tends to make their movements more
graceful than they otherwise would be.
They carry everything in this fashion,
their tall jars containing drinking water
from the spring or river; the lacquered
trays upon which are carried heaped up
piles of fruits, vegetables, fish, etc.-Cor.
San Francisco Chronicle.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1888-06-08
The "BIessing" Diving Out.

The custom of blessing food, or asking
blessing upon meals when eaten, is
dying out. Probably the cause Of this
decadence of very charming domestic
custom is due to clearer conception Of
relative values in these days. The ques-
ton is forced upon people of religious
sentiment why food is more to be con-
sidered blessed than clothes, or books, or
dozen other good things. The result is
that such religious customs fall away al
together. Home life is certainly none
the sweeter, unless some substitute can
be offered. American home life is too
hard and business like. Perhaps the GUS
tom of the Norwegians to dance on the
green sward after meals would be more
to our taste and improvement. Better
still probably is the custom before meals
of reading from some interesting volume
what may be discussed during meal
time and after. Globe Democrat.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1888-06-08
Oak for Railroad Ties.

The forestry division of the United
States department of agriculture issue q
circular for the for the information OF
railroad managers. 1t calls their atten-
ton to the fact that the general use of
white oak (Quercus alba) for cross ties
is aiding in the exhaustion Of that tim-
Der, 80 valuable for other purposes. At
the same time the chestnut, or tan bark
oak, after being stripped of its bark, is
being left to decay, it value for ties not
being known. 1t makes known that
several roads report that the chestnut oaA
ties equal, if they do not excel, those of
the white oak in. durability in the road
bed. The object of the circular is to in
duce an economical use of our forest sup
ies.-American Agriculturist.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1888-06-08
Russia's Convict "Artels.v

Convicts travel to Siberia in ''artels."
Such artels are provisional associations,
formed for the sake of convenience. The
members of an artel have everything in
common, and their affairs are controlled
by an elected chief and his assistants.
The chief is called 'starosta. Through
his hands goes the food of the convicts,
he is the keeper of their effects and
money, he acts as their spokesman before
the authorities, and the latter hold him
and his assistants responsible for what
ever may be unlawful in the conduct of
the members of the artel during the
journey.
Every artel of convicts has its strict
rules and regulations. 1t judges and
Furnishes culprits who now and then turn
up among them in the shape of informers,
spies, etc., and on board convict ships
and barges, as well as in the Siberian
transportation PRISONS the finding of dead
bodies ''under covers" is a frequent oc-
currence. To make ''cover" means in
the convict dialect to choke man to
death inside the prison walls. The long
loose coat worn by the convicts is gener-
ally thrown over the head of the victim
TO deaden his cries and groans while he
is being executed. Spies and informers,
that is to say convicts who, to gain special
privileges, furnish the authorities infor-
nation about the secret doings and plans
of the artel, are especially hated by the
convicts. Later on it will be seen that
they have good deal to conceal from
the authorities. The artel exerts such q
powerful influence on it's members that
traitors are rarity in convict trains
Michael Malkoff in Chicago News.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1888-06-08

A petrified loaf of bread was recently
dug up at Acmetonia Station, near Pitts
burg, being found at depth of twelve
feet beneath the surface of the earth and
beneath an ancient forest of locust trees.
The loaf is now in the possession Of Henry
Armstrong, who intends to have it made
into paper weights. York Evening
World.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1888-06-08
Remedy for Hiccoughs.

The sufferer should close his external
auditory canals with his fingers, exerting
a certain degree of pressure; at the same
time he is to drink few sips of any
liquid whatever, the glass or cup being
held to his lips by another person. The
effect Is said to be immediate. New
York Medical Journal.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1888-06-08
a Confederate Gold Dollar.

What is supposed to be a Confederate
gold dollar was found in an ash heap in
Atlanta recently by colored boy and
sold for $50. 1t is said that only six
such coins We're issued by the Confeder-
ate government, and if genuine this
specimen would be worth $650.-New
York World.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1888-06-08

Experts, it is said, now value perfect
ruby of five karats as being ten times
more valuable than diamond of the
same weight. A perfect ruby seems to
be the rarest of all gems.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1888-06-08

Norway has battalion of armed
skaters, who maneuver readily ON the ice
or snow. Their skates are six inches
wide and nine long.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1888-06-08
owosso Green House.

Get your plants, shrubs. bulbs and seeds
of all kinds at the Green House and save
money by so doing.
Nerbenas. pansies and other plants for
sale, any thing you want we will furnish
at reasonable prices.
w. WHITE,
West Main street.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1888-06-08
The Closing Years.

Few realize that in less than twelve
years we shall have entered upon a new
century. Happy, indeed, has been the
lot of the man who has lived in the clos
ing years of the Nineteenth century. He
has witnessed the grandest achievements
in science, if not in art and literature,
that the world has ever known.--Albany
Journal
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-22
Yellow Jack Continues His
March Of Death Through
The South.
jacksonville Leads With One
Hundred and Eighteen
New Cases.
New Cases and the Widest
Excitement at Decatur
and Jackson.
Every City Not Infected Has
Already Established Shot
gun Quarantine.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Sept. 21.-The
official report to-day shows lis cases of
yellow fever and fourteen deaths, as
follows: Mrs. Susan Zeither, Laura
McCreary, Miss Ella Oulahan, Susie
LamOn, w. Palmer (colOred), j. w. Fos-
ter, Mr.. Reagan, NJ. Jenkins, Miss Lula
Smith, John F. Deeley, Miss Conrader,
Mrs. John Doyle, DR.. Francis j. Gould
and John Strachan. Most of the new
cases are among colOred people in the
suburbs. There are comparatively few
deaths among the negroes, who usually
recover rapidly from the disease. Total
number of cases reported to date, 1,5S2 :;
total deaths, 1876.
A special from GAINESVILLE reports no
new case there, a member of the guards
who went to Fernandina. One of the
most pathetic incidents of the pestilence
occurred yesterday. A little nine-year-
old boy named Storck was brought in
from the Sand hills, where he had re-
covered from yellow fever. Making his
way to his home. he was told that his
father, mother and sisters had all fallen
victims to the dread disease. He is a
bright little fellow, and will be cared
for by gentleman who was a patient
near him in the hospital.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-22

month after this l received the letter
which | now give to the public. When
Mr.. Blaine has been pushed to the very
front of his party as arbitrator and die
tator. and has reached and holds that
position by treacheEy, it removes the
obligations of secrecy. The friends of
Mr.. COnkling, now that he is dead, have
the right to be heard on all matters re-
lating to Blaine's integrity. The friends
of Mr.. COnkling cannot vote for Har-
rison this fall if they are true to COnk-
ling'S memory. Blaine is the Repub-
lican party, and if it had not been for
him, Garfield would have been alive
and Conkling still in politics. / will
not vote for Harrison this fall. l have
always been Republican. but when
that party goes in for plumber | leave
it. The Republican party seems to
have but one purpose, and that is to aid
capitalists and bOndholders to squander
the public lands and build up man.
moth corporations. I'm too old
to ask or expect anything from
political party now, and
all | wish is to leave the world better
than | found it. But when think that
will be at the head of the government l
to every friend of Mr.. Conkling and
telling him what l know personally
about the shameful way he was treated
by Blaine, and thereby remove from my
heart the secrecy of a subject which
has ever been a painful one to me-"
The leading Democrats here say this
letter and interview will increase the
Democratic vote in this section several
thousand,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-22

authorities, voted unanimously for the
adoption of the resolution favOring nom
intercourse, and the same will be rigid
ly enforced, commencing at noon to-
morrow. Agents of all the roads men
toned will be notified not to sell tickets
for Memphis, ,aS no train will be allowed
to come nearer the city than ten miles,
and a Gordon of armed picketS will
guard the dirt roads leading into Mem
phiS, and no one will be allowed to
enter. The sentiment here is that Mem
phiS can better afford to spend S600.000
to keep the city free of infected persons
than to have
EVEN ONE CASE OF FEVER,
which would cost her merchants mill
ions of dollars in loss of trade, not
counting the lives of her citizens, which
would be jeOpardiZed. This same feel
ing pervades throughout the state of
Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee and
Alabama and extends into Kentucky.
Every town and city in the states
named, from Cairo, ILL.,, south to New
Orleans, have established strict quaran-
tine against infected points, and in
many instances against the world.
Shotgun quarantine prevails along the
line of the Illinois Central, all the way
from New Orleans to Fulton, KY, and
trains are not allowed to stop at any
of the stations between Cairo. ILL.,, and
Canton, Miss. A regular panic seems
to have seized the people, especially in
intercourse is the watchword, and
armed men guard the roads leading
into those places. The lateness OF the
season, and the near approach of cool
weather, is favorable for the safety of
those places are not infected, and a
feeling of security will prevail, pro-
vided there is no further spread of the
fever from Jackson, Miss, and Decatur,
Ala.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-22

The campaigns on, the fights be-
gun,
The battles waxing warm;
The Democrats will win or fall
With tariff and reform.
From now until the coming fall,
On politics We'll harp.
The Globe will be chock full of
news;
You'll read iUifyOu're sharp.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-22
MARINE MATTERS.
PORT OF WEST SUPERIOR.

WEST SUPERIOR Wis. Sept. 21.-Arrived-
Propeller Sarah e. Sheldon, Ashtabula,
1000 tons coal; propeller Annie Smith.
Cleveland, 1850 tons coal; schooner Red
Wing, Cleveland, 1.600 tons coal; schooner
j. N. Glidden, Cleveland, 1000 tons coal.
Cleared-PIopeller Robert Mills, Buffalo,
system; propeller Minneapolis, Ashland.
light, for ore; propeller San Diego, Ashland.
light, for ore.
PORT OF DULUTH.
Special TO the Globe.
DULUTH, Mimi, Sept. 21.--Arrived: Tilly
Benson, Merritt, Mellon, North Wind, Nyack.
Empire State, Warrington. Departed:
Nyack. Annie Young, Starucca, Mills, Buff
falo; Sitka, Two Harbors.
PORT OF SUPERIOR.
Special to the Globe.
SUPERIOR, Wis, Sept. 21.-Arrived: Gid
den, Annie Smith, Red Wing. Departed:
Minneapolis, San Diego, Gogebic. Ashland;
Ely, Two Harbors.
PORT OF TWO HARBoRs.
Special to the Globe.
Two HARBoRs, Mich, Sept. 21.-Arrived:
Sitka, Ely. Departed: Sitka, Ely, Buffalo.
Cool and clear; northeasterly wind.
TORT OF ASHLAND.
Special to the GIoDe.
ASHLAND, Wis, Sept 21.-Arrived: Hund-
ington, Ketchum. Cleared: Sherifts, Peli-
can. Fontina, Wocoken, Kaliyuga ore, Lake
Erie ports.
PORT OF wAsHBURN.
Special to the Globe.
WAsHBuRN, Wis, Sept. 21.-Emplre State
arrived from Buffalo and cleared for Du-
luth: WinsIow arrived from Duluth and
cleared for Buffalo. Clear and fine.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-22
FOREIGN BORN FIENDS
A Gang Of Italian Laborers
Murder and Mutilate
Their Foreman.
Having Riddled Him With
Bullets, They Cut Off
His Head.
To Escape Judge Lynch a
Ranehman InvokeS Mill
tary Protection.
Two Thousand Barrels Of
Cranberries Cooked Over
an Ineendiary Fire.
Special to the Globe.

SUPERIOR, Wis, Sept. 21.-About
9:30 this evening a telegram was re-
ceived from Hawthorne, a station on
the Omaha line twenty miles south of
this city, stating that gang of Italian
laborers working on the railroad there
had murdered their foreman, man
named G. F. Hubbard. The sheriff
with force of deputies, left at once for
Hawthorne with the intention of arrest
ing the murderers, but as they cannot
return until morning it will be impossi-
BILE to say how successful they were.
The particulars of the affair could not
be obtained tonight. 1t is only known
here that the gang, having borne an i'll
feeling against their foreman, attacked
him in lonely spot tonight, and, after
shooting him several times, cut his
throat, almost severing the head from
the body. The gang was employed by
the Omaha company constructing snow
fences
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-22
Capital Cuttings.

Orders have been issued to have the United
States steamer Boston, now in New York
navy yard, put Ill readiness for sea service in
q few DAYS. The vessel is under secret orders
to proceed to the West Indies on diplo-
matte mission, the precise character of which
cannot now be ascertained. 1t is believed,
however, to have some connection with the
presidential election which takes place in
Hayti on the 10th proximo.
The commissioner Of the general land
Office has rejected the application of the
Marquette, Houghton q 0ntonagon Railroad
company TO select 437, ,173 acres within the
indemnify limits of its grants between L'Anse
and 0ntonagon, in the upper peninsula OF
Michigan.
The president has Withdrawn from the
senate the nomination of John Fitzpatrick
to be United States marshal for the Eastern
district of Louisiana.
Mrs. Cleveland and her mother, Mrs. Fol
som, left the city yesterday for the Adiron-
dacks, where they will remain week or ten
days.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-22
DISTRESS AT DECATUR.
The State Health Officer Finds
Four Cases and Says There Are
Many Others.

SELMA, Ala, Sept. 21.-A dispatch
from Decatur this morning to the
Times-Mail from DR.. jerome Cochran,
state health officer, says: II know of
four cases of yellow fever here, and
believe there are others. The local
doctors have at last agreed that we
have yellow fever" The excitement
is intense. Selma is quarantined against
Decatur, Jacksonville. Fla, jackson,
Miss, and all infected places.
A dispatch from State Health Officer
Cochran, at Decatur, Ala, received to-
night. says: 1.-The situation here is
very gloomy. Up to last night l had
seen four undoubted cases of yellow
fever, and as many that L believed to
be yellow fever. This morning three
new cases are reported, positively, and
three or four more as suspicious. The
excitement for the past three or four
days has been immense. People have
been leaving in crowds; l think half
of the population has got away IN
spite of the fact that no trains
have been allowed to stop in
the town, and in spite of
the OmnipOtent quarantine. 1t is plain
now that there is some source of infec-
tiOn Independent of Spencer, and it is
Iudb CpCuCCl HOb ScG Ills
case from the Jacksonville visitor. My
situation here has been extremely pain
full. Myself and DR.. Cross stood alone
against all the other local doctors and
against fiercely excited population. l
have been denounced in the most Op-
probriOus terms. have been made out
an ignoramuS and fraud. | have been
denounced for saying that yellow fever
was here, and have been denounced
on the other hand for not say
ing that certain cases were yellow
fever, and preventing exposure. was
damned if l did, and damned if l did
not. In the meantime l tried to temper
excitement, to keep the roads open and
get the mails off. All the time [ have
Kept the health officials of Alabama and
of other states quietly informed of the
facts. so due precaution might be taken.
The doctors now admit that we have
yellow fever here, and steps towards
systematic management will be taken
to-day. So many people had been ex-
posed before L got here, and medical
and popular opinion was so against me
that l could do almost nothing in the
way of preventatiOn."
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-22
FLEEING FROM THE PLAGUE.
Three New Cases in jackson,
Miss, Whose White Population
Is on the Run.

Three New Cases in jackson,
Miss, Whose White Population
Is on the Run.
JACKSON, Miss, Sept. 21.-The eX-
element of yesterday continues, and is
greatly increased by three new cases
this morning. They are David Hippo,
Charles Daley and Frank Kavanagh,
all workmen on the new railroad depot.
No deaths have yet occurred. 1t is
generally conceded that all the cases
originated here and were caused by eX-
cavatiOns and disturbing filthy sewers
on the depot grounds during the past
two months. Threc-fOurthS of the
white population have fled. The stores
are nearly all closed, and there is but
little food in the city for the ''can't-get-
aways." No trains stop here. A
special train will be furnished tonight
for such as wish to go through to the
North, taking on passengers some dis
tance north of the city. The Howards,
or Red Cross society, was organized to-
day.
The provisions have nearly all been
carried away by the merchants, and
people who cannot get away are in a
truly bad fix. Nine-tenths of the white
population and a few OF the colored
people have fed. A special train on
the Illinois Central road took off a car
load this evening to points north. A
shotgun quarantine is now in force on
nearly all the dirt roads surrounding
Lack SON
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-22
GROWERS OFFICIAL FAMILY
The Senate Would Enlarge 1t by
Creating a Secretary of Agricult-

uPe.
Special to the Globe
WASHINGTON, D. c.. Sept. 21.-The
feature of the days proceedings in the
senate was the passage of the house bill
creating the department of agriculture.
Mr.. Stewart introduced bill regulat-
ing the transmission to the president of
the bills which have passed both houses,
and gone through the ordinary routine
of legislation. 1t was referred to the
committee on rules. Mr.. Stewart also
introduced a resolution reciting the
delay of passed bills in transmission to
the president, by the house committee
On enrolled bills, and calling
the attention of the house to the alleged
delays, and asking the house to require
its officers TO present such bills without
delay. 1t went over until Monday, un-
der objection by Mr.. Edmunds. The
house bill creating the department of
agriculture and making the head of that
department a cabinet officer, was taken
up. The question was on the amend
ment of the committee on agriculture,
striking out the fifth section, transfer
ring the weather bureau of the signal
Office to the department. 1t was stricken
out after remarks by MessrS. Chandler,
Blair, Reagan and Plumb, by vote of
SO to 9. Mr.. Reagan offered as a substi-
tute for the bill, bill creating a de-
partment of industry, but on mo-
tiOn of Mr.. Palmer, it was laid
on the table. The bill was then
passed without division, and a confer
ence ordered. The bill provides that
the department of agriculture shall be
an executive department, under the
control of a secretary of agriculture
with an assistant secretary; that the
salary of the secretary of agriculture
shall be the same as is paid the heads
of other departments, and that the sal
aTy of the assistant secretary shall be
the same as that Of the first assistant
secretary of the interior department.
The conference report on the Sundry
civil appropriation bill was presented
and agreed to. Mr.. Stewart, upon
learning thai the senate cOnferees had
yielded on the amendment in regard to
land and timber frauds, reiterated his
views on that subject. Mr.. Blair OBJ
senate being taken up by
speeches coming in IN this way.
Mr.. Stewart held his ground and con-
tinued his speech, which consisted of
an attack upon the commissioner of the
general land office. Mr.. COckrell re-
piled to him. Mr.. Allison said, in an
swer to a question, that the conferees
had agreed upon everything except the
amendment relating to the library
building. Mr.. Sherman said that there
was no sense in keeping up the cOntro-
Versy and moved that the senate insist
in its disagreement to the house amend
ment, and at the same time recede from
its own amendment, thus dropping the
library entirely from the bill. The SEN
ate finally agreed on Mr.. Sherman's
motion to instruct its confereeS in case
Of further disagreement to propose that
the paragraph be stricken from the bill.
Senators Allison, Hale and COckrell
were reappointed cOnferees, and at 4:45
the senate adjourned until Monday.