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The times., 1889-10-04
Literary Note.

Some time ago the Detroit Free Press Of
fered $S, in prizes for the three best serial
stories sent in before July 1st. The result
of this competition has been that Major
Joseph Kirkland, of Chicago, ILL.,, has taken
the first prize of $1,000. His story is en-
titled, "rhe Captain of Company X" Mr..
Kirkland is the author of "Zury, the Mean
est Man in Spring County, ''The McVeys,"
and other stories. The second prize goes to
Omaha, Neb., and is taken by Mrs. Eliza
w. Peattie- Her story is entitled, "The
Judge" The third prize of $500 was award
ed to Elbridge S. Brooks, of Boston, Mass.
The title of his story is, "The Son of Issi-
char"
The times., 1889-10-04
short but Newsy Items.

Quincy White Caps raided house of Ill
fame the other night, using antique eggs
for missiles.
St Ignace cools off its uamps who refuse
to work out their sentences on the streets
by soaking them under good strong flow
of water from one OF the pipes
There is q strong movement under way
in the Upper Peninsula to secure a normal
school, under the patronage Of the State.
The frost has done considerable damage
to many of the fruits In Southeastern Mich
igan. Corn has suffered much.
There is standing offer of $4,000 re-
ward for the apprehension OF the person
who set fire to the Calumet shaft, No. 3, at
the grand sixth level, November 20. 1888.
Miss Helen +. Whittemore, librarian of
the Detroit Medical and Library Associa-
tion, dropped dead the other afternoon in
bookstore, of heart disease.
Port Huron laid the cornerstone of its
first stone church the other day.
W. b. Grail the captain of the schooner
Daisy, was held up by footpads at Mus
kegon the other night and relieved of his
watch cash and other valuables
James Connors, one of the men who
robbed the Calumet express and post offices
and escaped from Marquette Jail last June,
was returned there recently, having been
captured Mt Detroit
ID. W. Richardson, the we'll known match
manufactures OF Detroit, died there e.
other morning.
Del Jordan, of Buchanan, is completely
blind, but he manages to make from twelve
to fifteen good brooms q day-about two
thirds OF what man with two eyes and
plenty OF vim can do.
Iron Mountain has invested I'm ,tele-
phone service, and efforts are being made
to include. Quinnesec, Norway and Vulcan
in the cirdpit
Mrs Catherine Clement, who died re-
Gently in Girard township, Branch County,
would have been one hundred years old If
she could have lived one year more.
Pat Barnett was arrested few days ago
near Manistique, and was recognized by
Miss Beardsley as the man who assaulted
her ut a secluded railway station near tho
place few weeks ago.
The officers at the Detroit custom house
recently seized consignment of sixty im-
moral pictures sent from Paris and tho
Detroit man to whom they were addressed
saad he never ordered them
The times., 1889-10-04
Health I'm Michigan.

Reports to the State Board of Health by
fifty-two observers in different parts of
the State for the week ended September
q indicated that Inflammation of the brain
increased. and that cholera infantum, re-
mittent fever, cholera morbus, pneumonia
and influenza increased in area Of preva-
lence. Diphtheria was reported at twelve
places, scarlet fever at eight, typhoid fever
at Twenty-Five and measles ut four places
The times., 1889-10-04
Broken Down.

The Jackson Citizen says q near relative
of Irving Latimer, who murdered his moth
er, visited the convict lately, and says that
he is much broken down and wasted look
ing like man who had lost all earthly
hope. Latimer has been locked in his cell
twenty-five days, and when asked what he
had done to get such punishment said "he
did not know" He did not complain, nor
did he express any hope.
The times., 1889-10-04
A New Logging Road.

Brown & Co., the contractors who are to
build the logging road from Marquette to
the heart of the Dead river lumber district,
ten miles north of Ishpeming, have re-
moved their headquarters from Negaunee
to Ishpeming. They have at present about
two hundred men at work, and the number
will be increased shortly. The road to be
built will be nearly thirteen miles long. and
will have descent of SIX hundred feet in
that distance
The times., 1889-10-04
The Grape Vine Trouble.

Newton D. Pierce. of Ludington, was
delegated by the Secretary Of Agriculture
to GO to California and study up the trouble
with the grape vines After some investi-
CATION he declares the sap of the diseased
vines to be alive with bacteria, and unless
something effective could soon be done n OF
a vine would be left. The bacteria looks
like minute black spots, and under the
microscope show a white center. few OF
them increased to thousands in short
time when placed in a bottle of warm
water
The times., 1889-10-04
PENMANSHIP.

How often we have heard it remarked
about the fewness of the good writers in our
schools and it would seem strange that after
seven or eight years of school work giving
at least fifteen minutes daily to penmanship
that so few of our pupils comparatively are
passable writers. What is the cause? 4? DO
we find it in the copies, or in the teachers,
or in our methods.
vary. The book is made by ''copyplate"
after exact models. No one can write copies
like the ones given. They are all drawn
out with exactness and then traced with
pen. They are absolutely perfect. Surely,
then, the mistake can not he in our models.
1t is not necessary that one to teach
writing successfully shall be absolutely per-
feet in the art, but that he should know
what and how to teach. The majority of
our teachers are fair writers, but with few
exceptions their pupils write no better than
those instructed by teachers writing Greeley
hands; therefore it does not depend entirely
upon the teachers ability to write well.
But what are the present methods of
teaching and in what are the principals
based?
In nearly all schools except those en-
ploying special teacher in penmanship the
method, Qf it may be so called) is to place
the copy book before the pupil, give him
fifteen minutes time and require him to
write, little attention being paid to the posi-
ton he takes at the desk or to the way he
holds his pen. He has the printed copy be-
fore him. No explanations are made, and
at close the books are shut, little care being
exercised whether he has written two lines
or twenty.
The principal on which nearly all our
teaching in this branch rests is imitation,
when in fact there is not one child i'm twenty
five who can initiate with any degree of ac-
curacy. Very few children can represent
with pencil the most common things. How
well this is illustrated in map drawing. TO
be able to write one must be able to draw
pictures of the letters. But how can we
expect the child to make well formed letters
unless he is taught how. lie must know
how high, how wide and all the proportions
of the letter before he can make it intelli-
gently and it is surprising to see how
readily nc catches the idea and with what
precision he writes the letter thereafter.
In my next will give directions for con-
ducting class. IL.
We are glad to announce that the above
is as is limited one of series of articles on
penmanship TO appear In this column.
Read and paste in your hat for future
reference.
The times., 1889-10-04
Fatal Nose Bleed.

A railway engineer named Gabory struck
q friend blow on the nose in friendly
sparring match recently at Escanaba The
doctor told the injured man to lie down on
his back and the patient died in a few min
utes, the blood from his nose dropping back
into his throat causing strangulation. Ga
bory and the doctor were arrested.
The times., 1889-10-04
An Inhuman Son.

James Applegate was once well-to-do
farmer of Port Huron township. He is now
eighty-three years old, and a few years
ago, on account of his old age, he decided
his property to his son. The young man
proved an migrate and turned his father
out. The old man is now pauper but is
trying to have the deed set aside
The times., 1889-10-04
EDUCATIONAL COLUMN.

Miss Josie Miner is hired for year at
the Knaggs Bridge school. Good for that
board, nothing will have greater tendency
to improve the district schools than long
term of offica
The times., 1889-10-04
forfeited Land Grants.

Governor Luce has relinquished to the
United States all of the States interest In
900, 600 acres of land in the upper peninsula.
they being held in trust, and the unearned
portion of the grant to the Ontanagon and
Brule River Railroad Company. Congress
declared them forfeited last spring. throw
ing them open to homesteads. This action
of the Governor removes a cloud upon the
title and was authorized by the last Legis-
lature Representatives OF interested rail-
roads protested vigorously and will con-
test their claims in court
The times., 1889-10-04

Miss Josie Miner Is hired for year at
the Knagg's Bridge school. Good for that
board, nothing will have a greater tendency
to improve the district schools than long
term of Office.
Durand is having exciting times locating
a site for their SO, 900 school building. Last
Monday week it was decided to accept a
gift of the Land Co. OH the east side but
some objections were aroused and another
meeting was to I've held this week Monday.
Miss Grace Caruthers has charge of the
Shiawassee school. We understand Miss G..
will attend the State Normal at no distant
date.
Laingsburg will make change in
Algebras, Geometrys and U. S. Histories.
Mr.. Andrew Warner will..be the presiding
genius at the "Octogone" this winter.
The following constitute the corps of
teachers at Laingsburg: Prin. f. b. Smith;
Gram. Carrie Hicks; Inter. Ida Pratt;
Prim. Hattie Pixies. The school enroll
ment is $50.
HOW THE YOUNG IDEA SHOOTS.
Brokerage is the hay and straw in which
breakable things are packed.
An adverb is used to mortify noun and
is a person, place or thing.
Principal is not valuable likeinterest and
is never paid.
Satisfaction is the mmHend and the sub
stracted end.
Arithmetic is the sins of numbers.
An impulse is what the doctor takes ahold
of to feel if you are sick.
sHIAwAssEE COUNTY sUPERINTENDENTs'
AND PRINCIPALS ASSOCIATION.
Held at Durand, Oct. 5, 1889, at nine
o'clock a. m. Programme:
Personality of the Teacher. w. Sim
mons, Owosso; e. l.. Griffith, Laingsburg;
ID. J. Keyes, Vernon.
Course of study for High School-Hud-
son Sheldon, Bancroft; ii. ii. Frost, Owos-
50; F. +. Bumps, Corunna.
Examinations, Reports and Glass Records
Fred Wimple, Shaftsburg; +. w. French,
Byron; Jas. n. Mcbride.
Conducting Recitation, Talking, and use
of Text Books-E. M. Plunkett, Ovid; ID.
c. Cooper, Owosso; Herbert McEuen,
Perry.
Education outside the schoolroonl-Prin.
Smith, Owosso; K. NJ. Hopkins, Durand;
w. j. McKone, Morrice.
Flying the American Flag on every school
building in Detroit and elsewhere may be
all right as little episode in the history of
the present, but how long will flag 10 X Is
feet at cost of $10.50, remain present
able flag, if exposed to wind and weather
every school day in the week, and the hOli-
days that occur. We doubt the repetition
of the experiment. Perhaps the life of one
set of flags will increase patriotic spirit
in the rising generation so that one set to
each decade of years, may be sufficient
Byron Herald.
The times., 1889-10-04
Hanged himself i'm His Cell.

George Doelle, night watchman OF the
Montague iron works, left work the other
morning to kill his aged wife, who was not
at home. He then attempted to kill his
step-daughter with an axe. striking two
cruel blows, but without deadly effect
Marshal Ginger arrived soon after. He
struggled for an hour with Doeile and re-
ceived five severe cuts about the head, but
at last took his man to jail Both were
covered with blood. When supper was
sent to the prisoner the guard found him
hanging to cell bar cold and stiff.
The times., 1889-10-04
Marriage Licenses.

The following persons have been granted
licenses during the week:
NAME a RESIDENCE. AGE
VIM. III. Bruno, Durand- 81
Annie Burghduff, Bancroft IS
Harry Hammond, Owosso- 21
May Thompson, Shaftsburg------ 81
Rembrandt G. Grattan, williamson - 23
G. Ella Miller, Morrice ce-- %
Ira G. Curry, Owosso- o------- 26
Helena G. Davidson, Fenton- %
Alvin Weadthorp, Vernon 26
Abbie Tylmail, Byron 81
Fred II. love. Antrim im---------------- 20
Florence Cassidy, Conway 10
The times., 1889-10-04
MICHIGAN STATE NEWS.
Buried with Honors.

Sol Felch, the murdered survivor Of An
dersonville prison and a veteran OF the
Eighty fifth New York regiment, was buried
with full military honors at Iron Mountain
recently Surgeon Mead, a gray haired old
comrade, playing the fife every step Of the
way to the grave side. The funeral pro-
cession consisted of over a quarter Of
mile OF carriages, and the proceedings
throughout were most pathetic. Several
old Indians who knew Sol we'll as an upper
peninsular pioneer followed the procession
sorrowfully. John L. Buell. delivered an
eloquent panegyrio ON the deceased Re-
ports from Marinette jail state that Steig-
litz, the murderer, continued 10 exhibit q
stoical demeanor.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-12-12

Last March the legislature passed a
joint resolution providing for the ap-
pointment of three senators, the speaker
of the house and five representatives, to
act in conjunction with five citizens, to
be appointed by the governor, in the
revision and consolidation of the laws
relating to the construction and improve
ment of the roads and public highways
of the state, and also to consider the ad-
visibility and practicability of the state
assisting in the construction and i'm
provement of the same. This commits
sion will report at the next session.
Senators Harlan, Mylin and Sloan, and
Representatives Foight, of Westmore-
land, Mccullough, of Allegheny, Faulk-
ner, of Bradford, Griffith, of Mexican,
and Shillito, of York, will represent the
legislature, and Governor Beaver has
appointed the following additional men,
bers: David McCargo, Pittsburg; Jacob
Clearfield; III. S. Goodwin, South Bethle-
hem; Samuel r. Downing, West Chester.
Governor Beaver, who was the moving
spirit in the creation of the commission,
being asked concerning the defects in
the present road laws, said there were
a number, but only two of considerable
Importance. "We have very poor roads
all over the state" said the governor,
but they are not to be attributed to the
fact that supervisors have no authority
to make good roads. They simply do
not carry out the laws. / think there
should be but one supervisor in town
ship, as now provided by law, and all
road taxes should be paid in cash. The
law now permits taxes to be worked
OUT and the work is now done in a
bungling manner by inexperienced men
whose only object is to put in sufficient
time to make up the amount of their
tax. Where there is but one supervisor
he could devote his entire time to the
work and see that it would be done WELL
The most grievous abuse, however, is
the working out of taxes on the road.
The work is not done. One supervisor
and cash taxes would be capital begin
ming in the right direction.
1T is not necessary to revolutionize
the entire system at once. l recognize
the difficulty of the commissions task,
for they must exercise great deal of
care to get law that will operate for
the advantage of all. The commission,
however, represents all sections, and
some of the numbers are practical engi-
neers and road-makers, and they will no
doubt prepare an acceptable law"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-12-12

Bologna sausages, big and little, have
been turned out in quantities from fac
tory on Johnson Avenue, Newtown, g
little village in New Jersey. The fac
tory is a two-story frame building. II
has always been mystery to the people
roundabout. Wagon loads of sausages
were sent away daily, but no one re.
membered ever having seen any meat
or cattle brought to the place. The
rattle of the steam chopping and stuff
fling machines could be heard night and
day. Henry Myer, the proprietor, and
three other men were employed in max
ing the sausages.
Health Officer Wickham made an in.
yestigation on Tuesday. He found sus
pended in different parts of the place
large pieces of dressed meat. The doc.
tor examined them and found that they
were horseflesh. When questioned on
the subject the proprietor did not deny
that he used horseflesh in manufacturing
his sausages, and as there is no law tc
prevent it, nothing could be done. There
is no law, either, to compel beople to eat
his sausages, and it would be as we'll tc
let them alone.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-12-12
lN
DEATHS.

MILK.-At Oakdale, December 7 Mary
NJ, wife of Samuel Milk, aged sc
years and days. Inferred at Halle
ton on Tuesday.
McNELIs.-At Jeddo, December 5, infant
son of Patrick and Bridget McNelis.
Inferred at st. AIMS on Friday. Bris-
lin, undertaken.
SHovLIN-At Drifton, December 6,
Francis, son of James and Catherine
Shovlin, aged 2 years. Inferred at st.
AIMS on Saturday.
HoUsToN.-At Honey Brook, December
II, Daniel, son of Joseph and Mary
Houston, aged years. Interment to-
morrow afternoon at Frenchtown.
McKINLEY.-At Freeland, December 5,
Elizabeth, daughter of John and
Bridget Mckinley, aged 2 months
Inferred at st. AIMS on Saturday.
Brislin, undertaken.
GALLAGHER.-At Drifton, December 8,
Mary, daughter of Edward and Bridget
Gallagher, aged years, months and
. days. Inferred at st. AIMS yester-
day afternoon. Brislin, undertaken.
BRIsLIN:-At Upper Lehigh, December
II, Maggie, daughter of Susan and
James Brislin, aged IL years and II
months. Interment at st. AIMS
cemetery at 2.30 p. m. tomorrow
Brislin, undertaken,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-12-12
Weekly Coal Report.

The anthracite coal trade presents no
new feature to note this week There is
less demand for coal than there was q
week or two ago, and during the past
week some of the individual operators
have been offering directly to consumers
coal in carload lots at trifle above the
wholesale market prices to dealers.
There has also been some softening in
prices since the closing of the canals and
the cessation for the season of the West
ern shipments via the lake routes. The
Eastern trade continues quiet, and the
local line and city business is being con-
Quoted ON the hand -to-mouth principle.
The Reading, Lehigh Valley and Penn
sylvania Canal and Railroad have closed
their respective fiscal years.
The Engineering and Mining Journal of
Saturday, in its weekly review of the
coal trade at New York, says: "The
improvement in the trade, occasoned by
the cold weather of the week, has been
in feeling rather than in fact. Prices are
undoubtedly weak and coal is certainly
too plentiful. The actual condition of
the market under such circumstances
can as well be imagined as described
At this late date period of continued
cold weather is the only thing that can
decidedly relieve the situation. The
producers have had every opportunity
importantly to restrict the output of coal,
and if an unsatifactary market results
from an utter lack of judicious regula-
ton of the supply to the demand they
have only themselves to blame"
The Pottsville Miners Journal, on the
other hand, finds somewhat brighter
condition of affairs in the anthracite
trade to report. 1t states that: "For
the first time in many weeks the an
thracte trade begins to manifest some
signs of life. There is an increase over
the shipments of the same week in 1888
of nearly 100, 900 tons, and most of the
oollieries are now engaged in an effort to
make the current weeks output greater
still. The companies which have led in
this unusual activity are the Lehigh Val.
ley and the Philadelphia and Reading
but several of those which come lower
down in the producing scale are also
gaining ground. Advices are to the
effect that the market is more active,
but there is little Of q frmer tone to
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-12-12
UNITING THE MINERS.
Lewis Progressive Union Wants 10 Join
Hands With N. L. A. 1876.

A dispatch from Columbus, Ohio, says
that 1t seems very probable now that the
Two national organizations of coal miners,
the Progressive Union and National Dis
trlct Assembly No. 1856, X. of L., will
soon consolidate under a new name.
The Secretary of the Progressive Union
has addressed the following letter to
Secretary Watchorn of 1876:
Since our meeting at Pittsburg / have
laid the suggestions of Master Workman
Rae, to unite the mining forces by hay
ing one set of national affairs and one
national fund, before President Mcbride.
He is thoroughly in accord with the
opinions expressed. AS instructed by
him, | tender M. w. Rae and yourself a
cordial invitation to attend the conven-
ton to be held at Indianapolis, Decem-
Der Is, 1889. If it would be convenient
for Mr.. Rae, President Mcbride would
like to meet him at Columbus on or
about December 13, that they might in
terchange views on the subject, and
adopt some method to be submitted to
the convention and from it to the miners
of the country"
The Progressive Union was organized
less than year ago by its present secre-
tary, w. 7. Lewis, who had been deposed
from office in 1876 for misrepresentation
of funds. Its growth throughout Yves.
tern Pennsylvania and Ohio was very
rapid for awhile, and its leaders, who
had always been kickers in 1876, sue
ceeded in getting several assemblies tc
go with them into the new organization
Last spring, however, the union inaugu
rated several strikes, most of which were
failures, and since then it has been losins
ground steadily. An attempt was made
to introduce branches of it in the Schuyl
kill region, but the miners there did MOI
take very kindly to it, N. T. A. 135 is
the representative miners organization
in this country and it is hoped its leaders
will have nothing to do with this Pro-
gressive Union as far as uniting forces is
concerned, as the latter has simply
nothing to unite, except few officers
who do not like the prospect of losing
their positions. The rank and file Of
the Progressive has been back in 1876
long ago, but its leaders are not wanted
tbara
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-12-12

Charles Dougherty, 17-year-old lad
residing at Highland and employed as
driver at No. l, was crushed to death on
Monday night. He was coming out from
the face of the gangway with loaded
car and by some unknown way got
caught between the car and the rib
where he was afterwards found dead by
some of the miners who became alarmed
at his long absence. He was a member
of st. AIMS Pioneer Corps and delega-
ton of that body attended the funeral
yesterday, interment taking place at
Mauch Chunk, under charge of Under
taker Brislin.
Upon notification Mine Inspector
Jonathan appeared and examined the
scene of the accident, and yesterday
morning ordered T. A. Buckley, ]. p,
to hold an inquest to ascertain the cause.
The following jury was empaneled, and
after viewing the remains adjourned to
meet at 2 p. m. to-day John M. Powell,
John Burton, Jos. D. Myers, Jos. II.
Lindsay, Condy o. Boyle and John B.
Quigley.