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Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1890-07-23
The Cigar Makers Kick

The Key West and other domestic
manufacturers Of cigars from Havana
tobacco are very much awake to the
ruin of their business which would be
worked by the Mckinley tariff. The
duty on their imported material it is
proposed to increase from 80 cents to
So per pound, which will amount to
an increase of $3.50 on the quantity
required for making thousand cigars
or four cents on each cigar. Mean
time the customs duty OH the import
ed cigars is to be increased only $50
per thousand, or 3 cents each. The
increase of duty will be therefore one
third more on the domestic manufac-
ture than on the imported. So much
for the "home industry" under Mr..
Mckinley. The customers part will
be to pay ID cents for Zoe. cigar
Lansing Democrat.
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Whittemore Copper.

Several weeks ago IL was announced
In the Press that copper had been dis
covered at Whttemore, a station on the
Michigan Central railroad. The find was
made by some men sinking well on tn,
lands of the old Keystone Lumber com
pany and the ore was discovered I'm three
layers, the depth of the latter being los
feet from the surface. Specimens of the
ore was brought to Bay City and sub
mitted to w. III. and p. Hurley who have
had many years OF experience In the
copper mining business. Both agree In
pronouncing the specimens excellent
fully equal to the best ever taken from
the Hecla and Calumet mines. The news
OF the discovery was flashed all over the
country and IL was the best advertise
ment the little town Of Whittcmorc ever
received.
II. NJ. Pierce of West Bay City, Is the
agent for the lands where the copper was
found. All of the present owners of the
property reside in New York and other
cities of the east. Not satisfied with the
verdict of the Hurley brothers, Mr..
Pierce submitted specimens OF the copper
to some of the best experts In the coun-
try. One sample was sent to Philadel-
phia and from all quarters the most en-
couraging reports were received. MIR.
Pierce is now convinced that the find
was genuine one and that the lands OF
the company which he represents are
now worth thousands OF dollars where
they were valued at hundreds before.
He has been busy for the past two weeks
organizing mining company, and shaft
will be sunk In the ground near White
more before the frosts of another autumn
are here. Mr.. Pierce left for Prescott
and Whittemore yesterday and is not ex-
pected back before tomorrow or Satur-
day. He said before he left, however,
that he would have no difficulty in form
ing company and that the articles OF
association would soon be filed. Bay
City and West Bay City capitalists will
invest heavily. No further details can
be learned until Mr. Pierce returns from
Whittemore. Bay City Press.
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The following vessels and steamers
cleared from this port last week with
exports as follows
Schooner Irish 300, 900 lumber, Toledo.
Propeller Chamberlin, $50, 600 lumber, Toledo
Schooner McBrier 10000 lumber Detroit
Schooner Golden Rule, 100000 lumber, Touaw anda
Propeller jerks, 10000 feet of lumber, FIR mont.
Barge Richards, $4,000 lumber, Buffalo.
Schooner West, $4,000 lumber, Detroit
Schooner Jessie, $4,000 lumber Port Huron.
Barge Bay City 100000 lumber, Buffalo
Schooner Aver. $4,000 cedar ties, Chicago.
Propeller Pringle, 100000 lumber, Toledo.
Barge Reindeer, 900 lumber, Wilson.
Schooner Magruder, 100 pond stakes. Vernillion
Propeller II. Stewart, 900 lumber, Buffalo.
Schooner Lone Star, $4,000 lumber, Buffalo.
Steamer Atlantis, 10000 lumber, Detroit. r.l.
Barge Lady Franklin, $50 600 lumber, Buffalo
Barge Monitor, $4,000 lumber, Buffalo.
Barge Potter, $4,000 lumber, Buffalo.
Barge Light Guard, 1900 ties Cleveland
Propeller westford, 2SOOOO lumber, Buffalo
Barge Burnside, 200 lumber, Lorraine.
The total shipment of lumber, etc.
since the commencement of naviga-
ton, for 1890, is as follows, by vessels
that reported at the custom house at
this mort: .ef
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The God of Bigness,

Nearly everybody in this age is
worshipping the god of bigness. Big
cities. big populations, big business
enterprises, big fortunes, big influence,
big people, and so on to the end of the
chapter. The normal has given place
to the abnormal. Take, for example
the intense desire for supremacy
among the cities Of the country in
population, the extraordinary effort;
made to count the heads of the people
the criticism of census epumerations
because they may have omitted one
or two here and there from their
lists. Is but an evidence of the univer-
sal love of bigness that charactcrize'
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How We Are Taxed.

II this country Is to strike at the
commerce of the world such blow
as is now threatened, says the New
York World in recent editorial, it
is not surprising if the commercial
nations eudeavor to bring us to terms
bya warfare upon our most vulnerable
interests.
There is no doubt us to what will
be the point of attack The majority
of the people of this country are vital
ly interested in foreign commerce.
The farmers would starvc were il not
for their European market. OF our
$3.50, 600, 600 of exports in 1886 $685.
100000 were agricultural products.
About ~ per cent of our wheat goes
abroad Ten years ago more than 40
per cent of the crop was exported.
Two-thirds of our cotton supplies
foreign mills. Provisions, corn, -four,
animals and other farm outputs make
up the balance of the merchandise in
which our largest foreign trade is
done.
The concerted action Of the Euro
pean powers will be against the farm
err. Discriminating and even prohib-
tory taxes against American agri-
cultural products are already threat
ened. That it is possible for. Europe
to stimulate the production of rival
States was shown during the war by
the great increase in the cotton grow
ing industry Of Egypt, and it has
been demonstrated still more recently
by the important advance made in
Hungary, Russia and the Argentine
Republic in wheat growing.
As an exporter of wheat, the United
States is OH the decline, and it is not
holding its own in the foreign corn
trade. With the exception of 1877
our exports of wheat in 1889 were
smaller than in any other year since
1873. In view of this it will be read
lily seen that if Europe shall discrimi.
nate against our farmers in retaliation
for our tariff the result must be dire
distress.-Chicago Herald.
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long change came over the spirits
of their dreams. And for several
years the city artisans have not showed
by their votes any affection for Re-
publican candidates. If the old
theory were correct. New York,
Brooklyn, and Boston would be as
strongly Republican as they now are
Democratic. New Jersey, Demo-
cratic State, would be as anti-Demo-
cratic as Kansas. That hive of pro-
tected industry known as Connecticut,
instead of going free trade as it does,
would be overwhelmingly against
Cleveland and other free. trade candi-
dates. Ohio would have given Forak-
err as big majority as Brough had
over Vallandigham. Chicago would
be 1000 or 10000 Republican, and
LAWYERS district would be the banner
Republican constituency and center
of opposition to Democracy. IN
happily it is nearly all the other way.
The highly protected manufacturing
districts are mostly Democratic, and
the Republicans are losing daily the
workingmen's votes they once had.
Why?
Go among the trades unions and
hear their leaders and walking dele
gates talk, and learn the reason.
These men tell their comrades that
they are being cheated out of their
share of the heavy protection duties
alleged to be levied for their benefit.
The workmen, most of them foreign.
born, remember what their wages
were in the old country; they know
what the high duties are, and the in.
creased amount which their employers
are enabled to charge consumers by
reason thereof, and they believe the
harangues that they are robbed of a
good part of their quota of protection,
and that the bosses get it. This makes
them angry and sour at the party
which pushes up the protection"
taxes. TO punish the party the boss
es support they 60 to the polls and
vote for free.trade candidates. This
is what makes them so outspoken and
bitter against the Republican party.
They think they have been cheated
out of their proper share of the plum
der and it infuriates them. Nor will
their anger be allayed if the McKin-
ley bill becomes a law. The first
thing the workingmen in the shops,
factories, and potteries will do will be
to ask their employers for the higher
wages coming to them by right of the
higher duties on the consumers. The
bosses will refuse to give them. They
will then be confirmed more than ever
in the belief that the whole tariff
system was a fraud on them putting
up prices, but not wages hurting
them as consumers, but not aiding
them as producers and those who
have as yet chung to the Republican
party will follow their comrades, de-
sert it, and thereafter vote the Demo-
cratic free-trade ticket out of spite at
their bosses. Political common sense
suggests, therefore, that it is wretched.
ly bad politics to push the present
high duties still higher when the in.
evitable effect will be to drive still
more trades union votes into the
Democratic low tariff ranks as well
as to damage and disgust the consum-
ing masses and please only a handful
Of purse-proud stockholders in trusts
and combines.-Chicago Tribune.
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Literary Notes,

The August number OF The Forum will
contain remarkable essay, by Prince p.
Kropotkin, OH THE Possibilities of Ag-
riculture" He has made thorough in
vestigation of the fabulous results of
the scientific cultivation of land in the
most densely populated portions Of
Europe. and he shows the ease with
which the number of acres now cultivat-
ed in the civilized parts of the world can
be made to yield sustenanco for many
times the number of people now alive
Scientific and intense agriculture in the
United States, for instance, can be made
to sustain in plenty, and with much great
or chcapness than now, IL population at
least ten times as dense. The writer
shows conclusivcly why it Is that such
slow progress is made in these revolu =
tionary improvements in agriculture ;
but he predicts with confidence that we
are on the eve OF the reign of plenty
lie purposes that hundred acres be
cultivated IN this way as a part of the
exposition at Chicago, in order TO de-
monstratc the possibilities of multiplying
many times the products of the American
farmer.
The August number of The Forum will
contain an essay on The Decollcto in
Modern Life" by Elizabeth Stuart
Phelps, which is II text from which the
writer argues an alarming decay in deli
cacy in American society; and she traces
the effects Of this decay in our art, in our
literature, in politics. and throughout
the whole range of American activity
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Meteorological Report

The meteorological report Of the
weather at Alpena city, is as follows
during the week ending Monday,
July 2lst, 1890:
Highest temperature, II degrees, on 18TH,
Lowest temperature, "a on the 2lst y
Average temperature GO degrees.
Highest barometric pressure, 30.32 inches.
Lowest barometric pressure 29.s? inches.
Total rainfall, 0 inches.
Prevailing wind from the northwest.
Total movement of the wind, 1858 miles.
Greatest daily rain fall inches,
Highest velocity of the wind, "a miles, from the
northwest, on the 17th
JAMES j. FITZGERALD,
Serg't Signal Corps, U. S. A.
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Detroit Markets.

The following market quotations
are copied from the Detroit Free
Press.
Apples, sOc to zoe per box.
Butter, II to u per pound.
Live fowls, Sc TO &c per pound.
Live turkeys. lc to 1"c per pound.
Eggs, 10 to Ia cents per dozen.
Flour per barrel, $3.50 to $3.50
Hay, baied, $500 to $3.50 per ton.
Oats per bushel, BIC to 43c.
Onions, 800 to 1895 per Dbl.
Pork, $1,000 to sl2.e5 per Dbl.
Potatoes, 1926 to 1916 per Dbl
Wheat, sO.ss to $3.50 per bushel.
The quotations, given by the Free
Press, are mostly of a Wholesale ma.
ture. The prices at retail stores must
be somewhat higher.
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Flanders.

james O'Neil is quite sick at present.
Dr. Lyon is attending him.
Mrs. T. j. Garfield has returned home,
having been away on visit TO relatives,
and to witness the marriage of her sister,
Maud Erwin, to Angus Carmichael.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Whitney, from
Minnesota, are visiting friends here.
Most Of the farmers are nearly through
having.
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TREAsURER's NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that the undersigned,
Treasurer of the city of Apena, will receive the
tax roll for general city and highway taxes for the
year 1890. Monday July 18th, and the same will
be retained by him during July and August that
during July said Treasurer will receive Sl taxes
assessed thereon without the addition of any com
mission or percentage for colection that during
August persons paying taxes will be charged one
per cent additional on their assessment; and that
after the expiration of said time said roll will be
returned 20 the Comptroller of said city, who will
cause TO be made out copy of as much of said as
sessment roll rs shall be due and unpaid, adding
thereon such percentage as shall have been fixed by
the Common Council for the collection of such taxes
OF assessments, not exceeding four per cent, and
that within ten days thereafter the said Treasurer
will receive said mentioned roll and proceed 10 col
ect and receive taxes thereon assessed, up 10 the
last Saturday in October next.
Notice Is further given that the said Treasurer
is not required by law 10 call upon the persons as
scsscd upon such roll, or demand tho payment Of
w. II. POST,
CSC City Treasurer
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w Gather.

The following will show the tenn
perature at the cities mentioned below
observations being taken simulta-
neously by U. S. weather observers,
at 8 o'clock P. NJ, during the week
ending July 10th, 1890: sI ira
O'CLOCK 2. NJ. OBSERVATION.
DaY observation was tnken. II u 10 Il u 20
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TO Detroit, should not neglect seeing
Clusters Last Charge" which they will
most assuredly find interesting and in
structiye. Cyclorama corner Bates and
Iarned SIS Detroit
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Marriage Licenses.

The marriage licenses issued by the
county clerk since our last report,
with names and residence, are us fol-
lows:
Name and place of Residence.
ll3. James w; Upham, city of Alpcna.
Minnie Fen5om, "
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Democratic State Convention.

The Democrats of Michigan will meet in State
convention in Hartman's Hall, at Grand Rapids,
on wednesday, September 10TH 1890, at II o'clock
A. NJ, 70 nominate candidates for State officers
including one Justice of the supreme Court, elect
a State Central Committee for the ensuing two
years, and transact such other business ms may
properly come before them.
Every county is entitled TO one delegate for each
500 votes cast for at the last general cleo
tion and one additional delegate for fraction Of
not less than $50 votes but any county Is al.
lowed at least two delegates All delegates must
be residents of the counties they represent.
The delegates from each congressional district
will meet in caucus ut 10 o'clock A. NJ, on the day
of the convention, and recommend candidates rs
follows: Two members of the State Central Com
mittee one ylce-prcsdent of the convention, and
one member each for the committees on credentials
permanent organization and order of business and
resolutions.
T. Nj. WESTON,
Chairman.
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English SPAWN Liniment removes all
hard, soft or calloused Jumps and blem
ishes from horses, blood spavins, curbs,
splints, sweeny, ring-bone, stiles, sprains,
all swollen threats, coughs, etc. Save
$50 by use of one bottle. Warranted the
most wonderful blemish cure ever known,
Sold by II. Beebe, druggist, Alpena. 954yl
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Why continue the use of irritating pow
ders snufis or liquids. Ely's Cream Balm
pleasant of application and sure cure
for catarrh and cold in the head, can be
had for soc. 1t is easily applied into the
nostrils, Is safe and pleasant, and is cur
ing the most obstinate cases. 1t gives re-
lief Mt once.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1890-07-23

Here comes something as
good as is made, and is us
ed in New York, Chicago
and Boston. 1t is as hand
some a car as can be made
by the mostskillful mechan-
ic in America to-day; the
design and styles beautiful.
Think of it, it will soon be
on our streets here in Alpe-
ma
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1890-07-23

The proprietors of Ely's Cream Balm
do not claim IL to be a cure all, but a sure
remedy for catarrh, colds in the head, and
hay fever 1t is not liquid or snuff,
but Is easily applied into the nostrils, II
gives relief at once
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Clearances 1890.

The following vessels and steamers
cleared from this port last week with
M fo1lo,,c
, 1890-06-05

Col. John Van Arman is said to
have been the only lawyer in America
who, while assuming the guilt of de-
PENDANT at the bar, dared to demand
his acquittal on the ground of public
policy. This was in the stock yards
case, in which Rider was on trial. 1t
seemed that the stock yards company
had sent messengers to the peniten-
tiary at Joliet to obtain discriminating
evidence, and had been afforded every
facility for that purpose. In his argu-
ment to the jury Col. Van Arman de-
voted considerable time to a discussion
of the growth and development of cor
porations and monopolies, and the
power they had acquired over offices
and officers at the expense of the peo-
pie.
He inquired if a crime had been
committed against a private citizen
whether such citizen would have been
permitted the privileges exercised by
the prosecution to secure a conviction
as had been done in the ease under
consideration. In concluding he de.
manded that though Rider might be
guilty as charged in the indictment,
the jury should find him innocent, as
a lesson to corporations to respect the
rights of the people. Chicago Jour
, 1890-06-05

Capt. A. E. Anderson of the Hudson
river steamer Mary Powell tells of two
odd condolences which he ran up
against" one day. His steamer was w.
ing at the foot of Vestry street, Pough-
keepsie, when a man boarded her and
said to the captain: II have lost my
trunk. 1 don't know whether it was
taken off this boat or not" what is
your name2" asked Capt. Anderson
quite naturally. "a. E. Anderson"
was the reply. my initials and sur
name exactly" returned the captain.
my full name is Ambrose Eltinge
Anderson" said the stranger, almost
dumfounded to find the captains
name the same, letter for letter.
The same afternoon Capt. Anderson
vas treated to another surprise. An
elderly lady boarded the Mary Powell
at Newburg, remarking to the captain
as she handed in her ticket that her
name was Mary Powell, and that she
lived in Philadelphia. This was too
much for Anderson, who related to the
lady the coincidence of the morning,
whereupon the two spent a full hour
discussing condolences, strange and
otherwise. st. Louis Republic.
, 1890-06-05

TANGIER. June 4.-Three men from
Draa, who were FIVE months iu irons in
the prison at Tangier without trial, on sus.
picion OF connection with the robbery at
the house of the Italian charge de affaires
last autumn, and who were severely bas-
tinadoed to induce them to confess to ap
pease the demands of Italy for satisfac.
ton, are still unable to obtain compensa-
ton, though the real author OF the crime
has confessed and is in prison. The a
in which the truth came Out is interesting.
A robbery was recently committed at the
house OF one of the chief Moors of
Tangier and next morning a slave
was found in the street suffering
from an injury to his ankle, which
prevented his reaching his masters house.
1t was afterwards ascertained that he was
the thief who had hurt himself in Jump
ing from a roof. He and his master were
forthwith taken off to prison, the latter
being placed in the | obby only. Under
the bastinado the slave offered to confess
all his robberies, and among them owned
to that of the Italians house, which was
carried out with the assistance of a Span.
lard. In consequence he is now lying in
irons in Jail and his master has paid
$4,000 damages to the parties robbed.
1t will be remembered that it VAS this
simple matter-such as occurs daily in
every city IN Europe-which gave occa-
sion for such alarming kilograms to be
sent all over the world about the %insecur-
ity to life and property here, and caused
the Italian government to rave about iron
clads and PREPARATION.
, 1890-06-05

SPRINGFIELD. Ills, June 4-The
Democratic state convention met at noon
and after the appointment of usual COM
mittees adjourned till 2 p. m.
The convention met at 2 o'clock and
made the temporary organization perma-
nent. The following nominations were
made; State treasurer. E s. Wilson OF
Olney; superintendent of public iustruc-
ton, Henry Raab of Belleville; trustees
OF state university, Richard Morgan of
Livingston, John H. Bryant OF Bureau
and N. w. Graham of jackson county.
A resolution endorsing J. NJ. Palmer for
United States senator was adopted amid
great applause. The platform reafirms
the platform of 1888 and says: The
admission of fraudulent senators from
Montana and the unseating of represen-
tatives duly elected in order to give
greater strength to the Republican ma
iority are precedents alike dangerous to
the safety and perpetutiy of the govern
ment. The Mckinley tariff bill is de.
nounced as a crime and conspiracy against
the toilers of America. The Australian
ballot system is favored.
, 1890-06-05
A VIGOROUS KICK.
New York Importers Object to
the Mckinley Bill.
A Very Good Young Lady
Commits Suicide.
The Cyclones Terrible Work
at Bradshaw, Neb.

WASHINGTON, June "A delegation
of about 100 importers from New York
city appeared today before the senate
committee on finance to protest against
the passage OF the Mckinley tariff bill.
j. M. Constable of Arnold, Constable &
Co., was the chief spokesman for the
delegation. He presented the formal
protest of the importers of New York.
Other members of the delegation also
entered various protests against the bill.
The hearing then closed.
Senator Sherman responded for the
committee. saying it had heard the speak
ers with interest, and would give due
consideration to all hat had been said.
The printed protest presented to the
committee by Constable is signed by 455
mercantile firms of New York city. 1t
protests against the passage of the bill
for the following reasons;
First-Because il is wholly unnecessary,
the country no longer needing the revenue
from such uncallcd for and unjust taxa
ton.
Second-It does not accomplish its
purpose.
Third-It is unjust in that 1t discrimin-
ates in favor of the rich against the poorer
classes.
Fourth-It handicaps trade.
Fifth-lt retards the progress of the
nation. the welfare of the whole country
aud the permanent good of manufactur-
ers themselves, who require a reduction
rather than an increase in tariff duties.
Sixth-The administration bill in
creases the revenue by many millions of
dollars.