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The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1891-05-22

VIM. Reyes has a very sick horse.

VIM. Reyes has very Sick horse.
Kundinger is out again and will COM
mence butchering again soon.
G. w. Reed is building thirty feet more
on his store to make room for AGAR load of
buggies which A. @. Krapf expects soon.
The Indians have gone and everything is
quiet now.
Mr.. Adams has contracted to carry the
mail from Oakley to Olney.
We understand that Brady Center is to
have postofIice; M. Owen, postmaster.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1891-05-22
Farmers.

/ have just received car OF "Fertilizing
Salt" which comes to me very highly recon-
mended and said to be the cheapest and best
artificial fertilizer made. Good on,all crops
and especially wheat and corn. A sure
death to the cut-worm. 1t will pay you
TO give II trial. g. j. STUART
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1891-05-22
ORDER OF SERVICES.

ORDER OF SERVICES.
Ritual Services-G. A. r.
Music-Glee Club.
Prayer-Rev. Mr.. Brumm.
Music-Glee Club.
Reading-J. w. Simmons.
Flower Exercises-Children
Music-Glee Club.
Address Rev. ]. R. Reitzel.
Music-Glee Club.
Benediction-Rev. E. B. Bancroft.
Glee Club-C. C. Duff, Wellington
White, A. E. Ferry, T. j. Horsman, II.
Fred Frieseke, Aleck Moshier,
Bert TAYLOR.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1891-05-22
The Best Full Cream Cheese

AT II. Affords. West Owosso, in wholesale
lots. This cheese is made by the Medina,
Lenawee county factory and depot es-
tablished at Owosso in order to supply the
trade. Call at Affords or address
SILAs BAILEY, Factory Agent,
4w Burton, Mich.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1891-05-22
Now 1901 Tea.

/ have just received an invoice of the first
steamer 1891 Japan tea which / now have
on sale. Call and try il. Remember they
are of the first steamer teas for 1891.
Il. ii. BANIsTER.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1891-05-22
For Sale.

A thoroughbred, registered, ShOrthorn
pull, one year old, first-class individually.
Price reasonable. At Mound Spring Stock
Farm. Call and examine or write to j. w.
Hubbard, Bennington, Mich.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1891-05-22
Bicycle For Sale.

High grade Bicycle for $50. Ball bearings,
Springfield roadster, almost new. SO inch
wheel geared to Sc. Address
5. FLETCHER,
4w Box 200, COrunna, Mich.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1891-05-22

We do not sell for cost but just as cheap
as possible. >. Is. EVER ~ 20.
John Turnbell will stand his French
Coach horse at SIS, to insure at his breed
ing stables, Saturdays and Mondays.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1891-05-22

Jacob Kline. Bennington. 80. ............. "a
Bertha Snyder, Fairfield, ..................2 20
Uruin May, Fairfield. %
Maggie French, ................. Is
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1891-05-22
for Infants and Children.

"Castoria is SO well adapted to children that
recommend itas superior to any prescription
known to me-" II. A. ARCHER, M. D.,
III So. Oxford St., Brooklyn, n. Y.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1891-05-22
For Sale.

Farm of 60 acres n mile south Of city limits.
Good house, barn and other buildings, choice
fruit, acres of oak timber. Land in good state
Of cultivation. Health Of owner reason for sell
ing. r. CONVERSE.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1891-05-22

Castoria cures Collie, Constipation,
Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea Eructation,
Kills Worms, gives sleep, and promotes d.
gestion,
] Without injurious medication.
TIE CESrAuR COMPANY, n Murray Street, N. Y
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1891-05-22
For Sale.

My Farm OF so acres, 3 miles south Of Owosso.
Will sell all or half to suit purchaser.
HUGH DOUGLASS.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1891-05-22
Goldfish extra nice always at Hunts.

Goldfish extra nice always at Hunts.
Three pounds nice ginger snaps for CSC
at Hunts.
connection and plumbing, and get worth the
of your money. He is doing II right.
An experienced book-keeper and cashier
desires a situation in Owosso. Address
"a" care of K. o. Dewey.
Hot weather clothing, an immense line,
all new goods. WICKING IL SToRRER.
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bringing the end OF the oar handle down
upon it, formed very com Portable seat.
Most oi the river timber that now goes to
the Pittsburg market comes out of the
Clarion river. 1t is put into that stream
from the woutls OF Clarion and Forest coun-
ties, 40 and 80 and go miles above the mouth
OF the Clarion. In forming Clarion river
package" about 15 hemlock logs are lashed
together BY means Of pine strips. The wood
for this purpose is selected and sawed into
small strips with great care. When dry
then can be twisted into hoop without
breaking. A pine bough is laid along the
ends of 15 logs In each log hole is bored
on either side of this bough and then the
pliable wooden strip looped over the
bough, being held in place by stakes driven
into the holes. These Is logs form ''plat-
FORM" A package" consists of six ''plat-
FORMS" This is foated down the Clarion
to the Allegheny river, and upon reaching
that wider stream the real ratt is made up.
a Clarion river raft, or the six platforms
containing about 100 logs, Is steered beside
another one and .iashed to 1T by means of
larger boughs aud larger pine loops. Four
of these packages" complete an Allegheny
river raft, and the raft thus formed usually
contains from 400 to 500 logs, and so remark
able is the economy of the construction, OF
the temporary craft that not foot Of rope
or pound of nails has been used. Yet it is
securely and safely lashed together.
Floating the Dressed Lumber.
Boards, or dressed lumber, are built into
RATS on a different plan. A platform" is
Quilt eight boards high, and fastened together
bv stakes mortised through all of them.
One platform contains 30, 600 or 60. 900 feet
of boards, and as it takes nine platforms to
make q complete board raft that would
large amount ofmoney.
"For instance, there is an immensely
raft of pine boards" remarked my
host as we foated past Logan,s
eddy, the next day. ut contains 400, 900
or 500, 900 feet of boards, besides the shingles,
lath, etc., lying on top. Pine is the bonanza
In the lumber market at Pittsburg this year.
ust think of i'll That there rait of 4o0, 900
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unheralded by the merry horns of wagoners;
nor did any white sail fly from its mast
Up where the Clarion river flows into the
Allegheny a fsherman's rod cut playful
ripple in twain, and there was instantly
born a tiny bubble. The bubble started of
jauntily on voyage down the romantic
Allegheny. About the same time raft OF
lumber, an acre in area and worth thousands
of dollars, left the shore, and dritted down
stream also. The bubble became its pilot.
Guided BY bubblel Whoever heard the
likef Drifting with the currentl What
could be more enchanting?
Novel Methods of Travel.
All sorts of adventures in locomotion have
fallen to the lot OF the writer in varied
career of journalism. Speeding to Cleveland
at the rate Of mile and fraction per min
ute to overtake the Garfield funeral tram
and repcrt the burial of the dead President
-dsshing into handcar on high bridge
on the way and killing seven men; riding
from Pittsburg to Cincinnati on the crest of
the great food OF 1884 in the United States
relief steamer, and changing to joboat at
the more perilous points; rafting down
gravity tramway in the Allegheny Mount
aims with a drunken brakeman in charge;
utilizing locomotives and handoars in re-
porting the Johnstown food; enjoying the
princely entertainment aboard Andrew Car
negie's special train which carried President
Harrison and a party of seven from Wash
iugton to the opening of the Allegheny Lii
brary; pulled In a rough farm wagon by tine
horses, Beaver and Bucephalus, over 1000
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THE MERCIFUL ANACONDA.
A Fable Built After the Style Invented by
One Esop.

A Fable Built After the Style Invented by
One Esop.
Somerville Journal.I
A Fawn was bounding along the edge Of
Q thicket, when an Anaconda sprang forth
and seized him; and, winding his body
around the unfortunate creature, held him
fast in his coils. The poor Fawn, after
struggling in vain to escape, cried out:
"Oh, sir! have pity, for even now, as /
passed the jungle, something struck me in
the side, and now you cruelty detain me.
At this remark the Anaconda glanced at
the Fawn's side, when he saw that wound
had been. made there by poisoned arrow;
and having an aversion for tainted meat, he
released his hold, aud said, with quiet dig
nifty in his tones:
$50. sir. to your people, and tell them
from me that the Anaconda has soft spots on
his heart and knows when to be merciiul."
On hearing these words the Fawn glee-
fully fed; but died upon reaching the
threshold OF his home. Whereupon. the
Anaconda, in lieu of meal, found amuse-
meut in tying himself up in very peculiar
kInd>of knot, which he had learned from
a shipwrecked sailor.
He is indeed audacious who expects .
reputation as philanthropist for simply
being good to himself
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feet of boards you see is worth 15 cents per
foot. And what's more the owner is Andy
Cook, of Cooksburg, on the Clarion, and he
will get full prices for it. 1t took all year
to cut, slide, hew, saw, plane and raft that
one lot Of boards and Andy's usual custom
is to tie up at Logan's eddy, IA miles from
Pittsburg and wait until your city lumber
merchants are ready to accept his prices.
He would let the raft rot there but what he
got what he likes his heart on. But then
Andy is rich and can afford to hold his
lumber al! year if necessary. We poor
jobbers can't.
Some well-Known Raftsmen.
eyes. Cook got rich on lumber. Do you
know, sir, the first 81 900 that ever went up
into Clarion county came from Pittsburg?
1t was taken back by raftsmen and we're
still at it. It's true that Clarion county has
made money out of oil, but her real wealth
had its origin in her trees. You Pittsburgers
ought to be familiar with some names con-
nected with the Allegheny river rafting
business. There was Sam Short, and Joseph
HYDE and J. Cobb. Did you ever hear how
Short lost S41, 600? I guess not You're too
Young, He had that much gathered to-
gether to raft to Pittsburg, when the great
food of 1865 occurred. 1t took away every
log. Hyde lost lot, too. The two agreed
to diyvy with Cobb if he would start down
the river IN search of the lost logs and gather
them up. He recovered good many thou
sand dollars worth, hut before the division
was made Cobb failed and Short and Hyde
got nothing.
"Ah, yes, my friend, helnlock is not worth
much this spring." and the genial raftsman
surveyed his great raft Of hemlock logs du-
biousiy. He paused, as though calculating
the tremendous amount of hard labor ex-
pended in bringing them down from their
virgin condition to this perfected state. ''But
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they were cut and 30 We have to sell them
for what we can get


for what we can get.
NOW, you see, the fates were against MS,
one way or another" he continued. "Win-
ter before last we had no snow, and couldu't t
get TO the rivers with our logs. And here
the past winter We had entirely too much
snow. The hemlock market is practically
glutted, L hear, the lumber bringing only
81 and cents. Oak brings 9 and 10 cents,
and pine, which is scarcest, is selling for 10
cents. But last year pine sold for 20 cents
and oak for 13. Andy Cook is said to have
secured % cents for his pine in $780,"
Living I'm Floating House.
Probably half the RATS on the Allegheny
this year carried shanties aboard. These
often housed women and families of
children-bound for Pittsburg on their only
excursion of the year. The shanties are put
together of dressed boards as temporary as
possible so as not to injure the boards for
sale. In q shanty is a portable, cooking.
stove, a kitchen and three or Jour hunks.
There is q community of these shanties
on the RATS that make their rendezvous
between the Forty-third street bridge and
Pine creek, at Pittsburg, which is vcrita-
BILE village on the water. One day last week
it had population of 100 souls.
From Logan's eddy down TO Herr's Island
"a distance of Il miles-there was some
where In the nelghborhood OF three.quarters
Of million dollars worth of timber RATS
and lumber moored last week. Next to
Logan's eddy, fsyorite terminus.for RATS.
is HulineG eddy, opposite Hutton; Sharps-
burg, Pine creek, Lawrenceville and Hers
Island. Leaving their rats at these near
points above, the owners come on to Pitts
burg by rail and negotiate for the sale Of
their lumber. Back aud forward the RATS
men and purchasers fit on the railroads,
and at last when the dicker is completed the
raft ia broken up and hoated down to
Duquesne way in small sections.
A ride on raft il essentially without In.
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THE QUEEN BATHED IN BLOOD,
An Old Dutch Legend That Originated a
Method of Punishment

An Old Dutch Legend That Originated
Method of Punishment.
The Dutch. who settled in Elizabethtown.
N. j., in 1876, brought with them from the
Fatherland mode of execution that was
the result of an old Dutch legend, which re-
lates that in olden times reigning queen
had habit of bathing daily in human
blood. says the New York Press. No
method was then known of extracting all
the blood from the body. so that hundreds of
lives were daily sacrificed to satisfy Her
Majesty's eccentric desire. As there was
great danger of depopulating the whole
country, the court fool conceived the idea
OF the ''zfrow," wooden she'll shaped like
a woman and lined inside with hundreds of
daggers.
The victim was placed inside, and by
touching spring trap the machine would
close violently and Che unfortunate wretch
would be pierced through and through with
hundreds of holes, through which the life's
blood woud.swifrly pass out The blood
would pass down through pipe
leading to the Queens bathtub, and when
sufficient was in She would bathe. The ma
chine sacrificed thousands of young maids
and boys, whose blood the Queen preferred
to the blood of adults. Following the
regime of carnage, the machine was used
for the execution of criminals up to the
eighteenth century, when it was discarded
in this and the mother country.
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FOUND TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS.
A Maine Lad Who Could Have Had Small
Fortune If He Had Been Dishonest.

A Maine Lad Who Could Have Had Small
Fortune if He Had Been Dishonest.
Walter Mills, boy employed in Adams
Brothers boot and shoe store, Bangor, Me-,
was walking on one of the streets the other
day when be saw an ordinary looking pack
age on the sidewalk, which be picked up.
A moments examination showed him that
it contained big roll of bills, and before
disturbing them he looked around to see if
the owner was near. Just ahead of him was
a stranger, ana the boy, much excited at his
find, ran ahead and touched him on the arm.
The man turned and young Mills said:
Have you'lost anything. sir?''
The hands OF the stranger flew to his pock-
cts, and his face paled as he exclaimed,
"Great God, I have lost 81. .000i'
Mills asked no more questions, but thrust
the package into the hands of the lucky
man, who proved to be Ira w. Davis, of
East Corinth, brother Of Ex-Governor Davis,
and country lawyer, who had come to
Bangor to transact some business. He Of
fered the boy a liberal reward, which was
Immediately refused. The money belonged
to other parties, Mr.. Davis merely, having it
in trust. and this, of course. added to his
delight at recovering it
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DREW PICTURES OF GREELEY.

A Story Told OF the Splendid Woman Who
Was Murried Recently.
New York Press.l
When Horace Greeley was a regular at
tendant at DR.. ChapIn's Church, there was
always TO be seen at his side bright-eyed
little girl. She was mischievous young
ster. and the people in surrounding pews
sometimes discovered that, with paper and
pencil in hand, she was drawing q picture
Of her dear old father nid-nid-nedding in his
seat Some Of the very strict cburchgoers,
who believed that no sin was excusable In
church except that Of going to sleep, pre-
dicted very bad end Tor the mischievous
little girl; but, a. the fairy books say, she
grew and she grew, and sfterward became q
very good woman.
Thisself-same mischievous girl is Miss
Gabrielle Greeley, who became the wife of
the Rev. Frank Nontrose Clendenin Thurs
day, April "a.
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bends OF the river. On and on we 20, and
all without sound, without q tremor and
apparently without motion.
The eddies are the favorite haunts Of the
raft. Between the mouth of Clarion river
and Pittsburg the names we'll known to
raftsmen are Miller's eddy, Gray's eddy,
Whites eddy. Lpgan's eddy and Hulines'
eddy. The last Two named are in Allegheny
county and are, named after families cele-
brated In the history of the Allegheny
river. Logan's eddy is just below Logan's
Ferry. Alexander Logan settled there and
established the ferry in 1888, clearing
large plot of forest three miles in extent
and trading with the Indians. Hulings'
eddy is named after Major Hulings, grand
father of the present Colonel Willis j.
Hulings, of Oil City, who was also an In.
dian trader, and who purchased from the
savages the first lot of timber ever RATED
down the Allegheny. L. E. SToFIEL.
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YOU MAY KEEP THE CHANGE,

A Pretty Little Ragamufin Who Was Out
Big Spree.
New York Herald.l
She was about years old, and she was
swinging along lower Broadway with great
air of taking everything in as she went
along, and enjoying herself very much.
She did not seem to think about herself or
mind the fact that one toe was coming out
OF her shabby shoe, or that there was hole
in her old, faded woolen hood, from which
waved q small plume of haxen hair, or that
her soiled cotton dress was not very warm
covering unsupplemented by any wrap in
the raw, damp air that lovely spring was
just then treating us to.
She plunged into the crowd around some
workmen who were laying pipe; she crit
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ically examined the leg Of the man who ex-
hibits some form ofmasculine garters on his
own person, and then coming to an apple
paper;" she laid down a coin, a nickel, 1
suppose, and picked up an apple.
Just as she was getting ready to plant her
teeth in it the old woman held out her hand
with the change-and now if could just
show you the happy, the magnifcentlv Kind
gesture with which that blessed ragamufiu
of a young one took that old woman's wrist
and pushed it back-she was not going to
spoil her spree taking penny change from a
poor old woman, not much-that was what
the movement said; ;and then she moved off
step, and after stopping an instant to take
a monster bite she swung on down the street
with never glance backward.
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Along Career of Floating.


vanial Of all;of them what could be more
novel than raft ride to Pittsburgh
Along Career of Floating.
"Oh, yes, come aboard" cried the good
natured master Of the raft in question.
TITS mighty slow. though, and you'll be
apt to be sorry that you didn't take a Valley
train instead of this way of travelling.
Have been rafting on the Allegheny long,
you ask? Well, yes have. This is my
third trip this season from the mouth of
Clarion, and I have been taking timber
down to Pittsburg for Is and 20 years. Be-
fore that 1 used to boat oil in fat boats from
Oil creek down the Allegheny to the city.
l was employed on the first boat load of oil
that ever came out of celebrated Oil creek.
"Do know the channel pretty we'll by
this time2 Yes, 1 do. Yet you could take
this raft down to Herr's Island as we'll as
can. Watch Tor the deepest water. See
that bubble on ahead there? Well, that
would be good guide. See how it's bob
bing over toward that shore. We should
go about in the same direction. Right
Let her 60 to the right little, menl'
Guiding the Mighty Craft.
And then, altogether, the four steersmen
at the front of the raft lifted the great oar
handles high above their heads, and, turn
ing their backs to each other, walked across
the raft with their faces away from shore.
They kept step together. As the first
reached the edge OF the raft he dropped his
oar, and at that signal all the others did the
same thing. Then there was q retreat and
again the oars were lifted and pushed
through the water. A third time, and then
the order was bawled ont for the Iour steers
men at the rear end OF the raft to push to the
left once. Now the huge floor we were
floating upon had swung deftly into proper
position. The bubble, glistening in the
sunshine, was fairly in the middle of our
path. tar out of reach of the huge oars.
Oarsl That is what they are called; but
what giant oars they are!
at doesn't pay any more to bring them
back to the lumber regions by rail from
Pittsburg, remarked the master. "Freights
are nigh and we can get fair price in town
for the blades When the raft is ready
for its oars, we GO out and cut down young
pine tree. The widest part of the trunk is
slit, and into it is fitted a big plank, which,
as YOU see, has first been tapered off in the
KawmiIl from thick at one end osthin at the
other. That is the blade Each raft must
have eight of these oars. That means eight
pine trees and eight huge planks. 1t would
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from the windows OF railroad train. There
is not the cesseless throb and vibration Of
the floor beneath you that racks the nerves
aboard a steamboat. No jarrng thing dis
turbs one on this journey by rait. 1t ie
genuine panorama that is passing on either
shore, because we glide by houses, trees and
people so slowly that there is time for the
eye to absorb them all. The charm OF it,
though. is in the indescribable quietness
which seems to invest everything. We are
drifting with the current, and the current is
almost imperceptible in its movement.
With the softest glide we round the sinuous
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cident Shut your eyes and you could not
make yourself believe you are on anything
moving. There is no noise because there is
absolutely no friction. Not even a ripple
in the water is heard. But with open eyes
and keen appreciation OF the rugged seem
cry of the Allegheny Valley on balmy,
sunny spring day there is ample Enjoyment
in the experience.
A Pleasure to Travel So.
Farm houses. aud trees, and people do not
seem to be whisking past you in the
twinkling of an eye as they do when seen
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Hard to Capture.

jewelers. Weekly.1
A New York firm few days ago re
ceived an order for souvenir spoon to
crafty the whim of one of the natives of
New Jersey. The emblem required was
mosquito. Considerable trouble, it is said,
was experienced in finding a satisfactory
model the text books on insectology fur
nishing, it seems, very meager illustrations
of the famous and greatly feared disturber
Of mems dreams. Alter diliRent search
and much inquiry 1t was discovered that gn
adventurous spprentice OF the company had
captured fne specimen OF the insect dur
ing the summer and had preserved the con-
factory and the Jersey customer was made
hsppya :
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The Judge Gave It Up.
New York Morning Journal.I

Police Justice Duffy had difficult case
to settle between two tough women who had
been arrested for Sighting. The Judge had
hard time in trying to get IN Ineligible
account OF the trouble between them, and st
last said sternly to one OF the women:
''Now, Maggie, snswer my question
plainly. What passed between your"
"Stove-lids, Your Honor" Then the
Judge gave it up.
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est has come to the
doors Of Pittsburg. 1t
came silently and al
most unobserved. 1t
freighted on none ofthe
iron trains of COM
meEce; it was propelled
by no powerful steam
heats irs auproach was