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OUR NEW YORK LETTER. Kidiii Our Own Correspondent. New York, April 10, 1882. DI.ACK MKSI'KkAOOKS FIRK A ftHIF IN THK HAY SOLID SALVE FOR OLD STAOERS TELETHON ETK'S EXTRA ORDINARY AND HEECII K.r's V1BWS OTHER HEKCHKU1SMS KNIOH'S OF THE THIMBLE TRIMMING DAINTY DAMKS A ULTL8 LOAN OF A DOUB LE X AND THE FLUIDITY THAT CAMF. OF IT W EBB'S LUCK AND HOW NAME STUCK A MILITIA BRIOAK 1 I R THK SIMI LE TRUST OF A YOUNG CITY FATHER. A fire at sea is supposed to be one of the most thrilling and majestic of scenes. We were treated to one in the harbor the other day, and the cause of the fire was ascertained to be arson by mutinous darkeys. The scamps shipped, got their advance wages and, when off soundings, com pelled the captain to return on the ground of the alleged unseaworthi ness of the vessel. Knowing that a survey would result in the exposure of the fallacy of their assumption they set fire to the craft, and no doubt expected to get clear off so as to re peat their little game. The petroleum laden bark burned furiously the whole day and far into the night, having grounded on Beclloe's Island, the famous scene of the execution of sundry pirates, to whose number the authors of the last catastrophe might reasonably expect to be joined. Nearly $35,000 was gathered in for the Actors Fund at the simultaneous benefits played in New York and Brooklyn. Large individual donors were James Gorden Bennet, who gave $10,000, and Edwin Booth, who chipped in his little $1,000, to help along the more unfortunate of the profession of which he is so bright an ornament. Telegraph men and electricians generally are excited over the news of some new sound magnifying tele phone, by which it is alleged conver sation is possible between Chicago and New York, and may become so between places further apart. How convenient it would be if the anxious relatives of our returning Artie ex plorers could chat with them at Yakutsck, or wherever they may now be in Siberia. Some pretty good ones have been recently connected with Plymouth Church in Brooklyn, the wires running to the houses ofgen tlemen in New York and Elizabeth, N. J., by which the preaching and music are distinctly heard. Mr. Beecher says he considers the thing a felonious attempt to do away with pew rents. For tired business men the idea would be popular, but for the ladies. They can't study styles in back parlors, or exhibit the latest efforts of their own taste and their husband's pockets. The Beecher family get plenty of free advertizing somehow. The old man's eloquence earns it, for people like to hear what he says, even if they don't agree with him; but about the proceedings of some of the others we don't hanker quite so much to hear all the details of, especially when their doings are shady, like those of the son who was cashiered during the war as a lieutenant, for misbe havoir in the presence of the enemy, ano was promptly restored to ine service as a colonel, and provided with a soft place in Washington, where bullets never whistled. is a nephew in a scrape this time, who has been arrested on an ugly charge of trading worhless swamp lands which had already been sold for taxes, for valuable mining stock. Our tony topsawyers are getting more English, you know, every day. Ladies have taken to riding a great deal on horseback. Of course the habits are made by men, as also the fashionable Newmarket coats and ulsters, and from this has grown the employment of men to cut and fit other garments for the fair ones, fa vored with big purses. We can now boast a Gothamite Worth. He don't happen to be an Englishman, being indeed a Bohemian, and he has fif teen polyglot male assistants, French, Prussian and Italian. The manager of the down town Delmonico got fooled out of $20 very neatly the other day. A good looking fellow rushed in and borrwed the money; "I'm De Mott's brother, you know. I'll make it right in the morning," was all he said. Good natured Longhi felt a little puzzled but handed over the money. He sent over to De Mott's in the morn ing, and in consequence was kept busy all day opening wine to enter tain severe! dozens of other brothers The brokers don't often get the bulge on the old fellow, and they rsa him for all he w.is worth this time. Gee. James Watson Webb, th--elder Bennet's boss, isn't dead vet but rails away heartily in his old know nothing fashion at all foreign ers, especially Irishmen. And he is well liked too. His fortunate son, the favorite son-in-law of Vanderbilt, owed his lucky marriage more to his father's intellectual pre-eminence than to his own wit or money, of which he didn't own as many dimes as his wife did thousands of dollars, and now another singular compliment has been paid to the old man. A Mr. Smith has long been known by the nick-name of Courier Smith, from having been employed on the old general's paper, and has now, at his earnest request, had the name legally attached to him. There has been quite a sharp com petition for the coveted position of Brigadier General in our First Di vision of the Brigade, which com prises the Seventh, Sixty-Ninth, and Seventy-First regiments. After a multitude of ballots which resulted in nothing, Govenor Cornell cut the Gordian knot by appointing an out sider who had once been a Lieut. Col. of the Seventh, and now every body is mad, that is almost cverbody. but that seems to he Cornell's luck nowadays. Col. Emmons Clarke of the Seventh wouldn't serve. He was unanimously elected. It is possible that the slighted Colonels will resign. In the Prussian or English services it would certainly be expected, super session by a junior being considered a delicate hint to get out gently and be let down easy. Alderman Harry G. Jones, of Brooklyn, is being tried for com plictiy in the frauds by which his brother-in-law Stuart, late Secretary of the Board of Education, got away with a quarter of a million dollars or so. His defense makes out that he innocently believed .Stuart's yarns about inherited wealth and fabulous sums received for selling his alleged commission in the British army, and never suspected anything wrong when he lived like a prince on the salary of an average bookkeeper. So guile less some people may be. If the jury can only believe this stay-at-home militia hero (not of Hornellsville), he'll get off. Otherwise, he proba bly won't. Radix. 1 ei GLEANINGS. Boston has 12.896 gas-lamps, and 7, 687 of them were broken last year. Adam missed one of the luxuries of life. He couldn't laugh in his sleeve. A south Florida lake is said to contain enough alligators to build a fence around it four feet high. Mining on the Comstock lode has not been so discouraging in the past decade as now. By a new fast mail service all points in Florida will be reached twenty-four to thirty-six hours sooner. The oil production in the Allegheny field has reached a daily average of 12,000 barrels. The Mississippi house of representa tives has passed a bill to prevent the sale of tobacco to minors without an or der from their parents or guardians. A "school" for the instruction of Erie railway brakemen in the use of the Westinghouse airbrake is to bo estab lished at Hornellsville. In Gold Hill, Nev., houses and lots which a few years ago were valued at from $2,000 to f5,000 each aro being raffled off. It is said that an angle worm cannot dig more than one inch per hour, but he is always an inch beyond the shovel when you want fish bait. Agricultural Commissioner Hawkins, Of Tennessee, is making arrangements for experimental tests of the effect of commercial fertilizers on the crops in every county in the State. Union Springs, N. Y., the home of Courtney, the oarsman, is the home of Phrbe Brockway, who claims to be 108 years of age. She never rode on a rail way car. An angry woman in Newport, R. I., threw a fork at her son. It lodged in his heel, making a slight wound, which resulted in gangrene, from which he died in great agony. Swedes and Danes are said to be col onizing in Florida. Already have nine hundred settled in Orange county, and are proprietors of profitable orange groves. Jefferson Davis' daughter Varina is a Sreat belle in the South. She is pale, (don er and reserved. At a recent ball she appeared as the Margravine of Beirut h in a rose pink velvet and satin costume. In a breach of promise recently tried at Dublin the first love letter read by the plaintiff began as follows: "If any one reads this except Miss Helen Mo Nulty I hold him acconntable before God and justice. Thomas Miller, of Harrison county. Kentucky, an industrious, hard-working an and the father of twelve children, has discovered himself to be the only Urine heir to an estate in Lexington worth 960.000. Sheriff Bandy, of Lebanon. Term.. snowed some ooiutrea how to work a pair of handcuffs, and fastened them on his wrist. He took them off next day when his deputy rot uriied l'n iiu the coun try with the kcv. "The nan who It bappyli rich," says Peter Cooper. Uriel Peter, send on your ducats and take our happiness, for the next mx months. We want to know how it will seem to be rich and misera ble. The first oat taken to Gunnison City sold for $10. but the first man n that town who killed a eat was presented with a purse of 050. There's no sllOW in this country lor the cat to get alicad. A Milwaukee girl wants 66,000 Iain ages because she wasn't quite ready to be kissed when :i man kissed her. He ought to have blown a horn or rung a bell and given her thirty MOOttds1 warn ing. Heir Karl (ichinia. of Heme, after a scries of experiments extending over levers! yean, has .succeeded in produc ing artificial motbor-of-peari, undlstln- guishable in every respect from the nat ural article. It can be molded in any shape, produced in any color, is imper vious to heat and cold, and its price v ill be much less than that of ordiuary moth-er-of-pcarL A physician in Dayton, O., in making out a death certificate, headed it "Mt. (Joinery county." The Dayton Demo crat says ho has lived in Montgomery county all his life, and has invariably spelled the name in this original man ner. It is stated that the pistol now in use in the British army and navy is likely to be discarded in favor of a weapon with a quadruple cartridge, which will yield the advantage of easier and more rapid loading, no escape of gas, and less lia bility to accident. A countryman was pulled from the track in front of a moving train at Chattanooga, and narrowly escaped with his life. A basket of eggs he car ried on his arm was broken during the excitement, and he was much incensed over the matter, so much so that fee tried to swear out a warrant against his deliverer. (Jcrman fat cattle must fare badly if they arc fed upon such food as certain "powdered meat" lately largely adver tised in Berlin. On the compound be ing analyzed by a Munich chemist, not a particle of true meat was to be found, and the only animal substance contained proved to be glove-leather. A Rockland mother went to tho door and called the heir into the house. "You weren't sliding on Sunday, were you, Freddie?" she reproachfully exclaimed. "No, mother," replied the vouthful Freddie, proudly; "I cannot tell a lie I was sliding on the ice." At a recent meeting of the Rhode Is land Historical Society, at Providence, the announcement WSS made that thirty acres of land, covering the historic site of the old French camp, had been se cured by a citizen and would be given to the city as a park. The site is the highest land in the city, and is very elig ibly situated. Tho M-Centennlal Association of Phil adelphia, h negotiating with the owners of the Letitis Penn house, for the pur chase of that structure, which is soon to be demolished. The building, which was constructed in lf, issaid to be the oldest in Philadelphia, and if the associ ation secures it, it will be erected in Fairmourit I'ark. Paradise Valley, in San Diego county, California, seems to deserve Iti name, since it yields all manner of fruits. The apple, orange, lime, lemon, lig, olive, guava, peach, pear, grape, strawberry, apricot, eU, llourish there. Some brown Turkish ligs grown there meas ured four indies in length and six inches in circumference. Once upon a time a woman died, and as the mourners were carrying her to the grave they tripped against a stump and let the coffin fall. She revived, hav ing only been in a deep trance. Two years after she really died, and as they were carrying her down the same road and Beared the same stump the discon solate widower sobbed: "Steady, boys! Steady there! Pe very, very careful! A gentleman in Paris owns a hand some and valuable dog named "His marek." He recently received a note from the German embassy inviting him to remove the name from the dog's col lar and to cease calling the animal by it, under pain of prosecution, upon the ground that the patronymic belongs ex clusively to the German chancellor, and the embassy can feet allow it to be pub licly applied to a dog. Ebefjr DfOVMhm ob Natur may be wise, but I doan see why a baby should suffer so much in cuttin1 teeth. A dog doan hab no tnible, feeder does a coon, but Natur gives fits to de baby. And dis, de preachers tell me, is on account ob do political trickery ob Adam. FfeB glad dat he was counted out ob de garden ob Eden. Kbery body dat walks de Ho' wid a teeth in' chile is a natural enemy ter dat man. Little Hock (lazettc. The golden chalice in the principal Catholic church at Carlsruhe, Germany, fefeS been sold to Huron Rothschild, of Frankfort, for 8,000. It is a beautiful work of art, and is ornamented with precious stones. It bears the date 1608. This chalice was given to the church by the late grand duke of Baden, and it has now been sold, with the permission of the bishop, in order to defray a debt on the church. -v An Incident in Atlanta. A subscriber at Atlanta says: A lady, accompanied by her sweet, golden-headed little girl of some 3 or 4 years of age, was walking on a side street in Atlanta leading to a more crowded thorough fare, when an old-looking man, dressed in shabby, country-made clothes, and who was sitting on a box on the side walk smoking a pipe, lumped up, and rushing forth after the child, kindly and admiringly snatched her little hand, ex claiming: "How d'ye dof How d'ye do, baby? Oh, how purty ye look! Goin' ter town, are ye f" and stooping down: "Von'tye give the old man a kiss?" With an apologising look at the moth er, as the little one responded affection ately to his hug and kias, the old man continued with a broken voice and with tears: "I had one onoed I had one but (pointing to Heaven) she's gone gone up yonder!" VICTOR AND VANQUISHED. It was nearly the end of the London season. In another week a wearied legislative assembly would close its la bors for the session, and trains hurry ing north, lOUth and wet. would convey the jaded votaries of pioSStire to seek ouaage on the moors, in yachting ex cursions, or well preserved plantations. Indeed, mans wen- already gone from town, but there were still into Ugh left to more than comfortably till Lady Sea burton's spacious drawing rooms in BatOfe BUU arc, and furnish more couples than could conveniently find room in the department dovoked by her ladyship to the last ball of ths season. Two of the gUustf who had been dancing together to the melodious strains of a dreamy wait, drew them selves free from the crowd and BOUgbt the aw ning-cover. d balcony, descried for the moment : and then, looking out over the moonlit square. Hubert Daryil ventured the qne&Liou w hich tor moulds .Bribed by a Kiss. A temperance lecturer who had been at work in the town.1 of the Hudson has been giving a reporter a page from Lis early experience in Michigan. Previous to his arrival in a small tow n w here ho Intended to do some work, the boys had Sgreed among themselves to go to tho meeting, but not to sign the pledge. Ho appealed in vain for recruits in the tem perance cause; not a man would more. At this stage of the proceedings the belle 4 the town sprang to her feet and cried out in the sweetest of voices, "Boys, this is really too bad. Won't you sign the pledge? Not a soul moved from his seat. Again the fair belle appealed to the men's bel ter nature, but it was of no avail: they had promised they wouldn't sign. Finally the lady said. ''Now, boys, I'll kiss the lirst man who signs the pledge.'1 At this juncture up jumped a back woodsman, who exclaimed, "Sis, I'm yer huckleberry. What's yer pledge, till I sign." The brave girl rinsed the fellow, and the chefring w hich followed made the building rattle. This incident broki tho Ice, and before the reformer left the town nearly every one had donned the ribbon. m ifc - Victor Hugo's Joyous Faith. "I feel in myself the future life. T am like a forest which has been more than once cut down. The new shoots am stronger and livelier than ever. 1 am rising, I know, toward the sky. The sunshine is on my head. The earth gives me its generous sap, but Heaven lights me with the reflection of unknow n worlds. You say the soul is nothing but the resultant of bodily powers. Why, then, is my soul the more luminous when my bodily powers begin to fail? Winter Is on my head, and eternal Spring is in my heart. Then I breathe, at this hour, the fragrance of the lilacs, the violets and the roses as at 80 years. The near er I approach the end the plainer I hear around me the immortal Symphonies of the worlds which invite me. It is mar velous yet simple. It is a fairy tale, and it is history. For half a century I have been writing my thoughts in prose, verse, history, philosophy, drama, ro mance, tradition, satire, ode, SOHg I have tried all. But 1 feel that 1 have not said the thousandth part of what is in me. When I go dow n to the grave I can say, like so many others, 'I have finished my day's work;" but I cannot say, bare finished my life.' My day's work will begin again ther.cxt morning. The tomb is not a blind alley; it is a thoroughfare. It doses in the twilight to open with the dawti. I improve every hour, because 1 love this world as my fatherland, because the truth compels me as it Compelled Voltaire, that human divinity. My work is only a beginning. My monument is hardly above its foun dation. I would be glad to see it mount ing and mounting forever. The thirst for the infinite proves infinity." How to Eeport a Wedding. "I say!" said the reporter, "I don't know whether this is right." "Don't know whether what is right?" demanded the city editor. "This wedding. I went thereto-night, and they gave me a heap of rot about their frocks; but 1 don't know whether it comes out straight or not. Now, here Is Mrs. , I've got her in a panier silk, trimmed a la gros grain, with black point lace underskirt and box-plaited hair. Does that sound natural?" "Who sen! you to a wedding?" asked the city editor, contemptuously. "Don't you know that gros grain is a oolorf That was a gros grain, box-plaited dress, trimmed a la black point lace, and her hair was combed en panier. You Ottght to know better than to get things mixed that way. Who else did you getP How was the bride dressed?" "I've got her all right," replied tho West-end reporter. She wore a whit; bouffant, with a princess of Thulo veil; the underskirt cut decollctte around tho bottom, and trimmed with a basque at the sides." "That's better," said tho city editor, cncouraginglv. "That sounds some thing like, flow was her hair?" "Her hair was shirred," replied the West-end reporter. "Shirrcu at the sides and corsaged on top." "I don't believe that's right," observed the city editor. "Head that again." "It was corsaged at the sides and shirred on top," said the West-end re porter, referring to his notes. "Of course," smiled the city editor. "It makes all the difference in the world. You never saw a woman with her hair corsaged on top in your life." Louis ville Courier-Journal. In this life of error, ignorance, and strife, where nothing is fur long, and griefs, like joys, are only what our cir cumstances, our caprices or hopes make them, why should the black ball cast a longer shadow than the festoons of mar riage or the anthem of baptism? Tho burden of life is in the thought, never in the event. The joys that move us, tho hopes that sustain us, the fulfillments that disappoint and sadden us, are the creatures of our own imagination. They are no more real nor enduring than the gloom thrown upon a festive crowd by the passing of a funeral pro cession. Philadelphia Times. m ' A printer who got his fingers is the machine said he felt the power of the press. Want wi hbbi T7v1ca RUBBER LAP COVERS, And everything in the CARRIAGE TRIMMING LIMB for less money than any other Firm in Michi gan. My Tops are put up in good style and of good material. Call and examine Goods before Purchasing. I guar autee both Goods and Prices. m mm 51 ) w. Jar aKfseVi ml y&mmmm Manufacturer of Carriage Tops, Cushions, etc., and Dealer in Carriage Trimmings. NOS. 119, 121, & 123 MAIN ST., OWOSSO, MICH. Send fo Pr'ce List. To make WARM GOODS Will be Sold REGARDLESS OF COST, and many other Goods Way Down. Wishing to Reduce our Stock before the ar rival of our Spring Purchases, we shall Sell for the next 60 Days many of our Goods at GREATLY REDUCED PRICES. Thanking our patrons for past favors, we ask a continuance of the same, while yet there is room for your neighbors. BREWER & HOWE, Cor. Opera House Block, Owosso, Mich. devolution and Renovation 33 TT JT1 IE"1 y S FISH FISH FISH Fresh and Salt Water, an immense Stock just received. :o: Canned loods & Dried Fruits In great variety. : 0 : 200 CHESTS OF TEA SOLD LAST YEAR "THE BRAND of the BLAZING STAR" Now on Sale for 50c. per pound. QUALITY TELLS ! NO USE TALKING 1 1 Sign of the Japan Tea Man DR. E. S. DRUGGIST, In the New Brick Block on Main Street, West of Washington, OWOSSO, Mich, Keeps one of the Largest and Best Assortments o Pure Drugs, Medicines, Chemicals, Patent Medicines, Notions, &c, &c, EVER BROUGHT TO OWOSSO. Pure Wines and Liquors FOR MEDICINAL PURPOSES ONLY. PRESCRIPTIONS compounded at all hours, night or 4y by competent hands, from carefully selected medicines. firPricc as Low as the Lowest, for First-clan Goods. Every Person to know that I am Selling IA6E TOPS, CUSHIONS, LAZY BACKS, NECK YOKES LE! room for LEONARD