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OWOSSO, MICHIGAN. GEO. M. DEWEY. Editor. .-ATTEND THE CAUCUS. The call for the caucuses for the nomination of the officers to be elect ed on Monday April 7th are now be ing posted. To every voter we say in the most positive manner, -co to thk caucus. Do you ask what for? Thk Times answers, because it is one of the highest duties of citizenship, jkcciuse if one voter has a right to shirk this duty, then all the voters have- the same right, and if they choose to exercise it there would be no caucus at all. Ilccause one vote may decide the question of honest or dishonest, competent or incompetent government - for the coming year. Because the caucus for the nomina tion of township and city officers, is of supreme importance to the people. Because an incompetent and dishon est Governor has incomparatively less power to injure the tax payers ol ' the several municij a'.aitS than has an .incompetent or dishonest supervisor, because good superintendents of the schools can do much more for the iveltare of the school children than it lies in the p'owtr 'of a member of Congress to do. Because the town .ship'or city would suffer more from the speculations of a dishonest treas urer than from all the corruptions charged against any one of the men who have been President of the Um ted States. Because any political action, whether partisan or ncn par tisan, must be organized in- order to be effective; and the caucus is the very essence of such organization. Because by a full attendence at the cau cus unity of action is secured. Be a cause, in short it is the wise, just, sen sible, and proper thing to do, and under ordinary circumstances there is no good excuse for failing to do it. Again, we say to each of you attend the caucus. The charter election at Howell, 3ast week, resulted in a decided re publican victory, much to the surprise of the Democrats. m The Nashua, N. H., Telegraph says: "Robert Lincoln seems to have a sure thing of the second place on the Republican ticket-" That will de pend on who has the first. With Kdmunds, Blaine, or Arthur very like ly he would, though Harrison has many friends; but with Gen'l Sher man, who is in all probability to be candidate the chances for some cast tern man, say Gov. Robinson, of Massachusetts, woip!d be much bet ter, while with Logan he would not be constitutionally eligible. The words that the Chesaning Ar gus, speaking of the next election of members of Congress from this dis trict, puts into the mouth of the Sag inaw Herald was an extract from The Times; and the attention of the. Ar gus is also called to the fact that Ilorr's majority at the last election was not so 'mighty close" as it seems to imagine, and we predict that the Republican nominee in this district in November, will have majority enough to satisfy the Argus that the Eighth Congressional district is for a high protective tariff in the interest of the , producing classes. CORRESPONDENCE. PERRY. The third meeting of the Perry school Lyceum, n;is held 011 Tues day evening, the 26th tilt. (The first two were not reported). The programme of the third meet ing which consisted of songs, recita tions, etc., was well rendered. It was opened with a greeting song by senior pupils, after which was a reci tation entitled, "Popping Corn in the Embers- by Lettic Harding. The next was a reading entitled, "The Blind Girl," by Nettie Barnum, after which was a piece of instrumenta music, which was followed by a reci tation entitled, "Smile whenever you can," by Delia Johnson, after which was a reading entitled, "The Bashful Man," by Hatlie Locke. The next was a song entitled, "Littel Empty Cradle," by Birdie and Emma, which was sung in a manner very credit able to themselves. It was followed by a recitation entitled, "All can help," by;, Fannie Spalding, I after which came the debate, the subject being: ''Resolved that money is more conducive , to happiness , than education," discussed in the affirma tive by Mabel Dansey, and the nega tive by Stanley Olcott. The affirma tive bated her arguments mainly on the domestic surroundings ' of the wealthy, and the well to do, and the direct influence of money, while the negative adhered to the discontented state of the American millionaires, and showed forth the pleasures of thought developed by a liberal edu cation. The jury consisted of Mr. Place Mr. Sturgis, and Mr. Perry who de cided in favor of the negative. The next on the programme was a song entitled, 'OId and Gray," by Frank Bridger, after which was a rec itation entitled, "Missing," by Grace Sturgis. Fred Perry then gave a recitation entitled, "A little Elbow room," after which was a recitation by Jennie Storms entitled, "Let by gones be by gones," which was fol- Iwed by a recitation entitled, 'The King's Curej" by Lina Damek, after which was the "Good Night song" by the pupils.. The next meeting will be held March nth, and a full house - is ex pected. Secretary. BENNINGTON. March 7, 1884. If there is any one thing that I am thankful for, above everything else of good that I enjoy, it is that I am an American citizen, and perhaps I should add that I live in this particu lar age. As man is the masterpiece of God's work in the way of animal organization, so, I believe, is this government his masterpiece in the way ot governmental organization. Of course we are cursed with grum blers, so has every generation been. fhis mean species of the genius Homo has exiited ever since Cain, cursing humanity with its sour looks and grumbling words. "Man never is, but always to be blest," is the philosophy of their ex istence. The wise Solomon had noted these fellows, even in his time, for, you recollect, ho refers to some, who, like the grumblers, ask, "Why were the former days better than these?" And the wise old fellow says, "They have not inquired wise ly." These thoughts have occurred to me as I have read the various ac counts of the Gerardy case. That man was fouly wronged by an igno minious dastard, who lacked the cour age to strike his manand took this mean way of inflicting his venom. He would wrong and disgrace him behind the breastwork of law. The Journal of last week in notic ing the matter, asks: "Is law such a hideous mockery that a mau can be taken from his home and cast into prison on a charge of murdering her, who, above all others, he should cherish and protect, without a parti cle of evidence against him?" I answer no 1 Gentlemen, no I Not in America. True, this was done in this case but it was plainly the fault of persons and not of the law. The prisoner had an imperitive right to an imme diate trial, which right he probably failed to claim, and as a result he suffered. But how comes in the great beauty, the eulogizing effect of true, cvery-day Americanism. One hundred vears ago nothing short of a duelo could have set Mr. Gerardy right. A few centuries farther back none but the King could have set him right. How is it do-day? It simply stands like this: Christian, oh what a libelous play upon names. Christian, I say, has mistaken the country and the age in which he lives. Americanism is, in fact, Free Speech, Free Thought, Free Press, and so this tf;christian Christian, this libel upon the name of American citizen, as well ns upon the name his God mother gave him, in attempting to murder the "good name and fair fame" of an American citizen, has only committed suicide upon his own, if Indeed he ever had any, which is rather a hazardous supposition af ter all. I claim that Mr. Gerardy, if he views the case rightly, has not suffered. Why? The minds of a whole people, envious as they are to free thought, has promptly analyzed the case in all its minutia, and not only justly acquitted the prisoner, but convicted his mean accuser of what? Either of being a knave or else? a fool.' If, through carelessly allow ing .'. ' his ', sympathies and his judgment to" be led astray so far by gossip and hearsay, then he stands convicted of being a fool. But if, as is more likely, he has done it from a mean spirit of spite, then he stands before the bar of popular mind a convicted Knave; and only by the grace of the people and the individ ual whom he has wronged, can he possibly escape the corporal punish ment he richly deserves. Nor does the matter rest here. The popular mind having tried and convicted him, the tongues of the people, ac customed as they are to free speech, will repeat aloud the mind's just de cision without let or hindrance till all who can possibly be inter ested shall hear it, and that great weapon of liberty, a Free Fress, will stamp it as an indelible record in black and white where every family may read it by the fireside. And so, I say, I glory in the fact that I am an American and live in an age of Free Thought, Free Speech, Free Press. It brings men, though far apart, near together, and makes us, though strangers, friends and acquaintances. It brings us into a position to feel in terested in every man's welfare here, and I, a man who never saw cither of these parties, nor even before heard of them. But this barbarian, that name "Christian" the courts ought to deprive him of, has .thrust the keen dagger of infamy at a human heart, and in so doing I feel that he has also thrust it at my heart and your heart reader and at every heart that beats in the land, and I say let the Pree Press so point the withering linger of pub lic scorn at the actor that he shall feel compelled to withdraw himself into the gloom of obscurity or the grave, few will care which, to escape from the torment of enraged public opinion. That thus others who have the like devlish disposition maybe fearful to exercise it. Else you or I, or we know not who, may be the next to suffer unjustly from the cow ardly thrust of a moral assassin. I sec in the Owosso Press of last week in Spectator's account of the Bennington donation, he literally goes for Dr. Wiltsie for being a poor reader and says, by way, "Lastly" and "Amtn," to his report, that a poor reader is a public nuisance. "If," he says, Comet could only have been present that night some one would have trembled and turned pae." Now it so happened "in the course of human events" that Comet was there, snugly ensconced in his usual modest course, and he is compelled from his actual knowledge of facts, to say that Spectator treated the Doctor to rather a cold piece of injustice. True, the Doctor is, as Spectator says, a miserable reader, but then, he makes no pretentions to being a reader and only appeared that night at the insti gation of Spectator himself, and so energetic, soulful, public spirited, and with all, usually just a man as Spec tator should not have have "sat down onto" the poor unsophisticated coun try bones he has. The poor fellow feels bad about it and no wonder. It was his first public attempt and for his patron to go back on him that way was horrible to his sensitive mind. The doctor come to me, and with eyes in which it seemed the milk of human kindness had soured, and a hand that shook with the pal sy of mutilated feeling he pointed to that part of Spectator's effort in which he mentions Comet, and said he .dolorously and I feared irronically "unto Casson has he appealed, and unto Casson shall he go," looked at me for a moment, with a glance that reminded me of congealed lemmon aid and was gone. . As a true south ernor would say "I taken the hint," and hence this notice. Yes, Comet was there, and true enough some one did "tremble and turn pale." But also it was Comet himself. Alas for my sensitive nerves. Spectator was undergoing a terrible spasm of "gum chewing' He played the guitar and chewed gum and sang all in. the same act and it had some such effect as "Punch Brother's punch" had on Mark Twain. So that my brain, poor little thing, took this refrain up and went over and over it again and again. I "Thum 1 Thum l Thum 1 ' ' " " (2-2 time, minor:) Yum I yum I yum ! Gum ! gum 1 gum I Yum m-m-m yum ! Give me some gum, Come 1 come, ; ; Hurry up some ' . One with some gum ! ; Yum ! yum ! yum l ,, V (3 4 time, minor:) : Thrum ! Thrum I Thrum !" '" Verily, "a poor reader" is not the only public nuisance. Yours tremblingly, Comet. With Uplifted Hand He Swore. ! . Tilusville, Pa., County of Crawford, ss. Personally appeared before me. a Notary Public in and for the City of 'IV. Ml- T r . . musviuc, w. 1 1. morgan, who be ing duly sworn according to law. de poses and says that for the past six years that he has been seriously troubled 'with Sciatic Rheumatism which at times is so severe as to to tally incapacitate him for all business; that he has used nearly every knowu remedy for rheumatism without re lief, and that after using four bottles of WilsonV Lightning Remedy for rheumatism experienced great relief, and that on a return of the disease three or four doses will invariably af ford relief, and that he believes the medicine will, by continuing its use, effect a permanent cure, and that is the only medicine he ever found to afford relief when snfTerhfg with the disease. W. II. MORGAN. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 10th day of November, 1880.. P. S. MEISING. Notary Public. Farrand, Williams' & Co Agents, Detroit. Kuttslait Cruel t lot. Tho Richmond (Ky.) Herald prints tho following readable letter from Gen eral C. M. Clay, in dofens of Russia and tho Russians: . In your journal of :i recent data is a paper which Is .1 typo of the malignant calumnies of tho nntl-Uussinn press for a century or more. I lived in St. Pet ersburg for near nine years, and mado Russian lifo a study, mingling with nil classes for that purpose. I dined with tho Emperor and imperial family, and took cabbage and soup and black bread with tho woodmen who came from the interior on boats and rafts. Perhaps there is no American, living or dead, who can speak with nioro authority than I can on the real character of Russia. I believe there is no more charitable or humano nation on earth than Russia. I give the proofs. There aro no deaths by absolute poverty in Russia, as in the great cities of Pari, London, New York and other European cities. Besides the charitable associa tions established by law, the lirst nobles in Russia, men and women, yearly, by organized societies, collect funds by gifts, needle work, and other methods, for clothos, soup-houses and bread, which aro distributed all winter in St. Petersburg; and such methods aro pur sued in other cities. Tho infants that aro drowned and thrown into sewers in Europo and America aro taken at a day old, if need be, and brought up at tho public expense in St. Petersburg, Moscow, and other cities. These child ren, when grown up to a suitable age, aro put to service, and may make a generous living. Russia liberated her slaves, not by war, and gave them lands. America did neither. I dined with tho nephew of Prince Dolgorouky, Governor General of Mos cow (Viceroy), and a liberated serf or slavo was at the table as a guest, and mado the best dinner speech on the oc casion. The Russians open all their pleasure-grounds beside tho public Earks to tho wholo people. They never ar the gates and close the doors against tho "rabble," us in England and America. In summer the yards aro open and the windows without blinds, that tho humblest peasant may see and hear tho music On all great occasions of a private nature all tho poor aro feasted or otherwise enter tained by suitable means. In England and America even house servants are treated with contempt, and my own family remonstrated on my return be cause I said good morning, as was my habit in Russia, to them. Tho Russian noblemen speak kindly always to their inferiors; tho Englishmen and Ameri cans out of the south rarely ever. Tho Russian Empiro is largo and sparsely populated, so that tho means of sub sistence do not at all press upon tho increaso ' of population. In tho largo cities, as I said, no absolute suffering for tho neccssarios of life is possible. Now, as to prisons. There was at no time whilo I was in Russia, so far as I know and believe, ono equal in its Infamy to tho Kentucky Penitentiary. And Governor Blackburn deserves not denunciation, but eternal honor, for his manhood and philanthrophy, against tho barbarian clamors of tho . press, for his reform. When I was In St Petersburg tho cholera was several times in that city of 600,000, and there was no more sensation than if the measles or whooping-cough prevailed. Every subject of the disease was taken at onco to wholcsomo hospitals, well attended, and then, when convales cent, returned without chargo to their homes. ' Tho streets of St. Petersburg were a hundred times cloancr than tho stroets, alleys and back-yards of Richmond. They never burned down tho pest houses in Russia, as they did tho other day in Madison county, when small pox prevailed. -As to prisons and Si beria, I am gfad to have an opportuni ty to rcf nto some 'of tho world-wldo calumnies of the anti-Russian press. Siberia is not so vile a country as tho French penal colony of Cayenne, nor the original Australia of . England. Three Siberian-born ' ladies married nobles in SL Petersburg: one the JL'rlnce Suwarrow, the grandson of the Prince Buwarrow of Napoleon's times; tho other sisters married '. well, one an officer on the staff of the Emperor. I nave neara tnem sneaic ot tne ainer land" as would a German. And these wero tho descendants of Siberian exiles. 1 do not hesitate to say that of all the peoplo I over knew tho Russians aro tho most genial and hospitable. It U true the ranks in Russia aro very dis tinct and marked, but tho humnnc spirit of Russia thaws all coldness, breaks all conventional barriers, and fuses the wholo into ono national feel ing as in no other land. That is the reason of the invincible courage of the Russian nrmr. What calumniators call "stolidity' is unshaken and heroic patriotism. I could till a book of simi lar proof, but I hold: "Oh, wud Howe power the ft If tin jrie u. To ei'C ouwl'u u it hers fee ust" a Two Interesting ftlrr Written bj ; Lincoln. Tho St. Louis Evening i'hnnklc prints tho following letters, tho origi nals of which are lu-M lv Sir. It. L. Worth, No. 611 South Itroadway, St. Louis. Tuoy c mm' into possession of their present owner through tho pur-, rhaso of tho t flice '.ixtunv of ex-Mayor John How:, ' . ; To ins v Til Kit. Washington. !). 181R. Mv Dear y atiiek: Your letter of the 7th was received night before last. I verv cheerfully send you $-'.'.. which mm you say is necessary to save your laud from sale. It is singular that you should have forgotten a judgment against you, and it is moro singular that the plaintiff should havo let you forget it so- long, particularly, as I suppose, you have always had property enough to satisfy a judgment of that amount . Befdre you pay it, it would be wed to bo sure" you have not paid it, or at least that you can not prove that you have paid it. Give mv love to mother and all the' connections. Affec tionately your son, A. Lincoln. : to his brother. Dear Johnston: Your request for $80 I do not think It best to comply with now. At the various times when I havo helped you a little you havo said to me: "Wo can get alonr very well, now," but in a short time I find you in the same d.fll ulty again. Now tins can only happen by some defect in your conduct.. What tho defect is I think I know. v You aro not lazy, and still you aro an idler. I doubt whether since I saw you you havo done a good wholo day's work in any ono day. You do not very much dislikeeo work, and still you do not work much, merely be cause it does not seem to you that you get much for it. This habit of useless ly wasting timo is the whole difficulty, and it is vastly Important to you, and still more to your cnildren, that you should break this habit. It is moro important to them because they have longer to live, and can keep out of an idlo habit before they aro in it easier than they can get out after they aro in. You aro now in need of some ready money, and what I propose is that you Bhall go to work "tooth and nail" for somebodv who will give you money for it Let father and your boys have chargo of things at home prepare for a crop and make tho crop and you go to work for tho best money wages, or in discharge of any debt you owe, that you can get. And to secure you a fair reward for your labor I now promiso you that for every dollar you will, be tween now and the first of next May, get for your labor, either in money or on your own indebtedness, I will give you ono other dollar, liy this, if you hire yourself at $10 a month, from mo you will get $10 more, making $20 a month from your labor. In this I do not mean you shall go off to St Louis, or tho lead mines, or tho gold mines in California, but I mean for you to go at it for the best wages you can get close to homo in Coles county. Now if you do this you will soon be out of debt, and, what is better, you will have a habit that will keep you from getting in debt again. Rut if 1 should now clear you out, next year you will be just as deep in as ever. You say you would almost give your placo in heaven for $70 or $80. Then you value your placo in heaven very cheap, for I am sure you can. with the offer I make you, get tho $70 or $80 with four or tivo months' work. You say if I fur nish you the money you will deed me tho land, and if you don't pay tho money back you will deliver possession. Nonsense! If you can not now llvo with tho land, how will you then livo with out it? You have always been kind to me, and I do not now mean to be un kind to you. " On the contrary, if you will but follow my advice, you will find it worth eighty times eighty dol lars to you. Affectionately your broth er. A" Lincoln. lie Was Critical. To the placo of entertainment had resorted a gracious and gaudy youth, -otten up regardless and resplendent n goodly apparel. Enamored was he of one of the singers in the ; opera and ho had brought : with him a bouquet The lady appeared upon the stage to sing her principal air, and with fever ish eagerness he handed his floral trib ute to an usher and adjured him to pass it over tho footlights as tho song was ended. Rut when tho air was done the admirer of embodied art saw tho singer retire without his bouquot and directly afterward tho usher Was perceived lagging the trophy up the aisle again. "You see," said tho usher, on reaching the surprised youth, "I really didn't hare the face to hand up your Dowers for that krad of singing. Why, she blurred her stac cato passages frightfully and her cres cendo near the finale broke right in two in the middle And her trills! Great Scott! you yourself couldn't havo failed to notice that she made a com plete slump of them. I can't encour age that kind of work even whilo act ing as somebody else's deputy," and he shoved tho bouq-act Into tho young man's arms and disappeared into the lobbv. Boiton Transcript. Certain druggists begin to complain that the only cough remedy they can now sell is Dr. Wistar's Balsam ot Wild Cherry. This goes to prove that intelligent people are determined to get the best cure for coughs, colds, and consumption, and will not take a substitute. rniniiimniiiiiiiLi1..iih::.hwiiiii Modern -Science mi Skeplici$n2 What ImHSi'ej'lK-WMi done for the world? N:itht!f Lut to 8'ijrv'eKt doubts. It has even i-i'-vs(-tltn.i K'l'UaiUHin Ciinnot b cured. :-..iii4!i:tsia h i. . I.1 as i:UfiuriaUsia. ' ' . I.:-. 0 dco3 f r the wmld ? . to ! r.f r- r r In-tntsce, It hxi t-I'--i lh.it lilk-wi; tjs.11 da b cured. u li.'.i Hho-vi: ii-tNcurftJ'rLicjnbj jfot rt'J or. Molo nsi:U-n?ot...-prorcJilrtRh'uinaUsiiil.-h V.:km1 tll-ioaho. hmI li is provided Atuuipiiokob as '.li i rv:wy v'A.'j. cia eo.-'piUcly cure It. Tt li .s proved 1 l . ti n'.l donors failed totivenvmw .Vrtir i.tfi u .Vr.iL'.r.iOKoscan reach It, nnd t-ndlr.iti; It 1.0:11 llio 8 stem. U has proved that tJionirh tlio: tormeutlnjr dlmMMM vne bo wow nnd obntlnate, thcycau tit; mrjo;:u la a Uu:e v Li!? b eicy.- of 3lliIopLioro5 ! i 'nri'i t) fcUpptleuL If you have anydoubtsus to what Atiilothoroh can do, write to some of t I10.M) whom It has cured. For la-itance, Hev. H. II. Iienucu. l. J)., raator Third Congregational Chuivh, ot New Haven, Conn., the Kev. VV. I'. t'Wblt, p:;;jtor f iporf-e (St N. K. Church, of New Haven, the lt?v. J. K. Hearles, pastor Wlllett St. 51. K. Church, IS'ew York city. Mr. tfrummelUtku well kuown candy manufacturer, of New York, Ex-Gov. "Ultfolow. of coni.ectJcut, and many outers, equally well k no a. If you cmnot t-t ATHLOPHonoaof your druuvlHt, we wiU nenrl It expWM iuil. ou receipt of tetrulur price one dollar it lott e. We j refer that you buy it from your driiwrint. but If he I'nen't it. lo iiot Im irnuuiled to try Hometliuitf flie, but order ftt once from un it directed. ATH10PH0R0S CO., 112 WALL ST., NEW YORK. inir?nnmmim n. fi niiniimiii"--:! Durham Is historic It wa neutral irround durlmr the armlBtice between 8bernun and Johnnon. Soldier of both armlee filled t!ieir pouches with the tobacooatored there, mud. after the surrender, inarched home, ward. Soon order canie from East, Weat, North and South, for "inoreof that elegant tobacco." Then, ton men ran an unknown factory. Now It cmploya 800 men, iumm the pink and rick of the Golden Bolt, and the Durham Bull In the trade-mark of thU, the beiKt tobacco In the world. BlackweU'a Bull Durham Smoking Tobacco baa the laiyeot Mile of any amoklng tobaeoo In the world. Why J Simply bocniwo it la the 6r. All dealer bar it. Trade-mark of the BuU. IrCS STOMACH Tlie Want of a Reliable Diuretic Which, while uctliiR a a stimulant of the kidneys, neither excitcH nor irritate them, whi lone alnce Mncc Minplicd by Ilontctter's Stomach Hitter. Thto tine medicine exert the requisite degree or Humilia tion upon thcMC orcrnni, without producing Irrita tlou, and N. therefore, fur better adapted for the purnoHO than unmed'eated excllanti often resorted to. l)rnpeplH feve r nnd jur, and kindred dtoeaaw, nrc nil cured by It. For Side by all Drupe'! and HealoM peucrally. IHmEAT BLOOD rlMlER Compound"": from tho welt known Curative Hoiw. Mult. Buchu.1 Mnn drako. Dandelion, Harsa pari 11a, Ca r vara Hacrada, et., combined with an l . i?rwoble Aromatic Klitlr. II the 'limn! TiVsnrsn mroisnni Art apoa the 1.1 rrr and Kidaeja, REQTJIiATisTilSr BOWELS, Tbr euro RheumatUm, and all Uri nary troubles. They invlgorato, nourish, utrpngthen and quiet tho Kervoun Pywtm. As a Tonic they havo no Equal. Take none but Hup and Mall Blttera. A FOR SALE BY AU. DEALERS.- Hops and Malt Blttera Co DrrnoiT, micix. T. tiODDAFn, M.D., I'hyolclan and Murjreon. ). Orllce (;or. Wanhlnftuu and Mmi Htreeta. fruccecsortoDr. Hmlth. OwoMo.Mlch. 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