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Tfie Times.
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conn, . mm out of the county 15
extra wiii bt charged to pay postage
business cauls, teo lines, per year.$8 00
p ,! Statute Prices. TermB for
siuess Advertisements made known on
fcppiicatiop at the office
E S. LEONARD, M. D.,
Physician & Surgeon,
Office, At Drug Store, New Urick Block on
Utn Street Wot, - Owosso, Mich.
J- Smith, M. D. w. it, IUll, M. D
SMITH & HALL,
liyelciaaas and S"u.reoaae,
VERNON, - - MICHIGAN.
OFFICE OVER THE POST OFFICE.
Office hours for treatment of chronic dis
ases Wednesdays and Saturdays from 1 to
6 o'clock p. ni.
L. . PORTER, M. ..
Homeopathic Physician and Stjuoeoic.
Female Diseases a specialty. All calls in
town ami country will receive prompt at
tention. Office hours, 11) to 12 a. m.. 1 to
0 unu t to p. m., Sundays excepted: then,
1 to 8 p. m. only.
Geo. h Bedford,
CARRIAGE and SIGN
OWOSSO, MICH.
BALL'S DIPHTHERIA
CURE AND PREVENTIVE.
A Sure Cure and Positive Prevent
ive of this dreadful disease. The
trade supplied. Ask your Druggist
for it. Price 50 cents. Sent by mail
on receipt of price.
A. R. BALL, M. D.,
Corunna, Mich. ,
jM. L. Stewart
W M. KlI.PATRKK.
M. L Stewart & Co.,
BANKERS,
Owoeso, - ZbttdhAgmaa.
SUCCESSORS TO
M. L. STEWART.
Collections Mad and Remittor! for Promptly
r f on Day of Payment.
DRAW DRAFTS ON ALL THE PRINCIPAL
CITIES OF EUROPE.
CORRCMPOKDIMTS: Cjl
American Exchango National Bank, New York.
American National Bank, - - Detroit.
-FIRSTK
NATIONAL BAJNTK
OaTOSSO.
CAPITAL STOCK $12 5,000.
WITH AUTHORITY TO INCREASE TO $5200,000.
officjsrs:
a. GOULD. - - - President.
T. 1). DEWEY. - - IVcsiden!
r. E. HI KSHEY, - - Cashier
H. COULD' - - - AsB't Cashier.
DIRECTORS:
..MOR OOTTLD,
STIUMtKi:.
a.. H. UYERLY
T. I. DEW EY,
JAS. OSBURN,
C. P. PARKILL.
DEALERS IN A7iL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
CtT" Special attention paid to Fereign and
Domestic Collections.
8TANDAKD
Food for Plants
OJtOM 1, rss.
Vor pr.nlu. ; iVnvrr
and vigorous grownit has
no equal. Has -i x .1 ln
test for years, and always
docs all claimed for it. Is
especially adopted for
house plants and gardening
giving a healthy growth and
abundant flowers. Over
too, ara packages hold in 'Si.
Awarded thi. medal at the
Mechanics' fair in lioaton.
'ut up in package! at 10 and ij cents each.
FOR SALE AT
int v.iiiK i it's Drug store.
''lease Leave Orders
for
WOOD
AT THE
WOSSO PLANING MILL
OFFICE.
Jn cases have Cash accompany
the Order. L. K. WOODARD.
roB "work:
DONE PROMPTLY
AT THE
"TIMES" OmCE.
THE TIME
NEW SERIES, VOL. 1, NO.
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
I i an Our Own Correspondent.
New York, March 17, 1882.
stock exchange privileges con
vincing arguments inconven
iences of being rich lucky
Legatees evasion of a champion
scientific cats a pleasing
INDUSTRY A jew's bad bargain
QUEER MATRIMONIAL CUSTOMS.
It is a nice thing to belong to the
stock exchange as long as you can
keep your temper, have plenty of
customers, and keep out of tempta
tion to dive in the pool on your own
account. The families of dead stock
brokers find a prompt payment made
them of a big sum, which few men
could ever manage to pay the pre
miums for in any ordinary insurance
company. But impecunious stock
brokers are bounced, and failure to
fulfil their contracts causes their priv
ileges to vanish like unto dreams.
Moreover, their peccadilloes are vis
ited with stern severity. There was
a breeze, for instance, the other day,
between a Mr. Breeze and Mr. Bou
vier, wherein noses and eyes were
punched. They have both been
suspended lor thirty days. And a
good deal of money may be missed
in thirty days.
Some disagreement about the
transfer of accounts caused the
scrimmage, and after all it was but
the physical manifestation of a ner
vousness and irritability which just
now affects a good many people.
Wall street is feverish beyond a doubt.
The story went about the other day
that Jay Gould was bursted up, body
and boots. He thereupon waxed
wroth, called in some cronies and the
cronies say (I wonder if they told
the truth?) that he showed them
$54,000, oco worth of unendorsed
securities, giving him control of half
a dozen railroads, and was going to
show them his United States bonds,
but, as his secretary said, it would
take two trucks to carry them, his
auditors would't stop to listen. They
say Cyrus W. Field almost broke
his neck trying to jump out of the
window, so eager was he to spread
the news, and make a million or two
by the sudden rise in everything.
Talking of cable and pipe laying
Field, he is cpuite unpopular among
certain classes for the way he has
hunted after the youthful patriot who
defaced the Andre memorial, and a
secret society called the Order of the
Iron Hand has, it is said, been organ
ized to smash up the whole thing.
Then, one evening a crowd assembled
in front of his house, in response to
invitations, stating that men were
wanted. It took energetic action on
the part of quite a squad of police to
clear the way of the deceived multi
tude. It almost reconciles one not
to be 'a millionaire, if such annoy
ances UTS to be expected by the
wealthy.
Talking of millions, a Miss Sarah
Burr died a little whj'e ago, and be
queathed the cheerful sum of $3,500,
000 among some 100 different insti
tutions and charities, besides a num
ber of private legacies. The Protes
tant Episcopal Church profited mott
by her benefactions, though she did
not forget sundry arrangements of
other denominations which she con
sidered deserved encouragement.
The old lady, perhaps, thought her
relations didn't deserve or need en
couragement, for she didn't leave
them a cent. The legatees arc very
pleased, the relations are not.
Millionaires are not the only peo
ple bothered by sharks. Hazacl, the
champion pedestrian, actually had a
warrant out against him, sworn out
on the ground that he was about to
leave the country, in a civil suit, by
a man who claimed half his winnings
by virtue of some alleged previous
contract. Hazacl claimed that the
wan said what was not consistent
With veracity and skipped to Jersey
City, where the New York sheriff
couldn't touch him and thence to
Philadelphia, where he took passage
for Eutope.
The worst of these so-called sports
is that they are training to habits of
authoritative idleness a large class of
tolerably intelligent young men who
might be better employed. The run
ners for the excursion steamers are
a terror to the timid, and the elevated
railroads have now taken to employ
ing "bouncers," who carry their
threats into practice. One brute
has just been arrested for a cruel
and unprovoked assault on a pas
senger. The pleasing, harmless, necessary
domestic cat seems destined to be
come an indispensable part of the kit
of a plumber. A notable housewife
discovered the possible future useful-
OWOSSO, MICH.,
ness of the cat to science and
sanitation. She was annoyed by evil
odersin her snug mansion, with all
the modern improvements, but she
couldn't get her landlord to ac
knowledge the fact, and strange to
say, the agent couldn t smell any
thing batl either. She was a woman
of resources, and promptly pouring
some valerian down the wastu pipe of
a washbowl, she invited the attention
of her incredulous visitors and bor
rowed a couple of cats from a neigh
bor. The intelligent felines purred
with delight and sought the grateful
oder, finally locating in behind
shelf, which, when removed, disclosed
a mighty leak in a drain pipe. Th
landlord had a pretty heavy bill to
pay for repairs, and it is understood
entertains a strong antipathy to cats.
It must be nice to be a receiver.
The position is dignified, and one
can appoint any number of assistants
to help each other to keep on doing
nothing for as longas possible. 1 he
Receiver of the Continental Life
Insurance Co., managed to collect
$640,000, and it cost him to do so,
so he says, $750,000. The stock
holders have not, as a rule, made
quite so much out of the affair as he
and his friends have.
An unfortunate Hebrew has just
been non suited in a very hard case,
because he failed to have a written
contract. It appears he made the
acquaintance of his father-in-law some
time ago, and so won on his good
will that he proposed to the young
man, the same evening, that he
should marry his daughter. The
young fellow said he'd like to see her
first. The father had no objection,
she was duly inspected and approved
of, and the fither in his delight at
the success of the sudden matchmak
ing, promised to give Mrs. Lippman
Meyer some furniture and $500 cash.
He didn't get the cash, but got angry
and mad, and was non-simed. By
the way, married Hebrews always
have more expenses than other folks
for rents and furniture. They sleep
in large separate beds placed side by
sidewind the bed-rooms have accord
ingh.to be quite large.
Radix.
Tho School (nest ion.
Mr. Editor. Your last issue con
tained an article by "a leading busi
ness man" of Owosso, which unless
some of its statements are corrected,
will give a false impression of the
standing and usefulness of our school.
The "leading business man" as
serts that "notwithstanding the large
amount of money paid by our tax
payers for educational purposes, our
school is behind the age." The gen
tleman has been misinformed, (for I
do not believe a leading business man
would willfully misstate facts.) Our
School has never been in better con
dition than it is to-day, the grade is
higher than it ever has been before,
and, far from being' a "tenth rate
school" students who graduate from
it hereafter, will be prepared to enter
the University, and this advanced
standing is due to the personal efforts
of those in charge of the school. Any
person desiring information ' on this
point can satisfy themselves by calling
on either the Supt. of Schools, or the
Sec'y of the School Board.
Is it not very absurd that persons
who never visit the school, who are
never present at examination, who
are not posted as to the various
courses of study, should criticise the
rank and working, of the school?
How much weight would be at
tached to an opinion of business mat
ters, given from the same stand-point?
We are told again by the "leading
business man," as an evidence of the
complete demoralization of our
school, "that some of our larger pu
pils are intending to enter the Cor
unna school next term." We have
heard the same report, but the only
names we heard mentioned in con
nection with it, were the names of
scholars that have been suspended
for misconduct.
I do not propose to enter into any
discussion of the personal quarrel
that some of our large (?) tax payers
have taken upon their hands; but I
appeal to every citizen who is actuated
by a desire for the public good, to
come to the support of our school.
The public school is the foundation
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MARCH 31, 1882.
on which rests our whole system of
government. A first class school can
be maintained only by the united
efforts of a united people.
Nearly every spring for the past
fifteen years, has brought forth its
brood of grumblers, as angry and
as unreasonable as bears after hiber
nation, and the present year it seems
is to be no exception to the rule, and
the recent demonstration, like most
of those that have preceeded it, ap
pears to have originated from purely
personal motives, and not from that
liberal spirit of devotion to the public
good which is claimed by its agitators.
This petulent, complaining, fault
finding spirit, has driven away the
best men we have had in times past.
Shall it do so in the future?- Shall a
band of chronic faultfinders control
the school now, as they have to a
great extent heretofore. Will you
rally to the support of a good school
or will you allow personal pique to
continue to exert its demoralizing
influence.
Thes are questians of vital im
portance to the welfare of our school,
the answer rests with the people of
this school district. E,
Central Michigan Spring Fair.
In the Republican of March 23,
mention was made of the work of pre
paration for the spring meeting of the
Central Michigan agricultural society,
which the business committee has de
cided to hold May 31 and June I, 2.
It is intended tp make an exhibi
tion and sale of agricultural implem
ents and machinery a prominent fea
ture at this meeting, and dealers will
find it to there interest to be there
early. The society also desires to in
augurate a system of sales airs for
live stock, and have concluded to
make the sale or exchange of live
stock a feature of as much promin
ence as the offerings will permit.
This is a step of great importance to
everybody within the limits of the
society, and certainly should be en
couraged. Every one having an
imals to sell or exchange should
bring them to thi ; fair, and buyers
should be there in force to .secure
them. The shed and stable accom
modations on the grounds are ample
for all. Auction sales may be held
n the forenoons if desired by the
owners of the stock. For the pur
pose of developing speed, and to en
courage the breeding of good horses,
the society has decided to offer
$3,000 in premiums for trotting, pac-
ng, and running horses, which have
been distributed by the committe so
as to secure the greatest interest and
the largest attendance of the best of
each class of horses attainable with the
amount offered. All may rest assured
that no effort will be spared to m ake
a first-class meeting in this particular.
To enable the society to issue a pro
gramme containing a catalogue, tne
entries in the farm implement and
machinery class should be sent to the
superintendent, R. J. Emery, Albion.
Mich., before May 15, and he will
assign space and provide power.
Entries for live stock sale should be
made with Secretary Ben. B. Baker,
Lansing, at an early date, that they
may be noticed in the catalogue.
Entries in the speed department close
at the secretary's office May 20. This
is the first spring fair this society has
undertaken. If it is successful we arc
assured that they will be continued in
the future, and like the fall fairs, be
come one of Lansing's permanent at
tractions. Lansing Republican.
The Breeder's (Gazette.
This magnificent weekly comes out
March 23d enlarged to thirty-two
pages, and filled with the very choic
est of matter pertaining to the
breeding management of all kinds of
stock, from horses to chickens. On
the first page is a beautiful engraving,
almost equal to a steel plat, showing
a group of Short-horns. Another
illustration is a plan, with building
WHOLE NO. 149.
specifications, of a pen for breeding
swine Among the leading articles
we notice the following: The Grand
Duchess Tribe of Short-horns: Millet
as a Cattle Food; Winter Food for
Calves: The Holstein Dutch-Friesian
Controversy; Lambs for Spring
Market; The Lamartine Cross; Color
in Cattle; Battle of the Bulls; The
Escutcheon Theory; Polled Angus or
Aberdeen Cattle; Butter Records of
Jerseys; The Coming Sheep; Success
ful Swine Breeding; Breeds of Swine;
Line Breeding. Value of Different
Foods; Alfalfa, Millet and Hungarian:
Sires of the 2.30 Trotters; Great
Trotting Brood Mares; Mathematics
of Trotting Blood; How to Breed
Trotters; Lampas; Indigestion; How
to Detect Lameness; Habitul Colic,
etc, with some six pages of interesting
news items about stock and stock
breeders. It is beautifully printed
on the best of paper, and is published
by J. II. Sanders & Co., Chicago. 111.,
at $3.00 a year. We will send in con
nection with our own paper for $3.50.
The University.
The calender for 1881-82 showes
the total number of students in the
literary department to be 513. The
medical department has 380 members;
the law, 395; the pharmacy, 100; the
homeopathic medical, 71, and the
college of dental surgery, 75. Of the
total number of 1,534 students in all
the departments, Michigan furnishes
6S8: Illionis, 149; Ohio, 145; New
York, 89; Indiana, 85; Pennsylvania,
58; Minnesota, 40; Wisconsin, 33;
Iowa, 32; Missouri, 26; Massachusetts,
19; Kansas, 14; Kentucky, 12; West
Virgin, 10; Maine, Nebraska, and
Texas, each, S; Connecticut, 7; Ark's.,
Colorado, and New Hampshire, each
6, California, 5; Washington Territory
4; Maryland, Oregon and Vermont,
each, 3; Delaware, District of Colum
bia and New Jersey, each, 2; Alabama,
Dakota, Mississippi, Montana, Nevada,
New Mexico, Rhode Island, South
Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, and Vir
gina, each C. Among foreign coun
tries Ontario takes the lead with 36;
than follow Hawaiian islands with 3;
New Brunswick, 2; Manitoba, Nicara
gua, Cuba, Bermuda Islands, England,
Ireland, Roumania, Egypt and Bur
in ah, each 1.
Telegraphing.
Few workshops are as imhen.lt? ful as
the telegraph oOices of our large citios.
The ventilation is iniperfeet; fifty men
are breathing an atmosphere that should
sustain but ten. There If a draft from
an open window on one side and tho
heat from .1 hot stove on tho other, or
an artificial heat from pipe3 that smell
not sweetly! Why, simply to sit in such
a room and have no duty to perform
but twirl your thumbs and take your
easo, sows in your system tho seeds of
disease and death! And to work there,
to bend over your desk to catch tho
mystic click of the instrument as it tells
its ever changing story; to double up
your chest and contract your lungs; to
keep every nerve at its highest tension;
to havo your brain power concentrated
on tho last word you have written or tho
one that, k coming; to havo your mental
faculties all narrowed down to the bus
iness before you, and yet be unablo to
follow one thread of thought for two
consecutive moments, but to jump from
one to tno other as now wonts suggest
them this is making of the mind and
tho body less than the Creator intended
it for a machine that is running under
such high pressure that it must neces
sarily eollapse years before, in tho ordi
nary courso of nature, its usefulness
should ccaso! The Operator.
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Peter Cooper's Escapes.
Mr. Peter Cooper has had several hair
breadth escapes during his lifetime of 92
j-cars. On one occasion, when he was a
mcro lad, ho was rambling with several
other boys in a tannery, and fell into a
tan-vat. As tho vat was nearly full of
strong Solution of acid water, he was, as
he expresses it, "nearly pickled to death."
His playfellows, instead of trying to help
him out of his predicament stood and
laughed right merrily at his predicament.
Finally a workman employed in the tan
nery heard his piteous eries for assist
ance, and carrie to his relief. Forty
years ago Mr. Cooper was thrown from
a wagon which was attached to a runa
way horse. His head struck upon a
stone in the road, and his recovery was
regarded as a wonder. A fow years ago
he was nearly drowned by the upsetting
of a boat in which ho and a half a dozen
men were making experiments with a
new kind of paddle-wheel
Sow good services; sweet
brancea will grow from them.
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Toctics--A Hew Edition.
nr jomn ruissTow tkue. ' .
A warm light slant t frrn thj eldon Weat,
O'er Held yet snowy; hero and thoto
Tho brown earth peeps through putcboa
Dm f.
And stil'.-llfo wakes from Its long rest.
Down In the hollow, 'mid mil f HUB,
Come -children trooping up ;ho lane.
A h"ro bravo In tho foremost van.
With a ln-t yeur'n mullein in doughty
httiid ;
A tnw-whiic '.iH i, a? In-N-nds tho band,
Protiilly ercc osbcooiu n num.
II. il deep in thought In -) tho luisy brain,
A tlio children troop uloug tho lane.
"Halt !" and ho brinjrs hln mullein down i
With a mighty thwnck on u tree-truok
near.
With n Btat-ts( Jumptmd a sudden fear
Thoy niopat tho word. Hln Hnowy croifO
Noil t in approval. 'Til to train
Ills troop he haa Lroufc'ht them up the lane.
"Von S:iiiio Ann, put on that hut
Ntr:iirht I" ciimps ih mandate stern I v out.
And tho black-eyed maid, with a sniff and
pout,
To a rakish tilt gave a sullen pat:
For discipline Hharp, by mlirht and main,
Tho general kept iu tho qulut lane.
"Faces front! Now look at mo!"
Ah, with shoulders bnck, ho strodo befor,
"No whispering, Kato your utfention
more!"
For the little girl giggled "Thero'a naught to
see."
'Twub a mutinous host, that tho lad would
fain
Lead lti array up the silent lano.
"Forward march !" With pattering troad
Tho swaying rank up tho path procoeds.
With eyes a-llKht for valiant deeds,
Under a banner of hue blood-red.
'TwasKittio Van's apron, and, how vain.
She tossed herhoad in the lonely lane!
nn now in front lies a problem hard.
Two muddy pools across the giado
Too wide to leap, too deep to wade
With a wicked gleam the parage barred.
The general scratched in his silvery mane,
As tho girls oume trooping up the lane.
"By the right flank march I" tho order ran.
Out his face grew red, and you might have
heard
A gritting of teeth. His memory errod,
And the word forgot. Tho tittering clan
His former pride was now his bane,
As they es mo pattering up the lane.
His brow grew white, and again grew red;
Then a flash of triumph crossed his face.
Ero they had reached the narrow place,
"Endways march!" h sharply hald.
And a murmur came like the nimtner rain
Among them trooping up the lane.
Oh. wlso young head, thnt can gather fast.
Laurel's green from grim defeat
Whose ready bruin is so swift to bent
Victory's march o'er dangers past!
May you ever thus Earth's glorios gain
Buro us when leading up the lane.
(Golden Days
Scientific Gossip'.
The Prussian Government is to buy
this year '20,;300 tons of iron railroad
sleepers at a cost, of a ton.
Lighting of railroad trains generally
in Germany bv means of electricity
considered to he merely a question of
time.
.Special poisons are secreted by the
toad, salamander, newt, frog, etc. M.
Paul Bert has collected a liquid from the
glands on thb. neck of the frog, which
caused the death, with convulsions, of a
sparrow towhich t he substance had been
administered.
Tannin of wines, derived from tho
seeds and stalk of the grape, when
treated with ferric chloride gives a
greenish black coloration. When any
other eolor presents itself some astrin
gent stiltstimec not to bo found in pure
wine has been introduced into the
liquid.
Some observations were lately made
in a balloon by M. de Fouvielo on an
opaipie cloud which covered the region
of Paris for several days. The. -. loud
was hardly 300 meters-thick. The up
per part of the guide rope was covered
with hoar frost. The mean temperature
of the cloud was 0 degrees.
Kxperiments on the pi trolcuina of tho
Caucasus by M. Sehutenbcrgcr go to
prove that petroleum, aniline and ben
zol, when distilled in contact with sodi
um and kept in the dark, give, on analy
sis, 101 to 101.5 of carbon and hydrogen,
but if exposed to the light for two hours
the yield is only 10 per cent.
In coppering cast-iron M. Weil osea a
bath of copper sulphate rendered strong
ly alkaline with an organic acid, added
to prevent the precipitation of Copper
oxide. To effect the same object, Sjjtf.
Mignon and Kouatt employ a distinctly
acid solution of a double sail oi copper
and any alkali with an organic acid.
Mr. John Shields says he has succeed
ed "in laying down in a permanent
form outside the Nort llarbon at
Peterhead, Scotland, an apparatus for
throwing oil upon troubled water, there
by making the entrance to the harbor
safe in any weather." He will have op
port. mtity enough there to prove how
far his contrivance is of any value.
A new and interesting proof that tho
earth is round has boon presented by M.
Dufour in a paper lately read before tho
Helveric Society of Natural Sciences. In
calm weather the images-of distant ob
jects relleeted in the Lake of Geneva
showed just exactly the same degree of
distortion which calculation would pro
dict through taking into consideration
the figure of the earth.
Some people have maintained thattho
close confinement of dogs is a fruitful
cause of rabies. They say that, if dogs
were not' chained up or muzzled hydro
phobia would soon disappear. The ob
servations of the lato Col. T. G. Prater
in Western India are altogether opposed
to any such views. Ho found that jack
als frequently suffer from this disease,
and pariah dogs also, and the latter at
least have been known to communi
cate tho terrible malady to human be
ings. From statistical fables compiled by
tho Prussian Government, it appears
that tho interest paid on capital in
vested in railroads is higher in France
than anywhere else except Ameri
ca. In France the average percent
age yielded was l.r: per cent; in
Germany, 1.11: in Austria, JA: inGrcat
Britain. :t.!i; in KiHsia, 2..'); in Italy, 2.6.
In the United States the capital expend
ed 3 ielded on an average a return of 4.6
percent; in Canada, only 1.8; and in
the British West Indies,
Foot-Ball in England.
Tho revived popularity of foot-ball in
England is bringing to the front a long
list of accidents. At a match, near Miu
dleton early in the month five players
were so seriously hurl that medical at
tendance was required. At Shoflield,
aboutoifcpme lime, one boy had his
collar-fMfmo bi oketi, and another was in
jured badly in his side. Two accidents
navo also occurred at Oldham, and one
of them resulted in death.
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