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SALINE, WASHTENAW CO., MICH., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1891.
A. J. WARREN. Publisher.
YOL. XI.-NO. 50.
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BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
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PROFESSIONAL.
P   E.JON E S.
Attorney at Law.
All Business attended to Tvith Promptness and
Care.   Office on McKay street.
SALINE,
MIGH.
At
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Q.   Ft. WILLIAMS
Attorney at Law,
Especial attention paid to Pension Claims o£ all
kinds.  Newcomb Block,
MILAN, - - MICH.
IT   A. NICHOLS, M. D.,
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON.
Office at Niclio s I ros'. drug store.
SALINE, - MICH.
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ft    F. UNTERKIRCHER, M.D.,
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON.
Calls promptly attended to at all hours.
Office in Hauser block, Chicago street.
SALINE, -       - MIGH.
NEIGHBORHOOD GLEANINGS.
Newsy Notes and Occasional Occurrences
\ From our Near Neighbors.
£   W. CHANDLER, M  D.,
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
SiBee on Adrian Street, first door sourh of the:
Wallace Block,
SALINE, -        - MICH.
IT □. HELLER,     . O   S.
DENTIST.
Headquarters for the best Tooth Powder
in the market.
Office over Nichols Bros', drug store.
SALINE, - -        MICH.
r*    C. SLABHT,
Veterinary Surgeon.
Graduate of Chicago Veterinary College,
Residence 1*4 miles east of Pennington s Corners.   Calls may beleft at either of the
stores at the Corners.    All calls
promptly attended to.
MACON, - - MICH.
MISCELLANEOUS.
WATERMAN'S
PHOTOGRAPH GALLERY.
Oliss Gitlett's old stand.)
Will bein Saliue every Wednesday and shall be
ple'ased to' meet all in need of work in my line.
'J.ill and see/ samples of our work.
p'   CORDON,
The Pioneer Painter.
Over Forty Years Experience.  *
?arriage. Sign and Ornamental Painting, Paper
Hanging, Frescoing, Etc.
SALINE, - MIGH.
yy wi. BP.iGss,
Practical Painter.
louse painting, graining, paper   hanging and
kalsouiining.    All work promptly and
neatly   done,   aud   satisfaction
guaranteed,'
SALINE, - - MICH.
"t"TAN QUZER'S
Barber Shop.
lair Cutting.   Shaving,   Shampooing  aud   all
Work in the Barber "Line.
Bath room in connection.   Hot or cold baths at
■ij- times, A. B. VAN DTJZER.
SALINE, - - MICH.
A. MILLER & SON.
(Successors to J. A. Alber).
laiire&y, Feed and
Sale, Stable;,
First-class rigs at reasonable rates.
Alvin "Wilsey, of Ann Arbor, last
week sold a piano to be shipped to
Seattle, Washington.
Clinton wants an opera house, and a
meeting-of the citizens is called to
discuss the matter, and doubtless test
their pockets.
The mob that howled about the
streets Saturday night should have
been run in and led on bread and water
until Monday and then arraigned and
fined. This town needs a marshal with
sand enough to do his duty, promptly^
and thoroughly.—Grass Bake News.
"When you pass a farm, and - see a
large barn and a small house, you may
know the man is boss. When you see
a fine house and a dilapidated barn,you
may understand that the woman has
things her own way; aud when there
is a new lious# and a good barn, you
may take it for granted that the woman
and man are equals and work together
in harmony.—Ex.
Gertie Carmo, the aeronaut, had a
narrow escape from death yesterday.
She made her ascent at the fair and a
drop with the parachute. She alighted
in the top of a frill tree on Hill-st., and
in attempting to catch a limb fell a
distance of 30 feet. She was picked up,
an examination made, but no bones
were found to be broken but she was
badly bruised. She is now resting
quietly at the hotel and if she received
no internal injuries she will soon recover.—Democrat,
The first meeting of the Washtenaw
teachers' association was held Saturday
iu high school hall, over 1(10 teachers
being in attendance. Interesting papers were read by Mrs. M. G. Gill, of
Saline: Miss J. Y. Van D'usen, of Ypsilanti: Miss Mary Shaffer and Prof.
Blodgelt, of Manchester, and Miss Nettie Sanford, of Saline. Prof. Perry
and Prof. Whitney also addressed the
association. The meeting was a successful and satisfactory one and reflects
credit on County School Commissioner
M. J. Cavanaugh, who gave it considerable attention.—Democrat.
HARMON DAVENPORT'S  LETTER.
Railroad Travel in Great Britain.
Commercial travelers and their baggage carried to and from adjoining
towns with promptness and at living
rates.
C    Old American House Barn,
SALINE, - - MICH.
Deputy Register Seery a Cripple.
A sad anc] distressing accident oc*
cured Saturday night of last week to
Wm. Seery, son of Michael Seery, Register of Deeds of this county. Wm.
was deputy register in his father's
otlice. He went to Ypsilanti Saturday
evening on the motor intending- to return on thelast trip up but unfortunately he got left. He then wdnt to the
Miehigan Central depot to catch the
late train from Detroit but that too had
gone. While he was at the depot a
freight came ulong and he jumped on
as the train was going at good speed.
He got on all right but as the train
went through the gates his.body struck
a picket causing- Mr. Seery to lose his
hold and throwing him under the ear,
crushing one of his feet. The injured
man was removed to the Neat house
where it was fouud necessary to amputate his foot just above the ankle. Mr.
Seery is doing as well as could be expected but will not be able to be moved
to his home in this city before sometime next week. -Mr. Seery was the
efficient deputy in his father's office
and the news of the accident fell with
crushing force ujion his father.
Iota Bauigardner
(Successo  to Anton JEisle,)
 —DEALER m	
Foreign and American
Marble,
Cranite and   Building
stone.
Corner of Detroit and Catherine Sts.
ANN ARBOR, MICH.
S. JOSENHANS'
< iiitiiiii shop-,
REPAIRING    DONE     ON     SHORT
NOTICE.
All kinds of Forging, Repairing Horseshoeing,
and general .lobbing.
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED and prices reasonable.     Shop   on  Ann Arbor street,
Bissell's
Grand Rapids
In six different styles oi special ftuish:
all of selected woods, hand-decorated.
NATURAL WALNUT
NATURAL MAPLE
MAHOGANY FINISH r
16th CENTURY OAK
ANTIQUE OAK
• ENGLISH OAK
'Tis a part of the finest lot of sweepers
ever put out by the Bissell Co., and you
can have your choice among six styles
of these special finishes at the price of
j the regular sweeper.
THEY WILL NOT
LAST LONG
If you want one for a present or for
yourself, :tis the chance of the year.
Bisselfs Grand Rapids is the most famous
ot all tlie Bissels. and the Bissell's are
the greatest carpet sweepers in the world.
A. C. CLARKE.
near Maiu.
SALINE,
MICH
Old papers for pantry shelves and
*or putting under carpets, at this olfic e.
In one of my previous letters I made
allusion to the discomforts of traveling
in the English railroad coach.- It
seems almost unreasonable to believe
that the comfort-loving English people
can tolerate the ramshaekle-antiquated-
arks used by the railroads there for
passenger service and that they do so
can only be accounted for In the fact of
their ignorance of what the American
railroad coach actually is. The impression seems to prevail with the majority of people over there that the ordinary American railroad equipment
embraces the worst aggregation of
misery developing contrivances in ex-
istauce all of which have been expressly invented to jeopardize the lives and
morals of the traveling public.
Broach the subject and suggest the
bare possibility of there being room for
an improvement in the English coach
as compared with the American and
you will give lasting offense forthwith.
You may criticise their national institutions, politics and public men. and"
laugh at their Royal family, but you
must be careful on the subject of railroads.
Every railroad train there is made
up of coaches of three classes,—first,
second and third,—the latter being the
best patronized. It is said that the
first class is patronized only by rich
Americans, lords and fools, which of
course, if true, would indicate a good
business for that compartment, but all
Americans are noi rich, nor all Englishmen lords or fools.hence the third class
compartment is the most popular,.
Their passenger coaches are about
half the length of the ordinary American coach and instead of having a platform at the ends, it is divided by solid
beaded flooring partitions into three or
four compartments, each of which will
accomodate four or five persons. Each
compartment has a separate entrance
on both sides of the car aud is provided
with two long seats extending from one
side of the car to the other with a rack
above for baggage. Seating yourself
in one of these compartments you must
stare straight into the face of part of
your fellow travelers who face you riding backwards (if you have been sufficiently fortunate to get the rear seat)
and after looking him or her out of
countenance, while he or she is glariug
at your boots,making you feel extremely nervous, you change off and stare at
the ceiling while she takes an inventory
of 5^our travel stained features. There
is nothing else to rest your eyes on, except the bare walls three feet before
you, unless you sit at the end of the
seat where you can get an occasional
glimpse of the outside world flying past
and then you are speedily made uncomfortable by a disagreeable draught
of cold air whistling through the joints
of the ill fitting door. After fidgiting
about tryiug- to look unconcerned under
the fixed gaze of the individual opposite
who seems to be taking more than a
passing interest iu yourmovementsyoa
reach the conclusion that you are facing a detective sleuth from Scotland
Yard or a lunatic and if alone with him
in the compartment as you are likely
to be your mind will revert to the probability of his murderiug you while the
train is passing through the next tunnel and you will count the chances of
your being able to make the jieople in
the next compartment hear you in the
event of his attempting to do so.
Englishmen pride themselves on the
fact that their coaches are inore exclusive than ours. Their exclusiveness
is the feature that I dislike. The
coaches are all the same, irresyiective
of class except that the first is a little
more- exclusive than the others so that
you may possibly have but a single
blackleg-lord or lunatic to cqntend with
as against one lunatic and three or four
sane men in the cheaper compartments.
It may be possible for a lady to travel
in safety in one of these coaches without a male escort but to provide against
a chance in meeting with some of the
boon companions of H. R. H., the
[ Prince of Wales, it will be well for her
to shun theXfirst class and take her
chances with a less dangerous lunatic
in the third.
After buying your ticket you enter
one of these 3x7 feet compartments,the
ticket is examined by the guard who
then slams the door, locks it ou the
outside, puts the key in his pocket,
blows a whistle, the engine gives a
warning screech, and you are off like a
fatted steer to market with no chance
to escape in case of an accident except
j by a 14x20 inch window.
j    They have no conductors, but your
j ticket must be produced for the inspee-
] tor at the principal stations.   He passes
j along the depot platform with all the
dignity and importance of the entire
j company full upon him, and tickets are
(passed to him through, the small win
dow in the door,opened"for the purpose.
D Every railroad station throughout
England supports from five to fifteen
gaily uniformed officials who tell less of
what they are supposed to know thau
any other class of men ou the face of
the earth.
The all-prevadmg air of exclusiveness of which Englishmen brag seems
to hover about every mother's son of
them from the uniformed boot black to
the misinformed ticket puncher, whose
dignity sits upon him as though to the
scullery of "the manor born."
There is one important feature about
the English railway however, which is
deserving of unstinted commendation
and that is in the elevated or depressed
tracks at all street and railroad crossings. Instead of having streets or
country roads crossing railway tracks
at grade to jeopardize the lives of people as in this country, the tracks over
there are either elevated some twenty
feet" or so above the street, or run beneath it. Of course, the result is the
train is always running over a high embankment or through a deep cut or
tunnel. The embankments would probably be a bad feature in connection
With the heavy freight traffic and frequent ditching of trains so characteristic of railroads in this country, but
they seldom have an accident over
there. They are, however, extremely
careful and the comparatively small
cars used do not subject the road beds
to such severe strains as does the heavy
American coaches and freight cars.
Another feature about their system
worthy of note is that their long distance train.'- are always on time, and
never a minute too late or early. Leaving Edinburgh at ten a. m. you are landed iu London, 400 miles away in something less than eight hours later, and
you may rely upon arriving there on
schedule time.
Taken in the aggregate their system
as far as passenger service is concerned
is about fifty years behind the times ov
about equal to whatis termed emigrant
service in this country.
Harmon F. Davenport.
EVERYBOBY READ!
I am now located at the
old stand ot C. A. Hendrick
where I shall have constantly on hand a full supply
of candies, fruits, canned
goods, bread, tobacco and
cigars, peanuts, etc.,all fresh
and nice, and ask the public
to call when in want of any-
thng in my line.
L. F. RHODES.
Is .i.i itillitiiimatiou of the bronchial n-i i-s-
tiii' air-passaires leading into the iitugs.
Few other complaints are so prcv.-ilcut. nr
call for more prompt anil enerpi'tic liction.
As neglect or delay may result seriously,
effective remedies should always l-c at
hand. Apply at once a mustard poultice to
the upper part ot the chest, ami, for internal
treatment, tiike frequent doses of
Ayer's
Cherry Pectoral
C. O. T.epper. Drnwisr. Ft rl AVayne. lud..
writes: "My littlesisler, n-i'.ryears of aire,
was so ill from bronchitis lhatwe had almost
given up hope of J er rorevi ry. Our family
physician, a skilful man and if iarjic experience, pronounced it .useless to jiive her any
more medicine, sayisiir he had done all jt was
pos<ibli' to do. ami wc must prepare for the
wm--! \s a last resort, we determined to
try Aj .*»■*•} Cherry jvrtoritl. mid 1 can truly
say. with most happy results. After i,-!kini;
a few doses she seemed to lvreali.e <•---"-.
and. within a week, was out of dmij • i ?
continued giving the Pectoral until .»;:• .id
she was entirely Well. This indisprlable
evidence of the treat mi lit of Ayer's I'i crry
x'eetural lias given me uuhounded e-nll-
cience iu the preparation, and I see Hcmend
it to my customers, knowing it cannot disappoint them."
"Ayer's Cherry reetoral cured me of a bad
cough and my partner of bronchitis. I know
of numerous cases in which this preparaticn
has proved very beneficial in families of
Young Children,
so that the. medicine is km-wii ainonjr them
as 'tlie consoler of the afflicted.*"— Jaime
Ruins VtdaT. San Cristohel. San Domin.iro.
"A short time ago. 1 was taken Willi a
severe attack of 1-rei chilis. The remedies
orilin.-irjly used in such case* failed to pivc
me relief" Almost in despair 11 ever fiiidiiiR
anything to cure me. 1 bnnid.t a bottle of
Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, and was helped
firm the first dose. 1 had not. finished Cue
bottle before tlie disease left WC, and my
throat and lnnjis were as sound as ever."—
Geo. B. Hunter, Altoona. Pa.
tier's tarry Pectoral
I'llEl-AUED 3T
M. J. C. AYER & CO., Lowell, Mass,
Bold bj-all Druggiate.   Price $1; fii bottles, $5
We have a nice lot of
.A-LSO
a few Cords of nice
WOOD FOR SALE
E. W. FORD & SON.
OUR SECOND SPECIAL SALE
FOR   FALX*   SEA SOU   18@i»
Can you afford to  miss the following bargains to be had only at our store
and only on Friday and Saturday of this week:
One bale 7c unbleached Cotton—two to ten yard remnants—only 4-]c a yd.
Fine bleached Sheeting, 2 J yards wide, 21c a j-d.
Fanvell bleached Cotton T\a a yd.
One lot 25c double fold Plaid and Plain Dress Goods only 19c a yd.
One lot superb wide Black Fancy Ribbons, worth 35c to 50e only 23c a yd.
One lot large 12ie towels to be closed at 8c each.
One lot heavy Comfortables, worth SI, only 67c each.
One lot large Comfortables, worth S1.25 only 89c each,
Fifty handsome Umbrellas, silver mounts, worth SI.50, only 89c each.
Victoria nickel-finished Carpet Sweepers, sold at S3 50, only 82-79 each.
Twenty-live dozen ladies"1 fast black 50c hose only 31c a pair.
Thirty-two Ladies' S1.50 to Si.75 Gossamers, odd sizes.to close at 98c each
One lot large 25c Dress Shields, closing price loc a pair.
Balance of our stock of Pasilme 5cToilet Soap, three cakes for 10c.
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Tlie    One    Price
20 SOUTH MAIN STREET,
ANN ARBOR.
A, M. Humphrey's
SPECIALTIES, ARE
A big drop in the market
Combination Prices Gone.
Lyon Coffee/was 28g, Now 25.
Our Favorite was 30c, Now 28.
Choice Santos was 28e, Now 25.
Combination was 32c, Now .30.
T:r?£LcL3 ^A7-±t}3D_
Butter and Eggs wanted; we wil pay you
the cash for them.
5/A MILE
S/A EVTR*. '*-"-
1 Hi: j?OL1L Si V JF W OK ITLs.
Two or three doibi. for a yA Hoise Blanket \/ill sa/e doubb its cost. Your
horse will eat less to Leep warm and be wor. 1 fiiry dollars more.
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