1895-01-31; Saline Observer

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SALINE, WASHTENAW CO., MICH.,   THUESDAY,    JANUARY 31, 1895.
A. J. WARREN. Publisher.
VOL. XY.-NO. 14.
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BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
T W. GAUNTLETT, D. 6.
Graduate of the
Chicago Ophthalmic College and Hospital
Will call and test your eyes if you address
meat
MILAN, - MICH.
"T> F. SHEEDER, A. M., M. O
Physician & Surgeon.
From the U. of SI. and Jefferson Hospital College, Phidelphia. Late assistant to the Bliss Eye
Hospital, Springfield, O.
Special attention given to the eye.
Eyes tested aud glasses fitted.
Office and Eesidence—the Marsh house, Chicago St.
SAHNE - - MICH.   H
V
0R. Q. E. HATHAWAY,
Dentist .
Office over Nichols Bros, drug store.
SALINE, -       - MICH.
I"\ ■E.SJ.O N E B.
Attorney at Law.
,  . - Business" attended to with Promptness and
■   ' Care-ZOfflce on McKay street,
MICH.
SALINE,
p  iR. WILLIAMS
Attorney at Law,
=:speciai:attention paid to Pension Claims of all
kinds.   Neweomb Block,
MILAN, - • MICH.
.'\i,   W. CHANDLER, Nl  D.,
'   . L'HXSLClANIand SU11GE0N
•nice on Adrian Street, first door south ot the
Wallace Block,
SALINE, - MICH.
r-.C.SLAQHT^
V.   .    -- f   £ , f.    •   '■
Veterinary .Surgeon.
 MACOtf, LENVWEECO., MICH.
Connection ..with Tecumseh hy  Telegraph
• aud.by Mail.
ALI. CALLS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO.     -
PHOTOGRAPH GALLERY.
(Miss Gillett's old stand.)
Will bein Saline every Wednesday and shall be
pleased to meet all in need ot work in my line.
3»ll and see samples oEour work.
IRISH'S
Barber.Shop.
= lair Cutting.   Shaviug,   Shampooing and   all
Work in the Barber Line.
• •   - H03H5B FISH,
SALINE,       *'        '        MIOH.
Hooreville.
A. J. WARREN,
 CONVEYANCER AND—— -
Notary - -  Public.
.'All legal papers drawn on short
'" notice and at pi-ices within the
reach q{ all.
General Fire Itfiraee a Specialts.
■>. CITYMEAT 'IABKET.
aG. A. LINDENSCHMIDT
Via still at tbe old stand, where he is always pre
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cared to serve his customers with THE BEST
Hi TH E M ARKET in «ie line of
Fresh anff'-Sajt^ats of all Kinds,
'' PoultryrFish, Sansa?e, E'c,
■  ipv-;-; -.".}»->'   '   i* •;•■ * •. •
L'on'plete steamVoutfit for. manufacturing sau
Mr- and Mrs. Walter Culver have returned to their home.
Frank Haynes and fam ily are spending a few days in Ypsilanti .
Monday morning mercury dropped
from 4 to 6 degrees below zero.
Titch Forsythe fell on the ice and
put one of his fingers out of joint.
The cold "wave struck here Saturday
and it was accompanied by a blizzard,
Arthur Conde fell from a scaffold in
his barn and was somewhat bruised,
striking on his head and shoulders, no
bones broker..
Amos Hall talks of moving into the
Dan Early house near the Wabash depot at Milan as his son Jabus will
move here and work his farm.
A GBAM) COACHMAN.
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?-*" Vsage,.-rfe^ember the old stand.
C.   A. LINDENSCHMIDT
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Bridgewater.
Mrs. Fleeman is on the sick list.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Joe Bevsuder
Sunday Jan. 27, a son.
The January blizzards have showea
up the last few days.
Miss Ida Rheinfrank is spending two
weeks at Manchester.
Chas. Hildinger will put in more ice
for the meat market use.
G. C. Mann's saw mill *ias been running full blast during the past week.
G. C. Mann intends putting up a
large dwelling house on his place this
coming summer.
A' few young people from here attended a box social at Mr. Eiseraa n's
at Rodgers Corners, Freedom.
G. A. Lindenschmidt opened a meat
market here Thursday in the front
part of Schoen's warehouse in the Gut-
hard building.
Milan Murmurings.
Sleighing fiue.
Business lively.
Weather extremely fine.
Another secret s,p,eiuly in Milan.
M^rs, TJennap has returned home
from her visit.
Miss Forsythe spent Saturday and
Sunday in Lodi.
Thermometers 8 degrees below zero
Monday morning.
Miss Alma Sill has returned from
her Azalia -visit.
Miss Rheinfrank spent Saturday and
Sunday in Saline,
Mrs. George Minto, is entertaining
guests from abroad.
Miss Jessie Holebmb has returned
from lier Detroit visit. ,;
Mrs. F. Leonard has returned from
her Mooreville sojourn: '
The D. of 11. hold a. tea social at the
I. O. Q. F. parlors to-day. '
Mrs. Homer Sill who has been quite
ill is able to be out again,
Mrs. 15. A- Vincent and Mrs. M.
Wallace are on the sick list.
The T. H. T. party was a pleasant
one at Miss Flossie Chapin's.
Mrs.. Geo. Hanson has returned from
a long visit at Fort-Wayne, Ind.
Miss Stisie Knight took part in a concert al Dundee Tuesday evening.
"Mrs. Geo. Stimpson'is in Chicago attending her sister who is very ill.
The Epworth League social at the I.
0- O. F. Parlors was a grand success.
Logs keep coming into the mills and
now is a lovely time to bring them in.
A number' of Milanites took in the
song recital at Dundee Tuesday night.
Miss Julia Fulcher was the happy
victiin" of  a  surprise  party Tuesday
evening.-  	
"Mr. and Mrs. O. A. Kellej "went to
: D'etrbitj to attend the- masonic"., banquet
.iast'.week. '   .. .;•;.., ^.. ■ "
Quite a number of masons went to
Detroit: to attend .the laying of the
cornjer stone of the masonic temple.
J. M. Putman & Co. have a very attractive store in the I. O..O. F. building where they have ;ptenty0f room and
light."""''"        :
.; "The boys and their best-girls went
Sleighing Sunday iuotwithstanding-
the severe cold. Wonder what they
were slaying? Time, otVeours 5.
„*.Mrs. Wm. Taylor is^serjously ill and
her daughters, Mrs. E. A., Reynolds, of
Detroit, Mrs. Belle "Webster, of Allegan,   and   Mrs. J.-Taylor, 6E Bay City.
are with her.
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the weekly Tribune for 50c if paid in
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living rates. Call and get my prices
before, buying elsewhere. This offer
good until Feb. 1st only.
HE IS AT THE HEAD OF THE   LORD
MAYOR OF LONDON'S STABLE.
A Big Man Physically and In Other Respects—The Carriage and Horses—iord
Mayors May Como and Go, but the
Coachman Is a Fixture.
An antediluvian spectacle was prepared for me in the stables of the lord
mayor of London. In a vast conrtyard
an enormous carriage made of gold, to
■which were harnessed six magnificent
brown horses; harness ornamented with
massive copper, chiseled by an artist,
if not with taste at least with a great
deal of care, and a multitude of ribbons
and cockades of a cherry color.
On the seat, six feet above the earth,
the coachman, bnt what a coachman,
my friends! A. coachman the breed of
which has been lost since the time of
Louis XIV. He wore a wig with a sex- ■
tuple line of curls symmetrically arranged, had a bicornered hat on his
head, and he wore his livery as Wellington after "Waterloo must have worn Ms
uniform. His livery has a grand air. It-
is black and gold. The frock is too ornamental. The black velvet of it disappears under a thick embroidery of gold
wheat und field flowers of purple silk,
but the chest on which it is opened is
so ample, and the large epaulets, with
gold fringes, fall with a nobility so imposing on arms so fat and so firm, that
one cannot find this exhibition of
wealth excessive.
The carriage is a poem. It is of tht
purest rococo style. Massive in the lower part, the panels of which are ornamented with allegoric paintings, tho
box is exclusively formed of looking
glasses held together by a light framework of gilded Wood. Everything is
gilded, from the Cupids which hold the
box to the chimerical figures which ornament the platform where the grooms
stand; from the Tritons whicb hold
with their strong arms the seat where
the corpulent Phaethon is enthroned to
the shell where he places his feet; from
the hub to the tire of the wheels. Only
the interior of the carriage is not gilt.
It is ornamented with red cushions.
"Have you seen everything?" asks
the fat man. I say "Yes," and Master
Wright descends from his perch. He
puts aside with sacerdotal slowness one
by one his bicornered hat, his wig and
his frock. As he becomes a simple mortal he talks and smiles. I smile, too,
because he strangely resembles Coqne-
lin. His trumpet shaped nose is particularly a success.
Master Wright is not too proud of.
it. He is proud only of his size. He
talks of it with evident conceit.
"Do you know,"he says confidentially, "that I". measure from shoulder
to shoulder 47- inches? To become a
member of . the Royal guard, where
there are splendid men, yon need only
42 inches. Some of them measure 43.
There are some who measure 44, but
there is not one who measures 47."
Iu the harness room—in a special
room of which the first coachman alone
has the key—Wright hands to me one
of the sets of harness. Its weight is
fabulous. Each horse carries 110
pounds. Add to this the enormous mass
of the car, and you may understand
why it is that ordinary horses will not
do for the annual parade. The liveryman who has charge of the stables of
the lord mayor is compelled to search
for two months in advance in order to
find the six horses destined to drag during this memorable parade the formidable machine." The rest of the year there
are only six horses in the stable. They
are all beautiful, but of a smaller size.
Four of them are harnessed to the second carriage, the lord mayor's "dress
carriage. Two are harnessed to the semi-
state carriaga
The carriages are not the property of
the lord mayor, but of the city of London. They are rented by the year. The
price is very high, as the coat of arms
ancl the.-painting on the panels must be
changed every year. The second carriage costs £800. - ''f "
The arms of the city of "London are
of chiseled copper. An elegant and fine
gallery at the top of the wagon is made
of the same metal. There ar,e four beautiful octagonal loin'terns at. the four corners Tlie panels are black and gold.
/The coachman's" seat is covered with"
black and red velvet.
The service of the stables is composed
of a Jiead coachman, of" a* second coachman, more especially devoted to the
lady mayoress; of a private coachman,
a footman, a groom .and i^yo stableTrays.
Their total wages are £10-: a weak.
"I would wager," said Wright, with
a mocking smilei "that you will ask
what the", cost of my livery is. Well,
thisuniform was paid for by the lord
mayor only   recently..   Its -cost   was
isi'bo."'.-' -.; ;.,'«',' - .' ,.-
"Fortunately." I said, '"you" clo" not
renew it every year."
"You are .mistaken. Every lord mayor has a livery different from that
chosen by his predecessor. We change
livery every year.
"And does tho lord mayor- have, to
pay for all this?" '       '   "*^
"Certainly, sir. It is a dignity everybody may not have. But you must remember that the most parsimonious of
lord mayors never spent less than £20,-
000 a year. Do yon know how much
the city allows him? No? Well, the
city allows him only £10,000 a year."
'•'How is it, "said I, "that you are
not chansed as well as the lord may or?"
Master Wright stood up with inflexible rigidity.    He said:
"Sir, we are officers of the city of
London. Appointed by the city to our
modest functions, we serve it in the
person of its first magistrate, and we
serve it faithfully, but we are not the
servants of the lord mayor. Lord mayors come and go. We remain."
■ After this solemn phrase Master
Wright cordially extended his hand to
me. I shook it, and when he put it
back in his pocket it was not empty.—
Thiebalt-Sisson in Temps.
DID GEANT A SERVICE
MR. HALL'S ACCOUNT OF AN UNPUBLISHED WAR INCIDENT.
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Bad a Certain Telegraphic Message Not
Been Intercepted Grant Mlcht Not Have
Won Fame—Interesting; Correspondence
Never Before Made Pnhlic.
In the history of the rebellion many
thrilling incidents have been omitted
which would be read with the deepest
interest. The war in the beginning was
considered by the English as the beginning of the end of the American republic, by Von Moltke as a mere rabble, a
riot, which .would be insignificant in
its results. Yet it proved to be one of
the mightiest convulsions in military
history, through which the art of war
arrived at a higher state of perfection
than ever before.
The telegraph became one of the most
powerful weapons of the war department, and all Europe copied it. Men
were brought into prominence from obscurity and honored with the highest
gifts the country could bestow.
Among those most conspicuous was
General TJ. S. Grant. Numerous factions
sprang up in opposition to his steady
progress, and General Grant, in his
memoirs of this time, says many were
clamoring for his removal. Even the
telegraph was utilized to further the
work of opposition, and had not the
manager of the Commercial Telegraph
offices in Cairo, Ills., assumed the responsibility of intercepting a paid message to a prominent judge and a member of congress in Washington the name
of Ulysses S. Grant might have been
unknown to history.
In view of substantiating this fact,
correspondence never before published
will be read with interest:
Cairo, His., April 3,1803.
Major General U, S. Grant, Commanding Department Tennessee:
Sin—As one loyal to tho government and
holding tho position as manager of the Commercial Telegraph offices of Cairo, I feel it always my duty to arrest anything contraband
that may pass throngh my office, feeling that
I shall he both justified and npheldby the gor-
ernment and my country.
With this consideration I havo taken upon
myself the responsibility of stopping a message,
destined for Washington, originating at Padu-
cah, Ky., a copy of which I inclose you, believing it to be contraband from the fact that
from its tono ho who sends it and perhaps others aro -working against if not to the injury of
tho commander of the department. Yesterday
(April 2) 1 consulted Colonel Hill, "Ehirty-fifth
Iowa, a man of good, sound sense, and he justifies my holding the message. This morning
I met Major General Hamilton, and he fully
approves my course in the matter and advises
me to inclose copy of message to you with full
particulars and await your instructions.
What led me to notice it was the operator at
Paducah informed me ho had a private cipher
message, not military cipher, which ho wanted
me to receive and forward to Washington. I
refused to receive it in cipher, as none bnt government messages in time of war aro allowed
to go by telegraph in cipher.
Ho then sent it to me in full, as herein inclosed, and althongh it was approved by the
commander Of the post at Paducah I still, upon
my own responsibility, wonld not allow it to
go through until I had consulted some military
men of high authority- I have done so, received their advice and am acting accordingly.
I am now awaiting your instructions, believing you will uphold mo in my position in tho
matter. With the highest respect and esteem 1
am, sir, your obedient servant,
W. H. Ham,
Manager Commercial Telegraph Offices, Cairo,
Ills.   Mailed April 4, 1803.
Here is a copy of the dispatch:
Paducah, April 2,1803.
To Judge GrecnAdams or Hon. S. L. Casey, M.
C., Washington:
I got hero last night, and, greatly to my surprise, found bills had been struck calling a district convention. I suppressed it for a time at
least until Casey could get things fixed up at
Washington and then return home at once. We
must have our policy foreshadowed before a
convention is held.
This department must at once betaken from
under General Grant. His every act has been
in sympathy with Trimble, Duke & Co. Make
Casey's district a separate one and give Colonel
Dougherty full control over it. CaptoinHenry
Bartling, Company I, Second Illinois.cavalry,
who has been here for six months, is a great
favorite with Casey's f rienos, has been ordered
off to.Ticksburg. Have an order to have him
transferred back to this department immedi-
"ately. I wrote you at length yesterday. Do
yonr part, and we will be certain to do ours.
J. T. Bomkoer.
Approved, H. Dougherty,ColonelCommand-
ingPost.
Check U7—5.98 and 27.06 paid.
This dangerous document once in
.possession of General Grant, he immediately replied to.       -
Here is what the general wrote in answer:
JULiixiken's Bend. La., April 0, 1863.
W. Q. Hall, Esq., Manager Commercial Telegraph Cairo, Ills.:
" Sin— Yonr letter of the 3d inst., Inclosing a
telegraph from J. T. Bolinger to Judge Green
Adams or S. L. Casey. Washington, is just this
moment received. 1 hasten to answer it and to
express my approval of the course pursued by
you.
You have my hearty thanksfor your prompt
and decisive action in  this matter, notwithstanding the npproval of the commanding officer at Paducah to the dispatch".   Truly yours.
U. S. GnAKT, Major General.
No further trouble emanated from
that quarter. A silent but speedy change
was effected in Paducah. General
Grant's firm determination to do his
duty ^ crowned him with success, and
soon "after the fall of Vicksbnrg he was
called to the command of tho Army of
the Potomac.—W. H. Hall in New
York Herald.
The Greatest Slaughter Sale
That ever was inaugurated in Saline.
Being determined to unload a great portion of my immense Boot
and Shoe Stock, I will commence Saturday, Jan. 12th, to sell at gi'3atly
reduced prices.    We will sell you splendid good Shoes of various lines
and descriptions 1-2 off regular price.   Tou can't afford io go with wet
feet or ragged shoes.    This line will be on our table and then on another table you will find an excellent line of the best Shoes at 1-4 off regular price.   Now this means business, we will do just what we say.
Come from far and near and avail yourselves of this opportunity,
and buy for future use.
Also my GROCERY and CROCKERY stock is complete, and
will bo sold as cheap as the cheapest—quality of the goods considered.
I will sell cheaper than any dealer in the county.    Como
and convince yourself.
Butter, Eggs and Apples taken in exchange for goods   at
all times, yes and money too.
. Yes, I will pay you money for your produce
when you don't want goods. Gome and see
me at the old stand
Yours truly in trade
O. NBSSLY
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E. F. MILLS & GO.
20 Main St.,
Ann Arbor.
We take our annual inventory Jan. 31st. and until that date we shall offer
everything in Winter Goods at prices that will speedily closo  them
In addition to the above we shall offer during the .mouth of
January everything in
CARPETS
Including Axminisler. Moquette, Velvet, Body and Tap Brussels,
Ingrains, Etc., at
ONE-FOURTH    OFF    FOR    CASH.
If you desire to furnish a room or a house this will prove an   opportunity
which you can ill afford to miss.
 ■— IN OUR	
CLOAK DEPARTMENT
We shall close all the latest cloaks aud fur garments at one-third off
and give si ill greater reductions on all goods in tho department.
E. P. MILLS & CO.
No Matter
Whether you ride on business or for
pleasure.
We desire to announce that we have purchased the Livery Business of A. Miller & Son and shall endeavor to work for your interest as
well as our own. Farming is our business, which we shall continue in,
tnd with the livery in connection can work both ends to a greater advantage.
For a time at least, wo shall remain at the old stand where we
shall be pleased to wait upon the many old eiHtoiuecs.anil any new ones
that may come our way. No pains will be spared for your convenience
and our prices will be reasonable..
In a short tirue'we sliail.add several new rigs to our slock   which
will then onable us to meet any doiu ind for something  nice  that   may
come. «
Tiiom-as 33at$r, Supt.
H. O. LAMKIN,  Prop.
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