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*-7«l^* '1 I JU If •w»- «*\ '\ !l-iH 4 a ^ Copy A* 1'he Northern Observer MASSEXA, N. T ; , WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9 LOCALS. .P£RSOfl*1-S.\ A \cSItff l)f€ht^-^Mlii^aihmie..d: Pay your taxes. . - -Subscribe for the OBSERVER, The tek 5 ptarre-iine to the \depot is \\nearly completed. The social given by the Ladies' Aid society of St. John's church lasl .Thusday evening netted $11. ,\ A whist party was-given by Mr. ami Mrs; J. W.-Webb last TMisday evening. The-town was rail yesterday, ^~of ...farmers. .'\ \•\\\ Two man-holes hav been placed at 1 lie upper end of the sewer. About one hundred and fifty dele- gate's from other towns attended the Grangers' meeting yesterday. \ TtTe\al^endaiiee~iBrthe academic department of the Union School is the largest in several years. The' Watert^wir Evening News, a small daily with press reports made ifes\-appearanee last week. The St, Lawrence County Teach- er's Association will he held at Gouv- orneur during the holiday vacation. The people of Kingston are raising a memorial f anlf'to the honor of Sir John Ifeedonald. It is reported that large numbers of Chinamen are entering this coun- try at j$t v Regis by disguising as wq- , men thickly veiled. — - book out for the Piano Fund En- tertaindent next Wednesday evening A good drama has been prepared, together with speaking and music. A Donation and Oyster Supper for tlite benefit of Rev.H. JM .Cimfeh, will IK* held at the residence of William Lavine at Racket-River Thursday.;. An exchange says that while the Board of Supervisors was in session HI Ogdensburg the Dist. Atty. asked an appropriation of $500 to maintain * rrder along the line of the A. & St. L road. -£_• When looking for Christmas pres- ents, look over the advertising; col- umns of the OBSERVER and you will find ally thing you may want named there, and also where you can buy it the cheapest. Last Thurjclay ' \lioBSS*\\ Smith was attempting to put a halter on a young colt.-—jsrjhenv;. the animal suddenly jumped striking Mr. Smith in the face, knocking him down and rufting__seyeral torge gashes in.his face . The wounds were dressed by Dr. St >arns. At present JferHmith is doing well, but he to confined to \..'Vthe house.- _ • ••- -'^~---.- Saturday afternoon the house oc- cupied yL-\Fr*-cIHawle\ had a narrow THE GfiTANQEBS. Ifoiiday. /<•[ '•-'-\\\''' \'-• Alfred Button Ms mdv^Tlnto the Dr.Nlrimiell house. * Fred Hopson is learning the pho- tographers business of W. A. More- house, It is rumored that- Allen Squires is negotiatingTfor the purchase of the mail routes now run by Dennis Ragam Miss Jennie Miller has gone to'Far- ran'iSiPeintdter-a -we^kV-visit-amoi^ friends. Fleming's barber shop is putting on holiday attire to Jhe tune oijMper and paint. Fred Bakh went to Rouses Poiri on Monday where he has been engag- ed a« operator by the Central Ver- mont. Albert Adams was arraigned before Justice Miller Saturday evening on the charge of public intoxication. He pleaded guilty, and was fined $10 and costs which amounted to $3 more, or languish for the next 30 days with Landlord Backus at the county seat. He chose the former. . One of Ogdensburg's former boys has taken to himself a wife. Mr. Jo- seph \N. Wilson^ son of Mr. George Wilson, was married in th'e village of Philadelphia, Saturday evening Nov. 28, t.> one of the \(Quaker Settle- ment's\ fair daughters. Miss Jennie M. W T ashburn, daughter of Mr. Geo. Washburn, a leading hardware mer- chant. The Rev. Francis A. Strough, pastor of the Congregational church at that place, tied the nuptial knot, after which numerous relatives and friends s»t -dewn--to -a -bountiful spread. Mr. Wilson and bride will take up their residence at Massena Springs vhere he has just received the appointment of station agent. Mr. Wilson was formerly station a- gent at Theresa, and is one of the most faithful ami trusted employes of the New York Central Rail Road. - at llie Coisniy Council iicUt ax ItaMelia, yesterday. A regular meeting of the St. Law^ rence Co. Order of Grangers w^ held here yesterday, ^ The meeting was well t attended, there being t^ ( neighboring Lodges represented, and about 150 people from other towns being present. AmoStg^thel visitors was W. H. Gifford of James- town, Master of the New Yor& State Grange. The local society hid teade elaborate preparations for t^feveiit. The ladies had put some vei^jpretty ^tiong. upon the iya^^tihelf hall, and the gentlemen, ^J^S^^fed tednisv to meet their guests\'af tti§fae~\ + 1 Long before ihe hour of sum of $l t m\ : #emandj immediately or h< hfi would Mow him ajad the wholf building up with eight pounds ofdv- **** namitewliieh ho vaUfbtMtopwtH*^ in a bag garrtud in l^MP. *&&&£ then ffcat&r. Sage «aC\hat to haC\ ^ \*} 'leal wjjjj t a very daagen .n h t • ra nk.' ijwfti in m order to gala a litttt;Ttt|^* t*> deirf • - '*' ^^ mine wluit t<i do, btit ttitf n^in i** 4 ' pot -tho-taFiiiers- in»m- tne surr country began to flock\into\ 15wn, and hj ^inne^ime many hungry but happy' Qrang^SB 1 were anxiottsly awaiting the tnvitatioft to partake of the bountifid collation which the la- dies were spreading in the Town Hall. At last the call came, and then the joy -of the 'waiters* knew no bounds. Dinner over, all repaid-d to the Grangers* Hall where a M^jwit^&e^- siou-Ww held. -Although nirt abl^ to to le:iin much about the afternoon program, yet we were mfomied that it was fully carried out :)in\ wis very creditably reiideretl;\beiug thrTwuh- ly enjoyed^ by all prc.-^-nt: After [ lii^ chair and walked toward tlicd^^r the nuvting preparations f^.r «upi>er j when Wilson raised t){v hag above* were begun and mxm our stranger his head and threw it in tht* lluor,,. Is had'another opportunity to exploiling fhe dynamite in the l5fej£ th\ pcrff.'CUnn in the rnlinn-i;uid flemolishing even thing in th* j ry art.i of tiie dainesof Maiden: lnH>m, broke every pane of glass in In the evening a^jargt' erowri a.-- |t_be large byildAJlK. but by home mini semUii'o in the M. E. Chun-h't\ hear thi' public exercises. The ' chu-rch was crowed to its utmost rapacity. W. H. Knox. Grand M.i^t« r of the county, presided. During thi' CA'C- niiig the following progr.un was ren- dered:-^. Song, ..Freedoms Banner: Reading, -Mrs.Jefferson Address, Hc^n. Wm, Bradford, which was a ^i.ited in his demands for the iiiottf»y \\ ithout delay Mr. ftftgv artw** fr**n> mi u * According to the annual report of Mr. J. W. Mason, Commissioner of Internal Revenue, the aggregate amount of taxes collected on spirits during the past year was $82,335,963, while the total receipts from all sources amounted to #146,035,41(5. The report further states that the quantity of distilled spirits in the United States, -except what may be in customs bonded warehouses, on Oct. 1, 1891, ^was 152,945,773 gallons. The New York Tax Reform Associ- ation oners to send at its own ex pense, gd'od speakers to towns or vil- Tage^rwhrere a lighted\ and. wffifmed hall is offered and proper notices in* the papers secured without other ^peirom harnin*. Bv some up-Jeo^t to them. These speakers will known eau^ the fenw adjacent tolamwer^any^questions and debate the the house caugjit afire. ; the fortunaw discovery i. - nd but- f or of ii the have been comei-s A'liveryman by the name of R.I. i nguiThc tmio. - ~ jindicted by the United States grand Subscribe for the OEsiiimn; now. \JITT for complicity In smuggling \ r fri'.'n. prove Ii' Mr. Sjige^-Hca^'rl with a U'ut <hak mg im and a fcwbrui.sos Ytu* IKWJII. thrower, however, did not vseap»- !!•• wjts literally torn It) pii*>* ?-. \\u*X only Ins head, one arm AH>\ jh f*«m pit^-es (A fhnsh could l»e found The other, oflice*i m th*- hutilling shared similarly to that of Mr SugeV. and several people, wen* ^«rsotisly in- tiru' plea for education m the farmerV I jured by the falling debris The man •^n home; Reading, Mrs. Nichols: Duet, Mr. Jeffei-son and Mi^^TJbompMUi; and'the police hnve not boon abb 1 to Essay, Mrs. Judd, an abb 1 plea for the relief and elevation of the noble Woman, who keeps the house; Solo Mr. Biodgett: Address, W. H. Gifford subject, \A new Declaration ot Ind» pendence\. Tlie speaker drew in painfrd contrast-the rich piling up enormous wealth, and the working people growing poorer year by year: Seven per cent of the nation own seventv per cent of the wealth, wdiile ninety-lihi'ee peF cent of the nation' owif only .thirty~per cent of it. The orgahizatian-6f the^Patrons of Hus- bandly was a great movement of the farniliig^pppulation tdw^arct self pro tection But-_all the toiling\ masses must band together to elect men to Wilson is entirely nnknonn thus far, pMmapIes of the Association with aU ogce-wfeo will not be governed by the ^monopolists, who\ will equahze taxes, who will frame laws taking find out who he IN The pohec havei arrested William D Southworth as « the chief of a band of cranks whoso last appeal is to weapons like that rscd by .the dead dynamiter last Fri- day. Southworth denies all know- ledge 1 of Wilson, but Inspector Byrnes believes him to bo an accomplice. Th.e coroner is waiting for the injured to recover sufficient to appear at l;he in-_ * quest when new developements may \Be made:* ' , ' ^ It is sajtl that the head'of the dyfia-'\ miter remainedpepfrctly natural au^,.\ lifelike after death, and. when 3r|rT J ^_ pro-1 Bage was asked il that_wjis^i^Tn^p£; ' eses \who-threw the the homh,he/s^LTftiM^ - .^\7I7 -T~t\ n *•\ he wqnld swear that it was, Acaiso^^^ \\~~ ' '•' examination Qx^pSe bomb tji^ojf^rjB.T\ 13& eas«s«Utn< lag more than effuslo^^' i±3~ t-he-..nation. rMlalb^cl-w^Tenoticed'and itViirlater'\ Sti?j«c^U. \o'C •OFSEtnT-R :: r -^ Chir.-p rxrrr:^ fh^-bord3i t£j„t.;af;.-r .a-aetEiBfti^c F3\\ 1 '-L\tf^ : J 1^^