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VOL XXVI—NO. i\V ST. JOHNS, MICH., THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 10, 1891. WHOLE NO.—13lV 2^
The Mercantile Company's lilndir for 1891. —On Monday morning last, Chandler merchants in St. Johns, and too well I Notice, An elegant line of Juvenile Books Ferguson fell upon the avenue in a fit. and favorably known to require any ex- The regular session of Clinton county at Fn.D EW & Millman ’s. —Dr. S. E. Gillam’s growing business tended words of commendation at our Pomona Grange will be held at the Olive has made it necessary ror him to add to hands. Grange hall, on December 16th. At Wanted. his office room. Fowler & Ball, proprietors of the old this meeting the election of offi- A middle-aged woman to do house- —The electric lights, with the aid of AND ST. JOHNS MERCHANTS ARK reliable, double mammoth hardware cers will occur, hence a full attend- W’ork in a country family of three. A the snow, light up Clinton avenue in a READY FOR IT. house of Clinton county, still hang out ance of Pomona members is desired, good home for the right party. Ref very satisfactory manner. their sign over there on the corner, and An interesting program will be pre erences exchanged. Address box 118, —Loren Stone has returned to this continue to supply the multitude with pared, with the discussion of such St. Johns, Mich. 1309wtf , The Show Window* In the Store* Occu county and will occupy the Hathaway goods in their line. In their extensive questions as may be presented, followed Have you tried Fildew & Millman ’k Bcff'To all new subscribers, farm, south of the village. pied by the Leading, Pushing Merchant* stock, they always have something de-1 by an entertainment in the evening —H. N. Heller, formerly of this village Furnish an Index to What There la sirable for a Christmas present. Some under the management of the Olive Pure Baking Powder ? ^ • , . as well as to those who will and late of Detroit, has removed to Stacked up Further Back. thing that will not only make the heart Grange. J. F. C lemons. Sec’y The Boss $1.50 Fountain Pen at pay up all arrearages, we will Toledo, O., 120 18th street. We take pleasure in inviting the at glad on that day, but for many years to ______Allison’s. . —Joe McGough has gone to New come. BUSINESS LOCALS send The Independent and the York with another carload of live poul tention of our readers to the goods of Thomas Padley, the acknowledged One second hand Birdsel Clover Detroit Free Press and House try, for the Brown Brothers. fered by the following named firms and leading harness-maker and dealer in To Debtors. Iluller for sale cheap. Inquire of ‘ , . —“Aunt Hannah ’s Quilting Bee,” is business men who are advertisers in horse goods, has some pretty robes, All persons with accounts past due, John II. Fedewa or ‘ hold, one year for $1.75, cash, the title of the next entertainment to blankets and whips, which would be must call and settle at ouce and save 1298-tf Edwin II. Lyon . The Independent, and feel safe in very acceptable as a Christmas present. be given by the ladies’ library associ vouching for the truthfulness of their costs. Itespectfullv, ation. Tom is here to stay, and what ne tells 121 lw4 H* J. Woodruff . To Riley Tax-payers. •* HOME MATTEHS. —The revelations brought to light in statements and the quality of their you and sells you, you may store it away I will be at the following named last week’s slander suit, is indeed a sad goods : in your memory as truth. places during the month of December Brevities. comment on social affairs in DeVVitt The St. Johns Mercantile Co., who A box of those “El Triunfo ” cigars A lady apprentice at the West side receive taxes : South Riley school- —The bon tons give a party at The township. have earned a large and envied trade manufactured by II. V. Weeden, over Photo Rooms. house, Saturday, December 12; Jason Steel Christmas night. —Charles Cowles, of Essex, and a through liberal advertising and keeping there in the corner cigar store, would school-house, Saturday, December 19; graduate of St. Johns high school, is at make a very acceptable Christmas pres Music Room. Boughton school-house, Saturday, De —The Essex Farmers’ Club will meet in stock a complete line of goods in their Miss Petsch is located over Travis & with Mr. R. B. Caruss next Saturday, at tending Yerrick’s business college at various departments, are at this partic ent to any smoker and good judge of cember 26th ; Kincaid school-house, ’ Grand Rapids. cigars. We know we should not “kick” Baker’s store, where she will continue Saturday. January 2d, and at my resi 9:30 a. m. ular season offering to an appreciative instructions in music and aesthetic —A national convention of State, —,The „ Gypsiest . have elegant«? „ fancy, people, many rare inducements to trade if old Santa put a box of them in our dence on every Friday during Decem Boards of Health will be held in Lansing ^uods for sale and you cannot afford to with them. stocking. drills. 1311tf ber. ______Peter Fung . next June. miss a of them, December 10th, at Geo. II. Judd, wrell and favorably Foster, Post & Co., of the New York known as “Little Judd, the Tailor,” is Try those nice sweet juicy. Picnic Pictures 10x20 —The state board of health reports Newton Ilall. ... Bazaar have, in consequence of the still serving the people with that same Hams at C. M. Johnson’s. can now be executed in fine style at the that not a single case of small pox ex- I ~A change of time of running trains abundant harvests, put in an unusually West Side Gallery. O. G. Flunkett . ists in Michigan on the D. G. H. & M. R. R. went into large stock of desirable goods in their degree of satisfaction, as in many years Banner Restaurant, —Six new names were added to the effect, Sunday, December 6th. See line, all of which will cause even the gone by. Dow ’ happy a parent, husband Cor. Clinton avenue and State-st., west Anticipating membership of the Baptist church time card in another column. poorest persons to smile and buy freely. or brother wrould be to find one of Judd’s side—in basement. Farmers’ Head Some changes in my business, I have society last Sunday morning. —Mr. and Mrs. Dr. Havens now re Thelen & Dever, the artistic mer srfect-fitting suits in his stocking on quarters. Meals, 25 cents ; 5 tickets, $1. concluded to make special inducements —There are 31* pupils in the inter- joice over the advent of the first grand chants, have their store decked out with ehristmas morning. Oysters and hot Coffee a specialty. in carpets until further notice. My born to Dr. and Mrs. McDonald & Co., the new down-towm 131 ltf W. H. Watts , Prop ’r. mediate department of Maple Rapids ’ I §on, born to Dr. and Mrs. George new an d stylish fancy and staple dry druggists, are buildii g up a very ehvi- stock is very large and the most attract public schools representing 28 families. Havens, at rowler, December 5th. | goods, in a manner which elicits com- able trade. Their goods are all new ’, Carpets. ive in St. Johns. Do not fail to -see This paper tins week sidvertises the I “A-b°ut three inches of snow fell up- ment and admiration from all w ho visit fresh and reliable, and visitors to their Hemp Carpets, what we can do for you before you buy. . queen of Cnristmas presents —a Bissell ®n this fair section of Michigan last their place or pass that way. place of business will receive a hearty Rag Carpets. Respectfully, Carpet Sweeper. Sold by Fowler & Ball. Sunday, and the eager owners of sleighs John Hicks, the oldest dry goods mer reception. Ingrain Carpets, II. L. Kendrick . -Stop and think ! Christmas two were out bright and early pounding chant in St. Johns, and Known by the J. E. Littell, the wide-awake book, Brussels Carpets, weeks from to-morrow. We’re growing around over the hubs. trading public as keeping the best goods At John Hicks ’. An Iufant Industry. ' old and our presence (presents) will —Recollect that Wm. A. College will for the money, is this season showing new ’s and stationery dealer, 2nd door deliver the second lecture in the Y. P. from the post-office, is showing the Dealers who buy their cigars at home soon be no more. _ _ _ , _ .an unusually attractive line of rich finest lot of holiday goods for the ex A choice lot of nice sweet Florida for their retail trade, as well as smokers, —C. C. Vaughan, E. E. White and E. S. C. E. course, l riday evening. Decern- fanC y goods for the holiday trade. It is pense, of any In tow n. Oranges received this wreek at will encourage a home industry by buy A. Durkee, left last Thursday evening her 18th. Subject : “Tropical Africa, like putting money at interest to buy of C. M. Johxson ’8. Reserved seats at Littells on Wendes- Fred R. Jackson, the merchant tailor, ing at Weeden ’s Corner Cigar Store. for Mississippi, with the view of pur in the Union Block, is showing a very i Travis & Baker chasing a large tract of pine land. day previous. I Chapin & Co., are attracting great Tlie Fall Season —The “Gypsy Countess ” sings in cos —We will give TnE Independent, crowds of people who appear to fully ap- complete line of piece gwds, from which . arPi as usuai Headquarters for every- it is thoroughly ^^11 Known, ho Cdn j fLiner finpiii \lolid&v (roods Is now ’ upon us and, as usual, we are tume at Newton Hall, December 10th. Detroit Free Press and Household and preciate good and handsome goods make stylish and durable suits, and at I unncr nne ln 1Ioi,(,ay uooa8 - Seymour Price taking the role of Count the Western Swineherd, the latter a when they see them. Their dress prepared tor it. Our stock in New and Grace Avery 7 that of Countess. ..valuable 24-page. t monthly magazine. | goods— department embraces every new modest prices. It will do you no harm Underwear. Dress Goods is simply enormous, and in —Airs. Edwin Pennell held a reception treating upon the breeding and care of aiui pretty thing brought out this to call upon him. The best Underwear for the lowest it you are bound to find something to < last Wednesday,...... at her home, corner of- 1 swine, all forlor $2. , . . 1 season. And the kind treatment which Frank Schofield, keeper of that first- Drices, may be found at please. Full line of Dress Trimmings McConnell and Stewart streets, in honor 4 follbwing named members of visitors receive at their store, makes class livery, corner Higham and Brush John Hicks ’. to match goods. In short our stock is of her sister, Miss Kelsev, of Ionia. Alert Hose Co. No 1, of St. Johns fire them feel that life is worth living. streets, has every facility for making extremely large in all departments and -The Grand Ledge Independent re- department have been granted certifi- Christmas day doubly merry. Nothing your examination is respectfully so Chapin & Lee, the enterprising hard You could buy would please vour wife licited. Cash for butter and eggs. ports the marriage of Frank Osborne and cates of honorary membership : Jack ware dealers, now, as at all other seas PERSONAL. Miss Bessie Green of St. Johns, in that ^r]£hton, J. B. Henderson, C. A. \\ ood- ons of the year, have goods which will more than a new dress for Christmas Respectfully, II. L. Kendrick . C. O. DuBois spent Monday in Detroit We have a nice line of Blacks and village, on the 27th of November, 1891 . ruff. John Mickels, Anson Clark and warm up your feelings, cut off all dreads Picture Frames. —The industrial party will convene in L. A. Kellogg. of life, swing you around to the right Rev. C. G. Thomas spent two days of this Colors. AJ1 prices. C hapin & Co., Lansing December 29, and w ill discuss —JJarJT La Mountain, brother of Mre. side of prosperity, and firmly screw you week ln Itbaea. The Dress Goods Hustlers. A complete and unique line, at modem the advisability of combining with the D- H* l ower, lias entered the State to their faith. Miss Kelsey, of Ionia, is visiting her sister, prices, at the West-side gallerv. Nice variety mixed Nuts, Candies, O. G. Flunkett . various other industrial organizations Bank as book-keeper, and on the first of Travis & Baker, the progressive drug Mrs. Ed. Pennell. Candy Toys etc. for Xmas at and forming a people ’s party. I January he will take the place of gists, down there on the corner, have in Mrs. Dr. W’eller spent last Sunday with C. M. Johnson’s. Go to Corbit & Valentine's and look —Prof. P friends in Ithaca. over the handsome line of Feninsular Francis Palmer, of Alma, was in town on Cloaks and Jackets. Stoves and Ranges. If you intend buy legal business, Tuesday. Do not purchase Cloaks and Jackets ing a stove this fall, do not purchase any The severe illness of his brother called Will before you see our line and get our until you have first seen what they liave tute at the court house, the last week in I Town Topics. No. 2” which follows articles for Christmas gifts, to be found Crich to Bay City last week prices. ______John Hicks . January. closely on the heels of its predecessor, anywhere between Detroit and Grand to offer. ______3 -Maple Rapids Dispatch : “The gold No. 1. and is equally bright and bold Rapids, Mrs. McMillan, of Denver, Colo., is visiting For Holiday Gifts. Sherman's New Bazaar , .. _ watch stolen from Win. Stevens, of with the former publication, for which (jorbit & Valentine, around there on her sister, Mrs. D. P. Wilcox. Gold and Fountain Fens. at the head of Clinton Ave., west side, Essex, during the races at St. .Johns, | an immense salejs claimed by the pro-1 Walker street, do not pay much at ten- Rev. R. D, Stearns went to East Saginaw, Teacher's Oxford Bibles & Testaments is the place to buy your presents. last fall, was found this week by R. M. Monday on clerical business Ladies’ & Gents ’ Fine Furses & Walletts Swigart at Bay City. Tne thief is not , „ _ , , ...... A. Carrett, of Bryson ’s shoe store, spent Sun Fancy Ink Stands and Faper Weights Fhotograph Albums in everv style at yet known.V —E. J. Bradner, who is studying in this and all coming Christmas days day at bis home in Jackson. Flaying Cards in Fine Cases. Fildew & Millman ’s. —The constant drop of water w’eare Albion college, had the misfortune to j0y • a thresher, an engine, a mow ’er, a Miss Elsie Smith returned Saturday evening Miscellaneous and Gift Books. St. Johns and Fowler. away the hardest stone ; the constant lose his grip, filled with clothing and reaper, or a wagon, which will add after a week spent in Grand Hupids. Standard Books in Sets, Albums. gnaw of Towser masticates the toughest quite a number of his books last Monday, wealth to your labors, then pay their Mr. and Mrs. J. Hutchinson of Jackson, are Games, Juvenile Books, Diaries for ’92 Alarm Clocks bone : the constant wooing lover carries week. He missed it after changing I ware-rooms a visit, the guests of Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Avery, etc., at J. E. Littell’s, 2doorsfrom post- At Allison ’s, off the blushing maid, and tiie constant cars at Jackson, but notwithstanding c. S. Allison, the popular jeweler, is Byron L. Pierce spent Saturday and Sunday office. ______Corbit & Valentine have just received advertiser is the one that gets the trade, diligent searching, inquiry and tele- this season showing an unusually hand- with friends in Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti 20 Cent Bed Flannel. a shipment of the celebrated Feninsu —A 9-yeat-old daughter of Mr. and graphing, he lias not yet recovered it. some line of goods. His stock embraces Major Elderkin returned to Detroit Saturday We have 10 more pieces of that red lar Stoves, and invite their friends to Mrs. Milo Button, died at their home in —There was an attendance of about all the pretty things with which to accompanied by his little nephew, Fred flannel that we are selling for 28 cents call and inspect their stock. . . 3 Lafayette. Gratiot county. The re- twenty-five or thirty ministers at the adorn the table and the person. Every Emmons. while they last. John Hicks mains were conveyed to Bengal town- last meeting of the Ministerial Associa- person, whatever the means at their dis Miss Lottie Phillips, of Ypsilanti, who was Hilliker’s Lunch Room it:— 4,-~ r ! the posal, may be fully satisfied at his store. here to attend the Tucker-Cook wedding, re Diaries for 1802 in the basement, under the new ’ Hotel Fildew & Millman, who are ever turned Saturday. At Travis & Baker ’s. St. Johns, witli a better lunch for fifteen December 3d’ I in Hie M. E. church, in tins village, last | studying to please and do their patrons Will Davies, a student in the Watchmakers ’ cents than I have ever offered to the. —Members of the Michigan Masonic | Tuesday and Wednesday. The pnnei-1 good, have their place of business Institute at Chicago, is here to remain until Notice to Shareholders. public. Satisfactory rates to farmers after the holidays. The regular annual meeting of m the hotel department. After Sep Mrs. Allie Jones returned Monday from the St. Johns National Bank of St. tember 15th the Restauant will be kept visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Johns, for the election of directors, will open night and day. stantial basis and not to transfer the took advantage of the many instructive for Christmas gifts, simply beggars de Gardner, in Owosso be held at said bank on Monday, the ]^93 J. W. IIilliker . business to New York, as at first readings. scription. They must be seen to be ap Claud Hendrle, of Grand Rapids, called on 11th day ot January, 1S92. at 2 p.m., predated. proposed. Another meeting will be —The Northern Clinton County old friends and acquaintances in St. Johns, standard time. F. E. Walswortii , Diaries for 1992 at neld in January. Teachers ’ Association will meet at The Rochester Clothing Co., under the [1214w5] ______Cashier. Fildew & Millman ’s. —The following named persons in Elsie, in the Baptist church, Friday and personal and pleasing supervision of Saturday and Sunday. this comity have been recently granted Saturday, December 11th and 12th, Ben Roscuburg, who is“ in it,” presents Mrs. Geo. A. Steel and children and Miss Only a Few Souvenir Spoons at Allison ’s. pensions: H. D. Stansell, St. Johns, when an interesting program will be an opportunity to make doubly glad the Nelta Stout leave for California, about the 30th, Of those warm Newmarkets left. who receives $14 per month; Nicholas provided for their entertainment. The male portionot the human family, and where they will spend the balance of the Come am’ get one before your size is Money to Loan on Farm Lands. B. Fuller, Maple Rapids, receives $30 principal features will be music by the Company ’s articles of comfort secure winter. sold. CnAPiN & Co., Interest seven (7) per cent payable er month; Hiram Helms, Maple Harrington ’s orchestra, and a debate pride, satisfaction and warmth to the Geo. Wilson, who has been sick for some The Dress Goods Hustlers. annually. No commissions charged. time at Port Huron, returned with his mother Enquire of L. Grant , Skipids. receives $12 per month . Mary upon the question. “ Is conscience, on recipient. Comfort producing articles Fur Christmas. A. Bosen, Ovid, receives $8 per month, the part of the teacher, a true guide in aie certainly the most desirable last Saturday. He is regaining nis health 1263-tf. St. Johns, Mich. Large line of Ladies'and Gents' Hand —On Friday last, Thomas l’adley re- the punishment of a pupil ?” All are h . e. Kendrick, the uppermost dry rapidly. Novelties in Silver Plated Ware, for ceived a telegram from Albert Lee, invited to attend the sessions of the goods merchant in St. Johns, has the John C. Hicks returned from Mt. Dora, Fla . kerchiefs and Mufflers, at John Hicks ’. Wedding presents, at Allison’s. Minn., informing him of the sudden association and to take part in the dis- finest stock of desirable goods to select last Sunday evening, whither he had been on The Finest Perfumes death of bis nephew, Walter J. Buck- cussion. . # . from of any along the line. While it account of the death of his brother-in law, Mr. At Travis & Baker ’s. Corbit & Valentine are headquarters nell, which occurred while skating, —II. E. Walbridge has disposed of his contains all the desired staples, it em Rawson. for Stoves. They have some of the cele-t November 25th. The deceased was a law business to Dooling & Fierce, who traces all the new novelties in fancy Geo. H. Marshal), late book-keeper in the For Sale Very Cheap. brated Peninsular Ranges and Heating brother to James Bucknell, who learned will occupy the apartments formerly goods. Mr. Kendrick is a merchant of St. Johns National Bauk, has accepted a like E I Sec. 26,10 N R 1 W, Gratiot coun Stoves, which are guaranteed to be made his trade with Mr. Radley, in this used by Spaulding & Walbridge and many years experience, and to thorough position in a bank ut Escanaba, Mich., and tv. Enquire of Adam Beattie, Ovid, or of the best material and to give.the village. will do business under the firm name of jy understand the tastes of the people, went last Monday to enter upon his duties. of the subscriber at Internal Revenue greatest satisfaction. Particularly; do —The theatre company, advertised to Spaulding, Dooling & Fierce. John seems to be a prominent characteristic Mr. and Mrs. Horace P. Gage, of South | office, Detroit. C. A. SHELDON. new house-keepers purchase Peninsular appear at Newton Hall Monday even- C. Dooling and Byron L. Fierce are two of his business make-up. Bingham, leave here Monday December 14th Stoves, owing to their great beauty ajxd Farm to Rent on Shares. ing last, with the play, “Lights and promising young attorneys, of Clinton o. G. Wickes & Sons, the veteran for several weeks visit divided between De the taste displayed in the ornamentation Shadows, ” failed to put in an appear- county, and are already favorably known dealers in groceries, may still be found A farm of 120 acres, six miles south of them. Call and see them. 3 ance, in consequence of having been de- to St. Johns people. We predict that at the “ old stand, ” serving their num- troit, Niagara Falls, New York and Brooklyn. west of St. Johns, to rent on shares. tained at Grand Rapids on a charge of they will not only maintain the reputa- erous patrons satisfactorily. Tlieirstock Desired Information Secnretl. Enquire at Independent office. The Mercantile Co. pay the farmers having violated the Sunday law prohib- tion of the dissolving firm, but add new cf fancy crockery, China and glassware more cash for Butter and Eggs than iting such performances in that city, on lustre by their energy and ability, js complete, and new. Their novelties “Say, Smith, pardon the inquiry, but Great Bargains In Books any three concerns in Clinton county. Sunday and Sunday evening. Our peo- Their many friends, among whom The present an excellent field for the selec for some time I have been curious to At Travis & Baker ’s. pie experienced only the shadow end of Independent counts itself, have a tion of Christmas presents, know who does your laundry work ?” Don't forget that Kendrick keeps a the performance. keen interest in their welfare. K. J. Woodruff, the pioneer boot and Pretty goods for lovely presents at complete line of staple groceries and —The store windows have put on —Prophesying for the ensuing winter, shoe dealer, is this season showing a “Why, my good fellow, I get mine Hicks & Holms’. sells them cheap. Butter and eggs their holiday attire, and are just bios- prophet Foster says: “It will be the cold- very complete line of all the staples and done where nearly all fastidious people wanted. ______soming with bewitching Christmas est and most stormy —especially deep novelties in his line. Now, as in the get theirs. ” Travis & Baker have the finest and goods and everything that is new and and drifting snows —that has been ex- 1>ast, his goods are reliable and his prices largest line of Holiday Goods ever show n Watches, Clocks and Jewelry “Please favor me with the name and Repaired on short notice at Allison’s. pretty, and that has a strong tendency to perienced for many years. Very cold mu keeping with the times, location of the artist. You are among in St. Johns. ______prolong and make life pleasauter. This weather earlier than usual will cover John Mi Bryson, who purchased the tlie slickest looking gentlemen who Desirable material for fancy work at C^rpetii. is the joyous season ot the year, when the states and territories of the north- Clement boot and shoe stock at a very travel the streets of St. Johns. ” IIicks & Holms’. The largest and Ixest assorted stock of people enjoy the presence of the cheerful \vest and the Missouri river valleys, small per cent., does, andean well afford “Well, I will tell you. You go to the carpets in St. Johns is at Kendrick ’s. giver. There is no occasion for going | With the very deep snow that will fall to give the people some bargains which corner of Clinton avenue and State. Fine line of cloth bound, 12 mos. only out of St. Johns for pretty and useful and the numerous fierce storms that cause them to smile audibly. Mr. Bry- street, east side, descend to the base-1 20 cents, At Travis & Baker ’s. 1847 Rogers Bro-’S , articles with wh icli to exchange the I will occur, travel and transportation SOn is a “hustler, ” and all things under ment, , , and ask... for „ ,Lee Lamoreaux, ,and , Prettiest Stock In Town Knives, Forks and Spoons compliments and best wishes of the I will be greatly impeded. About the his direction must move. ’prices SIMMs ‘Sis; M S""* ,ro“’ At Allison’s. season. : middle of December the weather will Harrison Sherman, who occupis one reasonable and —The Michigan Live Stock associa-1 become warmer and average so until of Reed & Clark’s rooms at the head of garment returned whole, sweet and [aiul,10VS ,ow 1,1 P/if®KS & Holms’ Butter and Eggs tion will meet at Lansing on the evening about the first of January, 1892, when Clinton avenue, west side, with a new clean. ” Wanted in any quantity by, II. L. Kendrick . of December 16. The State Galloway tne cold wave will come on again in and attractive line of Bazaar goods, is ‘•Byjove! That ’s what I have been Elegant Perfumes in cases at association will meet the same day at 2 January, and Februry will average offering the public something nice for wanting to know ’. Come, have a cigar.” o'clock and at 4 o ’clock the American colder than has been experienced in | Christmas presents. Travis & Baker ’s. Rambo Millet Sheep-Breeders'association many years past. ” Hicks & Holms, the successful mill! State Bank Election. A Valuable Soap. sTATE BANK OF 3T. JOHN8. will hold its annual meeting. Other —Under the supervision of Mrs. Theo nere, have, in addition to their usual COMMERCIAL AND 8AVINOS. state breeders ’ associations will be held dore Price, the cantata entitled “ A superb stock of staple millinery goods, .At...... the. regular______annual meeting _of____ The I Mrs. Frank Perkins is the sole auth- the same daydav and also a conference of Dream in Fairy Land, ” was presented the most uniqueuniuue line of fancy gcgoods for Stateututp BankRank ”ornf btKt Johns,lnhns h«i Grand Rapids guard, company B, Se THIRTY DROWNED. OVER 250 KILLED. cond regiment, has elected officers as follows: Captain, J. D. Kramer; first lieu in Accident on Use Hudson River In Fire Damp Causes Two Terrible Ei< tenant, J. H. Taylor; second lieutenant, Which Twelve Barges Are Lost, plosions In Foreign Coal Mines. A most terrible oatastrophe has occurred "The Doing* and Happening In Our Frank E. Straker. The Klegant N«w Nteel Cruiser New Twelve barges loaded with brick bound Alter a Hard Fought Battle of Bk llote Two Peninsulas Which are York Successfully Floated and down Hudson river were capsized at Cro in thrfeodiery located at Nifka, in Russian The fourth annual sessiop of the har Lasting Two Days Judge Crisp Poland. '• Few details of the affair have ^ or Huch Importance. Clirlatened at Brooklyn, ton Point above New York city about 15 Captures the Speakership. bors ’ interuational uniou was held in miles. The barges were In tow of the been received, but it is known that the Grand Rapids last week, with 70 delegates steamer Township. The river is very accident was the result of an explosion of tBncglar* Nurprlsed lu the Act at Lex present. All were in favor of Sunday Several Cabinet Officers, Governor* The Fifty-second Congress Opens, hat ington, but Turn the Table on wide at the this place and a high cross fire' damp In addition to these 180 men closing aud a shorter work day. Senators, Congressmen and Others sea was running. As the tow came arouud Transacts no Business at the who qre said to have lost their lives, 40 Their Youthtul Captor*. Witness the Ceremonies. First Days* Session. Frank Harris, of East Tawas, played the point the waves were so heavy that horses were killed. they began to wash over the steamer's A terribly fstal explosion of fire damp {The Ntute Horticultural Society la with au innocent unloaded revolver and, as he couldn ’t find a surgeon as quick as Dynamite Kxploslon and Four Deaths side. To save her from foundering it was Terrible Storms on the Kngllsh Chan occurred In s coal mine at BL Etienne, Working up an lutereet In Fruit the Hesult.’—Balfour Favors Local necessary to heave to with head to the sea. nel Hesult In ninth Loss of Life. France, in tho department at Loire, on (Trowing.--Other Hatters. he desired he had a friend dig the bullet out of his hand with a Jack knife. Government In Ireland. The moment the tow line was cast off the Another Electric Execution. Sunday. It Is thought that not less than barges began to drive into one another and 78 men lest their lives. Tbe explosion Fred Roost, aged 9 years, and a com Early Sunday morning as Michaol My Cruiser New York Launched. bound about in the seaway. As they The Speakership Contest. occurred about noon and immediately ers, Jr., Wilbur J. Beach, Frank Nigge- panion while on the river at Holland fell The United States armored cruiser Now knocked together some had holes stove in dense black smoke poured out of tbe shaft through the ice, and young Roost was A Washington special says: Tbe great inaa and Samuel H. Mathews, of Lexing York was launched from the yard of the their sides and sank and some caught one est contest for nomination for speaker of in such volumes that no attempt at rescue ton, were returning home from a party, drowned. His companion was rescued by Cramp shipbuilding company, New York, against another and carried over by their could be made for about an hour. At tbe men who heat'd their cries for help. the house which has occurred since the Myora, a clerk for D. Clarke, stopped to in the presence of 15,000 people. Miss heavy deck loads the waves and the wind 86th congress has resulted in a victory for end of two hours ’ work eight men had been try the store door and was surprised to J. F. Thompson, a hay buyer of Hudson, Helen Pago, duugbter of J. Seaver Page, turned them bottom up. All this hap one of Georgia ’s favorite sons —Judge recovered aud resuscitated, but the gas in And it 0(>en. As the four walked into the sent $300 to Herman Robb with which to secretary of the united league club of New pened In a very few minutes. The crews Charles F. Crisp. The contest was a hot the mine had become so strong tbat store and struck a light a voice said: purchase bay at Deerfield. Robb has dis York, broke the traditional bottle of wine of the barges —each barge caaried about one, every inch or every vote hotly fought further effort had to oe temporarily aban "Blow that light out and get out of here appeared with the money, and Sheriffs upon the great steel ram of the cruiser as five men and boys —were down below for and Mr. Mills can accept his defeat doned, and there is no doubt but that tbe as quick as you can, or I will blow your Baldwin and McDonald are after him. she slid from her wooden cradle into the playing cards or telling stories. No warn with the satisfaction of knowing that he remainder imprisoned have perished. hood off !” The boys saw a tall man and Delaware river und christened her “New Fair & Atwater’s sawmill, located at ing seems to have been given by the tug was not far behind. The final and thir a shorter one each with a revolver in hand York.” There were present Secretaries boat people when they hove to. The first tieth ballot was Crisp, 119; Mills, 105; Three Bore Lives Sacrificed. in a threatening attitude. Not caring to Marenisco, in the upper peninsula, has Blaine, Rusk, Tracy, Foster, Noble and been burned to the ground. The mill had the men in the barges knew their boats Springer 4 and Stevens 1. When the A train from New York on tho Reading Ibe made a repository of leaden hail the Postmaster-General Wauainaker, Govern were smashing into each other and sinking balloting commenced on Monday morning railroad collided with a construction train beys discreetly withdrew. Later investi a capacity of about 75,000 feet per day. ors Hill and Pattison and Gov.-Elect Loss about *45,000; insured for $10,000. and upsetting. Some had time to rush on it seemed that the contest would be in at PenniDgton, N. J., and made a terrible gation showed that they hud visited other Flower besides numerous senators, con deck and jump into the water. Many definite and of some length. But from the wreck. Fred K. McLaren, of Philadel (daces. Andrew Monroe's saloon was Grand Rapids' electric cars continue to gressmen and others of note. The New must have been caught in the cabins, like twentieth ballot Springer ’s forces began phia; Michael Maloney, of Trenton, and broken into and some whisky and cigars run too rapid for the ordinary citizen. M. York will carry a battery of six 8-inch rats In a trap, and carried down. It is know deserting him. McMillin held his votes Thomas Fitzpatrick, of Philadelphia, the takon. They also broke in the engine- M. Wilson, an old citizen, was caught breech-loading rifles, twelve 4-mch rapid that at least 60 men were on the barges and his followers held to tbe delusion that crew of the gravol train, were all killed. room door of the grist mill, went up into while attempting to board a car and was fire guns, eight 0-pounders, four Gatlings and only 30 have been accounted for, most fortune would turn in their favor. After Roderiques. engineer of tho express, was the office where they got about i2 in change dragged a long distance. He will recover. aud six torpedo tubes. Two of the 8-inch of whom swam to shore, and they hod a the twenty-seventh ballot Springor an probably fatally injured. Tessner, the and stamps. Also Geo. H. Mason's store, guns will be mounted on barbette forward hard struggle for life in the cold water, nounced his intention or his readiness to fireman, was seriously injured. The ex whore about 580 worth of Jewelry and Grass Lake Citizens are commencing to on the upper deck, and two in a similar and the high surf. As soon as they bad withdraw, but did not give his votes to press had the right of wuy. Tbe construc notions were taken. They stole 0. D. push hard for new business enterprises. barbette aft, while the remaining two will landed anu told their story two tugs were any rival candidate. In the beginning of tion was slowing to the switch. The en Runnel ’s horse, which they drove to near Sevorai public-spirited people there have be carried in broadside amidships on the dispatched from Haverstraw after the the thirtieth ballot McMillin withdrew gine of the express train and the smoking Post Huron, where it was found by Detoc- subscribed liberally and a manufactory of upper deck. The principal dimensions, barges. amid great cheering and his followers car were thrown from the track down a road carts and buggies is now a certainty. tivc Buckeridge later badly used up. etc., of the New York are: Length on scattered. This ballot resulted, Crisp, steep embankmenL The engineer and the water line, 880 ft. 6.5 in.; breadth of FALLING WALLS. 114 und Mills, 108, and Springer and his fireman jumped from the caboose and Horace Perry, recently from Misha beam, 64 ft; mean draught, 23 ft 3.5 For Fruit Grower*. waka, Ind., committed suicide at Niles followers with the balance of power in suved their lives. The attendance at tho 21st annual meet inches; displacement, 8,150 tons; maxi Twelve .fleet Death Very Suddenly In their hands. Mr. Springer's vote was cast by jumping into the St Joseph river mum speed, 20 knots; complement, officers ing of the state horticultural society, from the Michigan Central ’s upper rail a Burned Building at St. Paul. for the Georgia man amid deafening ap Fiendish Revenge. which was held at Eaton Rapids, was and men, 475; coal endurance (totul capac Since the recent fire at SL Paul, Minn., plause. Mr. Crisp made a very clever road bridge. He leaves a wifo and three ity) 13,000 miles. An engineer employed on a railroad run large, and the discussions full of interest children. workmen have beeu at work on the ruins speech in thanking his supporters for the ning between Aargu, Switzerland, and to fruit growers. Tho treasurer's report of the Shepard building clearing away the honor bestowed upon him. A 3-months old child of John Wenig, Waldshut, Germany, was recently dis shows a life membership of 205, w’hich has Dynamite lias Four Victims .Ylore. debris. On the 4th insL a most terrible The Fifty-second congress opened with charged, aud for a revenge, he pulled open created a fund of $2,050, that is now in of Saginaw, was found dead in bed. The accident occurred. The center wall, which large numbers of spectators in both Sen family profess to know nothing of tho A dynamite factory at Haverstraw, N. the throttle of a locomotive and jumped vested in mortgages and bonds. President Y., was blown up on the afternoon of the had remained standing, became topheav.v ate and tbe House. Tbe vice-president from the cab just as a well-filled passenget Lyon road a paper upon plans of the de cause of death, and Wenig's action in the from the large amount of debris removed called the Senate to order. Several cre mutter was such that the authorities 2d. Four men employed in the building train was approaching on the same track. partment of agriculture for reaching hor from the bottom taking away ail support dentials were acted upon umong them those The two engines came together with a ticulturists throughout tho country, cover ordered a post mortem. destroyed were instantly killed, as was a man who was some distance from the and suddenly there was a crash and 15 of Senator Brice, of Ohio. After some tremendous crash, completely wi'ecking ing the subject more fully than in his an Another impetus to Hudson's industrial building. The debris caught fire after the men were buried iu the mass. The police routine business —the principal thing be both and killing the engineer and fireman nual address. His plan consists in send interests is about to be inaugurated by H. explosion aud burned for some time. were summoned and the work of rescue ing a resolution fixing meetings for the of the passenger train. Many of the pas ing five copies of all books, pamphlets aud B. Moore, of Jackson, and Henry Kellogg, Several other buildings about 150 yards began. In less than an hour 12 men were hour of noon —tho Senate adjourned. sengers were also injured, at least three bulletins issued by tho department to all of Hudson, who will establish a large man away contained dynamite and it was a taken from the ruins, seven of whom were Clerk McPherson called the House to of them being fatally hurt societies auxiliary to tho state society, ufactory for baud made harness, and em narrow escape that they were not des dead and five unconscious —two died soon order, but after roll call it immediately thoroby distributing the latest and best ploy a largo number of men. troyed also. The factory was tho property after. There were no groans or cries adjourned. The roll showed 326 mem Information on all pomological subjects to bers present Extraordinary Family Marriages. Timothy O’Brien, a section hand on the of the Clinton dynamite company, of Hav from the injured as the poor fellows were persons most interested. The society extricated from tho ruins by their fellow A special from Quebec says: A most adopted this proposition and appointed u Grand Rapids & Indiana railroad, was erstraw. The dead are M. Wadsworth, remarkable alliance between two families engineer of the works; Peter Curlossa, workmen. Not one hud retained con committee to put it in operation. struck by a train at Grand Rapids. Every An Electrocution. is reported from the adjacent parish of St. bone in his body was broken and every Jos. Williams and Jos. E. Adler all work sciousness. Tho most careful handling possible seemed to be torture most hor July 4, 1890, Mai'tin D. Loppy, of New Marie Beance. Two respectable farmer? joint dislocated. He leaves a widow and men, and Peter Louusberry, of Sing Sing. York city, stabbed a woman with whom named Rheaume and Morin had each eight Waul Another Railroad. rible, for the rescuers were not well four children. He was drunk. Lounsberry was in a boat near the shore he was living with a pair of scissors. It children, four sons and four daughters. Tho executive committee of the busi when the explosion occurred and he was | drilled to their gruesome task at the out- The December term of the circuit court ! set and did not work together, as they was supposed that the couple were mar Rheaume's four sons married Morin ’s four ness men's association, of Bay City, has instantly killed. A man who was in the ried and Loppy was arrested and tried for daughters and the four sons of the latter deoided to reject all propositions now on for the county of Calhoun opened at boat with him escaped injury. did later on. In their disconcerted efforts Marshall on the 7tb. Tho calender for they seemed at times to be pulling the wife murder. He was found guilty and joined their fortunes to the four daughters hand and to offer a bonus of *50,000 to sentenced to be electrocuted during the of tbe former. The offspring of tbe first any oompany building au independent the term embraces 14 criminal cases, 12 men to pieces. The faces of the workmen divorce cases and 17 issues of fact. The Balfour Fuvors Local Government. week of Dec. 7. At just 12:08 p. m. on four unions up to date number 39, and of railroad line to Sebewaing, Wilmont and were almost as ghastly as if they had been the 7tb, the black flag which signifies that calender is an unusually light one. Kt. Hon. Arthur J. Balfour, first lord of dead themselves. The majority of the the lutter 35 children. Caro, or *25,000 to any company now in the treasury, addressing a conservative an execution has takeu place was run up the city that will extend its lines to those Herbert G. Baker, of Vicksburg, whose men were under the south side of the wall, meeting at Huddersfield, said he was still over the bouse of Warden Brown at Sing The examination of James Austin, Geo. places. family had been broken up bv his disso and here the heaviest part felL Only two Sing prison. A number of newspaper re clear in his own mind that the Irish local ! were taken out from the north side. Brooks, Edward La Flower and Joseph lute and intemperate habits, has com government bill ought to be passed, but it porters had been awaiting this signal as it ■HUitary Company at Hillsdale. mitted suicide by taking 10 grains of Orsen at Cadillac, charged with counter would not be introduced in parliament un was the only way in which they could feiting, took place before United States A military organization, which has been morphine. He was 29 years old and less the rights of the minority are safe The Terrible Ku Klux Klan. know that the execution itad taken place. napied the Hdlsdale college guard, has leaves a divorced wife and two children. On May 21, 1870, during the higbt of Commissioner Haskins and Austin, La guarded. At the same time, he said, the According to Warden Brown the execution Flower and Orsen were held to tte United boen formed in that town. It numbers 85 W. S. Durkee, the vice-president of the measure ought to bo based on abroad fran tbe Ku-Klux reign in Nort Carolina, Sen was carried out the same as at the time of apd is officered as follows: Prof. D. D. ator John YV. Stephen, of Caswell county, States court at Grand Rapids, with bail in Battle Creek chicken association, has a chise. Mr. Balfour declared that he be the killing of tbe four men in the same the sum of $1,000 apiece. These men were M. Martin, captain; E. V. Gardner, first wild white swan that was flying over one lieved it possible to produce a measure ful was found dead in the tower of tbe court chair in July last. The warden refused lieutenant; A. K. Jenkins, second lieuten bouse at Yanceyville. There numerous arrested by Deputy United States Marshal dark night recently and, seeing a light in a filling both these conditions. Doutless any to give any information except to say that Brewster, and are claimed to be part of a ant. The company is composed entirely of large window, came down and was cap bill would transfer the administrative stabs in bis body and a rope around his the law had been carried out and lhat the students of Hillsdale college. neck. Court was in session at tbe time gong which has been engaged quite exten tured after a hard fight. It is a beautiful power of the land owners to other bands, execution of Loppy was a success. Loppy sively in “shoving the queer.” On the ex bird. but that would not be a reason for reject and a tremendous sensation was created. was attendod in bis last moments by Chap amination La Flower turned state's evi | Gov. Holden caused a large number of ing the measure unless it could be proven lain Low. of tbe Tombs prison, and Chap dence, but was nevertheless bound over. MICHIGAN STATE ITEMS. Grand Rapids Elks hold their lodge of that it would be a new weapon in the arrests on suspicion, among them several lain Edgerton, of Sing Sing prison. sorrow Sunday night and formally hands of the disloyal to injure the loyaL prominent democratic politicians and an Joseph Bird, of Saginaw, was killed at mourned the loss of ex-Congressmen ex-judge of tht, superior court. No clue THE MARKETS. Lake station, by a falling tree. Houseman and Ford, J. M. Case and F. M. was found and the matter has ever since Terrible Storm In English Channel. Quincy has a new tent of the Macca Lawson. The lodge showed a disposition Hurrah for .71 Ik. remained a mystery. A prominent citizen A London cable dated Dec. 8, says: A Detroit. bees with 25 charter members. to pass the loss of J. P. Andrews without The Mikado of Japan has made a prop of Caswell county. Dr. Felix Roan, on bis storm has been raging ail along the chan Cattle —G ood to choice. . $4 25 a u « comment osition to the management of the world ’s Lioos ...... 3 30 Vi* a oo J. Pipper Is the now postmaster at deathbed has confessed tbe murder and nel and several wrecks have occurred. At 8HKKP...... 3 00 <3 4 fair to erect a permanent building on the named as bis accomplices Dr. Stephen Calais the channel steamer Victoria struck Lcosvillo, vice A. Kalthoff, resigned. Twenty-eight of the watebos stolen from grouods, surrounding it with a typical Lambs ...... 4 23 84 5 00 jeweler Daniol Pratt of Jackson, were | Richmond and the sheriff of the county. tbe pier at the entrance to the harbor, and Wheat —Hod Spot, No. 2.. 93 It 96'4 Members of the plaster syndicate are Japanese garden und then make the city I All the parties are now dead, but the con- being unabie to make the harbor was Red SpoL No. 3...... 913484 91* negotiating again for the Grand Rapids fouod hidden away in a straw stack on the of Chicago a present of the building and farm of Representative John Watts, near | fession lifts the suspicion which has at- obliged to put to sea again. She has 21 White SpoL No. 1...... 93**4 04 mills. gardens. The Mikado is willing to speDd ; tached to several prominent men still liv passengers aboard. Some time after she Cohn —No. 2 spot ...... 51 it 62 that city. There is no due to the thieves, No, 2 yellow ...... 53 8* 63 State sheep breeders ’ associations meet 9100,000 on it if tho world ’s fair board ing. put out to sea she was again sighted to though several tramps have beon arrested gives him tho site he wants. This is Oats —No. 2 white, spot.. 35 (it 84 ings in the senato chamber at Lansing, on suspicion. the northeast of Calais, showing signals of Harley ...... 1 15 Other buildings were wrenched and dam 100,000 People Homeless. the late Irish leader, sailed from New crowded at the meeting of the Washtenaw aged, and trees were torn up. Kelly Bros. ’ survey shall be made and a patent therefor Sheep —G ood to choice ... . 3 50 it 5 (4) The steamer Belgic from Yokohama York for England on the steamer . 5 00 it 000 county teachers ’ association last week. loss is $10,000 and tho damage to other issued to the town of Las Vegas for the Lambs ...... brings additional details of the recent Aurania. Wheat —Nix 2 red...... i oii^a l 04 property has been considerable. benefit of those entitled to them. All 66 67 Ludington ’s Methodist divine has such Japan earthquake. An immense land | The Bellefonte. Pa., iron and nail com lands not passed in this manner become Corn —No. 2...... 'it large audiences that a new Methodist church Oats ...... 41 it 41* Fire started in a rost iurant at Petoskey, slide dammed up the Mono river, and a pany has suspended operations, with $302,- public lands, subject to entry and settle will probably ho built in the now future. caused by a gasoline stove exploding. Only large lake is forming as a consequence. U00 in liabilities. It will probably be re Kun.u. City. ment under general laws. As to “pasture Cattle —Steers...... $3 .Wt it to oo All of Ludington ’s sawmills have shut timely work by the fire department saved A similar lake has been formed by the organized. and watermg places free to all,” it is a lioos —All grades...... 2 70 it 4 80 down and nearly all vessels and barges of the entire block, as a strong wind was Ashiba river near Nagoya. At least 400,- | Tho king and queen of Denmark will question to be determined by the courts. Sheep ...... 3 83 it 4 0. that port have gone into winter quurters. blowing. Hardly had tho hose cart been 000 people are homeless and almost soon celebrate their golden wedding and This decision will open from 550,000 to Lambs ...... —. •.. 3 80 4* 5.85 boused when a second fire started in a ten destitute. At Oguki are the remains of many of the crowned heads have been in 570,000 acres. Buffalo. While Jeweler Pratt, of Jackson, was at ement near the railroad track. This was tbe East Hongani, where on the fatal vited to attend. CATTI.E...... $3 25 © $5 »» supper, tboivos broko into his store and easily extinguished. morning 300 people had congregated. The Llous...... 3 85 it 4 SCIENTIFIC BREVITIES. THE "DESERVING! POOR.” nifc'ht tho sheath-knife dropped from Dorothy held her hands to the blaze, then followed, and knowing how gossip geti W.o fo’c’s’le, and this timo it drew rubbed the child ’s feet, smiling up into the afloat, I made Agnes and Jem promise to little face and telling all aorta of quaint lit keep silent about the manner in which you Recent calculations show that tba sun ’s Divve and I on crowded street iilood. So Nurkeed mado complaint; light is *>00,000 times that of the full An aged beggar cbanced to meet; tle stories to divert her mind. came here, to avoid chatter. and when the Saarbruck reached Bom Mr. Penfold kept silent for some time, >‘lt is known among the servants that ] inoon. Dives passed by with sterile frown. bay, fled and buried himself among An interesting photograph of tho beav-' And said, to argue conscience down, then he said: am looking for a governess. Now, I wish eight hundred thousand people; and “Do you think, Miss Snow, that a child you to let me tell them you came here as ens which is being made in Faria will ■“1 treat all such with rule unswerving show over 60,000,000 stars. How can ono know when they ’re deserv- did not sign articles until the ship can constantly dream the same thing with governess. Let them think I went to meet had been a month gone from the port out there being some foundation for the you at Cardiff, and when the things you re Recent experiments iu Queensland have | * Pambe waited too; but his Bombay fancy? ” quire are sent from London, let them sup ihown that mother-of-pearl shells can be “YouYe right, ” I cried, with nodding head wife grew clamorous, and ho was Found in a Snow-Drift. “1 think It is very probable Ally had indi pose that your luggage has nrrived. made to produce pearls artificially. (I toil for Dives for my bread) ; forced to sign in the Spieheron to gestion, and had nightmare. I think when “I will get a traveling-box for you, and If A mangrove plant has been successfully But since the mind is heaven-born Hongkong, because he realized that a child is timid, it is best to allow her to you will write a list, It can come back full. 'own in ths university of Pennsylvania. And earthly fetters holds in scorn, sleep with someone; then, when she awakes When we come to an understanding, If you Eitherto it has been found Impossible to I thought. “That wretch and many more all play and no work gives Jack a CITAFTEH II.—CONTINUED. in a fright, there is someone to comfort her decide to stop ns All}’a teacher, all will be ragged shirt. In the foggy China grow this plant away from the ocean. gtarve through these words, ‘Deserving Mr. Penfold threw down his book, and and reason with her. plaiff sailing. ” 1 Rigel, the magnificent star of the first poor. ” 6eas he though a great deal of Nur came forward to meet her, his handsome “She shall sleep with me to-ilight; when I “How good yon are to me, Mr. Penfold !” magnitude in the constellation of Pri0n, keed, and. when Elsass-Ixitheringen face full of genuine admiration at the pret am gone, let her share a room with one of “Not better than you deserve, I am sure, bas recently been discovered by astrono And then because I haply knew Miss Snow. By the look of trouble in your How Dfves rich and richer grew, steamers lay in port with theSpicheren. ty picture slie made, with his gift pinned at the maids till she lias grown out of this trick mers to be one of the most distant stare In inquired after him and found he had her throat among the snowy folds of lace of dreaming. Poor baby ! she misses her eyes, it Is time some one was good to you.” the celestial vault. 1 sneered (in thought), * ‘8uch careful alms, Mr. Penfold went into the ball and said 8ucb nice, discriminating qualms, gone to England via tho Capo on the that crossed so daintily over her pretty bust. mother, peril aps. ” “I cannot tell you how delighted I am to Mr. Penfold frowned, but said nothing, to the housemaid: I A valuable antiseptic soap Is made fy Should be observed in rule unswerving Gravelotte. Pamty went to England “Jane, if Miss Snow ’s luggage arrives ' adding twelve parte of sulphate of copper But by the rich who are deserving. ” see you are able to come down, bit here by only pressed his child closer in his arms, on the Worth. The Spicheren met and looked Into the Are. while she is from home, ask Mrs. Garth to to eighty-eight parts ot any good soap. It —Century. the fire. Wnatisyour name, child? Mine will readily heal eores and scratches and her by the Nore Light Nurkeed was Dorothy was sorry she had mentioned the pay the carriage. Miss Snow did not know is Pierce Penfold. ” , Is devoid of any Irritating action. going out with her to the Calicut coast She looked blankly up at bim a moment. child ’s mother, she feared it looked like I should meet her, or how she would man A MILD ORIENTAL. •‘Want to find a friend, my trap- Then as her eyes wandered away to the curiosity, so she began to talk very fast, aud age, so she left them to follow, and being A new element named “damaria,u is mounted coal scuttle?" said a gentle snow-clad hills she faltered out faintly: was rewarded by a kind smile from her Christmas-time, I suppose they have beeu laid to have been discovered in the crater Three years ago, when the Elsasa- man in the mercantile service; “no ‘‘Mine Is Dorothy Snow, and I am very, host, who said with an evident effort: delayed.” of an extinct volcano in Damarland- It very grateful to you for your timely help. “Ally mast not miss her mother; if she is The girl curtsied and went to tell the is reported to have an atomic weight of Lothringen steamer Saarbruck was thing easier. Wait at the Nyanza only 0.5 or half that of hydrogen; and, ooaling at Aden, and the weather was docks till he comes. Every one comes Had you not found me I should be lying good, she shall have another some day.” house-keeper, Agnes Garth. dead now —frozen to death in the snow “Don ’t want anyone but papa, ” said Ally And Agnes smiled to herself and mutter therefore, It is the lighteat known sub to tho Nyanza docks. Walt you poor stance. very hot indeed, Nnrkeed, the big fat drift.” aleeply. ed: Zanzibar stoker who fed the second heathen." The gentleman spoke “My dear young lady, my old mother used Mr. Penfold smiled and kissed the drowsy “Oh, the power of a pretty face I The Recent delicate experiments with kitee right furnace thirty feet down in the truth. There are three great doors to say: ‘God Is always in one place, no eyes with passionate tenderness. roaster would not be so cunning on her ac show that the amount of elecrtcity In (he hold, got leave to go ashore. He de in the world whereat, if you stand matter where his wanderers stray.’ He In a second the child was asleep. count If he did not admire her. ” air la proportional to the height ab&ve parted a “Seedee boy. ”as they call the long enough, you 6hall moot any one guided me to you last night, and It is a great “Shall I carry her up, Mr. Penfold? If “Agnes, ” said Mr. Penfold, appearing the earth ’s surface. A galvanometer stokers; he returned the full-blood you wish. The head of the Suez ca happiness to me to think that L under she sleeps here too long, she will rouse up suddenly before the old daine, “I am oblig placed in the circuit showed at once the Sultnn of Zanzibar —his Highness nal is one, but there death comes also; Heaven, was allowed to help you. Let me directly you lay her down. See, here ia a ed to go to London on business. I shall be ohangea in elevation or whether the kite give you a glass of wine, and promise me soft shawl, wrap her in that; the cold sheet back on New Year’s Eve. wae rising or falling. Sayyid Burgash —with a bottle in each Charing-Cross station is the second — “While I am away, guard my child jeal hand. Then he sat on the fore-hatch for inland work—and the Nyanza that you will consider me a friend. will startle her. ” The mechanism of dyeing machines used “Let there be silence between us as to all Dorothy placed the shawl round the child, ously. None know better than you do the by textile manufacturers has recently been grating eating salt fish and onions and docks is the third. At each of these that concerns you till Twelfth Night, when and held out her arms to take her. danger that besets her. If I were to lose improved in such a manner as to give the singing the songs of a far country. places are men and women looking I will meet you here, in this room, to burn Mr. Penfold shook his bead, saying: her I should go mad. I would rather see crossbars carrying the banks a slow but The food belonged to Pam be, the eternally for those who will surely the holly; until then you are my honored “I will carry her, she is too heavy for you. her in her coffin than in the power of that continuous revolving motion, enabling Sirang, or head man of the Lascar come. So Pambe waited at the docks. guest; after then, perhaps, you will let me Take the light for me, child; I don ’t want to bad woman, her mother. also the hank to be slackened during the sailors. He had just cooked it for Time was no object to him, and the be your true friend Now, Miss Snow, here ’s disturb the servants, they are so merry.” “Are you sure the child did dream on time It is in the dye liquor, and the direc wives could wait, as he did from day a merry Christmas to you. Shake hands. ” Dorothy did as he desired, walking in Christmas night? Are you sure the dream tion of motion of the hank may be re himself, turned to borrow some salt, —if dream it were—had not a substance? ” and when he came back Nurkeed’s to day, week to week and month to She held out her hand gratefully; as he front with the candle. versed so as to avoid the laying of the pressed it he noticed she wore & gentle The best bedchamber was on the same Old Agnes lookedibothered, but answer fibres all in one direction. •dirty black fingers were spading into month by the Blue Diamond funnels, ed boldly: the rioe. A serang is a person of im the Bed Dot smokestacks, the Yel man ’s ring, a costly jewel engraved with a floor as the drawing-room, or best parlor, To the various theories concerning masonic emblem, lie raised her hand and as Agnes called it. “Of course It was only a dream, sir; don ’t lightning conductors which have been ad portance, far above a 6toker, though low Streaks and the nameless dingy looked at it eagerly, saying: The passage was panelled with shining worry about it I’ll take care of the child; vanced by scientists is now added that of the stoker draws better pay. He sets gypsies of the sea that loaded and un oak; a soft velvet-pile carpet deadened their no one shall harm a hair of her head. Be Prof. Rowland, of the Johns Hopkins uni “This ring was given to you by a ‘ma sides, she has Miss Snow now, which makes the ohorus of “Hya! Hulla! Hee-ah! loaded, jostled, whistled and roared son ’?” foot-steps. versity, who asserts that the best method He!” when the captain's gig is pulled in the everlasting fog. When money “Yes, a knight templar —my father.” They passed a door that was partly open, It impossible for anyone to approach her Is to provide a metal root with an ample up the davits; he heaves the lead too, failed a kind gentleman told Pambe to “Then, my dear, you are twice welcome, and as Dorothy looked In she distinguished unknown. I watch her by day, Miss Snow number of metal conductors leading to once for your own sake, and once for yqur the figure of a woman flit away among the watches her by night. the ground, serving to carry off ttse eleo- and sometimes, when all the ship is become a Christian and Pambe became "A child could not be better cared for, lazy, he puts on his whitest muslin and a Christian, and Pambe became one father ’s, since he was a brother ‘mason. ’ ” shadows. Dorothy did not start or scream, tric bolts from the clouds; copper is the “He is dead, or I should not be here. ” but a feeling of alarm stirred her heart nev bless her pretty face! I would be the last best material, bat tin or iron will answer a big red sash and plays with the pas with great speed, getting his religious to wish her away; why, she is the sunshine teachings between ship and ship ’s ar Tears dimmed the innocent blue eyes, and ertheless. the purpose, and he suggests the placing sengers ’ children on the quarter-deck. the sensitive lips quivered grievously. Mr. Penfold laid his child tenderly on the of the house. of the conductors at the corners of a Then the passengers give him money, rival, and six or soven shillings a Ally changed the subject, saying: soft white bed, and left Dorothy to tuck her “Mind you take plenty of wraps and yonr building, so that all parts will be equally and he saves it for an orgy at Bombay, week for distributing tracts to mari “Did you hear the waits last night, Miss up cosily. flannel night-shirt; you should never sleep protected. Calcutta or Pulu Penang. ners. What the faith was Pambe did Snow? I did.” Dorothy heard the smothered sound of in a strange bed without flannel, it prevents damp. Shall I put up some whisky aud A new aluminum flux called stephenito, “Ho! you fat, black barrel, you ’re not in the least care, but ho knew if Dorothy shuddered, and remembered with his footsteps as he went back to the sitting- from the name of the inventor, ^.receiv pain that she heard them singing of peace room, then an Indescribable sensation of sandwiches? ” eating my food! ” said Pam be in the he said “Native Ki-lis-ti-an, sar” to “No, I prefer to get out for what I want. ing considerable attention at Blrmirigham, other Lingua Franca, which begins men with long black coats he might and good-will while she was the centre of a alarm seized her. England. It is composecTof alumina and She was afraid to pass the room where We wait ten minutes at Gloucester, you where the Levant tongue stops, and get a few coppors, and the tracts were scene of strife. But she said nothing of this, know. Good-bye.” emery, the alunrina being about 70 per runs from Port Said eastward till east vendible at a little public house tLat only lifted the child to her knee, and talked she had seen that shadowy shape alone. cent. In its natural state this flux Is not to her of Christmas-time when she was a She tried to feel brave, and twice took up He was buttoning his gloves as he spoke, sold shag tobacco by the “dottel, ” and Ally came running after him for s last volatilizable like the refined commercial is west and the sealing brigs of the happy child. the light and put it down again, when she aluminum, but in a blast cupola or rever Kurile islands gossip with the Hako which is even smaller weight than the heard a gentle knock at the door, and old kiss. He lifted the child in his arms fond Pierce looked out on the Ice-bound earth ly, and said: beratory furnace it gives off its metallio date junks. “half screw," which is less than the little sadly. It was long since he had 6een Agnes ’s voice saying: a “Be good, darling, and do what Miss gaxes or vapors, these uniting with fusible “Son of Eblis. monkoy-faced. dried half ounce and a most profitable retail bis child cradled in the arms of a gentlewo “Is there anything you want, Miss Snow iron, for which they have great affinity, —an extra pillow, or more bed-clothes? Did Snow wishes. I will bring you home a big shark ’s liver, pigman, I am the Sultan trade. man. Somehow the sight of those two In picture-book. ” and which acts as a condensing agent, Sayyid Burgash, and the commander But after eight months Pambe fell the big armchair, filled a void in his heart you He warm last night? Miss Ally is a very “You dear papal ” while ail imparities go to the liquid slag of all this ship. Take away your gar sick with pneumonia, contracted from and home, and he wondered vaguely for chilly child. ” and are drawn off in the usual manner. what purpose this lovely girl had been Dorothy assured the woman she had all “You dear Aliy,” he said as he gave her a bage, " and Nurkeed thrust the empty long standing still in slush, and much hug and stood her down on the doormat It is found that metal manufactured by pewter rice plate into Pambe ’s hand. against his will he was foroed to lie thrown in his path. she wanted, and made her come In to take The snow was falling outside, and the means of this flux will work equally well The day passed peacefully away, and the a peep at the rosy sleeping face of the child. under the hammer wlt^i the most mallea Pam be boat it into a basin over Nur down in his two-and-six-penoy room, night-time came brilliant and stariight. “Poor bairn I” said Agnes, putting one of scenery seemed desolais In the extreme. From an upper window Dorothy watched ble wrought iron and will harden up the keed’s woolly head. Nurkeed drew raging against fate. Little Ally had tired herself out over a Ally’s little dimpled hands under the bed hardest steel. him away with a strange heartsinkm". vef his sbeath-knifo and stabbed Pambe The kind gentleman sat by his bed snapdragon after a late dinner, and Dorothy clothes teuderly; “she is a timid thing, and he was to return soon, and she knew no in the leg. Pambe drew his sheath- side and grieved to find that Pambo had carried her off to bed, heard her pure her papa pets her till she is full of whims PLEASINQ t-ITTLE CONFABS. knife. but Nurkeed dropped down into talked in strange tongues instead of prayer, and had stolen back to the cheerful and fancies. She’ll be all right with you, I caojse for fear. the darkness of the hold and spat listening to good books, and almost sittiug-room where her host sat recalling dare say. If she is not. I’ll have her bed When he had gone she called Ally, and “So yonr son bas been starring as an through the grating at Pambe, who seemed to become a benighted heathen the sight of the fair yonng face as it beat taken to m GEORGE S.CORB1T, Editor and Proprietor. WHY BT. JOHNS. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1891 Royal Baking Powder is Best. Gold Michigan is expected to send 1,000 troops to attend the dedicatory services of the World ’s Fair buildings, which is “ The Royal Baking Powder is absolutely pure, Medal to take place October 11, 12, 13 and 14, 1892. ______for I have so found it in many tests made both for IT WlLL lSE DI!*FE^eHT\____' ^ ~ The postage stamp will be flfty-two years old in May of next year. Its in that company and the United States Government. after oimstmas ,iffcBT Uarpet oweepers. ventor was a printer —Janies Chalmers, AA B1S5ELIRKSPlt PARPFT^UfFFPFRCARPET SWEEPER 1 • * of Dundee, Scotland, who died in 1853. I will go still further and state that because of the facilities that company England, fifty-two years ago, introduced have for obtaining perfectly pure cream of tartar, and for other reasons dependent IS T\\K QUEEN OF the new system of prepaying letter postage, and, according to a decree of upon the proper proportions of the same, and the method of its preparation, December 21, 1839, issued the first C hristmas Presents . stamps, which were to be put before Published every Thursday morrv Ing from the Independent Block, No. I 7. Clinton Mvenue. In selecting Xmas presents, it is proper to select something useful as We ahull soon hear it said : GEO S. CORBIT. Proprietor. well as ornamental. We have just receive a large shipment of “Merry Christmas to all.'1 r* r me.—One year|J SO; Sis moutne 78 Cent*; Three months 40 Cents. Advertising rate* made HEADQUARTER# known on application. Marriage and Death no- tlcesfre*. SEASONABLE raciLiTisa fob doimb JOB PRINTIN O Xmas Handkerchiefs, Mufflers and Fancy Goods, MILLINERY. 0 nsuruaaeed for style and cheapness. Which we have marked at prices which will be sure to close out every BUSINESS DIRECTORY. piece of Xmas Goods we have in the store by the 26th. Barbers. j~Iicks & E. WILSON baa removed his barber shop * from the basement in The Steel to the Extra Inducements will be offered from now until Xmas on St. Johss. Oroom in the rear of the “Corner Drug Store," on Walker street, weal, where he invitee the public to call and see him. Special attention given to cut* The MOST ting ladles’ and children ’s hair. 1184 C loaks , Jackets and Silk D resses . ACOB rOEKCH, proprietor of the Central COMPLETE Barber Shop. Ladies’ and children ’s hair Jcutting especially. Good hath rooms In connection. and Prettiest Line of Fancy Loan Agents. Just received another shipment of those Reefer Fur Trimmed Jackets, Goods and Fancy Materials for Holiday Presents. he michiua * moktuaueco ., which we have sold all this season at $12. Xmas price, $10. Limited. Capital, f73,000, successors to Walker TA White, dealers in Mortgage Securities, School and Municipal Bonds. A few pieces of choice lands for tale. Office cor. Walker and Sprlng-ets,, St. Johns. Always the Cheapest. Attorneys. ll WIN H. LYON, Attorney at LawTsu Johns, Mich. Office over H. L. Kendrick's THELEN Sz. DEVER. EStore 1283 PAlLDINU Ac WALHKIDUE,Attor brief Biographical Sketch of Thomas Circurt Court. Liquor Taxes Paid. Prsnonnced Hopeless, Yet Sawed. neys at Law. St. Johns, Mich. [1*1*1 Dudley, the IMoneer Harneunmaker. LEGAL NOTICES. S The following are the cases disposed 1 hereby certify the following are the names of From a letter written by Mrs. Ada E A. W\ Norton. Will H. Brunson. of in the Circuit Court since our last those who paid a tax for the selling of spirituous Hard, ot Groton, 8. D., we quote: ‘‘Was ROBATE OKI*Lie. —.st«t« or Michigan VTOKTON A BRUNSON, successors to When Mr. Henry Padley was bringing or malt liquors in the county of Clinton, state of taken with a had cold, which settled on Pcounty ofClinton.ss. At a session of the Pro Dabolldc Brunson and Auten A Moss, At his family—one member of which was issue : bate court lor the county of Clinton, holdvn at tbe torneys at Law. In the old Office of Autun A Simeon DeBar vs. Amoa West. Capias. Ver Michigan, together with the amount paid and the my Lungs, cough set in and finally term Probate office, in the village of St. Johns, on Moss over McCabe ’s shoo store St.Johns Mich. little 3-year-old Tom Padley—from Lin- dict for plaintiff, $130 damages ; order issued date of payment set opposite their respective inated in Consumption. Four doctors Monday, the 90th day of November, in the rear colnshere, England, to America, Eng staying proceedings names : gave me up, saying I could live but a one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one.* H. M. PKRKIN. P. K FKRRIN. A. J. BALDWIN land was just mourning over the death In the matter of the appeal of Hannah Rob Present, Joel H. Cranson. Judge of Probate. inson, Anna M. Pratt, Hannah B. I.ance and Month of April. short time. I gave myself up to my Sav In the matter of the estate of JOHN NUREN- ERRINS Ac BALDWIN, Attorneys st of her sovereign, William IV- Liter- BERG. deceased. Law and 8ollctlora in Chancery. Bounty, Alfred P. Chapman from the probate of the Tbempkins A Knickerbocker, Maple Rapids, iour, determined if I coaid not stay with pool was black with mourning and will of David P. Wilcox, deceased Appealed LAWRENCE KEUSCH. administrator of said Ppension, real estate agents, conveyancer* ami full tax ...... $600 00 my frieuds on earth, I would meet my ab estate, having filed in this Court bis fiDtl adminis money loanera. Also examine titles, pay taxea, solemn with the tolling of bells. lie set from Probate Court Order entered for the conUnuance of the cause upon usual terms. Paid April 28,1891. sent ones above. My husband was ad tration account. and make collections. Business entrusted to their sail on the well known old sailing Thereupon it is ordered that Thursday, the care will be promptly and faithfully attended to. Sarah Clark vs Amanda Coffman. Blander Chas P Molnet, St. Johns, fiill tax .....-...... 500 CO vised to get Dr. King ’s New Discovery for vessel, the Atlantic, and turning her and libel. Disagreement of the Jury. 24th day ot December, A. D. 1891, st one Office over wicket1 grocery, Clinton Avenue, St. Paid April 80,1891. Consumption, Coughs and Colds. I gnve o ’clock in the afternoou be assigned for the exami Johns, Mich. 1189 prow away from the land where birth Henry J. Patterson vs. Harriet C Woolston was all, and merit nothing; where and William Woolston. Appeal from Juatioe Alfred J Vauconsant, St.Johns, full tax...... 500 00 it a trial, took in all, eight bottles ; it has nation and allowance of said account at tbe SlT II. CASTLE, Attorney at Law. Court, Verdict for the plaintiff in the sum of Paid April 80. 1801. cared me, and thank God I am now a probate office, in the village of St. Johns. royalty was mourned because it was Aud it is further ordered, that no.ice be given Circuit Court Commissioner. Mooey toLosn. 112, besides an attorney fee of $25. James Ryan, 8t. Johns, full tax ...... -...... W0 00 well and hearthy woman. ” Trial bottle OfficeW at the Court House, 8t. Johns. 1183 royal, she carried them toward that land Charles Quay vs. Jane Kum lman. Appeal to the persons interested in eald et'tte of where birth was nothing and merit all. from Justice Court. Jury discharged and Paid April 80, 1891. free at Fildew and Millman ’s drug store, the time and place of said hearing cause continued. Month of May. St. Johns and Fowler. Regular size, 50c by causing a copy of this order to he EDEWA Ac VIERKILL, Attorneys at Arriving in New York, after a tedious published in tbe Clinton Independent, a news Law, at the old stand, over the “corner drug voyage of nearly two months, Mr. Martin Smith vs. Rmmeit Vance. Assump Chas A Potter, Ovid village, foil tax ...... 300 00 and $1.00. 4 Fstore,” St. Johns, Mich. 1269 sit. Judgement by default for plaintiff In the paper printed and circulated In said county of Padley immediately set out for Milford, sum of $157.80, besides costs. Paid May 1.1891. Clinton for three successive weeks previous to .VIITH Ac KOUEIIN, Attorneys at Law, Oakland county, Mich., where he pur The St. Johns National Bank vs. Adallne 8. Brown A Tripp, St. Johns, full tax ...... 500 00 Hucklen ’s Arnica naive. said day of hearing. Drown and Minnie Brown. Assumpsit. Judg JOEL H. CRANSON. s Office over 8u 111 van ’s store, St. Johns, Mich. chased 40 acres of government land, Paid May 1,1891. The Beat Halve in the world for Cuts, (A true copy.) Judge of Prohate. which he gradually increased to 200 ment for plaiutiff $827.13 and costs. Rideout A Begley, Ovid village, full tax ...... 500 00 Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Dentistry. acres by dint of perseverance and pluck. The jury was discharged last Satur Plld May 1,1891. Hores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Cbilblanes, ortgage sale .—Default having >*en Thomas Padley remained on the farm Frank Vauconsant, St. Johns, full lax ...... 500 00 Corns and all Hkin Eruptions, and posi made iu the conditions of u certaiu raoit- day. During this week the court has Mige, dated March 18th, ls78, made by Amy 0. /yORHIN AMD MOM, Dentists. until he was eighteen years old, partici tively cares Piles, or no pay required. It o. E. corb :n , m. d .. d . d . s. been occupied witli chancery and law Paid May 2, 1891. Smwn to Moses D. Brown, and recorded iu the [12741 ARTHUR CORBIN, D. D. 8. pating in the hard fare and harder labor cases. Next Monday, December 14th George E Love, St. Johos, full tax ...... 500 00 is guranteed to give perfect satisfaction, office of tbe Register of Deeds for Clinton coumy common to a pioneer's life, and becom Paid May 2, 1891. or money refunded. Price 25 cents per and -Hate of Michigan, on March 18, 1878, in Liber H. KENYON, Dentist East Walker ing gradually inured to trials which the Ithaca term of the circuit court 48 of Mort sages, on page ZJf; and said Moses D. Street. 1188 Worden A Lathrop, St. Johns, full tax,...... 500 00 box. For sale by Fildew A Millman, St. Brown having died since the execution of said have given him that independent self- commences. Paid May 4, 1801. Johns and Fowler. mortgage, aua Susan W. Brown having been ap reliance, w’hich has stood by him in pointed administratrix of the estate of said Moves Physicians. many vicissitudes. At eighteen he Kasper A Co., Fowler, full tax ...... 500 00 L>. Brown by the Probate Court of Clinton county, started out for himself, becomiug an ap G. A. K. OBITUARY. Paid May 6, 1891. LEGAL NOTICES. Michigan, on August fith, 1891 ; on which mortgage Dille' A Bauer, Fowler, full tax ...... SCO 00 there Is claimed to tie ducal the date of this notice H v H I', vi. D., Physician and 8ur- prentice at harness-making in the vil the sum of two hundred sod forty-nine dollars and H * goon, Eureka. Mich. 1217 Paid May 6, 1891. OMMliiSlONtSK’N NOTICE -The lage of Dexter, this state. After leav Dcplain , Mich ., Dec. 4. ISM. sixty cents ($249.60) besides mi attorney fee of Jay V Retan, Ovid village, full tax ...... 500 00 uodersigned, having liven appointed by the fifteen dollars ($15.00) provided in said iunr'cage W. POLLAHD Physician and Surgeon. ing the trade he “tramped ” through Mr. Hiram Horton, of North-west Duplain, CJudge of Probate of Isabella county, Michigan, Paid May 6, 1891. and by statute to be paid should any proceedings • Office over Wilson ’s clothing stole. Resimany of the western states, among died at his home, December 1st, 1H9I, aged fltf commissioners to receive, examine, and adjust all be taken to foreclose t tie same, and no suit or pro Jdence corner Csss and OUawa streets. 1284 Edward A Joseph Patterson, St. Johns, full claims and demands against WILLIAM F. MOORE, others, Illinois, Iowa and Missouri, years. He was born In Springwater, N. Y. ceedings at law or in equitv having been invtituted tax...... 500 00 deceased, hereby give notice that we will meet to recover any part of !ne debt secured by said K.G. C. HAVENS, Physician and Sur working at his trade, but like many an-1 The deceased served our country in the war of for that purpose,at the office of William II. *'as- Paid May 6, 1891. mortgage. Now, therefore, by virtue of the power geon. Office and residence at the late resi other wandering Michigander, the bur the rebellion, with the 13th Kansas infantry ; tie, in the Court House, in Ibe village of sale contained In said mmtgage and of (be D Joaeph W Geller, Fowler, lull tax ...... 500 00 dence of Dr. Bliss, Fowler Mich. 1137yl.den of his song was “Michigan ! my was a member of the G. A. K. under the au of St. Johns, iu Clinton county, on the statute In such case made and provided, notice is ' Paid May 14, 1891. 7tb day of -January, 1892 and the 19th day hereby given that said moitgsge will be foreclosed Michigan'! ” and he soon decided to re- j spices of which order he was burled from the of May, 1892: and that the creditors of i-aid de V .VI. POST* VI. D.. Physician, Surgeon Schafer A Ott, Westphalia village, beer only 800 00 hv sale of the premises therein described, st public and Druggist, east side of Main street, Eu- turn. Church of Christ, Duplain, Mich., Dec. 3, 1801. ceased are allowed six months from the date ot auction, to the highest bidder, at tbe west front ka.Micb. Office at drug store. All calls prompt- In 1867 he started iu business in Fen Sermon from Prov. 17:15, by the writer. , Paid May 4, 1891. this notice in which to prevent their claims for ; door of the court house, in the village of St. Johns, attended. Prescriptions carefully compounded. ton under the firm name of Padley & Phillip George, Westphalia village, beer only 900 (K) adjustment. —Dated November 19, 1891 In said county of Clinton, on the 27th day of 1188 Comrades neatb the grandest colors. WILLIAM H. CASTLE, • February, 185)2, at one o ’clock in the afternoon Potter. The last few years spent in Paid May 4,1891. ALBERT THOMAS, Ever o'er a nation borne: of that day, which vsid premises are described in ira. IIA VEMS, fffi. D., Homoeopathic Fenton were occupied in re'Rivering Joseph Fedewa,Westphalia village, beer only 300 00 1311w4 Commissioners. said mortgage as follows, to-wjt : That certaiu (y Physician and Surgeon. Office over R. J. from reverses which would have One more of your loyal numbers. Paid May 4,1891. piece or parcel of laud situated In the township of rodruff ’s shoe store. 1188 swamped a less courageous spirit. Be In the narrow house now slumbers John Baker, Westphalia village, beer only.. 800 00 't UAKDIAN SALE.—Iu the matter Of the Essex, Clinton county, Michigan, commencing at ’Till the coming of the morn. T estates of George T. Richmond, a minor, the north-west corner of the south oue-half (Jj) of R. A. J. WIGGINS, Physician and Sur sides business troubles, sickness and Paid May 90, 1K91. Cand Elmer J. Steward, u minor. Notice Isthe south-east one-quarter (it) of Ihe north-west geon. Office over Sullivan ’s clothing death in his family added their burdens, Mav your noble hearts beat truer, Wm Smith, Westphalia village, beer only... 300 Ou hereby given that by virtue of a license to one-quarter (*4) of section number eight (8) run Dstore, St. Johns, Micb. 1244tfhis first wife dying, but Mr. Padley To each other and to God, Paid May 80, 1891. Porter K. Perrin, granted by the Probate Court ning theuce south ten (101 rods, thence east twenty for the county of Clinton, in Michigan, on Oc came out a victor. As your ranks grow thinner, fewer. (20) rods, thence north ten 110) rods, thence west E. till,LAW, I»I. D., Physician and When lie came to St. Johns in 1872, Month of June. tober 15th. 1801, and by virtue of a license to twenty (20) rods to the place of beginning, It being S• Surgeon. Office at Residence, opposite coart And we near the time so sure. Love Bros., St. Johns, full tax, part of William H. Steward, granted by the Probate provided in said mortgage that two (2) rods wide bouse, west. Office hours lo4p.m.,exceptWed-he started in the harness business, but When we’ll lie beneath the sod. year...... —...... AM 88 Court for the county of Gratiot, in Michigan, on the north snd east oi the above deacrilied land needey, then 6 to 9 p. m. HH fortune still frowned on him, for in De on October 26th, 1891, we will sell at public to be used for streets when needed. —Dated, De cember of the same year lie was burned Oh ! be soldiers of the Cross — Paid June 1,1891. vendue, at the Probate office. In the village of cember 1st, 1891. SUSAN M. BROWN, AIVI WON S, VI. D.y Homoeopathic Of Him, for us crucified. John W Foster, St, Johns, full tax, part St. Johns, in Clinton county, in Michigan, on Administratrix of the estate of Moses D. Brown, • Physician,Surgeon and Accoucheur. Office out, and losing all his stock in Who will purify from dross. of year...... 458 38 Saturday, December 12Ui, 1891, at one Mortgagee, deceased. Ren Main street. DeWitt. 1183 trade. Here was another opportunity o ’clock in the afternoon, all the right, title and John H. Fkdewa and to display tiis indomitable courage, and Will restore to us our loss, Paid June 6,1891. interest of said minors, In the following dis- Edwin H. Lvon , \|{, H. G. VIO K It I AON, Ecclectlc and lie improved it. Although, after the tire And, we shall be satisfied.” Albert Rouse, DeWitt village, beer only..... 800 00 ertbed real estate, viz: Commencing ninety- Attorneys for Administratrix. J Botanic Physician. Office at his new reel- he could not have payed 15 cents on the W. E. WHEELER. Paid June 30,189). eight rods South, and sixty-two rods East, of nce on Clinton avenue north of the railroad. Duplain, Mich. the north-west oorner of the east half of ORTGAGE SALE.—Default having been Ice hoars from 9 to 12 a. m., 1 to Bp. m. and dollar, yet, not taking advantage of Month of November. the north-west quarter of section eight. In made in the couditionsof a certain Mortgage io 8 evenings. Sunday, 2 to 5 p. m. The doctor bankruptcy laws, he was determined to Speerbrecher A Schneider, Fowler, bill Township eight North of Range Three west, in Mmade by Ella P. Koehler and John C. Koehler to ree all chronic and private diseases. All female EDWARD RABY DEAD. tax, for part of year...... 250 00 Michigan; thence running East four rods; Sarab A. Johnson, dated March 24, 1887 and re teases treated with newly discovered remedies, be square with the world, and has suc thence North eight rods; thence West four corded in the office of tbe Register of Deed* tor the ites out cancers and old tumors with a planter, ceeded admirably, to-day having a good Paid November 2.1891. rods, thence South eight rods to the place of county ofCiintoo, in Michigan, oo March 24, 1887, id purifies the blood. Old fever eoree and milk business, comfortable home and the en MICHAEL 8PITZLEY. Treasurer. beginning. —Dated, October 27.1891. In Liber 67 of Mortgage*, on page 873, on which { cured with Indian remedies. 1188 tire confidence of his fellow townsmen, Edward Raby, the subject of this brief sketch, PORTER K. PERRIN, mortgage there la claimed to be due at the date of was born la Aannston, Lincolnshire, England, Guardian of George T. Richmond. this notice, Torty-five dollars and fifty-seven cents, and the satisfaction of owing no man a WILLIAM H. STEWARD, besides an attorney fee of fifteen dollars, stipulated Laundry. dollar. February l«t, 1810, and after a loug Illness, dlod 1306w7 Guardian of Elmer J. Steward. in said Mortgage, to be p^d should any proceedings If the frequently used proverb, “ Easy of Bright's disease, and passed from this life TIME TABLE be taken to foreclose said Mortgage, and no suit or DT.JOHN8 NTKAItl LAUNDRY, Lee come, easy go,” is true then, Mr.Padley s without a struggle, to his everlasting home, IN EFFECT ROBATE COURT, Clinton County —**, proceeding at law or in eonity having been institut ^ Lamoreaux, proprietor,corner Clinton avenue on December 2d, 1891, at the home of his Notice is hereby given that all claims and ed to recover any part of the debt secured by said and 8tat« street. Work called for and delivered comforting thought is in the fact that Pdemands against AGNES A. KEENEY, deMortgage. Therefore,by virtue of the power of sale with promptness. Eirst-class work and satisfac his competency has come by “hard daughter, Mrs Lizzie Parker, who has kindly December 6, 1891.ceased, will be heard by the undersigned at the in said Mortgage contained, and of thestatutein tion guaranteed. 1*X) knocks .1' cared for him in his declining years. March Probate Office, in St. Johns, in said county, on the such case made and provided, notice is hereby Shouid a phrenologist examine his 21st, 1848, ho was united in marriage to Mrs. 20ltk day or April, and that the given that on February 13, 1892, at one o ’clock creditors of said deceased are allowed six months In the afternoon, at the west front door of the Photography. head he would find the bump of stick-to- Dinah Ilrown, by whom three children were WESTWARD. from this date in which to present their claims Court House for Clinton county, in Michigan, in it-iveness well developed. Defeats have born to them, two having died in childhood, for adjustment. —Dated,Oct 'her 20th. 1891. tbe Village of St. Johns, In said county, there will and one remains to mourn the lues of a kind a. ►> 1 n 1 d. ►* JOEL H. CRANRON, be sold at public vendue to tbe highest bidder, the G. PLUNKETT, Leading Photogra- strengthened him, reverses have re and affectionate father. In the spring of 1850 premises in said Mortgage discribed. vis: The • pher, West side Clinton Ave., St. Jeon*. newed his courage, and should mis he emigrated to America, and in the spring of J5jj 1306:w4 Judge of Probate. OCopying snd enlarging. Work guaranteed flrst-claea. east half of the north-east Quarter of section five, fortune visit him agaiD, and The Inde 1856 settled ia 8t. Johns. In December. 1861, he STATIONS. oodo 5h | in township eight, north or range one west, in enlisted as a private in Company K., 14th Midi ROBATE COURT,Clinton County, as.— Michigan, except ili« north tweuty-five acres of pendent sincerely" hopes it wont, we S*h 2“^-i*n Notice is hereby given that all claims and prwnkraiMw, or the Ueuer De* 1*- *■*•* Vol. Inf , where he served his country until 3 Cd |w M •A said discription. Said sale will be made subject to alvwlv «Vrr4 by administering Dr. doubt not that “Tom” Padley would July, 1865, being promoted to 1st Sergeant Pdemands against (,EVI FOSTER, deceased,tbe payment of tbe remainder of said Mortgage, Bjtiuew’ Uolden kyrelfle. soon after be smiling serenely as it is’nt which he held the remaining time, in the year a. m. i a. in. 1 p. in. p. in. p. r». will be heard by tbe undersigned, at the Pro not yet due.—Dated November 19. 1891. It in manofaotured an a powder, wh»*h own be gi v rn 1871 his wife was called from earth to heaven . DETROIT...... Lv 6 50 10 50 4 or. 8 00 io tr> bate Office, In St. Johns, in said county, on tbe SARAH A. JOHNSON, In a nines of beer, a oup of ootfee or tea, or In rood, his nature to give up. 2d daj of Juue, 1892, and that the credi- W, Ibout the know ledge of t be peti ent. It in absolutely As a politician, Mr. Padley lndongs to The same year he removed to Ionia county Milwaukee Jet 7 10 11 10 4 25 8 15 n or. Pkrbinx A Baldwin , Mortgagee. i.armless, and will esses a permanent wad speedy where be has since resided. He was a member | p. m. tom of said deceased areallowed six months from this Attorneys for Mortgagee. 1308w]2 are. whether the patient is a moderate drinker ot that decided minority, who are not of the Eplaoopal church, being a firm believer Pontiac ...... 7 58 12 00 5 07 8 58 12 15 date in whichto present their claims for adjustment. n aloohollo wveek. It has been given In tho usand * office-seekers, yet, at the earnest solici therein, also, a member of W. H. Borden Post a. m. —Dated, Decern tier 2d, 1891. otice of drain letting .—Notice > inatano* a perfect cor* ha* *#»• JOEL H. CRANSON, The system onoe lmprngnat- tation of friends lie reluctantly con No. 211, Ionia, Micb, The remains were laid to Holly ...... 8 42 12 45 5 51 9 41 i it Is hereby given, that I, Johu I. Sbaver, Coun Kimes an utter impossibility rest by the side of his wife in the St. Johns Durand ...... 9 20 1 30 6 SC 10 20 2 13 1811 w4 Judge of Probate. Nty Drain Commissioner of tbe County of Clinton, ______i exist. Cures guaranteed. sented to permit his name to be used as cemetery, there to await the resurectlon Owosso Jet . 10 15! 2 80 7 80 3 05 State of Michigan, will, on the 11th day of Decem 46 pegs book'of particulars Itaa Addrasa candidate for trustee of the village, serv morn. Sr. Johns.. 10 54 8 06 8 04 3 58 mia In (ipinr[ocoHi»Bao»t.tt. that never part, the procession that never Ciinton Independent TABERNACLE PULPIT. halts, the trees that never wither, the walls FORTUNATE CHAUCER I The late Gen. Crook wai u rate that never can tie captured, the sun that never / marksman. An ofiicer who served under UNDERTAKING i sets, until we cun no longer gaze, and we hide { him on the plains tells that he once saw G eo . 8. ComsiT.Ti BLibiiKK. our ryes, and exclaim: "Eye hath not soen, DR. TALMAGE ON OUR ROYAL nor ear heard, neither have entered into the WEALTH WHICH WAS FOUND bun kill six pin-tailed grouse with seven CALL oisr heart of man, the things which God hath pre | shots of his rifle, and all of the grouse but BLOOD. pared lor them that love him! ” As these tides IN QUEER WAYS. n. joiins , MICH Of glory rise, we huve to retreat, and hold fast j one were shot in the head or neck. The Met «e he swept Off and drowned in the emo ! general always took good caro of his ritio. tions of gladness, and thanksgiving, and I he Minr'i Hidden Guilt—Wraith by 'There U a Fount a In Filled with Bleed triumph. No more Englishmen live to tell the Consumption has been one of tha Way ol' a Waistcoat — A Dream S. I. INGRAHAM What think you of the family property? It Is stdfy of Waterloo. Lord Albemarle, mevt ’.uipluoablo enomies of the human Drawn From IniwHiiuel ’a Veins. ”—— considered an honor to marry into a family W hich Proved a Divining. Geu. Whichcote and Colonel Hewitt, the For Everything in the Line of rtw'o. It has marched dismally side “Kach One Resembled the Children of where there is great wealth. The Lord, the Hull for (■ oltl. throe survivors who celebrated the seven bridegroom of earth and heaven, offers you his ty-fifth anniversary of the battle iu June, by side with generation after genera a King.* ’ neurt and his hand, saying, in the words of the Canticles; "Rise up, my love, my fair one, and Tho curious manner in which peo 1890, are now dead, and the famous come away;" and once having put on thy hand Waterloo list at the British war office has tion of families who believed them the signet-ring of his love, you will be endowed ple of numo and distinctiou sometimes selves foredoomed. The fear of it has Zcbnh and Zalmunna had been off to battie, with oil the wealth of earth, and all the houors receive an iucixtment of wealth has beet closed. and when they came buck they wereusked what of heaven. G(u. Kelson Monroe, of Boston, ia a bung suspended over the heads of kind of people they had seen. They answered, Almost every family looks back to a home- been markod ia more than one modern nephew of President Monroe. Ho is oth that the people hail a royal appearanoe; "each steail-some country-place where you grew up. instance. The Duchess de ia Forre, thousands of healthy men and women, one resembled the children of u king." I stand You sat on the door-sill. You heard the foot erwise distinguished as the next-to-oldest and to that fear hundreds have suc today before many who have this appearance. step of the rain on the gar) ot-rocl. You swung widow of Marshal Serrano, is reported mein! er of the sous of veterans aud as Indeed, they are the son* anil aaughters of the on the gate. You rausacked the barn. You to have recently come into pos cumbed. Lord Almighty. Though now *n exile, they waded Into the brook. You threshed the orch champion of the “eight-doliar pension ■hall yet come to their thrones. Th&;e are ard for apples, and tho neighboring woods for session of a large fortune by an acci law.” Gen. Monroe ’s father, the presi family names that stand for wealth, or patri nuts; and every thing around the old dent ’s brother, is living at the advanced Farm machinery did not come into dental discovery. The treasure had otism, or Intelligence. The name of Washing homestead Is of Interest to you. I tell you of age o( ninety-six. general use until farmers were con ton means patriotism, although some of the the old homestead of eternity. In my Father ’s been deposited in a bank by her grand blood of that race has become very thin in the house are many mansions. When we talk of father, who was a Cuban planter and Will am H. English, the Indian poli vinced by their own eyes that it would last generation. The family of the Medici stood mansions, we think of Chatsworth, and Us tician i»ad former vice presidential candi as the representative of letters. The family of park, nine miles In circumference, and its con miser. The pains be had taken to se lessen materially the cost of produc the'Kothschilds Is significant of wealth, the servatory, that astonishes the world; Its gal cure it had hidden it from the knowl date, is preparing an elaborate “scrap UHDERTAKIHG GOODS tion. So it is with roads. When loss of forty millions of dollars in 1848 putting leries of art, tliat contain the triumphs of book hu tory ” of Indiana. That is, he is them to no inconvenience; and within Chantrey, Conova, and Thorwaldsen: of the edge of his descendants for many making copies of original documents and CASKETS, a few yeras they have loaned Russia Kings and the Queens who have walked Its years. But a clue was found casually, ever farmers are convinced that good 12,000,000 of dollars, Naples 25,000,000, Austria stately halls, or, flying over the heather, have collecting other materials suitable for the roads will cheapen the cost of produc 40,000,000, and England 200,000,000; and the bunted the grouse. Hut all the dwelling-places says the Saturday Evening Poet. use of a future historian of the state. Burial : Robes, : Crape, : Etc, stroke of their pen on tho counting-room desk oi D ukes, and Princes, and Queens.are us noth it has been publicly stated that tho Two volumes of the work are nearly com tion they will take steps to create shakes v everything from the Irish sea to the ing to the family mansion that Is already await ing our arrival. The hand of the Lord Jesus Comte de Paris, the Orleanist claimant pleted an i will soon be published. Danube. They open their hand and there is I also carry a full line of the Celebrated P. and thoroughfares as hard and smooth as war; they shut It, and there Is peace. The lifted the pillars, and swung the doors, and to the thrown of France, obtained a Mrs. John A Logan mentions the fact house of Hapsburg In Austria, the house of planted the parks. Angles walk there, and the W. riteel Top Caskets. those in France and Germany. Stuart in England, the house of Bourbon In good of all ages. The poorest man In the house great accession of riches in a mysteri that her distinguished husband fought in France, were families of imperial authority. Is a millionaire, and the lowliest a King,and the ous way. More than ten years ago a the first bfttle of Bull Run arrayed in a My Undertaking business Is now exclusive But I come to preach of a family more poten tamest word he speaks Is an anthem, and the plug hat and a double-breasted Prince Al of any other. Elegant new rooms in the The measure of the consumption of Shortest life an eternity. man of high rank, since deceased, Sickles Block, west of Court House, near Con tial, more rich, and more extensive —the royal bert coat. She is proud of this fact be gregational church. food and clothing by a community is nouse of Jesus, of whom the whole family in It took a Paxton to build for Chatsworth a wrote to his titular party head in these heaven and on earth is named. We are blood covering for the wonderful flower, Victors cause she thinks it emphasizes the fact the true measure of its prosperity. relations by the relationship of the cross; all of Regia, five feet iu diameter. But our lily of the terms:—“I owe my immense fortune that he was a civilian soldier, though it ii us are the children of a King. valley shall neod no shelter from the blast, and to your grandfather, and I wish to HfPunR >t attention will be given to calls, The man who has been limited by First, I speak of our family name. When we in the open gardens of God shall put forth Its doubtful if fhe orders the equestrian status and satls.adion guaranteed. see a descendant of some one greatly cele full bloom, and all heaven shall come to look at show my gratitude to him by offering of Gen. Log vn dressed up in that way. ■tre83 of poverty to the use of meat brated In the last century we look at him with it, and Its aroma shall be as though the cher you part of it, and thus enable you £o but once a day and to the purchase of rofound interest To have had conquerors, ubim had swung before the throne a thousand ings, or Princes in the ancestral line give censers. I have not seen It yet I am In a for personify the monarchy. Give a A POPULAR FAMILY. but one suit of clothing a year begins Slustre to tne family name. In our line was a eign land. But my father is waiting for me to trusty man five of your visiting cards. Jrvxir : “ How is it, Kate, that you always , King and a Conqueror. The Star in the Erst come home. I have brothers and sisters there. •ecm to ‘ catch on ’ to tho last new thing ? l>o to eat meat twice or thrice a day and with baton of light woke up the eternal orches In the blble I have letters from there, telling He will present them to five stock what I may, you always seem to get ahead me what a fine place it Is. It matters not much to purchase two or three suits a year tra that made music at his birth. From thence brokers named below, and what I of me.” he started forth to conquer all nations, not by to me whether I am rich or poor, or whether the destine for you will be handed to him. ” Kat * : “ I don ’t know : I certainly do not as soon as his income is enlarged. trampilng them down, but by lifting them up. world hates me or loves me, or whether I go by mako any exertion in that direction. ” St John saw him on a white horse. When he laud or by sea.lf onl y I may lift my eyes at laston At .first sight it looked like a practical JgNNiJs : * ’ Well, during the last few months, Caveats, and Trade-Marks obtained, and all Pat- returns, he will not bring the nations chained the family mansion. It Is not a frail house, joke, but the name of tho maker of for example, you have taken up painting. •at business conducted for Moderate Fee*. to his wheel, or in Iron cages, but I hear the built in a month, soon to crumble, but au old Our Office ft Opposite U. S Patent Office. The old Norse vikings have been re stroke of the hoof of the snow-white cavalcade mansion which is as firm as the day it was the strange proposition was at least a *na we can secure patent In less time than those that bring them to the gates In triumph. built. Its walls are grown with the ivy of warrant of the power to do what ho remote from Washington. duced to the ranks by a new etymol Our family name takes lustre from the star many ages, and the urns at the gate-way are 8end model, drawing or photo., with descrip ogy. John Fiske says that the word that heralded him, and the spear that pierced a bloom with the century plants of eternity. said. The Comte de Paris judged it tion. W e advise, If patentable or not, free of him, and the crown that was given him. It The Queen of Sheba hath walked its halls, and well to test tho matter. He obeyed •«!•. Our fee not due till patent la ssoured. rhymes with “ticking, ” not with gathers fragrance from the frankincense Esther and Marie Antoinette, and Lady Hunt A Pamphlet, “How to Obtain Patents, ” with Drought to his cradls, and the lilies that flung ington and Cecil, and Jeremy Taylor, and the orders to the letter, and his mes Eamea of actual clients In your State, county, or “striking, ” and instead of moaning their sweetness into his sermons, and the box Samuel Rutherford, and John Milton, and the senger brought back from the brokers town, sent free. Address, of alabaster that broke at his feet. The com widow who gave two mites, and the poor men any 6ort of ‘ king, ” describes a man forter at Bethany. The resurrector at Nain. from the hospital —these last two perhaps out a cabful of bonds to bearer. They who lives on one of the bays or fjords The supernatural oculist at Bethsaida. The shining all the Kings und Queens of eternity. were packed in metal boxes, trans C.A.SNOW&CO. saviour of one world, and the chief joy of an A family mansion means reunion. Opposite Patent Office Washington. 0. C- that indent tho Scandinavian coast In other. The storm his frown. The sunlight his Some of your families are very much ferred to England, and deoosited at smile. The spring morning his breath. The scattered. The children married, and Coutts ’s bank. And the recipient has ancient days he was a sort of long earthquake the stamp of his foot. The thunder went off to St. Louis, or Chicago, or the whisper of his voice. The ocean a drop on Charleston; but perhaps once a year you come kept the secret of the giver s identity GRAND PALACE HOTEL. shoreman, fisherman, stevedore and the tip of his Unger. Heaven a sparkle on the together at the old place. How you wake up as he wished. general dockwolloper, who indulged in bosom of his love. Eternity the twinkling of the old piano that has been silent for years! without any teacher ; you camo to the rescue his eye. The universe the flying dust of his (Father and mother do not play on it) How Fortune has been l’eached in odd when Miss Lafarge deserted her Delsarte class 81 to 103 H. Ol&rk Street, piracy as a side line. chariot-wheels. Able to heal a heart-break, or you bring out the old relics, und rummage the ways when industry, insight and en so suddenly, and cortalnly wc are all improv hush a tempest, or drown a world, or flood im garret and open old scrap-books, and shout, ing In grace under your instruction ; 1 heard CHICAGO. mensity with his glory. What other family and laugh, and cry, and talk over old times, terprise have also played their parts you telling Tommy Karnes lost evening how name could ever boast of such an Illustrious and, although you may be forty-five years ol in the success. When George, Prince nis club made mistakes in ploying baseball: Only four minute* from theCkrart House; Too much of the knowledge receiv. personage ? age, act as though you were sixteen! Yet soon you seem to be up on all the latest * fads,’ and Cable Cars pass the door. it is good-bye at the car-window, and good-bye of Wales, was Regent, a fashion pre ed in schools is simply book knowl Henceforth, swing out the coat of arms! know Just what to do under all circumstances; New house with all modern improve Great families wear their coat of anus on the at the steamboat w harf. But how will we act vailed for gaily decorated waistcoats. you entertain beautifully; and In the last edge, and many of our boys and girls dress, or on the door of the coach, or on the at the reunion in the old family mansion ot month you have improvedso In health, owing, ments: newly furnished. On American helmet when they go out to battle, or on hags heaven? it is a good while since you parted at A particular pattern was wanted for you tell me, to you r physical culture exercises. and European plans. Rooms $3.00 weekly; leave school and study forever without the door of the grave. There will be Grace, and and ensigns. The heraldic sign is sometimes a his Royal Highness, but it was not in Where do you get oil of your Information transients 50 cents and upward. Turkish lion, or a dragon, or an eagle. Our coat of Mary, and Martha, and Charlie, and Lizzie, and from In this little out-of-the way place ?—for the least idea of the practical use of arms worn right over the heart hereafter shall all the darlings of your household —not pale,and any leading tailor ’s stock. It did not you never go to the city.” Bathe for ladles and gentlemen, SO cents. their education. The rules in the be a cross, a lamb standing under it, and a sick, and gasping for breath, as when you saw 6eem possible to obtain it The stuff Kate : "Why, Jennie, you will make raa Restaurant by Fred. Compagnon, late chtj dove Hying over It. Grandest of all escutcheons! them last, but their eyes bright with tho lustre rain. I have ouly one source of information, arithmetic, the definitions in grammar, Most significant of all family "coats of arms.” of heaven, and their cheek roseate with the was of French manufacture, and the but it is surprising how It meets all wants. I Chicago and Union-League club*. Table the dates in history and the bounda In every battle I must have it blazing on my flush of celestial summer. two countries were at war. But “the very seldom hear of anything new but what U'Hote *erved. flag—the dove, the cross, the lamb; and when I What clasping of hands! What embracings! the next few days bring me full Information $yCut this out for future use. ries in foreign countries, and even our fall, wrap me in that good old Christian flag, so What coming together of lip to lip! What tears first gentleman in Europe ” was de on the subject. Magic? Not Magazine! that the fumily coat of arms shall be right over of joyl You say: “I thought there were no termined to have his whim gratified, And a great treasure It Is to us all, for It own states, are all forgotten, simply my breast, that all the world maF see that I tears In heaven/ ’ There must be, for the blble really furnishes tho reading for tho whole looked to the dove of the spirit, and clung to says that: "God shall wipe them away;” and and a member of his suite suggested household : father has given up Ills magazine because the pupils did not receive the cross, and depended upon the lamb of God, if there were no tears there, how could he wipe the means. He said that he knew a that he has taken for years, as he says this which laketh away the sin of the world. them away? They cannot be tears of grief or ono gives more and better information on from the branches they studied that tears of disappointment. They must be tears Frenchman in London, poor and ob tho subjects of tho dny ; and mother says $75 MONTH $300 culture which is so essential to success, Ashamed of Jesus!—that dear Friend, of gladness. Christ will come and say: "What! scure, but enterprising. If the order that it is that that makes her such a famous On whom my hopes of life depend; child of heaven, Is it too much for thee? Dost housekeeper. In fact, wo nil agree that it is No! when 1 blush be this my shame — thou break down under the gladness of this re were given M. Bazalgette would almost the only really family magazine published, *Do You Want That I no more revere his name. union? Then I will help thee. ” And, with his certainly fulfill it. Accordingly the as we havo sent for samples of all ot them, A gentleman is always courteous one arm around us and the other arm around and And that ono is all for men, another all Next I speak of the family sorrows. If our loved one, he shall hold us up in the eternal court commands were 6ent to the Employment? in his speech. He is especially cour trouble come to one member of the family, all for women, and another for children only, jubilee. struggling tailor, and he saw the while this one suits every one of us; so wo Ry which you can make from $75.00 teous in addressing servants or others feel It. It Is the custom, after the body is While I speak tome of you, with broken hearts, only need to tako ono Instead of soveral, aud lowered into the grave, for all the relatives to can hardly nold your peace. You feel as If you promise of fortune in the stray com that is where tho economy comes in, for ft ia to $250.00 per month —the amount depend whose positions place them at a dis come to the verge of the grave and look down would speak out and say: "Oblessed day! speed mission. All ordinary communica only $2.00 a year. Perhaps you think I am ing on whether you work part or all your Into it. First those nearest the departed come, on. Toward thee I press with blistered feet too lavish In my praise ; hut 1 will let you seo advantage in controversy. To speak then thosonextof kin, until they have all looked over the desert way. My eyes fail for their tion with France was cut off, but ours, or, better still, send 10 cents to the pub time, and on the amount of Vim and Vigor rudely to those who cannot resent the Into the grave. So, when trouble and grief go weeping. 1 faint from listening for feet that will Bazalgette formed his own plan*. lisher, w. Jennings Demorest, 15 East 14th and Pluck and Push you put into the work. down through the heart of one member not come, and the sound of voices that will not If so it might pay you to write us. We’ve affront is mean and cowardly, and a of the family, they go down through speak. Speed on, O day of reunion! And then, Ono day ho appeared in a boat off the them all. The sadness of one is the sadness Lord Jesus, be not angry with me after I have coast off his native land in the as got something that goes, and there ’s room gentleman is never mean or cowardly. of alL A company of persons join Just once kissed thy bleosed feet, I turn around us out, as you shj * wo have the reputation or for a few more to come in. It won ’t cost you hands around an dectrlo battery; the to gather up the long-lost treasures of my heart. sumed character of a refugee. He being the best Informed family in town. If much to Investigate —only a two-cent stamp. Hut, apart from all that, why should two persons at the ends of the line touch the O! De not angry with me. One look at thee were was kindly received and sent on his that he so, it la Demo rest’s Family Magazine any one wish to be rude in speech to battery, and all the circle feels the shock. Thus, heaven. But al. these reunions are heaven en that does it.” We want a Live, Wide-Awake Kepre- by reason of the filial, maternal, and paternal circling heaven, heaven overtopping heaven, way to Paris. Once there he soon resentative in your community, either relations of life, we stand so close together that those who serve him? What advan heaven commingling with heaven r’ procured the material he required. “The Clinton Independent" and Man or Woman. If you are interested when trouble sets Its battery, all feel the thrill I was at Mount Vernon, and went Into the tage does he hope to gain? What part of distress, lu the great Christian family, the dining-room in which our first President enter Shaping it into a make-shift garment Demorcst's Magazine One Year for we’d like to hear from you. We’ll show you sorrow of one ought to be the sorrow of all. Is tained the prominent men of this and other where there ’s some money, All information of his nature does he gratify, unless one persecuted? All are persecuted. Does one for nimself. ho brought it off without $2.00. Leave your orders at Inde lands. It was a very interesting spot. But oh ! by return mail. Then If you are not convinc his nature be base in a degree not suffer loss? We ail suffer loss. Is one be the banqueting ;hall of the mansion of which I creating suspicion, and making his pendent Office. reaved? We are all bereaved. speak! Spread the table, spread it wide; way as cleverly back, the waistcoat ed, all right; there ’ll be no harm done —only common among men of decent bring for a great multitude are to sit at You ’ll Miss a Good Thing. Better write Their streaming eyes together flow it. From the Tree by the River gather was speedily produced. Tho deed set r>n. •Ztili'ii ing up? Arrogant self-assertion is the For human guilt and mortal woe. the twelve manner of fruits for that table. the man on his feet and ultimately as at once. Ad d ress Take the clusters from the heavenly vineyards nti surest possible mark of vulgarity of If you rejoice at another ’s misfortune, you and press them into the golden tankards for sured him a competence. . The Brodix Pub. Co., mind, whether the man guilty of it is are not one of the sheep, but one of the goats; that table. On baskets carry In the Bread of A dream has before now been the and the vulture of sin hath alighted on your which, If man eat, he shall never hunger. Take T'Tilious a duke or a coal-heaver, the master of soul, and not the Dove of the Spirit. all the shot-torn flags of earthly conquest, and means of leading the seeker to fortune. WASHINGTON, - D. C. Next I notice the family property. After a entwine them among the arches. Let David On a summer night of 1883, a Califor A a palace or the humble servitor upon man of large estate dies, the relatives assemble come with his harp, and Gabriel with his ompounp ;h to hear the will read. So much of his property nian, named Davis, had a dream about ‘E bis premises. trumpet, and Miriam with the timbrel; for the Is willed to his sons, and so much to hts daugh prodigals are at home, anil the ouptives are free, a part of the country ho had long A Sure Cure fo» ters, and so much to benevolent societies. Our and the Father hath Invited the mighty of C thought of visiting. Every detail of Lord Jesus hath died, and we are assembled heaven and the redeemed of earth to come and Torpid Liver end Kidneys, Bilouinm. It would he incorrect to tay that the to-day to hear the will read. He says: "My dine I ______the vision was in clear outline, and motheMn-law has ceased to have any peace I give unto you.” Through his apostle he Dyipepsle. The Beet Blood Purifier, says: "All are yours. ” What! everything? The Deadly Alternating Cnrrent. the whole was 6trongly impressed' THE NEWWEBSTER terrors for men about to marry. For Yes. everything! This world and the next. In upon his mind. He saw a thickly PRICE, «100. distinguished families there are old pictures One of the engineers employed at the the generation now entering into man hangiug on tho wall. They are called the "heir Lauffen (Swiss) generating station met wooded ravine and a miner looking TO* BALE EY loom ” of the estate. They are very old, and for gold. A stream ran by. and after DETROIT MEDICINE CO., Atn> hood has grown up under the impres have come down from generation to generation. with a fatal accident through touching sion that tho mother-in-law is tho bane So I look down upon all the beauties of the a wire through which a high-tension awhile it forked. Just at this point FILDEW & MILLMAN. natural world as the heir-looms of our royal current was passing. The deceased, the man in the dream—who was him 0 of domestic peace. But as a matter of fumily. The morning breaks from the East. St. Johns and Fowler. The mists travel up hill above hill, mountain whose name was Ban, was discovered self—came to a ridge of yellow ore. fact tho wife's mother, who is the per above mountain, until skylost. The forests are lying dead on tne floor of the trans He used hammer and chisel, and there WEBSTER’S full of chirp, and buzz, anti song. Tree's leaf former-house by the engineer-in-chief. son usually regarded as the prime and bird's wing flutter with gladness. Honey- was no mistake about the purity and makers in the log, and beak against the bark, It appears that Rau, in defiance of the value of the chips. Davis awoke and INTERNATIONAL mover in matrimonial jars, is in these and squirrels chattering on the rail, and the instructions given him, entered the $60 REWARD! $60 days quite content to let the young call of the hawk out of a clear sky, make you transformer-room to attend to a de went about his business. Two other Free for Two Months. feel glad. The sun, which kindles conflagra nights m succession ho had tho 6umo DICTIONARY people go their own way. Women tions among the castles of cloud, aod sets fective lamp, and coming into contact minaret and dome aflame stoops to paint the with a high-tension wire, was killed curious dream. Then he started off The Home Magazine, with married daughters have more re Illy white, and the butter-cup yellow, anil the instantaneously. with twe companions to the district Every lady sending us the names of 20 house forget-me-not blue. What cun resist keepers will receive a copy of The Home Mag sources in the way of social distrac which he had previously talked of ex azine FREE for two months. the sun? Light for the voyage over To Improve Public Schools. To those who may be desirous of sending us I tion than they used to have. Their tho deep! Light for the shepherd guard ploring. Tho scouring of the region more than 20 names, we offer the following cash Re-edited and Reset from Cover to Cover. ing the flocks afield! Light for the poor A project for the introduction of a FULLY ABREAST OF THE TIMES. world is not entirely bounded by their who have no lamps to burn ! Light for the down- university course into Boston ’s public had no result for a time. But sudden prizes for the largsst lists received, viz.: east and the lowly I Light for aching eyes, and ly the three men came out into a ra For the largest list...... $20.00 A GRAND INVESTMENT own home and those of their children. school system is before the Boston “ '• next largest list...... 10 00 for every Family ami Bohool, burning brain anil wasted captive! Light for vine exactly like that in tho leader’s “ “ third 3 “ 5.00 As mothers they are not less devoted the smooth brow of chi In hood, and for the dim board of aldermen. It provides that ” “ fourth “ “ 3.oo Tho Authentic Webster ’s Unabridged vision of the octogenarian! Light for Queen ’s the course shall be free to such scholars dream. Every physical feature was than they used to be, but as mother- Coronet, and for sewing-girl ’s needle I Lot there “ “ fifth “ “ 2.00 ! Dictionary, comprising issues of 1H<>4, ; be light! Whose morning is this? My morn as exhibit the necessary proficiency the same, except the ridge of gold. “ •* next ten largest SI each, 10.00 ’79, and ’H4, (all still copyrighted) Inis in-laws they are less disposed to un ing. Your morning. Our father gave us the and that all the expense of it shall be They had to dig hero as elsewhere. “ “ “ io largest, 50c each, 10.00 been thoroughly revised and enlarged, 1 icture and hung it on the sky in loops of fire, borne by the city, it is not unlike edu Rules Governing this Competition. under the supervision of Noah Porter, i dertake the management of the do t Is the heir-loom of our family. And so the But a big nugget was quickly the j D.D., 1.1.. ])., of Yale University, und an Pnight. It is tho full moon. The mists from cational schemes that exist in France prospector ’s reward. “Dream Gulch ” 1. All names must reach us not later than De ! a distinguishing title, hears the name mestic concerns of their daughters. ihore to shore gleam like shattered mirrors ; and and Germany. cember 1st, and all prizes will be mailed not lat WEBSTER’S the ocean, under her glance, comes up with has since been tho name of the spot er than December 10th. International Dictionary. The “Holey ” Coins of Cuba. 2. Put the names of those living in different The work id revision occupied over Literature can be taught, first, in mat tides, panting upon the beach, mingling as It were, foam and Are. The Saw a Flail Swallow Ilia Match. towns on seperate sheets of paper, giving the i ten years, snore than n hundred edito- j connection with reading, even in the poor man blessos God for throwing such a A recent traveler in Cuba reports that name of the state and county In the top right- I rial laborers being employed, and over cheap light through the broken window-pane all the small silver coins in that coun A rather Btrange as well as amus hand corner, and the number of names contained ' 9300,000 expended before the drat j primary classes. By the use of short Into bis cabin; and to the sick it seems a light try have holes in them. Most of them ing incident happened on board the on the sheet in the top left hand corner. Thu*. j copy was printed. from the other shore which bounds this great 4 Kansas , stories, literature can bo made very are American dimes and quarters. The Mrs. Henry Brown, Olathe. SOLD BY ALL BOOKSELLERS. leep of human pain and woe. If the sun seem schooner Emma Clara while at sea Pamphlet sent free by the publisher*. interesting to primary classes. Chil like a song full and poured from brazen instru perforation is done to keep this kind of recently on her way up from Rock port '• Amelia Duggan, ments that fill heaven and earth with great money in the country. The number of “ Charles Hemple, box 310, j Caution is needed iu purchasing a die- < dren love stories. Let the teacher, in harmonies.the moon is plaintive and mild,stand They were well out at sea, where the “ Amelia Warren. I ttooary, as photographic reprints of i>n <*l — ing beneath the throne of God, sending up her holes in a piece does not seem to affect water was blue and clear and the wind 3. Give the total number of names contained lete ar.d comparatively worthless edition <>f the form of stories, impress upon tho loft, sweet voice of praise, while the stars its changeable value. This is a hint to In your list in the latter accompanying the same. Webster are iieing marketed under various listen, and the sea. No mother ever more street car companies. very light when one of the passen 4. Be careful to write as distinctly as possible, names and often by misrepresentation. minds of his pupils a few character sweetly guarded the slck-cradle than all night and on one side of the paper only. gers discovered a large fish, which is Names of the prise winners will be an GET THE BEST, long this pale watcher of the sky bends over II« Your Own Weather Prophet, The International, which bears Imprint < f j istic features in the life of an author Ihe weary, heart sick, slumbering earth. Whose known in those waters as a Mon. fol nounced in January. 1892 uumbervf THE or of> his writings, and they will re Is this black-framed, black tasseled picture of By placing two iron bars at seven or lowing close behind the boat HOME MAGAZINE. O. A C. MKKRLAM A CO.. Publishers, the night? it Is the heir-loom of our family. eight yards distance ’ from each other .Springfield. Maas., lT. 8. A. member him ever afterward in all his Durs, the grandeur of the spring, the crystals Several of the boys were soon lean The Brodix Pub. Co., »f the snow, the coral of the bench, the odors and putting them in communication on ing over the stern admiring the fish, WASHINGTON, - - D. C- productions and study them with more »f the garden, the harmonics of the air. one side by an insulated copper wire pleasure than before. Tell them of You cannot see a large estate In one morning. and on the other side with a telephone, when one of them accidentally dropped You must take several walks around it. The his watch overboard out of his over tho benevolence of Goldsmith, the in family property of this royal house of Jesus la it is said that a storm can be predicted »o great that wo must take several walks to get twelve hours ahead through a certain shirt pocket It was a large, old- sanity of Cowper, the poverty of *ny Idea of Its extent. Let the first walk be dead sound heard in the receiver. fashioned, Swiss silver watch, and WEAK, NERVOUS MEN. Burns, the melancholy of Johnson and around this earth. All these valleys, the har when it struck the water it glauced off ------9 TOP, wno have been4iuro bugged by the " Electric Belts,” " Fellow Buf- vests that wave in them, and the oattle that A Dilemma. —------j ferer," "Crayon," "Vacuum," "Nervine," "Free the blindness of Milton. In American pasture them —all these m cam tains, and the sideways and started on its voyage to UnUHDlBI E Cure," quacks, and who havefouDd yourself grow- precious things hidden lieneeth them, and the Judkins —Do yon like bowling? the bottom of the sea. but the linn nUlsUIlADLL teg worse and worse. You, wbo have riven uo la literature tell them of tho friendship jrown of glacier they cast ai sLc feet of the Mudkins —No; it develops only one —! despair,ir. aaying,saying, "“ I am doomed;doomed ; there is no hope Alpine hurricane —all these takes, these is saw it and as he is a fish that bites at for roe;” to you I say: CP, and KAYE TOL’BSEI.F! THKIK IS 90PE1 of Drake and Halleck, the poetical lands, these continents, are ours. In the second side of the body. THKHK IS A CD HE ! No matter what you have taken or wbo has failed walk, go among the strbet-lamps of heaven, and Judkins —But yon can bowl with the everything that shines, regardless of to cure you, write me a------runfull history of your easet genius of Bryant, and of Whittier, see stretching off on every side a wilderness of other hand. flavor or taste, opened his huge mouth and aena for Book (free) ------* “ f - worlds. For us they shine. For us they sang Thousands fared. SUCCESSFUL Ki.Tt> 3i* ______.S-. the scholarly versatility of Lowell, of it a Saviour ’s nativity. For us they will wheel Mudkins —Of course; hut then I al and swnllowed the watch at ono gulp. Consult the Old Bortov. All Private, Nervoat and tho wit and success of Holmes, the Into line, and with their flaming torches ways get stuck for the game. The surprised and chagrined young T and successfully treated and idd to the splendor of our triumph on a car* gaaraateed in every curable case. Harried nee or tho** about to beginnings of the literary life of the day for which all other days were made. Sick ’Km, Tlg*>. man says that the watch had just been marry, wbo dread their weakneae or incapacity, or whoae blood ia loaded In the third walk, go around the Eternal City. wound up and was good to tick away with impurities transmissible to offspring, should Cooper, the wanderings of Bayard As we come near It, hark to the rush of Its Patient —I know now why Shakes for twenty four hours at least The consult the celebrated Dr. Clark# at once. Con Taylor, etc., and it cannot fail to cre chariots, and the weddlng-peal of its great peare wanted physic thrown to the sultation personally or by letter, free and cnnfl- TREATMENT lowers. The bell of heaven has struck lz. It dogs. fish seemed to enjoy the meal and fol dentiaL Medicines cent everywhere, eecure from ate an interest in tho reading class Is high noon. We look off upon the chaplets lowed leisurely after the boat for some Established 18*1. exposure. A friendly letter may aid you and direct you to health. Addreas Ulrich never fade, the eyes that never weep, Doctor —Why? and a love of literature. Me temples that never close, the loved ones Patient —In order to sick ’em time.—Velasco Times. OR. F. 0. CLARKE, Morrill Block, Ootroit, Mich. CLINTON INDEPENDENT, THURSDAY, DEC. 10,1891. A great revolution la looked for In even Tbe Only One Ever Printed —Ten Yen Dr. Voote's sew pamphlet on Vsrt le tell* If sffllc.ed with ARSENIC AND AMMONIA. ell...... shout It, sad whstail mei ought (o know. Bent eorw eyes, use i Thompson ’s Ey» Water.) ing dressing. Heavy fabrics are to be dis Find Ibe Word. (tested) for 10,cent*. Box 7is. New York.1 carded and only thin and gossamer dresses Remarkable Contrast In the Kffbct of Tw« There I* a 3-Inch display advertisement Laws and Experience M Pwlaoie on the Complexion. worn. Tbe cause of this Improvement In In this paper this week which bas no two Bell stock only when In good condition. Advlo* Kre*. years.rl Writ* uo. style may be traced Indirectly to the words alike except one word. Tbe saute A. W. MVIIMcmPENSIONS aitisa, u*.U»*u, o. a ‘August popularity of Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup,which The slow absorption of many pois I* true of each new one appearing each on* change* In some more or less bas proven such a panacea for exposure and week, from the Dr. Harter Medicine Co. " All she lacks of beauty TELEGRAPHY “.“rr r^SSfi colds. This bouse places a “Oreaoent ” on every I American School of Telegraphy,Madison. Wl*. modified form the oomplexion, but thing they make and publish. I-ook for It, is a little plumpness. ” arsonio anc ammonia show their effect send them the name of the word, and they Thomas f. Simpson, Waehlngtoa. Every man Is rich who bas a living trust D. C. Ko atty's (re until Patent ob Flower”about as quickly as any. The popular in Ood. will return you Book . Bxautuvl Litho - This is a frequent thought, PATENTS tain**. Write for lavaater** Uuld*. / “I inherit some tendency to Dys belief that arsenic clears the complex UHAHU OH 8 AMPLKM FlUCC. and a wholesome one. ion has led many silly women to kill You say you feel bad I Why so? Cheer MEN TO TRAVEL. We pop pepsia from my mother. I suffered up, old man and don't get low-spirited; When you surrender to Ood, do It uncon WANTED! 150 to 9100 a month and ex pen sea two years in this way ; consulted a themselves with it in small, continued your rheumatism cau be cured with a bottle ditionally. All of a baby ’s beauty is BTONK A WbiLLlNUTON, Madison, Wl*. number of doctors. They did me doses. of Salvation OIL niTPIITA Lehmann. Pollt*oo A Nee bite How ’* TN IsT due to fat, and nearly all of a J P| J J Washington, D. O. _ Kiamtae- 1 no good. I then used It ptoduces a waxy, ivory-like ap We offer On# Hundred Dollars reward for any pearance of the skin during a certain A prayer that hakfcio blood In It mvans css* of catarrh that cannot be cured by taking woman ’s — we know it as Relieved In your August Flower nothing. Hall's CatarTh Curs. AA can be mad* by you selling Nursery stage of the poisoning, but Its terrible Stock for ur this and it was just two F. J. CHKNBY A CO.. Prop*., Toledo. O. $500.• UllUU block for ur this winter. Don ’t delay. after effects have become too well QUEBX or fAIBION. Pattern* free. Send We, lb* undersigned, have known p. J. Cheney curves and dimples. mart at once. Outfit PRMC. Writ* for terra*. days when I felt great relief. -I soon known to make it of common use as a 3 (f OL) Stamps. « K. l« fit.. N. Y. city. forth* last lflyeers, and bcllev* him perfectly ALLEN NURSERY CO, Saginaw, Ulch. ot so that I could sleep and eat, and honorable In all business transaction*, and fi What plumpness has to do ■ ino-Hivt uiagisK ui «n iNTKgu iru cosmetia Tbe esar Is at work by la n. nancially able to carry out any obligation* mad# elUsul **>■ TRIAL TKka TSKST POgl. Jfelt that I was well. That was The effects of ammonia upon the by thelrfirm. with health is told in a little OPIUM N. U XRAWglt, StrgAT AH T. BOX 0, three years ago, and I am still first- ('onchln* Lead* to Consumption. Kemp ’S Wcst&Tbuax , Wholesale Druggists. Toledo, O. .ikniAiti uiRihAL uriiMit, ran complexion are directly the opposite IltUsm will stop the oough at once. Waldimo , Kinnam A Martin , Wholesale Drug book on careful living ; sent class. I am never to that of arsenic. The first symptom gists. Toledo, O. INHTANT RELIEF. Cure In 13 Servia'a boy king writes verse*. Hall's Catarrh Curs Is taken Internally, acting day*. Never return*. No purge, no free. PILES------salve, noiuppoeluirv. Remedy Mailed Two Days. without a bottle, and of ammonia poisoning which appear* directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of VRBK. Address J U. HKK V B8 , BoxuXSU. N. Y.City. if I feel constipated among those working in ammonia fao- Lane ’* Family Medicine the system. Testimonials sent free. Price 75c, Move* tbe Dowel* each day. A pleasant herb drink per bettle. Sold by all druggist* Would you rather be I Agents ’ prutliA per month. Will prove the least particle a dose or two of torios Is a discoloration of the skin of .it or pay ftefed. No" port rail* Ju*4 August Flower does the work. The the nose and forehead. This gradual Bitumen U found at Natal, Africa. If there Is death In your heart there wifi healthy or beautiful? “Both ” lout.. A g:iJk) Sample *ent free to all, ly extends over the face until the com be death in your life. 'Chide*ter A bun. 3d Uoi.il hu, N. Y. beauty of the medicine is, that you “Hanson ’s .Tingle Corn Salve.” is the proper answer. can stop the use of it without any bad plexion has a stained, blotched and Warranted to cure, or money refunded. Ask your IVo Struck It Itlrh. URV CCl/CD cured to stay curer . unsightly appearanoe. With people druggist for It. Price 19 cent*. What would you think If some one that II n It 1 hll We want the name and ad- effects on the system. „Sc#EI * Bown ■»Chemists, 13sSouth jth Avenue, I who take ammonia into their systems you knew to be responsible would offer to New York, dressof every sufferer in th« Constipation While I was sick I The devil never gives any present*. AQTL1W1A U. S. and Canada. Address^ in smaller doses, as with their water give you a well stocked general store for Your druggist keeps Scott ’i Emulsion of cod-liver felt everything it You Can Secure a Good Rusines* Position on© year's work? You would, no doubt, oil —all druggists everywhere do* $i. &HO I nlVIH P. Herald Hat **, X.D , Ba?*Jo, V.T. or food, these striking symptoms do by learning bookkeeping, arithmetic,writing, short consider It big pay and Jump at the chance. seemed to me a man coulv feel. I not appear so soon. The only offect hand, eta, by mall, Bryant's College, Buffalo, N. Y. Well such things have been done and are was of all men most miserable. I can AGENTS 5r.v^iv,v.n:1r,Out of the poison that is visible for a time Over 35.00 0,000 people die yearly. being done right along. Messrs. B. F. year. Our copyrighted method* flee tuall say, in conclusion, that I believe is a general unwholesomeness and sal- Johnson A Co., ltichinond, Yu., number dctinng * Home, or business change. |» Nr*. VUInelovv’ eMootblugWyrup, for Chil among their employees many men who SICK HEADACHE! to|ioo Monthly, Teacheraand ladies find August Flower will cure anyone of loirness of the complexion. earn tho value of a first-class store every ^ ~~ *»osltlvelycured by1 big pay for spare hours. TaaAeuav Pda. dren toothing, softens the gums, roducos lnllamma- III »e Little Pill*. CHASING Agomcy , zj 4th Avo., New YorA. indigestion, if taken Professor Long of Chicago is author tloa. allays pain, cures wind coho. iic. s bottle. year. W, F. Davis worked for them awhile, then opened a snug general store at They also relieve Dto-| LlfeofMisery with judgment. "A. ity for the stat -ment that, if to fifty trees from Dy*pepsia,In-l M. Weed, 229 Belle- Seventy babies are born every minute. H ck's Whirl, Matthews Co., Va„ and ft igestion end Toolioarty | FAT FOLKS REDUCED million parts of wat?r th re is one wrote this £rm as follows: "I oan only say Eating. A perfect rom-l I Mr*. Alice Maple, Oregon. Mo. wtlteei fontaine St, Indianapolis, Ind. ” & Nick Headache Can lie Cure*. Coniine that I give your business credit for what I edy fur Dlzzlm-en,Nausea! ) "Mr weight vu .820 pounds, now itfs 19A part of ammonia, tho watar is danger Headache Powders will do It. 1'rlce J5e. per box s nel act ion of ntlha. ’* For circulars address, with ie_ containing six powder*. Sold by druggists or am. If I were to meet with any bad luck Drowsiness, Bed TeeUf Dr.O.W.F.SXYUEK, MoVioVer'sTheatre. Chioago. UL ous.—San Francisco Examiner. mailed by Coallne Co., Buffalo, N. Y. or lose what I have made, I am proud to in the Month. Coated! Tongue.Pain In the Blde.l say that I could go to you for employment krMQinM jo|,!v w.NioniiM, Christ loves to go where ho is expected. TOKHID LIViUC. Theyl lEellOlwlV w Hell I llgto 11, I*. C. HOW TO READ MEN. and soon make another atore." They can j regulate the BowelsJ show you how to double and treble your rWSuccessfulIv Proseoutes Claims. FITS.—Al' Kite stopped free by ILIXFSMKAT Purely Vegetable. Ity Meins of Palmistry, Hand Shapes, Nerve Ke*t,«rer. No Fltatter tlrstdvy'a use. Mar income. Write them at once for informa Price 2& Cents; vellous cure«. Treatise and 12.00 trial N)tt!o free to tion. TeataPrincipal Eramlnffr U S. Pension Bureau. Fingers, Nostrils and Nose. b it canoe. Send to Dr. Kllne.031 Arch EL. Plilla., Fa. CARTER MEDICINE CD., NEW YORE. 3yi*iula*t war, 15a4^)mlkalingclaiiuA v aU> Nothing can cost so much as sin. Those learned Id palmistry and kin ig fifftrp r Big wheat crop la Egypt this year. Giving us needs is one of God ’s ways of Small Pill. Small Dose. Small Price. dred sciences tell us that whon we bringing us to Himself. R grasp a so to speak, boneless hand, a A cure for nearly all tho common Ills— hand which appoars to crumple in what, doctors? Pshaw I Take Boeotians'* Pills. For Male by all druggists. 25 oent*. Send at once for our Catalogue. 200 testi your own, a hand with no apparent monials. C. N. Newcomb, Davenport, Iowa vitality in it, to beware of its owner, No man has a right to bo a curso to hi* neighbor. ST. JACOBS OIL, and that tho soft and firm to tho touch FOR HORSE AN D CATTLE DISEASES. hand is only possessed by an honest Female Wrultarw Positive Cure. CURES Patents! Pensions 8 end for Inventor'aOiiideorHow to Obtain uPntent- man. They also assert that a thick, To Tbs Editor : Cuts, Swellings, Bruises. Sprains, Gall. Straths, Lameness, Stiff 3end for Digest of PEMiltl.N and IIOt'KTY I.AWM. hard hand is a sure sign of obstinacy Please Inform your reader* that I have a positive ness, Crack d Heels, Scratches, Contractions. Flesh Wounds, PATRICK 0 FARRELL, - WAoHLNOTON, D. C. 1 the reut-dy for the thousand and one III* which arue from Strinqhalt. Sore Throat, Distemper. Colic. Whitlow, Poll Evil, M - c: 'M and noncoit in its owner. They tell deranged female organ*. 1 ahull be glad to aend two Fistula, Tumors. Splints. Ringbones, and Spavin In their early I i bottles of my remedy rues to any lady If they will send you that long fingered, double jointed their Exprt-w ami P. O. addreaa. Your* Ueapeolfully, ! ft/ Stages. Diedtion; with each bottle. people cannot be sincere if they try. Dk . J. B. MAKCH1S1. 800 Ueneaed bt„ Utica . N. Y. Another authority advises: If you DISEASES OF HOCS. TUMORS Tho man who dees not begin the day with ___ «-GENERAL DIRECTIONS.-Uso freely In the hog swill. Internal or Extomnl. successfully Treated by want to know what sort of a person prayer begins wrong. 1 If they Vfcl not eat, drench with milk into which a smell | Now Method. No knlle; no pain or shack. Yor It Cures Cough*. Cold*, Eore Throat,Croup,Whoop you are examine your nose critically . quantity of the Oil is put. pamphlet wrft© The banltarlum,Unlon8YOU itprin«e.N.T. OWN ing Coach, Bronchitis ami Asthma, a ornun «ar« Rone, HI vnl, Consumption nrat •«***• * rare relief In advanced in tho glass. People of fearless dispo DISEASES OF POULTRY. i_GRIND . Oyster bhrll*, gtogo*. tlx at BOUTH-KAST DKW1TT. The Independent December 7,1891 WE ALWAYS LEAD! Passed on to the higher life, on 8unday At Last! At Last! St. JOHNS, THURSDAY. DECEMBER 10. 1891. evening, December 0th, Miss Lydia Kurts, old est daughter of Oeorgo and Olive Kurts, aged SOCIETY MKETINOB. ‘JO years. She had been sick about four weeks, Dr. Kdaon attending her. Typhus or nervous T. JOHNS ENCAMPMENT NO. KJ, L O. 0. F. fever was the disease which afflloted her. The We have received our immense line of meets *1 and 4th Wednesday eyenluas of eachS month. ARVINE TOOCH, CTP. funeral was held last Tuesday, at 2:80 p. in., at Dry Goods Department. J.L.TRANCHELL. Seoretanr. ______Uunnlsonville. Her loss la a sad bereavement to her family and her many friends. nt JOHNS RADIANT CHAPTEK. O. *C • B.- O Regular meetings July «, Auguat M, Sep Hut an angel came at the twilight hour, tember 28, and October 21. With a message from on high, HOLIDAY GOODS MRS. MARY WOOD. W.M. “ The groat 1 Am hath need Of thee." Mks. Mimekva Abhicy .Secretary. And she answered, “Here ain 1.” And have them on exhibition In our stores in 8t. Johns and Fowler. MRS. P. L. HYLBR. OUR -:- SPECIAL -THE- Weather Predictions. For Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this week. South Rtlit. Clinton Co , Mich., I December 7, 1891, i Let Everybody Gome, Mu. Editor ;—I propose to predict ttie kind of weather we will have in the Whether intended purchasers or not, aud examine our stock of Mani ST. JOHNS, MICH. 60 doz Ladies' Fine Lace Stripe Handkerchiefs months of December, January and Feb cure Sets, Toilet Sets, Traveling Cases, Gift Hooks, Oxford Teachers ’ ruary, and the quarter from which the . to go at 5 cents each. Bibles, Card Cases, Flower Perfumes, Sachet Powders, Cut Glass Per Fays 4 Per Cent. Interest on Deposits. storms will come. In December the fume Bottles, Collar and Cuff Boxes, Odor Cases and a thousand and storms will commence with the wind in One lot Dress Goods, Desirable Patterns and the south-west, the wind changing to one other articles of which space forbids mention. Loans Money on Approved Bonds and the south and south-east. If the wind Beal Estate Security. changes as above then look for rain. — Shades, worth 16, 25 and 40 cents, to Iiut if the wind changes from south west to west and to the north and go at 9, 12* and 20 cents. OFFICERS: north-east, then we will get a snow COME AND SEE FOR YOURSELF. ' A. J. Haldwiw . Pres. P. E. Walswobth , Tres, storm. I look for December to be the lost am U pton, Vc-Pres. R. C. D kxtks , Asst. Tres most stormy of the winter months. The prevailing winds in December will THE LOCAL MARKETS. blow from the south-west. I don ’t look for December to l>e a very cold month. Our Great Christmas Towel Sale Office or The Independent . St. Johns, Mich., December 10, 1891 In January the storms will commence FILDEW & MILLMAN, The following are the prices paid In cash for with the wind in the south-west, the produce in this market: wind changing to the south and south Opens on Monday, next, December 14, and continues for one Wheat, white ...... f -{5 east, then look for rain. Hut if the week only. These Towels are worth 40 cents each —can not ST. JOHNS AND FOWLER. Wheat, red...... wind changes to the west, then the Oat#...... -27® 32 north and north-east snow may lie look be purchased at a less price anywhere else in Michigan. Our Rye...... Clover Seed...... -...... ed for. There will be many ilneday3 in price for one week only, 25 cents each. Samples can be Bailey...... ‘I5 January, but cold nights may be looked Butter...... 10® 20 for. In February the wind will etiange seen in our Show Windows. Largest stock of Silk and Lace Eggs—fre6h ...... •~3 during storms, the pame as in the other Handkerchiefs in Central Michigan. Prices from 50 ceuts With Compliments s Best Wishes Tallow...... —— >0! winter months. After the snow-storms Hay. per ton ...... ^ the wind will change to the north-west, to $4.00 each. Take a look at our Show Windows. Apples per bu.- ...... 40®60 west and south-west. I predict the Potatoes ...... 20® .25 FOR THE SEASON. Onions...... 45® 65 present winter not to be a very cold one. Corn ...... —— Tins is written in the interest of agri Lard...... -...... 08 culture and commerce. Chickens ...... 08 Respectfully, Wood...... 1.00® 1.60 Hides...... 04* Ralph Watson . Grocery Department. Turkeys, dressed...... 09 Geese, “ ...... 07 Hymeneal. Ducks, “ ...... -...... 09 No man or youth can be happy at this P*k. “ ...... 4’00®440 On the evening of November 26th, at Partridge, per pair ...... -...... 00 Quail, per dozen- ...... 1.00 the pleasant home of Mr. and Mrs. FOR TWENTY-FIVE CENTS: season of the year unless he is dressed Woodcock, per pair ...... 40 James Ferguson, about forty invited guests, principally relatives, assembled warm, and those who purchase their Corretpondence thou Id reach Ihil office on Tues to witness the marriage of Miss Edith day of each week, and noI later than Wednesday mom 5 pounds good Raisins, Winter Outfits of mg. Anonymous communication* will receive no atten Ferguson and Mr. Clarence W. Lanklon, tion. The writer'* name mutt be given, not for pub of Olive. Among the guests from a dis 9 pounds Rolled Oats, lication, if to detired, but at evidence of good faith tance were J. Z. Keeny, of North Dakota, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Blowers 8 pounds Oat Meal, IHE ROCHESTER CLOTHING CO., LEBANON. and daughter, Florence ; Mr. and Mrs. George Blowers and baby, of Genesee 4 cans Good Corn, December 0, 1891. county, Mich.; Mrs. \Vfallace Ferguson IT NO. 17, CLINTON AVENUE, C. Benjamin has a new wind-mill up. and son, Willie, of Jackson, and several 1 pound good Fine Cut Tobacco, Antes and James Mundell have moved Into friends from South Riley, aud others their new house. near home, were there. Can always satisfy this great desire, be Lebanon band boys are building a hail on At six o ’clock, as the mellow strains 1 pound good Plug Tobacco, 25 Cents. the corners east of the Round school-house. of the wedding march was being played cause the goods there purchased are Rogers and Bailors started their saw-mill by the organist, the bridal train entered 5 pounds Grits. last week. Al. Cheney, of Fowler, runs the the parlors, Francis McArthur and warm, strong and low in price. saw. Miss Floy Moon, attending the bride as 2 pounds Tea Dust, Farmers have lots of corn yet unhuskod and maids, while the bride ’s brothers, Finis when thore comes a favorable day the pro andFaronFereuson supported the groom. 5 pounds Soda, gram is husking corn. JEW PETER. Amid the hush of expection, the party WHY IS THIS SO? took their places and were joined in 4 pounds Crackers, EUREKA. wedlock by the Rev. I). M. Ward, of Okemos, their former pastor, in his very December 10, 1891. imnressive and pleasing style. FIRST—Because the goods come direct There are two or three cases of typhoid Of course congratulations followed, 30c Coffee for 28c. fever about here. and then came the refreshments, plenti from Manufacturers who have Rev. Ostrott Is having fair success in his ful, substantial and toothsome. The 31b box Starch for 20c. meetings at the new church. supper was ever so nice, and the guests had unbounded experience in the "Mr. Hays Titus has had several strokes of did ample justice to the good tilings 28 pounds Yellow Sugar for $1.00. paralysis, and is In a precarious condition. spread before them. There were many selection of cloths. Rev. Ryker, of Maple Rapids, and Mrs. Jones, presants, both beautiful and useful, for 51bs Lion, Arbuckle ’a, XXXX, “Our Own ” Package Coffee of Chicago, have begun meetings at the which the young couple gave due ap preciation. The company retired at an for $1.00. SECOND—Because the manufacturers stand Christian church. early hour, leaving many good wishes Wal Jolly and Miss Cora Bogardus joined with Mr. and Mrs. Lankton for future at the head of this concern, and the fortunes last week and started a matrimonial happiness and prosperity. alliance on their own account. May success About 8 o ’clock, the ’ company was consumer is given the usual middle and happiness attend them. treated to an outside entertainment, While Myron Nye and his brother were com not down on the program. The Boot and Shoe Department. man ’s profit. Hence, the good ing from St. Johns, on Saturday last, the horse Jack Mule Orchestra, or the Scrub became frightened and threw them In the Club, gave a short pandiddle, instru goods and low prices. ditch, and then fell on Myron In such a way mental and vocal. There was one pop as to break his ribs and injure him otherwise, gun, one cow-bell, several tin cans, some so that he Ilea in a critical condition. pans, screeching, yelling, snarling and Banniater Lodge, No. 1U2, A. O. U. W., which swearing. It is said that “corn juice” was moved here from Bannister last summer, was in it. Those who paiticipated in the DON’T BE HUMBUGGED gave the degrees to three new members on disgraceful rumpus, possibly were 6241 Friday evening last. Foster brothers, of ashamed when they got over it.’ M. Into buying Old, Second-hand, Shop-worn and Unreliable Special Sale, ~ December 12. Essex lodge No. 1 were present and did most of the work After they lo Ige business was over, Advertised Letters. goods because of ALLEGED CHEAPNESS, but purchase they were invited to Dennis ’ hall, where a Men’s and Boy’s Hats and Caps, former bountiful oyster supper was served to them. St. Johns , Mich ., December 4, 189L New, Fresh and Clean Goods, of a reliable house with the Everyone seemed to enjoy the occasion very Allen, Mrs. B. L. Arthur. Fred C. price 60 cents, now going for 10 cents. Blodgett, Mrs. Louise Colbath, G. R. much. Come again, brother workmen, and Gratt, Lanmn Jones, Frank reputation of selling the Best Goods at the Lowest Prices. wc will try and use you well. M. T. McClellan, Bart Thompson, A. O. Decembers, 1891. A. C. McGraw & Co. ’s Hand Turned Shoes, $3.00. OLIVE. Bouden, Miss Vina Bennington, Della Cook, Miss Emma Clapsaddle, Mrs. Nancy Hill & Green Little Giant School Shoes, $1.00. Deco m l>o r 8, 1891. Davis, Mrs. Asa Gets. Mrs. Flora Hicks. Mrs. Livinia Lovell, H. C. COME IN AND BE CONVINCED. Misses Kffle and Elgle Hyde visited friends in Moore, Miss Catherine Traverse, George Merriam’s Children ’s Shoes, 50c to $1.75. St.Johns last week. v*r Persons calling for any of the above let August Heise, of Lansing, visited at Varney ters will please say “Advertised.” Our Calf Boots, $1.75. Pearce's last Saturday. VOLNEY A. CHAPIN. P. M. There will be a Christmas tree at the lower 1 pair Mishawaukee Knit Boots, with 1st quality rubbers, $2.50. Grange ball, In DeWitt, Christmas eve. It will The Great Northwest. not be public. It Is for Grangers and Invited The states of Montana and Washing 1 pair Storm King Felt Boots, 75c. friends. ton are very fully described in two folders Rochester Clothing Company, There was a large attendance at DeWitt issued by the Northern Pacific Railroad, 1 pair Boys ’ Felt Boots Free with every pair Boys ’ Heavy Grange last Saturday night. Eddie and Frank entitled “Golden Montana ” and “fruit Favor entertained the Grange with very nice ful Washington.” The folders contain Overs. music on the violin and organ DeWitt GraAgc good county maps of the states named, NO. 17, CLINTON AVENUE. and information in reference to climate, elects officer# December 19. Let every patron lands, resources and other subjects of be present. interest to capitalists, business men and Fifty relatives and friends met at the home settlers. ERRICK’S •of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Barton, on Tuesday, Do* Holders of second-class tickets to HARD The best $2.00 shoe on earth. Sold only by us. HOLIDAY SLIPPERS! oetnber 1, 1891, In Riley, for the purpose of North Pacific Coast points, via Northern reminding them that their twenty-fifth wed Pacific Railroad, are allowed the privi H HITTERS. ding anniversary had arrived. Several were lege of stopping over at Spokane, present who were school-mates twenty-five Washington, and other points west years ago. Many pleasant recollections of the thereof, for the purpose of examining past were brought back to memory, as well as all sections of this magnificent state ENDLESS VARIETY AT many sad ones. Tables were prepared and before locating. Northern pacific loaded down with the usual amount of good through express trains cany colonist 23 Different Styles of Lumbermen’s Socks, things to which all wore Invited and did full sleeping cars from St. Paul,aud Pullman Dutcher Bros.’ Cash Shoe House. justice. Mrs. C. L. Pearce, in behalf of the tourist sleepers from Chicago (via Wis assembled guests, presented Mr. and Mrs. B. consin Central Line) to Montana and WITH RUBBERS TO FIT. wltb a fine parlor lamp and other presents. Pacific Coast points daily. Then “God be with you till we meet again, ” California tourists, and travelers to was sung and, after wishing them many happy Montana and the North Pacific Coast, Men's Velvet Embroidered, 50c to $1.50. returns of the day, all departed for their homes can purchase round trip excursion well pleased with their visit. tickets at rates which amount to but No Old, Second Hand, Shop Worn Goods, but Martin Knapp, of Riley, Is now in Arkansas little more than the one way fare. Men's Plush Embroidered, $1.00 to $2.00. Choice of routes is allowed ou these With the editor's permission, I will give a tickets, which are good for three or six all New and Clean Stock. short syno|isls of a letter received from him a months, according to destination, and short time ago. He speaks of his Journey from permit of stop-overs. Men's Goat and Russian Calf, all prices. Modem, III., to Altheimer, Jefferson county, The elegant equipment on the North Ark. He bought s ticket from Mrdora to Bt. ern Pacific Railroad; the dining car Louis ; took a train called the tri-weekly, be service ; the through first-class sleeping These Prices are for Cash or Produce. Don't ask for Credit. cause It runs to Alton one week and trie* to get from Chicago (via both Wisconsin Cen back the next; changed cars at Alton, took tral line and C. M. & St. P. Ry.) to THE MOST USEFUL HOLIDAY PRESENTS EXTANT. the "flyer” on the “big four” road, made about Pacific Coast points, and the most mag mile a minute, crossed the Mississippi river nificent scenery of seven states, are on s big steel bridge which is so high the tallest among the advantages and among the boats can pass under It- Two trains oan cross advantages and attractions offered to CASH FOR PRODUCE. tbo bridge nt the same time, and above them travelers by this line. Large variety of LADIES’ HOLIDAY SLIPPERS in Velvet, Plush the wagons and street cars pass. The weather The “Wonderland ” book issued by is still very “lid. Corn and cotton arc the the Northern Pacific Railroad describes and Fine Felt Cloth. Wateh our Show Windows for principal crop#, ootton taking the lead. Frogs the country between the Great Lakes and robins still singing, and the trees still and Pacific Ocean, with maps and Illus Very Truly Yours, Samples. They must be seen to be appreciated. quit* green. There Is s large amount of heavy timber. There to wild game In abundance: trations. bear, deer, wild turkey and fish. In the small For any of the above publications, towns the population consists principally of and rates, maps, time tables, write to mules, dogs, hogs and negroes. There are hogs any General or District Passenger Agent ST. JOHNS MERCANTILE CO. verywhew-under onw feet, on the walka or Chaa. 8. Fee, G. P. A T. A., N. F. R. and In the stores, looking for something to eat, NT. .JOHNW, MICH. and the woods are full or them. NKME8IS. K., St. Paul, Minn. DUTCHER BROS.' CASH SHOE HOUSE. rhe Independent. Schedule of Teachers ’ Examinations GEO. H. JUDD, For C^gton County, 1891-92. They Must Go! —THE— 1ST. JOHNS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1891. Regular examination, St. Johns, Thursday and Friday. March 3 and 4, 1892. DeWltt. Friday. March 25. 1892. Ovid, Friday, April 29, 1892. Regular examination, St. Johns, Thursday Merchant Tailor. SUPPLEMENT. and Friday, August 4 and 6, 1892. First and second grades only at the regular Nearly Opposite the Poatofflce. THE GERMAN MARKET FOR AMERI examinations In St. Johns, In March and August. CAN PORK. At the regular examination, examinations for first and second grades will commence at SPECIAL SALE Mr. Blaine has written a letter to the 9 o'clock a- in . ou the first day, and for third FALL THE Bucyrus (Ohio) Journal, from which we grades at 1 o'clock p. in on the first day. All H other examinations will begin at 8 o'clock a. ui. clip the following : Hy order of Hoard of School Examiners. ON- LATE8T. . R. M. WINSTON, “Germany has removed the prohibi 1298 County Commissioner. 8UITING8, tion on pork, and our government, in THE consideration thereof, has left her sugar on the free list. This opens to us an C entirely new market, and $15,000,000 M08T to $20,000,000 of American pork will be Horse Blankets BUCKWHEAT! DURABLE. consumed per annum where not a pound has been taken for ten years.” FALL This is a crafty piece of falsehood Ground any day at the — AND— designed to make farmers thank Blaine b ALL AS for cheap sugar and a German market PANTS for pork. But let our farmers read IJ LOW AS miiis what President Harrison said, Septem er . ROBES THE ber 4. We quote: nf “The removal of the pork restriction PATTERNS. U has nothing to do with any question of -:o:- -AT- LOWEST. reciprocity, but it is based upon the ac i ceptance, by the German government, A few tons of of the inspection of meats by this gov ernment. ” GEO. H. JUDD, Now, what about Germany taking buckwheat bran , Tom : Padley’s, from fifteen to twenty million dollars —THE— worth of our pork yearly ? The ------ALSO------official reports show that before The Leading Harnessmaker, Germany put any restriction on our Merchant Tailor. pork, in 1881, we exported to Ger MIDDLINGS. ST. JOHNS, - - MICH. Nearly Opposite the Postoffice. many just $1,778,544 worth of pork, In exchange for cash, bacon and hams, llow does this tally with Mr. Blaine's statement ? Let the farmers reflect on the benefits they are wall Paper , deriving from the reciprocity patch on CHEAP. BENGEL & GOERGE the McKinley bill, and on the veracity -Dealers in- WINDOW SHADES, of James G. Blaine .—Oakland County FURNITURE, Post. Yours, truly, -f FOWLEK, - MICH. and CURTAIN POLES. One of the constitutional difficulties of the democratic party is that its worst A. SCHENCK & SON. elements almost always control it. In We now carry a complete assortment of the election of delegates from New Or leans to the Louisiana democratic state FURNITURE, convention the lottery men elected every FARMERS, Brown Back Wall Paper 10c Double Roll. delegate by a vote two to one .—Ionia PICTURE FRAMES White Back Wall Paper 12c Double Roll. Sentinel. and CHR0M0ES. Good Gilt Wall Paper 20c Double Roll. This is, Indeed, a very unfortunate Felt Window Shade with Spring Rollers constitutional ailment of the democratic Take Notice. only 35c. party and much to be deplored by the -We also sell- Brass or Wood Trimmed Curtain Poles more respectable elements in all parties. T HAVE a testing rig for wheat, which is a only 35c. The Independent would like to re X true and accurate guide. I will give for 60 SEWING MACHINES lbs. of 00 lbs. test wheat 38 lbs. flour, 10 lbs. bran At reduced prices. ceive suggestions as to the best mode of and 2 lbs. middlings, or 41 lbs. flour —no bran treatment. However, we suppress our or middlings, and I shall take off one pound of Dour for every pound the test runs under 00 personal anxiety for the “whiskey lbs to bushel. Myself or men will spare no Iron and Wooden Pumps constantly on hand. pains to please the farmers. Come and give Repairing of all descriptions in our Machine Needles— party, ” and turn our attention to the us one trial and you will never go elsewhere. line promptly done. more puzzling case of the “morality We make but one grade of flour and that is as AH kinds always on hand. party ” which is controlled by such spec good as the best in market imens as “Boss” Quay, “Smiling Tom” Respectfully Yours, Undertaking a Specialty Reed, “Blocks of Five” Dudley, and LEWIS LONIER, the author of the “Mulligan letters”. Prop'r. Monitor Mills, Grand Ledge WANTED— Is this state of affairs the symptom of a constitutional or local difficulty V This Paper Rags, Old Rubbers, (Topper is a sail case and the more lamentable as F. F. MURDOCK it is more difficult to diagnose. The ------DEALER IN------and Brass. fact that the immaculate party, from Marble and Granite which the country expects salvation and which “protects ” us (manufacturers), MO MOMENTS. Funerals attended by an experienced Fu - is diseased, casts a gloom over the ncral Director, and with the best herse in this part of the country. Our stock of Undertak country as black as Egyptian darkness. ers' Goods will always be found complete. STEPHENSON’S BAZAAR. Satisfaction guaranteed. Give us a call and The Sentinel , should tend to its own sick be convinced. first as charity begins at home. Cut Stone BENGEL & GOERGE. -----FOR----- LIVERY “It is evident that the Kangaroo bal —AND- lot has come to stay. It certainly has a Building Purposes. tendency to prevent fraud at the polls MADAME PBICE’S and in that, as well as other respects, is a greatimprovementover the old system. Opposite the Postoffice. —Charlotte Republican. SCHOOL OF MUSIC, Yes, and right here it would be well ST. JOHNS. MICH. Corner Cass and Mead Streets. to say that term after term previous to our last democratic legislature, the WANTED ! democratic minority endeavored in vain PUPILSTAKEN AT ANYTIME to pass ballot reform laws, which, were Branches Taught are Piano, Voice invariably smothered in committees. . Seasoned timber for use in manufacturing It does prevent fraud at the polls, and Culture, Organ and Harmony. Boarding Stable coupling this fact with the fact that it Wagons, 81896295“ . FREE ADVANTAGES TO PUPILS. was “hawbuck ” statesmanship that op FINE TURNOUTS OF ALL KINDS. posed previous ballot reform measures, For which best price will be paid by Harmony Class once s week. Special attention given to Boarding Horses.First shows that morality is not monopolized Juvenile Singing Class onee a week. claaa outfit* (tarnished for Commercial Men, SMITH BROS., Public Recitals at the close of every term. Funerala, Pleasure Parties, Etc. by any one party exclusively. We look To children other than private pupils who One Block West of The Steel. g^-Persons having Lame and Diaabled Hones upon this republican eulogy of a demo Join the singing class, a fee of 12 for twenty will find the best of facilities for treatment at my stables, M. C. L1VE8AY. Veter nary Surgeon, in at cratic measure as commendable, to say lessons is charged. tendance. Stables 2d door West of The Stee the least, and as one of the favorable tW~ Horse shoeing and general repairing g9~Speclal attention is given to beginners North side. (1228) signs of the times. promptly and satisfactorily done. 1256tf on the Plano 1252 FHANK SCHOFIELD Prop'r. FOSTER, POST & CO ARE AGAIN ON HAND AT THE NEW YORK BAZAAR, WITH A FINER LINE OF CHRISTMAS * GOODS THAN ANY OTHER CONCERN IN Important to the Little Folks. Jj|||||E have made arrangements for Santa Clause to come this way llfli w^en passing from the East to the West, through Michigan, and 'JmW have designated Saturday, December 19,1891, for his appearance at our store. He will arrive on the 3 o’clock p. m. train, from the east, on that day, and will be headed by music in his march from the depot to his temporary headquarters. He will be loaded with presents for the little folks. Don’t miss him. Games and Toys, Drums, Hobby Horses, Tool Chests, Alphabet Blocks, Writing Desks and everything you can think of. DOLLS! DOLLS! DOLLS! Dolls of every shape, style, and color. Dolls that will wink, blink and always happy. Everything New, Handsome and Cheap. Come and see. Don’t forget the date on which Santa Clause will come to St. Johns. FOSTER, POST