wr.jw* The Clinton Independent.

VOL XXX—NO. 49. ST. JOHNS, MICH., THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER IT, 1896. WHOLE NO.—1561.

444 Brevities. porar.v chairman. The chairman ap­ —Within the last wreek bountiful pointed Edwin Minin, H. G. Pierce and REE COINAGE MEETINGS. IN TOWN! rains have visitfed this section. F. R. Compton as committee on creden ­ tials. REV. ELISHA JUDGE! —The September term of the county JUDGE MCGRATH. A. C. Lee. F. C. Young and M. Lutin Will speak at the following named -A Number of Residences Visited circuit court has been adjourned to Oc­ Report of the People's Party and were appointed committee on permanent Nominated by the Silver Forces places in this county upon the all im­ tober 5. Silver Conventions organization. « by Them Last Week. —The Modem Woodmen, of St. Johns, A committee wan appointed to confer for State Senator. portant financial or money question : are making preparations for a big time with the other convendons in regard to Wacousta, on Friday, Sept. 18, at 2:00 p. m. September 22. Held at the Court House, St. Johus, on the nomination of county officers. The DeWitt. on Friday, Sept. 18. at 7:80 p. m. THEY SECURED BUT LITTLE PLUNDER committee was composed of W. J. Gra*- Large and Harmonious Gathering In the Merl Beach Park, on Saturday, Sept. 19. at HOWEVER. —There will be no preaching services September 10, 1800. ham, A. W. Durkee and Riley Howland. Village of Maple Rapids. 12 m. at the M. E. church next Sunday. J. C. Flynn, A. C. Lee and F. Weinberg HENRY J. PATTERSON Other services will be held as usual. w’ere appointed committee on re plutions. Will address the voters upon the money A Funny Story Told of How Nelson Harris The People’s party held their county The Democratic, People's, and Union —Emanuel Scott, who removed from I. F. Cressman introduced tf.e follow­ question at the following mention placs. Left the Thieves and a Gold Watch In the convention at the court house, in St. ing resolntion which was adopted: Silver parties held their Senatorial con ­ St. Johns to Lansing about six months All meetings will be held in the evening: House While Went In Search of an Otticer Johus, Thursday, September 10th, for Inasmuch as we are in favor of economy and ventions for this, the 19th district, at ago, recently removed to Grand Ledge. the purpose of placing in nomiation can ­ retrenchment and the reduction of taxation in Eagle, Saturday, September 19. —Thieves and Watch are Missing. all just and reasonable direction, and as the Maple Rapids, Tuesday, September 15, Riley Town Hall, Monday, September 21. —V. R. Lane, who has been a resident didates for the various county offices jrice of labor and the price of products of the 1896, at 1 o’clock p. m. of St. Johus during the last three years, farmer, which he bus to sell and from which At the Kramer school bouse, East Bingham, and a member of the state legislature, he realizes his income, have in nearly every The following named delegates of the Tuesday evening, September 22. will return to his farm in Greenbush One night last week burglars entered in conjunction with the Democrats, instance declined in price more than one-half, three distinct organizations from Clin ­ DelTenderfer school House. Lebanon, Sept. this w eek. therefore the residence of M. McDonald, and the Union Silver people, and all other or­ Resolved. That the board of supervisors of ton and Gratiot counties, comprising 23, at 7:30 p. m. room of his son George, (which they —Rev. E. J. Brgdner occupied the ganizations and people favoriug and ad ­ Clinton county be respectfully asked to re­ Leonard Piggott School House, Lebanon, duce the salaries of all the officers of the tlie district, were present and admitted Sept. 21, at 7:30 p. m. undoubtedly supposed was the father’s) pulpit at the M. E. church last Sunday vocating bimetalism or free coinage of county of which the said liorad Axes the same to seats: evening, and preached a very interest ­ at least 25 per cent, from the present statutes. Grove School House, Watertown, Sept. 25, at and took therefrom the son ’s pants, both gold and silver on a parity of 16 to Democratic party—Clinton ocunty: H. J. 30 p. ra. Patterson. Johu Gunderman, E. E. l-rle John which, after inspection for “ wealth,” ing sermon. I without further waiting for the action The committee who had been aopoin ted Watertown Hall, Sept. 26, at 7:30 p. m. to confer with the other conventions re­ Stump, James R. Fulton, Charles Hooker, E. they left on the front porch. They —We are pleased to be able to say of foreign powers. W. Lyon, Eugene Parr, John 8. Blanoy, Chas. REV. ELISHA MUDGE. that Marvin Babcock is improving in ported and the nominations for county Kimball aud J. B. Yates. Gratiot county; Tlie silver candidate for*state senator also entered the house of Nelson Har­ The convention was called to order at officers were made in accordance with the Wm. Long, L. C. Hull, George Smith. Frank ris. And by the way, they tell a funny mind and body from what he was four Peet.J. A. Cassada, J. B. Willoughby. 1. E. from this district, will speak at the fol­ II o’clock a. m. by S. D. Watson, chair­ ticket which appears on the first page of ChHpman, W. D. Scott. A. Johnstone. Newell story connected with this midnight vis­ or six months ago. man of the county committee, who sum ­ this paper. Smith and J. T. Swigart. lowing places, upon the great question it. Those who pretend to be well in ­ —Daniel B. Chase, for many years a moned N. A. Dryer, ot Bath, as tempo­ Union Silver party-Clinton county; O. A. of the day : t ’ Whltlock.'Rilcy Howland, T. T. Newton, VV. J. Richmond Bcbool house, Greenbush, Mon ­ formed say that when Mr. Harris dis ­ resident of Essex township, this connty, rary chairman, after which I. D. Rich­ Whitlock and Frank Voorhees. Gratiot coun ­ day, September 21. covered that they were in bis house he died at his late home in Palo, Ionia mond, of St. Johns, was chosen tempo­ ty: A. E. Chase, F. D. Yale and Fred Kelley. People's party—Clinton county: John M. Union Home school house, Tuesday, Sep­ immediately went in search of an offi­ county, last week, in his 85th year. rary secretary. DeWitt, Edward Brown, Ralph Watson and tember 22. cer to catch ’em, and while he was ab­ — Miss Lula Millis, who was attacked Cornelius Grove. Gratiot county; R. M. Eureka, Wednesday, September 28. On motion the following committees Palmer and O. A. Iasbman. sent the thieves took his gold watch and with asthma last week Wednesday, CAPT. HENRY WALBRIDGE. were choseu.by tlie chairman : Duplain Prohibitionists Favor Each organization caucused and elect­ departed for new and quieter places of which her attending physician feared Burch school bouse, Lebanon, September 21, On credentials —Ralph Watson, John Bryan and Free Coinage. ed the following : operation. They also attempted to en ­ might terminate in congestion of the :S0 p. m. Pingle and Gilbert Sage. Democratic party—James A. Cassada, Allen school house, Lebanon, September 22, ter Willard Lyon ’s house, on east Cass lungs, is daily improving. On permanent organization and order :30 p. m. Republicans In That Section Very Much chairman ; E. E. Urie. secretary ; Jas street, in the absence of the family, but —The DeWitt band has been engaged of business —S. D. Watson, Chas. Leach A. Cassada, J. T.'Swigart and II. J. Gunnlsonville, DeWitt township, September Dissatisfied With the Methods Employed they were prevented by Horace Hollen ­ to furnish the music at the Clinton and J. B. Knapp. Patterson, committee on conference 24, 7.-30 p. m. liy the King Which Has Controlled Their ft beck, who was rooming there and pro­ County Fair on Wednesday, October 31. On resolutions —Cornelius Grove, J. Union Silver party—O. A. Whitlock, Wildcat school bouse, Victor, September tecting the property. He heard them The St. Johns band will occupy the Couuty Conventions for Years Fast and chairman ; A. E. Chase, secretary ; T. 26, 7:30 p m. M. DeWitt and Frank M. Osborn. T. Newton, Fred Kelly and F. D. l'ale, boring at the back door, and armed with band stand the balance of the Fair. Declare It Must be Thrown Down and Out. The committee on credentials report­ committee on conference. BU8INESS LOCALS a stick of wood, he stood waiting their —The interior and front of the store ed the following named as entitled to People’s party—J. M. DeW’itt, chair entrance, when he calculated to lay occupied by C. M. Johnson, grocer, and seats in this convention : From a Special Correspondent. man ; Cornelius Grove, secretary ; R. M. 5,000 Tous of Hay Wanted. them cold in death. But they were too Wm. N. Waldron, boots and shoes, has Bath- N. A. Dryer, E. A. Clise, H. G. Sage, D uflain , Sept. 16—The feeling at Palmer, O. A. Iasbman and Edward John Hicks . fast for Horace, who suddenly opened just undergone a fresh coat of paint, C. E. Leach. present among many of the prominent Brown, committee on conference. Clinton County Fair. the door upon them, which caused a Bingham—I. D. Richmond. Frank M. Osborn, Prohibitionists, of this part of the On motion the convention then took which adds to the attractiveness of the When you come to tne Fair bring your panic and a lively run on the place and to the smiles of its occupants. John M. DeWitt, 8. D. Watson, Edward Brown, county, seems to be that the party, al­ a recess to give the several committees E. H. and Sanford Myers. time to prepare their reports. family aud friends to the City BaKery surrounding banks. There is noth ­ —Owing to a pressure of home duties, Bengal—John Parks. most to a man, will support the silver aud Dining Room, foot of Clinton Ave., ing but tracks left, the substance and Mrs. Geo. II. Steel has* resigned the Olive-B. F. B. Arnold. ticket at the polls in November, not The conference committees recom­ west side, and be well fed "at small price. terror of usually quiet homes—by mid ­ office of president of the ladies ’ society DeWitt—J. E. Jayne, M. J. Linn, Edward that they love Prohibition less, but that mended that the three organizations V roman & Co. night—has woodbined. of St. John's church, and Mrs. Galuslia Hewett, E. P. Chadwick and Dr. Simmons. they believe the restoration of silver to come together in joint convention, and Fall Capes and Jackets Greenbush —Frank Ridenour. Pennell has been chosen to fill the va­ its rightful place is at the present mo­ that the chairman and secretary be the Now arriving at John Hicks ’. Riley—Ralph Watson, A. B. Cook, Dr. Pingle officers of the convention ; and further DROPPED DEAD. cancy. and J. B. Knapp. ment of greater importance, and that recommend that each organization have Mrs. Jones, after visiting many whole­ —A. F. Cowell, this village, packed Eagle—A. E. Gallop. no permanent prosperity or relief can sale houses in Chicago and Milwaukee, .fudging From the Suddenness it Must Watertown —Rufus DeMoss, Lester Field and equal privelages in said joint conven ­ is posted on tlie styley, prices and qual­ Have Been Heart Trouble. thirteen barrels of snow apples and suld be experienced until this is done. They Henry Williams. believe that all friends of silver should tion, and further recommended the fol­ ities of the Fall Millinery, and thinks no On last Saturday afternoon Newton them to J. S. Wolcott, for shipment, at one can sell as fine goods for as low On motion the report was accepted cast aside all minor party differences lowing order of business : Baker, of Bengal township, drove his 40 cents per barrel. After paying for 1. Swearing in of officers. prices as she can. and adopted. and combine upon this one great issue. team to town before a light buggy, and the labor and drayage, saying nothing 2. Reports of committeos. To the Hungry. The following resolution wras accept­ With respect to our county ticket the 3. Presentation of candidates. hitched in front of Lelaud's store. Soon of his own labor, he was just $2 in pock­ ed and adopted : 4. Nomination of candidate for State Sen Y'ou will always find the freshest and sentiment is strong and wide-spread ator. after, the gray gelding of his team et for his fruit. best made Bread, Pies, Cakes, Warm Resol ved, That a committee of three be ap­ among the Republicans here that the Rev. P. L. Ryker, of Maple Rapids, Meals and Lunches at the City Bakery, plunged forward and suddenly fell to —St. Johns is now connected by tele­ pointed by the Chairman as a conference com­ mittee, to confer with a like committee from machine, the ring, the close corporation, presented tlie name of the ltev. Elisha foot of Clinton Ave., west aide. the walk dead. The remains were phone with Maple Rapids, Union Home, the Democratic and Silver organizations,which Mudge. of that village, in an eloquent which has for some years been controll ­ drayed away and buried. In coming to Eureka. St. Louis, Alma, Riverdale, are now in session in St. Johns, ready to par­ speech, for State Senator. The nomina ­ We Show Style, ticipate in the nomination of candidates for ing their party affairs, and dictating Elegance, Novelty town the horse gave every evidence of Elm Hall, Sumner, Harrington, county officers and a member of the state leg­ tion was seconded by Dr. W. D. Scott the nominations at their own sweet will, and Wm. Long of Gratiot county ; also In our new Capes and Jackets. feeling as well-as ever, notwithstanding Pompeii, Middleton. Ithaca, DeWitt islature. The duty of said committee shall be to formulate and agree upon a distribution of promising offices far in advance, must seconded by Cornelius Grove and Ed ­ John Hicks . it had arrived at the stage of middle life. and Lansing, and before snow fiies you the candidates for the various offices among ward Brown and others of Clinton the various organizations represented ; and at all hazards be thrown dowm and out. The trouble may have been hereditary, can call up almost any place in creation. wnlch committee shall report to this conven ­ county. Mr. Newell Smith of Gratiot Going Out of Business. It looks as though the followers of as a neighbor who drove down with Mr. tion tne order and plan tor nominating candi ­ county, presented the name Geo. Smith, Having decided to go out of the Agri­ —II. A. Vroman & Co., late of Jack- dates; and also recommend the appointment the above mentioned select coteria of of St. Lous, but his nomination was not cultural implement, Carriage aud Wag­ Baker remarked that he had lost a horse son, who have succeeded Mr. Sage in of a committee to take charge of the county campaign, and whose duty it shall be to certi­ politicians would not be able to present supported, and the name was with­ on business, aud give my whole atten ­ in the same way which was a half drawn, leaving Mr. Mudge the sole can ­ tion to the sale of Sewing Machines, I the City Bakery, at the lower end of fy tne ticket nominated at this convention, a respectable minority at the polls. brother of this one. Clinton Ave., west side, are practical and to further report to this convention the didate, whereupon Dr. Scott, of Ithaca, will offer the remainder of my fine stock name of this ticket. The ticket which was placed in nomi ­ moved that the rules be suspended and of implements and vehicles at very low bakers, and they will add new features 8. D. WATSON, Rev. Elisha Mudge be nominated by ac­ He Didn ’t Like to Hear Him Say So. CORNEL1U8 GROVE, nation last week by the combined silver prices for ready pay. Call and see to their bakery and dining room from EDWARD BROWN. clamation for the office of State Senator, A. B. Balcom . One day this week we overheard the Committee on Conference. forces is an exceptionally strong one which motion was seconded aud his time to time. They invite your patron ­ and appeals for the support of every tantelizing portion of a little conversa ­ The committee on permanent organi nomination made unanimous. Bakery, Billing and Lunch Room. age and guarantee satisfaction. voter. On motion the chairman named tion between a Republican People's zatiou and order of business recommend The quUest and best place in St. —Webber & Wagner, the popular It is pre eminently the ticket of the committee of three to wait upon the Johns to gain satisfaction for the inner Party man, residing in one of the town ­ that the temporary officers be made per nominee aud notify him of his nomina ­ clothiers at No. 17 Clinton avenue, have people. The resolutions adopted by the man at reasonable charges, is at ships of this county, and a very anxious mauent, which was adopted, and that tion, aud to invite him to the hall and VROMAN & CO.’S now ’ ready for inspection and s^e a very convention are especially worthy of com nominee on the Republican county the order of business be as follows : entertaiu the faithful in their struggle City Bakery, foot of Clinton Ave., west complete and handsome line of fall and mendatiou. They merit the approval of for 16 to 1, and an exposition of the fal ticket. The Republican nominee asked 1. Hearing and considering reports of the side, St. Johns. winter clothing and underwear for men every tax payer aud believer in reform lacy of a single gold standard. the tiller of the soil how things looked usual committees. The chairman named as such commit­ Leave your orders at A. O. Hunt ’s and boys wear. As they buy and sell Hearing and considering report of con and retrenchment. over in his section concerning the finan ­ tee, Mewell Smith and Dr. Scott, of and get F. K. Perkins to do your Paint ­ for cash, and are satisfied with small ference committee. The present aspect of the political cial question. “Why,” he said “there Gratiot county, and J. M, DeWitt, of ing and Papering at reduced prices. profits and quick sales, people are fast 3. The next action of the convention to be horizon argues well, and success Clinton county, who escorted the nomi ­ 27tf ______are three free coinage persons to one governed by said report. learning that it is most profitable to seems certain. nee to the half, where he was greeted Insurance, gold, and I find about the same ratio 4. Election of a county committee. with rounds of hearty cheers, and where trade with them. Fire. Life aud Cyclone. about every place I go.” To this the 6. Miscellaneous business. he made a strong and impressive speech —Preparatory for the fall trade and Once Mure. T. C. Butler . nominee replied : ‘‘It must be that you On motion the report was accepted on the all absorbing question of bimet- the fast approaching county fair, Cha­ Emory Et Urie, the choice of the re­ alism vs. a single gold standard. His have not traveled much. ” “Yes, and adopted, after which the following To th« Hungry. pin & Co. are arranging to entertain and cent joint convention for county clerk remarks were timely and valuable, and When in St. Johns call at Watts’ have, and every place I go I find the named were chosen as officers of the he was frequently cheered from start to profit their large number of patrons, did the work so well when he held the Dining Hall, No. 4 Clinton avenue, for same condition of affairs.” The nomi People’s party county committee: J. M. finish. meals. Board by the day or week.— who are sure to come to the fair, and office six years ago, that they nominated nee stroked his beard with a great deal DeWitt, chairman; S. D. Watson, secre F. 1). Yale offered the following reso­ Meals 25c.; 5 tickets for $1.00. who rarely ever fail to visit their store him without a single word of complaint lution : of nervousness, and finally said tary ; Edward Brown, treasurer. . W. II. Watts . when in town. Their new fall styles of or objection. He is a genial and oblig Resolved, That the ticket formulated and “Well, it beats the devil anyway, ” and The committee on resolutions report­ adopted in convention assembled, be named Now Is Your Opportunity dress goods are coming in, and they are ing gentleman and endeared himself to and known as the Democratlc-People’s-Union hurried away to find more congenial ed the following, which was accepted To buy one of the leading Sewing Ma­ so handsome in shades and patterns, a large circle of friends by his urbanity 8llver-Tlcket of the 19th Senatorial District chines of the day at a price greatly re­ company. and adopted : composed of Clinton and Gratiot counties. and so low in price. See their adver ­ and careful attention to all the details duced. You can save a handsome mar­ Your committee on resolutions would re­ On motion the resolution was accept­ gin by seeing me before you buy. For County Treasurer. tisement on our last page. spectfully submit the following; of this busy department of the county ’s ed and adopted. A. B. Balcom . Resolved, That we indorse the platform On motion the chairman appointed a Joseph R. Bohr, of Westphalia, the —Fred Bowles, superintendent at the adopted by the People's party at the St. Louis affairs. He did not seek the office at convention, and the candidates named by that this time, but the people sought him to Senatorial campaign committee of three Two Drays. combination choice for county treas­ gas works, has discovered and applied a convention ; and also the resolutions adopted one from each party here represented If you have heavy draying or light urer, is the supervisor and one of the new ’ device for consuming the refuse by the People’s party state convention at Bay fill the office, which they say he will composed of the following named gen deliveries to be done, and desire care City, Mich., and the candidates nominated surely do after January 1,1897. He has tlemen : J. T. Swigart,Gratiot, Demo­ foremost and valuable men of his town ­ from the oil used in the cupola for mak thereat. All of which Is here respectfully sul promptness at reasonable prices, and mitted. CORNELIUS GROVE, lost none of bis popularity and fitness crat ; A. E. Chase, Union Silver, Gra call on me. Richard Gay . ship. He did not seek the office, but on ing gas, which has heretofore been diS' J. M. Da WITT, tiot; Edward Brown, Clinton, People’s the contrary, urged that his name posed of through the sewers to the dis ­ FRANK M. OSBORN, since the expiration of his official term Smoke “ St. Johns Bouquet, ” 5 cents. Committee. Henry J. Patterson, nominee forjudge gust and annoyance of people living or The is no more fit or worthy man for of Probate on the Democratic-People's- should not be used, but those who knew Pending the report of the conference Smoke “Royal Crown Perfecto,” 10 doing business on the lines. The refuse this office than Emory E. Urie. Union-Siiver ticket, addressed a large him best lent a deaf ear to his protest, committee, short speeches were made by cents. from the oil is skimmed from the out ­ and appreciative audience in the even ­ and his nomination was made unani ­ Messrs. Dryer, Watson, DeWitt, Leach, The Fowler Mills. ing. He spoke for two hours, demon ­ side taks and deposited in a reservoir in mous amid thunderous applause. Mr. Warstler and others. The people of Fow’ler and thesur strating by facts and figures the ruiuous HE STATE 8 A VINOS HANK the building near the fire-box under the effects to the farmers through the main ­ OF FOWLER. Bohr is a gentleman possessing a repu It wTas moved and supported that the rounding country are much pleased with T hollers, and by the aid of direct and air tenance of a single gold standard. There tation and business capacity for the proceedings of this convention be taken the work and products of the new ’ grist CAPITAL, $16,000. pipes and an inspirator, it is injected was none of the low demagogue partisan office for which he has been chosen to The Independent and the News mill erected, furnished and stocked by pretended zeal mainifestea. tie pre­ NET ASSETS OF STOCKHOLDERS. $800,001 into the fire-box and consumed, and at which many might envy. He comes for publication. Frank Becker & Co., a little better than sented his subject .iD a plain, fair and the same time adding to the heating convincing manner, many of bis ban ­ FRANK GRULER, President. from that old reliable German stock The conierence committee reported a year ago, and which is now owned and FREDERICK SCHEMER. Vic^President. power. It is a valuable discovery, as it ners urging him to go ahead, and to which gives him a natural good stand ­ as follows: That the office of repre­ operated by the firm of Becker Broth­ promise to come again before the cam­ W. H. SNELLING CmMs will save fuel to the company and much ing among men. sentative in the state legislature, one ers-Frank and Ferdinand. paign closes. DIRECTORS: fault-finding among the people. circuit court commissioner, and survey The mill is located on the eouth side Constantine Feidpausch, Frederick Schema ATTENTION DEMOCRATS! SCHOOL CENSUS. —Despite the efforts of Jerry Dooling or be assigned to the People’s party. of the railroad, a short distance west of W. H. Snelllng, Michael Spitzley, and family to the contrary, the Standard A. E. Dutcher, Frank Gruler. A Grand Jubilee September SS at Newton On motion the report was accepted the station, and is a roomy and well Oil Company have secured the ground For District No.|4, Bingham, for 1896. Constantine Gruler. Hall—Come and Enjoy Yourself. and adopted. constructed building, with brick and on Railroad street now occupied by the Wm. Cochrane having completed the ' Four per cent. Interest paid on tlma < The famous Tennesseean Jubilee The names of N. A. Dryer, of Bath, stone engine room. The main building village pound, where they have com for representative in the state legislat­ is steel clad, and contains three double school census for this district, we are Singers will be here. They are the best menced the erection of a brick repository permitted to take a ftfw facts from his TATE BANK OF ^T. JOHNS. on the American platform. The plan ­ ure ; Frank M. Osborn, of Bingham, for sets of rollers for manufacturing flour, S' for oil and gasoline, and to make this circuit court commissioner, and Alfred and one set for grinding feed that has a report. The total number of children COMMERCIAL AND SAYINGS tation songs and famous Negro Melo­ a distributing point for this section of the in the district bet ween the ages of 5 and B. Ide, of Watertown, for surveyor, w’ere capacity of fifty bushels per hour. The CAPITAL, 60,000. dies will be discoursed at length. “ Old 20 years is 904, of which 437 are males country, claiming this will make them duly nominated. mill has a capacity of forty barrels of Black Joe” will be sung and acted in cheaper to retailers, hence to consum ­ and 467 are females. Number of child NET ASSETS OF STOCKHOLDERS $900,00$. such a manner as to enthuse every loyal On motion the convention adjourned flour per day. They manufacture only ers. Mr. Dooling and family objected ren in the district between the ages of P. K. PERRIN. President. heart. This will be the spice of the to the joint convention for further ac­ one straight grade, which gives satisfac­ to having it built in front of their fine tion and ratification. 8 and 14 years, 567. N umber of children O. W. MUNOKR, Vice-President. campaign. Admission : Adults, 25c ; tion to all who use it. They pay the J. W. FITZGERALD, Cashier. residence on account of the odor that I. D. Richmond , Sec’y. highest market prices for grains, and do between tne ages of 5 and 20 years that children, 15c; reserved seats, 10c extra, attended school last year, P]3, of which H. H. FITZGERALD, Assistant they thought would come from it, as custom work promptly and in a satis­ on sale at Hunt ’s drug store now . THE SILVER CONVENTION, is the case of the gas works. But it is factory manner. 410 were males and 503 females. Num DIRECTORS: claimed that it will be odorless. Henry ber of non resident pupils, 469. The O. W. Hunger, Gao. f. Marvin, J. W. Fitzgerald, Advertised Letters. Harris, our old and faithful drayman, Favored Reducing the Salaries of County —Miss Stella White will return from district library contains 480 volumes J. H. Co,bit, J. H. Fedewa, Geo. W. Em­ Officer* mons, M. V. Brown, P, K. Perrin, September 16, 18QC. will be given charge of this distributing her summer vacation tomorrow and take The total seating capacity in the three Tlie union silver party convention was O. 8. Allison, G.B. Corbin. Knlfrht, Mias Laura Castle, Aileton point and paid for delivering the fluids called to order by O. A. Whitlock, chair­ her accustomed place at the head of the buildings is 950. The school property Jaaaa Sullivan. Gum, Mrs. Rose, Miss Stella Jewltb, Geo Vroman, L. Clair to the dealers in the surrounding towns. man, at the court, house last Thursday trimming department of Boucher & of the district is valued at $40,000 R. D. MCCABE P. M. No man is more worthy than he. who nominated V. C. Botsford as tem- Petsch’s millinery establishment. Total wages paid teachers, $8,613.75. 4 Per Cent. Interest Paid on Time D epoeltn CLINTON INDEPENDENT, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1890.

Ontonagon to Rebuild. The large main building of the Bat­ TO KILL CZAR AND QUEEN. PERRY'S VICTORY. PENINSULA MATTERS It is now definitely known that 343 TREMBLING THRONE. tle Creek luiprovineutCo. was destroyed An ’Alleged Plot to Dynamite Queen t ie* 1 Cleveland Calibrate* In Honor of the buildings were destroyed in the recent by fire and the smaller baildings were tor.a and the Czar of Kusela. Laka Erla Haro. fire at Ontonagon and that there are RELATED IN A BRIEF, CONCISE saved with difficulty, The lues will THE SULTAN OF TURKEY TO London cable: Scotland yard detec- j As a preliminary to the celebrution nearly 100 buildings now standing reach $25,000 largely on manufactured MANNER. tives ha ve made important discoveries of the anniversary of Commodore within the village limits. On the first wagons and farm tools. BE DEPOSED. by the arrests of Edward Bell, at Glas­ Perry's victory on Lake Erie in 1813, day of September there were 1,825 peo­ Edward Gates, was driving some gow; J. Wallace and John F. Kearney, the marble statue of the naval hero in ple in the village. About 250 have Ltttw C*rrl«ti’ National Convention — cattle to Coldwater when a steer be­ Warship# Galore are Azsi mhtln? In the at Rotterdam, and P. J. P. Tynan Wade park at Cleveland, erected in left since that date, and more are go­ came angry and turned upon him, j (“No. l”)at Boulogue-sur-Mer, France, 1801, was decorated with flowers. A. O. U. W. Select Knights 1U0 Meet— ing. A few buildings are in process of trampling upon him and goring him. Madltairai.Mii tea and ara Kandy to and have nipped a widespread dyna ­ There were appropriate ceremonies. erection, and others will be built as A Large Lake Steamer Launched at The animal hod to be killed before he Vlglit a* Scan a* tha Word 1* Given — mite plot in the bud. At Rotterdam, Ex-8enator Butler, of South Carolina, fast as lumber can be secured. The VT jr anriot t e— li r e v 11 lee. would desist. Mr. Gates was fatally Mauztrt of Armenian# Must Stop. in addition to arresting Wallace and a nephew of Perry, made an address. Ontonagon bank was closed but 48 hurt. Kearney the poliee captured a number Gov. Lippitt, of Rhode Island, whieh hours on aoeodnt of the fire. The re­ Wm. II. Johnson, who in company of infernal machines and a quantity of was the native state of Perry and other lief store Is being conducted on strictly Letter Carrier*' National Convention. with Isaac Snow, assaulted Mrs. Phe- correspondence in cipher, a key to distinguished persons also, (poke business principles by the best business Dispatches from Constantinople say: The opening feature of the conven ­ line Inline, aged 85, at her home near which having been discovered, the cor­ briefly. Among those present was men in Ontonagon. A feeling of the greatest anxiety pre­ tion of the National Letter Carriers Columbiaville, was sentenced by Judge respondence was read, and it is said to CoL Oliver fl. Perry, of Elmhurst, The people of the destroyed village vails in all circles. There Is no doubt association, at Grand Rapids, was the Smith, of Lapeer, to 14 years imprison ­ that a crisis of extreme gravity has have been plans .or dynamite out ­ Conn., a grand nephew of the commo­ annual parade which attracted large have not yet given up all hope rebuild ­ ment at Jackson. Snow is serving a rages, including an attempt upon ing, even if the Diamond Match Co. been reached and that the powers dore. crowds and which contained large dele lerm for forgery and will get hia dose the life of Queen Victoria. It The formal celebration was begun does not rebuild its plant. There are are discussing the deposition of the (rations from New York, Chicago. De­ later. sultan, that being, apparently, the appears that the police officials have by firing a national salute of 45 guns. troit, Cleveland and other large cities. still millions of feet of lumber to be been cognizant for some time past of Then followed a reception to Gov. Lip­ cut in the vicinity and five or six large A heavy wind and lightning storm only means of restoring quiet and con- Postmaster Washington Hesing, of struck Holland. Several buildings a 1 fidence within the Turkish empire. A the existence of a fresh dynamite con ­ pitt and other distinguished visitors. Chicago, was one of the prominent fig sawmills could find ample business spiracy and there is no reason to doubt Ah hour later the exercises at the Cen ­ there for years, by making rates to few miles from the city were burned. British fleet of about 15 warships is off urea The postmasters of Jackson, I the island of Thasos, and within easy that the information is of the moat tral armory commenced. After'an ad ­ compete with other mills along the The house of Elias Beeker is aldiost a Muskegon, Saginaw, Bay City, Detroit, complete wreck, the roof and frame­ striking distance should an emergency serious character, although it is diffi ­ dress by Gov. Bushnell and prayer by Battle Creek and Toledo were also at lake, while a better site for an enor ­ cult to obtain definite facts at present. Rev. John Mitchell, Gov. Lippitfe de ­ mous hardwood industry could not be work being entirely shattered. Mr. I arise, and it is believed that Great the head of the respective forces. Becker and his family of five children I Britain will not hesitate to act alone in A dispatch from Glasgow says that livered an oration. He was followed by The carriers made a handsome appear­ found. Every mining man in the cop­ from information in the possession of Senator M. C. Butler, of South Carolina. per country recognizes that the great were in the house at the time, but all the matter of putting an end to the ance in uniform and were liberally ap­ escaped with but slight injury. A J present disgraceful state of affairs if the police of that city there is a strong Frederick Boyd Stevenson readi aa plauded. After the parade a lunch mineral range near Ontonagon will suspicion that the conspirators were original poem entitled "The Battle-of form the reserve copper supply of this horse belonging to Peter Kuiger was the other powers delay act ion too long. was served the carriers and the con ­ killed. As almost generally expected, the planning an outbreak to occur while Lake Erie.” Rev. Dr. C. E. Manchester, vention opened with welcoming and country, when the range in the neigh­ W’hile Adolphus Grenmie and wife, extraordinary tribunal which has been the czar and czarina visited the queen a third cousin of Commodore Perry, speeches by Mayor Stow, Postmaster borhood of Hancock, Houghton and at Balmoral. Iff is added that all the well known residents of Richland trying the men accused of inassacreing mode the closing prayer. In the after*- Carroll, President Olewind, Congress­ Calumet shall have been worked out. township, Ogemaw county, were driv ­ Armenians in the streets of Constanti ­ suspects are known to have purchased noon a great civic and industrial pa­ man Smith and others and responses There is no better farming land uny- materials for the manufacture of ing to their home they stopped at Clear nople and its suburbs has turned out geant took place in which many thous ­ by President Quinu and ex-President where in the country than in Ontona ­ b mbs. lake to water their horse, driving into to be nothing more than a whitewash­ and* of persons participated. The- Conden, of the National association, gon county, the only drawback being Dispatches from Antwerp and Brus ­ the lake for that purpose. In turning ing court. The men who were arrested battle of I,ake Erie, which has immorv- and Postmaster Hesing. Among other the short spring and summer seasons. sels say that the plotting and manu ­ around the horse backed into deep for brutally killing two Armenians be­ taliued the name of Oliver Hazzard. matters of business was the passage of facture of explosives are known to have Another Death from Benton Harbor'* Fire water, and Mrs. Grenmie, becoming fore the guardhouse of the British em­ Perry, was reproduced on the lake a resolution calling for a $1 contribu ­ bren carried on in those cities, but the Benton Harbor was again decked in frightened, jumped from the buggy bassy and in full view of several Brit­ front in- the evening in a sham battle- tion from every member of the associa­ plotters escaped before the police mourning and her business houses and was drowned before she could be ish officials, have been acquitted. As and pyrotechnical. tion to care for Herman Dyteh, of closed owing to the death and burial rescued. there was no possible doubt of their raided their bomb laboratories. Philadelphia in his old age. Dyteh guilt, their acquittal is regarded here British Grabbing Alaskan Territory. of Will McCormick, the twelfth victim After being fed at the home of Bar­ framed and pushed the bill for the as showing that it is useless to expect Spain lluii Win or Abandon Cuba. A Washington special says: The ac­ of the opera house fire. He died of ney Zinker, near Newberry, a tramp eight-hour day for carriers. The the Mussulmans will be punished for The London Times publishes a tion of the Canadian surveyors in so- gangrene. He was formerly a marine made indecent remarks to Mias Zinker, Kiefer salary bill now before congress crimes committed against Armenians. lengthy letter from its Havana corres­ locating the 141st meridian as to throw engineer and was a friend of the dock- aged 20, who was alone in the house. was indorsed. It provides for salaries It is also looked upon its a defiance of pondent dealing with the state of af­ 200 gold mines, including the richest men. They showed their esteem by The girl seized a ritle and ordered the in first-class cities of $000,8300,81,000 the powers as they had demanded that fairs in Cuba in which he says; Care­ placer mine* of Alaska, into Canadian marching 200 strong in the funeral pro­ tramp to leave, bnt the fellow tried to and $1,200 for one, two, three and four these men be punished* As usual, the ful study for the past four months con ­ territory, is likely at any time, to pre­ cession which was over half a mile wrench the gun from her hands. In years’ service respectively, and in sec­ porte is relying upon the jealousies ex­ vinces me that. despite serious losses, cipitate such a eouflict of authority as long. Ex-Chief Crawford ’s injuries are the struggle the weapon was dis ­ ond-class cities 8000, $300 and $1,000 for isting among the six powers to save the rebels are holding their own cannot be ignored by the government. very likely to prove fatal also. charged, the bullet passing through one, two and three years' service, and the sultan once more and, at the last against the troops. The wealthy agri- These mines are operated by Ameri­ the girl’s right leg. The tramp then reduces the population qualification for moment, from being brought to terms, i cultural districts are completely under cans. thousands of whom have gone to NEWS FOR MICHIGANDERS. skipped. first-cluss cities. The annual banquet and as Abdul Hamid has so frequently rebel control, and the whole sympathy the Alaskan tie Lis since the discovery was held at Reed ’s Lake, with speeches Ellis Fuller ’s home burned at Ithaca. >V. W. Gouche, a wealthy Berrien escaped punishment during the course of the islanders is with the rebels. of gold, and they will not readily sub ­ county farmer, predicts that the world Even Havana, whieh is more Spanish mit to the miles and regulations pre­ by prominent people. John Gulick, aged 80, a bachelor, of his long and much-troubled: reign, will come to an end October 1. Gouche than any other town or district, is per­ scribed by the mounted police, who died in a barber’s chair at Pontiac. the porte has grounds for believing CUT of Mackinac In a Collision. has converted his property into coin, meated with animosity towards .Span ­ will now attempt to take charge of the Joe Reco, an Italian trammer, was that even now Europe will not step in The D. & C. steamer City of Macki­ which be has secretly buried, being and put an end to the disgraceful con ­ ish rale, and is honeycombed with in- 1 disputed territory on the strength of nac came into collision with tHe Cross­ killed by a fall of rock in the Palms the victim of an hallucination that his triguers on behalf of the rebellion. the report made by Surveyor Ogilvie. mine at Bessemer. ditions prevailing in the Turkish em­ witch, one of t'he three consorts of the treasure will come into his possession pire. The struggle is prolonged by the facility Bloodshed between the miners and steamer William Strong in Lake St. U. C. Bristol, of East Tawas, lost again in the next world. A vivid There is no diminution in the rancor with which the insurgents obtain ana- police cannot well be avoided unless Clair, and received injuries which nearly $0,000 by the burning of his dream be recently bad he regards as a displayed by the Mussulmans towards munition and stores of all kinds from prompt steps are taken to permanently made it necessary to put her in the residence and consents. revelatioa, and he has a considerable the Armenians. The actual number of abroad, and from every town in Cuba, settle the question of jurisdiction.. -drydock. A few hundred feet from the Welcome Merchant, aged 55, an old following and weird scenes are being the victims of the recent disorders under the noses of the Spanish The territory declared a* belonging west end of the U. S» ship canal at soldier, was instantly killed by a Lake nightly enacted. certainly 5,000, and will probably reach officials, with impunity, the seiz­ to Canada varies in width from three the head of Lake St. Clair the Strong Shore engine at Sturgis. Dr. Joel W. Wetmore, fromerly a 6,000. The troops are warned that ure of contraband being most rare. to eight miles,, axid the wealth it con ­ with her conserts was met coming It is now too late to compromise by Fire destroyed the Galena house at prominent homeopathic physician at they will be held responsible by the tains cannot be estimated* Negotia­ -down. Signals were exchanged to pass granting reforms. The Cuban insur ­ Baraga with a loss of 81,000. The en ­ Holland, with a wife and two grown Turkish government if outbreaks in ­ tions are now pending with Great Brit­ to port. Suddenly the second of the gents will now accept full autonomy, tire town was threatened. daughters, has been arrested for com­ volving the destruction of property and ain for a convention to have a joint consorts began sheer over into the plicity in the munler of Enos Law­ and nothing less, as the price of laying- commission of astronomers appointed During a thunderstorm the Fourth loss of life occur again, but they are at Mackinac's course and almost instantly rence, whose body was fished out of down their arms. Spain will be com­ to survey and locate the 141st meridian waxd school house at Manistee was the same time authoriz 'd to use their it crashed against the sharp prow of Black lake last April, and for whose pelled to conquer or abandon the island. and the U. S. congress has appropriated badly damaged by lightning. arms in self defense if they are attacked. the big steamer. The engines of the munler Mrs. Lawrence and Ray Coates Th».^r so-called precautionary measures $75,000 for that purpose. The fact S»a» of Veteran*' Encampment, Mackinac were at once reversed, and Frank Guttcnwitch, a coal miner, have been convicted, the former now have nut improved the situation, but that the con rent ion has not been held Over 10,000 strangers entered tile the steamer backed away so quickly was takin in custody at Corunna. He awaiting sentence and the latter being have rather served to extend the feel­ is said to be due to delay on the part gate*of Louisville, Ky., to participate that her stern struck the channel bank, seems to have gone daft on religion. sent to Jackson for life. Mrs. Law­ ing of terrorism. This has aroused the of the British authorities. Theotficials in enjoyment incident to the national bending the rudder post badly and Case Bros., saloonkeepers, at Flint, rence has made a confession implicat­ greatest indignation among the foreign of the state department do* not in any encampment of the Sons of Veteran*, rendering the rudder unfit for use. will have to pay Charlotte Rhine vault ing Wetmore in the crime. population and serves to greatly in ­ degree recognize Ogilvie’* survey, The Crosswitch settled rapidly and $175 for selling her husband liquor and the annual meeting of the La die* which now threatens international The M ichigan Press association an crease the feeling of uneasiness whieh Aid society, auxiliary to the S. of V. .finally sank. contrary to orders. nual meeting was he Id at Detroit. The prevails on all sides. These things complications, as in any way binding The residence of Mrs. Robert Bentley comprised 2,000 members of that or- f n pon the and noconces- Select Knight* A. O. V. IV. following officers were elected: Presi­ show that the peaceable residents of ganization besides numerous local mil/- ! ^iong WU1 be made upon the etrengtb at Otsego,' occupied by M. Walch, was The grand legion of select knights of dent, L. E. Slussar, of the Mancelona Constantinople are absolutelv without iiary and civic societies, and was re­ badly gutted by fire which was caused of his conclusions. “the A. O. U. W. of Michigan met at Herald; vice-president, IL J. Stevens, guarantee that their lives or property viewed by Commander-in-Chief W. LI. by a gasoline stove explosion. Coldwatcr. The sessions were secret, of Houghton; secretary, C. T. Fairfield, are safe and that they must henceforth RussclL At the business sessions re­ Peter Wheeler was hanged at the but they report evefj'thing in first- Henry Young, a pensioner, aged 57 of the Eaton Rapids Journal; treasurer, depend almost entirely upon the war­ port* allows that despite the hard jail at Digby, N. D., for the murder of class condition financially and other­ years, was struck by a D., G, H. & M. VV. J. Hunsaker, of the Detroit Journal. ships of the powers for protection. time* an increase of 450 in membership Annie Kemptoo. aged 10, whom he wise. The following grand officers train at the Champlain street crossing The reports showed a membership of News from Armenia show* that a is reported, Pennsylvania showing murdered while attempting to despoil were elected: Past grand commander, at Detroit, and died 20 minutes later. 17.5 with 8-400 in the treasury. The very serious condition prevails there the Largest number of recruits. Thir­ her. He Confessed his guilt. John F. C. Railings, Detroit; grand Luln Dingman, aged 20, of Kent City, annual oirting which followed the bus ­ and that further massacres are antici ­ teen states shows a decrease in mem­ commander, E. 11. Russell, ltattle attempted suicide with morphine at iness session comprised a trip to Cleve­ pated. It is hlso asserted that a whole­ bership, Ohio heading the list with. 003. TIME MARKETS. land, Buffalo and Niagara Falls. sale massacre of Christians is planned Cieek; vice giand commander, Fred Muskegon. A note was found saying Five-eighthsof the total decrease was UTK STOCK. Lash, Hay City; lieutenant commander, she was tired of the life she was leading. to occur within a fortnight and that in the states of Indiana and Ohio. New York— Cattle Sheep Lambs Hogs BRIEF ITEMS. Armenians have been deported on Beat grade*. <* J . l 3i 3 .*> *4 90 A. T. Crissey, Grand Rapids; standard Bert Howard, a young married mau Commaiuler Russell reported a surplus 9* 13 board ships and have been drowned. Lower gruae*-..3 e>. 4 00 2 25 499 3 00 bearer, P. Dodenhoff, Detroit; senior of Niles, while hunting near Allegan, of $X6t>5 against $2,055 when: ha- waa Chicago— Ex-Judge D. L. Meeker, aged 70, Grant Britain la Arou*ed. workman, A. M. Hall, Hattie Creek; accidentally shot himself in the legs. who served on the Darke county, O., elected. Best grade*.....4 3">..5 ft) :* t> 400 3 n junior workman, James H. Glenn, London cables say that the deposi ­ Lower grade*..3.33..4.03 ft 09 2 51 8 00 He was taken home in a serious condi- bench for 20 years, died at Greenville. Detroit— Niles; recorder, Jas. Pitcher, Saginaw tion. tion of the sultan of Turkey is regarded Six Killed In a Coaching H*rty X««Wnit Best grades,...! TJ..4 «0 39* 4 00 3 35 A. J. Dearborn, state president of even in the most conservative quarters Lower grades .2 93..3 5) 3 00 2 53 3 25 treasurer, Win. Doddelaar. Grand Rap­ The only son of John W. Dunlop, of A frightful accident occurred to a ids; guard, J. H. Montague, Coldwate; ; the A. P. A. in Missouri, was found ly­ is the only way to put an end to the coaching party of young people which Cln< Innatl — Clare, was drowned while bathing Best grade* . ..4 eOt.4 25 3 4 25 S 35 ing in the street near his home at Kan ­ terrible bloodshed in Constantinople medical examiner, L. A. Warsabo, with other boys. He fell into a deep started ont from Warsaw, Ind. When Lower grad**.. 2 09..3 75 303 2 50 3 20 sas City, unconscious from wounds in ­ and Armenia which has become &dj»- C.evelanU — Cold water. hole and was drowned before assistance about five miles out the horse* took flicted by an unknown assailant. Be­ grace to European civilization. Every­ fright and backed the-tally-ho over an Best grade*....4.00;.4 21 3 SO 4 00 3 30 Momt«r Lake Steamer Launched. arrived. sides being badly battered about the Lower grade*.. 2 00,.3 73 2 00 2 50 3 20 where, on the continent, imGreat Brit- embankment, and the- people, horses Plttubnr* — The Robert Fulton, the third of the G. R. Malone, chairman of the Na­ head Dearborn had suffered a stab tan and in Constantinople itself, plans and vehicle, were rolled! down a hill­ Be*t grade* ...4 35..4 '<0 3 25 4 35 3 5) Lower grades. 3 6* .4 03 3 25 3 04 8 4 14 ore carriers to be built for John D, tional Prohibition state committee, has wound. are being disci?* ted to supersede the side in a mangled and. bloody mass. 0 Rockefeller, of the Standard Oil Co., resigned. Dr. Henry A. Reynolds, of United States Minister Taylor has sultan and there is no doubt that Six persons were killed, The remain ­ GRAIN, BTC. has been launched at the Detroit Dr}'- Pontiac, vice-chairman, now becomes declared to the Spanish government Great Britain will lie the leading spirit der of the party escaped! with more or Wheat. Corn , Oats. S,H S3 « 2) is a monster mass of iron and ' weighs, Wm. Patterson, an old and respected ably disposed towards Spain, but that pared to act alone if the powers are was killed in the fall and the others Chicago niq pi1 * 2 •3'H. 2> . V without engines and inside finish, over farmer near Bad Axe, committed *nl- •Detvw t «tq..atq SI . .21 19 .. T« owing to the extent of the United too slow in co-operating with her. had to be shot. Toledo 01 Bit 2> . 2 • 19 .. 19 2,400 tons. Her length over all is 438 %cide by cutting his throat. Mr. Pat­ States coast line, she Ls unable to pre­ There is no fear, it is said, but so soon Ulnclnnatl (t >4 .01 t! . 21 18 . 18 feet; 45X feet beam and 28 feet depth. terson was au influential man in his NEWS ITEMS IN BRIEF. Clave and o> . e** 23 . 31'4 18 .. 1834, vent the departure of fllibusterern for as th^ British fleet clears- for action fttetahnrg 01 ..0C4 .21 1854.. 19 Her engines will be triple expansion township. the Island of Cuba. the fleets of the other powers will fol­ * The Bethlehem, V*-» Iron Co.’s steel •Detroit.-Hay. No. I timothy. 'I*./*) per ton. and it is expected that her boilers will John Ilonlinke was found dead in low the example if for no-other reason Potatoes, :15c per bn. Live Poultry-, chickens, Advices from Havana give details of plant has shut down for lack of orders Ke per lb; turkeys tto: ducks. 7c. Kggs. fresh. develop 2,000 horse power. It is esti­ his carpenter shop at Grand Rapids, a massacre of Cubans in Matanzas than the apprehension that some one and over 009 men arc idle. tuC per doe. Muster, dairy. 13c; dreamery, lsc. mated that she will carry 0,000 tons of with his throat cut from ear to ear. province by Spaniards under Gen. of them will gain a point e( vantage REVIEW OF TKAOK. ore at a draught of 18 feet. Her en ­ He was an old man and was considered Molinas. Eighteen men and four wo­ in the long-looked for settlement of Mrs. Delia T. S> Purnell, mother oil gines are builf to develop a speed of 10 slightly demented. men were killed outright, while 13 the affairs of the Turkish empire. the late Charles Stewart Parnell, is- seriously ill at Bray, near Dublin. ’ Pr0 miles an hour when she is loaded and Fred Rice, who shot and killed his others, including three children were The British fleet in the Mediterranean an .ie tv do not vet orlng In near demands for towing a consort carrying as many finished product*. though large buying of p.g friend Will Simons, near Lakh City, in wounded. Weyler seems to have com­ has been reinforced' by a flotilla of tor­ A dispatch, from. Athens says that an iron. wool, leather. hides, cotton and other tons. She was designed by Frank E. official dispatch states that the Turks material* continue to show » growing belief April has been sentenced to one year’s pletely lost his head. He is having pedo boat destroyers, coinin ’ssioned that a general upward muveraent In prices will Kirby, of Detroit, and cost $350,000. imprisonment at Ionia for the careless leading citizens of lluvana arrested by last month for servire in the Mediter ­ have massacred 2U Armenian refugees come with the rep enl-bmenSof dealers' stocks wholesale. Weyler says the men ar­ ranean. They are under the convoy in Scutari this rail Most prices are o-tiemely U*w. so Detroit Custom* Orp.-lal an Embezzler. handling of firearms. that nothing more than ordinary demand would rested have been plotting to have him of the cruisers- Blenheim and ( haryb- The British-Egyptian advance upon advance them. Crop returns Indirate disap ­ After twojyeirs of service as cashier Mr. and Mrs. Leon Cota, who came pointment in some cotton and some spring to Menominee in 1800. have celebrated recalled to Spain. The arrests have dis, have passed Gibraltar. and will Dongoia has begun from AbsaraL A wheat slute*: price* of oorn and oat* m ike it of the Detroit custom house Charles V. profoundly stirred Havana. soon join the British fleet which is now force of mounted dervishes were unprolltab.e to »el lit present: tiie number of Bryan, ex-president of the board of their 50th wedding anuiversary. They manufacturing work* u id min s In opera'ion are the parents of 14 children. Mr. The news received from the Island of anchored in Kavala laty, Salonica, sighted, l>ut they' retired, evidently to does not gain, but ruthei decrea*©*: reduction* trade of Detroit and at one time con ­ within easy steaming distance of the carry back the news of the advance. of wage* are somewhat numerous, occasionally sidered a wealthy man, has confessed Cota is 73 and his wife 71 years of age. Madagascar is of the gravest nature. resisted by strike*, and a>l these co damns A new bicycle factory will be estab­ Slaughters and pillage proceed un ­ Dardanelles. The Democracy of Arkansas achieved dtm.nisn for » time the buying power of iho that he used his position to steal from I'robably the best indication that the the greatest viotory in the history of people. While many thins general improve­ the government 83,000 and was at once lished at Standish. The proprietors, checked, trade is at a standstill, there ment cannot come until the election has re­ Keller «fc Serves, are practical bicycle is no safety for Europeans outside of British premier has got the bit in his the state at the recent election. The moved po Itioal uncertainties, others expert dismissed from the service and his teeth is found in the outspoken editor ­ total vote was about 105,000 and Jones soon to see the result antic Ip. led la trade. sirrest soon followed. Mr. Bryan men of experience, who have been con ­ Antananrivo and even fears are ex­ Wheat declined a ee.it during the weak but nected with the National bicycle fac­ pressed that the French garrison of ials of the conservative press, evidently was elected governor by a majority of then advanced, cloning a ea it up. Western secured his appointment through Col­ receipt* and fore gu export* still exceed last tory at Bay City. that city may be starved out. The na ­ inspired from high quarters, demand ­ about 00,000. lector Molony. The first year his pay ing a change in the occupation of the year s. Account*of dt-appot'iting ret ires in was $1,500, but last year it was raised Supplies for the burned-out citizens tives are now uniting in oppositing to A strong effort is being made in the Kpring wheat slate* are nuiauro.it. but it Is throne of the Turkish empire. Canadian parliament to restrict Chinese dl llou t to reco irile short estimate* with heavy to $1,800. This was ample to take care of Ontonagon are running short and to their conquerors —the French —and marketing at low price*. < orn 1* almost are rapidly gaining the upper hand Lord Rosebery, the liberal leader immigration by raising the poll tax wholly out of da iger of eoM weather end the of himself and family, but it was not Gov. Rich has agaiu appealed to the and former premier, has written a let­ vield is generally e-peeled to be the largest, as enough to meet the demands occasioned and it is estimated that fully 20,000 ad ­ from $50 to $500. On the Pacific coast people of the state. It will he neces ­ ter condemning in strong terms the the nrlce I* t te lowest ever known. Failures by unfortunate ventures on the wheat sary to care for 800 destitute people for ditional French troops will be required the Chinese are driving English-speak­ tne p.ist week In the United State* were 31 >, recent massacres at Constantinople. ing people out of employment. against 187 the «ame week last year. market. the next 90 days: to crush the outbreak. John Daly, who was recently re­ Hon. \V. E. Gladstone has written Pieree Powers, aged 79, a reeluse, Miss Ada De Seims. a?ed 28, died at another letter denouncing the sultan Archbishop Martinelli, the successor Clarence McPherson pleaded guilty 1035 Champlain street. Detroit, from an leased from prison in England after who lived for 15 years near Shelby, O., of Cardinal Natolli as papal delegate to to forgery at Grand Haven and was serving several years on conviction of of Turkey as an assassin, and declaring has died leaving no heirs and no will. abortion. Dr. James W. Ames, who is that Europe is responsible for the mas­ the Roman Catholio church in the •ent to Jackson prison for seven years. alleged to have performed the opera­ complicity in a dynamite plot together He’s estate is worth $5,000 and he ha* United States, will sail for New York sacre of helpless Armenians by their money in Cleveland hanks, all of which The Snttherland-Innis Co., of Evart, tion, and John J. White, a waterworks with hi* brother, arrived at Dublin Sept 20. ( have rebuilt their heading mill which where there was a demonstration by non-lnterfereiioe in the guilty pro­ will revert to the state if no heir is clerk who is charged with the girl’s Corbett and Fitzsimmons met at the was burned in July. They employ 70 the Amnesty association. They pro- ceedings. found. ruin, were arrested. Vice Admiral Sir John Ommanney Bartholdi hotel, New York City, and hands. An unknown man rilling a bicycle sen ted an address to the released dyna- ! The Novoe Vremya, a leading Rus ­ Hopkins, K. C. B., has been appointed sian newspaper, says that the czar’s agreed to fight for $10,000 a side and The piles of old London bridge, driv- assaulted the 13-year-old daughter of miter, and Daly is replying repudiated tosuoceed Sir Michael Culmc-Seymour, tour shows that Berlin and Vienna, as the largest purse that any club in any «n 800 years before, were found to be Clark Salisbury, while she was on the the dynamite policy. He said he K. C. B., as commander-in-chief of the well as Paris and 8L Petersburg, are part of this country can offer. The in good condition when the new bridge highway near Union City. The girl la thought that the Irishmen were too British Mediterranean station. conscious of the necessity of common fight to take place within two months was erected. in a critical condition. Later the fel­ noble, brave and generous to advocate such principles. The dream of his life, | Charles Lappin. bartender at the \ action by the powers to defeat the after the Sharkey-Corbett mill if pos­ The city attorney of Helena, Mont., low was overtaken and arrested and he said, was to fight for Ireland like a Northern hotel, at Big Rapids, was ac­ political designs of Great Britain, sible. If Sharkey does not materialise warns the council that the Indebted- was taken to Cold water for examina ­ at the time stipulated to meet Corbett, tion. He gives hia name aa John Ilone, soldier and a patriot. cidentally killed while on a hunting which, It is added, are clearly displayed Bees is over the limit and future con- trip. His gun went off in hia buggy. 1 in the recent event* in Turkey. Fitzsimmons will take hia place. tracj will be illegal. >i Chicago. Creobsd step* sre Ms nioai apt to ki tsUMi CLINTON INDEPENDENT, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17. 1896.

WHY WE OPPOSE THEM. the COAST LINE to MACKINAC DROPPED FORTY FEET. Th« Dlffaranos —"Consarvatlva ” Mftthoda of Cartaln National Banks. * >' »-TAWC & G The Oven BRIDGE SPAN OlVES WAY IN t TILLER i TELLE >t ') CALIFORNIA. Is the most important part of a cooking apparatus. The fire-box is the digestive organ; the draft is the Frightful bkiiter on Arcatn and Mad circulation. These vital organs are those which, in the River Railroad Near the Town of Ar­ MOM BY eata—Four Killed sud Many Injured, FOR YW CLEVELAND Rome Very Seriously. JSr

MACKINAC* Eureka, Cal., Sept. 15.—Four persont were killed and sixteen seriously In ­ Majestic Range 2 New Steel Passenger Steamers jured as tbe result of a wreck on the The Urea test Perfection yet attataed la Beat Areata Sc Mad River railroad, about Construct toe—Luxurious fcqtnnm^rt. Artistic five miles north of Areata, last evening are different, and work upon different principles from Furnishing, Decoration and LKicicnt Service, insuring the highest degree of Tbe dead are: those in any other stove or range. COHFORT, SPEED AND SAFETY. MISS ANNIE HOLLAND of River­ The Maiestic oven is the most sensitive oven ever Foun Tmsa m Wkk Sctwscn side. made; the fire-box is the most economical in operation, * Toledo, Detroit and Mackinac MISS KIRKMAN of Blue Lake. and the draught is the simplest and most perfect. PET08KEY, “ TKfc 800," MARQUETTE, FANNIE GREGORY of Eureka. AND OULUTH, SANDY CAMERON, brakeman. LOW RATES to Picturesque Mackinac aad The Injured: These are 3 of the points that £®tur 1n ' Includhi* Heals and Berths. From ••**•*■ Toledo, $t8i from De­ Conductor Harvey Sammons, badly occasion, should now have the interest make the Majestic the perfect troit, 818.80. Injured. ILL AGAINST SILVER. EVERY EVENING of a long-suffering public at heart? Cooking Range. 'Engineer George Burke, badly It looks to me that, having always scalded. Between Detroit and Cleveland JOAL BARONS FORCE WAGES robbed the workingman In the past, Connecting at Cleveland with Rarllest Trains Mrs. Kate Minor, arm and leg broken. DOWN AND PRICES UP. they wish to continue to do so In the SPAULDING & CO., AGT’S. ST. JOHNS, for all points Bast, South and Southwest and at David Wood, badly Injured. Detroit tor all points North aad Northwest. future. Sender Trips font. July, August and September Only. Mrs. David Wood, both legs broken. Maybe I am wrong. I sincerely hope r«t They Pr-tend that They Ar* Afraid EVeRYfDAY BETWEEN Miss Winthrop, leg and arm broken. so. It Is with that hope in my mind That the Working Man Will Be Paid Fireman Burke, escaped with a few and a wish to be further enlightened, ikm ,a«aiiaaM, aaanoo: "d Cleveland, Put-in-Bay Toledo bruises. In Cheap Dollar* —The Chicago Tri­ Send for Illustrated PamnhleL Address that I pen this lengthy epistle to yoi\j DI A^ A. SCHANTZ, e. »<*., DITSOIT, MICH Miss Winthrop, injured internally. bune “Ordgred Up." relying on your well-known fairness to THe k Cieveiaid steam Nav. Co Dan Mahoney, badly Injured. answer through the columns of your 9 Two children of Mahoney, badly In ­ The following letter was recently ad ­ paper. RICE WASBROUGH. GUILTY OR NOT GUILTY jured, one having a Jaw broken. Miss Mary Zentara, leg broken. dressed to the Chicago Tribune. That paper boasts that It answers all let­ Republican Official for Silver. Miss Annie Zentara, seriously in ­ Buffalo (N. Y.) Times: United State* DISEASED MEN CURED CLEVELAND jured internally. ters received. It evidently made an TUnilCAIinC °f >onn« men, middle ajred men and old men can look back at TO exception of this one for the very good Commissioner Henry D. Fitzgerald, a I nUUOrtflUO their boyhood dajs or early manhood with * sigh of remorse. S2.50 The Misses Zentara are nieces ol life-long republican, who has taken the K The ignorance of early youth, or later on a misspent life as “oae of tbe boy*" baa sown Korbel Bros, of San Francisco, owners reason that its publication would have the seeds for future suffering. SELF ABUSE is * terrible sin against natur* and BUFFALO. opened the eyes of a large number of stump for the republican party in will bring a rich harvest. Blood and Private Di eases sap the very life end vitality Dally line between of the railroad on which the accident western New York every presidential of the victim. Our NEW METHOD TREA1MENT will positively cor* all the follow­ occurred. the Tribune ’s readers. We publish tt ing disease*: Cleveland and Toledo, that its Influences may not be lost: election since tbe campaign of Greeley Mrs. Gregory and child, of Eureka, and Grant, has come out flat-footed for VARICOCELE, EMISSIONS, NERVOUS DEBILITY, Via “C. A B. LINE.’’ both In a critical condition. Editor, Sound Money column, Chica­ Steamers “City of Buffalo, ” (now) go Tribune —Sir: its not a fact that Bryan and . Not only does SYPHILIS, STRICTURE, GLEET, SEMINAL WEAK­ Sven Johnson of Glendale, badly ho intend to vote for the ticket, but he “State of Ohio** *wd “State of New York." bruised about the body. J. Plerpont Morgan, who is at the head DAILY TIME Y a BLB. says, If necessary, he will take the NESS, PIMPLES, LO^T MANHOOD, UNNATURAL A. Sanders, of Glendale, slightly hurt of the gold movement In this country, Amdep Included after May 30. and who recently made a profit of $8,- stump for it. Commissioner Fitzgerald DISCHARGES, KIDNEY AND BLADDER DISEASES Ly Cleveland TjSfi p. m. | Lv Buffalo 7:80 p. m Herman Sanders, same place, badly spoke at ecores of republican meetings 000,000 on a bond transaction (which NERVOUS and despondent; week or debilitated: tired morn'nffft; no Ar Buffalo 7:30 a m. | Ar Cleveland 7:30 a. m cut on the leg and otherwise injured. throughout western New York during Central Standard Time. transaction was only made necessary = ARE YOU? ambition —lifeless; memory poor; easily fatigued; excitable ami trri- Miss Rosie Buddettl, Italian peddler, the campaign of ’88. He has been VI table;ko . eyasr;n,.uuien, eunkc red and blurred; pimplen on face; dreams and night loeees; rest­ Take the “C. A B. Line ” ateamers and enjoy badly shaken up. because we are on a gold basis, and In ­ ing*; haggard looking; weak back, bona palna; hair loose; ulcers; sore throat; varico- a refreshing night's rest when enroute to Buf ­ sist on paying our obligations in gold), United States commissioner for the oele; deposit in urine and drains at atool; distrustful; want of confidence; lack of falo, Niagara Falla, Toronto, New York, The accident occurred at the regular enargy and strength-WE OAN CURE YOU OR ASK MO RAY. Boston, Albany, 1,000 Island*, or any East' is also at the head of the anthracite past 27 years, during which time he has . mM ■■. era or Canadian point. passenger train, consisting of an en ­ been of great service to the party. S CURES GUARANTEED OR NO PAY—CONFIDENTIAL S gine and two cars, which connected at coal trust; which truBt has recently -Cheap Excursions Weekly to Niagara Falla raised the price of that article for no Send 4 cents postage for tourist pamphlet. Areata wharf with the company ’s ferry from th* Living. “At I a bad habit. Tried four For further information ask your Dearest boat, Alta, leaving here at 3:30 p. m., known reason whatever except its own Boark* a* a Bird. SNATCHED FROM THE GRAVE. 4TSS. Coupon Ticket Agent, or address voraciousness? Is It not also a fact doctors and nerve tonics______by the score without benefit; smissiolissioDB and drains increased. bound for Korbel, the terminus of the Oil City Derrick: For a professional 1 became a nervous wreck. ’ A friend who had been cored by Dra. Kennedy A Km gun W. F. HKRMAN. T. F. NEWMAN, that Senator J. M. Thurston, one of the of a similar disease, advised me to try them. I did so and in two months was posilive­ Oen'l Pass. Agt., Qen ’l Manager. road, about twelve miles above Areata. Jaw-worker like Cockran to refer to the leading supporters of the gold party, ly cared. This was eight years ago. 1 am now married and have two healthy child- Cleveland. Ohio The scene of the accident is the com­ agriculturists as “farmers who labor ren." —L. W. LEWIMjWnmaw, Is the paid attorney of the Union Pa­ pany ’s bridge across Mad river, about with their jaws’’ is an excellent Illus ­ UiDinnPCI C PIIDCn “Varicocele made life miserable. I was week and cific railroad, a corporation which has VAn bUbLLC bUllLll. nervoos, eyes sunken, bashful in society, hair thin, half way between Areata and Korbel. tration of the pot calling the kettle no ambition. The ‘Golden Monitor ’ opened my eyes. Tbe New Method Treatment or robbed the United States government The train had run out on the first black. Bourke is s bird. It would be Drs. Kennedy and Kergan cored m«me in a lew weeks.—1. L. I’KTKltHON, Ionia, of millions of dollars? I. P. EMKItSON relates hi* experience. “I lived on span of the bridge, when, without Interesting to know tbe exact price he Did not the Union Pacific make every EMISSIONS__ ___ CURED. ______i\i farm. At school 1 learned an early habit- which warning, the stringers gave way, let­ was paid for bis speech. weakened m*me physically, sexually iand mentally. Family doctors said 1 was going W into ’decline ’ (consumption.) Finally The Golden Monitor, ’ edited by Drs. Kennedy ting the whole drop 40 feet, to the A Kergun, fell into my hands. 1 learned the TRUTH and the (’AU8E. Helf-uhuse I,an OrncE is Opposite U. 8. Patent orrics dropped together. One span of the are producing in this country this year, greatest injury resulting from the U U IIL U< years. Had taken mercury for two years, but the disease and we can secure patent in less time than those bridge is still In position, uninjured. as estimated by Dr. Linderman, some returned. Kyee red, pimples and blotches on the akin, ulcers in the month and on remote from Washington. free coinage of silver will fall upon tongue, bone pains, falling out of hair, weakness, etc. My brother, who had been Send model, drawing or photo., with descrip ­ In the coaches were between 30 and $40,000,000 in silver bullion. He esti­ workingmen. Their wages are now cared of (lleet and Stri< tnre by Drs. Kennedy and Kergan, recommended them. tion. We advise, if patentable or not, free of 40 passengers, and all of these, with the They cared me in a few weeks, and 1 thauk God 1 consulted them. No return of the charge. Oor fee not due till patent is secured. mates the total production at $80.- based upon money of the highest value, d.seaae in six years.”— W. P. MJackson. A Pamphlet , “ How to Obtain Patents," with exception of one man, who jumped 000,000, of which $40,000,000 will be upon gold coin of standard value. Un coat oi same »n the U. & and foreign countries; from the rear platform, went down scot free. Address, silver. Why not utilize this silver as der free coinage of silver the value of 17 YEARS IN DETROIT. 200,000 CURED. NO RISK. with the train. This fortunate man legal tender? I admit that if it is mad? the ailver dollar will fall to 53 cents RrAnrRl Are yon a victim? Have yon lost hope? Are yon contemplatingcontemplatir nCrtUI.ni marriage? Has your blood been diaeaaed? Have vonto n any weakness?wen knew . C.A.SNOW&CO. was Louis Everdlng, one of the owners a legal tender, equal to gold, it being a in gold, or, as I have already said, the Our New Method Treatment wil. care yon. What it hae done for others it will do for Opp. Patent OrncE. Washington . O. C. of the Riverside sawmill. All the metal not so valuable, it would drive yon. CONSULTATION FREE. No matter who has treated yon, write for an honest hundred cents of the gold dollar will opinion Free of Charge. Chargee reasonable. BOOKS FREE.—“The Golden Monitor ’’ others were injured, and 10 or 12 were the gold from the country, and the sil­ be worth 190 cents of the silver dollar (Uinstrated), on Diseases of Men.Inclose postage, 2 cents. Healed. fearfully mangled, and are not ex­ ver alone would remain. By limiting tt tff*NO NAMES USED WITHOUT WRITTEN CONSENT. PRI­ With free coinage of silver every work VATE. No medicine sent C. O. D. No names on box** or envel ­ pected to live. The cries of the maimed to a thousand dollars in one payment, ingman can and ought to demand opes. EverytnlnK confidential. Question list and cost of and dying were agonizing, several be­ ninety-nine transactions out of every enough silver for his daily wages to Treatment FREE. ______ing caught between beams and others one hundred will be transacted with it. be equal te the purchasing power of No.l48SHELBY ST. being pinned beneath the cars. These And all business between individuals his present wages in gold! The strug were extricated as soon as possible. not bankers, between the mechanic and gle between workingman and employer DRS.KENNEDY & KERGAN DETROIT, MICH. employer, between farmers and their will then commence and no one knows CAVEATS. I HAUL Marks ' LARQE ORE SMELTER. lose* «^<«uaflet*no.d paper, established here with a capital of at SPECIFICS are scientifically GRANITE I weekly. eleaanOy Illustrated, has tr Gu tt-4 least $1,000,000. people, and the laboring man as well power? Every sentiment of Justice S eXreulsti.iu uf any sel settle work tq the prepared Remedies; have . W a year. Bpiatmeu sepiss seat free. W. R. Rust of the Tacoma smelter is as the small dealer, and indeed of all will be on the side of the workingman | Bill tan. monthly, tUtsysu. Bingt* those persons who do not deni in mil­ been used for half a century a. Kvary nnaabsr eoa the organiser of the project, which will tn his struggle for good money or In ­ lions at a clip. with entire success. salon, and pbotogra have behiad it American and British creased wages In cheap money. Of all ■o. Brucine roa , eoeMtne builders I therefore, Mr. President, look upon uTef 8BSUW4S capital. Municipal and electoral as­ the evils which a government can In 1—Fevers, Congestions, Inflammations, sent will be required to procure the this as one of the great steps toward ftlct none can be greater than cheap t—Worms, Worm Fever, Worm Colic... S—Teething. Colic,Crying,Wakefulness grant of free city water and tax exemp­ resumption. It is by utilizing tbe sti­ money, whether of coin or paper. "FroFtFry Work of any description 33 ver which we produce In large amounts 4—Diarrhea, of Children or Adults ...... Low in Price as any place in Mich* tion for 10 years, and a civic bonus of The question will never be settled 7 -Coughs, Colds. Bronchitis ...... - 98 STlYE in this country and making it a legal ft—Neuralgia, Toothache, Faoeacbe..... igan. Ilm vc a Fine Display of NEW rowiiucA bb nomas $100,000 will be another condition of until you determine tbe simple ques tender as It was heretofore. It re­ ft—Headaches, Sick Headache. Vertigo. DESIGNS in Bcotcb, Swedish «aft (PASBNTXP) the local settlement of the new indus ­ tlon whether the laboring man is en American Granites. The strongs** and purest Lye mains a legal tender In France, and it lO Dyspepsia, Biliousness, Constlpatloa try. In consideration of these privl-' titled to have a gold dollar if he earns 11— Hupprcsscd or Painful Periods.... yds. Unlike other Lye. tt boln* Is there successful as the coin of the After getting prices elsewhere call an4 a flno powder andjpaeked In a can leges—worth togethcer over $140,000— It. or whether you are going to cheat IS—Whites, Too Profuse Period} ...... examine. You will decide to « iwlth removable lid. tbe-eontents people. It Is also a legal tender in 13— Croup, Laryngitis, Hoarseness...., are always ready tor nee. Will the company will undertake to treat at him with something else. Gold has 14— Salt Rheum, Erysipelas, Eruptions. buy of me. make the best perfumed Hard 8oap many other parts of Europe. France In 20 minutes uHtluiut boiling. It la least 30,000 tons of ore per annum, the made the world respect It all tbe time 18 —Rheumatism, or Rheumatlo Pains.. the beet for cleansing waste pipes, is one of the great commercial nations, The English people once thought they lft—Malaria, Chills, Fever and Ague...... disinfecting sinks, closets, washing works to have a capacity of 60,000 tons lft—Catarrh, Influenxa, Cold In the Head F. F. MURDOCK bottles, Raima, trees, etc. and they have retained the double could get along without gold for a yearly, and to employ all white labor, standard: and from my readlrg I be­ SO—Whooping Cough,...... Apposite Post Office. At. Johns, Mldfet PENN A. SALT MT’G CO Chinese and. Japanese to be rigidly ex­ while, but they had to come back to it. 527 —Kidney Diseases,...... Gen. Agent*.. Mill*.. Pa. lieve if Germany could go back to the With the free coinage of silver gold 9ft—Nervous Debility...... cluded. 30—Triasry Weahaeas,...... - double standard It would do it most will be demonetized. Nothing can be 34—ftore Throat* quinsy,Diphtheria.... cheerfully. They believed that the more certa'n than that tbe cheaper LIVERY large amouct of French coin which had money on ’y will >:lrcuJa*e. The United —AND— been brought there In a day would re­ States has thrs far maintained its sil­ “77” for GRIP. main, and so believing they demone ­ S*M by Proigtou. or sal p—**ld on r*ertp» of prloo, ver coins at parity with gold coins Ik . or i for |1., on.y So , oxeopt t«, tl. *1«*oslf. tized all the millions of silver that had only by Its exclusive monopoly of coin ­ DaBssmasn' ■.u.serass acaruaais' ■ to. to., 111 a 11• wmua su.x.. i«l been coined all the little principalities age and by limiting the amount, but and duchies of Germany for ages be­ with free coinage ol silver there could fore and substituted gold exclusively, be no limitation. EMver bullion In recoining the French coin so as to every form will be pm ted upon the make It the coin of the empire. But mints and with the mandatory duty FAHHItRS' Galvanized this imperial coin must go back to Its of free coinage, silver dollars will soon Imperial home; and, as T said a while fill tbe char.tiels of circulation and the COILEIiS Stjsl Tanks apo, It has left that country In a con ­ gold dollar will be hoarded or will be dition of paralysis and prostration, not quoted and sold as a commodity at Boarding Stable surpassed by its sad condition during about 190 cents of the silver coin. Sil­ the Napoleonic wars. Tt should be re­ ver will stand as the par of value and TINE TURNOUTS OF A LI- KINDS ceived as a fundamental fact so as to gold will be quoted at Its commercial pulde the statesmen of this country 'peeisl sttrntlrn glrrn to Board I ng Horses, r ua valve. —See John Sherman ’s speech etas* out flu. Turn '-hed for Commercial Mra, that the reverse of what rnits E*ig'nnd at Columbus, Ohio, Aug. 15, 1S96. FuusrsL- Pleasure Parties, htc. always suits us. -And ae the ev^lu lve ftv Person* hsvlnr l.sius and Disabled Horses gold standard undoubtedly suits her, Buy direct from us and SAVE •ill Aud thehrst of facilities for treatment at mj the double standard suits us. —Pee •shies, M.C. L1FC8AY, Vsternar/ Surgeon, in sb> MONEY. Write for samples and ••Munie Ht*hIs* ‘id door West of The Sis# Congressional Record, March 3, 1876, Prices. We ship subject to in ­ forth Sid*. (12*28) gages 1472 to 1483. spection. STAR MFG CO., FMANK RCIIoriKI U Prsp r. Middlebury, Ind. effort possible to elect Thurston to Wav Overthrow the Leaders THE WIGGINS SANITARIUM the senate, knowing full well that 7 aad all WASTING DISEASES. numerous trusts, which are fast driv ­ Midi igan people. Being oontroled by WB POSITIVELY CURE LIABETES HELETI3 (Sugar Diabetes. purpose. Moreover, If some of their Detroit capital, its proprietors feel apec ing competition from the field and rais­ old-time leaders don't like It they may iallv interested to make Michigan trar When we Fay Curs w« mean A radical and permanent gore . ing the price of every article they throw up their commissions and take And traveling public at home. The rat ear. We CURE Bright's Disease of the Kidneys u we can hart the case before handle, are. without exception, aeuv* back seats. •re reasonable, $2.00, $2.50 and $3.00 the Kidneys are too badly broken down. supporters of tbe same gold party? day. American plan. AccommodAt* Rdl- The Sanitarium 1* equipped with all new and r -ceeeary apparnt n* for the treatment o» Does It Dot seem strange that the And new it Is claimed that the jaw­ 9rat class. ill sc- Sidney Dtsea see. There la No Nee ret about the treatment. Mend for particular* and prices various members of these trusts, which bones of civilised peop’s are gradually orres- MTCorrespondence Address WIGGiNS* SANITARILT1, have robbed the public, Individually becoming attenuated, chiefly owing te GEO. CUMMINGS HOTEL ICH. Solicited. ST, JOHNS, MICHIGAN, end collectively, on every conceivable the prolonged use of knives and forks. pftOFftirroRft. 4 CLINTON INDEPENDENT, THUkSDAT, SEPTEMBER 17, 1896-

can silver dollar is a dishonest dollar, or BUSINESS DIRECTORY. The Independent that our silver dollar is an honest dollar. In fact, just tlie reverse is tbe case. Barbers. Tne Mexican silver dollar will today in GEORGE S. CORB1T, Proprietor ACOB VOKHCH, proprietor ft Th*Ontr* FRANK E. DaWlTT. Leasee Mexico, on the average, buy as much of Such is the Mission of the Mexi­ Barber Shop. Ladle* ’ and children ’* hair Jsuiting a specialty. Geod bath room* In connection, everything as it did in 1873. Now, can Silver Example. democratic nominations . which is the honest dollar —the one that maintains a steady relation to other The following is an extract from a speech made by Maj. McKinley in 1891, Attorneys. National Ticket. things, or the one that, placed in a when he posed as the champion of silver against Grover Cleveland, taken from An Iowa Man, Under Oath, Declares That ewis severance t a . b. AT- For President — manuscript furnished by Mr. McKinley himself and published in the Toledo Mexican Merchant* Will Not Accept TORNEY. Oxer Bundayt Grocery. 1404 WM. J. BRYAN, of Nebraska. strong box for twenty-three years, cau L JOHN C. DOOLIMO For Vice President — be brought forth and will purchase Blade of February 13,1891. In referring to Cleveland, Mr. McKinley said: American Coin Under Any Circumstance* KDWIN H. LYON. ARTHUR SEWELL, of Maine. —American* Must First Sell Their Money YON A BOOLING, Attorney* at Lav, St. twice as much as it would formerly V "During all his years at the head of the government he was dishonoring one John*, Mich. Office over Kendrick ’s store. State Ticket. This increasing purchasing power of of our precious metals, one of our great products, discrediting silver aud enhanc ­ a* Bullion for Mexican Money Before L OPAULDINO, NORTON A WK1MER, At- For Governor — _ . _ our money is what is causing universal ing the price of gold. He endeavored, even before his inauguration to office, to They Can Trade There CHARLES H. SLIGH, of Grand Rapids. O terney* at Lav. Office over St. Johns Nation- stop the coinage of silver dollars, aud afterwards and to the end of his adminis ­ il Bank 1440 For Lieutenant Governor - „ , distress in our land, while the steady JUSTIN R. WHITING, of St.Clair. tration, persistently used his power to that end. He was determined to contract value of the Mexican money is bringing Special to the Cbicatro Record. ILL H. BRUNSON, Attorney at Lav and For Secretary of State— the circulating medium and demonetize one of the coins of commerce, limit the Solicitor in Chancery. Office over Putt ’a- about an era of prosperity in Mexico D es Moines , Ia ., Aug. 31.—J. II. Wgrocery store. ISIS ALMON G. BRUCE, of Alblou. volume of money among the people, make money scarce and therefore dear. He For Attorney General — such as that, country has never before Kennedy, a former esident of Iowa, experienced. —Oakland County Post. was not thinking of the poor then. He had left their side. He was not starting IOHN H. FXDKWa. HXNBY X. VALBXIDKK,. ALFRED J. MURPHY, of Detroit. lias attacked the st'.,iment so generally EDEWA A WALBRIDGE* Attorney* For 8tate Treasurer — forth in their defense. Cheap coats, cheap labor and dear money! The sponsor made regarding Mexico aud silver by at Law, at the old stand, oxer the “corner OTTO KARSTE, of Iron wood. NOW SETTLED. Plrug store,’’St. John*, Mich. 1*87 and promoter of these professing to stand guard over the welfare of the poor and making the following affidavit before For Auditor General — _ There appears to be no longer any ARTHUR E. COLE, of Livingston County. lowly. Was there ever more glaring inconsistency or reckless assumption? ” E. II. English, a notary public at Valley ALBRIDGK A OSBORN, Attorney* at question as to the position which is to Law. Office oxer Alllson ’a Jewelry Store. For Superintendent of Publio Instruction — Junction: W PROF. DAVID HASKIN. of Hillsdale. be assumed by President Cleveland and A MANUFACTURER’S VIEWS CONCERN­ "1, James H. Kennedy, now a resi­ X. M. PKKRIN. P. K. PKRKIN. A. J. BALDWIN For Commissioner of the Slate Land Office— his cabinet in the coming elections. He United States would bring the Japanese EKHINS A BALDWIN, Attorney* at MABTIN C. LEONNECKER, of Jackson. ING THE MONEY QUESTION. up to our standard, and obliterate the dent of the town of Sinalva, in the state P Law and Solicitor* in Chancery. Bounty, Member of the State Board of Education — and every member down to the secre­ Charles It. Sligh, candidate for gov­ 100 per cent difference in exchange. of Sinaloa, Mexico, do solemnly swear pension, real estate agents, conveyancers and FRANK 8. DEWEY, of Alpena. tary of agriculture, and every afraid * * * that 1 am an American by birth; that I money loaner*. Also examine titles, pay taxes., ernor, and who is at the head of .one of and make collections. Business entrusted to tkelr Congressional. , member of the administration family Free coinage in the United Slates served three years iu the 7th Iowa dur ­ care will be promptly and faithfully attended to. the largest furniture factories in this would not only increase the price of our ing the late civil war; that I have always For Member of Congress. 8th Congressional will vote for Palmer and Buckner elec­ Office oxer Wickea’ grocery, Clinton Avenue, 8t. District— . „ country, favors bimetalism or free coin ­ farm products, but would largely in ­ been a republican; that 1 have resided Johns, Mich. 1183 FERDINAND BRUCKER, of Saginaw. in Mexico for twenty five years; that I tors. ' age. Below we re-print his answer to a crease our trade in manufactured goods M. H. CASTLE, Attorney at Law. Senatorial. Politicians cannot recall from the his­ with all Latin America ; as it wqpld en ­ speak the Spanish language as well or Money to Loan, office head of Clinton letter addressed to him by R. M. John ­ better than I do the English. I have ivenue,W erst side. 11SS For 8tate Senator, 19th Senatorial District— tory of this country an incident like or able them to pay in silver for purchases REV. ELISHA MUDGE, of Maple Rapids. son, of Elkhart. Ind., in which he says: instead of gold at 100 percent premium, traveled through twenty-four of the even similar to this. The administra ­ Col. it. M. Johnson. Elkhart, lnd., as they are now compelled to, and would twenty-seven states in Mexico iu an of­ ZRA R. AVKRILL, Attorney and law, St. tion is arrayed against the party which ficial capacity aud as interpreter for nu ­ Johns, Mich. 115 Walker Street East, near Congressional Convention. Dear Sir: It affords me pleasure to eventually lead to the consummation of Epostoffice. gave it existence. You now see what comply with your request to submit a Blaine's idea —a pan-American dollar, merous syndicates. I have had access individuals will do when they expect to few reasons' from a manufacturer ’s which would be legal tender in every to almost all the archives of the country. Dentistry. The Union Silver Congressional convention country on this western continent. I am better acquainted with tbe customs receive no more favors at the hands of standpoint, why the independent, free for the 8th Congressional district, will be held and unlimited coinage of silver by the I urge manufacturers elsewhere to and usages of that country than I am of M. KENYON, Dentist East Walker at the city hall in the city of Owosso, Septem­ an unsuspecting public. Government United States would be beneficial to our study this question and lend their influ ­ my mother country. I left Mexico on .a Street. . H83 ber 22,1890, at 11 o’clock a. in., for the purpose office-holders are trembling in iheir country. ence to the election of the only candi ­ the 2d day of March, 1886, coming to of nominating a candidate for the office of this country to visit my friends, rela­ G. H. M ANN, D. D. S. Office over places lest they should displease the It is a well established principle in dates who can bring relief—Bryan and Spaulding A Co.’s hardware, oppo­ Representative in Congress. Each county finance that the quality of value of mon ­ Sewall. Charles R. Sligh , tives aud old comrades. During the site The Steel Hotel. Surgery a will be entitled to the following representa ­ people’s servants in high places, and ey in the world regulates the value of all President Sligh Furniture Co., Grand last month in Iowa I have heard more specialty. Office hours, 8 to 12 a. tion: Saginaw 28, Shiawassee 14, Tuscola 11, lose their official heads. IS this not commodities aud products that are Rapids, Mich. absurd and utterly false statements m., 1:30 to 5 p. ra., 7 to 8, evening.. Clinton 11. By order of the Committee, another evidence that the rich shall bought and sold, if the volume of made in regard to Mexico than I ever thought could be conjectured up by p E. CORBIN, M. D„ D. D. 8. To get GILBERT R. LYON, Chairman. controll, though the toilers suffer. money is large, prices will be high, and UTe thebenefitoftheexperience,medical know ­ if money is scarce or hoarded (and if it WHY HE CHANGED. mortal man, all to deceive the voter. "One most heard is that you can take ledge and surgical skill which are indispensable tc Congressional Convention. THE RIGHT MAN FOR THE PLACE. is scarce it will be hoarded) prices will perfection of results in dentistry, apply to Corbin be low. George Fred William* Tell* an Audience one American silver dollar into Mexico A Son, St. Johns. At the Senatorial conventions held at This principle has been repeatedly Whj He Became a Silver Man. and get two Mexican silver dollars for The People's Party of the 8th Congressional Maple Rapids last Tuesday, for this, the demonstrated in all times of the world ’s The whole world is coming to recog­ it, or that you can get a 50-cent meal district of Michigan will meet in convention 19th district, composed of Clinton and history, and the men who secured the nize that its rescue depends upon the and throw down an American dollar Physicians. in the city of Owosso at the City Hall on Sep­ demonetization of silver were perfectly and they will give you back in change a tember 22,1896,at 11 o’clock a.m.,for the purpose Gratiot counties, the Democrats, Peo­ courage of the American people in this Mexican dollar. 1 brand this as utterly B. DODGE, OT . D., Surgeon and He familiar with it. They were the money ­ e meopathic Physician. Office and residence of placing in nomination a candidate for rep­ ple's Party and Union Silver Party lenders of the world, who desired that emergency. I think we have it. I think false in every respect, a lie mnnufac- Joxer Spaulding A Co.’s hardware, opp. The Steel. resentative in congress from said district; united in the hearty nomination by ac­ their money should become more valu ­ there are men iu this audience who do tured out of whole cloth. I assert that also to elect a congressional committee to climation, of Rev. Elisba Mudge for this able, and they accomplished their ends a Mexican will not accept an American RANK C. DUNN, M. D., Physician and not agree with our side of this cyiestion dollar, either gold, silver or paper, for 8urgeon. Office over SpauldiDg A Company V- to consist of four members, one member to important office. through corrupt and dishonorable hardware store, St. Johns, Mich. 1367 be chosen from each county in the said dis ­ means. The result of demonetization who will have at least as much self re­ any amount, but will refer you to a For many years Mr. Mudge has been spect as I had when I saw that I was broker, where you can sell your silver E. KNAPP, M. !>., Physician and trict; and to perform such other business as have justified their judgment, and while * S-rgeon. Office at residence, first house may come before the convention. Each a Christian minister at Maple Rapids it has brought misery to millious, it has wrong and acknowledged my error. dollars as bullion for Mexican money, touthC of the M. E. church, St. Johns. 1357 county will be entitled to the following num* and we have yet to hear a w’ord uttered doubled the value of their dollars, and I was brought face to face with this then they will trade with vou. The ber of delegates: Clinton 11, Saginaw 26, Shia­ in its culmination in the last two years largest hotel in the City of Mexico will H*HT, M. D., Physician and 8ur agaiust him in any particular. He is a question in a most extraordinary way. not accept American money under any H * geon, Eureka. Mich. 1217 wassee 14, Tuscola 11. By older of Committee has brought the producing classes and I was appointed, when elected to con ­ D. P. DEMMING, Chairman. great reader and a profound reasoner, the manufacturers to the verge of bank ­ circumstances but will invariably refer W. POLLAKD Physician and Surgeon. and if he is chosen, as we have every ruptcy, and if continued for two years gress, a member of the committee on you to a broker. • Office over the State Bank of St-JohD*. Resi­ "By paying the mintage anyone can denceJ corner Cass and Ottawa streeta. 1284 reason for believing he will be, he will longer, tbreequarters of the manufac ­ coinage, weights and measures. I had THE MAINE ELECTION. not given much study to the question take silver bullion to either of the mints certainly cast his votes, in the perform­ turing establishments now operating M. PONT, M. Ik., Physician snd Sur As was predicted by everyone, Maine will be wiped out of existence, and before that time, and I immediately in Mexico and get Mexican silver dol ­ • geon. Office over H. L. Hick* ’ milliner: ance of his legislative duties, in a man ­ lars for it, and for 250 years silver bul ­ Sstore, No. 14 Clinton avenue. Residence, come went Republican Monday by about their plants will pass into tbe hands of took np the study of it, not with an ner that will tend to promote the great­ the money-lenders, who will acquire lion has never fluctuated up or dow rn to of Lansing and Rodgers streets, St.Johns, Mich. 45,000 plurality. The Democrats were open mind, but as a lawyer would exceed two cents. est good to the largest number. He them at from one-quarter to one-third Hr M. HAVENS, M. D, Homoeopathic handicapped by a lack of funds and their value. The election of McKinley, study it. "1 hear it asserted that the national YY Physician and Surgeon. Office over R. J. were very imperfectly organized, and will take the stump at once, as his whioh promises nothing but higher tax­ It was my business on that committee debt is payable in gold. I brand this as Woodruflrs shoe store. 1133 Christian duty in the interest of free es and a monopoly of the spoils, cannot to represent hostility to the free coinage utterly false. Every dollar of the debt, the effort they put forth was nothing as $146,000,000, is and always has been pay­ R. A. j. WIGGINS, Physician and Sur ­ coinage and relief of the people. avert this disaster, as the-Lnited States of silver, and I trained myself to study geon. Office over Sullivan's clothing, compared with that of their Republican senate is anti-gold standard aud sure to the arguments of the other 6ide only for able in the lawful money of that coun ­ Dstore, St. Johns, Mich. 1244tf opponents, who were kept abundantly remain so for at least tile next four years. try, and we are now paying our debt in It is not an accident that all the big the purpose of answering them, not for Mexican silver dollars, the money of E. (ilLLA.n, M. D., Physician an" supplied with money by the barons of corporations are supporting McKinley THE ONLY REMEDY. the purpose of learning anything myself. the contract. S• Surgeon. Office at Residence, opposite court Wall street, and they were able to flood souse, west. Office hours to 4 p. m., except Wed — and opposing Bryan. The Republican The only hope of the producing class­ I went on in that way, trained on one "I assert that Mexico, in the present ciesday, then 6 to 9 p. m. 1133 the state with their literature and side, as all of you have been, seeing decade, is making strides of advance ­ platform and candidates stand for what es is in legislation that will cheapen SIMMONS, M. D., Homoeopathic speakers, which they did with the money, thereby compelling it to seek nothing in the whole press of New ment greater than any other nation on they want —a continuance of present earth. Twenty-five years ago we had • Physician, Surgeon and Accoucheur. Office above mentioned result. investment in productive enterprises, England that could come to our eyes Ron Main street. DeWltt. 1188 conditions, financial and otherwise— employing idle labor and making a mar­ except upon one side of the question, eighty miles of railroad; now we have The figures at hand, however, do not while the Democratic candidates and ket for farmers’ products. The only near 8,000 miles of railroad. We are K. ERNEST SCHEMER, Physician and show any marked gain in the Republi ­ until the structure of our national cred ­ building factories on every hand. Surgeon, Office over C. Gruler ’s store platform stand for what they do not way to cheapen money is to make more it and our private business began to tot­ DFowler. Mich. • 1461 of it. With our mints open to tbe Twenty-eight years ago, when the can vote, though it is evident that want —reform in our financial and in ­ ter and topple, until I saw a syndicate French army was driven out, the Mexi­ thousands of Democrats remained away world ’s silver, as they were previous to F. BECKWITH, M. D., OCULIST AND* dustrial system in order that the com­ 1873, and as they are now to gold, the of bankers go to the treasurer of the can government was left penniless, not E • AUR1ST, 225 E. Main St., Ionia, Mich. from the polls. In 1884, in a total mon people may have as many privi­ demand for gold must be lessened and United States aud with the threat of a dollar in the treasury. We can now pay our entire national debt any day a vote of 129,526, Mr. Blaine received a leges as those who .ire interested in its value thereby, decreased, and the de ­ panic force him to sell $75,000,000 Yeterinarv. mand for silver must be increased, and demand would be made for it. plurality of 20,060. In 1888, out of a trusts and monopolies. The position worth of bonds for $05,000,000, tc I ‘I am now on my way to Mexico to total vote of 128,187, Mr. Harrison's its value thereby appreciated, ultimate ­ wrest ont of the hard working people oi M. GOHN, Vetinary Surgeon, Office at of the corporations is strikiugly illus ­ ly bringing the two to a parity. spend the rest of my life. Anyone can * Fildew A Millman ’s drug store. Resi­ plurality was 28,358. Mr. Harrison ’s this country $10,000,000 in a single find me by addressing a letter to James Hdence 204 Ottawa street. trated by the Western Union Telegraph * * * plurality in 1892 was 14,979, but in 1894, week because these bankers had their H. Kennedy, Sinaloa, Mexico. Company, which carries all messages All manufacturers who understand hands on the treasury of the United "In conclusion. I invite an honest the plurality of Henry B. Cleaves for sent from Republican headquarters free this question are convinced that no last­ and thorough investigation into the Painting. governor was 38,978. Returns thus far States. of charge, while they compel the Demo­ ing prosperity cau be attained until the I began to suspect that something was facts of my statement and I defy received indicate that the total vote agricultural classes (one-half of our successful coiitradicion. I am uot the J. PLX'MSTEAb, PAINTER. Ord- cratic committee to pay for every tele­ wrong with such a system. And it went • ers by mall promptly attended to. “Quality this year will not exceed 110,000, which population)receives prices that will give owner of mining stocks and no personal Eand excellence, the acme of auccess, ” is our motto. gram it sends. them a profit on their products, and on, gold leaving the country by tens of interest has caused me to make this, but Give us a trial. 1380tf would tend to show’ that 18,000 or 19,000 that they can secure better prices under millions every year, bonds being sold, I have given it at the request of an old Democrats staid away from the polls. If President Cleveland and the a gold standard is absurd to contem ­ and ’tlie debt of our people accumulating comrade. James H. K ennedy .” Undertaking. The result of the Maine election, like members of his cabinet expected that plate. Our farmers today are selling every six mouths until it reached the their surplus products to Europe, in OBITUARY. W. INGRAHAM, UNDERTAKER— that of Vermont, has no bearing upon their coming out publicly for the Indian ­ competition with Russia, India, Argen­ enormous amount of $262,000,000, • Walker Street East, St. Johns, Mich. On September9,1896, Mrs. Martha A. S 1403 the general results in the coming na ­ apolis ticket would make a sensation, tine and other countries iu which gold money being thereby locked np in tbe Canfield, the oldest sister of Miss B. R. tional election. Botli of these states they were badly disappointed. Wliat is at a high premium. It is this premi­ treasury and taken out of circulation. Brown, of this village, died after an Ill­ l. HULL, Funeial Furnisher. No. 16. • Clinton Ave. E. I. Hull , Director. Resi have always been Republican, and it else could they do? All the world um on gold which acts as a bonus on ex­ I saw business going down hill. I ness of three weeks, at Findlay, Ohio, dence,E 105 Wight St., St. Johns. portations and has stimulated produc ­ saw, as I am seeing now in the city of whither she went in July to visit her was conceded by all that the majorities know ’s that had it not been for Presi­ tion in all silver standard countries. As Boston, business men coming to me in daughter. dent Cleveland there would nave been this year would be large, owing the fact there has been no depreciation of silver alarm because their banks are contract ­ For a few years previous to 1885 she TEACHERS’ EXAMINATIONS that the Democratic committees lacked no Indianapolis ticket. Therefore it in silver standard countries, tbe farmers ing their credit. I see now, as I saw six Jived in St. Johns ; then after the death the funds with which to carry on the would have been a real surprise had not there are getting as much for their of her husband, Dayton Canfield, she SCHEDULE FOR 1896-7. wheat, cotton and other products no w months ago, all the indications of finan ­ Mr. Cleveland and the members of his removed to J^nsing, making her home High school room, St. Johns, third Thursday campaign, while the Republicans, as as they did 20 years ago, while our farm­ cial disaster, and I put to myself only a with her eldest son. and Friday. A ug. 20 and 21. 1896. stated above, "had money to burn, ” cabinet announced their intentiou to ers are getting only hair as much. few weeks earlier than you may put it Her remains were brought here for Court house. St. Johns, third Thursday and Friday, Oct. 15 and 16,1896. and put forth every effort to roll up an support Mr. Cleveland ’s own ticket. ENGLAND’S SNAP. to yourselves the question, Do you want burial, and the fuueral held at the home High school room. St. Johns, last Thursdat such a system to continue, or will you of Mr. and Mrs. P. E. Walswortb on and Friday, March 25 and 26.1697. unprecendented majority, for the in ­ The announcement plays no part in This is accounted for by the fact that honestly investigate the merits of a sys­ last Friday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock, Court House, 8t. Johns, thlra Thursday and fluence that they imagined it would the present status of the campaign ; it previous to 1873, when England bought conducted "by the Rev. E. M. Blanchard, Friday, June 17 and 18, 1897. our silver to pay for purchases in India. tem that will give ns money enough to Certificates of ail grades will be granted at have upon the country at large at the was duly allowed for weeks ago. who, in appropriate remarks, brought the examinations at St. Johns in August and coming election. Everything indicates, Russia, etc., she had to pay $1.33 an oz. transact the business of the country and comfort to the bereaved. The relatives March. Certificates of the second and third for it, while now she is buying it for 69 not leave it at the mercy of foreign grades will be granted at all other examina ­ however, that they are doomed to dis ­ As a result of the war, corporations present from out of town were : Mr. cents an ounce, and she can secure the bankers? and Mrs. Volney Canfield, of Lansing: tions. appointment. The Democratic plurali ­ have been enthroned, and an era of cor­ All examinations will begin at 9 o’clock a. m. same quantity of products from those And I have answered ’that question Mrs. Linnie Canfield and daughter, of and continue two days. ties in Alabama and Arkansas, which ruptions in high places will follow, and countries now for an ounce of silver that to my satisfaction, and all I ask of any Findlay, Ohio; Mr. and Mrs. Charles , Respectfully. the money power of the country will she could then. Under free coinage by It. Canfield, of Cadillac ; E. S. Brown, R M. WINSTON. prove conclusively that the south and man is that he keep his mind open to Commissioner of Schools. endeaver to prolong its reign by work­ the United States silver would be worth of Lockport, X. Y.; Mrs. Hattie E. west are solid for Bryan aud free coin $1.29 an ounce, and no one would sell it study the question fairly, without preju Baldwin, of Chicago; Mrs. Osborne ing upon the prejudices of the people for less, because he coifld take it to the dice, and cast his ballot as his intelli OKOB a TE ORDEK—State of Michigan age, will easily offset the Republican Canfield, ‘of Niagara Falls, and VVm. AT County ol Clinton, s*. At a session of the majorities in Vermont and Maine, and until all the wealth is aggregated in the mint and realize that; therefore, Eng­ gence and his conscience dictate. — Ely, of Muir. Probate court for the county of Clinton, holden at hands of a few and the republic is des ­ land would be compelled to pay nearly Speech of Hon. George Fred Williams. During her 70 years of life she has the Probate office, in tbe Village of 8t. Johns, on the results in these states will have no double what she pays now for our silver, Friday, the 4th day of September, In the year troyed. I feel at this moment more endeared herself to a large circle of one thousand eight hundred and nioetv-six. effect whatever upon the voters in the and this would mean nearly double cost Per Capita Circulation and Prosperity. friends, and they unite in rendering to anxiety for the safety of my country to her for the wheat and cotton she buys Present, Charles M. Merrill, Judge of Frobate central and middle states, who have A statement is attributed to Senator her the praise she most wished: "She In the matter of the estate of THOMAS been giving the coinage question a care­ than ever before, even in the midst of of India, Russia and Argentine, and a hath done what she could. ” J. URIE, deceased. corresponding increase in the price in Vest to the effect that our per capita On reading and filing the petition, duly verified, ful study, and are convinced that the war.—Abraham Lincoln. of Emory E. Urie praying that he or some other the United States. This would enable circulation now is only $3.84. But not ­ Re*olution* of Sympathy. suitable person may be appointed administrator of prosperity of the country depends upon our farmers to again become consumers withstanding this these doctors boldly said estate. tbe success of the silver ticket, which STATE ELECTIONS THIS FAR of manufactured goods, which they have assert that we now have too great a cir­ Forest lllll Camp 3256, I Thereupon ft is ordered, that Thursday, the Moderd Woodmen of America.} 1th day of October, A. D., 1896, at one is made manifest by the enthusiasm Pluralities. Gams largely ceased buying during the last culation. And hence it is that the lanc ­ o’clock in the afternoon be assigned for the 1894. 1896. 1896 three years, and would afford a home Whksxah , The all wise Creator has seen fit with which the silver candidate is re­ Oregon...... 1S.00OR. 3.000R. 12.000D ing process is kept up on the people. to again enter our midst and take u nto him­ hearing of said petition, at the Probate market, not only for our protected in ­ self the beloved son of our esteemed neighbor Office, In the Village of St. Johns. ceived by the masses throughout every Alabama...... 27.000D. 46.0t)0D. 19.000D dustries, but the vast number of manu ­ France, of all European countries, is And it is further ordered, that notice be given Vermont ...... 28.00OR. 39.000R. 11.WOK J. C- Odlng. Therefore, be it to the persons interested in said estate of the section of the country where he has ap­ Arkansas ...... 48,OtiOD. 75.000D. 27,0000 factures, which are not directly benefit ­ acknowledged to be by far the most Resolved, That we, as neighbors of Forest Maine ...... 38.000R. 46.000R. 8.000R prosperous, and the Hon. J. C. Sibley of Hill Camp, No. 3256. Modern Woodmen of time and place of said hearing by causing a peared. William J. Bryan will be the ed by a high protective tariff, chief America, extend to him and family our heart­ copy of this order to be published in the among which are furniture, agricultural Pennsylvania states it as a fact that Clinton Independent, a newspaper printed and next president of the United States. Total Democratic gains to date ...... 58.000 felt sympathy in this the bourof his affliction Total Republican gains to date ...... 19.000 implements, bicycles, iron, leather, car­ they have more than $700,000,000 of Also, be it circulated In said county of Clinton for three riages, oils, tablets, etc. Resolved. That a copy of these resolutions successive weeks previous to said day of hearing. MEXICAN DOLLAR BOOMERANG. silver, $850,000,000 of gold, and $690,- be sent to the bereaved family and published CHARLES M. MKRRIL, With free and unlimited coinage of REDUCE COMPETITION. 000,000 of paper money in circulation, in the county papers. IA true copy .1 Judge ot Probate. The Mexican dollar object lesson has ROBERT LANDERS, silver* and gold, we will clear away the The manufacturers of the United ora total of $2,240,000,000, and with B. A. BURNS, ROBATE ORDER—State of Michigan proved a costly boomerang to the "pa­ public debt before the close of the cen ­ States are also threatened with a compe­ a population of about half of ours, or O. C. PRATT, P County of Clinton, ss. At a session of tbe triotic” humanitarians like Philip D. tition from Asiatic countries, that under Committee. Probate Court for tbe county of Clinton, holden at tury. —U. 8 . Grant in 1873. a gold standard will be blighting in its $58.91 per capita, or more than $15 to the Probate office in the village of St. Johns, on Armour and others who have been seek­ our $1.—J. W. Goldsmith. Tuesday, the Sth day of September, in the year effects. The premium of 160 per cent free Pills. one thousand eight hundred and ninety-aix. ing to educate the people up to a belief Campaign Map Book. on gold in Asia has stimulated manufac ­ Send jonr address to H. E. Bncklen & Present, Charles M. Merrill, Judge or Probate. in the gold standard. The fact Is, silver turers there, as it has also in Mexico, Sixteen to One. In the matter of the estate of CONRAD One of the most complete and useful Co., Cbigago, and get a free sample box MARTIN, deceased. is now measured in terms of gold, and Political Map Book lias just been issued, and with labor at only 20 cents a day, it A gold dollar contains 23.22 grains of Dr. King’s New Life Pills. A trial will On reading snd filing the petition duly verified giving the official boundaries of the gives them an advantage that cannot be silver bullion bas declined in price in and a silver dollar 871.25 grains, which convince yon of tbeir merits. These pills of Mary Catherine Martin praying that Edward State, Judicial Circuits, Conressional overcome in this country under a gold are easy in action and are particularly Goerge or some other suitable person may be ap­ company with the general decline in Districts, Representative Districts, Sen ­ standard. shows that a silver dollar weighs 16 pointed administrator of said estate. times as much as a gold dollar, or there effective in tbe care of Constipation and Thereupon it is ordered that Thursday, the prices. This decline is now about 50 atorial Districts and Railroads and also An Atlantic manufacturer can ship Sick Headache. For Malaria and Liver 1st day of October, A. D. 1898, at one o’clock per cent, since 1873. A Mexican dollar, State Statistics. Every County Chair his goods to this country and receive his is 16 times as much silver in a silver troubles they have been proved invaluable in the afternoon, be assigned tor the bearing of man, every Political Club and Campaign price in gold, which gives him 100 per dollar as there is gold in a gold dollar. said petition at the Probate Office In the village having no legal tender character in this They are guaranteed to be perfectly free of St. Johns. Speaker should have one of these for cent bonus, besides his regular profit. This ratio or difference between the two country, is bullion, and consequently from every delecterious substance and to And It is further ordered, that notice be given ready reference during the present cam- That they are not slow to appreciate this eoina is based on the world ’s average be purely vegetable. The/do not weaken to the persons interested in said estate, of the time sells for the bullion price of silver, so is evidenced by the fact that Japan ex­ and place of said hearing by causing a copy of this book will be mailed postpaid ported to the United States in 1890 $9,- production of the two metals/ The mon ­ by tbeir action but by giving tone to order to be published in the Clinton Independ ­ that it would take about the silver in ey market, or commercial valne of any stomach and bowels greatly invigorate the ent. a newspaper printed and circulated in upon receipt of 25 cents, by G. Walter 910,719 worth of goods, while for 1895 said county of Clinton, for three successive two Mexican dollars to exchange for a Meade. Secretary of the Democratic she exported to us $27,564,764, as report­ coin, is as it may be fixed by law in any system Regular Size 25c per box. Sold week* previous to said day of hearing. United States dollar in silver. This, State Central Committee Room 28 New­ ed by William E. Curtis and Council- country or by the custom of trado be by Fildew & Millman ’s, Druggist, Fowler CHARLES M. MERRILL, however, does not prove that the Mexi­ berry Building, Detroit, Mich. General Mclvor. Free coinage in the tween different countries. and St. Johns. 4. (A truecopx.) Judge of Probata. CLINTON INDEPENDENT, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1896

Highestof all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov’t Report AT KK8T. .> Awarded After • Long Life of Activity Daniel H. Highest Honors—World’s Fair, MISS BLUE, Chase Died at*Hls Lute Home in Palo, DU People’s Parlor , FROM DETROIT. Ionia County, Michigan. VOICE CULTURE. At the Wiggin. Houae ftoyal Baking From the GrAtiol Journal of September 11th. Every Thursday. Daniel B. Chase was born in Albany AND county, New York, June 30, 1812, and Powder moved with his parents, Joseph John ­ Lunch Room son Chase and Polly Snyder Chase, to ABSOLUTELY PURE Cato, Cayuga couuty. New York, when MISS PATTER, he was four years of age, and lived W CREAM FROM ALBION. First West of Wilson's there until he reached his majority. RIANO TEACHER. At the Wiggins Houle 1 Barber Shop, Walker St. W. PERSONAL. Nearly all of his busy life was spent on Every Thursday. the farm. In 1833 be came west, stop­ The Independent Ezra L- Smith went to Saginaw Monday. BAKING ping for a time at various points in W. H. Rose went to Lansing this morning. AY ING opened business in the F. L. Green went to Lanaing Monday morn ­ Michigan: Oakland, Ionia and Allegan ORTGAGE SALK.—Default having been above named place, we propose Published every Friday morning from The counties. He later went on further made in the conditions of s mortgage, exe­ to conduct it in a quiet and law­ Independent Block, No. 17 Clinton ing. i Mcuted by Thomas H. Hall and Isabella Hall to Avenue. Willard C. Lyon was in Durand Tuesday on west, stopping at Chicago, then a mere POWDER fhe Central Michigan Savings Hank of Lansing, ful manner, and solicit the pat­ business. MOST PERFECT MADE. lngbant Couuty. in Michigan, dated June 18, 181)2, Proprietor Indian trading point. He went from H ronage of honorable men. We OEO. 8. CO Kit IT, Rev. D D. Martin is attending conference and recorded in the office of the Register of Deeds FRANK E. OK WITT, - Leasee there to the present site of Joliet, Ill., A pure Grape Cream of Tartar Powder. Free for Clinton Couuty, in Michigan, on November 6, have a clean and nicely fitted this week. from Ammonia, Alum or any other adulterant. 1893, in Liber M of Mortgages, on page 448; and and took up land there. Later, with room on the west where men aud TICK MM: Mrs. Nellie Davis’went to Owosso Tuesday to his brother George, be went to Ken ­ 40 YEARS THE STANDARD. George W. 8*.one having been appointed receiver visit au aunt. of said Savings Hank on May 8, lt>93, aud since the their wives may enter for a quiet Btrtcly in Advance, • 1.00 osha, then called South Port, Wiscon ­ execution of said mortgage, by the Circuit Court of Mrs. H. V. Hughes and baby went to Saginaw sin, and took up each a half section of the county of Ingham aloiesa'd, and said mort­ and refreshing glass of beer with ▲II Settlements of Fast Due Subscriptions this morning. land near that place. He returned to September. gage having been duly assigued on June 26, 189o, as much propriety and safety as will be made at the rate of §1.50 A. D. McCabe ieft here yesterday morning York State about 1838. His travels in by said George W. Stone, as such receiver, to • Per Year. We are drinking tbe wine of the ages, Miner R. Frink, guardian of Austin Hamer, a in any business place in St. for Perrinton. the west were long before railroads, and From cups that are brimming over minor, by a written ssiignmeut, which wart re­ Our advertising rates are $100 per column per John T. Wagner spent Sunday with his during the time he covered the distance corded June 27, J»‘J5, in tbe office of the Register Johns. Pay us a visit and be With the sweet of a honey unbought with of Deeds aforesaid, in Liber *9 of mortgages, on annum. Business notices five cents per line for family in Iouia. between Detroit and Chicago three times convinced. each Insertion. Editorial notices, ten cents. money, page 193, and said mortgage having been again Buaineas cards. Si per line per year. Porter K. Perrin spsnt last Sunday with his afoot. Three years were spent in Wis­ Distilled from the heart of the clover. duly assigned on June 19, 1896, by said Miner R. Marriage, birth and death notices Inserted free. family in Detroit. consin, where he camped out on the Frink, as guardian of Austin Hamer aforesaid, to Obituarv comments, resolutions, cards of thanks, prairie, breaking the ground and hold ­ The flowers afringe on the way-side Austin ilanrer, by a written assignment which Heury vValbridge went to Detroit Tuesday was recorded June 20, 189*\ in the office of the Reg­ etc., will be charged for at the rate of five cents ing down his pre-emption claim. Are in raiment of purple and gold; per line. on legal business. ister of Deeds atoresaid, in Liber 79 of mortgages, Correspondence containing local news Is solicited Sheriff Leland went to Bay City Monday He was married Nov. 7, 1839, to Cath­ To the rough-hewn edge of the old stone ledge on page 242 ; and said mortgage having been again from all parts of the county. erine Switzer, of Conquest, Cayuga Tbe clinging brier-vines hold. duly assigned on June 20, 1896, by said Austin RIDEOUT & BAGLEY. morning on official business. Hamer to Miner R. Frink, by a written as«igu- Hiram Dunn went to Ionia on the excursion county, N. Y. He remained at Cato FACILITIES FOE DOING and vicinity till October, 1862. all the We are breaking life’s flne elixir rnent, which was recorded June 20, 1896, in the this morning to visit the fair, office of the Register of Deeds aforesaid, in Liber St. Johns, May 11,1896. time, devoting his attention to farming. In the waft of the perfumed breeze. 79 of mortgages, on page 242; and there being JOB PRINTING Under-Sheriff A. E. Dunn went east on During this period nine, children were The sudden showers, tbe sunlit hours, claimed to be due on said mortgage, at the dale of official business Monday morning. bom to them, five of whom are now liv­ Tbe rustle of leaves on the trees. this notice, one hundred and forty-two dollars and Unsurpassed for stvle and cheapness. MiS6 Ellen Ferrier, of Grand Rapids, epent sixty-eight cents, besides an attorney fee of fifteen ing : Catherine Rebecca Bush, Munson Tbe fathomless blue of the heaven. dollars, stipulated in said mortgage to be paid Sunday with her parents in this village. and Nancy Jane Skinner, of Essex, should any proceedings be taken to foreclose said Geo. Campbell returned to his studies in the The beauty and bloom of the day, THE GOODRICH LINE IkrsTitlet. Clinton county, and Charles II. and mortgage: and no suit or proceedings at law or in Agricultural College at Lansing Monday Morn ­ Adelbert E., of Ithaca, Gratiot couuty, Are making us young —they are waking the equity having been instituted to recover any part tongue ot the debt secured bvjsaid mortgage; therefore, by —The Original Tennesseean Jubilee ing. Michigan. virtue of the power of sale in said mortgage con ­ Singers will appear at Newton Hall Mr. and Mrs. Willard Lyon returned from In the summer of 1862 he exchanged Of the years that have passed away. tained, and of tbe statute in such case made and their summer vacation ,at Bay View, yester­ provided, notice is hereby given that on Decem­ September 22, 1890. his farm in Cato. Cayuga county, N. Y.. ’Tis the radiant rare September, ber 12,1896, at one o’clock in the afternoon, day. for one in Essex, four miles south or —There will be no preaching services With the clusters ripe on tbe vine. at the west front door of the Court House for Clin ­ Miss Fannie Scul, of New Jersey, was the Maple Rapids, and removed there with With scents that mingle in spicy tingle ton County, in Mrcbigan, in the village of St. at the Congregational church next Sun ­ guest of Miss Minnie Hart, this village, over his family, then of eight children, Octo­ Johns, in said county, there will be eold at public On the hill slope’s glimmering line. vendue to the highest bidder tbe premises des ­ day, as Dr. Butler will be absent. Sunday. ber 1 of the same year, where he lived cribed in said mortgage, viz; The east half of —It is with regret that we learn of Frank Stevens, of Chicago, has been spend ­ a great portion of the time till his death. And summer ’s a step behind us, the west half of the northwest quarter of section ing a lew days wit! his parents and friends in January 10,1886, his wife Catherine And autumn's a thought before. thirteen, in township five north of range two west, The Moat Popular Liae to the severe illness of Mrs. H. C. Leland, And each fleet sweet day that we meet on the in Michigan. Said sale will be made subject to this village. died at the old homestead. the payment of tbe remainder of said mortgage •who lives on Whittemore street. She Miss Ada Kelsey, of Ionia, arrived here last July 7, 1887, he was married to Melissa way not yet due, and being for six hundred and fifty is afflicted with pneumonia or pleurisy. week and will spend a season with her sister, Swarthout, and from this time he lived Is an angel at the door. dollars, due June 18, 1897, with interest payable alternately at the farm and at Palo, —From Harper's Bazaar. at 8 per cent, computed from June 18, 1896 —Dated —The infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Mrs. Edwin Pennell. ------September 15, 1896. MINER R. FRINK, Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Young, of Bengal, re­ Ionia county. He died at the latter errins aldwin Assignee. Louis Estes, of Lewis street, has been A Pleasant Event. P & B , turned Tuesday morning from a three weeks’ place September 9, 1896, from the effects Attorneys for Assignee. 49-12 CHICAGO dangerously sick with cholera infantum of a hemorrhage of kidneys or bladder. Yesterday and last night was another during the past week, but is now im­ visit in Minneapolis. He bad been a member of the M. E. AND ALL P0INS WEST. Mr. and Mrs. A. Granger are spending a por­ church upwards of 44 years. Services of those gala days for the Rebekah’s of KUKATi: OK DER—State of Michigan, proving. tion of the week with relatives and friends at Pcounty ofCllnton.ss. At a session of the Pro- were held at the house Thursday even ­ Banner Lodge, No. 139, I. O. O. F., of batecourt forthecounty of Clinton, holden at the The Magnificent New Fast Steamships —The friends of free coinage erected Owo8so and Flushing. ing, September 10, and the regular fun ­ St. Johns, it being a special for the in ­ probate office, in the village of St.Johns, on Miss Marion Fiske, who has been spending a Tuesday, the 1st day of September, in the year a handsome pole at Westphalia and en ­ eral services will he held at the old home itiation of two candidates, and the one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six. joyed truths uttered by able speakers. few weeks at her early home in Souuk Rapids, in Essex today, Rev. Dobson of Palo, Present, Charles M. Merrill, Judge of Probale. ATLANTA Minn., will arrive home to-day. officiating at the house, and Rev. E. president of the Rebekah State Assem­ In the matter of the estate of OSCAR M. AND There was a large and enthusiastic Our esteemed fellow townsman, R. M. Steel, bly, Addie Carpenter, of Grand Rapids, BROOKS, deceased. Mudge, an old friend of the family, will On reading and filing the petition duly verified, crowd present. will arrive here tomorrow from Oregon, ac­ officiate at the services to be held today. had set last evening for holding a school of Elmina Brooks, adinistratrix of said estate.pray- CITY OF RACINE —Mrs. Frank Burley, of Ottawa street, companied by bis wife and son George and In politics Mr. Chase was a free soiler of instruction, which she gave and, we ing that she may be licensed to sell the real estate Leave MUSKEGON at 6:00 P. M. in the forties, and became a Republican belonging to said deceased for tbe purpose of pay­ who has been very near death's door the wife. trust, will prove a benefit to this and ing debts of deceased and expense of administra ­ Leave GRAND HAVEN at 9:00 P. M. Frank WatsoD, who has beeD canvassing for on the organization of that party. He tion Arriving in CHICAGO the following morning past week, from the effects of malarial a book on etiquette, arrived here Tuesday on held to the Republican faitn till the surrounding lodges. Representatives Thereupon it is ordered, that Thursday, in time for outgoing trains. fever, is improving somewhat, and the evening train and left last evening to re­ time of his death, though during the the 24tli day of September, A. D. 1896, atone from Laingsburg, Ovid. Bath, DeWitt, o’clock in the afternoon be assigned for the hear­ hopes are entertained for her recovery. sume bis work in Fenton. last few months he has been too feeble to take any interest in political matters. Maple Rapids and North Star were pres­ ing of said petition, and that the heirs at law of This is the Shortline to Chicago —The Osh at Moore's Lake have been N. H. Baker and family were called to Lan ­ ent aud participated in the exercises, said deceased and all other persons interested in sing on Wednesday of last week to attend the His life was a busy and useful one, said estate are required to appear at a session of Passengers should see that their tickets read biting worse than ever during the last and he is mourned by bis wife, who sur ­ after which we listened to a very pleas­ said court then to be holden at the Probate Office via. this Popular Line. funeral of his mother, who had reached the in the village of St. Johns and show cause if any week or ten days. The season has just advanced age of 93 years. vives him, his children and other rela­ ant talk from the president and also there be, why the prayer of the petitioner should THROUGH TICKETS to all points via. Chi­ begun and probably will not last long, Sister Carpenter, of Grand Rapids, president tives, besides a host of friends at Palo uot be granted. cago can be had of all agents on D.. G. H. A M. and in Clinton county, where he was from Brother Slater, of Kalamazoo, and And It is further ordered, that a copy of C. & W. M. R’y, T.. S. A M. R y. G. R. & I. R. R., so make the best of your opportunity of the Rebekah Assembly, was entertained at widely known. followed by various members. The this order to be published in the Clinton Independ ­ and of W. D. Rosie, Agent Goodrich Line, Mus ­ ent, a newspaper printed and circulated in said kegon, or N. Robins, Jr„ Grand Haven. while it does. the pleasant home of Sister Minnie Hart, N. G. lodge then adjourned to the banquet of Banner Lodge, during her stay in our city. county of Clinton for three successive weeks H. A. BONN, Gen ’l .Passenger Agent, —While Joseph Wilson, of Essex, was OUR COUNTY FAIR. previous to said dav of hearing. Chicago. Roy C. Tows and lna Hulbert, who had been ball below, where a sumptuous repast CHARLES M. MERRILL, driving over a bridge in that township spending a vacation with their parents in this was served by the sisters which lasted A true copy Judge of Probate Some llint« to Exhibitors to Avoid Delays yesterday it gave way letting him fall village, returned to their places in the school Confusion, Disappointments and Per­ until the “wee sma'” hours, when the through into the creek. Mr. Wilson for the deaf and mute at Flint, this morning. KUKATE OKIIEIt—State ofMicbigan haps Ill Feeling. visitors and members dispersed to their Miss Nell Holmes went to her old home at county of Clinton, aa. At a sesaionofthe Pro­ Grand Truk Railway System. was uninjured, hut two of the horses respective homes, confident that much Pbate Court forthe county of Clinton,holden at the Whitmore Lake last Monday morning, in re­ Secretary DuBois has opened a com­ legs were broken. good had been accomplished and that Probate Office, in the village of St. Johns, on Detroit & Milwaukee Div. sponse to a message that her father, who has fortable office next to Ingraham's un ­ many more such entertainments might Thursday, the 27th day of August, in the year —F. E. Aldrich has purchased a $200 been failing for some time, was very much one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six. monument of F. F. Murdock and the dertaking rooms, opposite the post- be enjoyed. We must not fail to men ­ Present, Charles M. Merrill. Judge of Probate. TIME TABLE worse. office, where the entry books for the tion an important and pleasant feature In the matter of the estate of CATHERINE IN EFFECT two gentlemen started for Galesburg J. W. Herrindeen, who was born at Maple of the entertainment, which was given E. WIEBER, deceased. Rapids, and who is now a resident of Grand next fair of the Clinton County Agricul­ On reading and filing the petition, dulv verified, yesterday (Wednesday) to see to the set­ by the orchestra recently organized by of Henry J. Wieber, administrator, with the will May 4th, 1896. Rapids, accompanied by his wife, spent last tural Society, which begins September ting of the same. They expect to take Brother Foerch. P. annexed, of said estate praying that he may be week in our village. They went to Ithaca 29, are open aud ready for entries, and licensed to sell tbe real estate belonging to said WESTWARD.

deceased ior the purpose of paying debts and ex­ the train at Lansing. Monday. POLITICAL STRAWS 60 he or some of his assistants may be pense ol administration. 15 X

—Among the teachers assigned po­ Mrs C. E. Chapin, baby and daughter Fan ­ found there at all seasonable hours of Thereupon it is ordered, that Thursday, the .e. 17, nie, left here Monday for Port Huron, where 34th day of September A. D. 1896. at one 11, sitions in the schools of Menominee, Sun No. STATIONS. Z S’g

Show Plainly Which Way the Wind I* o’clock In the afternoon, be assigned for the

the day to receive entries and to answer Sunday. Miss Fannie will spend the next six months in — 1 2

Mich., we notice from the list published Daily. bearing of said petition, and that the heirs at law No. No.

Blowing in This County. Chicago

receiving instructions in stenography and questions concerning the fast approach­ of said deceased and all other persons Ex. JU

in the Herald of that city the names of Ex. a Morning.Exp type writing at the business University in ing great show. Keep in mind the fact Taylor Stockton, who. conducts a interested in said estate are required to appear at a Exp. 2 the Maxam sisters, Florence and Jen ­ that city. Mrs. Chapin will visit friends In session of said court then to be holden at the Pro­ a. tu. a. m. P n. p. in. p. in. that the time is short and that the ex­ blacksmith shop at the corner of Iligham bate Oftice in the village of St. Johns and show DETROIT...... Lv 6 59 11 15 4 05 8 00 10 45 nie, for the 2d grade in the Boswell Saginaw before returning home. hibitors will receive much better ser­ and Spring streets, has been keeping a cause, if any there be, why the prayer of the peti­ Milwaukee Jet.... 7 16 11 32 4 25 8 15 H 06 street school. C. H. Bennett, who bas been employed in the tioner should not be granted. p. in. a. in. vice by making their entries early than record since September 1st of all And it is further ordered, that a copy Pontiac ...... 8 0(1 12 17 5 07 8 58 12 15 —The following named left this sta­ machinery department of the St. Johns Manu ­ of this order to be publisned in tne persons entering his shop since that date tion Tuesday morning to attend the an ­ facturing Co. for the past twenty-two years, to wait until the fair opens, when every­ Clinton Independent, a newspaper printed Holly...... 8 41 1 02 5 51 9 39 1 14 resigned his position tor the purpose of enter ­ thing is in confusion and the secretary up to yesterday (and which were largely and circulated in said county of Clinton, Durand ...... 9 35 2 00 6 50 10 15 2 13 nual reunion ’ of the 23d Michigan at for three successive weeks previous to said day ol Owosso Jet...... 10 15 2 30 7 80 3 05 ing the cigar manufacturing and restaurant farmers) as to their preference on the hearing. Otisville : Andrew Annis, A. L. Cas­ and his assistants know not which way St. Johns ...... 10 54 8 05 8 01 3 58 business with his brother, A. 8. Bennet, at money question. The record shows CHARLES M. MERRILL, I Ionia ...... 11 49 3 57 8 55 5 04 terline, Robert and James Anderson. Lansing. He went there Monday morning. to turn amid the requests for entries and (A true copy) Judge of Probate. p. in. stream of questions. that 7 were in favor of a single gold Saranac ...... 12 04 4 13 9 10 5 27 Essex ; N. E. Jones, St. Johns and B. His family will remain here for a time. Lowell...... 12 17 4 25 9 21 5 46 There can be no commensurate suc ­ standard, and 67 were in favor of bi- KOHATI; OK DER—State of Michigan, Ada ...... «...... 12 32 4 39 9 40 6 10 F. Young, Bengal. County ofClinton.ss. At a session of tbe Pro­ COMING EVENTS. metalism or free coinage of both gold P Grand Rapids ...... 1 00 5 05 10 O, 6 85 —O. L. Yreeland, after about seven cess without a large number and large bate Court for theCounty of Clinton, holden G.R.at A I. Jet...... 1 05 5 10 10 10 6 55 variety of exhibits, and this sucess can ­ and silver on a parity of 16 to 1. the Probate office in the village of St. Johns, on Ferrysburg...... 2 05 « 10 11 00 years service as flagman at the Clinton Regular meeting of Radiant Chapter, No. 79, Tuesday, the 1st day of September, in the year Grand Haven ...... 2 10 6 15 11 06 one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six. avenue crossing, has been superseded by O. E. 8., September 23. Election of officers. not be had without a hearty co-opera­ P- Ill. p. m. p. m tion of the farmers and householders of Your Boy Won't Live a Month. Present, Charles M. Merrill, Judge of Probate. Milwaukee (Str) « OO F. Finan, of Lowell, who has been in Meeting called at 7 :30 p. m. So Mr. Gilman Brown, of 34 Mill St., In the matter of the estate of ELLEN Chicago (Str),. n 00 The Bengal union aid society are invited to the county. The time has now arrived NEAL, deceased. the service of the D. & M. R. R. Co. Sooth Gardner, Mass., was told by the On reading and filing the petition duly verified, meet with Mrs. Charles Harpe^ Wednesday. not only to prepare the articles designed for about thirty years. Mr. Finan en ­ doctors. His son had Lung trouble, fol­ of John T. Neal praying that he or some other EASTWARD. September 28, at 1 o’clock p. in. A full at­ for exhibition at the fair, but to make lowing Typhoid Malaria, aud be spent suitable person may be appointed administrator of tered upon his official duties yesterday tendance is desired. said estate. <£

three hundred and seventy-five dollars 2- The ladies ’ aid and young people's societies the entries on the secretary’s books. Thereupon it is ordered, that Thursday, the Ex- -■c 12, 18, Exp. 0 £•«* 83.

morning. with doctors, who finally gave him up, 34th (lay oi September A. D„ IK96. at one Z 3 z S’g STATIONS. g

of West Bingham will give a fish pond social We trust exhibitors will appreciate the ’ o’clock in tbe afternoon, be assigned for the Sundsy,

- H 5 —Hazen S. Pingree passed through g.® No saying: “Ycur boy won ’t live a month. ” Daily. No. No. at the home of E. P. Boughton, Friday even ­ hearing of said petition at the Probate Office in X M Daily. secretary's work and aid him in it by Nightxp.

He tried Dr. King's New Discovery and a Eve here yesterday (Wednesday) morning ww Ex. ing. September !8. A general invitation is the village of St . Johns. Chicago a on his way to Ionia to attend the fair making their entries early. few bottles restored him to health and en ­ And it is further ordered that notice be giver p. m. p. ID. a. m. p. m. p. m. extended. The people are now freely discussing abled him to go to work a perfectly well to the persons interested Id said estate of the there. J. W. Fitzgerald, L. C. Meade, Mrs. Crossman's Sunday school class of the time and place of said bearing by causing a copy the coming fair and say that they ex­ man. He says be owes his present good of this order to be published in the Clinton Inde ­ Milwaukee (Str) 9 00 9 OO Warner Buuday and E. L. Valentine M.E. 8. S. will give a nut hunt party at the health to use of Dr. King’s New Discov­ pendent, a newspaper printed and circulated in residence of Mrs. O. G. Wickes, Friday even ­ pect to see the largest and finest col­ Chicago (Str)...... 7 30 7 30 boarded the train and accompanied him ery, and knows it to he tbe best in the said county of Clluton for three successive weeks a. 111 ing, September 18. Admission, two for 9c ; previous to said day of hearing. Grand Haven.„Lv 9 00 210 8 25 lection of fruits and vegetables ever be­ world for Lung trouble. Trial Bottles CHARLES M. MERRILL. as far as Muir. During the intervene gentlemen unaccompanied. 10c- Light re­ Ferry sburg...... 3 40 9 05 2 15 8 32 certain arrangements were made for fore shown. Frank Gruler, the popular Free at Fildew & Millman's Drug Store, A true copv Judge of Probate. G. R. A I. Jet...... 6 37 10 05 8 12 9 50 freshments will be served. Everybody in dealer at Fowler, is arranging another St. Johns and Fowler. 4 the mayor to speak here October 1. vlted. ORTGAGE SALE.—Default having been Grand Rapids ..... Z §4 6 45 10 20 8 25 11 00 fine collection of seeds in uniform cases Lowell...... m 7 15 10 55 4 00 11 53 —We are in receipt of a copy of the Don ’t foiget the date of the county conven tuade in the conditions of a mortgage 2 with glass fronts to be exhibited at our Mexecuted by Charles T. Karrher and Lydia Ionia J...... 7 40 11 25 4 28 12 35 piano arrangement of the '‘Uniform tion (W. C. T. U.) at DeWitt, beginning Octo­ St. Johns ...... 5 8 25 12 17 5 20 1 47 ber 7, at 3 o’clock and closing October 9, at fair. If others would do half as much Karcher to Mary M. Hollenbeck, dated September a 111. D. Ill. Rank March,” composed and published 18th, 1894, and recorded in the office of the Register Owosso Jet...... noon. Master Osgood will read a paper on of Deeds for Clinton county, in Michigan,on Oc­ 8 57 1 15 6 00 3 05 as he we would have a state fair right Owosso...... 9 00 1 20 6 05 3 10 by A. J. Hicks and dedicated to St. “The Influence of L. L. L. Training upon tober '22d, 1894, in Liber 88 of Mortgages on page here in Clinton county. 163: on which mortgage there ia claimed to be due 510 Johns Division, No. 63, U. R. K. P. Boy’s life.” Mrs. Ida Rawson will be in charge at the date of this notice, seventy-four dollars and Durand ...... 9 35 1 47 6 55 8 53 twenty-one cents, besides an attorney fee of fifteen Holly...... 5 5-6 10 14 2 26 7 40 4 47 On the title page appears a fine half-tone of L. L. L. hour, and also read a paper on the * Woti l>y the Umpire. Pontiac ...... 6 35 10 53 3 05 8 25 5 37 work. Thursday p. m. grand rally with the dollars, stipulated in said mortgage to be paid 7 engraving of the officers of St. Johns The Saranac base ball team came to should soy proceedings by taken to foreclose said Milwaukee Jet.... 20 11 30 8 45 9 05 6 30 children-bring them along to hear Mrs. E. A. DETROIT...... Ar. 7 as! ii so 4 05 9 25 7 06 Division. It is a very creditable piece St. Johns on Tuesday with the ayowed mortgage; and no suit or proceeding ■ at law or Blair— national chalk talker on L. L. L. work. in equitv having been instituted to recover sny Chicago Steamer leaves Grand Haven ...... 9 p. m of music and every pianist should pro­ intention of “doing up ” the local team, part of the debt secured by said mortgage; there­ Arrives in Chicago...... 6 a. m fore, by virtue of the powzr of sale contained in Leaves Chicago for ( iaand Haven...... 7:80 p. m cure a. copy, which will be mailed to NAPOLEON'S VALUE OF VICTORY. and in order to carry out their purpose, said mortgage, and of tne statute in snch cave made Arrives in Grand Haven ...... 5:40 a. ni any address on receipt of price—50 brought along one of the rankest urn and provide!, notice ia hereby given that on Milwaukee Steamer leaves Grand Haven..Il:13 p. m It Finds a Striking Cunuterpart In Recent October 34th, 1896, at one o’clock in the after­ Arrives in Milwaukee at...... fi «. m cents. Address A. J. Hicks, foreman World Trumph*. pires that ever existed. It was evident noon, at the west front door of the Court House Leave* Milwaukee for Grand Haven ...... 9 p. m for Clinton county, in Michigan, in the village or Arrives at Grand Haven ...... 6 30 a. m Herald Office, Ithaca, Mich. from the beginning of the game that the St. Johns, in said county, there will be soid at —H. O. Wills, of Detroit, with his Napoleon knew well the value of a home team were the better players, but ubtle vendue, to the highest bidder, the premises Chair Car. Buffet Car and Sleeping Car 8ervlce. victory. After Austerlitz, the world Sescribed in said mortgage, via; The west half of gospel wagon and trio of singers, was in that umpire refused to give them the the west half of the northwest quarter of section Eastward, No. 12 has Pullman Sleeper,Chicago to St. Johns over Sunday, and entertained seemed his. Fame invited, fortune least possible chance of winning the twelve. In township six north of range three went, Detroit. No. 14 has Parlor Buffet 3ar attached favored, everything stimulated his as­ in Michigan. Said sale will be made subject to the Grand Haven to Detroit, (extra charge, 25 cents.) large audiences on our streets Saturday game. His decisions were simply rank remainder of said mortgage not yet due, and being No. 18 has Chair Car, Grand Rapids to Detroit. piring ambition. With growing power and disgusted everybody. The great Old Chopper, Good-Bye. one thousand dollars, due September 18th, 1899, No. 82 bas Sleoper to Detroit. jiight and Sunday afternoon and even ­ The modern housewife doesn ’t need with interest thereon, payable annually at seven ing. Mr. Wills is a reformed drunkard, he gathered the fruits of victory. And wonder is that the St. Johns club was the aid of tbe chopping knife In the per cent., computed trom September 18, 1899.— Westward, No. II baa Chair Car, Detroit toOi so has it ever been. Success succeeds. preparation of mince pies. 8he nses Dated July 28, 1896. Rapids. No. 19 haa Parlor Buffet Car attar and has been engaged In this evange­ permitted to receive one score, and it None Such Mince Meat; chopped, and MARY M. HOLLENBECK, Detroit to Grand Haven, (extra charge, 25 ct listic work since his conversion, thirteen A notable illustration of this truth is must have been made when the umpire deliciously seasoned, ready to fill the • Mortgagee. No. 17 has Pullman Sleeper, Detroit to Chii crust. Made of the very finest, purest Prrriibs A Baldwin , No. 81 haa Sleeper to Grand Rapids. years ago. He and his three assistants furnished by the great victories won at wasn't looking. The game was given Attorneys for Mortgagee. E, H. HUGHES. REN FLETCHER, the World ’s Fair in ’93 and the Califor­ and cleanest materials— travel in a beautiful covered wagon, to the Sarnacs by a score of 5 to 1. Ass’t. G. P. A T. A. Trav. P«m. Ag nia Midwinter Fair in *94 by Dr. Price’s NONE SUCH Tnoa. Bbomlky . Local Agei fitted up in fine style and provided with Cream Baking Powder. Ever increas ­ Hncklsn ’i Arnica naive. an organ, and drawn by a fine span of ing sales and popularity has been the MINCE MEAT result. The people have promptly rati­ Tbe Best Salve in the world for Uuta makes mince pies as flne In taste and grays. This ‘‘church on wheels” was Braises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheom, Fever quality as any home-made mlnoe fied the official verdicts that declared meat. Makes delicious fruit cake and THE SAGINAW WEEKLY Nl dedicated by Bishop Ninde four years Dr. Price's, for leavening power, keep­ 8 ores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Cbilblanee, fruit pudding, as well. Hold every­ JOB PRINTING- Is sent to any address for 75 cents ago. The organ was a present to Mr. ing qualities, purity and general excel­ Corns and all Skin Eruptions, aud posi­ where. Take no substitute. 10 cents This price includes any of its pre tively cores Piles, or no pay required. It package—2 large pies. FIRST-CLASS WORK...... Wills from the Farrand & Votey com­ lence, the “foremost baking powder in "Mr* Pop*In. Ttiaoka«tvla(.' » Wk *, a fkmnu, Complete telegraphic news service all the world. ” Quite as quickly as the isgnranteed to give perfect satisfaction hateomu writer, will malice free Ui.ojoo . acadias INDEPENDENT JOB ROOMS able foreign and local markets, f pany, of Detroit. We understand that name, ariilma and nama of thla paper. great Emperor do they know the value or money refunded. Price 26 cents per SEKBeiAAOCLR CO., By raraia, N.T. counts of all local happenings. A Mr. Wills is doing a good work in the of a victory that means world-wide box. For sale by Fildew A Millman, St pondent In every town in this secti Christian cause. supremacy. Johns and Fowler 307 TUSCOLA ST.. SAQtNAW. Mi CLINTON INDEPENDENT. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17. 1890

shall we do with It?" I here suggest TAT jM Aft K’ft ft HR M Off ness men are taxed for everything. ed forehead. The grandchildren of that The Lsdln, GRANT AND SILVER. a solution which will answer for some lAl/MAUfL.0 O £ H JU UII. City taxes, county taxes, State taxes, woman who goes down the street with The pleasant effect and perfect ss/ety years to pot It lb circulation, keeping ------United States taxes, stamp taxes, li­ a curse, stoned by the boys that fol­ with which ladles may us* Syrup of cense tax, manufacturing taxes—taxes, low her, with the reformers and phil­ Figs, under all conditions, makes U HIS SPECIAL MESSAGE FAVOR- it there until It is fixed, and then wo ‘THE CITIES SAVED,“LAST SUN­ their favorite remedy. To gst the true INQ FREE COINAGE. will find other marketa.—(Extract from : DAY'S SUBJECT. taxes, taxes! Our business men have anthropists and the Christian men and and genuine article look for the name a letter written by President Grant to 1 to make a small fortune every year the honest merchants of our cities. of the California Fig Syrup Company, Mr. Coudry, Oct. 13, 1873, eight months to pay their taxes. Whst fastens on * * * printed near the bottom of the pack­ ff• Want All IK* stiver In ClrealatloB **Aad lha Street* cf the Cl tie* Shall B* age. For sale by all responsible drug ­ after he bad signed the bill demone ­ our great Industries this awful ‘oad? Oh, you think sometimes It does not gists. That ('an B* Coined — Ordered Ad* tizing silver, 'not knowing what that Fall of Boya and OlrU Fleyljig In Crime, individual and official. We have amount to mvcb! You toil on in your dltlonal Facllttle* for Mining* —YVaa measure contained. See page 208, Con ­ the Straat* Thereof' — Zaeharlah, Vrr«- to take care of the orphans of those different spheres, sometimes with great When f'ermunv warred against France la IfuoreDl of Lleniuuet latloo- ae, •—ft. ______* 187o-ri. nhe put I 003 0 >0 troops In tbe Held, la gressional Record, Dec. 14, 1877). who plunged into their graves through discouragement. People have no faith, the same war tbe French employed 710.UM man. ^LIMPSES of our Bensual Indulgences. We have to sup ­ and say: “It does not amount to any ­ There are still some men who Insist Can any one doubt the sincerity of port the municipal governments, which thing; you might as well quit that." There is no other remedy on earth ao cities redeemed! are vast and expensive Just in propor­ Why, when Moses stretched his hand simple, so effectual, so natural, #in the that the act demonetising silver was General Grant? If there is let him vote Now, boys and girls not sneaked through Congress in 1873. for McKinley and the gold standard. i tion as the criminal procl.vlti«3 are vast over the Red Sea It lid not seem to cure of summer complaint in all its who play in the and tremendous. Who support the mean anything especially. People came forms, as Dr. Fowler's Kit of Wild Time and again the silver advocates streets run such Strawberry. have given substantial evidence to the almshouses and police stations, and all out, I suppose, and said, “Aha!" Some Old Itlmetalllaia Succeed? risks that multi ­ the machinery of municipal govern­ of them found out what he wanted to contrary. The late James G. Blaine, New York Journal: A monometallist tudes of them end The crest gun factory at Washing ton-ona of who was speaker of the house of rep­ ment? The taxpayers. do. He wanted the sea parted. It did the largest in the world, employing 1.609 men — contemporary quotes the Journal ’s re* In ruin. But, In the * * * turns out guns valued at foO.ON) apiece resentatives in 1873, has been quoted not amount to anything, this stretch­ mark that bimetallic coinage is not an coming time spok­ In our great cities the churches are ing out of his hand over the sea. But, times without number. Other illustri ­ For earache, put a couple of drops of untried experiment, but was an ap­ en of, our cities wM not to-day large enough to hold more after awhile, the wind'blew all night ous statesmen of all parties have testi­ proved success through the greater be so moral that Thomas’ Eclectric Oil on a bit of cotton than a fourth of the population. The from the east, and the waters were and place it in the ear. The pain will fied to the truth of Blaine ’s statement part of our national life, and exclaims: lads and lasses churches that are built —comparatively that “Not a member of congress knew gathered into a glittering palisade on stop in a fe w inomen ts. Simple enough, How was it ‘‘an approved success?" shall be as safe in toe public thorough­ few of them are fully occupied. The either aide, and the billows reared as isn't it? at the time that the act of ’73 demone ­ Did it ever for one month maintain the fares as In the nursery. average attendance in the churches of tized silver." Neither did President God pulled back on their crystal bits! parity of the metals? Did It ever dur ­ Pulpit and printing press for the moet the United States today is not four Wheel into line; O, Israel! march! During the lust 90 years Mohammedanism - Grant, who signed the bill. Here is his has made more proselyte* than Christianity. ing the forty years of its existence give part in our day are busy In discussing hundred. Now, in the glorious time of march! Pearls crashed under feet. special message to the senate on the the condition of the cities at this time; us concurrent circulation of gold and which I speak, there are going to be Flying spray gathers1 into rainbow arch Eczema in any part of the body is day he signed the resumption bill. No silver? If so, when? Did this magical but would it not be healthfully encour ­ vast churches, and they are going to be sane man, after reading It, will dare to of victory for the conquerers to march instantly relieved and permanently ratio ever do either of these things in aging to all Christian workers, and to all thronged with worshippers. Oh, under. Shout of hosts on the beach cured by Doan's Ointment, the sover­ say that President Grant knew that the any other country? If so, where? all who are toiling to make the world whai rousing songs they will sing! Oh, eign remedy for all itchiness of the act of 1873 debarred silver from the answering the shout of hosts amid sen. On the very same page our contem ­ better, If we should for a little while what earnest sermons they will preach! And when the last line of Israelites mints. The message: look forward to the time when our cit­ porary prints a table that ought to en ­ Oh, what fervent prayers they will of­ reach the beach, the cymbals clap, and If Ood has helped us to-dny it It ft ays To the Senate of the United States: able It to answer Its own questions. ies shall be revolutionized by the Gos­ fer! Now, In our time, what is called the shields clang, and the waters rush prophecy that he will help us to-morrow. Senate bill No. 1044, “to provide for The figures show the relative produc ­ pel of the Son of God, and all the dark ­ a fashionable church is a place where over the pursuers, and the swift-fin ­ ness of sin and trouble and crime and the resumption of specie payments," tion of silver and gold. For the pres­ a few people, having attended very gered winds on the white keys of the Bull's Catarrh Cure suffering shall be gone from the world? Is before me, and this day receives ent century the outputs as given, carefully to their toilet, come and sit foam play the grand march of Israel Is taken internally. I’rice, 75c. Every man has a pride in the city my signature of approval. I venture were: down —they do not want to be crowded; delivered and the awful dirge of Egyp­ of his nativity or residence, If it be a upon this unusual method of conveying Gold. SllVer. they like a whole seat to themselves— tian overthrow. Tbe man who worries Is i&t a bit wiser then city distinguished for any dignity or the notice of approval to the house on Ounces. Ounces. and then, if they have any time left So you and I go forth, and all thb the one who burns down hU house. prowess. Caesar boasted of his native which the measure originated because 1801-10.. 6,715,627 287,469,225 59 to 1 from thinking of tfieir store, and from people of God go forth, and they stretch Rome, Virgil of Mantua, Lycurgus of Burdock lllood Bitters never fails to of its great importance to the country 1811-20.. 3,679,568 173,857,555 48 to 1 examidlng The style of the hat in front forth their hand over the sea, the boil­ Sparta, Demosthenes of Athens, Arch­ enre all impurities of the blood, from s at large and in order to suggest further 1821-30.. 4,570,444 148,070,040 32 tr 1 of them, they sit and listen to a sermon ing scft of crime, and sin, and wretch- i imedes of Syracuse, and Paul of Tar­ common pimple to the worst scrofula legislation, which seems to me essen ­ 1831-40.. 6,522,913 191,768,675 30 to 1 warranted to hit no man's sins, and lis­ edness. “It don ’t amount to anything," sore. sus. I should have suspicion of base- tial to make the law effective. 1841-50.. 17,605,018 250,903,422 12 to 1 ten to music which is rendered by a people say. Don ’t it? God ’s winds of • ••*•**# heartedneBs In a man who had no es­ 1S51-60,. 64,482,933 287,920,126 4 to 1 choir warranted to sing tunes that no ­ help will, after awhile, begin to blow. Crooked step* are the most apt to be notloed. pecial interest in the city of his birth The provisions of the third section of 1860-70.. 61,098.343 329,267,776 6 to 1 body knows! And tnen after an hour A path will be cleared for the army of or residence —no exhilaration at the 11 tb* Baby is Catting Teeth. the act will prevent combinations be­ 1870-95.. 146,539,875 2,513,984,119 17 to 1 and a half of indolent yawning they go Christian philanthropists. The path ing made to exhaust the treasury of evidence of its prosperity or its artistic Se rare and iu * that old and weU-trled remedy, Ida If this table had been supplemented home refreshed. Every man feels bet­ will be lined with the treasures of Winslow ’* Sooth mo Strut for Children Teething- coin. With such a law it is presumable by another exhibiting the market value embellishments, or its Intellectual ad ­ ter after he has had a good sleep! vancement. Christian beneficence, and we shall be that ne gold could be called for not of the metals. It would have shown In many of the Churches of Christ greeted to the other beach by the clap­ a A lost opportunity m rer finds Us way bock. required for legitimate business pur ­ that while In the first seventy years of I have noticed that a man never likes in our day the music is simply a mock­ a city where he has not behaved well! ping of all heaven ’s cymbals, while PITS Mopped free and permanently • cured.< Ke poses. When large amounts of coin the century the production fluctuated ery. I have not a cultivated ear, nor a those who pursued us, and derided us, fits after first day'* ue« of Dr. Kllne ’eureat Nerve People who have had a free ride In the Restorer. Free *3 lrr*l battle and treatise, should be drawn from the treasury, so enormously that in one decade only cultivated voice, yet no man can do my bend to Pa. kL.aa. Sul Arch St., Fniiadelphlo, Po. prison van never like th» city that fur ­ and tried to destroy us, will go down correspondingly large amounts of cur ­ four ounces of silver were produced to singing for me. I nave nothing to say under the sea. and all that will be left nishes the vehicle. When I find Argos, One little sin will hide God's who's face. rency would be withdrawn from cir­ one of gold, and in another the dispar ­ against artistic music. The two or five and Rhodes, and Smyrna trying to of them will be cast high and dry upon culation, thug causing a sufficient strin ­ ity was Ofty to one, the average an ­ dollars I pay to hear any of the great prove themselves the birthplace of Ho­ the beach, the splintered wheel of a Pino ’s Cure for Consumption has been a God* gency In currency to stop the outward nual market ratios ranged for almost queens of song are a good Investment. chariot, or thrust out from the foam, send to me. — Win. B. Met. lelUn. Chester, Flor­ mer, I conclude that Homer behaved ida. Sept 17. IM».'>. flow of coin, the whole time in the neighborhood of But when the people assemble in reli­ the breathless nostril of a riderless • The advantages of a currency of a well. He liked them and they liked gious convocation, and the hymn is 15V4 to 1, and never varied more than him. We must not war on laudable charger. Others will )udge you, not by what you can fixed, known value would also be from 15.04 to 1 to 16.25 to 1. It would read, and the angels of God step from be. but by whit •ou are: but you mint udge city pride, or with the Idea of building yourself, not by what you are. but by what you reached. In my opinion, by the enact ­ also have shown that while the pro­ their throne to catch the music on can be.—Ivan Punln. ment of such law, business and indus ­ ourselves up at any time, try to pull their wings, do not let us drive them Artificial Animal Kyee. duction from 1870 to 1896 approached Artificial eyes in imitation of the tries would revive, and the beginning others down. Boston must continue to away by our indifference. I have more nearly to the mint proportions eyes of birds and animals are made in of prosperity on a firm basis would be point to Its Fanuell Hall and to its preached In churches where vast iUtns than ever before In the century, the Common, and to its superior educa ­ great variety. They are used in reached. * value of silver fluctuated between 15.67 of money were employed to keep up the tional advantages. Philadelphia mtul music, and it was as exquisite as any mounting birds for millinery trim­ ! Other means of increasing revenue and 32.56 to 1. ming; animals ’ eyes are used for the Vhan those suggested should probably continue to point to its Independence heard on earth, but I thought, at the “Concurrent circulation ” is not the Hall, and its mint, and Its Girard Col­ heads in fur rugs, and both bird and The best when you need medicine. For blood, be devised, and also other legislation. same time, for all matters practical I test of a successful monetary policy, al­ lege. Washington must continue to animal eyes are used for many other appetite, nerves, stomach, liver, nothing equals In fact, to carry out the first section would prefer the hearty, outbreaking though there was never a year in point to its wondrous CRiWtollne build ­ purposes; for example, for eyes in cane of the act, another mint becomes nec ­ song of a backwoods Methodist camp­ times of specie payments between 1803 ings. If I should find a man coming and umbrella heads made in imitation essary. With the present facilities for and 1874 when silver five franc pieces meeting. of animals, for many kinds of toys, and from any city, having no pride in that Let one of these starveling fancy coinage, it would take a period prob­ and gold twenty franc pieces did not city, that city having been the place songs sung in church get up before the so on. Artificial eyes are also made ably beyond that fixed by law for final circulate together in France, and when for some living animals; it is not un ­ of his nativity, or now being the plnec throne of God, how would it seem Hood’s specie resumption to coin the silver both gold and silver were not coined of his residence, I would feel like usk- standing amid the great doxologies of common for horses to have glass eyes, necessary to transact the business of at the French mints. The real test is ing: "What mean thing have you done and dogs are sometimes provided with Sarsaparilla the country. the redeemtd? Let the finest operatic stability of value. It makes little dif ­ there? What outrageous thing have air that ever went up from the Church them; in at least one case a calf has The One True Blood Purifier. All druggists. 9L There are now some smelting fur ­ been supplied with one, but most arti­ ference whether one metal or the other you been guilty of that you do not like of Christ get many hours the start, it naces for extracting silver and gold ficial eyes are for use in mounting nat ­ Hood ’s Pills cure all Liver Ills. 28 cents. or both be in circulation If the fluctu ­ the place?" would be caught and passed by the from the ores brought from the moun ­ ural specimens, and in the manufac ­ ations in value can be kept within nar ­ * a • hosanna of the Sabbath School chil­ mS? m I Thompson ’* Eya Watsr. tainous territories, In Chicago, St. row limits. Between 1837 and 1873 the turing uses above referred to. The I know there are sorrows, and there dren. I know a church where the choir T.M. Year Fortune With pen picture of your Louis and Omaha—three In the former gold value of 371% grains of pure stiver eyes are made, of course, in imitation I EIIS future hunhand or wife. Send 10c (idiver) date are sins, and there are sufferings all lid all the singing, save one Christian of birth, to ASTUOLOOKK. Box 177*. BoeToR. Mam . city—and as much of the change re­ never averaged more than $1,052 or around about us; but as in some bitter, nan, who, through "perseverance of of nature, and many of them are beau ­ quired will be wanted in the Mississippi tiful. The stock that the manufacturer piTT|JTP 10 year* ’ experience. Send eketrh for ad. less than $1,003. The range of fluctu ­ cold winter day, when we are threshing the saints, ” went right on, and, after­ (AlLnlO vice (L l*ean-,lete prm. examiner UJb valley states, and as the metal to be VaLUtUce CcMftS Weaver, McUUlltiUf., W a*h.D.Gh ation was less than five cents on the our arms around us to keep our thumb? ward, a committee was appointed to or dealer keeps always on hand is won ­ coined comes from west of these states, derful In Its variety. There is no eye dollar in thirty-six years. Between from freezing, we think of the warm wait on him and ask him if he would and 'As I understand the charge of that could not be supplied. Here are ENSIONS, PATENTS, CLAIMS. 1873 and 1895 the gold value of the spring day that will after awhile come; aot please stop singing, as he bothered transportation of bullion from either humming birds ’ eyes, and alligators’ JOHNW MORRIS,WASHINGTON.0.a same amount of silver varied between or in tfie dark winter night we look up the choir. of the cities named to the mint in 49.1 cents and $1,004. There was a and see the northern lights, the win ­ Let thoie refuse to ting eyes, tigers’ eyes, and swans ’ eyes, and Late Triad pal Examiner U. a. fnilti Sure**. 3 /re. la iaet war, 16*4ju4ie*Uaa el*, w*. aay. See* Philadelphia or to New York city, greater fluctuation in a week than dows of heaven Illuminated by some Who oever knew our God: eyes for owls, and for eagles, and for P amounts to $4 for each $1,000 worth, But children of the Heavenly King birds of all kinds and sizes; eyes for there had been with open mints in sev­ great victory—Just so we look up from Should speak the'r joys abroad MORRIS PERFECTION WELLPOINT! with an equal expense for transporta ­ enty years. That ought to answer the the night of suffering and Borrow and "Praise ye the Ldrd: let everything mounted fishes, eyes for the bear, the rut ettr M m* woexe aw im maui re* it. tion back, it would seem a fair argu­ question whether the policy of open lion, the panther, the fox, the squirrel, r*n*~*' wretchedness in our cities, and we see with breath praise the Lord. ” In the urrtw mew. *n»««rto nsitt am #*t. ruett net* etar CTT ment in favor of adopting one or more mints proved a success or not, as com­ a light streaming through from the glorious time coming in our cities, and the dog, and the wolf, and for other re* wATie new-Ainr emft rater bass “S'a" MARK MANUFACTURING CO., CMC AGO, EL of those cities as the place or places pared with the one that has followed other side, and we know we are on the in the world, hosanna will meet hosan ­ animals to be mounted, and eyes for for the establishment of new coining it way to morning —more than that, on na. and hallelujah, hallelujah. imitation pigs, and dogs, and sheep, facilities. the way to “a morning without clouds. ” In that time also of which I sneak, and cats, and so on. Artificial eyes for I have ventured upon this subject I* Thl* "Founrt Money?" I want you to understand, ail you all the haunts of iniquity and crime birds and animals are sold chiefly to with great diffidence, because it is so Springfield (Mass.) News: The paper who are toiling for Christ, that the and squalor will be cleansed and will taxidermists, to furriers, and to the unusual to approve a measure —as I and silver currency of the United castles of sin are all going to be cap­ be illuminated. How is it to be done? various manufacturers. They are sold WM REID, Local Manaocrs • in pairs; the number sold in the ag­ PITTSBI:n«H PLATE GLAM CO. most heartily do this, even if no fur ­ Slates amounts to something over $1,- tured. The victory for Christ in these You say, perhaps, by one influence. Depot, 114 te 128 Unc4 Sl V. DITR0IT, RICH. gregate is very large. The busiest sea­ Do you know that Plats Qua will add M per eeaS ther legislation is attainable at this 100,000,000. According to the “sound ! great towns is going to be so complete Perhaps I say by another. I will tell to the appearance of your property, and only a trlSe son Is the fall and winter. —New York to tt.ico.tt Ho other one feature [* ro Important. time—and to announce the fact by mes­ money ” men this currency is redeem ­ that not a man on earth, or an angel in you what 1b my idea, and I know I am When In want of Ulau got our price*. sage. But I do so because I feel that able in gold. The redemption bureau is heaven, or a devil in hell will dispute right in it: The Gospel of the Son of Sun. ______it is a subject of such vital importance supposed to be in the federal treasury. Jod is tfie only agency that will over EDUCATIONAL. It. How do I know? I know Just as How High C»n Men On? What are its gold assets to meet its accomplish this. to the whole country, that it should re­ certainly as God lives and that this is Prof. Ugolino Mosso of Turin has ceive the attention of and be discussed ^elf-imposed obligations? Less tban holy truth. The old Bible is full of It. A gentleman In England had a theo­ $100,000,000. Its assets are, If its esti­ made some interesting experiments on by congress and the people, through If a nation Is to be saved, of course all ry that If the natural forces of wind the effects experienced In ascending to mate of liabilities is sound, about nine the press and in every way, to the the cities are to be saved. It maxes and tide and sunshine and wave were high altitudes. All climbers of lofty per cent of its liabilities. If this is end that the best and most satisfac­ a great difference with you and with rightly applied and rightly developed mountains are aware that at great "sjund money ” heaven deliver us from It would make this whole earth a para­ tory course may be reached of execut ­ me whether we are toiling on toward heights, such as the summit of Mont [raU£$ it. dise. In a book of great genius, and ing what I deem most beneficial legis­ • defeat, or toiling on toward a victory. Blanc, respiration becomes more or less As a mat er of cold fact, the govern­ which rushed from edition to edition, lation on a most vital question to the Now, in this municipal elevation of troublesome, tbe heart beats rapidly ment Is not bound to pay one penny he said: “Fellow-men, I promise to W' £' interests and prosperity of the nation. which I speak, I have to remark there and sometimes Irregularly, and a feel­ more In gold than Its present reserve show the means of creating a paradise mi U. 8. GRANT. will be greater financial prosperity ing of exhaustion, often accompanied Vjmt/TOM' within ten years, where everything de ­ Executive Mansion, Jan. 14. 1875. provides for. It is only because the than our cities have ever seen. Some by nausea, is experienced. These ef­ bankers of two worlds have been put ­ sirable for human life may be had by IS THE LEADING SCHOOL OF On motion of Mr. Sherman, the mes­ people seem to have a morbid idea of fects arise largely from the rarity of tho Tuition Is reasonable; ting in their work to their own profit, every man in superabundance without sage was referred to the committee on the millennium, and they think when air, and since the atmosphere becomes living expenses low; BUSINESS »• that the fallacy of gold redemption has labor and without pay—where the student* aanlnted to finance and ordered to be printed — the befler time comes to our cities and less dense tbe higher one goes, it is evi­ position* Write for whole face of nature shall be changed (See Congressional Record, volume 3. been given a moment ’s countenance. the world people will give their time dent that a limit must soon be reached eatalov...... SHORTHAND. into the ipost beautiful farms, and man P. R. Clyary , Pres. part 1, Forty-third congrees, second In order to maintain a pretense of solv­ up to psalm-singing and the relating above which man cannot ascend. Pro- may live In the most magnificent pal­ session, Dec. 7, 1875, page 459). ency on this basis the government has of their religious experience, and, as fetsor Mosso made his first experiments run the country in debt by selling, ell social life will be purified there will aces, in all imaginable' refinements of on Monte Rosa, next to Mont BUuc, $200,003,000 worth of bonds simply and !uxury, and in the most deligjitful gar- The above is not the only substantial be no hilarity, and. as all business will the highest peak of the Alps, where he inly to maintain a vanishing gold re­ lens —where he may accomplish with­ ILLINOIS: CENTRAL evidence that General Grant was ig­ be purified there will be no enterprise. ascended to an elevation exceeding 15,- serve. out labor in one year more than hith­ norant of the whole proceeding. Fol­ There 1b no ground for such an absurd 000 fe«t without serious inconvenience. If the policy was to be kept up, as erto could be dene in thousands of Double Dally Herrin* lowing Is one he wrote two years pre­ anticipation. In the time of which I Returning to Turin he made his next would be necesrary under this same 1 speak, where now one *.iriune is made, years. Frcm the houses to 1 e built will ascent, so to speak, without ascending vious to his Secretary of the Interior. policy, the government debt would be oe afforded the most cultured vlcw3 Believing that silver might still be there will be a hundred fortunes made. at all. other words, he produced an increased at the rate of at least $100,- We all. know business prosperity do- that can be fanckd. From the galler- imitation ol the rare atmosphere of a taken to the mints and coined free of 100,000 per year. It would not be long 'es, from the roof, and from the tur- charge, he wrote: pends upon confidence between man very lofty mountain-top by partially before our debt would be as great as and man. Now when lhat time comes •ets, may be seen gardens as far ns exhausting the a.r trom a large pneu ­ m. “I wonder that silver is not already it was at the close of the civil war, of which I speak, and when all double :he eye can see, full of fruits and (low­ matic chamber in which he had shut coming into the market to supply the not much longer before the total cost dealing, all dishorn sty, and all fraud ers, arranged in the most beautiful or­ himaelf. When the air in the chamber deficiency In the circulating medium >f maintaining tvis blessed gold stand ­ are gone out of commercial circles, der, with walks, colonnades, aque­ correi ponded in density with that • • • Experiende has proved that ard would be as great as the whole thorough confidence wili be established, ducts, canals, ponds, plains, amphi­ which would be found at a height qf it takes about $40,000,010 of fractional tremendous outlay required to put and there will be a better business theatre's, tefraces, fountains, sculptur ­ 24,272 feet above sea-level, he suffered currency to make the small charge nec ­ down secession and preserve the done, and larger fortunes gathered, ed works, pavilions, gondolas, places such 111 effect* that he could not carry essary for the transaction of the busi ­ union. This is what “sound money ” and mightier successes achieved. of popular amusement, to lure the eye the experiment further. The height to ness of the country. Silver will grad­ means. Do you want It? The great business disasters of this and fancy. All this to be done by urg­ which Protestor Mosso thus simulated Li Chlctto 10.35 in Hr SI. Louis 7.04 |t ually take the place of this currency country haw ..me from the work of ing the water, tlie wind, and the sun ­ an ascent is almost a mile less than Free Kerllnin* Chair Cera. and, further, will become the standard Natehell* Wlthoat Kernel*. godless speculators and Infamous stock shine to their full development ” that of Mount Everest, so that it seems Pullman Ballet Parlor Oar*. of values, which will be hoarded in a St. Louis Chronicle: A considerable gamblers. The great foe to buslt

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CHAPTER IX. HALL you be too much engaged at the office Ux5ar, Edward, to drive out with Constance at noon? ” questlon- Mr. Withers one Vu® morning when his INTERNATIONAL PRESS ASSOCIATION brother came to his CHAPTER VIII. “She do call for you all the time, room to inquire HE conclusion was sirs or I would not have made so bold after his health, Any sarsaparilla is sarsapa­ in her mind often as to disturb ye,” said the girl who and to receive his rilla. True. So any tea is tea. enough every day had beckoned him to the entrance. commands for the business day. of her life to be­ “She is a bit out of her head, poor "Certainly not! Nothing would give So any flour is flour. But grades come backueyod, lady !” me more pleasure! ” As he said it, the differ. You want the best. It’s yet It always "Where is Miss Field? Why does reap ndent turned with a pleasant smile brought with it a to his sister-in-law, who was pouring so with sarsaparilla. There are 1 she not attend to Mrs. Withers?” asked stra nge, sweet Edward, glancing reluctantly at his out her husband ’s chocolate at a stand grades. You wa.ic the best. If thrill. Truly sis­ brother’s bed. set in front of his lounge. terly affection was She started perceptibly at the prop­ you understood sarsaparilla as a holy and a beau ­ In after days he could smile at the osition and her hand shook in replacing well as you c!o tea and flour it tiful thing! She recollection of the reply, uttered with the silver pot upon the tray. “I could contemptuous Indifference: “Oh, Jie’s not think of it!” she said hastily. “It would be easy to determine. had read as much in moral philosophy, and likewise in poetry. Few feelings a-going into high strikes on the back is kind and thoughtful in you to sug­ parlor sofy.” Cut you don't. How should could compare with It in unselfish fer­ gest it, Elnathan, but, indeed, I greatly *IkE POPULAR you? When you are going to vor and constancy. And, as she hud At the time, he was only conscious of prefer to remain at home.” said, Edward was one brother in ten Impatience at the call of pity that “It is my preference that you should Candidate for buy a commodity whose value go!” The invalid spoke decldecfly, but thousand —and not to be compared with obliged him t« l**ve his perhaps dying all Parties you don ’t know, you pick out common men. relative in the hands of comparative less irascibly than he would have done '* Co She began the preparations for the strangers. He ceased to regret his com­ to anyone else who resisted his author ­ an old established house to drive at half-past two, pursuant to her pliance when the tearR that burst from ity. “It is now four weeks since my trade with, and trust their ex­ husband ’s directions. Not that she Constance ’s eves «t sight of him were accident, and you have scarcely left the expected to leave the house that after­ not attended by the ravings which had house in all that time. You are grow­ perience and reputation. Do so noon, Edward ’s Judgment being, in her terrified her attendants. He sat down ing thin and pale from want of sleep when buying sarsaparilla. estimation, but one remove from infal ­ upon the edge of the bed, and leaned and exercise.” libility; 3he could not believe that the over to kiss the sobbing lips. “My “I practice calisthenics every day, Ayer’s Sarsaparilla has been trial of the horses would result as Mr. dear sister, precious child! ” he said, as as you and Dr. Weldon advised, ” re­ on the market 50 years. Your Withers had predicted, but that they a mother might soothe an affrighted joined Constance, timidly. grandfather used Ayer’s. It is would be remanded to the stable and daughter, and she dropped her head “But within doors. You need the custody of the unreliable Jockey with­ upon his 1,-houlder, to weep herself into fresh out-door air, child. You have a reputable medicine. There out approaching her door, or gladden ­ silence, if not composure. taken such good care of me, that I PLUS ing Harriet’s eyes. Nevertheless, the are many Sarsaparillas — When she could lls^n, he gave her should be very remiss in my duty, were order had gone forth that she should the history of the misadventure in a I to allow you to neglect your owu “Battle Ax” is popular with all but only one Ayer’s. It don her cloak, furs, hat and gloves be­ few words. Mr. Withers had insisted health.” fore three o’clock, and Mr. Withers upon handling the reins himself. This He had grown very fond of her with­ would be displeased were he to return parties because of its remarkably accounted to the auditor for his use of in the period he had mentioned, and at five and find her in her home dress. Edward's gloves as being thicker than showed it, in his weakness, more open ­ fine flavor, its high quality and the Harriet tapped at her door before she his, although their owner made no men ­ ly than dignity would have permitted, A Swarm of Moth*. was half ready. tion of having lent them to him. The had he been well. He put his hand up ­ low price at which it is sold* “Just to remind you, my dear ma­ A peculiar occurrence, of Interest to horses had behaved tolerably well un ­ on her shoulder as she sat upon a stool dam, ” she said, sweetly, “of what ir y entomologists, was to be observed in til they were within three blocks of beside him, the cup of chocolate In her cousin 3ald about keeping the horses the yard of the poetofflee, between Hill home, when they had shied violently hand. “Recollect! I must get an ­ The people of the United States street and Piniold street, Birmingham, standing." She was equipped cap-a- at a passing omnibus, jerked the reins pie for the excursion, and Constance re­ other nurse should your health fall. early one morning. The place was be­ from the driver ’s hands, and dashed You see how selfish I am?” know a good thing when they see newed her silent accusation of imper­ sieged with moths, which gathered in down the street, the sleigh upset at the all accessible places, and circled wildly tinent forwardness as she saw her trip A Jest from him was noteworthy, first corner, and both the occupants for its rarity; but Constance could not it, and they won't pay 10 cents for round the brilliant lights. The num ­ down stairs to take her station at a were thrown out, Mr. Withers striking front window, that “my cousin ” might form her lips into a smile. They ber of different species, of all sizes and forcibly against a lamp-post, while Ed ­ other high grade tobaccos while they color, was considerable. see, at the first glance, that she was trembled instead in replying. “I see ward was partially stunned against the how good and generous you are! I will ready and eager fer the promised —and curb-stone, They had been brought to can get “Battle Ax” for 5 cents* Tho Morning Poet In 1812 made the because promised by him—certain drive, if you insist upon it, but there following statement: “We congratu ­ their own door in a carriage, the is not the slightest necessity for your pleasure of the jaunt younger brother reviving in time to late ourselves most on having torn off Constance was surprised, five minutes brother’s escort. John is very careful Cobbett’s mask and revealed his cloven alight, with a little assistance from and attentive. Or, if you wish me to before the hour designated, to hear a a friendly bystander, and to superin ­ foot It was high time that the hydra bustle and men ’s voices in the lower have company, I will call for Mrs. Mel- head of faction should be soundly tend the other’s removal to the house hall. They had really dome* then, in and up the stairs. len. She has no carriage, you know? ” rapped over the knuckles. ” spite of her prognostications. Draw­ “Send yours for her whenever you An English lecturer on chemistry ing on her gloves that she might not Constance heard him through with­ like, by all means. But, until I am able said: “One drop of this poison placed be accused of dilatorineos, she walked out interruption or comment, volun to accompany you, It is my desire that on the tongue of a oat la sufficient to to the door of her chamber, whan it tarily raised her head from its resting Edward shall be with you In your kill the strongest man, ” and an En ­ was thrown wide against her by lier place, and lay back upon her pillows, drives whenever this is praticable. My glish lieutenant said that the Royal maid. covering her face with her hands. One late adventure has made me fearful, Niger company wished to kill him to “Oh, ma’am!” she blubbered, her or two quiet tears made their way be­ I suppose. Call this a sick man ’s fancy, prevent his going up the river until cheeks like ashes and her eyes bulging tween her fingers ere she removed if you will, my dear, but Indulge it. next yeai\______from their sockets. “May all the bless­ them, but her hysterical sobbing had At twelve, then, Edward, the carriage God puts our greatest dut es nearest to us. ed saints have mercy upon ye! There’s ceased. “I am thankful for your safe­ will be ready. Ascertain for yourself been the dreadfullest accident! Them ty,” she said so composedly that it before you set out that the harness is all AN OPEN LETTER. brutes of horses has run away, and Mr. sounded coldly unfeeling. “Now go right, and have an eye to the coach­ Witherses and Mr. Edward is both back to your brother. He needs you, man ’s management of the horses.” killed dead! They’re'a bringing them and I do not. I shall be better soon, ;tu ua coxrixcs 1,1 What Mrs. I. E. Bressie Says to up-stairs this blessed minjt, and ”— and then I must bear my part in nurs ­ American Women. catching her mistress’s skirt as she ing him. If he should ask for me, let dashed past her—“you ’re not to be me know without delay. ” She sent FEATHERED LOVER3. 8peaks of Her Melancholy Condition frightened, ma’am, the doctor says! He her servants out when he had gone, Th* Ma e Song Bird Stndlc* HU “The adeled pleasure of riding a After the Birth of ller Child. sent me up for to tell you careful!" and locked her door on the inside. “Who’d have thought that she and Want*. “I feel as if I was doing an in ­ Unhearing and unheeding, Constance Mr. Edward would take it so hard? ” A class of lovers that may well b« justice to my suffering sisters if I wrested her dress from the girl's hold, said the cook, as exponent of the views considered is that of which the blue ­ Columbia is worth every dollar did not tell what Lydia E. Pinkham ’a and met upon the upper landing of the staircase four men bearing a senseless of the kitchen cabinet. “If so be the bird is one conspicuous example and Vegetable Com­ form. The head was sunk upon the masther shouldn ’t get over this, It will the goldfinch another —the class in pound has done breast, and the face hidden by the go nigh to killing her. I never knowed which the females do all the work of of the $J00 a Columbia costs/' for me, and its shoulders of those who carried him, but she were that fond of him. Ah, well, nest-building, while the males devote worth to the world. her eyes fell instantly upon the right she ought to be, for it’s her he’ll leave themselves to singing, says the Chau- “ From the hand, which hung loosely by his side. well provided for, I’ll be bound! Them tauquan. At first thought these males The supremacy of Columbian is ad ­ birth of my She recognized the fur gauntlet that as has heaps to l'ave has plenty to are so very much like some men that child until covered it as one of a pair of riding- mourn for them.” we all know —men who are pretty and mitted. They are Standard of the he was are given to compliments and who are gloves she had given Edward Withers An hour elapsed before Mr. Withers four years enabled to dress well through the wis­ at Christmas, and which he had worn understood ar ght where be was and World. If you are able to pay $100 old, 1 was dom and labor of their wives—that since whenever he drove or rode. She what had happened, and then his wife’s In poor had seen him pocket them that morn ­ they are slightingly spoken of by near ­ for a bicycle, why buy any other? health, face was the first object he recognized. ing before going out. It was almost as blood ’ess as his, yet ly all students of bird habits. Even but feel­ “Mrs. Withers! my dear lady! you , she was collected and helpful, a more the gorgeous Baltimore oriole is but Full information about Columbias and the ing con ­ really must not touch him yet!” said ! efficient coadjutor to the surgeons than half complimented, for he only occa­ different Models for men and women —and vinced that the attendant physician, preventing her sionally helps at the nest-making. But was fidgety Harriet, whose buzzings for children, too—is contained in the hand ­ half of the when she would have thrown her arms and hoverings over the wounded man let the observer consider the cases of ailments of about the injured man. He pulled her reminded Edward of a noisy and per­ these birds a little further and It ap­ somest art book of the year. Free from any women were back by mkln force, that the body sistent gad fly. pears that the oriole, at least, is de ­ of our Branch Houses and Agencies or by imagined or might be carried into the chamber she serving of sympathy rather than faint mail for two 2-cent stamps. else culti ­ had Just quitted. The moved gentleness of Constance ’s praise. No one can watch the oriole vated, “Let me go! Let me go! Do you tone in answering the patient ’s in ­ lady at her knitting for any length of I fought hear me?’’ her voice rising into a quiries was mis aken by the attendants time without seeing her good man try POPE MFG. CO., Hartford, Conn. against shrill scream that chilled the veins and for fondest commiseration, and the to help. He will bring something and pained the hearts of all who heard it. family physician ’s unspoken thought Branch Stores and Agenciea in every city and my bad feel­ offer to weave it In, but the chances town. If Columbiaa at < not properly repreaented ings, until I was “Dead or alive, he belongs to me, and would have chimed In well with the •are that the madam will first order in your vicinity, let ua know. servant ’s verdict. Mr. and Mrs. With­ obliged to give up. My to no one else! Man! how dare you him off and then, if he persists, make ers were not reputed to be a loving disease baffled the best doctors. hold me? You do not know how much a dash at him with her bill that sends couple, but in moments of distress and All Columbia Blcyoltt ore fitted with “ I was nervous, hysterical; my head I loved him—my darling! Oh. my dar ­ him mourning to another tree. He ling!” danger, the truth generally came to HARTFORD SINOLC-TUBC TIRES ached with such a terrible burning really mourns, too, though in silence. (mat* kuaioe Tim* ««« ««ro roe. sensation on the top, and felt as if a The doctor was a muscular man, but, light. No husband, however idolized, could be nursed more faitbfully or have I have known of a case where a male WE KNOW NO TIRES SO GOOD AS HARTFORDS. band was drawn tightly above my in her agony of despair, she was excited greater anguish of solicitude oriole gat watching his wife for a half brow; inflammation of the stomach, no stronger than he, bade fair to master than spoke in her dry eyes and rigid hour without singing a single note. Tha appetite, nausea at the sight of food, him, as she wrestled to undo his grasp upon hfr arms. features, even if her wild outbreak bluebird, too, is often treated very indigestion, constipation, bladder and brusquely by his little better half. The “Is there no one In this place who at first seeing him had not betrayed kidney troubles, palpitation of the her real sentiments. truth is the poor fellows who have heart, attacks of melancholia would can persuade her to be calm?” he been derided for singing in idle de ­ occur without any provocation what­ asked, Imploringly, looking back down In her calmer review of the scene, the stairs. light while their wives tolled are not ever, numbness of the limbs, threaten ­ I Constance could feel grateful for the a little henpecked. The goldfinch can ­ “Contains More Flesh Form­ ing paralysis, and loss of memory to There was a movement at the foot spectators’ misconception which had not be called henpecked but he certain ­ such an extent that I feared aberration of the steps, then the crowd parted in ­ shielded her from the consequences of ly does not deserve censure. Madam ; her madness; could shudder at the of the mind. # stantly and silently, unnoticed by the builds her nest because she can do it ing Matter Than Beef.'' thought of the ignominy she had nar ­ “A friend advised Lydia E.Pinkham ’s frantic woman. She was still strug­ better than he can. That he would rowly escaped. But this was not the Vegetable Compound, and spoke in gling, threatening and praying to be like to help is perfectly plain to one 1 gulf from which she now recoiled with That is what an eminent physician glowing terms of what it had done for released; when a pallid face, streaked who watches, for he goes with her as with blood, confronted her—a tender , horror and self-loathing that led her her. 1 to avoid meeting the eyes bent curious ­ she flies away for material, sits by her says of good cocoa. r\ he . Cocoa “ I began its use and gained rapidly. hand touched her arm. “Constance, ly or sympathetically upon her, and to as she picks it up and flies back with Now 1 am a living advertisement of its my dear sister, my poor girl, come with me! Will you not? ” said com­ cling to the nerveless hand of him he? as she returns to the nest to weave made by Walter Baker & Co., Ltd., merits. I had not used it a year when passionate tones. I whose trust she had betrayed. To it in. And wherever he goes he bub ­ I was the envy of the whole town, bles over with epng. People who blame “She has fainted. That is the best ' him, her husband, she had not given Dorchester, Mass., is the best. for my rosy, dimpled, girlish looks and the males for not helping to build do thing that could have happened, ” said a thought when the dread tidings of perfect health. I disaster and death were brought to not understand, I think, the difference See that Imitations are not palmed off on you. “ I recommend it to all women. I find the doctor, sustaining the dead weigat of the sinking figure with more easo her. What to her was an empty mar­ betverti work as we see it and work a great advantage in being able to Say, than he had held the writhing one. riage vow, what the world ’s reproba­ as birds see it. To us labor is drudg ­ it is by a woman's hands this great They bore her across the hall to Ed ­ tion, when she believed that Edward ery; to the birds it is delightful play. boon is given to women. All honor to ward ’s room as the most convenient re­ lay lifeless before her? “Man! you do the name of Lydia E. Pinkham ; wide treat for her in her Insensible state, and not know bow I loved him?” she had How ft H«pp«nod. success to the VegetableCompound. while the maid-servant loosened btr said. She might have added, “I never Aunt Msrjr—“Bvt tell me. how did VERY FARMER IN THE NORTH “ Yours in Health, Mrs. 1. E. Rrks - dress and applied restoratives, a more knew It myself until now. ” And what you happen to marry him?” “Berthai— OAN MAKE MORI MONEY IN THE MIDDLE SOUTH. •XI, Hercnlanenm, Jefferson Oo.. Mo ” was this lovs—coming when, and as it ■a nut maka twtee aa mneh. H. tu Mil hi* Northern farat and i«t twtee aa many aerae for hia anxious group was gathered in her “Why, you see, everything was ready. men *7 ddwa her. w. will laaproved Carat, far OS »• ••• an am. Plenty of rallroada —fonr of ■ The Great apartment about her husband. His vis­ did —bnt s crime, a sin to be frowned He had aaksd me to have him and I thank.E Ne troaefeta Malthar too hat n*r to. cold —elhUa . Joet right. Northern farmer, ara romln, erarv * eek. If fvi ara Interested write for FRBN pemphiete and aek all tha quaetloaa yon want t*. It la a ible Injuries were severe, if not danger ­ upon by Heaven and denounced by had consented; he had procured ths al.ilnri U MU aneeer them. KIDNEY, ous. His collar bona and right arm man? A blemish, which. If set upon license and engaged the clergyman, and ^ MOUTH WOMIWRRKNRW' LANS OOMPANT. SatuMlIlt, TtM. LIVER A were broken, but it was feared that h r b ow, as it was upon hrrs ul, would I had sent out cards and ordered ths WB there was Internal and mors serious condemn her to be ranked with the out ­ cake; so, you aee, we thought that ws opium waotxav, BLADDER sriMj irufu,iT hurt. Just as a gasp and a hollow cast of her sex, the creatures whom might as well go through with it CURB. groan attested the return of conscious ­ austere matronbood blasts with light­ There, aunt, that is the reason, aa near W. N. U.. D. — XIV--38 . BiwwMl, «*■>»!. ness, a message was brought to Edward nings of indignant scorn, and purs vir­ ______iewthwkMMa as I can remember it”—Boston Tran ­ O N S U M PTION Whtt Auwartaf Adverttaawiawta riaaaa Dr. Kilmer*Co-. Binghamton. N. V from the opposite bedroom gins blush to name script Mention Tht, Tnpor. CLINTON INDEPENDENT, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1896.

Prises for Tour Skill. The person forming the largest num ­ The Independent. From Our Regular Correspondent. H. G. Sage is on the sick list. ber of words, using the lettere in the text “Excelsior,” will be given $100 in GEORGE 8. CORHIT, Proprietor Miss Lucy Cushmau was in town Sat­ Winter FRANK E. D eWITT, Leasee urday. cash. $75.00 will be given to the per­ Miss Lizzie Price, who has been visit­ son forming tbe next largest list. The Will soon be upon us and warm clothing we must have. EUREKA. ing friends and relatives in this vicinity next will receive $60.00 in cash, and for for the past week, returned to her home each ot the next eleven largest lists will We have as fine a line of Overcoats and Suits as anyone From Our New Regular Correspondent. near Trowbridge Monday. be paid $25.00 each. Money deposited could wish for, from the cheapest to the finest grades of THAT School commenced this morning. Owing to the rain and muddy roads, Ethel Finch visited in Elsie last week. the attendance was small at the social in Bay City Bank, corner Center and NEW Rev. Siebert has gone to Conference at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Washington avenues. Rounds last Friday evening. Another Mr. VV. Carson, of Owosso, visited iu Separate tbe lettere in the text thus : social will be given at the same place in e-x -C-k -l-8-i-o -u , and form as many Stein Bloch Eureka Sunday. the near future. words as you can. For example : DRESS Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Y. Botsford, a While Mrs. Albert Hall was drivin Excel, is, etc. It is said that over ten baby girl, September 6. t home, September 9. her horse too small words can be formed from these make Overcoats that were sold last season for $8.00, Mrs. C. Coverstone has moved into fright and started up the road, evi­ lettere, and we will give a prize to every $10.00, $12.00 and $15.00, will give you now for $6.00, You will find among the elegant George Brewbaker’s bouse. person sending ten words or more ; so if dently with the intention of running $8.00, $10.00 and $12.00. Wool is cheap, labor is cheap, line of Novelty Dress goods at The tabemackle meetings at Bridge- away. The animal was stopped by a you are good at word-making, or are ville are well patronized by the Eureka farmer, but not until it had left Mrs. bright, you are sure of something for why shouldn ’t clothing be cheap. If you will give us a Hall by the road side with a sprained your trouble, while you have an equal people. call we will convince you that it is cheap at the Cash Store. Mr. B. Woo!ey and wife, of Elsie, wrist and ankle and other bruises. opportunity for the large cash prizes. visited their mother, Mrs. Teets, over Our object is to advertise our “Ex­ CHAPIN’S. Sunday. Providing For Ago. celsior” German Mead, tbe most im­ The pleasure produced by an extrava ­ proved and healthful summer beverage Woman ’s prayer meeting at Mrs. on tbe market. One tablet placed in a Mary Gpwer’s, Friday afternoon ; Lois gant expenditure of money by no means glass of water is sufficient to satisfy the UNDERWEAR. New Designs, New Patterns at 12c}, Eaegle, leader. compensates for the future miseries of thirst of an epicure. John Hollister and bride, of De­ a wasted income, a squandered fortune Every person sending list of words 50c kind for 35c 15c, 25c, 35c, 50c, 60c, 75c, troit, are visiting their Grand-mother, must enclose with the same thirteen $1.00 per yard. Mrs. Barrington. or a decayed constitution. There is two-cent stamps for a package of Ex­ 75c kind for 50c At the annual school meeting. John every inducement ottered by reason and celsior German Mead, which will be $1.00 kind for 75c Price was re-elected, by acclimation, to self-interest to make us careful of our sent postpaid, together with full rules the office of moderator for the term of means against the days of adversity and and particulars governing the contest. TRIMMINGS. three years. The district also voted to the decay of life; because in old age we As a guarantee of good faith the buy two new stoves and build two new Mayor and Chief of Police of this city chimneys. This is a commendable move, most need those comforts which only will act as judges iu the award of prizes. Among the latest Novelties in as the stoves were worn out and the money can procure ; a comfortable home Number your words aud write your chimneys were yery defective. and the iudispensible necessaries of name plainly. Address WEBBER WAGNER erman ead & trimmings are the colored and Jet Tiik G M Co ., As John Eaegle was returning home life and some of its luxuries in our clos­ 45-6 Bay City, Mich Garnitures. We have a very com­ last Wednesday evening, he was ing days, are required by all, as they ap­ 17 Clinton Ave., St. Johns. CAHH CLOTHIERN. knocked down by a bicycle ridden by plete line and the prices are 40c, 50c, Charlie Ilankey and battered and proach the verge of the tomb. LITERARY NOTES. 65c, 75c, $1.00, $1.50, $2.00, $2.50 bruised up generally. Charlie was Perhaps no more pitiable spectacle thrown over Mr. Eaegle’s head and the can be seen, as a recent event reminds Hamper 's Weekly for September l»th will per set. These make a very showy contain an important artlole by Brljradier- wheel is now laid up for repairs. Per­ us, than that which is presented by and neat trimming, and at prices to sons who ride bicycles iu the dark General A. W. Greeley, U. 8. A., on Naasen ’B should have some way of warning pedes ­ either an aged man or woman, who, "Farthest North”; #ion. Worthiujrton C- Ford suit everyone. trians in order to give them a chance having spent their substance amid the will contribute a valuable article on Washing­ to give the right of way. alluring gaieties of youth, are reduced ton ’s Farewell Address. There will be a double SHOES ARE to an utterly helpless position, compelled page picture by the late C. S. Reinhart, en ­ titled “ High-tide at Gettysburg,” and the bat­ FEATHER to exist upon the generosity or charity tle of Lake Erie will be commemorated in the From Our Regular Correspondent. of others, and to be at once ridiculed “Naval Battles" series by James Barnes, with BOOMING. Rev. Depuy, of Eagle, visited DeWitt aud derided. an illustration by Carlton T. Chapman. friends last week. The same principle of prudence which BOAS. In the number of Harper's Bazaar Issued on The Sacrifice Sale of the R. J. Woodruff Prof, and Mrs. Kieue, of Chicago, makes it necessary for a man to provide visited at Wm. Knapp ’s recently. October 3d there will be given the first chap­ Stock is still on, and the many that have im­ Not too warm, but just warm against the wants and inflrmities of age, ter of “Frances Waldeaux," a brilliant serial Clinton county W. C. T. U. conven ­ should prompt him against the inroads story from tbe pen of Rebecca Harding Davis, tion, at DeWitt, October 7, 8, and 9. proved the opportunity are so well pleased enough. Your wardrobe is not of disease, the seeds of which are sown The story is original in treatment, and has Farmers are busy cutting corn, which that they come again. complete without one. HERE by dissipation and folly. The contem ­ for Its mtpy the absorbing love of a mother is quite a job owing to its being down for an only son. It will occupy eight consecu ­ THEY ARE at 75c, $1.00, $2.00, so badly. plations and self-reproaches of a broken- tive numbers of the llazaar, and will be finely Shoes were never sold cheaper in Clinton $3.00. Very chic and worn by Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Knapp attended down spendthrift are pitiable indeed, illustrated. “Autumn Fashions for Men" will County, and we have a great many BAR­ the LT. B. conference at fcnepardsville everybody. and be looks back with a bitter and be fully treated in tne next Issue of the last week. never-ceasing regret on the ill-spent Bazaar. GAINS left for you. Mrs. S. M. Knapp visited friends in Breckenridge, St. Louis and Salt River days and the wasted fortune of the past. Come right to the old stand and see the last week. Are you rich V See that at least a por­ Terms of the Circuit Court. greatest cut rate sale. We are selling strict­ SHAWLS. Miss Etta Webb returned to her home tion of your wealth is securely guarded iu DeWitt Sunday, after an absence of against Jlie vicissitudes of life. Are STATE OF MICHIGAN l 29th Judicial Circuit. j ly for cash, which enables us to convince you a week in Detroit. you poor ? Let industry be your guard, I do hereby fix and appoint tbe times of Every lady needs a Shawl. You A big rain visited this place Friday lest you need the bread of life; and in holding the several terms of Court within said that we are paying no attention to the whole­ night and Saturday which will retard Circuit for the years 1896 and 1897. can ’t keep house without one. They wanting that, too many seek paths that CLINTON COUNTY. sale cost; but every pair in the house is a bar­ wheat growing somewhat. First Monday in February. are a source of comfort in a thou ­ G. II. VanDyke, of Riley, Mrs. A. lead to misery aud perdition. Strive not Fourth Monday in April. Last Monday In June. gain for you. sand ways. We carry the celebrated Miller, of South Riley, Mrs. Joseph to be the object of pity or charity, while Second Monday in November. Tucker, of Olive, are on the sick list. you have limbs to toil, imagination to GRATIOT COUNTY. Badger State Shawl at $3.50, $4.50, Second Monday In March. Respectfully, Rev. and Mrs. Maurer, of Lake suggest or health to labor. Independ ­ First Monday in June. $5.00, $6.00, $8.00. You can ’t wear Odessa, Rev. and Mrs. Lidd. Mr. and ence of others is true liberty ; pecuniary 8econd Monday in September. Mrs. Wood, of Lowell, visited Mr. and obligation is slavery indeed. Get money First Monday in December. them out. When you get tired of Mrs. Wm. Knapp last week. Dated October, 1891. honestly, aid the wretched and save 8. B. DABOLL, GEO. WOODRUFF & CO them, give them away. A business meeting Qf the Universal- judiciously. Circuit Judge, 29th Judicial Circuit, Michigan. ist church, of DeWitt. will be held at the home of Claik Lanktou Tuesday evening, September 22. All members APRONS. are requested to be present. Delegates to be elected to attend the State con ­ vention at Detroit in October. DID YOU KNOW Cheaper than you can buy the Rev. Washington Gardner, of Albion, gave a tine lecture at DeWitt Saturday material. 15c for one. 25c for two. evening. Sunday morning be preached IT IS ONLY TWO To Professional They sell like hot cakes. Don ’t the dedicatory sermon in the new M. WEEKS BEFORE E. church, of DeWitt. Ilis sermon was miss them. highly complimented. At the close of the sermon enough money was sub ­ scribed to clear the church from debt — and Office Men. $450. The church is brick and cost THE FAIR, Everyone gets a prize $2,200. It is a nice little church. The I have just received a new and complete attendance was very large. Sunday that trades with us, evening Rev. Martin, of St. Johns, And you should have a line of preached a good sermon. The evening and you have your services were well attended. choice of Silverware, ------—-♦ ^— — Lamps, Carpet Sweep­ Kiin. From Oar Regular Correspondent. New Cape or ers, and thousands are Horatio Bliss was in Maple Rapids Stationery.. made happy. We pay Friday. S. 0. Bliss is very sick with inflam ­ Comprising Blank Books, Memorondum the highest market mation of the bowels. Mrs. W. A. Sutton, of Bengal, visited Jacket Books (for coat or vest pocket), Inks, price for butter and Mrs. A. Lance Friday afternoon. Mucilage, Pens, Penholders, Pencils, eggs, and we sign our ­ O. C. Pratt and A. D. Lance were in To wear theu. Our new stock is Grand Ledge Thursday on business. now coming in and as usual we Rules, Rubbers, Files, and in fact, a line selves Orel Hildreth and wife spent Sunday shall endeavor to lead all competit­ too numerous to mention, and if you will in Fowler, the guests of C. Dane and family. ors. Our stock is new and the latest call and inspect them, will satisfy you Novelties. A mention of a few A. J. Chapman aud wife, of DeWitt, that in kinds, quality and prices I am in visited their daughter, Mrs. O. C. Pratt, may give you an idea of Styles and the front rank. last Thursday. Prices. II. Boss, wife and son Leon went to Chapin & Co, Grand Ledge Saturday to see her father, W. Miller, who was accidentally in ­ Iu Jackets, we have one that everjrone CHAS. W. LOUD, DEALERS IN jured by bis horse. would say is cheap at $5.00, for $4.0(). A number of the members of the DRUGGIST AM) STATIONER. Modern Woodmen of this place visited One lot worth in former years $7.00 or the DeWitt camp Thursday night to $8.00, for $6.00. Dry Goods, Boots, Shoes, Gro­ witness the imtatiou of L. Webster into Another lot, the best ever shown for that order. $10.00. ceries and Notions. - ^ ^ Some fine ones from $12.00 to $20.00. ..1806.. UNION HOME. The best Cloth Cape in town for $5.00. St. Johns Boquet, -THE— From Our Regular Correspondent. In Plush Capes—Our $10.00 cape is as Mrs. E. Bovee has the second crop of good as we sold last season $12.00. red raspberries. In short, we have a large line at Rock For the Spring and Summer Royal Crown Perfecto Clinton Go. Savings Bank Prayer meeting at Mrs. Wm. Steads, Wednesday morning. Bottom Prices. Our New Dress Goods ST. JOHNS. MICH. Corn cutting would like to be the or­ are now in also, and we can please you. Hunts Prescription, der of the day if the sun would shine Everything cheap and as represented is TRADE. Pays 4 Per Cent. Interest on Deposits. long enough. our motto. Mrs. C. L. Waltrous has gone to Coupons with every 50c trade, payable Famous and Cbelsia, Mich., to visit her diseased hus ­ in silverware. Be sure and ask for cou-» Ijoana Money on Approred Bonda and band ’s brother and family. pons. Beal Estate Security. A neice and nephew of George Grif­ Good Luck. * fith, who have been visiting him, have returned to their home at Morenci, ..JACKSON.. OFFICKES: Mich. A . J. Baldwin , Prea. P. E. Waijinorth , Trea, If a cigar looks good 3. Pennkll . Vc-Pres. R. C. D kxteb A»«t Tres Apples are plentiful. Must be sold THE SUCCESSFUL for thirty or forty cents a barrel, be­ CARPET STOCK. you want it, and if it cause the farmers have to sell to raise THE LOCAL MARKETS. money to meet indebtedness, or other wise they might lay and decay on the Large and.lower than ever to close fall stock. smells good you buy it, 8t. Johns . Sept. 17,1896. ground. MERCHANT TAILOR and if it tastes good is following are the prices paid in cash for The late rains have nearly spoiled the luoe In this market: bean crop, which was not secured. It beat, white. No 1, JWLH. Is showing i handsome tine of you buyanother. \Y. heat. red. No- 2, .30 seems hard for a farmer to live, the crop Lace and Fortier Curtains its. JWQ16 is bo low after it Is saved. They toil day This is the pleasing re. 23©24. after day in the burning sun and sell Hr*, 18. the crop for a paltry sum. What is to FALL after, .11. results you get by tans. A-<'8. ;to. become of us V [Vote for Bryan and In great variety. Lace curtains wide and sightly for only 50c. il low, (*H. fres coinage.—Ed . J and WINTER ly. Remember, we take Butter and Eggs as usual. buying these brands, itatoea. new Christian Endeavor will be conducted irk, live fS.M by Miss Jennie Weidmau next Sunday SUITINGS. made by irn. ear, .18. evening. The subject will be “Right ird, .OOV4Q07 Ways and Wrong Ways,” Miss Clara Yours for low prices, __ .w4.ao. Stead and Mrs. L. G. Loomis will fur ­ Which will be made up id the moat mod­ all, 05. nish essays. Miss Metta Knapp a reci­ HELLER CIGAR CO., tokens, brollcra, .0 tation. There will be other readings ern and perfect fitting manner. leken, dressed, .C* cka, dressed, .08 also. Come everybody. M^Every garment guaranteed to be •T. JOHNS, Mini *f, (ireased, JMMtf&.OStt. ill Calf, live. 044.04 ,j Tub Independent and Detroit Trib* H L. KENDRICK. perfect and eaay fitting, and the quality dry. .71* of goods to be as represented. iplosi, .30&40. une one year $1.26. Sold by all dealers.