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TRAVIS & BAKER ARE SHOWING THE LARGEST LINE OF HOLIDAY GOODS IN CLINTON COUNTY. CORNER DRUG STORE. The Clinton Independent. VOL. XXY-NO. 10. ST. JOHNS, MICH., THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 4, 1890. ______WHOLE NO. 1259.

Another Thanksgiving Day Gone. HOME MATTERS. -The various township tax collectors —1The contestants for the St. Johns Dress Goods. are on their perch, and will there re-' post-office, at the expiration of Mr. Livery and Feed Barn. Just one week has passed since we See our 25c. Dress Goods in black and Iam in every way prepared to furnish Brevities. main at 1 per cent, during the month of Frisbie’s term, in February next, are participated in the religious privileges colored, At John Hicks ’. first-class livery, single and double, for December. —The H. 8. VanScov estate is valued Volney Chapin, for some time clerk in and social joys and pleasures of Thanks­ pleasure and business, and especial use -Over one hundred of the invited that office, and James II. Collins, the giving day, and which was observed as Call at the Star Bakery of commercial men. at reasonable rates. at between $126,000 and $160,000. next door to post-office, and have a box were present and partipated in the pleas­ present under slieri ff,:Jwith an acknow­ holiday in the greater part of the My public Feed Stables in connection, —President Harrison’s message to filled with choice Candies for Xmas. are roomy, safe and pleasant, and always ures associated with the 45th wedding ledged certainty in favor of the former. United States. In the extreme south it supplied with clean and well cured feed Congress may be found upon an inside anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Orange Mr. Collins is relying upon a petition is still looked upon as too much of a Black Dress Goods. Charges low and regular to everybody. page. Whitlock, of Greenbush, on the25th ult. liberally signed by the patrons of the Yankee custom to meet with general The most complete line of Black Dress Give me a trial. J. H. Fitts. Goods may be found at John Hicks ’. Corner of State and Brush streets —F. O. Nickerson, lately engaged in —Advertised Letters, Dec. 8,1890: A. office two years ago, while Mr. Chapin observance, although that feeling is the grocery business at Fowler, has re­ H. Bryson, F. W. Raumgras, Willie E. is backed up by, and enjoys the influ­ gradually dying out, especially in the Go to Travis & Baker’s Corner Drug Notice. moved to Owosso. So says the Times. Dibble, Mrs. Clara Ellison, Gertie II. ence of the boys who lead and direct cities. In the north, east and west it Store for the largest line of Holiday For picture frames, curtain poles, —A move is on foot by the Patrons of M. Grooms, John Hamilton, Edd Put­ the course of their party hereabouts. was kept as a true national holiday and Goods ever shown in Cliuton county. wall brackets, book racks, writing desks man, Mr. Persons, Henry M. Sievert, sash rods, also a full line of picture Industry in the eastern part of the R. M. Swigart, whose name has been day of national thanks to the Supreme New scenery and new styles of photos mouldings always in stock for odd size county to establish a store at Shepards- A. M.Stout. used as a candidate, informs us that he Being for favors and blessings received. lw At Hamilton ’s. framing, etc., call on, H. W. Morris ville. —J. B. Chapin, of the hardware firm is not now, nor never has been an as­ Of course, in different places it was of Chapin & Lee, has purchased the pirant for the position. Very Latest- Comforts and Beil Blankets at That Mishawaka Knit Boot —The circuit court is taking a recess observed with different and local cus­ Sold by the Mercantile Co. is the best remainder of the dry goods stock of Information has been received here from John Hicks . until Monday, December 15. Judge toms, but the ^general feature of relax­ warm boot in the market. Dunn, Bunday & Co., and took posses­ the department at Washington, to the Daboll will spend the intervening time ation from business, attending church For the Holiday Trade. sion at the old stand Dec. 1st, with his effect that Mr. Chapin w ill receive the in the morning and eating a big dinner The freshest and purest homemade at Ithaca. If you want Views, Stamp-photos, or brother, C. E. Chapin, in charge. appointment at the proper time. of turkey and plum pudding at 2 p. in. candies, put up in fancy pound boxes, enlarging m Crayon, Water Colors or —A move is on foot to bond the city -R. C. and R. T. Davies have leased at reasonable prices at the Candy India mk, go to tfie West Side Gallery, or thereabouts, were everywhere the Kitchen. Charles Dutton . bt. Johns, batisfaction guaranteed. of Lansing in the sum of $100,000, the the Nelson building, 3d door north of Killed by tbe Cara. same. money to be expended in securing new The Steel, and are opening up a com­ In our last issue our Bengal corres­ In St. Johns there was the usual Fine line of Teachers' Bibles at Carpets ! Carpets ! enterprises. plete line of buggies, wagons, carts, cut­ pondent briefly mentioned the fact that church-going and dinner, the churches Travis & Baker’s Corner Drug Store. All styles and prices at Joh n Hicks .’ —On Tuesday evening last, during ters, sleighs, harnesses etc., therein. Wm. Kearney, son-in-law of Newton throughout the various townships in Shawls, the temporary absence of Frank Brown Their social and business relations with Baker, of that township, was accident­ the county being generally open. Hired Call and see the finest line of Shawls, Let No One Go Cold from his barber shop, some one sneaked the public are too well known to require ly killed by the cars on the Saturday labor everywhere took a holiday, and comprising Beavers, 1‘aislev, Brocha, for want of a warm Cloak to wear. We Cashmere, etc., At John Dicks ’. have a few Newmarkets and Wraps, (not $1.50 out of his cash box. any special word of commendation previous. Since then we have learned some failed to report the next day on t ins year s patterns] which we propose —The calendar for December term of from us. They will address the public the following facts concerning the sad account of too free indulgence in the Mufflers. to close at prices which have no iefer- the Gratiot county circuit court con­ through these colums next week. event: Mr. Kearney was agent at a good tilings provided for the inner man; A nice line of Ladies' and Gentlemen’s One good lot as low as -Mrs. Geo. Creaser. of Olive town­ small place called Ransom, on tiie Chi­ but in the extreme rural districts farm­ Mufflers At John Hicks ’. $2.50, and others as low as $3, $4 and $5. tains 87 cases. The teim commenced All worth two and three times the mon- last Monday, Judge Daboll presiding. ship, has a flock of 55 hens which have cago & Grand Trunk railroad in this ers, particularly, were a little behind­ At Auction. ey. It will be necessary to select at —Those who would desire a pleasant produced within the last nine months, state. He took his lamp on the eventful hand, stayed at home and worked as The undersigned will sell at public once it wanted, as these prices will cer­ auction at his late farm residence, two time should attend the fair and supper $73.69 worth of eggs. There is nothing night and boarded an outgoing freight usual. The factories, public offices, tainly close the lot in a few days. slow' about those birds. Within eight miles east of the fair grounds, on Mon­ Respectfully, to be given by the ladies of the Congre­ and rode out to the switch, as he jumped banks and stores closed, and the town, day afternoon, December 8th, the fol­ months she has sold $45.41 worth of II. L. Kendrick . gational society, in Stevens’ store, off to arrange the switch and signal which depends so much for its life lowing : 42 sheep, 7 milch cows, 4 year­ butter, the product of two cows, one of Buckwheat flour and Maple Svriro Friday and Saturday of this week. lights for the express train—which it is upon visitors from the country, pre­ ling, 4 calves, 2 work horses, 1 brood which is but two years old. Mr. thought was ahead of time—the engine sented a very quiet appearance after the mare, 1 span of ponies and some farm­ for sale by the Mercantile Co. —The state bee-keepers’ convention Creaser, not wishing to be out done by of the expected train struck and threw church-goers had returned home. ing implements. Terms favorable. will be held in Detroit, January 1 and 2, 1258 w2 G eo . Waldron , Farmers. Take Notice. his wife comes forward with the state him high into the air, killing him in­ In the afternoon the members of our Go to the St. Johns foundry and ma- 1801. Reduced rates on all railroads. ment that he has raised 518 bushels of stantly. Though there was scarcely an excellent comet band, who are ever Xmas Candles, * i,n,e. sh°P f°r •agricultural implements. An interesting program is being pre­ corn from 41 acres of ground. abrasion of the skin all his limbs were studying as how best they can please Choice Xmas Candies, Glazed Fruits, All kinds of machine repairing prompt­ pared and a sweet ti me is in anticipation. Candy Toys and Fruits, Xmas tree Orna­ ly attended to. tf Cross A Weller. —There are no men who visit our vil­ broken, his ribs crushed in, and his our people, congregated at the junction ments and Candies, fresh Nuts of all —A new wood awning has been add­ lage who appear to enjoy life and the neck broken. of Clinton Avenue and Walker street, kinds, at D. McG ibbon ’s, next door to 5 lbs of Coffee for $1, at the Mercan­ tile Co. ed to the west end of the union block society of their friends more than do The deceased was born in Ireland and played several of their best selec post-office. 1259tf for the purpose of shielding Frank Wm. Byrne and Charles Seibert, of Ben about 32 years ago, removed to Toronto, tions in their usual line style, which If you want anything in picture Dry Goods and Cloaks. llrown, the barber, from the sun, and gal township. Through their earnest Ont., and from there to Michigan 12 added pleasure for our people in the frames call at Hamilton’s photo] rooms. It is surprising to see the curiosity O. P. DeWitt, the grocer, from the and astonishment at the extremely low labors in early life they have made for years ago. About three years since he closing hours of that ever welcome day. Lowest prices on Albums at Travis & figure our goods are marked. Never snow and rain. themselves and their families comfort­ was married to Miss Belle Baker, of Baker’s Corner Drug Store. would a dollar go farther than to-day, —A sufficient amount of snow fell able homes, and gathered about them Bengal, who, with an infant child, sur­ The Old Stone Fraud Again Attempted. especially, when you are trading with On Saturday last an honest looking We Keep With the Market, Especi. Tuesday night and Wednesday to in­ everything which makes life pleasant vive him. He was a member in good the Mercantile Co. farmer drove into town with two live ally on Sugar. duce the people to come out with their and worth living for. Both of them standing of the Congregational church pigs .and as many stones in his wagon, Sugars have been going down steadily Cloaks and Jackets for all, just re­ sleighs. The roads are very smooth enjoy the full confidence and good will of and highly esteemed by all who knew for some time and yet some advertise ceived at Kendrick's. Our line this and bargained with one of our dealers and it will take but litlle to make the every one of our citizens who know him. and sell at the same old prices. Call for the sale of the pigs. He then drove slipping good. them. Long may they live. The remains were brought to St. and see our New Orleans Sugar. 20 upon Mr. Squires’ scales and had his pounds for$l. —Our village was thronged with prac­ Johns on Tuesday and the funeral w’as which is a guarantee as to quality, a3 —The first genuine taste of winter produce weighed, and drove away and St. JonN ’s Merchant !le Cc>. tical farmers from the surrounding held at the Congregational church, Rev. not a complaint was made against it experienced by our people this season, threw the stones overboard. When the For fine silverware go to Travis country last Saturday. The day was as C. W. Allen, the pastor, officiating, last year. Buy the Walker plushes and came with the advent of true winter pigs were delivered the purchaser Baker’s Corner Drug Store. be sure ol a good garment. Every gar­ line as any experienced in the ever wel after which they were deposited in the December 1st, when a light snow fell thought it impossible for them to weigh ment branded. come autumn season, and the roads new Ella Perrin vault in St. Johns Holiday Coods. Respectfully, ‘ and lower temperature ensued. The as much as represented and went to have not been better at any season of cemetery, where they remained until a Our annual sale of Trimmed Baskets H. L: Kendrick . kind of winter w eather we are to have is the scales to make inquiry, when he will commence about December 8th the year. lot could be procured and a grave pre­ varied in the extreme in the minds of was told that the seller was seen when We shall also have on sale a large stock The latest thing out in ladies' Union —Oliver C. Hollister, with The Michi­ the old and young inhabitants. The pared. Some twenty-live friends of the of other Holiday Goods, which cannot l nder Suits, just received, at Ken­ deceased came from Ransom to attend he threw the stones out of the wagon fail to please you. drick s. Also a full line of Ladies. gan Mortgage Company, declines the com husks, the muskrat holes, and the who afterwards confessed his guilt and the funeral. The deceased, a railroad Christmas comes but once a year Gent s and Children’s Underwear. government appointment to a $1,000 moss on the trees are all introduced to said that he was hard up and wished to We have what your friends want. man, was the first to occupy the new clerkship in the pension bureau, and substantiate the various theories. But get as much cash out of his pork as We are very busy just now slaughter­ Felt Boots lower than ever at the vault, constructed as the result of ing our Millinery. Mercantile Co.’s. will continue in his present position be it as it may, the Wheat Bros., the possible. This offender laid himself It is not for people to throw clothiers at No. 17, Clinton Avenue terrible railroad accident in the east Yours Verv Truly, liable to severe punishment under the 2w J. T. Cole & Co. Sugar has taken a tumble at the such jobs over their shoulder. are prepared to protect the people in which Hon. II. M. Perrin and his law for thus attempting to defraud his Mercantile Co.’s. Have you seen the new glace finished —Late Clinton county pensioners:— against the worst, at small expense. daughter were, and which terminated neighbor. Honesty is the best policy the life of the daughter, the history of photos At Hamilton ’s. Merit Wins. t Original—A. Eaegle, Eureka; C. II liuainesa Change. notwithstanding you do not get so much This fact is fairly illustrated by the which the majority of our readers are Stevens, St. Johns; Wm. Coverstone On Monday last, December 1, Charles for your pork. Travis & Baker are the leaders in low large business which O. G. Plunkett, the Eureka; T. Gibson, St. Johns. In­ familiar. prices on Holiday Goods. new photographer in the West Side Gal­ I’. Baker, ex-village clerk and for the PERSONAL. lery, St. Johns, is receiving. crease—Isaac R. Church, St. Johns; L last year traveling salesman for T. II For liinghnm SchoolrDlatrlcts. Engine for Saie. G. Loomis, Union Home; Henry L Hinchman & Sons, of Detroit, pur­ Below we give the amount of primary Miss Carrie Brown, of Detroit, is the guest of I have a good second hand stationary Water. McCarthy, Ovid; Geo. II. Soules, Essex engine, of 90 horse power, in first-class To our customers who desire a first- chased the undivided one-half interest of school money apportioned to the several Mrs. Geo. A. Steel. Aaron R. Rrown, Ovid ; Ira O. Fletcher Geo. A. Steel expects to make a business trip repair, that I will sell at a bargain if class job of Plumbingcan have the same Murdo McDonald, in the drug business school districts in Bingham township, taken soon. Address Eagle. to Oregon next week. done without any trouble, by applying of McDonald & Travis at the “corner together with the one mill tax and the Mrs. Charles Heth. of this village, is visiting Lewis Lonler , to us, as we will do excavating, tap main, —A six-weeks-old son of Rev. Geo. II drug store,” in this village, and at once tax voted at the September meeting: her parents in Grand Rapids. 2w Grand Ledge, Mich etc. We keep on hand a good supply bf water woods. Fowler & Ball . Hudson, for the past two years a resi laid off his hat and commenced business Dist. Primary. 1 Mill Tax. Voted Tax. P. K. Perrin spent Friday and Saturday last One Way to Save Money. No. 1...... ? 13 87 6 142 43 * 170 93 ent of this village, died at the home of under the firm name and style of Travis " 2 fr...... 30 50 60 41 30 24 in Bay City, in a business way. We will save you money on any thing Butter and Eggs Mrs. Hudson’s father, D. K. Stowell, of & Baker. Mr. Baker had served six " 3...... 18 98 79 00 126 11 Eugene Moss, formerly of this village, has you wish to purchase in the line of Wanted in any quantity by, Bengal township,Thanksgiving evening years as salesman in this establishment “ 4...... 805 33 1824 24 8756 24 been spending a few days at Maple Rapids Dry G oods and Carpets II. L. Kendrick . ” 5...... 3G 50 103 40 155 18 at John Hicks of catarrhal pneumonia. The funeral " « fr...... 89 42 80 95 100 82 Editor Warner,of the Maple Rapids Dispatch while under the firm name of McDonald “ 7 fr...... 44 90 52 3o 261 50 looked in upon us for a moment, last Tuesday Weidner’s Soup Tablets (best in tbe was held from the house on Saturday & Travis and McDonald & Steel, and “ 8 fr...... 37 13 71 41 92 97 Miss Winnie Barret, of Hubhardston, Is visit­ Head-quarters for Holiday Coods, world) for sale by the Mercantile Co. •• n 1H 05 101 at Foster , 1’ost & Co’s, St. Johns. last, and the little remains now rest in through his pleasing business relations “ 10...... 23 36 98 07 98 07 ing her sister, Mrs. Adelbert Holbrook, in this Kendrick’s Grocery List. St. Johns cemetery. with the public, has earned a host of “ 5 OreenhUBh & Bingham, 24 20 5 75 village. To t/reenbush Tax-payers. 14 lbs. Granulated Sugar, extra fine ...... Ji oo “ 2 Victor, Bingham Ovid friends at home and abroad. He Mrs. C. E. Grisson entertained a goodly I will be at the store of Clark & Hulse, 15 lbs. A Sugar,...... „...... i 00 —Henry II. Harris moved into his and Olive...... 2120 4ft 68 number of her local friends at a six o ’clock tea new brick dwelling house in Perrinville careful as well as pleasant in the dis in St. Johns, on Wednesdays during the 16 lbs. White C Sugar,...... i 00 Another Old Resident of St. Johns Has last evening. month of December, for the purpose of 18 lbs. Light Yellow Sugar...... l oo last Saturday. There is no man in our charge of his duties in this important .Joined the Majority. N. S. Blank, of Greeubush township, left receiving taxes. 4 lbs. Best Rice,...... 25 line of trade. His associate, Mr. Fred this morning for Woodsvllle, Sandusky coun 4 lbs. Best Soda, ...... 35 community that the people would rather Mrs. Lucinda Harford died at her old rest 1258w4* Charles Hulse . A. Travis, spent eight years in the Uni ty, O., where he will probably Sarrv several 4 lbs. Best Starch, ...... jjft see enjoying a good and comfortable deuce on Oakland street, in this village, on Window Shades, versity at Ann Arbor, and possesses a months. 4 lbs. Best Crackers,...... 25 home than they would Mr. Harris, who Wednesday evening, Nov. 26, 1890. of typhoid Arthur B. Harford, who was here last week Curtains, pneumonia, after an Illness of only one week 1 lb. Good Fine Cut Tobacco, a bargain,... 28 has ever been industrious, honest and well-earned diploma for his thorough to attend the funeral of his mother, Is engaged Carpets and 1 lb. Good Fine Cut Tobacco, ...... 35 In her 72d year. Upholstered Goods obliging. Long may he live to enjoy knowledge of pharmacy, and has been In the Jewelry business at 339 y, Woodward This last we will guarantee to be as The deceased came to St. Johns In 1808 , and Avenue, Detroit. At John Hicks ’. the fruits of his labors. connected with the drug business the had a continuous residence here ever since good as any at 40c or more in tovrti. Mr. and Mrs. Charles McAuliff, of Owosso, —The large and fine addition which greater portion of the last fifteen years except when living with her children. She Woolen Hose. All other in the grocery line in same spent Thanksgiving day with their daughte A new and desirable line at proportion. the owners, Edward Brown and J. II With their combined knowledge of the was born In Steuben county, N. Y., and while Mrs. Parks, of Bengal township. Mrs, at a tender age her parents died, after which Foster , Post & Co ’s. II. L. Kendrick . business, and ready means at their com McAuliff remained until Saturday to attend Corbit, have been making to their Walk she came to Michigan with an uncle and maiul, we predict for the new firm the funeral of Mrs. Hudson ’s infant son. Dining-room Girl Wanteo The Largest Stock er street hotel property, is nearly com settled in Washtenaw county. Her maiden brilliant and successful future. Geo. Rhodes, formerly of this village and Of Floor Oil Cloths in St. Johns, is at pleted, and will render that hostelry name was Rogers. At the age of 15 years she at the Potter House, Ovid. A perma­ AVe trust that Mr. McDonald, the re now connected with the freight department of Kendrick's. A good quality for only 30 was married to John Harford, one of the two nent position for a competent person. one of the most pleasant homes for the tiring member of the old firm, will the American Express Co., at the central depot cents per yard. fiind it to his advantage and comfort to founders of the city of Ann Arbor, and who traveling public, to be found in the in in Detroit, was in our village several days last Flannels, remain in our midst, where he has was the first merchant in that place, and who A nice line at John Hicks ’ Sixth Annual Special Cloak Saie at terior of Michigan. With a practical gathered about him so many warm erected the first dwelling house in Washtenaw week. He is looking plump and happy W.T. Church and James Richardson, who ln Thus more active demand. A good housekeeper for a farm home Shepard, of Shepardsville, and who has in Washtenaw county, and some nine or ten may procure a good place by addressing store for the benefit of my patrons. day afternoon of next week. This wilj give the people of St. Johns for a number of years past been em years thereafter, she removed to St. Johns BUSINESS LOCALS box 444, Ovid. Mich. One or two chil­ ployed by a railroad company at Toledo The Daughters of Rebecca will give a social with her children, eight In numlter, all dren accompanying would not be ob­ and vicinity a special opportunity to in their lodge rooms this (Thursday) evening, whom grew to be men and women, and seven jectionable. 1258tf select .anything in that line, and will be Ohio., was instantly killed while in the Dec. 4. Refreshments will be served. All are Rllev Tax-payers appreciated as the best opportunity of of them survive her. They are: Sophia Will find me at South Kiley school-house act of coupling cars last Sunday evening invited. Harford, St. Johns : Mrs. Minerva Hudson Big Reduction on Crockery this season. Respectfully,s^ecit The ladies’ aid society of the' M.*E. Ichurch Dec. 13; Prudeh’s store, Dec. 18: Bough- Kendrick . His funeral took place Tuesdav,and his Unadilla ; Mrs. Alice H. Blood, Toledo, O. ton school-house. Dec. 20; Simmons’ at Foster , Post & Co ’s. of Olive will meet with Mrs. Chas. Rockwell Mrs. Marion C. Meaker, Boyne Falls, Mich. remains were buried in Toledo, where a school-house, Dec. 27, 1890, and Jason gTATE BANK OF ST. JOHN8. wife and several children survive him Wednesday Doc. 10. at 10 o ’clock. All are cor­ Mrs. Helen H. Emory and Oliver C. Harford,To ­ school-house, Jan. 3,1891, at Dec. rates. Go to E. T. Sumner & Son’s for rur- dially invited. ledo. O.; and Arthur B. Harford, Detroit Mich Will be at my residence every Friday. niture, picture frames and mouldings. COMMERCIAL AND SAVINGS. Alfred was .an industrious and good- The King s Daughters will meet with Miss Sophia, the eldest of the children after an ab ­ James H. Burnes , Repairing a specialty. 1199 hearted man. He was a brave soldier Minnie Stephenson next Monday evening, to sence of nineteen years in California, returned 1259w3 Treasurer Township of Riley. in the war of the rebellion and was discuss ways and means. Every member is toSt.Johnsorly a week before her mother ’ Let No O.ie Suffer CAPITAL. 60,000. prominently connected with the squad requested to be present and have a quotation. death, with the intention of living with her To Our Old Patrons. As long as we have the Celebrated We are making arrangements to put Mishawaka Boots and Socks. They which captured Jeff. Davis. All aw Invited to be present at the Y. P. 8. C. 8he, Helen and Arthur were with their mother E. of the Congregational church next Sunday when death closed her earthly career. Of the in a complete stock of ice for next sea­ are the best thing to draw on, that is in NET ASSETS OF STOCKHOLDERS, 19)0,000.00 —Hattie Fro wen fielder, an orphan girl ' afternoon, at (tu. Subject: “Givers. Of children, all were enabled to be present at the son's trade, and we shall try in the the market. about 20 years of age, died at the home'What ? To Whom f Results. ' Leader, Miss funeral, save Mrs. Hudson and Mrs. Meaker future as in the past, to serve our pa­ St. Jonxs Mercantile Co. Pearl King!; Essayist, Fred Knapp. trons promptly and satisfactorily, and of Robert Lowe, in Essex township, on Among other relatives prsent were Mrs by so doing hope to merit our full share Gardner’s Feed Mill PORTER K. PERRIN, President. Sunday afternoon last, while the family The West Bingham U. B. society will give a 8ophfa Rogers, a sister-in-law, and Mr. Frank GEO. F. MARVIN, Vlce-Pr&ldent. social at the residence of Charles Culp, on the of their patronage. will start up for business Wednesday, were absent at church. Her lifeless Rogers, a nephew, and now a resident of St 1258-w2 Spring Brook Ice Co December 3. 1890, and will run every D. H. POWER, Cashier, old DeWitt farm, Thursday, Dec. 11, for the Johns ; Jas. H. Emory, of Toledo, a son-in-law H. H. FITZGERALD, As:t form was found upon a couch. A post benefit of their pastor. Rev. Davis. Oysters and Arthnr T. and Wm. H. Emory, grand-chll Monday, Wednesday and Saturday dren. Floor Oil Cloths. thereafter until further notice. mortum examination made by Drs. Gil- will be served. A cordial Invitation Is extend ­ The remains of this kind and indulge We have oil cloths in new and desir­ ed to all. mother and obIlglngfneighbor now peacefully 1258w2 G ardner Bros . lam and Palmer, revealed the fact that rest In St.Johns cemetery. able styles. A good one for 25c per DIRECTORS: The next meeting of the Clinton County Cen ­ yard at JonN Hicks ’ a fatty substance had interfered with tral District Association. P. of 1., will be with Notice to Bengal Tax-Payers. P. K. Perrin, O. W. Mtmger, Geo. F. Marvin. J a the action of the heart. Ever since she the Last Bingham Association, at the Hubbard MARRIED. To Bingham Tax-Payor*. I will be at the Town Hall, Bengal, Corbit,.!. H. Fedeara, Oils Fuller, Edward was a little girl, until recently, she had school house, Thursday, Dec. IS. at 7:85. p. m. I will be at Wm. Leland’s grocery every Thursday; at home every Friday, Brown, A. Retan, 8. 8. Walker All adjoining Associations arc oordlally In ­ MULDER—CROWNER-At the residence of store every week day In December to and at the State Bank, St. Johns, every M. V. Brown, O. E. Corbin been a member of John Bottom’s family, the bride's father, in St. Johns, Nov. 27th, Saturday In December to receive taxes. vited to attend and to send delegates If con ­ by Rev. G. 8. Nortnrup, Mr. Wm. H. Muloer receive taxes at one per cent. In the same township. venient. and Miss Flora D. Crovrner, both of 4t. Johns. F. L. Mkrtitttf .w. 1258w2 Wm. E. Eldridoe , Treas. 4 Percent. Interest raid pn Time Deposit \ CLINTON INDEPENDENT, THURSDAY, DEC. 4, 1890.

E. F. Cooley of Lansing paid $90,000 INTERIOR DEPARTMENT. ON THE ORIGIN OF THE ALPHABETS. WINGED MISSILES, , for the Lansing iron works last week, and Tho number of Italians iu Now . will consolidate his now purchase with the Secretary Noble’s Annual Report Thoughts by n Man who Has Head Much Manuscript. city is roughly estimated at 49,000. . 008 OIN STATE. Central Michigan milling company. WARRIORS. Submitted to Congress. Berliners may bo a little slo-*; but tbe.Y Judge Kelly of the Alpena circuit is Tho annual report of the Secretary of the Those who are obliged to read the havo buried all their telepkow and tolet WHAT THE PEOPLE OF MICHIGAN confined to his house with his sprained GEN. MILES' SCHEME FOR SUP­ Interior was submitted to congress on Mon ­ handwriting of a number of corres­ graph wires. ankle and his judicial work has been at­ day. It makes a printed volume of 127 pondents are aware how large a por­ A Toronto paper figures out that tho tended to by Judge Cobb of Bay City. ARE DOING AND SAYING. PRESSING BELLIGERENT REDS. pages. It shows that there are 586,216,861 tion of educated men write more or drunkards of that city lost $191,682 xa The coroner ’s Jury to inquire into the acres of vacant lands in the United States, less illegibly', and that, except in cases wages last year. and 369,529,600 in Alaska, making a total death of the two Kalamazoo boys killed by of imperfect sight or of an unsteady The English never much liked the Scotch, of 955,746,461. In tho states and territories OIL EXPLOSION AT OWOSSO.— the cars Saturday, decided that it was an THEIR HORSES AND ARMS TO hand, this want of clearness is maiuly yet it is said there are more Scotch in Lon ­ Montana leads with 64,807,627 acres, and accident and that nobody was to blame. BE TAKEN AWAY. due to burry. The writer sketches the don than in Edinburg. BURGLARS AT WORK. Michigan is twonty-secoud with 832.707 geueral effect of a word so as to give The move to bond Lansing for $100,000 acres. During the past year 19,000,000 himself the least trouble in conveying There is an old aud widespread notion to Induce manufacturers to sbttle there is acres of agricultural lauds were conveyed that the mirrors must bo removed from a The News of the Past Week Burn- its meaning, aud omits all strokes, Items of Interest IVoni AH Parts of meeting with general approval and will to actual settlers, aud 539,779 to states for room in which a corpse is lying. Michigan. probably become a fact at tho next meet­ inarulizetl for Busy Readers. dots, and stops which he thinks not to educational purposos, etc. be absolutely required. Nor is this Dr. Brown-Soquard claims that his ing. Considerable space is devoted to the eflixir has cured iutexmittent fever, neu ­ subject of irrigation, which alone can make only to be observed in civilized Eu­ Oil Explosion at Owogso. Elizabeth Grostic of Howell has begun • The Indian Situation. rope, for the handwriting of Orientals ralgia, rheumatism, insomnia and leprosy. suit against the Detroit, Lansing & North ­ valuable immense tracts of arid lands in Owosso, Nov. 29.— About 6:30 yester­ who use the varieties of the Arabic England is not much of a wheat producer.. ern railroad for $25,000 damages for the Chicago , Nov . 29.— The departure of Idaho, Wyoming, Montunu, Utah, Nevada, day afteruoou the oil tank of the Owosso alphabet is equally rendered illegible Seven out of evei'y eight loaves of bread killing of her husband, August Grostic, a Gen. Miles, commander of tho department Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico and tho Gas company oxploded with such a tremen ­ by the same causes. eaten iu Loudon uro made from foi'cign year ago. of the Missouri, for Washington yesterday Dakotas. dous force that it could be distinctly heard is more than significant. In short, tho In view of the state of affairs at the Pine It is in the recognition of this desire wheat. for 20 miles. The United States fish hatchery at Al­ general has been summoned to the national Ridge Agency and other frontier posts, that to save labor that the underlying prin­ The company manufactures gas by the pena has 295 jars of whitetish eggs, and capital by Gen. Schofield and the Secretary portion of tho secretary’s report touching ciple to be followed in tracing the Female Weakness Positive Cure. use of oil and naptha, and had just received will make it an even 300 before spring. of War for the purpose of discussing the upon Indian affaire possesses peculiar in ­ growth of all epigrapliic systems is to To Tux Editok : a carload. This was stored, as is usual, in Tho work of stocking goes ou and has been details of his plan for at onoe dismounting terest: be found, not eveu excepting the most Please inform your readers that I have a tho tank by the engineer, Jonas Chapman. uniformly successful. and disarming the hostile Indians in the In reviewing tho past year’s work of the cumbrous and laborious of existing positive remedy for tho thousand and one Shortly beforo the explosion ho started Simon H. Reynolds ’ residence, known as northwest. Gen. Miles was seen by a re­ department in regard to the Indians, it is methods—the Chinese—and the knowl­ Ills which arise from deranged female with a lantern in his hand from tho gas the “Tood Farm” house, on the Detroit porter just before his departure and he seen that there has been steady progress edge of this principle lias enabled organs. I shall be glad to send two bottles of my remedy kheb to any lady who will works to the oil tanks, and he has not gravel road, near Pontiac, burned Mon ­ confirmed all that is stated above. “I go made in engaging them in peaceful ways scholars to place on a secure basis tho boon seen since. It is supposed that ho to Washington, ” he said, “to confer with send their Express and P. O. address. day morning with all its contents. Mr. and industrial pursuits. A stronger desire study of ancient models of writing. Yours Respectfully, perished in the explosion. He came here the general of tho army concerning the In ­ Reynolds was away at the time and Mrs. is manifested among many for the educa­ The crude attempts made a century Da. J. B. MARCIIISI, 183 Genesee St., Utica , from Corunna about two months ago and Reynolds, who was confined to her bed, dian situation. Yes, the situation is grave,” tion of their children, for the individual ago by those who hud uotat their com­ N Y. ______was a comparatively green hand. He was rescued with difficulty. he continued, “and tho necessity for a vig­ ownership of land, and generally for the loaves a widow and one child. The widow mand the wealth of epigrapliic evi­ orous winter campaign is becoming more comforts of civilization. dence which has now been gathered, Time is like money —it goes fast. ■ is nearly crazed with grief. Rev. H. M. Curtis closed his nine years’ and more apparent. We are probably face But it needs to bo said that a much The loss is estimated at $3,000, although pastorate at the Flint Presbyterian church to face with a winter campaign. The hos ­ who regarded tho square Hebrew of A $2.50 Paper for $1.75. larger area of land than is necessary is held their own times as an original char­ it is at present impossible to give any ­ Sunday, and preached his farewell sermon tile Indians ought to bo compelled to sur­ for Indian occupancy. There are not more Thk Y outh ’s Oomi »anion gives so much thing like an exact estimate, as it is not incidental to his departure to accept a render, and they ought to be dismounted than 250,000 Indians within the borders of acter already existing in the days of for the small amount that It costs it is known how much the machinery is dam­ pastorate in Cincinnati. and disarmed, and they will be. This is the United States (excluding Alaska). The , who saw no objection to at­ no wonder it Is taken already In nearly Half aged by the explosion and the constant all I can say except that they will probably tributing the early Christian “Sinuitic u Million Families. With Its fine paper and Rev. L. F. Pillsbury, an aged citizen of greater part of these reside upon or have playing of water by the fire department. find themselves in a position in the future Inscriptions” to the Israelites, or the lieuutiful illustrations, its Weekly Illustrat­ Hastings, fell and broke his arm while some interest iu tho existing reservations, ed Supplements, and its Double Holiday so that they cannot so easily mount and coins of the Hasmoneans to the Kings caring for his horse Wednesday night. the others living upon a portion of the Numbers, it seems as if the publishers arm as in the past. You may look for a of Judah, have now been superseded On account of his advanced years it is public domain. The aggregate area of the could not do enough to please. By sending Ruined Another Safe. winter campaign in the northwest. We 31.75 now you may obtain it free to January feared that the accident will result fatally. Indian reservations was, at tho last report, by a sounder study of facts, and the Clarksville , Nov . 29. —This morning have only 2,000 mounted men in the Indian about 116^000,000 acres, or 181,250 square recovery by I)e Sar/.ec of very early and for a full year from that date to Janu ­ between 2 and 3 o ’clock burglars broke into Mrs. J. Howard of Portland spent one country over a stretch of country 600 miles miles, which is, as calculated by the Indian Babylonian texts ou the statues of Tell ary. 1892. Address, The Y outh ’s Companion , Boston, Mass. the Grand Rapids, Lansing & Detroit rail­ night at the National hotel in Owosso. long. The infantry is doing guard duty commissioner, “greater than that of the Lo, and that of yot more archaic in­ road depot building in this village, drilled She wanted to be sure she turned the gas only. With this lorce we have to keep New England and middle states combined, scriptions iu Syria and Asia Minor and a holo into the door of the iron safe, put in the peace until we get ready to crush the Our side is always the right side of any out, and turued the valve so far that she greater than the aggregate area of tho Cyprus, lias x’endered it possible to question. a charge of powder and blew it open. No turned it on agaiu. She will recover, but uprising. ” states of Ohio, , Illinois and Ken ­ trace with certainty the progress of money had been left in the safe by Mr. had a close call. The war department is in receipt of a tucky, and nearly equal to tho combined the art of writing. Clark, agent of the railroad company, and number of dispatches from the seat of the There is more Catarrh in this section of the Nicholas Power thought it would be area of the two Dakotas and Montaua; or, From the hurried scrawl of a mod­ country than all other diseases put together, tho contents, consisting of books and Indian trouble, all indicating an improve ­ to carry tho comparison further, it is papers, were not disturbed. This is the great fun to beat and kick an inoffensive em Arabic epistle to tho carefully en­ and until the last few years was supposed to be ment in the situation. Gen. Brooko says larger by half than the United Kingdom of graved letters of the Moabite stone is incurable. For a great many years doctors pro ­ third safe that has been blown open and old negro because the latter Ijad no friends. that every hour lessens the strength of the nounced it a loealdisease, and prescribed local He carried out his idea and was arrested, Great Britain and Ireland, larger than a transition so complete hat. if we .were ruined by cracksmen at this depot within disaffected, that Little Wound has come in Sweden or Norway, aud uearly as large as remedies, and by coustarttly failing to cure with tho past two years. Mr. Clark, having and is now serving 90 days in jail under to Pine Ridge agency and that his brother not possessed of the intermediate steps local treatment, ’pronounced it incurable. Sci­ sentence of the Alpena court. either Franco or Spain. ” represented by the Nabathean and the ence has proven catarrh to he a constitutional been warned by previous operations of tho braves are following him. Short Bull, of That portion of the report that is de­ kind, has a more secure place of deposit Cufie, wo should never be able to feel disease, and therefore requires constitutional A gang of men is touring the state the Rosebud agency, one of the most voted to patents gives the following treatment. Hull's Catarrh Cure, manufactured for money than in the safes furnished by satisfied that the Arabic alphabet is a painting barns. They offer to paint a troublesome of the Sioux, and his followers statistics: Tho total number of applica ­ by F. J. Cheney*. Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only the railroad campany. direct lineal descendant of the PIkb- farmers barn for $5. And that is all they to the number of about 300 lodges, re­ tions received, including reissues, trade constitutional cure on the market. It is taken internally in doses from 10 drops to a tcaspoon- chargo for doing tho painting, but they put turned to Pine Ridge Tuesday. marks, designs, etc., was 46,140; the num ­ uician. Yet not only is this the case, Dr. V. T. McGillicuddy, the former but the story of the Phoenician let­ ful. It acts directly upon the blood and mucous A Son ’s Sin Visits the Father. an item of $60 for paint in the bill and ber of patents granted was 25,857; trade surfaces of the system. They offer one huudred get even with the bucolic dweller in that agent at the Pine Ridge agency, telegraphs marks and labels registered, 1,636; patents ter itself can be carried back from G rand Rapids , Nov . 29. —One year ago the niuth century B. C. for a length dollars for any ease it fails to cure. Send for Alexander McKenzie murdered his wife in way. as follows; expired, 11,885; the total receipts were, circulars and testimonials. Address, “The newspaper reports of the Pine $1,347,203.21; the total expenditures were, of time equal to that which divides F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O this city and he is now serving a life Tho Ann Arbor & Ypsilanti railroad has Farsold by Druggists, 75c. sentence at Jackson. His father lived in Ridge situation are misleading. Matters $1,081,173.56, leaving a surplus of $266,- our own days from those of Solomon; secured tho right of way along tho whole are now under control with a peaceable 029.65 to be turned into the treasury of and the well-defined form of the Mo­ Chicago and, having considerable money, route except in front of the farm of omployed a lawyer to carry the case to the ending in view. I remain here for the tho United States to tho credit of the abite symbols is found also to result Paid to datc-tbe postugestamp canceller. Bohnot, who wants $4,000 for what the present. ” patent fund, and making a total balance in from a continual and very gradual supreme court. railroad company think $400 would be This tribunal affirmed the sentence and the treasury on account of the patent fund chauge, which lias produced a conven­ About Pearline. • sufficient. Tho company will fight Prom Watchman, Boston, Mima ., Dec. 11, 1SS0. When tho father received tho letter with BRIEFLY TOLD. of $3,790,556.28. tional shape from what was original­ Bohnet's injunction. Everyone knows uliout Pearl ine. almost tho news he seized a revolver and shot The work to be done by the pension ly the carved figure of a natural ob­ bureau has reached wonderful proportions, every ono uses Puarliixe, hut we wonder if all himself in tho head,' killing himself in ­ Prof. Kodzie of the agricultural college Many sections of Germany are flooded. ject. It has beeu proved, over aud the housekeepers who use it know half that has just returned from a visit to the and its expenditures have sent into the stantly. McKenzie will probably remain Great damage has been done in Austria over again, by independent scholars cun lie done with It. We wonder if they all in prison tho rest of his life. Nebraska beet sugar manufacturies and channels of trade and commerce in our by tornadoes. working at different systems of writ­ !:now what some of the bright ones have says that Michigan is as well fitted to country more than one hundred millions of ing—such as tho Chiuese, the cunei­ discovered, that those mountains of dish ­ make beet sugar as Nebraska, and he can There are no longer any fears of a strike dollars tho past year. The use of this washing —the greasy pun and kettle--tnay Michigan Railroad learnings. form, or the Egyptian—that no people see no reason why the industry should not on the Erie road. vast sum has served more than one valu­ ever invented an arbitrary system of be reduced to molehills of tiie smallest sizo La smno , Nov. 29. —The earnings of the It is reported that the new window glass able purpose. It has been not alone a by the judicious use of Pearline. Fill tho flourish iu this state. writing, or ever originated an alphabet l-oasting pan. as soon, as tho gravy is poured Michigan railroads for September were trust will raise the price 5 per cent. relief to hundreds of thousands of the $3,056,878.50; for the same period in 1889, The senior law class of the university as such bv auv mutual assenL Ail the from it, with cold water, shake in a little families of the soldiers who in different Pearline and set on the stove. By the time $7,990,923.04; increase, $1,065,955.52; have voted to raise $135 by assessing Many cigar factories in Germany are wars have served their country, chiefly known graphic systems originate in a closed, and 3,000 employes are idle. tho rest of the dishes are washed, all the oarnings from Jan. 1 to Oct. 1, 1890, 868,- each member of the class 50 cents, the those who defended the union against picture-writing as rude as that of the grease is dissolved and the pan can be 479,188,74; same period for 1889,861,232,- fund to be used in pushing the case against Gen. Booth ’s fund for the relief of Lon ­ secession; but it has also transferred at American Indian or of the South Afri­ washed as easily as a plate. Treat t'.ie 725.10; increase, 87,246,463.64, or 11.93 the city for the imprisonment of the five don ’s poor now amounts to £60,000. most opportune moments the accumulated can bush man.—The Edinhurg Review. kettle in which anything greasy has been per cent. students arrested in connection with the treasures of the government to tho hands boiled in the same way, and beside clean postofflcc disturbance. Britton ’s cooperage works at Green Bay, of the people, “blessing him that gives and A Dignified Sleeping-Car Porter. utensils you. will, have a clean sink, the use The Insurance Commissioner. Wis.. burned last week. Loss, $75,000. of tho Pcarjino rendering It safe to pour The proprietors of the Glen house, him that takes.” A gentleman who was traveling on such dishwater into it. Sinks regularly Bay City , Nov. 29. —County Treasurer Onekama, have built a drive around tho Albert H. Smith, the New York forger, The pensions granted by previous legis­ a sleeping-car. aud who was to alight treated to u bath of Pearline and scalding William E. Magill of this city and county hilltop near the house and now claim has been found guilty in the first degree. lation will be largely augmented by those at about 8 in the morning, says the water will seldom need tho service® uf a has been tendered the offleo of state com­ they can furnish the finest view iu Michi ­ Severe frosts and heavy snow are report ­ now being allowed under the act entitled Boston Courier, gave the porter ex­ plumber. missioner of insurance by Governor-elect gan. In accord with the general demand ed from nearly every country in Europe. “An act granting pensions to soldiers and plicit directions to wake him at the Winansand has signified his acceptance of house lots will be laid out in connection sailors who are incapacitated for the per ­ Talking of patent medicines A large number of Armenian officials proper time, and went to sleep. About the same. Mr. Magill has been treasurer with the hotel and a boom given to the formance of manual labor, and providing midnight the porter came and aroused of Bay county for four years. * w’ summer resort business of the place. have been arrested at Ismid for conspiracy. for pensions to widows, minor children and —you know the old prejudice. dependent parents, ” approved June 27, him. Lady Conemara has obtained a divorce And the doctors —some of Battle Creek had an exciting runaway 1890. '•Excuse me. sab.” the porter said, from Lord Conemara, cx-goveruor of Mad­ 8TATK NEWS CONDENSED. the other morning. George White was It may be well to mention here that the “but I forgut whareyou’s goin’ to get them are between you and us. driving iu a double carriage with Misses ras. reason why our pension roll is greater than off.” • They would like you to think Lizzie Irwin and Mary Brogan when the 1 Jesse Houcbins.a notorious counterfeiter, that of other countries is not alone because The passenger, not much pleased at The Alpena mills will close in less than a horses ran away. The team ran into a bas been captured at Oakland ccunty, Irdi- the war was colossal, having enrolled this interruption, repeated his direc­ that what ’s cured thousands fortnight. shop window, shattering the glass, throw-' ana. nearly two and a quarter millions of men tions. aud then again addressed himself won ’t cure you. You ’d be ­ ing out the occupants and injuring them on one side, but because tho country they Coldwntor ’s first savings bank will go President Harrison and wife received to sleep. He slept until a few minutes severely. One of the horses had to be saved being a republic each individual of lieve in patent medicines if into operation this week. the officers of the Brazilian squadron Fri­ of the arrival of the train at the point killed. that vast army hud a recognized claim to day night. where lxe was to stout when he fortu­ they didn ’t profess to care The new Methodist church at Howell It now transpires that about 6,267,000 to the aid of the nation. In other lands nately awoke. Looking at his watch will be dedicated December 21. feet of lumber was burned in the Che ­ Dillon and O’Brien spoke at Cleveland officers get much and men little; here the he discovered that he had barely time everything — and so, between boygan fire, only one-half the amount first Monday night, and raised $3,000 for the large bulk of pensions goes to the rank and to get dressed, ansi he scrambled into the experiments of doctors, Judge John T. Holmes of Grand Rapids Irish fund. file, and the immense numbers of these i6 dangerously ill with pneumonia. reported. Tho losers will bring suit his clothes with a celerity which saved and the experiments of patent against the propeller Minnie M., as they A1 Camden resisted arrest at Rowland, and their dependents swell the pension him frotm missing his station, all the Bay City building improvements the last claim a spark from the smokestack set the Ky., Sunday night and Marshal Tom list to proportions commensurate with tho time saying to himself tilings concern­ medicines that are sold only year amount to nearly $1,500,000. fire, and the boat had no spark-arrester, as Martin shot him dead. size of the army and the democracy of our ing the porter which were by no nican9 required by law. These 3uits for damage principles. because there ’s money in the It is said that Capt. James Brooks is to Two brothers named Weller were complimentary to that individual. will aggregate $100,000. At tho close of tho fiscal year 1890 there “ stuff, ” you lose faith in every- be tho next postmaster at Benton Harbor. drowned while skatiDg oh a pond near were 537,944 pensioners borne upon the As the train drew into the station, Troy, N. Y., Monday. whore ft made a stopof only a moment, thing. L. J. Partridge.an old citizen of Alpena, Dr. Austin Scott, son of the well known rolls, as follows: the gentleman harried out of the car. has been sentenced to six years in Ionia for Ann Arbor pomologist, J. Austin Scott, The police census of Brooklyn shows a Army invalid pensioners ...... 392,1*09 and as ho did so ho passed the porter And, you can ’t always tell felonious assault. has just been elected president of Rut­ population of 855,945, against 808,000 that Army widows, minor children and sound asleep on> a seat in the smoking- the prescription that cures by ger’s college, New Brunswick. N. J. He the Porter census gave. dependent relatives...... 104.430 Complete returns for Michigan show a graduated in Yale in '69, took his M. A. Navy Invalid pensioners ...... 5,274 room. With a poke o>! his valise tho what you. read, in the papers. population of 2,089,792, or an increase of degree in the Michigan university in 1870, Dr. F. Nodine of Cleveland, O., died of Navy widows, minor children and passenger awakened him. 452,855 over 1890. taught modern languages two years at the consumption on the steamer Ca Bourgogne dependent relatives...... 2,400 *'I say.” he demanded, why didn’t So, perhaps*, there ’s no better on the trip from Havre. Survivors of the war of 1812 ...... 413 you call me as I told you to? I came .Tire thirteenth unnual convention of the U. of M., spent six years with George Widows of soldiers of the war of 1812 8,610 way to sell a remedy, than to Michigan Sunday-schools will be hold at Bancroft assisting him in his historical Mrs. Chas. Wykoff of ML .Etna, Ind., Survivors of the Mexican war...... 17,158 very near sleeping over.” tell the truth about it* and Lansing this weok. work, and for seven years has been pro ­ has a baby two weeks old that weighs but Widowsof soldiers of Mexican wur.. 6,764 The porter drew himself up with fessor of history and constitutional law in one and one-half pounds. sleepy dignity, suppressing a yawn, take the. risk of its doing just J. J. Deadmnn has been appointed post ­ Rutger's. Total...... 537.044 and rubbing his eyes open. Dr. A. M. Turner of Falkville, Ala., what it professes to do. master at Mud I .like, Alcona county, vice There were 66,637 original claims al­ “On di8 car,” he returned with tho D. Lyman, resigned. The row in Trinity church. Grand while insane Sunday night choked his wife Rapids, is likely to split the western Mich ­ and little daughter to death. lowed during the year, being 14,716 more air of ooe who ha» been grossly in­ That ’s what the World ’s original cluims than were allowed during sulted. “ilar a n’t uone of the passen­ Maun G. Parmcnter of Benton Harbor igan diocese of the Episcopal churches. Alexander McGregor, a young Scotch ­ Dispensary Medical Associa­ was accidentally shot while huuting last Bishop Gillespie has been dragged into the fiscal year 1889, and 6,885 more than gers ’lowed to wake up the porter, an’ man, blew out his brains at Chicago Friduy were allowed during the fiscal year 18^. you’ll liaive to wait till dis individual tion, of Buffalo, N. Y^, does weok. He may recover. the scandal. Rev. Mr. Woodford, a because he was jilted by a girt. former pastor of the church, denounced The Commissioner of Pensions estimates wakes up> of lilmticlf before you can with The Grand Rapids stroot car truck com­ Rev. Mr. Johnson two weeks ago when he A large steamer is reported to have there were on July 1 last 1,246,089 surviv­ get answered.” pany have an order from Galveston, Tex., was about to be confirmed us rector. The capsized and foundered off Dungcncss ors of the civil war, and that about 106.000 Willi perfect coolness lie laid hi ea­ Dr. Pierce’s for twenty of their patent trucks. bishop refused to consider the protest on Sunday night. No trace of the steamer of these ax -© now «2 years of age and up ­ sel f down, again, and the passenger Gold*2n Medical Discovery, has been found. wards. The estimate for army and navy The Kvurt farmers have shipped 30,000 the ground that it should havo been made hurried out of the-car without waiting earlier, but Woodford claims that ho had pensions lor 1892 is $133,000,000. Tho to continue the convarsntton. Favorite Prescription, bushels of potatoes this year and have but Willie Millard and Fred Falty. boys number of persons omployed in tho bureau made the protest jiersonallv to Bishop under nine years of age, were killed at Pleasant Pellets, and about 15,000 bushels left in the town. of pensions is 5,906. Usee- «!’ Paper in Japan. Gillespie. Atlantic, la, Friday, by the caving in of a Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy. ionia is just humping itself to secure tho Under the heud of the Census the report Jacob T. Timpe of Oneida has produced sand bank. states that the country wai divided into In Japan, as i» well known, it has Capital v. agon works and appcarauces indi ­ long been customary to manufacture a If they don ’t do what their cate that success may crown its efforts. three new varieties of potatoes, one of John G. Morse, a highly respected young 175 supervisors' districts, and that great which, he claims, beats anything ever pro ­ man of St. Louis, is iu Jail for defrauding care was exercisod in the selection of enu ­ multitude of articles, from overcoats makers say they ’ll do— you Secretary MJo Campbell and Gov. Luce duced at tho agricultural college. This the Jesse French piano company of that merators from both political parties. aud window panes to suing and pocket get your money back. have moved their household effects to Cold- variety, it is claimed, will produce at the city out of $16,000. He has confessed. handkerchiefs, out of paper, but the water and arc getting ready to settle down. rate of over 400 bushels to the acre. J. R. Senator Morgan of Alabama has spoken Canadian Imports and Exports. Japanese Government, not eoitent Potter of White Oak is in a fair way to William Smith was found guilty of horse strongly in favor of reciprocity between with these feats of national ingenuity, beat Dr. Kedzie of the college in raising Ottawa , OnL, Nov. 29. —The total value stealing in the Alpena circuit court Wed­ the United States and Canada with a is just now bestowing great alttention sugar lieets. From seeds grown iu Ger­ ot goods imported into Canada during the on tlie- paper industries, and t>xpL*ri- DROPSY nesday oud scut to Ionia for an indefinite settlement of all international differences. fiscal year ended June 30, last, was $121,- TKRmn FltHK. many he hail raised beets at tho rato of 22 menting with pith, old silk ragSv and lwilvct) I'nrtil iYllliV«»flBlilfK»mfdl»t time. Tho session of tobacco men at Clarks­ 858,241. Tho exports for the same* period Have cured thousand* "f Cure patients pro- tons per acre. Dr. Miles of Lansing, many kinds of vegetable substances, ■oomiert hopeless Uy Post phym-ian*. from tlmtilnae Treasurer-elect Braasted of Ishpcming formerly professor of agriculture at the ville, Tenn has decided to ask congress to amounted to $96,749,149. Of the imports with a view to other employments of }rniptonis(liMp[K'iir; In tun Jays at least two-thirds dropped iuto Lansing unannounced Wed­ repeal all laws so far as they impose a tax $40,522,810 were from the United. St’atos, all avinpt.m* removed. Send lor free booh te-lim • agricultural college, is not sanguine that paper in tho arts. Mr. Liberty, in his Dials of mlrarulona cures. Ton days' treatment nesday and looked over the institution over sugar beet raising can be made successful on leaf tobacco or a license upon the pur ­ while that country received $53,391,973 free by mm! If o-i order trial, semi 19c. In stamps chase or sale of it. worth of goods from Canada. recent paper lead before the Society ol ho pay poMsgu Dm II.II.OHr.BS A soxs.Atlsnta.ua. which ho is to presido. in Michigan. Arts, described a visit that lie made to li you order t-tal return this advertisement to us. The barn of William Hunter, one-half Rumored that Claus Spreckles, tho sugar the Goverment paper factory at Shiebu- mile north of Parma, was burned last The Owashtinong club of Grand Rapids David Gowcnlock, tho oasdbier who king, has come to an understanding with wrecked the bank of Cowling, Gowenlock Ogi, where he watched hundreds of Wednesday night with 30 tons of hay and have made it u habit for years to supply the sugar trust. He has advanced prices intelligent little Japanese girls and straw. No insurance. Thanksgiving dinners to the poor and last Si Co., at ML Carmel, Ill., has not yet on all grades of his sugar to correspond been located. He took between $20,000 women preparing the “mitsumata.” or Thursday eclipsed all previous efforts by with those of the trust. bark of the famous “paper mulberry TO DEALERS The total Valuation of Alpena county is $30,000. their dinner to the newsboys and boot- tree.” aud arranging the snowy layers ! TV* have the I.:u-«est Stock nnd Finest but- $4,662,706, yot $114,379.29 must 'lie It is said that a mountain of mica has .Assortment In the State of blAcks. The club raised $1,200 for the Mrs. James A. Jarukos. daughter of raised this year by taxation to pay fixed been discovered up the North Thompson of pulp on the rectangular straining charges and incidentals. dinner and presents and the msthetic young Judge Randolph Manning (lato of the su­ sieves. Toughness ami a silk-like sur­ HOLIDAY GOODS club members delivered tho presents them ­ river iu British Columbia. Tho indica ­ premo court of Michigan) and wife of a tions ore that the mica is of a very fine face aro the usual characteristics ol OAMKS. J. C. Bontieon of Petoskey has been ap ­ selves. Just 460 urchins s it down to tho prominent citizen of Pontiac, died in that Japanese paper, which, in spite of our CIIBISTMAS C A It 1)8. pointed assistant inspector general for tables and ate their fill of Thanksgiving quality and almost unlimited in quantity. city the other day of paralysis. HOOKS OK A 1.1. KINDS, Michigan ou the staff of Gen. Vcazoy, recent progress in this department ol riioToi.it a rit a i.hums , cheer with Mayor Uhl, Congressman Ford, While David W. Gerry and Nelson B. Fire destroyed the most valuable part of FLUSH AND FANCY (1001)11, commander of the G. A. 1J. the arts, still remains far superior to William Alden Smith. Senator Doran and Call were wrestling iu Boston recently the Bellaire (Ohio) stamping works Katur- European paper.—London Daily News, FORKION ami DOMKSTIC STATIONKRT Company C, M. B. T.. of Gr ind R ’pids, club President Chuuneoy as waiters. Gerry had a lead pencil, which ho carried day evening. lx>ss, $100,000. The heavy At Lowont. Wholesale Prion*. wauts a new armory mid has appointed a When these dignitaries finished waiting on in his vost pocket, drivon four Inches into loss was in the machinery for stamping, the tables they laid aside their white Tho Royal library of Berliu coutains THE DETROIT NEWS COMPANY^ committee to dev;sc raeur.s to get it. Gen. his neck, producing an injury which re­ nickeling a',1 silvering ware and the ruw 97,974 bouud buuli*. 1 Cor. Lamed an* Wayne Bt»., DETROIT. Inn-2 betrki that committee. aprons r.r.J ma ’c speeches to the boy*. sulted iu his death. ux-tcrai. CLINTON INDPENDENT, THURSDAY, DEC 4, 1890,

If My Wife Taught School. laud of promise—the rich, corn-grow­ were kind hearts among tho boys In effect "taking tho shine out of him ” alto ­ T eus—for me—not for you," Binding, ing valleys of Pennsylvania. blue, and they took the body of the “THE DUQHESS.” gether, as they say down here. As though to place temptation beyond his If I had a wife *at taught school I would go Gettysburg came, and tho Army of dead mother across to New Castle, aud Is she a spirit, or au hup, or a girl? Was reach, he seizes upon his hitherto discar dad To far away countries. I'd tl»u from Uio Po Virginia, rudely awakened from its there in the old church yard reveren­ there ever so light-footed a creature, or one hat, aud with quite a heroic air orushee IE In a gay gondoltor atul the plash o ’ my oar CHAPTER IV.—Continukd . so sure of her stroke? And was there ever down upon his head, lo! even to his brow, would lie board by tlio natives arouud Uuga victorious security, was hurled back tially laid it to rest. across Maryland and into Virginia Rogers managed to escape detection one who at the end of a set (won literally off "Oh, you needn ’t lecture me about it* ’* If my wife taught school again by the military genius of Meade. for the few weeks remaining before the her own bat) could look so cool, so lovely, says the Duchess, with a little offended I would, wouldn't you? In the carnage of the first day tho older close of the war. After the surrender The squire called attention to the ex ­ so little triumphant? glance from under her long lashes; "and Kr wouldn't yuh? "You ’re a swindle! ” says Denis, who is you needn ’t put on your hat like that. I Kuny way what would you do? brother was killed. The younger, he was liberated and returned to Ala­ cellent shooting and the rure sport they would have at Christmas time. as hot as she is cool, as crimson as she is am not going to touch you. I don ’t wand while retreating with bis decimated bama. There he lives aud there I met pale. "You are,” changing his tune, "a to stick straws in your hair, believe me. I If I had a wife 'at taught school I would get "I tell you, ” warming to his su.ject, Something flue lu the shape of & furniture regiment from au unsuccessful charge, him. He told me this story, and I marvellous creature 1” He says this in a was merely doing it to please you because set: "the snipe swarm there like bees. Why, was taken prisouer. In company with repeat it because it comes so near panting tone, from where he has flung him ­ Otho says—” | If I could pay my board and sho could pay there was one winter here— was it last severul other Alabama soldiers, young home. It interested me and I think it self exhausted on the grass. It Ls no joke, her'n; winter, now? ” meditatively, "Norah, ‘‘Oh! confouhd Otho! ” interposes her There's a good many nice little tilings i could Rogers, even theu a mere boy, was will you.—Philadelphia News. you see, playing a single guraeou a hot da}’ what winter was it that the snipe were so cousin, impulsively; and a second later is earn. brought to Philadelphia, and from in July. "Why don ’t you look surprised? ” If my wife taught school, plentiful round here? ” covered with confusion. What in Heaven ’s STARTING A PIPE LINE. be goes on. "You might, if only for gen ­ I would, wouldn't you? there sent to Fort Delaware as a pris­ "It was five winters ago,” says the name is the matter with him this morning? Er wouldn't yuh? erosity ’s sake. Why don ’t you jeer at me? oner of war. There he remained un­ Exciting Phenomena Attending; the Tfew Duchess, with a little nod. What must she think of him? The enormity Anyway what would you do? Plan for the Trnnnportatlon of OU. Are you not proud of yourself?” til tho surrender of Lee at Appomattox "Five? Was it now? Well, there ’s noth ­ of his misdemeanor is clear to him; but it. is “Well, no, ” says the Duchess, mildly. If my wife taught school you can hot I would Court House. ing so deceiving os time! Anyhow, ” turn ­ not so clear as to how he shall apologize tor fly The sad news of the battle of Gettys­ When the first pipe line was started "To tell you the trnth, I generally beat it; how explain away his unreasonable Llko a condor, I'd roost pretty middlin' high: ■ in its work of conveying oil from the ing again to Denis, "whatever winter it, was everybody! ” burg was slow in reaching the little they were as thick as peas, and so tame you burst of irritation about what has, or at ail 1 d wear a silk tile uud own hosscs, I vow. Denis, as if amused by this naive remark, And do lots o' things that I ain ’t doin' now. vicinity of tho wells in Pennsylvania could sweep them them off the hall door events should have, no element of annoy ­ home by Monte Sano, hut when it did which is rich in truth, gives way to sudden If my wife taught school, , come it broke the spirit of "Colonel” to the seaboard some peculiar phenom­ steps in the morning! ” ance about it? Whilst stricken with re­ 1 would, wouldn't you? ena were noted. The prospect that laughter. morse hq is casting about him for some de­ Er wouldn't yuh? John and turned still whiter tho head This astounding announcement is given Anyway what would you do? of the sweet-faced mother; for it was oil may soon be transported in a sim­ without a blush. ♦ Denis, who is delighted "You ’ll bring them down a peg or two at cent excuse to offer for his conduct the ilar manner to Denver, not oniy from with it, and the tel(pr of it, laughs out the Castle, ” he inadvertently. Then — Duchess, striking boldly into the situation, If my wlfo taught school like some women do said that in the battle both boys had Morrison, hut also from tho Florence loud. “Don ’t sit so away from me over there; makes an end of it. And I could earn quite enough for us two. fallen under the shower of l'ederal you might as t>e in the next county. "You are cross,” she says calmly, re­ I’d go In the barnyurd. without any fuss, halls. It was not long before there oil fields, will add interest to the "Ah! you may laugh if you like; but wo 1 would blow out my bralue with a big blun- recital of these phenomena. The story know, don ’t we, Norah? ” giving his Come over hefq and enjoy with me the garding him with a judicial eye. "You Herb u 88. was a "burying” from the house in the shade of this hospitable tree. I’d go to are indeed, ” with severe meaning, "ex ­ If my wife taught school, is told by John Ward, one of tho daughter ’s ear a loving pinch. Norah re­ cove, and the body of "Colonel” Johu mains discreetly silent. you, only you have knocked me up so com­ tremely queer altogether. Do you thinlc 1 would, wouldn ’t you? was laid to rest among the pines he watchmen on duty along the new pipe pletely. ” Er wouldn ’t yuh? liue. He was cautioned to watch a “She doesn ’t,” says Denis mischievously, tho sun is too hot for you, or the flies too Anyway what would you do? loved so well. looking at her with such persistency that "Poor thing! ” says tho Duchess, with troublesome? If you think you are going ______—Bow Huckley. certain hollow where the pipe, coining And the mother? Sho too would ! he gains his point and compels those sweet, deep compassion. She comes to him at to have a sunstroke or—or anything of gladly have died, but nature was too over one eminence, passed down once and slips down on the gross beside that sort, I should bo glad if you would through it and up over a mountain to expressive eyes to seek his own. strong. The time came, moreover, "What! Duchess! Turning traitor?” cries him, and generously pulls out a corner of give me timely warning. ” It is evident JOE ROGER'S MOTHER. when sho was glad that death had the eastward. the sqntre, catching her hand and pulling her gown that ho may rest his head up ­ that she is rather disgusted with him. spared her, for there came to her from Hq tells how ho heard the oil gur­ her forward. "Why, don ’t you know yet, on it. "I fling myself upon your grace’s If you have never been in the valley far away Fort Delaware a letter from gling past, and as all seemed safe he after all I’ve taught you, that when your "Who thought you to play tennis in that mercy,” returned he with a smile that is of the Tennessee—I mean that part of her surviving boy. telling of the older followed the line two miles before father tells a terra-diddle it is your duty to masterly style?” he asks, when ho has set­ very imploring in spite of the lightness o£ the famous valley that stretches south- turning back into this hollow. Ho back him up! Alas! the hours I've wasted tled himself comfortably, and as close to his tone. "If you will behove me I don ’t brother’s death and the youuger one’s her as circumstances will permit. “I westward from the great Sand Mount­ imprisonment. She read the letter says: on your education! You must excuse her, know what is the matter with me. ” This ain to the picturesque table lands of "Imagine my astonishment when I sir,” turning to Denis with an irresistible thought you told me you had no neigh ­ is strictly true. "I have, I suppose, a many times, nnd as tho tears rolled bors? ’ ’ wretched temper, and I lost it, and —” Mount Sano—you have missed a scene down her sunken cheeks she fell on saw the place I had left a short time air of . "She is still sadly deficient fairest of all in that country of fair in many littlo ways!” "What a melancholy thought! We are "And a very good thing, too, ” cries she, her knees and thanked God that oue before so tame now hissing at ten not quite so destitute as all that. I think scenes. I will not attempt to describe thousand points. Jets of oil were fly­ gayly. "If it is so wretched as you say son at least had been spared to her. A what I said to you was, that there were no you may be congratulated on your loss; it. I can not do it justice. No one ing twenty feet high and hundreds of CHAPTER V. young men here; but there are plenty of can. It is the paradise of North Ala­ sudden resolution possessed her. She barrels were flowing down Hiner’s There, don ’t look so miserable. I forgive would leave tho little home in the cove “And grace that won who saw to wish her girls. That, ” with a little laugh, "is bad you. ” bama, and in the heart of that far Run, never to 9ee a market. stay.” enough, isn ’t it, without adding to it?” "It is more than I deserve then. By and Southern district, devastated by war, and go away to the North. She would "I thought the pipe was gone np. go to Fort Delaware, and they would Last night some rain had fallen, short "I don ’t think girls could teach you to by, ” taking the little hand he hail so rudely and yet, thanks to its protecting bul­ sure. At first I was afraid to approach and youthful 6howers, leaving small ruin in play as you do.” repulsed and tenderly smoothing it, "you wark of mountains, its pleasant homes not refuse to let a mother see her son it, but soon grew valiant, and with a their track, and lending a deeper brilliancy "Well, there are some old men, too. Dad —even a "Confederate” mother. Once will remember me only as an ill-tempered and well tilled lands, escaped almost calking chisel I set to work to stop tho to brunch and bough and waving grasses, can take most balls, and the rector is no fellow who —” unscathed. she had looked upon his face again she leaks. I made poor headway; it was that all look the fresher for their midnight mean foe. And Lord Kilgarriff, when he "No! No, indeed! ” sweetly. "You Not many miles to the north is Look­ would have courage to wait for his a dark night and I dared have no light. bath. is at home, gives me lessons; but he is so must not think that. Shall I toll you some­ out Mountain and the battle-fields of release. I had taken off my coat, the whizzing "Green grow the ru .hes, O !" often away.” thing? ” bending down and looking at hinq Mission Ridge and Chickamauga. Fur­ Traveling was slow. Weeks passed oil carried away niv hat, and I very Merrily, blithely, skim tho swallows "Lord Kilgarriff,” turning lazily on his with such a lovely, earnest gaze. “I like ther to the south and west, on the same before sho was enabled to get through soon became drenched with oil. My through the velvet air! Coo! Coo! sigh the elbow to look at her; "who is he? Another you already—already, mind you —much great trunk liue that passes within the the opposing lines and into Washing­ pockets, my hair aud my eyes were wood doves from the dark entrances to the old neghbor? ” better than any one I have ever yet mot. shadow of the heights ou which Hooker ton. At last, dying from want, sorrow full, and if I was not then an oil man I plantations beyond; and through all and “The oldest wo have. I remember him Always excepting dad, of ecu'-so ” and fatigue, she stood in the command- j abova.it comes the swish-swish of the waves quite as long as I can remember anything. ” "What! Better than Kilgarriff?” ask* fought the "battle in the clouds,” is would like to know what constitutes (“Old fogy evidently, ” thinks the young that already famous young city of ant’s rooms at Fort Delaware with one. I at length grew sick, and sup­ as they break upon tho beach far down be ­ he, unable to refrain from this question. written permission to see and speak low. . man, with an unconscious pleasure in thus “A thousand times better! ” frankly. phenomenal growth, Decatur, and be- posed I would have to give up and all A heavy bunch of creamy roses, wet still thinking.) "Where is he now? ” aloud. "Though, indeed, ” with sudden contrition, 3’ond that tho new Sheffield and war- with the boy she loved so well. would be lost, and instead of an out- They tell* sad stories of Fort Dela­ with glistening rain drops, is flung by a “Abroad. Somewhere in Germany. I "you must understand that I am very fond scarred Corinth. pressure I could hear an in-drawing, a small but unerring hand at the casement of forget, tbe name of the town. There was a of Otho, too. ” But while this corner of the great ware in the South. They call it the professor of something or other there whom Libby Prison of the North. I don’t suction of air. Delaney's room. It is as yet early morn ­ Delaney, who is watching hor with cage* valley saw little of either blue coats or "I now realized the fact that the oil ing, and Denis, coming to the window in he wished to see.” eyes, sighs impatiently, Oh, that she were gray—except, perhaps, an occasional like to believe it. Neither do you. (“Musty old pedant beyond doubt, ’’de­ They say that after a certain engage­ had been climbing the up-grade, but answer to this perfumed command, stands a littlo less frank, a little more reserved. foragiug party that chance led away was how on the descent for Pine Bot­ revealed in his shirt sleeves, and armed cides Delaney, still carrying out that first He would that he could have seen soma from the railroad and into the gdrdeu ment the Northern generals accused tom Run. This caused a suction and with two brushes that have as yet hardly satisfactory train of thought.) "Book ­ faint hesitation in her tone, the lightest sus­ land between tho big hills—the valley the Confederates of outrageous cruelty, relieved the hollow at the springs. succeeded in reducing his hair to order. worm, I suppose, ” he says civilly, if su­ picion of a blnsh upon her pretty cheek. gave its best blood for the cause of the and in retaliation a score or more "I again waited some time, when I "Como out! Come out!” cries a fresh, perciliously. "That sort is generally a But there is none —nothing. Confederacy, and sons and brothers prisoners were taken from the fort and received word to hasten to Haneyville. sweet voice. "What! Not dressed yet? bore, don ’t you think? One can hardly And then once again comes the rush ot iguominiouslv hanged. Perhaps they Why, what do you think I have already fancy an old fellow devoted to his ‘Aldines, memory, and with it the new fear and thq left the cotton unpicked in the field to that the pipe was bursting. When I Bodonis, Elzevirs,’ wielding the frivolous join Bragg and his gathering hosts were mistaken, aud that there were arrived there the people were greatly done? I’ve been down to the beach. I angry self-contempt. better grounds for hanging than that. have had a swim. I have come back again racket. By the by, how old is he? Old Why should he wish her less frank! across the border line of Tennessee, or excited. The pipe was throbbing and enough to be your grandfather —eh? ” to follow the fortunes of Morgan or By some means a rumor had gaiued and am now regowned! Oh, what a lazy What should be hoped from any new-borq credence in the prisoner’s barracks wheezing at every pore. McClure boy you are!” "Well—hardly, perhaps, ” with a shyness? Has he forgotten honor, ©very, Stuart on their cavalry raids to tho Spring was nowhere. Tho oil was Indeed, it may all very well be true. So treacherous uncertainty of tone. "Let me thing, in two short days and part of q North. that something of the kind was to take place, while the impression prevailed spouting from the pipe for miles. I sweet a picture sho makes, looking ud at see. On his last birthday he was, I am third? It is all a mere touch of folly, q Buck from the Tennessee, in a cove knew from experience that the oil had him with her pretty head thrown back, and almost sure—” veritable midsummer madness. Ho will that special vengeance was to he meted "Ninety-nine?" protected from the northers bv the out to the soldiers of Alabama, because reached and was climbing another her face, fresh 03 the morning and as a fling the thought of it far from him. broad back of Monte Sano, a hardy high mountain, and the pressure was lily fair. "N—o. Twenty-five! ” But alas! alas! this is easier said tha* of alleged outrages committed by regi­ "What! ” says her cousin, sitting rnright mountain farmer had built a house of so great that 1 feared every moment "I’ll be out in a momeut,” says he, not done. ments from that state. Yonug Rogers and coloring warmly. Then, as though the uncut stone—a poor place at best, but the pipe would burst. without a thought of his present rather or ­ And in the silent watches of the sleepiest was not a coward, hut ho had no desire absurdity of his extreme astonishment a home for the sake of what was in it. “We all stood still and looked on. thodox costume; but such thought he allows night, when most things are laid bare t* to meet so unsoldiorly a death. With strikes him, he sinks back again into his It was not a typical Southern home, after a swift glance at her is a cruel waste us, he knows that at last fair love hat Suddenly’, as quick as thought, all former position and alters the expression of that inventive geuius which develops | of time. There is no mock modesty about caught him in its toils, and that for weoloi for the good wife and mother was motion ceased except a sucking in of his face. "I fancied him a modern Methu- so rapidly among those held in con­ her; no mausive hoyte anywhere. Is he not woe—nay, woe, for a certainty! —ho is * housekeeper, dairymaid aud gardener air. aud I heard the oil passing rapidly saleh. I scarcely know why, ” he says in ­ finement, the prisoners in Rogers’ her cousin, and is not a cousin a sort of slave for evermore. At the feet of her wh* all in one. while the two strapping along the pipe. I knew that it had differently. "A friend of my uncle ’s "gang” dug out the stonework and half-brother? but a few days ago was as nothing to him, boys, with their father, did the work crossed the last mountain aud that the rather than yours.” eurth under one of the banks, and thus "You should have been cut an hour ago. his heart hes wounded —stricken —hopeless; wkieh on other plantations fell to the oil line was an established fact.” "His father was dad’s greatest chum secured not only a comparatively safe The air then was delicious. Hurry now, task of the negro slaves. At the near­ down here. They were at college together hiding place for pilfered provisions, do, and put on your coat, and we’ll have a est store, at Maysville. old Johu Rogers Tho Coining Ocean Steamer. nnd when he died a yen.- ago dad fretted CHAPTER VI. but also for one or more of their num­ run before breakfast. Here,” flinging him was, with indiscriminate courtesy, after him very much. Otho is now tfie ‘My valor ls certainly going! it 13 sneaking ber when occasion demanded that tiiey Here is a very clever picture from a rosebud, "put that in your button-hole, dubbed "Colonel.” Why, he never 1 anft hurry, hurry, hurry! ” Earl.” "Hist! Norah! ” says tho squire, in t should keep under cover for a time. tho Pall Hall Gazette: She will be Otho! Somehow the word, so sweetly knew. Perhaps no one else did. Even Taere is scarcely need for such injunc- subdued tone, putting his head cautious!] The rumor that retaliatory measures over a quarter of a mile in length, and utterou, r-o plainly familiar, grates upon his before the war military titles were * tiou. Never in his life before did he hurry outside the door of his own favorite do* were in order struck consternation to will do the passage from Sandy Hook ear. popular in Dixie. Now they are all through his toilet in such frantic haste; and and beckoning her to come in, great mya many a brave heart, nnd when, for any to Liverpool in thirty-six hours, being "He is abroad, ” he says abruptly. "For colonels. So few privates escaped the presently he had his reward. Long, long tery in all his bearing. Drawing her in h* reason, a Federal orderly came to the one night out. She will be driven by long? ’ ’ war. years afterward he can recall to mind the closes the door carefully behind him and prisoners’ barracks and called the electricity and in such a fashion as to "No, he returns next week ” strange, wild, happy sense of utter enjoy ­ regards her with an anxious eye. "Among the negroes "Colonel” John keep railway time despite storm or fog. "How do you know? ” name of "Johnny Rob,” there was a ment that clung round that morning hour It is the next morning and there is muc^ wras looked upon with some disdain. "He told me so in his last letter,” replied general feeling of misgiving, and an Passage can he secured by flash spent with her, ere tho dew was lifted from sign of an embarrassed mind about th* A man who "worked” his farm with­ she, simply. effort made, when possible, to discover photo—Edison’s patent—and the ticket the flowers or the heart of the day was squire. He looks puzzled, "perplexed iq out a single black "boy” was not likely Silence follows this ordinary answer. for what purpose the prisoner was will include an opera stall or a concert j opened. the extreme, ” and his hair has taken that to win the respect of "the quarters” at ticket or a seat in a church pew. the Denis, lying hack with his hands clasped tho big plantations ou the river. Farm­ wanted before answering to his name. j Then comes breakfast —a merry meal—os pronounced stage generally caused by th* So that when one day the barracks opera house, concert hall and church behind nis hoad is, to all appearance, gaz­ running through it of nervous fingers. ers who worked were "poor-ah white neither the squire nor his daughter can re­ ing with rapt attention at the pale white were excited to a fever point by the being all on board. A covered ring frain from giving way to a spontaneous "He’ll stay the week!” he says at last, trash” in those days of easy indolence. clouds floating in the dazzling blue of the calling of a dozen names or more, and for horse exercise will be provided and gayety that affects one sympathetically, getting it out with rather a jerk. "Th* But “Colonel” John thrive’d for all sky overhead; and yet—and yet—what is whole week, to a moral. I told you how the name of "Joe Rogers” rang with a racing track for fast trotters. A and draws one into the swift current of its this curious tense of dissatisfaction, this that, and never a home in all the broad startling distinctness in the ears of base ball ground aud tennis courts will pwn sprightliness. And after breakfast ’twould be.” valley was happier in the little cove contraction of tbe heart, that is almost a A little thrill of pleasure rushes through that young Alabamian, lie did not wait also form a portion of the attractions. there is half an hour with tho squire, who pain? It is sharp enough at all events to insists upon his guest following him round Norah. under the shaaow of Monte Sano. to be seen, but hurriedly crawled into For business men a stock exchange rouse him to a clear understanding of hi* News travels slowly in the country. the "grub” hole and held his breath will be operated, the quotations being the extremely untidy farm yard and giving "Well! You aren ’t sorry, are you? ” sha own position, and with the rush of memory asks reproachfully. "Remember all you In those days few newspapers found for fear of discovery aud tho conse­ posted from the tickers every’ two his opinion upon this and that. And then comes back the knowledge that he of all their way into the Teunessee Valley of there is the Duchess to cope with for tho said about the duties of hospitality and quences that would follow. Three minutes, on the vibration system. The men has no right to feel anything but un ­ the —” Alabama, aud the first shock of war at rest of the delicious, lazy, sultry af tor noon, concern about the girl's affairs—this lovely times the orderly called. leading papers of all countries will lie i "You play tennis? ” asks Denis, idly, "Nonsense, now, Norah! What way I* Fort Sumter was too far away to affect child, who, whilst he is working out th« "Joe Rogers! Joe Rogers! Joe Rog­ reprinted each morning by the electric when they have sauntered through the old that to speak? Sorry is it? Why, it’s do» the tranquility of the people by the ers!” rang through the long corridor. reflection system. right and wrong of it all, is employing her lighted I am? I wish ho could stop a month, great river. Then came the frantic world garden, nnd gathered themselves in littlo idle brown fingers upon the adornment Then the prisoners crowded around, A spacious conservatory, containing a desultory fashion a very ideal bouquet. only — Why, I never met a nicer fellow-* of his head. call for troops by the government at and the orderly seemed to be unaware the choicest flowers of all climates, 1 "Yes! Oh! yos,” with a brightening never. Did you, now? ” Surely it is true that Montgomery, and the great valley was that Rogers had failed to answer to his will afford an agreeable louuging place, eye. "Never,” says Ncrah, sincerely. at last awakened to the horrors of war. and bouquets will be provided gratis. “Satan finds some mischief still for idle hands "’Tisn ’t that at all—but —but, Noddle* name. He went away, and ou the rec­ "Have you a court?” to do ’’ A reci'tiiting office was opened at ords it was written tiiat Joe Rogers As at Monaco and Monte Carlo, a suite The Duchess colors. kins, ” sinking his voice to a whisper, "da Huntsville, ten miles away, on the Through and through the few short hairs had been transferred—as even the of apartments will be laid out for play, "A—a sort of one, ” she confesses. "I—” that his barber has left him sho is threading you think they will hold out?” other side of Monte Sano, and hus­ officers thought—to lie hanged. to he kept open all night—a sumptuous hanging her bond, "I’m afraid it isn’t the pieces of gras-s, pulling them oat again and "What? ” startled. "The chickons— th* bands and fathers and sons left their A sad look came over the face of the supper with the costliest wines free. kind of one to which you have been ac­ re-arranging them as fancy dictates, care­ mutton? Even if they don ’t wo can get— homes and people went away to the commanding officer when the white- English tailors and shoemakers will be customed. ” lessly, dreamily. "Oh, bother take the chickons and th* war. The valley of the Tennessee was haired woman gave him the slip of in attendance, and clothes will be That this is probable n second's reflection Denis, with this new strange fear in his mutton, ” cries tho squire in a frenzied desolate. The negroes went flocking paper that to her meant so much. made and finished during the passage. assures Denis, but he refrains from saying heart, lifts his own hand and, taking hers tone. northward in search of the army of "Rogers is not here now,” he said The milliuery department will con­ so. "Who ’s thinking of them? ’Tisn ’t th* emancipation, aud the rottnu was left finally. tain theFrench fashions of the previous , "Lead on! ” he says instead, with a severe dinner that ’s troubling ine, Duchess —’til in the bolls to spoil. There came a glaace. "You are evidently trying to tho clothes! ” Here he grows almost apo< She looked at him, dazed by the in­ day, and costumes will be confectoned sh'rk the contest and I am bent (I warn pletic in his endeavors to whisper and still time when even food was scarce, and telligence. while the ship isenrouteand delivered beef was worth its weight in the you) on giving you a beating that will last give to his words the emphasis they deserve. "Not—here?” complete on arrival at dock. Accom­ your lifetime. ” "Oh, Norah, darling, last night I though! strange new scrip the Confederate "No; he lias been transferred.” modation will he furnished for 10.000 government had issued. "An! So!” cries tho Duchess, her Irish I’d have died in ’em. Specially the coat! "Whore?’ passengers. blood taking firo at once, forgetful of her I felt bursting !” "Colonel” John fared worse than "That ’s how you looked, too, ” says the ortion*d off by an let him go back to the castle, to madam, John was strangelv old wbeu they "My poor hoy!” slio sobbed. "I times, in order toassi n the lady passeu- extremeiy rustic railing from tho field lie- ! my own sister-in-law, and say I dinned Iq bade their boys good-by. loved you too. aud yet I was too late!" gers. Finally, when the car was just yond —a stubby field—yet but for the rail- J fustian? ” There are brave hearts here at homo The parched lips closed over the sail oomfortably filled, and the courteous ing it might have belonged —been part and "He wouldn't, ” says Norah, indignantly. who remember those sad farewells, grey eyes; thl* tired head fell forward; gentleman had taken his seat inside. parcel of the stubby Gold. In fact it was— "What do you take him for?” when the boys in blue went far away the nervous lingers relaxed their hold. Josh '”"Tngs, seeing au opportunity last month! "It might come out all the same, and ‘•Come.’’ said the officer kindly, for a joke, beckoned to the conductor, "It is horrid; you won ’t like to play on then we’d tea disgraced for life. But what to fight aud die ou these Southern I was thinking is this, ” regarding her anxi battlefields. There were the same sad "you must go now. I can not permit and pointing to the stranger, said, it!” says the poor little Duchess, plaintive ­ "Don’t you charge for every ride on ly, who had been enduring agonies of shame iously. "If 1 were to case them a bit, partings in many a Southern home. you to remain here.” Eh! To give a littlo snip to the stitching There was no answer. this car?” j on the way hither. Thare is indeed such n nnd the war left hundredsof decimated "Yos, sir.” answered he. I wealth of misery in her expression ns would under the arms, you know. It would bo q "I am waiting”—he began, and thon “don ’t you i.imt rtl” families in that fall* valley. "Weil. I’ve seen that fellow get or have made a worse inau swear he would great relief to me—and —and he ’d neve* he unused abruptly. Something strange plav in it or die. from his head, puls It away from him with see it. Eh, now? ” Months passed, and then years. this car six times, and you have col­ "Not for the world!” declares Norah,. in her nppmmtm-e startled him, and ho "Is that your plan of getting out of your a Spartan determination. OccasionalU* letters from the absent lected only one fare from him.”—har­ vehemently. "Cut one stitch and th<> stooped down and peored into her faoo. per's Magazine. beating? ” says Denis, scornfully, waving "Do you know, ” he Rays, sharply, with soldier boys came to the old folks in As he did so tears came into his eyes. a gather forced smile, "that —that the effect whole thing w 11 go. Why, dad, think ot the eove. but they were few and very his racket on high. "If so it’s a vain one, their age! They were made before I wag Tho sweet-faced mother would never Walldorrand tbe Alton. my good child; you'll get it in spite of all of your fingers going in and In liko that —is far between. They had gone north sue the valley of the Tennessee agaiu. —is maddening? ” born. They must be twenty years old at and enlisted in the Army of Virginia. your efforts to the contrary. Come, let’i least. ” She wns dead. The littlo town of Walldorf, near begin. I thirst for the fray!” "Don't you like it?” asks she, genuine They had Imm»u at Ball Run, and had surprise in her tone. She stoops over him "Thirty, my love, I think, ” says thi^ been on tiie Peninsula in the checker­ Nows flies in jails a« it flies else­ Heidelberg, where John Jacob Astor, If this indeed be the trulh his thirst ts where. In his hiding-place that night considerably quenched after the first and gazes into hG half averted face as if to poor squire, with much dojection. It ls % board ojwratiou* of McClellan’s cam- tho first, was born, has received, ac­ assure herself that he really can mean it. great blow to him that that "snip ” baa bee:* young Rogers was told tho story of his cording to the German papers, 60,000 draught. Tho ground may be bad —nay, it paign. The latest letter, sorihbled in I is inconceivably so; the balls abominable: "Why. Otho loves it1 Ho says it is sooth ­ forbidden. "And you really think I ccultln ’4 pencil and wjitten in huste. and read mother’s death. Strong mnn though marks from William Walldorf Astor. ing as a cigarette.” ease them* It’s great agony, Norah. f he was. the shock was almost more The money is to he applied the Astor but the Duchess, nt all events, is an uncon ­ in that little home with aching yet querable foe. Now here, now there she "I am not Otho. It does not soothe me,” assure you, my dear, there was a moment than he could hear, and he grieved memorial in the memory of Mr. Astor’s says Denis, with that unnatural assumption lost night when I felt as if I was. going t<\ thankful hearts, told of good health bitterly at the thought that, eveu dead, father. William Walldorf Astor has darts, swift as a flash >f light, ing, taking and Confederate success. Side bv side his hardest halls ns though they were child'* of pleasantry. "So far from it that I be ­ sneeze. I’ll never forget it. ~ - he might not look upon her face, hut been elected an honorary citizen of the lieve a continual!' c of it would be danger- the profilers had fought, as yet unhurt. ! he was jflad for oue thing. There play to hor; giving Inm balls impossible —in [to hk coxTrxtJKn.} Now they were to go with Lee into the town* ______i 1

CLINTON INDEPENDENT. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4. 1890.

Washington Letter. OHITU* jiy. THE MOST COMPLETE LINE OE The Independent Harrison S. Nash wan born In Berkshire Co, . AT : STEPHENSON’S. Maes.. August 10.181,4. Ills father died when From Our Regular Correspondent. he (Harrison) wan ll years old. and he lived o W GEORGE S.CORBIT, Editor and Proprietor. Washington , D. O., Nov. 28, I860. with bis mother until 1836, when they moved CD Mr. Hairison, Speaker lieed, Rep­ to Huron Co., Ohio. In 1841 he married Eliza oq CO ct> re *T. JOHNS. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4. 1880. resentative McKinley and all the other McConnell. In 1853 he moved with his family FANCY GROCERIES p to Ingham county, Mich., and from there to GO ® P P3 republican advocates for a continuation tr a w The population of the United States, at the short session of Congress of the Lebanon township, this c-ounty, In 1867, where as taken by the last census, is 62,6212,250. he lived until his death, Nov. 24, 1890. In Central Michigan can be found at o radical programme begun at the last He enlisted December 10, 1882, In the 12th Q, « h * session are going through a panic just Michigan Infantry, Co. G., and was discharged ® P O® * Two thousand physicians from foreign P now. They fear that there will not be on account of disability, the following Sep ­ 3 I ■TJ countries are in Berlin,Germany, study­ tember. Mr. Nash has always been a good —s e-t- a republican quorum present in the Q co W w ing Dr. Koch’s consumption cure. House before Christinas, and that it neighbor. He leaves a wife and eight children The Mercantile Co.’s P f» who were greatly attached to him. He has for o GETTING THI-Th UN OE MATTERS. will be impossible to compel many of 5® o Ct* about five years been a great sufferer with o Pf The State Democrat, published at the republicans who have been defeated kidney trouble, and for two years, was nearly tr* OQ pi* Lansing, under date of November 27, to attend the sessiou regularly, and helpless. He was a Christian In belief and W without a republican quorum they practice and ambitiously longed for death to says: 02 a" § know that their game is blocked, as the end his protracted suffering. The remains P H.° Gov. Winans has been in town several were deposited in the Soule cemetery, Essex. days this week and has met a large democrats are fully determined that no Mrs. J. T. Lyon conducted tho funeral rer- II number of our citizens and has visited political apportionment shall be made, vlces ______C. N. Wo the state institutions located here, for unless it be done by republican votes Card cf Thanks. tzi o , the purpose of familiarizing himself entirely; and the same thing holds good Full line of Crosse & Blackwell's Celebrated Pickles p with their condition and necessities. We desire to express of r heartfelt thanks to Also the “Keystone” and “Bunker Hill” Brands, (best put up o o g There can be no doubt but what Gov. regarding the notorious subsidy ship­ our many friends wh(\so willingly assisted us CD In our time of 6udden and overwhelming be ­ in this Country.) Queen and Stuffed Olives, Mushrooms^ •S Winans will strive earnestly and persist­ ping bills. H CQ o ently to give the people an economical The democratic leaders have no de­ reavement, and especially to our kind friend, Pickled Lobsters. 0 to administration. Nor can there be any Mr. A. O. Hunt, who relieved our anxiety, and Full line of Durkee’s Goods, consisting of Baled Dressing, t-* 00 sire to see an extra session of Congress done every thing possible to aid us when our o o question whatever that he will recom­ Catsup, Mustard, Worchestershire Sauce, Celery, Pepper, etc. 0 ct- mend some legislation to meet the in the spring, and if there be one, which bleeding hearts were crushed with sorrow. O wants and desires of the people. Gov. now seems altogether probable, it will Such kind acts will ever be remembered and \r* ^ G u Winans recognizes the fact that the be the fault of the republicans. The appreciated. W ^80 ° o P3 democratic party must be the architect MU. N. H. BAKER AND FAMILY. S SO 0 democrats are ready and willing to aid FRESH COLUMBIA SALMON, 0 0 of its own future, and that it must de­ MRS. WM. KEARNEY. r ^ n* o' serve success to win it. He is a gentle­ in passing the regular appropriation (Direct from the Packers.) Q P p >—< o' .— man of great common sense, is thor­ bills for the support of the Government, A Rare Combination Offer. “ CD CD CD oughly patriotic, and will give the state ►-3 an administration to be remembered but they propose resisting to the last The American Stockman and Farmer, CO many years. extremity any attempt to pass political M New York World, or Detroit Free Press 02 o o o legislation. and The C linton Independent , one FAHCY CANNED GOODS, HEADY TO ECONOMIZE. It is especially pleasing to the demo­ year for $2.85. The regular price of The House committee on appropri­ crats to learn that it has been decided by bosses Reed, McKinley, and Cannon, which is $4. Such as Cove Oysters, Fresh Lobsters, and all AT : STEPHENSON’S. ations is beginning work already in whose control of the House committee preparation for next session. It has on rules makes them absolute dictators Catarrh Cured by Electricity. kinds of Fruits and Berries. already notified several of the most im­ of the business to come before thellouse, Catarrh can be easily, quickly, pleas­ portant bureaus, where appropriations that the tariff law shall not be modi­ antly and lastingly cured by the Elec­ TOM PAOLEY, fied or amended at this session. It was tric Jar. It clears the head, sweetens for special objects are required in ad­ feared that the republicans would be The Leading Dealer in dition to the mere routine of appropri­ sensible enough at the coming session the breath, and cures Catarrli in all its Weidmer’s Soup Tablets [best in the world]. ations for running the office machinery, to get back the votes they lost, by re­ stages. The Jar will cure the worst vising the objectionable features, and nervous Headache in from one to three Buckwheat Flour and Maple Syrup. Harness, that they must divide their demands there are few who are not objectionable and estimates into three classes, and of the new tariff law, in a business man­ minutes. No waiting for results ; this Absolutely Pure Spices. mark them respectively “desireable,” ner. Rut they have been elected to stand novel and true curative shows its won­ Robes and Blankets, “urgent,” and “indispensable.” It is or fall bv the new law, which makes derful power instantly, and gives uni­ their fall certain when the people again versal satisfaction, as cures by Nature’s probable that only the “indispensable” their whack at them in 1892. appropriations will be allowed to pass A semi-official announcement has Remedy are permanent. If you want Cheap Spices cal! for Them Whips, Etc. the Committee, several of w’hose repub­ been made by Mr. McKinley that no sil­ Catarrh, a common and dangerous Js in receipt of a fine line of malady, when chronic, is liable to con­ lican members are feeling sore over the ver or other financial legislation would be passed this winter. The cry of the sume the frontal bones of the skull, charge made iu some quarters that the agriculturist, voiced by the heavy vote destroy the cartilages of the nose, and FALL AND WINTER GOODS AT extravagance of appropriations last of the Farmers’ Alliance, for financial undermine and blight every function All Sugar one-half cent per pound lower. session was one of the causes of the relief is to be ignored until tne demo­ and faculty of its victim. The breath Headquarters for Staple Groceries. cratic House comes in. Secretary Win- is offensive, the memory, the reasoning republican defeat. dom will, l am infqrmed, propose in his powers, sight, hearing, and the senses Wood bought and sold. Rock Bottom Prices. annual report % relief in the shape of of taste and smell are impared ; the di­ MUST HE SETTLED RIGHT. H and 2 per cent bonds to be issued by gestive and assimilative functions be­ The state republican organ deplores the Government, to be convertible into come disordered, and Consumption en­ Every article the great democratic triumph in the cash upon demand of the holder—this sues. The $1 Electric Jar will eradi­ idea is borrowed from the old greenback cate Catarrh and prevent these evils. Warranted as Represented. late elections because of “the terrible party—but of course it will require Con- A fortune for agents. For catalogue of calamity of a reopening of the tariff ressional legislation before they could all kinds of Electric Goods, address question” which it involves. e issued, and if Mr. McKinley spoke Fletcher & Fletcher , Cleveland, O. Special Jobe of Who began the reopening? Why bv the card, and the presumption is, DRY GOODS and CLOAKS that he did. Mr. Windom's recommen­ Pronounced Ilopeleaa, Vet Saved. New Work and Repairing were not the republican leaders and dation will be good for nothing. At prices that will satisfy everybody. From a letter written by Mrs. Ada E. Will receive prompt and careful attention. their Protectionist purse-fillers satisfied Ex-Representative Warner, who was Ilurd of Groton, S. D., we quote: “Was with a 45 per cent, tariff? The idea here all last session as an advocate of taken with a bad cold which settled on silver legislation, says the silver men that they could close the question by my Lungs, cough set in and finally All work done by experienced and careful will submit three propositions to Con­ terminated in Consumption. Four raising the average tax on dutiable gress; first, free coinage limited to silver hands. goods to 60 per cent, has not been doctors gave me up, sa3'ing I could not produced in this country until France live but a short time. I gave myself equalled in blind fatuity since the old and Germany shall buy American sil­ up to my Savior, determined if I could COME AND SEE ME slave oligarchs thought that they had ver; third, the coinage of about $20,- DRESS GOODS 000,000 to equal the amount of national not staywith my friends on earth, I At the Old Stand. settled the slavery question by repeal­ bank notes letired during the last year would meet my absent ones above. My That will please the most fastidious. ing the Missouri compromise and enact­ —and that they will leave no stone un­ husband was advised to get Dr. King’s ing the fugitive slave law. turned to get one of them passed. New Discovery for Consumption, .JACKSON’S (Jougbs and Colds. I gave it a trial, Now, as then, it is true that “un­ Either of them could be passed if a vote could be had upon them, but how the took eight bottles; it has cured me and Our Stock of Blankets, Quilts, Batting, Underwear and Ladies’ settled questions have no pity for the House can pass a bill which the com­ I thank God I am now a well and hearty and Gents ’ Hosiery and Gloves is now oomplete. THE FALL OIP 1H110 repose of nations” and that no question mittee on Rules refuses to allow it to woman.” Trial bottle free at Fildew & is settled until it is settled right. consider, I cannot see. Millman’s Drug Store, regular size, 50c. Have you seen the new things in Trimming Silks. IS HERE. A.IVII The war and monopoly tariff must One has only to circulate among the and $ l 00. 4 leading democratic members of Con­ SO ARE THOSE come down to a just peace basis.— N. Y. gress now here,to discover what a brok­ Eupeptr. ELEGANT SUITINGS World. ______en reed the republicans are leaning upon This is what you ought to have, in in expecting that democratic mistakes fact, you hiust have it, to fully enjoy FOR THE SEASON CONGRESS AGAIN IN SESSION. in the next House are to give them an life. Thousands are searching for it The 51st Congress of the United States opportunity of winning in 1892. Pres­ daily, and mourning because they find Cloaks! Cloaks! Cloaks! AT re-assembled in Washington last Mon­ ent indications are that there will be it not. Thousands upon thousands of no democratic mistakes, at least not dollars are spent annually by our peo­ F. R. .JACKSON’S day. Since their adjournment in Septem­ serious ones. The democratic pro­ ple In the hope that they maj attain From the best to the yery lowest in price. We can show you the best ber last the party to which a majority of gramme will be first of all to give the this boon. And yet it may be had by assortment of 31E RCHAIV T------its members belonged has sustained, at people more money by providing for the all. We guarantee that Electric Bitters, ------TAILORING a popular election, the most crushing free coinage of silver, and to revise the if used according to directions and the defeat to which any party in this tariff in a way that will reduce the use persisted in, will bring you Good ESTABLISHMENT. prices of clothing and agricultural sup- Digestion and oust the demon Dyspep­ Seal Plush Garments country has ever been subjected, and it dies and implements, and at the same sia and install instrad Eupepsy. We At $15, $20, $22, $25 and #35, in the market. These are the same old is generally believed that this defeat ime give the farmer practical recipro­ recommend Electric Bitters for Dys­ prices. —No advance. Plush Jackets in all styles and SUPEUIJ STOCK was due directly to the character of the city by enlarging the market for the pepsia and all diseases of the Liver, sale of their supplies. No mistakes in Stomach and Kidneys. Sold at 50c.' at the right prices. OF CLOTH laws enacted by this Congress and the a programme of that sort is there ? The general tenor of its methods in its last and $1 per bottle by Fildew & Millman, FOII, LIGHT AND democrats propose to confine themselves Druggist. 4 session. to legislation tor the people, that is all HEAVY OVERCOATS classes and not for a few favored indi­ The great number of republicans in linemen ’* Arnica naive. viduals. JUST RECEIVED. the present congress will not be in the Nearly all of the gentlemen who have The best salve in the world for cuts, next. Their defeat has embittered announced themselves as candidates or bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever them and they may enact reckless who have been placed in nomination by sores,tetter, chapped hands, chilblains, THE FINEST measures that will cause much tempo­ their friends for the Speakership of the corns, and all skin eruptions, and posi­ next House are now here, and they are rary trouble to the South and the demo­ tively cures piles, or no pay required, PANTS -j- GOODS one and all greatly surprised to learn of it is guaranteed to give perfect satis­ cracy everywhere, but such action the bitter light each and every one of faction, or money refunded. Price 25 I IN THE MARKET. would rebound eventually to the disad­ them is making in the newspapers, for cents a bottle. For sale by Fildew vantage of their own party, and will be the coveted honor, and it is the source of no little amusement among them. & Milman. 998vl JACKSON’S opposed by the wisest republicans. Air. Harrison’s annual message to Partisan and arbitrary legislation by Congress will, according to a gentleman ASK YOUR GROCER this Congress will strengthen the demo­ who ought to know' whereof lie speaks, be confined to an appeal to the republi­ LIVERY cracy, and from a partisan standpoint cans to stand by protection as exempli­ —AND— that party might rejoice in it, but it is fied in the McKinley law, to pass an ap­ ---- FOR THE---- to be hoped, for the country at large, portionment bill, a Federal election bill that moderate and wise counsels may and the steamship subsidy bills, and not Boarding Stable to pass any silver legislation. prevail. FINE TURNOUTS OF ALL KINDS. Girls Who Make Poor Wives. BEET SUGAR FACTORIES IN THE WEST. Special attention given to Itiioiig Hones.First Elsie Roller Flour class outfits furnished for Commercial Men, I never see a petted, pampered girl We learn from a paper sent us by who is yielded to in every whim by ser­ Funerals, Pleasure Parties, Etc. Zelotus Avery, formerly a resident of vants and parents, that I do not sigh And take no other. this village, and now and for a number •^'Persons having Lame and Uisabled Horses with pity for the man who will some will find tho best of facilities for treatment at niy of years past a resident of Long Island, stables, M. C. LIVE8AY, Veternary Surgeon, in at­ day be her husband. It is the worshiped ^IRBANK&CO.’^ Mnucfi tendance. Stables 2d door West of The Htee Nebraska, that a new beet sugar factory daughter who lias been taught that North side. (1228) has recently lieen established there with her whims and wishes are supreme in a FltANK M llOt IKI.II Prop r. a capacity of 30 tons of sugar per day. household, who makes marriage a fail­ The success of this enterprise is not 38 POUNDS ure all her life. She has had her w'ay only an encouraging indication of the in things great and small; and when Straight Roller Flour in Exchange adaptability of the sugar beet she desired dresses, pleasures or jour­ for 80 Pounds of No. 1 Wheat. F. F. MURDOCK to the American soil and neys which were beyond the family climate, but will be most directly en­ -DRALER IN- purse, she carried the day with tears or couraging to the producers, the price sulks, or posing as a martyr. The par­ paid for the beets being guaged by the ents sacrificed and suffered for her sake, WE ARE SELLING Marble and Granite per cent, of sugar content; that is, a hoping finally to see her well married. certain price being set per ton of beets 2000 pounds Buckwheat Bran for 810. They carefully hide her faults from her showing a certain per cent, of sugar. 2000 “ Wheat Bran for • • 14 suitors who seek her hand, and she is Cut Stone The investers are so thoroughly satisfied ever ready with smiles and allurements 2000 “ Midllngs for • • • 18 with the results attained so far that -FOR----- to win the hearts of men, and the they have decided to build two more 2000 “ Ground Feed for ■ - 25 average man is as blind to the faults of similar factories. a pretty girl as a newly-hatched bird is The Agricultural Department at Washington is progressing rapidly with blind to the worms upon the trees about BUILDING PURPOSES its preparations for the establishment him. He thinks her little pettish ways A. SCHENCK &SON, are mere girlish ways; but when she of some beet sugar stations, one of ELSIE, MICH. Opposite tbePostofflce. which, it is thought, will lie established becomes his wife and reveals her selfish 1 in Nebraska, and probably in the and cruel nature he is grieved and hurt vicinity of Grand Island, where everyto think fate has been so unkind to him. hase of the beet sugar industry will Ee tested of the seed to the finale manu­ — Ella Wheeler Wilcox, in JMdies' Home Sty Remember that we will pay more for jrood facture of the sugar. Journal. wheat than any other dealer in the county. 1265 ST. JOHNS, MICH.

J There never has been a time in the history of the Shoe Business when evciything is sold so low as it is to-day. The celebrated Misha ­ waka Knit Boot is the Boot of the day, and 9old at a price that is 25 to 50 cents lower than ever before. Felt and Fur Boots from 40c to §11.00. The “McCabe Stock” of Boots are going fast at a price that gives everybody a bargain. Come at once . Yours Very Truly, ST.JOHNS MERCANTILE CO. CLINTON IJSDEPK1SIDE.NT, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1890. *

ADDITIONAL LOCAL. Real Estate. LEtiAL notices . The Independent, The following are the transactions in UNDERTAKING ! real estate in Clinton county for two KOI! ATI: OH OKK—Stale of Michlgau, BOARD Of TRUSTEES. County ofClintoD.M. AI. a session of ih«* Pro­ STEAM PU1NTIKU HOUSE. weeks, ending Nov. 26,1890; OUST Pbate Court for the County of Clinton, liolden at James M. DeWltt to Potter Manufacturing, the Probate office in the village of tst. John*, ou Saturday, the 1st da; of November, In the year Co., 49 acres see 30, Eagle, Si,500. one thousand eight hundred and ninety. Published every Thursday morn­ Regular Meeting . Dec. 1,1890. Edward Brown to Richard E Moore and wife, Prosent Joel H. Cranson, Judge oi Probate. In the matter of the estate of WALTER ing fromthe Independent Office, Meeting called to order by the president. lota 11 and 12, block 2, avenue addition, St S. W. INGRAHAM over Wheat Bros.’ Clothing McCRUMB, deceased, Store, No. 17 Clinton Ave. Present, J, D. Henderson, President. Trus­ Johns, f 176. For Everything in the Line of J. Warren Peake, administrator, with the will tees Fowler, Hamilton, Kniffin, Lee and annexed, of said estate, having presented to this Daniel Castle to John B Castle, lots 16 and 17 Court hi* final administration uocoimr. GEO 8. CORBIT. Proprietor. Waldron. block 1, Bassett'*; sub division, out lot 2, Ovid, Thereupon it Bordered,that Friday, the 28th The minutes of last special meeting read and day of November, A. D. 1890, at 10 o ’clock in Te ruaa.—One year (1 SO; Six inontn* 75 Cents; $eoo. approved. the forenoon be assigned for the examiuation and Three month* 40 Cent*. Advertising rate* made Charlotte A Vanderpool to Mary D Nourse, allowance of said aceouut at the Probate Office in known on application. Marriage and Death no* The following accounts were presented and the village of 8t. Johns. ticesfree. referred to the committee on claims: 10 acres see 21, Watertown, $1,000. Aud itlafurtherordered, that uotice be given to The Dowaglac Construction Co...... $ 744 88 Geo P Dudley to Addison S Rose, lots 6 and 7 the peraous iLterested in said estate, ol the time vacilitiks rom Dome md place of said bearing by canning a copy of H G Stanhope ...... 5° block 19 Ovid, $485. this order to be published in the Clinton I udepou- JOB PRINTING XV H Brunson, village aity's sal., 4 mos. 25 00 Albert L Butler to Lewis G McKnlght, lot 5, dent, a newspaper printed and circulated in said Geo Hulbert ...... M00 county of Clinton for three successive week* 0 mumasaed for style and cheapness . block 4, Emmonsville, $1,050. previous to said day of hearing. f • ...... J Doollng. salary for Nov ...... 15 00 Thomas C Butler to Lewis G McKnlght, lots JOEL B .CRANSON, Marshal ’s pay roll...... 106 16 Sand 4, block 4, Emmonsville, I&60. fAtruecopy.] Judgeot Probate. L A Kellogg, steward’s Balary, 5 mos.. . 50 00 Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee R’y Christopher Heintz to Wm Meadows, 20 acres FSqualr...... 6 00 ortgage hale .—Default having boon A Granger ...... ** sec 24, Bingham, $950. made in the conditions of a mortgage Taking Effect Oct. 12,1890. Emily Oeobock to Henry D Schlarf, 10 acres Mmade by Edgar I). Moss and Lydia M. Moss to Until further notice trains will leave St. Johns as P E Walsworth ...... 100 00 John Hicks, dated October 18th, 1884, and below, central standard time: CC Vaughan ...... 68 30 sec 31, Essex, $350. UHDEKTAKIKE GOODS recorded Oetolier 13, 1884, in this office of the GOING WEST. J D Henderson & Bro...... 106 47 Samuel H Parks to Frederick Myers, part of Register of Deeds for Clinton county, in tne Morning express ...... 10:56 a. m. , State of Michigan, In Liber Hi of 11101 tgages on Frank Bond ...... 8 75 lot 2, block 25, Fowler, $80 . Rubtier Shoe* unit-on worn uncomfortably Ugtat, CASKETS Mail for Grand Haven and Chicago ...... 3:06 p. m. generally Klip off the feet. page 497, on which mortgage there Is claimed Grand Rapids Express ...... 8:32 p. m. Nixon ti Co...... 23 02 Geo Waldron to Wm Atkinson, 200 acres sec Burial : Kobe's, : Crape, : Efc. to be due ut the date of tills notice the sum of Mixed for Grand Rapids only ...... 8:30 a. m. WE Hamilton ...... 2146 26, Bingham, $7,000. TIIE ‘ COLCHESTER” RUBBER CO. twenty five hundred and thirty-seven and Night Expiess ...... 3:58 a.m. nineteen one-hundredth dollars, and nosuit or J W Sage...... 1«60 Win Atkinson to Geo Waldron, 80 acres sec 14 make all their shoes with Inside of heel lined with I also carry a full line of the Celebrated P. and GOING EAST. Bingham. >5,000. rubber. This el I up* to the ahoe uud prevent* the W. Steel Top Caskets. proceeding at law or in equity having been Detroit Express ...... 8:28 a. in. A Harvey & Son ...... 13 67 rubber from slipping off. instituted to recover any part of the Mail for Detroit...... 12:17 p. m. H H Harris...... & 1° August Simon to Mathaias Simon, 80 acres secured by snid mortgage; therefore b** virtue Call for the •* Colchester" My Undertaking business is now exclusive of the power of sule in said inortg .ge con ­ Mixed for

HARRISON’S MESSAGE Industry lias already passed the experi ­ the last season, some other hills of the FATE COULD NOT HARM. The Toledo Weekly Blade, the most pop­ Clinton Independent. mental stage and is a commercial success. highest importunes wero well alvanced ular weekly newspaper of the Uuited States, The area over which the sugar boot can be toward a final vote and now stand upon The Failing of Security of a Man Whose Life Was Insured For HO. will in a tew weeks commence publication THE PRESIDENTS SUGGESTIONS successfully cultivated is very large, acd the calendars of the two houses in favortd G*o. S. Cokbit , Editor ard Proprietor. another field crop of great value Is offered positions. To some of these measures of a new serial story, now being written TO THE 61st CONGRESS. They are tearing down old houses all to the choice of the farmer. which seem to me most important I now over the city to make room for the especially for its columns by Oliver Optic. BT. JOHNS, MICHIGAN CIVIL SERVICE KEFOHM. briefly call your attention. more modern houses. While these Send postal card to Blade, Toledo, Ohio, The McKinley Bill and the Federal subsidies . The law relating to the civil service has, houses are being demolished there is for free specimen copy of the paper, and at Election Bill Favored. so far as I can learn, boeu executed by I desire to repeat with added urgency The foreman of one of the largest usually a class of people who crowd same time seud names of all your friends, barber shops in New York is author­ those having the power of appointment in tho recommendations contained in my lost arouud, eager to pick up all stray Statistics anil Ilevicws of Commerce the classified service with fidelity aud im­ annual message in relution to the developo- pieces of wood which come in their also. ity for the statement that more men partiality, and the service has been in ­ ment of American Btoamship lines. The part their hair in the middlo now than for the l'uat Year. . direction. Colored people generally Young married women have a peculiar creasingly satisfuctorv. The report of the reciprocity clause of the tariff bill will be predominate in this class, and many a ever before. The decrease of illiter­ commission shows a large amount of good largely limited and its benefits retarded charm for unmarried younsr men, and family is thus supplied with fuel. a young man ’s first love is almost acy is not necessarily a proof that the Wabuinotox , D.C., Dec. 1.—Tho second was done during the year with very and diminished if provision is not contem ­ limited appropriations. poraneously made to encourage the estab ­ While tearing down a house in the uniformly devoted to a woman older brains of the period are growing annual session of the LI congress was be ­ northwest section of the city recently than himself. IMPROVEMENT IN TRADE. lishment of first-class steam communica ­ stronger. Not by any means. gun at noon. Immediately after the call to the workmen were very much bothered There is nothing In the history of the The general trade and industrial condition tion between our ports and tho ports of order, a committee was appointed to notify by these “wood hustlors,” as they term race to prove that anything has ever throughout the country during the year such nations as may meet our overtures The aluminum age is apparently the president that congress was ready for for enlarged commercial exchanges. A them. been preserved or to virtue by a system have shown a marked improvement. For The “wood hustlers’’ in the case of essential falsehood, ur policy of inaugurated. Aluminum bronze of 10 business. The president ’s message was 1888 -the merchandise balances of foreign subsidy for the Australian line is especially per cent it is claimed, has a breaking recommended. were composed, with but one except­ arbitrary constraint. seat in response, and laid before both trade had been largely in .our favor, but ion, of small negroes. This exception strength of 310,000 pounds, as againBt during that year and the year following The bill for an international bunk, for There Is a very general Impression houses. After the introduction of new the relief of tho supreme court and for was an old negro who had one leg among men whose affections are not 80,000 pounds for steel; hence, when they turned ugainst us. It is very gratify­ congressmen into office, the message, of ing to know that the last fiscal year again tho raising of the salaries of district court shorter thau the other, and was nearly engaged that tho best women are mar­ the time comes, which cannot be far which the following is a summary, was shows a balance in our favor of over $68,- judges, for tho adjustment of thq Spanish beut double, but whether with age or ried, and that those who are left do not and Mexican laud grants, for a national not no one knew. He looked as if he amount to much. distant, for building bridges of alum­ read. 000,000. The bank of clearings, which furnishes business transacted for the first bankrupt law, for a uniform safety brake iiad worked hard ad his life, but ap­ A young woman who isafrlod of com­ inum or its alloy, we shall have a FOREIGN AFFAIRS. ten mouths of the year 1890, show, as com­ and coupler on all railroads to save the pearances are deceitful. promising hor position by recognizing structure about one-third the preseat The president opens his message by con ­ lives of 2,000 and the limbs of 20,000 weight and much stronger. pared with the same months of 1889, an The workmen became so incensed at men out of her set, or out of a certain gratulating tho departments on the honesty increase for the whole oouutry of 8.4 per young men killed or wounded annually, the "wood hustlers” that they drove lino of genteele occupations, shows by and efficiency with which they have con ­ cent-, while the increase outside of New for the water supply of arid regions, for them all away excepting the old man. how frail a tenure sho holds her own The attempt of Dr. Justin to make a ducted the public business, disbursing $400,- York wan over 13 per cent. During the the use of the telegraph in connection with After a while the old man became more respectability. —J. G. Holland. cannon that will successfully carry 000,000. He refers to the South American month of October the clearings of tho the postoffleo department should all be bold, and endangered himself in try­ dynamite shells may as well be und international marine conferences, to whole country showed un increase of 3.1 passed this coming session. ing to get pieces of wood. One of the tho republic of Brazil, and says ho has abandoned. Two guns have exploded per cent, over October, 1889, while outside FREE AND HONEST ELECTIONS. workmen spoke to him about it tolling Toledo Weekly Blade. callod Mr. Mizuer, minister to San Salva­ of New York the increase was 11’4 per in his experiments, and though such dor, from his post for his misconduct in the If any intelligent and loyal company of him he would be hurt if he persisted in cent- Tho figures show that the increase getting in the way. The old man 1891. precautions were taken as to prevent Burrundia affair. The Nicaragua canal is in the volume of business was very general American citizens wero required to cata­ logue the essential human conditions of mumbled out something but paid no any accidents, it is oertain that twenty progressing satisfactorily. The treaty of throughout the country. That this larger national life, I do not doubt that with ab ­ attention to the warning. successes would not now justify any Samoa is beginning to produce salutary business was being conducted upon a safe ONLY ONE DOLLAR. effects. It is hoped that a reciprocity ar­ solute unanimity they would begin with Finally he got close to the wall and one in firing such explosive material and profitable basis is shown by the fact rangement may be made with Spain in re­ that there were 300 less failures reported “froo and honest elections. ” And it is stooped to pick up a piece of a beam. gratifying to know that generally there is The most popular Weekly Newspaper In the as must be fired in time of battle. gard to CubuA commerce. Other foreign in October, 1890, than in tho same month Just as he'was stooping a brick fell in United States, the largest circulation, and the topics of less interest are discussed. of the preceding year, with liabilities a growing and non-partisan demand for front of him, and he narrowly escaped only strictly Weekly Newspaper that ever suc­ The better election laws. But against this sign beiug hit. Seeing this, a workman ceeded in oDtaluing and holding, year after year, shots fired at Annapolis to test RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES. diministuxl by about $5,000,000. a circulation lu every State and Territory (and The value of our exports of domestic of hope aud progress must bo set the de­ yelled. the various kinds of plate for naval Receipts from all sources for fiscal year, pressing and undeniable fact that election nearly every county) of the United States. Ail armor evidently wont booming around ending Juno 30, 1890, $463,963,080.55; merchandise during the last year was over • Look out, ole man, or you’ll be the news, better departments and more first-class laws and methods are sometimes cunningly killed.” entertaining and Instructive reading than In any the globe, and have already inspired a total expenditures, $358,618,584.52; sur­ $115,000,000 greater than the pre ­ other dollar paper published. ceding year, and was only exceeded once contrived to secure minority control, while “I doan’t kare,” replied the old man, plus, $108,344,496.03. For current fiscal violence completes the shortcomings of mammoth movement for the improve­ year partly estimated receipts, $406,000,- in our history. About $100,000,000 of this and he continued to confiscate all the Announcements. ment of Great Britain’s war ships. The excess was in agricultural products. Tho fraud. 000; expenditures, $354,000,000; surplus, In my last auuual message I suggested wood that came within his reach. productiou of pig iron —always u good New story to commence first of the year, writ- experiments demonstrated that the $52,000,000; loss from customs last four that the development of tho existing law* Again he barely escaped being hit with ten especially for the Mladic by Oliver Optic. gauge of general prosperity —is shown by heavy compound armor hitherto months, $25,000,000. For year ending providing a federal supervision of con ­ another brick, aud agaiu the workman “Money Maker Scries.” A series of special arti­ June, 1892, receipts, $373,000,000; ex ­ a recent census bulletin to have been 153 shouted: • cles on “Side Issues,” written for the Blade . deemed impregnable was practically gressional elections offered an effective Blade China Tea Sets and Dinner Sets given to penditures $357,852,209.42; sufplus, $15,- per cent greater in 1890 than in 1880, and “I done tole yer onst to git away club-raisers. Send for specimen copy of the worthless, and that the nickel steel the production of steel 290 per cent greater. method of reforming theso abuses. The 147,790.58. need of such a law has manifested itself in from dere. The fust thing you know Weekly Blade and lead our interesting an ­ plates of France were the only ones Mining in coal has had no limitation nouncements for the coming year. 8ILVER LAW. many parts of tho country, and its whole ­ you won’t know nothing.” that could successfully shed the shot except that resulting from deficient trans ­ “I doan’t kare,” reiterated the old The act “directing the purchase of sil­ portation. The general testimony is that some restraints and penalties will be useful Specimens. of our improved Columbiads. ver bullion and the issue of treasury notes labor is everywhere fully employed, and to all. The constitutionality of such legis­ man. looking around for more wood, lation has been affirmed by the supreme and, seeing some in the interior of the A specimen copy will give you a better idea of thereon, ” approved July 14, 1890, has boeu the reports for the last year show a smaller the weekly Blade than any description we can Judge G resham views with alarm administered by the secretary of tho treas­ number of employes affected by strikes and court. Its probable effectiveness is evi­ building, he went for it. He had hard­ give in an advertisement. Vve tiierefore invito ury with an earnest purpose to get into denced by the character of the opposition ly passed the door when a heavy beam everybody to write us for a specimen, which we the increasing corruption among lockouts than in any year since 1884. will cheerfully mail you free; and at the same circulation at tho earliest possible dates made to it. It has been denounced as if it fell in the place lie had just vacated, time please mail usa list of names of your friends American voters. He says: “The SEVERAL RECOMMENDATIONS. wero a new exercise of federal power and number of voters in the market for the the full monthly amounts of treasury notes enveloping him in a cloud of dust. and neighbors, and we will also mall them speci ­ contemplated by its provisions, and at tho He concurs in the secretary of war’s an invasion of the rights of the states. Several workmen, thinking that the mens. highest bidder has increased at a rate Nothing could be further from the truth. same time to give to the market for silver recommendation for coast defenses, and heavy beam had pinioned the old man Confidential to Agents. which has excited grave apprehensions bullion such support as the law contem ­ the encouragement of the state militia. Cougress has already fixed tho time for the to the ground, jumped down to render election of members of congress. It has in the minds of the people. The plates. The recent depreciation in the Tne acts of violence committed against all the assistance possible. Imagine Anybody can earn ten dollars very quickly price of silver has been observed with re­ obnoxious postmasters have been prose ­ declared that votes for members of con ­ by raising clubs for the ri.ade . We are now prizes in our political contests are gress must be by written or printed ballot; llieir surprise when, on reaching tho paying the highest amount for clubs ever offered gret. The rapid rise in the price which cuted, or the postoffices abolished. place, they found the old man gather­ bv any newspaper. We want agents every where. tempting, and the bidding for votes anticipated and followed the passage of One hundred fraudulent naturalization it has provided for the appointment by the Write us for confidential terms to agents. circuit courts in certain cases, and upon ing the wood as unconcernedly as has increased at more than a steady the act was influenced in some degree by papers have been canceled by the attorney though nothing had happened. The Address, pace. Can this be stopped? Will it speculation, and the recent reaction is in geueral. Ho commends legislation for a tho petition of a certain number of citizens, THE BLADE, Toledo, Ohio. of election supervisors and made it their workmen were speechless for a while, continue? If it does popular govern­ part the result of the same cause and in more full and judicial inquiry before grants and then one said: part of recent monetary disturbances. ing them. duty to supervise the registration of voters ment and all the blessings that it se­ The new ships are making satisfactory The management and efficiency of tho conducted by tho state officers; to challenge “Look a’ bar. ole man, you’ll have Home seekers will f.nd the last of the cures will perish.” progress. During tho winter there will postoftice has been greatly improved; the persons offering to register; to personally to get out o’ this. We don’t care 'bout public domain ol agricultu’l and graz­ Free inspect and scrutinize the i egistry list, and losin’ time er carryin’ yer korpus ing value along the Great Northern have been in all 13 new efficient vessels mails have been largely freed from lottery Ky. In North Dakota and M nt ina. Lands In the north success is a rare thing added to tho navy. They have improved matter. to affix their names to the lists for tho pur ­ through the street." in transplanting the hard wood trees the spirit of the officers and men. “Con ­ foreign trade . pose of identification aud the prevention The old man looked contemptuously 100 or more, along the Great Northern fidence and pride in tho ship among the of frauds; to attend at elections and remain at the speaker, and then said in a don’t- tin Railway Line. Business chances. like the oak or the hickory without a From tho time of my induction into Write K. 1. Whitney , St. Paul,Minn., crew are equivalent to a secondary bat ­ oflico the duty of using every power and with the boxes until tho votes are all cast give-a-contineutal toue: Tons ior Books, Maps, Write now. year or two previous pruning, but in tery.” influence given by law to the executive and counted; to attach to the registry lists “G’wav. niggers, Idon'tcaro. I jist and eloctiou returns any statement touching Settlers on free Government lands the south all or nearly all tho oaks Tho examination and adjudication of department for tho development of larger had my life 'sured fo’ foty dollars.”— along the Great Northern Ky. Line in Low and hard woods are readily trans­ pension claims have been more rapid than markets for our products, especially our tho accuracy and fairness of the registry Washington Post. North Dakota and Montana get low and election, and to take and transmit to planted, as witness the giant live and ever before. “Tho liberal enlargement farm products, has been kept constantly in rates and fine markets for products. Raise of the law should suggest a more careful tho clerk of the house of representatives water oaks and hickories in the cities mind, and no effort has been or will be To Escape From Tornadoes. Finest r. sorts InAmerlcaalongGreat scrutiuy and of bills for special relief.” spared to promote that end. We are un ­ any evidence of fraudulent practices which Hunting Northern lty. Line in Miunest ta, Da­ of Savannah, Mobile, New Orleans “The only safe thing is to so deal with may be presented to them. The same law kotas and Montana. Best climate for der no disadvantage in any foreign market, When trying to escape from a tor­ health seekers. and Jacksonville, and Tampa, Florida. the territory of Utah that those who be ­ except that we pay our workmen better provides for tho appointment of deputy nado never run to the northeast, east, Fishing The rule then should be, spring plant­ lieve polygamy to be rightful should not wages than are paid elsewhere —better United States marshals to attend at the or southeast. Never take refuge in a Montana produces the finest Horses make it lawful.” abstractly, better relatively to tho cost of polls, support tho supervisors in the dis­ and Cattle. Free ranges yet in Mouse, ing for the north and fall and winter forest or a grove of trees, or uear any Mdkand Suu KlverVallev s aud Sweet Horses the necessaries of life. I do not doubt that charge of their duties, and to arrest per ­ planting for the south, and for the TUE MCKINLET BILL. sons violating tho election laws. The pro ­ object that may be overturned by the Grout Hills. Cattle The general tariff act has only partially a very largely increased foreign trade is wind. A frame building is safer than hard wood trees north, root pruning accessible to us without bartering for visions of this familiar lot of revised In Montana. Free Lands, New gone into operation, some ot its important one built of brick or stoue. The form­ Towns, New Railways, New Mines, two years previously. either our homo market for such products statutes have been put into exercise by Stilt! provisions being limited to take effect at both the great political parties, and in tho er is more elastic aud holds together Low Rales. Largest area of good dates yet in the future. The general pro ­ of the farm and shop as our own people longer; the latter goes down in the Wiilth vacant land. can supply or the wages of our working north as well as in the south, by the filing It is estimated that fifteen million visions of the law have been in force less first crash, and the debris is whirled Sweet Grass Hills, Milk and Sun people. with the court of the petitions required by than 60 days. Its permanent effects upon law. into a heap in center of the foundation. Rive Valleys. Montana.reached only Sheen dollars is invested in the canning of reciprocity . bv the Great Northern Railway Line. trade and prices still largely stand in con ­ It is not, therefore, a question whether In a frame structure the cellar is the The Stock Raisers’ paradise. fruits and vegetables in this country, jecture. It is curious to note that the In many of the products of wood and H:r: besides the further amount invested we shall have a federal election law, for safest place, but in a brick or stone advance in the prices of articles wholly iron, and in meats and breadstuffs, we wc now have one, and have had for nearly building it is the most perilous. Iu The regions t rHutar.v to Great North ­ in canning fish and meats. This busi­ unaffected by the tariff act was by many have advantages that only need better ern Railway Line In Montana produce 20 years, but whether we shall have an the former case the debris is carried Soli all precious and baser meials. New ness is in its infancy, and deserves hastily ascribed to that act. Notice was facilities of intercourse and transportation effective law. The present law stops just towns and railways are being built. to secure for them large foreign markets. away from the foundation, while in the Coal every encouragement that legislation not taken of the fact that the general ten ­ short of effectiveness, for it surrenders tc latter instance the cellar is tilled with dency of the markets was upward from The reciprocity clause of the new tariff act tho local authorities all control over the Go to the Great Reservation on Mon-1 Kill can give it. Tho establishment Jof wisely and effectively opens the way to se­ it. tana and get a good free homestead. influences wholly apart from tho recent certification which .establishes the prima Low Rates anu Free 8leepers enGreat canning iactories in any locality is the tariff legislation. The enlargement of our cure a large reciprocal trade in exchange The tornado cave offers absolute facie right to a seat in tho house of repre ­ security to life aud limb, and no means Northern R’y Line. Go now . Emr best thing that can be poesible for currency by the silver bill undoubtedly for the free admission to our ports of cer­ sentatives. This defect should be cured. tain products. Tho right of independent of protection can replace it for that I These have made Montana the richest farmers near them. Theso furnish a gave an upward teudency to trade and had Equality of representatives aud tho party AsiClS State percapataln thb Union. Plenty nations to special reciprocal trade conces ­ purpose. As regards protection to market for many things he could not a marked effect on prices; but this natural of electors must be maintained or every­ »/• | of room for more miners and stock- and desired effect of the silver legislation sions is well established, and does not im­ thing that is valuable in our system ot property, no building can be made Alu93 i raisers. Now is the time. otherwise grow to a profit, and by thus was by, many erroneously attributed to the pair either the comity due to other powers sufficiently large, strong, high, or low government is lost- The qualifications of Along the Great Northern Railway Young diversifying farm industry they insure tariff act. of what is known as the “favored nation an elector must be sought in tho law, not to resist the force of the tornado's vor­ Line Is Montana are free ranches and There is neither wisdom nor justice in clause,” so generally found in commercial tex. There is no changing the path of pasturage, mines of precious met­ it against the losses always resulting in the opinions, prejudices or fears of any als, Iron and coal, and new cities tho suggestion that the subject of tariff treaties. What is given to one for an ade­ class, however powerful. The path of the the tornado by the employment of ex­ Kan from restricting production to one or quate agreed consideration cannot bo HHd towns. Now is your chance. two staples. revision shall be opened before this law elector to tho ballot box must be free from plosives or by any artificial barrier. has had a fair trial. Lt is quite true that claimed by another freely. Tho state of the ambush of fear and the enticements of To contemplate the dispersion of the G:ut Surrounded by a fine agricultural and the revenues was such that we could dis­ gjazing country, close to mines of pre ­ every tariff schedule is subject to objec ­ fraud; tho count so true and open that cloud by the use of auy electrical con­ cious metals, iron and coal,possessing The enactment of a law by which a tions. No bill was ever framed, I sup ­ pense with any import duties on coffee,tea, none shall gainsay it- Such a law should trivance is also idle. All buildings fill! a water power unequaled In Amer­ liberal increase of endowment is made pose, that in all of its rates and classifica­ hides and the lower grades of sugar and be absolutely non-partisan and impartial. should be constructed as would be ica, It Is Montana ’s industra! centre. molasses. That the largo advautago re­ to the agricultural colleges is an evi­ tions had tho full approval even of a It should give the advantage to honesty done without the knowledge of the The valleys of Red. Mouse, Missouri, party caucus. Each legislation is always sulting to the countries producing and ex ­ c. 1 dence that congress appreciates fully and the control to majorities. Surely there tornado, and then protected by legiti­ Mdk and sun rivers reached by Great and necessarily the product of compro ­ porting these articles by placing them on is nothing sectional about this creed, and mate insurance. Protection must be Northern Ry. Line. Half rate excur ­ the importauce of technical education mise as to details, and the present law is the free list entitles us to expect a fair re­ sions Sept. 9. 23. and Oci 14, 1890. if it shall happen that the penalties of laws accomplished by organized capital, the Write F. I.WuiTNF,Y,8t. Paul, Minn. l l. ior farmers. Farmers are to be con­ no exception. But in its general scope turn in tho way of customs concessions up ­ intended to enforce theso rights fail here on acticles exported by us to them was so safety of one being assured by the sidered in the light of public servants and effect I think it will justfy tho support and not there, it is not becauso the law is legitimate and successful co-operation of those who belieore that American obvious that to have gratuitously abandon ­ sectional, but because, happily, crime is in a great measure. Their industry legislation should conserve and defend ed this opportunity to enlarge our trade of many. local and not universal. Nor should it be Tho writer strongly advocated this provides food and clothing f. the peo­ American trade and tho wages of Amer­ would have beeu an unpardonable error. that every law, whether relating to elec­ ple. It is the most important of all ican workmen. There are hut two methods of maintain ­ tions or any other subject, whether method of protection during bis tor­ arts and it is based upon scientific The misinformation as to tho terms of ing control of this question open t<^ con ­ enacted by thp state or the nation, has nado investigations in the West in 1879, gress. To placo all of these articles upon and now several million dollars’ worth knowledge which is not afforded by the act, which has been so widely dissem­ force behind it; the courts, the marshal or inated at home and abroad, will be correct­ .the dutiable list subject to such treaty of property are thus insured every the ordinary means of education. It constable, the posse commitus, the prison, ed by experience, and the evil auguries as agreements as could be secured, or to place are ull and always behind the law. year.—Forum. is an accepted principle of our free to its results confounded by the market re­ them all presently upon the free list, but subject to the reimpositiou of specified APPROPRIATIONS. and liberal government that the educa­ ports, the savings banks, international Joe Jefferson's Joke. trade balances and the general prosperity duties of the countries from which wc re­ The preparation of the general appropria ­ tion of the young is a public charge ceived them should they refuse to give us And duty. This was a fundamental cf our people. Already wc begin to hear tion bills should be conducted with the General Sherman relates an inter­ from abroad and from our custom-houses suitable reciprocal benefits. This latter greatest care and the closest scrutiny ol esting story about Joseph Jefferson. principle of the ancient republics, and ! that the prohibitory effect upon importa ­ method, I think, possesses great advant ­ expenditures. Appropriations should bt He says: is unquestionably the basis of any free tions imputed to the act is not justified. ages. It expresses in advance tho consent adequate to tho needs of tho public service, of congress to reciprocity arrangements Joe came to mjf room in the Fifth and popul ir government in which ! The imports at the port of New York for but they should be absolutely free from Avenue hotel, New York, recently, aud the first three weeks of November were affecting these products, which must other ­ prodigality. •every citizen is at once sovereign and wise have boon delayed and unascertained he chatted at the window there one FARCOS nearly eight per cent greater than in the I venture again to remind you that the summer afternoon. He had with him a public servant same period in 1889, and 20 per cent great­ until each treaty was ratified by tho sen ­ brief time remaining for the consideration “Box Tip” School Shoes er than in the sarre period of 1888. And ate and tho necessary legislation enacted of the important legislation now awaitino a light, thin overcoat which he threw Invention appears to have begun at so far from being an act to limit exports. I by congress. Experience has shown that your attention offers no margin for waste. over a chair. After he had goue I for Boys and Girls, fotiud under the chair a roll of paper Healed or Wedge Heel. the wrong end. Our mowers and confidently believe that under it we shall some treaties looking to reciprocal trade If the present duty is discharged with dili­ secure a larger aud more profitable partici ­ have failed to secure a two-thirds vote in gence, fidelity and courage, the work of the tied with a piece of red tape—tho old 8lzeo-8tol0'4 »l-25 reapers and other devices for gather­ pation in foreign trade than we have ever the senate for ratification, and others hav ­ LI. congress may bo confidently submitted red tape that I know so well. I picked ntoiavt i.5o ing crops have been perfected, while enjoyed and that we shall recover a propor ­ ing passed that stigo have for years to the considerate judgment of the people. it up. inspected it, and then 1 said, 1 to3 1.7T machinery for getting the ground in tion participation in the ocean-carrying awaited the concurrence of tho house and “This is uot mine,” and ran out to 3*4 to 514 8-00 order for the crops has been compar­ trade of the world. senato in such modifications of our revenue catch Joe. I ran to tho elevator, FARGO’S atively neglected. Ingenuity, especial­ While it has not been thought best to laws as were necessary to give effect to Young married women have a peculiar shouting. "Joe, Joe!” renew formally tho suggestion o* an in ­ their provisions. Wo now have the con ­ charm for unmarried young men, and I saw him two stairs below, but my $2,50 Calf Shoe ly that of our countrymen, seems to ternational conference looking to an agree­ currence of bom houses in advance in a a voting man's first love is almost for Gentlemen, voice wouldn’t go down, it would only Unequaled br an; ulioa have Almost expended its resources in ment tou< fact thut the year has been marked in a amount to much. Made In Ladles and M laess pletes the transaction: and in tae mean ­ chapter.” at tea. has been done for reaping, the equili­ very unusual degree by agitation and or ­ A young woman who Isafrled of com­ time our own people have free sugar, tea, 30R NAME l< ON THE BOTTOM OF EVFRY SHOE. brium will bo restored, and then, and ganization among the fanners looking to an coffee and hidos. promising her position by recognizing not till then, will agriculture gain the increase in the profits of their business. A men out of her set, or out of a certain A pet doe at a Missouri penitentiary full reward for the labor her invent-1 very substantial improvement in tho mar­ CONGRESS MUST WORK. lino of gentoele occupations, shows by are birth several days ago to twins. cfH’¥iE«.**co:,'ohi^oriu. ket prices of tho loading farm products In addition to the important bills that how frail a tenure sho holds her own f his is said by those who are up iu ors have expended upon the maohin* 1 during the year Is noticed- The leet sugar j became laws before the adjournment of respectability. —J. G. Holland. uatural history to be of very rare oo- cry already at her command / currauce. For Sale By VKM. N. WALBflQM CLINTON INDEPENDENT, THURSDAY, DEC. 4,1890,

shout at the top of their voloes, “Your boy Matrimony Is of man's troubles “A11 alone, unheard, unknown —be makes THE LAKE GALILEE. is gettiug well again. ” “Is it possible? ” says The end, as* we plainly may see; his moan" —in a tifth-story bedroom. The the father, ‘ ‘when did the change for the But them comes the serious question reason Is obvious, he is suffering everything Which end It may be? with a cold and hasn ’t got a soul to step better take place? ” “One o ’clock,” is the j across the street for one small bottle of Dr. DE. TALMAGE’S SAIL OVER l’HE answer. “Why, ” says the courtier, “that Society would be a charming thing —If we Bull’s Cough Syrup. is just the hour that Jesus said to me Thy were only Interested in one another. FAMOUS BIBLICAL LAKE. son liveth, ’ One o ’clock.” The largest silver producing company in The estlmato for Canada's expenditures As they gather at the evening meal what the world Is the Ilaunchaca de Bolivia In this year is placed at ^10,000,000. gladness in all the countenances in that Bolivia, South America. The mines are 14,- “A Section of the Sea of GI hsh , De- home in Cupcrnaum! Tho mother, Joanna, , 000 feot above the sed. Burns or wounds should be attended to aoribed by St. John, Let Down has not hod sleep for many nights und sho j Tho postal-card factory at Shelton.Conn.. caret ally, especially in cold weather. We From Heaven on Sliver Pulleys.” now falls off into delightful slumber. The Is running to Its fullest capacity night und would recommend Salvation Oil for such —Jesus, theSympatlzer, the Kinait- father, Chuza, the Herodiau courtier, worn day, turning out a dally product of 2,500,000 cases. All druggists sell it for 25 cents a bottle. clpator, the Pardnn-Granter, tho out with anxiety as well as by tho rapid cards. Journey to und from Cana is soon in restful j Merciful, tho Comforter. —Heaven The Chicago postofflee sells over $11,000 for All. unconsciousness. • Joanna wus a Christian Swedish AsthmuCure never falls;send worth of stamps dally. before, but I warrant she was more of a your address. Trial package mailed free. Collins Brothers Drug Co.. BL. Louis, Mo. What is a preferred creditor? One who Brooklyn , N. Y., Nov. 30, 1890.— Dr. Christian afterward. Did the father Chuza never presents his bill. accept the Christ who had cured his boy? I Talnmge preached today the tenth of his It’s all right to call a spade a spade, but OXB BNJOVS Is there in all the earth a parent so ungrate- | Garfield Tea has cured Constipation of series of sermons on his Palestine tour, ful for the convalescence or restoration of when you speak of u red-headed tpye-wrlt- er girl you had better say auburu. twenty-two years' standing; housewives Both the method and re suits when describing hisexperiences on the lake whose an iiynerilled child os not to go into a room will find it a priceless boon. Syrup of Figs is taken ; it is pleasant waters wore once stilled at the command of and kneel down und muko surrender to the For Bronchial, Asthmatic and Pul­ and refreshing to the taste, and acta Christ. The text was: “He entered into almighty love that came to tho rescue. monary Complaints, “Brown's Bron- A hearty laugh Is worth a thousand Do not mix up this case with the angry gently yet promptly on the Kidneys, a ship and sat in the sea; and the whole cblal Troches," have remarkable curative groans in business. discussions about Christian science, but properties. Bold only in boxes. Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys­ multitude was by the sea on the land. ”— accept the doctrine, as old as tho Bible, Do not send your daughter away for Fast Sag raw. Kept 10th, IMS. tem effectually, dispels colds, head­ Mark 4, 1. that God does answer prayer for the sick. change of air till you . understand her ail­ Having taken your POSITIVE l)yspt">sla, Liver and What some women are longing for Is few­ Kidney Cure with the best of result... 1 cheerfully aches and fevers and cures habitual It is Monday morning in our Palestino That Capernaum boy was not the only illus­ er seats in street cars and more in congress. ment. Bend two 2c stamps for “Giride to recommend it to persona afflicted with Momaca constipation. Syrup of Figs is the tration of tho fact that prayer is mightier Health," to Lydia E.Pinkham Medicine Co., troubles. A T. WAKD, experiences, and the sky is a bluo Galileo Lynn, Mass. Broker, ICC South Jefferson 8treet. only remedy of its kind ever pro ­ above, as in the boat we sail the blue Gali­ than a typhoid fever. And there is not a Do your clothes last as thoy used to? If lee beneath. It is thirteen miles long and doctor of large practice but has coine into not, you must be using a soap or washing :aglnaw_ duced, pleasing to the taste and ac­ Borne mucilage manufacturers have ac­ Mr. IL BrnsVe, Druggist. Last Saginaw: six miles wide, but the atmosphere is tho sick room of some hopeless case and, | powder that rots them. Try tho good old- ceptable to the stomach, prompt in lushioned Dobbins ’ Electric Soap, perfectly cumulated great wealth without getting Hear Sir—Having tried your U, spepsla Cure in my so clear it seems as if I could cast a stone in a cheerful manner, if ho were a Chris ­ stuck up. family, and finding that it proves to be Just what you its action and truly beneficial in its pure today us in lt>G5. aay of it, I can honestly recoram-nd It. It cures from beach to beach. Tho lake looks as tian, or with a bewildered manner if he j where other medicines hardly give relief. effects, prepared only from the most Yours tiuly, though it had been lot down were a skeptic, said, “Well, what have | I AniCC write for terms. $.1 Sam pie Corset free to R. N. R. WHEELER, you been doing with this patient? What j An appropriate crew for a jolly boat- Wait3 Agio. Lewis 8oUieIe&Co., 381 D'way.N.Y healthy and agreeable substances, silver pulleys from the heavens rowers of laughter. Local Ticket Agent, M C. R. U. its many excellent qualities com­ and were a section of the sea of have you been giving him? The pulse is | JJ A ICQ ean hare smaller feet. Solid ■« ts U ■ t, O comfort. Pamphlet free. Sam­ East Saginaw, Mich., Nor. 4th, 1S89. gloas that St. John describes as a part of better. Tho crisis is past. After all, I j Mrs. YVIuslow’* Soothing By run, for t'liil- R. Bruikei mend it to all and have made it think he will get well.” Prayer will yet! ple pkg., lOo. Tho i’edlue Co., New York. Dear Sir—For. some tlmo I had beon terribly dis­ the most popular remedy known. tbo celestial landscape. Lake Galilee is a dron toothing, softens tho gums, reduces InUamma- tressed with Indigestion and Dysnepsiiv Harinff tried depression of six hundred feet in which the be acknowledged in tho world ’s materia ' Uon, allays ?*lo, cures wind colic. 25c. a bottle. several physicians to no effect, I was Induced to try Syrup of Figs is for sale in 50c medlca and the cry is just as appropriate j a bottle of your POSITIVE Dyspepsia anti Kidney Cure, river Jordan widens and tarries a little, for PATENTS■ B a Send for circular.tin and 1 am hu^py to s*y that one Dottle, so far as 1 can and $1 bottles by all leading drug­ the river Jordan comes in at its north side now as when Chuza, the courtier from j Pride costs a good deal more than sense see, has entirely cured me. Capernaum uttered in Christ's hearing: I |\ll /% rj r) Tbwmtndi of prroona h*vo boon murrlol through Respectful!* yours, gists. Any reliable druggist who and departs from its south sido, so this and it is not half us good an article. IVI It It T '5« oMost Murmtooml llurosu in tb»« country. M.V. MkREOiTH, alveruortnrnti from rich tad poor la the largest mat- lake has its cradle and Its grave. Its white “Come down ero my child die!” If the "Hend stamp for Mtaple ; laUMt nunUr oweuralr Kupt Saginaw 'Efiscola A Huron R. TL may not have it on hand will pro ­ wrapped lOceoU. THi AMERICAN MEbbENoEK, Chtufo, UL cure it promptly for any one who satin cradle is among the snows of Mount prayer be not answered in the way we Hermon where the Jordan starts, and its wish, it is because God has something kukv information . Cheap homes fo* *********** **************^ wishes to try it. Do not accept better for the child than earthly recovery, all. Send stamp for Illustrated "Home- sepulchre is tho Dead Sea into which tho FLORIDA ac-okor. ” O. B. l r®«t>j,09 Fraaklla 8t. N. V, t A PRESENT. * any substitute. Jordan empties. Lake Como of Italy, Lake and thero are thousands of men aud women T QEXD ns yoor address and we will make yon *T Geneva of Switzerland, Lake Lomond of now alive in answer to fathers ’ and When Baby was sick, we gave her Castor!a. from Nervous Debility, VI. * D present of the best Automatic WASHING? CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO tal Wasting etc. Send for mj ♦ MACHINE in t!i« World. No wash-board or rub- + mothers ’ pruj-ers. myself one of the multi­ When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria, MEN■ nt uiiii f.i,AWEAK n/w,h SAN FRANCISCO. CAL. Scotland, Lake Winnipcsau^tee of America, free Book of Ilemedles and cure your- •fi litug needed. Wo want you to show it to your friend., * tude. For I have heard my parents tell selves at home. A oractusairentlf youcan. You ran COIN MONEY * lOUISVi"' N.t are larger, but Lake Galilee is the greatest When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria, Dr.J. Rcnnert.41 8.Clarkst..Chlcogt) J We also give a HANDSOME WATCH tolhej diamond that ever dropped from tho finger how when at throe years of age scarlet T first from each county. Writequick Address N. T y fever seemed to have done its full work on \7hea aha had Children, she gave them Castoria, + LAUNDRY WORKS. 5 Dry St.. N V. * of the clouds, and whether encamped on its ***** ■fr*** ■S' ♦+ + + + + * ****** me and the physicians had said there was KIDDER’S PASTILLES.W h,..n. banks as wo were yesterday and worship ­ J C o., Charltbtow n. 9 a»*. ping at its crystal altars, or wading into its no more use of their coming and they had left a few simple directions to make the EXIC'ASr CACTUS PILLM. waves which make an ordinary bath solemn wan tin everywhfD for this wonderful new ill ONK DOLLAR sent us by mall, we will as a baptism, or now putting out upon its remaining hours peaceful, and according M remedy. Sample bottlo, ICc. Clrcu ar iroo. Fdeliver, free of all charges, to any person In the sparkling surfaco in a boat, it is something to the custom in those times in country C ACTUR Co ., Bjx II, East El Faso, Teiai. United States, all the following articles carefully places, the neighbors had already come in packed In a neat box: to talk about, and pray about, and sing An average reader gets through 400 words well on until lnTestments. Haglo Unrfrm. One two-ounce bottle Of Pure Vaseline 10 eta. and made the shroud, tho forlorn case sud­ a minute. SlfmiptliioDi and Ylews of aU grad** «nd j Hsf Enjoy It about, until the lips with which we now price*, for Publio Exhibition end Home One two-ounce bottle Va.Heliue Pomade 15 cts. describe it can neither talk, nor pray, nor denly brightened and tho prayer “Come Amusement. Bend for 2r$ page Catalogue/Ve< One] ur of Vaseline Cold Cream...... 15cts. PAYS One cake of Vaseline Camphor Ice...... lOcts. MCALLISTER , Utg. Optician, 40 Numu 84*, New Yerh sing down ere my child die!” wus answered in One cakeof Vaseline Soap, unscented.... lOcts. Of the two hundred and thirty war a recovery that has not been followed by riqi yS| aiJons w. mronn vs, One cake of Vnsellne Soap, scented...... 25 rU. a moment's sickness from that time to aWsdlArlYI Washington, 1>. C. One two-ounce bottle of White Vaseline 25 cts. ships Josephus manoeuvred on these Hfieumatism -----11.10 waters—for Josophut was a warrior as this. Successfully Prosecutes Claims. Principal Kxlmlner U S Ponslon Bureau, Or for stamps any single article at tho price. well as a historian —thero remains not one But someone may say that Christ in Ca­ If you have occasion to use Vaseline In any form SCOTT’S lu haul war. i£»4judic*Uii£olaiius, atty be careful to acceptonly genuine g.mds putu;> by us piece of a hulk, or one patch of a canvas, or pernaum healed that -courtier ’s child, yet - tn original packages. A great many druggists are one splinter of an oar. But return to he would not have done it for one in hum ­ trying to peiauade buyers to take VASKLINH pub ble life. Why. in that very Capernaum he MANHOOD up by them. Never yield to audh persuasion, a* the America we never will until we have had b -Sciatica ful imprudence, canning Premature Decay, Korroui article Is an Imitation without value, and will not did the same thing for a dying slave, be ­ Debility, Lost Manhood, Ac., harina tried in rain overr a sail upon this inland sea. Not from a J known remedy, has discovered a simple in cans of self- give you tho result you expect. A bottle of Blue wharf but from a beach covered with longing to the man who had made a present cure, which he wiU aen«l (reeled) FREE to hie fellow-«nif« Seal Vaseline Is sold by all druggl.-da at ten cento. feivi*. Addrcee J. II. UEEVE3. E*q. Box N. Y. City. CUKbfcBBObUH «Tf. Co., 24 State BL, X»w York. EMULSION black and white pebbles we go on board a to the town of the church of which Jesus of pure Cod Liver Oil with Hypo- boat of about ten or twelve tons, to be was pastor, tho synagogue among whoso MolNTOSH phosphttes of Lime and Soda Is propelled partly by sail and partly by ruins I today leap from fragment to frag­ almost as palatable as milk. ment. This was the cure of a Itoiuan sol­ STEREOPTICONS Battery & Optical Co. Children en^oy It rather than water. Th# mast leans so far forward 1.C03 DOZEN FREE ! dier’s slave, whose only acknowledged rights CHICAGO, 1.000 Dosrn palT* Ladt«« fine Fall and otherwise. A MARVELLOUS FLESH that it seems about to fall, but we find it Winter Hosiery given absolutely fre© to was purposely so built, and the rope were the wishes of his owner. And none _ plsOiPP ILL. ntroduce IIOM K tfUE&T. PRODUCER It Is Indeed, and the j MAGIC LANTERNS, iravy. wirm, well mud**, fashionable, ■olid little lads and lassies who take cold through a pulley manages to hoist and are now so enslaved or so humble or so sick j olor», Ktrljtt*,checks, all the popular bhadea easily, may be fortified esolnot a or so sinful, but the all-sympathetic Christ j •urJhiul, nury blue, acal brown, let down the sail. It is a rough boat and ERTEL’S jlaek, alat«s tan, lai fact atyl* and cough that might prove serious, by ) as far as possible removed from a Venetian is ready to help them, ready to cure them, | •olore te suit all taetea. Don t ray to taking Scott's Emulsion after their VICTOR HAY PRESS. IScta. for a pair of Fall auJ Winter he** gondola or a sportsman's yacht. With ready to emancipate them. Hear it! Par­ Warranted to be tho most eco­ *hen vou can f*t a Hoaen for nothing* The meals during the winter season, don for all. Mercy for all. Help for all. .Id relisbl* HOME 4JI EST, of Ntw common saw and hammer and axe many SIGKHEADMHE nomical, fast and neat baler York, 1* % complete family pnper, richly j Jietrare of substitutions and Imitation*. ^ of you could make a better one. Four Comfort for all. Heaven for all. Oh,this | I'oNlflvelycurt ’d hyl In use, or money refunded. (Uuatratcd, containing aerial and abort Lake Galilee! What a refreshment ioi these Little Pilla. THOVBAND8 IN USE. ttoriea, romance*, aketenea, wit, humor, barefooted Arabs, instead of sitting down They also relievo Dis-I Circular*free. Address Mfm, fashion, household hints, stories for children to their oars, stand as they always do in Christ it must have been after sympathizing CARTERS trend from Dy«p<-pi>U,In-I Ac., Ac. Fo-ltl vt*!y the entire lot (1.000 GEO. ERTEL * CO., Quincy, 111., dozen) to be given away durlnr the next fiO rowing, and pull away from shore. I in ­ with the sick, and raising the dead, and yilTTLE (hgestion and T( mHeartyj U. 8. A.,or London,Canada. dsya. We alsoaend the 1IO M K Of/ preaching to the multitudes all day long tc Eating. A perfect rem-f Established IS67. •Ik month* free toLOOO persona who IADSES ONLY sist on helping, for there is nothing more will answer tiila advertisement and tend ua Uh MAOir FEMALE KEOlLATOR. edy for DizziuesM.Nausenl exhilarating to me than rowing, but 1 soon come down on these banks in the night ­ Browsine.su, Bad Tastel the address of *«J0 newspaper leaders from afe ant Certain lo a dav or money refunded By MAKK different families. To the club raiser of the mail **. Securely sealed li om observation. COOK. had enough of the clumsy oars, and the time and feel the eool air of the sea on his |pm.^glVER In tho Mouth, Coated! list of 20 suhs.*r1bers w* aend 1 down » KM ICO Y CO., v maha, otb. hot faee, and look up to the stars, the Tongue.Pam in tho SidaT nnirtof these beautiful and useful article*. awkward attempt at wielding them while Toil RID LI VEll. They! SORE WEILS! \V* are determined to lead the race in prem ­ i that have «u»in instanding posture. lighted lamps around the heavenly palace regulate the I)owoU.f Our Well Machines cr* laenwtl MONEY! iums. hence this liberal Inducement. It Is _) chirp elthar.frov ctumi. Dt-a.ut.it. gpccsssrvi. a colossal offer and will not apnear again. CANARY BIRDS We put our overcoats and shawls on from which he had descended. Purely Vegetable. Tf */ do MoltK IVIIKk a.mi If y< u want a dozen fashionable, fine hosiery Hints.,UIIIII. tspnsursespnsuro or on wn...account ofui B»ou.t:aw.w.tinjr, can bo lull# t > “But,” says some one, "why was it that Price ZS Cent ma.vOUF.ATKU I'KUFIT. •end 1 .Vt*. In silver or stamps, to help pay warble toaeful melodies by placing a oaks of BHU) MANNA small deck in the stern of tho boat, the They FIN 1*11 Well* where postage, packing, Ac.,and names of iOuews- la their cagaa. Itacle almoetlike aebarm In restoring them Christ coming to save the world should other* FAIL! Auy vise, 2 paiwr resda-rs, and you will receive piper tt io eong. Tt la an ahsolnt* n.-.tiity to tho health, comfort end very kind of a deck where Christ lay on CASTES MEDICINE CO., NEW YOSK. inches to 44 inches diameter. /4 lr©>«, HOMF 4JZJENT- hygiene sfCAOE BIRDS. It It made afterth* Andreaaberg a fisherman ’s coat, when of old a tempest spend so much of his time on and around 1IV Nassau Street, New York. recipe Sold by druggists, grocers and bird dealers. Mallei pounced upon the fishing smack of the so solitary a place as Imke Galilee? There Small Pill. Small Dose. Small Price. LOOMIS & NYMAN, to any P. U. In tho IJ. S. or Canada for 15 cte . bv the Rt* ” is only one city of any size on its beach, TIFFIN, - OHIO. Food Co .. 400 N. 3'i St.. Pi-ilad.lphia, Pa. Bird Dook fr*a affrighted disciples. Ospreys and wild 111 in>r ■— ONLY CENTS duck and kingfishers fly overhead or dip and both the Western and Eastern shores you have any plain are a so!-'tude, broken only by the sounds Bout with your order as a sruai* dolts before ls*l,scnd their wings into the lake, mistaking it for an toe of good faith is *1 1 we re­ OLD F coming from the mud hovels of the de­ quire. the balance (*550) you lint. Wo pay front ttvo a fragment of fallen sky. Can it be that can pay at the express office cents to flits) iiremlum those Bible stories about sudden storms graded. Why did not Christ begin at alter you havo examined tb*l on hundreds of kind*. Babylon the mighty, at Athens the learned, xateh.aiul ore convinced of it* COINS Enclose stamp lor partic ­ on this lake are true? Is it possible that a worth. The picture «h«L ww{ ulars. May meun a for­ at Cairo tho historic, at Thebes tho - i/i ’m show here gives* good view of tune to you. sea of such scorning placidity of temper \ All, the wmch tl.at we send We |W. T. SKISNKK, P. O. Bos 'could ever rise and rage at tho heavens? hundred-gated, at Rome the triumphant? F goto, Boston, Sim. WANTED It does not seem as if this happy family of If Christ was going to save the world, why -z . '|l huvctiM in tn hundreds of diff-4 not go where tho world ’s people dwell? /' l n -O AIPal~"aL <-■ cut styles of engraving. Tbel elements could have ever had a falling out - A- __ fl cfi.es are made of two heavy. and the water strike at the clouds and the Would a man, wishing to revolutionize for plates of I M*. solid goltit good the American continent* pass his time vert imposition met*?,and, EMORY clouds strike at the water. are wurriinteil lu *»-' Mind wandering rnred. Books learned amid the fishing huts of tho shores of New­ fry respect. It I* Here at Capernaum, the Arabs having hunting rare,stem wIdi I in one reading. Testimonials from all ,in their arms carried us ashore to the only foundland? My friends. Galilee was the and sum set. It has parts of the g’.obo. Prospectus post solid bow cap. FREF., sent on spplice.tion to Prof. place where Our Lord ever had a pastor ­ hub of the wheel of civilization and art, crown and thumb A. Loisol.e, 2fl Fifth Ave. New York, and the center of a population that stag­ pierce, all arrnrately ate, and we stepped amid the ruins of the mode, fitted and war­ church where He preached again gers realization. On the shores of the ranted. The move ­ FOR MEN lake we sail today stood nine great cities— ment L the fine Elgin and again, and again, whose rich atyle,richly Jaweled sculpturing lay the synagogue, Scythopolis, Tarichie, Hippos, Gatnala, quick train, 1MO MAGIC CURE ONLY Chorazin. Capernaum. Bethsaida, Mag- best.*per hour, fcx-' *600 for a case of I.otTor Failig Manhood . Loner, there, not as when others see it in spring pension ba lance,' al or Nknt oi's I rmi.nr, wvaknrim of the body or mind dala, Tiberias —and many villages, the patent pinion, pot ­ time covered with weeds, and loathsome ent escapement, full tbo effects of error* or exoessfHi In old or young tint we Avith reptiles, but in that December smallest of which had 15,000 inhabitants, tnte benutiruIV, cannot cure. Wh guar.-mU'e ev«i y caw or refund every Inlshcit. occur-.- dollar. Five days trial treatment 91. full course £5. weather completely uncovered to our agi­ according to Josephus, and reaching from civ regulated l«d. Itercoptiblo benefit* i taLecd In threo days. By mail, the beach back into the conntry in all di­ adjust* <1 and wnr. securely packed from observation. Look Bemedy tated and intense gaze. On one stone of runted to hrrp |that synagogue is the sculpturing of a pot rections. Palaces, temples, coliseums, r«rr."rt 9lmi», A t’unrs Irelaacnt with of manna, an artistic commemoration of the gymnasiums, amphitheatres, towers, gar­ each watch, good for dens terraced on the hillsides, fountains r ten year*. The rcfruiar time when tho If aclitea were fed by r retail rrlceof this watch MOTHERS’ FRIENn manna in the wilderness, and to which bewildering with sunlight, baths upon In 926.00, I Hi t wo de- whose mosaic floors kings trod: while this lire to necnire an a pent In 'sculpturing no doubt Christ pointed up ­ eviTT to* n throughout th* ward while He was preaching that sermon, lake from where the Jordan enters it to United States, and therefore S ues CHILD BIRTH tra where tho Jordan leaves it, was beautiful make the ipeHni price of, 'on this very spot, in which He said: “Not $0.00. If you Bend money IP U810 BEFORB^CONFINBMSNT with all styles of Shallop, or dreadful Will! year order (t»-00) »« will include in addition*, as your fathers did eat manna and are handsome gold pin ted ehnln. Ifycu wont to Book to ’’Mothkks '’ Mailkdc Fr**. dead; He that eateth of this bread shall with all builds of war galleon. Four the watch bofoie paying for it, you can aend ia« 60 cf , yinsK FIKl.lt RF.UI I.ATOR CO.. ATLA.NTAJMA. thousand ships, history says, were at one Tuarantco exnrvrs charges, and we will send it by ex- , BOLD UV AiJ. DHUOQlSTd. live forever. ” Wonderful Capernaum. Scene of more miracles ttian any place in time upon these waters. Battles were *nty___ _ 1,000 Lovely decorated (U piece) Tea KlRTLANO BROS. * CO. 1 prescribe and fully ah- all the earth! Blind eyes kindling with fought thero which shocked all nations Pci. given absolutely free to introduce Our A2 Fulton Street N. Y. dorse Hip <» as the only with their consequences, Country Home to new subscribers. Each specific tor the ,, rntin cure jthe morning. Withered arms made to set contains SO pieces of richly decorated of tills disease. pulsate. Lepers blooming into health. llore mingling blood with pure and spark- wure. Each piece is richly decorated in col­ G. H. IMG It A II A M, M. It., or?. in tasteful leaf and flow er patterns The Amsterdam, N. Y. Tho dead girl reanimated. l.ng foam. shapes me modern and artistic. Our Coun ­ V«’e hare sold Big O for These Arab tents, which on this Decem- In her last throes Judaea fought with try Homo slum!* to-day as one of the lead- ninny yesrs, and It has Rome. Ingaml most popular farm and home paper* iber day I find in Palestine, disappear and I in America. Every one is delighted with It. __ given the best of satis- ' To___ . _ _ _ »’o«!l I voly thccntlre lot < 1 ,<-0o> to be given faction. see Capernaum as it was when Jesus wus Upon those sea-fights looked Vespasian, w way. ® *Jtl• h- me will oiqirc irto Wo are bound to distance *11 conqs-iltloii ami mnkc «ur many of tho dead floated to the beach, < onniry Homo known in every quart, r of the globe. If you want a nico Ten Sot send KSi cent, and “Down With High Prices.' ble front, the upholstery, tho slaves in uni ­ B »» MAGAZINE form at the doorway. It is the residence they could not soon enough be entombed, Our Country Home, JSox 3379, N. 1/ THIS SEWING MACHINE of a courtier of , probably Chuza by and a plague was threatened. Twelve NOW BEGINNING ITS DOrsYEAfl ONXiY $10 1 name, his wife, Joanna, a Christian dis­ hundred soldiers escaping from these THE OF PUBLICATION, IS UNDOUBT­ vessels of war were one day massacred in EDLY THE BEST LADY’S MAGA­ Top Buryles, VBB.00 ramcsJiT.60 ciple. But something is tho matter. The Koad CartA...10.00 Wagons, 30.00 slaves are in great excitement, and tho tho nmpitheatre at Tiberius. For throe NEW AMERICAN ZINE published . •S CO Family or Store Scale, 1.00 courtier living thero runs down tho front hundred years that almost continuous city m Wind A Stem Set, A M0-lb. Farmers’ Scalo.... 3.00 Tt» ntorlm nr- from *om« *f 4000 lb. Hay or Stock Scale.. .40.00 steps and takes a horse and puts him at encircling Lake Galilee was the metropolis ONLY $1.00. Forge and Kit of Tools ...... JO.Oi of our p inet. It was to the very heart The American In Handsome Shell Atnrriea’t moat popular authors. 1000 other Articles at Half Price. full run across the country. Tho boy of Put tern Bunting Case, a correct Illus­ It» mlarrllunroua article*, pro- CKTCAOO SCALE CO . CMctr III of that nobleman is dying of typhoid fever. of the world that Jes is came to soothe its tration of which w e show In this ocv, i tise- ment, is now ready and by placing a very fii*i-l 1/ llluatratrd. are alwapa All the doctors havo failed to give relief. sorrows, and pardon its sins, and heal its large ordt r we have seen red the excluslvo entertalnint/ and instructive. sick, and emancipate its enslaved und rean ­ sale for tbo United States and Canad... But about five miles up tho country, at ltlsa Kte.n winder and atom aetter It* J'aslUon new* anil illustra­ PENSIONS. Cana, there is a Divine Doctor, Jesus by imate its dead. with patent adjustment, and L titled with tion* urn fresh and complete, anew patent stem wuiilmg orraugement The Itlsnlillity I III Is a law. Soldiers disabled Thank God that I have seen this lake of combining beauty, utility, and name, and tho agonized father has gone found on no other. It is banting case, economy. s nee I lie win urn cm i: led. Widow* who are de­ for Him, and with what earnestness those Christ ly memoriej. and I can say with benut I fully on craved of the new stylo pendent sre Included. Also I'lirrnls dependen. slid patle rn, as shown In out, plated with Its full-slae dress-pattern* en­ to-day. whose sons died from effects of Amir set- can understand who havo had a dying Robert McChe.vne, the ascended minister of pnro gold on solid yellow metal (mmo- vice. If you wish your claim speedily and success­ Scotland, who, seated on the hanks of this utnes called aluminium), and In appe«iw able rrertt wo mem to cut and fit fully settled, add ess child in the house. This courtier cries to anccisslmllartoa gold xvntrh. Thecrys- her own dresses. lake, wrote in his last sick days and just tal is double thick polished french glass, Christ: “Como down ero my child die!” Its numerous designs for need" - JAMES TANNER, before ho crossed not tho Jordan that and ail tbo erg w heels, pinions and bear ­ lotto Commissioner of Pensions. j While the father is absent, and at one ings aro peifectly made by the most *rork, fancy-work, ete , are ttoecl, empties into Galilee but the Improved and exponstvo machinery,and handsome, and useful. Washington. I). C. o ’clock in the afternoon, tho people watch ­ oni h pait Is carefully fitted by skilled GRATEFUL—COMFORTING. ing the dying boy see a change in thecoun- Jordan that empties into tho “Sea woihm. n. Each one Is carefully Inspected, Us household department and regulated and tested before leaving the table recipe-* are invaluable to tonance, and Joanna, the mother, on one of glass mingled with lire;” factory, and fully warranted by r. for these sweet words lit to be played by hu- five years if used with reasonable cate. every hopse-keeper. sido of his couch, says, “Why, this darling ft* Imtg-enntlnued prosperity is getting well; tho fever hits broken; seo muu llugers on strung strings of earthly Special Offer EPPS’S lute, or by Eingelie lingers on seraphic harps: Winderand Btcm Sett, r wlih a henutl. attests its worth. BREAKFAST. the perspiration on his forehoad; did any fnl colil ptnlod «-li 111.1 11 nd i hnrai, try it ron 1S01. of you give him any new kind of medicine? ” It Is not that tho wild gn'ollo a.I packed in an elegant snlin limd ease, By a thorough knowledge of the ra’urnl laws Come* down to oriuk tliy tide. on receipt of only tl.OO bill, money Terms! $1.00 per pear, with lc ■ govern the operation* of olgcstlon “No,” is tho answer. The boy tuiyis on ord, r. jK.stag« unrips er poatal note. Pro­ large reductions to Clubs, and don, and by a curoful application of the tlno But He that was pierced to save from h"TI, wl, edihepcru nroceivinglr will faithfully nwirtles of well-selected < OfiOfi. Mr. JEpi* his pillow, his delirium gone, and asks for Oft wiind.'red bv thy side. pr, miso to send u„ ss many orders from elegant pr ,inlaws fa iltnse who ivlded onr breakia*t tablet with a dollcn elv something to oat and says: “Whore ’s thclrloeallty aspos-ublo. Our ItsCil. get up Clubs. A sample ropy, with roured I>c7 cr'.ge which may save ns many b avv Graceful nr >und thee the mountains meet, nlngiic of WatcLis. representing on* of full pat tleulars, to Club-raisers. :tors' bills. It j by me Judicious use of *ut>-' father? ” Oh, ho has gone up to Cana to Thou culm, reposing sen; tlio lorre-t Itn, s to b« found in any Cat- Ides of diet that a constitution msTbegradual* get a young doctor of about thirty-one But uli! fur in >rc. the b -uutiful feet aloguo will bo sent with aach ord* r. Wo A Idrees. PETERSON’S MAGAZINE. lullt up ontll strong enough t - resist erefT t«m wnnt one good agent In every town to kf-niUMi thla p*p*r. Philadelphia, Pa. to disease. Hnndredsof subtle maladies sro yours of age. But no doctor is needed now Of Jesus walked o'er thee. takethoogorcy foi thesaloof our reliable 7* watches, which wollhislrat*lnOwrut and can bv mail, j>ost-pald. V.st order ly In half-pound tine, by Grocers, labelled thus: will be ffllsd thedny ws reestvs moot tho returning father and ns soon as rn'oy mid fflvc *n ’ovment without In 1117 K| Wwwlll refund th* wony of nny; tfiMatstl'tlsd enttsmer. herd tl.coby registered Istiva I-jd When writing tn Atlrertlsor* pitas* say TIES EPPS & C0.f HomoBosathlc Chemists. A VJ »# 1 - ’ -i«i > « . .m. 114a- ; MM moiN»7 order, nw>n#y order to th/sclf cr o h'TS. Fliii Is mm rulltji gv fcrnk itiiJJ, ta ur cnlir, a-UWCvC— )5A 37Frankfort St., Nil. You sour iii« ad vertlyo jjyut lu this rapur. London, England. they como within speaking distance they CLINTON INDEPENDENT, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1890. The Independent. IIKN'dAL.______II Bengal , Doc . 1,1890. Charles Perry has moved from D. K. I ST. JOHNS, THURSDAY. DHCKMHRlt 4, 18S0. Stowell's place to the farm of H. I). 1 SOCIETY MEETINGS. Smith, in Dallas. SLASHED! Mr. and Mrs. James Plowman at-1 T. JOHNS LODGE NO. 81,1. O. O. K. MEETS tended the silver wedding of Mr. and Friday evening of each wetk. Now lodge Sroom corner Clinton Avenue and Kailroad-«t.Mrs. Baron Plowman, m Watertown, J A. B. UALCOM, N. G. November 26. Our heading expresses the idea exactly of how we are We will not make our Annual FRED BOWLES. Secretary. Mrs. \V. II. Kearney expects to go to! knifeing some Goods. CJT. JOHNS ENCAMPMENT NO. 83, 1. O. O. F. Ransom this week for a short time,' O meet* 2d and 4th Wednesday evening,, of when she will return and reside with | euch month. A. 11. BAL.COM, C. 1’. her parents, Mr. and Mrs. N. 11. Baker. J. L. TKANCHELL, Secretary. Mrs. Kearney has the sympathy of 11 THE LOCAL MARKETS. many loving friends in this, her sad bereavement and great sorrow. || Holiday Announcement Orrica or The Indkpkndknt . I St. Johns, Mich. Doccmber 4 1890. f Tuesday evening, Nov. 25, a company The following are the prices paid In cash for of young people gathered at the home | Until next week, as we shall be busy all this week, unpack ­ produce in this market: of Mr. and Mrs. George Swagart, to HOUSE JERSEYS at less than one-half the Manufac ­ celebrate the 16th birthday of their Wheat, red...... $ .H&fr.HO turers’ Cost. We will run, on Saturday, 50 Jer­ ing and arranging the large line of Goods, which we Wheat, white ...... 93 younger daughter. Miss Mary, to whom 11 Oats...... 41 it was a complete surprise. She was sey Waists<| prices ranging from $1.75 to have been, for the past month, receiving Clover Seed...... 8.0008.90 the recipient or an elegant plush album, Buckwheat, ...... 40 to be kept as a memento of the joyous $3.50, to go at 99 cents. Harley...... 1.2801 JO for the Holiday Trade. Butter—as to quality...... 120.18 occasion. E. N. S. Eggs...... an Beans...... - 1.50@L90 MAPLE RAPIDS. Tallow,...... —— ., - Hay, per ton, ...... H.00®»8.uo Potatoes Maple Rapids , Dec. 2, 1890. Onions. .. Rev. C. Watson is preparing to move We are opening for your inspection Corn ...... 20025 to St. lohnsville, N. \ .. his new field of I Lard,..... 808 Chickens .TO,8c labor. Wood ...... 1.00OL75 8. M. Benjamin, of Painsville, Ohio; I One lot Gents' Jersey Overshirts, regular price 50 cents, Hides 3H Pork, live...... 3.2504.25 is visiting relatives and friends in this to go at 40 cents. vicinity. The Largest and Best Selected f&'Corrrs/iondence should reach this office on Tues­ Rabbit hunting is all the rage in this day of each week, and not later than Wednesday morn- vicinity, and a large number are being | my. A nonymous communications will receive no alien- slaughtered. Line of Novelties and Holiday Goods ever shown in this market, (ton. The writer’s name must be given, not /or pub­ College day was observed by the M. E. lication, if so desired, but as eviaence (/good faith. society at the residence of Mr. Sturgeon, and bought direct from New York Importers on Tuesday, Nov. 25. and Manufacturers. NORTH OLIVE. Preparations are already being made One lot Ladies’ Jersey Underwear, regular price 50 cents, in the different churches in this place Nokth Olive , Dee 1, 1890 for their annual Christmas tree. to go at 35 cents. James Kipp, of Chesaning, lias been The “Deestrick Skule” entertainment spending a law days with his father, given at the Christian church on Tliurs- j George Kipp. day evening last, was a deciued success We wish to merit the reputation this season, as we have in other A large acreage of fall plowing is be­ in every respect. Receipts, $.54. ing done, and by the sound of the ham­ The pleasant countenance of Eugene years, of carrying the Largest and most Elegant Line mer. there seems to be active prepara­ Moss, of Little Bock, Ark., is to be seen tions for the coming winter. on our streets during the week. He is of Articles suitable for Xmas Gifts, and the Manv have rejoiced in the line w eather here on a short business trip. Bex. we have had the past week, and the In our Cloak Department we are giving the greatest deals weather prophets declare the coming Maplk Rapids , Dec. 2,1890. to be had in New Markets. All this season's goods winter to be like that of the past. A short time since Day l’ayne, of this Thanksgiving day passed off about as village, was helping to move a lien bouse | One lot Children's Goods, size, four years, Best Goods at Lowest Prices. usual. Some went visiting, some went on the premises of Ida Newton, when I worth from $5 to $8, to go at from bunting, and some remained at borne. the building g it the upper hands of them A goodlv number of the young people and tell onto Mr. Payne and broke his I $2.00 to $5.00. met at the Grange hall, according to the collar-bone and injuring him internally, j ancient custom, w here they had music causing inllamation of pleura and one and dancing, and for which, we suppose, lung. lie is improving, and Dr. Bliss On account of our large sale of Holiday Goods last season we they were thankful, lor they improved entertains hopes that he will regain his their time, not until the small, but un­ former usefulness. Jay Webster’s babv Wedding Outfits a Great Specialty. have no Old Goods to offer you, but everything is til the large hours came around. is recovering from a severe attack of J. V. F. congestion of the lungs. P. First is! convalescent from a long siege of typlio. GUNNISON VILLE. malarial fever. B. New, Attractive, G cnnisonville , Dec. 1,1890. Com husking in this vicinity is com­ All Hie Newest Shades in Silks and pleted. Wire worms appear to lie working in and Inviting. The ladies are making preparation for the wheat. , Fine Dress Goods. a fair, to be held sometime before J. II. Granger's feed-mil! lias again Christmas. commenced grinding. A public dinner was given Thanks­ D. (i. Plowman has not returned from giving day, at the Temperance hall, in bis bunt in the north woods. 95957971 which 65 participated. always the cheapest . Do Not Fail to- See Our ' 'Next Week. L. B. Allison has entered his third Mi&s Bessie Gunnison is spending the winter in the state of New York, visit­ successful week as teacher in the Chap­ ing friends and relatives and regaining man district school. lost health. Dock” Walker, as he is commonly called, who is suffering with consump­ A number in this vicinity attended tion and for some time confined to his FILDEW d another light — St. Paul, Minneapolis, Council Bluffs, Her portals are so broad and high. Omaha, Cheyenne, Denver, Atchison, tings, Gas Fixtures and Gas Stoves, Grand Oil The tiny afar his life hath lit Kansas City, Houston, and all points May serve to guide our feet mere nigh. Walker Street, West, St. Johns, Mich. Heaters, Shelf and Heavy Hardware. Lena . West, Northwest andSouthwest

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