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Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1853-11-09

BosToN VALUATIoN.-Thc assessors valuation
this year is about $2O6,OO0O0O. State vaua-
ton $2S0,000,000. This enormous amount is
unparalleled in this country, except in the city
of New York, which now shows a valuation Of
nearly $3S0,000,000. Yet even her wealth
bears no proportion to this city, the present pop
ulation OF New York being probably 100000 (;
while that Of Boston does not exceed 100000
New York should have in proportion to Boston,
at least an assessed valuation Of one thousand
millions OF dollars. Traveller,
Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1853-11-09

QUESTIONS WELL ANswERED.-A sophist,
wishing to puzzle Thales, the Milesian, one of
the men of Greece, proposed to him in rapid
succession the following difficult questions
The philosopher replied to them all without the
least hesitatioD,a and with how much propriety and
decision our readers can Judge for themselves
"What is the eldest of all things?"
"God-because he always existed"
"What is the most beautiful 2"
"The world-because it is the work of God"
"What is the greatest of all things"
Space-because it contains all that is crea-
ted"
"What is the quickest of all things?'
"Thought-because in u moment it can fly to
the end of the universe"
"What is the strongest :"
"Necessity-because it makes men face all
the dangers Of life"
"What is the most dif1icult!"
"To know yourself"
"What is the most constant of all things"
Hope-becausc it still remains with man
after he has lost every thing else."
Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1853-11-09

In order to relieve the scarcity of change, the
Secretary of the Treasury has set apart two hum
dred thousand dollars Of new silver coin for
New YORK, one hundred thousand for Boston,
and fifty thousand for Baltimore, to be put in cir
culation in few days. 1t will probably be OBJ
tainable in restricted sums, at the Sub-Treasury,
for gold coin.
Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1853-11-09

FURs-The importation of monkey skins is
an important business in Salem, Mass. The ga
zette says that monkey skins have formed an
article of commerce for several years, and we
dare say that many fair lady has strutted her
brief hour in all the glory of monkey-skin muff
and rat-skin gloves, without suspecting the quail
ity of her finery."
Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1853-11-09

Cutterbruck's story of the old lady (his aunt)
is excellent. Being very nervous, she told Sir
w. Farquav she thot Bath would do her good.
I" It's very odd" said Sir W., /" but that's the very
thing that | was going to recommend to you.
will write the particulars of your case to very
clever man there, in whose hands you will be
well taken care Of" The lady furnished with
the letter, set of, and on arriving at Newbury,
feeling as usual very nervous, she said to her
confidant, Long as Sir Walterhas attended me,
he has never explained to me what ails me.
have great mind to open his letter and see
what he has stated of my case to the Bath ply
sician." In vain her friend represented to her
the breach of confidence this would be. She
opened the letter and read "Dear Davis, keep
the old lady three weeks, and then send her
back again"
Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1853-11-09

LIVING UPoN AIR.--The following extraordi-
nary circumstances are related by the Paris cor
respondent of the New York Herald:
"Near the village of Bessonais in the Loire
Inferieure, there is woman who for the last
two years, after having been violently sick of
intermittent fever, is now living upon glass of
fresh milk n day. She is, nevertheless, very
strong, and walks to church every Sunday,
distance of three miles. In Belgium, phenom-
enon more incredible has been known for the
last thrty-fve years. There is living near
Delft, in the village of Pynacker, a woman
named Engeltje Vanderbliss, who since the
month of MAY, 1918, has not swallowed par
ticle of food, and since thel0h of March, 1922,
has drank neither wine nor water. She is re-
duced to skeleton, but enjoys good health
On the Goth of August last, she celebrated the
sixty-sixth anniversary of her birthday"
Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1853-11-09

A BEAUTIFUL PICTURE.-Ihe man who stands
upon his own soil, who feels that by the law of
the land in which he ives-by the law of civil
lied nations, he is the rightful and exclusive
owner of the land which he tils, is by the con-
s;itution of our nature under wholesome in
fuence not easily imbbed from any other source.
He feels--other things being equal-more
strongly than another, the character of man
as the lord of an inanimatc world. OF this great
and wonderful sphere which, fashioned by the
hand of God, and upheld by his power, is rolling
through the heavens, a part is his--his from the
center of the sky. 1t is the space on which the
generation before moved in its round of duties,
and he feels himself connecteds by link with
those who follow him, and to whom he is to
transmit home Perhaps his farm has come
down to him from his father They have gone
to their last home but he can trace their foot
steps over the scenes of his daily labors. The
roof which sheltered him was reared by those
to whom he owes his being. Some interesting
domestic tradition is connected with every en-
closure. The favorte fruit tree was planted BY
his fathers hand. He sported in boyhood be-
side the brook, which still winds through the
meadow. Through the fields lies the path to
the village school of earlier days. He still
hears from the window the voice of the Sabbath
bell which called his father to the house of God ;
and near at hand is the spot where his parents
lay at rest, and where when his time has come
he shall be laid by his children; these are the
feelings of the owner of the soil. Words can
not paint them. They flow out Of the deepest
fountains of the heart; they are the life.spring
of fresh, healthy, and generous national char
acter Edward Everett
Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1853-11-09

If all the money circulating in the United
States were divided equally among the inhabit-
ants, every one would rejoice (for about three
minutes) in the possession of about twelve dol
lars.
Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1853-11-09

TOUCHING INcIDENT.-The Petersburg Demo.
crat tells story of little boy of that city who
having recently lost his father, found himself de-
barred thereby from attending school as former
ly, and in the funess of his faith, he determined
to seek the wherewthal at that foot-stool to
which he had doubtless been taught to look for
other and higher blessings. In the simplicity
of his heart, he sat down and gravely wrote u
letter to his Redeemer, thinking perhaps, that
so formal mode of preferring his requests
would meet with greater attention. What was
the surprise of the postmaster, VIM. N. Friend,
letter be box ONE morsng asv missve drect
ed to "Jesus Christ" Opening it he read the
story of the boys wants, and with noble kind.
ness, deposited in the the envelope the amount
required and directed it to the young supplicant.
Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1853-11-09

Daniel B. Martin, late engineer in the Collins
line of steamships, has been appointed Engi-
neer in Chief Of the Navy.
Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1853-11-09

WILLIAM TELL HOTEL, BY Herman Jo-
achim. This House is pleasantly situated with
excellent rooms we'll furnished, and the table
abundantly supplied with the luXuries and sub
stantals of life
Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1853-11-09

HORACE MERRILL, Boot and Shoemaker.
Boots and Shoes neatly repaired and all orders
promptly attended to. Shop one door below the
Washington House.
Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1853-11-09

HOPKINS a. BRO THEIRS, Storage, Forward
ing and Commission Merchants general dealers
in all kinds of Dry Goods Groceries, Grain and
Provisions; manufacturers and dealers whole
sale and retail in all kinds of lumber. Mill
Point Mich
Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1853-11-09

WASHING TON HO USE, BY Henry Penney
er. The proprietor has the past spring newly
fitted and partly re-furnlshed this House, and
feels confident visitors will find the House to
compare favorably with the best in the State.
Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1853-11-09

Coon BYE.-The editor of the Albany Regis
ter comments thus upon this simple word, so
common and yet so full of solemn and tender
meaning:
"How many emotions cluster around that
word. How full of sadness and to us how full
of sorrow it sounds. 1t is with us consecrated
word. We heard it once within this year, as we
hope never to hear it again. 1t was in the cham
Der of death, at still hour Of nights noon. The
curtains TO the windows were all closed, the
lights were shaded, and we stood in the still and
solemn twilight, with others around the bed of
the dying The damps of death were on her
pale young brow, and coldness was on her lips,
as we kissed her for the last time while living,
Goodbye, my daughter and Goodbye was
the last we ever heard of her sweet voice. We
hear that last sorrowful word often and often,
as we sit alone busy with the memories of the
past We hear it in the silence of the night, in
the hours Of nervous wakefuness, as we lay up
on our bed thinking Of the loved and lost to US.
We hear it in our dreams, when her sweet face
comes back to us as it was in its loveliness and
beauty. We hear it when we sit beside her
grave in the cemetry where she sleeps alone,
with no kindred as yet by her side. She was
the hope of our life, the prop upon which to
lean when age should come upon us, and life
should be running to its dregs. The hope and
the prop is gone, and we care not how soon we
go down to sleep beside our darling beneath the
shadow Of the trees in the city of the dead.
Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1853-11-09

FERRY q. SONS, Dealers in Dry Goods, Gro
ceries Provisions, Hardware, Clothing, Boots
and Shoes Crockery and Medicines; and man.
ufacturers and dealers in all kinds of lumber.
Water street.
WIN. NJ. FFRRY Jr. W., ,t rv,nv
THOs. w. FERRY. " '' Emil
Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1853-11-09

TYPOGRAPHICAL BLUNDERs.-Almost all news
papers, our own not excepted, are more or less
marred with typOgra phical errors; and while for
our own part we doubt not our readers are an
noyed by them, we most cordially hate, detest,
abominate and despise them. They are like
moths in a mantle, vermin in a house, thOrns in n
rose and spots on the sun. Like the visits of a
fool, they are always repugnant; like spoiled
child, they are sure TO be the most annoying
when the greatest need exists for their absence
like muddy brook, sullying the crystal waters
of the lake; like the fitting cloud, shading the
brightness of the moon like the mote in the
eye, running the vision. Indeed, they may be ii.
kened to anything in which the little preponder-
ates 10 the great detriment if not total ruin of
the good.
Assuredly are they the bane of an editors
happiness; the libelers Of his intention, and
the perverters of his meaning. Hideous reali-
ties they are, staring at him in waking hours
from almost every article of composition; and
at night like hydra headed nightmare they go
riding pell nell through his brain, laden with
murdered photography, mangled etymology, suf-
fering syntax, gasping prosOdy, and stiff dead
corpse OF common sense meaning. Owing TO
them, editors incur the complaints of readers, the
threatening announcement of contributors, and
the pain of seeing in their own composition dis
torted abortions, where they had hoped for rea-
son and taste to appear. These errors are ubi-
qutous in appearance, and consistent in hide
business; equally deplorable, and unconquera-
ble
Let readers possess sympathy with editors in
their afflictions-rather than censure what their
best efforts cannot entirely overcome; while
they thank their stars they are not" typos"
Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1853-11-09

There is man out west who is so bent on
accomplished his purpose that he has become
humpbacked a1 g.
Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1853-11-09

GILBERT q CO., Storage, Forwarding and
Commission Merchants, dealers in Dry Goods,
Clothing, Boots and Shoes, Crockery, and Stone
Ware, Hardware, Groceries, Provisions and Ship
Stores, Lumber, Shingles Slaves, &C.
Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1853-11-09

c. b. ALBEE, Storarge, Forwarding and Com
mission Merchant, and dealer in Dry Goods,
Groceries, Hardware, Crockery, Boots and
Shoes, &C. Flour and Salt constantly on hand.
Store corner Washington and Water streets.
Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1853-11-09

c. DAVIS g. CO., Dealers in Dry Goods, Groce.
ries, Provisions, Hardware, Crockery, Boots and
Shoes, &c. Muskegon, Mich
Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1853-11-09

HENRY MARTIN, successor to Ball & Mar
tin, Storage, Forwarding and Commission Mer-
chant. Grand Rapids, Mich.
Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1853-11-09

L. M. s. SMITH, Dealer in Drugs, Medicines,
Paints, Oils and Dye Stuffs, Dry Goods, Groce-
Stationery &c. At the Post office. corner of
Park and Barber streets, Mill Point, Mich.
Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1853-11-09

j. MULDER, Clock and Watch Maker, Mill
Point, Mich, is prepared to do all kinds of work
in the best manner and on the most reasonable
terms.
Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1853-11-09

JOHN T. DAVIS, Merchant Tailor. Shop on
Washington street, second door west of IL. Grif-
fms store
Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1853-11-09

L. X. DEVELLY, Tailor and Cutter. The sub
scriber has opened his shop, and would respect
fully invite the attention of the citizens of Mus
kcgOn and vicinity who are in want of first
rate garment. good and stylish. feel confident
in giving entire satisfaction to those who may
favor me with their patronage. Muskegon OF
tawa Co. Mich.
Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1853-11-09

ASA Il. SCOTT, Sheriff of Ottawa Co. Office
over Ii. Griffin's store, opposite the Washington
Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1853-11-09

HOYT G. POST Clerk of Ottawa Co. Office
over III. Griflin's store, opposite the Washington
House.
Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1853-11-09

! HENRY GRIFFIN. Justice,of the Peace and
Notary Public for Ottawa County, has resumed
his former Land Agency business, and will at
tend promptly to the payment of non-residents
taxes; will negotiate for the purchase or sale of
both pine and farming lands. Deeds, Bonds or
mortgages, &c, executed at reasonable rates
and with despatch. Office opposite the Wash
ingtOn House, Grand Haven
Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1853-11-09

REED, Attorney and Counsel
Nor Mt Law. AL business intrusted to me will be
promptly and satisfactorily attended to. Resi-
dence, Charleston Landing, Ottawa Co. Mich.
Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1853-11-09
BUSINESS DIRECTORY--i853

WILLIAM ATHA WA Y, Jr., Judge of Pro-
bate for Ottawa Co. p. o. address, Crockery,
Ottawa Co., Mich.
Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1853-11-09

M. B. HOPKINS, Attorney and Counsellor at
Law and Solicitor in Chancery. Office first door
west of III. Griffin's store
Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1853-11-09

WILLIAM N. ANGEL, Register of Deeds,
and Notary Public for Ottawa Co. Office over
IL. Griffins store, Washington street, opposite
the Washington House.
Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1853-11-09

STEPHEN MONROE, Physician and Sur
geon. Office over j. T. Davis Tailor Shop
Washington street.
Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1853-11-09

a. B. BID WE'LL g. SON, Confectionery and
Bakery, Grand Rapids, Mich c. b. Albee agent
for Grand Haven and vicinity.
Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1853-11-09

MORRIS BUCK, County Surveyor. Residence,
PolktOn, Ottawa Co., Mich.
Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1853-11-09

A. w. SQUIER, Physician and Surgeon, Steels
Landing, Ottawa CO., Mich.
Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1853-11-09

MORRIS BUCK. Physician and Surgeon
Pokton, Ottawa Co., Mich.
Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1853-11-09

IVf NTHHU IfHVG1 H1IU V1C1H1ty.
~SAMUEL HO WARD, Barber, Hairdresser, &c.
Office in George Parks new building, up stairs,
Washington street.
Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1853-11-09
THE GRAND RIVER TIMES
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paid.
The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-05-21
Santa Annals Intentions.

The New York Journal Of Commerce,
Democratic paper, in scanning the question of
whether the new government of Mexico de-
sires war. expresses the opinion that it does
not, and says:
I'll we asked, then, the meaning of Santa
Anna's clustering, and the evil eye which he
squints towards the United States, as though he
were ready to swallow US up alive, w answer, that
it means just what the Washington Union means
when it virtually defies all Europe. 1t means, that
he would like to tickle the vanity of his people, and
thereby gain popularity with them, and influence
over them. He knows that public sentiment in
the United States is strongly averse to any more
spoliation Of Mexican territory at present, and
therefore that he may talk large without any real
danger of provoking war;
Not bad hack=handed blow
The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-05-21

The GOLDEN Ace Nearly six years have
elapsed, says the New York Herald, since the dis.
covery of gold was made in California, and within
that time at least two hundred millions of gold
have been added to the currency of the world from
that single source. Australia has not been 90 long
in the field, and the product has not, therefore,
been so great. 1t would not be far out of the way
to put the product of that country down at fifty
millions of dollars. To be within limits, we est-
mate the aggregate addition to the gold currency
of the world, within the past sixyears, to be about
two hundred and fifty millions of dollars.
The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-05-21

mrs. bLooMER imagines that the reason that
women OTTER from men is because they are school
ed and educated differently. Nothing, however,
could De more unfounded. Girls differ from boys,
that boy does after he is weaned il to straode the
oansters and ride down the stairs. The first thing
girl sets her heart on 10 a doll and set of minia
turc cups and saucers. The girls given to
boys, ON the contrary, set a high value on dirt,
and are never 20 happy when sailing single
ship, with brown paper sail, in mud-puddie.
Mrs. Bloomer may reason as she may, but she
will find in the end that nature IL stronger than
either philosophy or suspenders.
Burlington Hapk Eye.
The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-05-21
TERMS OF THE DAILY AND WEEKLY.
My Lord Bishop of Durham.

My Lord Bishop may bea worthy represent
alive of English prelacy, though he represents
but indifferently the veritable apostles of the
great Head of the Christian Church. NV
Lord Bishop may have been called to the work
of the ministry of the church, but, like the
spirits invoked by Glendower, he seems not to
have come at the call, though other influences
proved potent enough to secure his attendance.
Yet my Lord Bishop is not skeptc. as may
be learned from the readiness with which he
assents to the scrptural axiom that "lhe labor
er is worthy of his hire"
1t appears by statement in the London
Pines of the 9Th of May, based upon docu-
mentary proof, that in order to make an esti-
mate of the amount per annum necessary for
the maintenance of his lordship, the following
items were by him taken into the count, viz:
Pnrk
The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-05-21

ANOTHER VETERAN GoNE.-Died, on the 18th
May, at Brookln, New Jersey, David Brombush,
aged ninety-two years. He was born in 1862, at
Bergen Long Island. At eighteen years of age
be was employed by General Washing ton to cart
specie to pay off the troops and perform such other
duties as required of him.s He was an industrious
farmer and mechanic, and raised in 1901, with his
own hands, the old house the corner of Broad
Being OF peaceful and modest disposition, be
neither entered into politics or religion. He be
longed to the old Washington Benevolent Society,
OF which Gulian c. Verplanck was secretary. He
scendants now number twenty-one persons
Nep York Tribune
The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-05-21

IHE HAIL STORM The hail-storm on Monday
afternoon extended to Manchester, New Hamp
shire, breaking glass and doing much damage.
The Mirror says that some of the stones were as
large as common red cherries 1t is calculated
mat nearly four thousand panes of glass were
broken out of all the mills and the boarding.
houses connected with them, in that city. to say
nothing of the injury done to private residences
and gardens. The wind blew over and spoiled the
new and partly-6nished house of Aiken and
Andrews, on the upper end of Merrimack street,
on Wilson's Hill. 1t also blew to pieces a new
barn of General Andrews, little be- ond Wilson
Hill.
The storm was quite destructive at Seabrook,
New Hampshire. The hail broke much glass on
the new Dearborn Academy was also taken off by
the wind, which was very strong. The foliage OF
the trees were much torn in the path of the shower
At Jewett's Corner, Exeter, seventeen sheep were
killed BY lightning.-Boston Joxrnal