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The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1863-08-26

John H. Newcomb, Dealer in Dry
Goods, Groceries, Provisions, Crockery, Hard
ware, Boots and Shoes, etc. State Street,
Mill Point. Mich.
The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1863-08-26

A NUMBER Of old bachelors, over thir-
ty-fve years of age, were drafted in Provi-
dence, r. I. On being laughed at for not
having got married, and thereby escape
the draft, they maliciously replied: alt
is better to serve for three years than for
life."
The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1863-08-26

Parks & Vandenberg, Agents for
the Peoria Marine a Fire Insurance Company,
Grand Haven, Mich.
The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1863-08-26

George G.. Lowell, County Treasu-
rcr Grand Haven, Mich.
The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1863-08-26

The tune of the conscripts-" We are
coming, father Abraham, three hundred
dollars more"
The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1863-08-26
BUSINESS DIRECTORY

C. j. PfaH, Sheriff of Ottawa Co.,
Grand Haven, Mich.
The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1863-04-01

MONEY IN THE DEAD LETTER OFFICE.
The amount of money taken from lei
ters at the dead-letter office, will, it is es-
timated, amount to $4,000 for the pres
ent year, being somo $4,000 more than
the average for past years. This increase
is owing chiefly to the large sums Of mon
ey being constantly sent home by the SOL
diers. An additional force of twenty-five
or thirty clerks is employed.
The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1863-04-01

AN exchange has the following MS an
excellent system of gardening for young
ladies': Make up your beds early in the
morning; SOW buttons ou your husbands
shirts; do not rake up any grievances
protect the young and tender branches of
your family; plant smile of good tenn
per in your face; and carefully root out
all angry feelings and expect good crop
of happiness.
The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1863-04-01
SPRING.

The bursting buds look up
To greet the sunlight while it fingers yet
On the warm hill side, and the violet
Opens its azure cup
Meekly, and countless wild flowers wake to fling
Their earliest incense on the gale of Spring.
Continual songs arise
From universal Nature-birds and streams
Mngle their voices, and the glad earth seems
A second Paradise
Thrice blessed Spring! Thou Dearest gifts divine
Sunshine, and song, and fragrance all are thine.
Nor unto earth alone.
Thou hast blessing for the human heart,
Balm for its wounds, and healing for its smart,
Telling of winter flown.
And bringing hope upon thy rainbow wing,
Type of Eternal Life--thrice blessed Spring.
The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1863-04-01
THE TWO HOMES.
BY MRS. STEPHENSON.
HOME NO. ONE.

hOhh NO' CA'Es
was to board with Mrs. Wimp for
the term, while l taught school. l had
never been in the house, but it had q
handsome outside, and liked the looks of
the piazza and Venitian blinds, and ever
greens in the yard.
"You are the new teacher, suppose"
said Mrs. Wimp, as 1 went timidly in the
first noon-time for my dinner.
assented; but after chatting half an
hour l saw no dinner nor any sign of it,
Il learned afterwards that they ate in
that house when they got hungry, and
not at any particular time,) so looking at
my watch l told her l must hurry back
to school, and would thank her for piece
Of bread and BUTTER as / had had nothing
to eat since l left town in the morning.
Mrs. Wimp was quiet, good natured
woman, and seemed really vexed that
she had not thought to ask me if l was
hungry.
Betty was called from the lower regions,
and after awhile brought along some
mince pie aud doughnuts, of which l ate
enough hastily to make me think, that af-
ternoon, had got one Of the worst
schools in creation. The lunch was laid
upon a marble slab table in the front par
Ior, and 1 noticed when passed through
the hall in the evening that the plates lay
there still.
Mr.. Wimp was tall, dark, handsome
man, but 1 thought him very cross and
exacting, grumbling about his pocket
handkerchiefs being hid away where he
never could find them. any dear, l
dont't hide them," heard Mrs. Wimp
say laughingly, and then she would pa
tiently search all the drawers of the bu-
reau, sometimes in vain, though she had
plenty of them she said, if she only knew
where TO find them.
1 never saw Mrs. Wimp angry, not
even when her husband told her before
me one day that he hadn't shirt in the
world with full set of buttons on, and
that he'd worn one pair of socks three
weeks. "Well, the other pair went
astrav in the wash, or weren't picked
up when Betty was hunting the dirty
Clothes" she said, apologetically.
Betty was a clumsy, untutored girl,
who bad never been brought up with any
habits at all, save those she had naturally
fallen into, and Mrs. Wimp with her ev-
erlasting crotcheting and embroidery, had
no spare time to bring her up now. l
must confess to feeling of amusement
the first afternoon l went into the kitch-
en-, and saw Betty hounderiug through
a perfect labyrinth of pots and crooks and
grease jars. Here was pan of yeast in
the sink that had lain there for days ap-
parently, aud bowl of soft soap beside
it; broken cheese, around which the flies
buzzed in hundreds, stood in the pantry,
the shelves of which were almost empty.
Bless me! / cried, Betty, how do you ev-
er make out' Why don't you set away
half these things in the pantry7 "Why,
Miss, / keeps 'em hero TO be handy" she
replied, show can l run in de pantry NIT
The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1863-04-01

CULTIVATION OF FLAx.-Public atten-
ton is beginning to be directed to the
growth of flax. In Pennsylvania many
farmers intend planting flax seed this
coming spring. The farmers in the Ger
man township in Bucks county, Pa, have
been successful for years in raising flax.
Congress has appropriated $4,000
for experiments, in preparing hemp and
flax as substitute for cotton. Cannot
our Michigan farmers give it trial?
The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1863-04-01
HOME NO. TWO,


"How do you get along, aunty, for
want of room in this little log housel"
"System, child, system is everything"
she replied.
"Yes, but you used to tell me in New
York, "A place for everything and every
thing in its place. l should think you
had no place for anything here"
And while l spoke, instinctively
glanced around at the neat arrangements
of the three-roomed house. Aunty had
seen better days before the crash of 1857,
and while her husband was struggling
hard to retrieve himself, she was not the
one to indulge in the luxury of fine
house until she could afford it. She had
brought along to Ohio one bureau and
clock, they were the last of her fine fur
niture, and the only pieces she saved to
bring out West. l looked up at the an
tiquated clock in its mahogany frame,
and it seemed to say, "twelve o'clock,
dinners ready, children" as aunty used
to say when l was child. In the morn
ing when the time piece struck six, we
were eating breakfast; and uncle boasted
that he and his boys were to work in the
fields when some of his neighbors were
but starting fires.
never saw bureau that did such
service as that one. There were the bed
linen and hand towels and table cloths;
one especial drawer was the "baby's
drawer" and nothing belonging to it ev-
er went anywhere else. 10 the small up
per drawers was the place for the ker-
chiefs, the collars and gloves, and smaller
knick-knacks. Indeed, / believe she cod
go to the bureau and get what she want
ed in the dark.
Ironing day "wednesday l heard her
say to the boys, "Here are your socks,
and shirts, and handkerchiefs, put them
away neatly in your trunks" And then
| perceived that in lieu of better, their
travelling trunks were still used, and that
aunty had still a place for everything.
Monday was washing day, and | noticed
that all the dirty clothes were taken out
of Il box without any apparent gathering,
and was consequently not surprised on
next Sabbath morning to hear three-year-
old Katy say Mamma, Katy put away
dirty apen in a dirty clothes box"
Tuesday my aunt always had baking and
churning done; indeed, the old clock was
not more regular with its tick, tick, tick,
than was she with one day for this, an
other for that, and so forth, and that was
the reason l suppose that the house was
always so neat, because too much work
was never crowded into one day. The
children had robust, healthy look, like
children who had proper food in due sea-
son. For, after all, it is the dieting, and
not the medicine, that makes the healthy
family.
If / were romance writer now, |
should represent Mrs. Wimp as having
children who should in due time inter-
marry with my aunt's children, and have
a dreadful time, as order and disorder,
system and no system, clashed with each
other.
My characters are taken from life, and
yet | suppose such marriages do some.
times take place, and no doubt they do
have a dreadful time before each party
accommodates itself to the other-if such
time ever arrives.
- o
WuY is the polka like bitter beer7-
The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1863-04-01
RATES OF ADVERTISING.

Twelve lines or less (Mnion) make l square,
Business Cards, not exceeding six lines, $500.
Legal advertising at legal rates, fifty cents per
folio for the first and twenty-five cents per folio
for each subsequent insertion.
Advertisements unaccompanied with written
or verbal directions, will be published until Or
dered out, and charged for. When postpone
ment is added TO advertisement, the whole
will be charged, the same as for the first insertion
JOB Printing,
All kinds Of Book, Card, Post-Bill, Catalogue
or Fancy Printing done on short notice, and at
reasonable rates. Blanks of all kinds, printed to
order, with neatness and despatch.
Gss- Patronage is respectfully solicited.
Letters relating to business, to receive atten-
ton, must be addressed to the Publishers.
J.& w. BARNS, PUBLISHERS.
The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1863-04-01

THE marriage of General Tom Thumb
was given an excessively high tone by the
assertion that he would not on any ac.
count allow Mrs. Thumb to be exhibited
for money. 1t turns out as we expected.
The little wretch is showing his three
weeks bride in Boston at two shillings a
head.
The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1863-04-01

every tings. You can not vishstan de
kitchen, you knows best de shule."
And so ended my attempts in trying
to better things, until with sallow face
and somewhat dyspeptic, took my leave
at the end of my school term.
The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1863-04-01

"ARRAH, Pat, and why did l marry
ye-just tell me that! for it's meself
that's had to maintain ye ever since the
blessed day that Father O'Flannigan sent
me home to yer house."
"Swate jewell" replied Pat, not relish
ing the charge, "and its meself that
hopes l may live to see the day when
yc're widow, waping over the cold sod
that covers me; then BY st. Patrick, III
see how you get along without me, hoE-
evp
The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1863-04-01

j. F. Chubb, Manufacturer Of and
Dealer in Plows, Cultivators, Thresbing Ma
chimes, Reapors, Mowers, Hay Presses and all
kinds Of Farming Tools and Machines. Ag-
ricultural Warehouse, Canal Street, Grand
Rapids, Mich.
The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1863-04-01

VIM. M. Ferry Jr., Manufacturer
of Stationary and Marine, high or low press
uro Engines, Mill Gearing, Iron and Brass
Castings, Ottawa Iron Works, Ferrysburg,
Ottawa Co., Mich. Post Office address, Grand
Haven, Mich.
The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1863-04-01

TINE is the bell ringer Of the universe.
He strikes the hours even now; presently
he will peal the last chimes.
The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1863-04-01

Rev. CHAs. G. ADAMS, of the Twenty
Second Connecticut Regiment, has been
mustered out of service for speculating
with postage stamps, and borrowing mon
ey of enlisted men and servants"
The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1863-04-01

George E. Hubbard, Dealer in
Stoves, Hardware, Guns, Iron, Nails, Spike,
Glass, Circular and Cross-cut Saws, Butchers
Files and Manufacturer Of Tin. Copper, and
Sheet-Iron Wares. Job work done On short
notice. Corner of Washington and First sts
Grand Haven, Mich.
The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1863-04-01

ONE of the Texans who boarded the
Harriet Lane, Immediately on jumping
aboard graspod Federal officer by the
collar, exclaiming:
Surrender, or | will blow your brains
outw
The other replied; "You had better
look at me firstw
Recognition was instantaneous; they
were brothers
The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1863-04-01

y. T. Davis, Merchant Tailor, Dealer
in Gents Furnishing Goods, Broadcloths, Cas-
simeres, Vestings, &c. Shop, Washington st.
I'd door below the Drug Store
The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1863-04-01

Why is the polka like bitter beer?-
Because there are so many hops in it.
The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1863-04-01

A cocKNEY being asked why he mar
ried second time replied, "because it is
re-1CiUing."
The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1863-04-01

LAWYERS mouths are like turnpike
gates-never opened except for pay.
The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1863-04-01

Miner Hedges, Proprietor of the La
mont Premium Mills, dealer in Merchandise,
Groceries and Provisions, Pork, Grain and
Mill Feed, Shingles, &C., &c. Lamont, Otta-
wa County, Michigan.
The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1863-04-01

DoDDs says he has one of the most
obedient boys in the world. He tells him
to do as he pleases, and he does it with
out murmuring.
The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1863-04-01


LOVE AND LAUDANUM.-Mary Clark,
white woman, twenty-eight years Of
age, became enamored of one Charles
Miller, colored man, and went to live
with him. Charles vowed eternal fideli-
ty, and promised Mary that he would
unite his destinies with hers forever in
matrimonial ties. Days and weeks pass
ed on, however, and Charles made no
sign of visiting the parson. On the con-
trary, he grew tired Of his white al
lance, and longed for one of his own col
or. He found one and left Mary TO her
self, but so enamored was she of her low
er that she submitted to living with him
and his new flame. This state of things
could not last long, however. Jealousies
crept in, and Mary feeling this world to
be blank procured quantity Of lauda-
mum and drank it. The rash act was
speedily known and the deluded woman
conveyed to Bellevue Hospital, where q
rigid course of stomach-pumps and anti
dotes were administered. Her recovery
was considered doubtful.-N Y. Times.
The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1863-04-01

Ferry g. Son, Manufacturers and
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Lumber, Shin
giles, Lath, Pickets, Timber &c. Business Of
fees, Water Street, Grand Haven, Mich, and
236, Adams Street, Chicago, Ill.
The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1863-04-01

George d. Sanford, Dealer in News
papers, Periodicals, School Books, Stationery;
also Detroit Dailies and Weeklies, Yankee
Notions, Tobacco, Cigars, Candies, Nuts, DC
First door above Wallace's Store, Washing
ton street.
The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1863-04-01

Augustus w. Taylor Judge of
Probate, Ottawa County. Post Office address
Ottawa Center. Court days, First and Third
Mondays of each Month. Office at the Court
House, Grand Haven.
The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1863-04-01

A Boy HERo.-Among the passen-
gers from Chicago by the way of Crest
line this morning were woman and two
children, whose history is of considerable
interest. The woman, who is still young
and good looking, with her husband and
two children, one about eleven years old
and the other about fifteen months, lived
at New Ulm, Minnesota. Last fall, when
the Indians massacred the unfortunate in
habitants of that ill-fated village, the hus-
band was killed outright, and the woman
so terribly outraged and injured that she
was left for dead amid the other victims
Of that frightful massacre. The children
were overlooked in the carnage, and es-
capped uninjured.
After the Indians had gone the boy
came out of his hiding-place, and found
both parents seemingly dead. He then
picked up the child, and started out across
the prairies towards the settlement. For
thirty miles the little fellow trudged along,
carrying the child, stopping to rest and
sleep occasionally on his weary march,
but at last he arrived in safety among
the white people.
The people who subsequently started
ed out to the relief of New Ulm, found
the mother not dead, and by care she was
finally restored TO life and health. They
went out this morning to Warren, where
they have friends Cleveland Herald.
The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1863-04-01
Live Temperately.

Americans, as a people, are prone to
eat too much and too fast. The advan-
tages of temperate living are we'll set
forth in the following paragraphs:
Solomon tells that glutton shall come
to poverty; warns us not to be among riot
GUS eaters of flesh; and even bids us to put
n knife into our throats if we be men
given to appetite. Is there no less des-
perate remedy?
Jefferson says "No man ever repents
eating too little"
Sir Isaac Newton very often dined on
pennys worth of bread.
Abernethy cured his indigestion and re-
gained his flesh by going into the coun-
try, where he was able to get good milk
and eggs, and living upon it three times
a day, with no drink but ginger-water.
On this quantity of food he regained his
flesh and uniformly got better.
Marion and his men waxed strong and
valiant with no food but sweet potatoes,
no drink but water, an no shelter but the
sky.
Besides brown bread, the Greek boat
men subsist almost solely upon their ma
tive fruits-fgs, grapes and raisins. They
are the most nimble, active, graceful,
cheerful and even the merriest people in
the world
Grant Thorburn attributed his cheerful
old age to the fact that he "never eat
enough" and thousands of his country
men are wearing out their bodies not so
much by the excess Of business or the
multiplicity of cares, as by the over-work
that they crowd upon them in digesting
surplus and unnecessary food.--Erchange.
---o-
SHEEP.-A flock of two hundred and
five common wool sheep-seyeuty-five
last years lambs-was sold at Romeo, on
Friday, by George Washer, for 81, ,l59 so,
averaging S5 SO. Average live weight
ninety pounds. Fifty-three of the above
sold for 81 so per head-bought by Mr..
Broom.
The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1863-04-01

John H. Newcomb, Dealer in Dry
Goods, Groceries, Provisions, Crockery, Hard
ware, Boots and Shoes, etc. State Street,
Mil Point. Mich.
The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1863-04-01

William Wallace, Grocer and Pro
vision Merchant, Washington Street, Grand
Haven, Mich.
The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1863-04-01

Parks & Vandenberg, Agents for
the Peoria Marine & Fire Insurance Company,
Grand Haven, Mich.
The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1863-04-01
BUSINESS DIRECTORY

C, J. Pfaf, Sheriff of Ottawa Co.,
Grand Haven, Mich.
The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1863-04-01
TTE GRAND HAVEN NEWS.
Published every Wednesday,
BY j. Sc j. W. BARNS.

CANS ;-oNE DOLLAR PER YEAR IN ADVANCE.
aas> 81 SO when left by the Carrier. -Gs@
Office, on Washington Street,
First door above the Post 0Gee,)
Grand Haven, Ottawa Co., Michigan.
The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1863-04-01

Robert w. Duncan, Circuit Court
Commissioner, Grand Haven, Mich.
The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1863-04-01

George G.. Lowell, County Treasu-
rer, Grand Haven, Mich.
The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1863-04-01

William H. Parks, Prosecuting AT
torney, Grand Haven, Mich.
The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1863-04-01

Peter Van Den Berg, County Clerk
and Register of Deeds, Grand Haven, otta-
wa Co, Mich.
The Smoky Hill and Republican union. [volume] (Junction City, Kan.) 1861-1864, 1863-09-05
ARMING THE STATE.

After most arduous efforts. Governor Carney
has succeeded in obtaining arms for the defense
Of our people. Attention is called to bis General
Order, No. l, and also to that of his Aid, Col.
-Strickler 1t will be seen that the order for the
enrolled militia to organize is imperative, and
that compulsory power is given in cases where
men refuse to do their duty.
The Sacking of Lawrence has opened the eyes
of the authorities at Washington, and their lib.
eralty towards State just at present is indeed
refreshing. Governor Carney for the past six
months has held before their eyes the insecurity
of the Border. and begged of them some means
of defence. 1t was not granted until the mis-,
chief had been done. Secretary Stanton has
ordered FIVE thousand stand of arms to be shipped
TO Fort Leavenworth, to supply the acquisitions
Of the Governor. Ammunition is also furnished,
and the Secretary offers any other supplies which
may be necessary.
The companies raised under this Order will
be thoroughly armed and equipped. and provided
with ammunition. The principal object is to get
the people armed. 1t is not presumed by any
one that there will ever be any call made upon
the militia, particularly of these Western coun-
ties, as all future invasions on the Eastern bor-
der will doubtless be but small marauding bands.
1t is hoped. then, that every good citizen will do
his share towards so desirable an object. and
come forward cheerfully and speedily and take
his place in the ranks Of some militia organiza-
ton. Our State must be put upon . war footing.
Colonel Strickler has the power to organize in
the counties of Davis. Dickinson, Saline. Clay.
Riley Wahaunsae potfa vatOmie Marshall Re.
public, Warrington and Shirley.
The Smoky Hill and Republican union. [volume] (Junction City, Kan.) 1861-1864, 1863-09-05

Quantrell's retreat was marked By all the
outrsges he aud his gang could find time to
commit. They burned the house Of Goss,
a farmer near Blanton's bridge, and tore up
the planks of the bridge and fired it. 1t
was extipguished without much damage
being done. From Blanton's bridge to the
Santa Fe road they burned everything
houses, barns, crops, &C., for half mile on
each side of the road. The house, barns,
&C., of Mr.. Ulrick, one Of the heaviest far
mers Of Douglas county, were burned; also
those of Mr.. Rothwick, whom they at
tempted to kill, shooting him three times.
At Brooklyn, little town on the Santa
Fe road, they burned pretty much every.
thing there was. Here they divided their
command, with the intention of burning
both Prairie City and Baldwin, but Major
Plumb's forces coming up on their left
flank, they pushed off to the west Of Prai-
rie City, following down the Ossawattomie
road.-Leocenacorth Times.