The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1864-12-27
A first class locomotive now costs
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Fame is like an eel-hard to catch
and still harder to hold.
Drive your cattle on the ice if You
want cowsips in the winter. ia.sW
Man is partly creature and partly
the creator OF circumstances. aa 3 4
Wehavc averaged the capture of one
blockade runner day for the last 81
years. 80 r.,rpoaa. So. &
The bounty jumpers arrested at In
dianapoHs have had $4,000 Taken from
them.
Muller was executed in London on
the l4th, making confession on the
scafoldi ~ ~
Better have no dumplings in the fam.
lily than to have them made of the ap-
pies Of discord. ta lsn -
Twenty wild animals from Calcutta,
among them royal Bengal tiger, have
recently arrived in Boston. ,df fu
Twelve thousand dogs are registered
in the State of Vermont, yielding an
annual revenue of as many dollars. t
The late Judge Tanney was very te.
nacious of life, and would not believe
until the last that his end was nigh.
The latest way to pop the question
is to ask fair lady If you can have the
pleasure ofseeing her to the minister's:
A Democrtie editor in Iowa say his
party in that State has taken tke degree
of L. L. D.,-Licked Like the Devil e''
What is the difference between
pound Of meat and drummer boy?
One pounds away, and the other weighs
pound.
The SOLDIERS VOTE, after all, elects
Dr. Smith Fuller to Congress in the
2lst Pa. District, over. John L. Daw-
son, Democrat.
New York city has already paid on
account of the July riots, the sum Of
l,344,7 ,72s %, and nearly half million
dollars are yet unadjusted.
| A LETTER from Vicksburg says that
the appropriation Of JErF. DAvIs's
farm for the use of freedmen viii re.
lieve the Governmen ofsupport ofsome
ten thousand negroes.
eg-Sixteen hundred additional re.
leased Union prisoners have arrived at
Annapolis from Charleston within the
past two days, on the steamships North
ern Light and Varuna.
a nest of draft resisters and de-
serters in Clearfield County, Penn, was
broken up on the 18th inst. One Un-
ion soldier was shot, and the ringlcader
of the deserters was killed.
rB-The Electoral College of Louis;
lana met on the 7th inst, and cast tho
vote of the state for Lincoln and John
son. a messenger was elected to con-
vey the vote to Washington.
Capt. Henry B. Clay, grandson
of the great statesman, escaped from
Union custody in Georgia several
weeks since, and reached Richnond.
He is captain in the Rebel service.
EE"Brown" says the first time Nc
Clellan was sever under fire." was on
the 9Th of November, and he guesses
that he wished he had kept both feet
off that platform. 1t was so in range
of the enemy's guns.
In 1850, the vote of Peoria county,
ILL.,. was as follows: Lincoln, $3.50 |;
Douglas, 1888. This year Lincoln OBJ
tanned 1886, and Mcclellan $3.50. Lin
coins vote varied but three, and the
democratic vote varied but one.
4 Boston paper publishes list of
lO3 persons in that city, whose annual
incomes, as returned under the special
income tax, are above $4,000, One
gentleman has an income of $S05, 1885,.
and 80 persons are taxed on incomes
over $5O,0o0.
The San Jose Mercury says the wife
of Jose Castro, of fMontercy, has given
birth to thirty six children, all of whom
are living together in that county,
The first twenty are twins, each pair
representatives of either sex. Of the
remaining children, eleven only were
single hora
A Coop MovE.-Wc observe tSat
many of the sub districts, in anticipa-
ton of q draft, are already engaged in
receiving men to fill their quotas. The
movement is a good one, and localities
that have not made any movement
would do well to attend to the matter,
and thus avoid rush, should call be
made in the future.
w Gen. James w. Nyc has been
elected one of the United States Sena-
tors from the new State of Nevada,
Mr.. William NJ. Stewart is his Sena-
torial colleague. Mr.. Nyc was appoint
cd by President Lincoln Governor Of
the Territory of Nevada, and held that
position until the Inauguration of tho
State Government, Gc
The famous Captain Hines, who en-
gineered the underground operation
whereby Morgan escaped from the
Ohio penitentiary, and was in fact, the
first man who emerged from the aper-
ature made near the prison wall, has
been arrested in New York as one Of
the persons engaged in the incendiary
operations in that city. -
EE The guerrilla Adam Johnson.
who was recently wounded, passed
through New Albany, Ind, recently,
en- romc to Virginia to visit his wife.
He is now totally blind. The ball with
,.h;oL he ,v.e wounded entered his left