The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1875-10-19
NUMBER 1911.
mIsCELLANEOUs.

The Columbus (Ga) Times publish
es letter from Generals Chiffon and
Ould, fully exonerating JEFF Davis
from any knowledge Of the ill-treat-
ment Of the Andersonville prisoners.
Wednesday morning two houses were
struck by lightning at Blissfield, but
no damage was done. Mr.. Bliss, the
owner of one OF the houses, was con-
siderably shaken up. being in the act
Of building fire at the time.
The Methodists have just announced
that RECKLESS contracting of church
debts is disastrous to the church."
Quite right; and il has ordinarily prov
ed very disastrous to the contractee as
well.
Galveston has done nearly double the
business since the storm that it did be-
fore. Chicagos business has increas-
ed fourfold since the great fire. Let
us recommend st. Louis TO be either
burned or drowned.
The papers have got An Idea-from
semewhere-that nature bushes be-
cause the leaves fall, and the bare
Nature cared fig, or even a fig leaf,
how bare they we're.
The four candidates for Congress in
Oregon are jointly discussing the is
sues. 1t takes them five hours each
time TO get through their talking. Or
egon must be pcopled by Jobs and
meek imitators of Moses.
A young girl at the Barton House,
in Ypsilanti, committed suicide last
week by taking corrosive sublimate.-
No actual cause is known for the deed.
Her mother took poison and she has
tried twice before this to end her own
life.
The incoming Legislature OF Wyom-
ing will be asked to repeal the disgrace
full gambling and lottery license laws
of that Territory and already the sports
OF Cheyenny and Laramie are raising
a corruption fund Of $4,000 to defeat
the movement.
An official statement of the number
Of grain and molasses distilleries in op-
Grafton on the 1st inst. and their daily
capacities shows the number of distil-
leries to be ia, with total daily spirit
producing capacity of 189, 8S3 gallons,
an increase over September OF forty
FIVE distilleries and Is, S74 gallons daily.
Supposing she did walk thres-fourths
Of n mile in the rain, soil her new strip
ed stockins, and nearly ruin nef dress,
what was that in comparison to the Joy
Of being the first one to tell Mrs. Jones
Al A H. - SI...
Revere this winter, as old Smith had
failed.
About noon on the 18th inst, high
wind blew down the unfinished Agri-
cultural Hall in the National Centen-
nial grounds. The building was about
one-third completed and entirely of
wood. Eight laborers were injured.
five seriously and one fatally. The
building was under contract to be I'm
ished by Jan. /.
A lady on leaving the summer resort
hotels last week was charged for an en-
tire China toilet set, only one piece of
which had broken. She paid the bill,
and pleading the excuse of having for
gotten something returned to the room
and broke each and every article of the
set for which she had paid. Aud some
people say women are not cleyer.-N.
Y. Evening Mail.
At Jackson, Ohio, Governor Hend-
ricks was escorted 10 a hotel which,
though IL had Democratic landlord,
had n Republican landlady, as a conse.
quence, that particular hotel displayed
no flags on the dav of the Democratic
meeting. Who says the women have
no influence in this country, Indian
apolis Journal.
The increased shipments of grain
this year do not go through New York
city. A table of this trade for 0 months
in 1875 shows that S,772, ,519 bushels
less were received Mt New York than in
1874 Baltimore has held her own;
Philadelphia increased her trade by
500, 900 bushels. Now the talk is of
big elevator for the use Of the New
York Central railroad.
A murder of unusually shocking bru-
tality occurred in the township of Ber-
lin, last Monday. Julius Poneny, who
had been in the habit of beating his
wife. attacked her on Monday night
aud inflicted such a terrible injury
that she died on Tuesday. The fact of
her being in condition of pregnancy,
adds to the Nervousness Of the offense.
The murderer cannot be found, and il
is supposed that he has fed to Canada.
Great excitement exists in the locality.
About 5000 houses and lots will be
sold for taxes this month in BROOKLYN
N. Y. Don't curse the republican par
ty for this. Brooklyn is city OF pure
triumphant democracy, giving large
majority for that party, and putting
all its affairs into the hands Of demo-
cratic rings. The taxes are nearly
equal to seven per cent Of the cash val
ration of property, so that poor men
are beginning TO be known by the
amount Of real estate they own.
A writer in Frazer's Magazine shows
that the tone OF morals has vastly inn
proved OF late years in the English uni
versities, and in the country generally,
especially in the church. "Sensual ex-
cess, he writes, "was the order of the
day from the restoration of Charles III.
until il was checked by Methodism
outside Of the church and by Evangel-
icanism Within" And he adds this
sentence, worth being pondered in view
Of the question of licensing the sale Of
| liquors: 1--WE have not yet recovered
| from the mischief of giving to the ex-
cheauer direct interest in the drink
ing habits of the nation"
The Chicago Tribune Of Oct. Q, just
four years after the great fire, reviews
| the immense amount of building done
in that city during the past season. 1t
give list of !. 800 structures of more
or less importance which have been
erected there, costing some Sls, 900.
The extension Of fire limits has proved
that poor people can build brick hous-
es. A city built TO last 100 years will
grow rich faster than one built to last
only IL years, for the saving in insur-
ance rates, repairs, aud new construc-
tion will count up enormously on the
side OF permanence.
The Ohio election is over, but this
paragraph, from the state Journal, has
Just as much force now as it had two
days ago, when il appeared In that pa
per: Governor Allen has done his best
TO stir up the worst passions OF the
men who have heard him throughout
the canvass. IL il infinitely degrading
10 the political arena TO have such pes
tilent blatherskite let loose IN it, But
Allen has learned nothing in the forty
wears since he made appeals to the pref
udice rather than the reason Of his
auditors as candidate for Congress.
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