The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1876-05-09
NUMBER 1859.


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Hog cholera Is raging In the vicinity
OF Shiloh, Morgan county. ILL
The Texas wheat crop for 1870 is e.
timsted at IL, ,000. 900 bushels.
The population OF London increased
A,Ao9 during the past year.
There are 1886 American srhibi-
tors enrolled for the Centsnnial.
The ate on which Cincinnati is built
was sold for loss than hfty silver dol
lars in 1857.
Brooklyn is city Of dark ways, and
yet 1t is proposed to cut OF 2. .s79 street
lamps there.
New Workers are fleeing into the
wilds OF New Jersey to escape a muni.
cipal tax plague.
Now Yorkers nre TO have q respite.
He'll Gate is not to be blown open IN
Ill the latter part Of July.
Purses TO the amount of S50o, 900 for
the Philadelphia races this summer
have already been made up.
Paris proposes TO spend s24, 00o, 900
to prepare herself for the reception Of
visitors at the exhibition of 1879.
Why is an epicure who has Just nn.
ishsd his dinner like an Arab in camp?
Because he is intent on the desert.
Professor Ito Freshman)-"What in
o circlsf" Freshman (after much re-
fection)-"A round, straight line, with
hole In the middle"
An Indiana glass factory has reoeiy.
ed an order from st. Louis for 1900
demijohns. The National Democratic
Convention meets there.
Vesuyins is still splitting nrs. The
crust OF the earth Is cooling aud CON-
tracing, and this overflow 10 merely
the escape from the safety valve.
Jack, how do you like the rector
daughter7" Don't know; I've always
seen her drunk" What the rector's
daughter drunk?" No; l."
A negro was scalded 10 death from q
beilor explosion and on his tombstone
they chiseled deeply, Sacred to the
memory of our steamed friend"
Take care. The old issues OF fifty.
cent stamps bearing the heads Of Lin.
coin, Spinner, Robert ]. Walker, WASH
ington snd Stanton. have been largely
counterfeited.
The happiest moments in woman's
life, says an authority, are when she il
selecting her wedding troussssu, and
when she drst gets her photograph
taken.
A New Jersey Court has decided
that the stakeholder is legally bound
TO return his money to the loser OF Q
bet il he demands It. The law 10 not
On abettor Of betters.
The news current regarding the Tnr-
kish troubles in diplomatic circles
strengthens the chances Of a renewed
armistice, and successful negotiations
with the insurgents.
Tom Allen, OF Cincinnati, has cover
ed the $500 forfeit, put up by Goss,
t5a hhsSlish PDEilSot % sSotr rfBas aeEJyapsRssns'
The following message and reply was
sent and received at q Waterbury,
Conn. telegraph Office: IT am dying"
'sWhen you die, let me know"
The House Appropriation Commit.
tee decided yesterday TO press the post
Office appropriation bill in the House
to the exclusion OF all other measures.
W. A. Merriweathsr, late clerk In
the United States District Court at
Louisville has fled petition in bank
ruptcy. Liabilities, 100000; assets.
$3.50, 900.
Governor RicS, uf Massachusetts,
has vetoed the bill to legalize the mar
riagc OF James Parton, on the ground
that the act is not within the constitu-
tional power OF tho Legislature.
Osea Sanders, a Cherokee Indian,
sentenced to be hung at Fort Smith en-
the 2lst, but who was respited by the
President, will be hung on the I'd Of
June, by direction Of the President.
Several indictments against firms in
New York City for defrauding the Gov
eminent Of revenue due from whisky.
we're handed into cosrt Saturday. The
names are not made public.
The Columbus police force went on
daty again yesterday. The only trou.
BILE that occurred during their one
nights rest. was the destruction Of
$500 worth OF window glass in the
north end by rowdies.
A Cincinnati woman has written
letter to the Coroner Of Philadelphia,
claiming TO be the wife Of DIR. Schuh,
who, with his supposed wife. commit
ted suicide there rentlf.
Two hundred aud thirty thousand
cubic feet OF the best pine timber are
used In making the 10000, ,000, 900
matches which the United States an.
nually produce.
Capt. A. II. Jones, OF Atlanta, Ca,
has MIXED Durham COW for Ave years
that never had q calf. She gave an
abundance Of rich milk. She was kill.
cd q few days ago aud Weighed .ilo
pounds.
lyon labor oveTmnch on your cSu,-
position, DOCTOR" said fiippant cler.
gymsn TO n venerable divine. "I write
serman in three hours and make
nothing OF it," $50 your congrega-
toh seyo, fuosh VIC uvStoi.
"Mrs. Splinks, observed boarder
10 the landlady Of Munson street car
avansary; "the equal adjustment of
this establishment couli be more safe
ly secured IL there was less hair in the
hash and more in the mattresses. -
Danbury News.
Mary's difficulty - Mistress Let
you go to evening school, Nary Why
thought you could read!" Mary
swell, ma'am, does know my letters
fustrste, so longs keep in O row; hut
just as soon as they gits mixed up into
words, I'm beatT'
On the 25th Of April. freight train
bound east on the Canada Southern
Railway ran into the Wellapd Canal,
wrecking the engine and eight freight
cars. Engineer Csdy was killed; also
Van Houghtop, the fireman. Itis sup
posed the engineer was asleep, a. the
siguals were up that the bridge was
open. The canal is not obstructsd.
A Washington special says the House
Appropriation Committee adopted the
J postoffice bill this morning, which pro-
vidcs that the free delivery system shall
not 10 introduced in ci,ies Of less than
$500 inhabitants; also, to adopt, .