The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1876-01-18
NUMBER 1853.


, hich gold diggings are reporter 10
have been discovered in the Wind Riv-
er and Big Horn Mountains. Utah.
4 The thirteenth census of Iowa, Just
completed. shows q population Of
l,3il, ,43s. being an increase Of 147,41e
since 1870.
The new census OF Michigan shows
that the State has a population OF
1870.
There are great many Morenci
households, who cannot say their lines
have been cast in pleasant places
Clothes line thieves are too numerous.
The New York Herald las been in
teryiewing the Congressmen who voted
against the anti-third-term resolution.
It says that Mr.. Bradley Of Michigan
did so as "aprotest against Democrat
| ic bullying"
As We go TO press we learn that John
Stephenson, of this place, broke his
leg while attempting to get on board .
train, at about half past three o'clock
this morning. L Hudson Post, Thurs
day. ,ss
! A stock company has been formed in
4 Centreville to manufacture a new pat
4 ent grsin and-seed-separator. The
| company have secured commodicus
building near Allison's foundry, aud
4 viii commence manufacturing at once
A certain married Maine man is al
loved only $50 per month for the sup
i port of himself and wife, all the rest OF
/ his income being demanded by the
\ court to pay damages to the young wo-
man he had first thought Of marrying.
John Emery, OF Lansing. is going to
prove that this nation will not be q
1 the Centennial The Emperor Of Bra
where yet but that something happen
ed 40 he had to stay at homo.
| Kalamazoo thieves are noted for
their wonderful enterprise. One of
them has Just stolen four cords of
wood, and another the cave spouts
from the house. He will be back after
the house ina few nights, and then
they'll catch him.
An old Ohio Democrat writes 10
/ friend in New York telling him he need
never moro believe in spiritualism and
spirit knockings, for il spirits could
come back TO earth and knock, old An
drew Jackson would have come and
knocked Allen down for his bad Demo
cracy."
The Chicago Times thus character
izes the average Democrat: :-"He is
politically the stupidest thing on the
planet. and must conform TO the re-
4 quirements Of his stupidity. Incapable
OF bringing himself forward 10 the living
4 present, he will continue to vote for the
dead and buried Democratic party, and
70 expect the mountain to open and re-
\ fease from his sepulchrs OF ages the
rock-rooted Democratic Barbarossa."
A. Hers was q face
n, Whose occult charm no limnsrs art
i, Could steal; whose nameless grace
Elusive was, as light that falls
! -'s-a -..I Where waters part
I all face so fair.
so haunted with sweet mysteries
/ ~ seem q face astray from heavily scenes,
And not Of one who e'er
hku sreakfastcd on buckwhcAt cakes,
4 Or dined on beans.
! A Grand Rapids husband remarked
to his wife recently, that he had made
up his mind to shoot himself, but when
she kindly went and brought him the
\ gun the ungratefnl brute positively re-
fused TO use it. Atleast the Democrat
says he did. and we really don't see
! why Grand Rapids husband can't do
anything that has been already done in
other cities without having his origin
nlity called in question.
! New Years night fight occurred in
Conger's billiard room, at Adrian, in
which rough and tumble fighter
known as "Whapsey" was roughly ham
died. and rescued by Marshal WASH
burn. One Jordan, n notorious rep
resentative of the son Of woodsharks,
/ fred q pistol during the melee, and
then got away from the officers by .
back door, the ball lodging in parti-
, ton.
The editor of the Cincinnati Inquir-
er, writing from the National capital,
takes melancholy view OF the Demo-
cratic majority in Congress. The Tar
tars of the plains, he declares, are
! British grenadiers as TO discipline,
compared with the rank and file of the
Democratic party. The Republicans,
on the other hand, always seem to
know exactly what they want to do,
and have very little trouble in doing il.
Hartford Post: We intended to print
to-day an original poem Of ours called
, "Beautiful Snow" IL begins as fol-
, laws:
NY ''0h. the snow, the beautiful snow,
, Filling the earth and sky below"
: and 80 on for five or six hundred verses;
the editor-in-chief happened to learn OF
our intention. and he casually remark
4 ed while sharpening a carving-knife
, that there wouldn't be any such -
c nonsense over orr funeral as there has
: been over Guibord's it occurred to US
e that the public cared very little for
9 poetry unless it is from the pen OF Geo.
w. Childs.
! The pluck OF the farmers OF the
i crasshopper districts OF Kansas, Ne
braska and Missouri in replanting,
a with favorable season 10 aid them
: has been rewarded with full crops
5 which they are selling at good prices.
l. But to their pluck they should now add
IS prudent foresight, and in this regard
e. might do well TO copy after the Nor
% mons. Extended observations in Idaho,
J. Montana, Wyoming, and Utah show
h that the 'hoppers Of last season have
II deposited their eggs in untold quanti-
o ties, and that 80 soon as the warm
,e weather comes there will be . worse
is visitation of these pests the coming
10 year than ever before. So far ~ OBJ
e. servations have been made, the same
e. il true Of the region in Kansas, Nebras'
K ka, and Missouri last summer dsvasta-
be ted by the 'hoppers. In Utah. by or
N der of Brigham Young, the farmers arr
ne storing their crops in view OF the posi-
bility of another plague OF 'hoppers.
4 should ID como they will be prepared
for ID. But in Missouri, Kansas and
Nebraska, where there is equal room
N. for apprehending visitation by thu
a. locusts again next spring and summer
: no. such precautions are being taken.
,, the farmers are selling their crops and
: spending their money ~ usual, and, i
=. visited by the locusts, will again b,
- compelled 10 appeal to the country fol
"a help. They- might do well TO emulat'
al Brigham's example in guarding agsins
10 such a calamity
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