The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1876-12-19

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year viii be about s20. .0O0. 900.
Enlistmsnts for the army arr being
made at Indianapolis at the rate Of 30
week.
One Of The wives of the Khedive Of
Egypt is very homely. She IL said to
be harem-scarum kind OF woman.
Milwaukee Sentinel: How long
would the man who had approved OF
the killing Of q negro for political opin-
Ion hesitate to swear 10 lie about itf
Ernest Gerard was arrested at New
York. yesterday. charged with murder
ing Blanche Burean, at hotel in San
Miguel. CAL, on the l4th Of Septem.
Der.
The Breckinridge Ky. News is not
belligerent. 1t says: No. thank you;
don't want the musket and hard tack.
Pass the buckwheat cakes and honey,
please.
In Trenton, N. j., is a stallion named
Wild American, sixteen hands high,
whose name is so long that it touches
the ground when he holds his head
well up.
Scrap. iron for fattening hogs is
growing in favor in Pennsylvania. In
the stomach of one porker killed in
Dauphin county ~ tenpenny nails
were found.
Ennis county, Texas, cast over $500
votes for Tilden and not one for HAYES.
Six towns OF Jackson county, Minneso-
ta cast about q thousand votes for
Hayes and none for Tilden.
Seth Green, the veteran angler, com.
pares those who take salmon trout in
Owasco Lake from spawning beds with
spears. to foolish farmers who kill ait
ting hens.
There is stampede OF gold hunters
from Deadwood and Custer City in the
Black Hills, to Wolf Mountain, where
rich deposits are said to have been
struck.
In London o Jew has been charged
with the murder of Jew. It is said
that this is the first time any such
thing has happened, and that the last
Jew hanged in England, was hanged
two hundred yeais ago for forgery.
A defendant in an action recently be-
gun in the Justices Court, San Fran
cisco, filed the following answer: at.
! .ha 5nfa-5~-. 80 ti-:~ $3.50, L~-.Ly SU..
tify that 1 don't owe the fellow that
brings this suit cent" He il his own
lawyer. The foolscap may be over his
ears but it is not under his pen.
Major Mclaughlin, the champion
wrestler, had match in New York
city on Thursday evening last, with Q
man named Charles Murphy, q we'll
known athletic and oarsman. Nc
Laughlin threw him twice in succession
with but little effort. The match was
for $500 side.
Crawford county. Pennsylvania, has
6s factories, producing 6,siO, 600
pounds Of cheese; Erie county, % fac
tories, producing 2,6l0, 900 pounds;
Mercer and Venango counties, IL fac
tories. producing 647, 700 pounds. To-
tai, l0l factories, producing 1857
700 pounds. Nine-tenths OF these fao-
tories manufacture strictly full milk.
In 1872 there was q Democratic Re-
turning Board in Louisiana, and, under
the law that governs the present board,
that Democratic board threw ont the
vote of several districts, among them
Poll No. Of the third ward Of New
QJleeps.. Tho .hoard threw out tho
santctjon SAM Of lsy, for it. Did any Demo-
The Burlington Hawkeye man re-
lates, in considerable glee, the particu-
lars of a late discovery: 1.-The bull
doze cocktail has just made its appear
ance at the fashionable bars. You
must tilt about a teaspoonful of water
into the glass and Immediately intimi-
date it with as much whisky as the
glass will hold. Then when the count
is made, throw the water out"
Didn't Oregon vote for Hayes? Yes.
Didn't the people there declare they
wanted the Republican candidates to
receive their electoral vote? Yes.
Then do you, Mr.. Democrat, propose
to make row when the President of
the Senate counts the vote as il is cast2
II You do, get down your horse pistols
at once. The Republicans will never
consent to have the voice Of the people
stifed.
The Brooklyn horror grows on the
people Of that city and New York daily.
In this way it is the reverse of the usu-
al rule, where calamities seem greatest
at the outset, and are mitigated by
subsequent developments. The whole
population of those cities seems over
cast-as well they nightly the mag
nitude Of the disaster, and the recon-
mendation to close the places of bust
ness.
The commonly accepted opinion that
native-born parents have fewer child
rem than the foreign -boIn is strongly
confirmed by the Massachusetts census
Of 1875, the first volume of which has
400. .3ll native.born mothers had borne
669, 1873 children, while l19, 200 foreign
born mothers had borne 5S5, ,2l6 child
rem. The ratio is 3 81 children for
each native-born, and 81 children for
each foreign-born mother.
party Of Sioux Indians from the
Red Cloud and Spotted Tail Agencies
have just returned from n tour OF in
spection to the Indian Territory, where
it is proposed that they shall locate
permanently if they can be induced to
relinquish their claim upon the Black
Hills country and vacate that region
altOSetncr. III IL Saiu tney were pleas-
ed with their trip, and that upon the
strength OF their reports tho projected
removal will be concurred in.
May we respectfully inquire what
Major General Gordon, late OF the Con-
!. federate army, now United States
Senator from the Commonwealth Of
Georgia, has to do with all the protests
and cards and proclamatious issued in
South Carolina2 Every one OF these
documents bears on its face the name
of Gordon. Isn't he dipping in his
oar little too deep1 II Morton or
Blaine were down there signing docu-
ments with Chamberlain. what . yell
We should hear from the Democracy
A race was run in the Pennsylvania
election between Lancaster county, on
the republican side, and Berks county
on the democratic, TO see which could
give the largest majority. Lancaster
county, the old home OF Thaddeus
Stevens, come out Ill votes ahead
She gave Hayes 7.702 majority. while
Berks gave Tilden 6.591. The republic
cans OF Berks performed feat never
equaled since their organization. They
elected Q candidate 10 the house Of as
| semblv by TOO maiority in the citv Of