The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1877-11-27

Senator Morton left $4,000 entirely


Senator Morton left Sc, 900 entirely
to his wife.
Gen. Grant visited the tomb of NJ.
Thiers, Thursday. and placed upon il
wreath OF immortelles.
Schuyler Colfax says he has neither
desire nor willingness TO emerge from
private life to become public servant
in any capacity.
+. L. Barnum is elected TO the Con-
necticut Legislature from Bridgeport
and will run the show at Hartford next
winter.
Stanley, the Africa explorer, and 100
followers, have been brought to the
Cape of Good Hope in Her Maiesty's
store ship Industry, which also takes
them to Zanzibar.
We intended TO say, some time since,
that the Democratic party was ahead.
and the brutal compositor got it
dead" Plain words are best. Let
us place this responsibility where it be-
longs Rochester Democrat.
When Jones reads OF the doings OF
an entry thief, he smiles serensly as
he exclaims: Another overcoat gone"
and hugs himself in his new "Plevna." /"
"No danger Of that being taken this
winter, he says Boston Transcript.
The winter is closing in upon the
clergymen of this country with most
appalling seventies. A season of in
cessant and pitiless donation parties
has been arranged by many of the de-
nominations, and the prospect is that
hundreds who are not able to keep q
dog, and don't know how to fire q gun,
will perish from starvation Hawk
eye.
A Greenville, Miss, special says that
the side-wheel steamer Tom Morgan
was wrecked by her boiler exploding
while wooding on Saturday evening"
The owner and captain, DIR. Howell, of
Coyington, and the engineer were kill
ed Their bodies have been found
The captains wife, the crew and two
families of passengers were saved
The Morgan was q boat of 200 tons, in
the cotton seed trade.
The resolution relative to the Pacific
railroads, offered in the Senate by Mr..
Chaffee, of Colorado, is a movement
to secure the information necessary for
the prosecution of the governments
rights in those thoroughfares. The
roads are doing well, as far as business
is concerned, and their efforts to secure
a compromise on their dues to the gov
ernment are merely ruse to cheat the
government and put the money into
their own treasury.
The American banquet to General
Grant in Paris was a brilliant affair
and was attended by about $50 guests.
Minister Noyes proposed the toast of
"the guest of the evening" in a COM
plimentary speech, TO which General
Grant responded briefly. A grandson
of Lafayette responded to the toast of
France" expressing the wish that
America and France should never be
separated by always co-workers for
liberty and the Independence of the
people.
Forty men rode to the jail at Win
chester, KY, on Monday night, releas-
ed criminal who had been convicted
of a murderous assault on q woman,
anu lOOh illl4A WIFI W huObnci
county. Commenting on this, and on
the common performance in Kentucky
of lynching prisoners, the Louisville
Journal says that such proceedings
keep certain counties in the State re-
trograding, and that the participators
in such exploits are curses TO the COM
munity. To get rid of the evil it rec
ommends that good schools be estab-
lishen, one IN every three square miles
of territory, and kept in full blast at
least nine months out of the year.
That is Yankee" argument.
A gsm of eulogy comes from the Ma
con, Ca. Weekly, Of November 4th,
TO wit:
Eyes, 'Bloody-shirt' Morton is dead.
Thanks be to the God Of the dead for
the long-prayed-for relief Grant is in
Paris and Morton is deadl Is there
not cause for rejoicing? Be glad, We
people of the United States that have
so long suffered under the reign of
these two blood-thirsty tyrantsl They
have sinned long and much, bat they
will suffer their just punishment in
hell-if there be hell-for assuredly
there must be some place Of torment
for these wretches. We must
say that Morton's death is the occasion
of much rejoicing to MS. He is dead,
and we are glad Of itI'