The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1877-09-11
NUMBER 1910.


New York Herald: In the Southern
States the political negro is NO longer
the Pomp Of power
Six different colleges furnish the
walters for the Glen House, at the
White Mountains, this summer.I
The engineers Of Marseilles have. IL
is said, discovered that since the OPEN
ing OF the Suez Canal the level Of the
Mediterranean has sunk some eight
centimetres. or say 81 inches.
The Mammoth cave Of Kentucky is
TO be connected with the outer world
by a railroad, and modern hotel will
be built near it, news which cannot fail
to be welcome 10 tourists.
The statue Of ten. Philip Kearney
which was ordered by the State OF New
Jersey and meant for the Capitol at
Washington, remains in an out-of-the-
way niche in the State House at Tren-
ton, where it was placed when finished.
No one seems TO know nor care what is
TO become Of il.
The new oyster law OF England
came into effect on the lst OF Septem-
Der. 1t prohibits the sale of oysters,
known in the trade as deep sea oys-
tsrs," between the 10th of June and
the Attn OF August, and any other de-
scription between the l4th of MAY aud
the 4th of August, under penalties.
II will take two years TO finish the
Custom House at Atlanta. GA, and the
cost will be 300, 600. And il is a su-
perfiuous concern in the estimation of
Georgia papers, If the Louisville Cour-
ier-Journal has read them anght.
Governor Zeb. Vance wants the un-
employed workmen TO remember that
North Carolina has plenty Of farming
land, and that he is disposed to en-
courage the agricultural immigration
in every possible way.
Secretary Evarts is amused by the
newspaper statement that he rules elev-
en- lovely daughters. He said the 9TH
er day to correspondent, "Tell your
people that / don't object to eleven
daughters, but do object 10 the sum-
mary manner in which they have killed
off my six sons" The Secretary has
family OF five daughters and six
sons.
Senator Ben Hills war horse, over
the death and burial Of which there
has been considerable gush in the pa
pers, is a phantom steed. The sena-
tor, it is stated on authority, 'never had
war horse; he was never borne
through a battle by anything; he never
had horse 10 die on his hands, and
never composed an epitaph about him
if be did die.
A lady who edits the Herald Of Cir
cleville, Ohio, is doing some rather
lively campaign work against Bond,
the workinginans candidate for gov
ernor OF that state. She does not
think he is fit TO be workingman's
candidate, because che came to Circle
vile in 1853, starved, loafed, wrote
poetry, made love, studied law, and
was finally cowhided by a woman"
We are almost inclined TO call this lady
a bLoated Bondholder herself.
An Oakland huckster bought fine
mule at auction on California street.
He paid $40 for it and christened it
Martin Luther. After trying for three
days 20 put ITS harness on from sec
ond-stOry window, the owner resold it
for Si4, on long time, aud under the
style and title Of Sara. 1t was pur-
chased by the city government, and
will henceforth be used 10 suppress
riots. 1t IL calculated that VIXEN back
ed gently but firmly into a mob this
faithful animal will be equal TO four
Gatling guns and howitzer.-L Cali
fornia Express.
1t appears from the official returns
on file in the War Department that on
the 3lst Of May, 1868, the Army OF
Northern Virginia numbered, infantry,
1856; cavalry 1886, and artillery
4. 46O; of all arms, 1882 effective.
This was Immediately before the inva-
sion OF Pennsylvania, and may be re-
garded as representing the maximum
If General Lees army in the Gettys-
burg campaign. On the Goth of July,
1863, after the return OF General Lee
TO Virginia, bis army numbered Al ,3Ss
effective, exclusive OF the cavalry corps
Of which no report is made in the re-
turn Of the date last mentioned. Al
lowing 1912. a fair estimate for the
cavalry. the effective total Of the army
on the Goth of July was 4s,OOO. IL ap-
pears, therefore, that General Lees
loss in the Pennsylvania campaign was
about nineteen thousand.
Secretary Stanton's son, whose fun
eral took place in Washington, Satur-
day, was born in Pennsylvania in 1912,
and was graduated from Kenyon col.
lege, o., where he received the highest
honors. He was admitted To the bar
in Washington in 1868. A few years
later he became the counsel for the
Baltimore and Potomac railroad com.
pany. When the new form Of govern
ment was established in the district in
1871 Mr.. Stanton was appointed by
President Grant to the secretary of the
district, an Office which in 1878 he re-
signed TO accept the receivership Of
the First National Bank Of Washing
ton. In July, 1874. he was appointed
attorney for the district Of Columbia,
an Office which he held until October,
1876, when be resigned, believing that
the increasing interests Of bis private
practice would suffer il he longer neg
lected it. He leaves young widow
aud one child.