The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1877-10-30
NUMBER 1917.


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ing mammas.
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boy Of Mine. NJ Whitehall Times.
Charles Reade says that women are
medical and unmusical sex.
The Workingmen, Democrats and
Greenbaekers OF Chicago have united.
Seventy OF the members of this
Congress were against the old flag dur
ing the "wah."
The New Hampshire Patriot, one of
the oldest Democratic papers in the
United States has suspended.
The Commissioners Of Montgomery
county offer a reward Of hundred dol
lars for every. .horse-thief captured.
Wards splendid rolling mill at Niles,
OHIO, that cost $500, 900. has just been
sold under the hammer for $4,000.
Senator Blaine has been suddenly
called homo TO Maine by news that his
oldest daughter, aged is, had been Sc
riously injured by accidental shooting.
Dudley @. Haskell, from the Second
District Of Kansas, is in a dying condi-
tion at Washington. He has not been
sworn in, and in all probability never
will be.
john Baxter, of East Tennessee, has
been appointed United States Circuit
Judge, in the place of Judge Emmons,
OF Detroit, deceased. The circuits in
cludes Ohio, Michigan. Kentucky and
Tennessee.
A new religious sect has been FORM
ed where man is obliged to confess
all his sins 10 his wife once a week.
That is his punishment. II is needless
\ 10 mention any other one for her.
Once again the country is shaken to
! its very center! This time it is owing
to the fact that Mr. Tilton has called
on his own wife, and that a reconcilia-
ton is about to be effected.
II is said that JEFF Davis has about
/ finished his memoirs, and is now trying
TO determine in what dress to bring
them out. The black skirt aud shawl
that he wore towards the end of his
memoirs would be q neat thing to
adopt Philadelphia Bulletin.
The Battle Creek farmer who com.
menced suit against the city for s., 900
damages 10 his carriage, occasioned by
his driving a blind horse, into q hole,
has settled the matter for S25.
The Presbyterian society of Quincy
have made considerable improvement
about their church building, principal
iy in regard to heating and ventilation,
their pastor taking a vacation in the
meantime Of some four weeks in Wis
consin.
The statement of business failures OF
the Mercantile Agency of Messrs. Dun
& Co., for the third quarter Of 1877,
shows 1916 failures, with liabilities
SO ,3i6, ,0S5, and for the nine months,
to October 1886 failures, with liabil-
ties sl41, $50, ,256.
When'a voter is registered In France
he is given q card bearing his name
and number. When he comes TO vote
he hands IN HE car1 which il compar-
ed with the register, and il he is all
right he votes, and corner is cut from
the card, which is given back to him.
Saves heap of jaw and expedites bus
mess.
The children OF Gilman, the forger,
have been placed with his sister at,Nor-
wich, Conn, and his wife is in the re-
treat for the insane at Hartford. At
Auburn Gilman referred to his recent
position rs treasurer of the prison asso-
citation, and said that now he could
gain practical experience for improving
the prison system.
1t is gratifying to the pride of his sex
TO know that the monster skeleton late
" found in the Indian Territory had
man in il. Had 10 been n woman,
science would have settled the presence
of her remains in that queer crypt by
declaring that curiosity brought her
there. As it Is the coroner will have to
investigate.
The Pennsylvania company sent 900
men from / ittsburg 20 Mahoning, Pa,
to-day where they tore up 40 feet of the
track Of the Pittsburg 4 Lake Erie
railroad, and lowered the track OF the
youngstown & Ashtabula road so that
the new road cannot cross it. The Lake
Erie is the only road out of Pittsburgh
which the Pennsylvania does not con-
troll, and IL meens to keep the mon
opoly.
Judge Kelley is the senior Republi-
can and Speaker Randall the senior
Democrat in the House of Representa-
tvos. They arc both from Pennsylva-
ni'. The former was first chosen TO
the 37th Congress, and the latter to
the 3Sth. The present is the 45th.
Women are dressing more and more
Ike men, but husbands seem to be as
necessary "a formerly.-[Roche
Democrat.
IL is supposed tbat by 1880 there will
be in the United States about two mil
lions and n half of old maids, as the
last census gives l, $50. .2SS single wo-
meu who are supposed TO be looking
for impossible husbands. How this
vast army OF women are to be provid-
cd for is n problem that our social
scientists may well attempt TO solve.
Mrs. John W. Young. Of Utah, the
gentle wife Of one of the late Mormon
prophets sons. is nov residing at FL
mira, y. Y. She has a son seven years
old with her, and will return TO Utah
in the spring 20 reclaim her other two
boys, who are now cared for by her
husbands mother. It is said that John
w. Young is constantly writing and
imploring her to return.
DR.. Reynolds, the red ribbon reform
or, lectured in Calumet Monday and
Tuesday evenings to crowded houses.
and succeeded in convincing great
number on the wrong road to reform
and "dare to DO right" Last evening
after the lecture he organized n club
with nearly 800 members. all men. The
club will hold weekly meetings. AZ
Hancock he also organized a club with
/ 300 members.
The Lake Shore e Michigan South
ern Railroad has Unidentified the rela-
tives and heirs OF sixty-five out OF
! eighty-one persons who lost their lives
I in the bridge accident at Ashtabula.
I The balance OF the claims are in a fair
way Of speedy settlement. The largest
I amount paid to any one party was So
\ OO0 Mr.. and Mrs. Rogers. a newly
married couple on their wedding tour,
we're killed and their bodies burned
beyond recognition. yet their lives