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BENZ. r. AECKERT,

Attorney and Counsellor at Law and Prosecu-
ting Attorney for Van Buren, County, Mich.
once In the Court Housa. Paw Paw. 114t
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Goal department.

The Rev. DR.. scbetky has appointments ne1
week a. follows: Sunday, Feb. 18th, Lawto
SPIN. Tuesday, 18th, South Haven, rs ]
N. Wednesday 10th, Kendall p. NJ. Thurs
day 2oth, Decatur SO P. NJ, Holy Commune
7PM.
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POLITICAL POINTS.

Clarkson n. Potter and Jacob ID. Cox.
subcommittee of the Potter Investigation
Committee, arrived at New Orleans on the 3Oth
ult, for the purpose of prosecuting the inquiry
that was cut short by Yellow Jack last summer
No other members could be prevailed upon to
go. 1t was agreed that Potters vote should be
counted as two III order to avoid tie on party
questions.
The Potter subcommittee began
work at New Orleans on the 3lst ult. by exam.
lining Oscar Arrayo Secretary of State: who
produced the records of his Office relating to
the election of 1876. p. g. Deslonde, Secretary
of State under Kellogg, testified to affixing his
signature to the first set of Republican electoral
certificates, but had no recollection of signing
any second set Judge Billings and two
or three other witnesses were ex-
amined, but nothing of an important
character was elected. A bundle of documents
left in a store by Mrs. Agnes jerks, and adj
dressed to her, was produced before the COM
mittee. Among the documents was one pur-
porting to be the alleged original SHERMAN
letter" Chairman Potter made statement to
the press to the effect that these documents had
been dropped by Mrs. jerks for the purpose
of imposing upon the committee. He declared
that the so-called copy of the Sherman letter
was forgery.
At the second days session of the
Potter Committee, in New Orleans, Mr.. John
Ray, counsel for Secretary Sherman, filed a
communication setting forth that he had no in
tention of offering further evidence OH the
subject of intimidation in the elections of
1876 Chairman Potter then announced that.
lnasmuch as several witnesses wanted by
the committee were in Washington, the COM
mittee would adjourn to that city In the |
Mr.. John Ray, representing Mr.. |
Sherman, and another gentleman to be selected
by the Chairman, would remain in New Or
leans and take whatever testimony might be
offered In rebuttal of the evidence already taken
BY the committee.
Hon. Z. Il. Washburne denies the re-
port that he has been rendered the post of
Minister to Berlin, and says he would not ac-
'ept it if it were
The people of Maine having failed, at
he November election, TO choose Governor,
wing to the fact that no one candidate received
majority of all the votes cast, the Legisla-
ure, as provided by the State constitution. has ,
ettled the matter by electng Alonzo Garcelon.
Democrat Maine has not had a Democratic
Governor before in over twenty years. /
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Grant and the COrkOniails.

Mr.. Richmond, the United States
Consul at Cork, addressed letter 70
the Council announcing that Gen.
Grant would probably arrive in Cork.
within a few days. Mr.. Tracy, a Ma
tionalist, proposed at the Council meet
ing that the letter should simply be
marked read" and that no action should
be taken. Mr.. Harris, a Conservative,
said: There can be no personal an
tipathy to the gentleman himself.
neither was there anything in the gov
eminent of the ex-President objection
able to the Irish in America. Probably
Gen. Grant would again be at the head
OF the United States, in which event it
would he to the interest of our fellow
countrymen in America if proper recog-
milton was given to Gen. Grant on his
arrival at Cork
Mr.. Barry, an extreme Nationalist.
said the ex-President had insulted the
Irish people in America; he got up the
No Popery" cry there.
Mr.. Tracy said it would be unbecom-
ing for the Catholic constituency of
Cork to welcome such man. 1t would
be ungenerous to refuse him hospitality
If he deserved it, but he saw nothing in
Gen. Grants career that called for sym-
patty from the Irish nation. He never
thought of the Irish race as he thought
Of others, and he went out of his way to
insult their religion.
Mr.. Dryer, an advanced Nationalist.
would not couple Gen. Grants name
with America. The Irish who had
sought refuge and home in the
United States had received kindness and
attention from the American people.
President Grant had never given them
he same recognition as the other in
labitants. 1t would be an improperly
o pay any mark of respect personally to
Zen. Grant,
Messrs. McSweeney and Creedon.
'ationalists, spoke to the same effect.
nd with great shout of aye" there
eing no dissenting voices, Cork refused
0 receive Gen. Grant.-Dublin Cor.
Ie,0 York Herald.
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A Boys Windpipe Cut to Save His Life.

A young lad named Henry Brinker
who resides at the corner of Central
avenue and Water street, while eating
hickory nuts, swallowed piece of the
shell of one about the size Of dime.
which lodged in his throat, and resisted
all attempts to remove it by coughing
or otherwise. He did no. experience
much Inconvenience from it, however.
and went to bed. About 3 o'clock in
the morning he woke up choking and
deathly sick, and rapidly became worse,
finally becoming almost incapable of
breathing. Drs. Dawson and Meme
chan, on seeing the boys condition, de-
termined to resort to surgical opera
ton to save his ife With DR.. Meme
chan's assistance, DR.. Dawson made an
incision across the throat, and, inserting
a dull probe, scraped away the tissues
until he reached that portion of the
wlndpipe called the trachea, which he
cut open. He then inserted a wire. with
which he felt around for the obstruc-
ton. 1t was found in the larynx, where
1T had lodged, and, being sharp-edged,
had cut the flesh, and the blood had got
into the bronchial tubes, filling them.
and rendering breathing almost impossi-
bic. After the nutshell had been re-
moved the patient coughed up a large
quantity of this blood. The wound hay
ing been sewn up, he breathed quite
freely, and is now Cincin-
natl Enquirer.
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MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGs

The Swedish Polar expedition is re-
ported blocked in the ice at East cape, north OF
the northern entrance to Behring strait. and
much solicitude il felt for the safety of the
party.
The taking effect, on the I'd of Jan.
nary, of the Resumption law caused no excite
ment in the financial centers of the country.
AT the United States treasury, in Washington.
no gold was paid out, even for interest OH bonds.
as Secretary Sherman had given orders to pay
out gold in New York only Persons who
asked for gold when presenting their coupons
were given coin drafts on the Assistant Treas
urer in New York. This fact created
some comment of an unfavorable char
acter. Treasurer Hillhouse, at New York. was
prepared to meet the probable rush for gold:
but, contrary to general expectations the de-
mand was light, while in many instances green
backs were preferred.
The Manitoba blizzard that swept
over the country on the I'd and Sd of January
will be long remembered as one of the seyerest
visitations of the kind in weather annals. II
penetrated to every quarter of the land-East
West North and South. In the region OF Buf-
falo the cold wave was accompanied bv n
binding snow-storm, blocking railroads and
placing complete embargo upon business of
all kinds. Numbers of unfortunate people ara
reported frozen to death in different sections of
the country Altogether ii was a spell of
weather that will not soon be forgotten.
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MICHIGAN LEGISLATURES.

WEDNESDAY, Jan. 1.-SENATE-The Senate
convened at noon, and organized by the election
of the following officers: Secretary, Edwin 8.
Hoskins; Assistant Secretary, Charles G. Hon
klns: Engrossing and Enrolling Clerk. Denis X
Groesbeck; Assistant, Oscar +. Morse: Scr.
geant- alarms, Charles II. Perkins First As
sistant Sergeant alarms, John f. Brubacker.
Second Assistant Sergeant at Arms. George
Fowler: After organization the Senate adj
journed. W.
HousE-The House of Representatives met
at noon and elected officers as follows. For
Speaker, John t. Rich, of Lapeer: Clerk
Daniel l.. Crossman; Sergeant w. r.
Childs; Enrolling and Engrossing Clerk V. w
Bruce Adjourned till tomorrow.
DEDICATION OF THE New CAprror.-Tle
new State Capitol, at Lansing. was dedicated on
New Years day, and Representative Hall and
tne corridors were crowded with people from
all parts of the State to witness the ceremo-
Mes. AT 10 a. m. Gov Croswell, ex-Ciovs
WEIGH, Grecnly, Blair, Baldwin and Bagley. the
supreme Court Judges and State officers. were
escorted from the Lansing House to the Capitol
rpy TWO companies of State troops, headed by the
Lansing Knight Tomplar Band On arriving AZ
'he capitol Gov. Croswell took the chair. SIM
ported by Lieut.. Gov Sessions and Bishop Gil |
espie, of Grand Rapids The exercises began
with music by the Knight Templar Band.
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A Puzzle for PhOnetickers.

A fast man on a fast day took his
horse and went to the end of the fast
land, and there tied him fast. Then he
rose and took off his hose, and went
with his hoes along the rows, and put
the rose on the end of his hose-whicb
as everyone knows, is sort of nose. So
his hose waters every rose in all the
rows. Now say who knows how for
elgn wight could learn very fast the
meaning of hoes and rows or knows and
nose, or to perform any rite right, or
even to write wright right, if his living
depended on getting some right which
involved the right writing of wright
right, write, and rite ?-HaIper's Basor.
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nto citizens, amenable TO Federal laws and
competent to serve On United States Court
juries.
A new circular has been issued by the
Secretary Of the Treasury in regard to sub
scriptions to the 4-per-cent. bonds, in which 1t
is stated that United States notes, as well as
coin, can now be received for subscriptions
and that, instead of paying commission on all
subscriptions, the department will pay no COM
mission on any subscription less than 100000.
The public-debt statement shows an
increase of the debt for December OF 81 233 7S5,
and the following balances in the treasury: Coin,
s224, S65, Az; currency, s4,5l5, $50; currency
held for the redemption of fractional currency,
100000 600; special deposit for the redemption
of certificates of deposit, SO, 455, 900; coin and
silver certificates 81, O.6, $780, outstanding legal
tenders, s346,6sl, Ol6; fractional currency,
sl6,l0S,154
The recent letter of the Secretary of
the Interior, calling upon Gen. Sheridan for
specific facts in support of his charges against
the efficiency of the Indian service, has elected
reply in the form of a report from Gen.
Sheridan to Gen. Sherman, in which he speci-
fies numerous instances of bad management in
the Indian service
A package OF currency containing
$4,000 was stolen from the Government Print
ing Office, by some adroit thief, a few days ago.
The Government Directors of the
Union Pacific railroad have sent their annual re-
port to the Secretary of the Interior They are of
tho npiniop hot fba Tr,;o d. =.
the extremely liberal aid that it has received
from the Government, and the brilliancy of its
success as commercial enterprise should be
judged by the most severe standards known
among the railroads eff the country. Measured |
by this standard they report the deficiencies
many and apparent
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Furnishing Small Rooms.

1t requires tact and taste to furnish a
small room so that il will be both at
tractive and comfortable. The follow
ing suggestions may aid the youthful
housekesper to secure both beauty and
comfort IN his small house:
In furnishing small rooms so that
they will be comfortable as well as tidy,
few rules must be observed. Ike
wallpaper should be of some small pat :
tern IN the first place. Ii the rooms are
low, hang the pictures low; the more
space there is between the top of the
picture and the ceiling, the higher your
room will look. II is a very common
mistake to imagine that the higher pict-
ures are hung the higher the room will
appear.
The next to be considered is the fur
niture. Anything large ought to be
avoided. 1t is not the quantity. but the
size OF furniture in room that seems
to crowd it.
A number of small tables in a small
drawing-room will take up far less room
and be much more useful than a big
one. Even the ornaments should be
chosen judiciously; they ought all to
be small, and delicately shaped, and
harmonious in color.
1t is not easy to keep a small house
tidy unless You have plenty of places in
which to stow away things There is
no possible room for large chests of
drawers. chiffoniers, or even that con-
venient thing box-ottoman. in so lin
tied space as that we are considering.
One must resort to shelves and small
cupboards, put up on the wall in any
unoccupied corner that can be found.
Even these may be turned to orna-
mental as well as useful purposes. for
is easier than TO get plain deal
cupboards painted black and gold, and
with pretty designs on the panels.
Shelves, too, covered with cloth the
same color as the curtains or furniture
III the room add to its effect, and help
to keep it tidy. 1t is by no means i'm
possible to live very comfortably and
astefully in small house.
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WASHINGTON NOTES.

The Secretary of the Treasury has
called in for payment 100000 additional
S-D bonds, with the proceeds from the sub
scrlptions to the per cents
Inc advocates of the Texas Pacific
iiaiiroad bill say that they have made a careful
canvass OF the House and Senate, and find
majority OF seven in the House and six in the
senate In favor of the bin vixen il shall be put
ON its final passage
Senators Patterson, Garland and Gro
yer, who in behalf of the Senate Committee On
Territories have conducted an inquiry into the
o"oi''on OF Affairs in the Indian Territory, rec
ommend The enactment of legislation by Con
gress which shall provide for the erection of
the Indian Territory into a Territory of the
United States, and the conversion of the Indians
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NEWS OF The WEEK.
FOREIGN NEWS.

Henry Vincent, the well-known En-,
giish lecturer is dead.
Many Russian students, arrested fo1
participation in the recent disturbances have
been banished to Siberia.
A public whipping on big scale has
taken place at ST. Petersburg, where 200 rioters
were fioSged as penalty for resistance to the
police authorities
There were over $4,000 commercial
failures in Great Britain during 1878, or 1900
more than in 1877.
A dispatch from Constantinople says
practice on the British man of-war Thunderer.
The vessels turret was destroyed, seven men
killed, and forty wounded
In France, sudden thaw has caused
many Of the rivers to overflow their banks, do
ing considerable damage to property.
Gen. Grant arrived in Dublin, Ire
land on the Sd inst He was presented with
the freedom Of the city.
The Town Council of Cork, in Ire
land, refused to give public reception to Gen
Grant
Moncasi, the assassin who tried to
kill the King of Spain in October last, has been
executed.
The Senatorial elections in France
have resulted in great victory for the Repub-
iicans. They will have nearly sixty majority in
the next Senate.
Another heavy bank failure is reported
from England-the Cornish Bank, at Truro,
with several branches, and deposits amounting
to f5,0OO,OOO.
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which was followed by prayer by
Bishop Gillespie. Judge Campbell then
administered the oath OF office to Gov
Croswell aud Lieut. Gov Sessions Ad-
dresses followed by the ex-Governors
present The Hon. +. p. Grosvenor read re-
port of the Building Commissioners, who then
presented the building TO the people through
Gov Croswcll, who briefly spoke in acceptance,
and complimented the COMMISSIONER The
Rev. T. o. Prudden, of lansing, then pro-
nounced the benediction, the band played an
were closed.
lance was transacted, with the exception of the
reading of the Governors Message in joint
session. Luther \. Ludlow, of jackson, was
elected Postmaster and Gotlieb Grellipg, Of
Detroit, Assistant Postmaster, Of the senate
-. Both housesstand adjourned until Tuesday
evening next, at o'clock.
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DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.
East.


The scarlet fever is playing havoc
with the young people of New York There
were lSO deaths from this disease in that CITY
last week
The Bryant memorial exercises, at
me Academy of Music, New York, on the 30th
nit, were of very imposing and impressive
character George William Curtis was the ora
Tor of the occasion, and President HAYES. Sec
retery Evarts, Gen. Sherman, Gov Iilden.
fe'er cooper, Gen. Hancock and large num-
Der OF other distinguished persons were among
the spectators
There were 917 failures in New York
city in 1878, with liabilities amounting to sGa.-
100000.
Caleb Gushing died at his residence
IN Newburyport, Mass, on the I'd of January
after an illness of brief duration. He was az
years old.
West.
There were 1864 deaths in the city
OF Chicago during the year 1s7S-the smallest
number In any one year since 1871.
A lire at Paris, Mo-, destroyed $4O,-
ocOworth of property
Judge Charles T. Sherman, brother
OF Secretary and Gen Sherman, died at Cleve
land, Ohio, last week
A battery of three boilers at Heilman
Fairbanks distillery, Terre Haute. Ind. the
largest in the world, blew up with terrific force
the other day, killing two persons, demoishing
the large boiler-room and creating great d;sas.
ter and rum.
a committee of the Legislature of
oregon has just completed an investigation
INTO the finances of the State Government. and
have discovered that funds to the amount of
ABOUT s91,OoO have either been unaccounted for
or paid out without authority of law. The COM
nnttees report is very severe in its condem-
nation Of Gov. Grover.
Thursday, Jan. 2, was one of the cold
est days experienced in the Northwest in manv |
years. the mercury ranging from Is to 80 de- |
grees below zero, according to location
The Second Baptist Church. in st.
Louis, has been destroyed by fire. Loss.
$4,000
During the progress of a feast at the
Town Hall in Barnesville Ohio, some rascal
put croton oil in the food, and between 300 and
7oV persons were taken violently ILL.,
For the third time within q per;od of
seven years the Chicago Postoffioe has been
burned out 1t was located in the Honore
building, on Dearborn street. one of the finest
and prettiest blocks in the CITY The loss nv
the fire is about $4,000 fully covered bv in
surance.
South.
The Congressional Yellow Fever
Commission met atNew Orleans on the Goth r+
and proceeded with their investigation nrs
Holiday and Holcomb, two leading physicians '
OF that city, were examined Both agreed tba,
the fever originates in New Orleans every ve.r I
from germ which was originally importea q
There, and has become a part of the climate. |
that the epidemic was undoubtedly incurred nv l
neglect in removing garbage, and by filling mn I
streets with the offal and garbage of the CITY. I
A lire at Charleston, S. c., DESTROYED
cotton-press warehouse and over 1000 bales @
d cotton, valued at nearly s6O0,OO0. '
-Four tramps were frozen to death at
glasgow Junction, KY, during the late cold !
map. '
The Rankin House, with thirteen /,
arge stores underneath, at Columbus, Ga. has :,
zen destroyed by fire. Loss, s2OO,OOO. q
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MatriInony as a Paying Institution.

Every man should provide literally
for his family says Mr.. Smith. Ever
since my marriage have kept my wife
provided with a sewing-machine. sur
mounted 10y fine mirror" "What is
the mirror for9" inquired party pres
ent. We'll, said the oracle, Il tell her
that when she gets so lazy that she can't
run the machine she can sit still and see
herself starvc to death. "-ColumJu
(Ohio) Statesman.
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her father 1t is her felicity to own a
complete file of the Hartford Coalrant
from its first issue in 1764. They fill
the whole side of a room fifteen feet
wide, and are piled up close to the
ceiling.
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MISS ADA GILLETTE, q maiden lady
OF ~, lives in Torrington, CT, in a
house more than 100 years old, built by
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PHILADELPHIA boasts an export grain
trade OF p 100000 bushels this wear.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-02-27
AUCTION SALES.
SHERIFF,S SALES.

DY virtue of writs Of feri Jacas, to me directed,
I'D will be sold between the legal hours ,o1 OF
Sheriff g sale, ON THE FIRST MONDAY IN
MARCH NEXT.
at York Court House, the following property
to wit:
All that piece or parcel of land in Cherokee
township, containing eghty-five 1851 acres, more
or less, bounded on the east by lands OF James
McSwain, on the north by the line of North Car
olina, on the west by lands of Reuben Rnnl0n,
and on the south by lands Of Walker Wylie,
levied on at the suit Of Moore and Martin, Exec
utors, VS.. H. K. McSwain, and to satisfy other
executions lSo.io
A tract or parcel of land, containing eighty
(SO) acres, more or less, lying in the vicinity OF
Rock Hill on the West side of Landsford road
being the tract, part of which was mortgaged to
Ruth B. Cowan, December 10Th, 1874, Mortgage
book &C. c." 52) and the whole of which was
mortgaeed to A. E. Hutchison, March 10th,
1875, ibid, 433.) Levied on as the property of
R. Nj. Sims, at the suits Of George w. Williams
& Co.. and others, VS.. Sims, Caldwell and Craig.
$500
locks creek, containing 249 acres, more or less,
and being part of the original tract Of land be.
longing to James Barber, deceased, represented
by plat No. l, of survey made by j. N. NIGEL
wee, 10th of November, 1862, bounded by lands
of Robert Love, Hudsons land, Allison lands
and tract No. of same original plantation as rep
resented by plat and others. The above land
levied on as the property of Jane Barber, deceased
at the suits of Mary J. Barber and Sarah Barry
against j. F. Wallace administrator. Plat to he
exhibited on day of sale. (S455
Ms- Terms invariably cash. Purchasers who do
not comply with the terms ofsale must expect the
property bid off by them to be advertised for re-
sale at their risk for the ensuing sales-day.
R. II. GLENN, s. Y:C.
February 6 At