The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1879-08-05
NUMBER 1909.
MISCELLANEOUS.

Four men were killed and four
badly wounded by the ditching OF a
gravel train near Waukegan, Ill.
Gen. Walker estimates that next
years United States decennial census
will show population of As, 800, 900.
Secretary Evarts has received dis
patch from Minister Welsh, stating
that his resignation has been forward
ed by mail.
While the jury were out Chastine
Cox laughed aud chatted necessarily,
eliciting the remark that he was the
happiest man in the court room.
A young man is at present undergo
ing sentence of six months in Jail at
Montreal, two of which have already
expired, who has fallen heir to the sum
of Sl65,000 by the death OF an uncle
in San Francisco. Ii is needless to say
he awaits his Liberation with impa-
tience.
The whole Democratic press is en-
gagged at present in pitching into"
Secretary Sherman. As a presidential
aspirant, this is the best thing that
could happen To him. Resumption,
coupled with Democratic abnse, will
make him a very formidable candidate,
for both will endear him to the Repub-
lican party.
The laying of the French cable will
work a small revolution in that expen-
sive means OF communication. The
Anglo-American company will reduce
it's rates and lay an additional line of
the most approved type, to accommo-
date the increased business anticipated
from a reduction of tariffs.
Mr.. Spurgeon, talking of preaching
the other evening, said he didn't blame
people for not going to some churches,
aud that sooner than listen TO some of
his reverend bretheren he would have
the gout.
Mr.. Randolph Rogers, the American
sculptor in Rome, lately remarked to q
correspondent: Thirty years / have
lived in Italy, Is times i have crossed
the Atlantic, and still j read the United
States newspapers daily with as much
interest as ever | did, and the Roman
with as little.
William II, Vanderbilt made in his
own name, one day last week, the big
gest investment in bonds on record
His purchase consisted of 81, 600 900 in
United States 4 per cent. bonds, each
bond OF the value of $685. 900. The
bonds we're bought by Mr.. Vanderbilt
as an investment for his family.
The post-ofllce accounts for the
whole country have just been made mp
/ for the first quarter Of 1879. Their
/ footings (nearly IS, 000, ,00O show the
heaviest receipts in the history of fhe
/ country, gratifying indication of the
country's growth and prosperity.
The cost OF transporting Lorne aud
! Princess Louise from England TO Can
/ ada-$l0, 000-is a bill that on one
seems willing to father. The home
colonial Office refused TO pay il, and
the Canadian treasurer also repudiates
the bill.
The late announcement that General
| Grant would remain away from the
/ United States till after the Republican
nominating convention is in effect con-
tradicted by private letter TO friend
in Washington, in which the General
/ mentions October as the date when
he will arrive in San Francisco.
The Leadville, Col, Eclipse of the
18th contains a correspondence from
Cottonwood Springs detailing the kill
/ ing of huge saurian near that place,
| the lizard said To be So feet long and
| 7 feet in circumference. William j.
/ Snodgrass says the carcass of the lizard
| has been taken 10 the Mahonville post
office, where 1t eau be seen by the curl
4 Gus.
Accounts differ about the disposition
Of Sitting Bull towards this country,
although there has been no contrsdic-
tiou Of the statement about the hostile
/ incllnations of the war chiefs in his
camp. In the cabinet meeting Tuesday,
Secretary McCrary submitted informa-
tion that several bands had Joined the
Sitting Bull camp and that this leader
was becoming demonstrative.
Major Judson will have 10 give his
/ PAGERS practice now, since "Sleep Tom"
left all the other horses behind aud
eclipsed all previous records in 2:12s.
| This beats the best time ever made,
either by PAGER or trotter. The
best trotting time On record was that Of
Rarus, 2:l3i, at Buffalo, 1878; and the
| best pating time was that of Billy
Boyce, 2:l4l, under saddle at Buffalo,
in 1868.
A prominent temperance reformer at
Washington proposes TO have the au-
thorities make n quarantine against
\ whisky as a greater destroyer of human
life than yellow fever. He argues that
/ the total deaths from yellow fever in
the United States for the past ten years
we're only . 200, 1900 OF whom died
last year. In the same time, according
to a careful and probably reasonable
computition, $1,000 men have died
/ from ntemperance, or at the rate Of
I $1,000 annually
One Of the best Of all disinfectants
\ for solid and semi-sOlid matters: liz il
a most excellent agent for deodorizing.
I it operates by absorbing the water and
/ foul gasses. It mnst he very dry, aud
the finer the better. Sand is not good:
If wet il is worthless. Powdered clay
is best. Wood or coal ashes act main
/ ~ on the same principle, and are
equally good. Dry earth must be used
very freely 10 be effective. Dust from
the road is very good material. It
should be gathered and preserved in
boxes undor cover.
Remember this is the month in
which all the planets are visible. The
! fret, Nenus. is 10 be seen at evening
twilight. Mercury glimmering as q
bright star in the west soon after; rud-
| dy Mars is seen towards morning, and
il is increasing in is glow. Jupiter is
wonderfully bright in the east about
midnight; the pale yellow light Of Sat-
urn makes that star visible shortly Re-
fore midnight Uranus was near the
new moon on the 2lst. and Neptune
may be detected in the east n little
above the horizon after Sunday.