The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1879-09-16
NUMBER 1715.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The number Of standard silver doll
lars coined during August is 2, 1877 ,050;
coined 10 date, 40, 237, ,0J0.

coined 70 date, ~, <of ,OOO.
Senator Bruce has bought 10000
acres of land in Kansas. and will make
bis home there at the expiration OF his
congressional terra.
Fifty-six places Of worship in the
United States have services conducted
in the sign language 90 accommodate
the $4,000 deaf mutes Of the country.
II is possible that the fremont tenn
pie az Boston may not be rebuilt on its
old site IL liberal offers are made for
the location for other enterprises.
A colored cook at Martha's Vineyard
hstonished his mistress the other day
by suddenly resigning bis position be-
cause lie had been "called TO preach"
Col. Brown, the British resident at
Mandplay, has left, as the government
could not keep an officer Of his rank
where he was not treated with respect.
Samuel Ham, a farmer living near
Roscoe, Mo-, was murdered by three
nnkuogn men. Parties are securing /.
the country for the murderers.
David Cautrell. aged IS, shot and
killed Frank Mcdonnell. sged 10. ia
Caldwell Co. XIV. Saturday evening"
Cautrell claims that the shot was acci-
dental.
A company Of pretended Zulus in
Dublin rapidly recalled their Irish
brogue when woman who had lost
sou IN the Zulu war pitched into them
with paving stones.
Aleck Stephens says he wrote bis his
tory Of the rebellion with a view Of
having the facts truihfully stated. The
rebel side of that story will scarcely be
believed by the rebels themselves.
An English paper states that Sab.
stemious" and "facetiOus" are the only
words in the English language in which
vowels follow each other in their proper
order.
An extra session Of the board of al
dermen Of Geneva, Ca, has been call
ed to consider the propriety of boxing
two young trees constituting part OF
the city's property.
In Allen Co., KY. near the Tennes-
Ct1 tDAhAt AlnNt aIhtlCOn Sdl-
yer in a fit of jealousy shot and killed
out with pistol.
While the anchor Of her Majesty's
corvette Euryalus was being lowered
Monday at Alden, the capstan swung
around, killing two men and seriously
iniuriDg several others.
There was a big fight in a New Or
leans family the other day over the
dead body of woman to get posses
sion Of the keys to her jewel case
The police were called in.
An eight-day clock was blown
through brick wall at the time Of tho
| explosion in the Montague mill Tur-
ner's Falls and was not injured sufi-
cient to prevent its running.
An Iowa lawyer collected 5000 for a
peusioner. and only charged the man a
fec of 500. Strange as it may seem,
some OF the iicentious newspapers are
abusing the lawyer.
The sons Of temperance number
about 90, 900 in North America, the
temple of honor 90, 1000, and the good
! templars. whose orders extends TO
many nations, number some 1000
The American Consul has officially
notified the Egyptian government that
| the United States demand 20 be repre-
I sented upon the commission on the
liquidation Of the Egyptian debt.
! A cyclone struck Hendertown, Tenu.,
| demolIshing the Methodist church,
I badly injuriug tue school buildings
aud unroofing a number If dwellings,.
The path of the storm was only sixty
/ feet vide.
Charles Demond, late Treasurer Of
/ tho Massachusetts, Home Missionary
Society, has been arrested for embez-
element. an examination of the books
shows that the defslca,ion will be be-
tween $4,000 and 100000.
Richard Stevenson, United States
Deputy Marshal. was shot and killed
/ in kingman Co.. KS. by n horse-thief
whom he had arrested and was convey
| ing To Wichita. The murderer escap-
ed to the Indian Territory.
] Inc OLuclal Nott Oh heOtuckN Tor
Governor is as follows: Blackburn,
Democrat, lbs, 799; Evans, Republican,
/ 81, $50; Cook, GreenbackeT, 1884
Black kburn's majority, 1917. The
Democratic majority four years ago for
Governor was 80,
The Postmaster General has ordered
an actual count in all postoffices from
the lst TO the 7th OF November, OF all
letters, packages, postal cards, etc.
Publishers Of newspapers are request
ed 10 Furnish postmasters with the
numbertof papers mailed at the same
time.
Chesterfield said, and thousands re-
echo the cry, that 40 one is excusahle
for being out Of fashion, but we'd like
TO know what the deuce n man is 10 do
who has married when blondes were
the style Boston Post. The Yazoo
plan would suggest blunderbuss.
A Philadelphia confessed 10 murder
on his death-bed and then recovered
He came back to get the latest moose,
| probably, aud is liable to receive it
! though little stretched. This is not
near as good a Joke rs the murderer's
story that his confession was all for
fun.
A great number OF silver fractional
coins with holes in them are in circula-
tioD, the mutilation having doubtless
been performed for the sake of the
trifing quantity Of silver thereby alb
stracted. As such coins are not re-
deemed by the government they ought
uo' 30 be received as money, and il
would be win II they could be refused
by the public generally, so as 10 put O
stop 10 the fraud.
The Kearneyites California thought
that they had outwitted the holders OF
mortgages by imposing tax Of two
per centum on the face value Of the in
strument. and making the lender pay
IL instead Of the borrower, who paid II
under the old system. The savings
banks aud lenders have accordingly sd-
vanced the rate Of interest two per CEN
tum, and so the borrower pays the tar
the same as before.
The immense export of fresh meat
to European markets from the United
States is attracting the attention OF the
world. Nearly every steamer has more
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