Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-11-07
ADDITIONAL EXPOsITIONs.

The Danahar and Melindy logging
railway, recently acquired by the Flint
and Pere Marquette, will be broad
guaged and modernized at once, thus
opening large extent of territory in
Lake county, hitherto inaccessible. NJ.
Lally, of Detroit has been given the
contract for grading.
The Vanderbits are discarding the
term depot" in its application to the
passenger business, following up the
suggestion of the late Richard Grant
White, that depot is a depository for
freight. 1t is no longer the Grand
Central Depot" at New York, but
Grand Central Station" Even the
passenger switch engines are labeled
&c. G. S." instead of &c. G.. d." as
formerly.
1t is fact that newspaper readers do
not slight advertisements. They have
come TO realize that the advertisement
in q newspaper represents the goods
which the merchants have for sale, and
they take pains to familiarize them
selves with what shop-keepers have TO
offer. Moreover the constituency of
paper are very apt to be governed by
what they read in their own paper. If
the paper is accepted in its political,
moral and intellectual tone as our
home paper, its advertisers share the
respect and confidence bestowed upon
the paper itself. This is an important
fact for advertisers to remember; at
the same time it calls for the exercise
'on the part of the newspaper publishers
Of great care in the admission of adVer-
tisementS.
The plans of the new Union depot
company, of Detroit, to enter that city
are likely to meet with determined OPP
position from the Michigan Central.
The officers of the latter company say
that they do not object to the Flint Il
Pere Marquette, Canadian Pacific and
other roads entering the city. but they
do not want them to cross the Michi-
gan Central tracks in such a way as to
do serious and permanent injury to
their business. Unless compromise
should be effected long and costly
contest is likely to result. James f.
Joy says the Pennsylvania company
will build line to Detroit and run
through cars from Philadelphia TO that
city next year If the union depot pro-
ject is successful. Port Huron Times.
On the 18th Of October was given to
been waiting fOr-not a new religion,
nor a new prophet. but what Hubert
Howe Bancroft, in his History Of Utah
has to say of the many wived religion,
and the prophets Joseph Smith, Brig
ham Dung and their successors. 1t is
in many respects the most startling
episode in the evolution of the Ameri-
can nation. Among the unlearned and
superstitious of New \ DIRK arises So
called prophet and seer, who soon
counts his followers by thousands, the
multitude not long afterward being
obliged, from the enmity of their
to flee first to Ohio. then to
Missouri and Illinois, and finally to the |
sandy wilds of Utah. where they gather |
fresh females from Europe, whom they |
marry early and often, ana multiply !
prodigiously. \ great commonwealth |
blossoms in the wilderness; political |
trinity appears, founded on the
principles of theocracy, |
hierarchy, and patriarchy. All goes
well until California gold opens a |
stream of adventures through their
sacred gardens. to the serious disturb
ance of practical husbands and spiritual |
wives. The railroad intlicts another |
stab, while the gentileS swear that this |
thing shall not be. In the fair and
delineation of this phe-
episode there is field for the
best efforts of the highest historical
genius. There is manifest elsewhere
like this freak of human pro-
gress. 1t has no parallel III history. We
wait with deep interest, in common
with thousands of others. the appear
ance of this volume, in the writing of
which Mr.. Bancroft certainly possesses
advantages superior to any who have
gone before him. and the best use of |
which we are confident he has made. |
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