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Year: 1873

The whole number Of copies OF the Detroit
Tribune, received at Lansing on the morning
of the 18th, was bought up by some of the
Ioby members attendant on the Leglslature.-
The object of the suppression was to keep
that particular issue from being seen and read
by members Of the Legislature prior to the
passage OF a certain bill, then pending, by
which II was sought to procure legislation in
favor Of certain interested parties and property
holders pecuniarily interested in large taxation
to be provided for by the measure, a large pa-t
of which was to find its way into their pockets.
The Tribune of that day contained an earnest
protest against toe measure based on the
ground Of the injustice and violence sought To
be done 70 the mass Of the property-holders
and Taxpayers OF the city OF Detroit without
giving them proper hearing in the matter -
We believe the bll has not vet passed INTO q
law and we trust that it VIII not until tie peo.
pies interest In the matter shall be amply pro.
tected by allowing them to pass, by ballot, on
the taxation and amount thereof sought to bC
drawn from their pockets under cover OF Law
for the purpose indicated in that particular bill
or for any other purpose.
Year: 1873

on Tuesday evening last there was caucus
at the Court House, lecture in the Court room
bv Mrs. Brinkerhof, protracted meeting at
the Methodist church, musical convention at
the Presbyterian church, and lecture at Town
Uall.-all in full blast at the same time.
Year: 1873

NRs. BR1yKERHoFF lectured at the Court
Houseon Monday evening last to very respect
able audience on one phase Of tho woman ques-
ton Her lecture is spoken Of as beng a fine
literary production and we'll rendered.
Year: 1873

The Spectator forhFebruary says that Mr..
Luther w. Frost. heretofore the efficient su-
perintendent OF agencies OF the Continental
Life OF New York, has been elected President
OF that company, to fill the place left vacant by
the death OF Mr.. Justus Lawrence. Mr.. Frost
Is an energetic and experienced life manager,
whose connection with the Continental has
been continuous since the organization of the
company and has had Its full effect upon the
progress and prosperity OF the institution
His selection as President is emlnently wise on
the part OF the Directors and at the same
time a weIl-deserved recognition of faithful
and efficient services on the part of the gentle
man who thus receives his reward Under
President Frost's administration the Continen-
tai Life may be confidently expected to main
tam lts enyiable position among the progress
I've life companies of the country. 934t2
Year: 1873

Or the 18th inst Judge Davis, of New York
granted stay os proceedings in the case Of
Stokes. The stay Of proceedings Is granted
for the purpose Of allowing time for review
of the proceedings in the case by full bench
OF the supreme Court on the question OF the
constitutionality of the Jury law of 1872.
Year: 1873

Tue Iater-Ocaan THINKS there Is ground for
belief that there are frauds in the management
Of the prison Of Joliet. There is not the slight
eat doubt OF it. We believe that that and all
other like institutions are full OF scoundrels.
Year: 1873

The following letter received at this oiiice
explains itself In manner 30 clearly that COM
ment Is entirely unnecessary, unless 1t may be
proper to state that the writer is a man OF
middle age, healthy, and very intelligent and
has no person to support but himself, and
possesses trade at which he can earn from
$12 to S1S per week very easily.
Year: 1873

THE Detroit Tribune of the 18th says " The
PARK question was before the Board of Trade
yesterday in an informal v1v, and was very
generally discussed. Viii there were many
friends OF park who expressed their opinions
there 'caS not one tcio tarored the bit ao0 pend-
ing IN tie State Senate. It was denounced in
the strongest terms for It's glaring unnghtooua-
ness in denying to the Taxpayers of this city
any voice whatever in docdIng how large a sum
IN taxes they shall pay, and for what purpose
their own money shall be expended. The bill
as it stands is utterly indefensible and is an
outrage upon the people Of this city, and they
feel it to be such. We cannot comprehend how
a majority could ever have been secured for it
in the House,"
Year: 1873

\ SCHEME is on foot to procure the passage
OF law by our Legislature Tor the organizing
and equipping number OF Military Companies
by the State with paraphanalia Of camp and
field equipage,-the members to be paid by the
State for all time spent in drill, encampmeDts
etc. To carry out tue scheme will require an
expenditure OF something like one Hundred
Thousand dollars year, after such companies
are organized and equipped This is another
nice little scheme to oraw money from the peo-
pic to pay for something perfectly useless.
Year: 1873

OUR NEW IMPROVED MACHINE


Stands without a rival, and should find its
way into every family. 1t has reached the
highest state of perfection of the Sewing Ma
chine yet produced, and its sales are constant
ly increasing throughout the world
Year: 1873

LOST AND FOUND.-Several months
since, Mr.. Jonathan Ingram of Waverly
township lost a pocket book containing
over ninety dcllars, and had abandoned
all hope of ever finding it; but week
or two since little girl of the neighbor-
hood, while walking across an old field
saw something Auttering in the breeze
and on picking it up she found it to be q
two dollar bill. She took it to her
mother, who suggested that if she would
return to the field she might find more
The little girl did SO, and scattered here
and there she picked up the full amount
lost by Mr.. Ingram, and found an old
pocket book that had bursted epeu from
exposure to tho weather. Mr.. Ingram
was notified of the fact, and identified
the money. None Of the bills we're too
badly injured to pass readily, which is
somewhat remarkable, considering how
long since it was lost. He offered the
little lady $40, but her generous heart
would not allow her to acccp. it, saying
Ahe didn't want anything for doing her
duty We failed to learn her name.
Year: 1873

Our medical association it appears can,
get its business pill to operating pro
perly. The next meeting will take place
in Troy on the 9th inst.-the fourth
Saturday of the month, as the by laws
provide, according to DR.. McElwec, cor.
responding secretary but we see by the
Dispatch, whose editor is secretary, that
after the next meeting the physicians
will meet on the first Saturday of each
month. If that be the case, the by laws
had better be changed and full under
standing arrived at next Saturday, so
that there will be no more trouble about
the time and place of meeting.
Year: 1873

An exchange paper asks the following
eonundrum Why is it that a young
fellow and his girl can sit in the parlor
until after midnight without making
noise enough for the old folks
to hear them through the partition, but
can't sit in a public place FIVE minutes
their giggling and talk gn
Year: 1873

An Irish housemaid, bOasting of her
industrial habits, said, quite innocently,
that she rose at four in the morning,
made a fire, put on the kettle, prepared
the breakfast, and made all the beds
" before a single soul was up in the
house,
Year: 1873

CudEMs


STRAY THOUGHTS of the
heart is the heart of religion.


He is rich who has God for his friend.


Be active in every good cause.


Words cannot heal the wounds that
words can make,


Let reason go before enterprise and
counsel before action.


A good word is an easy obligation,
but not to speak Ill requires only 81
lence, that costs nothing.


# man has any religion worth hav-
ing, he will do his duty and not ma g
any fuss about it. It is the empty ket-
tie that rattles.


Life, like war, is series of mistakes;
and he is the best Christian who wins
the most splendid victories by the re-
trieval of mistakes.


We are only competent to .aidge an
others conduct when we thoroughly
comprehend the motives that prompted
his actions.


A good opportunity never waits, If
you are not ready some one else will be.


TAxEs.-Now is the time to pay your
taxes and give in correct list of your
property for assessment. Some of our
tax payers are doing it with ven
geance. We were recently shown a
schedule filed up and sworn to by tax
payer, who owns four head of horses,
who only gives in two; another who
owns five, gives in only two another
who owns six, gives in only two. And
some others altogether fail to give in
anything, and leave the Board of AS
SCISSORS in the dark as to their real worth
And, still, some others who go to the
city and pay their State tax, but fail to
pay their parish tax, which makes the
burden of the tax fall on a few honest
and willing tax payers. There is GER
tainly great room for reform in this
matter, Let the Tax Collector and
honest tax payers make a note of this.
Whitehall Gazette.


An exchange says: "The county pa
per has converted thousands of youth
into readers, writer's and thinkers, who
would have been utterly Indifferent to
literature If they had not chance to
appear in print on some local subject
in their boyhood years. A town without
it is a nonentity, it is q sleepy hollow
| without poet to usher it into fame. AS
soon as a village becomes ambitious to
get its share of emigration, and to Sc
cure its citizens their share of political
influence, paper becomes necessity,
and a good paper has frequently
brought insignificant villages to the at
tention OF the entire country"
Four COOP HABITs.-There were
four good habits a wise man earnestly
recommended in his counsels, and which
he considered to be essentially neces-
sary for the management of temporal
concerns; and these are punctuality,
accuracy, steadiness, and despatch.
Without the first of these, time is was
ted; without the second, mistakes the
most hurtful to our own credit and in
| terest and that of others may be com
mitted; without the third, nothing can
be well done; and without the fourth,
opportunities of great advantage are
lost, which it is impossible to recall.
Year: 1873

In order that our readers may know
how to pronounce the name Of the man
who beat Frank Blair in the race for
the United States Senstorship in Mis-
sour. we take the following from the
81. Louis TINES The name Of Sem
ator Bogy seems to have confused a
number OF poraries abroad a. to
the proper method OF it's pronunciation.
The learned editor OF the Cincinnati
Times says that it is pronounced Bo jce,
with the accent on the last syllable the
still mare learned mao OF the Chicago
Inter. Ocean informs US that it is Bo.see
But as long as these and other Radical
journalists propose 70 amuse Themselves
for while by riddliDg the Coloners
political snd Official character. they
might ss well be informed that the cor.
rect pronunciation OF the word is Bo-
zhee.' with the accent on the first syl-
liable"
Year: 1873

The Difficulty Between England ana


Russia.


BERLIN, January pa statement
having appeared iu the newspapers OF
Vienna urporting to have been received
from St. Petersburg, to tine effect that
the Car Of Russia had addressed q
to the EmperorWillism
asking his Majesty to act as mediator
in the present Khivan difficulty between
Euglani and Russia, inquiry regard
ing the truth Of the statement was
made to-day at the Foreign Office OF
that Government in this city. The Off.
cials at that office deny the receipt OF
auy such communication, and say that
their government has no knowledge OF
any intention on the part OF the Russian
Government to enlist the services OF the
Emperor in the settlement OF the Khivan
question.
Year: 1873

81 A traveller in CASHMERE, in
Northwestern India, writes: The most
remarkable feature of the vegetation of
these mountains is kind of birch tree
when the rough outside bark is taken
OIL, ten or twelve layers of very thin
smooth bark are found, which can be
cut off in large flakes of any width.
and the length of the circumference of
the tree. This serves the natives for
paper, and great quantities of it are
used for writing, and for other purposes
for which we use paper.
Year: 1873

. There is nothing SO affecting in
a child as certain sweet inborn spirit
OF self abnegation. Sammy was little
boy, at school in village far from his
home. One day his father came to see
him, and they took walk together.
Meeting the principal of the school,
Sammy performed the ceremony of in
PRODUCTION. ON. 81" said he, "this
is father of mine"
Year: 1873

ra- At the rate things are going on the :
time is not far distant when every
school superintendent in the State Of
Illinois will be woman. Almost every
county has it's female candidate.
Year: 1873

~ A strange death is reported to
have occurred in India recently. A
native, while catching fish in a tank,
put the head of one in his mouth, and
bit it, as the fish was rather trouble
some in the matter of wriggling. Sud-
denly one of the sharp points in the
back fin stuck into his hand; he opened
his mouth to call for help, when the
fish giving a quick plunge, jumped
down his throat, and there firmly stuck.
It could be only taken out by small
pieces, after he had been carried to the
hospital. He was so exhausted that he
died as soon as it was removed.
Year: 1873

1 have finally cum to the conclusion
that lager beer is not intoxicating.


I have been told SO by a German.
who said he had drunk it all night lone
Just to try an experiment, and was
obliged to go home entirely sober in the
morning. have seen this same man
drink eighteen glasses. and if he was
drunk he Was drunk in German and
nobody could understand it. It is
proper enough to state that this man
kept lager beer saloon and could have
no object in stating what was NOT
strictly true. -. r


believe him to the full extent of NV
ability. I never drank but three classes
OF lager in my life, and that made my
head ontwist as tho it was hung on the,
end OF string, but was told it was
owing to my bile being out of place:
and guess that it was SO, for 1 never
billed over wus than when got lone
that mite. My wife thot was goin' to
di, and l was afraid that shouldn't.
for 1T seemed as tho everything / had
ever eaten in my life was cunlnin to
the surface, and believe that if NV
wife hadn't pulled off my boots as she
did, they would have cum laundering
too.


Oh, how sick I wuz! Fourteen wears
ago, and l can taste it now.


never had SO much experience in so
short time.


Ii any man wuz to tell me that lager
beer was not intoxicating, I shud be-
lleve him; and if he shud tell me that
l wuzn't drunk that mite, but my stum-
lex wuz out of order, should ask HIM to
state over few words, just how man
felt and acted when he wuz set up.
If warn't drunk that mite, 1 had sum
OF the simtums that man never had
who kept sober.


In the first place it wuz about eighty
rods from where / drank the lager to
mi house, and wuz inst two hours on
the road, and had hole busted thru
each OF my pantaloons neez, and didn't
have any hat, and tried to open the
door by the bell-pull, and hiccupped
awfully, and saw everything in the
room trying to get around on the back
side of me, and in sitting down on 10
chair did not wait long enough for it
to get exactly under me when it wuz
going round and couldn't get up soon,
enough to take the next one that come
along; and that amt awl; my wife sed T
WIZ drunk as q beast.


If lager beer is not Intoxicating it
used me most almighty mean, that
know.


Still I hardly think that lager is in
toxicating for l have been told so; and
am probably the only man living who
ever drunk emmy when his liver was not
plumb.


1 don't want to say enything against
a harmless temperance beverage, but if
l ever drink emmy more it will be with
my hands tied behind me and mi mouth
pried open.


Idon t think lager beer is Intoxicating
but, ii remember rite, I think it tastes
to me like glass of soap suds that
pickle had been put to soak in.
Year: 1873

A Doc STORY "A Richmond, Va, pa
per tells story of n very sagacious dog
and Il very foolish man, and the man
owns the dog. lie is a married man,
and the other evening he told his young
wife that he was going to the lodge. y
The wife anxonsly looked for the return
of her husband until the small hours Of
the morning, aud finally there was n
scratching at thc door, She opened it.
The dog was there, and something more.
He had in his mouth bloody handker
chief and round piece of ivory Of about
the size Of n silver dollar. She did not
know anything about the ivory. but the
bloody handkerchief suggested to her n
terrible story. She put on her bonnet
aud followed the dog lie pilotci her
to the lodge, which was in the upper
chamber of a high building, and there on
the floor in the corser was her husband
with badly swollen eye and bleeding
nose and useless legs. He could not
walk home bat there was reason for
that, which disappeared in few hours.
That young man now wants to dispose
Of very faithful, well meaning dog. He
also wants to find the man who hit him
on the nose in the gambling house.
Year: 1873

cxy- The story OF the degradation Of
the North Carolina university is thus
pungenty told in a paragraph from the
Hillsboro Recorder "Some of the young
ladies called apon Mr. Pool. to obtain
his permission to use the chapel for the
Sabbath school celebration. Mr. Pool
replied that he had no objection, provid-
ed the chapel was restored in as good or
der as when the permission was granted.
One Of the young ladies replied that on
examination Of the chapel they found it
filed with cows She supposed IL would
be an easy matter to drive them back in
to the building whom the exercises were
over.
Year: 1873

Graveyards are just as melancholy places OF
resort now as they were when the sensitive
Gray wrote his Elegy; but in Kansas ceme-
terry must be a particularly doleful place.
Bishop Vail of that diocese tells of walking IN
one little Gods acre there, and of being in
formed by the undertaken that the occupants
OF twenty-six graves-there we're only twenty
seven in all-were killed in affray, or, as the
guide neatly put it, ''died and were buried
with their boots on Curiously enough, the
only tenant of that graveyard who enjoyed
natural death was little child.
Year: 1873

Five tons OF worn ont bank note plates were
melted down at the Navy Yard in Washing
ton, on SATURDAY. They were destroyed under
the supervision of committee appointed by
the Secretary of the Treasury.
Year: 1873

The New York Bar Association has recon
mended an amendment to the State Constitution
which provides tor the submitting the question
of sanity, when raised in criminal trial, to a
commission of not less than five skilled persons,
also that jury trial may be waived in all but
capital cases by consent, and that in all cases,
except the death penalty is involved, a ma jor-
ity of the jury shall be sufficient to fnd a
verdict.
Year: 1873

An affectiOnate and sensitive son in Detroit
recently came to the police office with his
troubles. He stated that his widowed mother
was about to be married, and, as he didn't
want stepfather, he did want the affair
arrested according to law. Being informed by
the captain that getting married was the
chief aim of all human beings" and that. in
the case of widows it was even more so. the
young gentleman departed dreadfully dis
couraged.
Year: 1873

II is said by many ladies that have them in use,
that they are very truly named Amy person that has
used the Dolly Machine can this one IIhoul any
the process of washing is much the same
except that II washes much faster. 1t will wash about
double the quantity OF goods a time. 1t will wash
them quicker aud cleaner; 1t only works half as hard
as the DOty or aEy other machine that takes in as
great bulk OF goods at time The family size have
The capacity OF washing six sheets in three minutes
have washed, with the Hotel SIZE eight sheets and
eight pillow cases in three minutes in public by the
watch. all made OF toleraby heavy goods What
say OF 1t am prepared TO prove by practical demon.
stratIOn whenever required TO do


II IS believed ny many that clothing washed in this
Machine will last about twice as long as II washed
on The washbOard


The Price OF this Machine is Reduced TO suit the
times, from SIS TO $i2 at factory, and freight
added. II irelghied All orders by mail promptly at
tended to- Satisfaction is guaranteed IN all cases
Any person not satisfied after using the Machine sill
months, and giving il a lar trial. and have Ohe
reason save that does work satisfactorily, suci
one can return H. and The money will be refunded
Year: 1873

Southey tells of a Spanish nun who escaped from long confine. ment in a convent, and the first thing she inquired for was a lock- ing glass. She was put in the convent when five years old, and did not look in a mirror from the time of her entrance until the time of her escape. Her desire to see how she looked, by consulting a glass, was natural and very par dOnable.
Year: 1873

The Indianapolis Sentinel has discovered
a man possessing no instinct of manhood
above that of hog"


The man who can't afford to take a
newspaper paid three dollars for another
dog, Saturday.-Ddnbny NeWS.


One Indiana sheriff has had the painful
duty of selling out six printing offices
within year past So says a jealous Ohio
paper.


A merchant advertised fora clerk "who
could bear confinement" and received an
answer from one who had been seven years
in Jail.


A Western editor was recently request
ed to send his paper to a distant patron,
provided hewould take his pay in trade" !"
At the end of the year he found that his
subscriber was a coffin-maker.


A New York dentist, up town, digusted
one of his patrons recently, by requesting
him not to open his mouth any wider, as
he intended to stand outside during the
operation.
Year: 1873

On the day the Misses Greeley gave no.
tice that they would not contest their faith
er's will, Mr.. II. M. Williams made the
following remarkable statement: "The
contestants of the will of 1872 have proof
of its fraud, and only wanted an opportu-
nifty to call it, The developments would
be astounding. They would show that he
who had been the victim of every conspi-
racy in his lifetime, was victim of the
worst of all conspiracies at his death.
This pretended will was the child of con-
spiracy, executed at a moment when the
chamber of death should have been sacred
from the presence of the men who want to
execute that will. / characterize this az a
desecration off,
Year: 1873

for the dazettes


Mr.. JOHNSON 1t appears that the people in
ell the State have about come to the conclusion
Iat our candidate for Governor js to be taken
from New q ,stls county this tine, and the names
OF several gentlemen have been mentioned in
connection with that Office. So tar as l know
they are all good and true men corresuDndent
from this Huadred in QUE OF your numbers last
week speaks OF Mr.. Bright, OF Wilmington city,
and was glad to fad that old Red Lion WAS not
entirely asleep on this subject. It il very impor-
tant that the party should present q strong man
strong in more ways than one. He should be a
man that can and will do something to secure his
own election. The comparative strength of par
ties in this State at the present time very clearly
indicates to as that must be able to go into the
fight with an unexcePhonabls mau as our chief
standard bearer; and from the personal knOWl-
edge that ! have of Mr. Bright, together with
what COMMON TunIOF says OF MN, believe him
- bo orr most available man. The fact of his
having been, when but very small boy, appren-
ticed first as farmer and then as q carpenter,
instead OF being a disgrace Is now much to his
credit With my fellow voter from this Hundred,
whoever he may be, hope to see Mr.. Bright nom
mated and afterwards trlumphantIy elected.


Yours veTJ truly, ST. GEORGES.


Red Lion Hundred, Dec. Is, 1873