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I). H. TAYI,OK, ATTORNEY AT LAW,Chelsea, Mich.

D ONALD MACLEAN, M. I)., Physician andSurgeon. Office and residence, 71 Huron street.

Ann Arbor. Office hours from 8 to 9 a. m. aud fromto 3 p. m.

MRS. SOPHIA VOLLAND, M. I) . , Physi-cian and Surgeon. Office at residence, 44 Ann

street. Will attend to all professional (alls prompt-y, day and night, m- --j- -» r r n -

W H . JACKSON, Dentist. Office corner of• Main and Washington streets, over Bach &

Abel's store, Ann Arbor, Mich. Anesthetics admin-istered if required.

MACK & SCHMII>, dealers in Dry Goods,Groceries, Crockery, etc., No. 54 South Main

street.

BACH & ABEL, dealers in Dry Goods, Gro-ceries, etc., No. 26 South Main street, Ann

Arbor, Mich.

wCarpel

TW. WlKiXKR, dealer in Keady-Made Cloth-ing, Cloths, CaBRimereB, Vest ings, Trunks,

tlSass, etc., 21 South Main street.

C SCIIAEBKKUE, Teacher of the Piano-forte.• Pupils attain the desired skill in piano-play-

ing by a systematic course of instruction. Forterms, apply at residence, No. 12 W. Liberty street,Ann Arbor. Prompt attention paid to piano-tuning.

KATIE J . ROGERS, Portrait Painter. Por-traits painted to order either from life or pho-

tographs. Instructions given in Drawing andPainting by the system used in Academics of De-sign. Studio, No. 7, cor. Division and Ann streets.

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MKS. SOPHIA HARTLEY, M. D.,GERMAN AND ENGLISH

PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS.Office and residence, No. 18 Thompson, corner of

Thompson and William streets, Ann Arbor, Mich.Mrs. Dr. Hartley will limit her practice to the treat-ment of diseases peculiar to Ladies and Children.

FKUEAUFF & CORBIN,A T T O R N E Y S AT LAW.

E. K. FR0EAUFF, Justice of the Peace.All business promptly attended to. Office No. 8

East Washington streot, Rinsey & Seabolt'B block.

NOAH W. CHEEVER,A T T O R N E Y A T L A W .

Office east sido of Court House Square, AnnArbor, Mich.

» JOHN L. BURLElGHi"

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ANN ARBOR, - - MICHIGAN.HENRY R. HILL,

A T T O R N E Y A T L A WDealer iu Real Estate, and Insurance

Agent.Office, No. 3 Opera House Block, ANN AUBOR.

EVERYBODY SAYS THATS. B. REVENAUCH

IE THE

Boss Photographer of Ann ArbotFourth Street, East of Court Home; 1st floor.

J. 11. NICKELS,

FRESH & SALT MEATS,Hainn, Sausages, I j i rd, e tc . ,

STACK K TIU'J.T, OPPOSITE NORTHWEST COK-jHJS* OF UNIVEKSITY CAMPUS.

Orders promptly filled. Farmers having meatsto sell should give him a call. 1568-yl

THE ANN ARBORSAVINGS BANK

Ann A.rl>oi-, Michigan.Capital paid in .> 50,000.00

Capital security 100,000,00

Trarfmets a general Hanking Business ; buys andpells Kiroharjge on New York, Detroit and Chicago ;xells Biftbt Drafts on all the principal cities ofEurope; also, sells Passage Tickets to Liverpool,London and Glasgow^1 i>tho Anchor Line of Steam-ships, whose rates are lower than most other first-class lines.

This Bank, already having a large business, in-vite merchants and others to open accounts withthem, with the assurance of the most liberal dealingconsistent with safe banking.

In the Savings Department interest is paid at therate of five per cent, per annum, payable semi-an-imally, on the first days of January and July.on allsums that have remained on deposit three monthsprevious to taose days, thus affording tho people ofthis city and county a perfectly safe depository fortheir funds, together with a fair return in interfor the same.Money to JLoan on Approved Securities*

DIHKCTOBS—Christian Mack, W. W. Wines, W. DHarriman, Daniel Hiscock, R. A. Beal, Wm. Deubel,and Willard B. Smith.

OFFICERS:CHRISTIAN MACK, W. W. WINES,

President. Vice PresidentCHA8. E. HISCOCK, Cashier.

A CARD.The undersigned respectfully informs his friends,

and the public of Ann Arbor and vicinity, that hehas purchased the stock of

Drugs, Medicines, Toilet Articles,Dye Stuffs, Ac,

Formerly owned by the late George Grenville, andthat he will continue the drug business, in all itsbranches, at the old stand,

NO. 5 SOUTH MAIN STREET.By giving strict attention to business, and selling

goods at reasonable prices, he hopes to merit a shareof, the public patronage.

Yt?~ Particular attention will be paid to tho com-pounding and filling of Physicians' Prescriptions bycompetent assistants. EMANOEL MANN

Ann Arbor, March 25, 1878.

EBEEBA€H & SON,

ists and Pharmacists,12 South Main St.,

on hand a large ami well selected stock of

DRUGS,MEDICINES,

CHEMICALS,DYE STUFFS

ARTISTS'& WAI FLOWER MATERIALSToilet Articles, Trusses, Ktc.

PURE WINES AND LIQUORSSpecial attention paid to the furnishing of Phy

sicians, Chemists, Schools, etc., with Philosophicajnd Chemical Apparatus, Bohemian Chemi;Glassware, Porcelain Ware, Pure Reagents, etc.

Physicians' prescriptions carefully prepared aall hours 1546

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VOLUME XXXIII. ANN ARJK)H, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, OCrl OBER 4, 1878 NUMBER 1707.

"THEM YANKEE 1U.ANK1TS."Where goffering ami Brotherly Kimlnei

lit-ought Hi-arts T«»j;«'tb«'r in l.ove.

Yes. John, I way down thar at Me.:A workin' around at the boats.

A heavin.1 o' cotton witli emph'sis,Air a loadin' her onto tin1 floats;

I was eomin' away from ole Texas,Wlmr I went, you know, artcr the wall—

'Bout it now I'll make no reflexes,But wait till I git ter long taw.

Well, while I was down thar the fever,An yallar an' pizen as sin,

Broke out; an', ef you'll beleceve her,Wharever she hit she struck in !

It didn't take long in the hatchin',It jes' fa'rly bred in the. air.

Till a hosspitel camp warn't a patchin',An' we'd plenty o' corpses to spare.

I voluntecr'd then with the HowardsI thought that my duty was clear-—

Air 1 diu'tlook baek'ards, but for'ards,An' went ter my work 'ithoilt tear.

Oos day, howsomever, she got meAs quick as the shot of a gun.

Air they toted me oft ter allot meA bunk till my life-race was run.

The doctors and nurses they wrestled,But it didn't do me any good;

An' the drugger he poundid and pestl'd,But he didn't git up the right food.

" No blankits nor ice in the city I"—I heard him say that from bed —

An' some cried: " Oh, God! who'll take, pityOil the dyin' that soon'll be dead 1

Next day, howsoniever, the doctorCome iu witli a smile on his brow:

" Old boy, jest, as yit we hain't knocked hor,"iSaid ho, -' but we'll do for her now!"

Far, yer see. John, them folks ter the nor'wardUcd hcar'd us afore we called twice.

An' they'd sent us a full cargo forwardOf them much-needed blankits an' ice!

Well, brother, I've been mighty solidAgin' Yankees, yer know, since the wah,

Air agin' roconstrucktin' was solid,Not kearin' for kongress ner law;

But, John. I got onder thet kiver,That God-blessed gift o' the Yanks,

An' it saved me from fordiir " the river,"An' I'm prayin' 'em oceans o' thanks!

I tell yer. old hoy, thare's er streak in usOld rebels an' Yanks that is warm-

It's er brotherly love thetil speak in us,An1 fetch us together in storm:

We may snarl about niggers an' francheese,"But, whenever thar's sufferin' afoot—

The two trees'll unite in the branchesThe same as they do at the root]

-Sam W. Small (" Old Si"), in Atlantei Constitution

"THE MULTITUDINOUS SEAS."

JTrom Appletons' Journal for October.]How few there are who realize that

the ocean is aught else than a ragingmass of weltering waves lashed bystorms, to be regarded only with dread,and avoided with aversion! How manygain from it but one or two one-sidedimpressions! To one the sea is alwaysblue; somehow that idea early fixed it-self in his mind, and he has never caredto observe further, and revise a firstpartial impression. To another it al-ways looks green. Nothing more fairlyindicates the exceedingly limited habitsof observation of tho average mind inmatters out of its beat than the ex-cessively meager notions which manyhave of the sea, even after repeatedfamiliarity with it, as in the case of thosewho cannot plead the' excuse of sea-sickness for their ignorance. How fewthere are who fully appreciate the match-less suggestiveness of that Homeric pas-sago—" The innumerable smiles of themany-voiced sea!" That line onlytouches on the countless aspects ofocean, and yet it is the finest definitionof the sea in the whole range of litera-ture.

About Madeira the sea when over tenfathoms is like inolton turquois, lovelybeyond description, not only in the sea-caves, as in the famous Blue Grotto of

im, but outside. The fish swimmingin it seem to be of transparent blue,and the keel of a ship, seen witli perfectdistinctness, is like a solid mass of trans-lucent cobalt.

The color of the water in tho tropicsseems to be shared also by the fish ofthose regions. The blue-fish, quitedifferent from the fish of that name onthe New England coast, looks as ifcarved out of ultramarine touched withburned sienna in parts, and the mouthfringed with carnation-tinted ('oral. 'Dieparrot-fish is of a scarlet as vivid as thatof the birds in the forests of the neigh-boring shores ; the mullet is brilliantbrown and gold. In northern waters,on the contrary, we have the cod clad inquaker-gray, and the haddock, whichstill bears on its head the mark of St.Peter's holy thumb when he squeezed ;ipiece of silver out of its mouth, wearsa livery the color of (lie roaring surgeswhich overwhelm our fishermen on theGeorges and the Grand Banks.

The Bed sea is so called for a certaintawny tinge of its waters as well as forthe red coral on its coast, but why theBlack sea should have that epithet it isdifficult to say, unless on account of thescowling, thunderous appearance it pre-sents in winter, when it is swept by dis-astrous storms. The sea on the south-ern coast of England is a peculiar lightgray-green caused by the chalk-cliffswhich are being constantly eroded andwashed away by the ocean-billows. Avery striking instance of water coloredin this way is seen in Northumberlandstrait, Gulf of St. Lawrence, especiallyafter a storm. The soft, reddish shoresof Prince Edward's island firo eatenaway and absorbed by the sea, whichthus assumes a rich coffee-color, veryvivid, and, when glistening in the sun,and tinged here and there with reflec-tions of the blue overhead,extraordinarilyrich in tone, and strongly resemblingpolished syenite. It is well known thatthe Amazon dyes the sea for hundred ofmiles beyond the land witli the ochre-tinted silt it washes down from the pam-pas and the far-off mountains of Peru.

The warmth of the water in tropicallatitudes seems to have the same effecton the monsters of the deep that theclimate has on the temperament of man.The barracuda is savage and aggressiveas a tiger, and the cruel voracity of theKing of the Cannibal islands is quiteeclipsed by the horrible, treacherous,stealthy nature of that sea-pirate, theman-eating shark. It is stated, andfrom what I have heard I am inclined tothink it is true, that the shark preferswhite men to negroes, and will only at-tack and eat the Litter on rare occasions.An English frigate's crew on the edge ofthe Bahama bank killed sixty of thosemonsters in one day's sport a few daysago, so numerous are they in thosewaters. This might have been a meanstaken by the British Government torevenge itself, as on some savagetribe, regardless of diplomatic remon-strances aud the courtesy of nations,for the liberty taken by the sharks withthe crew of an English ship-of-war someyears earlier.

The Magpie schooner was cruising offCuba for pirates when she was struckby an " ox-eye;" squall—a wind comingwithout other warning than a smallround cloud in a clear sky, rushing withthe rapidity of a cannon-ball. She wasover in an instant, and, to make a longstory short, the whole crew but twowere devoured by a school of sharkswhich were lying in wait. Gliding inamong the horror-stricken crowd ofseamen, they played with them for awhile as a cat does with her prey. But

the first taste of blood was like alcoholto a drunkard, and in a few momentsonly two of the crew survived in a boatwhich had floated off from the vesselas she went down. After they had beenin the boat several days, parched,starved, and roasted by the tropic sun,a brig hove in sight, slowly passing twomiles away with a very light morningair just filling the sails. As she did notseem to see the boat, one of the menjumped into the water and swam oil' toher. Ho was followed by two sharks,which kept him company the whole ofthat long, awful swim. But he scaredthem oil' by flapping his jacket—theshark is a great coward. Just as he wasabout to give up the race in despair, theman at the wheel looked over the railand saw him. A boat was lowered, andhe and his shipmate were saved. Noth-ing one sees at sea so sends an involun-tary shudder through him as to see theedge of the dorsal fin of a shark float-ing like an upright spar on the surfaceof the water. You know at once thatmischief is lurking there.

Another terror of the deep is themany-armed prodigy called octopus,devil-fish, cuttle-fish, sepia, or squid, butthe last name is generally applied to thesmaller species, common in tho Medi-terranean, where it is dried and eaten.In the China seas sepia for painting isextracted from it; but the larger kind,called by old writers the kraken, hasonly recently come into prominence asa credible reality. Hakluyt's "Voy-ages" contain thrilling illustrations ofthe kraken reaching up its long armsinto the rigging of ships, pulling themover or quietly helping itself to the ter-ror-stricken crew; but these have beenconsidered fabulous representations, andVictor Hugo's description of the won-derful devil-fish in "The Toilersof tho Sea" has been accept-ed chiefly as an example of thoexhaustless fecundity of that writer'simagination rather than an actual creat-ure. But within three or four years toomany specimens of the cuttle-fish have:>eon encountered, with a s]iread ofihirty to sixty feet to the arms, to make;his creature any longer the subject ofegitimate laughter, especially as it hasjeen found to have a spider-like way ofcreeping on its victim and drawing it jlown to its den at the bottom of the \sea, as in the case of the poor Indianrirl recently caught in the deadly em-rrace of an octopus near Vancouver'ssland.

I doubt not similar certainty will bereached regarding the vexed questionabout sea-serpents. There is nothingmore absurd than the incredulous levityof the popular mind concerning thismysterious serpent. What is there morempossiblo about a large water-snake ihan a largo fish? There are smallishes and large fishes, small water-snakes, and why not large ones? Whats an eel but a sea-serpent? and arc therelot water-snakes in every brook? I'er-laps the large sea-serpent is a compar-atively new creation, evolved on theDarwinian theory; perhaps, like thovhale, it changes its habitat, and hasjut recently become common in north-rn waters; or, as has been suggested, per-laps it is a deep-sea creature frightened;o the surface by some great submarine•onvulsion. The witnesses to thismon-ter have been so many and of so goodi character for credibility that the laughherald really be against those who dolot believe in tho existence of tho sea-scrpent.

There is a kind of sea-snake seenometimes which is not revealed tohose who voyage in steamers; many archo ocean-phenomena which they lose,oen only by those who go in sailing-hips, for the steamer frightens awaynany sea wonders. There are days innid-occan—and one need not go to theloldrums or horse-latitudes to findhem—when day after day, week afterreek, the breezes are asleep, and thepints of the storm have gone below toport with the nereids, and Neptune and\mphitrito holding festal times in theea-green caves of ocean, it seems as if-here was nothing left but sea and sky,md, insphered between them, one soli-ary Shift gazing at its own shadow, andicld motionless, as if paralyzed thereorever on an enchiuited sea, while thetin rises and sets in a cloudless sky,iflectcd on the oily surface of the sea

is on a mirror of burnished gold. Atnight the moon, yellow and full, rises inlie west, like an imago of the snn, butlirows no reflection from the horizon onhe water, so absolutely smooth and

Tlassy in the sea. Only, as one looksver thesideof the shipin that appallingnd seemingly-eternal silence of the il-mitable ocean, he sees three or four>und balls of silver eerily quivering bylie ship, when the moon is at its zenith,Inch look as if they were magic balls

osscd up from the depths below by un-oen tricksy sprites of the sea. Per-hance there is another ship floating inompany miles away, and gradually, byn agency that seems supernatural, sheraws gradually nearer, although theres never a breath of air stirring. Butliis is explained from the simple factliat there arc always unseen currentsnoving, and one ship will be more oress affected than another by them, ac-ording to its draught or weight. It is

such a time that objects float byvhich one would never have suspectedo exist in the sea—not only nautili andovely Portuguese men-of-war, and jelly-lsh, fringed with long crimson-and-urplo hair, but algie of a fairy-like

"race that almost exceeds belief, anderpents six to eight feet long, transpar-nt as if made of elastic glass, of a del-cately-modulated pearly gray, stripednd spotted, with gem-like points ofTeen, scarlet and blue. It is like a rev-lation of an unseen world; and so it is,or the sea, much as it has been ex->lored, is yet, like the human brain, fullf wonders and mysteries yet unre-ealed, hidden far, far down where noluman eye has yet penetrated. Fromime to time a fresh discovery is made,s in the case of the fish brought up bylie Challenger exploring expedition offlie coast of Portugal—a fish at the bot-om of the sea, and kept together by theressure of the water; when brought tolie surface, it exploded to atoms.

One of the finest effects at sea isniragc, which is confined to no part oflie ocean, although the conditions whichroduce it do not always seem thor-ughly explained by saying that it isue to refraction. To see, the shorenised above the water, and hoveringtiysteriously in the air, reflected in an-ther sea of its own, is a sight that thelost threadbare familiarity can nevernake less wonderful. Tho Mediterra-nean abounds in the effects of mirage;

S is an every-day sight to see the SierraNevada mountains on the coast of Spainuspended several degrees above thejlue waters of the sea. But mirage is

also common on our coast, and especiallyin Long Island sound in moist, foggyweather. The most singular form oftins phenomenon is when ships are seenfloating in the air. A remarkable in-stance of this is related of a ship that, dur-ing the colonial days, wasexpected fromEngland. On a Sunday afternoon, aftera violent storm, she was seen floating inthe air, every spur rejiresented soeleiulvthat there was no question of the iden-tity of the vessel thus painted in theclouds; but that was the last that Wilsever seen of the ill-fated ship.

One of the surest indications of astorm is what sailors call Capo Flyaway ;that is, a cloud or clouds which look solike land a.s to deceive " the very elect"themselves. More or less common inall parts of the sea, we again find thatthis phenomenon is especially commonin the Azores; and this has probablybeen one reason why the old navigators,who cruised about these waters in oldentimes, were continually discoveringland, from which they were blown awayby a storm, and were afterward finableto find it again, for tho very good reasonthat " he needs must have optics keenwho sees what is not to be seen."

Another forerunner of a storm is thewater-spout, which is one of the mostimpressive and awe-inspiring f-ights atsea. The explanation of its being issimple enough. A whirlwind or gyrat-ing current of air seizes tho water as onland it snatches up sand and dust, andwhirls it up to the clouds, which tints

! receive some of the moisture of whichthey are composed. I saw a curiousillustration of this once when sailing ina boat near the shore, the wind beingnor'-northwest, and tho weather beingvery dry. I observed a thread-like coVHum of dust on the land skurrying to-ward tho water—it was a small whirl-wind ; no sooner did it touch the waterthat the column turned as if by magicinto water, coming with great rapiditytoward tho boat. I at once luffed andlet go the sheet, and the water-spoutpassed within two or three yards oft', andwas perhaps three to four inches in di-ameter. But a real, live water-spout,that means mischief, is a sublime object,to be regarded with just apprehensionby all sailors, for they are sometimessufficiently largo and violent to foundera ship. A cannon-ball brought to be'aron one will, however, sometimes causeit to break. When there are several in arow, as I have repeatedly seen them inthe Black sea, where they are especiallycommon, they look like a colonnade ofmajestic pillars supporting tho sky. Inever shall forgot a magnificent water-spout that nearly overwhelmed us onegloomy twilight in the Gulf stream. Itwas blowing very fresh about dusk, whenthe Captain came out to take anotherlook before supper. Tho man at thewheel was looking into the binnacle,and no one else had seen a huge water-spout, which the Captain perceived assoon as he put his head above tho com-punionway. It was advancing withgreat volocity directly on a line with theship and was alarmingly near. TheCaptain sprung to the wheel, and, push-ing the helmsman aside, put the helmdown and kept away several points, andthe water-spout passed just astern;another minute of delay and the bravelittle bark would have carried her crewto Davy Jones.

The Gulf stream, whether off Hatterasor in the Roaring Forties, is probablythe most capricious, treacherous, andphenomenal part of the Atlantic, themost trying to encounter, exceptingpossibly some of tho regions in thevicinity of dangerous coasts. Nowhereelse are the phosphorescent effects ofthe sen so distinct and beautiful, so fullof the colors red, blue and green. It isnot infrequent, especially near the Flor-ida banks, to see, the phosphorus rush-ing' past the ship in a band of light sobrilliant that one can easily read thetime on his watch on the darkest nights,while the rudder is bathed in masses ofprismatic flame, as the sparks meet anddash together in the ship's wake. Inthe North Atlantic, when the wave-crestsflash like torches and emit an electricvapor that kindles the vast expanse ofocean with mysterious light, heavyweather may bo expected within twenty-four hours. It is very remarkable howmany of the glories and attractive effectsof the sea are like barometric forecastsof tho weather. The different tints ofgreen in the sky at sunset, for example,indicate unerringly calms or storms, ac-cording to the tint.

The, Gulf stream is noted for its elec-trical phenomena. These are alwaysfar more common as a rule at sea thanon land, and nothing can be more ap-palling than the periodical electricalstorms of the tropics, especially in theIndian ocean with the change of themonsoon>, or equinoctial hurricanes ofthose latitudes. But for a continuous,chronic, inexhaustible supply of fire-works, the Gulf stream has no rival. Itbrings them forth on the slightest occa-sion, and it is doubtful _if ever a shipcrossed the fierce-tempered currentwithout seeing lightning. This is easi-ly accounted for: the prevailing windsof the North Atlantic are southwest andnorthwest, except certain local windsnear the English channel, and the north-east trades blowing from Cape Finis-terre to the Cape do Verds. When thesouthwest wind has been blowing a whileit has a strong inclination to shift intothe northwest, and the longer it blowsthe more it wants to get around, andthe more sudden and violent is thechange when it comes. Now, the meet-ing of the warm current of southwestair with the cooler air from tho north-west results in a discharge of electricity;and, although sometimes lightning isseen in the southwest for many hoursbefore the wind changes, yet, when" itdoes shift, it always does so with a tre-mendous rain and vivid lightning, oftenattended by what are called corposxrtntos, or St. Elmo's candles, electriclights which without any warning are*seen suddenly perched on the end ofevery spar, producing a most mysteriousand beautiful effect. They do not al-ways come in heavy weather, althoughgenerally seen at such a time, and manyseamen consider it a bad omen to haveone shine on a man's face when he isaloft; but this superstition is wearingaway. Another electric phenomenon atsea is a round ball the size of a fullmoon, but brighter and redder, passingslowly from one cloud to another, some-times succeeded by a terrific explosionof thunder. One is surprised that shipsare not oftener sunk by lightning, but,although the bolts sometimes fall inquick succession directly around thevessel, they are generally attracted bythe water.

The icebergs which come down fromtho North pole and lie in wait for ves-sels crossing their path also find their

grave in the Gulf stream. Northwardand eastward runs this fierce current,yet below it is a stealthy polar currentgliding ever southward, and the mightyberg, whose bottom reaches many fath-oms down, is seized by the lower cur-rent and borne against the Gulf stream,until the heat of the upper currentmelts and disintegrates it, and allows itno longer to be a menace to the mari-ner a siren indeed, the very embodi-ment of poetry and splendor, lmt treach-erous and remorseless as a fiend. Sev-enil times have I seen icebergs at sea,generally looming suddenly, startlingand ghost-like, out of a dank fog, butonce robed in imperial magnificence.It was the 4 th of July, and the sky waswithout a cloud, but the air was coldand keen as winter, and we knew whatit meant. As the sun arose the horizonwas studded with glittering points ]\kcthe serried spears of a great host; hereand there a loftier mass flashed back therays of the sun from some berg tower-ing above the field-ice. There, wasnothing to be done but to keep on ourcourse, for we were nearly surroundedby the ice; but we had a leading wind,a good top-gallant breeze, and felt ourway without much difficulty throughthe broad channels. What lovely palegreens and blues were revealed in thecaverns of the immense, cathedral-likeicebergs into which the waves brokewith a far-off, eerie boom, and how ex-quisite was the roseate blush which theicy pinnacles assumed when kissed bythe setting sun! Tho full moon arosesoon after and shone on the silvery bas-tions aud towers of an iceberg scarcelyhalf a mile from us, which was not lessthan 400 feet above the sea aud nearlyfour times the height of our masts.Next morning the polar fleet had disap-peared in the southern board, and, onthe whole, we were not sorry to partcompany with it.

01(1 School Discipline.There were two curious bits of disci-

pline at that school; one, that whenevera boy committed a grave offense everyboy of the school was made a party toit, and a penitential letter was writtenhome by every boy precisely in the sameterms. Here is an instance: Onenight, as we followed the ushers, two-and-two, down a passage from the school-room to our bed-room, William said tome, " George, I hate that usher fellow."" So do I," I said. " I shall sj)it on hisback," said he. " Please don't," said I," we shall both be strapped." Strappingwas , administered with a piece of car-riage-trace, with the buckle-holes in it,through which the air rushed as thestrap descended on the hand. " I shallspit on his back," said he, and, as I ex-pected, tho usher having, I suppose,heard whispering, turned round, andWilliam was caught in the act. Thenext morning, after due personal treat-ment of the leading culprit by a processmore painful than strapping, wo wereall drawn up in single file in the school-room, and every boy, older and younger,had to write from dictation, and then tocopy from his slate on a sheet of letter-paper, the letter following (letters thencost 8d each): " My Dear Parents—Wehave committed a great sin. For Will-iam Denison spat on tho usher's back aswe went to bed. I remain, your affec-t'onate son, Arthur Shirt." There werefour Shirt brothers in tho school—Ar-thur, Lionel, Frederick and AugustusShirt. I draw a veil over the feelingsand expressions of the Shirt parentsupon opening the four letters, price '2s8d. The like thing happened againwhile I was there, upon tho occasion ofbuying apple-tarts from an old womanover the playground-wall. In this casethe sin was of a more general character,but, as in the other case, was made uni-versal: "My Dear Parents--We havecommitted a great sin. For we havebought apple-tarts without the leave ofthe master, when we have plenty to eat,and that of the best quality. I remain,"etc. The other point of discipline wasthat every boy who had not conductedhimself well during the week had nomutton-pie on Saturday. Now, thisgave the mutton-pie a moral elevationwhich, in its own nature, it did not de-serve, being composed of what was lefton the plates the preceding days of theweek. William had been at school atEshor, with our elder brothers Evelynand Edward, before Sunbnry. There,one Sunday morning, having lost hisliiit. he was made to walk to school in astraw coal-scuttle bonnet of one of thedaughters of the house. The ways ofdiscipline are various.—Arch DeaconDeninon's "Notes of My Life."

A Cottage Watw-Filter.Those who cannot afford to buy a fil-

ter may easily make one. Stuff a pieceof sponge in the hole of a flower pot,place above this a layer of pebbles, thena layer of coarse sand, and above this alayer of pounded charcoal three or fourinches in depth. Another layer of peb-bles should be placed above tho char-coal, to prevent it from being stirred upwhen the water is poured in. The con-tents of the flower pot should be occa-sionally renewed. But, by a small addi-tion to this, a cottage filter may bemade which, for practical use, is quiteequal to the most expensive filter ofcorresponding size. It consists of twoflower pots, one above the other, thelower one fitted with a sponge and fil-tering layers above described, and theupper one with a sponge only. The up-per pot should be the larger, and, if thelower one is strong, the upper one mayrest on it, or a piece of wood with a holeto receive the upper pot may rest onthe brim of tho lower one. The twopots thus arranged are placed on athree-legged stool with a hole in it,through which the projecting part ofthe lower sponge passes, and the waterdrops into a jug placed below. Theupper part serves us a reservoir, and thesponge stops the coarser impurities, andthus the filtering layers of the lowerone may be used for two or three yearswithout being renewed, if tho uppersponge be occasionally cleaned. Caremust be taken to wedge, in the uppersponge tightly enough to prevent thewater passing through the upper potmore rapidly than it can filter throughthe lower one.

THE number of marine casualtiesduring the last fiscal year was 210,against 220 in the fiscal year 1877.Ninety of tho losses last year wore oc-casioned by the wreck of the steamerMetropolis. Statistics also show thattravel by water last year was somewhatgreater than during the preceding year.The latter included the greater periodof the Centennial Exposition, and thiscomparison indicates that general travel-ing was not largely affected . by specialattractions,

SAB1UTH READING.

' Into all lives Rome rain must fall,"hitn nil eyes Kome tear-drops start,

Whether they fall as a gentle showerOr drop, like tire, from an aching heart.

Into all hearts some Horrow must creep,Into all souls some doubtingn come,

Lashing the waves of Life's great deepFrom dimpling watorH to seething foam.

Over all pathways some clouds must lower,lender all feet, some sharp thorns spring,

Tearing the flesh to bleeding wounds,Or entering the heart with thoir bitter sting.

Upon all brows rough winds must blow,O\er all .shoulders a cross must be lain,

Bowing the form, in its lofly height,Down to the dust in bitter pain.

Into all hands is some duty thrust,Unto all arms some burden given:

Crushing the heart with its dreary weight,Or lifting the soul from earth to heaven.

Into all hearts and homes and livenGod's dear sunshine comes streaming down,

Gilding the ruins of life's great plain—Weaving for all a golden crown.

Tho Moral Worlil.

SEKMON BY HEV. DAVID SWING, OP CHICAGO.(Sod so loved the world that He gave His Son.—

John Hi, Hi.

In that large composition called thomoral world what ideas, as the painterswould say, lie here and there! Stand-ing before the landscape of a greatartist you find a large assemblage ofthought. There is the expanse of bluesky, there is a band of white cloud,there is tho charm of great distance inthe mountain, there is the charm ofnearness in the foregroxmd; the back-ground reminds us of eternity, the fore-ground of time, the mountain awakesthe sense of the sublime, the grass andviolets in the foreground awaken thebeautiful, the crumbling house orchurch appeals to our natural sadness,the vines on the wall recall us to hope;the immenseness of the scene proclaimsGod, the hunter or fisherman just visi-ble proclaims man. Into this moralcomposition you may see the Greek andRoman carrying art and thought andlanguage, and the Hebrews carrying thebest truths of religion. The Hebrewsfollowed faithfully their mission, andstood by the religious side of man untiltheir seed-lessons bore tho fruit of thoChristian era. There were otherstreams meanwhile flowing down andemptying into a common deep, but, asin speaking in general terms of conti-nents we allude to its giant streams, theMississippi or Hudson, or Amazon orDanube as draining the immense vales,and make no note of the hundreds oftributaries which, with much noise orprofound silence, add their waters, soin analyzing the past the mind mustmention only such Niles as Palestineand Greece and Italy, and mustnot hope even to perceive thetributaries of those long and deep'floods. In the classic languages alonewe may find a whole day in this moralcreation. The modern speech whichcan express such millions of ideas, andwhich furnishes such a gateway for thesoul; the modern speech which finds inthe score of modern languages only somany dialects of itself, all comes fromthat Eastern land—a magnificent be-quest from the dying yesterday to theyouthful to-day and to-morrow. In thisgreat composition before us, after amighty language was limned, then cameeducation and liberty. The educationwhich began to turn the mind awayfrom sensuality and toward such intel-lectual riches as law, philosophy, sci-ence, art, poetry, and ethics, must bedeclared one of tho mighty works of" creation and providence." When bydegrees the growth of liberty came in-viting the common people up to higherseats, then, too, the Creator poured an-other element into the moral cosmos,and made it assume a new shape. Thecommon man became ambitious, andenergetic, and hopeful. It threw openthe gates of property, of office, of pro-fession, of every form of distinction,and filled with enthusiasm raees whichbad once been slaves. In the moderngreat nations men of all forms of talent,philosophic, mechanical, mathematical,poetic, moral, philanthropic or inventiveire invited and urged along their favor-ite path by the sense of perfect free-dom. One long dreadful epoch perse-cuted Jews or burnt Catholics or Pro-lestants, but now each class moves free-ly amid its ideas, and the once-despisedHebrew becomes the musician of Ger-many, or the banker of Europe, or thestatesman of England. When Disraeliwas young he perceived the result ofliberty among the Jews, for he enumer-ates in " Coningsby" the great ones whoare leading Europo in thought, infinance, in statesmanship, and in song.

We have now marked the process bywhich one moral world is being formed.Borrowing our figure from the Bible, wesee tho successive days opening andclosing, and in each evening the crea-tion larger and better than in the morn-ing hour. From the few large elementswe may pass to a general law, and con-lude that tho minor events in history

arc all component parts in the vast lifeof to-day. Long after we have becomeunable to trace the result of a fact or aline of facts, it will remain true thatthat fact or line of facts is blended intothe great whole, forming human nature.Our eyes arc made to see the large, andthen reason comes in to infer the small.Our senses do not measure the world,they only set going an induction. Weperceive that the large animals cat andbreathe and rest and die, and hence,when animal organisms become toosmall for our sight, we cover them allover with our induction, and by reasonsee them cat and breathe and rest anddie. When the heavy quadruped runsover the Western plains the groundtrembles; and when man walks his stepis often heard "afar, in the still night.When the ear fails, induction becomesthe soul's ear, and it tells us that whenthe butterfly's foot touches a flower-Icaf the air vibrates witli thesudden contact. We must en-;cr the moral world with thisplan of the universe in our mind, andmust confess that our civilization ismade up of subtle forces joining andblending in it like the many vibrationswhich form a tone in music. We mustfollow the flight of induction until wedo not see the human race to bo shapedonly by such great things as languagemil education and liberty, but also bywhat seem humbler elements, such asthe addresses of a Savonarola, the con-version of an Augustine, the piety of aCalvin, tho solitude of an a'Kerhpis.It is wholly impossible for youand me to discover the mean-ug of a crusade or a Napo-leonic war, or of the plague inLondon or in Memphis; we cannot goto the cemeteries, where half a millionAmerican soldiers sleep, and learn thewhole justification of their dust, but,where sense and reason both fail, wecan whisper to our heart that God isseating a moral world, and tlio,B() iive

the mornings and evenings in its suc-cessive days. As the physical universeis full of blending li^ht and shadow,and as, indeed, it creates beauty bymingling, and thus makes a morning orevening sky sweeter than the decidedmoon, so our moral world comes to Wsas a continuance of the same blendinp.and in some strange, manner the songsof Homer and Dante and Milton andthe harp of David and Sappho andBeethoven combine with the eloquenceof Luther and Bossuet, and the swordsof Orange, and Washington in weavingthe one fabric of a final humanity.

So vast is the fact aud future of themoral world that it is safe to say thatthe material world is only a greatshadow of this moral beauty. The nat-uralists reverse the thought. Theysometimes find tho explanations of theuniverse to lie in material forms, andthat man is only one of its many formsof dust. Man and rock and stream areall one. But I should prefer to assumethe moral world as the explanation ofall being, and to declare that the physi-cal world is only the mirror in whichthe spirit turning around constantly,perceives itself. Thus on all sides thegreat mass of material things lies as amirror or language of the rational soul.It is the reflected light of the spirit.

Such, then, is the moral world. It isrising up immense from the hand of anever-resting Creator, and is increasingin volume tho further the livingstream flows. Arid now it is such aview of it which makes us the moreready to believe that this benevolentCreator sent such a being as Christ tolive and teach and die here. It seemseasy to believe that He came an angelto disturb the waters of this pool thathigher life and health might be givenout to all us sick ones helpless on thebanks. At times atheists will come, andto all our hearts doubts will come, butthe momentum bound up in tho familyof man and issuing forth from the OneBeing whom wo call Christ will pressback the formal and informal unbeliefand will carry us all onward. It is notto be wondered at that Christ came andoffered to this moral world His handand His heart, for it was a wonderfulworld and was moving off toward a greatdestiny.

When we remember how God lovedthis world, and when we look into it andsee what elements arc blending togetherto form its powerful life, let us feel thatit will sweep onward, and can, if we willpermit it to do so, banish from our soulsall chilling doubt, and fill us with itsown imperishable power and hope. Itwill fill our bosoms with its own pcrpc-tuit3r, and make us feel that the death ofman is only his removal to a placewhence he can look down upon nationsand ages in their grandeur, as now wemeasure a little space with our eye, andexult in the morning and evening of afleeting day. Here we sec tho hoursand days pass, and so few arc they thatwo can count them, and soon they areall gone. The spiritual world is so im-mense, and its Creator so good and sub-lime, that death may not be an extin-guishment of the soul, but a callingaway to where the heart enters upon anew reckoning of time, and marks theTeat centuries pass by on earth with all

their struggles and triumphs.

Tramways.As early as the year 167G rails of oak

or other hard wood are shown by Mr.Clark to have been in use in the col-liery districts of England. Not longafter this time it became a commonpractice to nail down bars of wrought-iron on the top of the timber sleepers.it was found that, whereas a horse uponthe common road could draw 8 bolls, or1,700 pounds of coal, his power ofdraught upon the tramway amounted to10 bolls, or 1,'200 pounds. The wrouglit-iron bars, not being rigid enough toprevent bending or breaking at the endsunder the weight of the trucks, the useof cast-iron was introduced by the Coal-brook Dale Iron Company in 1767. Therails were cast iu lengths of five feet,four inches wide and one and one-fourthinch thick, with three holes wherebythey were nailed down to the longi-tudinal wooden sleepers, the whole be-ing kept true to gauge by cross-sleepersof wood of about the length of the or-dinary carriage, or wagon axle. Herewas the germ of the development of themodern locomotive system. On the in-troduction of steam it became needfulthat the traffic should be kept apartfrom that of the common roads, andthat the new tracks should be subject togradients and curves suited to the loco-motive. The main lines of communica-tion wore thus rapidly occupied by anet-work of railways. A reaction, how-ever, set in on its being found that rail-ways, besides their vast expense, werelacking in adaptability to the subordinate,lines of traffic which followed roads andstreets. The convenient and unpre-tentious tramway began to be againthought of, worked as of old by horse-power upon common roads. It was inthe United States that tho moderntram-road was earliest employed, thefirst section of the New York and Har-lem lino being laid down in 1852 to agauge of four feet eight and a halfinches. It proved, however, unpopu-lar, and was soon taken up. Twentyyears later M. Loubat, a French en-gineer, obtained leave to lay down aline of street tramways in New York,which rapidly expanded and becametho distinguishing feature of traffic inmost American cities and towns, inwhich the streets are laid out in a waybetter adapted to this mode of locomo-tion than are the narrow and windingstreets of our older country, while thenumber of other vehicles is compara-tively far less.—Saturday Review.

How Peter Resisted Temptation.A colored brother whose eyes were

watery, and-who had evidently been im-bibing experience whisky, was tellinghis young friend George that he oughtto gine too. Said George, " I would,but do temptation to do wrong is toostrong for me." " Whar's yer back bonedat ye can't rose, up and stand tempta-tion !" exclaimed Brother Peter. " I wasdat way myself once. Bight in dis ycretown I had a chance to steal a pa'r ofboots -mighty fine ones, too. NobodyWHS dar to Bee me, and I reached out myhand and de debbil said take 'em. Dena good spirit, whispered for me to letdent boots alone." "An' you didn'ttake 'cm?" "No, sah—not much. Itook a pa'r o' cheap shoes off de shelf,an' I let dem boots alone!"—Richmond(Va.) Whig.

BUFFALO BILL is a realistic actor. Inthe Baltimore, Grand Opera House hefired a pistol loaded with a real l?u]letand hit a real boy in tlie gallery,

AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC.

Around the Farm.LICE ON STOCK.—Calves and year-

lings, and cows and oxen as well, wheninfested with lice., should be freed atonce by rubbing tho skin with a mixt-ure of sweet oil and kerosene in equalparts. —Exchange.

THE earlier grass lands are topdressed in the autumn the better for thenext year's grass. There is no betterplace for fine manure than grass land,especially where in tho rotation themeadow is regularly brought into till-age; crops.

Two on three quarts of water- -"asnear ice-cold as it is possible, toget"-added to tho cream toward the, end ofchurning, will, says Col. Curtis, in the,Weekly Rural, "cause the butter togather a great deal quicker, and comehard and firm." The temperature ofhis cellar is 64 degrees, and the wiiterused as above probably two djDgreoscolder.

Tmo following ave the; steps of quicktransit in the upward march of cattleimprovement: The produce of a com-mon or "scrub" cow bya thorojigh-bredb u l l w o u l d b e a h a l f - b l o o d ; t h i s half-blood and a thorough toed againcoupled would produce a three quarter-blood; the next cross would lie seven-eighths, and the. next a fifteen-sixteen Ili».

THE GRUB IN THE HEAP.- Somemonths ago Mr. Crabb, of Oakville,Napa county, told me his remedy was tobathe the head with spirits of turpen-tine. I have been experimenting re-cently with several sheep afflicted withtho above-named disease. After bath-ing the head well between the ears, Ipoured one teaspoonful into each ear.Belief was manifested immediately. Ina few days they were perfectly well.—Letter to San Frwndsoo Chronicle.

GOATS TRUSTS HATS.—It is a veryprevalent opinion that rats will not staywhere goats are kept, and, if this is afact, we must say we respect their judg-ment. We cannot say from our ownknowledge as to this, but a friend whosome years ago took a farm that wasoverrun with rats assures us that theyhave disappeared since some AuK"nigoats were brought on to the premises.Our own farm was at one time infestedwith rats, but they disappeared uponthe application of vigorous measures,although no goat was upon the plare.So the question has two points of view,and may be considered a doubtful one.-American Ayriculturixi.

THE German way of prolonging thoenjoyment of fresh currants is to trainthe plant in tree form, and when thefruit is ripe—not dead ripe—inclosewith a cone of tall straw, not thickenough to exclude air, tying at the top.In the absence of straw, cloths may beused. A correspondent says that theadoption of this plain enabled him topick delicious currants so late as Octo-ber. The Pratrie Fanner reminds itsreaders that the same result is securedby setting the bushes on the north sideof a high fence, in the shade of trees,not forgetting to give some liquid ma-nure during the season of growth.

MB. B. H. WAKNEK, of Livingstoncounty, N. T., says, in a letter to RuralHome, that the fertility of his farm, andmany others, has been kept up by plow-ing under clover, by laying blind drains,by use of improved implements, by freeapplication of plaster, and by feedingout (mostly to sheep, which were soldoff before grass-time in the spring,horses and cattle enough being kept torun the farm), all hay, straw, corn-stalksand coarse grains raised (and more, ifrequired), and using the manure in theright time and place, lias bough! nocommercial fertilizers until the last twoyears—these years with good results.

EVEKY MINUTE.- So much may be: ae-complished in the spare minutes! Ifthe farmer, while he is waiting for hisdinner to bo " dished up," would nail onthat loose paling to the garden-gale, ordo five minutes' work on the doorstepwhich needs repairing, or tack up thevine which the storm has beaten down,he will feel none the worse for it wlienhe sits down to dinner, and yet thepiece of work will give him satisfactionevery time he thinks of it. More thanthis, the mended gate will keep thechickens from destroying the garden,thus saving him dollars of money andhours of time. The mended step maysave some members of the household ;iheavy fall, and perhaps broken bones.The vine over the window gives an airof refinement to the house. The lessoncan be applied ill-doors as well as out.The woman that is quick to observe lit-tle things that need doing, who mendsgarments as soon as possible after theyare torn—who does not thin]; il toomuch trouble to get her needle amithread and sew a rent Hp in an mid fiveminutes - will never have her mendingbasket piled up so high it half distractsher to look at it. The old adage* "astitch in time saves nine" is as line a:.ever it was.

Elepluinis in aOn tho river Ganges (says an English

military journal) there are many quick-sands; and, during our expedition, asomewhat disastrous scene happened.An elephant incautiously came withinthe vortex of one; first one foot.sank,then another; and, in endeavoring loextricate himself,matters becamewoi <no portion of either of his tegs were atlast visible, and the bystanders hadgiven up the poor animal as lost. Being,fortunately, unusually powerful, he,three times, with what appeared to allsupernatural strength, drew a foot IYon>the closely-clilining- earth, placed itwhere, by sounding with his trunk, hofound the most solidity; not until the,third time did the ground bear his press-ure, when he gradually released him-self. During the whoie period of histroubles his cries were, exceedinglydolorous, and might have been heard acouple of miles; his grunt, when theywere at an end, was equally indicativeof satisfaction. The internal applica-tion of a bottle of strong- spirits soondissipated his trembling and restoredhis equanimity.

Many unfortunate elephants are lostin these treacherous sands, when large,quantities of grass or;branches of treesare not at hand to form an availablesupport for them. After a certain timethe poor beast becomes powerless, andthe owner can only look with sorrow attho gradual disappearance of his nobleanimal, and lament the, pecuniary losshe thereby suffers, for all human aid isfutile. They have been known to betwelve hours before entirely sinking.

A Timely Hint.It is cheaper to pay a good plumber

than a good doctor. Typhoid fereScarlatina, and diphtheria, lurk avounevery bad drain and deficient valvesink and closet. Do not wait for dis-ease and death to invade the household,because of your negligence in obeying(lie plainest Jaws of health. Cool niirhtswill soon necessitate the closing of nice,open windows; if pestilenee comes iufrom defective pipe and decaying vege-tation iu the basement, do not lay it toprovidence, but shoulder it on your owncarelessness and reckless disregard ofthe fixed laws of the earth. Poisonedair kills.

IN the year 873 Europe underwent avisitation of grasshoppers far worsethan experienced in the States. Theyare referred to in Spanish and Germanarchives, and are described as havinghidden the sun and devoured crops on100 acrcg in one hour.

FRIDAY, OCT. 4, 1878.

DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET.

For Governor—ORLANDO II. BARNES, of Ingliam.

For Lieutenant-Governor—ALFRKD I'. SW1NKF0RD, of Marqurtti'.

For Secretary of State—GEORGE H. MURDOCH, of Berrien.

For Statt1 Treasurer—ALEXANDER McFARLAN", of Genesee.

For Auditor-General—WM. T. B. SCUERMERIIOKN, of Li'uawi-e.

For Attorney-Oeueral—ALLEN B. MORSE, of Ionia.

For Commissioner of the State Land Office—GEORGE H, LORD, of Bay.

For Superintendent of Public Instruction—ZELOTES TRUESDEL, of Oakland.

For Member of the State Board of Education—KDWIN F. UHL, of Kent.

For Representative in Congress—IRA B. CARD, of Hillsdale.

T I C K E T .For Senator—

JOHN L. BUBLEIGH.For Representatives—

2d Distriet—FREDERICK SC1IMI1), ,IB..Td District—JOHN J. KOBISON.

COIIVTY T I C K E T .

Foi Sheriff—JOSIAH S. CASE, of Manchester.

For County Clerk—PETER TUITE, of Dexter.

For Register of Deeds—CHARLES H. MANLY, of Ann Arbor.

For County Treasurer—MATTHEW GKNSLEY, of Kiwlmu.

For Prosecuting Attorney—CHARLES R. WHITMAN, of Ypsilanti.

For Circuit Court Commissioners—HOWARD 8TEPHJBNSON, of Ypsihuiti-PATRICK McKERNAN, of Ann Arbor.

I-or County Surveyor—GEORGE T. CLARKE, of Ann Arbor.

For Coroners—MAUTIN CLARK, of Ann Arbor.FRANK JOSL1N, of Ypsilanti.AS THE Washtenaw County farmers

do not have the privilege of hearing anaddress at the County Fair now pend-ing, we suggest that everyone of themread the one in this day's ARGUS, givenby Senator Bayard at the recent Mary-land State Fair. It is weighted downwith nuggets of wisdom.

THE Post and Tribune has had anotherattack of that terrible disease, the" Southern Claims," and after being in-oculated with the virus it makes hasteto spread, every Republican-Green-baoker is expected to forsake therag baby and rally to the rescue of thesectional bloody-shirt banner. Cer-tainly our cotemporary is to be com-miserated.

THE National-Greenbackers wouldn'tnominate him for Governor, andwould n't touch him for Congress, butat the last have given him a nominationfor Circuit Judge. Henry Chamber-lain, of Three Oaks, we mean. He nev-er studied law, but what's the odds, becan't know less about it than the aver-age National-Greenback leader doesabout finance.

THE Republicans of Ohio used tohave a great deal to say about " OldBill Allen," and made him recite theevents of a hundred years or so ago ascoming under his personal observation.And now they have gone and nomi-nated one V. B. Horton for Congress,who is over 80 years old, and can dis-count Allen any day in personal recol-lections of pioneer life.

COLORADO has one National-Green-backer who says just what he means :" If I were about to die to-day I wouldcast my vote for repudiation. If I wereon my way to heaven I would drop aballot for repudiation. Ii I could haveany influence with angels, such a showerof ballots would fall as would astonishthe world. I would free the people inthis way." This man Chitteiideu was acandidate for a State office.

"THE WIT of man has has never dis-covered means by which paper currencycan be kept at par value except by itssteady, cheap, certain convertibility intogold and silver." So said George HPendleton in 1862, and now Mr. Pen-dleton gives character to the wild andvisionary schemes of the irredeemablesby joining the cry against resumptionand demanding new issues of green-backs.

A SENTENCE quoted by the ARGUSfrom a recent letter written by SenatorBayard to a political friend, furnishesthe text for the Lansing Journal to in-dulge in a half column of sneers athat eminent statesman. If Mr. Bay-ard was not an intelligent, faithful, amhonest expounder of Democratic prin-ciples, the principles of the fathers, a1

a time when our brother of the Journawas literally " mewling and puk-ing in his mother's arms," he cartainly was both expounding and illustrating them while our coteuiporarybore the bloody Bhirt gonfalon in th<fore-front of the Republican army. Iill becomes so fresh a recruit to tinDemocracy to denounce life long Democrats for refusing to turn wet nurse tothe rag baby and espouse the politicaheresies which were bred in him whena Republican. Mr. Bayard was underno obligation to go back on his rocorcand eat dirt with Senator Thurman justto please such uneasy spirits as ourfriend of the Journal.

WE HAD just time to remark in ourlast issue that the Massachusetts De-mocracy had constructed a sound financial platform. We take pleasure in pre-senting it to our readers :

" The scheme initiated and carried intoeffect by the liepubheau party of providing apaper currency not redeemable in com antcompelling the people to receive the same inpayment ot debts is without the authority othe Constitution. Congress has no power tomake anything, less it be gold or silver, a legatender, and whatever power it may have toauthorize the issue of notes to circulate asmoney, whether issued directly from thetreasury, or indirectly through banks, shouUbe exercised only subject to certain restnctions ; n, that no executive officer ot the U[>veminent should have the discretion to enlargeor contract the volume of currency : 6, that th<total amount of currency authorized should bifixed by law ; e, that whatever that amount ishould be one that shall at every moment beredeemable in coin ; d, that all coins of thesame denomination shall be as nearly as possible of equal value ; e, that whatever currencyis issued by the Government it shall be receivable by the Government in payment opublic duties at its face value."

The New York Democracy a day latereiterated its declarations of 1874 anc1877 and proclaimed

"Gold and silver coin and paper converti-ble into coin at the will of the holder the onlycurrency of the country ; steady steps towarcspecie payments; the honest payment of thepublic debt."

There is no bowing the knee to godof paper in Massachusetts and NewYork.

THE COUNT* TICKET.The proceedings of the Democratic

Convention held last Saturday will beound in another column, and the names)f the candidates nominated find a pUcen the appropriate column.

Briefly of the ticket we may say thisweek:

The Senatorial candidate is the presentncumbeut.

Mr. Case, the nominee for Sheriff, isalso the present Sheriff, and it is onlyhe truth to say that he has made in

every respect a first-class officer. He hasalways been prompt in the discharge oflis duties and always gentlemanly and

courteous. He deserves a re-election.The nomination of Peter Tuite, (Jlerk,

'or a third term, is oertainly a compli-ment to a number one officer. That helas had two terms was the only objec-ion made against him, and having beenairly nominated in the face of that ob-ection, his special training in the officemght to secure him a hearty support,- -he same hearty support that his friendsvould have given his opponent in con-'ention, Mr. Hawkins, had he beenuccessful.There was really no opposition to the

re-nomination of Mr. Manly for Regis-ter of Deeds. His record in that officeias been such as to silence fault-finding,

and of course he will be elected by aarge majority.

No candidate was entered against Mr.unslcy, the present Treasurer, and he

was nominated by acclamation. Mr.Gensley during the present term hascept the books of the office correctly andthe moneys have been forthcomingwhen wantad. and that is the best rec-ommendation a treasurer needs.

Mr. Whitman, the nominee for Prose-cuting Attorney, is a good lawyer, ac-;ive, earnest, and energetic, and willmake, in case of an election, a goodprosecuting officer. We have no doubt;he voters will hear from him duringthe campaign.

For Circuit Court Commissioners theconvention nominated Patrick McKer-nan, well known in this city, and vicini-ty, and Howard Stephenson, of Ypsi-ianti, who is indorsed as a young manevery way fit for the place.

The nomination for Surveyor couldn'thave been better. Maj. Clarke is justthe man for the place, and MartinClark and Frank Joslin for Coronersare good selections.

Such is the ticket the Democrats arecalled upon to elect.

THE Democratic Representative Con-vention held in this city on Tuesday,nominated Frederick Schmid, J r , ofthe firm of Mack & Schmid, of this city.Mr Schmid is a first-class business man,wide-awake and full of energy, and willmake an intelligent member of theHouse,—if elected. And Fred can comeas near being elected as any Democratin the district : that is if he gives it tobe understood that he " means busi-ness." __

BLAIN'E of Maine will unburden him-self in Detroit on the 14th inst. Willtell what he knows about the Maineelection and the ways of the Adminis-tration.

RANDOM NOTKS.— The New York Times has a lively appre-

ciation of the labors of G. Le Due, Commis-sioner of Patents, in his laudable and ener-getic attempts to scatter the tea plant throughand procure its production in this country.Haviug sent out 1,492,841 plants the Generalhas received returns from 11 plants, and as-serts that he has drank tea made from plantsgrown in the U. 8. Which causes the Timesto remark: "There was once a man whomade diamond dust from charcoal. But thebusiness never paid expenses."

— The Ann Arbor Post and Tribune corre-spondent, writing of last Saturday's Demo-cratic Convention and the ticket placed innomination, says: " But one temperance manwas nominated—Charles B. Whitman, of Yps-ilanti—who alone will receive the Bed Bibbonvote of the party." Is this " by authority,"and an indication that the Bed Bibbon Clubsof the county propose to vote for temperancemen when pitted against candidates not oftheir order or not temperance men '< That isa-i interesting question just now.

— "Ought clergymen to wear mustaches ?"is the question which the New York Sun says"is now agitating the Church papers ot Eng-land," and after a column of philosophical,esthetical, and historical treatment, the Sunanswers, "Yes, if they wish to do it, as theywill if they are men of sense and taste." Ifthe Sun writer is a standard authority in allquestions involving " sense and taste" theEnglish church papers will only have to adopthis decision and close the important discussion.

— At a meeting of the State Building Com-missioners held Sept. 26, the new Capitol wasaccepted, and now belongs to the State insteadof the contractors. On final settlement awarrant via ordered drawn to N Osborn ACo. for $136,304.70. The total amount paidand audited up to that date, on account ofbuilding, furniture, and grounds was 11,421,-859.35.

— At the close of the fiscal year ending September 30, 1877, the balance in the State Treaury was $609,771,23 ; the receipts for the yearending Sept. 30, 1878, $2,360,914.14 ; disbursements for the year, $2,570,345 32 ; leaving bal-ance on hand Sept. 30, 1878, $400,340.45. Thebonded debt of the State has been reduced$432,000 during the year.

— It is well lor business men of all classesand citizens generally to know that every per-son or corporation, bank, banker, merchant,or other business man, is liable under an actof Congress to a tax of 10 per cent, on everydollar of Canada money paid out. This iswhy banks and business men cannot handleCanada money at par.

— The receipts of the recent State Fair aregiven: From Detroit subscription, $10,000:membership certificates, $1,457 ; rent of groundfor booths, $3,355.50; admission tickets, $33,-861: miscellaneous, $50. Total, $48,423.50.An excess of from $10,000 to $12,000 over anyprevious State Fair.

—This is how the N. Y. Commercial Adver-tiser records Prof. Watson's last exploit:"Prof. Watson and Ann Arbor, his wife, arehappy. It is a boy planet weighing elevenpounds."

—A man named Edward Wood, ofHudson, Charlevoix county, after un-mercifully beating his wife twico, waswaited upon by 16 women and severalmen, lifted gently out of bed, snuglyfitted with a superb suit of tar andfeathers, and escorted some distancefrom home on a rail. He took the hintand went to Gaylord, Otsego county,whither his forgiving wife followedhim.

—Thomas Daly, a young man of 25,at Carson City, Montcalrn county, wentto a dance a few nights since, got beast-ly drunk, and lay out doors all night.The result was illness, from which hedied three days after. His parents liveat Lima, N. Y.

THE FARM AND THE STATE.

An Address at tbe Maryland State Fair,by Senator Bayard.

At the Maryland State Agriculturaland Mechanical Fair, held at Piinlico,near Baltimore, Senator Bayard, of Del-aware delivered the address Sept. 20.After quoting from Sir Thomas Store's" Utopia " of the advantages of manualoccupation, and of agriculture especial-ly, and citing the examples of Newton,Watt, John Hampden and Wade Hump-ton as those of men who had acquiredeminence and leadership away fromcities and under the inspiration of rurallife, the Senator went on :

Far away from the busy haunts ofmen, distant from cities and theirtumults, within the quiet walls of themonasteries, during all the violence andwars of the Middle ages the lamp oflearning and scienoe was faithfullytrimmed and kept burning; and artand science and history in that longand dark period of unrest lay hid andsafely preserved and cherished by thepatient, modest and conscientious laborand chronicle of the poor recluse andhumble monk.

Unconsciously, perhaps, a strikingand most practical illustration of thetruth I have suggested is given by themeans adopted in many States of theUnion, some by constitutional amend-ment, as in Illinois and Pennsylvania,in others by statutory amendment ofmunicipal charters, to arrest the appall-ing increase of the debts of cities andlarge towns, which have grown withsuch rapidity as to threaten absoluteconfiscation of the property within theirjurisdiction. And many city govern-ments, so far from being a protection totbe accumulations of industry and onencouragement to enterprise, have cometo be regarded as their greatest dangerUnder our system of suffrage as con-'ducted in the cities public expenditureshave become so excessive, so wild andprofligate, and so large a class of thepopulation have come to look upon thepublic treasury as their rightful meansof support, and the corrupt improve-ment of private property at public costhas become BO common, that the powerto incur further indebtedness has beenwithdrawn from the local control ofcity officials and committed to the re-straining influences of State Legisla-tures, which are composed chiefly ofrepresentatives from the country dis-tricts. Does not this fact constitute apublic admission that a more reliablesentiment, a more "saving common-sense " in the care and administration ofproperty exists among the citizens ofthe rural districts than would seem tocontrol their sharper-witted brethrenmassed at the centers of population '(

I barely glance at this serious problemof the government of men in large anddense masses, not proposing on this oc-casion to treat of the obvious evils ofour municipal systems or their properremedies, but merely to draw your at-tention to the confession contained inthe fact referred to of the manifest reli-ance exhibited upon the calmer andslower and, as it would appear, morewise and conservative judgment of theinhabitants of the rural districts. Neverwas there a time in the history of ourcountry when calm, independent andresolute resistance to wild and danger-ous popular fallacies was so needed asnow. Every thinking man must havefelt that the absence of legal ranks andclasses in the United States has createdwhat may be likened to a broad prairieland of public sentiment, over whichevery galo that becomes popular sweepswith unobstructed force and levels allindividual opposition. This is one ofthe defects aud dangers of our demo-cratic form of government, againstwhich its friends must guard it, andwhich especially needs the opposition ofoutspoken individuality of opinion, andis yet so indisposed to tolerate it.

A falsehood is not less false because athous md voices shout it; it is only themore dangerous and should encountermore active aud strenuous resistance.We do need, and need badly, vigorousutterances of independent opinions. Itis from the conflict of honest, outspokenminds that truth is obtained, just as thesteel and the flint are both required tostrike the light. And to the tyrannyof unchecked popular opinion is addedthe terrorism of political partisanship,by which Americau intellect and per-sonal conscience are so rudely assailed,overcome and dragged in the dust ofwild and clamorous error Uuon thethoughtful minds of men who love theircountry, and whose lives are passed re-mote from busy crowds, I earnestlypress the consideration of choir duty andresponsibility to remedy these defects.

It, iti the midst of such financial dis-tress and bewilderment as now surroundus, remedies, illusory and yet plausible,should be urged ; schemes which promiseimmediate relief, unbounded, easy andseductive, and which have caught thepopular mind sufficiently to promise thepossession of temporary political powerto th<iir most conspicuous advocates,how plain is the duty and responsibilityof every man who sees the lurking errorand concealed danger of such measuresto bear his testimony in loud warningagainst them f What answer should thefunning classes, the lund-owners audthe hardy yeomen of thu United States,give to these strange wild cries we heargoing up from the political conventionsof parties with new names, that no morerunt should be paid lor laud, no moreinterest for the use of money, that theprecious metals should be discarded and"absolute money" ordained by lawshould repluce and measure all valuesand bo received for all dues'( Whobhould so strenuously resist all schemeswhich tend to lessen public reverencefor pledged faith, to weaken confidenceand to cripple and destroy public (andof course private) credit by agreeing toplans for the indefinite postponement oftbo payment of public engagements ac-cording to their terms!'' What portionof the American people need credit somuch and so regularly as the farmer,who has to wait six months betweenseed-time and harvest for his means ofpayment 'i If a man would enjoy credit,let him denounce all schemes to weakencredit and insist upon all that will giveit strength. To the poor and honestman who needs credit and is compelledto borrow mouey I earnestly commendthese words. What portion of theAmerican people know so well as theagricultural classes the great fact thatall values arise out of labor, and thatnothing of value can be had without itashare of labor ? To whom, therefore,can the fallacy that wealth can becreated by empty promises to create itbo more apparent, and by whom shouldit more scornfully and promptly be re-jected ? Who knows the reality andnecessity of steady, continuous manualindustry better than the Americanfarmer? and who can bettor attest thefalsehood of a system of currency whichinstructs men that pieces of paper uponwhich is printed a promise of paymentnever to be redeemed, and which can bemultiplied indefinitely at the will of anyaccidental majority of Congress, oanever be a stable and reliable measure ofthe value of those crops upon the production of which so much human toil,anxiety and care have been bestowed '(

The pretonded mysteries of the alche-mists have long since become the sub-ject of human pity and derision, audsurely the attempt now to revive thegreater delusion that a printed Govern-ment certificate of value, not oonverti-ble into anything of vulue, can take ab-solutely and permanently the place ofand perform all the functions of actualvalue, will speedily be discarded by the

sober, second thought " of the Ameri-can people.

But little more than twelve monthsago we witnessed here in Maryland amiin other States, occurrences growing outof conflicting claims of labor and capital, in which lawlessness rased its hor-rid front and shocking scenes of insaneand savage destruction of property andlife were enacted well calculated to fillevery citizen with apprehension anddeep anxiety. So long as public peaceand safety are in jeopardy there can befor all good citizens but one immediate,ever-present and paramount duty—themaintenance of the law; aud when lawis obeyed and sits firmly and unques-tioned in its rightful seat of power, then,and only then, aud not until then,shalltho hearing and relief of alleged in-juries and injustice be patiently, calmlyand kindly heard, investigated andremedied so far as legal justice cansuffice.

But I do not propose to touch uponthis, the gravest and most importantproblem of modern civilization, which isshaping itsulf aud constantly demand-ing recognition in every quarter of thecivilized world, not less in empires thunin republics, and the solution of whichthe remedies and course of action whichare most deeply touohed with a sense ofcommon human brotherhood and arethe most influenced by the essential andiudellible but unwritten laws of justiceand good-will between man and man,will alone prove productive of perma-nent prosperity to all classes. But thereare facts which all must recognize andwhich are full of present instruction.Owing to a variety of causes, which Iwill not attempt to recapitulate, thereis to-day a large body of our fellow-cou ntrymen unemployed and in want,who are entitled to the iuost intelligentconsideration and most active friend-ship and assistance. Go into the streetsof Baltimore, and indeed of every lessertown, and you will fiud them idle butmost anxious to be honestly employed.I read a few months since the state-ment of a leading coal-land owner andminer iu one of the Pennsylvania val-leys, in which he assured all the unem-ployed people of his district that all thecaol-mining now needed could be donewith one-half of the bauds gathered inthat region, and that for tbe other halfthere was no prospect of employment.These men were to be counted by thou-sands, and with their families are to becounted by ten thousands.

When I think of the fair and fertilepeninsula on which I live, and of|wbichour dear old " K«stern Shore " terms apart, I wish from my heart that all ofthese strong and willing hands of laborcould be transported and permanentlyestablished on Maryland aud Delawarefarms. When we c«st our eyes acrossthe ocean, either to the east or the west,and see the fearful ravages of death inthe starvation of millions in BritishIndia and the Chinese Empire, or wit-ness an irnbruted condition of livinghumanity with more than the pangsand none of the deliverance of deathitself, we can better form an idea of thedifficulties of human government underconditions of dense population aud iu-suffioient production aud realize theblessings of communities such as ourown Maryland and Delaware where,uuder just and equal laws, the lesults ofindustry are protected and personalliberty guaranteed, and where a roofto shelter from the elements, warmclothing aud abundant aud substantialfood are obtainable by any man who,with moderate health and strength, iscontent to walk with industry, sobrietyand simple honesty as his companions.Has there not been for more than twelveyears past a steady exodus of our youngyeomanry from the country districts tothe towns and cities 'i Is it not a factthat the steady labors of the farm andthe duller occupations and amusementsof the homestead have proven irksomeand distasteful to many of the presentgeneration, who have sought in the hot-bed growth of trade and speculation,fostered by paper money in our centersof population, a more profitable, aneasier or more exciting kind of life ?What has been the result'{ The citiesare filled with the idle victims of over-trade and exploded speculations. Ag-ricultural labor has been abandoned bythose most fit for it, and our farmershave been compelled to get along withless competent hands aud pay themhigher wages. As a result, productionhas been lessened and at the same timethe cost of production has been increas-ed. One obvious cure for much of thodistress we now witness iu cities andmanufacturing centers will be found inthe return of the population to the cul-tivation of American farm*, which to-day are at prices far below their in-trinsic value, because the compensa-tions and advantages of country lifeaud agricultural occupations have notbeen duly weighed and appreciated.

There need be no fears of over-pro-duction of the fruits of the earth byAmerican farmers so long, at least, asthe mad ambitious of European rulersturn the continent into a vast camp orbattle-field, aud pervert the energies oftheir peoples to their mutual destruc-tion, aud by vast military establish-ments suck tho very life-blood out ofthe industries they profess to protect.

Knowledge come.-.But wisdom lingers.

The progress of invention and the ap-plication of natural forces to mechauical uses within the last quarter of acentury is indeed marvellous. Un-doubtedly every invention wherebylabor is released from any task leaves itfree to seek new fields of employment,and thereby production is proportion-ately increased, and production iswealth, and personal comfort andluxury aro the followers of wealth.* * * What may be the re-sults of the wonderful discoveries iuphysical science we may not fully com-prehend, but " I doubt not through theages an increasing purpose runs." Un-der all conditions of life, uuder everychange and vicissitude of human affairs,human nature remains the same, andwithin ourselves rests the responsibilityof human will left free. A 6ayin# ofPericlns has been preservod: " Thatpossessions (houses and lands) can nev-er produce men, but men can gain ofsuch things as many as they will." Newinventions may render the old useless,and the machinety of to-day may becast into the rubbish pit to-morrow;our institutions of government mayfail and be replaced by others —historyis filled with such illustrations. Butthere are otner things that will neverfail, and can neversafely be discarded—are needed now, always were, and everwill be needed :

Self-reliauce and self-restraint.Industry and frugality.Courage and patience.Truthfulness and honor.Morality and religion.These are the essential basos which-

keep the world sweet aud correct thosefermentations which human passionsgenerate. Upon these qualities wemust depend for all the hopo of per-manent and progressive prosperity andhappiness. Aud how shall they bosecured Y All are homespun virtues—virtues spun at home; and to theguardians of homes we must look to seethat they are implanted and nourishedthere.

Mothers of America, how great apower is in your hands !—to mould thecharacters of those WHO are soon to becharged with the government of theircountry! How shallow and petty seemall other rights compared with these—the true woman's rights that spring notfrom human statutes, but huvo theirwarrant from a higher hand.

In reflecting upon the evils which to-

day afllict our country, which haveprostrated its prosperity and paralyzedits industries and commerce, I trace thewant of influence of the fireside virtuesI have named. Ours is a government oflaws, but laws moulded by publicopinion. In a roformud, regeneratedpublic opinion must we look for thecure of the evils which uucleau dis-honesty, disregard of truth and honor,unscrupulous private greed, and un-patriotic animosities have brought uponus. The family and home circle arethe natural birthplace and nursery ofthe principles which, being educatedand established there, expand into thecommunity aud pervade the wholebody of laws and Government withtheir sober and sweet influences. Thecare of his family is the just, happiest,and proudest duty of the American cit-izen, aud to tho American mother is as-signed the power aud duty of mouldingthe charaoter of the American man.No written law, no established consti-tution has created or assigned theseduties, but in their just performancerest our chief hopes for individual andnational welfare and happiness.

—On the 28th ult.. while WalterAcker, of Brighton, Livingston county,aged .'SO, was bunting with a companiou,the latter's guu went off accidentally,the charge of shot taking effect iu oneof Acker's legs, inflicting a very seriouswound.

.—Hon. Jonathan J. Woodman hasreached his home at Paw Paw from theParis Exposition, whore he was a Mich-igan Commissioner.

—A five-year old son of Geo. Leutz-idol, a farmer living near St. Clair, wasdrowned in an open well around whichit was playing, on Sept. 29.

—Miss Sarah Farnham, a teacher inthe Battle Creek public schools, felldown stairs Sept. 30, breaking hershoulder and being otherwise injured.

—A Mr. Cornelius Elvert, of Ioniacounty, h'is paid James Humphrey, ofthe same county, $1,500 for accidentallylodging a charge of shot in the lattersright arm.

— Arthur Burley, of Big Rapids,claims to have been robbed of $700 byJohn A. Seymour and Jas. Morrison,while on a drunk at Grand Rapids onSept. 25. A costly drunk.

—A barn belonging to H. J. Perrin,of Marshall, was burned on Sept. 27.Loss, $1,500; insured.

Overcoats for men at Joe T. Jacobs*.- » • ~^^*- • • - —

I-DWAHD DUFFY has n't sold all those Bootsand Shoes yet. His stock is larpt; and complete,quality No. 1, and prices as low as the lowest. Calland see his goods before buying.

Overcoats for boys at Joe T. Jacobs'.

The California Herb Remedy Yuba l>tu*itaHitters.

The best blood purifier, cathartic, and liver regu-lator in the world, is now for sale at Eberbach &Son'**, K, Mann's, and H. A. Tremuiu A Co.'s DrugStores. A single bottle of thc.se bitters will con-vince the most skeptical. Premium awarded atState Fair. Try them.

ISAAC SHELDOX,State Agent, Ann Arlmr.

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"Overcoats for children at Joe T. Jncoba'.

Hats for men, boys, and children.. Ch 1 Iren'flhats a specialty. Joe T. Jacobs.

Mrs. Anna K. Warden will resume her classof vocal and instrumental music on and after the2lst of September, at her residence, No. 42 SouthDivision Street, 17O4w4

Ulsters for tuon, boys, and children, at JoeT. Jacobs'.

OLD CONGRESS, fine cut, is made from the mostchoice .selection of leaf and is the best. Try it.For sale by Edward Dutty aud J. W. Hangsterfer& Co. 1695iu3*

QUKRY : "Why will men smoke common tobaccowhen they can buy Marburg Bros. ' Seat of NorthCarolina,1 at the same price?" 16G8

HARDING—COOK—Sept. 2">, at the residence ofthe bride's parents, by Rev. R. B. Pope, GHOROEA. HAKDIKU, M. ])., Di Sault St. Marie, and MissCARRIE COOK, of Ann Arbor.

NEW ADVERTISEMENTSP W . O ' T O O L E , WE. O , Office at his resi-

• deuce, No. 17 North Ingalls St. All calls, nightor day, will receive prompt attention. 17G5iii3

Charles Dickens Combination.House, Ann Arbor, Oct. 10.

The Celebrated Actor and Dramatist,

MR. GEORGE F. ROWE,Will make his tirst appearance here in his world-

fumed impersonation of

MICAWBER,As acted by him COO successive nifrhts in London,and at Booth's and Union Square Theaters, N. Y.,supported by a powerfnl company of dramatic ar-tists, and new and beautiful scenery in the thrill-ing, romantic, sensational, domestic and patheticetory, LITTLE EMILY.

B3T Admission, 60 and 25 cents. Reserved Seatsfor sale three days in advance, at Moore'a Book-store, without extra charge.

I I II L»S O P E R A HOUSE.

TWO NIGHTS ONLY.

Engagement of the Distinguished Actress

MISS ADA CRAY,Supported by the Chas. A. Watkins New York

(ombination.MONBAT FYEMNU, OCTOBER 7,

Will be presented the popular drama entitled

EAST LY N N E,OK THK ELOPEMENT.

TUESDAY EVEMNG, OBTOBEK 8,Will be presented the new Society dram* in five

actft, eutitltid,

METKAYED.Admission to Parquette. 50 centsDreaa i irele, 35 centsGallery, 25 cents

Reserved seats for sale at. Moore's Bookstore with-out extra charge. Hux sheet now open.

NOTICE!

The annual meeting of the Stockholders of theToledo and Ann Arbor Railroad Company will beheld at the olJice of the Company, over the 8av}ngaBftDk, In the city of Ann Arbor, Michigan, at 10o'clock A. M., WKDNKSDAY, OCTOBEK2, A. D. 1878.The ptilltj will he kept open two hours. The stocktransfer books will be closed on the twenty-firstday of September1 preceding. Also for the trensac-tion of such other business as may properly comebefore that meeting.

Dated. August 29, 1878.JAMES M. ASHLEY,

AXUXAHDKB W. HAMILTON, President.1702 Secretary.

The annual meeting i* adjourned to Oct. 1G, 1S7S,at the same time of day and place.

Dated, (Jet. 2, 1878.JAMES M, ASHLEY,

ALKXANDKH W. HAMILTON, President.1707 Secretary.

Commissioners' Notice.Q T A T E OF MICHIGAN, County of Washteoawf i B8. The undersigned having been appointed bythe Probate Court for said county, commissionersto receive, examine and adjust all claims and de-mands of all persons against the estate of WilliamDancer, late of said county, deceased, hereby givenotice t h a t s i x months from dale are allowed, byorder of said Probate Court, for creditors to prc-seut thei r claims against the estate of said deceased,and tha t they will meet at the office of George C.Page. ID the village of Dexter, iu said county, onMonday, t he twenty- th in l day of December, andon Monday the twenty-fourth day of March next , a tten o'clock A. M. of each of said days, to receive,examine and adjust said claims.

Da led, Sept, 28, A. D. 1878.17O7w-J GEORGE C. PAGE,

BYKON GREEN,Commissioners.

Commissioners' Notice.

STATE OF MICHIGAN, County of Washtenaw,ss. The undersigned having been appointed by

the Probate Court for said county, commissionersto r»'(*i'iv<*, examine and adjust all claims and de-mands of all persons against the estate of NancyWheeler, late of said county, deceased, herebygive notice that six months from date are allowed,by order of said Probate Court, ior creditors to pre-sent ther claims against the estate of said deceased,and that they will meet at the residence ofCharles (i. Wheeler, in the township ol York, insaid county, on Monday, tbe thirtieth day of De-cember, and on Monday, the thirtieth day ofMiirch next, at ten o'clock A. M. of each of saiddays, to receive, examine, and adjust said chutns.

Dated, September 30, A. D. 1878.WILLIAM KELSKY.

1707w4 OTHNIEL E. GOODING,Commissioners.

Estate cf James Morris.3 OP MICHIGAN, County of Washte-

ch nuw, "8. At a session of the Probate Courtfor the bounty ot Washtennw, holden at the Pro-bate Otficp in the city of Ann Arbor, on MOB-day, t&e thirtieth day of September, in the year

D8tliout»iU't sight hundred and neventy-eiffht.Present, WitHaia I). Huirirnan, Judgeof Probate.In the matter of the estate of James Morns,

On reading and filing the petition iluly verified ofElizabeth A. Morrib, praying that George 0. Pagemay be appointed ui'miniritrutor of the u.^tat'- olthe aaid deceased.

Thereupon it is ordered, that Monday, thetwenty-eighth day ol October next, at;ten o'clockin the forenoon, be al igned for the hear-ing of said petition, nnd that the heirs at lav ofHaid deceased, and all other pereon* interestoilin said estate, are required to appem- ;itas^b»ic»n of oaia court, then to be holdeu at theProbate Office in the city of Ann Arbor, and•how cause, if any there be, why the prayerof the petitioner should not be granted : Andit is further ordered that, tmid petitioner g i v e

notice to the persons Interested in «aid estate,of the pendency of said petition and the hear-ing thereof, by oausiziff a copy ot thU order to bepubliHhed in the Michigan Argus, a newapajterprinted and circulated in said county, thr^e suc-cessive weeks proviuu* to said day of hearing.

WILLIAM 1) "KAHR1MAN,(A. true copy.) Jud|je of Probate

W M . G. Doty, Probate Register, 1707

BHtate of Moses C. Edwards.

STATE OF MICHIGAN. County of Waslite-naw, ss. At a session ot tho Probate Court for

the County Washtenaw. holdeu at the Probate Ofiicein the city of Ann Arbor, on Tuexday, the firatday of Octol>er, in the year one thousand eight huu-tred and s.;vi.nty-cight.

Present, William I). Hirrimnn, Judge of Probate.In the matter ol the estate ol Moses C. Edwardx,

deceased.On reading and tiling the petition, duly verified,

of M. C. ICdwards, pruying that he may be np-pointed administrator, de bom's non, of the estute oftbe said deceased.

Thereupon itmordered^lhatSaturday, thetwenty-eixth day of October inst, at ten o'clock in theforenoon, be assigned for the hearing of aaid peti-tion, aud that the heirs at law of said deceased,and all other persons interested in said estate,are required to appear at a session of aaid court,then to be bolden at tbe Probate Office in thecity of Ann Arbor, and nhow cauRe, if anythere be, why the prayer of the petitionershould not be gxantea: And it is further or-dered, that aaid petitioner give notice to tbepersona interested in said estate, of the pendencyof said petition nnd the hearing thereof, by caus-ing a copy of this order to be published in theMichigan Argus, a newspaper printed and circu-lated in said county, three successive weeks previous to said day of hearing.

WILLIAM D.HARRIMAN,(A true copy.) Judge Qf Probate.

"WM. G. DOTY. Probate Register. 17O7td

Estate of William McCoruiickOTATE OK MICHIGAN, County of Waehtenaw,O as. At a session of the Prubnte Court for theCounty of Washteuttw, holdeu ttt the Probate Of-fice in the City of Ann Arbor, on Xhursdtty, tbethird day of October, in the year one thou-sand ei^ht hundred and seventy-eight.

Present, William D. Harrimah, Judge of Probate.In the matter of the estate of William Me

Coriuick, doetaned.Jerusha Noyes, formerly Jejrttaba McCormick,

executrix of the last will and testament of .*aiddeceased, comes into court and represents thatshe is now prepared to render her final accounta» such executrix.

Thereupon it is ordered, that Tuesday, the twenty-ninth day of October, in&tant, at ten o'clock in theforenoon, be assigned for examining and allowingsuch account, and that the devlaee*, legatees, andheirs at law of said deceased, and all other personsinterested in said estate, are required to appt-ar ata session of said court, then to be holdenat the Probate Office, in the city of AnnArbor, in s;iid county, and show cause, if any therebe, why the said account should not be al-lowed : And it is further ordered, that saidexecutrix give notice to the persons interestedin said estate, of the pendency ol said account andthe hearing thereof, by causing a copy of thisorder to be published in the Michigan Ar\fu$, aoewppflper printed and oircul&ting in said county,three successive weeks previous to said day of hear-ing. WILLIAM D. HARRIMAN,

[Atrue copy.] Judpe of Probate.W.M. (i. DOTV, Probate Register. 17O7td

Estate of John Leonard Reinwald.

STATE OF MICHIGAN, County of s t e n a w ,98. At ft session of the Probate Court for the

county of Washtenaw, holden at the Probate Officein thecity oi Ann Arbor, on Wednesday, the secondday of October, in the year one thousand eighthundred and seventy-ei^ht.

Present, William D.Harriman, Judge of Probate.In the matter of the estate ol John Leonard

Keinwald. deceased.On reading and filing the petition, duly verified,

of Miebael Staebler, praying that he or someother suitable person may be appointed a d i itrator of the estate of the said deceased

Thereupon it is ordered ,that Monday, the twenty-eighth day of October iunt., at ten o'clock in theforenoon, be asNi<rned for the hearing of saidpetition, nnd that the heirs at law ot said deceased,and all other persons interested in said estate, arerequired to appear at a session of said Court, thento be holden at the Probate Office ID thecity of Ann Arbor, and show cause, if anythere be, why the prayer of the petitionershould not be granted: And it is further orderedthat said petitioner give notice to the persona in-terested in said estate, of the pendency of saidpetition, and the hearing thereof, by causing ncopy of this order to be published in the Mich'igan Argus, a newspaper printed and circulated insaid county, three successive weeks previous to saidday of hearing.

WILLIAM D.HARRIMAN,(A true copy.) Judge of Probate.

W M . Q. DOTY? Probate Register. 1701*4

A.

Capital, - - $31090*000.

Assets Jan 1, 1876,

$6,792,649.98.Losses Paid in 55 Years,

$44,760,391.71.Surplus over all Liabilities, inclu'1'''

Re-Insurance Reserve,

$4,735,092.86.Net Surplus over Liabilities, including

Re-Insurance and Capital Stock,

$1,735,092.86.C. MACK) Affeut, Ann Arbor.

PURE GUM

RUBBER BOOTSBeing free from adulterative mixtures, will

give longer service than commonRubber Boots.

Their great popularity has led to manycheap imitations, having a DULL FIMSH, butthis season tbe

CANDEE" CO.WILL

VARNISHTheir PUKE GUM BOOTS, and to distinguishthem from the common kind, will attach aRUBBER LABEL on the front ot the leg, bear-ing the inscription

"

CUSTOM MADE.PURE GUM.

These Boots have the P a t e n t Metal HeelP la te , which prevents the heel wearing away«o quickly, and they will have also the patent

Outside Stationary StrapInstead of the very inconvenient web inside•trap, used on other makes of Boots.

ASK FOR THK

"CANDEE" BOOT.

Wills' FEED COOKER!Patented May 14, 1878, by

F. E. MILLS AND C. CLAGER,Aim Arbor, Midi.

AVe claim to hnve more !ie:itiiiK urid less coolingsurface than any other cooker, consequently great-er economy in fuel. The furnace being submergedin water, cannot be broken by moving or beingtipped over; no danger from tire or explosion.Any child that can build a lire can manage it. Ftwill save one-third of your feed ; will cook from 4to .1 bbls. ut ouce.

THE CHKAPEST STEAMER TN THE MARKfiT.J - Agents wanted. Address

F. E. MILLS, Ann Arl.or, Mich.

University Letter and Note Heads, withami without Cuts, in Hu<l<Ier's Patent I p.l..l -ting Pud Covers—140 and 180 sheets iu abook—for sale at the ARGUS Office.

a week in your own town. $5 outfit free.No risk. Render, if you want a businessat which persons ot* either ttex can makegreat pay all the lime they work, write

lor particulars to H. HALLKTT & Co., Portland, Me.

NEW GOODS

BACH & ABEL.

Have just

Opened an Immense StockOF —

FALL GOODS!

EVERY DEPARTMENT

— is —

CROWDED FULL.

S LOWER

— THAN —

IE SiT I

CALL AND C.Sept. 19, 1878.

NEW ARRIVAL-OF-

FALL AND WINTER CLOTHING-AT-

21 South Main St., Ann Arbor.

Are you going toTHE BEST IN THE WORLD IS THE

Chemical Paint,MA.NVFACTUBEH BY

Ceo. W. Pitkin * Co.,Send for Sample Cards and Price Lists. 85 & 8? tf&fht Street) Chioigfl, SI.

ET YOUR PROPERTY IN-SURED BY

OEf.Ijr s

C. H. MILLKN,

Insurance AgentNo. 4 South Main Street,

AXN ARBOR, - MICH,

The oldest agency in the city. Establisheda quarter ol a century ago. Kepresentiug thefollowing first class companies:

Home Insurance Co. of N. Y., Assets over 86,000,000Continental Ins. Co. of N. Y., Assets over $3,000,000Niagara Fre Ins. Co., N. V., Assets $1,442,400Oirard ol 1'a., Assets over 81,01)0,000Orient of Hartford, Assets $700,000

4S» Rates low. losses liberally adjusted andpromptly paid.

1700 C. H. MILLKN.

Marble Works !

ANTON EISELE,Corner Detroit & Catharine Sts.

— DEALERS I N —

Monuments & GravestonesManufactured of Foreign and American

GKANITK and MAKBLK.

CUT

BUILD1K6 AND AITir iGIU STONEManufactured on short notice. Prices low add

work warranted to give satisfaction. lG89yl

U cnn mnke money faster at work for us than atanything else Capital not required; we willstart you. $12 per day at home made hy theindustrious. Men, women, boys and girlswanted everywhere to work for us. Now is

the time. Costly outfit and terms free. AddressTBUK & Co., Augusta, Maine.

FURNITURE!JOHN KECK,

MANUFACTURER OF

FURNITURE OF ALLDESCRIPTIONS,

Are now Offering Great Inducementsto Purchasers.

BUYERS WILL

SAVE MONEYBY BUYING THEIR

FURNITUREDirect of (he Manufacturers.

Manufactory, corner of Will-iam and West Fourth Streets.

Salesrooms, 52 South Mainand 4 West Liberty Streets,Ann Arbor, Mich. 1665

* MOTHER REDUCTION

IIV LIME !Ohio lime will be hereafter sold at my liioe works

at wholesale for 30 cents a buHhel, and Monroe liuieat 28 cents. Also Brick, Waterllme, CalcinedPlatter, Cement, Plastering Hair and Wood for mle-

Aun Arbor,Sept. 10, 1S78.1-Wiu3 JACOB VOLLAND.

FKIDAY. OCT. 4, 1878.

HON. TUA B . C A R OHas made the following appointments for thiscoiiuty :

At Pleasant Luke, (Freedom), Thursday, Oct. 24" Saline, . - - Friday, ' Oct. 25" Ypsihmti, - - - Saturday, Oct. 26" Chelsea, - - Monday", Oct. 28" Dexter, . . . Tuesday, Oct. 29" Ann Arbor, - - - Wednesday, Oct. 30" Milan, - Thursday, Oct. UlThe meetings at each place will be in the evening.

Hulls will be arranged for by local committees.

C H A K L E S H. K I C H M O X DWill speak at the following places,—dividing thtime with Mr. (aril when the appointments are fothe same evening :

At Bridgewater Town House, Wednesday, Oct. 23" Manchester, - - - ThnrBday, Oct. 2" Saline, - - - Friday, Oct. 2" Ypsilanti, - Saturday, Oct.2i'• Milan, - Thursday, Oct. S

C H A B L K S It. W H I T M A N

Will speak as follows, at each place in the ere

ning .

At IMxboro, . . . Monday, Oct." Chelsea, - Tuesday, Oct." Lyndon Town Hall,- - Wednesday, Oct." HudBon, - Thursday, Oct. 1" Lima Center,- • - Friday, Oct. 1" Dexter, - Saturday, Oct. 1211 Freedom Town Hall, - Monday, Oct. 1" Manchester, - - Tuesday, Oct. 15" Sharon Town Hall, - - Wednesday, Oct. H" Iron Creek Church, - Thursday, Oct. 17" Bridgewater Town Hall, - Friday, Oct. 1814 Superior, Bird's School 11., Saturday, Oct 19" Wall's School H.,NorthScld, Monday, Oct. 21" Whitmore Lake, - - Tuesday, Oct. 2'J11 Welch's Corners, Xorthliekl, Wednesday, Oct. 2i:" Salem Station, - - Thursday, Oct. 24" Milan.- - - - Friday, Oct. 2."

LOCAL AFFAIRS.—Regular meeting of Common Council next

Monday evening.— A sharp white frost last Friday morning,

with almost summer weather since.— Much wind and a little rain last Tues-

day nigkt, and plenty oi dust yesterday.— Morris O'Rourk, tailor, has gone to Mal-

vern, Iowa, to accept a position as cutter.— In the baud blow-out at Jackson last

week the Ypsilanti baud took the second prize.— Rev. J. T. Sunderland wiil commence his

labors in the Unitarian Church next Sundaymorning.

— Rev. R. B. l'ope has been elected Super-intendent of the M. E. Sunday School, andenters on duty next Sunday.

— Messrs. Frazer and Wakhou are makingactive canvass of the county in the interest ofthe National-Greenback ticket.

— A new sidewalk has been put down onthe south side of Huron street, from Main tothe alley. A great improvement.

— Mrs. Perry, wile of the Superintendentot our public schools, has gone to New York,to take lessons in painting in the Cooper In-stitute Art School.

— Ypsilanti Commercial: " J . Evart Smithstarts for New Mexico next week. He willtake with him about 150 American merinorams to sell to ranchemen."

— Mrs. M. E. Foster and E. E. and J. E.Beal, who went to Europe and the Paris Ex-position the latter part of J une last, returnedhome last Saturday, looking well.

— Moses W. Field dispeused greenbackismon the Square Wednesday evening, and Dr.Brown was advertised to enlighten the fol-lowers of Moses last evening, in Hangsterfor'sHall.

— The Tennessee Jubilee Singers had asmall audience on Monday evening, but theirsinging gave general satisfaction. They re-turn here ami give a second concert this eve-ning.

— The telegraph line along the T. vfe A. A.R. R. was completed yesterday. On Mondaynext another passc-nger train will be put on,giving a morning and evening passenger traineach way daily.

—The Board of Supervisors will meet inannual session on Monday, October 14. Allbills against the county must be filed withCounty Clerk within the first three days ofthe session, or the Board cannot act uponthem.

— Fannie Maria, wife oi David Van G-ieson*ot Lodi, died on Friday last, of consumption.Her maiden name was Treat, and she was thedaughter of Philo and Polly Treat, oi CayugaCounty, New York.

— The Manchester Enterprise says : " Wm.F. Hall & Sou, of Sharon, have lutely been toCanada, where they purchased a car load otLincoln sheep. These sheep are a long-woolvariety. They bought lambs, one year old,that weighed 100 lbs."

— Mrs. Ann Casement, wite of the lateRobert Casement, died at the residence of herdaughter in Scio, Mrs. Henry Osborue, Sept.28, aged 83 years, 4 mos., 20 days, of consump-tiou. Mrs. Casement was a native of the Isleof Man. She was the mother of Gren. Case-meut, of Ohio.

— On Saturday evening (to-morrow) E. C-Seaman will read a paper before the Ann Ar-bor Scientific Association, at the lecture roomin North College, entitled " An inquiry fromwhence came the materials forming the earth'srocky crust and the earthy matter and stoneslying upon it'( "

— D. Cramer has formed a partnership withMessrs. Frueauff & Corbin, and has vacatedthe office so long occupied by him in theARGUS office block, and located himself onWashington street, in the office of the juniorpartners. The new tirni wiil also open anoffice at Dundee.

— In ' Amusements ' a rare treat is offeredat the Opera House for next week : Miss AdaGray for two nights—Mu'udav and Tuesday—with a good support, presenting ' East Lynne'and ' Betrayed ; ' and Greorgd F. Rowe forThursday evening, as ' Micawber.' These aretwo stars of the stage. See adv.

— Maj. G. T. Clarke, of this city, has beencalling the attention of the Jackson people toa new railroad project: a branch of theToledo and Ann Arbor road from Milan toJackson,—giving the "Central City" connec-tion with the Pennsylvania and Columbusroads at Toledo, with competition in freightrates. The distance is about 38 miles.

— Manchester Enterprise, Sept. 26 : *' DavidMoody was arrested in Bridgewater, on Fri-day, for stealing goods from Wm. Bowers. Hewas taken before Justice A. T. Bruegel, whenhe pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to thecounty jail for 60 days. While under arrestat the Goodyear House, he attempted to takehis life by cutting his throat with a pocketknife, but failed."

— We have a letter from J. M. Wheeler,Esq., written on ship-board, but mailed inLondon. He reports a pleasant trip across theocean with enjoyable fellow-passengers. Inmid ocean (Sept. 12) they met a Dutch vessel,and, Mr. W. writes " full in the faith " thatthey recognized on its deck Prof. A. H. Pat-tengill and lady. Up to Oct. 29 Mr. Wheoler'saddress will be Venice, ferme inposta.

— John A. McOmber, of Butler, Pa., form-erly of this city, is now here introducingRebuhu's Patent Frame aud Sash Balance, forplacing in brick buildings and in old buildingsnot having box frames. Can be put in anywiudow without removiug the frame, and in-side of an hour. Do not get out of order, andare indorsed by the best architects in thecountry. Two good carpenters wanted.

— There will be a " pound social " for thebenefit of the Ladies' Library Association, atthe residence of Mrs. Dr. Wells, No. 12 N.Division street, on Tuesday evening, October8, at a quarter before 8 o'clock. Each ladymember is expected to contribute one or morepound packages to be disposed of at auctionduring the evening. The packages will becalled for by the committee on Monday aiter-uoon. All are invite J. Admission 10 cents.

— Emil Baur, Superintendent of Schools ofthe Township of Ann Arbor, wishes us to saythat a public examination of persons offeringthemselves as teachers in the primary schoolsof said township will be held at the FifthWard school house in the city of Ann Arbor,on Saturday, October 12, at 10 o'clock a. m.

The examinations being mostly in writing applicants should provide themselves with writing material. Owing to scarlet fever prevailing in his family Supt Baur has appoiute<Miss Eliza Doty to conduct the examination:

—The Court House Building Committee hacanother meeting on Monday last und disposeof the vexed furniture question. Five bid;were received as follows: Hay ties, Spencer &Co., Richmond, Ind., $1,795 ; Kapps & EggerChicago, $1,934; F. R. Wofinger, Chicago,J2,76;"j; Meilink & Co., Toledo, $2,812 ; FeigeBro., East Sagiuaw, $3,800. The contract wasawarded to Messrs. Haynes, Spencer it Co.coupled with whose bid was an oiler of 2 1-2per cent, oft' tor cash, which would indicatethat the counties down iu Indiana dou 't paycash down on such contracts. We understandthat J. Keck, of this city, sent in a proposal,but at so late an hour (after the other pro-posals had been opened and read) that thecommittee rejected it.

— Charles H. Manly, Alvin Wilsey, andHerman aud John Armbruster attended thefirst anuual tournament of the Toledo Scheut-zenbund a few days ago and brought homecash aud other prizes to the amount ofMr. Miller, of Toledo, won the first prize, $100in gold ; and J. Stahl, of Battle Creek, whotook the first prize at the recent tournamentin this city, bore off the second, a lady's watchand chain, valued at $75. Iu the contest forthe third prize, $j0 in gold, there was a tiebetween Miller aud C. H. Manly, each mak-ing b'l in a possible 75. In shooting oft Millerbeat Manly. Manly took the fourth prize, asilver tea set worth $50; and H. Armbusterthe fifth prize, $25 in greenbacks. A Wilseygot a silver water set, and John Armbustertied on centers and divided $100 with hisopponent.

— A meeting of tax-paying electors washeld at Ypsilauti on Thursday evening of lastweek in the interest of the proposed railroadfrom that city to a connection with the GrandTrunk at Pontiac. The meeting was assuredthat but oue obstacle was in the way of thearly building of the road,—the reputation of

Ypsilanti as a repudiating city, aud also thatf provision could be made to pay the bonds

of the city issued to the Detroit and Hillsdaleroad, the road to Pontiac would be built.After a prolonged discussion the meeting by

vote of two to one instructed the Council;o make provision for paying the bonds. TheJouncil met next day and appointed a com-mittee to canvass the city and ascertain theexact sentiment of the taxpayers on the ques-iou. Since the canvass another meeting ofhe Council has been held. Result: No bonds

will be paid until the highest court says so.

UNIVERSITY NOTES.— The Regents are to meet on the 10th

ust.The sophomores and freshmen played

heir first game of foot-ball last Saturdayafternoon. The sophs won by a score of four;o one.

A gymnasium is what the boj'S want, and,he officers of the Lecture Association andchronicle editors propose to recommend the.ppropriatiou of surplus receipts to that ob-ect.

— Judge Cooley gave the opening lecture inhe Law Department on Tuesday ; Dr. Dunstern the Department of Medicine aud Surgery ;.nd Dean Franklin in the Homeopathic Med-cal College.

— Ex-assistant Prof. Henneqnin proposes to:ry private classes in French and German iuDetroit.

— The University Hospital has been put inborough order during vacation, and already>as a number of patients. Sixty patients canbe accommodated.

| Dr. E. C. Franklin, the new Dean of theHomeopathic Medical College, stopped over inDetroit while en route to this city, aud wasgiven a reception aud supper on Friday eve-

lng last by the medical men of his schoolhere resident. He responded to " Our Guest,"nd Dr. Gilchrist, late professor, spoke for

' The University."— Henry C. Post, of '79, has gone to Berlin,

Prussia, to pursue the study of music.—Up to yesterday noon 222 applicants for ad-

mission to the Literary Department had reg-stered their names with the President. Inhe other departments the number of ad-nissions were, as compared with the close ofJet. 3, 1877, as follows :

1878. 1877n Law Department, - - 319 300

Dept. ot Medicine and Surgery, 286 251Homeopathic Med, College, - 53 63School of Pharmacy, - 55College of Dental Surgery, - 51 36

RKU RIBBONS.— The Reform Club at Manchester has

orenzo Greenman for president and numbers75 members.

— At Ypsilanti a proposition is pending tonite the Reform and Red Ribbon Clubs.

— The Dexter Leader invites every Redtibbon Club in the State to pass resolutionsondetnnatory ot the officers of the State Ag-cultural Society for peimittiug the sale of

ager beer, etc., on their grounds at the recentfuir.

— Jas. W. Wing, of Scio, was the speakerat the Reform Club meeting on Sunday after-noon last.

—Mrs. M. E. Foster will address the ReformClub on Sunday afternoon next, and will givesome account of herreceut European trip.

Circuit Court Jurors.The lollowiug is the list of petit jurors drawn

for the next term of the Circuit Court, andordered summoned to appear on the secondday of the term, Oct. 23, at 10 o'clock a. m.

Ann Arbor Town, William H, Rice.Augusta, Charles Darling.Bridgewater, John Logan.Dexter, Charles Dwyer, William E. Steven-

son.Freedom, Lewis Haab, Bern hart Keobbe.Lima, William E. Stocking, Theodore F.

Covert.Lodi, August Breterness, C. C. Warner.Lyndon, George Goodwin, Andrew Green-

ing.Manchester, Fred. Kerfuss, Elijah G. Carr.Northfield, Nathan E. Suttou, Michael

O'Brien.Pittsfield, E. W. Ford, Peter Cook.Salem, Hiram G. Warren, Eseck C. Roberts.Saline, John Gordon, James Hoyt.Scio, Byrou C. Whitaker.Sharon, William B. Osboru.Superior, Wade Stafford.Sylvan, Frederick Hoppe.Webster, Henry Phelps.York, Franklin Butler.Ypsilanti Town, Peter D. Martin.No jurors are drawn from either Aun Arbor

or Ypsilanti city, nevertheless their tax-payershave to " chip in " to pay the jurors' fees justthe same.

That Wlieat from Illinois.Mr. Swathel, of the firm of Swathel, Ailes

& Kyer, called upon us a few days ago to giveus a "little light'" concerning their importa-tion of wheat from Southern Illinois. T©come to the point iu the fewest possible words,the situation and explanation is this: theycan get nothing but Clawson wheat in thismarket with which to stock their mills, andthey cannot find sale iu the eastern markets,while iu the eastern markets they must sell,for flour made from Clawson wheat. Thisthey claim to be their sad experience as wellas the experience of other millers in this State.They have bought and shipped Clawsou wheat,letting eastern mills do the grinding, or let-ting the grain go forward to Europe, but flourit they cannot. Mr. S. also expresses a fearthat the Clawson wheat now going abroad mayinjure the future sale of American wheat inthe European markets, just as the sale offlour from grown wheat a fow years ago inFrance prevented the sale of American flourin the French markets from that day to this.If such shall prove to be the case the Michi-gan farmer will iu the long run lose more thanwill offset the extra yield from the Clawaon,We state the position as Mr. Swathel stated itto us, and leave our farmer friends to discussit for themselves.

THE COUNTY FAIR.The thirtieth annual fair of the Washtenaw

County Agricultural and Horticultural Societ}opened on Tuesday, aud will close this (Fri>day) afternoon. The weather has been pleas-ant, but the streets dry and dusty. On Wednesday afternoon a representative of the Anous was detailed to give the fair a " look up.'The attendance on Wednesday was not largethough claimed to be satisfactory by the offi-cials of tbfi Society. The exhibition is muchLarge! and better than any held for severayears—though not such a show as ought to bemade annually in Washtenaw County. Thenumber ot entries are :Horses, - . . . 225Cattle, - - - - - 90Sheep, 127Swine, - - - - - 57Poultry, 100Farm Implements - - 33Jacks aud mules . . . 2"Vegetables, seeds, <ftc, - - - ,126Fruit, . . . . 86Sweet meats, &c., - - 35Domestic manufactures, - - 34Carriages aud wagons, - - - 17Harness, boots aud shoes, - 10Needle aud crochet work, - - 67Paintings, drawings, &c., - - 58Flowers, - - - - - 11Little girls' work, . . . 1

On entering the grounds the visitors mostlyproceed first to the

FINE ABTS AND FLORAL HALLS.

The floral display is very small, none of theold exhibitors being represented The balanceit the space in the building being well filled*vith an attractive display of articles. There.re oil paintings and drawings, ladies' and;hildren's fancy work, fancy goods, ladies'and gents' goods, organs, sewing machines,toves, &o.

Miss Katie J. Rogers has six oil portraits andseveral drawings, her own work, which receivea large amount of attention and admiratson.

Mrs. J. F. Saunders, of Ypsilanti, makes avery attractive display of oil paintings andngravings, and a collection of photographs.

Her exhibit is worthy of an inspection.There are also fine collections of oil paint-

ngs, and crayon and pencil drawings, by Mrs.ST. M. Schoff, Mrs. Henry Depue, Mrs. A. H.Markham, Miss Lillie M. Nichols, Miss Mattiejoruwell, aud others Each of which has its.dmirers.

Miss Mollie Muehlig has some nice designsu wax work. Miss Sarah Fletcher has a num-er exhibits of house plants and prepared

.eaves. A. B. Covert has several cases ofituffed birds.

Joe T. Jacobs and A. L. Noble each have anttractive exhibit of clothing and furnishing:oods.

J. Keck has an extensive show of parlor andbedroom furniture, from his manufactory.

Wines & Worden have a fine display of oilloths and carpets, while Bach & Abel andHack <& Schmid each have a rich exhibit of

dies' dress goods, cloaks, notions, &c.Eberbach & Sou have a good show of goods

rom their laboratory. Douglas & Co. have aase of fancy books and notions. Miss M.. Miley has a case of fancy goods. Johnurg a case of boots and shoes. Chas, Spooras carriage harnesses and trunks.D. F. Almandmger and A. Wilsey have each

several entries of organs, which are kept con-stantly in operation and draw large numbersof spectators.

The exhibit of sewing machines attracts theattention of numbers of ladies. The variousmachines are kept busy at work on all kindsof work. J. F. Schuh and 1. L. Grinnell eachpreside at oue of their machines aud takepleasure in exhibiting their skill.

Eberbach & Co. and J. F. Schuh make anattractive show of wood aud coal stoves.

There is a fine display of ladies' fancy work,for which we have neither time nor space tonotice each. Mis. J. Willard Babbitt, of Yps-ilauti, has some nice specimens of Afghanwork. Fred. Schairer has a specimen of wor-sted canvas work, by himself, " The Last Sup-per." A doll's carriage by P. Campbell's littledaughter is much admired.

MACHINERY AND FARM IMPLEMENTS.

In this department there is a creditable showthough not as large as in some former years.The Ann Arbor Agricultural Co. has an exten-sive entry of their manufactures, includingreapers, mowers, plows, cultivators, feed cut-ters, i&c. A, W. Britten has a display of theBuckeye manufactures. The Robbins Culti-vator Co., of Jackson, have samples of theirmachtues. M. Rogers has two self-propellingsteam edgiues and a thresher in operation. F.£. Mills has one of his feed cookers in opera-tion. There are also wind mills, stump pull-ers, drags, hay racks, &c.

CARRIAGES AND WAG0N8.

The display is not large, but contains somefine specimens. The exhibits are confined toAnn Arbor manufacturers.

CATTLB.

The show of cattle is very large, probablythe best ever seen in the county, and showsthe improvements made by our farmers in thematter of stock-raising. The exhibits includevarious breeds, aud of all ages —from the threemonths old calf to the mammoth bull and fatox. We have not space to enumerate all theexhibits—they should be seen to be appreciated

John W. Nanry, of Superior, has a yoke ofwork oxen, a pair of steers, a Durham cow,and a grade bull which weighs 2,000 lbs.

John Coyle, of Webster, has a Hue pair otfat steers.

David M. Uhl, of Ypsilanti, has an exhibitof 11 head, including his four year old bull,"Mazurka Prince," weighing 2,300 lbs.

G-. W. Phelps, of Scio, has an excellent showof 14 head. It includes the cow "Ruby,"which took the sweepstakes premium at therecent State Fair ; a three year old bull, "21stDuke ot Hillsdale," aud " Lady Stuart," athree years old heifer.

Othuiel Gooding, of York, has as good showof Jersey's as can be found, includes 8 head.

D. M. Finley, of Scio, has a two year oldshorthorn bull. A good animal.

David Cody, of Pittsfield, has a thoroughbredbull and six head of graded cattle.

HORSES.

The largest and best show of horses everheld in the county is at the fair this year. W.H. Hawkins, of Ypsilanti, has an entry of 16horses, including his Hambletonian stallion," Theo. B. Lane," and 10 three years old colta—the get ot his stallion. A fine show. P. &C. L. Tuomy, of Scio, have a three year oldHambletonian stallion, span of carriage horses,brood mare and colt. E. T. Walker, of Salem,has an English draft stallion, " Black Bob."J. Hoffstetter has the Kentucky stallion, "AbeLincoln." G. W. Sharpless, "Winfield Boy."J. S. Henderson, of Pittsfield, has a nice twoyear old colt. J. A. Dell, of Saline, has a Nor-man Messenger gelding, three years old. To-day is to be •' Horse Day " at the fair, a goodopportunity will be afforded for viewing theexcellent display.

SHEEP, SWINE, AND FOULTBY.

In Sheep there are some good specimens, butnot as large varieties as other years. The prin-ciple exhibitors are T. A. Moore and B. D.Kelly, of Ypsilanti, John W. Nanry and R.Towusend, of Superior. The exhibit does notdo justice to the county.

In Swine the exhibit is very fine, but not bya large number of exhibitors. Henry B. Jones,of Dexter, has Suffolks, Berkshires, and PolandChinas. E. B. Hall, of this city, has Suffolks,Essex, and Berkshires. Wm. W. Tubbs, ofScio, has 19 Suffolks.

The Poultry exhibit is quite large and good,and includes the various breeds of chickens,turkies, ducks, <fec.

VEGETABLES AND FRUITS.

Vegetable Hall presents a creditable appear-ance, and iucludes all varieties of garden andfarm produce, grains, &a.

The entire space in Fruit Hall is occupied,mostly by apples. The display is very good,but not equal to that of some former years.

The attendance was very large yesterday, allthe roads leadiug to the grounds being throngedwithteamB during the forenoon. Another largecrowd is expected to-day.

Democratic County Convention.The Democratic County Convention wai

held, pursuant to call, at the Opera House iuthis city, on Saturday, Sept. 28, at 11 o'clocka. m. for the purpose of nominating a candidate for Senator and candidates for Countyofficers.

The convention was called to order by PeterTuite, Esq., chairman of the County Commit-tee, aud after the reading of the offloial call atemporary organization was made by callingJohn Starkweather.of Ypsilauti, to the chairand electing Frank Joslin secretary.

After appointing a Committee on Creden-tials, Permanent Organization, and Order ofBusiness the Convention adjourned to 1 1-2o'clock p. m.

AFTERNOON SESSION.

At the hour to which the convention stoodadjourned Chairman Starkweather resumedhis seat and called for the report of the Com-mittee on Credentials, etc. Mr. Hewett, of

Manchester, made a report in behalf of thecommittee, showing every town and wardfully represented.

Also as permanent officeis,President, Hon. Charles S. Gregory, of Scio.Secretary, Frank Joslin, of Ypsilanti.And as Order of Business, 1st, the nomina-

tion of a candidate for Senator, and of candi-dates for county officers in the order named inthe statute.

The report was accepted and adopted.Mr. Gregory, on taking the chair, thanked

the convention for the honor conferred uponhim, Baid that work and not speech makingwas in order, but begged to introduce to theconvention Hon. Ira B. Card, the Democraticcandidate for Congress in this district. Mr.Card was greeted with great applause as hewent to the platform. He said that havingipoken the preceding evening he was not incondition to address the convention, even didime permit. He declared his adherence toime-houored Democratic principles, condemn-ng in no qualified terms the frauds upon the

electors in 1876 culminating in a stolen presi-dency, pledged himself to represent the inter-ests of his constituents in case of election, audcounseled harmonious action on the part of:onvention.

Messrs. Hall, of Saline, aud Whitaker, ofima, were appointed tellers aud the couven-lon proceeded to business.An informal ballot for Senator being ordered >

Mr. Whitaker, of Lima, presented tliame of Col. Burleigh, and C. S. Tuomy, otcio, placed Hon. Charles S. Gregory in nomi-nation.

The ballot resulted.or John L. Burleigh, - - - 69" Charles S. Gregory, 37A motion being made to declare Mr. Bur-

eigh unanimously nominated, Mr. McDougali,if Bridgewater, protested against such a vio-ation of precedent, and demanded a formalMillot, which was ordered. Mr. McDougalihen made an earnest and pointed speechigainst Mr. Burleigh's nomination, after which,he formal ballot was taken with the iollow-ng result:'or John L Burleigh, - - - 62" Charles S. Gregory, - - .50And on motion the nomination of Col. Biir-

.eigh was made unanimous.The convention next proceeded to an in-

formal ballot for a candidate for Sheriff. Geo.iV. Hull, of Saline, nominated Myron Webb,f Saline, and A. E. Hewett, of Manchester,>laced the present Sheriff, Josiah S. Case iu

nomsnation. The ballot resulted :or Josiah S. Case, . . . loo' Myron Webb, - - U' Blank, 1The name of Mr. Webb was withdrawn aud

he nomination of Mr. Case was made unani-mous.

The nomination of Clerk being in order,ohn Starkweather, of Ypsilauti, presentedhe name of Fred. W. Hawkins, of Ypsilanti,,s possessed of first-class qualifications, and aife-long Democrat of Democratic parentage.

Mr. Gregory called the Secretary to the chair,nd under instructions from the Scio Democ-acy presented the name of Peter Tuite, whoad been tried and proved, and was known to

>e a capable and efficient officer as well as arue Democrat.

Two ballots were taken which resulted:

'or Peter Tuite, -" Fred. W. Hawkins," Blank, -

On motion, Peter Tuite wan declared unani-mously nominated.

A ballot for a candidate for Register ofDeeds was next ordered and resulted :'or Charles H. Manly, - - - 96" Augustus Widenmaun, - 3" B. Spencer, . . . . 2" Scattering, . . . 4Mr. Manly was declared unanimously nomi-

ated.The nomination of a candidate for Treas-

rer being in order, J. J. Robison, saying thatie knew of but one candidate, moved that

Matthew Gensley be nominated by acclama-,on, which motion prevailed.For Prosecuting Attorney, Charles R. Whit-

man, of Ypsilanti, and A. E. Hewett, of Man-hester, were named, aud the result of therat ballot was:'or Charles R. Whitman, 86" A. E. Hewett, . . . 12" Scattering, . . . 2Mr. Hewett moved that Mr. Whitman be

declared unanimously nominated, which mo-tion prevailed.

For the offices of Circuit Court Commission-en the entries were D. Cramer, Patrick Mc-Keruan, aud Fred. Pistonus, of Ann Arbor;Howard Stephensou, of Ypsilauti George W.Turn Bull, of Chelsea ; and Frank E. Jones,of Suline. Messrs. Stephenson and McKernanwere nominated.

Mnj. George T. Clark, of this city, was nom-inated for County Surveyor, and Martin Clark,of this city, and Frank Joslin, ot Ypsilanti,for Coroners, which completed the labors ofthe convention

R e p r e s e n t a t i v e D i s t r i c t C o n v e n t i o n .The Second Representative District Demo-

cratic Convention was held, pursuant to call,at Firemen's Hall in this city, on Tuesday,Oct. 1, at 2 o'clock p. m.

Edward Clancy, of the District Committee,called the convention to order, aud EdwardClark was chosen Chairman, and Eugene G-ib-ney, Secretary.

Messrs. Edward Clancy, John N. Gott andJoseph D. Irish were appointed a Committeeon Credentials, who reported the list of dele-gates entitled to seats. Report accepted audadopted.

A ballot was ordered, and the same gentle-men who constituted the Committee on Cre-dentials were appointed tellers.

Messrs George Sutton, of Northfield; H. M.Mowry, of Aun Arbor Town ; and Fred.Schmid, Jr., of Ann Arbor City, were placedin nomination.

Two ballots resulted :

For George Suttou," Hethcott M. Mowry, -" Fred. Schmid, Jr., -On motion, Mr. Schmid was declared unani-

mously nominated.Messrs. E. Duffy, E. Clancy, and H. Lara-

way were appointed a District Committee, andthe convention adjourned sine die.

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St. Thomas Temperance Benevolent So-ciety.

At a special meeting of the above namedsociety, the lollowiug resolutions were adopted:

WHEREAS, It has pleased Almighty God tocall from our midst our beloved friend and fel-low worker in the cause of teinperauce, JOHNH. QUINLIAN,

Resolved, That by his death this society haslost an efficient aud trusty member, the com-munity an honest and worthy citizen, and thechurch one of her faithful children.

Resolved, That we deeply deplore the losswhich our society has sustained, and we ten-der to his father and relations our profoundsympathy, and pray God to enable them tobear with Christian resignation their irrepar-able I06S.

Resolved, That a copy of these resolutionsbe presented to the father of the deceased,that they be entered on the records of the So-ciety, and that they be published iu the citypapers.

JOHN M. O'BRIEN, Sec.

GHEAT CLOSING OUT SALEOF THE G. H. MILLEN & SON'S

Stock of Dry GoodsCOMMENCING SATURDAY, SEP1. 28,

And will he closed out as rapidly as possible at NEW YORKCOST, FOIi CASH.

Larp Additions of Fall and f inter GoodsHave been added, making it complete and desirable in everyrespect. Among which I am now opening

200 Fshionable Fall § Winter Cloaksfrom the Best and Most Stylis Mann acturers in the country.

A SPLENDID LOT OF WOOLEN SHAWLSA fine line of B l a c k C a s h . m © r e S and other DressGoods. Housekeeper's Goods of every kind, etc., etc.

Cash Unycrs seeking Bargains will find tliein here.

JOHN N. GOTT.

Grand Fall OpeningAT LITTLE MACK'S,

THE OHE-PRICE K I M CLOTHIEU

WELCOME ALLJSJT T H E

-ON-

Saturday, Sept. 14th, 1878!We have just returned from the East with one of the finest

and largest stocks of

CUSTOM READY-MADE CLOTHING!for men, youths, boys and children, which will be sold atprices never before known. Also the latest novelties inGents' F11raa.ish.ing Goods. An enormous stock otHATS AND CAPS, at one-half their real value.

1? We would especially call the attention of those whoformerly got their garments made to order, we can furnish asjood goods, as well made and trimmed, and as good a fit, asan be produced by any merchant tailor—FOR ONE-HALF

THE MONEY. We buy our goods direct from manufactu-rers and save agents and jobbers commissions, which enablesus to sell goods for what small country dealers pay for them.

5 ^ DON'T FORGET THE PLAOK.

N o - 0 S o u t h M a i n S t r e e t , A n n A r b o r .

JUST ARRIVING!For the Fall Season, the Largest and most

complete assortment of DRY GOODS everoffered in Ann Arhor.

LARGE PURCHASES for Cashwe are always in position to offer desirable

oo&s much below the market value!GAnd the increase of our business during the Spring and Sum-mer season over any preceding year will lead us to endeavoroffering our friends and patrons

STILL CHOICER GOODS and BETTER VALUE;han ever before, and for the approaching seasons we respect-fully solicit their continued patronage.

MACK & SCHMID.

T>INSEY & SEABOLT'S

BAKERY, GROCERY- A N D -

PLOUH & PEED STORE.We keep constantly on nand,

BREAD, CRACKERS, CAKES, ETC.,FOR WHOLESALE AND KKTAIL TRADE.

We shall also keep a supply of

DELHI FLOUR.,J . M. SWIFT & GO'S BEST WHITE WHEAT

FLOUR, 11 YE FLOUK, BUCKW'WHEATFLO0U, CORN MEAL, FEED,

At wholesale ami retail. A general stock of

GROCERIES AND PROVISIONSconstantly on hand, which will be Bold on as rea-sonable terms as nt any other house in this city.

Cash paid for Butter, Eggs, and Country Pro-duce generally.

BeT" Goods deliveroa »o any part of the city without extra charge.

KI IVSEY Ac S R A B O L T ,Ann Arbor, Jan. 1, 1878. 15C4

No More Dunning:!I propose now to put my matters of collections

iuto the hands of collecting men, to do this busi-ness fur me. I will not waste my whole time thiscorning winter in begging und tanning for moneydue me. You need not come to me to prolong thetime, it will lie of no avail to you. It is the moneyI want to pay my debts. 1 have borrowed moneyto pay debts to favor those that owe me as long as Iintend to, these favors are not equitable. Now ifyou have not got the money just get it as you havecompelled me to do. II can't huit you auy worseto pay interest than it does me. I t is an actualnecessity for me to collect ev<jry dollar due, and Imust do it. lTOtiml

Now come down with cash to pi-event a mnasl!As quiek as ever you please,

If you delay the devil's to payBeside* (he lawyers fees.

M. KOGEKS.

business you can engage in. $."> to $20per day mado by uny worker of eitheraex, right in their owu localities. Par-

. _ _ ticulars and sample*} worth $5 free.Improve your spare time at this business. Address

ION & Co., Portland, Maine.

Election. XTotice.SHERIFF'S OFFICE, ANN ARBOR, \

AUGUST 14, 1878. )To the Electors of }Vashtenaw County :

You are hereby notified that at the GeneralElection, to be held on TUESDAY, THE FIFTH DAYOF NOVEMBER, in the State of Michigan, the fol-lowing officers are to be elected, viz: A Governor,Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, AuditorGeneral, State Treasurer, Commissioner of theState Land Office, Attorney General, Superinten-dent of Public Instruction, and a Alember of theState Board of Education, in place of KdwardDorsch, whose term of office will expire December31, 1878 ; a Representative in Congress for the Sec-ond Congressional District of this State, to whichthis county is attached ; a Senator for the FourthSenatorial District, consisting of WashtenawCounty; also one Representative in the State leg-islature from each of the several Representativedistricts, as follows: First District — Augusta,Pittsfteld, Saline, York, Ypsilauti City and Ypsi-lanti Town; Second District— Ann Arbor City, AnnArbor Town, Northfield, Salem,Superior and Web-ster; Third />i.siWt;i—Bridgewater, Dexter, Free-dom, Lima, Lodi, Lyndon, Manchester, Scio,Sharon, and Sylvan. Also a Sheriff, County Clerk,County Treasurer, Register of Deeds, ProsecutingAttorney, two Circuit Court Coramiasiouers, aCounty surveyor, and two Coroners.

JOSIAH S. CASK, Sheriff.

THE GKEAT ENGLISH REMEDY!GRAY'S NPECiriC MEDICINE

TRADEMARK.^ e s p e o i a I l y r € c .oinmeuded as tinunf tilling cure for

'SEMINAL WEAK-NESS, SPERMATO-RltHEA, iMPOTEN-CY, and all dis-eases that followas a sequence on

Before TaJriKY, UNIVEBSAL LASSITUDE, PAIN IN THE BACK, DIM>NESS OF VISION, PREMATURE OLD AGE, aud manyother diseases that lead to Insanity, Consumptionand a rrematnre Grave, all of which as a rule arefirst caused by deviating from the path of natureand over indulgence. The Specific Medicine is thereault of a life study and many years of experi-ence in treating these special diseases.

Full particulars in our pamphlets, whieh we de-sire to send free by mail to every one.

The Specific Medicine is sold by all Prugyists at$1 per package, or Bix packages for $5, or will besent by mail on receipt of the money by addressing

THE URAY MEDICINE CO.,1674 No. 10 Mechanics1 Block, Detroit Mich.&jr8ol& in Ann Arbor by Eberbach & Son, and

by ah druggists everywhere.

STAH CLOTHING HOUSE!TO EXAMINE THE

Largest and Finest Stock of Mens' and Boys'Clothing and Gents' Furnishing Goods

IN THE COUNTY!

Having visited the Eastern market and made a care-ful inspection of some ot the largest Clothing Houses in theEast, I can offer special inducements in all lines.

The Best Goods for the Least Moneyis my motto.

A. L. NOBLE.

Abstracts of Titles.All parties who are desirous of ascertaining the

condition of the title to their lands, or parties whowish to loan money on real estate will do well tocall at the Register's office and consult a

Compared Set of Abstract Books.Said books are so far advanced that the Registercan furnish on short notice a

Perfect Statement as to tke Titleoi1 any parcel of iand iu Washtenaw County asshown by the original recoids.

C. fl. AtANLY, Register.

H OUSE AND LOT FOE SALE.

Located in a desirable part of the city, and ingood repair. Also a house to rent on favorableterms. Inquire at the ABGUP office, cr

22 THOMSON STREET.Ann Arbor, March H, 1878. 1678tf.

Chancery Hale.

STATE OF MICHIG-AN. The Circuit Court forthe County of Washteniiw. In Chancery. Al-

pheus Feleh, complainant, vs. Margaret Toban andCatharine liyan, defendants. In pursuanceand byvirtue of the decree of this court in the aboveentitled cause, made and entered on the nine-teenth day of March, A. D. 1S>78, the undersigned,one of the Circuit Court Commissioners in and forsaid county of Washtenaw, will sell at public ven-duc, to the"highest bidder, at the south door of theCounty Clerk's Office, in the city of Ann Arbor,iu said county, [said County Clerk's office being theplace fixed for holding the Circuit Court for saidcounty by order of the Circuit Judge] on MONDAY,

THE TWENTY-KIGIITJI DAY OF OCTOBEK, A. D. 1878,at ten o'clock in the forenoon of that day, all thosecertain pieces or parcels of land situated in North-fleld in said county of Washtenaw and State ofMichigan, known, bounded and described as fol-lows, viz.: The southwest quarter of the southeastquarter of section number three [3], and the westhalf of the northeast quarter of section numberten [10], in township number one [1J south of rangenumber six Hi] t-ast in said State of Michigan.

Dated, September t8- A. D. 1878.FRANK BMERIOK,

1704 Circuit Court Commissioner.

Uoininissioners' Notice.

STATE OF MICHIGAN, County of WashUnaw,ss. The undersigned having; been appointed by

the Probate Court for said county, commissionersto receive, examine and adjust all claims and de-mands of all persons against the estate of SamuelCross, late of said county, deceased, hereby givenotice tbat six months from date are allowed, byorder of said Probate Court, for creditors to pre-sent their claims against the estate of said de-ceased, and that they will meet at the office of NoahW. Cheever, iisq., in the city of Ann Arbor, insaid county, on Saturday, the fourteenth day otDecember, and on Friday, the fourteenth day ofMarch next, at ten o'clock A. M. of each of saiddays, to receive, examine and adjust said claims.

Dated, September 14, A. I>. 1878.NOAH W. CHEEVER,JOHN W. MAYNAltD,

170G J O H N C L A N C Y ,Commiss ioners .

Estate of Henry Smith.

STATE OF MICHIGAN, County of Washtenawss. Notice is hereby given that by an order of

the Probate Court for the County of Washtenaw,made on the tenth day of September, A. D. 1878,six months from that date were allowed for credi-tors to present their claims against the estate otHenry Smith, late of said county, deceased, andthat all creditors of said deceased are requiredto present their claims to said Probate Court, at theProbate Office in the city of Ann Arbor, for exam-ination and allowance, on or before thetenth day of March next, and that such claimswill be heard before said Court, on Tuesday,the tenth day of December, and on Monday, thetenth day of March next, at ten o'clock in theforenoon of each of said days.

Dated, Ann Arbor, September 10, A, D. 1878.WILLIAM D.HAKRIMAN,

170-UV4 Judge of Probate.

Estate of Seymour Lytle.

STATE OF MICHIGAN, County of Washtenaw,ss. At a session of the Probate Court for the

County of Washlenaw, holden at the Probate Of-fice in the City of Ann Arbor, on Friday, thetwentieth day of September in the year one thou-sand eight hundred and seventy-eight.

Present, WilliamD.Harriman, Judgeof Probate.In the matter of the estate of Seymour Lytle,

deceased.On reading and filing the petition, duly verified,

of Phrebe Jane Lytle, praying that Alton Lytleor some other suitable person may be appointedadministrator of the estate of said deceased.

Thereupon it is ordered, t h»t Monday, the t*venty-first day of October next, at ten o'clock in theforenoon, be assigned for the hearing of said p«tition, and that the heirs at law oi said deceased,and all other persona interested in suid estate, arerequired to appear at a session of said court thento be holden at the Probate office in the city of AnnArbor, and show cause, if any there be, why theprayer of the petitioner should not be granted :Ana it is further ordered that said petitioner givenotice to the persons interested in said estate, otthe pendency of said petition and the hearingthereof, by causing A copy of this order to be pub-lished in the Michigan Argus* a newspaper printedand circulated in said county, three successiveweeks previous to said day of hearing.

WILLIAM D. HARR1MAN,(A true copy.) Judge of Probate.

W M . G.DOTY, Probate Register. 1706td

Estate of Charles Minehart.STATE OF MICHIGAN, County of Washtenaw,

ss. At a session of the Probate Court for theCounty of Washtenaw, holden at the Probate Officeiu the city of Ann Arbor, on Wednesday, thetwenty-fifth day of September, in the year onethousand eight hundred and seventy-eight.

Present, William D. Harriman, Judge of Probate.In the matter of the estate of Charles Minehart,

deceased.Freeman P.Galpia, administrator with the will

nexed of said estate, comes into court and repre-sents that he is now prepared to render his finalaccount as such administrator.

Thereupon it is ordered, that Saturday, the nine-teenth day of October next, at ten o'clock in theforenoon, be assigned for examining andallowing such account, and that the devisees,legatees, and heir.s at law of said deceased,and all other persons interested in said estate,are required to appear at a. session of saidcourt, then to be holden at the Probate Office inthe city of Ann Arbor in said county, and showcause if any there be, why the said accountshould not be allowed: And it is further ordered,that said administrator with the will annexedgive notice to the persons interested in saidestate, of the pendency of said account and thehearing thereof, by causing a copy of this order tobe pciblisht'd iu the Michigan Argus, a newspaperprinted and circulating in said county, threesuccessive weeks previous to said duv of hearing.

WILLIAM P. HAR'RIMAN,(A true copy.) Judge of Probate.

WM. <!. DOTY, Probate Register. I706td

Estate of Mary Ann Cropsey.OTATK OF MICHIGAN, County of WashtenawO ss. At a session of the Probate Court for theCounty of Washtenaw, holden at the Probate of-fice in the city of Ann Arbor, on Thursday, thetwtlfth day of September, in the year one thous-and eight hundred and seventy-eight.

Present, WilliamD.Hurriman, Judge of Probate.In the matter of the estate of Mary Ann Crop-

sey, deceased.On reading and filing the petition, duly verified, of

CelinaC. Schuh, praying that administration on theestate of said deceased may be granted to herselfor some other suitable person.

Thereupon it is ordered, that Monday, the four-teenth day of October next, at ten o'clock in theforenoon, be assigned for the hearing ol said petitionand that the heirs at law of said deceased and allother persons interested in said estate, are requiredto appear at a seBaiou of said Court* then to beholden at the Probate Office in the city of AnnArbor, and show cause, if any there be, why theprayer of the petitioner should not be granted: Andit it* turthtr ordered that said petitioner give noticeto the persons interested in said estate, of thependency of said petition and the hearing thereof,by causing a c<>py of this order to be published inthe Michigan Argus, a newspaper primed aud cir-culated in said county, three successive weeksprevious to said day of hearing.

WILLIAM D. HARRIMAN,(A true copy). Judge ot Probate.

W M . ii. DOTY, Probate Register. 17O5td

K JOB*iUS OFFICE.

PRITNING done at the

Estate of Frank D. Whitall, minor.UTATE OF MICHIGAN, County of Washtenaw.^ ss. At a session of the Probate Court for theCounty of Washtenaw, holden at the Probate Of-fice, in (lie city of Aun Arbor, on Wednesday,theeleventh day of September, in the year one thou-sand eight hundred and seventy-eight.

Present, William D. Harrimau, Judge of Probate.In the matter of the estate of Frank D. Whit-

all, minor.On reading and riling the petition duly verified,

of Catharine K. Whitall, praying that she maybe licensed to sell certain real estate belonging toeaid minor for purpose of investment.

Thereupon it is ordered, that Saturday, thetwelfth day of October next., at ten o'clock in theforenoon, be assigned for the hearipg of saidpetition, and that the next of kin of suidminor and all other persons interested iu saidestate, are required to appear at a session of saidcourt, then to be holden at the Probate Office in thecity of Ann Arbor, and show cause, if any then;be, why the prayer of the petitioner should notbe granted : And it is further ordered that saidpetitioner give notice to the persons interestedm said estate, of the pendency of said petition, andthe hearing thereof, by causing a copy of thisorder to bs published in the Michigan Argus, anewspaper printed and circulated in said county,four successive weeks previous to said dav ofhearing. WILLIAM D. HARRIMAN.

(A true copy.) Judge of Probate.WM. G, DOTY, Probate Register. 1704

Estate of Charles Tripp.^ T E OF MICHIGAN, County of Washte-O naw, ss. At a session of the Probate Courtfor the County of Washtenaw, holden at the Pro-bate Office in the city of Ann Arbor, on Thursday,the twelfth day of September, in the year onethousand eight hundred and seventy-eight.

Present,William D. Harriman, Judge ofProba'te.In the matter of the estate of Charles Tripp.

deceased.Margaret Tripp, administratrix of said estate,

comes into court and represents that she La nowprepared to render her final account us eucli admin-istratrix.

Thereupon it is ordered, that Tuesday, theeighth day of October next, at ten o'clock in theforenoon, be assigned for examining and allowingsuch account, und that the heirs at law ofsaid deceased, and all other persons interested insaid estate, are required to appear at a session ofsaid court, then to be holden at the ProbateOffice, in the city of Ann Arbor, iu said county,and show cause, if any there be, why thesaid account should not be allowed . And it isfurther ordered, that Baid administratrix givenotice to the peisons interested in said estate, ofthe pendency of said account, and the hearingthereof, by causing a copy oi this order to be pub-lished in the MICHIGAN ARGUS, a newspaperprinted and circulating in said county, three suc-cebsive weeks previous to SHid day of hearing.

WILLIAM D. HARRIMAN,(A tme copy.) Judge ol Probate.

WM. G. DOTY, Probate Register. 1701

Estate of Daniel Mixson.

S TATE OF MICHIGAN, County of Washte-naw, ss- At a session of the Probate Court for the

the County of Washtenaw, holden at the ProbateOffice, in the City of Ann Arbor, on Saturday,the thirty-first day of August, in the year onethousand eight hundred and seventy-eight.

Present, William D.Harriman, Judgeof Pr« ate.In the matter of the estate of Daniel Hix-

son, deceased.On reading and filing the petition, duly verified,

of Maria H. Hixson, praying that Alonzo Clark,or some other suitable person may be appointedadministrator de bonis non, with the will annexed,of said estate.

Thereupon it is ordered, thatMonday,tht seventhday of October next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon,be assigc ed for the hearing of said petition, and thatthe deviees, legatees and heirs at law ofsaid deceased, aud all othei persons interest-ed in said estate, are required to appearat a session of said court, then to be hol-den at the Probate office in the city ofAnn Arbor, and show cause, if any there be, whythe prayer of the petitioner should not be granted :A,nd it is lurther ordered that said petitionergive notice to the persons interested in said es-tate, of the pendency ot said petition, and thehearing thereof, by causing a copy of this orderto be published in the Michigan Argus, a news-paper priuted and circulated in said county, threesuccessive weeks previous to said day ot hearing.

WILLIAM D. HARRIMAN.(A true copy.) Judge of Probate.

WM. G-. DOTY, Probate Register. 17O4td

Estate of Polly A. Bennett.

STATE OF MICHIGAN, County of Washte-naw ss. At a session of the Probate Court for

the County of Washtenaw, holden at the ProbateOince in the city of Ann Arbor, on Wednesday, thefourth day of September, in the year one thou-sand eight hundred and seventy-eight.

Present, William D. Hftrriman. Judge of Probate.In the matter of the estate ol Polly A. Ben-

nett, deceased.On redding and filing the petition, duly verified,

of William R. Hamilton, praying that a certaininstrument now on tile in this court, purporting:to be the last will and testament of said deceased,may be admitted to probate, and that he may beappointed executor thereof., Thereupon it is ordered, that Monday, the

seventh day of October next, at ten o'clock inthe lorenoon, be assigned lor the hearing ofsaid petition, and that the devisees, legatees,and heirs at law of said deceased, and all otherpersons interested in Baid estate, are requiredto appear at a session of said Court, then to beholden at the Probato office in the city of AnnArbor, and show cause, if any there be, why theprayer of the petitioner should not be granted :And it is further ordered that said petitioner givenotice to the persons interested in said estate ofthe pendency of said petition and the hearingthereof, by causing a copy ol this order to be pub-lished in the Michigan A rgus, a newspaper printedand circulated in said county, three successiveweeks previous to said day of hearing.

WILLIAM D. HAREIirfAN,(A true copy.) Judge of Probate.W M . G.DOTY,Probate Register, 170ltd

Estate of Rogers, minors.

STATE OF MICHIGAN, County of Washtenaw,ss. At a session of the Probate Court for the

County of Waehtenaw, holden at the Probate officein the city of Ann Arbor, on Wednesday, theeleventh day of September, in the year one thou-sand ei<rht hundred and seventy-eight.

Present, William D. Harrimau, Judge of Probate.In the matter of the estate of Augusta Bal-

lard, Esther Ann Van Riper, Eugeuia B. Parades,and Uhrlsae J. Town, formerly Augusta Rogers,Esther Ann Rogers, Eugenia B. RogeVfl and ChrisseRogers, minors,

Lminda Rogers, guardian of said estate, comesinto court and represents that she is now pre-pared to render her final account as such guar-dian.

Thereupon it is ordered, that Saturday, the fifthday of October next, at ten o'clock in the fore-noon, be assigned for examining and allowing suchaccount, all persons interested in said ©state, arerequired to appear at a session of said Court, thento be holden at the Probate Office in the city ofAnn Arbor in said county, and show cause if anythere be, why the said account should not be al-lowed : And it is further ordered that saidguardian give notice to the persons interested insaid estate, of the pendency of said account andthe hearing thereof, by pausing a copy of this orderto be published in the MICHIGAN AKWUS, a news-paper printed and circulatingin said county, threesuccessive weekA previous to Sftld day of hearing.

WILLIAM D. HARRIMAN(A true cony.) Judge of Probate.

WM. G.DOTY, Probato Register. l704td

Real Estate for Sale.o T A T E OF MICHIGAN, County of Washtenaw,O ss. In the matter of the estate of ChristopherHerzer, deceased. Notice is hereby given, that inpursuance of an ordei granted to the undersigned,administrator of the estate of sad deceated, by the[Ion. Judge of Probate for the County ol Wash-tenaw, on the third day of September, A. D.1878, there will be sold at public vendue, to thehighest bidder, at the late residence of said de-ceased, m the township of Sylvan, iu the County oiWashtenaw, m said State, on TUKSDAY. TJIKTWJUTTY-8ECOND HAY OF OCTOBBU, A. D. 1878, atten o'clock in the forenoon, ot' thai day (subject toall encumbrances by mortgage or otherwise exist-ing at the time of the death of aaid deceased) thefollowing described real estate, to wit: Sixty acresof land Off the south end of the west half of thesouthwest quarter of section eight, in town two {'Z)south, range three ili) east, in Washtenaw county,In Michigan, (Sylvan); Also the northeast quarterof the northeast quarter of section seven, town two(2) south, range three (8j east, m Wash ten awcounty, in Michigan, (Hvlvan).

CHRISTOPHER KATSKR,1703 Administrator of said testate.

Dated, September::, JJ7S.

WEEKLY NEWS REVIEW,THE BAST.

J A M E S A. HAMILTON, son of Alexan-der Hamilton, haa just died in New York city,Bgod 91 years.

T H E steamer Adelphi, running be-tween Now York and Norwich, Ct, explode*!one of her boilers, a tow days ago, just afterleaving the latter port Thoro wen' M) peopleOD board, 10 of wuorn were Killed, and '.11 moreor lows seriously wounded Tlie boiler, al-though it had recently received a steamboatinspector's approval, was found, upon examinatinn, to be a ro t t en i t !Tai r . . . .Wlti le a f u n e r a lcortege was crossing the track of the Xx>ngIsland railroad, in Brooklyn N. Y., the otherday, a carriage in the procession was Mniek bya locomotive and iiiinnlel<ly delnulisheii.Two women and three eliildreu were in thocarriage. One of iln- former, one of the latter, Iand tlw driver of tin1 vehicle were killed, andthe other OCQUpants were dal'.:;' n.usly injured.

Tho officers of the train have Been arrested.TIIK WEST.

GEN. SHEMDAN had sent word to Col.Wiles tliat Sitting Ball and Ihc other Sioux In-dians in the British possessions will be permitted to return to the American side upon thegame terms extended to all other Fugitive redskins, via: unconditional surrender, This wasin reply to n telegram from Miles conveying (heinformation that Indian emissaries had arrivedat Fort Keogh who represented thai the North-ern reds were sioux in '̂ for peace and easy oa-pitulation.

T H K regular weekly robbery of tho"coach from Deadwood'1 occurred, the otherday, at (-anon Springs, forty five miles south ofthe Black Hills metropolis, Two messengers,( 'apt . S m i t h a n d d a l e Hill, were. SBriously wounded, ami one passenger,JI. 0. Campbell, a telegraph operator, killed.The treasure taken amounted to between$25,000 and $:«>,000 Chicago has raised between 190,000 and fciw.txx) for the benefit ofthe plague stricken communities of tho South.

THE troops recently sent in pursuit ofthe Cheyenne Indiana who escaped from the.Fort Reno reservation, in the Indian Territory,have hud an engagement with them, and, al-though they whipped the savages and routedthem, lost a brave and gallant officer, Lieut.Col William II. l,ewis, of tho Nineteenth In-fantry. The scone of the engagement was neartho Kansas Pacific railroad, on the. Southernborder of Kansas.

THK SOUTH.DR. RlBBE, who went from Now York

o New Orleans with fever cots for the cold-water treatment of yellow fever, was attackedwith the dread disease last week. He appliedhis own remedy to hiniHclf, but he died shortlyafter the application.

THE present business outlook in theSouth and Southwest is anything but encourag-ing. What with the yellow-fever epidemic, theutter stagnation of trade, and the gloomy pros-pects of the growing cotton, it is said the peoplem that section are sorely depressed, and lookforward to a winter of unusually hard times.

THE deaths from yellow fever inMemphis, Sept 25, numbered 4.">; in New Or-leans 36, and in Vicksburg 9. The HowardAssociations of New Orleans and Memphis havenotilied the country at large that they are inpossession of funds believed to be sufficientfor all demands upon their resources, presentand prospective. Holly Springs reports thesituation there as "fearful; fully 600 downwith the fever." At Mississippi City thirteencases of fever had broken out at one hotel.Canton, Miss., reports (Sept. Uti) no abatementof tho fever. At Baton lionge and other in-terior towns of Louisiana the epidemic was asvirulent as ever.

VICKSBURG announces the death ofWilliam liockwood, President of the HowardAssociation. Ho was a leading citizen, Presi-dent of the. Young Men's Christian Association,an untiring worker, and beloved by the entirecommunity. The whole city turned out at hisfuneral.

DEATHS from yellow fever in NewOrleans on Sept 27,51; at Memphis, 28; atYicksburg, 13; at Holly Springs, 11. The gen-eral tenor of the reports from all these pointswas that the worst had been reached, and thatthere would henceforth be a decline of theepidemic. In most of the interior towns thenwas a decline in the mortality, aswell as in the number of new eases.The steamer Kate Dickson, which wassent with provisions', doctors and nurses to theisolated town of Greenville, on the Mississippiriver, returned to Vicksburg, a few days ago,witli a horrible story of suffering and destitu-tion. Out of a population of 400 people319have died, leaving only fifteen persons in theplace who have escaped the fever. Onefamily, of eleven persons and three nurseswho were in attendance upon them, all diedwithin a few days of each other. The deathsOccurred so rapidly that it was impossible tobury the bodies properly, and they had to bocovered with eartli in shallow holes. To pre-vent the citizens of the town from seeking safetyin flight, tho people in the country blockadedthe roads and destroyed the bridges over thestreams.

THEKE were 28 deaths from yellowfever at Memphis on the 80th alt ; at New Or-leans the deaths numbered :».r>: a! Vioksburg, V.The Howard steamer Kato Dickson, sent outfrom Vicksburg to relieve the sufferers alongthe river, reports a great deal of aiokjoess allthe way from Vicksburg to Greenville, at whichplace there were but about one dozen well poo-ple to be found. A Baton Hong" (La.) dispatchof the 80th ult. reports the fever 8i tremely vir-ulent then': 185 new cases and 6 deaths occurred the previous twenty four hours. Therewas some abatement of the postilcnoe at nearlyall the towns in the interior of tho fever-infected region.

CKNKK.1L.

ADVICES received in Washington fromMexico indicate that the situation in that happycountry is growing precarious for tin; Govern-ment of Gen. Diaz. Revolutionary movementsaro occurring with increasing frequency, andare extending over the entire country. The reports received an- such as to indicate that theGovernment which was born of revolution mayitself be compelled to surrender to revolution.

A N examination of witnesses haSlately l>een going on at Marquettc, Mich., to se-cure testimony to be used in the ease of theUnited States vs. Samuel .1. Tilden, to o lovera deficiency in his IMNCS. ]n the course of theexamination certain Ivioks containing tho ac-counts of the New York iron mine were beingUsed. Due r veiling last week, as theCommissioner was quietly proceeding with thedepositions, two men suddenly rushed into theroom, seized the books, rushed Cor a carriagethat was standing conveniei 1 tiv by and made awaywith them. Mounted oflieersstarted in pursuit,but succeeded only in overtaking the emptycarriage, about two hours after thcTobbbiy.

THE annual meeting of the North Ta-cilic Railroad Company stockholders has justboon held in New York. The gross earningsor tho year were $1,193,381; expenses, $691,-

302; leaving a net balance of $562,079,01 netincrease of 1160,881 over last year. The opera-tions of the land department have been active,nearly three-quarters of a million of acres be-ing disposed of.

THOMAS HAELAJ;D, of New York, theattorney for Samuel J. Tilden at the time thebooks of tho New York Iron Mine Companywere seized and carried off, at Marquetto,Mich., was arrested at Detroit the other day,upon a warrant issued upon the affidavit of tileLnited States District Attorney. Harland de-nies all knowledge of the alleged robbery, liappears that the parties who seized ami spiritedaway the books had a writ of replevin, butdidn't take time to read, or even exhibit, thepaper. The District Attorney affirms that thetx>oks showed that Mr. Tilden's net profitsfrom the mine amounted, from 18(!4 to 1871, toover $1,000,000.

THE United States steamer Enter-prise, commanded by ('apt. Selfridge, has ar-rived at New York after an absence of fivemonths, that time having been devoted to theexploration of the river Amazon and its prin-cipal tributaries. The exploration-is reportedto have been completely successful, and willdoubtless give to the commercial world a vastamount of valuable information concerningthe resource's and wants of the valley of thatgreatest of rivers, ('apt. Selfridge says thevolume of the Amazon's discharge is 7,000,0(10cubic feet a second, and that if the Hood of ourgnat Mississippi wire added to its volume thesurface of that majestic stream would not beperceptibly raised There was a heavy snow-

in at Ottawa, Canada, on the 27th of Sep-tember.

GoNDON and Melody, the Fenians re-leased from prison in England on the conditionthat they should leave that country, have ar-rived i?i New York, where they were cordiallyreceived by tho members of the Fenian Brother-hood.

A LIBERAL gift from a wealthy lady inNew York has enabled the Secretary of theTreasury to constitute a commission of eminentmedical men, who will proceed to the yellowever region of the South and investigate theauses and progress of the prevailing epidemic,

THE eontest between the six clubsomposing the "League" for the base-ball chain

pionship of the United States has ended in thesuccess of tho Boston Club, wliirli, with the ex-ception of one year, lias held the championshipuninterruptedly since 1871. The following table

allows tlin result or the season's play betweenthe respective chibu:.

Clubs. (litmts Won. Games LostBoston il i tCincinnati :!7 !BProvidence 88 87Chicago 80 80ln . l i ; i l i : i lH»l is 24 W>Milwaukee 15 15

Totals 160 IN)WASHINGTON.

IT is announced from Washington thattho Mexican Government lias made a domaud upon the Untied States fm*the wiMiilrawnlof the order Riven to Gen. Orel authorizing himto cross the border and inflict punishment apodraiders on Mexican soil; and chat our Govern-ment lias replied that tho United States hastrusted Mexico many timoB when thai Governmont was able to maintain peace upon the border;that peace was not established, and thai DOeffort was madn to establish it; and, finally,tliat tln\ United States is weary of tliis hitsinoss,and win not recall tlio order to Gen. O r d . . . .Spear, Commissioner of Patents, has tenderedlus resignation, to take nffort Nov. I. Me willI T suoa '•• Uil by Ilajbert E. Paine, of Wiscon-sin, former Congressman.

A CDBioTja otter luis been made byGov. Hampton, of South Carolina, to the Revemu' Bureau in Washington. It was that thestate authorities would undertake the ooUeoSonof the. Interns) revumre b tliat state, in order toavoid tin1 great difficulties experienced bjtho Federal officers in the performaneo of that duty. Commissioner Baum de4

dines the proposition Efenor Zamacona,tin- tfexioan Minister, says the purpose of theMerican Govormuenl in Bending ;>,(*»> troops tothe frontier was to suppress raiding, add'aidthe I'nitod Btatea troops in putting down lawlosansfts.

THK Chinese Minister was formallyreceived by the President the other day. Theoeremony was private, there being no deviationfrom the usages as to other foreign representa-tives.

TIIK Attorney General of the UnitedStates has decided that the subsidiary coins arenot legal tender as payment of any part of anyiltlii exceeding in amount $5, cither as betweenindividuals or in the payment of duties on im-ports Following is a statement of the UnitedStates currency outstanding on the 1st inat.:Ot demand notes $ B2.O80Legal tender notee <>i nil hmiM :>lti.iisi.iiiiiOne year notes of 1868 51,188Two yui ir notjs i.f [8U9 U.TBOTwO-yOftT nnilMtn nO168 Ol ffiflS 'iiXHlOomponnd i n i e n e t notes 272,1110Fractional eurreuey ol nil issued IC^.I?.!-.".!

AFGHANISTAN.

1'robnbllity of War Between KnglniMl andRussia*

[From the Ohlraflo Times.]The telegraph news from London rel-

ative to the English mission to Afghan-istan is to the elleel (hat it has been acomploto failure. According to theseaccounts, tho liriti.sh mission, uponreaching Khybcr pass, was confrontedby an Afghan officer who refused to lettho company pass through the mount-ains. Entreaties were of no avail. Theollicev manned the pass with his forces,and prave evidence tliat, if necessary, howould resist, by force the passage of theEnglish. lie was notified that theAmeer would lie.held responsible; buttlie notification made no difference. Hestill refused the, desired permission, andtlie English mission was compelled toretrace its steps to Calcutta. The Kn-lil telegrams add I lint the matter will

henceforth be regarded as somethingiireotly concerning English polities, andthat it will be trented from this, insteadof an Indian standpoint.

These facts renohilig the Americanpnlilic. will hot be npt. to excite any es-pecial interest except among those fewwho may li;i\r given some attention toaffairs in thai pare of the world wherethis event has just occurred. In reality,the occurrence is one of great signifi-cance, because il has a most importantbearing on the future relations of En-gland and Kussia. From this refusal ofthe representative of the Afghan Ameerto allow the English embassy to enterthe country there may come events ofworld-wide importance.

Afghanistan is a country containingsome 200,000 square miles and a popu-lation of nearly 10,000,000. It lies to

Total $3tW,4(«.*iO

TOMTICAL.

Tin: Republicanslof Connecticut heldtheir State Convention at Hartford, Sent. 24.Charles H. Andrews, of Litehfield, was nomin-ated for Governor, David Gallot for lieutenantGovernor, David Torronce for Secretary ofState, Tallman Kaker for Treasurer, and Chaun-eey Howard for Comptroller Tho NevadaDemocrats have nominated L. R. Bradley,

Sresent incumbent, for Governor, and W. E. F.eal for Congress.THK Democratic State Convention of

Massachusetts—or at least that portion whichseceded from the Worcester assembly that nom-inated Gen. Butler—reassembled in FaneuilHall, Boston, last week, and nominated the fol-lowing ticket: Governor, J. G. Abbott; Lieu-tenant Governor, William It. Plunkett; Secre-tary of State, Henry ('. Dewing; Treasurer andReceiver, (Jon. David N. Skilling; Auditor,John E. Fitzgerald; Attorney General, RichardOlney.

CAKTER H. HARRISON lias been de-feated for a renomination in Chicago, MilosKehoe, a local politician and a leader of theIrish, having l)een selectod by' tho Democraticconvention as his successor.

THE Democrats of New York heldtheir State Convention at Syracuse Sept. !S and2(5. Erastus Brooks, of New York city, pre-sided. G. 13. Bradley was nominated for Judgeof the Court of Appeals. The platform de-ch'.rcs that "gold and silver coin and a paperconvertible into coin at tho will of the holdershould be tho only currency of the country, andsteady sterjH bo taken toward specie pay'mcntKand tlie honest payment of the public debt,"denounces tlie seating of Hayes as an "infa-mous fraud," and declares that "it is the sternresolve of the American people that such afraud has been perpetrated for (lie last time."

T H E New York Republican State Con-vention was held at Saratoga last week. RoscoeColliding was chosen to preside. George Will-iam Curtis sat on the platform and heartily ap-plauded his utterances in the contention. Hon.Bootee F. Danrbrth, of Rochester, was nomi-nated for Judge of the Court of Appeals, andA. B. Cornell was rcappointed Chairman of theState Committee. The platform declares in fa-vor of hard money and tho early resumption ofspecie payments, demands " free and nniiitirni-datcd elections in tho South as in the North,"and declares that tho u Electoral Commissionwas a wise and honorable mode of settling adangerous dispute."

THE Democrats of Nebraska met inState Convention at Omaha, last week, andnominated tho following ticket: For SupremeJudge, John D. Howe; for Congress, shortterm, Ale\. C. Bear; for Congress, long term,J. W. Davis; for Governor, J. K. Webster; forlieutenant Governor, F. J. Mead;for Secretaryof State, Benjamin I'armertou; for Auditor, E.H. Benton; for Treasurer, 1'. H. Cunnuings;for Superintendent of Public Instruction, S. L.Barrett; for Attorney General, S. II. Calhoun;for Superintendent of Lands and Buildings,Junes McCready. Howo, Davis and Calhounhad been previously nominated by the Groeu-backers.

THK Democrats and Greenbackers olIowa have joined hands, and agreed upon thefollowing fusion ticket: Secretary of State,E. M. Farnsworth, Greenback'1!-; Auditor, Jo*se]ib Kibo'ck, Democrat; Treasurer, M. L.Devin, Greenbaciccr; Register or Land Office,Mr. Karington, (ireeiibacker; Supreme Judge,J. C. Krtapp,Democrat; Attorney General, JohnGiW OIH, Democrat; Supremo Clerk, Ale*. KanJyon, (ireenhacker; Supreme Court Reporter,John B. Elliott, Democrat

TOKKIGN.

T H K Servian Government, at the re-quest of the Mohammedan chiefs, has consent-ed to receive women and children fleeing fromNorthern Ho-iiia \ .strong force of Britishtroops in being concentrated on tho bor-ders of Afgliii Mishiti... .The Albanians arcmanifesting flaoir sympathy for the Bosnia in-surgents by marching, in large numbers, totheir assistance... ,Advie«s from Santo Do-mingo announce the success of the revolution-ists tlie capitulation of President Gonzales,and bis departure from the country Cabledispatches report, that the great volcanoes ofEurope and South America, Vesuvius andCotapasi, are simultaneously in full eruption.

THBEE cases of blasting powder re-cently exploded in the 9k. Gothard tunnel, kill-ing t<'ti workmen, ;md mutilating many more.

It is reported that ltKI,(HX) Armenians haverisen in arms, and are ready to tight forautonomy.

IT looks as if war between Englandand Afghanistan was among tho probabilities,if not an actual certainty. The cause of thetrouble seems to l>o alxnit this : The Ameer ofCabul, the capital city of Afghanistan, refusedpermission to a British commission to enter Af-ghanistan from India, for purposes of observa-tion and'treaty. England and Russia are rivalsfor the future possession of that importantportion of Asiatic India, and tho Amocr ap-

1>ears to be favorable to Russia. England is 111ligh dudgoon at tho snubbing of the mighty

Ameer, and haw about resolved upon sending aforce of rod-coats for the invasion of Afghan-istan.

THE Golox, of St. Petersburg, re-ports that Lord Salisbury has asked what is theobject of the Russian mission to the Ameer ofCabul, and what position Russia intends to as-sume regarding Afghanistan. It thinks Russiawill reply that she does not feel bound fat explainthe object of the mission, and that in the eventof a war between England and Afghanistanshe will observe the same degree of neu-trality that was observed by England duringthe late war l>etween Russia and TurkeyDr. Petennann, the well-known (ierman geographer, died in London lastweek, from a stroko of apoplexy.

The Bosnian insurrection is scotched, nbtkilled, Vienna dispatches admit that organizedlmdies of insurgentw are retiring toward Novi-Bazar,in the southern part of the province, fromwhich they may undertake a winter campaign.They are well supplied with artillery.

A TERRIBLE famine prevails in Moroc-co, and thousands of people are dying of starvation The Russians are making a generalnorthward movement from the neighborhood ofConstantinople. As fast as the Russian troopsretire the Turks advance, the lines being keptfifteen miles apart, and the intervening spaceis patrolled by cavalry for the pur-pose of repressing disorders There was aserious disturbance lately among the JapaneseImperial Guard at Tokio, Japan; Tlie officersof the artillery revolted, killed the oflieers ofthe guard, and marched toward the imperialpalace, but wire met by the infantry and police,and either killed or captured. The emeute re-sulted in tin- loss of about fifty lives.

CALCUTTA, dispatches say that unlessMien- AH gives prompt satisfaction for his in-sulting refusal to receive the English embassy,the lndiau Government will take the opportu-nity to seize all the passes piercing the moun-tain ranges that form the frontier of Hindoosla).. . . .A Constautiuoplo dispatch says the. alarm-ingly rapid depreciation of paper money eon-

j tinues in Turkey, and. cause? tlio most serious1 apprehension.

some respite, when tho body claims itsdue; aniuidying grief does not preventsome faint gleams of pleasure whensleep conies on after fatigue or hungerand thirst are relieved. But there is noconverse to tho picture. An uninter-mittent pain of body, when very severe,leaves room for nothing^.bnt itself.—

Ward as a Practical Joker.Krowut', and Griswold, tho "Fat Con-

tributor," were on newspaper work atthe same time in Cleveland, and werevery intimate friends. Ono day therecame to the city a dramatic reader, aman of some note, but of a very timiddisposition. These two worthies insome manner discovered that he was aperson easily to bo imposed upon,and shortly after his arrival they paidhim a visit. It was an early hour in themorning—long after the man had re-tired—and they found it difficult toarouse him. They told him they wereeditors, and wanted to hear him read be-fore writing him up. They invited himlo step into the hall adjoining the hoteland give them a specimen of his powers.At first the man refused to go withthem, but when they told him sternlythat they were editors, and would crushhim if ho did not comply, he felt com-pelled to go. Nor would they allow himto put on his clothes, but forced him togo in night-dress to a cold and dreary

! hall, where they complacently smokedtheir cigars while they listened to himdeclaim, with chattering teeth andtrembling voice, for several hours.When they finally permitted him to go,they told him, by way of consolation,that they had always thirsted to hear adramatic reader in night-dress, and they

. were very much gratified with his per-the northwest of India, being adjacent - fOrmanceto Scinde and the Punjaub. Browne was a great lover of a practi-north of it lies Bokhara, in Turkistan, acountry wholly under Russian influence.The great bugbear of England is anoverland invasion of her rich Indianpossessions by Kussia, and the only'feasible route for such an invasion is byway of Bokhara through Afghanistan.A Russian army gathered in Bokhara !could cross the Hindoo Koosh mount- iains which separate Turkistan from Af- |ghanistan, and then, moving east, couldcross the Solyman mountains, thioughthe famous Khyber pass, and find them-

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, } , iJWa'° Of t h 0 i whenever they found a man alone amof Afghanistan as a j u n a r m e d they would make him gel

iglaiid, I down on his knees and pray for mercyThen, after having frightened him almost out of his senses, they would permit him to go on his way. The funhowever, after a while was brought toan abrupt termination by the policewho marched them off to the TombsThey entered fictitious names; but thJudge next morning recognized thculprits, and discharged them with anadmonition. On the same night the,visited the house of Tom Jackson, whohad just brought to this country thefamous Swiss bell-ringers. In responsoto their violent ringing of the bell, Jack-son came to an upper window, and, notknowing who his visitors were, askedthem in tones of thunder what theywanted.

" "We want an engagement," saidBrowne. "We are the original bell-ringers."

Jackson then recognized them, and,appreciating the joke, invited them in.—C. V. Buthrauff, in October Scrib-ner.

selves in India.strategical valuebarrier to a Russian advance,since 1838, has labored assiduously tosecure a standing in that country, eitheras a conqueror, a protector or an ally.

Thus far these efforts have been, inthe main, a most costly and bloody fail-ure. There are many living who willnot have forgotten the long and uselesswar which raged between the Englishand Afghans. In 1839 the Englisharmy entered the country through thellolan paKs^whieh lies south of theKhyber pass—with a heavy force which,at first, gained some temporary advan-tages. The principal cities were capt-ured, the greater part of thecountry was overrun, and a rulerfriendly to tlie British in-terests was installed. This wasin 1840; but during that year and thefollowing one insurrections broke out inevery direction, which were onlyheld in check by an exjienditure of nearly '$10,000,000 per annum. In the earlypart of 1842 the British garrisons wereattacked by the insurrectionists, and inevery instance they were either captured ̂by storm or forced to capitulate. Thou- i.sands of the Indian and English troopswere massacred as they were marching 'out of the country. In one case anarmy of some 5,00(1 nun and some 10,000camp followers, who had capitulated and 'were marching out of the country undera safe-conduct, were waylaid in the de-files of the Solyman mountains and mas-sacred, with the exception of a singleman. Another army some months aftersucceeded in entering the country andgaining a few small successes, but theforces soon after recrossed into India.Thus ended the attempt of England,whose failure, in its disgrace, has no par-allel in modern English history.

Since that time the English havenever invaded Afghanistan, althoughupon one or two occasions the Afghanshave carried the war into Africa bycrossing the mountains and making adescent upon India. Latterly the En-glish have confined themselves to in-trigues whose purpose lias been the se-curing of a friendly ruler u)H>it theAfghan throne. Up to tho last yearthe British have had much to do, in amoral way, with a war which raged be-tween Yacub Bog and his father; andthey have al.su labored to secure such aseparation between Afghanistan andBokhara as would have the effect to im-pede the advance of Russia. For thelast eight years the relations of England:iinl Afghanistan have been of a quietand rather friendly nature.

The telegrams now coining from Lon-don relative to the fate of the missionwhich started for Afghanistan, and thefurther fact that the affair is 110 longer amatter to be handled from India, butfrom (ircat Britain, shows two things.One is that Afghanistan, and by conse-quence the Russian road to the Indies.has fallen into the hands of Russia.The second is tliat the English people,by installing tho Afghan question in En,glish politics, show that they regard tlieevent as one of the greatest importance.It wotdd be a little strange if, at thisvery moment, when the salvos of theguns which announced BeaconsflfeJd'sdiplomatic " victory " over Russia havehardly died away, the "check" whichEngland gave Russia at Berlin shouldnow. so soon, be returned by a "check-mate " on that distant portion of thepolitical chess-board at Cabul. It is afact that, while tin; English mission wasvainly knocking at Khyber pass for ad-mission to Afghanistan, a Russian mis-sion was already installed at Cabul. Al-ready is Berlin avenged. Russia haspossession of the only available route toIndia, and has friendly nations guard-ing every inch of its extent from Bok-hara to the Indies.

cal joke. One of his maddest prankswas in New York city, in 1863. He hadbeen at some benefit performance withDan Bryant and Noise Seymour, andat its conclusion he induced these twoto join him on a lark. Accordinglythey went to Bryant's property-roomand each donned a complete suit o:armor. Then they armed themselveswith broadswords, and, in the still hoursof the night, went forth in search of defenseless citizens. Up and down thestreet in grim array they marched, am"

Sad Scene at a Memphis Cemetery.The sorrows of the epidemic were

never pictured in more distressingscenes than were witnessed at ElmwoodCemetery. Six friends of the late EdWorsham had followed his remains to the." city of tho dead," for the purpose ofpaying the last sad tribute to theirdearly-beloved companion. On arrivingat the cemetery they found the Rev. Dr.Wliite, of Calvary Church, who, withhis aged wife and faithful colored serv-ant," were tho only mourners at thefuneral of the minister's son, EugeneD. White, who had died the day previ-ous. On learning that the remains of" poor Ned" were about to lie consignedto the grave, Dr. White, who is also aMason, asked the privilege of readinghis burin] service. The request wasreadily granted, and the reverend min-ister, in words most feelingly rendered,amid tears nud sobs that almost chokedtheir utterance, eulogized the characterof the deceased. As the sod was fallingupon the coffin of the deceased, Dr.White was approached by a gentlemanwell known in this community, whoasked him to read the service over hisdead wife. He was the only mourner,and Wiis heart-broken over his loss. Thekind old man willingly consented, butfirst asked that, he might consign to the.grave his son. The mourners of EdWorsham acted as pall-bearers toEugene D. White, and, with uncoveredheiids, listened with aching hearts to thefather as ho read the service over hisdead son. This painful scene had hardlyended, when Mr. Ed Beasley approachedand said he would take it as an especialfavor if Dr. White would read thefuneral service over the late WilliamWillis, whom a few friends had justlmmght to consign to their last resting-place. Thus it was that the good oldman, whose venerablo appearance is inkeeping with his age, performed tlie ilnties of his calling, within the shortperiod of half an hour, to four departed.souls that are now at rest.—MphiAvalanche.

The Forsrelfnlncss of Pain.It is wonderfully easy to forget pain.

We often thought there was a sort ofwitness to immortality in the strangefact that while emotion remembered is,to sonic extent, emotion experienced,sensation is never really remembered atall. Whatever belongs to the bodyseems to bear the stamp of mortality—it passes at once into the region of ob-livion when we are delivered from itspressure. How different is tho relationof memory to the maladies of the soul!Place the unkindness of long years agoside by side in your recollection of thetoothache of last week, and you feel alin you are comparing a living thingand a dead thing. Tlie unkindnoss,whether remembered by him who feltor inflicted it, is a living reality, potentto reopen and envenom the wound ithad made. The toothache is gone, as ifit had never been. To this fact, we areconvinced, must be traced the commonassumption that any degree of bodilysuffering would lie chosen rather thansevere pain of mind. What peoplemean in saying this is, no doubt, thatthey would rather remember physicalthan mental pain, and, of course, a shortexperience of the pain which leaves notrace is to be preferred to an equallyshort experience of the pain whichleaves a profound trace. But we areconsidering the case of one who knowsthat this fierce companion will not quithis side till the clay whicji gives it itspower is laid in the grave, and no suf-ferer, we think, is to be set by his side.The deadliest mental anguish allows

How to (.el Rid or Ante.During a recent visit to Mr. Humann,

in Ostheim, I had an opportunity of be-coming acquainted with a very success-ful method of speedily getting rid ofants which are so troublesome in theapiary.

One takes sundl bottles, fills them halffull of sirup or sweetened water, andputs them in the phices where the antshave their passage-ways, in such amanner as the necks of the bottles leanagainst a wall or board, in order thatthe ants may easily fall into the trap anddrown.

By means of camphor, ants can bedriven from rooms where honey isstored.

In gardens, lime-dust operates verydestructively upon them. Their hills,after being scatched open, are sprinkledwith lime dust, and then hot water ispoured on them.

To render jars of honey or preservedfruit inaccessible to these insects, placethe jars in chests whose bottoms haveBeen pieviously covered with ashes orpulverized chalk. — ElsOBSSiVCke Jii-eiienzeuchter.

A New Horseshoe.In England they are adopting a

horseshoe made of cowhide, and knownas the Yates shoe. It is composed ofthree thicknesses of cowhide com-pressed into a steel mold, and thensubjected to a chemical preparation. Itis claimed for it that it lasts longer andweighs only one-fourth as much as thecommon iron shoe; that it will nevercause the hoof to split, nor have theleast injurious influence on the foot. Itrequires no calks; even on asphalt thehorse never slips. The shoe is so elasticthat the horse's step is lighter andsurer. It adheres so closely to the footthat neither dust nor water can pene-trate between the shoe and hoof.

MR. W. F. PARKER, of Nashua, N. H.puzzles the doctors with an annual atstack of the measles. For twenty yearthey have broken out upon him, on thesame day of the year and at preciselythe same hour.

HAYFS' irxi sivi: FIGURES.

Squarn Kcf'utliiionsolHis Assertions in Min-nesota— Kconomy Knfoiwd by the ICvsolllteAction ol 11 I tcinoii at It I Ion-.e.

[Washington Cor. Kow York Kun.l

The figures which Ha3'cs paraded be-'oro the fanners of Minnesota have al-eady been roughly handled. Tlie rc-urns, contemporary and recently pub-ished by the Treasury Department,

show that his statement of the currencyin circulation in 1800 was over $200,-000,000 out of tho way. A small blun-der, but of different sort, appears whenlie puts forward the sums raised by cus-toms and internal revenue as the meas-ure of Federal taxation, when Federaltaxation really includes additional luxesto the amount of from #lll,OIIO,l)(in I..$12,000,000. Aside from positive mis-statements, Hayes' ;-i eh put forwardthe taxation in 1873, the year of tliepanic, and the expenses then, and, com-paring them with the taxation and ex-penses now, reduced ill the first case by$U,000.000, and in flu; other by$58^000,000, the tacit conclusion isdnuvn that the party in whosi- liandsflicadministration of the (iovernnienl stillrests, in spile of its failure to elect itecandidate at the last Presidential elec-tion, has been for the years reducingthe expenditures as the receipts fromtaxation shrank. This is not line. TheRepublican party ha.s not done this.Had the policy of the Republican partycontinued without a break, the FederalGovernment would to-day be bankrupt,no surplus would exist to meet its de-mand notes when due next January, andpayments upon the sinking fund woiddhaw long since been susj>endcd.

The country had just come to theedge of a great commercial panic in1873, when the Republican party cut oilsome $29,000,000 of revenue by placingtea and coffee on the free list withoutthe slightest possible benefit to a singleconsumer. That and other reductions,and the panic together, swept off $44,-000,000 of revenue. In two years, from1872 to 1874, the revenue fell off $85,-000,000. It might have been expectedthat the party in power would have re-duced expenditures. It did not. In-stead, the expenditures w-ere increasedduring the first year of this sudden lossin revenue, and only reduced tho nextyear, 1874, as compared with 1872,about $10,000,000.

This Congress did, both branches Re-publican. The departments did no bet-ter. Forecasting expenditures in theautumn of 1873, with a reduction inrevenue of $40,000,000 in the fiscal yearjust past, and so rapid a reduction inthe current fiscal year that a deficiencyof $13,000,000 was predicted, the de-partments added to past estimates inyears of plenty $34,000,000 in their de-mands for the fiscal year 1875, or $14,-000;000 more than the estimated reve-nue of that fiscal year, and $21,000,000more than was finally collected. Andyet for three years past, while the Househas attempted to make reductions, Re-publican papers have rung with thedeclaration that the departments mustof necessity know what money is neededfor the public service. This went on.The revenue from "taxation," as Mr.Hayes terms the customs and internal-revenue receipts, fell, year by year,forty-one, thirty-six, twenty-one, anilthirteen millions below the estimates ofa Republican Treasury Department!. Itsguesses proved worse than useless.Nothing but the broad, liberal marginsqueezed out of the people over andabove the usual lavish expendituresprevented bankruptcy. To its bondeddebt and current expenses the Govern-ment, two years after the panic, addedthe obligation contained in its promiseto redeem its demand notes Jan.1, 1879. Till the election ofa Democratic House Congress didnothing. From the time when aRepublican Congress made up the ap-propriation, for the year 1874 to the yearwhen a Republican Congress made upthe appropriations for 1876 the revenuefell off $55,000,000, but the appropria-tions were reduced less than $9,00(1.01 Ml.Neither to Congress nor to tlie depart-ments did steadily diminishing taxesbring the consciousness that expendi-tures should also diminish. That pleas-ing correspondence between reductionin "the burden of taxation" and expen-diture since the panic, which Mr. Hayesdisplays, is not due to the party whichtried to elect him. A DemocraticHouse came in. A Republican Secre-tary of the Treasury and Republicandepartments presented estimated for1877, $10,000,000 larger than the eslimatiil receipts for 1877, and $15,000.(100larger than those receipts proved to bewhen that fiscal year was over. Reduc-tion was begun. Tho House cut off$28,000,000 from the expenses of theGovernment. It refused to accede todemands for extraordinary expenses. Adeficit was avoided. The accumulationof coin became possible. Through bothsessions tlie Forty-fourth Congress per-sisted in this policy. When tlie Forty-fifth Congress met it was to IK; told bya Republican Secretary of the Treasurythat a reduction of $5,000,000 below thepoint fixed by the Forty-fourth, at itsfirst, session, could be. made " withoutcripjvling any branch of the public ser-vice." The economy of a DemocraticHouse, continued through two years,lias kept the expenditures of the Gov-ernment within its lessened and lessen-ing income. A Republican ex-candi-date for the Presidency parades the factto-day.

General Elections.Having been asked, s-ays an exchange.

a number of times as to tho time, ofholding their general elections in theseveral States, we give below the dateof each, as taken from the " Centuryof Independence." (Jut it out and pasteit in your scrap-book for reference.

Alabama—Tuesday after first Monday in No-vember.

ArkaiiHOH—First Monday in November.California—Firat Wednesday in September.Connecticut—First Monday in AprilColorado—Second Tuesday in September.Delaware—First Monday m November.Florida—Tuesday after tirHt Monday in No-

vember.Qeorgia—Second Wednesday in October.Illinois—Tuesday alter first Monday in No-

vember.Indiana—Second Tueaday in October.Iowa—Second Tuesday in October.KanH&H—Tuesday after first Monday in No-

vember.Kentucky—First Monday in AugustLouisiana—First Monday in November.Maine—Second Monday in September.Maryland—Tuesday after first Monday in No-

vember.Massachusetts—Tuesday after first Monday in

Novemlier.Michigan—First Monday in April..Minnesota—Tuesday after first Monday in

November.Mississippi—Tuesday after tirst Monday in

November.1 Missouri—Tuesday after first Monday in No-vember.

New Hampshire—Second Tuesday in March]New Jersey—Tuesday after first Monday in

November.New York—Tuesday after first Monday in

November.North Carolina—First Monday in November.Nevada—Tuesday after first Monday in No-

vemlnT.Nebraska—Second Tuesday in October.Ohio—Second Tuesday in October.Oregon—First Monday in June.Pemiylvauia—Tuesday after first Jloiuky in

November.Khode Island—First Wednesday in April.South Carolina—Tuesday after first Monday

in November.Tennessee—Tuesday after first Monday in

November.Texas—First Tuesday in December.Vermont—First Tuesday in September.Virginia—First Tuesday in Noveniber.West Virginia—Second Tuesday in October.Wisconsin—Tuesday after first Monday in

November.Arizona Territory—Tuesday after first Mon-

dav in November.Dakota Territory—Tuesday after first Mon-

day iu November.

Idaho Territory—Tuesday after first Mondayin November.

Montana Territory—First Monday in August.New Mexico Territory—First Monday in Sep-

tember.Utah Territory—First Monday in Beptembsr.Washington Territory—Tuesday after first

Monday in November.Wyoming Territory—First Wednesday in Sep-

tember.

THE SPECIAL CASES.

Nearly iSiiCNMMM) n Vein' to llm l'«x>l>lu W h oAssisted Hii.vcs to llkv l'n-siil»'ii«\y.

{From UM HaltiiniHc (i;izctto.]

The following full list of the patron-age given to those who helped to manip-ulate the theft of Louisiana and Floridahas been prepared with great care. Itincludes not only the visiting statesmenand the attorneys before tho ElectoralCommission, but the Returning Boardsand the army of understrappers who didthe dirty work in the parishes in thedapaoity i>l Supervisors, to say nothingof the, mob of retainers around the NowOrleans Custom House. It will be seenthai the country is paying the actors inthat piece of business, great, and small,an aggregate of nearly $200,000 a year;and many of the appointments, indeedall of the important ones, wore directedby Hayes. The only corrections in thelist are in the names of Denis, the littlegiant of Florida, who is not now in Gov-ernment employ, and Maxwell, of thesitnie State, who was recently cashieredand court-martialed from the army indisgrace. Here is the catalogue:

J. Mad. Wolla. Survpy. of Port.T. O. AndHraoniDepntyOollect'rL. M. Konncr.

W.Pitt Ki'llogg

Deputy NnvulOtlicflr

U.S. Senator...New OrleNi'W Orlran.Now Orleans

Morris Marks.. 6oL of Int.. Rnr.O. HrewBter.... iSurveyor Gen')..S B. Packard. Oon'ltoLiverp'l.

II. J.CamplielllU. S. DktrictI Attorney Wyoming...

Ctinrlns Illll... Store k'rdisfmn New OrleansH. O. Clarke... Rev. DeiMirtm'tJWuiihhmton.Goo. L. Smith. !< 'ullect'r of Port Now OrleansW.L.McMillanlp nslon Agent .;Ni<w OrleansF. F. (!ns»nave Storck'rCiisfc'mn'New Orleans

New OrleansNew Orleans

Now Orleans

('l«rk CustomHouse

Ol'S Surv. OfficeCl'k Uol.Oust..Clerk Custom

House J New OrleansLaborer Custom 1

Houpe New Orleans

W. II. Green .

Y. Woodward..W. F. Loan....P. A. CloTer...

F. A. I oSage,.

John Sherman.W. M. Kvaits..G. A,. Shi-ridanK.W.Stoncbt'nJno. A. KaftsonA. U. I^visoo..

K J. KouerA. S. Badger..Jno.M. Harlan__J. B. Hawley.lCom. Paris Kip.],. DesmariuK. JChshier Custom

New Or'nansNew OrleansNow Orleans

Sec. of TreasurySec. of State....Hecordor DeedsMin. to RUSSLL. .Min. to Austria.Sriecial Agent

Int. It«TApp'r Customs..Postmaster.Jus. Sup. Court.

House.M. H.TwitcheU U. H. Consul at

KingstonA. H. Sloanaker Revonue Office..W. A. Hiestand Custom House..Jack Wharton.jU. 8. Marshal...

Jnmos Lewis... Naval Officer

B.Blo«mfiHld..S. L. LastrapesPaul Trovigne.H.M J.KoncerSam Chapmnn.K. Lukein n...Henry Smith..E. F. Noyes....M. M. Steams..I,, r,. DenisJudge Cessna..Clerk Black....Clork Howell..Clerk Bowles..Judge BellE. Humphreys.Stea-ns1 Sec'y..

Maxwell...Barnum...

• - - TaylorLew Wallace...

Custom House...Custom House..jCustom House..ICustom House..il'ustom HotiBe..

WashingtonWashingtonWashington.St. Petersb'gVienna

New OrleansNew OrleansNew OrleansWashington.Washington.

New Orleans

New OrleansNew Orleans

New Orleans

New OrleansNew OrleansNew OrleansNew Orlean-Now Orleans

Custom House.., New OrleansCustom House. .iNew OrleaDSwin. to France.,'PartsCom'rllotSp'KsiLittle Rock.A rchiH'ot's of... 'Washington.Postmaster iTreasury Dep't.iWaBhington.Col. of Customs.:Treasury Dep't. WashingtonInterior Dep't..'Washington.Collector Ponsacola...Treasury Dep't. WashingtonLieut. U. S. A...Rec'rLnnd Of..Cl'k Lund OfficeGov. New Mex..

Total $197,730

Washington.Santa 1'V...

Spttaryfitt't M t

3.00U

3 SCO60003,7601.SU16.UHI

inc. ieoa.

lil.ootl1,4611.3007.0004,oa1>1.0001.B001,910

l.lW

72t8,0018,0005.001

•I7..T0U12,000

2.S003.0008.501

10,0002,000

-',501

2.0001.300i.a«2.000

md t6,001

ind fees2.S00

7211,1100rtK)

an600600

17.B00A.UIO1.8002.8011.60O2,600

7202.SO02.0001.M01.6001.5001,0003,000

Fashion Notes.Waistcoats for the ladies will be sold

separate from the suit.Square trains bid fair to be more fash-

ionable than round ones.Striped moires arc coming into vogue,

under the name of moire Francais.The taste for black silk toilets and

black millinery prevails as much as ever.Short costumes take only eighteen

yards of medium-width stuff for a fulldress.

The new hosiery is hair-lined hori-zontally in bright colors on neutral andcream white grounds.

Fancy buttons and flat gilt buttonsare used profusely on the clan tartan andfancy plaid suits so fashionable at themoment.

Many red velvet bonnets edged withgarnet 1 >eads and gold cords,and trimmedwith shaded red plumes and red roses,are seen among the novelties in milli-nery.

If the present fashion of waistcoat,jacket, skirt and tunic or overskirt con-tinue to find favor, it will produce themuch-desired result of rendering it aseasy for women to purchase their cloth-ing ready-made as men.

Corduroy velvet will be largely usedfor the underskirts of winter costumes.

A new freak of fashion shows the dol-man with a double skirt. It is not nearlyas pretty us tin; graceful single-skirteddolman.

The pan ier has resolved itself into verysmall dimensions, and consists in theslight looping or draping of the backbreadths of the overdress.

Tlie tight-fitting coat-sleeve remainsin favor, and is now made with a slightgathering at tlie elbow, which makes itmuch more comfortable to wear. -6Vm-densed from New York papers.

It Was Muggins.I Witnessed a scene a few evenings

ago which could lie worked into a negrofarce. A young man, well dressed 11mlwearing a large diamond, was seated ona beach, his arm enclasping the supplewaist of a beautiful female. The pairconversed in whispers, and I took it forgranted that they were lovers, perhapsengaged to be married.

While the pajx were whispering somesweet nothings $q each other, a coupleof middjo-aged gentlemen approached,talking together in this style:

No. 1 " You say you want a wife,Smith, old boy. I suppose it must bea young one." (Digs his companion inthe ribs.)

No. 2 (who is a wealthy Boston pork-packer)—" Of course I do. I wish youhad a daughter, Earl."

No. 1—"I have, old boy, and if youcan win her she is yours, with my bless-ing. Kvelyn seems to be in love withl'ercv Marehmont, son of a Fifth av-enue banker, but I will cure her of thatif you want her. Smith. Ah! there sheis now (points to pair seated on abench1!; us I live that rogue Marehmontis kissing her."

No. '2 "Marehmont. What do youmean?"

No. 1—" Why. this is Percy Mareh-mont, a very wealthy young gentleman,wlio is sitting beside Evelyn."

No. '2—(Shouts) "Muggins!"The lover jumps to his feet, and up-

on seeing the pork-packer beats a re-treat. As the young nmu sails awaySo. 2 says: "He is an employe ofmine, John Muggins. He has charge ofthe pickled pigs' feet department." Ladyfaints. Tableau.—Saratoga letter.

Tlie Valet's Prescription.Tho story is told out West of an En-

glish surgeon rnd his Irish valet comingacross an injured herder, requiring theamputation of a limb, in the earlierdays of railroading on the plains.

" Pity, pity," remarked the physicianto his servant, " but I 'ave no chloro-form with me to Lease the poor fellow."

This information seemed to affect thosympathetic valet deeply for a time, butafter a little he suddenly brightened upftnd confidingly whispered into hismaster's ear:

"Egad, docthur, couldn't we knockhim sinseless wid a club?"

The injured ranchman, who had over-heard all, settled the question of anaes-thetics by pulling out a revolver andordering the " chopping " to go on, without any more dashed nonsense.—Chicago Journal.

DELIBERATE DECEPTION.

Brick I'omoroy's Flnanclsil Figures.[rrora the Now KfjiublicJ

In order to establish tho charge thatJie financial i>anie was the result of annormous contraction of the currency

a, most extraordinary manipulation offigures has been employed. For exam-ple, in Brick l'oineroy's manual of"American Finance," page 31, in olderto swell the circulation in 1864 (i'i Coover $1,800,(K)0,0(H) of greenback andfractional currency, the following tablesare furnished:

antCKKBACB <-ciniKNCv SI\TKMI;NT.II. S. noU'Bof .Tan. 80, I8M $ fll.lis.f.THMV. s . Qotoa of Jan . 80; 1868 «B,687,)KI6:00U. 8. noteB of Oct. 1. le»» 438,0«0.56II.OOU . S . notes of Jan. 1, 1886 42H,2ol ,889.75

• l \ , t a l g l . - . i : . . •.••

The amounts of fractional currencyoutstanding at the same date were asfollows:Fractional and postal currency of

.ton- ."HI, 1864." $ K.tt'lFractional ;nwl postal currency o£

Juno 30, IM;; 85,006K r . T - t i ' M i a l a m i i » o s t ; i l e i i i r ' m v ot

Oat. 80,1805 ' . . . . 2<y)57,*I8.20Fractional and postal currency pt

J a n . 1, istKi SfilW0,420.62

Total % iOO,O58,5!K.83

DRUCS.H. A. Tremaine & Co.

(Succftjsors to E. W. ELLI8 & CO.)

ANN AllBOft, MICH.

A FIEST CLASS

Drug Store.

DRUGS AND DYE STUFFS,Patent Medicines,

TOILET & PERFUMERY ARTiCLE8

Qrand total *i.Ms.:;n.r.ilM

In this fraud fo deceive the ignorantthe currency claimed to have been out-standing at four different periods is add-ed together and a "grand" total of fourtimes the actual amount is the result. Onthe same plan of counting, if BrickPpinCTOy should at four different timesmark down his wife and four childrenand add up the result he would findhimself to be the husband of four wivesand the father of sixteen children. Yethis manual is accepted a« a standardwork on "American Finance," and thefigures are quoted by Greenback andDemocratic writers and speakers.

But Gary, of Ohio, goes one bettothan Pomeroy and includes the gray-backs (Confederate) in counting up theamount of currency in circulation in1865. Hear him:

" Now, my friends, what has been thecontraction of the circulating medium?In 1865 there were $57 of circulatingmedium for every man, woman andchild in tho United States. That em-braces greenbacks, graybacks, one-yearnotes, two-year notes, the com-pound-interest notes, the certifi-cates of indebtedness, and the7.30s. How much have we to-day? Nominally we have about $14;really, only about $12 per head. Whydo I say really? Because there is ahundred millions all the time in thetreasury of the United States. Banksare required to keep 15 per cent, of theircirculation in their vaults."

Counting in tho Confederate " gray-backs" may be all right. It has neverbeen contracted. Not a dollar of it hasbeen paid. A barrel of eggs was sent afew weeks ago from Virginia to marketpacked in Confederate graybaeks, .theybeing more convenient and cheaperthan wheat-chaff. Cary counts in Con-federate graybacks, 7.30 bonds, certifi-cates of indebtedness, etc., in order toswell the per capita to §57, and thinknocks it down by contraction of thecurrency to $12. Now it is well knownthat at no period in the history of thenation has the total amount of the cur-rency (paper and coin) exceeded $22.50per capita, and that is just about thevolume at the present time. Mr. Carywill require either to correct his figuresor submit to the grave charge of a will-ful attempt to deceive the people.

A Paradise of Paper Money.Cuba would be a paradise for the ir-

redeemable party, and we could bereconciled to sec them or some of theirleaders, emigrate thither. A Havanaletter says: " Immediately after beinglanded at a hotel, two of our party wentinto a convenient bar-room, had twodrinks of brandy, laid down a $1 green-back, and received $2 Cuban currencyin return. It was encouraging and cal-culated to lead to exhilaration. Itseemed to open up a new and enchant-ing road to wealth. They received twodrinks of brandy, and, for change,double the nominal money tendered inpayment. The brandy w;us only 15cents a drink, and $1 in greenbacks isworth about $2.25 in Cuban currencyAnd yet that money had all the authori-tative government stamps on it therewas room for."

Prescriptions Compounded atHour.---.

Cor. Main and Huron0.;lftfil

A Lot of CArotnoB for Sale fur WhatTluy WM Bring I

WINSLOW & MCMILLAN,

BHo., Etc. ,TI0LIN8, MITAKS A: S

W" Scroll Sawing, Turning and General Rqalringdone on thort noUoo.

M) Eiist Huron St., Ann Arbor168*11

DOBBINS' STARCH POLiSH!HOW DA SHINE)

The Firs) Reporters.In Sylvester O'llalloran"s " History

and Antiipiities of Ireland,"' publishedin Dublin in 17'22, is the following curi-ous entry: Bille, a Milesian king of aportion of Spain, had a son namedGollamh, who " solicited his father'spermission to assist theirPhoeni an .an-cestors, then greatly distressed by con-tinual wars," and, having gained hisconsent, the passage describing the re-sult proceeds thus: With a well-ap-pointed fleet of thirty ships and a selectnumber of intrepid warriors, he weighedanchor from the harbor of Coruuna forSyria. It appears that war was not thesole business of this equipment, for inthe fleet were embarked twelve youthsof uncommon learning and abilities,who were directed to make remarks onwhatever they found new, either in as-tronomy, navigation, arts, sciences ormanufactures. They were to communi-cate their remarks and discoveries toeach other, and keep an exact accountof whatever was worthy of notice. Thistook place in the year of the world '2650.These twelve youths were reporters,and, if this story be true, the professionconstituting " the fourth estate '' mayboast of an ancient lineage.

THE MARKETS.

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N o . 2 R e d 94 <rf> !••'>COUN 88 & *>O A T S — N o . 2 21 <n) 22

DETROIT.F L O U R — W h i t e 4 SO g i *WHEAT—No. 1 White 98 @ '•»

No.lAmber !<1 (?; 'rtCOBN—No. 1 43 I® UOATS—Mixed 24 & SBBARLEY (]>er cental) II") f l i SPOBK—Mess '.1 75 @10 00

EAST LIBERTY, PA.CATTLK—Best 4 N) @ 5 12

Fair 3 60 @ 4 12Common 3 0(1 @ 3 25

Hoos 2 25 (9 4 153 40 @ 4 30

A GBEAT DI SCOVERY,Bylhe UPc of which every family may Rive theirLiueu that polish peculiar to fine laundry work, B » -inR time and labor in iroiiiug more than its entirecost. Sold by grocers, or will be sent, postage paidon receipt of 23 cents.

BOBBINS, BRO. & CO.,13 N\ Fourth St., Philadelphia.

TM* is the fittest Liniment in liteind wi'l positively cure in almost every case.

Prica $1.0 0 per bottle.J0HUS0N, E0LL0WAT & CO,

8VECIA TJ AGENTS,

T'ih is •pm1>a1>hj ihc strongest,purest and bent preparation of Ironknown. One trial will convince.J'ricc, S1.00 per bottle.

JOHNSTON, HOLLOW AY & CO.Special XMlatlelphia.

DYSPEPSIAPermanently cured hi »very instanco

EAGLE DYSPEPSIA TROCHES.They will immediately correct n sour

stomach.check vomiting and heartburn;cure sickness or pain m the stomach,costiveness, liver complaint, headache,etc. Being pleasant, safe and harmless,areasure cure for Infants suffering fromweak stomach.

Price, Thirty-Five Cents per Box.

EARLY BIRDWORM POWDER.

At all times safe, reliable, strictly vege-table and tasteless, used by old and youngwith perfect safety, even when worms arcnot present. Requires but one dose toeffect a cure.

Price, IS Cents per Package.Sold by all Druggists, or sent by Mail,

on receipt of Price.

NEBEKEll *£ CO., Prop's.13th »ai Hliwnth C'.s., PhiladolpMi, Pi. )

P E I C E , 35 CELT'S.

Joimston, Ilollowr-y & Co.,Special Aeents, Pbi lad 'a .