JANUARY.

The lerrutlli (onpujN Calendar Air 1S«1,During Mu month we will

giveoui army of custom­ers, goog Bargaint in Winter Qoodi, in all our depart­ments, especially in Cloaks U nderware.Knlt Boots and Rubbers. Bargains for all. JC Read ad. on last page.

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—The “ Royal Cock-a-too Cigar” is pleasing all the boys.

—When men are as good as their obituaries and women are as good as the men think they are, then it will be time for the recording angel to take his long- needed vacation.

—The “Royal Cock-a-too Cigar” is the best in the market.

—Clark & Hulse are making some im­portant changes in their store.

—O. E. Wilson will soon be nicely settled in his new shop on West Walker street.

To Our Readers and all Others.

When otTered what is styled “Bargains,” for Home, 8tate, National or Foreign Papers or Magazines, do not place your order until you have first seen me. You will always be satis­fied by heeding this request.

Respectfully,GEO. 8. CORBIT.

Independent oflice, over Wheat Bros.’Cloth­ing Store.IfAn extra first-class paper will be given

to every new yearly subscriber. •

HOME MATTERS.

Brevities.—Smoke “ Royal Cock-a-too Cigars.”—Sheriff Pennell has appointed Mart,

in Smith, of St. Johns, Under Sheriff.—Fowler & Ball have been issuing

to their patrons some very pretty calen­dars for 1891.

—Orrin W. Miller and family moved into their new residence on Cass street, last week.

—Newton L. Webb is Edwin Pennel's successor on the present board of super­visors, as member from DeWitt.

—It will pay you to read every word of the Mercantile Co.’s ad. They are making everybody happy this month.

—The Baptist church is being papered, and in consequence there will be no ser­vices there next Sunday, nor during the present week.

—DeWitt II. Hunt succeeds Emory E Urie, county clerk, as clerk of the vil­lage, by appointment, for the balance of the official term.

—The ladies of the library association realized a net profit of $15.50 from their dancing and card party in their spacious room, New Year’s night.

—Even the most upright citizens are apt to backslide while rounding the corner at Fowler & Ball’s hardware store on a frosty and windy day.

—Even if that Spring street boy is continually whistling, “ I want to be an angel,” it is just as well to keep the pre­served pears on the top shelf.

—After a vacation of two weeks, our public schools re-opened on Monday last, and the appreciative pupils were pleased to be able to get to their work again.

—Recollect the annual meeting of the members of the Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance Co., of Clinton county, at Firemen's hall, St. Johns, at 10 a. m. Tuesday, January 13, for the election of officers.

—The new clothing firm at Ovid, which succeeds John M. Bryson, iscom- posed of three gentlemen from this vil­lage. and is styled Lambie, Clark & Hulse, with the former in charge of the business.

—Mrs. O. L. Vreeland entertained her S. S. class Monday evening, at her resi­dence on Ross street. A very enjoyable time was passed. Mr. F. P. Kennedy, of Lansing, gave a few of his choice se­lections in elocution.

—Oscar Brooks exhibited upon our streets on Tuesday last, a cake of ice 11 inches thick. He has already in store one hundred tons, and will add three hundred tons more with which to sup­ply his trade next season.

—Charles Perkins, of Victor town­ship, while hauling straw recently, in going down a hill the straw slipped for­ward, causing him to fall behind the horses and under a front wheel in such a manner as to break his right fore-arm.

—As may be seen by reference to their advertisement on another page, the firm of Davies & Davies has been changed by the recent death of R. T. Davies, Jas. S. Adams, of this village, having pur­chased the interest, and the style of the new firm will be Davies & Adams.

—Edwin II. Lyon is fitting up his pleasantly arranged office rooms over Mr. Kendrick’s store, in a decidedly tidy and home-like manner, which is alto­gether in keeping with his promptness, care and idea of things. There are no stray ends to his work.

—The new law firm of Fedewa & Mer­rill, over the corner drug store, have added to their former pleasant office rooms, the room formerly occupied by the Mutual Life insurance Co., making three liandsomly fitted and pleasantly located rooms. The w’hole place pre­sents an air of justice, equity and good­will to men.

—Miss Louie Waldron, of this village, made a handsome silk rug and disposed of it by numbers, 110 having been sold at 10 cents each, and the drawing took place on New Year’s night. John I. Shaver, of this village, held No. 16, which was the last one drawn from the hat, and the lucky one. In a drawing for a quilt in the U. B. church society in East Bingham, in September last, Mr. Shaver was also successful, but he gave the quilt back to the society for them to dispose of it as they saw fit.

—Influenza is having wide sway in this country. It is milder in form than the grippe of last year, yet. is attended with fever and great weakness. The doctors advise the liberal eating of on­ions as a preventive.

—The masquerade ball at Newton hall New' Year's eve, was not as num­erously attended as it was hoped it w'ould be; however, those who partici­pated had a good time.

—The event of New Year’s day at Pompeii, was the wedding of John E. Henderson, late of this village, and now of the mercantile firm of Kunday & Henderson, of that place, and Miss Mary Prince, Rev. J. II. Thomas, of Ithaca, officiating.

—The six Decatur Bross pigs shown in Church’s recent fine display of dressed meats, were not 7 years old, as eroneously printed, but 7 months old, and being of the Berkshire breed, were very fine and much leaner and tenderer than other varieties.

—Edward Acre and J. M. Doyle, of Duplain township, put their fine Man­chester colts together on {Saturday last and exhibited them upon our streets. They are both beautiful dark browns and should go to-gether. “What will you give or take,” is the question.

—Frank L. Merrihew, tax gatherer for this township, informs us that on Monday last, with the commencement of the 4 per cent, act for collecting, there was but $2,300 uncollected,- which amount is principally due from small tax-payers in the village, the business people and principal tax-payers, almost to a man, as well as the farming com­munity, having paid before this time. The difference unpaid at this time last year odes not very’ $100 from that of this.

—Auditor General Stone on as­suming control of his office,w’ent through and chopped off the official heads of only 26 of the 70 clerks employed in his oflice. Among those retained until fur­ther notice, and known by a majority of the people of St. Johns, {they having been former residents of our village) are M. J. Bassett and Mrs. G. R. Iligham. They, too, will undoubtedly be asked to step down and out ere long. Notwith­standing there is an urgent demand from his party for positions, Mr. Stone justly consults the best interests of his office and the people first. This is as it should be.

—At the annual meeting of the St. Johns Building and Loan Associaton, Monday evening, F. M. Spaulding, F. W. Lee, and A. B. Casteel were re­elected directors for three years, and C. S. Allison, who had completed a va­cancy created by the resignation of Geo. F. Marvin’s was elected director for the remaining two years. The following named were re-elected officers: F. W. Lee, president; F. M. Spaulding, secretary; C. E, Ball, treasurer. See their annual report in another column.

—At the Congregational church next Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, Jan­uary 13th and 14th, the C. E. societh, in connection with Prof. Geo. M. Richie, of the Interlake Business College, will give tw’o entertainments. Tuesday eve­ning, a lecture by Prof. Ritchie on the Delsarte Philosophy, with illustrations. Admission fee. Wednesday evening, the entertainment will consist of read­ings and music by Misses Lapliam and Emmons, Mr. Nixon and a chorus. Ad­mission, 15 cents. Prof. Richie is high­ly spoken of.

—The Detroit New’s is not yet through with the distribution of The Russian Wedding Feast, and are already out with the announcement of their next great offer to subscribers. They will publish a beautiful quarterly magazine called “The Quarterly Register of Current History,” and present it free every three months to all regular sub­scribers to The Evenjpg and Sunday News. The book will be full of inter­esting reading and the clioisest pictures. The expense of this undertaking is enormous when it is considered that they must give away 45,000 copies to supply their regular subscribers, not counting the thousands who will now take The News to secure this beautiful book every three months, but The News was never known to stop at expense when they undertake to do anything.

—The Supreme court in a case from Sanilac county, has decided that County Clerks are not entitled to extra compen­sation for making out subpoenas on de­linquent taxpayers. The amended tax law of 1889 provides that in the case of delinquents, regular suits in chancery shall be begun against the holder of each parcel and the costs assessed on the property. The law was tried for the first time last year. The clerk of Sani­lac county demanded a fee of $1 for each subpoena which the supervisors refused and suit was instituted to com­pel the supervisors to pay the bill. The court denied the mandamus, the only fees provided for in the law being for the officer making the service.

— There are 15,000 brass bands in this country, with 150,000 performers. The insane asylums are full.

—Chapin & Co. are making some big cuts in prices on Ladies’ and Children’s cloaks. See their ad. on last page.

—An old lady by the name of Wheel­er, living north of the railroad, fell Mon­day, and fractured her right wrist. She is now with her son in Owosso.

—From present indications progress­ive tiddledy-winks wull be the great so­cial game this winter. It is not an high­ly intellectual pursuit, but it is an amusing game, and is rapidly growing in favor.

—“ A right smart sprinkling” of St. Johns democrats attended the inaugural proceedings at Lansing yesterday. In the four-handed contest for the speaker- ship, P. B. Wachtel, of Petoskey, cap­tured the prize on the 7tli ballot. Full particulars next week.

—Dr. G. W. Topping, one of Clinton county’s oldest and most successful practitioners, who has been a regular patron of this paper since its birth, in making his accustomed annual re­mittance, in advance, adds: “I always want to see The Independent. It seems like an old friend’s face.”

—Ow’osso Times : St. Johns is one of the nicest towns in Michigan but it has only one post-office and two persons who would be post-masters. These have made Congressman Brewer’s life a bur­den and the able representative lays down some logic that should convince the applicants that disappointments go with appointments.

—The Mancelona Herald of January 1, has the following: “Mrs. Helen Clark, of Clinton county, was brought north Monday night on a warrant sworn out by her brother-in-law, Lawrence Smith, of Alba, charging her with the larceny of a $325 promisory note while visiting at his house last summer. The exami­nation came off Tuesday before Justice Welch and resulted in the accused being bound over to the next term of circuit court. W. S. Mesick appeared for the people and II. J. Patterson, of Grand Ledge, for the defendant.”

—A week ago Sunday evening, the following named candidates were bap­tised at the Baptist church in this vil­lage: Mrs. E. W. Anger, Miss Silva Sherman, Miss Shelters, Mr. Glenn Musser and Mr. Henry Irer. The same, with the exception of two,who were nec­essarily absent, and Miss Nellie Millis, were received into the church last Sun­day morning. Mr. and Mrs. Isaac E. Hobert were received at the same time, by letter.

—On Friday night last burglars made another raid upon the business places in Rochester Colony. They first entered the blacksmith shop of Ben Tucker, where they secured a rasp, with which they pried open the doors to B. E. Teet­er’s store, in which is located the post- office, and also those to O. M. Pearl's store. A couple of woolen shirts and a pair of shoes are the only articles missed. This is the third depredation of the kind in that place since July, 1889. The whole police force are laying low- for the perpetrators.

The New County Officials.Sheriff Pennel moved his household

effects from DeWitt to the sheriff's resi­dence in this village, in three rousing loads, last Monday. He is now taking care of the court without the aid of a single deputy.

On Monday last Circuit Court Commis­sioner Castle removed his safe from the room over F. A. Percey’s store, to his office in the court house.

Michael Spitzley, treasurer, was in town Monday and filed bonds for the faithful performance of the duties of his office. Mr. Frank Conn will remain as his assistant.

E. E. Urie, clerk, laid off his coat and hat on the 2d day and took a back- hold with the w’ork in his office, with C. II. Palmer as referee.

Frank W. Lamphere, register of deeds, takes to his work as gracefully and per­fectly as a duck does to water, and the same perfect order of things left by his predecessor, will be fully maintained by him. Mr. Fitzgerald, who is showing him the workings of the office, pro­nounces his successor a very apt student.

Henry J. Patterson, prosecutor, was here Monday to see if his office had been properly cleaned, and found every thing in good shape for him. He will be here in person every Friday and Saturday until spring, when he will move his family here for a permanent residence. Ezra Smith will attend to the business of the office in the absence of Mr. P.

Licensed to Wed.Date. Name and Residence. AgeJany.3-Chas. H, Crowley, Maple Rapids,..> 31

Cora Griffith, Gratiot Co....................25Jany. 3—George Hall, Ovid................................22

Edith Allen, Mlddleburg..... ............. 18Jany. 5—John Jeien, Dallas,.............................. 27

Anna M.Rmlth, Dallas,........................24Jany. 5—James T. Hill, 8t. Johns......................80

Anna Knight, Bengal........................28

Music. Circuit Court.The gigantic amouut of work accomp­

lished by Madame Price, in a short space of time was manifested once more In the production of the “Visit to Grandpa and Grandma,” on Friday night last, at Newton hall. Forty-six little pupils in her private singing class, after a little over three weeks rehersal, presented this charming cantata to the considera­tion of as large and appreciative an aud­ience as ever graced the hall on any oc­casion. From the moment the curtain rolled up and the opening chorus, herald­ing the coming visit of the forty grand­children to their aged grand-parents at Christmas tide, till the time when the carriages are announced for the depar­ture, the interest grows apace.

Caddie Ilalleubeck, as grandma, lent a sweet quaver to her voice, as befitted an old lady with the awful responsibili­ty of possessing forty lively grand­children, as an heritage, while Veva Perrin, as grandpa, ably assisted her, despite the whitening locks and the ir­ritating “crick’’ in his back, and wel­comed the children lustily.

The gay little costumes made a bright picture, and the situations throughout, were very pleasing. One of the best features was the life and vim sustained by the chorus, while many of the solos and duetts are deserving of special men­tion. Grandma’s lullaby song to little Ruthie, and the duett by the grand­parents, “ Passing Away,” were both very touching. Thirza Judd and Mamie Fedewa, in quaint white caps, sang ever so sweetly of their dear dollies’ virtues and graces, while Alice Malthouse, as “ Betty,” evinced marked talent and a splendid voice in her solo, and for which she was vociferously re-called. “Shiney Eyes’ ” pathetic story, sung so tenderly by Gertie Gardner, was indeed graceful, both in manner and voice.

One of the prettiest scenes was that of the flowers, as told in song and verse by the several little maidens, dressed to represent the flower whose name she bore. Little Eloise Price, is, perhaps, the most youthful “ Little Buttercup,” the stage has ever produced, and she sang that pretty solo from “ Pinafore,” in a very taking manner. Each flower­et is deserving of special mention, did time and space permit.

The grandsons covered themselves with glory in their representation of the various birds and flowers. The “Owl,” by Harry Padley, was capital, and the “ Duck’s'’ pointed story, by Leon Boucher, with the quacking chorus ac­companying it, was rendered with de­lightful gusto. The “Chanticleer,” by Leon Wheat, assisted by the chorus, “ Good Morning,” by the several neigh­boring fowles, was given lustily,and cre­ated a great deal of merriment.

The cantata was greatly enhanced by the introduction of intricate convolu­tions in the grand march, in which the children kept perfect time and step, and afterwards, in the “Lancers,” these lit­tle men and maidens, proved that time was also in their heels as well as in their heads..

So, closed a delightful evening's entertainment, and we people who have to depend so much upon home produc­tions to break the weary monotony of long winters, feel thankful that we have among us so enterprising and thorough­ly capable a woman and teacher as Mad­ame Price. Success to her work.

PERSONAL.

Allison Richardson is ill with fever,Mrs. E. Fuller is spending the week in

Detroit.Rev. 8. 8. Chapin, of Stockbridge, was in

town last week.J. H. Wheat has been battling with chills the

last ten days,Mrs. A. Retail is spending a week with her

mother, at Pewamo.Jesse Sullivan and others who have been

very sick are Improving.Geo. D. Cooper is home from Indiana and

will remain several weeks.Misses Hortense Gillett and Matie Nichols

return to Detroit to-morrow to resume their studies in music.

Robert D. Baker spent New Year’s day in Owosso. He is now iick tyith typhoid fever at his home in Port Huron.

Mr. Art Cunningham, of Detroit, spent New Year’s day at the home of his cousin, Miss Mamie Emmons, in this village.

C. O. DuBoise, of the Mercantile Co., went north last Tuesday to look up new territory for their wholesale department.

Richard Phillips, of the State printing office, Lansing, spent the first day of the new year with young friends in this village.

W. E. Hamilton left Tuesday morning for Saginaw, to attend the convention of the State Federation of Carpenters and Joiners

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Karber, of East Bingham, who have been spending a week with relatives *n Lake Mills, Wfs., returned last Wednesday.

Mrs. L. K. Patterson, of this village, general agent for H. J. Smith, book publishers, Chicago, will leave next Monday tor Cleveland, Ohio, and from there to the state of Kentucky.

Miss Roe 8. Temple, late of Riley township, left January 1st for Menominee, this state, where she has engaged to teach in the schools of that city.* She is a thorough instructor, and goes with the best wishes of a host of friends In this section.

The following are the cases disposed of in the adjourned term of the circuit court, up to the hour of going to press last evening:

W. L. B. Dunham vs. Sarah A. Pierce. As­sumpsit. Trial by Jury. Verdict for plaintiff, •34.50.

Joseph O. Standard ot al vs. Almond Partlow and Albert W. KUssell. Attachment Judg- ineut, on withdrawal of plea and by consent of attorneys, for •828.39.

Rufus W. Gillett et al vs. Almond Partlow.— Attachment. Judgment, on withdrawal of plea and by consent of attorneys, for $568.10.

BUSINESS LOCALSInventory Saie,

Commencing Thursday, January 8th, we will put on the market some of the greatest bargains that have ever been offered in Cloaks, Dress Flannels and Underwear. Our system of doing busi­ness, is to Slaughter all unseasonable goods at cost, and less, sooner than carry them for next season.All our 25c. Dreg* Flannels to go at................... 20c.All our 51.00 Uundewear to go at..... ......... ...... 75c.All our 81.25 Underwear to go at...................... 92c.

We are Bound to Close Out every Cloak and Jacket in the house, and with this object in view, have marked a great number at 10 per cent, less than actual cost.8 7 00 Cloaks to go at......................................... 83 00

10 00 Cloaks to go at....................................... 7 0015 00 Cloaks to go at....................................... 9 00

This sale will last till January 24th, ’91. Always the Cheapest,

Tiielen & Denku.

Cabinets $2.50 per Dozen for the next 10 days, at Plunkett's, West Side Gallery, St. Johns, Mich. 04-2

The Mercantile Co,invites evPry ones attention to their ad. “on last page,” this week. It will pay you to take advantage of their bargains this month.J. W. Hllllker’s Restaurant—On the

European Plan.I wish to announce to my former pat­

rons, and to the public generally, that I have refitted the rooms under Sullivan's clothing store, and am prepared to offer the best Lunch for 15 cents ever offered to the public. Order cooking a special­ty. Open from 7 a. m. until 11:30 p. m.

Wanted.Some green wood two feet long at the

Star Bakery.Reward for Lost Pocket-book.

While in St. Johns, December 27.1890, I lost my pocket-book containing $300 in money and some valuable papers. I will pay a reward of $50 for the recovery oi the same. Joseph Casper,

Fowler, Mich.Wanted.

A first-cla^s house girl that can work alone. Apply to Mrs. Price, at home or at music room over Fildew & Millman's store. lw

RememberYou can get White, Rye, Brown, Vienna and Cream Bread made fresh by 10:30 o'clock at the Star Bakery, next door to post-office.

For Sale at a Bargain,A one story house. Enquire of 1264-tf O. W. Miller.

Annul Meeting.The annual meeting of the People's

Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Ionia, Montcalm and Clinton counties, for the election of three Directors and the transaction of such other business as may come before it, will he held at the office of the Company in Ionia on Wednesday, January 21,1891, commenc­ing at 1U oulock a. m.

T. G. Stevenson, Sec’y.Handkerchiefs and Mufflers.

Latest styles, At John Hicks’.Money to Loan on Farm Lands.Interest seven (7) per cent payable

annually. No commissions charged. Enquire of L. Grant,

1263-tf. St. Johns, Mich.Oii-cloths

Good goods, largest stock, lowest prices, At John Hicks'.

The Annual Meetingof the Clinton County Agricultural So­ciety, for the election of officers, will be held at the court house, St. Johns, on Saturday, January 10,1891.

Ciias. II. Palmer, Sec’v.28 cents.

The greatest bargain of the season in Red Flannels will be found at 28 cents a yard. Ask to see it

At JonN Hicks’.Percheron Colts for Sale.

Five Percheron colts, ranging from 4 months to 3 years old. Inquire of 1263tf Wm. Bird, Duplain, Mich.

Creat Closing out Sale.To reduce our immense stock of Dry

Goods &c. &c. before taking inventory, for the next 60 days, we shall offer all goods in our line at such prices that can not fail to be appreciated by the closest buyers.

It is a well-known fact that we have by far the largest and most complete stock of Dry Hoods and Carpets in this part of Michigan. Special attention is called to our Underwear, Flannels, Car I>ets, Blankets and other winter goods.

Thanking you for the most liberal pat­ronage we nave been favored with, and trusting by honest and upright dealings to retain your confidence for time to come, we are Respectfully,

JonN Hicks.30 Acres of Land

in Bingham township, for sale or ex­change for village property in St. Johns. Inquire of L. K. Patterson, opposite the county jail, east. 1263w4*

Farm to Rent.Well improved and well located; 120

acres. Inquire at TnE Independent office, St. Johns. 1202tf

Wool-Growers and Stock Ilreedert.The annual meeting for the election of offi­

cers of the Wool Growers and Stock Breeders Association of Clinton county will be held in the court house, 8t. Johns, Wednesday Janu­ary 14th, at 1 o’clhck sharp. A proposition to amend article 8 of the constitution will oe laid before the meeting. Let all Interested In breeding good stock of any kind be prosent.

WALTER FLOATE, President.DECATUR BROS3. Secretary.

Carving Sets and Oyster ForksAt Allison’s.

Notice to Shareholders.The regular annual meeting of the

shareholders of the St. Johns National Bank of St. Johns, Mich., for the elec­tion of Directors, will be held at the office of said bank, on Monday, January 12,1891,at 2 o’clock p. m., standard time.

P. E. Walsworth, Cashier.fiaflows]

RosalineRings, Pins, Ear Rings and Scarf Pins,

At Allison’s.Hand kerchiefs I

Handkerohlefs!Handkerchiefs!

and Mufflers.More than a million of all stvles, just re­ceived at Kendrick’s for the holiday trade. More thau was ever before shown in any one store in St. Johns.

1847 Rogers Bro.’sKnives, Forks and Spoons

At Allison’s.Try the Ma-No-Ken

brand of Oysters and you will take no other. Graham has them. 1260w4We Keep With the Market. Especi

ally on Sugar.Sugars have been going down steadily

for some time and yet some advertise and sell at the same old prices. Call and see our New Orleans Sugar. 20 pounds for$l.

St. John’s Mekchantile Co.Re-opened,

I have re-opened the meat market first south of Leland’s grocery and shall keep for sale a complete line of choice fresli and salt meats and poultry, at prices which will please purchasers. I solicit your patronage.

J. II. McCloud.Gold and Silver head Canes

At Allison's.Livery and Feed Barn.

I am in every wav prepared to furnish first-class livery, single and double, for pleasure and Business, and especial use of commercial men. at reasonable rates.

My public Feed Stables In connection, are roomy, safe and pleasant, and always supplied with clean and well cured feed. Charges low and regular to everybody. Give me a trial. J. H. Fitts.

Corner of State and Brush streetsMarmalade Jars________At Allison’s.

Marble Clocks________At Allison’s.

Go to E. T. Sumner & Son’s for rur- niture. picture frames and mouldings. Repairing a specialty. 1199

Large line of SilverwareAt Allison’s.

Hanasome Goods Cheap.Book-cases. Willow Rockers, Side­

boards, Wall Pockets, and the largest and handsomest line of Mouldings to be found in this market. II. W. Morris.

Fresh Home-made Candles.The freshest and purest homemade

candies, put up in fancy pound boxes, at reasonable prices at the Candy Kitchen, Charles Dutton.

If you want Mews, Stamp-photos, or enlarging in Crayon, Water Colors or India ink, go to the West Side Gallery, St. Johns. Satisfaction guaranteed.

Farmers, Take Notice.Go to the St. Johns foundry and ma­

chineshop for agricultural implements. All kinds of machine repairing prompt­ly attended to. tf Cross & Weller.

Cloaks and Jackets for all, just re­ceived at Kendrick’s. Our line this season attractive and sure to please you. We are handling the same quality of Plush Goods that we did last year, which is a guarantee as to quality, as not a complaint was made against it last year. Buy the Walker plushes and be sure of a good garment. Every gar­ment branded.

Respectfully.II. L. Kendrick.

The latest thing out in ladies’ Union Under Suits, just received, at Ken­drick’s. Also a full line of Ladies, Gent’s and Children’s Underwear.

Merit Wins.This fact is fairly illustrated by the

large business which O.G. Plunkett, the new photographer in the West Side Gal­lery, St. Johns, is receiving.

Water.To our customers who desire a first-

class job of Plumbing can have the same done without any trouble, by applying to us, as we will do excavating, tap main, etc. We keep on hand a good supply of water woods. Fowler & Ball.

Butter and EggsWanted in any quantity bv,

II. L. Kendrick.

Kendrick’s Grocery List.15 lbs. Granulated Sugar, extra flue..........$1 od16 lbs. A Sugar,................................................ . 1 OO17 lbs. White C Sugar..................................... 1 oo19 lbs. Light Yellow 8ugar,......................... 1 OO4 lbs. Best Rice,............................................. . »r>4 lbs. Best Soda,............................................. . aft4 lbs. Best Starch........................................... . 254 lbs. Best Crackers,....................................... 2ft1 lb. Good Fine Cut Tobacco, a bargain,... 28 1 lb. Good Fine Cut Tobacco,...................... 35This last we will guarantee to be as good as any at 40c or more in town. All other in the grocery line in same proportion.

H. L. Kendrick.The Largest Stock

Of Floor Oil Cloths in St. Johns, is at Kendrick's. A good quality for only 30 cents per yard.gTATE BANK OF 8T. JOHNS.

COMMERCIAL AND SAVINGS.

CAPITAL, 60,000.

NET ASSETS OF STOCKHOLDERS, »900,000.00.

PORTER K. PERRIN, President.GEO. F. MARVIN. Vice-President.

D. H. POWER, Cashier.H. H. FITZGERALD, Assistant.

DIRECTORS:P. K. Perrin, O. W. Manger, Geo. F. Marvin. J. H.

Corbit,J. H. Fedewa. Otla Fuller, Edward Brown, A. Retan, E. E. White,

C. 8. Allison, G. E. Corbin.

« Percent, IutereatJPald on Tine Deposit■

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CLINTON INDEPENDENT, THU BSD AY, JAN 8, 1891.

JBSDAL MEETING OF THE MASON­IC HOME TRUSTEES.

X STRIKE AMONG THE MINERS AT SEBEWAING.

(terns of Interest from All Parts of Michigan.

jtllol>it;nn Masonic Home. iaxi> Rapids, Jan. 0.—Tbe fourth aa- mceting sf the directors of the Michi-

Mnsonia Heme was held is the rooms Do Molai coraniundory lost areara?.

Ptasldcnt Dunham made r lengthy address, feviotviug the work since tbe project was Started. The report of Secretary William P. lanes allowed the receipts during the |>a4 year as tallow4: From life member*

‘ ps, fS.8tM.5U active memberships, *640; nib, (0,586.18; the reooipts of the

piio fair were $•-‘8,01)8.70 and expenses .693,11. The report of Treasurer Jacob

showed 0B7,694.75 cssh on hired, following o flic ora were elected for the

^uing year: President M. L. Dunham; 1 prosidout, R. D. Swurtout; secretary,

filUaii< P. lnnos< treasurer, Jacob Barth; ora—B. D. Benedict, H. W. Moore,

B. Watson, T. D. Brad field, T. W.ian, W. D. Dennison. It was decided

dedicate the homo on Jan. 28, at which (Iran4 Master John D. Cross of

taixgor writ • Jloiato and Hon. Hugh Mo jrdy of Corunna will deliver tho opening

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Miners on a Strike.Bvhkwaimo, Jan. 6.—The Sebewaing

company txas been paying Si per gross for mining. This was changed Jan. 1

U> ft per net ten. As a result the entire force of 48 it iuers walked out this morning. All were paid oil this afternoon. This will necessitate shutting down the mine for the present. •

8TATH NEWS CONDENSED.

La grippe has commenced business at Parstaaliviiio.

Tho Ice harvest is under full headway in Man Huron county.

Ebou Morse, murdered in Oregon last [rath, was a brother of Norman Morse of

1^.

Northpert la proud because it has ac­cumulated a population of 400 persons in 42 years.

Tho Marie tbe young people's reading rooms were opened to the publio on Mon­day evening.

Rev-. Frederick W. Mosher of Trsy, Y., has accepted a call to St. Paul's

i, Muskegon.William Keys of Manistee has Just

^poned a store at Thompsonville, the first •one in the now village.

A Saginaw man jumped off one electrie Car ri^it in the path of another Saturday jthd was badly bruised.

Traverse Oity has voted to give $20,000 and a site to the Mancdona oval dish coa- cert» If it will locate there.

Tho snow and rain of last week have made log hauling practical in the eastern section of Manistee county.

Tho now roller process mill at Brock- W?y, for which contracts have boon signed, must bo completed by June 1.

Tho prioo of gas in Grand Rapids rangos from HO cents to $1 per 1,000 feet, accord­ing to tlio amount consumed.

Tho renovated Episcopal church in Y^sdauti, on which $3,200 has been ex­pended, was reopened Sunday.

Tho Lapeer subscription ball, held Fri­day night, was a gorgeous success in overy way, over 100 couples turning out-.

T’he Congregationallsts of Copemish have •extended a call te Rev. J. P. Grlnnell of Wheaton, 111., and he has accepted.

A farmer living near Decatur has on his (arm 40 blaak walnut trees, for which he haa been offered, and refused, $1,600.

Arrangements will bo completed by which Allegan will secure tho Russell Whool factory, a concern with $25,000 capita t.

Tho citizens of Flint met Saturday >ig^t to take the initiatory stops toward guLutig tho legislature to give them a row ■charier.

A spark from a chimney set fire te Mr. Auby’S barn in Onckama and it was burned, owing to lack of apparatus for d£hting fire.

Tho experiment of raising peppermint wa&so successful at Decatur the past sea­son that a largo accrage will be raised the confing year.

Tho newly-elected treasurer of Reno 'township, Iosoo county, failed to qualify, and tho tax-papers have been placed in the bands of the sheriff., The Isabella county patrons made $9,000 cut of running tho Isabella county creamery Wt yoar, and will, of course, continue tho

'ooheem another year.• Tho Taylor wagon works, of Pontiac, made and sold 1.00.2 wagons from Jan. 1 to Doc. 31, 1890, not including their sales ef wagons made clsowliere.

The Manistee park association have pur- cha.sod 30 acres of land to tho north of tho city, and will fit it up for u trotting park in tirno for next fall’s races.

Another coal mine has been struck hi Freeland. Tho find is but 125 feet below thosurfneo and tho vein said to be large en&Ggh to work at good profit.

All tho marriageable women in Roscom­mon received a Christmas present of a b?6oir, Probably to enable them to brush sip for the race foV a husband.

Tho West Bay City oouncilmen wrangled oyer tho question of putting flro escapes on all three-story buildings in tho city, and finally voted to order them up.

The Detroit Journal has begun the dis­tribution of its superb “Yoar Book.” It in not only an artistio publication, but also a very valuable book of referonoo.

Tho sentence of F. E. Stevens, tho Van Duron county bank defaulter, has been <ooifiinutcd to throo j’oars' imprisonment, Anu lie will return home Js-u. 12.

It in now claimed that Prosecutor-elect Lawrence F. Bedford, of C’hippwa county, cannot qualify, as he was not a citizon wtmn he was admitted to tho bar.

Tlio^Dccombi r eop|>cr output was an follows! Calumet A lUvla, 3,028tons; <Quindy, 395 tons; Atlantic, 2t3 tons; .Franklin. 49! tout: (V'-eola. 405 tons.

The Saginaw citizens’ beard te recom­mend a new town kail have accepted the plans prepared by E. E. Myers of Detroit which call lor an expenditure of $110,000.

Fead A Son, the Lexlngten milters, have suspended operations until they can move into a larger factory and have addi­tional facilities for carrying oa their bus­iness.

A party of five skaters broke through the ice at Plainville Saturday eight, and all but one, Clarenoe Le Baron, about 6 years eld, were suved. The body was re­covered.

When Gov. Luce settles down in bis Cold water home It will be as vioe president of the bank there, and ha will devote bis energies to running the bank on a sure economical basis.

Hon. T. J. Ramndell of Manistee, pres­ident ef the First national bank, will sail for Pans, January 7, acoomp inied by his daughter Elizabeth. They will be absent about four mouths.

The residence of Gustav Reifers at Fraser burned Baturday night with most ef its contents. Tho aged father and motner of Mr. Reifers had te be carried from tbe house after the fire had oaught

The new commercial building which is te be erected at one of the principal corners in Manistee will cost $50,000, be bnilt of eastern granite, and when com­pleted be the finest banking building In the west.

Aaron Morton of Schoolcraft was thrown from his cutter by a runaway horse Satur­day, and seriously injured. It was at first thought that his injuries were fatal, bnt the doctors now say hs has a chance to pull through.

Senator-elect Benson of Genesoe oounty, has a bill to introduce In tho legislature preparing for tho abolition of the present system of school examiners and favoring the return to the old stylo oounty school superintendents.

Tbe old Sherman house at Flint, one ef the landmarks of the place, burned Sunday at a loss of $1,500, on which thero is an insurance of $1,000. Tho fire caught from tho office stove and several adjacent build­ings were scorched.

Two of Pontiac's business men, John Pound and Richard Beil, collected $150 from 75 citizens as a Christmas present to John FitzgeraL as a token of their con­tinued appreciation ef his faithful services as night watchman.

For some time past Williamson has been infested with a lot of potty burglars. Tbe police now have under arrest Adalbert Glass brook and John Jeffers, and Monday arrested Mrs. Coreyell, whs secreted the property the boys stole.

The business men of Brown City, St. Clair oounty, have held a meeting and decided te begin the new year right by getting a move on and booming tho town all the time. They will raise money to carry out their intentions.

At MilHngton, Friday morning, a wagon in which were Henry Furbush, wife and child, and H. Pieston, was struck by a Michigan Central train. The wagon was demolished, but only Mrs. Forbush was injured, and she not seriously.

The funeral of Michael Downey, mur­dered by Joe Thomas at Ewan last Tues­day, took place at Saginaw Saturday. The brother of the murdered man says Thomas did not intend to shoot his brother, hut mistook him for another man.

The drug store of Peter Boyers and the adjoining store occupiod by H. S. Hender­son, at Holton, Muskegon oounty, were burned Saturday. Beyers’ loss is $2,500 and Henderson's $5,000. Beyers has $ 1,500 insuranoo and Henderson $2,500. Cause unknown.

Mamie Starr, the Chicago domestic who claims East Taw as as her home and who was convicted of murder for poisoning Mr. and Mrs. Ncwland, her employers, was sentenced to life imprisonment Saturday. She was carrh d from the courtroom in a dead faint.

Sheriff Dix of Kalamazeo lodged la jail Sunday, Thomas Burns, who was arrested in Milwaukee for Jail breaking. He was confined for larceny of a large quantity of velveteen and escaped with five others from Jail in November. Burns is tbe third one retaken.

Tho Missaukoo firemen were taught a lesson Christmas day that they will not soon forget. To accommodate the owners of a skating rink they fioodel it, nsing tho fire hose for tbe purpose. It took thorn two days of hasd work to got the ice out of tho hose.

Ira Dolbee, of Kendall, paid more at tentiom to the frolics of his dogs than to his gun whilo hunting Christmas day, and was surprised and pained when that gun slipped off tho stump and pluggod his right arm full of shot and powder. He will live and probably not loso his arm.

Miss Sallie Little of Saginaw was pre­paring to attend a pedro party the other night and In her haste to light the gas dropped the match on her dress, setting fire to it. She screamed and her father put ont tho blaze, bnt not until she was badly frightened and painfully burned. .

Louis Declare and Hugh McGinnis, lumbermen, employed in Nos tor’s camp near Ontonagon, wore struck by a falling tree Saturday afternoon. Leclare was instantly killed whilo McGinnis was seri­ously and perhaps fatally crushed. Mo- Gtunis lived ia Manistee while Leclare was a Canadian.

Tho trial of. Herbert Warren at Elmira, N. Y., for tho nyirdor of his father, resulted in a verdict of not guilty Saturday night. Tha boy shot his father whilo tho latter was beating the boy’s mother. Tho family formerly lived in Michigan, who-e tbh father bore the reputation of a wife beater. The verdict gives satisfaction.

A Saginaw hostler, known as “Little Louis,” had been sick for several days, but persisted in keeping at work. His em­ployer got him a doctor and medlclno, but ho refused to see tho doctor and knocked tho dose out of the hands of tbe attendent who offered it to him. He was at work Saturday when ho reeled and fell to tho floor. Ho was dead when tho crowd reached him. Pneumonia.

Lewis Bergman’s grocery store, Bay City, was burglarized in broad daylight Sunday and $80 in rash stolon. The theft was discovered by a family next door see­ing a man emptying the cash drawer into his pockot. Later in tho day the police arrested diaries Reynolds, who bad $#2 of the stolen money in his pocket Ho said his brother did tho robbing. Tho police arc looking for tbe brother.

Mldiaol Rt John of North Branch was trying to put a chain under a log when tho props under the log gavo way and Rt Jphn was crowded down out of sight lie yellod but was not mtuffi hurt when thoy pulled him out a short time afterward.

RESTLESS INDIANSA BIG BATTLE IMMINENT IN THE

VICINITY OF PINER1BGE, 8. D.GEN. MILES TRYING TO EFFECT

A PEACEFUL SETTLEMENT.

Tbe News of the Past Week Buna- marizrd tor Busy Readers.

WOll KM AMD CSILDRBX IMTHUILIJID.

The Omaha Dee's correspondent at Pine Ridge telegraphs that Gen. Brooke has received word of a fight at the Catholio mission, on Clay creek, aud that six men of the Seventh cavalry have been killed and many wounded. Ths first Intimation of trouble at tbe mission was brought late Wednesday afternoon by a courier, who rushed in with the startling news that the mission building, where there are a num­ber of Catholic priests aud sisters snd hundreds of children, were surrounded by host lee and hud been set on fire. The cavalrymen, who had hod scarcely any rest for four days, were instantly ia the saddle, and, with a couple of Hotchkiss guns, started on a gallop for the mission. As tbe dispatch was being written the roar of guns could be heard, indicating that a hot fight was ia progress. .Two Strike, Little Wound, Short Bull and other chiefs ran away from the ageney Monday night after hearing of the Wounded Knee fight, taking with them hundreds of war­riors. They also compelled old chief Red Cloud to accompany them under threat of death. It is these Indians who looted the supply train Wednesday morning and in the afternoon raidod tho Catholio mission.

OHM. MI1.KS’ LATEST R SPORT.A dispatch was reco ved at Washington

by Gen. Schofield Friday moruiug from Gen. Miles, dated at Pine Ridge Agency January 1, saying that 3,000 Indians, men. women and ch Wren, including about 600 bucks, arc now cncampod in a section of the Bad Lands about fifteen miles from tho Pino Ridge Ageney and there is almost a cordon of troops around them. Gen. Miles announces that he hoped to be able to in­duce the hostiles to surrender without a struggle. Tho spot where they are en­camped he describes as somowbat like tbe lava beds of California, where the Modocs made their final fight It is an excellent position from on Indian staudpoint, but there are now no avenues of escape, all having been closed by tho troops. Gen. Miles further Btates that the Indians have gathered some cattle and provisions and appear to be determined te make their fight for supremacy at this point He says he will make another effort to get back to the agency without bloodshed and In order to do so he has.established a regular seige around this stronghold.

KEKPIXO UP THE EXCITEMENT.A special to the Inter-Ooean from Pine

Ridge dated January 4, says: Last night was one of feverish excitement to every one at the agency. For tbe first time the squaw men and half broods were alarmed and remained up all Dight, fearing that the outbreak would bo made before morning. Tbe agency is too well guarded to permit any large force to approach very close without discovery, but it would be hard to prevent a few dariug individuals from creeping up some of the numerous ravines und throwing fire arrows into barns and hay stacks. The friendly spies all say that there are a large number of warriors in the enemy’s camp who have worked them­selves up to a condition of frenzy similar to those who committed suicide at Wounded Knee; that say thoy want to die and are going to die whffo killing white men. It is a .’so said that two bucks es­caped alive from the Wounded Knee fight who swore that they wiM sot tho agency os fire and kill the agent themselves.

Gen. Miles has his troops all around the enemy, and could draw thorn all in any day and have a tremendous battle, but could not prevent small bands escapiug hero and there which would have to be followed up by the soldiers, which would place the lives of Aany settlers in danger. By holding his troops until a much larger force can be thrown around tbe Ind ans the trouble can be confined to the reserve. The end cannot be reached without one or more battles, and bloody onos as there are too many of the crazy ghost dancers who only want to follow the example of their Big Foot relatives. Gen. Miles sent out a letter yesterday asking for u hearing. The Indians tore the letter to fragments and threw them into the fire, saying, “We want no treaty we are here to fight” Last night several shots were fired by pickets, and a couple of arrows were thrown into the yards. Doctors are constantly arriving, there being no less than fifteen here, with a large corps of assistants. A delegation of friendlies ask that a large party be sent out at onoe to aid those w ho desire to es­cape from the hostile camp. Thoy say that 700 or 800 warriors wish to return; that they either fled through fright ut first or were forced to go with tho rest. To let the friendlies go would undoubtedly precipitate a fight and consume several days of valuablo time. No decision in tho matter has been mode yet. The day is warm and clear und tho wounded who are ou their w ay to .the railroad will suf­fer no discomforts. Tbe Indians In the hostile camp number over 4,000 men, women and children and represent every agency of the two Dakotas.

| Three young mo* were skating on a pond at Key port N. J., Sunday, whoa the ice broke. All three were drowsed.

Se<Tetary Blaine’s Washington house, now oocnpled by M. Loiter ef Chicago, wae •lightly damaged by fire Thursday.

A cyclone struck the little tewa of Keachi, La., Thursday morning end dam­aged buildings to the extent of $20,000.

Chas. McDonnell, an electric light line­man at Denver, woe instantly killed Friday night by coming in contact with a lire wire.

A comparison of the season’s trips of the ocean steamers City of New York and Teutonio shows the former to be the speedier.

Three Indians from the Chicksaw nation have been brought to Denison, Tex., charged with a murder committed Chr.at- mas day.

Chan. Dinsmore was killed and another man fatally injured by an explosion in tho gas works at Sherbrooke, Quo., Wednes­day night

L T. Borden of Now York has pur- 1 chased “Fair Lawn,” Vice-President Mor­ton’s summer residenoe at Newport, II. L, for $130,000.

Unless St Louis carpenter* are given an increase of ten cents an hour for eight hours’ work a day on and after May 1, they will all strike.

The prison at Clinton, N. Y., was dam­aged to the extent of $200,000 by fire Wednesday night None of the {-.-ison- ers escaped or were hurt

The Kickapoo Indians near Hiawatha, Ks., have the ghost dance crane, and one them dropped dead . from exhaustion Wed­nesday. No trouble is feared.

Tho works of the Illinois steel works, except the blast furnace, shut down Wednesday, throwing 800 men out of em­ployment The works are looated in Chi­cago.

By the bursting of his gun an old man named Washington Sample, living at Fred­erick, Md., had his hand blown off. In despair he cut his head nearly off with a razor.

BEHRING SEA DISPUTE.

BRIEFLY TOLD.

Grand Duke Constantine, uncle ef the czar, is dying in Russia.

French troops are marching against the sukan of Begun, near Senogal.

Severe snow storms are reported in the District of Columbia and Virginia.

.4nothor soizure of eloctrioal apparatus has been made by customs officers at Win­nipeg.

Lack of rain is causing starvation for many poople in eastern Colorado. Help U wanted. •

Russia has forbidden enrollment of He­brews as barristers and expulsion of those j already enrolled.

Ex-Judgo William L. Muller, a partner and intimate friend of Gov. Hill, is dead in New York city.£

Mrs. G. W. Cox* commut'd suicide last week at Salem, Mo., by jumping iuto a j well eighty feet deep.

A shock of earthquake was felt at El- wood, Ind., Saturday, and the people there aro much alarmed over it.

Ed Dlltz, 16 years eld, was fatally cut with a razor by John Lacey, % tough character of Columbus, Ind. .

Correspondence Between Secretary Blaine aud Lord Salisbury.

Wasbixotom, Jan. 6.—The president today transmitted to tho house of repre­sentatives further correspondence on tho subject of the Behring sea controversy be­tween ths United States and Great Britain. The president's message is altogether formal and merely states that in response to tbe resolution of the housa of represent­atives, hs transmits the correspondence called for.

Ths correspondence consists of a letter from Lord Salisbury to Sir Julian Paurce- fote, dated August 2, 1890, and ono from Secretary Blaine to tho same minister of date December 17 lust. Both have copious appendices made up of past correspondence on ths subject.

Lo"d Salisbur.'s letter ia confined to a discussion of the Russian ukase and the treaty of 1825. He argues that Mr. Blaine has misinterpreted Mr. Adums’ position and declares that the history of the case shows—first, that England always denied Russia’s claim of maritime jurisdiction in Behring sea, that tho convention of 1825 was a renunciation of that chains, and that Behring sea wus not thou known by that name, but os part of the Pacific o -ean. He closes with the statement that If differences still exist, his government is ready for Im­partial arbitration by methods ts be agreed upon in concert with Mr. Blaine.

Secretary Blaine’s letter begins with an insistance upon tho correctneia of the posi­tion assumed by tho United States. He believes that the controversy turns upon ono point—whether tho phrase “Pacific ooeau” used in the treaties of 1824 and 1825 included tho Behring sea, as contended by Great Br.tain. If the United Statos can prove the contrary, her case is complete and undeniable. Therefore, Mr. Blaine enters into a characteristic argument based on Bancroft's history and maps ts show that Mr. Adams and his contemporaries hod a distinct un lerstan ling that the phrase “Pacific Ocean” excluded tho waters of Behring Sea of Kumtchatka. The secretary points to the large wealth of the Russian-Amerioan company which he says would not have boon carelessly thrown away by tho Russian nobility if a phrase merged Bobring Sea in the Pacific ocean. He cites tbe long years of abstinence' from the seal waters by the adventurous people of ths United Statos and Great Britain as a presumption of Ihoir lack of right to en­ter. As stronger ovidenoo of his correct­ness. Mr. Blaino cites the protocols of tho treaty of 1824 to show that Russia's relin­quishment of Jurisdiction applied only to the territory between the fifth and sixth degrees. Also an explanatory nots from Russia to Mr. Adams in 1824, positively excepting the Aleutian Islands and country north of 50 0 3 from the contiossion to tho United States of right to fish aud trado. He also cites the action of Great Britain excluding vessels from the waters within eight leagues of St. Helena when Napoloon was confined there, and again refers tc the protection exercised ovor tho Ceylon pearl fisheries by Great Britain, saying that ho is willing to accept thoso provisions for tho protection of tho soal fisheries. He spoaks of the enormous injury inflected by vosacls under the British flog upon the United States fisheries and suggested that sho send an intelligent commissioner to the seal islands. Again, he objocts to tho form of the proposed arbitration and says it will amount to something tangible If Groat Brit­ain consents to arbitrate tho real questions discussed for tho last four years: What were tho rights exorcised by Russia In Beh­ring Sea? How far were they conceded by Great Britain ? Was Behriug Soa included in ths Pacific ocean ? Did not tho United States acquire all of Russia's rights ? What are the present rights of tho United States? and if tho concurrence of Great Britain is found nocossary, then what shall be tho protected limits and closo season?

Secretary Blaine, in conclusion, denies that the United States over claimed Beh­ring Sea to bo a closed sea, and quotes Minister Phelps in 1888, where ho says that tho question is not appllcablo to tho present case.

A strong flow of natural gas has boon struck at Hamilton, Out.

An exploding latrp set fire to L. Budd & Son's bank, Bronson, Saturday, and be­fore tho fire was oxtinguishod sovoral hun­dred dollars’ damage was dono.

A stranger wont into Gould’s furnishing store in Battle Creek und asked permission to arrange his necktie at a glass at tho back of the store. It was granted aud no at­tention was paid to him. The next time a man asks permission to arrungo bis toilet in thnt store ho will need to buy a new rne, os this particular man lugged off $12 worth ef good-.

BID BLAZE IN N. Y.SEVERAL THEATRES WHOLLY OR

PARTIALLY CONSUMED.SIX FIREMEN BELIEVED TO HAVE

LOST THEIR LIVES.

Consternation Rampant Among tho Guests of Adjacent Hotels.

Dig Fire in New York.Nsw York, Jan. 4.—Fifteen minutes or

so last night after Fanny Davenport, in tho character of “Cleopatra” had trod the boards of the Fifth Avenua theater, and the audience hud passed out, a watchman ran out of the theater screaming, “fire.” A few seconds later fire engines were dash­ing up Broadway, and until naarly 1 o’clock this morning new detachments were still responding te additional signals for help. What was at first believed to be a small blaze, proved to bo one thatdostroyed a whole block upon Broadway, besides the Fifth Avenue theater, Hermann's new playhouse, a dozen stores and threatened the Sturtovant house, an the east side of Broadway, between Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth streets.

The fire had been burning less than half an hour before tbe flames shot through the roof, causing the wlidost confusion among the guosts of the Brower House on the northeast corner and the Sturtevaut House. The shower of sparks which covered the pavement of Broadway also set fire to tbe uwnings of tho latter. To add to the con­fusion thero wore six explqpious in the Fifth Avenue theatre, which blew the blazing rafters skyward, and these set fire to the roofs of the buildings surrounding tho burn­ing theatres. While the firemen were powerless to do anythiug towards saving the playhouses, they worked hard in pre­venting the destruction of houses in the vicinity of tho immense blaze.

All the property hurnod belongs to the Gilsey estate, and tho total damage to the building and its contents is roughly estimat­ed at $500,000. Manager Harry Miner was early an tho scene, as was also Prof. Herr­mann. While the former saved nothing from tho wreck, tho professor and his wife worked liko beavers. Mrs. Herrman saved her four pot doves, but her husband sor­rowfully said that his favorite trick appara­tus, worth $20,000, was lost to him forever.

According te tho Horal, six firemen lest their lives by the fire in tho Herrmann theatre. The Herald story is that six fire­men had gone through Horrmanu's theatre to the roof, and had Just succeeded In hoist­ing a length of hose up, when the furnace opened directly at their feet Five of them could not bo soon from the street, but ono stood outlined against the soa of flame that rose from the burning buildings. A shout was made for scaling ladders by the fire­men on Broadway, but before they could •be procured tho firemen were seen to take a farewell look at the crowd below, and then to deliberately walk into tho flames and disappear. A deadly silence that lasted for a full moment ensued, and then a moan of agony aro so from the crowd. Firemen wore seen to bend their heads aud wipe away tho tears that thoy could not prevent from flowing.

Death of Emma Abbott.Salt Lake Cm, Jan. 6.—Emma Abbott,

the great American prima donna, died at tho Hotel Templeton in this city at 7:80 o'clock yesterday morning of pneumonia. She was taken ill on Wednesday night, but persisted in going on the stago aud singing her part In “Ernani,” notwithstanding her physician's advioo. On New Year’s day she was taken alarmingly ill and n confer­ence of physicians was ordered. From that time she has grown worse until yesterday morning, when sho died.

Emma Abbott was a native of Chicago, and about 40 years old. Her father taught music, and sho participated in concerts given by him in surrounding towns. For many youthful yoars poverty stared her in the face, and it was only by the most heroic efforts that sho gainod a living. One j of her engagements in 1870 drew her to Toledo, where she met Clara Louiso Kel­logg, who on hoaring tho struggling girl sing bocamo at onco hor benefactress. The result was that Emma joined a church choir iu New York city and became the protego of Horace Grooly. After singing here for aomo timo sho was sent to Europe for a seven years’ term under the best masters. Sho studied under such teachers as Lamperti and Mmo. Marchosa. She also mot Gounod and profited by his ad­vice. While in Europfc * sho also met and married Eugene WethoreiL Hor debut wus made in London in 1895 as Marie In tho “Daughter of the Regiment.” Sho made a hit and on her return to this coun­try shortly afterward sho toured three yoars iu concert. Tho Abbott opera com­pany was then organized aud proved a great success from the start. Miss Ab­bott was reputed to bo worth about $1,000,- 000. A considerable part of this was made out of real estate in Minneapolis nnd Denves. Hor personal integrity andearnest efforts to please tho public earned for hor tho title of “Honost Emma.” *

Henry Rohro? killod his wife and then committed suicide at Fergus Falls, Mina., Saturduy night. Ho also attempted to kill his son and three daughters.

Senator Stookbridgo has reeoivod a potl- tion from W.S. Churchill and other Alpena voaselownors praying for increased com­pensation for captains and surfmon at life­saving stations.

Grand Rapids is to havo a now soven- atory building on ono of its main corners that will compare favorably with anything in tho state. Tho plans aro drawn and work will bo begun as soon as the frost is out of tho ground.

Two passenger trains on tho Baltimore & Ohio collided Friday, near Harper’s Ferry, Va. Tho engineer, Rufus Gosnell, was instantly killed aud seventeen other persons more or loss injured.

Admiral Mason 8. Cooper of tho Haytion navy, tho oldost son of Rear Admiral George H. Cooper of tho United States navy, diod of erysipelas at his homo in Brooklyn Friday, aged 43 years.

Justin A. Pettigrew, a brother of United SU»t«S Senator lvt tigrow, died at Sioux,. Falls, 8. D., Wodnosday night. Senator* Pettigrew is nimh ineensod at tho Chris­tian scientists who atteudod tho Bick man. i

News has been received nt London of the death nt Cairo of Gnstavo RevilUad, tho archirologisL Ilo has bequeathed his private museum and his tortuno, amount­ing to ovor £160,000, to tbe town of Geneva, Switzerland, vhoro M. Uevillioi

j was born, April 8. 1817.

CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY.

Washixotox, Jam 5, Sjxatb—Tha tom­ato met at noon wilh the vice-president ia the chair, und with a fuller atteudunue ef members thaa oa any other day at tha same hour since the seseioa began. Tha journal of Friday lost was read, sad wua of tbe briefest possible character, consisting of only one short sentence. Scores of pe­titions for aud against the Conger lard bill were presented, aud for' and against tha Torrey bankruptcy bilL The ceusu* com­mittee reported buck, without amendment, tha apportionment bill, which was placod on the calendar. The credentials of Fred­erick F. Dubois, senutor-eloct from Idube, wore presented and ordered to be filed pond­ing the beginning of tbe term for which he was elected, 4 th March next. The creden­tials of Seuutors-eleetShoup and MoConuoU of Idaho were uiso received and those gen­tlemen wire given seats in the seuute. A brief executive ress on was held and at its close the elections bill was taken up. Mr. George having the floor. While the debuts was in progress Mr. Stewart moved to taka up tbe senate bill te provide uguinst con­traction of tha currency, and Mr. George yielded the floor for that motion. Tha vote was taken by yeas and nays und tha motion was agreed to—yeus 84, nays 2®, thus practically shelving tha elections bilL The financial bill was taken up and a mo­tion to amend it by tha addition of a free coinage provision was argued until the hour for adjournment.—Houhjs— Mr. Henderson of Iowa presented the conference report on the urgency de­ficiency bill. In doing so he stated that the senate had receded from its ameud- ments (relative to pay of senatorial clerks) but that the house might expect te meet the same question on tho legislative or an the general deficiency bill. He thought it just to the senate to make this statement. Tho report was agreed to. Mr. Cannon of Illinois moved to susi>end the rules and pass the senate bill for the erection of a public building at Danville, 11L Agreed to—yeas 149, nays 15, the clerk noting a quorum. A bLl was passed for the erec­tion of a publio building at Richmond, Ky at a cost of $75,000. Adjourned.

Washin»ton, January 2.—Sbxatb—Al­though it was understood when tbe senate adjourned on Wednesday that the session today wus to be merely formal there were forty senators present when the Journal was read, including Mr. Alliaon, who had been absent from the city for some ten days past. Tho senator-elect from Idaho, Mr. McConnell, who bos not yet been sworn in, was also present and was introduced to a good many of the senators, as was also Mr. Dubois bf Idaho, who has been elected for the term to begin on the 4th of March next No business whatevor w&s trans­acted, and tbe senate, on motion of Mr. Spencer, adjourned until Monday at noon. House.—Tho speaker laid before the house the resiguatiou of H. H. Markham, as a member of the board of managers of the national homo for disabled volunteer sel- diors. Referred to the committee oa military affairs. On motion of Mr. Mo- Kinley of Ohio, the house adjourned until Monday next.

G. A. R. Appointments.Boston, Jan. 0.—In general orders Com-

mander-in-Chief Veazoy of the G. A. 1L announces tho appointment of the aides-de- camp on his staff. Charles Baker of Bel­fast, Me., and Frank G. Noyes of Nebraska are appointed assistant iuspectors-general, und Horn George A. Mursden of Lowell a member of tbe committee on Memorial ball at Decatur, I1L The pension oommittee consists of R. W. Blue of Kansas, Warner Miller of New York, Alvin P. Hcrcy of In­diana, Seldon Connor of Maine, and I* T. Dickinson of Illinois.

A Colored Woman Gains $240,000.Richmond, Va.. Jan. C.—Judgo Leake ia

tho chancery court yesterday handed down a lengthy decision in the celebrated case of Belle Thomas Lewis, colored, who claimed the estate of her white father, W. A Thomas, deceased, valued at $240,- 000. The court held that she was entitled te the property. The case will be taken te the supremo court.

Henry Forbush. wife and child, aad Henry Pierson, were all occupant* ef a wagon which was struck by a railroad train at Millington, Friday. Strange us it may seem, it is true nevertheless, that although tho wagon woe smashed te smithereens, Mrs. Forbush was tho only oue injured at all and she but slightly.

T. F. Laramie, of Bay City, is a shoe clerk with original notions which netted him some money, but have finally landed him in jail. When a customer mode a pur­chase Lqramle would make the check for $1 or $2 lees than the purchase, and when the change came hack would pocket tbe difference between the price aud the amount on the check, telling tho customer that the office bod made a mistake in chongo.

THE MARKET*Detroit.

Apples, per bbl...................$ 3 on 0 3 75Apples, oraporatod .......... 13 45 14Butter, per ....................... 18 45 19

Creamery............... 22 45 2TBeans, unpicked, per ba.. 1 50 46 1 55

city hand-picked. 2 00 46 2 00Cabbage, per 100 heads... 2 50 46 2 75Kegs, per do*....................... 25 46 25Hides, green, per ft............ 3 4

•• counti y..................... 4 46" cured ....................... .5 46 5*

riay. No. 2 per ton.............. » 46 10 50Mess pork, per bbl............. ra 50 46 10 75Poultry, chickens............... 7 40 8

ducks.................... 0 46 10..................... 8 46 9

turkeys................. 10 46 11pigeons, per pair. 20 46 25

Potstoos, per bu ................ Pfi it 1 noStraw, per ton..................... s •0 46 5 50Wool, line, per lb................. 28 46 29

coanw......................... 29 46 30Tallow, per lb....................... 4 46 4Vegetables, celery, per doi 20 46 26

cauliflower... CO *6 65onions, per bu 2 00 46 2 SO

Wheat, red spot. No. 2..., 05 46 9«Kred spot. No. 3., 80 46 92white spot. No. 1.. 03)40 98

Corn, No. 2 spot.................. MV,® 51 XNo. 3 yellow............. 51 51H

Oats. No. 2 white, spot.... 453445 46Clover seed........................... 4 25 46 4 35Burley.................................... 1 33 it 1 3RUye.......................................... 09 46 69

Marlette will have a farmers’ instituteFeb. 4 and 5.

Tho old Wilkinson A Groen mill at Provi­dence, R. I., wus gutted by fire Wednesday night, only the walls remaining. Ijoss, $125,000; fully insured. The mill was built in 1813, and has lately been run by the Dexter yarn company.

Tho announcement is made that the Young Mon’s Christian association of Chi­cago Is to erect a magnificent building ou tho corner of LasoIIo and Madison streets, at a cost of $1,400,000. Tho building will bnvo 14 storioa, three of which will bo.de- votod entirely to tbe work of the aascK-ia-^ Won.

CLINTON INDEPENDENT, THURSDAY, JAN 8,1091’

IN DREAM LAND.

I ran not *o bnck to ths part, drnr, bor drsaiu ns I dreamed before,

■ir thr sunlight had left me forever,Vi Iih yon »unit'd la mj Jrvnui* a* efyore.

I know K eeeonly a drrnm, daar,Tknt hue pneeed with thr springtide away;

It »li» scarcely your laait If I drrmrd it Au drttum aura wr piajrrd our play.

It »m not .rotir fanit that I woke, dear.And thr pale uf thr waking ia mine;

It bra never brought aadlira* or aorraw Ta that goldea head oi thiua.

Par nay II'a waa eo frrah and ao fair, dear.And you loved tor, (it waa hat ad ream.)

And iuy li a wna a poem luiwle glorious By a viaioa wUica did not baaia.

Ou my path, to make darkness more dark, dear;

And now that all dreaming In dona,With mu rtaya ita memory torwar;

ll waa not your lova that 1 won.

But- ham whom I met long ago, dear.In the far-puat dayr o' my youth,

Whea I wandorad fo/avrr in iiranmiuad Aud trusted ia honor und truth.

I shall never meet more in this wsrld, dear;My dream love you slew long ogo,

When y**u shattered the vision oua spring- tiiia;

She ia burisd beneath the snow.

If a day it alionld ever dawn, dear.In that laud where all enre ia part.

And we stand fare to lace in the .uture.As once wo stood in the peat.

It will not he you that I greet, dear.But my dream that I loved long atro;

Kite will rise rom the grave where I laid hor, No matter hoar deep the auow.

Kid whirh I laid her to rest, dear.For in heaven 'twill all he poet.

And ray dream, with her fuue like yours, deer,

I ahull know her. and And her at last. —Florence Pwaiock, la C haiuburlttiu'o Jour­nal.

A SAMOAN STRATAGEM.

APT. Yon Treu- en'eln, command­ing the corrette Venus stationed at Apia, was as proud of the fair name of

tdeosed the sailors that they would nave refused to deal with the al­mond-eyed gentlemen except for the fart that the latter offered for sale many beautiful things which they could not obtain of the Samoans.

1 only one of the Chinese condescend­ed to sell cocoanuts, whereby he won the contempt of his countrymen, who thought such petty business only fit lor the uncivilized natives.

At 3 o’clock the activo discipline of the Bhip was resumed, and the peddlers packed up their traps and departed. As the last one went over the side the captain, who had hither­to occupied a poet from which he could see all that was going on, gave a sigh of relief and sturted to go to his cabin.

On the steps he came into violent contact with a sailor, who immedi­ately turned and ran. The captain hastened after him, caught him by the arm, and cried:

“Man, you have been drinking! don’t deny it; I saw it at a glance.’'

No answer.“Will you speak or not? Where is

the liqnor?’’“Nowhere, captain.”“Then you deny that you are

drunk? Good! I wifi soon prove that jou are. March to the hospital." „

There was no escape. The captain escorted the culprit to the hospital between decks, where patients and nurses sprang up in surprise when they saw the commander.

“Nurse, tell the surgeon to come here at once.”

“Aye, nyu, captain."The surgeon appeared and was as-

touded by the question:“Doctor, is this man drunk?"“That I can not say at a glance."“Then examine him, nnd quickly."The young Aesculapius looked into

the “patient’s" eyes, felt his pulse, and laid his hands on his temples. Hut the man’s breath happened to rearh*his nostrils nnd ieit him in no doubt that the captain’s suspicious were well founded.

The surgeon knew how severe the cnptniu oould l>e in such a ease and triud to shield the man from punish-his ship as of his

own aristocratic cognomen EveryOunday he inspected all parte of the "] can not determine with certain- vesac', and offleersand men trembled %ty, captain,” said he. belore his searching glance, tor the “flol 1 hen I will show you how

1t*> do ao, although 1 am no physi- cinn. Pay attention, doctor.”

Then, turning to the sailor, he cried: “Stand still!"

The man set his teeth and stood

smallest speck of dirt was sure to bring a thunderstorm upon their heads.

“Venus was no cow-girl, but thegoddess of beauty, and his majesty's , ,j*a P°*t- ... . ., , . , , ... 1 Arms forward, elbows raised,ship that bore her name should be a gPr tjp„ togetherl"

floating palace, and not a pigsty. 1 Understand?"

They could not well help under­standing this brond hint, and would have l>een heurt.ly glad it the exam­ination had stopped at* this point,

fln-

“Do you see, doctor, how he rocks? His fingers tremble so that he can not keep them together. That is nn infallible sign of intoxication. The physicians may not know it, but I do. and i tell you the man is drun k."

“The ship rolls," groaned the poorbut next came the inspection of the i wn*tch, who was now swaying like a

‘ reed.men themselves, and any one whoso dress and bearing were not faultless could spare himself the trouble of asking for u leave of absence, for the □ext month at least.

Muchas thecaptain loved neatness, however, he was still more particular on the subject of good liehavior, and bi'peolally sobriety, a not too com­mon virtue among sailors.

A mun coming on board drunk aft­er leave of alisenoe might rest as- eured that he would not set foot on shore again during the cruise, und thecaptain took care that no one should have any opportunity of be­coming intoxicated <m board ship. He occasionally allowed a glass of grog dnring bud weather and very ban) work, but at other times not even the steward dared take a drop.

Hut, despite all its precautions, the captain hud on several occasions sus­pect* d that some of his men were not

“Nop the ship is quiet enough, but you roll; Where is the liquor, mnn?". “1 don't know, captnin."

Such u storm follower! this answer that the sick men left their beds and crawled away in terror, but the sail­or obstinately denied his guilt and the captain saw that even the rook would not extort a confession.

The mnn was set at liberty, for the captain’s sense of justice would not permit the punishment of one w hose guilt was not proved.

“Hut I will get to the bottom of this matter yet," said the captain as lie wvnt off to his cabin.

Hut a week later the memory of this occurrence was driven ont of the minds of the captain and the ship's company by an event of far greater importance. The Venus, which had cruised for two years in the Hucific, wns ordered home. The people of Apia were much grieved, for the blue-jackets had spent a great, deal ol money in the place, and theis'and-

quite solier. He at once doubled tho era had come to regard the ship as a watches on both main and gun permanent sonree of revenue, decks, and the boats’ crews of the The peddlers drove utliriving busi- other vessels in the harbor, as w* 11 nsss duri-ng the tew remaining days, as the Samoans, were greatly sur- The sailors bought writing paper to prised when, on approaching the semi home word of their nppioach- Venux, they saw n man armed wirh ing return and laid in a stock of to- a naked sword thrust his head nn/J bncco asd cocoanuts for tho voyage, shoulders from every porthole and One purchase*! a gay mat for moth- examine them very minutely. The cr's^Miest" room,another a grinning deck watch too stared hard at the in- idol for a curiosity-loving unde, and norent boats, torsect on 1 o( theregn- a third bought a red silk kerchief tor hit ons said: “.See thut no liqnor is his sweetheart, who was awaiting brought on hoard." him in happy ignorance of his fiirtit-

Jt might be supposed that the men tions with the chocolate-colored who went on shore could hring back damsels of Samoa, nny quality ol spirits very easi'v. if i The re*idi***t sale, however, wns they had not been thoroughly commanded by the cocoanuts. nnd searched oncoming on hoard. Tde thecaptain was pleased to see that captain made them turn out their his men were'so fond of this refresli- pocket* and even take off their shoes, ing and innocent fruit. He was lint he u-ver found any liquor and much astonished to hear the Chinese always went awav muttering: “1 cocoa nut seller demand half a dollar can not understand! t." apiece for the nuts.

One day the improvised fuir on “Half a dollar?” cried a sailor, ttie gun-deck was especially lively. “You must lie crazy, my lad."The Samoans bad hroaght coral “Not too muohee,” insisted the nnd shells, stalled birds of gray celestial. “Lookee here, large one," plumage, nnd artistically wrought The dispute, which was carried on mats, weapons and idols. Others of in a choice mixture of IMattdeutseh the natives displayed heaps of nnd pigeon English, ended by the oranges nnd lemons, cocnnnnts, Chinaman accepting a quarter ef a liannras, nnd pineapples, nnd al- dollar lor thscocoanut. though they sold these very cheaply, ' “Sheer extortion!" thought the thev made a good profit, for tin* captain, but on coming nearer he fruit was either taken from wild found that the nnts were very large trees to which no one laid claim, or and lmndsotne nnd determined to obtained by night without the for- buy some for bis own nse. midity of payment. The good- ! “Don't disturb yourselves, lads," natured fe'lows wore equally careless he snid, good-humoredly, ns the men about collecting the wire of whnt shrunk away nt his nppronch. Hut they sold, nnd, li they detected a they kept, at a distance und looked Bailor slyly nlistiacting a pin**npple so terrified that the captain re- or two, they either pretenred not to proached himself with having enrn- see the theft or laughed as if it were ed too great a reputation for sevor- nn excellent joke. i ity nnd vowed that he would lie more

Not so the pig-tailed sons of the lenient in the future.Celestial empirp. however. j The Chinaman, with an obsequi-

Adroit racalsthemselvAs they were ons grin offered the enptain the suspicious of everybody else, nnd smallest cocoanuts in his stock, theirahnrp little eyes kepta constnnt \ “Hut 1 want big ones,” said the watch upon wares nnd buyer*. They captain.cnrefu'lv tested every p:eco of monry “No goodee, no goodee,’’ said the offered inpayment, which so dis- Chinunan quickly.

“No goodee; little ones murhee bet­ter."

This disinterested advice was wast­ed, however, for the cupbaia threw down a silver dollar.and selecting the four largest nute had them conveyed to his cabin.

Shortly afterward the Chinaman packed up his wares and departed, although it wanted nn hour of the time for clearing the ship.

The captain observed with surprise that the sailors still seemed to be afraid of him. They certainly had impulses of benevolence.

“Haven’tyou got money enough?" he asked of nu old suilor whom he saw layingdown, with a shake of ib* head, a pretty carving in wood.

“Not by two dollars’"“Here they are.”The nrnn was almost petrified with

astonishment; he muttered n confused speech of thanks, nnd quickly hid bis treasure under his jacket, ifefelt tempted to kiss the captain's hand, but refrained from so uuseuman-like an action.

In nnother week the Venus was steaming homeward.

The tropical sun seemed bent on giving her an especially warm fare’ well, and the men were nearly over­come by the heat.

The guards at the water-tanks had hard work to protect their charge from the thirsty crew, and the cap­tain longed for n cooling drink. Hut beer and wine were blood-warm, and the ice-nmehine wns out of order.

“Useless piece of iron," growled the enptain. “i will have it thrown over­board to-morrow."

Suddenly an idea came to him.“Steward?"“Aye, sir."“Bring me one of the cocoanuts

that 1 bought to Alpin."The nut was brought and

thei.iptain prepared to uttnek it with knife nnd gimlet.

“I am glad that I bought the things,” said he, “for cocoanut milk is very refreshing. The sailors were wise in buying so many. Hello! It is plugged. The Chinaman must have tested it to see if it wus ripe. Cunning rascal thatl"

The enptain extracted the plug. Then he drew a long breath, threw back his head, raised the cocoanut in both bands, und applied the orifice to his lips.

The next instant he sprang back as if a scorpion had stung him. He coughed and sputtered, nnd his eyes filled with tears.

“Donervketter! Whnt is this? It tastes like rum. Steward, a glass!"

When the nut was held over the gloss, a dark liquid flowed out. Kuril it wns without n doubt.

“Sol" cried the captain, falling helplessly into a chair. “Now 1 un­derstand it all."

Five minutes later all the men were ordered to hring their chests on deck, anil then followed such an inspection ns had never occurred before, even on the Venus.

The captnin did not stop with the chests but went below nn*l examine*! the hammocks, the berths, and even the coal-bunker. Nobody but the steward knew what he was looking for, and as nothing waa found the enptain kept silence, unwilling to ad­mit that he had lieon outwitted. The sailors had taken good care that the cocoanuts should not turn sour. A few miuutes later three co.-oanot# nnd fragments of a fourth were bob­bing up and down ;n the wake of the ship. Perhaps the waves threw them on tho beach of some island whose in­habitants repeated the captain's ex­periment. If so whnt a clmrrting study for a painter their faces must have made.—From the German of Christian Brokard.

*5

Procedure In Case of AccidentThe city surface car companies are

8o frequently sued for damages by passengers and pedestrians that they have an elaborate system of preparation for such suits. On all occasions where a suit is likely to et)*ue from any occurrence the con­ductor ol the car is required to make a carelul list of the names and resi­dences of witnesses. This is filed in the office of the company.

If a person is injured the physician employed by the company to attend to such work is promptly notified, nnd goes at once to make a thorough insjiection and report on the case, noting the exact injury done to the patient, nnd laying the foundation for mitigation of damages. Then all the accessible witnesses are pnmp- ed and their statements put writ­ing, so Hmt when the case comes np for trial the cempatiy is well equip­ped for de.ensc, even it the conductor or driver of the car has gone off on a strike.—Interview iu New York.

“THE DUCHESS.CHAPTER XIII—Contivotd.

**7*.%, mj Seer; Kell wdl like me te d« my keel fer yoe, as though you were In­deed my very owe."

Neill How strsngetft sounds! To £h< Du elute it la eo inconcArably odd te heer her tether thus elluded to by hie Christ .an Biwne that involuntarily the smiles Some­how it p t atea her; it Menu eo friendly to­ward her deer dad, now ao far away, and ell at eeee her hw.rt seems to open still farther to bar new found friend.

“Of oowree I oould not manage about the exact fit," iayi madam; but my maid Is an invaluable peracra, a perfect treasure, and as gaad a c rassmakar an I know. Now, will yea come down stairs with me i »d be introduced to the others, or—”

“Fit go down, I think."‘That Is right, dear. Batter get the

•wkwardnee* over at onoe; and besidw you : will be able to make a choice as to your partner at dinner later on. Don't trouble te talk. Yon are fatigued by your jour­ney; that will excuse a llttli taciturnity. I suppaae yau would like Danis to taka you in ta dinner, tut—

“Oh! nel”'Be auarply do the words fall from her

that madam turns bar glance more directly upon her.

“Tea and be are good friends?" she says, somewhat of que t*on in her tone.

“Yes; friends," says the Duchess, fatnt'y.Madam’s kinlly, keen blue ayes are stdl

searching her face.“Every one kkes him," says the latter,

after a minute or two, carelessly, though there is a touch of uneasiness In bar man­ner. “He is very popular. What I myself shall do without him by and by, when— when he—"

| “When he is married to Mss Cazalet, you mean?" puts in the Duchess, divining the unca-ineus acid de ermined to combat it to the death, if only for her own pride’s sake.

"Yes, when he marries Katherine,” says madam, relieved in part, but still vaguely troubled as she looks at the proud, oold lit­tle fare before her that has grown so 0n- mi :a ittbly pale. “Come down w.th me, and let us e-je if we can yet res -ue a cup of tea," she *-aya, rising and drawing the gir l’s arm witoin her own. Almost as they reach the door of the library she turns te whisper softly: “By the by, I had forgot­ten, darling. Thure is a friend of years here. Quite a now arrival. He came yes­terday. Lord Kiigarriff."

CHAPTER XIY.Onco again that soft, low, trained laugh­

ter fell en Norah s ears; the perfume of many dowers stirs the air; the rooin seem wraoped in a rich, subdued glow, out of which one face Alone loo is c.early. His fare! Denial After one rapid glance the oiuel p&ki ef her heart grows easier, as in­stinct le Is her it is not Katherine to whom he Is speaking in that calm smilieg fashion.

Meantime, madam has led her up te a couoh drawn somewhat apart, on which a pretty, aristocratic looking young woman is sitting, with two er three men hovering round her. Her face is the most innocent thing imaginable, immobile almost, but for the eyes, which are spe'tally bri.Uant when you can see them—which is not often. Long lashes, falling from the upper lids and lying on the cheeks, are educatel to be a cover for tbeee charming tell-lalos.

“Sophie, this is my n.ccj,’’ says madam, standing before her. “N'oruh, let me make you known to Lady Glaodore."

“Ah!" eay« the pretty young woman. She sits up quite straight and lets tiiose bashful eyes of h m study the Duchess for a second or two. Then she holds out her hand with a wonderfully friendly smJe.

“Wo h»vo been expecting you," says she in a peculiarly slow, sweet voice; "but—we did not quite expet all this!" Then she drugs her eyes away from tde girl’s fresh love.lness and loots at madam w.th a sense of reproach in her m inner. “Oh, madam, this is very hard on ua," she su/a, plain- tlve’y.

Madam laughs and leads the Duohess a step or two farther to where a love y look­ing brunttte is engaged in a seemingly wurm argument with a young man who is laugh- ing a good deal. With a quick knowledge that she is glad of his presence Nor ah sees that it is kiigarriff. lie ia a slight man, about five feet ten in height, with a pale face, extremely dark eyes aud bA ;k mus­tache, rather Italian in his appearancr*, but with mmething homely about h ru that for­bids the idea ef foreign parentage.

The pretty brunette hal given way in the lively discussion and hod centered hor attention on the approa< hlng madam and t.er companion, the now makes a stop for­ward.

"it te”—" ds eoys, hesitating and smil­ing at the Ducho-a.

“No-ah," replies madam, smfltng too, Tbou ijoking at h?r niece, "Nrah, this is Nancy Blake. 1 hope you and she wul be good friends."

“Madam’s hopes are our laws says the Hon. Nancy, smiling still at Norah, who re <pon ls to the smile and then looks past her u> where Kiigarriff is etantiug behind her. That fount, man has hpd time to

'gain a vtry brilliant color and lo*e it agate, in a rather rom r..ablo degree, whilst the .Dccliess has been making her

he accepted

A Curious Friendship.

“Hens nre funny critters,” hejs an old farmer, “and I have one that took a violent liking for nn old brindled cow. After awhile she be- gun to jump on the cow’s back. For » lonjc time the cow indipmn'it'y Blwiok tho hen off. But the hen h*»p-

1 ped rijrht on a train, until at la-*t, in sheer despair, the cow r.hilosonhiral- Iv accepted the situation. S le was probably the more inclined to do so when she discovered, ns she i oon did, that Biddy, as much as possible, kept ull insects from nnnoyimr her.1 In fact, when shediscovered that the cow liked to lmve hor back scratched she scratched it in a wny to make the cow very hnppy. As a result ol this the cow bejvnn to enjoy the com-; panionship of the hen, and now when the hen jrets of! for awhile to eat, old Brindlo is evidently uneasy • nntil dbe comes buck again.”—New York Tribune. i

KISS CAZALKT IS l,riK(l BACK IK TTTK LOW CHAIR.

way np to the room. Kn*» herself growa faintly pink now ax she Rjiea :a to him.

“H* w d'ye *lo, Otho.”” nays she, rather <ia nurely.

lord Kiigarriff Roo-p‘« the hand she boidx out, r.tther nervon«lr.

“This La an uiievpe.-ted meeting," he Stammer*, eomewhat l uldly.

“An unexpectei pi .a* ire, yon might have said, " eugi exte MLx Blake, with ml»- chfevoti* re* roach in her tone.

“How ia it yon a o h *re " aslca Nomh, who ia very little e:n arraswd. “You never told me that you knew my annt."

“I think It arose more from the fact of my knowing her," aaya Miss I’.luke, with a little shrug. "I m t Lorvl KilgaVriff on the Riviera some weeks ngo, and," cal nly, “took qul:e a fancy to him." Kllg:irn(l laughed. “I happens 1 to mention hit name to Madam De anoy ei niy return, an 1 aiie Instantly remembered that h's father, or great gran fairs, or ao melody belonging to hi n. bad one* l een the hoaom IrienJ of her people; so she oskei hltn here, and out

ef the gordness of his heart (be invitation. V*le tout”

KiJgarriJ make* some rather rambling return to this half meckiog speech, and the Duchess, altpi lng Into a chair sear Mbs Blake, begins be leek with curlqrty around her. 6ha passes ever most ef uls vumeu present un.il her eyes fall upon a low lounging chair of saffron ve’vet, tn whioh, aha feels, il s the one for whera she has been unonnedoualy seeking ever aiuse her en ranee into the room.

It is beyond a doubt a very handsome picture en which she is now gazing. Mini Cazalet is ly ng back In the low ehair, trifling indolently with a tiny black-end- tan terrier that l es crouching in her lap, bar eyes turnsd lightly upwar la to the man who is leaning over the back of her lounge. Those eyes ere large and lustrous. If a ratasr light blue, swept by lashes that are extremely dark and curl daintily upward* Her nose is pure Greek, her mouth perfect. The rippling heir Lhxt is drawn bock so seity from her br ad low brow is of a pure end vtry rare gold color. One can see that sbs is tail and slun ’er, end that she is pos­sessed ef an ease and elegance not t> be rivaled. Her voice, as it comes faintly to Norsk, who is watching hor, spell-bound aud ^ck at heart, sounds soft and low as distant m'.iac. It would be indeed e most degenerate man, one lost to all grace, who could dare to find e fault In that faultless form.

The man conversing with her now does net at all events come un ler tht i head, ax his de ot ou is sufficiently marked to be soon by all who will. He is a middle aged gentleman; stout, and somewnat scant of breath, with the common -ement of a very respectable tonsure on tbs top of hL bead,

j lie is, however, lending over Miss Cara et in a serai-loverlike attitude aid is appa­rently addressing her with all the ardor of youth.

“Sir Rrnnlrum Boileau." says Miss Blake, feeing where Norah’s eyes are riv* etrd. “You know Katherine Cazalet, of eourae. fc he is considered the handsomest lloedo in the kingdom. Sticky, I call hor; but then I'm a heretic and don’t love thorn beaux yeux of bers, in spite of their saintli­ness. Last season she was staying with the Nt. Lawrences in Park Lone, and went about a good deal with them, and after a b t she became known as the ‘Virgin Mary.' She is bo bor aphic. But If she is an angel I ornfees I like tho other sort best, the < le­mons. I’m a demon l’' cornlu les she, pounc­ing, as it u ere, upon Kllgarriif, with quite a tragic note in her voloe.

“Oh, net" says he. with a violent start and in a deprecat ry tone. She laugh*.

“Now, shall I tell you about theothersf" she says to Norah. "They are not of the

/least consoquin e, taking them as a whole; Lot I suppose I bod better put you up about thorn. That little wizened-looking man is an author; he is all brain, no body. They say he sold himself to the dsril half a century ago, consenting to let hi* body go if his brain might live forever, and be has been calmly dwindling ever Bin^e."

“Half a century I He does it with caro," says the Duchess. Miss Blake look* at her with appreciation.

“I begin to have quite a respect for yon," she eays to Kiigarriff,sotta voce, and as that young man of course fails to un­derstand her she gives him a gentle but scornfel push and tell* him to bring Lady G.andore to her aid, as Mias Delaney ia proving too much for her.

“Ho is such a muff!" *uys she, when he, obedient, baa departed. “After all, 1 dare say you we e right."

“Right, how?"“In refusmg him.”“Oh! But bow do yon know that.*" say*

the Duchess, a little shocked.“Why, he told me so, of course," says

Mtw BUko, with charming unconcern. “8h* now, here he cornel Ahl Bless me, what an awkward creature it is."

For Kiigarriff, In bis eager haste to re­turn, stum.de* hopelessly over a Utt’e milk­ing stool In the way, and all but measures h a length on the ground.

“What’s the good of your steaming np tho room at twenty knots an hour.’" de- maids the Hon. Nancy, half laughing. “Where does the hurry come in.* The day is always unconscionably long, spread it out as much as you can.'1

Lady Gl&ndoie, who has come np to them, sinks laughing iuto hor seat.

"Those little stools ue the mo t treach­erous things imaginable," she says, •‘specially when they’re black. One can hardly see them; and really of whst won lerful uss are they after all, that we should keep tnem at the risk of endanger­ing life anl 1 mb’"

"Well, I do.i’t know; they have their ns', you know," says KilgariT, regarding with a nobly forgiriag glance t e b aek and p rilous stool In question. "They g.ve you the free use of bitta yonr him la It was awful, long ago, having to bo.d your cup and cake loth Now you can put your cup down nnd eat your cake, or yon caa put your cake down and eat your cup—or —ah!—that is—”

“Oh, never mind!" rays Miss Blake."Is Nancy letting you into a few of the

mysteries inks Lady Glandore, in her soit, low, lather draw.Ing voice, turning to Norah. * She is very gool at that sort of thing; but I think Mr. Wyldinj is eve i hotter. He t* the a! surd look.tig person with aan ly hair at the en.l of the room, and that little tub of a wo.nan on our right Li his u ife, but she doesn’t count. At least bo won’t let her.”

"No, poor Lttle soul! I often wondor why she married him," eays a man with a dark, c Kan-shaven f«re, * who has just satin ered up—Sir Philip Glandore, as the Duchess afterwards discovers, "I rather dike oer ia spite of her many defects "

“Why, ye*," soys Miss B.ak >. "She is better than some. I suppose he had money. By the by, who w ho.*"

"it doesn't matter in the least, my good child, wh > nn;. body is nowadays; it is wb it ho has. Ho mav be a button man or a vendor of b ioksso long as he ran pay bis bilk* ard entertain th> world at largo. Talking of tha ,what has W/Uing.*"

"z>if eo i huodrel a year and an infernal tem|>er," says 8ir Philip plac:dly. ‘That’s hui whole stock in tra ie "

‘•Bad for his wife and not much for any one e so. If it be true whnt you say, wbat a fraud tinsn L! He seems no specially soc abe and good-tempe.e l, so exceedingly Ugnt in hand. Ah! there is Denis How severe he looks!"

"Well, I always think I should like Denis better if I weren’t the least bit afraid of him," fa.s Mi-* Blake, who never yet saw a llvirg llii ig she feared. “Ilow d d you get ou with him?” turniug suddenly to Norah.

Thus addressed, the blood seemed to fly to NorahL heirt. Fho makos a l.ttlo faint attempt as if to answer, but nowordsooni* Mis* Blake, after a saarp glance at her, itops to tiio rescue.

"1 see. He kept you in order as he does tho rest of ui, and you don't like to »ay so. A cousin, like a bi other, is a true tonio, un­pleasant but whole ome. Correctives, you know, are always nasty. Dear Denis, it li a shame for tne to say a word against him. It is a sin against my < on-toil race, as I know no one I so sincerely like."

The Durhe-iS lnvolo itarily lifts her eyes to hers—a world of sad gralit.ide in theii depths If Miss B.ake had wanted con

firms Man of her mpidms she had ft In foil. A touch ef geoa m regret her piquant# face for a monsit, and In that moment is born a eery bunoat fiiendifn* * toward the slender creature by her side. Inktiactiveiy she lifts her gsse and turns It on Delaney, who is standing partly within th# recaas af the window. Thus situated he is rather bidden from tho general eye, and Mias Blake's glance falls upon him wiUugiV i disturbing the direction of bis own.

Was ever despair more keenly ex pressed, than in those dark eyes that are fixed wi such a mournful yet (rapasslaued fntensi up»n the Duchess? They teU their tale the attentive watcher—then, is no neplJ for further speculation. That Deals lovyp this little dsrfe new-comer as he baa uevoF loved flhs handsome Ikmle—as he hop never level any one—as he will never lore' again—is ss plain to Miss Blake as if his* awn lips bod sa d it

And now he start*. His me’aneholy day dream is broken in upon by the approedk cf h s me'her, who cornu up to him with a radiant smile.

“She is charming. Quite a picture. Not one word too much did you say," de­clares she, with soft exthus.asra. "Wus there ever such a mouth, such eyesf—add her pretty little hands! 1 must manage somehow to take her to town next reason and have her presented. She will be quite the fashion at onoo, her coloring is so very original, aud her uaauu rs so fresh. In fact, i predict all sorts of good things far hor. She might in my opinion make a very ex eilent marriage."

Delaney bites his lips"How you run away with things," he

says, in a tone more impatient than he ever uved with his ido.ired mo her. "He to-day—and—already married 1 Let hor breathe a moment or two, poor cbildl"

"Ah, well, we shall see," says vaguely. The impatience, the touch o: pain in his forced smile, hive not gome un­noticed by her. "As you say, she is bat a child. ’’ Then she pastes en quickly to meet another guest who bos just arrived, and Delaney goes back to bis unhappy con­templation of her he loves

He has made a slight movement as bjff mother went by, and through it hLt position bus bacame more known to those immediate­ly within his view. Two eoid blue qyep, upliltrag themselves from tlte block-and-too terr.er, grow very earnest in fhrir exprea-

. eiou, and watch him wiUi a stadia) scrutiny that denies the power tocbe^t them. When she bad vflt-nesied his absorption for quite a minute & fine cold smile parts Miss Gamlet's lips, Lifting tho tiny creature on ber lap shfi drops him deliberately, and rather cruelly, with a certain force upon the ground. A ■ iueal is the result of this mauamvre, and Denis, starting, look* in ks direction, and straight 1 ito Miss Cazalet’s qyes Some­thing in teem chills him, but be tins hardly time to decide wbst it is when she rise* moves slowly to where the Dschees is ting, cloxe to Nancy Blake, and talking a young man, rather stout an-i very ly cropped, who rejoices in an eyeglass and the shortest coat that decency will per­mit, and who soems gifted with quite a fund of light and airy converse.

Miss Cazalet having demanded very pret­tily, and obtained, an introduction to the Ducliess, stands by, listening to the ic£» shafts of talk that every now and then reach her ears

“I’Ve run down for a week," the stout young man with an inch or two of coat ie saying, with a beaming snulo. "Madam wrote me word there wa» a garden jSrty on for next week, so I knew I was safe to meet Mrs. O’Shaughnessy, and as she is at present the light of my eyes and all the rest of it, I’d thought I’d rodie."

“What a name!" said Miss Cazalet."Fine o'd Irish name, I give yon my

word. There’s a good deal of I allow but you can’t have too much of a good thing. She says she is descended from % King or Queeu, er several Kings and Queens—I really forget At all events, she is the one woman upxn whom my affec­tions are at present eet."

"Don't be cruel! What on earth will become of th* others?" Bay* Sir Phillip.

"Well, that’s it, you see! What ia a fellow to do?” s-iys the stout young man— Mr. Green*.

"I hate garden parties—paltry things,’> say* Mis* blake. ‘‘I have fixed my fondest hopes upon the fancy dress ball to come off later on. Which would you prefer, turn­ing with a friendly air to Norah.

"The ball, 1 think," says she half shyly. It is on adorable shyness that bring* Mr. Greene to her fent in no time.

“Trust the Duchess for that," says Kil- ganiff, frith a lingering glance at his old frtnod on 1 play fellow.

'•The Duchess!" repeats Mis* Cazalet in her clear sweet voice. "Is that how they call yon?"

"Dad does," says Norah, with a painful blush—her voice about a whi*;>er.

"Tho Duchess! A rather—er—pronounced tort of sobriquet, don’t you think? But of course very appropriate,” with a pofitp smile, but in a tone that rays p>1nly that the Ducliasi in qnrat on in her opinion is ol very inferior quality indeed.

"And a right good Duchess, too,*’ si\y* Ki'gasTlT, rasentiul of this tone.

"No deubt," says Miss Cazalot with • steady smile.

“Has your Grace any vacant place in yonr retinue that you arght offer to a de­serving valet?" demand* Mr. Greene, humbly. “If bo, here ho stands Any post, however low, wou d be gladly ac­cepted. Scullion—turnspit—anything to servo you!"

“But that your rank preeTtufas the Idea, you should feel honorel,’’ says Miss Cazd- lot, fixing the girl’s nervous shrinking eyes with her own colJ mockint gaze. There is * sense of keen pleasure lo her hi the agony of abyn.*s that has overtaken th * poor little Duchess at thus finding herself the central object o', this unknown circle. "Do yon know," Miss Cazalet is just beginning afrssh, some subtle cruelty upon her lip*, when there is a Dtt'e stir bohind b r, and Deni*, pale and stern, presents himaqlf. He looks alone at Norah.

"My mother wants you," he says, curtly, and, drawing iter hand within his arm, cnr» ruua har awav.

[to bs coxtinvbu.

ARMY AND NAVY NEWS.

The fatigue cap is the only ehaugo In the aruiy uniform that will probably bo made.

The San Francisco's official speed l» lO.bti knots, or junta trlilo below thftt of the Philadelphia.

The old naval academy ship, fianete. Is to lie dismasted and have her upp&r deck housed over the enliro length.

The Baltimore was ordered not to Ar­rive At a Swedish port before » certain date, which account! for her lengthy voyage.

Nest year’s estimate for the marine corp-* will include an Inc nase in the valuo of their ratiou Irom t’5 cent* to- 30 ceuts per day.

Recent experlmonta with troops im field have deiiioetlra ed the superiority

^ Cf the Merlam type of knapsack over others now iu use.

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CLINTON INDEPENDENT. THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1891.

The IndependentQEORGE 8.COKBIT, Editor and Proprietor.

I!T. JOHNS, THURSDAY. JANUARY 8, 1891.

Uncle Jerk Husk, the U. S. Com­missioner of Agriculture, feels badly over the Reaper and Mower Trust. He bewails the fact that it is now “selling or offering to sell machinery in Russia and Australia and other wheat-growing countries at a lower figure than they do in this country. This won’t do, and I need not offer any argument to prove the weight or truth of the assertion. The first thing the farmer will do when he is acquainted with these facts will be to make a howl against Trusts and Protection that does not protect. Whether justly or not, he will charge it to the Republican party. 1 am as cer­tain as I can be of anything that this Mower and Reaper Trust will cost the Republican party hundreds Of thousands of votes at the next Presidential election unless it takes a firm stand against it and Trusts in general.’’_____

THE rENSIO> SHARKS.

Veterans Are Paying Too Much for the Services ol Attorneys.

Secretary Noble has been paying con­siderable attention lately to the subject of attorneys’ fees in pension cases and is formulating a plan by which claim­ants for pensions who are not repre­sented by attorneys may be placed and maintained upon the same footing as those who are. It is proposed to orga­nize a force within the Pension Bureau, at the head of which will be placed a thoroughly competent pension lawyer, whose business it will be to look after the interests of these unrepresented claimants. The plan is not iully ma­tured as yet, although the general features have been agreed upon. In speaking to-day to a representative of the Associated "Press of the Question of .attorneys’ fees. Secretary Noble ex­pressed himself with some warmth. “Think of it,” said he “the Pension Bureau is now issuing between 14.U00 and 15,000 certificates a week. What does this mean to attorneys? It means that they are receiving every week as fees out of moneys appropriated by Congress to relieve the necessities of our old soldiers between the $150,000 and $375,000.”

Under the old law an attorney could charge and collect a fee of $25 for every case brought to successful issue, and of the cases now being allowed large pro­portions are of that class. The new law allows a fee of only $10 per case, but even at this compensation the attorneys would realize $1.50,000 a weak.

“I look over the list of attorney’s,” continued the Secretary, “and I find that very many of them are men who, upon their knowledge of the law, could not build up even a petty practice before country justices of the pease ; but here in Washington they manage in a few years to accumulate a million dollars or more, acting as so-called ‘attorneys’ for pension claimants. And then it would be some comfort if they would leave the old soldiers with one fee, but pome of them work them as I saw people work cotton-seed in my trip to the south this fall. They gin them Once for an original pension and then gin them over again for an increase, and tins process of ginning is kept up so long as anything remains. I am becoming thoroughly convinced that something should be done, and that soon‘ to releive the old soldiers of this griev­ously heavv burden. When I think of my old comrades in the war being obliged to contribute to the mainten­ance of these people I can hardly restrain my indignation, and before long I hope to be able to mature a plan by which some of them may have their claims looked after without having to pay over the first fruits to pension agents. To be sure,” he said “these unrepresented fclaimants are now receiving a fair share of attention at the Pension Bureau, but I am fully determined that they shall have just as much attention as any among those who have attorneys.”

Washington Letter.

From Our Regular Correspondent.Washington, D. C., Jan. 2,1891.

Senator Hoar enjoyed his New Year’s day dinner less even than his Christmas dinner, if it were possible. Senator Stewart spoiled his Christmas dinner by his speech against the Force bill and his appetite for his dinner yesterday was killed by a grand triple attack upon his pet scheme for getting even with the South by Senators Wolcott. Teller and Hale. The first named Senator fired broadside after broadside into the Force bill of unanswerable argument; the groundwork of his logiq being opposi­tion to enacting a law for the purpose of placing an acknowledged ignorant and incompetent majority over an intel­ligent minority. He stated plainly that if there were a majority of ignorant ne­gro voters in the state of Colorado, solid­ly opposed to the united intelligent white votes, that in some way and by some methods the white vote would govern. That he is a broad guage man the following words from his speech fully demonstrate : “For a quarter of a century, out from poverty and despair, the South has been reaching forth in ef­forts to plant its foot on the solid rock of material prosperity ; and in view of the marvelous growth and transforma­tion taking place in the Southern States, I believe it would be unwise and un­patriotic for us to interfere in the con­duct of its internal affairs.”

Senator Teller’s speech was a ringing demand for the shelving of the Force bill and the enactment of the financial legislation demanded by the people of the country, which he described as be­ing on the very verge of a financial panic.

Senator Hale’s remarks, which proba­bly hurt the would-be-leader from Mass­achusetts more than all the rest, was an attack upon Mr. Hoar charging him with being responsible for the month’s time whicn has been wasted in consider­ation of the Force bill, and demanding the speedy disposal of that measure in order that other and more necessary legislation might have a chance. Mr. Hale also took occasion to give the cloture, or gag rule now pending, which he says is altogether needless, a few hard raps. Take them all in all they were three of the most remarkable speeches ever made in Congress outside

s agaiure by members of the same party.

And yet, there is a well grounded fear on the part of Democratic Senators that by the vigorous use of the party whip and the administration patronage the bill may be passed, if it ever reaches a vote, which it will not do if the demo­crats can by any means prevent it. In order to defeat it upon a vote, assuming that every Senator will be in his seat or wired, it is necessary that eight repub- icans should vote against it, and only

three have yet openly announced their intention of so voting, although there are a dozen or more who have privately expressed themselves as being opposed to it.

One thing is evident it will have to beSassed or laid aside within the next ten ays; other legislation particularly finan­

cial, is crowding it, and Senator Hoar is reported to have said to-day that if it was not passed next week, it would nev­er pass. The administration has all the detectives of the Post-office department working on the recent killing of the post-master at Carrollton, Mississippi, in order to try to make capital to help uish the bill "through, notwithstanding etters in the possession of Senator

George from the leading citizens of the town, including its most influential minister, stating that politics had noth­ing whatever to do with the killing.

Treasury department officials are now eparing the annual deficiency bill. It

"will be the largest in the history of the country, aggregating about $75,000,000, nearly half of which is for pensions. These deficiencies were deliberately made by the republicans in Congress at the last session for tire pur­pose of blinding the voters of the coun­try to the amount of money that was being spent by that party.

Senator Hearst is somewhat better than he has been for several weeks, though still a very sick man.

The Civil Service Commission has jumped on Mr. Wanamaker to, the ex­tent of several newspaper columns be­cause of his criticism of its methods in his annual report. This is regarded by many as an attack upon Mr. Ilarrison, who approved the report of the Post­master General, or it would not have been made public, and some people think that there may be vacancies in the com­mission before long. The country could get along if the whole business was abol­ished.

Democrats are by no means^ anxious for an extra session of Congress, but if, as now looks almost certain, one be made necessary by the failure of the re­publicans to pass the regular appropri ation bills they will not complain. Thej are ready to do their duty, but they wish the responsibility for an extra sess­ion to be placed where it rightfully be­longs -on the republicans. Don.

BURLINGTON ROUTE. RICHARD O. DAVIES. JAMES 8. ADAMS.

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HOARD OF TRUSTEES.

Regular Meeting, Jan. 5,1891.Meeting called to order by the president.Present. J. D. Henderson, president, Trustees

Fowler, Hamilton, Knitfiin, Waldron and White.

The minutes of the special meeting, Dec. 29, were read and approved.

The following bills were presented, referred to the committee on claims, fire, water and lights, streets and sewers, reported favorably, and orders drawn on the treasurer for the proper amounts.

Special Water Fund.I Mattoon..................................................... t .75Cbas Cross..............................................................45Jas Hesley.................................................... 3.00Frank Alger, salary................................... 45.00DeWltt H. Hunt, salary............................. 21.00E King, salary............................................. 60.00Jas Henderson............................................ 48.00Cooper Boiler & Engine Co....................... 19.12Fowler & Call, street sewers, etc............ 108.87M Walker, special castings...................... 100.23Standard Oil Co. ......... 5.10H D Edwards & Co., supplies.................. 5.00McDonald & Travis................................... 2.40J S Osgood, coal.......................................... 144.3tWarner Bunday, supplies........................ 5.82A O Hunt, paid express, etc...................... 12.95J W Sage....................................................... 1.7J G Wise....................................................... 1.108t Johns News Co....................................... 1.30

General Fund.J Shlndorf & Son........................................ 1.25Telephone and Telegraph Const. Co.... 15.00C H Reeves, Chief, Are dept......................C H Reeves, hose company...................... 9.25C H Reeves, hook and ladder company.. 5.75I Holton, brick............................................ 2.45Mutual^Gas Co., December................ 9750E E Urie, salary.......................................... 25.00J Carr............................................................ 1.00Geo Hulburt, night watch........................ 25.00E E White, expense selling bonds.......... 14.50Wm Leland. supplies.................................. 1.46J S Osgood, Ule............................................ 1.95Cbas H Reeves, salary.............................. 50.00St Johns News Co....................................... 1.60Marshal's pay roll....................................... 11.67J W Sage, repairs to engine house....... 1.50Jerry Dooling, watching engine house. 15.00L A Kellogg, salary................................... 10.00W C & E H Lyon, sewer pipe.................. 1,310.97Pay roll Ottawa and Lincoln St. sewer.. 31.58H H Harris, draying................................... 1.50T Bromley.................................................... 9.20B F Kneeland, surveying................. .... 25.00

The marshal's monthly report was presented and referred to the committee on streets and sewers.

The following petitions were presented and referred to the committee on streets and sewers.

To the honornble Hoard of Trustees of the village of St. Johns: We, the undersigned, property owners i* said village, do respect­fully ask your honorable body to continue the fifteen Inch sewer now being cut through block eleven, to the south side of State street, putting in a man-hole near the north-west corner of the court house square.

(Signed) YOUNG & BROWN,O. W. MUNGER And 9 others.

The following communications were re­ceived from the tire department.

Mr. President and the Trustees of the village of St. Johns: At the regular meeting of the St. Johns Are department, held January 3,1891. The following officers were elected to be ap­proved by the board.

Chief—Chas. H. Reeves.Assistant Chief—Anson Clark.Steward—Lewis A. Kellogg.

(Signed) GEORGE W. ESTES, Pres.LEWIS A. KELLOGG, Sec’y.

The communication was referred to the committee on Are, water and light, which reported favorably.

The motion prevailed to con Arm the above officers.

Yeas—Hamilton, Kniffin, Fowler, Wsfldron and White.

Nays—None.Trustee Fowler moved that the committee

on Arc, water and lights settle up accounts of clerk, marshel and treasurer and report at the next regular meeting.

Carried.On motion the Hoard adjourned.

DEWITT H. HUNT/Village Clerk.

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ville, Ind., writes: “Electric Bitters has done more for me than all other medicines combined, for that bad feel­ing arising from Kidney and Liver trouble.” John Leslie, farmer and stockman, of same place, say6: “Find Electric Bitter* to be the best Kidney and Liver medicine, made me feel like anew man.” J. W. Gardner, hard­ware merchant, same town, says: Electric Bitters is just the thing for a manwhois all run down and don’t care whether he lives or dies; lie found new strength, good appetite, and felt list like he had .a new lease on life.

Only 50c. a bottle at Fildew & Miliman’s drugstore. 2

Harnesses, Robes, Blankets, Whips, etc.These Goods were bought of the Manufacturer for Spot Cash,

and will be sold correspondingly low.

Three doors north of The Steel, Clinton Avenue, St. Johns.

DAVIES & ADAMS.

There’s banks of violets, Banks of And banks wfyere toners grope*

And bajjKs tb&t ij&ndle golden coin*

But FAIRBANK ntakeaTHE BEST SOAP.^^SantaClausSoar m1XX£?L

MONITORFlouring Mills,

LEWIS LONIER, Prop’r ,Grand Ledge, Mich.

FULL ROLLER PROCESS.

After on expenditure of 13,500 In repairs, changes and additions, the Monitor Mills

are now virtually new throughout, and prepared to manufacture

first-class flour.

CUSTOM WORK SOLICITED, with the assur­ance that every effort will te made to please the people. My friends in Clinton County are invited to give the Monitor Mills a trial.

LEWIS LONIER.

—Go to the—

TERRAPINLunch Room 0 Bakery,

Head of Olinton Avennc, East Side for a

GOOD LUNCH-OR-

BAKER’S GOODS.

Everything in First-class Style.

SAW IVfIXjLiS, .ENGINES, «

Improved Variable Friction Feed.Send for Catalogue and Special Prices.

A. B. FAEaUHAH CO., York, Pa.

UNDERTAKING !CALL OUST

S. W. INGRAHAMFor Everything in the Line of

:::::::::::::: goodsCASKETS,

Burial : Robes, : Crape, : Etc.

Yours Truly,

REYNOLDS & GARDNER.] I also carry a full line of the Celebrated P. and

W. steel Top Caskets.I My Undertaking business Is now exclusive I of any other. Klegant new rooms in the Sickles Block, west of Court House, near Con gregational church.

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and best accommodation*. For lull psrtlcnlarscall on or writ* A. PHILLIPS 4. 66. mg.Clark *t. Chicago,

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MADAME PRICE'S

SCHOOL OF MUSIC,Corner Cass and Mead Streets.

PUPILSTAKEN AT ANYTIME

Branches Taught are Piano, Voice Culture, Organ and Harmony.

FREE ADVANTAGES TO PUPILS,

Harmony Class once a week.Juvenile Singing Class once a week.Public Recitals at the close of every term.

To children other than private pupils who Join the singing class, a fee of 92 for twenty lessons is charged.

AySpocial attention is given to beginners on the Piano. 1252

WANTED!

Seasoned timber for use in manufacturing

Wagons, Buggies and Gutters,For which best price will be paid by

SMITH BROS.,One Block West of The Steel.

Horse-shoeing and general repairing promptly and satisfactorily done. I266tf

'a dot-fcma. Root |COMPOUND

posed of Cotton Root, Tansy and Pennyroyal—a recent discovery by an

'old physiilau. It nuc-Lcm/uUu uneit . Tg—Safe, Effectual. Price $1. by mall.

aealetL Ladle*, aak your druggist for Oook’a Cotton Boot Compound and take no substitute, or inclose 2 stamp* for sealed particular*. Ad­dress FOND LILY COMPANY, No. 8 FUbet Kook, 181 Woodward ave., Der-oit, MU%

save wo. du uamomia.J. C, JUDSON A CO.’S personally conducted Cali­

fornia Excursion* In brood gauge Pullman Tourist Sleeping Car*, via I>env*r A Rio Grande it. P... <th* scenle lie* of the wurld) leuve Chicago via Chicago A Alton it. H. 12:00 noon Saturday ot ever* weak, each excursion in charge of an efficient and gen-Je- ■uauly excursion manager. Pullman tourist sleeping car* through from Boston and Chicago to Ssn braa- cisco and Lot Angeles. For rates, reservation of tHsribs, etc., call on or address, XC. JUDSON A CO., 196 Clark Street, Chicago.

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No more of this!

Rubber Shoes unless worn uncomfortably tight, generally slip off the feet.

THE “COLCHESTER” RUBBER CO.make all their shoes with ln*’de of heel lined with, rubber. Tills clinirs to the shoo an J prevents the rubber from slipping off.

Call for the "Colchester”“ADHESIVE COUNTERS.”

At Kelail byA. E. DUTCHER,J. R. WOODRUFF,ST. JOHNS MER’TILE CO.,WM. N. WALDRON,

239ylrop________ HT. JOHIW, 1TIICH,

TOM PADLEY,The Leading Dealer in

Harness,Robes and Blankets,

Whips, Etc.Is in receipt of a fine line of

FALL AND WINTER GOODS AT

Rock Bottom Prices.Every article

Warranted as Represented.Special Jobs of

New Work and RepairingWill receive prompt and careful attention.

All work done by experienced and careful hands.

COME AND SEE ME

At the Old Staud.

LIVERY-AND-

Boarding StableFINE TURNOUT8 OF ALL KINDS.

Special attention given to residing Honey.First; class outfits furnished for Commercial Men,

Funerals, Pleasure Parties, Etc.

,fa!rrT!r*0D8 h*Tln« and Disabled Horses will find the best of facilit ies fur treatment at my stables, M. C. LIVESAY, Veternary Snrgeon, In at­tendance. 8tablea 2d door West of The Stee North side. (1228)

FKAMK SCHOFIELD Prop-r.

F. F. MURDOCK------DEALER IN------

Marble and Granite

Cut Stone---- FOR-----

BUILDING PURPOSESOpposite thePostoffice.

ST. JOHNS, HICH.

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CLINTON INDEPENDENT, THURSDAY, JAXVARY 8, 1891

The Independent8TEAM PRINTING HOL8E.

Published every Thursday morn- ins from the Independent Office,

over Wheat Bros.* * Clothing Store, No. I 7 Clinton Ave.

GEO 8. CORBIT. Proprietor.ftrei--Oneyear<l 50; Six months 75 Cents;

Three month* 40 Cents. Advertising rate* made known on application. Marriage and Death no ticeafree.

raciLiTixs fob DomeJOB 3? Irt 11ST T11ST O-

0niuroaaaed for style and cheapness.

TIME TABLEIN EFFECT

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DETROIT...... Lv 6 .Ml 11 00 4 80 8 00 10 30Milwaukee Jet.... 7 10 11 18 4 50 8 15 10 50

D. ID.Pontiac............... 7 58 12 05 5 82 8 55 12 00

a- in.Holly................... 8 43 12 47 6 14 9 40 1 05Durand................. 9 30 1 30 6 55 10 25 2 07Owoaso Jet........... 10 10 2 20 7 45 2 -MlSt. Johns............. 10 56 3 06 8 32 _ a 3 58Ionia..... .-.............. 11 49 3 56 9 20 5 10Loweil...i............. 12 17 4 24 9 50 Ha 5 50Grand Rapids..... 12 60 5 00 10 25 r Sr a 6 40O.R A I Jet....... 1 05 5 15 10 86 el 7 10Ferryshurg........... 2 10 6 10 • M 8 40Grand Haven....... 2 15 6 15 8 50Milwaukee by Sir.Chicago by Sir..... 1 I

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STATIONS.

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■Chair Car, Buffet Car and Sleeping Car Service.

Eastward,No. 12 baa Pullman Sleeper.Chicago to Detroit. No. 14 has Wagner Chair and Buffet Car, Grand Rapids to Detroit. No. 18 has Chair Car, Grand Rapids to Detroit. No. 82 has Wagner Sleeper, Grand Rapids to Detroit.

Westward, No. II has Chair Car, Detroit to Grand Rapids. No. 15 has Wagoner Parlor Buffet Car, Detroit to Grand Rnpids. No. 17' has Pullman Sleeper, Detroit to Chicago. No. 81 has Wagner Sleeper, Detroit to Grand Rapids.JNO. W. LOUD, BEN FLETCHER,

Traffic Manager. Trav. Pass. Agent.Tims. Bromley, Local Agent.

Loan Agents. i

The nicHiuA* hoktcaue co.,Limited. Capital, <75,000, successors to Walker

A White, dealers in Mortgage Securities, School and Municipal Bonds. A few pieces of choice lands for sale. Office cor. Walker and Spring-sts,, St. Johns.

Attorneys.

EDWI> H. LYOIf, Attorney at Law, St.Jobna, Mich. Office over H. L. Kendrick's

Store. 1268

sPAlLOINR A \V 4 1. Hit I D4.E, Attor­neys at Law, St. Johns. Micb. [12121

A. W. Norton. YVill H. Brunson.

Norton & rri nson, successors toDaboll & Brunson and Auten & Moss, At­

torneys at Law. In the old office of Auten & Moss over McCabe's shoe store St. Johns Mich.H. M. PERRIN. P. K PERRIS. A. J. BALDWIN

PERltlNk A H4LDWIN, Attorneys atLaw and Solicitors in Chancery. Bounty,

pension, real estate agents, conveyancers and money loaners. Aiso examine titles, pay taxes, and make collections. Business entrusted to their rare will be promptly and faithfully attended to. Office over Wlckes* grocery, Clinton Avenue, 8t. Johns, Mieh. 1183

WSI. H. CANTI.E, Attorney at Law. Office over Kendrick’s store, St.Johns.

____________________________________ 1183

FEDEWA A .RFiRRILL, Attorneys at Law, at the old stand, over the "cornerdrug

store,” St. Johns, Mich. 1263

Justice of the Peace.

MM. lil'NCAN, Justice of the Peace.• Collections made and funds promptly

remitted. Office over Wilson \ Sons’ Clothing More, st. Johns, Mich. 1183

Dentistry.H. KENYON, Dentist East Walker

Street. 1188

Physicians.

H II ART, HI. I*., Physician and Sur- • geon, Eureka, Mich.

1217

JW. POLL.tRIl. Physician and Surgeon.• Specialities. Diseases of Women and Child*

ren. the Eye, Ear. Nose, Throat and Surgery. Superfluous hair and other facial blemishes removedby Electrolysis All professional callsnromptlyatten- ded to, night or day. Office over Wilson A Son’s clothing store, St. Johns, Mich. Night calls ans­wered from the office. 1169tf.

Dlt. ti. C. II 4 VEINS, Physician and Sur­geon. Office and residence at the late resi­

dence of Dr. Bliss, Fowler Micb. 1137yl.

Plans lor a Bettor Classification of Couutrjr Schools.

While our graded schools have attracted favorable notice and comment from educators of other states, and to a certain extent have covered up the deficiencies of our ungiaded schools, our country schools have not kept pace in tfce character of work done and results obtained with other states, notably Indiana and Illinois. On account of tbelr popularity, pupils from the country are Hocking to the graded schools to obtain the well kuown ad­vantages of those schools, deserting their own country schools to take the same studies that should be well taught lu every country school In the state. For a number of years past the Superintendents of Public Instruction have endeavored to suggest and devise a plan to secure better classification and gradation of our country schools. Courses of study and suggestions for currying the same into effect have been published and placed with school officers to distribute throughout the state.I < • i-reitaln reasons these have not achieved the desired success. A new manual and course of study was prepared by a committee of five county secretaries, which has been approved and published by Superintendent of Public In­struction. Joseph Kstabrook. This course of study is adapted to anv uouutry school in the state and Is tn-lng rapidly introduced. To make any course of study of use, it is necessary to have a system of record liooks and reports, to keep a complete record of the scholastic ability and advancement; progress in the different text hooks; thus bringing to the notice of teacher, pupil and parent tlie fact thut certain studies should be taken at certain times to produce harmonious development of the mental powers. This lielng tlie “plan” that has made the “graded** schools what they are in the general public.

“A school is poorly classified:First—When there are more classes in any

one braneh than is necessary; or,Second- When every scholar in school is not

assigned to a class in each branch that he should study; or.

Third—When pupils arc assigned to classes too far advanced or behind their attainments or ability.”

When a school is classified so that none of the atiove mentioned facts exist, it is very well "graded.” So that the idea of “grading" which bothers some of us so much is simply “systemetic classification." A grade of study then would be the branches of study which a pupil of certain age and ability should take to receive harmonious development of the mind.

At the institute last August, Instructions were given to teachers in the manual and course of study and each teacher, expecting to teach, received a manual for their school. Later a circular was sent to the directors of our country schools stating that they could have a manual on application. During the last month we have been placing in our schools Welch’s Ulassifloation record. In this book we have the manual printed and blanks, plain and to the point, so that every teachet can have a oonslcc- report of the standing of each pupil at the cloee of the term, the text bpok used and the number of pages canvassed during the term by each class. This report will enable the teacher to know at the begin­ning of tbe term where the pupils should com­mence In their resboctive text books. By this means we should have our pupils do a stated amount each term and each year, Indicated by the course of study; thus we would again approximate the graded school. A course of study gives us a “plan" of work, something to tie completed, the completion of whleh will be looked forward to with interest by pupils, parents and teachers.

During February of each year, and at other times if desired, I shall personally conduct examinations of pupils in eighth grade work laid down in the course of study, giving the pupils who pass in eighth grade work, a di­ploma thut will admit them into any high school in the county without examination, and to those who complete the course of study I will give a diploma showing they have grad­uated from the country school. At these township examinations I shall expect tlie presence of those pupils who are proficient in eighth grade work, accompauled by tneir teachers. The teachers will aid in marking the papers at the examination so as to com­plete it the same day. Teachers, school officers and parents should remember tliut these ex­aminations will soon be a measure of the success of the school.

As the classification records were not re­ceived in time, teachers need only make out the report required at the end of the term. But we expect that this report will lie com­plete and what the blank requires. School officers should call for the various records and personally inspect them before the teacher is allowed to complete the term work.To make this plan a success, written work and tbe monthly examinations should beheld by each teacher according to previous Instruc­tions.

I am placing the record in schools as I visit them, but if any teacher or school officer has the opportunity. I should Like to have them call at my office Saturdays and obtain one. I have also a fine county and railroad map of the United States for each school.

I hope soon to be able to publish the names of teachers who are properly classifying their schools and carrying out the “plan’* of the course of study. I expect to prepare a list of Questions on toe course of study to be used at tne spring examination of teachers.

No applicant will receive a certificate in the future who has not a thorough knowledge of the manual and course of study. I shall be pleased to explain or give a talk upon this sub­ject on application.

1 think we all can appreciate the following selected from Alice Cary's poems:"A good many workers I’ve known in my time. Some builders of houses, some builders of

rhyme;And they that were prospered, were prospered

I knowBy the Intent and meaning of‘hoe your own

row"Let us hoe. R. M. WINSTON.

GEO. 71 ’ I’ll ERNON, Physician and Sur­geon. Office Main street. Fowler. Special­ties, diseases of womea and Children. 1188

S.YI. HOST, 71. II.* Physician, Surgeon • and Druggist, east side of Main street, Eu­reka,Mich. Office at drug atore. All calls prompt­

ly attended. Prescriptions caref illycompounded.

MIVKLLKR* 71. D., Physician and ■ Surgeon. Office at Reaidence west of Con­

gregational church, 8t. Johns. 1133

Wlf. HAVENS. 111. D.. Homoeopathic Physician and Surgeon. Office over R. J.

Woodruff's ahoe store. 1188

DR. A. J. WIGGINS, Physician and Sur­geon. Office over Sullivan's clothing

store, 8t. Johns, Mich. 1244tf7 E. GILL ATI, Rl. D.( Physician and J* Surgeon. Office et Reeldenee, opposite court > ise, weet. Specialties: Dis ases of Women id Children. Office houralOto;* a m.and SG>5.

T> REUNIONS* l»l. O., Homoeopathic 1Y( Physician,Surgeon and Accoucheur. Office on Main etreet, DeWitt. l\SS

DR. H. G. MORRISON. Krclrctlc and Botanic Physician. Office at bis new resi­

dence on Clinton avenue north of the railroad. Office hours from 9 to 12 a. m., 1 to 5 p. m. and 6 to 8 evenings. Sunday, 2 to 5 p. m. The doctor cures all chronic and private diseases. All temale diseases treated with newly discovered remedies. Takes out rencers end old tumors with a plaster, and purifies the blood. Old favor sores and milk leg cured with Indies remedies. 1J88

SOCIETY ANNOUNCEMENTS.

The Union Farmers' Club will meet with Mr. and Mrs. Earl Wilcox, Saturday, January 17.

The ladies society of the Episcopal church will meet with Mrs. G. S. Corblt, this after­noon.

The ladies’ aid society, of Olive, will meet with Mrs. Oliver Calders, January 14th, at 10 o’clock sharp. One and all invited.

Tlie M. E. aid society, of Bengal, will meet with Mrs. Francis Brown. Jan. 15th at lOo'clock A. M. A cordial invitation Is extended to all.

The Junior Epworth League will meet at 3 o’clock Sunday afternoon. Leader, Lizzie White. Essayist, Fred Smith. Subject : "Sin."

The ladles' of the Congregational inite and sewing society will meet Tuesday afternoon, January 13, with Mrs. J. Upton. This is onr annual meeting, and a full attendance is desired.

Every one, including strangers, please con­sider themselves invited to the Y. P. 8. C. E. of the Congregational church next Sunday at 6:15 p. tn. Subject; "Personal Invitation ; Have you given arty ?”

The C. E. Society of the Congregational church invite the public to the l’rof. Ritchie entertainments at their church next Tuesday and Wednesday 7:30 p. ni. Admisson free the first night and 15 cents the second night,

Remember the meeting of the Epworth League of the M. E. church next Sunday after­noon at 5 o'clock. Subject: “In Whom Shall we put our Trust.” Leader, Harrv Bradner ; essayist,Charles Bennett. Strangers especi­ally invited.

Removed To Cleveland, O.The office of The American Farm­

er, the valuable journal which is still being offered free to the readers of The Clinton Independent, has been re­moved to Cleveland, O., where in its new field The American Farmer will be better able to meet the requirements of its rapidly increasing National circu­lation. Many valuable improvements and new features are contemplated by the management of The American Farmer during the new year, making the paper more valuable to its readers. The regular subscription price of The American Farmer will remain as heretofore $1.00 per year.

Death's Work.

ELIZABETH SCIBEKT, mother of Charles II. Seibert and Mrs. Uri Differ, died at the home of the lat* ter, on the old homestead, in Bingham township, on Sunday, January 4. 1891. of paralysis, in her 75th year. The fu­neral was heht flora the German Luth­eran church, in this village, last Tues­day, and the interment was in the fami­ly lot in 8t. Johns cerrieiry. The de­ceased came to this con ity from Ohio, witli tier husband and family, a little better than lib years ago, and has enjoyed an uninterrupted residence upon the old farm on which she died. Her husband died very suddenly from the same cause, in (September, 1880. She was a great worker, a good and pleasant neighbor, a faithful wife and an indulgent and lov­ing mother. She has gone down to her grave after a well-spent life, a consist- ant Christian.

DAVID P. WILCOXdied at his home in this village, January 2, 1891, of kidney trouble and pneu­monia, in his 84th year. Iiis funeral was held from the house on Sunday, and the inteiment in St. Johns cemetery.— The deceased was born in Connecticut; owned and lived on a handsome farm in Ohio, a number of years, after which he came to Clinton county in 1855, and at once settled in the township of ltiley, where he purchased large tracts of the then cheap lands, from which he sold the Brooks, Bliss and other boys after they returned from the war, at the same price lie paid for it. lie went to the bat­tle fields and assisted in caring for these boys when sick. He was an excentric, but a good man. He left a well im­proved farm of 300 acres in Riley, on which he had lived until lie removed to St. Johns, where he built a large brick store building on the avenue, and the good brick residence in which he died. He introduced the short horn cattle in­to this county, and with them did much to make our stock valuable and our county fairs successful. A wife and lit­tle sou and one daughter, Mrs. Robin­son, survive. He had accumulated a valuable property.

WILLIAM J. PINKNEY',oldest son of J. W. Pinkney, of Essex, died at the residence of Mrs, P. C. Wil­son, in this village, aged 25 years and 6 months, of typhoid malarial fever, after an illness of about three weeks. Mr. Pinkney Bad been a resident of St. Johns over three years, and before his sickness was employed as assistant ship­ping clerk in the St. Johns Manufac­turing Co.’s works. He was insured in the Royal Adelpliia Life Co., for 12,000. The deceased had many warm friends in St. Johns, who deeply mourn his loss. The funeral was held at the home of liis father, yesterday morning.

K. J. STARK,formerly a merchant in Eureka, this county, died at his home in Grand Ledge, January 3d, of hardning of the liver, aged 50 years. Mr. Stark was well and favorably known to the old residents in tlie north part of this county. Mrs. II. S. Ingraham, of this village, niece of the deceased, was present at the funeral.

CLARA JACOBS,wife of John L. Jacobs, died at her home in Bengal, January 4,1891, of consump­tion, aged 24 years. Her funeral was held from the U. B. church, Tuesday, and remains now rest in the cemetery near the church in that township.

CLARENCE PUTT,infant son of C. A. and L. J. Putt, died in this village, January 5,1891, of mem­branous croup, aged 9 months. Funeral from the house on Tuesday last; inter­ment in St. Johns cemetfiry.

Election of Officers.

On Tuesday, December 30th,delegates from seven Posts in Clinton county, met at G. A. R. hall. St. Johns, for the pur­pose of organizing a Batallion G. A. R. department of Michigan, and elected the following officers:

Colonel—D. 8. French. St. Johns.Lieut. Colonel—L. C. Mead, Ovid.Major— Robert Anderson, Maple Rapids.Surgeon—A. B. Way, Elsie.Quarter-master—John J. Kelser, Eureka.Chaplain—Rev. Chas. Harston, Maple Rapids.Tho Colonel appointed the following ad­

ditional staff:Adjutant—W. K. Hamilton, St. Johns.Sargent Major-J. W. Bradner, St. Johns.Quarter Master SargenG-Wui. Sage, Fowler.Cotnissary Sargent—Edward Case, DeWitt.

At the business meeting of tlie Y. P. S. C. E. of the Congregational church, last Friday night, the following officers were elected :

Prestdent—Jennie Lapham.Vice-President—Ned Bristol.Secretary— Lettle Smith.Correspond! ng Secretary—P. E. Walsworth.Treasurer—DeWitt Hunt.l/ookout Committee—DeWitt Hunt, Belle

Baldwin, Joe Mountain, Inn Perrin and Pearl King. T

Prayer Meeting Committee—May Moreland, Grace McDonald, Alex Petrie, Lizzie Burgess, Lucy Bartlett.

8ocial Committee—Frank Perkins, Mamie Emmons, Maggie Wilcox, Etta Richards, Fred Gilbert.

Relief Committee—Mary Hunt, Mrs. Wals­worth, Mrs. Murdock, Dolly Morse, Crlssie Skinner.

Flower Committee—Maud Morse, Grace Hunt, Zylpha Shaver, Stella Woolcot, Florence Wilson, Leah Fowler, John Collins, Lyman Wlckes, Cyrus Palmer.

Sunday School Committeo—May 8towell, Mary Unlien, Nora Wendell, Emma Tead, Esther Clark.

Missionary Committee—Stella Baker. Bello Baldwin, Inez Cramer, Grace Floyd, Howard Turner.

Calling Commute—Mary Hunt, Anna Tread­well, Fred Knapp, Frank Buck, R. S. McFarlan.

Ushers—John Collins, Glen Horton, Lyman Wlckes, Neva Walbridge, Fred Nichols, Frank Henchcllff.

The Excutlve Committee consists of the offi­cers and Chairmen of Committees.

At the annual meeting of the St. Johns fire department, last Saturday evening, the following named members were chosen officers for the ensuing year:

President—G. W. Estes.Vice-President—Wm. Uric.Secretary-L. A. Kellogg,Treasurer-James Richardson.Chief—Charles H. Reeves.Steward—L. A. Kellogg.The company is In excellent condi­

tion. The Hose Company numbers 40 members, and the Hook and Ladder, 26, all in good standing. The depart­ment has $125 in the treasury.

Real Estate.

The following are the transactions in real estate in Clinton county for two weeks, ending Jan. 5,1891:

Alex W Morrison to Anna Morrison, lot 1, block 2H, St. Johns, V1.0U

Cbas A Parks to Lydia C Parks, 20 a. sect. 85 Dallas, $1,000.

Frank J Smith to Otis Smith, lots 1 and 2,b!ock 65, St. Johns, f 1.00; q. c.

John Hwlgurc to Walter Gamble, lot 3, block 5, Maple Rapids, <600.

Frank J Smith et al to Jane A Smith, lots 1 and 2, block 65, St Johns, $10.

Nelson D Hursburger to Henry M Perrin in­trust 3V6 a. sec. 2, Du plain, $9u ; q c.

Henry M Perrin in trust to Nelson D Hureh* burger, 2J* a. sec. A Duplain, $50 ; q o.

Elizabeth Thome to Peter Thome SO a.sec. 18, Riley ; <1; q c.

Lizzie Fed aw a to John H Fedawa 80 a. sec. 18, Riley, <1 ; q c.

Eunice E Doty to Horatio Scttirington, lots 1 and 16, block 4, Elsie. <8,000.

U Ooette to Hadley Graham, n % lot 4, block 23, Maple Rapids, <110.

John G uller to Otto BJlck. 15 a. see. 22, Water- town. <7W.

Demos Scott to Nathaniel I.uphain, e lots 9 and 10, block 41, St Johns, S50U.

Albert Watson to Albert Cantwell, lots 1, 2, 3, 4,5, 10. 11, 12, 13, 14, block 8, Bath, except 4-6 rods off east end of lot 14, $300.

Kunze D Bixby to Edwin See, 8H acres sec. 15, Victor, <400.

Jos H Conn et al to Thomas Bromley Jr. undivided <i Interest in lots 7 and8, block 17, St Johns. <1.700.

Henry P Gardner to David 8 French, lot 1, 2, 3, block 45, St. Johns, <1,525.

Olivia B Hall to WmJ Walker et al, lund on sec 17 Bath, <1,800.

Murgret J Hurshburger to Nelson D Hursh- burger 40 acres, sec 2, Duplain, $8>t0.

Horace Olds to Hiram Straub et al, 5 acres on see 80, Duplain, <29o.

Win P Farnsworth to Franklin Barto et al, wW lot 7, block 3, Bath, <150.

Edmund Walsworth to Della Squair, lot 16 block 114, St.Johns, $300.

Anthony Hufnagel to Helena Hufnagel, 180 acres on sec 27, Dullas, $7,000.

A Sanford Hyatt to L H Crosby, land on sec 18, Watertown, $840.

Jus P Bradiietd u, John Dailey, c Hi of w 54 of lot 6, block 4, Shepardevllle, $300.

Chas M Perry et al to Grin D Casterline et al, 80 acres on ace 27, Essex, $4,200.

Emma Irish to Manly Irish, 40 acres on sec 84, Bingham, $1,000: q c.

Poliy 51 Lazarus to Wesley E Warner, land ou lot 2, block 8, Maple Rapids, <1.00; q c-

Ploneer*. Attention.The Clinton County Pioneer Society now

numbers 425 members. It bas had made, ex­pressly for its own use, a fine and substantial book of records, in which it is designed to record the names of all its members, also the date place of birth, marriage, first settlement, time of joining tbe society, and other data, and finally the death of its members. If this plan is carried out, the volume will become of great and increasing interest ns the years go by. The plan can lie carried out, and this very desireablc work accomplished, only by the members and friends of tbe society, cordially and actively co-operating with its secretary— therefore, let me ask that every member who has not already obtained, filled out and sent to the secretary, a blank giving the desired facts will please do so at once. Doubtless there are members in different parts of the couuty, who will interest themselves in this work and see that the members in their vicinity fill out tbe blanks and forwurd the same. To such I shall be glad to send a supply of blanks upon re­quest. Let me urge upon all the exercise of great care and plain writing in filling out the blanks. J. T. DANIELLS, Sec'y,

Union Home P. O.

Mrs. Beecher’s Reminiscences.Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher's “Remi­

niscences” of her late husband, tvliich she is now writing, has been purchased by The Leulies' Home Journal, of Phila- delpiiia, and the articles will shortly be­gin in that periodical. The series will have for its title “Mr. Beecher as I knew Ilim,” and will cover the entire period of his fifty-seven years of married life, from young Beecher's first acquaintance with his wife, his college life, their courtship and marriage, his first public speech, the first year of married life witli an income of $300, and so all through the great preacher's life until his later triumphs, his last sickness and days, and his death.

OBITUARY.

Harriet Ransom was born near Batavia, N, Y., March 22.1814. She was married to Samuel Hall, January 30, 1838, with whom she lived happily for more than fifty years. They came to Michigan about tbe year 1852, locating near Battle Creek. They caine to Clintod county more than twenty-five years ago, when Mr. Hall died in 1886. She died at the home of her grand-daughter, Mrs. N. H. Palmer, December 29th, and went to the home beyond, loved, honored and respected by all. She was a mem­ber of the M. E. church. She leaves one sister in Carson City, and four grand-children. Mrs. N. H. Palmer,of Bingham; Mrs. N. K. Smith,of Ovid; Raymond A. Latting, St. Jotns, and Earl E. l atting, of Victor.

MARRIED.

MCCRACKEN-BARRETT—In the parlors of the Sherwood house Pewatno, January 1, 1HM1, Miss Winnie Barrett, of North Shade, to John McCrrcken, of Maple Rapids, by Rev. John E. Gregory.

THK1LL—ANDREWS—In 8L Johns, on Now Y’ear’s eve., at the residence of tho officiating clergyman. Rev. G. S. Northrup, Mr. Frank Tbefll, of Bengal, and Miss Ella Andrews, of St. Johns.

SHELDON—THEILL—In St. Johns, on Now Year's eve. at tho residence of the officiating clergyman, Rev. G. 8. Northrup, Mr. Perry Sheldon, of Riley, and Miss Cora Theill, of Bengal.

HUGU8—WARREN—At the parsonage, Doc. 26, by Rev. R. D Stearns, Jonn C. Hugus, of Bingham, and Miss Della M. Warren, of Ovid.

HILL—KNIGHT—At. tho parsonage, January 7, by Kev. R. I). Steari, , James T. Hili, of St. Johns and Anna Knight, of Bengal.

HALL ALLEN—At tho residence of the bride’s parents in Middlebnry, Mich. Jan. 7. 1891. by Kev. P. J. Maveety, Mr. George Hall, of Ovid, Mich., to Miss Edith Allen, of Middlebury, Mich.

LEGAL NOTICES.

PROBATE ORDER—State of Michigan County of Clinton, sa. At a session of the

Probate Court for the county of Clinton, boiden at the Probate office in tbe village of Ht. Johns on Wednesday, the 7th day of January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety one.

Present, Joel H.Cranson, Judge of Probate.In the matter of the estate or DAVID P. WIL­

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

of Albert J. Baldwin, praying that an instrument dated September 18, 1H88, may be proved and ad­mitted to probate as the last will and testament of ■aid deceased.

Thereupon It la ordered that Thursday, the 29th day of January, A. I». 18IU, at ten o’clock to the forenoon be assigned lor the hearing of said petition and that the heirs at law and legatees of said deceased and ail other persona in­terested tn said will are required to appear at a session of said court then to he hidden at the Pro­bate office in the village of St. Johns, and show cause, If any there be, why the will should not be approved.

And it la further ordered, that notice be given to the persons interested in said estate, oi the pendency of the hearing thereof by cansiDga oopy of this order to be published in the Clinton Independent, a newspaper printed and circulated in said county of Clinton, for three successive week* previous to said day of hearing.

JOEL H. CHANSON,(A truecopy.) Judgeof Probate.

Card of Thanka.We desire to thank our friends and neighbors

for their kindness during the sickness and death of our grandmother, Mrs. Harriet Hail. The Ghanik hildhkn.

LEGAL NOTICES.

Schedule of Teachers’ ExaminationsFor Clinton County, 1890-81.

DeWitt. Friday, Sept. 26. 1880.Grid, Friday, Oct. 8i. 189-'.Regular Examination. St. Johns, Thursday

and Friday, March 5 and 6,1891.DeWitt. Friday. March 27, 1891.Elsie. Friday. April 24,1891.Regular Examination, St. Johns. Thursday

and Friday, August C and 7,1*91St. Johns. Friday, August 28,1891.First and second granes granted only at reg­

ular examination*.At the regular appointment* examinations

for Third Grade Certificate* will begin at one o’clock it. m.. on the first day, and close at four O'clock p. m., on tbe second day.

Examinations begin at 8 o'clock a m.By order of the Board of School Examiners.

R. M. WINSTON, Ueeritary.St. Johns. Sept. 27 th 1889. 1202

ANNUAL REPORT-OF—

St, Johns Building and Loan Association.RECEIPTS.

Dues receiver!........................................ $10,128 00Premiums on loansInterest on loans..................Fines received ......................Membership fees..................

DI8BURSMENTS.

516 40 299 35

.50 85 265 25

11,259 81

Loans.........................................................$10,375 00Paid on withdrawalsExpense*___Cash in bank

Dues Paid Gain divided

02 73410 37411 69

11,259 81

SHARES IN FORCE.696 share*.........................................First Series141 " ..........................................Second Series

"■5 " ..........................................Third SeriesF. W. LEE, President.

F. M. SPAULDING, Secretary.

MORTGAGE WALK*-Default having been made In the condition* of a certain

mortgage, dated September I8tb, 1889. made by Charles Eckert and Catherine E. Eckert, his wife, to The State Bank of St. Johns, anil re­corded in the office of the Register of Deeds for the County of Clinton and State of Michi­gan, on the 19th day of Heptemiior, 1889. at 9)4 o'clock a m., in Litter 74 of Mortgages, on page 54; on which mortgage there is claimed tube due at the date of this notice the sum of one hundred and sixty-three dollars and forty- seven cents, (<163.4<) besides an attorney fee of fifteen dollars stipulated for In said mort­gage and provided bv statute to U* paid should any proceedings be taken to foreclose the same, and no proceedings at law or in equity having been instituted to recover any part of the debt secured by said mortgage. Now therefore, by virtue of the power of sale con­tained in said mortgage, and of the statute in such case made ana provided, notice is hereby given that the said mortgage will be foreclosed by sale of the premises therein described, at public auction, to the highest bidder, at the west front door of the Court House, in the vil­lage of St Johns, in said county of Clinton, ou the 14th day of Misrcli, lH91.at one o’clock in the afternoon of that day, which said prem­ises are described In said mortgage, as follows, to-wit: The East one-half <!4) of the North­east one-quarter <W) of Section No. Thirteen (13) in Township No. Seven (7> North of Range No. Two (2' west in Michigan. Said sale will be made subject to the remainder yet to become due on said mortgage.-Dated, December 15th, 1690.

THE STATE BANK OF ST. JOHNS, Fedewa A Lyon, Mortgagee.

Attorneys for Mortgagee. 1261wl3

(KMPlISSIOM ItV' NOTICE. - ThuJ undersigned having been appointed by the

Probate Judge of Clinton county, Michigan, com­missioners to receive,examine and adjust allclaims and demands against ALICE >1. LYON, deceased, hereby give notice that we will meet for that purpose at the office of William H. Caste), in tlie village of St. Johns. In said county, on the 26th day of February, and the 15th day of June, 1891 and that the creditors of said deceased are allowed six inenths from the date of this notice in which to present their claims for adjustment.—Dated December 15, 1890.

WILLIAM H. CARTEL, ROBERT YOUNG,

1262-4t Commissioners.

CO ,7< .711 SSI ON E US’ NOTICE.—Theundersigned having been appointed by the

Ftobate Judge of Clinton county, Michigan, commissioners to receive, examine and adjust all claims and demands against JOSEPH A. ORDING, deceased, hereby give notice that we will meet for that purpose at Ihe More ot Geller Brothers, in the village of Fowler, in said county,on tbe 26th day of February and the 11th day of June, 1891. and that the creditors of said deceased are allowed six months from the date of this notice in which to present their claims for adjustment.

Dated December 11, 1890.FERDINAND GELLER, NICHOLAS VANDERLEE,

1262-4 Commisaionera.

MOKTGAGF SALE.—Default having been made In the conditions of a certain

mortgage, dated December 31st, 1888, made by Melissa J. Smith to Edward Patterson, and recorded in the office of the Register of Deeds, for the county of Clinton and State of Michi­gan on the 2nd day of January, 1889, at 10:45 o'clock A. M., it) Liber 64 of mortgages on page 283; on which mortgage there is claimed to be due at the date of this notice the sum of two thousand eight hundred and ninety-one dollars and ten cents ($2891.10), besides an attorney fee of thirty-five dollars ($35.00) pro­vided by statute to bo paid should any pro­ceedings tie taken to foreclose the same, and no proceedings at law or in equity having lieen Instituted to recover any part of the debt secured by said mortgage. Now therefore bv virtue of the power of sale contained in said mortgage, and of the statute in such case made and provided, notice is hereby given that the said mortgage will lie foreclosed by sale of the premises therein described at public auction, to tho highest bidder, at tbe west front door of tho court house. In tho village of St. Johns, In said county of Clinton, on the 4th day of April, 1891, at one o'clock in the afternoon of that day, which said premises are described in sala mortgage as follows, to-wit: The wost one hundred (100) acres of the north-west one-quarter (■*) of section No. eighteen (18) of township No. six («) north of range No. two(2) west In Michigan. Dated, January 5th. 1891.

EDWARD PATTERSON, EDWIN H. LY'ON, Mortgagee.

Attorney for Mortgagee.

ORDEKOF PtTIEICATIWN.—State of Michigan, Twenty.Ninth Judicial Circuit In

CUaDcery. Hull pending in Ihe Circuit Court for I lie county of Clinton, in Cbanceiy, at St. Johns, on the 7t!i day of January, A. I>., 1891. Harriet A. VanSlyke ra. James II. VaaSlyke. In this cause it appearing by affidavit that tne delendant, James H. VanKlyke ia not a resident of this state, but reside* in the state of Wisconsin. On motion of James M. Ooodell, solicitor for complainant, it la ordered that the seid defendant, James H. Van­Slyke, cause hi* appearance lobe entered herein wfthin five months from the date of this order, and in case of hi* appearance, that ho cause his answer to the cainplaioant’a bill of complaint to lie filed, and a copy thereof to lie served on the solicitor for ■aid complainant, within twenty days after service on him of a copy of said bill and notice of this ord­er, and that in default therereof. said bill be taken asconrcsaed Ity said non-resident defendant. Anti it la further ordered, that within twenty days after the dale hereof the said complainant cause this order to be published in the Clinton Independent, a newspaper printed, published and circulating in ■aid county, and that such publication be contin­ued therein at least once In each week for six week* in succession, or that she cause a copy of this order to l>e personally served on 4ald non-resi­dent defendant, at least twenty days before the time above prescribed for hie appearance.

WILLIAM H CASTLE,Circuit Court Commissioner, Clinton Co., Mich. Jamm M. Goodkll.

Solicitor for Complainant.Attxst—A true eopy.

( uari ki H. Palmes,1264w7 Depty. Register In Chancery.

LEGAL NOTICES.

Mortgage hai.e Default baviurHMB made In the conditions of a mortgage

made by Edgar D. Moss and Lyillu M. Mom to John Hicks, dated October 13th, 1884, and recorded October 13, 1884, In tbe office of the Register of Deeds for Clinton county, in tne State of Michigan, In Liberal of mortgages on page 497, on which mortgage there is claimed to be due at the date of this notice the sunt of twenty five hundred and thirty-seven and nineteen one-hundredth dollars, and nosultor proceeding at law or in equity having been instituted to recover any part of the debt secured by said mortgage; therefore by virtue of the power of *ule In said mortgage con­tained and of the statute in such cases made and provided, notice Is hereby given that on March 21 wt, 1891, at one o'clock in the after­noon at the weet front door of the court house for Clinton county, lu the State of Michigan, In the village of St. Johns, in said county, there will be sold at public vendue to the highest bidder the premises In said mortgage described, viz: The north-west quarter of trie south-east quarter of the north-west quarter of section eight in township eight, north ot range three west in the State of Michigan, less one piece ten rods square, off the north-east co.-ner, and one piece four rods north and south by eight rods east and west off the south­east corner.— Duted, December 3d. 1M»>.„ _ JOHN HIOK8,Perrins A Baldwin, Mortgagee.AttyB for Mortgagee. 125i»-l2w

STOCK VALUE.J st series 2d series 3d series

<12 50 $8 50 .501*5 67

<13 45 <9 17 $ -50

ORDER OF PUBLICATION.-»tate Of Michigan. Twenty-nineth Judicial Cir­

cuit, in Chancery. Suit pending in the Circuit Court for the County of Clinton lu Chancery, at the Village of Ht. Johns, on the 24th day of November, A. D. 1890. Philip Morgan, com­plainant. vs. Maggie Morgan, defeudaut. In this case it appearing from affidavit on file, that the defendant, Maggie Morgan I* not a resident of this state, but is a resident of the City of Denver,In the Htateof Colorado; there­fore, on motion or Jason E. Nichols, solicitor for complainant, it is ordered that defendant enter her appearance in said t-ause on or be­fore four mouths from the date of tills order, an<1 that within twenty days the complainant cause this order to lie bubllfhed in ihe Clinton Independent, said publication to bo continued once in each week for six weeks In succession.

VAR I AN C. BOTH FOR I), Circuit Court Commissioner In und for tho

County of Clinton and State of Michigan. Jason E. Nichols.

Solicitor for Complainant.,rue c°Py ] A. Thomas, 12.>8wri Deputy Clerk.

Mortgage hai.e.-Default having been made in the conditions of a mort­gage. made hv Charles J. Harris aud Estelle

M. Harris to Fidelia E. Bradley, dated May 25, 1882, and recorded May 25. 1682, in the office of the Register of Deeds for Clinton county, in Michigan, in Liber 59 of mortgages, on page 26, which mortgage was duly assigned June 3d, 1887, by Fidelia E. Mugill. formerly Fidelia E. Bradley, to Spencer w. Gibbs by a writteu assignment, which was recorded October 19th, I887.in tbe office of the Register of Deeds aforesaid, in Liber 68 of mortgages, on page WO. on which mortgage there is claimed to do due at the date of this notice one thousand ami ninety-seven dollars and twenty-two cents, besides an attorney fee of thirty dol­lars, stipulated in said mortgage to be paid, should anv proceedings Ik- taken to foreclose said mortgage; und no suit or proceeding at law or in equity having been instituted to re­cover any part of tho debt secured by said mortgage; then-fore, by virtue of the power of sale in said mortgage contained, and of the statute in such cases made and provided, no­tice is hereby given that on January 17, 1891. at one o’clock in the afternoon, at the west front door of the court house for Clinton county, in Michigan, In the village of St. Johns, in said county, there will be sold at public vendue to the highest bidder the prem­ises in said mortgage described, viz: The south half of the northeast quarter of section five in township five north, of runge three west, in Michigan. Dated Octolier 15. iH»o.

SPENCER W. GIBBS,Perrins & Baldwin, Assignee.

1252-13wAttyB for Assignee.

PROBATE OKl»I:K —state of Michigan County of Clinton, ss. At a session of the Probate Court for Ihe count* of Clinton holden at

the Probate Office, in the village of Ht. Johns, on Monday, tbe 29th day of December in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety.

Present, Joel H. Cranson, Judge of Probate.In the matter of the estate of MERRITT TEM­

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

of Emily VanGieeon. praying that John Van- Oieson may be appointed administrator of said estate.

Thereujion tt la ordered, that Thursday, the 2‘2d day of January, A D. 1891, at ten o’clock in tbe forenoon be assigned for the hearing ol said petition at the Probate office in the Village of 8t. Johns.

And it is furtherordered.tliat notice begiven to the persons interested In said estate, of the time and place of said hearing by causing a copy of this order to be published in the Clinton Independent, a newspaper printed and

circulated in said county of Clinton lor three successive weeks previous tosaid day of hearing.

JOEL H.CRANSON.A truecopy Judge of Probate.

PRORATE COURT, Clinton county, as— Notice is hereby given that claims

against JOHN J. SCllAFER, deceased, will be beard by tbe undersigned at the Probate office in said county on the 28th day of February and the 29th day of June. 1891; aud that the creditors of deceased are allowed six months front the date of this notice in which to present their claims lor adjustment.

Dated December 29, 1890JOEL H.CRANSON

1263w4 Judgeof Probate,

PROBA 'I E 01C DE R . -Statt of Michigan county of Clinton, as. At a session of tbe Pro­bate Court forthecounty of Clinton, holden at tbe

Probate Office in the village of St. Johns, on Monday the 29 day of D*uebiner in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety.

Pre*ent,Joe) II. Cranson, Judge of Probate.In tlie matter of tbe estate of ROBERT H.

BROWN, deceased.Stephen M. Howard, executor of tbe will of said

diseased, haviug made appllcaoion for the allowance of his final account and for ids discharge.

Thereupon it ta ordered, that Thursday, the 22d day of January, A. D. 1891, at one o'clock in the afternoon be assigned for the ex­amination cf said account, at the probate office in the village of Ht. Johns.

And it ia further ordered that notice be given to tlie persons interested in said estate of tbe time and place of said hearing by causing a copy of this order to be published in the Clinton Iude-Kndent, a newspaper printed and circu-

ted in said county or Clinton for three successive weeks previous tosaid day of bearing.

JOEL H. CRANSON.Airuecopv. Judgeof Probate.

p UARDIAN'S SALE-Notice is hereby VpT given that by virtue and in pursuance of license and nuthoritv granted to me. the undersigned, by the Judge of Probate of Clinton county, Michigan, ou the 13th day of November, 18W. to sell real estate belonging to Fred E. Smith, a minor. I will sell at public auction, to the- highest bidder, on the lath day of January. 1891, at one o’clock p. tn., at the Probate office In St. Johns, In said county, all the right, title und interest of said minor in and to the following described pieces of land:

1st. land bounded bv a line beginning at the south east corner of the weet half of lot eeven In block seven lu the village of Maple Rapids, Clinton couuty, Michigan, running thence north twenty-two ft-et, thence west thirty- throe f€*et, thence south twenty-two feet, thtnee east to the place of beginning.

2nd, land bounded bv a line beginning at the north east corner of lot eight in block seven In said village, running thence north twenty- four feet, thence west to land owned by Hannah Hewitt on lot seven in block seven, thence south to the north llneof said lot eight thence east on said line to tho place of begin­ning.

The Interest of said ward In said land is the undivided one-hnlt thereof, and will be sold subject to all incumbrances, and to the dower Interest of the undersigned as widow of Kdgur M. Smith, deceased.

NANCY SMITH. Guardian ofFRED B. SMITH, a minor.

Dated. November 27, 1890. PJV8-7

P MOKATE OR DC.K—sute of Micliigno, County ofClioton.ss. At a session of the Pro­bate Court for theCouoty of Cllutoo, holden at

the Probate office in the village of St. Johns, on Monday, the <9tl day of Ilecetnber, in the year one thouMml eight hundred and ninety.

Preaent Joel H. Cranson, Judge of Probate.In the matter of the estate of JOSEPH M.

PHI LLI PS, deceased.On reading aud filing Ihe petition duly verified,

of Grant Phillips, praying that Mary 8. Phillips, or some other sultaule person, may he appointed administrator of said estate.

Thereupon it is ordered, that Thursday, the I.Yth day of January, A. D. 1891, at Hi o'clock in the forenoon lie assigned for the hearing of said petition at the Probate office in tbe village of Ht. Johns. a

And it Is further ordernd, that notice be given to the persons Interested in said estate, ol tne time and place of *aul hearing by eausi. f a copy of this order to be published in the Clinton Indepen­dent, a oewspaper printed and circulated In said county of Clinton for three succeMive weeks previous to said day of hearing.

, JOEL H .CRANSON,[Atruecopy.j Judge ol Probate.

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FCLINTON INDEPENDENT, THURSDAY, JAN. 8, 1891.

Clinton Independent.Gbo. S. Cokbit, Editor and Proprietor.

BT. JOHNS, MICHIGAN

ICE IN GREENLAND.Th* Country » Narrow Ribbon of R •«»«

Mountain* HurroaixUn* an I co-hob. uaorgoit lntorlor.

Kni'ON s*ye that gout oitn be cured t>y electricity. If any of thorn happen to have the gout lb>s will be good new* for the New York murderers who have been sentenced to tbo electric chair. The chair may hurt, but will cure their gout completely.

Poor ministers In England have a source of revenue which we charitably hope will not be accorded to their brethren in this country. Instead of salting down their old sermons in barrels, they send them to the book* •etier. who gets as much as $3 a hun­dred for them.

The growth of anything in the nature of a millennium, if it has bas bad a growth in the latter part of tLe nineteenth century, is so slight that it bus been overshadowed by the greed for gold that bas possessed the people of this and almost every other nation for tbs past twenty years.

A nimble sixpenoo is better than a slow shilling—or words to that effect is an old saying and involves more fuauclal wisdom than many speeches made in congress. Money to be u«v ful must circulate; or be in active use. If men who own money lock it op. the government that makes money ought to put it out, so that it may be active and p iy debts.

Dr. Thompson, of New York, hav­ing transferred the brains of a cat into the skull ef a dog while both animals were alive, concludes that similar operations are possible with human beings. So that the time-honored assertion that wealth cannot buy brains is nut beyond controversy yet. We may yet live to sea an advertise­ment in the newspapers: “Wanted— A first-class set of brains; cash on delivery.”

In the English service, an admiral in oommand of u fioet h is an allow- | anoe 1 rger than the pay given to an American admiral, which is used for nothing but to eutertaian foreign vis­itors. It is the same in every othjar servioe, and that is why the foreign fleets cut such a dash on their cruise*. Hven the ward-rojtn officers hare a very ample allowance. But in the American navy every entertainment bas to be p i id for by the officers.

hb new oo'St lutio» of Kentucky, as drifted, provides for the pardon of persous accused of crime as well as those convicted. This would indeed be an innovation, and a utartling one. The pardoning power is bad enough as it is, oven w.ien tempered by the crea­tion of a pardoning board to advise the executive; but to confer on the latter the power to enter a nolle pros whenever he sees fit look* like a very unwise stretching of the gubernato­rial prerogative.

1KS8KUL men and women are tlfbne whose brains are picture gal­leries of pushing events. In having cultivate! the art of keeping the eyes •pen wide, they soon learn that it Is ■ot in hum -0 power to decide what is unimportant. They learn that what seem i trivial to-day may assume gi- gooito proportions to-tnorrow, conse­quently the smallest pictures are hung on the walls of memory with as much cure as pictures that would be forced upov. h >lf open eye.

Parn-m.1. is one of the thousands or moo and of the soores o ram eminent in history who have bsen wrecked by women. There is no influence in the wor.d so powerful for good as that of the woman who is what we all know our brothers aid sisters to be. and there is nothing more demoralizing than I he impulse given to a mm by ti bad wmn >o. It is strange, too. that anno of the victims of such entice- men’s have been those who would re­sist any other ordinary temptation.

The favor which the Australian sys­tem of vot ng U is foun 1 in this coun­try h is inspired some reformers to suggest live adoption of at.other Aus­tralian sy-teui — that of registering UUos to r ;al projieriy. Under this system the owner of real estate proves up his title bofore a government reg­istrar and roceivos a certificate that he is the owner in fee. Thereafter transfers ara in ulo by a simple trans­fer of Uie government certificate. This would oertainly simplify matters; but tiiat will probably l*e the chief ob- jeolioi to vIai method. The lawyers de not w at any simplification and the lawyer* must live—at least they think so,

There i* no com fallibility between civilization andeveu the m /St qualified form of savagery. Eves if Clio west­ward march of civilization were to be halted at the point it has reached it would be constantly menaced by the Lawlessness of the Indian in bis tribal relation, especially since he lias learn­ed the use of the white man's weap­ons. We ounnot keep what has been gained, much loss provide for further extension, without putting an end to thu tribal system and depriving the Indivi of firearms until such time—if ever—as ho shall have so f.ir adapted himself to the ways of civilization hs to bo safely trusted on the same torms Ah at white men are.

Civil-Engineer Tenry. IT. B. N., lectured to a large audience at the Brooklyn Institute recently, says the N. Y. Evening Peat, on the “Inland Io« of Greenland."

Mr. Peary spoke of Greenland as a land of startliug contrasts; a land ei midnight sun and noonday night; dl tropical skies and eternal ice. The length from north to south, he said, U

Greater than the extreme width of the oiled States from the mouth of the

Rio Grande to the forty-ninth parallel, and its abeut the same as that of Mexico. #r four time* the combined area ef the Now England aud the Middle States.

Four-fifths of this area, or about 000,- BOO square miles, equal to twelve times the area ef New York state, is sub­merged by* the inland ice, which hi in places undoubtedly a mile in depth.

Greenland is but a narrow ribbon of ragged reeky mountains, snrreundiag an ico-Mihmarged interior; a titanic mountain dam, ia foot holding in check a vast sea of ice, which ponrs through breaks in the dam in armistloss, groan­ing torrent, and descends to some fjord, or flows through shallow notches in the crest of the dam, to hang sus­pended iu frozen aerial cataract*.

In approaching a part of the coast from which the island ice is not far distant, or in nroceeding up one of the fjords, if the (lay be clear, it will be noticed that the sky ever the mountains hits a peculiar silvery lustre; if the day be eloudv, the mountains are seen standing in silhouette against a pale, supernatural light which rises over every sullen peak, streams through every gap in their ragged profiles, and illuminates the clouds above them like tl.e gleam of a winter sunset. This light is the reflection from the inland ice. and combines the brilliancy and steadiness of the electric light with the wierduesa of the aurora aud a ghastly, lifeless glare peculiarly its own.

Seen from the summit of a command­ing mountain, the inland ice at mid­night, with the sun just below tfie horizon is smooth, clear-cut, and blue, as a mighty shield of tempered steel, hut grows indistinct and tremulous in the blinding while glare of noon.

Mr. Peary then described his experi­ences oo the inland ice in the Rummer of 1885. when he, with n reung Danish officer from one of the Greenland settle­ments. started from a fjord at the head of Disco bay, and penetrated 100 miles over the ice. attaining an elevation ef 7.500 feet above tbe sen. After lifting ami carrying his sledges, en which were packed his provisions and sieep- ing-gear. nearly 1,000 feet np the ragged aud precipitous faco of the ice, he commenced his jouruey the first week in July.

After traversing some time miles of rough ice. cut by numerous crevasses, in crossing which he and his companion had several narrow escapes, he found the ice covered with a layer of snow which increased in depth as he ad­vanced. Oncn he nearly lost on* of his sledges by its breaking through the thin ice of a pond which he was crossing. It being the latter part of the arclio day. which in this latitude is several weeks long, the sun was constantly al>ova the horizon, and Mr. Peaiy marched between ti p. m. and 6 a. in., when it was coldest and the glare of the sun less powerful. Between 6 a. ni. and 6 p. m.. when it was warmest aud the blinding reflection from tbe enow was insupportable, he slept, some­times stretched on his sledge and some­times in a pit dug in the snow.

Twice furious snow-storms buried him and his companion in the drift, as they lay on the snow with the sledges turned on their sides to shelter them from the wind.

The last of these storms continued five days, and after a I we-days’ struggle against it, stopped Mr. Peary's further advance aud kept hiui confined in a •now-pit throe days. He did not start to return, however, until a clear day enabled him to get satisfactory obser­vations. These placed him a little over 100 miles from the edge of the ice. and a mile and a half above tbe ico level. Mr. Peary spoke of bis surrouuding at this elevation as follows.

“We are more than half ns high as the tallest giants of the Siorre Nevada and Rocky mountains and a trifle leas than half as high as Mont Blanc.

“The suovv and ice beneath our feet would cover Mount Marcv one-half mile, and Mount Washington one- fourth mile, aud Mount Mitchell, the highest peak cast of the Mississippi. 8lH) feet deep. It is erening; tbe great, yellow sun is sinking to tbe northern horizon; tbe blinding midday gl re is gone, ami wo can (lisperuMi with our blue goggle*. Beneath our feet the snow, lino and dry as granulated sugar, is over six feet deep ami expands from us to the steel-blue horizon, an infinite luurhle slab. From east to west and round to east ngaiw. from zeuith to nadir, this horizon and the sun are alw solutoly the only things the eye can fix d|»otu In the slant rays of the sun every snow etvstal is a Hashing Jewel, and tbe skv and snow and air are oue groat vibrant chord of color. There arc fairer, softer, warmer places on the •aith. but nowhere else get so close to tbe mighty heart of nature as on this wind-riuupt. eloud-wrupjKsd, sun-k ssed. immutable sea.

On Uk> return the two sledges were las ied together a In catamaran, rigged with iua*t, yard, and sail from alpnih atooks and at midnight on the tbiru night, having descended to an eleva­tion of 6.000 feet, where the snow was covered with a light crust Hiid the wind very fresh. Mr Penrv and his com­panion stretched tlieul-elves u|k>ii the pledge and begun a hit of traveling w hich, as far as he knows. Inis no parallel in sretio work. From mid­night till 6 in the morning he sailed hi* impromptu ice-lioat dowo the ley slope at it speed varving from a walk to a run. At 6 o'clock the black mountains of the Ian came into view, and the next hour he drop|»ed 600 feet with a rush like a toboggan. After a narrow escape of being driven into one of the blue lakes on the ico he got off and walked till tlio snow became a deep tenii-liqtiid slush, and then turned in on his sledge. Thu next two nights he marched through slush aud water.

rushed the sledgls over crevasses, and forded swift ruanlog streams till finalij he roaohed the edge of the glacier.

One of these crevasses earns near rob. blog Mr. Peary of his companion, who tripped as he jumped across, but fortu­nately, in fnlling. grasped the sledge which partly spanned the crevasse. This broke his fall ami enabled Mr. Pearv. who had seized the other end ni the sledge, to puli both him and the •ledge out after a straggle. Mr. Peary himself slipped into one of ih* glacier rivers dashiug along in a bed of polished iee. and was carried a long distance by the resistless current be for* shallow water and a low bank gav* him a chance to scramble out. The heat of the sun during his absence hav­ing melted the glacier faca so that it was impossible to get tbe sledges down, he packed them over the mountains, lowered them down tbe cliffs with lines, aud reached his tout after an absenoe oi twenty day.________________

THE CREOLES OF TO-DAY.

Th» Rare Ile»u»g of Their Women Still Preserved—tinw They Take Life.

One of the most marked trails of the creole temperament is buoyancy. They kuow how to enjoy. They carry light­ly that yoke of labor that seems to press so heavily upon English-speak­ing peoples. The wisdom of inhaling the “perfume of the moment*'is known to them. They do not go forth oa a gala day to push and shove and growl; they push little annoyances aside with a Inugli nnd a jest; in a crowd they are gay aud good-uatured. Both men and maidens are passionately fond of danc­ing, and even the warmest weather dons not make their enthusiasm flap. The lore of musio is deep-rooted in their natures; it is to he questioned whether they could live without it. Poor indeed must be that creole who foregoes the Sunday o|>era matinee, and no pinching or stinting is deemed too severe if that pleasure is in view.

In personal nppearanoe the creeles •re a good-look inir race. The men are usually good looking, sometimes strik­ingly handsome, in the brunette type, j aud. though short of stature, they are broad shouldered and muscular. At her liesL the creole girl is irresistibly < pretty, the dark wonder of her great, long-lashed, liquid eyes further en- ' hancod by a storm-cloud of hair about | a low, smooth brow, brilliant white teeth, delicately-molded features amt a I clear olive complexion. Her figure is lissome uud rounded; supple aud slen­der. without angularity or attenuation, and her hands aud feet are small and dainty. Now and then a strain of Andalusian blood produces a milk- white blonde with violet eyes and shimmering golden hair, doubly pi­quant among her darker sisters.

Tlwugh the rigidity of the old sys­tem of chnperonage bas somewhat re­laxed. the creele girl is not allowed as much freedom as her American friends, aud in many respects she is more un­sophisticated. Fur iustance, she does not understand love-making “for fun." for the men of her race do not think it honorable to indulge in such question­able jesting. If one of them pays cer­tain marked attention to a young lady, it is nmlerstood that ho wishes to make her his wife. Such matters are looked upon seriously, and the rupture of an engagement is almost compromising to a girl.

The ccole damsel is not tailor-made by any means. When money is not plentiful she is her own modiste with very charming results, for her gar­ments are coquettishly feminine and becoming her as its gay plumage l>e- comes a tropical bird. Feminine! — that is tbe keynote to her character. She still l>elieves thal it is woman's duty to be pretty and pleasing above all tilings, und her family do their best to shelter her from coarsening in­fluences. Perhaps from this springs the creole pr«‘ “ i against public schools, it will be remarked that even when they nro poor, they send their children to private seminaries.

Passion and Poetry.

There's nothing in the world like rhymes to cimjI off a man's passion. You look at a blacksmith working on a hit of iron or steel. Bright enough it looked while it was on the hearth, in the midst of the sea-coal, the great bellows blowing awnr, ami the rod or the horsp-shite as red or as white as tiiu hurtling uoals. How it lizzie* as it goes iffto tlie trough of water, and how suddenly* all the glow is gone! It looks black nnd cold enough now. Ju*t so with your passionate incandes­cence. It is all irell while it burns And scintillates in your emotional cen­tres, without articulate and connected expression; hut the minute yon |duuge it iuto Hits rhyme-trough it cools down, anti becomes as dead and dull as the cobl horse-shoe. It is truo that if you loy it cold on the anvil ami hammer away on it for awhile it warms up somewhat. Just so with the rhyming fellow, — he pounds away on his verse*, ami they wanu up a little. But don't let him think that this afterglow of ConijHiailiou in the same thing as the original passion. That found express­ion in n fow ok. oh'e, mi, a*’*, thru, thru s, hetus, helms. and when the passion lmd burned itself out you got the rhymed verses, which, as l have said, ure its nslies.—O.iocr Wendell holmes, iu Atlantic.

A New Playwright.

Mrs. Mary E. Bryan, who draws the largest salary of any woman editor in *>.«• United Slates, has written acmnedi- «-<.* in one act. entitled “His Society Play." It is4he experience of n New York playwright with the scenes in the top story of a lodging-house. This quaint, nervous little woman is a Georgia product, nausn.-illy gifted, with as many w him* as a child and a dis­position qiMto ns sunny*. S>»* is a tremendous worker, writes day and night, most of the time silting on the fioor Turk fashion,with her copy-paper on a lap-board, and tbo whole place littered with pencil chips.

A New York physician says that the constant chewing of gum lias produced weak minds in fourtueii case* of young girls under treatment in that city. Ha must be mistaken. Thu girls had weak minds before they bogau to chew gum.—iSornslowi} herald.

MR. AND MRS. BOWSER.Th* LsImI EpUoild In th* Domretl* Uf*

•f Thai Peculiar Coapl*.

Soon after sumier the other evening Mr. Bowser slipped upstairs, and as bis notion looked very mysterious to roe. 1 followed him. I found him over­hauling the olothos-hasket.

“Mrs. Bowser." ho began by way of explanation, “do you know that we hare had a close call—a dozen close •alls—from being burned alivs iu ourbodtr

.“Lands, no! What do jon mean?"“I moan that there ha«n't boon an

hour in the twenty-four since we rooTod into this house that It wss not liable to take fire. In other words, we hare been slumbering on the edge ef • volcano.”

“Why. Mr. Bowser!”“If*thing but the hand of Prowl-

deaoe has prevented a great dbastwr." he eontlnned as lie dumped the Last ol the clothes out ef the hamper.

“But what has that hamper to do with it?”

“Everything. Mra. Dowser, did yen ever hear of spontaneous combustion?"

“Of conrse.”“Well, there hasn't been a day thal

all tbe elements necessary to sponta­neous combustion haven’t he on present in this bnmper. Also, in various other places in this house. 1 shudder over our narrow escape.”

“You—you havoo’t gone and got an­other fire escape, have you?”

“Tbero yon go! Always ready to throw np something! 1 suppose you'll oaii tliis a notion of mine?”

“What has spontaneous eombnstion to do with ont clothes ham|>er?”

"Everything. Here are the ele­ments right hero to start a Are. Here ere cotton, wool and silk crowded to­gether in a temperature of at least DO degrees. Nothing could b* more favorable.”

“I don’t believe it!”• “What! What!’’ shouted Mr. Bow­ser. holding up a pillow-slip in ono hand and one of baby's stockings in the other. “You don’t believe in spon­taneous combustion!”

“Under certain conditions, yes, blit those conditions can not be found here. Some oue has been working on your imagination.” .

“Old They have! On mv imagina­tion!” he softly whispered. “When eTery scientist and scientific publica­tion believes in spontaneous combus­tion—when it is practically demon­strated every day in the yeur—when it is a fact a* well known as that a horse has testh, you stand there and tell mo that I have been played on! Mrs. Bowser, will jnu have ihe kindness to go down stairs?”i 1 wool down, and he took every arti­cle from the hamper and spread them out ou the floor. Then ho went through every clothes closet and bureau drawer, and it was fully two 'hours before he came down and heaved a great sigh of relief, ami suid: j “There! We shall not be burned Afire—not to-night."

“There was no danger." I replied.“There wasn't, eh! Mrs. Bowser, I

—I—I”! IDs emotion overcame him, and I got opportunity to say:, “Why don’t other people’s houses barn op through spontaneous com bus- lion?’

No answer.i “I haven't seen anything in the papers about a clothes-hamper explo­sion.”

Mr. Bowser gritted his teeth.{ “If it bos got to that pass that the ibeets off the spare bed can't come in •ootaot with the huby's stockings with­out striking lire, we’d hotter fill the sellar with tin boxes.”

I Mr. Bowser kicked at tbe cat, but siltseil her by about two foet.

“But there’ll be a fire, of conrse. Yen have overlooked an old rest some­where, and it will get down off its hook and walk over to one of year old fiiwes and arrange for a boufire. I iban’t sleep a wink to-night."

Mr. Bowser circled around the room three times with great dignitv. and then went off to bed. When he was ont of the way I went out and had a talk with tiie cook. The result was that we bronght an iron kettle into the front hall, got out some cotton- batting. and as I went upstairs she whispered to me:

“I understand, ma’am. In exactly half an hour I'm to touch it off.”

Mr. Bowser was in bed, and though I spoke about the cool wave, baby's eold and other thing*, he had nothing to say. I wasn’t hurt, however. I got iuto bed nnd wailed. It wasn't •ver ten minutes until tbe odor of leirniag cotton was plain enough in the room, and I sat up and gave Mr. Bowser a dig and asked:

“Don't you smell smoke?”“Smoke!” he shouted uftcr a sniff or

two. “I smell lire!”“Perhaps the cook lighted the gas

with paper."••Perhaps the confoundod house is

afirei (he jump* out of lied) of course it L! (ho goes to the door). She’s all ablnae down stairs! Fire! Fire!

•The baby!” I shouted as lie danced around, but he was gone, carrjing his pantuloous nnd one shoe under his ann. He ran down the hall, shouting “tire!” at the top of his ‘ voioe, came back and grabbed his necktie ami shouted again, and the next 1 heard of him he was in the front of the house yelling like an Indian. Half a dozen men were goiug by, on their wav home from some sort of convention, and they rushed iuto the hou*e and soon located the fire. I heard Mr. Bowser telling them that he had long expected it. and that lie had the most cureless wife in tbe world, nnd that ho hadn’t slept sound for three months, nnd then there was n pause. They had found the kettle with the smoking cotton.

I didn’t hoar Mr. Bowser laughing with the rest. Perhaps he tried to, and it was a failure. It took all the rest of the heel* in the case to get tho men out, and they also ate up all tho cheese and crackers, but when they bad gone Mr. Bowser canto up stair*. He it ruck every step with the tread of a Roman emperor. Baby and I were In bed and apparently sound asleep. De came in. walked twice around the room with his hand* under his onnt- taila, and theu loomed up over the bed and said:

“Mrs. Bowser. I have come to kiss tur child good-byo before I go."

1 d'tdn't any anything.“Mrs. Bowser, I shall take tho child

with me!"1 didn't answer.“Mrs. Bowser!”At that moment the cook enma down

tbe hall and asked who was thero.“It’s L.” answered Mr. Bowser.•And what are you doing?”“N-oothiog.”•Than you’d better be in bed and let

tbe poor missus and babv and me get a few winks of sleep! fiitoh a house! Such carryings on! Such spontaneous coin ha*i nous kick-U|>-A-fustabtis! I giro yon notice, sir. that I qnlt me place before the dishes are washod iu the morning!”

81m went off to bed, and Mr. Bowser niado two more circles of the room, kicked the footstool uuder the b*d and then crept into bis accustomed place and was snoring away ia the usual manner in less than fifteen muiutes.—« Detroit Free Dress.

EMERSON ON NEWSPAPERS.Tha 8so« on M»* Abbreviation of Utter-

aaoo and Improrrmnut of Style.

Jn bis book of conversations with Emorson, Mr. Woodbury reports tbe seer ms saying that “newspapers have done much to abbreviate expression and so to improro style.”

This is “a hard saying” for the ac­ceptance of those small essayists and other superior persons who decry the newspapers; for one of their most fre­quent oomplaints is that tho newspaper writer, in the haste incident to hie work, discards the graces of rhetoric nnd misleads tho nopulsr taste witii crude thought and unpolished utter­ance.

But Emerson was right and the superior persons wore wrong. The in­fluence of newspapers upon style has been good, not bad. It ha* done much, as Emerson s»y9, “to abbreviate utter­ance." but that is not the whole ef its service. It lias taught the value of simplicity in expression, of directness of style aud of clear thinking as tho condition of cluar writing. It has made muD understand the iuIvantage of say- lug what la to he suid and then sto|>- ping. It has banished the cxonl.um and the peroration of literature.

The assumption that the higher kind of newspaper writing is hasty and slip­shod is unfounded. The newspaper writer writes rapidly, but his mind has been trained to think rapidly and to give quick formulation to thought. His mind is akin to that of the extempor­aneous orator.

In miuor reporting, done by novices, the style is often faulty and the dicta­tion sometimes bad, especially where there is not time for editorial revision; but the editorial writing and the ruoro carefully done news aud special articles of any great modern newspnper will cmapure very favorably indeed with the book and magazine literature ot our timo, in poiut of vigor aud cor­rectness of form.

It is fortunate that this is so, because the newspapers are now the chief teachers of the people in this as in other matters. They are much more widely read than auy other form of lit­erature read at all by the majority of the people.

In this particular the tendency of the newspapers is to grow steadily bettor. They more and more insist upon the best educational qualifications on the part of the writers. They more aud more seek to enlist scholarship and culture in their service, nnd men of the highest literary qualifications are more inclined to seek newspaper utter­ance as tlmt which gives largest power and inUueuco to tho messages they bear.

If Emerson had come to manhood in our day he would have found bis true vocation in a newspaper office. It is a pity that he did not hnve that oppor­tunity to reach hundreds of thousands witii a wisdom that was uttered only to a chosen few.—New York World.

Facts Worth Knowing.

Egg stains can be removed by rub­bing them with common table salt.

To keep flies off gilt frames boil three or four onions iu a pint of water, then apply with a sok brush to tho frames.

When whalebones have become bent thoy may be used again by first soak­ing them in tepid water for u few hours, and then drying them.

Lamp wicks must he changed often to insuro good light, ns they will soon become clogged, and tho oil does not pass through them freely. A clear flame will be certain if the wicks are soaked in viuegar 24 hours befuro using.

When washing windows, looking- glasses. etc., be snro to nut a little am­monia in tlie water. This will save labor, ami clean them much more effectively, giving ns well a much liner pilisli. For general cleaning, am­monia in the water will remove dirt, smoko, grease, etc., much belter than anything else.

Do not wash combs unless absolutely necessary. Water will make me teeth split and the eouih rough. Small brushes, which are made for the pur­pose of cleaning combs, are easily obtained at little expense, and with oue of these tho comb tuny he thor­oughly cleansed, wiping well and foi- lowingfwitli a soft cloth ufterwurd*. — hood housekeeping.__________

Sagacious Morse.

It is related of a hor*e at Janesville, Wis.. noted for his intelligence, that during u recent storm, finding that his siioes were too smooth for comfort dur­ing a slippery trip, he pushed the barn floor open and started ou a steady trot I >r the black smith'*. Once in the shop he stood hack and waited his turn a* decorously us though “going-n-sboi>- ping” on his own hook was an every day occurrence. Finally one of the tneu brought ont hi* tools and la-gan tapping on the fourfooted customer's shoes a* though putting on a new set. The animal showed unmistakable signs ot approval, and when the hammering was linisheu trotted out aud made bis way home, perfectly contented.

The Russian government proposes to substitute soldier* from the railway battalions for the original engineers and firemen on the strategical railway*. The men will he instructed ia the rudi­ment* of mechanics aud unglueeriug.

VY« suppose a nose may bo said to bobroke when it hasn't got a scent.— liinghamton Leader.

A true word is often spoken in jestj but we always like it to be ubout some oilier fellow.—Duck.

You can’t teach an old dog new tricks, but you can buy a new dog.— Terre haute'Express.

Of one thing nobody can truthfully say it “isn't in it.” That is the letter L— Dhiladelphin Dress.

An old maid asks: If whatever is is right, hew does it Imppeu that I'u» lell?—Binghamton Leaner.

Economy is wealti1; but it is a kind of wealth that tl.e rioo *iiun finds it hard to transfer to his son.—Duck.

Owing to the failure of the apple crop even sweet cider will be hard to gel this year. — Cincinnati Enquirer.

Tho trump 1 legging bread at a board­ing house is open and alone board ia hi.* statements.—N>.w Orleans Dicayune.

Time is the essence of all contracts, except when you endeavor to contract for a suit of clothes ou time.—Jewelers' Circular.

The difference between a chef nnd a cook is that one is paid a salary and the other ha* to sue for her wages.— E.mira Gazette.

Customer—“Seems to me that razor is rather dull.” Barber—“Mouglit he, sail. It was to a puhty las' uigbt, sal,.”—N. Y. Weekly.

She—“I didn’t think you’d dare to kiss lae!’* He—“There was a good deal of danger about it, so I—I thought we’d better face it together.”—Life.

Civilization has made marvelous stride*. Ananias wouldn’t have been a patch on the nineteenth century campaign liar’s trousers.—Dhiludelphia limes.

“I thought many a time when I used to go see my girl she was sweet enough to eat." “And why didn’t you eat her?” “She soured ou mo.”—Dlula» Uclphia Times.

l’oet, who is reading his verses to a friend—“All! my word* seem to touch you. You uro shedding tears!” “No, only wiping off the perspiration.”— FUegcnde Blatter.

“I don’t go with her any more!" “How’s that?” “I popped the ques­tion to her coming up on the steamer from Cape May, but site threw mo over.—E.uladclphia Times.

“Docs Mrs. Weeds mourn her hus­band sincerely?" asked Mrs. Wing. “Indeed site does,” was the reply. “She hasn’t anybody but the iceman now to scold.”—Somerville Journal.

Wibble—‘There goes a man that makes his living off other people's bad habits." Wabble—“Keeps a saloon, does he?” Wibble—“No; he deals ia second-hand clothes."—l'erre haul« Express.

Siranger—“Where do the High- minds reside? They nro one of the old families of this city, I believe.” Mrs. Forumlred—“They used to be. but Mr. Hignmiud failed lost year.”—N. Y. Weekly.

First Rector—“Is your congregation going to raise your salary this coming year?” Second Rector—“Well, I don't know; they haven’t finished raising my last year’s salary yet.”—Smith, Gray <£ Co.'s Monthly.

“Do you know what Bismarck’s scheme of the progress of creation is?” asked the major. “No. What is itP” asked the judge. “First there was tli« Creator, then germs, next Germaus.”— Eiltsburg Chronicle.

If Lot’s wife had never looked back to Sodom nnd the other burning city. Lot would never have been a widower. People never seem to think of it in this way; thoy always trot out the pillar ol suit.—Figaro.

NKVKlt A FAILURE.Tho Rod River Valley of

Minnesota und North Dakota has neverhad a failure of crops.

It produced 30,000,000 bushels of wheat besides other cereals ia 16^

Forms cau be f)ud on thoemp plan, or long time cash payments.

It is not an uncommon thing to pay for a farm from the proceeds of one crop.

It bos all the advantages of an old country in the shape of school, church, market, postal and railway facilities, and all tbo chances of a now country in the w.iy ofcheap lands, rich soil, and increuso in values.

It is one of tbe mostfertile and promising regions in America not yet fully occupied.

In the rush to the far west, however, this rich valley has been over-looked.

It has room for amillion more people.

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YOUR MOSEY, OR YOUR LIFE !This question is a “pert" one, but we

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TALM AGE'S NEW YEAR’S SERMON A GLANCE IN BOTH DIRECTIONS.

Christiana Called Upon to Gird onTheir Armor and Begin a Vlgor-oua Onslaught Against Sin andSatan.—Why the World In Not NowChristianised.—An Kaiuent Appealfor Prayer.

Bkookltx, N. Y., January 4.—Dr. Tal- mage’a New Year's sermon is a ringing battle-cry to ministers and Christians everywhere, calling upon them to Join in a oombinod charge on tho entrenchmeuts of of sin and Satan. It mode a deep impres­sion on the vast crowds who heard it In this city this morning and at the service in New York tonight. The enthusiasm at the latter service was increased by the elective aid rcudered by a large volunteer choir which has been organized from the audiences, who sung with a volume and fervor seldom equalled. After the singing of the hymn commencing,

Come Holy Spirit, Heavenly Dove With all thy quickening powers,—

Dr. Talmage preached the following ser won from tho text, Luke 24: 49: “Tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem until ye be endued with power from on high.”

For a few months, in the providence of God, I have two pulpits, one in Brooklyn and the other in New York, and through the kindness of the printing press an ever widening opportunity. To all such hearers and readers I corao with an especial mes­sage. Tho tima has arrivod for a forward movement such as the church and the world have never seen. That there is need for such a religious movement is evident from tho fact that never since our world was rolled out among the planets has there been such an organized and determined effort to overthrow righteousness and make the Ten Commandments obsolete and the whole Bible a derision. Meanwhile alco­holism is taking down its victims by the hundreds of thousands, and the political purtiek get down on their knees, practically saying: “O thou almighty Rum Jug, wo bow down before thoo. Give us tho offices, city, stato and national. Oh, give us the offices, aud we will worship thee for ever and ever. Amen.” The Christian Sabbatb meanwhile, appointed for physical, mental and spiritual rest, is being secularized and abolished. As if the bad publishing houses of our own country had exhausted their literary filth, tho French and Russian sew­ers have been invited to pour their scur­rility aud immoral slush into the trough where our Amei ican swine are now wal­lowing. Meanwhile, there aro enough houses of infamy in all our cities, open and unmolested of the law, to invoke the Om­nipotent wrath which buried Sodom under a deluge of brimstone. The pandcmoniac world, I think, has massed its troops and they are this moment plying their batteries upon family circles, church circles, social circles, political circles and national circles. Apollyon is in the saddle, and riding at the head of his myrmidons would capture this world for darkness and woe.

That is one side of tho conflict now rag­ing. On the other side we have tho most magnificent Gospel machinery that the world ever saw or heaven ever invented. In the first place, in this country more than eighty thousand ministers of religion and, take them as a class, more consocrated, holier, more consistent, more self-denying, more faithful men never lived. I knew them by the thousands. I have met them in every city. I am told, not by them but by people outside our profession, people engaged in Christian and reformatory work, that the clergy of America are at the head of all good enterprises and, who­ever else fail, they may bo depended ou. The truth of this is demonstrated by tho fact that when a ministe- of religion does fall. It is so exceptional that tho news­papers report it as something startling, while a hundred men in other callings may go down without tho matter being consid­ered as especially worth mentioning. In addition to their equipment in moral char­acter. the clergy of this country have all that the schools can give. All archaeolog­ical, rhetorical, scientific, scholastic, literary attainment. So much for tho Christian ministry of all denominations. In the next place on our sido of the conflict we have tho grandest churches of all time and higher stylo of momLorship, and more of them, and a host without number of splendid men and women who are doing their best to have this world purified, elevated, pospelized. But we all feel that something is wanting. Enough hearty songs have boon sung and enough earnest ser mops preached within the last six months to save ull the cities of America and saving the cities you save the world, for they overflow all the land either with their religion or their infamy.

But look at some of the startling facts. It is nearly nineteen hundred years since Jesus Christ came by the way of Bethlehom caravansary to snve this world, yet the most of the world has been no more touched by this most stupendous fact of all eternity than if on the first Christmas night the beasts of the stall, amid tho bleatings of their own young, had not board tho bloat­ing of the Lamb that was to be slain. Out of the eighteen hundred million of the hu­man race fourteen hundred million aro without God and without hope in the world, the camel-driver of Arabia, Mahomet, with his nine wives, having half aa many disci­ples as our blessed Christ; and more people are worshipping chunks of painted wood and carved stone than are Worshipping „ho liv­ing and eternal God. Meanwhile, tho most of us who are engaged in Christian work — I speak for myself as well os others—ore toiling up to our fulf capacity of body, mind and soul, harnessed up to the last buckle, not aide to draw a pound more than we are drawing, or lift an ounce more than we are lifting.

What is the matter? My text lets out the secret We all need more of the power from on high. Not muscular power, not logical power, not scientific power, not social power, not financial power, not brain power, but power from on high. With it wo could accomplish moro ln one week than without It in a hundred years. And I am going to get it, if in answer to jrayer, earnest and long continued, God will grant it me, his unworthy servant Mon and women who know how to pray, when you pray for yourself, pray for mo that I may be eu<lue 1 with power from on high. I would r>;thcv have it than nil the diamond fields of Golconda, and all tho pearls of tho so.i, and all the gold of the mountains. Many of the mightiest intel­lects never hod a touch of It, and many of the less than ordinary Intellects have been surcharged with It And every man and woman on earth has a right to aspire to it a right to pray for it, and. properly per­sistent, will obtain it Power from on the

level is a good thing, such power as I may give you, or you may give me, by encour­aging words aud actions. Power from on tho level when wo stand by each other in nny Christian undertaking. Power from on the level when other pulpits are in accord with ours. Power from on the level when the religious nnd secular press forward our Christian undertakings. But power from on the level is not sufficient Power from on high is what we need to take possesflon of us. Power straight from God. Super­natural power, Omnipotent power, all-con­quering power. Not more than one out of a Thousand of tho ministers have it contin­uously. Not more than one out of ten thousand Christians have it all the time. Given In abundance those last ten yean of tho nineteenth ctntury would accomplish moro for God und the church and the world than the previous 90 yean of this century.

As tho power from on high in 1857 was more remarkable in academies of music, and lyceum halls, and theatres than in churches, why not this winter of 1891 in theso two academies of music, places of secular entertainment where wo are during the rebuiluiug of our Brooklyn tabernacle, so grandly and graciously treated by the owuers and lessors aud lessees; why not expect, and why not have tho power from on high, comforting power, arousing power, convicting power, converting power, sav­ing power, omnipotent power? My opinion is that in this cluster of cities by the Atlan­tic coast there are 500,000 people now ready to accept the Gospel call, if, freed from all the conventionalities of the church, it were earnestly aud with strong faith presented to them, ln these brilliant assemblies there are hundreds who are not frequenters of churches, and who do not believe much, jf at all, in ministers of religion or ecclesi­astical organizations. But God kuows you have struggles in which you need help and bereavements in which you want solace, and persecutions in which you ought to have defence, and perplexities in which you need guidance, and with a profound thoughtfulness, you stand by tho grave of tho old year aud tho cradlo of I ho young year, wondering where you will be, and what you will be when “rolling years shall cease to move.” Power from on high de­scend upon them! Men of New York and Brooklyn, I offer you God and heaven! From the day you came to theso cities, what a struggle you have had! I can tell from your care-worn countenances, and the tears in your eyes, and the deep sigh you have Just breathed that you want reinforce­ment, and here it is, greater than Bluchcr. when he reinforced Wellington; greater than the Bank of England, when last month it reinforced the Burings; namely, the God who through Jesus Christ is ready to pardon all your sin, comfort all your sorrows. soattcr all your doubts, and swing all tho shining gates of heaven wide open before your redeemed spirit. Come into the Kingdom of God! Without a half sec­ond of delay, come in!

At the first communion after the dedica­tion of our former church three hundred and twenty-eight souls stood up in the aisles and publicly espoused the cause of Christ. At another time four hundred souls; at another time five hundred; and our four thousand five hundred membership were but a small part of those who within those sacred walls took upon them the vows of the Christian. What turned them? What saved them? Power from the level? No. Power from on high.

Tho history of unanswered prayers for you God only knows. They may have boon offered in tho solemn birth-hour. They may have been offered when you wore down with scarlet fever or diphtheria or membraneous croup. They may have been offered some night when you wore sound asleep in the trundle bed, and your mother came in to see that you were right­ly covered in tho cold winter night. They may have been offered at that time which comes at least once in almost every one's life, when your father aud mothor had hard work to make a living, and thoy feared that want would come to them and you. They may have been offered when the lips could no longer move and the eyes were closed for the long sleep. O, unan­swered prayers of father and mothor, where are you? In what room of the old homestead have thoy hidden? O, unan­swered prayers, riso in a mist of many tears into a cloud and then break in a shower which shall soften the heart of that man who is so hard that ho cannot cry, or that woman who is ashamed to pray! O, armchair of the aged, now empty and in tho garret among the rubbish, speak outl O, staff of the pilgrim who has ended his weary Journey, tell of tho parental anxie­ties that bent over thee. O, family Bible with story of births and deaths, rustle some thy time-worn leaves, aud let us know of the wrinkled hands that once turned thy pages, and explain that spot where a tear fell upon the passage: “O, Absalom, my son, my son, would God I hod died for thoe!”

Good and gracious God ! What will bocomo of us if, after having had such a de­vout and praying parentage, we never pray for ourselves! We will pray. We will begin now. Oh, for the power from on high, power to move this assemblage, power to save Brooklyn and New York, power of evangelism that shall sweep across this continent like an ocean surge, power to girdle the round earth with a red girdle dipped in the blood of the cross. If this forwurd movement is to begin at all, there must be some place for it to begin, and why not this place? And there must bo some time for it to begin, and why not this time? And so I sound for your ears a rythmic invitation, which, until a few days never came under my eye, but it is so sweet, so sobbing with pathos, so triumphant with joy, that whoever chimed it, instead of being anonymous, ought to bo immortal:

Thy sins T bore ou Calvary’s tree:Tho stripos, thy duo, wore laid on me,That peace and pardon might bo free—

O, wretched sinner, come!Burdoncd with guilt, wouldst thou bo

blest?Trust not the world; it gives no rest;I bring relief to hearts opprest—

O, weary sinner, come!Como, leave thy burden at tho cross!Count ull thy gains but empty dross.My grace repays all earthly loss—

O, needy sinner, come!Come, hither bring thy boding fears,Thy aching heart, thy bursting tears;”Tis Mercy’s voice salutes thine oars;

O, trembling sinner, como!

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eSACQUAINTED WITH THE GEOGRAPHY OP THE COUNTRY, WILL OBTAIN MUCH VALUABLE INFORMATION FROM A STUDY OF THIS MAP OF

THE CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND & PACIFIC RAILWAY,Including main lines, branches and extensions East and W«st of the Missouri River. Tho Diroot Route to and from Chicago, Joliet. Ottawa, Peoria, La Salle, Moline, Rock Island, ln ILLINOIS—Davenport, Muscatine, Ottumwa, Oekalooea, DesMoines, Wlntersot, Audubon, Harlan and Council Bluffs, in IOWA—Minneapolis and St. Paul, in MINNESOTA—Watertown and 61oux Falls, In DAKOTA—Cameron, St Joseph, and Kansas City, in MISSOURI—Omaha, Fairbury, and Nel6on, in NEBRA8KA—Atchison, Leav­enworth, Horton, Topoka, Hutchinson, Wiohlta, Belleville, Abilene, Dodge City, Caldwell, in KANSAS—Kingfisher, El Reno, in the INDIAN TERRI­TORY—Denver, Colorado Springe and Pueblo, in COLORADO. Traverses new areas of rich terming and grazing lands, affording the beet tociltties of lnterc .mmunlcation to all towns and cities oast and west, northwest and southwest of Chicago, and to Pacific and transoceanic Seaports.

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making close connections for all points North nnd Northwest. FREE Re­clining Chair Cars to and from Kansas City. Tho Favorite Line to PlpeHtona Watertown, 81oux Falls, and the Summer Resorts and Hunting and Fishing Grounds of Iowa, Minnesota and Dakota.

THE SHORT LINE VIA SENECA AND KANKAKEE ofibre tecilttios to travel between Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Lateyette, and Council Bluffs, S6, Josoph, Atchison, Leavenworth, Kanuas Oity, Minneapolis, and St. PauL

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CLINTON INDEPENDENT, THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1891.

The IndependentST. JOHNS,THURSDAY. JANUARY 8, 1891

SOCIKTY MEETINGS.

ST. JOHNS LODOK NO. 81,1. O. O. F. MEKT8 F.-Wav erenluar of each wetk. New lodge

room ooruer Clinton Avenue and Hallroad-»t.A. B. BALOOM, N. G.

FRED BOWLES. Secretary.£JT. JOHNS ENCAMPMENT NO. 88,1. O. O. F O nieota id and 4th Wednesday evening* of each month. A. B. BaLCOM. C. P.

J. L. THANCHELL. Secretary.

THE LOCAL. MARKETS.

OrricK or The Indkpkmdent.St. Johns, Mich. January 8. 1801.

The following are the price* paid In cash for produce In this market:Wheat, red.......................................• •£££ $Wheat, white..... -............................. .8S®.91Oat*..................................-............—• .48®.48CloverSeed........................ —• 3.78®4 30Buckwheat,....................................... .Barley....................................... A l.oo®i.aoButter—as to quality,................—Poo-U ................. .«Beans......... ...... ..................~~............. 1,00®1AuTallow,..........................................™~ *04Hay, per tou,..................................... 7.00®8.00Potatoes.............................................. •**Onions.Corn.............................Lard................. -...................Chicken*.—..-..............Turkey*.................. -Wood....................... —•Hides...........................Pork, drossed..............

.50®. M 23025

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m^-CnrrftfMfLdence should reach this office on Dies- day 0/each week, and not later than Wednesday morn­ing. Anonymous communications will receive no atten­tion, The writer’s name must be given, net Jot pub­lication, if so desired, but as evidence of good faith.

OLIVE.

Olive. Jan. 5,18BI.Mrs. Dunham is still failing.Tom Blizzard is thought to be gaining

slowly.Mrs. Bradbum returned to New York

last Tuesday.Mark Hill is very sick with inflama-

tlon of the lungs.Mrs. Patrick Mahar has been ill for

the past two weeks.Miss Regina VanFleet returned to

Chicago last Saturday.Mrs. Dr. Simmons has been quite sick

since New Year’s day.Adney Smith, of Webberville, Mich.’

is visiting his father, Ira Smith.Mr. Claire and daughter Nellie re­

turned frorft Kalamazoo, Saturday.Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Hyde visited at

Eden Skinner's, in Bengal, last week.Mr. and Mrs. Omar Dills, of DeWitt,

visited Mrs. II. R. Wilcox last Sunday.Nellie Smalley wrenched her knee

badly a short time since and has been helpless ever since.

Elmer Smith and Eddie Hunt, of Webberville, made a short call at Varney Pearce's, last Wednesday night.

Mrs. Thomas Baldwin stepped upon a chair one day last week to wind the clock. The chair tipped in such a manner as to throw her backward upon the stove, injuring her quite severely.

The officers of the DeWitt grange were installed last Saturday evening, Newton L. Webb acting as installing officer. Several of the officers were installed by proxy, the -great, big Indian show” across the way being the attraction.

The two Mrs. Drinks returned from New York, last Tuesday. They report plenty of snow and very cold weather. The sleighing was good during the three weeks of their stay and the roads had to be shoveled out Monday before they could reach the train.

Henry Krogle returned from Ohio last Friday. He says the weather there is about the same as here. Heattended the wedding of his cousin, Mr. Gohr, of Lansing, to Miss Eiperley, also of Lan­sing. They were married at Monroe and the wedding was quite a grand affair. Upon their return to Lansing their friends got up a surprise and gave them a nice set of dishes.

On the evening of December 31, several of the neighbors of Mr: and Mrs. Baldwin met at their residence, on the John Parks place, and gave Mrs. Bald­win a surprise—l»eing her 37th birthday. The rain kept several at home, hut those who were there had a jolly time. They “watched the old year out and the new year in,” in genuine old fashioned stvle, and stayed till after 1 o'clock. Mrs. Baldwin was the recipient of a beautiful plush album, presented by her children and neighbors.

I will simply say to the person or persons who sent me the anonymous communication accompanied by the re­quest that l should send it with my other correspondance to the papers.

(iiiruiivm f>(4111 w cun/iif iituuo winmunications.” If any one has anything they wish me to send to the papers for them just be gentleman or lady enough to sign your name, as I have no desire or time to mix up in a neighborhood jangle. [The Independent would not

' ;it if .................print it if vou had.—Ed.j

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DALLAS.

Dallas, Jan. S, 1821.Miss Etta Sharp is home for a stay.Myrom Osburn has gone to Bloomer,

and is engaged in skidding logs.Mrs. Joseph Coffman and two sons

and daughter, of Grand Rapids, visited friend herealxmta last week.

Mrs. Winfield Gillespie is visiting her parents for a few days, while her hus­band takes a prospecting trip to Isa­bella county.

Perhaps no one gave the new year a heartier welcome than Mr. and Mrs. John Iiong, as it came, presenting In its arms, to them, a fine baby boy.

George Utter is putting up a pig-parlor and kitchen on a large scale. W. C. Coffman is doing the carpenter work. Mr. Utter is the architect of his own fortune.

Died, at his home, January 2, 1891, JJorgan Gilson, at the ripe age of 85 years. The funeral was held last Sun­day, at the Brick school house, in Leb­anon. and his remains were interred in the East Plains cemetery.

W. M. Osburn believes In raising his own fish. Three years ago he dug. at the rear of his farm, a reservoir, about one-fourth of an acre in area, scrap* the bottom, and inlaid it with a bed of gravel. This is constantly supplied with water from a spring, a few rods distance, affording an excellent pond for the rearing of fish. From a small plant of brook trout, the fish have mul­tiplied to a large number, some of which measure more than a foot in length. Tlirough holes cut lu the ice, he feeds uiem on small fish, bits of beef, crumbs from the table, etc. For such fish, HO cents per pound in Detroit. Lena.

BENGAL.

Benoal, Jan. 5, 1891.Mrs. Dow Lyon visited her son, Vem-

ie, at Bridgeport, last week.The Infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Thos.

Skinner, died Dec. 25, of pneumonia, aged 18 dayB.

The newly elected officers of Bengal Grange were installed Saturday evening, by Munson Chase, of Efeex, late repres- entive to the State Grange.

Mrs. Clara Jacobs, nee Harper, died at the residence of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Harper, Sunday, January 4th. of consumption, after a lingering illness of many months. Thus another one of earth’s fairest daughters hits passed to the great beyond, leaving many loving friends, weeping upon the shore of the stream of life, waiting to join her there. E. N. Steward.

EUREKA.

Eureka, Jan. 7,1801, Mrs. Daggett is still very sick.C. M. Poet has had a relapse, but is

again improving.Out of the ninety or more conversions,

at the recent meetings, about one-half of them joined the Evangelical church.

Albert Pierson and Mrs. Ffcsler, his housekeeper, were married a couple of weeks ago and the Eurekaites have just found it out.

The U. B. services on Sunday morn­ing last, were held at the Evangelical church, on account of the U. B. sexton's losing the key to the church.

A Mr. Baker, minister of the gospel, preached at the Christian church Sun­day, on trial. All were pleased with the sermon, but it is uncertain whether he will be called here or not.

M. T.WACOUSTA.

Wacousta, January tt, 1801.Vacation in school, and teachers and

scholars are enjoying the rest. A large crow d at the Congregational church on Christmas eve. Teachers and scholars gave a very fine literary entertainment, which did credit to them all. At the Demorest contest Grace Manzer won the medal, although, where all were nearly perfect, it was hard to choose between them. The whole class did well. But onely one could take the med­al, and theaudiance were generally well pleased with the verdict. The W. R. C. lave a new president, Mrs. Lyman Dan­

iels. They install, privately, at the next meeting. The eutertainment they held at G. A. R. hall was well attended and the quilt was drawn by Mrs. Newcome, of Watertown. It brought to the treasury $27. Wacousta is all going to Lansing to-morrow, that is, the demo­cratic force of the town. Bee.

LEBANON.

Lebanon, Jan. 6,1891.Joe Graham and family, moved to

Vestburg, Monday.Wm. VanAlstyne has purchased the

C. J. Graham farm.A. S. Harrison, who was accidentally

shot, is improving nicely.Mrs. Henry Harvey fell on the door­

step and broke her wrist, last Monday.Mrs. John and Mrs. James Curtis have

returned from visiting relatives in Can­ada.

N. G. Antes is living in one of James Fisher's houses instead of hisgranery. as we reported last week.

Frank Barker is repairing Island bridge across the Maple. It will be ready for travel in a few days.

Uncle” Ilftrry Burnham, for many years a resident of Mathertoii, died last week at his daughter's, in Ionia.

Mrs. Cynthia Abbott, returned to her sister-in-law’s , in St. Johus, Monday, after spending a few days at home.

John Spearbraclier and wife celebrated their wooden wedding. December 31. The social event wound up with a dance in the evening.

Justice Hall, of Matherton, decided Burch road suit against the township. Now Mr. Commissioner go ahead again. We do like to pay taxes.

James Harden, who has been teach­ing at Pound, Wis., resigned his posi­tion for the purpose of attending the Normal school at Valparaiso, Iud.

The famous weather prophet from Riley, again has the floor, and will regu­late the weather the balance of the winter. For December and January he arranged for storms to commence with wind in s. w., but all the storms since the publication of his manifesto, persist in commencing with wind in s. e, Pro- Yoking, isn’t it? Jew Peter.

Party Leader*Lincoln, Sumner, Seward, Chase,

Andrew, were in the highest sense leaders who stood for the chaiacter, the aims^and the ability of the party. A party with such representative leaders might be justly expected to conduct the greatest public affairs with the moral enthusiasm and support of their asso­ciates. They alone were the best argu­ments for the party. It was confidence in such men which largely w elded the party into a great and resistless force; for a party is measured by its leaders. The sole dependence of the democratic party during the war was the character not the opinions and sympathies of Horatio Seymour. Its strongest popular argument now is Grover Cleveland. But when the republican party looks at its more conspicuous and acknowledged leaders of to-day, it is, in plain English, and if frank private confession may be trusted, disgusted. Of course we are not saying that all prominent republi­cans are of that kind. But to confine our remarks to this state, it is notorious that the real and efficient republican leader in New York has for some lime been Mr. Thomas C. Halt. He has been frankly recognized as such by the President, who lias fulfilled his civil service reform pledge in New York by making Mr. Platt Ids chief counselor in the distribution of patronage.

This leadership largely explains the result In this state in November. There were crowds of republicans who cared more for bitting Platt and the President than for helping McKinley. There were a great number of such republicans in the city who would not vote for Mr. Scott, the anti-Tammany candidate for Mayor, because they would not strengthen the prestage of Platt. Such leaders are costly, as the present condi tiorr of the party in New York shows.— Harper> Weekly,

3d ANNUAL INVENTORY SALE! CORBIT & VALENTINE.Now is the time !

It‘ will only last this month !We must have room !

And are determined not to carry the goods over from year to year.

Fresh, Clean Goods is what we keep, and

BARGAINS FOR EVERYBODY.

Grocery Department.

HARDWARE,Cooking and Heating

CARRIAGES,ROAD WAGONS,

and CARTS.

We also sell the Auburn all Steel Axle Farm Wagon, the easiest running wagon in the market.

'W-A.X_>IZ:e:E5 ST.. T77EST.

During this month, or as long as the Bargains last we will sell for cash [or produce]

17 pounds of Granulated Sugar for......................... $1.00.20 pounds of Yellow Sugar for................................ 1.00.5 pounds of Our Own Package Coffee for............ LOO.8 pounds of “Best” Tea Dust for......................... 1.00.

65 bars of Colgate’s Soap for................................... 1.00.30 bars of “Kirks” Soap for.................................... 1.00.13 pounds of Loose Muscatels for............................ 1.00.15 pounds of Choice English Currents for............. LOO.13 cans of Com for.................................................... 1.00.21 pounds of Best Laundry Starch for.................... LOO.4i pounds of Best Plug Tobacco on earth for....... 1.00.0 pounds of “Our Best Smoking” Tobacco for.... LOO.

“Junbo,” the largest bar of soap in the country, for 10c.

Everything a Bargain.

Dry Goods and Cloak Department.

Everything in CLOAKS is Reduced to Close Out. BLANKETS at about one-half Price.

UNDERWEAR at Prices never before heard of.

One lot of Men’s Heavy Merino Shirts and Draws reduced from 50c down to 39c.

Due lot of Men's Fancy Wool Shirts and Drawers reduced from *1.00 down to 79c.One lot of Men’s Natural Wool Shirts and Drawers reduced from *1.00 down to 79c.One lot of Women’s Natural Wool Pants and Vests reduced from *1.00 down to 79c.One lot of WomeL's Scarlet Wool Pants and Vests reduced from *1.00 down to 79c.One lot of Children’s Natural Wool and Scarlet Underwear from 25c up.One lot of Children’s Heavy Merino Underwear from 15c up.One lot of Men’s Heavy Wool Socks, 8 pairs for 50c ; worth 75c.One lot of American Indigo Pants for Sc ; red need from 7c.One lot of Heavy Shirting for 7c ; reduced from 10c.One lot of Heavy Canton Flannel for 8c; reduced trom 12*^c.

Saturday, January 10,We will aell 12 yards of the “Fruit of the Loom”

Cotton for $1.00.

Boot and Shoe Department.

Great Havoc in Warm Goods.

Men’s and Boy’s Felt Boots for 75c.(Yes, we have them for 25c.)

One lot of Men’s Socks we have cut right in two, from $1.00 down to 50c, All Rubber Goods at prices that will discount anything you have yet

seen.

We Mean Just What We Say !200 pairs of Men’s Shoes roduced from $2.00, $2.25 and $2.50,

down to $1.50.

These Prices are given for Spot Cash.(Produce always the same as Cash.)

Very Truly Yours,

ST. JOHNS MERCANTILE CO.

A NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONIn which we have resolved to close out our line of

Ladies’ and Children’s Cloaks.

Here are some bargains you cannot afford to miss

$20.00 garments going at.................................$13.75.16.00 garments going at................................ 10.50.10.00 garments going at................................ 7.25.8.00 garments going at................................ 4.75.6.00 garments going at................................ 3.90.4.00 garments going at................................ 2.50.

Also, some big bargains in

Shawls and Furs.

CHAPIN & COMPANY.[Successors to Dunn, Bunday & Co.]

FOWLER & BALL,

I

^WbiidsS^iFrom the reports we have received from re­

sponsible parties, we have no hesitation in recom­mending any of our numerous subscribers, who are in want of a good stove or range, to try the “Garland Stoves and Ranges”

Beckwith’s Round Oak, Magee Furnaces, Bol­ton Hot Water Heaters, Plumbing and Gas Fit­tings, Gas Fixtures and Gas Stoves, Grand Oil Heaters, Shelf and Heavy Hardware.

STEPHENSON’S

ORIGINAL BAZAAR.Now For Christmas!

Plush Albums,Handkerchiefs,*

Dolls,Portmonies,

Hand-sleighs.Hobby Horses,

Mirrors,Writing Desks,

Sewing Tables,Pillow Shams,

Hosiery,Mitts.

Glassware, Tinware, &c.

Curtain Poles and Curtains in all sizes a specialty.

Machine Needles, all Sizes.

STEPHENSON’S : BAZAAR.

JACKSON-THE-

Merchant Tailor,8T. J OH IN H, MICH.

If you want a perfect fit go to

Jackson’s.If you want goods which will

not fade or spot, go to

Jackson’s.If you want tailor-made cloth­ing at reasonable prices, go to

J ackson’sIf you want a handsome and

perfect fitting Overcoat, see

JACKSON