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The Shoe Department of the Mercantile Co. is Making a GREAT SHOE SALE. Genuine Bargains Offered.

The Clinton Repubili<:an.YOL. XXXVIII.—NO. 1. ST. JOHNS, MICH., THURSDAY. APRIL 27, 1893. WHOLE NO. 1,924.

The Republican.C. C. VAUGHAN, Publisher.

—TERMS:*-------Strictly in Advance, ■ * $1.00Republican A Detroit Tribune. SI.50

All Settlements of Past Due Subaorip* tiona will bo made at tbe rate

of S1.50 Per Year.

Our advertising rates are *100 per column per annum. Business notices five cents per line foi each insertion. Editorial notices, ten cents.

Busluess cards, *1 per line per year.Marriage, birth and death notices inserted free.

Obituary comments, resolutions, cards of thanus, etc., will be charged for at the rate of five cents^Correspondence containing local nows Issolic ited from all parts of the county.

Anonymous communications not inserted under any circumstances.

JOB PRINTING.Our material Is new and of the latest styles, and

we guarantee satisfaction, both in prices aud quality of work.

S'TATE BANK OF ST. JOHNS.

COMMERCIAL AND SAVINGS.

CAPITAL. *50,000.

NET ASSETS OF STOCKHOLDERS, $000,000.00.

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

J. W. FITZGERALD, Cashier.H. H. FITZGERALD. Asst. Cash.

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

Corbit, J. U. Fedewa, Otis Fuller, Edwin E. While, Jesse Sullivan, C. 8. Allison,

James Richardson, G. E. Corbin.

4 Per Cent. Interest Paid on Time Deposits.

rjlHE CLINTON COUNTY SAVINGS BANK.

ST. JOHNS, MICH.

PAYS 4 PER CENT. INTEREST ON DEPOSITS AND LOANS MONEY ON APPROVED

BONDS AND REAL ESTATE SECURITY.

ALBERT J. BALDWIN, President.G. PENNELL, Vice-President.

P. E. WALSWORTH, Treasurer.R. C. DEXTER, Asst. Treasurer.

LOCAL MATTERSIf you are going to buy a watch don’t

fail t > see the bargain that Allison has for you. 51tf

If you want the latest style of Photos, call on Plunkett. lwl

BREVITIES.

The pioneers will meet in St. Johns June 10tli.

Mrs. J. S. Osgood lias returned from Battle Creek.

Rev. J. P. Fryer, of; Detroit, occupied the CongregatiqpHl pulpit Sunday.

Thomas Padley Jr. has engaged with Corbit & Valentine for the season./ Albert Partlow, of Eagle, has purchased the Kirkwood hotel, Lansing, for 130,000.

Supervisor Vance and Jay Sessions, of Lebanon, were callers at Tiik Republican office Monday.

v? Andy Hicks has engaged with Whitney’s St. Johns music house to sell pianos on the road.

Mrs. Martin, of Battle Creek, was the guest of Mrs. Hunt, her mother, in St. Johns, over Sunday.

A. DeClair returned to Mt. Pleasant Tuesday, after spending a few days with his family in St. Johns.

J. H. Adams, of Lake Waccabuc, Westchester county, New York, visited friends in St. Johns last week.

Joseph Ingalls will sell his goods at auction, aud soon leave for Seattle, Washington, on a prospecting tour.

Married, in St. Johns, April 22d, by Rev. C. O. Thomas, Mr. Clinton Pulsipher and Miss Cora Moore, both of St. Johns.

v, Galn&ha Pennell has accepted a situs- (on in the St. Johns Natioual Bank, and ill be found at the old quarters next

week.Florence Wilson returned to Ypsilanti,

and O. L. Spaulding, Jr., Grace Hunt, Leah Fowler and Ina Perrin to Ann Arbor, Monday.

Geo. W. Burk, formerly the popular clerk at Tbe Steel, is now cashier of the Hotel Monroe, a modern Chicago hotel with 600 rooms.

The Episcopal people will begin work i\< on their new church edifice soon. They

expect to enclose the building this fail, and may complete it.

Mrs. H. M. Perrin and Miss Caddie Shaver went to Bancroft Tuesday to attend a meeting of the Genesee Congregational association.

E. E. White spent Tuesday in Saginaw examining candidates for a West Point cadetship. There were no applicants from Clinton county.

Senator Steel and Mrs. Steel expect to leave for Chicago, Friday, to attend tbe dedicatory exercises of the Michigan bnilding at the World’s Fair.

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Tbe Schuberts gave a fine concert at Newton hall last week.

The St. Johns cheese factory will resume operations next Monday. ,Y A. E. Dutcher has removed his shoe stock to the Geo. Stephenson Btore.

Rev. W. C. Allen was called to Battle Creek Tuesday to attend a funeral.

Mr. Willett, of Flint, was the guest of his brother in-law, Geo. H. Judd, Tues day.

George Wilson returned Tuesday evening from Kalamazoo, to remain for th£ present.¥ Chas. Patterson has been continuously

employed by tbe St. Johns Manulactur- ing company twenty-one years.

The Odd Fellows celebrated yesterday afternoon, but the paper went to press tojpearly to give the proceedings.*F. F. Murdock has the job of laying sawed stone walks in front of the St. Johns National Bank and O. G. Wickes & Sons’ grocery store.

Miss Harriet Vreeland, the talented elocutionist and reader, will give an entertainment at the Disciple church, Du- plain, next Saturday evening.

Married, in St. Johns, April 25th, at the residence of Frank Abbott, by Rev. C. G. Thomas, Chas. H. Howard and Adah Leech, both of Lebanon.

A. W. Durkee, Lester Wilcox, Fred and Frank Swain, T. 8. Degroodt, Wm. Brown and E. L. Nichols attended a Masonic school of instruction at Owosso Tuesday evening.

Willard King, of Watertown, and Dell Whitlock, of Greenbush, have been drawn as jurors for the May term of the United States court at Bay City, which convenes May 16.V Geo. A. Wells, agent of the National Express Company, and secretary of the gas company, will occupy the office recently vacated by the St. Johns Manufacturing Company.

E. O. Dewey, editor of the Owosso Times, has been appointed deputy oil inspector for this district, Mr. Dewey is a very bright young business man, and an active republican.

A national convention of republican clubs will be held at Louisville, Ky., May 10th. George Heck, of Maple Rapids, is one of the delegates from the eight congressional district.

On account of the cold and unpleasant weather, only a few sheep were shown at the stockbreeders and wonlgrowers meeting Saturday. None of the fleeces were removed. A few horses were also shown.

R. G. Steel, of St. Johns, went to Detroit on Tuesday to attend a meeting of the Michigan division of the League of American Wheelmen. The Tribune says Mr. Steel is being urged to make the run for chief consul. v George Baldwin has puichased a Columbia bicycle with pneumatic tires, of John C. Hicks, the local agent. It is a handsome machine, and weighs only thirty pounds. Cashier P E. Walsworth has also ordered a Columbia.

Manied, in St. Johns, April 22d, at the home of the bride, by Rev. C. G. Thomas, Mr. Fred H. Irving and Miss Minnie Smith, both of St. Johns. It will be entirely proper to serenade Minnie with “Hello Central!” She will be missed at the telephone office, where she was ever patient and obliging, f R. C. Dexter, assistant cashier of the St. Johns National Bank, will become assistant receiving teller in tbe Peninsular Savings Bank, Detroit, May 1st. Mr. Dexter is a careful, and competent bank man, who will no doubt make his way rapidly in the larger field of city banking. Many friends will regret losing him and bis excellent family from St. Johns.

i Rev. W. C. Allen, who has been pastor of the Congregational church the past five years, has tendered his resignation and will go to Dowagiac, Michigan, about tbe first of September. Mr. Allen has labored faithfully, and the church has prospered greatly under his administration. He has done much good outside the church membership as well as in tbe church, and his going will be a matter of sincere regret to tbe whole community. He is a fearless and powerful preacher.

“Tom’s Vacation” was given at Scriven’s Opera House Saturday night by the Royce A Lansing comedy company. It was one of the best entertainments given in St. Johns this season. Ray L. Royce is an impersonator of the highest order, and in many things equalled Sol Smith RuBsell. A. R. Brooks is also an artist of great merit, and kept the audience in the best of humor. Mr. A. C. Moore gave some very fine banjo selections, eliciting the heartiest applause. He can make more music on a banjo than any man who ever visited St. Johns.

L. W. Worden, of DeWitt, is dangerously ill.

Mrs. E. P. Barton returned to her home in Freeport, Illinois, Wednesday evening.

Thomas W. Baldwin, of Olive, is a candidate for postmaster at DeWitt, aud will probably be appointed.

The Epworth league gave a reception to Mr. and Mrs. Fred Irving at the home of the bride Tuesday evening, and presented them with a silver cake basket.

The King’s Daughters have elected the following officers: President, Es- tella Baker; vice president, Helen Wheelock; secretary, II. Pauline Adams; treasurer, Henrietta Richards.

Parties wishing to secure first class sleeping accommodations, only five minutes walk from the world’s fair grounds, should engage them immediately at Hotel Byron. See adv. in this issue.

James Pratt, of St. Johns, was arrested for disorderly conduct by Marshall Pitts Saturday night, aud lodged in jail until Monday morning. He was arraigned before Justice Duncan ; fine and costs, $6.00. The authorities announce that order will be preserved, and that it will he well for evil doers to take notice.

While getting out an oak log six feet iu diamater, and twelve feet long, for the world’s fair, last winter, David Bennett, of Riley, had the fingers on his right hand crushed by getting them caught between a tree and tbe moving log. The fingers were amputated, but did not heal, and the arm was amputated above the wrist last week to prevent blood poisoning. It is a very severe blow to Mr. Bennett, who is a poor man, earning his living by days work. Generous neighbors raised one hundred dollars for him last week.

The Wilcox will case has been on trial this week, and will probably last two or three days more. Fedewa & Merrill, of St. Tohns, and Elliott G. Stevenson, of Detroit, are for complainants, and H. E. Walbridge and W. A. Norton f >r defendants aud the will. A good sized audience, with a fair sprinkling of the fair sex, has been in attendance, for it was rumored that the evidence would be of a sensational character, and the rumor was well founded. The Republican does not feel at liberty to comment on the evidence introduced, and that which will l>e introduced, at this stage of the trial. A resume of the case will be given next week.

An effort is being made in Lansing to re-organizo the Central Michigan Savings Bank, increase its capital stock to $200,000 and re-open its doors. Tbe crisis in tho affairs of the Lansing hanks seems to have been passed, but there is said to be a million dollars of the Lansing Iron & Engine Works and Lansing Lumber company paper floating around, considerable of which is not indorsed by O. M. Barnes. The gieatest danger now is that someone will commence litigation, and so complicate matters as to cause another run on the Lansing banks. This trouble will probably stop the payment of reckless rates of interest for deposits, and reckless loans for a high rate. Clinton county people can find ample and safe banking facilities at home, where conservative management prevails.

Death of Mrs. A. H. Walker.

A GOOD SHOVING.RECEIPTS OF THE WATER WORKS

STEADILY CLIMBING.

Next Year the Work* will Pay a Part of the Interest on tbe Bonds.

Mrs. Minerva Walker, widow of the late A. H. Walker, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Barton, in Freeport, Illinois, April 20. She was ill bat a short time. Brief funeral services were held in Freeport, Friday, and the remains brought to St. Johns, accompanied by Mrs. Barton and Mr. 8. S. Wajker. Tbe funeral was held at tbe old home on Oakland street, in this village, Sunday afternoon, Rev. W. C. Allen officiating.

Mrs. Minerva Walker was born in Booneville, N. Y., June 11,1810, from which place her father, Dr. Samuel Snow, and family removed a few years later to Fredonia, N. Y. This place was her home during girlhood and also after her marriage to Mr. A. H. Walker in 1834 until they moved to Michigan in 1855. After a few years spent at Detroit and Ann Arbor, St. Johns was chosen as a home and was their continuous residence from 1861 until after the death of Mr. Walker, April 3, 1891. Deceased had been a member of the Congregational church in St. Johns for 20 years.

Mrs. Walker was a sister of W. M. Snow, the first station agent for the D., G. H. & M. railroad at this place.

A New Music Bouse.

C. J. Whitney, of Detroit, has established a branch music house in St. Johns, under the management of F. H. Frazell, who will work the territory between Owosso and Grand Rapids. The building recently occupied by the National Express company, adjoining the State Bank, has been leased, and it is expected that the new stock will be ready for inspection Saturday. Mr. Frazell states that a first class line of pianos, orgaus, string instruments, music and musical merchandise will be carried.

The annual report of the secretary of the water board, which will be presented to the village board at its next meeting shows receipts and expenditures for the year ending March 31st, 1893, as follows:

RECEIPTS.From Permits............................... *335 00Rents.............................................. 2,6*2 52Miscellaneous............................... 65 85 *3,083 37

EXPENSES.Secretary’s office........................ *13 40Salaries......................................... 1,663 40Fuel............................................... 1,014 !)2 —Pump house supplies................. 813 70Repairs on line.......................... 29 57Tools.............................................. 44 96Oils................................................ 61 40Cartage......................... 4 25 *3,145 60

There was also expended for new services, which is not properly an expense, as it is a permanent extension, $909.67 ; and the water fund was credited $3,960.00 for hydrant rental for lire protection. Tbe receipts outside of hydrant rental for the year ending April 30th, 1891, were $820.16; last year $2,404.63; this year $3,083.37. It will be seen that the receipts have steadily increased, and by the end of this year the services will be largely in, so that the rents will hereafter increase without a corresponding outgo for new service connections. It is fair to presume that there will be a balance next year to apply on the interest on the water bonds.

Another way of figuring, and a proper method of book keeping would be as follows:Total receipt*, including hydrant rental

from village for lire protection...................*7,043 87Total expemea, including new services and

interest on #60,000 bonds............................#7,055 27Leaving a net balance against the works of *11.90.There were 45,494,792 gallons of water

pumped last year—a daily average of 124,643 gallons. The largest number of gallons pumped was on August 16tb, 229,200. April 11th was the lightest day, only 58,160 gallons being delivered. There*re now 412 permits out. It is estimated that about 70 per cent, of the population are consumers of village water.

The service the past year was as good as any in Michigan up to the spring freshet, when the water broke through the side of the big well, letting in some surface water, and the cleaning of the reservoirs occasioned considerable roil. The leak was stopped as soon as possible, and the board propose to cement the bottom of the large well, which contains tbe working barrels ol' the lifting pumps, and also strengthen tbe walls with a new tier of brick laid in Portland ceuient. Mr. O. C. Hollister, who is a first class engineer, says this can be done, and that it will make the well perfectly tight, and there will probably be no recurrence of the accident this spring. From inquiries made in other towns, the board feel justified in the assertion that there is not a town about us, where as large a number of takers are served, that runs its works as economically, or makes as good a showing as St. Johns.

High Scnool Notes.

Harry Coleman has the pink eye.Essays are due again Friday.Virgil class have finished the ninth

book of the ^Eneid.Professor Yntema attended the fu

neral of a friend at Grand Rapids last week.

The mumps have appeared again; about the same time that they did last year. One of the seniors was afflicted last week.

Tbe afternoon program has been changed so that the freshmen have the last hoar free in order to go botanizing.

It speaks well for the zeal of the scholars of the high school that the torrents of rain that fell last Thursday morning kept only three away. Necessarily the majority were badly soaked, but this kind of ardor does not seem to be dampened by water. With the two bad leakB in the building, one in the high school room and one iu tbe girls’ cloak room, it does not afford a very good refuge from the storm. M. B.

All persons are requested to clean up their premises, out buildings, and the alleys adjoining premises, without delay

Dr. Dodge,1-3 Village Health Officer.

World’! Fair Accommodations.

Wm. Townsend, ex-sheriff of Lapeer county, was here last week in the interest of the Chicago Pinta Hotel club, which is organized for tbe purpose of providing good accommodations for the uniform rate for room only at $1.00 per day, two persons to occupy one room.

To secure rooms apply at least flftoen to thirty days iu advance, enclosing *5.00 for each adult, by P. O. order, draft or certificate check to the proprietor of the hotel selected. Room will be assigned and a receipt eent you. This amount will be credited on your bill. If possible state when you will arrive, number in your party, how long yon expect to remain and all particulars.

Address Wm. Townsend, secretary Chicago “Pints” Hotel Club, Hotel Nicollet, or apply to J. L. Ring, at the Farmers' Hotel, 84. Johns.

The ladies auxiliary cemetery associa tiou will hold its annual meeting at the residence of Mrs. M. Fasquelle Tuesday afternoon, May 9th, at 2 o’clock. All members aud all ladies interested in this work are requested to be present, as business of special importance will be brought before the meeting. 2w

A house and two acres of ground, including an orchard of 75 bearing trees, adjoining the corporation on the west, for rent. For particulars enquire df J. W. Fitzgerald, at the State Bank. 48tf

BUSINESS LOCALS.New Goods Arriving Dally.

A fresh stock. Correct styles. Prompt attention to orders and perfect satisfaction guaranteed are our methods.

Mrs. L. Canfield.

House Lots for Sale.East half lots 5 and 6, in block 7, and

lot 7 in block 6 bounded on Higbatn and Emmons streets. Parties wanting this property please send me your highest price. James F. Marble,

1-tf Poughkeepsie, N. Y.Notice to Contractors.

Notice is hereby given that the town clerk will receive sealed proposals for the building of a town liali in the village of DeWitt, county of Clinton, according to plans and specifications on exhibition at his office. Said work will be let to lowest bidder giving sufficient security for the performance of the same. Bids will be received until Friday, May 5th, 1893, at 1 o’clock p. m. The right is reserved to reject any and all bids.

By Order of Town Board.

New Process.Just received styles of’93, “New Pro

cess” Gasoline Cook Stoves with all the latest improvements. The only Gasoline Stove in the market with genuine Asbestos oven. Spaulding & Co.

Don’t send out of town for your miscellaneous books, when you have a fine line at home. We pay taxes, and only ask a living profit. Aldrich & Co.’s

Before giving your order for Picture Frames or Crayon Portraits to agents or stores call on Plunkett and get prices. He has the largest display of Crayon Portraits evei seen in Clinton county. Over Chapin A Co.’s lw2

Call and see the Colombian Exposition At^HAPiN & Co’s.

Post hole diggers and post-hole augers, best and cheapest, at Spaulding & Co’s.

In Carpets we are in it more than ever before, including the best makes, such as Hartford and Lowell, ex-superfine Ingrain, Tapestry and Body Brussels and Moquetts. II. L. Kendrick.

The Lace Curtain Season is here and Chapin & Co. are prepared with the largest, finest and cheapest stock to be found in the county._______

Our new stock of Embroideries are now in and beat all previous records.

________ H. L. Kendrick.Garlandq.

If in want of a Stove or Range, don’t fail to buy a Garland, the world’s best. Full line to select from.

Fowler & Ball, Sole Agents.Dress Goods.

Latest styles in Dress Goods, Trimmings to match_____ At John Hicks.’

Pla*4ico in white and all colors____ At Travis A Baker’s.

Aluminum Thimbles wear equal to silver, for 10c each At Porter’s.

Carpets I Carpets IOur Carpet and Rug Department is

more complete than ever. Do not fail to call on us if in want of a Carpet of any description._______John Hicks.’

A MostComplete line of Clocks always in stock.

At Allison’s.

We are headquarters for hot water, steam and hot air heaters.

____________8pauldino A Co.Nickel alarm clocks for $1.00

_________ _____At Porter’s.Go to Allison’s for perfect fitting

Spectacles. Eyes tested free.Farmers t

We have received our season’s stock of fence wire, consisting of black and galvanized anealled wire in all sizes, painted and galvanized barbed wire, galvanized twisted wire, galvanized braided wire, Hartman fancy wire, Hathaway fancy wire, poultry netting and wire cloth in all width’s. Prices and quality the best.

__________Spaulding & Co.Eight day half-hour gong strike $3.50

_______________At Porter’s.quick Meal.

223,688 Quick Meal Gasoline Stoves sold to January 1st, 1893. Best made. For sale only by Fowler A Ball.

Did you know you could buy the finest patterns in the best White Back Paper for 10c per double roll at Travis A Baker’s Corner Drug Store.

(From one of John Hicks’ customers.) “I saw their many bargains,

I nailed some on the spot;There may be others just as good,

ButI

Guess* Not.”

BUSINESS LOCALS.A Cyclone In Prices.

Saturday, April 29tli, we will place on sale : 50 Trimmed Hals at 50 cts. each. 100 Trimmed Hats at 100 cts. each. 200 Trimmed Hats at 200 cts. each. These three grades of Cheap Hats will he sold at prices far below their value for the reason that we have too many in stock, and we will drop the prices on them so low as to cause them to drop out. It is a well known fact that all our Trimmed Hata and Bonnets are practical, desirable, becoming and very easy to sell, in fact, they sell themselves.

Respectfully vours,1-1 J. T. Cole & Co.

No Boom For Hoop Skirts.“ Hair cloth lining is not hoop skirts.

It insures grace, elegance and style to a dress, and enables a lady to be in fashion without going to extremes.” We have it. John Hicks.

Girl WantedAt Anger’s Laundry. Wages $3 per week. 51-1

For Sale or Exchange,

6-Year-old Mare. Weighs 1,140 lbs. Sound and kind. Will sell or exchange for heavier horse. 50lf H. A. Sage.

Fine Table Linens'with Napkins to match At Chapin & Co’s.

That 8-day $3 clock - At Porter’s.All kinds of Repairing done

_________________ At Osborn’s.

Have you seen our Quick Meal Gasoline Range? Something new. 46 3

Fowler A Ball.

Do not forget the “New Patent Hat Fastners” which are furnished free with every Hat at Mrs. Canfield’s.

Have you seen the beautiful presents given away by Chapin A Co.

Window Shades.We have a large line of Window

Shades. A good decorated felt shade with the best spring roller for 25 cents.

_________________John Hickm.For Sale.

A nice wall or Side Show Case47-4 At Allison s.

Wall Paper!We offer this week, and will continue

to do so until closed out, the greatest bargains ever offered in St. Johus, having recently purchased a large bankrupt stock of wall paper. We are closing it out at prices that will surprise e very body. Come early and take your choice.

M. McDonald & Co.Ladies, have your Clothes Wringers

repaired at Osborn’s. Work guaranteed.Silks, Gimps, Jetts, Braids, Ribbons

and New Buttons for Dress Trimmings , At Chapin A Co’s.

A fine line of Seal Leather Silver Trimmed Ladies’ Card Cases at

______________ Allison’s.Legal Blanks.

A new and complete line just added.Aldrich & Co.’s

Just received from manufacturers a complete line of ladies’ and children’s Fine Shoes. _______Chapin & Co.

Farmers IBuy the “Iron Duke” corn planter

for $1.25, _____At Spaulding A Co’s.Trade at Kendricks’ and get an In

dian Baskets free.Wanted.

Reliable parties to act as agents. Steady employment and good pay from the start. No experience necessary. Outfit free. Address

The Hawks Nursery Co.,46-13 ________ Rochester, N. Y.

Lace Curtains.Elegant in design. Latest styles.

Nottingbams, Irish Point Brussels Net. All prices At John Hicks.’

Horse to Sell.Will H. Brunson has a good nine year

old 1250 lb. horse to sell. He is fair roadster. tf

Short Horn Bull For Sale.A 12 months old Roan Short Horn

Bull for sale. Bray Bros. A Loomis._______________ 49-4

Please remember we are headquarters for fine Dress Goods. Chapin A Co.

Star and Favorite barrel churns in all popular sizes at Spaulding A Co’s.-

An ellegant line of Souvenir Spoons at _________________ Allison’s.

Spring Jackets.Ladies’ and Misses’ 8pring Jackets and

Capes in light and dark colorsAt John Hicks.’

A fine Decorated Shade complete for 25c at _______Travis A Baker’s.

Forty Gauge Fast Black, Ladies' Hose for 25 cents_______At Chapin A Co’s.

Pumps! Pumps! Pumps IWood house pumps, wood stock

pumps, wood cistern pumps, wood drive well pumps, iron wind mill pomps, iron three-way putnps, iron pitcher spout pumps, iron spray pumps, brass spray pumps, tin spray pumps, in fact everything in the pump line

At Spaulding A Co’s.Buy a set of Roger’s best tripple plate

knives and forks, with forks tripple plate on knickel silver for $3.50 from

__Porter.To tho Public.

We thank the public for tbe very liberal patronage of tbe rast and ask for a continuance of the same, with the assurance that shonld you send anyone unexperienced in prices and grades of lumber, we will give him the value of his money and guarantee satisfaction.

Respectfully,44tf Love A Gay.

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ST. JOHNS REPUBLICAN, THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1823

A FINANCIAL CRISIS.TWO LARGE LANSING FIRMS IN

THE HANDS OF A RECEIVER.

Over *100,000 Liabilities—The Fact

the Free talent of the Coaspants* la Pres

ident of the Central Michigan Bank

Cause* a Run and the Bank Closes.

Lansing has had such a fright over financial matters as would almost turn it* citizens’ hair gray. For several days it had been noised about that a crisis was imminent in the affairs of the Lansing Lumber company and Iron and Engine Works, both of which in* stitutions Orlando F. Barnes is presi* dent. The climax was finally reached when both companies gave Orlando M. Barnes, father of Orlando F. Barnes, mortgages upon all their property, real and personal, to secure their paper, upon the greater portion of which he is the sole indorser.

The two mortgages therefore secure a total indebtedness of 8701,000, which approximately represents the total liabilities of the two companies. By this arrangement, which was effected with the consent of all the Lansing banks ■which held a large proportion of the paper, O. M. Barnes practically assumes the ownership of both properties involved, and will combine his personal fortune, which will reach $1,000,- 000, with the assets of the companies, which represent an additional $800,000, for the purpose of meeting liabilities which will not exceed $900,000. Mr. Barnes is entirely confident that he will be fully able to meet the emergencies and says that every dollar of indebtedness will be paid. He will give the business of both concerns his personal attention.

The fact that O. F. Barnes was also president of the Central Michigan Saving Bank precipitated a run on that institution and in a short time $29,000 an saving deposits was withdrawn. After consulting with Bank Commissioner Sherwood, who is in the city, Cashier Bradley decided that it was unfair to the majority of the depositors to permit the run to continue and so closed his doors. Commissioner Sherwood at once took possession and the bank will remain closed pending his examination of its affairs.

$60,000 FIRE.Tlie Village of Plymouth Receive* a Very

Costly Scorching.A very severe conflagration destroyed

a block of the best business portion of the village of Plymouth. The alarm was given just before midnight, and for more than two hours the entire able-bodied population of the village was engaged in fighting the fire. The postoftice, a small one-story frame, was gutted, although the contents were removed to the town hall.

The total loss is estimated at from $50,000 to $00,000, and involves the stock of about a dozen of the leading business firms. The block is a smouldering mass of ruins, not even the walls remaining standing. The burned portion is not large in dimensions, but it embraces the principal business part of the town, including the National bank. Just how it originated is considerable of a mystery, although it is believed to have been incendiary. It started on the outside of the wooden barber shop owned by George Van De Car. The Detroit fire company No. 8 reached Plymouth in time to aid in extinguishing the smouldering ruins.

This is not the first time that the pretty little village of Plymouth has been severely visited by fire. It was practically wiped out on May 17, 1856. At that time the loss was almost total

Uljf Mason* at liny City.; Bay City did the honors to the men who have obtained front rank in the Masonic order. It was the first time that city had been selected by the officers of the Michigan Sovereign Consistory as a place for conferring the Scottish Kite degree, and the new Masonic Temple was dedicated at the same time. The officers of the Michigan Sovereign Consistory, Mt. Olivet Chapter of ltose-Croix H. R. D. M., Carson Council, Princes of Jerusalem and Detroit Grand Lodge of Perfection conferred the degrees. After the work was concluded a banquet was served to the Princes of the Royal Secret.

Another Careless T., A. A. A N. M. Fatality A freight train and lone engine col

lided on the Toledo, Ann Arbor & North Michigan road near Whitmore Lake. Fireman Swineford’s legs were both broken, and ho died soon after being cut out of the wreck of the cab and tender. The freight train had been ordered to stop at Emery to wait for the engine. Both engines and five cars were badly wrecked. The engineers and firemen were all non-union men. They misunderstood their orders Swineford was a Chicago man.

Kipped Open hr Falling on Saw*.John M. Clark, half owner of the

Freeman Manufacturing company’s plant at Kalkaska fell forward upon a gang of small saws and two parallel gashes, three inches deep and five inches apart, were cut from his breast to his abdomen. lie was instantly killed. Mr. Clark had a wide and extensive acquaintance and was vary popular. He leaves a wife and four small children amply provided for.

N. E. Webster, of Kalamazoo, has been appointed a division superintendent of collections at the World’s Fair.

Col. F. M. Gier, of nillsdale, has appointed N. G. Cooper, editor of the Coffee Cooler, state inspector of the £3ons of Veterans.

Six prominent druggists of Grand Rapids were arranged in police court for selling liquor without keeping a record of the names as required by law. Druggist* there have heretofore enjoyed a large bottle trade, which the officials are making a determined effort to break up.

The body of a man was found in Emery's boom at East Tawas. It had on a pair of heavy shoes, fastened with oversnoe buckles, a two-bladed jackknife, and an empty tobacco pouch. It is supposed that he is one of the two lost off the J. M. Spalding Nov. 17, but he may be a man lost off a steam barge there last fall.

THRIESCALDED TO DEATH.The Cylinder Heed of a Steamer's Engine

Blows Out with Terrible Besutts.A shocking disaster, resulting in the

death of two men, the probable fatal injury of a third and the severe scalding of a fourth, occurred in Lake St. Clair. The “straightback” steamer Choctaw, Capt. W. W. Brown, coalladen, from Cleveland to Milwaukee, had fairlv entered the lake when the cylinder head blew out with a terrific report and firightful results.

Nelson Chambers, the cook, who was standing nearest the engine at the time, was so badly scalded that he died within 10 minutes. C. Jones, fireman, 39 years old, residence unknown, died in a few minutes after reaching the marine hospital at Detroit. F. P. Thompson, oiler, was badly burned about the hands, face, neck and head, and in the mouth and throat from inhaling the escaping steam; recovery doubtful. F. Smith, engineer, had his hands badly scalded, but his condition is not dangerous.

The immense iron hull shook from stem to stern with the shock, and as the action of the engine ceased she broached to under the strong easterly

lie prevailing. Capt. Brown imme- ately ordered the anchor dropped and

the Andaste, a vessel of the same line as the Choctaw, was signalled and took the injured men men to the U. S. Marine hospital, Detroit.

Later.—Thompson died from the effects of his injuries, this making the third victim. It is now believed that a faulty steam gague was responsible for the disaster.

AROUND THE STATE.

Liquor bonds have been raised to $6,- 000 at Traverse City.

Levi Morris, of Corunna, lost two barns with contents by fire.

Wm. Hodder, aged 20, was killed while loading logs at Michie.

Corunna young men have organized a gymnasium with 50 members.

A new postoftice has been established at Slight’s, Grand Traverse county.

Last year it cost Kalamazoo a dollar an hour to maintain its water works.

The second spelling contest between Corunna and Owosso resulted in a draw.

St. Joseph boasts of a man 103 years old who voted at that place the last election.

Eight pound pickerel is the size the Dundee angler pulls out of the River Raisin at that place.

Fenton is prtntd of the new steamer City of Fenton, a. reeent trial trip of which was very successful.

“Tim” E. Tarsney, of Saginaw, will remove to Detroit during May. He will devote himself especially to admiralty law.

May 27 will be the sixtieth anniversary of the settlement of Ionia. A big blowout will be arranged by the local pioneer society.

The U. of M. Republican club will invite ex-Presideut Harrison and Chauncey Depew to attend the annual banquet of the club.

While Elmwood Creasy was mixing some lime and water at Plainwell the stuff exploded and flew into his face. He will lose the use of both eyes.

Freddie Norgreen, of Clare, tried to board a moving train at FarweU. He fell beneath a car. One of-his legs was taken off above the knee, lie will die.

The location of a pickle factory at Dundee is now an assured fact. The building will be erected near the Lake Shore <fe Michigan Southern railroad station.

William M. Brj’an. of Coldwater, has in his possession a valuable relie which he proposes to exhibit at the World’s Fair. It is a pitcher that came over to this country on the Mayflower.

Sheriff Moody, of Big Rapids, says that George Jagger, who shot his sweetheart and then attempted suicide, will lose his reason'if a final disposition of his case is not soon made.

William C. McKay, the old gentleman whom Charles Maule shot at Lud- ington some time ago is dead. Maule is still in jail. He was discharged and rearrested on a charge of murder.

The Niles Star says that wheat will be a comparative failure in many places in Berrien county, some fields being bare. Many farmers are plowing up their wheat fields to plant oats and corn.

The striking masons and bricklayers at Grand Rapids have sueceeded in getting a large job at the rate they demanded. They will buttd the Tufts’ flats, requiring over 1,000,000 bricks, at 45 cents per hour.

The Newberry furnace is turning out seventy-five tons of iron daily on an average, which is all going into stock, as no sales are made from that furnace during the winter season, owing to the cost of all rail transportation.

Bank Commissioner Sherwood has been invited to deliver an address on the banking system, resources and finances of Michigan at the world’s congress of bankers at the World’s Fair, commencing June 19.

Richard Prior, a miner working at the Salisbury mine, at Ishpeming, was instantly killed. He was at work in a chute when a piece of rock fell and struck him on the head, breaking his neck. He leaves a wife and three children.

Adjt.-Gen. Eaton has received from Edwin Hill, of New York, the flag carried through many battles by the Sixteenth Michigan infantry volunteers. It will be placed in the state museum with the other mementos of Michigan’s warlike days.

A Marshall druggist tliew a bottle of sour wine from the rear of his store, near a hen yard. An aristocratic old rooster filled up on the jag, and in a short time was fuller than a tick. His antics amused a crowd for an hour or so until overcome by sleep.

Owosso was very much wrought up over the mysterious death of an infant. A little body was found in the river, and no one could tell where it came from or to whom it belonged. It was a nice-looking child, weighing about 8X pounds. The physicians, upon examining it, came to the conclusion that it was alive when thrown into the water.

DEATH IN THE HALE.14 PEOPLE DROWNED IN LAKE

MICHIGAN AT MILWAUKEE.

Crew of 11 People go Dowu In the Lake

With the Hchoonsr Hayes—The Wind

Blow 70 Milos sn Hoar and Did Crest

Damage.

UPsome harrowing windstorms, but the one related in tne following dispatches are doubtless without a parallel in the "history of the great lakes. The disaster which occurred at Milwaukee could not be foreseen:

The crib at the end of the intake tunnel of tlie city water works, situated some 3,000 feet out in the lake, was washed away and of 15 men who were employed there in the shaft which reaches to the shore, but one is known to be alive. Some were doubtless washed off by the huge billows which have been tumbling on the shore and others perished in the air shaft, where they sought shelter, and which filled with water. At daylight no vestige either of the crib or the house that surmounted it could be seen and there were but faint traces here and there of the government breakwater that was hidden in the mountains of surf that broke over it. The entire prospect as far as the eye could reach was one awful spectacle of seething, boiling roaring billows that seemed to unite with the clouds in the sky. On the beach were two lumber-laden crafts that had vainly sought shelter behind the breakwater, while the shore was strewn with wreckage.

About 200 feet of the breakwater, which was thought to be staunch enough to withstand the severest storm, had been washed away, and the massive timbers and planks were tumbled in disordered heaps upon the shore.

Later.—Thousands of people gathered on the shore when the news of the disaster had been made known. About 9 o’clock when the crowd which had been straining their eyes to see the bottom of the crib (which, being anchored by stonework to the bottom of the lake, still remained), which was visible between the huge waves. Suddenly some one cried out: “I see a man.” Powerful glasses were soon sweeping the angry waves, and sure enough there was a man clinging to the pump, the only' remaining piece of machinery.

The tug Welcome, with a lifeboat and men, started at once for a battle with the waves. It was a heroic struggle, and when Capt. Peterson finally reached the crib with a rope and a life preserver a sorry sight was presented. Three corpses were rolling about the crib, and James Miller, the sole survivor, was too week to longer help himself. After being cared for at Emergency hospital he told the following story:It was 5 o'clock in the morning when

we found that water was entering the air tight compartment of the shaft where we had taken refuge for the night. We took a vote to decide whether we would risk leaving the shaft. It was decided to leave. Only five of us sueceeded in reaching the outside. The nine men who were not strong enough to get out were drowned by the water coming into the shaft and four out of the five who got out were mangled or drowned by the tremendous floods which were lashed over the crib. At what hour the house was washed away I do not know. It had disappeared when we got out of the shaft.”

Schooner Hayes and Crew Went Down.Chicago special—First reports: The

steamer A. P. Wright left here at 6 o’clock with the schooners Ilayes and Danforth in tow for the lower lakes. An hour afterward they encountered a terrific east gale. The tow line of the Danforth parted, and she drifted ashore four miles north of the harbor entrance, parted in tlie middle anti soon went to pieces. The llaye9 was burning torches for an hour before the Danforth broke adrift, and reports are current that the Hayes has foundered. She was commanded by J. P. Minskey and had a crew of 10 ineu. Her cargo was corn for Buffalo. The crew of the Danforth was taken off by life-saving crew.

Later.—After the Danforth had cut loose from the Hayes and the Wright the latter two continued to battle with the storm. For almost 36 hours the crews kept the vessels safe from the demon wind, but the fight was unequal and the crew of the Hayes had to signal for assistance. The YVright took the crew off and not much too soon, for the Hayes stayed above the waves but a short time. The Wright finally made port.

Th« Storm In Detroit, snd Vicinity. The Detroit weather office reports

that for the first time since the office was established its wind instrument, signal pole and signal lights and flags were carried away. As the wind becomes a gale in weather office parlance when it reaches 34 miles an hour, this 70-mile gale is entitled to be called a howler, and made things lively for the few early navigators on the lakes. The Detroit and Cleveland boats made good time in spite of the gale of which fact the officials are very proud. One of the lofty electric light towers was blown down and just missed a number of residences the occupants of which slept no more that night. Signs were blow down and windows broken—several of the latter being valued at from $50 to $150 each.

The gale did a large amount of damage among the boat houses along the river front in the neighborhood of the Belle Isle bridge. Steam yachts and cat boats anchored close to the docks were smashed against each other, the roofs of the boat houses were carried away, and the floating docks lifted up on the land. The total damage will reach about $15,000.

The Ktonn at Varlou* Point*.At Racine, Wis., the schooners Ke

waunee and Bertha Barnes went on the beach and the former went to pieces.

At Toledo, O., water entered some of the big grain elevators and the schooner Tuxbury, with coal, went down, as did the steamer Pillsbury, near Turtle Island light.

Throughout the upper peninsula heavy snow as well as winds prevailed and caused a cessation of traffic. Telegraph wires were down in all parts of the state and in some localities fruit and grain was injured.

STATE LEGISLATURE.Binatb.—Seventy-second day.—The bill

for branding prison-made goods was killed. The bill authorizing the village of Highland Park, a suburb of Detroit, to Issue sewer bonds was passed. In committee of the whole the following bills were passed: Making It unlawful for foreign Insurance companies to place, or cause to be placed, Insurance on property In this state In offices outside of Michigan; amending laws relative to the taking or catching of Ash in the Inland waters of the state; providing that peraons employing females In stores shall provide them with seats: appropriating tUO.OOO for the Mining school: amending the railroad law so as to make It a misdemeanor to pass through or under a railroad gate at crossings ; amending the act prohibiting the soliciting or Issuing of unauthorized Are or In* land marine Insurance policies; making telegraph companies common carriers: amending the act to prevent the spread of cholera. House.—The rules were suspended and a bill authorizing the city of Escansbs to raise money with which to construct sewers was passed, and was given Immediate effect. Also to authorize tbs village of Hancock to acquire land and construct water works. Representative Sumner moved to resuscitate the Ureen park and boulevard bill, authorizing Detroit to acquire property inside or outside of her limits for park purposes. and there being no objection the vote was reconsidered ana the bill tabled. The Speaker announced as the committee os the part of the House to Investigate the Agricultural college. Representatives Llnder- man, Holdridge and Chamberlain. Also, as a committee to make arrangements for the entertainment of legislative visitors from Michigan to the World's Fair, without expense to the state, Representatives Butler, bumuer and Baum. Bills passed: Authorizing the townsplp of Mfilen, Menominee county, to aid in the construction of a bridge across the Menominee river; regulating tlie construction of buildings to be used for hotels, elevators, etc.: amending the act* regulating fire Insurance companies.

Senate.—Seventy-third day.—The Governor has approved the bill repealing the law relative to the coniinement of United States prisoners in the prisons of this state, and the Normal School appropriation bill. A communication from the House calling for a committee of conference on the special committee to investigate tlie Agricultural College, wus laid on tlie table. Bills passed; Amending the law relative to the number of peremptory challenges of jurors: providing that one sewing machine for each family shall be exempt from levy and sale on execution; making it unlawful for foreign Insurance companies legally admitted to do business in the state from placing or causing to be placed insurance on property in offices outside of Michigan, relative to the taking or catching of fish in the Inland waters of the state; amending the general railroad law so as to prohibit persons fromfiasslng through or under gates at cross- ugs; amending the law for the prevention

of thespread of cholera; making telegraph companies common carriers. A bill providing for seats for lady clerks in stores did not pass; but was reconsidered. House.—Representative Zimmerman’s emery wheel bill was passed. A bill providing for the incorporation of the supreme commandery ana subordinate com- manderies of tlie Lnlted Friends of Michigan, with an insurance clause, came up on the order of third reading, and a motion to refer it to the committee on insurance was lost and tlie bill passed. The name of Jessie Woolley was changed to Jessie Elizabeth Fisher, and she Is now an heiress. A bill was passed to authorize the county of Menominee to aid in the construction of a bridge across the Menominee river. A bill to provide for the incorporation of the state and local organizations of tlie Happy Home club of America, designed for the cure and prevention of drunkenness, tlie capital stock be lag $000,000, was referred to the committee of tlie whole. A Senate bill amending the act relative to the dissolution of corporations, w as passed. A Senate bill providing for tlie release of girls from the state public school by tlie board of control, and for their return for bad beli avior. and making it a state prison offense to aid or assist girls to escape from tlie school was passed. Also, a Senate 1)111 appropriating <5,000 for tlie sdufe 1‘loueer and Historical society for books and publications. Tlie anti-free pass bill came up for a third reading, and a motion was made to lay it on tlie table. The clerk called the roll tnreo times before a quorum was disclosed, but in the end tlie motion was lost. Tlie bill was finally defeated and free passes are still in style.

Senate.—Seventy-fourth day.—The bank half-holiday bill was taken from tlie table and referred to tlie committee of the whole. Senators Steele. Fox and Morrow were appointed a committee of conference to confer witli the House committee upon the disputed question of a special committee to Investigate the Agricultural college. Hills passed: Authorizing the village of Davidson, Genesee county, to borrow money for tlie purpose of making public improvements; authorizing tlie council of Escanaba to make reassessments for street improvements; changing the name of Jennie Wool- ley to Jessie Elizabeth Fisher; appropriating #110.000 for the Alining school; amending tlie law prohibiting tlie soliciting or Issuing of unauthorized tire or inland marine Insurance policies; making an appropriation of <8,000 to increase the efficiency of the state board of health: authorizing tlie l.ansing City Railway company to extend its line to tlie Agricultural college. The following bill- were passed In committee of the whole: Amending tlie charter of tlie city of Detroit so as to prohibit bogus bankrupt sales; amending tlie law establishing a state agency for the care of juvenile offenders; to require tlie u»e of safety valves on ail cyclinders, drums or other vessels, appliances or receptacles containing and’ con- lining carbonic add gas. nitrous oxide gas and like aeriform substances. House.—A bill for a jury commission to consist of six members, to be appointed by tlie governor, for St. t’lalr county, was passed. An attempt was made to reconsider tlie vote by which the anti-free pass bill was lost, but failed. Appropriation bills were passed as follows: <74,250 for maintenance, two cottages and additional land for the Traverse City insane asylum: <75,009 for a new insane asylum in the Upper Peninsula; $90,000 for tlie Kalamazoo Insane asylum. Other bills passed were: To amend the act for the prevention of the Introduction of cholera, etc.—It provides for a rigid quarantine against person* coming to this country from districts where communicable diseases prevail; toErevent the shooting of sparrows from traps y sportsmen—so amended as to prohibit

the propagation of the pests and was then passed ana given immediate effect.

Senate.—Seventy-fifth day —Bills passed; Authorizing the village of Hancock to ac- qulrejwater works;requlrlng the use of safety valves on cylinders, etc., containing and confining carbonic acid and other like gases; authorizing the city of Menominee to Join with the city of Marinette, Wis., in constructing a bridge across the Menominee River; amending the sparrow bill by sus-Bending the bounty from April to Novem-

er. Gov. Rich sent to the Senate a communication from Gov. Knute Nelson, ol Minnesota, asked that ten commissioners be appointed from Michigan to meet in an interstate conference with the other states ol the union to consider the matter of the gigantic coal combines—referred. The Weis* bill for the selection of electors of President and Vice-President of the United State* by a direct vote of the peoplo was agreed to in committee of the whole. House.—The new rule of two sessions pet day went into effect today. Tlie Judiciary committee reported out a bill for the construction of a home for widows, orphans, mothers, etc., of deceased union soldiors, with amendments, and with u recommendation that it do pass—referred. The clerk ol the Senate sent back the Agricultural college Investigation concurrent resolution again, reasserting its determination to have three members of the committee as well as the House, and announcing a committee of conference. The House finally conceded the point. A bill requiring tlie filing of notes of hand, contracts, etc., with township and city clerk, was taken from the table and referred. The Ionia reformatory bill and the bill consolidating the office# or city attorney and city counselor of the city of Detroit were passed as were the following bills: For tlie propagation of whlteiish In Manlstlque lake; providing for the commitment of boys from 12 to IB years of age. to the Industrial Home for Bovs; amending the laws relative to township boards of health so as to Increase their powers.

The residence of Sheriff Vosburg, ol Kalamazoo, was burned.

Every business house in Cassville, Mo., two banks and two local newspapers were burned. Loss, $200,000; insurance, $30,000.

The German Lutheran society of Owosso lias closed a contract for the erection of a new $9,000 church building, work to be completed by October 20.

A 1-year-old son of Addison Lee, residing near Fenton, got a piece of an egg shell lodged in his throat. All efforts to remove it were furtile, and the boy died 30 hours later.

“I am positive that ray sband went hunting to-day.” “What makes you think so? I didn’t see him bring any game home with him.” “That's the very reason.”

“Say, Kbenezah, what's dat chune de man dat moved nex’ door ter you sings ebery time he goes ter his wood pile?" “I don’t know, but I reckon it mus' be ’de los* oord.

Belle—I suspect that Carrie is going to get married at last. Mr. Manning had a long talk with her last evening. Kate—Bat was he really serious? Belle—Serioua?Positively snd.

Flgg—They tell me that Blumley is • man of high principles. Fogg—You may well say that His principles are so high that he has never been able to come within a thousand miles of them himself.

“The shark i» the oldest type of fish,” said the country school teacher. “Not any older than the sucker, I guess,” replied the boy whose father had signed a lightning-rod contract that afterwards turned out to be a promissory note.

“I’ve heard a good deal about mud- slinging in politics,” said the facetious man. “Now, I’d like to know what becomes of the mud?” “Oh,” replied the politician, “that’s easy. It goes to make the ground for libel suits.”

Aunt Dinah—Whafoah yo’ wears brack, Deakun Ebony? Yo’ am not a widower. Deacon Ebony—I is economical, honey. One brush do me foali a hatbrush, lia’rbrush, clothes- brush, shoebrush, an’ fleshbrush.”

UNUSUAL HAPPENINGS.

The ‘‘Would-be-Married Men’s cluo” is the name of a society at West Troy. New York.

Mr. Disraeli’s comment upon a portrait of himself, “Is it not hideous?— and so like,” exhibited a discernment not common with unflattered sitters.

A male child born a few days ago on a railway train between Lewiston, Pa., and New York city, has been named “AUer” by his mother, after the sleeping car in which he first saw the light.

Lord Palmerston’s reply to the illiterate member who asked him, “Are there two hens in ’Oniton?” is a specimen of his rather boisterous chaff: “No, only one; that’s why heggs are so scarce there.”

Several newspaper publishers in the interior of Oregon were compelled,last winter, to run off their editions on manilla wrapping paper, owing to the snow blockade, which shut off their supply of white paper from Portland.

Mr. Lynch of Elizabeth, N. J., who has no arms, was told about a man in Newark who was similarly afflicted. “Is that so?” said Mr. Lynch; “well, the best luck that I can wish him is that we meet some day and shake hands.”

There is a new kind of ice eream christened ‘Columbus.”

There are twenty-eight cities in this country having each more than 100,000 population.

A Louisville musician has discovered that the inspiring strains of “Ta- ra-ra Boom-de-ay” are borrowed from Mozart.

P. H. Coughlin, a policeman of Troy, New York, has fallen heir, it is reported, to an estate in England valued at $3,000,000.

A group of the most wretched tene* merits in New York is the property of the reputed wealthiest clergyman in the United States.

San Francisco has among her population a Chinaman named Misli Go, who has red hair, a light complexion snd bluer eyas, and he is also' crosseyed.

Five ladies in waiting to the empress of China are en route for Berlin, whither they have gone, it is said, to' study the German language and German court etiquette.

Enough diamonds to load two large coal trains and having a total weight of 50,000,000 carats and valuation of $350,000,000 have been taken out of the Cape diamond fields Bince their discovery in 1807.

While a boy was riding a horse near Stewart, Va., one day last week lightning struck the animal causing instant death. The young rider was thrown some distance in the air, but fortunately escaped without serious injury.

Since the New York suicide law was passed but a single conviction has been had under it. This was twelve years ago, when a man undertook to drown himself. Ho was rescued and was sentenced to Sing Sing, and he is there yet.

Realism is gaining ground everywhere, but a toy lion in the pulpit made to roar with a string in order to illustrate the pastor’s discourse, as was done In the Broome street tabernacle, New York, will, it is hoped, find few imitators.

The largest organ in the world is in the centennial hall, Sydney, Australia. It was built in London in 1890, and cost $60,000. It contains 126 sounding and forty-seven mechanical stops, one sixty-four foot, four thirty-two foot, nine sixteen foot and thirty-ono eight foot stops. It occupies a floor space of twenty-six by eighty feet The bellows are worked by an engine.

SCISSORS AND PASTE.

There is a race war in Oregon between Indians and Chinese.

Out of the standing timber in Washington 41,300,000 cottages could be erected.

A Louisville barber cuts hair with a razor more artistically thau his rivals with shears.

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A FLIRT.She'x juat a flirt, a gay coquette

Aa heartless aa aha la charming,It plaaaaa bar if aha can gat A man entangled In her net Of witching, watering wllaa and yet

She haa no thought of harming.

She aaama aa Innocent of guile Aa any ealntly Quaker;

And yet aha anarea men with bar smile, And plays with their despair awhile.Then throws them uu, In auch a style,

Sometimes I'd like to shake her!

Yea, she’s a flirt, and yon can guess Juat how her conduot strikes me.

And yet such witching loveliness As her'a was meant, fm sure, to bless And not to harm—and I'll oonfess

At times I think she likes me.—Somerville Journal.

THE MYSTERY OFMRS. BIENCARROW.

BY MBS. OLIPHANT.

CHAPTER Vn A Night of Misery.

She was gone before they oonld say auiother word, leaving them looking a/t each other in consternation, not knowing what to think.

4 ‘For the rest of the night Mrs. Blencarrow shut herself <up in her own room; she would not come down titairs, not even to dinner. The boys ■arrived and sought their mother in vthe drawing room, wondering that she did not come to meet them, but found only their uncles there, standing before the fire like two baffled conspirators. Reginald and Bertie rushed to their mother's room, and plunged into it, notwithstanding her maid's exhortation to be quiet.

“Your mamma has got a bad headache, sir.”

They were not accustomed to any regime of headaches. They burst in and found her seated in her dressing gown over the Are.

“Is your head so oad? Are you going to stay out?” said Reginald, who had just learned the slang of Eton.

“And there's Umdle Rex and Uncle Roger downstairs,” 6aid Bertie.

“You must tell them I am not well enough to come down. You must take the head of the table and take care of them instead of me,” said Mrs. Blencarrow.

“But what is the matter, mamma?” said Bertie. ••■‘You do not look very bad, though you are red here.” He touched his own cheeks under the eyes, which were shining with the cold and the excitement of arriving.

“Never mind, my dear, Emmy and

Jou must do tihe honors of the house.am not well enough to come down

stairs. Had you good sport?”“Oh, very good one day, but then,

mamma, you know this horrid frost”-----

“Yes, yea- 1 should not wonder if the ice on the pond would bear tomorrow,” she said with a smile. “Now run away, dear boys, and see that your uncles have everything that they want; for I can't bear much talking, you know, with my bad head.”

“Poor mamma!” they cried. Reginald felt her forehead with his cold hand, as he had seen her do, and Bertie hugged her in a somewhat rude embrace. She kissed both the glowing faces, bright with cold and fun and superabundant life. When they were gone, noisily, yet with sudden starts of recollection that they ought to be quiet, Mrs. Blencarrow got up from her chair and began to walk hurriedly about the room, now and then wringing her hands.

“Even my little boys!” she said to herself in the acutest tone of anguish. “Even my little boys!”

For she had no headache, no weakness. Her brain was supernaturaily clear, seeing everything on every side of the question. She was before a problem whieh it needed more than mortal power to^olve. To do all her duties was impossible. Which was she to fulfill and .which abandon? It was not a small contradiction such as sometimes confuses the brain, but one that was fundamental, striking at the very source of life. IShe was not angry with her brothers, or the others who had made this assault upon her. What were they, after all? Had they never spoken a word, the problem would still have been there,more and more difficult to solve every day.

No one disturbed Iher further that night; sh£ sent word down stairs that she was going to bed, and even sent her maid away, darkening the light. But when all was still she rose again, and,bringing out a box full of papers, began examining them, and read them, burning many—,a piece of work which occupied her till the household noises had all sunk into silence, and the chill of midnight was within and around the great house lull of human creatures asleep. Mrs. Blencarrow had all the restlessness about her of great mental trouble. Alter she had sat long over her papers, -she thrust them from her hastily, throwing some into the fire and some into the box, which she locked with a sort of fierce energy, then rose and moved about the room, pausing to look at herself, with her feverish cheeks, in the great mirror; then throwing her- eelf.on her knees by her bedside as if to pray; then rising with a despairing movement as if that were impossible. Sometimes she murmured to herself with a low, unconscious outcry, like some wounded animal; sometimes relieved herself with broken words. Her restlessness, her wretchedness, all seemed to breathe that question— the involuntary cry of humanity— “What shall I do? What shall I do?” At length she opened her door softly and stole down stairs. There was moonlight outside, and stray rays from a window here and there made the long corridor and stairs faintly visible. One broad sweep of whiteness from a great window on the stairoase crossed the dark like a vast ribbon, and across this ghostly ligljt her figure appeared and passed, more strangely and in more awful revelation than had all been dark. Had an$

one seen hert it would have been impossible to "take her for anything but a ghost.

She went down to the hall, then noiselessly along the further passage and bare stone stairs to the little business room. All was dark and silent there, the moonlight coming in through the chinks of the closed shutters. Mrs. Blencarrow Btood on the threshold a moment as if she had expected to find some one there; then went in and sat down a few minutes in the dark. Her movements and her sudden pauses were alike full of the carelessness of distracted action. In the solitude and midnight darkness and silence what could her troubled thoughts be meditating P Suddenly she moved again unseen, and came out to the door by which tenants and other applicants came for business or charity. She turned the key softly, and, opening it, stood upon the threshold. The opening from the darkness into the white world unseen was like a chill and startling transformation. The light streamed in, opening a narrow pathway in the darkness, in the midst of which she stood, a ghost indeed—enough to have curdled the blood of any spectator. She stood for another moment between the white world without and the blackness of night and sleep within. To steal away and be lost forever in that white still distance; to disappear and let the billows of light and space and silence swallow her up, and be seen no more. Ah! but that was not possible. The only thing possible to mortal power was a weary plodding along a weary road, that led not to vague distances, but to some village or town well known, where the fugitive would be discovered by the daylight, by wondering wayfarers, by life which no one can escape. Even should death overtake her, and the welcome chill extinguish existence, yet still there would be found somewhere, like a fallen image, her empty shell, her mortal garment lying in the way of the first passenger. No; oh, no; rather still the struggle, ithe contradictions, the^despair—

And how could she ask God to help .her?—that one appeal which is instinctive; for there was nothing she

>could do that would not be full of lies or of treachery, a shirking of one duty or another, the abandonment of justice, truth and ioi-e. She turned from the world outside and closed the door; then returned again up the long stairs, and crossed once more the broad belt of moonlight from the window in the staircase. It was like resigning all hope of ■outside help, turning back to the struggle that had to be fought out inch by inch on the well-known and common ground. She was chilled to the heart with the icy air of the night, and threw herself down on the hearthrug before the fire, with a forlorn longing for warmth, which is the last physical craving of all wounded and suffering things: and then she fell into a deep but broken sleep, from which 6he fortunately picked herself up before daylight, so as to prevent any revelation of her agitated state to the maid, who naturally suspected much, but knew, thanks to Mrs. Blencarrow’s miraculous self-command, scarcely anything at all.

She did not get up next morning till the brothers, infinitely perplexed and troubled, believing their sister to be mortally offended toy the step they had taken, and by their adoption or partial adoption of the rumors of the neighborhood, liad gone away. They made an ineffectual attempt to see her before they left, .and finally departed sending her a note, in which Roger d’Eyncourt expressed the deep sorrow of both, and their hope that she would come in time to forgive them, and to see that only solicitude for herself and her family could have induced them to take such a step.

“I hope,” he added, “my dear sister, that you will not misunderstand our motives when I say that we are toound in honor to contradict upon authoritative grounds this abominable rumor, since our own character may be called in question, for permitting you to retain the guardianship of the children in such circumstances. As you refuse to discuss it with us (and I understand the natural offense to your pride and modesty that seems involved), we must secure ourselves by examining the books in which the record of the marriage was said to have been found.”

Mrs. Blencarrow received this note while still in bed. She read it with great apparent calm, but the great bed in which she lay quivered suddenly, all its heavy satin draperies moving as if an earthquake had moved the room. Both her maid and Emmy saw this strange movement with alarmed surprise, thinking that one of the dogs had got in, or that there had been some sinking of the foundation.

“The bed shook,” said Mrs. Blencarrow, clutching with her hand at the quilt, as if for safety. “Yes, I felt something; but the flooring is not very even, and worm eaten at some places, you know.”

She got up immediately after, making a pretense of this to account for her recovery so soon after her brother’s departure, and appeared soon afterwards downstairs, looking very pale and exhausted, but saying she felt a little better. And the day passed as usual—quite as usual to the boys and servants; a cheerful day enough, the children in the foreground, and a good deal of holiday noise and commotion going on. Emmy from time to time looked wistfully at her mother, but Mrs. Blencarrow took no notice, save with a kiss or an especially tender word.

“I think you have got my headache Emmy.”

“Oh, mamma, I don't mind if I can take it from you.”

The mother shook her head with a

smile that went to Emmy’s heart.“I am afraid,"she said, “no one can

do that.”In the afternoon she sent a man

over to the vicarage, with a note to the clergyman of the parish. He was a middle-aged man, but unmarried; a studious and quiet person, little in society, though regarded with great respect in the neighborhood; a man safe to confide in, with neither wife nor other belongings to tempt him to the betrayal of a secret entrusted to him. Perhaps this was why, in her uttermost need, Mrs. Blencarrow bethought herself of Mr. Germaine. She passed the rest of the day in the usual manner, not going out, establishing herself behind the screen by the drawing-room- fire with some work ready to be appealed to by the ohildren. It was the time at which she expected visits, but there had been no callers at Blencarrow for a •day or two, which was also a notic- able thing, for the neighborhood was what is called sociable, and there had been rarely a day in which some country neighbor or other did not appear, until the last week, during which scarcely any stranger had crossed the threshold. Was it the weather which had become so cold? Was it that there were Christmas parties in most of the houses, which perhaps had not quite broken up yet? Was it—P It was a small matter and Mrs. Blencarrow was thankful beyond expression to be rid of them, to be free of the necessity for company looks and company talks—but yet—

In the evening, after dinner, when the children were all settled to a noisy round game, she went downstairs to her business room, bidding them good-night before she left, and requesting that she should not be disturbed, for her headaches lately had made her much behind in her work, whieh, of course, was unusually heavy at the beginning of the year. She went away with a curious stillness about her, pausing at the door to give a last look at the happy little party, all flushed with their game. It might be the last look she should ever have of them, from the expression in her face; and then she closed the door and went resolutely away. The servants In their regions below pounded almost as merry as the children, in the after-dinner ease; but they were far from the business room which was perfectly quiet and empty —a shaded lamp binrning in it, the fire blazing. Mrs. Blencarrow 6at down at her writing table, but, though she was so busy did nothing. She looked at her watch with aweary sigh, then leaning her head on her hands, waited—for whom, or for what, who could say?

CHAITER VIII.Mrs. Blencarrow’s Confession.

She had been there for some time when the sound of a footstep on the gravel outside made her start. It was followed by a knock at the door which she herself opened almost before the summons. SLe came back to the room, immediately followed by a tall man in clerical dress. The suppressed excitement which had been in Mrs. Blencarrow’s aspect all the day had arisen to an extraordinary height. She was very pale with one flaring spot on either cheek and trembled so much that her teeth were with difficulty kept from chattering against each other. She was quite breathless when she took her seat again, once more supporting her head in her hands.

The clergyman was embarrassed, too; ho clasped and unclasped his hands nervously, and remarked that the night was very cloudy and that it was cold, as if, perhaps it had been to give her information about the weather he came. Mr. Germaine, giving her his views about the night, and Mrs. Blencarrow listening with her face half hidden, made the most curious picture, surrounded as it was by the bare framework of this out-of- the-way room. She broke in abruptly at last upon the few broken bits of information which he proceeded to give.

[TO BE CONTINUED.]

So Might He With Wing*.A gentleman upon .approaching a

stream asked a shepherd whether it was to be passed over or not, and being told in the affirmative, flo unced over head and ears.

“Why, thou rogue,” says he, “did you not tell me that it might be passed over?”

“Truly, sir," he replied, “I thought so, for my &eese go orer and back again every day.”

GENERAL BUTLER.

Pantry Persiflage.“You are altogether too fresh,”

eaid the potato to the egg, “and I have my eyes on you.”

“Now look here, Irish,” said the egg, ‘‘I dare say you have a good heart, but remember that when we come to scramble for a living you’re not in it with me.”—Life.

Where Some Talent Goes.Foreigner—You say your country

is well adapted to the development of talent Do your artists and literary men meet with success?

The American Citizen—Well, I should say so. You ought to read the advertising matter they get up.— Chicago News-Record.

Very Effective.Brushleigh—That picture of yours,

“An Impending Storm,” is wonderfully realistic.

Palette—I suppose it must be. I showed it to Cadleigh the other day and he immediately borrowed my best umbrella.

High-Toned Coyote*.The coyotes of Cook county,Oregon,

are becoming two high-toned to live exclusively on mutton, and are cultivating an alarming taste for veal, and consequently calves are disappearing in large number*.

A Few Good Ones on the Old Man That Will Hear Telling.

Once while he was in congress he diviDjd his time with a fellow-member when a question in which he was not specially Interested came up for debate. The member talked more than his share, and on being called to order remarked: “Mr. Speaker, General Butler kindly divided his time with me.” “That’s true,” Butler replied, “but I didn't divide eternity with you.”* The general was present one night at a dancing party, but contented himself with looking on.

One of the belles invited him to waltz with her, and on his declining with a pretty compliment, she inquired: “Don’t you ever dance, general?” “No,” he explained to her, “I make other people dance.”

Undertaking to talk down a crowd of street rioters, he had an apple thrown at him, say3 the New York Tribune. Putting out his hand he dexterously caught it and interrupted his remarks long enough to eat It. The incident pleased the rioters, and he was given a hearing. The next day one of the newspapers of the city in which the riot occurred mischievously rallied him on eating the apple, reminding him that it probably reached him from a very dirty hand.

The general sent a card to the newspaper saying: “I peeled that apple before eating it. I always peel apples before eating them—don't you?”

During the war a young fellow had occasion to call upon him in Boston in behalf of a lyceum which wanted him to lecturo before it. The general received the youth with great kindness, gave him his autograph, but declined the invitation. “I am in the employ of the United States,” he said. “I have no lecturo prepared, and to write one which I would be willing to deliver before your lyceum would take me considerable time. Now, do you think I would be treating the United States fairly if I took the time?” This question proved too much for the young fellow. The general bowed him out of his office with the kindly assurance that if he ever saw his way clear for doing so he would write and deliver the lecture in accordance with his request.

An Extraordinary River.There is in Spain a river called

Tinto, which has very extraordinary qualities, its waters, which are as yellow as topaz, harden the sand and petrify it in a most surprising manner. If a stone falls into the river and rests upon another they both become perfectly united and conglu- tinated in a year. It withers all the plants on its banks as well as the coots of trees, which it dyes of the same hue as its waters. No fish live in its stream.

Not Mack <if a Compliment.She—And won’t you bo able to

come to my reception ?Ho—I am afraid not. Miss Rose. I

will eithor come myself or send Sowers.

She—Ah, that is very kind of you. I do so love flowers.—Texas Siftings.

The German Soldier.Lieutenant—You look like a good

and efficient soldier. Tell me now, what does an efficient soldier do tfee first thing in the morning when he gets up?

Soldier—He shines his boots the evening before.—Texas Siftings.

SHORT AND SELECT.

Another petrified man has been found in Texas.

The lost books of Euclid, In Sanskrit, are said to be now in the library of the Maharajah of Jeypore.

Decorative electric lighting effects and their application to the interior of modern houses is increasing greatly.

“Old Billy Greene” is a hermit who has lived in a Virginia town from time beyond memory of the oldest inhabitant.

It is said tlmt the Turks were the first people to bury their dead in cemeteries adorned with ornamental head- 8 tones.

A belt is in use at a large elevator out West, which, it is claimed, has a surface speed of nearly 2,800 feet per minute, the driving pulley being sixteen feet in diameter.

Elishah Candee has been running an engine on the Wabash road, between Fort Wayne and Lafayette, Ind., since 1864, and during that time, he asserts, he has never been the cause of an accident.

About a month ago the young daughter of H. A. Stough of Steel Creek, N. C., swallowed a tin tobacco

and the other day, while in a violent coughing spell, she is said to have coughed the tag up.

There is a pond in the vicinity of Chestertown, Maryland, that has never been known, it is said, to have even a skim of ice on its surface, and during the last cold winter it is said that it was not frozen a particle.

Jacob Mumma, a recluse, died a few days ago at his home, near York, Pa., from which he had absented himself only once in forty-five years, and that was when he went to England to dispose of a patent he had obtained on a watch. He is said to have refused 880,000 for it because he wanted 8100,000 and to have let the thing go by default afterward.

The Germans have caused their agents to compile dictionaries of all the native languages spoken in their colonies. The task is not a small one, as there are fifty languages spoken in their East African possessions, twelve in those of Southwest Africa, twenty iq the Cameroons, five or six in Tonga and at least fifty in the South seas. Moreover, there are numerous dialects of these tongues.

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The Republican.Thursday, April 27, 1893.

Thk house of representatives of the state legislature has followed the example of the senate and defeated the bill to prohibit the use of free passes by members of the legislature. If there was no other reason for voting for such a measure, the fact that the republican state convention declared in favor of it and incorporated such a plank in the platform, should have been enough to induce every republican member to vote for it. It is to be regretted that republican legislators should iurnish the opposition with campaign material.

There are 014 women students in the University of Michigan, and they ask of the legislature an appropriation of $20,* 000 to build a woman’s gymnasium on the campus at Ann Arbor. Among the reasons urged for the appropriation is that “ almost without exception the women leaye the university to become teachers, physicians, or wives and mothers, and as such must largely influence the health and training of numbers of women and children who are thus indirectly benefitted by the physical training given them at the university.” There is no doubt about the desirability of the gymnasium, but under the sixth of a mill tax law recently passed, the university will have a large income after this year, sufficient to provide a woman’s gymnasium and other necessary expenses.

The board of state canvassers met in Lansing last week, but owing to the failure of three or four counties to send in official returns, the board adjourned to meet May 10th. Unofficial returns show that all the amendments to the constitution were carried except the one increasing the salaries of state officers, and it is announced that the so called good roads amendment is carried by 20,000 majority. It is not probable that the agricultural counties that cast their vote against the amendment will take advantage of its provisions, but the northern counties, especially those containing a great deal of low land, will do so, and be greatly benefitted thereby. The result of the vote on these amendments shows that the yoters of the cities, when united, cut a pretty wide swath in state politics, and can carry most anything they choose.

E. E. Wiupple, the indefatigable manager of the Whipple Harrow Company, has brought suit in the United States court at Pittsburg, Pa., against a Pennsylvania hardware dealer for being in league with the national harrow trust, thus seeking to injure complainant’s business. The suit is brought under the Sherman anti-trust law, which is very sweeping in its provisions, and will probably settle the point whether trust companies can combine with dealers to obstruct the business of anti-trust manufacturers. As will be seen by an article in another column, Mr. Whipple sues for civil damages, and there isevery reason to believe he has a good case. No other man in the United States has made as vigorous a tight against trusts as Mr. Whipple, and he is entitled to the gratitude of every man opposed to monopolies, and in favor of fair play.

REAL ESTATE.

Jan S Hildreth to Edward Brown, lots 11 and 1 2, block 114, St .Johns, $800.

Goo A Vincent to A II Warren, lot 17 block 20, Ovid, $900.

Edward Brown to Geo VV Jason, lot 20, Gibbs add, St Johns, $1200.

Edward Brown and wife to A Bingham and wife, part of lots 1, 2, 8, 4, 5, 0. 15 and 10 block 1. Hurd and Sickles subdivision outlets II and G, St Johns, $400.

N T Daniels and wife to D A Bennett, 15 acres sec 84, lUley, $150.

Boss B Brooks and wife to Edwin Thomas 40 acres see 22, Bingham, $2,200.

Frank Newman and wife to Frank A Percy lot 11, block 84, St Johns, $500.

John I.uecht and wife to------------40 acressec 2 Westphalia, $2,100.

I.ouis George nnd wife to Henry .1 George. 20 acres sec 22 Dallus, $1000.

John Kruntm and wife to William Krumm 80 acres, sec 17. Biley, $1,000.

Elliott Newington nnd wife to Frank A Brass, % acres see 14, Elsie, $50.

George W Brace nnd wife to Hiram V Mnnzer and wife Vi acre sec 18, Watertown, $75.

Charles TIeller nnd wife to Charles Doering, lot 8 block 21, Fowler, $025.

Horace Bradley to Weltlin H Bradley, block 18, lot 5 and lot 19. block B nnd lot 9 and 19 block D, Ovid, $1.

John Love to Mary A Love, 40 acres sec 25, Bengal, $1.

George N Ferry nnd wife to A .1 Madden, 40 acres sec 10, Greenbush, $1,500.

Willinm A Merchant to John Delp.OVfincres sec 7, Olive, $420.

Albert .1 Nelson and wife to Eunice E Bny- lis, lot 8 und sV4 of lot 9 block 15, St Johns, $1400,

John and Ann M Evans to Joseph FEvans 40 acres see 8 Bath. $1900.

Emerson It Grinold to ( has W Garlock 40 acres see 88, Watertown, $900.

Emellne 1. Welsh to IIulseLI’ruden, 3acres see 17, St Johns, $1200.

Mary M Walker to A .1 Nelson, lots 10, 17, 18. Walker’s subdivision out lot It St Johns, $150,

Henry .1 George nnd wife to Louis George, 40 acres sec 84, Dallas, $1,900

Willard Lyon nnd wife to Edward H Wilson part of out lot 1), St Johns $2,700.

George L Briggs nnd wife to Jas J Dunn, 2 acres :-ec 1 1, Victor, $200. #

Nicholas Thome nnd wife to John Henges- bnch, 40 acres see 17. Westphalia, $2,125.

AFTER THE HARROW TRUST.E. E. WHIPPLE. OF THE WHIPPLE

HARROW COMPANY, HR1NOS BIJT UNDER THE SHERMAN LAW.

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From the Pittsburg (Ps.) Dispatch.To fight a trust with its own fire is the

principle upon which E. E. Whipple, of the Whipple Harrow company, of St. Johns, Mich., has begun in the United States circuit court in Pittsburg a civil action for $1,800 against B. A. Hileman, a hardware dealer of Kittanning.. This action is important in that it is the first ever brought under one important section of the Sherman anti-trust law, and is to be followed by many others, the object being to compel dealers to stop discriminating in favor of goods of the barrow trust. The suits are to be brought against the dealers rather than against the trust, because tbe trust itself has forced hardware men into patronizing it by threats of suits against everybody who bought or sold the goods of any independent company.

The bill sets forth that this unlawful trust was formed for the purposes of restraining commerce among the several states, increasing the price of harrows throughout the United States, excluding from the markets the harrows ot all other manufacturers than those of the persons composing the trust and driving into insolvency all other persons who might attempt to manufacture harrows. It is claimed the defendant combined unlawfully with a certain trust, combination or monopoly, organized in the state of New Jersey, and called the National harrow company.

The provision of the Sherman law which is now to be tested is to tbe effect that suit may be brought; in the circuit court of any district where an ofTense has been committed, by the party aggrieved, who shall be entitled to recover three times his actual loss, as other debts are recoverable. Other provisions of the law make combination to control the sale of anything which is an article of inter-state commerce punishable by fine to tbe extent of $5,000 and also a long term of imprisonment. Civil suits are brought first, because less evidence will be required to make out a case than to convict dealers of criminal participation in the acts of the trust. The winning of the civil cases will make strong ground for criminal actions, and, it is intimated, that such are to follow closely upon the heels of the proceedings already commenced.

It is claimed, however, that abundance of evidence will be forthcoming against scores of dealers throughout the country, the Whipple company being in possession of some of the circulars and letters sent out by the trust.

The company also holds a list of persons who have been sued for infringement of patents, the dropping of the suits afterward showing that they were pure bluffs, and that a deal has been fixed up among the parties in tbe trust’s interest. This list includes many farmers who bad bought anti-trust harrows and who bad been made to believe they were liable for infringement of patents by the persons who sold them the harrows.

As a matter of fact, it is claimed, most of the patents of the companies in the trust have expired and the combine is merely a scheme to keep up their profits.

Among the methods pursued by the trust a favorite is said to be that of promising dealers whom it is trying to intimidate that it will protect them from any possible consequences of their action. The suit entered yesterday and those which are to follow it are expected to demonstrate the fallacy of belief in their promise. It is not believed the trust will pay back to dealers the damages which may be recovered from them, and, if it should, the criminal suits which will probably follow are expected to show to those dealers that tbe Sherman law makes no provision for serving sentences in jail by proxy.

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There will be quarterly meeting at tbe M. E. chinch next Sunday.

Come to the consecration mealing of the Y. P. S. C. E. of the Congregational church next Sunday evening.

Quarterly meeting at the Free Methodist church Friday to Sunday, April 28th to 80th. Her M. Do- Voist will be in charge. All are invited.

Attend the calico ball to be given by St. Katherine’s Guild April 28, at Newton hall. Spectators 10c, refreshments 15c extra to spectators.

Devotional services of the Epworth League Sunday, April 30, at 5:30. Subject: My Responsibility for my Weak Brother. Leader, Guy White. Come.

You are Invited to attend the Junior League at tbe M. E. church next 8unday at 3:15 o’clock. Subject: Faith. Leader, Lola Carey.

The ladies library association will give another of their pleasant entertainments at the library rooms on Friday evening, May 5th. Further particulars will be announced next week.

Come one come all,Both great and small.

To see our attempt at a calico ball.Since this is the merry time of springWe have decided to give a very good thing

In the shape of a calico hall To be held at Newton Hall.

Affectionately inscribed to tbe friends of Erney Parks, who died April 16, 1893, by Lucy J. Lawrason, of Fowler, Mich.

Our loved one has drooped and faded,Chilled by the reaper’s untimely blast;

Ills fair brow the grave hath shaded,And in our hearts a sorrow cast.

One more link is disunited From our kindred band so dear,

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One more bud of promise severed From tbe cluster on the stem,

And our joys like flowers withered.Lie buried Bilently now with them.

Things we piize are first to vanish,Ana our loved oDes pass away ;

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Thursday, April 27, 1893.

Emm Farmer'* Club.

The April meeting of the Essex farmers club was held oo Friday, the 14th, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. K. Cowles. There was a good attendance. The naeelini^ was called to order at 10:15 a. m. by President J. T. Danielle, and opened by singing followed by the reading of the minutes by the secretary and their adoption. After the transaction of miscellaneous business, the exercises opened by a select reading by Mrs. C. D. Rice, (the subject I did not get) followed by a recitation by Mrs. 0. L. Rice, title “ Wanted, a Minister.” L. Bentley then read an essay on “ How can we Improve oar Farms.”

In the discussion of the essay W. Floate said : I agree with the essayist that a rotation of crops is essential to keep up the fertility of the soil; but I cannot agree with him in the way of using straw. He would run all straw through a cutting box, cutting about four inches long and use it as a mulch, putting it on wheat ground in the fall and on meadows. I would use it in the barn yards and stables for the stock to pick over and to absorb the liquid manure, thereby increasing its value as a fertilizer. Neither can I agree with his way of raising corn mentioned in the essay. Where a field of twelve acres in sod was taken for corn on which a ton of plaster was sown before plowing, and after plowing, another ton of plaster was sown on the field and the ground fitted and planted to corn 3£ by 34 feet each way. After the corn had got a good start another ton of plaster was sown on the field. At harvesting the corn gave a yield of 150 bushels per acre, and benefits of the plaster used could be seen for twelve years afterwards. Now I think plaster is a good fertilizer ; but I would not use enough at ope time to last twelve years for the reason that a great deal of it would be lost before it could be used by the crops.

C. D. Rice—I think the essay good. Straw used as the writer would use it— as a mulch—is good, but the cutting of it for that purpose is too expensive. lie also speaks of using salt as a fertilizer for orchards with good results. I will give a little experience I once had in that line. Having some brine in a pork barrel that I wanted to get rid of, the thought occured to me to put it around a cherry tree that stood near the house, which I did. Result—a dead cherry tree. Now about that Shiawassee man raising 150 bushels of corn per acre. I would like to know what kind of corn it was that he planted. I don’t know of any variety of dent corn that would give such a yield, and our other varieties sucker so that they would be too thick to ear well.

A Matthews—I think that salt can be used quite freely and with good results on asparagus beds. I do not think it would pay to put on plaster enough at one time to last twelve years.

Mrs. J. T. Daniells—I have read in some paper that salt was injurious to fruit trees, except the quince, which requires it, to bear well.

L. Bentley—As to the expense of cutting straw, it can be run through a cutting box as fast as it goes through the threshing machine. I did not want to be understood as wanting to rob the barn yard and stable of what they need. There are a great many who have more straw than they need for such purposes, and instead of letting it lay in the stack and rot down to get rid of it, if it were cut and used a mulch it would aid a great deal in keeping up the productiveness of the soil. Another thing which I think would pay well would be to build cisterns to catch and hold the washings of the yards and stables and apply it to the laud with a sprinkler. In many cases the waste from yards and stables by leeching is the most valuable part of the manure.

W. Floate—I am satisfied that liquid manure is one of the best pulverizers we have and that the most of it is allowed to go to waste. I have used salt to some extent, but did not see any benefit from its use, except on quince trees.

L. Bentley—I would like to have the members of this club experiment in this way this season : When the corn gets tasselled out, break the tassels off from one or two rows across the field, and see if the corn is not better on the rows where the tassels are ofT than on the others in the fall.

A Matthews—I think the closer cornis planted in the rows the less number of kernells is required in a hill.

J. T. Daniells—This question is a good one for discussion. One of the pleasures of farming is the privilege we have of experimenting. I have used salt on quince trees and they bore well.

After singing by the choir the meeting adjourned for dinner and a look over the premises. After satisfying the wants of the inner roan from a well filled table we repaired to the barn to look over the stock. Here let me mention that Burt Cowles has had a ton of the Homestead fertilizer sent to him and some of the farmers in this vicinity are going to try it this season on a small scale.

At 1:30 p. m. the meeting was again called to order. After singing bv the choir and answering to roll call, we listened to the reading of a paper by Miss Barnes, of Lansing, subject, “The Pioneers of France, or Why are not our People French.” The writer started with the first efforts made by France to explore and settle this country, and gave an outlint of the efforts and failure to establish and maintain their settlements until at last they were successful; describing the trials and hardships which they encountered for so many years before they succeeded in their undertaking.

In the discussion of the paper W. Floate said : I was very much pleased with the paper read, and I would move that we tender the reader a vote of thanks, which motion was supported and carried.

J. T. Daniells—When we compare the trials and difficulties which the early pioneers of this country endured and overcome with ours of to-day, they form a great contrast.

I w as just thinking what a change has been wrought in this country in the last 200 vears, and whether the change will be as great in the next 200. I think not.

We next discussed the question: “ What Four Weeds are the most Injurious to the Farmer ?”

J. T. Daniells—I would select the

Canada thistle, ragweed, common thistle and mullen. The Canada thistle is one of the worst pests we have. It will spread from the root by being carried from one part of the field to another by cultivating, aud the seeds being carried by the wind and by birds for long distances. To destroy them I think salt good, and by plowing often and thoroughly will subdue them. Ragweed is partial to low rich ground and after the ground has once become seeded to it, it will lost a long time before it can all be gotten rid of. I know of no better way to get rid of it than thorough cultivation. The common thistle is easily destroyed by cutting before going to aeed, and the mullen in the same way.

L. Bentley—The Canada thistle I have killed by cutting when in the blow, the stalk then being hollow, the dew and rain will fill this nollow and rot and kill the root. Milkweed I have killed by pulling when in the blow. Ragweed I would fight until I bad it exterminated. Yellow dock is another bad weed; although by pulling and keeping it from going to seed it can easily be gotten rid of on up land, but on low land subject to overflow, in timea of freshets, it is different. There are always some who neglect to keep their weeds from going to seed, and they manage to raise enough to keep their own land well seeded and a supply for their neighbors, of which everv freshet gives a free distribution overall the land covered by the overflow* for miles below.

W. Floate—I think there is a law to prevent a person from letting foul weeds go to seed on his premises and thereby injure his neighbors. Yellow dock I pull just before they go to seed, Canada thistle I haVe destroyed by keeping it cut close and not allowing it to get a start; have used salt some. I think it is good to put on when the plant is small. Ragweed is apt to come up in our wheat fields after the wheat is harvested. Sheep can be made to eat them and keep them from going to seed. Milkweed I have killed by continued pulling.

C. D. Rice—Ragweed requires thorough cultivation to destroy it after it has once got a foothold. I have a few milkweed, have pulled them but it did no good. I killed three patches of Canada thistles by hauling straw and building a stack of it over the thistles and leaving it to rot down ; it smothered them. There is another weed that has come on my farm in the last two or three years, which has become quite a pest. I do not know the name of it. It grows about three or four feet high, a straight stalk with a bushy top something like lettuce. I think it is some kind of milk thistle. It has blows like lettuce and when you break the leaves there is a thick white sap exudes from the broken parts the same as in milkweed.

A. Matthews—I consider the burdock, yellowdoek, milkweed and Canada thistles the worst weeds we have. Burdock spreads by the seed so easily that one good stalk, if left to go to seed, will lay the foundation for a good crop. Anything coming in contact with it is laid hold of and made a means of conveyance to some other place. Milkweed I have tried to kill by pulling, but did not succeed.

After singing, the meeting adjourned to meet with Mr. and Mrs. W. Floate on Friday, May 12th. N. Cowi.es,

Reporter.

OBITUARY.

Again it becomes our sad duty to chronicle the death of a pioneer of this township. Elizabeth Bond, subject of this sketch was born in Yorkshire, England, December 18,1854; at the age of 2 years emigrated with her parents to Canada, where they resided a short time, moving soon to Michigan and settling in VVastenaw county ; from there they located in Olive, Clinton county, where they haye resided twenty-Bix y ears. In 1870 she married John Bond, to w hom seven children were born, five of which are still living. For four years she has been a sufferer with heart and lung trouble, death being the final relief, April 26. She bore her suffering with great fortitude and was willing to go when the death angel came. She was a good neighbor, a faithful wife, a kind and loving mother. She leaves a father and mother, three brothers, two sisters, a bereaved husband and five children to mourn her loss. The funeral services were held at the Oliye school house, Rev. Full, of DeWitt, officiating. The remains were interred in the South Olive cemetery.

Oh, dearest Lizzie can we forget thee,Oh, must the gravo forever sever,

You linger in our memories yet,Aud in our hearts you will dwell forever.

Mr. Nathaniel Huntoon died at his residence in Olive April 24, 1893. The diseased was an old pioneer 85 years oltf, coming from the state of New York to thi s state some thirty-nine years ago, and settled on a farm near this village. He was born in Lemington, New Hampshire, July 11, 1810, and was married to Phebie Lusk, in Clarendon, New York, December 19,1835. His wife and five children survive him, four sons and one daughter, Mrs. M. D. Brown, of St. Johns ; Thurman and Alvin H. Huntoon, of Eagle ; Alanson, of Lansing, the younger son remainingon the farm with his father.

Died in Bengal, April 21st, of old age, Mrs. Eliza Patterson, aged about 80 years. Deceased leaves four children— Charles Patterson, of St. Johns; John Patterson and Mrs. Smith Hunt, of Dallas, and Mrs. Flank Ellis, of Bengal. The funeral was held at the late home of deceased on Sunday, Rev. C. G. Thomas officiating.

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COUNTY TBEABUBER’8 OFFICE, 1 St. Joshs, Mich., April 18. 1893. J

Notice is hereby given that certain lands situated In the Couoty of Clinton, bid off to the elate for taxes of 1889 and previous years, sod described ill statements on file In this office, will be sold at pub. lie auction by the underslgued county treasurer, at the county aeat, on the 22d day ef May,.1893, at the place designated for the annual tax salee, If not previously canceled according to law.

Bald statements contain a full description of each parcel of said lands, and may be eeen on application at the offloe of the county treasurer.

The land struck off to the state for taxes of 1889. or other year*, at the tax sales In May last, will be offered subject to the right of redemption pree- erlbed bv law. WM. U. ROSE.

51-4 County Treasurer.

SALE OF STATE TAX LANDS.

AUDITOR GENERAL’S OFFICE, 1 LaNsi.Ni., Mich., March 24, 1893. j

Notice la hereby given that certain lands situated In the county of Clinton, bid off to the state for taxes of 1889 and previous yean, and deecrlbed in statements which will hereafter be forwarded to the office of the treasurer of said county, will be sold at public auction by said treasurer at the county seat, on the first Monday of May next, at the time and place deelgnated for the annuual tax salee, If not previonsly redeemed or canceled according to law.

Bald statements contain a Bill description of each parcel of said lands and may be seen on application at the office of the county treasurer after they are received by him.

The land struck off to the state for taxes of 1889 or other yean, at the tax salee in May last, will be offered subject to the right of redemption prescribed by law. STANLEY W TURNER,

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PROBATE OR UK it—STATE OF MICHIGAN, County of Clinton ss. At a session of the

Probate Court lor the ’ouuty of Clintou holdeu at the Probate Office, in the Village of St. Johns, ou Monday, the 17lb day of April, in the year one tbosuand eight hundred and ninety-three.

Present, CbarTes M. Merrill, Judge of Probate.In the matter of tne estate of Michael Fox,

deceased. On reading and filing the petition duly verified of Joseph Fox. praying that he or some other suitable person may be appointed administrator of said estate.

Thereupon it is ordered that Thursday, the 11th day of May, A. D., 1893, at one o’clock in the afternoon, be assigned for the hearing of said petition at the Probate Office, in the Village of St. Johns.

And It is further ordered that notice be?:lven to the persons Interested In said estate, of the Imeand place of said hearing by causing a copy of

tbia order to be published in Tux Custom Rk- publican, a newspaper printed aud circulating in •aid County of Clinton, for three successive weeks previous to said day of hearing. ’

51-8 CHARLES M. MERRILL,(A true copy.) Judge of Probate.

PROBATE ORDER-STATE OF MICHIGAN, County of Clinton as. At a session of the

Probate Court for the County of Clinton, holden at the Probate Offloe, in the Village of 8t. Jobos, oo Saturday, the 15th day of April, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three.

Preaent, Charles M. Merrill, Judge of Probate.In the matter of the estate of Michael Suyder,

deceased. On reading and flltug the petition duly verified of Catherine Snyder, administratrix of said estate, praying that she may be licensed to borrow money by way of mortgage on the real estate belonging to sala deceased for the purpose of paying the debts of deceased and expense of administration.

Thereupon it is ordered that Thursday, the lltb day of May A. D., 1893, at one o’clock In the afternoon be assigned for the hearing of said petition and that the heirs at law of aald deceased and all other persons interested In said estate are required to appear at a session of said court then to be holdeu at the probate office, in the Village of 8t. Johns, and show cause. If any there be, why the prayer of the petitioner should not be granted.

And it is fhrther ordered that a copy of this order be published in Thk Cliston Rkpobli- cam, a newspaper printed and circulating in said County of Clinton, for three successive weeks previous to said day of heariug.

51 3 CHARLES M. MERRILL.(A true copy.) Judge of Probate.

PROBATE ORDER-STATE OF MICHIGAN County of Clinton, ss. At a session of the

Probate Court for the County of Clinton holden at the Probate office, in the Village of St. Johns, on Thursday, the 13th day of April, in the year one thousand eight hundred aud ninety three'.

Preaent, Charles M. Merrill, Judge ol Probate.In the matter ol the estate of Hiram A. Simmons,

deceased. On reading aud filing the petition duly verified of Carrie B. Simmons praying that Millard F Pike or some other suitable person may be appointed administrator of said estate.

Thereupon it is ordered that Thursday, the 11th day of May, A. D, 1893, at one o’clock in the afternoon, be assigned tor tlio hearing of said petition, at the Probato Office, iu tho Village of 8l. Johns.

And it is further ordered that notice he given to the persons interested iu said estate, of the time and place of said hearing by causing a copy of this order to be published In Tne Clinton Republican. a newspaper printed and circulating in said Comity o4 Clinton, for three successive weeks previous to said day of hearing.

CHARLES M. MERRILL,(A true copy.) 51-3 Judge of Probate.

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OROBATE ORDER.—STATE OF MICHIGAN. X County of Clinton ss. At a session ol'lhe Probate Court for the County of Clinton, holden at the probate office, in the Village of St. Johns, on Friday, the 14th day of April, iu the year one thousand eight hundred and uinety-threo.

Present, Charles M. Merrill, Judge of Fro- bate.

In the matter of the eatate of William Zischke, deceased. On reading and filing the petition duly verified ot Gustavos Lletzko praying that he or rome other suitable person may be appointed administrator of aald eatate.

Thereupon it is ordered that Thursday, the 11th day of May A. D., 1893, at one o’clock in the afternoon be assigned for the hearing of said petition, at the Probate Office, in the Village of St. Johns.

And it is further ordered that, notice be Riven to the persons interested in said eatate, of the time and place of hearing, by causing a copy of this order to be published in Thk Clinton Rkpubli- can, a newspaper printed and circulating in said County of Clinton, for three successive weeks, previous to said day of hearing.

CHARLES M. MERRILL,(A true codv.) 61-3 Judge of Probate.

TJJBOBATE ORDER—8TATE OF MICHIGAN, I. County of Clinton sa. At a session of the Probate Court for tho Countv of Clinton, holden at the Probate Office, In the Village of St. Johns, on Friday, the 14th day of Apr.l, in the year one thousand eight hundred and tiinety-three.

Present, Charles M. Merrill, Judge of Probate.In the mutter of the eatate ot Nathaniel Session*,

deceased. On reading and filing the petition duly verified of Adelaide K. Sessions, praying that she may be appointed administratrix of said estate.

Thereuiion it ia ordered that Thursday, the 11th day of May A. D., 1893, at one o’clock in the afternoon.be assigned for the hearing of said petition at the Probate Office, iu the Village of St. Johns.

And It is further ordered that notice be given to the persons interested in raid estate of the time and place of said hearing by causing a copy of this order to be published in Tiix Clinton Rkpubli- can, a newspaper printed aud circulating in said County of ciinton for three successive weeks previous to said day of hearing.

51-3 CHARLES M. MERRILL,(A true copy.) Judge ot Probate.

PROBATE NOTICE.—PROBATE COURT,( linton County as. Notice is hereby given

that all claims and demands against the estate of William Armour, deceased, will be heard by the Judge of Prolmto of said county, at the Probate Office, In the Village of St. Johns, on the 14th day of October, A. I)., C893, and that the creditors of said deceased are allowed six month* from the date of tills notice in which to present their claim* for adjustment.

Dated April 13th A. D.. 1893.CHARLES M. MERRILL,

51-4 Judge of Probate.

Mortgage hale.-default havingbeen made in the coaditlooe of a certain

mortgage, dated November 7th, 1890, executed by Adeline 8. Brown to the Clluton County Saving* Bauk, and recorded November 7, 1890, in the office of the regular of deeds, for Clinton county, ia Michigan, in liber 74 of mortgagee, on page 425, on which mortgage there la claimed to be doe at the date of thii notice, one bund red and twenty-seven dollars and thirteen cents, besides an attorney lee of fifteen dollars, stipulated in aald mortgage to be paid should any proceedings be taken to foreclose said mortgage, and no suit or proceedings at law or ia equity baring been instituted to recover any part or the debt secured by said mortgage, now therefore, by virtue of the power of sale in said mortgage contained, and of the statute in such case made and provided, notice is hereby given, that on May totb, 1393, at one o'clock in the afternoon, at the west front door of the court house for Clinton county, in Michigan, in the village of8«. Johns, iu said county, i here will be sold at public vendue, to tbe highest bidder, tbe premises in said mortgage described, ▼is : Tbe east one-fourth of the west half of the southwest quarter of section thirteen; the east thirty acres of the southwest quarter of said section thirteen, and tbe west half of the south weet quarter of the southeast quarter, of said section thirteen, all iu township seven north of range three weet, in tbe state of Michigan. Raid sale will be made subject to the payment of the remainder of said mortgage not yet due, being twelve hundred dollars and tho interest thereon at seven per cent, per xnnona from November 7th, 1892.

Dated February 21st. 1898.THE CLINTON COUNTY SAVINGS BANK,

Pkrbins A Baldwin, Mortgagee.Attorney* for Mortgagee. * 43-12

COMMISSIONER'S NOTICE.—THE UNDER- J signed baring been appointed by the Judge of Probate of Clinton County, Michigan, commis

sioners to receive, examine and adjust ail claim* aud demands against John Martin Ott, deceased, hereby give notice that wo will meet for that purpose at the dwelling house of the late John Marlin Ott, on the cast part of southwest quarter of section number three in township of DeWitt, CliDton County, Michigan, on the 24th day of June, 1893, and the 14th day of October, 1893, and that the creditors of said deceased are allowed six months from the date of this notice in which to preaent their claims for adjustment.

Dated April 13th, 1893. GEORGE MATER, JACOB MAIER,

515 Commissioners.

/~1 UARDIAN SALE.—NOTICE IS HEREBY VJT given that by virtue and in pursuance of license and authority granted to me, the undersigned, on the 30th day of March, 1893, by the Judge of Probata of Clinton County, Michigan, to sell real eatate belonging to William J. Pung, a minor, I will sell at public auction to the highest bidder on the 3d day of June, 1893, at 10 o’clock a. m. at the dwelling house of the late Michael I’ung, on the premiaea hereinafter described, all the right, title auu interest of said William J. Pung, minor, in and to the undivided one-eleventh part of the west half of tbe north half of the south-west quarter of section twenty-one, in the township of Westphalia, Clinton County, State oi Michigan.

Dated April 15th A. D., 1893.CHRISTINA PUNG,

61w7 Guardian of William J, Pung, minor.

( 1 UARDIAN SALE.—NOTICE IS HEREBY given that by virtue and in pursuance of

license, and authority granted to me. the undersigned, on the 3d dsy of April, 1893, by tho Judge of Probate of Isabella County, Michigan, to sell real estate belonging to William Doll and Ellanora Doll, minora, I wlllscll at. public auction to the highest bidder on the 3d day of June, 1893,at 10 o’clock a. m , at the dwelliug house of tbe late Michael rimg, on the premises hereinafter described, all the right, title and interest of faid William Doll and Ellanora Doll, minors. In and to the undivided one-eleventh part of the west half of the north half of the south-west quarter of section twenty-one, in tho township of Westphalia, Clinton county, state of Michigan.

Dated April 15lh A. D., 1893.617 CHRISTINA PONfl,

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Mortgage sale.—default havingbeen made in the conditions of x

mortgage, made by James T. Munroe and Alice B Munroe to Albert J. Baldwin, guardian of Florence M. Teachout, a minor, dated March 26th, 1889, and recorded In tbe office of the register of deeds for Clinton county, in Michigan, on March 2,Mb, 1889, inLiber 72 oi mortgages on page 283, on wbicb mortgage there is claimed to be due at the date of this notice seven hundred and twelve dollars aud seventy-four cents, besides an attorney fee of twenty-five dollars, stipulated io said mortgage to be paid should any proceedings be taken to foreclose said mortgage, and no suit or proceeding at law or in equity having been Instituted to recover any part of tbe debt secured by said mortgage. Therefore, by virtue of the power of sale in said mortgage contained, at.d of the statute in such case made and provided, notice is hereby given that on JUNE 3rd, 1893. at 1 o’clock in the afternoon, at the west front door of tbe court house for Clinton county, iu Michigan, in the Village of St. Johns, io said county, there will he sold al public veudue to the highest bidder tbe premises in said mortgage described, vlx: The went half of the northeast quarter of section seven, in township live north ot range four west in Michigan.

Dated Msrcb 8th, 1893.ALBERT J. BALDWIN.

Guard inn of Florence M. Teachout, a minor, Pkrrins A Baldwin, Mortgagee.

Attorneys for Mortgagee.

Mortgage sale—whereas defaulthas bceu niado in tbe pajtuent of the money

secured by a mortgage dated the 2(1 day of October A. D., 1891, executed by George E. Palmer and Lizzie Palmer, his wife, of DeWitt, Michigan, to Ernest Heldt, of the same place, which said mortgage was recorded in the office of the register of deeds forlhe County of (Tinton.^Michigan, in Liber 78 of mortgages on page 39, on the fit b day of October A.D., 1891, at 8 o’clock a m. of said day, and whereas tbe amount claimed to be due on said mortgage at tho date of this notice ia tne sum of three hundred and seventy-seven and 07-100 dollars, besides an attorney fee and all other (legal costs of foreclosure; and no suit at l iw or proceeding in equity havit.g been instituted to recover tbe debt now remainin' secured bv said mortgage or any part thereof, whereby the power of sale contained in said mortgage has become operative, now, therefore, notice is hereby given that by virtue of the said power of sale, and in pursuance of the statute in such case made and provided, the said mortgage will be foreclosed by a sale of the premises therein described at public auction to tbe highest bidder, at tbe west front door of the court bouse in tbe village of 8t. Johns, in said County of Clinton, Michigan, that being tbe place for holding the circuit court of said county, on tbe 16th DAY OF JUNE A. D , 1893, at one o’clock In the afternoon of said day, which said premises are described in said mortgage as all that certain piece or parcel of land situate In the Towusbip of DeWitt, in the Couuly of Clintou, and .State of Michigan, and described as follows, to-wit: Tbe north half (%) of the northwest quarter (if) of the southwest quarter (If) of section fifteen (15) oi town five (6) north of range two (2) west containing twenty (20) acres more or less.

Dated March 22d, 1893.ERNEST HEIDT,

A. F. Rouse, Mortgagee.Attorney for Mortgagee. 47-13

Mortgage sale.—whereas defaulthas been made In the conditions of a certain

mortgage of real eatate, executed bv Philo C. Bassett, of Ovid, Clinton county, Michigan, to Eva Walker, of Detroit, Michigan, dated the sixth day of May, A. D.. 1S89, and recorded on the same day, in Liber 69 of mortgages, on page 627 In tbe office of the register of deeds for Clinton county, by which default the power of sale in said mortgage has become operative, and upon which mortgage there is claimed to be due at the date of Ibis notice the sum of eleven hundred and nineteen dollars and thirty-five cents ($1,119.35), besides an attorney fee of thirty dollars provided in said mortgage to be paid should auy proceeding be taken to foieclose said mortgage; and no suit or proceeding at law or in equity having been instituted to recover the money secured by said mortgage or any part thereof, notice is hereby giveu that by virtue of the statute and of the power of sale contained in said mortgage, I shall sell at public auction to the highest bidder, at the west front door of the court house, in the Village of St. Johns, Michigan, (that being the place where the circuit court for said County of Clinton is ncldton '.FRIDAY, THE 30th DAY OK JUNE. 1893, at 4 o’clock in the afternoon ot said day, the land and premises described in said mortgage, as: All that, certain piece or parcel of land in the Village of Ovid, Clintou county, Michigan, described as follows, to-wit: One nundred and twenty-four feet of the east end ol out lot number one tl) according to the recorded plat of said village.

Dated St. Johns, March 30th, 1893.EVA WALKER,

B. T. Prkntis. Mortgagee.Attorney for Mortgagee. 48-13

ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE— NOTICE IS hereby given that by virtue of license and

authority granted to me, tbe underdgned, by the Probate Court of Clinton county, Michigan, on the 23d day of March, 1693, to sell real estate belonging to Harrison Hunt, deceased, I will sell at public auction to the highest bidder, on the 13th DAY OF MAY A. D., 1893, at one o’clock iu the afternoon, at the Probato Office, in St. John*, in said County of Clinton, all the right, title and interest of said deceased in and to tho northeast quarlor of the northwest quarter of section number twenty-nine (29) In township of Ovid, Clinton County Michigan.

Dated March 23d, 1893.HENRY KOSITT,

Administrator with the will annexed of the estate ol Harrison Hunt, deceased. 48 7

PROBATE ORDER-STATE OF MICHIGAN, County of Clinton ss. At a session of the

Frobatc Court for the County of Clinton, holden at tho Probate Office, in the Village of St. Johns, on Saturday, the 22nd day of April, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three.

Present, Charles M. Merrill, Judge of Probate.In the matter of the estate of John E. Power,

deceased. Adison Hulse, administrator, dc bonis non, with the will anuex<4i, of said estate, bavlDg made application for the allowance of Lis final account.

Thereupon It is ordered that Saturday, the 201b day of May A. D., 1893, at one o’clock in tho afternoon, be assigned for the examination of said account, at the Probate Office, in the Village of St. Johns.

Aud it Is further ordered that notice be given to the persons interested in said estate of the time and place oi raid hearing by rausiug a copy of this order to be published in Thk Clinton Republican, a newspaper printed and circulating in said County of Clinton, for three successive weeks previous to said day of bearing.

CHaRLES M. MERRILL,(A true copy.) Iw3 Judge of Probate.

Probate order-state of Michigan.County of Clinton. «s. At a session of the

Probate Court for the County of Clinton, holden at the Probate Office, iu the Village of 8* Johns on Saturday, the 8th day of April, in the year one thousand eight hundred and uinety-threo.

Present, Charles M. Merrill, Judge of Probate.

In the malter of the estate ol Silas Cleveland, deceased. On reading and filing the petition, duly verified, of Carrie 8. Cleveland, praying that she may be appointed administratrix of said estate.

Thereupon It is ordered that Thursday, the 4th day of May. A D. 1898, at 1 o’clock in the "afternoon be assigned for the bearing ol said pelition at the probate office, in the Village of St. Johns.

Aud it is further ordered that notice be given to tbe persons interested in said estate, of the time and place of said hearing, by causing a cony of this order to be published in fn* Clinton Republican, a newspaper printed aud circulating in said County of Clinton, for three successive weeks previous to said day or hearing.

50-3 CHARLES M. MERRILL.(A true copy.) Judge of Probate.

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London cable: The house of commons was crowded with members and spectators on the occasion of the second reading of the Irish home rule bill. Mr. Balfour closed the opposition and his arguments were repeatedly cheered. He said there were no reasons sufficient to meet this important constitutional change; that it was absurd to hold England responsible ’for Ireland’s woes; that the bill was a decisive step toward a final separation and that it would result in the disintegration of the empire; that the bill, if it passed, would entail loss and hardship upon all classes in Ireland. Irish ambitions would center in the new Dublin parliament. Irishmen would regret the imperial parliament as a foreign and defeated body. “If you commit this?;reat political crime,” said Mr. Bal- our, iu closing his speech, “you make

yourselves responsible for any irreparable national disaster and all hopes of a peaceful and united Ireland will vanish forever.” Prolonged cheers and counter cheers followed this peroration.

When Mr. Gladstone arose to close the debate there was tremendous cheering. The old gentleman was in fine condition and his voice clear and distinct. He said: The principal weapons of the opposition, were bold assertions, persistent exaggeration, constant misconstruction and copious, arbitrary and baseless prophecies. True, there were conflicting financial arrangements to be dealt with, but, among the difficulties nothing existed which ought to abash or terrify men desirous to accomplish a great object. The present bill sought to close a controversy that had lasted for centuries. Ireland's loyal acceptance of the present bill should cause distrust and disbelief to vanish. There had been no disaffection of the Irish mind since the door of hope had been opened. The persistent distrust of the Irish people, despite all they could do, came simply to this—that they were to be pressed below the level of civilized mankind. When the boon of self-government wasf'iven to the British colonies, was Ire- and alone to the excepted from its

blessings? To deny Ireland home rule was to say that she lacked the ordinary faculties of humanity.

Mr. Gladstone's closing words were: “You cannot be surprised that we have undertaken the solution of this great question, and as on the one hand, it is not the least of the arduous efforts of the liberal party so, on the other hand, it will have its place in history—aye; and not remote, but early history—as not the least durable, fruitful and blessed among its accomplished acts.”

The bill passed the second reading by a vote of 347 to 304.

MANY WERE KILLED.

A Death-Deiilint Cyclone Cut* a l*atl> of Ruin Through the South,

Special from Meridan, Miss.: A cyclone originated in Jasper county, 35 miles south of here, and traveled in a northeasterly direction. A settlement of negro cabins was destroyed and a number of the unfortunate inmates perished. Col. Berry's magnificent plantation was swept clean. From this point to Barnett, 30 miles south of here, the storm was especially severe. Dr. T. J. Krouse, one of the largestElantation owners in the south, was

adly injured. His son had his skull crushed, and his wife and daughter were slightly hurt. A negro on Dr. Krouse's plantation, named Henry German, with his wife and nine children, were imprisoned under the ruins of his cabin, and fire originating from the kitchen stove slowly roasted the unfortunate wretches to death. Three miles east of Barrfett the wind struck a neighborhood of farms and destroyed many houses. A little further on three negro cabins were struck. Two hegroes were killed and several badly wounded.

North of Sliuberta the storm created havoc among the negro cabins on the different plantations. Reports of the damage as are received indicate an awful loss of life and property. All along the 30 miles of the cyclone's path is strewn the dead carcasses of horses, cattle and all descriptions of live stock, while crops are ruined. The loss will reach into the hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Cholera1* Campaign Commenced.St. Petersburg: The official cholera

statistics just issued show that from March 14 to March 27 there were 400 new eases and 120 deaths in the government of I’odolia, and from March 27 to April 13,113 new eases and 35 deaths in the government of Oof a. Elsewhere in the empire 15 new cases and seven deaths are reported.

Vienna: Two cases of cholera and one death from the disease are reported from Onuth, in Bnkovina. Four cases have occurred in Nove Mamap- ovee.

Terrible Accident at the World Fair, One of the large pieces of modern

ordnance forming part of the United States government exhibit at the World's Fair grounds caused the death of two soldiers. By the breaking of some gearing Sergeant James W. Warwick and Corporal M. J. Kern were crushed under the gun which fell while it was being hoisted into place. The weapon weighs fourteen tons. Warwick was flattened into pulp.

Senator Pasco, of Florida, was elected to succeed himself.

Miss Lucy Larcom, the famous Boston poetess is dead. She had been ill for some time.

The Clinton Wire Cloth company’s works at Clinton, Mass., burned. Loss (250,000; fully insured.

Heavy snowstorms raged throughout the northwest. Three inches of snow fell in Minneapolis on the 10th.

The lower house of the Prussian landtag has approved Finance Minister Miquel’s proposal for a property tax.

The pope has ordered that prayers for rain be offered by Catholics throughout Italy. Kain has not fallen for two months.

REMARKABLE ESCAPES.

Two Slurderera In Bhig Slug Hr Ison Lock Tliclr Guards In and Kaeape.

Murderers Thomas Callister and Frank W. Kohle, both under sentence of death, have escaped from the condemned cells of the Sing Sing (N. Y.) prison. When Guard GlynD entered the condemned cell building, at an early hour he was astonished at discovering the two night watchmen locked in the murderers’ cells. When the guards were released they told a remarkable story.

Guard Hulz said that at 7 o’clock the night before he passed supper in to Pallister. The condemned man threw a handful of pepper into the guard’s eyes. Hulz was blinded and Pallister rushed on him, took his revolver away from him and, under threats of death, forced Hulz into Pallister’s cell, first taking the keys away from him. He then locked Hulz in the cell and unlocked the cell of Murderer Frank kohle. The two murderers then unlocked the cells of Carlyle W. Harris and Murderer Osmund. They invited these two to escape with them. Both Harris and Osmund refused the offer to escape.

The two murderers climbed to the top of the cells and knocked off the scuttle in the roof. In this way they got on the roof, climbed down into the yard and made their escape, whether by the river or over the walls is not known. It is supposed that Pallister had been saving the pepper given him daily with his meals with the object of escape in view.

A BIG STRIKE ON.

Employe* of the Union I’aellic Road at Various l’laces Quit Work.

Five hundred men are out of the Union Pacific shops in Omaha, Neb., and the machinists’ and blacksmiths’ shops are deserted. The officials state they are well prepared to undergo a strike.

The men employed in the Union Pacific shops are out at Cheyenne, Wyo. A warrant has been sworn out against Supt. O'Herne, who drew a revolver on John Tighe as the latter pulled the signal bell for the strike.

Employes of the Union Pacific shops and round house failed to return to work at Kansas City, Mo., after the noon hour. The men are orderly, and simply left their work and refused to return until the matter should be settled.

The men claim that the company has acted in bad faith concerning the fulfillment of an agreement entered into to allow the force of men employed to reduce itself when the time was below the standard of nine hours a day.

Carter Talk* Seal* Intelligently.In resuming his argument before the

tribunal of arbitration Mr. Carter, United States counsel, claimed that the seals were not ferae naturae, but private property when nourished and tended by man. The seals frequenting the Prebyloff islands were, Mr. Carter contended, guarded and cherished by the United States and therefore a species of husbandry was formed, giving a property right in the seals.

Continuing, Mr. Carter said that Great Britian claimed the right to prey upon animals whose very existence today was due to the efforts of the United States. The extermination of seal life in Behring sea had been prevented by the United States, and this action of the United States was worthy of the recognition of humanity, who still benefited from the seal industry.

THE MARKETS.

Cattle—Good to choice ... f 4 .50 to f 4 W)Hogs........................................... 7 00 .. 7 35Sheep......................................... 4 25 .. 5 75

Lambs.................................... 4 75 .. tj :toWheat—Bed spot No 2....... 70>4-- 70

70*White spot No 1................ •034 ..Corn No 2 spot....................... 4114 • • 411*

No 2 yellow......................... 42‘,.. 42 V4Oats No 2 white spot........... ;m>i,4.. 37Bye ............................................ r>s .. 58Hay—No 1 Timothy............ 13 00 .. 13 50Potatoes per bushel............ «o .. 34Apples per bbl....................... 2 00 .. 3 .50Butter Dairy per lb........... 25

Creamery per lb................ 2ti .. 28Eggs per doz........................... 1.5 .. 15 !4J.ive Poultry—Chickens... 11 .. 12

Turkeys................................ 13 .. 14Chicago.

Cattle—Steers....................... $ 5 75 to ? 6 00Common................................ 4 50 .. 5 50

Sheep—Mixed......................... f> 10 .. 5 25Lambs.................................... ll 00 .. ti so

Hogs—Common..................... 7 00 .. 7 25Wheat No 2 red..................... 7*2 .. 72

No 2 spring........................... 72 72Corn No 2................................. 40*4.. 40 >4Oats............................................. 27*.. 28Bve ............................................ 50 .. .50Bariev....................................... tw .. 03Mess Pork per bbl................ 17 20 .. 17 25Lard per cat........................... <J 02 H-. 0 05

New York.Cattle—Natives.................... S 4 80 to I 5 70Hogs.......................................... 7 40 .. 7 K>Jslieep—Good to choice....... 6 00 .. 0 .50

Lambs................................... 0 75 .. 7 35Wheat No 2 red..................... 1.1 .. 7.5*Corn No 2 white................... 4N*4.. 40Oats............................................ 40 .. 40

WEEKLY TRADE REVIEW.New York. April 24.—Ilradstreet's sar*:

The backward season and ruin storms, with a tendency on the part of Jobbers generally In staple lines to trade more conservatively, color general trade rather less favorably, than a week ago. In addition, quotations have gone off on wheat, corn a-nd oats, pork and lard, on rice and coffee among food staples.1 be reduction In the last being due to the pricking of the bull bubble blown by the European speculator In that berry. There Is a manifest halt In the rate of progress of general trade compared with like seasons In previous years, although the volume of business is of large proportions. Enormous stocks of wheat at home and in Europe and aMoat for Europe cause traders to be very conservative and constitute the dead weight on prices. Monetary doubts have overshadowed all other Influences at New York, but have not yet greatly affected trade at most other points. Wheat has fallen 2qc, corn 2^c. oil 2qc and coffee ll*c, and pork and cotton are lower. Collections throughout the country are at most points slower than usual, and conditions snen that monetary stringency might occur If exchange with this center were embarrassed. Meanwhile exports of merchandise In April fall much below last year s, while Imports Increase nearly 2u per cent, so that tne excess of Imports is very large The business failures occurtng throughout the country during the last seven days number 20s. For the corresponding week lust year the he ures were 201.

A Crew of 2M Person* Lost.The British ship Gowanburn, which

left Newcastle, New South Wales, over two months ago for San Francisco has doubtless been lost, and it is probable that her crew of 28 have shared a similar fate. J. J. Moore & Company, shipping merchants of San Franc iso, are in receipt of cable advices that her figurehead and cabin were found on the coast of New Zealand.

The dowager duchess, of Southerland, is seriously ill and may not be sent to the Hollowell (London) jail to serve out her sentence for contempt of court.

r OIPORTANT TO INVALIDS.

-DX3. S. HTJlvCPIIKET,I-ate of LONDON, now of C. UCAGO, with a Branch Office and Laboratory at HILLSDALE, MICH.,

Has Visited Southern Michigan for the past Year, and during these visits has examined and prescribed for hundreds, and effected some of the molt Wonderful Cures ever made in the State.

Ask your friend* and neighbors about Dr. Holman R. Humphrey. There 1* scarcely a neighborhood in the county that has not had the benefit of the doctor's wonderful skill, and rat dv a family which haa not had one or more of Its members snatched from death and reatored to health alter all hope had been given up an^ the family physician had pronounced the ease incurable. If afflicted do not fail to consult this moat eminent physician and surgeon. All ezi minationa. consultations and advioe fr*w.

At ^t. Johns, Thursdav, April 27,1893. One day only Office—Parlors at the Steel HouseExamination Free to All.

Although the doctor la In many cases compelled to use expensive Instruments and chemicals in snaking analyses, micro- aoopto and other scientific examinations, yet be makes no charges to anyone, believing It to be a part of the physician’s duty to ascertain the patient’s true condition without expense to t>*e auffe/er. Whenever and wherever Ur. Humphrey decides to locate a monthly visit crowds flock to see him, and do wonder, for by the first examination, and often without asking a queation, he tells the iuvalid what the trouble la, and the prospect of a cure, and moat wonderful of all he values his first Impression and first look at n patient more than all else, and Dr. Humphrey la never mistaken in his diagnosis in any case.

The doctor’s methods differ markedly from the general practitioner In all respects. Following the plan of 8t. George’s Hospital of London, he registers everySarticular as to the patient's physical coo-

ition and mental state. The condition of each organ, location of any and all diseased parts, and whether sympathetic or organic, together with the amount and nature of the disease. In this way the entire amount of vital energies are readily computed and the restoring cower of the body measured sgainst the foroe and energy and destructive capabilities of the disease. Thus knowing the actual condition of the tissues and the effect of specific medicines upon every structure of the body, unlike most doctors, he Is enabled to say positively whether any given case is curable or not, and can also give the approximate time and expense of treatment, and would here point out the utter delusion cherished by many patients that they ought to get well in a few days or weeks, notwithstanding the fact that they have suffered for years.

Dr. HOLMAN S. HUMPHREYCures alter all others Fail.

Chronic Diseases.The doctor treats no acute diseases, but de

vote* his whole time to the treatment of chronic and long standing and surgical diseases ; cases given up by other doctor* and pronounced Incurable, be most desires to see. Dr. Humphrey has had nearly 3,000 cures In the state of Michigan, while his patients all told In Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Alabama, Tennessee. Georgia, Ohio and Indiana, have been fully five times that number; nearly two-tblrde of these sufferers were given up as hopeless invalids, some to be blind, some deaf, and others a prey to scrofula, chronic kidney die- ease, consumption, destructive female troubles. Among others, hundreds of children hopelessly deformed. But heboid how many of them see and hear, while nearly all are rapidly being cured.

The doctor Is surrounded with the finest and most extensive collection of Instruments ever imported to this country for examining *uu •resting all forms of chronic ailments of the uead. face, eye, ear. throat, ckest, lungs, heart, stoinneh. liver, spleen, kidneys, bowels, reproductive organs, urinary organs, brain and nervoui system, paralysis, growths. Joint diseases, piles, hip diseases, sciatica, skin diseases, ulcers and every form of weakness of either male or female.

The doctor s specific medicines go straight to the diseased organ, and can he plainly felt at work in the diseased parts very shortly after their use is begun. They are pleasant to take, mild but searching lu action, yet agree with the most delicate lady or child, do not reduca the strength, and can he used while at the usual occupation, ns many patients still able for hard work and close attention »o business are often slowly, surely, yet unconsciously dying, knowing themselves ill, yet deoelved Into a false security, they procrastinate and put off the matter until the case Is rendered incurable. The doctor earnestly requests all persons under treatm*>tt to write him often, as advice may he necessary week after week inf order to push any given case on as rapidly as possible, and a good common-sense statement on the part of the patient by mail is the next thing to a personal consultation.

Delays Are Dangerous.Many diseases are eo deceptive that hundreds are ailing with

dangerous, yet insidious, maladies, all unconscious of their true condition. They know they are not well, hut are entirely Ignorant of the deadly l'angs fastening upon some vital organ, which must sooner or later utterly destroy them unless rescued by a skilled hand. Are you afflicted? Your case may l>eeasily curable now, but remember, every moment of neglect brings you nearer the day when an incurable stage may supervene, when the most skillful physician can render you no assistance. The present it ours. The future may be too late.

A Life of Experience and Opportunity.Dr. Humphrey’s entire life has been devoted to the study and work

of his profession, and Is rich in practical experience in hospital, dis- pensarv and private practice, and many of the truly wonderful things ne has seen and done, if told, would read more like fiction than sober truth. In the great hospitals of Europe his opportunities have been second to no living man's; not only so, but he has thoroughly traveled, and his views of life, disease, ete , are so broad and cosmo-Eoil tan that like a Gould or a Vanderbilt in railroad business, he

eepa watch of and overlooks the entire medical world constantly. The methods of McKenzie. Virchow, Pasteur, Koch. Brown-Sequard. M. Bergeon, Fothergill. Bernard, etc., are as familiar to him as to themselves, and while ever ready to grasp and retain a fact, he holds fast to old friends tensclously. and makes new ones cautiously, experience having long since proven that one old truth well applied Is worth a dozen conjectures however plausible.

Facts fn*Men of All Ages.By reason of false modesty the youth of our land are kept In

Ignorance of the serious results which certain solitary and indiscreet practices produce. These vices If persisted in eventually undermine the constitution, induce nervous debility and early decay, organic weakness, premature loss of the manly powers. Involuntary loss of vital fluids, general prostration, and oftentimes imbecility and chronic epilepsy. Of all maladies afflicting mankind there la probably none about which the common family doctor In general practice knows so little, yet no suffere need the attention of the experienced specialist more than these, and here we have to minister to a diseased body, a diseased mind, and imaginations filled with morbid desires and fearful apprehensions. Dr. Humphrey’s unparalleled success with these unfortunates arises not only from the fact of the most scientific and specific medication known either In this or any other country, but also to the fact of the direct influenoe of his powerful will upon the peculiar mental depression always found in such cases, by which he Is enabled to Infuse a part of his own energy into their hopeless lives. Were not all such cases held in the most sacred confidence the doctor could print lettC:* from thousands of grateful patients who have been cured, and are fio-day perfect men, physically and mentally. Disease or debility of the reproductive organs of either sex rapidly destroys the energies of both body and mind, rol»s the step of its elasticity, dims the bright eye, pales the cheek, develops cowardice and often destroys the brightest Intellect. The reproductive function is the mainspring of animal life—preserve it at all hazards.

Latest Discoveries and Improvement*,Dr. Humphrey is the only physician who

has had the special advantage of Eu/opean hospital studies in microscopy of the blood and tissues, who carries with nim a full line of Instruments and apparatus (or making strictly scientific examinations of the various textures and secretions of the laxly, as the urine, blood, discharges of any kind, catarrhal secretions, etc., etc., which examinations are now considered indispensable to a correct diagnosis In all forms of obscure and chronic diseases. As very few doctors outside the large cities are thus prepared with costly outfit of microscopic and other essential instruments for making a strictly flrst-cluss diagnosis in many cases, the afflicted would do well to call uj»on the doctor and get his opinion and learn whether the doors of hope are yet open or forever closed against them.

There comes a turning point in the course of every disease; this Is es|>ecially true of ail progressive diseases, all or any of which are curable up to a certain time; that is, until such tissue change In some important organ

or organs has taken place, as to affect the proper function of said organ and finally break down the actual structure itself. Even In some cases when this has happened tmutual Khill may stop the destructive operation. etay the inroads of the disease, and give the patient a comfortable and useful life. Other cases, if neglected, after passing a certain stage, die in spite of all that sklfi can do. Hence It Is not only dangerous to delay. hut ofttimes criminal, for most all of us live for those we love, far more than for ourselves, and It is a crime against these to negiect ourselves until premature death closes the scene.

Disease* of Women,such as have baffled the skill of all other physicians and their remedies. Dr. Humphrey quickly cures. Cancers, tumors, fibroid and polvpoid growths cured without the use of the knife or caustics. No cutting, no pain, no danger.

Manhood Perfectly Restored.Quick, painless and certain cure for impo

tence, lost manhood, spermatorrhoea, losses, weakness and nervous debility, also for prostatitis, varicocele and ail orivate diseases, whether from imprudent habits of youth or sexual excesses In mature years, or any cause that debilitates the sexual functions, speedily and permanently cured. Consultation free and strictly confidential. Absolute cures guaranteed. So risk incurred.

Epilepsy or Fit* scientifically treated and positively cured hy a never-failing method.

Persons nnsklllfully treated by Ignorant pretenders who keep trifling with them month after month, giving noisouous and injurious compounds, should call and cee the doctor.

Wonderful Cure* by my Improved method of treatment accomplished in nervous debility, premature declineol manly powers.and kindred affictions. which have been neglected or un- skillfully treated. No experiments or failures. Patients treated by mail and medicines sent by express. Personal consultation preferable, we guarantee curable cases.

Free Urinalysis (Examination of Urine).—All persons suffering with obscure diseases, or suspected kidney affections, would do well to bring from two to four ounces of the first urine passed in the morning for examination. While Dr. Humphrey's permanent address Is Chicago, III., owing to the large number of patients in Southern Michigan and Northeastern Indiana and Ohio, he lias located a branch office and dispensary at Hillsdale, Michigan, where ail letters from this section can he addressed. Cor. North and Broad Sts.

All letter* inclosing stamp for postage answered free. All correspondence an.l consultation in strictest confidence.

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SHE WAS SATISFIED. %

The gray, discouraging light of the autumn morning revealed every oracle la the discolored ceiling, every flaw in the uneven board floor, and Mrs. Klsbee looked around with a bewildered air as she came in to get breakfast

"Come, mother, make haste!" shouted old Kisbee. "I’ve got to get out to the wood lots bright and early this morning.”

"Yes, I know, father.” The old woman still stared around her. "I can’t think what makes the room look so queer. Oh, I know! Father, you’ve torn those morning glory vines away from the window.”

"Of course I have,” said he, "Dried-up old truck, keepin’ out the light and air. What use were they?”

"But there were lots o’ flowers and buds on ’em yet, father. And in that sheltered spot the frost wouldn’t hev touched ’em for a week to oome.”

"Mornin’ glories don’t amount to nothin’,” snarled Klsbee. "Besides, I’m goin’ to hev a load dumped there to-day. It’s a handy place for the wood pile.”

"Father!”"I’m—goin’—to—hev— a—load—o’

—wood—dumped—here to-day! Don’t I speak loud enough?”

"But father, you always said you was goin’to build a kitchen out there. ’’

“I never said nothin’ of the sort!” "I want a kitchen,” pleaded the

poor old woman."That’s a horse of another color,”

sneered the old man.“And when we were first married

you promised me----- ”"I dare say I promised a good many

foolish things then. There’s some promises better broken than kept,” philosophically observed Luke.

"And this old room’s damp and the walls ha9 settled, and the ceiling has fell—and I was calculatin’ to hev it fixed up and put my bed in here, when the new kitchen was built. It always makes me feel so cheap when the sewing society meets here to hev our bed a standin in the parlor, no matter how handsome the patchwork Is.”

Luke wiped his hands on the roller toweL

"Well, you've stood it thirty years,” said he, "an’ I guess you can stand it a little while longer.”

"Do you mean, father, that I ain’t to have a new kitchen, after all?”

"That's exactly what I do mean.” Mrs.’ Kisbee said no more, but the

slow, bitter tears of old age trickled down her cheeks as she lighted the fire, brought a pail of drinking water from the spring and began to fry the ham and eggs in a little skillet.

Her son Geor.ge came over that afternoon from Farley’s mills, where he was foreman in a great shirt factory.

"Mother!” said he, “I’ve got something to tell you. I'm engaged to marry Susy Stopford. Why, mother, what’s the matter? What are you crying about? I thought you'd be so pleased.”

"It's jest like all the rest o* the luck!” sobbed poor old Mrs. Kisbee. "Father’s been an’ tore down all my morning glory vines, an’ I ain’t goin’ to hev any new kitchen after all these j’fF.rs, and now my only son has got engaged to one of the Stopfords, that wasn't never friends with our folks----- ”

"But, mother,” laughingly pleaded George, "these are not the days of Montague and Capulet feuds.”

"I don’t know what you're talkin' about,” said Mrs. Kisbee, who was not a student of the immortal Shakespeare, "but I always despised them Stopfords. An’ Susan, she’s a story writer, I am told, as she goes about with her fingers all inky and don’t help none at all with the house work.”

"But, mother 9he hires a girl with the money she earns. She’s the best and sweetest girl in the world. When may I bring her to see you?”

"I don’t want to see her at all,” said the old woman, querulously. And then she broke down again, crying.

George went away much perturbed in spirit. He had never seen his mother 90 broken-hearted before.

"I don’t know what she’ll i*y,” thought he, "when she hears that father has made up his mind to sell the old place. It’s too bad of him. But father never treated mother half decent.”

Susy Stopford was at the window when young Kisbee came back. She ran out to meet him. her bright hair blowing in the wind, her red lips apart.

"Well. George!" she cried.“I don't know what to say to you,

Susy," be began; "mother isn't herself to-day. But she-----”

"She doesn’t like me, George—I knew that before. There was some Old trouble between her mother and grandfather Stopford. She jilted him or he threw her over, I never quite understood which. But I fully intend to make her like me.”

"I am afraid she won't give you the chance, Susy.”

"Tell me all about it, George,” she said. George told her. "I only wish I was rich,” said he, "I would buy the place myself, and I’d build that kitchen the poor old soul so longs for, and a porch in front to train morning glory vines on.”

Susy looked thoughtful."Who buys it?” she asked."Doctor Trevor.”"What does he pay?”“Twelve hundred dollars. It Isn't

a very big price, but the land is stea* |lie and the house is old. Poor moth- | er! It will break her heart, ] fear, to leave it. ’’

Susy suddenly lifted her bright eyes to her lover’s face.

"George," she said, “I can’t give you up, not even to your mother.”

“Susy, my darling!”"But this I will do—I’ll make her

like me yet—see if I don’t!”The girl jumped up and ran sob

bing into the house. She could not resume her writing again, though the manuscript of a half-finished story lay on the table in her cosy sanctum

She got out her bankbook and studied it for awhile; then she brought in a shallow box and adjusted it in the sunniest nook of the kitchen casement

"La me, Susan, what are yon doing?” asked Aunt Pamelia, who was cutting up pumpkins for pies. "Plantin’ morning glory seeds at this time o’ year. Be you gone crazy P”

"I thought I should like to have some plants ready for blossoming the first thing in the spring,” said Susan, coloring a little.

Mrs. Kisbee’s poor old face grew very white and drawn when she heard that her husband had sold the old place, but she signed the deed without a word of remonstrance.

"It’s late in tho day for me to oppose Luke’s will,” said she. "But one thing I know—I’m too old a tree to bear transplanting. When I leave the old house where I was born I shall leave it in a coffin. Father, he’s goin’ to put his money into Western land specilation that Squire Oliver’s so full of, and it will be scattered like autumn leaves. Oh.dear-oh.dear!

"George,” she said to her son one day, when he stopped in to see her, "Dr. Trevor, he’s a buildln’ on the prettiest wing you ever see. He said he hoped it wouldn’t disturb me none, but they was in a hurry with the alterations.”

"You don't mind it, do you, mother?”

M\-s. Kisbee shook her piteous old gray head sadly.

"No,” said she. "I like to hear the hammerin’. I’m glad Mis’ Trevor’s goin’ to have a nicer place to work in than ever I had.”

"Mother, Susy says----- ”Mrs. Kisbee’s face hardened."I don't want to hear what Susy

says,” said she. "I don’t calculate to go and live with you and Susan Stopford. I am an old woman, an’ I’ve got ways of my own that I can’t give up. I don't want nothin’ to do with a daughter-in-law.”

She watched her son go down the path.

"George has got an orful queer look in his fade,” said she. "Mebbe I said too much. George has always been a good boy an’ I didn’t mean to hurt his feelin's. But I meant every word I said.”

It was spring before the alterations on the house were finished.

"It’s the old home, and yet ain't,” said she. "The new bedroom furniture came yesterday, and two Darby! and Joan cheers for the verandy, and] such a pretty kitchen set, with new crockery complete. Mis’ Trevor’ll be a happy woman.”

Luke Kisbee stood sheepishly looking out of the new south window.

As his wife came up to him he suddenly turned around.

"Mother,” said he, I may’s well tell now as ever. That Western property turned out had. There wasn’t any good title, it seems, an’ you’ve lost every cent!—Ev—e—ry cent!”

Mrs. Kisbee did not answer him. Her attention was apparently concentrated on something else.

"Father,” said she. "what’s them under the window? Morning glories! This time o’ year? Why the apples' ain’t fairly in bloom yet; and here the mornin’-glories is four feet high and trained on strings already. Who’s that woman down there workin’, aropmj the roots? Transplantin’ them from a wooden box, true’s I live! Why it’s Susan Stopford! And there’s George liftin’ another box of ’em outen a wagon! Well, I do declare!”

She hurriedly opened the window and called excitedly:

"George! George! Susan! Don't you put all them vines into the ground! Save one in a little flower pot for me when I go—to the poor- house!”

Susy Stopford laid down her trowel"Mrs. Kisbee—mother!” said she,

in a voice so full of tender sympathy that the old woman involuntarily held out her hands to her.

"Mother!” interrupted George, "let me tell you the story. Right here among the morning-glory vines,under the window. This is your birthday, mother. You’re 70 years old to-day. And here are the deeds of the Old home in my pocket—Susy’s present to you, mother. It’s Susy that lias bought this place and fitted it up just as we thought you would like. And here you are to live like a queen in your palace to the end of your days.”

"I never thought o’ that,” said she. "It ain’t a dream, is it? But I—I won’t live here, Susy, unless jjpu and George will come here and live too.”

Susy shook her sunshiny head."George must be near Farley’s

mills,” said she. “But we’ll come and spend Sunday with you, mother, if you’ll let us?”

"If I’ll let yourTrembling all over, Mrs. Klsbee

opened the door and came out into the sweet spring air and sunshine.

"Won’t you kiss mo, Susy?” said she. "I've been awful uncharitable in my thoughts of you, but I’m willin’ to take ’em all back now. If I’d only knowed you loved mornin’-glories as well as I did, I’d have felt different"

“Susy,” said George, as they drove home together, “are you satisfied with your investment?”

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Thursday, April 27, 1893.THE COUNTY.

OVID.From the RegUter-UnlOD.

Horn, to Mr. and Mrs. John McCreery, of South Ovid, on Sunday, April ltith, a girl.

Chas. Farmer has bought and shipped 4,000 pounds of wool at this place this season, and will ship a car load at Howell this week Friday, and also one at Fenton next Tuesday.

The Michigan Produce Co. bought the first load of wool in Ovid this season on Thursday, April 0, which is certainly quite early. The load contained about 1,000 pounds. The price being paid for Unwashed wool is from 12 to 17 cents, according to quality.

Corilnna Independent: “Benjamin Hunger attended a mass meeting at Ovid last fall and when lie came home the train did not go any further than Owosso ami he had to walk to Corunna. He sued the D. & M. for damages and got ?2-3 in Judge Knight’s court Friday.

LEBANON.Lebanon, April 25, 1893.

C. C. AnlhoDy is having his liouso plastered.Win. Pinkney has built an addition to his house.Mr. aud Mis. Frank AbUoit wtro in Lebanon

last week.Her. Mr. Tortei field, tbo U. B. minister that has

been located at Matbcrton, haa moved to Tuscolacounty.

The Mr. Chittenden who came from New York last summer aud located on the island, has left his family on“stouj ridge” and returned to N. Y.

Wesley Reynolds Is head cook for the men at Rogers A Raners saw mill. He is quite famous in that line. Any youug lady wishing a house keeper will fiud it to her interests to consult Wesley.

Charles Howard and Ada Leetch were married Tuesday, April 25. Charles and hla father have been ‘'batching” it for some time, and a female will be a welcome addition to their household. We wish them a life of prosperity aud happiness.

J.S.

NORTH WATERTOWN.

North Watertown, April 24, 1893.Hugo Gross is attending court at St. Johns this

week.Miss Grace Howe is teaching In the Klnypld

district, Riley.Prof. John R. Grinold, of Piltrheld, Illinois, is

visiting his parents here.Vander Dlcklnsop, of Marlon, Ocecla county, is

visiting his relatives here.Sowing oats goes rather slow here. Theodore

Rich sowed eleven acres before the rain.August Pate had quite a lively runaway last week

on his farm, breaking up his harness considerably.Miss Jennie Taylor and her mother, Mrs. Lacy

Taylor, of Clio, Genessee county, are visiting here.Rev. D. Wbitely and wife, of Orion, Oakland

county, have been visiting at their daughters, Mrs. Ella Rich.

Sunday school was organized at the Clark school house three weeks ago last Sunday with the following officers elected : Superintendent, Noble Lee; assistant, Mrs. Ella Rich; secretary, Miss Addle Croukrite; treasurer, Miss Ida Parks; organist, Mrs. Ella Rich; librarian, Frankie Kinney; asa’i. organist, Frankie Kinney.

O L I V E.Olive, April 22, 1893.

.1. II. Brink goes to St. Johns as a junior this week.

Mrs. Bedell, mother of E. II. Bedell, went to Bay City last week.

Mr. and Mrs. W. 8. Pills visited friends at Grand Ledge last Sunday.

E. II. Bedell Is recovering from an attack of inflammation of the lungs.

Joseph Vallette, of Saginaw, is visiting Mr. and Mrs. Charles Rockwell.

Miss Inez Reed will teach the . spring term of school at Olive centre.

Frank Dunlap nDd Leslie Farrier went to North Dakota a short time ago.

Mrs. Reubin Brink fell and injured herself quite severely a short time ago.

Will Phillips has moved from St. Johns and Is living on the H. A. Simmons farm.

Mrs. Dey VanFleet and Mrs. 8. A. Pearce weie on the sick list last week, but are getting better.

J. T. Oberry has purchased George Field’s feed barn in LansiDg, and will take possession of the same soon.

Will White and George Green, of Battle Creek ; Miss Hattie White, of Lansing, aud Miss Ada Van- Wert, of Fenton, were guests of the Misses Altle and Josie Pearce last Sunday.

BENGAL-Bengal, April 22, 1893.

Mrs. Jesse Everts is a little better.Charles Rowell is on the sick list.Mrs. John Brown la numbered among tho sick

ones.Ora Travis Is home from Ypsilanti for a week’s

vacation.The barn of Mr. Ernst was raised yesterday not

withstanding the severe weather.Our supervisor, John Brown, Is busy taking the

Inventory of property in the town.Albert Harper returned Tuesday from the Battle

Creek Sanitarium, having received no encouragement of an ultimate recovery.

Mr. and Mrs. Luther Jones, of Carson City, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Plowman Wednesday, also her sister, Mrs. Wm. Fossett, of Olive, who are sisters of Mr. Plowman.

Eddie Plowman, who has been suffering fora long time with Inflammatory rheumetlam, la some better, but still unable to leave the house, so could not attend the birthday anniversary at the home of his parents.

About forty relatives and friend* met at the homo or Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Plowman Wednesday, April 19th, It being Mr. P.owman’s sixty-eighth birthday, and also to celebrate the sixty-first birthday of Mrs. Plowman, which occurs two week’s later. The surprise was complete. Six tons and three daughter were present, one eon and two daughters being absent. The company left two handsome willow rockers as a token of friendship.

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Mrs. Chas. Root, Cedar Springs, was told by physicians that they could do nothing for her. 8be tried Wheeler’s Heart and Nerve Cure, and after taking two bottles she was able to do her own work and ride to town to do her shopping.

Dl'FLAIK, April 28, 1893.Not much new i from Puplain this week. It has

been too ktoruiy.N. W. Brans tilled Rev. K. P. Sprague's pulpit Isst

Suuday evening. Rev .Sprague is quite sick.Lewis McCullough, Lemuel Holbrook, Frano Nor-

gate, Miuule Hall aud Eva Beurman returned to Y'psilauti Monday morning.

Epworlh league next Sunday morning at 11 o’clock. Don’t forget It. Subject, “My Responsibility for my Weak Brother.” Leader, Lewis Chapman.

The young people of this place made Rev. W. E. Wheeler a pleasant surprise on Thursday evening of last week. He experts to leave here soon.

While at work raising Wm. Pizzell’s barn on Saturday, April 22, a stick of timber ten Inches square and sixteen feet long fell from a height of seven reel, striking Morrice Squires and fracturing his limb at tbe ankle joint. Dr. A. B. Way, of Elsie, reduced tho fracture and It is doing well as can be expected. Kd. Butterfield was on the stick at the time, but was not hurt any to speak of.

PA’S BOY.----- ----■ ----------- - --BATH.

Bath, April 25, 1893.Herbert Tooker returned to the Slate Normal

Monday.Alton Phelps is wielding the birch In Diet. No. 1.ltev. Mr. Dunning tilled the pulpit at the Baptist

church Sunday evening.Mrs. Waller Hall, who was reported better last

week, has been much worse since and is now slightly Improving.

Couqueat meeting of H. Y. P. U. next Sunday morning. Topic : ‘ Africa for Christ.” Everybody is invited to attend.

The sociablo which was to have been held at C. J. Chapman’s Friday e-ening, was postponed until Tuesday evening this week.

Teachers’ association at Bath next Saturday. We believe all patrons of schools who are able

.should come out and hear tbe papers and participate in the discussions.

Mervin Webster, whose team ran away as reported last week, was not so badly injured as stated. At least he was able to come to town that same evening to get his harness repaired and also plowed next day.

FOWLER.Fowler, April 25, 1893.

M. A. Harper is convalescing.Mr. Love, of Ported, was in town Sunday.Sydney Parks lost a new iniicbs cow last week.Fair prospects of a bran new grocery store in

town.Mrs. C. Spearbraker, of Waconsta, was in town

Monday.Mr. Winston, of St. Johns, visited our school

Monday.John G. Patterson and wife attended his mother’s

fuDeral In Riley Sunday.Mr. aud Mrs. Gorsuch, of Coruona, visited friends

here Friday and Saturday of last week.Chas. Doering purchased of Mr. Heller the village

property formerly owned by Chas. Miller.Rev. Hickey, presiding elder of the M. E. church,

will hold services at the M. E. church next Sunday at 2:30 p. m.

Epworth league Sunday evening at 7 o’clock. Subject, "My Responsibility for my Weak Brother.” I-eader, Mrs. Webster. •

As Mr. Keeney was called to St. Johns on business the fore part of the week, there was no school in his department during his absence.

Mrs. Delia Mahar was summoned to her father’s home last week as her mother was threatened with typhoid fever. She is now improving slowly.

Sydney Parks and family desire to express their gratitude for the kindness of their friends and neighbors in their assistance in tho sickness and burial of tbeir nephew, Ernest Parks. Also those who furnished flowers at the church, and the choir.

Notwithstanding bad roads and weather Fridny evening the calico hop at (idler's Hall was a success. Miss Emma Mnukey secured tbe prize of a lovely basket of choice flowers for the nicest calico dress. Mrs. Dan Sturgis held tbe lucky number that drew the silk quilt.

mJPLAIN.Dcplain, April 25, 1893.

Very discouraging weather. •Miss Agnes Warren spent Sunday with Miss

Case, of Ovid.Lein. Holbrook and Eva Buerman have returned

to tbeir school at Ypsilanti.Mrs. liter, of Bay City, is visiting her father and

sisters, Lily and Lu Cooper.Miss Harriet Vreeland will give an entertain

ment at Disciple church Saturday evening, for tbe benefit of the Y. P. 8. C. E. Miss Vreeland comes highly recommended as a select reader and in presenting character sketches. We hope the people will show their appreciation of her kindness In comlDg here by giving her a lull house.

We regret to hear that Rev. Frederick Craver, of St. Louie, formerly of this place, is fast auccumblng to that dread disease, consumption. Although the family have many kind and sympathizing friends, the case it an especially sad ODe, for a wife and six children are dependent for their eupport on the aalary he receives as mlalster of tbe gospel In the Free Methodist church. But He who careth even for the sparrows will surely care for this family of little ones.

RILEY.Riley. April 25, 1893.

Will Odirg was home from Dalwin the first of tbe month for a abort vacation.

Mrs. Anna Pratt is spending a few days this week in St. Johns.

Mis* Minnie Odlng commenced her eprlng term oi school at Bougbton school house Monday, the 24th.

Mies Orpba Dane and Mr. Orel Hildreth were married at the Congregational parsonage in St* Johns.

Mrs. John Patterson, of Bengal, died last Friday, of neuralgia of the stomach, aged about 70 years. She follows her husband, who passed to the greaLj beyond four years previous. The funeral was held at the Boughton school house Sunday, Rev. C. G. Thomas officiating. The remains were interred In Bougbton cemetery. She leaves a great many relatives and friend* to mourn her loss. •

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OUR NEW STOREIs ready for your inspection.

In low Shoes See ThoseBootees,Bluchers,Southern Ties, Oxfords,Orze Tops,Opera Slippers, Pumps.

In ladies' Fine Shoes See theHand Turns,Hand Welts,Machine Sewod in Button,Lace,Blucher,And all the other New Styles.

We have positively the Largest Stock in Clinton County and it is growing every day.

DUTCHER’S CASH SHOE HOUSE.Corbit & Valenitine—Hardware.

Why not buy the Oliver Plow and save 30 per cent, in Repairs. The best General Purpose Plow made.

We are agents for the Walter A. Wood and Deer- ing Machines.

We have just received a large stock of Wire and Nails of all kinds.

FOB THE FINEST ARTISTIC PAPER HANGINGS"^

Best Paper Hangers Delivered Anywhere In the County.

In all Grades we can please /ou. We are still selling the Latest Patterns in White Back Paper at ioc per Double Roll. Fine Grades of Gilt Paper from ioc per Double Roll up.

Special line of Fine Colors in Inside Paints containing Varnish. All the latest shades in Outside Paints. Best Grade $1.25 per Gallon. Plastico in all Colors and White.

Yours Truly,

TRAVIS & BAKER,Corner Drug Store.

Rochester Clothing Company.

A FEW ILLUSTRATIONS IN PRICES!

We are.enabled, through our superior faciliiies, to offer the people of St. Johns and vicinity the best goods at lowest prices.

Best Business suits in St. Johns for $4 $5, $6, $7 and upwards. Working Pants, cut for comfort and warranted not to rip, $1 and upwards at

No. 17Clinton Ave.

ST. JOHNS, MICH.

St. Johns Mercantile Company.

SPECIAL SALE-OF-

LACE CURT AINS

LADIES, we have prepared some extra bargains for you. A recent purchase of about 200 Pairs of Lace Curtains gives ua some genuine good things.

25 Pairs, 3 yds long, taped and bound, only 65c,Actual value, $1.00

25 Pairs, 3 yds long, taped and bound, only $1.00,Actual value, $1.50

25 Pairs, 3y2 yds long, taped and bound, only $1.50,Actual value, $2.00

25 Pairs, 2,% yds long, taped and bound, only f 1.75,Actual value, $2.50

25 Pairs, 2,]/2 yds long, taped and bound only $2.50,Actual value, $4.00

CORBIT & VALENTINE. ST. JOHNS MERCANTILE COMPANY.

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