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VOLUME XIX. LOWELL, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, ISH.!. NUMBER 9

LOWELL .lOUUNAl JAS. W. IIINE PUBLISHER.

* EDITORIAL COMMENT.

—WillJosiuh W. Bcgole pleoso ex-plain the differenco betweenn 1.000mile complimentary ticket and a free pasitf In his speech of acceptance liofore the Greenback state convention he WIIH IN favor of the enactment of <i law that would make the mere olfer of a free pas* to a state ofllcial a crime *o bo punislied with severe penalties. Most of Michi-gan people regard a 1.000-mile compli-mentary ticket the same as a free pass. If there is any difference they would be

fileased to have Governor Begole show t.—Lansing Republican, •

As the absence of Gov. Begole pre-vents an immediate reply from him to the above, the JOURNAL, lu its modest way, will assume to frame an answer. The difference, dear sir, between a 1,000-mile complimentary ticket and a free pass is quite marked, wo nssare you, quite marked. A 1,000-milo compli-mentary ticket, you see, is just like any other 1,000-mile ticket. There is nothing on its face, back, end or side to show that it is a complimentary ticket. People who ride on 1,000-mile tickets are supposed to have paid for them at the rate of two cents per mile, we be-lieve. When the Governor boards a train he exhumes his 1,000 mile ticket, holds it where all the passengers can sec i t until the conductor comcs along and tears out the required number of miles, and then our beloved Josiah, your meek and lowly principal servant, whose party died that he might live, deposits the little book iu the belly of I h fat wallet and settles back in his seat, fondly hugging the thought that every man, woman and child in the car would bo willing to testify under oath that he pays his fare like other folks. But you wanted to know the differenco between this kind of a ticket and a free pass. Well, sir, if the Governor should accept a free pass every passenger in the car

• would see it and know it. A free pass tells you upon its face that it is a free pass and it didn't cost the holder a cent. The Governor couldn't flourish a free pass in the face of his speech of accept-ance and memorable message, you know, without giving himself dead away to the travailing public. Great Jewhizl No, Sir! What kind of a man do you think J . Begole is, anyway? Think ho bunts ducks with a brass band? Think he goes around all over the state on fr(>c l,000-mil3 tickets and tells folks they didn't cost him a red? Not very much. How could he get in his reform work, we'd like to know, if ho should bugle it ail over creation that ho was a gay old deceiver and that his mcssago his secre-tary wrote was merely a "cod" on the people? You don't seem to be acquaint-ed with our principal servant. Ho is death on free itasses, he is. He can get just as much free ride and a heap more fun out of 1,000-raile complimentary tickets, and he is doing it now. Ain't he a daisy, though? We say ain't ho ?

—The trade dollar must go. I t in a big, honest open-faced dollar, but it must go. The only silver dollar you can pass now is the 85-cent buzzard dollar. Witli every such dollar we get 13 cents worth of lie direct from the Govern-ment. The Treasury stores up an ad-ditional coinage each month of 2,000,000 buzzard dollars. They are not needed for commercial use and are piled up by the cord in the treasury vaults. If they were honest, 100 cent dollars like the poor, despised trade dollar they would be worth more—just about 15 cents more per dollar. The Government puts •'In God We Trust" on every buzzard dollar but that's too thin. The Govern-ment never had God's consent to put that inscription on an adulterated article of any kind. It is an impious inscrip-tion, By and by when everything finds its level again the buzzard dollar will be a sick rooster. It will take mure than 15 cents worth of faith to keep it up and around. Years hence it will no doubt be called the "dollar of our dads" but you can bet the ' dads'' will oe mad every time they throw it up to them. What encouragement is there for a man to " turn an honest penny" so long as the Goyemment refuses to turn an hon-est dollar? So long as $50 worth of bul-lion is worth nearly sixty buzzard dol-lars we think the inscription—"In God We Trust"—had better be p t on the

bullion.

—The great strike of the telegraphic brotherhood is ended and Chief tlamp-bell has ordered that the strikers are at liberty to return to their posts if they can get there. Hundreds of them have returned and been reinstated while many have returned to be rejected. The strike was a failure and proved a sad one to the strikers. Public sympathy was with them and yet had the strike succeeded the precedent would have been a dangerous one. Popular indig-nation at the heartlessness of certain corporations will rise higher than ever, however, unless such corporations show more soul hereafter.

—Mayor Harrison says that he is not a candidate for Governor of Illinois. If Carter Harrison ever gets to be Govern-o r of Illinois, hell can be more definitely located after his election than before.

—Stonewall Jackson's war horse, the same he was riding when he received liis death wound, has been sent to the Virginia Military Institute to be cared for the balance of his days.

—A HonHible editorial appeared In Friday's Post and Tribune on the sub-ject of "Children in Michigan factories." The P. and T. gives good reasons why children, under 15 years of ago at least, should not be employed in our factories and asks for legislation prohibiting the employment of children under that age. I t is safe to say that a large per cent of the youth so employed arrive at man-hood physically crippled or deformed, and mentally dwarfed.

—President Arthur and others of his party drank loo much water pumped from the alkaline wells of the west and wore doubled up with cholera morbus. When will men learn that water was made to wash wagons with? Milk Is the proper beverage-pure Jersey milk. I t is that that tickles the fastidious stom-ach and makes men fat and healthy.

—A Chicago paper says that a hotel man a t Long Branch "committed sui-cide because he found his bar-tender using lemons to make lemonade with." No use of trying to convict the bar-tend-er of murder, we suppose. He'd get clear on a plea of Insanity.

—Dispatshes say there was a great depression In stocks Monday and that the Villard and Gould stocks suffered severely. The Gould stocks generally "suffer severely" just about the t ime Gould Is gejtlng ready to warp it to somebody.

—Parnell, In the House of Commons, recently said that unless the deflciences In the land act were speedily remedied ho would load a deeper and more des-perate agitation than any that had yet been seen. Parnell loses none of his sand.

—Proctor Knott is Governor of Ken-tucky by a little less than 50,000 major-ity, He ran against Blaine once In congress and got left by over 1,000,000 majority.

—Another eminent scholar and states-man gone. Judge Jeremiah S. Black, of Pennsylvania, died at 2 o'clock hist Sunday morning, in the 74th year of his age.

—It Is commonly supposed that the earth Is a liquid center surrounded by a crust a few miles thick; and from this idea has come the cream cake.

—Should tho telegraph striuers ever succeed, the Western Union might put some politicians in their places. They are skilled wire pullers.

Gov. Begole Is not even mentlom d as a candidate for renouiinatlon. t h e pardoned convicts haven't started the boom yet.

—A Kentucky lady has hair over two yards long. What a success she would be JUS cook In some third class hotel.

JOURNAL JOTTINGS.

Mrs. John Maynard is very ill.

Miss Minnie Peck is visiting friends at Lansing.

Old papers. -10 cents per hundred, at t h e J O U R N A L o f l i c e .

Dr. J. Urton Edle, of Grand Raplds>

was in Lowell Friday.

Ben West keeps the Bank books dur-ing Sunderl In's absence.

Mr. & Mrs. I. Z. Mason, of Adrian, are visiting at T. W. M-son's.

Miss "Sado" Sinclair, of Jonesville, was at M. M. Perry's yesterday.

John Giles" grocery Is now connected by telephone with tho main line.

Capt. E. W. Avery is in Dakota visit-ing his daughter, Mrs. Cummlngs.

A new library catalogue for School Dlst. No. 1 will be out this week.

Grand Rapids wool buyers purchased 1,285,000 lbs. of wool Ibis season.

Grand Rapids has a Peek-a-boo club. The girls "peek" and the boys "IMX}."

The Juvenile Temperance Society's infalr at Music Hall was a fine success.

Frank Brown, of Grund Rapids, spent Sunday at the residence of Dr. Mc Dannell,

We are Informed that Mr. Charles Broad soon Intends to move to Owosso to reside.

The Interior of tho Lowell National bank has been handsomely papered and decorated.

Dr. A, B. Grant recently received a visit fiom his brother. Major Grant, of Tennessee.

Mrs. IlObt. Marshall returned Monday from « Visit with friends at Kent City and Spi i ta .

The'JpuRNAL is indebted tbMr. J , Q. Van Valkenburg for a basket of wttel-lent peaches, * \

Mrs. Buddington a f f l Miss Lottie Lacy, of Grand Rapids, are visiting a t Dr, Arvlt»e Peck'ji.

A, G, Ball, of Uoodheart, was in town last week. Will Avery returned with him to his home.

Another game of l»all between tho Lowell and So. Boston clubs here to-morrow afternoon.

*Tbe Rathbun House property. Grand Rapids, has been sold to Win. Widdl-comb, for $87,000.

I t cost Kent County |U41.04 to main-tain its poor Insane a t tho Kalamazoo asylum last quarter.

Mr. & Mrs. Win. Harris of Caledonia celebrated their 60th wedding anniver-sary on the 11th inst.

The Lake City Journal, Ren. Barker, editor and proprietor, has been enlarged and materially improved.

Arvlno Hunter returned from Dakota last week, having had a pleasant visit with western friends.

Mrs, Sam'l Taylor is hostess a t the Commercial Hotel, this house having recently been reopened.

Luke Phlpps, of Detroit, shotand kill-ed his wife on a ferry boat Monday night. Domestic Inharmony.

The residence of Mr, E, J , Booth In this village has received material Inter-nal and external Improvements.

The death of Mrs. Alanson Calkins produces a feeling of deep sorrow among her many friends In this vicinity.

Senator Ferry Is In Switzerland and his health is greatly Improved. Ho will probably return home sometime tills fall.

Miss Carrie Stiff and sister Winnie returned last week from an extended visit among friends in tho eastern part of tho state.

The W, C. T. U. will meet at the Baptist church Friday at 3:80 p. m. sharp. An intorestlng programme will be carried out.

Complaints come from all parts of the county that corn and potatoes are a fail-ing crop this season. We fear we shall have to come down to pie yet.

Prof, and Mrs, W, E. Ransom visited Lowell friends last week. Prof. R. has been engaged as principal of tho Stan-ton Union School for the coming school year.

A big straw stack very close to Wm. Murphy's barn took firo and had it not l>een cared for by wise heads and lively hands considerable property would have been lost.

Found—On Saturday, Aug. 18, near Miller's corners, a pocket book contain-ing money. The owner can have the same by proving property and paying c h a r g e s . L . P , M C L E A N .

During our prolonged absence from home many subscriptions became past due. Prompt attention on the part of subscribers In arrears will greatly oblige the publisher.

Tho undersigned desire to e x p n s s their sincere thanks to their friends for kind aid rendered and attentions shown during the illness and after the death of their late father.

M R . AND M R S . W . S . B A R N E S .

Mrs. E, A. Sunderlin of Lowell is vis-iting a t Mrs. A. Kemp's this week. Mr. S, Is taking in the Knight's Templar conclave at San Francisco.—.//HW«mZ-ston Advertiser,

The Freeport club failed to meet the, Lowell "Greys" here last week and a picked nine from this village played with the Greys, the latter winning by 15 to 18 m eight Innings,

A fire occurred at Mlddlevllle Thurs-day night, destroying three buildings. Loss al>out $4,500; Insurance $2,100. The losers are J . W. Ijoucks. B. A. Al-mv, Mrs. S. H. Hendrlck and Mr. Cald-well.

Tho premium list for the Union agri-cultural and horticultural society fair has just been issued and its pages show liberal inducements to exhibitors. The fair will be held a t Cedar Springs, Oct. 2, 8, 4 and 5.

"Col." Sellers, of the Cedar Springs Clipper, Is bound to recoup the losses he experienced by going to the legisla-ture, and lias just sent out over 500 dun-ning letters to delinquent subscribers and other creditors.

Challenge—The Dardenelle nine of Grand Rapids hereby - challenge the Alerts of Lowell to play a game of base ball. The game to take place one week from next Friday. Address Mike Mc Gee, manager, Grand Rapids, Mich.

Rev, and Mrs. Van Wagner, of Sedal-la. Mo., are In town visiting the parents of the former. The young Sedalia preacher, who was so well I'ked here a year ago. Is expected to occupy the Congregational pulpit next Sunday.

The state agricultural college has is-sued its annual catalogue of forty-five pages, showing Itself to be in a prosper-ous condition and outlining the courses of study. The colleeo has a faculty of eighteen ofheera a n d teachers and 181

pupils.

The lawyers and stenographers of Grand Rapids played a game of ball Monday and e i t i tement ran higher than the eleclrio lower, The lawyers down-ed the KenepKaphto—17 to 11—and as JudgeCharopUtf mnpirad the game the ca8« will not be "carried up,"

weak the editor of tho JOURNAL expects to attend the meeting of the Western Michigan Press Association at

. Reed City and Cheboygan, and. will nec-•3j i»arUy be absent all of the treek after

Monday. News items will be gra|afully received by the boys in the office.

The horny-flsted agriculturalist who piles up the state items for the Evening News, went down to the terry the other day to hear the band play and when ho came back he said: "The wheat crop of Bronson turns out • e l l , some pieces going as high as 40 bushels to the acre.''

Last week Henry Stevens and David Barton, farmers living in Paris town-ship, quarreled about a hog, and the quarrel led to a fight. Barton was sub-sequently arrested and brought l)efore Justice Westfall, where he paid $16, Stevens was then anested for trespass, and paid $10 and costs, Tho hog still lives,—O, R. Post.

The Mr.

The Lowell Baptist Sabbath School de-sire to tender thanks to the Lowell Cor-net Band for the music furnished by them at the picnic Wednesday last, also to the Bank for the free use of tho grounds, and to King. Quick and King for lumber kindly loaned for tables, seats &c. L, B, S, S.

The members of tho Juvenile Temper-ance Society wish to extend their sin-cere thanks to all who attended and as-sisted at their enterfalnment on Friday evening and especially to Mr, Walker a id Mlsa Owen for (heir help in prepar ing for it. Signed hy Mrs. Belle Barber. Pres., and Miss Myrtle Trumble, See,

Died—In this village on Friday, Aug, 17, MR, IRA BARNES, f a t h e r of W , S.

Barnes, Deceased came from New York state last spring to live with his son here. He was In tho 82d year of his age death being not tho result of any dis-covered disease, but of old age, funeral occurred on Sunday, Rev. Rork, officiating.

Tho work of bringing back tho logs from Grand Haven will be begun next week. Secretary Letelllor of the boom-ing company says that he does not think that the railroad company will be able to transport all of the logs here this sea-son, and that those that remain at Grand Haven will probably be sawed there on cont rac t , -O. R. Democrat.

Tho house formerly known as the Walker House, at Lowell, will hereafter be known as the Lowell House, with Mr. A. Hodges as proprietor. Mrs. Young, now Mrs. Hodges, who formerly run the hotel is a lady widely known and Is a popular landlady, Mr, Hodges Is an old and well known hotel man, having kept the first hotel at Ada In 1888,—^/, R. Times.

Tuesday's Democrat says the old firm of Curtlss & Dunton was dissolved Mon-day by the retirement of Mr, L, G, Dun-ton from tho business Mr, George B, Dunton and Mr. E. F . Harrington, of the Eagle, now each ywn a quarter in-terest and Mr, J . L. Curtlss ono-haif. The new firm will be Curtlss, Dunton & Co,, and tho wholesale pa|)er and oil business will bo continued as In the past.

The Keene correspondent of the Sar-anac Local "speaks out In meetin '" in this wise: Those wiseacres who have had so much to say about the largo wheat crop this year, can now retire with Wiggins until next year. Taking the wrecks by sen, the railroad disasters, tho cyclones, the floods, the disasters by firo, disease and famine, and tho year 1888 has no parallel in the history of this country.

Mr. J. B, Davis, of Ann Arbor, a prac-tical bridge engineer, was In Lowell Fri-day, having been engaged by Commit sloner Cahoon by order of the town l>oard, to prepare plans and specifica-tions for the construction of two abut-

ments and a center pier for the new bridge across Grand River. It is pro-posed to have the work scientifically ner-formod and there Is a heap of good sense In the proposition.

Mr. P. Sneathen, late of Lowell, Kent county. Is building a dock on Pine Like to accommodate his business, hav-ing already driven over 200 plies. He has altogether some five hundred acres of choice land In Hays, and will encage extensively In the wood, bark and hard-wood lumber trade. He evidently in-tends to employ his means to the best advantage and to the the fullest devel-opment of tho resouices of that locality, —[Charlevoix Journal,

Several races will occur on Train's track in this village next Saturday after-

noon (25th) beginning at 5 o'clock. The first will be running—i mile dash—purse $25, The second-running—i mile heats—2 In 3. Purse $00; $.'i0 to first,

$80 to second, $10 to third. The third will be a trotting race, and a purse of $75 given to the horse making one mile nearest to four minutes. Entrance fee ten per cent of purses. As there are many horse enthusiasts hereabouts these races will no doubt be witnessed by a large crowd of people.

Thursday afternoon Mrs. Thomas Pitts, an Insane woman, who was being taken from Petoskey to Kalamnzoo, jumped from a G, R, & I . train near Morley while it was running at the rate of forty miles an hour. The train was halted, the woman picked up and placed In tho chair car. President Hughart was on the train, and to avoid the necessity of her being moved, he kindly sent the chair car through to Kalamazoo, In leapirift from the train she struck on her head and shoulders In the sand. When she left (bis city It was Impossible to tell how badly she was hurt,—f/, R. I'ust.

The regular meeting of the Kent Co, lodge of Good Templars was held Thurs-day with County Line lodge No. 839, at the Barker school house six miles south of Grand Rapids. There were seven lodges represented by 68 delegates from Rockford, Sparta. Nelson. Grandville, County Line and two Grand Rapids lodges. At the afternoon secret session the secretary reported that there were 448 members In the county, that 58 had lieen Initiated during the last quarter, and that during tho same time there had been an increase in membership of 88 over tlie preceding quarter. It was decided to hold the next session at Grandville on the third Thursday In November next, and to have a picnic at Reed's Lake Aug, 80, to which a» gener-al invitation was given.

Program of L, L, C. to be held at the residence of Mrs, M. N, Hlne. Aug. 81st: Essay on dress, Mrs, Eaton; an article from Mrs, Wooding, description of Mona Lake and its surroundings; the Budget to bo read by Mrs. F, B. Illne; each lady expected to contribute something original or otherwise. The subject of woman's sufTrage to bo discussed by the ladles of the club, Reading by Mrs. Stark,

E, 15. Fisher, city editor of the Grand Kaplds Eagle, during editor Baxter's absence, has had charge of both edito-rial and local de]uirtments of that paper and has done a surprisingly large amount of excellent work, too. Fisher is one of|lho most rapid and versatilo writers on the Michigan press. Last winter, while at Lansing, his let ters to tho Eagle were conspicuous for accuracy and completeness and were always eag-erly read by the legislators.

Complaints arc numerous on account of the Interment of tho remains of a de-ceased horse on the commons north of Hudson street. Dead horses should not be burled there by any means. The ground is high and the drainage may possibly connect with u few wells in that vicinity. The remains of beasts should he hurird deep, in low ground, where no harm can come from drainage. Mr, Fox, who owns the land where the horse was burled, earnestly protests and forbids any further interments there or thereabouts.

The following persons are now confin-ed m the Kalamazoo Insane asylum at the expense of the county: Charles Barclay, Mary DeVree, Isaac Detweller, Joseph Diamond, MalvmaM, Fitch,,Vir-gil Hayes, Peter Hughes, John Haynes, John F. Louder, Philip E. Landis, Ar -chibald McLachlln, Desdemon M, Ches-ney. Anno McDonald, Domlnlck Malon-ey, George Swan, Adrlenna T, Schutz, Alice Wyma, Charles B. Whitcomb, Jas, Weauer and Kate M, Lewis. Of these It Is expected that Messrs, Barclay, Lan-dis, Louder and McLachlln will becared for by fr-lendii hereafter. The total cost for maintaining these persons for the past quarter has been $911.0-1,

The following patents were granted to citizens of Michigan, bearing date Aug, 14th, 1883, and reported expressly for the JouiiNAJ.by Louis..Bagger & Co., solicitor of patents, Washington, D, C:

BoUford , A, R . , Clrand ItnpidK, a n a l Hpuculuin. C a r p o n t ^ r . J e s s e , Wj-muii . c t n t h o o k .

C'rispln, T h o m a s , Dot ro l l , b e n d i e l a m p . E l w d l , Win . 1). Romoo. lid f o r pot*, kellk-ii.ete.

Uivon, 8. T . & L. M. I lua ld , Char lo t t e , plow. Howard , c , A. Poi i t iac , bo ta te r s p r i n g fo r vc-

hiclen.

Keith, 11. M. Comineree , eonib incd c o m plant or a n d m a r k e r ,

O 'Ha r ro , O. \V, K a f a m a i o o , r h e o s t a t . Parslmll , C. I I , J r . . Detroi t , l u b r i c a t o r . Shaw, .1. R . E l n i . c h e c k - r c i u h o o k . Walsh, R i cha rd , Detroi t , w a t e r c loset . Wi lson , C, K. Detroit , s ide s p r i n g .

The reports show that there are m Michigan 1.527 postofllces of all classes, which is an Increase during the fiscal year of 48 offices. During the past nine years there has been an Increase of offices in the State in the number of 825, The Presidential offices of the State reach the number of 107. There are five offices of the first class: Detroit, Grand Rapids, Jackson, East Saginaw and Kalamazoo,

In order to give a place the benefit of the free delivery serv e It must have 20,000 Inhabitants, There are seven cities in Michigan supplied with letter carriers: Detroit, Bay City, East Sagi-naw, Grand Rapids, Jackson, Kalama-zoo and Lansing, This Is an Increase of four in tho Michigan free delivery cities during the fiscal year just closed. The places are: Bay City, East Sagi-naw, Kalamazoo and Lansing.

Har(ter's Magazine for September Is an exceedingly attractive number, v a r -ied in Its contents anil richly Illustrated. One of the most timely of Its articles Is that on "Recent Building in New York," illustrated by eight characteristic pic-tures, Frank D, Mlllett contributes the first of two articles on Dalecarlla, Swe-den, full of faint description, and beau-tifully Illustrated. Mrs. Lucy Llllle writes, In her most charming style, of the Catskills. Her article is finely Illus-trated, Under title of "Haunts of ' the Swamp Fox," ' P, D. Hay gives some very novel and Interesting information concerning Francis Marion, the Revolu-tionary hero of South Carolina, with Illustrations, Paul Potter, the old Dutch master. Is the subject of a brief iwper by E, Mason, with three illustra-tions, including a picture of the famous bull. Rose Hawthorne Lathrop contrib-utes the first of two parts of a story en-titled "Prisoners!" Illustrated by Abbey. The frontispiece is an engraving by R. lloskin from one of the drawings by Dore for Poe's "RHVCH," Tlie fifth part of "A Castle in Spain" Is given, with five illustrations. General J, F, B, Marshall tells the story of his part in keeping the English out of Hawaii In 1848. Ex-Mayor (Jrace continues a timely article on "Municipal Govern-ment m the State of New York,' The Rev. John B, Thompson traces, in a very interesting paper, the origin of the Rip Van Winkle legend. Mrs, Rebecca Harding Davis contributes an admirable story entitled "A Sllhoutte," Tho edit-orial departments are full of timely and interesting mutter. The Editor's Draw-er, conducted by Charles Dudley War-ner, Is especially entertaining.

Tlie Random Reporter of the Grand Rapids Times picks up a good many in-teresting Items and here Is one of a po-

litical nature: He says: "A local politician, who is a close reader and a shrewd observer of events, was asked yesterday to name the leading Repub-lican "possibilities" for the presidential race. Ho placed tho list as follows, the favorites being named first: Blaine, Arthur, Edmunds, Grant, John Sher-man , Logan, Lincoln, Harrison, Gca, Sherman, Gresham, Falrchlld, Hawley

Cornell, Allison, Judge Miller,Sheridan, Folger and Windom, Of tho Demo-cratic aspirants ho gave the following: Tllden, McDonald, Bayard, Hancock, Butler, Thurman, Cleveland, Randall, Flower, Hoadly, Morrison, Eaton, Par-ker, Hewitt, Hendricks, Jewett, Palm-er and English."

Tho entertainment given under tho auspices of tho Young Ladies N, S. at Train's Hall, Monday evening, was a very pleasant affair, Tho program con-sisted of readings by Mlsa Laura B, Carr and vocal and Instrumental music by home talent. Miss Carr makes a very pleasing and graceful appearance on tho rostrum and is a fine reader. That the music was excellent It is only necessajy to mention the names of those who fur-nished it, viz: Mrs, Strong, Misu Libble VanWagner, Miss Anna Hunter, Messrs. J . W. Crothers, A. W. Hlne ami D, Stocking. Mr, Geo. Powlison was a success as stage manager. At tho close of tlie program ice cream was served in the hall at "ten cents a dish or two dishes for twenty cents," There was a fine audience present and the Young Ladles N, S. received a nice net profit. They deserved It, The JOURNAL hopes they will try it again and often, and feels sure that the public will give their entertainments liberal patronage. Miss Carr, the elocutionist, comes very highly recommended and m y desiring to take lessons In the art will do well to secure her services,

Spccial Notice to Subscribers. Subscribers to whom the Journal Is

sent In single wrappers will please look a t the label this week and see If their suhsenptlons have not run out. We speak of this this week because next week wo shall discontinue sending the JOURAL to a large number of distant subscribers unless they send in their re-newals at once. After we have dispos-ed of tlje list sent in jingle wrappers we shall turn our attention to suhscrlptions nearer home; many papers sent In pack-ages to surrounding towns and distrib-uted through the post-office here will be discontinued unless paid In advance. Our list is not made up of delinquents and we cannot afford to make It so. If any present subscribers do not wish to take the JOURNAL any longer, they will please notify us and their names will be erased from the list. Of course we hope all will renew but whether they do or do not we expect to hear from them soon.

C h u r c h D i r e c t o r y ,

51. K. OuuRon—Corner Br idge a n d Division s t ree ts . Rev. J . S . V a l e n t i n e , p a s t o r . P reach-i n g e v e r y Habba th a t 10 :30a . m, a n d 7 p . m . Sab-bath School a f t e r m o r n i n g service. C lass meet -ing a f t e r mon i in t ' a n d e v e n i n g se rv ice . Child-ren ' s m e e t i n g . 3 o ' c lock S a b b a t h a f t e r n o o n , Vonnif P e o p l e s p r a y e r m e e t i n g T u e s d a y evening . Regu l a r p r a y e r m e e t i n g T h u r s d a y E v e n i n g .

CONORRUATIONAL Cnwucn—Corner H u d s o n a n d Spr ing S t r e e t . Rev . J . M. V a n W a g n e r , p a s U r . Habba th se rv ices a t 10:.'10 a . m . a n d i p . m . Sab-ba th school f r o m PS to I o ' c lock . P r a y e r m e e t i n g T h u r s d a v even ing a t 7. o ' c lock . Sea t s f r e e ,

CATIIOMC C'uuncn—Services a t 10:30 a , m . Nov. 'JO. Issi a n d on third S u n d a y of every a l t e r n a t e nionth t h e r e a f t e r . Also f i r s t T u e s d a y a f t e r t h e th i rd S u n d a y , every a l t e r n a t e m o n t h , a t 8:80 a . m.

UAITIST Cmmci i - C o r n e r Br idge & J a c k s o n s t r e e t s - Rev. C. Olddeld p a s t o r — P r e a c h i n g e v e r y Lords Day a t 10-30 a . m , a n d 7 p . m , S u n d a y School a f t e r m o r n i n g Sc r r l ce . R e g u l a r p r a y e r on T h u r s d a y even ing—Covenan t m e e t i n g on S a t u r d a y b e f o r e t h e f i rs t S u n d a y in e a c h m o n t h a t J i i . i n . P a s t o r ' s r e s idence one block n o r t h of M, E, C h u r c h

Detroit, GM Haven & Milwaukee R A I I i - W A Y

T H E O L D R E L I A B L E R O U T E TO A L L POINTS

EAST A N D WEST. Ill e f fec t J u l y 15, 188J.

T R A I N S L E A V E L O W E L L QOINQ

E A S T : I Det ro i t Express . • • 7 18 i l l S T h r o u g h Hall , - - I I SO A M 10 E v e n i n g E x p r c ' s , ; - . 4 45 p M I'- Limited Express . - 7 40 p H IS Mixed, 18 30 p M

OOINCJ W E S T : 3 Morning E x p r e s s 13 3 0 ? K, 5 T h r o u g h Mail, 4 45 PM 7 S t e a m b o a t E x p r e s s , • 9 55 p M 13 Milwaukee E x p r e s s , - • 3 30 A it, 17 Mixed 12 30 A M

r - f * T h r o u g h t i c k e t s t o al l p r inc ipa l p o i n t s E a s t

to G r a n d Rapids , No. l i , N i g h t | E x p r e s s , l ias T h r o u g h S leep

t o G r a n d Haven a n d loca l s leep Grand Rap ids to Dev.'oit,

F, O. T A F T T T A N D Y , Lowel l Agent . Gen . F t . & Pass . Ai t ' t . Det ro i t

Detroit, Mackinac Sz Marquette Rail Koad.

Pioneer East and West Julue

Actua l ly t h e s h o r t e s t l ine b y 241 miles be tween Detroit , S o u t h e r n Michigan a n d al l po in t s in t h * east a n d sou th -eas t a n d t h e g r e a t i ron a n d cop-pe r d i s t r i c t s of Mich igan .

O n e e x p r e s s a n d o n e mal l t r a in da l ly e a c h w a y between S t . l ^ n a c e a n d Marquet te , connecting: a t St. Ignacu with Michigan Cen t r a l R a i l r o a d , a n d a f t e r J u l y 15th w i t h G r a n d R a p i d s & Ind iana Rai l road , a n d d u r i n g Nav iga t ion w i t h Det ro i t a n d Cleveland S team Nav iga t ion C o m p a n y b y unex-eelled side-wheeled s t e a m e r City of Cfeve l and^or

o t h e r p laces in C a n a d a , wi th o t h e r b o a t lines, P u l l m a n S leeper s on Night E x p r e s s t r a i n s .

Day t r a i n s dally e x c e p t Sunday . Coupon t icke ts t o p r inc ipa l ci t ies a n d t o w n s o n

sa le a t S t . I g n a c e a n d M a r q u e t t e . Fo r in fo rma t ion a s t o p a s s e n g e r a n d f r e i g h t

r a t e s p lease a p p l y t o F . M I L I a G A N , Oen ' l F r ' t i P a s s ' r A a t . ,

M a r q u e t t e . Mich

A . O . U . W . R e g u l a r m e e t i n g s of Lowel l L o d g e No. 38, first

a n d th i rd IFr ldays of e a c h m o n t h . Q u a r t e r l y m e e t i n g s thi rd F r i d a y evenings of t h e m o n t h s of March ' u n e . S o p t e m b e r a n d D e c e m b e r .

L . F . S E V E R Y , M W . F , D. EDDY. Rec ,

A Wedding. On Monday morning a young man

came from Grand Rapids and took away one of Lowell's most estimable young ladles In the person of Miss Clara Giles, daughter of Mr, John Giles of this vil-lage, The weddinc: took place at tho Catholic church at 0 a, m,, the Rev. Father Flannery officiating, and Mr, Eld, Klllean, of Grand Rapids, is the fortun-ate husband of tho fair bride. After the ceremony the wedding breakfast was served to a large company at the resi-dence of Mr. Giles, and in the afternoon the party took the train for Grand Rapids. Of the reception glyen there the Democrat says:

Last evening Mr. and Mrs. Ed Klllean were given a reception at the residence of Aid, Klllean, the groom's father, on Clancy street. Among those present wore Mr, and Mrs, Giles of Lowell, Aid, Grady and daughter, Mr, Thomas Hef-feron of Eastmanvllle, Mr, and Mrs. John Caulfield, Mr, and Mrs, A, White, Mr. T. II, Redmond, Mr, E. J , llervey, Mr, Ed. Klllean, and many others. Tho alfair was in every way a very enjoyable one. A bounteous repast was served, after which the bride and groom left for Grand Haven, Milwaukee and St, Paul, bearing with them the good wishes of a host of friends and relatives. They expect to return by way of Duluth and Sault St Marie In about two weeks. The wedding presents were many and costly, including every variety of sliver ware, dinner and tea sets of 'decorated China, the latter tho gift of Mr, Kille-an's employes, a fine Brussels carpet, a valuable French clock, cutlery, two ele-gant easy chairs, one of them the gif t of the Mozart club, and many other arti cles both useful and ornamental. Later In tho evening there was singing and dancing and it was not until long af ter midnight that the party broke up,

T H E DISTINGUISHED READER,

HISS LAURA 6 . CARR, desires to announce to the residents of Lowell and vicinity one course of twelve lessons In Elocution, beginning Tuesday morning, August 21st. at heir residence, East Water street. Instruction appli-cable to pulpit, bar, stage, or parlor ora-tory.

Terms for I Private $20 00 the course f Class 12 00 Application can be made at once from

9 a, m, to 5 p, m. During tho course Miss Carr will give

three public recitals assisted by her pupils.

Parties In other towns desinng to secure her services for public entertain-ments can do so on reasonable terms b r apnlylng to or addressing her at Lowell,

Lowell, August 13tb.

T ? O R ALE —A h o m e a n d lot on e a s y t e r m s , r I n q u i r e if .•*. P . I1ICKS. Lowell .

LOWELL MARKETS.

Corrected on Tuesday of each week. By John Giles & Co., Lowell, Mich,

V E G E T A B L E S Green Onions 25c t o 35c Doz. b u n c h o t . New On ions 1.25 b u s h . Old Poto toes abou t out of m a r k t t . New •• 75c t o 1.00 bushe l .

P O U L T R Y Dressed c h i c k e n s 10 c

S E E D S Cloverseed P a v i n g | 8 00 t o $8 25 T i m o t h y Seed $2 25 to sell ing Millet, 75c; H u n g a r i a n 75c, Rad top 1 50

H I D E S Hides, Green 6c, dry 10 t o 14c Calfskin Green tic, d r y , 15 Deacon s k i n s 25c Sheep Pe l t s 20 t o 2 00

Come in slow, r e a d y sale. Pe l t s & f u r * season abou t o v e r .

W O O D Oak 18 t o 20 In, Blks g r n t o 1 0 0 1 25

d r y 1 50 t o 1 75 Beech & Maple g n i 1 50

" •' d r y 2 25 MISCELLANEOUS

B u t t e r c h o i c e f resh roll 12 t o 13c Fresh Pkd . b u t t e r 12 &. 12^c , Eggs p r d o z f r e s h 14c Beans no t h n d pkd U) t o 90 Beans h n d p k d 123 Cheese 14 sel l ing

NUTS

GRAIN W h e a t 1 03 t o p a y i n g B u c k w h e a t ' 5 c , Corn 45c, R y e SOo Bar-ley grlOO.l. 75 Oats 35c. p o p corn p r bas -

Whea t In good d e m a n d , of fer ings n o t equal to d e m a i i d . Oats a n d c o m plen ty a j id slow.

F R U I T S Apples d r i ed pe r lb 7c P e a c h e s d r d p e r lb 12 to 12c

F L O U R AND F E E D . F lou r No 1 Old Meth 2 fi0to280 F lou r No 1 Roller p roc 2 80 to 3 00 Bran f 12 M. S h i p s | 1 4 M. Middlings 111, Millfeed f I 25 ,Cornmsa l $1.15to f 1 95

MEATS Dressed hogs | 7 25 to $7 50 P re s sed beef £0 75 t o 97 00 Smoked h a m s 11c S m o k e d Shou lde r 9o I J in l I0c,to 11 Tal low C to 0U

Smoked m e a t s s u p p l y lusufl lc ient f o r d e m a n d .

LUMBER Fine c o m m o n $27 to t V , Selected . com $10 t o 930. 2d b e a d e d Floor ing fliO to 930,2d Bev s idng 918 t o 9^0, c o m 916 to 91H, S tock b a m brds 1x121x10 1X8 |1B, com. s a m e 912. Com b o a r d s p romiacous width 911, T imber J o i s t a n d scUng U . 14 10 f t $12, Fenc ing com liift 99 to f lO. r g com 12 a n d 14ft $8 to $9, Sh ip cul l shitiitfc i n l a n d roof boa rds 97 t o 98. l a t h 1009 p ieces $2 to 92 50.10 In. w r n t d s t a r s h i a -Kles932S, Kiln No 1 s h i n g l e s | 2 . IS Inch No 2 sh ing les t l 00

LIST of L E T T E R S r e m a l m n g i n t h e Postof l lce Lowell , K e n t Co. .Mich. . Am; . 22d. 1883.

ijuiies1 List—Jessie E, Sayles, Gents' List—James Carrier 2. Chas.

Morgan, Jacob Meyers, Clarence Sander-san, Isaac Work.

Persons calling for these letters will please say "advertised" and give date of n o t i c e . MILTON M . P E R R Y , P , M .

STRAYED Into my enclosure on the 10th Inst- the following described horses:

One gray yearling mare, blind in rljiht eye;

One gray mare 3 yre, old. One light Hay horse 'i yrs, old. One Bay 3Iare about 10 yrs. old* One old bay mare, blind lu one eye,

spavined and otherwise crippled. Owners can have tho same by proving

property and paying charges, J, D, HUSTED.

Lowell, Aug, 13; '83* 8w2.

T h e D a i l y E a g l e b y mai l ,

K F V P F C J P E R M O N T H ,

O K J \ J t o . 1 N A D V A N C E .

All r e m i t t a n c e s bv check, d r a f t , P , 0 , o r d e r o r express o r d e r should be m a l e p a y a b l e t o t h e or -d e r of tlie pub l i she r s , A. B. T u r n e r £ Co ,

A flock of sheep to let. Inquire of Ww4, H. NASH.

unqcasa

LOWELL JOURNAL. LOWELL - MICHIGAN.

N E W S AL N O T E S .

The Georgia house of representatives lias voted $1,000,000 for a new state Cap-itol.

Stngo robbed near Yosomite, Gal., and passengers robbed of $900 cash besides wateffes and other valuables.

Ex-Rev. Geo. C. Miln, the actor, is to lecture in Chicago Sept. 1 and will begin his dramatic season a week later.

The celebrated Fraacklyn cottage at Long Branch, the house in which Gar-field died, was partly burned recently.

Southwestern Virginia has just had the first rain in five weeks. The corn and tobacco crops are hopelessly dried up.

It is said that an invariable rule with Mr. Jay Gould has been never to re-engage a man whom he has once dis-charged.

Edison is credited with saying " I t requires just as much ingenuity to make money out of an invention as to make the invention."

A shipper of cattle has contractoil with the Allan lino for taking across the ocean 10,000 head of cattle via Montreal and Boston this fall.

Mrs. Chas. A. Knalhack, of Trenton, N. J., throws her husband into the ca-nal and jumps in af ter him. She drowns, but he is rescued.

The Charleston News says that (.luring the last twenty years the South has ob-tained $35,000,000 for educational pur-poses from the Northern people.

Arthur H. Blaney, of Boston, late cashier of the American Loan and Trust Co., has been sentenced to seven years in the penitentiary for embezzling $4-1,-000.

The liars must go. —[Troy Times. Good bye.—[Rochester Union. Would-n't it be more sociable if you two gen-tlemen should go togetlier?—[Boston Globe.

Tlie passenger rate war between Chi-cago and St. Louis has ended and the old prices are restored. Tickets have been selling for less than one-third the usual prices.

A gang of Winnebago Imlians em-ployed on the Union Pacific railroad have proved to be excellent workmen and in sdine respectH superior to those of any other nationality.

W. II. H. Murray has begun another series of Adirondack stories, has nearly finished a l)ook on "Life in Texas," and is writing a course of philosophical lec-tures for the coming season.

The Chicago and Western Indiana railroad company has decided to build a fr)00,000 depot in Chicago on the block bounded by Third and Fourth avenues and Polk and Taylor streets.

I t may be interesting to wine drink-ers to learn that, according to the tests of official experts in Paris, out of :{,:{G1 specimens of wines submitted to analy-sis, only 357 were pronounced good.

A lady who was in the late Carlyon disaster, in New York, has such a hor-ror of railroads that she otfers $1,000 to any one who will drive her home in a carriage, the distance being 1,000 miles.

A Syracuse wager has proved that nine out of ten men lean on the bar when they order drinks. Statistics as to what proportion of these subsequent-ly lean against a lamp-post are now in order.

The suspended first national bank of Indianapolis is to be turned over to a syndicate composed of Wm. II. English, John Reynolds, and others, who say they will shortly increase the stock to $1,000,000.

Henry L. Young, generj'l agent in Cincinnati of the Grand Rapids & Indi-ana railroad, committed suicide by shooting. He had been drinking, but the real cause of his crime is a matter of conjecture.

Pittsburg has about paid up the last of the claims against the city for dama-ges by the great railroad riot of 1877. The claims amounted to over $3,600,000, but were compromised on the basis of 75 cents on the dollar.

In the census bureau at Washington it was found necessary to reduce the force of 170 clerks one-half, and the superintendent placed the names of all in a hat and had a boy draw 85. These were given furlouglis without pay until further orders.

Mrs. L. N. Parish, of Chicago, who has made 20 trips across the Atlantic to purchase dresses from the nobility, and has evaded paying duty on them on the ground that they were old wearing ap-parel, has l»een arrested by the customs officials on a charge of perjury.

Gov. Pattison of Pennsylvania, declin-ing an invitation to attend a Sabbath school convention, wrote: "Bu t I ex-tend to the convention my sincere greeting, and desire to express the hope that the children under their care may develop, as by the chisel of grace on tare marble, into men and women of noble

, character."

Out of 5,417 leather eulabliHhiiients in the United States 17 have failed. Our only security that we shall continue to littve leather is to Im- found in the 5,400 that remain. The leading firimt that have failed claim to have $2 of assets for every dollar of liabilities. Taken as a whole the situation do • not seem to In-very alarming.

Gen. Grant, being unable to accept the invitation to attend the reunion of the soldiers who fought on each side at the battle of Wilson's Creek, sent a let-ter, in which he said: " I hope you will find the occasion a very enjoyable one, and tliat the soldiers who were arrayed against each other 22 years ago will be no less friends than if they had been engaged in the same cause, and the only rivalry that may exist between them hereafter will be to sec who can prove tlie best citizen of our common and great country."

M I C H I G A N M A T T E R S .

The new coisoopal church at Rockford, Kent county, was dedicated Wednesday.

An old lady was inadvertently locked in a church at (irand Rapids and it took her three hours to get out.

A baby fell from an upper window in Grand Rapids, but was caught by a man who was passing at the time.

Jack Whitmore, a Battle Creek moul-der, has just fallen heir to property in New York valued at $20,000.

Will Carleton,the Hillsdale poet, has a new iwem in Harper's for September. It is called "The Old Reading Class."

A dozen members of tho salvation army have left Adrian to camp down be-fore tho ungodly, over against Milan.

Marcellus Hyland and Peter Hook, boys, fought at Grand Rapids, and Hy-land was severely stabbed. Hook was arrested.

The labor of certain prisoners a t the Ionia prison is to be no longer contract-ed out. but will bo used directly to the profit of the state,

The Ludington Democrat says that a young lawyer and a merchant of that city are about to fight a duel and it is all for the love of a lady.

Two men were arrested at Lake City for dessroying a photograph gallery. They got their backs up because the photographer couldn't make pictures of them iu tho night.

Geo. B. Slater was killed on the Grand River division of the Michigan Central, near Nashville, last winter, and now his heirs seek to recover $4,000 damages from the railroad company.

Mrs. Anna Kribbs, of Muskegon, who recently won a suit against that city and was paid $2,500 for injuries received Horn a defective sidewalk, is in court again. She is now after a divorce.

The Lansing Republican says the well known Lansing House, in that city, was offered at administrator's sale and only $20,000 being bid the sale was adjourned until September 11. The Republican thinks that at $20,000 it is the cheapest property in Michigan.

At a session of the circuit couirt of Mackinaw county, held in December. 1882, a burglar was sentenced " to re-ceive 39 stripes on his bareback instant-cr. to pay a fine of $50 and costs of pros-ecution, and to stand committed until the same be paid.''

Of the 30 graduates of the agricultu-ral college of this stale 10 will engage in farming, three teaching for a short time, but ultimately will go to the farm; one journalist, one merchant, three teach-ers. one professor of agriculture, two physicians, two civil engineers, one lumberman, one entomologist, one clerk. Politically, sixteen are protec-tionists and fourteen are free traders.

M. E. Sawiu, postmaster at Sherwood, Branch county, writes to Tlie News say-ing that he thinks Timothy Sargent, for whom the people of Saranac are searching, was in Sherwood about ten days ago, I ton-owed a stamp, paper and envelope of him and lasted a letter to some one in Vermont. Mr. Sawin says he answered the description as given exactly. After jmsting his letter he took the railroad track bound west.

I t is said that the Grand Rapids cap-italists who propose to import timber from Spanish Honduras have secured a concession from the local government that permits them to export wood free of the export duty, which is $12 per million. They think that this conces-sion will enable them to place mahoga-ny and rosewood in tho markets of this country at lower prices than those now prevailing, and at a profit to themselves.

The Harbor Springs Resorter says Capt. Ed. P. Allen, Indian agent, had a narrow escape from a serious ducking while on route for Beaver Island from Cross Village, which latter place he left about 8 o'clock in tho evening on a small two masted schooner, loaded with wood. When about four miles from shore the boat sprung a leak, and most of her cargo of 25 cords of wood had to bo thrown overboard. In the night she water-logged, and all hands succeeded m getting ashore, leaving the craft at anchor and sunk to her decks.

Reports from all narts of the state show that the wheat crop has turned out much better than was anticipated, the larger part of the. hay crop, which was not cut before the rainy season clos-ed, has also been housed in good condi-tion. As the general prosjterity of bus-iness depends so largely upon the suc-cess of farmers this state of affairs is gratifying in every particular, and fur-nishes renewed evidence of the fact that Michigan can stand a greater vari-ety of weather and more of any one kind with less loss, than any other state in the union.

N u k h y ' i ) MiRhi i i iu i r ) ' W o r k i n O h i o .

In the Toledo Blade Petroleum V. Nasby recounts as follows the results of his first effort " todosuthin toward help-in the sturdy Dimocnsy uv the pivotal state in kerryin it this fall.' '

The lust pint I struck was Petervillo. in the southern part uy the state. 1 wuz

, ivseeved with open arms, ez every troo apossel of Dimocrisy is in that sort uv a village. The place is very like the Corners, the biznis consistin moslly uv a grosery or two, and the inhabitance bein, ez a rool, statesmen whose wives do the Left of tho work while they are devisin ways and means to pay orf the nashnel debt, leenin agin sign jiost.s or sittin contemplatively on dry goods boxes, whitlin the rosy hours away. In sich places Dimocrisy alluz runs ram-pant. Ther is where we git our heaviest majorities.

The yoosual meetin was called and af te r a conference with the princiiml grosery keepers it wuz desided that I shood speak upon the infamus Scott law, which taxes the sloon keepers $200 for the privilege uv gettin mortgages on their nabor's farms. 1 accedid to their request, for ther aint anything wich kin so stir the blood uv the avrige

Dimocrisy ez a law which tends to em-barrass the disuensor uv the elixir uv life and hamper them in any way.

It wuz a good meetin. Ther wuz present all tho citizens of tho village and all the farmers from the kentry ad-jacent. and I hed good hojies uv sowin seed wich would bring forth harvest in October.

I fortified myself with fax and figgers and opened out onto em.

"Feller citizens," I commohced, Dim-ocrisy is the champion uv hooman rites —that is fur white men."

"Rah!" yelled the meetin in korus. "Dimocrisy holds that every- man hez

the sole rite to controle hisself, and that any law wich sez wat a man shel or shel not do is an infringement on God-givon rites."

"Rah!" "A Republikln legislachor last winter

committed a outrage on the Dimocrisy. It passed tho Scott law. Wat is tho Scott law, my friends? It is a law wich imposed a tax onto the keepers uv wot grocerys, $100 for ihe sellin uv beer, and $200 for the sellin uv other likkers, wich is jest ez necessary ez beer for the sus-tenance uv the hoonmn family,"

The awjonco groaned in korus. "Wat is the result? ' Under Dime-

kratic rool the s'loonn went on quiet, doin their legitimit biznis. No tax col-lector cum around to disturb cm, yoo cood all cum in when yoo pleased and git yer sustenance, and things wuz happy and pleasant. Wat is it now? Ther is 80 s'loons in this county, and tho Republikln feends hev taxed em $200 each, wich they hev paid. There is to-day $10,000 in tho county trezry, wich hev bin wrung out uv ther biznis, and"—

Up sprang an old farmer from an ad-jinin township.

"Do I unnerstand." sez he. " that the Scott law hez collected $10,000 from the s'loon biznis?"

"That 's the size uv it," sez I. "Does that money go to payln the

taxes uv the county?" " I t do," I replied, "$10,000 wrung

from the s'loons. "Ef figgers don't lie that 's about one-

fifth uv all the taxes the county has to pay. My taxes afore this wuz about $100 a yeer and next year I shel hev only about $80 to pay, which is 20 per cent off."

And then this morsenary old wretch yelled:

" ' U A H F O R T H E SCOTT L A W ! "

"You musn't 'rah f u r tho Scott law," I yelled to the Infuriated loonatics. "You ain't here t o ' r a h / n r the Scott law but agin it. We are going to vote to repeal the Scott law."

I mite ez well hev talked to the north wind- Every- blastid tax-payer in the awjonco .lined him, and they all got to their feet and remarkt in korus that persnel liberty wuz a blessld thing, and in any struggle fur the maintenance uv persnel liberty, they'd send substitoots with muskets on their shoulders ez will-inly ez they did fur the maintenance uv the Yoonyon durin the late fraitrisidle struggle, but inezmuch ez they cood git all the likker they mite want at the reg-ler price, five cents f u r beer, and ten cents fur whisky strate, they couldn't see how persnel rites wuz interfered with at all. But tho makin tho s'loons pay one-fifth uv the taxes wuz a sweet boon wich coodent bee too hily com-mendid.

And instid of passin resolooshens con-demning the Scott law, blast me if they didn't pass one endorsin it.

It wuz in vane I attempted to stem tho tide. I had prevusly insisted that Jedge Hoadly was committed agin the law, and that tho only way to do away with if was to vote f u r him, and so they passed resolooshens endorsin Jedge Foraaker ez a man uv ability and recti-tood uv carikter, which wuz a ornament to the state, and in spite of all I cood do they adjourned with three cheers fur him.

It is sad, but it is so. Poor weak hu-manity can't hold to a principle when It confiix with interests. I ain't shoor but wo shel hev to git our state committy together and put a supplemental plank in our platform endorsin the Scott law and claimin that we are the originators uv it-

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S,P. Real Estate Agency, LOWELL, MICH. I have lor Sale on easy terms tlie fol-

lowing property: 1 Farm, 00 acres, in Lowell township. 2 Farms, 80 acres each in Vergennes. 1 Farm. 240 acres, in Keene. 1 Farm,,80acres, in Ionia. 3 Houses and lots in the village of

Lowell. 1 Farm. 40 acres, in Vergennes, with

splendid apple and peach orchard. Farm 70 acres, Sec. 9 Lowell, Cheap. Farm 00 acres, see Sec. 32, Vergennes. Johnson Mill and Machinery, Sec. 10,

Lowell. First class water power. Known as Spring Brook Mills. 40 acres of land on sec. 20 Keene

Money to Loan at Lowest Cur-rent Rates.

B - P H I C K S . Office over West's Drug Store.

J, ft l * -Wo have just received a fine and complete line of-

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Wall Paper and Borders -for Spring Trade embracing now and elegant designs. Coiling Decorations etc,

Cloth Curtains In all the new Styles and Colors

Wo guarantee these Paints Strlctl celebrated Mixed Paints, use them wo will

n r — • ' "»•;«> uuu oujoimi, Lrfiunmco a uo. Perfection Mixed \ i r , J « C o . . foiuM..

refund the money. Also Detroit

Hills A- Co. and U. S. White Lea(fco. Paint Brushes, Oils and Varnishes, FiW Proof Paint "for Barns,' Roofs &c ; ? n f r l t T r y . i , h l . ? g i n U-C r a i n t Stationery A full slock of Drugs, Me<licine8 knd F a n c J o 3 Oil Cake by tho Ton or in less quantity. Thinking the public for liberal patronage in tho solicit a continuance of tho same. past, wo respectfully

j. a LOOK, UNION BLOCK. LOWELL MICH.

WANTED. Stave IKIIIS and Barrel heads. Inquire

of F. (".. Taft at Lowell denot. llltf.

WANTEDT Stave Bolts, for which I will pay $3.50

per cord for Red Oak, and $3,00 per cord for Elm. F. O. TAFT. 82ll

BUCKLEN'S ARNICA SALVE. The Best Salvo in tho world for Cuts,

Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fev-er Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chil-blains, Corns, and all Skin Eruptions, and postivoly cures Piles. It is guaran-teed to give perfect satisfaction or mon-ey refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by Hunter.

GRIGGS' GLYCERINE SALVE. Tho best on earth can truly lie said of

Griggs' Glycerine Salve, which is a sure cure for cuts, bruises, scalds, bums, wounds and all other sores. Will posi-tively cure piles, totter and all skin erup-tions. Satisfaction guaranteed or mon-ey refunded. Only 25 cents. - For sale by J . 0 . Look.

A LIFE SAVING PRESENT. Mr. M. E. Allison, Hutehinson, Kan.:

saved his wife by a simple trial bottle of Dr. King's New Discovery, for con-sumption, which caused him to pro-cure a largo bottle, that entirely cured him, when doctors change of climate and everything else had failed. Asthma bronchitis, hoarseness, severe coughs, and all throat and lun<; diseases, it is guaranteed to cure.

WE ALL BELIEVE That it is a long lane that has no

turning; that many a shaft at random sent, finds a mark the archer little means; that no remedy sold will cure coughs, colds, croop, whooping cough and all throat and lung troubles so quickly nor permanently as Dr.Biglow's Positive cure; that out dugglst, J . Q. Look, is very generous to give trialbot-tles of this remedy free of chartre

THE WORLD STILL MOVES. Notwithstahding Mother Shipton's

dire prediction, the world still exists. The people will live longer if they Dr. Bigelow'sPositive Cure, which dues and corifjtiers cOugh, colds, con-sumption, whooping cough and all dis eases of the lunga. For proof call at J Q Look's drug store and get a bottle free

WILL YOU SUFFER with Uyspopr sia and Liver Complaint? Shiloh's Vi-talizer is guaranteed to cure you

SHILOH'S COUGH and Consumption Cure is sold by us on a guarantee. I t cures consumption. Sold by J . Q.Look.

Try Improved Hop Bitters never fails to cure Biliousness,Sick Headache,Ague and all diseases of tho Kidneys. Sold by Miller & Yeiter.

use sub-

REV. GEO. H THAYER. Boui bon, Ind., "Both myself and wife ow< our lives to SAILOH'S CONSUMP TION CURE."

Tlie Olil Reliable BOOT and SHOE STORE OF

HOWK & BOSTW1CK

Have the largest and best

selected stock ever of-

fered in Lowell.

Call and see for yourselves.

B A N K B L O C K , L O W E L L M I C H ,

ARE YOU MADE miserable by indi-gestion, Constipation, Dizziness, Loss of Appotite, Yellow Skin? Shiloh's Nital-izers is a positive cure.

Ayers Rasa pant la wonderfully im-proves the complection and brings to old and young the bloom ot health. As a purefierof tho blood, it has no equal

Like the world around you, renew your complection, invigorate your powers, cleanse the channels of life. Ayer's Sarsapanlla is the means to use for this purpose.

We do not sound a need less alarm wlien we tell you that the taint of scrofula is in your blood. Inherited or acquir ed it is there, an Ayer's Sasadarilla alone will effectually eradicate.tinO

We have got to have it

TO SEGTJRE T H I S will give you

Great Bargains - I N DRY GOODS-

Closing out sale of Summer goods and rem-nants. Dress Styles Ginghams 7c.

Lawns 7 to 10c. Dress Goods in Short

lengths at a

Great Sacrafice. -! Parasols and Fans way down. Standard

Prints 5 and 6c. Ayers Sasapanlla being highly con-

centrated. requires a smaller dose, and is more effective dose for dose, than any other blood medicine. It is the cheapest because the best. Quality and not quantity should bo considered.

Is your hair turning grav and gradu-ally fading out? Hall's hair reneiver will restore it to its natural color, and stimulate the follicles to produce a new and luxurant growth. I t also cleanses J thescalp. eradicates dandruff, and is a ! most agreeable and harm loss dressing, j

To Coffee Drinkers. Levering's roast-!. ed coffees are tho Boss coffees of Ameri-1 ca. Only sold in pound packages; Al-ways full weight; Absolutely pure; Sat-isfaction guaranteed. All of the Ix)weli |

We mean just what we say. Come and see that this

is SO. COLLAR & WEEKES

groceries sell Levering. Use it!

Try it! Buy It!! 50-50

Ayer's Hair Vigor improves Ihe beauty of the hair and promotes its growth. It imparts an attractive ap -Iteirance. a delightful and lasting per-fume. While it stimulates the roota cleanses the scalp, and adds elegance to luxurance, its effects are enduring; and I thus it proves itself to l>tt the l>est and i cheapest article in toilet'uw. _

Many ladies admire gray liair—onj some other person. But few care to try i its effect on their own charms. Nor I need they, since Ayer's Hair Vigor pre-vents the hair from turning gray, and j restores gray hair to its origmai t o'or. | It cleanses the scalp, prevents the for-1 mation of dandrun. and wonderfully stimulaU-s the growth of the hair.

SEWING MACHINES. The Royal St . MD

Leads them all. runs either way and sews. A child can use it. Sold a t

prices way down at CHAS. ALTHEN'S, Cor. Store, Train's

Hall Block.

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DOCTORS

U.S. MEDICAL

SURGICRLftSSOCIftTION DETEOrr , MICH.

THE LAPGEST IN THE WORLD 1

J . S. m O A N , X. D., Xedlotl SotfL

t y O O I T B T T I . T ' . A . T I O I T T r - m r - n

More Capital invested, more Kkilloil employed, more eases treated and more cures aff ected than by any other une establishment in the world. Sixteen skillful and experienced physicians and surgeons, each eminent in his own specialties. Five remain at the Detroit Office and eleven visit the principal cities in the United States and Canada. All diseases and deformities treated. Address Mrs. K. & V., Detroit. Mich. Send two 1c stamns for GUIDE TO HEALTH. 1

LEAD ALL OTHEBSI

Every Style & Price. G u a r a n t e e d U n e q u a l e d

FOR

OPERATION. E C O N O M Y .

D U R A B I L I T Y a n d

W O R K M A N S H I P .

Improvement! and Coavenlenoei found i s no othen.

A l w a y s R e l i a b l e .

POPULAR E V E R Y W H I R B . T o r S a l e i n E v e r y W t y M i d T o w *

• i n t l i e U n i t e d S t a t e * .

e g o t a b l e S i c i l i a n

.J.A1E RENEWER iVii.n i;ii! i|ml iiri'i'iirntion perfoct ly adap ted U> •JIIF H or tliu Kcnlp, a n d tlie first BUO-(••'Hilni n-xiurur nf fiuli.-il or gray liair t o I ts iiMluntl color, jji-ouill, mill you th fu l beauty, li liiui Im.l many inii tatom, bu t none L ive s o luMy IUL'I all tin; rcqt i imnunUi needfu l f o r lir- |iro|HT Irvatniunt of tlie h a i r a n d i c a l p , i . \ I.I.'H l lAia KKNKWKII has s teadi ly grown in favor , and Hiiruail i u f ame u n d u s e f u l n e M to every qna r tu r of tho globe. I t s unpara l -I ii'il succoiw can bo a t t r ibu ted t o bu t ono

I hi- rn/iv fiiljilment of lit protnltet. Tins |iro|iriotnr8 have of ten been surprised

:it I liu reeoipt of o rders f r o m remote conn-i where they had never made a n ctTortfor iM Introduction.

'J lie two for a shor t t lmn of HALL'S HAUt IlK.VKWRR wondorful ly Improves t b e per-sonal apiHmraneo. J t cleanses t h e scalp f rom

all Inipurliles, c u r e s a l l humora , fever , a n d dryness , and t h u s provca ts baldness . I t s t imula tes t h e weakened glands , and enable* tln-ni t o push f o r w a r d a new a n d vigorous gnnvih . The e f f c c U of th is a r t ic le a r e no t t rans ien t , like those of alcoholic p repa ra -

t ions .bu t remain n long t ime, which make* l u UHO a ma t t e r of cconomy.

B U C K I N G H A M ' S D Y E

r o a TUB

W H I S K E R S V. lll di.mjro t h e beard to a n a t u r a l brown, o - biiick, as des i red . I t produces a p e r m a n e n t color tha t will not wash away. Cons la t lngot

:> single p repa ra t ion , It I t appl ied wltluMf* I.MIllllo.

pnicpAiiED or

e . P, M L L & CO, Hasina, O . .Sold by ni l IJealera in Medicine*.

FOB ALL THE POEMS OP

. S c r o f u l o u s , M e r m r l a l , a n d

B l o o d D i s o r d e r * ,

tho best remedy, because t h o mos t searching a n d thorough

t blood-puriUer, 1*

yer's Sarsaparllla, Sold by al l Druggis t* ; f t , six bottle*, | 0 .

H O W W A l C t l i w A I C I ^ I V I A D E .

I n a SOLID WATCH , w l i l o f r o m

the necessary thiol.iii .i i" r ».i r:.\'in; unJ polishing, :i lar-o [ r JK.i-.L;i i I" i.xtal is iiewlcJ only t » i t i . . v ; i 1 I.c'.It'...; • n ir.v-cd portii in i.i | !.nv,; r. 1 : jij.ly i lar.gtli. T'nu miri-l.a • i l l . ! . I.y i.ia.Icts. In Jtnics vi" i , i / I. •../(•/» f.'usrs lliis AVASTIJ Li K'.vol, ill! 1 SOMDITY Ullll ETRRNGTii incivr.-si 'I l y a f i l r j ' i - i - r o o c e s ,

at < nc-lialf tliu n.-: t. A j l::to if ?OI.1D GOi.u ii sol K: 1 c :i i./!i jMc (f a plate of liar I ni.-Ucl c oinj; ntii.n r.ictnl, j.iul the thr-.-e :t. ' i.'i.n [ it: u I Ictr/ccn pouahcil bU-c-l r IT. i t! a cases, bacl:s, ccntiiv, l>ez^ , c: : .v u.t and bliaped Ly di . ; aa.l I V r . - n T l . o (jolil in tlih fc; Cll Krrli t) a!, t ( * I l.ili(!s ol iluuuil;, f.i. ravin; : n I i : ..io 1 ruin;;. Thcio «.•. t have hcin .. j ti.c-.lly 1-11100111 ly r ! vitlii)..t i.-: 1 lie geld. I7.is ii l • • •//••.<•. 1 . . i"j prneets. J'lirl 1 ' : gvcvcut. i _/.. I i j •.„• . . urrcnllng il I rxur •- I these Can.-ii'jw uTrie-.l i.i tl;j "nited States and Canaila. Larycsrt .;;; I Oldest Fiutuy • F * - " ! ' - . . . •

A Y E R ' S

Ague Cure eontiiiiH a n n n t l d o t n f o r a l l m a U r l a l d i*- . u rdo rN wliicli. so f a r as known, 1* used in no-ot lwr remedy. I t omla ' .ns no Quinine, n o r Hiiy nilnernl nor deieterioiu' nlistmu-o what -evei". anil coiiMfiuoAtly | i rodno«i no In ju r ious • l luei u|k)ii tho eonst i t i i t ion. t u t leave* l l i» ninu iii i u l i . n l t h ) as it « a » be fo ie t h e a t t a c k .

WE WARRANT AYERS AGUE CORE i o # a i e evt-ry ease of Feve r a n d Ague, In l e r -niiUent or Clilll Fever . I t eml t t en t Fever , l"nmh ^ g n e , Uiliuitt Feve r , a n d Liver O m i -••'ainl nauseil by malurin. I n case of fa l lurv, a f t e r due t r i a l , doalera a r e au tho r i sed , by ou r e y e n l a r da ted duly let , l ^ j , u> r e f u n d I h e i n n n e y .

Dr. J.C. Aycr&Co., Lowell, Man. Sold by all Druggist*.

v- ••

£1 I

% OLI) AND YOUNG. M A L E AND FEMALE,

y - MagneUc Meilieiiie; n K n u n a n d " N e r v e F o o d ; Pos i t ive ly t~ireti

MKht Losses, S p e n n a t o r - I . u ' a , , n i p o t e n e y , N e r v o u s Debi l i ty , IxMicorrhuiO, B a r r e n n e s s ; an

( B e f o r e ) U n f a i l i n g a n d Foai t ive C u r e . (After) T o n e s u p t h e debi l i ta ted r>yst«in, a r r e s t s a l l In-vo lun ta ry discliArges, r e m o v e s m e n t a l if l oom a n d despondency , a n d restore* w o n d e r f u l p o w e r t o t h e weakened o r g a n s . t i r W i t h e a c h o r d e r f o r TWELVE prckoges . a c c o m p a n i e d with five do l l a r* , w e will send o u r GUARANTKK t o r e f u n d t h e m o n e y If t h e t r e a t m e n t d o e s no t e f fec t a c u r e . I t i* t h e I t b. t h e C h e a p e s t a n d Bes t Medicine In- t h e m a r -ke t . Ful l p a r t i c u l a r In P a m p h l e t , which w e m a i l f r e e to a n y add re s s . Hold b y a l l d rug t r t s t a o n e p a c k a g e SO c t s ; S ix f o r |2.50, o r s e n t b y m f i i on receipt ot t h e price, b y a d d r e s s i n g

Magnetic- Medic lneCo. Detroi t , Mich .

B T S o l d in Lowell by Hunt^S: H u n t e r a n d b y a l l d rugu i s t s e v e r y w h e r e .

1

LOWELL BUSINESS CARDS.

PE € K ft M c D A N N E L L , Phys ic t ans a n d Sur-geons. 031 Of In B a n k Block.

RO B E R T M A R S H A L L , c o o p e r . Eas t w a t e r St. F lc -r ba r r e l s a n d al l k inds of Custom

W o r k .

A . C H A P M A N , P h o t o g r a p h Artist . l j , Rooms n e x t t o P o s t Ofllce, u p stairs .

EE . C H A S E , B a k e r y a n d I t e s t au ran t . Op-• poslto Music Hal l .

O. W E S T , Drugg is t a n d Sta t ioner . Agen t • f o r Genuine R u b b e r Pa in t . Oppos i te * or-

e s t Mill*.

JC. S C O T T , H a r d w a r e . Sash Doors and • Glass, Bui lders H a r a w a r e a spec la l t} .

Oppos i te F o r e s t Mills.

JQ. L O O K , Druggis t a n d S ta t ioner , &c. t u n i o n Block.

I L I I E L M ft F L A N A G A N , dea le r s In B00U a n d Slides, Clothing, Ac. Union

Block West Side.

JO H N O I L E S ft C O . , Grocer ies and Prov i s Ions, Grockery . H a r d Ware . &c. Union Bl k .

T ^ M T W E A T H K B W A X . Dry Good*, Cloth-J . Ing, Hoots, Shoes , Ha t s , Caps , Ac. Union Block.

HO W K f t B O S T W I C K , Boots ,Shoe*, L o a t h er , Ac. Br idge S t r e e t . __

T C . H A R E , P rop . Marble Works , C o r n e r t ) • Wash ing ton a n d Br idge S t r e e U . ^

O . W I L S O N , C o n t r a c t o r a n d Bui lder H e • p a r l u g d o n o a t s h o r t no t ice . I t e m d e r c e - J I

H u d s o n S t ree t .

O . S T O N E ft H o n Dry f loods , l loo Is a n d • Shoes Ha l s , Caps . Ac.

11. I I L A I N , F a n c y Dry (lo<*ls, C a r p o l l n g s . Haln, Caps , Notions, 4 c . OrahaDis Block

C\ M c O A R T Y , Wholesa le and Uetall Groee r . J • Bank Block

JO H N W I N Q L E B , Who le sa l e a n d l l e t a i l Dealer In Grocer i fS a n d Provisions, Union

Block.

Wj . W E B B , Phys ic ian and S u r g e o n . Office • ovei t 'ostofflce. I lesldonce, Depo t Ht.,

6h h o u s e s Mil, ot Main St .

11. O H A N T , Surgeon a n d Homodopathlc t phys ic ian . Offlcu ove r Sco t t ' s H a r d w a r e

S to re . o m e e h s u r s , 8 t o 1 0 A. SL » t o 1 u n d 7 t o

R P . M .

R H U N T E R , J u s t i c e of the P e a c e a n d N o • t a i y Public, G r a h a m ' s Block over B a r b e r ' s

s to re . Also c o n t i n u e s t h e Ta i lo r ing bus iness .

HN. T A Y L O R , I ron F o u n d e r , M a n u f a c t u r e r Dealer in Agr i cu l tu ra l I m p l e m e n t s . Cor .

J a c k s o n a n d A v e r y S t r e e t s .

N . C O L L E R , Clothes c leaned and rc-• p a i r e d . Res idence with R. B a r b e r | 0

J j O W K L L NATIONAL B A N K

Of LOWELL, MICHIGAN.

C A P I T A L , - - | 5 0 0 0 0 .

S U R P L U S , - - - $ 1 0 0 0 0 .

DIRROTOKH:

C . T . W O O D I N G , F K A N C I S K I N G , C . O . S T O N R . M . N . H I N E A . 8 . STANNARD, N . A . S T O N E , J A S . W . H I N E , E D W A R D B R A D F I E L D ,

N O A H B I S H O P .

C. T . WOODING, P R E S . FRANCIS KING, V.

PRES. E . A. SUNDERLIN. CASH-IER. M. N . H I N E , ASS'T

C A S H I E R .

M V R O N H . W A L K E R >

ATTORNEY and SOLICITOR INSURANCE WRITTEN,

M O I T E Y l o a i s t t . D .

O v e r Na t iona l Bank , L o w e l l , M l e h l c n n .

B. W. DODGE, Attorney at Law, Real

Estate Agency. >r'ictico In State and U. S. Courts.

H > u y to loan on Cood Real Estate Se-jj.-ity. Oftlce in Orabam'u Block,

B.Al^jBt . - Lowell. Michigan

B. H. CLARK,D,. Physician and Surgeon,

OBlce o y e r H u n t ft H u n t e r ' s D r u g s t o r e , LOWELL, MICHIGAN.

ReHldence—109 Washinf ton St. Calla attended day or nlcht.

Milton M. Perry, ATTORNEY at LAW

And SOLICITOR IN CHANCERY. TRAIN'S H A L L BLOCK.

Special aUeu t ion g iven to Col lect ions a n d Con-veyaadag. ' . ,

I n s u r a n c e w r i t t e n on shor t not ice In responsi-b le c o m p a n i e s .

Loans n e g o t i a t e d at 7 to 10 p e r c e r t I n t e r e s t , a c c o r d i n g t o a m o u n t s a n d t i m e .

I S T R e a l E s t a t e b o u g h t a n d sold 1 a r easonab le t e r m * .

J O H N T. HOLMES, FRANK W . H I N E .

I X o l i u o M & r i i u e ,

Mtwnaya at L&w and Solloiton in Chan-^ oerjr. Practlco In all tho Courts.

ColleetloM a Hprrialty. Ho t Tirnmley BUeh, corner Canal A Lynn Hirel*.

Grand Rapids. - - Mich.

IR. *. VIU.UAS. JAB. A. WVI.IK. Al legan. Gr . Rnp lds .

Williams & Wylle, ATTORNEYS and SOLICITORS

Over City Nat ional Bauk.

G R A N D R A P I D S . MICH.

J . O R T O N E D I E

PhysJoian Surgeon & Accoucheur.

OFFICE, O V E R WILSON'S DRUG STORE,

GRAND R A P I D S . * • • MICH.

Residence—No. BTSheldon S t

aiMEON HUNT, HENRY H. PA VIA

HUNT & DAVIS,

Abstracts of Title, Real Estate, Loan A General Insurance Ag'ts.

UNDER CITY NATIONAL BANK. G R A N D R A P I D S MICH

~ Dr. Helen E. Deane, Ixxlyanl llliK-k, 108 Ottawa St.

ORANI) RAl'lDH. - - MICH

OFFIOK HOVKH; I Sa. ut 11 to lain M I . To II |» in.

H. A. KKNNKDT. G. W. TIIOMIHOM.

Kennedy & Tlioinp.soii,

A T FORNEYS AT LAW, •

Grand R a p i d s

| i Lyon S t ree t . Mich.

F l t E D S. C L A K K ,

Attorney at Law and Solicitor in Chan-cery.

Special Attention Given to Collections. Rooms 30 a n d 21, P o w e r s O p e r a H o u s e Block.

GRAND RAPIDS. MICH.

Uno of tho Joys of Living.

O n e of t h o Joys of l iving, o n e of t h o g l a d d e s t t h ings .

I t la to Fee t h e s u n c o m e o u t a n d Hood t h e e a r t h w i t h go ld .

A f t e r tho w e a r y r a i n i n g t h o s p r i n g so o f t e n b r ings .

With sk ies of (fray, a n d m e a d o w s d a n k , a n d d r e a r y d a y s a n d co ld .

F o r t hen t h e c h e e r y c r o c u s Its p r e t t y b u d s u n -fo lds .

And s h o w s I ts b loom in p u r p l e d y e d a n d g a y -est ye l low too.

A n d wi th a I r u j i r a n t w e l t o i n c t h e b y n c i n t h l>e-holds.

Beside It shy ly b l o o m i n g t h e ncillii b r i g h t l y b lue .

T h e n smi le t h e s w e e t - b r e a t h e d JonQiiil a n d J a u n t y dalfodi l .

And w a v e s tin.- c rown- Imper i a l i ts l e a v e s of glossy g r e e n .

A s p u s h i n g u p w a r d , u p w a r d , it n e v e r s t o p s un t i l

I t wea r s t h e r i ches t d i a d e m In g a r d e n e v e r seen .

T h e n sof t t h e grasHos w h i s p e r , " S o o n , da i s i e s , y o u m a y g r o w , "

And f r o m t h o b o u g h s of innple- tn 'Os b u r s t t e n d e r s p r a y s of red .

And down t h e hil ls t h e r i p p l i n g ril ls w i l h pleas-an t m u r m u r s How,

And l i fe s p r i n g s u p a n e w w h e r e l a t e was l e f t tho w i n t e r ' * i lead.

A y ! Bf ler t h e w e a r y r a i n i n g t h a t s p r i n g s o o f t e n brlngN.

With Hkles o l ' u r a y , a n d n iea i lows d a n k , a n d d r e a r y d a y * a n d cold,

'Tls one of t h e Jo.\s nf l iving, o n e of t h e g lad-desl Ih inus ,

To see t h e s u n eonix o u t a i r a l n a n d Hood t h o e a r t h wi lh irold.

— Ily M a r g a r e t E y t l n g o .

TI10 Marblo Widow. Alone In her marble palace lives the

widow of A. T. Stewart. His romaina, wliloh are Hii|)|ioseil to lie rcatiiig be-neath tho iiiairiiilicent niaiwolemn ol Garden City, arc scarcely more sccltid-edthan Is tlie personality of Mrs. Stew-art.

The greater portion of the Stewart inansioii is closed, dust gathers upon IU painting and furniture, its blinds ol white and gold shut out the extorloi view, and save a small suite of rooms on the western corner, the mansion is prac-tically deserted. There is something touching in her splendid isolation with-in call of the fashion, care, elegance and bustling activity of a restless social world.

A lady wilh silvery gray hair, whose features are still clearly cut and beat tho evidences of refinement, is Mrs. Stewart Her eves are yet undimmed. She stoops slightly. She is of kindly prcscnco, nlthoiigh her features boar tho traces of much .sullering and a habitual sternness of expression settles npon her features when in repose. Her face, when lit up with tho interest of a pass-ing topic, affords the observer a fail idea of what Mrs. Stewart was in her prime. With the aid of a silver erutch-handled cane she can get about fairly, But there are times when tho services of her personal attendant are much in ro-quest.

A WOMAN OK METHOD. Mrs. Stewart is a woman of method.

When able, she rises by 10 o'clock and breakfasts usually alone. Her tasks are few and modest, ami her rich but simple breakfast equipage contains the old-fashioned meal of tea, dry toasl, ami some light, easilv digested food, as chicken or lish. Wines she rarely touches, save toward evening, prepara-tory to retirement, between 9 and 10 o'clock, when a glass of port acts as a gentle stimulant to a night of peaceful repose.

But despite her long years of mourn-ing, life has certain mrties to be per-formed, and a business tact, inherited probably from her husband, is still char-aclerislic of Mrs. Stewart's domestic habits.

There are certain pensioners to be looked after, accounts of personal ex-penditures to bo investigated, letters to bo answered, and old friends to be re-ceived. Besides all these, her signature has to be obtained to sundry business formalities that are indispensable. All this takes up more time than would at tlrst appear.

COMBING H E R HAIR.

One of her favorite pastimes, peculiar to many old people, is to indulge in tho luxury of having her hair brushed. Her silver braids are long and line, and though increasing years may have told upon her strength, tline has added to, rather than detracted from the glory of her hair. This operation usually lasts for an hour or more, while her compan-ion—sometimes it is a relative—roads from the newspapers, or from a relig-ious book, as her fancy may inclino.

Her moods are various and capricious. Ever-changing fancies are continually occurring to her mind. One day she may be bright, sanguine, and exceed-ingly pleasant; the next she may be plunged into utter despondency, and will refuse comfort from her most at-tached friends. When laboring under these morbid relleclions she has been known to lie for hours upon her couch utterly alone.

Her husband's portrait hangs in her Ded-room, protected by a small curtain. She will look at it for an hour at a lime, and then again the curtain will remain tightly drawn for days.

N o m o r e Chi l ls a n d A g u e In t h i s sec t ion. Our Drugg is t is sell ing a n a r t i c l e cal led "Ague C o n q u e r o r . " I t la a b o u t t h e only satiHfao-to ry p r e p a r a t i o n sold f o r t h e c u r e of F e v e r a n d > «\ t. / tl. ; II.. t 2* » am It'of. Conqueror . ton" DrepaiwuH«*»»• • > - - -Ague, D u m b Chills, I n t e r m i t t e n t o r Bil ious Fev-er*. T h e Propr i e to r of t h e Ague Conqueroi has used b u t l i t t l e energy t o m a k e th i s medic ine known , a n d y e t i t s s a l e s are i m m e n s e in Acne Districts . I t p u r i f l e s t h e blood. Liver a n d o the r Sec re to ry o r g a n s so e f fec tua l ly t h a t t h e Chills do n o t return even when pe r sons have h a d them f o r y e a r s . Ent i re ly vege t ab l e p r e p a r a t i o n -Pr ice , SO cen t* a n d $1.00 p e r Bott le . T w o doses •rill s t o p t h e c h l l U . M v r l .

gi'iiy Under some conditions her vitality is

surprising, and her health, upon tho whole, is good, considering the mental jiiffering she has undergone. Her pal-ace is watched night and day, and to get to see Mrs. Stewart Is ono of the im-possibilities to those who are not includ-ed among her warmest friends.—N. Y. Journal.

She had been six months in attendance dt aschooi of fashionable cookery and no one was therefore surprised to hear her inquiring around how much pie-plant It took to make a lemon-pic.

Olassicai Education. "Do you not think that American in-

stitutions are progressive?" inquired a Boston girl of an eminent English tour-ist on tho Baltimore and Ohio railroad.

"Indeed I do," was the hearty reply. "The classical education of even your railroad brakemen make them far su-

Iierior to the common guards of our ingllsh Kvstem."

"What do you mean by tlie classical education of our brakemen?" inquired the Boston girl, with 110 small show of surprise.

"Why, I notice they open the car door and call out tho names of the sta-tions in an unknown tongue. I am fa-miliar with seven distinct languages, but your American brakemen are a gulf of learning comnared to our most emi-nent scholars. I'lieir salaries must cer-tainly be enormous, and their erudition vast ami unfathomable."—Texas Sijt-ings. ^

A Way Ou t of a Dilemma. Countryman: "By gosh, them sus-

Mose Schaumburg: "Mine fren, you vash mlshdaken. Hose susbondera vash de longest kind—imborted goots. You keeps dese susbenders. und shoost you puys for dree toller und a halaf a hair of bants, vat comes down more on der trround, und dot will lit dose imborted braces " -Texas Si/tings.

A Knack? A Gift? or a Secret? Tho salary of ono man, even with

much self-denial and a great deal of tho bitterness of can't a (ford it, scarcely sufllces to make both ends meet—while tho same amount in the hands of anoth-er, with the same number to support, sufllces for all comforts, for some lux-uries, and now and then an outing. Said a lady, not very long ago: "Yes, indeed, if there is one thing which I really do understand, it is economy. Why, my husband hero will tell you how admirably I managed to get along with only a hundred ami fifty dollars a month to live on. while I was out in • (naming a very small town in tho far West), while he was away prospect-ing. I knew I was limited to that amount, and I made it do?" The lady had no children, and in the little way station she mentioned society could not have been very exacting in the way of dress and entertainment, and it is scarcely surprising to know that she "made it do. 1 but she dwelt eloquently upon the fact of her economies "on this paltry thirty-seven dollars and some odd cents a week, you know," telling how sho converted barrels into "lovely chairs," and boxes Into tables, etc., otc.', as "1 never could have done, you know, but that there really was no society there, nml 1 had only my servant ami myself to provide for, bill 1 did splen-didly with what Iliad, John, didn't I?" and " John" assented with great cordial-ity to this, adding that "ho did not be-lieve any one could have gotten along In that way save Carrie, here." He ev-idontlv had not vet read tho letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle, which show how she "got along" on seven dollars a week, cheerfully ami brightly, too, dis-pensing cordial hospitality to friends, with always a tidbit for her rather ex-acting liege lord, and always a morsel for her littlo dog. keeping herself evenly up to her social duties, and entertaining at her board tho very best and foremost minds of that country and of others— her household expenses for a month not equaling those of our little Western economist for a week. So, wo find those who can dress on tens better than others who spend thousands; mistresses and masters who will get more work out of their assistants than others who not only pay higher wages, but wear them-selves out in helping their help—and finally, those who get more out of their own existence, more sweetness, more llavor, more actual accomplishment for themselves and for others, though with perhaps far less "moneyed means" than any of their acquaintances, being at the same time more smiling and cheerful. more light-hearted, more given to tho sunny side of things than hundreds of others to whom smiles and cheeriness seem to belong as by right. Is there a knack about it? Is it a gift? Is it a secret, belonging to the few, which no money can buy and which no amount of study-can perfect one in? I t seems to bo a certain grasp of life which is not in the power of a l l - a quick compre-hension oi the much that can be (lone with little—an insight into the abilities of others, an intimate knowledge of the true value of such things as time and human capacity, which lend to the pos-sessorofsiieh knowledge rare indlviuual qualities which the world dubs talents, or sets down as genuino genius.-iVcw; Orleans Picayune.

Soapsuds will not chap or injure the hands, even if kept a long time in it, if on taking them from the suds they are thoroughly sponged, ordlpped in lemon juice or vinegar. The acid destroys the corrosive effects of the alkali and makes tho hands soft and while. In-dian meal and lemon juice used when washing the hands, when roughed by cold or nard work, will heal and soften them. Vinegar will answer if lemons are not easily obtained. Kub the hands in this, then wash thoroughly, and if you have it, after drying put on a few drops of glycerine. Those who suffer from chapped hands in Ihe winter will find this comforting, nml will make sowing much easier.

Oysters Grown on Trees, For years the waters of Poquonot

River, Conn., have been noted as pro-ducing tho most delicious oysters known in the world. The demand was far in excess of the supply. On account vJ the thick, black mud that plastered the bed of tho river, and which is fatal tc oyster-culture, only a small margin ol the bottom, a rocky strip far in shore, could be utilized by the oyster-gtowers. I t was not until three or f ou ry t a r s ago that a speculative inventive Yankee ue-vlsed a plan for extending tho oystei cultivation upon the mud bottoms. He went into his woods and cut down a forest of tough, wiry white birches, drag-ged them to the bank, bore them to his boat upon the river, und dumped them overboard, taking care that they should bo left at proper Intervals on tho bot^ torn. He hau an Idea that tho oyster spawn would come sailing along in the season, catch hold of the olrch ooughs, and grow into a fabulous fortune for him. The idea was a good one, but not per-fected. Ho allowed the birch to lie a suitablo time and then pulled them up. Every bough and twig was thick with half-grown bivalves, but tbe weight ol the growing shells had dragged the brush down into the fatal mud, and the oysters had perished by the million.

Enlightened by his failure he made another trial. He planted the birches upright on the bottom, setting them at an angle with the cur ren t The sub-merged trees were from lifteen to twen-ty feet in length, and the butts, which were three or four inches in diameter, were thrust three or four feet into the mud. Their tops just pricked through the waves at low tide. It was just what the oysters wanted, a ready-made home. They drifted as thick as snow-flakes to the bending boughs ami pliant twigs. Singly they were so small as to be almost Invisible, but their legions speckled tho trees with brownish patches. The trees bowed under their load of growing shells, but the elastic wood kept the fruit clear of the mud. At the «nd of a few months it was won that the ovs ter orehanls promised an astonishfng harvest. All tho oystermcn along the river were anxious to try their hand at the new style of oyster farming. Under the law of the State the mud bottom on each side of the 100-foot channel was staked and set oil' in plants to a dozen or more applicants to l>e planted with oyster trees. Soon both sides of Po-quonoc Kiver, from its head for a long way toward the sea, was bristling with sunken birches, waving an ebbing and flowing welcome to tho drifting spa t — Norwich {Conn.) Cor. N. Y Times.

A middle-aged lady applied to Mr. Barnum for the position of circus mana-ger. When she was asked about her pro-iiciency she naively replied that she had been married three times, and if any one could explain the word circus ihe was the person.

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A Brooklyn man assorts that a near sighted person can not hear well without glasses.

After the Coronation. At last the much dreaded but highly

necessarv ceremony is over. The soldiery have discharged their musketry, tho detectives their duty, tho Czar has been safely crowned, and Moscow is at rest. The nihilists have packed up their dynamite and moved to St. Petersburg, and tho czar and czarina, in the retire-ment of their royal iron-clad bed-cham-ber, have been engaged in a delightful-ly peaceful discussion of the grand event in which they have been the central : figures.

"And now, dear," said tho czarina, yawning, and kicking oft" a gold mount-ed slipper, "don' t you think you had bet-ter take ofl'your things?"

_ "Na-a-w, I don't ," and the czar tilled his crown a liltle further on to his car and swaggered around the room, flirt-ing the tail of his coronation robe in a particularly aggravating manner.

"Don' t be a fool, Aleck," snapped tho czarina.

" I tell you I ain't going to take this crown off, nor I ain't going to tako this robe off, neither, until I got ready. I'm tho czar of all the Russias, I am, ami if I want to go to bed with them on I can do it, and don't you forgot i t ."

This outburst of indopendonoo com-pletely dumbfounded tho czarina, and she had not a word to say as sho con-tinued to divest herself of several mil-lion dollars worth of jewelry and ex-pensive and highly perfumed clot lies, but there was an ominous glitter in hot cyo that betokened anything but sub-mission.

" I want you to understand that. You yes, you.r1 continued the czar, a little frightened at his own boldness and daz-ed ny his wife's unaccountable silonco. Then observing no signs of a revolt, ho added, "I 've been so bothered about business hero of late that I 've allowed you to do pretty much as you pleased, but now that I 've got this crowning af-fair off my mind, 1 propose to run this establishment on a now and improved

Jilan," and the ozar wheeled around in rout of a pier glass and viewed himseli

with a self-satisflod smirk. By this time tho czarina had got down

to her lighting clothes, and she sudden-ly confronted tho ozar with a look that Alexander had learned to respect and which startle ' him to such an extent that his highly prized crown toppled off and rollea under tho bed.

"You've allowed wic—you're going to run this establishment!^ shrieked the czarina. "Come out of that robo, do you hear?"

The czar of all the Russias hastily dis-robed.

"Leave that crown alone!" she yelled m the trembling man attempted to crawl under the bed.

" I was only going to get it for you," said tho wretched monarch.

"Never you mind about getting it for mo, you go to bed and I'll tend to tho crown."

Needless to say that Alexander tho Third retired imraediately.and before the czarina was through with him that night he would have bartered his kingdom cheerfully for a quiet corner in oneof his own Siberian mines: the terrors of dyna-mite were double discounted.—CIM. Hat. Night.

MORTGAGE S A L E . — D e f a u l t h a v i n g been m o d e in t h e condi t ion of a cer ta in mor t -

gage m a d e J u n e 17th, IhTS, by Olive Blans of Low-ell, Michigan to Smith Blnn* of Conquest, Cayuga county, New York, and recorded in the ollire of the ICegiHii-r of Deeds of Keat county, Michigan, J u n o 23<1,ISTU a t a o'clock A M in L l b e r ' l , of Mortgages , Page tH, on which said m o r t . u i f and t h e n o t e a c c o m p a n y i n g it, there Is a t ibis d a t e c la imed to be duo eight hundred s e v e n t y th ree & seven ty une h u n d r e d t h s dollars, being tlie whole a m o u n t unpa id on said mor tgage , a n d no sui t o r p r o c e e d -i n g a t law o r in equi ty h a v i n g been ins t i tu ted to recover Ihe d e b t secured by said mor tgaee , t h e p o w e r of sa le con ta ined in said mor tgage lias bueonie opera t ive .

T h e r e f o r e not ice is h e r e b y given t h a t said m o r t g a g e will bi- foreclosed by a sale of t h e mor t -ganed p r e m l i e s at publ ic auc t ion t o t h e h i g h e s t b idder on Monday the 10th d a y of S e p t e m n e r IHSI, a t 10 o 'c lock. A M of t h a t d a y a t Ii"1 e n t r a n c e of Court Block in tlie City of G r a n d Rap ids in wild Kent coun ty , liiat being t h e plaei ' of holding t h e Circui t Court of sa id county . Said premiries a re dc.-eriUed in said m o r t g a g e us fo l lows :

All of t h a t cer tain p iece o r p a r r e l of land sil-uatii in t h e town of Lowell , in t i i e coun ly of Kent and s l a t e of Michigan descr ibed a* follows to-wlt : All of (ho sou th-eas t q u a r t e r of sect ion e ight , town six n o r t h of r a n g e n ine west, excep t th i r ty -two a c r e s of land out of t h e south-east corner .now owned by Alvah Rolf a n d excep t i ng t if ty a c r e s of land out of 1 ne sou th -wes t c o m e r bi-lunging to Nora iliiKted. •

Doted J u n e Hi it, 1H<!. S M I T H i t f . A S S .

MVIION H. WALKER, Mortgagee. A t to rney fo r Mor tgagee . 51wl3

ORDKR OK i 'L'BI.ICATlON S ta l e of Michi-gmi, sevenlei nth Judic ia l Cireuit, in Chan-

cery. Sui t iMinding in Ihe Circuit Cour t fo r t h e c o u n t y of Kent , in Vhancery , a t t h e e i l y o l G r a n d Rapids, in said coun ty , on t h e liTith day of J u n e , A. 1>. ISftl.

Mirerva W. Drew, Compla lnan l . vs.

Caleb W Drew, Defendan t . In lliis cauiie, it a p p e a r i n g f rom alTidavit on

111v. Hint tin" d e f e n d a n l Caleb F . Drew is a resi. di nt of Ibis S ta t e , Imt tha t he is concea led , so thai service of Mibpo>-na in this e a u i e c a n n o t be m a d e On inolion of C la rence Cole, Complain-a n t ' s Soil.-itor it is orderi 'd tha t the a p p e a r a n c e of viid d e f e n d a n t Caleb 1'. Drew be en te red herein within th ree mont l i s f r o m t h e d a l e of this order , a n d in case of b is appenrane<> h e e a n s e his a n s w e r to the bill of(coi i iplainl to be (lied, and a copy tln-reof to be served on the Compla in a n t ' s Solicitor within t w e n t y d a y s a f t e r service on iiini of a copy of said Hill and noliee of t h i so r -d e r a n d in derani t the reof , said lllll will be taken a s confessed by said non-resident d e f e n d a n t : And II is f u r t h e r ordered that within twenty d a y s t h e Compla inant c a u s e a not ice of this order to be publ i shed in the Lowell .lorn.VAI.a newspape r pr in ted , puMished a n d c i rcula t ing in said county a n d that vaid publ i ia t ion be cont inued there in once in e a c h week fo r six weeks in sm eession. or t h a t he cause a copy of t h i s o rde r to be iterson-ai ly se rved on said noii-re«ident Defendunt a t least t w e n t y days U-fore the t ime above pre-scribed fo r his a p p e a r a n c e .

FRANK F, Kl rTTS. Circuit Court Commissioner.

CLAHKNCE Coi.iv, Kent County. Mich. Compla inant 's Solici tor 3w7.

A t r u e copy . At tes t . Chas, G. Qodf ro roy.

Dept. Regis te r .

I ) R O B A T K ORDKR. - S l a t e of Michigan. Conn-1 ty of Kent . ss. A t a session of t h e P r o b a t e Court f o r t h e County of Kent , holden a t t h e Pro-ba te Ollice, in tho City of Grand Rapids , on Tues-d a y the seventh d a y of August in the y e a r one t housand e igh t h u n d r e d and eighty three.

P r e s e n t - C v r u s K. Perk ins J u d g e of P roba te . In Ihe m a t t e r of t h e e s t a t e of Anna Pa rdee

late of t b e town of Bowne, deceased . On r ead ing a n d filing Ihe peti t ion duly

vt-rilied, of O/i Pardee , b r o t h e r of saiil deceased p ray ing lh:ii Ihe ndmin i s t r a t ion of •'aid e s t a t e nirtV be g ran ted to J a m e s W. P a r d e e of said c o u n t y :

T h e r e u p o n it is o r d e r e d . T h a t Monday t h e 10th day of S e p t e m b e r nex t a t ten o'clock in Ihe fore-noon be ass igned f o r t h e hear ing of said |M'li-tion and tha t Ihe h e i r s a t law of «iid deceaned and ai l o t h e r persons in te res ted in said es ta te , a r e required to a p p e a r at a session of said Court , then to be holden a t Ihe P roba te Ollice. In tho City of Grand Rap ids , in said coun ty , a n d show c a u s e if a n y t h e r e be why Ihe p r a y e r of Ihe pe t i t ioner should not be g r a n t e d . And il is f u r t h e r o rde r ed . T h a t said pe t i t ioner give not iee lo t lie p e r s o n s interested in said es-ta te , of the pendency of said peti t ion and the hear ing thereof by caiisini; a copv of th is order to be puldislied in Ihe I.OWKI.I. .focuNAU a n e w s p a p e r printed a n d clrculalliig in said coun ty of Kent t h r ee successive weeks, previous to said d a y of h fa r ing . C V R U S K. PERKINS,

(A t r u e copy.) J u d g e of Probate . ADOM-II It. MASON. Regis ter . 8w:i.

For Tellin® a Lie. When Justice Massey, of Brooklyn,

asked a littlo colored boy who, as al-leged, was treated cruelly by his step-mother ami his father, what would hap-pen to him if ho told% lie, the child re-plied:

" I guess I'll be locked up. won't I ? " "Have you ever attended Sunday

school?" continued his Honor. "Oh, yes. sir." "Well, did you not learn there of a

place where you would cm should you tell a lie?" '

"Oh, yes, sir. The teacher i -Id mo she'd send me home," said the • Id.

There are Indian girls in the Indian Territory University who are studying German. French, Latin, and Greek, geology, moral philosophy, political cconomy. and other branches of tho ool-lege course.

Handy One-Armed Men. Ho was a big man with heavy side-

whiskers and a military air that ' beto. eneil long service under lire; and h was a one-armed man. Tho empty sleeve that hung at his right side told ol glory sought and peril undergone. Ho was seated in an Eighth street restau-rant, leisurely breakfasting and going through the motions of the meal with a graceful ease that betokened a man of high breeding.

"Nevermind the knife and fork," he said, as tho obsequious waiter placed these useful implements beside the sav-or}' steak that formed the basis of tho meal, " I am already provided." So saying ho drew from his pocket a small morocco case and removed from it an ivory-handled instrument, highly pol-ished, that looked slightly surgical iu its spotless brilliancy. Opening this by tho aid of his mouth, and his remaining hand he disclosed what proved to be a knife and fork combined. One side was a well-sharpened knife, and at the ends were three broad prongs that served well the purposes of a fork. The cut-ting of the steak was done gracefully and thoroughly, and then his break-fast bewan.

By this time tho writer, anxious to learn more of tho devices of tho one-armed man, took a seat at the same ta-ble and ordered his breakfast. His re-marks on the ease ami grace with which t'je veteran handled his conjoint knife and fork were well received and the one-armed man willingly explained some of tho many devices that he s od others maimed iii tho war resort to for self-service.

"This knife and fork," he said, "were among the first inventions for one-armgd men and have been in use for many years. But we have other tie-vices not so generally known. For in-stance. when I wash my face ami hand lhavo aflixed to my basin a small brush, upon which I rub my soap ami thus raise the necessarv suds. When I want to cut my nails ( stick a sharp knlfo into the table and pass tlii'iu care-fully around the edge of the blade. To tie my shoo in a bow-knot required Ion<>| practice and no little ingenuity, but I can do it easily now. How I do it I can not explain in words. For a long time I had great tro.iblo in buttoning my collar, but now no button can re-sist mo. I don't believo I swear half as much during the operation as most meu who have two arms."

"Can you shave yourself?" "Oh, yes. There is no difliculty

about that. In fact, since the twenty years since Antictam, where I lost my arm, I have become almost perfect in all tho little arts requisite for c o m f o r t "

Dr. Poole, the indefatigable and schol-arly librarian of the Chicago Public Li-brary, is making that institution educa-tional in more than one way. He takes tko history class of one of the city high schools every Saturday morning and gives them a kind of literary object les-son, by teaching the art of finding his-tory from books.

SI I E R I F K ' S SAl.K,- By vir tue of a n execu t ion issued out of a n d u n d e r the sea l of the Cir-

cui t Court of Ihe c o u n t y of Kent, In tin- s t a l e of Michigan, a t t e s t ed on t h e ititii d a y of F e b r u a r y , A . 1). ISO, to m e d i rec ted and del ivered in f avor of Myron S. C raega r , plaintiff a n d aga ins t Ihe goods a n d chattels , a n d fo r want thereof , then of the real e s t a t e of Geo rge S. OlldbridKC, tho d e -f e n d a n t ther in named , I have levied upon and shall expose fo r s a l e a t Public Auct ion o r Ven-d u e t o t h e highest b i d d e r at the west en t r ance to t h e Cireuit Oourt rooms , (Court Block, so-calledi in Ihe ci ty of Grand Rapids, t h a t IM-IIIK t h e place fo r hold ing the Circui t Court of t h e coun ty , where in said p r e m i s e s a r e s i tua ted , on F r iday t h e : i l s t d a y of Augus t , A. D. I SKI, at 10 o'clock in Ihe forenoon, of said day , t h e fol lowing de-scr ibed real es ta te ly ing a n d lieing in the cotmly of Kent and s ta te of Michigan, a s fol lows;

' fowlI , South east one-quar te r i .^t of t h e soulli e a s t one q u a r t e r I V|) of section twenty f o u r (:M)of Townxhip seven |7| no r th of Knnge nine (!') wes t : o the rwise known a s Lot six (Ci of seclion twen ty fou r (ail Vergennes Kent county , Michigan.

Dated J u l y U t h , INSI. MVHON II. WAIJCKR,

At to rney f o r i ' ia in t i f f . LYMAN T. K1NNEV.

SherilVof Kent coun ty . Mich. By F r e e m a n Brewer , Deputy . -Iw7.

•VTOTICE is he reby given that I, George W . Mc-i * Kee, Townsh ip Drain Commiss ioner of t h e t ownsh ip of Cascade in t h e coun ty of Kent , will on the ISth of Aug. George I l en f r ey , in luld town-ship at t en o.clock In t b e forenoon meet par t ies for t h e pu rpose of lulling con t rac t s fo r t h e con-s l ruct ion of a d ra in in said township known as tho I l e n f r e y dra in mid t h a t 1 will then and t he r e proceed to let con t rne t s f o r t h e cous t rnc t iun of tlie s a m e by s e i l i o n s a s I have appor t ioned and d iv idedthe s a m e a n d t h a t such con t rac t will be let to Ihe persons w h o do t h e wark according to t h e specilicatioii thereof m a d e by m e a n d now rema in ing in my ollice, for Ihe least s u m of money und who will give adeipiate secur i ty for tlie pe r fo rmance of tho FOIUC within such t ime o r shall be specified iu such cont rac ts respect-ively t h e unders igned reserving the right t o re-ject a n y ail bids. Not ice is also h e r e b y given t h a t at t h e t ims a n d p l a c e of sa id let t ing of con-t r a c t s t h e a s s e s s m e n t of benel l l s m a d e by m e will b e sub jec t to review.

Dated tills sMth d a y of Ju ly . 1883. G E O R G E W. McKEE,

Townsh ip Drain Comuils ioner f o r tlie townsh ip of Cascade .

(CHANCERY SALE.—In p u r s u a n c e a n d by vir J t u e of a dec ree of t h e Circuit Court fo r tlie

coun ty of Kent , in Chance ry , m a d e a n d en te red on t h e T e n t h d a y of March. A. I). I»C(. in a cer-ta in c a u s e there in nend ing where in George Guent is Compla inan t a n d J a m e s Dwyer . Eliza Butler and T h o m a s Bu t l e r a ro de fendan t s , not ice is her tbv igiven t h a t on S e p t e m b e r 10th, A. D. IKKl a t ten o 'c lock in the forenoon of said day I t h e Hubscriber a Ci rcui t Court Commissioner in a n d f o r said c o u n t y shall sell a t public auction t o the h ighes t b idder a t tho south f ron t door of the Court House of sa id c o u n t y towi t : C o u r t Block (so ca l led) in t h e Ci ty of Grand Rapids in said c o u n t y . All t h a t cer ta in piece or j iareel of land lying a n d being in Ihe coun ty of Kent a n d s ta te

uvl Michigan k n o w n a n d descr ibed a s follows to-wi t :

T h e south wes t q u a r t e r (J4) of t h e sou thwes t u a r t e r (ki) of s ec l ion twen ty live (23) in Town-

sh ip n u m b e r live (5) no r th of range Ten (10) west. FRANK F. KUTTS,

Circuit Court Commissioner Kent coun ty , Michigan.

HOI.UKS AND IIINK. C o m p l a i n a n t ' s Solicitors t w i t .

Dated Ornnd Rap ids . J u n e hUh, A. D. IKKI.

Nervous f ros t ra t ion , vital weaicness debility from overwork or indlscretio is radically and promptly cured by that preat nerve and brain food known as Magnetic Medicine which is sold by all responible druggists. See advertisf ment in another column.

FEVER AND AOUE. Are you trounled witn Ague, Chills

and Fever, Bilious Fever, Remittent or Intermitting Fever, Night Sweats or any disease that comes from Malaria or disordered Liver and Hot Suns? If so procure a bottle of Green's Ague Con-queror. which is an acetic extract of strong tonic roots, combined with Sul-phate of Magnesia, etc., and positively contains no Quinine, Arsenic or other poisons. It purifies the blood, cleanses the liver, spleen and other secretive or-gans so effectually that the chills will not return. We have never found any case of Fever and Ague it will not cure. Price, 50 cents and ^1.00 per bottle. One large bottle has cured as many as five in one family. Sold by all drugcists and dealers evervwhere.

One ot the most juunful and distress-ing diseases to which the flesh is heir is P i l e s . D R . BOSANKO'S P I L E R E M E D Y h a s been tried, tested and proved to be an in-rallible remedy fur the cure of all kinds of Piles. Pru i 50 cents. Sold by nil druggists. 48vl

WHY LONGER GROAN

With pain and hug the delusinn Hint nothing can give you relief. Them Is a remedy that in greatly prized for the relief of the alllicted. It relieves pains and aches in all foruiH, sllmiilates the di-gestive apparatus to more perfectly do its work, so you will not be sulTerlng with Dys|iep8ia and the long list of ills, the results of disordered digestion. Dys-entery, . holera and Cranips. It" is Ilanillton's Jamaica Ginger Tonic and Pain Cure, In Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Sciactica, Bruises, Strains, &c., applied externally it is excellent. Price 2r> and JH) cents jier bottle. Sold by all drug-gists.

D I A B E T E S .

Are you troubled with Thirst, Exces-sive and frequent flow of Urine, pains in the loins and back and nervousness? These are some of the symtoms attend-ing Diabetes and Brights Disease. Do not hesitate, but get Parmelee's Dyspep-sia, Diabetes, Kidney and Liver Cure which will not onlv cure you but tone up the sytem and prevent Dyspepsia, Sick Haadache, Biliousness, Liver com-plaint and all kindred diseases. Only $:! for large bottles. Sold by all druggists.

SPREAD THE GOOD NEWS

And let every ono know tho benefits to be derived from the use of Parmelee's Blood Purifier. I t thoroughly cleanses the system from all humors. It is a safe cure for Scrofula.Erysipelas,Chron-ic Sores. Tumors, Salt Rheum, and all diseases indicating an impure condition of the blood. Price |1.00 per bottle. Sold by all druggists.

PILES

In all of the various forms are constant companions of tho Human race and pro-duces the utmost suffering and cause many a person to commit sin if not sui-cide. In Blind. Bleeding, Itching Piles, internal or external immediate relief can be obtained by faithful use of Par-melee's Pile Suppossitories with hot wa-ter. Never known to fail. Warranted to cure. Price 30 cents per box. Sold by all druggists.

EVhRY BODY KNOWs"IT. Everybody knows what red clover is

It has been used many years by the good old (•erman women and physicians for the blood, and is known as tho best blood purifier when properly prepared. Combined with other medicinal herbs and roots, it forms Dr. Jones' Red Clo-ver Tonic, whichis good for all blood, disorders, torpid Liver, costiveness and sick headache. Sure cure for pimples Ask J . Q, Look. Druggist for it. Only fifty cents a bottle.

No oilier preparation so concentrates and combines blood-purifying, vital-izing, enriching and invigorating qualities as Ayer's Sarsapanlla. Quality should be considered when making com-parisons

One of the great questions now agi-tating the public mind throughout tho land is tho alarming adulteration ot food compounds, especially in the nu-merous Baking preparations which are being placed upon tbe market. If you desire light, sweet, wholesome bread, free from all poisonous chemicals, pure and unadulterated, always use the

NATIONAL YEAST. For sale by Sunderland & Sterling.

S O M E T H I N G N E W

Steke tee ' s W o r m Destroyer

I N C A P S U L E S .

VSSIUNEE'S SALE. In Ihe m a t t e r of the a i -Hignmeut of t h e estate of Louis A . Stiff.

Htirviviu)' p a r t n e r of tho late f irm of .Still' 4 Stiff , of Lowell , Kent coun ty , Michigan.

Notice is he reby given tha t on WEDNESDAY, lb . ' 10 th day of OCTOHER, A. 1)., 1888, at 2 o 'c lock in t h e o f t e r n o o n of tliut day . a t t h e p remises h e r e i n a f t e r descr ibed, I s.'.iill xell a t pub l ic veuduc t o t h e b igbe i t resiHinidble bidder al l t h e r igh t , t i t l e a n d in teres t which 1 ocouired by nu a s s lgnmen m a d e and uxecuted by l ^ u i s A . St i f f , a s su rv iv ing iMirtner of i h e late l inn of Stiff A St i f f , in and t o Ihe Lowell miiiH a n d a o p u r t e u a n e e s . w a t e r riglita prlvllegeH a n d iidauus t h e r e u n t o Ixdongiug to l>e sold Kiiliji-el t o the In-cumbranei i s ib t t t eou , which pro | ic r tv i» m o r e par t icular ly descr ibed as follows, vl/. All those c e r t a i n pieces o r pa r ce l s of land hiiuate a n d bel> g in ihe town of Lowell , coun ty of Kent a n d Ktato of Michigan, a n d duserllNHl n» fol iowi , to-wit Commencing a t t h e soulheas le r ly co rne r of l l r idgemid R ive r • t r ee l , accord ing t o t h e record-ed plat of the said village of Lowell , t hence Koulherly on t h e e a s t siduof said River street to t h e soiilh line of lot neveii (Ji ; t h e n c e eas t on haid south line of lot K, veil ITI to t h e west bank of Flat river; thence nor ther ly on tlie west me-andered line of Flat river to t h e sontl i side of H r i d g e s t r e e t ; t h e n e e west l o I h e p lace of be-ginning:: also is lands n u m b e r s I, 2, -t, I, and in wild Fiat r iver nor th of said mil l ; a l so ibe r ight of l lowageon is land n u m b e r six ^1) nor th of said mill d a m ; a l so tlie r ight of llowage of e a e h b a n k of said Flat r i v e r nor th of "aid dam and south of tlui i | ua r t e r l ine be tween sect ions th i r ty live ii')) a n d thir ty-six (36), town seven (Ti n o r t h of r ange nine t'J) west, in sa id county of Kent ami s t a t e of Michigan. Also al l tools. ImpllmentH ami per-sona l p r o p e r t y connec ted with said mi l l . Also one wan-house a t t l ie D.,U. 11. & M. R. R . d e p o t .

WILLIAM R. CTTLEU, 9w7 Assignee.

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lot IDIUUIMKU RulU, C«-,«, BclU. Ifompon. EpwUlfc Ou-U"!* i Standi. Drum .Mnjort hu'A, «»il hltu. Sundry IWnd OolhU, lU|ttlth( NMtttftah. «1'0 tncluda luilrocoon und E«-Trrrwi for AnuUnt tludi, ud 4 Cual«(M

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Tins medicine is put up ny the under" signed in Iwttles and in capsules. I t is put up in capsules for the reason that many can not take medicine in a powd-ered form, in this way it is uery easy to take, Ixiing tasteless. If taken ac-cording to directions the result of thu medicine will have the same effect.

This medicine destroys all kinds ot Worms, including pin worms, and is tho only eradicator of Pin Worm# known. It is also one of the most pow-erful Blood Puriflors known. No physic is required after taking this medicine. Also used as a nhysic instead of pilla, being very mild in Its operation.

Highly recommended for the cureo t Epileptic Fits and Diphtheria. For sale by all wholesale and Retai

Druggists. Price 50cents,

O. O. STKKETEE SOLE PROPRIETOR. 89 Monroe

Urand Raoid,

$5.00 Reward t o r each gold filling ot mine that

"drops out" from improper Insertion I will give $5.00 cash.

That gold fillings sometimes " turn blue" is acknowledged by every well in-formed dentist, even fillings Inserted by a prosessor in tho Dental College a t Ann Arbor. I have his own hand writ ing to prove this, which I will gladly show to any enquirer. The fact of their turning blue is not tho fault of the dentist. However, should one chance to turn dark I will refill gratis.

Teeth filled with Gold, Gold and Pla-tina alloy. Silver, Tin, Gutta Percha, Porcelain, in fact all the best known compositions used according to the best methods.

ARTIFICIAL TEETH. I still guarantee to fit mouths that

other dentists fail to fit, (especially sim-ple plates «f 2 ami 3 teeth). I invite comparison of work with any reputable dentist.

Chiidrens teeth preserved and regulat-ed.

Prices low. Every oi>cration warrant-ed.

J . D . ROBERTSON.

Oflice over Scott's Hardware Store.

FARMERS, BUILDERSI

Everybody I MY SAVE TROUGH FACTORY IS NOW

IN RUNNING ORDER.

ana am prepared to hll orders for wood-en Eave Troughs. My Troughs are cut out of selected Norway Pine. Long usage lias proved Wooden Troughs to be more durable than tin and much cheap-er. Troughs lor sale by KingQuick & King on tho Bridge or Factory south of Bank.

F. W. Ayery.

AYER'S P I L L S . A largo iiroiwrtUm "f I 'm <lli'«nsv.« uli iub

eauso hunian uuirer ing ri.-u.i Ironi lU'rango-nient of tho stoniacl i , bowels, nml livur. AVlea's CATIIAUTIC 1'II.I.S net i l irectly U|K)U these organs, ami a r e vs|>ee.latly lU-ki^ned l o euro tliu diseases cutueii hy tl.vir durango-incut , i n d u d i n g C'uiii>U|iutioii , I n d l g v s -t l u n . l)yH|»e])rtiii. I l e a d u e l i e . Uv ki i i t e r j r , and a host -of o t h e r ail ineiils, lor all of which they a r o n sa fe , sure , |>niiii|>t. und p leasan t remedy. T h e ex tens ive use ot ihe«o PILLS by c iuinent iihysician* In r e ju l i i r |>ritc-t icc . shows unniistakiilily the eMiiuatiun iu which they a ro held by t h e medica l |>rofu»-i lon .

These PILLS aro comixiunded of veyetablo subs tances only, a n d a r e absolutely f ree f rom calomel or any o t h e r in ju r ious liigrcdleiit .

A SufTere r f r o m l l e a i l H e h e w r i t e * : "AVKU'S PILLS a r c invaluable t o m e , a m i

are my cons tan t eoniiianion. I have been a severe su t fe re r f r o m Headache , and your PILLS aro tho only th ing 1 eould look lo fo r rel ief . One dose will quiekly inuve my bowels ami f ree my head f rom jiaiu. ' l lwy aro tlio most e l fec t ive and liu- eaidMl | hyalc I have ever found . I t Is a iileiiMire to mo t o speak iu their pra ise , and I a lway* do M when occasion o l fe rs .

W. 1.. PAIIK, of W. I.. Page X t i ro , " F rank l in St . , R ichmond,Va . , . lunc 3. Ilk-.'.

" I have used AVKlt 's PILLS in number -less ins lances as recommended by you, ami have never known them to fail to nei oinpli ih t h e desired resul t . Wecons tn i i l ly keep them on hand a t ou r home, and prize them as a iili-asHiil, safe, ami rel iable family medieine. V'Oil i n s r i - l ' S I A thev a r e Invaluable .

• I .T . l lAvr . s . " M o i l a , Texan, J u n o 17, IHk;.

T h o RKV. KHAX< is | | . II AIII.MW I , writing f rom .Hhiiihi. Ha., say*: •' Kor some y e a n M s t I have WHJII subjeet l«i eomtipatlOB, Irom which, iu sp i te ol ilo* III-M ol modi-clues of var ious kinds, I nulfered in.-n H»in| ineonvoidoncu, un t i l Koine montlis ago 1 IM'GAN tak ing AVKU'S PII .M. They HAT*

Boots & Shoes GOTO

H. B. Church's Where you will And the very

Best in all sizes and prices. Call and see me

on the bridge. Repairing done with neatness and dis-patch. Coon Howk is on hand to do iti

ent i ruly cor ree ted t h e c<wti\e habit , a n d have vastly improved my g e i ^ r a l h e a l t h . "

AVKU'S CATIIAUTIC PILLS cor rec t irregu-lar i t ies of t h o bowels, sUmula te tho app*-t i t e and digest ion, a n d by the i r prompt a n d thorough ac t ion givu tone and vigor to t h * whole physical economy.

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Dr.J.C.Ayer&Co., Lowell, Mast. Sold by al l Druggist*.

All ezper lunce t h e wonder fu l Mnef lc ia l elTect* of

Ayer's Sarsaparilla. Chlldron with Sore Eyes, Soiv

P a r s , or any s c r o f u l o i u ' o r sypfc Illtlc ta int , m a y bo made heal t l iy^ind s t r o n | by its use. „

Sold by all Druggis ts ; SI , s i s bo t t les f o r | S t

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LOWELL JOURNAL, J A S . W . H I N E . PUBLISHER.

L b n « I I , A l l r h . . Aug. 22 . I 8 R 3 .

TERMS OK SUBSCRIPTION, Oni) Dollar a y e a r .

F i f t y C'onu f o r Six Jlonttm. C a s h i u v a r i a b l r in a d v a n c e .

ADVERTISING RATES, Made known on appl ica t ion .

All adver t i sementa paid qua r t e r l y . Rate« reasonable .

J O B PRINTING. In all its b ranches .

Pr ices low and work not excel led, "•earn power presses, new typo.

T H E JOURNAL, H a s an ex tens ive circulat ion.

I s an exce l len t adver t i ser . A live p a p e r In a live t own .

Neighborhood News. ADA ITEMS.

Ada "hellos" on the exchange now. Public offlce at Hine & Sandell'H.

Wo take exception to an item in last week's JOUKNAI. relative to raiding tlu* thievc'H camp. The team, wagon, trunks,

etc., were caught hero and put in the hotel barn and Shoriir Snydi'i* simply

catmt here and got them in response to a telogrnm that they were hero.

Scarlet fever at Mr. Rhodes,'

Honry Smith is on the sick lint.

Wallace I j m g made tin a visit last week.

Chicken thieves raided this seclion one night last week ami Messrs. Living-

stone. Colwell, Bristol and Waldron are the mourners. TIM.

VKUOENNKS VI8ITOK.

Mr. E. Manahan, of Mobile, Ala., is visiting a t Mr. Win. Robinson's.

Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Misner and child-ren of Casnovia aro visiting Mr. M.'s

parents. Mr. and Mrs. C. Misner. Mrs. C. Misner and Mrs. S. Bailey are still on

the sick list. Mr. L. J . Robinson and

daughter Ella have been making Dakota fr iends a flying visit. L. J . lias a claim

there, and gays he likes the count ry bet-ter than he expected to. Mr. J . S. Fox

started for Dakota Monday night for a visit.

W e are glad to see the JOURNAL look-ing like its dear old self again. Come

"Hod , " " A . L . C.," and others, send in your mites. We believo they will be

printed now since tho editor is home and manages the paper himself. We hope he will never run off again.

LONE.

SO. BOSTON BREEZES.

Mr. & Mrs. B. Chapman reported a

very pleasant t r ip to Petoskey and are now visiting in Wisconsin.

Mrs. C. C. Winegar is visiting in N. Y .

The Union Church have decided to re-

tain the services of Rev. J . E. Turner another year,

Mr. & Mrs. John Sessions made Mr. &

Mrs. D. H. English a pleasant visit last week. Mr. Sessions is one of the larg-est farmers in Ionia Co., and an exten-

sive stock raiser, was formerly interest-in Hereford cattle, but has discarded

them entirely, and has since invested about $1,000 m Short Horns .

P . L. Strong is here visiting among his f r iends .

The Union Sabbath School hold a pic-

nic this week Thursday, in S. Tucker's woods. A good t ime is expected.

We are glad to hear the subject of Fairs mentioned often.

The few who found faul t wi th the So.

Boston and Lowell road improvement are very quiet now, and some who put

money into it before aro now ready to pu t more into it.

23, to meet his wife who has been visi t -ing in Canada. Lewis Hal l c o m m e n c f i his labors as Principal of the school a t

Luther tlie first of next month . MACU.

FKEKPORT HERALDINGS.

Mr. Stephen Doty, of Campbell , has sold his larm lo Mr. J o h n Stadle, con-sideration, $1,800.

The Barry County Fair will be held on the 2d, Ikl, 4tli and 5th of October

next .

Mr. J o h n Ruckle, a fa rmer al>out one

mile south, is preparing to make brick. He expects to burn his first kiln in about three weeks.

Dr. W . P. Polhemus. w h o practiced

here a few montl is last summer , has re-turned to Hastings, and may be found a t the office of Dr, E. H. Lathrop.

We hear fears expressed that there

will be a light potato crop. In low, • ' places potatoes are rott ing, while on

high land tho drouth is afTecting the yield.

Mr. 1). Dulccy, of Bowne, passed

through here Tuesday night, en-route to

llastiiiKS to notify relatives of the dan-gerous illness of Geo. Salsbury's mother residing near Bowne Centre.

While in Hast ings on Saturday of last

week, Mrs. W m . H. Lee, of Carlton Centre, 80 years of age was thrown f rom

a buggy and sustained a f rac tu re of two ribs, and one liii'b below the knee. She

was removed to her home, and Dr. La-

throp, of Hastings called, and ho reports her condition as very serious.—Hera hi.

A r o u n d t h e M a t e .

A new lire saving station i s ' to bo lo-

cated a t South Haven.

A new $20,000 school-house has been voted for a t Romeo.

Examinat ions for admission to the Agricultural college begin Sept. 4.

There were 065 births reported in Ma-comb county dur ing the past year.

A Tuecolu county man, who is living with his second connubial partner, sues

for a divorce f rom his first wife.

HASTINGS HAPPENINGS.

The Hastings Brick and Tile Company

has commenced work in earnest , having ten men employed and mak ing about 10,000 brick per day.

To properly develop Hast ings and

Barry county, the Kalamazoo and Sagi-naw railroad is essential. No ellurt to

secure it should be lacking in support .

W e are requested by the secretary,Mr.

I ra M. Stanton, to state tha t t h e B irry County Pioneer meeting will IK* held on

Friday, the 24th, and not the 30th as previously announced.

Our neighboring village of Lowell is in telephone communicat ion wi th L a n -sing, Jackson and Detroit Would it

not be a good th ing for Hast ings to se-cure a telephone line.

The veracious Democrat makes the start l ing announcement t ha t a full corpse of teachers is to be employed in the city

schools. Glad lo learn t h a t the board has decided to employ a full corpse this year .

The annual encumpment of JetTerds

Post , No. 82, U. A. R. is to be held a t Nashville on Thursday next , the 23d.

Comrades f rom Hast ings expects to be present. Hon. Austin A. Blair will lie

ora tor of the day .—Banner .

Tho annual meet ing o the- Macomb

and St. Clair county soldiers' and sail-ors' association is set down for August 23, a t Romeo.

Alvin Tripp and Frank Perchell , ar-

rested at Muskegon on a charge of counterfei t ing. Dies, metal and Ixigus

coin were found in Tr ipp 's house.

Joseph McCollum, a deaf mute , was

run over by a train a t Manchester and

received injur ies f rom which he died a few hours a f te r .

Friends of Timothy Sargent , the Sar-

anac man who recently disappeared, are satisfied ha t tho man seen at Sherwood

recently was not Sargent.

Three Allegan youths all under nine years of age, are under arrest for break-

ing into a store and stealing firearms, and also breaking into a house and s<eal-

Ing j am.

The Kalamazoo Telegraph pr int ing company is doing work for a business

house iu South Africa. Much Kalama-zoo work finds its w a y to that country,

especially windmills, e tc .

"Old Fred" a cat tha t has heeu a res ident in the Mmr postofllce for 20 years,

died a few days ago, hav ing survived

several changes of adminis t ra t ion and

never paid a Hubbell assessment.

Benson Bidwe'l , t h e high muck-a-

muck of the Union Trust company of

Grand Rapids, an alleged f r audu len t concern, who has been under arrest for

some time, has been surrendered by his

bondsmen.

A minis te r w h o has been preaching at

H o w a r d City for $4 a week hasconclud ed tha t he will give u p the job and not

try longer to support himself and wife in the princely style t h e Master's service

is rewarded a t H o w a r d City.

W e s t e r n M i o h i g f a n P r e s i s A s s o e i n t i o u .

r r o R r a m i n e o f t h c F i f t h A n n n n t M e o t l i i R t o bo l i r l d a t R e e d C i t y u n d C l i o b o y -

g a n . c o m i i i r n c i i i K T u e s d a y . A i i K i n t •»8, 1 8 8 3 .

The members of tho Press will con-eno m Higbe's Hall, Reed City, at 2:30 i. m., Tuesday, August 28, 1883. for the ransaction of regular business.

The members will remain here until

1:30 p. m. , Wednesday, w h e n they will take the train upon a special car politely tendered by the officers of t h e G . R. & I .

Railroad Company, for a complimentary excursion to the nothern te rminus of Ihe road, arr iving at Cheboygan at 10:30 in the evening.

At Cheboygan the par ty will take the

fine passenger steamer.Mes. ' 'iger, tho same evening, the same evening, which will leave alxmt midnight for a n excur-

sion t r ip to Sault Ste. Marie, reach-ing St. Mary's river about day l igh t and

Sault Ste. Mario early in the forenoon and remaining several hours, giTingam-ple t ime to sec all there is to be seen

about this a t t rac t ive place. Returning tho steamer will leave early enough to

run through thed i f t l cu l t portion of the river by dayl ight . There is no more en-

joyable t r ip than this in Northern Mich-igan. The Sault people are making act-

ive preparat ions to give tho Association royal welcome.

A t Cheboygan, on the r e tu rn f rom tho steamboat excursion the par ty will stop

ind remain long enough to thoroughly

do the town. A commit tee of citizens has been appointed to a r range for our reception and we have no doubt but we

shall receive a hearty welcome.

Aside f r o m the excurs ion tr ips this meeting promises to be one of the most

interesting and profitable ever held by the association. The following papers

have been promised, and others m a y be expected:

"Liber ty of tho Press,'" Hon. E. O. Rose, of t he Grand Rapids Post .

The Press of Michigan; I ts Rise and Progress," Don. C. Henderson, of the Allegan Journa l .

" Independent Journa l i sm," C. S. Hampton, of the Nor thern Independent .

"Our Meetings: of w h a t Advantage are they?" G. E. Mathews, of the H a r t Journal .

"Two Recent Theories of Journa l i sm," Wm. L. Ea ton , ot t he Kalamazoo Tele-graph.

"Thoroughness in Count ry Newspap-er Publishing," by J . W. Fitzgerald, of the Ovid Union.

" W h a t I Know about Country J o u r -nalism," by Robert Smi th , of t he I thaca Journa l .

"Chalk Talk ," by H . M. Rose, of Ben-ton Harbor Pal ladium.

W e th ink wo can safely promise a

good time, a pleasant t ime, and a prof i t -

able t ime. Lot us all who possibly can throw off the cares and d rudgery of the

office for a week and t ake our wives and daughters , and if any of us are so unfor-

tunate as to have none of our own, then

take some other man ' s and et tend this meeting and the excursions in connec-

tion therewith. W e shall re turn to ou r

work wi th renewed vigor and spirits.

J . W . H I N E , P r e s i d e n t .

E. L. Si'RAGUE.Secretaiy.

ORATTAN GATHERINGS.

Alvin Davis of South Gra t t an is build

ing a very fine fa rm residence.

Mr. & Mrs. Clarence Stanton, have

another heir—a daugh te r . Mr. Wilson in digging a well on the

Wallace farm, struck an unusual sup-

ply of water . Mrs. Weutley Miller killed a ra t t l e -

snake recently, as it was about to en ter

the cellar. Li t t le Edie Storey has been very sick

t h e past we<^c with in te rmi t ten t fever. Our Petoskey tourists have returned.

They enjoyed t w o rains while there, and

tnany historical sights. Nearly every art icle in Deputy Sheriff

A. .A. Weekes ' possession has been iden-

tified and claimed Detective Saunders of Grand Rapids, has been in town the

past week. The thieves still remain i n -

cog. Rev. O. Kilgore of Ada—a former pas-

tor here—exchanged pulp i t s with Rev. T. Robinson, meet ing with a hear ty

welcome. Subjec t of h is sermon: " T h e

unsearchable riches of Chr is t . " Rev. T. Robinson goes to Detroit A u g

A l l A b o a r d

For the Republican Valley, Nebraska Tha t excursion to tho Republican Val ley star ts nex t Monday af ternoon. Those

who take i t will pass through and into some of the finest f a rming country in

the entire west . I t will bo a cheap, df l ightful trip. Tickets to Lincoln and

Alma. Neb. and re turn , good for fo i ty days. All parties t ak ing this excursion

must apuly this week to Chandler John

son, t reasurer , or to N. F. Johnson

manager. Lowell, Mich. Bear in mind this fact. Tho country we propose to show you is no new untried terri tory

You do not have to experiment and wait for results. The results are there now to be seen, and all w e ask is that you g

there and see for yourselves. The Ro

publican valley is t he "Garden of tbe

West ," as all who know tha t section

country will admit . N . F . J O H N S O N , M a n a g e r ,

who will accompany the excursion and give the par ty ful l information in regard

to the country , investment*, &o., &c.

T h e T o y P U t u l .

toy pistol" act of which so much

has been said, reads as follows: AN A C T TO PREVENT T H E S A L E AND

U S E OK T O Y P I S T O L S :

SECTION I.—The People of the State of Michigan enact : That no iterson shall

sell, g ive or furnish to any child und« the age of thir teen years any cartridjji

of any fo rm or material , or any ^ s t o l gun or other mechanical eontrivanr

specially arranged or designated for the

explosion of the same. Sec. o.—Any person violating any of

the provisions of the foregoing section shall be deemed guil ty of a misdemean or, and , upon conviction thereof, shall

be punished by a fine of not less than ten dollars, nor more than fifty dollars

and costs of prosecution, or imprison ment in the county jail not less than 10

days nor more than 90 days, or both

such fine and imprisonment in the dis-

cretion of the cour t . Sec. 3.—It shall be un lawfu l for any

person under the age of 13 years lo have in possession or use any of the articles

named in section one of this act.

Approved J u n e 3, 1883.

August 15, 1883.

in Misses and Chiidrens Hats and Ladies Parasols. With-in the next ten days the above will be closed out at less than cost.

J. W. CROTHERS, . I G N E S ' B L O C K , W E S T S I D K .

BEAT THIS IF YOU CAN.

We make the following reduction in clothing

for the next

3 0 J D ^ . - Z - S O I T L Y .

Elegant suits worth $ 8 00 $10 CO 16 00 Sell for G 50 7 25 12 50 Dont fail t o see our Summer coats .25 worth 50 Diy Goods we are closing out almost half what they are worth. Dress Goods wortli .15 20 .25 Sell for .10 .12 .15 Lawn worth .20 sell for .10 Brown cotton worth 9 " " 6 Best prints worth 7 *• 41 5 Fans, Parasols, Buttons and Trimmings everything half price.

We have great many bargains to offer if you come soon.

BOSTON STORE. LOWELL, MICH.

A - H S T I f c T O T J ^ T G E I M I H i n s r T

Lowell, July 25, '83. I offer my entire stock of

books, Stationery, Fancy Goods, Musical Instruments brackets, etc. at COST pric-es, until all is sold. Special inducements will be offered to dealers buying in quanti-ties. It will pay you to Look over my stock which must be sold as I do not wish to continue the business.

C. C. EDDY.

COMPETITION CAN CONTINUE ! I )x(-

F. C. JOHNSON, Still to the f r o n t wi th any amount of

NEW GOODS m AND MORE ON T H E WAY.

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Everything!

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TO EXAMINE OUR

STOCK! F. C. JOHNSON

1 ' R O H I R I T I O N .

I t s P h i t f o r i n A n n o i m c c i l a n d ItH C u m pit I g u

I . c a d o r s ChoK«i i .

There were over three hundred dele-gates in a t tendance a t the Prohibition

State convention which met at Eaton

Rapids last Wednesday. A. B. Cheney, of Spar ta , presided, and William A.

Taylor, of Lansing served as secretary.

The following gent lemen were chosen as oillcers and members of the State

Central Commit tee: Chai rman, Merrit t

Moore, of Ionia; secretary, Wil l iam A.

Taylor, of Lansing: A. T. Power, J . T. Baer, Po r t e r Deals, O. R. L. Crozier, D.

P . Sagendorph, S. A. Strong, H. H. Bowers, J ames A. McKay, S. A. Jewell,

A. B Cneney, Alf red Wise. D. H. Stone, Robert King, R. B. Moore, J . B. Adams,

P. N. Saunders, J . F. A. Raide, the Rev.

E. P . Clark, Prof . A. M. Webster, t he Rev. J o h n Hamil ton, J . C. Tunston.

An expense f u n d of about |1,000 was

raised a n d a plan was devised for secur-ing $100,000 for campaign uses by means

of stock subscriptions a t $10 per share, payable in four equal installments.

The resolutions indorse the national

p la t form adopted a t Chicago, favor con-st i tut ional and s ta tu tory prohibition of

the l iquor traffic, and censure the legis-la ture of Michigan for fail ing to submit

a prohibitory a m e n d m e n t to the people.

A l i o u t R a l l r o m l H .

The Post and Tr ibune says some journ-

als a re discharging a great deal of non

sense about the overgrowth of railroads. This has been a favori te field for jere-

miads for a great many years. I t was harped upon twenty-five years ago jus t

as it is now, only perhaps a little more vigorously. In 18U5 the country was as-sured with confidence tha t the Illinois Central was fifty years ahead of its

t ime. In IMS half of t he railroads of Indiana wvre pronounced unnecessary;

twelve years before tha t we had the same chat ter about the Erie. I n 1848

it was called folly to extend a road f rom

Hommerville to Easton, and in 1852-8 it

was styled greater folly to extend tho Morris and Essex f rom Morristown to

the Pennsylvania line.

Scores, porha|>s hundreds, of other in-

cidents could be named of past delus-ions and shiverings al>out our railroads,

not a bit more nonsensical than to those which we are now treated. Here and

there a road has been buil t out of the t rue course of t rade, which cannot be easily diverted f rom natural directions

and channels, but these are few and

mos t of them have already been raised out of the list of failures by local busi-

ness. Some roads have been misman-aged and demagogues have assailed them

unt i l capitalists haye liecome really alarmed for the safety of their proper ty

r ights in them, but for every sensibly

constructed railroad in the country there is ei ther present business or an absolute

certainly tha t m a few years there will

be business which, if 1 hey are not ruined by legislative interference, will make

them paying investments. Michigan,

instead of having too many, has too few

roads. H e r rapicf g rowth in populat ion and industry will soon make more roads an imperat ive necessity, and at t h e same

t ime improve the financial condit ion of the roads now in existence. W h a t is

t rue of Michigan is t rue of all other stats. I t is not therefore a hal t in rail construc-

tion t h a t we require, but a hal t in the demagogism which at tacks them, and

makes investors anxious to t u rn their holdings of t ha t kind of property into something el&e.

T h a t D e i u t l y F r o g .

Friend DeLand, of the Saginaw

Herald, makes a very palpable hi t in the fol lowing. H e says:

Dur ing the cam|>aign of 1882 one of the staple a rgument s against Gov. Je-

rome's re-election was the "deadly f rog." Every m a n who was in jured or

killed on a railroad was held up as a victim to tlie cruel ty and inhumani ty of

the Governor, who i t was charged was in sympa thy wi th the railroad compan-ies, and an enemy to tho public, because

men would be careless and become caugh t in " fcogs" and crushed to death. A polit ical b u m m e r named Fuller , who got u p a coarse and villianous cartoon

and added to i t every incident o t such accident he could find was given a f a t office by Gov. Begole to pay h i m for his

d i r ty and beastly work of manufac tu r -ing political capital for him and against

Gov. Je rome on the ' •frog" basis. The plain inference of all this was t ha t if old

Begolly was elected, f rogs would be abolished, and railroads forbidden t o

use them, and no more men should be killed tha t way. I t was to be ono of t h e

great "Fus ion reforms." Bu t somehow this, like loU of other fusion schemes

and promises, tu rns out a f raud . The

good "Unc le Jos iah" still begs free trans-

portat ion on the railroads, tlie compan-ies still use the dreadfu l and inhuman " f rogs , " and men continue to be mashed

and mangled in their,, c lutches just t he same as when that awful ly bad Je rome

was governor. A man was so killed and mangled at Muskegon, on Tuesday last, r ight under the nose of Fuller the great f rog cartooner. We have been looking for a blast f rom Fuller 's pen a n

GO TO T H E

NEW FDRNimE S H E O F

LANGS & McNAUGHTON, F O R

Big Bargains in Furniture We keep all t h o best and latest style fu rn i tu re , which we propose to all a t bottom p r i c e s . ^ W o also keep

cheaper grades. Also a complete lino of Under takers goods. The Best Hearse in town.

Pulleu's Bloeb, last Me, l owell Hieh. H E A L T H IS W E A L T H .

genius, the |>oor switohman s tn igg l ing to release the grasp of tha t 'deadly f rog , ' his hair s tanding on end, his eyes s tar ing wildly, and terror distort ing his every feature, its lines drawn out by the flam-ing headlight which lighted the thun-der ing locomotive on its road to death 'i W h e r e in Ful ler? Arise, champion har , and avenge tho death ol poor DifTen-baugh; hurl the responsibility upon the ineftlcient and inhuman Begole, who -as governor is responsible fo r not having these "deadly frogs"' removed from the state, and stopping their work of dea th .

The Greatest Medical Discov-ery of the Age.

Kel logg H Co lumbian Oil is a power fu l r e m e d y wh ich can be t a k e n Internal ly a s well a s e x l e r na l ly by t b a Umderunt In fan t . I t c u r e s a lmos t in Htantly, In p l e a s a n t , a c t i ng d i rec t ly upon t h e n e r r u u s sy s t em, c a u s i n g a sudden b u o y a n c y og t h e m i n d . I n sho r t t b e w o n d e r f u l e f fec t s ef t u t s won-d e r f u l r e m e d y c a n n o t be expla ined in w r i t t e n l anguage . A s ingle dose inhaled and taken ac-co rd ing t o d i rec t ions will convince a n y o n e t h a t It is all t h a t Is c la imed f o r it . W a r r a n t e d t o c u r e t h e fo l lowing d iseases : R h e u m a t i s m , or K idney d i s ea se In any f o r m , Headache , Too thache , E a r -a c h e N e u r a l g i a , Sprains , Bruises, Flesh Wounds , u n i o n s . B u r n s , Corns . Spinal Affec t ion , Colic, C r a m p i n g P a i n s , Chofera Morbus , F lux , Diarr-hoaa, C o u g h Colds, Bronchial Affec t ion , C a t a r r h a n d all a e n s a n d n a i n s , e: Direc t ions w th e a c h b o t t l e . W e s t .

e x t e r n a l or i n t e r n a l . F o r sa le by J . C

TREATME

A. D. OLIVER, A g e n t for

Dr. E. C. West ' s Nerve and Brain treat-ment . a guaranteed specific fo r Hyster ia Dizziness, Convulsions. Fits, Nervous Prostra t ion caused by the use of alco-hol or tobacco. Wakefulness , Mental de-pression, Sof tening of thu brain, result-ing in insani ty and leading to misery, decay and death. P r e m a t u r e old age, barrenness. Loss of P o w e r in e i ther sex. Involuntary liOsses a n d Spermatorrhoea caused by over exer t ion of the bram. self-abuse or oyer-indulgence. One box will cure recent cases. Each box con-tains one month ' s t r ea tment . Ono dol-lar a box or six boxes for flvo dollars. Sent by mail prepaid o n receipt of price. W e guarantee six boxes to cure any case. W i t h each order for six boxes, accompanied with five dollars, we will send the purchaser ou r wri t ten guaran tee to re fund tho money if the treat-men t does not effect a cure. J . C. West t&Co. sole Agents fo r Lowell. Mich.

ED. MORSE—Dealer in Buggies Horses and Harnesses. Mr. Morse and

Mr. C. D. Hodges makes a business of buying and selling horses, and no better judged of that class of live stock (uin be

found in tho village— or, iu fact , in the state. Mr. M. also deals largely iu bug-gies— tlie more impor tant ones being the Moyer buggy, manufac tured a t

Syracuse, N. Y., and which has a world-wide reputation as tho best bug

gy ever pu t on fou r whoels,- ami for which noth ing is claimed but t ha t can

be proven: and tho Spiral spr ing buggy, made a t Grand Rapids. The Moyer bug-

gy is a buggy for those who w a n t a

good one and, consider ing qual i ty of material and workmansh ip it is THE buggy to buy. 50m8

Ale and Porter on d r a u g h t a t 50tf H . TOBIAS'.

Milwaukee lager a t H . TOBIAS' . 50tf

Mrs. Jennie Ruben lias moved her dress making shop to the rooms over Collar & Weekes d ry goods store, 8w3.

Mrs. Jennie Ruben has moved her dress mak ing shop to the rooms o \ e r Collar & Weekes d ry goods store. 8w8.

WATCH.

T H E BEST TIME K E E P E R S I N T H E

MARKET,

Other grades of Watches also on h a n d .

Wm. L. Gilbert Clock 0|'s

Clocks, THE BEST CLOCKS MADE.

Ladies bar-pins. Ladies & Gents chains.

Rings, S i lve rware , Spectacles Ac, &o, &c. Repair ing prompt ly at tended to. x

A. D. Oliver, Pullen's Block. Lowell, Mich.

Great Revolution I N

SUNDERLAND & STERLING-

are still ahead, but iu order to sell goods at a greatly reduced price we have deter- .

mined to do business in the future strictly on a

~ CASH BASIS I« "We shall keep at all times the BEST

GOODS in our line that the market affords and sell at the lowest possible cash price.

Thanking our old friends for past favors, we hope to merit a continuance of the same.

SUNDEKLAND & STERLING.