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L O W E L L J O U R N A L . Three Cents Per Copy.

V O L U M E X V I . LOWELL, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY JANUARY 1!), 1881. NUMBER 30.

LOWELL BUSINESS CARDS.

T > K O K ft M o D A N N E L L , Physlcluns And Bur-x geoni. Office in Bank Block.

RO B E R T MARSHALL , cooper, East w a t e r St. Flour barroli and all kinds of Custom

Work.

EA. C H A P M A N , Photograph Artist. • Rooms next to Poiit-Olflco, up stairs.

M, CHASE, Baker posit* Music Hall.

M. CHASE, Bakery and Restaurant. Op-

WB, RIOKERT, Lowell Bakery and Res-« Uuntnt Opposite Pullen's Block.

JO. WEST, D r u n l s t and Stationer. Agent • for Qenulns Rubber Paint. Opposite For-

est Mills.

JO. SCOTT, Hardware. Bash Doom and • Olass. Builders Hardware a specialty.

Opposite Forest Mills.

JQ. LOOK, Druggist and Stationer, &c. • union Block.

WILHELM ft F L A N A O A N , dealers In Boota and Bboes, Clothing, ftc. Union

Block, West Side.

JOHN OILES ft CO., Oroceries and Provis-ions, Crockery, Glass Ware, Ac. Union Bl'k

M. W E A T H E H W A X . Dry Goods, Cloth-• Ing, Boots, Shoes, Hats, Caps, Ac. Union

Block.

A K E HOUSE. Corner Main and West Water Streets. A. Dake, Proprietor. D

CUBTISS ft CHURCH, Dealers In Agricul-tural Implements, Farm tools, Ac., Bridge St.

O W E ft W H I T E , Boots, Shoes, Leather, fte. Bridge Street H

rC. H A R E , Marble Works, one door east of • Music Hall Block, Bridge street.

OW. STONE, Carriage Builder. Bridge St. . i AB kinds of repairing done in first-class

D BLOB O. HENRY, House and Carriage

Painter. King A Amphlett 's Block.

M C

ILTON M. P E R R Y , Attorney a t Law and Solicitor in Chancery. Bank Block.

O. STONE ft CO., Dry Goods, Boot* and • Shoes, Hats, Cape, Ac. Bank Block.

NB. B L A I N , Fancy Dry Goods, Carpeting*, • Hata, Capa, Notions, Ac. Grahams Block.

J f l T OWE? L OMNIBUS LINE, C. M. Watter i , ~ ± J Proprietor. Leave orders a t Hotels.

* McCARTY, Wholesale and Retail Grocer. \ j . Bank Block

H A R L E S ALTHEN, Clothing, GenU Fur-nishing Goods, Hats, Caps, and Trunks.

Union Block, West Side.

JOHN WINOLER, Wholaiialo and Retail Dealer In Groceries and Provisions Union

Block.

WJ . W E B B , Physician and Surgeon. Office t over Postofflce. Residence, Mrs. V. D.

Young.

AB. GRANT, Surgeon and Homoeopathic a Physician. Office over Scott's Hardware

Store.

R H U N T E R , Justice of the Peace and No e ta iy Public, Graham's Block over Barber ' s

•tore. Also continues the Tailoring business.

I f \ EO. W. ROUSE Practical Horse Shoer, KJ Broadway, west of Union Block, west side, Sign of Bic horse shoe.

- - p i C K E R T ft ROBERTSON, Dental Sur-PC, XV geons. Rooms over Scott 's Hardware Store.

Werk warranted.

HN. TAYLOR, Iron Founder, Manufacturer Dealer in Agricultural Implements. Cor.

Jaokaon and Avery Streets.

MC. B A R B E R , Groceries. Provisions, • Crockery, Notions, Ac. Graham's Block,

Bridge street.

J^OWELL NATIONAL BANK.

Of LOWELL, MICHIGAN. C A P I T A L , - - $50 000.

S U R P L U S , - - - | 1 0 000.

DIRECTORS:

C . T . WOODING, E . J . BOOTH, C . O . STONE. C . R . H I N E , N . A . STONE, M . N . H I N E , A . S. STANNARD, EDWARD BRADFIELD,

JAS . w . HINE. C. T. WOODING, PRES. E. J . BOOTH, V. PRES. E. A. BUNDEBL1N, CASHIER. M. N. HINE,

ASS'T CASHIER.

JOHN U. MATUEWSON. JOSEPH WURZBL'RO.

MATHEWSON & WURZBURG. LAWYERS,

O F F I C E I N T R A I N ' S B L O C K ,

Lowell, Michigan.

R E N W I C K & W A L K E R ,

ATTORNEYS and SOLICITORS INSURANCE WRITTEN,

M O N E Y L O - A . I S r J t O . Over National Bank,

Lowel l , M i c h i g a n .

MILTON M. PERRY, FRBD L. ALGER.

PERRY to ALGER. Attorneys and Solicitors.

Real Estate & Loan Agt'B. Insurance, Collections and Conveyancing at-

tended to with promptness and accuracy.

Office la Bank Block, LOWELL, MICH.

o. A. aoawaox, o. a. STONE

R O B I N S O N , S T O N E & C o .

Manufacturers of and Dealers In AU kinds of HARNESS, SADDLES. TRUNKS.

WHIPS. SHEETS. NETS, COMBS, BRUSHES. Brushes. Harness Oil, Soaps. Ac.

Collars of our own manufacture. Carriage Trimming a Specialty. Located

West end of Flat river bridre.

ST. B. WILLIAMS. JAS. B. WYLIE. Allegan. Gr. Rapids.

W i l l U m f & W y l i e ,

ATTORNEYS and SOLICITORS

Over City National Bank.

GRAND RAPIDS. MICH.

Benj. A , Har l an ,

At torney and Solicitor. Special attention k> Convsvancing, Writing

Wills, and business in Probate Court. ROOM 10 TWAMLY BLOCK,

GRAND RAPIDS. MICH.

J. ORTON EDIE Physician Surgeon & Accoucheur.

OFFICE, DR. BLISS' BLOCK,

GRAND RAPIDS, • • MICH.

Residence—No. 07 Sheldon St.

tWIOM BUNT, HK.VRY B. DAVIS

HUNT & DAVIS,

ABSTRACT, REAL ESTATE AND LOAN OFFICE.

U N D E R C I T Y N A T I O N A L B A N K .

GRAND RAPIDS MICH

Pengelly's Woman's F r i e n d ! F o r M A I D E N , W I F E a n d M O T H E R .

In a test of nine years In thlrtv different states has proven itself rightly named.

It needs no Balderdash and Puffery, but only a plain Introduction Into a community, and al-ways a f t e r It lives and grows through the good words of those who use It. It is a remedy for those complalntn (no mention needed), peculiar to Women, young or old. J . C. West, Agt. 23m3

TTOTJNOr M E I K T GO TO

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NO CURE I NO PAY! BURRILL'S

Compound

Cherry Balsam WILL CURE

O O U O H I S ,

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FRANKLIN HOUSE D E T R O I T ,

Cor . of n a t e s a n d L a r n e d S t r e e t s ,

In the very center of the business part of the city. Our tables are the best, and our rooms and beds are not excelled. Terms $1,50 per day. 20m6 Warner & James, Managers.

And all diseases of the kidneys, bladder and urinary organs by wearing the

Improved Excelsior Kidney Pad I t is a marvel of healing and relief,

Simplei Sensibie. Direct, Painlew, Pr werful.

I t CURES where all wise fnilb, A Revelation and Revolution in medicine. Absorption or direct application, as opposed to unsauBfactory inter-nal medicines. Send for our treatise on Kidney troubles, sent free. Sold by druggist, or sent by mail, on receipt of price, • 2 . 0 0

Address THE "ONLY" LUNG PAP 00.

Williams Block. DETROIT, Mich.

Tills Is the Original and Genuine Kidney Pad. Ask for it and t abe no other.

Notice to Builders. I hereby wish to notify through the pubHc

press all who are contemplating building Uils season, tha t 1 now have on hand a full supply of seasoned lumber at the very low prices seen in the followlngprice list. All who a r e designing to build will find it to their Interest to call upon us and examine our qualities of lumber before purchasing elsewhere. Reduction made on bills,

ve ry truly yours, J . D. STERNS. Mill yi mile south of Smyrna.

P R I C E LIST. Bill S t u f f - Common 5 H pe rM. Fencing— " 8 " "

'• - C u l l s 5 to 6 " " Stocks—8 In. 10 in. 12 In, 8 to 10 " Finishing-according to quality, 20 to 25 " Flooring—Dressed and matched, 14 to 18 Siding—Beveled, 10 to 80 '• Siding-Drop 18&up . Ceiling—Dressed and beaded, . . 1 6 " " " Ship Culls-Ruff and dressed, . . 6 to 6 " Lath 52,75 per M feet. One dollar extra for every 2 fee t in length of

bill stuff above 10 feet. J . SI. STERNS.

Cures by ABS0RBTI0N, NaturesWay

ALL n i • 1 • BREATHING TROUBLES,

It DRIVES INTO the system curative agents and henlinff medimies.

It draws from the diseased parts the poisons that cause death.

T h i u snnds t e s t i f y t o I t s v i r t ue* .

TOD CAN BE KFLIEV' ED AND CUBED

Don't despair until you have tried this Sensible, Easily Applied and RADICALLY EFFECTUAL Remedy. ,, , ,

Sold by druggists, or sent by mail on receipt of Price • a . o o , by

T h e " O n l y " L u n g P a d Co. W i l l i a m s I t lock ,

D e t r o i t , M i c h .

H E R E J I E J R E ! FURNITURE STORE ON THE BRIDGE

Wo would respectfully announce to the people of Lowell and vicinity that

we have tha largest stock of

FURNITURE Ever kept in town consisting of

Pnnk Cases, Bebroom and Parlor Setts, Wood and Marble Top Center Ta-

bles. Extension and Drop Leaf Tables.

Also a large aHsortmont of Gliromos, Looking: OlaHses,

And overything that is kept in a first-class Furniture store. Every articlc warranted. We will not be undersold by anyone.

Undertaking: a Specialty.

We have now on hand the latest sty-les of Cloth and Oval Caskets also Cof-fins, Shrouds. Habbits, and everything in the undertaking line. Mr. Langs is well known as the best undertaker in town. He has had the experience of keeping bodies for a lumber of days in hot weather and hai .lever failed to give good satisfaction in attending funerals. We have the best hearse in town and use our own team with a good driver Free of Charge to all our patrons. Par-ties having t» buy any good# in our lino of business will tfo well to call and ex-amine our goods and get our prices be-fore buying elsewhere.

KOPF & LANGS.

1881 T H E 1881

THE MOST FAMOUS P A P E R

WEST OF CIIICAOO.

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THE BURLINGTON HAWKEYE, Is more quoted throughout the United

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T r a p p e d .

There is a story told of a lady ami gentleman traveling together on an English railroad. They were strangers to each other. Suddenly the gentleman said:

"Madam, I will trouble you to look out of the window a few minutes; I am going to make some changes in my wearing apparel."

"Certainly, sir," she replied, with great politeness, rising and turning h«r back upon him.

In a very short time he said : "Now, madam, my change is com-

pleted, and you may resume your own seat."

When the lady turned she beheld her male companion transformed into a dashing lady with a veil over her face.

"Now, sir, or madam, whichever you like," said the lady, " I must trouble you to look out of the window, for I also have some changes to make in my ap-parel."

"Certainly, madam." and the gentle-man in lady's attire, immediately com-plied.

"Now, sir, you may resume your own seat."

To his great surprise, on resuming his seat, the gentleman in female attire found his lady companion transformed into a man. He laughed loudly and said :

" I t appears that we are both anxious to avoid recognition. What have you done? I have robbed a bank."

"And I," said the whilom lady, as he dexterously fettered his companion's wrists with a pairof handcuffs, "am De-tective J , of Scotland Yard, and in female apparel have shadowed you for two days; now," drawing a revolver, "keep still."

Bncklen's Arnica Salve. The best Salve in the world for cuts,

bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, tetter, cham>ed hands, chilblains, corns, and all kinds of skin eruptions. This salve is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction in every case or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by Hunt and Hunter

He h M a n .

Foolish spending is the father of pov-erty. Do not be ashamed of hard work. Work, but work for half price rather than be idle. Be your own master, and do not let society or fashion swallow you up individually—hat, coat and boots. Do not eat up or wear out all you can earn earn. Compel your selfish body to spare something for profits saved. Be stingy to your appetite, but merciful for oth-ers' necessities. Help others, and ask not for yourself. See that you are proud, too. Lot your pride be of the rieht kind. Be too proud to be lazy; too proud to give up without conquerin every difficulty; too proud to bo in com-pany that you cannot keep up without expenses; too proud to be stingy.

W h y J u l i u s J u m p e d .

Saturday's Democrat gives the follow-ing report of the doings of a brilliant Grand Rapids youth:

Some five months ago a young man named Julius Newman arrived in this city from St. Louis. Mich., and secured a situation in B. Allen's hat and cap es-tablishment, corner of Canal and Lyon streets, as cashier. He had been hero but a short time when he met and be-came enamored with a woman of easy virtue named Grade Hart He fold her that he had '•wealth," having received $2,000 as "hush money" from his St. Louis employer, who had burned his es-tablishment to got the insurance. His admiration for the woman led him to make a proposal of refonn to her,which she accepted. He secured rooms in a block on Pearl street, and fitted them up extravagantly, the outfit costing $250.

Before assuming charge of these apartments he presented her with a gold watch and chain, dresses, rings, etc. On Tuesday evening last they were about to move into their new quarters, when his employer who thought him above re-proach suspected something crooked with the youth. An investigation of his bank account revealed the fact that he had forged checks to the amount of $000. Julius was questioned by his em-ployer about the matter and denied it. The evening in question was the last seen of young Newman. He had skipped for parts unknown. The swindled em-ployer went to the woman and succeed-ed in getting the watch and chain, and other costly truck which his money had bought, and the furniture dealers took back the bedroom set, which had not been paid for. Young Newman's par-ents reside in this city and feel much de-pressed at the youbg man's wicked do-ings.

A c t r e s s e s ' A r t s .

A gioat many tricks of stage costume spring from personal defects. In what-ever cut of waist Modjeska appears, there is always a bunch of flowers or bow placed at the left of her open cor-sage. When this device is not resorted to, a little strap of silk will be trailed across diagonally, or a little fan or lace will suddenly spring from the left corner, in order to hide a scar on the breast that looks as if it might be the result of a wound from a poinard,

souvenir" of a romance. Poor Lucille Western was afflicted by

a birth-mark. She was a regular female Esau. About her waist there was a thick growth of silky brown hair, which ran up to a point in front. Where it came above the tops of her dresses it was carefully shaved, but the skin always remained blue. So Lucille wore a huge cross dangling just above that portion of her anatomy.

Parepa Rosa had a deep vaccination scar far down her robust arm, and when her sleeves were very short a knot of ribbon or a trail of flowers used to cover it. Before she grew so extremely stout she wore a golden band above the elbow to hide it, but when her armlet got to be as big as a waistcoat she abandoned the oddity. One night, speaking of the scar to an American girl who sat in her dressing-room, the Yankee offered Pa-repa an immediate and effectual con-cealment of tho offending spot. She took one of the candles off the toilet ta-ble. and holding it above the arm let one drop of the melted wax fall upon the place, and there was no further need of concealing devices. A dash of flesh-tinted powder completed the cure, and Parepa's make-up box forever after con-tained a bit of wax candle.—New Fork Mirror.

H o w t o Ge t R i c h .

Everybody wants to get rich. Almost anybody can become rich if he likes to apply himself to the matter. The trouble is that every one wants to get rich at once and without exertion. Many seek to do this by speculation. If a person had obtained control of 100.000 bushels of wheat on Saturday last, which could have been done by putting up a margin of one cent per bushel, he would have made $3,000 by Monday, and would have received back his margin less the broker's commission. This would be a reasonable profit for a day's work at do-ing nothing. If he held on till Tuesday $2,000 of his profit would have been wiped out, and probably by to-morrow he would have lost his margin and every-thing else beside. Still people only look on the gaining side of the matter, and thousands are striving to get rich in this way. One out of eyery ihousand will probably succeed. A gentleman of De-troit who is worth over $100,000, gives his experience in getting rich, and the beauty of his plan is that O'Jlt out of 1,000 can, by fair management, get rea-sonably "well off," while many will be-come rich. He says: "Young man,save one-third of your earnings. If you get $(] a week, pretend that you get only $4 and put away the other $2. On no account touch that reserve fund to spend a cent of it, but when it gets big enough put it into a 10 per cent, mortgage. Ten per cent mortgages, with first-class se-curity, are not so hard to find as a per-son might think. Add the interest to the reserve fund and keep on putting it out On mortgages. This method is slow but it is sure."—Detroit Free P r m .

An English lady advertises her wed-ding presents, including many valuable articles, for sale, in the London Times.

News Notes. A r o u n d t h o W o r l d In S e v e n Davs.

The estimate for tho Chicago schools for 1881 call for $1,188,904.25.

Clock lamps that tell the hour and give a faint light all night have appeared.

New York city is assessed this year at $081,000,000, an increase of $38,000,000.

Henry Ward Beerberis about 08 years old, and about 225 pounds avoirdupois.

It cost us $60|IMM, besides the Presi-dent's wages, to run tho White House last year.

Tho New York Sun fears that the flood of pension claims will bankrupt tho nation.

Theodore Parker, if he can wait a lit-tle while longer, will have a $12,000 statue in Boston.

The New Jersey grand jury recom-mends tho re-establishment of the whip-ping post for wifo-beatere.

Tho Dominion government prohibits postmasters from giving information to police officers or detectives.

Gen. Sheridan will leave Chicago this week to select a plat for a new military reservation in New Mexico.

Congress will he asked to make the agricultural department independent, with a cabinet officer at its head.

Tho Hon. Columbus Delano has given $10,000 to build a hall for tho prepara-tory school at Kenyon college, Ohio.

Tho population of Kentucky is 1,648,-599, of whom 832,610 are males; 1,589,-131 are natives and 1,377.077 are white.

Mrs. Millard Fillmore is getting much better at Buffalo, but will never recover her former physical and mental vigor.

The National association of veterans of the Mexican war will hold its annual meeting in I^uisville, Ky., on February 22.

From 1809 to 1880 Illinois has had no governor that was a native of thg state. / Every one of them carpet bag-gers!

Km pp. the gun maker, has gone on a hurried visit to St. Petersburg, and the nations of Europe, wonder what is up. now ?

Postmaster James of New York, has a salary of 8.000. and the Star wants it increased to $10,000, as Mr. James is worth it.

Carl Schurz is said to be writing a novel af ter the fashion of "Endymion,' in which tho politicians of the day will be skewered.

Oyster famine in Now York, caused by the rivers and bays freezing over. The bivalves are scarcer than they have been before for 25 years.

The Rev. Dr. Chapin, of New York, and the Rev. Dr. Bartlett. of Aurora. III., were classmates, and both died on the same day.

The match manufacturers are trying to prevent the sub-committee of the ways and means committee from repeal-ing the tax on matches.

Two San Francisco policemen mistook each other for burglars, fired six shots apiece, and wounded a small boy before discovering their error.

Some rats gnawed loose the fastenings of a trap door at Venango mills. Frank-lin, Pa., and 400 bushels of com fell into the creek below and were lost.

An elephant t raveling out west, whose trunk was not checked, drank up all the water in the tender of the locomotive, so that the train was obliged to stop.

A corner on matches has been made by the consolidation of ten large facto-ries in New Haven, which pay $3,500, 000 annually to the internal revenue.

•Thousands have tried it and will neueruse any other." is the significant and pathetic encomium of a cough balsam which circulates in New Eng-land.

The Democrats of New York are ad-vised to reorganize as a certain doctor used to cure his patients. First, said he, 1 eradicate the system, and then we re-move the disease.

Poetic justice was beautifully illus-trated in the case of a Colorado man en-gaged m painting patent medicine signs on rocks, etc. He fell from a precipice and was smashed.

The New York world's fair commission completed its organization Thursday, electing Gen. Grant as commissioner

and then making him permanent presi-dent of the commission.

Last year, Portland. Ore., raised $23,-000 for the poor and had to take care of some 000 paupers. This year she has not raised a dollar, and no cases of des-titution have yet been heard of.

The Raleigh (N. C.) News wishes it known that that State has 57 cotton fac-tories in operation on full time and still unable to fill all their orders, and many more im process of construction.

New England, by the hist census, has a population of 4,011,312, of which one-fifth are of foreign birth, and in which females outnumber the men by 89,-123. The increase since 1870 has been 14 per cent.

The Gaand Rapids Eagle says of the talk about Senator Ferry's membership 01 the next cabinet: "We have as yet heard no hint that tho Senator himself would regard such a transfer of his ser-vices as a promotion."

While a prisoner in Germany, Richard I. accepted an invitation to a boxing match with the son of his jailer. Ho received the first blow, which made him stagger, but, recovering, with a blow of his fist he killed his antagonist on tho spot.

An inventor thinks be has solved the problem of propelling boats in canals and rivers by means of ejecting water from the boat. Unlike his predecessors, he makes use not of a large pipe, but of a great number of lubes with very small outlets.

It is stated that not one dollar of the public money in Delaware has over been appropriated for the education of tho colored children. For this curious con-dition of affairs—in which Delaware is unlike any other Southern State—she is indebted to tho Democracy.

The Hon. Omar D. Conger will be the seventh Michigan Congressman promot-ed to the Senate. Two of the others, Lucius Lyon and William Woodbridge. were delegates in Congress during terri-torial days; the other four were Charles E. Stuart, Kinsley S. Bingham, Jacob M. Howard and Thos. W. Ferry.

Tho farmers' convention of Kansas have adopted resolutions calling upon the Legislature to protect the people against railroad exactions in the way of freight rates, etc.. and urging the farmers of the State to organize for systematic and persistent political action against extortion.

Thomas C. Piatt was nominated for Senator by the Republicans of the New York Legislature last Thursday evening. Mr. Piatt is a native and citizen of Owe-go, N. Y.. 47 years of age, is a merchant and has large lumbering interests in Michigan. He was elected to the forty-third Congress, and re-elected to the forty-fourth. He is a personal and po-litical friend of Senator Conkling.

There ia a good deal of talk among Republicans in Washington about the speakership of the next house. Mr. Frye of Maine is generally supposed to have the lead, unless Mr. Blaine should go in-to the cabinet and Mr. Frye succeed him in the senate. Mr. Burrows of Michi-gan is an avowed candidate, and has many assurances of support. Among others talked of are Messrs. Hiscock of Now York. Kasson of Iowa, Reed of Maine, and Dunnell of Minnesota.

Senator Blaino, commenting upon the bill to place Gen. Grant on the retired list, says that it ought to be done, on the ground of fair play. "Tlie people of the United States," said Senator Blaine, "took Gen. Grant from a good life posi-tion and made him President. There is in many cases a good deal of nonsense talked about tho 'office seeking the man.' but in Gen. Grant's case, at least for his first term, the office did seek the man. The people asked him to give up his life nosition and serve them in an office of short tenure, and I think now. on the ground of fair play and square dealing, the people owe it to Gen. Grant to leave him in as good a position as they found him when they demanded that he should serve them as President."

T h e S h i p Ru l l ro i id .

Capt. Eads addressed the St. Louis Board of Trade the other day and ex-plained his ship railroad. He said that in transjKU-ting the commerce of the Mississippi Valley to the ports on the Pacific, from the mouth of tli Missis-sippi to California via Tehuantepec. the distance is 2.800 miles less than by Pan-ama. He proposed to shorten the route and save six and one-half days of ordi-nary ocean steamer travel. The route by way of Panama being so much longer, he did not believe that theUnited States would sanction any such affliction on iis commerce as the establishing of a canal across the Isthmus of Panama. The commerce for thirty years to come will not support two lines. A vessel

leaving New York for San Francisco will have 1.500 miles less to travel across the route by way of Tehuantepec than by Panama, or seven and a half addi-tional days for the ship by the latter over my proposed route. Every additional mile of travel is a tax on the commerce of the United States. When a ship leaves San Francisco to go to England. 1.000 miles is saved by the Tehuantepec route, which is also 800 miles shorter than the route by Lake Nicaragua.

A n o t h e r N e w P l a n t .

A curious plant has been discovered in Wisconsin, which produces a kind of cotton and flax from the same stalk. An exchange says: It has already been woven into fabrics, and. as any article that will make as good cloth as can bp made from this plant will make good

paper, it has been called the paper plant. It can be planted in the spring and cut in the fall and winter. It bleaches itself

white as it stands, and it will yield three or four tons to the acre. From a single root that was transplanted last spring grow twenty large stalks, with three hun-dred and sixty-five pods containing the cotton, at least sixty seeds in each. From this root were obtained seven ounces of pure cotton, and oyer a pound of flax. It a very heavy plant, and grows from six to seven feet high.

Jou rna l Jot t ings.

MutterN a n d TIIIIIK* In M l c h l g n n .

Daniel Davis of Woodland is missing since Dec. 28.

Peach buds are reported killed in some parts of tho State.

Sheriff Lamoreaux is to have a tele-phono at the county jail.

Ed Gunderson. of Sparta, was killed by a falling tree one day last week.

Jacob Halm of Buchanan, is dead. He was a soldier under Napoleon in 1812.

Rev. James W. Robinson, of Grand Rapids, died at Hilliards lust Thursday.

Revival meetincc at Saranac, which town has never been much of a Nazar-eth.

The "Improved Order of Red Men" meet in Detroit this week. No puns per-mitted.

Robert G. Grant has bought a half in-terst in the Barry County flouring mills at Hastings, for $4,050.

Blessed l)e Mrs. Stone of "Bawston." She has bestowed the munificient sum of $20,000 upon Olivet College.

A Portland pian has had 17 boils on his neck inside of a month, and don't want to hear a word about Job, again !

The Times says 150 men are employed in the car shops at Grand Rapids, and they receive about $12,000 per month, pay.

Josiah Livermore was once one of the wealthiest men in St. Joseph county. He died in the poor house one day laet week.

The bone pickers at Ann Arbor con-tinue to receive fresh cadavers. They must be a cadaverous lot of chaps there by this time.

Mr. J.i C. Sterling of Monroe, was elected Secretary of the State Agricul-tural Society, in place of R. F. John-stone, deceased.

The Sheriff of this county gets 40 cents per day for boarding prisoners at the county jail. Forty cents for each prisoner—not for all.

The Grand River Valley Horticultural Society (there's a heap in that name) met in Grand Rapids Jan. 17, and discussed the "yellows-in-peaches" question.

The University regents will ask the Legislature to appropriate $100,000 to put up a fire-proof library building. Too much. Yes sir ee, too much !

The Michigan undertakers had a big meeting at Grand Rapids last week. When they departed they must have left the city "shrouded in gloom," as it were.

Carrie Toles. the young lady who (it is alleged) drowned herself in Detroit river last Wednesday, formerly resided in Lowell. She waa a bright, pretty anp rpparently hppay girl.

An explosion took place in the Union Mills at Detroit last Wednesday, instant-ly killing several persons and woundin3 others. Explosions, smashups and sui-cides are getting to be too numerous to mention.

Detroit News: A harbor from Wil-liamsport, Pa-, bought a half section of pine land near Reed City about two years ago for $4 an acre. He has just sold it to a Manistee firm for $20,000, ami keeps right on shaving and calling "Next" as though nothing had happen-ed,

A terrible explosion occurred in a store at Climax a few days ago, blowing the building into ruins and severely in-juring about a dozen persons, some of whom cannot recover. The clerk wa8

weighing out gun powder and in some way lire was communicated, resulting as above stated.

Senator H. C. Russell is on the follow-ing standing committees of the State Senate: State Reform School; Claims and Accounts. Banks and Corporations, and Printing. In the House Mr. Earle is on the following committees: Judici-ary. Taxation, and Municipal Corpora-tions. Dr. Prindle is on the following: Eastern Insane Asylum, Education, Public Health. Our Garfield is on Hor-ticulture, State Library and University, and Mr. Parmerlee is on the Agricultu-ral College and Reform School for Girls.

After a Mrs. Buford of Kansas had walked two miles to a river to suicide she remembered that the oven was full of bread, and she at once hastened home to save the loaves. Western women are thoughtful.

S h o r t .Stories.

Mr. Hale is right. The people do like to read, and therefore do read—if that doesn't follow without the saying—short stories, as he boldly avers in the pre-face to his last volume of tales. But they like them to be good. What is a good short story ? There are plainly several answers to this question, depend ing upon the classes of readers by whom they are given. But let us consider the stories good enough in their thought, purpose, style and literary workmanship to command a place in the best monthly magazines, and in weekly journals that strive to maintain a high standard. In tho first place, a story of this grade must have the readable quality in a degree that will carry seventy-five per cent, or more of tha patrons of the magazine or journal through it. in a manner to inter-est and to please them. An editor fit for his place commonly looks out for this, by an instinct which authors may quar-rel with, but with is better for the publisher's purse and the reader's satisfac-tion than the opinion of " ten men who can render a reason."—GoZdew Rule.

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LOWELL JOURNAL. JAS. W. HINE. EDITOR.

L o w e l l , Mic l i l gan ! J i i n u u r y 10, IHHl.

TKUM8 OK SUHSCRIITION. 0n«» pi l lar a year .

Fifty iVnU for Six Months. CiiMhinvariably in inlvaniv.

ADVKRTIHINO HATES. Made known on a|i]>lication.

AU nilvertlseiniMiU paldiitiartcrly. Kates reasonable.

JOII PHINTING. In all lis hranclu's.

Prici's low and work not t'M't'lled. Steam iM)Wer ptvssi's. new ty|M'.

THE JOURNAL. Has an extensivei-lrculatlnn.

Is an excellent advertiser A live paper in a live town.

Editor ial . Illinois is jmothi'V well-to-do State.

Debts nil pnitl.

There are only fifteen Savings i)anks in Michigan.

A brilliant reception was tendered Gen. Grant at Albany on Monday.

The Michigan land-grant bill came np in the Senate yesterday lint was not dis-posed of.

The official eensus reports show the |H>piilati<>n of the United States to Ik' 50.142.8(111.

All efforts to unseat Senator Kellogg will Is' resisted to the last by the Repub-lican Senators.

The State of Michigan embrace !W. 128.-ii:M acres. Michigan ought to take pains to settle her acres.

Secretary Sherman found bis fences in Ohio in pretty good repair. Ohio couldn't have done better.

If you want to see Gen. Garfield in-augurated you'll better hire a balloon. The real estate is ail "taken."

Senator Kernan has been renominated by the Democratic caucus of the N. Y. Legislature, but he can't gel there this time.

If Senator Blaine goes into President Garfield's cabinet. Representative Frye will go into the Senate. He is no small Frye. either.

It may surprise some to learn that there were 125,000 more Union than Confederate soldiers lost in the late war, but the records so state.

The Ohio democrats haye nominated Hon. A. G. Thurman for the Senate, which is an honor that stops right there and doesn't cost anybody a cent.

The Woman suffrage convention as-sembled at Washington yesterday. The woman rightersare determined to fight it out on that line if it takes UK) sum-mers.

Governor Hawkins was inaugurated Governor of Tennessee on Monday. He is a Republican, and the prospect is good for a Republican U. S. Senator from that State.

The southern states have been visited by extreme cold weather this winter, and the "balmy south'' is wondering if Old Probabilities hasn't about satisfied his old crudge.

Hon C. D. Nelson of Muskegon has been named as a good man for Regent of the University. He is a good man

and the JOLUXAL votes "aye" on that proposition, right now.

If Judge Cooley isn't put on the U. S. Supreme bench it will be time to begin to lose faith in recommendations. Of all the men named for that place Judge | Cooley has by far the biggest boom.

Senator Conkling is still "cock of the roost" in the old empire State. Roscoe is a trifle lordly, supercillious. and all that, but he is oiu of those high-step-pers that doesn't run out of resources.

Mr. Christiancy has answered Mrs. Christiancy's cross bill, and if half he

avers is true Lillie is a bad giveaway to have around. Mr. C. says he married her just to please her. But. somehow, she wasn't pleased.

The official census returns of Michi-gan show a ]X)pulation of 1.6:16,834. There are 862,27i' males and 774,057 fe-males—an excess of nearly 90,000 males. Whew! think of that ye gentle ones! There are 22.248 descendants of Ham in Michigan.

The tear jerking intelligence comes to us from Washington that Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague is not so beautiful as she once was. 0, Kate. Kate—behold this wipe: 'tis drenched with tears—with pure lachryraosial flow. Yes. Kate, we're growing old.

A Georgia paper states that the waste of the cotton crop for 1880 will IM* not less than 1,500,000 bales. This is an as-tounding statement and. if true, tells a sad story, indeed. Perhaps less politi-cal persecution, less "exodus" etc. would reduce the waste of the cotton crop, somewhat.

A concurrent resolution has ]Kisse(i both houses of the Lansing Legislature, requesting the President to appoint Judge Cooley a Justice of the U. S. Su-preme Court. Judge Cooley is receiving strong supixirt from many other States and it would seem that his chances for ap]>ointment are good.

There are numerous candidates for the office of Railroad Commissioner, but we can't see any good reason why the Hon. W. B. Williams should not IK* reap-pointed. It is better to retain exoer-ience and efficiency in that branch of the public service than to put in inexperiwnce and run the risk of efficiency.

The supreme court havine decided that a city is not liable for injuries re-suiting from a defective sidewalk, we respectfully call Mrs. Eliza Young's at-tention to that decision before she re-covers $2"),000 from the corporation of Lowell, for alleged injuries received from a defective sidewalk in this vil-lage.

The Detroit News in its zealous advo-cacy of free trade, does not admit any | good in a protective Larilf system. There are hundreds of unwritten arguments in favor of a protective tariff that go fur-ther to convince the people of its bene-ficent effects than all the fanciful free trade theories combined can overcome. Self-protection is the first law of nature and ought to l»e of governments.

Jimcrax.

Hard hearts are easy to break if you know how to strike.

The mantle of charity was always a little short to look well.

When praying for the poor don't stop to tie your purse strings in a hard knot.

Art will never come up to nature un-til she puts freckles on a doll's face.

The backbone of winter sticks tip in a manner that leads us to suspect that Old Probs. is a Caniel-ite.

What a luscious old sandwich it would be it" we could slap about four weeks of Indian summer right in about here.

It is far easier to float down the river of time than to float a three per cent, bond. Mr. Fernandy Wud. and don't you forget it.

What has become of all the mind readers? Oh. ah. wo remember. Went to Milwaukee—found nothing to read— hursted up—that's all.

The Detroit Free Press remarks that Mr. Conger is a sort of a political bum-ble bee. The F. P.. we presume, has fell his sting: and that 's why the F. P. iv so waspish.

An exchange says that "Kissing a girl on the cheek is like eating the skin of an orange and throwing the juicy pulp away." We'll not put our mere opinion against experience, but that there's a big difference in oranges we shall eternally maintain; pulp us if there ain't!

Most men. and women, too, get dis-couraged, at times, and feel that theirs is indeed a hard lot. Some an* con-stantly mourning because they are not better off. but do not stop to think how much worse olf they might In; than they are. In our darker moments, when weighed down under burdens too heavy to l>e borne, we feel like giving up and calling life a failure. Right hero, dear friend, is the time and place to stop and think. Think of the poor, bob tailed horse in fly time.

Petitions are in circulation praying the legislature to establish a state ine-briate asylum. We know one that won't sign any such petitions. We'd sooner sign a petition to enlarge the insane asy-lums and assign the inebriates to sepa-rate apartments therein. and h ve them treated the same as other demented per-sons: giving plenty of labor to those a b l e t o w o r k . T h e JOURNAL is n o t i n

favor of establishing any more State in-stitutions a t present,—not even to please the town, village or city that would IM? most likely to furnish the site.

Mr. E. W. Meddaugh. a prominent Detroit lawyer and citizen, takes up the cudgel in behalf of Mr. Christiancy and and gives many good reasons why he be-lieves the charges against that gentle-man to he false. Mr. Meddaugh has known Mr. Christiancy for many years, both in public and private life, and in-sists that unproven charges made against a man whose reputation has always been conspicuous for its purity, should not be believed. The general verdict in Michigan is undoubtedly in favor of Mr. C. as against his young, giddy, blith-some. gay and festive wile.

A bill asking for an amendment to the Constitution, prohibiting the sale of in-toxicating liquors, was introduced a t Lansing Friday. The discussion of this

bill will probably consume weeks of time. Should it pass— presume it will —the projHwed amendment will be sub-

mitted to a vote of the people, and.very probably, be defeated. There are thou-sands of temperance men who have just confidence enough in a prohibitory law to believe that the present system of taxa-•tion is a far more efficient means of re-stricting the sale of liquors than a pro-hibitory law would be. And this is just our view of the matter. We have tried prohibition and it didn't prohibit worth a cent.

for them, and out of the same pav and discharge all debts, legacies and charges chargeable on the same, or such divi-dends thereon as shall be ordered and decreed by the probate court afore-said."

Tho declaration filed in said action al-leges that said Maty Underwood—to whom, according to the last will and tes-tament of said John G. Underwood, de-ceased. the proceeds of said estate was to go for her life—became, about June 20, 1870, an invalid and poor person, and was placed in the Michigan State Re-treat of Detroit, and that said county has laid out and expended for her main-tenance and support, from Juno 26, 1870. to Januarv. 1879, tho sum of two thousand, two hundred and twenty-two dollars and fourteen cents. I t further alleges that said Charles Livingston lias in the meantime been in receipt of funds from said estate amounting to two thousand dollars, and has neglected and refused to pay the same toward tho sup-port of said Mary Underwood, whereby an action hath accrued to said hoard of supervisors on said bond.

As a matter of law the board of supsr-visors have no right of action on this bond: it does not run to them and no le-gal right of theirs is affected by its breach. I am satisfied that the action now ponding cannot bo maintained and ought never to have been commenced. If the board so desire. I will make care-ful examination of the whole subject matter, and if it is legally poBaiblo for the county to recover the money that it has ex|H'nded in supporting Sirs. Un-derwood, I will commence such an ac-tion at my earliest convenience.

The committee empowered to act in the matter was discharged and tho pros-ecuting attorney was authorized to go ahead. The committee on education re-ported on the dog question, recommend-ing that every supervisor in the county of Kent shall assess dogs according to tho letter of tho law, and attach a war-rant to his roll whereby tho town and ward collectors shall collect tho same.

Tho board concurred. A very sensible thing to do. Supervisors Stekotee.

Walker and Hunt were appointed a committee to confer with the prosecut-ing attorney in regard to procuring legal assistance in determining the title to the public court house square. The prose-cuting attorney gave it as his opinion that Sheriff Pock's claim for turnkey fees was not a legal claim against the county. The board allowed $25 to Judge Perkins for help in comparing records in tho probate court. A resolution to here-after assess property at its actual cash value, was amended as follows: "That wo recommend to our successors in office to meet at tho superior court room on tho Monday next succeeding the day of election in April next to determine with reference to tho basis for taxa-tion."

Jan. 18.—Tho amount expended for criminal prosecutions for tho past three years was $4,774. The prosecuting at-torney offers to do all tho criminal bus-iness of the county for one year for $1,-000—where the same is commenced on his authority. Proposition referred back to committee with instructions to draw up a contract accordingly, to sub-mit to the board. A committee from Kent county grange viz.. Lyman Mur-ray. A. N. Norton and E. A. Burlin-

game conferred with the board asking that a committee from tho l)oard be ap-])ointed to act with a committee from the Grange to confer with the commit-tee appointed by the city council rela-tive to a proposed amendment to the city charter of Grand Rapids, looking to the protection of fanners selling pro-duce in that city. Referred to a special committee of three who are to act with grange committee. The proposition to purchase additional lands to the county poor farm came up and committee in-structed to I(x)k up title of same. Bal-ance of day sjH'iit in passing upon claims.

The l)oard adjourned HIIW die Friday afternoon. Jan. 14.

Mlolilgnu PofttudlueH.

The following shows the postofflce changes in Michigan during tlm week ending January 15, 1881, furnished for Tho Postaild Tribune by Wm. Van Vleck of the postofflce department:

Postmasters appointed — Belvidere. Montcalm county, Chauncey B. Dice; Byron Center, Kent county, Byron Mc Neal; Cornell, Ionia county, Erastus H. Deatsman; Leesvillo, Wayne county, Henry Cooper; Fisher's Station, Kent county. Franklin Race; Madison, Liv-ingston county. Hour)' E. Giddings; Nashville, Barry county, Emory Parady; South Camden, Hillsdale county, Philip Harman.

Discontinued—Lebanon, Clinton Co.

'THE TIMES' Grnnrt Itapids, Midi.

Daily and Weekly E d i t i o n s ! The Daily, per year by mail post

age prepaid, |fi.00 Six months 8.00 Three months 1.50

Weekly, per year, jxtstage prepaid, • 1.00 Six months 50 Three months, 25

" T H E TIMES" in the most widely cir-culated newspajier in Michigan (outside Detroit.)

••THE TIMES" pays more money for news than any paper in the State save one or two in Detroit.

"THE TIMES" has special dispatches up to one o'clock each morning, by re-cent arrangements with the A. & P. Telegraph Co. and National Associated Press.

"THE TIMES" is the cheapest, liveli-est and best newspaper in this section.

For advertising or subscription call at Counting Rooms, or address the pub-lisher NATHAN CHURCH.

Grand Rapids.

FARM FOR SALE.

On N. W. comer of Sec. 22,Cascade; 120 acres, alnrnt 70 improved; good barn, house, and granary. Inquire of Silas Beckey on the place, and for further particulars, of the subscriber a t Grand R a p i d s . ALBERT BAXTER.

O u r S u p e r v i s o r s .

Jan. 10.—A summary of all foregoing proceedings of the board was given in last week's JOURNAL. To-day a resolu-tion was offered relative to taxing of dogs, which was referred to the commit-tee on education. The committee ought to "educate" every supervisor to assess the dogs according to law. and no mon-keying about it. The law is plain enough, and we have never hoard that a suj>er-visor was greater than the law. It is his duty to carry it out until it is re-pealed or declared "unconstitutional." Assess your dogs and don't spend a week talking about it. The committee on sal-aries recommended the allowance of 40 cents a day per prisoner for board.

Jan. 11.—Tlie board voted to furnish stationery to the various county offices, which was very proper. The county treasurer was instructed to pay the Kal-amazoo asylum for the support of Henry Grote from Dec. 1. 1880. until otherwise ordered. Dr. J . M. Sligh was chosen as healer of the county sick. The commit-tee on claims reported on certain claims of Sheriff Peck. Subsequent adion of the iKiard wasanything but encouraging to Peck. It looks as though the board were not doing just the fair thing by tho ex sheriff.

Jan . 12.—The prosecutiug attorney reported on the Underwood caw*, now now pt nding in the Circuit court. He says: |

1 find that pursuant to a resolution of the board of supervisors heretofore passed, an action of debt was, on the 1st day of July. A. D.. 188(1, commenced in tin* circuit court for the county of Kent against Cliarles Livingston. Patrick Cur-ie}- and Duncan Ross on a certain bond given April 13. 1869. by Charles Living-ston and Mary Underwood, as executors of the last will and testament and ad-ministrators of the estate of John G. Un-derwood. deceased, and Duncan Ross and Patrick Curley as sureties to the judge of probate of said county, with a condition "that they, (said Mary Under-wood and Charles Livingston) shall ad-minister according to law and the hist will and testament of said deceased all the goods, chattels, rights, credits and estate of the said deceased, which shall at any time come to their possession or to the possession of any other i^rson

FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE. 40 acres of land, 2i miles north of

Lowell. EUGENE MOYE.

Lnmls For Sale. Lots 8. 4. r> and 0. and n e ^ of s w ^ Sec. 5,

and E. fraction of Boo. 0, Town 7. north of Range 8 west. 273 acres, on Fia t River, about 7 mile« above I^>well will be aoid together or in 8 parcels. Persons desirous of purchasing will please cal l upon the undersiRned or send per mail for dia-grams, prices and t e rms of sale.

FREPERICK HALL, Ionia. Mich.. Dec. 18.1880.

Legal Notices. VTOTICE OF COMMISSIONERS ON CLAIMS.

State of Micliigoo, County of Kent. RS. Pro-bate Court for said County.

Estate of James Byrnes deceased. The undersigned having been appointed by the

Hon. Cyrus E. Perkins Judge of Probate of said County, Conimissioneni on Claims in tho mat te r of said estate, and Hit months f rom the 18th day of December. A. D. 1880, having been allowed by said Judge of Probate , to oil persons having claims against said Estate, in which to present their claims to us fo r examination and adjust-ment .

Notice is hereby given. That we will meet on Monday, the iMth day of January. A. I). 1881, and on Saturday, tho 18ln day of June. A. 1). 1881. a l 9 o'clock a. m. of each day , at the Low Offlce of Perry & Alger in t he Village of Lowell, in said county, to receive and examine such cloims.

Dated. Lowell. Mich., Dec. 20th. A. D. 1880. MILTON M. PERRY. MVRON H. WAXKER. Mw4. • Coui'ra.

PROBATE ORDER.—State ot Michigan, coun-ty of Kent. ss. At a session of Uie Probate

Court for the county of Kent, holden a t the Pro-bate Office, in the city of Grand Rapids, on Mon-day, the twentieth day of December in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty.

Present—Cyrus E. Perkins. Judge of Probate. In the matter of the estate of Elizabeth Burch

deceased. On reading and fliing the final account duly ver-

ified of Arvfne Peck, Admlstrator dr bonis m m of said estate.

Thereupon it Is ordered, that Monday, the seventeenth day of January next a t ten o'cfock hi the forenoon, be assigned for the examinaUonond allowance of said account and that the heirs a t law of said deceased, and all other persons inter-

Good I d e a .

PROSECUTING ATTORNEY MAVNARD

of Kent county has given public notice that, during his term of office, he will not nolle pros any criminal case in a court of record without first giving one week's notice of his intention to do so. so that tho complainant, witnesses and all parties interested may have a chance to be heard as to the propriety of so dis-continuing tho case. This looks like a good idea; and why should it not be gen-erally adopted by prosecuting attor-neys?—Post (fr Tribune,

L a t e r J o t t i n g s .

Snow is from two to three feet deep "up north."

A foot of snow fell at Kalamazoo Sun-day night.

Ludington is to have a $12,000 jKirt-able sav -mill.

RejiorUi from Kalamazoo say that that the peach buds in that region are "killed fatally dead."

Two large batches of notaries public have already been ground out a t Lan-sing this session.

The Kalamazoo Light Guards are ar-ranging for a big excursion to the Matili Grns at New Orleans.

A brick store in Grand Haven, owned by John Finite, was burned Monday evening. Loss $1,500.

Murder most foul at Lapeer. Sunday night, the victim being Mrs. Curtiss, wife of Rev. E. S. Curtiss. Mrs. E. P. Barnard of Greenville is the alleged murderer, who is charged with throw-ing gasoline on Mrs. Curtiss and setting fire to it. Jealousy etc., the supposed cause. Mrs. B. is under arrest. A ter-rible affair.

ested in said estate, are required to' appear at session of said court, then to IM* holden at t i'Mimte offlce. I county, and show cause.'if any there

the city of Grand Ranids. in said . - - - — : : . j r e be. why the

said account should not be allowpd; And it is fur ther ordered, tha t said admiuistrator give noUce to the persons interested in sold estate, of the pendency of said account and the examination thereof by causing a copy of this order to IK- pub-lished in the Lowell JOURNAL, a newspaper print-ed anil circulating in said county of Kent three successive weeks previous to said day of hearing.

lA true copy.) CYRUS E. PERKINS. ADOLPH B. MASOM. Judge of Probate.

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LAD1ICS. if you are sufferuig from Female Weak-ness, Leucorrluca, or diseases peculiar to females, or in fact any disease, ask your druggist for Pre/ . Ouihnette'B Frcnch Kidney Pud, and take no other. If he has not got it, send $3.00 and vou will receiva the Pad by re-turn mail. Address U. S. Branch

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T H E OLD R E U A B L E ROUTE TO ALL POINTS EAST AND WEST.

TRAINS LEAVE LOWELL QOINO EAST:

Steamlwat Express, Through Hall. • Evening Express, • Hlxed to Owosso, Through Freight, •

00070 WEST: Saturday Night Mixad,

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Ti 2 4 p M

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Through Freight, Night Express, Through Hall, Mixed. Steamboat Express,

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I points East, fo r sale a t the Company's offlce. Lovrull.

H Ladles and Smoking C a n ontall day trains. 1 PuJlman Sleeping cars on all night trains. F . O. TAFT, W. B. FIRTH.

Lowell Agent. Gen. Pass. Ag't, Detrol

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HAILS CLOSE For D. Q. H. A H. East. 11 A. M.; 4:45 p. u. For D. O. H. & H. West. 4:20 P. m. ; H:30 p. x. F o r Fallassburgh, Alton Grant and Grattan

7 : 0 0 A. M. For West Campbell, Clarksflllo, Cnrophell.

Carleton Center. Hastings, North Irving, Fillmore, Freeport , Bown* and Alto. 7 o'clock A. U.

For Keene. mail closes even ' Friday nt 3 p. x. Poit-offlcu hours from 7 o'cfock A. X. to H;.1o p.

M. No malls on Sundays. JAS. W. HINE, P. H.

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gular meetings of Lowell Lodge No. W, first and third Fridays of each month. Quarterly meclingn third Friday evenings of the months of March, June , September and December.

E. W. DODGE. M. W. THE#. B. CARTER. Rec.

Home and Vicinity.

VERGENNES VISITOR.

A grange social a t Wm. Schenck's Thursday evening: all are invitod Miss Minnie Blanning of Coral, is visit-friends here Miss Maggie Near has returned from a visit to her friends in Campbell A very nice euchre par-ty at Mr. Wntters' Inst Saturday eve-ning Mrs. Mcpherson is no better Miss Jennie McLean is visiting friends in Lowell. SUM JlM.

Wheat 92 cents. Pork 15.00 to $.r).40 per cwt. We predict a mild winter—but not

this year. Don't bring in any new maple sugar

just yet. Tlie schools are progressing finely so

far this term.

Wood sells on the streets at f l .00 to

|1.50 per cord. Wrhy not pave the way now—and pave

the streets next spring ?

You made a mistake by not getting

last winter's ice this winter.

B. Allen's hat .;tore. Grand Rapids has been closed by the sheriff.

Mrs. Mitchell, of Stanton, is visiting Mrs. W. E. Keyes of this village.

Diphtheria closed the school in dis-trict No. 5, Paris township, last week.

Diphtheria is a disease more to be dreaded than small-pox. Physicians

say so. Charles Wilcox, of Charlotte, has fifty

feet less of tape worm than he had a few

days ago. You may look for a grand time here

Feb. 22, when the Band gives its grand

masquerade. There's a man over south about eight

miles who hasn't subscribed for the

JOURNAL y e t .

Dr. J. Howard Smith, of Pontiac, spent Sunday in Lowell. His bodily

health is XXX. 'Parties abroad receiving the JOURNAL

will please understand that it is a gift

to them from some friend.

Numerous couples of Lowellites took a sleighride to Ada last night and had a festive time at Smith's hotel.

A very pleasant surprise party at Mrs. J . C. Train's Friday night, and many were there to enjoy it.

Our local correspondents are doing no-bly. . Their news items are appreciated b y a l l r e a d e r s o f t h e JOURNAL.

David McLaughlin, of Muskegon, has been nominated and confirmed as col-lector of customs at Grand Haven.

No wedding notices published unless properly vouched for. Wo have only one wig and don't want to lose that.

Go and see the blood hounds and donkeys and other live stock at Music Hall, Friday night, in Uncle Tom's

Cabin. Tlie Belding News has been enlarged

to a six column folio and its price put at $1.00 a year. I t is an excellent local

paper. Wheat and pork quoted a little higher

than a week ago, although yesterday's advices were rather unfavorable

wheat. Mrs. Solomon Lamphire of Ada is un-

der arrest charged with stealing goods from E. L. Montgomery's store. Grand

Rapids. W . J . Perkins of Grand Rapids is pat-

entee of a "sliingle shover." This brings u p not the fondest recollections of early

childhood. A Fanners ' Institute will l>e held at

Paris, this county, on Saturday, Feb. 5, when various subjects of interest will lie

discussed. A liberal reward to the person that

discovers a lou t eight or ten street lamps pu t up on Main and Bridge streets IM*-

fore spring. Indications indicate that l»well will

g e t u p q u i t e a boom next spring and summer in the way of building im-

provements. James H. Thaw, a New York tobac-

conist, is in Grand Rapids. Wish we could induce his brother, January Thaw,

to come to Lowell.

P . J . Jersey, the cornet ist. assisted by Gv W. Hun t , G. B. Balcom and other gw^class talent, will give a concert at

(Balding. on Friday evening of this week.

' Don't be at all surprised if the JOUR-NAL has a circulation of 2,000 before tlie close of the present volume. Send In your subscriptions now, and don't for-

get it. To Mr. and Mrs. Nl P. Hasted, Jan.

17, a fine boy. We congratulate N. P. on this valuable addition to his '-Nur-sery." and would suggest "Wagener" for

a name.

Tlie JOURNAL is under special obliga-tions to several fanner friends for fa-vors received. They bestow their favors by sending in new subscriptions fre-

quently.

Next Sabbath, 2Skl. Rev. S. L. Hamil-ton, of Grand Rapids, is expected to fill tho M. E. pulpit. He is an attractive and instmctive preacher and the people will do well to hear him.

Parties desiring Detroit morning pa-pers can get them at the P. O. News room aliout four hours earlier than by mail as Mac. receives them by express

on the 12:35 train.

For 165 days a fish lived, without feeding, in E. B. Hunter's water tank, but the other morning its little tail was found frozen fast in ice, and it will 'wiggle" no more.

Rev. N. L. Bray having been laid aside for a few days on account of sickness waa not able to fill his pulpit on Sabbath last. Rev. J . W. Johnson of Grand Rapids occupied the pulpit.

Multiplied duties forbade our attend-ance at the meeting of the State Press Association at Lansing, last week. About CO publishers' were present and a

successful meeting was reported.

We are requested to give notice that the Rev. Wm. Taylor. "The World's Evangelist," will be at Grand Rapids from Jan. 80, to Fob. Ist inclusive, and will preach in various churches then

during his stay.

Ice taken from the pond is good enough for refrigerating purposes but not fit for drinking purposes. For the latter use, ice should come from tin purest of lakes. Flat river floats too much filth to make clean ice.

Capt. J . M. Weather wax. who resides at Stanton, but belongs to Lowell, is in Florida after some lialmy breezes and better health. He reports cold, damp weather there and is not thoroughly in love with the climate as now advertised

Last week's JOURNAL had it Cannon instead of Carson City Rectrd, where upon the Record editor remarks that we must think he is "a big gun That'll do. He is certainly a "Newman" at the helm and a great improvement

over the old. Mr. Wm. Belden, aged 70, died last

Saturday at his home in Jamestown Ottawa Co., this State. TheG. R. Eagle says deceased was Gen. Garfield s step father, and we see similar notices in De troit papers. Rather singular that it wasn't more generally known before.

I t takes about half a column of gush with a big G. in the Grand Rapids dai lies, to properly announce the fact that His High Mighty Majesty, The Mayor of that city, will preside at the Rev. Mr Pepper's meeting. All who have not seen The Mayor should attend. mission 25 cents.

With the compliments of tlie author, Prof.Swensberg,we have received a copy of a very valuable work called "The Ac-countant's Assistant, or Instruction Book." The book is all that its name implies. It is of value, not only to the student but to business men. and espec-ially to their book-keepers.

A stabbing affray in Grand Rapids Monday. A man named Herscher plunged his jack-knife into one Frank Georgie, and Georgie will probably die. Herscher escaped. Grand Rapids is get-ting to be notorious for its many and divers ways of kicking up unwholesome and unhealthy sensations.

Carrie Toles, mention of whose con-duct is made elsewhere in this paper, was formerly a pupil in the Lowell Union School. She was also a seam-stress here for sometime. Whether she has suicided or not, her career has been queer. Many think she is still living and safe with some particular friend m

Canada. M. A. Hewitt of this village will de-

liver his lecture entitled "The Summit Gained, or The Century of Progress," at Music Hall, in Lowell, on Tuesday, ev-ening, Jan. 25th, and on Wednesday evening the 26th. his new lecture, enti-tled "ISMS" His lecture on "Isms" takes a brief look at various Urns of the world, including Spiritualism.

Dry goods store, Lowell. Clerk— "This goods is half a dollar a y a r d / Customer—"Have it for a dollar a yard? Can get the same thing over to Blankses for W) cents—just the same thing, sir." It was easy for the clerk, to explain, but the customer acted as though he had swallowed a three tined pitchfork and was trying to bite off tlie bandit.. Some

folks do act that way.

The editor will be absent two days this week, with a finu detennination in his heart to add a few more improve-ments to his paper, ere long. The read-ers of the JOURNAL may feel assured that he will spare no pains to make his paper better and better as time rolls on. Its circulation i« rapidly increasing and the hearty support it is receiving has remov-ed all doubts as to the wisdom of the

"new departure." Variety may IHJ the spice of life but

when it comes to the weather less spice will do. Last Thursday forenoon the festive thermometer indicated 85 : above zero, and it began to look as though old frigidity bail to t done hugging for a while, but he hadn't. Friday morning mercury made a dive for the bottom and maintained a stationery position at 20 5 to 2.1- degrees below zero, long enough to receive thunders of applause from everything cajiable of making a noise. A change of 57 degrees in less than 1H hours will do. We'd like to visit our relatives in Southern Africa if

you please.

Malirluu* Slander.

Hint*, of the Lowell JOURNAL, is post-muster of his town, a director of the N a t i o n a l Bank and editor of one of the very best weekly papers in Michigan. He has so much spare time thai he thinks of running for constable next spring.—C/ioWoffe Republican,

Latent From Carrie.

The latest intelligence concerning Car rie Toles comes from yesterday's Post and Tribune, a reporter of that paper having traced her as far as Toledo. Her lieautiful form is not food for the agile fishes in Detroit river—not much, ac-cording to latest advices.

Correspondence.

FALLASSBURG NEWS.

The Woman's Missionary Society hold a public meeting at the school house. Friday evening. Jan. 21 Mrs. J . B. Miller is going to Kansas to reside with her daughter, Mrs. John Tate Ther-mometers stood at 18 degrees lielow zero last Friday morning and 14 below on Monday morning Keene Grange was represented by a large delegation at the council at South Boston Hall last Fri-day. The next council will be held at the Keene Hal l . . . .There have been 25 cases of measles at the "Valley." Fears were entertained that one case (that of Mr. Simmons') would bo fatal. We are glad to learn that he is now improving.

FRANK.

Alaska meeting one fvening last week, and were warmly welcomed bv the pas-tor Mr. and Mrs. H. (i. Holt of Cas-cade visited at W. T. Remington's one day bust week The meeting of Kent Co. Grange at Harmony (Jrange Hall was largely attended, between two and three hundred members being present. After a bountiful dinner, provided by Harmony grange, a very able address was listened to from the Master of the State Grange, Hon. C. G. Luce, who then installed the officers of Kent Co. Grange. In the evening the fifth degree was conferred on a number of candi-dates. The retiring Master. II. G. Holt, made some most excellent remarks, which were warmly and ablv responded

' • M.B. Hine. toby the new Master, Hon. M. B. Hine. 111"" i " " Rumor has it that E. L. Curtiss hath there wsi

surely and truly this time passed from the state bachelordom into the state matrimonial, and that Mios Satie Wing-ler was his fair guide across the border. Success attend you all through "" Bro. Ernest.

Dentil of HOT. K. It. Stiles.

Dispatches to Detroit | ape is announce that Rev. E. R. Stiles, of Hancock, died of pneumonia, last Friday and that bis remains were taken to Oberlin. Ohio.for interment. This is. indeed, sad intelli-gence to the many warm friends ( f thede ceased in Lowell, where he was .so well known and so universally beloved. Mr. Stiles was formerly pastor of the Congre-gational church lit this village and bis long residence hen; gained for him that profound respect and high esteem such

as only men of his goodness of heart and purity of soul could command,

is ever a true Christian, he

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life. J . E. 3 .

CANNON REPORTS

M. R. Hartwell is engineer at Button's mill in Gra t tan . . . .Elder Waldo and wife wore at Lamont last week. Tho Gmng-ers have leased Mrs. A. Kromer's hail for five years. The Good Templars will share it with them Mr. and Mrs. H. Ij impman visited Mrs. L's. mother, Mrs. A. Kromer, recently. Mrs. K. is very badly afilicted, having lieen laid up for a number of weeks with a swelling on her limb caused hv a fa l l . . . .Mr . Jas. Nay-smith (Mrs. J . W. Hartwell's brother) has buried his youngest daughter: died of diphtheria . . . .Mr. Richard Carten is learning the blacksmith's trade with his fa ther . . . .Henry Miller has bought Mr. Patrick's house and lot and is repairing tho same Mr. Hanover has moved on to the Wm. Groner fann .

SOUTH BOSTON NEWS.

Donation at tho Hall this week Thurs-day evening, for the benefit of Rev. John TAirner. A cordial invitation is extended to all. Bill $1.00 a couple The lecture of C. G. Luce has been well spoken of hy all wo have heard mention it There is over ifinOO pledged for the purpose of building a M. E. Church in So. Boston A little girl at W. S. Hughson's. Rock the cradle gently C. C. Winegar has purchased the Willis Cushman farm In Campbell B. Chap-man has ree'd his Herefonl cow from David Clark of Lapeer, and J. F. Eng-lish has purchased a heifer calf o f , t h e same breed So. Boston was repre sented at the Farmer's Institute at Ionia by Mr. and Mrs. B. Chapman. A. S. Stannard, J . D. Stannard. D. H. Eng-lish. and they report it a very profitable gathering.

CASCADE ITEMS.

On Friday evening next. Jan. 21st. Mr. and Mrs. Rufus W. Martin are to have a silver wedding. Alxnit 100 friends are invited Mrs. J . W. Hine recently made us a nice visit. Well, we shouldn't take in the latch string if we knew she would let the editor come, too, next time Tlie Union meetings start-ed by the three churches at Ada are still going on The Young Ladies Aid So-ciety at Cascade have succeeded in rais-ing funds enough to pay for an organ for the new church at Cascade and the instrument has been o rde red—The new saw mill at Cascade is

SARANAC SCRIBBLINOS.

John Case, a former resident of this village, died a t his residence in Boston, last Friday, of lung fever. He was bur-ied in the Saranac cemetery, on Sunday. . . . .Charley Brown. Charley Crossman and Harry Hame, three young "bloods," were caught stealing timber off from some bottom land owned hy Irving Stevens. The boys have been around town trying to raise the "sugar" ($75) to settle tho matter up. Whether they have settled with Stevens or not, we have been unable to learn at present writing. . . . .Tho stave factory yard is piled full of stave and heading liolts. Nearly one hundred cords came in la*t Saturday.

More "Undo Tom."

(Seo. E.Stevens' Uncle Tom's Cabin Combination is billed for Music Hall. Friday evening, Jan. 21. The company is recommended as first class. Tho Grand Rapids Eagle says of it:

The company having it in hand is fairly a good one, and two or three of its members, representing prominent char-acters. are really more than good. The serious, tho picturesque, the pathetic, the gently humorous and tho downright comical elements of the play are all broimht out as effectively as when it was HO successfully given here by Gotthold's coinbiiiation. two years ago, and that is saving a good deal. The native Negro minstrelsy and religious jubilee singing is also very effective. The perforniance is peculiarly adapted to the sensibilities of children, and a good addition to their

The farmers are improving the pres- ,V| r- . . . , ent fine sleighing bvlilh'ng the mill yards S ' " « ' " > « > ' ' '""le by full of logs.. . .The firm of Foulks A: ,,w , ..IT i Ir "xyers Opera House to Kellev has dissolved, Mr. Kellev step- Luc'e Torn s Cabin. iiing down and out. It is reported that M r Kelley is to occuny Colbath's music store with a new stock of furniture Miss Cal Dresskell has gone to Cleveland. Ohio, to reside with her brother-in-law, Mr. Hanafonl. She will lie missed by the young people in this vicini ty. . . .Old Boreas was hard run by Vennor last Thursday night and Friday morning. Ho breathed his cold, short, icy breath on tho citizens of this place a t a temper-ature of ID® below zero . . . C . A. Bur-

I'rospectlve Iniproveiiieiits.

Mention was made in last week's JOUR-NAL, of the fact that J . C. Train was preparing to put up a new brick block in the spring. We are informed that the block will be three stories high, 100 feet deep and CO feet front: containing:

throe separate buildings, or business places, two of which will be fitted up

CASH PAID—For ox-bow timberde-liv. red at the Ue|K)t. F. O. TAFT.

Needles for all sewing machines best made at AIthen's, corner store. Train's block.

Everything in the furniture line at botioni prices at Kopf A: Icing's.

.Ml Wool Cashnieres in colors, WS inch-es wide, only CO cents |ier yard at

Weatherwax's.

Don't buy furniture until you have examined our stock and prices.

K O P F & LANGS.

Wry handsome Brocade Dress Goods. •10 inches wide, only U5 cents per yard just received at Weatherwax's.

QUKUY—did you see Eclectric oil hand in another col? 17yl

Wood for sale by Enoa & Bradfield.

Beautiful Chromos at Kopf & Langs'.

FARM FOR SALE.

A good farm of 147 acres, situated on sections 10and W, of Vergennes. with buildings and tools in good repairs. Will lie sold at a bargain. For price and t e r m s e n q u i r e of JOHN A . COLE.

20lf Vergennes.

I.illell Snap at JOHNSON A* SINI I.AIR'S.

S E W I N G M A C H I N E S .

White, New Home, and Royal St. John. Three of the latest and best machines in the market. NONE BF.T-TER. All with the latest improvemeiils. Sold cheap for cash at Chas. A Ithen's Clothing house, Lowell.

Wood for sale by Knos A: Bradfield.

The Jamestown alpacas are the 'test Dress Goods ever produced for hr-price. They are superior in quality and finish to any other goods in tlie market and will stand twice the wear and never fade or change colors, they can be wash-ed and look as bright as ever. For sale bv J . M. Weatherwax.

Harvey Palmer, conductor on the N. Y. Uailroad was cured of the worst form of liv.-r disease by Dr. Pierce's Liv-er Pad. lb-may lie referred to at 1207 Sixth Avenue." New York, says he "would give fifty dollars for another one if he needed it and couldn't get it for less. For sale by Hunt it Hunter.

Prof. Guilmette's French Kidney Pad i-< manufactured in this country from

[the French fonnula. and is genuine. I Sold by J . ('. West.

Due of the most watnful and dlstress-1 ing diseases to which the flesh is heir is

Pi l e s . I)R. BOSANKO'S PlLElJKMEDV h a s been tried, tested and proved to be an in-fallible remedy for the cure of all kinds of Piles. Price 1') cents. Sold by all

bank gives a prize dance a t Shaw s hall, for stores and one for hotel purp< v-i.tof Mitrlit Parties attendimr ^ . . . i i... next Friday "night. Parties attending

this dance will be given a compliment-ary ticket to a masquerade to bo given in about five weeks. "Bur ." gives ono more dance before the masquerade. §:{5 in prizes will be given away Friday night. Decker of Ionia furnishes the music Potatoes are scarce and are worth fifty and sixty cents a bushel L e w i s S h a w h a s s o l d h i s s t a g e s c e n e r y to the Clarksville diamatic club D. B. Kelley was in Grand Rapids last week attending a meeting of the Undertakers Association... .A number of Lowell gentlemen came to Saranac last week and tried to gain admittance to the Odd Fellows lodge with the pass-word of the K. T. of T. We don't know whether the "ardent" had anvthing to do with their mistaking tho Odd Fellows light for the Temperance lantern or n o t . . . .F . T. Rob-erts who has been visiting friends in town during the past week, has return-ed to Rockfonl Rev. Mr. Hurlbut is holding a series of revival meetings in Berlin, and' is meeting with splendid success A large number of rabbits are being killed by local sportsmen Bar-ber & Ferree shipped two car loads of lumber to Grand Rapids, last week . . . A large number of ash logs are being pil-ed on the south bank of the river and will be run to Grand Haven in the spring.

The block, as before stated, will be put up on the corner west of the house that Mack built, which, by the way. ought to be removed, for tho safety and wel-fare of all concerned. Which includes almost everybody who has eyes to see and adjacent property to insure. The west side, by the addition of Train's new block, will loom up in substantial shape. I t is more than possible, also, that Mr. McGee will put u p another brick struc-ture west of and adjacent to his present block, on the west side. Now let us hear from the east side. Mr. Pullen has one of the best corners in town for a fine brick block, and we shan't be sur-prised to see hini put one up there some-time, although we are not authorized to say that such is his present intention. There are other good lots on Bridge street that we hope to see covered with brick ere many years.

The Lowell Journal. F O R 1 8 8 1 .

Will be one of the newsiest and spic-

FARMERS! I;' you want forty pounds of flour per

bushel of wheat and thirty lbs of buck-wheat flour per bushel, goto tho Spring-brook Mills.

Wood for sale by Enos A: Bradfield.

Go to Kopf A: Langs' for all kinds of Furniture

druggists. 48yl

sijs.ood of Rinehart's Liver Pills sold in Ohio and Indiana last year. Onlv one for a dose. Sample dose free. Sold bv J . C. West.

Tuos. JAMES. Darlington. England, says:—The "Only Lung Pad' is being thoroughly tried here. One lady has al-ready received great Ix-nelit. who has suffered for years from Bronchitis and Asthma, and congestion of the right lung.—Se« Adv.

A cheap, sneedy and marvelously ef-fective remedy for all kidney and uriii-ary diseases is Dr. Pierce's Kidney Pad. It cures nearly every form of these dis-eas's. and has restored health to many |iersons whose phyicians had given them u p a s incurable. Our rentiers would do well lo try this remedy in case they need medicine. For Kile by I Innt A; Hunter.

Thousands hi've been cured of dumb ague, bilious disorders, jaundice, dys-!» psiu and all diseases of the liver, blood and stomach, when all other remedies have failed, by using Prof. Guilnietle's Fr.tnch Liver Pad. which is a quick and permanent cure lor those disorders. Ask your druggist for the great remedy, and take no oilier, and if he does not keep it send ^I'51) in a letter to the French Pad Co.. and receive one by mail [Nist-paid. For sale by J. ('. West.

CRN. '1 PA NT'S ARABIAN HORSES

The Sultan of Turkey pn'sented Gen. Grant with two beautiful Arabian horses which now grace the soil of America, where Kendal's Spavin Cure is found in almost every store to releive the aches and pains which every animal is afilicted with. It is a sure cure for every kind of blemish or lameness to which beast or man is subject to. Read the advertisement of Kendal's Spavin Cure.

Buy no other but the Jamestown Al-pacas. For sale by J . M. Weatherwax,

What is it that men call for when they have a lame horse? Kendall's Spavin Cure.

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unt-u. . . . A ne new saw m m «i v/nscaur; , a now running • • • -The Roval Templars of Temperance full blast The Hon. Cyrus G. Luce is n"ide their Counsellor. Mr. Merritt , m , ( . r s nrint.-.i to address a public meeting at Cascade Moore, a present of Gibbons' Roman 1 1 1

« t r -n — •!./. «,r0n!nn-nfFi.ii mtli. Empire, in five volumes, a short time ONE YEAR FOR .$1.00. Grange Hall on the evening of Feb. 10th.

If there is any one among us. to-day foolish enough to think the grange is. or has been a failure, we should have been glad to have them take a look a t that gathering of farmers and their wives at the meeting of the County grange last week. Just one look at the intelligence aud dignitv of that gathering would have satisfied them that the gmnge had already proven a God send to the farm-

HOD.

SAM.

GRATTAN GATHERINGS.

Adelbert Huntley's paint and wagon shop at Grattan Center, burned Jan. 11. Fire discovere<l at 4 o'clock a. m., but origin not known. Loss over |2,000, with no insurance. . . Something over a week ago, a very bold but unsuccessful attempt was made a t wheat stealing from Mrs. Donovan's barn, in South Grattan. The hired man bravely rout-ed two men from the granary, while a third had a team. It is said some blood was spilled and that the thieves were glad to jajet awav with their wounded companion Marriages are getting to be a frequent occurrence, but the most interesting one of the season took place Jan. 14, at the residence of George Ash-lev, the parties being Mr. A. B. Smith, of Trenton, Mich., and Miss Belle Ashley eldest daughter of C. Ashley. Our young friends were made one by Rev. T. Robinson, and they, with many of the bridal party attended the social at W. Lessiter's. where they were received with great demonstrations of joy. Jan. 15, Mr. and Mrs. Smith returned'to Tren-ton, followed by the good wishes of hosts of friends Mrs. Ii. Brooks, with her sister, Mrs. M. Evans of Bowne arc visiting at Langston. Mr. Evans is lumbering in that vicinity this winter.

Mrs. H. Lessiter, with the New Year. received a handsome chair tidy from a friend at Alton, also a set of dressing case tidies from a friend in Caldwell. T e x a s . MAUD.

OAKKIELD ODDITIES.

Oakfield has ninety-six dollars worth of dogs on the tax roll. One man pays more tax on do^s than ho does on his fann and still is not happy. Let 'em iiay I t costs the taxpayers of Oakfield about two thousand dollars to sustain free schools this year and not half our youth are obtaining a good com-mon school education. Who is to blame?

Mrs. A. Hartwell of Cannon, with her three republican children, is visiting friends in Oakfield. It is well for peo-ple living in crowded towns to get out into the country occasionally—Read-ing club meets Saturday evening. Jan. 22nd. at Mr. E. J . Wellman's. Come up.

J . M. Parkhurst ami Peter McCan-ley are having cement wells put down this week. Don't forget they are the

heapest and Is-st This world is full of beauty and grandeur—from the deli-cate crystals of frost-work on the win-dow pane with its image of trees, cas-tles and forest, to the mountains of ice in the glaciers of Greenland with their ice ribbed walls lifting up their almost perpendicular sides toward the sky. rhis world is full of lieauty and sublim-ity from the fleecy frost crystals on the trees with their diamond and silver jew-els glittering in the golden rays of the morning sun to—to a plate of buck-wheat cakes smoking hot from the griddle with plenty of—etc. Copy-right applied for. ' * M. T. J r .

Empire.

•KJ- _ T h e Hon ton S t o r e .

Tlie sale of the "Boston Store" stock of goods, announced for the 17th, was postponed to the 20th. to-morrow, when it is believed the sale will take place. I t is quite probable that the store will lie re-opened to the public again, but un-der whose management it is too early yet

to say.

SweiDtliergs'i College.

The Grand Rapids Commercial Col-lege Journal for 1881 has arrived. It is not only a handsome ami interesting paper but it represents the best institution of the kind in the west. Any young man desiring a thorough course in busi-ness education will miss it if he passes by Swensberg's Business College at Grand Rapids. Send for the College Journal and get full particulars.

Menu Kiiidneitit.

Somebody killed a sheep belonging to Mr. Lee in Vergennes and took the pelt, leaving tho carcass in a lot. Suspicion led to the houseof Mr. Titus Kellogg and on Monday officers Booth and Coates, armed with a search warrant, made a close search of Mr. K's premises, but found no evidences of guilt there. An-other sheep, served the same way. was found on Walter Hiler's premises. The question is, who is doing this business?

I n i u l v v r t e n t l y O m i t t e d .

In naming the pupils who took part in Mr. Balcom's concert the JOURNAL last week inadvertently to mention Miss An-na Hunter who performed a long and difficult piano solo with great credit. Such mistakes are even more annoying to the publisher that to the slighted par-ties, but they will occur sometimes. It may be proper to state in this connection that the elegant new upright piano used a t the concert was one just purchased for Miss Anna by her father.

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LOWELL MARKETS.

How to invest a dollar and make live ; Buy a Ixittle of Kendal's "Spavin Cure."

J. R. CAIUNS, Sheriff of Lenawee Co., Mich., savs:—I have worn an "Only Lung Pitil" for Bronchial difilculties, and have not been troubled with a cough since wearing it.—See Adv.

Prof. Guilmette's French Kidney Pad is manufactured in this country from the French formula, and is the genuine. For sale by J. C. West.

Our word for it. if you will try Rine-hart's Worm Lozenges you will find them better than all others. Sold by J. C. West.

11 is a fact that horse dealers are buy-ing horses with ringbones and spavins because they can make money by using "Kendal's Spavin Cure." Read the Ad-vert isemeni.

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Corrected on Tuesday of each week. Wheat. " W Apples pur hushel lU^&c BeouH, per bushel. Sl.oo Bran per ton. Butter pe r Cahlittge per liewl. Cheese per lb Com per liu ETNC* per doz. fresh. Flour per cwt Lard per Ih Oats pe r l)ii Onions per b a T.'M.' Potatoes .Vie.

" Dressed Pork per cwt $5.00 to Si. in H a v D e r t o n SIUOO.

N O T I C E :

Whereas, my daughter, M. Adella Timpson, baa been incurring debts against me at various business places, without my knowledge " r consent, this is to warn all people not to trust her on my account as I shall nay no bills so in-curred after this date.

:Ww2 JOSEPH TIMTSUN. Bowne, Mich.. Jan. is. 1881.

TO T H E P A T U O X S

PERFECTLY RELIABLE. Frizelle.s Blood Purifier and pills are

perfectly reliable. For sale by Hunt & Hunter.'

Experience the Best Teacher

We know by experience that Hamil-ton's Cough Troches are just what they are recommended to be. They give al-most iminediaU relief in Bronchitis. Throat Affections and Hoarsness. They alsogivv relief to catarrh, a form chron-ic throat disease. Price 25 cents per box. Sold by Hunt and Hunter.

No more remarkable cures have been perfornied-than are now daily, by that wonderful remedy. Electric Bitters. All diseases of the Stonuich. Liver ami Kid-neys. Biliousness and General Debility yield to their power with remarkable ra-pidity. They are pleasant to Ihe taste, ami the price dirty cent.-.) brings them within the reach of all. For sale by Hunt & Hunter.

We have a speedy and positive Cure for Catarrh. Diphtheria.Canker mouth, and Hwad Ache, in Shiloh's Catarrh Rem-edy. A nasal injector free with each bottle. Use it if you desire health and sweet breath. Price 50 cts. Sold by Hunt & Hunter.

Biliousness. Are you bilious? Do you suffer from

sick headache, sick stomach, dizziness, constipation?, Are you averse to all ex erlion. dull and languid? Is life almost a burden? If so your blood is impure, your liver is torpid: you need a medicine that will relieve you. Parmelee's Blood Purifier will meet your casein every in-1 stance. Pr ice*! per bottle: samplubot-j tie 15 cents.

A Stubborn a^id Harrassing

Cough that will not yield to remedies, may de thoraughly cured by Hamilton's Cough Balsam, a most effective remedy for all Bronchial and pulmanary disor-ders. and a certain cure for croup, diph-theria. whooping cough aud other af-fections to which children are liable. Sample bottles 25 cents: large size. 50 cents. Sold by Hunt & Hunter.

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If you are afilicted with Biliousness. Liver Complaint. Headache. Dyspepsia, Fever and Ague. Rbeumatism. Constipa-tion of the Bowels, or any disorder of the Blood, use Dr. White's Dandelion Alterative. It is purely vegejable, harmless as water, yet very thorough in its action. Pint bottles only one dollar, and every Imttle warranted. For sale by J. Q, Look and Hunt ct Hunter

Dyspepsia If you have a sense of fullness in the

stomach, a changing appetite, a morbid craving, low spirits afler a full meal with severe pain, wind rising on the stom-ach. vomiting and fluttering at the pit of the stomach and a soreness over it. nausea, headache or someof these symp-toms, you are suffering from Dysppsia. Parmeles's Great Dysjiepsia Compound will speedily releive and permanetly cure voir Samnle 1 sit ties. 15 cents; large size •••U. Sold by Hunt & Hunter.

>4 Strange People. %

Do you know there are strange people in our community, we say strange be-cause they seem to prefer to suffer and pass their days miserably, made so by Dysuepsia and Liver complaint. Indiges-tion. Coustipation. and General Debili-ty. when Shiloh's Vitalizer is guaranteed to cure them. Sold bv Hunt & Hunter.

The acid Blood is the primary cause and sustaining dower of Rheumatism. Where there is ^ I kali there can be no R h e u m a t i s m . T h e " D R . BOSANKO RHEUMATIC CL UE." is a c h e m i c a l l y p r e -pared Alkaline, neutralizing the acidity and removing chronic iuflammation by absorption. It is not claimed that the cure is a panacea for a long catalogue of diseases, like many others, but for Rbeumarism and I-ime'Back alone it is a sovereign remedy. Price 75 cents. Sob! by all druggists. 48vI

Sold bv Hunt A: Hunter.

BOWNE BREVITIES.

The members of the Mission Band are making some preparation for a concert.

Rev. O. Kilgore is still holding meet-ings at Alaska with good success Miss Georgie Miller. Will Camfleld. Fred Hinyon and Lafayette Brvant attend the Lowell Union school this term A large load of young people, mostlv mem-bers of the Baptist church, attended the

New Finn.

Milton B. Hine has purchased the half interest of the late I. N. White, in the boot and shoe store of Howk cfr White, ami the name of the new finu is Howk & Hine. if this is the "last" business you would expect V B. to go into, awl right: it is. Seams sew. at least. We l)es|>e*k for the new firm success, and lots of things to boot. They are no half-soled fellows be it known. Square toed men, ever)' time. Shoe Hy. Keep a pegging.

TIioiiiuk 1'itlne.

The I»well Liberal League has decid-ed to celebrate the coming anniversary of the birthday of Thomas Paine, with appropriate exercises, in Train's Hall. Sunday the 80th of January, at 11 a. in. and 2 p. m., and invite ail lovers of lib-erty, truth and justice to join with us in honoring that great and good man. the friend and adviser of Washington, Jef-ferson and Franklin, who has been so unjustly and cruelly maligned, because lie dared to reason and exercise his right to express his honest opinions. J . M. Mathewson will deliver the address. The balance of the programme has not yet been filled but probably the afternoon will lie devoted to a conference preceded by a basket picnic. A good time is prom-i s ed . B v ORDER OF t'OM.

More than fifty-live thousand of Dr. Pierce's Liver Pads were sold the first year of its intiduction and -ince then its ales have more than trebled. Phvsic-

77//.' PRESIDING ELDERS WIFE. Warren, Pa. May 30. ISTS.

Doctor >1 M Kenner. Fredoiiio, New York, DearSU:- Af te rush iKyourh loodan t l

Liver Reniedy ami Nerve Tonic, and also CUIIKII Honey for two years past in our faniilv. I can testify that they will do all that you elaim for them. < tur family has derived moreln nellt f r o m their use tlntii f rom any other medicine we ever tried. Wehear t i l j reeommend them to all.

Yours truly, M R S . R E V . R . M . WAHIIKN.

Dr. Femu r's Improved Cough Honey will relieve any cough in one hour.

Dr. Fenner's Golden Relief cures any pain, as toothache. Neuralgia. Colic or Headache in5 to 80 minutes, and readi-ly relieves Rheumatism. Kidney Com-plaint. Diarrhteu. etc.

Dr. Fenner's St. VittH Dance Specific. sales have more man iremeu. rnysic-1 - — -inns and patients speak highly of it.'and ! 1 bottle always cures. For sale bv Dr. Miller, of Buffalo, depends tqion it i 0-Look Lowell Mich. more largely than any other remedy has ever used. Several other physicans say the same thing. For sale by Hunt iS: Hunter.

I l r a l l l i Is W e a l t h .

Of the KiiKle Steam Dye lloiise. ( J r u n d l t ap id» , Mich .

All parlies desiring work in my line will do well to consult me u|Hin the sub-ject. as they cannot get their goods done up so well elsewhere as at my establish-ment.

Furthermore. 1 will IM* in I/Iwell ev-ery two weeks on Monday, at the Express ofllce from 12 to I P. M. to receive their goods.

Your humble servant (i. A. BKItwix.

Prop. Eagle Steam Dye Hon-

NOTICE TO FARMKIIS.

MANNING'S lUA STilATHl) ^,ncK DOCTOli AN!) LIVE <IOCK HN-CYCLOPEDIA. Including Horses. Cattle. Sheep.

Swine and Poultry, wilh all the facts concerning the various breeds and their characteristics, breaking, training, shel-tering. buying, selling, profitable use and general care: embracing all the diseases to which they are subject—the causes; how to know, and what todo: given in plain, simple language, free from all technicalities, but scientifically correct: and witli directions that are easily un-derstood, easily applied and remedies that are within the reach of the people: giving the most recent, approved and humane methods for the preservation ami care of stock, the prevention of dis-ease and restoration to health: Design-ed for the farmer and stock owner.

A . U. KENDALL. A g t .

Flue Hundred Ihousand Strong. In the past few months there has been 1 " r .T1". .i mi, iuio i ..i r 01 -I i - nwiU'Ii lead to misery, divay and deal ore than 500,000 bottles of shllob s | Will emv recent eaw s. Each l.o.v e. .ire sold. (Jut of the vast number of ! mouthVireatmeiii. Oin

tteople who have used it. more than 2.- fl*'' ''"U-ir*. sent '»>• mail r r> .• i i pliee. " e K'Xarailtei-hll 000 cases ol Consumplion have l>een_ With.aehorder cured. All Coughs. Croup. Asthma and Bronchitis, yield at once, hence it is that everybody s|>eaks in its praise. To those who have not used it. let us say. if you have a Cough, or your child the Croup, and you value life don't fail to try it. For Lame Back. Side or Chest. UKeShilohs Porous Plaster. Sold by Hunt A: Hunter.

ITS JUST A BOOMING.

Such is the expression from all drug-gists and dealern everywhere who are selling Dr. King's New Hiscovery for consumption. No like preparation can begin to have such an extensive and rapid sale. And why? Siinply bccau.-i" of its truly wonderful merits. No coimh or cold no matter of how long standing or how stublioni. can resist its heal-ing qualities. Asthma, bronchitis, hoarseness, hay fever, pain in the side or chest and difficulty of breathing or any lingering disease of the throat and lungs rapidly yield lo its marvelous powers. It will nosilively cure and that where everything has failed. Satis-fy yourself as thousands have already done by getting of your druggist. Hunt & Hunter a trial bottle for lOcents. or a regular size bottle for $1. For sale by Hunt & Hunter. Lowell.

Dr K. C Wei,!'* Nerve and llroln T r e a t m e n t : rt Mieeitle for Hysteria. Dlz/ineKH. ConvillnioD*. Nervous Headache. Mental DeprekHion. L u u of Memory. Siiermatorrha-a, Imixiteney. Involuu tary Kmivions. Premature Old Ai;e. caused by tver exertion, self abuse or over-indnljccuee.

leuth. Our liox nitaim. one

moiitliV treatment. • >ne dollar a Itoz or six for live dolUrs. sent hy mail pn pald on receipt of

kix lioxe« t o e n r e t u y c u e . I hy us fur six I Mixes. «e-

ciim|ianled with S-'i. we will keiul the purchaser our u rim n Kiiarantee to re tun i tlie money if the treatment does not etfi-et a eure Address JOHN C Wt.m A ('•>. Sole Pruprielorn. Chicago, 111. S'lld ll» .1 C West. sole.nitliori/.-d ayent for Lowell I'll/ell .V Co ,Whole>j|e Afc'entK Detroit, Mteh

Si idice has accomplished no more wond< rful or ^rulitying result than the p<rfeiiimi ol .in iinlidole to the chilling -igns "I approaching age, something to obliterate the tell-tale trucksof time and preserve ibe natural adornments of youth lo ri|ie old age. Hall's Hair Ue-iii aer does all this, and its praise re-•nimds in cot Lag', and palace. The dwellers among the snows of Norway and the |ieasaiits of sunny France and .Spain, find use for it. and find means to get it. and it does not disappoint them. The whitening locks again resume their vouthful color, the thin, dry. and faded hair becomes bright and glossv. 'Ihe whole appearance is changed as if by ma-gic. and tin man or woman, who, befotv was called aged, now appears us one in the prime of life. Such wondrous changes cannot be passed unnoticed, and they have produced the unprecedented demand that now exists for the first amk only article ever com]siunded that can produce them in a plensincand satisfac-lorv manner. .\i ir I '.n. U'vv Jslurl:. III .

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What's Going On Maids and Mothers. AMOKQ T H E F A U M E H S , Ac.

News, H i n t s a n d SugBcut ioim.

F a r m i n g in J a | m n .

Milton S. Vail, a missionary in Japan, gives tho following ncrquut of Japanese farming:

The farmers in Japan seem to operate on a small scale. All the land belongs to government, and all have to pay a good rent. Wheat, barley, rye and buckwheat are grown in rows, the weeds being kept out by hoeing. It seems strange to see all their grain growing in rows, but no doubt good crops are thus produced. Rice is the chief product of Japan. Tho earth nearly everywhere is black, and the black soil of tho valleys, when well cultivated and made to hold tho water from the neighboring hills, makes good rice fields. The soil is broken by manual labor. Men go in to tho mud up lo I heir knees, and with a long-bladed hoe turn the earth over. Horses are used to harrow it down, and when ready, the rice plants arc set out by hand. The rice of Japan is very line, and the Japanese know how to cook it. With them it is the principal article of food—a little rice, with pickles and tea, often constitute the meal. The people do not know how t" make bread, but seem to be very fond of it when they can get it of foreigners. They have flour which they use in various ways in the simplest kind of cookery. 1 noticed in coming to this place (Ilakone, a mountain town forty-five miles from Yokohama) that at some of the inns, in-stead of tea, they gave us a drink made of pounded wheat. Potatoes, sweet pota-toes, egg plants, corn, melons, cabbages, onions, and turnips are also grown, and other vegetables, the names of which I do not know, and never saw in Ameri-

ca. I think all the vegetables grown in New York can bo cultivated here. Of

fruits, we have peaches, plums, oranges, strawberries, pears, and persimmons, also figs,

A* t o W h e a t .

The visible supply of this grain in the United States and Canada on January Ist was 28,513,4$^) bu,, about one million bushels less than at the same date last year.

The Agricultural Department has pub-lished an estimate of the various cereal crops in the United States for 1880. In it the yield of wheat is put at 480,849,-700 bu.. while for 1879 it is put at 448,-756,118 bu. Concerning which the Mich-igan Farmer says: We feel positive that later returns will show the vield of 1880 to be over estimated. We know it will prove so in the case of Michigan, Cali-fornia and Oregon. The Department also estimates the annual consumption for food and seed at 275.000,000 bu, and available for export on tho basis of its estimate of crop, 205,000,000 bu. The estimated consumption is probably too low, as the hinh price of other grains, notably corn, is sure to result in a larger consumption of wheat by the great mass of the people. The fact that the laboring population is more gen-erally employed this season than for a number of years past, will show in the greater consumption of breadstuirs, and this increased consumption will be sufli-cient to make considerable difference in the amount of wheat that will he ex-ported. Any estimate ot home con-sumption that does not take this fact in-to account, as well as the heavy increase of population within the year, will prove very misleading.

Agriculllire in Scliools. Under the above head Mr. J . I,. M.

Kerr, of Vergennes. this county, writes to the Michigan Fanner as follows; Ag-riculture being the base of all industries, it is essential that we should all i.tudy its interests; and in view of the fact that America is at present producing loo much for the welfare of the farming community, it does not seem necessary to introduce the study of agriculture in-to our scliools, especially as the only practical school is the farm; children at-tending school to learn the rudiments, and learning practical details at home. But in order to develop the coming statesmen, and in consideration of the fairness iis well as necessity of sending a reasonable number of farmers to State Legislatures and to Congress, would it not be of greater importance to intro-duce into the common schools of the country, books treating on political economy and international law? Surely no man or boy would be more apt to see clearly the equity of the law. than those who have handled the mattock and the spade. I t order that a man may be use-ful, it is necessary that he should under-stand how to do the work which he is required to perform. Then if farmers are to be sent to the Legislature, teach them law, and if they develop honesty of purpose and ability, send them to Congress, where such qualifications are always needed.

Mtate A g r l c n l t i i r u l Hucitily,

The Executive Committee of the State Agricutural Society met at Jackson last week. In the report of the business committee it came out that ail the cattle and horse stalls and the agricultural im-plement buildings on the fair ground in Detroit had been torn down and the lumber sold, and that all the buildings on the grounds are likely to be removed; that the society's lease of the Detroit grounds expires on the 1st of March next; that some portions of the grounds are held on a very precarious tenure; that Second street has remained closed up by tacit consent only; it is liable to be forced open at any time, which would split the fair grounds in the middle. The chairman of the committee stated that the citizens of Detroit have taken no steps to retain tho grounds in their pres-ent shape for the use of the State fair another year. Therefore it seems to be thought that Detroit does not care any-thing about having the fair. Adrian and Jackson are anxious to have the State fair this year, and will make earnest ef-forts tosecure it. Both will have tempt-1 ing offers before the committee. I

The telegraph operator at William's ranch, Tex,, is a little girl 9 years old. who plays with her dolls between the messages.

Somebody who has been counting heads declares that blondes have 140,-000 hairs, brunettes 109,000, and red-headed girls 88.000.

George Eliot, reared with rigid strict-ness in the Church of England, begun to have doubts about the faith of her fath-ers when she was only 12 years old.

Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Morris of Poughkeepsie are edging closely upon their diamond wedding, and celubrated their I'M year of married life. Friday.

A young lady who was recently mar-ried at Washington wore silk stockings which her grandmother wore at her wed-ding. and shoe buckles which belonged to her great grand-father.

John Randolph told Josiah Quincy that tho greatest orator he ev»r heard was a slave mother on the auction block, appealing for sympathy and justice and denouncing her heartlessauditors.

Miss Augusta Betzel of Milwaukee, who was several years with Mrs. Sprague as governess and companion, says she in a good pure woman, entirely above re-proach.

The Albany correspondent of the Rochester Union says that among the attractions promised for this winter in Albany is a female lobbyist said to hail from Washington, She is described as ravishingly beautiful and an fait in ail the political chicanery of the day.

"My wife lost her pocketbook, with $15 in it, to-day," oad a sad lookingman. "When, going down town or coming home?" asked somebody. "WhenV Didn't I toll you she had some money iu it?" demanded the sad looking man,and everybody knew when she lost it.—| Bos-ton Transcript.

English high society is tumingagainst the professional beauties, and several houses where they have been accustomed to display their charms have been closed against them. A well known countess has taken the lead in the movement. As the Prince of Wales likes the company of these ladies, however, it is thought the ban will not extend far.

When the late Dr. Chapin, says the Boston Courier, first went to preach in Charlestown he was waited on by the ladies of the church, who besought him to wear a gown in the pulpit. He mod-estly declined. They preferred the re-quest a second time with tho same re suit; but when the matter was urged a third time he consented, provided he could select Ihe material, to which they agreed. He then declared his choice to be green baize.

Speaking of the performance of Mme. Rentz's female minstrels in that town, the Wellesborough. Pa.. Agitator says : "A number of the lords of creation got the mistaken notion that their wives ought not to attend the show, and so en-gaged single reserved seats. Just after the performance had begun, however, about 50 ladies filed in and took their seats, much to the chagrin of the hus-bands aforesaid and the amusemei.t of the rest of the audience."

Ella Higgins, tho young daughter of a poor miner at Dunmore, Pa., de.Mred to dress as well as her companions at a forthcoming party, and therefore pur-chased some fineries at a store, saying they were for the wife of a neighbor, who would pay for them. The mer-chant, on ascertaining bow he had been tricked, mnde arrangements to have the girl arrested. When theoflicer went to get her, she was found hanging to a beam in the garret of her home.

H o w lo T r a v e l L i k e UKI I In in t ; .

An imaginative man proposes the fol-owing plan by which beholds it possi ble to transport freight and passengers by rail from New York to San Francisco lin ten hours. What, the freight or pas-senger would be good for when deliv-ered he does not pretend to say. The plan is this: "A fair rate of speed for a railway train is forty miles an hour. The distance from New York to San Francis-co is, roughly, three thousand miles. I would divide this distance into thirty parts, with stations at every 100 miles. First a track, not differing greatly from tho ordinary railroad track, should IMJ laid for a hundred miles, and it is only necessary to study rapid transit accord-ing to my plan over this section of the road, to understand how the whole sys-tem would work. Over tho first track of 100 miles, and running over cannon balls

upon the track, is another, say 90 miles long, on which, in turn, is another, 80 miles long, and so on till on the whole system the freight and passenger train runs, it being of any desired and practi cable strength. Suppose it is required to go from A to B, a distanceof 100 miles, thestable track over which all the others run is, of course, 100 miles long, and the first movable track upon it is 90 miles long. Ix-t the first movable track be drawn by a stationary engine the 10 remaining ten miles, whereby one of its extremities will reach B, and let us say that it takes fifteen minuits for it to move through the ton miles. In the meantime the track eighty miles long which runs on the track ninety miles long will have been advanced ten miles by the motion of the ninety mile track, and will itself (either by means of a stationary engine or a locomotive) have advanced ten miles on its own hook, so that in all it will have gone twenty miles in the fifteen minutes and its extremity will reach B at the sanm time that B is reached by the ninety mile track. So wilh the seventy, the sixty, the fifty tracks, and up to the passenger and freight tiains, which will reach B as soon as the ninety mile track reaches B—that is to say. in fifteen min-utes. at the end of which it will have traveled about 100 miles. Perhaps the following statement will make tho mat-ter clearer. Let us call the ninety mile

track A. the eighty mile track B, and so on. A is drawn ten miles, carrying with it B for the same distance. But B has a motion of its own and travels over ten miles on its own account. I t has there-fore gone 20 miles. C, with a ten mile motion of its own over B, which draws it along, has gone 30 miles; D, 40; E, 50; F. 00; (J, 70; 11. 80; I, 90; J (which is the passenger and freight train), 100 miles, and all in fifteen minutes. Tho whole system of tracks need not be more than foiu- or five feet in height. With suffi-cient power the scheme is practicable, and with motors at present at our com-mand it would work for short distances. —Scientific Amcrica».

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Miss Carrie Toles, of Grand Rapids, well known to many in Lowell and vi-cinity, committed suicide (thought so) last Wednesday in Detroit, by dropping herself through a hole in the ice on De-troit river. The Detroit News says: An item in yesterday's News detailed the singular disappearance of Miss Carrie Toles from Mrs. Millei's boarding house, 2(10 JefTerson avenue, and the receipt by the landlady of a letter from the young woman, in which she intimated her in-tention jo "fi st in a watery grave," etc. Further invcHtigation reveals the follow-ing: Miss Toles had for the past four years been employed in a sewing ma-chine office at Grand Rapids, and last summer boarded with Isaac N. Weitzei's family in that city. Last fall she and Weitzel were arrested, charged with in-tent to murder Mrs. Weitzel, but tho case was iwllc pvosrqiiicd on the ground that no such intent could be proven. I t was alleged that Miss Toles, disguised as an old lady, had one night called on Mrs. W. with a horse and buggy to take her to her residence out of town; that while on the road Mrs. W. was seized from behind by a third party in tho wagon, who she alleged was her hus-band, and while her bands were held the woman with her pressed a spongo saturated with chloroform to her nos-trils; but thjit she finally escaped and lied to a farm house. After her arrest Miss Toles was bailed by Ionia friends.

From the letter found it appears that the above or some other matter of a sim-ilar character had preyed upon Miss Toles'mind; but whether she has com-mitted suicide is a question to which there may possibly be a negative answer. Carpenters a t work onthetugBallent ine yesterday at Fletcher & Ducharmo's wharf, found a dark cloth dolman trimmed with silk hanging on a spile, and a pair of mittens and black derby hat on the ice near an air-hole frozen over during the night. These were brought to tho central station last even-ing, and correspond with (hose worn by Miss Toles at Mrs. Miller's. If tho young woman suicided by drowning her body will probably not bo recovered until tho ice breaks up. She is described as finely formed, good looking, five feet in bight, dark complexion, rosy cheeks,

black hair and eyes, and about 145 pounds weight.

As Miss Toles took especial care to dispose of all the effects she had at Mrs. Miller's, including some recently pur-chased articles of wearing apparel, it-may be that she simply wished to get away from all existing associations, and took the above course wilh.a view to di-vert suspicions from her rt-al intentions in the matter .

I . u i n h e r N o t e s .

White Bros. & Co. Colby, cut 1.200,000 feet of pine. 50,000 feet of hardwood and 1.400,000 shingles. On hand 800,000 feet of lumber and 1.300.000 shingles.

D. D. Davie, Trufants, cut last year300. 000 feet of pine, 100,000 feet of hardwood and 3,500,000 shingles. On hand 75,000 feet of lumber and 800.000 shingles.

William Rutherford & Co., Muskegon, .••port 20.287,123 feet of lumber, 900,000 feet on bank; 5.77(1.000 lath, 510.000 on hand; 208.250 pickets. 1,350 on hand.

N. Storrs, Muskegon, has out 9,000, 000 feet of pine and 1,000,000 feet of hard-wood: on hand. 500.000 feet. The inili has been using one circular, but a gang is being put in, which will double the capacity.

Johnson & Link, Cedar Springs, cut

3,000.000 feet of pine, 200,000 feet of hardwood and 1.000,000 lath. On hand, 2,500,000 feet of lumber, 500,000 lath and 4,000 pickets. Capacity will be doubled for next year.

A, C. Fisher & Son, Coral, out one million feet of pine. 50,000 feet of hard-wood and 50,000 shingles. They have built a mill at Belvidere which will cut 3,000,000, and have purchased a mill at Kendallville having a daily capacity of 50,000 feet.

Manistee tdvices state that logging is progressing fairly now, and lumbermen have started in for about the same amountof logs—220 million feet—as last season. The amount of logs left over in booms and streams this fall was only about twenty million.

G. A. Wagar, Mears, reports having out 2,500.000 feet of pine, 500,000 feet hardwood and four million shingles. On hand 1,500,000 feet of lumber. The capacity of the mill is being increased to ten millions for next season.

The new mills of R. G. Peters, J . F. Brown & Co., and Davies, Blacker & Co., of Manistee, are reaching comple tion. Those three mills will increase tho cutting capacity of lumber and shin-gles at least 175,000 feet of logs daily.

The following estimate is made of the quantity of saw logs being put in during the present logging season by Whitehall and Montague firms: Whitehall—1. M. Weston & Co., 15,000,000 feet; A. J . & C. E. Coyell. 11.000,000 feet; Staples & Covell. 11,000.000 feel; B. F. Weston, nine million feet; J . Alley &Co., eight million feet; Weston & Blackmarr, five million feet; J . 11. Skeols & Co., three million feet; small lots, tlyee million feet. Montague—Heald, Murphy&Cre-pin, twenty million feet; Chas. H. Cook, twelve millions: Ferry, Dowling & Co., eight millions; Smith & Field, seven millions; Ferry & Bros., six millions; A. Ballard, six millions: Dowling & Cook, five millions; C. D. Dowling, G A C millions; total, 181 millions.

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Choice Fast Color Prints 5 cts. A large lot of Best Prints thrown in at 6c. worth 8 cents.

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