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LE BARON & NISSLY, Proprietors.
SALINE, WASHTENAW COUNTY, MICHIGAN, SEPTEMBEE 8, 1881.
YOL. L-NO, 43;
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Important Intelligence from All Parts.
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Domestic.
One Baker, of Sew York, who was caught
in the August wheat corner, and who margined a 800,000 bushel deal to the extent of
890,000, all of which the manipulators of
the deal proposed to scoop in, commenced
suit in the Superior Court of Chicago on the
1st to recover his margins under the provision of the State law in regard, to. "option
deals" and "corners." The Court issued
a temporary injunction restraining the payment of tie margins. Subsequently two
other suits were begun by other parties to
recover ?3,oQ0 and $9,000, respectively,
which had been put up and confiscated.
The village of Sierraville, Cal., was destroyed by fire on the 31st ult., involving a
doss of about $300,000.
The public-debt statement issued on the
1st makes the following exhibit: Total debt
(including interest of *p2,S53.026), $2,056,-
S3S,'S56. Cash in Treasury, $240,49S,7SS.
Debt, less amount in Treasury, $1,816,339,-
56S. Decrease during August, $M,1S1,221.
Decrease since June 80,1SS1, $24,259,2^1.
Eege^t reliable reports as to the yield of
the Minnesota wheat crop indicate that the
average yield per acre this year is about
11.40 bushels, and that the aggregate yield
of the whole State will be about 33,771,511
bushels. This is 3,600,000 bushels less than
the yield for the last year. The crop was
best in the western counties of the State and
poorest in the southern counties.
CaptajDst Stoxe has returned to Cincinnati -with Maud S., and announces that she
will not appear in public again this season.
Ex-Secretary Stuart, of the Brooklyn
'CN". T.) Board of Education, was recently
•arrested for tlie embezzlement of $107,500 of
the funds ofthe Board.
Ox the 81st tilt. Miss Sallie Carneal, of
Cincinnati, was burned to death in the stable of her uncle, Charles Lawrence, afc Lawrence Station, O. It is believed that she saw
the flames and went thitherto aid in suppressing them.
DuRestg the year ended on the 81st ult.
St. Louis received 898,589 bales of cotton,
andshipped 411,077 bales.
The Ohio State "Fair at Columbus, which
closed on the 2d, is said to have been, in
point of exhibition in all departments and
in attendance of visitors, one of the most
'successful fairs ever held in the State.
About 10,000 persons were upon the ground
the last day. The estimate hy the Treasurer
was that the receipts had been sufficient to
pay all expenses and leave a net balance in
;the treasury of about $10,000.
The rubber-works of Eugene H. Clapp,
at South Hanover, Mass., valued at $75,000,
have been recently burned.
A ragged tramp, who was attempting to
sell jewelry on the streets of Chicago, was
arrested in that city a few days ago, on suspicion, and proved to be Mary Henderson,
of Detroit, in male .attire.
Reports received up to the 3d from most
of the "Western States indicated that the
number of hogs was. one-quarter less than
last year, and that they were of small size
and in poor condition. There was not the
usual number of pigs, and there was a deficiency of food with which to fatten them ior
market.
Dispatches received at Few Orleans on
the 2d were to the effect that great
damage was being done -to the cotton
by the prevailing drought. Carefully-compiled reports from 166 counties showed an
average condition twenty-seven per cent,
worse thanlast year.
The Grangers of Maryland, Pennsylvania and Virginia gave a picnic afc TFillianis
Grove, Pa., on the 1st. Fully 20,000 people were in attendance. Delegates were
present front Xew York, Ohio, 2*vew Jersey,
Delaware and West Virginia. Mr. C. L.
Whitney, of • Cincinnati, and Leonard
Rhone, Master of the Pennsylvania State
Grange, made the speeches of the occasion.
According to a Washington dispatch the
past month was the hottest August since
1872, and the rainfall. was less than for any
August during .the past ten years.
The Treasury Department ha3 Issued a
circular regarding the protests filed with
Collectors of Customs, and says: "Collectors upon receipt of such protest are required to examine the grounds of protest,
and if it is found the parties are entitled to
the relief claimed, whether under any decision of the Treasury Department or otherwise, and sufficient protest has been filed,
reliquidation of the entry should be made
without submitting the case to the Treasury Department.""
A mob recently whipped a Mexican boy
to death in Tombstone, Arizona, because a
thirteen-year-old girl said he had insulted
her. The girl "subsequently said that her
story was'untrue.
A stranger recently called upon Dr.
Hammond, the distinguished Kew York
surgeon who has lately attained considerable notoriety by his caustic criticisms: of the
. President's treatment, and informed him
that a special train had been pi-ovided to
carry him to Washington to take charge of
the President. The Doctor packed his bag
and started off to the depot with an assistant, only to learn that he had been made the
victim of a practical joke.
A Deadwood dispatch-of the 1st announces the discovery, thirty miles from
that city, of a vein carrying $150,000 to the
ton.
C. H. Bjseleb, the Treasurer of the St.
Louis Carbon Works, has been arrested for
the embezzlement of $12,000.
Reports were received on the 3d and 4th
of another horrible; massacre of troops by
Indians on the frontier. On the 1st General
Carr's force, consisting of 110 men and
seven officers, were attacked about thirty-
five miles from Camp Apache, Arizona, in
the; White Mountain Reservation, close to
the'ifewMexican line, by a force of about
500 Apaches under Chief Piedro, and nearly
every man—if not every man—Is said to
have been killed. The attack was commenced by. an Indian scouting party attached to General Carr's command, and
Piedro-'s warriors coming up immediately
surrounded the command and cut oil all
chance of escape. It was also reported that
the Indians had captured Fort Apache,
where General C'arr's wife and the wiv^s of
some other officers were staying.
The Coroner's jury at "New Haven, Conn,,
rendered a verdict on the 3d in the case of
Jennie Cramer, to the effect that the unfortunate girl came to her death by poison and
•vipletBee. The jury held James Malley, Jr.,
criminally, and Walter E. Malley and
Blanche Douglajs morally, responsibly for
the death of the poor girl. Prof. Chittenden reports finding arsenic in all parts of
Sennie's body.
Wwum F. Martin, the man sentenced
tobe hanged at Lebanon, Mo., who was
released by the jailer's niece, and recaptured in her company at Pine Flats,
Tenn., sprang from a car window, in fetters, at two o'clock on the morning of the 3d,
and made for the woods. Sheriff Goodall
sent the woman to Lebanon and started in
pursuit of the murderer.
William R. Dickerson and Joel M. Van
Arsdalen, two Philadelphia lawyers who
forged the name of a Philadelphia millionaire to a will which bequeathed to themselves a large amount of the millionaire's-
property, have been convicted and sentenced each to ten years' imprisonment and
to pay a fine of $1,000.
At Erie, Pa., on the 4th Mary J. Lee,
aged nineteen^ daughter of Prof. Lee, bedridden for four years, got up and walked to
church. Her cure was believed by her
friends to have been the result of special
prayers by Methodist friends and others.
Three thousand citizens of Birmingham, Ala., recently assembled to witness a
twenty-minute fight between two bull-dogs
and a wild-cat. The latter scratched out
the eyes of its adversaries.
The town of Andover, "N". Y., was recently visited by an electric storm which prostrated several persons and burned eight
houses and barns. The loss was estimated
at $60,000.
Lemuel Griffiths, an intemperate old
man of Mount Carmel, Pa., who died recently under suspicious circumstances, had
grave-yard insurance placed upon him to
the amount of $100,000, for which he was
paid one per cent, by speculators.
Dispatches ofthe 4th state thatthe continued drought in Virginia and North Carolina was doing great damage to the tobacco
and cotton crops of those States. And in
some regions, through the same cause, the
corn crop was a total failure. Cattle, and
in some Instances the people, were suffering
from want of water.  »
Up to the close of business on the 3d there
had been received at the Treasury Department in Washington $5,649,000 in coupon
five-per-cent. bonds, under the 103d call,
and $12,22"2,850 in registered five-per-cent.
bonds, under the 104th call.  '
Gold to the amount of $1,600,000 reached
2>Tew York on the 3d from Europe.
Personal and "Political.
Captaix Howgate, whose stealings
from the "United States amount to nearly or
quite $200,000, was nowhere to be found on
the 31st ult., aud it was believed that he
had fled from the country in company with
his mistress, leaving his bondsmen to settle
with the Government. His deserted wife
was left almost penniless.
A Washington dispatch of the 31st ult.
says: "Guiteau continues as devilish as
ever. He has written a letter to the District-Attorney, in which he expresses his increased regret that ,he was not able to kill
the President while in church, and thus secure his death on the instant. - He says he
is sorry that he suffers so much, and a good
deal more sorry that he is not dead."
The "Sew York Republican State Convention has been called to'meet in New York
City on the 5th of October.
General Grant is reported as saying
there was no truth in the statement that he
had had frequent. consultations and conferences with Vice-President Arthur and other
public men in'"New-York in reference to
political contingencies at Washington growing out of President Garfield's recent dangerous condition. He says he had met General Arthur only once since the attempt
on the President's life, and then no one but
the Vice-President and he was present.
George F. Cutler, Paymaster-General
of the Navy, has been placed on the retired
list, and as no successor can be appointed
until the President can act, Secretary Hunt
will discharge the duties of the position.
The Republican Central Committee of
Nebraska has called a State Convention to
meet at Lincoln, October 5.
The trial of Rev. Dr. Thomas on the
charges of heresy preferred by the Rev. S.
A. Jewett and the Rev. Robert M. Hatfield
was commenced In Chicago on the 1st. The
ReV. Dr. Willing presided, and the jury
consists of Rev. J. W. Agard, Rev. T. H.
Hazeltine. Rev. J. W. Phelps, Rev. J. S.
David, Rev. William Craven, Rev. John
Ellis, Rev. Robert Proctor, Rev. D. R. Van
Homey Rev. J. H. Ailing. Owing to the
absenoe of his colleague, Rev. Mr. Jewett,
Rev. Mr. Hatfield said it was impossible for
him to proceed with the trial, and an adjournment was taken until the 6th.
General M. H. Avert, well known
throughout the oil region, where he operated the first pipe line, died at Geneva, N.
Y., the other day. He commanded a brigade under General Sheridan.
Benjamin Israel Butler, the youngest
son of General B. F. Butler, died of Bright's
disease at Gloucester, Mass., a few days aco.
He was twenty-six years of age, a graduate
of West Point, and of the Law School of
Columbia College.
Hon. Hendrick B. Wright, late a
member of Congress from the Twelfth
Pennsylvania District, died at Wilkesbarre,
in that State, on the morning of the 2d.
GuiTEAtr was hanged in effigy in Niagara
Square, Buffalo, N. Y., on the 3d, in presence of 3,000 persons.
Lorenzo Delmonico, the famous res-
tauranteur of New York, died of gout at
Sharon Springs, N. Y., a few days ago.
William M. Evarts has arrived at New
York from the International Monetary Conference. He reports entire unanimity of
feeling between the "United States, Italy,
Holland, France and Spain as to bimetallism, and thinks the gold drain in progress
will open the eyes of Great Britain as to the
wisdom of such position.
Foreign.
Sexton, the Irish Land-Leaguer, addressed a meeting at Dublin on the 31st ult.,
and said that as long as the Emergency
Committee existed there would be no peace
in Irelaiid. He also repeated that the Land
League would not disband until landlordism
was destroyed.
Fifteen Socialists have been expelle^d
from Berlin for laboring for the election of
Herr Bebel to the Reichstag.
The india-rubber warehouse of P. B.
Cowhill <fcCo., in Broad street, London, a
Wine-store in Cheapside, and seven other
buildings, containing property valued at
$1,000,000, were burned on the 1st.
It was stated on the 1st that there were
then about 225 cases of yellow fever in Havana, Cuba. The deaths during the previous week numbered 26.
A recent attempt to relieve the French
garrison of a fortress on the Algerian frontier failed. The Arabs to the number of 2,000
attacked the relieving force, compelling it
to retreat. The Tunisian, troops in the vicinity refused to assist the French, and gave
evidence of strong aoti-GaUic sympathit»».
The situation of the garrison was regarded
as critical.
Speakman & Son, leading stock-brokers
of Manchester, Eng., failed on the 1st'for
$400,000.
It is believed that the loss of life caused
by the wreck of the Teuton on the South
African coast was not as great as at first reported. A boat containing three officers,
two firemen, two seamen and a coolie arrived on the 1st at a point on the coast not
far from the disaster. They stated that in
their opinion another boat containing thirty
women and children would yet -make the
coast. Most of those who perished were
emigrants.
The condition of affairs in Zululand is
causing the British Government considerable anxiety. It was stated on the 1st that
several chiefs were marching through the
country with large armed followings.
For publishing false news and for unfriendly comments upon the Minister of
War, one newspaper at Alexandria, Egypt,
has been warned and another suspended.
Eight cartridges marked "U. S." have
been discovered in a bale, of cotton at the
Abbey Spinning Company's works, near
Oldham, Eng. It is believed that they were
placed there with the design of setting fire
to the mill.
Some soldiers in Dublin on the 4th made
insulting remarks about the Pope, and a riot
ensued. The police fired upon persons who
threw stones, and fifteen were wounded.
Second ballots were taken in France on
the 4th for members of the Chamber of
Deputies in districts which failed to elect
two weeks before. Twenty Republicans and
one Conservative were elected.
The loss of life by the foundering of the
Teuton off the Cape of Good Hope was
stated on the 4th at 236.
The French Minister of War on the 4th
ordered another brigade of four thousand
men to Africa.
Tlie  President.
The London Lancet of the 2d says the
President will not be out of danger until the
wound is healed. It held that another failure in the President's digestive powers, or
any other symptoms of blood-poisoning,
might at any time turn the balance against
him. The Lancet condemns the probings of
the President's wound' for the purpose of
ascertaining how the process of healing goes
on. The most favorable symptoms in the
President's condition, it thought, were the
falling of the temperature and the frequency
ofthe pulse, the patient's improved powers
of digestion, his  ability to sleep, and his
mental clearness.
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It was the opinion of the surgeons that
the President made some gain on the 3d. In
the language of Secretary Blaine the gain
was not great, but was in the right direction. At6:30p. ni. his pulse was 102; temperature, 99.6; respiration, IS. The bulletin issued at 8:30 on the morning of the 4th
stated that the patient vomited once the
evening before and once about an hour after
midnight. Notwithstanding this disturbance he slept well most of the night, and in
the morning had taken food by the mouth,
without nausea, and had retained it. The
6:80 p. m. bulletin on the 4ttt stated that
the President had passed "a comfortable day. He had taken his food with
some relish, and had no return of the irritability of the stomach reported in the morning's bulletin. The parotid swelling continued to improve, and was so far reduced
that the contour of his face was restored.
The wound showed no material change.
The pulse was more frequent throughout
the day than the day before, and he showed
more fatigue after dressing. Pulse, 110;
temperature, 99; respiration, 16.- At 1:30
on the morning of the 5th he was resting
quietly. The surgeons had decided to remove the President to Long Branch, and a
car specially prepared for that purpose by
the Pennsylvania Road was on its way to the
Capital.
JLATER  SHEWS.
After a somewhat restless night the
President's condition on the morning of the
5th was reported to be weak and low. The
extreme heat of the day was detrimental.
At 8:30 a. m. his pulse was 114. During the
day there was no material change. The
patient received and retained nourishment
in the natural way, and had no gastric irritability. The evening bulletin showed a
diminution of the pulse to 108, the temperature during the day being slightly above
normal. Arrangements had been perfected
for the President's rem'oval to Long Branch,
and it was thought the removal would take
place early on the morning of the 6tb.
In his dispatch at 9:40 p. m.
to Minister Lowell Secretary Blaine
says: "This has been the hottest day of the
season, andthe heat has told upon the President. His pulse and temperature have
been higher than for several days past. In
other respects there has been no special
change, either favorable or adverse. It is
expected that he will be removed to Long
Branch to-morrow. It is hoped that the
sea air will strengthen him." A special at
one a. m. on the 6th said the surgeons had
difficulty in putting the President to sleep,
and had recently been giving him considerable injections of morphia. He was restless and had more fever, and was constantly talking of Long Branch and the removal.
He was resting quietly afc 1:45 a. m.
Nineteen persons were killed and twenty-five injured by a railroad accident in
France on the 4th, caused by the failure of
the flagman to close a "switch. Some of the-
unfortunate victims were so horribly mutilated that identification Was impossible.
Benjamin Shorocii, while playing baseball at Paterson, N. J., on the 5th, was
struck in the stomach by a ball from the
bat. He died from the effects a few minutes after.
By proclamations of the Governors of Illinois, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, New
York and Ohio, Tuesday, September 6, was
set apart and observed in those States as a
day of public prayer for the recovery of the
President. ^.The Governors of Maine, New
Jersey and Massachusetts appointed the
8tb, and the Governors of other States had
named other days, to be similarly observed
in their respective States.
The Commissioners of Indian Affairs at
Washington received a dispatch on the Sth
front Tiffany, of tho San Carlos Agency,
Arizona, that the Apache massat-re was not
nearly as bad as at first reported. Captain
Hentig and ten men were killed. General
Carr, he says, was not killed. General McDowell had telegraphed the Adjutant-General that Captain Hentig and seven men
were killed, and that Lieutenant Gordon
was wounded in the attack on the fort. A
dispatch received in Chicago on the same
day by General Sheridan from General Pope,
Santa Fe, N, M., was to the effect that General Can* and his command were all right.
It, however, confirmed the report of the
loss of Captain Hentig and ten men.
aUCHIGAIf STATE NEWS.
Patrick Conklin,*a well-to-do farmer of
Cohoctah, Livingston County, fell from his
wagon while returning from the village the
other evening, and received injuries from
which he died the next morning. He was
intoxicated.
The cranberry crop of Iosco County—of
Which there is generally a large amount—
owing to the late spring frosts and severe
drouth this summer, will yield less than
one-half of its usual yield.
The Board of Supervisors of the County
of Montmorency audited at their last session
a bill of $4,200 for services in organizing
that county at the last session of the Legislature.
News was recently received from Riley
Township, Clinton County, to the effect
that Chesley Dew, a colored farmer, well
known in that section and at Lansing, where
he has done business with the State officers,
had been found in his granary dead, hanging to a beam with the left side of his head
laid open by a terrible gash, evidently made
by an ax. It seems last spring he was visited by a body of masked men who treated
him to a coat of tar and feathers. A few
days ago he went to St. Johns, the county
seat, for the purpose of commencing legal
proceedings against several parties whom
he had reason to believe were the perpetrators of the outrage.   He lived alone.
James McCormick was arrested at Cheboygan on the morning of the 31st ult. just
as he was leaving "town. He is charged with
the theft of $300 in cash and several hundred dollars of valuable papers from his
uncle, James Duggan, for whom he was
working as clerk and book-keeper.
State Treasurer General B. D. Pritch-
ardhas appointed James B. Humphrey, of
Allegan, his deputy, vice Chas. H. Hodskin,
resigned. Mr. Humphrey has for several
years held the office of Judge of Probate for
Allegan County.
A terrible accident "occurred on the night
of the 30th ult. on the Stanton branch of the
Detroit, Lansing & Northern Railroad. A
freight train ran* through a burning bridge
at Shiloh, wrecking twenty cars and killing
Brakeman Reeley, and severely injuring
another. The fire probably caught from
bush fires surrounding.
Two children, aged four and six years respectively, belonging to Erastus Kennedy,
of Putnam Township, in Livingston County,
recently ate a bottle of sugar-coated pills, in
all about forty. One died in half au hour,
and the other was not expected to live.
Mrs. Albert Dornbush, aged forty-five
years, of Muskegon, was killed by lightning
on the 31st ult. The lightning shattered
the roof, and struck the woman in the back.
Death was instantaneous.
At the Jackson Prison on the 30th ult.
there were only 707 prisoners, the lowest
number recorded for years. One year ago
the number was 790.
Mrs. S- M. Curren, aged fifty-six, was
overcome by the heat in Lansing the other
day, and died in fifteen minutes.
Osceola County will hold a special election
in October to determine the location for a
county seat.
Three-fourths of Detroit's $200^000 Butler
bonus subscription has been paid up.
An abandoned woman of Detroit, giving
her name as Mrs. A. Williams, made an unsuccessful attempt oh the 81st ult. to drown
herself in the river. A gold medal found on
her person indicated that as Emilie Fleter
she graduated with high honors from the
Chicago Academy of the Sacred Heart in
1870.
Robert Lynn, of Branch, thrust a lighted
pipe in his pocket, from which his clothes
ignited and burned nearly off.
At Eaton Rapids on the 30th ult. Alfred Spicer, fifteen years old, was killed
by falling from a load of barrels under his
horse's feet. He broke his neck and was
badly kicked.
A few days ago workmen Avere" engaged in
clearing out the race that carries water to
the woolen mills from the Looking-Glass
River at Portland. After the water had-been
shut off they came upon at least a thousand
eels, varying in length from five inches to a
foot and a half. These are probably the result of the eel spawn planted in the_LQok-
ing-Glass two or three years ago: ■
The south portico of the Capitol appears
to be slowly but constantly settling, and
there is little doubt that it must have a
thorough overhauling and some radical
change in its construction before it will become a permanent fixture.
The trouble with the Caro youth who committed suicide a few days ago w.is that he
was engaged to two girls. One lived at Caro
and the other at Flint. The Flint girl went
up to Caro to see about it, and he cut the
knot by killing himself.
Neil McKinnon's body was found floating
in the lake at Muskeegon bn the 29th ult.
The body was badly cut about the face and
head, and, when found, blood was oozing
from the wounds. A Coroner's jury came
to the conclusion that the man was murdered and robbed, as the face bore the impression of a boot-heel, and the pockets of
his coat and pants were pulled out.
Onthe evening of the 2Sth Peter Nicholas, a resident of Bay City, and his wife
went out *to take a walk. When they returned they found that some one»had entered their house and that $500 laid away
in a bureau to meet the necessities of coming years was gone.
Mrs. Joseph Bedere, a French woman
living in the suburbs of Cadillac, near
Cobbs & Mitchell's mill, was accidentally
shot in the abdomen on the evening of the
29th ult. by some young men. The wound
is probably fatal.
A freight train on the Chicago & Grand
Trunk was thrown from the track on the
28th ult. about three miles east of Schoolcraft. Eleven cars were ditched and badly
demolished. A brakeman on the train was
instantly killed.
The cranberry marshes near Bay City
will probably yield only one-third of a crop
this year.
The following are the Detroit wheat quotations: No. 1 White, $1.35@1.35}£. No. 2
White, nominal.   No. 2 Red, $1.3S@1.38}£.
Xawft of Ocneral Interest.
SCREENS FOR SMOKE-STACKS.
Act No. 183 declares that all vessels using
wood for fuel, navigating any of the waters
of this'State, shall be provided with suitable fire-screens attached to the smoke-stacks
of such vessels, to prevent the escape of fire.
Such fire-screens shall be of the best approved kind, shown by experience tobe
proper and suitable forprotection from fire.
Neglect to comply with the requirements of
this act is made a misdemeanor and punishable as such.
TITLE TO REAL PROPERTY BY  DESCENT.
Act No. 35 provides that when any person
shall die seized of any lands, or right in the
same.not having lawfully devised the same,
they shall descend, subject to his debts, in
manner following:
1. In equal shares to his children, and to
the issue of any deceased child by right of
representation; and if there be no child of
the intestate living at his death, his estate
shall descend to all his other line of descendants.
2. If he should have no issue, his estate
shall descend to his widow during her lifetime, and after her decease, to his father;
and if he leave no issue or widow, his es-.
tate shall descend to his father.
3. If he leave no issue nor widow nor
father his estate shall descend in equal
shares to his brothers and sisters, and tq
the children of any deceased brother or
sister. If he shall leave a mother also she
shall take an equal share with his brothers
and sisters.
4. If intestate leave no issue, widow,
father, brother, nor sisters living at his
death, his estate shall descend to ^his
mother, to the exclusion of the issue of any
of his deceased brothers and sisters.
5. If the. intestate leave none of the relatives above named, his or her estate shall
descend to the next of kin in equal degrees,
excepting that when there are two or
more collateral kindred in equal degrees,
but claiming through different ancestors,
those who claim through the nearest ancestor shall be preferred.
6. If intestate die leaving several children,
or one child and the issue of one or more
children, and any such surviving child shall
be under age, not having been married, all
the estate that came to the deceased child
by inheritance from such deceased parent
shall descend in equal shares to the otrflr
children of the same parent, and to the issue
of such othe'r children who shall have died.
7. If, at the death of such child who shall
die under age, nothavingbeen married, all
the other children of said parent shall also
be dead, and any of them shall have left
issue, the estate that came to said child by
inheritance from said parent shall descend
to all the issue of other children of the same
parent, according to the right of representation.
8. If the intestate shall leave a hu§j3aiid or
wife aud no issue nor other lineaj'descend-
ants, nor father, mother, brother,„-nor sister, and there be no issue of brothers nor
sisters, then the estate shall descend to the
husband "or wife of such intestate, as the
case may be.
9. If the intestate shall leave no wife nor
husband nor kindred, the estate shall escheat
to the people of this State, for the use ofthe
primary school fund.
DISPOSAL OF PROPERTY BY WILL.
Act No. 18, to restrict the disposition of
personal property by last will, declares that
all dispositions of personal property by will
shall be subject to the following limitations
and restrictions:
1. If the testator shall leave surviving him-
a wife, the property shall be subject to ihft
election of such wife to take any interest
given her by the testator, or in lieu thereof
to take the sum or share that would havo
passed to her under the statute of distributions, had the testator died intestate, until
the sum shall amount to $5,000, and of the
residue of the estate, one-half the sum or
share that would have passed to her under
the statute of distributions; and in case no
provision be made for her in said will, she
shall be entitled to the election aforesaid.
2. If by any will any special devise or bequest is made to the wife in lieu of any particular thing or any particular interest to
which she might be entitled in case of in-
.testacy, the election by the wife to take the
special devise or bequest, or the other particular thing or interest in lieu of which it is
given, shall not deprive tlie party electing
or any other person of the right to leave the
testamentary disposition of property in all
other respects unaffected and unimpaired,
and to have the benefit of any other provisions therein, the same as if this act had not
passed.
3. The election to take or otherwise under
the will shall be filed in writing in the court
in which proceedings for the settlement of
the estate are being taken, within one year
from the probate of the will. The failure
to file such election shall be .deemed an
election to taka under the will.
REAL ESTATE BY DESCENT.
Act No. 55, to amend section 4, chapter
153, compiled laws of 1871, provides that
when, after the birth of an illegitimate child,
its parent shall intermarry, or without sucji
marriage, if the father shall try writing under his hand acknowledge such child as his,
such child shall be considered legitimate to
all intents and purposes. Such writings
shall be executed and acknowledged in the
same manner as may be by law provided for
the execution and acknowledgment of deeds
of real estate, and be recorded in the office
of Judge of Probate in the county in which
such father is resident.
STANDARD FIRE-INSURANCE POLICIES.
Act No. 149, "to provide for the adoption
and use of a standard form of fire-insurance
policy," declares that as soon as practicable
the -Crovernor shall appoint some suitable
person who, with the Commissioner of Insurance, shall constitute a State Board to
be known as the Insurance Policy Commission. It shall be the duty of this Board to
adopt a standard form of fire-insurance policy for use in this State, and they shall tile
iu the office of the Insurance Commissioner
a printed copy of the same. Such form
shall be so worded and printed as to secure
as far as practicable the accomplishment of
the following results:
1. Fairness and equity between the insurers
arid the assured.
3. Brevity and simplicity.
3. The avoidance of technical words and
phrases.
4. Tbe avoidance o£ conditions, the vioiatio.n
of which by the assured would, without being-
prejudicial to the insurer, render the policy
void oi" voidable atthe option of the insurer.
5. Tho u'eolas large and fair type as is
consistent with a convenient size of paper or
parchment.
(5. The placing of each separate condition in
a sepai-ate paragraph, and the numbering of
the paragraphs.
Under this law it is the duty of the Commissioners of Insurance to fix a time when
the use of such policy shall become
obligatory on all companies and persons
authorized to do business in this State, and
after the time'so fixed, no person or company shall make or issue any policy or contract of insurance upon any property situated in this State, containing any other or
different terms or conditions than those expressed in this standard policy. A proper
penalty is provided for any violation of this
act. The provisions of this act do not apply to policies issued by farmers' mutusil
insurance companies, organized Under Act
No. 82 of 1878, or the acts amendatory thereof, or uuder the provisions of Act No. 262 of
1869, or the acts amendatory thereof and insuring farm risks ouly, .'
Weather Indications.
"See," said Mrs. Spooperidyke as she
laid the paper down, "I see that we
are to have rising followed by falling
barometer, with northeast to southwest
winds, and higher or lower temperature,
with clear or partly cloudy weather, and
light rains. How is it they contrive to
tell so accurately about the weather?
Do you understand it?"
"Certainly," replied Mr. Spoopen-
dyke; "they do it by observation. They
have, a man out West observing, and a
man down East who observes, and fellows observing around in diiferent parts
of the country. They put all their observations together, and we know just
what it's going to" do."
"I suppose that's what makes the
wind so different every morning. When
one man's temperature is rising, another's falling; and when one is clear
all the rest are partly cloudy, with "
"No they ain't. Each observer sends
in what he observes, and then the chief
makes up his mind from those reports
what the weather will he. Can't you
understand?"
"Perfectly," said Mrs. Spoopendyke,
rubbing her elbows, "If one sees the
barometer rising and another sees it
falling, and its cold in one place and
cloudy in another, they all say so. But
I should think when one hits it right
the other would be awful mad."
. "What would they get mad about?"
demanded Mr. Spoopendyke. You don't
imagine that they all get together and
fight it out, do you? They take the
weather from different points and combine it, and they parcel it out among
the different regions. Eor instance, if
it snows in the East and is warm in -the
West, they strike an average for the
Lake region. Now, what is the average
between heat and snow?"
" Rain," cried Mrs. Spoopendyke,
delighted with her sagacity, " I see
how it is now. They take what is usually going on and equalize it all over
the country. I'm glad the Democrats
weren't elected."
'" What have they got to do with it?
Do you think a barometer is a politician?" •
" No. But if the Democrats had been
electedthey would have to change it all
around, wouldn't they? Andthe South
would have got the best share. That's
what the Repub——•"
"Blast the Republicans! They've got
nG more to do with it than you have.
You have got an idea that they throw
the barometers and observers into one
end of a steam-engine, and the weather
comes out of the other. They don't
make the weather. The weather makes
itself. It is the only self-supporting
thing about the Government. And these
signal men only watch it and tell what
it's going to be."
'*■ I suppose when these observers all
get together and talk it over, that is
called a storm-center, isn't it?"
" That's it!" shouted Mr. Spoopendyke. "You've got the weather now.
All you want now is your name painted
on the handle and the spring broken to
be an umbrella. They don't talk it
over; they tell you all they know, and
it's fixed iip in Washington. They agree
on it here, and then they telegraph it
all around everywhere. It is generally made in Manitoba and' sent dosvn
here."
" How wide is it?" asked Mrs. Spoopendyke, deeply interested.    " Because,
if it isn't too' big I should think they ■
might stop it."
"Wide! It's just a feet Wide! Just
a feet. Just about as wide as your
measily information. How're they going to stop it? Think it jaws the
sleeping-car conductor hecause there's
only7 an upper berth left? Well, it
don't;. It hires a horse!" howled Mr.
Spoopendyke, ".and the only way to
stop it if- to build a feuce around it.-
There was some talk about burning the
last one, but the wood was wet."
"Well, my dear, you needn't get
angry about it," said Mrs. Spoopendyke, soothingly. "I only thought
there might be some way they could
make some arrangements about it. I
think storm centers are horrid, and the
observer in Manitoba must have a hard
time. If he has*to observe much in the
winter he must be nearly frozen."
"Does any human being know what
you are thinking about?" raved Mr.
Spoopendyke. '' Do you s' pose he goes
around with a spyglass looking behind
rocks? Think he prowls" around all
night with a lantern hunting up storm
centers? Got an idea that he runs
round under the bed with a broom, like
a married woman I know of, and when
lie catches a center pulls him out by the
leg and observes him? He don't do
anything of the sort. He has them to
spend the evening with him, and gets
them drunk and finds out what they're
up to. Understand it now? All you
want is to wliirlround twice and squeak
nights to be a weathervane."
"I didn't know how they did it,"
quoth Mrs. Spoopendyke complacently,
"but I see now. If the Prohibitionists
had been elected he couldn't have done
that, and= we should have been in a
had wray. Now that 1 understand* it
Til learn the'indications every morning.
How does the barometer rise and fall?"
"With cork-screws," thundered Mr.
Spoopendyke. " Sometimes they haul
it up with a stump-machine; then they
drop a carpenter's shop on it. When it
gets very low they blow it up with gun^
cotton. Once in Dakota it got so high
they had to dig a hole and ram it down
with a spile-driver. Got it now? Begin to see through it? What jtou need
is a box of pills and a conundrum to be
an almanac!" And Mr. Spoopendyke
jumped out of the house like a conical
shot and banged the door after him.
" I never quite understood it before,"
soliloquized Mrs. Spoopendyke, speculating as to whether she would put the
plume on the side or back part of her
hat; " but now that he's explained it to
me, J. wonder they don't observe by
steam. It must be awful hard onthe
poor man." And, having deeidedaboiit
tbe plume, Mrs. Spoopendyke filled her
mouth with pins and crawled under the
bed in search of her thimble.—Brooklyn
Eagle-
 i ♦ » ♦— — .
—A memorial is to be erected to the
late Rev. Dr. E. H. Chapin, «of New
York. It will take the forni of a decoration of the Church of the Divine Paternity, and, will cost, with stained
glass windows, about $20,000,
SCHOOL  AND  CHURCH.
—Miss Arietta M. Abbott, of Ridge-
field, Conn., has received the appointment as teacher of Latin in Vassar College.
—At the recent Wesleyan Conference
in Liverpoolit was shown that the total
number of church members in Great
Britain was 380,695.
—Last year 220 of the 526 Congregational churches in Massachusetts had
no accessions at all, and the net gain in
the State was only 175.
—At a meeting of the Congregational
Association of Maine, a majority of its
members declared against ordaining to
the ministry men who use tobacco.
—The Methodist American Mission in
Italy now occupies fifteen towns and
has a thousand church members. It
has been organized into an Annual Conference, one of the hundred conferences
of that Church. Dr. L. M. Yernon is
the Presiding Elder."
—The Presbyterian Board of Home
Missions is giving much attention to the
evangelization of the Mexicans, who appear to promise well as converts, Rev.
J. Milton Green, of the Presbytery of
Brooklyn, will have charge of the work
of this important Board.
—Itis estimated that at the present
time the Old Catholics in the German
empire include at least forty-five clergymen and 45,000 lay members, under
one Bishop. The largest congregations
are those of Munich, Cologne and Bres-
law, numbering about 3,000 persons
each.
—The English Wesley ans say that for
the present they have as many ministers as they can profitably use, and have
therefore shut down on all candidates.
Several dozen who recently applied for
admission were refused. This course
was thought hetter than to take the
young men and starve them, either by
giving them no work to do or by working them on inadequate salaries.
jf—The salaries of teachers in England
are considerably higher than they were
a few years since. Out of 12,981 certificated teachers only 132 are receiving
less than $250 a year; 232 teachers get
$1,250 to $1,500 and 137 are in receipt
of $1,500 and over. Those in receipt
of $250 to $375 a year are now 10.72
per cent, of the whole. In 1874: they
were 15.13 per cent.
—The prospective school fund of
Texas is something wonderful to think
of. By Constitutional provision the
proceeds of her sales of public lands go
to this fund, and there are already
$2,000,000 in the Treasury and 40,000,-
000 acres of land to sell. The proceeds,
at a very moderate estimate, will amount
to $100,000,000, which is an amount
equal to the aggregate school funds of
all the other States.
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.
—The tobacco crop is very poor in
Connecticut. We shall have a large
falling off in the importation of Havana
cigars in consequence.—Boston Tran-
script.
—Professor Harris says " there is a
coming of the macrocosm into the microcosm." Time for some folks to take
to the woods when this happens.—Boston Globe. *
—Traveler—" How do you brokers
manage to undersell the railroad companies?" Scalper—"-Veil, you see ve
don't got so much expenses. Dose railroad fellers haf to keep up the rollin'
stock an'pay ze hands. We don't. It's
all clear profit wit us!"—New York
Ora-plnc.
—A jolly Dutchman, when the steamboat was about to sink, succeeded, after
much trouble, in finding alife-preserver
large enough to fit him. While he was
trying his best to blow it up a young
fellow standing by said: "You can't
fill that with wind; it leaks. Don't you
hear it sizz?" "Ish dot so?" he,replied. ''Veil/I dinks, den, I petter
keep de vind in myself."
—"I declare if there isn't the Deacon's daughter out with a new shawl.
Well, I never." "Hush!" said abetter
informed female; "'tisn'thers. It's one
she borrowed from the company that's
visiting over t' the Deacon's." " Well,
there's one thing I know. She can't
depend on borrowing to look well in
heaven. She'll have to wear her own
augel plumage when she gets there."
And they bowed their heads as the
minister opened the services.^—New
Haven Begister. .
—An Ohio naturalist claims to have
discovered that " crows fly zig-zag, and
not. as has been generally believed, in
a straight line." O well, may be they
do fly " zig-zag" in Ohio. It depends a
great deal on the condition of the man
who is looking at them. Now, in Texas
they fly round and round, and round
and round; in, Missouri they fly about
five miles going across a twenty-acre
field; in Mississippi they can't fly a rod
after four o'clock in the afternoon,
while in Iowa and Kansas they fly as
straight as a chalk-line any hour "between twelve and twelve.—Burlinnton
JSawk-Fye.
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The Conductor.
IVhat an alert type of men the conductors on the steam railroads are!
Probably the engineers are, also, hut
there's no good chance to get a look at
them while they have their hands on
the levers and their eyes are peering
along the line of track as far as keen
vision can reach. But the conductor is
all alive under his quiet and impassive
exterior. There is little in his car he
does not see, even while his whole attention appears to be concentrated by
the ticket he holds in one hand to be
cut by the punch in the other. Aaid
there is nothing he does not hear and
understand down to the most needless
question. Amid the clangor of the
swift moving train, the slightest unusual noise or jar about the running
tells its story instantly to his acutely
educated ear and quickened senses.
"And if anything is wrong, or suspected
to "be wrong, how promptly yet how
quietly, with what freedom from fuss,
or anything approaching to flurry or
panic, he moves toAvards the right
place. He is the very embodiment of
self-poised qui vive. What soldiers
these men Wisuld, make.—Bhiladdgltia
Ledger,
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