Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1880 — MICHIGAN. [ARTICLE]

MICHIGAN.

Bangor shipped 4,400 baskets ofpenchw on the 23d. of August. W. H. Waldby, of Adrian, does sot want to ran for congress. Malignant diphtheria prevails to en eiamlag extent at BaiasviUe. A new Methodist church was dot tested at Raitbvills on toe 82nd of Aug. Marcellos velocipedes have been ralegated to toe middle of toe streets. Fivo upper peninsula Iron taines wffl market st>,ooo£oo woito ot ore this year. The erection of toe great Estar organ factory bnilningat Owoeso will soon begin. • , • The Concord school board has got things down fine, having engaged a pnncipaifor its school at a salary of S7(JO a year. A firm of Ohio men hare bought the Wheeler house at Blissfield, and offer it for aaie. Gardner Cable, of Attica, Lapeer county, is a missing man. It is leared he has been killed. Albert Ilan ieon.sn old resident ot Blinfleld, who bad lived there since 1888, died last week, aged 71 yean.

Walkers furniture s ore at Holland, waa damaged about $1,600 worth, by afire on toe night of the 19;h of August. Samuel J. Bid el man has been nominsled for representative from the first district of Barry county by toe republicans. The rebuilt Port Huron opera house will be ready for busines as soon as the business is ready for the open house. Heavy forest fires are raging about Cheboygan, and some of the people tear the city itself will yet be swept sway. The Third regiment band, of East Saginaw, has received a new set ot instruments, imported expressly for their nae. Wm. Bucher, a Canadian, had a leg taken off by an engine on Lyon’s logging railway, near Ludington a few days ago. Mayhap our cheap capitol building was too cheap after all. The dome leaks, and one of the porticos is tumbling down already. The body of A. M. Demon was found in the road near Muskegon, on toe Slat of August. He had died of congestion of the brain.

Hamilton fire company, at Dows rise, has been newly uniformed, and an alarm hell hung in toe tower ot their engine house. Win. Davidson, an old resident of Bat. tie Creek, waa found dead on the railway track near thatcity a few days ago Heart disease. The Evening Star is the name ot a new newspaper at East Saginaw. Beagle .& Cairns are editors end head pushers for the new trinklcr. The ghost of Ida Eld rid, late of Climax, has informed her friends through a medium that Bhe is safe in the spirit land, ittending school there. Fifty-six miles of the Port Huron ft Northwestern railroad Arc now in operation, and before snow flies over 70 miles will be open for traffic. Another ot the Ypsilanti Rosebud colmists has returned weti satisfied that a Michigan mechanic who can get work here has no need to go west. A man who has threatened to tick the sditor of the Paw Paw Courier has been idvised that it cannot be done, unless he is a surpassingly good runner. Mrs. Robert Denton, of Algonac, was killed by lightening dm ing the storm of Thursday ot last week, and others in the rieiatty were severely shocked. Another ot the Ypsilanti Rosebud colonists haa returned well satisfied that a Michigan mechanic who can get work here haa no need to go to the far weak A Saginaw beau gat np with hia girl until I o’clock in the morning, and wss then driven out by the mataen’s sister, who clubbed him as he sorrowfully went forth.

Soft-hearted Battle Creekeis are moving to get Emory Wye back into society. He went to state prison six Tears ago on a2O years’ sentence for killing Robert Molneanx. There is a wicked sidewalk war raging at Brimingh&m— a conflict as to where the sidewalks belong, how wide the streets are, etc. Long litigation will doubtless follow. JtevT. B Scovtl, of Algonac, recently convicted of slander, informs the Detroit News that he was not sent to jail, having taken an appeal immediately after conviction. Albert M. Harris, G. P. oi the grand encampment of Michigan Oddfellows, sends forth his flat ordering a special session ot that body at Three Rivers, Bep* tember 1. «An ex-watchman” of Battle Creek says fireman of that place would have less trouble in waking up the night police, in ease of lire, if they (the fireman) would imbibeless “budge.” Sanilac county hoodlums are doing their best to prevent the introduction or steam threshers in that county. The torch is the instrument they use to accomplish their object Mr. Barber, of' North Adame, has settled with his creditors, paying 100 cents on the dollar and doing the honorable thing all around. So writes his friend. 0. C. Smith, of that plaoe.

“Nock” Alexander, speaking from the, seclusion of his ceil in the state prisons the * confession” anent the Cheaan ing , murder, made by Mrs. Mary Jane Smith prior to her death at the Detroit house of correction, was In every respect a dying lie. Whenever you get Into a bog fasten your eye on the duty of definition- The word conscience has two meanings. The soul's sense of right and wrong Is the popular sense of conscience; the soul’s eenseof right and wrong in motives is the scholarly definition. The scholarly definition asserts that conscience dogs not apply to external actions, %nd that by conscience we don’t know whether to *>» for the electoral *sll, we da i*faisiWy knuw whether we mean right « wrong, law new HM jay o* light There is n distinction between the external action ami the active. Some think one can’t be a metaphysician without being a fool, and muddy forever after. Mr. Lincoln tells a story ot a gentleman who find* a boy making a church, pew* and pulpit eut of mud. “Why don’t you maka a minister f” he aaks the lad. “Haven't got mwd enough I” the boy repliaa. Mr. Lincoln aaiane din’t mean to reflect on the ministry. Neither do I. Why mtul the WUe’r R beTiw.y. la IniteaiL Of