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Well, if tho staid, sédate Battle Creek Journal hasn't gone into tho snakc business 1 Wonders will certainly nevcr ceafc. If the editor of the Quincy Herald will look at the hole in the Ann Arbor paper, which was left by cutting out that letter from Memphis, he will ünd that it was in the CoURIER, and not ae orodited. The letter doesn't loseanyofitsforce, however. A setni-weokly edition is beinp issued by that most excellent journal, the Big Rapids Pioneer-Magnet, the sanie to continue through the campaign, and longcr if sustaincd. Such enterprise is commendable, and the Big Rapids people will undoubtedly sec to it that it is successful. The new proprietors of the Cass County llepublican, Messrs. Kellogg & Holmes, have very sensibly ohanged the name to the Dowagiac República. They have alsoenarged the paper to nearly or quite doublé its fonner size, and to a ffuarto instead oi' folio forai. The enlargement is aocomplishod through "patent innards," and a large inercase of subscribers is elaiiued. At any rate, (he Re;)ub)ican will qive to the pcople of Cass county a most excellent joornal, and the enterprise which uiakes it so is deserving of patronage. " Long may she wave." The Hart (Uceana Co.) Journal, draws this disparaging picture of the fruit prospecta: "Wc believe uiany are missing it by paying out so inuch money for fruit trees. You will fee in fivo years from now that our niarket will be glutted, with all kinds of fruit in favorable year.s. Even now hundreds and hundreds ol' busluls of plums are rotting on the trees fot want of a market. We hbo learn thal peachea are a drug in the market Why clear off yoor land, pay out hundreds of dollars for fruit troes when you eannot get what it is actually worth to market them." We have reccived the iuitial tuunber of the Dowagiac Times, an independent paper, brought into theworld of journalism by W. M. Wooster fonnerly of the Van Buren County Republican. It sa six column folio, typographiyally and in poiut of letter press excellent, well filled with home adverti.-ing, and indicates a purposc to íight a good fight for existcnee and the right. Assuranees are given that whenevcr a wrong is seen in either party, it will be hit, whieh will ruake it pretty tough for democratie subscribers for you know there is whcre tho wrong all comes from. We wish the new candidato for public favor a successlul career, finan - cially and every other way. Michigan's growth is thus given by the Lansing Republican: "The total population of Michigan, according to the census of 1880, as given by the Detroit Post and Tribuno, is 1,638,111, the two small counties of Charlevoix and Islc Royale being estimated. This is an incrca.se of 454,052, or 38 per cent. sinco 1870. The older farming counties have made but a trifiing growth, while the new northern counties and manufacturinf; centres have advanced rapidly. In 1870 the 6th congressional district contained the largest number of inhabitaots, but in 1880 the 5th, 8th and 9th each contain more than the Oth. It is probable that our state will have ten representatives in congres under the next apportionment, which will be a gain of one, and that a new district will be formed north of the Detroit and Milwaukee . road, where thcre is the greatest excess in the existing districts. The probable ratio for state senators will be one for about 51,190, and of representad ves one for ibout 16,338 inhabitants; but in both branches of the legislature county lines will have to be respeeted, and inequalities be certain. The population of tne con?ressional districts now varies from 150,856 in the 4th to 218,001 in tho7th, and that of the senatorial districts from 29.2S5 in the 32d (Houghton, etc.) to 72,109 in the 25th [Kent).