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It is statcd tliat tlie reported sale of the )etroit Post and Tribune to Jas. McMillman, et ál., has fallen througli. Messr.-. (í. W. Owen & Co. have Bold he Wyandottc Herald to F. S. Abbott, of itichmond, Maeomb Co., who will assutne inimcdiate control. It is stated that Mr. W. J. Gibson, for a nuinbcr of ycars on the Post and Tribune, s to take the managing editorsnip of the ivening News. Mr. G. is a very able writer and excelLnt newspaper man. W. M. Harford, of theMuskegon Chroncle, has been uominated for representativo n the state leislature by the rcpublicans of lis county. He descrves success, as all editors do, and the people will cortaiiily ratify so good a selection. The Grand ltapids Saturday Evening 'ost celebrated its seventh birthday Sept. 25, by issuing a four-page supplement in additionto its usual amount of reading. Tbc 'ost is a good paper, wcll gotten up, and a credit to the second city in the state. The facilo pen of Morgan Hates, which as lor soiue time been wielded upon the Jackson Citizen, will bc missed irom its aceustomed place. Mr. Bates ia an easy writer and makes any paper he takes hold of entertaining and readable. Whcre He will lócate has not been announced. The Lansing Ilepubliean sometimos gires ts political cneiuies hard blows. The (W owing isn't pregnated to any ïital oxtent with " the balm of a thoufand flowers " : " The Detroit Free Press claims that Jen. Weaver is a poor ftnacoter baeMUfl tie uses 50 cents worth of troches while deivering a 25-cent speecli. That is a little lioavy, but it is nothing compared with the bill he would have to pay for disinl'ectants if he should get into bed with the ' pntrid reminiscence ' of which the Free Pretf is the chief scullion in Michigan." The Ijeelanau Enterprise tliinks the democrats might, possibly, bc a little more consistent : "Iftho democratie party would say to the American people, in its platform, " We hereby renounce the former doctrines ana trudiüuuo nlViofirp [o by us as having been settled and disposed of Dy iUc .," and pledge itself to try and accomplish soinething grand and horoic in the near future, it would stand a much bctter show of success. Uut when they boldly proclaim that thcy are still stickling for the explodcd doctrines which Lee and Jackson contended for, they are entitled to nothing but disastrous defeat." The following story froni the Charlotte Ilepubliean is quite pat to the occasion : .l." HWOTlfr'l Jtf.tff nW .claims nuts darkie was in when he went into a cave after a couple of cub bears. The old one returned about the time the darkies was ready to come out, andas she was enteriuR the cave, Sambo, who had been stationed outside to watch, caught hold of her tail and held her when Pete called out, "Sambo. what darks de hole, dar?" " You'll find out what darks do hole if this yer tail breaks." So it will be with us ; we will find out what darkens the hole if Ilancock should happen tobe eleeted." The Cadillac News tells of a pretty high hill in Michigan, ifshe can't boast of any mountains : " While we have no real mountains o this portion of Michigan, our Missaukce county neighbors can boast of a hill which approaches pretty close to a mountain. The hill is known as Byroads hill, and is on section twentysix in township tweotythree north, of rango seven west, on the summit of which is a cloared field which affords a view as. far as the oye can reach ; the pine woods presenting a wide blue espanso likc a rolling sea. Wholc townships can be secn and Houghtonlake in lloscommon county can bc dicaeraed througli a good glass. Mr. Paul Lux, one ot' the pioneers of that county, thinks 500 million feet of standing pine tiuiber can be secn from this hill." The Dundee Reporter draws this picture of democratie triumph, and its consequences: " It seems to us if there is any thing that would excite the indigDation oftheunion soldier who saw service during the late war, it is the action taken by the democrats when they secured a majority in congress in turning out the cripplcd soldiers, and supplied their places with men who served in the confedérate army. Sixty-one men who had experienced all the dangers and privations of a soldier, and who had been maimcd for life, were compelled to give up the places a grateful party bad given them to men who had borne anus against the country and its institutions. It is a fair sample of democratie rule. It is only a prelude to what will follow should Elancock bo elected this fall. Soldiers, how do you like it?" The lívening News bas kept pretty closo watcli of the movements ui' the liquor men and now claims that thcy are iu league witli their usual allies, the deinocrats, and will support their state ticket this fall. This f'act doesn't scare the republicans to any extent, as thcy have always had to contend against that influence and will lose precious few votes by the action recorded below : " The secret meetitit; ol' the ropreüuntatives of' the liquor trade of the state, held at Lansing, had thus farbeen veiled in impenetrable gloom, principally because the Evening News has been buisier with other matters. At the conveotion, over which Thomas D. Hawley presided, the executive committee reported that letten had been sent to the threc gubernatorial candidates, asking their views on the liquor question and prohibition. Responsos had been withheld by both the republioan and greenback candidates, but Farmer llalloway, for the democracy, declared that he was heartily opposed to any furthcrsuinptuarv or discriminatory legislation. Hu fa vored personal liberty, and would discountenance any niovcmcnt looking toward prohibition. On motion it was resolved that the reply of' Mr. Halloway, demooratifl noniineo for governor, was sali-factory, and that he receivo tlie unaniiuuus rapport of the liquor tradc of Michigan. The resolution was earried anjid loud tppUue, and the convention proeceded to the f'orniation of committecs for an effective cayying out of the work of ÜM campaign. The trade will be oformed by circular nezt ireekof the resul t of the deliboration of the whisky saohems and will bc ailjured by all tliey hold holy and dear to work for and vote the democratie ticket as their only hope of salvation. The fund at tbc disposal of the aisociation is to bc divided pro rato, according to the requireiuenls of the trade und the democracy, tho biggest chunks being given totlinu' localities wherc ropublicanisra ismostsolid. The war cry is to be ' Whisky and democraoy,' and the bar'l is to 1h' tapped withoul delay." %.