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The Michigan School Moderator improves as it grows older, and bids fair to excel any of its competitors in its line. That intensely interesting serial : " The Supervisors in annual session," is havinga great run in most of our state excliangosat present. Hufp Honliom nhnci) narnnte man' ]ltt upon the Apena, proposes to run the Grand Haven Herald, his father's paper, in the interest of himself and litlle altar. Ho will bave the good will and wishes of everybody. The Grand Rapids papers state that Col. W. B. McCreery, of Flint isaCongor man, whilc the Evening News flatly contradieU them and asserts that lie is a Bagley man. Both are in error. He fs for McCreery, first, last, and all the time. M. W. Wooster, editor and proprietorof tbc Dowagiac Times, was seriously injurcd in a railroad collision on the Central railroad recently. Injuries received consist of cuta about the bead, hips and back, which will undoubtedly lay him up forsome time. What choioe expressions sonie of our exchanges do use toward eacb otber : For instance, the lugham County News intimate9 of a contemporary : "That if an idea got into his brain, it would make as big a commotion as a hurricane in a tamarack swamp. " Last Tuesday's Evening News had this item : " The Flint Citizen says it is sorry it published the Morey letter. This makes a tally of just two democratie papers in Michigan that have asyetconfessed." Now if postmaster F. H. llankin, doesn't warm your ears, Mr. News, tor cailing nis paper a democratie sheet, we shall lose our gaeaa. The new society spoken of by the Cedar hprings Clipper, is not confined to that locality alone, but flourishes all over the country : "The Donkey Club of this place, would iiitorni the young ladies especially, and the public generally, that tbey have arrangements for an extensive demonstration on the steps in front of the several churches - the members locating themselves on eithcr side of the entrance - on Sunday evening next. Positions taken immediately at the close of the religious exercises within." The Dowagiac llepublican man sees beauty in everytbing : 1 ' The suinmer has gone past ; tue squeal of the expiring porker is heardin the land, and the scrunch, thump, kerchunk of the sour kraut cutter will make merry music to the sizzle of the frying sausage while all nature is grateful to the uian who airs his nightshirt on a frosty ruorning while kin - dhng the fire preparatory to going back to bed to tickle his wife with cold feet. Who says these are thesaddestdays of the whole year?" The Stanton Clipper thus gives an ac count of the carrying out of a curious election wager : "John Cadwell last Saturday paid the penalty of his lack of faith in Garfield's election, by standing on one of .our cross - walks, lliirty minutes, hat in hand, beggar fashion, silently receiving whatever the charitable (?) saw fit to bestow. By the terras of the wager he was not to say a word, no matter what was said to him or, what was put in the hat. M. A. Reynolds was to stay by and see that no one touche 1 him and every time that he spoke he wu to forfeit a certain sum. Souic lively sport was the result but ' Cad.' lost not a cent." Sotne individual at Negaunee unintcntionally did a deed of charity, as the Iron Herald relates in it.i last issue : "A relie of the proeperous days of the iron business in this county turned up at the Champion the other day, in the shape of a five dollar bill issued by the Iron Cliffs company in 1868, which was signed by E. B. Isham. The contraband note was paid to Edward Dere, a blind man, undcr the supposition that it was worthless, which was a mistake, as it is good for the face of it in gold at either of the offices of the company in tbis city or New York. There is said to be something over $1,500 of this money yet unredeemed - most of which is doubtless destroyed or lost. This is the first note of the kind that has been present ed for redemption in niany months."' The Mt. Clemens Monitor gives us the pith of the proposed Irish land reform in few words : " While sympathizinK with the struggles of the Irish people for a betterment of their condition, and hcartily hoping that they may attain thereto, it is perhaps well toremeniber that the Irish are not fighting for temporary relief or an expedient, but for a principie - one, that if carried into effect, would bring tremendous changos. This principie wasenunciated by Michael Davitt at the land league meeting in New Vork recently. It is simply this : No person shall owo more land than he can lili by bis personal labor. It i proposed that there shall be millioni of land owners in Ireland where now there are a few thousands. This principie of land ownership is announced as a remedy for Ireland's troubles. If it is right in Ireland, it is right all over the world. This is the real issue to be considered wheo reflecting upon the Irish agitation." Upon the subject of giving the vote of the south to Gen. Garfield, simply as a compliment, the Th ree Ri vers Tribune hasthefollowing to say, which though sound, niay still be questioned, on the ground that it need not necessarily follow, that because the south may take this occasion to do a good deed, some one hereafter may take :i like liberty to do an evil one : "Make itunanimous, is just now a proposition froni some of the south in regard to the electoral vote, and the sugestión meets with favor in some nuarters. It is jast the (hing nut to do. hen the electoral c.illege was eetablished it was intended tliat it should be an independent delib erative body, and make ohotoa as it deemed wi.se.st. Time has wiscly changed this, and elector:! are chosen for the sole pur pose f doing the will of those who ehose them. One hundred and fifty-seven were so ehosen (o cast their votes for Ilancnck. So far as tho resul t of ihis contest is coneerned, it it makes liitle diffeienee whetlier tkJ them for Garfield or Haneoek, bat idmil in a single instance that an elector may cast his vote other than as intended by those who chose him, and a door is oponod for frauduleut action in the future that would make the presidential eleetion a farce. The Hancock electora have a plain duty bofore them ; ' the nice thing to do ' is mere sentimental moonshine."