Among Our Exchanges

Preity liealthy prospect, isn't it when the :apers Ihronghout the state begin to twit iaoh other of stealing their items? The Battle Creek Journal heads a marriage notice "a ncw departure." Well, it may be for Battle Creck, but it's nothing new for this section. The Alpena Pioneer says that " Omar D. l'onger would make the strongest man in the Sonate we could send there." The Pioneer always was a sound paper. The Edmore Gazette has been ruergcd into Mie Journal, the continued 11-health of Mr. Harrison, of' the former paper, compelling the chango. The issue of December loth was the firstof the oonsolidation. The South Lyon Sentinel has vanished into the dim shadows. In other words has ascended thespout, around which thewoodbine twineth its fond, cold tendrils. Froze out. The subscribers didn't bring in Utat load of wood. The lleed City Clarion has been purchased by Chas. E. Barnes, formerly of Battle Creek, on both the Journal and Michigan Tribune, who proposes to take hold of the same and make of it a lively local paper, and onc that wil! rank well among (he state exehanges. The Port Huron Times has the followiog statistics : "Theyear 1880 witnwMd ¦ wonderful revival of ship building in Michigan. Figures are pubhshcd showing that the tonnage of the lakes was increased thisyear by the addition of $1,800,000 worth of floating property. Adding to this the amount expended in repairs and the cost of vessels now on the stocks the aggregate will be nearly $2,500,000." The editor of tha Plymouth page of the Wayn3 Co. Review has opened up a column of' "answers to correspondents." In answering one he says that the head on the delinquent new silver dollar is that of Mías Anna W. Williams, of Philadelphia, and nota "fancy head." Which is not at all compliuientary to Anna, for it is a fearful looking head, gazing vacantly into spacefor that 13 cents deficit. The Grand llapids Evcning Post, very saucily ïiKikcs ÜiLs remark, which leads us to imagine its editor has eithcr been bitten or is a .bachelor, for wc cannot endorse the sentiments : "Mr. Talmage, in discussing- or rather in 'holding forth ' coueerning- domestic ïuv. uramea woraon ior Decomvng negiectful after marriagc of the little arts which make them attractive. ' The fact is, he said, ' inany vromen ruake their charins a pet for one haul, and after marriage tho net is thrown away. ' Well, considering the nature of many of the 'liauls,' wedon't blanie them." Tlie Ingham County News Has this to say, In nn ironlcal w:i . of Michigan legislatures : " Various papers throughout the state, headed by that little bantam of a paper, the Detroit Evening News, are wasting their time and space in a vain clamor for a short session of the legislature this winter. It's no use, gentlemen. You're right in aying that there is no cali for a long session, and the people don't want it, but there's anincompatioility between an adjournment and the Michigan legis-lator, nhich all your efforts to bully and bulldoze cannot overeóme. There'll be a long session whether there's anything to do or not." The way the Gratiot Journal warms it to the slimy carcassof Dr. Monfort, oflthaca, who had the check to return to that place, after disgracing his own wife and children and despoiliog a happy home by debauchine one of' its lovcd ones. a MmHPflnriahlfl There can be no excuse which can in the remotest manner palliate such an offense ; a doctor, especially, who will take advantage of his calling, who forgets the allegiance he owes to his wife, and the protection his own fauiily of little ones are entitled to, to say nothing of his own honor and self-respect, or the good name of the community in which he resides, aa this one has done, deserves not only the severest condemnation that words can be made to utter, but social ostracism, and the public whipping potsbesides. "