Among The Clouds

The above is the name of a daily papei 1 cm MOOM Washington, N. II., duing the -iimiiuT Mm, by Henry M. Buil 1 of vol. 5 Wiis issued wlitii the Kvrning News excursión arrived. umi the folio ing artlcle appecred a hadar, beddM wliich tlure are overal other items in the paper : " A bout seventy-five editora of newspapers in the Wolverine state, gome of them with thelr wives and others with thelr sisters, their oOüttM or their are with the Evenill News excursión party ' fmm Detroit tu the soa.' As most readers of this paper are probably awtra, Michigan lias been 'uliaily fortúnate in the rütraotw of lier original colonization and mucli ot' hersubscquentscttleinent. She is the New Bngtand of the West. The standard of in tel tactual work of all kinds In that state is high. Slic lias furnislied to tlie world scmie of thu most notable artists, as Bandolpli Hogers; orutors, as Auson Burlinfíame; poets, i Will Carleton; inventor, as Edison: writers for juveniles, as Mrs. Ella Farinan Pratt ; journalists, statesnien, and the rest of the hrain workers, that are know n in the later history of humanity. Tlie men bo farnib tlie daily and weekly nieiital paduluni of the beautiful peninsuIis musí b men of thought as well as ietion. The editorial gathering to-day ujion the sloiies and at the suu.mil of Mt. Washington is tlierefore the more notable. SojOM ot the alilest of Michigan journalists - as Air. V tí. (ieorge, editor-in-chief of the Lansin' Kepubliean, and head of the wellknown tirni of state printers- are detalned until subsequent excursions of the stlason, or will not be alile to visit the inount.iins at all this year. But the exeursion in eludes some strong men, neverthele-s. Mr W. P. Stocking, a leadin; writer upon the Detroit Post and Tribune, the chief organ of Mldügsa Kepiiblicaniain, is with it; afcn (il 11. Osuiun, state editor of the Evening News, and one of the most aceomptishad bieyelists in the Northwest; Mr. Smith, of Ithaca Journal, and many others. All hail, the bralny men of Miehlgun ! May the pure breath of the mountains mid Ihe bradnj; wash of the sea recupérate and rejuveuate you lor your mijiiity work in tlie Peninsular State!" Frank Johnson, a promising yonng journalist, formeily on the Dattle Creek Journal. dW at liay City, last WetlnesKlay, of diilitlii riu. He was employeJ on the Bay City i'ress at the time of his deatli.