Taking A "country Paper"

We don'l know but we have published the (ollowing " roadside colloquy " before ; but f e have it is jast as good now as then.- Kead it, and then tari it for ;he benefit of tour ueighbor who borrows the Arqcs every week to find out the piice of wool,'etc, or for tliit other neighbor who dont thiuk a "country paper" worth taking : 1 And so Squire, you don't take a country V?$o Major, 1 get the city paper on much hetter terina, so I take a conple of them.' 'But, Squire, the country papéis often nroTd a 'aveat couvemence to us. The more we encourag them, the belter theedilors can attbrd to make them.' 1 Why, I io'1 know any convemeuce they aThe farm you sold last F ,11 was advertised „ one of them, and thereby you obtained a custoiner, did you noli i 'Very true, Major, but I pnid three dollars f And you made more than three hnndred dollars by it. Now f your neighbors liad not maiutained the prt-ss and kept it ready for ase, on would havo been without the means to advernse your property. But I think I saw yoiir dau'ghtei 's marriage in those papers- did that cost you anything t ' ■Ko, but - ' ' And your brother's death with a long obituary ' noiice. And the destruction of neighbor Riggs' house by fire. You see these tbiñ"3 aro exaggsrated until theauthentic account of the newspapar set them a!l right.' ' 0, true, but - ' 'And when your cousin Splash was up for tlieWislature, you appeared much gralifled ithis defense- which cost him nothing.' ' Yes, yes ; but these things are uews to Ho readers. They cause the people to take Ouptper.' io Squire Grudge, not if all were like na. Now, I teil you, the day wil! surely come when somebody will writea long enlogy on your life and character, and the printer will put it in type with a heavy black line 9er it, and with all yourriches, this will be done as a grave is dug for a pauper. Your wealtb. liberaüty, and all such things will bo kpoksii of, but Uie printer1 boy, as he spel s the words, in arranging the type to these ritjings, will remark of you-' Poor, mean di-vil, he i.s even sponging au obituary.' Good morning, Squiie.' Ihere are not a few just such persons as the :' Squire " in our own city, and many .huudreds of thera iu Waahtenaw .ceunty. - They „don't take an Ann Arbor paper because they are not largo enough, or cost a trine imrp tliau the New York Hard, Philadeljihia Bag or some other city sheet - But, f their church is to have a donation ■pirly, they want it advertised in all the local papera, fret j if their school is to hold an ex-JiiWtion, that must be advertised, free, a -long notice givan of it afterwarda. free, and then they will borrow the aper to read of their 'Sod's or daughter's wonderful doings. A marriage notice, with an elotigated poem attached, couies in from huiidreds of these uonountry-paper-subscribers yeariy, and death notices without number, with a l"iigthy recital of virtiies unknown to the public thereto attached. If thej raise a big ox, have an ex. tra'cow for milk or butter, have cuta big clip of tra'ól, or performeft by themselves or family any prodigy, iL must all "be recorded" in the '' country paper " which costs too much, and is not worth taking. And for the same reasous business men -gramble about ''wortMess papers," and cite íome favored Journal in some njore favored ton. as a sample of what a local paper ought to be. At the same time they forget toadvertise their business, and thus aid t'ie publisher in sustaining his japer, a.nd in giring thetown an enterprisiog name abroad. But we sball fail either to do the subject justice, or to impress those who will neither take a "country paper " nor material!)' rbenefit it and themselves by liberally advei tising in its columns, with a sense of their own littleness or shorl-sightedness, and so we adopt ihe address to " Squire Grudge " in the closing psragraph above. L2f Highland 'Cometpry, Ypsilanti, was dedicated on Thursday of last week. The ddress was delivered .by Prof A. S Welch, and was pronounced excellent. The Cemetery contains about 40 acres of ground. diversified ith hill and dale, opening and shade, and bas been beautifnlly laid out by Oolonel Jas. í. Olinh, the same engineer who laid out Forest Hill Cemetery of this city. We congratúlate oar Ypsilanti frieods on the success of tlieir enterprise. LS" At the reeent commencement ■oí Alleghany College, Pa , the lionorary defee óf Master of Arts was conferred upén Prof. Samüel G. Abmob, of the Univ.ersity ■' Michigan. We believe it an honor well bejtowed. C3T" Remeuiber the great Panorama of the World, al Hangsterfer's Hall, on Wedlesday evening, July 2Vth. The Press and tlergy 8peajL well of it, the Hartford Courant iays : " The Athenoeum ivus well filled last night, 'o witness the Panorama of the World, " beautiful scènes piesented elicited the "armest applause." Let there be a full house. ts3L" A number of our State ex■chïnges have raised their terms of subscrip'ion to g2 a year, as advised by the late Pubüshers' Convention, Among them are the Detroit Free Fresa and Tribune. Our city cotemporarics still adhere to the old rates - :De'er profitable, and now starving. XS" Several provoking errors oacurre'J in the oration of Judge GnAífEa in our 'Wt issue. One of the most Daticeable, on ieoond coluina, foui-th page, lütb and llth fee from top - " deceasa " shonld read dsiod Jh others fbo roader v] picase