All Sorts Of Pen-scratches

- The Allegan Journal has gone inte the business of accounting for the name of the several counties of this State, and linda the job just as easy as falling off a log. Here is one specimen : " Kalamazoo is named after the river." And another : " Muskegon, from the river of the same name." And yot another : " Manistee, from a river of the same name.' And more of the same sort. But why the nam es of the rivers ? it does n't teil. Why not ? - Ex-Gov. Jewell, of Conneoticut, now Minister to Eussia, has been appointcd Postuiaster-General, vice Creswell, resignod, and líale, deolined. He has cablegrammod his acceptance and will leave St. Petersburg as soon as he can put his house in order. Hi acceptance clears the way for somo dilapidated politician to po to Eussia, some man found unfit to hold office at home and rejected by his constitueuts. - Acoording to the Lausing República n, the welt known verdict of a coroner's jury, " going home in the dark ho feil into the river and was drowiiüd, and the night being cold he froze to death," has been rivalled by the entry of a census taker, who gives as the reason for an exeinption from taxation : " 80 acres on account of 1 widow with husband insane and in fact dead now." - The sixth annual Uommencemeut of Cornell University took place on the 2d inst., the graduating class numbering twenty-two. At the examinations for admission, preceding Commencement, Jesse E. Grant, son of Ulysses L, was one of the applicants, and the lion of the town. Five ladies were also applicants for matriculation. - Senator Carpenter is quoted as indorsing the " ripe culture and profound legal knowledge" of E. G. Eyan, appointed by Gov. Taylor to be Chief-Justice of Wisconsin, and this notwithstanding the new official is a Democrat. If Carpenter alone should sound the praises of Eyan it would damn him in the eyes of the world. - TheBeardstownitíiítoisim (Eep.) don't swear very enthugiastically by the recently constructed platform for its party. It says that " Logan and Farwell wero with the committee too long doctoring at the thing to suit-our taste." Excellent reason for doubts of its soundness, that's a fact. - A note of dismissal from a snug clerkshipin the Patent Office turned the brainB of one Brain, and he undertook the hopelesa task of purging the concern by fixing a bayonot upon a broomstick and charging right and left throügh the halls. He was secured and transferred to the charge of his friends. - The Lansing Iiepublican and one or two other journals understand that the postal laws have been so amended aa to restore the system of J'ree exchanges after the first day of January next, at which time the new rates take effect. We do not so understand the legislation. Who is posted 'i - And now, unlesa report is a liar.Seorctary Bristow has snubbed the President. He dealt the foul blow by " declining to aocept a proffered present of a landaulette and pair for his wife." The ungrateful Bristow. - The verdict of the coroner's jury in the Mili Eiver case censures the Legislatura, the engineer, the contractors, and the County Commissioners, which división of responsibility and censure is nearly equivalent to an acquittal of all parties concerned. - And now Alex H. Stephens declines to run for Congress again, and unless his health improves proposes to resign so that the vacancy (physically a Very small vacancy) may be filled at the coming regular election. - The Canadian joumals have converted Gen. B. F. Butler into a dog fancier and killed him witli hydrophobia. The saddest words of tongue or pen are these four words, " It might have been." - The passenger and freight houses of the Michigan Central Railroad, at Grand Rapids, were burned on Monday afternoon, with contents. Loss, $10,000 ; fully insured. - There is no end to the nuinber of fires which occurred on the Fourth of July, originating principally from the use of fire crackers. Pittsburg, Pa., and Circleville, Ohio, were among the greatest Bufferers. - Gen. Clinton B. Fisk, of St. Louis, Mo., formerly a resident of this State, has been appointed one of the new Indian Commissioners, vice the resigned Quakers. - The Universalista of Wisconsin have followed the bad example of the Methodists of Miohigan, and declared for woman suffrage. - Bishop O'Gorman, Roman Catholic Vicar Apostolic of Nebraska, died in Omaha on Saturday last. " There are none so ignorant as those who will not learn " is a saying as true now as whon first uttered. And Mayor Havemeyer, of New York, belongs to the class of obtuse and thick-hoaded who won't learn. Witness his failure to profit by the universal condenination of President Grant for appointing "Boss" Shepiierd to be one of the Commisaioners to govern the Distriot of Columbia, after Congress had legislated him out of office. The Mayor beats the President in the impudent line, by appointing Oliver Charlick and Huoh Gardner to be Pólice Commissioners of New York, those gentlemen having been dulv conviotod of ' a misdemeanor involving a violation of their oath of office respectively," and their offices declared by Gov. Dix to be vacant or vacated. It may be that the people of New York - the inen who have the making and unmaking of mayors - will quietly submit to suoh an insult. It may be that Gov. Dix will wink at such an outrage upon justice and equity. We shall roo. - 9- . The Detroit Union, suggests that " Judge Cooley will prove a formidable antagonist to Mr. Ciiandler" in the coming Senatorial contest : which is too good to be true. The Seuate needs the legal intelligence and conservatism of such men as Judge Cooley; Senators who are grounded on principie, and can teil a constitutional provisión from a stale witticism in a last year's almanac; Senators who know both what the Constitution authorizes and prohibits, what is within the sphere of Congress and what rights of or to local government have oever been yielded up by the States. Judge Cooley would make such a Senator, and it is somewhere said that " a little leaven leaveneth the whole loaf." The inflationists would do well to studjhe latesl statements of the nation banks, made under the recent cali of the Comptroller of Currency, and exhibiting the etate of the banks at the close of banking hours on the 26th of June. These statements, with ecarce an exception, at least in all the commercial and business centers, show no lack of money, but on the contrary plethoric vaults with no corcorresponding demand. There is almost every where currency beyond the domands of business. What is wanted is not money but confidence to inspirfl investinunt faith in business enterprises. The new hands who blow the bellows of the Detroit Union declare for political cremation, and put up a prayer thatboth the Democratie and Kepublican partios may be burncd up. The rire which is to do that noble deed will soarcely be kindled by the Union. The tears it sheds shadow a doluge rather than a conflagration. It took two days and 250 ballots for the Democratie Convention of the Fourteenth (Ohio) CJongressional district to nomínate a candidato. Jollíí COWAN, of Ashland County, was rinally the suocessful man.