Get It All Now

Senator Chandler, in bis speech at Luce's Hall, boasted tbat he bad loaned $2,500 to soldiere and got all the money jack but about $2 50 . A soldier of this city who lost an eye and nearly half his 'ace at Buil Run, while the gallant Senaor was making his masterly anabasis 'rom the battleiield, has sent him that 2 50 with interest. He wants to stop hat much of the Senator's glorification at the expense of the soldier boys. - Grand Bapidi Democrat. Sheriff Sayles takes pleasure in doing all he can to make the tedious terms of confinement in the county jail, awarded o our crimináis by hard-hearted justices, Dass swiftly and pleasantly away. He illows his " prisoners " to visit Pentwa;er, attend the county fair, and iu short, ;o come and go at will, carrying - as we are informed - the keys of the jail with them. We will take a back seat as rejards our poorhouse, but proudly rise ind point to Oceana county jail privileges. - Pentwater News. The Muskegon News and Reporter says that from present indications the lumber business on the upper Muakegon river will be quite active the coming winter, and more extensivo than last season, owing, in no small measure, to the large amount of pine timber burnt over by the forest fires of last summer. The work on the new capitol at Lansing is progreBsing finely. The base course of the second story is now being laid. Two more courses will probably complete the work of this season, the walls will then be some forty feet in height from the ground. With a favorablo season next year they will carry the walls to the roof. The Bay City Chronide says : Mr. D. Fitzhugh showed us recently a salt water shad that was caught in Saginaw Bay. It is the first of its species ever caught in Michigan waters, and is supposed to have come down from the Shiawassee river, for the reason that 80,000 of the spawn of that species of fish were put into that stream last year. It isn't always safe for printers to abbreviate important words. The followiug is a case in point : The books of a Sunday school library connected with a Baptist churoh in Damariscotta are embellished with labels bearing the following legend : " Number , Dum'a Baptist Sunday School." Sixty oars of railroad iron have been shipped to the western división of the Flint and Pere Marquette Rail way recently, and it is expected the road will be completed to Ludington in thirty days.