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- Our friend of tlie Pontiac BUI Poster stirs up deliuquents somethiug atter this wise : " We don't beg for wood ou subscription, still it takes about a cord per week to warm this office. If you can't briug wood, a lat turkey, chickcn, quartei of beef, half a bog or something of that kind wouldn't mikc us mad, and might bo the means of putting you even with tho printer. A good, energetic hen can lay eggs enough in six munths to pay for a paper oue year, and why people should find it auch hard work to raise $1.50, is a mystery we can't futhom. It is a 9mall sum, to be sure, bnt wheu several subscribers are one, two, and three years in arrears, it counts up, and 'don't you forget it.'" All of which we cun indorse to tlie letter. - Who would n't be a United States Sauntor, with such a chanco at the national lunch basket as the followiug current exchange paragraph iudicates ; " The Senate expenses include for June 24 the followiug items : Eight lunchüs furnished for appropriation and conference committeer d uring uight sessions, at $15 each, $120; to eight boxos lemons, at $(, $48 ; to 120 pouuds of sugar, at 12 cents, $14.40; total, $182.' Lemons and sugar, but no spirit." That is the way the people's money goes : $5,000 a year and lunches, stationery, and suudries thrown in. How long would banking, mauufacturing, or other business corporations survive such a system of petty stealing 'i - The Lausing Republican turnishes the followiug ruling, with regard to the school law : " The legal holidays, as designated by the Legislature of 1875, are: New Year's duy, Washington's birthday, Decoration divy (May 30), Fourth of July, Christmas dav, and any duy appotnted or recointnended by tho President or üovernor for fasting aud praycr or thauksgiving. When any such day falls on Sunday the Mouday followiug is to b: taken as the houday." We should liko to have tne Republican, or its educational adviser, point us to tho law umler which this " ruling " have been mudo. We confesa to just a little skepticisra, - boing unable to find anything in the sossioti laws of 1875 to base the aforesaid " ruling " upon. - Tuesday morning last Hon. Don M. Dickinson, of Detroit, was sorely aftlicted by the death of his young son, Flatt, aged nearly 9 year, a bright and promisiug lad. The afrlictiou is doubly severe, two other children having died withiu the year, aud Flatt being the last of his little flock. The mauy frieuds of Mr. Dickinson througliout the State deeply sympathize with him. - The annual moeting of the Michigan State Pross Association is to be held in the old Senate Chamber, Lansing, on Tuosday, Jauuary 7, 1879. Papers are to be read by the President, George P. Sanford, of the Lansing Journal; by J. E. Scripps, of the Dotroit Evening News : and by Thos. S. Applegate, of the Adrián Times. - At the Bar meeting held in Detroit ou Monday afternoon, to mate an expression of esteem and respect for Gen. Williams, one ot the warmest eulogies of the deceased was from Hon. John Atkinson. Some of lts utterances would coutrast strangely with suudry reasons giveu by John before the recent eloction for refusing to vote for the old General. Neal Dow having charged " an eminent popular preacher of Londou " with being a "hard drinker," the friends of Spurgeou became indignaut. They might have saved their feelings had they been willing to admit that London had more thaii one " emiuently popular preacher." It is n't aiways the better way to assume too much. - We were in Detroit on Monday and from the appearance of the stores along the principal streuts, the numbcrs entering and coming out, all with packages. one would naturally suppose that " hard times " had left that locality. Dealers report large sales of holiday goods, and a demand tor expensive articles. - The programme for the opening of the new Capítol at Lansiug, on New Yeftr's day - Wednesday next - is anuounced as follows : Music. Prayer. Public adininistration of tbe oath of office to the Governor. Addresses by ex-Governors Folch, Greenly, Blair, Baldwin and Bagley. Keading of the report of tho Building Commis8Íoner8. Presentation of the Gapitol by E. O. Grosvenor, Vice-President of the Board. The exercises will commence at 9:30 a. in. Illumination of the Capítol in the evening. Ileception by tho Govornor from 8 to 10 o'clock. - Ka-ge-che-wan. thu oldest man in Eminet Couuty, died at Middle Village, on the llth, of old age. He was in the uoighborhood of 100 years old, and had passed bis outire Ufe in Northern Michigan. He wituo88ed the passago of the first steamboat through the Straits of Mackiuaw.