One Colored Man Has Been Summoned

as a juryman in the Guiteau case. There is a bare possi )ility that Emory A. Storrs will be appointed attorney general by president Arthur. Persons subscribingforTHK Democrat this month and paying $1.50 in advance, will receive the paper until January lst, 1883. The trial of Guitteau has commeneed in Washington, and it is thought threo rnonths will intervene before the end is reached. The members of the 9th Massachusetts regiment who cut up so in Baltimore while on the way to Yorktown, are to be dealt with as their conduct deserves. lt is impossible to teil which party will gucceed in electing a speaker of the house of representatives, as the greenbackers and repudiationists hold the balance of power. The republicans refused to support Bob. Hanlan, of Cincinnati, colored, for the Ohio legislature, and he was badly left. Every other republican on the county ticket was elected. How they do like the poor negro - their votes. Some of the republican papers are mak iag a great fuss because Astor was defeated for congress in New York. A man who will squander $100,000 in order to secure his election, as Astor is said to have done, deserves to be shelved. " Is it profitable to make a specialty of anytbing to tlie exclusión of general farming?" is the question the farmers' club o Manchester will wrestle with at the next meeting which is to be held at the retidence of F. M. Palmer, in Bridgewater. Potter Palmer, being convinced that there are good positions in hotels which wotnan can fill better than men, has made the experiment . Hesays: "We concluded to offer such a salary as would command the best talent. Of course this was flying into the face of prejndice of a verv large class of very excellent people, who do not believe that ladies should be employed in public capacities at all. The success of our experiment bas shown the fallacy of that theory. At present, we c;ive employment to three ladies in our office. Twoof them are cashiers and one bookkeeper. To one of these ladies at the cashier's desk we pay $1,000 per year and board, to another $000 per year and board, and to our bookkeeper we pay $600 and board. If they choose to live away from the hotel we give them an additional allowance of $500 per year. These salaries look big for ladies, but they have the talent, they do the work, and we are much better satisfied than we were with our male employés, Of course we cannot make room clerks of ladies, but the trial that we have made has been so satisfactory that wherever they may be properly employed in the Palmer house, we shall substitute them for men." There will be a sliooting match at the Schulzenbund park a week frorn to-day. Business men will flnd it to their inter est to advertise their holiday goods in The Democrat. Already 15 subscribers have taken advantage of our offer for The Democrat until Jan. lat, 1883, for $1.50. O'Hara and Stabler will ship to-day 200 hogs to Buffalo. The price paid was $5.25 and $5.50 per hundred, live weight. Chief Clarken is entitled to the credit of recovering the watch stolen from Mrs. Cornwell, and the arrest of Sophia Lyons on the charge of stealing it. John G. Grossman, who carried on a shoe shop for the past two years in the Buchoz block, on Detroit Street, died suddenly Saturday morning about 11 o'clock, in his 55th year, of heart disease. He was born in Germany, and previous to coming to this place three years ago, resided in Ulster county, N. Y. It is only a few montns ago that his brother, Michael, dropped dead near Hall & Moseley's bakery on Korth Main Street. A meeting of citizens has been called for to-morrow evening at the court-house, to make arranements for the state sanitary convention to be held in this city sometime in January and not for the purpose of taking action on account of the prevalence of typhoid fever, as has been erroneously stated. The business men should be present to-morrow night as it is desirable tohave a.large attendance of the representative men of the city. j The Cincinnati Commercial in speaking of "All the Rage" eays there was a sound of rippling lauehter heard continuouïly during the play. In f act, the hearty, mirthful recognition of the ments of the play was so continuous that it became before long a full orchestral accompaniment tothe acting. The cause of all this unusual merriment was the play and acting of "All the Rage," for the flrst time offered as a treat to a Cincinnati audienee. The watch Dr. Bliss used in timing the late president Garfield's pulse, is on exhibition at "Watts jewelry store. The watch was on exhibition lately in Saginaw and thousands of persons called to see it. Accompanying the watch is the following certifícate f rom Dr. Bliss: "I hereby certify that watch No. 150,70 (case No. 5,547) was used by me on each occasion in taking the pulse of president Garfield, from Sept. lst, until the time of his death "Washington, D. C, Oct. 18, 1881." Edwin S. Ferdon, son of Jlr. and Mrs. Jno. Ferdon, died in Detroit last Thurs day morning after a brief illness, of ty phoid fever. He was a gradúate of the literary department, class of '73. The funeral was held Saturday afternoon at the Methodist churcb. The pall bearers were members of the Phi Delta Phi of which society Mr. Ferdon was ajmeinber, and the fraternity come out in a body. There were several handsome floral tributes. Rev. Dr. Cocker and Rev. Jno. Alabaster officiated at the funeral. It is only a few months since the flrm of Hall & Bloseley came into existence, and yet their business lias increased" to such an cxtent that they have found it nocessary to employ ,1 nunibcr of cler and two bakers, so great is the demand for bread and cakes. Tliis firm is shipping bread and assorted cakes to several points on the Toledo, Ann Arbor and Grand Truuk railroad. The lunch room is well patronized and as raany as forty persons are fed daily in their dining room. Thero is nothing liko enterprise, you know. The junior mernber of the firm, Mr. Moseley, has an eye to business, and is building up a big trade. Prof. Buur forwarded deeds Monday of the right of way to the l'ontiac, Oxford & Port Austin railroad company for the route of the railroad from the city of Pontiac to the village of Caseville in Huron couuty, through the lands of the Harmony society. Twenty miles of the road from Caseville south will be cornpleted this fali if the weathcr permits. Already $114,000 worth of steel rails have been bought and paid for. The road is under contract with parties south as far as Oxford. The fiuancial agents are the New York and New Enland envestment Co. 31 and 33 N. Y city. Bonds are to be issued by the Farmers' trust and loan company. Ilusscll E. Brown of Saline, who was declared insane, was taken to Pontiac Friday by sheriff Wallace. Mr. Brown's insanity was superinducod by injuries he received sometime ago from a broken leg. At times he has been very unruly and it took the unitcd efforts of several powerful men to take care of him. We are informed by the sheriff that when he reached Pontiac with his man, he peared more rational thau he bad beeu in a long time. At tiie asylum the doctors dressed Russell's leg and he made no resistance whatever. Only some lvo weeks before whon the doctors in Saline undertook to tuke the bandages off, he raved so that it was t'ouhd necessbry to put hiin in a.etraight jacket, and it required six men to hold him. It is thought he will be all right in a few weeks. We wonder who the individual can be that the Saline Observer goes for: One day last week an Ann Arbor ash peddler called at the house of Mr. B . P. Davenport, in quest of afines. No oue was at home except a servant girl, who,iu iep!y to bis enquiñes about ashes, told him the family were away and she had no auluority to sell the ashes (some 30 bushela being in the cellar). He went away bul in a few minutes returned and told tbc girl he had seen Mr. Davenpott and purchased the ashes, and loaded them into his wa gou, after which he told her there were 14 bushels, and as pay left 15 bars of cheap soap. Upon Mr. D's. getting home he noticed the depavture of his ashes and inquired about tïieir disposal. The girl told him she supposed he had sold hem and explained matter tohim.which oon conviuced him that Mr. ash peddler was a swindle and had obtained the ashes under falso pretensas, .whieh caused Mr. D's. iudignatiou to rise considerably - not for the value of the ashes, but the way the scamp had obtaiued them. The probabilities are, the end is not yet.