In Memoriam

Mrs. dementia Corselius, died receutly in Ann Arbor, where she had reeided for 52 yeara, at the age of 77. She was the widow of Geo. Coreelius, one of the very firet editora of Washtenaw oounty. And he was an editor of the olden time. One who stood ready always to formúlate the ideas of hia party leaders, with alforce which rebounded them as "public sentiment." That did not require original thinking on his part, though the old editors were allowed to do that, when it didn't interfere with the views of the bosses. Withal there was a strain of independence in the old man, that kept him juat far enough from absolute subserviency to keep him poor. He was too honest to be allowed by the leaders to get ahead, and too unsuspecting to see their design in keep him just on the "ragged edge." A nibble at the office of register of deeds in 1840, secured his hfe long devotion to the whig party. A singular bend in his arms as he walked, provoked a man once to say that he "was a mere explanatory passage in a parenthesis, and should be heard in a lower tone ol voice." He seemed to be somewhat ol that opinión himself, for he was never boisterouB. His e id was sad. At the breaking oul of the gold excitemcnt in California s sort of grave yard msurance, though nol so-called, sprang up. That is, the regujar life insurance companies woul.l insure persons going to California at a high rate of premium. Many persons unable otherwise to raise money to go to California, got it by borrowing it on a polioy of life insurance. Capitalista were not unwilling to advance money on suck security, for one of two things was pretty certain; the adventurer would gain gold, or lose his life. This seemed to offer the best chance for the old editor. His occupation was about gone. Some of his friends helped him to means on a California policy, and be left for Eldorado, which proved to be his last journey. Whether he died on his journey home, or lived to reach it we do not remember. But his California trip ended his oareer. Lightly He the dust above hiru.