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C. A. Isham f Xorth Simde has 34 ewes which gai e birth to 44 lambs. Of these 3ü lambs are now living. John H. Loomis of Jackson, a railroad rnan well knovvn throughout the state, died Sunday morninK as the re.sult of amputatiou of a leg a short time ago. Henry Maxam of Schoolcraft recently beat his horse so shamefully that the animal drqpped down deadbeforeit reached its destination. On Saturday n Kalamazoo insticefined him $5 orseven days in prison. He went up. Marlette is bound to be up with the times. Arrangenients have been made whereby it is to have au electric lighting 6ystem and it is expccted that it wil! be in running order within six weeks. The rai&ing of peppermint has made valuable hundreds of acres of land in the vicinity of Niles. It was a regular niarsh, but by putting on a peculiar kind of shoe made especially tor the purpose a horse has no more difficulty in walking over the marshy soil than on ordinary ground. For five weeks a shee; belonging to Patriek Eardley, in Cascade, was buried onder i strawstack before it was discovered. There were some signs of life even then, and after some restoratives had been applied it commenced to revive, and the indications now are that the animal vvill recover from its long faso. VilHam Tillman, a young lad who had 3een exposed to smallpox at Kalamazoo, was sittmg in the United States courtroom at Grand tiapids the other day, when he was discovered by the health officer, vvhose movements excited suspicion, and when it pecame known that Tillman might be infected with the dread disease the crowd all rushed ofï to get vaccinated. At Fenton the other day John Angus vas driving into a millyard with a large og. He drove upon an inclined place in snch a way that the front end of the wagon ipped over, catching him between two ogs and breaking his leg between the ankle and the knee. The limb was set and Mr. Angus is as comfortable as could be expected, considering the nature of his inuries.