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State Siftings

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Parent Issue
Day
28
Month
May
Year
1880
Copyright
Public Domain
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i Eev. J. N. Lewis, Baptist, Monroe, resigned. Threc Rivera property is valued at $1,548,085. Portland is to have a firstclass, new brick hotel. The measles vcry virulent at St. Louis, Gratiot county. The Greenville Kpiseopalians are to have a chapel. The Kalamazno tire dcpartment are experiencing trouble. Forest fires have done considerable damage in Lake countj-. A Niles paper tells about bees swarruing in April a tuat locality. The Fort Iíurnn (Jall is to coiuineuce the issue of a daily June 1. Coldwater wants a better fire department and a greater water supply. Howell is to have a pigeon shoot with prizes amounting to $1,250. The Universalist church of Lapeer has jubt wiped out a $4,000 debt. They want Ilanlan to give a specimen pull at Bay City, regetta time. The section that can't report a se veré storm is entirely behid the times. The masons and odd fellows have both purchased cemetery lots at Ludingtoo. The dcw Congregational church at Greenville ia to be dedicated Sunday, June 6. South Eaton, Eaton county, had a ncw $1,170 M. E; church dedicated May 6. Albion is dotermined to secure the prospectivo Detroit and Milwaukee railroad. The government has beon purchasing prison wacjons, at Jackson, for the Indians. In Pickerel Lake, Montcalm county, John Glaucin, aged 10, was drowncd last week. The corner stone of a new M. E. church was laid at Cass City, Tuscola county, rccontly. The East Sapinaw(JiingreEational church h:is pUdged 115,000 to rid it oí' a bad niortgage. The Ncwaygo Tribune man has his random thoughts awakened by a sermón. Good idea. Several places where the Boyd & Peterscircus has been, report the men belonginc to it a bad Int. They have only tlie sanie number of saloons in Ionia city now ibut they had in Ionia county two years ago. Mr. Christiancy has filed a bilí of divorco from his young wife. She did not prove to be an old man' dading. llotueo had a terrific wind torin last week. It destroyed considuraulo property damaging the Observer office. Leslie, Ingham county, has a pig with two bodies, six pood legs and two pour ones, onc head and three ears. The animal meeting of the eclectic medical society of Michigan, was held in Detroit yesterday and day before. A little son of Dr. Ilughes, of Flint, aocideutally shot hiuiself recently, while out hunting with another boy. The llural Now Yorker thinks Michigan's agricultural college stands at the head of' all similar institutions. The salt manufacturera of Huron county are said to be not only prosperous hut numerous and rapidly iocreasing. The Midland Review has cuanged proprietorship and nauie. It will be Democrat in name and principie, hereafter. Peter Mosier, Walton township. Eaton county, paris green, voluntary, last week, suffered intensely, result doubtful. Happy town ! Vennontville has not a single lawyer. The editor is the only source of' clissension in the village. The fauiily of Reuben E. Morris, of East Sagiuaw. woro made seriously ill recontly by eating oouiymawd buer. The (irass Lake girls, if they can't find a fellow any other way, take old clothes and stuff 'um to represent a " feller." The superintendent of schools of Muskegon has buen studying up the Quincy and Boston, Mass., systeuis of schools. The cut worm is said to be cutting corn in Jackson county, wliich cuts up the feelings of the farmers of that section badly. The Journal says that Eaton Kapids officials propose to enforce the law relativo to live stock running at large on the streets. The Genesee county agricultural society have built a strong brick foundation undcr the grand stand on the fair grounds at Flint. The grand master of tho I. O. O. F. bas installed five new lodges since last February, and is preparing to install two more. Joab Mallory's barn, of Albion, was struck by hghtoÍDg one day last week, and as burneil togetlier with 000 bushels of wheat. D. D. Thurber, of Puntiac, for many jean iu the liardware business there, niade an assigiuueut reuontly, with liabilities at $30,000. At the Jaekson state prison May 19th, Jolin Fullcr, a life convict frora Ottawa eounty for uiurder, escaped but was recapture d. The Ccdar Sprints Clipper wants the towns ot' Kockford, Sand Uiko and Ccdar Springs to uiiite in a graud l'ourth of July celobration. The Jonesville Independent says their new hotel, the Waverly house, is to bo G8 by 108, three stories high, and a tip-top afluir all through. The Bay City mili men want a swift tug constructed with powerful fire-extinguishing facilities on board for service around the milis. Good idea. Dr. Rominger, the state geologist, is about to issue an interesting volume. It will contain the geological survey of the upper península uiostly. Governor Croswell recently appointed Henry W. Flint, of West Branch, to be judge of probate of Ogemaw eounty, vice V. L. Austin, resigned. A new bank and opera house are being erectud by A. li. Upton, at Mt. Pleasant. The latter is to have a seating capacity of about 900 or 1,000 persons. The editor of thc Lansing Rcpublican is the owner of a cano made f rom one of the posts that fornied the dead line on the in.iide of Andersouville priüon. Cornelius McAvenia, living i.i North l'laiiis, Ionia couuty, is 103 ycars oíd, and .Mtill uuniarried. Thore's a chance for you girls. He carne to America in 1830. Henry McCann, 12 years oíd, fell into tlie ftlamgon river, at Hersey, on the 7th, and a man named Adelbert Warner plungcd in alter him, but buth werc drowned. Tho Ililldalc Standard proposes the name oí' Honorable Thomas e. Applegate, of Adrián, as a inember of the national rcpublican oouiuiittee from Michigan. What a whopper lrom the Brighton Citizen: "Lawson Gordon, oí' Conway, put a double-yolked egg under a setting ben and hatchud two perfect chickens from the samo." The great $10,000 libel suit of C. C. Comstock against Nathan Church, of (ho Grand Rapids Times, has boen discontin ued. Kmory A. Storrs, of Chicago, was retained by Comstock, and Col. Robt. G. Ingersoll volunteered as council for Church, It is too bad Grand Rápida has lost hei sonsa tioD. Judge Flavius J. Litdejohn, died al Allegan, Friday afternoon, May 14th, aged 76 years. lie was once a prominent politician in the democratie ranks and always a respected citizen. A convention of wouicu suffragists it te be held in Detroit on the lOth and llth ol June. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Suwin 15. Anthony, etc., are to be present and address the meeting. August Londrie was the name written in a prayer book found in tlie pocket of an overcoat upoa the body of an unknown man found floating in the Saginaw river, at Carrollton, a few days ago. The knights of pythias, of Jackson, are to have charge of the 4th of July celebratiun, at Jackson, this year. As the k. p's are a live lot of boys they will probably make it interesting for all who go. Four men workio? in a field, planting corn, near Hartford, Van Buren county, were struck by lightning and two of them, who had hoes in their hands, were killed. This happencd Wednesday, of' last week. Arrangement for the Bay View campmeeting are progresting finely on tlie ground. The committee on worsliip will probably publish the programme of the oamp-meeting soon, wluch is to commence July 27th. The land commissioner of the Flint and Pere Marquetto railroad company has beeo to Manistee and proposed to build a branch of that road into Manistoe if that city will furnisli tbe right of way and depot ground.s. The regetta question of the N. A. R. A. over which the two Saginaws have been quarreling so long, has been settled by Bay City stepping in and taking the sweet morsel all to herself. So the regetta will be held, and at Bay City. It is reported that cx-Congressman Eugene Hale, on his recent visit to the well-known Chandler farm, northeast of Lansing, gave orders for all the personal property to be sold, and that the farm of 3,000 acres will also be sold. The Pioneer Magnet suggosts that instead of Big Rápida wasting money on a fourth of July celebratioD, the sum whicii a good celebration would cost be raised and given as a bonus to soiue man who ia willing to build a good three-story brick hotel. "Our country's defenders" is the name of a new secret organization, encampments of which are being formed in various localities throughout the state. It claims to be non-political. The last lodge instituted which wc have noticed was at Eaton Rapids. (ilass ball shooting is one of the epidemics now raging in this village. We have had the measles, chicken-pox, ecarlet fever, and we are expectiug to hear of an attack of ice cream, cucumber and green applea, or perhaps archery, every day. - Flushing Patrol. Wtn. Carter, of Adams, has deposited at this office some sound russet apples, grown in 1878.. Thcy have been kept in open barrels since they were picked in tho fall of 1878, and from appearances would keep until another harvest.- Hillsdale Standard. The state patent right swindlers' association is now sending out agents to make contracts with farmers who have green spots in their eyes for a wagon tongue supporter, and the said green-eyed farmer generally bas to pay $100 dollars for an article worth 75 cents. A panther, either ideal or real, is w hat acarea the average resident near Long and Austin lakes, KaTamazoo county, into staying at home after dark. Wives in the cities would do well to take a hint from thia and devise sonicthing to keep their husbands at home cveningS. Of tho Michigan delegatcs to Chicago one is an editor, Morgan Bates, of the Jackson Citizen; 10 arelawyers, Slumbermen, 3 manufacturera, 2 merchante, I real estáte agent, 1 a book dealer, and 1 a doctor. Of the number m'ne have been members of the state legislaturc. A bad failure is reported from Ilolly. The owner of the large flouring mili, .Martin S'tifT, has made an assignment with debts given at $53,000 and $25,000 sssets. 117,000 of the debt is due farmers of the íurrounding country who are not secured. The banks are secured in the sum of $27,m The farmers of this county are having a "boom." Acres upon acres of land, which i few years ago was a comparative wilderje8s, have been transformed into wellleared, fertile and pröductive farms, and thoso wno did the work are now reaping their reward. They are independent, contcnted, and, best of all, have a home - Kalkaskian. The state homeopathie society, at Jackson, last week, elected the following officers: President, ü. R. Long, Ionia ; vice-presidents, L. M. Godfroy, Bronson, and E. C. Fuller, Pontiac; general secretary, lt. B. House, Tecumseh ; coriesponding secretary, A. B. Grant, Lowell; treasurer. Geo. A. Robinson, Chelsea. The next meeting will be held in Ann Arbor. The Laingsburg News says : "Many of the farmers in this vicinity are going to raising cane, like old Nick, this scason. When a man begins to "raise cane" his family and friends generally find fault and do all they can to put a stop to it, but in this case, all parties are going to lend a helping hand, for the cane is to be of the sugar variety, and part ol' the machinery necessary fbr the successful manufacture of that valuablc articlc. ha9 been secured." Sarcasm from the Romeo Observer: "For some time past a tramp, going by the name of Wood Chuck, has resided in n siuall squalid habitation in the outskirts óf the village. How he obtaincd his living do one knows exactly, but he always appeared to have enough to eat. While strolling around one day last week, in the vicioity of the railroad bridge east of Romeo, he was struek by the lqcomotive and iiistiintly killed. As his family are entirely without influence it is thought no investigation will be held." A recent issue of the Lansing Rcputilican fays: "On Tuesday last Messrs. T. S. Applegate, of Adrián, and Towosend North, of Vassar, two of the commissioners for locating and estabUshiog a school for the blind, visited this city, accotnnanied by Messrs. Smith, of Detroit, and Watkin-f, of Bay City, both well-known architects, and with Urand Secrotary VVhitncy made a thorough inspection of odd fellows' instituto and its groundp. Th9 architects pronounced the building perfcctly safe, and in exoellcnt condition. With very slihgt repairs it would be available for an immediate opening of the school. Attached to the institute are 11 acres of ohoice land, all improved, and the whole is offered for the canceling of the present indebtedness, amuuntiug to bout $100,000. CouKidering the characler of the buildings and grounds and their location with reference to the capítol, no more eligible site can be found in Michigan, while the terma upon which it can be obtained are merely nominal."