State Siftings

lloscominon county has a new jail. Muskcgon has iuvestcd f 2,200 iu a fire alarm system. A knitling uianufactory for mittens haa been started íd Batlle Creek. The state is to bore for an arte.-ian well on the capítol grounds at Linsing. Un July 17th there was a balance of $1,505,407.80 in the otate treasury. Thcre are about 20 stores and residentes in the eoursc of erectioo at Potoskey. The corner stone of a new Presbyterian ebuich was laid ;it Tekonsha last week. Ilill.idale county reports a populatioo of 32,698, a gain of just 1,000 in ten yearn. The St. Joseph Valley railroad started oll with glorious rejoicing at Buchannan rucontly. Work is actively progressing in fitting up the üdd FellowV Instituto at Lansing for its new use as the stato school for the bünd. Altiion has a na.sty scandal case in courtMitchell vs. Tompkins, and the court buuüc, as usual upon such occasions, was crowded. The safe in the store of Elfred & Co., o ChesaLing, was blown open tbe night of July 17, and nbbed of about $800 worth of' papers and 7ö m 6Üver. Two poles, a hickory and a tauiarack, are itill standing in Tecuuiseh which have jeen sent to the breeze for the pust tour year.i and are good furfour more. - Herald. C. B. ileadley, iur a number of years he manageing editor of' the Sagiuw (Jourcr, died recently at Cleveland irom Boiten ng of the brain. lle was a high 'y rcáptted juurualist. John Driseoll, alias "Silvor Jack" a nooriouH characttr, convictcd of highway obbery, was senteneud a j'ew days since at iaöt Sainaw to state prison, at Jackson, br fifteen years. The iiapers throughout the state are beginuing to wake up to the dangerous ele nent which is springing up in opposition o our school system. Kill our schools and ou kill our state. The Michigan stone company, which rorks the fine quarriea two miles south of lanover, near Jackson, now employés a 'orce of 30 men, and ship about 10 car oads of stone per day. Portare Lake Minin (luzutte : The Uper Peniasula, with 85,000 inhabitants, oupied with other consideratioDs, will enitle it to be set off as a separate congressonal district by the state legislatura next winter. A farmer named Westbrook, living ear Manue City, feil from a hay niow uly 18, upon a barrel contaioing pieces of ron and fork handles, and the sharp points )f the fork handles peuetraied through the 'í?,k.SLfe8ñSSKjtfljh.bok Of is riirht Xlb X HIK, VUil -ji n .. , - ;._ y ima. u. iTxuiöriuuLi, was uuni'JU ; loss bout $10,000, insurance $5,000. Some f tho boardors barely escapcd with their ves i'rotn the accoud aud third stories. 'bis hotel was the scène of the fanious IcDermott riot.s a few years ago. The Turf, Field and Farm says: "The lillsdalcs eau undoubtedly outrow any bur that is at preseot known lo the quatio world. Their style is perieution tself. They row quiet and stront, do not verreaeh, generally starting at 45 or 46, ropping to 40, and finishing again as at ie start." The steaiu yacht Mamic was run down y the steaiuer Garland and sunk in Detroit ver ut 1U o'clock last Thursday night. The Iivcs of 16 persons were lost by the disaster, 13 of whotu were boys and three wouien. The little yacht had on board Father Bleyenbergb, of Holy Trinity church, Detroit, 15 alter boys, the Father' s housekeeper, one domestic, and the wif'e of the enginoer, tho three Jatter being drowned. The accident is a very i-ad one tbr many Detroit homut. The banking house of Messrs. Fisher, Preston fc Co., No. 108 Woodward ave., wu.i robbaj of aomc $5,000 last Thursday noon. The story as the clerk, who was alone at the time telis it, is that a man entered and inquirod : "What areyoucharging f'or U. S. bonds?" and as he stepped to the counter to answer was struck ovor the head by a wcapon of somc kind. Tbis was the lust lie knew lor an hour or &o, when help arrivcd, and he was broght back to consciousneis. The robbery was u bold one. Southern Michigan - rich soil, no drouth in .sumnmr, no intense cold ia winter, no failure in crops, no mud, no dust, fine lake.s and flowing streauis, rolling country and prairie, openings and heavy timber, pure water, no fqgs, clear skies, low taxes, no state debt, quiet, peace and good order, large cities of the living, small but beautit'ul cities of the dead, pieasant towns and villages, modern architecture, intelligent, educuted people, school system best in the world froui the oomnion school to the univtr.-ity. God'a country. - Hillsdale Herald. A wnman stopping in South Bay City, whu wa.s onco well known among our citizrns, was lef't destitute by her sons, and has been dependent upon friends. She has been sick for the past six months, and Wednesday, when let't alone for a shor ttime, attumpted to couiuiit suicide by drowning nferoeu. ono woulü nave sucoeeded but for the limely aid of sonie uien who happened to sce her when sbe jutuped inio the river. The story ot' ooe ot' her soos is well known, ha havins luft his wife and fiimily destitutR in this city aud married an actress in a fjieign countrj. Such men as thi.s, who aro capable of desertinj? a wife and faniily and an aged mother, who aro depundent upon hiui, ouht to be hung. - Bay City l'n Evening News: Harrison, the new eounty seat ot' Clare county, though only iiinc BOBthfl old, i.-i aüsuuiiiK lurKfl prqportions iur a place of so recent birtli. It is loc;itcd on the banics of a lovely Uike, couanionly known as Build laku, io the mid.st of a denso f'orest of pine woods. It has already eijjht stores, throe hotels, two blaolumith shops, a large saw uiill, be-ides dwelling houscs, etc. The new court house is nearly finished, aud is a handsome struoture. School is in progresa and busiMM rife, but it stilt laeks u tir.tt olas store of general supplies. The Saginaw k Clare oounty railroad, a branch of the V. 1'. M. railway, has just reached there. l'inc stuibpa ornament the streets at every corner, though the job is let for stuuipiug üve of the leading streeta.