State Siftings

Au album tactory u to bc ono ot Battlo ('reek's new industries. Katon and Ingham counties aie hiivinfi thcir historiüB wruton up. The Erio, Monroo Co., post-offier was ro'übed of f 1,000 onc night recently. No bioyeles are allowed on the etuno walks at Lansing, except tbey bo rubber tired. A son of Col. C. V. PcLand, of the Snginaw Herald, died of diphtherin, nccntly. Inslce & Ilalhbone, of Port Huron, have t'ailed, with liabilites at Í5Ü.OU0. Á uuknown. Ilomer ho.s raincd $1 9,000 of hor $20,000 Ir tito T. and M. road, and bas seoured tbc right of way. Tho offices of the Detroit, Lansing and Northern railway are being removed back to Detroit, from lonia. V peculator has begun nhipping faw'lnst froui Saginaw to Chicago. If ït pays Saginaw will surely be ruined. Bronson ia paving her stroets $1,000 wortb ; and had a $50(i robbery the other nicht. She's looiuing up as a town. The' Lapeor firemen resolved not to drink a drop of intoxicating liquorn during their excursión to l'ort Huron. Good as far as it goe. Ada Calkins, of Battle Crcck, agcd 17, old enough to know botter, took niorphine tu boautify her complexión, and diud from its effeota. Zinc Collar l'ad coinpany, of Buchanan, proposes to give a new style of collar tor horses, composcd of zinc oo the iu-Me and wood outsido. W. S. Benham, editor of the (irand Haven Herald, was outrageously assaulted j ¦ ntly by oao Worius, bul was uot daugerously hurt. A man naiued Bpies, of Uxfbrd, drapi"'! dead at Lansing, last weck TTiursday, alter attending the state grange picnic. He was ¦ farmer 45 years old. The .rth Michigan voluntoer ïntantry holds their annual reunión at Sagiüaw City on Wednesday, Aug. 25th. All uieinbeis are requestcd to be present. The Eaton Rápida Journal states that the reform lub of tbat placo owns a huli routing $4,000 on wliich there is no debt, and that the club amounts to sometbing, too. The annual excursión of the central railroad employés at Jackson will take place Aug. 28th. With their families there will be ab..ut 1 ,200 pareóos. They will probabl.v go to Detroit. The stnto enoampment at Kalamazoo, oost tho people $23,000, and yet tho boys . Miiiplain tLuy wero not half fed, nnd liad niignty poor accommodations all around. Who mado the money? lu some of tho new and northern opunties of the state the boards of supervisors are making appropriations to secure a suitble representation of tlio county products at the coming state fair. Capt. öeo. W. Fowles, a very worthy citizen of Lansing, was maiined for life rccently by uaving bis right arm caught in a plaiuer wbich he ww oiling, crushing it so amputation bccame neecssary. At the last settleraont with the treasuror of IJenzonia township, tho township was entirely out of debt with a balance of over $400 in the hands of the treasuror. Further than this there is nota saloon in the village or township. The last Wexford Co. Pioneer tells of the dcath of a little daughter of U. C. McFarlan, of Sherman, by falling into a cistern. The livos of our children are nothing com pared to the work it wou ld be to make cistern covers secure. At least the record Would so prove. Tho Cadilac News gives a description of a wator-spout seen on Claui lake ono day last week. It bogan about half a inile from shore, disturbjng about half an acra of water, raising it in a gigantic tube as high as the tallest pines. As it was borne towards tho shore its tubular shape was broken by its striking the tree topa. Michigan is in a bad way, thpy say. Statistics show that marriages are deercasing and divoroes increaaing. The lawyors - rapaciou wolvos - always manage to get everything, and now you see they are crowdiug tbo ministers to the wall. Let somebody draft an obligatory uiarriagc law. - Battle Creek Journal. There is a placo out on the South Haven railroad about a mile from town, on an elcvated piece of ground, whcre tberc are so many springs, that in tho distance of about forty rods, they form a brook nearly as lurge as the Arcadia. The water tastes very strongly of iron, and the bottom of the brook is colored red with it. During tho emincipation eolebration in ' il ui Lu nii ij', va.-vi VjVuiii.j' , tu t. iti j 'i' '_) ¦ of Samuel K. Merritt, of Williarnsville, drovo a team belonging fco Mr. Merritt into the lake to water, and getting into the 'itiirksand, botb horses and wagon disappeared. Mr. Merritt had refused $400 for the team only a day or two before. Milo A. BoyntoD, a lawyer of Grand Haven, tas got himself into trouble in New York, for attempting to dispose of $50,000 worth ofbonds which wero said to have been stolen from Camden, S. (J., during the war, by IJ. S. troops. Ile claima to havo reccived them for professional services from a widow who had a son in tho war. He is held in $2,500 bail. Interior towns havo been heard from and they are all unanünous in the opinión thnt the Detroit Light Guards did not deserve the enormous auiount of praise aecorded thera by the Post and Tribune correspondent, while they were in camp at Kalauiazoo. Thore were several other companics f'ully as good as they, and! the Grand Rapids company was a much better drilled organization.