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Day
8
Month
October
Year
1880
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Public Domain
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Hog and chickeo cholera at Battle Urcek. Bay City liad ripc strawberrics in Sepetuber. Saloon business on the iucrease at Au lanble. Diphtheria is kUnnÏBgly prevalent in Jlare county. Tliore aresaid to bc 238person in Adrián tast 70 years of age. The Evart milis are cutting elm lumber 'or the California market. A tornado passed north of Battle Creek, Sunday, doing much damage. Bay City annually votes $1,200 to be raisd by tax for its public library. Jos. Gagnon was instaptly killed at East 'awas, Oot. 2d, by a falling tree. Eaton Kapids had a terrino hail storm ast Saturday. So did Grass Lake. A litllu 2 years old child drowned in an open cistern at Muskegon, Oct. 6th. i-Jood winter varietics of apples bring 'rom fiU to 80 cents per barrel at Decatur. Scventy six applioations for divorcc in the hand Ripids oourts witliin thrce months. Mt. Clemens is to be taxcd for $9,350 hi.syear- $f,000 of which goes for bridges. An Ontonagon county granger has raised a pumpkin S fcet 7} inches in circuinference. At the central Mich. fair, at Lansing, .livingston co. carried off the most premiums. lu Armada, Macomb eounty, the apple rees are breakiogdown beneatli theirload.s of fruit. Judge Dyckman, of Kalamazoo, sold 1,000 bushels of apples from four acres of orchard. Claro Co. 's agricultural intcrests are not quite forward enoogb yet to make a fair successful. Ex-Gov. Baglcy is one of the vice-presidents of the Unitarian conference for the ensuing year. Upper peninsula papers affect to believe fhere il to ba ¦ rise iogooda manufaetured trom copper, soon. The Oceana County Journal speaks of a place in Hart, asbeinga " nursery of Iiell." Botter "shoot it." Wtu. [Jpbart, 15 years old, was recently found guilty or kiii;nf, vn Young last winter, in Cass county. The Prosbyterian synodof Michigan is to be held at the Ist Presbyterian church of Detroit, Oct. llth-15th. Bishop Gillespie designs issuing a nionthly paper devoted to theinterestsof the western diocese of Michigan. The Seventh-day Adventists are holding their general conference and national campmeeting at Battle Creek. Doremus Aiken, who shot and killed policeman Lyon, at Adrián last spring, has been oonvieted of manslaughter. place at Detroit this week. Every five ycars it is required in that city. About 20 miles of the Detroit & Mar quette Railroad have been coiapleted anc trains are now running on the same. Street lamps will soon shine for belatec Bis; Rapidites, and her children are to have a new $12,000 school house, too. The Cass County agricultural society has revived, woke up, had a grand show, paic its debts, and crows lustily over the same. About a dozen Baptists at Beaver Lake, Ogemaw county, have organized a chureh society. They have a flourishing Sunday school. The central fair authorities at Lansing had several offers of $500 each for ganiblinj, and lager beer selling privileges, but refus ed them all. A horse being driven by Hon. Jaiucs M Turner, was struck by lightning and instaDt ly killed at Lansing Sunday, during a severo thunder storm. The grand stand at Ludington, feil during one of the " agricultural hoss trots " of the Mason county fair held rccently, and sev eral were injured. John Hall of Henrictta, Jackson county has raised 6,000 bushels of potatoes on 3; acres of land this season. He has been of fered $1,800 for the erop. A boiler explosión oceurred at Pitts S Cranage's mili, Bay City, on the morning of Oct." 2d. Two lives were lost and $8,000 worth of property destroyed. There is a rumor to the effect that the an tisecret-society people have a state ticket If so, why don't they let the people know it? Don't be so secret about it. Miss Ettie Gray of (írosse Isle, a young lady of considerable literary attainments has been chocen superintendent of sohools for the townsliip of Monguagon. Slawson, Michigan's billiard player, bea Schaffer in a match game atTammany hall N. Y., Monday, tbc stakes being $1,000 and the American championship. Most every one feels that the noiuination of the Ilon. Henry W. Lord, by the repub licans in the first district, for congressiona honors, is an excellent selection. The Grand Trunk railroad draw bridg over the Black river at Port Huron, wa open for the first timo in two years to let a boat through, one day last week. The fourteenth annual uomuiunication o the grand chapter, Order of Kastern Star State of Michigan, will be held at Leslie coninienning Octobor 13, at noon. Thi organization is the "side degree" for ladies in masonry. Judge Browii says that thu temperanco movements of the past few years have great ly decreased the criminal business of hi oourt in Muskegon county - Big Kapid Currcnt. From all sections of tbc stato comes grat ifjinc reports of the progress of the cam paign. Republican speakers are every whore greeted with fuli houses and enthu siastic auditors. Geo. W. Justiee, of this place, bruugh iuto our offico Tucsday a igreat curiosity re sulting from the growth of a California cu cumber, 4 ('eet 4A inches long, and coile( liko a Fiiakc- Hart Journal. Jas. 11. Brown, of Big llapids has suei the C K. & I. It. 11. Co., for $20,000 dam ages on account of' injuries received by him while acting :is brakesman, Nov. 22, 1876 lic was run over by a freight train. With the hcaviest preacher and heavie.jirinter to be found in any town of its siz in the state, Decatur ought to get along awhile yet. Sinncrs ought to become scarc and good people botter. - Pecatur Repu) lican. During the luonth uf July certain or ohards, vineywda, etc, near Monroe wcr Stripped Of fruit by a severe hail storm tiooa which nature ha.s been trying to mat up for the loss, and twigs loaded with half grown, second erop applus from the tree above alludcd to are shown. Harry llayward, on his way from th Saginaw circuit courl to (lic state prison a Jaokson, to serve out a ten year's sentenc for compelling a young girl to marry him against her wishes, escaped from the .shcri recently, by jumping from the cars throug the closet window, whilo the train was i mation.

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