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Day
21
Month
January
Year
1881
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Public Domain
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Mendon upiraa to a village charter. There were 2,635 Imrials in Detroit lasl yesr. A Benton Ilarbor pail fartory employs 5Ü men. Th OMweigpitomJiato b we a new chareto at Kdmore. Hig tupida a i&dulgiog in a f15,000 school house. llowell ha? 4"0 pujsüs in atiéndame apoa her public schools. Eaton Rápida has appliel to the legNlat'irc lor a city charter. Vernon brags over a new railrnad bridge on the D., M. & G. il. Harry oounty liad 240 uiarriagc-i la.vt year, six less than n 1879. The IWroit duig houso of PrixeHe & ('" , has made an assigoment. The Sault 8t Marie Episooralian? ar I.) have a new house of worship. l'or the second time Ludington has closed ber schools because of dipbtheria. ïhey have been having heavy snow storms up ia the north woods receatly. .Bay City people are talking up the free aridge qaestion. A thing greatly to be desired. The Monroe light guardj? are to go to Washington to rltnen tfce inaugural coremonies. St. Meli'iis, Koscoiuniun county, ím to lave two now milla mk) 75 dweUings ereot¦il " at ooot," Marlette desirep to e iiicorporated 'i Vlllago, and Imvr ná pAHfroificë ïniuS .1 monoy order office. The supervisors ol' Barrimi Oonnty have extended the provisions ot' the .stock law over tlieir domain. liasting.s has trotted out au illicit diatilfry, and tlio proprietora (beroof have been rotted into durance vile. I lillsdalc has what she claims to be eme of the finest new depots ia the state. The M. S. & L. S. R. R., erected it. Pontiae, tiredof Edison's proniises, wants gas. Where'syournewspaners?- but thrn that kind don't burn - we forgot. Id order tu induce their people to attend church the papers ot' Bay City announce that "no coilection will be taken up." The peninsular car company at Adrián, is soon to doublé the number of hands, aDd to eraploy 400 when the works are enlarged. Sonic miserable .skuuk brokc into the Simpson M. E. Church, at Detroit reeently and atole a silver baptismal service and a bible. Sheep raisers all over the state are conspiring against the dogs. They want the legislature to enact n new law upon the subjeot. The Au Sable river grayling are to be . _ - . - -Uittil Ti;uh. _ -i . the coming season and extensively propagated, if' possible. The Michigan republican association of Washington has tendered a reoeption to Gov. Jerome and staff to take place March tM, at Washingtou. At Niles Wm. HatfielJ ha been senteoced 15 years at Jackson for burglary. If he had been accused of murder, now, he niight have compromised. East Saginaw want3 a new place to bury her dead. hhe wants 100 acres for the purpose. Well, they must have that much ground made there by this time. Lyons brags that she sends out more school teachers than any other village in be state. That's because the lambs seem o have a natural affinity for lions. A gentleman of Ovid has an amber cane yrup factory, in which he succeeded in naking 200 gallons from each acre of cane. Ie will go into it more extensively next ear. At the Reed City land office during Deember thare were entered 1.C40 acres uner the homestead act ; bought for cash, 02 acres; and final proof made of :;,HI eres. Mrs. Stone, of Boston, has added $20,)00 to the endowment fund of Olivet colege. Her heart evidently belied her name, 'or it certainly wasn't made of stone in this nstance. Mrs. Alice Williams, of Alpine township, Cent Co., in a fit of religious insanity, ried to cut her tongue out with a razor, ecently. She said it was a sacrifico de-, ïanded of her by the Lord. It has been decided in court that East aginaw doesn't own her cemetery at all, ind that all the silent sleepers there can e evicted by the township authorities of uena Vista if they choose to issue writs. The heirs of some of the persons who went down on the ill-fated Alpena propose ) enter suit against the Goodrich steamïip company, and have collected uiany otten pieces of timber to prove the vessel's nseaworthini'.M-i. The People ra. Lawrence, in tlie Adrián rooit, being the grand stand case, bas een decided in favor of the defendant. An acquittal. All the propleof that place eein to rejoice over it. It ought to U' a eason to other places, howcver. Troubles come in multitudes. Samuel 'ost, of Tuscola County, recently lost his louse and contenta by fire, and now an astern bank has failed, cheatiug him out f $6,000. This is a very serious loss and is stated nearly ruins him financially. A colored citizen at Pontiae was ejected 'rom a reserved seat for which he had paid t Unole Tom's cabin show, a few nights go. He had the proprietor arrested and ned $10, and now has had him arrestn] gain on a capias and sucs for daum Senator-elect Conger was given a grand eoeption by his old neighbors and fnends n his return to Port Huron last weck. And Detroit isawfuüy jealous. The latter ty wants to bo considered the New Jerualem of this country. - ütisville Telegram. The herculcau efl'ort of the papers and etter class of people of Detroit, to secure ie election of a different sort of a man as resident of tbe commoo council of that :ity, was not successful. Dr. Chas. Ewers eing reelected by a combination of democrats with his followers. Grand llapids papers protest against carrying patients having contagious diseases to pest house in hacks, and tben iaunediately thcreafter carrying passengere in the same conveyances. Right. There should be a special ambulanrc owncd by the city for that purpose. There used to be a cemetery where several of the residences of Battle Creek now stand, and supernatural noises now baunt that jocality, not allowinj; people to sleep, even in the day time. They are Icarning that portion of Shakespeare which refurs to the "goblins of spirits damned," etc. The Livingston County board of supervisors have subuiittvl a proposition to the people of that county respecting the erection of a new court house and jail. She needs them both had cnough, but the people of tbe county will probably want Howell to furnih all the inoney to build them with. A terriüc explosión of the boilers at the unión milis, Detroit, last week Thursday, rtsulted in tbe deatb of three men, the evere injury of everal othera, and the most entire destruction of the milis, amounting to many thousands of dollars.' The old and trusty engineer had been superseded by a new man, the paperstate. Pretty dcar economy. Vanderbuik is said to be the owner of 825,000,000 of Lake Shore and Michigan Southern stock, and Mr. D. O. Mills f5 - 000,000. About $8,000,000 are said to be held in Cleveland, O., le.ivinit $12,000,00.1 to be held elsewhere in the uoited 8Utm and abroad. When the books were closed lor the dividend, these are stated to have boen the eeneral Darticularaof tlinwnor. shij nf the stock.

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Ann Arbor Courier
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