State Siftings

Charlotte bas s ühooting caite on liaml. 1'üDtiac enjoyed a flood to a limited extent last Sunday. The oldest man in Lenawee county, David Smith, died Feb. I9th, aged 95. The name of Hoe island, :n Traverse bay, has been changud by logislature. The grand council of the Royal Aroanum have been in session at l'lint ihis wcok. The Muskegnn circuit court docket has libel suits pending which foot up to $65,(li 10. The exauiination of the peach buds, sayR the Allegan Journal, finds them nearly all alive. About half the atables on the fair grounds at Cassopolis were dostroyed by fire last Monday. It is now intended to hold thé gathcring of ex prisoners of war at Detroit some time next (all. The 8aw mili of Larkins & Lamlonnann, at Traverse City, burned on the 25th uit. Ivoss, $1,000. lolin L. Frisbee, of this state, now ennsul at Rio Grande, has been appointcl 1'. S. cohhuI at Rheims. Kalamazno people gave the Courtland buggy company a bonus of f 5,000 too.-.ta!.lish their works there. The St. Ignace papers cali upon the people to keep the water lióles in tho ice open on account of fire. Mr. Hannah üould, the motherofthe n'rst white child born in Saranao, died on the l'.ttn uit., aged 7S vears. T, j :' _ .11 ig more soliu tban ever belore, teams oross ing with immense load daily. And still the war is waged- through the newspapers - in Detroit, over the low theatres, and other dens of vice. A Hule six-years-old boy at Mawn had his leg broken by trying to ' 'catch on bobs' ' the other day. Buys, don't do it. The Macomb county supervisors are to submit a proposition to the people this spring to build a $10,000 county jail. The Schoolcraft agricultural society announces a spring meeting for May 24-7 inclusive. More agricultural hoss trots. Mrs. Barnard, connected with the Lapeer traeedy, was admitted to bail last Friday, in the sum of $15,000, by Judge Turner. The Allegan Tribune says, that farmers about tbere don't think wheat injured wuch by the recent tbaw and high water. A rifle which Angus Linie, of Grand Haven, discharged at a flock of ducks lastMonday, burst, inflicting fatal injuries. Ou Thnm. VVWhl.. 1.._ L..r, „f Fenton, will bo pretty well whittled up, if all the ratta pending are decided against him. Reports from the upper península indicate that tbe lumbering operations are more eztensive than ever before known in that sectioD. Wm. Petrie, of Grand Rapids, a few days niñee had a rifle ball taken from his arm, which had been there ever since the battle of South Mountain. I. N. Ferguson,' of Coopersville, Ottaway county, wants a traant son to come back home, or make his whereabouts known so he can give him some clothes. Thirteen towns and cities in Michigan, representing an aggregate population of 279.409, have a total bonded debt of t.r,1(W,775, that being $18.29 per capita. Three new propellors are nearly ready for launching from the Bay Uity ship yards. One will carry 50,000 bushels of grain ; ono 00,000 ; and another is for the sbore trade. The house of Rev. E. Dawe, of Deerfield, burned while he was absent attendingadonation party lor his.'benefit. Whether the donation balanced the los.s was not MM. Alpena claims to clean out the country on the excellence of its water works. " lts waUïr is pure, clean, and tasteless." It can't come from those horrid edlphur springs, then. The Tecumseh schools celébrate the birthday of sorae standard author at various times during the school year, which enlightens the scholars respecting authors and literature in a very pleasing manncr. The work of clearing up from the flood at Monroe progresses, but the Commercial says Front street from the lakeshore to the residenoe of E. P. Campbell is still filled with ice from side to side to the depth of seven or eight feet. The people who endeavored to get possession of the marsheg around Monroe, for the purpose of exclading the public frorn duck shooting, havegone to their homes in sorrow. Uncle Sara it seem?, owns them and he won't rent them. The Michigan pipe line company has oontraoted to run a pipe from the salt wells of Kast Tawas to the milis of Oscoda, to Hupply the latter with sufficient brine from whiüh to make 1,000 barrels of salt per day, for a period of ten years. The dintanee between the two places is Ifij milef. One of the tax title individuáis got mad at somcthiiig the Free Press publisbed about him, and about the tax-title business as a general thing, and has sued that japrr for _ libel, placing damages at $10,000. Let's see. It seems as though we had heard of a few other libel suits against papers. Never remetnber to have heard of a judguient of any account, thoiiirh. There is a meaanrc beforeour legislature to appropriate $50,000 to defray the ex penses ot making a proper apd f uil exhibit of Michigan ia the world's fair to be held in New Y ark in 1883. Which is a good deal of money but still it may pay to place before the natioos of the earth Michigan as it is, witli its unrivaled educational institutions, salt, piaster, lamber, fishery, aericulture, minina, and railrod int, Michigan wilt make no man nor ineager show at the world's exhibition if the exhibit is properly cared for. The Monroe Commercial lias this to say: Last Saturday L-ose & Son recived a car load of clover seed. from Toledo, which had been wet by the high water. The seed is swollcn to three or tour times its natural size and nearly half of the graing have sprouted more or less. It has also lost almost all of' its color and when it comes out of the dryer it is of a rusty brown color. Two car loads of this seed, containing over two thousand bushels were received, aod Work was at once MXDIM on Saturday, running night and day, Suoday included. The Middleville, St. Jo. Co., Republican man, tells the following story without even tinking to himself : " While James Williams was sawing ties at C. C. Mason'B saw mili last Munday night he heard the aw grate against sonue hard substance io the log and upon examination found ¦ knife eubedded in the wood. To all appearances the knife - a comaion jack-knitë -had, niany years ago, been stuck into the tree and left, and the wood had grown around it completely embedding it, the end of the handle betng about three inehes insili' ut the bark. Jim savs that ihe initiilsof John Martin and V. H. Severanoe, were found upou the knife, leaviug no dimbt in his mind that they lost it while Martin was wheeling dirt to build the isand in theriver above the village. "