State Siftings

Lexington has the salt boring fever. Pnltor. Marshall does need more grain elevator fariüties. Harrisville has petitioned to Congress for a harbor of refuge. At Iludson, March 12th, Simeón Van Akin, aged 91 ycars, died. An electric fire alarm system is being put in at Evart. Koterprising. At Ludington 2.000,000 white fish fry have been plantod in Lake Michigan. The greenbackers of Grand Ledge electpil thiúr entire ticket at the recent charter eleotionc Vienna. Genessee Co., has a new cheese factory. Vienna peofite will now be able to cheese it. O.coda wants to be a oounty all by herself, and the legislatura looks approvingly upon the project. Tho M. (J. II. R. proposes to expend $150,000 on its awitching and stock yard at Detroit this seasoo. At Rodney, Mecosta Co., a vein of coil 18 indien thick has been struck. That's encouraging for spring news. Somebody up at Glen Arbor is killing deer eontrary to law. It may cost thero pretty dear to doe such business. Henry W. Lord, M. C, will live at 0B3 Kast Capitol streef, Washington, I). C, during the congressional session?. A saw mili boiler exploded at Dundee on the lOth inst., killing John Smitli, aged 22, but not even touching aoyone else. The Evening News terms a certain greenback orator - supposed to be Dick Trevellick- the "Wild Assoftlie Prairies." Hon. V. P. Collier has been appointed receiver of the famous Perrio estáte, which seems to please both sides in the fiueation. A new railroad is projected, being a branchof ttie Flint & Ferre Marquette, froin Farwell or Evart to Cadillac. Prospect favorable. Snow drifts from the laat storm were so high that boys climbing to the top of them eould hang their hits on the telegraph polls, llow high ish dot ? E. C. Nichols, of Battle Creek, recently appoioted a trustee of' the Kalamazoo asylum for the insane, has resigned because of pressure of private business. A Detroit repairer say8 that ladies never break a door bell, but that book agenta and boys are the individuáis who keep them employed. Always thought so. The Adrián car shops fiad their present quarters and facilities too small to supply the deinands of their business, and are to build an addilion 45x75 feet. TheGrass Lake tamarack swamps are being turned to wealth. The farmers out the timber into four-foot lengths and sell them to the Jackson mines for props. The Ohio, Indiana and Michigan State fairs, together with the northern Indiana and the Toledo tri state fair, have "jined" hands, and are now one " circuit." Jackson will at last, it is thought, have a street railway, a company having been formed with $;W,000 capital, to build the road. It will start uut with tour cars. The tile and farm drainage people of tlia state have been holding a convention at Jackson this week. Many subjects of great interest to farmers were under discussion. "NoDrouths! No Grasshoppers ! No Büzzards ! " is theway northern Michigan real estáte dealers head their circulare. And the beauty of the thing is they teil the truth. The republicans of the 7ih judicial district have nominatcd Hon. Oscar Adams forjudge. Unless the majority of people are mistaken, it is a most excellent nomination. The Adrián Times is waking up the people whose duty it is to report the marriages solemnized by them, to the county clerk. Tnat'sright. Some of these People all over the state need it. A contest for tho office of marshal at Huchanan, called out the largest vote ever polled in the place- 400- at the recent charter election. Little thinga cause great exer'ion some times. A tame bear owned in Lapeer Co., went to sleep this winter and slept 67 days continuously. If the human fámily could do likewise at will, howmuoh trouble, board bilis, clothes, etc, could bo sa ved. Muskegon is having built car and locomotive works of considerable extent. The compaoy lias a capital stook of $100,000, with Geo. C. Kimball president. The building under contract is to cover from 500 to 700 feet. The Detroit papers are havine quite a sensation over the arrest of Chas. K. Miller, a prominent democratie attorney, cbarged with being implicated in a swindling oase. The irapression seems to be that Miller ia not the man. (rand Traverse Herald : " In the hard timber on the high land west of town the fnow is over live feet doep on a level. O. E. Clark reporta it at nis place, southwest of town, four feet deep. It is four feet deep in the pineries. On the ica between this place and Northpurt it is four feet deep." William Vylieof the firni of Vylie Bros., of Kast Saginaw, committed suicide'reoently, by shooting himself through the head. There were no reasons assigned for the rash act. He was a young man about 37 years of age and in good financial standing. He leaves a son sil years of age, his wife hav ing died some four years since. The workmen, in taking down the walls of the high school building at Kalamazoo, found them to be the mereet gham, the nontractors haviog stuff cd all sorts of rubbish in to 611 up with. What sort of a committee could have had charge of that building when t was erected ? Two new school buildings are (o be erected in the place of this ono, we understand, and it is altogetber probable that thia satoe .-wincile will not be repeated. This winter has been without precedent for the number of days of good sleighing. In the winter of 1842-3 leighing held good for 10C days ; since that time there has not been as long a season, until the present. This wioter commeneed on October 14, and has oontinued almost uninterruptedly up to this time. We have already enjoyed 139 days of tirst cla-s deighhg, and by present appearances it is likely to continue almoítindetínitoly.- Caro (Tuscola county) Citiien. Boy City Tribune : "There is a possibility of the B. C, h. S. & A. R. R. company disbanding, as it is known that there was a company forroed in Detroit a short time ago, with a capital of $2,500,000, to build a broad nauge railroad from Bay City to Alpena, with the evident inteotion of continuinr it to tbc straits. The word success was written oo the very faoe of thi.j oomnanv, aa it consisis ot' tuch men as James MoMillan, Gen. R. A. Al(?er, Alian Sheldpn, C. II. Buhl, James F. Joy and othera of like stamp ; persons who are known a men of vaut means, strict integrity and great businesucapacity, and if they say they are going to build a road to Alpena or the straits the people know they mean business, and will gladly dónate every dollar they can spare to assist them."