State Siftings

A wheelbarrow factory is to -i imiiiititIv lócate at Adrián. The Morenci cheeae t'nitorv lias 'cheesed it" for want of niilk. Galesburg has but oiie saloon now. She iimmI to have eleven. The liquor taxes paid in Macomb cimnty BO fr RHXlllllt to $."., An agrien I tural society has been organiril In Muskegon county. Blg Rapids wlll icbuild her dam taken away bj the spring floxls. A ín- aml BtraDge iliscüsc g tak'mg off tlic ifatep almut Kerd ( ty. A driven well onlv H tivt .icep ÉMTI oval llie top, atJUttte I' reek. Pearl is the líame of ¦ mi pustoílice Mtablifhed Id Allegan oountj. Ttae tute archery hraroMMOl will be held in nste:uí Of Sejitember. las. Larkiu, of Traverse City is held for ti-ial on a couiiti-rfcit inoiu'v (ÍHt Montcalm county has liad ber popalatton increased by a colony ot over 100 üaiic-. During the month of April tlu-re were 90,433 barrels of salt in.-pcctfd in tli wtat, A Sanitaiy assotiation which wurks by triad, has been organized at Grand Kapids. Brighton's treasury ha been benetitcd $1,000 worth by the saloon tax this spring. Tlif Oazette ints a town hall, and a ltrick OD at that, erected at North Hranch. The W. C. T. 0. will hold itsSth aniuial conveution in Kast Satinan-, June 7. B and '.(. Tlie Mayor of (iiand Kapids has been vetoing the licen.se of bad cbaraotered b&UM. - voi 'o., BB t'ncle Saín h:is cut it ofl Jiic ¦MI rU. Gras-s Lüki-, liaviiijíso voud. will expemJ $1,500 ou a town hall. It wtiu'l be a v rv bij; haul. Rev. L. Kirtley, formerly of Wxdford, N. Y., is to preach for tlie .lackson Haptists liereafter. The Howell village eouncil quarantines familie M.arlet breaks out in their ranks. The Germán Lntheians at Adrián have purchased a lot on whiili they ill eivit a school house. A Detroit architect has been awarded llie contract of erecting the capítol building at Austin, Te. The delinquent taxes in Gratiot couutv. for 1880, are returncd at (c,ltv:.l. by her township treasurers. The Catholics talkof dividing the iliocese wUich now ncludes the wholcot thU state, and making two thereof. J. H. Grahatn A Co. 's s:iv niill, at Bcnt"n üarbor, burned oa the (tb inst., loss $4,000, insurance $3,000. Ex-Governor Croswell is to deliver the addrets at the June meeting of the Mo'"iu-i iirrw'nlfiirul amlty. Lieut Gov. Crosby has leen presented with an ebonv cañe with a gold head, by the inenibers of the senate. Safe of the postofliec and store of G. W. Btewart, at Morley, blown open and 75O in money and staraps taken. The Presbyterians, of ('aro, have built and furnished a f 2,500 church ediricc, the past year, besides iayinij thi-ir iiastor. A compaiiy has been organized at Stanton to manufacture folüing ladders ( n wllich the nienitMTs tocliinb to c;iltli. The ti reinen liad a good time at their recent animal eonVMOM at K.alama00, and resolved to nieet nexl yearat Jackson. Helen DufT, ot Owosso, but ten yean oíd, 8 to compete in the cornet eonl Lausln, during the coming band tournanient The extensión of the Columbus and Toledo R. K. to Detroit will be opposed by the M. C. and M. S. K. R'i, as usual, it is ¦tetad. Two prisoners, confined in the Moaroe jai!, dug throngh a stone wall andescaped, on the !Hli inst., but were immediatelv ijitured The Livingston CO. itgncuUural ,oclety ai-e lo pul op an engine and line of ghafting for their machinery exhibits thls fall. A good idea. The Dowagiae people are indignant over the way in which some of the Dowaglac youiijf ladies are written up for a Detroit -o iety paper. 'linton, in Lmu.i mmatjr. i m .- c .ption to the general grumblè. Wheat U sald to be all right tliere, and prospecta for a fair erop excellent. The Ontonagon Miner advises everybody t" ruine and lócate in that county, that is if thev are in search of good homes and goxl hcalth, and riches. Oeo. H. Brooks, formerly with (ieo. M. Dewey, mi the Hafttnn Bannei-, hM been ftppointed postal clerk, and runs bei (liveland and Chicago. Attoruey General Van Riper gives it as liis opinión that driiraists cannot be compelled to give the $2,000 pólice boud, but only the $.'00 druggists' bond. A laimor ot' Eagle townstiip, Clinton county. bad Jl shcep killed by dogs the other nitflit, and prest-uted a bilí of $120 to the owner of the dogs therefor. The hands on Iha NOrtliwtsiri n Onrad Tnink tbink tln-v doeiTB KTeSteT )ay, and have appolnted a commlttee t Interview the offl als. lookiujr to llmt end. Isaac Osol pot a board felice lifteen ti-et blgh, betweeo Ui bouae aad tliat of bis nelgbbor, W.i. Armstronr, ai Jacksoc, and latter sut-s Osgood therefor. H U -lated tliat Uncle Lather Beechtr, "i Detroit, defendanl in 153 caaes in the Wayne clrcull conrt. Aud still lie hatime to batch inmiensc hotel projects. Tbrouffa tbc ellbrti of Be w. h. Shier, the home Of the lale {r. .) . 'iie.llv, at Ailrian, biis Úeen i'teeil t"r ¦111 au eiiruinbianc-.-, fol the benefit ot bil fainily. Ilou-e cleaiüag time ihoold be nnidt' a legal boliday, and serricei iboold ! beid in all the elnirebes tor the apiritual uelt'are ottho.-.e irhoare moving.- Berrieo Spriugs Era. The Jaekson, Lansin; , Sainaw R. K. Co. dispo.-ed of 47. i j t aerw ot laad Uu yi-ar, at au INM ot lt)li pr iele. The eompaiiy still bas on hand 406,881 irn-The N annual ronvention of Sabbatb SCbool bas brc-ii in Mv-sion. al .laekson, lor three daTl durthg thlfl i'.-k. in the ConjrregHtional chureh, OOUimenciil' la.-t Tuesdiv. The l'o-t and TrtbUDe bat been joint thiougfa the aironif ot a itrlke the pa-t weck, hihI in the eihlion o Im) TiM-Mlay tliat paper inikeg a MM neve.r to MBptoya unión jiriuter tgtim Trutli is aain cbipper hiuI hoarty. Bhe bai !¦--. ii t ly been recetring presentí from England aud invitatioiis to oome over Hiere and leclure. repüet that ihe has Qo time. 14,490 pouniU ot tab wen brought Into port Tueeday by lUhlng Beet. 'l'his is an "nalnh," prubably tlie b in the InMon ot the btliog inlu-lrv at Ibl polllt. - 81 .(o Ilepllbllcan A SUlsdale county fanner plowed up a et of jfold In hta Beid, reihtng a eoiiple ot OUncet or so, tlie other day, and nou vUIoni oi boge bank aoeoonta, gtwul palaces, etc, tlit turoogb bis visión. The wbeat erop in tliis scetion 11 c tlng on iplendidly tlnoe tbc late rains. ;, pe:ially is tliis so in protected plaitt-, ulure it has not become winter killed. The liscouraing reports are only abeul h ilf true. - Holly dv -rtiscr. The following epitaph was taken f'rom I grave gtone in a ceinetery near Kalaniazoo: 8hed uot the tear for Slnion Kuggle; Kor lid to lilm wiui ii coiiNtnnl ntnimcli'; He preferred the tuniii and deatli'H dark gute To niuiíHKiiiK mortgagpd real minie The iiiiehanan papers -tale that the ric tin of' a pooi ridwalk. who was swarded $3,000 by a jury. didn't bivak lier lef al all, bul merely peeled ¦ Uttle skin off her shiii Had a limb been hrokfii the would probaldv have goae unrewarded. n l:;jh:iin C... paiiH'i (lied i few d:ivs ago. a (act, Uut stranger still a pune ound among his eilecti oonfatmlng A ml -til] titranger the moiicv waa turned over to the coimty treüsim'r and placed to tliu eMdfl ui Uiocoiinty. The Wcxfnrd boani of supervisors tlon't leem to takO Idndly t the nauMng i the ooaoty seat from Sherman to Manion.w hiiii the people roted to do by ld to 1. TInsaid board want Cadillac to have the county cap tal and have directed the prlaoneTO removed thereto teroporarfly, and the county s.at oeatioo ajrdin rolad apon next ipring. Lymaa H. Cady, i farmer livinr near Coopenrille, was murdered by Lambertua Voskamp, a Pnwtan who had rorked for hiti) for the past uineteen years. The trouble seems to have arisen over the pay of Voskamp, who claims to have ut, -il ii telf-defenae. The mob had a rope around OM murd.-rs neek at (MM time. The offlcris, untortiinately, got him away ironi thein and landed him in jail. The Nili-s Hepublicau (Iemands largor ehurch bells that the boys who play base tmll there on the Babbatb mar baar them. lbo e boy need a dtSerent kind ut a rin" froin tbal of a bell. The old man shoul.l ret hold of their collar with olie hand, witha "gad" in the other. aml iiu4..tlMl winiiftvc any effect. In the tleatli of the Ilon. liandoipb Stricklaiul, at liattle ('reek, Thursday ol last wiek. the .-tate loss a eiti.en who hafilled varlous poaltiona of note, lie :ii born February 4, lttt) In Doverville, New Volk; removed to Michigan and taii({hl school inlngham eountv, In 144: was admitted to the bar in 184; in 170 began practhse In DeWltt. Jfe was elected pi enting attoniev of Clinton eoiinty foor 'Mielnted state senator in IWH ; was L'niled States provot mar-lial in ltitW; elected to congress in 1868, and served OM term He bal tir a DHQlbef Ot yeurbeen a resident of St. Joln