State Siftings

Cadillac is to haya ¦ park. Sclu)olcraft'3 spring fair was an immense ¦ suecess. Jacksou has ;i line of Herdic coaches in II prospect Tlie Jewell house at Vassar bas been solc I to Detroit partios. llillsdale has 23 limbs of the law and ten ¦ disciples of Esculapius. ai itowen, ou .iuuc zht, mu piuiiocm ui I Livingston county are to meet. The fearful eel stories, crowding fromall ¦ sidos, areterrorizingto the throniclers. The residents of Marcellus want snme¦ body to come there and start a newapaper. I Olivet is happy. She has had a college ¦ for a long time, and now she has a cheese II factory. I The pioueers of Lapeer county will teil 1 tlieir tales of early experiences at Hunter' I Cicck, June lOth. I A half bushei of gold coin was recently II dug up on the farm of A. Tlioriiton of Ste veusville, so report says. A Mrs. Croman of Calumet gave her baby c-trbolic acid instead of cough medicine. I and now she has no baby. Theo. S. Wilkins, of Saginaw. had all the I fintrersof his rijrlit haml BUI off at Mi-KwI u's mili, Hay 'ity, last Frida.v. I Tb Rotería U will be inanufaeturod at I Big K:ipiils oo :i big scale, or else some of I the Rapldani are ííim; us big wind. Gold has been found near Agogebie lake, I says the Ontonagon Mimi-, luit whether in I paying quantities or not II a qiwstion. The Detroit Post and Tribune luil.-i I '-look a leedle out," and nut ajell .Judge Tennant's name "Turnout" any more. Decoration Day was gcncrally observed I thronifhoul the state, nearly every city of I prominence havlng approprlate exeicises. At Detroit htst week Richard Butler was I convicted of robbing the grave of Jeremiah I B. Sullivan. on tliu night of January lïtli, I last. The Ogemaw Herald says that forest fires I totally destroyed the Crawford school house I ono mile and a half northwest of Slayton II postofflee. It Is stated that a Charlevoix man, after accidentally shootinr a boj'. charred the I dead boy's fatlier $1 tor making a coffin to II bury him in. The state board of agriculture has let I the contract for erecting the new buildings I at the agricultural college, the whole to I cost about $30,000. A Toledo firm has been awankil the conI tract for doing the plumbinr, water piping I and steam litting, on the girls' rcformatory II building at Adrián. rauy tnan at any other blndery In Mlohlgan The safe of H. D. Martin, of Vermontville, wascracked lastSunday morning, and $500 in currency and $800 in checks secured. About $500 worth of clothiug piled on and around the safe to deaden the sound was entirely ruined. The safe at the postoffice was also broken open the same morning and $200 in stamps and a registered letter stolen. Burglars numberod four and all escaped. The Detroit papers are quite naturally vcry indignant at their board of public ¦wm liu, linnn una tlmy will Hot Atum OO ui tlch as test a street sweeper, or a steam roller, or anything else necessary to keep the streets of that city clean and neat. These eitizens are the true representatives of tliut class of greedy old fogies. who hare kept Detroit back, and allowed rivals to outstrip lier in the race. A conservative clement in a place is a good thing, but when it is so conservative that it amounU to old fogylsm, then it is a curse, as it has been to Detroit for man v years. A brute of a father at Clyde township near Port Huron, named Eames, whipped liis little seven-years-olddaughterso that huge ndges completely covered her body, and ;hen compelled her to go to school. The teacher noticing her condition sent her to a neighborto have her wounds dressed, and cared for. A complaint was made out igainst the cruel father, and he was arrested. The public are very mnch excited over he matter. The brute ou;ht to be lashed the same as he lashed lus little helplcsschiUl. l'he cause of his angcr was simply because he little oue stopped tor a few minutes on ïerway to school, to play with a neigu)ors cliildren where her father was worknr, a thing she had frequeutlydonebefore without being reproved.