State Siftings

Big Rapids has been quite excltod over dlptheriá. About 15,000,000 fcct at togl hung lip in Rltys river. Two men n Buchanan ivmi'l fooi wlth tov pistuls any more The Buy City Catholica are to have a ni'w 30,wO chnrch ediflce. There are 83,000 aeres ui' RtatuIlDg plne vet lelt in Montealm oounty. Beckett's circus went to pieoef, buated, :it .Malino City, on the 8tb inst. An interest in tlie Tecumaeh Herald lias been purchased by Geo. N. Stacy. Some 200 shade trees in and about Hoiiici- were deatroyed l y a wind storm. Wheat is a much botter erop than waa expeeted, is the word all over tlie state. A new f 14,000 school house is rapidly approaching completion at Blf llapids. A new lodge of G. A. Il has been organied at Ruchunaii, with ;!7 membera. Frank Slansell, a hul at liradford station, s(iol liis eye out on the th wlth n tby pitol. Tho Edison électric light eompany has been orgMized ut Jackson, wlth ii capital stock of $100,01(0. Dr. John Willelt, :i l'ornier niemhcr ¦ t tbe legUlature, died at iii lionie In Plint, recent ly, oí paralysis. 'l'he ulticc ot' gnperintendeht of state prupcriy will heabollshed after .luly 81, by Uic atatë board of audibore. Frederiek I!. l,ow, a yoUng lawyer of Detroit, was found upad in Uii bed Oitfl day last weck. Siipposcd suicide. 'l'he F. & V. M. i:. B. Co, is building a urn1 denol ut Kast, Saginaw. Ii is to !¦ 286 by 45 teet, and wUl coat $76,00: Ou the farm of Jerry Marvin, near .laekson, a 28-lnch vcin of coal has been strtick, and ;i shul't will soon lie snnk. M. Il Allardt, of Port Ilnroii, bas eoiltraeted for 800,000 BCTêS OÍ land in Ka-t 'l'eunessee, which It is propoaed to colonZC. All the Sunday schools of Thrce Kivers will Join in a general excursión to Diamond l.akc on the '2'ii inst. A grand time la pci-lcd. A report was telegnaphed over the state tliat the wreek of the ill-fatcd Alpenu bad been found, hut later inforniation denies the statement. The englriè house of the P. & P. M. R. R., at Reed City, was burned Mnmlay, catohlng on lire from fireorackers, it is stated. Loss, $15,000. The state military board ure to roocive proposnls lbr 800 dreaa, uniform. It la aliO stated that six new companics are to be added to the state troops. The saw dust from the milis at iCuskegon caught fire some ten days ago, and several acres were lmrned over, ilestruyinj; aevcrnl liouscs and other buildings. The Ilon. Mark S. ürewer, of Pontiae, bas been appointi'd consul general at l'.crlin. It wus poe of the last official acts of President Garlleld before be was shot. The priee of land at Point St. Lrnace and at Marquette has jumpcd up at a lively rate. The certain eompletion of the M.iiquette and Slackinac R. R. is the cause. The Otsego and Crftwford county improvement company have liled articles of :isociations, the object beino; to iniprove the QavhzatloD of the Au Sable river and Big Creek. Capital stock, $50,000. Reed City ia putting forth every elVoit jiossilile to secure the location of tlie new insaiie asylum. Provtdtng a stream or lake is near to próvido sutHeicnt water supjily, the location would be a grand one. The Kalaniazoo eolored band wliieh went to South Haven on the llh. and ot cruelly beaten and forced to fice by secret passages in the blarkness of nlght, are Ier rililv tiercé In their denuneiation of the South Havenites, while the latter sav their story is exaggerated. The lsl National bank i)t' St Jonnph imu rotirca riwni business as a íiutional bank, and reorganized nnder the Mate law, The reason torso doing la because of the lOW rate of interest of governnunit bonds ::' . ]ier c-i'iil. - :mcl the taxation ol the li:ink stock, ivhinh renden private and state banking more prolitable. Bluok walnut is etting so acaree tliat its place must. aoon Ikí taken by other woods. ft is probable that máplé, oak and ash will be used to a raneta greatef extent (han In ntofore in Oabinet work. Tlict maple forests of nortliern Michigan are dally growinfi more valuable, and land will not UOH sell at the present low ratea, Th Is item.l'roni the Three lüver Tribuno, will be of interest to bee keepers : "II. V. VVhitinan, of this townslnp, began the winter with six swanns of hees, aml all luit one swarm died before spring. The one which lived over was a Btronjí and karge eolony, and the owner bega to divide theiii severa] weeks airo, and by a eareful system of swarmiii": has now succcedeil in OnakiBg six swainis out of one." The coniinissioiieis nppointed to niake au exhihition of Michigan fniils at the Boston meeting of the American pomolocioal Bocièty, have Qrganlzod bychooetng T. I'. I.yon, of South Haven, president; Prof. W. .). Beal, of Lanslng, seen-tury. and W. K. (iibson, of Jaekson, Snanclal agent. Fruit for exhibition must he sent to Lansíiil.', where it will be asaprted aml Bfatpped to Boston by Mr. Lyon, by Sept. 18. Dr. D. W. BtbS, the Washington physiclan who bas charge oí the Presidenfa case, comnicneed bis practiei' in ftflchlgan, having removed lo lonia soon aftiT graduating trom the Cleveland Medical College in 1840. He was for some yáárs 'm GFran I Kapids. aml ramahied there anttl he removed to Detroit, just hefore the breaking out of the war. He was married in Detroit n 1848 to .Miss Ducharme. At the beginning of the rebellion he was commlssioned surgeon of the Tliird Michiiran volunteers. - [I'ost and Tribune. We undei-stand that the Chicago &¦ Weet Michigan railroad conipauy is fuiulin its bonded indebtedness by issuing new mortgage bonds to the ainount of $12,000 per niile of ils road, and that alter straightentflg up all debts it will build a short line in the sonthern part of the state, which will give t connection with several Other inads running east and SOUth, when it will bc in shape to mate himber ahippins (ro4n western Michigan cceediiigly 1 i vel '. The eompany will alao exlend its line trom this city iiprlverwards and thns open up a new himber Beid. General Manager Kiniliall uasin the city lasi Wedoeiday, n consul talion with (cneral Manager Mulliken, o!' the Detroit, Lanaing x Northern, and we understand that the erossing of the river liere was coMldered by tin-m. - [Big Kapids Currcnt. Tbr new game law, as rccentlv passeil by the legisl-.ture, reduces tbc deer klillng seaaon to October and Novepnber, Instead of September 15 to December 15, niakes the leual scason uiiilorm iu both peuinsulas, makea it a misilemeanor to kill deer iu the red or spotled coat or for the hldea at anv linie, aml makes the pos-c-sion of hides n tbc lid ir spotted coat prima lacia evidenee ot guilt; prohiliits killing dear in the water ol auy poiuK. lakes or atreama iu the stal e; prohibí Is kill ng prairie cl dekens until September i, I8w; iake Octo her trom the legal ipiail season, permitling killing only iu Novcnilier and December; proliiliils killint; woodcock excepl, trom August i to Jaiinary i; permita bul five days in wliieh to transport game afler llie elosi' of th Muñe season, iiise:iil ot lilteen, and allows eighl days In which tosell.ii ixpoae for wie, nstead ol Sfu-en.