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State Siftings

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Day
29
Month
July
Year
1881
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Public Domain
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Cadillac claims 3,000 human noses. Cheboygan experta to salt 'cm down. Traverse City shipa frogi to Cincinnati. Bad Axe, Hurón county is tohave a ncw jall. St. ('lair purchased 300,000 poundsof wool. Soionrner Truth is to ipeak at Bay Citv ¦'" lat. J 3' 500 hands are employed in the railway machine lltopl at Jaoksoi), Coolbnugh Créele, Newaygo countv is proponed lor a state fisli hatebery. The6th and 22dvol. i n ft. veis., are to meet on Aujrust 31st, at Mt. Clemcns. New Buirulo advertises for bids to build 300 feet of pier on the douth side of lier harbor. Oneíf Barnum's circus men was killed by. the urs at Kalamazoo last Fridav ülght A crar manufactory, with $10,000 capital, Sturgls. Tbe product win all beburned op. Kesidents of Ueading would like a ood ífrist mili and a man witb capital to buy u licat. Hou. E. C. Watkins starts oT In goml Bhape as warden of the [onla house of' correctlon. In CaH connly wlicn thfl yicld of whent reaches is basbela to Un aere, it is oonaldereil rood. aorto nrancn, tpeer cnunty, la anx iousiy eyeing goma rallroad wíiích polnti tow.inls it. A oew Lodgeof Knlghta of Pytblaa lias been Instituted ut Kaanrille, Orno Strong belag the cliief mover. .luim Lawson, of (icnoii, fouod 24 of hia Qne-wooled glieep dead under a tree in bis matura ana das laal u.wLThebarn ofJohn Bttrnett, nearPokagon, tras strnck by liílitninr and bu raed one il:iy last week. Loss, $-2,000. Ho wel I people are trylng to inaugúrate a movement looking to the ereotion of a pulilic vaiill In tlirir ccinctery. Sonic of tho fruit In tlie pacli orchards aboüt South Haven lias to be tblnned out, the trees are so overloaded. Good news : With the large and extremely tough clieek wliich the average Adrianite possesses, it costs hiiu only a uickle to get sbaved. The big Sagiiiaw fire loss foots up at $175,000, and was caused by a man emptying his pipe on dry saw dust, tlie blockhcail. The St. Clair Mineral Sprints Co. are to put op a liath boute 88x100 feet, baving 30 lath r 19 lillcd up in Che highest style of the art. On tbe Tascóla and Hurón narrow cauge railroad, between East Bagtnaw and Keese, about 200 nien and teams are making tbe dirt Hy. , b Abifí fireat l'prt.. Qx0Ai lWi „fevtes part of the town, entailing a loss of $30,000 and upwards. A siugle stroke of liglitnins killed four luirse-! betongteg to Samuel HeM, while standing in the pasture nuar Caasopolis, one ilay last week. Clifl'ord S. Walton, of Bay City, has passed thecompetitiveexaniination hi'ld atEast 8ifrnaw recently, and wflJ reccive an appointtuunt to West l'oint. The subscribers to the band tournament futid will have $83 divided among tbein, wliich is the ainount the committee has on hand after paying all expenses. The committee appointed by tlie governortovisit the Michigan military aeademy, has made its report. It speaks in tlie very highest terms of the school. At last the strikers in the Jackson coal mines had to resume work at the owners terms. They were offered reasonable terms some time ago, butwould not accept. The state military board have decided to se ml slx companies of forty men each to Vinktiiwn, the men to furnish their own subsistence, and the companies to be select(xl by compeiitive drill. Oheboygan hasraised $25,000 witb which lt) llllt i l ' lo-o ntt ui .-r ii.i[-i 'UKs, Ene same to bc Cüinplcted by fall. Cheboy;r;iu ia booming beautifully, and thinka that l is deatined to beite town of northern Micliifan. Tlic superintendent of public instrtiction anBounoMSü teaefaera' inatítaiea tor Aug. Thoae adjoining tliis ('ounty are : Livingatpn, Howell, 4ug. 83-26: Hilladale, HHtodale, Ang. 39 Sept 2 ; Wavne. l'lymouth, Aug. 28-26. The conimoncouncil of Port lluron have raised the salaries of the following city offloers to Uu lunoantl given : city elerk, $1,000; chiof of pólice, $800; superintendent of public works, $050; oomptroller $800; trcasurer,$300; city physician, $150. Monroe bids fair to have a magnificent glasj factoiy. The proposed bnllóüng la to 5e 100x320 feet, two stories high ; costing About $50,000'; giving employment to 200 bands, wlth n pay roll of $10,000 per montli; md to manufacturé all kinds of glass wan' except window glass. There'a business for you. Ex-sheriff Townsend of Lapoer, was InJüred quite severely by having Kd. Woo.lrull', the register of deeda, fall against him whlleón n bicycle, n fewdayssince. Towns. ml bad jnst Kot out from á Ion": sickness, md was not uhle to snvc himself. Lapeer will undoubtudly relégate these reblóles to the streets, where they belong. Whilr at Midland laat week we ware shown a plan of the proposed iiew city, "Central City,'1 to be built upo the Chippewa river, above Midland. It was shown us by Dr. Buell, the proprietor of the schcine of building the city. The site is Buppoeed tobe nearly the center of the state, thiis- it's name, "Central City. It looks niceon paper. - Freeland Star. Jno. Kobertson, adjutant geaerali has issiK'd orden for the mastej-inginto the state service of the military company at Calumet, SoUgUOA oounty. Som e of the old compaoiet are unkind enough to think that they oiight to be fiirnislicil wlth decent olothM befora any new aoldlera are taken Into the service. A tnllltla niau has a hard row to hoe in Michigan, eviileiitly. The Adrián military company will have notbing lodo willi the Yorkfown party. Likewise the Lansing, Kalamazoo, Tecum.-ch, Port lluron, 8 EUvert, andothera. The tso Detroii coa, and the Flint, Coldwater, G. Rápida, 1?. K.pids, Little Sag. Big 8ag. and fonroe co's feel rich enough tobuy their way, anil swallow the insult witii grub bought with thcir own innnry. Daring the preaent jear atz memben f the Michigan conference have dinl : ]{ev. M. I. Sniitli and Hev. Win. Hall of Union City; Ki-v. .1. V. Kobinson of Hllllardg] Wm. II. Perrlne, 1). 1)., of Albion; Hev. E.C. Chambera ofVlctory; Ber. Henry Worthington of Dowagiac. Alost or all of these men were old pau-larcha in the tninis tiy and bad done grand work in the ycars gone by. Tha üay City Cali publishesasa fact, for whieh it vouchesi, tlio statement that on Tueaday r last weck, [da May. daugbter of Ed. K. Mlller, barber at the corner of llamilton and Fnuikün atreeta, Safkiaw City, was rclieved of u live li.ard tive incbes in Icngth.and at least an incli in ciicninference al the largeil point. it was black cm the back, witb a tino longitudinal strlpe Of white on cacb sidc; belly a soit of snaky White, It had fonr lega, with sprawling elawa, bead likc a inake, and was, altogetber, abont as rcpulsivc a rePtile as ever took posaeaalon of a buman habitatlon. The Catl aaya it is now at Madlll'a droAatore preaerved in alcohol. Thechlld s not (pi te two yeára old.

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Ann Arbor Courier
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