State Siftings

The pink eye has reacued Mkllaml. 'l'lis Baptiats of Chësanlng aragoing to build a cliapei. The recent flres n Michigan destroyed twelve Baptist churrhes. In some sections of the State the farmen are complaining of potato rot. Adrian's water works are expected to sprout, take root and grow in the spring. ft has been decided to lend the HU Isdale boat club to Henley, England, next year. 'J'lie continued wet weather is C&Uglng eorn to sproui, in many parts of the Btate. 5,000 of the 6,000 emigrants that cnt.'ivd Port Huron iu September WUl Canadians. The taxes for Kalamazoo county are bigher by about $10,000 this year than lait. The ncw Roman Catholic churcli at Utico, will be dedicated on Sunday, November Oth. The Michigan Central'g Mackinac extensión was completed to Cheboygan on the 15th inst. Bishop Harris conseerated the new cbapel for the St. John's Mission, at Howell, on the 19th inst. It is reported that the hunters on thp Au Sable Kiver are shiupliteriiig from twenty to thirty deer a day. Slnce the strike began at Mnskegoo II is thonght tliat as many as 800 men left there for the lumber woods. Tnscola county paid $1,871 for tho pare of her insane at the State aaylnmi at Pontiac and Kalamazoo, last year. Booth and Jiarrett are reported to hare cleared $8,087 by the joint eotertalnmenl given in New York City in aid of the Ore sulVerers in this State. A son of the late Brijrliani Yoong by i'x nineteenth wife, Ann Klizu, nou Accuples thi' position of "devil" in the Qommooer office at Battle Creek.- Ex. Alonzo Hume, of Medina, stocked a 8mall pond on his farm with Germán carp, procured at Washington last year. They are now seven inches long. Mr. J. S. rhilbriek, a nurseryman near ilolly, has offered to give the tire sufferers several thousand apple trees, to be entrenched at the depot in Caro until naaded in the spring. At the recent State rille match at Jackson, Mr. Wolcot, a Democratie representativc from Jackson county to the State Legislature, won the Bagley prize for long range shooting. The circuit court calendar of Lenawee county, this term, shows a lower number of criminal cases thau it has for years previous, and stil! there is a chance there for home missionary work. A village has been recently started on the G. R. & I. Railroacl, about 100 miles north of Big Rapids. It Is called Wetzell. Pour months ago there was but a single house there, now there are eighteen with a store and a mili. By a vote of seven to tb ree the Board of Supervisors of Leelanaw county have deeided to eubmit the question of removal of the county scat from Northport to Leland to a vote of the people. The question has been voted down once. The shipments of iron ore from Escanaba this year aggregate 1,831,154 tons, 221,443 tons more than last year, of which excess 189,126 tons is in shipments from tliis port which are now 17,774 tons more than the total of last year's business. Col. N. DeLong, Prosecuting Attorney for Muskegon county, has been requeMeil by the Board of Supervisors to resign on the grounds that he encouraged the recent strike. Mr. DeLong refuses to do it, claiming that the board has noauthority to niake such request. _ There will be held on Nov. lOth at Lansing a competative examination of candidates for admission to West Point from the 6th Congressional District. The candidate must be between 17 and 21 years of age and will bo subjected to both physical and academical examination. Miss Sarah F. Smiley and Miss Morse, of New York, sent out to visit and report on the condition of the burnt district, are reported as holding Bible readings in connection with their labors In BUpplying tinwants of the sufferers. Miss Smiley hae gained quite a renutatiou bv her ublic 6iKi. .;„h, 1 1 1 rne i.:it. The Adrián Times says that the hitch in the arrangements between the Greal Western and the Wabash has been straightened out, and the G. W. wants its abare of the freight, and is ready to take care of it. In consequence a large amount of freight is being diverted from Toledo and the Lake Shore, and is now going to Detroit, and thencc easc over the Great Western. Long special freight trains go over the Wabash every day. Mayor J. E. Warner arrived home on Saturday last and passed a few days atnonjr his many friends in thc'.C'apitol City. He will remata a short time at Ann Arbor, wliere his fatnily is. November lst he will 8ail from New York on the Ariona for a three months' business trip to EunM where he goes in the interest of tlic grea) Harnurn show. He is already êiigaged to travel for that institution m'wt m ason.- Lansing Journal. Of those who partldpated In the lynching of a murderer at Menotnlnee, an exchange says: District Attorney Flannl'an has commenced proceedins against the ringleaders of the late lyncbing, and the jury summoned has heard tlie teatlniOBy, and from the factselicited decíded thal üve of thcni should be arnstcil. Tuim.í ih.nnmber were imnuMliatcly lucked op and the offleers are now in learch alter the others. This promptness on the part of the District Attorney is coinmciulalilc, and it is to be hoped that justice will be meeted out to those who paniejpated in tlu: late diabólica 1 and ungodly allair.