Michigan

Two Keading men, assisted by two ferrets, killed 51 rabbits in one day. Much uneasiness at Kalamazoo on account of the prevalenee of searlet fever. John Wynne and George Ogtlen had an altercatlon at Essexville, Bay coüuty, which ended iu Wynne being terriblV stablied and Ogtlen going to jail. Harry Train and Fred Wilcox, of Owosso, have been arrestcd on a eharge of being eoneerned in the recent burglaries at that place and plcadcdguilty. They irere bonnd over to the circuit court. ïhey are botli roung rnon of about 19. Herbert Matloek waa also arrestcd on suspieion of being but his examination was adjourned. Frank Darby, a farmer of Campbell townslap, Ionia countr, was shot in the back and died soon after. He was standing ncar a stiaw ftaek, from wliich a youug mau was trying to prod a rabbit, using the butt of a ciin as a probé. Tho gun was accidentally diseharged and Darby killed. He was a respected man, whose death easts a gloom over the eommunitv. Geo. S. Jones, Tvhoso mother lives in Pontiac. wás recent ly killed bv the cars in Caliornia, Hm Mih.huü r.M umi iv IIJUUII UU lived alone at Muskegon, was found dead in bed a few day6 ago. Heart disease. Two boys havo boen arrested at Pontiac on a charge of plaeing obstructions on the track of the D. 6. H. & M. railway. One W T. Robb, of Benton Harbor, has been arrested on a charge of lavceny alleged to' havo been committed four years ago. The boiler in McConneir.s grist mili at Ferry. Shlawasefeé county, ou the Chicago & Grand Trunk railway, exploded with terrilic force, demolishing the mili and instantly killing the engineer. ofVm. Rockwell and Henry Rockwell, brothers, who left thcir home in Oakland eounty 16 years ago. Their mother left them money, "and "they must show up before April 1. 1883, "or it will b'e divided among other heirs. A two-story brick building on Western avenue, Muskegon. owned bv Samuel Oddl and occupied as a saloon, by 13. Walters, tumbled to the ground. It gave warning of its coming dissolution and probably no one was hurt, though a farnily livccUn thesecond story. An adjoining bniiding was also badly wreeked by the USL The three men who have successively held the oflice of superintendent of public instruetion of this state have resigned to accept more remunerative portions. Mr. Tarhcll went to Iudiauapolis to takc charge of the schools of that ciiy, Mr. Gowerbecame superintendent of the state reform school for boys, aiid now Mr. C'oehran goes into the land oflice business. The house recently of Charles Holmes, of Lansing, burned recently : loss $2,000. A young boy and girl have been arrested at Bay 'City éharged with robbing stores. George Irwin, of near Niles, found four of hïs fat hogs drówncd in the lnkc a few tiays ago. Moses Mofan, un oíd ' resident oí Jackson, droppcd dead at the supper table of a hotel in that city a few days ago. Again the deadly frog. Georgo Shafer, a. brakeman, caught his foot iuoneof thosc terrible traps at Cheboygan and was badly raniigkd, but cot killed.' Charle3 11. Pattee, son of the postmastrr of Bridgeport, Michigan, has been eentenccd in the district eourt toone. year'simprisonment in the house of correction" for robbing the mails. The state teachers1 sssociation meeting at Lansing was well attended and the exercises vcry interesting. The work took a directly practical course. Among the most important things spoken of were the eonstruction, arrangement, location, etc, of country school houses. Julius Hess, of Detroit, read an interesting papor on the subject, wnichwas liberally discussed1 Jolm Stall, a Midland boy, aided by his trusty dog, woundcd and captured a big eagle a íéw days ago. Numerous very sndden changes are reported iu the force of Central telegraph operators, etc, A little lad, son of A. I?. Wells, of Bay City, receutly died from choking brought on by a raisin stieking in his throat, A West Bav City man has invented a swimmiii!' machine whieh is said to fairly appal (iven the fiehes of Saginaw bay. Brown, Harris & Co. hare est ablished a bank at Mt. Pleasant. Geo. Shafer, the brakeman injured at Clieboygan a few days 8go, had sinee died. The body of Annie Prosser, of Battle Creek, has not yet heen recovered from the Kalamazoo river. Samuel H. Little, formerly publishcr of the NorthvlMe Record, is at Detroit iu conneetion with the settlement of the estáte of his aunt, the late Mrs. Mary Clarke. A Now Year's. address circulated by AugustiiR Day, of Detroit, when he was a carrier boy for the Medina (N. Y.) Herald, January 1, ï3;5, was on exhibition at M. S. Smith et Co. 's., Detroit. Barrett Anderson, an Indian convict at the house of eorreetion, sentenccd at Fort Smith for assault with intent to kill, died recently of apoplexy. Two farmers near Hudson having been arrested on a charge of falsoly pretending they were responsible, and thereby getting trusted for a mower and reaper, make the defense that they could not rcad and did not know what wëre the leinis of the note they eigned. Kor. E. Mudge, of Bolding, having accepted the presidency of the Union Christian college at Merom, Ind., the publicatlon of his paper, the Belding Home News, bas been suspended until a purchasei appears. About 400 bootblaeks and newgbpys gathered at St, Andrew's hall, Detroit, where an eutertaiument was given them by the boy's branch of the Y. M. C. A. The exercises comprised singing, recitations, music, and a chalk talk by F. J. Thomas, all of which, the boys greatlv enjoved. Even the prayer of Rcv. F.T. ayley eame in for n liberal aniouut of applause. Commissionr.r Bradford Smith and oilicx-rs Culver and Silsbee were present. Good order prevailed. The affair closed with a banquet of Ice crearn, candy and cake. Burglars entered Mann's storo at Pinckney, and blew open the safe, but got no booty therefrom. They also blew open the feea ín Wm. Dolan'R grocery store, gettiug some money there. They theu left town by means of a stolen horse aiid buggy. The oflice of Birkett's niill at L,ake, was entered, and the safe blown open and robbed, It is not yet known what is the aggregate amonnt of the night's operatlons. A lad named Ward was fatally shot at Ypsilanti by a companion. while fooling with a revolver. Eli Rae, aged 82, and 45 years a resident of Buchanan and vicinity, died there not long ago; four sons are prominent busmees men at Buchanan. Miss Jennie Boardman, a teacher in the Eaton Rapids schools and a well esteomed voung lady, died of congestión f the bram, baviug been sick for eeven weeks. Capt. David A. Shumway, aged 67, who settled in Jackson In $68. and W m. AVarnington, aged (J2, a resident of Jackson for ra years, both died in that place recently. Samuel P. Sksarman, aged 84, founder 3f the Tillage of Caro, dropped dcad in the itreet. He came trom Vcrinont ia Oakland ounty 51 years agÖ, and from thcre to Caro 30 reara ago. BurMars entered the residence of lied Campbell, Bay City, ncar Bay county fair ïrounds. secüred .?;iOO in money and a gold ivatch worth S75 from ander his pillow. No ¦lew to the burglars. Eider Uriah Smith, of the Battle eek adventist commmiity, alleges that there ire no dissensions in that body, corporate and ,heolügic, and tbat Mrs. White aud her writngs are held in higher esteem than ever. Half a dozen boys at Grand Rapids m;im ing on bobs lost 'control of the "horses" uut ran into a tree with terrible forcé. A sou f H. D. Walloii was badly injured about the lead and lnternallv, another bov had a leg 'raetured, and others had tobo takn home. (civ. Jurome's last official act was to lardón Charles O. Clark, eent to prison for lurglary trom Calhoun couuty ; Fraueis Shupe 'rom same coanty, and John Cofeon and AnIrew Ntelson, assault with intent to eommit mirder. The last three were in lonia prison. James Cloud, the Indian elergyman )f Iudiantown on the Kaukawlin, river, has jeen pastor there for 15 years, roceiviugbarely lothiug for his labors. Fifteen vcars ago, he iays, tuerc were aïjriany as 'i'1 r"rliiííiS?íí0 he Sao-majvyally -ctitc mrrem kVorlt ui tlie Saginaw Kiver :iilt:. in 1S82. The quantity of lumber maniifactured by Saginaw River milis in 1882 exeeeds that of any revious year, aud in every respect the year vas onc of the most prosperous. The seaeon vas long and favorable for active operat ions, jrices were firm and lumber fouud a ready narket which Btimulated manufacturera to lo their utmost and added handsomely to the Tedit side of the ledger at the close. The first sa-w-mill in the Saginaw Tallcy was roftrtl in floo:i - r Oitj lia 1OOS j QaiJuci D. iVilIiams & Bro. During the year 1835 another cill was built nearly opposite Saginaw' City, cuown as the "Emerson Mili," considered at bat period as a model ol the kind, having a apacity of 3,000,000 feet, and the first lumber sbipment was made from this mili in 183fl. In .854 there were twenty three milis on the Sagiïaw River, with a capaeity for 60,000,000 feet. Che milis were of thecheaperclass, the average ¦ut beicg not over 3,000,000 feet, In 1854 there veré forty-four milis in operation on the Sagiïaw River, manufaeturing tliat year 113,700,W0 feet of lumber. In 1867 there were eightyvo milis in operation, manufaeturing that year i23;t63'190 feet of lumber. In 1870 there were ehty-three milis operated, the cut that vcar iggregating 576,730.600 feet. In 1S82 . tüere vtre in opcratiou on the Sagiuaw River only ;eventy milis, but the manulacturing capaeity ïas been greatly increased by the imroduction )f improved machinery and the product this rear reaches a total of 1,008.147.905 feet of pine amber and 27,649,000 f-et of hardwood lumter, )esides stavee and' headi.ng. This does not inelude the product of inland r railroad milis; simply the river milis cut. l'he shingle produetof the river inills ïinouutcd o 295,046.500, aud there is now on hajd 35,822,)00 shiugles. The product of the Saginaw River milis íor a cries of yenrs makes the foilowiug show?ng: Feet. S63 153,580,000 864 215,000,000 865 250,039,340 S66 349,767,834 S67 463,963,190 .868 457,396, '225 S69 523,500,830 S70 575,726,606 S7l' 529,083,878 [873 C02.118.9K0 [873' '...'. 619,867,021 ;S74 573,632,771 1875. . . ! 51,558,273 L876 573,950,771 [S77 ' L40,106,231 [87 574.162,757 1879 736,106,000 im. '.'.'.'..... '.'..... 873,047,731 1881 971,320,317 IS32 1,008,147,905 i Atteiupt to Tfrecií a Passenger Tralu. The other day the engineer of the uoon mail rain going west discovered a log across the Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee Railroad ;raek in the cut near the asylum in tinie topreient his train from gettingwrecked, and Sheriff Lewis was uotificd. Deputy Sheriff W'iggins ,vas detailed to look after the matter, and visit ing the spot, measured the tracks, iollowea iiem upand beeame perfectly satistied that the .vould-bc train wreekers were Ben and Frank Campbell, aged 13 and 15 years respectively, of the Fourth Ward, Pontiae. To be sure he was right, Mr. Wiggins epent till yesterday neon in eolleeliug evidence aud then arrested the youthful crimináis. Upon being informed of the grave charge against them the boys made .i clean breast of the' whole matter and were loeked up in the old rat trap.- ronhac Bil Fouter. An Early Mlclilgan JKan Gone. ünele Harvey Williams died in East Saginaw, reeently, aged 88. He was a soldier of the war oí 1812 He opened a blaeksmith shop in Detroit in 1816, near the present Biddle house eite. [n!8l9he married in ¦ Detroit, Julia Fourina, n-ho survives him. He set np in Detroit the (irst Btatiouary steam engine ever run in Michigan, lic built the engiue for the first steain mili evr made in Michigan. In 1818 he made the first iron plow ever made in Michigan, and ild the iron work on the first briek chureh, and also for the first grist mili, at Monroe Iu 18.54 tie removed to Saginaw, and at once built the Brst steam saw mili on the Saginaw river. In 1836-7 he put up another. His hfe was a long mr. full of usefulness and hard work. iie [eaycs no chUdren. ... , ,, Trlclilnol8. About three weeks ago a middle-agcd German living uot far irom the Lake Shorc depot, outchered three or four bogs, from one of ,vhieh he made a lot of bologua sausago. Of ;his his wife and himself ato and in a few days joth becamo sick, the symptoms being of an inusual charaeter, and Dr. Williams being ¦alled in ho found they were troubled with renulne trichinosis. On subjeeting a pieec of "he meat to microscopio oxamination the paraiites were distinctlv seen, thus establishmg , he mture of the majady bevond a ( oubt. The nan was able to visit the doctor's office the jther flav, but bis appearanee was t ïat ot a nau whb had been subjected to an illness ot nany weeks. Wbat the outcome. will be of ourse time only can determine, but a fatal stuc may refiiilt.- Jackxon 1 mrivtScuslblo Word. At the closing session of the State Teachers' ILssociafon held in Lansing, Prof. E. Stroug f Grand Rapide, in opening the discussion uön the subject of Science in our Public Schools. iaid: 'The great defect of our public schools f all kinds aud grades seems to me to consist u the fact tbat the Euglifh language ie so lm1erfectly used and taught in them. I believe nost of us are prepared to.ioininthe ery which s rising from every eidc-'Let us improve our nethods and eet befare oursolvts a higher ideal i lnstruction iu the right use 01 our mother ongue.' Nest in iinportauee is the teaching 3natnr#Wrtörv. In the English language herc is instructiou, even some systematic ïnstruction, but with regard to natural history ihere is not only no eystematic nietructiou, but iher i no iusü-uction t aU. ü reat car must bc used in introducing the systematic study of I the natural scienocs. It must be shown 'thatl the ends sought in the oíd curriculum will bel better attaiued through the study of natural I sciencc. The iutroduetion of the study mustl be gradual, and the charactcr of the wofk must I of neccssity he . State Teaelicrs' Assooialion. The session of the State Teachers' Assoclatiou which cloed at Lansing Friday, Dec. 30, was I one of the most interestlug ever held. Papers ] upon uearly all topics pertaining to the ] ers' workwerc read and thoroughly disciised j in an nhle manner. A resolution was adopted by the Association expressing tlicir hearty approval of the action taken by congress in August last in organizlng a nationaledu catión committee with the object of supplemcnting the cfforts already making, to bring to tlie attoution of conrees the advisability of appropriating mouey iu aid of education." One of the most important acts of the Association was the estab-l ligament at Lansing of a bureau of education, I its object heing to supply schools with teachers! and teachers with schools. The election of 1 cers for the eusuing ycar resultcd in the choieel of the following: " I President- Prof. JoserjluEsrfíSSSr''!' '.L 1 1 pij1_jii=Lnrai3iEr--í;-i'I'iíiiicls, Grand I Second Viee President - O. C. Seeley, 0wM1. I Secretary- H. R. Pattengill, Ithaca. Treasurer- S. G. Burkhead, Traverse Cltv. The next meeting of the associat ion will be I held in Detroit, Dec. 2: 28, 29, 1883. flnr New Governor. Theoath of office was admiui?tered to Gov.l Begole at Flint on the 2d inst, by Judgc. Ncw-I ton. The Cíovernor at once proeeeded to Lan-I sing, whrre the oath was dulv filed with tliol Secretary of State. "