Michigan

The largo saw and planing mili a f Vermontville, owned by P. C. Grimes & Co., 7 burned on tbe Dth iust. Mr. Grimes and Casslu3 We, of Hastings, were burned to death iu tbe mili aud their remains were not recovercd j for sorae hours aftcr. Besidcs tbe lamentable loss of lile tbere is a loss of about $5,(XX) on tbe i propc-rty, on wbicb there was no iusurance. i Thirteen candidatos for thu ministry are among the Albion college student?. It is said a theological course will be added to the cu riculum ncxt year. The building of a ncw opera house at i Plint, and as speediiy as practicable, is naid to i be now settled bevond a reasonable doubt. The Fourth Michigan regiment will hold its auuual reunión at Sturgls, June 30. Extensivo preparations are beiug made for the evsnt, and it is expected tbat several neigliboring G. A. R. poste will particípate. Fred Dunhain, the young man arrested at Coldwatcr for tbe alleged theft of $5,000 trom his f ather-in-law, iras discbarged after an examiuation of several days. The old man did his banking in various places around the house and barn, and one buudle of greenbacks came up missing the othcr day, whlcli bas not yet been found. St. Ignace has a now county jail. It s prisoner tlght. The mcmbers of the legislatura inailo in excursión to Orchard Lnke and Vontiac a !ew days ago, for the purpose of inspecting the nilitary academy and eastern asylum ior the Bsane, both of whicli institut.ions were fonnrt o be in excellent working order. The Case bill to permit the opening )f saloons on election nights and legal uolidays failed ia the House at Lansiug by a rote of 30 to 49. The second Case bill, reduciDg the tax md changiug the penalty for vlolfttlon, was killed in eommittee of the whole. A sraall cyclone passed over Lansing the other day. For a little one much damage was done, but fortunately no livcs were lost as far as heard from . It first commenced lifting things in the western part of the city ; passing down between the capitol building and state priuting office it raised the 6mall steeple oö the Methodist church and sent the pieces living through the píate glass Windows in the opera house block. It abo broke the windows oí a millinery shop near by, and virtually scattered the goods to the winds. A hand cart was carried flve rods and sent crashing through the side of a frame building. Loaded wagons and buggies were upset on tho avenue, and onc lady was lifted oft the capitol walk anddeposited on the lawn. The wind storra only lasted a minute or two, and was only a few rods wide. It was accompanied by a rumbling sound somewhat resembling ft loaded freight train. Parts of roofs were torn off in several places, and glass was broken in windows, but taken all in all, slight damage was done considering the flerceness of thu storm. Prof. Foster, who has for eight years been superintendent of the city school of Ludington, lias accepted the position of superintendent of the state school at Coldwater, Míen. He presented his resignation to the school board, which they declined to accept until the olose of the uchool year. He leavcs Ludingtou with the respect, esteem, and good wishes of aJl who know him. Alice Haviland, the yovmg girl so terribly bumed iu the flre which cause d the destruction of the family home at Palmyra a few nlehts ago, hae sluce died of her injuries. Her sufferings were agouizing, the raaiu portion of her body was absolutely roaslt'd and death carne as a glad relief to her terrible pain. There aro 95, (nearly ono-half the Yillages in the state) that mav now have local optiou lf they wtoh, thauks to a legislativo blunder. The House record up to May 10: Numbcrof bilis introduced, 055; reported adverselv and tabled, 39; olherwise disponed of, 293; still in the hands of co.T.mittecs, 881 skeleton bilis, etc., 40. T Nortb & Son's bank, at, Vassar, was entered ljy burglars ou the uight of May L and vault ad gafl bluwn open wd about ti 100 taken. They entewsd bv pi-ynifi the front door open by B crobar wïnch .elonsed tn the Detroit & Bay City railrond. 1 tey w ere MghtenedawaybyyFrauk I, Met, " otct the bank, or they would have secured $0 0C0 more, as tliey were at work on a chest ta the safe in whicU it was cüntained. ïhc coopor hops of Joromiah Marr, corner Twellth and fiagg itrèeU, Detroit were dosirovwl by re the olher niffht. The loja b SS wS%SVnS „ The coopera lose all thelr toolf ana ; Ion wlll uiAloubtcdly be followed fcy t.li ¦ creeon of f houses that will covreBpoud Nvitb te míortable aud ncat dwelhngs m tUat loaThc House has passed tbe bilí giving nembers írom the upper península Ove dolíais ' The bilí establishinr a burean of labor itetisties has paesed both Houses. Wm. R. Smith, othorwise known as S'o 105, writcs to the govornor that in " IISIü catión isnotyctcompleted. The Senate has voted to adjournsme JicJune2. , ducation made in the orm .--- - have resolved to hav e devoted to exlüons oíock, wordrawiigana fanoy ,rticlcs, etc, by cblldren. rh-rfotte rltorv, to take np land. . ducctholicen.e fee tól-Mn{ Thcv hor klttens. A Muskegon boy got drank reoently rad was eo couscience-smitten when he ¦ame to himself that he tried to commit suicide :y Jumping into the lake. The saloonist whu sóld kim the liquor paid ítW and costa tor liis fiolailon of law. Bradford Srnith of Detroit, wcll known ;hroughout the state for his interest in "youthEul sinners," thinks that instead of punlshing the parents for their inability to get their iuL'orrigible children into the 6chools, the law shimld take hold of the children themselves, by regular procedure in the probate eourt. The Senato has passed the House bill approprialing $51,039 for the agricultura] college, Senator Phelps alone voting again6t it. The House has agreed to the Senate amendment to the univereity bill, whereby the dental college appropriatlon is reduced to ?fi,000, the dieposltion to iight for the full $8,000 aaked for havingbeen givenup. Aftera long wraugle Brant's bill, to regúlate trial of actions for damages arising' from ueglieence, got through House commlttee of the whole by one majority. April 2G John G. Hustin, of Elba, skiBned a dead dog which had been poisoned. There was a sore on Hustiu'e rightllttle fineer; and this sore, in a day or two, eaused hlm intense pain. A doctor being callsd, decided that poison froni the dog had been imbibed by this sore, and death was cer'ain; and he died May 5. He left a wife and tive children. The people of the state of Michigan have enaeted that whoever procures or places on record any conveyance of real estáte, with inlent to deeeive anv nerson as to the identity ïnitillt LU UUCC1VC Uliy ÏC16U11 UB IA tllü mtuwij of the grantor mentioned in such conveyance, shall upon conviction be punished by imprisonment in the state prison at hard labor, not to oxceed three years. or by a fine not exceeding Í5,000, or both, in the discretion of the court. After 20 years or moro a remittanco of $14 25 bas got around to Adrián froru the dead letter office. The 2ft cents wae a war scrip iseued by Kemlngton & Bennctt, who redeerned the same. Tüe$l4 was on Erie & Kalamazoo and Adrián Insurance company banke. Muskegon is reminded of the blood plague that troubled one Pharaoh of Egypt, 8ome centuries ago. The water f rom mnny of the wells in that city is elf ar and apparently Alonbeing pumped, but tums red when boiled, and black wlien tea is put luto it. Black tea is one answer to the mystery. The re-union of the Oíd Fourtli Michigan regiment will be held in Sturgis June 2üth. The Bapüsts are building a clmrch, 31x51 feet, at Cadillac, Wexford county. The Congregationalists of the same placa wiU also build this eummer. Owing to the low pricc of coal, Jackson miiip proprietors have BotMed the miners that wages for digging must come down, pro'oably to about three cent6 per pit car of 700 pounds. The miners are coneidcring the matrer. James A. Torpey oonimit:d suicide by jumping iuto the Votomac river from the ferry boat between Washington and Alexandria. He lef t a note saying : The cause of ray destruction is physical and flnancial mistortune. I was born at Ironton, Mo., in 1860, and reared in Jackson, Mieu., wncre i nave a few friends who were iuterested in my welfare. The principal part of the thriving little village of Newsygo, which wasdestroyed by fire a few weeks ago, is being rapidly rebuilt. In the end the village will profit by tlie lire, as the buildings are being constructed in a substantial inauner, and the industries of thetown greatly iucreased. Mrs. Catherine Jowitt. wifo of tlio late Judge Charles Jewltt,oi Niles died of heart disease whlle (".rlving home alone in her buggy. Mrs. Jewitt was auout fiS years old and bad resiaed in that city over 40 years. She was a cousin of Jolm (i. Saxe the poet, and a woman who deserves the beet tbat can be written or spoken of her. An accident occurred ou the F. & P. M. railroad a fewnights ago, restilting iu great destruction to property. Fortunsitely no lives were lost, althougli the accident is knowu to have beeu the result of gross carelessness. Au unknown young man died at Essexville of quiek consumpiion, the expenses of wbosc burial were defrayed by bubscriptiou by the miU men. He hai) tramped from 1 nu, and was uuable to sit up wheu he reat'heci Essexville. Mr. Sfcevensoni, the govurnor's private secretary, has sent to every prosecutiutc attor ney in the state a printed communleation givintr specifi-r directions as to ways and nwans for obtaiuing requii-itions and warrant for the apprehonsioi. of fugitives frotn justice. Tlie Michigan Central R. R. Co., alwavs on the alert to promote the comfort and coiiveuienee of their putrons, have adiied to thtir already superior aceomodatlons tour new rtiniu": curs. which are prouounced by leuraincomparaMe for bsauty of design mui , lulectiiessof ailornments, demrative art haring wen eibUBMÍ to pteAuOÍ Ui e desiral ettcct, , Sor is thu udorument all, for tUs Mm is on i nar with the dccoratione, aud overytulrg noiirishing to body or pk-asiug to l,ii epi¦ure's palate.willbe fouud ontbeei: dimncari. Öue of tlK..c model cari will bc attae .ed to the trai.igoing cast leavmg Detroit at 13:20 nooc. Ruraorecl that J. F. Antisal,proprietororiliiNcwliallIlouse,MiUvaukoe,attlietimc of tbefire, wlll remoje to Detroit and takc ciargc of the Biddle lloue. A le Officials Counl It. The oincialcanvass of the vote cast at the last eleetion took place at Lansing ou the Sth iust. of State Conant, State Treasarer Butler and Commlssiouer of the Land OOc Nowel! aeted as the canvassing board. Ihc votefor Jiuticeof the inpreae court was as JotuW: Chaniplio, Uulon, f all term. . ..127,370 tin Blalr Republican. full term 119,870 I H Tatein. 'Probiijittonist , iull term.. 13,467 JaSéi S. Audrus, Labor Reformer, full terin Chauipliire plurality J" 'i J'ffiQ Thon.aell. Sherwooa, Umou yaeaucy..l34,(9 Thomas J. O'Brieu, Kcpublican, 'jjg,, D. paSagI'ndorph,'PrÓBÍitióñisi, ' caney _ Síaóies-forThos:!!.! woodanJ larg? .mmbeof scattering vote6. Thevote for Regents oí the U.ilvcrsity was asfollows: Arthur M. Clark, Cmou h Heury B. Uutehin?, Rep ' J. W.Ewinft I'ro 15MJ" Clark's plurality lok'im Chas. J. Willett iWn - ¦ .Jg Joseph C. Jones. Kep 3vfi2 Gco. 8. Hlckey. Pro 1J''"Waldo May, Labor Reformer 406 WlUett's pluralitv 4'449 The Conditlon of IDdblP Crop on May 1. THe Secrctary of State, iu hls Utest erop rcnort eays: For this report returns have been recorred from 873 correspondas, repreceuttng fifñ townships. Five lmiKlred an.1 flfty-?ix o ü'cBe returnB are from 381 towwhipB ui the southernfourtiersof counties. The month of April, like the menth of Ap.ll, 18S3 was cold and dry, and vegetation made bnt ittle growth. At Lauslng the average temMSËM tliau last. The raih fall in April, last year and this, was uearly the same, about one and nlnetenths inches. The rain fall íor the first nine ays of May amounted to nearly three and onebalf inclies", as compared wlth less than half an nch in 1882. The wheat wlnte'-killcd in the Bouthern four tiers of counties iseetimatedattwentvpercent., or or.e-fifth of the aereage seeded. This is five per cent. more than winter-killed as eRtimatetl on the first of April, and twice the amount killcü ia the winter o 1881-2. The condition of the wheat not winter-killed in these counties is eeventy-nine per cent. of condition one year ago. In the countics north of the southern four tiers fifteen per cent. of the aereage seeded is winter-killed, and the condition of that portion not killed is ninety per cent. of eondition May 1, 1832. These figures Indícale a yield of f rom seven to ten raillion buehels less than tb rop of 188 The Otiio official report for May contains the following percentages, compared with same date last year, for other states', Ohio, 56; Indiana, 70; Kansas, 93; California, 87; Illinois (April estímate), 6S; Kentucky (April estímate), 66. Reports have been received of the quantity of wheat marketed by farmers during the month of April at 245 elevators and milis. Of these 209 are In the southern four tiers of counties, which is alittle less than ono-half of the whole number of elevators and milis in these counties. The total number of bushels reported marketed is 438,347, of which 72,495 bushels were marketed in the first or southern tier of counties; 174,023 bushels in the second tier, 80,352 bushels in the third tier ; 88,624 bushels in the fourth tier, and 22,858 bushels in the counties north of the southern four tiers. At thirtyeight elevators and milis, or sixteen per cent. of the whole number from which reports have been reeeived, there was no wheat marketed during the month. The total number of bushels reported, marketed iu the nine months, August-April, is 11,768,447. About seven per cent. of the clover acreage has been winter-killed. That poition not winter-killed is in good eondltiou. With fair weather until haying the clover erop will doubtlees be a good one. Horses, cattle, sheep, and swine are in healthv and thriftv condition. thoueh a trifle jelow an average pernaps. In answer to the questisn, ''Has there been nore than the usual mortallty amone breeding :#es?" eixty-one correspondente answer yes, md730no;to the same question as regards ambs, 174 answer yes and 580 no, and to the same question regarding swine, 179 answer yes md 587 no. Applcs promise in the central, northeastern ind northwestern parta of the state ninety;hree per cent., in the eoutheastern eighty-six per cent., and in the southwestern nioety-flve per cent. ot an average erop, The average for the state is ninety-two. Peaches promise in the central part of the state flftj-nlne per ent., the southeastern flfty per cent., the southwesterH fifty-seven per cent., the northwe6tern seventy-six per cent., and northeastern seventy-eight per cent. of an avearge erop. The average for the state is sixty-slx. A Deatli-Brliisliis Cyclone. A cyelone struck Sturgis f rom the southeast at 3:30 o'clock on the afternoon of May 14, passing througli the outskirts of the town. It swept everything before it for half a mile in width. Chauncy Gilman, a farmer living two miles southwest, sought shelter with three childrtn in a barn, which was carried away and all four killed. Georgc Ruuyan's house and barn, aquarter of amile westuf Gillmans, was biown down and one member of the family seriously injured. It is impossible at present to estímate the damage. The cycloue was aecompanied bv the heaviest hail, rain and lightning everknown in tuat 6ecdou of the etate. At Coldwater batl-stones as large as hickory nuts feil, doina great damage to sniall fruits, which were just bcginning to blossom. At White l'igeon a frame school house filled with children was blown down, and William Noah crushed to death. Several others were seriously injured. DTGTROIX MARKETS. Wheat- No. 1, white $ 75 B 1 06 Flour 5 25 % 5 50 Corn 48 @ 50 Feed 14 00 @15 50 Oats 43 @ 44 CloverSeed, $ bu 7 00 fa 8 2u Apples, f bbl 3 00 & 3 50 Uriel Apples, % tt 8 $ 8 Peacbc-8 15 @ 16 Chcrries 2? é Buttcr, f) Ib 19 I'S Eggs 15 @ DreBsed Chickcus 14 W 15 DressedTurkcys 1 (g 18 Geese U @ 13 Ducks 13 SS 1 Chcese 15 (? 16 Potatoes, i bu 45 @ 55 Honcy... 18 @ 20 Beaus, plcked 2 10 @ 2 15 lkanp, uupicketl 1 40 @ 1 60 Hav 12 00 @15 00 BtliW.... 7 50 ÜOO Pork, dresscd, f 100 9 00 @ 9 25 Port mess ... 18 50 @18 75 Porl?, familv 19 00 19 50 B.cf extra mess 12 00 @12 50 Wood, Bcech and Maple .... 8 45 Wood, Maplc 8 00 Wood, Hiukory S 00 Coal.fegg G35 Coal, Stove l 50 Coal. Chestnut 0 5