State News

Diptheria cases in the state sch ol at Coldwater. The Monroe school board voted $200 to the school library. A Dowagiac flouring mili e:its up 1,000 bushels of wheat daily. Menominee lias iU lst National bank now, willi $f0,000 capital. Ionia bas a rival to the late sweet singer of Micb igan . Poor Ion ia. Ottawa county proposes to celébrate the liftieth anniversary of its settlement. The Presbyterians and Kpiscopalians at Kalamazoo are each erecting maguficent new houses of worship. The snpreme court has ordered a new trial in the case of Hugh Peoples vs. the Post and Tribune compauy. Grand Rapids manufacturera hnve been nccorded all the space they asked tor at the New Orleans exposition. The salvation army bave found it hard picking in Grand Rapids, and are ou the road to the demnition bow-wows. Dr. James C. Willson is making a plucky light in the sixth coagramloaal district, añd we'U bet he"U " git thar." At Coldwater the merchants have greed to close their stores from Oct. lst to April lst at 8 o'clock p. m. Good tor them. Kalamnzoo has voted $10,000 in additiou to $(i,000 already voted to build another new school house. Knowledge is power. The Kalamazoo and Hastings R. R. is to become a reality. Kalamazoo is no sleepy city, but always keeps an eyc on the inai'.i cliance. A deacon of a cliurch at Bay City claims to have ripe strawberries in his garden. That's uothing. The writer of this item has ripe strawberrieá in his cellar. Eugene Clay of Dearborn, assulted Amos Clay of Dearborn, and now Amos wants the court to order Eugene to pay lihn $10,000 therefor. Clieap clay, dirt cheap. Wiu. A. Frenen, wliom the repuDiicans have nnniinated for senator n Monroe county, is a elcar cut, clean looking gentleman, whora the people of tlmt eounty will elect. HlUsdale is said to pos?es more politics to the square inch of any town of Michigan, aecording to the Jonesville Independent. If it beats Btwt Sagiuaw it is a good one. At Plainwell a man was anested for Belling liquor without bonds, brought up beföre a justice; plead guilty, and in 45 minutes trom the arrest was on his way to jail. Plainville people are to be praised. Ozias Osborne who bas been an inmate for ten yearg of the Van Buren county house, helplessly crippled with rheumatism contracled in the army, has just received a pension of $72 per month, and back pay amounting to f9,666. Justice. Gil Osmun, the bright paraaniplier and general newspaper man, who presides over the destinies of the state news column in the Detroit Eveuing News, has been tendered and hasrefusedanappointment as consul at Auckland. Gil says he couldu't aftbrd it. We are glad and sorry, both. Bowlsby has the boss hen. She laid an egg the other day, which on breaking was found to contain withiu another egg of ordinary size, and with perfect Shell. The outer egg measured 7J inches one way and 9 in. the other. it was about the usual size of this hen's productions.- Monroe Commercial. At Battle Creek a few days since a young lady reprimanded ayoungfellow - not gentleman- publicly for telling derogatory stories about her, and it isstated that each word raised a blister wherever they sturek the dude. It is to be hoped tliey will leave permanent scars, the sight of which will cause him to keep his mouth shut hereafter. The supreme court has afflimed the constitutionality of the new tax law, in the case of the State of Michigan vs. Iron Cliffs Minino; (Jompany, by an evenly divkled bench. Some attorneys have assumed that since this result was a technicality, the various circuit judges can act in the premises as they see iit; but they will üud by reference to Lyon vs. circuit judge, 37 Mich , 378, that the eflect is the sanTe on the action of tlie inferior courts as thoughit had been aflirmed by the full bench. Rev. .1. McEldowney, presiding eider f the Detroit district and secreta ry of the Detroit conference, in an open letter to ;he Free l'ress says : " The Detroit annuil conference of the Methodist Episcopal ihurch, lately held in Eaat Saginaw, did not, either by speech, resolution, report af comniittee, or by any other tnetliod, jommit itMelf, its ministry, or membership, to any politieal party or the support of auy ticket, state or national now isking the support of the people." The Stockbridge Sun tells an awful story : " Jay Kichniond while plowing recently encountered a monster niassasauga. He quickly dlspatclied it, and was about to couut a long string of rattles, taken from the reptilc, wheu lie heard ominous sounds proceeding from a stump. The stump was a decayed one, and a little eft'ort overturued it. There, fourteen more of the same species lay, coiling and hissing at the intruder. Although barefooted. ltichinoml waded in, and succeeded in killing all of them. One of the snakes carried twenty-four rattles. ' The Evening News calis attention to the fact that the law of the land as found on page 461 of the Howell's nnnotated statues ot Michigan prescribes limits for the rate of " toll '' to be exacted for grinding grain. It reads as follow : " The toll for grinding and bolting any wheat, rye or olher grain, shall not exceed onetenth part thereof. For grinding and not bolting any wheat, rye, or other grain except Indian corn, the toll shall not exceed oue-twelfth part thereof ; and for grinding and not bolting Indian corn, the toll shall uot exceed one-tenth part thereof. The vaiious farmexhibitsby Mis. John Stewart at the fair attracted great attention both from the fact that they were excellent and from beiug the products of women's farming. Last spring she purchased the " Bockbee farm," which lies within the city limits, which .'lie and her daughters have managed. They have raisecl over 1,000 bushel of oats ; over 12 acres of corn, producing 12 varieties, of which 'J were on exhibition; Sacres of potatoes ; C acres of rutabagas ; and over an acre of beans. The have loaded and unloaded 69 loads of hay, mostly with their own hands; they have gone into the field daily to work and say they enjoy it. They had great pride in their fine