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Day
24
Month
November
Year
1876
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Public Domain
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Joon Lewis, a peddlor oí Havoring exiractsand 71 yean old, luis Im:oh arrested iu Louawee uounty, on a eharge of adultery. The wit'o of Robort Wliitbeck, a Cambridge farmer, js the other party. An old planing mili at Kast üaginaw, oalled the " East Saginaw Mauuiaoturing Works," was burned ou tlio iiiorning of the 18th. The building was not worth ïnuch, but $10,000 worth ot' valuable inachinery was destroyed. Almeron Newman, one of the pioneer settlors of the Grand ltivor Valley, and one of the founders of Portland Village, died at his resideuce on November l.'Hh, agert soventy throe years. Over in Rjading, Hillsiale eounty good apples have boun a drug at 80 cents a barrel, aud thousands of bushels havo rotted on the grouud And yet the Rnading apple-growers will perHist in votiug iilinoHt unaniniousiy the Republican ticket. A Stato meeting of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Hocioty of thu Methodist Episcopal Church will be held at Kalainazoo, couiiunciug Tuesday, November 28, and continuing three days. ïho Grand Rapids and Indiana Kailroad Company offer fov Bale 50,000 acres of land in Grand Traverse oounty ; 120,000 acres in Wexford couuty ; 68,000 acres iu Missaukee oounty ; 90,000 acres in Kalkaska county, and 85,000 acres in Antrim county. Geo. A. Wallaee's livery barn, at St. Charles, was totally dostroyed by fire on tho night of Nov. 17. The barn contained a quantity of hay and grain, which was also deatroyed. Loss, .$700, no insurance. Cause of fire not known. The Saginawian says : 8. & C. DHale, of Tawas, will put in a fu 11 stock oi' logs the coming winter, 10,000,000 feet ; and all tho saw and shingle lai IK iu Tawas, East Tawas aud vicinity will, it is said, be fully stocked for another season's operation. The house of Frank Canfield, of Battle Creek, who ncontly left for California, wus searched and several hundred dollars' worth of goods found, which are supposed to have been extracted trom the store of his fornier employers, Galloup & Hollister. Tho Lansing Repuhliam says the time for closing work on the new Capitol is not yet fixed. If suitable weather continúes for a few weeks longer the contraetors hope to have the central roof 'on and the dome trusses in place. John W. Hersey was killed while chopping at McFarlan's lumber camp, neur Evart, by a limb from a falling teee. The same day while digging a well four miles south of Evart, Edward Griffitu was completely buried in the san d, which coveied him to the depth of 12 faet. After great exertions his lifeleuB body was taken out that evening. - Saginaw Courier. Among the expenses incurrad by the city at the late election are the following items: Pay of iuspectors and clorks, $3,985; rent of polling places, $1,265; cost of barricades, $115, which together with the cost of books and statiouery will bring the total expenses up to nearly $6,000. That wan altogether too much uioney to pay for such results. - Detroit Tribune. A Clinton item dispenser says : Eev. Seth Reed, of Ann Arbor, visited this place and gave two very entertuining aud instructivo lectures on the evtnings of November l.'Hh aud Uth to audiences that were small on account of the bad woather. Those who huard him will not fail to hear him again should they bave another opportunity. Bay City crimináis: Lydia McCullough has been sentenced by the circuit judge of Bay county to one year iu State Prison, for stealing $94 from the safe of Meeker & Adaru's store. Robert Highland, for adultery, goes to the sanie institution for four mouths, while August Gulluncr and John Horboldsheimer, cattle thieves go for oue year each. It has been discovered that Mr. Frank Atchison who mysteriously disappeared in the winter of lS70 while a student in Kalamitzoo Collego, and who has long since been given up as dead, is living on a farm in the far West. Theexplanation given for his strange beliavior is thfit while preparing for the ministry he bocame a coníirmed infidel, and " knowing that such a course would grieve his parents worse than to niourn Sim as dead, he fled from all who knew him and sought refuge in the wilds of the West." Mr. Lewis, of the firm of Lewis & Drummond, shinglo manufacturers of Manistee, was knocked down by robbers on the bank of the river in the lower part of the city about b' o'elock p. m. on the 16th inst., as he was about crossing the river in a boat to pay off the mili hands. Ho had $1,700 in his pocket at the time. A sharp struggle ensued and Air. Lewis was pounded on tho head severely with a largo club. He yelled for help and just as assistance came the robbers ran away and made good their escape, but failed to secure the money. The injuries are not fatal but vory dangerous.

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