State News Brevities

Judge Maratón was thrown from his carriage on the 30th uit., while crossing Third street bridge, in Bay City, and quite severely injured. His injuries are not of an alarming nature, but are sufficient to confine him to the house for some time. A man representing a Grand Rápida furniture oompany has purohased 35 oar loads of black walnut lurabor at Coidwater for the use of his firm. That kind of lumber is growing soarce in this State. The new Government building at Port Huron, erected at a cost of $236,000 for customs and postal use, will be occupied the first of next month, Small-pox is raging with savage intensity in Paris township, Huron county, its spread through a Poli'sh settlement there having been aided by the ignorance and superstition of the people. John Linton, treasurer of Stiginaw township, while going home Haturday night from Saginaw City was attacked by two men, who knocked him down, stabbed and robbed him of two hundred and seyenty-five dollars. A man named Charles Merritt, while at work repairing a dam at Hersey, Priday, was struck by a falling gtump, which broke his back. He died in two hours. He leaves a wife and one ohild in destitute oircuinstances. The Treisurer of Manistee City has run out of funds, and the Council has issued orders that the pólice and all employés not hired by the year ihould be dischareed. the fire denartmant nlnnnH up, the city teams let out, eto., until the second week in March. The oounty ia also reportad to be out some $2,000, which was on deposit in the city bank which failed a short time since. A flre at Ludington, Pebruary 1, destroyed the stores of B. J. Goodsoll, Marshall Broyman, Pierce & Andrews and Wm. J. Cushway, and Stafifor's house. Loss, $15,000; well insured. The barn of Prof. Plumb, about three miles north of Jaokson, in the Town of Leoni, was destroyed by flre on Saturday morning. It was filled with grain, hay, agricultural implements, etc, the loss of which is estimated at $2,500 ; insurance, $1,700. It was the work of an incendiary. A large number of the logging contracts on Muskegon and White River with tributury streams, are already filled, and new ones are being entered into. The Muskegon News and Reporter estimates that unless there is a .break up of the winter now, the amount of logs put afloat in the spring on the Muskegon will rather exceed than fall short of 35,000,000 feet. On White River the stock will be about 80,000,000.