State News Brevities

The Deaf Mute Mirror iays the contract price for furnishing the Instituto at Fliut with meat for the current year is : For fresh ment 7 1-2 cent a Ib. ; fresh unit ton, veal, pork, snusage, headcheese, and salt pork, 7 cents ; comed beef, 4 cents ; poultry, 9 oents ; pigs' tent and soup bones, - cent ; aud lirer, 3 cents. Suiall-pox ia making terrible rirages among the ludians linar Mauistee, and rumor states that they are dying at the rate of tour or uve a day. A Suginaw firra is engaged in ruarbleizing iron ware ue(l for cooking utensiU. Notwithstanding th continuad lack of snow, yet somo of our luinbertuen are draying in loge at a cotnparatirely lsvely rate. Fully half of the season's cut has been already banked, and if we get anything like a decent March the milis on the shore will git a two-thirds or three-quarter stook for the coming season. Perhaps in the present depressed condition of the market, that 18 all that will be noeded. - lateo Covnly zette. At Howell, on Priday night last, just after dark, Jeroine Dana, who was in jail for steuling harneas and robe trom P. L, Smith and Nortou, in Marión, escaped. He was allowcd to bring in wood from the back yard, and went out for soma and did noi return. A horse-thief, giving his name as L. Berger, of Buffalo, got away reoently with a span of horaea and a buggy belonging to a Monroe livery atable man. The number of memburg of the Howell Red Ribbon Ciub reaches over 250. The member8hip of the Women's Teniperance Union exceeda 125, and that of the youths' club ia over 100. They htive established a reading-rooni in the Weimester block, and will holil their meetings there weekly. The ladies have started a lunch-room, which thna far has proved a auccess beyond the most sanguine expectations of its founders. Joel Barnes, of Algansee, Branch county, went to his barn the morning of Peb. 2, with a lantern, and going into the loft feil to the Hoor, a distanoe of 25 feet, breakiug two of his ribs. While his son was gone for the doctor the barn took fire and burned with all its oontents, inoluding a valuable horse. Loss $1,200, about half insured. The horses of a Mr. Penniman, of Bay City, broke through the ice one day recently, and were rescued and sent home by the hired man. Mrg. Penniman inquiring wbere her husband was, he jokingly replied that he was under the ice, upon which she fainted and never recovered, dying Feb. 19.