State News Brevities

There are 3G8 boya in the Huforui School at L&nsing. Fowlervüle has 600 voters, of whoin 475 wear the red ribbon. Dr. H. C. Wyman, of BlissfioUl, expects to enter the RuHsiun army as eurgeun. The ainount of salt inspocted in this State during the inonth of March was 136,034 barrels. The Muskegon Reform Club bas presented Mrs. Dr. lieynolds with a $100 gold neoklace. Grand Rapids women are to havo a chance. Ilenry Gilbert gives a baby show there next week. Hon. II. M. Look, of Pontiao, is an earnest and energetici worker in the red ribbon reform movement. Not less than 10,000 pounds of inaple sugar wefe niauufactured in Gratiot county the present season. Several attempts have lately been made throw traius on the Michigan Central Air line off the track near Concord. In Lunawee county thore wero 419 marriages recorded last year. There have been recordod this year up to date 214. An original coinody, written by J. Floyd Brazee, local editor of the 'limes, will be producod in Adrián somo linie this uionth. Mrs. Eva McAllister, of Battle Croelc, after a long and serious illnoss, hagfully recoverud her health and het roperb soprano voice as a singer. The Farwoll Register says there are genuine speckled trout in the brooks of Clare County. One or two specimens havo boen taken this spring Mid plenty of them seen. The Methodist churehes of the Michigan and Western Michigan conferences hold their annual 10 days' camp meeting on the fair grounds at Lansing, beginning June 5. The Wise & Little shinglo and sawmill, throe miles cast of Loomis, on tho Flint & Pere Murquette Railway, was totally destroyed by fire April 5. Loss, $5,000 ; do insuranco. The machine shops of the Chicago and Luke Huron Railroad at Battlo Creek, recently destroyed by fire, were valued at 50,000. There was no iiisursince on the property. Thü Michigan State Fair in 1819 was held in a tive acre lot, with premiums amonnting to only $1,000. Now an eighty aore lot is required and th premiums aggregate about $25,000. A Mr. Whitehead, of Jackson, swallowed a seveii-eighth-inch copper tack ló years ago, and atter roaming about in undisturbed freedom it coolly turned out of his shoulder blade last week. On Monday, April 30, Mr. Henry Saiford of Plym-iuth, in going into the stall besido his colt, was severely kieked in thft bead, and found insensible near thp scène of the accident. He will recover. There is a man in Berrien Springs who has been married 25 years and all that time he has lived in the same house and slept on the same bedstead. He made tho bedstead and built tho houso himsalf. The Michigan Stato Fishery hopas to distribute 5,000,000 young eels among the 8trearas of Eastern and Southern Michigan this spring, arrangements be iug in contemplation to obtaiu them froin New York. Gt:orge Danby's house in Ionia w;is borglarized about the lat of April, and $4,000 in mortgages, notes and money takon. A few days ago a satchel, in which tho property was kept, was found a short distaiieo from the house, with $370 missing. The Pontiac Board of Ecfucatïön hits decided to employ Mr. Geo. M. Clayberg, M. S., of the class of 1859, of tlie Sctiti University, as Superintendent of Schools of that city. Mr. Clayberg has been principal and superintendent of the schools at Ypsilanti. A sheop-shearing festival was huid at Grand Blanc on the 4th inst. About 150 sheop were shorn from different parts of the Stato, the same sheep showing a deficit iu weight of flnece of from two to four pounds each, which cannot be accounted for.