State News Brevities
ïhcre are but 23 non-resident pupils in the Detroit High School. There are 4,195 pupils in the public schools of Grand Rapids. The Soldiers' re-union at Adrián ón Wednesday was a success. The acreago of Wheat in Ouoana County is nearly twice as large as tlial of any previous year. Mr. Silas Darrow, an old resident of Branch county, diod at nis daughter's residence in Quiucy on the 13th, aged 78 yoars. Mr. Darrow was a ínember of the Masonic order and had been for flfty years. The lumber shipments by water from Muskegon thus tar this season have been 8,417,000 feet of lumber and 1,050,000 shingles, against 11,200,000 feet of lumber and 800,000 shingles up to this time last year. A few days since E. B. Smith, of Duplain, shot a blue heron near Maple River measuring six feet two-and-a-half inches from tip to tip of wing, and four feet ten-and-a-half inches from bill to toea. It was a male bird with crested head and beautiful plumage. The latest intelligence from the logdrivera on the Titabawassee aud tributarles is not as encouraging as niany wished and hopsd. The rivers are all low, and thn jam extends from Midland almost continuously to Diok's forks. Ih its low stage the driving is slow and difficult. A nephew of the late Eoss Winans, tho colebrated Baltimore niillionaire, is in onr State Prison, undor sentence for murder, while the man he supposed was killed is still alive. He is one of the best wood carvors in the country. - Jack8on Patriot. The gross earnings of the Detroit anc Bay City Kairoad for the year ending December 31, 187G, were $385,717 37 the expenses and taxes footed up $260,187 01, leaving as net earnings $125,530 3(3, about 5 per cent of tho fundec debt, which now amounts to $2,330,000. Eugene M. Morgan, a young man twenty-eight years old, comuiitted suicide May 13, by taking a dose of morphine at a house of iü-fame on Van Buren street, Battle Creek, kept by Mrs. Mary B. Adams, fauiiliarly known as Big Kit. Despondency and disoouragement were the cause of the act. The Grand Haven Supervisors report vital statistics for 1876 as follows Births, 158 ; deaths, 46. Reckoning the population of the city at 5,000, about niue deaths to the thousand persons - less than 1 per cont, while the natura increase for tho year was over thirty one to tho thousand - more than 3 per cent. One of the results of the reform move ment is tho organization of the " Huls dalo Free Temperance Library Associa tiou," with the Hon. Henry Waldron a President, and Capt. Gao. A. Kuickerbocker as Secretary. Shares are being sold with the inteution of raisiug $5,000 and tho project will doubtless succoed as the business men of the city are identified with it. The unexpended balances which wil be used this seasou in harbor improvements are as follows : öntouagon, $14,000 ; Eagle, $12,000; Marquette, $1,000 Charlevoix, $10,000 ; Frankfort, $3,000 Manistee, $14,000 ; Ludington, $10,000 Pentwater, $10,000; White Kiver, $4,000; lluskekon, $15,000 ; Black Lake $15,000 ; Saugatuck, $1,500 ; St. Josopb $4,000 ; St. Mary's River and Falls (Janal, $130,000; Cheboygan, $10,000; Thunder Bay, $4,500 ; jüonroe, $5,000.
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