State News Brevities

A Mr. Smith, over 100 years of age, was baptizad at Niles receutly. ■hunos J. Navarre, a native born citizen of Monioe, died in that cit.y on the 20th ult., aged 73 years. W. D. Houghtaling has obtained two judgment8 against the townehip of Kalamazoo, in the United States Court at Grand Kapids, aggregating $10,775 default in payment of railroad aid bonds. The smelting works at Wyandotte are still running on Western ore, which continuos to arrive in considerable quantities. Nine thousand dollars' worth of silvor was shippcd to the Kust on Saturday eveuing. The arohitects of Detroit agree in reportiug building, both of a public and private nature, alrnost at a stand-still. Notwithstanding the decrease in the prioe of uiaterials and labor less is being done than lust yenr. At Niles a colored man named CurtÏB, on the 28th, when at the bottom of a well 210 (?) feet deep, had a brick fall on nis tieaii. The brick was broken into fine piecos, but the darkie kept at his work, only complaining a little of headache. The St. James' Catholio Church at Grand Rapids, Father Limpena pastor, was robbed, on the 22d of May, of the sacramental service, valued at $700. The burglars gained an entrance by removing p:rt of the stained glass window. The jail at St. Louis, Gratiot County, was burned at an early honr on Friday morning last, and with it George Lott, who on being looked up the night before threatened that it " would go up before morning." He was undoubtedly the incendiary. On the 26th uit., at State Prison, John Lainbert was killed. He was putting a belt on a pulley, and, becoming caught, was whirled around. Both legs and one arm were taken off, and his ribs broken, only a few minutes. He went trom Adrián for burglary, on a sentence ezpiring in November. The Muskegon News and Reporter says : " Reports from the headwaters of the Muskegon and White Eiver are of a doubtful nature, and a general hanging up of logs seoms probable. D. W. Squires's logs are huug up on Brooks Creek. The logs are also all hung up at on Butterfield and Dead streams. The logs are not all out of Houghton Lake, and cannot be run out. The drive on the Little Muskegon Biver is hung up Morloy, the water for flooding having been used up. The drives on White Eiver are flooded half a day and then allowed to lie still two daya, and some of the rollways have not yet been broken. On the south branch of the Pere Marquette River and on Beaver Creek 65,000,000 feet of logs wero cut last winter, all of which aie going to Ludington. On White Eiver 65,000,000 feet were out, and on Rogue River 50,000,000 feet."