State News Brevities

June 3d, a brakeman feH frota a train just west of Jackson and was killed. Saginaw City bas ten less saloons tbis year than last. A girl oL sixteen, named Howard, njoently gave birtb to a cbild in tbe Newaygo County poor hous . Sbe charges the paternity of her child upon her grand father. Dr. Charles S. Moríey, hotneopathist ; William A. Frost,. Morley's student ; and Charles H. Chapman, an editor, have been arrested at Pontiac, on a charge of exhuming the body of George W. Hinman, in Gak Hill Cemetery. The body of Elisha Barnes was found in the river uear Algonao, May 29. He had been missing since the lat ter part of the winter, when, it is supposed, ho nndertook to cross fcho river on the ice. His age was forty-üve. W. A. iShinkman, of Grand Rapids, has reeeived the ürat prize offered by tbe International Chess Tonrnament - a öplendid süver cup. The second prize goes to England, the third to Scotland. There Í3 growing upon the farm of Mr. Lyon, of Bi. Johns, a white-oak whieh at three feet trom the ground meas uree seventeen and a half feet in ; i reu in f ere nee ; and the tirst limb is xixty-five iet trom the ground, with a symmetrieal trwnk of forty feet Dr. Van Du sen, Superintendent of the Kalamuzoo Insane Asvlum, has been eued by a Chicago woman, Mrs. Dr. Newoouaer, for false imprisonuient and malpractice, claiming that sbe was dev)yed into theasyluui, and there de tai n i for ten months without just cause. The case is to be tried at the next term. A train of twenty-two cars, loaded with fresh boef, packed in ice, passed ;ver the Chicago and Lake Hurón Rail rottd on June 1, en route for Liverpool, via the Great Eastern through line f rota Chicago to Montreá), thence by steamer to Liverpool. - Batlle Creek J ur, a . The Bay f urn ace, located near Grand Island, and every building in the viilage of Onota, except the church and school house, were destroyed by forest fires on June 1. Three hundred laboréis are thrown out of work and 700 inhabitants rendered homeless. Everything was burned. A large quantity of clothing was burned. A largo quantity of cloth ing and provisions were sent from Marquette to the suiferers. The Bay Furnace Company have lost over $100,000 by the tire, and the contractors who supplied the furnace with coal have lost large quautities of wood and charcoal. The more the Upper Península is explored tho more treasurea it is found to con tai n. Recen tly H. A. Burt, of the Peninsular Iron Cowpauy, hassold 3,000 tone of quartz frorn his mine on Carp River, and has let a contract to Hursley & Powell who have already mined 700 vr 800 tons. This material is used for lining the converters in Bessemer steel works and other purposes, and was imported from England until it was found that the Lake Superior quartz was iqnal, if not superior. The salt product of this State, inspcctert during the month of May was, 150,392 barrels. Jackson has secure! the services of (tov. Croswell as Fourth of July orator. The veterans of the Mexican war, resident in Michigan, hold a convention at Kalamazoo, June 19. Farmers in the western part of the State have the Hessian riy scare. Fifteen families who went froin Charle voix County two years ago to find a paradi8e in Arkansas have all returned, save one person, who was buried. The logs in Cass River have all been rafted out and the streaui is clear. The amount rafted out will approximate very closeiy to 20,000,000 feet. The Bay City Tribune wants that city to borrow $50,000 and furnish 200 or 300 men employment digging seweis, because the city needs the sewers, and the men need the money. Mrs. Zibble, of Ridgeway, Lenawee County, aged niuety-three, lives alono, does her owu housework, and takes care of her chickens, two cows, and some pigs, and sometimes hoes in the garden. The Grand Haven Herald grows enthusiastic over a new invention for baling bark for tanning purposes, which it says means a revolution in the bark business, and will be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars to Michigan. The ground bark is pressed into bales weighing 350 pounds each, which do not cru m ble, and are as hard as hickory wood. In this forui the bark is shipped to Burope. S. O. Knapp, Eq., who acoompanied the Presbyterian party in tbeir trip up North to look for a ministerial resorí, 8iys that Burt'.H Lake, Cheboygan councy, has probably been select ed. It is off the line of the road, but can be reacl ed by water trom Petoskey. The Prosbytmïans do not, however, desire a oampmeeting ground, but simply a place to go and recruit during the hot Bummer in on ths. - Kalamazoo Telegraph. The Rev. Calvin Clark, an old resident oí Marshall, and a pioneer of this State, died suddenly on Monday of heart disease. Mr. Clark was weliknown throughout the State as a missionary of the Presbyterian denomination, and organized many churchee. He has labored in this State over forty years, and was the last surviving member of the pioneer ministers of his denomination in Michigan, and was universally kuown and beloved.