State News Brevities

The annual reports show that ther were 5,183 paupers in the county poo bo'ises of tho State for 1876, of whicl 2,075 were Americana. " Unole Elijah" Woodworth, the firs pioneer of tho west half of Ingham County, now over eighty-flve years o age, last week hoed over five acres o oom in two and oue-half days. The ConBtantine Mercury says : Som wheat w.i harvested, that is out and shocked, in this vicinity on Saturday, June 30. Very muoli of the erop was ripe enough to barvest at that date, but not sufforing. Reports from various parts of the State indícate that the interest iu the red ribbon movernent has not abated, the meetings being well attended am new meroberB joining the clubs ever; day. A hail-storm of extraordinary sever ity passed over Enierson, Gratiot coun ty, on Friday last, destroying or greatl; damaging everything in i tu path. Th area, however, was only about half a mili) wide and two and a half mile long. There are 280 pupils in the State Pub lic Sohool at Coldwater, eight kavinj been received during the past montl and six indentured. There is no sick uoss of any kind in the school. Maj. Andersou is about to engage in selling the bonds of the Kalamazoo & Lowell Railroad. When $100,000 o the bonds are sold (the stipulation be ing that none of the money is to be paid over until the road is built) the company will procoed to lay the iron and stook the road. - Hastings Journal Mrs Sarah Sargentdied in Sherwood Btancb County, on the .'5d inst. She was born in the town of Chester, Ver mont, in 1788. In 1832 she removed to Ann Arbor, and in 1836 to Sherwooc where she looated a fine farm, upon which she has resided until her death. The exports from Detroit during the month of June were $170,789; dutiable importa, $25,236, and duties oolleotet upon the same, $5,3ül 03 ; free good imported, $141,585 ; goods withdrawn from bonded warehouse, $7,515, and du ties paid upon them, $5,876.19. The Hartford Day Spring says thai a gentleman of that place tried the experiment of planting rlax seed in each hill of potatoes, in two rows in the een ter of a field of potatoes. Not a bug is to be found where the flax is plantod but on each side of the rows the pota toes were oovered with them. A freak of nature is recorded as hav ing occurred at Freelauds. Mrs. Rol land gave birth to a boy baby some time since with only one eye. Th place where the other eye should be i entirely smooth, with no eyelids o socket. The child in other respects i perfeotly formed, and is active au( healthy. - Saginaw Covrier. The shipments from the Suginaw Riv er for the seasou to July 1, are as fol lows : 157,406,037 feet of lumber, 42,068,250 Rhingles, 13.668,800 lath, and 1,977,287 staves. Tho salt shipments will aggregate about 475,000 barrels. The new engine " Lawrence," for the Faw Paw and South Haven narrow gauge railroad, with three flat and a supply of hand cars, has arrived. Two hundred and fifty tons of iron have been received. A third rail will be immediately laid between Paw Paw and Lawton. The Hon. F. L. Wells, of Port Huron, has in his possessioa two autograph letters of Gen. Burgoyne, addressed to the American commander, Gen. Gates, soon after the Battle of Saratoga. One relates to the British prisoners and the other passes Lady Acklaud through the linos to see her husband who had been wounded and fallen into American hands. O. H. Webster, of Detroit, long connootod with the House of Correction in that city, has been appointed deputy warden, and Charles 8. Lowe, clerk of the House of Correction. Mr. Lowe has been secretary of the commissioners and is well qualified for his new position. Both appomtments are excellent. The prison will be opened for the reception of convicta on the 15th of August . - Ionia Sentinel. The Adrián l'imes says that Col. Robbins, of that city, inventor of the popular Robbins' oorn cultivator of which 5,000 are said to be in use in the State, kas taken out a patent on a machine which is expected to cut and shock corn, a laborious operation never before done by maohinery, lt is proposed to start a inanufactory of the Robbins' corn harvester in Adrián. On taking a ride through portions of Flint, Grand Blanc, and Burton, on Thursday, we noticed the crops are looking fine in all directions. Wheat appears heavy and even, and in many places ripe enough to cut. Corn, barley, oats, and potatoes look splendidly, and peas aeom to be quite a large general erop this year. The farmers were busy haying, the clover and grass seeming to be exceedingly heavy and rendering fine yield. All kinds of berries and small fruits are abundant, but the prospect of the apple erop is very rueajre indeed. - Flint Citizen. The surveying party in charge of P. J. Britton, of Grand Rapids, has cotnpleted the first line of survey for the arojeoted narrow-guage railroad from jrand Rapids to Laneing. Mr. B. says that no insurmountable objects, in the way of grades and cuts, have been encountered ; and that, in the villages along the line, subscriptions are being raised freely, and no difficulty will be :ound in procuring the light of way. Mrs. Jane Cramer, of Grand Ledge, ïas just obtained, on account of her son who was killed in the United States army in 1864, $1,300 back pension, and $8 per month as long as she lives. Tho claim has been in prosecution 12 years, and been through four different attorneys'bands. It's a wonder there's any. hing left.