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Day
17
Month
August
Year
1877
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Public Domain
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Lonawoo County is to have a fair after all. It will bc hold on the old grounda on Ootober 10, 11 and 12. The postoffice at Hartford, J. W. Travis, postmaster, was entered on tho lOtli, and about $140 worth of stampa and $15 in ohango taken. Michigan has over 80,000 rod-ribbon men, exclusive of tho '200,000 men, woinon, and childron who have siguod the pledgo of total abstinonco. During the month of July the paupers of .Kust Saginaw had $492 worth of relief dealt out to theui by tho city, whilo those of Bay City roceived but $13. Mrs. Palnier and Mrs. Peck, of Jackson, feil out of a buggy on the 13th. The former escaped with a frncturod rib and tho lattor with a broken collar bone. David Goddes, of Thomastown, Saginaw County, claims a yield of 2ü bushols of Clawson wheat from threo and five-eighths acres, boing an average of 73 1-2 bushols per acre. [John Henley says this a lie(koly story to toll), and refuses to believe it.] B. L. Meister has comraencod suit agaiust J. E. Brecker, president of the Bay City Hebrow Society, to rocover damagos for defamation of character. The damages are placed at $50,000. Liout. Price'a astronomical observations in this State, now publishod in tho report of tho Secretary of War, show, among other things, that Kalamazoo is 10 minutes and 8 seconds west of Detroit. Tho Tittabawassee Boom Company suspended operations August 10, on account of low wator. Tho number of piocos rafted is 1,637,1 17, scaling about 275,000,000 feet of board moasure. Threo individuals against whom oomplaints wero lodged for stopping railroad trains at Jackson on the 26th uit., have gone to the adjoining Dominion of Canada, whoro Jackson warrants are not respeoted. A 5-year old son of Win. Poake, who lives three miles wost of Concord, on the Air Line Railroad, went to sleep on the track on Friday and was killud by a passing train. A 7-year old son of Richard Collins was oaught in the fly-wheel of the Northwest mine stamp-mill in Houghton County, a few days ago, and roceived injuries which resulted in his death. H. J. Oaks, of Aurelius, seems to be ahead so far as a largo yield of wheat is concerned. From threo acres and 100 rods of ground he raised 196 bushels of Lincoln wheat which he sold in this city at $1.30 per bushels to tho acre. - Lansing Repvblican. Last Saturday Hiram Allen, from Bollevuo, hitched his team of horses, worth $500, at Verona, near Battle Creek, when a swarm of honoy bees lit upon them at once, covering them entirely up, and stinging them to death before anything could be done. Porry Joslin, tho voteran printer-editor who published successfully for niany years the Enterprise at East Saginaw, raised and marketod the present year from his farm, noar Holly, Oakland County, eighty bushels of strawborriosThe Portland Observer says a field of potatoes belonging to a Mr. Kelley, in Eagle township, was saved by a ílock of crows, which visited tho field daily and destroyod the potato bugs as fast as they appeared. The station house at Douglass, six miles west of Sturgis, ou tho Lake Shore and Michigan Southorn Railway, was nearly destroyod by lightning on the 13th. üne end of the building waa torn down, and ovory window and door The Flint Dcmocrat says that A. H. Kuickerbocker, of Gjnesee township, sowod Deihl whfiat on seven acres and 120 rods of ground, which gavo 58 busliels and 42 1-2 pounds per acre. Mr. Knickorbocker has threshed also iour acres of oats yielding 400 bushels. The Saginaw Jïejmblican has been assured by Mr. Burt that ho will not at present rebuild his extensivo saw mili. This is bad news for Saginaw, for the mili furnished employment diroctly to 200 hands and indirectly to a great many moro. James Whitney, of Black Lake, Muskegon County, raised 305 bushels of strawberries from about four acres of ground, this season. They netted him a olear profit of $600. His raspberry erop was good, notting him $3 60 perbushel. A few days since, bofore proceoding to his day's work, Antoine DeMay, of this villago, took his wallot from his pocket and thrust ït iiito a straw bedtiok for safo keoping, saying nothing about it to tho family. Durinar the day his wifo concludod to refill tho tick, and the old straw being oniptied into the street was soon aftor sot on firo by tho boys. The pocket-book contained $6ó, which Mr. IJ. could illy aíford to lose. - Port Austin News. On Sunday ovoning Louis Lockland, about oleven years of age, a son oí' Capt. Lockland, rosiding on tko west end of Poarl etreet, started to run around the house after dark. He hoard a buzzing sound and was srruck on tho foot at the same moment. The foot coiumenced swolling immediatoly, accompanied with intense pain extending to the hip, vomiting, dopressed oirculation, and all tho syniptoms of a bite of a rattlesnako. - Coldioater Jiepubliam. At Jackson, on the evening of August 10, Arthur Von Pannwitz shothimself in the right temple, dying in an hour aftor. It was a cool and dotermined suicido, as ho left a lottor with a friend just before, stating his intention. In the letter ho alludes to his troublcs with a young woman as the causo of the act. Von Pannwitz was au officor in the Prnssian service and won distinction thoro. IIo had resided in Jack san about ten yoars. At Flint on tlio morning of August 8, a dastardly attempt was made to kindle a conflagration in the largo lumber yards of tho Crapo estato. The fire was discovered about six o'clock, in tho inorning, having beon kindled in the midst of scvoral large piles of lumbor, in close proximity to one of tho milis. The üauies were under considerablo headway when discovered, but with tho aid of tho firo dopartraent wero checkod with slight loss. Mining prospects on Islo Royale are boginning to brighten up. Tho Minong had a forcé of 30 rnun at work last oionth, and it is being gradually ineroased. Sinking has doveloped a fino show of copper, the product in mass and barrol work - trom the shaft alono - having aggregated about seven tons for tho raonth of July. The mili is idle at present, it being thought advis;tble to pile up the stamp rock on the burro ws, until a Buffioient quantity shall havo accumulated to koop the stamps constantly running. - Jluncock Journal. Tho St Joseph Ilerald says : " Tho drouth bas already cut tho peach erop at least ono-lialf short of the estimato mado at the opening of tho fruit season, and unless rain comes soon thero will not bo inuch of a erop of potatoes, corn, turnips, cucumbers, tomatoes, etc. Parties who have boen sonding miserablo, diseased poaches to markot - fruit that the shippors themsolves would not feed to their swino - aro holping to mako a good (?) roputation for tho ,St. Joseph región. Tho hoalth officer at Chicago should condemn, on arrival, all, or nearly all, tho poaches now boing sent to market, as they are diseased fruit and wholly uniit for eating."

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