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Manchester Marks

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Day
31
Month
August
Year
1877
Copyright
Public Domain
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During a severe thuuder sturm wliioh passed over the towii of Preedom Weduesday afternoon of this week, William O'Neil, a man about sixty years of age, was struck by lightning aud instantly killed. Ha was engaged at the time, in company with a man uamed Patriek O'Brien, in spreading mauuie. ü'Brien was stuuued by.the stroke but not seriously injured. About eight o'clock of the dame evening lightuing struck the barn of a Germán named John Straehle, who Uves in the western part of the town of Sharon. Mr. Straehle had ]ust iinished threshiug aud lost not only his barn but his grain, a good norse, and a cow. Your correspondent has not been able to learn the exact loss, but it is no doubt quite heavy, and must fall doubly so upou Mr. btraehle as he has but one arm. A terrino storm of rain and lightuing passed over the village of Manchester last night, but so far as I have been able to learu doing uo damage. Considerable wheat is coming into market now at prices raugiug from $1.20 to $1.25. It is useless to discuas law or legal rights or principies with so ignorant or reckless a writer as the Register's " One of the feople " proves himself to be, in holding that this clause of section 3,726 of the compüed laws, " by a vote of two-thirds of the qualiñed voters of said district, votlug at auyjannual meeting,1 etc , requires that two-thirds of all the voters of the distaict shall be present and vote. If he knows anything of law, which is exceediugly doubtful, he knows that neither the school law nor the electionlaws of the State present any quorum for an animal meeting or election. At aunual city, county, or State elections, a majorityof theelectors voting elect the oüicers froni constable to governor, however few they may be ; at an annual school meeting a majority of the voters voting elect the officers, aud a mnjority or two-thirds of the voters voting, uot of the whole body of voters in the district, make the appropriations, lócate sites for buildings, or authorize the borrowing of money, etc. No other coustruction of this and similar laws was ever thought of by a sane man. The stayaways caniiot defeat an election or make the proceedings of an annual meeting illegal. And just as nousensical is the quibble that the power to borrow mouey does not carry with it the power and right to issue the bonds of the district for the same. As to the rest of " One o E the Poople's " stuff, either concerning the Board or ourself officially or personally, we care nothing and shall waste neither time nor space in replying to it. If either our reputation personally or officially can be wiitteu down by au anonymous scribbler itts scarcely worth writing up yourself. J6.ILLED by Í.IOHTNINQ. - During the heavy thuuder storm o{ Tuesday evening last John G. Miller, a middle aged man, and an oíd man named Rudolph L. Green, took shelter under a tree about a mile east of Northiield Catholic Church. The tree was struck by lightning, the fluid passing down Miller's back, left hip and leg, tearing tho buckle from his left shoe, discoloring the back, hip, and leg in large spots. The fluid passed downward from Green's breast, across his abdomen, and down his right leg, An old man standing under a tree a few rod distant, saw the lightning strike and ran immediaty to the spot. Miller was then alive and said to his companion " take care of my wife and child," and soon after died. Green was thoughf to be dead when first reached, but recovered. Corouer Clark, of this city, held an inquest on Wednesday, after which the body of Miller was brought in by Uudertaker Martin and his friends at Detroit telegraphed to. A dog stood betwen the two men and both feil acioss it, but it was uniujured. Beoad oe Naekow Gauok. - We are in receipt of a communication from F. J. Moore, of North Lansing, vouched for as an experienced railroa'd man, advocatiug the narrow gauge road, with the hope, we presume, that that gauge will be adopted betweeu Toledo and this city, and the road extended from here to Lansing to connect there with the narrow gauge line being worked up between Lansing and Grand Ropids. We have been individually inclined to favor a nairow gauge, for the reason that it can be built aud operated tor less money, and would thereíore be a better investment. But as we learu from Gov. Ashley that the capitaligts who are to furnish him the money msist on the regular gauge it will be a waste of space to give the communication place in our columns. - m-' Do tou Know Heb ?- From S. G. Dow, Yuba City, Sutter Co., Cal., we have a postal card saying Information is wanted of the whereabouts of the widowed sister of Thomas Stevenson, a native of Glascow, Scotland, who came to this State (California) in 1852. The lady is supposed to be in the State of Michigan, aud she will learn something to her interest by addressing " as above. If Mr. Dow had given the widowed lady's name it would have been a little more business like. On Saturday . morniug last, August 25, we received trom the " Department of Public Instruction " (highfnlutin lor Superintendent of Schools) an official programma for the State Teachers' Instituto which commenced at Lansing Aug. 20 and concluded August 24 A little late we should think.

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