State News Brevities

Afamily in California, Brnnch County, went out calling the other c'ay, and on their rotura found the following polite note on the tablo : " When you go a visiting again, lcave some one at home, or lock your doors, else you will be taked possession of by tramp : we might have cleaned out your clothes line, but, though we are hard up, we have only taken what we wanted to eat, and we luwe made one good square meal." The following are the Manistce lumber Btatistics lor the past season : Tiinber mannfactured, 157,184,104 feet: shingles, 222,231,250; luth, '26,800,000. There are 15 saw milis and ten shinglo milis. Tb o shlngle milis have all run to thoir full capacity. Sevoral of them did not start up until June, and shnt down oarly. In 1872, the amount of luniber shipped was about 220,000,000 feet. The number of men employed in the milis was l,07ó, and the average wages about $25 per month. The Ontonagon Minar say the total product of the 15 coppor mines in that district rturing 1877 was 566 tons being about three tons luss than in 1876. Eüra Cole and wife.of Threo Rivera, St. Joseph County, eelebrated their pearl wedding (Outh unnivcrsarv) ou Monday The Huw wull and tank ot Adrián havo been tested, with the following result : The two steain tire engines working at their full eapaoity eannot exhaust them in less than tivo houra, wliile tho tank alone can be exhaustud in two and one-half hours. At Muir on the night of January, 19, Robert S. Oshorne, a partner of Dr. Hutchinsoti, of Ijyons, was knocked down and robbed of 600 by three tramps. They stabbed him three times, leaviug hiui for doad. A diary in his side pocket saved his life. During the year 1877, there were 129 persons arrested and prosocutod ou criminal charges in Branch County. Of this number 4'2 wore for larcuny ; 33 for assault and bnttery ; 3 tor forgery ; 1 for murdor ; 1 for seduction, and 7 for violating the liquor law.