State News Brevities

The co-operative Grange store t St. ■Tolins luis collapged. Six fine new passenger coaches liav been put upon the Michigan Central. ïhere were 2.30,000 railroad tios, worth $40,000, cut in the vicinity of Mnominee the past winter. Arnong the other exporta of Rockwood, Mouroe Oounty, last wt-uk wero 2,500 prime rat skins. Out at Charlotte, Eaton County, a Mr. SmitU kissed a Mrs. Young, aud a jury hs assossed Mr. Young's daiuages at $80. H. R. Gardner, of the Jonesville wooleu milis, has been acquitted at Jackgon on the charge of ubtaining money under fal6O pretenses. When the new time table on the Detroit and Bay City road goea into efl'ect, running time between Detroit aud Bay City will be Bhortened froni five hours to tour. There was a $25,000 fire at Lapeer on the 13th inst. The sash and blind factory of C. M. Hemingway and $ 10,000 worth of lumber belonging to Hamilton Littleiield. Near Ovid, on the llth inst., Edward Thurston, a colored man, was brutally murdered by Charles Nitz and his two sons. The trio were arrested and lodged in jail at Corunna. Judge Green has dectded against the free bridge at EastSaginaw, and granted au injunction restraining the uity and the Smith Bridge Company froin doing any further work on tbe same. The St. Louis (Gratroit County) Hernld learns that the missing link to connect the Chicago, Saginaw & Canada Railroad with the Detroit, Lansing & Northern Railroad will be build this spring. The townships of Greenbush and Binghara, Clinton County, voted between $5,000 and $6,000 at the late spring election to gravel and iuiprove the mainly traveled thoroughfares witbin their borders. John Kapp, a school teacher at Pavilion, Kalamazoo County, has bern fined $25 tur unreasonably punishing a scholar. He is said to be a good teacher, but this case is said to be one of sevore treatment. He has appealed the case. In the Berrien Circuit, John Gablick has been sentenccd to State Prison for seven years, Juliua Gritzener for three and a half years. and Anthony Bachman for thrtre years, they being convicted of stealing goods from Michigan Central freight cars. A few days since a farmer from Lamont purchased, amoug other goods, a whole piece of prints calicó at a store in Grand Rapids. On opening the piece at home there was fouud a diamond stud which Vas afterward sol'l for $oó. The stone was probably dropped into the goodïat the factory when being foldod or put up. The Leuawee Circuit' has sent Daniel Tanner to Ionia for one year, for horse stealing in Ogden ; Adam Stooker to one year at Jackson, for receivingstolon property ; Ralph Sutliff to Ionia for two years, for cow stealing, and George Williams, an accomplice in the same crime, to Jackson for two years ; Dightou Kimball to Jacksou for five years for burglary at Hudson, aud John Lewis to Iouia for six mouths, and Aunie Mo Dermott to Detroit for the same time, for lewd cohabitation.