State News

- Luni bonnen at Saginaw are oilering from $10 to $20 per month for choppers, and are securing all they can employ at tb ese ratea. - Joseph Hiron, one of the first aettlers of Monroe county, died on the 21st at his late residence in Frenchtown, at the ad vaneed age of 104 yeara. - John Harinon, formerly a merchant of Flint, but of late superintendent of the Chemical works at Bangor, Mich., died of typhoid fever on Saturday. - The Ionia prison commissioners have loased 100 of the convicta to a Obioago firm, C. H. Fargo & Co., with the privilege of 200, at 40 cents per day. They intern! to mauutanture boots and sliocs within the walls. - Seth Kern has pledged himself to f onsver abstaiu from intoxicating liquors as a coudition ot' his pardon from the Detroit house of correction. He was 83nt from Lenawee county for burglary for a term of three years. - Five boys named Adam Roof, Orvide Blondín, John Cauner, Fred. Canner, and Charles Fielder, arrestad at Morenci, Lenawee couuty, as trampa, and of a veteran character, have been sent to the statu lieforin School. - Eugcno Merchant, a printer employed on the Ilerald-TraveUr at St. Joseph, was found dead in an alley in the rear of that office last Sunday. It is Kupposod ho feil from the office door above while laboring under an attack of epilipsy. - A man named Meade, s resident of Bailey, Muskegon county, quarreled with his wife on the 16th, drew a revolver and shot her, the ball striking in the back purt of the head, but fortunately where her hair was done up and only pierced the skin. Meade has fled. - Mattors and things appear to be decidtdly mixed in Gladwin county. The Board of Supervisors met last week and had a Btoriny se9sion. It ia alleged tbat $4,000 in bonda belonging to the county have been stolen, or at least miaappropriated, and talk of making it lively for certain parties is freely circuculated. - The dwelling, store and barn of Hiram Parks, in Thomaston, Saginaw county, were burned on the 18th. The main building was occupied by Archibald DavÍH as a store and dwelling. He was insured for $1,000, which will nearly cover his loss. Parks was insured for $1,000, which will nearly make hun good. - A cyclone atruck Tawas City from the Southwest at about 5 o'clock Saturdoy afternoon, carrying with it a terrible work of destruction. Trees, fences, buildings, etc, were tossed about prouuscuously. Several roda of the tramway of both the Cameron and Whittemore docks were lifted, together with hundreds of bunches of shingles, boards, etc, and hurled several feet in the air and dashed into the lake. Considerable damage was done. - In (ienesee county a serious disease has broken out among the horaes and in some parta of the county its ravages have serioualy interfered with the farm work. The afilicted animal is taken with a aevere chili, which leavea it in a weak condition. Severe catarrhal inflaminatiou of the head followa, which soon reduces the horse to sucb a condition that it ia unable to work for a long time. - A state prison eonvict named Higgins, to wbom the insideof a prison had loog been familiar, attempted to escape on Frid.iy uight nud lost his Ufe in the attempt. A derrick stood iuside tho walls, the guy tupos extendiug outside. Higgins climbed the derriuk, intencling to go down the guy hand over hand, but his nerve or his grip failed and he feil, receiving injuries frora whioh be soon died. - Capt. Luther Ilarvcy, an oM, highly respocted, and well-known resident ot' Monroe, died at the residence of his son, in that city Sunday morning, aged 89. Capt. Harvey was a native of Vormont, went to Ohio iu 1810, ww a volunteer under Gen. HurriHoii, and served tbrough the war of 1812. He was an eye-witnesa of the great naval victory of Commodore Ferry, and inspected the ship8 the day following the engagement. He canie to the Biver Baisiu iu 1815, two years after the bloody massacre at that place. He was engaged in the rueruhant marine service for some years, owning and sailing several vessls. He has of late years resided on his farm near Monroe. - We learn from the Saginaw ('ourier that a furious wind and rain storm pussod through Isabella and Clare couuties on the 19th, doing ïnuch damage. At Coleman trees were blown down and fenoes leveled in every direction. A man namod C. Deau was struck by a falling tree and had his skull fractured. At Sherman City everythiug in the place was swept clean excopt one frame house, wbich was but partially injured. Mr. Johnson's store was levoled to the ground. The goods were blown ruauy of them miles away. The store of Mr. Calhoun had the roof takon oñ' and soine other damage done. The school house was made a complete wreek, and a log house belonging to Mr. McCane was destroyed. The heavy timlmi - were blown like chaff, only three lower ones being left. Mr. Trice, wagon maker, his wife and little girl and baby were badly injured. The baby can't live. Miss Thompson was also injured, and several men badly bruised, someof them struck with rlying debris. Timbera, boards, bricks and stoue were llying about as if they were straws. So violent was the hurricane that had not the people, as if by instinct, rushed to the cellars, the loss of lifo would have been severe. The place looks indoed desolate, and despair rests on many a face. Some are ruined and all suffsr heavily. The storm canie from two directions, northwest and southent, and seemed to come in collision over the devoted town.