State News

- ihe fruitmen in western Michigan claim that the peaches are uninjured. - On Sunday Port Huron's Buptist Chureh wa9 destroyed by fire. Lo3s $10, 000. - Snow had lallen at Battle Creek for 50 oonsecutive days, and was still sitting down on Saturday. - Suits have been begun agninst six saloon keeper n Charlofte, for violating the 9 o'clock olosing ordinance. ■ - John C. Clement, proprietor of the Northern hotel in Plint and one of the earliest pioneeis of the place, died Jan. 5. - The supervisors of Eaton county have increased the amount of the bonds of the county treasurer from $80,000 to $100,000. - In a drunken affray at Allegan on Tuesday, Sara Underwood stabbel Frank Reilly badly, but it is thought he w ill recover. - Hon. Jos. K. Patterson, late and for years past prosecuting attorney for Oakland County, died at Pontiac on Tuesday aged 3i. - Mrs. Harriat Clark who caoie to Michigan in 1816, and who has been a resident of Pontiac since 1824, died Dec. 20 agod 86 years. - Plenty of good beech and miple stove wood can be bought at Innsing at $1.12)4 a cord, andsome coutracts are being filled at $1. - B. L. Gleason, forty years a resident of Kalamazoo and fifteen years ago proprietor of the Kalamazoo Qazette, died on Moridny. -Patrick Kavanaugb, a teamster near Owosso, had a log so badly frozen during the late severe weather that amputation was found necessary. - Oakland county officers must worry along on salaries us follows: County clerk, $650; prosecuting attorney, $700; judge of probate, $750; treasurer, $900. - It is reportad that two Charlotte women had a quarrol over a widower recently, and onefinally knooked theother down, blacking her eyes and making her nose bleed. - Ex-Cong. Kellogg who reprosented the Grand Eapids district from 1859 to 1865, aud afterward internal revenue collector in Alabama, died at Alliance, Ohio, on Tuesday. - A Bociety bas been formed at, Union City, Branch county, called the "City Legal Suasion Club," having for its object the suppression of the liquor traffic, billiards, gambling, etc. - A fire Sunday evening burned a woolen mili at Lyous, valued, with machinery and wood, at $9,000, property of A. Amsden & Bro; Also piaster mili owned by A. L. Eoof and W. C. llawley, which with machinery was a loss of $3000. - llobert Sterliug of Monterey, near Allegan aman 20yearsold, when returning from hunting Saturday evening undertook fo suppress a dog fight with thebutt end of bis loaded gun, accidentally shot himself through tho head. He was killed instantly.