Michigan State News

jome vandal recently broke a piece olí tha marble-top of tlie President's desk iu tho Seuate chamber at the State Capítol at Lar, ging, usiug the President's ebouy gavel to break it. Boynk Fallí expects to be chosen ae the location of a State fish hatchery. A Detkoit house has received an order from Bremen, Germany, for a ship-load oí clothes-pins, comprising about ten thousand cases. A K.u.amazoo paper asserts that two boys killed a rattlesnake with tea rattles, in front of a residenee on Union street, under a street lamp, the other evenins;. It will take $7,:5J to run the public schools of Grand Raiiids this year. CiovERxoR Chosswell has caused a handsome and durable headstone to be set up to mark the grave of Captain David Hicks at Stuit Ste. Marie. Captain Hicks was one of the friends of the Governor's youth, and died of cholera at the Sault in 1854. Afibe in Grand Kapids the other night destroyedthe residence of Cornelius Vanlam and contents. Loss $1,300 or $1,300. He had been from home some liours, and thinks it was the work of an ineendiary. A saw mili at Olive Center, ten miles north of Holland, was burned on the 6th. Loss, $5,0.(0. The product of the Michigan salt wells for the month of August was 301,301 barrels. Tliis is the largest amount ever produced in any one month in the history of the salt trade in Miehigai. Peacdes are rotting in the orchards of Saugatuck, ánd growers think it better to lose them in the orchard than in Chicago, the prices are so low there. The farmers of Muskegou are eomplaining of the potatoes rotting all through the eounty. Os the af ternoon of the 6th John L. Peltier, a Detroit laboring man, while drunk and in a fit of Jealousy, shot his wife and then himself. Both balls took effect in the head, but, bein from a pistol of small caliber, did not penétrate the skull. On the 5th at Detroit the wife of William Samm prepared breakfast and went to sit on the piazza while the family was gathering. When all were ready they called her, but she was dead. llox. A. BMITH Bofia died at Detroit on the morning of the 6th, of apoplexy, while seated on h8 piazza, holding a little child. He carne to Detroit forty-flve years ago, and forty years ago was a member of the flrm of Bogg & Ilannon, publishers of the Free Press. He retained this connection for several years, when the paper went into possession of Mr. Storey, now proprietor of the Chicago Times. The State Board of Education have tendered the Principalshtp of the State Normal School at Ypsilanti to Prof. M. MaeVicker, Principal of the State Normal and Training School at Potsdam, N. Y. He has accepted the charge, and will enter upon his duties about November 1. . The Michigan Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument Associaüon, at its annual mee ting in Detroit on the 7th re-elected the ofllcers. The Treasurer reportel that money to furnish four heroic bronze statues, to complete the designs of the sculptor, Randolph Rodgers, was in hand, and that the monument woula accordlngly be completed this winter. At East Saginaw a few days eince W. W. Henderson, oL Deer Creek, was robbed of Í240 on tbe street. Horace Beckei', of Bay City, formeriy Deputy United States Marshal, was arrested and jailed the next morning on susoicion of being the thief. ÍT :s stated that the proprietors of several Grand RapMs faetones, where hordes of children are employed, are discharglng all those who cannot read and write, in ordei" that the ehildren raay go to school and the employers eecape the consequences of laws in such malters made and provided. Tue expectation conceruing the Michigan pineries is tlmt, if it is a good winter, more pine will be cut than in any one winter during the last five years. The jobbers are taking jobs averaglng froin ten to twenty million f eet. A Detroit syndicate has contraeted for jarge bodies of timb.:r-land along the line of the Detroit, Macdnac & Marquette Riilroad. Tue cultivación of tobáceo in Gladwin County has this year been attended witU encouraginí success. Kalamazoo has employed a competent englneer to make survey for an efficiënt system of sewerage. Ax immense ater-lily found ncar the "cut" in Torch Lake is now puzzling the botanical faculty of Yale College, to which institute of learning it was sent by the person who found it. A WEALTiir citizen of Detroit, whose wife and children were on the steamer Marine City when it burned in La';e Huron, and es. caped with their lives, has glven $1,000 worth of gold and silver watches to the offlcers anl crew of that vessel. The good peoplo of Gran i Haven, living on Water street near the wharf, were suddenly awakened by a tremendous noise on the morning of the 8th, which proved to be caused by the explosión of the boiler of the tug Jerome. The Captain, Moses Gerard, says he was asleep in the pilot-house and heard a noise l.ke somethlng breaking loose, which wakened him. He went to sleep again, and the next he knew he was lying on the doek, about forty feet from where the tug lay, soalded and considerably bruised, but, strange to say, not seriously hurt. The fi reman, Henry Walkei says he was in the engine-room also asleep when he explosión occurred. Before he lay down he says he made a good lire, and had about thirty pounds of steam on. He does not know what caused the explosión. There was no one else aboard. Fraainentsof the boiler and other debris were scattered around for several hundred feet. The tug was worth $3,000 and is a total loss. Gov. McCr.Ki.i.AXD'.s will gives his widow Í5.000 annually until her death, when the estáte is to be equally diyided between the children. At a largely-attendeil school meeting in the City of Mauistee, the other night, it was voted by sixty majority to discontinue the reeding of the Bible in the schools. The following are tlie Detroit wheat quotations: Wheat, Extra, $105í@l.06%; No. 2 White, 1.00((?1.01; September, do., Sl.O.V; @l-05%; October, do., l.00@1.06; November, do., tl.OM@l.mj(i No. 2 Ked, $1.05í@1.0tí. - The pilots and sailors of Havre were enjoying the excellent weather, when an immense cloud of long black flies descended upo them, driving everybody before theni in panic. Those who could not take refuge in the cabins of their ships were förced to Hee ashore, and so terrible was the rush of the insects that their Üight s deseribed as beinglike that of agreat drift of black snow. At length the storm passed by, and it was then found that the sails of the ahip3 were simply hidden under the masses of flies whioh had crowded upon them, and that myriads of dead insocts remained behind to teil of the devastating body that had gone on. - At a performance in Basle by a gymnastic society, a woman was killed bv falling from a tight rope stretched sixty-five feet in the air. She was passing over the rope on a velocípedo, from which a trapege was suspended, on which a man performed. Kendered careless by repetition, the rider on the velocipede bent down to adjust a strap, lost her balance, and the machine turnedover. The velocípedo was itself secured to the ropo, and thus the man on the trapeze escaped.