News Of The Week

Henry P. Seeley, oews dealer, aged fo. fle ; libeiWly simt himseU througb the head m frout of nis place of business ou Sonto Main street, Adriau. Cause, drinJdng. Burelars entered the postoflice at Atliens, Calhoun Co, Tucsiluy nlght, blcw open the afe and obtaioed $400 iu stamp and cash. Tbey also entered severa! stores aud tk 111 aU about f 1,200. From November lt! to December 3 no mail rvaclied Sault Ste. Marie. Then BW miv" bags arrlved at once. The annual meeting of the central Michigan poultry and pet stock association will com inence at Charlotte on Tuesday, iMemlxi L and continue for four lays. The premiums of this association are open to all coinpetitors. The balance of cash in the state treasury i)ecember 4 was 1,485,236 47; receipts tor the week ending December 11 were ÏK!,WJ4 Ub; uaymenU for the samo time, $ 34,603 10: lenrfug a balance December 11, 1880, of $1,438,427 15; decrease for the week, $1,809 82. The Presque Isle couuty returning board, Uready under arrest under the state laws, liare also been arrestad on a process issued under the United States laws. At Adrián they are wriously dlBOngslnff the auestion of whether they will rebuild the bumed portion of Adrián colicué or remove the institution to some other place. The ravages of a malignant type of diplitlie ria at Clio have carried off U persons, and over 70 have suffered from the disease. I. N. Covert, of Franklin. Oakland oounty, killed a two years Polaud China porker a few days ago, which weigbed 904 pounds alive,and dressed 705} 4 pounds. It is announced that Mrs. K. S. Custer, inother of the late en. George A. Custer, is lying at the point of death at her homo in Monroe. She has never recovered from the shock of the death of the great cavalrymau and her other ons. Theresultof the Adrián collego conference was a decison to rebuild the burned north hall, rigidly overhaul the college finances, set the work up iu a business like mauner, invoke the co-operation of the citizens of Adrián and the chürch, and put the college on a good footingin all respecta. John Reardon, a farmer living near East Saginaw, ate a hearty break fast, and then took his own life by cutting lus tliroat witb apocketknife. He was in good circumstances, llved bappily with his fauilly, and yet before he died he said he had contemplated ■ulcide for three years past. "The Northeastern Agricullural society of the state of Michigan" is the name of a new ■ociety organized at Flint. January 11, 1S81, there will le a notable meeting of "Knights of the Maccabees of tlie World'rat Port Huron, when it is probable that the two existing chief bodies of that order, known as the "Supreuie Tent" and "Graat Camp," will be Consolidated. The meeliug will be an important one, and arrangemente are now being made to the end that it shall be interesting as weU. The Michigan salt inspectora iuspected 2,676,598 barrels of salt tuis year. The cbief inspector says iu his report: "The year just endedbas been marked by an evident desire to test the full extent of the" salt-producing area. New wells have been put down at Stamlish, St Louis, Gratiot counly. and at Manisteo. It Is, however, too early to sueak defiuitely of the results. WelLs are also projected ut Columblaville, Alpena and Cbeboygan. The point last named being in the Helderberg fonnation. There are good grounds for supposing that borings wiU develop the sanie resolte tliat have been obtained at (iodorieh, Canada, where three separate strata of rock salt have heen found." Rev. M. H. Taylor, of the Pittsburg cenference of the methodist protestant chorcb, lias been appointed acting president ol Adrián college, vice Geo. B. McElroy resigned. Senator Baldwin will not push forward the Detroit bridge bill at this session, as he tbinks it will stand a better chance in the next con gress. Bets have been made in Adrián that two United States senators will be elected by the next Michigan laglalatuie, one in place of Senator BaloTio and the other in place of Senator Feriy. The 2Hth annual meeting of the Michigan state teachers' assoriatiun takes placo id l.an8ing December 2i, 2!t aud 30 in represen tative hall. Thursday last, the liank in the deep cut on the railroad four miles north of Gaylord eaved and buried one man enttrely, küllng him. ;md partly buiying two oí tfaree otbera, who were got out a)ive. Tbe killed man was a l'ole, aged about 23, nanienot givea. An accident occurred on the Northwestern Grand Trunk railroad near Flint. Fourteen Ireight cars were ditcbed and some valuable stock killed. No puivons were injured. Tbe winter meeting of the State Agricultural society will be beid Jan. 1Ü, at wbich propqsals will be receivetl tor bolding ;lie next exbibition. Jackson and Kalamazoo will put in blds. A Ooldwater man has Intentad and successfully operates a cheap and durable machine for sharpening the calks on horse-sboes, without taking the ehoee off the hoofs. The iron has all been laid on the Marlet tt branch of the Port Huron fe NoTthweetern railway, and the company lias lui', miles ol narrow guage railway line in operation. Between 75 and 100 bodiesaredissected eacli winter at the state university. So says Dr. Bodeman of the class of '74. At last accounts the legal fees in a lawuil at Muskegon about $7 worth of bogs had rui np to $275.40 - and the lawyers had uot put in thelr bilis yet Leopold Heller, agent for a Milwaukee liquor house, was arrested at Muskegon a few days ago for selling liquor without paying the state tai. He was ñued $25 and costa. The Grand Rapids & Indiana railroad conipanywill put down 40 miles more of stee track next season. Morgan Case of Napoleon, sold in Jackson Monday, a 4-year-old steer weighing 2,74( pounds, and a cow, same age, weighing 1,880 pounds, at h)4 cents per pound,the two bringIng him $2öb.i2. The annual meeting of the state association of mutual fire insurauce companie9, wil) 1 held In Lansing in the Pioneer' room, capito building, January 25, at lü a.m. During the month ending December 15, Ros common shippi'd 71,fl(i4 pounds of deer car casses and 17,45 pounds of venison in picces This represente about 3Ö0 detr. Mr. James Monroe has been confirmed by the senate as United States marshal for the western district of Michigan.