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13
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April
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1883
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Miss Shoetnaker, a young lady 30 years of age, who lived in Charlotte, died a day or two igo af ter a long sickness. A post mortem by Drs. Patterson aud Allen revealed a tumor which weighed about 48 pounde. Luther R. Little, for 20 years a prominent merchant of Monroe, died at nis home in that city a few days ago. Threeboy Clayton Colwell, Charlie Gardner and Dorcas Olmstead, living in Muir, startcd down Maple river in a boat and had proeeeded mt about a quarter of a mile when the boat capslzed, drowping two of them, Clayton Colwell and Charlie Gardner. G. L. Waldorf's boy, 12 years old, was iustany killed at Hemlock, near St. Louis. He was standing on the drpot platform when a freight car door swinging loóse from a train feil and ntruck him on the head. The rcmains were ;aken to St. Louis by bis father who was with lim. A party, consietingof seven families, have eft Battle Creek for Hillsboro, Trail Co., D. T. The men lef t previous to their families, taking with them seven car loads of household goods, arming utensils, atock, provlsions and other necedsaries. Among the stock are flfty-eight excellent farm horses and six cows. The emijrants are all wealthy people and go with the ery best outfits possible. They will settle on ands bought by them a year ago, and upon which they have erected excellent houses and ontbuildiágs. Several other parties will start or Dakota and Colorado from the viciuity of Sattle Creek later in the season. The monthly report of the State salt inspector Maren shows that there were inspected 65,624 barrels of salt in Saginaw county, 50,468 in Bay and 9 401 inlluron, makinga total of 125,498 barrels. The order disconlinuing the weather slgnal office at Alpena bas been eountermanded, nd business of this sort will continue without ntermission. Cheboygan harbor ia entirely free from ice. Elmer Mills, living near Pewamo was fatally hot bv a companioa while out hunting. The hootiñg was accidental. Ex-Senator Ferry's health has greatly imroved. He sailed from New York recently for ïurope, to be absent one year. The new Charlotte charcoal compauy will reet kilns two mile6 southwest of the city on he G. T. road, where it owns400 acres of wood and; it has contracted to lurnish the Chicago market 10,000 bushels a mouth. (Upwards of 22,000 cars of) lumber and merhandise are shipped annually from Muskegon, )e6ides the enormous lake traffle. Marquette runs to extremes. A short time go E. S. Hardy, 74 years old, was admitted to ie bar, and now the city has elecied Sam Vheeler, aged 32, mayor. A. P. Swineford, commissioner of mineral tatistics, has made arrangements for an exibit of Lake Superior at the great exhibition t Chicago June 25th. He has also arranged or the free transportation of all specimens devered at the nearest railroad station previous o the lOth of that month. The life-saving erews along the lake drill ail. There is not a vacant house in Ithaca, and many new-comers to the place have to board at lotels or private houses. Never has Ithaca xperienced the progress that it does now. The Hon. R. O. Horr has appointed Bayard A. Chnrch of St Louis, Gratiot county, cadet o WestPoint, and Charles L. Stono of lierrien rownship, Shiawassee county, as naval cadet at Annapolis. l.Jlilh. VT . VlUIllt 111, OCLiCtHlJ (Jl tlJ .'11' Illilll ïorticultural society, calis the attention of chool teachers to tbe society's offer, which is made to encourage the embellishment of school ïouses with flowers. The offer is as follows: For the largest and best eolleetion of cut owers erown by pupils in school erounds in ny district in this state- flrst premium, $15; econd premium, $10; third premium, $10; ourth premium, $3." The state fair where ie flowers are to be exhibited will be held in Detroit in September next, and the state hortiultural society will undcrtake to receive the owers, display them and see that a proper iewing cominittee passes upon the relative merits of the various exhibits. A Bohemian on his way to Iowa wlth a party f emigrants on the Lake Shore road attempted ,o kill hls wife and three children by stabbing iiem with a pocket-knife. He was arrested nd jailed at Coldwater. The wife intcnds to eturn tb New York as soon as she is able to ake the journey. The would-be murderer is irobably insanè. James, alias "Ttvitt" O'Brien, who was arrested at Niles some time ago for purse snatching bas "squealed" on his partners and the eutire gang, consisting of five young men, who have Deen engaged for months In picking pockets, highway robbery, burglary and other breaches of the law, have been arrested and are now safe in jail. One is from Chicago; the others are citizens, three of them natives. It is reported that some Swiss in this state are inquiring the price of land, etc. , in Missouri with a view to emigrating thither and formiug a part of a olony that will buy 10,000 acres of land. Eluier Angle, the boy sent to Ionia for 90 ays for clipping a curl from a girl's head in Jenesee eounty, ha6 been pardoned by the ;overnor. Duriug the six months from Uctober to March inclusive, 71 men have been killed In the Michigan pineries from the iollowing causes : FaJling tree6 32, rolling logs 21, falling Hmbs 4, in other ways 14. During the same period last year the deatha numbered 45, an increase of 26. The Niles Democrat publishes the statement that recently an old lady some 81 years of age carne all the way from y crmont to see her rich brother, living near Sumnerville, just northeast of Niles, and when she arrived at his home, whcre she expected to receive a hearty welcome, she was met by a son of her brother who beat and drove her away, while the brothcr slippéd out of the back door and went away. Kind rienrts and neighbors interfered and cared for he old lady. Rev. Chas. N. Waldron, who was eketed mayor of Hillsdale on tUe ííd, po6itively decliues ,he ofh'ee. He was absent from the city wheu ie was nominated and elected. A large dele;ation of the leadiug Republieans waltod upon dm, and urged hini to accept, but he poeltively refused to üo so. ïhe eituation is peculiar, and there is a good deal of discussion ae to ïow the vacancy shall be filled- whether by the comroon eouncil or by special eleetion. "Our Familiar Songs." This is by no meansa mere music book , for it uot only contaihs the words and music (the music being wiittcn wltli piano accompaniment) of over bOO songs, vhich are nearly all the famous and familiar ones of the Engllsh r-peaklng race, but it also contalns the correct history of thO6e songs and sketches of thO6e who wrote the words and music. This niass of Information is most valuable and not to be found in any other book, or )ossibly in any collection of books. The book tself is elegantly bound and printed and wlll :orm a desirable additiou to au-y librarv. Agents wanted in every county, address C. F. Hammett, 97 Oriswold St.,Rooin 34, Detroit. Mrs. John Watts, wife of a prominent butcher of Jaekson, who had been drunk for several days, was arrested and lodged in jail, where shc died a few honrs after her inearceratlon. John W. Ciiampliu, of Grand Rapids, Mich. who has just beeu elected a Judge of the Sujreme Court of Michigan, on the Fusión ticket, Vlll be the flrst Dcmocrat to sit on that bench or many years. He is thorougbly fltted for ;he position for which he has been chosen, and xií legal attainments are such that he will grace a bench which now boasts of Judge Cooley and Campbell. Mr. Champliu A-as an intímate acquaintauce of Jay Gould whon a young man, and helped him to prepare the map of Delaware County, N. Y., WOlch he published at that time, and copies of which are Tery rare now. JLcjClBlatlvc ltccortl. Senatb, Apiil 3.- Mr. Grcuscl prcscntcdthe petitions of Mrs. James F. Joy, President Woman's Hospital and Foundlings' Home; Mrs. Caleb Vanllusan, President Detroit Iudustrial School; Mrs. Mary TbompBon, President Thompson Home for Old Ladies ; llrs. J5. C. Brush, Flrrt Directrcss Protestant Orphan Asylum; Sister M. Francis, Superior St. Mary's Hospital; Sister Genevieve, Superior Home of Providence : Sister M. Stella, Superior St. Vincent' Orphan Asylum: for the passage of the bill cstablUhlng a Poor Commission iu Wayne county. Petitions were also received for the passage of the Case amendinents to the Hquor faws; against the enactment of a prohibltory liquor few ; aleo for the submisbion of a pro hibitory amendmeut and for the appointment of a homeópata as the Superintendent of tht new asylum at Traverse City The iollow.Dg bill passed n third reading : legalizing the or ganizatlon of f ractional school district 5. of tht Towns of Forest Home and Crystal Lake Antrim Co., and authorizing payment o bonds and other ludebtedness. Ite-incor porating Saline; requiring the Clerk o the Supreme Court to give bonds ; amendin] section 7951 of the compiled laws relative to oeremptory challenges of jurors in crimina cases ; amending seetion 6037 of the compiled laws relativo to peremptory challenges of jurors in civil and criminal cases ; appropriatine; $2,850 for the new boilers at the Pontiac Asylum ; appropriating $3,000 for the State Pioneer Society ; authorizing the Town of Kearney, Antrim Co., to sell land to the county ; amending eection 1, chapter 10, act 184 of 1881, relative to public schools ; to allow the Soldiers' and Sailors' Association of Southwestern Michigan the use of tents ; for the construction of sidewallcs in towns and villages, tabled; for the cnforcement of specific performance of mining contracts The bilí granting lands to construct the Newaygo and Northport state road was lost. House. - Pctitions were received for the passage of the "Case amendments" to the liquor law; agaiuat'tbe Incorporatlon of Hesperia; for instruction in the nature of alcohol as a regular study in the primary school ; of citizens of Grand Ledge for the management of the Detroit House of Correction, the citizens complaining that United States orisoners are cared for iu that prison ; remonstrance of Aid. Appelt and Heek of Detroit, against the passage of any law that will reduce the revenues or impair the success of the Detroit House of Correction - The Governor communicated his approval of the acts to authorize the town of. (aröeld to issue bonds for building a bridge ; incorporating Cass City ; incorporating Breedsville; incorporatlng Westphalia; amending section 1828 of the compiled laws, relative to the support of the poor ; establishing a Park Coramissionin Detroit The House spent severa] hours ia committee of the whole. Of the bilis con8idered the following were killed by etriking out all af ter the enactine clauses : To repeal the standard form office Insurance policy act, beiDg act 149 of 1881; toamend section 18 of the general tax law and add section 110 to said act ; to authorize 6chool boards in Paw Pa-v, Antwerp and Dexter to lieense and examine their own teachers. Senate, April 5. - The usual petitious were presented, and the Senate proeeeded to act upon the íollowing bilis, all of which were passd : to establish a board of poor commissioners n the county of Wayne ; to make a slight amendment in act 204 of 1879, relative to the 'oreclosure of mortgages ; to amend act 49 of sitti vtAatinn f +V,n ïTïonnitiiin nf ïllnmirui tiliir ils; to amcnd the charter of Grand Rapids; o facilítate the construction of sidewalks in the illage of Grandport, Ecorse township, Wayne ounty ; to prohibit the eatching of fish with ets in certain water and at eertain times: to mend the act approved April 5, 1869, to auhorize the formation of corporations for the mrpose of improving the navigation of rivers ; o repeal an act of April 3, 1869, relativo to the ncorporation of savings assoeiations, and to ontinue as6ociations existing under said act. House.- The Auditor-General reported. that lie amount of liquor tax paid in 1881 was $55080 by 3,070 dealers and $913,084 by 3,444 dealrs in 1882. .The f ollowing bilis passeduponthe tiird reading : For straightening the chaunel f Cedar river ; amending the charter of East aginaw ; amending section 8 of the act of 1869 elative to flre and marine insurance companies ; ;o prevent fast riding over briáges; for the inorporation of Knights of Labor ; for a patent orlands to the heirs-at-law oí Elias W. Hedges, ate of Monroe county ; for the issuance of a latent for lands to Sarah McLain, Harriet ledges and John Hedges ; amending article 10, ection 9, of the constitution, relative to counies, lost ; amending the act establishing Deroit Housj of Correction by prohibiting the eception of United States prisoners ; ameoding et 194 of 1877, relative to insane asyiums ; mending section 3, chapter 7, act 343 of 1881, elative to highways ; to provide for the punshment of assaults upou females ; amending et 75 of 1881, relative to a change of route of ,he Little Traverse and Mackinaw State road; ncorporating St. Joseph; to abolish boards of eview in townships, which yesterday had all fter the enacting clause struck out and the jtlelaid upon thetable, was partially revived v a refereuce of the title to the committee on tatc aífairs. Senate, April C- Petifions were receivcd for u amendment to tlie laws for the protectioi: of irds, excluding Euglish sparrows from such irotection ; against perinltting diseriminations nfreights; for tbe passage of amendments to lie liquor lavvs ; infavorof piohibition; against H'ohibition aud for amendment to the liquor aws A. resolution was adopted authorizing he special committee to inquire into the legal tatus of the Detroit, Grand Hayeii & Milwauiee Railway, to take the testimony of such witnesses as may appear before them öente joint, resolution proposing an amendrni_ut ,o the Constitution prohibiting the traih'e in iquors, was agreed to in committee of the whole, but subsequcntly laid on thetablc, wlien he committee arose. House. - The petitions were for and against he Caso bilis, prohibitory legislation and the ubmission of a prohibitory amendment; for he privilege of forming manufacturers' mutualsaud for the suppression of lucal boards of unüerwnters ; lor the aamiesion 01 mutual ínhurauce companies of otlier states to do business iu Michigan ; for instructiou in schools as to the effer tsof alcohol; for the appolntmcnt and maintcnancc of a state game and fish warden.. .The following bilis were reportedadversely from committees and laid upon the able : To incorpórate the public schools of Green Township, in Alpena county; to repeal act 10 , session laws of 1877; to make it unawf ui to hunt or kill rabbits with the use of ferrets. . .Senate amendments to the following bilis were concurred in and the bil! were ordered enrolled ; to ame,nd section 3, of act 49, of 1881, relative to the inspection of illuminating oils ; to amend eection 1 of cliapter 10, of act lftt,;of 1881, relative to public instruction ; to repeál the savings assoeiation act of 1869 and to continue sueh assoeiatious 7he Barnard bül, giviug minority of stockholders a reprcsentatipn on boards of directors, was amended by striking out "proviso," excepting Upper Península, and the bill as amended was placedon the order of third readiug All after enactiog clause was etruckoutof House bill No. 207, relative to appeals from justiccs' judgments. Senate, April 7.- Petitions were presentcd for the passage of a law to prohibit unjust diseriminations in railroad freight rates, for the preyention of deniauds by railroads on farmers delivering grain for transportation, of extra weight for shriukage; for the passage oí the Bolgcr bill relative to reception of conviets at the Detroit House of Correction ; from Myers & Co., of Chicago, eubmitting proposition for publication of the compiled laws of Michigan ; tor the passage of the Case liquor ainendment bilis and agaiust any probibitory legislation The following bilis passed on third reading : To amend the charter of Blissfleld in the county of Lenawee ; to amend section 5976 of the compiled laws relative to making actions of trespass and trespass on the case transitory ín certain cases ; 1o prohibit law partners of prosecuting attomeys from defending persons whom such prosecutors are required to prosecute ; to provide for tue payment of fees to the county of Wayne in suits and proceedings in the circuit court for said county ; to amend section 10 of act 243 of 1879, relative to remováis from office ; to amend section 4971 of the compiled laws relative to transfer of causes from one circuit court to anqtlier in qertain cases ; for the f ition of olubs íor social purposes ; to amend jections 5, 7 and 28 of act 70 of 1873 relative to the commlssioner of railroads ; to provide for lakiug the census aud statistics of tuis state; to provide for marking aud branding live stock. The bilis providing for the care and custody of criminal lunática and amending the !aw ia reference to the trial of insane crimináis were tabled for further consideration Tlie following bilis were defeated: To punish wrongful conversión of money or property by warehousemen, forwardiugor {ommissionmerchauts ; to protect the riffhte of laborera ; to amend the act of 187a, relative to state agency for the care of juvenile offenders. Vote rceonsidered and bill tabled ; to punish persons for obtaining money, raüroad tickets or transportation by false pretenses ; reconsidered aud bill laid on the table. House. - Vetitions were received for the abolishmcnt of the contract Bystem in the state prison ; for the passage of the bilis amending and modifying the present liquor law ; for the submission of a prohibitory amendment ; for the admission of mutual hre insurance companies of other states to do business in Michigan ; against the establishment of a poor coinmission iu Detroit House bill No. 185, detaching territory from Bay county and organlzing the new county of yrenac, passcd on third reading - and was given jmmediate cffeet All af ter the enacting clause was struck out in Senate bill No. 34, amendiug the school law of Detroit by authorizing the increase of taxation per capita npon the 'stimate of the board of education. The House concurred in thisaction and the title of the bill v, as laid on the table House bill No. 105, repealing act of April 3, 1809, relative to savings associations, which passed yesterday, was on motion of Mr. Darragh roconsidered. The bill was laid on the table. öenate, April 9.- PetltiouB were recc-ived for the submission oí a probibltory amcndineut; ior the passage of the Case amendments to the LUaor Tax law ; ior the regulation oí freight rates ou railroads The Senate recon sidered and laid on the Uble the íollowing bilis whleh were lost on their flnal passage : To protect the rights of laborers ; to provitle for marking and branding live stock. The iollowing bilis passcd on third reading: Relativo to proseeutious Tor libel; to provide for tbc establishment of wills during the life-time of testators; reineorporatiug Portland; amending sec tion 026 of the compiled laws, relatlve to remováis f rom oftice ; amending act 120 of 1877, relative to courts and powers of eertaiu judicial offleers ; bill eeding certain lands now owned by the state to the city of Jackson; and bill rnaking a grant of state lands to remove obstructions in Cass river, Sanilac county, were tabled pending their paspage Bill to protect the rights of laborers referred to abovc, was taken from the table, again put on lts passage and lost Bill amending section 5,166, relative to the conveyance of lands by infants, idiots,lunatics and otber incompetents, was, pending its passage, referred back to the { fm Yïït +Í41 fï tVlífc .Til fliíl a tT House. - Petitions were presented for and agaiust the passage of the Case bilis, the enactmeut of a prohibitory law and the submission of a prohibitory constitutionai amendment to the people ; for and against the extensión of time for the completion of the Marquette, Iloughton & Ontonagon Kailroad; íor the enlargement of the boundaries of School District No. 1, in L'Anse Townsliip, in the county oí Baraga The House spent ncarly the entlre day in committee of the whole. Senatb, April 10. - Petitlons in favor of passage of bilí to amend the charter of the village of St. Joseph ; for the prevention of unjust disdiscriminatlons in railroad freight rates; for the promotion of exactions from farmers who ehip grain, of extra weight for waste or shrinkage ; for favorable action on the Blacker bijl, in the interest of the laboring classes Action was taken on the following measures: to amend section 5 of the Michigan Central rail road act of March 28, 1846, was passed. Immediate effect ; to amend certain sections of the 6tate prison act of May 3, 1875, was lost. Vote reeonsidered and bill laid on the tab Ie ; to protect the rights of laborers, being the "Black.. _1 1.1! !_-_ -_1_ ■ _l_ 1_ J 11 __ - .lüAJ -J. er uní. v oie vy wmcu uní wus ueLeaLeu hl former eession reconsidered and bill laid on the table ; to provide for an asylum for insane crimináis, was passed; to organize the county Of Arenac out of the northern part of Bay county, was passed, to prevent fast drivlng over bridges owned by countles, was reported adversely from cominittee on roads and bridges and was laid upon the table; to authorize the organization ola lire departrnent in Norway township in the eounty of Menominee, was passed ; to amend certain seetlons of the act to revise the charter of the city of St. Clair, was passed. The governor,by message, announced bis signature and approval of the bilis to add a nevv section (section 3) to an act for the protection of human life on railroad trains ; to provide for layingout a state road in Leelanaw county ; to lay out a state road in Grand Traverse county ; to settle a claim of Robert Hood fr 6hortage in school lands. House.- The petitions submitted were for and against the submission of a prohibitory amendment, and against establishing a poor eommission in Wayue county. . . . A large grist of bilis were passed, the following belng the most important : Reincorporating Saline ; appropriattng $131,150 for the school for the blind ; legalizinsr the ditch tax roll of Le Roy, Calhoun county; to punish iiersons guilty of assault with intent to do great bodily harm ; to provide for commencemeut of actioñs of tort againit nou-residents; to define duties of iustices of peuce in certaiu inetances ; amending act of 1879 relative to sale of leascbeld interests in lands on execution; for reassessmeuts of delinquent taxes; for maiutenance of stone roads in Bay county; amending act relative to Detroit water works; amending section 31 , act S) of 1882, bsiug general tax law ; granting state lands to improve Elk river, Antrim county ; amending acts relative to Albion college; amending sectiou 99 of general tax iaw of 18S2; increasing the salary of the auditor general ; appropriating $91,C0Ó or tae state public school at Coldwater; amendng section 4733, C. C, relative to divorce; ior ayment of wage6 earncd and materials leïivercd on public buildings aud public works; amending act of 1881, relative to election of jurors to lay out highways; amending certain sections of higuway act of 881; appropriating $G,ÜO0 for tbc library; amcuding act creating board of public works, ietroit; amending seetion 534 C. L., relative o eompeusation of prosecuting attorneys; amendiug section 8033, C. L., relative to countyjails; reincorporating Caro; amending act iucorporating Caro ; reincorporating Saranac; requiring torms of the Ingham circuit court ,o bo held at Lansing ; amending section 5179, C. L., relative to coarts of chancery ; amending section 4907, 0. L., relative to the supremo court; in reference to statistics to be published iy the secretary of the state board of health ; amending section 5059, C. L., relative to courts of chancery ; discontinuing a highvvay in T roy, Oakland cöunty. licalli of (liarle C. Trowbrldgc. Hou. Charles C. Trowbridge died at bis home n Detroit on the 3d inst., in his 84th year. The mmcdiate cause of his death was pneumonía, and so sevcre was the attack that even his ro)ust constitution was not able to withstaud its ravages. Charles C. Trowbridge was bom ia Albany, tf. ., on December 29, 1799, and was cousequentlySS years, 3 monthsand 5 daysold at the time of liia death. Ile caine of Revolutionary stock, liis father, Lutlier Trowbridge, having jeen an oflicer in a Massaehusetts regiment during the war for Independente, serving with credit to himself and the state. Soou after the close of hostiiities Mr. Trowbridge moved to Albany, where Charles C. was bom. At the ige of twelve he became a elerk in the store of [[oratio Roes, at Oswego, where he remained until 1S19, when he eame to the theu territory of Michigan, locating in Detroit, then a military and trading post of but a few hundred injabitants; and trom thut day to the liour of ais deatli he lias been iutimately counected with the development and interests of the city and state. He early won the friendship of Gov. Lewla Cass, and licld many poeltioue of trust under liin, espoclally in treaty ncgoti&lious with the [ndians. In such diplomatic relations he was peeuliavly euceessful hy reason of his kuowledge of the Indiau tongues. So high was the estimation in which he was held bv Gen. Cas?. that wben tbc ex-Governor became SecretaryoL-War duriug President Jackson's administratiou, heurged Mr. Trowbridge to accept a leading position in that departmeut;buthedeclind, beiug averse to entering political life. In 1825 lie was appointcd casbier oí the Bank of Michigan, at that time the only bank of issue west of Roehester, N. Y., and nortb of Ciucinnati. In this positiou be remained until be was elected mayor of the city in 1834. That was the year when Detroit was visited by Asiatic cholera, and his self-sacrilicing efforts to stay the pestilence and assuage tbc eufferings of Iris fellow-citizcus are mattcis of history. 80 able was his administratiou of municipal "aflairs that in 1837 the Wliigs made liim theircandidate for the first Governor of the State, but he was defeated by Stevens T. Mason, the Democratie caudidate, who bad previously been Governor of the Territory. In 1839 he became President of the Bank of Michigan, and continucd to hold that responsiblc position as long as the bank remained in existenee. In 1844 be aecepted a similar posi tiou in the Michigan State Bank, whleh office he held until 1854. In the previous year, hovvever, lic was chosen the Secretary, Treasurer and Resident Director of the Detroit and Milwaukee Railroad Company, and in 18(53 he was elected lts President. ïhis oflice he held until, in 1875, the road passed into the hands of a recciver, to whieh office he was appointed by the Judge of the Wayne Circuit Court, and in which position be remained until the road was purchased by tbc Grcat Western Railway of Canada. He had, also, long been President of the Detroit & Ilowell Plank Road Compauy. A ï 1- 1 ■ ■ I . I fl i . . 1 t 1 . . ■ . t L,. ■ I ' 11 4" 4 ,.H Zn lillllll'lli tl I r lili I TT ' i ' t , ] 1. I ■ . I U "J'S -'-' V M A U Ir ■ - ■ - - ■ a 1.1 ■ x this man's career and charaeter, would be superfluous. ín his religious belief Mr. Trowbridge was a zealons Kpiscopaliau, but íq liis life all deuominational bias was doue away witb, and his wbole career ehines as aluminous and beautiful example of the valué of rlglit liying, and Christian practlce. A Miclilgan mine DiEUi&tcr. Au Escanaba dispateb of the llth inst.T eays the Keel Ridge Mine, bctween Quinnesec and Iron Mountain, caved in, carrylng down the eugine house and eiglit men. Only one man was rescued, and his legs and scveral i ibs were brokeü. The others are dead. There were no inen at work in the mine, tlieee unfortunate ones being on the surface. Auotlier Accident. An accident occurred on the F. & P. M. railroad, three miles from East Saginaw, by wliich John Ilewitt, engineer, and C. L. Rhodes firemen, lost their lives. The train was thrown from the track, by reason of a broken rail. He who has uo opinión of his own, but dcponds upon the opinión and tastes of others, is a si ave. - Klopstock.

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