Minor State Happenings

St. Ignaee had a $20,000 flre on the 24th inst Smith Bros., of IlillsJale have just imported elglj t Norman stallions. Bllnn.;the Bay City editor, Is held for trial on a charge of eónspiraev. Bail was fjxed at S3,CO0. The Michigan hedge company has been organlzed -it Ailrian wit':! paid up capital of $U0,0,0. Howcll has raised the necessary í'40,000 to secure the T. A. A. & N. M. railroad, aadwork will begin at once. Mrs. A. E. Daniels took morphine to help her up the golden stairs. A doctor and a stomacu pump brought her back. Ben Butler will defend Representative T. B. Barry who is under arrest enarged with conspiracy and inc itln% to riot. A competitive examination for a cadetship at West Point for the Fourth District will be held at Kalamazco October 10. Celery farmers in Kalamazoo estímate the damage to th t erop by the late rain to be fully $50,000, and perhapa $75,000. AMuskegon lamber king believes that by the middle of 1VS , hnnber will rcach the highest price kuown ior 10 yea-s. Government sanitury inspectors are to be ap pointed at Detroit and Port Huron to aid the local inspectors in keeping out the small-pox. Diphtheria has been prevalent in Springwelis, - the Detroit annex - and nearly 2J0 children have died from the disease this season. A meeting of the Michigan state división of the travelers' protect'on association of the Unitcd States will b hekl at Lansing Friday, Aug. 28. Ex-Congressman E. S. Lacey, of Charlotte, will deliver an atldress on the silver question before the American tankers' association at Chicago on Sept. 23. John Schneider, aged 22 years of Adrián, was killed the other ai'ternoon by a team running away in the town of Dover and crushing him against a bain. Elmore Benedict, aged 7 years of Leónidas townfhip, St. Joseph county, feil from a separator and was crushed to cleath, two wheels passing over his body. Hillsdale college conferred the degree of Doctor of Laws on Gov. Alger. The governor in return recently sent his check for $200 for the college endowmeat fund. Tüe body of Fred Martin, son of Mrs. Williain Martin, 11 years o'.d, was found in the Ka'amazoo river at Batt'.e Creek. It is supposed that he feil in while fishing Brighton village has guaranteed S10,000 to the new railroad, and now the farmers of the surrouading country are being urged to make up tbe remaining $6,000, required as a bonus. Mrs. Butcher, a colored woman from Calvin to vnship, aged about CO years, feil dead at the Air Line depot in Cassopolis while eating lnnch. Heart disease is the supposed cause. Mrs. Court Allen, an old pioneer of Roya Oa!:, died a few days ago. She was one of the most pbilantbropic woman this state bas proSucea, and was quite well kaówn throughout it. Frrjan2o Smith, a well-to-do farmer of Adrián township, has becoma violently iasane acd has been taken to the Toledo insane asylu-n. It is not kcown what has brought about Uis present deplorable mental coadition. Myron Bumpus of Bellville, Imllcted by the granel jury for the murder of Martiia Bell, has been released on 83,000 bail. Ilis securities were Mrs, Bumpus of Kawsonviile, mother of the aeeused and Addison Fleteher of Ypsilantl. John Tribers:, a newly arrived Finlander was instantly killed In the Tamarack mine recentlv. He was in a bucket coming up out of the mine aud bejoming Irightened at a sudden descentol a short distanee, sprang oat, fallingl40 feet. Catherine Butcher, a woman about 50 years of age, dropped dead in the Air Liue depot a' Cassopolis, whüe waiting for a train. A post mortem examinat:on disclosed the fact that death was caused by a clot in the right ventricle oí' the hcart. The strikers' relief store at Saglnaw City has been closed, the men haring generalij' received work the necessity for lts existence had ceased. During the time it was in operation 268 families were relieved and 488 rations were distributed to applicants. A young son of Henry Haller of Hemloek City, 12 miles from Sagiaaw City, was seriously nurt by a kick frora a young colt. Drs. Êarber and Davis oí Saginaw. aud Rbine of Hemloek Citj-, trepanned the boy's skull. It is doubtful if "he wiil recover. Gilbert Wilson, for years with his brother in Kalamazoo, a leather dealer, feil from au apple tree on his farm in Cooper and was f ound lying dead alone, about an hour af ter the accident. He was well-known throughout the eounty. His age was 60 years. Gov. Alger has called the attention of the national authorities to the epeJemic of smallpox at Montreal, and suggests that measures be taken immediately to prevent lts introduction into the Unit,eiJ States, presumably by way of railway routes into Mlehgan. The test drilling on the site of the proposed St. Clair river tunnel at Port Huron is progressing satisf actorily. Six holes have been made in the bed of the river, and rock was struck at an average deüth of 49 feet. The construction of the tunnel is not yet a settled fact, but is very probable. A justice of thepeaceon Drummond's island sentcneed a farmer to jail for 20 days for hauling in his hay on a Sunday, though it was done to save it from an approaching storm. Judge Steer immediately released the farmer, and the latter will prosecute the justice for false imprisonment. EFerdinand Yahukl, the murderer of Armstrong in Frankfort, was found guilty of murder in the second degree and remanoed to his eell. When Judge Fallass tokt an offlcer to bring Yahuki up for sentence it was found that iie had committed suicide by hanging himself with a picture cord in the jail. A shooting tournament wlll be held and the Michigan trap shooters' association will meet at Milford September 9, 10 and 11, at which tima the following special prizes will be contested for: The individual championship medal of Michigan, donated by the American Clay Bird Company, and team championship of the'state. James (Crocker) Calahan, a farmer living six miles west of Mt. Morris, was in that village thother evening, and after drinking to some extent started for home. His horses ran away en route, throwing him from the wagon and injuring him so that he died four hours later. Deceased was a single man about 26 yeais of age. A largo barn on the farm of Richard Newman, inEmmettownship, CalhounCo.,together with horse-sheds, a large quan tity of hay, grain and agricultural iniplements, was burned the other ovening. The loss will amount to $2,500; partially insured. The fire was caused by sparks i'rom a threshing machine engine loclging in the hay. Under the efficiënt management of the Ionia house of correction the f anitary condition of that institution is rapidly becoming perfect. During the first 15 days of August but 4J days' labor were lost to the state by sickness, while last year in the same time 221% days were lost. The " management look carefully after the health of their invohmtary guests. A $400 tam of E. J. Whalen Franklin Center, Lenawee county, was killed by lightning recently. The owner and a hired man, who were standing at their heads, were knocked senseless, but soon recovercd. The team was insured in the Lenawee farmers' mutual company. The barn of Adam Stetin, Ogcen, was struck five times during the same storm. Four barns and a grain house on the farm of Francis Fay, a well-u-do farmer living near Exeter, Monroe county, were burned a few days since, involving a loss of $5,000, on which there is an in?urance of less than $2.000. The origin of the fire is unknown, but it is thought to have originated from sparks from an engine which was being used in running a threshing machine. Mrs. Failing, - -ho was so severely burned in the Tekonsha fire, died the night after the fire and the funeral of herself anü ehild the following morning was attended by a large number of people. Mr. Failing's reco'very is considered doubtful. The citizenspurpose raising SI, 000 for the benefit of the affRcted family, and already $600 is subscribed. Taken altogether it is the most heartrending affair that has ever occurred in that section. Daniel McGinnis, a resident of Imlay City, was killed the other evening by failing from a wagon. He was on a load of wood, and when crossing the Chicago and Grand Trunk railroad track one of the lines feil out of his hand. and in reachiue for it he lost hi.3 ba'ance and feil under the wagon, ïhe forward wl:eel of whieh passed over his head c.iusing doatU in a few minuti s. He was ö'i years of age and leaves a wife and several children. Fred. Austin, a conductor on the Chicngo, Burlington & Quincv railroad, ia Illinois, had an altercation with a passenger named Patrick Kirby, just before his train pulled out of Hinckley a few days ago, for Aurora, and feil dead irom a clot of blood in the pulmoaary artery, caused by the excitemsnt. He was to assume the duties of superintendent of the Chicago, Burlington fe Iowa railroad on Sept. 1. He was buried at Whitj Pigeon. Aaron AVessels, a merehant, an old res:dint of St. Louis.faüed for $80,000 about a yx ar ago, ana snortiy alter Alonroe ftinter, a brolber-inlaw of Wessels, opened an eitenslve store at East River, with Mr. Wessela as managc-r. The latter business, stock and store, have noiv been levied upon and are in possession of the sheriff, taken on a judgment in favor of Geo. W. and Wm. ü. Miller of Salt Kiver, who claim that the store and stock of goods have always been Wessels'. What will no doubt prove to be another murder to be added to the l'st of crimes eommitted in Saginaw Co., was pei petrated the other morning. shortly after mlduight Chas. Kvart and I'red Miller, who had been in attendance at a dance at the residence of Dederlch l'alra, becamj involved in a quarrel on the street. during which Miller drew a knife und ftabbed Evart in the left breast, i [:- blade penetratlng the lung. His assailant fled but subsequently was captured and jailed. The victira cannot survive. Aman repref enting himsclf to be the agent of a New York rooïng company has neen worldng Gratiot countv. The "agent gives away 10 gallons of his liquid, and' then geis the farmer to s gn an aircement to pay &.i 50 per gallon for any more he may want. The agreement is afterwards diseovered to be an order for 100 gallons. Shnrlly after toe "order"has been signed a second ent duivers SiO gallons more with charges amoüntiug ti $202,50. About 1,000 have been taken witjin a radius of 30 miles. The body of Thomas Hogan was found in the steamboat channel in Grand Rapid, five feet from the boom in 10 inches of water the other day. His hat and a $2 bilí wcre found floating near by. A hole one-half inch in diameter and penetratirg his skull was found near the leitye. Robert Fiuch, a government contractor, but a few rnoments bel'ore tad paid him $2.25 for the rent of a boat. The body was warm when found. The wound was probed, but the cause was notdetermiued. Hogan was single and aged 36. Medical skill is somewhat baffled by the recent diseovery of a rifle ball lodged in the head of an old soldier. In 1863 Valentine Bretz. an Eaton county soldier, was wounded in the battle of Stone River. The ball entered near his nose, and he supposed it passed out near the ear, as did the surgeon who exarained h:'m soon aftcr. Nothing was thought about it untU a few days ago when, while coughing, the ball was dislodged and feil into his raouth. It was incas3d in a thin covering of flt6h. The doctors appear to be sorely perplexed over the affair. A correspondent of a Detroit daily writing írom Kalamazoo says: The decisión in the spring tooth harrew (ases made by Judge Matthews in the United States court at Grand Rapids, is simply confiimatoryof a formerone, anl leaves the cases just as" they were left then. The cases will now go to the United States supreme court for a full and final hearing. The decisión has referi?nce to the Garver patents only, and does not touch or affect the many Ëoating spring tooth harrows now upon the market which are not infringements of the Garver patent. Chas. Miller, a prominent Watertown farmer, was gored to death by a Holstein buil in his barryard on the mornins of August 11. No one witnessed the fatal accident. He went to the barn with a neighbor but did not return with him, and when the familv became alarmed at his absence and instituted a search he was íouni dead oa his báck, his abdomen being gasherl in a frghtfu' manner and bis breast uaniplcd in and crugoed. Mr. Miller was a roember of the Germán Lutheran church of this city. and was prosperous and highly estepmed. He was EO years oíd and leaves a wife and fainily. - Lmtsiug Urpublican. A terrible accidentjoccurred in the OÜJville milis the otherday, which reaulted in ene of the proprietors Inning hls life. Mr. Alexander was engaged iu tightening a belt tüat run from the line shaft uader the mili wlen hls clotbing caught on tbc shaft, dra'ving him over backwards with It at a terrible speed and throwing him against the siding and iioor at every revolution of the shaft. When the maehinery was stopped and be was roleased.it was found that his hack was broken, togetber with botU legs, one arm and one shoulder. He soon regained consciousness and hls mind remiüned elear for some four hours when death relieved bina from his suilorings. A serious affray occurred at the raiload station in Cold water the other night. About 12 o'clock a rough-looking chap was found In the ladies' sitting room smoking an old, strong pipe. The night operator, Mr. Green, requested the fellow to leave the room. He refused, and Green put him out. The fellow afterwards went to Órecn's window and began abusins him and making so mueh of a raeket that Green could nothear his tieker. He requested the fellow to leaye but he refused. Green went out to have him removed and the fellow drew a knife and made a thrust at Green's throat but the knife struek Green near the temple back of the right oye and cut a serious gash afross tuc face, under the eye and into the nose. The wound is ugly but not dangcrous. The fellow isjin jail. The toasts which have been arranged for the army oí the Cumberland banquet at Grand Rapids next monlh are as follows, with the names of those who will respond to them: "The president of the United States," Hon. R. B. Hayes; "The army and navv," Gen. W. T. Sherman; "Army of the Cumborland," Gen. W. S. Rosccrans; "The volunteer soldiers," Gen. John A. Logan ; "Coming up at Shilo'u," D. C. Buell; "Michigan in the war," ex-Gov. Austin Blair ; "Our neroic dead," Gen. C.F. Manderson, United States senator from Nebraska;"Tne loyal men of the south," Col. R. M. Kelly, Louisville, Ky. ; 'The veterans of the Mexitan war," Col. A. T. McReynolds; "The prees," Gen. H. M. Cist; "Thé loyal women of America," Gen. Lew Wallace. Senator Palmer will also respond to a toast. GBADUATED FARMEHS. Cemmencement at the Agricultural College. The commencement exercises of the Michigan agricultural college oeeurred ou the 19th inst. They were held in a large pavilion on the college green, and at 10 o'elock, the time set for the exercises to begin, fully 2,5Ü0 people were in attendance. All the members of the state board of agriculture were present, and ín addition several who are well known in agrieultural and educational circles throughout the state and country, among them being Dr. D. C. Haliday of New Orleans, an olficer of the national board of health ; the Hon. S. M. Millard, president of the board of trustees of the Illinois university and president of the alumni association of the college, he being a member of the class of '64; Prof. F. E. liellows of Ypsilanti ; the Rev. Mr. Cluie of Iowa, of the class of '64, Oscar Eaton, ex-Senator Sumner of Monroe county, Judge J. C. Chatterton of Masón, Samuel M. Bartlétt of Monroe and F. S. Finley of Ypsilanti. The platform occupled a position opposite the entrance to the pavilion. On the platform were seated the members of the state board of agriculture and President Willits. On the riglit were the twcnty-nine young men composing the graduating class and a finer cxampie of physieal manhood would be hardfto find. On the lef t Speil's orehestra of Detroit discoursed fine music and greatiy added to the enjoyment of the occasion. The following is a list of the graduating class: William S. Baird, Lansing; Edward A Bartmess, Buehanan; Richard M. Bate?, Hastings Fred. L. Chappell, Cooper; James Y. Clark, Orion; James A. Dart, Petoskey; Iliram T. French, Almena ;IïarrvP. Gladden, Lansing; Elwyn T. Gardner, Centerville; Robert W. Hemphill, Jr., Ypsilanti; TberiesD. Hinebauch, Vicksburg; Charles H. Hoyt, ïrving; Edward R. Lake; Ypsilanti ; Glen C. Lawrcnce, Charlesworth; John W. Matthews. Hastings; George Morrice, Pewamo ; Lewis G. Puimei', Napoleon ; TrumanL. Parker, Carlton Center; Wilburl. Power, Pontiac; George E. Sprang, Lansing; Dorr J. Stryker, Dayton; Harrn E. Thomas, Middleville; James D. Towar, North Lansing; Perry G. Towar, North Lansing ; Ilubcrt M. Wells, Howell; Frank M. Wooumansce, Middleville; Edwin S. Antisdale, Nyaek, N. Y. ; Charles B. Collingwood, Boston, Mass. ; Julius R. Newton, Pendleton, N. C. The exercises were commenced promptly at the hour and were opened with prayer by the Rev. Mr. Clute. This was followed by an overture by the orehestra and this by an oration.by Richard M. Bates, entitled "National Progress." The ïnext subject was "Science and Agriculture" by Fred. L. Chappell. The balance of the programme was carried out as follows: Orations on "Culture in English Literature," by James Y. Clark; "Pleasure in Scicntiric Study," by James A. Dart; "Soeiailsm." Hirain T. Frenen; "Dixie at Present," Robert W. Hemphill. jr. ; "Evoiution," TheriesD. Hinebaugli; "Preparation, then Responsibility' James D. Towar. Following the.deüvery of the orations yas music, and then the interesting ceremony of cohferring the degrees. The address of President Willets was an unusually interesting one. Extracts are given as f ollows : "This institution is twenty-eight years old. May_ 18, 1857, the buildings and grounds were deüicated by the state board of eJueation. with appropriate services, in the pveaence of the governor, several offleers of the state government and a large eoncour; e of citizens f rom various portions of the Mate. It was the flret agricultural college on the continent. Other states had moved in the same direction, but Michigan forestalled all others in the eaterprise of establishing an institution of lcarning whose sole object should be the intelligent iiiyestigation and application of subjectspertaiiiing to agriculture and the oducatlon of young men into a higher and, if possible, boiter eystem of f arming, as well as into a cultivated, practical manhood." "The enterprise had been well considerad. It was the creature of the Michigan state agricultural society, and to the persistent exertions of that tody the state largely owes the prompt cunsideration given to the subject. As early as Dec. 19, 1819, at the second annual meeting o. the executive eommittee of that society at Jackson, at which were present Gov. E. Ransom, F.' S. Finlay, Befa Hubbard, Mlchael Shoemaker and others, it was resolved to intei1est the legislature in establishing a state central agrieultural office, with whlcb should be connected a museum of ajtricultural products and implemcnts and an agricultura! librarv, and as soon as practicable au agricultural college anda model farm. A eommittee was duly appointed to memorialize the legislature, and in January 1850, Bela Hubbard,for the eommittee, presented the subject to the legislature in a well-considered memorial, in wliich he set forth ?hat special subjects ought to be taught and summed up the scope of sui'h an institution by saying that there should be taught there those branches oí education which wlU tend to render agi'iculture not only u?eful, but a learned and uscful proiesslon, and its cultivators not the 'bone and sinew' merely, bu! ornaments of society." "The result was that the legislature by act of Feb. 12, 1855, cstablished tiiis college, providing that it should be located within ten miles of Lansing, the site to be on n farm of not less than 500 acres, to be selected subject to the approval of the state board of educ:, by the president and executive committe the state agricultural society. The present site, then a virgin wilderncss, three miles east of the City of Lansins, was June 16, 185, selected, and May 13, 1S57, on this very spot, as near as may be, the new enterprise was dedicated." "In the years that have int?rvened nearly 2,OC0 students have entered its halls, 860 have graduated, and all, whether they have stayed months or years, have gonc forth with a purpoS3 ennobled by their assr.ciations here, and the larger proportion of them have in the following years adopted agriculture as a profession. öfthe graduales over 50 per cent of them are farmers or in kindred pursults. Sixteen are professors or Instructora in affrcultüral colleges, north and south, east anl west. One is the president of an agricultural college, anóther has almost frr.m its foundation been a member of the Illin is industrial university, and is now president of the board. There is not a professional school, either of law or med cine, in the country, which can show a luger percentage of graduates who iinally folloiv the profession thcrein taught, and this notwithstauding the fact that many have entered the agricultural college with the avowed intention of not following agriculture as a Ufe p r.uit. Toe doors have not been barred against such frr the i enson that even these in their respective spheres of iife will be instinct with agricultural tendencies and will be active promoters of agricultural science." "At tbe tarm exfc niel practical iistruction is giren upon land drainage, rotation of crr.ps, the proper cultivatiou óf crors, the management of manures, care of farm premises nd implemeats, breeds of domestic animáis their characteristics and adaptations, tbc feciling of animáis, marketing, farm accounts, farm law, etc. Theoretical instru vtion is supplemented, illustrated and ecforced bv the acLaal working of a farm of 600 acres, witi üaproved buildings, imploments and tht various breeds óf etock." "The botanical laboratory and museum of vegetable products with the needed rooms eupy the whole of a fine gothic building 46x60 feet, two stories high, with a gallery ebove. Tlio rooms contain many of the most recent and valuablc works on ootany, a flue herbarium, including mossea and fungl; aeollection of seeds, gra'ns, grasses, frnits and preparations readv for study ; the stite collection on forestry producís shown at Philadelphia aud New Orleans, for vh:ch diplomas were given. The laboratory contalns a large number of good compound raicroscopes with much useful accessory apparatus. With an arboretum of 200 species, a botanie garden of 700, greenhouses containing 1,00(1 species and varieties, the parks, gardens and orchard.-) many more, the botanical department israrely at loss for any kind of material for study and illustration. "The ehemical department with its laboratory of eighteenrooms,a lecture room with seats for 150 students, with two rooms for chemical analysis and desk space for sixty-eight students, with two rooms forquantitative workand original investlgation, affording spacc for twenty additional students, with its cnoice and extensive ehemical and physical apparatus, aflords a rare opportunity for students in chemlstry and allied sciences. In place of the traditional ■'one term in chemistry with experimental illustrations," the course in chemistry at this college extends through two years. The students not only witness the experiments in the lecture room, but they have the opportunity to repeat and vary them ín the working laboratory. The apparatus is not designed for cabinet show, but actual use at the work tables, and the students get the benefit of this." "The department of anatomy, physiology, and zoology is now yery thoroughly enuipped. The attracaons in geology, zoology and anatomy are extensive, and have been selected and arranged with special reference to imparting instruction. The collections in entomology are specially valuable and the department of economie entomology has had special consideration. In the museum and collections there is not only a mauakin, but skeletons of all classes of vertebrates, models of the lower animáis, and special organs, which in conneetion with laboratory work - dissections and the study of systcmatic zoology- makes the eourse very complete and gives admirable opportunity for post gradúate study. The laboratories are large and convenient, and are alwaj's open for the accommodation of students." Besides the above there are the veterinary, military and mechanic arts departments, all fully equipped and in ordor for tue most complete disseinmation of the knovvledge and practice they are intended to convey. President Willits closed his address as follows: "Gentlemen of the board of airioulture, and ladies and gentlemen : This nstitution has closed another year oL lts existence. To-day has gone forth with the seal of our approval a class of young men who are to justify by their deeds the expense and labor Lere bestowed upon them. The impression may obtain from the f act tb at so muih has bícn said about the material faculties here funiishtd for an education, that but little eare or stress is laid upon the general culture of our students. Nothing is furthe from our intention. We cannot be oblivious to the fact that the man exJsts before the f arm et or the mechanic, and that every system of education to be barmonious and complete must include that general culture that forms so important a function in life's work. We must not and we do not forget that pure English, sound logic, a wide range of historical reading, a thorough knowledge of the fundamental and business laws of the land, and well-defined views of political science and mental and moral philosophy are necessary elements in a practical education. For all these ampie provisión has been made. But over and above all we should remember that morality, virtue and religión are the corner stones_ of a true character, and that this institution should incúlcate pure moráis and the highest virtue, and should exempllfy in the fullest sense our dailv obligations to our Divine Benefactor. It is for us of the administratioti to assure the people of the state, that by our example and by our precept we will be true to the higher duty, and that so far as in us lies we will preserve this institution free from the contamination of vice, and will send out from our halls the young men committed to our charge not only uninjured by their associations here, but better fitted to become good, loyal, Christian citizens."