The State

The townsüip elections on the 2d inst. passed olí very quietly, notwilbstanding tbe f j.ct that in many instauces three and tour tickets were in the field, and the conSest very close. The entire republican ticket was elected ït Portland. Mt. Clemens went demo;ratic by usual majority. St. Clairdemo;ratie. Jtliaca Republicana elected entire Ucket except treasurer. ('itiens' ticket ïlected at Cadillac. Howard City's ticket s about a stand-off. Yicksburg full remblican ticket. Dowagiac elected G. E. Bishop mayor, and city ticket except uporvisor. Monroe republicans elected nly three candidatos. Uut of 15 candiiateson republican ticket at Sturges 11 vero elected. Holly e'.ected all demócrata sxcept constable. East Saginaw, Vpsianti. Ann Arbor. Jackson, Grand iiapids, Uanistuo and other oities show democratc gains. Frohibition was defeated in 'oldwater and Manistee. In so many Iaces in the state citizens' tickets, oomjosed of the best men of both partió-;, veré in the Held, that the relativo trength of the two leading partiesis hard ;o determine. In a few places the Kbor licket scored a victory. The vote polled ras large. WOLVfiRINE WHISPERINGS. Brig-Gen. O. A. Janes, Second Brigade, División of the Lake?, Department of Michigan, Patriarcas Militant, I. O. O. F., announces the following appointments on hls staff: Col. Alfred Milnes, Cold water, chief of staff ; Maj. E. K. Root, Plainwell, assistant inspector -general; Maj. V. W. Owen, Muskegon, assistant quarterinasterHeneral; Maj. A. E. Smith, Ludington. assistant commissary -general; Maj. James Dean, Detroit, assistant chief of equip ment; Maj. A. R. Wheeler, St. Louis, assistant surgeon-general: Maj. F. M. Foster, Jackson, brigade chaplain; Capt. C A. Gurney, Hart, assistant judge advocate general; Capt. J. J. Frink, Cantón, aldede-carap; Capt. George W. Crouter, Grand Rapids, aide-decamp; Capt. T. A. Willet, Flint, special aide-decamp. Mrs. Mary T. Lathrop of Jackson delivered an address before the international council of women in Washington, on the f allacy of high license, and argned the virtues of prohibition as the only effectual method of supproüsing the liquor trafEe. ïhe peach erop in. Michigan fruit belt is holding its own, with the prospects in favor of the biggest harvest in twenty years. All of the clover in Van Buren county has been killed by the recent cold weather. The Coldwater Free Public Library has 7,lu; books and its property is worth $5,000. Over 4,000 people visited the reading rooms last year. A "citizens protective unión" has been formed at Benton Harbor, the object of wli. oh is to see that the laws relating to the liquor traille are enforced. Dr. Otto, a gradúate of Hope college at Holland, write.i from China that when he arose on the morning of February 11, he saw the tops of the mountains covered with snow, though the flower gardens were in full bloom. Rev. Mr. Chamberlain who has worked as missionary there for forty years, says that he never saw such a beautiful sight. There are 5U0 Indiana in Baraga county. ïlie F. fc P. M. oompany has notified its employe9 that entering a saloon is verv hable to cause a man to lose his situntion. The Smith purifier company of Jackson is building a $1J, 030 grist mili, threestories high, to be wheeled about the country to the various industrial oxpoaitions this year. John Campbell has sued Taymouth, Saginaw county, for $5,000 because his horse stepped into a hole in the road a while ago and threw his rider. Colin Campbell, the Scotchman who was convicted at Grand Rapids the other day of impersonating a special pension agent, was a soldier in the Zulu war and was within 160 yards of young Napoleon, ríaos imperial of France, when he was killed. Lieut. James McCaffery, of Company D, Third Regiment, Michigan state troops of Saginaw, suggests that as the state troops are to encamp at Mackinac they should be suppliod with overcoats. There is a woman in Argentino townsiiip, (enosee county, who bas terrorized the whole neighborhood. She keeps loaded arms in her house to shoot any one who niay try to arrest her; her landlord can collect no rent, and no one dares refuse her auything she asks for, for fear that she will kill them or set fire to their houses. Warren Haven, a pTisoner of Bloomingdalo, Kalamazoo county, is dead. An enthusiastic reception was given General Alger upon his return from the Pacific coast, by the Alger club of Detroit. Twelve thousand brook trout were planted in the streams near Adrián the other day. It is announced that the ron bridge and machine works of New York city have docided to establish a western branch of their worka in Owosso, and have purchased land for that purpose. President Graves of the southeastern Michigan G. A. R. association, has issued a circular letter to the various posts in the district, askiugan expression of views relative to attending the national encampment of G. A. R. at Columbus, O., and foregoing the usual oncampment of the association. This action is taken in view of the f act that a number of comrades have expressed their finaucial inability to attend both meetings, as well as the additional one that no place in the district has otïered a reasonable bonus for the location of the southeastorn encamp ment. The Niles paper mili company are mak ng improvernents and increasing the ca pacity of their mili. At the combination horse sale at Coldwater a day or two since 73 horses were sold at auction, the prices ranging from $175 to $1,5ÜJ. Branch county produces more fine horses thau any other county .n the state. A valuable horse belonging to James Miller of Middleville, was choked to ileath the other morning whileeatinghay. A man named Stevens of Battle Creek, is suffering from the glanders, contractod by caring for a horse suffering from the disease. Clinton county capitalists hold 70S mort gages on Urtiot couuty farms, amounting to Ï363,::56. There are now In the northern asylum for the insane at Traverse City, 5;J4 patients, 289 males and 245 témales. The malo wing and small cottage are full to overflowing, and long beforn the new cottage can bocompleted, it will 1 ecome a serious question how to care for new cases. There are still twenty-five or thirty beds on the female side, but these will soon be tilled. Work will begin on the new male cottage as soon as the weather will permit. This cottage will accommodate lifty patients. The report of the director of the Michigan weather service for March 31, says that in reference to wheat the reports trom correspondsuts are more favorable, The elejts of the weather on the growing crops has been favorable in all localities excepting Berrien county. where it Is reported as being still unfavorable, to a slight eztent. The St. Ignape. SaultSte. Mnrie & North ern railway has been organizad, with a capital stook ot S'i"),000, to Duild twenty five miles of road trom St. Ignace to the 'Soo'' line, thereby shortening the distauce between the "Soo" and St. Ignace forty miles. ïlie engineering corps are making tho preliminar; survey. One hundred men are at workin thecoai mines just north of Albion. The noiv freight depot at Baraga was destroyed by flre the other night. John SI. Baker of Hudson, lote división superintendent of the railway mail service, who was souio time ago reduced to an assistant, bus resigncd. Mrs. Avis Jones of Sherwood has been informed that she is heir to an estáte in Scotland valued at 8 10,000, CO ' Philip R. Bowen has sued Krank Farish, Bradley Krlup and Andrew M. Lain for $000 damages, alleging that he was stupefled by druggeJ liquor and then relleved of fik) in Frank I 'arisli's gambling house in Sault Stn. Marie. There are 941odgesof Knights of Pythias in tliis state. Senior choson by the faculty of the state agricultural college for commencement speakers in August: H. B. Cannon, Washington; Miss Mary L. Carpentar, Orion; L. C. Colburn, Lawrence; F. H. Hall, Tecumsch; Miss Chippie Harrison Lansing; V. BI Slunson, Howell; W. A. Taylor, Douglas; G. L. Teller, Colon. Hart's floiiring mili at North Lansing was destroyed by fire the other night, at a loss of f 3.,0i)0. Tlie March product of the Calumet & Hecla was 2,389 tons. 1,1 70 pounds, of the Tamarack 043 tons, of the Oaceola 210, Franklin 181, Atlantic 250}. and Huron 1-24. The bill to grant a pension of $25 a month to Mra. Penfleld of Kalamazoo, has passed the sena te. Joseph H. Whipple, the embezzling presidont of the Pembroke knitting company of Buttle Croek, has been held for trial, with ball at $1,60;). Mrs. Peter iiurke, a respectable widow of Marquette, was shot and instan tly killed the other day, by Pat Wade of Waudecah. Wade was infatuated with the woman who was to have been married in a lew days to uuothor man. This made Wado jealous and he killed her. DETROIT UAKKKTS Wiieat, White $ 84 (g 84 " Red ?4 @ 85 Coks, per ba 51 @ 6'3 Oats, " " 38 m 35 Barlet, 1 40 a 1 45 Mai.t 80 @ 90 Timothï Si:ei 2 50 ($ 2 55 Ci.ovf.r Seep. per bag 3 70 & 3 75 Feed, per cwt IS 00 @20 00 Flour- Michigan patent... 4 50 @ 4 75 Michigan roller.... 4 25 @ 4 50 Minnesota patent.. 4 75 (w 5 00 Minnesota bakers'. 4 25 (ft 4 50 Michigan ry e 3 65 @ 3 75 Apples, new, per bül 3 00 (pö 4 00 Ukans, picked 2 45 @ 2 50 " unuicked 180 @ 2 10 Beïswaï 22 @ 23 bcrrüu 23 @ 24 Chuese, por 1b 12 (ja 12J Duibd Aiti.es, per 1b 6 @ 6% Eqgs, per doz 12 @ 13 HoN'EY.perlb 17 (? 18 Hops per lb 6 @ 8 Hay, per ton. clover 7 00 (0 8 00 " " timothy 1100 (12 00 Mai.t, per bu 90 @ 1 05 Osioxs, per bbl 3 25 @ 3 75 Potatoes, per bu. 85 @ 95 Poultiiy- Chickens.oer lb.. 12 (ib. 13 Ueese 11 (c$ 12 Turkeys 13 @ 14 Ducksperlb 13 @ 14 Pkovisions- MessPork. ...14 50 014 75 Kamily 14 25 (15 00 Extra mess beef 7 00 & 7 50 Lard 7 @ 8 Dressed hogs.. 6 00 @ 6 25 ' Beef 2}a 4 Hams 11 (ffl 11 Shoulders 7 & 8 Bacon 10 ra 10J4 Tallo w, per lb.. 3 O 'i% HlDES - Green City per lb .. 5 Country 5i Groen Ualf 6% Cured 6jJ Salted Sheep skins, wool.. 50 @ 1 00 I.1VE STCOE. Catti.e - Mnrkut weak, 10ilSo off; steers, $3 a 50: stockers and feeders, t'i 35@ 3 JO; cows, bulls and mixed, $23 40; Texas steers, t'. 5@1 'S. Hogs - Market steady, mixed, $5 15(8 5 aö; heavy. $5 ;)0l35 50; light, $5 10 5 30; skips, #1 5O@5. Sheep - Market steady and strop;; natives, Í4 t(a. ió; western, $5@j 15'; Texans, f3 5O@5; lambs,$3 50@6 50.