The State

The following eommunication has boen sent out by tbe state board of corrections and charities: To the pólice justice and those exercising like jurisdictiction: It is eertain that a largo proportion of the persons convicted beforo you are arrested under the disorderly act. A large number of theso are old offonders, are chronlc cases. Asa rule they are flned a sruall sum or imprisoned a few days. This is repeated year by ye.ir, untll we fln.l sorae have been in the Detroit house of correction fifty seven times, and at Ionia it was as bad until the statute prohibited Rendlng persons there as disorderly persons and for less than ninety days. It requires but Httle experience to convince anyone that small fines and short ternis not only do not ileter or improve tliisclass, but harden, brutalize and conlirm them iu their criminal course, i ecially is this the case with women. A second or third conviction usually ]ut- this vas beyond hope, unless put under restraint long enough to restore their moral strengtli. The snort sentence Bimply permita of a partial recovery from tbe eifects of dissipation. Tho samo principal app'.ie-. to like senM to county jails of this class. Sich sentencos are a libel on justice, and can only tenl to make crimináis. Thii class of chrouic disorderlies should be kept for a term of years. There then would be some chance lor reform. Even lf not reformad, they woulil be kept sober, made to work, kept out of the han Is of the saloon-keeper--, constables and courts, out of sight- wliicli all work iu the direction of reform. We cali your attention to those views, as'; your eareful consiileration of them, a. i urge you to apply tbe remedy so far aa tlie statute has given you power. 'ihe disordevly act authorizes you to send those thriee or more times convicted to pri-on for one year; twice convicted, six montlis. U e urge upon you that as to all chronic cases you cease all fines, and sentence in all cases to tlio full term of the law. The state will be the gainer in the matter of expense, and we believe many can in this way be improved, and som ; reformed. Gl!O. D. GlI.l.ESI'IE, Chairman of Board of Corrections and Charities. L. C. Stouus, Secretary. A Whéat Orop. For t'ie April erop report returns have been received from 9J0 corresponden ts. representing 711) townships; (J73 from 431 townships in tho southern four tiers of couuties, and 17i from l."5 townships in the central counties. On the I'.rd and 4th of April, when the correspondents mailed their reports, vegetatiou had shown no signs of growth. In the southern portion of the state the ground for six weeks previous had been bare of snow and subjected to succssive freezing and thawing, a condition longince proven to be highly unfavorable to wheat and clover. The wheat tops are very generally reported dead but hope isentertained that the roots are yet alive. While no satisfactory estímate of the condition is possible at this time, it is noticeable that the estímate as given by correspondents is much lower than given one year ago. In the southern counties it is seven percent lower, in the central eleven per cent lower. Since the tirst of April there has been about the usual amount of rain fall for the time of year, and the temperatura has beenslightly abovetha normal. The numler of bushelsof wbeat reported marketeil in the state in the eight months including August and Maren is 11,304,737. Thero aio 187 elevators and milis in tho state that have not reported for March and a total of 179 elevators and milis that have faile 1 oiio or more times to report since December 1. Hased on reports previously received from thom it is sa e to estímate the amount of wheat purchased at these elevators and inills at 187,100 bushels; adding this to the amount reported marketed we have a total of 11,482,68? bushels raarketed in the stato since Aug. 1. These figures alone warrant the statement thaton April 1 there were less than three and oue-half million bushels of the 1S37 wheat erop in the farmers' hands in exces? of their ówn requirements. ('ol. Hmnphrey Dead. Lieut.-Col. "Willis C. Humphrey, assistant adjutant general of the Michigan militia, died in Lansing a few days ago aftera long and painful illness. During the war he was at one time sergeantmajor of the Sixth infantry, and subsequently was commissioned a lleutenant of the fhirtieth infantry. For 17 years he had been eonuected with the office of adjutant general, and, being a man of great thoroughness and exactness, it was greatly through bis work that the present romarkably perfect condition of the records of the service of Michigan men in the late war has been attained. From being chief clerk, ho was promoted to the rank of lleutenant eolonel during Gov. Alger's administration, and though strieken by disease some months ago, he stuck to bis post of dnty until he was no longer able to drag his feeble body to his desk. He was the author of a vry correct, well written, comprehensivo history of the war. WOLVfiRINE WHISPEEINGS. The grand supreme ccuncil of the royal arcanum held in East Saginaw, selected Detroit as the next place of meeting and elected the following offleers: Grand regent, H. Francis, West Bay City; grand vice regent, H. McCulIoch, Grand Rapids: grand past regent, W. S. Campbell, Detroit; grand secretary, S. A. Griggs, Detroit; grand treasurer, Jacob Brown, Detroit; grand chaplain, G. W. Ferry, Lansing; grand guide, F. Miller, Lapeer; grand warden, T. A. Parish, Grand Haven; sentry, H. C. Hedges, North Lansing; trustee, F. A. Stiven, Ionia; representativo to the supreme council, G. P. Cobb, Bay City. Frank Burr, a Kalamazoo moulder, attempted to cross the railroad track whilo undor the influence of liquor. He was crushed between two cars. Myron James, mnster workman K. of L. of Coldwater, is dead. Frank E. Letart mistook red light on rear of train in advanoe of him near Muskegon for a danger signal, and jumped from his Cliicago.V; West Michigan engine. He was instantly killed. His lireman also . umped and was seriously hurt. Spencer Creek, Antrim county, expeets location of heading factory that will employ 30 men and consume $30,000 worth of tlmber yearly- when Detroit, Charlevoix & Escanaba railroad is built. Tho Michigan republican editorial league was organized in Lansing the other day, with the following ofiicers: President, Tom Apploate, Adrián Times; secretary, Frank Godfrey, Stato Republican, hansing: troasuior, E. C. Baxter, Charlotte Kepublicnn. The above oliicers, with C. F. Kimball of the Pontiac Gazette, and W. L. Katon of the Kalamazoo Telegraph, constituto thi exocutive committee. Mosher t Fisher and J. T. Hurst have sold to Alger, Smith & Co. 50,000,000 feet of white pino timber near Au Sable for $400,000. Benj. Colé, a resident of Waterford for 53 years, is dead. Frederick Meyers, an old resident of Muskegon, and a war veteran, ia dead. William J. McGee of Marshall will act as assistant secretary of democratie state central committee, Nine charcoal kilns are being built at Marión. Charcoal is to be sbipped to Detroit furnaces. Convicts Geo. Sitts and Wm. Banks both burglars from Detroit, have escapeo from the Ionia houso of correetion. Ex-Congres-iman Maybury of Detroit will soon be appointed judge of the su preme court of Utah. Senator Palmer has introduced a bilí grunting tlie heirs of Wm. A. Burt of Detroit $250,000 for the allegcd discovery of the solar compás . The bilí has been in previous congresses and was adversely reported in the forty-ninth congress, but it is now said that oíd papers establishlng the discovery by Burt have been tound. The President has approved the bfll for the relief of Col. Fidug LIvermore of Jackson. The bill was to pay for the services of Livermore in raising two regiments to serve in the suppresslon of the rebellion. This is the second Michigan bill in congress to receive the presidential signature. ('elatbeal Duffy of Cold water, a frisky youth of 85 years, a few days since walked y .. railes and cut, split and piled two cords of wood in one day, and ho says he will wrestle any man in Branch county of li ís age at side or square hold for fun. John J. Burns jumped from a moving train at Ann Arbor and was instantly killed. The coroner's jury in the case of Mary Barringer, aged 13, of Battle Creek, who died Jan. 30 under peculiar curcumstances, have rendered a verdict that she carne to her death by polson given by tome person unknown. A further investigation will follow. Coldwater capitalists are talking about a railroad to Jackson. John Maynard of Bad Axe, has been appointed by Gov. Luce agent of the state board of charities for Huron eounty. Trappers say the muskrat erop is a complete failure this season, and give as a ) reason that the rats were nearly exterminaled by the cold last winter because of a lack of snow. The decisión of the judges on the ora" torial contest of last week at agricultural college, has been made public and the niedals presented to the winners of first and second places. H. B. Canon of Washington, Maeomb county, was awarded the first prize, and N. 8. Mayo of Battle Creek, and W. A. Taylor of Douglas, Allegan county, tied for the second. D. F. Anderson of Berlamont, Van Buren county, took third and L. C. Colburn of Lawrence, fourth. Uev. J. H. Weber, the evangelist, has just closed a five weeks' revival at Coldwater. Over 500 conversions are reported. Reunión of the Third Regiment Michigan Cavalry and Third Battery "C" V. V. association at Owosso April 25. Mosher & Fisher of West Bay City have a stock of 511,000,000 feet of lumberon hand. Patrick Wade, who shot Mrs. Burke of Norway bocause she refused to marry him, has been convicted of murder in the first degreo. Ann Arbor had a $40,003 lire on the 13th inst. Convict Burton escaped from asylum for insano at Ionia and was overhauled by Keeper Jay O. Post, who pursued him on horseback. A terrible hand to hand conflict ensued in which the crazy man was overeóme. He has five years yet to serve. A passenger train went through the bridge near Luther the other morning' The train was completely wrecked, but no lives were lost. The engineer and fireman were seriously injured. Clarence Ferguson was struck by a bur&ting whool in Fergmon & Moore's machine shop in Greenville, and instantly killed. The Traverse City asylum is caring for 534 patients. The erop bulletin of the Michigan weath er service for the week onding April 14 says: The temperature, rainfall and sunshine have been slightly above the normrl yet the benefleial effect of these favorable conditions on wheat and clover seed have been more than offset by severo freezing on the Sth, 9th, l.'th and 13th. Wbeat ánd clover just begin to show life and are believed to be severely winter-killed. PIowing is under way in the southern sections of the state, though probably only on the dryer soils. Oats are being sown in sorae sections. Reports from the northern section state that "the snow has melted considerably, but still covers the ground." Mrs. George G. Van Alstine, wife of the private secrel.ary to Auditor-General Aplin, died in Lansing on the 14th inst. Her busband departed for Mexico on the lst inst. to look after mining interests there, leaving his wife and four children in ordinary good healtb. He had been gone but two days when his only son was taken ill with scarlet fe ver and on the 9th inst died. The niother, worn out with watching and borne down by grief at the loss of her son, feil ill. Her ailment developed into pneumonía, which in a few days complicated with rheumatism of the heart. She gradually grew worse until the end carne. Mr. Van Alstine is now somewhere in the interior of Mexico, beyondthe reach of mail and telegraph, and does not know of his afiliction. Admiral Worden of Monitor fame, who is visiting friends in Grand Rapids, was giveu a dinner by the Peninsular club the other night. The survey for the street railway from Lansing to the agricultural college has been completed. An organized band of burglars in Battle Creek has been broken up by the arrest of the tenders, who are boys, whose ages range from 12 to 15 years. All are the sous of respoctable people. Frank Glover of Bay City, has been sentenced to 15 years in state prison for a criminal assault upon an 11-year-old girl. Ueorge Dewight and Charles Stanley, the trampa who knocksd a Germán down and robbed alm in St. Johns, have been sentenceil by Judge Bmith to the state house of correction, Dewight for ten years and Stanley for eight. Georgu Morse, a son of M. M. Morse of the flrm of Morse & Co., large general store of Grand Rapids, has been arrested charged with committing an assault and battery on his mother who sues him for S1C,OÜO damages. He gave bail in $1,000, with his father and brother as securities. Morse denies the charge. .Mrs. Mary De Vere died at the residence of her only daughter, Mrs. James Beatty, in liloomfied recently. She was 8:! years old and had been a resident of Oakland county fifty-MYe years. C. P. Gillett, assistant in entomology at the agricultural college, has been elected entomologist of the state experimental station of Iowa, with a salary of tl,OCO. Mr. Gillett graduated in 1S84, and for most of tho time since has been assistant to the professor of entomology. Hon. Arthur T. Chase, repro-entative in the legiBlature from the iionzie and Leelanaw distnets, died in Traverse City a few days ago. The dam at Liberty Mills, Jackson county, was washed out tho other mom ing, doing datnage to the amount of $1,600. V. K. Allen had his rigbt arm crushed to pulp while coupling cars at Marshall the other day. The president has approved the acts pensioning Capt. J. Miller Raub and Mary Morford of Michigan. Charles Peters feil on a buzz saw at Weston the other morning and was cut in two. Mand Bagley, the Coldwuter girl who escaped from the industrial home at Adrián soms time ago, was captured in Allegan the other d;iy. William W. Cook, past senior vico commander of the Michigan department, O. A. R., ha-s hoen appointed assistant adjutant general, with the rank of ant colonel, to succeed Willis C. - j.hrey, deeeased. Chas. Houck. a Jackson saloon-koeper, who was genteneed to sixty days in jailiu default of a fine, for selling liquor upon the local option election day, has asked the supreme i ourt for a writ of habeas i corpus, nis request being grounded on the claim that the local option law is ; stit utional and theretore the election day , mentioned did not come within the ; ing of the statutes goveruing the conduct of saloons. The points in the case are suoh that it will bring the entire local option law before the supreme court and will settle it forever. The writ was granted and is returnable May 1. Samuel Warwick, hoad gardner at the ! state industrial home at Adrián, is dead. W, W. Cook, late exeeutive clerk in the office of the secretary of state, has rebigned. The association of survivorj of the Sultana disaster will hold their annual meeting in Hillsdale April :.ü and '7. The Sultana was a -teimer whieh blew up, killing a large number of returning union soldiers. J. 8. Parker & Son, from Fredonia, N. Y., have located in Hillsdale and will manufacture the patented "Fredonia washer" there. The business will employ about eight uaud-i at first. A stable and barn owned by George Gardner, near Eastmanville, Ottawa Co., was totally destroyed Ly flre the other night, and the remains of a man, supposed to be Geo. Gardiner, Jr-, unmarried son of Mr. Gardiner, were found in the ruins. They were so burned, however, as to be iinrecognizible. One horse was burned and one injured. Kber C. Flint of Saginaw, suicidod íd Belleville, Ont, the other day. DETROIT M.AKKKTS. Wiikat, White $ 87 @ 87% " Red 3 %!$ 81 Corn', perbu W @ 68 Oats, " " 85 (A 88 Hahi.et, i 50 @ 1 65 Malt 80 @ 90 TlMOTHT Seed 2 50 (i 2 55 Cr over Sf.eh. per bag 4 10 @ 4 13 Ff.eh, per cwt ISO.) @30 00 Fi.och- Michigan patent... 4 5Ü (it 4 T5 Michigan rol'.er.... 4 25 @ 4 50 Minnesota patent.. 4 75 w. 5 00 Minnesota bakers' . 4 25 tfö 4 50 Hye 3 40 @ 3 50 Applf.9, new. per bbl... 3 00 (ïï) 3 SO Bein-s, picked 2 45 @ 2 5( " unpicked 180 (S 2 10 Bef.swax 22 u 15 Bütter 20 $ 21 CnEESE, per 1b VZ ld, 12% Diíiki) Ai-i'i.n.-, per 1b H &. 6% Maim.k S : -riA.it 11 @ 12 Egos, perdoz 1-1 (tú 15 HoSEY.perlb 16 (d) 17 Hops per lb 6 (Si 8 Hat per ton. clover fl 00 íálO 00 " timothy 13 (K) (L14 00 Mai.t, per bu 90 Cd 1 05 ONioHSt per Da 175 fr 1 80 Pot atoes, per bu 85 (ai 90 PoiiLTitï- C'hickens.per lb.. 11 (i 12 weese 11 @ 12 Turkeys 13 & U Ducfca perlb 13 & 14 Puovisioss- Mess l'ork. ...1-17.") (315 00 Kamily 15 i" " T0 Kxtr.i mess beef (i 75 () 7 00 Lard 7 @ 8 Dresed hogs.. 6 00 (tb. 6 25 ' Beef.... 234(3 4 Hams 11 @ 11 Shoulders 7 (d; 1% Bacon 10 (3. Ü' ■-.. Tallo W, perlb.. 3 @ 8 Hides - Green City per lb .. 5 Country..' 6JÍ (ireen (Jalf Cured 6JÍ Salted Sheep skius, wool.. 50 @ 1 00 LIVE STCOK. Catti.e- Market slo%v, 5 to 10c lower; steers. (8 S0@5 05 ; Rlockers and feeders, ti -iü(3 65; cows, bulls and mixed, $1 70 [tg-, 80; Toas steers, t' ■ 1. HoG3 - Market slow, 5 to 10c lower; mixed, $5 45(VÈ5 75; heavy, $5 55(ti5 85; light, 85 40(a" 7u; skips, %-i óO@5 15. Sheep- Market strong: nativos. Í4(38 5; western, Í4 76@ö 25; Texans, t2 75@4 50; lambs, $5frifi 50. The Urovers' Journal special cablegram from London quotes excessive suppics, yery weak demands and half cent lecline on cattle; best American beeves, l.%c por pound dead weight.