Michigan Matters

The í 1,000 pensionen in thia state receive $3,3OU,OOO annunlly. -The out of luiuberat Ludington the past season was 126,000,000 íeet, with 8,000,000 left on hand. Hoiner fSniith of Boardman, Kalkaskia oouiity, has been held for trial oharged with criminal iuteroourse with a girl 13 yearn ot age. The St. Clsir apoke works have mannfaotured thia yer 2,500 elm hubs, 20,000 huba, 125,000 oak spokes and 150000 hickory spokes. - Mrs. Leamel Morso, of Crystnl, Montcalm county, lías run nway with a travelling preacher nttmpd Frazier, of what pers'-.asion we knnw not. - John Alford, a man of balf noííro desoent, was married on t!ie 24th at Ithaim, Gratiot eonnty, to Mrs. Mary C. Aluott, a white wornau with respeotable connpctions. Geo. Munson, a gambler, who hns infested Howard City, Big Rapids and Reed City for a year or two past, hns finally been nabbed and sent to Ionia for a year. - A little dautchter of George Blades of Laketown, Allegan county.foll into a Dail of hot water on the 20th . and was 8o badly scalded that she died the next day. - An intelligent and educated deaf and dumb girl, duughter of John Pfiefer of Lyons, Ionia couuty, eloped witb a young man named Hrtthaway, a bartender, in spite of the utmost eiforts of her parents. - At Petoskey 050 persons now rrenr the ribbon as the result of a reocnt tnmperance revival. The ladieg havo a redding-room esstablished, and (ionpel meetings are being held in it ech Sunday. - Thomas Scott, a Jaokaon BalooniBt, has been fined Í90 for selling whisky under a beer license, of whicU $10 went to the informer, and then $10 costs were added so as to make it an even thing. - James Vergason of Ashton. Oscfol oounty, has commenced proceedings against J. Morsman, justice of the pcacc for performing a ínarriage cereuiony when he knew the bride to be under 16 years old, and tho parenta opposed to the match. - Mr. Asa Lowell died at Johnstown, Barry connty, December 14. He canie to Michigan in 1832 and three years took the lirst load of goods from Detroit to Battle Creek, a young man by the name of Wbipple took anothnr, and the two loads etoeked the store kept by W. H. Coleman at that timp. - A swindler giving the namo of "Williams, but having other aliasos, has just been run down at Newaygo Hnd is in jail. He took subscriptions for magriziues and nownpapers, promiseii presents thrown in, reduot'd rates, etc, scooped in the monoy and then became eearce. -On tho 23d, Charles P. Bennett.one of the most prominent citizens of Milford, üakland county, and for a nutnber of years supervisor, diud shortly after withdrawiug front tlie breaifftst table, while sittingin his chair and eonvwaáog with his son. He was a much esteeuied citizen. - A short time ago a young lady living in the west end got uiarried to a young man in every way worthy, but it woulil seem distasteful to the 'lady's mother, who during tho brief wedding trip gathered together the bedding, tidies, clothing and other things lier daughter had provided for housekeeping and burn'ed them. The things represented months of labor on the part of tho young lady. - Marshall Chronicle. - Tío trace has been found of tlie young Dr. Freed, wlio disappeared mysteriously from Centerville just before his expected wedding, soroe two weeks ago. There is considerable tulk to the effect that he was not so insane a he might have been, and a cousiu of the young ladv to whoin ho was be marriod is given as authority for the statement i that a week previous to the eveniug of the appointed inarrtage he asked a release from his engagement. The father of the betrothed has attachod the doctor's horse and buggy on a claim for board. Dr. Freed's unele, Mr. Durant of Ontario, has been searching three vreeks