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20
Month
February
Year
1880
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Public Domain
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-On the board of trusteos of congregatioual churcb. of Roohuster, are two ladies. - According to tho Saginaw Cour.er, GG men havo been killed or wounded m tho pineries thia season. -Tho parenta of Henry Taft of Eastmauville, Ottawa county, haven't seen their boy since he went skating on Saturday. -Tho city phyaician of Muskegon reports 320 cases of diphtheria in thatcity since the breaking out of the disease. The cases now average two a day. -Farwell has fi ve saloon keepers, three of whom are constables, and thotemperance folks claim that they ftre by no uieans iinpartial conservators of the peace. - Erastua Hussey of Battle Creek, a Quaker, claims to havo aided over 1,000 fugitive slaves to Canada, while presientof the underground raüway. Hein 0 years old. - A Mr. Puchar, of Mt. demons, was not very well, bvit wheu a tape-worm 150 feet long vacated the plaoe where it had been located about 15 years Pilcher began to get better. Two temperance tramp lecturers, Goorge M. Dutchet and a Mrs. Watson, have suddenly left the state. Eeports from the east carne too thick aud black, and they didn't care to face thein. Toung man, unless you mean business, stop fooliug around the girls, for a breach of proinise verdict, given in favor of Miss Corlis8 of Romeo, awards her juat $100 a year for fivu years' courtship. While Southern and Central Michigan people are stuck in the mud, the up-country people sing "Jingle, jingle, olear the way, 'tis a merry.nierrys'ieigh." The Cheboygan Tribune says thatsleighing was never bettor there, and thelumber-men.are all happy over the prospoct of getting in a full stock of logs. At lonia an inqueat bas been huid on the body of Wm. Hendersou of Easton townslnp, who diedsouiö daysagouuder suspicious circumstancei). His stom.ich was sont to Aun Arbor, and an analysis of its conteuts revealod tuatke hndbaeu poisoned. The ovidouco at the inquest was of guch a nature that Hendeisou'a niother-in-l&w will probably be arrestad on a chaige of willi'ul inurder. - A Marquette debating club argued pro and con the propositiou that "whisky is uiore destructive than war," and the Dresidintr officer rendered this decisión : "I decida tht war wou 't hurt 'Kin un much as whisky will, becauae he'll run f'rom war and he won"t from whisky, md, it he don't run trom either, Marqnette whisky would kill quicker nor

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