State News

- Jackson prison management shows a profit last year of $4,259.42. -The burial casketof Wm. A. Wood, a Kalarüazoo banker who recently died there, oost $1,600. - It is said that more men are looking f or farms this spring than any time before siiice the close of the war. - A sito for the proposed opera-house at Flint haa been decided upon and sufficient means pledged to insure its erection. - The Portage Lake Oatette judges from the present depth of the snow up there that about flfty-six f eet must have fallen during the winter. - Ilenry Millar, a youngmanof Flint, is in jail for thirty days for enticlng away from her párente and seducing Addie Clark, a girl of 16 years. -Richard 15. Pixley, age 78, died at his home in llenrietta township, Jackson covity, on the lst, in the house he himseH built forty-four years ago. -There is in the Detroit house of correction, on sentence for drunkenness, a certain East Saginaw man whose wife is under suspended sentence for the same offense, and tlieir seven-years-old daughter was found on an East Saginaw street, Friday last, grossly intoxicated. -The property at St.IIelens station,on the Jackson, Lansing and Saginaw railroad, including the milis and other buildings in the village of St. Helens, andupwardof 800,000,000 of excellent pine timber bas been sold, the entire parchase calling for something over 400,000 as consideration. -The pastor of the Free Methodist ehurchat Elayenna, Muskegon oounty, has during the past winter kicked fcwo of his flock out of the fold for wifebeating, one for drunkenness, and three or fourfornegleetofduty. Unfortunatcly, this exhausta the list of male members of his congregation excépt one. -John Daygenkolb of Traverse Oity, has become a raving maniac. He was a brother of the Adam Daygenkolb who murdered his wife in Leelanaw county in December, 1879, and suicided on Monday Last wben his crime was on the eve of being discovered. A young son of John died suddenly a year ago, and suspicions that John had killed him at that time-were revived by Adam 's acts, when the neighbors threatened to open the grave of the child, and if they found that murder had been done in the case they would lynch him. This set John crazy.