State News

- TownsViip tivüsuvpr fcbl) oí Weesaw,.St. Joseph coqpty was last week robbed of S095. - Tvo boys hav stolen $000 from the treasury of Sanilae eoanty and promptly started west. - Niiney Wrigfirt is in jaií át Charlotte, id wiili adultery, her husbantl making the charge against her. -Exorna Ort, 18 years of age, a respectable girl of Allegan, sedueed by (has. E. Smith, drowned herself. - A Bay City servant girl has fallen heirto $6,060, bequeatbed herbya relative who recently died in Germany. - Grand Rapids bas had another beautlful legaJ ü.zle. The case against Whliaai Addis (the great divorcer) for subornation óf perjury has resulted in bis discharge. - The Laingsburg correpondent of the Owosso Press afflrms that four-flftha oí the United Statea pensions aow lasued to exsoldiers in that vicinity are on fraudulcnt claims. -Eaton county was visited by a gale Sunday night whieh unroofed barns, destroying others altogether, uprooting i rchards, Wowing down standing timber killing stock, and demolishingfences. - John Dickson oí' Manistee county, is 61 years okl, and is aow living with bis fourth wife, who has presented him a daughter, which malees Un; tally of bis ehildren just 86. Ile is also granddad i ;■■! otiiers. - A-lthough the residence of P. B. Noble of Lawtoti, Van Buren county bad a rod on it, lightning struct it on the 17thinst., entering thé roof , cbamber andceilingsdoing$-100damage,butonly frightening the inmates. - Joseph Stevens, who died suddenly al Buchanan, a few days ago, was laughingmost consummedly at the resultofthe election when he suddenly felts ome troublc with his heart, and in a few minutes was dead. - ï!ie land excitement has spread over the entire upper península, and the land office at Marquette iscrowdedwith business; more acres have been located atthat office in the last three months than ior three years preceding. - A condemned cannon, used tothrow a line to the wreek of the schooner Chris. Grover ofl Bay City,to which six men were clinglng, burst at the tirst fl re killing John W. Glennie and injuring John C. Gram and Ilenry Loud. - Truax, of Ella, Lapeer county, lost eight fat hogfl recently, and he chargea that Samuel Lemon, a rich farmer living near liim. and his two sons stole the hogs, drove them into the woods and killed them, salting the porie down in hís cellar. - In tlie Eaton county circuit conrt. after three daya of trial and one night of jury öeliberatkm, Bobert Diabrww lias been awarded a, verdict of $öO 8jgainst Dr. J. E. Johnson, who was accused of taking inidue liberties with Mrs. Disbrow while attendingher professionally. The woman will also bring suit, it ia said. - The Muskegon Chronicle says; - "Last weck Mrs. August Ball was presented with a girl baby weighiñg almost two pounds. The infant is about 11 inches long, with ,1 head about the size of a common rubber ball, and Bngers a little larger than a match. It is well formed and healthy, and has a pleasing look. lts little sister rocks it to sleep in an ordinary dolí eradle." -During the campaign of 1876 a committee of six gentlemen took hold of the Saginaw Republican and ran itas a daily, Barnes Bros., of Detroit, supplying the paper. Thebillwasn'tpaidand Barnes Bros. brought snit against the parties mentioued- WiUiam Callum, John Welen, A. P. Brewer, C. L. Ortman. C. Stuart Draper and Chas. W. Willas- claiming that tliey were respon'sible for the debts of the concern, while the-de&ncl- tn claimed that they were sirnply an advisovy commjtee. A jury in the Wayne circuit court returned a verdict for the lullamount claimed, SI ,023.08.