Michigan Matters

-A company oí' colored troops has ■ - í'aw Paw ia guarded for $1.25 per uight, and rests in.sweet security. - Parmenter & Withey, a heavy groceryfinn at Grand Rápida, havefaüed'. - A Montcalzn couiity census taker f oiind a woman 85 years oíd, hoei ng corn. - Prof. I . ibrook's job at Olivet college will be to manage the normal de. - When an Indian gets drunk at Petoskey he is compelled to shovel sand on the streets. -The jury disnreod in case of People VS. Mulligan, tried at Port Hurón for killing Howard. - Two Marcellus men recently traded wives. There was a difference o f $2 boot money paid by one of the negotiators. - Josepli Starr was instantly killed in an East Saginaw saw mil], Saturday. Ha was 57 years of age and leaves a wife'and ten children at Belleville, Ont. -Peter St. George of Erin townsbip, Macomb ('o., probably the olclest man in Michigan, died last week. He was a Frencli Canadian, born in 1774, and 106 years of bp. - In the Wheaon Beecher $50,1 L bel ■ . ■-, . man h ed Mr. B n to compel the produc i ' and ■ of the Mai quette a;.d I.-'. ing Mills e..; Upon the 1 reis oí' the Christiancy od repute of Michigan comes the report tnat the ly good and fem sa advocating senator of this state, Ferry, has beun horse-wl.ipped by :iv: irate father who resents the insulta of Ferry toward bis sixteen year oíd daughter. If reporta are true our representativo in the senas been the cause of ruin of several young girls under the infiuence of a marriage engagement, and bis practicea, tbough coming to light now for the flrst, have been : carried on for years. U is Ferry's duo io s;; denies the charges, but i:o one expecLs he would admii their 1 I ulness.. Demoorate do not do all the drinking as republicana assert. Keceipts over tiie bar of the Palmer House in Ci.i were estimated at $10,(X;0 per day duriiig tLe convention.