Michigan Matters

- Decatur has shipped 684 bushles of strawberries this season. -E. l'rice oí Romeo lias a contract to I manufacture 10,000 flour barrels. - Five sales of lumber were made at Bay City, June 25, one oí O00;000feet at $7, .'rit, and $88; and 800 .000 f eet at Sti.50, $13, and 30. -Mts. Beaty of Utica, Macorab eounty, is said to have a lemon tree from rbich she picked a lemon weighing half a pound. - Mrs. Sherk of Three Rivcrs is 05 years old and pieked 600 quarts of sllireli' nies Cuu aeasoil KiQ imu-U Bhirkabout her.- Marcellus News. - Agifl of 14 years, livuig in the fainily of Abram Watcis of Kinderhook, Braneh cqjinty, was bitten by a rattlesnake June 26, and died the next day in great agony. - Cisterna aud pistokplaying bid fair to depopulate the eartb faster than war. A seven-year-old boy of Mrs. Houghton of Marshall was found drowned in the cistern Juno 28. Mrs. II. lost lier husband oiily about two weeks before. - Frederick Lexow of Dowagiacwas bitten twipe by a rattlesnake, June 26. lie was mowing and got off the machine and was removing the gráss ft-om the bar, when the snake, .whieh had been out in two, bit him twice on the lliiunl). At last accounts liis life was despaired of. -E. Ii. Morey, the notedBattle Creek forger, lias been aentenced to 10 years in state prison. According to his g ment he was the tooi of James W. i "Ugsley. ïhe Jatter has been rearrested on a sêcond charge of forgery, andas he could get no bail was taken to jail. He feigns insanity. Morey 's forgeries amount to $100,0000.