State News

- Jtains have dnmaged orops considerably in Genesee county. - tíchoolcnift county calis for more farmers. Apply at Lansing. - Col. l'erry oí Komeo, a pioneer of 182B, cliod Monday rnorning. aged 86. - Ilon. Ira B. Card addressed the Quincy II. and E. clul), Saturday night. - Manisliue youiig ládies are getting up a gymnasüc circie. Spectators to be ruled out. - A stock eompany with $50,000 capital is going to èstablista an extensive wagon faetory at Flint. - Margaret W, MeConneïl of Grand Rapids, dealer in dry goods and hardware, made an asaignment July 14. - Effort3 are making by Lake Sliore managers to prevent the Butler road from crossing their line at Adiian. - Two Hollanders employed at a mili in Muvskegou were so overeóme with heat, July 12, that they had to be taken home. -The Frep Press estimates the population of Michigan to be 1,605,000 inhabïtanta, a aiíj of 270,000 since 1S74, and 420,000 since 1870. - One of the census ennmeiators in Nilesisan exceedingly obliging man. He found several unnamed babies in his territory and kiudly furnishcd them all with names. - At East Saginaw, July 14, John Driscoll, alias " Silver Jack," was con victed of highway robbery and sentenced to the state prison at Jaokson for 15 years. He served live yeáre í'or a similar oiïense. -E. J. JSIcCumber was killed by lightning betweeu Essexville and Unionvillo, July 13. His hair was bunied from his scalp, the lightning running down his side and melting the silver money in his pocket. - A young man named Allen McïTÓrton wr.s found dèad in his room at Oscoda, July 14. líe retired the night before, apparently as well as usual. ILhad been drinking considerable recent !v. ;inl it is Bupposed he bad been kiking - An mínate of the TCalamazoo asyltun namod Joseph La Cliapelle, from Menominee, diijd .Monday niornins iron in uries received Fridüy evenhlg l.y au aUi-ndant acridoiitally fttltirfg upon hini. Au incest vas held and the attendant qxonerated. La Chapdlü's insanity was of a desperate nature, and it often look tliree attendants to undress or dress liini. The city of MOMDoe and vicinity was visited with a terrible storm on Sumlay at'ternoon, dming wHich there was a heavy fall of liail. The vineyards and eorn iicïds in the track of the storm are in ruin. Windows in the churches, conservatories, and hot-lumses were broken, the Floral City boat eluD house was dernolished, as was also a largfc ice house. The vegetable gavdeners had their crops badjy daina,-ed. It is reported tliat the loss to viiu'yardists wiïl amount to i'ully 20,000. The track o!' the Btocm was narrow, bat it yinaslu , = everytüing withln its limita. i As wijl be seen by the cali whirh appearsattheheadof our columns the ti qc " for holding tlie State nominating Cm . ventií)ii has been changed from Tuo.s- day, tlio J7th of August, to Tfaursd i.y. the 12lli. The chango lias been mi te by the State Coniiiiittfe in response te . auïHferóus reqnebts from all parts of the ! State, the ground b,-ing tliat the d,it . tírst nanied falla witliin the time fiw ' for the Tiien nial Conclave uf Knii,.t Templar at Chicago, which number., oí Michigan Demócrata wish to attend. rioury Ward lkecher pveaciiea hi j last ,s'niion for the summer on Snnday, ; prepanttory to a trip in ihe northwest, taking in 1 tour of the upper In Les. AVho would ï-finaiu at home. I' bj an hour and a half on the stage, money feiiough could be earned to pay exj e'nses of sucb a trip? One hundred thousand people left Kew York on Sunday ly rail and water for Coney Island, Kockaway, up the Iludson, and other places of resovt. What an aggiegation of lmmanity go from this great city to enjoy the aa-bbaUi day! Poor old ox-SenatorChristianey's cup of sorrow is tull to overflovving. Besides tho divorcecaseon hand, one of nis sons, .1 drunken, worthless fellow, was voluntarily committedto an inebriate asyluin at Fort Hamilton the other day.