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Day
15
Month
October
Year
1880
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Public Domain
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- Baptiata of Gfass Lake have purchased a .?IOO) house fpr a personage. - Jack DtihdasB wlio feil irom the rooi of the Everett house in Lansing, died from lnjttriea feceiVfed; -Charles Holmes of Jactado run over by a gravel trraiu, causing ampHt= tion of both legs, Jieil on Tuesday. - A white euoii ■weigliiuo; poünds wö killed beftr Monïöe recëhtly. 'l'l ■■ skin has been sent to Detroit to ba moiiiited; - Mis. 15. Alexander óf Troy, Uaklana couiíty , aged 78 yeart, bas spun, doubi d and twistédi 19 ruiis f wüoi yaiit this seasóil. - Efforts are bevng raade to hush tip a scandal in Qoincy township SnvolTing the seduction of a daugbter-in-law by v wealthy farmer. -Ephiaim Arrnstrcmg, of Adrián the absconding defendant in the grand stand cases, bas ihially secUired buil tod is now at liberty. -Bishop Borgess (Csifhcftie) tíoñfliífitíd 58 persons at St. Aloysius ehurch, Detroit Oct 8i During the mmmou he hts conlirmed 7,000 persons. -The Michigan car works ;i Detroit türli Out about 500 c-ars per montli. and it is thotght that the business of the year Viill agregate 16,000,080. --The managers of the Michigan State Fair report a loss of }l,006 tliis yeai', the attendance bcing miich süialler than formany previoua years; -Mdiitc-ahn CotíntJ tttethodist inniisters take kimlly tö politics. One is stamping the state for Jeroiue and ftttother is a candidatc for tbe tegislaturft -Last spring the Saxtou nrotiiers oí Springport townstnp plantea ffii acres or potatoes, f rom which they have just fealized 4,350 bmhels.-Jackson Patrii.t. -II. CiClarfea repubiican alderman of üoldwater hitó bm airested foTsedueing a young daugiiter of L. T. X. Wilson, a prominent laúyor ui Üiat (itv - An eel 2 f eet long stopped the wdrking f the ma-chiiiery in the mili of Heek Dros. i Tecumseh, one day last week by betíoníiüg entungled in the wheel. ■ -4,000 people visiteo the central Michigan fair at Laasiag. Theré #ere 4;tíO8 entries. Receipts SG,37S.Ü3. Premiuiti banner went to Livingstin cOünty , -Managers of the traveling showg soy that at Flint the eommon eouneil aqüeezes oüt of them 18 dead-neftd ück ets or $10 in cash for license to play in that place. - Mrs. JaCob Wood, of nèar Milfoi'd, was fovind lyirig dead by her baby's ertb last Saturday nignti Her liusband lelt hér in the best of health but a few mo= rüents before. -Main street bridge at St. Lou;s, Mich., built six montha ago, tumbltd into the river last week. ïlie llerald denounced it as a fraud on the taxpay Crs wheri it, was flrst biliiti - Dr. Ryiid of Adrián is liable to lcse a finger f rom the left hand in con; equence of a post mortem examinatiJn of a body. The flnger cut was promptly cauterizad, but without relief. -A neaisiglited yoUng lady of Battle Cfeek flirted with herbtotber aeross the street. Her feelings whtíli slie covered the trae state or anairs can un better imagined than deseribi-d. -The workmen 011 the Anu Arbor railroad have encountered a sink hole Ín crossing the marsh in tbe Firet ward, and alrearty therodd bed thilt is to be hassunk severa! feet- Pontiac ( lazette. - Governor Croswell has pardon ed John J. Drake, of Cambridge, Lenawefl county, who was convicted ot rape in 1875. It appears that Drake's convictloii was about as much the result of his previous bad Character aa of the denee in the cnse. - Friday afternoon "Wm. öedilos of Cambridge Went out to drive arotind his furm. Hishorse íetüfiiing alone, a search wa& made and he was found dead in the field. Heart disease is the supposed cause. He was 63 yeara of ase and a resident tí years. - There were 11 lires in Detroit duririg the ittoilth of Beptwilber. Thrte of them weri incendiary, ttttes from careless use of matches,tvo from detective chimnevs, and önêeaehfrom sparks from a tobáceo pipe, spoiitnueous combustión, and burning ash barrel. -On Sunday nlght Rev. Beaj. F. Hitchcock, of Fenton, returned from service at his church, wherelie had beeii aetively engaged, and in a rew mimieins af ter entering the house was liad. Mr. Hitchcock was about 60 yeára oíd, and had passed many ytttlfH ín the work of themaster. He '-(lied" with tho harnees on." - Solomotl Striker reeently, on Jacob Salyer's farm in Oakfield.dug 101 bushDla of late Rose potatoes from one bushel of seed, plantod two or tbree eyes in the hill. Healso dug otbei potatoes, the entlre day'a work amotfnting to 140 bushels. This is probably a story tbat no one will come and spmi by tellitig a bigger one.- tireenvillo üemocrat. - A Lenawee coimty candidato for a country school petiagögue was asked to define "aquatter wwereignty," and he replied "that a nureíbeT of yenrs ago a fellow otuned iquatóei went out west and settle-d on a wilderncss fcract of land, and was moimn h i' all be suiveved, and claimed the (Jnited States govermuciitcoifld not put , Uitn oiï." Beiá a gradúate of the Adrián high schooL

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Ann Arbor Argus