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Parent Issue
Day
10
Month
December
Year
1880
Copyright
Public Domain
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- Geo. Dumond of Coldwater fails for SI ,000 but expects to pay in full. - Burglars captured $700 from the Monroe postoifice Thursday night of last week. - Levi Bishop of Detroit figures up 96 murders in this state from January to the end of November. - Bears are reported inMonroecounty, and deer have appeared in the immediate vicinity of Monros city. - The associtation of agricultura] societies of Michigan will meet in eighth annual convention at Lansing, Jan. 26. - The Peninsular cigar company oi Detroit assigned Friday for a large amount in excess of available assets. -The red-ribbon eider mili of Flint has made 4,500 gallons of apple jelly since it commenced workin September. - According to the Grass Lake News, a Waterloo party of hunters recently killed one cord of rabbits by actual measurement. - Adrianites are happy over the fact that on Monday business began in the Danluot.l -- - 1.. l...t In I j lulu idle for eight years. - The dead-lock in the school board of Ilillsdale has resulted in closing the school, the supply of wood running out there being no authority for the purchase of more. - Nelson A. Smith, of Marión township, Livingston county, has eaten nothing but raw eggs for 89 days, his stomach ref using other food. - The bondsmen of Dr.C.G. Cruickshank, of Howell, who was accused oi bodysnatching, have been given 30 days in which to produce his body in court. - Lewis Buckingham, one of the oldest residen ts of Genesee county, died at his home in Flint Sunday evening, at 6 o'clock, in the 85th year of his age. - Coldwater's scandal emanating from high toned residents is undergoing investigation. An alderman ischarget with seduction of a seventeen-year old girl. - A Mt. Clemens writer asserts that six churches and 15 saloons are open Sundays in that place. The churches are opened about two hours morning and evening, but the saloons are open all day. -The balance of cash in the state treasury Nov.27 was $1,441,333.21; receipts for the week ending Dec. 4 were 18,110.58; payments for same time $24,207.32; leaving a balance Dec. 4, 1880, of $1,435,236.47; decrease for the week $6,096.74. -The whirligig of time brings about some queer charges. A few years ago Webb Frazer was tried in the Lenawee county court for seduction, and sentenced to state prison. Last week the same court, admitted him to practice at its bar. - Jackson Patriot: In Napoleon township a party of boys sent a ferret into a rabbit-hole for the purpose of driving out the game. A bag was held over the mouth in order to catch the latter when it should emerge, and in the excitement a gun in the hands of one of the party exploded and Artliur Russell, a young son of Thomas Bussell, was peppered in the leg. -The Hillsdale Standard cites a case in the circuit court wherein seven lawyers are interested and which is all about a $7 ram. which a man bought and placed in his field, to flnd afterward that his ram had got into a neighbor's field and the ncighbor's ram into his field. In other words there had been an exchange of rarns. The case occupied some four days and the witnesses subpeenied cost $78 for a single day. -The Blissfield Advance tells how, not long ago, a resident named Harvey Cassiday, having retired for the night, had an aitack of nightmare, and in his imagination robbers were tying him to the bed, and were setting fire to the house. In his desperate efforts to escape, he jumped out of the window, taking glass, sash and all, alighted into a prickly rose-bush. and proceeded to run about the premises, yelling at the ;op of his voice. A citizen who happened to be going home at the timo, gave chase, and not until a severe tussle had taken place did he succeed in awakening Mr. Cassiday, who feit ïheepish enongh.

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