Michigan State News

W. H. Teller, a Bronson farmer, has lost Bve horses, valued at il,000, within the past eighteen months. No one seems to have been able to diagnose ths disease that carried 'em off. Miss Sadie Owen, a young lady of Pontiac, broke a pair of fiery mustangs with her own hands, and then drove 'em over to Sag'inaw, a distance of sixty-five miles, to visit a lady friend of that city. There's a girl who can do somethmg besides bang the piano. A Sagina w lady avers she lost a rail way ticket and $17 in cash in a store of that town, and now brings suit against the proprietor to recover damages. If she wins there'll probably be a general stampede in business eircles. Macomb comes smilingly to the front as the only county in the state that pays its entire state tax. Mrs. Catherine Clark, a Big Rapids lady of $9 years, has nearly a baker's dozen of living children, the oldest of whom is 63, twenty-one grandchildreu and twenty-five great-grandchildren. Her father died in his lOOth year, while two sisters are living at %he age of 87 and 93 respectively. A Coopersville parson goc himself into a warm climate by giving political advice from the pulpit. He'll know botter thau to try it again. The ruthless plow has invaded an Indian cemetery, exposing aboriginal skulls and relies in great numbers. Among the latter was a bead necklace sixteen feet in length. George Loring, a Girard farmer, made a thorough wai'fare on the codling moth with Paris green and London purple and has over 300 barrels of perfect winter apples as a reward for his labor. W. P. Ainsley, postmaster at Williamston, was assaulted on the night of the 2tHh uit , and has disappeared. His accounts are supposed to be correct and no explanation accounts for his strange disappearanco. He bad held the office for the past eleven years. Farwell claims to grow the clay that makes the finestest brick in the state. Rev. Samuel Sepions, who died at St. Johns recently at the mature age of 83, bad devoted 56 years of his life to tho ministry 43 of which were spent in Michigan. White the East Saginaw pólice were napping the ofher night, burglars drilled a safe on Washington avenue and abstracted the cash contents therefrom. The safe stood within two inches of the plate glass front, the moon shone brightly and the glare of the electric lights danced merrily, and yet nota sonl discovered ihe robbery until the sun was peering above the eastern horizon. Don't send your duns on postal cards. It's not the proper caper, and the law says it isn't legal. A Sparta merebant tried it, and now wishes he badn't, as the simple act has brought him a whole heap of trouble. The climate of Muskegon seems to be favorable for the production of strawberries and sawdust. But that's not all. Michael C'owley, of that city, has taken the $150 prize, offered by a Philadelpbia seedsman, for the largest cabbage grown in the United States. It weighed 62% pounds. The steamer C. V. Fish was burned ia the Saginaw river on the '7th uit. All the passengers were rescued. Some Unadilla chap seems to have developed a passionate fondness for celery. A farmer of that place had a whole half-acre of the esculent stolen in a single night. East Saginaw capitalists are skirmishing around tbe Flushing coal h'elds in the exectation ot discovering a place Lor prontaule investment. The F. & P. M. railway is short at least 200 cars with which to handle its business, it as otuer railways are pretty much in the same fix, they are unable to bonow of their neighbors, and snippers continue to use emphatic language because their freight doesn't move on time. A Dansvüle man who marched with Sherman to tbe sea and did his share toward making the Johnnie's oapitutate, came home when the "cruel war" was over, married and settled down to the joys of domestic happiness, but was disappoiiued üy tlie unfaithfulness of his wife, is now living a hermit's life in the woods not far from that town. He lives in a lOxia cabin, cooks his own grub and works for neighboring farmers just enough to support himself and his sole pauion - a maltese cat. Sorne years ago JoeL W Harailton effected a. sale of th8 Aun Arbor Register for Prof. Frotbingbam, and claimed a compensation „refor of $1,33 - but didu't get it. Then Joel souglit the assistance of the circuit court, recovering judgment for the amount, but the supreme court kicked over his Jersey dish. Twice siuce them has the game been played over with the same results, the last decisión of the Lansing tribunal being rendered a few days ago. Alter duly considering the matter the supreme court says the Cleveland Iron Mining company pay Mrs. Andrew Halsby $5,000 ou account of her husband's death by a mine accident in 1875. DeltaaveDue, at Gladstone, is one of the flnest pa ved streets in the state, and yet that town isn't two years old. The big $3uO,000 damage suit of C. H. Plummer, against East Saginaw parties, on accouat of non-fulfillment of a luiiiber contract, resulted in a judgment of $.:,Ü00. Fire damaged Hodges' iron works at Hancock $15,000 wortb on the 2fith. Insurance, $5,000. If Orin Sufford, an old-timer of Flint, is able to get to the polls on Nov. 6, he will cast his twentieth successive presidential ballot. Mot many mou can boast of such a record. A little Dover girl trled to warm the baby while her parests were away from home, but getting too iear tha stove her own clothing caught fire, buruing her in a horrible manner. She died in great agony twonty-four hours later. Buralars madethe circuit of New Boston business holmes and raked in a snug wad in cash, and a lot of other truol;. Whoever will bring back the perpetrators can liave $100 atid no qnostions asked. V. V. Bidvvell, of Waldron- Bidwell notoriety, has again changed his vocation. He no lotiger sells gioceries, but is ruuning a harness shop instead. J. W. Switzer, a Montague physician for the past tourUíon years, vvas foiind dead in the street on tho mormng of the 'álst. He was a BUeegssfM practitiorter and bighly respected. William M. Kohr and Louis Samuels, boarders at the Fiint oalabooss on accountof burglary charges, were reloased by a chore boy the otlier eveningand made good their sscape. The boy went also. An Ypsilanti student lugged off a gate oa uallow'een, and it wasn't a very good gate, either, but he paid a $15 fine for his fun just the same. An East Suginaw man was awakened the other night by a strange uoise and sprang out of be.i to investígate, alighting on a burglar's back. But the burglar didn't care to get acquainted, and throwing his rider to the floor, leaped from an opon win-iow and vanished in the darkness. Martin McNearney, the Mud Lake man who was convicted of keeping a house of savory reputation and sentenoed to spend three years at the Jackson priso, has failed to show up at that institution. Crooked work on the part of Aleona county's sheriff is suspected. The chap who hallow'eened the depot safe at Saranac got just 38 cents for his trouble. The Grand Rapids man who suspected his wife of being unfaithful and got a deteetiTe to help uim watch their home on a recent dark night is altogetber eick of his eonduct. The wife, seeing the men outside, sallied forth with a shillalah and gave 'em both a good drubbing. Althouu itseems almost late enough to be out of season, lightning got away with Michael Mierzwas' home at Manistee on the night of the 31st uit. Loss, $1,500. The Calumet & Hecla Mining company, seeking more world's to conquer, paid $500,000 for forty acres of rocky aorthiand. Copper is a high-priced fruit. Port Huron people carry $700,000 life insurance in a New York company. Mrs. Francés Clark, an 83 year-old resident of Briahton, was fatally burned the other afternoon by going into a smoke-house.