The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1875-10-05
NUMBER 1900.


lNO car iOaus OF uOfbc8 wore b8nt
from Monroe TO the State Fair.
Michigan took the first medal at the
Chicago pomological exhibition. -e-~'
Fifteen cents bushel Ia what P.pti.
aoers have been paying for POTATOES.
Eighty-two thousand feet OF lumber
was cut at q mill in Ludington August
rs.
A Acouple who had been living togeth.
in adultrey, at Constantine, for sixteen
years, married the other day.
The receipts OF the State Fair at
East Saginaw, we're sl8,447 and the
expenses s22, 900. leaving deficit Of
1858
There is a church in Midland whore
they meddle neither with politics nor
religion. and il is very popular. Il Far
well Register.
The venerable colored lady, Sojourn-
er Truth. has IN press at Battle Greek,
a book Of her life and travels, written
by Mrs. Francis Titus, OF Battle Greek
w. ID. Foster, Of Grand Rapids, has
engaged Theodore Tilton at 3l75 per
day, to deliver ten lectures in rs many
days in ten different places in this
State.
George Halliday Of Ashton. Osceois
county, recently lost the sight of one
OF his eyes cutting thistlea, by one OF
the thistle-heads striking him in the
eye. 20 t7-sr
Leonard Beebe was found dead in
his bed ut Schoolcraft, on the 9th, an
empty vial labeled laudanum is sup
posed to hayepointed his way 10 deaths
door.
Henry Mudgett, sixty years Of age,
residing at Coldwater tried last week
to shuffis of this mortal coil with the
aid OF razor across his throat Henry
has since died.
A son of Donald McGinnes, about Is
years old, of Fremont, was thrown
from horse Sunday evening with such
force as to break his leg. badly shAt-
tering it below the knoe.
The city and school Indebtedness Of
Coldwater is only $1,000, aud that it 10
going To pay up. It's people boast that
no other city Of its size can make 90
good a showing.
The common conncil OF Grand Rap
ids voted TO raise s206, 900 by taxation
this year for city purposes. This, with
the state and county tax makes . total
of s240, 900 which the citizens must
pay this year.
A little daughter of Francis Throtel
was fatally injured on the 10Th. She
Was with other children teetering Oh o
long maple pole, when the pole fell,
striking her on the head, causing dssth
in about an hour.
The Societe d'Acclimation OF France
has voted George II. jerome, our state
superintendent OF fisheries gold med
al for his untring perseverance, in cul-
tivating the best varieties OF fish, and
for his excellent essays on the subject.
A new supply Of laboratory goods
for the university at Ann Arbor was
recently received direct from Berlin,
Germany. When opened they vOe
found to be in good condition. !t we
the first supply ever received diress
from Europe.
One day last week while Mr.. Spen-
Ger, Of Port Huron, Was growing .
ball somewhat extra hard, heard and
felt something crack, causing him
great pain. Upon examina ID wss
| found that the bone in his right arm
above the elbow was broken y several
places.
Don't never stop your paper in an
ger, for il you should il might have
the same effect as il did on Q man out
| in Iowa, who after doing 90 was so
deeply mortified because il did not kill
the newspaper that he went right OF
and killed himself.
A little daughter OF Mr.. Dwight Ste
vens OF Roxand, while playing around
the stove, on the morning Of the 18th
| inst, came in contact with a kettle OF
hot water. upsetting it, and throwing
| the contents in such way that she wss
scalded from head to foot, causing her
death on the 10th inst.
John Howell, of Bay City, left homo
few days ago to 60 TO his farm, near
the bay shore, TO attend some crops
He not returning. search was made for
him, when he was found in a shanty on
tho farm. dead. supposed TO have been
the result of an overdose Of lasdanum,
taken while sick.
While wm NJ. Davis and Frank Le'
were riding in a wagon on hunting
expedition, Lee accidentally hit bis
gun on the wagon box, dischargiug it.
4 AZ .,.s1 L,a ohat-
tering it so that amputation became
necessary. Mr.. Lee was 81 years old.
This all happened near East Tawas.
Monday Adolph Doecks brought in
to Adrian an eagle which he bagged
with q shot gun near River Rasin sta
tion, Just beyond Manchester. He
shot the bird on the wing, and empti-
both barrels OF his gun before bring ng
! il down. il measures SIX feet tigst
inches from tip TO tip aud rUaemhl-ss
monster hen-hawk
The deposit Of salmon spawn in the
Michigan lakes have yielded well, ana
myriads of young salmon from two tn
three inches long are nov sporting in
clear waters. There is scarcely doubt
that our creeks, rivers and lakes viii
become the habitants of some of our
choicest fish.
A 1O-year-old daughter Of NJ. h.
Richards. Of Moscow, received Of q
Joking school companion, last spring.
a present OF large early rose potato,
which she planted and cultivated. One
day last week she harvested the crop,
and had little over half-oushel Of
very fine potatoes. Better than pres
ent of a chromo.
We controvert the current predic-
tions of an approaching timber famine.
Michigan alone. 2,9l0, 900, 900 feet for
1872 and 2.3l7. 900. 900 (or thereabouts)
for 1875, is yet competent TO cast upon
the market of the world 1850, 000, 900
for another 20 years, with two thirds
of that sum OF choice hemlock, IL it be
not destroyed by fire or otherwise dep
rsdsted ruthlessly.-tM Muskegon News
* Reporter.
Tuesday afternoon last, as a car was
being filed with oats at the Michigan
Central Elevator in Ypsilapti. n lad
named John Brook, aged nine years,
who was playing around the bins,
Jumped into one from which the car
being filed. Feeling himself being
drawn down, he called 10 q companion,
q girl about thirteen years OF age, TO