The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1875-11-16
NUMBER 1915.



The Marshall merchants report good
trade.
The cranberry crop is light in the
State this year.
The Ypsilanti Light Guard are to
have turkey shoot on Thanksgiving.
The young men of Bliss6eld have
formed Historical and Literary So
ciety.
The contractors have commenced ex-
cavating for the new State Prison at
Ionia.
A man named Kelly, intoxicated,
was killed by the cars at Owosso, last
Saturday.
The Midland Times has suspended,
the concern having been closed by the
Detroit Paper Company.
During the month of October the De-
troit water works pumped daily aver
age of 10, ,s51, 800 gallons of water.
The Common Council OF Blissfield
offer 81 to the man who is first ut the
engine house in case OF an alarm Of
fire.
A colored prisoner in Detroit, con-
fined for larceny, says he had at, to
which he is subject, when he commit
ted the act.
Lenawee county is rather ahead in
the dairy business. Last year she
made 260, ,657 pounds OF cheese and
J, ,83l, $50 pounds OF butter.
Bay City ''bloods" go hunting, buy
a 81 deer from a man who knows how
to shoot, aud bring it home in tn
umph.
The Calhoun county Agricultural
Society will hold it's annual meeting ut
Marshall on Monday. December 6, at
ten o'clock q. N.
John ID. Wright, who shot William
Wagner, q fellow gambler, at Port
Huron, has been sentenced to State
Prison for seven years.
The apple crop of Calhoun county,
amounts to 100. 900 barrels this year,
while Lenawee county has marketed
ZUO,OOU barrels.
The sheriff Of Lenawee county gets
five cents more day for keeping pris-
oners in Jail than he did before the
Board of Supervisors met.
The Bay City Tribune states that as
near as can be aAcertained the liabili-
ties Of M. Watrous & Sons are S66, 900.
The failure is everywhere regarded as a
very bad one.
Mr.. G. E. Bennett, Of Jackson, has
sold his horse, Rosewood" to New
York parties, for 81, 200. He has rec
ord OF 2. 40. and great things are ex-
pected Of him.
A Cassopolis man struck his father
in-law with a chair, breaking the bone
of his wrist. The occasion of the
trouble was q invitation tor the young
ster'to go forth and earn the salt that
he used.
Charles Blackmar. brakeman on
the Michigan Central Pacific Express,
threw q confidence man off the train at
Ann Arbor on Monday morning, Just
as he had nearly succeeded in "roping"
in "greeny."
The rebuilding of the Methodist
church at Albion will be completed in
about month, and will cost over g.
000 Stained gothic windows are 10 be
put in the audience room, aud the CELL
ing frescoed.
Jackson. with nearly twice the valu-
alton OF Adrian, supports its poor on
little more than half the sum expended
by the latter city in providing for it's
paupers, but then the latter are consid-
erably moro exacting and aristocratic.
Lieut.. Gov. Holt writes from Han
over. October 5: 81 shall start for the
South in about four weeks, going via
Vienna and Pesth 70 Constantinople,
thence to Athens, thence to Beyrout
and Damascus, and thence to the Holy
Land"
| A township school inspector writes
to the state superintendent about an
"Elickzandor" somebody. Who says
we have had no spellomania in Michi-
gan, when even school inspectors can
spell like that !?
An suctioneer was put upon the wit
ness stand at Ithaca, Gratiot county,
the other day, and testified under oath
that auctioneers do now and then pre-
varicate a little. So that question is at
last settled. ff- 7
At the present session OF Ingham
County Circuit Court there are IL di-
yorce cases on the docket, and the Lam
/ sing Republican says "how many moro
would apply il il wasn't for the looks OF
the thing, il is problem which cannot
be solved. ..---.--.-
The Hastings Bonner says: The Kali