The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1876-01-11


| The Dental College At Ann Arbor has
II students.
DiptheriA II doing considerable hav-
90 at AiIsgan just now.
Eighty new cells have lately been
added 10 the House of Correction at
Detroit
Clark Frazier, OF Battle Greek, has
becn fined $50 for assault and battery
committed on his wife.
The city fre department, Of Flint
had grand torchlight procession
Tuesday night.
A system Of mutual insurance for
towns and villages IL working success
fully in some parts OF the State.
The heaviest tax paid by any one
person in Adrian is that paid by Il. L.
Clark, amounting to s2.5ll.3z.
Notice for a new trial has been
served on the contestant attorneys in
tho Ward will case at Detroit.
Over 1900 letters have been sent
from Detroit to the dead letter Office
this year, for non.payment of postage.
The pay Of the customs officers at
Crosse Isle has been cut down Q dollar
day, and one man is taken on the
force. H.
The Battle Greek Machinery Compa-
ny have an inquiry from China in re.
gard to their carving and dove-tailing
machinery.
An eagle measuring twelve feet from
wing to winglwas lately shot between
Ontonagon and Houghton by A. p.
Thomas.
A drunken woman, Elizabeth Riley,
was found on the street in Detroit. at
4 o'clock Sunday morning with both
feet badly frozen.
John Solver became raving maniac
while attending service in the Pontiac
Congregational Church on Monday ev-
ening last.
Coldwater is getting to be big cigar
manufacturing town. There are ssvsn
cigar shops in the city, giving steady
employment to about 125 men, boys
and girls.
Bay City absorbs ], 800, 900 gallons Of
water daily. The revenue derived al
ready exceeds the annual cost OF run
ming the works, and is steadily increas-
ing.
David Martin, q Detroit street car
driver, shouldered his little cash box,
mi5ee6' 'odr to fiser Bhf-Iweeni."" ."a
A Grand Rapids man asks whether
cousins should marry. We think they
shouldn't. A man who will marry his
cousin wouldn't hesitate to be his own
uncle.
A compilation just completed shows
that over five hundred buildings have
been erected in Grand Rapids and sub
urbs during the past year, at cost Of
million and quarter OF dollars.
OF course Detroit man can get mp
and light fire as quick as the next
one, bat il is the rule in this town to
| give n wife q chance to make somo-
thing of herself il she has any ambi-
tion.
John Wright, who was killed at Wy
andotte short time since, had 9l5, 900
insurance on his life. The agents of
the companies are now busy searching
for some method to get out Of paying
the insurance.
Highwaymen attacked hack Thurs
1 day night on tho street ut Kalamazoo,
and attempted to rob the inmates, but
were repelled by the driver and anoth-
or person in the hack. Several houses
we're entered by thieves.
Pontiac insurance agents are very
anxions TO find out what allied Mr..
Bangs, who died SO mysteriously one
Sunday night. The relatives refuse OF
resurrect him, and quietly tell the tn
quisitive individuals to ante over the
amount of his policies.
A Union City, Branch county, lad
climbed into tree top few days since
and was rewarded by finding suspend
ed to a limb one Of his fathers fingers.
II had been accidentally shot of some
days before and, il seems, was carried
into the tree by the bnllet.
Three young Swedes, lost in storm
on Sunday night, near the Republic
mine, Lake Superior, turned up all
right Tuesday, having been in woods
three days. They rolled some logs over
an overhanging rock, and camped there
living on rabbits and partridges.
. Abraham Day, Detroit waiter, got
Ash bone lodged in his throat, while
at supper the other evening. IL took
doctor to dislodgs il, aud the knight
, of the napkin is now admonished that
swallowing bones is poor waiter eat.
, Governor Bagley has generously
: contributed as usual to the Christmas
. dinner for the boys at the Reform
, School. This year their dessert con-
4 sisted Of seventy-five pounds of nuts
and seventy five pounds of mixed can
: dies. forwarded by the governor from
Detroit.
|. When an irate female with o huge
|. basket strode into Detroit court and
. vociferously dunned a lawyer fer a
: wash bill, it annihihated long stand
!, ing tradition among the lawyers ac-
= quaintances, that he never had any
= washing done.
Representative Upson, Of Michi-
4 gan, whois sufficiently well of 10 de-
cline being Com missioner Of Indian
Affairs, was once n poor boy in South
ington, Conn, another illustration OF
"A the Upson and downs OF ife.-tThe
'e World.
d Up in Marion, Livingston county
'e on the 1lth, wm. butcher crawled in
J; to the bushes, TO fool Austin Wimbles
+ by making him "dink he was dar-
: key" When Wimbles blazed into the
o bushes, with his old shot gun, taxi "
d Williams hat clean of his head, be
C wasn't so clear whether IL was joke or
L not.
y Prof Douglas recently road paper
d before the Ann Arbor Scientific Associ-
2, alton, on the colored snow Of Feb. 5,
!. rs, which fell at Holland and places in
d Western Michigan. BY inspection Of
the sediment with the microscope, aud
3 by analysis, he concludes that the dark
ie substance came from tho volcanoes Of
a. Mexico, having been borne there by
1t the strosg winds Of the day ortvo pre-
~ vions.
n BODY and ssul
IN A distinguished clergyman and dis.
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